Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 23, 1903, Page 6

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Notary Publ — PARTY LEAVING THE CITY, Parties leaving the city at ny time may have The Bee sent to them regularly by otifying The Bee Basines Me ’a person or by The address will be chenged as often as desired. mail, Austen Chamberlain, father, wears a monocle. the son of his The man who travels the straight road In politics cannot be lost. This is an off year for politics, but it 18 not a year for yellow-dog candidates, The cold wave passed over Baltimore Monday when a receivership for the Bal timore Ice trust was applied for. Perhaps that libel suit won by John ‘Wanamaker was after all only an in- genlous free advertising scheme, e r—— P “Ireland for the Irish” is to be the ‘battlecry of the Irish nationalist party in the coming parliamentary campaign. The emblem of Nebraska's goldenrod will adorn the crown of King Ak-Sar-Ben fo the shape of a golden-hued ear of corn. Booker T. Washington will leave New York for a trip to Europe next Saturday, but the negro problem will remain with us. Every week or two Senator Hanna as- sures the country that he will not resign from the national committee. Who ex- pected him to resign? Sm——— Judge Sullivan's bible in the schools decision has been debated in the public grena long enough, and, so far as The Bee is concerned, the debate is closed. —— Marcon! promises an early start in the | commercial use of the wireless tele- graph. Those attractive promises have been on the market for more than a year. All suspicious characters arve advised to keep away from Chicago during the centennial celebration. People who are Bot suspected of having characters will not be molested. e The Tobacco trust has rgeelved an- other respite from having its books sub- Jected to the searchlight of publicity NVery few trusts would want to trust any outslder with an exawination of their books. | A political turncoat 1s not necessarily B nonpartisan. A man who has the pourage of his convictions is more of a ponpartisan than a man who is willing to barter his convictions for the sake of & political job. —— Before the school board submits a proposition for that $200,000 wing to the | High school it had better make provi- slon for several new schoo! bulldings to sccommodate, children In grades below ghe High school It takes a good deal of sublime assur Bnce for the president of the Board of Education to extend congratulations to the board for being out of politics, when every man, woman and child in Omaha knows that the board and its oflicers are | in politics with both feet and up to their necks. —_— The fast and loose wethods that have prevalled in the managewent of county . affairs for years cannot be allowed to coutinue much longer. Star-chawber pesslons and secret deals with contract- j dispateh of a few days age { the me | but there TRE SHADUW OF WAR While war between Tt a key 1 Bul vident must he A Beriln stated that Ings of the rovereigns soon to take place wese expected to clear up the obscurities of the situation and it was hought that events would remain quiet wntil after the 26th of the present month, unless Bulgaria should refuse to walt. Evenis since the date of that dis patch have been anything but quiet, the latest advices reporting operations on the Bulgarian frontier of a nature de- cidedly menacing to the continuance of peace. There has been a skirmish be- tween Turkish and Bulgarian troops and forces of each are located at a short die- tance from one another, #o that a serious colliglon is probable at any time. For this situation Turkey seems to be mainly responsible. Indeed as a matter of fact informal warfare has been going on between the two countries for months and Turkey has refrained from declar- ing war against Bulgaria through fear of foreign intervention. Whether or not ghe is any longer influenced by such fear remalns to be seen, but current events appear to indicate that she is not and that an invasion of Bulgarian terri- tory may take place whenever Turkey has her military forces in readiness for such a movement. It I8 of course possi- ble that the concentration of Turkish troops near the Bulgarian frontler may be merely precautionary and it is easy to understand that under the circum- stances such precaution would be taken, reason to believe that Tur- key would welcome a conflict with Bul- garin, if assured there would be no in- tervention, and would take every oppor- tunity to provoke it. Bulgaria sympa- thizes with the Macedonians in their re- volt against Turkish tyranny and op- pression and undoubtedly has given them aid. There is a racial as well as a religious interest between them. Thus Turkey is equally bitter toward both, but the position of Bulgaria as an inde- pendent principality safeguards her against Turkish attack so long as Bul- garia maintains a position of neutrality. How long ghe will continue to do this, in the face of the menacing conditions confronting her, is the question. Bul- garia is not well prepared for war with such a power as Turkey. She lacks nu- mercial strength, organization and both the money and munitions of war neces- sary to cope with Turkey, which has an army of nearlyga million men that has been well organized by German military experts. The Bulgarians are good fight- ers, but in a conflict with Turkey they could only carry on a guerrilla warfare, which while giving the enemy a lot of trouble would also make much for them- selves. Meanwhile, if the powers are doing anything to avert war they are earrying on their diplomatic operations with great secrecy and as indicated in the Berlin dispatch already referred to are watching each other with more than ordinary solicitude. L may be averted "~ in order 0y t prompt to Jdo &0 by the powers, fon A GENUINE STUNNER. The following extract from the annual report of President Theodore Johnson to the Board of Education is a genuine stunner: ‘The present board should be congratulated upon having entirely eliminated partisan politics from the board. There has been no attempts whatever on the part of the republican majority of the board to side- track the fusion minority. The beneficial results of this policy have been apparent in the practical unanimity with which the present board has attended strictly to the business of the board and has not trans- formed it into a machine to further the political aspirations of anyone either in- side or outside of the board. It 18 to be hoped that this state of affairs so auspi- clously begun will continue to exist. 8o the school board has gone out of polities, has it? How was it last spring when the school board converted itself into a political machine to promote the candidacy of the populist and nouparti- san independent candidate for mayor? People with a very short memory have scarcely forgotten that less than five months ago Superintendent Pearse spent the greater part of his time, night and day, at the Benson headquarters, and the superintendent of bufldings drove from school house to school house to line up the janitors with the school board machine, while at the same time schoolma’ams were dragooned into the municipal political crusade, High school boys were conscripted to march from ward to ward and entertain political meetings with campaign songs, and even boys in the lower grades were working up recruits among their male relatives, If this is not political machine work we would like to know what machine work s, But the political activity of the school board did not stop with the spring elec- tion crusade. At this very moment the dominant majority of the Board of Edu- cation and the officers, who are paid for educational work, are devoting most of their time to the boosting of candidates who have been closely identified with the present school board combine. It is a matter of notorlety that the nonparti- san school board—republicans, demo- crats and populists—are exerting' thelr influence in favor of former member Robert Smith, who stood in with the Pearse contingent and voted him an ex- tension of three years with a $3,600 sal- | ary notwithstanding the fact that d very | large percentage of the patrons of the public schools were opposed to his re- | tention because they did not want a {punn«iuu in the place that requires an educator. For the same reason Mr. Pearse and the ring members of the board are phug- ging hard for Mr, Stubbendorf, who against his honest convietions was roped into the support of Pearse, It was by the resolution futroduced by Mn Stub- bendorf and passed by the bostd that Secretary Burgess Lad Lis salary raised ors are responsible fox sjobbery and wastefulness awounting to thousands upon thousands of dollars a year. Pub- e busivess should be conducted in the open and mot in the dark. from $1.500 to $2,100 a year, although he { would have been only too glad to held the position he now bas for $1,500, or about $500 a year more than he had ever earned before be became secretary. In| Wiley proposes a weries of experiments to | sion partisan bosses. the face of Mr. Johnson's assurance that | the board i strictly out of politics, Mr. Burgess is openly handling the Stubben- dorf campaign. Can it be possible that Pearse and Burgess have pulled the wool over Mr. Johnson's cyes? Can it | be poseible that Mr. Johnson does not | know that the same machinery em- ployed last spring to coerce and line up the school board employes has been sct in motion within the past thirty days? DO NOT WANT RECIPROCITY. A very significant declaration was manufacturers by the vice president of their association. He said that while American capital was welcome to the Dominion American goods were not wanted, and hg urged an increase in the Canadian tariff in order to keep out the manufactures of this country. He wanted the tariff high enough against the rest of the world to allow of a pref- erence. to England and the tariff com- mittee of the convention protested againgt granting any measure of reci- procity with the United States and fa- vored a fiscal preference to England, provided Canadian interests are guarded. This corroborates what we said a few days ago, that the manufacturers of Canada are opposed to any trade rela- tlong with the United States which might In the remotest degree be Inimical to their interests and they exert a greater influence than any other interest in the Dominion. The government of that country does not and will not pro- pose anything in the way of reciprocity which 1s disapproved by the manufac- turers. It contemplates no change or de- parture that would reduce the protection now accorded to Canadian manufactur- ers and the talk of closer trade relations refers only to the agricultural producers, who are seeking to get a larger share of thig great market for their products. Thie i& the situation as clearly and unmistakably presented by representa- tives of the manufacturing interest. There is no indication on the part of that interest to make any concession favor- able to American manufacturers, though it I8 quite willing to increase the Cana- dian tarifft so as to allow of a prefer- ence—now 33% per cent—to the manu- facturers of England—presumably preference so large as to enable the Eng- lish manufacturers to have a decided ad- vantage over those of this country in the Canadian market. While it is not at all probable that any such policy will be adopted, yet the fact that it is favored by a most influential element in the Do- minion, an element which is unquall- fiedly cpposed to reciprocity with the United States, ought to receive the seri- ous consideration of those here who are urging closer trade relations hetween the two countries. -It seems to us that such a declaration as that of the Cana- dian manufacturers must be regarded as pretty conclusive evidence that at pres- ent there is very little chance of bring- ing about closer trade relations between Canada and the United States, unless this country is willing to make conces- sions favorable to the agricultural pro- ducers of the Dominion withont obtain- Ing an equitable return in the way of concessions to American manufacturers. The Board of Education contemplates another $200,000 bond issue-for the ad- dition of a wing to the High school, which means that the board eventually expects to make a call for $200,000 for a second wing and $200,000 more for the third and last wing. That will make the High school building cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $800,000 when com- pleted. At 4 per cent that would rep- resent an annual interest charge of $32,- 000, or very nearly $1,000 a week for every week of active schooling. The paramount issue of equitable tax- ation has penetrated to the national cap- ital notwithstanding the fact that Uncle Sam pays one-half of the municipal taxes in the city of Washington. Com- menting on this subject the Washington Post pointedly declares: “The enforce- ment of the tax laws against large and small property owners alike is one of the reforms most imperatively demanded by the small home owners and the la- boring classes of the country.” { The Clairvoyants’ trust is the latest of that trust, however, 1s not to fix prices, but to organize a gold brick com- bine that will supply futures in stocks at standard prices to credulous stock gamblers. The United States Master Brewers' association, now in session in Philadel- | phia, is wrestling with the problem how to make American brewed Pilsner beer more palatable and saleable than Pilsner beer brewed in Bobemia. | The Thurston county Indian land ring is now willing to let their side partner, Superintendent Agent Mathewson, go to | some other reservation. But Mathewson will have to go whether the Indian land ring is willing or not. Disady ge of Competition. Chicago Tribune. Uncle S8am’s income Is over $2,000,000 & day, which is somewhat larger than Mr. | Rockefeller's income. But Mr. Rockefel- ler's percentage of profit is greater than Uncle Sam's. He has less competition Increasing Public Galety, St. Louls Globe-Democrat. Carmack, Vardman and the rest of the south's freak statesmen are contributing a little to the galeties of politic cidentally they are putting clubs into the hands of the republicans of ‘the country with which to wallop the democratic party. Nothing in Na Too Big. Brooklyn Eagle. An American syndicate is buying Popo- catapetl, and on the Installment plan at that, in order to market the sulphur de- posits. This commercialization of one of the world's greatest volcances suggests that nothing in nature is t0o big to escape our propensity for peddling. Unuecessary Esperiments, Pittsburg Dispatch latest announcement The is that Dr. made at the annual meeting of Canadian | fad for Greater New York. The object | e e bt Sl . 3 5 B show the effect of salicylic acld when mixed with liquors. As a large number of people have painstakingly demonstrated the effect of lquors, whether mixed with the salicylic flavor or not, the further ex- periment seems unnecessar Baltimors American What frrigation can do for western lands is nothing to what a good press agent with a camera can do for them In the eyes of those who have never been farther west than Ohio. And what such men can do for the west is nothing compared with what he can do the east for. Saved In Time, Kansas City Star The Armourdale police have taken in cus- tody a Nebraska man who 80ld his farm for $38%, with the Intention of giving the money to the flood sufterers. He had ex- pended $300 in this way when he was dis- covered. It is mighty lucky for him and his triends that he struck Armourdale instead of ‘vopeka. Past Master in the Art. Boston Transcript. Really it is easfer to discover an honest politician In Pennsylvania than to discern the truth in the Balkan countries. As they now ay In the Levant, it takes two Alban- fans to outlle a Turk, two Turks to outlie a Greek, two Greeks to outlie an Armenian, and two Armenlans to outlle a German newspaper correspondent. Bogota's Game of Bl New York World. 1t 1s asserted that Colombia is ready to ratify the Panama canal treaty as soon /s it can scare the French company into paying $,000,000 of the $40,000,000 to be re- celved from the United States. The late General Schenck ought to have been sent to Bogota instead of to London. He would have enjoyed life among a people capable of putting up such a magnificent game of polufr. AUTOMATIC MURDER. Strenunous Work of “Devil Wi in Fattening Cemeteries. New York Tribune. An automobile on a French highw: got out of order. It dashed into a ditch. One man was killed, another was serfously injured and two more were put into im- minent perfl of death. It was “running at a high rate of speed.” An automobile on an American race course burst a tire. It jumped the track and killed one man and serlously injured others, It was “trying to break the record.” These were items of one day's news and thero were others like them the same day. There are some such almost every day in these strenuous, record-breaking times. “On with the dance! Iet joy be uncon- fined!” The oestrus goading of our twen- tleth century “ctvilisation” (spare the mark!) makes needful frequent sacrifices. The blood of the martyrs is the lubricating oll of the Scarlet Scorchers. Hoopla! Get out of the road, you old peoples! Yet the Blessed Serosch, which seven times each night flleth around the earth in guardian watchfulness, whispers a promise that one day again men shall realize that there {s something better than mere speed madness; that it profits a man little to break the record and at the same time to break his own neck; and that the furlous running of steam engines on common high- ways fis potential murder, and mile-a- minute running of machines on race tracks is potential suicide, comparable in viclous and useless folly with attempts to shoot Niagara, and to see how much prussic acld or paris green the stomach will stand without fatal results. Perhaps, too, some day, some day of days, ROUND AROUT NEW YORK. Ripples om the Current of Life in the Metropolis, Spencer Thorne in Harper's Weekly seeks to refute the prevalling opinion that the cost of living In New York City is higher than elsewhers In America. To show that the opinfon is erroneous he cltes his own experience in different cities of the east ¥ o kept house in the suburbs of Bos- * he says, “doing most of my market- ing in the ‘Hub,' and in a Maine village, and 1 have found that a family of moderate means, say with an Income of from $1,600 to $3,000 a year, can live better and cheaper In New York than in elther of the above mentioned places. “Last fall, while in a Massachusetts clity of nearly 100,000 people, 1 compared the prices of meat and poultry which a thrifty housewife pald with those which 1 pald In New York, and found a difference of 5 per cent and even more. I never pald more than 123 cents for fowl, while she paid 18 cents, 1 have bought roasting chickens, so- called, for the same price, while the Mas- sachusetts housewlfe pald 22 cents. She paid 18 cents for a leg of mutton, and 1 never pald over 1214 cents, usually 10 cents, we shall become sufficlently enlightened to enforce righteou: laws against murder and sulcide, even though such deeds be at- tempted with )undred-horse power im- ported Magenta Moguls. NONPARTISAN GROTESQUERY. Fusion Hosses Condemned by Their Own Methods. Lincoln Star. There is a way in which a so-called “non- partisan” movement might have become worthy of attention in Nebraska this year. It there had been an honest hair iIn the head of the movement of the fusion bosses— if, for example, a considerable number of democrats and populists had showed some sincerity in nonpartisanship by declaring for Judge Barnes—then there might have been no small co-operation of Nebraska republicans along nonpartisan lines. Oh, no—no genuine nonpartisanship would be tolerated by the fusionists. By no strategem or persuasfon could they be tempted Into nonpartisan action. That is the very thing that they early took special and successful pains to forestall and pre- vent. The fusion party fs the minority party in Nebraska, but its bosses, as far back as early spring and even in the winter, were conspiring to retain a fusion partisan ma- jority of the supreme court—to hold two out of the three judges on that bench. The preposterous feature of this partisan plot is that it 1s put forward in the fals name of ‘‘nonpartisanship.” The fusion conventions met as partisan conventions; as fusion partisans they nom- inated a fusion partisan for supreme judge as partisans they are supporting thelr regular partisan candidate, nominated by a partisan convention, regularly called by the proper partisan authority for an ex- clusively partisan purpose. And now the republican electors of Nebraska are asked to support this fusion partisan ticket and plot on ‘“nonpartisan” grounds! Which shall we marvel at the more—the folly or the gall of such a flasco? Do men gather grapes from thistles? Well, then, do we get “nonpartisanship” out of fusion partisanship—and the coarsest kind of partisanship at that? Go to. Whenever. the fusion partisans in Ne- braska experience a single honest fmpulse toward a nonpartisan supreme court they well know precisely how to broach it and how to put the responsibility of refusal upon the republican party. We have in this state the majority vepublican party and the minority fusion party; the latter being made up, as betwoen the democrats and the populists, nobody can more than vaguely guess how. But whenever a non- partisan bench Is honestly desired, the fusion minority knows well that it should begin in good time, Indicating through proper authority its desire to the republi- can mafority, and should sgree with the latter on & method of nonpartisan nomina- tion and election. The way Is as plain as the noonday sun, Fvery Intelligent man in Nebraska knows it The fusion oosses themselves know It perfectly, and in this camplagn took early and perfect pains to prevent nonpartisan nomination and election. As the state knows, they first made sure of & partisan tusion ticket for supreme judge, and then, in every judicial district which they as partisans can or hope to control, they made fusion partisan tickets for district judges. Then In some districts, in which fusion partisan district judse tickets were hope- less, they omitted fusion nominatiens therefor, in order to further the trick of “nonpartisan’” trades for the fusion par- tisan supreme judge Look this up one side and down the other, and then say whether in Nebraska there ever was a moie grotesque example of partisan political crookedness than this pretended ‘“nonpartissn” trick of the fu. often 9, and on one occasion 7. Rump steak cost her 28 cents; there is no such cut here, but sirloin and porterhouse are 18 and 20 cents respectively. She also pald more for eggs, hutter and mliik, and much more for oranges, lemone, bananas and similar fruit. And this was a city within an hour's ride from Boston. “There are thousands of street hucksters in New York who sell all kinds of berries, fruits and vegetables. They buy when the supply exceeds the regular demand, and their wares are as good as those purchased at stores or ‘Ginny stands,’ and are much lower In price. In season I have bought excellent strawberries and blackberries from hucksters at 6 cents a box, though this was an unusually low price. The past summer they sold watermelons as low as 15 cents each, and cantaloupes, when they were plenty, for 2 cents.” It {s a matter of wonder to most people how even such a big clty as New York can support so many fortune tellers or clairvoyants, as they prefer to be called The impression seems to be that these curious fish subsist entirely on the credul- ity of love-lorn women who try to “get a line” on prospective husbards. As a mat- ter of fact the dollar fees they get from this source are the smallest part of thelr incomes. Many of them are regularly re- tained by promoters of shady enterprises who seek to sell thelr worthless stocks. The mode of operation is very simple. The clairvoyant takes the names and addresses of persons who have ‘“financlal seance after having told them that they were | destined to make a great fortune in a cer- tain line of speculation. A few days after the seance the victim recelves a circular or personal letter calling attention to an opportunity for investment which exactly fits the prophecy of the seer. Bhe (for the victim is usually a woman) never thinks of connecting the clairvoyant with the stock broker, and she buys on the mysterious “hunch" she recelves. The broker giv the clairvoyant a pretty good percentage of the profits. It may be noticed that while most clairvoyants advertise revela- tions of the future in matters of love, they usually add that advice on Investments is thelr speclalty. Another fat source of in- come accrues from recommending certain doctors or tradesmen of their credulous “clients.” Additional lght—if additional light were needed--was cast upon the diminutiveness of the average Harlem flat during the progress of a police court case the other day. : A young married woman, rather pretty, was arrested for annoying the people liv- ing In the Harlem flat beneath her own fiat. It seems that the young married woman had dellberately allowed the water in her bath tub to overflow. The water percolated through the floor and partly ruined the plano In the flat below, much wet plaster having fallen on the instru- ment. The proprietor of the flat building preferred the additional complaint against the pretty young married woman of wan- tonly destroying property. The latter, in her defense, admitted that she ha permitted the water in her bath tub to overflow, but she sald she had been rendered almost insane by the constant reiteration of “Hlawatha” and “Mr. Doo- ley” by the plano thumpers in the flat be- low. Bach member of the famlily in the flat below, the young woman declared, took a crack at “Hiawatha' during all of the waking and most of the sleeping hours of the twenty-four, and, between them, she said, “Hlawatha” was never allowed to rest from one day's end to the other. So, after asking the folks down below to cut out “Hiawatha” during at least a few hours of the da the young married woman had alowed the water in her bath tub to overflow. She admitted iIt, but her nerves were in that state, etc, ete. “But I don't exactly understand this sald the magistrate to the pretty prisoner. You are living, you say, In the flat di- rectly over this complainant. The arrange- ment of the flat must, therefore, I take it, be the same. How, then, could the over- flowed water from the bath room bath tub have caused the plaster to fall in the flat below and damage the plano?" 'Oh, we keep the plano in the bath room, your honor,” put in the complainant. “It's the only place where there's room for it.”" The magistrate grinned ‘Then he re- marked that the perpetual pounding of “Hiawatha" constituted quite a lot of prov- ocation on the part of the young woman. He turned the young woman loose upon the promise of her husband to pay for the damage caused by the overflowed water. “And I'would advise you,” playfully re-| marked the magistrate to the complainant, | “to abondon ‘Hlawatha' as an incessant planoforte performance. Why not try a little Tchalkowsky “Oh, we don't play them rag-time tunes, your honor hastily replied the complain- ant, and then the magistrate gasped and took up the next case An exciting municipal campaign Is indi- cated In New York, and already transpar- encles are appearing on the streets. The Citizens’ union will extensively use this method In Aghting Tammany. The slides | now seen set forth various good works ac- complished by the Low administration, such as taking the police and health depart- ments out of politics, and the opening of six parks and seven playgrounds, as com- pared with one under Van Wyck. Another statement 18 that the mortality in New $3% SHOE $4% MAKES LIFES WALK EAsy The mature product of nearly twenty of constant improvement fn selection of terfals, In methods, tific designing. The most t ears ma- machinery and sclen- horoughly com- fortable shoe on the market today. 17 your desier does not heep them, VERRUNS THE CENTURY MARK, Electric Car At Hundred and Six Miles an Hour, Chicago Inter Ocean. Experiments in Berlin have shown that it is possible to give speed of 106 miles an hour. To get this speed the most careful at- tention has been given to construction of motor, car and track. The experiments have extended over a serfes of years and ernment as well rallway builders. As Berlin has taken the lead In plication of electriclty to as electrical engineers have greatest encouragement slan government, it may the trials now in progress at Berlin will represent the highest achievement of the electric raflway in the matter of speed and construction, Last year the highest speed obtalned on the Berlin military line was ninety-nine and a half miles an hour, or three and a half miles less than the best time ever made by a train on a steam railway in the United States. By changing the roadbed, using pine and oak tles, and increasing the welght of the rails, engineers have increased the speed seven miles an hour over the record made last vear. It is belleved also that, with the fmproved roadbed, a speed of 125 miles an hour can be obtalned. This would be faster by twelve miles an-hour than the best time ever made on a steam rallway. It must be remembered, however, that the Berlin experiments with especially con- structed tracks and an especlally con- structed roadbed represents the possibili- ties of electric rallways rather than actu- alities. Ever since the construction of the first electric raflway of the world at Berlln, in 1879, German engineers have been trying to get an Increase in speed, and thelr ex- periments have been of great value to engineers and constructors. Meantime, however, the United States has gone for- ward more rapldly In developing electric railways in every-day use than Germany or any other country. The highest speed ever made on an elec- tric railway In actual every-day use was that made on the Aurora, Elgin & Chicago road a few months ago, in which a car was given a speed of seventy-three miles an hour, and ran the full distance be- tween Chicago and Aurora, thirty-five miles, in thirty-four minutes and thirty- nine seconds, and five miles in four min- utes and five seconds. The trlp was made by an ordinary motor car bullt for a maximum speed of ninety miles an hout. This was a prac- tical test of speed on a road in use for passenger traffic, and has not been ecualed. as manufacturers and the ap- rallways and recelved the from the Prus- be assumed that PERSONAL NOTES, As far as the corn crop is concerned, the frosts predicted by the meteorological bureau do not amount to shucks. It 1s not stated whether the lady who has scornfully returned Grand Duke Michael's diamond necklace has written a novel or is golng on the stage. Eight of the present governors of states are Methodists; all republicans but two. The Presbyterlans have seven governors, all again republicans but two, The Baptists have six, all of whom are southerners and all democrats, Speaker Gully of the British House of Commons will be 70 years old next year, Mr, Gully has been speaker for eight years, having been in the House about the same length of time previous to his elevation to that fmportant place. Rear Admiral Casey, who has just been placed on the retired list of the navy, has seen forty-seven years of active service. He has even been noted for his bluft exterior and jmperturbable good nature and was a universal favorite with his subordinates. Dr. Willlam Thompson, who for the past six years has been instructor in charge of the United States Bureau of Animal In- dustry at the Bloux City (Ia.) stock yards, has resigned his position in order to accept a position as veterinarian in the Philippine clvil service. He will sall September 29 for the Philippines, where he expects to ree main permanently Anderson H, Hopkins, assistant librarian of the John Crerar library in Chicago, has been selected for librarfan of the new Loulsville Yree library, his salary being $3.600 & year. He is a graduate of the Uni- versity of Michigan, was fits assistant Ubrarian for some time and during the last year has been president of the Illinois Librarian assoclation, Your Child’s Eyesight You are responsible for the sight of your child. Wateh out for frowns, for squints and when he reads or looks at a plcturs book does he hold it too near or too far? These little things grow faster than the child and in many cases can be overcome if discovered in time. HUTESON OPTICAL CO. 213 South I6th Street, Paxton Bleck ns n Speed of Ome an electric car a have been under the the auspices of gov- | worite me—I will tell you whe doss. LEWIS A. CROSSETT, Ine., Maher, NORTH ABINGTON, MASS. FLASHES OF FUN, o your dau Ladies' auxiliary ol clef hter belongs _to the the Universal Peace so- fes, and let ma tell vou, she {s fast fighting her way to the front in that organ ization."—Puck. “T never spoke & lla fn my lite | tested the editor of the populist organ | "I can quite believa 1t.” replied the plain | man. I suppose all your time has been | occupted in writing them.”—Philadelphia | Tedger. pro- “Who was wall, Freddie teacher. ‘he landlord, ma'am," quickly | the little boy who lives in a flat. Statesman saw the handwriting on tha *asked the Sunday sohool replisd Yonkers sald Uncie Eben, “Is 80 sus plelous dat dey kind o' goes around lookin' foh de worst of it, 8o as to vindicate deir judgment o' human nature.”—Washington Btar. ome men," “Now, here's a yolublo’ drummer, e of goods,” sald tha that speaks for itself. 1l right.”” interrupted the weary buyer, “suppose you keep qulet for five minutes, and give it a chance.”Philadelphia Press. First Boy—Do ver want tor go ter heaven when yer dle, like de Sunday school ma'am tells yer? Dera's no fun goln' ter where a woman wants ter go.- His Physician—You are burning the can- dle at both ends. Rich but Irritable Patient—Any cheap, old fashioned doctor could have told me that. When I pay you $0 for an opinion ught to use a metaphor more in ac- cordance with this age of gas and electric- ity.—~Chicago Tribune. ““This s our own hair restore druggist, " said the ‘and it's positively the best for ," 'sald the bald-headed man, ‘‘you surely’ won't guarantes it to raise halr on my head." “Eyen {f it doesn't you'll appreciate it, for the flles simply detest it and won't go near it."—Philadelphla Press. Hicks—He says he has perfected plans that will enabie him to build low-priced automobiles, placing the machines within the reach of all. Wicks—The idea! That means a great business undertaking. Hicks—H'm! It also meane a great upder- {aking business.—Philadeiphia Catholic Standard, Last year she deftly made the tea And drove the ball with skill and grace; A_svlendid mald and lithe was she, ‘With pretty sunburned arms and face. This year she still is making tea-- With catnip, though, instead of sand; She tries to drive the bawl, but see, "Tis just a rattle in her hand. o Chicago Record-Herald. THE MAN WHO FEELS. A. J. Waterhouse In Success. The man who feels is a happler wight Than the man who {s callous and cold, For if he weeps in the gloom of night, He ll\ufihs in the sunbeams' gold; And if the tide of his life runs low, It _reaches the summits of cheer; He knows the helghts, as the depths below, And he smiles through a pitying tear, And after it all, when all i done, The world has most of the gladdening sun, For_the done, And the sun’'s benediction is dear. twilight lingers when day Is The man who feels is happler far— I say jt again and again— Than ever can be, or ever are, The pitiless sons' of me: For it he sighs for his own'gray woes, Ho sighs for anotherss too; If the plant of pam in his bossom grows, It s covered by sympathy's dew And after it all, when all Is said, Btiil pity and love forever are wed; That tie heart unfecling s chill’ ana 1s true, and forever is true, The man who feels, is a dear God's gift To a sorrowful, travailing world; BY the hands that the burdens of lite uplift s the flag of our peace unfurled. We r;etifl not the souls that are callous as atey And selfish, and wedded to greed, But the pitylng tear for our fallen estate ‘We need—and we ever shall need. And after it all, when all is past, "rl;i the deed of love that alons may ast. And the rest is chaff in the winnowing blast; In the garden of life, a weed. BROWNELL HALL, OMAHA, A Boarding and Day School women and girls. Special cour Ing two vears for high school . also prepares for any college open to women. Welleslcy, t. Holyoke, J University of Nebraska and the of Chicago admit pupils without examina. tion on the certificates of the principal and faculty. =~ Exceptional advantages in Music, Art and_Elocution. Well equipped gym-’ for young requir- raduate ty, University nasium 65 feet by 40 feet. Ample proviston for outdoor sports, Including private skat- ing grounds. ~Reopens September 14. Send for “illustrated catalogue. ~ Address the Principal, Omaba. Neb. York has been reduced to 1874 per thou- sand, the lowest rate in the history of the eity. The New York saloon keepers in the nelghborhood of a certain theater are very crusty just at present. At this theater a melodrama. entitied “Drink” 18 being presented and it ls sald to have such a powerful effect upon the patrons of the house—many of whom have, up to date, been patrons of the saloons in the neigh- borhood—that they sit in lamb-like patience during the entire acts and allow their thirst to consume them. New York it at once the fastest and the slowest city in this broad nation. It still has horse cars and plays ping-pong. The latter fact was established by certain burglars who ransacked a New York house and then lingered long enough to enjoy @ gume of ping-pong on the kitchea table. The men who wait upon you at our store do not pride themselves upon their abilty as salesmen—but as experts in giving other men fits—and we guarantee our men do the fitting, 18321 FARNAM fit and satisfaction if Decatur shoes sell gumul\'u at 8.5 and Direct from maker to wearer.