Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 7, 1910, Page 4

"1\15 OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. | VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR KEntered,at Omaha postoffice as class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Bee (including Sunday), per week lic Bee (without Sunday), per week 10c | Bee (without Sunda: one year $4.00 | Bee.and Sunday, one year 6.00 DELIVERED BY CARRIE! Evening Bre (without Sunday), per week 8o Evening Bee (with Sunday), per week 10c Sunday Bee, one year vererneaenes 3250 Saturday Bee, one year... .. 180 Address all complaints of | rities in delivery City Cireulation Department. OFRICES, Omaha—The Bes Duilding. South Omaha—Twenty-fourth an Councll Bluffs—15 Scott Street Lincoln—§18 Little Bullding. Chicago—1548 Marquette Bullding, 3 York—Rooms 1101-1102 No. 34 West Thirty-third Street. Washingtor Fourteenth Street, N W. CORRESPONDE Communicatior s relating to itorfal matter should be addressed: Bee, Editorial Department REMITTAN Remit by draft, express payable to The B Only 2-cent stamps rec mail accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, 8s.: George B, Taoehuok, Treasurer of The Bie Publishing Company, being duly sworn, saya that the actual number of fuil and complete_coples of Daily, Morn- ing, Evening ind Sunday Bee printed dur- ing the month of December, 1909, was as 42,530 42,930 41,630 432,770 Daily Daily Daily Daily s arld ed- Omaha 41,580 41,780 41,680 42,480 | 43,650 432,460 43,620 8, Returaed copies..... Net Total. Dally Averag: GUEURGLE B, UCK. Treasurer, . Bubscribed in my presence and sworn to belure v \his Sist uay uf Deecember, 10y, W P WAL, Notary rumic bacribers leaving the city tem- vorarily should have The Bee waile them. Address will be changed as often as requested. The Kl,pgslon tremors are probably only a shaking up of the Jamaica ginger, The general public has no sympathy With the cotton longs for being driven to'nhorl breath. The porker appears to be running the turkey a 8tift race for the crown of the animal kingdom. cate base ball the accent seems to be emphatically on the syn, e e Sparks flylnhg in \y-\lx_atreet as a re- sult of the Rock Islandl’ triction reeall the days of flint and steel. ——— Delightful George Bernard Pshaw; always In the {utimate personal confi- dence of his exaggerated ego. — The weather man Is proving no friend to the promoters of the Cook tourists on the water wagon route. — And now the shippers want the pres- ident to decide what is a quart. Often it appears to be less than two pints. Some people are still seeing canals on Mars, but there is a suspicion that this is a casq of wet goods, not dry. ——— The |nluleni_o;ernTt:rTs beginning to find that in that field, as in others, the indispensable person does not exist. — In turning over the new leaf of Nicaragua to Madriz, Zelaya seems to have left the same old bug under the leaf. S —————— We note in the news dispatches that the peers are to take a new tack. Here's hoping they do not have to sit on it. Those who regard Jane Addams as a modern saint, and their name is legion, will wish her speedy and com- plete recovery. Those naval enthusiasts who are fo- creasing the size of battleships by leaps and bounds miust réemembaer that the ocean s only so big. I8 there anyhody left in the cold- wave-enwrappéd - United States who still disbelieves 'that ft-could get as cold as Doe Cook said? Before Harvard's infant prodigy set- tles the fourth dimémsion we would like t« know whether he is getting any assistance from Captain Loose. While the g eless talker has not yet succeeded iu girdling the continent, Weston s deterfoined to show that it can be done by‘the tireless walker. Omaha still has guch to bg thankful for. While we have been greatly in- convenienced by snow and cold weathar we have not had to fage. a shortage of coal, e Tos RO VHRT Kook tor.tia engines coa} ,whieh properly should have gone té'est the Soldlers' home exhibited mxw Door taste, to say the least. S5 R Simply It {5 a bumper ice crop, do not u&oct the fact to cut any ice in the maffer of next summer's prices. The ide bill will be the usual bump, tonishing facts of the t the Omaha World- to be very much con- ithe split in the repub- ‘wreck that organiza- awful?" One of the situation s Herald pret: cerned for lican party’ tion. “Alu Land Office Inquiry. The utmost falrness and the im- partial thoroughness of a judicial in- vestigation is assured by the con- gresgional action taken concerning the Pinchot-Ballinger controversy, and ‘the text of the resolutions and the official treatment of them guarantee that every shred of evidence submitted on both sides will be given the most ex- haustive consideratign. The resultant verdict cannot but be as just as it is final. In the meantime, one phase of the situation already has been made the subject of the most searching official review, in the case of L. R. Glavis, and the conclusions reached by the attorney general, based on the state- ments and documents in the matter of Glavis' charges refating to the Alaskan coal lands form an emphatic refuta- tion of some of the most serious and persistent charges brought by his de- tractors agajnst Secretary Ballinger and his department. Mr. Wickersham, whose legal abil- ity, personal integrity and patriotic de- votion to the administration’s policy of conservation of natural resources none can dispute, coneludes that the Glavis charges are entirely disproved; that the records show Glavis to have | been a meddlesome faultfinder, who | was given every opportunity by the Department of the Interior to ‘“‘make good,” but that he delayed action, sup- pressed evidence and never completed anything he undertook, though af- forded every facility and encourage- ment; that he was actuated through- out by selfish motives and that his breaches of discipline and improper charges against his superiors were due to a species of megalomania. Mr. Wickersham further concludes that the intervention of the forestry service procured by Glavis is shown by the | records to have been absolutely un- necessary to the protection of the in- terests of the United States. No more convincing document has appeared in the annals of the con- troversy than this report of the attor- ney-general, which throws absolutely out of court the entire Glavis claim, without at all impugning the motives of Mr. Pinchot in responding to the | Glavis call to action. The reasons for the dismissal of Glavis from the serv- ice are clearly manifest, judged from the exhaustive documentary evidence aceompanying the Wickersham conclu- slons, which, while reviewing the en- tire Glavis case without bias and with- out suppression of any details, now stands before the country as a mas- terly vindication of the Department of _ | the Interior, as far as the' Cunningham group of coal lands is concerned. The promptness of the Interior De- partment in submitting its evidence to the congressional committee displays a desire to have the speediest and most thorough investigation. If the de- tractors of the department are equally frank and sincere, judgment will be facilitated and the public will be able soon to see the end of a case which already has too long hampered the gen- ‘uine work of government. Another Step Toward Peace. Pride in initiating good works can- not but stir the breast of every pa- triotic American as he considers the government’s proposition to the powers to enlarge the scope of the interna- tional prize court established as a re- sult of the peace conference of The Hague, so that it may have judicial power to arbitrate international con- troversies. Such arbitration {8 now often deferred because of the difficulty of finding a competent and willing tribunal, and the spectacle is some- times presented of nations in a quar- rel peddling their dispute around among the neutral rulers, some one of whom finally accepts the burden of de- cision, What fairer and easier method of disposing of problems that are properly the subject of mediation than the sub- mission to an established court of fif- teen judges chosen from among all the nations consenting to the pact? While impractical theorists are wast- ing their energies and their funds in vain crusades for disarmament, the ad- | ministration has taken a long step for- ward in advancing the cause of the world’s peace by this project of exten- [sion of the beneficent power of The Hague tribunal. Again American Diplomacy, | Convention and circumlocution ap- pear to have suffered another shock from the shirtsleeves diplomacy of the | United States in the latest develop- | ments from Washington concerning the open door in the far east. Secre- tary Knox, by his announcement of governmental support of American in- terests in Manchuria, and by his pro- posal that the powers remove from the Manchurian raillroad problem the possibilities of Japanese aggres- slon, has made prodigious advance- ment of the American foreign policy. The step was as bold and final as it seems to have been unexpected. Whether Russla and Japan accept the plan is not so vital a matter to us, for their refusal will only leave them open tu the possibility of further en- tanglement about a matter which we suggest removing from the realm of hostilities; but by our memorandum we have demonstrated out attitude to- ward the world's peace and have strengthened our position among the nations, while standing. unsbhaken in our rights abroad, The St. Petersburg disclosures make manifest why Baron Uehida was in such haste to terminate the existing treaties and why Secretary Knmox re- ceived the new ambassador with such a polite negative. The administration appears to have known what it was THE BEE: dolng In far east negotiations, and the publication of what was going on behind' - the scenes strengthens the faith of the people in the ability of our State department to handle its dificult foreign problems with the courage of its convictions. American diplomacy is direct, forei- ble and effective, and while it often startles the old world it has thus far been able to achieve its righteous pur- poses. By his latest master stroke Mr. Knox shows anew his ability to main- tain with alertness and acumen the farsighted traditions established by his predecessors in the State department. Redeeming the Pledges. The finality of the White House statement that the president Is not at- tempting to use a patronage club to whip the so-called insurgents into line is sufficlent answer to the critfcisms that were prompted by a misleading report of a Washington news agency. It is now elear to all, as it was to the well-informed from the beginning, that Mr. Taft has been pursuing the traditional presidential policy of align-. ing his own force for the progress of the administration’s policies and of es- tablishing reciprocal relations with those national legislators who are sup- porting him in his measures. The president knows what he wants, and he goes about getting it in a prac- tical way. What he wants is to give the people what they want. By elect- ing him to office they expressed their confidence in his policies, and they also elected to congress representatives pledged to the Taft measures. Mr. Taft is pushing legislation with all the power that the executive possesses, and in this attitude the people will sustain him, while they will also hold the congressmen accountable if they do not fulfill the platform promises of which Mr. Taft has reminded them A Cold Weather Lesson. One of the accompanying drawbacks to cold weather is the fact that people are prone to neglect ordinary precau- tions in the matter of ventilation. In order to economize on fuel and to pre- vent temporary discomfort, the ordi- nary householder seals himself up al- most hermetically “during the pro- tracted cold spells. A greater mistake than this could scarcely be made. Rooms warmed artificially to a high temperature, in which the air is viti- ated by constant breathing, become a positive menace to health. Tuberculosis, typhoid, smallpox and similar diseases breed more readily under these conditions than in normal times. If you would avoid the danger as far as possible, see to it that some time during the day fresh air'in large quantities is admitted to your home, You will be surprised to learn that fresh air ‘can be ‘more easily warmed and is more pleasant to live in than the foul air, and even were it necessary to expend a little more for fuel in order to keep your home healthy the money is better paid for coal bills than for medicine. Any doctor will tell you this, That is rather an unusual attitude the government for its activity in pro- tecting shipping along the coast. One of the finest and most Mumane offices of the Treasury department is Its read- iness to send vessels to succor those in distress, whether they are Cape Ann fishermen or passengers on a private yacht. Human life in peril is always human life, and it is un-American to begrudge money spént in such service, Scotland’s burning to annex the South Pole, and has raised the cash to do it. With the Stars and Stripes waving at her head and the plaid dra- ping her feet, old Mother Earth will present a gay appearance to the plan- ets. And.what a bonny place the South Pole will be for hot scotch, a far more welcome refreshment in those latitudes than the translucent and ig- lootinous but clammy gumdrop. To what is our boasted racial strength coming, when the people of the Empire state are falling before the advances of the gentle cream puff? Such fatalities in the only original pie belt but add strength to the criticism of the effeteness of the east. It Mayor “Jim" and Colonel “Tom" could only find some way to take ad- vantage of the offer of the Omaha man- ufacturer to clear the streets, public gratitude would well up around the city hall in greater volume than it has for several months. —_— | The naw office-holders in New York are discarding the taxpayers’ automo- biles and taking to the subways, but the critics will note that this is in the midst of a snowbound winter. The real test will come, gentle Annie, in the spring. —_— The Christmas celebration of the Rock Island director has lost none of | its exuberance, but its charm seems | rapidly fading, and the Rock Island stockholders are likely to foot the bill. ] The exploiters of the raciest French fiction having failed for a million or 50, we may judge that there is one form of naughtiness to which the American public rises superior. —e Before San Francisco adopts the nonpartisan form of municipal election would it not better await the result of the Boston experiment? The rim might learn from the hub. The work of the Nebraska Federation of Labor was accomplished in a way that commends itself to all. The dele- | gates got together, discussed their af- taken by a congressman in criticising | OMAHA, FRIDAY fairs, transacted their business and ad- journed without blowing the roof off the hall or closing the doors In the face of anyone who cared to listen. This, however, Is characteristic of labor conventions, If congress finds out why it costs more to clothe and feed the army it will have the material for a literary production that will rank as the season’s best seller. The light of Halley's comet is now attributed by astronomers to a cyan- ogen band The torchlight procession will soon be near enough for us to see the drum major. The wedding of the granddaughter of Buffalo Bill reminds a lot of local people of the days when Buffalo Bill was a pony express rider, also of the flight of time. If there still are any youth lured by the gay white way of frenzied finance, let them look beyond the turn to the end of the road and read the lesson of Morse. A Sure Winner. Brooklyn Eagle. Americans lost over $61,000 in November on playing cards to Uncle Sam. His in- ternal revenue game is not to be beaten by any known system. | —_— Job for a Lifetime. Pittsburg Dispatch. When Secretary Wilson gets through with his Inquiry into the advanced cost of butter and egge it will probably be as valuable as bis investigation into the rise In the price of beet. | - Straining the Limit. Baltimore American. . The abuse of the franking privilege is to be stopped. It came to a elimax when a congressman tried to frank a cow. T placed the postal department on the horns of & dilemma, but it was decided that the postal routes were not milky ways. Possible Effect of Se Chicago Record-Herald. It 1s reported from Washington that Senator Aldrich 1s inelined to stand on the side of the people and against the rallway presidents on the question of federal rate control. Mr. Aldrich recently took an extensive trip through the great middle .west. ry. Saved Something. Charleston News and Courier. The Omaha Bee declares that “a Sas- katchewan farmer dropped into an Amer- lcan city a few days ago with $100,000 in his jeans,” and that when he left for home ‘“he still had his jeans.’ Lucky tellow! Suppose he had been forced to go home without the: Good Judge of Values. Boston Transcript. After reading the various interviews with Coloner Gordon, the new senator from Mississippi, the officlal contradiction of the War department, that our government once offered $10,000, for his head, seems superfluous save As a matter of record: Stanton was too good a judge of heads 19 do that. Peculiaritiey of Crime. Boston Herald. A student of socidl,conditions has been publishing some vital statistics. Here are @ few: Two hundred and fifty thousand persons out of the reach of the law are making crime of business; American piok- pockets are as well organized as any trade union; the pickpockets of New York re- taln a lawyer to protect their “interests: there Is a man in New York whose busi- ness it is to act as “fixer” between the distinguished eriminals and the police. Can t be that crime is losing the exeitiment of dange: WORK AHEAD FOR CONGRESS, for Further Rallroa Legislation. Chicago Record-Herald. The commerce commission, In its annual report, naturally recommends additional railroad legislation, repeating old argu- ments and pointing new morals in the light of court declsions concerning rate reduc- tions. The feature of the report, however, is the earnest advocacy of a physlcal valu- ation of rallroad property as a necessary besis for fair rate-fixing by any impartial body. There were times when the commission was 'in advance of the administration and congress in its suggestion. It is no longer £0; the others have caught up with it, and even forged ahead. The provisions of the bill of the commission headed by Mr. Wickersham, outlined some time ago in the press, were more radical than the defi- nite recommendations of the interesta commissioners. It hardly needs saying that the Cummins bill goes even beyond the Wickersham measure. The' president has promised to deal in a speclal message with the whole subject of Interstate commerce- and railroad legisla- tion, Including reorgunization of the com: mission, the creation of a special commerce court, the control of railroad finance, the suspension of proposed rate Increases on complaint and the investigation of thelr reasonableness, and so on. That he will favor extension and clinching of the Hep- burn act is generally taken for granted. Meantime the house committee on com- merce has been girding its loins for action, It has announced dally hearings after January 18 next. Hvidently the fur is ex- pected to fly In committee and on tloor. Physical valuation, control of rallr securities, suspension of proposed ne: rates, the establishment of through routes, joint rate making under supervision—here are subtopics of the great topic of further railroad regulation that will furnish lots of food for thought and discussion. The shadows cast by coming events in or about congress indicate neither reaction nor standpat stagnation. Preparations Our Birthday Book January 7, 1910. James B. Angell, who recently retired rom the presidency of the university of Michigan, is 81. He was once minister to China, and as an educator is oredited with helping to launch into active life more young men and young women, who occupy influential positions, than any other per- son. Michigan has put him on a pension in recognition of his eminent service. Frederick 8. Nove, assoclate justice of the supreme court of Arizona, was born in Loulscenter, O., January 7, 1578 Judge Nave's father was an army chaplain, and he studied in the Omaha High school, leaving many friends here when he re- moved to Arizona. Abel V. Shotwell, one of the Shotwell brothers, has a birthday today. He was born In Merago, O., January 7, 188, and his friends expect him to be & great lawyer before he dies these | JANUARY 7, 1910, Around New York Ripples ou the Current of Life As Seen in the Great Amerioan Metropolis from Day /to Day. The “tidal wave of champagne which en- gulfed the old year” In Gotham ‘and greeted the new,” was a corking and cork- less reality, not a pleturesque figure of #peech. In the six hours between 10 p. m. and 4 a. .m. one hotel proprietor, in the sober hours of the day after, estimated that 500,000 bottles of the bubbling fluld bubbled down as many throats In the Broadway and Fifth avenue houses. Smaller streams flowed along sidestreets and rivers of plebelan fluid reached the spot intended to raise the desired enthusiasm. Calmly written accounts of the scenes in the lobster palaces tell what it costs to hit the new year pace and how the money flow. One sample may be given as a type of all. The grill room of the Waldort- Astoria had been pre-empted for several weeks beforehand by those who prefer its informality to the conventionality In dress- ing and service of the regular dining rooms. A large percentage of the tables were re- served for family parties, and at several three generations were seen. There was no set menu anywhere In the hotel at this time, but there was the understood restric- tion that an order should approximate at least 88 a person. Blsmarck broilers, terra- pin, truffles and all sorts of game and sea- food were ordered. Some terrapin. and sherry was cooked so deliciously that even a party who had just finished their own or- der of breasts of grouse with port wine sauce, for which they had pald $27 a cover, looked at it enviously. It cost the host $850 a portion. The supper of one party of four was appralsed by the man- ager at §75, exclusive of wine, the vintage champagne costing §8 a quart. Other chaf- ing and grill room specialties noticed were oysters a la Loulse at $1.35 and oysters a 'a Waldorf at $1.50, truffies with cham- pagne sauce at $3, partridge at $4, and many parties dined simply on crab meat creole at $1.50 a portion. There is no rule in regard to liquid refreshment, and in addition to the champagne flowing like water many guests had ordered special Rhine wines, sauternes and the terrapin and canvas-back experts named a celebrated Burgundy at $85 & quart and proclaimed it the only drink tor the occasion “Shall 1 shave the back of your neck, st “No, T can't see it myself and nobody else cares.” “Will you have a cup of tea, then?’ “Charmed, I'm sure." This dlalogue took place in the Terminal barber shop in the Cortlandt bullding one day last week. The speakers were a freshly shaved rallroad president and Joseph H. Schusser, the master barber and proprietor of the shop. A moment later a pretty manicure girt handed a dainty cup of steaming hot tea to tho rallroad president who was sitting in the barber's chair. The head of one of the greatest trunk lines in America drank the tea and returned the cup. Yes, gentle reader, the afternoon tea habit has Invaded the barber shop. Joseph B. Schusser inaugurated the idea in his four barber shops in the Hudson Terminal buildings Monday afternoon. In his main shop in the Cortlandt bulding the tea is served by the four manicures, Miss Bliss, a blond, statuesque voung lady, makes the tea (Oolong from Formosa) and ‘pours” from 3 to 6. Every customer is asked if he will have a cup and nine out of ten accept it_gratefully. Cream or lemon ls served with it, and according to Schusser the china is real Dresden and the silver solid. “I concelved the idea of serving tea to my customers over a year ago,” sald Schusser to & World reporter, ‘‘but I was afrald to do it. I was afrald the ldea would be ridiculed. It was not until Mon- day that I gathered nerve enough to do it. My customers were a little shocked at first, I'll admit, but nearly everyone who comes in now drinks a cup, sp I'm sure they like the idea. Personally, I think it's a very good plan. A eup of tea is much better for your systera than a cocktail and just as refreshing.” That a wife may demand and compel the release of her husband held as hos- tage for a board bill was promptly demon- strated in a New York court of justice the other day. Before Magistrate House there appeared an actress, a Mrs. Hughes in private life, Wwho besought his honor's advice and assistance in recovering pos- session of her husband. He was being detained in a boarding house, as she ex- plained, because she would not pay his board. Armed with a summons, Issued by the magistrate, Mrs. Hughes went after the boarding house Shylock and brought him before the judge. The wife was earning $60 a week on the stage, he sald and could afford to pay the bill. He therefore refused to “delived the goods,” as he termed the husband, unless the bill was paid. To this Mrs. Hughes said that she wanted her husband back, so she could send him to Germany to be cared for, as he was {ll. “You shal have him,” was the judge's Instant decision. His honor had been on the stage one whole night, when the show \stranded, leaving him far from home and money. The popular notion that stage people were all millionaires was nonsense. Then Mrs. Hughes escorted the crestfallen landlord to his lair and got her husband. A few months 8go the statement was made in American Medicine that the aver- age income of physiclans in this city had dropped to $1,500 & year. The same publi- cation declares in a recent issue that there has been a further reduction untl New York doctors are at present averaging only $1,200 or less, while the average through- out the country is less than §600. In other words, the doctor's income here i3 steadily decreasing. The estimate is made that it has been cut in hulf In the last two years, “The monstrous evil of the abuse of medical charity has all but pauperized the medical profession,” Is the declaration of the editor. Those who live from hand to mouth at the Hand-In-Hand restaurants, long a feature of the Bowery and the East Side, suffered an increase of 20 per cent on New Year's day In the cost of meals that there- tofore have s0ld At five cents each, the meals are six cents. cording to employes, who quote John 8. Conroy, general manager of three restaur- ants, is due solely to the increased cost of provisions, a cause that has perplexed greater minds than those of the Bowery. Buckeyes at the Ple Counter, Springfield Republican. One thing President Taft is doing that deserves wider recognition. He has con- sistently crowded the clamorous Ohlo office- seckers Into the background, and today they can only moan out thelr agony over the disappointments they have experienced. “Ohlo 1s getting nothing at all,” according to their judgment. There are only three positions of importance in Washington now held by Ohloans, barring the presidency itself, and & supreme court justiceship— one in the Treasury department, another in the Department of Justice, and the third @ job held by a Buckeye negro, The Ohlo tradition is being wounded unto death in the house of its own progeny. 1 Now The Increase, ac- | part of the cabinet. The real home maker will for this and more. home. And that is just “‘t the highest grade piano. Amberol and Standard Records. Slezak—And be sure to Jean DeReske. E n Phonographs, $12.50 to $200.00 Edison Standard Records o B There a on this page today. Omaha, Neb. 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The price ask to hear the new Grand Opera Amberol Records by Slezak—the great tenor of the Metropolitan Opera House, New the greatest Grand Opera sensation since the days of ork, who'is m Amberol Records (play twice as long)$ .50 « 75 and 1.00 Ea Edison Grand Opera Records Edison dealers everywhere. Go to the nearest and hear the Edison Phono- graph play both Edison Standard and Amberol Records. your dealer or from us. National Phonograph Co., 75 Get complete catalogs from Avenue, o, N. Ju Nebraska Cycle Co. represents the National Phono- graph Co. in Nebraska, and carries over 100,000 records in stock, among which are all of the Edison records men- tioned in the National Phonograph Co.’s announcement Co. 334 Broadway, Council Bluffs, Ia. PERSONAL NOTES. John R. Bradley is fitting out an expedi- tion to find Bradley land. Fame must not be lost altogether in the shuffle. Alabama intends to try some night rid- ers, too, unless all the witnesses for the state get killed too soon. At present their tendency to sudden death is causing justice to waver, The White House speedometer shows that President Taft shook 5,575 hands on New Year's day in three hours running time. This is considerably behind the rec- ord ot his predecessor, who in 156 shook hands with 9,052 persons in two hours. Now comes Maunder, the English as- tronomer, to explain that while he did not deny that there were ‘*‘can on Mars, he did deny that there were canal boats. What many call “canals” he insists are “composite ' markings." - Fortunately the man in the moon is still left us. You can never tell what to expect. A Chicago hrunette went to her lawyer and asked him to procurs a divorce for her. He told her that her case was strong enough to avold unpleasant publicity, but she at once Prid her bill and sought a lawyer who would make more noise. Vincento Muccla, a Trenton, N. J., boot- black who has been shining the shoes of politiclans at the New Jersey state capitol for the last thirteen years, now retires with a fortune made at his business. He owns twenty-three houses, and under the spell of this magic number becomes a capitalist and operator In wider flelds. Traveling In an old-fashioned *prairie sohooner,” C. F. Wise passed through Got- tysburg the other day, driving from Little- county. He has been on the road fourteen days and covered over 400 miles. The trip was made by way of Petersburg, Freder- icksburg, Washington and Westminster. SORELY AFFLICTED MAN. Mark Twain. Baltimore American. A profound sympathy from all quarters of the civilized earth will be directed to Samuel L. Clemens—Mark Twain—in con- nection with the crushing atfliction that befell him on the eve of Christmas. What a pathos there is In the simple declaration of Mr. Clemens following the tragle death of his daughter Jean: “She Is gone, poor child. She was all T had left except Clara, who married Mr. Gabrilowitsch lately and has just arrived in Europe. There is no writer of English more universally be- loved than Mark Twain. His individuality is no longer hidden behind a pen name. The people of two hemispheres know him and will grieve with him. The pathos of the bereavement is hight- ened from the fact that the father had but just returned from Bermuda in order to spend Christmas with his daughter, On the evening before the sad mishap they had talked over and arranged plans which would have kept them together during the remainder of the winter. The daughter had asked that he defer his return to Bermuda untll March, when she had prom- ised to accompany him. This had been mutually agreed upon, and then, a few hours later came the tragedy. It is, of course, but the repetition of the universal human story. “The moving finger writes, and having writ, moves on; nor all your piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line.” And vet the flood of sympathy that will be poured upon the lonely father will not be alto- gether in vain. t better of itself. comes chronic, | healing Jell the throat a: throat well withet instgnt rellef. Get a Sc or lor {ree sampls, ton, N. C., to Bolling Springs, Cumberland | . An Expreasion of Sympathy Felt for |}, SMILING LINES. Weary Willlam—What did ye tell dat lady when she asked ve if ye wuz equal to de task o' sawin’ wood? Tattered Tom—I tol' her dat equal wuzn't de word. I wus superior to it.—Chicago ews. ‘““The dress Mrs. Style wore at the opera was a perfect poem,” sald Mrs. Howard. “'As far as it went, no doubt,” replied her husband, “but I thought some cantos were missing."—Life, sir,” he sald to the inventor the first talking machine!” N Mr. Kdison replied. "The first ori ade—long before my time—out of a ."'—New York Sun “The way to run this country,” said the egotist, “is to put thoroughly wise, able, alert and honest men In control of all_affairs.” “'Yes,” answered Miss Cayenne, “but what are we golng to do? , There's only one of you."—Washington Star. “Why does that dog of yours always howl when he sces me?'"’ ‘‘Because, my dear, fellow, he's rud enough to express what other people feel." —Baltimore American. “If you sympathized with the elopement, how could you tell the girl's father you didn’t approve of it?" *'Oh, simply stated a fact, and he drew 'his own inferences.” ‘What fact did you state?” “I gald an elopement was generally & miss taken affar.’—Baltimore American. “John Peters isn't fit to assoclate with gentlemen.” “Gee! What's the matter?"” “He held out a card when we were play- ing poker last night.” “S0 did you. “But [ onl stole an ac held out a nine-spot. ~Cleveland Leader. He began Uncle Goshall up on the North pale.’” don’t blame him about the North pols part of it, but 1 do blame him for scatter: ing around a lot of low temperature fl ures and putting all our local remin cences on the bum.”—Louisville Courl Journal. Hercules had killed the Erymanthean 0ar. “It was a case of necessity, “1 was absolutely out of meat. For, even in those days, the cost of living hecamne sometimes almost prohibitive.— Chicago Tribune. Old Lawyer (to young partner)—Did you draw up old Moneybag's will? Young Partner—Yes, sir, and so tight that all the relatives in the world eannot break it. Old Lawyen (with some dlsgust)—The next time there s a will to be drawn up I'll do it myself.—New York Sun, JANUARY REMINISCENCES. Washington Star. The rose that seems the sweetest is the rose that bloomed so fair Away back in the summer when the days wera free from care; You shut your eyes and sce the ripples dancing n the sun, And try to count the stars that come te view when day 1s done; 'he crow’s hoarse salutation faintly in your ear, And yoy think about the morrow balmy, radlant and clear, When perfumed breezes o'er the -treme bling waves will lightly blow— You'd like to go a-fishing—but yowve got to shovel snow. echoes Oh, disappointment that might well dis- courage e'cn the saints When cruel fate dispe gentle fancy paints! The wind that now roars fiercely brought caresses for all men, clouds held only storm enough for rainbows now and then. You start up from your reverie, & rod and line to seek, And grasp the implement of toll that leaves your shoulders weak. So grim reality dispels the dream's ec- static glow. You'd like to g0 a-fishing—but you've got © bliss that And our druggist or send peany postal to us Hondon Mtg. 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