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XTIIE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, JULY 1.1, 1010. 6 'II IR OMAHA DAILY BEE. The Supreme Court. On a par with the gravity or me re- KOUNDED 13 r EDWARD nosEWATER I gponsiblllty devolving on the president In the appointment ot three members of the supreme court, counting Mr Hughes and the possibility of Mr Moody's successor, is the character of pending litigation that will confront Just such a situation VICTOR KOSEWATER, EDITOR. Entered at Omaha postofflce a second class matter. . - TERMS' Oi" SUW-CKIPTION. lially Use (Including lunday), per weea.-j Judges. i.-iti i- -i.h...,.li..n.iv tr week. ...Wo i"' uew JUURO". uaiiy ijee (without 8uuiay), one yer...ww 'never before existed and It calls for all U-Mlv Man and Hundi-Jr. on a year.. S.W UEL1VKHBU BT CARRIER. Evening- Bee (without Sunday), pr wwk.fc L'u.nlni afllh Hunilivl. bar Week). ..WO aui.uay lie, on year M-J MiLturdav Hm oil vtfir.. , Addross all complaint of irregularities ln delivery (o City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. ' Mouth Omahw-'l'wenty-lourth and N. Council biuifj 14 8oott fc.reet. Lincoln ila Utile Bunding. i'hirn 11- Marnuatia i-Uildlnff. Nw Vork Kocuis W-1-U2 No. U Wt the wisdom and special qualifications In those selected to fill up the bench. The president's training and tem perament, as well as bis thorough knowledge of men and bis eagerness to select the best for the place com bine to make him exceptionally well fitted1 to meet the task that confronts him. It Is exceedingly doubtful if an other could be found so well qualified It must be now ap- ...... ..,... Washington I Jo rourieenm oireai, for mis OUty I A HCl -J---., V I . . l . rr- . J . , .. .... .ni Pireni 1U I'OHipai lug ut lau ui)U itonai matter anouid be addreaaea: omana I Bryan training and temperament and Bee, Editorial Department. InrHnarlnna that t.h nponln ma. da no REAiiXTA.NCES. " " " Rnmit bv dmjL ticrui or postal order mistake In choosing tbeir leader in payable to J.he Bee ruouHiung uuihk"; .,, utn l.r.nl rnii received In payment or .vo. . . . . . ....,,, nn I . i . m . . i. I i . rresiueiu isu is wisely mams time to fill Chief Justice Fuller's place. He baa named Governor Hughes for the mail accounts. 1'ersonal utieuka, excepi Omaha or eastern exonange, not accept!. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. . - , - a i, 1 t.nrlaa I 'nlinl V. Ml I uLara-a it TaMohuckT treasurer ot The Bee vacancy created by the death of Asao lrfth Ju,t,ce Brewer-but there 19 complete copies ot The uany, . POSSlDUlty mat me iSeW XorK gov IKtSlZZZt "nor may be made chief Justice, 1 43,700 1 44,950 I. .... J,yao 4 4i,190 f 41,660 4J,S60 7 4J.700 I ..44,830 44,000 10 43,090 II 44,430 11 11,400 It .44,400 14 44.B40 IS 44.410 14 4,la0l which would still leave one and possl- 17, I Htv nthof Vl(nlia, HanAniltntf rn ...44.S-0 " --"-."e 41,600 tne action oi Justice woody, wno win ll ii 20.. 44,oo retire unless bis health improves. The i '80 three largest Issues that will demand "3 4770 "ention of the reorganized court will u. !45,030 be the Standard Oil and Tobacco trust li 45,ii0 caseb and the corporation tax suit. All M 4l,00 Qf thggft ara Imnortant in themselves. . their own party candidates, when, as a matter of fact, the democratic party Is the worst boss-ridden, machine driven, gag-ruled political organization in the land. S7 li.. !.. to. . but their chief interest lies In their re lation to other kindred questions, and in their determination the court will bn cnnHtrnlnf In Vfill-doflnnH mnnaurA Total ,,-, I nnwAr rit ronrrM nn nnv nuna. Keturned Conlea lo.a .48,000 .44.S40 .44,880 tlon affecting anti-trust legislation in the future. . - This principle brings us Into imme diate contact with the biggest point involved In the future make-up of the supreme court, which is rapidly under going a complete reconstruction. . The men of the old school of business are passing and those . representing the newer thought of the day taking their places. If Justice Moody retires the bench will Include, after all vacancies Champ Clark is getting to be too aro fllled' four Taft PPointees, three old a man not to be taken seriously. "ooseven apyoiatees, one eaca Dy Hayes, McKlnley and ' Cleveland. It But still we have the excitement of WM leave the court composed of corn- Jack Johnson's finish to look forward paratively new men, excepting Justice to. Harlan, named by President Hayes In 1877, now at the age of 77. Next to It is a hot town when the cinders him will come Justice White, ap- along the way explode as they do in pointed by President Cleveland In The Time to Talk Up. When the tax levy is being madti to provide funds for running the different branches ot city government for the ensuing year the office holders and de partment heads who are to spend the money are always on hand to show how, they cannot possibly get along without the top-notch appropriation, and how their work is crippled all the time because of inadequate funds. The pressure for higher salaries and for more money to spend Is strong on those who make the tax levy, while the people who pay the taxes are but little in evidence. Under this pressure the council has practically decided to make a city levy for 1911 to produce the largest amount the city charter permits, notwltbstand ing the fact that the city will next year have from $125,000 to $160,000 from new sources of revenue over and above what it had last year. The taxpayers ought to have some niaterlal benefit In the way of a reduced tax rate from the occupation tax and royalties which the franchised corporations are now pay lng. There is no good reason why the proceeds of the occupation tax should not be turned into the sinking fund and an equal amount abated from the tax levy. The appropriation for the general fund can also be materially shaved without seriously Interfering with the efficiency of our municipal government. It Is up to the property owners, bus iness men and taxpayers, Individually and collectively, through their organi zations to talk up now while there is time to accomplish something. s Net Total 4.1,1U.180 ' Dally Average 43,704 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK, Treasurer, Subscribed In my preeence and sworn to before me thle soth day or June. iu. M. P. WALKER, Notary Public Sabecrlbere leavla the elr tem porarily ehould hare The Bee mailed 4 thorn. Addresaee will be chanced aa often aa re seated. Around New York agree that he can, too, for any man who ran solve the problem of living on $1 a week that is what Mr, Long has done can do anything else. One suggestion we wish to make to Friend Long do not put jour fighting on Johnson on the basis of the "white man's hope." The White man baa lostj CommlBloner DrUcoll of the Bureau of nothing. WelghU and Measures raided every market place in Manhattan Saturday evening and Roger Sullivan is getting off the gathered in a huge coleotlon of crooked t... iH.t r,l eonlee and short measures. Five inapeo- lUpplini cm the Cnrrent ef X-lfe ae Been In the Great America Metropolis, from Day te XT. reservation again. My, low no sense of proportion at all? tore, six policemen and three automobiles aided In the collection and removal of the Here Is Mr. Dryan busy Straightening tuff. Everywhere the raiders worked they out his disobedient party at home and were surrounded by Immense throngs. Fvd this obstreperous scamp bobs up. It's un. dlsm' 'n" ." '' a gay life, this being boss of your own household. were dumped out of false-bottomed meas ures, but the crowd sided with the commis sioner and cheered him along. In one case It required police Interference to prevent an ice wagon driver from being mobbed. He was moving along Fifth ave hue, near One Hundred and Tenth street, when Commissioner Drlneoll overhauled ot his twtnty-pound of the wagon. It registered thirty-two pounds. It was his selling weight and went Into the 4 , , r, Lr II i Ty Cobb Is now the most versatile A fl.n mariet on one Hundred and Secord actor in the land. He played the dual street was weighing out goods on twelve role of hero and villain the other day different scales. The raiding party pounoed in the same drama, preventing one au Mr. Bryan may forgive Governor Shallenberger for refusing to call a special session of the legislature at his command, but for getting more votes him and tried one in 1908 than did Mr. Bryan in his weights on the scales at the rear home state, never! ' by talk of ruin to the railroads when , the latter are enjoying the larRpst earnings and) paying the best dividends of their history, if the apostolate of Increased charges Is not abandoned after this evidence of Hs rto ceptlve character, the Imputation of foollh-ne-s may be shifted from the people at lsrge to the realms of rallros tnansB-ment. PERSONAL NOTES. on all twelve at once ane reweignea tne nnrniiau, t-.a!nr maria. Puatomera ware tomobile accident and causing another. f onr. to ba ,Q1.r, by h.,f . Mund or more on eliht out of twelve of the scales. On The St Louis RepubllO has an edl-l one of them the market was found to be a torlal under the caption, "Where the loser, East Side Comes In." It has been coming into St. Louis at the foot of Eades bridge a long time. Our old friend (by permission), Ed gar Howard, says no "nonpartisan foolishness" for him this year. Edgar yields to that sort of "foolishness" only during oft years. Pittsburg. .President then Justice Holmes by Mr. Rockefeller is now preaching a union of the churches. That man thinks In combines. 1894, and Roosevelt in 1902. It would Beem to be a wise disponsa- The Fiery Brand. Brand Whltlock, the Toledo mayor. belongs to that school of upllfters who have been saving the rest of the hu man race from the penalty of their follies in the last few years, so that he Is especially well qualified to deal with the recent occurrence at Reno and its discussion. Mr. -Whltlock is not only an uplifting politician, but a scholar of literary attainments, being .one of the most voluminous "supplement contributors" there is and he writes with equal facility on all subjects, al ways leaning to the side of the non conformist. So, in all the public pro test arising as a result of this Reno prize fight, he finds nothing commend able to those who- hav$ given utterance to such sentiments, but says: And now we experience a recrudescence of . Anglo-Saxon morality, and suddenly tlon. after all, that brings new men I up t0 the ract ttiat aa tn" u bru- . . . ., . , . . Lew ana vtticuiebieu w vurrupt aoiiieovugr. o Issues and principle's growing put of new conditions. By.tho way. after this state conven tion, perhaps Mr. Bryan might be in- rilioori in 1nln that "third narrv" will .Bryan ueip Aerni Some of our automobile speeders are The late also-ran, John W. Kern, still defiant. A good, hard . collision finds himself in an embarasslng situa- with the police judge might help some. I tlon just now. He la the democratic candidate for the senate' in Indiana In the meantime, of course, if thoseLnd he wants the brewers' suDDort Illinois democrats snouia aeciae to lrtn, -,,th fh. nt -n nthu- int-r-a clean bouse the state would not suffer Th9 brewers,' It is understood, have any. foot up $202,500. He could have been burled cheaper than that right here Jn Omaha. evinced a friendly feeling for aim, but ...t ., . they first want to exact one promise The bills for. King Edward'B. funeral I - tr , , v. .. vi jur. xveru, uau-eij, mat ug win uui have his friend, W. J. Bryan, help In his campaign. ' But the Macedonia cry had already "I am surprised at nothing." ob- Bon oul lo Mr- ora 10 com over serves John W. Kern. He made one Bno aeip in JBBl ma wno louowea swing around the circuit with W. J. Mm round the presidentlil ring and. Bryan. I It is' understood, Mr. Bryan has lent a wining ear to tne supplication. He nas l What? Fewer -babies in .Kansas! not failed since 1896 to take part in Not1, what's the matter with Kansas? a.n Indiana campaign and his friends Kansas, the home of Bill Allen White? there Insist' he has always had some Come, come. Influence. Mr, Kern is not averse to accepting any aid that Mr. Bryan may Puazle: In the picture printed by be able to give him, but it is not his Congressman Hitchcock's paper enti- voice that beckons him onward, for he tied, , "The Dog and the Shadow," find is not sure that under the clrcum the face of Bryan. .Many, a man has gone to the coun try for a rest and vacation and thenLdTocatlng county optlon stances it is possible for Mr. Bryan to be of any actual assistance, unless he will agree to make speeches without come back to his modern city comforts and wondered why. . It looks as if the usual apologies for the condition 'of Omaha's street would be needed for out-of-town visitors to the Ad club and the Saengerfest. A dead man was found at the helm In an automobile in Maine. He was as safe as some who have been run ning them fuftber west than Maine. And what makes Mr. Kern so nerv ous is that he knows Mr. Bryan too well to suppose that he would allow any mere candidate for office even to suggest to him what he shall or shall not talk about. But why should Mr Kern always be the paschal lamb? He stood for the sacrifice when he ran for vice president with Mr. Bryan and be came the burnt offering in the sena torial race two years ago and now must tie again onerea up on toe po- MeanWhile In the tenements and slums halt of' the children die before the age of i years. 'Furthermore, last year, by the In dustri&l machines of the country, half a million men were killed or maimed. Most of these lives might have been saved . by the Improvement of working conditions, As to these Immense and appalling brutal ities, the nation is dumb. No resolutions, no appeals, no threats. "Why? Because to oppose this kind of brutality is danger ous. It might hurt business. It is well for those who did not al ready understand Mr. Whltlock and his kind that he cast this gratuitous reflection upon the press, for intelll gent men and women know better; they know that just now a very sens! ble, systematic and determined move ment Is being directed against the very abuses which Toledo s fiery mayor says are practiced with perfect lm punity. The best people of all classes have arrayed themselves against them and they are making splendid prog ress and would, make better progress, perhaps, butfdr just such deterrent Influences as that wielded by these nonconformists, who choose to belittle or misrepresent everything except that that they have espoused for their own personal purposes, for the promo tlon of their own selfish ends. Brutality and Injustice, falsification and deception, whether practiced by the greedy interests to which Whltlock refers, or by the sleek politician In the reformer's role, are being frowned on today by the best there is left of the Anglo-Saxon and It Is not being done for stage purposes, either. It is of interest to note that Mr. Whltlock made this play ot his to ah assembly of mill workers, whose pas sions are sometimes subject to such appeals, a fact which, of course, never occurred to this Golden Rule mayor Champ Clark tells the democrats Htical altar they must fight to win. They are. Does he think. Bryan Is lambasting Shallenberger and Hitchcock et al. just for fun? The recklessness with which Mr Bryan makes wholesale charges of bribery and corruption Is only equaled by the care he exercises not to mention any names. Wisconsin Democrats. Wisconsin has a direct primary law designed to help the people rule. But Wisconsin democrats have -just held a state convention and put in nomina tion a complete state ticket in anticipa tion ot the primary. Wisconsin dem ocrats did this two years ago, and they are repeating the performance again Mr. Hearst has ordered his editorial tnl" yr- Th nominations by the batteries trained upon Congressmaan convention are, of course, merely en Padgett of Tennesseee because that Uoraements and recommendations to otherwise obscure statesman refuses to tb members of the democratic party treat seriously the Hearst Jingoism but they r Uo Instructions to the about a war with Japan. nominees to file In the primary and notice to all others who may want to Martin W. Littleton, on returning flU that they will do so at their peril, from England, has some expert advice This example set by Wisconsin dem to offer to King George V, but li he ocrats is sot cited here by The Bee as should ask as much for It as the ad- n argument for or against the direct vice he sold to th Thaw family the primary, but as another proof of the new king might allow blm to keep it wide divergence between democratic practice and preachment. Every The effort to hold republicans re- where,' In Wisconsin, in Nebraska and sponsTBle for acta of omission and com- throughout the country, the democrats muslon by Nebraska's last dstinx-ratic are trying to make out that they are legislature win not sueceed any more the special guardians and only sincere than would an effort to hold the dem- friends of the direct primary; that oiratle mluorlty respontilble.for what they offer the people the only oppor er.rrss naS or OftS not done. tnnltV to down the, boaaea and rhn. 1 - - ' --.- Too Painful for Thoaffht. Philadelphia Ledger. Some day. In the very course of nature. Mexico will be without Dlas, and what will Mexloo do then, poor thing? Restful Recreation. Indianapolis News. On the theory that rest la a change of occupation, perhaps you could even come out a little ahead on your vacation by responding to that call whloh the farmers have sent out for harvest hands. 'Don't Go In title Water." Baltimore American. The summer drownings are proceeding with the usual regularity and dispatch. The Inviting coolness of the water at this heated season makes people forget that it ts the most treacherous of the elements. Sure of One Branch. Chicago Record-Herald. A German professor has decided that the various branohes of the human racs de scended from four different varieties of apes. ' We cling to the opinion, however, that the fellow who rocks the boat is a grat-grandson of some baboon. - Jail Delivery In Order. Chicago Record-Herald. . The electoral colleges of Mexico have de clared Dlas is president by an overwhelm ing majority of that republic. The other candidate may, therefore, hope to.be let out of Jail without much further delay. To the KtTSl Jk Pile. - vKw York- World. - . The protqtdU cruleex Boston, offered for sale at public auction by. Secretary of the Navy Meyer, was a member of the original White squadron In the days when William C. Whitney was secretary of the navy, and fifteen years after its launch ing it bore a great part In the battle of Manila Bay. Some memories will go with the old ship. Sense Jolta Emotion. St.- Ltruls Republic Mrs. Ella Flagg Toung, superintendent of Chicago publlo schools, declares that to prohibit the prize fight pictures without any authority therefor In law is as bad as to break the law by promoting prize fights. And, anyway, she can't see any great harm Is exhibiting . the pictures. Very sensible woman, that Mrs. Toung. One wonders why the men were so, stubborn In resist ing her election as N. IS. A. president. P. O. D. "Points with Pride." Springfield Republican. Postmaster General Hitchcock is entitled to claim that he Is doing his part In meeting President Tsft's demand for re trenchment In all departments 'of the fed- That's the scale you use when you re buying your stuff; I guess I hsd better take it along with the others," said Com mlslsoner Drtscoll, and he loaded the nine scalos Into his automobile. ' Part of the raid was made In territory covered the week before, and In this terri tory SO per cent of the measures were found to be new and aoourate, while in territory that had not been gone over before M per cent of the measures were false. Brooklyn has a oocktall. Manhattan and the Bronx have been similarly nonorea. The Inventor halls from the Rhine section of -Cincinnati and his name is Maurice Hegeman of the J'Foliles of 1910.". He says the Idea to blm one night when he was In bed. "I oould not sleep," said the talented Maurice, "so I put my mind on inventing a cocktail ,for Brooklyn, one that would compare with Manhattan and the Bronx. After I thought it out, I Cot right up and went to a dllpensory and made me a cou ple of them. After I drank them I went home and my Insomnia was gone. Fact ts, I slept for twelve hours without waking up.". Hard cider is the basis or Dody or lite or whatever It is of the new Hegeman drink. The Ingredients are as follows: Half a whisky glass of hard cider emp tied Into a long glass In which are three good-slsed lumps of Ice. Half a Jigger of absinthe. Fill glass to brim with ginger ale. Only three ingredients. It will be seen. "Reformed spelling gets help from many unexpected sources," -said a simplified speller, quoted by the Bun. "Electrlo sign boards are the most recent educators on this subject. Down at Coney Island there Is the word 'thru' displayed In dazzling letters where thousands of people must see It every day. Th owner of the sign prob ably has no opinions on the subject, but he gains in two ways by adopting the new form. The sign Is more striking because of the new spelling and he saves money by using. ewer letters, - Each letter counts a good deal whet, you have to pay so much an hour for each light. . A picture posv card man on Surf avenue has displayed above his shop 'Fotos' in electrlo light let ters. That is short and simple and no body can fall' to understand what he has to sell and he saves 60 per cent of the light bill." When the silvsr was rounded up at the end of the day's work the master of the pantry sorted out eleven spoons engraved with the names of other restaurants and hotels. - 1 And that is getting off pretty well, said he. "These were left by customers who swiped some ot our own 'Silver. Walters have become so e'xpert at counting at Just one glance the pieces of silver they re move from a table that the average pilferer Is ashamed to secrete a fork or spoon un less he has something to replace it wiui. Eyes sharp enough to take In the number of pieces cannot read names and mono grams at arm's length, so the substitute Is pretty sure to prevent detection. Souvenir fiends who go to big restaurants with the intention of carting off a part of the silver SAFKH PA SSI, NO Kit COACHES. Steel Conatrnetlon Supereedlagr he Old Wooden Conch. Minneapolis Journal. The advertisement of one railroad of the northwest asking patronage for certain trains because they are made up of steel coaches Is significant. It Is an effort to take advantage of the only kind of com petition between railroads that Is now prac ticable, namely, that which arlsos from offering better equipment, greater safety and more comfort In travel. The steel coach Is a great Improvement on the old wooden coach. More than TO steel coaches are now used on one ot the Eastern Trunk lines, including day. dining, sleeping, baggage and postal cars. The same company expects to have two thousand in use as soon as they can bo turned out. The advantages of the steel coaon are numerous, but the most important is that It cannot be burned or crushed into deadly splinters In a wreck. The passengers in a steel coach may be badly shaken up and even suffer serious bone fractures and othrf Injuries. But they cannot be horribly burned to d-ath while pinned down beneath the train debris. Neither are they exposed to the danger of Instant death of fright ful injury by deadly splinters of wood. In addition, steel coaches can more readily be kpt clean and free from hiding places for germs. The steel coaches stand the impact of a collision better thsn any device yet con trived. It means a big bill to the railroads to ohange over their passenger equipment, but the change will be made with What speed is possible. All new cars, at least, ought to be of steel construction. The rail roads that offer their patrons trains or stool are likely to benefit largely from It, thus pursuadlng- their competitors to iro and do likewise. a dally rt- I habit. Is llkeirf Fine the kaiser la to have T. R.. with a mere weekly nt to drop behind. Robert Irwin, aged 17 years, for whom Mr. Andrew Carnegie worked more than half a century ago as a telegraph mn. senger boy, died at the home of his on-In-law, Dr. B. W. Klrkpatrlck. In ritts burg. ' Austrian women have been greatly bme. ' flted through a decree of the minlMer of public works, which enlarges the sphere of . their choice of occupation. Almost evryl line of Industry la now open to them In 4 that country. ' f Michigan has stolen a march on Inrtluia. It's poets and novelists have organlted "for the furposo of drawing the literary people of the state into closer social ac quaintance." The headquarters of the Mich igan Authors' association are located In Detroit. The newly elected president ofr the association is Frederick S. Isham, au thor of "Half a Chanee." Oeorge H. Stewart, and older brother of Justice John Stswart of the supreme court Of Pennsylvania, the oldest business man In Shlppenburg, and the oldest grain mer chant along the line of the Cumberland Valley railroad, retired. from the mercantile business July 1. Mr. Stewart began his business career In Bhlppenburg in 1S65 and has been actively engaged, in the grain and merchandise trade for a porlod of flftv flve years. eral government. The postofflce depart ment points with pride to the fact that have got smart enough to leave other old more than 110,000,000 reduction In the postal .noons that they have got tired of in its oe.ioii nas Deen maoe in tne nrst nine pftce to fool the waiters, itiuiiLiia ui Mia iimvui year jubi enaeu. cucn whittling constitutes the record for the department. How did it happen? Post-1 master General Hitchcock should take the country Into his confidence. Our Birthday Book The ' Nebraska anti-Saloon league has Issued a proclamation to say that those who favor county option "ought to declare In favor of the Oregon plan." ' We think so, too. They ought atso to declare themselves In favor of woman suffrage, the Henry Oeorge single tax, the curfew bell, the nine- foot bed sheet and government owner ship of railroads. The East St. Louis woman who, after waiting fifteen years for the re turn of her husband and applies for a divorce on the grovJ that her pa tience is 'exhausted, probably will be exempted by the 8t. Louis preacher who said all divorcees ought to be ban ished, nor can she be accused of being Impatient. If It Is Just a fight between two sets of speculative promoters as to which shall get the big slice of the telephone bond pie, the common people will have little Interest in It. If there is any prospect of better telephone service and cheaper rates the people who foot the bills will be open to argument Harvard's modern Hercules, Earl Van Meter Long, says be Is willing to meet Jack Johnson any time or place and can lick him. We are prompt to Secretary ot State Koenlg says the aver age tialiy receipts now tor auiomoone lloenses under the Callan law and also from chauffeurs' applications amounted to more than 15.000. There are nearly 100 clerks kept busy every minute In the day attending to the tremendous rush of mall that is arriving hourly. Basing his estimate on the moneys received now Mr. Koenig believes that the state win rece.ve more than 11,000,000 yearly under the Callan law, Joly 18, 1910. Benjamin Ide Wheeler, president of the University of California, was born July 15, There are about M.OOO chauffeurs In New 18M, at Randolph, Mass. He was for a long York City. time one of the professors at Cornell uni versity, frdm ' which he was called to the Golden Gate state. - Franklin K. Lane, Interstate Commerce Commissioner; Is just 46. He was born in Prinoe Edward's Island, and was a lead ing lawyer of San Francisco before taking his present position. Just now he Is the leading lawyer representing the United States in the lawyers' conference being held In Switzerland. ' Willlan Winter, the nestor of dramatic critics, ts just 74. He used to be with the New Tork Tribune, but resigned in a huff about a year ago beoause of differences with the management. He is an authority upon the drama In this country. Thomas C. ' Piatt, former United States senator from New Tork, who djed a few months ago, . was ' born July 16, 1833, at Owega, N. T.'. He was head of the United States Express company, and though a long political career had acquired the title of the "easy boss." Alfred Herts, musician and musical con ductor, - was born July 16. 1871. He Is i native of Oermany, but more recently oon nected with the Metropolitan opera house in New Tork. C. W. Del-ematre, attorney at law offlc- Ing in the Karbach block, la celebrating his flfleth birthday ' today. He was born In Kimball, O., and educated in the Ohio State university and the Cincinnati law school". he has been practicing his profession con' Unuously since. Luclen Stephens, gent's furnishings 1 BATH'S LIRE IN THB AIR. Aereplanlns Claaeed as tfco Most Dan gerous of Sports. St. Louis Republic However cold and unsympathetlo the statement may seem, It is only the literal truth to say that every persistent navl- .rator of an aeroplane la .absolutely cer tain of death in the course of time if he keeps at the sport. Man has solved a part, but not all, the mystery of tho air. It still holds secrets that are beyond hu man ken, and until they are more fully known the best of aviators Will continue to move hand In hand with' death every time a flight is made. Greatest of these secrets is that which relates to the flight of an aeroplane oi such substantial construction that it Will not buckle and break under the Influence of a mere zephyr of the air. Nothing more fragile than the aeroplanes with which such startling feats have been accomplished dur ing the past few months has ever been used as a vehicle of locomotion. It is as insubstantial" almost as a toy borrowed from a kindergarten. Perhaps experience will bring Improved construction to diminish the danger. For the present, however, aeroplaning must be classed as tho most hazardous of sports, and week by week there la bound to be a regular toll ot death. LAUGHING OAS. "You think they can prove the young man was mentally Incapacitated at the time?" "Oh, yes. They've got all the evidence that's necessary to show thst his father always gsvs hr-n all the mcney he wanted.'' Cleveland Plain Dealer. "I was pinched for being too optimistic'' "Aw. come off.' Fact. I tlioutrht the stock I was selling would be worth something some day." Washington Herald., "By the way," queried Shortlelgh, "which Is proper to say, 'Lnd me $6,' or 'Loan me 16?' " ' "Well," rejoine TeL,ong, "as far as I am concerred. It won't do you any good tu say either." Chicago Newv "I understand that your grandfather was a famous robber baron." "Robber baron, nothing) He kept a re- f spectable garage." Kansas City Journal.' i -Knlcker I would water for you. Stella-Air, too T New Tork Sun. "He says he ' has never deceived his wife." "He never baa" . "He ts one truthful man," "Not particularly: he's just got that kind i of a wife, that's all." Houston Post. ; fw ,t Nodd That last boy of , yours Is very brifht, isn't he? Topp Oh, very. We call him the sane lourui. ',!. go through fire anuf V . Prose Pletnro of Taft. . New Tork Times. Ex-Governor- Murphy of New Jersey, chairman of that state's republican com mittee, Issued an open letter to Jerseymen, setting forth the committee's ideas of "the great work that has been accomplished by a republican oongress and a republican president." In the beginning he tells a story to' Illustrate his conception of Presi dent Taft . "On a North river ferryboat a little while ago," says Mr. Murphy, "the attention of all the passengers was drawn to the mag nificent Mauretanla, with its thousands of tons of cargo, and with people, enough for a , good-sized country town as It sped through the waters almost as silently as the seagulls about It floated through the air. I thought Of President Taft of .his quiet, glgantio, resistless power, as he is moving smoothly on with his great burden of national problems." I "So you were ai'rested While traveling In Europe?" "Yes," replied the tourist who always has a surprising story, "It came about through a careless remark. of mine. They thought I wit a dartgerous anarchist" "What did you say?" , "'I ventured the opinion that green apple pie Is food fit for a king." Washington Star. AFTER THE CIRCUS. ?'i US'' Philadelphia North American. Ones more the elephants has came and went The screechln' ot the bands has died away, The folks has all gone home and back to work And school is out, but I can't seem to play. - My ma, she thtaks I'm cross or half way:' sick. L And p&t says, VNearly time to git the f i . " " strap.", ; But now the animals and band is gone And hothln'a left, why should I care a rap? sunshine isn't quite the just like be didn't Somehow the same; The rooster crows ' know The oircus has been here and went awav But what do chickens know about a show? , , , I wlsht I had-a-gone away with them. Nobody seems to care about me here. I could a-helped to feed the elephants, And mebbe learnt to ride a bear or deeiv Or tamed a lion or a tiger cub, And when I'd got him tame I'd set htm free, And when we come down Main street, me and him, , I bet the folks 'ud have to notloe ma Borne fellers only want to be a clown. Or drive a wagon in the street parade But I'm a-goln' to tame the animals And not come home until my fortune's made. Tommy. Talks for people who sell things There Is an advance of over $237,000,000 In the assessed valuation of New Tork City real estate for 1910. This Is a big lift in tax-bearing capacity; but It Is not big enough to meet Increased expenditure. The tax rate will probably be advanced to 11.77 per $100, an average advance of 10 cents. The youngsters at the sea wall by the aquarium In Battery park derive great pleasure In watching the wash from pass ing ferries and tugs. In the noon hour many passersby see the pillars and chains at the edge of the wall and lean against them. The youngsters watch eagerly, and presently a big wave comes up with a slap and dashes spray over one of the loungers. While the others are watoblng bis discom fiture a following wave hits the wall some where else and drenches a watcher. Then the youngsters howl In glee. In a few moments the wall is deserted and the game begins again when the next tug passes. MORE! HOLLER THAN Hl'HT. Dividends Mock the Lamentations of Railroad Mautseri, Pittsburg Dlspstoh. The Atohlson, Topeka ft Santa Fe rail road la another company that, on mature deliberation, has decided that It is unneces sary to reduce its plump dividend rate of He came to Omaha In 188, where P ni- It is also among the companies whose presidents wero choral In declaring that ruin was staring them In the face If on any obstaole was presented to their general Sixteenth street, was born July 15. 1M1. at raises or rates. But u was oecioeo mat Rocheport Mo., and was educated In the I the rates must be subjected to scrutiny as Omaha public schools and Du Pauw unl- to their reasonableness ana the aiviaienas verstty. He la a member of the Omaha of the blghtlde mark are kept up. Publlo Library board, I The whole business Is one of the most Owyer II. Yates, auditor and accountant protrusive example of the disposition ot of the United States Nationat bank. Is just the railway Interest to regard the nubile 23 years old, He was Urn here in Omaha as easily fooled. Perhaps this judgment and started in the banking business with has some foundation In the experiences of the Nebraska National bank, going to his the past. But It certainly requires an prevent position In 1M6 after five years' (exigent. belief in the publlo stupidity to ex. servlc.. Ipeet the nation at large -to be stampeded , Some years ago, in one ot the larg- was packed every day by customers . l . J I , 1, ,-.., H , . l 1 ' . . , . esv . nun iu mo wuiu, a ui-huv w uo came in response to tne receivers , started a department store. newspaper advertising and that the I From the beginning he refused to stock was closed out in record tim ' advertise in the newspapers. through newspaper advertising. f He did advertise in various ways I do not say that nonadvertlslng by word of mouth, store and window was the sole cause of failure. Tha placards, etc., etc. that he would not merchant didn't realize It perhaps- advertise. He said the public footed but he was trying to fool the people' I the newspaper advertising bills of by claiming to give them" more and other merchants, that he would save better goods than his advertising com- his customers this expense, that he petitors, because he did not advertise. would give them more and better No man can make a success in bual I goods for their money and all the ness by trying to fool 1 the people" rest of that old, old story. through advertising, or through th Southerners are a kindly and easy- lack of It. , going folk also Intelligent so they Intelligent merchandising and Intel' kept right on reading the advertising ligent advertising go hand In hand, news of the "other merchants" and and the merchants who realise this buying their goods. are reaping the benefits. The "other merchants" kept right on You who are not advertising, had advertising and doing business. you not better begin? The only ripple the nonadvertlsed The advertising columns of The Bed store ever made on the business sur- will carry your store news to 48,000 face of that southern city was when subscribers every day you can win the receivers advertised the "stock, their confidence and custom through store and fixtures" for sale. steady, persistent advertising of honest It Is the Irony of fate that the store merchandising. DOES SOT CONTAIN ALUM. Hie "Wholesome Baiting Powder "Is It wholesome ". Is the first question to b considered In selecting an article for food. Romford Baking Powder Is wholesome because'it leaves In the food nothing but what is found in a grain of wheat It has received the highest conW mendation of physicians and chemists of world wide reputation. The baking powder that excels all others In Kholesomeness, baking efficiency and economy Is RUMFORO- r.t .. .