Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 24, 1909, Page 6

. OMAHA Dmx BEE! FOUNDBS BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR Entered at Omaha postoffice as second- clnas matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. ly Bee (without Sunday). one year.}.00 Iy Bee and Sunday, one year.... 6.00 ELIVERED BY CARRIER. - ly (ncluding Sunday), per wekk.I Dally Bee (Without Sunday), per week..l0c Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week 6o Evening Bee (with Sunday), per week .10 Sunday Bee, one year........... Saturday Bee, one year Aadress all com) delivery to City of Irregul irculation Department. OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Bullding. South Opinha—Twenty-fourth and N. Councll Bluffs—15 Scott Street. Lincoln—§18 Little Bullding. Chicago—1648_Marquette Building. New York—Rooms 11011102 No. 8§ West Thirty:third Street Washington—725 Fourteenth Street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi- torlal matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company, v 3-cent stamps recelved in payment of Personal checks. except on ern exchanges, not accepted. STATEMENT OF C1IRCULATIO; State of Nebraska, Douglas County, 8. Qeorge B. Taschuck, treasurer of The Bes Publl Company, being duly aworn, rays that the actual number of full and complete coples of The Dally. Morning BEvening and Bundav Bee printed during the month of October. 1906, was as follows: ..49240 22....41,790 ..42,60 23 48,040 24, :.llo 5. 43,860 26. 27. 2. 29. 20. u. Retyrned copies 9,870 Net topal .. .1,298,370 Dally average .. a,731 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK, Subscribed {n my presence and sworn to befgre me this 1st day of Novembér, 1908, [t L) M. P. WALKE % Notary Fubile. ubscribers Teaving the éity tem« pérarily ehould have The Hee mailed to them. Address will be changed as often as requested e ] Peace relgns again between Detroit and Cleveland since Mr. Cobb has shelled out. M#f. @fompers manifests no love for the lawyers, except for those on his side of the case. In that little distarbance to -the south of us, Salvador appears to be adding its salvos. If Mr., Zelaya still has a grouch against the Unitedl States, let him tell it to the marines. © - That - milton-aallar suggestion of bribery on theé part of the electric com- bine must have been only a flash. Danvile dees' net need a dyndmit explosigh to_gidvetise it; the nolse of, its Cammonading has not yet subsided.- A%“il‘hfl. the réal beneficlaries of the “mike"” game are.the lawyers who rake in the fees for conducting the trials. - — Admlr"l Sehldy's latest loving cup is of armpy plate, but the more brittle glass dchooner will continue to glide aver the ‘bars. A It/fooks as if Mayor “Jim" were go- lns,:ip,\n one Thanksgiving go past withptit farring the atmosphere with an’official proclamation, The banker who, accidentally shot himsélf while dusting his counter might have been safer had he confined himself to counting his dust. R~ The conditional donation mania seems to have struck Omaha with a vengeance. But If everybody making a contribution tied a string to it where would we land? —— Qar street commissioner explains that it is not for lack of men that street cleaning lags. He has already explained it is more tool houses that are first needed. Nebragkp contributes only one measly $1,000,000 corporation to the Standard Ofl octopus, so that decision cannot affeet Nebraska anywhere near as much as it can New Jersey. Now'that the Standard is engaged in its final battle for existence, the sig- nificance of Mr. Rockefeller's recent remark that life is just one constant struggle for him becomes more ap- parent. y Des Molnes evidently thinks it will retain the military tournament as long u"pt,he.. Congressman Hull of the hy committee head of military af- "4t sounds logical, but does not necessarily follow. If stovaige, the new anaesthetic, really enables a surgeon to operate painlessly upon a patient without de- priving him of consciousness, it might have a place in the forthcoming dis- section of Standard Ofl Since Willlam Watson and Richard LeGalliene seem to be in doubt over the weapons to be used in their forth- coming personal engounter, it is in or- der for some unsympathetic reader of their works to suggest that they hurl the vagdries of their poems at each other. _ Our amiable democratic contem- porary is finding it dificult to make its pleture of hard times for the “ulti- mate consumer” fit in with the boast- ful braggiug of its own prosperity. Does the World-Herald think it is the Uncle Sam's Housekeeping. Those two conflicting interests, higher prices and the meed for econ- omies, bob up serenely in the annual confronting Uncle S8am with the same sort of a housekeeping problem that has bothered the citizen in his home. No doubt the public revenues will show an encouraging gain in the forthcom- ing year, for the reforms in the cus- toms service ought to yield millions that hitherto have been diverted, and of prosperous times over the lean years that have passed. But when looking over the balance sheet, the demand for economy is al- |ways in order, and Mr. Treat's sug- gestion {s & sound one that recent de- ficits should admonish caution in au- thorizing expenditures largely in ex- cess of variable revenues. The fact that a fatter income is in sight 1s no reason for a splurge of extravagance. Husbanding of the fiscal resources of the government is as essential as con- servation of the national domain. One feature of the treasury report that will appeal to all the subordinate employes confronted with the problem of making both ends meet is the plea for increased pay for the clerks in the |federal service. While the cost of liv- ing has gone up, and while wages-at- large have advanced in some propor- |tion, the pay of the government em- ployes has in many cases remained sta- tionary. The government salaries, however, have usually been above those paid for the same grade of service in private establishments, and this fact will also have to be taken into consid- eration when the problem is presented to congress. Despair of the Suffragette. The confesslon of one of the leading English suffragettes that the efforts to transplant the cult In this country are fruitless, puts in another form of ex- pression what was already thoroughly known here, that the American women are too well treated to become frantic for the ballot. Advocates of equel suf- rage will continue to stay with us, just as they have from days ante-dating the activities of Susan B. Anthony, but no such problem as the English suf- fragette seeks to solve confronts her sister here in the United States. Indeed, the American woman is dis- covering that even In England the movement is not a general one, and that most of the wives and sisters of the actual breadwingers of the British nation are quite satisfied that the bal- lot would not gain for them any of the privileges that they now lack without offsetting disadvantages. 8o far as'this country is coneerned, if the right to vote appealed so com- pletely to the woman as a class, every woman in the land would have flocked ere this to those states where suffrage has been established ‘for the sex, and: those other states @efiying Woman's' suffrage would long since have beem abandoned to forlorn man. Instead of which, woman continues to cling to the old order of things throughout this happy country, where, as the despair- ing British suffragettes jealously ob- serve, she s so well treated that she can find no reason to rebel. Limits of the Peace Movement, Tolstol’'s appeal to the people of all nations to refuse to bear arms comes as the pathetic and despairing cry of a wise old man who recognizes that the words he utters will be engulfed under the wave of humanity’s advance. The venerable ‘scholar is but uttering in new form one of the stock arguments of the movement for universal peace. He offers excellent sentiments, but they are overwhelmed in confronting stern actualities. Tolstol's philosophy, and our own Mead's philanthropy in endowing peace schools, represent the Russian and American extremes in the non-resist- ance propaganda. War is admittedly a terrible thing—all that famous gen- erals have pronmounced it to be—yet the records of history and the march of events establish it as still a neces- sary adjunct to the maintenance of fundamental rights. Self-preservation can at times be maintained only by readiness for self-defense, whether in- dividual or national. The soldier has proved essential to every cau to that of peace. Refusal to bear arms in the hour of the country’s peril would stamp cow- ardice on a man even in the eyes of those who ordinarily advocate peace. What would mother think of son, or daughter think of father, who posed as a martyr to the peace cause in safety while there existed a mneed for men to repulse a foe? For some time yet that nation will be most respected whose young men maintain a resolute patriotism, with a ready ability to fight when circumstances make com- bat inevitable. Next in the Customs Frauds. ‘While relaxing nothing of its determ- ination to exact reparation from, and to inflict punishment upon, the chief customs malefactors in the sugar ring, the government {8 bent also upon met- ing out justice to some of the lesser offenders. This announcement carries particular dismay to the dressmaking interests that have profited so long by wholesale smuggling, and there is a consequent hubbub among those who have a practice of filling the false bot- toms of trunks with costly finery. Men have been prone to forgive a woman who, returning from abroad, tried to get her gloves or bit of lace past the customs officials, but from small eva- report of the United States lmn-ury_Y there will also be the natural advance | TTHE BEE: \ |smuggling will accomplish-two things, | substantial addition to the public rev- |enues, and an increase in the use of |American made goods, which can stand on their merits in competition with |most importations, to say nothing of |the cultivation of the factor of hon- | esty,-which 1s still something of a vir- tue, even when manifested under wholesome respect for the law and its penaltfes. The United States has no little to gain from making the smug- gling of woman's finery no longer fashionable or profitable. More About Organized Charity. The Bee has had two or three re- | monstrances, one of them almost abu- sive, against the demand for better or- |ganization of local Omaha charities. These remonstrancds are based en- tirely on misconception, because the article in The Bee particularly refers to the lack of co-operation in the mat- ter of ralsing funds and financial ad- ministration, although perhaps it should have been more definite in so stating. In the matter of charity work we are glad to note the great headway re- cently made through the charity organ- ization society In co-ordinating the dif- ferent agencies for rellef so as to pre- vent their belng imposed on and to stop them from duplicating oune an- other’'s work. But in the matter of finances we still have the city overrun periodically with representatives of twenty-five or thirty different societies soliciting contributions from business men and public-spirited citizens who are almost totally in the dark as to the respective sources of income and the needs to be met. The average busi- ness man does not know, for example, whether the Salvation Army and the Volunteers of America should be treated as of equal importance and sustained with equal contributions or not. He is willing to contribute 1ib- erally, but would lke to have his money go where it will do the most good, and if he gives to one excessively it means that he gives to another in- adequately. Our varfous charitable associations all go on the theory that each should raise as much money as it can without reference to what the others may be asking. If the finances of all these charities could be systematized and co- ordinated they would all have the sup- port they really require, and our busi- ness men, who are now harassed by constant solicitation, would be greatly relieved. 5 Subway Taxation. The city council has been working on an ordinance for the taxation of subways and has evolved a scheme, based on a complicated system of ex- emptions and mathematical computa- tion, which it hopes will prove satis- factory. The plan, however, is full of holes and-discriminations and is bound to operate unevenly. The right way to secure equitable taxation of under- ground and overhead use of the street and alleyways is not by some arbitrary rule of thumb, but by actual appraise- ment and assessment. If the city is to tax the subways it should not make flesh of one and fowl of another. The street space runs from building line to building line, and space under a side- walk is just as valuable as space out- side the curb or in the alley. A board of appraisers could with comparatively little work make an inventory of these speclal street privileges and set a val- uation on each of them according to the use to which it is devoted, and then, and then only, the city could levy a special tax on an equitable basis. The benefit accruing from the adop- tion of the constitutional amendment last year enlarging the field of school fund investments is reflected in the purchase made for the fund. No more Massachusetts, Mississippl or North Carolina bonds bringing a fraction over 3 per cent, but good, substantial bonds of Nebraska counties and school districts bearing 4 and 4% per cent interest. If the board could legally sell the low-rate bonds for what was paid for them and put the mdney into good Nebraska securities, which at the me time would help bufld new court houses and school houses all over the state, it would be a profitable exchange all around. How puzzling it all is, to be sure. We hear on one hand warnings against race suicide, and simultaneously the plea for enlarging the food supply by more productive agriculture. Now comes a professor of sociology with a new calamity howl, urging the Amer- fcan family to have fewer children if we would solve the food problem. We must have more children, and more food to feed them; we must have more farmers, but fewer children to grow up to be farmers. How fortunate that most of us are too busy sawing our particular kind of wood to attempt seriously to reconcile the varying philosophies of the unpractical theor- 1sts. If the story of the tournament of the liberals against the lords were put |in the language of the jousts of the days of the Round Table what a rush to read the literature would ensue. Being modern news, people are too busy to be appre ive of the fact that one of the greatest crises in England's history is now at hand, and that the leaders in the warfare are manifesting qualities of dauntlessness that would put the koights of old in the shade. When man h exhausted every other resource to make a city attrac- OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1909, do is to plant trees to take the place of those long ago cut down, The pro- Jected reforestation of Fifth avenue shows how the doctrine of conservation is spreading The death of Editor Dayton of the | York Republican takes away a promi- nent figure in Nebraska journalism who had for many years been at the head of one of the progressive weekly papers of the state. The York Repub- lican under Mr. Dayton had opinions which it courageously expressed, while constantly living up to its name as an advocate of republican principles. Governor Shallenberger evidently struck a tartar when he dislodged Fellx Newton from the Lincoln Insane asylum pay roll. The way Newton is going after the governor is calculated to make the latter wish the former were back in the insane asylum tee— Impressions of a Short Ran, Pittsburg Dispatch. Senator Aldrich professes to covered that the west is really italistic region of this country.” Sull, the | senator is not believed to be wholly de- vold of knowledge of multi-millionaires in and about Wall street About and Fair Play. New York World, A bill is introduced in Havana to give Cuba a currency and coinage modelled on our own, as is practically the case now in | Canada and Mexico, It would only be turn about ang fair play. Our currency was | based on the “Spanish milled dollar” as a unit. have dis “the cap- | Turn Dusting an Ancient Joke. Boston Transcript. Postmaster General Hitchcock has insti- tuted an Inves:igation to ascertaln whether the rafiroads are recelving ‘‘excessive pay for carrying the malls” So did nearly | every one of his predecessors of recent years. Congress has repeadedly assigned commissions to Investigate this question till it has become a standing joke. A Mighty Sa 3 Philadelphia Record. There can be little mystery about the political Influence of a great corporation that s able to declare a dlvidend of 300 per cent out of the spoils wrung from the American people. Yet there are people who vainly wonder why the four express com- panies have so long successtully resisted the efforts in congress to establish a par- cels pos ok Who's Here!” Springtield Republican. Mr. Bryan has decided to cast his lot in Nebraska with the anti-saloon party, which plans an aggressive campalgn in the state and this fact may add to the evidence that he plans to seek the United States senatorship from the legislature to be chosen next year. Mr. Bryan's paper now denouncex the saloons in terms equivalent to a declaration of war. It “is next of kin to the brothel and the gambling hell, it is the rendezvous for the criminal ele- ment and willing tool of corrupt politic- fans.” It is expected that Mr. Bryan will advocate county option, as & specific pro- gram of legislation, after the model of Indiana and Ohio. NEBRASKA PRESS COMMENT. Blue Springs Sentinel: Bryan will run for United States senator next year “if the people want hip.” To construe this prop- erly, It the democrats get together and say they want him, they are the only people, and Bryan will run. O'Netll Frontier: Holt county legal talent has not been very successtul in drafting laws that will stand the scrutiny of the supreme court. Senator Donohoe's non- partisan judiclary law first fell by the way- side and now Arthur Mullen's State Normal board law has also been found defective. Schuyler Fre¢ Lance: It makes a person weary to hear & democrat complaining be- cause republicans did not vote for Judge Sullivan and yet at the same time that complaining democrat voted for Judge Dean. The republican who did vote for Sulllvan and the democrat who voted for Dean are simply two of a kind, only by chance they happened to be in different Darties. Kearney Hub: Governor Shallenberger assertion in an Omaha interview that “county option” will not be written in the Nebraska democratic platform next year, because it means “‘prohibition,” and his taking issue with Citizen Bryan on that subject may be taken as an advance note of the mext campalgn and an indication that the governor's bid for the temperance vote will be the 8 o'clock closing law. Plattsmouth News: If there is anything that has a tendency to make the average oitizen weary it is to see some fellows posing as republican editors whén In fact they are nothing but counterfelts. They recognize the fact that in order to have any standing with the people they have got to counterfelt the real thing. But as usual they are a great deal like the latest counterfeit 1 bill, just two pleces stuck together with nothing between. Plattsmouth News: And the World- Herald is not saying anything any more about that ‘“nonpartisan’ supreme court Can it be possible that It has got cold feet on the proposition and that It s going to let the people go to the everlasting bow- wows, and stand calmly by and glve up the fight. Is not the “nonpattisan’ idea of a8 much consequence now as It was before the election, or does the World-Herald pro- | pose to let the matter go for awihle apd | rest up to get a new start | St. Paul Republican: The late election | gave the fact emphasis that Nebraska Is a republican state. From almost every sec- | tion there comes republican majorities, and | this, oo, In & light year, when the vote | would naturslly follow the administration, | Bryan’s New Issue Plans for Democratic Party | to Battle Under the Banner of Prohibition in Nebraska A dispateh to the New York Times from Lircoln purports to glve out some interest ing news about the coming campnign issues with which Nebraska democrats are to struggle for control of Nebraska Under date of November 2 the dispatch says “The new i e which Willlam J. Bryan Is preparing to force on the democratic party s prohibition. Within a month he will make an announcement which wili plunge the party Into bitter strite, and will bring about a complete realignment of the piesent factions, If the attack the lquor interest is successtul, and the rank and the file follow him, Mr. Bryan expects to find himself at the head of a party with a living fssue. “The announcement will be made in a serles of articles which Mr. Bryan has already prepared, and which will soon be putlished, in which he makes an attack on the saloon and whisky interest. By those. who have been permitted to read these articles it is sald that M Bryan has used the strongest language at his command in his characterization of the liquor trade. While these articles are ap- pearing In print Mr. Bryan will be in South Amer , and so will escape personal par- ticipation in the trouble which will follow “At the outset Mr. Eryan's efforts for prohibition are to be confined to Nebraska, but afterward they are to be extended to other states until the national party will be involved. With the south, the stronghold of democracy, already largely on the side of prohibition, Mr. Bryan will wage his chief battles in the north and west “Mr. Bryan lays his defeats In former campalgns to the liquor interests, wiich he belleves, have made use of the demo- cratic party whenever it was needed and at other times have ‘knifed’ its candi- dates. For the sake of party harmony he has never taken a stand, but now he has determined, even at the risk of being ac- cused of attempting to ‘get even,' to come out in the open. Mr. Bryan says he is not now a candidate for any office, but Ne- braska party leaders think he expects the new movement to make him senator it not president. on “In this state Mr. Bryan's action will simply tear the democratic party to pleces. He has confided in many of the leaders and has been told by the “wheel horses” that they cannot follow him. Just as soon as Mr. Bryan has left for South America the fight on him will begin. Men Who op- pose him say this trip was planned be- cause Mr. Bryan realized what strength would be arrayed against him, and wanted to be beyond the reach of any influences which might cause him to discontinue his attacks. “It fs watd that Mr. Bryan will make the fight in Nebraska on the insertion of a county option plank in the democratic plat- form. On that he will lose the support of Governor Shallenberger, Who i3 standing on the present daylight saloon act and ex- pects re-election on a platform affirming the efficacy of that law. Another man who will be against him is Mayor James Dahl- man of Omaha, who has, for years, been known as Bryan's ‘“closest: personal and political friend,” He stands on a ‘“personal liberty” plank and will be a candidate for the governorship on it."" The Omaha World-Herald, shich has supported Bryan in his every campaign, in a recent editorial, announced that the pos tion of the party on the liquor question would -be determined by the entire party and not by any one man or set of mdn, and gave as its judgment that the Ne- braska democracy could, under no cir- cumstances, be brought to adopt the county option plank. ‘When the last article of the series which Mr. Bryan has prepared is printed, it will be seen that he has burned all bridges he- hind him; that he has staked his political existence on the outcome. He will put this issue above tariff, finances, trusts and every other question.” THE STANDARD OIL DECISION. “It Seems to Say." Chicago Inter Ocean. On lts face the decision breaks up the corporate or pool method of holding the securities of the subsidlary companies and compels their holding by individuals as such. It seems to say that, while A, B and C may individually own stock In as many ofl companies as they please, they cannot hold it in combination or associa- tion. Opening for Criminal Prosecution. Kansas City Star, The opening for the Taft administration is In the clear finding of personal guilt| in the verdict of the court of appeals. For | . Royal Baking Powder is the greatest ;)f tgme and labor savers to the pas! cook. Economizes flourtryhutter and eggs and makes the food digestible and healthful (i No alum—no lime phosphates The only baking powder made from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar ' Is not dissolved, the decision takes away | the powers without which it cannot have continued existence 1llegal Combinations. the circult court at St. Paul has now pronounced it an illegal combination 18 less surprising than that such a posi- tive judgment has not been reached before. Judge Sanborn's opinfon is simp’y a recital of facts that have been made very familiar | to readers of newspapers and magazines for many years past. He makes the dis- tinction between the necessary and the accldental effects of a combination—a dis- tinction recognized with contrary effect in his own decision, of the day before, dis- missing a sult against the Unlon Pacific rallway—but finds that the effects of this combination in restraint of trade necessary and essential. They cisely the effects which congress, in exercise of its power to regulate commerce, intended by this act to prevent and sup- press, The government is, therefore, en- titled to a decree forbidding the contin- uance of this combination in interstate commerce. PERSONAL NOTES. That are this verdict does not name merely the fmpersonal corporation, but certain men as | of, (he anti-trust law. Although this find- inging 18 In a civil suit, and does not, therefore, carry with it the penaities pro- vided for the criminal acts held as having | been performed, the way is made clear | for the government to proceed to prose- | cute the {ndividuals on crimingl grounds. | Does Ita Work Well. | St. Louls Globe Democrat. \ The oldest and most autocratic of the | trusts has at last apparently reached the | end of its career. Its fate will soon rest | with the highest tribunal, and the de- | cisive word there will probably be pro- | nounced quickly. Many devices for evad- | ing the law have been invented since 1890, | but the Standard's case and several other suis In recent times show that Sherman | and uir associate framers of the anti-trust | law of wireteen years ago did an excellent | plece of work Hoiding Cusapanies Ousted. Philadelyiia Record, it 1t ever did. This means that all the republicans need do next year to win this | staté and keep It is to nominate & good | candidate for governor, and let the record | of the two partles in management of state atfairs speak for itself. Grand Island Independent: The Anti Saloon leaguo of Omaha has filed charges with Governor Shallenbergor under the Sackett law to the effect that Mayor Dahlman, the chief of police of Omaha and the Board of Fire and Police Commission ers have falled to enforce the § o'clock closing law and have asked that they be ousted from office. The charges are made through Elmer Thomas, letter writing fame in the campaign of 18, The governor will look Into the matter first. Probably & little suspicious of Thomas? York Times: Nebraska democrats who | have an itching for the United States sena- | torship do not 1ind much consolation in Mr Bryan's declarition that he will not be a candidate for that office “unless there is a demand for him become a candl date.”" There is always a demand for him to run for office when he wants to run and the demand will be as Insistent as any one | could desire as soon as his admirers tumble | to the fact that he is looking for It. All| other democrats might as well stand aside of [ | was developed to its highest power. There has been a s.da'ously cultivated fdea that the “holding cu-pofation’ something which the laws cacept reach. But In this case the holding corura‘ion {1 ability of judiclal power reduce that gevice nullity is, suggested by the in- Junction, which forblds not only the hold ing corporation to exercise control in any way over the subsidiary ones, but also the subsidlaries to pay any dividends or profits to the main company. to Takes Awxy Its Power. Baltimore American | No decision of the courts since the fa-| Landis $30,00000 fine has covered anything like the range of the decision of the United States eircuit court at St. Louls declaring the parent ofl company I8 in vio mous lation of the law and ordering the abate- | ment of its activities. No decision could | have been more sweeping, as it embraces | | most of the as defendants portant. to pay dividends to the Standard Oll com pany of New Jersey, and not again subsidlary companies named the exceptions being unim- | These concerns are directed mot | | to Major Thomas Hayes, former inspector general of the Confederate army and at one time second vice president of the Pullman Palace Car company, died in Louisville, Ky., aged 72. Edwin D. Mead, one of the most prom- lnent men engaged in the world's peace movement, says that after the year 1915 war will be practically abolished from the earth; at least, war between natlons. Lawrence Shultz, of near Iola, Columbia county, is the champion buckwheat farmer of Pennsy'vania. He has finished thrash- ing his buckwheat and has 1,400 bushels from seventy acres, or an average yield of twenty bushels per acre. Two of the oldest voters in Pennsylvania live in Carbon county. They are Patrick Fisher of Lansford, who is %0 years old and goes to the polls unassisted, and Danlel Behler of Millport, 98 vears old and is as active as a man forty years younger. Both voted at the recant election. Harry Hawke, leading man for Laura Keene, the night of Lincoln's assassination, in Ford's theater, nearly forty-four years ago, was one of the passengers of the American liner Haverford, which docked in Boston recently. He is 71 years old and the only surviving member of that com- pany. The disaster in the Illinols coal mine at Cherry Hill fllustrates again that there are heroes in the industrial battles in the bowe's of the earth as well as in the armies that maroh and the navies that sall In the sunlight. Of the fourteen men who went down Into the burning shaft in an effort to save scores of their im- prisoned fellow-workmen only one re- turned. Every one of those men bent on rescue knew that he faced almost certain death even better than did the 600 who rode forward in the charge at Balaklava. Yet the one survivor, Dr. L. B. Howe, saved twenty-five men, Which meant joy not | name for | certain what opinione are likely SMILING LINES. Howell—Do you think we shall ever have universal peace? Powell—1 had hopes of it at one time, but that was before the north pole let ftseif be found.—Judge. Stagestruck Young Man—I suppose the firet thing for me to do will be to adopt a #lage name. Haye you a good one 1o sux gest heatrical Manager (who has seen him act)—Yes, I think Dennis would be a good you.—Chicago Tribune, “Have you will adopt?” “I don't adopt opinions,’ answered Sen ator Sorghum. “I make an effort to as 10 be as sociated with success and then persuade them to adopt me."—Washington Star. “Poor chap! Everything he earns goes on his wife's back.' “Well, if you had seen her at the opera you wouldn’t think he earned much." Chi cago News. First Wall Street Office Boy—Hello Chimmy! Takin' any fllers dese days? Second Office Boy—Naw! Since I dropped two bones tn de slump I bin stickin' legitimate business.—Harper's Weekly decided what opinions you Scott—Halt the people In the world don't know what the other halt are doing. Mott—No, that is because the other half are doing them.—Boston Transcript. Visiting Relative—How aristocratio your tather looks with all that gray hair, Naughty Son—Yes, and he's got me thank for it, too! —Puck. Uncle Zeke, whose {dfluential relative was showing him through the Treasury de partment at Washington, was watching an expert engraver at work. “Well,” he sald, “every man to his trad: I don’t suppose I could learn to do that in a year.'—Chicago Tribune. ncle Jed," asked h's neighbor, “how our boy getting along at college?" “First rate’ answered Uncle Jed. “Ho haen’t cost me a cent. He's working his way through; he's winning all the class honors and they've promised him a pro fessorship of some kina." “Great Scott!" gasped his neighbor, “ix that all he is doing? With that big huskv frame of his I supposed he'd be playing center by this time!’ fcago Tribune. AFTERWARD. J. W. Foley in Collier's I'm glad 1 was always so good to her; 1 was just up there in the nursery Pleking up things—you know—that were Left strewn about as carelessly As'a cf will do ‘when_éhe's” called from play; I picked them up with a mist and blur In my eyes, and I lald them all away— T'm glad I was always ko g0u® to her. And many's the pleture that came to me, That came to me o'er a Teddy bear Or a doll or a whole tin infantry red in a battle column there; of girls and girls rs and three) that Of pinafores and blue frocks and curls— I'm glad I was always so good to her. . Dreams on dreams and they ride me down, Column and ph: nx and voices call And grasses grow greer and come sere and brown, And leaves fall; 8he had been six now—and seven—and ten— So tall—and so tall—how fair they waere, How falr they were and would have been, Those lost one ‘'m glad 1 was good to bud, blossom and blow and alone to them, but to twenty-fiye families, her. he 200,000th “Kimbal 1 Piano” “ Has Been Made! Think of THAT! Chicago to Springtield, 111 an important factor in the mu g try, has it not? The A. Hospe Co., as much as any ( Kimball Co. to reach this staggering “Kimball” to be the most po indorses it thoroughly. THe enthustasm that brought the position has not waned an fota than yesterday's—that of tom ‘twill be ever so. Free Fire and is a Deli OU have tried the 80 muc that you will adopt learned ts el s, different flavor. 200,000 pianos in a straight line would reach from Surely, the “Kimball" HAS been 1sical growth of the entire coun- INE pilano house, has enabled the total—=it Dbelieves the pular instrument of its class—it Kimball to its present foremost the Kimball of today is better norrow will eclipse today's—and Dcath Insurance with every Piano sold here. ghtful Change) sst. Just try one package of the new, tempting ¥ ietior than the Jest 6f other broakfast foods it for all time when you and yours have once Change lo-day to | Kellogg’s Toasted Rice Flakes —crisp, appe taborafories & Cholcest rice grains rolled into t to bring out thcir d food—the most digesti Rice Flakes offer it in its mos: read satisfylng—the latest product of the reat food o Crok Somitarinm ms and toasted just right put-li Rice {5 the world's greatest bie and nourishing of all cereals—Toasted y liable form. Another New Food—Toasted Rice Biscuit ~8 deliclous rice toast. Serve it alone, or with Rice Biscuit. Ask your groces for Kellogg cream or fralt. Toasted Rice Foods. ren thrive on Toasted j e puckages, 10c. The Kellogg Toasted Rice Flake & Biscuit Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Buy and Try a Fachage To-day Only 10 Cenis Endorsed by the Baitle Cveck Santtarium d , . i i ! v sions on the part of many tourists, the practice has grown into a professional enterprise. | The breaking up of this form of form any combination looking to a monop- | oly of the ol business. The parent con- cern Is likewise enjoined not any longer | to vote the stock of the minor companies, | | While the Standard Ol company, as sueh, tive he reverts to nature. Having crowded Manhattan island with bulld- ings, Father Knickerbocker is bethink- ing himself that the best thing he can and clear the way for the great commoner He s coming down the plke and the odor of his gasoline will fill the air for miles around. only one that enjoys prosperity? Or does it figure that it fattens off from ogber people’s misfortunes? RO NN I T e e v w - -~ -