Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 28, 1909, Page 6

THE OMAHA DALY Bu'_. FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. Entered class mati 1l Bally Daily Eten Venin Evening at o-‘unnW;fia(nu as sccond- ter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. ee (without Sunday), one yea! and Sunday, one yei DELIVERED BY CARRIER. oo (Includ Bunday), per week 15 "('ilh' t 8 no' y), per week ': out Su 3 Beo (with Sunday), per week.. 100 Sar. ), FOAr. all_eom ts of irreguiarities in 0 City ulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha—The Bes Muildl South Omaha—Twenty h and N "o .00 Bat: y Bee, Address delivery t ng. ~fourt Counell !lul‘fjt—ll .c:.n::’gtwd faraustte Hilin 1102 No. ty-third Strest. Washington—725 Feurteenth Street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. = Cominunications relating to news - torfal_matter should hm=ldunod: 0!»3- Bee, Bditorial Department. i REMITTANCES. eniit by draft, express or postal order, gavavle to ‘The Tes Publishing Company: M Z-cont stamps recelved in payment = mail accounis. Fersonal checks, except Omaha or eastern exchanges, not acceopte STATEMENT O® CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Dov County, G'er‘a Tanchuck, lr‘(‘ rer of The Bee Publisl eom . pany, uly sworn, that the actual number ol' i) and complete ;o:l;l nf"!'hc Daity, lo;'ul- l"“‘“h":; unday Bee printed durin March, 199, vi-": as lallofl. 1. 29,830 17 {the most perplexing has been that of | must be refunded whether paid under { ination, but it goes a long way toward HE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28 1909 Relief for Shippers. Gradually, but surely, the relations {of shippers and the carriers and the rights of each are being evolved under the rulings of the Interstate Commerce commission and the courts. One of the recourse the shipper had when rates were found to be unjust. The elapsed time between the making of a rate and the determination of it just- ness 18 necessarily considerable and in the meantime, if the contention of have beén extorted from him. The commission has decided that when a | rate is determined to be excessive all | amounts over and above a fair rate protest or not. This decision does not cure the dis- turbance to business as between points where there may have been discrim- meeting the equities of the situation. States, by legislation, have sought to g0 farther by preventing the ignoring of commission and statutory rates pending a court decision on their rea- sonableness, but with no success. The ruling of the commission in this in- stance rests on a different proposition of law, recognizing that the shipper has no choice about accepting the rate temporarily, and that, therefore, he is entitled to be relmbursed when it is found excessive, whereas the roads would have no recourse so far as it related to goods already carried in 9,060 37,400 39,080 28,870 3,390 1,207,400 Dally average . GEORGE B. nd sworn to Subscribed in presence before me this 18t ARy gt Apell, 1900 M P WALKER, (Seal) Notary Publie. WHEN oUT OF TOWN, Subseribers 1eaving the oity tem- porarily. shonld have The tled to them. Addrens will be chauged as often as requested. = No penalty for planting trees even after Arbor day has come and gome. —— Spring would be much more popular it it would return to form and cease its strenuous ways. — A big bunch of political street clean- ers is a sign not of clean streets, but of an approaching city election. ‘What ‘a democratic administration has accomplished for Omaha s rep- resented by A vacancy in thé eity treasury. Chinese officeholders are not per- mitted to vote. What a pienic this must be for the man who is out ahd wants to get in, . Reports from Africa are to the effect mother lions and hippopotamal tell their bables Roosevelt will get them if ‘hey are not good. The school and college athlete ls having his day and he should improve his opportunity, for ere long he must give way to the sweet girl graduate. A New Yorker who embezzled $100 pleaded guilty and went to prison at opce, The amount taken was not enough to hire a lawyer to\get him out. —————— That blank space which represented what Mayor Jim had done during his three years in the city hall will have to be amended to Include those ietters to Maybray. There is.one satisfaction in all this Turkish turmoil. The poets will have A hard time finding anything to rhyme with those names the telegraph wires are bringing us. _ The faculty of a Denver college is out on a strike against a reduction in salary. This would appear to be the last step In modernizing highet edu- eational institutions. It required a month and two days to count the cash in the New York sub- treasury. The count disclosed $254,- $52,769.75. - Your Uncle S8amuel lacks considerable of being broke. A Battle Creek man beat the piane playing record and after completing his task was rushed to a sanitarium. On arrival he found the institution crowded with his nelghbors. Thoee democratie councilmen are promising all sorts of ihings in case they are re-elected. Everything they promise, however, could be deliversd ‘right now, if they were so disposed. Why not do it how —_— Missourl had to wait for a repub- lican legislatire to secure an anti-pass bill - States which still cling to democ- racy, if they desire to get abreast with modern ideas, shduld take notice and follow the } of Missouri. Fuigview, 8. D., has attracted atten- tion to itself by prohibiting the play- ing of base ball within the eity limits. It is a safe gueas that Young America will be found over the line putting them over where the cries of “slide” will'not disturb their elders. Castro is reported to have left his fortune buried in the back rd at Caracas, which accounts for great desire to return to his native land. 1f %e will only furnish & diagram of the financial cemetery there are doubtless plenty of people who will attend to the case a rate was subsequently held non- remunerative, it being impracticable to bring action against a multitude of shipper; Honest differences of opinion will always exist between shippers and rallroad officials regarding what cen: stitutes just and reasonable rates, but in the past the reasonableness of a determined on what the trafic would bear. The certainty of having to re- fund excess charges will cause railroad traffic men to be chary of putting this class of rates into effect. A refund order on any considerable amount of trafic after the earnings had been dis- tributed in dividends and otherwise would be an embarrassing feature, which the managers of roads are not likely to court by establishing rates about which there is genuine doubt, or, as sometimes occurs, absolute cer- tainty of their holdup character. the shipper is sustained, large sums {1n any way reflect the conditions of the #tate. It is and always has been noto Chattel mortgages filed are ever re leased when paid, and partienlarly i this true of the vast number which in. dividually represent small amounts, immense sum. They are glven a rule by people lacking in business ex perfence, who, when the debt is can of record. Good judges have often ex state in the aggregate would amoun if all the old records were compiled great drawback to the state been able to correct the evil of fall ures to release chattel when paid. Helgren for City Comptroller. ers of Omaha a ler John 8. Helgren, an expert countant of tried experience, qualified to perform the duties. Mr. Helgren is a steady, counting for public Institutions and the checking of public offices that would make him perfectly troller. Mr. of that class of our citizenship of ment of the community . and should of our municipal affairs. The comptroller's office, in particu- lar, is one in which an occasional new hand at the helm is most desirable. It will be made by electing Mr. Helgren city comptroller. Falte Expectations. The whole procedure for acquiring the water works by compulsory pur- This decision, while in line with others previously réndered, goes much farther than its predecessors and is likely to prove a landmark in raliroad rate regulation Boosting South Dakota. An unsuccessful effort was made at the last session of the legislature of South Dakota to induce that body to make an appropriation for the purpose of presenting the advantages of. the state to prospective settlers. Organ- ized commercial bodids of South! Da- kota, however, a raisin a fund to carry on the work. The build- ing of new railroad lines into unde- veloped portions of the state has opened up large tracts hitherto given over to the cattle ranges and even in the older settled sections there {s much unimproved land which is soon to be made productive. Omaha as a neighbor and bene- ficiary in large measure of the trade of that section has an Interest in the success of the enterprise and will re- joice at the arrival of the day whes every tillable tract of South Dakota land will be under the plow. In the rush to newer and better advertised sections the opportunities of Bouth Da- kota have been overlooked in recent years by settlers, but the advertising given to the opening of Indian lands has directed attention that way, and now is an opportu time for our neighbors to the morth to push the good work along and settle up the va- cant places. Nebraska Mortgage Statistics. The statistics of - Nebraska mort- gages present some interesting fe tures. As compared with the previous year, so far as the farms are cen- cérned, the record shows an increase of $4,343,276 in the reduction of the mortgage debt and also a decrease of about $2,000,000 in the amount filed. As during both of these years the farmers were prosperous and had no reason for golng in debt to meet ex- penses, the mortgages, with compara- tively few exceptions, represented the unpald portion of the purchase price of lands. The decrease in the amount of mortgages filled would indicate, therefore, that the high price of Ne- braska lands had in a measure checked the buying for the sake of in- creasing the holdings of landholders, while the payments demonstrate the soll has been doing its part to lift the debts existing. The figures also indl- cate the Third and Sixth congressional districts are at present the scenes of greatest activity in real estate. City property shows just the re- verse condition to farm realty. Al of the six congressional districts of the state show an excess of mortgages filed over those released, which is a reflection, not only of the activity of urban real estate, but of the great amount of bullding which is now being done not only in Omaha, but in every city and village of the sta From practically every city comes the report there has never before been so much building as in the past year and In prospect for the presént. As in all comparatively young communities, this is in & large measure being done on borrowed capital, but with the recerd of profitable investment in the past there is every ground for belleving the income will extinguish the debt. Unfortunately the statistics of chat- disinterment for him. chase, as engineered by the marooned mariner, has been built up on a suc- cession of false expectations. When the compulsory purchase act was passed in 1903 the people of Omaha were led to believe that they the water plant within six months. Needless to say that six years have elapsed, while the Water board, In- stead of fighting to get possession of the plant, is now In court trying te avold getting possession of it. ‘When the compuisory purchase act was passed the people were led to be- lieve that the water works could be bought within the $3,000,000, for which bonds had already been voted, and that at the worst a few hundred thousand dollars more might be needed to take in the outlying areas. But when the appraisers’ award came in it was for $6,263,295.49. The people were led to beiieve that the courts would reject the appraise- ment without giving it the slightest consideration, but instead the federal court of appeals approved it, leaving our only hope in'the United States su- preme court, where the case is now pending. The people were led to believe that the water rates could be reduced at once without waiting to complete the purchase and the Water board at two different times issued schedules of re- duced rates, but the courts refused to uphold them and water consumers are paying now the same rates they did before. The people were led to belleve that the eity could evade payment of its hydrant rental bills and that we could have our fire protection without pay- ing for it, but the courts, likewise, knocked this expectation in the head. The people were led to belleve that the Water board was in earnest when it hired experts to make plans for the construction of a new water plant and insisted that a better water works than less than $4,000,000, whatever has come of it. but |the Water board would never | 296.49 appraisement, denounced | nal should require it to do so. 000 to p water rates. With such a record of false expecta bond boosters? | — Mayor Jim is trying to make polit: ask Governor Shallen the lid-closing law. Perhaps it Mayo Jim had stayed at home the governo might have looked with more favo upon the Omaha protest. voting for Mayor Jim to stay home. Why 21l this fuss about the regula Commissioners? It only aceiden that the charter bill making these pooi rious that only a small portion of the but in the aggregate mount up to an a celled, make no effort to clear the title to their property by having it released pressed the opinion that the pald and unreleased chattel mortgages of the to a greater sum than the entire value of the personal property of the state That such a condition of affairs is a is acknowledged, but neither penalties nor any other means yet tried have mortgages The republicans present to the vat- their candidate for the responsible office of city comptrol- ac- fully reliable man, who by reason of his previous | primary filings had gome by. employment in the city treasurer's|charter remains unchanged three yvears office and in the office of the county | hence candidates for these positions comptroller, has had an Insight into [ will all be nominated at the regular the- methods of bookkeeping and ac- familiar | petition candidat with what Is required of the city comp- | this year than there will be three years Helgren is also representative Swedish birth or descent who consti- tute an important and substantial ele- have recognition in the management |provided for. is time for a change and no mistake would get title to and possession of what we now have could be built for nothing The people were led to believe that give countenance or consent to the $6,263,- 8 fraudulent and excessive, until a court order from the highest judicial tribu- | But now the Water board is asking the people to vote a bond issue of $8,500,- the company all the ap- praisers awarded without waiting for | the court decision and knowing that paying that price will prevent any re- lief to the people in elther taxes or tions conjured up to deceive them, is it any wonder the people of Omaha are skeptical about the boasts of the water ical capital out of the fact that he headed the delegation to Lincoin to rger to veto Better try party nominees for the offices of city engineer and Board of Fire and Police | . k3 Columbus If there might be granted to the Tele gram this morning & license to employ & bit of slang, we should instantly suggest to the Omaha World-Herald the advice Forget it." We grant that the emotional and hysteri- cal officlal organ of the brewery, stock yards and set rallwi syndicates in Oniaha bhas made a gallant fight In recent days in behalf of the Interests which it represents. We grant that the able editor of the Stockyards supplement displayed marvelous Ingenulty in the work of hiding from the public eye that clause which the stock yards and street rallway people did not want the public eve to behold in the Donahoe bill. We grant that the hysterical editorials of our metropolitan friend were enough to scare any ordinary governor into a veto of the daylight saloon bill, as demanded by the brewery combine. But granting ail this, we still feel Impelied to urge our editorial mentor to ‘‘forget it These remarks are made necessary by the recent viclous k of the Omaha Stockyards newspaper upon Gavernor Shallenberger. The attack was brought out by a grapevine report from Beatrice, alleging that in a public address the gov- ernor had referred slightingly to those people who were transported down to Lin- coln on the hrewery combine special traln ~transported there to make the governer afrald to sign the daylight saloon bill. All the grief now displayed by the brewery combine newspaper is due to the fact that t || Howard's Compliments to the W.-H. Telegram. the governor refussd to be frightened. Suppose Governor Shallenberger had ylelded to the intimidating delegation which went to Lincoln on the brewery combine speeial. Why, If he had been the kind of coward those fellows wanted him to be, every Issue of the WorldiHerald would now contain double-column laudations of the coward who would bow to the dictates | of {hose same influences which control the editorial pollcy of the World-Herald as’ab- solutely as a Missourian controls his own coon dog. It grieves us to observe the trend of Nebraska's only metropolitan daily demo- cratic newspaper toward the embattled en- campment of the Cracker trust, and kind red evil encampments. The Telegram has been accused by this same World-Herald on charge of breeding discord in the dem- ocratlc ranks, and all because we refused to see virtue in a stock yards senator. godlineas In the brewery trust, or sanctifi- cation In the cracker trust. But we enter- tain no sentiments of evil desire in the direction of the Omaha World-Herald. Our prayer Is that the gods may be able to divorce our Omaha editorial friend from the company of the commercial harlots with which he f¥ now awhoring. And if the gods shall refuse to the divorce, It will still be our pro: x --aye, our privilege, our pleasure and our Auty tp borrow a bit of uncouth construe- tion ahd say to the frayed and frassled Omaha organ of the criminal combinations: “Forget 1t!" ' If the party primaries and go on the ticket under the party label as a matter of | course, There is no more reason for | for these offices hence. We are glad to note that the late Governor Poynter leaves an estate of fair proportions, so that those de- pendent on him will be measurably This is assurance that ex-Governor Poynter was not com- pelled to sacrifice his material com- fort to serve the people of this state as chief executive. | ee— The rallroads are arranging their passenger (rain schedules out of| Omaha with a view to increasing busi- ness by accommodating the traveling public. This is one place where the interests of the railroads and of Omaha are completely harmonious. Removing some of the ‘“Keep off | the grass'’ signs would help popularize the parks. Parks run on the ‘“look but you musn’t touch” plan lack a lot of filling their place in city life. ——— Patten as o “Philanthropist.’” Plttsburg Dispateh. Nevertheless, when we find people , in- sisting that Patten is a philanthropist we are able to draw an inference as to which side of the matkét they were on, and whether they redlized on their profits at the psyehologlcal mb) st | v A a— On the Loekent for Wings. Boston-Herald. President Eliot has always had the high- est aims. Nowiif he can succeed in mak- ing the ¢hild so happy in school that he wants vacation to be over, it will be time to look behind the youngster's shoulder for sprouting wings. Reducing the List. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Bryan says the mere fact that Secretary of War Dickinson voted for him does not make him a good democrat. The Nebraskan appears to believe there are even fewer democrats in the country than returns from the last election indicated. Facilities for O tion, San Francisco Chronicle. 1t is said that there 9,500,000 telephones in the world and that 7,000,000 of them are in America and only 2,000,000 in Europe. And yet there are people who declare Ameri- cans are deficlent in conversational powers because of their failure to cultivate the talking habit. New England Mills Expand. Boston Transeript The milling industries In New England are showing evidence of materfal pros perity, thirty-seven concerns planning new construction in various forms, which will mean an aggregate oui of mearly $20, 000,000, The amounts range from $200,000 33,000,000 for the various structures ORGANIZATION IN FARMING. It May Dring About a New Era Agricalture. Charles Dillon, in the Outlook Organization 18 about to assure (i farmer a larger share in the returns of his labor and a smaller proporfion for th commission broker. Modern invention i making easier the labor of the field, anc the churning. and #vashing that made pal faces and wegry backs and arms In th homes, It will take time make me take advantage of all these blessings foi themeelves and thelr, families, but the) eventually will do It. The children, r turning from the state universities or the colleges, are the lLope of the future, fo they take to the homes new ideas: ldeas that may be antagonistic to the old folks perhaps, but ideas of much value that ars to run the farms in the next decade or two. The girls, brightened by thelr course of domestic sclence, are telling thel: mothers of better ways to do things; thes are insisting on system In women's work sc that time may be given to self-improve ment and to soclal pleasures instead of making life a dreary round of toil. Farming in the next generation s will be more and moue sclentific: the agri- cultural colleges are bringing that about where properly conducted. Modern meth- ods of cultivation will mean smaller acre- e and larger ylelds, with improved qual- y of product. As the value of land in creases farm communities will become the rule—that is to. say, farmers will hold smaller properties from which the profits will exceed these now realized by hap- hazard cultivation of large tracts, where weeds eat up the earth's food. Scientific farming, as it must some day come to be, will put farm families into groups, and that will mean the woman's emancipation Farmers will live In towns or eities and to or r r r | viewea Army Gossip Matters of Intersst On of the Firing Line Gle the Army and Navy Register. The paymaster genéral of the army has passed upon the question of the enlistment poriod of an enlisted man of the army who served as a commissioned officer of Philip- pine Beouts from July 1, i1, to April 1900, resigning to become post commissary sergeant. The soidler on April 7 completed continuous servico of ten years, five months and twelve days, embracing w period of time equivalent to more than three full enlistment periods. but less than four such periods. It Is hald that upon re- enlistment on April 9, the man should be as constructively taking up the thread of the fourth continuous enlistment period. Crediting him with one additional enlistment perlod for his re-enlisted pay status, it Is held by the paymaster general that upon re-enlistment on April 9 the sol- dier entered upon his fifth enlistment period. A new army remount depot will be estab- lished at Fort Keogh, Mont., in accordance with a recommendation of General J. W, Aleshire, quartermaster general of tho army, Tt has been found that the first depot established at Fort Reno has pro- duced excellent results in furnishing the army with sultable animals, and General Aleshire proposes to extend the system The new depot, which will be in operation by the first of July, is situated in the cen- ter of a horse raising dlstrict, from which many of the best animals have htiherto heen cbtained. The depot at Fort Keogh will be n charge of Captain Harold P. Howard, Fourteenth cavalry, now'on duty at Fort Walla Walla, Wash., The quarter- | master general has In view a further in- vestigation of the horses of Virginfa in the hope’ of obtaintng ‘from that ssction ani- mals which are adupted for mifitary pur- poses. He has requested the detall, for the purpose of acquiring this information of Captain Casper H. Conrad, jr., Third cavalry, now on duty at Fort Clark, Tex. 1t s exceedingly fitting and perfectly con- sistent for Senator Martin N. Johnson to suggest to President Taft that he show “preference in promotion” to those officers of the army and navy who “abstain from alcoholic liquors,” because Senator John- son takes pride in the fact that he is the author of the first anti-canteen law, Mr. Taft has given no inclination that he will | adopt the suggestion. Of course, the exer- cise of of presidential authority or discre- tion 1s exceedingly limited in the matter of the promotion of the commissioned per- sonnel of the military-naval establishment and there will probably be no more atten- tion pald in the future than there has been in the past to the personal habits of officers who are the object of presidential consideration for any reason whatever; that s to say, there will be quite as much consideration pald to the habits and per- sonal character of officers as there has been hitherto. The secretary of the navy has had occa- slon this week to request information con- cerning reports which have reached him of the mayor of Medina, O., and the judge of a local court In Des Moines, la. Those Mficials, it I8 reported to the Navy depart- \ent, suspended sentence In the case of youthful culprits, one charged with petty larceny and the other with forgery, pro- vided the accused young men would enlist in the navy. In both cases the recruiting »fficers discovered the purpose and were able to block the plan. In the case of the »ffender at Medina the recrulting officer it Cleveland discovered from the records hat the young man had served in the avy, In which he had a bad record, al. hough this was covered up by the pro- iuction of a forged honorable discharge. fhe Navy department will await infor- natlon from the Medina mayor and th. Des Molnes judge before writing the sharp etters which those officlals deserve to re- selve.on account of thelr misconception ot he purpose of the navel service. It Is re- narkable that at this late day there are nen of intelligence in official position an where who think an enlistment in the pav service will serve the purpose of protect- 0g soclety from culprits and may be sub- stituted for a sertence of imprisoinmert The appointments which have been an- nounced at the White House of general officers of the army in anticipation of the vacancies in the grade of major general and brigadier general by virtue of the retire- ment of Brigadier General J. B. Kerr on May 15 and Major General John F. Weston on November 13 will be recelved with satisfaction. Considerable Interest at- tached to the appointment of a brigadier general upon the retirement of General Kerr as affording & chance of determining President Taft's policy in these matters of selection in military advancement The offics s who were Indicated for appoint. ment—Colonel Jacob A. Augur, Tenth cav- alry: Colonel M P. Maus, Twentieth in- fantry; Colonel J. G. D. Knight, corps of engineers, and Brigndier General W. H. Carter—represented the factor of seniority §0 1o thelr fields as a business, just as any busipess man or skilled laborer now goes to his work. It is so today in several parts of North America. One such com- musity New Cambria, Saline county. Kansas, where one may see the farmers starting out every morning for their flelds leaving familles that are happy ani eon tented because they are near one another and permliited to indulge the human spirit r t tel mortgages filed and released do not | tions elective passed after the time for | of gregiriousner which will be appreciated. The untimely death of ‘Colonel Augur at Manila on the day following the announcement of his appointment 18 the occasion of regret throughout the army. He was an officer with & splendld record in war and peace and was a fine example of the true soldier. It was such as he who have been deprived of the recognition for duty well performed and for «xperience gaiued In the military profession, | Dantel purity and A pure grape cream of tartar powder. Itsfame isworld-wide. No alum, no phosphatic acid. There is never a ques= tion as to the absolute healthful= ness of the food it raises. "-----‘ N PERSONAL NOTES Sorie New York smugglers have of- fered $260,000 as m compromise settlement for an attempt to bring In $5000 worth of Paris gowns without paying the duty Mr. Harriman Is golng abroad under or- ders, to get away from his business in- terests. 1t will be possible for him to travel in Europe without passing over one of bis own rallroads. Tieutenant Calvin P. Titus, Fourteenth United States Infantry, who as a bugler, was the first man over the walls of Peking when the American troops relleved the lega- tion from the Boxer seige In 1900, will turn chaplain. Colonel Isaac Taylor, the concelver of the Inkes-to-gulf deep water way idea, died | at Peoria, 1ll, at the age of 74 years from | an attack of heart fallure, brought on by | overexertion in the recent city campalgn. | Colonel Taylor was then elected assessor. | Mrs, Hannah Boone Wilson, grandniece of the fameus hunter and frontlersman, Boone, recently died at her home in Portland, Ore., after a brief illness. In the death of Mrs. Wilson the passing 1s marked of one of two direct déscendants of Boone. Hamlilton Holt, one of the editors of the New York Independent, was born In Brook- Iyn, and s a graduate of Yale. Yet when offered a glass of buttermilk by E. W. Howe, In Atchison, Kan., he sald he had never heard’of buttermilk and did not know ! l Jameson of Colorado has for appointment as district water ioner in Pueblo county. The board of county commissioners certified her ap- plication and Governor. Shafroth, though expressing his surprise, declared that there seemed to bp no good reason why a wom should not have the office, and he prom- ised to glve her application proper censid- tion. Mrs. Jameson is a widow, runs her ewn ranch and supports her two small children and her aged mother. PASSING PLEASANTRIES. will teach those trusts a thing or | " sald the statesman. 1 Don't do it answered Senator Sor- ghum; “‘my observation is that the trusts never learn anything new without making 18 a_source of further profit."—Washing- ton Star. 1 el | “The detective found one thing which threw a light on his character.” A dark lant New York Times. The Girl (in grand stand)—"They call that man a pitcher, do they? Why don't they call him a thrower? The Fan—"Well, when he throws a game they do.”'—Chicago Tribune. “You've been struck twice by lightning? 1 thought lightning never struck twice in ame place. It doesn’t, o far as T know. 1 was in a different place when 1 was hit the second time."—Chicago Tribune. Brown—Green Is going to Europe for his sealth. “White— 807 How did he lose his health? Brown—Earning the price of & trip to Burope.—Chicago New: Milkman—Our cows a. Customer—1 believe you If one may judge by th the milk.—Cleveland Leade) all blooded stock Blueblooded, appearance of “Has the son you 8ot his degree yel “1 should say so. Why, he wrote last week that the faculty had called him in and glven him the third degree. That boy's ambitious."—Philadelphia Ledger. sent away to college Grandmother is happy ? Nurse coming. Grandmother. Why the baby s Oh, his mother and father are T don't see them? Nurse. Nor I ma'am. But ihe child's nose is_very keen. He smells the automo- bile, ma‘'am.—Harper's Weekly. " SALT SULPHUR WATER also the “‘Crystal Lithium" water from Excelsior Springs, Mo, in 5-gallon sealed jugs. f-gallon jug Crystal Lithia Water. 82 5-gallon jug Salt-Sulphur water $2.25 Buy at either store. We sell over 100 kinds mineral water. Sherman & McConnell Drug Co. Sixteenth and Dodge Sts. Owl Drug Co. Sixteenth and Harney Sts. Spring Asnowacement 1900 e Tl R not be Guplicated. order Dlaced mow mats e’ deitv- hlnu—n—"m ! voveliies " Tor INTERNATIONAL MARRIAGES BalUmore American. They are thronging the walke of ‘the titly mart Our {1\\41\. girls, fresh. and fair, With their girlhood bright and their trust- foe hearts, And' free from avery car ‘The tarnish which lies on They see in it no snare, For they look for love and happiness When they put on their gold's repair. Then comes the quick awakening, In the lands across the wea, Of the gold that's all and the heart's that naught, And the’ gllded misery, The highborn contempt for pleblan wives, Til the blood in the veins born free Grows hot with the sordld title saie And rebels at Indignity, But_still they aweiled, Spite of lesson and woe and ban, The eager wish for titled name They seem but to sprekd and fan: But some day our girls will wiser grow, And American bounds will.scan, For a husband. learning the best of mates Is not a name but & 'COMMBTION IN THE HOSPE STORE Mr. Hospe reports that in thirty-six years of picture business he has never seen such enthusiastic. crowds of picture buyers as filled his store yesterday. No store in the country can boast of such beauntiful water colors, such choice oil paint- ings by famous artists, such rare artist proof etchings, as well as multitudes of the very best in reprodaced prints and such a complete line of the choicest framed pictures. When such’'a store’ holds such a price smashing sale it is bound to cause commotion in the art trade. Both large and small dealers; buyers for hotels, clubs, schools and homes, all flocked to the ; Hospe store and combined to make yesterday the greatest day the art business has ever seen in the west. Tomorrow 5,000 new; pie- tures, comprising regular stock and salesman’s samples, ranging in price from $2.00 to $15.00, will be sold in the bar- kain square on the third floor at 19¢, 49¢c, T8¢, 98¢ and $1.98, to be sold at one-tenth to one- twentieth of the publisher’s prices. ? Is it any wonder all Omaha is beautifying their homes? You cannot imagine such bar- gaing unless you actually see them. You should look over the Hospe stock, even though you do not cate to purchase. A. HOSPE CO. 1513 Douglas Street. o titles old come and the ranks are Guckert McDonald, Tatlors $17 South Fifieenth Street ESTABLISHED 1887