Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 17, 1909, Page 6

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Remit by draft, express or postal order gayubie to The Bee Publishing Company Only 2-cent stamps received in payment of mail accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. SBtate of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.: George B. Taschuck. treasurer of The Hee Publishing Company, being duly sworn says that the actual number of full and complete coples of The Dally, Mornink Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of November, 1909, was as follows: 42070 16. .. 41,930 1T 43,160 is 41,600 19 41,390 20. 41,960 21, 40,340 a8 41,660 3. 41,790 24. 26 6. 21, 28. 29 30. Returned Coples. Net Totai. Daliy Average.. .. GEO. B, TZSCHUCK. Treasuret Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before me this 1st day of December . (Beal) M. P, WALKER, Notary Public. Subseribern leaving the city tem. porarily should have The Bee mailed to them. Address will be changed often as req o ) The season in South Africa proves to have been much safer than in the Maine woods. Carrie. Nation. evidently wishes to impress Washfbgton with the idea that she can be as busy us congress. Morgan's millions may be talking for the telephone merger, but if so it is only when the wire is clear of lis- teners, The Missour: River Navigation con- gress has adopted a perfectly lovely platform. Now, if it will only make 8ood on ft. Mr. Hearst 18 to the fore again with vSuu for- & new party, { A ; The usual o¥isa’ mhy be expected, that he be ¢ permitted to be its candidate. New York already knew that the mayor's job was big enough; what it would like to see Mr. Gaynor demon- trate is whether he is big enough, The Chicago Board of Trade men came to Omaha probably to see what real wheat looks like, and they cer- tainly were not disappointed at the Corh show. With two sets of wires running through the dome of the state capitol, and only one of them paid for, the ram- shackle structare may hold together untll spring. — It has somewhat dampened the ardor of the C'uban malcontents to dis- cover that the island treasury still owes the United States $6,000,000 for our last occupation. The damage to the battleship Ne- braska's exterior can be repaired in six dayp without docking, but it may take ¢onsiderably longer than that to repair aftairs on the inside of the vessel. Jim Hill's Nebraska railroad is not doing all that it might do for the eiti- zons of the state A little better serv- fce In western Nebraska would make the management much more popular. What a pleasant tinkle has that additional = $700,000 contribution of the sugar ring to the government's fraud refund! Another white spot scoured on a consclence for the holi- days. —_— The excitement over the epistolary epithets of Tammany leaders growing out of the New York municipal cam- palgn once more proves the folly of writing letters that ought to be burned and are not. — A shipper wants to know why an ex- press company charges $67 to haul a pony and $19 to haul a donkey under the same conditions. He might read the answer in the recent distribution of surplus by an express company, Attorney Geaeral Thompson s troubling himself unnecessarily about reports from Linecoln published in the Omaba double-ender. His residence At the state capital should have taught him by this time that the Omaha double-ender doesn’t care especially what it prints so long as it can make rouble for a republican state officlal Man that 1s born of the name Zelaya péars to be prone to trouble as warks fiy upward. While the unele is teing hounded by Insurgents and sarassed by Uncle S8am, the nephew is mdergoing a arilling in the New York ourts at the Instigation of a girl who eeks heart-balm. The Zelaya motto THE BEE Fame for the Farmers. Men prominent in western affairs took a day off recently to join in & tribute to agriculture at the opening of the farmers’' hall of fame at the University of Illinols. This was more than a personal recognition of the in- ventor of the reaper, Oyrus Hall Me- Cormick, whose portrait was unvelled In connection with the dedication of the institution; it was an acknowl- edgement of the supremacy of the tiller of the soil. Thus does man get back to first principles. according to holy writ, was a gardener, and none the less a gentleman for that, although he did try to blame the woman for the consequences of the ap- ple crop. The early American farmer suffered the hardships of the ploneer; but with the auxilaries of modern in- vention and the development of the great west agriculture struck its stride, and today it is the backbone of the nation and the mainstay of the world. Secretary Wilson's annual report is still fresh in the public mind with its records of bumper production and record prices, and this is not the final crest; It is the foothill toward the heights. It is fitting that the beginning of the farmers' hall of fame should be coincident with the sounding of the general keynote for even greater possibilitied of farming that le just ahead. The age of agriculture is here, and it is a significant sign of the times | that laurels are being wreathed upon the brows of the sons of earth rather than as in the days of old upon the classic foreheads of romantic bards. Marines and Nicaragua. The inconvenience of red tape s ex- emplified again in the raising of the point that the restrictions concerning the marines might embarrass the ad- ministration in its efforts to restore order in Nicaragua. Congress un- doubtedly had good reason for insist- ing that the marines be restored to service on the battleships, from which they had been taken for shore duty, and there will be reluctance on the part of the representatives to amend the provision that was made so firm a part of the texture of the naval ap- propriations bill of the last session. It would be unfortunate, however, if any such technicality were permitted to interfere with the campaign for the protection of American interests against the machinations of Zelaya, and it is to be hoped that the State and Navy departments may find a way for liberal interpretation of the restric- tions that have been imposed, so that the marines now on duty in Nica- raguan waters may not be hampered from rendering such continuous duty ashore as the situation may require. Railroad Legislation. There is evident in the attitude of congress in its passage ¢f the two bills concerning railroads a disposition to be fair toward those corporations. The measure giving the Interstate Com- merce commission power to compel uniform equipment is only a develop- ment of the old safety appliance law, whose enforcement was so long de- layed through the antagonistic atti- tude of some of the roads. It is inconcelvable that so many lines should be hostile to measures de- signed to safeguard human life, as was attested in the government’s experi- ence with the safety appliance law and the readiness of a few of the standard lines, as in the case of the Union Pa- cific, to comply with all modern re- quirements, is all the more commend- able in contrast with this general hos- tility. The courts have sustained the safety appliance law after a bitter fight, and it myst be apparent to all that the additional legislation in that direction is for the public welfare. In the Esch bill, designed to protect the rallroads from having used against them as evidence in damage suits the reports that they should be required to make to the commission concerning accidents, a liberal intent on the part of the government is again shown. The railroads are entitled to the same | right as individuals in the matter of giving incriminating evidence, and the Esch bill is meant merely t6 encourage officials to ald the commission in the investigation of accidents as a means for intimate study for future precau- tlon. The closer the harmony that exists between rallroads and commis- sion, the better results the commission |18 able to accomplish. Canada’s Friendliness. Presentation of the annual budget |before the Canadian Parllament was thade the occasion for considerable ex- pression of felicitation toward the United States. This is very pleasant and welcome, as are all such manifest- ations of friendliness from so close a neighbor. But talk of amity in the same breath with finances has a sound that is hardly akin to disinterested- ness, and analysis of admissions made by the minister of finance, Mr. Field- ing, indicates that the dominion hopes to profit by the graciousness of its cousins on this side of the border. A review of immigration figures shows that Canada has fallen off very largely in her allurement of popula- tion from Europe, particularly from the mother country, while during the last year the dominion won from the | United States 60,000 new home-seek- ers, a galn of nearly 2,000 over the previous twelve months, while the in- crease for the current year is even greater, Canada wants our citizens; indeed, needs them, if it ls to develop the northwest as it hopes. It also needs our population as a market, is at- ®éma to be, “All's fair in love or wan " tested by the solicitude .t manifests The original of his species,| over the maximum clauses of our tariff act. Mr, Fielding, speaking authoritatively for the Laurfer government, endeavored to set at rest any anxiety among his people that there could possibly be friction between the two countries over the re- cent legislation. His Interpretation of President Taft's message was that Canada will be permitted to enjoy the minimum rates and that close and friendly relations were bound to con- tinue between the republic and the dominion, Selfish interest is here manifest, the selfishness that is sure to underlie a nation’s friendliness as a general thing. And Canada's keen inquiry as to what the Washington administra- tion is going to do about the maximum and minimum clause shows the wis- dom of that particular enactment. It may prove to be of real service to us when we come to ask Canada about the preferential tariff treaties it is sald to be negotiating with France and other European nations. and minimum The City Charter. Omaha is beginning to feel the effects of its straitjacket charter. The limitations and restrictions under which the city 1s operated have served to hamper or suspend several of fits most important activities. For exam- ple, a conflict has arisen between the city and the contractor who was to re- move the garbage and dispose of it, and, pending the adjustment of this dispute, a condition has arisen which is intolerable. Householders are sub- jected to unspeakable inconvenience and, if the weather were warm, a pesti- lence of disease would threaten, if not engulf, the city. But this is only one point. Funde with which to carry on public service, such as street lighting and street cleaning, have been fixed at a limit ‘80 low that it is impossible to properly light or clean the streets with the money at hand. The mayor has been stripped of the prerogatives of an executive until he amounts to little more than a figurehead, clothed only with the power of drawing his salary and welcoming conventions. The ef- forts of politicians to further their own ends by writing into the city charter [little schemes for accomplishing little objects has resulted in glving Omaha a charter under which it is impossible to efficiently administer the affairs of government. This cannot be rem- edied before another session of the leg- islature, but it is not too soon to renew the recommendation made by The Bee more than a year ago that arrange- ments be made for the framing and adoption of a charter by the citizens that shall be broad enough, and suffi- clently comprehensive, to provide Omaha with an administration that a growing city of its importance requires. The Hudson bay rallroad project goes steadily forward, and the latest reports from Ottawa are that the dominion Parliament has now in hand the perfected plans for a $17,000,000 line that shall connect the Pas, the northern extension of the Canadian Northern, with Port Nelson, a distance of 410 miles. It is estimated that this would accommodate 64,000,000 bush- els of grain during the open season and land it in Liverpool at a saving of 5 cents a bushel over the present rate by way of the great lakes. But it must be borne in mind that this rail- road could be operated only two months in the-year, and that grain which reached the seaboard at Hud- son’s bay after the close of navigation would have to wait nine months before it could move. Canada is to be com- mended for its persistent enterprise in the Hudson country, but nature has reared up so tremendous a handicap there against man's efforts that the normal outlet for trafic through the lakes is not likely ever to suffer any diminution of patronage The ostentatious millionaire is not always the greatest benefactor of his race. Charles N. Crittenton demon- strated in his lifetime how a vast for- tune could be nobly, yet quietly, em- ployed, and by his will he has shown anew that brass-band methods are not essential to the effectual service of wealth in the cause of humanity, As was to be expected, much of his estate goes to the missions for women and girls, which he founded in memory of his daughter; but a large portion, also, was bequeathed to the men who had spent their lives in his employment, and now find themselves provided with funds to enable them to retire in com- fort. This has been a great season for the good deeds of our silent million- aires. Down in Washington a reformed race track gambler is telling the inside story of pool room and handbook evils to the senators so that they may frame a national law to prevent the transmis- sion of betting news over the wires. In Port Arthur John W. Gates is preaching to a religious gathering against stock speculation. These men may prove td be auxiliaries of the ad- vocates of the back-to-the-farm policy, for they serve to convince the thought- ful young man that the safest and most satisfactory form of chance in life is the investment in legitimate business or in crop-raising for speculation, with the soil and the climate against labor and the market prices for foodstufts. The sentencing of a noted driver of racing automobiles to jall for running down people may serve as a wholesome lesson to reckless chauffeurs, to whose exploits of late the news columns have been compelled to give entirely too much attention. The automobile un- questionably has its rights, but only |in eommon with the rights of others. OMAHA, FRIDAY Some drivers appear to consider the auto paramount; these must be taught the lesson that the publie is In no no humor for juggernaut tacties, and the jail should prove salutary. For the fourth time the deeper | waterways project is before the Illinois legislature, this time in special ses- sion. There has been a deal of talk, and Illinois now has it in its power to show congress that the west Is in earnest about the development of commerce-carrying channels. Unless Illinols shows a disposition to spend its own money for the cross-state canal, the lakes-to-the-gulf project is apt to go glimmering. Practical action is the order of the day. Having argued that many cows within the jurisdiction of New York give milk below the butter-fat stand- ard of the city ordinances, the dairy- man poses as a much-abused Indi- vidual. Above the squeak of the pump-handle may now be heard the | cry, ““Manhattan expects every cow to do its duty.” \ Some of the New York papers are urging the people to flee from the high prices of meat to a fish diet, arguing that there can be no trust control of the ocean. But the entire population cannot live on the coast, and the trans- portation facilities would doubtless find a way to control the output of seafood. New York savings banks, which for years have paid 4 per cent interest, are cutting the rate money is more plentiful in the east and is not able to exact as high a pre- mium as formerly, on permanent in- vestments. The fraud shown in a notorious Chi- cago quick-divorce case, rendering ille- gal the second marriage of one of the persous involved, shows that the old saw about marriage in haste brings particular repentance to those involved in previously tangled love knots. The Omaha man who sought to parade his new and beautiful wife be- fore admiring relatives and fell into the clutches of his ex-spouse, who was waiting with a large bili of arrears of alimony, is not the first to realize “‘that pride goeth before a fall Fireworks in Prospect. Springfield Republican. The Cook-Peary war has possibly only begun. The critical development in the near future will be the decision at Copenhagen. If that should sustain the doctor—wow! I PR Can’t Get Away. ‘Wall Street Journal. Profits of the Standard Oil company are now running between $50,000,000 and $90,000,- 000 a year. A profit has to run pretty fast to get away from the Standard OIll com- pany. A Combines Two Good Uses. New York World Chief Forester Pinchot's opinion that the demand for' Christmas trees s not a “menace to the forests” Is based on the valld ground that forests have sentimental as well as practical uses. Crowding the Melting Pot. St. Louls Republic. The immigration commissioner's report on the kind of people we are getting from Europe and the way they are brought over does not raise high expectations of improvement in the quality of our ecitizen- ship by their coming. Cut Out the Trimmings, Pittsburg Dispatch, In the season of injunctions to buy them early It is pertinent to sound an early warning against cotton whiskers and trim- mings of the regulation Santa Claus. If you must produce counterpart presentments asbestos for the frills Is less condusive to the mortality rate. Straining at Gnats. Washington Herald. It has been ruled that packages bear- ing the words, “Not to be opened until Christmas,” must pay first-class postage. Age cannot wither nor custom stale the infinite variety of our Postoffice depart- ment when it comes to stralning at gnats and swallowing camels. Boycotted by the Government. Boston Herald. The secretary of war's decree that Uncle Sam must not purchase any of the products of the Standard Oil company betrays a Gallican precision of logic that must de-| light protestants against chufiches, colleges and universities accepting Mr. Rockefeller's gifts. Until the recent adverse decision of the court is reversed the government re- fuses to barter with an illegally managed | business. Law and commerce must go to- gether. Tt is the moral Import rather than the financial effect of this ruling which will cut. TOLL OF THE LAKES, Penulty Exacted for Igmoring Busi- ness Prudence. Pittsburg Dispatch, The toll of life which the late season on the Great lakes has taken in stated 121 may not yet be swollen by further returns from the upper lakes. But on sumption that it is final it is a cost of life that is startling on the best hypothesis and on the supposition that some of it iy preventable is appalling. For that Is the grave question thrust upon the public notice by the fact that of the grim total by far the greatest share, in proportion to the lapse of time, have been the disasters of the past ten days For the preceding part of the season the losses were conventlonal in character number. It has been in the first two storms of the winter that the losses have been Inflicted of twenty or thirty lives at a single blow. Years ago the dangers of Incoming win- ter on the lakes were 50 clearly recognized that navigation was regarded as definitely closed at some date between the middle of November and Thanksgiving. Recently the Increasing demands of transportation and probably an enlarged trust in the su- perlor slze and strength of the lake craft have extended the season till its close was forced by storms and ice. There is much reason, especially in the light of these tragedies, to doubt the economic wisdom of accepting the hazards of late voyages, @nd _much more when humanity Is consid- ered. The loss of a single vessel wipes vut the profit of many voyages, and a score of lives op top of that certainly leaves the balance sirongly on the side of the older and safer practice. DECEMBER sentence of a shining light | down to 8%, | which may be taken to indicate that as | There 18 a question whether this total | the pre- | and | 17 Real Heart Thrillg Some Specimens of Surprise Parties That Grip the Interest of Victims and Spectators Both. refleat merriment und good will, and gen- orate more or less flippant remarks on the profit and loss of the tims. But there are various grades of sur- prise parties and these chronicles have to do with the variety that grips heart inter- est and musses domestie peace. Names are omitted. An unvarnished record serves the purpose and leaves the imagination room to work. The first sceno is laid In Kansas City. A well-to-do family of five sat around the parlor fast Sunday evening, enjoying them« selves as families usually do. The father, & man of ), was comfortably pulling & cigar and mother chatted with her three grown-ups. There was not a shadow to mar the pleture of family happiness. Sud- denly there was a knock at the door. A young woman and her mother entered. Both were very much excited. They did not stop in the hallway, when one of the daughters admitted them to the home, but walked back to the dining room into the family circle. The father dropped his paper and rose from his chair, with fear on his face. The mother logked worrled. S0 this is wife No. 1, is 1t?" said the younger of the two visitors, looking at the mother and eyeing the husband scornfully, “Well, I am wif. No. The situation was intense. Wife No. 1 looked appealingly at her husband. Sus- picious might have come to her that her husband might not have been true to her always. But to meet face to face in her own dining room a woman who produced a marriage certificate dated December 7. broke her heart. She turned to her one help. Falling on her knees, she began to pray. “'Oh, God,” she cried, “help me bear this trial. Be with this poor deceived girl in her trouble. Have mercy on my erring husband in this hour of disgrace. Be with my poor, poor children.' Arrest and ball followed and large sohs of remorse smote the heedless mind in the station house. There the cornered husband of two wives cheerfully admitted that he was a chump. “More than that,” he added, “I am the original Mr. E. Z Mark from Marksville.” Scene No. 2 js more of a domestic comedy, pulled in Chicago, but no less surprising in the climax. The family cook, in dis- posing of the dinner dishes, dropped a tea cup and littered the floor with the tragments. The article was & bit of dainty china, hand decorated, and a momento ot some event in the life of the mistress. The latter took the cook to task and un- pleasant personalities resulted. When she decided that she had been insulted the mistress proceeded to discipline the cook by slapping her. Now, the mistress weighs just 100 pounds, and the cook half as much more. When they clinched weight told from the start and after the first few feints of the first round the cook picked her mistress up bodily and hurled her through the swinging door. “I am mistress in my own house and will not be insulted. I will discipline my cooks as I see fit when It is neccssary,” sobbed the mistress, as she arose from her ig- nominous position. “You may be boes In there, but just come back and I will show you who is boss out here,” called the cook. ~ m— When the court had drafted a treaty of peace both claimed a victory. “Yes, I slapped her,” declared the mis- tress to the court. ‘“She dropped one of my fancy tea cups recklessly on the floot and broke it and when I asked about it she became saucy. You bet I slapped her, but I had no more than struck her when she pitched me bodily out of my kitchen into the next room.” “Sure 1 tossed her from the room,” re- Joined the cook, ““Why shouldn’t 1? When she hit me on the ear it hurt. I couldn't help dropping the cup. The concluding scene 1s laid In a St. Louls restaurant famous for its cuisine and tips A New Yorker with a native appetite called for the old standby, “ham and,” but neg- lected to sugar the Itching palm before ordering. Then he walted—and waited— and waited. He does not assert that the place changed hands several times while he abided within, but he intimates that he was In the way of becoming one of the fixtures of the place, and one may loglcally con- clude that the neighborhood In which the restaurant was located underwent many changes, and that all fashionable patronage began steadily moving further west while i waited. And all this while the “ham and” falled to shed its delicite aroma upon the scene. Then he Indulged in visions of the world in which he had formerly moved, and yielded to a growing desire to revisit the haunts he had known before he entered that eating place. That he was arrested at the instigation of & waiter only goes to prove that he had come to seem as & permanent possession of the place—like the coffee urn, and the phalanxes of ples, and the hunk of coffee cake in the glass case. Haled into court, he lald the whole miser- able story of wasted years before the judge, and that new Danlel decreed that a man might leave a restaurant without eating, and without stopping to “‘pay the cn»hlvl‘, pledse,” after he had waited “‘a reasonable SCIENTIFIC FARMING, ng Waste of Avatl- able Energy, New York Evenlig Post. James J. HIl's continued warnings about Burprise parties as commonly understood | cloth-clad vie- | Comforter for | ho! ev Just to rell This leavos time for a leisurely evening inspection of the best weiected stock of aiamonds, watohe elry, novelties, etc. § Mandelberg “Open Evenings 'Til Christmas” i the pressure of the pre. Uday tr this store will be open enings from now until Christmas, gold and silver jow- shown in Omaha. 1522 Farnam St. Omaba, Nebraska SERE YRS I TE N PERSONAL NOTES. President Taft surely means to use up that $25,000 traveling expense account. A Trenton doctor has had to pay $2,000 for breaking the jaw of a cabman. There Is more money 10 the profession in setting bores. Miss Isadors Duncan, the dancer, has left this country in disgust, saying that she will never return because the American people who have money do not appreciate art of the bare‘oot variety. Secretary Nagal of the Department of Commerce and Labor reports that during the past year 944,235 allens came into this country and brought with them In cold cash $17,381,28. This latter circumstance is usually overlooked by those who would make the immigration laws more stringent. After a New York woman had served a large part of a year's sentence of imprison- ment a higher than the trial court declded that she had not committed a crime. The rest of the sentence has been annulled, but that this leaves the woman in high good humor and with an exalted opinion of Justice 18 seriously doubted. Sherburn M. Becker, famous the coun- try over as the “Boy Mayor’ of Mil- waukee, has purchased a seat on the New York Stock exchange for $%,000 and will in a short time go to New York with his wife to make his home. The sale of the seat on the exchange was announced last week, but the name of the purchaser was not learned until Monday. Twenty years ago J. P. Morgan, jr. began working as & shipping clerk with Drexel, Morgan & Co. Later he became executive head of his father's London house. He adsisted In organizing the Lon- don Underground and the International Mercantlle Marine company—the so-called “ship trust.”” He s a director of both the above companies, of the United States Steel corporation, the Northern Pacific Railway, Arcada Coal company, and of the North British Mercantile company. MR. BRYAN AND PROHIBITION. Latest Explanation of His Attitude on the Temperance Question. Washington Star. To corfect the story in clreulation that he 16 @ prohibitionist, and would introduce that issue Into the next »residential cam- paign, Mr. Bryan in his newspaper ex plains his attitude on the temperance Question. He has not declared-for prohibi- tion, and does not now declare agalnst it, He simply says he does not expect lo see prohibition become paramount and effect- ive in national politics in his day. But Mr. Bryan wants to see local option wherever it prevails become the more se- cure by protecting it against outside inter. ference. He would penalize the shipping ot spirits into territory which the citizens have voted dry, and would prohibit the is- suance by the natlonal government liquor licenses there, This pronouncement will be well recelvec in temperance circles, and increase M Bryan’s hold on those democrats who hav: made or are making the temperance causc paramount in their localities. He state: the case as they do. He would go as far as they in that matter. And that feature of the case is at present more Important than the larger feature of prohibition. For the point at present is to hold territory al- ready secured against attack from the out- side. If the distillers and brewers cap flood dry territory from without its bor- ders, local option can in a large measure be defeated in effect. And, of course, the more popular deliverapce makes Mr. Bryan in temper- ance circles, the more unpopular it will make him in distiling and brewing and saloon circles. It brings him, too, into sharp antagonism with the three men most frequently mentioned in connection with his place as leader of the democratic party —Governor Harmon of Ohlo, and Governor Marshall and Scnator Shively of Indiana, All three of these men are in office largely by the favor of the distilling and browing Interests. Mr. Bryan fell outside the breastworks. Ohio and Indiana voted for Taft. The national issues did not ap- peal to the lquor issues. So in the one state they elected a democratic governor, and in the other a democratic governor and a democratic legislature with a United States senatorship within its grasp. Mr. Shively was chosen senator, and John W. ot this cratic national ticke the aistillers and the the choice. Mr. Bryan, then, has challenged the men who last year opposed him. It would prob. ably be unfair to say that he has done so because of that fact, for he Is a man of convietions with the courage of them on all subjects. But they are against him and he is against them, and the men they favor are the men he has to beat In the for control of the next democratic convention. has declared brewers that dominated tussle national SUNNY GEMS. Professor, what s ‘Intensive corn e Persistently wearing tight cago Tribune. shoes."'—~Chi- Judge (to boy on witness stand)-Well, my litte man, do you know what an oath s, sir; 1 was your golf o ole week last summer seript, 1die for —Boston Tran- “Did you use any money in your cam- answered “That sort of thing discredited. A man who has tinancial ability should be able to do busi- ness with a gilt-edge prospectus.’—W. ington S:ar, not," B h “Now,"” sald the architect to the f\ml'} rust thagnate, “that you are to ettle you want a comfortable residen Would you prefer in this new housc southern exposure “Good heavens, no!" eried the macnate, with a shiver of horror. “Any Kind posure s just what I don’t want.—La Ymore American. said the alderman from winking slowly with his “‘Money talks,"” the 'Steenth ward, left eye. “Well, if this does any talking, whis- pered the promoter, handing it over, “It will be the last you'll ever get."—Chicaga Tribune, / Mrs. Flatlelgh—Good, morning, It's cold this morning. Janitor—Yes, ma‘am, Put I hope you don’t blame me for that.—Boston Herald. Janitor, he camae in_arith- serpent’s “Ma," sald clever Willle, as home from school, “my teacher metic 18 a woman with a tonzue."” “Wilile, how can you speak so of Miss Smith?" remonstrated his mother. “Well,"" retorted Willle, “you know she's an adder.’—Baltimore American. “She looked at me very maliclously yes: terda “well S0 think she must have bought my Christmas present.’ Kansas City Journal. Uncle Eben—I tell ye that it's exees: indulgence in pleasure that kills so many men. Uncle Ezra—You're right on that, those fellows that stay up till 9 o'cl pitchin’ quoits by lantern light won’ alize it till their eyes begin to fail 'em.— Puck. A MISMANAGED HEAVEN. S, E. Kiser in’ the' Record.Herald. Géfore the gates of heaven there stood Jne who had cheated when he could; He'd run a trust on earth, Where he'd been worth More milllons than a fig has seeds; {e had been sued for lawless deeds At least a score of times, But though 'twas proved that crimes Had been commjtted in his interest And under his d ction, Though Injuries found him guilty, br it There never lodged dejection. Whenever any court decided Against him be appealed; His doom was sealed me and again, but he derided The scalers, ever sure that he Bomewhow, somewhere, Could find a judge who would declare That in the law Tnere was a flaw And, therefore, set him free. in his One day this man appeared at heaven's And having been informed about his face, He smiled a knowing smile And stood around awhile, Instead of starting for the realm below. At length St. Peter asked: “Why don't you “Go?" he replied; “go where? You don’t expect me to report Down there } Where Satan holds his court! Why, I intend, My white-haired friend To hang around this place; I shall appeal the case “You must depart,” the “Or you will forthwith be You can’t appeal from my 4 fne derision, 1y lv‘\";\u(»e appeal was thus denied Drew himself up in all his pride Of five feet seven. And frowning, turned to say: “This is aypunk old way saint directed, ejected, decision!" ) Kern, Mr. Bryan's associate on the demo- Smaller Instrument |our falling food supply are really a plea | for scientific farming. Intensive culture and the utilization of every ounce of energy stored up in food, must make up for the | increasing pressure of population and the | iminishing areas of cheap and upoccu | pled land. This subject was touched upon | |in the presidential address delivered be- | | fore the Society of Animal Nutrition at | Chicago last month, and just printed in the | last number of Sclence. A strong point ! was made of closer attention to what may be called the by-products of the farm. Just as the miner seeks to work low-grade ore, #o will the farmer of the future en: deavor to prevent the waste of “available | energy contained in oat hulls, corn cobs, | and the like.” It 1s somewhat anomalous | to have such minor savings urged upon us at the very time when, as the president as- | sures us, the country Is In a “high state of prosperity.” But the true moral Is that Hill insists, namely, that | upon which Mr. no prosperity can long endure which de- pends upon exhsusting the soll and ig. noring the applications of science to agri l culture. A Mere Cotmeldence. Philadeiphia Press. Counsel for the sugar defendants argued that the seales were defective. It is.a sin- gular colncidence that all sevenieen of them lied for the advantage of the Sugar trust, Our plano business vast as It line of “smaller” mysical inst VERY largest offerifig of violl brass musical Instruments those always welcome accessories rolls. 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