Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 9, 1909, Page 6

Fae OMAHA l?AlLYi Ber FOUNDBED BY BDWARD ROSEWATER. YICTOR ROSBEWATER, EDITOR. i - s’ po#toffice as second- FntefMd a(" Omal Class matter. (JTERMS OF SUBSCRIPTIO! Daily Bes (without Bunday), ene year Delig and Sunday, one year........ LIVERED BY CARRIER. 5 week lic nany), per weel fo o ”r 5260 180 .00 6.00 frregularitiea in deliyery (o City Department. +O1 Omana~The. Bre Bullding. outhy ~Twenty-fourth and N nun*) 15 Scott Street. Hieago- i Masameits " iaing cago-- o o B e °;rk—‘l\.\m:: 11011102 No. 34 West rty- treet, Washington—725 Fourteenth Street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. = = Communieations refating to news & - 1orial Tatter Should be addressed: Omana Bee, Bditorial Department. Remic. by, o EMIITANCES. raft, exprese or pos or, payable to The B Publishing Company Only, 2-08nt stamps réesived in payment of mall accounts. reonal checks, except on Omaha br stern exchanges, not accepted. STATEMENT OF OfRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, Guorge B. Taschuck, treasurer of ‘The Bes Publishing company, @uly sworn, saye that the aclua] number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of March. 109, was follows: U -7 — et D200 18 29,300 29,300 TOUT oLt Tl ogioes i . 000400 Less Wnmold and returned coples. . Net totar ! Daily average GEORGE B, T b-.-nb-%sm my 1,197,188 as,017 3 urer. resence and sworn to before me this 1st day of April, 1909. M. P, WALKER, (Beal) Notary Publie. Eame———————————— WHEN, 0UT OF TOWN, Sabscribers leaving the oit) tem- e The . Address will be s requested. P e s — ] A8 to that famous demo-pop legis- lature—the least said the better. Etmemppfomm—" 1t's nuts for Sigux City, Kansas City, the Twin cities, to say nothing of Council Bluffs, e The east is coming to the western plains for wool. ‘It has discovered that not all the shearing is done on Wall street. STppSe—— A southern editor remarks he would rather ‘be Balaam's ass than a con- gressman. ‘There Is a possibility that he might be both. _— Mayor Jim {8 not mealy-mouthed in expressing himself about Governor Shallenberger, and even then doesn't say hall' what Me'thinks. —_— The commission on the governor's staff repudiated by Colonel Fanning should be reissued at once in the name of Colonel Elmer E. Thomas. ————e A- vaudeville artist has a one-act play entitled ‘“The’ Naked Truth.” Scant clothing is not unusual in vau- deville, but this is pressing the limit. A Chicago man was blown 100 feet Ly the wind the other day and landed uninjured. Nothing like being used to having the zephyrs toy with you. Rife Mailie logielature has adjourned without changibg the game laws. The same number of deer and hunters are permitted to be killed as in the past. The lid has gone down at 7 o'clock in Eincoln for the past year. That's why those Lincolnites are so anxious | to close down Omaha and stop the dis- | Darity, And now a Missourl farmer has dis- covered a plan for lifting another burden which makes farm life irk- some. He uses a phonograph to call the pigs. e Mr. and Mrs. Eggs of New York hdve petitioned the court to change their names, They have carried the name so long they can no longer pass as fresh eggs. . b ————3 From the praises heaped upon the Standard Oll company by Attorney Milburn one would imagine the com- pany was incorporated in heaven in- steady, of 1o New, Jersey. A Missouri boy has been sent to the reform school for embeszling a postage stamp. That is .wheré he made his mistake. The amount is too small to enable him to hire a good lawyer. e Three colonels have responded to the call for Omaha appointees to sur- render commissions given them by Goyernox, Shallenberger. . It is notice- able.no salaried jobs have been passed o™ a p . —_— 3 The distribt court clerk has a new bill of tees for filing papers in that office. There is nothing in it, how- €ver, to prevent lawyers from continu- ing to fille cases there on contingent fees. Philadelphia . coungilmen are ac- cused of stealing bf! Philadelphia councilmen have a réputation of going pretty strong, but. it was not supposed their pickings had been reduced so low as that. Frederick Weyerhauser, the lumber king, complains that the lumbérmen are overtaxed locally. For a man who has been taxed to death Mr. Weyer- ba has done right well in the mat- ter of accumulating money. | present bill will have a fate different | represent | are, therefore, liable to eliminate many | secure in the belief that no matter d Tariff With the tariff bill largely formu lated so far as the house is concerned, interest will center next on what the senate is likely to do with the meas. ure. In that connection the utter ances of: Senator Aldrich are entitled to more than ordinary weight.’ Mr Aldrich is not the senate, but for all that, by virtue of his position as the head of the finance committee, his long service and influence in that body, his opinfons are significant He fis quoted as saying that the bill as it passes the senate will be a revenue producing measure and also that it will provide for a reduction of duties on the necessities of life, as compared with the rates in the present Dingley tariff. The first prerequisite of producing more revente is in line with the ne- cessities of the government. With a treasury deficit of approximately $100,000,000 staring congress in the face more revenue is essential. Bx- penditures may be curtalled and ex- travagances eliminated but the toun- try is growing, its necessary oxpen- embarrassment is to be avoided in- come must be increased. The demands for development of the nation's vast latent resources, making arid lands productive, improving waterways and harbors, in addition to the ordinary expenses, require sums that would have made the statesmen of a few generations ago gasp for breath, but they must be met if the government performs its duty to the people. The proposal to lift the burden as | far as possible from necessities car-|¢ ries with it the alternative of laying it on the luxurles. If this is accom- plished the 'bill will have met the ex- pectation of the people and fulfilled the proemise which the republican party made in the last campaign. That the 'senate comprehends its responsi- bilities in this respect is indicated by the utterances of the leaders in that body and the .course pursued so far in dealing with the question. The real crux of the question will come when the bill has passed the divergent opinions of the two houses must be fought out and the finished law given to the nation. What this will be can only be judged from the past. In all recent financial and revenue legislation the senate has played the preponderating part. Few if any careful observers believe the from its predecessors. larger The senators constituencies and concessions to purely local interests injected by interested house members. In the narrowed field of the confer- ence committee the compromises will have to be made and the law rounded out into completener Competition in Corn. The American farfmer has rested what happened he was supreme in the production of corn. Yet not only has a rival appeared, but he 'is pushing that rivalry into the American farm- ers’ own market. Shipping corn to the United States is carrying coal to New- castle with a vengeance, but that is | just what is happening. With the settlement of South Africa has come the opening .of a country of whose resources the world knows little and whose possibilities are as vet but scratched. . The latest develop- ment is the receipt in New York of a | shipload of corn said to be the equal | in quality of any grown on the wwest- ern prairies. - ‘Native corn on the New | York mariket at present prices brings 74% cents and the African product laid down in New York ecost 5814 cents. Of course, no amount of corn which | South Africa could at present market | would be sufficient to have any ap- preciable effect on current prices. The fact of its importation and that corn can be grown successfully in that country emphasizes the necessity of the American farmer being awake to the necessity of adopting the most improved methods to increase the | vield per acre and decrease the cost of production to make sure of retaining | his acknowledged supremacy Good Roads Movement. The propaganda for good roads is bearing fruit in all sections of the country. The . enormous waste in transportation over the existing pub- (e highways of the country is being | driven home to the people, who suffer {in consequence. In a desultory way communities all | over the land are seeking to remedy conditions dnd’ many large schemes | have been discussed which are beyond the capacity of the local communities to carry out.. In the early days, before the advent of the railroad, the general government and the states engaged in road bullding on a large scale, for the wagon road ‘was the only meéans of communication, and under.the most tavorable conditions was slow, but with the advent of'the railroad this was stopped. ¢ The state of Pennsylvania is the first to resume roadmaking on a large and consistent scale. ‘A bill has passed both branches of the legislature ap- propriating 83,000,000 as a starter on a program which ultimately compre- | hends the expenditure of $10,000,000 for a great cross-state highway, from which the various communities through which it passes are expected to run laterals costing in the aggregate much more than the main trunk line. The |sum mentioned will, of course, pro- vide good roads for only a small por- tion of the state, but the object les- on s expected to be contagious and within a comparatively few rs to produce a system of highwa works, begun finished? struction it shanl the | itan senate and gone to conference. Here |Dicipal water plant, or which has hereto- fore voted or may hereafter vote bonds for the nicipal water board Such appointment shall thirty duys after the election at which bonds shall have been voted for the con- struction or purchase of water plant, heretofors water plant, after this act shall take effeot this first law are supposed been cured by Water bill acted two years later, all the jurisdic- tional case was had under the first law. legally voted, council in electing to purchase, as re- quired by the law, were laboring un- der a mi der duress, which in ordinary business transactions would void the act. THE BEE ill save millions in the t tion of the tonnage which passes over them A railroad company whose trackage was as wasteful of time and motive power as the average American high- way would be in the hands of a re- ceiver before a year has elapsed and yet the tonnage which passes over the public roads is greater by far than that transported by the railroads, and it is a problem for the next few de- cades to stop this te. If They Are Illegal And now comes the officlal spokes- man of the Water board, who for yeare has been drawing a salary out of the city treasury for doing nothing, with this declaration: The illegality of the $3,000.000 of water bonds authorized by a vote of the people in 1900 has been notorious among those all acquainted with the water situa- tion. How or why the $3,000,000 of water bonde voted in 1900 are illegal is not explained, but if these bonds are ille- gal, what of the legality of the whole | proceedings for the @itures are increasing and if financial | compulsory” “immediate and purchase of the water in 1903 and not yet The very creation of the Water board ard the action of the other city authorities for the acquisition of the water works are all predicated upon the legality Bill No. 1, out of which all our water works troubles have grown, begins as follows: of these bonds. Water Section 1. In any eity of the metropol- tan class. which has heretofore voted »r may hereafter vote bonds for the con- or purchase of a water plant, be the duty of the mayor and ouncil, and the mayor and councll shall, within thirty days after the election at which such bonds are or have been voted, or in case such bonds have been hereto- fore voted, then within thirty days after this act shall take effect declare by ordi- nance that it for as works. is necessary and expedient such city to construct or purchase, the case may be, a system of water Further along another section reads: Section &, In each city of the metropol- class owning and operating a mu- construction or purchase of a mu- water plant, there shall be a consisting of six members. be made within a municipal or if such bonds have been voted, or If such city nas acquired such a municipal then within thirty days heretofore While it is.true that the defects of to have No. 2, en- procedure in the water works 1f the $3,000,000 of bonds voted in 1900 were not legally voted, then the governor had no right nor authority to appoint the first Water board, be- cause he derived that authority only from the presumption of Omaha had already voted water bonds. that the city If the $3,000,000 of bonds were not then the mayor and pprehension and did so un- If the $3,000,000 of bonds were not legally voted, the appralsers were not legally appointed and could not have made a legally binding award. If there is really a question as to whether the $3,000,000 of bonds were legally voted, why have not the attor- neys for the city seen to It that this question were raised in the pending | | 1itigation? Former Congressman Neville, represented the Sixth Nebraska dis- trict in congress for a few years as a populist, has died in Wyoming, where | he has been living inconspicuously most of the time since his retirement to private life. Mr. other of our Nebraska statesmen car- ried up by the wave of populism of the '90s and there is a sort of coincidence that he should pass away almost at the same moment with ex-Governor Poyn- ter, the last of our populist governors. A young woman who refused a marriage license in Omaha because she was only 16 years old secured the coveted document in Council was 16 years old. This Is the first recorded instance of a street car trip from Omaha to Council Bluffs con- | suming a whole year's time. The report of the Department of Ag- riculture on the condition of winter wheat shows. both encouraging and discouraging features. While the con- dition of the crop in all states is be- low the average, Nebraska and Kansas make a better showing than the other big cereal-producing states We'll see now whether the temper- ance forces appreciate it enough to give Omaha all the Epworth league conventions, Sunday school confer- ences, state teachers' meetings and similar gatherings for whose delegates or members a tight 1id is supposed to be attractive. The water-logged mariner of the Water board questions the good faith of an attorney who appeared before the legislature committee because the attorney's son is “employed by the water company.” That's geod, com- ing from an ex-employe of the water company South Dakota has a decidedly orig- inal complaint to make agalnst one of its officials because he turned in a hotel bill which looks too small. The auditor is not objecting to the economy | already reduced the number {in New York City who | Neville was an- | Bluffs | the same day on afirmation that she | : OMAHA, FRIDAY, APRIL practice howev but is unable to figure out how the official could have traveled, over the state during every working day of the year on a hotel bill of $391.15 and railroad fare of $496.80. Possibly he adopted the old- time printers' custom of “carrying th banner.” The Minnesowa legislature h passed an anti-cigarette law Here- after when Minnesota people want to commit suicide they are expected to try some method less offensive to the survivors than the cigarette French newspapers have expressed uncomplimentary remarks - about Roosevelt. The writers were discreet enough to restrain themselves, how- ever, until the big stick was the seas enroute for Africa on Hope for the Bleachers. Philadelphia Press. Some day this country Is going to elect A president who plays base ball of tennis or golf, and then there will be a hurrah Aut Talk s Cheap. | New York World | There mayt be some question as to how | much revenue the Payne bill will produce, but one week of debate on It In the house resulted in an output of 600,000 words. ng Offset. Cleveland Leader. Government deficits are the rule in Fu- rope. and this country is gaining an un- wonted familiarity with them. But sav- Ings banks gain on both sides of the | Atlantic. Ready for the Inspection. 8t. Louls Globe-Democrat All of the big captains of industry pre- | dict that 1909 will be a record-breaker in the matter of prosperity. The rank and file will be glad to see the old general march- ing back and forth along the line. Example of Legnl Courage. Cleveland News. Attorney Kellogg sald right out in court that certain men making up the Standard Oll group has conspired to monopolize the oil trade. That is one of the hardest things said of the big corporation since Judge Landis murmured, “Pay 240,000, The U Effect. Philadelphla Record. Tn those southern portlons of the land where prohibition prevails contraband stills | are rising like mushrooms. But the secret brewing of beer In the recesses of the mountains is quite another thing. The prac- tical effect of prohibition, therefore, Is to encourage thé aistilling of moonshine whisky at the expense both of the mild product of malt and hops and of the pub- lc revenues What We Are Coming Te. 8an Franclsco Chronicle A 60-foot tower for wireless telegraphy i about to be erected at Anapolis. The springing up of these watchtowers of the world suggests that the aspect of the coun- try may one day be strikingly affected by them. Already, In view of the advent of | alrships, the question of private ownership of the atmosphere Is being discussed. The welrd ultry-sclentific world of the future which has been plctured by various fm- aginative novelists may be largely real- ized after all. LIFE INSURANCE LIMIT. aw Uphe ‘preme Com Philadelphia Record. The supreme court of New ork upheld the constitutionality of the law limiting to $160,000000 a year the amount of new insurance any life company of the | state can do, one of the great companies has discharged 1,00 of fits field agents; and one of its vice presidents says it has of its offices from forty-six to ten He says rather bitterly that no bank or other enterprise except life insurance Is limited to the amount of business it | may do. This is true, but there Is no other bus ness that is at all like life Insurance. We are not unqualifiedly in favor of the limi- tation of whose necessity Governor Hughes became convinced while he was the eoun- sel of the Armstrong committee. But | whether the reasons for this limitation be conclusive or.not, there are reasons for it. It may not be the only or the best remedy for the evil at which it is almed, but there is no doubt about the evil. The evidence given before the Armstrong com- mittee showed that In their intense com- petition, In the struggle of the companies to increase the amount of thels insurance, in the pressure applied to agents to pile up big totals, the companies were paying more for business than It was worth. In getting new policles they were impairing the value of the.old ones. Something had to be done to protect existing polteyholders. | The preposterous oplaion of one of the | company presidents that policyholders | should be altrulstic enough to suffer cheer- fully some loss of thelr own interests for the sake of extending the benefits of in surance to others did not commend itself to the public judgment PERSONAL NOTES. The Natlonal Editorial association pro poses to visit the canal. Possibiy some of them could give the constructors points as to the throwing of Dr sity the New York by State having dirt of Columbia has been appointed as a delegate ¢ part of the United States to the In-| in the modern languages Paris April 14 Herr von Bohlen wife was formerly Lertha Kiupp notices posted throughout the Essen works decring on behalf of himself and his wife { that the report of the probabllity of a di- | voree between them tlon What is sald resolution turc Munroe Smith univer- | to convene in und Halba whose has had | Is a buseless inven- to be introduced in any state of the nouncing prohibition Price of California, the committee of The advocates the first ever in any union directly d that of Senat hands of 1s now in the ) fruit and vine the state senate interests, ¢ equal suffrage America and England toasting H. B. T. Strangways. formerly prime ister of South Australia. It seems that ths antis of England have deluging the | former pr minister letters and circulars asking him the use of | bis name as a member tlon. This he refused both ‘In Hon min- | been with to allow of their organiza- A three-word cablegram received at Win- | chendom, M from the barren Isle of | | Molokal, Hawali, anrounced the death of Mrs. Walter R. Brinkerhoff, formerly Miss | Nellle White of that town, who three years 480 gave up the pleasures that wealth and assured soclal etanding can bring to assist | Ler husband In caring for the lepers mnn'\.l whom he had cast bis lot. Appomattox Forty-fourth Anniversary of the Closs of the War of the Rebellion. To the eclders of today, whose memories the civil war, and to in that mighty of the surrender house must ever re. apan the years since those who participated struggle, the anniversary | at Appomattox court main a deep patriotic emotion Forty-four vears ago April 9, 1866, Gen- eral Lee conceded the hopelessness of the southern cause and began negotiations for the surrender of his army to the victorious northern troops, under General Grant bringing to a close the greatest internecine struggle in the world's history The locality of the ablding place in history pomattox court house. g, was destroyed by surrender That the fire has an Ap build. years | is all county fif | A0, and was not rebuilt in the same place Some of the village houses remain, but | | two or | roots are | | lot the ola | cared for and foriorn. | the more vital site | late | the Army | manded the infant { marked by In an advanced state of dilapidation. Only three of the houses are inhabitad The others stare at one with broken doors and windows. Porticos have collap: falling. Some have fallen court house building stood there are mounds of charred brick and ashes, what was the court house | square at the time of the great surrender | is grown up In serub pines. d and Whera the and | uken Interesung was i command oi | the parage and other formalities attending | the surrender of the contederate ofticers | and soldlers, forty-four years ago. In “Appomattox Kevisited," General berlain says: I found e and designed forsakenness. roads are changed. [ could not by which Sheridan switched oft mand from the main column a from the station, to strike then pressing back our cavalry of marking field this out. The county seat is pomattox stution. * * * Byt old ground the court house is burned down; | the jall standing, overstall, gaunt and lean, | fit for no use except to intensify solitary confinement. The Mclean house, where | Grant and Lee first met for conference | before the surrender is torn down; most | houses are still there—no im- provement and no addition, all looking un- The changes wh the olu buiue descrived by Genheral tne Maine man w na place B e Cham erything in rulo | the | that | com- f | kven tind my mile out on's left The fancy boundaries had wiped removed to Ap- | on the "Stll further along the crest, near the Spot where this flag (the flag of truce) | was received, the boy who was my driver | for this excursion, jumped off to pick up & grapeshot haif showing itself above the ground, which having been originally de- | livered, thus satistying the essential con- | ditions of the law of property, 1 felt | authorized to take into personal possission, | roseing the Richmond come to another inscription: “Near this spot Generals Grant and Robert E. Lee met to confer as to the de- tails of the surrender, April 10, 1865, H “This tablet is on the ground between | my two lines as they stood at the moment of the final cessation of hostilities. Les came In on the Richmond road, from where the rear of Longstreet's command then was, three miles away, confronted by our | Becond and Sixth corps. He passed near where 1 was In the saddle waiting the com- mand to resume hostilities, “After the truce of three hours Grant came a little later by another road, a| roundabout country road leading Into the town near my center Both rode past me | to the court house. On the following morn- | ing they had a final meeting. the ele-| vated ground in front of my right “'Over the Appomaltox—now, as then, a stream not more than bootleg deep, run- ning swift and clear—a mile perhaps up the opposite slope, in the edge of the wide woods, stands another tablet, It reads: "On this spot General Robert E. Lee wrote his last order, taking leave of the Army of Northern Virginia, April 10, 1865, road in tablet, bearing front, this | we “The scarcity of formal recognition of at Appomattox is re- markable. The only distinctive and impos- ing structure has been furnished by the people of North Carolina. It is a stone monument which commemorates the fces performed at Appomartox by the sol- Glers frem that state, especially of those men who fired the 'ast volley. It stands | in a little clearing of a part of Appomattox which is densely covered with a growth of pine. At the time of its erection there| was considerable discussion the propriety of that part of the inscription which contained the words ‘valor, endur-| ance and patriotism. North Carolina, how- ever, stuck to its guns and the inscription went as it was composed. 80 much by this day have old feelings been dropped that there is no further objections to the inscription. Here it is in tull Al this piace the North Carolina Brigade | of Brigadier General W. R. Cox of Grimes | Division fired the last volley, & April, 186, Major General Bryon Grimes of North C: lina planned the last battle fought by of Northern Virginia and com- engaged t n, the | r part of whom were | North Carolinians. Stone is Erected by General Assembly of N gratetul _and Perpetual ory of the Valor, Emdurance and Pairiotlsm of her Sons Who followed with unshaken fidelity the Confederacy to the closing scene. ‘aithful to the end wacted April 9, 1905, | North Carolina Appomatiox Commission H. A. London, E. J. Holt. W. T, Jenkins Cyrus 8: W on D. MeGilL" serv- over gre This of the Carolina in On thé opposite face of the monument is this inscription Carolina at Bethel Front at Gettysburg Chickamauga at Appomaitox the letter bearer orth First Farthest to th and Last The spot where | eral Grant found General Lee reclining on | a blanket on the ground by roadside, under an apple tree, is marked by a wocden signboard. The disay peared. That was the foundation ofr the legend of Appomattox. The spot eneral Lee's tent when wrote his farewell to the army is apple orchard has only apple tree covered by he 1y s also a rude signboard it was somewhat of a surprise to Chamberlain, in recent rambles the old battiefield, to find markers on t location which in 1866 the Fifth corps hao Feeling his through t of the reglon, he de elevation was coverea decades ang Interesting his occupled underbush scended with wuy desolate which growth of three extremely an stubbly came upon this tablet Near this spot was established the left o1 the line of the First division, Fifth corps, formed 1o recelye the surrender of arms of the Army of Northern Virginia on tie 1ith day of April, 1865, And a little farther, near the ruins of the old court houe, General Chamberlain found | a second marker, in which he also had a | great personal interest | Near_this spot rested the right of the First Division, Fifth Corps, to recelve the bronze | has been & dreary day this is. 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FAIRBANK COMPANY Makers of FAIRY SOAP, the oval cake. surrender of the Army of Northern ginia, on the eleventh day of April Tt may be explained that on ant and Lee signed thelr agreement but two days elapsed before of laying down April 9 of the was car. surrender ceremony ried out. POINTED PLEASANTRIES, ‘Your gardener's work just perfect bull.” What do you mean?" “ITe {s making such headway tpath."~Baltimove American arms now is a with Clubman—1 understand, began life as & newsboy uest of the Evening—I fear some one fooling you. I began life as an Infant.—Philippine ‘Gossip. sir, that you ‘Why, old man,” exclaimed Brutus, forgot to pat your laurel on this morning.” Forgot nothing."" replied Caesar bitterly I8 in the ash barrel. When Jetfries talks about snatching laurel from the brow Johnson, 1 quit."—Philadelphia lLedger “Shadbolt, did you ever have a touch of anything like the appendicitis?’ ‘Once; have you forgotten, Dinguse, that when you were operated on for it you touched me for an even hundred?"—Chi- cago Tribune. number wasn't in sight, said he was using his badge to hold up his trousers.” Then the judge should have found him . motice that a Massachusetts chauffeur who was arrested because his personal guilty and given him a_suspendered sen- tence.”—Cleveiand Plain Dealer, “Oh, whet a nice little plano? May 1 ask how much you paid for ft?" “Certainly; 8ot it for $25." “Impossible “Not at all. That's exactly what we pald r it—at the time. That was (hree years 0. We're—er—still paying for it. What isn’'t 1t? Think it's “I've always been something of a free trader,” said Uncle Allen Sparks. glancing at the display in the milliner's front win- “you | of | £t that | [dow and passing on; “but I'm ready to vote for & prohibitory tariff on coal sevttles waste baskets and . beehives. —Chicagy Tribune. Weary Wiggles, gaszing his torn and tattered frald these here pants is on Lippincott's Magasine. as.” sighed dejectedly upon trousers, “I'm | their last leg: | A mule, said Uncle Bben, “is wus dan an automobile. He ain’t even got de } | liteness to ‘honk' when he's out to damage!"'—Washington Star. Alice. did I not see you kiss Mr. Brace when you came home from the theater last night? Alice—Yes, ma, veil.—Puck THE LOVE LETTER. New York Sun She took it from the postman with a nerve ous, trembling hand A sort of trepidation she could hardly derstand Of course she knew he loved her. falter In this way When a letter was due her and knew just what ‘twould say? Mother but It was through my un s0 why She took it to her houdoir, not because she cared to hide The postmark or' the writing or the verse or two Inside, But because she was a woman with a gen- tle woman's heart; yearned to feel the rankling, by self, of Cupid's dart sh her- Alone beside the window she observed the dainty square, Addressed, as is the custom, with an eye-de- luding care; She smiled to think how useless was this etfort of his hand When, of course, the sweet inclosure was by him and for her planned. 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