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I'MIS BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1910. THE OMAHA DAY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWAT VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. Entered at Omaba postoff! clans matter. TERMS OF S8UBSCRIPTION. Dafly Bee (Ineluding Sunday), per week.lic Daily Bee (withou unday), per week 10 Daily Bee (without Sunday), one year..$4.00 Dally Bee and Sunday, one year (] DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Evening Bes (without Sunday). per week Fvening Bee (with SBunday), per week Bunday Bee, oné year d Baturday Bee, one yenr.... Bitsaiane. 3,00 Address all gomplains of irregularities in dellvery to City Cirenlation Department. OFFICES Omaha—The Bee Bullding. 5 Bouth Omaha—Twenty-fourth and N. Councll Bluffs15 Scott Street. Lincoln—518 Little Bullding. Chicago—1548 Marquette Building. : New York—Rooms 1101112 No. ¥ West Thirty-third Street, i Washington—728 Fourteenth Street, N as second e 10¢ Beed Corn Testing. The call sent out all over the state to farmers, to insure the corn crop by testing their seed and planting only the ‘best, Is meeting with a good deal of success. The idea of the seod test has long been obgerved in Nebraska, for the betterment of the grain planted | 18 an essential In the betterment of the | | results of agriculture. Recently farm |ers have becn awakened to the fact |that the largest profits can not long | $250 | be realize) ffom the largest number |€lse, except appropriative of acres scantily attended to, but in-| stead from the individual acre care-| )runy cultivated. The great fields of a |few years ago are still seen, but the | tests Indicate that the yleld per acre is decreasing. The soii is either not |80 good as formerly or else the soed ! [this respect than we are, but that is times as much as the amount ex pended in its accomplishment, it is evident that further delay in the work of revision would be expensive and needless. One thing which changes in admin- istration should never do is to change the general policy or the nation's treasury. A permanent and a settled policy with an annual budget, sys tematized so that no cuange of admin- istration or of politics or of anything legislation could affect it, is needed. It can and ought to be brought about. Other nations are much more advenced in not the point. The besi system known to the greatest experis of finance in the world is the one we need, for it is none too gocd for America, | masters orackers have been slightly 1ast five years. According to that we may sthi have the pink tea without courting bankruptey. reduced in the Hest, " New York World The National Sugar Refining company Thursday pald back $604,304, money stolen from the government In frauds on sugar duties. With the amounts previously pald by the Arbuckles and the Sugar Trust, this makes $3,434,304 that the government has recovered, No immunity Is granted through these payments. Welghets and checkers on the docks do not steal mililons for thelr masters without the knowledge of those And it Is the master not the teol, who is most gullty When does the procession of the thieves who wire “higher up” in the sugar busi- ness 10 jail begin? rt. Mistoric Memorinix. Washington Life Some Interesting Fhases and Oonditions Observ at George D. Melkeljohn of Omaha, formerly assistant secretary of war, was in Wash- Ington late last week, and talked quite freely with newspaper.men about Nebraska | sentiment and Nebraska affairs. One terview gives him the title of “genera ates he “has been practising law Omaha since his retirement from the Wat department. Among the expressions cred- ited to Mr. Meikeljohn by Washington papers are these: The people of Nebraska and the west are with ths president and his administra- tlon. They have confidence in him and his policies. No president has shown greater earnestness, fidelity and zeal In his efforts W.1is not of the best and germination and ana | development have been :imperfect | Boston Transcript to execute the pledges of the party to the Probably the three events of the revolu CORRESPONDENCE. people, as enunclated In its platform, as Communications relating to news editorial matter should be addressed: | Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. ! REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal crder payable to The Bee Publighing Company Only nt stamps received in payment of mi ounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION State of Nebraska, Douglas County. -e:| George B, Tzschuck. treasurer of The Beo | Publishing Company. being uly sworn, | says that the actual unmpe: of full and complete copies of 'Fha Daily. Morning Evening and Sunday Hee printvd diring t month of Januarv. 1910, was as follo | 43440 17, . 43,620 41700 18, . 42,700 44,430 19 .. 42,680 | . 42,350 20. . 42,860 | . 43,400 21, . 42,590 42400 22, 42,590 42420 3. . 41,350 42470 2. . 42,600 41,700 £5. . 48,040 4220 6. . 42,690 42420 27, . 43,630 000 PB.....ueinn 42400 30, . 41,400 42,570 a1, . 44,970 . 41770 lotal .... 314,320 | Retirned coples, Net total. Daily. Aaverage. . GEORGE B. Subscribed In my presence a befora mo this 3lst day of January, 1910. o ROBLRT HUNTER, Notary Public. 1 2 3 4 5 . 1 8 9. 10 1 12 13 14 16 16 . | 11,304,665 covesrs 48,781 TZSCHUC Treasurer. nd sworn to Sebscribers leaving the city teme porarily should have The Beo mailed to them. Address will be c¢hanged as often as requested. Dr. Cook may not want to be inter- viewed simply for the reason that he has nothing to say. 3 —_— "Althbugh a New York state senator's vote cost $1,000, it is now believed that it was not worth it. It begins to ook as if the price of pork had not been notified of the ex- istence of the meat boycott. —_— Western railroads are now voting on eastern rates. Is not this changing matters around considerably. ‘When he hears the words, ‘‘the ulti- mate consumers’” the average man thigks of his two growing boys. 1 — Castro is now said to be In the Canaries. Well, he always did belong in the bushes with the Dickey birds. ——— If mince ple is to be investigated, it 1s hoped the committee will be re- strained from publishing the details of {ts finding. Something has evidently happened in Spain, If one is to judge from the recent resignation of the entire Span- ish cabinet. ) W A S One I8 led to believe from the num- ber of protests that an anti-smoke ordinance would be very popular with the people of Omaha. — A can of eggs recently exploded in a New York restaurant, and the investi- gating committee is very glad it was fit present at the time. wil E _ {Just how a city council of twelve | fpmbers s going to get around town in an automobile bullt for seven will be, the next problem to solve. s —_— A Wisconsin professor says it Is wise for a boy to learn to fight. All the average boy needs to develop that fac- ulty. s to be let strictly alone. v — 4 Now that Senator Tillman has been denied the custody of his grandchil- dren, a pitchfork discussion of the courts is expected in the near future. Much anxiety has been felt in dif- ferent parts of the country for fear J. K. Morgan will be compelled to tell all he knows when he appears on the witness stand. —_— hat was/an awfully mean trick for a, Pennsylvania storekeeper to put a stesl trap in the basket of peanuts, but it was funny when he caught the fingers of one of the prominent men of the town Wood carving, the national industry of Switzerland, has fallen into the hands of a monopoly and its discon- tinuance is feared. No fear of discon- tinuance i imminent, but there is dan- ger of its being cornered. The demo;r-tlz valentine party was| ngtable chlefly for what was not said. ‘While none of the faithful had the corage to defend the action of the peerless leader, neither did any of them have the temerity to attack his stand. Bryan certainly has his hounds on the leash. 1 —_— Handing out prizes to National Guard companies for meritorious work is,pne. way of encouraging the citizen soldiers of the state. If the people of Nebraska generally would show more Experiments in fowa developed the | fact that only 60 pér cent of the best | sample ears ¢of corm wouid germinate. The rest was wofthles: as seed. Not a singie ear of & large number of sam- ples was perfect.” With ordinary sam- ples, chosen carelessly, only 40 per cent could be made to produce. All this goes to prove that corn raisers, if they are to increase their profits | with the same amount of labor, must perfect the seed in addition to in-| creasing the fertility of the soil. Farmers know that the average yield per acre of both corn and wheat has not been as great as in former | years. Whether the sofl is wearing | out or the seed degenerating amounts | to the same thing, Insofar as they are concerned, for the profits have been decreasing. The soil can be looked after later as it becomes necessary, | but the betterment of the seed planted is sensible economy incident to profit- able investment and should be looked after now. The days of extensive farming are not going to continue much longer. In- tensive farming methods will be prev- | alent in the future and the sooner the country as a whole awakens to this fact the greater will be the profit and success of the cultivation of the soil. The Waterways Appropriation. In a speech on the floor of the house Speaker Cannon made the state- ment that he could look into the future and see 500,000,000 people dwelling in this country. In order to méet the requirements of the com- merce, necessary to the maintenance of this vast number, the railway sys- tem of the nation would have to be| doubled three and four times. During the administration of Presi- dent Chester A. Arthur, Speaker Can- non voted for a great rivers and har- bors bill and the peopie of his con- gresgional district backed him up in his action. It was simply, as he said, “that the agricultural aistrict, as it is today, had the patriotism crossed with the breadth and intelligence to ‘sup- port the measure.” | I'ney saw that it wae a necessity then as they see it to be now and will be in the future, As supplementary to the work of| transportation, now chiefly carried on by the railroads, a system of water- ways is a necessity. The railroads have been devaloping the country with great success, but as the constantly growing population requires increased commerce the rivers will eventually have to be used to thetr rull capacity. | But if waterways.-are to be used only| as a club over the railroads, forcing ruinous competition, the whole move- ment will fail of itself and injure transportation to'a very great degree. Injury to transportation means injury to the country as a whole in these days of the interdependence of communi- ti The policy of the present adminis- tration, as well as that of Theodore Roogevelt, has been, and is, to develop river navigation, not for rate wars among common carriers, but to facil- |itate transportation, to assist in the | greater development of the country and its respurces and to felicitate life in all parts of the nation, The Treasury Waste, The reorganization of the Treasury department of the United States gov- érnment is now under consideration, to the end that great avo'~ able # | the cost of handling affairs of the na- tlon may be removed. Assistau. retary Norton of the treasury, who has the matter in hand, has asked for an appropriation of $100,000 to per- fect the plan. According to his esti- mate the work of reorganizing and re- systematizing the department will cost | that amount, but will result in a say- ing to the department of more than | $1,000,000 annually. One of the great drawbacks to the careful management of the financial affairs of the government is that with | each new administration usually comes some change or policy. Each change Is expensive. So it goes and the government is incurring a con- | stant waste which would not take| place if a complete resystematizing of | the department could “e accomplished and a permarent policy maintained. When the constitution of this na-| tion wi framed one cof its strong |features was Its great system of finance. The system was most com-| plete and advaneed for the times, yet in spite of thgy fact conditions and situations have arisen which were that the old system has been outgrown in places and needs revtsion. A permanent poliey for the treasury of the United States s not only desir- able, but is an economic necessity. A permanent policy, even though it | Interest in the work of the National Guard its efficlenoy would be greatly improved. The boys deserve far more sndouragement than they get would only prevent a small waste, would be worth while, but when, as is pointed out by Assistant Secretary | Elass houses to get thelr wire netting in never dreamed of then, with the result | The Grand Jury Charge. The charge to the new grand jury, | prepared by Judge Estelle and dellv- | ered to that body by Judge Eears,| comes within the sane and sensiblo | class, which is a contrast to the gal-| lery-play charges we have been too | frequently treated with. The instruc tions to the grand jury set forth the| arious subjects which the law pre- scribes for grand jury investigation in addition to the general duty of finding bills against offenders shown by evi-| dence to have been violating any of the criminal statutes. The judge has put a little more emphasis than usual upon the secrecy which is supposed to char- acterize the deliberations of the grant jury, cautioning the members not to | divulge outside what is being done in- side the grand fury room. Judge Es- telle has in recent years been espacially devoted to the work of the juvenile court, and it is but natural, therefore, that he should point out particularly the need of protecting children against | maltreatment or corruption. The sig- nificant feature of the charge, how- ever, is the absence of a general de- nunclation of the community as a hot- bed of vice and lawlessness. There fs | doubtless in Omaha the measure of the | vice which prevails in all large cities, but it is, if anything, less here than would naturally be expected in a eity of its size. It would not be hard, either, to find rumors of official mal- feasance, but fortunately Omaha has not been scandalized for many years with any conspiracy of graft on a large scale. As a matter of fact Omaha is entitled to even a better name among the cities than even it enjoys in all these respects. —_— The Democratic Valentine Party. The democratic valentine party has been really held according to plans and | specifications, and it is fortunate for the democrats that Mr. Bryan was most noficeable by his absence. The bellwethers of the party seem to have utilized the occasion to throw bouquets at one another and congratulate them- selves In advance on the glorious dem- ocratle victory which they expect to achieve next fall. In politics, as in business, however, it 18 a good plan not to count chickens | before they are hatched. Mr. Bryan's comic valentine, delivered through the public prints, committing the demo- cratic party in Nebraska to county op- tion, seems to find no one willing to sign for it in the messenger's delivery book. It is quite possible that Mr. Bryan may come home and say again, as he did with reference to government ownership of railroads, that he meant only to unburden himself of a personal opinion, and not to impress his views on the democratic party, But it is also quite possible that he may come home convinced, as he says he is, that the majority want county option and undertake to put it in the democratic platform. If he does start out with such a pur- pose, all the valentine parties, love feasts and harmony meetings that may be held between now and next July will be unavailing to prevent a show- down between the democrats who fol- low Bryan and the democrats who re- fuse longer to accept his leadership. Up to this time Mr. Bryan has been able to write the platform for Ne- braska democrats without interference, | and it remains to be seen whether the next democratic platform in this state will contain anything he does not want in it or omit anything he wants there. The democratic steward who saved money by reason of raising his own cattle for the state institution merely | proceeds to omit in his calculation the | cost of several hundred bushels of 60- cent corn. It 18 on such base as this that democratic computations usually rest. The campaign for sewer extension in Omaha is just another evidence of the city's growth. The erection of sky-scrapers downtown and handsome homes in the residence district demand these additional facilities for proper sanitation. The warning to his colleagues that the general public is dissatisfied with existing conditions indicates that United States Senator Borah has been hearing from home. A Wise Precautio Washington Post. It 1s none too soon for politicians with order for the campaign. ate for the Campalgn, New York World Another economist ascribes the Increa: In the cost of Jiving to the increased pro- duction of gold, but the argument s ad- vanced too late to be of use In a free silver campaign. One Old Rel Left. Chicago Record-Herald. We have it on the authority of the De- partment of Commerce and Labor that the Too tioiary war most heartening to the colo- nists were the battle of Bunker Hill, the surrcnder of Burgoyne and the exploit of Washington ,in crossing the Delaware and routing Colonel Rahl and his Hesslans at Trenton. - 1t {s now proposed that the s of New Jersey purchase the farmhouse in which Washington took breakfast on that memorable morning. The present * owner has kept it in good repair and Is willing to sell for a nominal price. It Is als> proposed to make Washington's Crossin ing place on the New Jersey sside, the nucleus of a state park with the farmhouse ! as a museum, and construct a memorial bridge acrops the river to Taylorsville, Pa TAFT'S DEMOCRATIC nt Goes Out Much Washington People, Washington Dispatch to Boston Herald President Taft “gets out” among Wash- Ington people very much more than his predecessors have done. He Is golng to Washington dinnegs and dances galore this winter, not private dinners or private dances, but to functions of a semipublic nature. There are always a number these during January, February and March. So happy has the president been &0 these occasions In making himself agreeable to his hosts that Washington has already voted him one of the best of good tellows, If it be a dinner, the president is called upon to make a speech, and invarfably it is a good one. He is really developing into a very good extemporaneous speaker. Those who preferred to speak the plain truth did not venture in the early days of Mr. Taft's public service at Washington to say that he speaker. But the president has improved noticeably under the exigencies of the public positions he has held. He has been very much upon the platform during the last four years. Like many others of his fellow-countrymen with little aptitude for speaking, he has demonstrated that prac- tice conduces toward perfection. It fis strictly true that the president Is today probably the best extemporaneous speaker among the public men of Washington. A few nights ago President Taft attended the annual ball of the Southern Relief soclety. 'That is a charitable organization of southern people, as its name indicates, HABITS, Pre. Among and used to hold its annual dances in a | downtown hall, where the rent was not excessive. This year the promise of the president’ to attend elevated that function to a posifion of first importance. The best and moré fashionable hall in town was hired and'the function was a tremendous financia) Wuoccess. The president not only attendsd, but he danced, and he won the hearts 4t the large southern contirigent in ‘Washington. The ‘fréedom with which the president goes about tewn has already been widely noted. He insists upon his right to call upon hisi old friends as though he were a private eitizen. That was exemplified when he “dropped in" at the hotel on the Sun- day when his old judicial assoclate, Jus- tice Lurton of the supreme court, arrived In town. The other day he went.out walk- ing and’on the way stopped at the resi- dence of Thomas F. Wash; the Colorado mining milllonaire, to inquire about h condition. Mr. Walsh had been serious m. Nothing Iike this has been seen at Wash- ington #ince the days of President Arthur. Although Mr. Arthur was a great arlsto- crat in the White House and Insisted upon strict observance of officlal etiquet, he was exceedingly democratic. He walked out upon the Streets whenever he pleased, and he stopped at the houses of friends fre- quently: On the way home he frequently entered the Metropolitan club, which Is just across Lafayette square from the White House, called for a drink and sat around for a little to hear the afternoon gossip. President Taft stops short of that, but he does keep up pleasant relations with old-time friends, just as though he were a private citizen, and Washington people, generally very critical of presidents, like that about him. Our BirthdayBook Pebruary 16, 1910 Henry. Watterson, the world-famed edi- tor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, cele- brated his seventieth birthday today. Colonel Watterson was born In Washington |and served in the confederate army, and tried one term in congress. He is a notable lecturer and author, and by all odds the most pleturesque figure In American jour- nalism today. Charles J. Hughes, jr States senator from Colorado, February 16, 1863, at Kingston, Mo. He is a lawyer who represents all the franchiss corporations in Denver, but that did not prevent the democrats from making him United States senator. George Harvey, editor Weekly, was born February 16, 194, at Peacham, Vt His full name is George Brinton McClellan Harvey, which tells plainly encugh for whom he was named He used to be a reporter and later built eléctric rallroads until he became a pluto- crat and bought the North American Re- view as a prelude to becoming president of Harper & Brothers Publishing house. George Kennan, author and lecturer, was Born February 16, 184, at Norwalk, O. e was originally a telegraph operator, and gol the exploration habit while construct ing telegraph lines. He penetrated Bi- berla when It was supposed to be closed to all intruders, and is an authority on Russian life and customs. Rev. Ralph H. Houseman, pastor of the Castellar Presbyterian church, was born February 16, 15T, at Mount Pleasant, Ia Rev. Houseman graduated at the Omaha Presbyterian seminary David Anderson was born February 16, 1832, in Chester county, Pensylvania. Mr. Ander- #on came west more than fifty years azo and is the only living member of the first republican national convention that met in Philadelphia In June, 1866, and nominated John C. Fremont for the presidency, and boasts of having voted for every republi- cap president, Including President Taft the new United was born of Harper's | Mr. Anderson Is a resident of fouth Omaha William R. Butts of the W. R. Butts company, dealing In meats and grocerles, is 3. He was bom at Creston, Ta.. where Norton, it would save each year ten Drices on sugar, tes, spices and soda he was educated in the public schools. the land- | ot | was an attractive public | has President Taft. Republicans of my | state, after having survived the epidemics | ot Bryantsm and populism, are not to be cajoled into the camp of the opposition | “In my opinfon the high prices of com- modities are not due to the republican | tarlff measure, but to the Incomparable | Increase in tha production of gold in the last decade, und the consequent change {In the purchasing power of the dollar. | During this perfod the increase In prices has been gradual, whereas it would have been a rapid Increase since the passage of the tarift measure, had it been due to that | leglslation. The tariff measure cannot be | an issue In an agricultural state like ours, | where the high prices of farm préducts have made producers independent. 1 be- lleve the president is standing for the | greatest good to the greatest numbr of | hie countrymen:* | diegusted with my as- to observe how they will be in- fluenced by a dinner invitation. Some of | the national lawmakers hold themselves | mighty cheaply.” ! | The foregoing remark was made the other day by the chairman of one of the | important committees of the house to the | Brooklyn Eagle correspondent. He has been having trouble over a matter of Io[lb‘ “It makes clates me officer differ. The chairman complains | that the members of his committee go out | 0 a fine dinner at night and come to the | capitol the next day with greatly modi-| fled views about legislation. He declares | that the lawmakers are influenced by the oysters, soup and game which they eat at these sumptuous repasts. He finds it a difficult task to make his logic keep pace with the dinner giving activities of the; | cabinet-otficer. | | ton whether the gayeties of society had any influence on legislation. No doubt the| lawmaker is in a frame of mind,to receive | favorably certain views about a bill after a comfortable dinner. The committee chair- man quoted In the foregoing says that he can eat all the dinners anyone wants to serve up to him and it won't influence his views in the slightest. His contention is that other members are being switched | about through the medium of rich foods and wines, “Uncle Joe" Cannon ruled George Wash- ington out of order in the house of repre- sentatives one day last week. In doing %o | he made Representative Willlam Sulzer of | New York pretty mad. The house was discussing a bill presented | by Representative Richard Bartholdt of | Missourl, authorizing the presentation to the Emperor of Germany of a bropze rep- lica of the statue of General Van Steuben | now being erected in Washington. Mr. | Sulger offered an amendment to substitute George Washington's statue. A point. of | order was made against the amendment. | “Is George Washington, the father of his country, out of order here?' yelled Mr. Sulzer at the top of his voice “In the present company he most de- cidedly Is" replied “Uncle Joe” as he banged his gavel on the desk. Without the Sulzer amendment the Bar- tholdt bill was passed Government clerks In Washington are allowed so much time every year for va- Ication and so much for sick leave. The| improved health of the capital city has eliminated the sick leave requirements, and of recent years clerks have been some- what worried as to how they should con- tinue to secure it In view of thelr robust health. A conversation overheard In one of the corridors throws light on the situ- atlon. “You August. “Thought you had a fine vacation; what was the matter?” “Vacation was all right; It was before | 1 started. You see I secured medical cer- | | tificates from two different doctors. The first was an insurance doctor who gave me a clean health bili to obtain a policy. The other doctor was a friend of mine, and he gave me a certificate that would help out on my vacation for extended sick leave." i “Well, what of 1t? TLots of us do that. | Does your conscience prick you now?" | “Well, I shuffled the two certificates and sent the Insurance doctor's assurance of good health to my chief, with a note asking for extended leave; the paper making me out desparately {ll, I sent to the in- surance company.' “What on earth did you do; I see you have not lost your position?" “Well, I lay awake all of onc night worrying. In the morning 1 had an inspiration; I told the chief the truth." The English sparrow the air, just as the rat is the freebooter | of the earth, and ought to be extermin- |ated. So rules the Department of Agri- culture in a bulletin just published, which also tells how to get rid of him. He studiously hunts and eats which are beneficlal to plant life, | he passes over more or less those which are harmful. The only good thing he does is to eat the seeds of weeds and pre- vent thefr spread. Axide from that there | 18 nothing to be sald in his favor. More than that he is murderous. He hunts the nesting places and destroys bet I was up agalnst it last is the pirate of insects while seven, will kil him, that Senator Root Is able to get appo! ments in the forelgn service, had very when Roosevelt was in the White house and Root Whenever Depew would ask Secretary Root | to appoint a bright young man from New York In the corsular service, Root would say: already | auota of forelgn appointments.” times to the story about the 14 per cent | excess. | pew | Jo 1S, T WHtO e Ghl % Septats l'nbllml‘:"w Yorkers when Root entered the sen- the | e succeeded, | turned out that | made his first teip to the | ment to asic for places for New York men, he was met by Knox. | coached by his subordinates. | “but New York's . It has long been a question in Washing- | ”"": P TOLCEAURA ok alSehdy’ miry | more — per cent chestnut erty. | the senate committee on expenditures for [the State department, and | ness. now about 18 per | state's quota. other $§20,600,000 among The traveler should not forget to tip the poor porter. seventy-three years ago. five years the discussion of his successor | has been rife and yet he gives little in- | By clination of affording anybody the oppor- tunity to name the man. I county, Pennsylvania, who has been liv In Colorado, 2 he is now worth a half Willlon dollars and he is going back to his old home, Em- mitsburg, and wants a big farm near the old" home place. print with explanations of the excessive cost of living, placing the blame on extravagance of housekeeping. The house- keeper might reply effectively by showing up the wives 1ift the lid? Klein, to that city after visiting England, many York a few days ago with 6 cents In his Ppocket. “The old country Is too slo & few years ago by kissing Captain Rich- mond P. Hobeon, Louls to Benjamin Guggenheimer of New York. ing of Hobson after the thrilling Incident of the Merrimac In the harbor of Santiago, Cuba, (] '-"\'.') ) The only baking powder made from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar No Alum—No Lime Phosphates properly treated with strychnine CHEERY CHAFF, Landlady—1Is there gentiemen know of to Crushed — Tragedian ma'am; try to play ‘Hamiet eggs left in the place are good American. Senator Depew has discovered the reason t- Mr. Depew particular sur bad 1% lttle success in this “And who will asked the city “Aha! sald was a bit of to be sure. Hnlley's was In the State department head wag w York copyreader ‘the star repo Mal “‘Lottie, what would you do {f you waol up some night and found a burglar in your room?" vapgg “If he was hunting for money, hours of I am ve ty, Depew, but New York | has 14 per cent more than its and help him hunt."—Life, “That sclentist spent life in fruitless research “In what line?" You see. them the Depew was forced to listen a score of It became 80 monotonous that De- was glad to turn over to Root the b of obtaining forelgn patronage for te. Two or three patronage plums from State department shortly thereafter 11 to the lot of New York. Depew was Interested to learn how Root and made some Inquiries. It when Root, as a senator, State depart- s a remarkable gold coin 1 want |to show you, old man.'} “Eh? This {8 an ordinary half M\KI)‘ What's remarkahle about it?" | "“It befongs to me.'—foston Tr ript “So the bride and grosm quested their friends not after them? “Yes. They ed us to hand the rice over in a package =o that it could be used when they g0 to housekeeping.'—Washing- ton Star. reo- rice espe to throw The latter had been | “I am very sorry, Root,” sald Knox, “I thought 1 ordered quail!" ’ “Dat's quall, sub.'* “Quall nothing: That's chicken!" Root. “That 14 It was chicken, suh, but it sced me a- was my exclusive prop- | comin,.” 2 b Furthermore, 1 am the chairman of | ..}YMat has that to dg with jt ‘ Kawlet—The lagt ‘time 1 saw you, I “'De ght of ‘@ cullud pussc makes a chicken quail you were attend ng a cooking school n hpw to make vegzetable dishes, Your state has 11 per cent “Stop it," interrupted \ways 1ston I mean busi- New York's forelgn Mra cen appointments in excess of Post. are the like meat Crossway—Yes, " but the | against the trust isiso stroag now that we ing to mike ctable dishe: ¢ unlfke meat,—Chicago Record feeling PERSONAL NOTES. The Pullman company 2L is dividing an- its stockholders. VERSICLES, A Reformer's Oversi He smoked the worst cignrs He chewed tine cut.and plug; The storlés that Invoked nis mirth Were grebfed with a shrug people with a taste poilte; Lo And yete amid g Aberin ., fot stawckmabsnip"Ho5 "day and night He shouted for reform. Chlef Justice Fuller was borm in Maine For at least| on carth; W. W. McNair, a native of Adams| o His whole ‘cxistence uas displayed ¥ A woeful deficit 3| O resolution to be mace For his own. benefit, And yet, he Keeps the subject wa¥n Wherever he may roam, Demanding only that reform Shall not begin at home, Washington & has written a letter ra Several noted persons have jumped into Poor Gont. There was a goat In our town And he was wondrous thin, And yet wherever food was he Was always butting in. the the extravagence of the men. Will And when he found the food was gone, He never acted blue— Starting out aged with only 2 cents of McKeesport, Joseph returned Ger- New He merely ate the dishes, and He ate the table, too. He ate a family washing and The clotheslirie at a_bite; And then he aie:a whetstone, just ald Klein. | ‘o whet his appetite. | He might have been there enting yet, 2 5 ut that's an open question— Emma Arnold, who distinguished herasit | ;0" RSV 81 open quest (e And died of indigestion! —Ted Robinson, in Cleveland Leader. and France. He landed fn “America for me," was married In ‘St | The Difference. My neighbor eateth lobst He eateth:rarebit, too, He loveth brie and edam And hideth them from view. My nelghbor wakes at midnight Miss Arnold inaugurated the kiss- Peter Wyckoff, farmer, banker and phi- lanthropist, whose ancestors. were among the first Dutch settlers on Long Island, died of general debllity in the old Wyekoff homestead, 1325 Flushing avenue, in the Ridgewood section of Brooklyn. He was | born In 1828 In the same house where he dled, the structure having been erected in 1791, |eggs and young bluebirds, house wrens, tree swallows and barn swallows. The robin, the catbird, and the mocking I)Ird‘ he attacks and drives out of the parks and | shade trees. He has no song, but he| | drives out the song birds and brings only | nolse in return. | After having learned all this about the | sparrow after an extensive Investigation the' Department of Agriculture shows a ! | way to destroy him. First, whenever sparrows roost around your house de- stroy their nests. If they roost at night | on your eaves trough drive them away with a long pole By destroying nests wherever the are seen the Increase can be prevented. The sparrow likes to nest in cavities, and he can be trapped through this preference. He will in boxes that may be put up to make his capture | easy. He may be lured to spread grain | and shot and killed In other ways, or| may be polsoned. Wheat soaked in| strychnine is sa'd to be preferable. This | method has been adopted in California | where It was necessary to protect ripen- | |Ing frult. A sparrow's stomach wili hold | iabout thirty kernels of wheat, but six or} roost Hallie Erminie Rives, whose romances have proved among the most popular ever issyed in this country, has now writtea & glowing, muydAn,?s_i-jwmdny. Ai All Bookstores This Book and all the other new publications on salc at the Brandeis Stor [ Book Departiment And shrieks with sudden pain, Quick comes the costly medfc And treats him for ptomaine. ) 1 eat my humble dinner, My chops and beans and ple, Perhaps with indigestion suffer. by and by, The good old famlly doctor My case in hand doth take, He ‘calls it stomach ache! —~New York Tribune. BY THE AUTHOR OF SATAN SANDERSON In dramatic power, in the sweep of the love story, and in vividaess of personal characteri- 2ation it far surpases her previous succesen, *Heants Courageous” “Satan Sanderson” etc, The Bobbs-Merrill Compary, Publishers S v