Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 27, 1909, Page 6

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Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Dee Publishing Company, Only 2 cent stamps received in payment of mafl accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. .00 . 600 STATEMENT OF CTRCULATION. of Nebraska Douglas County s B0, B, Teechuck. ‘reasurer o1’ Th Bee Publishing company, being _duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complets coples of The Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of April, 1909, was as follow: 1. 29.360 39,080 39,450 37,800 41,300 40,540 41,800 Stal 680 41,400 37,300 41,300 Total. 1,336,410 Returned coples. . ... 11,903 Net total.. Dally wverage. GE Subscribed in m; before me this ist WHEN OUT OF TOWN, Subacribers leaving the city tem- porarily . shonld have The Bee mailed to them: Address will be changed as oftem as requested. e ————— The tax assessor is also coming down the home stretch. If the tariff bill were a hot air bal- locn it would have gone up long ago. TA lmwndk—ee_pnp;rflremds us that Christmas is just seven months away. It certainly doesn’t feel like it. —_— Just because Mr. Hitchcock has had a lease on the éity prosecutorship for three years he thinks he is entitled to perpetual ownership. People who go out automobile rid- ing around Omaha right now should take witnesses along to prove that they are’ not train robbers, If they must have snow at this time of the year up in Montana and the Black Hills, will they please blow their breath the other way? The wheat_pit can take notice that Nebraska's growing crops are amply supplied with moisture no matter what may be happening elsewhere. With the jobs for the jobless record of the legislature before him it mak: Mayor Jim sad to see some of the local ple slip out of the democratic commis- sary wagon. An English scientist has published a book. on ‘‘How Much and What Should a Men Eat?” It all depends who is to settle for the check at the cashier’s desk, . ——— The reilroads are again Dbeing greatly troubled with high water. It worries the railroad men when water attacks the tracks, but it is different with the stocks. Lincoln police are, having a hard time of it holding down the lid. Some of the good people of the capital city might help out by furnishing ballast it the force is too light. Andrew Carnegie is to provide a fund to purchase hero medals for {he people of France who deserve them. Mr. Carnegle must be determined to make the order of heroes a worldwide one. How about it? Did the voting of those $6,500,000 water bonds take all the disease germs out of the water, or were the germs merely imaginary fig- ments worked up to help carry the bonds? A Boston girl has made a record of a high jump of four feet three inches, and there was no mouse in the room, either. Boston is gradually getting in line with modern educational methods. That Norseman who discovered this continent so many years before Colum- bus and penetrated as far inland as Minnesota was evidently omly spying out the land for his countrymen, who were to take possession later. Farmer and Speculator. An eastern financial paper, discuss- ing the prospects of the future tend- ency of the wheat market, points out that the speculator will soon have a néw condition to contend with. Under normal conditions the first of the new erop will b on the market in about #ix weeks, but this authority declares that there s no certainty that such will be the case this year. It all de- pends whether the farmer thinks he is getting the value of his wheat. Some well known facts are cited to sustain this view. Some years ago the financial condi- tions of the farmer was by no means #0 good as now and wheat, being his first marketable crop of the year, was sold as soon ae possible after harvest, with the result of a depressed mar- ket, while the speculator and grain buyer reaped the real profit of the farm. As a consequence of a succes- sion of prosperous years the farmer, as a rule, is no longer forced to rush his wheat to market in order to pay pressing debts, but instead has both the financial resources and the storage ability to hold his grain if he desires to do so. Market statistics show that last year the farmers held onto their corn longer on the average than usual, send- ing it to market only as there was a market demand, with the result that the farm price was nearer the average price of the year than ever before in the history of the country. If the ob- ject lesson of this is not lost, wheat is likewise more apt to be marketed only as there is actual demand for the grain, with a resultant higher average price at the farm and also a more even price throughout the year. With large supplies in the farmers’' hands a corner with Its artificial prices would be im- possible, for the manipulator would simply be buried under an avalanche of grain, % The marketing of the crop only in response to demand would be of fi- nanclal benefit to the farmer and also to the consumer, by makipg both im- mune from the squeezing of the specu- lator., Withholding from the market grain that was needed would, of course, injure the consumer just as much as the same process of hoarding by the speculator, but farm owner- ship is so scattered and the modern farmer so well posted as to the world's supply and demand that a farmers’ corner on grain is improbable, Democratio Conundrums. The age of Ann has been de- termined, nobody cares any more who struck Billy Patterson, and Charley Ross has been given up as definitely lost, The conundrum, “What is a democrat?” and “What is the demo- cratic position on the tariff?’’ are still open for debate between Mr. Bryan and those who think they have a right to an equity in the party label, Mr. Bryan continues to run his blue pencil through the names on the party memberghip list and to assert that the party is irrevocably committed against protection. Senator McEnery of Loui- slana tells the senate, while discussing the sugar schedule, that free trade has no place in the American scheme of government. Senator Stone of Mis- souri, with the apologetic mien of the man who has just stepped on your corns, tells Mr. Bryan that a little pro- tection for one of the industries of the senator’'s state is a good thing and that the Nebraskan should not object so seriously to the senator’s looking after his fences by a vote judiclously placed on the iron ore schedule of the tariff bill. It is a merry life this thing of trying-to be a democrat and figure out whether your ticket is for the upper or lower berth or whether, perchance, you must do penace by walking to Fairview with peas in your shoes for daring to vote without taking a cue from the great Chautauquan, only to find on the front door a new sign, “On tour of the world, back in time to run for president again in 1912." German Naval Views, During all the talk about the great increase in the German navy and the scare it has produced in Great Britain, Germany has been busily engaged building warships and saying practi- cally nothing. In fact the ambitious naval program of the Teuton was well under way before Great Britain woke up to the fact. Some recent utterances of Germans high in authority make it evident that the German takes no stock in the British statement that its navy is solely for defense and in no sense a menace to Germany or to any other country. Rear Admiral Weber of Germany points out that ever since the rise of Great Britain as a world power it has never tolerated a rival on the seas, either commercially or war fleets. As Spain, Holland, France and Denmark have in turn created great navies, Great Britain has watched for a favorable opportunity and smashed them. The admiral boldly declares that Germany does not pro- pose simply to bulld up its navy to a point where it will be a valuable pawn in the game of nations, but will con- tinue until Germany is able to hold its own on the séas. He gives voice to the general distrust of Great Britain Mayor Jim is denouncing in un- measured terms the four democratic counciimen who made a deal with the republicans on council organization. But Mr. Hitcheock's World-Herald is densely silent on the subject. What is a demoecrat? Isn’t it pressing the limit to com- wence talking about contesting Hetty fireen's will before she is dead, or even emjoylng poor health? People should at'least be permitted the priv- ilege of thinking they are disposiag of thelr QwR property. in Germany and the fear that unless the fatherland is able to hold its own on the seas as well on land if com- mercial rivalry becomes too acute Britain will attempt to crush Ger- many as it has other rivals. In his remarks made in the Reichs- tag, Chancellor von Buelow is a little more discreet, but read in the light of official reserve, what he says leads to the same conclusion. The chancellor is quoted as saying, "It is Germany's alm to have a fleet so strong as would make even a stronger power ‘hink twice before attacking us.” Count Re- in | [ ventlow, in discussing the situation stated plainly that Germany was liv- ing in constant fear of attack by Great Britain and that every step forward by Germany in shipping and commerce makes the danger greater. How much of this talk, both in Gei- many and in Great Britain, is for the purpose of forcing through the ap- propriations considered necessary for naval development, no one of course knows except those in authority, but that behind it is a large measure of mutual distrugt and fear is obvious. Whether it will stop short of either war or bankruptcy of one or both, the wisest can only guess. The Mayor's Message. The message sent by Mayor Dahl- man to the new council has the merit of being short and to the point and free from all attempts at fancy writ- ing. It reads as if the mayor com- posed it himself and contains nothing against which there will be objection from any source except from some of the franchised corporations. The principal part of the message is a repetition of the platform declara- tions upom which the mayor was re- elected and a reminder to the council- men—both republican and democratic ~—that the campalgn pledges were largely identical in all platforms. The mayor is careful, however, not to em- phasize the fact that some of these promises were made in his campaign three years ago, but are yet to be re- deemed. Fine words butter no parsnips and it remains to be seen whether the mayor will be able to accomplish more along these lines in a second term than he did in his first. He started out three years ago with just as fine prom- ises. He also started out three years ago with a council insurrection on his hands and he is by no means yet as- sured of clear sailing this time. Better Supervision of Banks. The comptroller of the currency has instituted a number of reforms in con- | nection with his supervision of the na- tional banks, which cannot fail to be beneficial, both to the banker and to the public. In the first place he has insisted that bank directors should cease to be mere figureheads and pay enough attention to the affairs of the institution to be cognizant of their con- dition or get out. More important still is the action taken to render the work of the bank examiners of greater real value and provided against repetition of past abuses. Comptroller Murray In! determined that the lesson of 1807 shall not be wasted. The national gov- ernment, however, is not alone charged with a duty to the public in this respect. A large part of the banking business of the country is conducted by state banks, over which the comptroller has no supervision. The legal restrictions | on investments and field of operation | are not nearly so stringent upon state banks as on the nationals. Many oppor- tunities for profitable investment are open to the state institutions from which the national bank is barred, and similarly the opportunities for im- proper and ill-judged Investments are also greater. This greater latitude of investment for the state bank is neces- sary, as the two classes of banks serve largely different constituencies with different needs. There is no reason, | however, why the supervision over and be as thorough and efficient as in the | case of the nationals. Efficient regu- lation is as much of a safeguard to the bankers as to the depositor. Guar- anty or no guaranty, there is no ex- cuse for bank peculations which ade- quate supervision and examination could prevent. All agree that Omaha should culti- vate the good will of the interior cities and towns of the state and that there 18 no good reason for antagonism be- tween the state’'and its metropolis. It should not be overlooked, however, that the late democratic delegation sent to Lincoln from Douglas county did more in three months to Incite | prejudice agalnst Omaha and alienate friends throughout Nebraska than can | be undone in three years. It is only going half way when we undertake to | cultivate friendly relations without at | the same time trying to stop widening the breach at the other end. One way to increase Omaha’s pres- tige abroad is to show special atten- examinations of state banks should not Fx {tion to out-of-town visitors who oc- | | cupy high positions in the business | |and professional world whenever they | | honor the ecity with thelr presence. | We have been doing something in this direction, but not enough. The Com- | mercial club and every other similar organization ought each to have a live, | hustling entertainment committee | busy all the time and let no one get past who is entitled to such recogni- | tion ] ¢ Candidates who made contingent | filings for the recent primaries, but | were shut off the ticket, are to have | their money back on the ground that they did not get what they paid for. | As a matter of fact, nine out of ten of them went in simply for the advertis- ing and got that without being forced to incur the other expenses which usually go with it. New England papers are boasting that $54,000,000 is to be invested in that section in new mills, factories and improvements in existing plants. New England is to be congratulated over the fact that it has wakened. to the fact that the panic has been over for some time. President Winchell of the Rock Island bhas joined the chorus for co- operation between the rallroads, the shippers and the public. There never was anything in the way of co-opera- tion except the disposition of the rai! roads to go It alone unless everyonc else consented to play the game ac cording to the rules they lald down Would Like to Be Shown, Topeka Capital Admiral Dew says the American navy is the peer of any the word of & hero, but since the American has never been in a real fight nobody how good it Is. In Line with His B Philedelphia Press. Senator Aldrich will be allowed to select his own route and name his own prices for a season of chautauqua lectures. This is quite in line with his expertness in ar- ranging tariff schedules for other people Admirable Candor. Boston Herald. Evening sessions ordered and the flow of senate talk, unchecked. That North Carolina member of other days, who repre- sented tne county of Buncombe and pleaded to a wearled house that he was “‘talking for Buncombe'' has Bie disciples at every séssion, although not &ll are as frank as he, A Time for Silence. New York Tribune Mr. Bryan s preserving a sphinxitke si- lenca on the tariff issue. He will be en- couraged in that policy by the reception given in the senate to some few {nnocent remarks from Governor John A, Johnson. The @emocratic leader who theorizes now- adays on the tariff is likely to be assailed by & majority of his party assoclates as a troublemaker and a heretic 11¢ in Industr Springfield Republican. Not only are the Independent steel com- panies to restore wages, but those railroads which reduced the pay of the salaried class of employes following the panic pf 1907 are announcing a return to the old compensa- tion. The Boston and Maine is the latest to make known such & step. It means that In the opinfon of these men of large affairs prosperity has returned. Fortunate “Outlying Possessio Boston Herald. Lucky Guam! The people felt that they were burdened with unnecessarily high du- ties and complaints to Captain Dorn, the naval governor. A tariff com- mission was formed at once, an investiga- tion made, and a revision downward was ontlined, ‘which will become & law as soon as it 18 approved by the president and sec- retary Meyer. But Guam is not entitled 10 the blessings'of self-government! A CURIOUS SITUATION. Senate Tarift’ Bill Without Defenders in the Press. New York Tribune. Tt is & notable circumstance that the senate’s tariff bill has practically no de- fenders in the press of the country. We have failed to notice a cordial approval of it in its present form in any conspleuous republican newspaper, or In any -demo- cratic nawspaper, north or south, although many southern- senators e helping to neutralize the reductions In duties made in the measure as it left the house of repre- <entatives; Our observation is fully ron- firmed hy the Washington Post, which sajd the other day: . “The press of a free country Is a fal index of public opinion. In forty vears of Journalistic effert we do not recall any question of widespread public concermupon which the newspapers have been as unani- mous s thewoabe 1oday In regard to the pending tariff bill. There len't a publica- tion of nete anywhere that has a kind word to say in behalf of the measurs In its present form—a fact too significant to he ignored or lightly treated. Tt 1s°no exag- geration to say. that the bill hasn't a friend outside the halls of congress and the small eircle of men whose reprerentatives eame here to see that it was framed with a view to promate thelr own selfishness.’ Twa senate Is by tradition a highly com servative body. Tt clings to what is, and ually prefers to ¢t on the side of self- straint and finaction. Yet the politl sagacity of the fifiance committee and its | followers Is diseredited by the fact that their work finds no approval from the public opinion which the newspapers re- flect. Can such work be expected to ap- peal hereafter to the voters? Is the senate right in judging public sentiment, while the newspapers of both parties are all wrong? These are questions which the makers of the senate measure would do well to consider. DESIRABLE DISCONTENT. al Fires of Enlightenment and Soeial FProgress. Baltimore American. A recent work by a university profes- sor undertakes to establish the fact that American discontent Is a result of en- lightenment The writer points out that the stolid indifference of peasants in tyrant- ruled countries {s the basis of soclal order. Of course, the implication is that soctety should Rave & privileged class and a hope- less mass. This Is, fortunately, un-Ameri- can. Discontent has never injured anyone who has entertained it as a stimulus to ac- tion. The American comes nearest to the ideal man in having & multitude of désires which prompt & multitude of activities and leads to the improvement of soclety, the creation of wealth and the establishment of iife on & higher and broader plane. It is well to contrast American dis- content with the gitustion in such a coun- try as England, where certainly enlighten- ment Is as respectable as it is here. There about 5,000 men own the great bulk of the soil, while & single aristocrat owns .in cotland an area as large as Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and Delaware. Be- side the great land monopolists of Great Britain the trust barons of the United States are children in a kindergarten. Land is an Impassive commodity, its ownership i» hard to break up, especially when but- tressed by traditional grants from the crown. Contrasted with this condition in France Frenchmen have incomes of $20,000 from wealth of $46,000000.000. Here Is diffused prosperity. ‘The basis of it all is the sys- tem of small land' holding and intensive cultivation of the soll. Enlightenment is a common characteristic of France, Eng- land afd the United States The first ropresents diffused capital, the second cen tralized land holding, the third consolida- ted Industry. Each country possesses a restiess population, full of complaint with existing conditions and desire for better- ment. So that the United States s not different from the other great powers in the fact that its people are mot as happy as unattired savages in a tropical banana grove It will be & sad day when shall be content to let things are and not seek improvement. The great problems are those that call forth great energy and the fact that problems exist that cause discontent is in no sense a dis- couragement. The elements of discontent here, but tfiere is Nttle of the dissati faction that leads to despair. American discontent is of the stimulating brand. situation where only 5000 the peopie be as they We hate to question is the | | Plainly (he well springs of news in the United States senate are dried up. Pro longed deMate on tariff is held up as a culprit responsible for a news drouth of ®uch severity that Washington correspon dents are forced to the extremity of sizing [P the “most august nassemblage on !earth” as a millionaires club. The Brook- Iyn Eagle man, a cautious observer of na tional and financial symptoms, asserts that ® poor man, though not a poor senator, is not as lanesome as he used to be in senate. He has plenty of company. Of the twelve hew men who were sworn in on March 4, nine are poor. Two are rich and another has been able, by leading a life of celibacy and frugality, to accumulate about $10,000. Two other senators who were sworn in a few meonths previous are also classified among the impoverished. By a liberal estimate there are fifteen milllonaires in the United States senate If the exact truth about the state of the finance of these men were known, it is likely that several of them would he dropped from this list of medern Midases Tt's not an easy thing to ascertain cor rectly the worldly posseseions of_people, these days. However, the following sen- ators are generally looked upon in Wash- ington as being millionaires, some of them multi-millionaires Nelson B. Aldrich of Rhode Island, Mor- gan G. Bulkeley of Connecticut, W. Mur- ray Crane of Massachusetts, Chauncey M. Depew of New York, Henry A. Du Pont of Delaware, Stephen B. ®ikins of West Vir- ginia, Simon Guggenheim of Colorado, Francis G. Newlands of Nevada, George 8. Nixon of Nevada, George T. Oliver of Pennsylvania, Nathan B. Scott of West Virginia, Isaac Stephenson of Wisconsin, Franc:is E. Warren of Wyoming, John Kean of New Jersey and George P. Wet- more of Rhode island. There are several other men who might be tarmed ‘“near millionaires.” They include Jonathan Bourne of Oregon, George C. Perkins of California, Eilhu Root of New York and Charles J. Hughes, jr., of Colorado. | Against this select group of nineteen men fis the great army of senators who are well fixed, comfortably well off, and poor. The last classification I8 the most numerous, and takes in the men who have nothing but thelr salaries. Especlally in the western states is the tendency grow- ing to send poor men to the senate. For- merly the mining kings had a.large mon- opoly of the senatorial business. Root and Hughes were the men of afflu- ence of the dozen who took the oath at the commencement of the present session. Burton of Ohio, who has saved nearly $100,000, was the other man of some means. Of the balance, Bristow of Kansas was, perhaps, the man with the flattest pocket- book, and he looked it. Making both ends meet is a serlous problem of life to Bris- tow, and may accoun! for the fervor with which he is attacking the high schedules of the tariff. Chamberlain of Oregon Is 50 poor. One reason for his poverty as a conviction he once had that it was his duty to squander his savings in order to pay the depositors of a failed savings bank of which he was a director. This occurred some years ago. When his op- ponents in his fight for the senatorship sprung the story that Chamberlain had been connected . with a bapk that had failed, his maniy sacrifice came out, and the news elected him to the senate, | Coe I Crawford of South Dakota is a poor man with a large family, and he lives |in a boarding house here which could be, | with truthfulnesss, classed as ‘cheap.” Johnson of North Dakota and Jones of | Washington would have to borrow money to keep going if it were. not for their sal- aries as senators. Shively of Indiana has never had more than his modest income as a lawyer, and Smith of South Carolina earned his livelihood up to a few years ago as a traveling organizer for the cot- ton growers of his state. Cummips of lowa was on the high road to wealth until he became & reformer. | About all he has now Is the house that cost him $60,000, and he hasn't money enough left to run it. It was the boast of Brown of Nebraska last year that he was the only member of the senate too poor to own a home. His colleague, Burkett, s a poor man also. Taken as a class, the men who have recently come to the senate from the west are lacking in worldly goods. The same statement Is true generally of sen- ators from the south. Bourne of Oregon had one fortune left to him, which he lost, and then he made another, a good part of which has slipped from him also. Bulkeley of Connecticut Is the head of one of the biggest insurance companies in the country and is an hon- ored member of the Millionaires' club. Carter of Montana came to the senate in 186 & rich man, and left in 1901, dead broke. McKinley gave him a government job. Since then he has made enough to keep | the wolf from the door without doing any more hard work. Culberson of Texas mar- ried a rich wite and is as well fixed as any of the southern contingent. La Follette is |a money-maker, but he lets it slip through his fingers. He invests nearly every dol- {lar he makes in printer's ink. By hard work on the chautaugua eircuit he earned $0.000 in 1907. What he didn’t spend in pro- moting his campaign against the trusts he invested in his weekly newspaper. ‘Cullom is poor as a church mouse, is a comment frequently heard in the senate A remark of this kind, by the way, is the highest tribute that could be paid to the honesty of any man who has been long in the senate. Cullom has been there for {wenty-gix and has saved barely enough to huy a small but comfortable home. Hale, who has been in the senate since 1581, has had the benefit of his wife's fortune. She was a daughter of the late zachariah Chandler of Michigan, who was a merchant prince of Detroit before he be- came United States senator and secretary of the interior years | The greaier part of the bank account of | Owen of Oklahoma is made up of his share | of the largest fee ever awarded in a case against the government. It was $760.000 and was earned in an Indian land suit. Piles of | Washington was one of the five attorneys to split & $250,000 fee. Senator Warren is several times a millionaire and one of the | biggest wool producers in the world. He | ewns vast stretehes of grazing land | Senator Tillman of South Caroling is & poor man and lives like one. His hitherto spotiess reputation was mussed up a trifle by Mz Roosevelt last year because poor Tilman was trying to make a few dollars out of a land selling company in Oregon. From the foregoing it will ba seen that the name “Millionaires’ club” mno longer Baking Powder made from Cream of Tartar Makes the finest, most delicious bis- cuit,cake and pastry; conveys to food the most healthful of fruit properties. PERSONAL NOTES. M. Paderewski, having health, is enjoying himself in agricultural pursuits at the Lake of Lucerne. There is an impression in Chicago that Carter H. Harrison, the eity, is likely to be a candidate for the democratic momination for m 1911 The Duke of Norfolk has a His Surrey . Norfolk street, street, his ancestors' town house by builders after the great fire In 1666 Mrs. Harry E. Mitchell, of Puliman Wash, has made what is believed the largest United States flag in the world, and which is to be unfurled at the moment President Willlam Howard Taft, in Washington, presses the button that opens the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition. Clinton €. Hutchinson, who recently died in Portland, Ore., is called by the Ore- gonians of that eity the father of irrigation in its state. e was born in Vermont De- cember 11, 183, and first went west to Tlinols, where he married and in 185 re- moved to Kansas and helped the ‘“free state” men in their troubles with the “border ruffians.” Going to Oregon in 18 Mr. Hutchinson saw that frrigation was greatly needed in eastern Oregon, and organized the irrigation profect in Crook county, the first in the state of any consequence. A Chief Justice Beatty, of the supreme court of California, who is 71 years old, ls as able to take care of himself and to entoree his reasonable demands putside the courtroom as in i On Monday of last week, while riding on a trolley car he ordered a man to stop talking with the motorman, telling him that he was im- periling the safety of the passengers. The man resented the order and told the judge, whom he did not recognize. that he would knock the latter's hat off but for his gray hair. “Forget the hair and try it." sald the judge. The challenge was accepted and there was a quick exchange of blows, in which the chlef justice came off best. TART TRIFLES. “Do 1 make myself plain?' demanded Mrs. Jawback at the end of her curtain lec- ture. “'You couldn't do that, my dear,” said Mr. Jawback, mildly. “1 will acknowledge that 1 am stupid, but not that you could be plain.”"—Cleveland Leader. London estate in streat and Arundel She (after_the tiffi—You will admit you ere wrong? He (a young lawyer)—No: that an’ unintentional error unknowingly crept into my Christian Endeavor World. but TI'll admit might have assertion.— Thirsty Passenger—How much long have I got to wait for that cocktail I or- dered? Dining Car Waiter (looking out of the window)—Ab ut & mile and a half longer, r. This is @ dry county, and there's A potter on board.—Chicago Tribune. Wigwag—~Good evening, Mrs. Guzazler! Is Mr. Guszler in? Mrs. Guazler—He has just done down to the corner for a little exercise. Wigwag—I think I'll join him. In which Philadelphia Record. “I met Nellle this morning, and she was very anxious.” hat was the matter with her?' “T think she was on the verge of nervous prostration about the address she was make before the ‘Don’'t Worry' club. Baltimore American. Tommy—Met the new minister on my way from Sunday school vesterday, and ked me if I played marbles on’ Sun- day Mother—Well, what did you say? Tommy—Get thee behind me, Bketoh. Fair Client—I want you man for $5.000 damages' husband’s affections! Lawyer—But, madam, your husband is well known In this community. I advise Satan!— to sue that She stole my lar semi-annual inventory. These suits are every bi rials as any of this season’s of them were formerly $20. $7 The chance df buying a See Dopglas S fits the senate. It is an assembly made up of a few very rich men, a few well-to- do men and & great many who are poor, but would like to be millionaires. A r of Bouwneers. Pittsburg Dispatch. While Mr. Bryar is expelling prominent democrats from the party Senator Bailey undertakes to go him a litle better by reading ne party platform owt l N/ recovered his his chateau on the banks of four times mayor of rent roll of Strand, was erected on the site of speculative | to be| —er—corner does he take his exercise’— | Look for our advertisement of Boys Suits in another part of this paper. Browning, 15th and Douglas Sts. R. 8. WILCOX, Mgr, you to sue the woman for a smaller sum.— say §25.—Chicago Tribune. The Waiter—Beg pardon, sir, but—ahem! the Sents here usuaily remember my serv- cen, The Guest (pockéting all the change)— Do _they? They ought to be more charitable and forget them.—TH-Bits “WHEN I WENT BACK HOME.” Chicago Post When T went beek home! back home!- | The orchards tossed in greenest with caps of blossom-foam, The wind ran down to meet me from hills of snowy bloom And set my heart a-leaping with the mar velous perfume, | When T went waves the | | When 1 went back home! back home!— The flelds gave forth the of freel When T went clinging upturned Tnam The little creek went singing through the | shadow and the &un Across the shallows where of old my feet were wont to run. scent When 1 went back home—0, were green And greener yet the medowlands jewel glint and sheen: The little path wound up the hill, the lit- tle path ransdown To meet the lazy highway that led from the little town. the woods with When T went back home!—If T had art T would weave the wonder murmured In my heart, The sonz that sang of brotherhood with bending skies of hlue And hills of green and everything that as a boy 1 knew. the melody that When T went back home! Ah, where (s now the wanderlust sent e forth to roam, To trudge upon the rugged roads that lead to alien lands When fair and clean and swest and young the home-place ever stands' back home! When T went | that When T went hack home! back home!— The orchards surged as sunny seas with billowed blossom-foam, And deep within the soul of me I heard the singing strain The wind brought with the flowar-seent it pourad across the lan —————————————————eeeeeee . THE CUI.INAIIY DEPAR‘I‘IIE“"F A GREAT MODERN HOTEL At the St. Regis, New York, Every Feature 1s Perfect of Its Kind. When T went Many a once-famous hotel has declined in public estimation because its “‘table’ was not kept up to the accepted standard; and no hotel—however excellent in other | respects—can be more ‘tiian very ordinary and Inferior 1t any feature of its culinary | department is unsatistactory. At the st Regis Hotel, Fifth Avenue and Fifty-fifth Street, New York, there fear of unsatistactory Although built to be hotel, exquisite material its gues were not need never be food or service. America's finest surroundings for the only concern of its owners and manager. The kitchen of the St. Regls fe not excelled in its equip- ment by any hotel or restaurant in Amer- fca; its cooks are seiected for their ability and experience, while its food supply must pass the critical inspection of the ager, himself a restaurateur fame. In man- of national the dining rooms, as well, no feature is lacking to secure perfection in service. With all this painstaking care to obtain superlative results; St. Regis prices remain within the reach of the great “mid- dle class.” Its restaurant charges are the same as other first class hotels, and rooms may be had as low as $3 and # a day for a large. handsomely furnished single bedroom; the same with private bath for $ a day (or 38 for two people); or $12 a day and up for an elegant suite consist- Ing of parior, bedroom and private bath. Thursday Morning We will place on sale 100 suits left over from last spring’s stock, which we must close out before our regu- \ t as good in styld and mate- models, but there is only one or two of a kind and that is our reason for closing them out. We sold these suits last spring from $15 to $28, most ‘‘No Clothing Fits Like Ours.”’ We have all sizes in the assortment. ing at 9 o’clock we will place them on sale at— Thursday morn- .50 Browning, King & Co. suit for so little money is not to be overlooked. treet Windows. " and Children’s King & Co