Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 3, 1909, Page 6

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Remit by draft, express or postal order Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stamps recelved In payment of mafl account ersonal checks, except on or eantern exchanges, not accopted. payable to The “STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglan County. ss Geotge B. Taschick, treasurer of The Bee Publishing Company, belng duly sworn, ‘ayu $hat tha Actual number of full and complets copies of The Dally, Morning Fvening and Sunday Bee printed during the menth of October, 1909, was as follows: 18. ; ;I"O.lll k . Returned coples Net total .. +1,93,370 Dally average . svond cive . SNTES GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK, ‘Treasurer. Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before me this 1st day of November, 1909, (Seal.) M. P. WALKER, - Notary Public. Sabscribers leaving the city teme porarily should have T Bee mai to them. Address will be changed as often as requested. Foot ball has fallen below par in West Point and Annapolis. How could Earl Bullock expect to escape the Texas roundup? It will 8000 bo np to the.court crier to clear the way for Ig Dunn. CTp—— Those democratic éampaign manag- ers are cheerful Hars (c any rate, e, sy After that race across the continent, watch the fashion for fast silk trains. It is up to' the forestry squads to conquer the fire’on Pike's peak or bust. 3 — Oklahoma still carrles the “guar- anty” mark In the salvage, but has run out of goods. Omaba has just been furnished with another forcible argument in favor of a law (o stop pistol toting. President Taft will soon round into thé home stretch, where his speedo- meter will attract his eye most. Cardinal Gibbons will never get the gold headed cane for the most popular churchman voted at a suffragette fair, —_— ‘When Breathitt county gets over its election ruction some Kentuckians will breath freer and some others not at all. The Chicago elevased has abandoned the smoking car, but the smoking pas- sengers are just as abandoned as ever. And@lrew Carnegle is back from Scot- land and still threatened with the pos- sibility of being disappointed by not dying poo: In golng into court with a scanda- lous slander suit the Du Ponts show they are not afrald.to face powder as well as make it. While -masquerading as populists and nonpartisans, why should not the democrats masquerade also as ‘“‘pro- gressive” repubiicars? For some strange Thomas Lipton does not appear dis- posed to try seme other game in which he has an even chance. reason, Sir It must have been very hard on Mr. Bryan to let one Nebraska campaign @0 by without making a single polit- fcal epeech in his home state. Those complaining of the advance in prices may take cqmfort in contem- plating radium, which has gone up to $2,600,000 an ounce, or forty times its original cost. Omahba 18 about to hear a selection of celebrities on the lecture platform or at'the banquet board. Cook and PeAry may yet have to put Omaha on their itinerary. Money put up by the Bryan volun- teers Is paying for distributing those bogus republican eirculars which con- tain nine parts of Bryanism to one part of republicanism. And very soon.we will hear some- thing from that Rhode Island turkey that has been faltened specially for the privil of gracing the White House dinner table. When the army boys get to shooting capnon balls at balloons look for mar- velous stories in the New York papers bout the size of hallstones falling around Sandy He¢ Improved Waterways. Culmination of all the recent agita- tion for improved waterways seems to show the United States virtually committed to the project, for whieh, under the unanimous pressure that will be brought to bear, congress will be ready enough to vote the funds, even in th¢ face of the declaration of the president that “pork barrel” job- bery is to be eliminated. But having decided to prosecute the work, con- gress should turn all the details of de- velopment over to a commission com- petent to master the engineering and commercial problems involved. Varfous sectlonal claims ‘will nat- {urally offer themselves for first con- sideration, each locality regarding its needs as the most immediate. The project, however, should be approached as a unit; Mr. Taft is unquestionably sound in his argument against plece- meal apportionment. The plan for a great waterway highway from the lakes to the gulf is as much a single enterprise, regardless of immediate local ambitions In any part of the val- ley, as is the Panama canal. The mighty river's waywardness will be found difticult of control, and its com- plications must be handled solely with an eye to the permanent establishment of the futnre whole. Every step taken ought to be with due consideration for each succeeding step, every stage of the work a bulwark of the complete design. Individual and community in- terests will best be served if the com- | mission in charge of the work be abso- |lutely unhampered by Ilocal restric- tions, so that from its inception the undertaking may be a natfonal and not a sectional affair, accomplishing as it grows the greatest good to the greatest number within the range of the tribu- taries developed. Omaha in the Census. Prellminary preparations will soon be under way for the counting of the people as a foundation of the census of 1910. What the census will show up for Omaha s necessarily at this time only within the realm of specula- tion, although with the data available from varfous sources more or less ac- curate estimates may be made. This much, however, s certain, that if the census is taken without any change in the city boundaries now existing, and South Omaha, Dundee, Benson and Florence all enumerated separately, Omaha will not be credited with the full population of the entire commu- nity, which is really one, and t will sufter materially in the comparison with other citles of its class which are not burdened with such a handicap. The question which our people, and by this we mean not only the people of Omaha, but of South Omaha and the suburban towns as well, mnust consider seriously is whether they want to let the census year of 1910 go by, which will fix the relative ranks of rival cities for ten years to come, without first seizing the opportunity to consolidate under one municipal government and 1eap the advantages which that con- solidation would give, but which would be lost for ten years if delayed more than a few months longer. This subject presents a problem the most far-reaching that is before us. Its solution, or failure of solution, will have a dire2t bearing on the immediate future of the community. It is a prob- lem which must be grappled with soon or not at all. Consolidation in time for the 1910 census is by no means an impossibility, but it will not come of itself. The Gompers Case. The ca#® of Samuel Gompers and his assoclates has been advanced another stage by the decision of the supreme court of the District of Columbia that the labor leaders had been properly ad- judged guilty of contempt in violat- ing an injunction directed to them. It will be noted that the supreme justice of the court dissents from the conclusions of his assoclates, ‘‘on con- stitutional grounds,” which will give Mr. Gompers and his friends additional courage to appeal the case to the su- preme court of the United States. The offense being @ criminal one, the ques- tion whether an appeal may be taken has yet to be determined, but it a con- stitutional point is involved it will be surely granted. The argument of the District of Columbia court, that a citizen must pursue the orderly course of appeal rather than decide for himself when he shall or shall not obey the man- date of a court, is fundamentally sound, but Mr. Gompers has contended that it does not apply to the facts in his case. If he can maintain his posi- tion that the injunction was illegally {ssued and that his right of free speech was at stake in his disobedience, the supreme court will certainly take juris- diction of an appeal of this particular case, and determine finally the limits of the constitutional rights invoked by the defendants. Under the increased tax on drink the people of Great Britain seem to re- gard it as their duty mot to drink. Chancellor Lloyd-George reports a falling off in the consumption of 20 per cent in England, 50 per cent in Ireland and 70 per cent in Scotland, which convicts the canny Scot again of being a leader in thrift. On the whole, Great Britain's effort to increase its revenues from liquor has resulted in an extraordinary reduction. It is sim- ply another case of the people, con- fronted with high prices, ceasing to buy. The projection by Governor Shallen- berger of Grover Cleyeland's former secretary of the interior for the demo- catie presidential nomination in 3912 glves ground for the wuspicion that there is no 8 o'clock closing New Orleans. Consular Waste. It a business house had an agent at a forelign port who cost the firm $6,000 a year and brought in only $5, there would be immediate abolition of that agency or an effort to bring its revenue approximately up to the ex- pense. But Uncle Sam is not like the commercial house; he knows that he has a' considerable number of such agencles, as in the consular servica, yet he calmly goes on footing the bills. It is in order for the practical man of affairs, confronted with such a show- Ing as that made by the auditor of the State department, to ask if it is nec- essary for this waste to continue in such a marked degree. The consular agents reply whenever that question arises, that their presence at remote points Is essentlal for reasons other than commerelal. It has been common practice among the nations to merge the interests of friendly powers at remote and un- profitable points, and to have one con- sular agent look after the occasional business that offers. Why. counld not this system be operated at every port where the commercial interests are so slight, and where no international matter of importance is likely to arise? The United States is rich enough to af- ford to be extravagant in supporting embassies at the capitals of the world, but when it comes to consular agents at points which cannot be found on or- dinary maps, and which the experi- enced student of geography has trou- ble to locate, it would seem to be time to apply the hard-headed rule of the merchant who is not in business for his health. To the layman the naval coutest among the nations eannot but appear a matter of much futility. France has just demonstrated that no armor re- sists the modern projectile and Britain is finding Dreadnaughts so costly that she Is investigating the construction of a new semi-submarine type designed to supplant all warships looming above the water. The United States has just approved two of the most powerful vessels of the Dreadnaught class, with the mental reservation among naval officers that in a few years these, the swiftest and most marvelous of fight- ing ships, will be obsolete. There seems to be no limit to the develop- ment of the navies, except the limit on ability to foot the bill The weather man is keeping the season open to give our paving con- tractors a chance to finish up thelr work. Those who do not take the chance ought to be shut out of the next competition. Y Never mind, whichever way it goes in New York or Nebraska, the Com- moner will read it as pointing to.demo- cratic success in 1912 providing enly the democrats put up the right eandi- date. The woman suffrage movement can- not be very strong here. Witness the lack of interest of the women in the school board election in which they are privileged to participate. Unwelcome Title, Boston Herald. Those who think to praise the late Gen- eral Howard by calling him “the Christian soldier” may be interested to know that he didn’t like the term because it involved a reflection on other soldlers. Biased Assertion. Chicagd Post. It was a prejudiced correspondent who cabled the story that Mr. Roosevelt jumped behind a tree to escape & charging elephant. Everybody knows Mr. Roosevelt would have made the elephant climb the tree. © &e of Moderm M Baltimore American, The dean of a woman's college says that college women not only make the best wives, but also that they get the beste-pald husbands. But it shows, too, the reckless- ness of the age that desirable men, who can pick and choose, are not afrald to adventure their lives and careers on sclen- tific cookery. Boston Herald. It is not surprising that Governor Hughes is mentioned as a possible successor to the late Justice Peckham on the supreme bench, New York will argue strongly for representation in the supreme court, which has been its honor with the exception of but few y since the beginning of the government. And Governor Hughes, if not the greatest lawyer of the state, stands high In his profession as he does in his citizenship and public service. “Era of 1 P Boston Transeript. ‘While our battleship North Dakota wa: undergoing pueliminary trials two note- worthy fighting vessels were launched in Europe, the British Indefatigable and the French| Mirabeau. The Indefatigable, which is & battieship In all but name, Is expected to make twenty-seven knots, and 1s of equal power and speed. The Mirabeau is the fifth French dreadnaught. Scarcely a day passes that does not witness elther the launch or the test of a tremendous warship somewhere, and vet this is an “‘era of peaceful progress.” Assailing Ancient Institations. Washington Star. The president Is attacking an ancient and honorable institution when he declares tor & revision of the method of appropri ting for rivers and harbors, more popularly known as the pork barrel process. Those familiar with congressional proceedings know well the procees by which the blen- nial allotments of publie funds for the waterways of the country are voted. It Is the old “log-rolling’ device of co-opera- tion. The representative of the district through which rolls that noble stream Squash oreek gives his vote for the projects to' deepen Snake river, Podunk harbor, Goose bay ‘and the mighty Siwash, while the representatives of the districts in which those classic waters have been bestowed by an all-wise providence lend him their help In turn and help one another In a true spirit of brotherly love. Indeed, (! filling and heading of the pork barrel calls for the exercise of the most bemevolent #pirit ever manifested In public affairs. _ Mipples on the Ourrent of Tdfe a8 Been in the Great American Metropolis from Day to Day. See that hook? Sure! But who can tell Ly the picture the working value of the device? xperience leaves the most en- during impression,” as the sage of Saddle Creek remarked when he recovered from a rear-end collision with a mule's heel. The same is true of the hook. Much de- pends where you get it. A New York man “got the hook” a few days ago In a way both thrilling and gratitying While paint- Ing a bridge 150 feet above ground the lad- der scaffold gave way at his end and he started on a dive for the street below. Then the hook got busy, caught a section of the painter's trousers and held him, head downward, until rescued. ‘“Boys,” re. marked the victim when breathing became normal, “the hook is all right In its place. It didn’t get a very dlgnified grip on me, but its hold beats a graveyard by a mil “In anclent days,” remarks the Sun, “a dead chieftain was followed to his grave by his unridden horse, upon which was fixed his armor. For the last century or two a dead general's charger, riderles has invariably preceded the gun caisson bearing the casket. At Senator McCarren's funeral the black plumed horses and heavily draped hearse were preceded by the Senator's automobile, vacant exeept for the chauffeur. This automobile was run at funeral pace. It was not draped, mor were there flowers In it, In that automo- bile Senator McCarren had visited every nook and corner of Kings county to dis- cern the ceaseless problems which con- fronted his leadership. He used it for pre- liminary battles and for the great battles on election day. In other words, it was his war chariot, and to many Its appear- ance at the funeral was just as expressive as the riderless charger of other days.” The tailors of New York are the most continuous and persistent advertisers in the world. Once your name s on the books of one of them, and you never lose him. 1io keps a line of circulars out perpetu- ally. At least four times each year one of them hits the former customer, no matter how often he may change his addres A friend of mine happened into a Ful- ton street shop one morning, and ordered an overcoat. As he was being measured, the salesman sald. “You are the first cus- tomer we have had. The shop only opened this morning.” “Well,” said the man, will do the usual thing?" “What's that?’ “The first customer always gets a pair of trousers free."” “Come over and pick out your pattern,” the tallor sald. “It's a go.” Those trousers were worn out ten years ago. And yet every little while the cus- tomer gets a letter from this house, thank- Ing him for his early trade, and remind- ing him of his unique position as the first customer. “I suppose you The ingenuity of the street Arab has found a use for tobacco coupons never con- templated by the corporation which lssues them. They form admirable stakes for ex- clting games of craps. In secluded gorners near cigar stores groups of small urchins may be seen kneeling on the pavement, deeply absorbed in shooting the pennies. In each grubby (fist is grasped a few coupons, and thelr, look and feel, to the youthtul imagination not so very far re- moved from real bills, seem to add a zest to the game. Then the supply can be so easily replenished by any boy. All He has to do s to hang around the door of the nearest clgar store once more, and with piteous face and whining voice beg, “Gimme your coupon, please,” and he is sure,to replenish his store again. It's not every clgar smoker who is saving up for & magnificent cut glass punch bowl, and the lads find plenty of people as ready to hand them a coupon as throw them in the street. In a New York newspaper the president of the Waldorf-Astoria tells about what the twentieth century American requires in the way of a hotel. In the list are mentioned: Rooms refrigerated in summer, steam heated In winter; private sultes costing $150,00 to furnish; music by the masters; art work costing millions, statuary—'"The Flight From Pompell,” as an instance— costing $38,000. Or a “Cleopatra,” by Story, and tapestries, the latter in the trifling sum of $400,000. The modern hotel must have for the de- lectation of its patrons’ varied tastes, fish from the deepest seas, caviar from the polar zone, frult from, the troples and wines from the rarest vineyards. The American must have a banquet tonight at his favorite hotel, and in that very same room tomorrow night & theatrical perform- ance by soclety amateurs. He has his telephone for his local needs, the telegraph and cable for his more dis- tant affairs, and the wireless to link him with the ships on the seas and other conti nents. He demands his weather report every few hours, If it so pleases him, and tho latest quotation of the stocks in which he is interested. He wants hand-painted seats on his chairs, costly laces for bedspreads and the chef d'oeuvres of china and glass for his table, as well as the deftest finger-workoed laces for his napery. He wants his chiropodist and masseuse and manicure within & half minute's eall, and when he sleeps he wants, amidst the tolling monotony of an Empire city scal- ing the apex of human endeaves, quiet Your modern hotel in America sets the pace, because the American sets the pace for the world, and—he pays the price of It no matter what the cost, The prekident of an uptown bank that carries a big line of heavy deposits con- fesses that he added another experimental lesson to s experience the other day “We do not encourage small deposits,” he explains, “and while we treat everybody with courtesy, we are not strenuous in our endeavor to add to the list those who do not keep a good balance. “There are many boarding houses in our neighborhood, and usually they keep their accounts running close to the ground. “A plain-looking woman of middle age came In, and sald that she would like to open an mccount. I sald, ‘Yes, madam, if you wish. 1 suppose you will carry a pretty good balance the most of the time?' ‘I shall begin with only $5000, she sald ‘but expect to largely Increase it soon.’ ““Then she began to rain stocks and bonds on me, some. of which she wanted sold, and others put away for safe keep- ing. Before she left, we had over $50,000 of her gilt-edged property in our hands. ““That ends me. 1 shall never judge b appearances again. Every woman who comes here In the future will be treated as though she were & disguised million- alre” Explorer Henson was coldly when he went to Philadelphia to lecture. Luckily deer sloeping bag with him Jack Bryant, 18 years old, the Mascot Athletic elub of Milwaukee, is seeking by ‘“beating” his way for a few years to get material for a novel, which he plans later to write lilus- trative of tramp Iife. Herbert Gladstone, it London, is to accept a barony, course, everyome will Gladstone’s stature. Federation of Women clubs proposes that favor of a unfit, According to Farmer Bennett of West Cheshire, Conn., the hog milt, or spleen, Indicates an open winter; January and an early spring. This Is un- unusual optimism to tower from a splen- etic base, but all buyers of fuel will be glad i loeal coal plles respond to these rosy views which emanate from under the bottom of the hog's heart. The Holy Synod of Russia has made it easy for a Jew to sever his maltrimonial bonds. It was decreed by that body re- eently that If a Jew become a member of the Russian church he may marry agein without divorce from his Jewish wife, as the baptism will render him dead to his family. “Should the life Insurance compan- les accept this holy view,” says ‘“The He- brew Standard,” “there would be a large increase in the number of merry widows.” GREATEST YHAR FOR FARMERS. Another Sa te to Producers of Real Wealth, Cincinnatt Enquirer. This country has had a series of farmers’ years—indeed, since the beginning of the twentieth century every year has been on of profit to the agriculturist—but this pres- ent year bids fair to be the greatest of all in the wealth which It brings to the tarmer. % Nearly every article produced is in great demand and brings extraordinarily high prices. Wheat seems to be in quantities well up to our largest ylelds and is bring- ing a price for above the average. Corn is sald by some parties who estimate crops to have broken all records in production, yet the values per bushel are keeping far above the prices prevailing in even years of average crop In the past. Cotton is piling surplus cash into the pockets of the planters in a surprising manner and bringing cash or the equivalents of cash from foreign lands to our own In most gratifying amounts, And the farmers are selling freely thelr holdings, and this rapid transformation of commodities into cash that is going on in every portion of this nation at this time is bound to produce commercial and manu- facturing results that will eclipse every- thing known in such affairs. All the prod- uets of the field anad the farm are today the equivalepts of cash wherever offered. The outside world is taking the largest portions of our productiong that it ever absorbed. California, Oregon, Washington, 1daho and Montana are shipping to the orlent, to Europe and to New Zealand and Australia many millions of dollars' worth of their frults and fruit products, in addi- tion to the great stores of The Atlantic ports from Baltimore south and clean around the gulf coast to Mexi- co's border all are showing great increases in the values of their exports, and from that section these exports are those of the field, the farm and the plantation. Every cultivated area, large or small, east, west, north and south is today producing more value to the acre than ever in the history of the country. The cash that pays for that production was never so widely nor so plentitully dis- tributed as 1t is this year. The prosperity of the farmer creates and maintains the prosperity of the republic. I» PRESIDENTIAL TOURS, Past Experiences Foreshadow FPres- ent Results. Leslie's Weekly. ‘What lasting consequences will President Taft's trip bring for the country? This is an interesting question, but the answer to it can be given with more confldence after congress meets than is possible now. S8ome of the presidential tours have had impor- tant results, When, In 1817, shortly after his first inauguration, Monroe started on the journey which took him through the middle states, New England and the west, the Boston Sentinel invented the phrase, the “era of good feeling,”” which has been assoclated with his eight years in office, Undoubtedly his trip alded in breaking dowp the barriers of secilonal prejudice against the perils of which Washington, in his farowell address a score of years ear- ler, had warned the country. Jackson's tour through the eastern states, early in his second term, In 1833 diminished a little of the distrust which New England had held for him, and gained for him the degree of doctor of laws from Harvard university. In his “swing round the cirele,”” a phrase which he invented, in 1806, accompanied by Seward, Grant, Far- ragut and other notables, President John- son sald some of the things which were used against him when he was impeached by the house and tried by the senate in 1868. Garfield, when starting on a trip n 1881, and McKinley, when near the close of & tour In 1901, had their careers cut short by assassins, and thus, for the mo- ment, at least, altered the current of his- tory. By thelr trips, Arthur, Cleveland and Harrison made friends for themselves and their respective parties. Re: cting & Luxury, Washington Herald Automobiling causes appendicitls, so the latest surgical promulgation has it. Th will tend to confine the malady more closely than ever to the smart set. ————————————————————— MINERAL WATER PRICE LIST, We sell over 100 kinds Imported and American Mineral Waters, and, as we ob- tain direct from springs or importer, can guarantiee freshness and genuineness. Boro Lithia Water, bot case, $6.00, Boro Lithia Water, pints., dozen, §1.50; case 100, $10.00 We are distributing agents for the celebrated w. in Omaha ers from Excelsior t following prices: sbc; dozen, $2.25; ottles, $8.00, Saline, buart bottle, 50 bottles, §3 00, ine, quart botiie, 25¢; Springs, Mo., and sell Regent. quart bottl 26¢; dozen, dosen, Soterian, quart bottle, Soterfan, pint bottl Soterlan Ginger Al dosen, §1.60 Hoterian Ginger Ale, quart bottle, 25c; dozen, §2.2 5, Diamond Litha, half-gallon bottle, 40c; case, 1 dozen, $4.00. Crystal Lithia, fiv gallon jugs, each, 0 St sulphur, five sallon jugs, each, 3.25. 3 Deliver; Counell free to_ any part of Omaha, luffs or South Omah MoCONNELL DRUG CO. 16tk and o. OWL DRUG 00, 16th and Harney. recelved he had his fur suit and his rein- secretary of around Is reported from and, of remember that his father consistently refused a peerage. But then no title could have added an inch to Mrs, Harrlet Johnston Wood, of the leg- islative committee of the New York City applicants for marriage shall get physi- clans' certificates. While some of the mem- bers were opposed, the federation voted In ing for such legislation that will prevent the marriage of the physically a Novemben warmer than October, no lce until after CALLS IT A HOPEFUL AUGURY. Chatrman Mack Looking Away from the Peerless One. Brooklyn Eagle. When Norman E. Mack says, “T do not belleve that Bryan will be the nexa demo- tic candidate for the presidency,” he may be expressing a feellng common to most democrats; yet his words have a pecullar significance for his fellow party men in Erle county. Mr. Mack s chalr- man of the democratic national committee, He holds that place because In the last' campalgn he was persona grata to Mr. Bryan. He has been the leader of what may be called radical democracy in his county for many years. With more schooling and less calm than Mr. Conners, he has been Just es unsatisfactory to the old-time Cleveland democrats of Buffalo, whose ideals have been much higher than their hope of controlling primaries. Therefore, it Is a hopeful augury for democracy that Mr. Mack, though, of course, uncommitted to any one candidate, seems to be turning with hope to Judson Harmon, the democratic govetnor of Ohlo, whom Mr. Cleveland trusted, and on whom all wings of the party might be able to unite. Mr. Mack's utterance is a straw which shows which way the wind is blow- ing. FLASHES OF FUN., “You're always kicking about the high price of things. I suppose you are one of the ultimate consumers we hear so much about “No, sir, I'm one_of the ultimate cough- uppers!"—Chicago Post. “If you'll give me full swing,” observed the pendulum, “you will never have any trouble with your hands.” “I don't know," replied the clock; “If it wasn't for you going back and forth in my works 1 never would have any strikes.” ~Boston Transcript. * “How do you and your wife get along so well > “I've a system.” “Tell it to ‘‘Every time she notices that I've shaved myself, T notice that she’s baked her own bread.”"—Cleveland Lead: New Employer—Your character, as far a8 T can understand, is rather a black one. New Mald (Indignantly)—Indeed, ma'am, my' character is Bpotless. ew Employer—. t. Look where your former mistress has split the ink all over it.—Baltimore American. “‘Your country owes you a debt of grati- which & man can realize in an emergency.” —Washington Star. “What do you think of & man with a rip coat and only three buttons on his should either get married or di- ."—Boston Transcript. Ethel-What makes you think that An- na's in love with her ‘husband? Delia—I saw her laughing at one of his Jokes the other night.—Judge. “Jones made an awful hit at the banquet the other night." ‘18 that so?"’ “Yes; he was called on for a kpeech and refused.”—Detroit Free Press. “My goodness! I would never have sup- posed you could be the mother of such a big girl. You must have been married very YOupg. “What a nice man that Mr. Wedgewood 18, she said to her husband after the vis- itor had departed.—Chicago Record-Herald INDIAN SUMMER. W. D. Nesbit, in Chlcago Post. It hushed the sound of winter's hosts, of winter's trumpet shrill, The drums that thrummed in winter's A van all suddenly grew still, For from the south the breezes ran and shook the flaming leaves, And crooned a chord of dulcetness below the vine-clad eaves; They brought a thousand mingled scents of pungent mint and musk, And springtime echoed through the day from crystal dawn to dusk. A drowsy haze across the west that gleams with shifting hues, A jeweled sky that glimmers with the rarest turquol And woods that are & and of gold, And vagrant bees that drain the last brave blooms of what they hold, And marching stars that swing as lamps as twilight idles on, ‘While moonlight silvers ail the world trom dreaming dusk to dawn., The ®ongs of Indian summertime—they murmur in the heart, Attuned to leaves and hills mnd sky, of which they are a part— The half-heard minor melodies that hint of throbbing tones, And yet elude the eager grasp—the songs which no one owni But which the wind sun and all the woods and meadows weave all the charm and softness from the silent dawn to eve. It hushed the sound of winter's hosts, and winter's thrumming drums, Fell silent when the word went fortht ‘Now Indian summer comes’— And then she came, a dusky mald, a god- dess tinted bronze, Her arms a-heap with ma heap with marvel-dawns Anad eo her spell is on cur hearts and ues, fairyland of scarlet -dusks, ae sald the admiring constituent ““Thanks,” replied Senator Sorghum; “the only objection to a debt of gratitude is that it is never secured by tangible assets on olds us overlong. With_every dawn & miracle mnd every dusk @ SODE. ELGIN MINUTES LGIN watches go where pre- cisionisvital. Under the keen eye of the scientist they main- tain the reputation that has made a synonym for accuracy of the word G. M. WHEELER Model 16 Size Winding and Settis %:ny and sapphi S oalas Compensating ce. et hair: ing, with micrometric regulator. Adjusted (o temperature, isochronism, three positions. tent recoiling click and self-locking setting . Plates damaskeened. En- [l Open face and hunt- Se! and cent id wi ing cases. In Filled Gold Cases, $30 and up. Solid Gold Cases, $60 and In up. Other Elgin models at other prices according to grade of movement and case. Il Elgin models are sold by jewelers every- where, and are fully guaranteed. ELGIN NATIONAL WATCH COMPANY, Elgin, Illinots. We are agents for the OELE- BRATED VULCAN GAS RANGE, the only range that can be guar- anteed to save your gas bill on. third The burners of these ranges are 0 constructed that they give More heat than any other bufner made at less cost to operate. This particular single oven range wiil 40 Yoasting, baking, etc. 1t has raised flush top, ventiiated cast iron base, four top burners (three single, one double) and one simmering burn Size of top with shelve 24_inches, We have this complete line of double oven, single oven, elevated oven and cabinet ranges. 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