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The Omaiia Daily bee rOUNDED BT EDWARD ROSKWATIR. VICTOR ROSEWATER. EDITOR. Entered at Omtbl poslofXIce a second elaee matter. TERMS Or SUBSCRIPTION. Sunday b. on year Saturday Bee. on year l.M J'ally He (without Bundev). one year.. 4 leily Bee and Sunday, on rr 0 DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Evening Be twtth Sunday). t.r month.. e Daily R (Including Sunaay). par mo.. W! iany gee (without Sunday), per mo ... 6o Addraaa all complaints of Irreguisrltle In dalivary to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omeha-The B HuliUIn. . South OmihiHM N. Twenty-fourth. St. Council B.uffj-tt Scott St. Lincoln U Litti Hulldlng. Chicage -i4 Marquette Mulldlng. Kansaa City RHIanra Building. J" Toik-M West Thirty-third Pt. Washington-TV Fourteenth Bt.. N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. na7d;..:! omaha Bee, aoltorlai Dtrartmenu REMITTANCES. Remit by 4 raft, expree or poatal order, payable to The Be hubltehlng Company. Only i cant atamps -tmt in payment of mai account. Personal checks except on Oman and eastern sauhangs not accepted. JUNE CIRCULATION, 48,466 Bute of Nebraasa, County of Douglas, : Dwlght Williams, circulation manager of Th Bee Publtthlng company, being duly worn, say tha th average dally circula tion, laa spoiled, unused and returned copies, lor th month of June, mi, was .. DWIOHT WILLIAMS, Circulation Manager. Subscribed In my presence- and sworn to before me this llrat day of July, 1911. (Ileal.) ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Public Sabaorlher leaving; th city tem porarily aaeald have Th Be mailed ttrm! Aadrcea will a haajel aa ftea aa reqaeetea. Even presidential booms find the soil dry and hard just now.' Kansas also got a good rain. That la once It waa glad to go wet. When It cornea to pioneering, give It to Old Sol for blazing the trail. New Jamaica has gingered up to the point of asking for reciprocity. "Butter . remains firm," aaya the market report. It does when kept on the Ice. N I Missouri Is thumping its heart to tee which is Its favorite son, Champ or Joe. , Manufacturers of fireworks doubt less regard safe and sane laws as class legislation. s , Castro la not as wise aa Dl&i of he would know better when to let well enough alone. 1 The umpire who) -killed himself la Salt Lake doubtless thought he heard the crowd coming. ' ' I . Having been divorced Richard L Oallienne may now hope to take bis place with the real artists. If England's 40-year-old king bad bean chloroformed Dr. Osier never would have become, a duke. (" Such excellent things as horseshoes and buttermilk, ' however, can be crowded back only for the nonce. I An Investigation Into the conduct of the officers of the Ill-fated Santa Rosa might help fix responsibility. Evidently the trouble with the Al bert law Is that It falls short of the deacrlptloa given by Its advance agent. Think of what talking points the present generation will have when it gets to be the weather philosophers of the future. Oar republican United States sens., tor and our democratic United States senator are. already getting to consti tute quite a mutual admiration so ciety." Well, that railway . mail service headquarters will be something to off set the loss of the army headquarters. But we ought to have had and kept both in Omaha. It costs no more to manufacture and deliver Ice in Omaha ta July than it did In April, but the ice man ia charging 18 per cent more ia July than he did for the same ice ia April. Local democratic candidates for dis trict judge will run this year as demo crats, and not aa nonpartisans. It will be left for those democrats who run on tha state ticket to play the nonpartisan dodge. Ireland was not ss cordial to King George and Queen Mary aa it might have been when they set foot on Irish soil. King George conld melt the Irish heart in just one way, which be is evidently not yet ready to embrace. The New York World aays that if xiattng conditions continue, "Charles F. Murphy will be the excuse of teas of thousanda of independent demo crats for supporting the republican ticket next year." And the World knowa. . Ex-Governor 6hallenberger has been slightly injured in a train accident while chautauqualng ia Wisconsin. No one haa any business to take to the chautauqua circuit without putting on a little extra accident Insurance. Tha concrete sidewalk laid on the state house groundf at Lincoln ta cost ing IT cents per square foot. The concrete sidewalks laid in Omaha un der city contract eoat the property owners 11 cents par square foot. Is the difference) ia quality, quantity or simply la price t Monument of Hundred YeiV Peace. President Taft gives out the assur ance that the pens of England and the United States are about ready to Sign the arbitration treaty, which shall bind these two great nations In a com pact of peace. That is good news and welcome. Americana of a sentimental turn pf mind might wish, however, that the actual signing of the treaty be delayed until 11J. so that it might In fact become the celebration of 100 years Of unbroken peace between bese two countriea. But It may well ba con sidered such a monument anyway and the brief space of time will make no great difference. It Is Indeed a worthy monument to rear to such a grand achievement. j Since the war of 1812, Great Britain have lived on terms of ever-increpslng friendship and good will. They have blended their Inter ests and bent their wills to a common plane and in every atage of develop ment have thereby set the pace for other powers to follow. The Influence of their example on the world's civili sation and progress has been tran scendent. Wars leave x nations weakened In many ways and confronted by new and perplexing problems, potential of still other outbreaks. England and America have not been excepted from this rule. They have, however, gath ered atrength and wisdom from the past and passing years, enabling them to meet the new conditions as they came, complacently and without war or even hostile spirit. We have every guaranty within reason now that be tween these nations war shall be no more. What more fitting capsheaf, then, to lay upon the structure of 100 years of peace, than thla arbitration treaty? Snicides and Modern Life. New York Spectator mortality ta blea show fewer suicides committed In this country In 1910 than In either of the two years immediately preced ing and a falling off in the rate of sui cides from 21 per cent in 1909 to 19.7 per cent in 1910, the computation be ing made on the basis of 100,000 pop ulation. And 100 cities throughout the country are taken for compiling the figures. Omaha la one of the cities that showed a gain in percent age of suicides in the last two years. Thirty-one persons took their lives In Omaha in 1910, which makes our rate per 100,000 population above the av erage, showing an increase of 4.2 per cent as between the rate for the ten years preceding and that of 1910. The general tendency of suicide is downward, but thla, the Spectator says, is probably only temporary. It looks for a reaction showing an en larged number of suicides as a result of our complex modern life.' Thla seems not illogical, for surely the complexities of onr modern life tend to Increase moral and mental discon tent, and yet how is it that western cities, where the complexities of life are not to be compared with those of eastern Industrial centera, are the ones that show the largest increases In the suicide rate? This suicide problem is a strange and perplexing one. Germany, where the complexities of life are not sup posed to be more confusing than in the United States, haa a larger suicide rate than we have. It cannot be blamed on the complexities to the ex tent of wishing to simplify conditions so as to retard our national progress. It seems to be more, a question of ad- Justing ourselves to our complex life and aa time goes on we ought to make headway in hat line. If we do, then we may expect to make this tempor ary downward tendency permanent. At leaat that la a goal to strive for. Selfishness undoubtedly baa much to do with self-destruction. When people learn to thjnlc more of the un fortunate fellow-being they may be able to alow down the suicide rate to aome extent. Often a kind word or deed at the right time may send a ray of hope and cheer to dispel the gloom that li weighing down a heart land change the whole course of a life. The complexities of lire are not so great that the busiest person cannot think aome of his neighbor, and think ing of his neighbor may have a tre mendous Influence upon him. When Detectives Fall Out. These are rather serious chargea whtch the Perkins Detective agency hurla at the Burns Detective agency, accuaing it with conspiring with post office inspectors to put the Perkins people Out of business. The accusers demand an official Investigation, with all the free advertising which they would get out of it, promising to show op aome of the inside work of the se cret service men in the employ of the national government, which disclos ures would doubtless furnish interest ing reading, whether or not they proved any more than that one detec tive agency had atolen a march on the other. From these ehargea it would seem that with all the big, fat feea recently picked up by our eateemed detectives, there haa not been enough to go round, or at least the distribution haa not been aa symmetrical aa some of them would have liked. The Burns people end the Plnkerton people ap pear to have been getting the lion's share of- the windfall. Burns coming out beat in the San Francisco graft upheaval and plunging again Into this limelight through the McNamara case, although acarcely had he begun ' to reap his reward from that source than his neighbor, the Plnkertona, are sum moned poet-haste to London to over see the secret service work for the coronation. Surely, it Is enough to get on the TIIE BEE: nerves of the other detective competi tors, for we assume that competition Is still brisk and no professional code or gentlemen's agreement observed. When the detectives begin to detect one another, and keep tab on Uncle Sam's sleuths aa well, the public may expect to have aome wonderful secrets divulged, unless, of course, the detec tives get together and agree that mu tual protection la absolutely necessary In the Interest of "th future of the business." Steel Masters in a World Pool. The Sherman law scarcely reachea International commerce. Possibly that fact may have some bearing upon te Brussels agreement entered into between the ateel magnates of the world. Judge Gary gave ua previous notice of this agreement and dis missed It aa merely a social meeting and, understanding of the big ateel manufacturers The conference, how ever, took the trouble, reports say, to appoint a committee of thirty to work out a plan for International steel organisation. The Golden Rule is to obtain In the carrying out of what has been done at Brussels. Chairman Stanley of the steel In vestigating committee of the house la quoted as saying that he regarda this action as reflecting a desire on the part of the United Statea Steel corporation to neutralize" anything done as a result of the congressional Investigatiop. The Steel Trust is astute enough to know of more than one way of getting around the stump. It is not going to undo all that t haa taken years of time and millions of money to do without resorting to several ex pedients. If It can find a way of avoiding obstacles in this country by uniting the resources of nine steel producing countries, it certainly will adopt that way. So far aa organizing a world com bine, It ahould be no more difficult for the steel interests than to organize a national combine, and between ita membera what could work with more facility than the "do-unto-othersT", Omaha Railway Mail Headquarters. The location of the headquarters for the new railway mall service division at Omaha must be particu larly gratifying to our people in view of the strong contest put up for it by competing cities. The selection by Postmaster General Hitchcock of Omaha over - Denver, between which the choice had narrowed, is a recog nition of Omaha'a superior advan tages for transacting the buainess of railway mall supervision. For the whole United Statea there are fourteen railway mall service divisions, and Omaha la therefore to be one of fourteen headquarters cities. What adds to Omaha'a importance in the railway mall service must also add to its importance In other branches of the postal business, and the determining factors, i. e., central location, accessibility, railway facili ties, volume of local and through traffic and strong financial Institu tions, ought to count In our favor as a center of government activities for the tributary territory. But in expressing satisfaction over the successful outcome the friendly disposition of the postmaster general and the high postofflce officials must be taken into consideration, for it would have been possible to find ex cuses for a different decision. It is results that count, however, and all agencies that co-operated to secure the headquarters for Omaha should be made aware that our people appre ciate what they may have done to that end. The water company is asking for payment of five Judgments for hydrant rental aggregating $260,000, on which 7 per cent interest is accruing. Ia the meantime there ia money lying idle in the water fund, except that it is drawing 2 per cent lntereat from the local banks where it Is deposited, sufficient to pay, off at least one of these judgments. For the money on hand, therefore, the taxpayera are losing 5 per eent interest right along from day to day. This is another ex ample of the shrewd business manage ment of our Water board. Another Nebraska state bank ia nationalizing to get away from the guaranty fund assessments. It Is up to someone to organize a few state banka to take advantage of the new deposit guaranty law. A Saaplcloma Hanch. Cleveland Plain Dealer. On t Inclined to suspect that La Fol lott will not buy the, material for his forthcoming platform from his colleague, Stephenson, In spite of the fact that the latter Is a prominent lumberman. Sarprlaee Short-Lived. Wall Street Journal Eleven aviators crossed th English chan nel In a bunch, and a few lines lu th news papers was the reward. Eleven months ago one crossed and th world atood agape. An excellent Illustration, of twentieth cen tury progress. Floating; tk Jlaarae. New York World. The theory ot Major General Leonard Wood that th fort on th Atlantle ea board are sufficient to repel hoetlle fleets shows a eonssrvatlsm that will carry no oomtort to Jingo sJarmlata. How are new appropriations for naval dafena to b got through congress If such views prevail! Mas a lea for Kival Officer. Washington Time. Secretary Meyer's new order, prohibiting officer and men of American navy yards ahowlng vryth!ng we possess and telling everything tbey know to visitors, will stria th man In th road as being a caa of locking th stable door after th horse ha been stolen. Th common gossip that our military "aecret" ar known to th world Is undoubtedly tru. but they will probably contlnu to be known, vawlth th naval secretary's muasl order in full blast OMAHA, MONDAY, JULY ESookln( CacWarcl niisuav in uinana COMPILED FROM DEC FILFS J" JLLV 10. Thirty Years Ago The tenth dav of July fell on Sunday. Kx-tViltrrt Statea Senator rhlnea Wl Hitchcock, the father of our present sen ator. Gilbert M. Hitchcock, died suddenly st his resldt-noe at Twentieth and Dodge street. His fllneas Is described by th physician as "chronic verity phlltls." He had been pitching hay on the ground back of Ma resldpne the previous Thursday, drinking lorre quantities of lc water when overheated, and waa prostrated th next day. His two son. Ollhert and John, wer at the bedld. The new South Tnth street Methodist Episcopal church Is formally dedicated with appropriate services. Bishop Hurst of rva Moines delivered th principal ad dress, and Rev. John B. Maxfleld and Ttev. A. P. fr'herrill assisted at the aervlc. The young women of Trinity guild are conducting an Ice m'eslon. the oommlttee In charge couriering of Mrs. M. C. Hamlt- ton. Mlsa Poppleton, Mies Millard and Mia I Dosne. , The Young People's society of the Luthern church elected officers. Including A. Lleenrlnj as president and Miss Clara Roeder an vice president. The fnlon Elevator Company Is advertls Ing for fifty mori carpenters to work on Its new elevator. , An address praying for th recovery of President "JarfMd, lylnp stricken by an assassin's bullet, was delivered In Trinity cathedral. Twenty Years Ari Members of the Southwest Presbyterian church held a ptcnte at Hanccom park. Winners In the boys race wer Warren Wells. Guy Henton and George Bander. Mertle Weame. Bella Webster and Middle Williams won the girls' race. Omnha was leading the Western league pennant race, the other teams In order be ing Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Lincoln. Kan sas City. Sioux City, Denver, Puluth. Aleck McOavock went to Denver to take possession of 4,000 head of cattle he bad just bought. John Dale went to Chicago on a brief tlt. Grant Williams and Georgia Van De- venter were married at 1017 Center street by Rev. C. N. Dawaon. Uncle Jo Redman (then as now) pro posed a scheme to the county commission ers for keeping the Omaha bait team In town, to buy th team and pay It to play for th amusement of tha people. J. J. Dickey and '. a party of friends started on a trip to Minnesota lake. Th temperature as reported by th local weather bureau was 66 at 7 a. m. and Tl at 1 p. m. The family of W. W. Slabaugh. Forty- second and Chicago street, had a narrow scape from an accident when It was dis covered that their grocer had sold them gasoline for their lamps Instead of kero sene. Ten Years Ago Four thousand Epwdrth leaguers pass through Omaha en rout to national con vention on the Paclflo coast. ' City council decides to spend tu.ooo on asphalt repairs. Omaha la awept by hot wav. C. F. Weller puts his arm in a sling as a result of a misunderstanding with a new horse he bought in South Omaha. Governor Pavage and other state officials srent the day the South -Omaha street fair asanclatlon'a show. Report announced that "Kansas com Is a failure," owing to dry weather. Frank A. Sears. 1310 Spauldlng street, lost a leg at ths Pratt atreet crossing of the Missouri Pacific. The executive council of th Episcopal church of Nebraska met her to legalis the dfflce of bishop coadjutor, oonf erred upon Dr. A. L. Williams by Bishop Worth- Ington. Omaha newspaper folks and their fami lies attended a party at Manawa in th evening, given by President Wells of th street railway. Among thoae present wer: Edward Rosewater, editor of The Be; Richard L. Metcalfe of th World-Herald; Larry V. Ashbaugh of th News and many "Mgh privates." ' People Talked About WiareeMev rm Tradition has It Mr. Harris is the man who "broke th back at Mont Carlo." Ordinarily hi chief joy as a theatrical magnate is bouncing th thicket speculator from th front of hi playhouse. - Miss Mabel Albright, who ha been ap pointed deputy prosecuting attorney of Douglas county, Oregon, hag, been assigned to the prosecution of Juvenile offeadera Robert Toombs DuBo, , a member ot Georgia's general assembly, is a grand son of Robert Toombs, who one said something about calling th roll of hi slave at th foot of th Bunker Hilt monument. , Three lawyers In Scranton, Pa., rattled th dry bone of th "blind goddea' In behalf ot on client and so thoroughly hypnotised th Jury that It returned a ver dict for cents. Without sacrificing a mlt of professional dignity th lawyers told th Juryman to keep th change. Rev. Thomaa Harwood, n years old. na tional chaplain of th Grand army, waa married In Albuquerque, N. M., to Mrs. Mary Clark, eighteen years his Junior. Ths marrlag waa th culmination of a romance of thirty year. Harwood la a mlaslonary for th Methodist church and has been a resident of New Mexico for forty-two yr. Th air In ' th schoolroom took on tbe ton of a furnac working overtime la January. Th program waa long and some what Jarring on th nerve of bubbling youth. .Harold Proud foot shambled to th footlights to recite hi pi ere without getting a welcoming hand r a cheer of encouragement. ' Pausing tor half a mtnut to graap th (tax of th audlenc and gather atrength for th crowning afort h announced his them with rising Inflection, "Why should th spirit of mortal be proud V "Search me!" cam In a clear piping vote from th middle of th baJI. Th band Joined la th commotion that followed and adjournment was had la due form. 10, 1911. TKe BccS LelicrBox -ir iSi ir-1 ThaaW of lonimrrrUI f lub. OMAHA. April it.-Vlctqr Rosewater, The Bee. Omaha My Dear Mr. Rosewater: In sending you herewith check to cover your expenses of trip to Washington to lay befor the postal authorities Omaha claims to th headquarters ot th new rail way mall division, we do so with the thought tn mind that while w may meet the expense of your railroad far, etc., we cannot reimburse you for the sacrifice of your tlm. effort and tnfluenc in our be half. W feel that no matter what th outcome may be, that our caus was In the proprr hands and could not possibly have - been laid befor th Washington authorities mTr ably. It w do not get the headquarters It will be no fault of ours and no reflection on our presentation or our arguments. Mr. Haverstlck wishes to thank you per sonally for 'having served us in this mat ter. J. M. GUILD, Commissioner. Oa the Oroasd Floor. OMAHA. July T.-To th Editor of Th Be: With reference to your Item, the municipal affairs eommltte of th Com mercial club approved, endorsed and en couraged th commission form plan for Omnha long before Th Be did. However, we welcome The Be among It supporters and commend th lead It haa taken. In -cwrin petition for Its adoption, and will be very Slad to aasist In every way poaulu.. WILLIAM F. BAXTER, Chairman. Appeal to Parent of Deaf. NORTH LOUP, Neb., July T.-To Th Editor ot Th Be: An association has been formed of Nebraska parents ot deaf or partially deaf children to be known aa tha Nebraska Association to Promot th Teaching of Speech to th Deaf. Th object I to promote th teaching of speech to the deaf children of Nebraska, to th end that they may learn to speak Ilk normal people and to understand ordinary speech by reading the lips of other, and thu b better abl to Join and tak a part In the actlvtUe of lit. ' Th plan of education of the deaf con templated by th new law paased by the legislature has proved a' success in Wis consin, Michigan, Illinois, - Ohio, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York Rhode Island and other states wherever given proper condi tion and a thorough trial. W believe the Nebraska School for the, Deaf will be no exception. It Is the desire of the association to en roll among Its members all parents or guardians of deaf children In th state. W wish to get into communication with parent or guardians of young children not of school ag, aa th association wishes to glv them information that will help them to give their children a start In Up reading befor entering school, and If de sired to be of assistance In employing spe cial teachera. Any ot th following officers of th asso ciation will be glad to glv information desired: E. J. Babcock, president. North Loup; Mr. A. N. Dafoe, secretary, Tecum seh; Major C. F. Scharman, Omaha; Superintendent J. F, McLane, Florence, and A! M. Dafoe, Tecumaeh. K. J. BABCOCK. j . - - President. ; ,MR. A. N. DAFOE, ' Secretary. GREAT LAWYERS' WILLS. Wits Leg-al Light Fall Down, What Will Happea to Laymoa t Pittsburg Dispatch.. It Is on of th singular phases of th complication of our legal system that salient evidences of It are furnished by the1 error of th most eminent lawyers. The case of Samuel J. Tllden s will, drawn by James Carter, with full consultation with th astute and expert testator, ta a case in long atanding. Now Pennsylvania fur nishes an example even mora striking. The defeat of Tllden s will lay la over looking one of tha requirements of New York law In regard to charitable or phil anthropic bequests. The will of tha late Chief Juatice Paxson of this state4 fails on th same neglect of a formality of Penn sylvania law, namely, that where chari table bequest are mad ther must ba two witnesses to th document. Her are wills In which three of th eminent lawyer of th country committed errors fatal to th validity of th docu. ment "Bvry man la supposed to know th law." tartly remarked a Judge In a trial ef a ease. Tea, your honor," re plied th counsel for th defense, "ax- oept th Judge en th bench: and w maintain appellate courts to correct the err or a" But her was a supreme court chief Justice committing an error that th lower courts will reverse. Besides this Irony on th legal Action that everyone know th law, which no on knows until th supreme court ha had th last say, th eas Illustrates th ours ef wisdom In charitable donations. If Tilden, Carter and Pasaon could not get up flawleas will, th layman who wish to glv to charity may wlaely de termine to avoid ailpa by administering th charity during hi lifetime. Jeraey Thrift. Springfield Republican. James K. Martin had a New Jersey farm. It was invaded by a town, and James cut It up into lots, built seventy-five houses and went to th nat. ' Speechifying on his experiences th other day. "h ald that If It had not bean for th tariff on nail, glass, boards, paint and putty he Would hav built fifteen mor house for th sam money. Tet James EV Martin doe not appear to hav don so badly. To be th landlord ef Mventy-flv paying tenants and to sit In th senate Is not ao bad. Will Oeerge D Itf Baltimore American. W. T. Stead, th English writer, want a statut ef George Washington In West minster abbey. This proposal la enough to mak that other George III of stubborn memory turn over la his royal grave at such an honor paid to a blooming rebel, whom h would hav hung had b been lucky anougb to catch him. Still HaaaplaT Aloas. Chicago Kiwi. It Is new mor than a year since th whit man' hop want glimmering from Reno back to hi farm, and un th whit race ha maintained It ancient urrmacy In many avenues of human effort. They Will to Be Gooel. Cleveland Leader. Th express companies hav filed new schedules of rates. And tbe small boy la agate safely within th fold of hi Sunday school claas against th day ef th annual picnic. Tfer th St ah. Chicago Inter Ocean. , Oeaefal Blxby think th Malnes maga zine blew as from th tnatda, Very likely. But what exploeJoa on th eutald set off tha gnsf ssina Inaldel Washington Life Some Xnterestlgg r ha sea and Condition a Obeerve at th Capital of U nation. Dr. Harvey W. Wllev. chief pur food doctor of th government, Is a fraction ot a degree hotter "than th Insurgent group In congresa Old Sol's furnace In Wash ington do as fine a grsde ot overtime work In midsummer as any foundry outside ot Tuma. Add to their output liv wire barbs tickling th perspiring cuticle, norms! man. doctor or insurgent, cannot help cutting loose and saying things. Dr. Wiley's pres ent annoyances are anonymous circulars scattered broadcast by the "Advertisers' Protective aasorlatlon." acting In the In terest ot patent medicine maker and deal ers. "Dr. Wiley," reads one ot th clrcu Isrs. "can read Into th (pur food and drug) law what congreas never Intended to put Into It. and what no court or Jury, or any other person can find in th law. If Dr. Wiley la not removed befor January 1, 1913, it will be th endeavor of th or ganisation to obtain a pledge from th next presidential nominees for th removal of Dr. Wiley, before said nomine can obtain th support of this organisation." The "assoelahon" intimate that ther la a motive of graft behind th official's actions, declaring that th Kentucky dis tillers could tell a tale about th whisky case, that Helnse's "fifty-seven varieties" was behind the bensoat of soda case, and that the "doctor's trust" waa th leader In the fight on proprietary medicine. Th "Advrtler' Protective, association" hired lock box 214 at th postofflce at New York City, but, although the box was soon filled, no one haa yet com to tak posaea slon of th mall. The contents were con sequently taken charge of by the officials and marked "fictitious." "Why don't these men come out In the open and fight?" Interrogated Dr. Wiley to a reporter for the Washington Herald. "I think I know the men who are behind this movement, but I Shall not disclose their name, for I am not absolutely cer tain of their part Inith shatter. Let them try to put m out 11 they think they can. I do not consider th movement In Us present state anything to be taken seri ously," . A most amusing' thing happened While Horace Havemeyer, who Is 25 years old, was on the stand at th sugar truat hear ing in Washington. H had tried to give an answer to every question asked, but Representative Malby, forgetting the age of the witness, questioned him In elaborate detail about something that took place twenty-tour years ago. "I could only say from hearsay," declared th witness. Tim after tlm thla was re peated. "You were quit young when all this took place, wer you notT" finally asked Mr. Garrett "I waa 1 year old," said Mr Havsmeyer, smiling. Mr. Matby had been busy with th wit ness for at leaat and hour. Th Jok waa on him, and his colleagues aJoyd It. Francis J. Kilkenny, father ef th Irish home-going movement. Is a clerk In th Treasury department. H I th most genial and peaceful of young men, yet saturated through and through with Irish tradition and proud of th glorias of his race. On his return from Ireland last year, Mr. Kilkenny brought horn two or three genuine blackthorn sticks, which he gave to some of his' friends. A newspaper man went Into his office th other day with on of the stick and in th course of the dis cussion Kilkenny picked up the can and explained that the ganuln blackthorn 1 identified by th branches protruding from th main stick In groups of three. Then, grasping th stick near the' ferule the traditional clutch of th Irishman his eyes grew dreamy and reminiscent and seem ingly he forget th presence of hia visitor. "It make a clean cut," murmured Kil kenny, his mind far away; "no blood poisoning follows tbe blow." About S o'olock each Tuesday afternoon, relates Leslie's, the newspaper men gather at the Whit House office building and ar shown Into the cabinet room. They occupy th chair bf th members of th cabinet, crowd th ampl davenport on th right and dispose themselves over the few easy ohalr on the left, while the late comers stand about th fireplace at th foot of th table. Two fixed rule of long stand ing ar all that restrict th newspaper men. First, no one may, under any cir cumstance, directly quote th president. His mental attitude may be described, the reason for this, that or the other polley may be given, but never may th direct quot be used. Secondly, whenever the president Indicates that any portion of th conversation la confidential, th confidence must be strictly observed. "What would happen If the confidence were broken T" Well, It nvr has been but one, and that was In th eas f a foreign correspondent during th last ad ministration, and h was promptly eon signed to th Ananla elub. It I not generally known that until a few years ago ther was a suburban resi dence within the District ef Columbia, owned by the government, which was at the disposal of the prastdsaty This was a IT IS A FESTIVE EVENT to come across a book suchi as "The Prodigal Judge," written by Vaughan Kester. The novel which treats of American life and conditions of several, decades ago. is wholly unlike anything else in recent fiction It glows with sturdy spirit and is so resolute and gladsome In its methods that at the very first page the reader is cap tured completely; and he is thereafter its most willing and uncomplaining slave Mr Kester has demonstrated in this' story the fact that America offers many inspirations to the real artist in literature along lines not frequently worked and "TheProdigal Judge," let us hope, is the forerunner of other creations equally virile and engaging, -ruid,ipku At evtf BuUtru Ptin Th B0B8S-M&XRILL CO rM,kr, i...'J......li.l Li. -I -1... - - building within the grounds of th Nstlonal nldlers" Home It was never used to any great extent. President Hayes occupied It for a short time and president Arthur fre quently went ther. But after Cleveland cam Into offlc the building was never occupied by a chief exeoutlv and it 1 ni used as en of th dormitories of th home Colonel Fred Hale of Portland. Me '."son of former Penstor Eugene Hale of thst state, came to Washington and called on his old Mend. H. C. Kmery, or th tariff board, also from Mstns. Emery's office Is 1n th treasury build ing: and Kmery showed Hal, not with out pride, th long row ef granite mono liths en th Fifteenth street side ef that building, explaining that ther were thirty it in th lot. recently put up to rplaee th eld limestone columns, and that thy oost tift.ono ajlec. "Ten thousand dollsrs each?" repeated Hal. "Yes." "And ther cam from th Maine quarries, I suppose T" "Na" replied Emery: thy earn from th New Hampshire quarriaa." "From New Hampshire?' "Tes." "Tou don't mean It!" said Hala "Where the deuc was father?" THROWING ROCKS AT rAIRVIKW Coaarreaamaa t'aderwooel Defle the Peerleaa I.lghtalagr. Houston (Tex.) Post (dem.V Representative Oscar W. Underwood, chairman of th ways and means commit tee ot the Sixty-second congress, delivered a most senslbl speech on th value of organisation.' party organisation In par ticular, befor the Tammany society In New York City on July i 'Tarty organisation.", he declared, "Is a political necessity that must be maintained for the advancement of th nation. Th tendency of our times ia toward Individual ism. Many of our leading newspaper and magazines condemn organisation as an evil and a menace to good government. I do not agree with them. Our national growth ha advanced step by step with some powerful organisation behind it. This is true, whether It be the fields of religious. Industrial or political development. . Party organisation waa a neoesssry evolution of a free government," Th speaker then referred to the paucity of results of democratic effort on th legis lative battlefield In. recent year that Is, w should ssy, since the gentleman from Nebraska appropriated the party to his own use and behoof because it lacked the' coheslv strength of a perfected organisa tion working to produce a definite result. Happily., however, he was abl to assur his hearers that this condition of Inef fectiveness was rapidly changing under the present splendid organlxstton Of the demo cratic member of the house of repre sentatives. -, j ' All of which Is as gratifying as If is true. And In passing, It is but Just to state that much of th credit for th splendid moral of the house organisation and, In a larger sense, th esprit de corps which Is beginning to show in the party as a whol. Is due to th good sense snd pa triotic courage of Oscar W. Underwood. He refused to eat popullstlc leaven out of th hand of William J. Bryan, and in so refusing set an example that Is catching. Tammany did weU to listen to su atle and courageous a democratic etattsmsn one who Is worthy of the nat.on lugiiei honors. More length to his arm! .- MIDSUMMER MIRTH. "I am not surprised at the general w.h aFour.hh:W "dop" 2 e w'd bender during a pauae .n tne .unveil tlon. Aviation meets a.io. niotu.ccle race fumlah snouMn aocments to uiy tha DOOUlBK im.tli. t.,. oay' -Chicago , nbun: u""' Me (loftily) I will mairy no girl becau. she haa money. I would not .di mw.i. ' h (caustically) ion l won,, a ,i.l witn money enough to buy any kind of a husband she wanted would never pick you uut for a bargain. Baltimor Auieucan. Engag,a Man-Lov me? Why. she ac tually counts the kisses I give her! Cynical Friend That s bad. one msy Tt'P.U. fP our nanae. Uo.toli Transcript. With extreme Mn.t..A. lj . . t - Put on women s garment and waa spm a w VVJI. iii0ki !' im'!" '"'sJmed. bitterly AJIs t I A. IriVaalt thinw I . j queen of Lydlai' wull,' Wor.tnn. tha.1' h auspected the wool or being three-fourtha ,,.i.., m.,... Tribune. father?"' thl" hobb, ,k,rt do ma Justice. raercy."-Ufe. wunout '0ay. Sir A VOII tha -,. avka ii. .a i . to my wife?1' " '"u omK "Eh! 1 auaaa an f ..ii. w.i. .. . , - , - io ail of em. "Do you? Say. do you give lessons?" Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Cousin James wss very angry with ths chauffeur for hi carlaness, and when h ran th machine into a telegiaph pole. Cousin James just exploded." "Well, that waa unpleasant for the chauffer, but worse things might have happened than your cousin's temper ex ploding." "Wors did happen; so did th gasolln tank." Baltimor American. It wa at a reception and the lady, who had bean reading up on health culture, mistook Lawyer Williams for his brother, tbe doctor. "Is It better," shs asked confidentially, "to lie on th right eld or the left?" "Madams." replied the lawyer. "If one is on the ngnt side it often lin t necessary to u at ail. eucceea jaagasine. V