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- A A vt ST K 14 THE OMAHA E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. Suxpa B PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. ily Bee (without Bunday), One Yeor. Bee and Sunday, One Year.. trated Bee, One Vear.. . Bunday Bes, One Year.. Baturday Bee, One Year. jass Twentieth Century Farmer, One Year DELIVERED BY CARRIER fly Bee (without Sunday, per copy.... 3 aily Bee (without Bunday), per week. ..l aiiy Bes (ncluding Sunday), per week . .17c unday Biee: per copy.. . [ vening Bee (without Sunday). vening Bee (lucluding Sun ‘omplainis ‘of irregulari elivery lhoul{be addressed t= City Ciroulation De- partment. e OFFICES aha—The Bee Bullding, Bouth Omaha—City Wi Gunaing, Twen- ty-fifth and M Streets. Council Bluffs—10 Pearl Street. Shlcago—ioin Unity Bullding ow York—£328 Park Row Bullding. Washington—501 Fourteenth Street CORRESPONDENCE. 2 o Comtaunications relaging to news and edi- forial matter should be addressed: Omaha ee, Fditorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, expresa or postal order, Bayable to The Bee Publishing Company, nly 3-cent stamps lctPPlld in payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on maha or caster THE BEE tern exchanges, not accepted. PUBLISHING COMPA! T OF CIRCULATION Bing” Co being duly sworn, Ve that the abtusl number of full And complete coples of The Daily. Mornin Evening and Sunduy Bee printed during U month of May, 103, was as follows L2N.4L0 31,080 30,780 80,860 80,870 30,040 80,830 128,330 .30,830 80,790 CERPNERREREBEERS Total, cessesnsesess Less unsold and returned coples. Net total sales. v Net average salos. GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 3lst day of May, A. D. 1963 s, HUNGATE, (Beal.) Notary Public. D The anthracite coal barons seem to make hay whether the sun shines or not. To the army of youthrfi graduates: Tuke a brief vacation and then buckle down to work. Joseph Chamberlain is getting a whole lot of valuable free advertising out of it anyway. The American derby would be just as big an event in the sporting world it It went by an American nam>. em———— It really i8 not necessary to deny as a malicious fabrication the report that the sultan of Turkey is about to abdi- cate his throne. Steetsi— The ancestral founder of the dynasty of the new king of Servia way have been a swine breeder, but in this King "Peter has none the best of some of the other royal thrones. occupants of European Smseeeve— The new telephone company down at Lincoln gives it out that it will install a plant that will be a novelty in its way. If it supplies a service that will do away with the answer, “Line's busy,” it'will be a novelty ir.deed. e———— The adage about a prophet never being appreciated in his own country is again exemplified by the fact that the mourning over the late king and queen of Servia is Indulged in Russia, while the Servian people exhibit only signs of Joy. ———— The Iowa idea has prevailed for the readjusfment of rates for the fraternal order of Modern Woodmen. The Iowa idea in this instance, however, s some- thing distinetly different from the lowa idea promuignted in the last republican e platform. The physiclans ought to be a unit in favor of the proposed ordinance to pro- hibit the sale of dope drugs in Omaha except on a doctor's prescription. Such an ordinance might paturally be ex- pected to stiffen the demand for pre- seription papers, eEs———————— The sweet girl graduate who des- canted at our High school commence- ment on “Woman in History” did not have time to include the changes that will have to be made in the text books on account of the wily intrigues of Queen Draga of Servia. mTTEmm—m——— One of the veracious Washington cor- respondents has uneartbed a plot to drag Adlal Stevenson out as a candi- date for the presidential place on the democratic national ticket. Adlai will be only on the verge of 75 when the next president is nominated. His old age ought to command for him more veuneration and respect. —_— The principal object which the Keene faction seems to be trying to accomplish in its fight with the Harriman fnterests over control of the Southern Pacific is to divert to New Orleans trafic whieh now goes through Omaba over the Union Pacific. In a fight turning on this lssue Mr. Harrimen can count on the support of public sentiment in Ne- braska and all the other states traversed by the Union Pacifie, ==y In the face of a tremendous shrinkage o its packing industry and the genern! business depression in consequence of the recent floods, Kansas City makes a showing of nearly $2,000,000 increase in its bank elearings for the past week, ap compared with the aggregate of clear Ings twelve monils sge. In this rospect Kansas City reminds us of the cireulation of a lecal yellow journal that increased 2,000 during & menth in which it had lost more than 8,000 sub- | a: 10 TAX REFORM. By far the most important office to be filled by the people of every county in Nebraska at the next general election is the newly created position of county assessor. The success or failure of the movement for tax reformi will depend largely upon the selection of the men who are entrusted with the responsible work of revision of the tax lists of the seve:nl subdivisions—townships, pre- | ¢luets and echool districts--of the va- | vious counties The legiglature has very wisely limited | tae official tenure of the tax assessors to one term of four yenrs. The knowl edge that he cannot be his own suce vossor in the oftice will tend to stiffen the hackbone of the assessor to an im partial and fearless discharge of duty, however, dleagreeable it may be, al- ways providing that he is an honest |man. On the other hand, the one-term limitation’ may operate as an incentive for partiality and favoritism on the part of venal nssessors who have nothing more to expect, or hope for politically. The great body of Nebraska taxpayers are vitully concerned In the enforcement of the new revenue law in all its essential features. Its chief aim is to distribute the burden of taxation equally upon the owners of all taxable property in con- formity with the spirit and letter of the constitution. What is most essen- tial is uniformity and impartiality in the assessment of all classes of prop- erty, but un honest and efficient county assessors are chosen this fall the new revenne law will prove a dead let- ter. Unfortnnately the distribution of county offices as party spoils has ren- dered political cancuses and conventions reckless and indifferent as to fitness of candidates for positions that demand above all things moral courage and in- tegrity. Tn view of the fact thet po- Iltical nominating conventions have al- rendy been called and are to be held within the next sixty days, it is of the utmost Importance that special atten- tion be given to the nomination of suit- able men for the county assessorships, and nominating conventions should bear In mind that the individual interests of taxpaying voters will outweigh at the election the attachment to the party. PEONAGE IN ALABAMA. It is gratifying to know that the De- partment of Justice is determined to break up the system of peonage in Ala- bama, the recent exposure of which caused general astonishment that prac- tical slavery In its worst form exists in that state. Several weeks ago the fed- eral grand jury at Montgomery found an indictment against a white citizen, charging him with having sold a negro in a condition of peonage or Involuntary service. It appeared that the negro had borrowed a dollar from a white man, promising to pay it back the next day. Failing to do so he was arrested, con- victed and fined for obtaining money under false pretenses. The man of whom he borrowed thé money sold him for $25, the purchaser working him for a year and then selling him to another party, who was working him when the case was brought to the attention of the federal grand jury. Tt ix said that many more negroes are still in bondage in several of the coun- ties of Alabama. Under a law of that state the magistrates fine negroes, have someone pay their fine and work them, all the time keeping a guard over them during the day and locking them up at night. It is said they are sometimes brutally whipped, which is undoubtedly true. Following the disclosure secret service men were set to work Investi- gating and the assurance Is given that the federal authorities will spare no ef- fort to brenk up this unlawful and abominable system. A large number of cases are now under investigation and it 1s stated that in addition to the ar- rests already made it is expected that warrants will soon be issued for a still Inrger number. It appears that the sys- tem is not In operation to any consid- erable extent near the cities and large towns, but in some of the more sparsely settled sections it Is quite common. The efforts of the officials of the De- partment of Justice to destroy this sys- tem, which is a reproach to the coun- try, will have the earnest support of everybody capable of understanding its pernicious character. All who are par- ticipants In it should be punished to the ull extent of the law. In abuse and injustice toward its colored citizens Alabama bas an infamous distinction. NOT A PARTISAN MATTER. The Philadeiphia Ledger, an indepen- dent paper that is able to consider pub- | lie watters without the prejudice of the partisan, says “the efforts which some radieally partisan organs are making to smirch the national administration by holdiug it responsible for the postoffice | scandals should be condemned by the | country’s wise, just judgment.” So it |will be, there is every reason to be- |Hleve. Tt may be admitted that Tost- master General Payne has not at all | times bean as judiclous and discreet re- | garding the investigation as he should have been, but it is not astonishing that he should bave hesitated to give full | credence to some of the charges. It | vannot be shown, however, that he has ! put any obstacle in the way of the in- | quiry or has at any point in its pregress | falled to give necessary support to the officlals who are prosecuting it, 8¢ far a8 the national administration 18 concerned, there is nothing to show that the president has not from the out- wel taken a wost earnest interest in the ||n\-o.~<tlmuon. It was the understand- ing thut when it was instituted he gave ‘dlm-nnu- that it should be made thorough and on his return!trom his trip, after learning what had been (is- closed, his order was to go to the bot tom, regardless of whe might be hurt. Cortainly nothing more could be asked this order is being faithfully car out and will be to the end, for ' THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY should any official attempt to evade or disregard it he would undoubtedly Ye summarily dlsmissed. The partisan or- gans that are trying to smirch the na- tional administration in connection with this matter will exert no influence with falr-minded men. e FINANCING THE CITY DEBT. Proposals have been invited by City ‘Treasurer Hennings for the purchase of $484,000 of renewal bonds of the city of Omaha. bearing interest at 4 per cent semi-aunually, and payable at the ex- piration of thirty years. The proposed 1ssue of bonds has been authorized by vote of the city council, the proceeds thereof to take up outstanding bonds of an equal amount due during the pres- ont year, While the refunding of the municipal debt has bhecome imperative there is a grave question as to the advisability of issuing a thirty-year 4 per cent bond when honds payable in twenty or even ten years, are negotinble. The credit of the city of Omaha has bheen improv- ing from year to year and will con- tinue fo Improve in the coming years by renson of its increased growth In wenltl and population. Although the Interest rate has temporarily been ris- ing In the financial market within the post twelve months, the city will as. #«ume no risk in an issue of bonds that would mature in 1913 or 1923. No pre- cedent for an issue of thirty-year cily bonds exists prior to 1900, There I8 a very fair prospect that the state of Nebraska would ten years hence be willing to Invest its surplus permanent school funds in Omaha re- funding bonds at 8 per cent, or at the very highest at from 3% to 8% per cent. Within the past year several hundred thousand dollars of the permsnent state school fund have been invested at those figures, and the city's bonded debt could readily have been refunded at & per cent this year were it not for the fact that the constitution requires the permanent school fund to be in- vested in United States or state securi- tlesa. Within the next five years at the farthest we may look for amend- ments to the constitution that will valdate the investment of the perma- nent school fund in approved bonds of Nebraska municipalities, as well as In approved county bonds. From every point of view, therefore, the issue of thirty-year bonds would seem to be injudicious and undesirable at this time. In view of the fact that the bonds have not yet been negotiated, we would suggest that the resolution authorizing the issue of these bonds be so amended as to reduce the period of expiration from thirty to ten years, or to authorize bids for two series of bonds, payable in ten and twenty years. Incidentally, it would seem to us also advantageous to have the competitive fleld enlarged, so that parties who are disposed to bid for small blocks of bonds, say from $10,000 upwards, shall have an equal chance with those who are bldding for the whole Issue or the bulk of the proposed issue. INTERNATIONAL OBLIGATIONS. Not a great many people have an in- telligent understanding of international obligations. Comparatively few have a correct idea of what is meant by the comity of ngtions. This is shown In the appeals that are made to our gov- ernment, whenever anything occurs abroad to arouse popular indignation here, to formally protest and even to interpose with a view to preventing the recurrence of such an event, although it may not in the remotest degree affect any American intérest. There have been many Instances within the last twenty years of the popular misappre- hension in this respect and doubtless there will be more of them in the fu- ture, though wundoubtedly public en- lightenment respecting international obligations is growing. It should be perfectly obvious to everybody of ordinary intelligence that it is not the duty nor the right of one government to interfere in the Internal affairs of another. Every nation must be permitted to administer its own af- falrs without question from another na- tion, so long as the consequences of such administration do not menace the rights or interests of any other country. The United States, for example, would vigorously resent any attempt on the part of a Buropean government to call | our government to account for the lynching of negroes or for any other outrages in which only our own eiti- zene were concerned by protesting against such occurrences. We should tell any government doing this to mind its own business. Similarly a European government would be fully justified in resenting interference on our part in its internal affairs, so long as no inter- est of ours was involved. It is certainly desirable that this should be weore generally understood. that our people should have a clearer comprehension of international obliga tions and of that courtesy and consider- ation which is meant by the term com ity of nations. While those in officfal authority may reprobate as strongly as any other of our citizens outrages in | foreizn lands that arouse the indigna- tion of eivilized mankind, they are con- strained not to give official expression to their feeling when no Amerlean In- terest I1s affected. It is not to be doubted that President Roosevelt and Secrelnry Hay are in most hearty sym- pathy with popular feeling regarding the Kishineff atrocity, but they could not commit the government to f recog nition of this sentiment without en- dangering the friendly relations with Russia and at tbe same time placing the TUaited States In an unfavorable position among the nations. For opr own welfare and security it is necessary that the government shall pot under- take to interfere In the internal affairs of any eother nation, save where Amer- ican Interests or the rights of Ameri- cap citizens are directly concerned, and / even In such cases great care should be taken to respect every obligation. Noth ing could be more unfortunate for us than to be regarded as a people ever ready to meddie in the affairs of other peoples. So far as the expression of public opinion I8 concerned, that is a matter over which our government has no control. It is not less effective than a declaration of official opinion and it does not Involve responsibllity or im- peril friendly relations with other gov- ernments. KEEP EVERLASTIXGLY AT IT. All the schooling and education In the world will not make useful men and women out of our boys and girls unless | they have the get-up and grit in them individually to sail In energetically at each task and the perseverance to go through with it. Most of the fallures in life are due to the fact that people become too easlly discouraged and lack the self-reliance to use the well-worn phrase of President Roosevelt, “to keep everlastingly at 1t To put the same thought in another favorite expression of the president, “When you play, play hard! But when you work don't play.” One good purpose that all these an- nual commencement exercises serve {8 that it affords the opportunity to give a2 whole lot of advice ostensibly for the beuefit of the young men and young women emerging from thelr school days, but in reality more suited to thelr grown-up brothers and sisters who have heen out of school for years and need to be admonished periodically against falling into the rut of inactivity. No matter how Jong we have been engaged in the pursuit of worldly affairs, we are all at the commencement of the next task in front of us, and to tackle it sue- cessfully and win out with flying colors we need the same goad to spur us on as the youthful graduate with his freshly signed diploma in his hand. It is not for any of us, then, to say “That 1s good advice for the beginners, but we have gotten past that stage.” The same rules of conduct that are re- quired to start the beginners out rlght are just as necessary to keep them right all along the after-course. We must all “keep everlastingly at it" from com- mencement day till the very end. An Indignant protest should go up at once from every hamlet in the country agalnst the Iconoclastic decree of the superintendent of the New York, New Haven & Hartford rallroad putting an embargo upon rice throwing in the rail- road stations belonging to that corpora- tion. This ill-tempered railroad official must be some crusty old bachelor who has been thrown down as a discarded suitor on the matrimonial market and has no just appreciation of the beauti- ful custom of showering the departing bride and groom with rice—a custom handed down from generation to gener- ation, go thut no happy honeymoon can now be started right without the orien- tal breakfast food accompaniment. Un- less the obnoxious anti-rice throwing order Is rescinded, no self-respecting bridal couple can afford to patronize the road. The blacklist and the boy- cott are the proper weapons with which togretaliate and the persecuted wedding parties may safely count upon having public sentiment and sympathy on their side. The prevention of floods and cyclones e the subject of a prolific newspaper discussion just now with voluntesr con- tributors in every nook and corner, who have each evolved the real remedy. One of the most sensible suggestions s that made by Thomas E. Hill in a Dulnth paper, advising farmers in the prairie country to construct Iakes and ponds on thelr low lands to hold the wuflor where it falls, draining the higher laad into them, The excess preciplaation would then evaporate in warm days, coming buck as rain and dew where needed, and at the same time by keep- ing the atmosphere cool and dmwmp operate to prevent high winds and ey- ciomes. In Europe the lake or oonl is # regular adjunct of every farming community, serving many useful yur- poses. The American farmer migat do well to help himself and nis town neighbors in this wa, Why should the Central Labor union have an “official” paper when every labor organization has free access to all the dally papers for everything of legitimate news value or general public interest? In the recent strike period The Bee issued a special Invitation to the representatives of the Business Men's association and of the labor unions to state their case to the public through it as a medium and no official statement issued by either party to the contest failed to secure prompt publica- tion in this paper. An “official” labor organ has never been known to do the cause of labor any substantial good, but | on the contrary has more often brought it into disrepute. President Cleveland insists that there 18 not a political leader of auy promi nence endeavoring to advance any movement to nominate him in any state, so far as he is aware. This must | be quite & shake-down for the self-es- teem of some of the eminent democrats, to say nothing of several well known | democratic newspapers that have been laboring under the delusion that they were engineering the Cleveland boom. smrer——— Mewmbers of the English literature de- partment of the Omaha Woman's elub, in soclal session to pay tribute to a former leader of the department about to remove from the city, presented the guest of honer with a loving eup, “from which each drank to a sentiment from gome literary author studied during the wiater,” What did they drink? The apprehensive men would like to know. | e There ought to be no difficulty In keeping a full quota of cadets at the Annapolls naval academy. JUNE 21 190 anthorities wounld only let the people of the various districts know where and when the vacancies oceur the ambitious youth eager for a chance to sall the ocean on Uncle Sam's warships would then take care that the congressman does not neglect his duty to designate new candidates for the vacant cadet- ships. It is sald that St. Anthony spent three years of his life in trying to evolve the problem, how many angels can stand on the point of a needle. So we need not be surprised if it takes three times three years for the embat- tled ecclesiastics who are engaged in a wordy war over the divergence between the Anglican and Roman Catholie churches in the World-Herald to reach a conclusion that does not conclude. Goddess Defying Lightning. Chicago News. It has just been discovered by workmen that the goddess of liberty on the capitol at Washington has been struck by light- ning 100 times In the last year, but it will be observed that it never feazed her. Excellence in Most Things. Baltimore American Statistics just compliled prove that the United States is not only the world's great- est granary, but the world's largest fac- tory. In fact, there are but few things in which this country does not far surpass all of its rivals. Punfshing Disobedience. Chicago News, Kerosene has gone up a cent a gallon in South Dakota because Mr. Rockefeller does not Iike a law recently passed by the legls- lature of that state. He finds it necessary to be strict with legislatures to make them know thelr place. Great Waste of Labor. Chicago Chronlele, The job of selecting a democratic candi- date for the presidency continues to absorb the attention of numerous well-meaning journalists and their labors illustrate the truth of the political maxim that the easlest men to nominate are the hardest to elect. One of the Roosevelt Kind. Springfleld Republican The gift to President Roosevelt by the king of Italy represents a nice appreciation by that monarch of Mr. Roosevelt's favor- ite literature. The original war reports of Prince Eugene will delight the president. That great warrior of Marlborough's time lived in a strenuous, fighting age. A Throne with a Past. Indianapolis Journal. The new king of Servia will not have a very safe job. The late King Alexander's grand uncle, King Michael, was assassi- nated June 10, 1888. His successor, King Milan, abdicated in favor of his son March 6, 188, and now Alexander has gone the way of his grand uncle. They are a bad lot. Tribute to Jewish Character. Indlanapolis Journal. No public man has ever shown better knowledge of Jewish character or pald a higher tribute to their learning, patriotism SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT. Washington Post: An Indlana minister Is attracting some notorlety by preaching sermons in his sleep, thus reversing the ol custom of preaching while his congre- gation slept Kansas City Star: One of the most touching Incidents of the flood was the case of the Armourdale clergyman whose barrel of old sermons was destroyed. A great wave of sympathy will go out to this unfortunate man from Methodist preach- ers all over the country. Chilcago Chronicle: Clerical gentlemen who assume to sit In judgment upon other clergymen, not even of their own denomina- tion, need to be reminded that there is an eleventh commandment, which is of great value even though it was not graven on the Sinaitic tablets. It reads: “‘Mind your own business." Indianapolls Journal: The last of the Spanish Catholic dignitaries of the Philip- pines has resigned and will soon leave the lslands. The vatican has Americanized the Roman Cathollc clergy of the islands very Qquletly, but none the less thoroughly. And it is Impossible to overestimate the effect of this change on the problem of govern- ing the archipelago. Philadelphia Ledger: Rev. P. W. Bilder- back, pastor of the Fourth Methodist Epls- copal church, has introduced a new feature for his Sunday evening service, that of a cholr of thirty young men whistlers. The cholr made its first appearance the other night before a large congregation whistled several selections. Some of the boys in the gallery joined in the chorus. Springfield Republican: They have been having a long-continued drouth In New England, which led Rev. Dr. Withrow of Boston to preach last Sunday on the ques- JMon of whether or not it 18 right to pray for rain. He argued that It is right to ask the Lord to save perishing crops, as- suring his hearers that if they did their part the Lord would do His. As heavy rains have fallen in and about Boston since Bunday, the assumption is that the reverend doctor's congregation went im- mediately home and began praying. roveabottahaemdunie b PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE, During the great strike of hotel walters In Chicago some of the milllonaire guests and good citizenship than President Roose- velt did in his remarks at the White House on Monday. His speech will constitute a permanent and valuable addition to the lit- erature on the subject. Boom im Higl Education. New York Tribune. How many clolstered halls of institutions of learning In the United States are now rising or soon to be bullt! To use a-com- mon word, the universities and colleges, the schoals of every kind, and the librarles, are now flourishing all over this republic with a “boom” never surpassed or even ap- proached. Enormous business bulldings of all classes are seen In our centers of trade, but culture and the highest forms of edu- cational development are not neglected. s ——— Forecast on the Crop. 8t. Louls Globe-Democrat. A conservative estimate is that the wheat crop of 1908 will reach a total of 740,000,000 bushels, as compared with 70,000,000 in 1802, 748,000,000 in 1901 and 522,000,000 in 1900. This {s a very happy condition and will please the country. With such a heavy wheat yleld as 740,000,000 bushels the country would be nesured of cheap bread, but, of course, a great deal will depend on the corn crop. This is two or three months too early to figure on the corn yleld with any confl- dence. The latest indications in the corn- growing region, however, were favorable, despite the cold weather and the ravages of the floods e A DIVORCE CRUSADE. New Movement by OClergymen and Laymei of Varlous Churches. ‘Boston Advertiser. Despairing of securing uniformity amons the divorce statutes of a state and of secur- ing @ national law, eminent clergymen and laymen have formed an organization among themselves to see what can be accomplished by thelr own personal efforts to check the divorce evil. They are not Indulging in oratorical fiights In rallment against divorce, nor in bitter and vituperative de- nunelation through press and pulpit; they are striving by their own personal Influence {0 secure an agreement among the churches not to remarry any person who may have en divorced Do (he movement are included some Meth- odists, nearly all Catholics, a few Presb terfans, high church Episcopalians, stray Universalists and Christian Sclentists. The leaders in this movement believe that as long as marriages within the church pre- dominate £0 heavily over marriages with- out, that the church may have some in- fluence to repress the freedom with which divorces are now secured, and with which the divorcees remarry. Rev. Dr. Pardow, a Jesult, who is directing the church union against divorce, presents a startling array of statistics, showing the great extent to which the divorce curse fs ramifying throughout the country. It is estimated that there are 1,500,000 children in this country today who are the oftspring of divoreed parents. And the ef- fect of broken homes, disregard of parental authority, and more or prevalent misery must have a debasing effect upon the minds of children thus aficted. During the last twenty years there have been 32,- 76 dlyorces. During the same period Furope, with its population of 30,000,000, had only 214,341 divorces. The Uaited States, with & population one-fifth that of the pop- ulation of Burope, has had 1 per cent more divorces. This proves that the divorce evil is not characteristic of the times, but more of a natiopal discase. Dr. Pardow believes that the church can partly prevent remarriage of divorced peo- ple, but he finds that the great power of coming to the rescue of the country In the prevention of divorce has been removed from the church to soclety. The religlous penalty of the church does not seem to act as a deterrent toward checking the evi] In the slightest degree. The only hope lies in soeis] ostracism of the guilty. This course in arbitrary, but it is the gourt of last re- sort, and clergymen and laymen are united that it must be invoked. 1f it ever comes ahout soctety must be very different from what it is now. “The best soclety” is i the | made up malnly of divorcees. walted on themselves. They had not for. gotten the training of their early life, Oscar 8. Straus, president of the Civie Federation, has been chosen as the third arbitrator in the arbitration of a San Fran. clsco rallroad difficulty involving $1,000,000 of wages, y Don't pay $3,00,000 a pound for radium when you can get a good article of po- lonfum that will answer household and kitchen purposes just as well for only 2,500,000 a pound. & Iyn. It is whether women barbers shall be admitted into the Master Barbers' assn- clation. Tt {s thought that it they do gain entrance it will be by a very close shave, The Rock Island raflrond s probably the and | A unique question hae arisen in Brook- | England, 1 never smoke cigars. you smoke?’ was the surprised “Bacon,” was the prompt reply Those who accompanied the libert | from Philadelphia to Boston say that was less demonstratign over the pre relic in New York than in any other along the route. As one of the part ft: “The bell passed through the metr,; olis like a consignment of structural | Requests were recelved from nearly eve town and city between Boston and F adelphia to allow the people to aea { relic, but no such request came from N York. 8o It happened that while baseball dervishes gathered at the hull boards no single person in New Y honor to the symbol of American dom." DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES, Employer—A raise? What have oy heard that warrants your belief that ws could pay you more wiges? Clerk—I—er—heard Kdith say night, sir.—~Indianapolis News. ol First Citizen—What do you think of thig 1dea of an army of the unemployed marc ing to Washington? Lcnnd Citizgen—That' every nothing new. It happens four years.—New York Weekly. “8o you quarreled with your wife?" “No, suh; she quarreled wid me." “Don't you ever answer back?" “Jedge,” replied the witness, “I'm 40 years old!"~Atlanta Constitution. Tess—Yes, my engagement ring Is lovely but the jeweler's name isn't on the box it came in, Jess—That doesn’t genuine diamond or- Ters—Of course not, but if I don't know the jeweler's name how am I to find out how much George paid for it?—Philadeiphiy Press, nify that it fsn't a “They say that men don't propose. 1 wonder why 1t is?" “Perhaps it's because woman Is o active these days that man gets out of breath trying to keep up with her.”—Chicago Post “Poor man," she sald, stooping over the vietim who had just been dragged out from under her automobile, “have you a wife” 'No,"” he groaned, "‘this I8 the worst thing that ever happened to me."—Chicago Re ord-Herald. Bridesmald—You poor, frightened darling You looked scared to death at the altar Bride—Yes, George trembled so I was dreadfully afrald he'd lose courage anl run away.—New York Weekly. Mrs. Meadows—Yaas, Hiram got rid o lhfi:( brindle cow thet useter steal her own milk. Mrs. Korntop—Dew tell? I s'pose he tuck most anything he could get for her. rs. Meadows—He jest got double w'at he paid fur her; sold her to thet new man from the city ez a “self-miiker."—Phila- delphia Press. THE WANDERERS. W. D. Nesbit in Chicago Tribune, “'As a bird that wandereth from her nest, 80 s a man that wandereth from his place.” —Proverbs, vii§. What i the call the wild birds hear, Too subtle for our ken? What hail comes to the fallow deer From_ distant brake or glen? Is it the same that soft and clear Goes out to wandering men? What is the call that minds the bird only road In the country which amploys a woman as a bess of a section gang. This road finde that she can make the men work hard. It would be interesting to know how much her hushand welghs. The new king of Bervia says he is deeply touched by his elevation to the throne, and as he demands an increase of the “civi list,”” which means salaries and perquisites, it looks as if the Servian treasury was about to be deeply touched, too. The chambermald who was discharged from an Indfanapolis hotel for refusing to make Booker T. Washington's bed has lost her suit against the hotel company for damages. She will have to be satisfied with her collection of loving cups. In his early days Sir Thomas Lipton de- nled himself almost every pleasure except that of amassing a fortune. Calling one day on a consul on business matters he was offered a cigar by the officlal. “No, thank you," said §ir Thomas (then Mr.) Lipton. “Although I am the bhiggest smoker in Of its lonk vacant nest? Is it upon the echoes blurred By vagrant brecze caressed, Just as the sighing, volceless word Which tells men “Home is best? What puts the mugic in the call Which comes to them afar— By_mountainside or eity wall, Neath pine or deodar— The music that bids one and all Turn where the home things are? None knows the mystic call which comes To man and bird and beast, As_wakening as throbbing drums When warfare long has ceased— Insistently it sings and thrums To great ones and the least. It_may be but a rustiing tree Which sings it with its leaves, It ay bo that the Ing sea The summons soflly weaves; But what and howsoe'er it bé The call each one recelves. Tt is the melody divine— The musie of the spheres That clear in cadence, faint and fine, Comes sweetly to our ears— A uong of infinite desten Through God's unnumbered years. KUHN & CO. (INCORPORATED! WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRUGGISTS. Manufacturing Chemists. 15th and Douglas Sts. OMAHA, Dear Sirs: $2,000. am informed of the I believe in pointers. me a pointer twenty years ago by inducing me to take a policy on my life. Neb., June 16th, 1903. Equitable Life Assurance Society, Omaha, Nebraska. Your Agent gave 1t was for By your statement just received I results of this policy, which are eminently satisfactory. 1st. I can withdraw a dividend to ex- ceed 50 per cent of the premiums paid in. 2nd. paid in. 3rd. 4th. original premium. of Fare.” am able to. | regret t I can draw more cash than I have I can take a paid-up policy for more than double the cash paid in. I can receive, my life, a sum nearly one-third larger than my as an annuity during I have had for twenty years the protection of $2,000—which has cost me not one cent- and have now set before me the above “RBill It speaks more eloquently than I hat it had not been for $10,000 in place of $2,000. Yours truly, NORMAN A. KUHN. Equitable Life Assurance Society “Strongest in the World” H. D. NEELY, Manager for Nebraska Merchants National Bank Bldg.,, Omaha. 1

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