Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 5, 1909, Page 6

e ——————— T X FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. bt s T um - ! VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR ntered at Omaha, Postoffice as second- mat TERIBVI )F SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Bee (without Sunday), one year Daily Bee and Sunday, one year.... DELIVERED BY CARRIER. .00 6.0 Dally Bee (Including Sunday), per wekk 150 Daily Bee (without Sunday), per week..10 Evening (without Bunday), per week 6 Bvening (with, Bunday), per week i Sunday Bee, one year . $2. Haturday Bee, one yea 150 Adaress all complatnts of irregularities in delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICER. Omaba—~The Bee Bulldmg. Omaha. enty-fourth and N. 16 Scott Street. Lincgn jllamu Bulding o ) Sl quette Bunlding. New' Sork sfi;‘)‘u‘fl{: 10110 No. 34 West ‘Thirty-third Street. Washington—72% Fourteenth Street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and ed!- torial_matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorfal Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, éx or postal order fies Publishing Company. payable to The Only 2-cent stamps received in payment of i ly:r-oul checks, except on tern exchanges, not accepted ma oun Omaha or e STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, #8.. George B. Tzachuck, treasurer of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, says that the setual number of full and complete es of The Daily, Morning. Bvening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of October, 1900. was as follows: 42,850 40,200 17 Total ...... Returned. coples Net total Dalfly average . . GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK, Treasurer, Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this ist day of November, 190, (Seal.) M. P. WALKER Notary ' Public. 1,7! Sabscribers leaving the eity tem- porarily shou The Bee matled to them. Address will be <h 4 as often as requested, Cuba’s stigar tax must be a misdi- rected effort at raising cane. The school children never object to the teacher taking a holiday. [ —— Calling names in the deaf mute lan- guage |8 certainly deliberate insuit. e Take notice that even an archbishop has scored In the current kicks on foot ball. ‘What could an insurgent dealar ex- pect from the ice trust but a freeze- out? —_— Please observe that the African peak climbers do not claim to have reached the top. It {8 still “My Maryland” for even the black citizens, as provided in the constitution. The volce from Baltimore Indicates that votes for women are not a car- dinal virtue, Mr. Hill will please note that Secre- tary Wilson poohypoohs the idea of our starving to death. | They nmrl;:try!n: to blame corn- meal for pellagra, but grain men do not acknowledge the corn. Score. one_lnr Santa Claus. The rail- roads have cut the rate on candy just in time for the holiday trade. | Judging from the commission’s long Mst of medal awards to that state, Ohio must be the mother of heroes. demonstration. How about formally calling the street car strike off now? | Since German alrship soldlers have captured Ehrenbreitstein, it is to be presumed that the stein is now empty. Under its chufiuma; ’lTlmmnny is showing how good it can be by put- ting three women on the school board. The Wrights may be kings of the air, but on the water they still have to reckon with that old tyrant, Nep- tune. Omaha's Board of Education will next year consist of fourteen members. We can see the possibllity of tie votes already. —_—— Those southerners who resent Rock- efeller's hookworm apyropriation act like a man whose sore spot has been touched. At any rate, every one may guess what might have happened if Mr. Brygn had made his usual rear plat- fcrm. Apeeches, —— With grand juries beginning to hold the, ofclals responsible for building collapses, it may result in putting bet: ter props under property. ‘:m day Nebraska election returns will be collected and tabulated officially within twenty-four hours after the polls close, but not this year, nor next. —_— I pomun teachers will hold their comyention in Omaha next year they may_have a guaranty that every ome Wi ymes will be switably housed and pmm‘rly taken care of. It was appropriate that sangiinary Breathitt county skhould pour Redwine *upon the bench, and it is still more ap- propriate that Redwine should drown nmfi bifnd fll"l' red liguor. In repudiating at the polls for the second time the democratic attempt to disfranchise the negro, Maryland has again demonstrated her loyalty to the ocohstitution. Other southern states lave successfully evaded the amend- ments concerning color and servitude, as a measure of the whites to avold negro domination, but in Maryland there was no such pretext, for only 20 per cent of the entire electorate of that state is of negro blood. That percent- age was nothing to fear from a racial viewpoint, but its ellmination would insure democratic control as of old, hence the deliberate attempt by that party with this openly avowed purpose. Maryland's reiterated refusal to ac- cept a flimsy pretense for the annul- ment of the constitutional rights of a people who in that state are orderly and industrious may be accepted as an indication that republican principles henceforth are to be given freedom of expression there. Maryland refuses to be forced back into democratic align- ment of the solld south. Last year, it will be remembered, she cast two elec- toral votes for Mr. Taft, and sent re- publicans to represent the state In con- gress, and on Tuesday, Baltimore, her only considerable city, was carried by the republicans. An Example in Civic Pride. The uplifting forces in each large American city have for some time been pointing to the example of Boston, which, it was announced, had deter- mined on establishing itself as a model city by 1915. The resolution of the Hub was an excellent one, designed as it was to arouse civic pride to a point of determined effort for munici- pal improvements which all conceded were needed. But it is one thing to resolve and another to do, and it is regretfully ob- served from the columns of Boston's own newspapers that the movement has lost much of its impetus and that the date 1915 may have to be advanced indefinitely. The great exposition which had been planned to demon- strate just what could be accomplished for Boston’s material improvement has thus far proved one of the greatest frosts in the history of public exposi- tion: It has been opened, it is true, but few of the local exhibitions are ready, although, singularly enough, those from other points were in place at the outset. The Boston public is manifesting no enthusiasm, nor, In- deed, any desire to attend the exhibi- tions to Avitness what might be done, let alone to do what the exploiters of the uplift have assured the country was going to be accomplished. In the slump of local support of the “1915 Movement” Boston deserves the sym- pathy of all the cities for which she was to be the shining beacon. Trying it Out on the Syrian. In their eagerness to demonstrate to the Japanese that no discrimination is being shown, the naturalization offi- olals have involved the United States in a new racial perplexity which only the courts can settle. In various cities of the country Syrians have been re- fused naturalization papers on the ground, maintained by the naturaliza- tion bureau at Washington, that they are of a yellow race, against whom ex- clusion regulations hdve been adopted. The Turkish protest that Syrians, who are subjects of the sultan, are white, is borne out by the ethnological ex- perts of the Smithsonian Institute and by other authorities. The ultimate decision of the courts to which Syrian applicants take their claims for the rights of citizenship probably will de- pend upon this expert opinion, backed by the easily traced line of descent of the Syrian people, whose history, though varied, is clearly on record. The only gain to be made by the United States in the investigation of this subject is possibly the obtaining of a definite naturalization convention with the Ottoman government, which the State department has sought for years. In the meantime, however, it will be very deplorable if the Syrians, who are law-ablding and hard working people, should be made to suffer indig- nities or denial of rights just to get this test. Conscience in Busines: We have grown 80 accustomed to the existence of combinations in all lines of human endeavor that President Woodrow Wilson's remark that even men's consclences are pooled comes almost without a shock, which may be interpreted as admission of the truth of what he says. The familiar expres- slon that corporations have no souls has grown to be axiomatic. son awakes us to its danger by telling up that individual souls are imperilled by the doctrine. Business men, he argues, have too often compouanded their scruples on the ground that they eannot move Independently and risk being brushed aside by the big society, corporation or union. As we die sep- arately, not by corporations, so he in- sts that every man must live pri- vately, and that the'fixing of individual responsibility is the enly way to cure the evils of society or commerce. Inasmuch as Prof. Wilson was for- merly a lawyer, his view that the law has shirked its duty in its attemnts to punish corporations is entitled to some weight; but his argument that the law must find the individual in the modern corporation if it desires to check the 1ls of the business world will be met by the fact that under existing condi- tions every individual is already amen- able for his individual transgressions, even though committed in the service of a community of interes some notable beads of corporations today are fighting prisou sentences hanging over them. pools his conscience when he pools his Prof, Wil- | THE. BEE: It may be true that man and that, if a fact, is a grave moral concern. Yet when the law is offended, and a criminal culprit must be punished, no man may escape, on a plea of abaridoned consclence, the per- sonal responsibility for his own act. Just as the law deals with corpora- tions, not souls, so it deals with per- sons, not consclences. Clinging to a consclence may save a man from going wrong, but parting with it doss not divest him of culpability. Headway for the Waterways. Now that the national scope of the deeper waterways movement has been demonstrated, it is fit that Illinols should take the lead in state support of the enterprise, as is promised by Governor Deneen through a speclal session of the legislature. The plan to make the Mississippi the main artery for a lakes-to-the-gulf channel includes the long-projected ship canal across Illinois, and adsurance of the state's co-operation ought to be forth- coming when congress takes up the subject. ‘Chicago, the grentest railroad center in.the world, needs the waterway as a check upon the dictation of the rail- roads, and the chief commercial value of the channel will be the through traffic from inland points focusing at Chicago for southern consumption and for export. Illinois will profit from the water power provided at every fall along the cross-state channel. The state has virtually pledged itself in the matter, and to keep faith the Illinols legislature should hasten at the forth- coming session to perfect the work left unprovided for last spring. With Tllinois genuinely embarked, the lakes- to-the-gulf enterprise may be consid- ered as under active headway. That Socialist-Labor Vote. “Endorsed by 8,000 workingmen' was the claim embodied in the hand bill put out in our recent election in behalf of the socialist candidate for sheriff, behind whom many labor or- ganizations massed to show their sym- pathy for the street car strikers, of whom he is one. The vote polled for the socialist labor candidate through- out the county {8 in round figures 5,000. The suggestion of 8,000 work- ing men therefore proves to be a fig- ment of the imagination. The socialist labor candidate, how- ever, has no reason to feel downcast over the vote he has polled. But that vote must be analyzed to be fully un- derstood. Other candidates on the so- cialist ticket received 1,600, which is twice as many as were polled for the soclalist presidential ticket last year. It may be assumed the 1,500 votes represents the maximum of soclalist strength in this county. Of the remaining 3,600 votes, a fair estimate would place 1,800 as coming (from the democrats, 1,200 from the republicans and 500 from voters of no particular party affiliation. This vote was gotten together only because of the issue on which the candidate was able to appeal for support, and this issue is of passing nature. There {8 no more reason now than heretofore why wage earners in the ranks of organized labor should' flock to a party of their own rather than follow their interests within the other parties. No one should make the mistake of figuring that any soclalist labor candidate can poll 5,000 votes in Douglas county any time. Before and After. Our amiable democratic contem- porary is going to crow over a demo- cratic victory in Nebraska, no matter what happens. Without waiting for the decisive returns, it is already de- claring that the failure of the repub licans to elect all their candidates by big majorities testifies to the strength of the democratic position and lends inspiration to democrats to line up for the next time. This is after. The difference may be seen by run- ning through the back files of the same democratic organ and re-reading the frantic appeals to monpartisans, pro- gressives, regressives and digressives. Here is one paragraph out of a double- shotted World-Herald editorial printed October 12: The democratic squarely on a nonpartisan platform. They candidates - stand went for Bryan last year, elected a OMAHA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1909 democratic governor, three democratic congressmen and an overwhelming democratic majority In the legislature, the republicans have made good gains. | Going back two years to the last su- preme judge election, Nebraska repub- licang have not yet gotten back where they were then. The society of the Army of the Ten- nessee has adopted a resolution arging the president to make General Charles Mortpn, in command of the Depart- ment of the Missourl, with headquar- ters here in Omaha, a major general before he retires next spring. That is | almost as great an honor as will be | the title of major general when it | comes. The average citizen who has to in- convenience himself to go to the polls is apt to say one veéte more or less won't count. The present Nebraska election, however, shows that a very few votes sometimes turns the scale. —_— The packers say the farmere of Ne- braska must raise more hogs to jus- tify enlarging the packing house facili- ties at South Omaha. Why didn’t they say that before? A litfle defect like that ought to be easily remedied. Oh, dear! The postal deficit con- tinues to grow. Why does not the gov- ernment adopt modern methods, es- tablish a special Cupid stamp, sell it in bargain lots and attract feminine attention to the mails. The highest falls in the western hemisphere are reported as discovered | abrador. Let Mr. Pinchot's black- listed water power trust have them as a consolation prize. Parisians are paying $200 a seat for the trial of Mme. Steinhefl. American theater managers will provide melo- dramatic reproductions at ten, twenty, thirty. Pathoy of a Distant View, St. Paul Ploneer Press. Statistics show that there are now 465,000 persons on the government payroll. The fact is important chlefly as showing the democrats what they are missing. A oving Pleture. hington Post. Mr. Carnegie has returncd from Burope with a fine importation of peace conversa- tlon which Is intended to make the people belleve that the Dreadnoughts are all pleas- ure yachts. Tragic Side of Foot Ball, Baltimore American. For a few moments of sport West Point has sacrificed a cadet on the gridiron. The country has lost a stalwart defender and parents a beloved son. Is the game worth the candle? ———e Bound te Be in It. St Louls Globe-Democrat. The great northwest can be trusted to see that the Improvements of the Miss- ouri river is ‘made part of any compre- hensive plan of viver improvement to move products to the gulf. “Book Farmers’ Hog the Prizes. Springtield Republican, When the Long Island railroad estab- lished two experimental farms, three or four years ago, the old agricultural resi- dents roundabout had a lot of fun over what the “book farmers” would be able to do. Now the rallroads emerges from two or thrée county fairs on' the fsland with | twenty-four first prizes and twenty-three second and third. First prizes were taken on potatoes, squash, cabbage, peas, onions and a lot of other products grown on what, had been three years ago waste land, Nobody 18 now laughing at the rallroad as | a farmer. Instead, the old farmers are| learning new and tmproved methods from | the experiments and instruction of the | road's farms and exhibits. Another effect has been the drawing In of hundreds of settlers from other states, who have taken | up small farms for market gardening, at the instance of the ralliroad company. SOUTH RESENTS THE GIFT. Birmingham Age-Herald: If Mr. Rocke- feller desires to spend $1.000,000 in an effort to trace the hookworm to its lair, no one need object; but it is scarcely just to the south to assume that the parasite 48 con- fined to this section of the country, * * * We need not, however, admit that the habi- | tat of the hookworm is the south, Its| habitat Is, in fact, the wide, wide world, Atlanta Journal: Seriously, the whole | blooming farce is a libel on the south, calculated and intended to keep desirable Immigrants from coming among us. It Is a stratagem of the enemy. It 4 a part of that warfare that began more than fifty | years ago, but more insidious and danger- ous because it comes in the gul ‘HIHD, “bearing gifts."” | Nashville American: Through the honest but hasty beneyolence of Mr. John D. Rockefeller, the south Is given another e of friend- Away with it} other carefully a toque hat across the car. girl rose to leave the car. apparently respectable man, and % undesirable exploitation before the world. ! are making no partisan appeal. Neither | ptC0 iR S SO G0t B Rcke. | SAVING MILLIONS OF LIVES, "‘"]’d s ibived "'I"[’_ 2 _‘:l'“'*"_ thay "e'l"f“ feller's ample store emphasis is given to| - | c;;u‘ construe their election as a partisan : the exaggerated statements and errone thfiln“ but Sure Galn in Prolonging | v conclusions of a sensational penny-a-line | Life. This was before. magazine writer who set out to prove a| Cleveland Leader. ! _— | certain theory, and who, like ‘the mgn who | Mortality records in nearly all parts of | Golf takes on & new aspect under |sald the horse was sixteen hands high, |the civilized world show plainly that the | the enthusiastic statement of Mr. Taft | When he wasn't he determined 1o stick to it «l‘eulh rate 1s mu{mx Thgre ave fluctua- that there is no reason why it should | Charlotte Observer: Toward Mr. John | '1on% of course, from one scason to an- E, jou vy [ D. Rockefeller's gift of $1,000,00 to fight | Other. and the progress toward longer life |not be a poor man’s game. erto | hookworm ravages in the south we have |18 not uniform, one year after another. | |the poor man's share In it has been to [no ungracious words. It may be well | Now and then it appears to have ceesed, | cut the grass and furnish caddies, but |meant, and It will doubtless do some good. |but the gains are soon In progress again, it certainly would make our European |But thanks to Mr. Rockefeller are quiic | and the movement, as a whole, is In the tiea g gl o | another matter. If our request or accep- | right direction, whatever exceptions there | rivals smar D this coun- | ignce had been necessary the gift would | may be In certain localities during unfay-| try a modern shinny stick went with |never have been made. * * * Mr. Rocke- | orable periods. every dinner pail | teller, with $50,000,000 already given or set This tendency toward lower mortality | {aside, Is_In a splendid way to take over|rates is on so vast a scale that it means | Is there any good reason why the |‘h® south. At the present rate there will| hat millions of lives will be saved in the | soon be very few people left in this section | next ten years. In the United States alone | costly machinery of our courts, PAId |ypo can dscently open thelr mouths about | ne indications are plain that thd mumber | for with money out of the public treas- ( him or the things he stands for excebt in | o¢ geaths in the decade will be at least ury, should be handed over for two |praise. 250,000 less than it would be If the mortality weeks to any set of lawyers to wash | Philadelphia Ledger: To eriticise Mr. rate were at the level which was the a | dirty divorce linen in the full glare of ‘::;‘ h:;f:“:‘.n“ “)“K_“ ‘:“;L'L'“““l“" 1"‘; x“ “"‘" age of the last quarter of a century. That v g e possible Is & very conservative estimate. The act- | the lime light? Why should not the | wnolesale measures of reliet ndeauate 10| vat olttorence meas be tutos as reat | court in a case of this kind give each | meet a grave situation, is “looking a gift 1t ia Gitfledt $o oversibimate thd tapevast side three hours to show up or shut |Borse in ihe mouth with & vengeance | ..., of (nis great gain for human lfe up? fven though the oll magnate had an ul-| "o e0n, corresponding lessening of the . terior motive, the g0od which his benetac- | * W CORCRIC TR ERCUIN BF e | tion will accomplish is so great that it|Pein and waste - n0eed by sieh- Omaha should not permit ‘sieve- | would obliterate minor ethical distinctions, | P¢5% and it adds greatly to the industrial bottomed wagons to haul dirt' and |it is certain that the hookworm sufferers | fficlency and ""“’“"""":;"‘ of the olvi- Soterstad ‘they ksl condition, and only the man in undis- | the comforts and happiness of life is quite Wwagons are toleral ey should at | .4 control of large means could pro-|as noteworthy @s the prolonging of the least be compelled to traverse the side | yide for a campalgn of eradication which | average period of human existence. streets instead of the main arteries of |would heavily tax the resources even of | Such changes show that the progress of travel and trafiic i the national government. Mr. Rockefeller [modern times is no mere theory. They con- could not make a better expenditure of his cern the most vital conditions which men money than to apply it to just the pur-|and women and little children must make It all depends with what you are | o ') Lronoses, and to repudiate his gift | the best of in this world so dear to hu- comparing. Recalling that Nebraska | wguld be an action &t once churlish and | manity, despite all its sorrows and miser- |ungrateiul | Around New York As the mud of the battle settles and the muckrakers dive for public baths, it is possible to inhale untainted air in und about New York. The calm decision of the ballot box makes an admirable and cheering contrast to the shouting and the tumult of partisans. What a difference the morning after. Joy reigned everywhere outside a limited section of Fourteenth street. The government of New York still lives, McClellan s rotreating, Jerome has taken to the woods, and the man who, as a kid, was patted on the head by Samuel J. Tilden, looms high as a victor In his mind. A local campaign in the big town would not bear a pure food label did it not make enough nolse to attract outside attention. But nolse is not the sole clalm to the prize for size. Oodles of money are needed to finance a contest. In the campaign just closed, the three sides poured out the money in liberal fashion. The New York Times estimates the expenditures at from $3,000000 to $4,000000. ‘“This may seem an over-estimate,” says the Times, “but with the constantly increasing expense in conducting campalgns the chances are that ten years from now that figure will be greatly exceeded. In this campalgn the city of New York alone spent $1,000,000, and when to that is added the expendi- tures of the republican and democratic parties, not alone In Manhattan, but in all the flve boroughs of the city, the ex- penses of the numerous minor parties, and that Incurred by the state of New York through its elections bureau, It Is easy to see where the other two or three mil- lions come from." “It is anlte the exception to find any one stupping at a large city hotel who Is thoroughly satisfied with everything at the first glance," the Herald is #ald & hotel clerk quoted by ““There is really no accounting { for the superstitious attitude of some, al- though it is a pet hobby that few try to overcome. ‘Have you a room? We glance at the Kk and reply, ‘Certainly,’ jotting down at the same time No. 1,388. The man will ex- claim instantly, “‘Never, never! Why that number is on the thirteenth floor and adds up thirteen anyway.' Then we have a man coming here who refuses to take a room unless it can be divided by three. Tt keeps the clerk busy for few minutes figuring. “Others may come to stay over night. They will probably take a morning train out, and in the actual time spent in the room, between dinner, theater and break- fast, there will be left just three waking hours. Yet when shown the room they will say in a flash, ‘Oh, never; I would not sleep in a room with that wall paper; not a minute. It is all right otherwise, but those big roses glaring at me, never! Yes, 1 could stand chrysanthemums.' Or this, ‘What, expect me to sleep in a room with that green carpet! I never have and 1 never expect t r Diamond dealers in New York City, as well as jewelry trade papers, agree In saying that the smuggling of the precious stones has increased greatly. It is profes- slonal, not amateur smuggling. The pro- fessionals, it s stated, are both more ac- tive and more systematlc, and are said to be In collusion with certain dealers. It i sald that customs Inspectors are in- vestigating these reports. The profes- sfonal smuggling awakens resentment be- cause the smuggled dlamonds now are brought into the ordinary channels . of trade and’so are likely to cause more disturbance in the business and In values than when tourlsts brought in gems for thelr own use. Ludwig Nissen, an officer of the Diamond Manufacturing associa- tion, sald some time ago that the value of alamonds brought In surreptitiously was probably as large as that of those coming openly through the customs house. Passengers on a subway car '.‘Omln’;l from Brooklyn recently had an experience | that first caused frowns and then a laugh. The car was crowded, but, Brooklyn- wise, all the women had seats. On the platform was a middle-aged man, appar-| ertly respectable. On a side seat was a girl in old rose, with cheeks®to match. The man on the platform caught her eye for a moment, and threw a frantic kiss. The girl first smiled, then blushed furiously. He threw another, and she turned away a crimsoned face. “That will about do for you," big, rawboned guard sald the “Go home to your wife.” This (ldn't seem to worry the appar- ently respectable man, and, catching a from the kiss. - girl'e he threw an- She turned her face to study glint At the Manhattan end of the bridge the The man who was trying to flirt with her also faced the sliding door. By that time all eyes were on the pair, the guard was mad all through, and a couple of passengers edged dangerously close The girl in old rose took the arm of the sald in a volee that all could r: “Oh, papa, how could you | Then everybody laughed at a joking| father and a lovely daughter. siivery ies and hard problems imperfectly solved l For instance, a man will ask, | ict dis P onogra S O Victor Herbert has written some of the most popular music produced by . an American composer. The Edison Phonograph makes the best of it available for you. Victor Herbert has trained one of the best orchestras in this country. Its music is reproduced upon Edison Records. - I Victor Herbert is musical adviser to the National Phono- graph Company. No other sound reproduc- ing machine has the advice of so distin- guished a musician as Mr. Herbert. This is just one of lhe. many things which Mr. Edison is doing to make the l’honocnph the most perfect music reproducing quct_nne in the world. You can enjoy it at an expense $0 that you cannot afford long to hesitate. Hear the Edison Phonograph today. Hn.r it play Amberol Records; hear it play Victor Herbert's music, .and then you will know why Mr. Edison said ‘[ want to see an E Phonograph in every home.” Edison Phonographa - « $12.50 to §125.00 Edison Standard Records - « « - 3¢ 800 Edison Grand Opera Records - e There are Edison dealers everywhers. Go to the nearest and hear the Edison Phonograph play both Edison Standard and Amberol Records. Get complete catalogs from your dealer or from us. NATIONAL PHONOGRAPH CO. 75 Lakeside Avenue Orange, N. & PERSONAL NOTES. Chicago policemen are haying a hard time |of 1t under their new chiet, Colonel Le- [Roy T. Steward, who has an idea that { The man who carried the message Garcla s to retive, but the man who wrote the story about it never will retire as long as there Is a lecture engagement in sight. Wilkes-Barre proudly proclaims that possesses the only woman policeman in Pennsylvania. She is Mrs. A. M. Bertels and her office vf conservator of the peace came to her accidentally. Mrs, Grover Cleveland has arrived at Lausanne, Switzerland, has rented the an- nex of Hotel Windsor and probably will make a long stay. Her son will enter Dr. Auckenthaler's college and her daughters will attend the Villa Cyrano school. In order that he may live where he can o barefoot the year around John W. In- gle, the barefoot merchant of Tona, Ind., has sold out his business. He ls planning to move to New Mexico. For twenty years Ingle has been a thriving country merchant and because he discarded the use of shoes from May to October he became widely known as the barefoot merchanc. HOW DOTH THE HAT. The Forerunner. § How doth the hat loom large upon her ead! Furred like a’busby; plumed as hearses bewebbed re; Armed with eye-spearing quills and hung With lacy, silky, downy draperies; With spread, ' wide-waggling feathers fronded' high In bosky thickets of How r}olh the hat with colors dare the eyel Arrest—attract—allure—affront—appall! Vivid and varled as are paroquets; Dove-dull; one mass of white: all olid red; Black with the blackness of a mourning world— Compounded type of “Chaos and Old Night!” Cimmeriap gloom, How doth the hat expand, wax wide, and swell! Such is its size that none can predicate Or hair, or head, or shoulders of the frame Below this bulk, this beauty-burying bulk; Trespassing rude on all who walk beside, Brutally blinding all who sit behind. How doth the hat's mere mass monstrous grow Into a riot of repugnant shapes! Shapes ignominlous, extreme, bizarre, Bulbous, distorted, ' unsymmetrict Of no relation to the human he: To beauty, comfort, dignity, or gra more Shape of a dishpan! Of a pall! A tub! Of an inverted wastebasket wherein, The head finds lodgment most appropriate! Shape of a wide-spread wilted griddlecake! Shape of the body of an octopus Nelb-mewny- on a fireman's misplaced rim! How doth the hat show callous cruelty | In decoration costing countless deaths Carrying corpses for its ornaments; Wreaths of dead humming-birds, dismem- bered gulls, The mother heron's breastknot, wings; Torn fragments of a world of wasted life. | stiffened How doth the hat affect the minds of men? | Patlent bill-payers, chivairously dumb! What does It indicate of woman's growth; Her sense of beauty, her intelligence, Her lll;uulhl for others measured with her- self, Her place and grade in human life today? patrolmen ought to stay sober at all times. | to| it | | | housework yet condemning ‘the fidle rieh." We Represent the EDISON | | —~ Company - in Nebraska, ana carry huge stocks of the models mentioned in the Edison Phonograph Co.’s announcement on this page today Geo. B. Mickel, Mgr and Harney Omaha, ~ Neb. 334 Bromdway, Coundl luff SUNNY GEMS. “Harry, I wisa you wouldn't hold my and.” h Anything to hinder your taking your hand ‘away, Maudie? I'm not holding it with a deaih grip."—Chicago Tribune. Lawyer—What is your occupation? Witne —~1'm a plano finisher, Lawyer—Be a little more definite. Do you polish” them or move them?—Boston Tran- seript. Theorist—Wlat {s the frult of all this political worlk? Politician—Too early to tell yet. It may be a lemon and it may be some plume.— Baltimore Americag. “1 don’t sbelieve 1 shall run for office again,” said the veteran politiclan, “Why not?” asked the friend. “My children are having too many school- yard fights over the piciures and articles that get into print. ashington Star. Talk about your realism, this show looks awful natural to me." UW 10w Six_months have elapsed since the pl \ousemaid hasn't done any Louisville Courjer-Journai. ed and t “I notice you never write any editorials 1 do not. 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