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4 T1IF, 11F.K: OMAHA. WEDNESDAY. AtT.UKT SO. 1911. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FOlNt'EI BY EDWARD ROKEWATKIl. VICTOR ROSK WATER, EDITOR. Entered at Omaha sostofftoe as aeoond class matter. TERMS OF Bl'BSCRI PTION. Pumlav Hee. one year Shi. inlay Bee. one year l-J I'sily 1 (without Sunday), one year... 4 ) I'ally fife and Sunday, one year 00 delivered ur carrier. ICvming Mm (with Sunday!, per month.. Vic liailv Bee (Including .Sunday . per mo., fifio l'ailv Hee (without Sunday), per mo fc Ad.1rena all complaint of Irregularities In delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. Hoiith (mahaSM N. Twenty-fourth Bt. Council Hluffa-h", Bcott Ht. Lincoln 28 Little Building. 'hlrsgo- IMS Marquette Building. Ksnnas Clty-Hellance Building. New York U Went Thtrty-third 8t. Washington 726 Fourteenth Bt., N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. "omrminir-atlons relating to news and editorial matter ehnuld be addressed Omaha Bee, Editorial ftepsrtment. REMITTANCES. Remit hv draft, express or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing company. Only 2-eent stamps received In payment of mall accounts. Personal checks except on Omaha and eastern exchange not accepted. JULY CIRCULATION. 47,931 State of Nebraska, County of Douglas, as. 1 "wight Williams, circulation manager of The Hee Publishing company, being duly sworn, says that the average dally circu lation, lens spoiled, unused and returned oples, for the month of July. 1911. was 47.931. DWHJHT WILLIAMS, Circulation Manager. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 2d day of August, 1911. (Heal.) R03ERT HUNTER. Subscribers leaving the city tern porarily shoald have The Bee mailed to them. Address will be changed often as requested. Some men never take any exercise except when they run for office. In Japan they take nick warships to a place called Kure for repairs. Commission plan election next Sat urday. Mark it down on your calendar. Champ Clark ts a Delta-Tau-Delta. So appropriate for a man in the swamps. It Is to be noted that Admiral Togo went to Seattle, which is considerably north of Chicago. It has been discovered at last what ails this man Vardaman of Mississippi. He was born in Texas. Easy money is hard to keep, ob serves an exchange. In what way does it differ from the other kind? - Mrs. Sinclair says Upton Is a con servative because he is a monogamist. Does that mean a reactionary? Colorado boasts of a mountain that moves. It takes the mustard seed faith to believe the yarn, though. . As yet it begins to look aa if, while playing giveaway, Dr. D. K. Pearsons was also trying his hand at solitaire. A million-dollar storm at Charleston, S. C, recalls the earthquake of a few years ago in that tempestuous old city. A New York hotel waiter has bought a line of taxicabs. Probably found he could not take care of all his tips on foot. - The emperors of Russia and Japan did the Gaston and Alphonse act In fine form in settling their war indem nities. By naming the poet as his wife's affinity, Upton 81nclalr prevents even his divorce affair from becoming too prosaic. If President Taft spends a Sunday in Omaha, perhaps he will help us answer the question, Why men do not go to church? A democratic paper says, "Mr. Taft defeats tariff revision." What Mr. Taft defeated was the enemy's plan to put him in the hole. Barney Oldfleld says greed for gold UHed two autolsts in the Elgin rates. No doubt, such an exhibition of greed is shocking to Barney. Mr. Hobson has not peeped since ' Togo set foot on American soil, but we may hear again from him, as the , Jap admiral is about to depart. With funds being voted so freely for all sorts of purposes, the park board concludes that it may as well ask for $50,000 more. Why so modest? The Army and Navy Register re fuses to take our Congressman Lo bck's bill to reorganize the army seil- ously. Well, that is not what It is Intended for. The Atlanta Constitution is being denounced in southern Oeorgta be cause it advocates good roads. See what modern progress has to buck down there. It was Walter S. Dickey, the Kansas City river promoter, who said the way to navigate Is to navigate. Perhaps the airmen might paraphrase that and say the way to aviate Is to aviate. Omaha's city government bill, in cluding schools, will soon aggregate $2,500,000 a year. The best manage ment Is needed to transact that volume of business economically and effi ciently. Complete tabulation of the returns of the late primary In Nebraska show that the Omaha candidate for supreme Judge was at least not the tailender. Tht should be comfort to other Omaha people with state-wide political aspirations. How Taft Disappoints Democrat!. Democrats are shedding crocodile tears In disappointment cer Presldeut Taft, for, as they say, "defeating tariff revision," when they had expected his support of tbelr various bills. But that is not what disappoints the demo crats. They had hoped the president would sign these make-shift meas ures, so that they might go out and say they had forced him to stultify himself in anticipating the work of the tariff board, the creature of his own plans. Suppose the president had affixed his signature to these hap-bazard bills, concocted for purely political purposes, does anyone think the democrats would not have tried to make campaign capi tal out of it? They would have re hearsed how the president had advo cated the creation of the tariff board and the principle of scientific tariff re vision and then rung the changes oo his action in approving the premature tariff bills, which, under no construc tion, could be regarded as scientific. In short, what the democrats are chagrined at is their failure, with tbe aid of their Insurgent allies, to "put the president in a hole," as they had carefully planned to do. They pro longed the extra session of congress only because they could not accom plish their purpose in a shorter space of time and they adjourned without having accomplished it. Now, in the first regular session of the Sixty-Second congress, tariff revision along scien tific, comprehensive lines in accord ance with the report of the tariff board, is sure to be the program and the democrats may think they will dare obstruct It to "get even" with the president for spoiling their politi cal scheme at the extra session. But will they? How would fAey go about Justifying such a course to the people? It is much more apt to transpire that these cunning democratic politicians have merely put themselves in a hole. That Russo-Japanese Love Feasfc. The final settlement of war claims between Russia and Japan, as effected by the exchange of telegrams between the emperors of the two countries, surely leaves nothing to be desired in tbe way of high-toned amity. The czar and emperor simply held a sort of cablegram love feast over the re sults, in which diplomatic amenities were magnified. On not one item of settlement was there the suggestion of halt or question. Quite to the con trary, the rulers indulged In a sort of polite eagerness to over-satisfy each other. Concluding the negotiations formal telegrams were exchanged, this one being sent from the Japanese ruler to the czar: I am kure that your majesty will gra ciously share my conviction that the settle ment will contribute to consolidate still more the good relations 'existing between our two countries. ' And this was the czar's reply: Thoroughly sharing as I do your majesty's sentiments, I see In the handing over of the Angara (Russian battleship), fresh proof of a most potent pledge or our reciprocal friendship. This puts a new aspect of per manence and reality upon the Ports mouth treaty and must give Americans greater cause for pride in the part our nation under the leadership of Presi dent Roosevelt, took In ending the Russo-Japanese war and bringing the two powers into peaceful relationship. But there lingers in these effusive ceremonies an implied notice to na tions planning on aggressive move ments in the orient that a new and very formidable power exists there, which did not exist before Togo and Rojestvensky came together. Even in trade extension and commerce this may be expected to have its effect. When President Taft Visits Omaha. President Taft's itinerary for his western tour provides for spending a whole day in Omaha on Sunday, Oc tober 1. Few other cities will have the honor of entertaining the president that long, most of them being com pelled to content themselves with a few hours of his presence. The fact that the day here will be . Sabbath means that the longer stop is for the observance of the day and relaxation from the strenuousness of presidential travel. Though the people here will want to see as much of the president as they can, and would also like to hear from him, we can doubtless make the biggest hit by devoting our efforts chiefly toward his comfort and insur ing him rest for relnvlgoration in the midst ot the trying demands which he will then be meeting. If Omaha will let blm slow up for the day, the presi dent will surely remember and appre ciate tha consideration more than if he were kept on the run and Jump from the moment he sets foot in the city until the train pulls out the next day. An Era of Slaughter. While official and private enter prises are regaling themselves in self adulation over the excellent progress made In the movement to reduce acci dents on railroads. In mines and else where, accidents go on multiplying In number and victims with astonishing celerity. August 19, twelve men are entombed and die in a mine at Hibbing, Minn. August 24, six miners perish in a shaft at Ely, Nev. August 25, twenty-five passengers of a Lehigh Valley railroad train are killed in a wreck at Manchester, N. Y The same day twenty-five persons meet death In a moving picture show house at Canonsburg, Pa., and more than that number are seriously In Jured. No one explanation or remedy will fit all these cases, of course, unless it be to put greatest emphasis in the conduct of all these hazardous tn- dustr upon tbe matter of protecting human life. Iu each case careless ness seems to have played a large part In results. In spite of all the effort exerted of late to prevent, disasters keep piling up, yet rarely does one hear of any legal penalty following. If tbe law were more sensitive In this direc tion it might have more effect. Commission Flan Debates. Several of the improvement clubs and other civic organizations are ar ranging debates on the commission plan of city government, which Omaha will vote to adopt or reject next Sat urday. The communion plan proposi tion presents no political Issue, and, as a consequence, there will be no lineup of the political parties for or against it. The people will be left to vote, we believe, almost entirely on the merits of the question without any en tangling side lines, and whatever dis cussion brings out what the commis sion plan means, and throws light on Its strength and weaknesses, should, therefore, be welcomed. The more people Induced to read the com mission plan law for themselves, and to form their own conclusions as to its superiority over the existing methods, the more intelligent and sat isfactory will be the voting. Bread Mother Used to Make. Does the man who takes delight in telling his wife what fine bread mother used to make derive much comfort from the master bakers' condemnation of the home-made bread of today? Or will he pretend to find special en couragement in it? It seems to bear out what he has been saying at the dinner table for so long. The bakers declare that the home-made bread is soggy, hard to digest and generally un wholesome. They are not saying that the mothers of yesterday made that sort of bread and their silence may, be taken to imply that they did not. Here is a fine chance for the com plaining husband to jump at his wife with some new evidence for his side of the case. The wife, however, might retort that some of the bread that comes from the baker's is also built on plans that differ widely from those which "mother" used. "Moth er's" bread was never so good as In retrospect and the bread baked by the present generation of mothers is pretty sure to be cited to mothers of the next crop of hungry mouths. It is difficult to say just where this bread line is to lead. It may scarcely be taken to Dr. Wiley for determina tion, for he seems to be fully engaged with other nick-nacks for the present, including the task of holding onto his official title. It may end where it be gan by the women who have the time and the disposition to feed their own families on good bread, continuing to do so and the bakers selling all tbe bread they can where households are unfortunate enough not to have bread makers of their own. And the race probably will keep right on growing fat and healthy off both brands of bread. A public man who never held a pub lic office. That was the late Charlie Greene, who will be missed by numer ous friends who admired him for genial goodfellowship, coupled with com manding ability as a lawyer and a speaker. The only offices he ever graced were those of the justice of the peace and police judge at Lincoln be fore he removed to Omaha to practice law here; but as an ardent and active and forceful republican he helped make other men Judges, governors and con gressmen, and got his satisfaction out of their success. The state school fund has managed to unload some more of its 3 per cent Tennessee state bonds. Why Nebraska should ever have loaned money to Tennessee at an Interest rate which our own banks were willing to pay on their deposits is one of the state house puzzles. It might not be out of order for local preachers who want to number President Taft In their congre gation on the Sunday he spends in Omaha to accompany the invitation with certified testimonials as to the average length of the sermon. A stranger, visiting in Omaha, de clares that no two people have given him the same answer to the question, What is Ak-Sar-Ben? All he has to do Is to go out to the, Den on a Mon day night and find out for himself. Democratic solicitude for the welfare of republican Insurgents Is again be coming acute. Mr. Bryan's admonition that the democrats might still need the help of the Insurgents In the next ses sion of concrcn pm been heard. A Kefo-m that Vnst Come. Philadelphia Record. Postmaster Oeneral Hitchcock again ree ommends the gradual establishment "tef the parcels post, beginning with the rural dls. trtcts. This reform haa been too long de layed. vr Baslnras Needs It. Brooklyn Eagle. In spite of all that Thomas A. Edison says we shall be eager to see what will happen when the Tying machines drop ni troglycerin bombs. The moving picture machine requires this new business. No Miek t Till. New Tork 8un. The comptroller of the treasury has done an unexpected thing In deciding that seis mology is not within the province of the weather bureau and that It need live no more attention to earthquakes. We had grown accustomed to an all comprehensive system of bureau and department work, fncle Sam paid the bills and nothing was said. Perhaps If the labors of the weather bureau are limited to watching and fore casting the weather we shall know with greater certainty when It la going to rain or shine. SooklnBacIwanl llilsD.iv inOmnlin V ami mmm bbt m r compiled rpc ijj-!"3J Aim from de.e riLrs 8T 80, Thirty Vears Ago The city council adopted the Waring plan for sewering the city of Omaha, work to beKln at once, an ordinance voting $100,000 for the purpose being passed. The esti mates for the eventual cost of the whole sewer system almost take the poeple's breath away, calling for a total of laxB.OOO. The State Board of Agriculture made ar rangements for reduced rates for the state fair soon to be held In Omaha Wolfe's city directory for 1SS1-S2 made its appearance from the press today. It Is pronounced by far the best publication ot the kind that has ever been put forth In Omaha, and contains 12.640 names. Allow ing three names to each family would place the population of the city at 37.929. In ltM the directory contained 11.522 names, which gave an estimate population of so,ur.2. There Is said to be more typhoid In Omaha at present than there has been for twelve years. At a meeting of the Board of Trade it was decided to appoint a committee to look after accommodations for people visiting Omaha during the state fair. Oeneral Passenger Agent Lowell an nounces the following organization of the passenger department of Chicago, Burling ton & Qulncy railway after September: R. T. Brydon, chief clerk of the foreign pas senger and ticket service; K. L. Lomax, chief clerk local passenger and ticket service; W. H. Smith, chief clerk traveling passenger agents' service and advertising. About 7 o'clock this evening a team and wagon was stalled at Twelfth and Capitol avenue by the horses going Into one of the water main ditches. Prof. A. Fischer, teacher of dancing from St. Louis, Is making arrangements to open a dancing academy here. Dr. Peabody Is enjoying a prairie chicken shoot near Norfolk and will not return until the latter part of the week. Hon. Clinton Briggs, wife and son start for Ohio, where they go for the benefit of Mrs. Briggs' health. United States Pension Commissioner Raum la In Omaha on his way back to Washington from a pleasure trip to Colo rado, and will remain here for a few days. Twenty Years Ago Kansas City took what was expected to be the last game of the season In Omaha by the score of 8 to 2, having taken the entire series Old Jimmy Manning was playing second and Hick Carpenter third base for the visitors. A. J. Hanscom, wife and daughter re turned from an extended sojourn in the east. John Kelley, formerly with the Pacific Hotel company, but recently at Santa Monica, CaL, passed through the city for Chicago, where he had a position await ing him In the Revere house. Mis. Maren Olson, wife of Dedrick Olson, 75 years of age. died at the home, 1149 North Nineteenth street. W. W. Cousins, 40 years of age, died at his home, 2806 Franklin street. Ten Years Ago Mr. Will Stevens entertained these friends at Lake M&na.wa in the evening: Misses Thatcher, Bertha Clarke, Hardy. Camp ion ruri.r Curtis. Margaret Curtis, Pol lack, Taylor, Anne Taylor, MessrB. Richard Stevens, Emmert. Rosebrough, Mooay ana Dale. Miss Lottie Hodder died at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George J. uaa- ifin North Twenty-second street, as a result of congestion from drlnklnf ice water. Anton Christensen, 27, and Ida Christen sen, 1, were granted license to wed. Mrs. Ruser, years old, mother of the late Henry RuBer, waa buried at Ever green cemetery. The First Ward Republican olub, with President F. W. Bandhauer In the chair, endorsed the governor's action In return ing Joseph Baitley, embexxling state treasurer, to the penitentiary. Senator Millard announced he would re new his effort to persuade the government to build a military road from Omaha to Fort Crook. A Booster of Confidence. n ushington Post. President Taft's western trip will be awaited with intense Interest, and Its chief result ought to be a restoration of confi dence throughout the country. People Talked About The moral fabric ot New Jersey's Utopia is about to go Into court for fumigation and repair. Gourmets eager for the fray are assured that the oyster crop is ample for the Sep tember opening. The sob squad Is not missing any thrills In the Virginia criminal case. A timely cool wave puts the readers In shape to withstand the succession of shocks. By close attention to his patients, and by cooking his own meals and sleeping in his one-room office, Dr. Charles F. Meyer, an eccentric New York physician, recently deceased, left a fortune of soo,000 for the enjoyment of his heirs. Mrs. Heyworth Mills haa Just completed a ten-foot statue of Bt. Peter for the Episcopal church of Morrlstown, N. J. Mrs. Mills is a near neighbor of Mrs. Caro line Peddle Ball, whose figure of Victory crowned the United States building at tbe Paris exposition. A string of applause several miles long haa been handed to a street car conductor In St. Louis, whose prise essay thus defines the ideals of the noble craft: "The pas sengers are our patrons and ws should make their rides so pl'M.sant that each passenger will wish to ride with us again." Miss Joetta McKinley has received the Indorsement of the republican committee of Polk county, Missouri, as a candidate to succeed her father as county treasurer. Polk county already has a woman super intendent of schools and a woman deputy county clerk. Mrs. Helen Shaw-Thompson of Chicago delivered a notable speech at ths recent convention of the Associated Advertising clubs In Boston. Mrs. Shaw-Thompson Is a native of Boston and at one time did newspaper work. She then took a course in medicine and chemistry before devoting her energies to advertising foods. Police Chief Sebastian of Loa Angeles announces that he expects soon to equip a squad of patrolmen with paper roller skaUa. The skates are of two kinds, both already completed and tried out. One type has two wheels and Is for high spe-d. The other haa four wheels for each sk.s, not unlike In general design the old-fas: loned roller skate. Pster Mahoney, of Burlington. Ia., Is declared to be the world's champion brlrk setter when It comes to the laying of pavement. In one day of ten hours this summer Mahoney set IS, 000 bricks, which Is at the rate of more than one a second. Considering that each brick he handled weighs IU pounds. Malonay In a good day's work lifts KO.OuO pounds, or ITS tons. Army Gossip Matters of Interest en and Back of the rirlag Unt Gleaned Trom the Army a a Wavy Begister l.onrk Fumay Bill. No one In the War department takes any too seriously the bill Introduced In the house by Representative Lobeck of Ne braska. The bill aims to provide for the establishment of four "grand military divi sions." with a total of fourteen subordinate departments. It may be a significant fea ture of the bill that one of the division headquarters is established at Omaha. The basis of the creation by law of these per manent military divisions appears to be mainly geographical, with nothing said concerning trie troops stationed w.tn.n ilie boundaries of the divisions or departments. Congress Is not disposed to enact legislation of this character, taking the stand that the War department should be permitted, with out the hindrance ot congress, to establish such divisions or departments at home and beyond continental limits as are regarded as proper and necessary for the purpose of army administration. It Is for this rea son that the War department would not give Its support of It at the capltol. Evi dence of that Indifference on the part of congress has been manifested by the at titude of the senate military committee In dealing with Senator Hitchcock's resolu tion, which aimed to abolish the military divisions, established on July 1, and re create the military departments. Civilian Officers for Army. It is expected there will be designated about 17S civilian candidates to take the examination of September 6 for second lieutenant In the army. There are some 200 vacancies In the grade, to which can didates from civil life are eligible. No designations will be made after the first of September, as it would be Impracticable to arrange for the examination of any can didates between that date and the date set for the examination. The military au thorities are much gratified with the re sults of the applications which have been received at the War department, an un usual effort having been made this year to attract the attention of candidates from civil life to the vacant commissions. The life of those designated Includes many college graduates. It being quite evident that there will still remain many vacancies In the position of second lieutenant, there will be, consequently, another examination next year. A somewhat unusual condition exists this year owing to the fact that the appointment of the qualified civilian can didates will have to be delayed until after the examination, beginning on September 1, of three or four enlisted men who have been designated to take a special exam ination. This Is on account of the pres ident's Instructions to examine an enlisted man on duty at Fort Myer. In whose behalf It was claimed that a prejudice against his Jewish origin had deprived him of exam ination for a commission. With the de cision to hold a special examination In this case, the president authorised an examina tion for two or three others. Army Court-Martial Caaea. The president still has under considera tion the court-martial sentence of dis missal In the case of Lieutenant Robert O. Rutherford, Jr., Twenty-fourth infantry. At the Instance of Senator Stone of Missouri, Mr. Taft has consented to go carefully Into the case before taking action. In tne meantime, the promotion of first and sec ond lieutenants of infantry is arrested. The court-martial sentence of dismissal in th. case of Lieutenant Frank W. Braden. Twenty-sixth infantry, on duty at Fort Brady, Mich.. Is still before the War de partment, pending some further Informa tion concerning the circumstances under which, It Is alleged, that officer violated his pledge to abstain from Intoxicating liquors. The third oase of court-martial sentence of dismissal is that of Captain Frank A. Cook of the subsistence depart ment, who was reported as engaging In disorderly conduct while intoxicated In San Francisco some months ago. Since the re ceipt of the case at the War department Information has come from San Francisco alleging that Captain Cook since his trial was again under the Influence of liquor and was sent to the Emergency hospital In San Francisco for treatment. The War department officials desire to ascertain If It was necessary for the military authori ties of San Francisco to take disciplinary measures. Infantry Eqnlpment Adopted. Further action haa been taken by the War department toward the adoption of additional articles of army equipment as recommended originally by the Infantry equipment board. It haa been decided to adopt the ponoho, as suggested by that board, for issue to dismounted troops. The cavalry equipment board la emphatically of the opinion that the slicker should be retained for mounted troops and a con tract planed for 6,000 of these articles In order to have an experiment of them In servloc, before It Is determined whether the poncho shall be adopted for cavalry, as well as infantry, or, the slicker shall be adopted only for the mounted troops. It has also been decided to adopt the shel ter tent as recommended by the infantry equipment board. In which case the rifle will be used as a pole, which means a re duction In weight of over two and one half pounds. The question of the overcoat and neckerchief has not been decided. The Infantry board is in favor of the short coat, for foot soldiers at least, while the cavalry board has recommended the reten tion of the longer garment. Moat of the officers who have had the subject umTer consideration believe that there should be two types of overcoats, If It Is essential to the efficiency of Infantry and cavalry that both short and long garments be adopted. Impertinent Infintloai, St. Louis Globe-Democrat. People who are saving, In connection with the picture missing from the Louvre, that Mr. Morgan can prove an alibi, are Impertinent. Mr. Morgan never has been accused of stealing anything. He has money enough to buy anything be wants, and Mr. Roosevelt says he once bought something he didn't want. Just to save the country from a panic. A Weleome Chance. New Tork Tribune. Franco, people and press, trusts her prime minister to settle the African dis pute aright, and therefore la tranquil, and scrupulously avoids any utterance that might embarrass tbe government. That ia a welcome change from the days when delicate negotiations on the part of the government were the signal for every con ceivable outbreak of violence and minister baiting. How Art Valnes Kzpand. St. Louis Republic Mr. Leonardo da Vinci, a successful Irri gation and military engineer, with a strong taste for tbe fine r.rts, who flourished more than three centuries ago, would have been astonished beyond measure If he could have foreseen that a portrait by his hand would one day be valued at more than 10.000.000 florins. That sum would have purchased all the works cf all the masters alive in bis day. LIFE-TAKING CARELESSNESS. Chicago Itecord-llorald: "Safety first of all." ought to be the motto of every rail road; the lives of passengers and trainmen (are above profits or speed In the right view of railroading. Those who manage the roads ought to be stlr-ed to rigorous ; examination ot their rules and methods by these many and fatal accidents. Washington Star: in this wreck on the Iehlsh valley an effort was made to dis patch several hundred people by too heavy and too fast a 'train. Whatever may have been the Immediate physical circumstance that led to the derailment, the general cause lies In the almost murderous disposition of the railroad companies to overwork the equipment. Ft. Ixniis Republic: Common sense ought to teach showmen and promoters that such catHstrophles as those of Canonsburg Pa., and Elgin. III., tend to kill the amuse ment business Itself. Roth of these harrow ing events were essentlnlly preventable. The picture-show panic plied up Its dead In a narrow stairway entrance. The grand stand collapse was due to flimsy construc tion. Even In the days when butchery was necessary to a Roman holiday the patrons of the amusement were safely provided for. An American holiday ts too frequently a butchery of the patrons. Philadelphia Record: Th s summer Is msk Ing a bad record for railroad accidents. The disaster on the New York, New Haven Hartford railroad, to two fast trains to Chicago and this worst accident of all on the Lehigh Valley road constitute a very exceptional group of horrors to he recorded within so short a time. While ac cidents will happen so long as men are fallible and materials may contain hidden flaws, the country would like to believe that vigilance Is Increasing and accidents are of diminishing frequency. Unfortun ately the evidence of this tendency is not so clear as we should like. ARR WF. LIVING TOO FA T f Specialists on the Job of f onrnrllng Imaginary Ills. Baltimore Sun. 1 . The common tendency to blame all the Ills of modern man upon "the mad rush for gain." "the nerve racing pace of civili sation" and other such bugaboos a ten dency sedulously encouraged by mental healers, fashionable physicians. patent medicine venders and other such special ists In Imaginary diseases Is effectively combated by George Palsh. editor of the London Statist. In a recent Issue of th Sociological Review. The fact Is, says Mr. Palsh, that modern life, to the average man of the middle ages, would em chiefly remarkable, not for Its strenuoslty. but for Its repose. Human beings work less and less with each succeeding year, and the work they do is progressively less fatiguing. And meanwhile the fond they eat grows more nourishing and plentiful, the clothing they wear and the houses they live In give them better protection from the elements, the diversions of their leisure Increase in variety and Interest, and the pestilences which once besieged them and held them In ceaseless terror now besiege and terrorise them no longer. Contrast the average workman of Tudor England. The former works 60 hours a week, gets pay enough to give him a' seven-room house and runs only the most remote risk of starving In his old age. The latter worked 7R hours a week, got the modern equivalent of $1 a day and was constantly under-nourished and In con stant danger .of death from war, pesti lence or famine. Notable Generosity. Springfield Republican. John P. Rockefeller's feelings toward his country and fellow men have evidently not been hardened by the court decree of dis solution against his Standard Oil concern. Perhaps there is no particular reason why they should be. But In any case his fur ther gift of 11.000,000 to medical research Is a notable act of humanttarlanlsm. Why Increase the Mortality. Kansas City Times. It Is not easy to see what satisfaction the army officers find In the discovery of a gun that will shoot airships and kill av iators. Recalling recent fatalities, It ap peals that the last thing In the world that was needed was the discovery of a gun that would make air navigation more per ilous. iew Hotel Sanford 19TH FARNAM, OMAHA A quiet, refined and homelike ho tel appealing to those seeking ac oouiraodatlons at reasonable rates. SCHOOl.9 AND COLLEGES. ran T ST. JOSEPH COLLEGE AND ACADEMY Dubuque. Iowa. CONDUCTED BY THE SISTERS OF CHARITY, B. V. M. . 'yenawwii. . Collegiate Degrees, Academic Department, University Affiliation. Ex cellent facilities offered for the education of young women. Conservatory of Music and Art, Domestic Science. One mile from Dubuque. Four and one-half hour's ride from Chicago. Direct railroad connections with Omalta, Kloux City, Kt. Paul and Ht. 1-ouis. Extensive grounds pineries. Finely equipped buildings frontage 400 feet. Private Itooms. Xoruutl Course, Grammar Department, Business Course. For catalogue, address KISTEH Kl'PEHIOlt BELLEVUE Located In Omaha's Ileautlful HuburV THIRTIETH YEAR OPENS SEPTEMBER 12TH, 1911 College, Normal School. Musical Conservatory and Academy. StroDg faculty, representing graduate study in Harvard, John Hopkins, Columbia, Princeton, Chicago, Wisconsin, Iowa, Lelpslc, Edin burgh and Oxford. BtaU Teacher's Certificates granted. Successful Athletics. De bating, Oratory and College Journalism. .. Expenses modrate. BEND FOR CATALOGUE. W V MLtLV JL V rating by War Department Infantty Artillery and t'avair Iirllls CoMrses of Study prepare for Universities. Government Academies or for Business Life. Manual Training kieparaie LepartDiut for small buys. For catalogue, address The Secretary, 1804 Washington Ave., Leitngtoa, Me. . EDITORIAL PEN POINTS. Chicago Record Herald: "Hope "n.- cheerfully hums the Omaha Hee; "rain may yet reach Omaha." lon t depend or hope, neighbor, (let up an aviation meet. Philadelphia Bulletin: It doesn't come with good grace for the head of the Na tional Association of Master Rakers to de nounce home bread-making Remarks con cerning the lndlgrstlblllty of cookery belong strictly to Jokesmlths. Cleveland Plain Pealer: Government ex ports now struggling with the question, "What Is beer?" have discovered that beer can be made from cabbage le.ves. Dr. Wiley rises to express the fear that cab bage beer would be rather "heady." lHnver Republican: Small wonder the people no longer read romances when SO many are living them! A l'artslan news paper man has completed In forty days the trip around the world which Jules Verne once found It necessary to allow eighty days for a Tight of fancy to make. St. Louis Republic: W. S. Jackson, whose first wire was the brilliant Helen Hunt Jackson. hs six children by his second wife and announces that he Is prepared to fulfill a vow made some year ago to leave sen of them 11.000.000 on his death. But Is 11.000,000 all he will leave to each? SUNNY GEMS. "What makes you charge talcs as much when you tske people to the train as you rha-fce m bring tnem here?' asked the summer boarder. "Because," replied Farmer Corntossel, "Jeiigin' b,v the wav thev seem to feel about It. It's worth more." Washington Star. The army In Flanders had begun to swear dreadfully. "We've got to do It to keep warm." the soldiers explained. "The war department doesn't give up enough blank its." Chicago Tribune. "My wife and . I owe you a great deal. i ousin isattian. ror the nice time wa ve spent on the farm." "Yes. you do owe me a great deal, and you're goln' to settle before you leave It." Baltimore American. Knlcker Yes. my desr. 1 shsll be glsd to go with you; I long to see the beauties of the country. Mrs. Knloker We wit' stav In town. Judge. Powell koweli is s lifeless sort, of fel low. Howell Vcs, I believe his foot would get asleep while his leg was being pulled. St. Iouls Times. He I told your father I could not live without you. She And what did he say? He Oh, he offered to pay my funeral expenses. Boston Transcript. Smith I didn't know you owned a motor car, why these auto goggles? Smyth My. wife has hat pins. Puck. "They say there are as many microbes on a dollar bill as on a fly." "Gee. but I'd like to get near enough to swat a few of 'em." Cleveland Plain Dealer. DEATH OF SUMMER. New York Times. The dying Summer turns a wistful eye Aloft, where beamed a warm, caresslnir ' sky. And meets the Autumn's gray spresd like a poll. As thro'the mist comes faint the reaper's call. The dulling eye roams earthward In its quest Of life, that bloomed on her Impassioned breast. But all Is bare: the last pale rose has flown. And Summer hapless stands, bereft, alone. A shadow sweeps across the blighted field Where Summer laid a rose and lily shield. Then Night encircles all, and bears awav 'The soul of Summer, are the Autumn's day. SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES. KEARNEY MILI TARY ACADEMY. Military Tnlali. I fc'ned, with Academlo and Huslnesa eourM, rfvAi,.nu (.the bodies and minds of iiovs Into Manly, Success- rui Men. We build up a sound body, develop char acter and create the habits iinai mm me aoy the iManly Man. Our academlo standards are high. Our olaasio and scientific courses prepare for all ool leges. Our com mercial courses prepare for business life Write for illustrated catalogue UUT H. IVIinL. Head SCeates, Keener, Xfek. KEEWATIN ACADEMY Aa OaMon Tutorial School ia the Wteoonala Woods. wxarrBB xoma, jahuaxt to Ann, It. AT BZXOXX, Kill., OX TU OVU' COAST. Individual instruction; Ideal conditions for character building and physical devel-. opment. For catalog address James H. Kendrlgan, Box 6, Mercer, Wis. COLLEGE V vfA A JLR ACADEMY nrr ... , Bsajsjevjaasj"" ' i;rtest and larvest In Middle West Government Supervision. Hl,h..i