Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 11, 1910, Page 4

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That eity hall fire insurance job looks mighty much like a frame-up. Milwaukee's soclalist mayor will at least not have to make the town fa- mous, Still it might not hurt Methodism in Rome to get a successor for Rey, Mr, Tipple. ‘Automobilists’ demand good roads and good roads multiply automobiles. It's another endless chain. ———— Philadelphia may be asleep, but it kept the rest of us awake for a time with that street car strike. If those /Rittsburg penitents con- tinue to~come ‘hey will have toget a few more mourners’ benches, i o It is ‘worthy of note that one l’m‘-l burg papep has the courage to discuss “Civic Righteousness,” editorially, —— Mr. Hill at last lets it out that mi rallroads must have more money, So that is what he' ha baen hinting at all this time. b John €allan O'Laughlin has cer- tainly given Walter Wellman a hard run and he did't haye to build an airship, either. ‘We feay Tillman has little chance of ever being a well man, for he reiter- ates that “this hurrah' for Roosevelt makes md sick.” Mr. Carnegle was just trying to keep us from feeling bad when he said ‘the ambition to become a mil- lionaire waa 10w, Colonel Roosevelt's early closing of the incident i8 & body blow to our old friends, Pro Bono Publico, Medicus, Vox Populi et al, The threatened war between those two passionate South American coun- tries proves to have been only a Peru- vian bark at Ecuador. —— ‘While bigosting: for better roads, our automobillsts should Hot abuse their privileges of the roads we now have. Make the scorchers slow down, —— ‘We will not require Colonel Roose- velt to take out naturalization papers Just because he has been made an honorary citizen of an Itallan town. e, Somehow the testimony of Ji -u‘ F. Oyster, who appeared before a com- mittee of congress in the interest of cold storage bad a fishy smack to it. ' ' Omaba's trade boosters are getting ready for-amother tour. If they still travel as rali-makers the sooner they start out the more welcome they will be. TE—— Announcement is made that the street cleaning department has com- pleted its first round of all the paved streets. In many cases we will have to take the street commissioner's word for it. A Party Lineup. President Taft and Aitorney Gen eral Wickersham have distinctly drawn the lines for party unity which is| necessary to republican success. Their | speeches at Washington and Chicago constitute a simple call to arms and challenge to fealty The men who believe in republican principles must fall in, close ranks and march under the banneér of “Works, not words.' In reiterating his desire to read no man out of the party the president 1s asking nothing unfair of those who stay in when he summons them to Join with him in redeeming the pledges he and they made the people when they asked them for their votes in 1908. That is a definite joining of the fssué. It puts up squarely to every republican member of congress the simplé proposition ot keeping faith with party and people alike, or as- suming responsibility for failure and being judged by the result. It ought to have the effect of allaying nominal differences, unifying forces and hring- ing all professed republicans to the realization of the imperative need for sane, sober action. No time s left now to be cajoled by democratic so- phistry. If congress is to perfect a record of constructive legislation, which under the direction of the presi- dent it is achleving, it must act upon his plea that this is a time for doing thing Mr. Wickersham but volces what every honest observer knows when he says that this administration has accomplished great results in a short period, but the president is not content to stop there, mor anywhere short of complete fulfillment of party promises. In none of his public utterances before has President Taft given ex- pression so forcibly to his determina- tion to keep to his program. He has given those members of congress who must go before the people this fall something of personal moment to think about, not attempting to conceal the convictipn that in party discord lurks party peril. Looking at conditions as they are, at what con- gress has done and what it may yet do, making due aflowance for the hue and cry of internal dissension, no re- publican need contemplate the out- look with trepidation. Most of the talk of discord comes from the demo- crats who realize the impossibility of democratie control of the next house unless they succeed in splitting the republicans before the campaign opens. This has been tha whole purpose and plan of the democrats during this session of congress. The president refuses to allow his party fo be decelved by such patent politics if he can avoid it, and he is talking right out in meeting, putting it up to the republicans in congress to help him mdke good as the real way to secure a vote of confidence. \ Census Law No Joke. Persons who think they may fail or refuse to answer any question pro- pounded by the cehsus enumerator should read the bill “to provide for the thirteenth and subsequent decen- nial censuses.” This act makes it a misdemeanor not only to fail or re- fuse to answer, but also to answer any question falsely and imposes a penalty not less than $100. The govérnment is earnest in this effort to obtain an accurate census and will have spent more than $10,- 000,000 to that end. The president and congress, therefore, have taken every precdution to secure co-opera- tion by the people. This is shown in the rigid rules for their protection with which it has surrounded the cen- sus employes. Any supervisor, clerk, enumerator, interpreter or agent who refuses to perform the duties enjoined on him will be guilty of a misde- meanor and subject to a fine of $500; for disclosing information he shall be subject to a fine of $1,000 or im- prisonment for two years or both; de- liberate falie swearing means perjury with five years in prison snd $2,000 #s8 the maximum fine, and the gamut of offenses runs up to & final penaity of five year imprisonment and $2,000 fine. This glimpse into the provisions of the census law affords an idea of the rious = importance the government attaches to an accurate census. This importance 18 enhanced ‘by reason of the numerous ressive movements the government is promoting today for popular 'improvement, most of which depend in some measure upon the very statistics this census is to disclose. A Troublesome' Assessor Scheme. It turns out that trouble is already brewing as a result of the action of the late democratic legislature in again making the precinct assesgors elective instead of appointive. When the as- sessors were to be chosen last year this lucrative place, which pays $3 a day for about thirty da; went a-begging, and in many precincts a man had to be persuaded, to file for the nomination and run at the election. And now that the work is at hand quite a few duly elected assessors either have failed to qualify or have resigned, or have found some pretext for getting out of the thankless job. Running for assessor, however, may not be a harmiess pastime if the pen- alty clause of the law making this ofice elective should be invoked. The statute declares in 80 many words that any precinct assessor who shall wil- ftully neglect or refuse, in whole or in part, to perform his duties shall be gullty of misdemeanor punishable by a fine from $20 to $100, If the county authorities should refuse to accept the precinct assessor's resignation and he should persist in declining to do the | might work, instead of coming in on the pay- roll for the customary compensation it cost him more than he could possibly get out of it if he worked. The elective assessor s¢heme ma. run tolerably smoothly in the rural districts, but In the larger cities it is foredoomed to travel a rocky road, and the chances are it will be harder each succeeding time to get competent per- sons to go after the position through the complicated machinery of primary nomination and popular election, Railways Favoring Europe. An Interesting complaint of freight rate discrimination has been referred to the United Statés district attorney in New York by large manufacturers who allege that railroads are giving rates to European shippers that not only nuMify the protection to Ameri- can influstries afforded by the new tariff, but make competition on west- ern traffic all but impossible. As the steamship lines make the through rate, by agreement with the railroads, and do not file them with the Inter- state Commerce commission, the latter has no jurisdiction in tne case. Under the Hepburn act the commission has power to control maximum rates, but not minimum rates. It may also deal with rebating, but no charge of re- bating is ‘made in this complaint, Criminal prosecution is out of the ques® tion, so that relief is hoped for only in the process of a civil suit. Under this arrangement with the steamship and railroad companies German shippers may transport goods to the Chicago zone cheaper than the same.goods may be shipped by Ameri- can manufacturers from Boston to Providence. ~ Chinaware is hauled from England to Kansas City for 41 [\ cents a hundred, while 49 cents a hundred is exacted to ship the East Liverpool, O., article tp the same point. These instances are cited as typical of the general scale of combined land and water rates. American manufacturers declare that if this system of favoritism to the foreigner is continued it will be ruinous to many lines of domestic tiade and industry. They ask the court to direct the common carriers to make the classified rate as low as that given to the steamship companies. To meet this demand the railroads re- ply that if the court grants the re- quest it would destroy the contracts with the steamship lines and result [ a general raise of rates to a com- mon level. Tals may be true and costly litigation may be involved, but in the end the American manufac- turer would be on an equal footing with his competitor in Europe and 11, 1910. Missour: River Improvement Recent Correspondence on a Timely Topic, in Which the Editor of The Bee Gives Opinion of Plan to Pro Rate Cost of Work on Ad- joining States—Subject that is Worthy of Very Close Consideration. WASHINGTON, D, C.—Vietor Rosewater, Esq., Editor The Bee.—My Dear Mr. Rose- water: What is the real sentiment in your nelghborhood in regard to the improvement of the Missouri river? If the government should take up the plan of improvement, would the counties or states adjacent be willing to co-operate in paying the ex- pense? 1 should be very glad to have your opin- lon on this subject, which will be abso- lutely confldential, unless you authorige me to quote you. Very respectfully yours, T. E. BURTON, OMAHA.—My Dear Senator: I hasten to answer your letter making inquiry about the sentiment hereabouts In regard to the improvement of the Missouri river. I be- lleve there is a very widespread public sentiment in favor of such Improvement of the river as would restore its usefulness for navigation, the expectation being, of course, that watér transportation would be cheaper than rafl transportation and would be a regulator for rail rates. You ask whether the countles or states adjacent would be willing to share the ex- pense of Improvement. It is hard to an- swer that question because I do not belleve it bas been propounded or considered. So far as Nebraska Is concerned, I belleve there are constitutional obstacles, namely a constitutional debt limit to $100.00 and aiso limitations requiring a popular vote to authorize minor subdivisions to jssue bonds in aid of any public !mprovement enterprise. As a practical proposition I doubt if it would appeal to any of the river counties to assume an additional financial burden where the benefits of the waterway would be shared by the entire country for whose producis the channel might be made an outlet. It should be re- membered that Nebraska merely borders on the Missourl, which is an Interstate river, as well as & navagable stream, and Is really the trunk line, as much if not more so than the Mississippl, of the great- est watershed in the world, What has aroused public sentiment tavor of water improvement section ia the realization that we, as a part | of the whole country, are paying our share for improving the coast rivers and har- bors, for the Great Lakes and for the Panama canal, and f these great projects | are to be carried on at the general expense the cost of improving the interfor water- ways should be met in a similar manner. In other words, 1 do not belleve the im- provement of the Missourl river can be properly regarded as a local improvement | from any point of view. It the communities | along the river have any incidental bene- fits they will be offset by providing the | terminal facllitles and transportation equipment to make use of the channel when navigation is feasible, 1 have no objection to having my views, as here stated, quoted, it belng, of course, understood that they yepresent my own personal opinlon formedl after attendance at several of the navigation congresses and conversation with people here locally interested in the question. With kind re- gards, I am, very truly yours, | VICTOR ROSEWATER. Hon. Theodgre E. Burton, United States Senate, Washington, D. C. vorce. Moderate matrimony, though, Is still all right. Whether busting trusts as the pres- ident of a great republic, hunting lions in Africa or retracing his honeymoon trail, it 4s all the same—"I had a bully time.” It is the spirit of unconquera- ble Americanism. If discretion is the better part of valor, Maude Ballington Booth will not go down to Kerry Patch in St. Loufs and advocate this putting bells on cats as a warning to birds. — Those wrestling promoters who want another match between Gotch and Hackenschmidt should remember that this is the day of the African lion, not the Russian bear, e —— The World-Herald is running Mr, Bryan for president again in 1912. Anything to keep him away from the senatorship which the World-Herald editor wants for himself. that is the end desired. Railroad spokesmen are telling us that rallroads must raise their rates to get money with which to prepare for the enmormous traffic coming to them in the next two years. But they must not raise their rates by the lever of discrimination. Indeed, the recent earnings reports of some of the roads suggest the possibility of their comn- tinued solvency for a little while longer on the present level of rates. \ Chaos in Latin America. While Peru and Ecuador seem to have patched up their differences and temporarily avoided hostilities, war is still imminent in South America and the pan-American peace conference, to be held at Buenos Ayres in July, may have to give way to the very thing it was designed to prevent. Peru, aside from its dispute with Ecuador, is on strained terms with Colombia and Chili and Bolivia and Argentina have severed diplomatic relations, which in- dicates a tight tension of i1l feeling: This Buenos Ayres conference was to be essentially a peace convention to promote commercial and political friendship and co-operation between the South American republics. The United States had made extensive preparations for participating in it. Since the notably successful visit of former Secretary of State Root to these countries the United States has made much headway in its endeavor to allay ill feellng and establish peaceful rela- tions between them and had plarned on accomplishing tangible good in the role of elder brother at this confer- ence. It is high time thatfue Latin Amer- fcan tes were more cordially wel- coming some such leavening influence, for they have shown a deplorable lack of ability to evolve international peace without help. They cannot fail to suf-| fer serious loss commercially and po- litically from such a status. It seems that even the“example of Nicaragua, which has no coherent government and none that is recognized by the United States, hag failed to arouse its sister republics to the peril involved in ‘constant disputes and contiduous. military performances. In Indiana the republicans wrote county option on the statute books, but_that has not prevented the pro- hibitionists from putting up a ticket of their own this year. Evidently nothing will satisfy the pmhlhltlonm‘ but prohibition. e Omaha is to have street rallway pos- tal car service within a few months. With the increased postoffice business which Omaha has to show, nothing in the line of up-to-date postoffice equip- ment should be beyond our reach. Omaha’s bank clearings for the week show an increase of nearly 14 per cent over the same period of last year. There are a few that beat us, but not many. A Check to the Cheers. Cleveland Leader. An eastern rallroad which has ralsed the wages of its employes raised fares simul- taneously. Hence this lack of cheers. ' T — Real Test of Skill. ‘Washington Star. Having issued & cook book, the Depart- ment of Agriculture may be tempted (o try its hand on an almanac with rellable weather predictions. ! How Much of a Boost? Indianapolis News. The question that is now bothering a good many people is, how much larger per cent of increase in freight rates will the railroads consider it necessary to im- pose in order to make good on their ¢ per cent increase of wages. —— Rubber on the Bound. Philadelphla Record. Rubber has touched $2 a pound in Lon- don. The price has increased nearly three- fold in & year, and more than four-fold in the last two of three years. Senator Lodge's committee is entirely welcome to the admission from all low tariff men that here is an article whose Increase in price is not attributable to the tariff. The stonlshing increase in the price of tubber, which h t all speculative London wild over the shares of rubber companies, seems to be the result of the enormous demand for rubber for'tha tires of automoblles. From time to time inventors report su stitutes, but they do not answer the pur- pose. | Our Birthday Book | Apr 11, 1910, Charles Evans Hughes, governor of New York, was born April 11, 1862, at Glenns Falls, N. Y. Governor Hughes is a lawyer by profession and for & while was & pro- fessor of Mw in Cornell university law school! He is serving his second term as chief executiver of the Empire state. He spoke in Omaha during the last presidential campaign, making & most excellent impres- sion on his hearers. Colonel Enoh H. Crowder, assistant judge advocate general of the United States army, is 51. Colonel Crowder is a Missourlan with many ids in Omaha, where he was statiol for several years as judge advo- cate of this military department.” He ‘has had several special assignments, entalling great responsibllity, in the Philippines and in Cuba, and Is to be one of the representa- tives of our government in the South Amer- lea International conference this summe: Isidore Rayner, United States senator from Maryland, is 60 years old today. He wes born in Baltimore and served in the lower house of congress before golng to the senate. He was the attorney for Ad- miral Schley in the Santiago controversy, and more lately attracted attention by his scathing speech In answer to Senator Burkett. James B. Forgan, the big Chicago banker, was born April 11, 1862, In Scotiand. Mr. slaggering to contemplate what the cigar Forgan 1s in on the ground floor on all the public enterprises in Chicago. Thomas Kearns, formerly United States senator from Utah, is celebrating his 45th birthday. Mr. Kearns was ralsed and edu- cated on & farmp In Holt county, Nebraska, And, now Mr., Hearst declares that the victorious Milwuakee soclalists stole the democratic platform, If so, ot have A Nnbrnll man with two wives commits sulcide and a Chicago '0'-3 with two husbands sues both f made money freighting to the Black Hil #nd struck it rich in Utah mines, but never forgets his Nebraska start. Lieutenant Colonel Witliam A. Giassford, chief signal officer of the Department of the Missourl, and commandant of the post of Fort Omaha, was born April 11, 183, in Indiava. He entered the service as a pri- vate in 1874, reaching his present grade in Washington Life A rush of letters, rivaling in quantity the mail pace of a guessing contest, furnish lots of work for the secretaries of western senators and representatives these piping days of spring. Much of the correspondence relate the recent row over the house rules, | and their tenor gives Washiogton the jm- | pression that Cannonism is regarded as a | plague in the west. A newspaper man writing about the final act in the insur- gent rumpus, following the announcement of the vote against declaring the speaker’s chair vacant, added these words: “‘Among. the first men to hurry forw and shake hands and _congratulate speaker on his personal vindication Representative Norris himself. Vel), when that item got into the news- papers it certainly did start things In Norris direction. The boys out on the Nebraska prairies began writing letters and telesrams, de- manding to know If It were ({rue that Norris did actuslly shake hands and con- gratulate the spenker. They indicated that no Nebraska in- surgent could stand as the real article and shake hands with the speaker. “'We bave been told out here,” sald one correspondent, “that you are more *hated by the speaker than any other man in the house, Have we been buncoed?” “And the worst of it Js,” sald Mr. Norris in telling about his troubles In the Wash- ington Times, “that the speaker hasn't spoken to me for more than a year, and 1 haven't spoken to him. 1 didn't con- gratulate him, and don't mppesr to have any chance of congratulating him on any- thing for a mighty long time to come." the was Another correspondent who sent out a | like statement with reference to a senator, a few days later met the senator and this fros “Go away. 1 do not want to see you any more. Don't you ever come to my office again, ‘Why, what is the matter?" inquired the correspondent, “You do not tell on misinformation.”” “In what respect?”’ “You telegraphed on that 1 congratu- lated Cannon.” “You certainly joined those that were doing so and were near enough to do so. You got as close 1o him as you could and I thought I saw you shake the speake: hand. “No sir; you did not, by, the truth. You send I never G1d it. 1 It is an infamous see you again, never, never again.” IUs something of & compliment when Senator Bourne asks a fellow to have a cigar, as the senator frequently does. It is sald that the senator has three hobbles, Oregon apples, mining stock and $1 cigars. He vies with J. Plerpont Morgan and other magnates In the expensiveness of the latter-named luxury. Senator Bourne takes & smoke whenever he feels like it, t00, and inasmuch as he is not stingy in handing them around among his friends upon favorable opportunities, it is a bit bill of the Oregon senator is per annum, Some senators do not smoke at all, others manage to get along somehow with the 15 to t-cent brand, but Senator Bourne, so his friends say, cannot really enjoy a smoke unless one whole American dollar was spent for it. He wants the best. Senator Warner of Missourl rose to speak at a dinner that was being given by the Missour! Republican league in Wash- ington. He had been Introduced at some length, and rather sugary things had been eald about him. Whatever brought the story to his mind he didn't say. Possibly it was that Introduction. “In & western town there was a vil- lage drunkard,” sald the senator, "I want to tell & story about him to illustrate what a change in & man's mood drink may make. This drunkard ‘was often under the care of the village doctor. The doctor de- cided to move to Texas. The drunkard met him on the street in the morning be- he had had a drink. ‘Hello, doc,’ he sald, ‘understand you're golng to Texas. Well, I've got a brother out there by the name of Bill. If you ses Bill you tell him that my crops are rotten this year. Stock is In bad shape. My wife needs clothes and the kids are nearly naked. If he has a little loose change that he don't need tell him to send It along. 'l pay it bacl The doctor sald he would | convey the message to Bill If be chanced to mest that person. “An hour later, when he had had two drinks, the drunkard met the doctor again. ‘Hello, doe,’ he sald, ‘understand you're golng to Texas. I've got & brother out there by the name of Bill. If you see Bill tell him I'm getting along all right. Crops are fair. Stock not so bad. Kids gettin' along all right. 8o Is the old woman. !f in | in this | | & professional partner of her father, upoa every time if you use flavor can give. Tone's Spi bulk spices lack. ~they are full-stre flavor of freshemil 1" net at yeur gpocers, end our cook book " There are two kindecfepices—. spices. pend ”od hat's the kind of cooking you can depend ‘Tone's Spices put life into your ¢ a flavor and zest that only spices of full strength and e ey have the aromatic // Gingerasnhips with snap to them. Gingerbread of the gingery kind. L D ey Bplopcike et tastes of spice. Sror Proren OO BROS Sngs = ing. Giveit every qualit & Tona's Spicy Tathe. BROS, and “others."” TONE BROS., Des Molnes, lowa (Bienders of tha celebrated OLD GOLDEN COFFER the doctor again, drunkard, ‘understand you're going to Texas,' and so forth. ‘If you see Bill tell him I was never In better shape. Crops are fine. Stock fat and sassy. Family on Easy street. Tell Bill, if you sse him, ‘Hello™ doc,’ sald the against it " The pleces of pie and the glasses of milk @re growing smaller in the house restau- rant at the capitol. This discovraging fact has been gradually dawning upon the mem- bers for some time, reports the Wechington Times, and uniess the shrinkage stops at once the lucky individual who is just now conduoting the eating house will find him- | self facing an Investigation “This plece of pumpkin pie, made of squash, is just one-quarter smaller than the 10-cent piece 1 used to buy here two years ago," remarked one of the western repre- sentatives as he surveyed the little three- cornered si ‘Considering the fact that the restaurant man gets his rent, heat and | light free, I do not think he ought to sting us quite so hard. He charges 2% cents for & turkey or chicken sandwichps 25 cents for & bowl of soup, 80 cents for a piece of fis) no larger than the palm of your hand, an when you buy a steak you are expected to mortgage your home to pay for it. ‘“‘Senator McCumber was over hare the other day and had a steak. When he re- ceived his bill he did a little figuring on the menu card, and announced that if the whole of the ordinary steer was sold at the rate that steak brought the animal would net $4,000. Now I call that going wome."” Over In the senato restauraut, where the same scale of prices prevalls, the senators have compelied the restaurant manager to place a “No tipping” line on all the menu cards. Consequently, the cards are very hard to get nowadays, and if & guest Ine sists upon having one before he orders, the waiter snatches it and buries it under the tablecloth before the next customer sits down. The sign on the card does not prevent the waltens from grabbing all the tips they ean get, nor does it keep them from neglecting @ patron the next day If he has forgotten to “come across’ on the previous visit. PERSONAL NOTES. Mr. Carnegie says the ambition to become a millionaire is a low one. It is odd how millionalres spurn money. Nobody else dges. In support of its claims as an unrivaled summer resort Chicago respectfully calls attention to the fact that six bottles of beer and one perch were pulled out of its lake on the same fishing line. Mme. Anna Rogstad, the first woman member of the Storthing, which is the lower house in the Norwegian Parliament, was a toacher in one of the primary grades of the public schools in Christiania when elected. John Tonkin of Glassboro, N. J., probably the oldest man ever admitted to the New Jersey bar, celebrated his 67th birthday recently. Mr. Tonkin passed the bar ex- amination at the February term and has been admitted to practice in all the courts, Miss e E. Adams, who 1 private wec- retary to the chief of pelice of Chieago, and has a right to make arrests when she thinks them necessary, has ostablished o new precedent in that eity. She found that she had been overpaid for a part of the time, dnd voluntarily refunded the monc; to the city. Miss Eleanor R. Gebhart, daughter Senator Willlam C. Gebhart of Hunterdon county, New Jersey, has been admitted to the bar of New Jersey. Bhe will become who has law offices in Jersey City. It is sald that the women lawyers in New Jersey can be counted on the fingors of two hands. NEVADA'S DISGRACE. Awakening Against Euconraging Divoree. Philadelphia Bulletin. Popular Laws divorce laws have no reason to regret the movement that has been started in Ne- vada to do away with the fraud-ineiting statutes which tempt wealthy persons to seek a brief, fictitious residence there in order to gain freedom from their marital responsibilities. The citizens of that western common- wealth who are striving to have the ‘res- idential” requirement fa the case of liti- gants made something more than a farce and & sham a%e not necedsarily advocates of extrems stringency in divorce legisla- tion, What they are apparently seeking to secure 14 the removal from thelr state of a pecullarly odious stigma-one that brands it &s & community willing to eell for money the priviiese of svading the statutes which prevail over the remainder of the upion. Whether the belief is entertained that divorce should be granted only in exceed- ingly rare instances and for the gravest causes, or whether it fs held that it ought you see Bill, teil him I don't need any help.' “Two hours after this, when the drunk- ard had had several more drinks, he met ? IR/ b# 5/ j/ A that I'll send him some money i he's up of | Those Americans who belleve in Iibera) { W lgve a man who persistently 1A real to be given whenever iwd persons can no longer live together with & tolerable degre. of harmony, there is no room for difference of opinfon regarding essential fraud backed by perjury,’’and made avallabic solely for those who have plenty of cas) to spend to gratify thelr own inclination The money which the fRwyers, landlords and amusement purveyors of Reno gain by pandering to rich ‘easterners wh ale unwilling to ablde by the laws of ‘the states in which they aetually live, may fatten the incomes of w few hundred in dividuals. But If it were fifty times as great in amount, it would be scanty com pensation for the dishonor which the pro cess involyes. Both the Dakotas formerly in the same disgraceful position Both freed themselves from it after a hard fight; and their reputation was im proved accordingly in the estimation decent people - throughout the ‘Their example should be an one for the people of Nevada. PASSING PLEASANTRIES, and his wife are going sald Mrs. Bridgeton, solutely devoted to her!" But _how can a woman trumps i ~Washington Star “1 felt so sorry when I heard house was burned down, Mrs. Jones,' Mrs. Hawkins. “It was 100 bad," sald Mre. Jones, “but it had its brignt 'side. John and [ were both afrald to discharge our cook, but 'nov\ that the house is gone, of course we don't have to."—Harper's Weekly. were country instruc “Bliggins have trouble,” “‘Why, he is “I know he is. o partner's ace? your san Gaylelgt west and “Yes, Mrs sary to go some time " monitis 0, Renoitl hes found it neces remain there Cleveland Plain Dealer lw.(h»r what 1s meant by bank- Bnnkrunlr\ is when you put your money in ‘your hip pocket and_let your ereditors take your coat.’—New York Press. “What, marry old Rownders, know he leads ‘a double lite? “Yes. But It I don't marry him I con tnue to lead a single lite, Which worse?"—Cleveland Leader. Don't you arden “We are going to have a fine and this year—flowers 1o beit the band Have you done any work on dt Vet? Of course,” Have you been wpading up and digging and the rest of It”" Not exactly, but we've sent for all the catalogues we've seen advertised free. Baltimore America A PLAIN LITTLE WOMAN, J. W. Foley In New York Times. Just a platn little woman, with plain litte the parlor with sweeping a Whose nights are for resting between two tired days, Whose faith 'is abiding, God: trusting; tired Dittle woman, bed, neaven-seeking lads to A who puts And lassies, and tucks them all in with a sweet little head, And devoutly knows God and the worth of His bleszing prayer over each A_worn little worran, yet weariug a smile That resists the attacks of @il time upon beauly; Who s, ob, such & distauee from fash- ton' and' style, But always 0 ciose upon pat'ence und duty Whose ays are a striiFgle of making ends Whoso brow is deep lined with the real cost. of living, Whose soul has blen tried fifly years and found swee Who knows naught of getting. all of giving. but knows A good litlle learncd The lesson of faith that withsiands every woman, ‘who somehow ha trial. Whose wifehood and motherhood have earned The crown of her glory with tho'r denial; 1te nodty of woman, who glves 10 the worl Her children, right living; Whose brow is all iaureled, Is all pearled With year in and year out of loving Eiviag. reared up In the weys of whose hear ans glad little woman for just a dim iy (Jl' Mgkt in this worida with Its wonder and splendor; Who is “r oo tired a her day To be watchful with Jove that is wist- ful and tender; Who knits and who patches ard over her thread And needle and yarn in the nighttime is _bending, When &l of her world and its treasures in bed, Whose rest ne'er begins and whose tasks never ending. the close of A ile woman with plain little plain way Whose life 1u, Mitle story; God knows, such & duil tred Mt tressure #hall be hers Who kiows her as 1 do, and treasuros the srnile That resists Whose Wevs Tare oo far cast from fash. the attacks of time. upan A1y ////’///_ - b vk iwalked close besido pa- tience and duty BT I s 1Y 43 04’/ WS LR