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IN lniE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1911. Tiie omaiia Daily bee FOUNDED BT EDWARD R08WWATER. VICTOR ROSE WATER, EDITOR. Entered at Omaha postoffle m second class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Sunday Hee, on year 1JS0 Hatardey Be, on year 1 W pally Be (without Sunday), on year... .) Daily Be and Sunday, on year LOO DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Evenln Bp (with Sunday), per month.. c Dally Be (Inoludlng Sunday), per mo.. 66c Dally Beo (without Sunday), per mo fxi Addreaa all complaint of irregularities In delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha 2 N. Twenty-fourth St. Council Bluffs 16 Boott St. Unonln-M Uttl Building. Chicago 1S4S Marquette liulldlnf. . Kaneaa City Reliance Building. New York J4 West Thirty-third St. Washington 728 Fourteenth St., N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to new and editorial matter should be addressed Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to Th Bee Publishing Company. Only t-cent stamps received In payment of mall accounts. Personal checks except on Omaha and eastern exchange Dot accepted. JULT CIRCULATION. 47,931 State of Nebraska, County of Douglas, ss.. L wight Williams, circulation manager of The Be Publishing company, being duly sworn, says that th average dally circu lation, less spoiled, unused and returned copies, for U month of July, mv, was 4T.S31. DWIOHT WILLIAMS, Circulation Manager, Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before m this Id day of August, 11)11. (Seal.) ROBERT HUNTER. akserlbera leavtasr th city tea Berarily shvald have Tmm Be sailed these. Addreaa will he haaged aa oftaa mm reeeted. Automatic fish baiter book worm. It does no good to try to reason with a reasonless man. Germany must feel happy, now that France has decided not to whip It. President Simon of Haiti is such an interesting little fellow when he gets mad. Xing Corn wants it distinctly under stood that he is still managing to do tolerably well. Schlits and Wagner the men who made Milwaukee and Pittsburg, re spec ti Ye! y, famous. Good for Mr. J. Adam. The Phila delphia Inquirer still refers to him as Congressman Bede. Says the administration to the law defying trust "Here's your hat, what's your hurry?" When a boy at school "Boss" Murphy doubtless always enjoyed the Christmas grab-bag. Another old favorite has "come back." Berry Wall's picture again appears in the papers. But Dr. Wiley surely would not say that Plato's fondness for beer had any thing to do with Platonic love. Duelling never was such a serious thing but that the Frenchman could get it off-hand before breakfast. A Bt. Louis soldier asks a divorce from a Filipino wife named Tobasco. She has evidently made It hot for him. Perhaps George Fred Williams would answer those thirteen questions if his name were "mentioned" a little louder. New England newspapers still re fuse to publish letters to the "Public Pulse" that are more than three col umns long . It is to be hoped that when Varda man gets to the senate he and Arkan sas "Jeff" Davis will manage to keep on good terms. That was real mean in Congressman Murdock to go all the way to Lincoln to say that oratory now fails to move people as it once did. Many more such messages from the White House as that one on Controller bay, and an honest faker will have to scratch to make a living. The number of congressmen appor tioned to Nebraska will remain un changed for another ten years, as will Also its representation In the electoral college. If all the good things being said about Edward M. Bhepard, now that he is dead, could have come a few months ago he might have been elected senator. Was the prophet referring to the kings of commerce when he said: "Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord's wrath?" For some reason or other that stor age reservoir on Walnut Hill, which the water company was officially or dered to put in several years ago, is not listed among the contemplated im provements about to be made. The Globe-Democrat asks what Is the matter with 8t Louis, that it has been slighted by every rain of late. With the Rev. Irl R. Hicks within its midst, the weatherman probably thinks there is nothing there for him to do. Borne distinguished Nebraska con gressmen get Into the Congressional Record by making speeches and other wise participating In the proceedings. Others get publicity by rushing In to congratulate Mr. Underwood on bury ing Mr. Bryan once more. Apportionment and Electoral Vote By the time the new congressional apportionment goes Into effect, March 4, 1918, New Mexico and Arizona, it may be assumed, will have become states. Therefore, the total member ship of the house will be 435, as each of these) new states must have one representative. The bill as it goes to the president calls for 4SS bouse mem bers, instead of 391, aa at present. Had the old ratio been retained on the basis of the late census some states would have sustained losses of mem bers, while others, as Is the case under the new provision, would remain in statu quo. As It Is, no state suffers a decline, but twenty-five make gains. The changes are more significantly reflected in the electoral vote, whose total, when Arizona and New Mexico are admitted, will run from 4(3, aa at present, to 631. The gains among the states are rather well distributed so far as sections go. They run from Massachusetts on the east to Califor nia, Oregon and Washington on the west and from Minnesota and Michi gan on the north to Louisiana, Florida and Texas on th south. New York leads In votes gained, with six, and Pennsylvania comes second, with four; California and Oklahoma each gains three, Massachusetts, Illinois, Wash ington, Texas and New Jersey each two, while these states gain one each: Colorado, Idaho, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island . South Dakota, Utah, West Virginia, Alabama, Florida, Georgia and Louisiana. The south, counting West Virginia as a southern state, makes a gain of ten votes In th electoral college, and on Joint ballot In congress. Those states In the list that went for Taft In 1908, eighteen in all, make an ag gregate gain of thirty-two. Those in the list carried by Bryan seven gain ten votes, but counting New York and New Jersey as doubtful states In 1911, the list of republican states would stand to lose eight, leav ing their net sure gain, twenty-four. One objection to a larger member ship in the house Is Its unwleldiness. It will mean more work done in com mittees and caucuses and those who feel that congress fs none too Inti mately responsive to the popular will and sentiment now, regard that as very undesirable. It does not appear that the efficiency of congress is In any way Increased by merely swelling numbers. The Peace Treaties in the Senate. It Is scarcely probable that the sen ate will see fit to reject the Interna tional arbitration treaties Just signed by the United States, France and Great Britain, though the possibility is Intimated, Incidental to rumor of the senate's purpose to proceed very deliberately with consideration . of them. Even if the senate should not ratify and thus defeat the treaties, their ' progress thus far would still stand as a distinct triumph for Presi dent Taft, marking him -as a com manding figure in the great movement for world peace. It is Intimated that the senate may find objection with the legal verbiage of the compacts, and It Is even hinted that it may allow political considera tions to Influence Its action. That this Is not all mere rumor and gossip Is Indicated by the anxiety of the pres ident to hasten the measures to the senate before the present extra session of congress adjourns. Everyone ex pects the senate to deliberate care fully upon such important measures and to uncover the defects If there be any, but It would be most unfortunate and lamentable to permit party or fac tional politics to complicate the. sub ject, which can in no legitimate way be related to either. The country will be slow to believe that personal or political considerations will be allowed to Insinuate themselves. While the consummation of these arbitration treaties Is but one step In the direction of world peace, it is a most practical step, and the ease and facility 'with which it was taken en courages faith in the principle it es pouses. It was as recent as last De cember that the plan was originally mentioned by President Taft, and then only In a casual way. But his words had a deeply serious effect. They were seized upon with avidity and now not only have three of the lead ing power gone Into the convention, but four others are considering sim ilar action. Around the world, from Occident to orient, the chain is gradu ally reaching. Welcome to Admiral Togo. Admiral 1 Togo, the head of the Japanese navy and personal represen tative of the mikado, stole Into New York harbor at midnight, but It was no silent stealing, for Uncle Sam was there to meet him. Personal repre sentatives of the president, of the army, of the navy, the governor of New York, himself, and others com posed the reception eommittee that met the admiral at his ship and es corted him to his hotel. Midnight Is early In the United States when such an opportunity offers itself. We al low no visitor like Togo to slip in noiselessly for fear of waking us and tusk himself away until morning for the reception. Our honorable friend, Japan, may hear from sinister Hps a different story, but -Togo will tell it better when he goes home. Japan does right well to send Its own messengers over here to find out exactly how much of this friendship Uncle Sam Is feigning. The admiral must feel that It is not any, as, Indeed, It is th truth. He must have had any apprehensions that agitated his mind allayed before h left the steamer and set foot on American soli. He probably feels that the United States has not avowed Its friendship In vain, but that it has been grossly misrepresented on sundry occasions, and that, too, by some of its own peo ple, who, for various reasons, find it profitable to epresd fslse rumors of unfriendliness between th two great nations. Togo is more than merely the agent of Japan; he is a world figure and stands out In history as the hero of the Russo-Japanese war. Of course, therefore, we would welcome him warmly, but in so doing the United States government does not fall to em phasise his official relation as the rep resentative of Japan. Commission Plan Election Date. More or less dissatisfaction is being manifested because of the date fixed for the commission plan election, which as designated falls on Saturday. When the petition secured by The Bee was completed and filed, the next step devolved on th mayor, who had full discretion in the matter of the election date. All the law required was that he should Issue his proclama tion within twenty days and fix a date not sooner than thirty days nor later than sixty days thereafter. The mayor, therefore, had a range of fifty days to select from and could have chosen any date between August 26 and October 15. The editor of The Bee had urged Tuesday, September 6, as a desirable date, inasmuch as being registration day, part the expense for rental of polling places, pay of elec tion officials, hauling tables and chairs, etc., might have been saved. The mayor, however, seems to have come to a different conclusion and his decree is the one that governs In this case. Self-Explanatory Letters. Here is an interchange of corre spondence that is self-explanatory: OMAHA, July 29. Be Publishing Com pany, Gentlemen: Please stop your paper. No. 3620 Hawthorn avenue, city. Tour news Is good, but I despise your coarse at tacks on Mr, Bryan. Very truly yours, K. D. M'CALL. OMAHA. August 4. Mr.' E. D. McCall, State Agent Spring Garden Insurance Com pany of Philadelphia My Dear Sir: Tour letter discontinuing your subscription to Th Bee has been brought to my attention. Naturally, we regret to lose you as a sub scriber, and appreciating your verdict that The Bee's news Is good, we cannot accept your reason. - The Bee has mad no "coarse" attacks on Mr. Bryan. As a republican newspaper The Bee has consistently opposed Mr. Bryan's political vagaries; It has also occa sionally approved and applauded som of his acts and utterances. Although you have not appreciated your citizenship suffi ciently to qualify as a voter by registering, you are presumably an admirer of Mr. Bryan, and possibly a member of his party. If so, I ask you what local democratic newspaper you can read that Is not making "coarse" attaoks on Mr. Bryan T Let me ask you, also, what answer you would make to an order canceling a polley in your company because of your Bryanlstio fervor, yet In the sam breath assuring you that the company Is all right, and the terms of th polloy perfectly satisfactory T Hoping you may see your way to become again a regular reader of The Bee, I am, very truly yours, VICTOR ROSEWATER, Editor. Did you notice, too, how Congress man Magulre got to th front, regard less of speed limit, to congratulate Mr. Underwood on putting Mr. Bryan In thi Ananias class? Congressman Magulre Is the accidental beneficiary of the fact that he lives In th same town with Bryan, and was given what looked like a worthless nomination for congress on the same ticket for adver tising purposes only because no one elB wanted it. "Forgery, slander and falsehood," says the Philadelphia Public-Ledger, are the chief elements of the "abuse and villlflcatlon heaped upon our chief executive" by certain persons and pa pars. Pshaw, that's nothing to them. In the meantime, the ice man con tinues to collect 25 per cent more for household deliveries In Omaha than in Kansas City, St. Joseph, Denver and Des Moines. Why Is the high cost of living? Not having hired enough high priced lawyers, the Water board will now hire Judge Dillon of New York to make sure that the bonds just voted may be legally issued as valid obliga tions. Did you notice how our Congress man Lobeck beat it to congratulate Mr. Underwood first on his masterly denunciation of Mr. Bryan? Where would Mr. Lobeck be except for Mr. Bryan? It is now judicially determined that short weight bread Is due to shrink age. But let the purchaser try to pay for it with a short-value coin and he will have to get a different excuse. Without wishing trouble for any one, Omaha people are doubtless of th unanimous opinion that a street ear strike in Des Moines is much pre ferable to one here at home. Judging from the way trains have ben rushing together of late, the rail roads must b trying to catch up with their old accident records. Deftplaa It JnrtKdlrtloa. New York Tribune. The Industrial Workers of the World are planning to make a demand for a universal eight-hour workday. As according to their own claims they have about 100,000 mem bers, their title really seems somewhat cramped and constricted. Industrial Work ers of the fulvers and Adjacent Regions would be more appropriate. HorXt Wdl t of th Ortttvl. 1 Street Journal. Judging by th cost of congressional In vestigation P emfwyp mb rob bm bm bmb vestlgatlng committees, in mysterious "money trust" might b located right In Washington. Booking Backwanl 1 lib Day in Omaha COMPILED FROM DEE FlLF-ft r AUGUST a. Thirty. Yr-ars Ago Th dry goods clerks, who have formed themselves Into an association for the purpose of Inducing their employers to close at an earlier hour, held a meeting In the Board of Trade room. The committee appointed to wait on the merchants, con sisting of Messrs. McKensle, Reynolds and Williams, reported that all the merchants would close except Morse and taehman, and that Mr. Morse would close up if Mr. Lehman would do so. The day Is put down as a "scorcher," being with on exception the hottest of the year. The signal sen-Ice thermometer reached 100 degrees at I o'clock. Isaac Duncan, a foreman employed by the water work company, was prostrated by excessive heat and attended by Dr. W. 8. Qlbbs. Henry Dohle Is making preparations to build a three-story brick building In place of the old frame building which now stands between Coroner Jacobs' establish ment and Paxton ft Gallagher's (on Far nam, between Fourteenth and Fifteenth). It will be a pressed brick front with stone trimmings. A flag floats from the roof of Strang's new building (corner Tenth and Farnam) to Indicate the exterior work Is completed. Congressman E. K. Valentin arrived In the city. Howard Kennedy and family arrived from Covington. Neb. Twenty Years Afro George Taylor, better known as "jr-H. day," a conductor on th Hanscom car line, sustained Injuries by falling Into a pit at the power house. Bruce Owen, agent for the Elkhorn at De Bolt Place, was run over by the train, which cut off both legs and killed him. Mr. and Mrs. Granden. 1320 North Eigh teenth street, gave a reception in the even ing in honor of Mr. Granden's fifty-third birthday anniversary. A present wer Mr. and Mrs. John Steel, Mr. ana Mrs. Bam Burgstrom. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Westerdahl, "Mr. and Mrs. Charles Westerdahl. Mr. and Mrs. Brett, Mr. and Mrs. T. Godfrey, Mrs. I Waters, Miss M. Corner, Miss K. Smith. Miss Nellie Bow man. Miss L. Smith. Miss Louise Granden. Messrs. O. E. Jacobson. Charles and Wil liam Granden. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Deuel left on the "Overland" for Tellowstone park. Mrs. David Baum entertained a few Lin coln friends at her Georgia avenue home. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Garneau, Jr., left for a two weeks' visit In Butte. Ten Yearn Ago Mrs. Alfred Darlow and children left for Dansberry, Grand Canyon of the Platte river. Colorado. The K. of A. club gave a tally-ho party In th evening In honor of Miss Garnet Romanes of Denlson, la. The party as sembled at the home of th Misses North rup and disbanded at the home of Mr. White Troxell, where refreshments wer served. In honor of his daughter. Miss Ella Mae Brown, and her guest. Miss Sweeney, Mr. Frank Brown entertained a party of six teen young people at th Omaha club. Thes made up the party: Misses Sweeney, Margaret Wood. Lucy Gone. Kittle Hahhl. Janet Rogers. Bessie Brady. Marguerite r-nicneii. Messrs. Glen Wharton. Spur geon. Harvey Clayton. Harry Wade, Roy Wood, Walter Roberta and George Prltchett. William Prlesman. 1426 North Twentieth street, was snot in tha ankle by Wiley Hlcksy. colored bartender at Lou Rus sell's saloon. Thirteenth and Dodge streets, while passing that plac at night. Hickey mistook him for another man. Bishop Murray, a Catholic prelate from Cooktown. Australia, tarries In town en rout to Rom. Use for Vardamaa. Kansas City Times. Ex-Governor Vardaman's election to h senate from Mississippi seems to carry with it in assurance that Senator Jeff Davis of Arkansas will have at least one con genial little playmate. Very Likely. Indianapolis News. If the steel trust had it to do over again probably it would manage to absorb the Tennessee Coal and Iron company in some way that would not subsequently attract so much attention. Three of a Kind. New Tor World. Senators La Follstte and Bailey are afraid of "swamping" this country with cheap meat and flour. So Is th meat trust. People Talked About I.lflCEVfV Mows N't, John Drew lives In constant dread of seeing his name In print. He acts on th stsge most of the evenings and spends his days as a modsl American gentlemen. Begins to look as though old Doc Wiley will refuse to take even a very gentle slap on the wrist. King Alfonso Is accused of lending secret a'd to Manuel. If Alfonso Is wis h will lash himself to his throne and keep quiet. Mrs. Harrlman has received (.000 begging letters asking for a total of 1 10.000, 000, so It appears that there Is no difficulty about "Riving It back" If you feel Uks It. Manuel Martlnei, an eccentric Spanish recluse, lived for thirty years in a Broad way hotel. New York, to "escape a religious atmosphere." H mad no mistake. "I am a suffragist clear through." says Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, thereby differen tiating herself from th other suffragists, who don't seem to b half through yet. Walter Wellman seams unaltersbly "set" In his determlnstion not to try for th -North pole or negotiate th Atlantic this summer. Looks Ilk an uninteresting pros pect for th remainder of the season. Colonel George Carrlngton Cabell. cUy attorney of Norfolk, Vs., who think that handshaking is unsatisfactory, and would have men kiss each other, may mean well enough, but probably most sna would 1' I .1 rather fight. In Other Lands id Light en What Is Trans-ptt-lng Among th Hear and JTejf Katies of th Satta Why Britishers Eralatrate. Low wage and scarcity of housing ac commodations are th two main reasons given by th London Queen for the emi gration and decreasing birthrate sharply noted In the British census this year. In the rural districts where both conditions obtain the cause I accounted for by heavy land taxation and free trade in the prod ucts of the soli, which puts a handicap on the home producer In competition with the products of more fortunate countries. Ag ricultural land cultivated by tenants and capital Invested In homes yields only some t per cent, consequently Improvements and new Investments languish. Many land owners are disposing of their property and Investing In more remunerative enterprises abroad. The new owners, chiefly farmers and small holders, are so pinched to raise the purchase money and meet Interest charges on the mortgage that they have scarcely enough cash left to repair labor ers' cottage, let alone build new ones. "Under these circumstances," concludes the authority quoted, "young couples find It an ever Increasing difficulty to marry and settle down In the country. One con sequence Is that young men go to towns to Increase the competition In the labor market, and another Is that both men and maids emigrate to the United States or the British dominions, and so the country lan guishes for lack of replenishing the able population and suffers from the dispropor tionate number of the feeble, old, vicious and degenerate folk left on our shores." China's Censas. William J. Calhoun, United States min ister to China, has forwarded to the State department figures giving the result of a census In the Chinese empire, which was completed last January. The census places the population of the entire empire at 32fl.B4J.0OO. and that of China proper at 304.030,000. These figures do not Include the population of Tibet, which is estimated at 8,000.000. Minister Calhoun says, however, that the figures can only be considered as approximate, because th Chines authori ties made no attempt to count the number of Individuals In th empire, but limited their enumeration to taking a toll of the households. On the results of this house hold count the estimate of the number of individuals was based. The population of the city of Peking is returned at 1,017,200, and of th metropolitan district outside of the city a 4.854,219. The population of Manchuria Is given at 14,917,000. It was found that the number of families In the whole empire was 63,824,918. French Clericals and Anti-Clericals. The 111 will between clericals and anti clericals In France Is more a political dif ference than a religious one. There are hundreds of cases of prominent politicians who are free thinkers living on the best of terms with wives who go regularly to mass, and Insist on religious ceremonial for their children. Jaures Is a ease In point. His own brother Is a prominent of ficer In th French navy and a devout Ro man Cathollo, and the socialist deputy, to whom priests are anathema, lives very happy with Mme. Jaures, whose religious view are perfectly orthodox. But polit ically th anticlerical tyranny goes the limit Major Drlant. deputy for Nanoy, in a letter to th minister of war, tells of the Injustice don a workingman of repute, on of whose sons, age 16, sought admis sion to th Bcole Polytechnlque, The father applied for the purse and the out fit which the state awards to a laboring man's son when he Is anxious to become a French officer. ' This purs and outfit have been refused by th French war office, and the reason given by Major Drlant Is the fact that on of the other sons of this working-man is In holy order. Bo la-aria's King Covets Power. Although Csar Ferdinand of Bulgaria was insulted by th radical deputies at the opening of the Sobranje a couple of weeks ago the body as a whole Is quit ready to sanction the monarch's plans for increas ing his personal power, especially in re gard to foreign affairs. The aim of Ferdi nand 1 te get th treaty making power Into his own hands without obligation to report to th legislature. Th principal business of th Sobranje at th present time Is to revise the constitution to ac cord with the new conditions arising from th transformation of th state from a principality nominally dependent on Turkey Into an independent kingdom. When this necessary proceeding was first mooted the Intimations wer that th change would be only formal, In fact verbal, but now It Is not concealed that an article wttl be Introduced giving the king the unrestricted treaty making power. Ther seem to be no doubt about Its adoption. Ferdinand Is credited with a purpose of forming a strong alliance with Austria, out of which he hope for large Increase of territory when ever the smashup of the Toung Turk move ment and th consequent partition of th Ottoman dominion in Europe shall super vene. Popalatlo Growth tn Japan. The Increase In populalon of the Jap- anas empire, which during th feudal re gime was less than one-twentieth that of Great Britain one-fortieth of 1 per cent per annum ros to 1.26 per cent during the period from 1897 to 1903. Since the census of 1872 the Japanese population has Increased from 23,000,000 to nearly 10,000,000, as com pared with a net Increase during the 126 years ending 184s of only 846.000. Terrible famines and the feudal barrier to trade with outside nations were responsible for the stagnant population of barbarian Japan. The rate of Increase In Japan's population last year fell somewhat, but for a decade th fecundity tables have shown that the Japanese multiply no faster than the Germans or the English. They are not great migrants. They will keep their own quarter of the globe. SHORT-ARM JABS. Cleveland Leader: If Nebraska continues to treat Mr. Bryan's friends the way It did Senator La Follette, Memphis may get him after all. Minneapolis Journal: Among other que tlons on which James Wilson has given no opinion is why boiled corn Is called roasting ears? Washington Post: We thought Doc Wiley was real talented, and her he Is 10, baldheaded and married and doesn't know yet what beer Is! Wall Street Journal: Quickest way for railroad to abolish wooden cars la for engineer to run past signals. Sioux City Journal: Chautauqua man agements consider themselves fortunate If they are permitted to place the nam of Mr. Bryan at th head of Lhtlr ticket. Philadelphia Inquirer: Suggest that Ethel Barry mo re might dramatise her matrimonial experience. New York Sun: Doe anybody know th present address of Hon. Champ Clark, sometime of Bowling Green, Ptk county, Missouri t 0 CI RB FOB. CASTER, Little Kneoarasreairnt la Review of the Research Work. Philadelphia ledger. If there Is little encouragement, there need be no special discouragement. In Sir William Church's review of the small re sults thus far attained by the Imperial cancer research fund. It ought to be under stood that while a great deal of scientific research Is concentrated upon cancer, It Is not one of those diseases for which scien tific men are expecting to discover a spe cific "cure." Those who pretend to know of such a cure may be set down as quacks. nl the present state of knomledge, cancer Is not looked upon as due to the Introduc tion of some outside agency, but rather to a diseased modification of the normal cell life. The Idea of specific. Infection Is not excluded. It Is even encouraged by some of the phenomena of recurrence and by experiments In th communication of th disease to certain animals. But research In this direction has been generally disap pointing and study has recently been de voted most earnestly to the nature of the abnormal proliferation of cells and the biological and chemical conditions which acocmpany and promot It. This is evidently a much more complex and tedious study than has been Involved even In the surprising discoveries that have solved so many o fthe former mysteries of medicine. But all of these are helpful and throw lijjht on many lines of Inquiry that before were dark. While It Is conceiv able that some man may come upon th key to this lats and must bafffllng prob lem, those who know the subject best, like th distinguished president of the Royal Society of Medicine, are the most cautious In their promises, while still the most hopeful that the persevering patience of attain results. UHl.(il.HU DOWN TUB PRICES. Eastern View of th Experiment Tried by Des Molaes. Pittsburg Dispatch. Des Moines recently gav a demonstra tion on the high prices of a certain class of staples. Under the urglngs of some en terprising housewives, the city govern mentthe commission form gave th use of th city hall lawn to all who had farm produc to sell. The theory on which this was done was that the fewer the middle men between producer and consumer th more reasonable would be prices. On the appointed morning there was a large crowd of buyers and about fifty sellers. Some of the latter were hucksters who bought from the farmers. Othere were farmers themselves. But th element of competition was present. In two hours every one was sold out, but prices had un dergone a sharper revision than any tariff proposal. New potatoes dropped from be tween S3 and M to $1.75 per barrel; apples from 25 cents to 10 and 12 cent a peck. In other words, the Des Moines experi ment was what The Dispatch has often urged aa the means of reforming the In congruity between low prices on th farm and high prices In the city. It brought the producers and consumers nearer together. Incidentally It was accomplished by doing Just what the Pittsburg market houses were established for generations ago, to furnish a place where farmers could bring In their products and sail them directly to consumers. The vast extension of the city may make It necessary to modify the market house organization. But the Des Moines experi ment certslnly Indicates th direction In which the solution lies. Passing- Of Whltlha- Allen. Cleveland Plain Dealer. After riddling th press agent from every point of attack, th press now turn round and ha only the kindest things to say of that dead press agent. Whiting Allen, a promoter of publicity who was known wherever good shows found favor from circus rings to grand opera. It can be truthfully said of this model press agent: "No man feared his coming, and all men were sorry when he turned away." LAND IS NEARLY ALL WATER Minnesota Man Who Bonght Tract Without Looking at It Ha No Recourse. ST. PAUL. Aug. t.-Ths next time that W. Klssln of Duluth, Minn., buys land from the state of Minnesota he will be likely to make a special trip In order to look into th quality of hi purchase. Last May he bought forty acres of supposedly school lands, from the state and later dis covered only three and one-half acre of It was land and th rest water. He has no redress In the matter, as far as State Auditor Iverson knows. "Our school lands are are all sold accord ing to th federal survey," Iverson ex plained yesterday. "We must have a stand ard and that is it. Klssln should have looked over the land before he bought It." Change in Mlasoart Dloeeaea. ST. LOUIS, Aug. 4-Kleven Missouri counties north of the Missouri river have been taken from the diocese of St. Louis and added to St Joseph, by order of Pope Plus X. The counties are: . lam. Boot land. Selbv. Adair. Schuyler. IJucoln. Ran dolph, Lewis, Halls, Knox and Monroe. The change, said Archbishop Glennon to, day. was made to equalise the three Mis souri dioceses. V "The Best in the World" As the bride led her friends into her cool, spotless kitchen, they broke into a chorus of approval. " Well, I am proud of it," she laid, "and proudest of all of my stove. It' a New Perfection Oil Cook-stove, and I think they are the bet in the world. They toat, roast, broil and bake equally well really to perfection and th kitchen stays much cooler and cleaner than with any ether range. This stove cuts my kitchen work almost in half." There is no wood or coal to carry for a New Per foction; no ashea to clean up. It is ready for use as soon as lit ; out at a touch of the fingers economical as well aa quick and convenient. New "Perfection MTT.lul'sssa OiLCook-stovc MOB IN STREETS OF LISBON Cavalry Charge trow Whleh to . ..... a -.i nRKins ifrmwn.1 m .- - Assembly. LISBON, Aug 4-(Vla Bsdajos, Spain) Several clashes between government troop and large crowds occurred In the streets of Lisbon last night and early this morn ing. Cavalry repestedly charged th mob and many arrests wer made. The cost of food. Including ollv oil, which Is on of the principal necessities of th poorer classes, has risen unaccountably sine the revolution. A crowd marched towards th Parliament building, where th national assembly was In session yester day, to protest against th high price. The mob soon swelled to 4,000 persons, who tried to break through the line of infantry which tried to protect the cham ber. Som revolver shot were fired at the troops from the crowd, whereupon the troops charged th mob. Deputies who sought to culm the people were met with cries of 'Town wtlu the conservatives; they are thieves." MIDSUMMER MEKKIMXNT. Heck Did your wife enjoy her two weeks' vacation in the country T Perk Yes. but not any more than I did. Boston Transcript. "I'm glad we don't live In China." said little Oswald. "It must be awfully tire some to have It dark all dav and th sun shining at night." Chicago News. ' Brlffps Kipling gets a dollar a word. That must be the record. Kings No; here's a select councilman who got ti'O.OOO for saying "ay." JUppln- Bridget Phat Is she lolke? Delia If yes break a piece av news she takes It out av yer wages. Harper's Baaar. She Then you never told any other girl that you loved her? He No, Indeed; the others have got It in writing. Puck. "What Is th hardest thing to learn about farming?" Inquired the summer boarder. "Oettln' up at 5 o'clock In the mornln'," replied Farmer C'orntossel. Washington He I see that the powder trust seems doomed. 8he Indeed? 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