Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 15, 1910, Page 4

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REMITTANCES TERMS OF mafl accounts, Omaha or eastern exohanges, STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County. George B. Tzschuok, treasurer of T Bee Publishing Company, belng Auly sworn. #ays that the actual mumoper of full And complete coples of The Dally. Morning, | Evening and Sunday Bee printed auring tho | month of January, 1910, was as follows: Returned coples. ..... Not ‘total. . Daily average.... GEO Treasurer. my presencs and orn to 8ist day of January, 1910. ROBLRT HUNTER, Notary Publie. Subscribed in before me this Nabscribers leavin vorarily showld tmatled to them, Address will be d as often us requested. e " It 1s not the fault of the investiga- tors if the Beef truit is not getting roasted to & turn. the city tem. ave The Bee Never d(;el man's life ubme up be- foral him so strqugly as when he Iis running for office. It Dr. Cook ig:in Chile he had better be careful or he may run across Mr. Bryan down there. e As time passes politics in Germany to partake more and more of the Central American type. 1t would th be 80 hard to evangel- ize the world fh this generation if it really wanted to be evangeliged. The' Bee clatms thé first copyright on calling the democratic pow-wow at Lincoln a political valentine party, Nowy for the gramd jury. If you know] anything and don't tell it, you will havé a0 oné to blame but yourself. And now we are told that New York is a graveyard for preachers. There are other graveyards for living preach- ers. { i G- == Congressman Hitchcock’'s World- Herald says that Mr. Bryan has handed the democrats of Nebraska a valentine. Comic ‘or confectionery? Both houses of congress have been somewhat, aroused by President Taft's Lincoln day ‘Rddress. They say they @xpect to be real busy from now on. The weather man has predicted an- other cold wave, It would be a good idea if the weather man and the ground: hog would get together and not chafige tront so often Perhaps the reason why New York- ers have pronounced the German . sailor crazy, because he tried to get away with a shipload of gold, is be- cause he did not succeed. \ The only explanation for the action of the Illinola eourt which imprisoned & woman SO vantempt because she ig- uored hef husband's will is that it was his last will and testament. The Iowa boy who has been amus. ing himselt by writing “‘Black Hand letters may find that other people do not look with the same favor on such forms of business enterprise. P ——— If anyone {nm ‘Omaha does not go to church it 'will hot.be because he’has no invitation. But if he starts going to church and do not keep it up there may Bfi another repson, Rdgar Hniur; is s0 afraid that the republican president and cougress will give him the postal savings bank he has been advocating for years that he is sure now he won't like it when ie gets it The mayor of Lincoln sgeems to think that if: the mayor of Omaha can run for governor, he cam, too. Why not? Some ex-mayors and would-be mayors might also help make the race wmore lively. Remember, too, the old jockey phrase, ‘‘Money makes the Chancellor. Avery says truly, that the great University of Nebraska has been held abaye even the suspigion of partisan wedknees ¢ bas—Worsd-Heratd Note the only exception in the brief Ransom's Question Box. Btate Senator Frank Ransom s alto gether too caustic in bie comment on the county option prise package valen tine exploded by Mr. Bryan, In which the Falirview statesman takes a rap at the democrats in the last legislature who refused to obey his ediet to enact an initiative and referendum law. Senator Ransom wants to know why, if Mr. Bryan thinks so mueh of the initiative and referendum, he failed to put it in his Denver platform when he had the opportunity, and whether the omission Is* due to fear that it might lose him some votes in his quest of the presidency. This inquisitiveness {s decidedly ungrateful of Senator Ransom, be- cause the same sort of an inquiry might be pursued in other directions Why, for “éxample, did Mr. Bryan put the deposit guaranty in the plat- form of Nebraska and then personally supervise the proceedings of the demo- cratic state conventions in Illinofs and New York, but never said a word about deposit guaranty in either of those states? Why did he talk deposit guaranty in Kansas and keep quiet about it in Pennsylvania? Why was he for government owner- ship of raliroads when he returmed from his around-the-world trip, and forgetful of it when he was running for a third defeat? Why does he couple his present pro- nouncement for county option with |the complaint that the brewers and liquog, interests failed to deliver the goods In the presidential campaign in which Mr. Bryan tried to make them believe he was liberal in bis views? If Senator Ransom starts a ques- tion-box there may be no end to the {number of embarrassing interrogation points that may pop out. Some one may even ask why Mr. Bryan con- sented to run on the same ticket with Mr. Ransom, notoriously a e¢orpora- tion lawyer with an unsavory legis- lative record of corporation/ subser- viency, and actually ask his friends here to vote the democratic ticket straight even.including Mr. Ransom. Modern ' Ocean Wreoks, In considering ocean trafic, ocean travel and the. scarcity of ocean wrecks in these days of life protec- tion one is impressed with the com- paratively small number of fatalities. In fact, the number of casualties among seamen and ocean travelers is very small in proportion to the num- ber carried and has been getting smaller every year. ‘‘The fatal hun. gry ocearn’’ is mo longer the awful term it used to be. With the advent of the wireless tel- egraph a revolution has been wrought. Ocean liners are no lenger beyond the reach of assistapce, no matter, how far they may happen to be out at sea. When storms rage and ships break up there is no longer the hopelessness of blank despair, if the signal of mortal distress can be shot across the sky on the wings of electricity to bring res- cuing hands Within the last few days a great passenger vessel went to pleces on a reef in the Mediterranean sea and near Santiago, Chile, another was dashed to pieces. In both cases hun- dreds of lives were lost and the world is grieved and horror-stricken. . And yet comfort may be found in the fact that these wrecks and the consequent loss of life are becoming more and more the exceptions rather than the rule. One can not but help notice that ocean travel is now much safer than land travel. Where one life is lost in ocean wrecks ten have been lost in land wrecks. It is a matter for the con- cern of those who have the develop- ment of land travel in charge to set their minds working to invent devices whereby safety to life and Itmb for land travelers may be assured to the same degree as that of modern ocean travelers. Sanitation in the Canal Zone. One single case of yellow fever has been reported in the canal zone by the health authorities at Panama. This case is that of an Englishman who had contracted the disease in a South American port and had succeeded in getting past the quarantine offictal The almost complete ellmination of “‘The Fever' from the workers ‘on the great canal is very gratifying. It has |not been many years since this dread plague was so common in that distriet that one could, with little difficulty, bunt up a half dozen cases in as many hours, The prevalence of health menacing conditions, of which this is but one instance, was a reason ad- vanced by those who opposed the con- struction of the canal and who used this argument to discourage the push- ing of the work. But on the whole the opposition and the apparent grounds for this argument inspired caution and efforts which have checked and well |nigh stamped out the danger. This s another case of American !mclhodl revolutionizing thin; | demolishing accepted ideas, That dan- ger from contaglon is always threat. |ened in the canal zone has long been recognized, but the American system of sanitation and the crusade against etagnant mosquito-producing swamps more than met expectations. The pro- tection of health on the canal was the one essential to the physical possibility of American workmen completing the profect. Reliable authorities agree that sani- tary conditions in the American camps along the canal are as good as they are period when the demo-pops had con- trol of the Board of Regents and started out to make it an adjunct o to the fusion political machine right here at home. As a rule quaran- tine regulations are better enforced, the water supply bettér protected and a strict military cleanliness observed and |’ BEE OMAHA, TUESDAY for the protection of the men “om the Job.”" And it ought to be an inspira- |tion and a lesson to northern states, |that if a naturally disease-infected cli mate like that of Panama can be made reasonably safe to live in, better health can surely be maintained in the splen- did northern climate of our own coun |try whenever similar precautions are taken, Laymen’s Missionary Movement. To inject business methods into religion rather than to inject reiigious methods into business seems to be the motto of those who are at the head of the Laymen's Missionary Movement, which is covering this country from one end to the other. In this work an effort is evidently being made to emphasize the manliness of religion and the practicability of pushing the misslonary movement to a successful conclusion In the present generation. The work has met with such general approval that men from almost every line of business and professional activity have become interested. Conventions are being held in all parts of the country and business men have gathered by the hundreds for the discussion of missionary methods. In New York recently 2,600 business men attended a missionary banquet. In Pittsburg, a little later, almost the me number were gathered together. In many places all over the country these conventions being held with tremendous succes One of the remarkable feafures of the movement is that it is strictly a men's movement. Bishop Quale, in speaking of matters kindred to this tople, recently said: ‘Religion and preachers in general have been too ladylike for the last fifty years and it is now time to go to work man fashion and show the world that the Christian religion i not something for a man to be ashamed of.” The success of the missdenary work in all parts of the world and the num- ber of stalwart young men engaged in it.has demonstrated that there is some- thing in it which the man behind the desk has not seen. He is being awak- ened to the possibilities of a great advancement in civilization by mis- slonary work and has become an active factor in it. Only a few years ago the of intellectual superiority to be skepti- cal and to regard things religious being effeminate and unworthy of a man. |Happily this idea ts waning in these days. The average business man of today believes in the principles of religlan and is not avoiding activity in the different departments of religi- ous work. . An eastern business man has made the statement that the interest which the business world is taking in the missionary work, both home and for- eign, means that in a few years, in addition to accomplishing great things in the missionary world, the profession of the ministry will be made over, rejuvenated and made more attractive by it for young men who, from very excess of energy and vigor, are looking for a chance to jump into the thick of the fight in the affairs of the world and accomplish things hitherto con- sidered impossible for the benefit of mankind, A . preacher at the state capital, eager to break into the public prints, hi discoyered that Patrick Henry was the first great insurgent and Abraham Lincoln the second. Well, well, well! Both of these distinguished men have had a varlegated lot of ac- cusations lodged against them, but it's really too bad that they are dead, so they cannot answer this newly trumped-up charge. The new salary raise for department heads at our High school is based on the number of classes under the direc- tion of each and the number of classes depends somewhat on the popularity of the subjejct with the atudent bpdy. A magnetic teacher with a snap sub- ject ought to make an impression on the salary roll. It has developed that in the Nicara- guan breach of the peace when a sol- dier is taken prisoner he fights with his captors until he {s captured again by his own side. This tehds to sub- stantiate the suspicion that a college cane rush would give the Nicaraguan people a much better idea of what war really is. Chief Justice Reese is a ‘‘progres- sive,” but he puts in a timely reminder that all the progres: that has been made in this country since the birth of the republican party has been made with that party in control of na- tional affairs. —— Newport, R. I, reports the coldest day of the year and a heavy thunder- storm all within twenty-four hours, from. which we are led to belleve that infinite variety is again to characterize lite in Newport during the coming ye According to cable advices, the former sultan of Turkey tried to com- mit suicide recently, from which one 1s led to belleve that the responsibility of supporting eleven wives is too much for his nervous s Good Time to Quit. Chicago Record-Herald. Immediately following the announcement that Roosevelt would return home in June, congress began preparing to get ready (o adjourn in May. Some times even con- gresa knows when to quit. », Precautions Neglected. Pittsburg Dispatoh. Amerioan - helresses who buy counts, dukes and princes should be business- Iike and insist on sesing the property clear average young man believed it a mark |' of liens before the purchase money is paid It & sworn schedule of liabilities were tiled and a meeting of ditors held to waive regular as that in mueh more intrinsically valuable real estate. Mighty Chicago, Clowe Call, Post scandal proceeds as If it thought that by establishing that the chief witness for the prosecution had been a Sunday school superintendent it could throw his testimony out of court Another Bxplunation Called For. Wall Street Journal. | Packers tell us present prices are neces- sary because there I8 not enough live stock raised In the country to supply the de- mand. If that is true, whers did they get the 162,867,000 pounds of beef and 439,713,000 | pounds of pork which the government's returns say were exported last yeat and #0ld In competition with the cheaper meats of Australla and Argentina® ¢ MAKING GOOD THE OVERDRAFTS Methods Needed to Prevent Exhana- tion of Sot Kansas City Star. In the current issue of the Outlook Sir years ago to observe the wasteful methods of farming employed In the gorn belt I €astern Nebraska. The planting of the same crop year after year without regard to the effect of the fertility of the .soll suggested to him the depositor who hab- itually drew out of the bank more than he put in, It must be recognized, however, that under the conditions then existing this was the natural way to farm in g-der to produce the most food for the leas:. money. Those conditions have passed. The de- positor now is called on to make good his overdrafts. Sclentific farm management, including the ocarefully planned rotation Of crops to restore the exhausted fertility to the soll, must replace the older meth- ods of hit-or-miss farming. The sclentific farmer must make out a schedule 80 that he may work part of his land back into grass for restorative pur- poses, while always making sure of the necessary acreage of standard grains. He must flgure on the number of, animals than can be profitably fed with his re- sSources. By means of the Babeock test he must weed out the unprofitable cows from his dairy herd. He must buy pure- bred seed and must know'how to prepars his ground. ) This sort of selentific farming-is being Introduced into the middle-west largely through the, efforts of the state.agricul- tural colleges and. the national Depart- ment of Agriculture. The whole country, Which is feeling the need yin its high food prices for increased production, fs con- cerned in the success of the movement. Y ——— TALKING AGAINST PROGRESS. Constitutional Objections Savings Banks. Chicago News. Senator Raynor of Maryland evidently Is one of those statesmen who believe that the nation was made for the constitution, not that the constitution was made for the nation. He declifies to discuss postal say- ings banks on’thelr merits. He condemns the pending Carter bill because he can find In the constititioh no warrant for the cre- atlon of savings depositories in connection With the Postoffice department. This 1s the familiar argument that has been urged alnste every progressive movement In the”history of the nation, It was even held ‘by many at one time that to save the nation from dismemberment was a frightful violation of the constitution. Had the argument of Senator Rayner been allowed to prevail the republic long ago would have died of dry rot or else it would have perished in secession. There are several grounds on which the establishment of the postal savings sys- tem can be justified. It should be enough that the constitution vests In the federal government the power to establish a post- office system. By other nations the world over the postoffice system Is used as an agency for collecting small savings. There is no good reason.why the system should not take on this same function In the United States, The postoffice must be regarded as an institution intended to keep abreast of hu- man progress. | The money order service, rural free dellvery and other features have been added from time to time. The inter- pretation pladed upon the constitution by Senator Rayner would oblige the nation to give up the money order feature of the postal system. This would be absurd. The spirit of the constitution should be respected. But ‘the spirit of that docu- ment calls for a'postal system embodying the useful features that have been made a part of postal systems in other countries. to Postal Our BirthdayBook l 1910, Blihu Root, United States senator from |\ Fobruary 1 New York, 1s past 6. He was born at Clinton, N. Y., and became one of the leaders of the New York bar before he was appointed secretary of war by Presl- dent McKinley, and later secretary of state by President Roodsevelt. Dr. 5. Welr Mitchell was born February 15, 18%0, in Philadelphia. He not only stands near the top as a medical pgactitioner, but is also prominent as a poet and noy 1st. Albert B. Cummins, United States sena- tor from lowa and former - governor of that state, is 60 today. Senator Cummins was born at Carmichaels, Pa., and was originally a civil engineer. Heo later studied law In Chicago, and removed to Des Moines in 1878, where his remarkable political career began. Poter 8. Grosscup, judge of the United States clircult court of appeals, was born at Ashland, O., February 15, 182. Judge Grosscup has been on the bench since 1803 and has been called on to render declsions probably in more cases of vital public in- terest than any other one judge of the tederal courts. August Belmont, the blg New York banker and manager of the famous house of Belmont, was born February 15, 1888, in New York. Mr. Belmont's' most notable achievement has been the financing of the New York.subways. He ls figuring in the newspapers right now because of his forth- coming marrlage to Miss Eleanor Robson, the well known actress. Scott C. Bone, editor of the Washington Herald, is 80 years old. Mr. Bone Is another ome of the literary products of Indiana, and previous to the establishment of his present newspaper was managing | editor of the Washington Post. | Willam H. Gates, doing & real estate | business in the New York Life bullding, was born February 15, 1858, Mr. Gates first came to Omaha In 1887 to take employment with Collins & Petty, and has been con- | tinuously in the real estate business since 1687, Lr. Willlam Curry, physician and opti- can, was born February 15, at Zanesville, Ind. He is & graduate of Rush Medical | colies FEBRUARY 8ll prior liens the Investment would be as | The defense in that New York legisiative Horace Plurrkett tells how he was shocked | 1910, Army Gossip Matters of Interest On and Back of the Piring Line Gleaned from the Army snd Navy Register. The Brownsville court of inquiry is ap- proaching the conclusion of its deliberation. The board has proceeded In its sessions | with a determination to get at the situa- tion, Involving the tragic Incidents at Brownsville, Tex., leading to the discharge | without honor of the enlisted men of the Twenty-fifth infantry, on duty at Fort Brown at the time of the ‘“shooting up' of the town. The court has found it diffi- cult to obtain Information which s of an | enlightening character, There need be, consequently, no expectation of anything | sensational in its recommendations. | The army medical authorities are having | considerable difficulty In obtaining the re- quired number of female nurses and it is | hoped that there will be no objection to the | legislation for the Increase of pay Pro- | videa for the nurses in a clause in the | army appropriation bill as it passed tho | senate and which will be one of the ques- | tions to be determined in conference. At present the pay of the army female nurse | |18 $0 a month and it Is proposed to in- crease this to $0 a month, with additional | pay for service up to $65, after nine years of service, with, as usual, the $10 extra for Philippine island service. This is not too much when It is considered that a well- | trained nurse in civil occupation recelves | from $35 to $30 a week. There are elghty- | #even nurses now In the service, which Is thirteen short of the organized strength. It is hoped to obtain the 100 nurses and establish, as well, a reserve list. The present plans for the joint maneu- | | vers of the regular troops and militia dur- |Ing the present year at the nine camps | proposed anticipate the assemblage of a | military force of about 96,000 men. The de- every department careful and PERSONAL NOTES, With Roosevelt, Bryan, Fairbanks and John L. traveling abroad in the capacity of “private citizens of great distinction,’ the source of supply is well nigh ex | hausted. The man who came forward a vear or so ago with & scheme to burn ashes instead of coal has been keeping mighty dark this winter. This, doubtless, will help to lower the yea's lynching average. For many years one of the best known writers on finance and economic questions talls respecting the commands of the regu- lar army taking part In these m-nau\'trx‘l have been published in these columns and the militia division of the War department | Is engaged In ascertalning which of the | militla troops will be avallable for these | exercises. This grand total of 96,000 men does not Include the troops engaged in the coast artlllery exercises, for which an| | apprope of $380,000 will ha mada The (largest force will be at Fort Benjamin Harrison, where the estimate attains the | figure of about 20,000 men, including 16,000 militia, with 8,142 regular troops. The force of regulars at other places is, approxi- mately, as follo Pine Camp, 2681 Atascadero, 2,424; Chickamauga, 1,88; Fort | Riley, 4841; Leon Springs, 2,4%; American | Lake, 2076; Fort D. A. Russell, 464, and | the new camp to be located In Pennsyl- | vanta, Maryland or Virginia at a place to be selected by General Leonard Wood, 1,969, There Is probably no occasion for a pub- lic uprising in protest over that particular invasion of the natlonal treasury, but it 18, nevertheless, a fitting occasion of re- mark that spectal effort, In the form of a petition of the beneficiaries, Is being manifested in behalf of a measure pending in congress providing “that all offioers and soldlers in the volunteer service of the United States who were serving in the Phil- ippine islands at the time they were entitied under the law to muster-out of service, and who continued In the service In said islands after sald period and were thereafter trans- ported at the expense of the United States to this country and here mustered out, shall be entitled to receive travel pay and commutation of subsistence from the port of embarkation in the Philippine Islands to the place in the United States where their muster out took place, at the same rate and to the same extent that officers of the regular army would recelve such al- lowance if discharged in the Philippine islands by reason of the expiration of thelr term of service or otherwise, provided that the actual cost to the government of con- veying and subsisting such volunteer of- flcers and soldiers on government trana- ports from the said Philippine tslands and the monthly pay allowed them for the period while in transit shall be deducted from the allowance provided for by this| act. No one Is in a position to definitely or acourately estimate just how much this legislation would cost If it were enacted, but it is safe to say that it would be in the nelghborhood of $4,000,000 or 85,000,000 a million, more or less, where such an amount is involved, is of little concérn. The bill is bolstered up by its advocates by the officlal commendation of the proposed beneficiaries and the fact that certificates of merit and bronze medals have been is- sued to officers and soldlers in recognition of the service described. Y There appears to be no reason why con- gress should authorize this disbursement of a large sum for the purposo contemplated, notwithstanding the earnest and eloquent appeal which has come from various sources and despite the fact that the enact- ment of the legislation is based on the plea that It corrects an injustice to “those who risked thelr lives in the service of thelr country.” It is assuredly no lack of na- tional appreclation of faithful service rendered loyally when congress refrains from bestowing this gratuity. —_— \ RAILROADS AND FORESTS, Announcement by Gifford Py uses Surprise. New York Tribune's Washington Dispatch, The statement of Gifford Piuchot, ex- forester and now president of the National Conservation assoclation, contained tn & clroular letter he lssued yesterday (Tues- day), that the forest service had entered into “an understanding with certain rail roads” to prevent the survey of rallroad lands Within the forest reserves, ls the | cause of amazement to many members of congress. These unsurveyed raiiroad lands, | aggregating more than 6,000,000 acres, pay no taxes so long as they remaln unsur-| veyed, this saving to thelr owners, the| rallroads, taxes which would amount to| not less than $300,000 & year, and, of course, | depriving the states in which they are | located of that amount of revenue. Many of these lands are understood to belong to thp Weyerhausers, the chief owners of | the lumber trust, and one of whom, Fred- | erick Weyerhauser, is a vice president of | the National Forestry assoclation. From Mr. Pinchot's statement it appears that| the forest service has been tricked nto| such an understanding on the specious | plea that the rallroads would some day, ucewpt in lieu of their lands the right to| cut an amount of timber equal to that standing on thelr lands. Those familiar with the conditiors insist that the expec- tation that the rallroads will part with the title to any land they now own, prac- tically without compensation, is wholly un- warranted by the facts or by experience and that on this specious pretense the forest service, entirely without warrant of Jaw, has entered Into an understandin whereby it has given to the raflroads | gratuity of $300,000 a year in return for an | absolutely unenforceable assurance that some day the railroads would relinquish title to their lunds. Test of Real Greatness. Washington Herald, Surely Mr. Bryan will ende r to kil & gobblehump or & weezack or something new. and novel before he returns trom | | the wilds of South America ] Willlam Dodsworth, for many years editor of the Journal of Commerce, and Com merclal Bulletin, dled in his home at BEn- #lewood, N. J. Mr. Dodsworth had been 1ll only & short time, but his age, 83 years, enfeebled him so that he was unable to rally. Miss Pearl Nelson of Oleopolis, Pa November 7, in company with two other young girls, wrote thelr names and ad- dresses and put them in separate bottles and threw them into the Allegheny river at Oleopolis. February 4 she recelved a card that the bottle and contents had been picked up at Ludlow, Ky, by Carl Mec- Gough after floating over 1,000 miles. “Boots” Repett! of Washington, D. C., Is a man whose gastronomic talents cannot be hidden under a napkin. He has eaten at one sitting a ten-pound ham and forty pounds of kale and has percolated the in- terstices with two gallons of beer. This will bring into play all his latent forces, including the vermiform appendix, that has lald dormant through untold ages In the Repetti family. on NAVAL THRILLS IN BOSTON, Much Fusy and Fuming Over a Girl's Photograph. Philadelphia Record. What dire offense from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rises from trivial things. _Not since the Rapg of the Lock has any act of {ts class aroused such por- tentious events as the Rape of the Pho- tograph. In the contrast between the trivi- ality of the cause and the mightiness of the contest the Boston case far exceeds that recorded by Pope. The lock was one of Two locks which graceful hung behind in_equal curls. When The meeting points the sacred hair die From the fair head forever and forever. the damage done to Belinda's beauty and the symmetery of her colffure is irre- parable. The photograph could be, and in fact was, returned, and if it had not been nothing would have been taken from the beauty of Dorothea. The theft was one which did not impoverish her, but made him rich indeed who had the precious plece of pastboard bearing the counterfeit of her beauty. Among the consequences of the Rape of the Lock were: All gide in parties and begin the attack; Fans clap, sllks rustle and tough whale bones crack; i Heroes' and 'heroines' shouts confus'dly rise And base and treble volces strike the skies. The tress which the trespasser could not restore to the fair one in distress was translated Into & comet, but the ingenious author is at some pains to assure us that this was merely & flight of imagination, or, rather, & raid of memory upon the theatrical properties of classioal poetry; the ornament of Belinda's head did not, in fact, become an ornament of the firma~ ment, But the Rape of the Photograph created a disturbance, which, like the rip- ples of the water when a stone is thrown into the pond, widened until the tide swept the secretary of the navy off his feet after he had determined to hush the tragedy up with private reprimands to the surgeon and the paymaster. Moved by a senator, who was moved by the wife of the culprit, who s also the clalmant for redress, he set in motion the machinery of naval jus- tice, and @& court martial ls sitting on the photograph. Belinda, robbed of one of her two curls, Raging to Sir Plume repairs, And bids her beau demand the precious hairs. So Dorothea appealed to the paymaster, Established in 1857 as Kountze Bros Natlenalized in 1863, Charter No. 209 A bank which gives to every customer and to that thorough service which is the re- sult of over &2 years of growth and experience. Our BAFETY DEPOSIT VAULTS aro fire and burglar proof; boxes of vari- ous sizes, from $3.00 per year up. irst National Bankof Omahall® 111y - £ | ."“ | e or the surgeon, whichever Plume's remonstrance was “My lord, why Z—as! d-n the luck, be civil Plague on't! pox! Give her the hair'—he spoke and his box. Dorothea’s champlon, however, called up the burgiar of the photograph on the tele- phone and said things to him which sounded awful and would in print. Then the thief, who had only taken the photograph in jest, delayed refurning It because he had been affronted. In the next act he and his wife went to the party and the surgeon and the paymaster as- saulted the man and took the picture, and he asked the secretary of the navy to have the young bloods tried. The secretary poho- poohed it, and then the wife of the pleture thief went (o Washington and got a sena- tor to insist that justice should be done, and there has been a room full of officers i full diess uniform, and Lwioihea and Margaret and Florence and Virginia have been in constant attendance and have had a perfectly lovely time. Justice has laid aside Its scales and sword, fit embiems of a court martial of the sea, and lifted the bandage from her eye ssufficiently to observe that the girls are awfully pretty and the young officers look stunning in full dress uniform; “daughter of the navy" has recovered her picture and the young rascals who quarreled over her at a hop will get all that 8 coming to them. MIRTHFUL REMARKS. 4 & of Senator Taylor of Tennessee tells old negro whose worthless son was married secretly. The old man heard of it and asked the boy it he was married. “I ain't sayin' T ain’t,’ the boy replied. ¢ ' stormed the old man; what the devil! "fore Gad you must "tis past a Jest—nay prithee, rappet 100k worse e Loulsville Courler- Journal, She asked him If he was the photog- rapher. He sald he was. he asked him if he took children's pie- tures. He sald he did. She asked him how much he charged, He said, “Four dollars a dozen.” hen' I'll have to go somewhere she replied: “I only have eleven.’ cess. else,” -Suc- “Rory,? sald the mipister, &L hear yo vere at bunlop's Kinic dn sundn?ll fast Not 1 object, ye ken, but ye widna yersel yer ain “sheep strayin' away into strange pastures.” “I widna care, sir,” sald Rory, “if it was better grass.”—HBoston Transcript, “‘My dear,” sald the man who had E rled his stenographer, “sit down a Whil%. I want to have a little business talk about your expenses.'’ “All right,” replied the wife, “‘on condi- tion that you do not begin the way you used to preface your business talk: “How's that?" he asked, surprised aid I use to begin with?" ‘“Please come and take my dictation,” she quoted.—Baltimore American. .‘Here is a story of an Arizona woman who dled at the ‘age of 116, having used tobacco for 110 vears.'" “‘Well, say, just think how much longer she might have lived if she had commenced “u'.f.’.‘?‘ it the week earlier!"—Cleveland Plain er. THE RETURN FROM ELBA. W. J. Lampton in New York Times. He is coming back from Elba, From that far-off tropic shore, ‘Where the lyre-bird is singing And where only lions roar. He went for big game only, Where the forest monsters roam, Yet at no time quite forgetting There was bigger game at home. REFRAIN. He Is coming back from Elba With his sword and mouth and pen, And you bet, on his arrival, There'll be something doing then. There's a red fox in the senate, There's a gray one in the house, ‘There's a_porcupine in Kansas, And a California mouse; There's & wild cat in Wisconsin, Indiana & Jug That s showing signs of bursting With a local option bug; There's a rabbit in Kentucky, In Ohfo there are rats, And the Illinols Is overrun with bats There's a 'possum In the White Hou:4, ith & cat and dog all 'round, democratic donkey pawing up the ground REFRAIN He 18 coming back from KElba With his sword and mouth and pen, And you bet, on his arrival, There'll be something doing What [} then. What Lenox Soap Looks Like MOST PEOPLE KNOW what a calie of Lenox Soap looks like scribe it. but it will do no herm to de- IT IS A LITTLE MORE than 4 inches long; sl- most 3 inches wide; nearly 1) inche: Color—yellow. thich. THE ENDS, top and bottom are rounded—so that the calie is easily held in one hend. THE TOP SIDE of the calie bears the one word LENOX, the reverse side the name of the mohers, PROCTER & GAMBLE., THE WRAPPER is plain but distinctive. On the inside will be found suggestions for washing, that are worth as much as a calie of Lenox Soap costs. Lenox Soap—Just fits the hand ¥ ) &