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rare urr. mrAUA " fnrniV . .TTir 1 iw .; 1H5L -..i. , . . ... The Omaha daily bee FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSE WATER . i , , -4 ! - I mirth far Mmflftv. VTfTft RnfiKWAf ER. EDITOR BrV BUILDING. FAR.NAM AND X7TtT F.ntered at Omaha Postoffice as second- class matter. TERMS OF eUBSCRIPTtOW. Sunday Bee, on year ...... Saturday Bee. ona ye..... "'EE Dally Baa (without Sunday) ona rerj. Dally Baa and Sunday oM ywr.... ... DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Evening Baa (with Sunday), per mJ..6o Daily Bee (including 6unday). par mo,.o Dally Baa (without Sunday), par Address ell aompletnta or Irregularttlei In delivery te City Circulation Dept. REMITTANCES. , a Remit by draft expreas or postal order, payable tl The BeubUhini company. Only l-eent stamps crtv of amall accounts. Personal ehack ex. cept on Omaha and aaatern exchange. accepted. , OFTICES. -.. ' OmahaThe Bee building. South Omaha Mil N St. Council Bluff-? Scott St. 1 kmIii M Little bulldliut. Chicago-1041 Marquette building.; Kanaaa City-Rellenee building. , New Tork-M Weet Thirty-third. Waahtnatnn 7S Fourteenth St., W.' W. - Communications relating to pawa and editorial - matter should be - addressed Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. JUNE CIRCULATION. - ; 48,94b 'State of Nebraska. County of Douglas, ss. N. P. Fell, business manager of The Bee Publishing eoropeny. being duly worn, say that the average dally cir culation for the month- of'un, iwx. was 44.MS. . , . N. P. FEtL, M- ' ' Business Manager. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me te Mb day ef July, Wi. WBERTtERia sabacrlbtrs leaving; etty tewperarlly efcoald Te Baa mailed te tkes. Address will be ckane4 a aft aa ve qaeeted. j f. r. ' ;.. '' ' Goodbye, Mr. lxrlraer. Take keef o yourielf. Yea, the hot ipeil arrte4 la July tbla year "U usual instead .of Janu ary. ,.' '' '. , ' .. . Light' reading, such as tha Batti more platform,, ta the kind for turn- . Where doea that ' leave. thecheste and unauepeetlng Lee O'Neill Browne?". y: .;-.:.' " "' 'v'. ' Our Yankee boya will get tired cut winning those Olympic prlzea after a"'Whtla. .' V.-.- i Exit Lorimer. The exit of Lorimer from thti United States senate ends what will always be one of the celebrated casea in our political history. Lorimer, himself, is plainly the victim of a system of choosing United States senators whose abuse has passed all bounds. Whether he waa the willful or innocent beneficiary of "Jackpot" methods is less Important than the fact that an enlightened public opin ion revolted so strongly aa to force hla condemnation by reluctant col league. ;' But even aucb scandals have their compensations, and' the compensa tion for the Lorimer affair comes to the progreas already, made toward reform through the submission of a constitutional amendment7 for direct popular election ; of '"United BUtei senators. ' ' " .'';.' Lorimer;; and hla jack-pottera helped get the direct-v6ts-for-senators: through, anyway. v 'That Swiss socialist who Inherited 11,000,000 may be. invited to give up the money or socialism. , ' i Use and Abuse of Antoi. ' As the multiplicity of the auto ad vances, of course the problems of the machines' rights and regulation will increase.' The autoiet has come to stay and we are all glad of it; he has bis righta and they must not be be grudged him. But others have rights, too, quite as commanding' In respect An automobile that serves so many highly useful purposes may, with In attention of Its driver, , become a nuisance, as is pointed out in the following by , Country Life in America: -.- - " , ' , ' It seem a pity that a car which has the ability to run aa smoothly and quietly as a canoe should be made to give forth such noliea aa would be found only in the proverbial boiler faotory, and that all the manufacturers' efforts' at producing Rllenee should count for naught merely because of the preasure of the foot at the whim of ome driver who prefers the at tention that, he attract to the good name and reputation of the automobile In gen eral. But aa long as the popular but mis taken Impression prevail' that the -cut out .pedal is a magic wand, th,e touch . of which add new life to the 'car, ae long will the air of the city atreet be filled with snort and, rattle ; from ' motors, which. ' when prbperfy : handled, need hardly make mora sound than the rubber tired perambulator with its. pasaenger asleep.- , ., V VLttoj people have been placed In positions to appreciate this comment Those residing upon thoroughfares largely used by autoisti know what it means to have the air rent with resonant screeches or deep bellow lngs and are the less tolerant of them because they realise how altogether unnecessary they. are. No; gentle reader, the similarity of the cartoon themes It not. a con spiracy but mefrely coincidence. . ,Woodrow,; Wlaon is the man wh,e put Sea Girt" ok th? WV- William Hi. fajfVli'.ifif '.to pui It off na . "ivy ' ' ' ' :':.-' y- ;We hiv o doubt that aa goon' as Mr., uearst gets urougn pounamg Bryan' tie win turn in -ana harmon ,z- --.v::.. - Governor Aidrlch has the obrreet solution of the puizje. Come along, governor, and show us just how to doit' .....,;:.-:. '.u.;. Several of our esteemed contem poraries are discussing the plural of moose. There la no plural; they are on)y one.; rV,?: The' colonel instate his battle waa begun at Mount Sinai. ; Most of us trace our troubles back to the Gar den of Eden. J, V. : An. Omaha, minister (ta preachlpg on "Satan and His Modern Method!." Hia satanic majesty usually employs up-to-date devices. ;OmahaHa the center of a network of good roads suitable for auto tour ing, and the best, part of it la that they are getting better... - ;;. Now some croaker re to tell us that'the liberty 'belfiwajr never rung taj prblalWilbArtFi But Tie will not oeny that we have the liberty. . ;lf our Water board 'had not been so pig-headed and short-sighted that second - supply mairr from Florence would have been built long age. - , Perhaps Sea Girt, N. J., will .figure in presidential history about as eon eplcuously' as "Seagirt Populonia' did in Macauley's lay f of .ancient Rome. 1 'J'.": - We are Inclined to put Senator La Follette's question to Roosevelt, "Where did you get" your campaign money?" in the list ta silly question NO. 6,789,132. ' Reliable information .comes to. ns of Mr. Bryan'a entire, wllllnffness for Tammany to support the Baltimore ticket in any practical way that win cot impose any obligations on the candidate to reciprocate favors. V SOCIAL SIDE OF STUDENT LIFE . A MOST SEEIOUS PROBLEM By Samnel Avery, Chancellor of the Tniremty of Nebraska. All our educator aaree that our edu- make eweeping cbargea, and prefers to catlonal development has forced the iuow. wai we ym lumur problem upon us. The old college, with the repooiibiIity; : hence I quote rrora Blrdeeye. " v v ; T lt -'. .'.4 Tn minu if nur lirr rnllaa and unl- ln it certain elements of versifies, and. In too many of our smaller and certain element of one, a very considerable part ofthe college home nre -la rotten, lemeiy. ao. Some of the smaller and older colleges, with grand records in the, past. have a low a standard In; student morals' aa the larger universities. Some of the worst condition" prevail in minor denomlna- i U.Ml akljak aa A Mia1ITtAr1 tn president whose position was but slightly ;Tltra-T amerenuaiea irom mil or, tne lacvny .places lor. furnishing clergymen tor sucn over which he presided, arid the student denominations. Let these tatement be btaub in mMeh tn ha aura thara vara too aweeping, let me again caution the group, in which, to be sure, therewere rttder that each t,titirtionv must be differences in wealth and social status. jU()ged by itself, and Stand or fall alone, out where these differences were not and at the particular period under review. atudent and faculty equally poverty- stricken, had the home life the monastic life. ' For It 'existence it depended largely upon atudent tuition and gifts from the religious. It con tained two groups, democratic within thmlvea the faculty group, with '. a sufficiently pronounced to cause very ex act lines of demarcation. Everyone In the Institution was personally acquainted with everyone else. Matters ot discipline ware threshed out in faculty , meetings. Bueh : university officials as registrars, treasurers, superintendent,. of ground and buildings,' and so fortfcu were prac tically unknown. , Their function were exercised by chairmen o( faculty commit tees. -1 apeak of tbla phase of college Whenever we., feel .aure tbat atudent . moral In any of our school, are aa they hould be,- let u; rejoice:. .but let .ua never for a moment, relax the .vigilance of eur watchfulness for wrong tendeaclee and our - opposition to, anything . that will lower the moral or ethical ton of our. In stitutions of higher learning. ; The ultra-social element tn our college ha meant a marked lowering of stand- development from personal experience- ards for certain groups of collage young not that my own student dsys are ao far back in the hoary past, but because my first college was a frontier school, representing the primitive type, , which, once universal, has survived ' to (com paratively recent times. . I received my first diploma from a president whose women, in my own college days ,mo of the "co-eds" were mora or less of the school-ma'am' type. 'There ' was soma frivolous courtship,' I admit,' : but rela tively little' social frlvolty. No ypung woman of that day would tolerate the semi-fllrtatiousness, the near-profanity, college family-faculty, students and e-r lh sy-golhg use of first names on numbered only about a quarter as many as the present payroll of the University of Nebraska. Today, as a general rule, a atudent must b either very brilliant or very troublesome before a college president becomea personally acquainted with hljn at alL 1 Critics of the college are too apt to emphasise what seems blameworthy, without any very careful consideration ot the college problem aa a whole. Broadly speaking, the Increase In the numbers of those who seek knowledge for its own sake 1 wholesome. Their point of view Is likely to be sane, their view of life ' serious. In faot, my personal experience leads me to think him the Ideal atudent who blend the desire for - culture with the desire for efficiency, 'who desire financial success in. order to benefit his short acquaintance; and the other almost intangible things which 'make up an at mosphere lower In tone,' but common enough nowaday to' pass almost un noticed in certain social aetsl The' diffi culty In combatting these and other ten dencies la that'the young people In each Institution' feel" that' tbey should be al lowed to go Just a little farther than 'would be tolerated' anywhere else. If the publications " of other colleges' ' contain naughty pictures,' the local institution certainly is bigoted if It will not "stand1 for" dirty one, and anyone attempting ltd uphold the- standard' of decency fol lowed In the. better Christian,' 'Mohamme dan or Shinto homes, Is accused of ' try- ; Ing to run 1 a university on a Sunday school basis.- Nevertheless, the public make a mistake In assuming that these COMPILED Pft.JlW BK FILM JCUt 15. 1 T2ass2sa2ss9i" Thirty Years Ago s Julius t'ThieI' Little Bavarian band, which has been discoursing fine music at the Tivoli gardens, rendered a choice pro gram for a free concert on the high school grounds, from 6 to 7 o'clock in the evening. , Rumor. has It that the Turner hall fire was of incendiary origint and Fire Chief Butler filed a cbmplalnt against the res taurant keeper In whose place the flames broke out -.' ' A number of Russian Jewish refugees have arrived" in Omaha and are being taken care of by the Hebrew Benevolent society, Most of them were driven out of ' the city ' of f Kief f by atrocities par petrated there. ' The steamer Wyoming, the largest steamboat that ever came up the Mis souri river, arrived In Omaha about I o'clock, bound tor St Louis. It had previously been stranded on a sandbar Just above the bend,' . Peter Elsasser is the happy father of a nine-pound boy.; . The Missouri river ticket office has been opened' up In the paxton. ... The night blooming cereus exhibited at Erfling'S has been placed in' alcohol at Roeder's drug store; - The dance at "Cedar park was post poned on account of bad weather. , Mr, Lindemann and Miss Buschmann, both well known actors at the German theater, were married this evening, the fire having hastened the consummation of their plans. ,fi..',.: During the storm the house of Captain George Crager, In Bhinn's addition, was struck by lightning, ; things need' be tolerated In atudent lift. A college Is like-' a community; it con- The Third Party Parable. And a certain man bad made great political feast and bade many; and he sent his servant to eay to them, that were bidden, "Come, for all "things' ar now readyA ;f t'' And many, wjth one consent began to inak awua. Hadley. the first.' 8ai$o praxiVi amf4panltcat :'ij' t,af.. 'i''.k'ii. party! f must needs ond terv t peopidtfcrouu;! :-;:h ? And' another Borah j satd: have made a good f ight"nd loat. ' I believe in majority' rule. ' , am not a bolter; -1, too, am republican, with firm convictions,1 and t go to prove them.": -.. , -.t Ctj And another, even Ward, said: "I have married me a party, and there fore I cannot eome.V' -; So that aervant.came and showed his master these things. . Then the master became exceeding' wroth and rent 'the Hf vlth stroaj; ' wdrds and wild - motions, and said- to hla eertant!- 'Oo out quickly Info the third-term strongholds and bring in hither the poor off ice-seeker and the maimed ex-officeholder, and the sore malefactor. o( great wealth, and the bait and blind anti-Taft men." Aid the servant did as be was commanded, and yet there waa room wuu.mu... w. . fcMU.-r .nu ,. u,n, th.-careful and the careless, the citizen. Every college has many of ;tMtfu, ind-tB.-UeUeii, the puritah'and tnlatype. ' ' .the liberal. The administration may be On the other hand, the technical p, t0 tne government of a citynt students are frequenUy those who sup- ;my ,tnd for wide-open 5 condltWns-ln port themselves, who receive from the ;other wert( lt mAy toiertt, th0M tmng, college very little but technical lnBtruc rwMoh degrade of ff may 'exert ftself to" tlou, who acquire little college spirit, and ;maka it easy for the students to do right whose ideals ot Ufa' are not much modi- ,n(j difficult fdr them to do wrong, r fled by their stay on the campua . , The problem of dishonesty has existed The social, element of college life should 'aver since human relations began. Natu not be condemned; the condemnation rally lt was simpler in the old colleges, hould fall on It 'excesses.- Many an iwhere examination were to a cdnsider awkward boy or girl has through Its In- able extent oral, wber classes were small fluence - become fitted to perform In and where personal relatlohs between society a higher work than would other- professors and' student' were close. "I wise have been possible. It has eliminated cannot believe' that thl evil ha been crudities, removed rough Corners, and growing fester than" present conditions made the .unsocial student a social' being, might lead us to expect1 The system of ! Nevertheless, the Influx of-these whom handing In written' Work has' been tha the social elumsnt attracts has brought source of an enormous amount of dis Inte college life many et the things honesty. A ' wr itteh exercise seems so which we must deplore. . Impersonal to the tideht that he is' very The popular' suteroen trt XX; "Ml- much inclined, w go through tbe motions . Uge. ls a mighty good winter, retort,, for "J " "W; ,iT ft T? man li na: iaa iha nwira." Arum ttnt, falrlv reistanC. V Though I WOUid be last h- kinma person to try to dictate to ntf colleagues UMJHlan irtiti.' fcn n rtiwi In : departmental 'mattera, r;'often wish tie'etUtude of. certain students ther; Jnlverslty professor - codld read Where evea part of Its students live in Kipling's "Jungle Book " where the old such an atmosphere, w could hardly ex- oeot an Institution to ba free from cor- .""" ruptlng influences. .Every college presl- do "?' ''PSPer chewing". Whan :h dent knows, and if he is frank will ad mit that there Is soma truth In strictures of the late Mr. Crane. the : Of ought to be ' about his Trork. Having spent three' semesters lh a German uni versity, where ho written Work' whatever cou xulnff Mr. Cr$ mthoda f4ftllUUil .vw M.M.ihu m Tka IbaI ttskeaaawMtsi kt vkaa MtllaM lei " l"3 j ' beoomlng a more and more potent factor -.: .thntiM 'w,u.t m In American life makes Student morals than thav hava h.ratnfora dn. In' nroB. and student, estimation Of ethical nrln- r,y umpiring if -I may use; the term clpla ef supreme Importance. The story .tUdent actfvlt'le. .College' officials' must wweiy wrcuiateo ana.commomy wiievea, Mi t( tha trimtnatldi,of graft in Itudent that In. the destruction by fire of a orsranlaatkiris must sea to tt that favors fraternity house at one Institution, the and promotions' . are not' passed out 'a stuaenu lost their uvea became they matter of aoe(al r organisation favor: were, too intoxicated to escape, and the must prevent, the existence of -societies other story or the druniten Student who whose memberships are concealed, In unucicu hi iv n. -vi imuiipi . lna iiuaeni siau.stuoens snpuia copiroi, was shot a a', burglar, are sufficiently thsy must -.have', freedom but neverth well known to make every eoflege preal- ). n wy case a faculty- or admlnis dent wonder whether condition reeponsi- tratlve officer-ehould have authority to Me for these things are not present in see that everything. Is done honorably, his own institution. One hesitates to fairly and on a high ethloal plane. v.: - Peaiionj 'fot Mother. V. ,. One of. the best features, In theory at least,1 of the Colorado plan for state pensions' for ''widowed and needy mothers," li that lt tenlg(to keep, children and ( their mothers united in the home', and mak the home the asylum, Instead of a public institution. This goes' a long way toward commending the bill, which Colorado will vote on tbla fall under Ita, Initiative and referendum law.-A similar law is now in force (n. Illinois, so that the Colorado proposition will nob be entirely unique. Penatone lire ho lonfer looked upon. with, the same odium that once attached. ... They, are- not regarded so much at charity, for a pension should be deserved before ' it Is granted CertAlnly ' dependent tnothers .. with ehudren to maintain . may .' be en titled to assistance, If the state can provide waya of granting tbet as sistance without opening .the door to graver abuses, a. In the application-of the-principle ,of course, lles whatever danger the plan! wflf encounter wlt wiUjequlre able and very careful administration free from sentimentalism,; to make ; the .law , serve Its best ends. 1 r The progress of "Mike". Harring ton around the political circle pushes the speed limit. But it is no faster than the pace of some of. our, repub lican progressives, who bive boxed the compass and doubled up on them selves more than once in leas time. Judge Bennte Lindsay of Denver promptly declined to accept the pro hibition presidential" nomination be cause Of pledges made to the bull moose party,', It is understood he is one of the good democrats of he country to whom Colonel Roosevelt has offered the vice presidency. . German forester, speaking of bis offl- "EACH FOR THE JOY OF THE WORKING" 8ome lionghti to the Itetl'Selinfi. of Ulbt''- , Boston Transcript it Is because our estimate is false. Such Work I divided Into two kinds that a view is its own rebuke. A job It not which w do because we must and that what we get for it Dut what we pat into which w do because we delight in 't it In so far as W put the best of us When the One becomes the other, the re- Info It, the work becomes important, and suit Is called happiness. It Is happiness Important in the literal sense. The of the most durable kind-the Joy of housekeeping toll 'of a first-rat mother work; but a joy not so common as we has often had .wider results, than the might wish. ; . administration of a fourth-rate mayor. lr Gilbert Parker, Invited to distribute Let the worldly wise'- tell us that to the Prises at Leys school, Cambridge. Idolise a humble task makes us -look talked to the boys of this matter, than fooJUh. Jt - la they who look foolish In which a more profitable subject tor school the end.- For lt la . this acceptance of boy would be difficult to find. He said reaponsibuity in small things, which dig that though the boys ot our day are nlflea any task, matter, how obscure. better equipped In general learning, they "te a share In that great stewardship are lea thorough, and he blamed steam which Is the honor of all service. -This and electricity, machinery and the pro , voluntary ,responalbiHty for good work, duct of machinery, wmcn imitaiea ar- aa unsuuieu wnen n appears- ina tlstlc handicraft, for Jhe cheapening ot .stable., as ,when it. appears, rather more taste and the cooling ot that love ot . rarely, tn legislative chambers. There I work for the work's sake which used to an artatopracy of ;worker; . It, ts com dignify the arts and crafts." ','Tf there . pod 'ot those, who-acquitted thjenjaelve 1 on cry which riae more often than as the tombstpna testifies .of .Ann Luah any ether In the minds of those who car com We: ,"8n ,done. what aha xould. v It it said of one of, the nominees on the republican electoral ticket in Nebraska that he fayored Roosevelt in the primary, recognises" his obli gation, ai presidential elector to vote for Taft, but now personally prefers Voodrow Wilson. .. If that to a cor rect diagram ot the , ease, it Ja' his move. ' '-" -.' - ' ;-v - At any rate,, no poDulaf uprising Is demanding the -recall: of Vhei de cision of the army ' engineers that there la no need for, a' fourth bridge across the Missouri between Omaha and Council Bluffs. for the beet in national life It la the re newing of the' pride and Joy' of work manship." , . -.!,. ' Jhose who seek the beauty and dignity to be found in the -common walks of life will find nothing worthier of their admir ation than the pride of obscure people In tU doing well of an obscure task. At first there may aeem to be a sort of pathos In the pride of the teamster in the sleek. Coat of his horse, of the char woman in floors and windows ashtne from her faithful scrubbing, of the ele vator man ' in : knowing exactly ' where each occupant of the building belongs; of the old caman, . as responsible for his passengers ae the captain of a steam, ship; ef the mason, who delights In a true line; of. the tralnsman, who sets himself the task of keeping pleasant Through all the trade there la a pride of profes sion as. gepulna In window-washing as It' Is In Jurisprudence, and it la this Joy of work which dlstlngutthe good work from the second-rate. If at first this glow 01 priae over ina isiiuiui iwnorm- A, footnote must be, added , ta this, and tny these dya a .yarx. ..important, one, When a distinguished educator addressing an audience bt worklngmen dwelt on this dignity and -joy of w6rk ks the curs' of labor disputes, which, he assured them. would bring an end tot their brabbles we are told that he waa greeted with Ironic laughter. Tliat derision ta easy to under stand when -we remember that the pride ot handicrafts, of ; which . Sir Gilbert Par ker. speaks, flourished- most In a period when - men. wofleed 'more commonly for themselves than for othera In the cor porate Industries, of; our own day, In the vast mechanisms lh which the individ ual' counts for so nttlel when men can hardly see the I 'resurtaof then? work through the complicated "processes which deal with It after it leaves their hands when they drudge, for' Instance, at the deadening routine of "place work" under a system of fines for errors, of "speeding up," aa In textile machinery, and driven by vigilant foremen thea It begins to be evident to the least discerning that the anc of en obscure duty seems patteUu Joy of work loses soma of Its edge. Twenty Years Ago . There were twod prospects for work beginning soon on the new Fifteenth Street hotel. John A. McSbane had gone to Boston to perfect financial arrange ments for It. J. E. Market, who-was to lease the hotel,, was also1 in Boston. The hotel was to have a frontage of 122 feet on Fifteenth atreet and 151 on Harney, and cost In the neighborhood of IWO.flOC Ed Allen of Allen Bros.', S. Katv of Kats-Nevins company ' " and Thomas Crane -of Bartlett, Crane ' Baldrige, were on their way t Chelan. Wash., to hunt add fleh'for a vacatiorl It become known that eastern parties had bought the southeast corner of Eleveneth and Howard streets on which they proposed to erect a building to be used by the Morse-Coe Shoe company for manufacturing purposes. Newa reached Omaha that S.- Gerber, the unfortunate peddler" who ' had been ostracised by Russia in bleak Siberia, had at last made his escape. The Bee was the flretto take1 up' the ease of this man. It Interested Congressman w. J. Bryan and the United States attorney general, and got the matter - before Lorenso' Crounxe, assistant secretary of the treasury, who. In turn, referred It to William F. Wharton, acting secretary of state: In ' Mr; Blaine's absence.- But Wharton' prepared a lengthy opinion in the case,, which destroyed the hopes' of hi friends and he was sent to Siberia. The details of : his escape ; were not' stated in the letter received by Gerber1 s son In Omaha, Mr. Loewe. Gerber had'' formerly resided in thls?clty; - ; Ten tears 'Ao- ; ; ' . Mr. and Mrs. Jay D. Foster were at Lake OkoboJI. Very Rev.' Wllljam Choka, V. O., priest of the Catholic church at Monterey, Cuming county, Nebraska, was reported to be dying at St. Joseph V hospital of cancer of the liver. He was appointed vicar general by the late Bishop James O'Connell and later 'became administrator. Omaha lit onto Wee Willi MoGlll's curves for twenty hits and nineteen runs, while Miner Brown held Peoria to three runs. . - ' . ' '. ' A final struggle over the location of the new: commission district 'fire engine house came off 'In the city council and the advocates of the site at Eleventh anil Jackson streets won. The vote on the site stood: For, Mount Hoy. Has- call; frostier. Karr; against, ZImman and Burkley. Lobeck and ' Whltehorn were absent: ' - ''" '' ;- Senatol- Dolllver of Iowa spent' part of the' day in 'Omaha, en rout to Cheyenne to addreas the state convention of Wyo ming republicans. The senator said he knew of no special eon test 'among re publicans rn"low.-; ' ." The Knights of the Maccabees held their annual plcnlo at. Courtland Beach and some 2,800 attended. Among the contests were some- for good and bad looks. Chris Hanson won the handsome man's prise and 'Billy' Bay, the ugliest man's prise; while, ot course, there Were no such com petitions smong the women,1 all being pretty. " - ' Pertlaeat Water Works Qaa-rl. OMAHA. Neb,, July lt-To the Editor of The Bee: An engineer's capacity for deeds is usually rated In inverse propor tion to his newspaper -notoriety, but as an ordinary citlsen I am threatened as a' victim of the published intentions of the Water board, and that is my excuse for entering protest at this time, al though I am speaking with the experi ence of over twenty years aetual prac tice as an operating and constructing engineer in localities where things ar done on a somewhat larger scale and never without the aid of cerapetet eagl- H,MM - - , " . ,1-.'"-. As far as I am concerned there is only one rational and proper place" for Pri vate service meter, and that is some where Inside the owners building, so that It can be prevented from freeaing if the. owner takes ordinary precaution. The! newspaper statement ' regarding the comparative number of meters trosen Is very misleading and useless unless It also should state the total number7 ot each kind in service. The "discovering of leaks" argument Is rather weak, and t might say that meters are not the usual or most economical method ' for this purpose. There are a doien good reasons why present' service pipes should not be dug, up and cut, aside from the wasteful expense involved. Regarding the cost proposition, If there are 19,909 flat rate consumers at present and each one bad to pay tig for ths meter connection, that would mean a total sum of J18O.0O0 to be expended tor this purpose, while the probable reason able eost for installing 10,000 meters In side the building lines would uot ejceeed S cash, or $80,000. Why should this UOOy 009 difference be thrown to " the winds. so to speak? Of course I appreciate that the manufacturers of man-hole cover, the brick masons and plumbers, and pos sibly, even the meter manufacturers, would like to see this extra $100,000 "blown In." ; Regarding the excuses for restricting sprinkling to the present hours, It might be suggested that .our present insurance premiums are based on empty reser voirs and the usual conditions prevail ing up to July 1. It would seem a reason able question to ask. Why don't the Water, board try to redeem some of theli recent promises, which could be don to a reasonable extent with competent and efficient management Instead of un reasonably restricting the use of water and inflicting unnecessary and wasteful costs upon the consumers? - ; : ,r A. C. rsnd. Magistrate about to commit for trial) Tou certainly effected the robbery in ;a remarkably ingenious way; jn laci. I with quite exceptional cunning- The Prisoner wow, yer nonor, no n terv. Dlease: ao flattery. I bege yer Sketch. ' -'.r ; - ; Want to buy mule. Peter "What ails himr.- , . , "Nothing." ' " ' "Then what ye selling him tor, "Nothing." . v "I'll take hlmr-Llte: , 4 Hamlin Wlfev told me to be bom early aa she has something she. wants to tarn to me Mut.t Buggs My , wife generally wants to Ulk to m about, the -thing sbs basn t got.-Chicago tNews. . .- . A other Woodman Fro eat. SOUTH OMAHA. July lZ-To the Editor of The Bee: Froqa the tone ef the letter written -by a party signing himself Charles McLean, I would Judge that.be is now -holding a Job with pay In con nection!, with, the Modern Woodmen ot America. If he was going to have his assessments raised from M0 to 10) par cent over what he Is paying now and. did not have a fat Jab In prospect he would also be with the se-eaHed Insur gents - of ' the Woodmen.' Maligning . the leaders at the revolt against the proposed highway -robber, rates dpes not Chang the fact that -mors than. per ceiit of the rank and file of the members, of .the Woodmen who have no axe to grind are opposed to the proposed highway rob bery- v - -" ' r. A. AGNEW. People Taiked About E. T. Falrchild, the View president of the National Education association, halls from Kansas and is a suffragist, Tfee earl of ' Ashburnham announced that his only child, Lady Katharine, who was presented at court two years, ago and is on ot the finest horsewomen la England, had entered the Sacred "Heart convent at Roehampton to become a nun, Mrs.' Antoinette Rose .Acken, who father fought. in the revolution, died at her home tar New Brunswick, N.' J., re cently. She was M years bid. Her unci Was" a slgnef'of the Declaration of In dependence. Mrs. Acken remembered the visit ot Lafayette .to this country lh ISM. Boss Fllnn got home from Chicago Just In'; time' to find his keystone party In dulging tn a split that makes, the "stand patters"".; and the 'Mnsurgera" , look like beginners at the gam.' . Leading a "re form" party It strenuous business these Miss Paulina . V. Orr of Columbus, Mlsa.' has been appointed a trustee of the' new college. tor women which is to be an adjunct of the University Of the South at Sewanee, Tenn. , She will ' serve pn the' committee on Instruction and eurrl culum,'the other members of which are all men. ' ' ' . . . , ' " '' Miss. Clara Grant la at the head of an unusual Settlement , which M opened la Bromley-by-Bow, London, something more than a year ago. Mies Grant and her fellow workers, most of whom are trained nurses, concern themselves only with th families of children attending the council school of that 'district Lorenao S. Coffin, the $yesrold mil lionaire of Fort Dodge, has set the bom folks talking by adopting a young widow, who 'hsi changed her came from Mrs. Elisabeth Murray Newman to Miss ElUa beth Murray Coffin. .Th trick was turned at Loa, Angeles, where, anything can happen, once, 'Hilda.- If you leave now I shall re fuse to give you a testimonial.' "A tank ay not need testatnonlal Ay got Bible now an ay sholl got husband next week." Chicago Record-Herald. "I tell you we live in an sg of prog- ' gress." . 'HOW BOWT" 'Now soma shark has discovered that you kin shaks fleas off a dog with a vacuum cleaner.' Kansas city journal. Guest Tea, I had ' mock-turtle soup. By the way, , where do they catch mock turtles? WalterNear the sham-rock, I think, - sir!-London Opinion. , c . if. r- Rudyard Kipling. ' ." .-' f "It you can keep your , bead when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on ' . - you;-.. -' ; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowances for their doubt ing too; : . If you can wait .and not be tired by wait ing, J ........ Or being lied about don't deal In li-is. . , Or being hated don t give away te hating. And yet don't Jock too gooi, nor talk. too wise; - "'.', "If you can dream and not make dreams your master; If you ean think and not ma'ce t how tits -your aim, ., . v . - - " - .'.. If you can meet with Triumph nii.Dis.: ' aster -' And -treat thoae two impostors .lust ti e same, ' If you can boar to hear the truth you've , spoken Twisted by kwwes to make a trap for tools, ' ' Or watch the things you gave your Hfe , to. broken, , , And stoop and build em up wit1) wtin--, out tools; : .7 "If you can make oce heap of all ynur winnings f And risk It on one turn of pltcli-anl- toss, - f And lose, and start again at your begin- : Rings -And never breathe a word about your loss; . , If you ean force yvur heart end p-rv and sinew , To serve your turn long attar they are . - gone. . .. And so hold on when there Is nothing In : you ...' Except the Will which says to them: v - . 'Hold on!' . v . .. , 'If you ean talk with crowds snd reep your virtue, i Qt walk with, kings nor los4h cm- mon touch. ':, If neither foe nor loving fnon-ls ran hurt you, ,' .4 If all men count with you, but uco .. too much; . If you ean fill the unforgiving minute , ! With sixty conds worth of dimonee run. -; :;'. .. , Tours is the Earth and everything that's . m it. -- -' -- ' And which Is radre ypu'H be a Men, ; ; mar aon. . . .... , T Low Summer. Fares. Spend your, vacatioti bach 4Mf and e that your tickt$ read via 9 Round trip tickets on sals to points east daily . ' tWtilSeeOTber 30th, among the important being ' as follows: ': , ' ,...'..-.. '. IMasJZtJODetreit $43.90 sad 44,2$ Adsstie Cty v 22.80 a4 34.00 feffaj ,- '48.00 sad 45.00 Boston . . 324Sa4S4.0NiagsraraIU 2S.M, 32.00 asd 34.00 Tereete ' i. eXOOaad 4100 Mew Trk 35)0. 37 J3 i 3&.SS Montreal 4tS5 aal 44.35 Pertlaae " J Direct connectiona in Chicago with all lines . east .Liberal stop-overs. Favorable return limits. . ' 12 Daily Trains between Omaha and Chicago i , Far priatad aiatur and full partiealars call ea or address . ." V Chicago and North Western Railway 1401-1403 Fmm Stnd. Omaha. NJ. KWSSiS : . .. I J'. Telegraph yfB There is sametlBng; cxsinpelling -about a ; : It commftsidfi fastest ajmtioa; ; It . . : -; r is cfier laid aside to be read latev ; - No man is too basy to stop and read .- a tdegram. ' '-::v'' - :- ;'..-' " - . j . . t ". : ' . . "'..- -ft . :; . -' " Let tte Western Union handle your s buanffiss letters by : tggraptL . ;' ; ,,f; .':';.. '-. THE VESTIRK Union TREGR1PH COriPM