TOE BEE: OMAIIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1910.
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aayt that the actual number of full and
complete copies of The Dally, Morning,
Kvenln and Sunday Be printed during the
month of May, law, waa aa iuhuw.
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..43,890
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.43,690
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12 41,460
33 43,740
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it 43,090
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87 43r400
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IS 4.1,300
30 4370
II 44,180
1 43,160
10 49.860
11 43,670
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14 42300 '
II 41,600
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Subscribers leaving; th city tem
porarily shoal kav The Bee
sailed to them. A ddr eaeea will be
chanced aa often aa requested.
Those Tucatans ' are
over their rebellion. ' '
still chewing
It appears that, after all, there were
a few hidden wires about that wireless.
St. Louis Is to' have a lobster palace
on Broadway. , To - eat or dine
lobsters T
Surely Jack Blnns did not give the
signal that put the law onto the United
Wireless. ; '
Now that the fighting editor of the
Outlook is on, deck, all comers may
have a look-in.
New Orleans and San Francisco both
are acting rather Plcayunishly over
that exposition. - .
It must be said, though, that Gov
ernor Gillett was inexcusably late in
joining the parade
President Taft tickled those west
erners when lid signed that statehood
bill with a feather..
Ak-Bar-Ben la the only real poten
tate who stays on the lob without tak
lng a summer vacation.
After all, it was not moral reform
but flnancia) aggresston, that put the
fight out of San Francisco.
But Just console yourself with the
thought that we are supposed to have
had a good ice harvest last winter.
Mr, Bryan will be back by the first
of July, and will then probably have
omethlng to say about It himself.
Regardless of what the astr6nomers
may say about it, we observe that as
soon as the . comet was gone summer
came.
Now that the damage Is done, The
Bee's advice to auto speeders to slow
down will be observed for a little
while.
Of course we understand that Gov
ernor Gillett really thought at first
that the law could not be enforced
against the fight.
The Pennsylvania democrats have
nominated a man named Grim for gov
eruor, probably thinking his name may
lend determination.
n .1 I a
Here, you housewives of America
watch this: A .Boston woman Is suing
her maid to try to force her to stand
by her employment bargain.
It's up to Reformer Elmer Thomas
to do as much to relieve his old pal
Convict Erdman, as he did for Convict
Shercllffe and Convict Barrier.
It Is most significant that the Balti
more Sun la after the Umbrella trust
Just now, when the universal sun
pelting' down on the parasol so rigor
ously. '
The streets of Chicago must be
getting pretty well crowded when
horse finds It necessary to climb the
elevated track for a place to walk as
early as 7 o'clock In the morning, and
that Sunday morning, too. ' "
Thla announcement (no extra, session
of the legislature) will meet with the
overwhelming approbation of the peop
f Nebraska. World-Herald.
What? How can anything have
"the overwhelming approbation of the
peorle" with, Mr, Bryan dissenting?
A Peculiar Idea.
The reasons given by Governor Bhal-
lenberger for not calling aa extra ses
sion of the legislature for ubmlttlng
an Initiative and referendum amend
ment to the constitution at the coming
ejection Indicate how woefully lacking
la In a correct Idea of the function
of an executive with regpect to recon
vening the legislature.
The governor aeema to think that it
would have been his duty to issue a
call had the necessary number of leg
islators given him written pledges to
vote for the measure and if time re
mained to put it through before the
primaries, or possibly if the expense
were not so great
The fact Is that the governor would
not have been warranted in calling an
extra session for this purpose if every
member of the legislature had signed
up or it ail tne time remained mat
was desired and If the expense were
practically negligible. The constitution
of Nebraska contemplates the recon
vening of the legislature In special ses
sion only to meet extreme emergencies
and no one having any knowledge of
the situation contends for a moment
that such an emergency exists or . has
existed any time since the regular ses
sion of the legislature.
Dozens of legislative acta could be
suggested J tat m Important, if not
more so, as the rroposed submission
the Initiative and referendum
amendment, measures on which there
is little difference of opinion among
the law-makers, but none of them
would warrant a special session nor
will anyone suffer Irreparable Injury
from letting them all take the regular
course. On the other hand, ahould we
ever be confronted with a real emer
gency. It will be the governor's duty
to call the legislature without waiting
for anyone to sign up, and regardless
of the time Intervening before the pri
maries or the election.
Minnesota Hepubltaans for Taft
The Minnesota republicans are for
President Tart as against those ag
grieved Individuals seeking to foment
party discord and embarrass his ad
ministration in the fall campaign. The
Btate convention at St. Paul, heartily
endorsing the Taft administration and
overwhelmingly defeating a resolution
to denounce the new tariff law, defines
the position of the North. Star state re
publicans clearly.. This action, follow
ing closely npon the heels of the Iowa
republican primaries, is of the utmost
significance Just now as indicating that
Minnesota, no more than Iowa, has
been swept off Its feet by this wave of
hysteria. If these two states are, as
has been heralded, hotbeds of repub
lican Insurgency, then the country
must understand that insurgency
means friendship and not enmity to
the administration at Washington. ,
The antagonize did their utmost
in Minnesota and it is plain that they
had counted on large results from the
boom given the Plnchot:Garfleld meet
ing last week, which evidently had lit
tle actual effect. Not even the cheap
trick of trying to hide behind the name
c-f former President Roosevelt de
ceived the convention. It refused to
be blinded to the motive -and purpose
of this and showed ' that - the real
friends in Minnesota of the former
president were those composing the
majority In this republican state con
vention and not the disappointed
minority who stooped to nse him as a
means of accomplishing selfish ends.
Little doubt can be entertained that
the primary results in Iowa and the
convention in Minnesota are fair indl
cations of the general republican sen
tlment in those states. The fact- Is
President Taft's course of works, not
words, is a more powerful argument
than all the sophistry ; that can be
brought up against It.
Meeting1 of the Governors.
The governors of Missouri, South
Carolina and Kentucky have been con
ferrlng oft the plans and scope of in
vestigation to be pursued In the con
vention of the House of Governors next
November, and much Interest centers
In their deliberations. The-convention
will be guided, largely, In Its thought
and action, by what these three men
decide upon and there Is so much chal
lengtng their consideration that the
matter of selection becomes one of
acute Interest.
This House of Governors, which was
organized In the last year of Presl
dent Roosevelt's administration, was
pledged to meet annually, admit to Its
councils all governors and governors-
elect and to consider matters of com
mon interest and importance In the
states, to the end of -securing better
and more systematic state govern
menta, and above all to Initiate the
legislation In their states.
The possiblltles for good of such an
Institution are illimitable. 1 With all
the governors of the states united In
one effort to obtain sound and safe
laws and to defeat sinister Influences
at state capitals, the cause of good
government would receive a tremen
dous Impetus.'.
This movement comprehends the
thought that the states are now passing
through a crisis In their political his
tories and that the best and strongest
influences are necessary to survive the
tests. The claim Is being made that
state governments are not generally
as efficiently administered ks the na
tional, or as they ahould be, and that
Is the reason offered for the tendency
toward centralixation, a matter of ne
cessity more than desire. But th rem
edy lies not In shifting local responsi
bilities onto the national government,
but In the strengthening of the weak
places In the commonwealths up to a
standard of power where there .will be
Lo CiuA" At thai abllltr, U cope
with the demands upon them. The
charge that clvlo virtue has not been as
common in state as national govern
ment has been Injected as an element
of consideration In this question. But
whatever the truth may be, there Is
need for improvement and If the House
of Governors can bring about this Im
provement it will not have existed In
vain. .
Tim to Do Something-.
The succession of automobile acci
dents In and about Omaha culminating
in a fatal smashup reinforces the cry
that it is time to do something to stop
reckless and irresponsible auto speed
ing. The Bee has been hammering along
on this nail almost continuously, de
claring that it would take some such
costly casualty to stir the authorities
to action.
In the absence of safe ane sane reg
ulations auto cars have been running
riot through our streets and boule
vards driven by men, women and chil
dren, regardless of their qualifications !
to handle high power machines. Any
body who can get somebody to trust
him to sit at the wheel could whlzs
through our thoroughfares endanger
ing the lives of passengers and pedes
trians and of the occupants of passing
vehicles.
There is absolutely no good reason
why every person who wishes to drive
an auto should not be required to take
out a license or permit granted under
reasonable restrictions as to age and
capability and revokable for exceeding
the speed limit, failure to display
lights or disregard of the rules of the
road. These restrlctiona should be
even more stringent for professionals
who hire out as chauffeurs than for
those who drive their own cars or, per
haps, the additional stringency could
be secured by the exercise of discre
tion by the police judge when offend
ers are brought befote him.
Every violation of the auto regula
tions should carry with it a suspension
of the license to drive for a longer or
shorter period, if not its complete rev
ocation.
It is high time to do something to
put the dangerous auto speeders out
of business in Omaha before they put
more innocent victims out of business.
Hot Good Bryan Weather.
In view of passing events in demo
cratic circles one must conclude that
this Is not good Bryan weather. There
la Governor Harmon of Ohio openly
re: using either to comply with Bryan's
dictation or "to stand aside," and the
democrats of. the state' renominating
him as a reward for his defiance.
There are the democrats of Pennsyl
vania in state convention nominating
a man for governor put up by Colonel
Guffey, . whom Bryan long- ago com
pletely and forever read out of the
party. Last, but not least, his own
Shallenberger. governor of his own
state, cruelly and overtly refuses to
call an extra session of the legislature
after Mr. Bryan had himself gone to
the trouble of addressing him a per
sonal letter and having petitions sent
In to the governor asking him to call
It to pass Mr. Bryan's pet measure for
the initiative and referendum.
Truly, In the language of the late
Grover Cleveland, "we have fallen
upon bad times." When was it ever
more true that "a prophet is not with
out honor save A his own country?'
The worst of it all Is that these per
fidious backsliders waited until Mr.
Bryan was out of his own country be
fore working their - treachery. No
matter what he may think or say, it
will be too late to right the wrongs
when be returns.
The serious force of events seems to
be that the Peerless Leader is now but
a repudiated political boss in these
three states.
The city engineer Is to close the
Eleventh street viaduct to traffic until
the railroads put It into safe condition.
That may protect the city, but it will
take some pressure to make the rail
roads get down to business. The last
time the Eleventh street viaduct was
closed to await repairs It remained
closed so long that people almost for
got It was there.
It must grieve the Lincoln Star tre
mendously to find that $200,000 of the
4 2S,000 appropriation for enlarging
the Lincoln postoffice building may be
rescued by Senator Burkett. There is
only one thing left for the Star to do,
and that is to persuade the good peo
ple of Lincoln to refuse to take the
money, whether they get it or not.
A local preacher ventures an aside
In a commencement address that "the
republican party now has nearly run its
course." It is to be Loped that he
may know more about religion than he
does about politics.
And now the Lincoln Telephone and
Telegraph company Is increasing its
capitalization to 12,500,000, half and
half preferred and common. Thought
we had a law against stock watering In
Nebraska.
With our democratic congressman
editor It makes no difference whether
his letter to the dollar diners is read
or thrown In the waste basket, because
he keeps a copy and prints It, anyway.
What is your guess on the colonel'
attitude when the campaign geta good
and hot in New York, particularly
Hearst should tie running for gov
ernor? Will he get in or keep out?
Judging from the amount of space
In his World-Herald devoted to letters
and reprints telling why Mr. Bryan
JsaauM not tot senator, Mr. Hitch
cock must be very much afraid that
the pledge given to him Is not binding,
and that he could not collect damages
for breach of promise.
With all the bucking bronchoa they
have In the west, if you want to see a
real, rantankerous beast snort, just
keep your eye on that democratic
donkey in Ohio.
Governor Shallenberger has at least
three reasons for not . calling that
special session of the legislature, but
the first reason makes the others un
necessary.
If Mr. Parr, the discoverer of the
Sugar trust frauds, really doea not
want that measly little old hundred
thousand he does not have to take It
New Stare Rarpaaa the Comet.
8t Louis Republic
The comet was a disappointment, but It la
confidently believed that the two new star
In the flag- will justify all expectations
raised by the advance notices.
Irony of Fat. e
Chicago Record-Herald.
If MeOuffy, the man who made so many
of our famous poets ' famous by putting
their poems' In his TMrd Reader, la ex
cluded from the Hall of Faroe It will be
on of the most striking cases of the Irony
of fata.
Watering- Their Melons.
Kansaa City Times.
Now that the express companies have
been declared common carriers under the
new railroad law, the companies may bo
expected to water their capital stock to an
extent that will make their 200 per cent
annual dividends appear "reasonable."
I'nlty la One Direction.
New York Tribune.
The "irrepressible conflict" between the
Insurgents and regulars In con are 1 seems
to have completely petered out. The only
Irrepressible movement notlbeable nowadays
about the capitol la due to the desire of all
factlona and parties to ret together on the
details of unfinished legislation and then
adjourn.
Statesmanship.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Mr. Taft's Aunt Delia, who makes the
famous apple plea, has been Interviewed,
and says that the secret of Mr. Roosevelt's
great popularity la that he has always
steered clear of tariff discussion. We have
always insisted that women who can make
good apple pies are fit for statesmanship.
This remark of Aunt Delia is so wis and
sagacious that it marks her as batter qua!
tfled for suffrage than half the men who
have It.
RAILROAD' "klOHTS,"
One
War of Distributing; Excess
Profits Among? Stockholders,
Philadelphia Reoord.
Not all the railroad profits are disclosed
In dividends. It has been a common policy
ot railroad and Industrial corporations to
sell "rights" to subscribe to new shares
at lesa than their market value. The
profits thus afforded to the stockholders
have amounted to large sums, and this
method of distributing profit already
earned, or of anticipating profits to be
earned, is discussed very fully by.B. B.
Burgunder in tha,asnala of the American
Aoademy of Political and Boclai Bclenca,
Two purposes underlie 'those distributions
of stock under especially favorable condl
tions for the shareholders. The railroad
and Industrial ' corporations are prone to
conceal large profits, and In several In
stances there have been large accumula
tions of capital which have been distributed
by means of stock dividend. These dis
pose of the accumulation, and they afford
a wider basla over which future dividends
are to be aproad, that large profits may
be disguised aa very modest dividends. The
other is to prevent the accumulation ot
profits greater than -it Is thought - wise
to distribute a dividends. The ruiimao
Palace Car company and two' of the
press companies have In recent years .dis
tributed enormous stock dividends to get
rid of accumulated profits. The New York
Central railroad something over forty years
ago issued a stock dividend of M per cent,
and the next year one of ' XI per cent.
though the surplus was small; the com-
nany was maKing very targe proms, ana
Its charter confined it to 10 per cent divi
dends, the excess to go to the state. By a
fictitious Increase of the capital it w
possible to get all the profits into the
pockets of the shareholders with an I per
cent dividend.
Mr. Burgunder shows that the Pennsyl
vania railroad has Issued "Tights" nine
times; the Great Northern and the Illinois
Central railroad, eight times; the Chicago,
Milwaukee St. Paul and the New York
Central, five time; the Baltimore Ohio,
four times, and many other roads two or
three times.
Where the "rights" were sold, Instead
of being gratuitous stock dividends, Mr.
Burgunder haa calculated the annual re
turn to the purchasing shareholder, assum
ing that he paid I per osnt for the luoney
with which he made hla purchase. In
two cases hs mention a loss or a trifling
profit, but in a considerable list of oasea
he 'shows that ths shareholder has been
getting all the way from I to SI per oant
a year on the amount he had a risjbt to
buy, after paying good Interest rates.
in the aggregate the railroad share
holders have very materially Increased the
amount of their returns by taking advan
tage of their "right," but probably none
of the railroad corporations have showered
such wealth upon their shareholders as
the Pullman company and two express
companies.
Our Birthday Book
Turns S3. 1610.
Clarence Eddy, the musician and concert
organist, was born June 28, 1851. at Green.
field, Maaa He has given concerts in
Omaha at various timee. He Is also the
author of organ works.
Rev. Willard fiooti, onoa pastor of Bt
Mary's Avenue Congregational church.
celebrating Ms sixtieth birthday today, K
was born at Amsterdam, N. Y., and is now
located at Worcester, Maaa.
Herbert H. NeaJe of Neale eV Norton,
abstractors and title examiners, located In
the Bee building, was born June JJ, lift.
at Aylesbury, Ruglsnd. He cams to th!
country In ism, and was employed in the
Burlington headquartera up to IBM, alnoe
wtloh time he has been engaged In real
retet and aba tract work.
Thomas r. Hall, real estate and onoe
postmaster of Omaha, was born June 13,
1ML When he was 11 years old hs went to
eea, putting in nearly ten years voyaging
all over the world. '
William Q, Whitmore, president and grn
eral manager of the vaHey Btook Yards
and Urain eompany at Valley, was born
June U, IMS, In Maasaehuaetta, oomlns to
Nebraska In U7I, He ha sarved In the
stats legislature and Is pew serving his
second term as regent ' tb ValvexeUy of
Mebraaka,
Coin with Sugar On
Ooverasasat steward of 9100,000
to the filsoororet of the
Sugar Trust's raise Weights.
Richard Parr, the New York custom
house official who waa chiefly Instrumen
tal In discovering the underwelghlng frauds
of the sugar trust, has been awarded a
prise purse of $100,600 by the Treasury de
partment. It was optional with the gov
ernment to reward Parr with any amount
up to one-half ot the sum of money re
covered from the sugar trust, I2.J60.000, but
tb amount decided upon by the secretary
of the treasurer Is regarded as a liberal
recognition of official Integrity and seal.
The sum named Is just what the augar
trust Intimated In the early stages of the
crooked gam Parr could have had if he
would agree to go away off and forget
what he had discovered. Th offer only
made him more determined to do his duty,
and the result of that determination Is a
familiar story.
Tb crooked weighing was suspected by
Parr while employed as a sugar sampler
Six years ago. He reported his suspicions
to the government at Washington, but for
some reason lie attention was paid to him
until he reported the discovery of corset
steel springs used In depressing; the scales.
No definite action was taken, however,
until Collector Loeb took charge "bf the
New York custom house, Thsre was some
thing doing then every hour of th twenty-
four.
The charge against the sugar trust Is
(hat It, through its officers, had this fraud
perpetrated, hired checkers to secretly us
these springs on its scales, and .thus short-
weighted vast quantities of th raw prod
uct unloaded from the ships and passed
over the scales .on its way to the refin
ery.
That this fraud was actually worked on
th government for six years Is beyond
question. Already th estimated loss In
duty, 12,000,000, has been repaid, thereby
tacitly admitting that It was due.
Th means by which th fraud was mads
effective was determined and the govern
ment cam Into poasessfon ot a complete
working manual of the means by which
the sugar trust got out of paying duty on
a considerable portion of Its sugar importa
tions for six years.
Along th wharves of the Havemeyer ft
Elder plant are the seventeen big scales
ownsd by the company. The sugar, aa
It Is unloaded from the ships passes over
these scales and is "weighed in." In the
little glass fronted houses sit two men
a government weigher and a company
checker. As the sugar Is placed on the
weighing platform the government weigher
handles the weights and announoes the
result Both men put 'down th figures
In little not books and the seal's are
ready to weigh ' another lot of sugar,
The company checker sits at the left
end of the scales near the post through
which the rods pass down to the mech
anism ot the scales. This post in each
Of the houses was placed near a wall In
a dark plao. The government officers,
one their attention was called to the
fraud, found that in each of these posts
a small hole had been bored and a thin
steel spring Inserted that reached down
to the levers controlling the pressure on
th weighing apparatus. Every time a
load of sugar was placed on the scale th
company J checker shoved the steel spring
In with bis left band, furtively dropped
to th side of th post at which he sat.
The scale registered less sugar than waa
actually being weighed, and the company
got out of paying duty. At the same time
the shipper of the raw sugar lost. A man
standing on th seal with th spring out
ot us weighed 170 pounds. With the
spring in action he weighed little more
than 160. In other words, the spring rob
bed the government of the duty on about
S per cent of th Imported sugar. Since
this duty Is about on and one-half cents
a pound th loss seen amounted to a
great figure.
Parra salary as ' deputy surveyor Is
S,M0 a year less than $300 month and
that Is th largest salary he has ever re
ceived. He Is married and In addition to
his wife has a mother and an Invalid sister
to support. H waa S year old th
nineteenth of this month. Since boyhood
he has been a steady, hard worker, always
on a meager salary and always with heavy
responsibilities on his shoulders. Hs Is a
compactly built man of middle height, ex
tremely . bald and with a resolute, alert
manner.
TAFT GROWING STRONGER.
Creditable Reaalta ef Hla 0.0 let, Per
sistent Xethods.
Philadelphia Bulletin.
President Taft has unquestionably
strengthened his position In the publio es
teem within th last thirty days. There
are many evidences that the country is be
ginning to realise more clearly the es
sential force that lies behind his quiet,
persistent methods and his reliance on
logic and Justice for the accomplishment
of objects which he believe necessary for
the national welfare.
The atroke by which hs halted the sweep
ing increase In rates projected by more
than a score of railroads was not signal.
lied by vehemence In act or vociferation
in utterance; but it was absolutely effec
tive In teaching the manager of several
billions of capital that they could not Im
pose extra tolls on goods consumed by
the American people unless the proposed
advance should first b scrutinised and
approved as Just by . competent federal
authority.
The bill for railway regulation which he
contended for with cool, undavlatlng de
termination. Is now on tb verge of n
actment. its final passage will mark a
long stride forward la the assertion of
national power over th operation of the
common carrier of th United States. It
seems eminently probable that the chief
and most Important conservation measure
which he has urged will shortly be placed
upon th statute book. Th postal sav
lngs bank bill, which th republican plat
form promised, but which haa been fought
at every step by powerful interests, is ap
parently about to receive his signature.
Non of these measures would have had
any chance of paaalng, but for th firm
pressure whloh th president has exer
cised In face of a serious split In th re
publican majority In both th senat and
the house. His policy throughout has been
that of a resolute defender of the public
interests who preferred to work without
parade or ostentation, but hla pertinacity
of purpose has already achieved results of
solid value. It Is not unlikely to achieve
many more In th futura
Secret ef Aviation.
Brooklyn Uagla,
Th Wright have been denied th mo
nopoly of th air by th courts, Thsy
carefully guarded their secret and yet
other men who could not possibly have
known what th Wrights were doing pat
ented flying machine very nearly like
theirs, It is an old story lu th patent
effloa, Th mind of inventors run in
th same ohannal vary often. It must be,
too, that th bird war impartial In whis
pering their secret to the boys who so
earnestly watched tUr
PERSONAL NOTES.
Mr. Parr, who earned $100,000 as an In
former, remarks that this sum Is not much
In New York. However, It will enable
a nan to get a long way from that place
and to travel flrst-claaa
It was an unlqu bequest that Robert
Rledel of Detroit, Mich., who fought
through the Franco-Prussian war, left to
th Detroit survivors of his old company.
He willed tnera $15 with which to buy
beer after thy marched to tne cemetery
to hi funeral.
A Chicago banker has worked all his
life without missing a day, has never
had a vacation, nvr takes any recrea
tion, neither chews, drinks, plays goif nor
cards and never goes to the opera or
theater. His salary is now $.10,000. How
lonasom he must be In Chicago.
A Kansaa Judge has ruled that It Is th
duty of pedes trains o dodge autoinobllea
In order thoroughly to enjoy life in Kan
sas, one should be a human flea, perhaps.
Reno la happy, and the rest of us are
pretty well pleased that Reno la as far
as possible away from anywhere. 80 that
everybody ought to be satisfied except
Johnson and Jeffries, who probably will
have to fight after all.
Mrs. Sarah Piatt Decker, th first lady
of Denver, and Miss Catherine Cook, the
stat superintendent of schools of Colo
rado, war the principal speakers at the
laying of th cornerston of th first build
ing In Colorado to be uied for the develop
ment of household art. Senator Guggen
heim mad a girt of th building to th
home economics department of th Colo
rado Agricultural, college.
James Guild, who for many years has
conducted a book store in Washington In
th shadow of the domu ot the capitol,
and who has been a friend of many ' of
the great legislators of the last forty
years, has been forced to cloae his ahop
beoaua of Illness and his friends fear that
he will never be able to open It again.
He 1 M year old and he 1 gradually
sinking under th weight of year.
WORK IMPORTS COMIIfO IX FRBB
Significant Statistical Facta Rraard
lnr the Tariff Law.
Cleveland Leader.
Score one statistical point at Imst for the
new tariff law. Make it two, In foot, which
trot In double harness.
It has been known for many months that
the customs revenues of the country have
Increased greatly under the Payne-Aldrich
law. That, however, has naturally beon
attributed. In th main, to the general re
vival of trade and Industry and the conse
quent expansion of the foreign commerce
of the United States, especially In Imports.
Th return of prosperity haa Increased the
purchasing power of th American people,
and th buying of foreign products has in
creased accordingly.
But It appears, also, that the Imports
which pay duties are relatively less than
formerly, while the Imports free of duty
have been relatively as well as actually
larger than they Were a year ago. In Msy
th dutiable Imports fell nearly $5,000,000
below th corresponding month of last
year. On the other hand, the Imports duty
free showed a gain ot almost $6,000,000 com
pared with May, 1906.
Bach statistics will make good campaign
material next fall for many representatives
running for re-election who sorely need ef
fective help from some source.
Advertising men hare some queer
arguments to answer In the course of
a day's work.
A merchant said to me a while back;
"Who reads advertising, anywayf"
I asked him if he didn't read the ad
vertising columns of The Bee.
He answered, "Yes, hut I ,am Inter
ested; I want to see what my competi
tors are doing."
Mr. Merchant, the public Is also in
terested In what your competitors are
doing.
The public is vitally interested in
what they wear, and eat, and use in
their homes, and in what they will
Afraid of Ghosts
Talks forjjeople who sell things , .:
Many people ere afraid el ghosts. Few people
ere afraid of garms. Yet (he ghost is a faaoy and
the garni is a fset. If the gcs oovld be Magnified
to a six equal te it terrors It would appear snore
terrible tban aay Are-breatnlag dragon. Germs
caa't be s voided. They are as the air we breathe,
the water we drink.
The germ eea only nronper wbesi the condition
of tb rrttesn ghre k free seepe So establish it
self and develop. When there sf a deficiency of
vital foroa, leugwor, rsstlsssnsss, a sallow cheek,
borrow ere. wbea the appetite Is Door and the
sleep is broken, it is time to guard
lertify the body against all germs by the
a Madieal Discovery. It iaersase the
syswai siogging impurities, eariobe
a oh end rgaos of digestion and outride
Afn. - &-A
UTLnr j- 1 fJ wnitk te breed.
"GUa Medical Diseerery' contains no alcohol, whisky er
habit-forming drugs. AO its ingredients printed en its outside
wrapper. It is net a seeret aoetrum btst a medicine or known
ooMfosrnoN end with a record of 49 ymn cri. Accept no
seAetitete there is no tiling " ust ss good." Ask yomr neighbors.
mm
on Our Third Floor
and a great increase in
our used Pianos on the
seoond floor at 1513 Doug
las street.
We have sold so many
Player-Pianos on which
we were compelled to take
used pianos as part pay
meat, that we now can
furnish you a full size
Upright Piano for $75
on $1.00 Weekly Payments
Of oourse we put them in good tune, furnish new stool
and a fine rich velour scarf.
Now that the children hare their vacation they can
earn me money 10 start tuem in a musical education.
Can you afford to miss this!
A. HOSPE CO.,
W DO KXIMtrt PaJUW.
"
-J ' " '- 1 1 " -
. SAID HTFU..
The farmer'a wife: "What I really
oiisnt to arlve you Is a bath."
The hobo, srverelv: ' I wouldn t permit It.
ma'am, ami I advise you to vrtnflne your
porsonnl attentions ot that sort entirely
to your children, ma'am. Cleveland 1 lain
Dealer.
First Sweet Yonnn Thing We re start
ing the battle of life. .
ond Hweet Yotiog Thing and
we don't know whether a dlvorc is a vle
tory or a defeat. Judge.
"You used to say that boy of yours
wouldn't amoupt to anything because he
was a poet."
"I was mistaken. He makes a fine living
Keltina up nanica for fancy drinks at soda
fountains." Wanhlnictui! Mar.
Th father of a family of marriageable
glrla had Just kicked a dude off the front
Pr'h.
What's all that rnckct about, Cyrtiat"
asked hla wife, whose elumbera the noise
had disturbed.
"I've been cleaning out a sparking plug,"
he said, limping slightly. Chicago Tribune.
"My dear lady, do you teach your child
ren In the tru spirit alwaya to look upT"
"I don't have to now, tliere'a so many
people flying around In aeroplanes." Bal
timore Amerlcnn.
"How does Bllirglrm get th reputation
of being so well Informedf"
"By hla cleverness In leading the con
versation up to topics on which he hap
pens to be posted.' Washington Btan.
Nan I congratulate you on your con
quest of young Mr. Krewdoyle. His people
are well off, and he's making qulto a rep-
utatlon as an amateur artist.
"O, yes; he Isu't a bad sort, nut nis necx
tla and socks don't harmonise. Chicago
Tribune. ... .
'I see that some Texas congressman haa
lest Interduoed a bill to hev th' malls
carried by airship."
"He s a Hum rooi, r.y jacx: 1 wuni eiana
ror it Ef Hank Wlntergreen thinks we're
goln' to fly our mall boxes on kite talis
so'a he o'n c'lect th' letters ashe scoots
along In hla rural delivery alryplrvne, he's
all fired mistaken, by heokt-" Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
THE EOAD TO BALLYCLAHY.
Helen Combes In Smart Bet
Oh, the road to oallyclory, it goes dip
ping, dipping, dipping.
Down many a ferny hollow, through
many a mnsxy glen;
And a little maid who treads it goes trip
ping, tripping, tripping;
Sh tripped her way Into ray heart I
cannot tell you when.
Her eyes are gray of Ireland, her Cheeks
are pink of rose.
And the sweetness of her smiling, why,
everybody know
She's a bonny Irish lassie, from her elf
looks to her toes, , ,
On the road to Ballyclaty 1n the morning.
Sh passes by my window, when the sun
la shining, shining;
Sometimes she casts a fleeting glance,
sometimes sh never looks.
She does not know n aching heart Is
' pining, pining, pining.
Pent up by bricks and mortar, 'mid the
papers and the books.
Sh chats with other lassies, but the men ,
she passes by;
She never seems te see them I often
wonder why.
Is she waiting for a stranger? Fat send
that It be I,
On the road to Bally clary in the morning.
Oh, aom fine Sunday morning, whan th
bells are ringing, ringing.
And calling all the pious maids to mass
with Father Flynn,
I'll go to church beside them, where the
choir Is singing, singing;
Then the golden gates of Heaven may
ope' to let me In.
For I'll speak a word to Nora and tell
her how I'm fain
To live for her or dlov for her, but can
not bear the pain;
And perhapa the heart she's broken she'll
be patching up again
On the road to Bally clary In th morning.
have to pay for those things, and they
go to their only source of Information,
the advertising columns of their home
paper, to learn bow to spend their
money to the best advantage.
Forget your competitors for a little,
and think of what It would mean to
you to place your store news before
42,000 interested subscribers every
day.
Don't think so much about what
your competitors are doing, and think
a little oftener of what you can do In
a community of 150,000 people who
need your goods, and who will buy
them when you tell them fairly and
squarely what yon have.
against the germ. Yon
use of Dr. Pierce's Gold,
vital power, denote the
the blood, puU the stom
in Work in ft Asini ifirtax m
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