Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 18, 1909, Page 4

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Subsctibed in my presence and sworn to before me this ist ly.al May. 1903 P. WALKER, Notary Publl = ———————— . WHEN OUT OF TOWN, Subkcribers leaving the city tem- vorarily d have The Bee wmailled to them. Address will be changed as often s requested. T — The glass schedule was one which could not withstand the bombardment. [ iy According to'Dr. Wiley, 90 per cent of the so-called whisky is a fraud. It produces a genuine jag just the same. e——— It should not be assumed that be- cause President Taft's fondness for the links proves him to be of German de- scent. Who says there i nothing new un- der the sun? A Pennsylvania man has been sent to jail for stealing an umbrela. § — Granting the ‘claim that the Garden of Eden was located "in Texas, still what 4 shame to permit it to deterior- ate to such an extent Raids on blind pigs and bootleggers have already started in Lincoln, al- though ‘the dry edict has been in force less than a week. What! So soon? The Arkansas legislature has out- lawed the toy pistol. pistol is tleman's wealth. The full grown part of a gen- that common- still a necessar: equipment in The president of the Omaha School board is to be caned by the manual training class. Hasn't corporal pun- | The condition of the growing crops is Continue the Crop Reports. For years the Weather burean has been fssuing a weekly statement of the condition of the growing crops which has been a valued source of In- formation, especially to growers and emall dealers not in a position to col- lect the data for themselves. A differ- ence between the statistical division of the Agricultural department and the Weather bureau last year robbed these reports of the greater portion of their value and this year threatens their discontinuance altogether. Last year the weekly bulletins were confined to rainfall and temperatures in the various sections, leaving the | reader to guess as to the effect of these conditions upon crops. This was decidedly unsatisfactory, although perhaps, better than nothing. The pub- lic cares nothing for the squabble be- tween the two branches of the ser- vice, If the statistical division objects to the Weather bureau reporting on crop conditions, it should undertake the work which it I8 foreing the other branch of the service to abandon. At present the statistical division issuee a monthly crop statement only and the same machinery which collects the ma- terial on which this is based could be made to meet the additional demand. a matter of too vital importance to the commercial world to permit any bureau, through jealousy, to shut off information, which in the past has been found reliable, unless it is ready to supply it itself. Duplication of ef- fort by the two branches of the ser- vice may be wasteful, as the statistical bureau alleges, but failure to furnish the service is a worse evil. The whole question is now up to Secretary Wilson for settlement and as | that official has been foremost in pro- moting measures to enhance the use- fulness of his department it is reason- able to expect something positive from him. Delay, however, is almost as serious at this time of the year as a reversal of policy. The public wants the service, as fs amply testified by the action of commercial bodies pro- testing against its discontinuance and cares less about its source than about | | its reliability. International Commeroce. | The statistics of international com- | merce for 1907 just made public are | of such stupendous proportions as to | be almost beyond comprehension. They show that the interchange of trade between nations for that year amounted to $30,000,000,000, of which the commerce of Europe com- prised two-thirds. These figures do not take into account the trade be- tween a home government and its colo- nies and dependencies, such as be- | tween England and Canada or India {and its numerous other colonies and | the same is true as to other countries. Of this vast trade the imports of ‘(hfl United Btates represent a frifle over 14 per cent and our exports 9 per cent. For all Canada is a British | colony, it took 58 per cent of all its imports from the United States and | 53 per cent of all the purchases Mexico made abroad came from the same source, The one thing which such figures bring favorably to mind is the growing interdependence of the nations of the world. With such a worldwide com- | merce no nation is so remote or iso- | lated that it is not touched by it. No natlon is so poor that it does not have | something to sell and need something |in return which is produced elsewhere. | | | Nations can no longer live alone under | | ist¥Mient been barred from the public schools? Senator Rayner of Maryland says the tarift debate has developed a hig crop of liars. He is either too polite or too modest to mention any of them | by pame. Missouri is talking of spending $5,000,000 on a new capitol building Just what it is e#pected to cost when completed 18 an entirely different proposition Banker-Ice King Morse laments his $20,000,000 fortune has melted away He should have been more careful atout leaving it out on the sidewals in the sun. — Every day chronicles automobile ac- cidents due to fast and reckless driv- ing. We agaln advise the Omaha scorchers to slow down before the damage is done Atlanta has abolished the barber pole. With a prohibition law ~sup- posed to be in effect, barber poles, lampposts and other convenient stead- fers would be evidence of self-indict- ment. ——— Senator Scott of West Virginia makes a plea for his fellow senators to stop wind-jamming on the tariff. The West Virginian has had his say, but there are othérs who have not yet been winded —_— Senator Tillman wants a duty on tea, Bailey one on iron ore, the Louis- fana senators an import tax on sugar, some a duty on lumber, while a few are for free trade. What is a demo- crat, anyway? Governor Hadley of Missouri will press the home Tule propaganda at the next election, With best wishes for all concerned let uahope it will not be the kind of home rule the democrats handed us in Nebraska. Secretary Nagel Is said to have un- dertaken to flnd out just how much of a family atfair officeholding is in Washiugton. Somehow there is a sus- plicion that a pubjic office has come to be regaricd 3s a family spapn, |such a vast scheme of international | commerce, but whether they will it or | not, must be a part of the world pro- | gress, for with such an Interchange | of products there is the inevitable ex- | change of ideas. Few of the world's sat movements have had back of | them anything but the expansive force !n! commercial intercourse and the im- | provements of means of transporta- {tion have put all the habitable parts | fnr the world in close touch with each 1ulllé'r. | Free Hand for Loeb. | Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh | has made it plain that Collector Loeb | of the port of New York, is to have a | free hand in dealing with abuses dis- | |closed there. Influential people Imve“ | appealed to the secretary to call a| halt on the collector, but the secretary has turned a deaf ear. Backed by the secretary, Mr. Loeb is likely to revolu- tionize things in the ecustom house business as he is going about to remedy the evils in a most vigorous and thorough manner. Ju an interview Secretary MacVeagh is gquoted: | | | | | My visit here at this time is with a view to a closer touch with the problems of the port and with the men who are handling them. Beyond' this it is only necessary to say that it would be a great mistake to assume that everything is | wrong at the port, notwithstanding the as- tonishing revelations we are all familiar with. It would be equally a mistake to |} think that there is going to be anything | like an insuperable difficulty in setting | right what is wrong. What is ‘essential, first and foreme is simply & public conyietion that the cus- tom house is sincere and determined on | the one hand and that on the other hand it is imposeible to go beyond the custom house and get ald and comfort against it at the Treasury department in Washing- ton. In both these matters the situation is s it should be. It will,not take long to convince all concerned that Collector Loeb means what he says, and it won't take long for anybody who tries to withdraw the support of the Treasury department from the reforms needed at this port to find out that ‘that s not practicable. The statement of Secretary Mac- Veagh clearly means more than an en- dorsement of the particular action in question. It is a notice to all econ- cerned that every official of the Treas- ury department is expected to adminis- ter. the. affaire of his office in an im- 80 doing he will be protected from any onslaught by parties at interest; fur- ther, that officials who fall short of this measure of duty must expect to walk the plank and that no outside in- fluence will save them Japan Shows Good Faith. Figures furnished by the Immigra- tion bureau for April indicate that Japan is acting In perfect good faith in its agreement to prevent the influx into this country of any considerable | body of Japanese laborers. Each month since the understanding was arrived at between that government and the the United States the number of Japs returning to the home country has ex- ceeded those reaching the United States. During April only 194 Japan- ese of all classes were landed on our shores, while 253 departed and from Hawaii the differenee was still greater. As a matter of fact, the number of Japanese in the United States has at no time been large enough to be a gerious menace to labor or to any phase of our national life and there was scant warrant for the hue and cry raised on the Pacific coast. The attitude of President Roosevelt, at the time of that agitation has been amply justified by results. Whatever we may think of ourselves it is patent that Japan is a power to be reckoned with and a radical policy pursued against a sensitive people might have led to serious complications, Fortunately the country, as a whole, did not lose its head and stood firmly behind the president in a course which has solved not only the national difficulty, but the local trouble on the Pacific coast as well. “To Be Regretted.” As a matter of right and of law those new republican supreme judges should not have been recognized. Their appointment was as lllegal as a crap game. Their only claim to recognition was the fact that three of them were working republicans and the fourth one a democrat who wqrked to suit republicans. It is to be regretted that the highest court in Nebraska should admit to seats thereon appointees who come under the commission of political greed.~Columbus Telegram It is “to be regretted” that our old friend, Fdgar Howard, is so afflicted with party blindness that nothing that bears a republican label looks right under his critical vision. In his de- nunciation of the Sheldon supreme judge appointments, however, he has again gotten his trolleys crossed. It their “only claim to recognition™ was the fact that “‘three of them were working republicans and the fourth one a democrat who worked to suit re- publicans,” how does he explain the further fact that three of the Shallen- berger appointees had likewise been appointed by Governor Sheldon, two of them the very same identical work- ing republicans? 1t the Sheldon appointees who were political greed,” what difference would there have been on this score if the Shallenberger appointees had been seated? What is “to be regretted” is that the democratic governor and legisla- ture should have been so inspired by political greed as to have undertaken lawlessly to use those supreme court vacancies as pawns on their political chessboard. Anoiher Place tor S"ave. port that shows that for the year 1908 nearly $4,500 was paid out of the county treasury for appraisers’ fees in probate cases discloses that $2,745 was likewise paid out as attorneys’ fees for defending indigent persons on trial in the district court. This item for the vear is smaller than it usually is be- cause no very important cases required defense at the expense of the county, but it is safe to say that at least half of this money could have been saved if an attorney of fair ability were reg- ularly employed on a salary to attend to this work. A deputy county attor- ney drawing not over $1,500 a year does the prosecuting and the defense | could easily be cared for on the same basis without overtaxing the time or talents of the attorney employed. Of course, to put the assignments to defend indigent prisoners all in one basket would seriously interfere with the practice of the judges of distribu- ting these favors as perquisites per- taining to the judicial office, but the same result could be obtained, if de- money for the taxpayers could be done right law. Otherwise the legislature will first. have to act by the creation of the office of defending attorney, Another Commercial club trade ex- cursion is off for a trip to boost Omaha as a market town. The trade excursion has become an established | institution by which our business men are enabled to return calls they receive from merchants in neighboring towns and to cultivate new trade territory. With the experi- ence gained on previous occasions the present dained success. the friendly The suggestion that our city council needs a chaplain brings forth the cheerful assurance from a local preacher that “if every session was opened with a word of prayer and with a verse of scripture, 1 know there would be no crooked work done.” In- tending no disrespect, we beg to recall that the late session of the Nebraska legislature was opened in each house with prayer every morning. The sudden killing of Chris Schav- land, secretary of the State Board of Assessment, just as the board was tak- | partial and honest mauner and that in ilng up the aanual vaiuation of taé seated “‘come under the commission of | The same county comptroller’s re- | sired, by making appointments of short terms and rotating them. If the | judges were willing, this saving of now without any change in the | trade excursion is a foreor- | | official action or fa OMAHA, TUESDAY, MAY railroads for. taxation is particularly untimely in addition to its other sad features Mr. Schavland was reputed the best-posted man on railroad tax | bjects in the state and the will find it difficult to fill his place sat- isfactorily on short notice Omaha has fewer banks now than it | had twenty years ago, so if new banks enter the field it does not follow that they are the result of the new banking legislation. In all probability Omaha would have been due now for some new banks, new laws or no new laws. —_— Another gathering of churchmen at Boston has declared for unification of all church denominations. Tho nlan | meets with no opposition, but the rea) trouble is that each denomination in- | sists upon furnishing the specification The chief trouble with painting piec- tures for a living Is that the painter usually becomes a master only -after he has been a long time dead and the big prices of his canvasses are no per- sonal benefit to him plans and A Modern Competitor. Washington Herald “Rameses Il was the greatest advertiser Egypt ever saw,” says The Omaha Bee. Well, there is a gentleman In Africa just now that probably would not have asked any handicap of Rameses Helated Recognition. Chicago ' Tribune. There is some satisfaction in the knowl- edge that the Wright brothers are making oodles of money, but it is not gratifying to the national pride to reflect that had to go abroad to obtain substantial recognition. A Successful Reformer, Baltimore American. As a fearless and practical reformer Mr. Loeb is proving a success. The cultivation of his nerve, resource and diplomacy by his encounters with lady cranks invading the White House is now standing him in good stead. REAL YANKEE INVENTORS, The Wright Hrothers and Thelr Triamphs Abroad. New York World. Orville and Wilbur Wright are Ohioans by the accident of parental migration. sentially they are Yankees of the lean, angular type that has furnished its share and more of the world's inventors. With the great Inventors these two bicycle repairers of a small interior city have placed themselves in ten years, by a combination of courage, ingenulity, persist ence and self-won scientific attainments of | thing | no mean order. It is not a small that they have done in reversing the cur- rent of aerial invention and experiment, which recently set %o strongly toward the dirigible balloon; In making the aeroplane a practical traveling machine, and in clos- ing foreign contracts for actual delivery. Like most inventors the Wrights were poor. They had to earn a living while experimenting with costly and fragile ma- terial. The plotting of the curves of an aeroplane propeller and of the set of its wings is as complex as the problems of marine engineering; and the Wrights had in effect to make their own text-hooks. Like Maxim, like*Hitchcock, like the Irish- Amerlcan schoolifaster Holland with his submarine boat, the Wrights found abroad the governmental recognition they could not win at home. They have not revolu- tionized warfare, as Ericsson did with his Moniter, which turned to junk the wooden navies of the world, but they have a to it new terrors, new complications, new corpe d'clite of men ready to die in a des- perate cause. The Zeppelin alrship will carry sixteen men, but it is very costly, it can alight only in a large body of water and it for the new Krupp vertical machine guns. The cheap little aeroplanes may yet be 8een by the hundred, like flights of battle birds, wheeling and swooping over the set field or falling with broken wings to earth It is a vrophetic vision of terror but of beauty that the two Ohlo Yankees have forced the world to look upon. CLEANING UP PITTSBURG. Sentences Imposed in the Graft Case Pittsburg Dispatch. Sentences were Imposed upon five defend- ants in the recent graft cases and two men charged with embracery yester- day. The penalties rarge from one and a half years to three and a half years Recent in prison, coupled with fines of $00 to $1,50. | The five defendants convicted of bribery and of conspiracy have appealed their cases to the superior court and have obtained supersedeases to stay execution of judg- ment until thelr cases are reviewed. The two convicted on the charge of embracery have apparently decided to take thelr medicine without a further resistance While the previous good character some of these defendants has excited the utmost sympathy for them in thelr predica ment, no one s likely to assert that the sentences are excessive for the crimes charged. The courts appear to have taken into account the extenuating circumstanc in each case. Of course, there is the chance that the convictéd men may prove thelr innocence to the satisfaction of the higher ourt, or that they have not been given opportunity to present their full defense. In such event the sentences will not stand What is sald of them ls necessarily on the premise that the proof has been adequate. as held by the trial court In any event, the main object of the prosecution has been gained; that is, not | the severe punishment demonstration that the naught Wwith impunity branded as a crime, subject to severe penalties. This fact was apparently in danger of being forgotten. Tlicit bargain- ing, according to common réport, had come to be regarded as the only means to obtain No matter what may be the final outcome of these cases the proceedings have certainly destroyed the fancy that bribery has become an ac- cepted custom. : Stomach Trouble. Your tongue is coated. Your breath is foul. Headaches come and go. These symptoms show that your stomach is the trouble. To remove the causeiis the first thing, and Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets will do that. Easy of the men, but the law cannot be set at Bribery has been or. e take and most effeciive board | they | dded | is | more than 400 feet long, an enormous target | upon | of | | 18, 1909, Washington Life || Bnert mxemcnes of Imcidenss ana of ‘Events st 100 Nation's Gupiter The largest bunch of trouble ever passed up to & bureau of the Navy department is dcoing Marathon speed from Donaldsville, La., to Washington. The bureau to which | the packuge is consigned devotes its atten. tion to vindicating the dlgnity and enfore- ing the rights of Uncle S8am’'s jack tars and punishing dance house proprietors who | refuse admittance to eailors in untform | The Donaldsville incident presents a com- | plication without precedent to gulde the bureau, hence its perplexitice will multiply the gray hairs of the | satisfactory burcaucrats before a According these are the facte \e younger society women of Donalds- !kl\]l' held a reception and ball in honor of the crew of the battleship M ippi, now in these waters. Not conversant with mill- tary the young women had in- vited both officers and men It was noticeable during the introduction ceremonies that a coldness existed between superiors and their subordinates, but matters went along pleasantly ensugh until the grand march. | When every young woman had been ap- portioned to her young man and was ready for tne ball proper to begin, it was found that fully twenty men were unprovided for. They were all officers. The orchestra swung Into a breezy, rhythmic march and the fortunate young men, most of them jackles, each with a beaming girl on his arm, went promenading up and down, change your partners, grand right and |lett, alternate couples to the right and all that sort of thing, while surpius officers retired, grumbling, behind a bank of paims. Before the first note for the first was struck, the officers had held a sol conference and had’ made a declsion. | Jackies must go. Each jackie was told quietly by a waiter that the officers of the ship were unwilling to depart from naval discipline of many years' standing, which stipulated that privates might not mingle with their super- tors equal terms. Each jackie, chagrined, was admonished to nis partner and the bright lights and the music, nd all, and go elsewhere. It was an order from the officers, said the wait | ers. Each jack cast an anxious glance at [the officer nearest him and read in his determined looks that orders were orders. 8o the jackies, & sorrowful crew, filed out of the hall. But there is another the officers looked for partners for the first waltz—(he very first, mind you—taere | weren't quarter enough girls to g0 round. | The young women, loyal to the jackies, {had departed with them. solution s found to the advance notices discipline, the on leave chapter. When | Attorney General Wickersham was not {long in office before his brother cabinet officers began to ask him for opinions upon | various departmental questions. No doubt many of these were framed by somebody lower down, who had not yet forgotten | the sunlight of the Bonaparte smile, and ! they went up to Wickersham as a matter of routine. It was then that the uncom- fortable quality of the new attorney gen- | eral became noticeable. He was not con- tent to receive a hypothetical question, framed for the express purpose of estab- lishing a convenient line of policy for some :hurrnu and for no other purpose. He de- manded the facts in every case, and then | calmly proceeded to sit down and mull them over and write an opinion in acgord- |ance with- them. | It was not long before the effects of this | new policy became noticeable. Heads of | departments who all their lives had jeal- ously resented the notlon that anyone but | themselves should decide departmental questions found that Wickersham was de- ciding things for them. They asked for “Beauty sleeps” probably will defeat Uncle Sam's kindly plans to let his em- ployes go to work earlier In the summer and quit earlier. The various departments in Washington are now being polled, and it is the women who are objecting to moving the clock ahead B Y summer this plan s started— usually by the base ball enthusiasts, who {would be willing to go to work before | sunrise if they would get off before the game begins. It has been discussed ai | meveral cabinet sessions, and the various department heads are now putting it up to their employes. The departments at | present begin work at 9 o'clock and close lat 4:30, The new plan contemplates hours from 6:30 to 2, from 7 to 2:30, from 7:30 to 3, or from 8 to 3:30. These hours would be ef- fective for June July and August. So far the vote has been adverse, and most of the opposing votes come from the women, of | | whom there are many thousand on Uncle |8am’s pay roll here, 1 The men are generally in favor of start ing earlier,” sald one of the officlals who | has been polling the Interior department. | “but, as a rule, the women object. They don’t go to ball games much, and they | insist that they want to sleep longer in | the morning."" | The Navy department is voting on start |Ing one hour earlier than at present, and | the preponderence of men in this depart- | ment is expected to result in the change. The city house cleaning crusade which was inspired by produced results It appears that 3,705 v cleaned, 50 private {and 10,000 yards made tidy augurated last | make the the women of Washington | that are worth having lots have been alleys put In order woodsheds and back since the work was in- month. It s proposed to| movement something more than | a spurt, and effort will he made to pre- | serve the tmpr. conditions throughout | {the summer. The work of spring cleaning for municipalities has spread widely througheut the country first be- | come In the west, and now many citles and towns promote efforts of this sort having established eastern community Here is a genuine and right in the Roosters may suffragette victory capital of the nation: | no longer be kept In the District of Columbia. This is the princi pal burden of the new ‘“chicken" regula- | tions promulgated by Health depart. | ment of the district rules specify under what corditions be kept, stipulating just what care must be given ihe chicken houses and yards. But the gem of this serles of “chicken regula- tions” is the following 4. “No roosters may premises.” A fine of from $2 to $10 a day is pro- vided for all violations. The police say they are tired of the complaints of citizeng who own alarm clocks and don't want to be awakened by cock crow, Hence the the The chickens may be kept on the {and s particularly energetic in pumnnul | the bread of smocth information based on | MO8t capacity of which is not over twenty & hypothesis, and they were given the atone | PUSHeIS per diem. The corn must be sound of a cold decision on the underlying facts. :‘:d( "“";"' "“";{k"‘ ";"“ the bin. . Take It 18 now the talk In departmental clrcles | that Meal, sift It mix It to a rather stitt batter with pure cold water, and bake the that perhaps the departments had better iR RCt Ry cun, COpih ; pone in an intensely hot oven. Every atom e o iroubles AmONg them- | of the meal. as it heats. splits open ke | Helel g ot boter the attorney. general s oo O e mvaormtiian 3T UL e L L Ay unless some genuine law point is involved. | gone the bread is simply deflcibus. Most Royal Baking Powder home or abroad. Its tood nutritious and heal The Only Baking Powder made from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar -—md:.fromfinpu— has not its coun ‘at ualities, which make the ful, are pecihiar to itseif- and are not constituent in other leavening agents. PERSONAL NOTES. Taft of golt to fret that a Porto Rican editor necds treatment | for a bilious spell President game is_putting up teo good a much over the fact| Julla Ward Howe, who will be years old the 27th, is quoted as saying 'I'hai deeper I drink of the cup of life the aweeter 1t grows—the sugar is all at the bottom." By the death of Mrs. Christopher L. Magee of Pittsburg, which occurred at her winter in Rome, Italy, on Monday | night, a fund estimated at $,000.00 will become available for the construction of a | hospital for women in Pittsburg | The Kansas supreme court decides that | a “shivaree' is a disorderly and unlawful pastime and that the victims of one have | a valid claim for damages against the town or clty In which It is permitted to | take place. Law and common sense do | frequently go hand in hand. Mre. Collis P. Huntington large plot of ground at Broadway One Hundred and Fifty-sixth streot, York City, valued at $250.00 or the American Geographical societ condition that the society the erection of a bullding on the site home hae given a | lndl New to on the more, raise money for CORN AND WHEA the Waking Corn Menl, Washington Post Chicago wheat corner that so cently demoralized the market in that cereal has caused another discussion of the feasibility of substituting corn meal for wheat flour in the economy of the kitchen. The thing would be as good as done If there were mills to grind real corn meal and cooks to bake real corn bread. | There are a few such mills at the south and many such cooks there; but the com- mercial meal in citles, ground very fine and bolted at the mill, cannot be converted | into bread fit to eat by the most skillful ook, and that is the reason why the north has so long rejected corn bread other than | an execrable stuff, compounded of eggs, milk, baking powder and a flour they call | corn meal. Real corn bread is made of coarse meal ground on a horse or water mill, the ut- Obatacles to of Real The re- cooks add a little salt to the meal before mixing it with water. and most people pre- | for the salt: but that was long ago voted plebeian. and perhaps that accounts for its popularity, the plebeians being in a large majority in this glorious union of ours But corn bread will never become popu- lar as pone, or hoecake, or Johnny cake or egg hread, or batter cake, so long as the meal comes from mills that grind the grain at terrific speed and cook the grist in the process of turning the grain into meal. Nobody can make real corn bread of that stuff. and that is why the great majority of our people will continue to look to wheat as the staff of life, i no | He SMILING REMARKS, She (sentimentally)—It means a great deal to a girl of Emma’s nature ta marry a man like Dick. 4 He (brutally)—Natufally. He is a man of means.—Baltimore Ametican, Nan—"Has Lil told you yet when she and Jack are to be margied?’ Fan—'Not yet, but 1 know. . They'll be married just ‘a8 soon as she can get Jack to propose.’—Chicago’ Tribune, —_— “It requires great facility of language to enable a man to,say exactly what he thinks, " remarked. the literary person Yes,' answered Mr.- Meekton, reflect- fvely; “and, In addition, it often requires great courage.'—Washington Star. {ow {8 your wife as a ‘Strictly down to date,” answered Mr, Nuwedd. “She pours gravy over a mashed potato and calls it a sundae.”—Louisville Courfer-Journal ook 7 “Is your perature?’ cuse me, ma'am Cleveland Plain Dealer. husband fussy about the tem- I'm a widow. Maybelle—"That tall, slender chap went on the stage made up as & woman? How did_he look Ays—"Strictly up to date. You know, he hasn't any hipe’'—Chicago "Tribune. First Parlor Match—You and 1 are like those ambitious politicians. Second Parlor Match—Are we? First Parlor Match—Yes; Just as soon as we get up to where we've got an easy snap we lose uur heads.—Judge. Turkey was talking about reliéving the | victims of maseacre. “It_would be as well to wait until are through Kkilling people,” suggested member of the eouncil, “and then there will not be so many to relieve or so grea & _drain on our resoutces.’ Thus & delay thai had seemed fnexpl ger appeared ilogical.—Philadélphia Ledger. : we ABOUT A BOY, Chicago News, One time tilere was ¥ d Roy— To “all who knew His parents were The kind ‘Whose mind Can_ find No middle place to rest. But must go on And And And Until the (For any As he Sans glee 1s quite th him bei on on on 1imit looms, child worst of dooms.) y sterilized the air he breathed, ed him insect powder; played formaldehyde-and-seek, which Iy made them prouder. wrote with disinfected ink on sanitary paper. With baked Which things as T they He and parbolled pencil, was not a comic caper. was as from crawly hard-boiled china cggs; He wore curculio barriers’ bound about his sterile legs, But once. The lad— Poor (ad, "Tis sadi— Fled his germ-proof duress, A microbe got Inside His hide And died Of utter lonesomeness! He alas, to maintal healt]\. M They and it. It keeps the stom rudle. i Sensible break- fasts do mugh n eats and rich food overloacl the etomach. @9Corn are dainty. ious and inviting. delic- are pleasing to the taste g to the appetite, Remember, it's the E-C Process that makes the flakes % erion aad hestthinl Watch for the (E8®) on the package. mark —————— SHREDDED WHEAT for ten mornings—then keep on eating When your stomach goes out of business eat i ach sweet and clean and the bowels healthy and active. O el S Y AR GBI & W 4 e S