Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 29, 1909, Page 14

14 THE BEE THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDED BY VICTOR ROSEWATER Entered at class matter. EDWARD ROS EDITOR Omaha postoffice as second- TERMS OF BUBSCRIPTION Bee (without Bunday), one year..$4.00 Bee and Sunday one year 800 DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Dally Bee (Including Sunday), per week. e Daily Bee (without Sunday), per week.. 10c Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week. fc Daily Daily Evening Bee (with Sunday), per week.. 10c Sun Bee, one year vee 2.5 Saturday Bee year $1.50 Address all complaints of irregularities in delivery to City Clrculation Department. OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Building. 4 South Omaha—Twenty-fourth and N Council Bluffa--15 Scott Street. Lincoln—518 Littie Buflding. Chicago—1M48 Marquette Bullding. New York—Rooms 11011102 No. 34 West Thirty-third street Washington—725 Fourteenth Street, N. W CORRESPONDENCE Communieations relating to news and edi terfal matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorlal Department REMITTANCES Remit by @raft, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company Only 2-cent stamps received in payment of mail accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss: George B. Twschuck, treasurer of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and nplete coples of The Daily, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed Quring the month of April, 1900, was as follows { . 39960 17 . 41,030 . 39,080 17, 37,130 | 19 . 40,350 | 20. 40,620 | 21 40,410 | 22 40,460 2 40,380 2. 40,640 6 43,450 2 45,880 21. 45,520 28. 45,850 Returned coples. .. Net total Daily average GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK, Treasurer. Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before me this 1st day of May, 190 M. P. WALKER, Notary Public. WHEN OUT OF TOWN. Subacribers leaving the city tem- arily should have The Bee ed to them. Address will be changed as often as requested. The “Jim” couneil proposes. disposes, but Mayor A new wall paper house s to be added to Omaha's jobbing interests. Just paste that in your hat, It is estimated that $7,000,000 will be needed to fortify the Panama canal. International insurance comes high. When llr;i“pl hecon’mfi(he vogue the customs collectors will have a merry time of it locating smugglers. The father of the Wright brothers is a minister. The boys evidently came by their sky pilot proclivities natu- rally. A Missouri court has declded that a wife may legally kiss her husband. The writ is alternative, however, and not mandatory. The Dahlman democracy announces that it is getting ready for the fall campaign. The Jacksonian club is strangely silent The president has drawn a barrel of sauer kraut at an Elks fair. If some kind friend will donate the Frank- furters the presidential larder will be equipped. In view of the long months which the San Francisco graft hearing has been dragging it is about time to cease poking fun at the British chancery courts. At last a practical use has been found for the toothache. An Ohio woman was awakened by the pain in one of her molars just in time to see | and frighten away a burglar. Senator Bailey of Texas has suc- ceeded in demonstrating that all the ware are not over. The casualties up to date have not been serious enough to call for offers of mediation, America is coming to the front with the money to aid the destitute aur- vivors of the Adana massacres. What would the old world do if the fount of American bounty should run dry? In demanding that officlals, whose duties compel them to do things of which the church disapproves, resign their positions the Presbyterian as- sembly {8 putting them to the supreme test The professor who proposes to go up ten miles in a balloon in order to talk to Mars must be the same man who stood on his tiptoes to talk to a friend in the twentleth story of a sky- scraper St. Paul's police chief insists it is Minneapolis crooks who commit crimes in his city and the Minneapolis chief makes the same allegation against St. Paul. en exchange is no robbery. Although he passed safely through the civil war, former Governor Crit- tenden of Missouri was stricken with apoplexy when the Kansas City team won a ball game. Now we know why the Washington club never takes a chance by winning. The Salvation Army has decided to undertake the task of converting the Chinese to Christianity. The Army bas tackled some big jobs in its day but it it succeeds in this task the other church organizations will be forced to take off their hats to the soldiers. | Tariff First. By postponing the consideration of | the income tax amendment the senate | has said unequivocally that nothing is to be permitted to interfere with the prompt disposition of the tarift schedules, The business of the coun- try Is more or less halted by the un- ortainty inseparable with a pending tariff bill The special session was | ealled for the express purpose of reach- ing an early determination which | would remove this obstacle to trade I revival and, while the debate has been longer than anticipated, no other legis- lation has been permitted to interfere | with the work in hand. The tariff in itself is a complex and troublesome problem which con- | gress is finding plenty of difficulty in disposing of without intermixing it with extraneous matter. The tariff schedules should be readjusted so far as necessary to accord with changed ‘ind\nlrlul conditions without sacrific- |ing American industries which need | protection. The diffe;snces of opinion as to where the line should be drawn to meet these conditions are many and their adjustment to the reasonable sat- isfaction of all is demanding all the attention of congress at the present time. ‘ When this task is accomplished and the best possible judgment obtained as to the amount of revenue the new bill | will produce will be time enough to | consider other sources of income to | fill in should insufficient returns be | feared. | The income tax invites wide difter- | ences of opinion, both as to policy and legality, and if pressed would be cer- tain to lead to prolonged debate. The questionable legality of an income tax, which has once been declared uncon- | stitutional by the supreme court, ren- ders it a precarious support for the treasury and as its only relevan to the tarift is one of supplementary re enue it should not be permitted to ob- | struct the revision which was promised and which the country waits, Roosevelt and Taft. The address of Henry Clews com- pares Roosevelt and Taft in a striking way. He reminds us that if anyone imagines that the American people has abated in the least their admiration for the ex-president they are nursing a delusipn. It would be no less seri- ous a mistake to believe that the poli- cies for which Mr. Roosevelt stood are dead or even dormant. Mr. Clews | points out that Mr. Roosevelt was the man for the hour when he came into office. A man of his enthusiastic per- sonality, fearlessness and pertinacity was needed to stir up the public con- science to a point which rendered pos- sible the Inauguration of the reforms | which he undertook. There existed the opinion that the things against which he contended were wrong, but the pub- lic conscience was inert. A Roosevelt was needed to stir it up and breathe into it that vitality which spells ac- complishment. He attained his object and the work for which he wa pre- eminently fitted was done. Here comes the need of a different type of man, according to Mr. Clews, to work out the details with a clear Jjudicial mind, doing justice to all and avoiding the errors to which impetuos- ity and intense activity are exposed. For this rounding out of the work Mr, Taft was just as essential as Roosevelt | was for the conditions which con- | fronted him. Possessing a courage no less pronounced, Mr. Taft' has a per- sistency equal to his predecessor and Just as high a sense of duty, coupled with a calm and deliberative mind. “Clinching of the Roosevelt policies, as the president himself put it, is to | be the keynote of the administration. As head of one of our great bank- ing houses Mr. Clews doubtless reflects what the financial world thinks of the outlook. His measure both of the man and his purpose corresponds with that of everyone who has carefully noted the course of Mr. Taft. Al- though of different temperament from Mr. Roosevelt, he is pursuing the same purpose in his own characteristic way. American Rule in Porto Rico. Apropos of the house debate' over the Porto Rican question some facts as to what has been accomplished | there are pertinent. Every dollar of | revenue collected in the island is ex- pended there for the benefit of its own people. In addition the United States pays out of the federal treasury the cost of the lighthouse service, the coast surveys, the harbor improve- ments, the marine hospital, the deficit in the postal revenues, the weather bureau service and maintains the agri- cultural stations. These latter have done a valuable work in advancing the material prosperity of the islanders. In addition we maintain a full regi- ment of Porto Ricans in our army. Still more, there is a remission of $15,000,000 of customs duties which would have to be paid on imports of Porto Rican products Into the United States were the island independent or under other control. So much for the financial side. | | where previously there were only 551 with 21,000 under Spanish rule. In ten years the Porto Rican exports have risen from $22,000,000 annually to $66,000,000, The island has been given a greater measure of self-gov- ernment than any other dependency, and all that was asked of its people was to conduct thelr government in an orderly manner. In tne eatire civil service of the island there are 2,548 Porto Ricans and only 343 from the United States The whole trouble in Porto Rico is iraceable to political malcoutents in In the matter of internal advance- | ment American control has planted 2,400 schools with 87,000 pupils, one branch of the legislature refusing to make appropriations because of a disagreement on other matters with the wupper legislative branch. The president insists the first duty of a government is to fulfill its functions and when it fails to do that the system should be changed. Those who seek to make a point agalnst the adminis- tration by spreading the impression that the United States is milking Porto Rico and giving nothing in return are not pleading facts. The United States is giving much and receiving little. It has opened to the people of the island an era of prosperity and oppor- tunities for advancement never before known and which their course in the question in controversy shows they would have been incapable of making for themselves Home Rule in Colorado. For examples of real home rule for cities as distinguished from bogus home rule, we need go mno further than our neighboring state of Colo- rado, where under proper enabling acts the various municipalities are un- dertaking to frame their own char- ters, subject to adoption or rejection by popular vote. A new city charter has been lately adopted in this way for Colorado Springs, under which the first election will be held in July. The Colorado Bprings charter was drawn by a charter commission of twenty-one representative citizens, by which it was submitted to the voters and ratified by an almost unanimous vote. The new form of municipal gov- ernment for Colorado Springs |Is characterized as ‘‘one of the most 1ib- eral ever adopted by an American city,” and includes many of the latest devices, such as commission form, abolition of wards, separate municipal ballot without party labels, the recall and the initiative and referendum. Municipal home rule does not neces- sarily open the door to all these fads and fancies, but if the people in a city really want to make such experiments there 1s no reason why they should have to go to the legislature for au- thority, or at the same time force them on every other city in the same class at the same time. There is no question but that the general tendency is toward a larger measure of local self-government for the municipality. complish as much in this direction as has Colorado, would, however, require a constitutional amendment. Our re- cent Nebraska legislature, in spite of the home rule declarations on which its democratic majority was elected, negatived all the home rule proposals offered, and Nebraska cities are destined to sit still for the next few years and watch the progress made in states like Colorado. Knowing Mayor Jim's choice for city prosecutor three years ago, and knowing that in all probability he would make the same appointment again, Mr. Hitchcock nonetheless de- fended Mayor Jim and advocated his re-election. If the present Hitchcock spasm of virtue were not mere sham and pretense he would have opposed Mayor Jim instead of supporting him. | Having helped put Jim back in the mayor's chair, Mr. Hitchcock now wants republican councilmen, whom he tried his best to beat, to help him pull his personal chestnuts out of the fire. If Mr. Hitchcock had had his way, there would not be a single republican in the council, and yet he wants them to take orders from him. As a member of the State Board of Assessment, charged with fixing the valuation of the rallroads, Governor Shallenberger {s for the first time up against the real thing. He has done a lot of talking on the stump, charging republican assessments with being too tavorable to the railroads, but is now confronted with a condition, not a theory. It is always easier to find fault with what the other fellow has done than to do it oneself A lot of big national conventions are to be held this summer in Denver, Salt Lake, Portland, Seattle, Los An- geles and other coast cities, which will draw delegations from the east. Many of these delegations will necessarily travel through Omaha and should be intercepted Here to impress on them that Omaha 18 a live, hustling city worthy their attention Omaha’s building operations this year are bound to set a mew record mark. With this unprecedented build- ing activity, every man in the bullding trades who 18 able to work s insured steady employment, and what he earns as wages goes back into the channels of retail trade. There is no reason for Omaha to fall behind in the pro- cession. The World-Herald has suddenly discovered that Police Judge Craw- ford is a good man in his place, but has fought him virulently every time he has been up for election. Will it support him next time? Of course it will not, because he i8 a republican. But it would like very much to use him when it is in a tight corner, Just to show that the south s really waking up and in position to |give polnters to northern states, Georgia has organized a good roads association which is doing something besides talk. It is starting in on the coustruction of a tem of public highways intended to cover the entire state, Nebraska osteopaths are preparing to make recommendations for appoint- ment by the governor to the new State Osteopathy board. If any of the osteopaths had written a fake letter on auti-saloon letter paper during the For Nebraska to ac- |- OMAH!/ ATURDAY MAY 1909, last campaign, we would place all our money on him to win 1t is distressing Lorimer owes his election recreant democratic Herald If it is so distressing, what is the difference between recreant democratic legisiators and recreant democratic councilmen? to in part to the votes of legislators.—World- note that A Cincinnati man left one-tenth of the income from his estate to “‘The Lord’s account.” For some inscruta- ble reason he failed to say whether President Baer of the Reading road was to administer the trust, John Jacob Astor has invenied a process by which the value of peat as fuel is greatly enhanced. It is really too bad if Mr. Astor has arrived at the point where he must economize on his fuel bill. Largest of Its Kind. New York Post Abdul Hamid has turned over $5,000,000 to the Turkish' government. This is un- doubtedly the largest life insurance prem- fum on record. Yeou Can’t Fool "Em. Boston Herald It takes Storekeeper MacVeagh of Chi- cago to discover what old-fashioned, out- worn and easily cheated devices the cus- toms house officlals in New York are using. Yoy can't fool this western mer- chant on weighing goods. Leadership that Doesn’t New York Tribune Mr. Culberson, as leader of the democratic minority In the senate, made a specch last week to show his party colleagues how they should vote on the various tariff schedules. On Monday he found nine demo- crats voting with him and sixteen with his rival, Mr. Balley. Hon Champ Clark has had his troubles, but he can con- gratulate himself that fate didn’'t install him as shepherd of the senate minority. Are You a ‘‘Booster Cleveland Plain Dealer. Every city needs a “Boosters' club.”” Tt need not be formally organized, need have neither charter, constitution nor meeting place; all it needs s an ambition to boost. Every citizen, man, woman and child, ought to be a member of the club, boosting his city by word and deed, in season and out, at home and abroad. To the outside world the club should say, “Watch us grow.” At home they should see that actual growth keeps pace with the boast Are you a member of the “Boosters' club?* The Uplift in Business. Philadelphla Record. During the depression the rallroads cut thelr expenses so heavily that with an im- provement in their business thelr net earn- ings have risen remarkably. Of course, thelr expenses are beginning to increase now, because more business means more men and more trains and more incidental expenses. But 715 rallroads or systems filing reports with the Interstate Commerce commission show for March §202,167,420 gross earnings, an increase of $21,215,33%0 over last year, and net earnings of $§,- 257,622, a gain of $13769.78. Month by month the raliroads are showing a pro- gressive Improvement, and thelr business now compares very favorably with any year preceding the helght of the recent boom. WITHOUT SPECIAL SIGNIFICANCE Some Sensible Reflections on the Re- cent Mall Robbery. 8t. Louls Republe. The amazing robbery of the cific’'s Overland Limited in yards proves nothing as to Nebraska, Omaha or the Union Pacific. It is such a thing as might happen, sporadically, in any part of the United States It may revive the demand, heard from time to time in the days of the activity of the Kansas City train robbers, for the plac- ing of armed guards in every mail and ex- prees car, but nothing will come of it; the economic argument Is agalnst it. Let us suppose—which 18 far from proven—that the robbers got $100,000, and that the placing of an armed guard in every mall and ex- press car by the Unlon Pacific officials would save that sum annually to the road. This could not be done on the through trains of the Unlon Pacific system for anything like $100,000 per year, supposing men of courage and integrity to be ob- tainable at $76 per month. The Incident rather emphasizes the se- curity of valuables transmitted by and express In these United States. They are transported in cars which are openedl at all stops without special precautions with a safety which Is well-nigh perfect This system has been adopted because it most nearly fits the conditions; lowed in western states, Where the of the stage coach used to go armed to the teeth, with a man on the box besids him with a brace of revolvers and a sawed-off shotgun loaded with buckshot Times have changed since the 'seventies, and changed for the better. 8o long as we have criminals the portunity which this general security af- fords will be occasionally taken advantage of, but it need only serve to remind us Ui.on Pa- the Omaha op- of the high average of safety of valuables | rall- be- in transit across & continent whose ways span a distance of 3.600 miles tween Boston and San Francisco. POLITICAL DRIFT. As the record stands the Tllinois legisla- ture has been more successful in smashing | a deadlock than in regulating the size of : women's hats Senator Tillman occasionally reveals the glint of his pitchfork with a flash of humor. He says his colleagues in the sen- ate talk too much The fact that Willlam Lorimer, senator- elect from lilinols, was a street car ductor twenty-three years ago may explain his skill in handing & transfer to a po litical rival Bourke Cochran's farewell words, as he salled for Europe, were the verbal ex-| pression of a growing conviction among his countrymen. ‘‘There is no democratic party,” says Bourke The governor of Rhode Island s under arrest for exceeding the speed limit in two states. He began the trouble at home, but ran over Into Massachusetts before the machine could be stopped Having put seven municipal grafters in hock, Pittsburg is developing the trail into years past, and has reason o expect a substantial increase in the number of “re spectable citizens” sent over the road The New York legislature sent the sovernor financial bills exceeding last year's budget by $9.000,000. When Governor Hughes got through with them the excess to was cut down to #4000 The New York executive Is still $11,000,000 behind the ve- toing record of Governor Stuart of Penn- sylvan mail | it is fol- | driver | con- | y! 0 « V= N R from Roya Made from Grapes more tasteful, healthful and nutri- tious when raised with 1 Grape Cream of Tartar BAKING ROYAL POWDER The only baking powder made In Other Lands [ Side Lights on What is Wrans. | piring Among the Near mnd Far Nations of the Narth. Germanphobla has reached so critical a stage in England as to make distant com- ment exceedingly nocent spectator. liable to be construed as a mirage of in- vading airships “made in Germany." The Springfield (Mass.) Republican, assuming conditions were not as bad as they are plctured, ventured the opinion that should England provoke a war with Germany the United States would remain strictly neu- tral, favoring neither one nor the other in a causeless and lamentable struggle. Thi sensible view of the situation stretched to the breaking point the nerves of the Lon- don Spectator, provoking an outburst of indignation and vituperation. dinary American journalist,” Spectator, sizzling with lofty dangerous for the in- disdain, ‘sometimes shows astonishing ignorance of foreign affairs. Like all ignorant people, these journaliets are very suspiclous, es- peclally of friendly expressions of opinion which they do not understand.”” There s the kernel of the trouble. American edi- tors, particularly the Springtield scribe, do not understand. Their perverse nature will not permit them to understand, or take a course In journalism in the London school. For this reason and others, needless to name, the American journalist, “ltke all ignorant people,” are wisely suspicious and just clever enough to keep out of the sanguinary squabbles of other nation: One visible effect of the American editor's “ignorance” s to turn a spotlight on the colossal conceit of the Londoner and the equally colossal nerve which presumes to make the United States a party to the in- sane jealousles, race hatreds and feuds of the old world. o A writer In the Pall the unrest dis- ser- Mall Gazette, among the civil speaks of these public functionarfes as resembling a swarm of locusts. In 1870 they numbered 250,000, while under the republic they have reached the astonishing number of 870,000, “to eat from the public crib being the dominant ambition of every Frenchman.' Of the 870,000 functionaries, 64,220 are paid by the state, and 265780 by the depart- mental and communal authorities, al- though they are, with the others, officials of the state. These officlals constitute twelve army corps, so to speak, under the dlrection of the twelve ministries. The greater number belong to the ministry of the Interfor, viz, 236,000; war, marine, and colonies dispose of 210,000; public works, postal and telegraph service, 136,000; pub- lie instruction, 140,000; treasury (finances), 118,000; agriculture, labor and commerce, | 10,000; forelgn affairs and justice, 14,000 The postal and telegraph services number among their employers no less than 37,460 postmen, of whom 5,616 belong to Paris; wireless telegraphy has at the present moment 3 clerks; (n all, that department boasts 114,208 employes. Grouping them together, France's functionaries cost her annually 919,207,540 francs, or in round figures 920,000,000 francs, equal to about $184,000,000. cussing vants of France, The Danish national exhibition at Aarhus 1s scheduled to open the latter end of May and continue through September. The purpose of the exhibition is to offer visitors a true picture of modern Danish culture— a highly developed agriculture, extensive industries and the varlous arts in which the people are engaged. Wireless teleg- raphy and airships in action will form lead- ing features of the show. Aarhus is the second largest city In Denmark, situated in the eastern curve of the Cimbric penin- sula, and approachable by land and water. To the visitor the city alone will be a unique exhibit of modern municipal devel- opment surrounding bulldings of ancient architecture and construction, some speci- mens surviving the ravages of eight cen- turles. . The British government has just pub- | lished in three immense volumes the re- | sults of an inquiry into the cost of living as it affects the workingman in forty dif- ferent English, French and German citfes. BEriefly the inquiry developed these facts: Wages in France are 25 per cent lower, | and in Germany 17 per cent lower than in | | Englana. The hours of work in France | | are 17 per cent longer than in England 10 per cent longer. The | paye in rent or for less than the English workingman, while the German pays 23 per cent more than his English brother. But if the English workman were to live | in France on the same footing, buying the same supplies in the same quantities, his expenses would increase 18 per cent, as they also would in Germany. and In Germany French workingman | lodgings 2 per cent The faithful, courageous and successful leadership of the Irish Parliamentary party by John Redmond draws from the Westminster Gasette an unfriendly politi- cal opponent, this deserved tribute to his | splendid utilities: “Mr. Redmond's success | in the house of commons may be taken as affording & test of those qualities which make for mastery in an independent sembly His oratorical power is one ot the most precfous possessions of the house, and his persistence, courage and energy in pursult of a great ideal have long since | given him that commanding position which belongs alone 1o of character. No | one doubts that i he had chosen any other men A friendly suggestion is) career—that If, for Instance, he had gone to the bar—he would have been one of the leading advocates of his day. Had he entered politics as & member of either of the great parties he would have attained to & position of eminence on the front bench. He might well have hoped some day to be prime minister of this country.” o Spain has recently taken a long step forward by enacting a compulsory voting law, by which all adult males are quired to vote at all municipal elections. From this law those who are absent or sick, and judges, notaries, priests and per- sons over 70 years of age are exempt. The penaities for fallure to vote are graded, among them being a published censure for having neglected a civic duty, having taxes increased 2 per cest, or if In the employ of the state, province, or municipality a reduction of 1 per cent of salary, and for repeated fallures exclusion from the right to hold any civil office. The Spanish gov- ernment recognizes that voting Is a civic duty, and one of such Importance that it should not be meglected or evaded. e The 8t. Gothard rallroad has become the property of the Swiss confederation, $42,- 500,000 having been paid for it, while the government has assumed the debt of $23,- 000,000 with 81 per cent interest and pays a lfttle more than $1,000,00 for expenses of the issue of the company's loans. Louls Favre undertook the bullding of the St. Gothard tunnel in 1872, and thought to compléte it ih elght years at a cost of $10,000,000, which was found to be insuffi- clent. Favre néver saw the completion of his great engineering feat as he dled in the tunnel in 1879, thé first train not pass- ing through until three years later. Since 1888 the dividends of the road have not been below & per cent. e It was an immense fillip to Austrian pride to annex the two Balkan provinces, but the finance minister's budget must now be faced and the problem solved of paving the fiddler for the Bosnian dance. Of course, there is a supplementary in- come tax. All the European countries have that In their arsenal of taxes. En- tirely new, however, in Austrian finance is the special tax on bachelors, childless husbands and widow SAID IN FUN. m“An l"ml h'hf;.‘” despise money,” said e man witl e wide hat s and pointed “Yes, nswered the one with the vel- vet coat and big necktie. "I'd like to get hold of enough to enable me to give a ractical demonstration of my scorn.’'— Vashington Star. re- Reporter—Was anybody hurt when the two automobiles collided? Bystander—Nobody In the automobiles was hurt. The fat man who happened to be standing between the two machines, belleve, {8 the hospital.—Chicago Tribune. Little Helen—8ister, that new beau yours makes me tired. Elder Sister—Why, dear? Little Helen—He has the manners of a street car conductor. When 1 went into the parior last night he sald “How old are you, little girl?"—Chicago New: His mother handed the lad a rug “'Beat it'" sl 1d ‘Whereupon he hastily scaled the back fence and she didn't see him again until supper time.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. no excuse whatever for that last masacre,” sald one Turkish officia Ye there was,'' answered the other. “The census taker had served notice t unless his work was made e r he would resign.”—Washington Star. ““There wi “I'm introducing a brand new invention a combined machine, carpet sweeper and letter opener,” said the agent, stepping briskly Into an office. t one already,” answered the pro- prietor. “I'm married."—Bohemian, of | [in bad taste, rectors. This being the consensus of opinion, ad Journment was reached in time for the bl game.—Philadelphia Ledger. “Did you attend the Gilderscads' noon reception “Yes, frightful jam arm broken.” “Dear_me! How?" “She happened to get in the way when the refreshment room door was opened one of the di responde after Mrs. Bigler had her Cleveland Plain Dealer. “I am sure that my American dollars | mean very little to you,” sald Miss Cum rox . You are right,” answered Count Fu cash. “Their significance at present Is But it ta them will be an easy matter into franes.”-—-Washington VAR | trans Star. WHERE MOTHER SLEEPS. Willlam H. Phipps in Cineinnati Enquirer Blow gently, oh breeze, in the land of the hills; Blow gently, and sing ye the song of the rills; On the slope of the east Breens Rrow My mother sleeps sweet ‘neath a mantle of snow. where the ever- Play lightly around the white stone that is there; Not whiter than stone than her soft silken halr. The breath of the morning awakes not to sigh The N::-v-m!r who sleeps in the hills of the Rest kindly, oh rays of winter-worn sun, Rest light on the mound. The sleeper fs done With care and with toil; the winds do not chill The sleeper who gleeps on the brow of the hill Dear Farth, you must hold her close in vour breast; Hold her and warm the sweet sleeper at rest, Throw over that mound 1 mantle of green, And soft be her sleep 'neath the wealth of its sheen. Straw Hats The demand has begun al- ready and the next warm day is bound to see Straw Hats in full bloom. There are rough and smooth straws with brims and crowns of varying widths and heights to meet dif- ferent tastes. $1.00 to $5.00. In the soft straws the range of shapes and styles is sufficient to meet every whim from youthful to sedate. Panamas from $5.00 up. Browning King &Company Fifteenth and Douglas Sts. ,'We have met to consider the protests of the public,” sald the president to the directors of the corporation. “Let's consider them all impertinent and OMAHA R. 8. WILCOX, Mgr. Get a $10.00 Picture Free FOR TEN DAYS ONLY The A. 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