Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 26, 1909, Page 12

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REMITTANCES, Remit by draft, express or postal order ble to The Bee Publishing Company mns ceived in payment of Personal checks. except on M West Jounty, ss. ‘Tho Tiee C 3 Yy, sworn hat the actusi_numper of full And complete coples of Ths Dally. Morning Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of November, 1903, was as follows: 3 41,9% 48,160 41,600 41,390 41,950 41,080 Reform in Tradiag. The executive heads of two of the leading trading firms on the Chicago Board of Trade were punished by sus- pension from the Board of Trade for one day. Their crime was the alleged manipulation of prices to suit their |own ends, On the same day an ex- pelled member of the New York Stock | exchange began suit against the presi- | dent of the exchange for reinstatement, alleging that he had been expelled be- |cause of unfounded charges affecting { bis (ntegrity as a member of the organ- | | ization | The significance of these two news | items will be apparent when the details | are examined iInto a little more closely. | In the case' of the grainmen it was es- | tablighed that they controlled the sup- ply of oats for September and that| | through trading between themselves | they succeeded in running the price up | to a fietitious point, at which they unm- | dertook to compel the victims of their | manipulations to settle. The stock broker was found gullty of giving in-| formation to a rival stock exchange. The public interest in this consists | |largely of a desire to know how much | |ot the retribution visited upon these | | oftenders is founded on a real desire to | purify the operations of the great trad- | | ing boarde involved, and how much is | due merely to an effort on the part of | | the “squeezed” to get even with the | “squeezers."” | The great outery of the public agalnst the various trading exchanges | |of the world has been because of the well-established fact that prices have | been manipulated and juggled for the | THE OMAHA SUNDA tual life. So that the balance should be maintained, he recommends that in city schools home economics and man- ual training be taught, with the option of agriculture, The teaching of voeational studies in the common schools is not entirely A new thought, but President Waters has given a new twist to the proposal, und it may be that he will prove to | have evolved a basis for definite under- | takings toward putting into practice | #some of the sermons we are hearing preached on every hand for the prepa- ration of our coming gemerations for | the utilitarian work of mankind. | - - | Safety in Coal Mining, | “‘An ounce of prevention is worth a| pound of cure” today just a. much as it was at any former time in the| world's history, and this applies with | such force to mining operations, as| well as to other industrial .activities, that it would seem to need no argu- ment. Secretary Ballinger is now urg- ing that rescue stations be established by the United States government at points central to the various coal fields of the country so that trained experts may be hurried to the scene of any pos- sible disaster. This is, perhaps, well in its way, but it would be far better If steps were taken to compel mine owners to adopt modern appliances that would as far as possible pr:vent | accldents. The fact that death from mine accidents in the United States is three or ‘more times greater than in any other civilized country is not at all to our credit. It has been pointed out in connection with the St. Paul mine > BEE: commissioner's public-apirited stand will have the widespread good effect to which such generosity is entitled Our National Song. Much critielsm of popular ignorance has been expressed of late because so many people unconsclously rise when they hear “America” played, and Brif- ishers present have smiled at the tri- bute to the English air of “God Save the King,” to which y Country" is #ung. It Is only In recent years that |the American has acquired the habit of | standing out of respect for the national | song, and there has been as yet, no det- as to what that na- Every effort has been inite agreement tional song is. made to crystallize sentiment on “The | Star-Spangled Banner,” which Is dis- tinctly Amerfcan in authorship, senti-| ment and Atmosphére; it commemor- ates a definite and characteristic in dent, and appeals throughout to pa- triotism. But while it 18 as spirited as one may wish when played by a brass band, still it tempted by a mixed and untrained chorus, A voting contest just concluded un- der the auspices of the division of music of the library of cobgress, di- rected by Chief Sonneck, gives prece- dence to “Dixle,” over “The Star- S8pangled Banner,” ‘“Yankee Doodle” and “America.” “Dixie” is a catchy and infectious tune, and when played by the orchestra or bands of the great rescrts where people of all sections gather, it never fails of enthusiastic reception. But the same holds true of DECEMBER is almost impossible to | render it in song, especially when at-| 26, 1909. cials to detect and run down evaders of import duties. With the more en- ergetic enforcement of the law is cer- | tain to come a greater respect for the law, and out of the activity of the cus- toms officiale will grow a condition where smuggling will become a lost art in the United States. Uncle Sam pro- poses now to insist on rigld homesty in the dealings between his nephews and nieces. | The United States Steel corporation’s offer to allow its employes to subscribe | for a specified amount of its preferred stock, at the highest price that stock | ever attazined, is a doubtful privilege. The workingmen employed by the com- pany would, perhaps, enjoy some con- cessjons of a more definite character. | | Profit-sharing is an excellent means for | | settling differences between labor and | capital when it is placed on an equita- ble basis, but when it involves the ven- | turing of the workingman's hardly | earned savings through investment in | stock at a price never attained on the; open market it loses much of jts at- | tractiveness. A good deal of prominence has been | given to the fact that the ships bore a | multitude of gifts from America to other lands, but it should be remem- | bered that the joys over seas are only a |fragment to the myriad happinesses | borne to cvery part of our own land | | through the medium of the mails. The icnrrh‘rn staggering under their con- | stant burden during the holiday weeks were a visible attestation of the ma-| tional habit of gift-sending to distant Tolf Hanson | The Equitable Life was o to withhold claims from widc creditors. doubtful case we are always p Here is another letter th in our business COURTNEY & CO., GROCERIES OMAHA, NEH. ( Dear Sir: I have received from policy of $25,000.00 on the I have now a practi poliey turity.”’ Liosses do not disturb us in the least—even on o rather than for opportunity to dispute. Mr. H. D. Neely, Manager, KEquitable Life Assurance Society, Omaha, Neb. in the EQUITABLE is a “*Sight Draft at Ma 1 hand you today my application for a policy oss paid? Yes! rganized to pay losses and not yws and orphans or deserving looking for a justification to at will rather tend (o help us Jmaha, Neh,, Dee. 18, 1909, your hand draft in tull for life of Tolf Hanson. cal demonstration that a {friends. Santa Claus in the domestic | | mails is a vastly more prodigious per- | sonage. than St. Nicholas across the seas. benefit of shrewd and daring specula- [at Cherry, 111, that the expenditure of | tors who have found themselves tem-|a few hundred dollars in equipment | porarily in control. By these opera-| would have saved the lives of all the | tions millions have been wrung| men who were sacrificed in that latest through advancing prices from the|terrible disaster. John Mitchell pro- public and landed in private pockets.|poses that mines be equipped in their | days of such sectionalism are past. But Kansas City Times. Hvents of this nature raised a public|underground workings with telephone | with all their merits they lack the I told you so" is the purport of Com- clamor not so very long ago so in-|systems, with water pipes and other |grandeur and nobility that characterize | mander Peary's comment on the Cook ver- sistent ihat reform was promised. Men |easily arranged appliances that would |the robust produetion of Francis Scott[9/ct: If this ls true, why didn't he b P most Interested in the business Insist |onable imprisoned mon to communi-|Key, and in spite of the triumph of |pe mentian e fids o | “Maryland, My Maryland,” another dashing and fiery air that is alive with the martial spirit. Probably no one would decry either of these tunes be- cause of its sectional origin, for the in the sum of $50,000.00 and I shall not forget to tell my {riends where to by insurance that insures. Yours very truly, CHAS. R. COURTNEY. Total. ... Keturned Coples GEO, B. TZSCHUCK. ‘Treasu Why. This Silence? Subscribed in rmy presence and sworn o | before me this 16t day of December, 109, (Seal) M. P, WALKER, Notary Pubile. TREASURER'S NO. 17031 [E VOUCHER NO' 4937 Subscribers loaving the cfty tems could hear NEW YORK, Dec. 16, 1909 e mention the matter (o the reportc worarily shoul have The that here, as elsewhere, reform should cate with the surface and to maintain | “Dixfe” in the voting contest, which at come from within, and that ¥ left to | work out their destiny the boards of | trade and stock exchanges would as far as possible eliminate speculative deal- ings. It the suspension of two of the ( most prominent grain dealers should have the moral effect intended it will |be an evidence of the sincerity of the| |promise of retorm. Under modern | conditions the great markets of the! world cannot be properly conducted | without the centralization of control. But this great power must be adminfe- tered with great wisdom and prudence in order that it may be a blessing and not a menace to the public welfare. Gambling in foodstuffs and other necessities of life cannot longer be tolerated. ailed Address will be often ted, It was a merry Christmas for the | Pearyodicals. ——— The Turkey trust can now go into seclusion again. —— Oh, well, it you didn’t do it early this year, you may next, Did 1t taste good for breakfast today as it did for dinner yesterday? April. This ought to cheer the base ball fan a little. That hot wave l?:‘fi:?dpe may be merely tbe exhaust from the Copen- bagen safety valve, Belated Attacks On the Cenal. Now that we are beginning to per- ceive the end of the Panama achieve- ment, it is rather wearisome to behold the muck-rakers’ own magazines re- viving attacks on the canal, in the ab- sence of later topics. Some of them are renewing prophecies of earthquake that shall' swallow up our millions, while others are harking back (o the cry already repudiated by the experts, | that the lock canal is doomed to failure Korea apparently is not aware of the land tbat it should have been engi- fact, but it 1s a good guess that it is|Deered at sea level. about to become one of the brides of | These attacks are very much, be- Japan. |lated. The nation is committed to the i | construction of the canal along the 1 Dr. Cook is where he can read the | 1ines that are pow belng pushed to papers, it is fair to assume that he is|8uch satisfactory completion. As for engaged in remarks which can only be |the plea of Rear Admiral Evans, that expressed by making dashes. |the canal be made absolutely free of ———— | traffic charges to all the world, that is Like the old-time religion, the old-|a matter which can be adjusted, if it fashioned winter seems to be good shall be found necessary, after its suc- enough for the native in many reglons | cessful operation is begun. The Suez of the United States this year. canal exacts charges to this day which 5 | enable its operators to pay large divi- No one can deny that Dr, Cook hll‘dendn, and no plausible reason for our discovered the pathway to the land of | gacrificing the legitimate revenues of covering up, He has the old vanishing | the waterway have as yet been ad- lady trick backed off the boards. | vanced. Let us finish the canal with — 1 : — - no more bickering, and then if our ini- Now W the paaple Who were recently |y vates meed readjustment, that can uproarious for a sane Fourth of July | gotlow. Undor the Hay-Pauncefote are b A eginning to agitate for & sane|;oqiy tne rates to all nations must be Chrlst ristmas. Views of sanlty differ. | equitanle, which is the maln point. —— And if today there is anyone who does not belleve in Santa Claus, he should be driven back to the reserva- tion, Won't the safety razor men invent a safety beard for Santa Claus before the next anbual crop of whisker fires is due? How could Cuba expect its lottery m: be anything but & blank, with Unele | Sam keeping the sporting blood at low temperature by means of his U. 8. mail lce-pack? Educating for Practical Life. | ‘We have been hearing a good deal | lately of the cry, “back to the farm, | with very little definite suggestion |to what was to draw the youth to ag- | Heulture save the visible rewards of the career itself. Secretary Wilson has shown that the farmer has demon- strated his to be the most independent American robins have been trans- planted to England with success. We are willing to trade for them our entire | | rule. themselves pending the arrival of res- | cue parties. Other suggestions of uh similar practical npature have been | made by men famillar with under-| ground operations of the coal industry. | No drastic legislation should be re-| quired, nor any unreasonable burdens | laid upon the mine owners, but the re- | sponsibility to care for the safety of | the men who work in the mines should | be forced home absolutely to the men who own the mines Penalty or Protection. Is the culprit sent to prison to be punished, or to be reformed? Does society, when sequestering a convicted criminal, do so for the purpose of rid- ding itself of his presence, or to pro- vide that at the end of a reasonable time he shall be returned a useful member and not a perambulating threat? 1s the object of the law to protect society by punishing the crimi- nal or to work a reformation in the ways of one whose moral obliquities have rendered him temporarily, at least, an undesirable? These questions are suggested by the reoccurrence of the discussion as to the efficacy of laws providing for parole or indeterminate gentences, and | for other means of ameliorating the | conditlon of the convicted culprit. It {s admitted that our system of pen- alogy 1is npot perfeet. Civilization has gone faster, perhaps, in the development of man’'s intellectual than of his moral nature. But with the extension in mental horizon has come a change in the attitude of so- clety towards offenders against its es- tablished canons. Punighment is sel- dom, if ever, inflicted any more for purposes of vengeance, and only for the most aggravated of crimes is the ex- treme penalty exacted. The humane theory on which the law is today administered is that in all natures some good exists, and, if given an opportunity, it will develop to a point where the apparent criminal may be made an honest and upright citizen. Just when this point is attained is not to be determined by a hard and fast For this reason many efforts at reformation have proven apparent dis- appointments, yet the advocates of the doetrine that the law is administered not to punish, but to protect, to aid the offender rather than to visit on him the resentment of soclety, find encour- agement in the fact that the list of sec- ond and third offenders and habitual criminals is growing constantly smaller. The impulses of the normal |the example of New York and build its best is an unsatisfactory test, “The Star-Spangled Banner” will hold fits place as appealing to all the American people with force and exultant pa- triotism more thoroughly than any of its existing competitors. Control of Wireless. There appears to be good reason for the measure now before congress for the establishment of a wireless tele- graph board whose duty it shall be to control the electric currents of the air, for, according to the evidence pre- sented in connection with the resolu- tion, the wircless service of both com- merce and of the navy has at times been rendered useless by the interfer- ence of conscienceless amateurs. One of the immediate results made necessary by the activities of irrespon- sible operators is the abandonment of the famous “C.Q D" distress \signal and the developmeént of the wireless | as a toy has resulted in the sending broadcast of vile messages. Wireless telegraphy has become such an important institution that it is es- sential for the government to check the abuses that are already growing up to its discredit and to the destruc- tlon of its utility. If relief can be glven by the establishing of an expert board with control of all mediums of wireless ,interchange, that would be a simple expedient. But if more drastic measures are NECeSSATY CONgress should not withhold its hand. In spite of its enormously expensive filtration beds, Philadelphia finds its city water supply so vilely odorous that it cannot be used for drinking or cook- ing purposes, and is even offensive for bathing. The muckrakers will charge that it is the natural result of muniei-|! pal corruption, but the matter has pasged the joking stage, for the house- holds are seriously confronted with a famine of potable water and the own- ers of springs and distilling outfits are reaping a harvest. It begins to look as though the city would have to follow costly aqueducts into remote sources of supply instead of pumping from nearby rivers that, with the concentration of population, have become open sewers. Philadelphia’s plight emphasizes the fact that water is the prime essential of all comfortable living, and that no precaution should be omittea to make its supply wholesome and safe, We must not imagine that other countries are not up to snuff. London |And the Danes didn't do & thing to him, crop of English sparrows, and no ques- | and one of the most profitable of oceu- man or woman are for good, and it|has 8 governmental school of instruc- | tions asked. pations, but to be successful according Canada's first warship ls the le_"w the modern standard, up-to-date methods must be employed. bow, and before it gets very far with | its program it will find 1t needs the ex-| ¢ N8 remained for President haustless pot of gold supposed to se at Waters of the Kansas Agricultural col- | lege to point a possible way for the| the end of it. st —— |spread of the gospel of agrieulture While many surgeons pronounce the | AMODE the youthful masses. Agricul-| new anaesthetic, stovaine, a success, | 'Ure !n the rural schools be regards as| the layman comtinues to stumble over the next great educational groblem. | its pronunciation. But many a good |The Guestion is immediatoly before us, thing eannot be pronounced that shoulg | h® urses, how to shape insruction in | 1Ot be yenounced [the unorganized, isolated and poorly | | equipped school so that the puplls may | Advocates of foot ball are arraying |not lose sight of the farm, its lite, its| much eloquent argument in support of | problems, its beauties and 'its profits. | the game, but none of these will con- And he considers that the hope of | vince the relati of & victim of the |these schools and of our entire system sanity of the sport. The soomer foot | of public education lies, mot in the| ball is debrutalized the better it will|abandonment of the country schools, | be for college athletic !mor in the attempt to substitute some- | thing else for them, but rather in mak- | Railroad managers who are refusing | ing them serve their constituency bet- an iucrease Of wages to employes, ter. He would weave the courses while proposing to Increase rates to|around the knowledge of the eonnu| patrons at a time when the companies | phenomena of the world. | are paying the highest rate of divi-| His first step, that of teaching home | dends known to history, are not serv-|economics and agriculture in the coun- ing their employers to the best advan- | try schools, with the option, alse, of tage. The temper of the American |taking up manuval training; is part of poople at present is not the s 'ulu'.'hh general scheme for preparing the toward the railroads. puplls for practical as well as htcu»‘th- Jesters will be sllenced, and the given proper encouragement the bent of the individual will be directed along the right lines. f Unselfishness in Puhlic Office. | Some people believe in carrying the | Christmas spirit into the conduct of | real life throughout the year, and something of that nature may be cred- ited as animating the health commis- sioner of Chicago, who has asked that his salary be cut 10 per cent so that the pay of his subordinates may be in- creased without seriously taxing the publie. | Such an attitude toward office-hold- | ing, makes the professional politicjan | gasp, for It 18 a charaeteristic of no| race or time to regard public office as a private graft. Indeed, the commis- sloner immediately made the butt of jest and ridicule, which is an un- worthy way of receiving a serious and well intentioned proposal | It Is to be hoped that the city of | Chicago will have the good sense and | spirit to grant the health chief's re- quest. It would be a mistake to in- terpret his suggestion merely a bid for his helpers. If the city will ac- ept the doctor's magnanimous offer, | quantity and prime quality of patience, tion in the gentle art of being a colo- nist, which has elicited the admiration | of visiting cowboys from the United States. There the English lad is taught | how to rough it in the Australlan bush | and on the Canadian ranch, and the | government’'s graduates are found to be fitter for the ordeal of emigration to the rough places of earth than are many of the boastful youth of our own land, It is now in order to begin to charge the home storage batteries with a full for the census man is getting ready to come around with Uncle S8am's imper- tinent questions. It will be harder to look pleasant than over the reception of those Christmas gifts that you didn't want, but more compulsory, for there are legal penalties attached. And re- member that the census taker has the troubles of everyome in your block, while you have only your own. The moral hazard of the protective tariff is just now recelving a great deal of attention. It is hardly likely that emuggling operations are more exten sive at present than formerly, the |by the number of highballs and cocktalls | doctor's present situstion. Tuffing BIIL Indianapolls News. Some additional economy might be ef- fected in the government print shop if some way could be devised to prevent cou- gressmen from introducing bills which they |as well as every body else know will never | get farther than the committes they are | | veterrea to ! Nur) ng Ratlrond Mystery. | New York World. | | A Nebraska man has figured out that it | costs him $07.50, lcss 2 per cent, to send @ |pony 30 miles by express, while a jackass of the same welght can travel in comfort | for $19.80, less 2 per cent. The mystery of freight classification has ever been beyond the ordinary human intellect. An Overworked Imdustry. §t. Louis Globe-Democrat. ! The five republics of Central America have an area of 175000 square miles, population of 3,000,000 and a coast line on the Atlantic and Pacifio of 2,000 miles. But as long as their chief Industry is revolu- tlon they will be a burden to themselves and a menace to other countries. —— Heroes of Civil Life. : New York Tribune. That is a fine showing of practical anl efficient herofsm which Is made in the re- port of the life saving service, telling of 1,376 marine disasters, imperilling the tives | of 8,900 persons, with only thirty lives ac- tually lost, and also of property worth §13,316,815 saved. Of the exertions, perils and self-sacrifice of those who did the work no report could adequately tell Bound for the Subcellnr. | Philadelphia Record. | The immigration commission sent forth | by congress has bean hashing up and chew- ing over the results of sclentific investiga- tions of racial development and changes for the last hundred years and more. Then the commission has crudely, and In many respects falsely, applied their results to the immigrants to the [nited States. The worst of It is that all of this stutf will be accumulated In several volumes by the public printer and then consigned to the | subcellar of the national capitol with the | rest of the pile of waste paper. PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE. | It was the Danes, not Homer, who smote | the blooming llar. Billing Christmas an Saturday lends an aspect of deliclous repose to the day after, The Hon. Knud Rasmussen has anothei guess coming. And there are a host others. The sweet tooth of the Eskimos I fn no danger of decay from excessive chewing of gumdrope. A St. Louls seer bodly declares that there will be no lawyers in heavens. That Is to say, no St. Louls lawyers The late Mr. Leopold of Belgium aff the beard of a patriarch, but It w enteemed a seer slgn In Parls or where. Dr. Cook “told It to the Danex'’ all right | of | not | else- which shows the danger of responding to | an encore ! The marked activities of Amerlcans in | the Medicine Hat reglon of Canada may {explain the premature scattering of frot in the adjacent territery, Enterprising brokers, appreciating the American hunger for ple, propose to register the foreign bullt confections and import them under the law admitting ancient works of art duty free, As it appears now the difference between Peary's and Cook's literary efforts is the ditterence between history and fiction. In popular estimation fiction beats history a mile. The soclal altitude of New York swells, as revealed In divorce courts, in measurable disposed of in a given day. Four cock- | talis in the morning are esteemed a fashion- able eye-opener. The Milk trust of New York City, feeling annoyed by Inquisitive state officials, cut short its acquaintance by moving into New Jersey. From the off side of the river the trust can milk the town in more artistio fashion and no questions asked. “Endless fields of purple snows,” wrote Dr. Cook In describing the pole. “No life, no land, no spot to relleve the monotony of fro A slight chenge In the color scheme Of the snows, and the picture presents with photographic accuracy the Thomas V. Cooper, & state senator of Pennsylvanis, met death as tragically as Congressman De Armond of Missourl. A nap on & couch, & lighted cigar, and in- flammable draperies constituted his funeral pyre. Mr. Cooper was & civil war veteran, reason for the apparent increase being the unusual efforts of the cusfoms off-| & newspaper man, and a stalwart, pugnael- ous poltician. of It you can fill them In.—Boston Tran- | eript. papa. THE EQUITABLE Twenty five Thousand _T. M. Baley_ DEPUTY CONPTROLL! OF NEW YORK PAY TO THE ORDER OF __ Charles R. Courtney THE EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK PAUL MORTON, Pres. “STRONGEST IN THE WORLD"” H. D. NEELY, Mgr. Merchants National Bank Building, TRUST COMPANY . ($25,000) _DOLLARS M. M. Murray " ASST. TREASURI - = =« s Omaha e g SERMONS BOILED DOWN. lite IUs ulways casier to give vour than it is to give your lclsure Getting to heaven Is a good deal than backing up from hell Our good deeds seldom bea we have forgotten them Grace s free, but the religious mun n not be free from grace 1 your religion Is sunshine need to argue about it No man sees anything as it sees that which is not. The heart without fellow fecling can:have no room for divine faith The way to the sorrow free land is 1o try to free some life from sorrow There 18 a lot of difference between good will and willingness (o be good Often you must forget the gcod you have won to reach the good you would be. The measure of love ls not whether | arains your bank account, but whether mora fruit until ed will no, is unie s he |it araws on your heart.—Chicago Tribune, | SECULAR SHOTS AT PULPIT. Charleston News and Courier A Chicago bishop says: Our congregations come as milliners and tallors’ dummies,” No chance for & collection from folks like that. | New York Post: When a clergyman can make a great sensation by & sermon on the chances of a prizefighter getting back into form, it is no wonder that the theo- logical students at Chicago demand that Hebrew be dropped from their curriculum It is & pure waste of time. Charleston News and Courler: In preach ing on woman and her sphere, a minister recently declared that the average man “will choose a woman who, in after yea will love a baby more than a bull pup.” We may observe that women never get the bull pups until after they are married. | Boston Herald: Emperor Willlam of Ger- many no longer has the center of the stage as a preacher-ruler. The Roosevelt pace @ and fervor as an evangelist are fast being | rivaled by his successor, who has the ad- | vantage of a diplomatic record at the | | | Vatican as well as an evangelistic tour of union of we | heterodox. We may not have state and church In this country,but ard coming to have much more outspoken | advocacy of religion by statesmen DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES, | sy | Visjtor—Isn't elther of your parents home, Martha? Martha—~No, ma'am. Ma has uulwvlnr an hour's sittng at the photographer's and pa has gone for an afternoon's straddle on | his horse.—Judge. “Ha!" sald the haughty mald of mil: llons, *In your verses about my hair of gold, my ruby lips and my teeth of pearl, was there a chasing of the mighty dollar. “Ay,” sald the poor, but proud, lover, it was a scent I meant.' Baltimore Amer- | fean. | | Miss Loftelgh—There are some soclal onainns lihat Gannot be bridged with gold, | Mr. Dubb. Nr. Dubb—True; but If you have enough «parker and his wife have separated.” | “What are the terms “They each get thelr cook for mix months."—Life. “1 love you! WIill you marry “This s 8o sudden!” “well 7" “Give me a little time “How much time?" “Enough to g0 into the tbrary "~Cleveland Leader. me? | and sk | gEby—You know very well ctly crazy to marry me agsby—1 admit it, my dear; bul it Mrs, N were pert Mr. you | He help us children fi; ‘ . ol il s _rfin_eral Waters We will gell over 100 kinds fmported i) Amerfean Mineral Waters, and, ay we tain direct from springs or impn ter guarantce freshness and genulnenes Boro Lithia Water, bo! ELH Boro Lithia Water, pints, doz Cise, 100, $10.00, We are distributing the o rated waters from E e Springs, Mo., and se at following p Regent, quart bottle, %c; dozen, § case, 0 s, $8.00. Suipho-Saline, quart | $2.25;; case. 30 hottles aline, quari a nis in Omaha bottle, $3.00, bottle, dozen quart bottle, %c pint bottle, 1ic; Ginger Al dozen, 32.00. dozen, $1.70. pint bottle, | Soterian, oterlan | dozen, $1.50. Soterfun | dozen, $2.2 Diamond Lithia case, 1 dazen. $4.00. Crystal Lithia, Salt Sulphur, 5-gallon jugs, each, Delivery free to any part of | Counell Bluffs or South,Omulia Ginger Ale, quarc botile, halt-gallon bottle, i0c; gullon jugs, each, 3200 32186 Omalia, |Sherman & McConnell Drug Co. 16th and Dodge Sts, Owl Drug Co. 16th and Harney Sts. was merely a case of tempor Insur Priladelphia Record s i “Maria, who is tlie that comes to see Bessl a week?" veny, don’t you know, John? That oung Mr. Welloph, the junior partner firm of Spotcash & Co." “Well, confound her, why doesn’t uhe giv him a little more encouragement '~ cago Tribune. wawlk times plder legge: two or thre your two little the summer bos y hand bretherly love is as rare s Mrs. Bates nodded in pleas “1 tell Eary,” she sald, "th Insep'r'ble as a pair of pant t asgent they're a "—Youth's | the Bowery and good standing among the | Companion, THE DINNER AT GRANDPA ). Nesbit in Harper's tmas Was-—-w'y, we all To gramma’s house, ‘cause grampa got u leg 'at's stiff an' bent Ith no Joint water in his knee. But he don't care: He say some folk Is scarce o' legs—not got a ir! My grampa cracks a lot o' jokes An we et Christmas dinner there When ¢ h Is My gramma—all her Like snow is, but it isn't cold. An' gramma say ‘at my hair might Be white, too, when I'm just as old Mé papa t be ‘nice, ut gran ' paph An' say i his ad-vice To put our comp'ny manners o halr I8 white 1 tlke my gramma 'most th' same A8 1 do mama. Cousin Lou An' Cousin Fred an' Cousin Mame An' all the others—they do too. My gramma’s hi-red girl, she cooked Whole lots o' mincemeat ple, an' make Morg jelly! My, how good It lopke An' four-five’ difrunt kinds o' cake! Nen all o' us we all sit still rampa look down &t his plaie k about th' he'valy wilies * " it s pretty hard to wa an® 1in Our plates ‘ith turkey stuffln’, too AR’ gravy, til it almost apill Off o' th' plate on Cousin Lou! Oh, yes! We had plum-puddin’, made O’ lots o' things, an' set on fire' But ain't nobody (s afraid . W'y, I'm gone sound as): Right at th’ table, in my eh-lrl"' dozen, | " \