Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 21, 1910, Page 4

{dE OMAHA DAILY Bu. OUNDED BY !)DWARD RO!EWATEN vicToR m-nvn-rn, 'EDITOR. Y ey Btered at Omaha postoffice as becond- tll.l matter. " TERMS OF !uau‘:mmon iy aily Bee (Including Sunda; T wee Bally Bee {withous “gundayy. por week 10 Dllly (without nur). g yun % Daily Bee and Sunday, one o :len:m m CARRIER. ay), per ndlv). per wi You Bee ( Evenies Bee (wnn Sund; I’ Bee, Saturday Br e yea Address all complaints delivery to cuy Cireaistion Omlh.——'l'h B ullding. South L ?mu m\mh and N. Coun’ll Bluff: in Bepartment. Beott Street. Ll! Marquette Bullfll LA Naw ork—Roomis 1101-1102 No. 34 West Thirty-third 8t Wawm 3 th Street, N W. ington—T2 CORR! DENCR. mmunications relating to news - Horial matier should, be Sadzessed: Omans Bee, Bditorial ment. RE ANCES; Remit by draft, epress or postal order Bayadle to The ‘hdhnmuumu Company, mt stmps Fecelved in payment of mail acoounts. Pel 1 checks, except on Omaba or eastern exchanges, not accepted. and e?u Hnnln‘ and Sunday Infi the month of Decembe followst 1 -, 17 s¥sazEznERE: Returned copl Net Total Dally Average. GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK, Treasurer. Bubscribed in my presence and rworn to Hetore me tils Siet 3.&« Deckmber, 1905, Notary Public, Subs¢ribers leaving the city tei porarily ' should have The Bee mailed to them. Address will be changed as often as requested. Watch for striking effects when those college girls come home wearing strikers’ shirtwalsts. — The desire of thé consumers in some cities seems to be to compel the meat ~packers to eat crow. 8tlll, Reno {s mighty far away to go for a divorce which can be bought just as cheaply mearer home. —— Sam Small having been discovered, there is still prospect that Dr. Cook and Upton Sinclair will be located. —— The Baltimore Sun, condemning kissing, pronounces it both ridiculous and unsatistylng., Oh, Maryland, my Maryland! The audueity of wolves in devouring a Buropean nobleman is accounted for when it is explained that they were Hungary wolves. Take note that Mayor “Jim” makes his entry on the gubernatorial race track as a democrat. No populist mas- querade for him, Continental Europe is also having a taste of unusually severe winter weather. But for the real thing, Ne- braska still lead: The Pittsburg presbytery appears to have been brought face to face with a personal application of the dictum, “Consider the Lilley.” Oh, well, if we should have to wait another year for the two new stars in the flag, we still have Halley's comet to make 1910 distinguished. Congregationalists are talking of blendi New England and Chicago spirits. ‘Let us hope the resultant ‘brand will not need presidential inter- pretation, If the reports of loss in the sheep country are not exaggerted, Mr. Beef- steak may phepare’ to have his com- manding position contested by Mr. lhltmllch?1 £ . ATER———— The, Elkhorn Valley Medical society has resoluted to do away with free medical service to ministers of the g pel. Tberc 18 a 'way for the ministers to get even. Two_ hundred thousand are sald to have Joimed the Antl-Food-Trust league. The league directory is likely to be popular as a malling list for the near-food manufacture It hegins to look as though that $20,000,000 bond project for the Illi- nois share in the lakes-to-the-gulf re doomed to defeat. The sbrings seem to be dry at Springfield. The “wholesale way in which Great Britain is _embarking in old-age and unomplnymint pensions may compel her to turn her warships loose in an lnumlllow hold-up game to get the money. If the mew merger of Independent telephones in Nebraska puts the erip- pled mdomdn@ system in Omaha on its feet it wm Nave one credit mark. But Omabs people will have to be t lhou(h rugged, | spirit toward our mother dountry has Honesty in Public Service. Qfficial announeement that Governor Hughes of New York positively will not accept a renomination, but has de- cided to return to private life and his law practice to recoup his personal for- tunes, affords a striking reminder of the fact that under the American sys- tem of government honesty and fear lessness In public service are Often their own and sole reward. It trans- pirgs that Mr. Hughes 'has spent each year not only his officlal salary, but also as much from his private funds in addition, in maintaining the execu- tive mansion along linés commensurate with the dignity of his position. Not being a wealthy man, he naturally de- sires to make provision for his family during the short remaining term when his earning capacity is at its height. Personal necessities, therefore, take from the public service a man in whom the people have such confidence that without regard to political faith they desire to see him continue in office. Buch cases as that of Mr. Hughes flluminate the, administration of af- fairs in this country against the oc- casional charge that public office is a private graft. Governor Hughes has been in the east what Governor John- son was in the west, a type of sterling, honesty, whose per- sonal example in sacrificing somé of the best of his years and energies to| the people’s cause cannot but stimu- late the faith of the older generations and the ambition of the younger in the progress and permanency of the republican form of government in this union of states The Mother Country. Commercial development of our country has had much to do with the lessening, if not the elimination, of old hostilities. A generation or two back every American schoolboy studying history felt it,a part of his nature to voice a violent dislike against Great Britain, an attitude in which his elders rather encouraged him., But of late years so general has become the un- derstanding of international trade re- lations that a more iiberal national been defined, and without developing any entangling political alliance we have cemented relations along interde- pendent business lines that have efi- abled us to strengthen our position be- fore the world. This is manifested in a timely way by President Taft in his interpretation of his latest tariff order. The United Kingdom is shown to be by far our best market, and continuation of such satisfactory conditions is to be com- mended on both sides of the water, from selfishly economic motives. Britain needs our products, and we are glad of her custom. This commercial prestige gives us a pecullarly ad- vantageous leverage in treating with France, Canada and Germany, but even without considering them we have in the case of the mother coun- try a substantial basis for additional prosperity through the strengthening of the ties of kinship across the sea. Aviators in Wall Street. Recent events among some of the high-flying experimenters in the stock exchange, resulting, as'in the case of the aviators at large, in some breakage through defects in the motive power or weaknesses of construction, suggest that the board of governors has not been thorough enough in its investiga- tions or firm enough in its punish- ments to instill among Its less re- sponsible members proper respect for the rights of the general investors in securities. Immediately after the suspension of oftenders in the case of the Rock Island flurry they were reported as continuing thelr activities through reputable brokers, and then came the Columbus and Hocking break. Both of these instances were due to profes- slonal manipulation, based on no sub- stantial foundation, and they certainiy added nothing to public confidence in Wall street methods. Such unwar- ranted juggling calls for stricter action than the governors have thus far taken, or they may be confronted by federal investigation such as recently resulted in strong denunciation from Washington concerning the methods of dealing in cotton futures. Manifesta- tion of a desire thoroughly to purge itself from undesirables would not be smiss on the part of the New York Stock exchange. While the revolution in Uruguay may turn out to be purely a local af- fair, still the pecullar situation of'this, the smallest of the South American re- publics, makes plausible ,the report {that Argentina is fostering the insur- rection. Uruguay has glven the south- ern continent as much trouble as some of the lesser countries of Central America have given the United States nearly three centuries a shuttlecock between the interests now, represented under the respective governments of Brasil and "Argentina. With Argen- tina's rapldly growing importance in the international commercial world, she is naturally covetous of her little neighbor's territory agross the bay, with its vai ing area for the herds she desires to send to Furopean mar- kets and with her shipping front along the Rio de la Plata. Brazil, a country which t rlally shown, | . o ‘We are alliof us at times prone to im- pugn and suspect gach other's motives and wrongfully (1o deny the other fellow's sin- cerity and (good faith.—~World-Herald, Is anyone' more prone to this fault than the | World-Herald? Why not practice as well as pmah once in & whilePiwe s rivals the United States in size, will hardly rest under any attempt to strengthen the vigor of Argentina, ger progressive rival for the domination of South America, but it is certain that if Argentina can utilize the present re- bellion to add Uruguay to her domin fon she will do It." For Argentina” to and Mexico, and she has been for| posseds the port of Montevideo as well as'Buenos Ayres woula give her abso- lute command of a harbor that would rival that of Rio de Jaueiro, and for Brazil to step In and eontrol Monte- video would place Buenos Ayres at a tremendous disadvantage. It will be singular if the Uruguay situation does not develop a warfare of wits between the upper and the nether republics, and between the two Uruguay's Inde- pendence may be ground to extinction. What It's All About, During the last year of the Roosevelt administration a terrific outery w: raised by the democrats in congress, assisted by some republicans, over the alleged lawless usurpation of the pres- ident in the Brownsville affair. Reso- lutions galore aseailing Mr. Roosevelt and denouncing his action were intro- duced and a congressional committee of inquiry set in motion to ascertain and report upon the facts. The pur- pose of his enemies in forcing congres- elonal participation in the Brownsville rumpus was to discredit President Roosevelt and to put an obstacle in the way of his remomination, which they then feared might be imminent. But when the president effaced himself as a presidential possibility Brownsville very quickly became a dim memory. Whether or not there is any fire be- hind the smoke, the animus of the at- tacks aimed at President Taft, al- though hitting at Secretary Ballinger, is plainly of the same character. The purpose of the democrats is to discredit the republican president and, if possi- ble, to cripple his administration by loading it down with a democratie house during the second halt of his term. The democrats are naturally hot to get something .on Mr. Ballinger and (hus indirectly besmirch tHe presi- dent, and in this effort they have, the conscious or unconscious assistance of a few republicans. ‘What the democrats would like is to get an investigating committee on which they would have, at least, one or two members who could be de- pended on to bring in a minority report irrespective of the evidemce. Demo- crats want to keep this controversy open for campaign purposes only, and no matter what the findings may be, ! will try to exaggerate them so far as they are adverse to Secretary Ballinger and will cry “whitewash” so far as they exonorate him, It will be a good idea for the un- prejudiced spectator to get the layout of the ground clearly in view while the prellmln\rlm are in progress/ e e Talking down at Washington, Gov- ernor Shallenberger declares that he will call the legislature in extra session whenever a petition signed by a ma- jority of the members’ of the legisla- ture, embodying a pledge to enact an initiative and referendum bill, resches him. The govetnor Would 1like to throw the responsibility for. convening | ' the legislature upon the law-makers, yet that is not where the responsibility is placed by the constitution. It is up to the governor every time to decide whether an emergency exists demand- ing a special session, and a petition signed by a majority, or even by all, of the members of the legislature does not make the contemplated emergency. ——— The readiness of the American to jseize on transitory phages for conspicu- ous recognition of a man is exemplified in the case of John Farsom, who has just died in Chicago. Most people ac- quainted with him through the news- papers knew him only as ‘the good- natured wearer of brilllant garments, and his red necktles were famous across the continent.. Yet he was o of the most influentlal of western bankers, an enthusiast in the develop- ment of great industrial enterprises and his deeds as a philanthropist had made thousands happy. Sometimes a man uses these personal idiosyncrasies to hide his real nature and qualities. Does not Dr. Spitzka, medical col- lege ~ brain specialist, announcing his bellet in ‘‘justifiable suicide,” fear he will have lald at his door such a chain of eyents as followed Rev. Mr. Talmage's disoussion, “Is suilcide a sin?” Dr, Spitzka even goes further and urges that there are ooccasions where ‘‘tactful murder” is to be con- doned. Such opinlons may be a sign of advanced thought, but there is grave danger in turning them loose upon the public, who-,, thought is not go far ad- vanced. ¢ ——— Zeppelin promise of a monster airship to carry 300 passengers reads as though the era of intercity aviation were at last in sight, But who will be the first 300 to sail? The disas- trous collapse of a similar unwieldy balloon is still fresh in memory. It is prudent and pleasant to watch these experiments still from terra firma, de- spite the marvelous progress in flight made by the experts, i1t “Fingy” Connors got $2,000,000 in. stock for floating an Independent telephone franchise in Rochester, for which he paid nothing but his “influ- ‘ence,” how much did the “influence’ of the World-Herald bunch bring when the Independent franchise game was played in Omiha? The story of & n w-pnp-r man's re- ceiving a medal for his herolsm in sav- ing a girl from drowning adds that ‘‘he does not need money,” which raises the suspicion that he is not a really truly newspaper man. Our distinguished fellow citizen, the Hon, John L. Webster, took advantage of the o of the meeting of Ne- brasta’s State Historical soctety at Lin- oln to tell the Lincolnites that we OMAHA, FRIDAY, ought to have a new $5,000,000 state house and a new $1,000,000 repository for our historical archives. Mr. Web- ster’s generosity would be magnificent if the good people of Lincoln would only reciprocate. Results of the Parlimentary election in England are coming in slowly be- tause of delays due to collection of the returns from widely scattered districts. Here 18 a small measure of consolation for us who usually have to wait three and four days to make sure who won out in Nebraska whenever the contest is close. It was away back in Ben Franklin's day that the cry, ‘“Back to the farm,” originated, as his pamphlet on “The Internal State of America” testifies. And the common-sense philosopher used fewer words in his argument than either James J. Hill or Becretary Wil- son, It the Kansas City packers think that the workingmen of their town cannot subsist, as they threaten, on # vegetarian diet, let them reflect on the case attested by Holy Writ of Nebuchadnezzar, who for seven years ate grass like a cow. After digesting the testimony of Colonel Clowry, the man who sends a telegram costing Him $1 must feel like a stroke of pity to realize that the poor telegraph company makes only 8% cents on the messag —_— Still deadlocked on United States senator down in Mississippl. DBy the way, Mississippl 18 overwhelmingly democratic, 8o this variety of deadlock cannot be indigenous only in repub- lican states. New Englanders will note with re- lief the coroner’s finding that the man who died after eating ple for breakfast showed the castalty to have been be- cause of his deterioriation, not the ‘Washington Post. Shoes are going up. Literally, it is now a case of higher prices from the crown of your head to the soles of your fegt., e [ Almost ‘“Out of Sight.” St. Louis Times. Americans have been pronounced the tallest people in the world; and yet they cannot look the present cost of living in the face. “Alas, Poor Yori Boston Globe. Mr. Bryan has arrived in Ecuador, in splendid health, and is going to visit the ruins of the Incas in Peru. He will, of course, be particularly interested in the silver mines. S — Moving an Amendment. Chicago Post. The Omaha Béb makes a great fuss about announcing that Mr. Bryan will be a presi- dential candidaté 1n 1912. If a careless printer had onl 1nurted the word “‘not” after the word”“will” The Bee would have seemed to havé*a bit of real news. e More Speed C: Indianapolis News. Whatever valuable information concern- ing the high cest of living may be ob- tained by the census takers, perhaps it would be just as well to take some other action in the meantime, as the census returns are sometimes a bit slow about coming in. For. Pablieity of Campaign Bills. Philadelphia Bulletin, Mr. Taft's recommendation that the ex- penditure of congressional committees should be made public in the same way that those of national party committees are published atter each quadrennial cam- paign, ought to result in a law that will make this practice compulsory. If the country s entitled to know how much money is spent to elect presidents, and how it s disbursed, the same need clearly exists With respect to the congress con- tests which come twice as often. | —e AN HISTORIC FACT. General South ~ Sherman and the Thirty Years Ago. Loulsville Courier-Journal. A writer in the New York Evening Post, who signs himself “Northern Unionist,” offers this to the groups of camp-followers and coffee-coolers, who have lately heard | of the war of sections and are beginning to get mad enough almost to fight: “It strikes my commonplace Imagination that an effoctual test of the propriety of a statue to General Lee at the capitol Is to be found In the question: ‘What would Grant and Sherman have thought of 1t? end adds, “Could any modern Grand Army of the Republic commander answer that frankly and honestly and leave himself | enough ammunition to damage the plan?"’ In 1877, when the Hayes-Tilden contest was decided in' favor of Hayes, General W. T. Sherman'was so Insistent that Gen- eral Joseph E. Johnston should be secretary of war in the new cabinet, that Mr. Hayes consented. It was proposed to the nearest friends of General Johnston, who stated that If the offer Were made, General John- ston would degline It. General Sherman expressed himself' as greatly disappointed. Subsequently, Judge Key, a confederate soldier and ‘an, oFfginal secesslonist, was made postmaster general. To Grant and Sherman the war ended in 1845, to camp-followers and coffee- coolers, it would never end. ' - Our Birthday Book January 21, 1910. Theodore Starrett, & member of the build- ing firm of Starreit & Thompson Co., which 1s putting up the new Brandeis theater building, was born at Lawrence, Kan,, Jan. 21, 186. He has been ‘bullding sky- scrapers since 1889 in nearly every big qlty in the country, \ Conrad H. Young, who is a real estaté man more widely known as Omah champion tennis player, is 3 years old today. “Con" Young was born {n London, but came here when he was 12 years old, and finished his education at the Omaha High school. He manages the real estate In this country belonging to Sir Horace Plunkett. Selwyn Doherty, who by strange coin- cidenge Is associated In partnership with “Con{' Young, celebrates his birthday on the same day. Mr. Doherty, Is the son of Rey. Robert Doherty, formerly in charge of Brownell all. He was born in Omaha January 21182 and worked & short time in the Burlington headquarters previous to (aking to real estate and insurance | ing. |lald table. d New York the Ourrent of Rife @reat Amerioan A Wall street “killing” rivaling the shakedown of Heinge, the copper plunger trom Butte, two rs ago, I8 the bear squeese of Kugene P. Soales, the Texas cotton bull. Gene boosted ocotton to the limit and was smothered In his product for about $6,000,000. Mr. Brewster's pace as & spender bears as much resemblance to Scales’ speed as that of a cripple to a Marathon winher, Last Christmas he stuffed the mocks of his kinsfolk with a total of $1,600,000 of real money pulled out of the hides of the bears. A trifle of §i,- 000,00 went to a sister. To a brother he came down the chimney with $100,00. Rel- atives less favored all recelved visits and he added $200,000 of gifts before the time for’ new resolutions came around. The $6,000,000 exacted by the bears last week doubtless includes interest on their pre- vious donationd, During the two weeks of his administra- tion Mayor Gaynor has distributed nearly $200,000 worth of patronage and {issued orders that will affect the distribution of hundreds of thousands more without giv- Ing Tammany #o much as a ‘“look-in." Out of thirty-five Tammany district lead- ers just one has got a job. Out of the long list of new commissioners appointed at salaries ranging from 6,000 to $7,600, A Just one is & Tammany man—Rhinelander Waldo, the Campfire commissioner. And the first thing Waldo did was to abolish the private stable the city has been main- taining for the commissioner. 8o elscwhere. Comptroller Prendergast announced on his first day of office that the subway was good enough for him. The mayor walks. If the city automoblles do not demonstrate their upefuiness they and their chauffeurs and the bhauffeurs' “joy rides’ are all to go. Park Commissioner Higgins of the Bronx laid off 150 men in the first week. Water Commissioner Thompson has done away with overtime and Sunday pay. It looks very lean for the small fry. There is no sign, however, that the mayor will chine. There remalin two positions to flll, which In the public eye bulk larger than any of the others—the commissioner of police und the commissioner of street cleaning. Both are now held by MeClellan appointees. It was reserved for the mothers and wives of Mount Vernon to discover the pos- sibilities of the telephone as an elec- tloneering implement. There was an election on Tuesday last affecting the location and control of (an additional high school. Like other New York towns, Mount Vernon permits its women to vote on questions affecting the public schools. The heads of various womep's clubs held a caucus conference on Mondav. One bright president brought with her an X “T suggest,” she ald, “that each one of us go home, get a list of the members of her organization, and call each up by tele- phone, making her pledge herself to go to the polls and vote tomorrow.” | “And aiso call up every woman she knows, whether & member of not" sug- gested another sister. “We should give our cooks and servant girls an afternoon off,” came from an- other, “pFovided they pledge themselves to £0 to the polls and vote for the school.” The telephone girls of Mount Vernon re- tired on Monday at midnight on the verge of nervous prostration. ““The millinery lines,” as the men called them, formed at the polls at an early hour, and fiying detachments came all day. The women carried the day by a big majority; 8 per cent of the vote cast was theirs. And the telephone did it! Times do change, and women reformers change with them. Mrs, Carrie Nation is evidently learning moderation in the days of semi-obscurity into which she is enter- When a New York theatrical manager refused to pay her for a series of lectures, or, rather, offered her less than she claimed, she surveyed him with that sus- picious smile that used to envelop her face just before she produced her hatchet—and walked out of the room. She did not return with an axe, as he ex- pected, but sent a prosalc civil marshal in her stead. In other words, times and the prosalc east have so subdued her that she did just as a New England woman might do under the same circumstances—sued for her salary. 3 Two men who are well known in New York as the proprietors of an old-fashioned hotel, set a new fashion in progressive din- ners the other night. They entertalned a party of guests at a different hotel for each course of the dinner. Beginning at thelr own hotel, the hosts provided the oysters, the party sitting down at a fully As soon as the bivalves were | disposed of the party took two taxicabs and went to the next hotel on the list for #soup. A walter telephoned to the next stopping place, so that there was no delay. 8o It went, through all the courses to cof- fee and liqueurs The proud parents of two little New York boys and thelir 4-year-old sister are anx- fous that the children should have means of knewing when they have grown up how smart they were in their nursery days, and with this in view the children have sung, “spoke pleces” and held conversations be- fore a talking machine. The records have been placed where they will not be in- jured, and the parents think that some day the children will value them highly. With the records there are descriptions of the children as they appeared to the father and a photograph of each. The blissard made New York a deal of trouble, but it was not without its good points. ‘People who suffer from insomnia have been asking if it 1s not possible to keep the elevated and surface lines blank- eted with snow the year round in order to muffle the nofse. In Berlin, by the way, the racket of the elevated has been reduced to a minimum by sclentific construction. ———— ) and Cheap Labor. Francisco Chronicle. The Hawatian Sugar Planters’ associa- tion, by investing in Philippine sugar lands, or proposing to, means to take ad- vantage of the cheap labor of the Asiatic ts profits. Hawall has had two sugar years in which 200,000 acres of land have yielded over $35,000,00. In view of the rising sugar price, & erop worth upward of $0,000,000 js expected in 1900. Money is & drug in U rket in Honolulu and theré s plenty to spare for Philippine ventures. \ Cold Comfort\for Comsumer. Minneapolis Journal People wonder at the price of eggs when %0 many people keep hens and when t heps put in such & long, busy summer. The reason is simple. According to the president of th> American Warehouse Men's assoclation there were 1,500,000,000 egE® In cold storage In the United States on the first of last September, where they were held to force higher prices. Not the simple and useful hen, but the monopolist is to blame attempt to bulld up & rival political ma- | the Left Handers Anything for an HEicuse. Loup City Northwester: We do not know of any newspaper with seemingly a greater grouch than the Lincoln Dally Star. A shadow of Senator Burkett sends the Star off on a tangent, while the name of Vie Rosewater acts like the view of water to a hydrophoble canine. THe Star should seek to abstain from such querulousness. Nothing Perso; Kearney Hub: The World-Herald turned Its attention to the demolition of the Rosewater-Hayward republican ma- chine. It s not a matter personal with the W.-H. Its aititude would be just the same if Jones and Smith were national commit- teeman and national secretary in the ret publican organization. The machine would grow out of the pipe dream just as readily In either event. Afn't 1t the Hastings Republican: In an interview in Washington Victor Rosewater, editor of The Omaha Bee, sald that Nebraska was not an insurgent state in the same sense that Kansas, Towa and Wisconsin are, He was nearer the truth when he said that he did not belleve any Cannon congress- men could be elected In Nebraska. He did not think, however, that the isurgent move- ment, would be strong enough to com- pletely wipe out repunblican control. Prob- ably Mr. Rosewater, like some other re- publicans, 18 banking on Roosevelt coming home in time to whip the Insurgents under. the standpat banner. Tratht Handicap of a Popular Father. Lyons Mirror: “I told you so." Yes. The Mirror sald Vic Rosewater was the boas of the republican party in Nebraska. Of course, we don’t blame the young man for his ambitious quest for power and fame. We only blame the fool suckers who will be led around by the nose without even a protest and see the leadership of a great party handed down to a litte squirt—the son of his father. Vic has lots of ability and Is a smart lad, but why should old men who have 'grown gray in service of the republican party be brushed astde just because he happened to have a popular father. Is this American in principle or monarchical? Why Should They ‘‘Holler?” Tekamah Journal: ‘This ‘“holler” that some of the country press are muking, rela- tive to Vic Rosewater belng termed the boss of the republican party In Nebrhska 1s just a whole lot silly. Rosewater Is the representative of the party upon the na- tlonal republican committee and a belter one we/don't think could be selected. He is one of the forces in Nebraska politics, but that is far from being “Boss.” He is at the head of the most powerful expon- ent of republicanism in the state. We don't think, as he does, ‘along some lines; neither do hundreds of other republicans in the state. He may have ambitions, too, politically, but that is no discredit to a man. It s his right to be treated fairly and the way some of the small country papers yap at him savors very much of the rat terrler's disposition, ready to at- tack anythin PERSONAL NOTES. The promised raise In the price of foot- wear Is chargeable to the Increasing pull of straphangers on leather. Owing to the elevated condition of neces sarfes, the New York chapter of the Amer- foan Institute of Architects has decided to advance minimum rates from § to 6 per cent. The mother of elghtéen children has ap- plied for the position of “spanker” at the Trenton (N. J.) Home for Girls. The posi- tion is competitive, but competition fades away before such a string of achieve- ments. A soclety of American hunters has in- vited Mr. Roosevelt to be its guest at a dinner upon his return, He Is also in- vited to furnish a plckled specimen of every kind of game he has slain to help out the menu. Frita Augustus Heinze, famous copper plunger and conqueror of the Amalgamated, is up against the same grade of judiclal machinery in| New York that sent Banker Morse to prison, and there is no hope of getting a change of venue to a Butte court. Boasting that he had not taken a bath in fifteen years nor tasted f00d in nine weeks, J. P. Peterson, for three years a lodger in has | $4.500 In hank ecortificntes and $8 In gold securely strapped under his left arm, WAS arrested by order of the Spokane, ‘Wash., oity health department and bathed in & tank st the county jafl A fortune of $0.000 In good recurities Awalts the heirs of Jeremiah Moynihan, an aged miser ragman, who dled in St Louls. Apparently In destitute clrcam- | stances, Moynihan was to have been buried In the potter's field, but the public ad- ministrator found a key to & safety de- posit vault in his effects. The safety box contained bonds worth $60,000, With the enrollment of John R. Walsh of Chicago the bankers' colony In the fed- eral prison at Leavenworth numbers an laven thirty. Their sentences range from three to ten years each. Just half of the number biew in during 1909, Indiana fur- nished elght, Ohlo, four; Illinols, three; South Dakota, two; Wisconsin, four, the rest from scattered localities. Nebraska and Kaneas are without representation in the colony. ¢ CHEERY CHAFF. {‘Doctor I want to be fitted with glasses." “Quite #0." “‘Something that will give me an intel- lectual appearance.” “1 don't think 1 have anything that pow- erful."—Kansas City Journal. three known dimenstonst™ at the night sohool. “The world, the flesh, and the devil!" gasped the shaggy haired pupll, taken by surprise and unable at the moment to his mental bearings.—Chicago Tribune. “What are t askad the teac “I acknowledge, your honor,” said the prisoner, “that 1 punched this man In & moment of Indighation.” “1 wouldn't have minded the momegt ot indignation s much,” put in the ‘had he not also punched me in nltimore American. Sillicus—Do you belleve there is honor among thieves? Cynicus—- No; they are just as bad as other people. —Phumulpm- Record. Mistress—Did you have company last night, Mary? Mary—Only my Aunt Maria, mum. Mistress—When you see her again, will you tell her she left her tobacco pouch the plano?—Illistrated Bits. “Well, how true it is," sighs the visitor, that one-half of the Id doesn’'t know how th. other half lives." may be true of the world in gen- eral," ruplh-a the native. “But it doesn't nwly to this town. Lnlc-n Evening Post, Scott—See that man vho Just wunt MY He landed in this city with bare f¢ a’m & miiiion," reat Jupiter! That beats cnnllpedn to a frl.llln.—Ch!cll’o Tribune. “Why do you wrlll( in oalling the oli- lr:lu ‘beastly’?” asked the man with the &rip. t's merely a form of s o ‘Well, you ought to drop it. Most beasts can tamed more or less.'—Baltimore American, ' ONLY A DREAM. Wilbur D. Nesbit {n Chicago Post. That morn I passed & nair store, where were shown Innumerable masses, colls and putte And, braids, and curls, and such-ilke things well known To be the very latest hirpute bluffs, Apd in some hidden recets of my brain ingered, syill and ’l'ned quick impreasion 1 Until umt night it brought in eerie train led through my The dreams that gaml fevered sleep, I dmt.m.d the women-rolk were not com- With wearing artificial hair in pride Until their necks with weariness were By A the weght that on thelr heads I dreTr\:n:d m-( some went to the dummy- And ;::rcnuea other heads—and wore some In tlers :“::ml with ~ Flbbon - &Bid Atusk on . too, oime '0n” thelr \shouloers, Oh, more l dnnmefl ana more 1 dreamed— lhll, I know It could not I drumad they ransacked every sort of And purchnned all the cork legs they could see. And soclal standing fitly came to her Whno had more legs than anyone could and X—(Vv hupel need, And when she walked produced a sudden As thou!h she were a mighty centipede. So then I woke and feared to sleep again, Not knowing what more awful dreams might come— And now, at hush of night, I hold my pen And write my dream with fingers cold and numb. I tell myself 'tis foollsh thus to dread That some wild gift of prophecy I've got— if they en 1 ask as to the res But thus enlarge and deck the ‘Ah; well, why the Big Island house iIn Spokane, with the other well as to Edison Standard Records - - 35 is a beautiful woman. the Amberola. exterior is in perfect keeping with its incomparable tonal qualities, Amberola i a delight to the eye as Amberola at your dealer’s today. Slmk—And when you go to hear the Amberola, be sure to ask to hear the new Grand Operd records by Leo Slezak, the famous new lyric tenor of the Metro- politan Opera House, New York. Slezak has made ten new records for the Edison, from the most promi- \nent operas in which he sings—Amberol Records. Remember that only Amberol Records render Grand Opera as it should be played. 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