Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 21, 1909, Page 6

6 THE OMAHA DALY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. Enteréd at Omaha class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. '8 (without Sunday), one yea! ua 6 and Sunday, one yes [t DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Daily g:: (Including Sunday), per week 1sc Daily (without day), per week.. l0c E! Bee (without Bunaay), per week E g Bea (with Bunday), per week. Sunday Bee, ome yeaf. Saturday Bee, one T Address ail oo th of irregu delivery to Oy - lation Depart postoffice as second- Daily Daily C nml:uhc Hee Burlding. Sout! OMlhn—h.nly-tox'nh and N. Council Bluffs—15 Scott Street. Lincoln—$1§ Litt lllllln‘. Chie 1648 Marquette Bufldin New York—Rooms 1101-1102 No. Thirty-third Stree ashington—72 Fourteenth Street, N. W. CORREBPONDENCE. Communicatins relating to news asd efi. torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. Remit by acaft, cxprass of postal order mit by draft, express or pos 3 payable to The Bes Publishing Company nly 2-cent stamps received in payment of mail accounts. raonal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss: George B. Trschiick, treasurer of The Bes Publishing company, being duly sworn, sa that the aotual number of full and com coples of The Dally, Morning, Evenin Sunday Bee d during the month March. 100, wa nln‘ of t total ... Daily aver: ) K. Subscribed in my pr ce ant before me this 1st day of Apri!, 1809. M. P, WALKER, (Sea)) Notary Public. WHEN OUT OF TOWN. L] P majled to them. Address will be changed as often as requested. e It is to.be hoped the troubles in Turkey'will'be séttled before too many of those names are, inflicted upon us. Will the World-Herald swallow the | latest dose which the Dahlmanites have cooked up for it? Of course, it will. The Turk may be unspeakable, but there is ample evidence that he is thinking at.a lively rate in these later days. The lions may suffer later in Africa, (but just now the great killing is among the bears on the Grain ex- change. Ghosts have driven the men from a Pennsylvania: mine. Ordinarily- the miner qufts only when the ghost fails to walk. A Boston professor insists that for $10,000,000 he can make a flash that will be visible in Ma: ‘Why not send the message colléct? Governor Shallenberger has sud- denly convinged himself that “he don't care nothing for Omaba nohow.” He | sang a different song last fall, A prominent dramatist has written a play with the idea of having the stage purify politics. Well! Well! Well! What do you think of that? Mayor Jim also promised not to let anybody interfere with the screens in the windows, but when the pinch came this promissory note went to protest. the- state constitution in the attorney general's ofice, even though the one that belongs in the governor's office is missing. ——— A wild bear has been killed in the streety of Pullman, W. and a lynx in one of the city parks of Spokane. Advertising for the tourist season is starting carly. 4 Wintergreen 18 quoted a strong favorite in one of the big Kentucky rades. Has thei.prohibition wave put mint julep out of the running in the bourbon state? Why, it paying $6,263,295.49 for the water works will not raise taxes, the water bond boos ters were so inslstent on that frontage water tax bill? Governor Hughes of New York is having the time of bis life with his legislature. Win or lose, the result will be decisive. No close shaves go wl? the governor of New York. William R. Hearst has issued an. other rallying cry to the Independence league. On the basis - of last fall's vote all members should be able to get within the sound of the leader’s voice. A Chicago man thinks school chil- dren should not be taught the idea of purgatory. It will be hard to get the idea out of the mind of the small boy forced to attend school while the fish- ing is good. _— The sultan of Turkey is reported to be in training for making the Mara- thon distance in record time. If he waits at the starting line to kiss each of his wives goodbye he is likely to be left at the post. No, there is nothing to prevent any- one otherwise qualified from running for police commissioner by petition, but experience proves that the privil- ege of running for office all alone does Aldrich on the Tariff. The statement of Senator Aldrich in presenting the tariff bill to the sen. ate will command universal and thoughtful attention. His long service in the senate, his membership for years on the finance committee and his conceded ability entitle anything he may say on this subject to special weight. Whatever may be one’s opin- fon regarding the policy pursued by the senator, he is beyond question the best posted man in public life today estimate of the revenue producing ability of the tariff bill as presented to the senate can therefore .be taken as the opinion of the one best capable of Judging. . Read between the lines, it is conclu- sively demonstrated that the senator figures on a material reduction in tie annual budget of the government. If this is true the public will not be in- clined to grumble, provided the prun- ing is judiciously done. The expan- sion of the national expense bill in the preceding years of treasury surplus has been beyond all,comparison with the growth of the nation. For the years 1908-9 they were greater by ap- proximately $60,000,000 than during the Spanish-American w The esti- mate of a surplus of $30,000,000 dur- ing the next biennium is based on a re- duction of $85,000,000 in the appro- | priations. That this sum can be lopped off without impairing in the least the legitimate functions of government is & matter of common belief by those both outside and inside of public life. Certain it is, no material reduction will be made so long the revenues of the government produce the added amount. What changes the senate will make in the bill and the added changes in conference with the house, are of course still problematical, but it fis fair to presume they will be compen- sating so far as the question of reve- nue is concérned’ If the new tariff bill shaill raise enough to wipe out the unavoidable deficit under the present act and yet raise no more than nec- essary for the gconomical and efficient administration of affairs it will have accomplished its purpose so far as rev- enue goes. Under such a bill the in- come will expand as the country grows and, until conditions change, prove adequate to its purpose. Insurance for Workingmen. The annual report of the Interna- tional Harvester company presents some features other than the financial one which are worthy of attention. In addition to old age pensions of its em- ployes there is a provision for sick, accident and death insurance. The for- mer is along almost identical lines with the retirement pension systems in vogue among railroads and other big corporations, the money to meet the expenditures coming entirely from the company and offered simply as an incentive to faitbful #nd continued service. The insurance feature is on a dif- ferent basis. gations are secured first from a volun- tary payment of those who desire to participate, the payment being 2 per cent of all salaries under $2,000 per annum. To this the company adds $5,000 each year. The payments under it are on the same basis as the assessments, providing for two years’ salary In case of ‘death, from one to two years' salary in case of accident which permanently disables, according to the extent of disability and for the payment of wages while sick or tem- porarily disabled by Injury, the pay- ments in ail cases being on the basis of wages recelved while working. Nothing is charged against the fund for transacting the business of the relief association, and the company pays 4 per cent interest on all money In the treasury. While membership in the associdtion is purely voluntary the report shows that 76 per cent of the employes are participants. The plan is upon such a broad basis that it should interest all large employers of labor for the protection of the men in their employ. That a concern like the American Harvester company should engage in it purely for charity is not to be supposed. It is a creator of mutual interest and an effective method of increasing the value of the employe to the company on a founda- tion of mutual Interest. P | Big Corporations' and Big Fortunes. Bearing on the future of big corpo- rations and their relation to the pub- lie, George W. Perkins, the active part- gan & Co., recently delivered a note- worthy address. He predicates his re- marks on the assertion that the big corporation is simply the evolution of the world’s Industrial life and that it has come to stay, an opinion more | and more generally accepted with each succeeding year. The most interesting feature is hig conclusions regarding the effect of this evolution on the concentration of wealth, holding to the belief it is ulti- mately destined to help distribute rather than centralize ownership in capital. As he views it, the first ef- fect of the movement was, through manipulation, undoubtedly the cre- ation of vast fortunes and the adding of large sums (o already swollen bank accounts. The vast- ness of the business involved, he maintains with much force, demands that capacity shall be the measure of those who manage them. The demands are too great to be met by the simple ownership of large blocks of stock, for incapacity would soon dissipate all the wealth invested. The most potent fact brought out is the rapid transformation going on in the actual ownership, through uwot pay big dividends. stock holdings, of these big corpora- on the question of public revenue. His | The funds to meet obli- | ner in the banking firm of J. P. Mor- | | tions. During the 3 lnumbor of stockholders in the Great Northern railroad have increased from 3,000 to 11,000, in the Pennsylvania rallroad from 40,000 to 57,000 and in !Ihe New York Central from 10,000 to 21,000. Going from the railroads to the industrials, he shows there has been an increase of more than 30,000 |in the number of stockholders in the steel trust, the total number now be- ing over 100,000, Such figures go to _ indicate the transfer of large amounts of money trom individual enterprise into corpo- rate channels. Whether this is to con- tinue must be décided by the manage- ment of the corporations themselves. Under conditions such as have pre- vailed in the past and to a large meas- ure in the present, it simply means that the small investor will have to be more considerately treated and culti- vated. Complete publicity in affairs alone can protect the small stockholder, put a restraint upon the big one and give us all a square deal. With a check upon, questionable methods by which immense fortunes are acquired in a short time, the con- dition which Mr. Perkins points out will with time have a leveling efiect, but these forces would be impotent so fong as other fortunes are accumu- lated more rapidly than the old ones are dispersed. Still No Grand Jury. The May term of the district court is coming on and the time for drawing the jury panels has passed without the summons of a grand jury to go through the motions of hunting down well-defined rumors and bringing in reports /' censuring public officlals ggainst whom no evidence of miscon- duet could be found on which to jus- tify indictments. | The people of Omaha had been led to believe that grand juries were such a good thing and so necessary that they were to be the regular sideshow of every term of the district court. They had been led to belleve that the county attorney’s office was purely or- namental and that his salary had just been raised by the legislature to comi pensate him for the trouble which the successive grand juries imposed on him to nelle so many faulty or unsup- ported indictments. It looks now as if we would have to get along without a grand jury in Omaha and Douglas county until next fall. We know it will be a great dis* appointment, but hope the taxpayers who foot the bills will try to bear up bravely under it A Notable Benefaction. The will of the late Charles E. Ellis, together with the generosity of his widow and daughter, leaves a fund of $2,500,000 for the founding of a col Jege and industrial school in Philadel- | phia for fatherless girls. The widow waived her claim to the third of ‘the | estate and the daughter voluntarily takes only a small bequest, leaving | practically the entire fortune for the purpose designated. With such a rich endowment, would be impossible to foretell the i it | | good that this institution can accom- | plish. It not only opens up an ave nue for giving an education to those who for the most part would not be able to obtain it, but they would re- | ceive it in an atmosphere in which | they would feel at home to a much | greater degree than were they pro-| vided for in schools where they would | come in contact with daughters of wealthy parents. In such a school as planned they can be fitted for the life work before them without the dissat- | | isfying influence of too close nsso('in»} tion with those whose expenditures were beyond either their present or | prospective means. Water Board Politics. The Water board is a great non- partisan institution. It was created for the express purpose of putting the | water company out of politics and, of course, recognizing how pernicioas the interference of the water company in poltics was, is itself built on the funda- mental rule that the Water board and everyone within its jurisdiction shall also keep out of politics. The Water board membership, as everyone knows, I8 nonpartisan or bi- partisan, as you may prefer to view it, | and instead of a party caucus the en- | tire membership is always admitted to | its secret sessions. So fearful were the framers of the law creating tho" Water board that the board and its | employes might be tempted to go into | | politics that they wrote right into the | law a specific and definite prohibition on political activity and threw a civil service fence around them so high that no one could look over. Here is the wording of the law: Undue activity or participation in mu- nicipal politios shall be deemed = just cause for removal, in the discretion of | the board, it being the intent and purpose | of this act not only to remove the Water board, but likewise its employes, from the influence of partisan politics, With that magna charta of personal liberty before them, the Water board members and employes, of course, are | properly abstaining from participation in partisan politics. True, one mem- | ber of the board filed last year as a candidate for state senator, and the paid secretary this year as a candidate for city engineer, while another mem ber of the board volunteered to help manage the primary campaign of a de- feated candidate for mayor. This, however, is not partisan polities “in [the discretion ¢! the board,” mor will it be deemed “a just cause for re- moval.” The Water board and every employe under it are strictly divorced trom polities. - oo TR S R Seattle has been engaged for some {time in cleaning house and making the WEDNESDAY, APR y beautiful for exposition visitors. The latest move is against the un- sightly billboards. 1f Seattle suc- ceeds in dfiving them out other cities which have so far failed will be en- couraged”to follow suit. Our city attormey is said to have given an opinion to the effect that a nonresident is qualified to run for mu- nicipal office in Omaha and that to be elected an officer of the city the candi- date need not be able to vote for him- self, It is possible this may be a tech- nical construction of the charter, but it is wholly at variance with the spirit of that document and the principle of municipal government. The prevail- ing idea is that the officers of a mu- nicipal corporation must be stockhold: ers in the corporation and our city charter goes further by requiring that “all agents, officers and servants em- ployed or appointed”’ be, “so far as practicable,” qualified voters of the gity. Would it not be a queer specta- cle to have the elective head of an im- portant department a nonresident, but limited in the choice of his employes to qualified veters of the city? PR i Obserye how those distingulshed democratic lawmakers, who insisted on having a charter providing for an elective police board, in order that they, themselves, might connect with the payroll, have all stubbed their toes before getting a start. Innocu- ous desuetude is theirs. Officials of a prominent western rallway assert that they have a new invention which will do away with rallway wrecks. While many will doubt the truth of the statement, no one who scans the figures of mortality on the rails will wish them anything but success. The women implicated in the smug- gling of fine French gowns are willing to pay liberal penalties if their names can be suppressed. If the paying idea had taken root a little earlier it would have saved the women a whole lot of worry. B If that pretense of increased busi- ness made by our amiable democratic contemporary, the World-Herald, Is even part fact and not wholly fiction, wonder why It has been hollering about the prosperity special being de- layed. B Don't be too impatient about the cool and backward spring. If the im- mense amount of snow in the moun- tains should melt too rapidly people in the plains section would have an un- pleasant reminder. Misleading Disclaimer. Chicago Tribune. “It 1sn't & cormer,” says Mr. Patten. “It's perfectly square deal.”” Anything that Is perfectly square usually has a corner. A Party Tharacteristic, $ooklyn Eagle. The geniud 6f the democratic party for discovering unpopylar issues is again emonstrated, In the resolve of the demo- cratic senators to support an income tax. Soh for the Old Wa Philadelphia Record. In the good old times the forestallers of bread were dealt with quite differently from their present treatment. But the remedy, -though_drastic, was effective. At any rate thelr careers were shortened be- fore they became millionaires bank- rupts. or Is the Consumer Getting Weary? Baltimore Amerlcan The New Jersey legislature is to make an investigation as to whether ice is a monopoly. A bill may be introduced in congress in consequence of the recent op- erations in wheat, to prohibit corners in food stuffs. Evidently the poor, dear pub- lic Is getting tired of always paying the piper and getting none of the fun of the dance. Not In the Game. Springfield Republican. Lawson of Boston is now trying te arouse | the country against the “dastardly conspi- racy of reckless gamblers in wheat. He proposes mass-meetings, and predicts that the streets of American cities will be given over to rlot and bloodshed unless mome- thing is done fo suppress the ‘ravenous gamblers.”” Apparently Lawson's own gambling agency, Bay State gas, does not speculate in wheat or was short of that market. aw of Libel in Missouri. 8t. Louls Globe-Democrat By a vote almost unanimous the state senate has passed the bill providing that & newspuper may be sued for libel only in the county where the person who brings the suit lives, or in the city or where the newspaper s published presumed that the house will pass bill promptly and by a similar vote. The present law permits’ such a suit to be brought in any of the 114 counties of the tate, which gives the plaintiff a power that may be oppressively or unfairly used, It was held by the senate that the plain- tiff can count upon justice in county, and he has that ®pinion proposed new law. county It is the his o in the National Revenue Me: Be Pop Leglie’s Weekly The _newspapers of this country have every reason to support the bill introduced by Senator Heyburn of Idaho providing for a tax on advertising signs. In foreign lands these signs are taxed and afford a considerable vevenue. Senator Heyburn proposes a tax of 2 cents per superficial square foot on signs advertising products which enter into interstate commerce. The taxes are (0 be pald to the United States treasury, and 10 be collected annually This new source of reveaue might well be considered In connection with the effort to revise the tariff and reimpose war taxes of an objectionable character. Throughout the country an effort is being made to sup- press the advertsing slgn uuisance. It has been tolorited altogether too long. It meets no public want, because the newspapers, magazines and other publications are the legitimate channels for the use of the ad- vertiser. They contrihute to the education of the people and to the prosperity of the nation. If the press will stand solidly be- hind Senator Heyburn's bill, its passage will be assured, and it will be effective in suppressing what has come to be an in- tolerable nuisance. The bilibvard must go! 1L Famous Land Rush Twentieth Anniversary of the Birth of Oklahoma, and Methods by Which It Was Achieved. There have been stampeges for land be- fore and since the memorable April 1889, but none equalled the picturesq preparations for and the rush over the Kansas bordor which signalized the birth of the territory of Oklahoma and the open Ing of that section of the public domain to white settlement. A territory was born in an hour, growing Into a state in less than nineteen years, and cities sprang into existence in a day In honor of that fa- mous birthday Oklshoma In general and teveral cities In particular will celebrate the twentieth anniversary tomorrow with exercises and cratory suited to the event At high noon, April 22, 1889, guns were fired by United States soldlers, which cchoed along the Kansas border and pro- claimed that the efforts of Captain David L. Payne were at last rewarded and “The Land of the Fair God" opened to settle- ment The sceres which were ‘enacted in those days have passed into history and whI never be repeated in the United Btates. For vears prospective settlers had campad along the Kansas border anxiously awaiting word from Washington that the new public domaln was open to settlement. They were led by Captain David L. Payne, who has since been named the “Father of Okla homa.” Finally word was sent from Washington that on April 22, 1589, the public lands would be opened to settlement, and those who desired to enter the new country would be entered in a free-for-all race for homes. For months the soon-to-be-Okla- homans increased along the Kansas border near Arkansas City and along the old Hunneywell trall awalting the signal that would throw the new country open to set- tlement. ) Federal trobps stationed along the border would frequently return from an expedi- tion into the forbidden land with “sooners’ who had attempted to secure a home In advance of the great race. At last, with thousands of persons from all parts of the United States “toeing the mark," the signal was given, and the mad rush for homes was on. 1t was a cosmopolitan aggregation. Some tried to gain homesteads near the line by running afoot. The large majority, how- ever, were mounted on horses, and 'the event was an endurance race rather than a speed trial. Following the riders in “prairie schooners” were the wives and familles of the homeseekers The rule governing the homesteading of a tract of 180 acres was that the settler should be the first on the land and estab- lish his right thereby by placing a stake in the ground a¢ characteristic of the home which he was to build. The desperado and the outlaw figured in the race, and many men went to unmarked graves that day when disputes arose over the possesaion Thousands of quarrels which afterwards resulted In contests were begun The race was one of the most unique recorded in American history. Thousands of horseback riders surged in a broken line all afternoon across Oklahoma. Many horses fell under the strain, and many & { rider set out on the rest of his journey on foot or stopped on the best plct of ground avallable. If there were any trees on the ground on which the “squatter sovereign” set up his domlicile a temporary arbor of brush was erected to take the place of a home. Tt was usually followed by a rude dugout. But the men who came to Okla- homa in the plonesr days lived for the fu ture, and the hardships that they encount- ered have amply been repald. The wife following in a covered wagon hoped to trace the husband by the direc- tion he had taken at the outset. Some families were separated for weeks by the homeseeker belng forced to change his plans. Guthrie seemed to be the chief objective point by reason of the designation of that place as the capital. During the day thousands of persons had arrived in the new capital on the Santa Fe rallroad from Purcell and Arkansas City. The State Capital newspaper plant was brought in during the day and by evening the press was set up and the editor began to write. A tent served both as pressroom and sanctum Twenty-five thousand persons slept on ! the townsite that night, and when the city awoke the next morning it was as if | the powers of magic had transformed the valley Into a living, breathing city. An organization was soon effected by select- {ing a representative from each state that ? had any considerable representation among the settlers. At the end of the | week D. B. Dyer of Kansas City was elected mayor. Famous bandits, whose names were terror to the southwest, | mingled with the crowds. Gambling halls were wide open and dance halls ran day and night, but strange to relate, amid all the picturesque events that marked the opening summer in Guthrie, crimes were remarkably few and very few men died “with thelr boots on.” Capt. David L. Payne, the original Okla homa boomer, was born in. Fairmont, Ind., |in i8%. He came to Kansas when a young | man and was twice elected to the legisla | ture of that state from Doniphan county | Removing later to the southern part of | the state, he was a familiar figure In Wichita, which city he made the base of his efforts to secure the opening of the new country. At that time Oklahoma was controlled by cattie baromns, who held leases from the federal government Seven times did Payne lead bands of | boomers into Oklahoma and as many | | times were they rounded up by soldlers |and sent out of the country and some- { times thrown into jall, from which they :Wnnld be liberated on writ of habeas cor- | pus. No law could be found by the court { for their detention, for there was nothing |in the statutes making it a crime to go {upon public lands. The pathetic side of | the struggle was the death of Capt. Payne at Wellington, Kan. just as he had | reached the point where he could view | the 1ana of promise. Mis carnest conten tions had been vindicated by the United States courts and it remained only for congressional action to open the country this was assured. While at break- | tast in Wellington hotel on November &, | 1884, Payne wus seized by an attack of lieart failure and expired | The campalgn for the opening of Okla- | |homa to white settlement was continued| |by Capt. W. L. Couch and Judge Seats and others of Payne's followers, and re- | sulted im favorable action by congress The proclamation opening the land to set- | | tiers was issued by President Harrison, who named April 22 as the day on which the race for homes should be made. and New York World. The minority members of the Philippine legislature who have adopted an Ameri- | can ides ana gone on strike have improved on ‘the example. Leglslators are almest the only class of employes who do not strike, at least In that sense of the word. \ A pure, Creamof Tartar Pow- . / der. Makes finest cake and pastry, light, flaky biscuits, delicious griddle cakes— palatable and wholesome. No alum, no lime phosphates. Avold b-kln.“povm. made from alum, No one can continuously eat food mi. with alum without injury to health. PERSONAL NOTES. Arkansas is learning to curb railroads, but its Jeff Davis can't be induced to sub- mit to a similar process. James R. Garfield, formerly secretary of the Interior, has returned to Cleveland and will resume the practice of law. The Oklahoma militia have succeeded in getting Crazy Snake rounded up on a strip of land thirty miles wide and a hun- dred miles long. Another San Francisco grafter has con- fessed. However, the difficulty of accept- ing the word of a San Franhcisco grafter naturally intervenes to embarrass the jury Mayor D. W. Lawler of 8t. Paul, “pro- poses to create a city cabinet by appoint- ing an advisory committee of fifty prom- inent business and professional men to advise him. Judge Kenesaw. Mountain cently fined a defendant 1 cent. Quite a come-down from $20.240,00, but there was this advantage about it—the defendant pald the 1 cent. 8ince the acquittal of T. Jenkine Hains demonstrated that the killing of a man is no crime in New York, it seems Idle to bother the other Hains for participation in the same innocent episode. SMILING REMARKS. Maud Muller sang as she raked the hay “With a little training,” she sighed, "I belleve I'd make a falrly good grasshop- Bera singer. ust then the Judge happetied along—and the rest 1s history.—Chicago iune: Landis re- “S80 your husband always stays house ‘nights,” sald one woman. “Yes,” answered the other. “Once Hiram gets settled down in- front of his fireside you can't get him oyt o' doors even fo grln‘ in an armful of' wood."—Washington tar. ' in the “Whatever success I have achieved,” ar- gued the passenger with the akull cap, owe entirely to heredity and environment “That's a firm 1 never heard of before." said the passenger with the loud necktie. “How long have you been traveling for them?"—Chleago Tribune. “Yes,” sighed the burlesque star, as she posed gracefully for the Interview. o have me moods, vou know, but it's me per- sonality what takes 'em, me boy. | have s0 much temperature.”—Baltimore Ameri- ocan. “But." asked the first co-ed, “why did you elect (o take up the study of German “the German y ‘handsome. you know."—Catholic Standard and Times. A surgeon In a western town, engaged to perform an operation of minor character upon & somewhat unsophisticated patient, asked him If he were willing to have only a local anaesthetic. *replied the other: “I belleve in patroniging home industry whenever you an.” And he meant It.—+Lippincott's. Knicker—How does your daughter get on cultivating her voice? Bocker—Fine, 1 guess. 8he doesn't sing any more; she interprets.~New York Sun. WHEN APRIL COMES T0 TOWN. Sing a song of April, Showers and scowlin Well we know lLer coy A llon in disgulse Thunder, lightnin’, rain an’ Hall an’ sleet come down— The elements go on a tedr When April comes to town, Al ekiex spring lamb's snow, Now, aitho’ Chill the Pa still po And predic Then ‘midst cold a An' freakish wind—wha A Welsh rarebit_of sunshine A Welsh rare hit—or miss. ‘tis April, eezes blow the furnace ‘Wil snow; Yes of course ‘tis April Hear that peal of thunder! But lie low little violets An' keep ver noses under The only fiowers that may Immune from frost-bit Are the flowers that bl That conceals my lady bloom dread ym upon that tub s head. Yes, and what do 1 behold W A rain-barrel up the street? Ah, no, my friend, you -sadly In truth, It is not that- "Tis only Apgelina fair, her Raster hat err— Tren here's to hoydenish April days, A miscellaneous lot, Contributed by all the months LBt thelr tharms be forgot; The weather man speaks at random An llves on roast done brown; He surcly, surely rues the day That April comes to town. And if _these verses gseem to he At random strung together. 8till they're in keeping, you' must own, With hop-scotch April weather; 8o critic pray be lenlent I pray thee do not frown, For a rhymster's not accountable When April comes to town. Oraha. BAYOLL NE | TRELE. 'SALT SULPHUR WATER | also the “Crystal Lithium” water from Excelsior Springs, Mo., in b-gallon sealed jugs. b-gallon jug Crystal Lithia water..$2 b-gallon jug Salt-Sulphur water....$2 Buy at either store. We sell over 100 kinds mineral water. Sherman & McConnall Drug Co, Sixteenth and Dedge Sts. Owl Drug Co. Sixteenth and Harney Sts. Shoulder Room In all our Suit models this Spring there is ample room across the chest, with natural shoulder width. A diminishing fullness in the skirt of the coat makes pear more athletic. the shoulders ap- Thus we secure an easy fitting and well balanced garment. Suits $15, $18, $22, $25, $30 to $35. ‘Browning, King & Co B:K 8 15th and Douglas Sts. R. 8. WILOOX, Mgr. Spring Announcemant 1909 We are now dispisying a most com- plete line of foreign .oveltles for *Rrodr Sarty"{napection bs. Invited. n 1s Invited. as #t will afford an opportunity of choos- Iub(.r.wn & large number of exclusive ‘s Import In “Single sult: lengths,” and & suit cannot be Auplicated. Al order placed mow may be deliv- ered at your convenience. Guckert McDonald, Tailors