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- 4 TITE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, JULY 24, 1911. TlIK OMAHA DAILY BEE K'JL'.NOlil' Hi 11WARD IlOSEWATErt VlCTUrt K08EWATI.il, EDITOR. T'.nerrl at Omaha postofflce m second class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. I rurt.T- Mee. one year Fsturriay Bee, one year J-J lally Pee (without Sunday. one year.. J.w al!y Bee and Sunday, one year SW IjKLIVKRED BY CARRIER. Evening Bee (with Sunday), per month. i'nilv lie (including Kunday). per mo.. I)ally Bee (without tunday. Pr mo.... Address all complaint of Irregularities In delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omnhar-Th Bee Hulkllno;. South Omaha 2 N.- Twenty-fourth St. Council HUiffs 15 Scott Ht. Lincoln M tJttla Building. Chicago 1M Marquette Building. Kansas City Itellance Build. ng. New yotk-24 West Thlrtv-thlrd St. Washington T2 Fourteenth St., N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communlcatlona relating to news and editorial matter should be addressed xmana Tea. Kdltorlal Department. REMITTANCES. T'.emlt hy drart. express or postal order, 1 livable to The Bee Publishing Company. I 'nlv 2-cent stamps received In payment of mall act-ounta. Peraonal checks except on Omaha and eastern exchange not excepted. JUNE CIRCULATION. 48,466 Mate of Nebraska, County of Douglas, ss: KwlKht Wllliame, circulation The Bee Publishing company, being amy sworn, says that tha average dally rula lion, -less apolled. unused and returned coplea. for tha month of June, ml, was 4S.4(6. DWIOHT WILLIAMS. -., Circulation Manager. Subscribed in my presence and fworn io before ma thla first day of July. 1911. (Seal.) , ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Public Subscribers leavtas fae rltr tem porarily ahoald bare Tha Baa ma ilea ta them. Addreae will be ehaaaed as often as reoaested. "Booze, boose, boose!" says Mr. Bryan. At any rate the lords make a good losing fight. "' The point, la, who la In control of Controller bay? ' Speaking of "conservation and fleh" that has a 'sinister sound. . - i Hut Butt crossed the creek and s -d President Taft the way. I .. u call them the peers when they are on their knees begging for quar ter? ' 3" One rias to admit that Jack London Las been moderately Inconspicuous of lata Incidentally, there is still a differ ence of opinion as to who threw the first brick. Blacksmlthfng' 1 Is an honorable trade, but that does not popularize an anvil chorus. I The hot weather has moderated, but the ice man Is getting away with It, just the same. Dr. Wiley Is very popular, being a good mixer. But his concoctions are never adulterated. Speaking of the recession of the hot wave, no need to add, "Lest we forget," for we will not. With every new disinfectant put Into the Lorlmer, mess the odor be comes more disagreeable. ' , . I Now with the reciprocity bill passed, watch the country go right ahead as if nothing had happened. ' I Of course, the retirement of Super intendent Poulson of the Anti-Saloon league ts wholly voluntary. It al ways la. Some of our esteemed contempo raries can scarcely mention the name of the attorney general without spell ing it Wickedsbam. I It would be a shame to adjourn congress while the weather Is cool, and Senator La Pollette Is Just get ting his second breath. Recent demonstrations over Dick ens and Thackeray go to show how great It is .possible for time to make a man after he la dead. Now that It has leaked out that Lord Kitchener is woman hater, his isolation In Egypt may be ascribed to the power of the suffragettes. Blshep Quayle saya to be good in Chicago Is to be lonesome, which may account for the doctor's request on being made a bishop, to be sent else where. S; . ' -I If the Country Life commission has undertaken o reform our system of taxation t will find that it has cut out for Itself- a tnanjs'job that will leave it little time for anything else. Senator Clapp expresses1 surprise at the election. of a -republican to suc ceed Walter I. Smith la the house, ow ing to the' effect of the tariff bill. Senator Clapp has lota of surprises In tore. Even Charley Wooster has at last succeeded In breaking Into the demo cratic paper wltM a' letter where Its 'former editor, ,B (chard L. Metcale, has his communlcatlona consigned to the waste basket. Now that it is settled that a Ger man professor ' In a French school suggested that this country be named America after Amerlcus Vespucius and we know that an Italian, sailing In Spanish ships, discovered ua. we ought to be the most cosmopolitan of peo ple with "honor enough for all." Condition of Business. The condition of business Is a pen dulum that has been swinging back and forth of late, according to natural and artificial Influences that deter mine It. Advices, following the gov ernment's recent report upon crops, are- even more encouraging than the latter and bolster up hopes' for an au tumn of marked activity. So far as the crops are concerned, those har vested and those to be harvested, chief of which is corn, are far more promising than they were some time back and warrant high hopes. Corn, being a hot weather plant and being far enough advanced In most sections to thwart the danger of early frosts, furnishes a basis for renewed faith in business stability. Business, of course, has been Jog ging along conservatively, not be cause of crop uncertainty alone, but to study the effects of tariff, currency and trust-prosecution Questions. That confidence is steadily growing, how ever, may be assumed from the atti tude of the railroads which, accord ing to the Wall Street Journal, regard business as a convalescing patient on the verge of a relapse unless carefully handled, yet appear to be making plans for advancement. They must consider that the patient has passed the crisis, therefore, or they would be holding back more than they are. Undoubtedly, final disposition of pend ing tariff measures with the passage of the Canadian reciprocity bill, un amended, will have Its influence toward reviving confidence to Its nor mal settled state and thus more se curely underpinning business. ' I How Fickle is Fame. Fame is fickle and yet In its fickle ness is sometimes generous. This seems to be the case with Maltre La bor!, the great French lawyer recently made chief of the ''Order" of Advo cates," the highest honor that can come to a member of the legal pro fession in Paris. Maltre Labor! was the chief coun sel for Emll Zola, the unselfish advo cate of , th'e' despised and persecuted Dreyfus, and for that unfortunate vic tim of official intrigue for seven years Labori lived in the vortex of the fiercest storm of bureaucratic con spiracy and race prejudice lhat has shaken France and Europe for decades. He became even as world-renowned as the man he defended before the bar of so-called public justice and that of public opinion.' His name was vpon the Hp of every reader of cur rent history and yet so completely had It passed out of mind that this, the crowning honor of his life, can be con ferred upon him without exciting gen eral comment. 7 But the wonder Is that this honor could be conferred upon him at all, for, as is well pointed out by the Bos-t ton Transcript's' Paris correspondent" "If they had not also forgotten him In France, Itself, Maltre Labori would never have been chosen as the chief of the 'Order of Advocates,' " an order almost as old as French tradition. Could there be more positive and im pressive proof of the fickleness of fame and the generosity of the caprice than this? Not only world-famous as the Dreyfusard, but Labori achieved universal distinction later in the cele brated Humbert case. Still the last rays of the limelight have faded In the shadow of passing events, which the whirligig of time has thrown upon the scene. It seems scarcely possible for even foreign countries, let alone France, to forget all this and this view of It also rather spoils the nice Illusion of Maltre Labori being thus "vindicated" n overworked illusion by his own people In reciving at their hands the highest distinction the French law can bestow. The Cominsr State Conventions. Were it not for factional contro versies the coming state conventions of the several political parties in Ne braska would have no significance. These conventions have nothing to do except to promulgate a set of platform declarations for the coming campaign, and there are no burning vital issues Involved in the election of three su preme Judges, two university regents and one railway commissioner, who are the only state officers to be chosen in this oft year. The democrats occupy a different position from the republicans in that they have a little family tragedy over which they may hold an inquest not that the damage of last year's defec tion can be undone by resolution, but that if party treason be made respecta ble it may set an odious example to plague the democrats for all time to come. This is what attaches more In terest to the gathering at Fremont than to those at Lincoln. ' Otherwise the state conventions would be ex pected to be tame and perfunctory. Unbusinesslike. The Water board continues to re peat that its members are pledged, if the $8,250,000 of bonds now asked are voted, not to issue the $3,000,000 water bonds voted in 1900 nor the $6,500,000 water bonds voted in 1909. This is admission that the present members of the board, if not so pledged, or their successors who are not pledged, could issue $18,000,000 of water bonda If they choee. Yet it would have been ao easy to have Inserted In the pending bond proposi tion a clause reading, "Authority voted In 1900 to Issue $3,000,000 water bonds and in 1909 to Issue $6,600,000 water bonds is hereby rescinded." But no such clause is In serted. As one business man de scribes it, "It is like renewing a loan at a bank with a new note without taking up the old note." Members of the Water board In their own busi nesses would not do business in such unbusinesslike fashion. Intensive Cotton Farming. The government's export figures for the last fiscal year show a loss of 419,000,000 pounds in cotton ship ment as compared with that of the year previous, yet the cotton exports for the last year brought more than $100,000,000 In excess of what the sales for the year before brought. The exports for the last year were 4,029,000,000 pounds, which Is, in fact, the smallest cotton export trade of 'this country since 1906 and yet the largest In value. Cotton prices, of course, are higher, but that alone does not account for this anomaly In trade, for there must be some way of accounting for the advance In prjee aside from the mere cause of speculation. Turning to the Department of Commerce and Labor's cotton bulletin III, as compiled by the census bureau, we find these, as some of the chief reasons for better cotton prices: The . planting: of Improved varieties of cotton; better seed selection, and especially better methods of cultivation, .some of which operate materially In minimising the destruction of the boll weevil. A more pat argument for Intensive farming?, in cotton or anything else, could not be made. We commend It to the "agricultural and good roads expert" who. at the Denver conven tion of real estate men last week, de plored the failure of intensive farm ing as a result of the farmers' Indif ference to it, with this as the basts, predicting the destruction of all our soil within fifty years unless a change was effected. Better selection of seed and better methods of cultivation this is the es sence of scientific agriculture and, if the cotton planters of the south are putting it into effect upon such a wholesale plan, there can be little doubt about what the corn and wheat raisers of the north, where intensive farming began, are doing. Political Ambitions of a Pugilist. Hon. John Lawrence Sullivan, a cabbage farmer of Abington, Mass., Is being groomed by his friends and admirers for the legislature on the democratic ticket and he has in clined his ear unto the voice of the siren. This brings up to scrap-book mem ory the fact that back in 18"i, a gen tleman of the same name, t 'n resid ing, within the corporate limits of Boston, to which Abington is a sub urb, announced his candidacy on the democratic ticket for congress and I came perilously, near getting the nomination. In his manifesto he de claimed: . . I think t would tiara -no trouble In get ting a hearing; In congress, for. any man who can quiet a crowd In Madison Spuare as I have done, can be heard In congress or anywhere else. And I will be respected In congress. When I make a statement no man will dare question It. It was not that the Boston demo crats ioubted the word of their fellow citizen, but for some reason or other they neglected to avail them selves of his valuable services. But the John Lawrence Sullivan of 1889 and of 1911 are by no means the same man This man of today, who is willing to run for the legislature, Is a corpulent old gentle man weighing 340 pounds, while the would-be statesman of twenty-two years ago, was an athletic young fel low, who stripped at 210 and fought as low as 190. ' Yet, If getting a hearing constitutes good statesmanship, we would be will ing still to bank on the Honorable Sullivan making them at least sit up and take notice. Another letter from John B. Dey makes the amende honorable to "Un cle Dave" Anderson, who was in at the cradling of the republican party. Mr. Dey says he mistook the writer of the letter signed by "Uncle Dave" for "an amateur politician," which was cer tainly making the mistake of his life, for if "Uncle Dave" was ever an ame teur in politics it must have been long before the war in which both of these old warhorses fought bravely for the preservation of the union. It is to be noted that the Water board's latest official statement of reasons contains some alight varia tions from previous official statements and does not fit in at all with some of the verbal statements made- by self-constituted spokesman of board. the the When the grand assessment total Of the state would have fallen back this year but for the increased returns from Douglas county, we submit that It is hardly polite to pick on Douglas county first for a horrible example of tax shirking. He city comptroller explains that he expects to make a complete exhibit of school board revenues in his next chapter. All right, then, we'll excuse the mistake that Included the school tax in the footings of the city's reve nues. The only time a political party ever tefused to endorse the administration of a president It had elected to the White House was when our democratic friends turned the picture of President Cleveland with its face to the wall. Madeatjr Farblao, Kanaas City Tlmea, Governor Wilson Is predicting democratic success next year, which la a fairly reason able prediction, providing the light man is nominated such a man, for Instance, aa the New Jersey governor's modesty forbids him to mention. ooklncf Backward IhisDtiy inOmalm COMP1LF.D FROM DF.E FILF.S 2 J Jl't.V 91 L Thirty Years Ago-- A "nice little party of gentlemen and ladles," left In tha morning; for a day In tha woods near McArdle's mill. They took with them a bountiful supply of eatables and drinkables, and report having spent a pleasant time. The funeral of Miss Lena Lalng. daugh ter of Rev. Robert Laing, who had died Friday, took place as announced. On Satur day her friends Imagined they discovered warmth In the body, and thinking her not dead wanted to postpone Interment, but later were Convinced of their mistake. beginning this Sunday a mall Is to leave the Omaha postofflce at 7:50 for Nebraska City. St Joseph, Kansas City and Atchi son, and ts expected to prove a great con venience to business men. A coroner's Jury, holding an Inquest on a Pohemlnn woman, Mrs. Mary Tumi, sup posed to be the victim of malpractice, con sisted of Frank Walters, James Gilbert and Qus Frels. The post-mortem had been conducted by Dre. Chadwlck, Peabody and Stephens, under orders from Coroner Jacobs. A deceased pup lies festering In the noon day sun between Cnnjtol avenue and Daven port. More ornamental than useful. Twenty Years Ago Sneak thieves stole $200 worth of clothing from the residence of Charles Bain, Eight eenth and Grace streets, but in the trunk where they found tha clothes waa $200 In Jewelry and $400 In cash, which they over looked. "John Joyce Is in durance vile, charged with petit larceny," Matt Wagner, a pugnacious barber, who tried to pull down the postofflce building because a man objected to having his pet corn trampled upon, was fined $20 and costs for his misdemeanor. Senator Paddock passed through the city en routs to his home at Beatrice. John I. Kedlck, Mr. and Mrs. 8clp Dundy, Judge E. S. Dundy, Governor J. E. Boyd, Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Blerbower returned from a fishing trip In Minnesota. Warren Rogers received a telegram an nouncing the serious Illness of his wife, who Is at Kennebunkport, Me., for which place Mr. Rogers left at once on the Bur lington . flyer. Ten Years Ago The mercury rose to 105. After a day of heat that killed four per sons and prostrated others, a thunderstorm brought rain In torrents to relieve Omaha. It came a few hours after a big prayer meeting. In which various churches united to plead for rain. Mrs. Guy Howard returns from Chicago. Dr. Frederick Rustln postpones his trip abroad, being- unable t atart aa yet Mra. Jamea McKenna leavea for St. Paul, whither she will go to. Mackinac islands for the remainder of the summer. Misses Edith and Salena Burns left for a trip around the Niagara and Toronto. A son arrives in tha family of Judge Lea S. Estelle. 4163 Cass street General Passenger Agent Lomax took a party -of newspaper men for a trip In the west. Alfrd Dartow had a party In charg. BRAVERY OF" TRAINMR.X. A Holdap . Mrs Occasionally III .. Aaaloat., a Fighter..: Cleveland... Plain Dealer. - These be parlous times for the Dead wood Dicks who attempt to hold up passengers on the peaceful train or trolley car. These be equally glorious times for the trainmen who meet- the dime novel heroes more than half way and put them to rout The trainman who takes issue physically with the- armed robber is going out of his way to be brave. In a senile the passen gers are in hla care, but those who ride on tralna do not expect the crews to go armed and ready to fight for them as would so many soldiers. More than usually to be commended, then, are the three men whose exploits were recorded ' recently. The brake man on the Northwestern train who shot a holdup man who had a car full of Pullman passengers passing him their val uables takes a place in the hall of fame. With him stand, the two Ohio trolley car operators who matched their boots against the pistols of two would-be robbers and won. To kick one armed robber In the solar plexus and the other In the face apparently Is as effective aa unusual a way of meeting attack. People Talked About Bealdea ranking as America's champion balloonist; Mr. Jiawlsy hits the road In a touring car ao regularly that he knows every constable In New York and New England by bis first name. Justice of the Peace Bamson of Oregon City. Ore., believes tha house ha lives In holds the record for number of wedding ceremonies performed In it. The 115th wed ding ceremony occurred there last week. Tha house, which Is one of the olRest In tha city, is built from lumber cut near Bath, Me, and transported by sailing ves sel around Cape Horn In 1M3. Charles Helnsey of Newton, N. J., has taken out Insurance on his thumb nail. Heinaey Is a gralner and finds his thumb nail much mora serviceable than any paint er's tool ha can carry. When he breaks tbe nail he la out of work and to insure against idlenesa ha has taken out a policy for $50, which ha estimates would be enough to keep bim while ha la growing a new nalL A person named O'Rear who heads tbe republican atate ticket in Kentucky, must be a hot member of a midsummer cam paign. Henry Watteraon pays bim the compliment of a double column roast clos ing with thla explosion of vocal fireworks: "If the deqaocrstlo leaders In this cam paign do duty the O'Rear guards. ' m . . ... oaer Domes, nignt no era, niggers, will be driven Into ' never to be heard of more." jy' mii yv sihftm k ...... pie ens' A Symnt A 7 ar Tlic Bees Lcilcr Box Ti ir Doctore Wooater'a Letter. SILVER CREEK. Neb., July I2.-TO the F.dltor of The Bee: In the World Herald of this date appears a letter over my signature. Rut It Is not the letter I wrote; It waa garbled, and even emascu lated, by the editor. The things that soundrd good for Mr. Hitchcock and the World-Herald were permitted to stand, while, In the Interest of "harmony," I stippnxe, the most pointed things aimed at Mr. Bryan were eliminated bodily. I sub mit that such work cannot be In accord ance with the ethics of newspaper men iwih; nvi ,i, .wuiuwiv. ethics of gentlemen. An editor has no Hht fo mntil.t. h. .rtlrl. of a cor. respondent and, above all. no right to put words Into his mouth that he did not use, He should as was done In this case. either publish an article entire, as written, or not at all. But who la this young man, anyway, who, by the grace of Senator Hitchcock, presides over the destinies of the World-Herald, that he is so presump tous as to undertake to furnish brains to the democrats of Nebraska? In my optn-J Ion, he has no mors than he needs for his own private use. ' Unfortunately I did not retain a copy of that letter, but one of the eliminated pasHag-es ran as follows:' "In the campaign of last year Mr. Bryan, playing the part of the traitor and Ingrate, sought to defeat democrats who, for many long years, had been his loyal supporters, and when . at the polls his advice had been overwhelmingly repudi ated by the democrats of the state and they came very near to electing a wet majority In both branches of the legisla ture he announced that he should con tinue the fight. That promise still holds good. Just now he Is keeping still; he has an ax to grind; he wants to go aa a delegate to our next national convea tlon." I will here add that if we should send him to the national convention It would only Increase his power and prestige to again do us the dirt he has already promised. Another eliminated passage, and the con cluding one of the letter, ran as follows: "Mr. Bryan's support would do us mors harm than good; his day of usefulness to the democratic party In Nebraska Is ended." CHARLES WOO 8T Bit. Beer-Selllna Draacists. OMAHA, July 22. To the Editor of Tha Bee: Permit the correct contention of the Anti-Saloon league to appear In your paper, where there has appeared an incorrect state ment of the league's position. Your re porter sadly misstates the position of the league, when In the matter of druggists' permits, he says, "The law quoted by Mr. Leldy allows druggists without a liquor li cense to sell spirituous and vinous and In toxicating liquors. Beer comes under neither of these two heads and It would seem to have been tha purpose of those framing the law to make the second phrases merely descriptive of the first," Mr. Edi tor, all of the preceding Is purs twaddle. When your reporter again says, "At least that ts Mr. Leldy'a contention," he makea an absolute misstatement. The contention of the Anti-Saloon league, Is, that because of a city ordinance, the druggists of Omaha have no permit to sell "beer and malt liquors," unless they shall first obtain "a liquor license as prpvided by Chapter SO tof the Compiled Statutes of Nebraska, 1906." Allow the appfearanoe of the clause5 of the city ordinance bearing on the matter. "Permits to druggists to sell spirituous and vinous or intoxicating liquors for medicinal purposes only, shall be granted by the board upon compliance on the part of the applicant with all of the requirements of this 'chapter, except the payment of the li cense tax;" from Thomas' City Ordinances, Chapter 49, Section 19, as amended by Or dinance No. 6932. Mr. Editor, it 4a very evident that thla is not a question of the Interpretation of the law, but that of the application and enforce ment of law. If this la law, then unless druggists have a saloonkeeper's license and do business under that, they have no license or legal right to sell "beer, or other malt liquors" for any purpose. If a druggist shall sell befit. It Is not as a druggist, act ing within the law, but as a common ordi nary bootlegger. The permits which the fire and police board have Issued to the druggists of Omaha, licensing them to sell "malt spirit uous and vinous liquors" are Illegal, and all of these permits should be recalled and permits in accordance with the laws of the city should be issued In place of them. J. M. LEIDY, District Superintendent Anti-Saloon league. Consumption of Llqaor. LOUISVILLE, Ky.. July 19.-To the Edi tor of The Bee: In a recent editorial on liquor statistics you said that the Increase in the consumption of liquors is to a great extent accounted for by the Increase In population. There Is no dobut that the In crease In population doea account for a large part of the Increase In tha amount of liquor consumed but It doea not account for the Increase In the per capita consump tion. Thinking It might be of interest to The Bee, I have made a little tabulation from official figures showing the Increase In population and In the consumption of liquors In 1910 over 1900, aa follows: 1900. Population 7S,9M,6iS Consumption distilled spirits (gallons)... $,$91,827 Consumption fer mented liquors (gallons) L127.8U.0SS Per capita con sumption distilled spirits (gallons)... ItS Per capita con sumptlon fer mented liquors (gallons) 14.M Total per capita consumption spir its and liquors (gallons) 16.0T 1910. $1,972,309 126.384.7W l.S45,gSS,02S 1.S7 20.07 21. ST ....21 Increase population.... Increase consumption distilled spirits.. sh Increase consumption fermented liquors 63 Increase per capita (gallons) $.?0 From this It will be seen that the use of liquor is Increasing at a rate out of proportion to the Increaae In population and while I agree with you that tha tem perate use of alcoholic beverages ts gain ing over the Intemperate use of such bev erages In the nation generally, I believe that Intemperance Is Increasing in prohi bition states and I think that the Increase in Intemperance is due to the fact that in so-called "dry" territory the people are buying In bulk and using In bulk. When cigars are bought by the box they are used In greater quantities and are given away more rapidly than If bought at re tall, and thd case Is the same with liduor and other commodities. It is not surprising that prohibition has never decreased the uae of liquor when one takea Into consideration the fact that the prohibitionists have never dared to offer a law to punish those who buy and uae liquor In "dry" territory. They know that about St per sent of the people would refuse to give up their right to poaaeaa and use aloohollc beverages. Prohibition sentiment Is being replaced In nearly every state in tha union by an enlightened demand for the legal sale of liquors under strict but fair regulative !. T. M. Ull.MORE. (President National Model License League. J Mr. Poalson'a Retlremeat. J LINCOLN. July 21.-To the Editor of The nee: enclosed rind statement for publica tion. If you so desire, signed by all of our headquarters committee who were at to day's meeting. M. g. POULSON. Superintendent. It has been the Intention of Superintend ent M. R. Poulsnn for several months passed, devtilged by him to members of the hendquarlera committee, to resign the posi tion he has held and so ably filled throush two or the most strenuous and agKressive years In the history of the league. Today at the meeting of the committee Mr. loulson resigned and. his resignation was upon his own request accepted. It wll take effect August I. The headquarters committee unanimously desire to exi.ress their appreciation of the It ' . . emcient services or Super- " ! Intendent l oulson in the cri .hih . ,n ltd vo anng, and tney reel a v. 'i ,,on ,n ,ne prospect that Mr wl" "m"'" Nebraska and Co, tinue his damaging warfare through the league with the rest of us. against the greatest enemv tn tha im.riA urm. ' h,,IWRrk ,of ur cv' life, the American sa- clans who compromise with It or support It Although relieved of the duties of lead ership at his own request. Mr. Poulson ex pects to actually co-operate with the Antl Saloon league In Ita fight. 8. K. WARRtPK. J. W. HILTON. JACAN L. CLAFLIN. H. J. GROVE, D. C. JOHN. U. 8. KOHRRR. DOC BRYAN'S CURE-ALLS. A Remedy for Every Pablle Ill Always oa Hand. Washington Post. If there Is anything that old Dr. Bryan has no remedy for if there is anything he can t cure-an admiring world would like to know what It is. From the time that be advanced the idea of coining silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 as a cure for all currency dlheases. he haa steadily piled hla trade, promising to cure every other ill the world and the flesh are heir to. His latest panacea Is offered as a solu tion of the deadlock between the senate and the house on the direct elections of sen ators. The senate is holding out for the Brlstow amendment, which provided that congress shall retain control of the sen atorial elections. The house la holding out for the bill In unamended form, preferring to leave the control of elections to the states. Old Dr. Brysn's plan Is to make It op tional with the states whether they shall have direct elections or continue to Invest their legislatures with the power of making senators. Thus, the southern states. If they feared congress would control the elections, might continue to elect by the legislatures, while other states, content to have con gress retain the power over elections, might proceed to direct elections. The trouble with Bryan's plan ts his own explanation of It "If the republicans say my plan will give the right of federal in terference," he says, "let them believe so and vote for It. If those who oppose fed eral interference fear the general govern ment will attempt to control the election of senators, this plan provides that the slates may go back and elect by the pres ent plan. Those who want direct elections can have them, and those who fear federal control needn't change their systems." Bryan admits, apparently, that his plan is susceptible of two Interpretations, and he offers this as Its chief virtue. That Is al ways the way with old Dr. Bryan's rem edies; he advertises them to cure any dis ease. Those who believe everything Is all right can take them, and thdse who don't believe everything Is all right cannot live without them. A Tip for (he Senate. - London Globe. The untutored mind of the Indian, or the savage, often appears strange to us, but there Is sometimes reason In what at first sight seems eccentric. A South Afri can tribe has an effectual method of deal ing with bores, which might be adopted by western people. This simple tribe con siders long speeches Injurious, both to the orator and his hearers; so to protect both there ia an unwritten law that every publlo orator must stand on one leg only when he Is addressing an audience. As soon as he has to place the other leg on the ground his oration Is brought to a close. Aa lavltatloa Pasaed Up. Washington Star. Mr. Bryan's Invitation to Mr. Harmon to join him In the grandstand and watch the parade of presidential booms go by has not found prompt and cordial ac ceptance. Spotted oa Slant. Wall Street Journal.' When a strange face appears at a cor poration's headquarters the office boy, without waiting for a card, announces "an other of them investigators." ft Announcement No. 79 To the .dkH 1m Hot Springs, So. Dakota Endorsed by the U. S. Government a a National Sanitarium Is in the heart of the myttie region of the Black Hills, at an altitude of 3,000 feet. Its climate is unexcelled at all seasons of the year. Its medicinal waters and big plunge baths restore health and provide recreation. The Best of Hotel Accommodations. v Direct Train Service Through Pullman Sleeping Cars and Re clining Chair Cars to Dead wood and other points in the Black Hills, leave the Union Station daily at 3.55 p. m. Through trains at convenient schedules to points in Eastern South Dakota. Low Rates Daily - throughout the summer to Hot Springs, Deadwood, Lead, Rapid City, S. D., and Douglas, Casper, Sho&hone and Lander, Wye Homesetkers tickets onsalt first and third Tuesdays ot sack month. ft NWHH3 t c -i crp t-i cp c-3 r e c, :n ra cz LA FOLLETTE'S ATTAC K0N TAF1 Baltimore American: President Taft h" nothing to fear from personal attack, and the kind of attack made by Senator I Follette la so obviously Inspired for per sonal benefits aa to merit no notice. Chicago Post: Mr. Taft has gained rather than lost by the supreme effort of the man who Intends to face him for the republican nomination Ne other result could be more bitter In the mouth of hla enemy. Minneapolis Journal: I a Follette per ceives how the ground Is being Cut out from under his feet, how the mission of his life la In danger. Hence his chagrin, and from chagrin proceed wrath and hate. Hence his attack upon Taft In the senate. Philadelphia Record: I A Follette haa no political chance whatever outalde of his own state except as a republican, and there have been some Indications that he was losing his grip on Wisconsin. In at tacking a republican administration he Is sawing off the limb that he ia sitting on. New York Post: The Wisconsin senator declares that the Canadian agreement "vio lates every tariff principle of reciprocity heretofore expressed In the platform decla rations of the republican party and recom mended by former republican presidents." This worship of the platform comes oddly from La Follette. We hope, however, that he will not mince words In exposing the shamelessness of Mr. Taft. So orthodox d' republican as the Wisconsin senator Is surely entitled to burn every herelie at the stake. METHODIST "SOI I. HOSPITAL. Proposed Aaylnai for Men and WoaM Weary of 81a. St. Louis Republic. History repeats Itself. The Methodists of Chicago, under the leadership of that Manxman with "locks of the sun-kissed gold," Bishop Quayle, are contemplating the establishment of a "soul hospital," to which men and women weary of sin and desiring an asylum from the world's temp tations and allurements may flee for safety and remain until strengthened for renewed struggle. Such establishments were old in the time of Augustine yes, In that ot Athenasiua This means nothing more or less than a convent, call It by what name you may. It Is strange to observe how the materialism of American civilisation Is driving Protestant bodies to adopt the same means wherewith the Catholic church fought the materialism of the Roman em pire centuries ago. MIRTHFUL REMARKS. "How do you su. Hose a lawyer files the love letters in a breach of promise suit?'' ' I suppose he classes them aa promissory . notes." Baltimore American. "Any malaria around here?" asked the Tourist. 'Some say they la an' some say they aln t, replied the native. "It 'pears to depend mos'ly on whether the person enjoys the kind of medicine that's tnoiuiy took fur It." Washington Star. You, there, in the overalls," shouted the cross-examining lawyer, "how much are you paid for telling untruths?" "Less than you are, ' retorted the wit ness, "or you'd be In overalls, too." nuuBeiteeper. t . irrjcvicu, i nen vnu i rHirn merely as a summer lover, a convenient escort to excursions and picnics? She That's about the case, Qorga. I have looked upon you aa a lover In the plcnlckian sense only. Boston Transscrtpt. "I hear they have a family skeleton." "Yes. she was in the surf this morning." Louisville Courier-Journal., "She's awfully self-saerlflcihg." "How do you make that out?" "Well,, she .stayed lame from -church, Sunday, to sit up with a sick woman." "Huh! She Isn't a regular churchgoer I don't see anything self-sacrificing in that." "You don't? But, my dear, she had a new gown and a new hat that had lust arrived Saturday night !" Cleveland PU- Dealer. QUIET. Two deaf mutes were married yesterday. rnere win De one quiet home. New Yor Herald. For a time, yea Daily Bee. There are some things rife in this mun dane life, That we cannot take for aranted: Nobody can know whether seed will grow, "As the twigs are bent the boughs incline" Is doubtless true eight times in nine; But safer odds give me for mln To take a chance I must decHne. But I haste to explain; now what If thai twain Should be fired by a fervid ambition: "Let us show tall the neighbors, that wc two, be Jahers, Can each be a first clas musician!" So she plays the piano and thumps It tc boot. The while ha doth toot on a second-hand iiute. I And tho' they can't hear it and both arJ quite mute. 1 They will desist for a hatful of loot. I F. B. T. f 4 IlluxtraUd folders with full particulari at Ticket Ofices 1401-1403 Farnam Street Omaha, Neb. f i e-i -n t T Mils r ( if 7