Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 21, 1909, Page 6

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REMITTANCES Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The iee Publiching Company Only 2-cent stamps tecelved in payment of mail accounts, Parsonal checks. except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted "o L6800 3 West STATEMENT QF CIRCULATION State of Nebraskd, Douglas County, Gedrge B. Taschuck. treasurer of The Ree Publishing Company, being duly sworn. says that the actual number of full and complete coples of The Dally. Morning Evening and Sunday Bee printed during ‘he month of November. 159, was a8 followa: 43,070 18, ...i. 43,060 17. 43,700 18 42,150 19. 43,450 20, 43170 21, 40040 21.. 4,98 3. 43,160 24, 41,820 1,760 2,060 41,780 40,100 Daily Average. GEO. B. TZECHUCK. Treasuier Subscribed in iy presence and sworn Lo Eelore me this 1at day. of Llecember, 1W). (Beal) M. P, WALKER Notary Pubiic. Subscribers leaving the eity tem- porarily should have The B Address will be The weather man s putting on his Christmas face, and not too soon. Old Santa Claus is xeufig the glad hand aiready in Omaha. He's welcome at any time. Paris has determined that its new play is “shockingly immoral.”” Need it be added that it is voted a vast suc- cess. The tobacco combine is lylng awake these frosty nights wondering what sort of a New Year's tag the supreme court ‘will give it Again the courts have decided that poker is a gamg of skill and not chance. These American institutions are bound to come into their' own. - All of the militant aplr‘t is not absent from Oyster Bay, when the ‘wife of a section hand there can swing a big stick and conquer three robbers. Some of the ‘“advanced” surgeons are now advocating Injections of rat- tleshake venom to cure consumption. Another way is to let the snake bite the patient A Chicago judge has decreed that bables cannot be barred by landlords from flats, but there will continue to be parents who argue that the flat is no place for the child. King Corn and King Coar are not the only monarchs to be dealt with. King Ice is claiming some share of vublic attention now, preparing for his toronation next summer, Four thousand corporations in Ne- braska are to be listed as defunct. Just how many of these are actually dead cannot be told until the sleeping ones find out what has happened to them tnd begin to seék for resurrection. The Miseour! insurance department which has started a war on Nebraska Would better find out just what it is tomplaining of, A big hullabaloo has seen kicked up by misunderstanding, sut if Missourl can stand it Nebraska « will have to. % Our imports of Christmas toys do "ot ren quite as high into the millions as our imports of Christmas coffee, which goes to show that the elders, in ‘administering happiness to the little anes, are not letting their own cheer- Ing cup go empty. The city council and mayor are en- yaged in the laudable effort of solving ihe garbage question, They can make very much better headway by not call- ing each other names. Bandying words Bcross the council chamber will never slear up the existing conditions. Dr. Ellot is suffering from prema- ture exploitation. His “five-foot book shelf,” which his publishers intended a serious commercial enterprise, has been grabbed off by imitators, and now the worthy educator is driven to the recourse of the law courts to head off the literary pirates. Harvard ethics and the world’s practice run or 1if- ferent tracks, Suppose the investigation into the archives of the Interior department of the United State demanded by the congressman-editor of the World- Herald, should be carried back to cover perfod «f say forty years; and sup- pos {ls of all the transactions 5 | anybody will take exception. The Casé Against Omaha Governor Shallenberger fir the ailegations against the eity of Omaha, made by the ant league, are not sustained by the Following this announcement the gov- ernor solemnly adjures the citizens of Omaha that they must obey the law, that its provisions will be enforced and that its penalties will be visited upon anyone who offends against it. In this there ig nothing to which The only possible cause for complaint is the in- nuendo to the effect that Omaha citi- zens habitually do not obey the law, and that they are in need of the execu- tive admonition in order to keep them straight. This covert insult to the cit- izenship of Omaha is part of a cam- paign that has been carried on with deliberate purpose for many months. Omaha has been persistently set up as a place where the law is defled and de- rided and where decency has no abid- ing refuge. These charges have been made publicly and privately, in the pul- pit and in thé press, until the good peo- ple of Omaha, despairing of any cor- rect statement being made, have come to abide the slander with what patience they may.\ Now that the governor has finally listened to the charges and tes- timony intended to support the accu- satlons, and has found that the case was not made, it is time to challenge the slander, and Omaha people are deeply concerned and are vitally inter- ested in the maintenance of law and order. It is neither. possible nor de- sirable that all agree on just what the law should be. But the law when passed is a concrete expression of the will of a majority of the citizens of Ne- braska, and citizens of Omaha are also citizens of Nebraska and recSgnize fully their amenability to these laws It is not required that we have the special guardianship of persons from the outside, nor that we be chastised or chidden from time to time by the governor of the state, in order to re- mind us of the duty we owe to the state and to ourselves. It is impossi- ble in a community the size of Omaha to maintain the orderly peace and quiet of the country village. It is no more possible to prevent absolutely the sale of liguor contrary to law in Omaha than it 1s to stop the crimes of murder, ar- som or rabbery, or any other infraction ot the law. . But the officials can, they have and they will do their utmost to secure the enforcement of the law and the punishment of its violators, and in this they will have the support of all good citizens of Omaha, regardless of party afiliation or religious connection. at Is on facts National Health Crusade. Much is to be said in favor of the proposal to make the determined war- fare against tuberculosis a nation: affair, for ‘unquestionably the federal government can accomplish great good in checking abuses such as the inter- state traffic of dairy supplies which are found to be infected. And the eficiency of the Red Cross in this par- ticular ' crusade will undoubtedly be quickened and strengthened by gen- eral legislation. But after all, the responsibility of the indlividual must be collectively in- voked if tuberculosis or any other foe of the race is to be successtully at- tacked. The personal equation cannot be escaped, in this or in any matter, and all the efforts of .the Red Cross and government would be neutralized it each family did not follow the pre- cepts which science disclosed and legis- lation interpreted. The government can only direct, like a general in the fleld. On the loyalty and w®ity of the privates de- pend the battle, If there is to be effective support of any national health crusade there can be no evasion of private responsibllity nor any in- vagion of self-rellance Promise of Congress. During the short time it has been in session before taking its Christmas holiday congress has adopted a pace which promises well. Instead of de- voting the early weeks to marking time both houses have gained head- way. The program of legislation has been taken up with willingness and spirit, indicating continuous progress when proceedings shall be resumed. Thub far the session has been one of remarkable unity, and so complete has been the devotion of the members to the work outlined that no oppor- tunity for interference has been af- forded. In every body the minority faction has its value in. forwarding the transaction of business, and what- ever the present minority can do in the way of expediting legislation will be welcomed, but obstructive policy trom any source will simply public condemnation. So gratifylng to the people is the promige thus far made by congress that there will be general disappoint- ment I the administrative program is not carrfed with the same deliberate devotion and business-like method to a successful conclusion, Rewards in the Sugar Frauds. Now that the government has begun to secure convictions of the sugar ring thieves it is brought to consider the matter of rewarding those who first gave the information which made eon- victions possible. Under ‘the law they are entitled to a share of the spolls wrupg from the delinguents, which already run into the milllons, and a difference of disposition is shown, some advocating a liberal allowance and cthers clalming that the inform- anti’ *¥6 only done their duty WLile it is true that virtue is philo- duri time were given to the public. Wouln't it make some inte esting reading? sophigally considered as its own re- ward, nevertheless it is apparent that the hope of financial gain usually | hts | places. The president’s personal safety arouse |, THE BEE operates to secure such revelations as fead to the customs convictions. The informant is essential to the adminis- tration of justice in such cases as this, and inasmuch as he ordinarily suffers a taint on his popularity from the very nature of his activitles, it would appear that he is deserving of what emoluments justice decrees him to be entitled to. In this matter of reward the government can hardly afford to be niggardly, any more than it can afford to be tender in the matter of punish- ment, The Trainmen's Demand. In asking seventy-five eastern rail- roads for wagé increases varying from to 40 per cent the trainmen have brought to a focus the red rays of trouble that have been warning the piblic for some time. The matter is one in which the public has the great- est concern, for should a strike be pre-| cipitated there would be a stagnation | of business whose cost would be gi-| gantic and results staggering. Fortunately, the trainmen and the| companies are bound together in a collective agreement which would be- come nugatory if either sfde to the| dispute caused any cessation of ac- tivity, and it both parties hold true as is to be expected there will be a signifi- cant exhibition of the value of such a bargain between labor and capital. The general welfare i& insured in advance by the existence of the brotherhood's arrangement with the raflroads, making the possibility of a strike remote. Yet there is such a possibility, and to avold it the dis- putants have need of all patience and mutual forbearance. Public sentiment is against a general railroad strike, and the concern of all will insist on very resource of arbitration being ex- hausted before the thought of striking | is even entertained. Industry and commerce will not tolerate the idea of | a general tieup of the transportation | facilities of the country just as pros- perity has got back to its old swing. |‘ di— Colonel Rcosevelt's literary style is always an occasion for admiration on the part of his fellow countrymen. His directness and lucidity have been the most remarkable characteristics of his writings, and the benefits he has con- terred on his fellow countrymen by reason of this are scarcely understood. What, for cxample, could contain in fewer words more definite and specific information than the following: Cheetahs are Interesting beasts; they are aberrant cats, standing very high on their legs, and with nonretractile alaws like a dog. They are nearly the size of a leopard, but are not ordinarily anything like as feroglous, and pre¢ on the emaller ante- lope, occasionally taking something as blg as a half-grown kongonl. There you have not only a photo- graph of the cheetah, but also an in- sight into his personal character and general qualifications as a neighbor, not to speak-of.a most comprehensive description of his food. For this, ahd’ many similar chunks of household in- formation, Mr, Roosevelt’s letters from Africa are most notabl No-one will begrudge President Taft bis natural desire to get away for a breath of air entirely by himself, but in view of the pre-eminence of his sta- tion and the history of the presidential | office the public mind cannot feel en- tirely at ease over the knowledge of | going unattended into lonely is a matter of vital concern for every good citizen, and it would seem that prudence would suggest perpetual vigi- lance. The danger of starting out in life as a jester is illustrated by Jerome K. Jerome, who finds it hard to convince the English workingman that he is serlous in his talks on the budget. | His hearers undoubtedly take him to be indulging in more “Idle Thoughts.” It is to be expected that the steel men will blame the weather for the sudden epidemic of broken rafls and consequent ‘wrecks, but the traveling public has a right to be assured that the rails are made with sufficlent care to withstand climatic chang ‘W. J. Calhoun, new minister to China, has passed the test of hig fare- well dinner speech in Chicage without making any public utterance save some jokes about the civil war, which can hardly concern the mikado very materially. Joy and Pathos. Baltimore American, The finest thing in the world is child- | hood’s faith in Santa Claus; and the most pathetic thing In the world is a little heart {bowed down by the sight of the empty stocking. | Draft for Greeneries. Brooklyn Eagle, It is estimated that 4,000,000 Christmas trees have been cut for the eastern mar- kets. These are to net the landowners $160,000, while fathers and mothers, as the | fiscal agents of Santa Claus, will be re- | | quired to spend $2.000,000 for the trces. Why e Phenomenon, Philadelphia Record. The t ts and the trusts’ champions have pretty unanimously come to the con- clusion that the tariff has nothing at all to do with the general rise of.prices of necessarles of living. They are generally agreed /that “the phenomenon has its rise In a concatenation of fortultous and alto- gether unexplainable circumstances.” Ind an Arny Officers. San Francisco Chronicle, America h had great generals whose names were never on the army rolls. Sit- ting Bull and Geronimo were two of them, |and Red Cloud, who has just died, was | next in the quality of his field reputation. These men were natural strategists and fighters, and for years baffled the energles of the best white commanders. That they all had to yield in time speaks for the odds against them and reveals-no lack of mil- tary efficlency on their part. Considering what they 4ld in war, the government OMAHA, TUESDAY |@rte and does away with an impossible de- | prosecution of tl ¢ sugar trust goes on, and | I | tish { common. | ean stand all that may be coming to it DECEM ht well give some of the prom'sing young men of their tribes an education at West Point, with a view of future useful néss in civilised conflicts. Cresident Taft o Bowery. New York World Prosident Taft never did a better hour's work than when, hoarse With a heavy cold, he braved the deluxe of Monday night to &peak (o the men in the Bowery mission It Is not althing that any man who heard him is going to forget, nor does its cheery message end with the audience that heard it the famous street that yesterday eould talk of so little else ) Profit From Small Trees. Philadelphla Press. t 18 a wise remark by the chiet for- ester that there ls no other use to which pine troes could be put which would con tribute ko much to the good of mankind ns their decoration for the delight of the lit- tl6 ‘ones on Christmas. The 4,000,000 trees may” gladden the hearts of 10,000,000 chil- dren this year. Think of It. That is get- ting soma real profit out of small trees. Some Objections Removed. Boston Herald. Attorney General Wickersham, by his new interpretation of the corporation tax law/to apply to net profits instead of net income, obviates the objection of account- mand on ocorporation bookkeeping. Pos- sibly President Taft may now change his Intérpretation of the law and define It as & tax on business, rather than on ‘‘priv lege,’" and thus obviate some of the obje tions of the lawyers, Senatorial Thrift. Boston Transcript. The great responeibilities involved in the floor leadership of the senate democrats have not overshadowed the tender family teelings of Senator Money of Mississippl He has transferred from- positions the have held In o committee of which he was chafrman to sitilar positions in the mi- nority organization his son, his daughter and his' daughter-in-law. They- draw in the aggregate $,40 salarles for assisting him in hins Herculean labors as floor leadar. ' Altogether, counting the senator's salary, about $13,000 a year of public money goes to the Money family, which is thrift Mergerites on Wrong Road. Springfield Republican. The profected copper merger s sald to have obtained the sanction of President! Taft, as the steel trust's absorption of the Tennessee Coal and Tron company had the sanction of President Roosevelt, but this positively denled by Secrotary Carpenter. It would be safe to =ay in event that President Taft, if he had in the matter, refused to say a word one way. or the other, save possibly in rebuke | of those who thus came to him. It is for the courts to say just what the law ls, and- it is not for the president to grant im- munities, ‘except as an act of usurpation, and President Taft was never cut out to be & usurper. Some Sig of Goo: Philadelphia Press. The Red Cross stamp is an instrument of meroy.. It collects money from the well and benevolent to wipe out preventable diseases. Buy these stamps by all means, but do not place them on letters and packages intended for foreign countries. Some countries, Great Britain among them, have rigid postal regulations which bar out from their ‘mafls packages with a Red Cross or'any stamp other than the regula- tion paekage stamps upon them. Germany does' mot “altow ‘them on the face of the envelope “or ‘package, but does not object to themion the back. It Is easy to err, howeverpiin this and it Is better to use your Red Cress stamps in a way that whr not carry,any risk of loss to your Christ- mas gifts.and letters, Wi, AGITATION AS A HABIT. Beasonable Time for Mugwumps to Swear Off, Des Moines Capital While some ‘people are worrying in re- gard to ‘the Roosevelt policles and preiend to be longing for the return of Roosevelt President Taft and his cabinet are laboring for the Roosevelt policles and every other ®ood policy. The president will soon send speclal messages to congress on tranaporta- tion. and other problems. Meantime the meantime all dlsuonest men are being dis- charged from the New ¥ork customs house Reform i the watchword of the Taft ad- ministration. Of course the mugwump newspapers are not satisfled, and they are making good in that direction. Sensational magazines will not be satistied for the reason that they are afrald to let up in tr» line of agitation, for with them agitation 18 the life of trade. An agltator can never quit.” “The old abolition agitators had been in the work so long that they had to find ault with Abraham Lincoln. Wendell Phil- ips can be taken as an example. William Lioyd Gagrison was another. Still another was Anna Dickinson. She was one of the great speakers and agitators of her time. ©hdrles Bumner could scarcely quit and felt compelled to oppose the administration of President Grant. The reader can under- stand that 8 per cent of the fault-finding that 18 reaching the public today comes from force of habit or an Inabllity to quit. President Taft Is all right and s making a grand president. TRYING TO FLOAT A WRECK. Wiforts to Pull Democratic Ship Off | the Rocks, Loulsville Courler-Journal | The Courler-Journal has been trying ever } slnce 1896—Iit 1s trying now and it will go on trying—to save the old democratic ship | of Zion from shipwreck. Her bottom and | hor keel seem not only still intact, but as| as oak and iron can make them. | Otherwise, she would long ago have sunk beriewth the wave. Much, indeed, has| ofie aWry with her steering gear. There | haxe been her decks some plots | to scuttle and upon her decks many muti- | nles. She has been loaded down at times | with strange, unmarketable cargoes. Sel- | men have ‘fed themselves upon her slender store of provisions, bawling their | loyalty and screaming “traitor” at those who expostulated. Yet there she rides | the billows, battered about the bulkhead, sound helow bessten below the blige, her fo'castle plates |' stove in and her stern sheets hanging over thé taffrall—to some a kind of phantom ship—to the. Courter-Journal a fine old fighting frigate of the Constitution class, well worth seving, but requiring, before ghe can be expected to sall effectively ageinst the republican. squadron, a world of outlay and labor, of refitting and re- turnishing—complete renovation, in point of fact—and a new captain! To these ends democrats ought to cease belng critical and unjust one to another. They should stop the loose jaw that is so As to the Courler-Journal, it But, truly, its aim is to show the rank and file where the troubles are, to keep faith with the rank and file, not to slick things over with unmeaning whoop-las, which affront the general intelligence and decelve no one. Great things are rarely, it ever, done In a corner. The floating again of the battleship Democracy—if she be floated to any serfous and lasting pur- pose—must be, and will be, in the sight of @l the world. Otherwise, we might s well commit her to the god &f storms, the lightning and, the gale! +| Stowart having served as a commissioned n approached |/ | in thelr relations to each ather.’”. In th | Beonomy with coal, |a BER 21, 190 A AP Army Gossip Matters of Interest On and Back of the Firing Line Gleaned from the Army and Navy Register. It will be interesting to know what com- ment will be made by the War department on the bill introduced In the senate by My, Chamberlain, providing for appoint ment of Colonel Willlam D. Stewart United States army, retired, to the rank | and grade of brigadier-general on the re- | tired list of the army, the said Colonel | officer on the active list over forty-one years, and having received a bfevet com- mission for service In action and been recommended for a medal of honor.” The history of Colonel Stewart's case Is too well known to need recital here and it 13 imaginable that the War department will return an adverse report on the bill It it s submitted to the secretary of the war for comment. As the president fs merely ‘“authorized” and not “‘directed” to nominate Colonel Stewart as a briga- dfer general, it quite lkely that no action will be taken in view of the at- titude of the War department under Mr. Taft and the action of President Roosevelt when a determined offort was made to have Colonel Stewart apply for retire- ment. is An important announcement of the week In the War department has been that of the selection of Major General Leonard Wood as chief of staff to succeed General Bell upon the expiration of his tour of duty In April and the appointment of Col- onel Walter Howe of the coast artillery corps to be a brigadier general upon the retirement of General W. 8. Edgerly. The anrouncement of General Wood's selection for the position of chief of staff is re. celved with satisfaction.” The information was given out to relieve the situation of the element of uncertainty. The president has been approached in behalf of a num- ber of officers whose friends and adheronts desired their selection, and Mr. Taft ap- preclated that there was every advantage in making the announcement of the de- clslon as soon as it was reached. The ap- pointment of Colonel Howe Is recelved with satistaction In that it indicates a disposi- tlon on the part of the president to recog- nize senfority and avold the demoralising jumps in making general officers out of Colonel Howe is the senior col- the coast artillery corps and is now on duty at Fort Greble, R. 1. He will retire for age on December 11, 1910. The vacancy caused by the promotion of Col- onel Howe wlll occasion the following pro- motions: Lieutenant Colonel F'. Marsh will become a colonel, Major H. C. Davis will become a lleutenant colonel, Captain G. G. Helner will become a major, First Liou- tenant H. H. Ross will become a captain, | and Second Lieutenant P. P. Otterson will become a first lleutenant. The next briga- dlership to be filled will be on the retire- ment of General Chitten in January. Junlors. onel in The landmark of the office of the comp- troller of the treasury has been supra-seded. The time-honored “supra,” which has been Inserted one or more times in every deci- sion rendered by that office, is hopelessly |’ overshadowed by the new luminary ‘lus- trum.” Webster's dictionary says of this Latin word that it means “a lustration or purification, especially the purification of the whole Roman people, which was made by the censors In the Campus Martius once In five years, after completing the census, and In which an ox, a sheep, or & swine were offered; hence, a period of five years, and even more.” Therefore, it has heéen selzed upon as the vehicle to express, {ri proper dignity, what has been all too long designated “longevity! in determining the pay of officers In the service of the government. Quoting Webster again, we find “supra” to be ‘“a prefix, being the Latin peposition supra, signifying above, over, or beyond; another form of super.’ It has been a mystery to many who have read the valuable opinions of the comp- troler's office just what “supra’” did and what relation It bore to the subject matter | of the questions under consideration. With the new ‘“lustrums” there need be no trouble. It means a period of five years “of lustration or purification,” which an officer must serve as a probationary perlod | prior to an increase of pay for length of serv'ce. “Lustrums” will stand as an epoch in the life of each officer, and the more lustrums the better. A great Injustice has been done to the United States steamship Nebraska and the officors attached to that vessel by the writers of dispatches from Norfolk describ. ing the ehip as “the hoodoo of the nav. and alleging that unhappiness prevails among those attached to the vessel. The classification of the Nebraska with the old Texas in this regard is manifestly im- proper and unwarranted. The Nebraska went into commission at Puget Sound on July 1, 1907, and since then haa been con- stantly on the move, joining the circum- navigating fleet and completing the voy- age with the command from the west coast through the Suez canal to Hampton Roads. The collision with the Georgla is the first accident™which has befallen the ship since the laying of her keel. An officer attached to the ship, who has served on five other vessels since he entered the service and who ought to be qualified to judge of the state of mind of those on board the Ne- | braska, writes: “I unhesitatingly say that on none of thé other ships on which I have sorved have I found the officers, Individ- ually and collectively, officlally and clally, more hoppy, contented, and .ur.nxh listed force the men are shipping over, | upon the expiration of thelr terms. A | ship cannot be & hocdoo which has gained | the distinction of the United States steam- | ehip Nebraskn, as was set forth the menu of its Thanksglving dinner. That le- gend follows The U on 8. 8. Nebraska's Record 5. on Her Turret, ¥ mplons at base ball, Champlons at foot ball, Samplons at basket bail Champlon “signalmen of Atlantic Who can beat 1t? ¢ L fle Nebraska champlons.” co SSION AND ITUTION, | was vacant. Is economical A Fire and Burglar-Proof : Safety Deposit Box insurance on Valuable Papers, Jewelry, etc. Varlous Sizes for Various Needs. Entrance to Batety Deposit Vanits Is at 307 Bouth 13th St. Invest your savings in a 8 pex: cen. Certificate of Deposit. PERSONAL NOTES, The way sugar Importers are repaying the sums stolen from the government may be due to consclence aroused or to a gen- erous impulse to do something about the treasury deficit, In four years ninety-elght theaters and thirty-two churches have been bullt in Manhattan, This indicates a strong under- current of sobriety where the glitter of the lobster pa‘ace is decelving Otto Beft, brother of the late South Af- rican multimillionaire Alfred Beit, has in- creased the latter's bequest of $260,00 to 215,000 (§1,015,000), to provide fellowships | for medical research in memory of his brother. Now that the owner of an American de- partment store in London has engaged the wife of an English baronet to work for him, it may be expected that the Britons will have another spasm. The “English- man’s Home" seems to be in danger from ail sides, Prof. Charles T. Terry Is head of the legislative section of the American Auto- mobile association. He is professor ol law in Columbla college. Recently he had written & paper on “Education” for the college quarterly, In which he criticlses severely the “flve-foot she'f of books" of ex-President Bllot of Harvard. Since the news of the filing of the lbel sult by W. G. (Tramway Bill) Smith against Judge Ben B. Lindsey and Harvey J. O'Higgins, over the series of articles appearing in Everybody's Magazine, under the head of “The Beast in the Jungle,” has spread about the country, more than 100 lotters a day have poured into the judge's office. In most cases the messages were filled with words of encouragement. Others offor personal assistance or state that they will assist In raising funds with which to defend the suit. MASHING A WEATHER PROPHET, What to an Imprudent n Medicine Man. New York Sun. Here was & man who had the courage of his convictions, a weather prophet, a cloud compeller, a master of the winds—and he is dead. She Shen Jim was his name, an Indian medicine man, a shaman out In Alaska: His specialty was the control of the winds. As shaman he rose superior to princes, who govery all things| save” the winds. On Gamblers Bay, the .stormy winds did blow and he had business which called for his presence in Juneau. He sat upon the beach and made medicine, even as Professor Moore in Washington juggles isobars and isotherms. Each meteorologist issues his local forecast, but Shaman She Shen Jim really believed In his. The wind swept down on Gamblers Bay, the canoe capsized, the medicine man had a dose of | his own medicine and the ofice of shaman The wind was too much for She Shen Jim, he and his family are vie- tims of his misplaced confidence in the sclence of meteorology. PASSING PLEASANTRIES, ‘Mrs. Gay husbands."” “The abandoned Leader has been deserted by two creature!”—Cleveland “Who is the blindfolded party with the pyir of scales?’ asked the stranger in the art_gallery ‘That represents Justice."’ “Oh, I thought It 'was a sugar weigher, — Boston Transeript. $6 for dyeing that cape! Outra- Keous “Well, ma,am, the increaged cost of liy- ing has caused us to {ricrease the cost of dyeing."—Kansas City Times. “Yes. DIA you hear how she punifhied him for some minor fault the oth day 7 £he made him stay in the house after sup- per and button h shirtwaist down the back eleven times.'-—~Kansas City Times. “Pop, 1 know the kind of ships they hy dog_watehes on “Indeed; do you?" ep; théy're barks.". ~Washington iler- Where's (hat bird you “Oh, the milliner down th plained that he kept ber cu obstructing the sidewalk bstructing the sidewalk Ves. You see he spent all his time down there pointing the birds in the window. Bverybody's Magazine, THE NICARAGUAN “CRISIS.” / Springtield Republican. “What are tbe cables flashng for correepondent cried “Diplomacy, diplomac plied. “What makes you send the ships to sea?” the correspondent cried; merely going to call their bluff,” Philander replied. For they're -stirring north of Panama. When they &tart to getting haughty they &0 a bit too far. It's time these kid republics received w gentle jar. ' we're golng to spank Zelaya in the morning. street com- the Philander K. re- “I'm up the devil just S0 “What makes the jingoes smilo with glee?” the correspongdent cried; “They hope there'll be a bloody war Phtlander K. replied. “But do you really mean to fight?" the correspondent cried; “Some one has got to' fight or crawl* Philander K. replied. The Buffalo is headed south from Pinch- elinque Bay, The Bennington's at Greytown, a ship's near Managua, The Prairie's left' League Island—there'll be the déuce to pdy When we spank Zelaya In the mornink. “What makes the polticians smile?” the correspondont cried. “They seo now crops;of heroes” Philander XK. replied, \ ‘Then there'll”be ‘more. Rough Rider: the correspondent crled; Not on_your life, not on your life!” Phi- lander K: replied. In seven years of Roosevelt we surely ot our £l1l, We're living on the heritage he handed down_to- Bill, it we'vé gof to haye a war there'll be no._Sasi: Jian Hl, When we start to spank Zelaya morning. So, in the The Christmas Present of a Lifetime The new Grafonola ‘“Elite’’—the fi»s¢ horn- less instrument evér offered at its price—$100, The smallest pcrfcct cabinet machine yet intro- duced; the beginning of a new era in sound-repro- ducing instruments. 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One of the latest significant Incidents of this | chapter in trade history s th of new legal advisers for the "Tiu The | disciplinary tion of the church of whieh the former legal adviser of the “Trust” s a member will now be awalted with In- Rival J. L. BURR, Mgr,