Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 28, 1909, Page 12

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Let us hope there will be no rage for the importation of the Paris style of strikes this ye: There may be no collegiate signifi- cance in the fact that the new solicitor general 8 a Yale man. h —_— 8till, Charley Ross unquestionably ot more publicity than any other boy who was ever kidnaped. China’s decision to bull:i—n big navy will naturally call for an increase in Nevada's coast defenses. The tariff on fence posts is to be re- duced, but there is the samé old back- breaking duty on postholes. The tarift discussions are developing the fact that many men are suffering pains in the lumber refion The pel—ch-bnket hat is listed among the eastern styles. Omaha can furnish the peaches, all right. Despite the efforts of adventurous explorers, both the South and North poles are still in the wireless zone. The inheritance tax would be a hard blow at Pittsburg, where most of the younger folks are living on inheri- tances. _— It might be a good plan to allow the mothers of the land to frame the law providing for the punishment of kid- napers. Now that Champ Clark has dined at thé White House, the congressional war dogs may be sent back to their kennels. President Eliot of Harvard is still denouncing foot ball as a college sport. The Harvard team has rarely played winning foot ball. Membership card No. 923 in the Punk Pupsters’ union goes to the New York Herald for its comments on “the Payneful tariff bill.” If benzoate of soda will preserve anything, as it is claimed, it might be tried on international peace, thus pre- serving the warships. [ The horses balked with six demo- cratic members of congress who L for a drive in the Virginia hills. It isn't easy to fool a horse. While most of the chemical sched- ules in the new tarift bill have been merely reduced, oxhide of beef has Been placed on the free | The crown prince of Servia, having surrendered his title to the throne and discharged his typewriter, the Balkan war clouds have blown away. S ———— The tariff on anchors is to be cut balf a cent a pound. The man who wants to keep an anchor to windward should appreciate the saving. Richard Harding Davis denies that he ever sald, “Of the qualifications of the literary person I possess none.” No matter. Others have said It. [Harper's Weekly expresses the fear that oratory is becoming a dead art in America. Others are expressing the fear that Harper's Weekly s mistaken. [ A Harvard professor says that all the books needed for a good education may be placed on a five-foot shelf. Just about hold the Bible, Shakespeare and an unabridged dictionary. « Dr. Eliot for St. James, According to most reliable authority the position of ambassador to the court of St. James has been teadered by | President Taft to Dr. Charles W. Eliot, #oon to retire from the presidency of Harvard university. Dr. Eliot’s high standing and his fitness for the posi- tion are universally conceded. The only question about which hesitation is felt in any quarter is whether he could keep up the high standard of soclal entertainment, which has been maintained by the present ambassador, whom he would succeed. It is known that President Taft does not place particularly high store upon social prestige as a factor in the dip- lomatic service and that he has ex- pressed his conviction publicly that our representatives abroad should ap- peal successfully to the thinking peo- ple of the country to which they are Accredited without lavish social dis- play. 1If Dr. Eliot goes to St. James, he will have to rely upon his reputa- tion a man of letters and his person- ality as an educator to command the desired attention. In his “Recollections of Seventy Years,” the late Senator Hoar of Mas- sachugetts, records that at his sugges- tion the name of President Eliot was seriously considered for this same mis- sion by President Hayes at the time when James Russell Lowell was ap- pointed. Secretary of State Evarts was opposed to the appointment of Mr. Lowell and likewise to the appoint- ment of President Eliot, strangely enough because his intense loyalty to Yale, set him against everybody and everything identified with Harvard. Mr. Evart’s antagonism was finally overcome and James Russell Lowell THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MARCH 28, 1909. are affected. The tariff may be re- moved, as in the present bill, from gunwads, dice, dominoes, doll\ heads and indurated fiber, but the law- makers will stir up a hornet’s nest if they persist in classing as ‘luxuries those articles of apparel and ornament which lovely woman views as necessi- tles. If Mr. Payne imagines that silk stockings, millinery disguises, hair or- naments, aigrettes, ostrich and other feathers, furs and funny things made of furs and feathers are “luxuries,” he has only to call upon the women to hear of something to his distinct dis- advantage. b The Search for the Poles. Attention to the penetration of hu- man beings into the polar region has again been aroused and popular inter- est in the subject revived by the re- port of Lieutenant Shackleton of the British army that he has succeeded in getting within one hundred and ten miles of the long-sought south pole, thus coming nearer to the goal than any other explorer in the high lati- tudes, north or south. Commander Peary's farthest north, which is the most advanced of all human endeavor in that direction, was more than 170 miles of the point he almed to reach. Even that was about 100 miles better than the best of the Antarctic pioneers until the latest exploit of the British officer. Lieutenant Shackleton appears to have established beyond question that the south pole is located on land, thus robbing its exploration of the dangers of ice floes and the terrors of tides and cold combined. The pole, however, is supposed to be located at an altitude of 12,000 to 13,000 feet, in a region transferred from Spain to Great Brit- | o¢ snow, glacier, rarefied air and ex- aln, giving us one of the bright pages in our diplomatic history. The strange part of the present offer of the post to Dr. Eliot is that the whirligig of time has brought the ap- pointment again within the gift of a president who is not only an intense partisan of Yale, but also one of its trustees and yet so far above the rivalry of the two great universities that he takes it to be a privilege to be able to favor the president of Har- vard. A Moral for Mr. Bryan. In a contribution to the March num- ber of Pearson’'s magazine, our old friend, Richard L. Metcalfe, has pro- nounced a beautiful panegyric on “Mr. Bryan in Defeat,”. which seems to have struck the subject so responsively that Mr. Bryan has evidenced his ap- proval by reproducing it in his Com- moner. It is good reading, of course, but this one paragraph deserves spe- cial attention. I do not belleve the average newspaper editor of the east has oven the remotest concention of the effect upon individuals of Mr. Bryan's 1908 defeat. There are so many instances where the de=th of sick or aged men was apparently hastened by the election returns, etc. The inference evidently intended to be conveyed is that had Mr. Bryan been elected many lives would have been saved, which, because of his de- feat went prematureiy to the grave, and that should he run again consid- eration of these devoted followers, if nothing else, should rally the votes needed for his success. One of the popular novels of the day not many years ago was written by Archibald Clavering Gunter under the title, “Mr. Barnes of New York."” In narrating his history at the outset, the hero asserts that he had studied medicine and after graduation, made all preparations to begin practice when he read somewhere the statement that “every doctor killed his man,” and seized by remorse he abandoned his profession and decided to let his man live. Moral: The way for Mr. Bryan to win a life saving medal is clear. Women and the Tariff, Chairman Payne of the ways and means committee has been hearing from the women of the country and has hastened to explain that the tariff bill as presented is really but a pre- liminary draft and that it is quite probable that certain changes will be made in it before it is finally enacted into law. It appears that this storm of protest has broken out because Mr. Payne declared that the tariff had been increased on ‘“luxuries,” and the women soon afterwards discovered that stockings and gloves evidently came under that definition. The tariff bill at best is a lengthy and technical document and the lay- man will find much difficulty in inter- preting it. The explanation is offered that the apparent increase in the tax on hose is not an increase at all, but & plan to secure a better adjustment of valuations thgn was possible under the old law, whose manipulation allowed German and French hose makers to come in under the tariff wall and play | havoe with the home manufacturers, It is hoped that the tangle may be straightened out, but that will not end the protest from the women. Framers of tariff bills need not I!hlnk they can cover their tracks by catgut, coal tar, old brass, binding twine, caraway seeds and commodities of that kind and then, without cateh- ing breath, turn to an increase of the tariff on hats, hat pins, furs, boas, feathers, boutonnieres, wreaths and all kinds of fluffy things without the women finding out about it. Mr. Schwab may tear his hair over the steel schedules, the Havemeyers may sour on the sugar schedules and the Fillpinos go on the warpath over the tariff treatment of their prodivts and congress may go its own stubborn way ignoring such protests, but it is a,dif- ferent proposition when the women juggling with pig iron, vegetable ivory, | treme cold. Scientific knowledge has been enlarged by the last trip of the explorers, as Lieutenant Shackleton reports that coal has been found in the Antarctic cirele, proving that in some remote period the region supported a luxurious vegetation. The British offi- cer confirms the conclusions of Nor- denskjold, fhe Norweglan explorer, who wrote of that region some years ago: There has been a time when the Antarctic continent formed a bridge, linking the three southern continents and forming this now frozen land. America, Africa- and Aus- tralla probably recelved from there much of thelr now existing animal and plant forms, ere cold and lce came, to kil all that could not take refuge in the waters of the sea. Polar exploration has long attracted adventurous spirits and exacted the toll of human lives by the thousands. It were profitless to argue that the suc- cess of these expeditions can accom- plish no lasting good nor add much to the sum total of human knowledge. Until the white spots are wiped off tte map bold men will continue to risk their lives to discover the polar se- crets and national and personal rivalry will lare men on to the.discovery that can be made but once. The Pearys and the Shackletons will keep at it un- til some man makes the goal and achiqves the distinction that they and a long line of brave predecessors have sought for themselves. John Bull, Land Grabber, The British have always been the most successful land grabbers in his- tory, seizing possessions In different sections of the globe with the nonchal- ance of a man borrowing a match from a casual acquaintance and acquiring territory that would provoke a war if any other nation should attempt it. The latest British exploit is the acqui- sition by Great Britain of a slice of Siam about equal to the combined area of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Delaware, without attracting more publicity than a mere recording men- tion of the deal. It appears that Siam has ceded about 15,000 square miles of territory to the British, which will be annexed to the Malay states already under control of the British flag on condition that Eng- land invest about $20,000,000 in the construction of a raillway southward from Bangkok, the Slamese capital. It will doubtless develop later that the eventual absorption of Siam by the British is involved in the deal. It is not mentioned in the documents in the case, but thesraiiroad will be built and owned by the British, it will be de- fended by the British, operated by the British and probably furnish the Brit- ish excuse and opportunity for benevo- lently assimilating Siam and ultimately taking charge of the affairs of its gov- ernment. — = To Study Insanity. Henry Phipps, the Pennsylvania iron manufacturer who has devoted millions of his wealth to the advance- ment of the study of tuberculosis, has recently made another donation in the cause of sclence which physiclans be- lleve will be equally productive of great good. He has contributed more than $1,000,000 for the establishment of an imstitution in connection with Johns Hopkins university devoted to the investigation of incipient insanity. The buildings are already partially completed and the investigations al- ready conducted are of much promise. While remarkable progress has been made in médical science in the last half century -the achievements have largely beeg with diseases of the body, and it is only quite recently that effort has been directed to the study of dis- eases of the mind. Physicians for ages shared the common bellef that insanitx was synonymous with de. moniac possession and there was al- most gross ignorance, amounting to brutality, in the treatment of those whose mentality was impaired. The development of ‘medical sclence has established the fact that the brain is as susceptible of treatment as the kid- neys and that mental aberrations are to a large extent due to physical con- ditions that may be improved In the past insanity has been studied from the outside. It is the purpose of the Phipps donation to study it from the inside. The discovery of just what I8 the correlation between the human mind and the human brain is one of the most important 'medical problems of the age. Playing on the Grass. The park commissioners of Cincin- nati have decided upon a policy for the coming summer of removing the “Keep Off the Grass” signs and in- viting the children to lie on the green sward, to play their games on the grass and have just the best kind of a time, being nlways careful to be as careful of the grass in the public parks as they would be of the lawis at their own homes. If the children and grownups co-operate with the park commiesioners the new order will be made permanent. If they are careless will be restored and the visitors con- fined to the paved walks and the stiff- backed wooden benches and settees. The experiment is well worth trying for the benefit of all cities supplied with these breathing places. The grass, the flowers, the trees and shade are the natural heritage of children and should be theirs for the fullest enjoyment possible, so long as they do not become reckless or destructive in their play. Parents may help in the movement by impressing upon the boys and girls that while grass itself is hard to injure, the sod on which it grows is easily damaged and that flow- ers and shrubs should be enjoyed from a distance. With even moderate gare in this regard the parks could be made real resting and romping places for the children. i}ggllnt Justice. Every housewife who occasionally borrows something needed in the kitchen or, what is more common, has a neighbor who borrows about every- thing required in the practice of do- mestic economy, will find keen interest in a court case arising out of a borrow- ing espisode recently decided in Pitts- burg, even though the facts are quite commonplace. Responding to a hurry call for cake baking, a certain Mrs. Wagner, it seems, went to the cupboard and found it of the Mother Hubbard variety. She wanted eggs, but the cupboard was bare and the hens were on a strike. Eggs were quoted at 50 cents a dozen and Mrs. Wagner's purse was like her cupboard. The most natural thing in the world to do was to borrow a dozen —12, count 'em, 12-—eggs from her dear neighbor, Mrs. Brown, whose hens were working overtime. The eggs were beat, the cake was eat and Mrs. Wagner allowed the incident to pass from mind until several weeks later, when her hens began to take an interest in the affairs Of men. Then, like a good neighbor who always re- members her obligations, she gathered a dozen —12,count 'em, 12—eggs and returned them to Mrs. Brown. That is where the row started. Mrs. Brown having been reading the mar- ket reports, her husband’s brother-in- law being a broker, Mrs. Brown knew something about the value of hen fruit. She insisted that she had loaned Mrs. Wagner G50 cents worth of eggs. As the market at the time of the re- turn quoted eggs at 20 cents a dozen, she asserted that she should of right have thirty eggs instead of the original twelve. It was plain as A B C. Twelve eggs at 50 cents a dozen were equal to thirty eggs at 20 cents a dozen, and Mrs. Brown did not think much of Mrs. Wagner's mathematical education it Mrs. Wagner could not figure out that little problem in mental arithme- tic. Still Mrs. Wagner was not with- out argument that sounded logical. She insisted with much vehemence and eloquence that ‘‘eggs is eggs,'” and, anyway, the twelve big brown eggs from her Leghorns were worth as much as twelve eggs lald by Mrs. Brown's puny little Bantams any day in the week, regardless of stock mar- ket quotations on luxuries. In addi- tion to all that, Mrs. Wagner had come over to return the eggs and return them she would. 8he returned them one at a time, in a perYect imitation of Rube Waddell getting ia trim for the opening game on Decoration day. There were no wild throws. Mrs. Brown received them all, with pic- turesque result, transforming her into a human Imitation of a Turner land- seape. When the case was taken into court, unfortunately for borrowers and lend- ers, the judge refused to rule on the grave economic guestion involved, but contented himself with placing both women under bonds to keep the peace. Although the question remains unde- cided, obviously Mrs. Wagner made 30 cents by the transaction, whether she sold the eggs or ate them, and just as obviously Mrs. Brown loaned a dozen eggs and got a dozen eggs in return. It is a proposition that lenders and borrowers will have to settle for them- selves. 4 There should be no difficulty in get- ting tasters and samplers for the American Soclety for the Investigation of Alcoholic Beverages, just organized |in New York. A theatrical manager is trying to sign Jim Jeffries and Jack Johnson for la starring tour with fhe same com- pany. That would surely make them fight. . It is suggested that the appropria- tions committee of the next congress use a safety razor in shaving the esti- mates of the different departments, and destroy the parks the old signs Wwith him. SERMONS BOILED DOWN. The man who lacks friends usually lacks In friendliness It you fear to lose your dignity you have none worth losing. Many are saving up all thelr plety purposes of penitence. The soft man has no sOccess at smooth- | ing down life's angles. The lowliest walk sounds Heaven than the loudest talk. It you cannot give your religion away you had better throw it away. They who have fought femptation are always tender to the tempted. Excersive emphasis on a few ideas 18 evidence of the absence of many Only as a man lives & life of his own can he have lfe to give to others. Many people who want noble character are unwilling to go to its school. Few things are more foolish than praying for a high task while neglecting a lowly one. People who blame Providence for thelr crops are usually reticent as to their sow- ing. The best argument against the devil is the one ihat eats into the profits of his business. You can tell whether a man fs walking with God' by whether folks like to walk | louder in Most of the burdens for which we blame Heaven are simply our own needless bag- gage.—Chicago Tribune. SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT New York World: Certain Boston church trustoes have ordered women to remove their hats at services, under the impres- sfon that attention can be transferred thus from millinery to sermons. This is a tale of foollsh elders. The trustees will but sub- stitute for contemplation of visible head- gear the infinitely more disturbing element of wonder over millinery things unseen. New York Sun: It may be doubted If muscular Christianity ever had a brawnler exponent than the Rev. Dr. Leander W. Munhall of Ocean Grove, leader of the | summer Bible class. In the pride of his self consclousness as an abstainer he has | issued a challenge to moderate drinkers between the ages of 21 and &, the latter his own age, to contest with him In the running broad jump, hop,skip and jump; putting the 10-pound shot, throwing the 16-pound hammer, a 50-yard dash, G-mile walk, handling the 50-pound dumbbell and a blcycle race of elghty-four miles, from the Cit hall, Philadelphla, to the Princeton Theological seminary and back. The doctor stipulates that the sw'mming test shall | be along the ocean frout at Ocean Grove, | a heavy sea preferred. He contends that his great vigor, elasticity of lmb and | soundness of wind are due to temperance. HEALTH A NATIONAL ASSET. Duty of the Individual to Maintain | His Efficiency. | World's Work. The individual's duty is to keep himself well—that is to say, in condition for per- torming his part of the work of the world. He must come to look upon his physieal | organism ae a tool, and to realize that upon the state of this tool depends the quantity and the quality of the work that he ean do with hand or brain. As a social asset—and it is In this respect that we are now considering him—a man is valuable precisely in proportion to the quantity and the quality of the work that he can do. Therefore, as & part of the soclal organ- fsm, it is & man's duty to keep himselt In the highest possible state of working efficiency. How to do this Prof. Fisher indicates In two words. “Avold poisons’—poisoned air, poisoned water, poisoned f0oG, posionous thoughts, poisonous emotions, and just plain poisons like alcohol, tobacco and drugs. Breathe deeply of pure alr, eat abstemiously of foods demanded by appe- | tite. Bxercise for the delight of physical expression, not to win a game or because you think you ought to—and exercise the Intellect and ‘the emotions as well as the muscles. Wear as few clothes as possible and thesd of porous materials, so disposed as not to weigh heavily upon, constrict or destroy the balance of the body. Bathe frequently enough to keep the skin fn con- dition for performing its eliminative func- tions. Keep cheerful. Don't worry. The man who does these things will not only be making his country greater and richer, but also will be laying up a great treasuro for himself and his descendants torever. Roosevelt in the Spotlight. Springfield Republican. While Mr. Roosevelt sought tsmporary oblivion by his expedition tc Africa, it is now the most palpable of facts that the | foremost of publicity experts—whoever h: may be—could not have concelved a project more brilliently designed to keep the former president in the public eye. The hunt in the African jungle has caught the popular fancy, and, if Mr. Rocsevelt really insists upon privacy, he should have taken an army corps to keep the reporters at a safe distance. Everything that happens to him in the next elghteen months, and alsy everything that doesn't happen, will recelve prodigious attention; and when he tops off with his lectures in England, France and Germany, with all Burope at his feet and all the crowned heads at his side, his jubi- [1ant fellow countrymen may be expected to go Into fresh transports of adoration. | 1t's going to be a painful elghteen months, after all, for Mr. Roosevelt's enemies, who had hoped to hear the last of him for & while. Fad of Ancestor Worship, New York Sun Probably nowhere else, not even in China, 1s ancestor worship so common as in these United 8t Every man belng “as good as another,”’ In theory eager to prove that he is better. The Chinese slowpokes use the distinction of the descendant to confer honor upon the ancestor. The Amer- ican of wealb: and taste for ancestry can buy or have invented for him ancestors who confer honor upon him. As im:krtial soclologists we record without praise or blame the passion of the American de- mocracy for ancestors. Word on Revision, Washington Post. There is no doubt that Mr. Taft will have the courage to spesk if the action of either house of congress should col vince him .hat the tariff Is not bel revised in accordance with the people's fwill. And if he should speak for the people, { members of the house and senate are | likely to listen, whatever the plans of the leaders in either body may be. The La Fairy Tales Outclassed. Baitimore American. An aerfal navy, equipped with wireless telegraphy, is among the possibilities—even the piphabilities—of the future. The old time fhiry tales, with thelr marvelous schievements, are In danger of losing the reccrd Easily Solved, Boston Transeript. . Prol for | Society as death claims by the Equitable in paid within ome day after proofs of Policies Pald ceean Paid within one day. .. ond day. The Equitable Life Assurance of the United States. “STRONGEST IN THE WORLD" “POLICIES SIGHT BRAFT AT MATURITY.” PAUL MORTON, Pres. PER CENT WWMMWM(”Js)n{mM.m ’ the United States and Oanada were $1,198,606.57 1,175,076.46 There was only one claim remaining unpaid at the end of the sec- When policies are not paid immediately it is usually due to delay on the part of the beneficiary in submitting complete papers. 98.4% of the TOTAL AMOUNT PAID WITHIN A DAY. H. D. NEELY, Manager, Merchants Natlonal Bank Building, Omaha, Neb. Updike Lumber William Welch, TRY A LOAD OF HudsoniIndian Coal Mined at Hudson, Wyo. Free Burning; Clean; No Soot; No Glinker; Only 3% Ash —SOLD BY-— Harmon & Weeth Co., Omaha C. B. Havens & Co., Omaha & Coal Co., Omaha N. D. Mann & Sons, So. Omaha Council Bluffs Spring Announcement 1909 We are now displaying a most com- plete line of forefgn novelties opring and summer wear. early inspection is invited, as #t will afford an opportunity of choos- ing from a large number of exclusive styles. We import in “Single sujt: lengths, and a suit cannot be duplicated. An order pl now may be deliv- ered at your convenience. for Guckert McDonald, Tailors 817 Seuth Fifteenth Street ESTABLISHED 1887 PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE. There are mighty few observers of March weather: who have not seen. better days. Developments in arconautics crowd the walting list of the Optimists’ club. People are looking up. There 18 pecullar fitness in naming the midway of the Seattle show, *“Pay Streak." In mining parlances, a pay streak requires considerable digging in dirt, . The perfection of magazine enterprise must be awarded a current monthly, which features the thrilling story, “Why There is & Grasshopper on London's Royal Ex- change.” A record of sixteen child kidnaping cases at home and abroad in the last fifty years,| compiled in Tonnection with the Whitla crime, shows nine cases in which the stolen children were_never recovered. Spectal Judge Willlam Kreiger In trying at Loulsville, Ky., Jake Edelson, charged with pouring coal ofl on rats and setting them afire, dismissed the prisoner, hold- ing that rats were not property, fd not belong to anybody and the charge of cruelty could not be sustained. The manager of the girl who Salome- danced through Iowa lately must have done a land lottery business. Press, pulpit and unll the cormers are discussing the fairy with the knowledge observation gives. Some of the law makers must have seen the sights for one of the proposes to de- fine by law the cut of Salome's garments. “Charities and Commons,”” & weekly magazine of social and civic progress, pub- lished I New York City, announces a change of name. Hereafter it will be known as “The Survey.” Edward T. Devine will continue as editor and Graham Tay- lor as assoclate editor. The Burvey starts under Its new name with 10,000 subscribers. Willis Moore, chief of the government weather bureau, has given Atlantic City a vigorous slap to get even with members of the city council for having sought to re- place the large weather map in Pennsyl- vania avenue, and for having failed to appreciate the gift of a weather kiosk, and to get a place for it on the outer edge of the board walk. The chief has ordered both the map and the kiosk to other lo- cations and cut Atlantic City off the map. WITH PRICES ONL double we ask, but it takes only $ as new. PLAYER Terms. feet. A westerner would settle the Bacon- Srakspeare controversy forever. A drama- tie club in his town played “Hamlet" the other day. Now, says he, open the graves and see which)one of the two has turned. A.HOS A number of nearly new Kimballs, Cramers, Hallet-Davis, Wood, Smith and other Pianos. short time rentals, others exchanged Pianos, others shop-worn, worth NEW PIANOS Three ears of Kranich & Bach, Krakauer, Kimballs, Bush-Lane, Cable-Nelson, Burton, Cramer and Imperial Pianos on our floors prices of §190 and up, on easy payments. Old planos taken as part pay. DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES, Artist—I will guarantee, sir, to paint you a speaking likeness of your Sy Customer—You can't do that. Artist—Why can't 1?7 Customer—Because she's dumb.—Balti- more American, Shé~I heard ‘you sin, this morning. ¥ 108 0 958 roge) He—Oh, T sing a.little to kill time. Ehe—You have -a. sood » Transcript, i FOADIR POk “A woman's hat is a ridiculous affair,” sald the man > “Yes," answered the woman; “I don't see why you insist-on taking it so seri- ously when the bill comes in.""—Washing- ton Star. Bashful Youth—Miss Bella, does—does your mother object to my_coming here o much Fair Charmer—Oh, 1 think not. I heard her telling papa the other evening that you mercly came to pass away the time—you gludrnl meen anything serious.--Chicago Tri- e “Out of a job, are you?" asked fhe first girl.’ “Boss cateh you flirting?" 'No; I caught the boss. Say, what sort of a wedding dress do you think s real swell?"—Philadelphla Ledger. WRAITH OF THE TRAIL. Arthur Chapman in Denver Republican. There's a grass-grown trail near the shin- rail where the trains go whizzing by: Where the smoke from the overland fast express Is spread Iike a vell in the sky; the 'trail where the stage went rum- bling through in the days of the real trontler. where is the driver who braved the path, and whose stout heart know no ear? It's "Twas a perilous trip that the prairie ship made acrossthe high, brown plains, But has anyone Mver heard men tell of & coward who held the reins? There are plenty of tales of heroes' work and of passengers saved from death, But wheén did o driver sver quall in the figreest blizzard's breath? 80 B0 to the trail when the starg are pale, and ‘tis scarce an hour till dawn, And you'll see a ghostly stage flit past, by four ghost horses drawn; And high on the box sits the ghost of a man, and he throws you an cerfe hafl— It Is thus that the stage goes by today on the grass-grown overland trail. JUST AS GOOD AS NEW PIANOS Y HALF AS MUCH Kranich & Bachs, Hospes, Some out on 125, $145, $155, $175,t0 $250 on payments of $10 down and $5.00 per month to own a plano just as good with / PIANOS 0Old and used Player Planos, 8275, $300, $350 up to $1,000, Easy These are the planos that are known as Live Planos. them by hand, tthe old way), or play them with perforated music by foot pedaling-—this makes the plano playable by anyone owning two Come and see and hear them. have planos tuned; we do the work right. You play This is the time of the year to PE CO. 1513 Douglas Street