Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 2, 1909, Page 12

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Personal checks, except on Omal ern exchanges, not accepted STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION State of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss George B. Tzschuck, treasurer of The Bee Publishing company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Daily, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of follow: April, 1909, was as 41,030 37,130 40,350 40,620 ..1,336,410 . 11,203 Net total.. Daily average..... 40,840 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK, Treasu ‘or. Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before me this 1st day of May, 1909. M. P. WALKER. Notary Publie. WHEN OUT OF TOWN, Subscribers leaving the city tem- porarily should have The Bee matled them. Address will be changed as often as requested. Honestly, now, Mr. Weather Man, this April fool joke has gone far enough. it turns out fhat the queen of May | needed an overcoat oronet. rather than a ‘While Roosevelt is in Africa hunting lions, the Detroit tigers are eating up sverything in sight With all this talk of crop shortage the Chicago Board of Trade still had 100,000 bushels of wheat to burn. —_—— A woman lecturer says women dress too much. No one would ever suspect It from looking at some of her pic- tures. Democracy is giving another illus- tration of how it really loves the negro by depriving him of the privilege of voting in Florida. A Boston man insists he saw a rain- bow upside down. It is time to look Into the chemical character of the drinks sold in Boston. The democrats in congress have not yet moved to put all trust-made arti- cles on the free list. What has be- tome of the Denver platform? Oregon land fencers have at last discovered that Uncle Sam has a fence high enough and tight enough to hold them until the gate is opened. Chicago papers are discussing ‘‘the kind of man for senator The Illi- noise legislature is evidently of the apinion that he has not yet been found. The democratic mayor and council are asking for three years more in which to fulfill promises made three years What are they waiting for? There may be method in the refusal of the dominant party in Turkey to execute the former sultan. Just think of the pension bill for all those widows, Sendtor Daniel of Virginia says he bas seen the democratic party in a worse condition than it 18 in at pres- ent. The senator is older than most farther into the dead past. A Chicago professor predicts that Niagara river will run dry. The pres- ent generation need not worry or hurry to the falls to get a last look at the great wonder, however, as the date is fixed for our convenience for 3,000 years in the future. — It the rows continue to develop within the Nebraska democratic ranks a professional referee can find a per- manent job. But really, is it not a shame that the unfortunates in an in- sane asylum should suffer from the quarrels of the ple-biters? The daughter of the American am- bassador to France has been twice wedded, never widowed or divorced. Now don't get shocked. It was sim- ply a civil and a religious ceremony and the same man figured in both New York is to have the tallest hotel in the world, thirty-one stories. If New Yorkers will only patronize the roof gardep they may see something S.00 | 6. 3 per week 10c | e 380 { who want to understand what of us and consequently can remember | Breen for Mayor. People who want to restore the good name of Omaha by putting an end to thé cowboy government which has run rampant in the city hall for the last three years will vote for the republicen candidate, John P. Breen, for mayor, When those who are advocating a continuance of our broncho-busting administration point to the continued progress Omaha has made in material prosperity, we answer that Omaha has gone ahead not because of its cowboy mayor, but in spite of him. The for- ward march which Omaha hi made under this blighting incubus should set us to thinking how much greater |strides it would have taken and how much higher its prestige abroad would now be if we had had at the head of our city government all the time an executive of ability and respectability, commanding popular confidence for both himself and the community. 1f the people of Omaha will send the cowboy into the retirement of pri- vate life and vote Mr. Breen into the mayor's chair, the contrast will be striking and salutary. In the fierce fire of four weeks' campaign the oppo- sition has made no appreciable head- way in its attacks upon Mr. Breen's personality nor have his qualifications for filling the office satisfactorily been serfously impugned. That as mayor he would be a tremendous improve- ment over the present incumbent is conceded by frlend and foe alike. There certainly ought to be enough people who have been disgusted with the performances of Mayor “Jim" at various times during the last three years to elect Mr. Breen mayor and restore Omaha's good name. Mr. Bryan's Figures. Mr. Bryan is again trying to console himself with the thought that perhaps his third defeat was not quite so bad as it might have been, because out of a large total would have con- verted last year's defeat to victor: In his article on “The Future of the Democratic Party,” reprinted in the last number of his Commoner from Munsey's Magazine, he says: The republican majority in the electoral college was 1680, To change & republican victory iInto a democratic victory would have required a change of 80 electoral votes from the republican column to the demo- cratie column, and the states.of Ohlo, Indi- a. Missouri, Kansas, West Virginia, Montana and Delaware would have fur- nished the electoral votes necessary. The combined republican majorities in these states were less than 150000; a change of 75,000 votes, therefore, properly distributed, would have changed the result of the elec- tion. A change of only 9000 votes in Missouri, Indiana, Montana and Delaware would have transferred 39 electoral votes 1o the democracie column, In the electoral college Mr. Bryan received 162 electoral votes, many of them from states carried for the dem- ocratic ticket by small majorities. The combined democratic pluralities in the states of Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, Maryland, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Virginia were, according to best avail. able figures, 151,016. These states gave Mr. Bryan 92 electoral votes, so that a change of 75,508 votes from the democratic side to the republican side, “properly distributed,” would have cut down his total from 162 to 70 and would have increased Mr. Taft's total from 321 to 413. A little change, therefore, of 75,500 votes, ‘“properly distributed,” which he figures would have given him the election had the change been from the republican side to the democratic side, would have left him burled under a republican major- ity in the electoral college of 343, had the change been in the opposite direc- tion. To take away 61 of Mr. Bryan's electoral votes, namely, those from Kentucky, Maryland, Nebraska, Ne- vada, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Tennessee, would have required a change, “‘properly distributed,” of only 83,600 votes. When it comes to speculating on what would have happened if 75,000 votes, ‘“properly distributed,” could have been transferred from one side to the other, for the purpose of getting an idea of what might happen if Mr. Bryan should engage in a fourth bat- tle, he should figure the changes both ways. s al Administration and Trusts. There ig nothing obscure or uncer- tain in Attorney General Wicker- sham'’s public address since assuming offics It is clean-cut and incisive and leaves no doubt in the minds of those is the position of the administration, of which he is a part, on the anti-trust and similar laws. To the man who is simply an agitator seeking for no- toriety he makes it plain that there will be no attempt to play to the gal- leries and bring spectacular prosecu- tions which promise nothing of benefit to the public. On the other hand, those who may bave it in mind to en- gage in illegal practices to swell pri- vate gain at expense of the public are told in an unmistakable manner that the administration will use every power which the law gives to prevent or stop such lawless practices and pun- ish the perpetrators. The laws, he tells them, have been 80 prominently called to their attention and so elucidated by the courts that there is no reason for falling into serious errors as to what are the rights of cor- porations and individua With the !laws and the policy of enforcement so clearly set out, the business world has guiding stars which leave no excuse for those who wilfully go wrong. The prounouncement ‘o! Mr. Wicker- sham, coming from one who speaks the | change of a comparatively few votes | gained under Roosevelt is not to be surrendered, but, on the contrary, made more certaln and the reforms carried further forward. In a business way it is also opportune, as it assures a firm basis for honest investment and enterprise. It is in line with the en- tire policy of the president and his ad- visers, who have demonstrated a fac- ulty for avolding precipitancy without going to the other extreme of being dilatory. These declarations also demonstrate the administration’s view that law enforcement is not a matter of partisanship or to be used as a means of party advantage, but rather for the furtherance of the common welfare. A Significant Labor Movement. The incorporation of the National Employment bureau in New York, to commence operations about May 1, blds fair to have a widespread influ- ence in labor matters in this country. The announced purpose at the outset is to extend its influence at first only to unskilled or common labor, but it is expected to increase the scope of the enterprige ultimately to all the fields of labor. The bureau has a subscribed capital stock of $100,000 and is to be in no sense a charitable institution, a small fee being charged In order to make the bureau self sustaining. By making the institution national in its scope the originators, who are all high in the financial and business world, hope to effect a better distribu- tion of the labor supply of the country when there 18 an excessive demand and also to find work for as many as pos- sible in times of stress. The workings of the bureau will be watched with a great deal of interest from numerous sources. If it follows close to its announced plan, it will help prevent a congestion of idle labor at one point while there is a demand for it elsewhere, its universality en- abling the assoclation to keep in touch with the conditions in all sec- tions. From the standpoint of labor there s likely to be a suspension of judegment and an inclination to sus- picion as to the real motive back of the move If the promoters were 80 fnclined, it could be used as a clearing house to send laborers to points where other laborers do not want them. Until its motives develop the bureau is not likely to have extended support from the leaders of labor, while on the other hand, if its avowed mission should prove its real one, its strongest advocates and also its most effective shpport must necessarily come from this class. Graft Not All American. 1t is, of course, no excuse for graft and public abuses to cite the fact that other countries are afflicted with the same ills, but that it is true fur- nishes ground for hope that out of the universal disease a remedy will event- ually be found. Those who take a lugubrious view are prone to think that no others are similarly cursed and that the evils -of our own place and time are the sum of it all. Germany in particular has been pointed out by the critics of American citles as af- fording an example of good govern- ment. The arrest, on board an incom- ing steamer at New York, of the mu- nicipal officlals of a German city brings some obscured facts to the sur- face. They are charged with padding the municipal payroll, and the Ameri- can public hears of it simply because they escaped arrest when discovered and fled to this country. That municipal affairs abroad are better managed in many respects than here no one who either reads or travels would pretend to deny, but hu- man nature is everywhere much the same. European cities are older and their expansion and improvement are of more gradual growth. Methods such as render graft and waste more difficult and unnecessary there would be intolerable here under existing con- ditions of our rapid expansion. On the other hand, European cities are burdened with a mass of officials foisted upon the public service by so- cial connections which no American city would tolerate. That American cities can learn much abroad in the way of thorough- ness and permanency of public im- provements is patent, but while we are struggling to evolve model city gov- ernments, we will have to evolve our own system to meet our own special problems rather than copy old world models, for they are as faulty as our own. —_— Increasing Cost of Government. Practically every nation in the world is confronted with serious prob- lems in meeting the expense of gov- ernment. The statement of the Brit- ish chancellor at the opening of Par- liament indicated a deficit of $78,000,- 000 for the coming year on the basis of the existing revenue. The United States treasury statement for the year will also show a deficit as compared with the year's revenue. Germany, France, Russia and the other nations | of continental Europe are facing the same situation, while Japan has been carrying such a load as the result of its late war that it is forced to forego many of its plans for military and commercial development for the sim- ple reason its people could not bear the tax burden. With the possible exception of the United States the expense of govern- ment is everywhere increasing in a greater ratio than the Increase of ma- terial woalth. Even here the same condition is threatened unless compar- ative expenditures are reduced. Just at present the tendency is nowhere to reduce the scale of expenditure, but THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MAY 2, 1909, necessity for them iIncreasing. The great burdens of national debts are almost without exception the legacy of wars and the largest items of current expenditure is the preparation for and insurance against disastrous resalts in those which the future may have in store. It would not seem unlikely, then, that through financial necessity, rather than sentiment, the peace prop- aganda might reach fruition. Is There a Hidden Reason? | Why have the members of the Water bpard selected this particular time to submit the proposition to issue 196,600,000 in water bonds? The award of the appraisers was made in July threé years ago and the .Water board promptly rejected it. The water company brought suit for specific performance of the contract, which, when carried up to the United States circuit court of appeals, re- sulted in a judgment against the city This decision of the United States cir- cuit court of appeals was handed down in Aprjl, 1908, and within sixty days thereafter the Water board had pre- valled on the supreme court of the United States to take jurisdiction on a writ of certforari. If the Water board wanted bonds voted in the sum of $6,600,000 to com- plete the purchase, why did it not ask for them at the time the judgment was rendered a year ago? Why did it not submit its bond proposition at the election last fall, when bonds could readily have been voted without the expense of a special election? Why, if there is no possibility of bringing the case to a hearing in the supreme court for eight or ten months at the earliest, should not the bonds have walted until next fail? The Water board's official statement is careful not to give any reason for injecting the water bond issue into the present city election. Some members of the board have been brash enough to explain that the bonds can be car- ried now by a majority vote, whereas, it not voted at this election, they would have to wait three years for an- other city election to permit of carry- ing by majority. Anyone who will read the law governing the Water board can see that this explanation is pure fiction. The section under which these bonds are being submitted reads: . Provided, That no acceptance of any such appralsement shall be binding upon such city unless bonds are voted for the acquisi- tion of such water plant under such ap- praisement. Said bonds are not to be sold for less than par and issued only in case the proposition is ratified by a majority of the votes cast upon the proposition at a general election, or two-thirds of the votes cast in case the proposition shall be sub- mitted at a special election. The fact is that there is grave ques- tion whether a two-thirds vote is not needed to carry the proposition at the forthcoming city election because the words ‘‘general election” do not spe- cifically include a city election, and our courts have held that a city elec- tion is not a “‘general election.” What is meant by the words ‘“general elec- tion” would usually be ascertained by the more definite use of the same words in the same law. A previous section of the same law provides for the election of members of the Water board and fixes their terms so that those first appointed hold until the first Monday in January, following the ‘‘general election,” and all members of the board who by law are required to be chosen at a ‘“‘general election” have been chosen at November elec- tions. Be this as it may, there is absolutely no question whatever but that a ma- Jority vote would have carried the bonds at last fall's election, and would carry them again at next fall's election. The Water board, therefore, must be 1 for $6,500,000 of water bonds at thig time—a year after the judgment in the court of appeals and nearly a year before it can possibly be affirmed by the supreme court. Why Worry About Mars? What is the use sitting up all night looking at Mars through a high power telescope to find out whether or not it is inhabited. Why worry about the canals and waterways of the distant planet when the Missouri river fs still unimproved and there is plenty of ir- rigation work to do in the great west. If there are people in Mars we do gration and trying to keep out an in- vasion from Mars would only add to |the burdens caused by the and Japanese question. Neither do we eral reservations we have not away from the Indians. When it is all said and done, if we should sucoeed in getting into com- munication with Mars and open up trade relations, the chances are that ! Mr. Harriman would soon gobble the { whole thing and divert the profits of the Union Pacific to Its development taken until we have solved some of our own problems and ascertain what the man in the moon thinks about the 8 o'clock closing law. The decision of our courts uphold- ing the right of the different political | parties to present complete tickets to | the voters at the impending clty elec- | tiop and the right of each nominee to | have the same benefit of straight party voles meaus that our government fg still a party government and that po- litical parties are still to be counted among our established free institu- tions. Any who do not like the exist- | battie | reception by withholding the real reason for asking | .. x oo o | army | e church re | utterances not want any of them just yet. This country has all it ¢an do at present regulating the normal flow of immi- | Chinese | | need the land, for there are still sey- | I Kindly pass up Mars, Mr. Professor, | parties, but because they choose to !0' it alone gives them no right to shut out party representation altogether. It you had a lawsuit, which your lawyers kept ineisting you were sure to win, would you mortgage your home to borrow money to pay the judgment before the case was even set for trial? If this lawsuit were pend- ing in the United States supreme court and turned on an appraisement of $6,263,205.49 for some property which you expected to get for $3,000,- | 000 and the case could not possibly be heard before next November, would you borrow $6,500,000 this May in an- ticipation of losing the suit? A Secret Gets Out. New York Post Now we know why Mr. Harriman is going abroad. The emperor of Russia has given the emperor of China a toy rallroad “Thi So Sud Minneapolis Journal. President Diaz burst into tears when he was asked to accept an elghth term; but, as he wept, he pulled the acceptance from his pocket and Mexico fmmediately went on a §00d, solid business basis for another four | years. A Cantionary Sign. Indlanapolis News. Prof. Pickering's suggestion that it might be a good scheme to find out whether there is anybody aboard Mars to communicate with before we begin making $10,000,000 sig- nals sounds almost reasonable enough to prevent the fund from being oversubscribed. Wishing Him Isherman's Luck. St. Louls Globe-Democrat. The 80,000,000 people in the United States are of one mind in hoping that Plunger Patten will not get a single bite on his fishing trip in Colorado. Furthermore, that his pole will break and his lines tangle. The rewards of fishing are for philosophers, | not speculators, Awfully Kind of Them, Baltimore American. The Christian powers, it is said, think the United States would be the best na- tion to take the Initiative in forcing the restoration of order In Turkey and the cessation of pillage and massacre. While the European nations rather deprecate our land-grabbing as a departure from high American ldeals, they are always ready to set up the cry of “Pollce!” with the ex- rectation that the big International po- liceman will promptly appear. Coddling Uncle Samuel, Philadeiphia Pry Russia wants closer political relations with the United States, not as a menace to Japan, oh, no; but only to guarantee that the mikado's government will keep its promises. This is where the Hon. Samuel Starzenstripes begins to ruminate on the tople of “entangling alllances.” The nation that Imagines the old gentleman is capable of belng made a catspaw needs to wake up and read the diplomati¢c his- tory of the nineteenth century. A MILITARY PATRIARCH. General Daniel H. Rucker, the Nestor of American Soldiers. Boston Transcript. General Danfel H. Rucker, who was 97 Wednesday (April 28), must be among the Nestors of the profession of arms the world over If he Is not Nestor himself. He was born before Napoleon set out on his march to Moscow, and his original com- mission, dated more than three-quarters of & century ago, bears the signature of An- drew Jackson. More fortunate than most military patriarchs, General Rucker has preserved his mental powers, and while his memory permits him to talk of the brevet he recelved at Buena Vista sixty-two years ago last February his modesty will not. General Rucker's modesty stands in the way of some very piquant recollections, for his first detall for duty was at Fort Leavenworth, which he was compelled to reach by a ride of 200 miles through a wilderness, dodging Indlans most of the way. General Rucker was 50 years old before his famous son-in-law, Sheridan, was heard of outside the army. The long- evity of soldiers, barring those that got killed, as the Irishman said, is remarkable, General Rucker may be the dean of the profession, but here and there are still | found hale old men, who did their full share of fightng seventy years ago. Alphonso Steele of Mexica, Tex., who was at the of San Jacinto, survives, in his ninety-fifth year, and was able last winter to reciprocate the courtesies of a pubilc the legislature of that state. He is not the only survivor of the Texas that fought Mexico, for Captain Huber of Austin, who was an alde-de-camp | of Sam Houston, but not personally present at 8an Jacinto, is able to tell of the moving incidents of the war for independence he THE POPE'S VIEW OF WOMEN. to the Standpat Utter- % of Plus X. Kansas City Journal, Any utterance by the head of the Catho- elves, In the nature of things, a maximum of publicity, and the adherents of the church of Rome, as a general thing, attach a maximum of importance to those His holiness has recently con- | tributed to the llterature of the equal suf- | frage movement several declarations which are notable in many respects. The first draft of these statements placed the pope in a rather unfavorable light on the ques tion of the relative superiority of men and women. He was made to say that woman was obviously foreordained and predestined man's inferfor; but the later and fuller re- ports conslderably modified these manif:stly unjust strictures. The self-evident meaning | of the views expressed is that woman goes outside her sphere when she indulges in struggle for political powers. here s nothing speclally new in this view, but Pope Pius adds some curiously anachronistic quotations from the Bible to govern the status of modern women. Ultra- | conservative views are to be expected from the head of the Catholic church, and yet there will be few, even among the English speaking members of the church, who will accept 8t. Paul as the arbiter of the posi- tion to be occupled by the women of a time 1500 years later than St. Paul and in coun- whose viewpoint is so far from belng | @l lands even of today. The up-to-date thought of the twentleth cen- tury insists that the statute of limitations has run againet St. Paul in the matter of the subjection of women Enlightened critics do not charge It to the Hible as a fault that its attitude to- | ward woman is not consonant with that | of the present day and in oceidental coun- | trics. That would be unfair and llogical but for all that the modern western woman will not accept even Bl Paul as an intal- |lible guide in the designation of women's status. The argument Is Incompetent, irrelevant and immatertal, as the lawyer says, based on hearsay, calling for a con- | to marry you { | This Ring $40 $1.50 a week This Ring $50 $1.50 a week This Ring $75 $2.50 a week SERMONS BOILED DOWN. All our aspiration has to be measured by our perspiration. Some are g0 anxious to be good that they are good for nothing. Measure the appreciation you bestow by that which you desire. The religion that cannot live in business has no business to ilve. Reform s a matter of reinvigoration rather than of uprooting. Lives are to be measured by their out- goings, not by their income. The finest private goodness grows out of devotion to publio weltare. One of the most popular ways of dodging a duty is to write a book describing it, They who have done least to prevent sin always want to do most in punishing it. Some men are sure they are humble be- cause they can think only in diminutiv Many a church that rails at bibulous in- dulgences is eager for mental anesthesia. When the church acts as an umpire it usually waits until the cup has been stolen, You may know how heaven regards money when you see the people who have it. The only hope some have pf staying in their heaven is that no wind will arise sufficient to blow any chaff over the walls, —Chicago Tribune. —_— PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE. C. Castro and A. Hamid are so situated that an exchange of condolences would help some, Mehmed signifies “glorlous.” As the new sultan Is red-headed, the significance of the title is obvious. Several sections of the country would readily subscribe to a consolation purse if Medicine Hat will quit working overtime. For a man who did not have a chance to do his stunt for thirty-three years, the Shelkh-ul-Islam did a pretty smooth and effective plece of work. If Mehmed V would doff his fex long enough for a snapshot, the world might see enough improvement to reconcile it to the change of sultans. A test vote of 1% spinsters in Chicago shows that they are unarimously in favor of husbands in the possessive case. Lack of experience serves to fortify the wisdomn of their willingness. went dry by a large majority, a farmer, in digging a well, tapped a spring of pure apple brandy. Nature in its Kkindliest moods could not have sprung & more wel- come lea Patrick Egan, formerly of Lincoln, is down in Washington, exercising his volce on the war key. In an interview In a Washington paper, he expresses the opin- ion that war between the United States and Jupun “Is inevitable,” and outhobsons Hobeon in boosting for “a strong navy,” supplemented with “a good merchant ma- rine.” Put the emphasis on the last four quoted words and you press the button of Patrick's inspiration. DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. The lumb was kipping and leaping gayly around the meadow Keep it up, child,” sald the mother. “Gambol and cavort all you plegse. 1ts Just as well for you not to know that some day that those legs of yours will be served with eaper sauce.'—Chicago Tribune. “You don't give Harold credit for the courage and business sense he possesses, sald Miss Cumrox Yes I do" answered her father. “He | has proved both by asking my permission ‘~Washington Star “The women at our church all wear the | very blggest hats. Well “Two weeks ago the pastor said they must remove them.' ‘Remove the hats. DId the women obey 7" No. They found it much easier to re- | move the pastor.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer Beautiful Maiden—Mr. Scrapple, 1 can't have you coming to se¢ me any more under a misapprehension. Papa isn't wealthy now. Ho lost all his money last week on the board of trude. Persistent Caller—That desn't make —_— also the “Crystal Lithium” water from oxcelsior Springs, Mo., in 5-gallon sealed jugs. gallon jug Crystal Lithia Water. .82 -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. A '; Off Sale THAT APPLIES TO ANY DIAMOND ! is in force here now In one of the counties of Missourl, which | The “4 OFF” mind you, even in the face of our already aoknowl- edged low prices on high class stones. Add to this the easily met with system of oredit payments made thir_concern, and yon you the most note- of dlamond nx g jubject of Bxquisite lookets; stick and ora- vat pins; brooches; sunbureta; braceiets; ear drops; pendants; watoh oases, and even Ar ticles set with diamonds are feat. ured here—all to be disposed of at “}, OFF.” Bought before the last price raise any difference, Miss Floesle. 1 knew it already. 1'm one of the fellows that got his money.—Chicago Tribune. She—Belle says she can read her hus- band like a book He—Ah, yes. He is her thind volume, Isn’t he?—Boston Transcript. Stoute—It's very depressing to have a wife who is an invalid. Pettyman—Imagine what it is, then, to have one that is perfectly healthy!—Boston Transcript. LAY OF A MODERN HOME. Lippincott's Magazine. "Le("‘u bulld us a beautiful home,” said she, “With pillared porches galore; wunh lfi'?&l bay windows and white-tiled | alls, And curled birch finish on all the walls, And with polished oaken floor. “And how shull the Kitchen be?" sald he, ‘Pray, how shall the kitchen be?’ 'll plan a dainty boudof: said she, For me, and a den for you; Of course, an art and a music room, A handsome greenhouse with plants a-bloom, * A pretty pergola, too." “‘But how shall the kitchen be’ Oh, how shall the kitchen be? “We'll have a lofty tower, A bath with the newest kinks and quirks, A library with the finest work: For our lovely modern home. “But how shall the kitchen be,” “Say, how shall the kitchen be? “You make of my life a care,” sald she, “With wall of your woeful fret; We'll do quite well with a chafing-dish, But if more bountiful meals you wish, We'll plan for a kitchenette— “A plain Jittle kitchenette,” ‘A cheap little kitchenette.” sald sl Why Don’t You Make Haste and secure the finest Piano at the Lowest Possible Knabe Tisn> Rogemosd arieht factory, on §6 mouthly pay- §15( ments Plano, Upright Osk Cramer el ueed but $125 Little, on §5 payments....... 1 . ht Walnut Kimbal| Zioner , ovrie ropair, on 97 paymenta- - $170 Cable-Nelson ..* "l early new, on $8 pay- wents ... h O ] Hallet-Davis iaas, St oriae , refinishs | Ly i et 0% Yo 8215 Kranich-Bach 3330, Priehe od 1 ears, Four own sermar e, 8250 E"illmflll Player Piano, Beauti- 1 Tight, on 810 m.'u“.'.'.. $350 New Pianos, Up-To- Date, §165 $10 Takes One Home $5 per month pays for it A. Hospe Co. 1513 Douglas Street Pianos Tune . ——— - to thelr own and the country's advan- | with authority, is particularly timely | rather to increase it and search out |ing political parties are at perfect lib- :L"_'k::"l ':‘\',;n""‘:'l":’l'l'“:: :: '_':\"':‘“p“"r" ‘:"; n'l n"l co beyond the west bank of the |in assuring the public at the outset of | new sources of revenue. Public im-|erty to flock together and form them- | gupject to other exceptions hereby nv:d 3 ' North river, the admiuistration that the ground lpm\'emanu cannot stop, rather is lh-lulvu into one or more new political [ but not specilically enumerated. SM and .m ’h. i ) ‘ 4 A R & T ————