The omaha- Daily bee rXiUXDID BT EDWARD ROIEWATIR. VICTOR B08EWATER. EDITOR. Entered at Omihi postofflce M second class matter. TERMS or SUBSCRIPTION: Pundar Bee. en y tr .KM . l.M . 4.04 . 00 haturrtey Fee. on year I'ellv Bee (without Bunday. one year. Illy Bee and Sunday, una year . DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Evening Bee (without Sunday), per mo....2fio Evening Be (with Sunday). per month. ..ic I 'ally Bee (Including !un1By. per mo....fc Daily Baa (without Sunday). per mo r Addreee all eomplalnta of trregularltlee In delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Be Building. . South Omaha 2 N. Twenty-fourth St. Council Bluffa-16 Kcott ft. Lincoln 2 Little Building. Chicago 154 Marquette Building. Kansas City Reliance Building New York-34 West Thirty-third St. Washington T2& Fourteenth St., N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communlcatlona relating to newa and editorial matter should be addraaaed Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, eipress or poatal order, paable to The Bee Fwhllahlng Company. Onlv i-eent atampa received In payment of mall eccoiin'e Personal checke except on Omaha and eastern exchange not accepted. APRIL CIRCULATION. 48,106 6tate of Nebraska, County of Douglaa, as: Dwlght William, circulation manager of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, saya that the average dally circula tion, less spoiled, unused and returned copies, for the month of April, 1911. waa 8,10. DW1QHT WILLIAMS. Circulation Manager. Pubacrlbed In my presence and swurn to before me thla let day of May, lU. (Seal.) ROBERT HUNTER. - Notary Publio. Subscribers leavlac the et7 teas perarlly shawl have The Be iuU s ikesa. A debase will We tkaand as of tea as raeated. That Denver platform ia evidently no longer binding aa to what It omita. Even a iwuei aumier aometlmea wants to know where hla pay la com ing from. Portugal haa decided to rebuild lta navy, having just reconstructed Its ship of state. Gotch baa signed articles agreeing to wrestls Hack, ao that ia one war settled, anyway. Soma folks call It "dandy lion," but that 4os not hurt it any more than to call it "dandelion." It seems too bad for that ward In Chicago to be reduced to only two cabinet representatives. El Peso should tell Juares to shinny on Its 6wa eld. Chicago Evening Post. It probably will before the thing Is over. Now that. they hava found Edgar Allan, Poe's wedding ring, alert jew elarsiomght to have them on sale promptly. Query: Why should, plumbing work at the county hospital coat more than the same work would at any other place? . With the rebela In the mood to strike for their pay, a walking dele gate ought to find a rich harvest In Mexico Just now. Bom nature raker proposes a scheme for extracting the atlnger from a bee. Better plan than that is to keep out of the stinger's way. Inasmuch aa the president knows all about bow to run the War depart ment it doea not matter greatly who acta aa aecretary of war. Wall, street Is disturbed at what It conceives to be discouragement In the west. No use to worry over the west. It has smiles enough for all. The grocers' and butchers' annual picnic has been set for June 22. Be sure and have your rain gauge ready for emergency use on that day. According to the Boston Herald "China la turning over In her sleep. Bo far ao good. Now if the old lady will Just, bounce out of bed It will be better; Omaha will entertain the 1912 na tional convention of the American federation of Musicians. That will surely give us a chance to blow our own born. One of the bidders for sn electrlo lighting franchise la aald to hava with drawn hla application. Does that" mean that he haa already gotten what he went after? Presumably, our Water board finan ciers are waiting on the federal court of appeala to tell them whether to let that water bond issue go at SS, 250,000 or to raise the ante. The demand in Omaha is for a pool hall ordinance that regulates or for none at all. A set of rules without sufficient penalties for Infraction will be simply a dead letter. The total general bonded Indebted ness of the city of Omaha is officially atated to be $6,070,000. These fig urea give perspective to the proposed Issue of $S,2S0.000 of water bonds. Changea come ao thick and fast down on the border that a man scarcely dare to commit himself with an expression of opinion on the situa tion for fear of being overturned the next minute. Dr. Wilson has on attribute com mon to all presidential aspirants he staggers In astonishment when asked about, hla candidacy, exclaiming In surprise: "Really, I had not thought about the presidency." Sherman Law Again Upheld. In upholding the Sherman antl truKt law In the rase of the packers. Judge Carpenter of Chicago, says: "I sm of the opinion that sections 1, 2 and 3 define with sufficient ac curacy the offenses therein enumer ated." He, therefore, overruled the demurrers of the packers to the in dictments on the ground of the law's invalidity, reasserting the constitu tionality of the act. . In thla ruling, Judge Carpenter has nearly 100 Ju dicial decisions as precedent to sup port him, for the Sherman law has been adjudicated that many times, and haa been held by the supreme court to be clearly constitutional and broadly comprehensive. . The issue raised in the packers' case Is a combi nation in restraint of trade and the defense has set up the claim that It Is not engaged In maintaining an "un reasonable" restraint. An interesting point there is that the law rqak.es no reference to an "unreasonable" re straint, a point laid down in a de cision rendered by the United States supreme court in 1897, when It re versed the decision of the circuit court of appeals of the Eighth district, stat ing, in the course of Its decision: Section 1 of the Sherman law applies to II combinations In restraint of Interstate or foreign trade or commerce, without ex ception or limitation; and the prohibitions that section are not confined to un reasonable restraints of such trade or com merce. Judge Carpenter's decision, we are reminded, may have an "indirect bear ing on all anti-trust litigation in the United States in upholding the com pleteness and stability of the Sherman act." But would it not have had a direct and more far-reaching effect on all such litigation if it had been the other way? The decision seems to be in direct line of the precedent estab lished by the supreme court's ruling. The Chicago Judge takes the ground that if the packers have sought to control low prices to the producer of raw material and high prices to' the consumer, as charged, the trust would be complete and should be dissolved and the penalties inflicted on the law breakers. HOLD A' Word for the Olive. The Wall Street Journal has made an invidious comparison of the Cali fornia and European olives, and, of course it has been properly called to account by loyal California papers. The San Francisco Chronicle comes boldly to the rescue ot this succulent Qttle. product and . shows the Wall Street Journal that, while It may know all about, bulling the cotton mar ket or bearing steel, it knowa nothing about an olive. The Chronicle takes its text from this derogatory statement from the Wall street paper: Olive culture -In -this country Is admit tedly exotic. The" California olive Is both tough and acrid. Ita oil may serve for wool washing or soap making, but for these purposes it is handicapped by the partiality which the tariff extends to petted manu facturing Industries, for it permits them to Import their olive oil (the lower grades) free of duty. . An Indictment with three charges is made against the New York critic; first, that olive culture in California la not exotic; second, that the Cali fornia olive ia not tough; third, that all ollvea are acrid. . Since) California la a part of the United Statea and, better still, a part of the west, we are Inclined to the California side of this debate, but there ia no need for holding out for a far-fetched footing. Aa a matter ot fact, the Wall Street Journal is wrong, aa anybody who baa ever tasted , a California olive aa it came from the tree or brine knowa that in stead of being tough, It la very tender and aa Juicy aa an oyster. One might easily get the Idea that thla Wall street man never tasted any sort of ollvea when he attempta to make a distinction by saying that one is acrid, for If they were not acrid they would not be olives. Nor is the culture In California exotic, even though It has not been going on 2,000 years. When It comes to a serious consld eratlon, the olive bids fair to be one of the largest ataples In the California fruit orchards. It grows luxuriously except In the Sierra Nevada moun talna and ia being more generally planted each year. It ia larger than the ollvea we get from Europe, and. naturally, better as It comes to the table, for the European olive la mora apt to be picked before matured for marketing purposes. It will not do for the east to let lta habit of seeing superiority in European Importations Influence Its Judgment too far in thla case, for the statistics on olive cul ture In this country are all agatnat it. Omaha's Population. The census of last year gave Omaha proper a population of 124,095, while adding In South Omaha. Florence, Dundee, Benson and other adjacent suburbs would put the census at ICS,- 000. But here cornea the city directory man to tell ua that by the customary methoda of computation Omaha is en titled now to claim 1(9,932 and South Omaha 33,302. This is decidedly grattfylng to our sense of bigness. But while it is plain that Omaha haa been and la steadily growing we should not delude our selves Into the notion either that there waa a shortage of 35,000 In the cen sus or tbst we have had a population Increase of 35,000 within lesa than twelve months. Omaha haa Buffered in the past more than it haa gained by circulating .In flated population statistics, and the costly lesson of the 1890 cenaus pad ding ought not to have to be learned over again. Omaha has made a cred itable ahowlng In the census with a SI per cent increase for the decade, THE BEE: or neajly 2 per cent each year. If we can continue to grow by adding 3 or 4 per cent to the population annually, and then take in South Omaha and other suburban towns, we may be sure that in the next census w will find ourselves where we belong. Health in Town and 'Country. The American Academy of Political and Social Science has recently pub lished a volume relating to health problems, affording aome interesting comparisons between the healthful- uess of people in the city and the country. The common belief has been that the country man had all the advantage of the city man in the mat ter of health, and when President Roosevelt set his Country Life com mission to work upon its great mis sion of improving sanitary conditions In rural districts he provoked aome criticism and much witticism. From the results of investigations disclosed by the Academy's report we find that there is not so much difference be tween the country and the town in thla one respect, and that in aome In stances the town actually has the ad vantage. The Academy'a report gives to the Roosevelt commission credit for starting this great work. It pub lishes a list of diseases and their rela tive effect in the city and the country, which affords a most Instructive con trast. Here is the list, showing the number of deaths from some of the principal diaeasea to the 100,000 of population; Disease. Cities. Rural. All causes 1,654.6 1,396.0 Typhoid 215 Malaria l.l 24.3 1." 0.2 82 8.0 H.9 17.3 27.9 13.3 117.3 19.3 68.0 0.9 13.6 17.1 153.2 176.1 82.9 61.9 96.9 74 3 73.7 68 9 144 101.0 26.7 122.7 6.3 are Smallpox 0.1 Measles 135 Scarlet fever 17.4 Whooping cough 10.4 Diphtheria and croup 27.9 Influenza 16. S All other epidemic diseases.... 10.6 Tuberculosis of the lungs...,,. 169.1 All other forma of tuberculosis 29.2 Cancer 80.5 Tumor 1.1 Dlabetea 61.1 Meningitis 21.4 Other nervous diseases 131.6 Diseases circulatory system.... 190 4 Pneumonia 107.S Other respiratory diseases 103.3 DIarhoea and enterltla 133.5 Other diseases digestive system S5.8 Bright a dlseaae and nephrltia. 113.9 Infancy $4.3 Suicide 20.4 Accident 99 Ill-defined 26.9 All other causes 120.1 Unknown 1.0 Some of these comparisons really remarkable For Instance, the percentage of deatha from nervous disorders is much greater In the coun try than In the city, where people are supposed to be so greatly oppressed by the effects of sedentary life, whereas in the rural communities they have the advantage of the open air and out-of-door pursuits. Likewise the country leads in accidental deatha, when It might easily be supposed that the city, surcharged with so many po tential dangers, would lead. The city haa a greater percentage of tubercu losis deatha, but the country haa far more of them In comparison than might be expected. It Is probably a fact that, while the city man has more In the way of un- healtbfulnes8 -with which to contend, he baa learned more about protecting his health than hla brother in the country. Therefore, there is a very lively need for Just such work as was instituted by Mr. Roosevelt. But it may be asked, why does the American Academy of Political and Social Science take up such a prob lem? Disease haa long been recog nized aa having a psychological side. It affects crime in a very large meas ure. Therefore, It affecta society from a moral angle and la a matter of most vital concern to social and polit ical scientists. . Nonpartisan Democrats. According to our amiable demo cratic contemporary W. H. Thompson will be the candidate for the senate next year, and aa a prelude wanta a vigorous fight made for the demo cratic judicial ticket this year. We congratulate the "Little Giant" on his frankness. If hla advice la followed we will thla year have no democrats pretending to be nonpartisans Just long enough to run for office. . If his advice Is followed the demo cratic Judicial nominees this year will aak for votea on their merits, and not because the opponents are republicans. But will this advice be followed? Our recent Nebraska legislature created the office of county highway commissioner for the express purpose of promoting ' the good roads move ment by putting the road work under competent and central supervision. But the democratic combine that runs our county board Is trying to nullify the law because the county surveyor, ho In this county is the highway commissioner, happens to be a repub lican. It goea without saying that experience as a profealonal civil engl neer and road-builder ahould count more for this work than agility at political wire-pulling. If the law la a step in the direction of better roads it should be given a fair trial. A Tuakegee institute graduate haa Juat been given a diploma admitting him to a course of instruction in the Nebrsska penitentiary. But that ia no necessary reflection on Tuskegee or any other institution of learning that likewise at tlmea have contribu ted to this graduate school. It does go to show, however, that dishonesty Is not cured by education alone. Oklahoma is having more trouble with Its deposit gusrsnty law through the refusal of a bank to pay the as- OMAHA. MONDAY. MAY sessuient, setting up as an excuse that the guaranty fund has been misappro priated. Inasmuch as the Nebrsska deposit guaranty law has not yet got well started, it may avoid the pitfalls that beoet Oklahoma, but to do so will call for careful handling on the part of the State Banking board. Governor Fops luls sent twenty special messages to the legislature thus far. The governor In Massa chusetts hss only one year to serve unless re-elected and thla one evi dently believes in making the most of his opportunity. President Earllng of the Milwaukee railroad says he wishes he knew bow newspapers take pbctographa and get them in the paper so quickly. Tell us how railroads make those 10-20-30 dividends and we'll tip it off to you. Paraalaat the Better Way. St. Louis Globe-Democrat, t'nrle flam e voire la not for war aa lonir as there la any better way to deal with other natlona. and It Is seldom that a better may ran not be found. No Money Seeded. Houston Tost. Quoth the Inquisitive subscriber of Wharton: "How much money must one have to become Identified with the Inter ests?" It doesn't require any money. All that Is necessary Is to doubt the wisdom of nominating Mr. Bryan for president and to question the efficacy of the Initiative, referendum and recall. Checks to Child Labor. Baltimore American. A bill has rassed the Pennsylvania legis lature prohibiting the employment In coal mines of boys under 16. This Is one of the steps showing the real progress of the age. With the regulation of child labor and the greater protection In every way of child hood, morally and physically, will come the solution of some of the greatest prob lems of the times, affecting the moral and physical life of the whole nation. Flghttnar Man's Resolve. Philadelphia Record. President Plat's declaration that he came into power fighting and he will go out fighting Is only too likely to be veri fied. The general has done a Herat deal for his country. The one thing he hat not done Is the thing Latin-American repub lics have the greateat difficulty In learn ing, and that la to change administrations without violence or bloodshed. Dlax It a great man; If he had been a little greater he would have permitted hie country to elect another president, or at least to exer cise Its free choice regarding a vice pres ident, while he wat still at the senith of hit power and popularity. The grandest celebration of the Mexican centennial would have been a free pretidentlal elec tion. STRATEGY OP GRAFTERS. Shady Lawmakers Seek Immunity Bath la Ohio. Ft. Louis Republic. Perhaps some ot thoie former decisions rendered by Ohio courte denying the power of the legislature to institute Investigations In some caaee and restricting their efficacy in others may be found to have peculiar value In aq existing complication. . , . A statute of Ohio provides that those who give testimony before a legislative committee of Inquiry ehall have an in munlty bath. The testimony thut given cannot be used against them. This It. under ordinary clreumttaneee, a provltlon founded on sound principle. It makes It easier to ascertain facte that ought to come to public knowledge. But, more than a quorum of the senate at Columbus being now under suspicion of graft practice, that body hat patted a resolution directing that an investigation ehall be started with the express design ot enabling Its menaced members to take advantage of the Immunity privilege. The committee, when named, will presumably hold nlght-and-day sessions until all guilty members have been enabled to tell their story and escape the penitentiary. If legislative resourcefulness haa devised a more Ingenious way In dodging the pur suit of justice, Its precise character Is not now recalled. Such a ludicrous perversion of the purposes of a statute designed to serve useful enda would furnish a divert ing incident for a comedy of the "Man of the Hour" order, particularly If the ene mlra of graft should ehow as great an Ingenuity in frustrating the aim of those who mitute the law. People Talked About Few New Yorkers rival Mr. Belmont In the variety of his activities and resources. Until the pool selling law put race tracka out of business, his racing atable contained many ot .he best and speediest horses on the turf. ' Mr. Belmont'a business special ties are railroads and banka. Although John Hancock'a flowing name haa almoat faded from the original Declaration of Independence, along with all the others, there Is no general com plaint against the man who aold the Ink to the government Congreasmen are trying to make the Congreional Record honet mereely by omitting the "leave-to-prlnt" speeches. To make the Record honest and self-supporting the fist fights on the floors ot both houses must be reported with up-to-date moving picture apparatus. Jacob Belly came near having to pay 116 66 a minute at St. Louis, because he had to atop to button hla wtfe'a dress in the back. Ha waa due to apixar in the federal court and, being an hour late, his 11,000 bond was forfeited. When he ex plained the cause of hla tardlnesa the for feiture waa rescinded. t When George Pharo of Birmingham, Ala., aeked for the hand of Mary Dubois, a telephone operator In Nashville, Tenn., her father objected on the (round that she was giving the l-0 a year aha earned to him. Young Pharo paid the father M0 two yeara' salary the marriage waa cele brated and the couple left for their new home in Birmingham, 15. 1911. Canned Oratory Yieter Kardeek Tells Why Unde livered Congressional Speeches hov.14 e Bo Labeled. f- The movement Instituted by Congress man Victor Murdoch to do away with the "leave-to-print" abuse In the Congressional Record, Is to be persisted In. What Mr. Murdork wants is that undelivered speeches be se labeled and shorn of misleading In terpolations like "applause'' and "laugh ter." In a statement explaining the purpose of this propoaed reform, he gives some In teresting information about the "canned oratory" that Is palmed off on unsuspect ing constituents. "It It the only honest way," declared Mr. Murdock In explaining his views on this matter. 'The Record, under the present system, la not a true report of the pro ceedings of the house. It ought to be, if a man really makes a speech In congress the people In his district ought to know It. i. on the other hand, ha m.r.iv mlsaion to print an essay or a naner. thev ought to know It. I do not claim that noth- ng wnich la not spoken on the floor shorn be printed. It may well be. that an article of value, prepared by a member of con gress, ahould be printed in the Record. But It should be so deelgnsted. That would be In no tense a reflection upon the article itself. But It would not be aendln. h. record out to the reader under false pre tentea. "In my mind the greateat end that be attained under this system would be the shortening of speeches in congreee and the reatoratlon of debate to a plane It once occupied, but no longer doea. Oratory ... nun nae oeen aecllnlng for a num ber of yeara. Speechea are ton - w waia). or them are read from manuscript, or per haps only a .mall part of them I. read and the reet Is juat printed. I believe that the practice of getting leave to Insert long prepared documents to be mainly respon sible for the decline In the quality of de- "A newspaper man can easllv t.n e,m reading the Record what tneech.. really delivered and what were not. Ora tory and writing have dietinct styles. You summarise a news story In the first para graph. In oratory you leave it fne h climax. Is writing about a man you usu. am start tne sentence with his name. Oratory puts the name at the end of the sentence. The methode are totally dis tlmllar. A reading of the Record will ehow that It tends more and more toward being a collection of prepared articles rather than an actual report of nroceed- Ings on the floor. These articles may be all right, but they do not consUtute de bate. 'The flret result of labelling thlnrs in the Record by their right namea would be the abandoning of the present abuse by individual representatives. When a man's constituents besln to ask him 'Did you really deliver this speech, or did you Just have it printed V he will quit the practice, becauae the average voter won't take much stock in undelivered speeches. Then the congressman will try to get an opportunity to deliver these long tpeechee on the floor. But that will be Impossible. Congress could not poealbly afford ths time that would be necessary for the de livery of all the speeches that appear In the Record. Therefore, speeches will have to be shortened, and they ought to be. Xo man needs an hour tn congrest to explain an Idea. Half an hour, and usu ally less, ought to be enough for any man. When the time Is shortened we will tee sn improvement In the material. Lan guage will be condensed and Ideas will not be clothed In to many words. There Is no ser.se In a congressman ttanding up and reciting Webster's reply to Hayne every time he wants to exprett hit opinions. "Members ought to yield oftener to ques tions. That It what illuminates a debate and brings out Information. Nowadays, when a man arises and proceeds to read from manuscript. It is understood as a signal to his fellow members that he does not want to be interrupted. But to my mind interruptions are what we need. They stimulate the rnlndt, both of the questioner and the man who antwen. That tort of debate it valuable. But the man who sits down now and reads the Congressional Record or tits in the gal lery ind lletens to the speeches does not get a very exalted Idea of the proceeding! of hit national legislature. "We have been drifting Into a slipshod manner of debate. A man's manner has a vreat deal to do with his methods of thought and speech. When he Is allowed to get up and read articles, prepared with out regard to length hie ttyle detertoratee and become elovenly. Betides that. It Is not debate. We are sent here to aiecuse publlo Issues, exchange tdeaa, aak each other questions and bring out facts; not to write long srtlcles and have them nrlnted In the suite of apeechee. These so-called speeches, prepared for consump' tlon In the home district may be of somo consequence In the huetlnga, but I think even that point Is debatable. "If w keep hammering the trouble will eventually cure Itself. The cure will begin when the folks at home start to aak their congreasmen whether thla or that speech waa the real thing or not. He will see to It that thereafter a speech Is a tpeeeh. Then tpeechee will perforce become shorter. and being shorter will become better. The kind of debate of which we have to much now, with a member reading a long eaaay to a handful of fellow members while the rest are out In the cloak rooms, would not be tolerated In a foreign parliament. Over on the other side they hoot that sort of procedure. Let's get down to real debate In the United States." Optimism of Bis Jim. Philadelphia Record. James J. Hill knows something of the commercial Interests, of farmers for hit railroad depends almost entirely upon farm ers for Its business. He tayt the real farmers are not opposing reciprocity; It is only the political farmers. Wheat may be a couple of centa lower In Manitoba than on this side, but It would cost more than 1 centa to bring It over. In hla opinion re clprocity would be a great thing for our manufacturers and would have no injur! oua affect upon our farmera. The well proved fact Is that where obataclea to commerce have been removed the results have been advantageoua to both sides. Is the Pea Comfortable? Minneapolis Newa. Bvldenre has been presented In Illlnoia that Edward Tllden apent 1100.000 electing Lerlmer to the United Statea senate. The courts refuse to allow the enforcement of the Investigating committee's demand for a look at Tllden s bank account. Senator Lorlruer now tilts back In his chair and remarks, "Your next move." Too Meek Gam at Home. Pittsburg Dispatch. T. K. going to hunt polar bears In Green land In 1912? "Noniense:" he says. We should think so. No contributing editor worth his salt will be off his Job next e K0SEGAYS TOR 0HAHA. Kearney Hub: The Omaha (lee has a war correspondent who haa been right out on the firing line on the Mexican border. Rah! 'Rah! Fremont Tribune: Omaha started anti pool hall aquation several months ago. but haa not eucceeded In regulating them yet. Anything that tavora of reform movet at a mighty slow pace In Omaha. Blue Pprlngt Sentinel: The mayor of Omaha clalma to be vindicated tlnce the capital city has gone wet. Jim should not take the matter too seriously and consider It an Invitation to again get Into the ring Tork Newa: Mayor Dahlman will have an opportunity to heap coala of fire on the heads of a large number of Nebraska edi tors when he welcomea them to the city of Omaha at the opening meeting of the press association next month. Tork News: An Omaha man, who has gone to Kansas City to make his home, it credited with the ttatement that he hat had more fun in the few weekt h haa lived In the Missouri town than In the forty-seven yeara he apent tn the old home. Forty-teven yeara of attention to bualnees In Nebraska ought to provide the material for having a good time anywhere, and It la no special compliment to Kansas City that this particular Individual It enjoying himself so greatly, it eeemt to be human nature to seek new fields when play day arrives and there Is a lot of Nebraska money paying for good times the world around. Wayne Herald: Omaha Is getting ready to treat Nebraska publishers to a sample of genuine m-estern hospitality at the an nual press meeting during the first week In June. The Commercial club of that city proposes to tee that the visitors are properly entertained from the opening un til the closing of the session. The metropo lis will endeavor to show by example to the presa members that It haa a cordial feeling for the reet of the etate. North east Nebraska publishers should attend this meeting and encourage closer rela tlons with the statea biggest town. We need Omaha and Omaha needa us. It can do ua mora good In the way of advertising and booatlng than large renters outside of the state. We ought to have a reciprocity treaty with the metropolis. THE FALL OF JUAREZ. New Tork World: W regret ta report after an Inspection of a full-length portrait, that the commander of the regular Mexi can forces at Juares Is bow-legged. Kansaa City Tlmea: Now that Juares has fallen the public is willing to put Its name alongside Babylon, Carthage. Nineveh and Tyre, and pass on to the next picture. Indianapolis Newt: Then, too, after the Mexican rebels have captured all the towns along the border, the Innocent by&eundlng business will be much safer If not so ex citing. Kansas City Star: General Francisco I. Madera, aa provisional president of Mexico, has appointed a cabinet in wblch Gustavo Madero ia minister ot finance. Nothing like keeping the purse strings In the family. New York World: Only Dlas himself knows whst he means by "anarchy;" but the absence of a government that can enforce its authority implies anarchy, no other word so well describes the state of Mexico. It la not the resignation of Presi dent Dlat, but his continuance In office that spells anarchy. Whatever his achieve ments In the past, he la now wholly In capable of coping with the tituatlon that confronta hit government. Botton Trantcrlpt: The taking of Juarei by the Mexican Insurgent looks like the doom of Dlas. Unless all reports are false there Is no force that the president of Mexico can rush to the relief of that city. Moreover, this success gives the rebels a port of entrance to the United States. Let ua hope that the Mexican government will recognise the situation and act so at to relieve the United States of a disagreeable task. iMfx:-"- DAY LETTER THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY say eerwaa M aotaica osata easxiet ZIT.Z.m Sim pay tcTTtw j-yy T They increase the efficiency of the Man of Action by en larging his field of business activity. They are a part of Modern Business Equipment. The Western Union Telegraph Co. Convenience and Economy are combined in A Gas Water Heater It provides sufficient hot water for' the bath, for kitchen use ; and for general household purposes. It is economical because at times when you do not require hot water there is no fuel wasted to keep up a fire. 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Hera t a chines now for that editor to get even, with the delinquent tub tcrlber. When the d. t. turns up hla toes the editor can tack on a little extra for the casket. Great thought! Eh? Beatrice Exprett: Governor Aldrlch 1 as tertion In hit decision In the Johnson case that Johnson ass plainly a criminal be cause he wat In the habit ot associating with low women and waa found In a die a hen the officers went In search ef him, was correct-ajid It applies to other men thsn Johnson. Bridgeport News-Blade: Lodgapole. over In Cheyenne county, has bobbed Into the limelight by being the only town In Ne braaka to aak for ths new atate tubercu losis hospital. Ahem! If It were not for the fear of being accused of harping on an obnoxloua subject, the News-Blade ould propose that if Lodgepole will conaent to take Sidney s ottrich farm with It. th tuberculosis hospital be conceded to It with out further consideration. LAUGHING GAS. Miss Askltt-Havert't you a perfect hor ror of dying unmarried? Miss Oldham oh, no; It's having to live thst way that worries me. Botton Tran script. Marks-t 'hear that Jaggman waa so drunk last night three of vou fellows had to carry him Into hit house. Did his wife think he was dead? Parks She must have. Phe was laying him out when we left -Boston Transcript. "She's positively lost when her husband goes out of town." "That so?" "Yes she Isn't on speaking terms with any of her nelghhora and she hat no one to hook hor gownt down the back.'' De troit Tree Presa. "How does Slithers ra feel about that' off with hla car anal I Wilkes. i teful." aald Blldld. ( ot relieved him of Mi J chauffeur who ran of hli daushter?" asked "He's mighty grateful. "Ha sava th none Mint two moat expensive poissssioni." Harper s ' "I understand you bought a gold brick when you went up to town?" "Nope, you ere wrong." "But your wife told me you bought a gold brick." "Fhe's wrong I Juat thought It was a gold brick." Houston Post. KEEP A-SMLUN'. National Magazine. ' Still a-smllln'. my good brother? That'a the way through life f go. Keep a-laughln', don't y" worry, An" dull care won't have a anew. Check your trunk for Sunshine Country Where old Trouble never atraya A' you'll help th' world be merry W hlle y' live through happy days. Keep on dreamln'. It won't hurt y'; Let th' world know you don't care Though the wild winds rage an' ruin All your castlea of the air. Sing your song if It's a aad one Fetter alng it mighty low. But If there It sunshine In It Lift your voice and let ut know. Don't quit hopln'. It will bring y' All y need an' plenty more. He who worke an' keeps a-smllln' Finds life tweet unto th' core. . 8'pose th' clouds do hide th' heaventf Can't have blue sklea all th' whiles Get f use th' clouds for somethln'l Y" won't mind It If y' smile. If y' feel bad. Just remember There'a a heap worse off than you, But they smile an' keep on hopln' . An' their days are never blue. 'What's th' use, friend, o' complelnln'f H won't get y' nothln' good. While you'll sure be well an" happy If y' amlle'an' saw your wood. JM I'nisr T'TiiigmgtBi