Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 30, 1910, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAY BEE — e FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily Bee (including Sunday), per week. Dally Bes (wltbn’t.anuy). par_week, Dalily Bee (without Sunday), ons year.. ! Daily Bee and Sunday, one year... BD BY CARRIFR. Evenihg Bee (without Sunday), per week, Evening Bee (with Sundey), per week Bund Batu Address alt com) deltvery to City reulation Department OFFICES. Oml:.—'rho Bee HBullding South Omaha—Twenty-fourth and N. Counefl mun-—&m“ Street. Eioago— i Iflqn‘n“'n‘mlfllni Tfl't‘ th’l’::—.flw' 101-1102 No. 8 West iy 3 Wasbington- 5 Pourteenth Stroet N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and slitorial matter ' should = be addressed: Omaha Bee, Bditorial Department. REMITTANCES. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas Co late copies of T orning, Bven! n‘ and Sunday Be uring the month of February, 1910, was 20 89 0989 88wt e a x 20 33 s (A GEORGR B. TZSCHUCK, ‘reasurer. Subseribed in W and sworn to before me this lm of February, 1910, loa‘n HUN'I"xh. otary Publie. Subscribers leaving the city tes porarfly should have The Bee mailed to them. Addreas will he ehanged as often as requested. ——— = —————— It is a ten to one shot that the Har- vard students will call that 46-year-old millionaire freshman ‘“‘Grandpa. ame of foot ball as played in Australla {s not dangerous, it should travel by some other name. — But the month of March is not over yet. A dozen llons may be lurking in the pigeonholes of the weather factory. — 4 We have no Mount Etna in this country, but we have Pittsburg, Al- bany, Jackson, Miss., and congress for substitutes, The old adage, “Open your purse and mouth cautiously,” ‘has not be- come obsqlete, however much it may be neglected: \ k] Wanted—By. an English bishop, a word which will completely express one’s feelings when he hits his thumb with the hammer. ————— If the final decision of the Browns- ville affalr depends on a dog, it is time |' to settle the whole matter, even if we have to kill the dog. ) The statement comes from New York that women are to blame for the high price of eggs. What, are they wearing eggs on their hata? ——— The South Carolinian who dynamited his land instead of plowing it is orig- inal to say the least, but it savors too much of Black Hand methods. ——— Of course, no slur is intended . in the assertion of Prof. Lowell that the inhabitants of Mars are intelligent or- ganisms, but not at all like men. And now the state of Mississippl has unearthed a bribery scandal just as “Uncle Jim"” Gordon had challenged the admiration of the world to hfs state, The St. Louls policemen who put out a fire which had caught in a sky- scraper Haster hat by trampling cer- tainly had the courage of their convie- tions. e Now that several sallors have been killed in explosion on the Charleston, it is time for another long string of magazine articles depicting the ineff- clency of our navy. Captain Klein, sentenced for graft- ing in Pittsburg, sends out Baster postal cards bearing these words, “I didn’t help build the state capitol.” One polnt In his favor. It begins to look as though fire in- surance companies as well as life in- surance.companies are making a point of examining people’s pocketbooks as a precautionary measure. Omaha prociates the words of pralse showered by Wyoming wool men, but it would appreciate them much more if the Wyoming wool clip Demooratic Backsliding. The Kentucky state senate, by a vote of 17 to 17, defeated the resolution to rat- ify thé proposed income tax améndment to the federsl conmstitution. Thus Ken- tueky s the third southern state to throw t this most equitable plan rgla first, Virginia sec- and Kentucky third.—Mr. Bryan's It is not that the three states al-| ready rejecting the income tax amend- ment are southern states that is sig- nificant, but that they are democratic states, and by this action are repudi- atlng and trampling under foot a plank of the Denver platform sup- posed to be binding on all good demo- crats, both as to what it contains and to what it omits. Certain northeast- ern states, more particularly New York and the New England states, where wealth 1 so concentrated that the proposed income tax would fall with added burden as compared with other states, were naturally expected to oppose the amendment, but the democratic states of the south have no such excuse. Kentucky, however, has been recalcitrant on other occasions when it has refused to take Mr. Bryan's advice, notably when he trav- eled all the way to its capital two years ago to tell the democrats in the legislature whom to choose for United States senator. Georgia and Virginia have ordinarily kept In line, and why they should fall to accept the income tax is not clear. This much is certain, however, that it the income tax amendment is lost it will be because of democratic back- sliding, Insurance Investigation in New York. The vigorous investigation of al- leged insurance irregularities in New York state by State Superintendent of Insurance Hotchkiss 1s developing much interesting material. Like the lité insurance investigation of several years ago, it develops that a case of gecuring desired legislation at the hands of the New York assembly was the source of trouble. When it is necessary for an insurance company to buy influence in order to gain a hearing the company itself, although not to be censured the less, can not be justly held as the only culprit. New York state is not to be taken as & model for civic morals, if we read current official report rightly. A low standard of civic duty has been dis- covered in public service in that state during the last few years and dis- closure seems to have but little de- terring eoffect. The life insurance ir- regularities of a few years ago, whi¢h were thoroughly aired and properly, punished, have been apparently no warning to other companies doing business in the state. A regular sys- tem of retainers’ fees between insur- ance companies and certain members of the legal and political professions have apparently obtained. The Allds bribery case, still before the state sen- ate, bids fair to be eclipsed by these fire insurance bribery cases. Rvery effort possible should be made to as- certain the truth and a punishment should be meted out to the culprits éf- fective enough to put. a stop to all such transactions hereafter. Mount Etna, The recent volcanic activity of Mount Etna in Slelly during the last week has naturally caused consterna- tion on that little island. Although this' is a very different sort .of an eruption from that of Vesuvius, which occurred a few years ago, yet it bids falr to do much damage. Instead of emitting ashes, smoke, hot cinders and sulphur, Btna is rolling molten rock down its slopes in great broad streams, scorching, burning and de- vastating everything in the way. One would think that the people on this island would become discontented because of the earthquakes and erup- tions which bave visited it, but, like the dwellers on the mud ffats of the rivers of this country, they flee for safety when it 18 necessary, and:- then return again, rebuilding their houses and places of business and go to work. It is apparently impossible to discour- age them and they cling to their homes on the island the same as they have done for thousands of years. Just what the earth hides deep be- low its surface that such eruptions should be continually taking place is not known. Sclentists have told us that it we were to plerce the earth's crust for a distance of seventy-five miles we would find rock formations disappearing and its constituent ele- ments molten or_ perhaps gaseous. Some go further and say that the eruptions of volcanoes are simply the escape of some of the interior com- position of the earth through caverns whereby it gains access to the out- side. But these explanations are purely theoretical for lack of abso- lute data on which to base conelu- sions, But we do know that in cer- tain localities over the surface of the earth there are vent-like formations from which come destruction and des- olation and that Ital Martinique and Sieily, especially, have been great sufferers m such manifestations in were all mariteted through Omaha as it should be. If the dental member of the Omaha ‘Water board. ls fully equipped to tell us all about water purification, why waste taxpayers’ money by sending 1,600 miles for a representative of the Marine hospital? The discussion of the queer things about the dog pound recalls that it is some time since Omaha has had an ag- for mussling the dogs. If any dealers have an oversupply of dog muszles on hand another conveni- v - all ages., Panama and Costa Rica. Unless pending negotiations fail Secretary Knox will be able to per- form a service of great importance to Paname and Costa Rica by a peaceful sottlement of the boundary line sep- arating the two countries. This ques- tion of boundary dates back over & hundred years and has been the cause of mueh trouble and disaffection to both. There s no {ll feeling over the except impatience on the two states that it has been Dow the to drag along for such a matter part of allowed length of time. The history of this. BEE: OMAHA, WEDN whole question, incidentally, affords & good idea of the possible beneficent application and also the limitations of arbitration or mediation Dbetween soverelgn states. But this is not the first time thess two states have tried to settle the boundary dispute by arbitration. Alfonso XII of Spain tried it in 1886 and later President Loubet attempted it, but neither reached a permanent solution, and as a result the treaty drawn up at the time was mutually ignored. The surveys in both cases were incomplete and inaccurate and generally unsatisfactory to all con- cerned, when Panama was a part of Columbla, as well as since 1903, when it gained its independency. It is rather interesting to note that all efforts made to settle this trouble within recent years have been of a friendly nature, although some difi- culty was experienced shortly after the year 1903, when the United States minister to Panama, Mr. Barrett, at- tempted to effect a settlement. But conditions are now different and the whole situation is to be placed before the chief justice of the supreme court of the United States by Secretary Knox and finally settled, maps, records, surveys and former treaties being the evidence used as a basis for decision. There is little doubt but that this course will be satisfactory, since present negotlations are volun- tary, friendly and are to be final. Justice Brewer. The sudden death of Justice Brewer of the United States supreme court naturally shocks the whole country, but more particularly the people of this section, because he was not only appointed to the bench from our sister state of Kansas, but was also assigned to the circult made up of the states of the middle-west. In a word, Justice Brewer, more than any other present member of that high tribunal, was re- garded as a representative of the great agricultural region of the Mississippl and Missour{ valleys. He was cred- ited with being more Intimately ac- quainted with conditions prevailing in this part of the country, and with look- ng at the big questions constantly coming up for adjudication, from a broader point of view because of this fact. Justice Brewer's great legal ability was universally conceded, although some of the decisions in which he had a leading part have provoked severe criticlsm and dissent. Insthe famous Nebraska maximum rate cases Justice Brewer really formulated the decision adverse to the state by his preliminary grant of an injunction which was afirmed on appeal to the supreme court, and in so doing seemed to show a distinct leaning toward the railroad’s side. The law as he laid it down In those cases, however, has since been ‘utilized to bring about more effective rallway regulation and’ will probably help ‘pave the way for complete asser- tion of government control. From another standpoint Justice Brewer occupied a unique position on the bench in being associated for many years with his uncle, - Justice : Fleld, serving as colleagues In what is ac- claimed the highest court of justice known to history. As a member of the famous Fleld family, which gave to the world the bullder of the Atlan- tic cable, a recognized leader of re- ligious thought and two great justices of the supreme court, Justice Brewer has added luster to the name. A pald orator imported from Colo- rado, whose chief asset is that he s a friend of Judge Ben B. Lindsey, is to be let loose on Nebraska to tell us what we are missing by not conferring suffrage on women. A reading of Judge Lindsey’s story of political cor- ruption in Colorado, where women vote, would lead to the conclusion that Nebraska without woman suffrage is still. in better condition than Colorado with it The ploneers of Nebraska laid out the roads on good liberal lines, with @ far-sighted view to the future, and made the main roads wide enough to accommodate all the traffic likely to be developed. The change from horse vehicles to motor cars i8’not only mak- ing more use of the roads, but also using more of the roads. The orig- inal road-makers in Nebraska did net commit many serious blunders. ———— And now we are told that the Wash- ington filtration plant cost $3,400,000 and that when St. Louis figured on similar ‘equipment the estimate called for $2,000,000. The $6,500,000 bonds which we voted to buy the Omaha water plant are evidently only a starter, Champ Clark, the démocratic floor leader of the house, says that in his opinfon a nonpartisan speaker is far off. Champ would like to be speaker, but he knows that he would have a hard time pretending to be a nonpar- tisan. What would interest Nebraska in conservation more than any other one thing would be some feasible plan for conserving atmospheric heat and mols- ture and delivering it on order as wanted at any period of the year, —_—— It is reported that Count Boni is dow starting negotiations with the morganatic widow of King Leopold with matrimony In view. Well, any- |one who could keep Leopold in line ought to be able to handle Boni. Mayor “Jim" touches a tender spot in Lincoln when he talks about remov- ing the state capitol. Here is whére RSDAY, MARCH Lincoln claims a vested interest con- stitutionally exempt from invasion, — The chances are that there will also be considerable figuring done in Great Britain to make it appear that the House of Lords is to be ‘‘revised up- ward.” —— e Apology Saved Ifim. Baltimore American. The senate of the United Stétes has in- doed fallen on parlous times when the pre- siding officer of that sugust body had to call himself to order for sneesing at it The Living Should Some, §t. Louls Globe-Demoorat. One county iIn Nebraska has in hand 27,000 for good roads derived from an in- beritance tax. But Is it in order for the lving to rely on the dead to keep the common highways in order? Shining in Reflected Light. Pittsburg Dispateh. Before very long every man who wishes to bulk large In the public eye will be tak- ing & steamer to meet Roosevelt. Then it may become so common that the really prominent man will be the one who stays at home. Chesty Lights fn Eclipse. Cleveland Plain Dealer. We are told that diamonds have made an- other advance. But who wears diamonds rowadays? Only one minstrel troupe re- mains In existence; the modern hotel clerk 1s & quiet gentleman sans glare and giitter, and even an Astor doesn't hesitate to use paste. Time Stretohing the Perspective. New York World. The death of the “youngest veteran” of the clvil war @t the seasoned age of 62 fllustrates how far into the past the period of the rebellion has receded. We are to- day as distant in point of years from the tiring of Sumter and the call for volun- teers as the country was in Jackson's sec- ond administration from the end of the revolutionary war. | What Do You THInK of Thist | New York Tribune. The negro Pullman car porter, Wwho, when arrested for épeeding his own auto- mobile, said he was In a hurry, as he had an important real estate enterpriss pend- ing, disclosed another cause of the In- creased cost of living. 1t Is to be devoutly hoped that tips will not follow proportion- ately the upward movement in prices of food stuffs. That would be rubbing it in, Back to the Vaeant Lot. Cleveland Plain Dealer. ‘Why not return to the vacant lot? The idea of cultivating unoecupted urban prop- erty is now many years old, but it has never been devgloped to Its full possibilities. “Potato” Pingree first popularized the plan; others have urged it since. Cultivate the vacant lots. Back to the soil 18 & good slogan. If one can get no farther back than the first unoccupled piece of city land go there with spade and hoe. The harvest comes not only in what ome gathers from the ground, but in increased health and a sense of satisfaction that one has wrested something tangible from na- ture and become at last a real producer. Rt ) CAN THIS BE MR. BRYAN? Assumes & Hopeful Tone Home. Chicago Inter Ocean. The report of Mr.. Bryan's speech at Lima, Peru, published, in the current lssue ot the Commoner, s calculated to give the public & start of surprise. It suggests that gjther the South Ameri- can climate has a, wgnderful effect on Mr. Bryan's point of view or there is another Mr. Bryan who has been managing to conceal himself successfully from publie notice in this country. It was the most cheerful speech! There was, nothing at all the matter with the United States in that speech. He sald it was a great country. H a specimen of the noise the eagle emitted down in Peru when his tall feathers were lightly tweaked: Far trom more altrulsm In the United States than anywhere else in the world; people of the United States are doing more in an unseltish way for the benefit of the human race than any other people. If this seems boastful, I beg you to put the statement to the test and you will find that there is kcarcely a place in the world that our people have not already unselfishly invaded, with no other pur. pose than to raise the level of mankind and to carry halg and happiness to. those who have been less fortunate than our- selves. Up in this country Mr, Bryan's general tone I8 one of warning and unpleasantness. No sooner does he appear than everybody knows. that something’s wrong. It s a waste of time to look to him for words of cheer and consolation. Something is not only wrong when Mr. Bryan heaves in sight with all his ora- torical salls bellying In the breeze, but something has got to be done and done quickly. If it lsn't, the ship of state, re- publican Institutions, humanity itself, are morally certain to founder in a very short time. Now it 1s imperialism that must be gotten rid of at all costs if we want to escape instant destruction. Now it is the cross of gold- that must be knocked down and carted out before we get crucified on it. Now it is the protective tariff that must be chucked overboard on the Instant or he won't guarantee resuits. Many people speak of him as “Old Dr. Bryan,” because they instinctively asso- clate him with the announcement of some o0ld and rellable or some perfectly new dis- ease which can only be cured by eare- tully soaking the mind every morning and night in the solution he proposes. .Why can't Mr. Bryan give his own coun- try a lttle of his cheerfulness? Why re- serve all his optimism for the Peruvians, who cannot appreciate it properly, having had no opportunity to realize the lovely contrast it affords? Why not turn himself lo0se up here some time and admit that the end of the republic s not eternally bobbing In sight? ‘We really can't see why an orator, who radiates cheerful patriotism down in Peru, South America, can't do the same thing in Peru, Inddiana. \ Qur Birthday Book March 30, 1910. George W. Clabaugh, vice-president of the Omaha Gas company and manager of the local gas plant, was born March 3, 1860, in Cumberiand, Md. He was In the Wyom- ing cattle business in the 80s and went into the gus business In 1880, In Philadelphia, coming to Omaha shortly after. Ernest G. Harwood, of Harwood & Har- ‘wood, real estate, with offices in The Bee bullding, is 28 years old today. He was born in Fullerton, Neb, und was on the road as travellng salesman for several Omaha concerns before engaging in the real estate business five years ago. David C. Dodds, raflway mall ¢lerk, was born March %0, 156, &t Tranquility, O. He for Rocco Brothers, frult dealers, Harvester company the government service in Around New York on the Current of Rife a8 Soen In the @reat American Metropolia from Day %o Day. —_— All the races represented in the hetero- geneous population of the Battery distriet of New York participated in the funeral of “Battery Dan" Finn last Saturday. There were turbaned Turks and Syrians, Egyp- tlans with dinky caps, Chinamen, Japs, French, Germans and. Irish and & host of Americans prominent in the political life of the big city. Twelve carriages were filled with flowers, there were two bands, vehicles of unknown number and marching delegations from many socleties, constitut- ing & throng that must have given the Hibernian soul unbounded joy on its on- wanrd flight. “Battery Dan" was a char- acter typical of his environment. The nick- name defined the territory over which he relgned as a political lord. His methods wero of the rough house order, the only kind possible In that section, but beneath a rough exterior was a heart that re- ponded to the needs of the unfortunates of all races. - He had been a soldler in the civil war, a volunteer firoman, base ball fan, a fisherman, a booster of New York, but a knooker of the police. Though with- out legal training, but possessing an abundance of rou and ready common sense; he ‘was appointed by Mayor Me- Clellan a magistrate of the section in which he lived and dled. His doings on the bench reflected the characteristics of the man, “Battery Dan's plain, outspoken manner of administering justice caused him to be idolized by his friends and nelghbors, He always sald that the weak and oppressed needed & friend at court, and he was going to help them. He soon became fa- mous for his advice to policemen. While many of his actions had a humorous as- pect, It was never denled thi ¢ he mixed much common sense and knowledge of human nature with his decisions, An undersized boy was once arraigned before him by a 200-pound policeman. “What is the trouble? asked ‘“Battery Dan," peering over his glasses. “Your honor,” sald the policeman, “I ar rested this boy at Canal and Lafayette streets for interfering with the police com- missioner's automobile. He was driving a heavy team and the automobile was unable to get by.” “Horrible!” sald the magistrate. “Young man, do you realize the heinousness of your offense?" Sobbing, the youth sald he aid. “Well," continued “Battery Dan, ‘hein- ous as It 1s, I am going to dlscharge you. But I warn you that if ever again you aro brought Into court on & similar charge I shall deal with you severely. I shall sen. tence you to the WaldortiAstoria for tem days with a muzzle on. I will teach you who owns the city."” One : afterncon when the Glants were playing at the. Polo. grounds Maglstrate Finn, who was an inveterate ‘“fan,” ad- Journed early to see the game. Walking down Third avenug with his probation offi- cer, Barney O'Connor, he met some friends of a prisoner he had held. They pleaded with him to accept bail for the man. While he was meditating what to do a patrol wagon filled with prisoners being transferred from the Morrisania court to the Harlem prison came along. The prigoner whose friends had Interested the magistrate was among the number. “Stopl" shouted Magistrate Finn, run- ning into the street and waving his black- thorne cane. “Where is the prisoner?’ he asked, reading the name from the paper that had just been handed him. Taking the prisoner from the van he went to a nearby saloon, where he announced he would hold court. Everyone in the saloon doffed his hat while the accused man was arraigned. Then the ball bond was made out and the prisoner formally discharged, and the magistrate invited everyone to have a drink. ( “It doesn’t hurt to do an act of kindness to a’fellow man when It 1s within our power,” he said. Eighty-seven poultry dealers in New York City have been indicted for a conspiracy to tix high prices in the market and share pro rata profits thereby obtained. They are charged with preventing competitive dealers from obtaining stalls in the mar kets to dispose of their produce. The ac- cused poulterers are prosecuted under the provisions of a state law almed against unlawful combinations in restraint of trade. The trial s likely to be an eye- opener for persons seeking first-hand in- formation as to the increased cost of living. According to a verdict brought in by six men sitting as a jury before Justice of the Peace James H. Belethe, in Morristown, N. J., “damn” s not an oath or a “swear word,’ is prohibited by the vice and immorality act of New Jersey. Surrogate David Young, who was on trial for saylng that Mrs, Nellle Fitzherbert of Dover “talked like & damn fool,” acknowl- edged he had used the expression, but his counsel insisted that such an expression was not swearing. The jury agreed with him and acquitted Young. Mrs. Fitzherbert testified that she was in Mr. Youn office in Morristown re- PERSONAL NOTES. An English witness in @ local court ad- dressed the maglstrate as “your lordship™ and the magistrate ordered him to “cut that out.” It the United States authorities at New York succeed in convicting the muccaroni smugglers, they will probably feel like put- ting feathers in thelr hats. Bven if the New York helress who s ad- vertising for a soul mate were to find him, cently to get a copy of a will in which she was interested. She read the copy, and told the surrogate that-it was not a true copy. He offered to bet her a dollar that it was a true copy. She took the bet and put up her dollar. The copy was compared with the original and ft was shown that in the copy the ‘Word “not” was left out, completely alter- ing one of the provisions of the will. She won her bet. Later Mrs. Fitzherbert visited Mr, ! Young's office again and taunted him upon losing the bet. She told him that he “was all right, but in the wrong place.” He becamo angry, and said: “You talk like & damn fool.” Mr. Young sald that he had great prov- ocation, and merely wished to add em- Phasis to an assertion. The expression was merely an adjective iptended to convey the idea that Mrs. Fitzherbert talked not only lke & fool, but like a very big fool— like very much of a fool. He did not mean that she was a condemned fool. ! oo ot ol They De Grow, f Baltimore American. According to experts government seeds are getting better. No longer do ocucum- ber vines come up when squashes were expected, and no longer does the beet make its appearance when the carrot was looked for. Jt Is safe now to plant gov- ernment corn without getting barley or oats and Uncle Sam's grass seed no longer produces weeds. This will be wélcome news 4o those Who go to congressmen for their seeds. \ B — ! “Everybody Losing.” \ New York World. According to one of the heads of the Packing trust, packers' profits have de- clined because of the higher price of meat. As tar ab can be discovered everybody is losing and nobody gaining by the increased cost. The situation would be Gilbertian if it were not so distinctly serfous to con- sumers the chances are that the authorities would not let him out of the asylum. A Pittsburg grafter implicated sixty of his pals, because fter his conviotion they refused to provide for his wite and family. He now doubts that there is honor among thieves. Chlef Weather Forecaster Moore boldly classes the ground hog as a fakir, while John T. Roberts of Darley, Pa., defends the shadow prophet as a sure thing— that 1s, as sure as the offictal weather forecast for March 4, 190. That man Darby is an offensive knocker. Soth Low will be the new president of the New York Republican club, succeeding Robert C. Morris. A committee appointed by President Morris to help welcome Mr. Roosevelt includes Attorney General Wick- ersham, Henry W. Taft, Senators Root and Depéw, Timothy I Woodruff and Willlam Barnes, jr. Lee Lynch of Masan, Okl,, who weighs 320 pounds, is the baby of his family. He is a clerk in a general store conducted by his fathier. It is sald that when measuring cloth Lynch does not make use of a yard stick, but simply stretches the goods across the top of his trousers, it being just a yard from one suspender button to the other. Mr. Rockefeller doesn't have to save up money just because he has promised to en- dow the biggest foundation ever. He has given $50,000 to the Georgla School of Tech- nology In Atlanta. The gift is made with- out conditions, but it is understood that Mr. Rockefeller would be glad to have it used in constructing a building for the Young Men's Christian assoolation. Moonlight larks are nearly as perilous to, married women In Kansas City as joy rides and hotel suppers. A watchtul harse doctor came upon his better halt and a strange man snuggling under a park tree. The carving act was omitted because the strange man saw the horse dootor first and didn't wait to exchange greetings. But an up-to-date colffure was badly mussed in the subsequent proceedings. Pittal and Its Grafters. Philadelphia Record. Pittsburg shows a disposition to do its full duty, and this lnvolves the punish- ment of the givers as well as the takers of bribes. In a prior scandal the city sent a rallroad president and a banker to the pepitentiary, and it will fall far short of its duty if it shall not send halt(a dozen bankers to prison for making & purse of “What are the degrees of a stingy man's married 1ife?" “I_suppose they are matrimony mony, testimony and alfmony.''- American. parsi< Baltimore Stella—I wouldn't marry the best man on arth. Knicker—Have 1 ¢ \ 1 you to?—Harper's Bazar. “Here,” _solemnly J'General Warren fel “80?" replied the gentleman from Chis cago, running a speculative eye up a down the perpendicular of Bunker Hil monument. ‘Must have been a swell sub Ject for & moving picture act."—Puck. Teacher of Bible Class~Why wera Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego cast into the flery furnace?” Small Boy—My papa says it was becausa they were Insurgents.”~Chicage Tribune, Evangelist—Young man, you are on the road to hell! Reprobate—Glad I ran across you on thi line. Are you going or coming?—Clevelan Leader. id the Bostonlan, “Judging from the way you play whist, 1 \vol:‘ld say that you are & democrat.” “Becau! at the Judge. you always do the wrong thing right time for your opponent.”'— “My son, do you ever think of providing for & rainy day?" “Sure, pop; I never forget to get a rain check.”—Baltimore American. Judge—What do you do during the week? Witness—Nothing. Judge—And on Sunday? Witness—1 take a day off, Judge—Oh, I p city pay yoi THE WONDER IS, Baltimore Sun. The wonder is that all the woric aalt 80 good and sweet, The captains and the kings who rule, the people that we meoet; The trouble {8, we want so much we can- not feel content With just the portion of the dream that unto us is sent. the The wonder Is we cannot see beyond our narrow strife The beauty of the boundless bloom that tills the vales of life; The trouble is, we do not care to kneel and look around us, Upon_the llving Joveliness with which the days have bound us. v The wonder Is we take our walls of care for all that lles Around us In the worla that lifts to wide and starry skles; The trouble i, the seifish will that burns us and consumes us, While everywhere the light of love in vain with love lllumines us. The wonder Is that in this world we've heart for anything, Except to listen and to learn, while ‘gray Grief folds her wing, And music chimes, and tinkling rhymes and felry bells awake The hearts of love that give and take for sake of loving's sake. The trouble is we do not know how much of goodness goes Upoh the tide of teeming life that round leaps and flows; With_beauty here and beauty there, and God’'s impartial will $102,600 for councilmen In conslderation of getting the city deposits. To save us harmless from the hate that haunts and hounds us still. “Gas Service” “Request Maintenance:"’— Recently we quoted prices of maintaining standard arc and single mantle lamps, This referred to display shops, offices, factories, etc. \ lighting, lighting of stores,’ ‘What we want to impress on EVERYONE is that we wish to do the same for every consumer we have, right in their own home. For this service we have established a ‘‘Request Maintainance’’ for your home, by which lamps may « always be kept in perfect repair, It is a system PART of which is ‘‘Up to you.”” Let us explain, Omaha Gas Compa " Visiting Ct . c"wbrmmdwmmz: Embossed Monogram Stationery :ifi.vukmdnwknhwh-l-fli A. I, ROOT, lncomuflm 1210-1212 Heward St. Phone GUCKERT & McDONALD, Tailors ‘We are now displaying a most complete line of forelgn movel- ties for spring and summer wear, Your early inspection is invited, as it will afford an opportuni of choosing from large number of exclusive styles. L 11