Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 27, 1909, Page 10

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Address will be as often as requested. Among other recent popular idols, what has become of liquid air? mem——— The House of Lords is getting warn- ings enough, but appears to consider itselt secure in its tetancy. Please observe that the original Eva in the initial production of ““Uncle | Tom’s Cabin” has just died again In Paris. Denmark wants a 2-cent letter rate to the United States. The king should have arranged that little matter with Dr. Cook. = ¢ —_— The enthusiastic congressional (in- | vestigators of the canal give promise of standing by Colonel Goethals to the last ditch. In Omaha it seems that pedestrians have no rights in streets or sidewalks which building contractors are bound to respect. Discovery of a scandal in the Ger- man navy s not likely to be followed by any resolutions of regret from the British tars From the way Mars is reported as sproutiug new canals it is evident that her reclamation bureau has been able to float more bonds. {some recent ! The Artistic Temperament. It 18 no new thing for the world to become acquainted with the unhappy love affairs of men distinguished in lit- erary and artistic pursuits, though shining examples have served to emphasize the fact that In modern life the incompatibility of the artistic temperament sways the wed- ding bells into a clang of discord as much today as in the biographies of old. Domesticity netessarily calls for a readjustment of natures that in most cases of husband and wife involve at the beginning more or less conflict. has native ideals which suffer severe bruising in the clash with the prac- tical affairs of the bread-and-butter world, something generally breaks. The list of uncongenial marriages in the world of arts and letters is ap- palling and may be credited to two causes. First, that most natures In- tense In such crafts are temperament- ally different from other workers; sec- ondly, they idealize too much. To ac- cept a person for what that person is and for what he likes and dislikes, and to value him accordingly, is usu- ally beyond the artistic temperament, and the faulty partner becomes forth- with impossible. The man of such a nature sees the one he loves always |as the lady of his dreams, till he comes to llve the dafly grind with her, and then the awakening staggers him. The practical mind more readily makes allowances for the disillusions which it discovers; but after the artis- tic temperament has idealized his mate as a songbird of brilllant plum- age, the disclosure of the house spar- ant, if not Intolerable, in his disap- pointment. A Chance for the Convict. A common cause of complaint on the part of the convict has been that on his release from imprisonment every man’'s hand was against him and he had no recourse but continuation in a life of crime. It is, therefore, en- couraging to read In the occasional ac- count of some prisoner's restoration to freedom such comment as “He will be glven employment in his home town.™ The prisoner who has fulfilled his sentence i§ in law considered to have explated his offense, and undoubtedly should bé given a chance. The too prevalent custom has been not only to glve him no chance, but even to put stumbling blocks in his way. This disposition of the over-severe has prompted soclologists to estdblish workshops where ex-convicts might employ their faculties for craftsman- ship under influences peculiarly 'be- nign. Such demonstration of the possibilities of complete reformation may have had their share in a change of attitude at large. At any rate, there is coming to be manifest a more generous attitude concerning the con- viet, who in many cases is lkely to glve the world just such treatment as it accords to him. Affording him an opportunity to show his possibilities for useful citizenship will in many cases make a man of the fellow crea- ture who has served his term. Hazards of Aviation. The shocking fate of two of Ber- lin's most experienced balloonists serves as a fresh reminder that avia- )|tion at its best is etill in an experi- Parisians are said to be substituting the zebu of Madagascar for their or- dinary diet. Another step iIn the demonetization of the horse. The letter R again has its latch- string out at Oyster Bay. But the New York politiciang will not fesl en- tirely at home till it {8 time for T. The dalry interests may be depended on to keep an eye on Mr. Moxley, the newly elected congressman from Illi- nols who is in the oleomargarine busi- ness. Etate Auditor Barton might start a kindergarten for those insurance agents who persistently display ignor- ance of what the insurance laws re- quire of them. _—_— The announced discovery of earth waves to be used instead of air vibrac tions In wireless messages serves at least to restore communication be- tween the public and the long-silent Mpr. Tes| The nonpartisanship with which the emocratie organs in Nebraska were surcharged during the late campaign | has vanished already even faster than it ‘was acquired. A nonpartisan demo- crat belongs In a dime museum. It begins to look as though the insurgents would settle President Zelaya's hash, but that will be no oec- casion for relaxation of vigilance on bebalf of American interests in the area of revolutionary volcannes. —_— The record of $60,000,000 in Amer- fcan goods carried In one year by rail across the isthmus of Panama is an encouraging suggestion of the trafle that awaits this country when the full facilities of the canal are available. ' Here ls a democratic slate which emanates from Columbue: Shallen- berget for senator, Latta for governor and Edgar Howard for congress, with the check book doing business for the bunch. How does that strike you? ST is it not a siugular commentary on the resources of ' ¢ommunication In this age of eleotric flashes that, after % falled to estad- mental stage. Bven the wizard Wrights have been extrémely cautious since their lamentable exploit which cost the life of Lieutenant Selfridge, and, while they and & few other in- ventors have succeeded in accomplish- ing some truly marvelons feats, the point is far from being reached where public confidence in any form of air- ship or balloon may be regarded as stable. The fascination of flight will con- tinue to tempt the adventurous spirit, and one taste of that soaring which niade a woman exclaim, “Now I know why the birds sing,” will serve to make of the experimenter a devotee of ‘(lho game. Yet aviation, nevertheless, is a game, with the chances greatly in favor of death. The spiritualistic me- |aium may have eflabled man to lift a chajr or table from the floor for a mo- ment by some unseen power, but the practical accomplishment of the sus- pension of the inflexible law of gravity has not yet been accomplished, and when man falls he falls hard. £0 that while the daredevil few will persist in‘éxperiments which may some |time develop a permanent solution of the problem of human flight, still the sober-minded individual who prefers to cling awhile longer to his household rather than have it collect his life in- surapce will find that travel on the surface of terra firma affords sufficient thrill for him and ample peril. \ Pay-as-You-Enter. The announcement {s definitely made that the principal street railway line in Omaha will be equipped within a few days with the new style of pay- | as-you-enter cars. The pay-—-as-you-enter system has been introduced within the last two or three yearsin a number of the larger cities, and many Omaha people who travel from time to time have observed their operation and perhaps have had experience with them. It goes without saying that the experiment would not be persisted in, nor would it be taken up from one place to ancther if it did not cffer definite advantages over the |older system of puy-before-you-get- off. It should be remembered, however, thet no street rallway service has ever it the Astor yaeht _came from the been known to appreach perfection and the pay-as-you-enter ear, or more particularly the change from the old And when one or both of the partners to the new, is bound to create ocon- fusion and disturbance at first until operatives and passengers become ac- customed to it and conform to ite re- quirements. The pay-as-you-enter cars are signs |of metropolitanism. They are found in big cities where traffic is heavy, not in small ones where it is possible to give each passenger personal atten- tion. From this standpoint the advent of the pay-as-you-enter car is recogni- tion that Omaha has reached the stage of street raflway trafic which demands the same methods of handling as the centers of densest population. Man's Ancient Enemy. Such a succession of fatalities by fire as has crowded the news chroni- cles of late cannot have failed to im- press everyone with man’s heiplessness when trapped by his anclent ememy. One single disaster, that of the miners at Cherry, alone would serve to arouse a feeling of horror akin to that in- spired by the burning of the Iroquois theater, and there have also been fires |in wrecked rallway coaches, factories and dwellings which, in swelling the list of fatalities, have added some not- able names. The lesson of the Iroquois fire re- sulted in reforms in theater construc- tion generally, and it is to be hoped that theseé later visitations will not he altogether unproductive. Selentific fireproofing has made such strides that it would seem to be an enlightened policy for man to avoid flimsy con- struction wherever possible. Particu- larly ought definite measures to be taken to avold repetitions of such wholesale slaughter as that at Cherry. row's real nature makes him intoler- {Mine owners ought to be able now to see the wisdom of substituting steel for wood in shaft construction and un- derground workings, a provision which would have saved most of the lives lost after the explosion. The demonstration already made on some roads of the relative safoty of occupants of steel cars in wrecks is sufficient to warrant every line in gradually substituting them for the tinder boxes of old. In the matter of factories, the lack of provision for quick egress has been brought home by the cases in New York where work- ers in combustible materidls actually found bars across windows to which they fled as the flames spread. Such a delfberate handicap to escape {s worse than careless—it is criminal. The frame dwelling, of late a large contributor to the death list, is a mat- ter for the exercise of the greatest watehfulness on the part of individual households. The swiftness with which so many hopes have become death- traps while the occupantg slumbered for incessant vigilance. It is earnestly to be hoped that the walls within which man closets himself will grad- ually be replaced by safer modern mas terfals, for no precaution is too great to take against that element which, though invaluable as a servant, is treacherous and devastating as a foe. The despairing woman who, on the eve of sulcide, wrote a final note de- claring bitterly that the hereafter could be no worse than St. Louis could have had no grievance against the town. Her mood wagy evidently but the reflection of. her career, which doubtless would have been no different for a lifelong victim of debt in any other place. Definite personal appli- cation to get from under the financial millstone can be made to develop qual- itles of sterling worth, but to sit su- pinely waiting for something to turn up tends to force the conclusion that the town and not the person 1§ to |blame. It is easy for a suicide to say that the hereafter can be no worse, but the present can always be made much better by real effort Omaha and Nebraska are vitally in- terested in having the Missouri river included in any scheme of waterway development that may be taken up by congress. The way to get the atten- tion of congress is to make a showing at the forthcoming meeting of the Mis- souri River Navigation congress to be held in this city next month. [ The city proposes to go ahead and replace the destroyed automobile po- lice patrol at once on the theory that the $4,000 insurance policy will be promptly collected and furnish the money to pay the bill. Would it not be a good idea to make sure of get- ting the insurance money first? ) f The dispatches bear information that Senator Guggenheim of Colorado has donated $50,000 for a new bulld- ing for the Colorado State school. If Mr. Bryan lived in Colorado for fear of carrying the taint of the Smelter trust. those cross-country exercises after din- ner may be a bit wearing on the mem- bers of the cabinet for whom he sets the pace, but they serve to remind the panting\secretaries of the value of combining footwork with headwork. Two Omaha churches made thelir Thanksgiviug the celebration of extinguishment of theig church debts. They could not have done so in the old democratic hard times — | The foot ball will now gracefully go |into retirement till another season, confident that, notwithstanding the | popular blast against its fatalities, the pigskin will last Five gunr-}\ly bonding companies ofter to furnish the offieial bond for Nebraska's state treasurer each at one must have borne conviction of the need | Normal | he wouldn't let them take the money | Mr. Taft's agility and endurance in | the | OMAHA, SATURDAY and the same price. The identity of the bid may not be complete evidence of a combine, but it looks mighty sus- picious. It is to be noted, however, that with the practice acquired it the legisiature fighting corporation cormorants, former Representative Harrison killed that viclous hog.. Apples of ODoncord. Brooklyn Eagle German-Amerieans in Towa have sent to Kaiser Wilhelm a box of American apples, and there fsn't an apple of Aiscord In the lot. The apples of concord are always worth whil A Job for the Marines. 8t. Louls Republle. One reason why the United States would tind it inconvenlient to Interfere in the latest Central American trouble is that our navy ean't climb the hill on which La Nicaragua rests. Rectproeity in Sentiment. Wall Street Journal. Canada’s announcement that it has no desire to enter into a tariff war with the United States expresses a mentiment that ought to be heartily reclprodated on this side of the border. Constder What the Country Escaped. , Boston Transeript Mr. Bryan's newly announced advocacy of prohibition shows him as unfamillar with the sentiment of the eastern democs racy as his declaration for the government ownership of railroads revealed him casen- tially ignorant as to the feelings of the southern element of his party. The coun- try will never know what an Intrinsically weak man for the presidential office it has three times escaped! Halting the “Trust Dusters.” St. Louls Star. The trall of the trust serpent seems to lie over everything. Every time some ener- getlo, enthusiastic and Incorruptible minor officlal discovers drookedness and law- breaking and becomes dangerously busy, mysterfous influences are set to work to neutralize his work and run hjm off the track. Somewhere there is always some- body in authority who 18 able to blook progress, usually to the disadvantage of the diligent officlal and often to the loss of his position. Politics and Préaching. Boston Herald. It Willlam Jennings Bryan has heard the apostolic call to go out into the world and preach the gospel of teetotallsm, he ought to make a valuable worker in the cold water ranks. But from a political point of view, it is doubtful if his latest pur- pose will have any effect beyond a local distorbance of his)party. Mr. Bryan has mistaken his forte. As a preacher to men he would have been a wonderful succes: But men do not like to take their politics with their preaching. The State of Preparedness. Philadelphia Ledger, President Taft wants “a navy to con- tinue to be maintained worthy of this coun- try. We are not knocking anybody's chip off his shoulder,” he says, “and we are not having a chip on our shoulder, but we are a great nation of 50,000,000 or $0,000,000 people and we must, In order under the present conditions to maintain the prestige that fs proportionate to our stand before the world, have a navy that is worth see- ing and able to fight if 1t has to.” Which seem to show that the president is not a very enthuslastic advocate of a reduction of armaments. WELCOME THE NEW EDUCATION Logle of the Situation a the Deef 'Trust. Cleveland Plain Dealer. The beef trust has enteréd upon a cam- palgn of education. Tt proposes to teach the public that meat prices are high be- cause they cannot help being high. It will Taught hy the cheaper cuts of meat do the work {which the more expensive parts are pop- ularly supposed to monopolize, Let us welcome the plan of the beef trust. Any opportunity to recelve an education 18 not to be neglected, no matter who assumes the role of teacher. But let us not take the trust too seriously. Its mo- tives should at least be scrutinized. What |denly ceased buying meat, deciding that prices had reached a prohibitive Prices would tumble, certainly. Is it not more than possible that the beet trust, in proposing to educate the public, 1s in reality proposing to Insure its own continued prosperity? The public is not obliged to eat beef. No one knows this Detter than the trust. BUSINESS UPLIFT. More Money in Clreulation and Ex- ports Increasing. New York Sun. Evidences of increasing American busi- ness are the following: The total amount of money in eircula- tion on November 1, 1900, was $3,124,679,007, an increase in October of $3,369,051 and in | twelve months of 326,181,086, In_the nine months ended September, 1900, bur exports of ‘“manufactures for further use In manufacturing” reached a | value of $157,063,019, an increase oyer the same period of 198 of $7,001,636, and of “manufactures ready for consumption™ $346,544,109, an Increase of §2,613,187 All told, our exports In September, were of the value (bureau 1900, 1008, of $14,82152; while “crude foodstuffs and food animals”’ decreased by $7.000 000, | ana “foodstutfs wholly or partly manutac- | turea” by 0,000; “erude materials for manufacturing” increased by $17 |ang “manufactures” by 320000, meaning busier American factories. Our export business has recently created to such an extent that for nine months ended September 3 last the total value thereof was $1,160,510,807, only $70.000,000 short of the corresponding 1908 | total, North A'merica (practically Canada in- nd Mexioo) bought $82,500,000 worth more, | $2,000,000 worth more. | very few months American exports | and South Ameriea In a | will again be breaking records. That the business of the American fac- tory is still increasing Is evidenced by the fact that in September of this year our imports of ‘“erude materiuls for use in manufacturing” were $12,000,000 greatcr thain in September, 1908, while the imports of “manufacturce for use in further man- | utavturing” were also $6.000,000 greater. | Fer the nine months énded Svptember the Increases were $125,00000 and $62000,- 000, respectively, a total factory material inkrease of $100,000,000, or more than $21+ {00000 a montly This all means more product, more wages, and more profit The prices of manufacturers’ matéria ranged lower in 1509 than in 197, and, in deed, also n the eariier months of 1908 so that the increased area of factory work £ regol cate. n’ figures of import values lodi- endeavor to teach the people how to make | | would happen, for instance, If people sud- | figure? | of statistics) | of $153,8%9,357, & net gain over September, | 000,00, | the | in fact, much larger than the| Hot biscuit, hot breads, cake—thefinest,mosttaste- ful and healthful—-made with Royal, impossible withont it. ROYAL BAKING POWDER Absolutely Pure THE ONLY Baking Powder made from Royal Grape [ in Othe_r Lands Side Lights on What is Tran piring Among the Near ¥or ‘Wations of ths Earth. The minimum legal cost of an election for a candidate for parliment in Great Britain s about $600. This sum covers the pay of e'ection officers, registration and candidates enter the contest the actual cost 18 pro rated, but the candidate's expenses absorb what is saved In this way, and more, by the necessity of employing agents to hustle votes. In a majority of districts represented by wealthy persons, particu- larly where the Torles dominate, the exactlons to.which a candidate is subjected would swallow the salary of an American congressman. Declded preference is shown for candidates with fat purses regardless ot other qualifications. Natfonal Review, * $2500 a year Is the mintmum extorted from a unfonist candi- date In any seat where there is even a tighting chance. The stipwation for a cer- taln safe seat was a subscription and | registration of $3300 a year. besides the cost of election, it belng also stipulated that the candidate would take a house | and lve In the division he was to repre- sent. “No man need apply,” says the Re- view, “who has less than $2500 a veaf, and an expenditure of from $75,000 to $100,- 000 might be anticipated before the general | election. The suburbs of London and the | home counties are particularly corrupt and extortionate.’ No wonder the coming elec- tion is hafled with great joy by the boys In the trenches. - The old newspaper days, “We have come to stay!" is em- phasized In & more enduring way by the Germans In Prussian Poland. A huge | pa'ace which the emperor of Germany will occupy for a few days each yvear s belng bullt at Posen, and will cost $7,000,000, It confronts in granite .grimness the stranger as he leaves Pogen raflway sta- tion, his eye belng at once attracted by its central tower, over 220 fect high., Smaller towers and bastlons relleve effect of the high ramparts. The main tower contains the chapel and suites of apartments designed for the use of the Kaiser /and his family. The chapel is inlald | throughout with a mosale, exactly like thet In the famous Wartburg. Below the chapel Is the royal entrance, a huge arched hall of marble and sandstone, and at the end of this the broad stairway leading to the first story with its ro: dwelling rooms and festal salons, The latter are enormous, the grand salon alone covering 000 square yards and being ornamented with marble pillars. - The new taxes proposed by the British budget, and which provokes tho Indigaa- tion of the landlord peers, reaches what s deelgnated as “the velvet of land owner- ship, hitherto free from tax. A case which Illustrates thie occurred a few weeks ago. A retail dry goods company had a large shop In the West End of London, for which it paid one of the dukes $1.300 a |vear. That was falr rent when the lease | was made, nearly 100 years ago, but at present the rental value of the land Is worth just ten times that sum annually Not content with renewing the lease at| $15.000 a year. the ducal owner made the | dry goods men pay a fine of $260,000 for the | renewal, knowing well that they would | rather do this than lose the bulldimg which | | they had erected with reference to thelr | own requirements, and the good will which they had established In the neighborhood |Had Lloyd George's Increment tax been | in existence the state womld have forced the duke to disgorge $0.000 of this, whic h| would have gone toward lightening the | eneral taxation. e As Herbert Gladstone, the son celebrated Victorian statesman, is ahout to retire from British Parllamentary life in order to become governor general of South Africa, a grandson prepares to enter it. Willilam G. C. Gladstone of Hawarden is a young man just out of Oxford and he aspires to enter the House of Commons at the coming general elcctions. The new governor general ought to be peculiarly welcome to the Dutch element of South Africa. They remember that when an overwhelmingly powerful foree had assem. bled under Sir Evelyn Wood to avenge Majuba and Laing's Nek, It was his fath- er's hand that stayed the war and made possible the London convention, in which !Paul Kruger signally triumphed. Herbert Gladstone has had very little experience In public affairs and at all as a colonial governor. of the none | The German Soclalist newspaper Vor- werts, In its campalgn for the election to ! |the Diet, published some interesting fig- | ures In connection with the increase of wealth In Prussgia. It is pointed out that whereas, in 1903, there were $0,000 people | in Prusey alone with incomes of over 12,000, five years later (in 1%8) the number of persons In receipt of incomes over that | figure had increased to 104000, In 1908 | 1,000,000 people owned property worth |$225,000,000, of whom 142,000 each owned more |than $25,00 worth. There are 8,300 persons | who are millionaires, according to the Ger- | man of the term, tb is to who are worth more than $20.000 each in the last fourteen years the these 80,300 “milifonaires” has from §3,20,000,000 to $6,540,000,000 J . | The Wing of Portugal seeks a wife, al- | ! though the life of royaity in Lishon wmay | | seem @ trifie insecure. It is sald that his | affections hesitate between Princess Alex. | andra of Fife snd Princess Patflela of Cobnaught. The first s the grand. | daughter and the other the nlece of King | Edward. Unions Wlween the Guelphs and | Latin royaities have been very uncommon, | sense say and wealth of | increased | other legal incidentals. Whero two or more | According to the | legend of border! the sombre | Cream of Tartar the bar of religlous differences standing in the way. That can be easily Nfted, how lever, as was witnessed In the facllity with which the queen of Spain was converted to the falth of Alfonso's fathers. It King Manuel lives in hope, he has in British his | tory a precedent for encouragement. Two hundred and fifty vears ako a British sov- erclgn, Charles 11, espoused a Portugu prir Catharine of Braganza, who brcught with her a great dowry in ready money, besides Bombay and Tanglers. This unfon was childless, but if Charles 1T had left a son, where would be the Hanover today? house of e “Denmark has set plielty,” says a letter from Copenhagen to a QGerman paper. ““The cabinet ministers have been stripped of their title' excellency, the old-fashioned claw-hammer coat has been substituted for the gold embroldered court garmet and the new president of the ministry, Zable, wore his slouch hat to a royal reception. This latter was a joy not only to him but to his colleagues of the newspaper world. But that is not all. His wife Is still more democratic than the ministei-president. Most women who had suddenly been elevated to the highest place in the land would have gloried in its titles and honors. Not'so Mme. Zable. For years she has been a stenographer in the National Aesembly, recelving a falr com- pensation for her service. ‘Of course, you will resign now,' friends said to her, and she promptly answered: ‘Of course, I shall do no such thing. I am interested, and serve my husband and can earn a little extra for our household expenses.” POLITICAL DRIFT. One of the New York papers is attracting attention to itself by booming Theodore Roosevelt for governor. The death of Congressman De Armond leaves Champ Clark and Gumsnoe Bill Stone equal political divisions of Missouri Tom Johnion's defeat for a fifth term as mayor of Cleveland has swollen his eynical hump. During a marriage ceremony the other day he omitted the word “obey.” be cause, as he said, he would not help “make liars of poople.” Assoclate Justice Moody supreme bench, is making progress toward recovery in an hospital in Brookline, Mass. The Boston Globe savs “there is reason to hope that he will be In his place on the bench when the Standard Ol appeal case comes before the court.” Francis J. Heney, the spectacular graft prosecutor of San Francisco, is back in Oregon as special United States attornuy for the prosecution of land and. timber | gratters. The prosecutions conducted by Mr. Heney in Oregon a few years ago ro- sulted in fourteen convictions of ‘“high ups,”” two of whom died. Though American congressmen have no great Qifficulty in spending thelr salaries, thelr chances of laying by a bill now and then are far greater than that of a mem. ber of the British Parliament. The latter are salanyless, working for glory and inel- | dentals. The cost of the glory may be In- | ferred from the statement of ome M. who subscribed to 263 foot ball clubs this | year, expecting thereby to keep his “fences” in repair. the pace for sim- Sicimming the Creani, Philadelphia Press. When express cOmpanies are enabled to earn 38 per cent dividends, in doing busi- ness that would otherwise be done by rail- road companies, I8 it any wonder that the profits of rallroad stockholders are fore- shortened? of the tederal! encouraging | "This Tr;de-mark ALWAYS IN GOOD HUMOR. Uncle Sflas—What be your rates?® Hotel Clerk—Two dollars up to twelve. Uncle Silas—And how much if a fellow only wants to stay up till half past nine?— Life. a fool hat women Why so? I always understood It was tine.’ - Here Maude Binks is taking lessons, and told e yesterday she was learning to feint.’—Baltimore American. your shoes to that place ‘Shoes Repaired While You she how ‘Did_you tak with the sign, Wait.' 7" “Ye, They and told me mine, =Judge. repaired six while 1 waited to call in three days for Mamma, I don’'t understand some of these words, What's the difference be- tween a dialogue and a monologue?” “No difference, at all, Jahnny, If your tather is taking any part In the conversa- tion.”"—Chicago Tribune. ou _like would restore to be #o vour Knicker—Wouldn't famous that people birthplace? Bocker—I'd be the landlord repaper New York Sun. content if I could make my present flat— lost his halr he worrying he has What's ““Bliggins savs through worry. abou ‘Hix wife's colffure bills. She waats nuuch hair that he has to go without any. ~Washington Star. ' he asked, “rend one’s cha young lady In the “WIIl you let me look at_vour I'a ke 75 cents worth.” I'm sor she sald, after studying Im for a moment, “but I can't give you that much. T can only find about 15 cents worth."—Chicago Record-Herald, THE BATTY OLD BACHELOR. ;4 Heigh oh for the batty old bachelor.. His hair fast turning gray; His face becoming meliow In life’s mid-day. When searcely seven upon his sleeve He bore his heart aloft; What wonder then that fifty Finds him so soft. 1 *Twas under o gnarled old apple tree— From Eden's stock it grew: Bessie sat on the old wagon seat: Quoth he, “Can T sit by you? But brown-eyed Bessie turned htm down r he clambered up to heaven; His heart was broked, but It healed; They alwavs heal—at seven, 1 At twelve again was Venus In his voung heavens vielble; His heart went out to Malmie, But Maimie made him mis‘able; At last one day th> crisis came, Tiis heart was draped in sable. ‘Which he vowed he'd wear forevermore He ala—'till he met Mabel. \ v She led him at a goodly pace Then ‘chasin’ on' she sent 'Im.~— And since that time he has acquired Consld'able momentum— For Tillle, Frances, Nell and Grace Adele and Juliet Have oceupled his hear in turn Then followed the sign ‘To Let. v. The names I know are leglon That caused him heart disorder *Twould take a card-cataloguing sche To serve as a true rocorder. But I shall spare you more detalls And spare myself the trouble: Perhaps you know the guy yourself, Or else you've seen his double. VI 80 _here’s to the batty old bachelor Whose heart a repeating declmal Carries him on into a maze Of follies Infinitesimal! Here's to the batty old bachelor, Whoso courage falleth never, Whose heart still flutters on his sleeve ‘And seems as good as ever. —BAYOLL NE TRELB. 8] on every package Bakers Cocoa The Leader for 129 Years HIGHEST AWARDS IN 2 EUROPE AND AMERICA Take this diseount off Any Piclure, Picture Frame, of Art Novelty, In Entire Stock The same 14 off holds good on any piece of hammered brass or beaten copper, and ‘“ Carence Craft”’ hand wrought jewelry, ete. Our celebrated Framer’s Craft Shop Framing work may also be ordered at the same reduction. Saturday is the last day of this sale. 1513 Douglas A. HOSPE Co0. 1513 Douglas