Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 13, 1909, Page 6

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Trading stock will | | government pulse, litical_ as an indicated in many ways, and as in all cases where the ascendancy of a min- istry is at stake all {ts opponents, re- Voting On the Tariff Bill. The votes so far taken on the tariff | bill in the senate indicate almost be- vond question that with a few changes the bill as recommended by the ebm- mittee on finance will be the which will pass the senate. than against those already sought 2.5 | be amended. There are 8o many and 8o 19 radical differences between the senate and house bills, however, that the op- portunity remains to revise practically the measure again in conference. is apparent that this fact has been potent influence in lining up senators to support the bill as it came from the committee. When the bill comes back from con- | ference and the issue is squarely be- the divergent house and sen- votes of the be a practical necessity, for it is al- ways give and take In conference. this connection the views of the presi- dent will also be a considerable factor because the conference spure to he impressed with the require- ments for executive approval. committee The French Postal Strike. Like so many things which postal industrial..charaeter one So far the committee has been sustained on every test, and there is little ground | tor beliet more opposition will be mus- tered against the remaining schédules 80- threshing In the French people do the the strike of the employes: appears at this distance as an outbreak of im- That it is fully as much a po- [travenes partisan advantage the latter is the ruling factor. Mr. Taft tells the Porto Ricans that the result of such tactics will be to deprive them of power to do harm Porto Rico have never had a more con- sistent friend than Mr. Taft, or one who resconded more promptly to their legitimate aspirations, and they will do well to heed his warnings. to What Next? dered in the lower court against the | city of Omaha in the hydrant rental cases puts the Water board squarely against the gome means of meeting these obliga- tions. While the particular case de- clded involves in round figures $115, 1t a tal, with interest to January 1, 1909, amounts to $486,663.77, and by July 1 an additional $60,000 or more of hydrant rental and interest will added, making a grand total upward of $550,000. The burning question is, What next? The Water board should have levied of this hydrant rental as it was mount- ing up, but in order to make a pre- tense of economy and at the same time embarrass the Water company by withholding revenues on which it depended the Water board refused to levy the annual water tax, so that if the entire amount were to be raised | by a single levy now it would add 50 per cent to the tax rate. As this, of judgment is to be paid out of taxes it | will be necessary to do so on the in- stallment plan and carry the obliga- tion along for several years. One of the Water board lawyers is is et total. ... «ae8,007 | gardless of pasty differences, Aare|,..;ort0q ag saying that it s the Jally average................... 40,840 found lined up behind the strikers. 4 - " N CHORGEE TERCHUCK. e e d” 08 obact of In board’s plan to pay the hydrant ren- Treasy er. e first and primafy obiec © | tal, which should have been met out Subsoribed In my presence and swarn to before me this ist day of Illd'. 1909, M. P. WALKER. Notary Public. WHEN OUT OF TOWN, French opposition is always to over- throw the ministry. prefers to fight it out as a strike of government meet the politieal phase is indicated by employes Hither That the cabinet than of current taxes, by an issue of bonds. If so, we will soon have to vote an- other water bond issue,s because the $3,000,000 of water bonds authorized in 1900 and the $6,500,000 of water Subscribers leaving the city tem- | its tactics which prevented a vote in|yoi oo 4iihorized at the last election porartl 4 ¥y ehow have The Bee |the chamber on the questions at Is8ue. | . o 1o devoted to the specific purpose Address will be Assuming that conditions in ‘the as requested. The Jjury fixer must go. —— Some of the “Daily Hints from Paris” are loud enough to get out of the hint class. —_— The big hat is no laughing matter. A Detroit man has been fined tor smil- ing out loud at one of them. ——— The only appearance of the sleeping sickness since Roosevelt went to Africa has been in the lion compound. ———— The hosiery men are holding a con- vention in Philadelphia. As a live ex- hibit they are not attracting much at- tention, —— The Lincoin Excise board proposes | to extend the arid belt to the social | clubs. What's the use, then, of join- | ing a club? —_— the Ananias club; previons one served out his time and was honorably discharged, —— Fort Omaha will have another bal- loon. have to move up twelve notches before it strikes 13. —— A West Virginian who has just died | had voted for eighteen presidents. It is & certainty he was not a democrat in bis later years. | A Boston Ifterary sharp is to pub- | lish & list of the hundred worst bool How he ever expects to read all the eligibles is not explained —— A business man who lost ten pounds in weight through the actions of a| competitor sued for damages and re- ‘l cottage. of all passions. covered 1 cent. That 18 putting a man on a pretty low basis. —_— Wisconsin, Missouri, Ilinois and legielatures, Nebraka Is more tunate. It has had its dose now on the road to recovery. Py — for- and is decorated by the emperor of Japan | with the Order of the Rising Sun. | Thbugh advanced in years, his is one N of ,those lives whose sun unever sets. | posters has resolved in favor of rais ing the moral standard of the bill- boards. The quickest way to raise | the standard would be to raze the bill- | “oard. Fourteen night riders who assaulted and severely beat a Tennessee man | have been given ten days in jail as a penalty. The judge could have been real severe on the culprits and slapped thelr wrists. It Omaha is not to have the Saen- gerfest, we are sorry, but there is no | use crying over spilled milk. Let! everybody turn in and make Ak-Sar- Ben and the Corn show “bigger, better and grander than ever Candidates who _put up $5 apiece to get a chance on the primary ballot for the police board want their money back. We presume it would come in handy to some of them to have it re- turned in time to repay the loan. A committee of Californians ha picked out the woman who in their judgment is the most beautiful of any in the state. That Is interesting, but not pearly so much so as would be the explanations to their wives when the judges reached home - - edy be applied ment {s not so ea: that the civil spoilsmen, number of those in the governmental | Wanted--A recrulting officer. for | Service renders this more imperative | 1e postal service are onerous and injus- tice has been done the employes, the time which would ultimately challenge the attention of congress and the rem- Change of employ- v in France as here, | but on the other hand the French gov- ernment {8 supposed to be more easily bent tc the demands of a popular up- rising than ours, and it i largely these two conditions which have led up to a strike such as is only a remote passi- bility with us. The real lesgon of French events it both unnecessary and political factors and The constantly with each succeeding year. Sentence of the Kidnapers. The severe penalties inflicted upon the kidnapers of the Whitla boy will This time it is No. 1, which will | strike a responsive chord with every lim- [ited few it may be deprecated as'an | exhibition of catering to wealth, but | that he pursued the right course to in- | | this view is as shallow as it is heart- | gratiate That it is as a rule the children of the wealthy who are kldnaped is right-thinking person. With a service should be: so protected and conducted as toxrefder unwise * for those engaged in it to seek to become consequently growing embraced In the proposition, which is | the acquisition of the water plant and cannot legally be used to pay off hy- muult'-nt dissatisfaction, if ft-were in |4 .0 rental debts. the United States, would more likely It is up to the Water board. have resulted in individual resigna- tions from the service from time to Suitably Rewarded. The appointment by Governor Shal- lenberger of Dr. E. Arthur Carr to & place on the new State Board Health is a fitting reward for the dirty work which this eminent political cure-all did for the democratic ticket in the campaign last fall. Dr. Carr, it should be remembered, is the author of a circular letter at- tacking Mr. Taft as an enemy of re- ligion and of temperance which was printed on a beautiful two-color letter- !hgnd entitled “‘United Clvic League,” bearing the names of a number of well known anti-saloon workers who after- ward repudiated it. Such distinguished service in the cause of democracy and reform is en- titled to recognition and we are glad is the score. Of course, no one blame Dr. Carr for his action, because as an unsuccessful applicant Board of Health doubtless led to believe that in no other way could he satisfy his ambi- tion and the success which has crowned his efforts is sufficient proof himself with Governor lenberger. Shal- —_——— true, but the act has not-even the poor | If there is any systematic jury brib- | excuse of a protest against wealth. The wealthy are the victimgh, simply be- cause they are able to'pay a price for ransom. The erime of the k@per aims at | | the home, the basis of all ‘good citizen- | ship, whether that home be a palace or It plays on the tenderest That a crime so re- pulsive to all human instincts should 50 lightly punished is somewhat strange, but its | Avkansas are still wrestling with state | FePetition has wroughtza change in sentiment which has found voice in the ement | 1f extreme penalties are ever a deter- | rent on heinous crimes, the limit of President Eliot of Harvard has been | the law is due to the crafty perpetra- until recently have been statutes and now in their enfor tors ‘of such a 'kidnaping.pjot. President to Porto Ricans. President Tait's gommunication | congress is also directed in a pointed The 'natiopal organization of bill- | manner to the people of Porto Rico. | 1t thoroughly aecords with all his ut- terances in regard to the government As com- of our island dependencies. missioner to and governor general the Philippines, on record as favoring the amount of self-government that t people of these dependencies are eapa- ble of. His Porto Rican messagé not [ .pronic {n that section of the world | only afirms this, but points out the |y mav pe conducive to peace and de- | natural corollary, that they are enti- - tled to no more local autonomy than | they are able to appreciate and use in- telligently. That the politicians as cabinet officer and as president he has at all times been gregatest not stop until they put an end to it. When the jury is bought and sold the poor man who submits his case to the justice than has an innocent vietim sitting in a game with professional gamblers using marked cards. JE—— A Washington attorney Is under ar- investors out of $500,000. It is the old Istory of big promises and everybody loses but the sharper. Getting some- ! thing for nothing is an alluring prop- osition, but it still remains to be dem- onstrated that two times two is more than four. John »Orth, the missing Austrian prince, has been found again. John to | Orths about as numerous as are were a few years ago, but in spite of the numerous finds they all continue to be among the missing unless the present instance proves an exception ey of explains the failure to return a salute of a United States gunboat on the ground that the powder supply was exhausted. If that condition becomes he velopment. —— It begins to look as if the transfer of | of the county hospital to democratic Porto Rico have not divorced them- |management means that that institu- selves from the traditional Spanish |tjon is to be again the foot ball of pol- methods is evident from the action of |jtjcs. A hospital for poor —unfortu- the lower house of the legislature and | nates is the last place in the world the president simply serves wotice on | where politics should be the moving them they must cease from abusing | force. the power given them if they expect ——— to retain it Habits of thought growth of centuries which are cannot be in a few years, but the change will hpstened by just such methods those pursued by the president. ment and when good government, the existence of amy gevernment, con- the ex- pected to disappear in a day, or.even Par- tisan advantage is the sole basis of the Spanish idea of polities and govern- We take it that the Real Estate ex- change will at once ‘‘thoroughly in- vestigate” the hydrant rental question and let us know whether or not to vote be.| bonds to pay the judgment which the as | water company Lias just gotten against the city — BDewlldering Silence. Boston Herald. O | wouldn't this appear to be about the peychological moment for Mr. Bryan to The people of the Philippines and of | The affirmance by the United States | court of appeals of the judgment ren- | proposition of devising | 000, the total aggregate hydrant ren- | be | a tax of $100,000 a year to take care | coursd, is out of the question, if the | of | that Governor Shallenberger has paid | will | for a| appointment he was | ing going on in our court house fhe | judges and prosecuting officers should ! courts has no more chance of getting | est on the charge of swindling women | Charlie Rosses and Willie Tascotts | The officer of a port in Honduras | lift up his voice on the tariff, assuming that he still has any thought of publie service in his mind? The silence in Ne braska fs becoming somewhat hard to un derstand. A Little Experience Suffices. Washington Herald The same cable that brought nt story of the annexation of a French title by an American fress carried anot story of the efforts of another Americ helress to detach one. There seems to precious little varlety to the seqience of events attending those matrimonial alli ances. Penaity for Capltal Cr New York Tribune Governor Stuart of Pennsylvania has ve- toed a bill to permit juries in murder | | cases to determine between the death pen alty and life imprisonment In view of the disregard of human Hf which some elements of our population continually | exhibit, T do not think that our criminal law governing the punishment for murder In the first degree should be relaxed.” savs | the governor. Approving the veto, the Philadelphia Inquirer says: “When we reach the point where juries, swayed mo- | mentarily by emotion or by sympathy. can | virtually destroy the death penaity we shall arriva at the beginning of an increasing list of cold-blooded crimes.” Warring Agninst War. Boston nseript Public opinfon Is changing. The world has its eyes opened. The war doctrine, the | preachment of international murder, has | surfeited mankind. The evils have multi- plied until the results of war, if not the direct thought of war ftself, have turned ropular sentiment, in the better pathway. The rock at the base of the peace move- ment is moral. But mankind, unfortunately cannot be reached as effectively as should be the case on A moral foundation alone Thus the warfare against war Is now waged on more utilitarlan, more “practical grounds. The problem 1s treated scientif ieally, economically. The appeal Is to the understanding, to the brains of man. Tt s & course of cold argumant, Irrefutable and ultimately convincing. . NEBRASKA PRESS COMMENT Scribner News: ““Taylor of Custer,” & democratic member of the last legislature, threatens to become man without a party.” The usual course of such a man Is to criticise everything and accomplish nothing. Howells Journal: Th county seat are ninety-ope towns in Nebraska and today forty-eight, or more than nalf of them, are dry. Of the ninety-one counties, twen- ty-six are without saloons entirely and thirteen have but looks as though a tar off. Auburn Granger dorse our present Well, hardly. primary law, as it is, is only a scheme for keeping up party and making it nossible to squabble over party I at the sacrifice of the questions that ahov be considered by those anxious for good government. The Granger Is in favor of a law that will permit every man to vote and not be controlled by party bosses Grand Island Independent: Another No- braska democrat than Mr. Bryan has been mentioned as the next candidate for pres- ldent. Now, what do ‘you know about that? None other (han Governor Shallen- berger recefves the mention, and the sug- gestion is made by a Pennsylvania paper, the Evening Genius of Uniontown. It is not a necessarlly, dangerous stretch of the one saloon, dry Nebraska 1s not Does primary the Granger en- clection law? The fact ia that our present revised d fmagination to 'be convinced that Mr. Bryan will regard the paper as the Evil Genius. Stanton Register (dem.): The republican state committes made a serious mistake when they decided to {ight the new pri- mary laws, especially the non-partisan Judiciary law. The rew laws might in- jure the politician, but they are a distinct advantage to the voters. Shrewd students of political conditlons in Nebraska say hat one-third of the votes of Nebraska are Independent and what position does the attack on laws the voters want put that party In? Columbus Telegram: When first it was reported that the governor was considering the appointment of Senator Majors we wrote an editorial appeal to thé governor, pleading with him to hesitate before mak- ing such a mistake tion to the plain We called his atte wording of the constitu- precedent—a very b lished by republican Ashland Gazette: No, thank you, it would be Impossible for us ever to ally ourself with the democratic party so long as the .present management has control with all deference and respect to the many 1 precedent, predecessors. estab- good citizens who comprise the rank and file of that party. Only a few years ago the World-Herald attacked Mayor Moores viclously because of his truckling to the'| | “Mberar (criminal) element. Then came Dahlman, and now the World-Herald Is supporting him with all its might, making a special point against his opponent, Mr. Breen, that he s decent on the “liberal” question. In view of the notorious fact that Dahlman is ten times worse than Moores ever was, It is plain that the World-Herald roasted Moores hecause he was a republican and not because he stoc for unclean eclements in the city govern- ment. Possibly the World-Herald may find it out after a while, but if it did but know it, there are multitudes of decent demo crats all through the state who feel the same sense of nausea Hard Work Getting Better? ‘When the danger point is passed and convalescence begins, it takes time to bring the enfeebled body back to its natural strength. At this vital peri- od, when exhausted nature is striv- ing to regain her own, you will find Pabst Extract he Pest Tonic Combining in correct propertions the nutritive and digestive elements of rich barley-malt with the quieting | and tonic elfects of choicest hops, it | offers nourishment in predigested form, giving new life and strength to the weak. Insist Upon It Being Pabst 1o Surely 1t | | trifling | mission, | th tlon, which forblds appointment of a mem- ber of the legislature to any office cre- ated by act of the legislature In which he | served. We regret that the governor did not see fit to accept our advice. We be- he did wrong when he appointed or Majors as & member of the Nor- | mal board. But we have no very large | clubs to throw at him. He was following Life Short Sketches of Incidents and Spigodse thet Mark the Progress Events at the Nation's Oapital. of Leaving results of its out of the account the larger labors, the creation and | maintenance of the Interstate be justified by the smaller deeds which escape general attention. The Washington correspondent of the Brooklyn glo de that the commission has compelled raflroads to refund hundreds of thousands of dollars and passenger charges | cases typical of the | routine, Commerce | comm: a on can ares of excessive freight and cites a few commission's dally Every | few days the commission issies a | batch of orders. | filed with | testing a They represent complaints body by individaals pro- Ainst excessive charges on ship | ments of goods by the railroads. On Fri- eighteen such prders wore issued commission, and one-half of them refunds by charges required by the refunds in cases were appar trifling—only $2.80 in one instance, and ranging as high as $2,500 in another. There have been about 1400 orders of this kind representing compulsory refunds, {1n the two and one-half years of the oper- {ation of the rate law. There have been In addition, nearly 6000 other cases of restitution where the raiiroads made no | protest against satisfying the claims made by ehippers. The total refund of over- charges In these cases runs well up toward a milllon dollars. This does not include, of course, Yhe enornous savings of cash to big shippers growing out of general rulings that day last | by the were notices of ailroads of over The ently commission some by the commission, laying down orders of | broad application. 1In these cases the com- mission has saved many millions of dollars to shippers and incidentally the consuming publie, “The general public,” said a member of the commission, “is rapidly learning that the laws prevant the rallroads from goug- ing individuals who want to send goods by freight. The folks out west appreciate this more thoroughly than easterners do, and are constantly appealing to us to keep the roads in They understand that if they are over-charged to any amount, no matter how small, they can compel roads to make restitution. Here is a case in point which explains the operation of the law and tells how every man or house- wife may be protected: “Mr. Smith, residing at Alexandria, Va., wants to ship s me household goods to Philadelphia. Without knowing the rate, we will assume that he is charged by the local freight agent 20 cents per hundred rate, but gets no satisfaction, and his | goods are forwarded at that rate. He writes a letter to the commission, com- plaining that in his opinion the proper | charge should have been 15 cents per hun- dred pounds. The commission writes at once to the nearest railroad official, and the latter, i on examining the schedule, s | apt to conclude that the shipper was over- | charged. Whereupon, he notifies the com- misslon that the point is well taken, and that a refund covering the difference will be made.” There Is a second class of refunds where the railroads protest against making re- stitution. When complaint is made to the commission and the over-charge is denied by the railroads, the government under- | takes to fight the battle of the shipper. A hearing is arranged and on the evidence taken the commission issues an order di- recting a refund when the facts justify it. Nearly 1,500 such orders have been {ssued. Frequently the amounts involved are not more than 825 or $0. It is surprising to observe the large number pf cases wherein the commission, after weeks of deliber- ation, directs a payment of 8, $10, $12 or $15. It 1s apt to strike the observer as a benefit to the public in view of the expensive governmental machinery that i maintained for this purpose. The largest refund, directed by the com- involved the Southern Railroad Seabord Alr Line, the Louisville and Nashville and other railroads operating {in the south and southwest. It was | tablished that the roads were es- making an | excessive charge on shipments of soft pipe and the commission ordered restitution mounting to $260,00. The roads fought this order to a finish and carried it to the United States Supreme Court, so that the shippers had to wait a long while for their money. A $2,000,000 bullding dedicated to the in- crease and diffusion of knowledge in Wash- ington, with an endowment fund for its maintenance, is the monument to the mem- ory of the first president planned by the George Washinglon Memorial assoclation | in which American women are the leading spirits. Dollar contributions to the fund are solicited from the public at large. A tan- | gible evidence of the part that the man, woman or child who contributes is taking |in the movement Is a handsome engraved certificate or receipt setting forth that he or she is a contributor to the fund and a part owner of the memorial bullding Branches of the assoclation are to be stablished In the various states, Many queer people visit Washington and invariably drift into the great white capi- tol building. During the sessions of the last congress Statvary hall was visited | daily by a queer little man who spent sev |eral hours on each visit aq ing the | statues. He finally became known to the capitol ' policemen as “the little statue man."" Approaching the figure of General Washington and ising his hat politely, he would say: “Good morning, George. I | hope you are well today. The trusts are still making trouble for the people. I wish you would raise your volce agalnet the glant evil Then, proceeding to the statue of Fulton who s represented ax working on the model of his first steamboat, the little fel- llow would remark: “Ah, how d've do, Robert? 1 see you are still hard at work { on your inver It is time, Robert, you | were taking flying machines and auto- mobiles. Steamboats are becoming obso- lete Next he would approach the handsome bronze statue of General Phil Kearny and say o bad you were shot, general. You |are a gallant fellow and made a noble | f1ght 1o uphold the honor of the flag.” And | 50 he would pass from one statue to an- | other, making & little sp to each. This quecr fellow was harmless, and the police never disturbed him, but curious crowds would gather and listen to him as he spoke with carnesiness to the inanimate figures of metal and stone. Another queer visitor to the capitol was . dre old woman who carried a quart bottle filled with doubtful mixture, which she wanted cong to buy from her | for the small consideration of $2.600,000. This stuff she called elixir,” and claimed It would perform miracles. It would make politicians honest, make the poor Fich, give every member of congress & her “national the | The grape illustration is to remind the reader of the fact that this healthful fruit gives to Royal its active and chief ingredi t. From the grape | between Cuba and Spain, was another fre a large statue of Columbus marble ball to General Washington, | caught and held it until 1 o'clock, he tossed it back to the great discoverer. | Of course, no such ball tossing occurred but the young man faithfully vigils until a capital him that he had been hoa PERSONAL NOTES. Marion Avery, 13 years old, of Alderson Pa., recently shot an osprey or fish eagle, measuring five feet four to tip, at Harvey's Lake. d. his geat on January 4, 196, court in Pennsylvania Waste places of Chicago will Kdison, his employer for many years, Hughes the troll veloped. might not yet be de- cars in 1879, son's staff. Miss Ada Rehan was such a delight on the American stage when in her prime, In the year that he joined Edi- who have been unfamiliar with her break- down. She was so feeble when going or board the steamer for England Saturday that servants had to help her up the gang plank. Miss Rehan has heart disease. She hopes much from her summer to be spent at her north of England country place. SMILING REMARKS. “Experience," said Uncle Eben, “may be a good teacher, but she's lfable to make folks spend & heap o' valuable time stayin’ after echool, learnin’ de rudiments of com- mon sense.’'—Washington Star. a real estate dealer. “Yes. He'd lay out an allotment on Mars and get husky .racking up the canal privi- notes for over a year!"—Judge's Library. “Didn't you telephone us that your wife was ready to go with us when we started?" ‘Yes, but she's upstairs now her mind."—Baltimere American I'm hunting up all famous ances- tors.” “I've got your | hunting up all | crooks.™ But why?" ‘To prove spite of my my skinned. who scheme my ancestors were 1 am in Leader. a fine fellow ~Cleveland what handicap. They were arranging their plans for the summer: “What I “is a large s said Gwendolin where 1 could should like,' dy plac some, no freight on many. Free Stool, Free Scarf, all pianos. any Beat This The world’s best Pianos at from $50 to $150 cheaper t (‘able-Nelson, Hallet & Dav Vietor, Cramer, Imperial and A. HOSPE Proof Plano Tun holding aloft at noon each day Columbus tossed the big who when kept his policeman convinced | OF inches from tip because he had been elected judge of the Schuylkill county be made Charles Turner Hughes, to whom Thomas Hughes hegan work on a plan to apply clectricity to the running of surface the great days of Augustin Daly, that her present state of health is shocking to those “He has a mighty strong imagination for leges.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. “I hear that the new lenor Is a great success—that he can hold one of his notes half a minute.”" “That's nothing. I've held one of his changing 'm Free Piano Selling! An Evolution at Hospe’s Twenty years’ trial on some Pianos, no cash down on $149 buys a brand new, up-to-date Piano, in mahog- case, full size, three pedals, Boston fall board, duet music board. Terms of 16 cents per day. Kranich & Bach, Krakauer, Kimball, Bush & Lane, life tenure and spread pro ity broad- | stay as long as [ wish, regardless of exe« s v pense." | Bpiagic et v "Well," responded her fatker. “why don'y | A natty little woman, who always!you put on your hat?'~Washington Stary | Aressed in deep mourning, and who repre- A “Is your husband all that you called him sented herself ns the widow of a Cuban | 18 your husband sl M patriot who was killed during the strugkle| “No, but he's all | call him now. and then | some.”~FHouston Post. { auenter at the capital during the sessions| 'm_"nn" i i B of congress. She claimed to be in POVerty, | wuk’ vou just one question, will you?" and succeeded in securing cash from rep- Vo g e Bt resentatives and senators until her lr‘lm wh"‘-gtsll’l‘lr:"llhrv‘\“:h;‘:\flnrp'yflu" -1 character became known. It finally wae | JE0 PrBC R | learned that she was an adventuress from | Former United Btates Senator Simon of New York City. Thereafter she was re- fused admittance to the capital GAME SONNETS. There was a young man who visited the | east front of the capital dafly to witness New York Times. | & most marvelous performance which was THE PITCHER. | never enacted. On the central portico is the pitcher is the cheese, and he 18 fine to hang your lamps on when he stands in his right hand the atlas (a great round | Out there and twirls the leather in his ) . Opposite Columbus o hends marble ball). Oppost smbus on the| . HSBES . e snd puts it up to be plaza, about 200 yards distant, Is a colossal | S 000 ¢ S LNE 0k any other thing, by statue of General George Washington, Ree. reprefented as a Roman senator and seated | His ‘A:n.r::!, the lobster, thinks he unfllr-‘ b o, stands in a broad chair. The young man had | Ay SN ¢ looks to all the bunch of been informed by some foker that promptly fans; But gaff him, Birdie, what's the mutt to you and me? say, there's nothing punk about the pltch; It's him for what's the hot; he's got the nerve hang urve, And, - To em at the batter, straight or ‘em out to where the baggers stand, And they won't find him sleeping at the switch! Oh, Birdie; keep your eyes off; ain't he grand? 3 THB CATCHER. Well, now, and will you plea those? Ain’t he the nervy one to stand like that And eat the leather goods right off the » get onta James K. Hackett has failed with assets bat? ; y : Wil of $i and liabilities of $126.57. Before | Bay. Birdle aln't he better than the ) the exact status of the insolvent can be|and don't he look like cork and cotton figured out it will be necessary to know Rrows " whether tha §744 is stage money. All over, num? And, listen, If that mask was flat, Congress has lost ita last member that| pow would the nose of him do for @& wore boots. He was Representative Charles mat? N. Brumm of Pennsylvania. He resigneq | Us for the catcher. Birdie, you and mo, A good thing when we see it, and we'va ot 1t r\.'m before us now. If I could be A man like him, say, Birdie, would you— what— ; to bloom if the plans of Jacob H. Prost,| Wow, look at him! He's nipped a lick, who has been appointed to the new office and see, e i v cond—hear ‘e of clty forester, are realized. Mr. Prost| He's banged it down to secon - in 30 vears old and a graduate of the| yell, Birdie; yelll He's put the whole Michigan Agricultural college at Lansing. ide out gives credit for the development of tha trolley car, dled recently in East Orange, D i t w h N. J. BEdison said that if it were not for ainty as Suits These are something better than the common sorts— in tastefulness and style. They’ll wash, of course, without loss of color. And from the simplest white duck to the embroidered and those with lace inser- tion, we’ve a wide variety. Cut in the Russian and Sailor styles for children of from 3 to 10 years. $1.50 to $4.50. Twenty dozen boys’ sample this week hats on sale only—at $1.50. See window. Rrowning- King-§-@ 15th and Douglas 8ts. l R. 8. WILCOX, Mgr. ! Free Delivery in the city on If you Can! are subject to yvour selection han the factory’s lowest price. is, Hospe, Whitney, Burtou, many more. co,, ing and Repairing 1513 DOUBLAS 8T, -