Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 9, 1909, Page 12

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REMITTANCES, Remit by draft, express or postal order, goxable to The Dee Publishing Company m .00 600 18¢ 10c 6 10¢ $2.50 2-cent stamps received in payment of Personal checks, except on tern exchanges, not accepted accounts, Omaha or e STATEMENT OF CTRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss: George B. Tuschuck, treasyrer of The Bee blishing being duly sworn, says th number of f3iL and’ compiete coples of The Dally, orning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of April, 1909, was as follo . 89,960 41,030 Returned coples Net total. Dally averag Subacribed in my presonce an before me this 1st day of Mg " Notary ~ Public. WHEN OUT OF TOWN, Subscribers leaving the city tem- porarily should have The Hee afled to the Address will be changed as often as requested. e ———— More Nebraska postoffices are being raised to the next higher class, which ain shows how we grow. Those Pennsylvania railroad offi- cials whose special car caught fire must have been having a hot time. The Shellfish commission is in ses- sion in New York. As there is no R" in the month of May the oyster refuses to attend. Kansas City seems to be in immi- nent danger of having ocean ships docking on its river bank before it fin- ishes its union depot. It they could only suspend prize fighters for holding out and failing to sign up what a lot of space it would save the newspapers. Colorado is to erect a $100,000 mu- seum bullding. If the state tries to collect all its freaks an enlargement will soon be necessary Some smart Yankee lawyer is miss- ing out by not getting hold of Abdul Hamid's numerous wives and per- suading them each to institute divorce proceedings. The Pullman agent who over- charged a state railway commissioner doubtless wishes he hadn't. That's always what happens to the man who Buesses wrong. —_— The battleship Mississippi has reached New Orleans on its way up the river to Natchez. It had less trouble passing the batteries than did some of its predecessors. A Chicago club woman has declared that men are worse gossips than women and that Adam started the practice. Now, you lords of creation, won’t that hold you for awhile. The New York police hunted for three days for a woman with a cherry on her hat. If the cherry had been in the bottom of a glass the coppers might have located it quicker. When the new Dutch princess goes calling and leaves a card bearing the name of Juliana Loulse Emma Marie Wilhelmina, she is liable to make peo- ple believe there are five of them. The duke of the Abruzzl is reported to be ill in the Himalaya mountains, As he was suffering from heart affec- tion before he undertook the job of mountain climbing, the result is not to be wondered at. Charges of a $100,000 graft in the Cuban army payrolls are being in- vestigated. From the way those fel- lows are starting out it would appear that they do not expect the oppor- tunity will last lon One of the contributions to a cur- rent magazine asks the question, “Are our theological seminaries stagna- ting?"” and it seems inclined to answer in the affirmative. Is it any wonder then that some of the theological seminary graduates occasionally stag- nate after they get out? The New York lcgislature has re- ferred Governor Hughes' demand for & direot nomination law to a commis- slon with instructions to study the subject and report later. If the New York commission wants to see one in active operation, it is respectfully in- vited to come out and visit Nebraska. The Golden Spike Anniversary. Tomorrow, May 10, is the fortieth anniversary of the driving of the golden splke at Promontory Point, completing the last stretch of the iron rail from the Atlantic to the Pacifie. | The notable event was celebrated | | forty years ago, not only on the his- | torfe spot itself, but also here In Omaha, the eastern terminus of the | first great transcontinental railroad, as also in most of the large cities of the country What the actors and orators said at | the time of the significance of the driv. ing of the golden spike and the pre- dictions they then made of what It would lead to in the development of the western half of the continent must have sounded grandiloquent to those who heard them, but they have twen! more than met in the short perfod of | forty years, When the golden spike | was driven the territory between Omaha and S8an Francisco was peopled chiefly by coyotes, buffaloes and In- dians, and all the traffic of the year in the whole area would not equal what is now carried in a day. The buflders of the transcontinental railway laid the foundations for the future of a great country and were in- spired by a faith as sublime as it seems incredible. As the driving of the golden spike marked a turning point in the history of Omaha, so rail- road development growing out of this first great ocean-linking project has been the most influential factor in the making of this city, with the Union Pacific as the original transcontinental line continuing to preponderate over the other roads that have come to share the business of this Missouri river gateway. That some of the chief figures in the panorama at Promontory Point should be still living among us, having wit- nessed the marvelous industrial prog- ress of the last half century, is most gratifying, and they must be proud of the magnificent rallroad in the new Unfon Pacific which today exchanges the products of four continents across the spot where the golden splke was hammered down. Passing of the Cowboy. In the American cowboy the United States has given one of the most pic- turesque and original characters in the world’s history. The passing of the hardy, care-free men, who were ready at any and all times to face dan- ger and undergo any hardship without complaining, cannot be noted without a regret. It is only too apparent, however, that the cowboy’s days are numbered. Even now in the sections where he s still supreme his movements are be- coming more circumscribed and the nature of his employment so changed that the cowboy of the present day is only a reminder of the one who went before. His occupation is a tame one compared with that of his predecessor. He is no longer expected to sleep on his arms and be prepared at a mo- ment’s notice to fight Indians or en- force border law against cattle rus- tlers and horse thieves. The barbed wire corral has relieved him in large measure, of the tiresome and many times dangerous night riding of the herd, and the free life with no bounds { but the horizon is ceasing to be his. With every succeeding year the ad- | vance of the farmer into the range country drives the cowboy still fur- ‘lhf'r toward the “jumping off place.” The latest evidence of this is to be found in the celebration held recently in Lyman county, South Dakota, a section in which until within a few years the cowboy was supreme, The homesteader has driven him out and the land been given over to a wider usefulness. The cowboy celebrated his departure by a great gathering of his kind, to which large numbers of spec- | tators were attracted. As a farewell | he gave to the newcomers an exhibi- | tion of his skill and of the wild and daring sports which have been the nat- ural outgrowth of his life. It was a | gathering typical of the evolution of the west, and, while we rejoice at the development it signalizes, let us bid a sorrowful farewell to a ploneer who | blazed the way for the future, forget the evil that was in him and remember only that as a class he was big- | hearted, fearless and every inch a | man. Check on the Scorcher. A new element is about to he in- jected Into the effort to put a stop to reckless automobile driving. City or- dinances and state laws, as well as public opinion, have alike been inef- fectual to end dangerous speeding on the part of a portion of the drivers of these machines, but there is something coming up which promises better suc- cess. At the meeting of the accident and casualty insurance men, which is to be held in July, one of the principal topics of discussion will be the liability of the companies for injuries to per- sons and to machines which are In- sured. The raising of rates, it is held, would simply mean that those who were good risks would not take out policies and the scoreher and reckless driver is a bad risk at any price. It is proposed to keep a list of all owners and drivers who are arrested and convicted of reckless or fast driv- ing and to refuse to issue policies on either the persons of the drivers, the machines themselves or surety bonds against damages. The expert of the association, who has been keeping tab on autemobile accidents, asserts that almost without exception they are due to criminally reckless driving. If the accident and casualty insurance com- panies can eliminate the reckless auto- mobile driver they will have earned the everlasting gratitude of the thou- sands of people whose chief oceupation in life under present conditions is to avold being knocked down and run over whenever they venture on the streets. Why Not Apply It At Home. The latest issue of Mr. Bryan's Com- moner commends one of the judges of the Cincinnati court of common pleas for dissenting from the reappoint- ment as a democrat of one of the jury commissioners, who admits that he is an anti-Bryan man, but insists that, although he has been opposed to Bryan at all times, he is still “‘as good a dem- ocrat as the judge ever dare be.” | Commenting for itself, the Commoner continues: How Is & man's democracy to be deter- mined? Of course, & man can for his own satisfaction call himself a democrat and vet support the republican ticket at every opportunity. While no one can legally de- prive him of the satisfaction he obtains from the use of the party name, he is cer- tainly not entitled to recelve the honors that come with party service. A law re- quiring bl-partisan appointments s a farce |1£ 1t permits the appointment of men who represent the minority in name only. ! Since 189 the democratic party has ‘suf- | tered a great deal by the appointment of so-called democrats on bi-partisan boards, but in nearly every case the so-called democrats are as antl-democratic as thelr republican associates. Where republican officals reward the democrats for their apostacy they not only deprive the demo- cratic party of representation, but make it responsible for those who are nelther in the party nor of the party. All this reads very well from Mr. Bryan’s standpoint, but why not apply it at home? Is there any difference between a man voting the republican ticket and continuing to call himself a democrat and a man voting the demo- cratic ticket and continuing to eall himeelt a populist? If support of the party nominee for president is the test which Mr. Bryan would enforce upon so-called demo- crats, why is not the support of the presidential nominee of the popullsi a test which ought to be applied to so- called populists? In the recent election in this state Mr. Bryan not only countenanced, but backed up, a deliberate fraud upon the voters by which his democratic candidates for presidential electors were put upon the official ballot mis- branded as populists, when not one of them was supporting, or intended to support, the populist nominee for pre: jdent. Mr. Bryan's democratic pres! dential electors in Nebraska may have had a legal right to call themselves populists, but they had no more moral right to take advantage of the popu- list name than had the Cincinnati jury commissioner who bolted Bryan three times to receive an appointment as a democrat. The very ‘“farce’ against which Mr. Bryan now rails has been played here in Nebraska under his personal super- vision and approval ever since the fusion game was made a permanent institution, and the laws requiring the bi-partisan appointments were never so flagrantly evaded as by the demo- crats and populists helped into office by Mr. Bryan in his ewn state. At times this “farce’” went so far as to constitute a board supposed to be composed of three members, each of difterent political affiliation, of Bryan democrat, one Bryan populist and one Bryan silver republican. Even party representation on election boards was for years nullified in the | same way. After his long success in masquerad- ing his partisans as populists in order to get by false pretenses the votes of old-line populists who would not ac- cept the democratic label, it i1l befits Mr. Bryan to complain when some anti-Bryan democrat misuses the party name. Hard Blow to Bucket Shops. The conviction at Cincinnati of sev- eral men engaged in running a bucket shop for using the mails to defraud is a shot below the armor belt. The court in its ruling says that the trades in a bucket shop, where it is never in- tended or contemplated that any com- modity should change hands, i8 gam- bling pure and simple and as such is fraud within the eyes of the law. This decision, of course, goes only to the extent of barring from the mails any part of a bucket shop transaction, but if deprived of the use of this facil- ity the bucket shops would have a gorry time of it conducting their busi- ness along the lines of profit. purely gambling features of Board of Trade transactlons are more difficult, if not impossible, to reach. They are 80 interwoven with the legitimate pur- chase and sale of grain and other arti- cles for future delivery that the wisest has not yet evolved a plan to separate them and extinguish the one without destroying the other, which in princi- ple is the basis of the major portion of all the world’'s commerce. Those who want to see gambling abolished will rejoice, however, that the courts by this bucket shop decision have put one more stumbling block in its way. Good Advice to the Navy. Congressman Dawson of lowa in ad- dressing the members of a naval so- clety has given the officers in that branch of the service a hunch they should take to themselves. The course of events has been such as to lead to the belief that some of the officers have mistaken the purpose of the gov- ernment in educating them for the navy. They were not trained solely to look handsome in uniform on dress parade occasions. Their main duty. is to man the navy and see that it is kept in a condition to give a good account of itself when called upon Recent tempests in teapots when departmental orders were distasteful to some of the officers have brought down adverse criticism upon a service which in the main has been demon- strated to be highly efficient and above reproach, It was to this class that one | The | MAY 9, 1909, Mr. Dawson addressed himself and he told them candidly that less of seek- ing after personal advantage and less of jealousy between the staff and the line would be instrumental in inducing congress to be Ifheral with the navy. Lees bickering among the bureaucrats and more attention to systematizing the business of the department with the elimination of waste; less political intrigue and more striving for ad- vancement on the strength of accom- plishment would redound to the ad- vantage of all. High-class vaudeville and the Intri- cate plots of melodrama are all right for public entertalnment, but they can be secured at a much lower price than what we spend on our naval establish- ment. There are also too many faith- ful, competent men who are giving the best that i{s in them to perfect the navy and make it a credit to permit the conceit and selfishness of a few to lower the standard of the whole serv- ice. A Monument to Longfellow. There has been dedicated the last week at the national capital & monu- ment to Henry Wadsworth Longfel- low. The president, the chief justice of the supreme court and many nota- ble people in public, religious and civil life participated in the ceramonies. It is fitting that in the national capital, graced with so many reminders of sol- diers, sailors and statesmen, there should be reared a monument to one who has touched as many, if not more, hearts than any American who ever lived. Measured by the standards of poetic genius Longfellow is not great. Neither in his conceptions nor in his versification 1s there anything which stamps him as exceptional. Yet in his simplicity, purity of thought and dle- tion and, above all, in his appeal to the ideas and emotions which all could understand, he comes up to the full measure of greatness. It requires no analytical mind to ascertain the ideals of Longfellow, which were “The sim- ple and heartfelt lay.” He touched the responsive heart of the child and in chaste and pure language recalled ten- der memories to those grown old. His direct appeal to the ideals of youth inculcated a softening influence into thousands of lives which in after years made for better men and women. The world is better that such men have lived. Though he essayed to solve none of life's great problems, his appeals to the humanity of his readers are and ever will be an uplift- ing force. Reliability of the Newspaper. In the current Atlantic Monthly James Ford Rhodes, the noted histor- fan, upholds the newspaper as a reliable source of historical data. He goes further than to say it is worthy of consideration In the compilation of any history, and maintaine that it is the best source of Information for ev- erything except official acts, in which case, of course, the public documents themselves tell the story, although un- like the newspaper, they do not dis- close the motive. He says: The Impulse of an Amerfcan writer in Justifying the use of newspapers as his- torical material s to adopt an apologetic tone It is somewhat curlous that such should be the case, for newspapers satisty #0 many canons of evidence. They are contemporary, and, helng written without knowledge of the end, cannot bolster up any cause without making a plain showing of intent. Their object Is the relation of daily events; and If their relation 18 colored by honest or dishonest partisanship, this is easily dlscernible by the critic from the Internal evidence and from an easily acquired knowledge of a few external facts. The author takes severely to task those who give preference and cred- ence to personal correspondence and personal remembrances, both of which are often committed to paper long after the events transpired, in prefer- ence to newspaper accounts of current date. He points out that inaccuracies in the newspapers would be challenged at the time and other publications would disclose them while to memory and private correspondence there is no check to either partisanship or inac- curacy. In another direction Mr. Rhodes finds the newspaper to be the only re- liable source of information to the his- torian, for the color of the times, the relation of events to each other and the motives which inspire actors in the drama of life. With the analytical mind of a historian he has pointed out the method of correctly determining the value of newspaper material, by comparison and weighing the points of difference in the various journals and also gives them the credit of being ac- curate beyond reasonable expectation, considering the hurried manner in which the material presented must be compiled. The newspapers can well feel a pride In the estimate which Mr. Rhodes places upon their work and the news- paper readers can also find profit in his testimony to newspaper rellability Idaho Springs has just celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the first dis- coyery of gold in the Rocky moun- taine. George Jackson, the man who made the discovery, dled in poverty several years ago, but'his find meant fortune to thousands and was the opening wedge for the rapid develop- ment of that great region. Tributes to his memory are fitting enough, but it would have been more to the credit of those to whom his discovery brought afuence had they provided for him in his declining yecars According to Collier's weekly the proposed western tour of the president depends somewhat on whether con- gress makes an appropriation to pay the traveling expenses of the presi- dential party or leaves it to the presi- dent to meet these expenses out of his salary which, it now stands, s equal to only the old salary plus the allowance for traveling expenses. If all the senators and representatives who are pressing invitations upon the president to visit their states had this brought home to them they will surely see to it that the president is able to travel without sacrificing his own per- sonal resources. Russia has ninety-one holidays and the lawmaking bodies are discussing | the advisability of reducing the num- ! ber because the financial loss incident to their observance is estimated as running far up into the millions. Here is a practical illustration for the en- thusiasts in this country who are con- tinually springing something new in this line. Unecle Joe Cannon was 73 years old Friday, and even the democrats for- got for a day the mean things have said about him. In telegraph pariance 78" is the signal for best wishes, and everybody got busy on the wire. The Missouri ‘legislature has passed an anti-treat bill through one house. Those Missouri lawmakers should come to Nebraska and be shown how an anti-treat law looks as a dead letter. Optimism of Youth, Boston Herald. In spite of the good lesson of the Chicago peace congress, it will not be easy to con- vince the children of the literal truth of Gray's line: “The path of glory leads but to the grave.” Rail Splitting and Halr Splitting. New York Post. The decision of an Illinols court setting aside the law intended to check ‘loan sharks” because it falled to distinguish be- tween ‘‘wage” earners and ‘‘salary’ earn- ers, shows that the state which once boasted a rail-splitting president has now at least got some halr-splitting Judges. Marathon. Boston Transcript. 1t takes the truth a long time to overtake falsehood. Western papers are still dls- cussing the alleged statement of President Woolley of Mount Holyoke college that working glrls made better home makers, though she has flatly disclaimed having given utterance to anything of the kind. Exposing Tarift “Jokprs.” Kansas City Times. Senator Dolliver of lowa, who is making a splendid record in the work of exposing “jokers” In the tariff bill, takes especial pains to aocquit the finance committes of any blame. Certainly no man Is mean enough to suspect that the great and good Aldrich would _permit, knowingly, his friends to slip “jokers” into the tariff bill. Ofcial Reforms in lowa. . Bt. Louls Requblic. When the governor of lowa puts into effect his order requiting state officers td make sworn statements of their traveling expenses it will be Interesting to observe what eort of items he will ‘pass” as iegit- imate. What would he say to the item of “T5 cents for mending trousers’ once put into an expense account by Judge Willilam H. Marcy, of New York, afterward gov- ernor and United States senator? PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE. The discovery of 50 planos in the Yildiz, Kiosk explains A. Hamid's facllity in fur- nishing music for the concert of the pow- ers. The increased drafts on the taxable wealth of Great Britain under the pro- posed law is likely to send a thrilling "'C. D. Q" call to American heiresses, A member of one of the jurles of a New York court, who wears $4,000 worth of dia- monds on his person, is expected to throw considerable light on the law and the facts in the case. During & trial for personal damages in a Chicago court the woman plaintiff forgot her crutches and her simulated feebleness long enough to romp with her granddaugh- ter in the presence of the jury. The shock of an adverse verdict was very painful to herselt and her attorney. A memorial statue to Grover Cleveland, to cost $1,000,000, is projected by Chicago admirers of democracy's winner. A site for the memorial has not been selected, but the spot where the “wigwam' stood in June, 182, would be an ideal location 1t has the memorfes and traditions sulted to a memorial. There is & hot time in Old Philadelphia just now. The traction combine abolished “six fares for a quarter,” restricted trans- fers and in other ways effected a squesze which will net from $2,000,000 to $,000,000 a year. Public indignation overflows in double-leaded editorials warm enough to scorch the whiskers of the magnates. They are not saying a word. Too busy taking in the extra money. SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT. | Boston Herald: Those clergymen whose Aabbling in margins is revealed by the | books of a bankrupt firm of stock brokers | In New York can hardly plead that they were feeding the lambs. Chicago Inter-Ocear: A Newark (N. J.) preacher made the women in his church take off their hats Sunday on the ground that he wanted to see his congregation. He apparently hasn't the slightest idea of what a woman's hat is for. Loutsville Courler-Journal: presiding at the Methodist Episcopal con- ference at Cincinnatl, sald: “For a woman of moderate means to pay $8 or §35 or just $19 for the plain hat without trimmings, s absolute wickedness. Why, one Easter hat could buy an entire clerical outfit. Gently, bishop, gently; what about the shovel hats and the galters? New York Tribune: A canvass which the Federation of Churches is conducting in Harlem discloses that out of 12,000 fami- les, about 60,000 persons, more than hall have no ‘“‘ehurch home." Of the Hebrew families 80 per cent attend no church or synagogue. Of the Catholic families 12 per cent and of the Protestant tamilies 22 per cent have no church. This census discloses the extent to which ab- solute non-attendance at churches prevails. Statistics as to regular and irregular at; tendance are not presented, but they would probably disclose the slight hold the churches have upon many of the 602 familles recorded as having & “church home” out of the 12,638 intervicwed. Thoss 6,082 represent all grades of attendance familles, for example, which go to chureh intrequently, familles of which the adults rarely or never go, while the children go to Bunday school; families whose women Bishop Moore, they | | Yonkers Open a Charge Account at Mandelberg’s DIAMONDS ON CREDIT I make a specialty of selling popular priced dia- monds, watches and jew- elry, and by tage of my plan other taking advan- easy payment desirable ar- ticles are placed With! 1 a week buys this Ring. Reach of All in the $1 a week buys this Ring. ANOTHER POINT—There's rarely an occasion where quality for quality and size for size is considered, that the prices 1 sell Diamonds for on dealers ask you for Cash. R Credit are not less than others emember, we will Credit you. e e GIFT & 0P SERMONS 1!)_&_29 DOWN. No man knows truth who wants to pat- ent it The way to be faithtul to truth is to follow it. Faith never travels far when it forgets the facts. Every gift is measured by its real cost to the giver. The greatest verities are found by loy- alty to small truths. The baggage car does not go through on the heavenly train. The large hearted always see large quall- ties in thelr friends. Riches become dangerous rooted in our affections. B A good deal of public generosity hides a lot of private meanness. Whatever Is given by the hand Is more than gained by the heart. Bvery man's view of this world Is better for his being blind to some of it. It often happens that the punishment we think Is remitted is only ripening. It takes more than Sunday dreams of heaven to make a heavenly week. The only way to fill the harvester's wagon Is to empty the sower's bag. Some people have a way of praying for others that make them prefer cursing The meek who inherit the earth do not &et their title to it by erawling in the dust Bome seem to think the best evi- dence of being the salt of the earth is ability to make folks smart.—Chicago Tribe une. only when DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES, “My wife is awfully good to me." “Lucky man. How does she show it? “'She lets me spend all the money I save by shaving myself to buy base ball tick- ets."—Cleveland Leader. A case of love at first sight, eh?" 0, second sight. The first time he saw her he didn't know she was an heiress.'— Boston Transcript. Family Physiclan—The trouble with your husband, madam, is that he has overdrawn his account at the bank of vitality Mrs. Gayman—I felt sure he was decelv- ing me about something. Dector, 1 give you my word I never knew he had any account there."—Chicago Tribune “Is June the fevorite month for mar- riages out here, too?" asked the New York lady “I don't think so," woman. “T other mont replied the Chicago e been married six times In . and only twice in June." Statesman “You want a job?" “Yes, sir." “Experienced?” “Yes, sir." “How much pay do you want? “About $100 & week." “What! 19" “That's what what I expect.” 1_want. About $850 in Cleveland Leader. “In requesting your daughter's hand," {4 Count Fucash, “I m e that 1 ave a long line of ancestors “I see,” answered Mr. Cumrox; ‘and your proposition is to trade off the lot of your ancestors for & few rich relations." Washington Star. “T suppose,” sald the casual acqua ance the day after the wedding, “it hard to lose your daughter. “No," replied the bride's father. was It SALT SULPHUR WATER also the “Crystal Lithium’ water from Excelsior Springs, Mo., in b-gallon sealed jugs. 5-gallon jug Crystal Lithia Water. .82 b-gallon jug Salt-Sulphur water $3.25 Buy at elther store. We sell gver 100 kinds mineral water. Sherman & McConnell Drug Co. Sixteenth and Dodge Sts. Owl Drug Co. Sixteenth and Harney Sts. did seem as if it was goIng to be hard at one time, but she landed this fellow just as we were beginning to lost all hope.' — Pittsburg Observer. re you golng to celebrate Mother's f course.” ‘Golng to wear a white rose and go to a plenie?” “Is your mother golng?"’ “'Of course not, she has to stay home and do the housework and take care of the baby."—Houston Post WHAT THE ENGINES SAID. (At Promontory Point, May 10, 190.) What was it the Engines said Pilots touching—-head to head, Facing on tho single track, Half a world behind each back? This Is what the Engines said, Unreported and unread. With a prefatory screech In a florid western s Baid the Engine from the “1 am from Blerra's crest; | And. if altitu 1 test, Why, I reckon, it's confessed, That'I've done my level best.” West, Baid the Engine from the Bast, “They who work best talk the least, | 8'pose you whistle down your brakes; What you've done is no great shakes, Pretty fair—but let our meeting Be a’different kind of greeting Let these folks with champagne stuffing, Not their Engines, do the putfing. “Listen! Where Atlantlc beats Shores of snow and summer heats; Where the Indlan autumn skies Paint the woods with wampum dyes, 1 have chased the flying sun, Beeing all he looked upon, Blessing all that he has blest, Nursing in my iron breast All his vivifying heat, All his clouds about my crest; And before my flylng feet Bvery shadow must retreat.” 8aid the Western Bngine, “‘Phew!" And a long, low whistle blew. “Come now, really that's the oddest Talk for one so very modest You brag of your Bast! You do? Why. I bring the East to you! All ‘the Orlent, all Cathay. Find through me the shortest way; And the sun you follow hers Rises In my hem Really—If one must be rude- Length, my friend, ain't longitude." Baid the Union, “Don’t reflect, or I'll run over some Director.” d the Central, “I'm Pacific, But, when riled, I'm quite terrifie. Yet today we shall not quarrel, Just to show these folks this moral, How two Engines—in their vislon— Onee have met without collision.” That 1s what the Engines sald Unreported and unread; Bpoken slightly through the noss, With a whistle at the olose. —~BRET HARTH Free Piano Selling! An Evolution at Hospe's Twenty years’ trial on some pianos, no cash down on some, no freight on many. Free Stool, Free Searf, Free Delivery in the city on all pianos, $149 buys a brand new up-to-date Piano, in mahog- any case, full size, three pedals, Boston fall board, duet music board. Terms of 16 ce Beat This | The world’s best Pianos nts per day. f You Can! are subject to your selection at from $50 to $150 cheaper than the factory’s lowest price. Kranich & Bach, Kraka: Cable-Nelson, Hallet & Dav uer, Kimball, Bush & Lane, is, Hospe, Whitney, Burton, Victor, Cramer, Imperial and many more. €0, but whose men do jiot, as well as the most regular attendants at all the services. 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