Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 29, 1909, Page 6

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Remit by draft. express or postal order, yable 10 The Bes Publishing Company. nly 2-cent mps recelved i paym t of mall accounis. Personal checks. except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. BTATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss: George B. Teschick, treasurer of The Bes company. being duly sworn. says actual number of full and eomplets coples of The Dally, Morning, Evening and | Bunday Bee printed durin t ob. 1909, was as follows: . . 11 Less unsold and returned coples Net total «.oviun. 1,107,155 Dally average . 28,017 » OIO‘R::EI.B. TZSCHUCK. Treasurer. ubser) o before me this 18t aky of Apell 10, M. WALKER, Notary Publie. e WHEN 0UT OF TOWN. Subsoribers leaving tha elt) tem- orarily should have The maijled to them. Address will be chasged as often as requested. —————— e —_————— Some senator should make haste to introduce an amendment to the tariff bill putting gentle spring on the free Iist. Just to emphasize the difference, Lincoln proposes to move its lid-clos- ing hour up to 6:30 o'clock of the evening, e — When' a New York society item is headed “Two souls made happy” you have two guesses whether it is a wed- Aing or a divorce. The democratic council candidates for re-eleetion are all for an occupa- tion tax on the franchised corpora- tions—but not now. (IR e i e — The arrest recently of four Seattle dentists disclosed the fact that not one of them had pull enough to square things with the police judge.. The late emperor of China has had six funerals and still has some more coming. Just think of such an oppor- tunity for congressional junketers. \ The pictures of the presidents of the Daughters of the American Revolution, it and presént, would indicate there ‘was aothing doing for the lightweight class, New York waiters are discussing the question of asking an increase of sal- ary coupled with refusal to receive | tips. ~ Get your ascension robes ready for the millennium. The Tennessee court has decided | the public has had enough of the Cooper case {f the defendants have not and denied a new trial. Courts are | sometimes mereiful. —_— A New York showman has offered the deposed sultan of Turkey $10,000 a week. The sultan would have a hard time of It keeping his forty wives on that amount of stage money. Brooklyn school boys have volun- teered to protect a companion threat- ened by the Black Hand. When the American boy starts out to do things it behooves even the bad man to take notice, Now, Mr. World-Herald, if you were only willing to admit it, don't you really believe that Omaha's good name throughout the land would be immeas- urably improved If our people would discard their cowboy mayor? There is nothing to prevent candl- dates running by petition for any of- fice on the ticket, but the man who runs by petition for police commis- sloner 1s in the same boat the man who runs by petition for mayor. —_— A'Kansas 'man has been sent to prison for signing his wife's name to Jove letters. The average woman does not, need any help in that line and the Busband displaved gross ignorance when he essayed to counterfeit the real thing. —_— And what about the $500,000 of past due h)drlnl rentals, bearing 7 per cent interest? If we must raise the money to pay this debt by selling bonds, why is no such bond proposi- | tion submitted by the Water board at the impending election? — Rest sure that there was nothing nonpartisan about the late democratic legislature, Every law it passed with any bearing on politics was deliber- Vale Abdul Hamid. With the forced abdication of the Turkish sultan, Abdul Hamid, passes permanently, in all probability from public life, one of the most remark- ablé men of his time. will hope that with him goes a state of affairs which no one less resourceful could have perpetuated so long. He has lived up to the reputation of his predecessors on the Ottoman throne for eruelty and oppression and In spite of the united protests of the civilized serious checks until the leaven of en- lightenment performed its work through the medium of his own peo- ple. Under the absolutism prevailed in Turkey under Hamid it would be too much to ex- pect that his successor could do much toward the uplift of his country, for he has been a prisoner within palace walls for twenty-five years and out of touch with the world of Turkey lies in the progressive ele- ment which has broken down the bar riers of prejudice and opened the doors of liberty and progress to a downtrodden and oppressed people. The évolution of a nation cannot be accomplished in a day or a vear. The atrocities born of fanaticism and ignorance cannot be stopped by the mere deposition of the old sultan, but the revolution, if it maintains itself, will have opened the door to modern thought and progress and the chance at least is offered to the people of Tur- key to catch the step of the twentieth century. which has The Spirit of Appomattox. President Taft took oeccasion at the Union League club bdnquet at Phila- delphia to reiterate his belief that the time was opportune to bring about & change in politieal conditions in the south, and also that he appreciated the fact that opposition was to be ex- pected from those who in a political way reap a benefit from the continued dominance of sectionalism. In mak- ing his announcement he gave credit for the idea to two men who in their day were the idols of north and south and whose memory is now cherished on both sides of Mason and Dixon's line—Grant and Lee. Gifted by a foresight and a genuine patriotism in advance of their day, these two lead- ers of the great struggle foresaw that its termination should have been the settlement of the controversy, but it has taken two generations to educate the people to the point of seeing clearly what they then perceived. Time has effaced the bitterness of that titanic struggle, and if Mr. Taft can bring about the complete oblitera- tion of sectional lines be will have per- formed a service scarcely less valuable to his country than did the military gentus of Grant in his day. Mr. Taft was careful to point out that it is not desirable that there should be unanimity of political thought among the people of the na- tion, but that no geographical bound- ary shouid differentiate political thought. Just at present, when there are no great issues which stir the pas- sions of the people, such a division is not so harmful, but with the advent of differences of a more exciting na- ture sectional solidarity presents ele- ments of grave danger. Now that the national spirit embraces the length and breadth of the land,’ why should not our political 1d be as uni- versally diffused? * spirit of Appomattox promises to come to ful fruition. Carrie Nation Retires. That there was method in the mad- ness of Carrie Nation is now apparent, if there were ever any inclined to doubt it. The apostle of temperance whose trademark was a hatchet and whose sign manual wai mirror has accumulated enough money by the sale of souvenirs to buy a fruit farm in Arkansas and as the interest in her perfomances has subsided to a point where it no longer pays, she is subsiding to engage in the quiet avoca tion of marketing the big red apple Carrie was the product of the days when there was really something the matter with Kansas, which evolved whiskered and sockless statesmen, freak legislation and Carrie Nation as an anti-climax. Kansas has recovered and its staple crops of the present day are wheat, corn, cement and natural gas. The state has become too tame for the hatchet wielder, and what more natural than that when going into retirement she should settle in Arkansas, where Senator Jeff Davis can relieve any tendency to ennul which the quiet of rural life might en- gender. Public Rights in Private Property. The supreme court of Maine has handed down a decision which, if gen- erally accepted, Is destined to play a large part in the future of the coun- try. It involves the cutting of timber on private land and the court has held that the undisputed owner of the prop- erty does not have the right to denude it of timber and leave the watershed bare. Such a policy, announced and enforced Afty years ago, would have been the solution of some of the most vital problems of the present day, but of necessity to illumine the judicial mind and create a sentiment to uphold such a declaration. The decision, it is true, only ex- tends the application of long recog- nized principles of law which found their first volce in the right of aminent domain and is the outgrowth of the ately designed to build up the dem- ocratic machine in this state and en- trench the democrats in power, universally recognized fact that All humanity | world has pursued his career with no | Abdul | The real future | With Mr. Taft's administration the | a broken bar | it evidently required the object lesson as population becomes more dense and |The late Charles H. Brown ran for ., inng but original civillzation develops the social fabric | mayor of Omaha on the dunwrlllc‘n-m«t THE BEE becomes more complex and free action of the individual is necessarily circum- scribed. Personal ‘pleasure or profit is no longer supreme, but must yleld at the point where it conflicts with the wel- fare of the mass. The universal application of the principle that the owner must care for and preserve within reasonable bounds the natural resources entrusted to his care would be a broad and certain foundation for permanent greatness and prosperity and would pay in good measure the debt which the present owes to the future instead of over- drawing the account, as has been the policy of the past Pratt for City Attorney. ‘ Everybody knows that the present city attorneyship fell to the present facumbent three years ago purely by accident. Had anybody had any notion | that the democratic candidate would win out there would have been real competition between the strong law- vers on the democratic side of the fence, The votérs now have an opportunity to replace the accidental city attorney with a lawyer of professional standing and ability by giving their preference to Nelson C. Pratt, who is running for that office as the republican nominee. | Mr. Pratt will be able to look after the city’s legal affairs and direct his sub- ordinates in the law department for himself and give sound advice to the different city officials who need guid- ance as to their authority and duties. The city of Omaha, as a municipal corporation, represents property values | aggregating $150,000,000, with an In- | come and outgo exceeding/$1,000,000 annually, and should command the best legal talent that the salary at- taching to the ecity attorneyship will | command. Strictly as a business proposition, Mr. Pratt should be elected city attorney. | | | Auto Speeding. With the advent of the flowers that bloom in the spring, the automobiles are blossoming out in Omaha in un- precedented numbers and the mania for dangerous speeding through the crowded city streets is again being manifested in the most aggravated form. Some of the old offenders are resuming operations and the ambition of the possessor of a new machine seems to be to outdo the experienced | scorchers. | The season is yet young and the number of accidents small, but unless a brake is put on auto speeding in Omaha our list of casualties will be something appalling before many months roll around. The speed limit fixed by our ordinances is now alto- gether too high and ought to be cut down and then be strictly enforced. If the auto speeders will not them- selves help eradicate this evil other people who have some rights in the stréets may be forced to extreme measures, Seeing a New Leader. Governor Johnson of Minnesota, through his friends, is already placing himself in line for the democratic | presidential nomination in 1912, On every hand is the evidence democracy has tired of following the leadership and dictation of Bryan, who has prac- tically dominated its affairs ever since 1896, The east has never been | triendly to him, but through the influ- | ence of the northwest and the south he has been the “‘paramount’” figure of the party. The early announcement of the Johnson candidacy cannot be con- sidered seriously except as an indica- | tion of the determination to take time | by the forelock and forestall Mr Bryan's leadership in the northwest. 8o far as the south is concerned, Governor Smith of Georgia, in a re- cent address at Buffalo, gave voice to the sentiment of that seetion. In com- menting on that speech the Nashville | American says: | Nothing short of a political r-\fllullnni would place him in the White House, | and while we have never imagined that | the democrats would never elect another | president, we have heen convinced since | 1896 that Mr. Bryan could not reach the | | goa ] Democracy has honored Mr. Bryan with | three nominations; it has followed him | loyally and enthusiastically, ‘more so in | 1896 and 1908 (han in 1900, but it has been long since realized by democrats who observe the trend of political senti- ment that any possibility of his election | 18 hopeless. 1 Such evidences as these are not likely to have any effect on the cheer- ful optimism or ambition of Mr. Bryan, but to the disinterested they point unmistakably to his effacement as the central figure of the democratic | party. | | If, as those high priced Water board | lawyers insist, the condition on which the proceedings for compulsory pur- chase were instituted, limited the price to be paid to the $3,000,000 already voted, why should they be ad- vising the people to vote $6,500,000 in bonds at this stage of the game? A brutal murderer w tried and executed in Mexico the day following | the commission of the crime. Mexico | could give other countries lessons in this respect. Summary legal justice in plain and aggravated cases would | be the most potent cure for the lynch- | | ing habit The British cabinet announces the | American navy Is not considered in de termining the two-power standard America has a habit of minding its own ' business and John Bull has discovered | that all that is necessary is (o heed the | “Keep off the gr sign Mayor “Jim" bas put all ‘lawyers | forever out of the running for mayor. | | who has been pardoned from | debt { mothers. We know how it would | every well | relations. | men, Ben | Mothers' day to fan it into anim OMAH THURSDAY ticket; so did Willlam 8. Poppleton; and Ed P. Smith was once talked of for the democratic nomination. It's up to all the democratic lawyers, how- ever, to scratch the mayor's office off their list. —_— When the students of Drake univer- sity look at their annual they can form a good idea of what a Russian paper 100ks 1Tke after the censor has had his y. 'They also know the result of getting g with the faculty. Of course, in this instance no one will ever know what was cut out of issue. —_— Another trade excursion is soon to between Omaha and interior eities and towns in Nebraska. We sincerely hope it may help counteract the antag the work of the Douglas delegation in the late legislature. em—— Parging the Party. Pittsburg Disptach. Between Mr. Watterson ruling classes of people out of the democarey and Mr. Bryan applying the same discipline to others, that party seems fully protected from the danger of having too many votes e mee—— The Retort Conrteons. Brooklyn Eagle Mr. Bryan is convinced that Mr. Dickin- son is no democrat because he associates with republicans. Mr. Dickinson, with more plausibility, might insist that Mr. Bryar Is no democrat because he hae fel- | low-shipped with populists. { PR The Coming Aristee St Louls Republic. What's the matter with the prices of all sorts of victuals? Do they keep on climb- ing because middlemen are working the ) market, or does it simply mean that the time I coming fast when the erstwhile horny-handed farmer and the woman with | A hen will be the only real aristocrats in this country? Jarring Popular Notions. Baltimore American. The attitude of women for a purer standard of government Is somewhat as- | salled by the report from New York of | over $1,0000 worth of Parlsian gowns being smuggled Into the United States. | But the feminine conscience, versus the feminine toilet, appears to yield about the same moral results as the mascuiine con- sclence versus masculine politics. A Reformer with n Message. Philadeighia Press. Younger, the Missouri certain i desperado, the penl- tentiary, is to lecture on “lessons That Might Be Drawn From My Past Life." This eminent authority on holding up| trains and robbing banks, who served his apprenticeship with Jesse James, were well advised ‘to draw the lesson that obscurity 18 the best poliey for a released criminal of his atroclous type. He was| lucky to escape the hangman, and the other lessons of his past life may well be spared by the world, Cole to the President. Charleston News and Courfer. President Taft is wise cnough we be- leve, to consider Senator Tillman's limita- tions when he welghs the senator's words. The remark of ‘the senator, after visiting the president, | walted until a gentleman got here,” In"explanation of the visit, was in execrable taste and was calculated to emharrass Mr. Taft, who s the intimate personal and political friend of ex-President Roosevelt. But Senator Tillman did not think of that. The senator says a great; many things without thinking, and it 1s hoped that Mr. Taft will overlook the oc- casional lack of delicacy of the senator. The president should strive to keep in mind the senator's .rugged honesty and other primal virtues, which are quite impressive evse————— FLATTERED BY 1 ATIO) Infringement of Copyright. New York Sun 1f the Mothers' day resolution introduced in the Minnesota legislature by an auda- | clous imitator of the Hon. Kimer Jacob | Burkett ever reaches Governor Johnson we shall be curious to see what that geod son and sensible man does with it he resolution, with a lachrymose pre- amble, calls upon_ the governor to desig- nate a day to be observed as a public holi- day when the people of Minnesota shall set motherhood on & pedestal and cele- Dbrate their debt to it, which Representative Lewis C. Spooner, the copyright infringer, avers that “mankind can never pay." When Mr. Burkett of Nebraska proposed in the senale, a year ago, that “SBunday, May 10, be recognized as Mothers' day and that It be observed as such by the members and officers and employes of the United Btates senate wearing a white flower In honor of their mothers” all the old men in the senate fell upon the Tupperian Burkett with sarcasms so crude and rasping that he literally howled for mercy. Some senators were visibly hurt by the imputa- tion that they did not think enough of thelr mothers and to prove themselves good sons they pald unfaltering tributes | to thelr fathers, too. Was it not that ex- | cellent man Mr. Teller who quoted Beau- mont and Fletcher's “Laws of Candy:" It were a sin against the plety Of filial duty if 1 should forget The debt | owe my father We distinetly remember that Mr. Fulton of Oregon, whose wit is wielded like a bludgeon, proposed & mother-in-law's day | in justice to & cruelly misunderstood stitution. There were no symbolical flowers in the lapels of elderly senators on the Sunday in question and doutbless the Hon. | Elmer Jacob Burkett learned the lesson not to give his senjors kindergarten in- struction in the household virtues, The Minnesota resolution is not floral, but festival—that 1s to say, it dedicates a fixed and entire day to liquidating the that Minnesotans owe to their be spent, sports of the Burkett | An in-| as all American holidays are—in the season, into which fillal sons are wont to throw so much energy that there is no room In their souls for anything else If there s to be such a holiday Governor shnson will win the esteem of hi it he designates a dav 11 the the base ball season But we hope the will not suc- umb. Manifestly one more holiday be necessary, and perhaps enough to re- flect the uttachment thai should exist in regulated family for all blood In the days of the elder states- Franklin, John Adams and the like, the people were not under picion of ignoring thelr parents. Filial sentiment was taken for granted. No one proposed a tion. But in & day when all the virtues are tiagel lated from sun to sun and the command- ments are in a chronic siate of being discovered with shouts from the housetop, sin is taken for people height of governor would The blg city is planning to pull off a celebration next September in honor the discovery of the Hudson river by Hen navigation by Robert Fulton, which will cost much more money than the authori ties are disposed to put up. {the celebration hav | & blowout that will be worth while. nautics, $15.000; art and historical exhibits, | 825,000, including $15,000 for the | 815,000, ete.; | $4,500; for launches, prizes, headquarters, poster design, $500; badges and flags ofticlal banquet, $5,000. The carnival and historical parades will onisms and prejudices engendered bY |take $190,550, including the elaborateness in this |of this part of the event. Items total include $46,00 for a repetition of both | reached that it await the wishes of the | parades in Brooklyn. Children's festivals will take $10.000. The bullding of the replica of the steamboat Clermont will cost $50,000; a tug and launch for two weeks for the Clermont, $10,000; decoration and reviewing stands, $5,000; transporting troops and other expenses of like nature, $25,000, and general commemo- rative exercises, $,000. The Half Moon replica of Hendrik Hudson's boat, which the Dutch are building, will not require any outlay; but to entertain the Dutch dele- gates will mean $.000, with $2,500 more for a steamboat and tug Historical research is costing 3.000. For hospitality the expenses are estimated to be $§100,000, for officlal guests, carriages, ete. Hluminations will require nearly $100,000. Lectures and stereopticon views will need at least $10,000. For cclebration medals $10,250 spent. It will take $25,000 for the National guard parade and the same for other troops. Musle festivals will cost $16,000, the naval parade to Newburgh, $50,000, and the naval rendezvous, $25,000. will be A bargain rush and riot In Brooklyn last Friday was the hardest proposition the police of the borough had to handle for many a year. The trouble was caused by lberally advanced sales by rival § and 10- | cent stores located within a few doors of each other. These sales were advertised to begin at 8:30 o'clock. But long before 7 o'clock women began to arrive and crowd about the unopened stores. Women from every quarter of town arrived to swell {the crowd. Some were hatless and others came with sleeves rolled up, as though they had just left their day's work for a few minutes that they might profit by the bargains offered. The stores were sell- ing umbrellas for 5 cents, men's overalls and wash bollers for 10 cents. Other bar- gains equally attractive were offered. When the doors opened the women wieh a rush forced thelr way into the stores. 8o great was the crush from those who were struggling to be among the first to gain entrance that scores of women fell in a faint and were trampled by the women who followed. Police reserves were called out to quell tho riot. The mounted men rode through the crowd, and by using thelr clubs the other policemen were finally able to force the women back. 80 many women fainted or were other- wise overcome by the crush within the stores that Dr. Rodderman, who arrived with the ambulance from the Bushwick hospital, realized that he could not minister to all of the injured. The ambulance was sent back to the hospital on the run and ad- ditional surgeons were brougnt. Those women who arrived early and made thelr purchases had just as much difficulty in getting out of the stores as they had to get in. As they streamed out many were without hats and wraps and thelr faces were scratched, but they trium- phantly carried out their bargain counter purchases. Surgeons of the fFlower hospital have Just effected a remarkable cure of a patient suffering with a malignant tumor by means of the injection of gelatin impregnated with radium. Only one other similar case on record, according to the hospital au- thorities, was treated in Furope recently by means of radium in a glass tube, which was sewed up In the tumor. In the Flower hospital case the tumor was as large as a grape frult, and was first reduced by use of the X-rays. Then the radio-active gelatin was injocted, and at the end of five weekec the growth was so materially re- duced that the patient was allowed to home. 1t is expected that he will recover, although the tumor was in the abdomen, and his death was expected six months ago. No official report has been made on the case, nor has the name of the patient been made. He is a well-to-do resident of West- chester county, and went to the hospital with the idea of an operation. The history of the case i to be published in the official journal of the New York Homeopathic col- lege in a short time. Mayor McClellan has a new cure for the grip, which he is recommending to his friends. The discovery is a strong testi- monial for the medical properties of the Nick Carter dime nove The mayor has been suffering from an attack of the grip for several days, but has remained at his desk. He found that the combination of the malady and his work necessitated radical measures for mental relaxation, and hit upon the idea of spend ing a few hours each day with a volume of Nick Carter. He found the experiment to surpass his fondest expectations, and | told his friends about it. interesting incident followed Milburn, who is a close friend of hatting with him the other An John G. the meyor, was ¢ day, when he remarked experience with Mr. Ledyard today. He has been suffering from the grip for some time, but has insisted on remaining at work., I went Into his office to about his health, and what was my sur- prise to find on his desk several volumes of those cheap dime novels written by & person named Carter. A most startling habit, your honor." “Yes," replied the mayor, him." “1 sent 'em to A candle constructed with mathematical certainly to burn continuously nearly five years Is in the possession of A. Ajello, 2433 First ‘avenue, awaiting the disposition of the widow of Joe Petrosino, the detectiv assassinated in Palermo. It was to have been placed In the cathedral on Mott street to keep alive the light of remembrance, because of the dimensions and ex- character the determination was but plosive AYER’S HA Stops Falling Hair Destroys Dandruff Water, Perfume. Ask your doctor his i of @rick-Hudson, and the inception of steam Managers of recelved $25,000 from | the | the city, but insist on getting $2.000,000 for | The | various expenses are thus itemized: Aero- | Metropoll- | go out to cultivate friendly relations |tan Museum Art exhibit; aquatic sports, “I had a startling | Inquire | Composed of Sulphur, Glycerin, Quinin, Sodium Chlorid, Around New York Nipples on the Ourrent of Rife as Sesn in the Great American Metropolis from Day to Day. ABSOLUTELY Where the finest biscuit. puddings are required Baking Powder PURE kcnke. hot-breads, crusts or oyal is indispensable. Royal is equally valuable in the preparation of plain, substantial, every-day foods, for all occasions. R is_th Baking mlde?n:lm.koy:lwalr’apo(:mmof'fmr —made from grapes— Powder —_— e widow who probably will have it sent (o :hrr husband's birthplace in Italy and there { enshrined. to burn until the last particle is consumed { The principal material used was Austrian |beeswax, kneaded and tempered and mixed with a secret ingredient to retard combus- j tion. The candle is nine feet high and has | & elrcumférence of three feet six Inches. It weighs 178 pounds From within one foot of the tip to one foot of the base It is | embossed with fourteen carat gold, laid on | | in octuple leaf. The cost was $460 | PERSONAL NOTES. On the termination of suit of Samuel Dempster of Pittaburg against Town Topics | | ana Colonel Maan, its editor, in the United | Btates circult court, ithern district of | | New York, the jury gave the plaintiff « | verdiet of 340,000, the largest verdict | given in a similar case. Mrs. Polly Weed Baker, aged fi ing at Newburg, Ind, and Simon pert, aged 60, an Insurance agent at lington, 1a., were unted fn marriage. |the tenth marrlage and the ninth band for the aged bride, she having married twice (o one of her previous bands. Dr. 8. N. D. North, director of the cen- | sus, has cecepted the invitation to deliver the eulogy on Carroll D. Wright, before the American Statistical assoolation, of which Colonel Wright was the president for fourteen years, succeeding General Francls A. Walker, director of the ninth and tenth censuses. Charles M. Gormly, aged 73 years, former secretary to Bdward M. Stanton, secretary of war under President Lincoln, died in Pittsburg. Mr. Gormly was a member of one of the oldest Pittsburg families, his an- cestors having settled there before the revolution, and his great-grandfather hav- Ing been a soldier in the revolutionary war. If the new statute regulating automo- blles just passed by the senate of New York becomes a law, all speed restriotions In that state will be abolished. Drivers of motor cars will be held to a strict ac- counting for the safetly of persons and property in their course. The theory is doubtless that no matter what speed may prevail, the skill and discretion of the driver are the most important factors in preventing accidents. It will be two years before A. C. Dickin- son of Walla Walla, Wash., knows how much money 30 acres of land sold to Gustav Vollmer brought. Dickinson is to recelve for each acre 100 bughels of wheat and this wheat is to be delivered In two (. stallments, 10,000 bushels this fall and 10,000 bushdis next vear. According to the pres- ent prices of wheat Dickinson would get $11760 an acre, but the prices next year may be as low as 60 cents a bushel. | | eve resid- Ship- Bur- It tn hus- | been hus- D —— SLAVES OF THE CEREAL, Projected All-Amerien Anti-Wheat Baitimore American, Have Americans become wheat slaves? | The question bids fair to have testing in the present emergency of that much util- Ized product of the western range. It is & serlous question in several aspects. If the myriads of China had not speclalized on rice there might not today he a yellow peril, for it s well understood that the food stuffs of a people give them their race characteristics. If the Irish did not live on potatoes—well, it might be invidious to point out the particular characteristic of the Isle of the Eriners that would have been lacking. If the Scotch had not spe- clalized upon gruel they certainly would not have been noted for canniness and Bruce and Wallace might not have bee tn the list of their heroes The versatility of the American type is not a little due to the failure of a people possessing food opulence to specialize upon any one ingredient. But the tendency has been toward wheat, with all the perils that beset dependence upon some one predomi- nant form of {00d stuff. The slaves of the cereal should strike for their liberties at this suspicious hour. When the much used grain that has been a favorite subject for monopoly from the time of Joseph in Egypt is being. held for all kind of rises by the Chicago operator, it fs suggested that the people allow him to eat his wheat himself Graham bread and gruel, with Indian meal and corn flapper: hot pone and hominy grits are but & few of the reliefs open to those who in the spirit of thelr revolutionary forbears rebel against unjust ‘llllllnn of a favorite food stuff. An all- | American revolt from the bondage to wheat | would bring that cereal down with a jolt | to the speculators and cause the gamblers | in the commodity to beg the public to take { It off their hands at any price. The plan is | worth & trial. Who will join the all-Amer- llt‘lr\ Antl-Wheat Slave league? Bome 10,- | 000,000 or 15,000,000 enrolled would do the trick for wheat and introduce the Americhn peo- | offer uny opportunicy for - MERRY JINGLES | _Forcman—Where's (hat new was handlin' the dynamite caririda Tarrier—1 dunno, Foreman—Why, he was here | utes ago. Tarrier—Yes. but that was bafora (h | plosion tuk p A few | 1 should think base ball men | particularly useful in the army warfare Why especially base ball men Because they would kn w others how to fight a pitehed | Baltimore American. { P hatiie ‘Father,” sald Mabel, “do you njov i ing_me sin, ‘Well," was the answer, ‘T don’t know 1y it's rather soothing in a way. 1. makes me forget my other Sroullies Waen ton Star. Doctor (L6 Tawyer '8 medical museum)-=-Your pri( the professional relics, Lawyer—I am not so sure have a unique collection of tons at my office.~Puck ab ul fumily Rhody—Tis_contented Of tomd here, Mike. Are'ye shmokin' th pea Mike—Ol 'm contented. the rist av it ye're back shmokin' my plece av poipe. ‘‘Man wants but little here below wants that little long,” is what they ome years ago-but It's now. an song. The words we use are quite, though fully as subiim wanta everything in sight, and wuis the time. —Judge. “Speedem ran across a friend of other day when he was out in his ¢ and is very much depressed because e to cut him—" “Unpleasant, {hat; when the best of frién “That's all right; friend in the middje PUSHING THE MOWER Chleago News Now for a real good pushing tine 1 wonder If the thing Of course! It beats the My hands continually solling Ah, well, here's fun enough (0 pay ‘or all the grime. and grease and worry ‘d llke to mow the tawn all dav; M's Saturday—1 needn’t hurry E Rhody end 3, Jug: o wang . 1) il Ihere must par hut he parte ~Baltimore A but time how v, how 1 used to long for this Last winter! Hold on! What's the mat ter? 1 used to think is would be bliss To hear this old lawn moawer claiter Wow! What a poke | got just now! Square in the ribs—confound that handie. Who threw that stone hare, anyhow? 1'd dearly love to catch the vandal Well, let me see, th It seems to me th In size, I mean; | haven't f: My arms so stiff since 1 Whew! but I'm warm! It's sport, all right, This cutting grags. Hello, there. sonny, You get this grass all cut by night And dad will let you have some money THURSDAY, FRIDAY, and SATURDAY will be Great Days in the Art Business Tuesday and Wednes- day have been big days. Thous- ands have availed themselves of this great opportunity beautify thelr homes at prices unbelieveably low. Pri¢es that had to be seen (0 be realized. Ask your neighbors and friends While the first three days of this week were marked by won derful bargains, during the next three days, Thursday, Fri- day and Saturday on our Third floor bargain square we will sell thousands and thousands of pictures, we mean beautiful desirable, choice subjects in water colors, colored and un- colored Artotypes, French and German Carbons, Rare Artist Proof Etchings, (Genulne Stéel Engravings, etc., at the follow- 5 twloe around awn Is growls und earned rowing to | ple to more wholesome and no less nutritive | cereals. ‘'The ball has already been set rolling In New York. The |French : W Y s e R |# This Chilly Weather is a reminder that you will need your jacket or overcoat for awhile |l vet. Better have it cleaned and pressed once more and look right as well as feel right. 'Phone us and we will seed for it and deliver IR VIGOR ing prices—19¢. 49¢. 78¢. 98¢ and $1.98. The actual value of these pictures range from $2.00 to $20.00 and they will positively be sold at from one-tenth to one-twentieth of thelr real value. Thursday we will place on sale 1,000 new subjects, Friday 1,000 more new plctures will be sold, and Saturday we wil throw on our bargain square 2,000 plctures, as yet unshown, consisting of regular stock and salesman’s samples. We do this that everyone may have an equal chance in procuring the cholcest of sub- Jects. A. Hospe An Elegant Dress) M’:fifl? Ha Gro"v'v Co. 1513 Douglas St.