Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 12, 1910, Page 4

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REMITTANCES, R draft, express or postal order | The Bee Publishing Company, | inrities in epartment Remit’ able 1y 2 CIRCULATIO County, urer of T being _duly STATEMENT OF, Biate of braska. | B of The Daily, Morn- nday Bee printed dur- the month of December, 1%9, was as 42,530 42,930 | 41,630 4,770 43,460 42,650 | 48,450 | 43,520 | 42,600 44,680 | ‘Treasurer, Bubseribed in my presence and vworn to befure mie tiis dist d-%u( ecember, ivoy. . P . Notary Fubile. Subscribers lea porarily shoula The Bee to them. Address will be Bed as ofted ns request ——— e How would you like to be the cen- Sus man? ———— A hand to mouth existence—the sllence of Zelaya. ————— How sweet the crooked su ers will look in stripes! —— Honors are easy. Edison rails at the monorail, but the BYyroscope guys him, the city tem- ve r check- Now that nq‘re is & blue star line on the Atlan fe, the umfu} colors are all atloat, ————— s e el The girls of Radeliffe have estab- DEOWSIDg.. . rqom,” High brows? . Curlous . what & . sudden -demand there ts for Bibles, since the prices went up. — Boll the water—particularly the supply reserved for consumption after 8 o'clock. ——— We may as well remember that the | backbone of winter has more lives than & cal SepSererep—— Fashion Note—The tail of Halley's comet, once crescent shaped, is now straight and slender. Since MF. Carnegie has recovered the use of ‘his leg, the pulling process may be safely resumed, \ P —— plorers, Copenhagen may be consid- ered officially off the map. —— Recent grafting successes of the for- esters may make it read “Great oaks their little chestnuts grow." lnn\bql;- the days of Adam’s apple *he ery of the ultimate econ- sumer wag heard in the land. The soandal over that Philadelphia heiress Indlcates that there are phases of fast life even in a sléw town. state What effect this cruel winter has | had on the ice-cream cone crop? The Chicago ribune s lnleat crusade | 18 for the revival of wood fires, An-| other invaslon of our forest preserves. | ' LT - Some of the corporations appear to| be getting testy over the federal tax.| The supreme court will decide the test. s T Henry Watterson, who would eall all the honest men to the front, evidently overlooks the neeessity for a rear guard, Discoyery “that the ties of the Brownsvjlle rallroad are of ebony may lend color {0 the Browngville shooting | theory, ° Uncle 8am's decision to establish an immigration site at Gloucester, N. J.,| simply restores a once-famed place (’ur‘; the races. It is to be sincerely hoped that hav- ing mar¢héd up to the gates of death, the empeFdF 61 Austria will now march down agaln. The q{nél!lon of revision downward of the allmony tariff seems to be a burning issye with our local divorce courts just now. == Maude Adam'’s tribute to Yale, fol- Malthus Brought Up to Date. In retiring from office as president of the National Live Stock association, H. A. Jastro seriously reviews the problem of the meat supply as an up- to-date applieat!on of the hundred- year-old doctrine of the political phi- losopher, Malthus, who beat Jim Hill out in promuigating the theory that the population would soon outstrip nml means for subsistence. Mr. Jastro| takes the point of view that cotton and | |corn have been supplanted and that the meat-animal is now king, and be-| Ing in the meat business he is naturally ! southern papers that a factor that had | disposed to contemplate the situation serenely. What is discovered from the statis-| cotton throughout the winter, and that| coi $46,000,000 a year for carrying the | Nours 1s a o tics s that our exports of meat prod-|is the intense rivalry of the southern | ot " o while | | ucts are steadily decreasing, the home prices to the consumer are constantly advancing. And thus far| this supports the doctrine of Maithus, | for the results quoted can be only be-| cause of the fact that production has| not kept pace with population growth. | for | worry about a possible shortage home consumption because we still are exporting $200,000,000 of meat prod- ucts a year, which’ he holds to be a surplus on which we can draw, ls; hardly comforting to the consumer, who realizes that h every pound de- liberately withdrawn from the foréign market to satisfy the shortage at home | our prices must tend to rise, Mr. Jastro states that we do not raige as much live stock per eaplta as in former years becauge the farmer and anchman can make more money in other branches of agriculture or trade. This .18 llkewise disconcerting to the consumer, for in that cage there is not likely to be any stimulus for increas- ing the supply save i the maintaining of prices. While the late Mr. Malthus had trouble to sustain his theory, it is apparent from Mr. Jastro that although we can confuse tha old philneopher by | producing more food, it will be only under the pressure of the opportunity for a larger commercial gain. In this connection it would be interesting to hear from' the Beef Producers’ associa- tion, which was designed to avert any shortage in the meat supply, but which geefny to have allled forces with the live stock raisers in boosting the prices of the cheaper cuts, Those Insulted Diplomats. Pity the trials of a republican form of government that has to deal with the privileges of aristooratic importa- tions. Such a hubbub as has arisen in Washington among the titled emis- saries of forelgn governments could not have occurred in the courts of Eu- ropean capitalg, where precedence of rank is rigorously established by royal decree of old. But if our social diplo- mats have offended the marguis from Spain and the ministers from other re- gal ports, let us at least hear their spobbishness with the fortitude en- gendered of long experience in control- ling childish petulance from across the water, 5 g Uncle Sam, like many another frugal househblder, has' never yet been aroused by either wails or impudence without demonstrating his dbility to administer the proper soothing syrup, and we may trust him to attend to the case of the marquis , and his fellow patents of mnobility ~with efficacious doses of the old-fashioned " remedy. These unhappy diplomats are but act- ing like spoiled children ofhe kinder- garten, and If they do not take kindly to Uncle Sam’s treatment of the case it will be in order for their wise home governments to conduct them ‘gently but firmly to the solitude where they can forget, if not forgive. The New District Attorney. The concurrence of both the United States senators from Nebraska in a recommendation to the president of Frank 8. Howell for United States dis- trict attorney practically insures the nomination and confirmation = which will make him succeed to this impor- tant office. The jurisdiction of the district attorney includes the whole state and makes the range of selection the entire bar of Nebraska, although the precedent and distribution of other federal officés gives Omaha the first claim to consideration. The selection of Mr, Howell to be United States district attorney is8 a| good selection. He is a lawyer with good legal attainments and a militant disposition. He has been mnot only| successful in his profession, but also active in the republican cause. He had much to do with the breaking up of the combine of grain buyers in Ne-| braska, which was put out of business | a few years ago, and he also made it | hot for the fee-grabbers in our court house. Offenders against the majesty | of Uncle S8am's law will therefore take | due notice. | Man's Inhumanity. Now that Early has been officially declared a leper, we may look to see bim permanently removed from his| fellow creatures, though it does not| appear that he is in any way incapaci- | tated from rounding out years of use-| ful employment For against him is recorded the cry of “Unclean” that has | come ringing down through the ages, swaying man into the inhumanity born of prejudice. ; The real lesson of the Early case lies in the demonstration how prone the people are to be preyed upon by panic, manifestations of which were shown all along the line when the suspected leper was shunted back and forth in an isolated car between Washington and New York, or compelled to camp in & hut remote from other habitation lowing her triumpb at Harvard, makes one wonder if she is not playlng for the college championship. Brave souls have worked among the most repellant cases of this disease, in THE BEE: have alded sclence In minimizing the peril of association. But anclent grudge dies hard, man Is slow to aban- don black superstition and when plague visits a land fright kills more than pestilence. still haunts the race, which has not yet accepted the newer creed that cleanly and upright living enabies man to meet the unfortunate face to face for sane and humane ministration, Cotton Mills and Markets. Disclosure is made by some of the not been reckoned with in the north has served to sustain the high price of mills against those of New England. Early in the season the manufacturers of Massachusetts, which leads all the states in the production of such tex-| tiles, agreed to refrain from cotton in the hope that the would break. The fect that instead it has risen Is now seen to be largely be- buying cause the southern manufacturers have | been buying steadily. In other words, while the north has played a bearish part, the south has aided the manipu- lators of fictitious prices by bulling the commodity, The purpose of this peculiar atti- | the supremacy in cotton manufacture from New England, The logic of the scuth is that the mills ghould be brought to the cotton, a reversal of the long established rule of conveying the cotton to the mills, and that the policy is gaining headway is seen in the fact that South Carolina now ig approach- ing Massachusetts in the number of | cotton mills and the aggregate prod- uct. Although the government may succeed in its design to check the evils of gambling in cotton futures, still the attitude of the southern likely to continue to be an element in maintaining higher prices for the fin- ished product. Foolish Talk. There always has been, and probably always will be, more or less factional- ism within every political party that is long in the ascendency. This is true of the republican party in Nebraska, and is one of the signs that it is an active, living party grappling with live questions as they arise, although en- tailing differences of opinion which have to be threshed out. Such con- tests are evidence of health if they are carrfed on within the party and with a view of strengthening the party, and ultimately of solidifying it. Such con- tests become destructive of party when they are waged around mere personali- ties and fed on threats of party defeat if one faction or another fails to carry its entire program. The strength of the republican party in Nebraska heretofore has been that its factionalism has only rarely led to defection which preferred democratic success, Opponents of Senator Burk- ett are sald to be proclaiming that un- less he is defeated for remomination the democrats will Win out in Nebraska this fall. The Bee has not committed itself for Senator Burkett, nor against Senator Burkett, but we venture to suggest that this sort of foolish talk is a two-edged knife. It {8 just the kind of republican factionalism which the democrats llke to encourage in the hope that democrats may be the bene- ficlaries. Just remember that, irre- spective of the identity of the nomi- nees, if the republicans are to carry Nebraska this fall it must be by repub- lican votes. While the insurgents at Washington were proclaiming their adherence to the legislative program of President Taft, and support for his administra- tion, the insurgents at Lincoln were considering a resolution arraigning and denouncing the president. Bither there are two kinds of insurgents or they are not keeping well in touch with one another. And now ‘“Billy” Thompson inti- mates a special session of the legisla- ture to patch up the Oregon plan which our late democratic law-makers under- took. to adopt for Nebraska. At last accounts, however, the “Little Giant” did not have a particularly close stand-in with either Governor Shallen- berger or the democratic law-makers. Friends of Charles A. Goss, the out- going United States district attorney, need not regard his displacement as disparagement of his service in that office. Mr. Goss had the place handed to him almost as a present and his four years of undisturbed incumbency may be regarded as all that is coming to him and fairly balancing the account. There i no good reason why cement cannot be manufactured in Nebraska of as good quality and at as low a cost as in Kansas, where the cement indus- try has taken on huge proportions. One successful cement mill would be pretty sure to be followed by others. It is pleasing to note that the edi- torial associates of our democratic con- gressman-editor are already writing letters to themselyes telling how wide- spread is the demand for him to throw a senatorial castor into the ring. The ease with which our battleships run aground in our eastern harbors may suggest to the strategy board the advisability of letting the so-called channels remain accessible to foreign vessels in case of war. The avidity with which millionaire helresses are seizing upon American the thick of the leper colonles, and walters and chauffeurs iostead of OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, The old spirit of fear | market | manufactur- | ers in supporting an inflated market is y J titled foreigners leads to the bellef that the high tariff on ecoronets has not solved the problem, Credit to whom credit is due. It transpires that the wonderful story of the Worcester alirship was from the facile pen of Clarence M. Agard. Clar- ence may yet reckon among the best sellers of fiction. If the Third Nebraska district had not given such a brutal democratic ma- {fority for the check book in the last congressional election Edgar Howard would not.now be talking up so pert. While it is shown that the raliroads course not to be pre- sumed that they make any profit out | of 1it. Discovery of the fact that Dickens | wrote his “Christmas Carol” In mid- summer because he was hard up is an- | other argument against subsidizing genius. —_— Ak-Sar-Ben will do business at the | old stand during the coming year with | the same offioial roster that it had last | year. This spells success for 1910. A crusade for a brighter Kansas | tude is evident as & part of the con-| City, Kan,, is on, but it will have to be|greo Wiiltan G. Brown. stant ambition of the south to wrest | highly illuminated to emerge from the| Two of the largest milk dealing firms in |shadew of Kansas City, Mo. i " | Re | a on for Diserimination. warleston News and Courter. { Tt seems, according to press reports, that | In Nebraska it costs four times as much | to express a pony as to express a jackass, | but then, jackasses can go on passenger | cars ana pe cannot. I | Where Genius Falls Down. St. Louls Globe-Democrat American Inventors have not yet pro- |duced a satisfactory device for slippery sidowalks. The world awaits some stmple, harmless contrivance for this purpose and will pay for it handsomely. Stage Frights and Others, Cleveland Leader. Aoctress tells us that she escapee stage fright by imagining that the audlence is merely & field of cabbage heads. Many audiences are — otherwise they wouldn't stand for some of the stage “frights we get. Got Your ‘Spark’ in Indlanapolis News, As to that enormous increase in the im- portation of diamonds showing the meas- ure of our general prosperity—um-m-m, well, a careful search might show that a good many of the plain people are not wearing dlamonds even yet. ghtt What Would Happen. Washington Herald. The king of Sweden recently disgulsed himself for a day as a laborer, and the ad- vertisement was heard around the world. Now, if a Swedlsh laborer should disgulse himself as a king, he probably would be quletly run in, and that would be about all. A Belated Expl lon. Cleveland Plain Dealer. There is a4 strong effort to correct what is termed a miscohception regarding King Leopold's admiinléfration of Kongo affairs. It seems that therb might have been atro- clties, but they Were not traceable to the Kking's policy ‘of ‘government. What a pity it 15 that this' explanation could not have come when it might have benefited the old king's much battered reputation, } CENSUS TAKING IN SOUTH. Employment of Negro Enumerators in Negro Districts. New. York Post. The wise decisign of the new director of the census, Mr, E. Dana Durand, to em- ploy negro enumerators to deal with the negroes in the south will give the greatest satisfaction to the colored people of that section. It Is not merely that they wish the offices as a means of getting ahead, but that they feel that there will be more acurate reporting of their progress in the work 18 in the hands of their own people. The coming census means much to them. In the face of widespread criticism of their usefulness as citizens and laborers, they naturally wish all of their really phenom- enal advance as a race recorded in time for the semi-centennial of emancipation, when the whole country ought to stop for 4 moment to take cognizance of their progress. That Mr. Durand's decision will be popular in the south is not probable; since he s, however, to employ white enumerators for the whites, the edge will be taken off of any open fault-finding there may be. ' [ KNOCKS INCOME TAX, New York's Governor Strikes at the Amendment. Brooklyn BEagle. Governor Hughes' speclal message recom- mending that the legislature refuse to ratify the proposed aniendment to the con- stitution of the United States, enabling the federal government to tax incomes, con- talns an approval of the Income tax In principle, but dlsapproves the plan under which the president would levy the tax. The governor believes that the federal government should be Invested with the power “to lay and collect an income tax without apportionment among the stai according to population.”” But he points out that the wording of the amendment ls €0 comprehensive that the government would be enabled under it to tax incomes derived from state and municipal securities and thus Interfere with the revenue-rais ing powers of the states themselves, This affords him a sufficlent reason for rec- ommending that the amendment be thrown out. It is a reason that should have great welght with a legislature which is not income tax even were it put in a less ob- jectionable form. Qur Birthday Book Jauuary 13, 1910, Jack London, who writes animal stories and other weird tales, was born January 12, 1576 in San Francisco. Martin W. Littleton, the big Brooklyn lawyer, is 3. He made the nominating speech for Judge Parker In the St. Louls convention and 1s known as & great orator. He was also In the Thaw case as one of the attorneys for the defense. He s a Tennesseean. Rey. Wilber F. Crafts, theologian and vice chaser, was born January 12, 1850 at Frye- burg, Me. Frederick R. Baird, who s practicing law in this city, is @ member of the firm of Purdy & Baird. He is 2 years old today. Mr. Baird was born In Chicago and Is & graduate of the University of Chicago, and Is now one of the teachers of law in the Creighton University Law school ANU '|in the trade and on the witness stand by suspected of any strong preference for the | ¥ ARY Around New York Ripples on the Ourrent of Life a8 Sesn in the Great Amerioan Metropolis from Day to Day. Mayer Gaynor's new broom Is swishing around in open places and odd corners with a recklessness that is rude and painful to the hamfatters. Loafers on the job have had their hookworm Jjolted and put at work on a regulation minute. Where the rules call for eight hours as a day's work, bureau chiefs are ordered to see that the required time is put In. Anywhere from one to five hours a day, according to the attitude of the employe, have been con- | sldered a fair return for the city's ocoin. | Golng on a standard schedule of eight ruel and unusual penaity, for a place on the payroll, and smacks of | tyrrany. But eight hours go or the kicker | goes. Equally dlsgusting s the abolition {0t joy-riding on the city's machine. The city owns 108 motor cars costing $253,000. | Sixty chauffeurs are employed at an an- nual salary of §76,000. Last year car main- | tenance and supplies took $184,00. That | theso cars were kept busy during the wak- | Ing hours Is indicated by the maintenance | figures, and more of the wear and tear | was taken in private affairs than in public business. “Ne more of this,” exclaims the [ mayor. Any city chautfeur or bureau { chiet using & oity car for private business | geta the hook on the spot. The combination of milk dealers is rap- |1aly breaking up under the strain of the revelations of the Investigation before Ref- | Brooklyn have already broken. their tacit | agreement to have no competition, and | one« of them has invaded the Manhattan ‘,lerl'“l-r)‘, in distinet violation of the trade | understanding, which confined its opera- tions to Brooklyn. | Confronted with the fact that their trade |i* woing to the few independent deal- ers who still charge elght cents and with the further situation, as admitted generally dealers, that the milk market Is over sup- | plied and the prices should be lowered instead of raised, to conform with the laws of supply and demand, these two com- panies have set out to steal away one an- other's trade and get back some of the | business they have lost since the price of milk was raised on November 1. The result is & trade war that will un- doubtedly make for the benefit of the con- sumer. Milo, & prize Plymouth Rock rooster, had led a blameless, sober, ves, a patrlarchial lte up to New Year's. Then all was changed. Frank Rue of Fast Wood place, Cedar Grove, N. I.. owns Milo and the rooster’s amasing change of conduct pained him greatly. Worst of all, the rooster in- duced six Leghorn hens hitherto modest and ladylike, to join him in alecholic dis- sipation. Mr. Rue heard Milo crow continuously for ten minutes and went to see what had glven rise to that unprecedented musical outburst. A bacchanallan spectacle greeted his staring eyes. Milo lay on his back in the barnyard. He was crowing with all his might, wagging his head fool- ishly and kicking. Around and around him staggered the six Buff ‘Leghorn hens. Plainly they had lost all sense of hen propriety. They became a barnyard ballet corps. Coquettishly and clucking joyously they went wiggling around thelr lord and master. From their way of dancing they might have been drilled as the six Sdlome sisters, Thelr dancing ardor gradually cdoled ;and they zigzagged off to thelr roosts, It turned out that a New Year's mince ple, heavily charged with brandy and rum, had fallen from a kitchen window sill. The record price of Manhattan land was made last week. The corner of Wall and Nassau streets was sold to the Manhattan Trust company for $655 a square foot, not $700 as was previously reported. The for- mer record price was #$63 a square foot for the corner of Broadway and Wall street—1 Wall street, as it Is known. This price of $656 is the actual price for the real estate, as the nineteen-story Gillender building is to be torn down to make room for & thirty-twe-story structure. This cor- ner—it is only 26x76 feet—is therefore the most valuable plot of ground in the world. In 1783 it wold for 5,125, in 1849 for $55,000. Bixty years later it brought $1,200,000. Well may we, like Billy Nye, find fault with our ancestors for not being present when Manhattan island was sold for $25 and a cask of rum. A “gentle form of blackmall,” as a eiti- zen calls it, is in continual operation In New York; “and,” he adds, “I don't see how one can get away from it."” ““The reason for my complaint,” he con- tinued, “is this. Every few days I recelve a package of tickets to some charitable or philanthrople endeavor to get money out of the public pocket, with a request to sell or keep them, and to send the money to such end such an address. I know the thing Is all right, and the object is a worthy one, but I do not relish being sand- bagged In this way. I prefer to select my own charities, when it comes to handing out the cash. “You see, these tickets, and this gentle nudge to give up, comes usually from some be bundled up and sent back Is fraught with embarrassment. Tt {5 a sort of soclal blackmall that I do not think is justified by even the most worthy form of charity.” After a three-day search through a half- mile of snow banks at Scarborough, Mrs. Frank A. Vanderlip, wite of the former a slstant secretary of the treasury, has re- celved the last of a dozen pearls which she lost while coasting on Briarcliff Hill Monday night. The pearls were in a neck- lace valued at nearly $5,000, which she wore on the coasting party. Late in the even- ing she dlscovered that the necklace had brdken and a dosen of the pearls had slitped off. The next morning the whole stretch of the slide was searched and a few of the gems recovered. The search continued and the last of the missing pearls was recovered. Mortality on Ball Ficlds. Springtield Republican. The Injuries recelved in base ball are often cited to show that foot ball is not alone In being a sport dangerous to life and limb. Yet the statistics of 109 prove that base ball is much the less dangerous, comparatively speaking. Foot ball is played but about two months, while the other ame runs through a period of at least soven, and of course the number of base ball players is much larger than the num- ber of foot ball players. Despite this dif- ference, there were thirty base ball playe! and thirty-one foot ball players killed in the last year. Now Let Trusts Wateh Out. Baltimore American. Women are to organize an anti-trust league. The trusis might laugh at the threat, only now women are particularly energetic and persistent In the public work they undertake, and If they make up their minds In earnest to fight will fight to the bitter end. And all experience shows that a real determination to fight soon leads one I know, and your suggestion that they | 4 bles and nervous prostration. greatly improv My friends a great change. th —or tha Oompound has been the s £ si e ills. PERSONAL NOTES, With eggs at 70 cents a dozen in New York the humble “ham and” assumes an unwonted dignity. Premier Asquith speaks of Mr. Balfour's nebulosity in London, where fog Is too common to be used in striking metaphor. “In the gentle art of welghing/ lemons there was rich graft,”” writes Lyman Beecher Stowe in the Outlook. The poor welghers seem to have taken the bitter with the sweet. James Dale Chamberlain, 9 years old, who claimed to be one of the originators of the Industry of perserving fruit in hermetically sealed cans for commercial purposes, died In Toledo. He formerly lived in Union county, Pennsylvania. Edison sees labor king 200 years hence, whken every workingman will be a super- intendent living like men worth $200,000,000 live now. Clothes will be so cheap the women will be able to change styles with every fashion, and therg will be mofe tashion. Doctor Cook's thrilling account of how he rescued a man from a bear is marred by the statement of the man that at the time of the bear episode Doctor Cook was 160 miles away. In settling the question of veracity there séems nothing to do but interview the bear. A notable review of the resources and developments of the south is contained in the Manufacturers’ Record of Baltimore, issue of January 6. Special articles by ex- perts familiar with the several features of southern progress, makes the publication speclally valuable and enlightening. MIRTHFUL REMARKS. “Are you doing anything for others?" asked the philanthropist, “Sure,” answered Mr. Urosslots. I make a garden every year for the benefit of my nelghbors' chickens.”—Washington Star, “Have you ever noticed any Indications, madame, that your husband has liver com- plaint?” “I think I have, doctor. Everybody seems anxjous to get a from him whenever he begins to talk.”—Chicago Tribune, ave such a flat and plebelan nose, papa,” said the aristocratic young daughter of the plain old merchant, “That's the mark of the grindstone, my ear,” replied the plodding old man.—Cleve- land’ Plain Dealer. “I wish you didn’ His Satanic Majesty—The new annual paving I8 getting on nicely, but what in the pame of all the flends is the meaning of that tremendous pile of bricks lying When shown positive and reliable proof that a certain remedy had cured numerous cases of female ills, wouldn't any sensible woman conclude that the same remedy would also benefit her if suffering with the same trouble ? Here are two letters which prove the efficiency of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Fitchville, Ohio.—* My daughter was all run down, suffered from pains in her side, head and limbs, and could walk but a short distance at a time. She came very near having mervous prostration, had begun to cough a good deal, and seemed melancholy by spells. two doctors but got little help, Since taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, Blood Purifier and Liver Pills she has im- proved so much that she feels and looks like another girl.”— Irasburg, Vermont.—*“I feel it my duty to say & few words in praise of your medicine. When I began taking it I had been very sick with kidney and bladder trou= She tried Mrs. C. Cole, Fitchville, Ohio. I am now taking the sixth bot- tleof Lydia E.Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and find myself who call to see me have noticed —Mrs. A. H. Sanborn, Irasburg, Vermont. We will pay a handsome reward to any person who will prove m.ag that these letters are not genuine and truthful t either of these women were paid in any way for their testimonials, or that the letters are published without their permission, or that the original letter from each did not come to us entirely unsolicited. What more proof can any one ask? For 30 years Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women t0 write her for advice. thousands to health free of charge. Address Mrs, Finkham, Lynn, Mass, She has yonder? You've got enougn of that par ticular kind to pave the whole Infernal re- glons, Head Imp—Those, my lord, are the good resolutions about pure politics and graft- iess administrations,—Baltimore American. “He's a grouc iggllag dinfng room girl that he'd like a little more tea and & little less tee-hee."—Cleveland Leader. “Is the pen really mightier than the sword?"” Nothing to It. You don't see any_homes for disabled poets.”—Loulsville ~Courier- Journal, ty salesgirl 1 took “Well, 1 stole a kiss." “What did she st “Will that be al FRONTIER ELEGY. New York Times, He blowed inter Lanigan's swingin' a gun, An’ swearin’; Declarin' Red rivers 'ud run Down Alkall valley an' oceans o' gore 'Ud wash sudden death on th' sage-brushy shore, An’ shot a big hole inter Lanigan's floor. He blowed Inter Lanigan's swingin' a gun, A new one, A blue one, A Colt’s forty-one; He shot some, permiskus, where Lanigan stood. An’' would have put Lanigan in bad fer good, But th’' leg that he happened t' shoot in was wood. He blowed inter Lanigan's shoutin' llke An’' ravin,’ Gun wavin, Gin-ugly an’ bad; He shot a knot hole outen Lanigan's leg, (Th' wood one) an' shot th' bung outen a keg, An' nigh let th' liquor all out, every dreg. An' Lanigan, seein' him goin' too fer, Too frisky, (With whiskey Wuth cash at th' bar), Reached over an' pulled out a big forty- four An' plugged him between th' back bar an' the door, Till he was less harmful than he was before. 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