Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 2, 1910, Page 15

S \ | DEATH'S TOLL FOR THE YEAR Leading Men and Women Who Have % Been Taken. PROMINENT IN WORK OF WORLD Many Natiows Roll of Thowe Away Ineluded Who Passed During Year 1909, elow s an abridged of persons eminent In the who dled during 1900 Janunry. Vice Admiral Rojestvensky, of ihe Rus- sfan navy, commander of the Russian Bal- tie fleet, which was destroyed by the Jap- Pnese fldet under Admiral Togo (n the Sea of Japan, May 1905, Dr. Fleming R Stilds of New York, physician, editor and historlan; Alfred R. Wolft of New York, consulting engineer and an authority on heating and ventilation; - C. H. Yoa- kum of Texas, an authority on corporation law and former member congress; Dr. Abraham Morrell y ot New Jersey, clvil war surgeon, astronomer, author and inventor; Brigadier General Willam P. Craighill, U. 8. A. retired, a soldler of forty service beginning in 188; Rt. Rev. Bernard McQuaid, Roman Catholic bishop of R: N. Y.; John 9 Glimer Specd, American author; Father John, of Cronstadt, Russia; Benoit Con- stance Coquelin, famous French actor; Henry Chapman Watson, editor of Dun's Review, New York: Rev. W. D. Hughes, editor Catholle World, New York; Joseph Wharton, Iron manufacturer, Philadelphia David Jackson, millionaire philanthropist of Californta. list, by monthe. world's activities, vears hester, February. Rear Admiral Charles 8. Cotton, U I [etired: Carrol D. Wright, president of Jark college, Worcester, Mass. for many years chiof of the federal bureau of labor; Dr. Willlam T. Bull, distinguished surgeon of New York City; Cardinal Sanches y Her- vas, archblshop of Toledo, Spain; Rear Admiral Samuel R, Franklin, U, 8. N,, re. tired; Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler, noted preacher of Hrooklyn, Y.; Albert Mid. lane, a noted authority on hymnology; Geronimo, Apache indlan chief and war- rlor; Grand Duke Viadimir of Russla; Ca- tule A. Medes, French poet; Rev. William O'Brien Pardow, 5. J,, New York, famous Roman Catholic preache Most Rev. Arthur Sweatman, archbishop of Toronto and primatd of Canada; Former Governor Caleb West of Utah; Miss Martha Iinl Yauthor of the “Elsie” books; Cardinal Ser- afino Cretoni of Italy; Thomas Lowry, lawyer and capitalist of . Miuneapo Hrnest A. H. Coquelin, the younger ¥yer actor. 8. March. @ Dr. Daniel R Brower. of Rush Medical college, Chicago; Ellas Jackson (“Lueky") Haldwin, California ploneer and racing man; Rev. Willlam W. Rand, D. D, of the American Tract society, New York; Judge Hosea Townsend, former member of congress fromi Colorado; Alexandre Charpentier, the French sculptor; Joseph W. Blythe, of Iowa, general counsel for the Burlington system; Mre. Sara Wiley King Drummond, poet and descriptive Awriter; A. D. Remington, ploncer of the wood pulp industry of northern New York; John Butterfield, a ploneer of transcontin- ental transportation; Major Edmond Louls Gray Zalinski, inventor of the dynamite gun; Prof. Mark Vernon Slingerland, of Cornell university; Gen. Willlam J. Palmer, of Colorado Springs, raliroad builder and philapthropist; Archblshop Yznik Abo- hoony, head of the Armenian church of North America; George Thorndyke Angell, known as the friend of dumb animals; Dr. John Willlam Jones, historian of the con- federacy: Rear Admiral Edward Trask Srong, U. 8. N., retired; Bishop George De N. Gilespie, of the protestant episcopal Qlocese of western Michigan; Prince Mich- ael Hilkov, member of the counch of the Russian empire; Dr. Rudolph von Renvers, ominent German physiclan; Dr. Willlam J. Wahl, well known sclentist of Phila- deiphia; Charles B. Waite, author and linguist, Chicago; Dr. James H. Canfleld, librarian of Columbla university, formerly chancellor of the University of Nebrask Rear Admiral George A, Converse, U. 8. N., retired; Joseph Petrosino, New York pulice officer, assassinated in Sieily, April Admiral Corvera, who commanded the Bpanish fleet destroyed by the American fleet at Santlago, July 3, 1808; Rev. James Stuart Dickson, secretary of the College rd of the Presbyterlan church; Dr. H. X Potter, founder and builder of the Pere Manquette rallroad; former Governor Will- jam J. Poynter of Nebraska; Brigadier General Marcus D. L. Stmpwon, Uniied States army, retired, veteran of the Mex- jcan and clyil wars; former Congressman Willlam Neville of Nebraska; Mme. Helena Modjeska, the Pollsh-American actres: Prof._Geprge Rice Carpenter of Columbia uniydfsity; Francis Marion Crawford, the Ayferican novelist; Algernon Charles Swin- bigbue, the English poet; Joseph Russell Tothes, noted ploneer of Chicago; Antone 1 sculptor, Munich; former United States Senator Matthew C. Butler of South Carolina; Amzi L. Barber, president of the Barber Asphalt company; Colonel James C, Montgomery, member of General Graut's staff during the civil war; Dr. Frank W. Draper of Harvard medical school; Joseph C. Meredith, chief engineer of the FI idn East Coast Rallvoad extension to K West; former United States Senator David Turple of Indiana; Dr, Samuel June Bar- rows, author, criminologist and member of congress; former United States Senator Willlam M, Stewart of Nevada; Colonel Franklin Bartlett, a leading New York law- yer; Charles Warren Stoddard of New York, poet und author; Helurich Conrad, ¥ director the Metropolitan Opera house New York Logan, the Amer author, actre lecturer; former Con- gressman Josepl W. Babcock of Wiscon- | sin; Mrs. Emily P. Coll first | woman suffragist champlons of this coun- ty; Theodore Minot « d architect of Boston; Peter I, « ican pub- | lisher. Olive and one of the k. no er, Ame Muy, Dr. Manuel Amador, first president of the Panama republic; Very Rev, John Marshall Lang, chancellor of the Aberdeen university; Hammond Lamont, editor of the New York Natlon; Judge Henry L. Palmer, former president of the North- western Mutual Life Insurance company; Joaehim Ande: Danish composer and director; Rev. Laurence J. Vaughan, a foted Roman Catholic priest, Shake- spearean scholar and playwright; Bishop Charles B. Galloway of the Methodist Epis- copal church south; George Meredith, lsh novelist; Henry M. Rogers of the Standard Ofl company; Dr. Bdward Everett Hale, New England clergyman and author; Charles F. Bush, veleran American car- toonist; Prof. Jerome Schneider, member of Tuft's college faculty fifly years; Jules jthere Is No Use in Paying | $5.00 for a Pair of Fine Shoes| you can get the shoe for | $3.95 during the great stock reducing sale at Chabot's, fn the Loyal Hotel Bullding, 203 North Bixteenth street. See display P4 98 Page b, Bdltorial Section. P of | Ernest Naville of Geneva, philosopher and educator; Governor Thomas P. Crittenden of Missourl, Francols Emile Michel, French artist and art critie. Ju A. K. MeClure of Philadelphia, and publictst; Francisco Ferrer, Spanish revolutionist; Edward Henry John Gregory, R. A., president of the Royal | Tnstitute of Painters In Water Colors; Or- rin 8. Wood, bullder of the first telegraph line between New York and Philadelphia; SarAh Orne Jewett, the author; Bishop | Joseph B. Cotter of the Roman Catholie | dlocese of Winona, Minn.; Prof. Ernst von | Halle, the German economist; General | George B. Cosby, one of the few surviving | brigadier generals of the confederats army; Mrs. Carrie B. Kilgore, first woman ad- mitted to the bar of Pennsylvania; John J Jennings, cditor of the New York World; Bthan Allen Hitchcock, former secretary “U' the interior; Joseph Wharton of Phila- delphfa, ban and publiclst: EI Rogh! pretender to throne of Morocco: Dr. Theo- dor German liberal leader; Arch- | bishop Joseph Thomas Duhrmel of Roman | Catholic diocese of Ottawa, Canada; Wil | Mam Henry Baldwin, Boston philanthro- | plst; Dr. Alfonso A. M. Penna, president ‘uf Brazil; General John 8. Kountze, past | commander Grand Army of the Republic known as “the drummer boy of Missionary | Ridge;"” Joseph Nummo, American statls- ticlan and economist; Louls Prang of Bos- [ton, known as father of Dana E %, noted publisher of Boston: Frederiok D, Martens, Russian expert International law, July Prof. Clement L. Smith of Harvard uni- versity; Congressman Francis W. Cushman of the Second Washington dlstrict; General Marquis de Gallifet, the French Count Cassimer Badini, former premier; John Ferguson Hume, prominent abolitionlst: Simon the American astronomer; Father John Terrill, the Jesult modernist; Dr. Vittorla R. Matteucel, director of Royal observa- | tory, on Mount Vesuvius; Rt. Rev. John | 8haniey, Roman Catholic bishop of Fargo, N. D.; Don Carlos de Bourbon, pretender to the Spanish throne; Rosa N. Carey, ‘he glish author; Brigadier General Charles B. Compton, U. 8. A., retired; Samuel Wil- llam Johnson, professor emeritus of agri- cultural chemistry, Yale university; Kapeles, German journalist; Baron Detley ven Lillencron, the German autho Mrs. Ellzs tress of the White House; Charles Wilson, theatrical manager in the United States and England; Cavin Wells, iron manufac turer and owner of the Philadelphia Pre Augunt, Solomon Hicks Bethea, United States Judge for the northern distriet of Tilinols; Brigadier General Edwin B. Atwood, U. § A., retired; Colonel Albert A. Pope, bleycle and motor manufacturer; Rear Admiral Judah Thomson, U. 8§, N, retired; Dr Sarah Hackett Steveneon, physician and settloment worker of Chicago; General Bdwin F. Townsend, U. tired; Rabbi Samuel Salant, for sixty-four years chief rabbi in Jerusalem; Richard Hoffman, dean of New York musicians; Colonel soldier on soldier; Austrian once a SA., Miss Maria Parloa, American writer on household topics; Rev. Thomas J. Duc noted priest of New York City: George Manville Fenn, the English novelist; Prof, Emile Hansen, the Danish batonist; Rich- ard Golden, American actor; Father J. B, Tabb, poet and professor In St Mary's seminary, Emmelsburg, Md. September, Captain Samuel C. Leml¥, 7 8 N, “re- tired, member of the Greely polar expe- dition; Clyde Fitch, Amerlean playwright; Dr. Henry C. Chapman, professor emeritus at the Jefforson Medical college, Philadel- Phia; Lieutenant General Henry Cor- | man, president of the Union Pacific rail- road; General Edward M. McCook, former United States minister to Hawail; William Lioyd Garrison, New England merchant and reformer; Captain Thomas Phelan, Lrish-Amerioan patriot and roldier of for- tune; Charles ¥. McKim, well known New York achitect; Mayo W. Hazletine, bsok reviewer and speclal writer for the New York Sun; Sally L.chilag, distinguished German pianist; Rev. Job S, Mills, D. D, bishop of the United Brethren church Right Rev. William G, McCloskey, Roman Catholic bishop of Loulsville, Ky.; Gvernor Bent, premier of Victorla; Prof. William Thayer Smith, dean of Dartmouth Medical school; Bishop Seth Ward of the Metliodist Eplscopal church sou h; Robert Hoe of New York, head of the noted firm of prin ing Press manufacturers; Archbishop R er- miral Charles J. Barclay, U. §. N., re- tired, ordnance expert; Former Congress- man Willlam R. Morrison of Illinols, demo- cratis leader and veteran of the Mexican and civil wars; Lord Tweedmouth; British statesman and former lord of Admiraity. October./ George W. Moore, pioneer American min- inent Catholic educator; Albert Pulits former New York publisher; Chang-Chih- Tung, grand counciller of China; Dudley Buck, American organist and composer; Captain John J. N. Webber, executive of- ficer of the ironclad monitor during the fight with the Merrimac In 1862; Mrs, Etta Henderson, American actress and play- wright; Brigadier General Amos 8. Kim- ball, U. 8. A, retired; Nanhtall Herz Im- ber of New York, Yiddish poet; Major Qeneral Alfred E. Bates, U. S. A., retired; George A. Edes, veteran editor and pub- lisher of California; Willlam I. Buchanan, American diplomat and president of th Pan-American exposition at Buffalo; Rear Admiral Robert W. Milligan, U. 8. N., re- tired; Brigadler General Richard C. Drum, U. 8. A, retired; Former United States Senator Willlam Lindsay of Kentucky; Cesare Lombroso, the Itallan criminolo- glst; United States Senator M., N. Johy- son of North Dakota; Right Rev. Willlam Hobart Hare, Episcopal bishop of South Dakota; Edward A Jonés, founder of the Metropolitan Life Insurapce company, New York; Rear Admiral Henry Erben, U. §. N., vetired; Associate Justice Rufus H. Peck- ham of the United States supreme court; Malor General Oliver Otis Howard, U. §. A, retired; Major General Robert P, Hughes, U. 8. A., retired; John Stewart Kennedy, New York banker and philan- throplst; Adviral C. J. Cleburne, U. S. N. General Elwell §. Ottls, former military sovernor of the Philippines; Marquis Ito, Japanese ruler of Korea, assassinated November. Brigadier General John J. Coppinger, U. 8. A, retired; Dr. Willlam T. Harrls, former United States commissioner of edu- cation; Willlam Court Gully, speaker of the British House of Commons; Brigadier General Willlam B. Rochester, U. 8. A the | retired; Raymond A. Patterson, Washing- ton gorrespondent of the Chicago Tribune; Francls Thome, the French composer; Richard Watson Gilder, poet and editor of the Century magazine; Brigadier General Judson D. Bing ham, U. 8. A., retired; Willam M. Laffan, editor and publisher Of the New York Sun: Consuele, duchess of Manchester: Duke Carl Theadore of Ba- varia, noted oculist and philanthropist; Red Cloud, noted chief of the Sloux In- dlans December. Bisho, A Goodsell Danlel the | copal diocese of Long Island, N, Y. eric Remington, famous Ameriean artist King Leopoid 11 of Belglum; Pat Sheedy, professional gambier and art connalsseur; Nthographing; | Newcomb, | Herr | h Taylor Dandridge, a former s | Brigadier | re- | SIr Theodore Martin, the English author. | bin, U. 8 A, retired; Edward . Harri- | John A. Johnson of Minnesota; Sir Thomas | dav, primate of Danish church; Rear Ad- | strel; Rev. Ignatius Renaud, 8. J., a prom- | THE OMAHA SU DAY BEE: JA Starts Monday Morning Our Wonderful Reduction Sale Our entire winter stocks of Women’s Coats, Suits, Dresses, Skirts, furs Waists, Petticoats and Children’s Coats must be sold, regardless of cost We have a tremendous stock of women’s Coats and Suits on hand, and every garment must be sold during this sale. We are preparing to take a loss of several thousand dollars to gain this point, and never in the history of Omaha merchandising have such values been offered in new up-to-date women's garments. A Point to Your Advantage-~-Our garments are marked in plain figures the year round. You can quickly prove that these are bona-fide reductions finest guality taffeta silk— black and col- ored, at . . .. Monday January 3 Third Floor Women's $5 Silk Petticoats 98 ‘% Women's $15.00 Coats Reduced to. $5.00 Women’s $19.75 Coats Reduced to $10.00 Women’s $25.00 Coats Reduced to $15.00 Women’s $35.00 Coats Reduced to $19.75 Women's $5.00 Skirts Reduced fo . $2.98 Women's $5 Silk Wais Reduced to $2.98 Women'’s $18.00 Dresses— beautiful new materials in swell new shades, only . . # 20 shades—- OBy . Children's $5.00 Coats— of good quality Kersey, in all $998 Women’s $15.00 Suits Reduced to . $7.90 Women’s $30.00 Suits Reduced to . Women’s $12.00 Military Capes %' $6.75 Women'’s $3.00 Waists Reduced to . $1.45 Women’s $6.90 Fur Searfs Reduced to $2.90 Women’s $15 Fur Sets Reduced to $7.90 Monday January 3 Third Floor Bdrem Pasha, distingulshed Turkish soldier and statesman; Rev. Sigmund Mennheimer, professor and librarian Hebrew Union ¢ lege, Cincinnati; former United States ator Harrls of Kansas, United States ator A, J. McLaurin of Mississippi. {DAN CUPID CLOSES THE LID | Matrimonial Rald on Jersey Factory Girl Makes the Vill nsp. The community of Bridgeton, N. J., will go as far as the next to encourage marriage and keep its native sons and daughters at home by lassoing them in couples. It indorses without reservation | the benefits of matrimony, but when Cupld | comes along and corners the market, swats |one of Bridgeton's most flourishing in- dustries and supplies a sensation that makes the village gasp, it Is time to preach moderation. Something mysterious has pervaded the social atmosphere in Casper G. Ware's factory for several weeks. Girl ehums who never before kept secrets from one another became uncommunicative, Last Saturday was pay day in the fuc- | tory. After the usual rush in front of the cashier's window Mr. Ware noticed a lit- | tle stack of pay envelopes that had not been called for That was unpresedented, for the girls always had been eager (n got their money. When the office was serted Mr. Ware observed the somewhat stealthy approach of pard, a high school graduate and clocution- | ist. 8She recelved her envelope and glanced around. “Are wo alone Mt “We are,” de- Ware? he replied, “I'm sorry, but I'm glad, and 1 want to resign,” Miss Sheppard whispered. “I'm #0ing to be married on New Year's. Please don’t tell and be sure and nome to the wedding."” Mr. Ware was mourning the lss of Miss | Sheppard, when Miss 1da Baker, soprano soloist in the First Methodist chureh, tip- toed to the door, peeked inside thé office, and satisfying herself that Mr. Ware was the only person there adyanced. “Goodby, Mr. Ware,” she said, blushing turlously, as she extended her hand. It was the left hand and an engagement ring glistened on the third finger “You're the first person I've told ex- | eept my parents, but there's going to be a wedding at our house on New day. It's a secret unti then, | keep 1t | "Mr. Ware promised, ruetully, | | 50 please shuffling the remaining envelopes when he looked up and saw Miss Martha Camm | 8he had entvred the room so softly had not heard her. Mr. Ware was murmuring felicitations when Miss Cemm said “Hush! Not a word."” Miss S8arah Dare stood In the door- way. Miss Camm bounced out, nodding with exaggerated cordlality to Miss Dare was out of hearing and bending her head to Mr. Ware's ear, breathed this message “New Year's—4 o'clock—at my home. He collapsed In his chalr. He said that he remembers as in & daze, what followed, Miss Sarah Mead, Miss Leona Tatem and Miss Anna Johnson materialized in the of- fice at intervals silently ghosts, got their envelopes, resigned and invited Mr, Ware to their weddings. All the brides-to- be had kept thelr forthcoming marriages secret and thelr resignation on the same day were nffered without preconceived ar- rangement. The resignations make a total of forty-one In the factory since January 1, 1900.—~New York World. Neekwear. Among the pretty pieces of new neck- wear is a jabot that ocould be fashioned from a dainty handkerchief. In fact two could be made from one handkerchief if Miss Bertha Shep- | Year's | | and was he | The latter girl waited until Miss Camm | | company, dainty designs are added with worked iIn colored threads, such or French knots, are employed. For two the handkerchief doubled, either corner to corner and cut in two long the blas or fold in half and cut on the straight of the thread. The raw edge In elther case Is gathered on, knife pleated, and set into a smail band about an inch lopg and haif an inch wide. ANY WOMAN MAY LOOK WELL Prevailing Fashions 1 Evening Gowns May Be Worn by Any Figure. stitches as dots should be The woman who cannot look well in an evening gown this season s a hopeless | an amazing latitude of line and period. To be sure, there is still the The feminino i on that point Bave a #'ight check to the autumn move- ment toward full skirts and more body; but this insistence has brought about a happy state of affairs. The dressmakers, while making the con- cesslon demanded, still cling to their new we have drapery without clumsiness and a type of clinging slenderness devold of the exaggerated directoire skir's fallings. A certaln stralghtness of iine 18 loft, but we have in a majority of the models more suggestion of graclous waist curves, and the moyen age idea h2s in the main been robbed of its most spectacular features, [ Wireless Equipment on Ships. The New Zealand house of representa- tiv has empowered the executive to make ulations requiring passenger ships to |carry wireless telegraphy apparatus. It is probable that some vessels trading between New Zealand and Australia will be fitted with the necessary apparatus within a few months, New Zealand Is standing out against the recent movement to conneet the | Pacific islands, Australia and New Zealand, because the government wishes to await new developments, The prime minister [ states that both Mr, Marconi and M. Tesla informed him recently would probably tems. Sir twelve me be made upon existing sys. oseph Ward adds that within ths New Zealand adopt a system which will enable communi. cation with Australla to be carried on by day or by night. A conference tatives of Australia Zealand and the Pacific islands will meet at Melbourne on December 16. During the last few weeks negotlations have been taking plage between a repre- sentative of the Marconl company and the Natal government with regard to the estab- lishment of a long-distance wireless station in the vicinity of Pletermaritzburg to con- nect with the intermediate stations at Mombasa and Aden. Mr. Vyvyan, who has come out to Natal In connection with the scheme of imperial wireless telegraphy, has applied for a license to erect a statiom, such station at the end of twenty years to be- come the property of the government. Th howeve stipulate for a fourth share of the net receipts (which It is esti- mated will be equal to b per capital employed) for a further period of twenty years, the station at the end of that period to become the absolute property of the government. The company, it is under- slood, asks for no exclusive rights, and guarantees o charge not more than % cents a word for ordinary messages and of represen ow not more than 12 cents for government or | press Mmessages. The chief objection put forward against the grant of the license is sald to be that if the Natal government grants a license, and the imperial govern- ment refuses to allow the Marcon! company to erect Intermediate stations on British territory, the way will be paved for & foreign wireless service between South | Africa and England, the alternative eastern ender silhouette. | materfals of | passion for flowing iines and as a result | that great advances | will probably | cent on the route to Mombasa and Aden being by ItaMan Somaliland and Italy. However, even If Natal refused a license a station could be erected in Portuguese territor Experiments have been made in Swit- zerland showing that the higher altitudes provide exceptionally favorable locations for wireless telegraph receiving stations. Messages coming from points within a radius of 2,000 miles have readily been picked up In the Alps. This is probably due to the fact that the are few Intervening objects between these elevations and the sending stations which would be apt to Interfere with the Hertzian waves. It has always been diffieult to send messages across the Alps, or even from one part of Switzerland to another over the high alti- tudes, for the reason that the mountains absorb much of the energ: proposition, for the designers have offered | Going Fast. William E. Hibbs, the Waghington broker, has a big country place just outside of Lees- |burg, Va. He put a large searchlight on top of his stone water tower, and from |time to time at night amuses himself by throwing the light around the country. One night in the summer Hibbs was on the tower playing with the searchlight, A irginian, driving a skittish team, hitched |to a surrey In which were two ladies, was coming along the road leading to Lees- burg and was about four miles from the village. | Hibbs | rond. Gosh darn It} exclaimed the Virginian ‘here comes one of those pesky automo- bil He jumped out and took the horses by the head. The light continued on the toad for half & minute, and then was | switched away. The Virginian stood stupe- fled. Then he turned to the ladies and |sald, in an awd voice: “Jerusalem! That |automobile must be going fast. It's gone | and 1 didn't even see it!"—Saturday | Evening Post, | How Pat Counted Them. | Racial pride 1s a kind of patriotism that lasts as long as any sentiment. The story |18 told of a stranger in Milwaukee, who | seeing an Irishman at work in the street threw his searchlight down the | asked him what was the population of the | town. Oh, about 40,000, “Forty thousand! { more than that was the reply 1t must eertainly have said the visitor. Well," said the Irishman, “it wud about 26000 if ve were to count | Duteh."—Youth's Companion | Fairly | A college professor who was always | ready a joke was asked by a student | one day if he would like a good recipe for catching rabbits. “Why, yes,” replied the professor. “What is 1t?" “Well,” sald the student, “you crouch down behind a thick stone wall and make a nolse like a turnip.’ “That may be.” sald the professor with |a twink’e in his eye, “but a better way than that would be for you to go and it quletly in a bed of cabbage hedds and look | netural,"—Ladies' Home Journal Gett Even, Mayor Schunk of Dubuque, at a recent press banquet, recalled a quarrel between two Dubuque editors. “But Smith," he sald, “got the best of Brown unquestionably when Brown, who owned & small farm, bought a mule, “Smith printed a paragraph about purchase and headed it. ‘Extraordinary o of Self-Possession.’ "~Chicago Post Reflections of & Spinster. zen kissing becomes a fine art it ceases to be a pleasure. A kigs night and morning is the badge ot settled domesticity. For & kiss to mean anything it must mean everything. A man regards kissing as a hors d'ouvre & woman regards It as a hors d'etre.— Smart Set. the for this BDY COMES BAcK OLD MAN I took It upon himself to pacify such as were Wanderer for Forty-Five Years F| Father and Mother at Home. His hair grown gray with the lapse of the years that passed from the night when | as & boy he left his father's home, aged | 2, to the night of his return, aged 67, | John Frenshaw walked into the home of | bis father Christmas night at the old home- stead near Nashville, Ind., and greeted the parents who had looked and longed and prayed for his return for nearly half a cen- tury “We knew you would come back to us, John," and they elasped him In thelr arms | in a jey that was the climax of forty-five vears of sorrow and regret It was hpr‘ cause we knew you would come that our spirits were kept young,' they explained as John embraced the two, though now 9 years old were no older in appearance than himself. | John was 22 years old in quarreled with his father and went away from home. He walked to Indianapolis In three days, when a great storm raged. He wandered to St. Louls and at last found work In & shop. For seven years he saved his money, and then he ventured to the gold flelds of the He became rich, and then longed to return to the old home, but he did not know that his parents were still allve and well In the storm of wind and snow that raged about the old house on the Frenshaw farm Christmas night the elder Frenshaw awak d by a pounding on the door. ‘I'm cold and hungry,” said #lde. “'Can’t you take me for the night?" The old man let the stranker in and the wife prepared a meal for him. He talked for half an hour of his travels before he exclaimed: “Father, don't you know me?" The parents clasped him in their arms. Before the reunited family retired shaw gave his father and mother a for $,000.—Chicago Inter Ocean 1834, when he west was a volee out- | On the Hranch Line. | it stopped, “apparentiy The trains on the braneh rcad never went ery fast. There were various reasons for this. all good ones. Nevertheless, travelers trom more populous districts sometimes e pressed forelble opinions on the subject Bllas Wetmore, who rode back ard forth to and from the junction almost every day unduly disturbed by the waits and stops of the little sawed-off string of cars One day & particularly irritable passenger cat next him. He not only complained that the train was slow, but wished to know why it was slow, “What are we stopping for now?" he | asked Bllas looked ont the window ‘This Is a station,” he said, mildly “Don't see any,” sald the other. “Oh, there fvn't any building,” sald Silas, but it's n stopping place.” By and by the train went on, Presently in the middle of a fleld. 'This time the siranger did not In auire into the reason for halting, But after another twenty minutes the same thing oc curred. Finally he broke out again: “'What we stopping here for? Isn't any station here, in they 7" “No statlon,” “sald ping for water “Water!' exolaimed the other, “Wator! Why, we' just took in water not five min- utes ‘ago. “What do you mean?’ “Boller leaks." sald Silas, patiently; and the other relapsod lhito silence.—Youth'a Companion, e Prattle of the Youngste: One day f-year-old Bobby chastised by his mother, who had previ- ously told him of his prehlstoric where- abouts, “Me.mamma,’ he . sobbed, *I w-wigh I had s-stayed in h-heaven.'" Doctor—Johnny, 1 see the pllls I you have made you well again. How you take them—with water or in cal Small Johnny—I used them in my popsun to shoot at the cat Little Maggie—My mar goldfish for Christmas for it Little Kdna-—1tuh! 'l bet it's only Sllas, “We're stop- was soverely gave did a bought me She pald a dollar It that's all she paid plated Little Howard—Mamma, unlucky gumber, isn't it? Mamma—Some people think it is, dear Little Howard—Well, there were thirteen pleces of cake on the kitohen table, so I ook one to break the hoodoo A meddlesome cld lady came upon § lad lounging on the street ourb one noon and stopped to inquire, with suspicions “Fay, Bub, don't you go to schoolt “Yeu." was tho tart veply; “but only tween meals, thirteen is be Best results from Hee Want Ads. A Happy and Prosperous New Year To our many friends and customers we ex- tend greetings for the New Y cere thanks for past favors. that the year upon which we have ente will be more prosperous f r and sin- Our hope is red r you than its predecessor. Omaha has grown in the past vear and so, too, has our business. We shall hope for a confinuance of your es teemed patronage. Ay mana Model Steam Laundry Co.