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Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-04
A Great Balance Sheet.

The treasury report which the gov
eminent discloses for the fiscal year
just ended shows total deficit over
all, including Panama canal expendi-
lures and the public debt, of $25, 8S4,-
900, as compared with $118,705,0 900
one year ago. This Is a wonderful i'm
provement in finances and seems all
but incredible for one years time. 1t
is made possible by tremendous in
crease in receipts and heavy cut in
this year exceeded those of the year
before by more than $66,000,000. One
year ago there was an excess of dis
bursements of $66,O00,0OO. The gov
eminent is paying its bills and Is
rapidly getting down to a practical
cash basis, meeting every emergency
as it arises and readjusting the ma
tional finances on the soundest possible
basis.
The criticism Is made. that enlarged
receipts do not always mean a sounder
condition so much as growth In pro-
ceeds from taxation, but an analysis
of the figures does not Justify COM
plant on this score. True, that of the
increased income, $17362, 900, is the
estimated revenue from the corpora
tion tax, but on the other hand customs
receipts have grown more than $685.
600, 900 and internal revenue receipts
have gained about $20,000,O00, and
there has been a tremendous saving in
the postal department.
1t is the purpose of Secretary Mac
Veagh, however. to proceed along
present lines until he has reached an
equilibrium not yet struck between in.
come and outgo; he proposes to work
to that end on both sides of the ledger
The government readily distinguishes
between increased revenue from taxa
ton and greater economy of admins
tration, realizing that the former must
represent a deduction from private
profit and affect every form of industry
to some extent. Therefore the studious
effort is to extend taxation no further
than the actual demands of the public
business require. 1t will soon be posi-
BILE, with the treasury showing such 6
robust balance sheet, to relieve the
pressure on certain sources Of income
from taxation, and an administration
that has served the people as faith
fully as the present one is doing may
we'll be trusted to look out for that.
With all the steadily increasing
needs for money. complicating the de
mands upon our financiers at Wash
ington, the exhibit made at the end o.
this fiscal year stands out all the NOR,
remarkable and ought to afford tn,
best assurance to the people that thei
interests are being scrupulously con
served.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-04

AS war correspondent at Reno Jack
London is taking no chances on losing
out as great prophet He predicts:
Three things only can make it quick
fight. First, lucky punch; secondly,
the blowing up of one or the other
of the fighters, and, thirdly, display
of the hypothetical yellow streak in
Johnson" Has not this wise and far.
seeing man overlooked the possibility
of flood or an earthquake or the dis
appearance of the stakeholder?
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-04
Our Birthday Book

Uncle Sam" as he is properly known,
is celebrating his birthday today for the
18th time. Hear the eagle scream!
Nathaniel Hawthorne, the great American
novelist, was born July T. 1901, and died at
Salem, Mass, in 1864. He belonged to the
school known as the Concord Writers, -
and his works have become standard.
General Felix Agnus, editor of the Balti-
more American, is II today. He was born
In Lyons, France, and came to this coln-
try on the eve of the civil war, enlisted
In the union army and was mustered out
with a brilliant record.
George NJ Cohan, comedian and dra-
matist. Is celebrating his 32d birthday. He
was born in Providence, r. l., and has been
on the stage from. early boyhood, and has
shown frequently in Omaha
General Marshall 1. Luddington, United
States army, retired, was born July 4. 1899
at Smlthfield, Penn. He was stationed In
Omaha at one time and became quarter.
master general before he retired, He is
brother of DR.. Horace Luddington ot
this city.
c. w. Noble, general agent for Ne
braska of the New England Mutual Life
Insurance company, was born July T. 1862
at La Grange, o., He was once county
superintendent of Cass county, and has
been in the insurance business now for
| fifteen years.
Louis Slavin. president OF the Omaha
Plating company, Is just 49, He was boU
in odessa, Russia, and Is an electroplatel
by trade, having been steadily In business
in Omaha since 1884.
| A. C. Van SAINT, head OF Van SAINT Schoo
OF Shorthand in the Wead building, wa!
born July T. 1882, in Camden, N. ]. He Il
a brother of Ex-Governor Van SAINT of Min
nesota, and for twenty years practioet
dentistry while at the same time maklnI
study and practice OF shorthand. HI
opened his school OF shorthand in Omahd
in 1890.
Walter H. Rhodes, assistant cashier o
the City National bank, is celebrating hi
seth birthday. He was born at Havana
IN. and graduated at Iowa college at Grin
nell, and has been in the banking bust
ness with various Institutions since 1898
Rev Bohocan A. Filpi, pastor Of tn
Bohemian Brethren Presbyterian church
was born July 4. 1880. in Malcin. Bohemia
coming to this country in 1899 He studie,
at Union Theological seminary In New
York and Western Theological seminary Il
Ahegany, being ordained into the ministr,
at the latter place In 1902. He has been Il
charge OF his present passionate since 1900
Rev. Henry ]. Kirschstein, pastor of tn
Church OF Christ Is AZ, He has the uniqu
distinction OF being born on the Brltis
channel He is a graduate OF Drake uni
verslty and OF the University OF Nebrasks
and has been In the ministry since 1885 an
In Omaha since 1904
Fred Renner, treasurer OF the Yetter
Davidson Wall Paper company. was borl
July 4, 1850, at Nebraska City. He wa
originally q printer by trade and at on
time ran the Renner Printing eompan
at Hastings. but came 20 Omaha in 100
with the Yetter Wall Paper company.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-04
NAVIGATING THE AIR.
Long Road to Safety Yet to BE
ChRrted.

Long Road to Safety Yet to BE
ChRrted.
New York Post
In view of the Zeppelin disaster how do
accounts now stand as between the dirigible
and the aeroplane2 We may imagine a
heavier than-air machine setting out under
the same peaceful weather conditions as
the Deutschland had, and overtaken by the
same storm. The gale might have con-
ceivably wrecked the aeroplane, but, on
the other hand, the aeroplane might have
Just as conceivably made landing in the
first open field that offered, or on the first
stretch of road. Let 1t be admitted that
in the present stage of aeronautics neither
the dirigible nor the aeroplane is capable
OF defying the storm, as the modern steam
ship is. All the more reason why the air
craft should be able to reach earth easily
when It cannot hold it's own against the
wind. On this count the advantage Is i'm
measurably with the aeroplane. For the
Zeppelin's purposes every German town
would have to be equipped with its enor-
nous balloon shed and its corps OF hun
dreds of men to warp the ship into it's dock
Our present mastery of the air may be
compared with the art of navigation when
the Phoenician traders stole timorously
from cove to cove on the Mediterranean;
when 1t blew hard they refused to leave
port altogether.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-04

go the big hat as destructive of the
view as this skirt is OF the gait, and
possibly also the hair puff. 1t really
seems to be too much, however. to ex-
pect that these various denominations
should leave us at once,
If all of a sudden the American
women should decide to do their own
dressing. according to rneir own ideas
and tastes, and ignore the radical
styles of Gay Paree, we fancy they
would not suffer either in point of
comfort or appearance, but would gain
nightly in both.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-04
Talks for people who sell things

A few churches have their eyes open
to the possibilities of advertising their
services to the public-not many, but
one here and there, and it is doing a
world of good.
One church in New Orleans, one In
Washington, D. c., advertises in the
street cars. Others in different parts
of the country are using the news
papers.
We are glad to see this. 1t shows
the good of advertising outside of bust
ness fields. Surely advertising could be
put to no better use than to draw
people to worship.
OF the thousands of people In Omaha
a great many go to church; a great
many who do not go would go II they
knew about the splendid sermons and
beautiful music they would hear.
There can be nothing undignitied In
drawing people to hear a great and
uplifting sermon delivered by a great
and good man.
Suppose some one Of our churches
published in The Bee something of the
beauties of the sermons preached
something of the intellectual treat in
store for those who would come, and
bidding the stranger welcome.
We venture to say that before long
every seat in that church would be
filled every Sunday.
And who would venture to say what
the gain to the community would BET
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-04

COloneI Watterson's Recipe for DO
nestle Peace aud Happiness.

COloneI Watterson's Recipe for DO
nestle Peace and Happiness.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
In an interview with a woman reporter
In New York last Saturday, Colonel Henry
Watterson came out strong" in favor Of
mans telling his wife the truth about
his little diversions.
Don't lie to her" says the colonel
Just tell her that you've been out with
the boys. II you've been playing poker
and somebody has tapped you for the roll.
just tell her that too. It'll be all right"
That certainly sounds noble and COM
forting. 1t also comes in a tone of appar-
ent authority. But there are some state
ments that one hesitates to accept without
an examination OF the evidence on which
they are based.
II Colonel watterson would just supple
ment this interview with a few particular
cases In which his recipe has been tried
and found to be all that the proprietors
claim for 1t, as they say in patent medi-
cine experiences, 1t would help wonder
fully.
For instance, a letter-not necessarily
accompanied by a wood out--from q VEN
crable-looking man In Oshkosh. wis, stat
ing that for the last forty years he has
used the Watterson recipe after being out
with the boys or losing his money at poker
and has never know IT to fail would do
much to popularize 1t.
Or a signed statement, witnessed and
acknowledged before a notary, that such
and such a person suffered for years from
his wifes suspicious nature. that he even
went so far as to think of divorce because
Of the unhappiness it caused, and that
nothing except the use Of the celebrated
Watterson recipe had given the slightest
relief, would lend weight to the New York
interview,
Even an offer OF q reward OF 81, 900 for
any wife who would not succumb to this
treatment and find everything all right
after the first or second night would tend
to encourage many gentlemen to make ex-
periments in that direction.
We are not intimating the slightest
doubt of Colonel Watterson's sincerity.
Nor is the ethical correctness Of his post
ton open to question. The only question
is: Has Colonel Watterson seen to 1t that
his idea was tried on q sufficiently wide
scale to give a hint of its merits as a
practical proposition?
II not, the colonel should be careful He
may be pushing many transporting men
on to troubles that they dream not Of.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-04

Must Advertise some way.
When the defendant appeared the magts-
trate said
Prisoner you are charged with having
climbed up the statue of the duke OF Well
ington, put a pair OF braces over his
shoulders and placard calling attention
to your establishment, where similar ones
may be purchased"
well. SIR replied the offender, with
an ingratiating smile, "of course / wants
to ged along in peesness."
After which," continued the magistrate.
sternly, you hang around his neck q LOT
OF ties and attached to ono Of his hands
a number of pairs Of tennis shoes"
Dose shoes is first-rate." said the de-
PENDANT. II would like to sell you pair. T"
You. Also continued the magistrate.
consulting the indictment "obstructed the
thoroughfares and created a disturbances
by placing q paper collar and top hat
on the statue in question. Not only that"
went on the magistrate, but you endeav-
ored to put on q coat and vest, with q
placard, go to Solomon's and get them
as worn by the duke of Wellington for
1Ss Cd. Now this Is most improper and re-
prehensible."
Dots right SIR" said MIR. Solomon de-
lightedIy, "Spheak loudt, SO does noose1
baper vellers gun hear YOU" said nd
smiling benignantly upon the reporters.
Good gracloas!" Numbered the magtsl
trate as frightened idea struck him, III
II possible you have the audacity to usI
the machinery OF this court as an add
vertising dodge7"
Dots Il, dots IL" exclaimed the culprit
rubbing his hands, exultantIy. II made de
COMPLAINT. myself. Desc hard times MAJ
must advertise, SIR"
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-04
BnseIess scRres of Spectators.
PHILADELPHIA Record.

The courts are thoroughly conservative
in their protection OF the property rights
of railroads and other corporations. Con-
gress is exceedingly careful OF vested inter.
ests. and even the state legislatures have
been far less violent than is commonly rep
resented by railroad officials. The investor
has less to complain Of than the consumer
Most OF the soares have been raised by
Wall street spectators to affect quota
lions. Jacob II. Sehiff knows a good dea
about railroads and legislation, and he
says the recent legislation regarding inter
state commerce will have no serious ettec,
upon railroads
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-04
LET UP.

Strickland o'1lilan in Baltimore Sun.
When you've said your n,ue say.
Let IN! ....-
Don't Just Chew the rag all day
Let up!
II you've lost your fight or won II.
Licked the chap who had begun II
Or been shown you cannot run 1t,
Let upl
Fight until the matters settled
Let 10!
When IT'S over don't stay nettied-
Let upl
Put up just the hardest scrap
In you 'gainst the other chap;
When one of you's off the map,
Let up! .'.
Don't go trying to explain
Let upl 0XAE
Boosting, also, gives pain
Let up!
II the things worth any talk
Let others do the squawk,
While you coyly take walk
Let upl ... ....i,
Put a paddock on your jaw
Let up!
Brag's a foe to natures law
Let uo!
Say. "I'll try" and then begin.
Do your level best to win;
Then. when all your, lioks are in,
Let up!
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-04
LAUGH AND PERsPIRE MORE.
Colonel Harvey'S Specific for sths
Thrills of Colonel Roosevelt.
HarDar'a WaakIy


Let us make a careful distinction between
the colonel and the extraordinary expecta-
tons that have grown up in some minds
as to what he can do and how he car
save the country.
The country does not need saving just
now. 1t is pounding along pretty we'll on
the present tack, notwithsta nding some
difficulties of navigation.
The colonel has given no intimation that
he is going to save it, or that he thinks II
needs saving. He bought new straw hat
the day after he got ashore. but there is
no reason to believe 1t was not the same.
sized hat he has been used to wear. He Il
bland, fervent, and busy, but gives no signi
of undue excitement. In public he wears
a shirt and keeps 1t on. Will you neigh.
bors all please keep on your shirts, too
Laugh more! Perspire freely If the weather
continues hot, but avoid excitement.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-04

America.
My country. tits Of thee,
sweet land OF liberty,
OF thee I sing;
Land where my father died,
Land OF the pilgrims pride,
From every mountain side
Let freedom ring.
My native country, thee
Land OF the noble free
Thy name l love;
l love thy rocks and rills,
Thy woods and tempted hills;
My heart with rapture thrills
Like that above.
Let music swell the breeze
And ring from all the trees
Sweet freedoms song;
Let mortal tongues awake,
Let all that breathe partake,
Let rocks their silence break
The song prolong.
Our fathers God, 20 thee,
Author of liberty,
To thee we sing;
Long may our land be bright
With Freedoms holy light;
Protect us by Thy might,
Great Coo, our King.
SAMUEL F. SMITH
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-04
NIakes the World Move.
Kansas City Journal.

Count Zeppelin has repeatedly risked his
life and has spent his fortune in perfectlng
his dirigibe balloon He has seen his air
ships, representing years OF endeavor, de-
stroyed by wind and lightning. Now, at
the age OF 70, Fastening to the wreck Of his
latest model, he announces that he is dis
appointed, but not discouraged"
Bully for the count, That's the sort OF
young man that makes the world move.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-04

: Texas newspapers are trying to shift
the responsibility of the birth Of Mr.
Richard, the Reno referee, onto poor
old Kansas, despite the fact that
Colonel Richard calls himself TEX"
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-04

Editor Bryan viii speak very
shortly. In the interval he will have
q heart to heart session with Associate
Editor Metcalfs, who got his trolleys
arNssAd dhrinE his chiefs absence.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-04

Colonel Roosevelt will not consent
to run again for governor of New
York, but it is ten 10 one shot that
he will be backing up the republican
nominee when he is finally chosen and
gets into the field.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-04

The New York Herald speaks Of
New York as Americas best summer
resort and in another part OF the same
issue chronicles several deaths from
heat prostration. That proves it.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-04

The lottery was put out of business
by closing the mails to all publications
carrying information about it. The
prize fight could be put out of business
in the same way.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-04

The hobo will probably put Kansas
City on his blacklist. municipal
Judge there has determined to send all
sons of rest who come before him to
the Kansas wheat fields
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-04

Writing to Edgar Towards paper,
John c. Sprecher declares Edgar
Howard ought to be the democratic
nominee for congress in the Third Ne
braska district in place of the check
book candidate. Well, why not? Has
the check book become all-powerful in
that neck-o'-woods?
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-04
A Chance to save.

washington ieTdIu.
Undoubtedly the postal savings banks
will encourage thrift; and considering the
81 OOO,O 900 session just closed, it might not
be a bad idea for Uncle Sam to make a
deposit or two.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-04

Freedom.
Here in the forest now,
AS on that old July
When first our fathers took the vow,
The bluebird stained with earth and sky,
Shouts from q blowing bough
In green, aerial freedom, wild and high,
And now, as then, the bobolink
Out on the uncertain brink
OF the swaying maple swings,
Loosing his song out link by golden link
While over the wood his proclamation
rings,
kings.
Even as the wild bird sang on bough and
wall
That day the bell of Independence Hall
Thundered upon the world the WORD OF
The word of God uttered when the world
began
That day when liberty began to be
And mighty hopes were out on land and
But Freedom calls its cOnscripts. now as
1t is an endless battle to be free,
AS the old dangers lessen from the skies
New dangers rise,
Down the long centuries eternally,
Again, again will rise Thermopylae;
Again, again new Leonidas
Must hold for God the imperiled pass.
As the long ages run
New Lexington will rise on Lexington
And many valOrous Warren fall
Upon the imperiled wall
Man is The conscript OF an endless quest.
A long, divine adventure without rest,
A holy war, q battle yet unwon
When he shall climb beyond theb urnt-out
Each hard-earned freedom wthers in a
Freedom forever is beyond-beyond
EDWIN MARKHAM.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-04
Out of the Question.

NdI5db CITY
Mr. Bryan may like Mexico's silver policy,
but he can never endorse the Mexican plan
Of putting the minority candidate for presi-
dent In prison.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-04
some of the Ra<eoff Left.
indianapolis News

Notwithstanding the 5000 fine that has
been imposed in the cotton Leak case, II
is believed that the transaction, as q
whole, shows a balance on the right side
of the ledger.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-04
A Chnnue for the better.

Wall Street Journal
If Wall street in the seclusion OF its Of
flee is able to decide the fate Of the crops,
why not let the farmers write the stock
market letters?
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-04

We have not figured out the exact
value of that last rain, but it must be
somewhere in the millions, and besides
1t saved our Rourkes from another
dFubblng. Ft
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-04
Roll AIong just the same,
Sioux City Tribune

bIOUA Guy IIIUUIIV
The best evidence that this country is
able to take care of itself is indicated by
the fact that President Hill of the Great
Northern has quit worrying and gone fish
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-04

WnoAN OTOp--A III uOihb NY HNN1
Corn Crop--So am l. We've got to count.
erbalsnce the foolishness Of poiiteians.--
Judge.
You have an unusually good cook,
Eyes, indeed. There are even times when
American.
Prospective bridegroom with some EN-.
Prospective Bride perfectly self-pos-
sessedS-I can, Wilfrid. but require a well
stocked pantry and the latest improvements
In gas ranges and cooking utensils. Can
you supply them P-Chlcago Tribune.
wilis-But how can your grandfather en-
Joy comic opera when he ts SO deatI
Gllls-very easily. l have all the stand
ard chestnuts numbered, and when the
comedian cracks one just signal the num-
Der to the old man.-Puek.
rs It true" asked Flooding Pete, dat
yous is offerin' work to anybody dat comes
yep" replied Farmer corntosseL Yes
take off your coat an
Not me. I'm jss' scout sent ahead by
-iWashington star
Doctor, my wife iss lost her voice
TRY getting home late some night.
Boston Transcript
Marie, that young man is coming TO see
you rather often OF late, IL he notT'
only seven nights a week, mum"
Have you asked him what his motive
is7"
mo, mum, but viii II you want me TO.
l don't take an interest In such things my
self, but know It's one OF these little red
ones with two ats."-Houston Post,
Two young lovers In a goodnight en-
brace In the entrance hall were surprised
by the girls elder sister coming In.
I'VE were seeing which is the taller"
fusion.
you are about ten inches taller than
Edith" said the sister, "and she ID at least
Magazine.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-04

Lillian Russell, admits she is so, but
she must not think We are trying to
fiatter her when we say she does not
look It,
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-04

These aviators will always have
their ups and downs, even If they have
to break into the newspapers for that
purpose.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-04

Subscribers leaving the city tenn
pOrRriIy should have The Bee
mailed TO them. Addresses will be
changed as Ofton as requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-04
The Fourth

To the sages who spoke, to the heroes who
bled,
To the day and the deed, strike the harp
strings of gloryl
Let the tongue Of the reasoned remember
the dead,
storyl
Der the bones of the bold
Be the story long told,
And on flames golden tablets their tri'
umphs enrolled,
Who on freedoms green hills freedoms
banner unfurled,
And the beacon-fire raised that gave light
to the worldt
They are gone-mighty men!-and they
sleep in their fame;
Shall we ever forget them? o, never
No never!
Let our sons learn from us to embalm each
great name,
And the anthem send n-'tndepeh-
ence forever"
Wake, wake, heart and tonguel
Keep the theme ever young;
Let their deeds through the long line OF
ages be sung;
Who on freedoms green hills freedoms
banner unfurled,
And the beacon-fire raised that gave light
'" '"e CIJARIES SPRAGITE.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-04
The Morning After.

The Morning After.
Oh, say can you see. by the dawns early
light,
Quite as well as you could early yesteF-
day morning?
Are your members all here? Is your hear
ing all right?
Are no plasters or stitches your features
adorningi
Did the rockets red flare and the plnwhee
fierce flare
Pass you happily by as they shot through
the air?
II so, thank your stars that once more you
have tricked the grave,
In the land OF the free and the home OF
the brave!
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-04

Private, boxes are TO be arranged at
the fight for the women. but Mrs.
Jeffries aud Mrs, johnson will not sit
in the same pew,
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-04

Hung juries, however, are not YER
diets of mot guilty"
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-04

Never mind, the moving picture man
will have the fight repeated for you in
mighty short order.