Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 12, 1910, Page 6

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Personal checks, except on Omaha of eastern exchanhga not accepted. irragula Department. T STATEBMENT OF CIROULATION. Ins County, s.: State of Nebraska, Douglas Ceunty, Sui uck, C , being duly e "aalint mumber of Morning, Kventog § ?'n‘:‘mfl ;..: 3:{’.’4 orning, en A aunnfi'm. Tonin ot March, 1910, was a4 follow: Returned Net total. Dally average, Subscribed in my presence and 1o before me this Fist 1910, AP, W, Notary Public. the eity tem- porarily should have The NHee mailed to them. Address will be changed as often as requested. Question of the hour—Is my hat on straight? Get ready for a chorus f;om Lincoln to the tune of ‘“‘I-told-you-so.” After all, the immunity bath fre- quently leaves some muddy marks. Chancellor Day believes in oil as the proper standard for any university, 'Recent events in Rome seem to have improved Mr, Tillman's physical con- dition, —— Washington literateurs will soon turn from the Congressional Record to the score card. If the weather man will now deliver those promised April showers much will be forgiven. “When in Rome do as Romans do” has lost its meaning in this strenuous Rooseveltian age. — “The prayer of the righteous man availeth much.” Pittaburg ohserved junday as prayer day. — In Philadelphis a notorious thief has just been killed with a club. This is the day of the big stick. Some ‘of those juvenile stage folk will have passed the age limit if the aw-makers do not act soon, Cincinnati undertakers, who have formed a trust, evidently believe that faith, not works, saves a man. Has anyone thought to interview a gentleman by the name of Mr. For- aker on that Brownsville decision? A humiliating end of a great and slorfous race—the last chief of the Chippewas is run over by a freight train. S0 much talk about the noiseless Fourth may become harder to bear than the limit of old-fashioned cele- brations, It Mr. Rockefeller dropped $162,050 in the collection plate he started a rather high ante for the rest of the congregation. —_— Those 120,000 political remon- strators had better clear the streets of Berlin In a hurry before the kaiser's guest arrives What more congruous could be Imulnxd than Count Paris gosslp correspondent American yellow? outcome Boni as of an Ex-Governor Folk says a tidal wave of demoeracy is rising in the hearts of the peope. Oh, a little damning up on the sides will prevent an overflow. ———— Let no one insinuate that Mr. Rocsevelt's plan to spend only five houms in Copenhagen reflects any lack of confidence in the sufiiciency of his records. The census takers will begin their rounds before the week is ended, and will be expected to finlsh the job be- fore May 1. How big Is Omaha? Get in the guessing game before it is too late. A good place to start the good roads movement s right here in Omaha. An object lesson of paved city streets kept in perfect condition would do a whole lot toward having the country roads improved and maintained in repair, Lower Sleeping Car Rates. The order of the Interstate Com merce commission differentiating be tween the rates of upper and lower sleeping car berths will strike a pop ular chord. The only wonder is that the Pullman company has been able to enforce its arbitrary schedule so lefig. But after all its system of berth "ru‘lh of unrest and discontent which manifested itself so vitally in that and {other southern states, Alabama and | Georgia particularly, i 1908, question just how solid the south fis today. This is a day of the New South as its father, Henry W. Grady, chris tened it in his memorable New York speech and the New §outh recognizes prices is consistent with its policy oty that before hoary tradition comes the permitting the traveling public to pay the greater part of its porters’ and walters’ wages. If the commission could find some way of correcting this abuse it would confer another useful service upon the pubie. Exacting the same amount for an upper berth, in and out of which it requires an athlete to climb as for 4 lower, seems about as reasonable as it would be for a hotel to ask the same price for all its rooms without regard to their location, convenience or comfort, But the commission has gone further than the upper berth and cut the rate also of the lower, which reduction it finds to be justified by the earnings of the company. This action comes only after a most tho- rough investigation, disclosing an ar- ray of Income figures that leaves no room for doubting the fairness of the commission’s order, to say nothing of its assured popularity. It finds that from 1899 (o 1908 the company's an- nual dividends came to $60,000,000 and that the amount carried to surplus yearly did not go below the annual dividend of 8 per cent. In eleven years special cash and stock dividends of $51,000,000 in addition to the am- nual onmes were paid. The ecapital stock was increaded eleven years ago from $36,000,000 to $100,000,000. These are a few of the statistics that have led the commission to be- lieve the time has come for meeting the clamor of the public against the sleeping cars rates. The action does not comport with the general cry of railroads that they must devise new ways of increasing thefr earnings and is likely to have a deleterious effect for the common carriers, though, of course, their case is not to be judged by the exact conditions of the Pullman company. Auction Prices No Criterion. Those art students who bought Mr. Yerkes extravagant display of ‘“old masters” served to emphasize the fact that auction sales prices and art val- ueés are two distinct things, just as are collectors and comnnoisseurs. Or have all the critics of the past been decelved as to the superiority of Ra- phael and Memling, whom they have ranked up with Titlan and Da Vinci? Here is a painting of Frans Hals sell~ ing for twenty times what a Raphael brings and ninety times much as & Memling. It cannot be argued, either, that these relative values obtained be- cause of the greater scarcity of Frans Hals. Of course, for the inartistic man of affairs, there s little comfort in this opportunity to criticise the hypererit- ical, but he may be pardoned if he pauses to smile at the gross assump- tion that the ability to buy carries with it the instinct of critical genius. Europeans themselves have poked fun at American tourists for their habit of paying large sums of money for everything that a shrewd shop keeper tells them is genuine, and out of this glgantic auction sale in New York crops the subtle suspicion that the great Italian of the Renalssance, the Flem- ish painter and elder Hals might never have seen some of thé work ascribed to them in this twentieth century of fast finance. Of course, that could not be true with references to any of the Yerkes collection. These masterpleces broke the rec- ord for prices and undoubtedly many, if not most of them, were bought merely to be resold at larger figures, the whole thing being a business spec- ulation. When people come to realize that most, not all, of the really famous works of old masters are still con- fined to exclusive palaces and rich museums never to be removed for sale, they will realize that the whole fad is badly overdone. Tennessee Democrats Split. The breach in the democratic party of Tennessee on the verge of a con- gressional election lends little weight to the claims of & reunitéd democ- racy. Democrats outside of the state are finding it difficult to conceal thelir perturbation, for while the split comes about in a state campalgn it is sure to have its effect In the later congres- sional election. The strong effort to restore peace among Tennessee's warring democrats that is being made by national leaders betrays the party's dismay. Some of the party organs admit the probability of republican success un- less factional differences are allayed, and that does not weem promising now. If the republicans should elect their state ticket carrylng with it a republican legislature it would mean, not only aid to the fall selection of na- tional representatives, but the election of a republican to succeed Senator Fri whose fate rests in this un- certain balance. The present trouble in Tennessee comes from a fight agalnst Governor Patterson on the charge of manipulat- in tle state organization as a personal machine, involving a general primary in June which the anthPatterson torces deno as undemocratic. The s¢heme is boldly condemned as trick ery and gulle to which “‘the party should not submit. Walving for thé time all consider- ation of loeal strife, the fact is Ten- nessee's democracy has been wobbling for a long time and instead of the present situation being entirely due to Pattersonism It Is but the logical out- real interests of the country. It fs democratic by heredity, anyway, but the south Is distinetly a protection county. With a democratic family jar, a state llke Tennessee might on local Issues give the country a surpirse party. Passing of the Boycott, The boycott, unamerican in prin- ciple and unfair in application, seems to have about run its course in this country. Whether In labor disputes or economic and social reforms, it can- not be used with permanent good. Even trades unions are coming to this view, which s a healthy sign for their future stability. The nature of the boycott runs counter of the first prin- eiple of civil liberty and that is the chief reason why it has never gained a respecable position with men who belleve in the broadest possible scope of individual rights. President Taft struck a severe blow to the boycott in his statement to the Bethlehem steel magnates who went to him when they heard the govern- ment had threatened to levy an em- bargo against their plant because it was involved in a dispute with organ- fzed labor. The president quickly dis. abused their minds on the subject and told them that while he was not in- formed ae to the merits of their con- troversy, he could assure them that so long as he was chief executive the government would never employ the boycott against them or any industry. He denounced the boyeott from every consideration of justice and right, ad- ding that when and only when the government was unable to get good steel at fair prices would it cease to trade with the Bethlehem companies. Foresight Without Extravagance. The founders of Omaha had fore- sight and lald out the city on broad, liberal lines, giving it ample room to grow. They builded wisely and well sufficlent unto the day and’ the im- mediate future, but they did not in- dulge in any wild extravagance. In public buildings and eivie improve- ments, Omaha has always been a little ahead of its pretentions and maintained a reputation as a wide-awake, enter- prising, go-ahead city, while at the same time keeping reasonably within its resources in the expenditure of pub- lic' money, and avoiding a mountain of debt under which many other cities burden themselves. In every forward, pushing city there are always people with dream-like schemes to promote and fanciful plans to propose, and likewise also back- number mossbacks and narrow minded obstructionists who object to every forward step. Actual progress is made in real practice along a middle course, neither going to the extremes of extravagant folly nor stopping still at a dead line. Omaha'is growing and expanding right along, and must keep up with the procession by traveling a pace commensurate with its growth of wealth and population, but not exceed- ing it too far. Omaha needs foresight without extravagance right now as much as it ever needed it in the fifty years of its career. e —— Nebraska journalism has lost a pic- turesque and forceful characteér by the retirement from the newspaper fleld of John C. Sprecher, who has let his Schuyler Free Lance pass into innocu- ous desuetude. Editor Sprecher was a political party all alone, but had himself convinced that he was abso- lutely monpartisan every minute and then insisted that everyone who failed to join him was a purblind partisan acting without rhyme or reason. He should, however, be given credit for the courage of his convictions, which accumulated for him a swarm of un- compromising enemies, and doubtles some ardent friends, and kept him in hot water most of the time. Editor Sprecher's pugnacious and opinionated comment on current politics in Ne- braska will be missed Our old friend, Edgar Howard, thinks the editor of The Bee has “a duty to perform” in chasing all the rainbows he paints in the heavens. Having had experience with Edgar's “pipe dreams” before, it is up to him to come down to earth first and deliver the goods supported by some corrobo- rative testimony. Over in Chicago a specially ap- pointed vice commission is laboriously devoting time and study to the prob- lem of the social evil, which has per- plexed the people of all countries for hundreds of years. But ‘" here in Omaha a handful of preachers solve it off-hand by merely passing a resolu- tion. And now our amiable democratic contemporary has more fault to find with the new tariff because it is actu- ally proving to be a revenue producer. Wonder what it would be saying about the tariff it the treasury deficit were steadily increasing because of shortage of collections at the port of entry? An Omaha preacher lets forth a Jeremiad about the degeneracy of the 4 times and the prevalence of graft, the immorality of the people and the licen- tiousness of theater and prese. Inci- dentally he explains his real trouble by e a OMAHA, TUESDAY; saying, “In matters of religion we face empty pews. ™ Mayor “Jim" is a great advertiser. If he ern't head an expedition of Bryan Home Folks to lasso the Peer less on disembarking, he will ride a broneho up Broadway to celebrate the home-coming of Roosevelt. Wake up, Governor Shallenberger, or you will be outclassed The South Omaha fire insurance agent who proposed to underwrite our Omaha city hall at cut rates shows signs of backing out even at the risk of torfeiting his guaranty money. Won- der it someone has offered to reim- burse him for possible loss. the Bucket. Wall Street Journal. Never before has Uncle Sam shown such unmistakable signs of determination to kick the bucket—and kick it clear out of busi- Plain Dealer. Some walt for a car and swear. Others wprint for & car, and swear. True virtue knows when the car is coming, and keeps swoet. —_— An Excuse in Reserve. Chicago News. Though it bs not a strike, and only a suspension, it reduces the coal output to the same degree, as we shall doubtiess be informed by the courteous retatler next fall. I —— Business, You Know. Indianapolls News. Don’t think that the coal men have any combination in restraint of trade. Nothing Hke that. It is merely a combination to get the ultimate consumer’'s money. Proposing a Large Job., | Chicago News. The proposition is made to relegate Mr. Roosevelt to the ordinary obscurity’ of private citizenship. The only question to be asked the proposers of this scheme i | what they are going to do about It. U ———— Reaching for ‘‘Higher Ups.” Springtield Republican, Some one ‘“higher up" is undoubtedly Mr. Hoffstot, president of the Premsed Steel Car company and head of one ofPitts- burg’s leading banks, whom the grand jury recommends as a sultable person for indict- ment and prosecution. In San Francisco the Patrick Calhioun prosecution failed In the_end, but Pittsburg may prove able to bring down this kind of big game. ——— Know-Nothingism Up to Date. Chicago Tribune. As one crying in the wilderness, listen to the voice of Charles Gates Dawes lifted in protest against the boasted melting pot of American soclety, which he tells us “is pulling down the standard of our rice. It will take hundreds of years to bulld it up again. The closer we get to the people with our primary and other election laws, the worse class of men we get for public office. The good, old puritan stock was the clean foundation from which came the splendid men and women of the American race” O, bosh! !{ minor treatment. cola New York World. The senate's Inquiry into he high cost of living has a practical fssue in thé bili reported by the committee having it in charge limiting to one year the period dur- ing which articles of food may be kept in cold storage. The object of the measure is to secure an equalisation and in some cases & reduction of prices. To what ex- tent it will effect this result remains to be determined, the exact relation of cold storage to dear food not having been es- tablished. But that the storage for long periods of food purchased at low prices does artificially raise prices s undisputed, and the proposed limitation of the time by law will be welcomed as a serfous at- tempt to abolish one form of the gambling in food by which the cost of living s in- creased. ( P — BREAKING THE DROUTH. Week's Contest in Dry” Districts. ew York World. On the whole, it has not been a good week for prohibition in the west. There has been voting under local option by towns in Illinots, Nebraska and Colorado and by counties in Michigan, with obvious advantages to the thirsty. In Topeka, Kan,, thero was no direct liquor issue, but a mayor was elected who is understood to favor license, In Illinois thirty-nine “dry"” towns turned to “‘wet,” while only nineteen reversed that process. Seventy-two ‘“wet” towns and 10 “dry” towns remained as they were. Decatur, which went “dry” by 1,00 two years ugo, is now “wet” by 50. The cities generally remain with the license party. In Colorado the “dry” voters made & gain of two towns In twenty-two voting, but the “wets” still have thirteen of the number. Twenty countles out of thirty-six voting in Michigan returned “dry" victories, but these will close only 282 saloons out of 1,161 in the voting territory. Of twenty-six countles already “wet" fourteen voted to stay so, while of ten “dry” counties in the voting lot two reversed themselves. Kent county, including Grand Rapids, repulsed the prohibitionists by w 7,600 majority after & hot campaign. Wexford and Oakland countles returned to the license column after two years of drought. An interesting “dry" victory was won in Ingham county, which holds Lansing, the state capital In Nebraske 135 cities and villages voted. Seventy-six of these were oarried for license. In the state now the “wet" forces hold elghty-nine towns, with a total popu- lation of 171, +sign 18 on sixty- poulation 86713. Eleven * towns and fifteen “'dry” ones flopped on Tuesday. Last “Wet” and Qur Birthday Book ¢ aprtl 13, 1910, General Grenville M. Dodge, Councll Blutfs' most distinguished citizen, was born April 12, 1831, at Darvers, Mass. General Dodge served conspleucusly in the eivil war and afterwards as chief engineer, and had & leading part in the building of the Union Pacific raliroad. He had been head of the Society of the Army of Tennessee, and o of the military order of the Loyal Legion, and prominent in a great many other public movements. Willlam H. Indoe, genera! agent of the State Mutua! Life Insurance company of Worchester, Mass., for Nebraska, with offices in the Beé bullding, Is 36 years old. He was born in Granger, O, and has been with his present company since 1589 and in his present position since 1898 Charles E. Wager, assiotant general freight agent of the Missour! Pacifie, was born April 12, 1565, at Springfield, Ill. He is en old-time raliroad man and has been In the business for nearly 2§ years, although in Omaha only & little more than & year. APRIL 12, 1910. Army Gossip Matters of Interest On and Back of the Piring Line Gleaned from the, Army and Navy Register. Captain Charles B. Hepburn of the signal corps was retired from active service on April 2 on account of physical disability and Captain G. B, Mitehell, Thirteenth cavairy, has been detalled In the signal corps to fill the vaeancy. Other recent detalls to the signar corps are those of Captaln R. J. Burt, Ninth Infantry, viee Captain D. J. Carr, promoteg; Captain B. J. Wallace, coast artillery, vice Captain H. B. Biack, coast arilllery corpa. whose detall expired; First Lieutenant H. C. Tatum, Seventh ocavalry, vice First Lieutenant, F. W. Fonda; First Lieutenant George E. Kumpe, Secdnd Infantry, vice First Lieutenant James . Abbott, cavairy detall expired. The next officers to be re- lieved from duty with the signal corps on account of expiration of detall will be Captaln Willlam H. Oury, Infantry, on May 81. Reports of officers who have been test- Ing the requirements of the tentative phy- sical regulation order placed in their hands for comment are due to be received by the chiet of staff today. These officers were Instructed aot to comment on the questions a8 to whether or not tnere should be perfodical tests to determine offictals phy- sical condition, but report on the suitability of the requirements as set out in thé ten- tative order; and that, it they had eriti¢ism to make of any of the requirements, they should propose substitutes. The tentative order has been under test by officers sta- tioned at the Army War college, Fort Myer, Va.; Fort Leavenworth, Kan., and Fort Riley, Kan. Many approving comments have been made concerning the new apartment houses, which have been adopted by the War de- partment as afficers’ quarters. These build- ing, each accommodating four families, have been illustrated and described in the | Army and Navy Register. Such new edi- fices have been completed, or are nearing completion, at & number of posts, Including Fort Winfield Rcott, Cal, Fort Slocum, N. Y., and Fort Strong, Mass., anfl already applications have been received for bulld- ings at other posts. None of these quarters haVe beeg occupled a sufficlent length of time to have reports from those who are in the best position to pass upon thelr merits as habitations, but the cogments which have reached the War departmimt have shown that these structures, designed with a view to convenfent housekeeping on an economical basis will find much favor in the military personnel. More than that, it 18 a step toward what has been signified s meeting congressional approval—a con- centration of bullding at posts #o as to Have less vacant area and so reduce the cost of administration. The army medical authorities are greatly interested in extending the benefits of vac- cination as & means of preventing typhoid. ‘The success which has attended this pre- cautinary measure abroad, especially in the British army, has justified the adop- tion of this system in the United States army. Up to this time the vaccination has been adminisered only to volunteers and there is a great difference in the number of those who present themselves for this Much depends, as hi been atated In these columns, upon the persuasive qualities of the post surgeon. At some pol practically every one has been vaccinated. At other places that the percentage of volunteers is very small. It is expected that the ~limit has been reached with the volunteers and, unless the vaccination is made com- pulsory, there is not likely to be many more who consent to the vaccination. The recommendation has been made by the surgeon general of the army that accepted recrufts be vaccinated as a part of the process of enlistment. By this means In time a large part of the enlisted force will have hecelved this protection against typhold. The statistics prepared by Major F. F. Russell of the army medical corps, show that of the 3,600 vaccinations nine- tenths of 1 per oent were severe, 5.7 per cent were moderate, 2.3 per cent wer mild, and 63 per cent had no reaction what! ever.' This Indicates the little incon- venience which s experienced from the treatment. The special board of cavalry officers to determine the equipment of cavalrymen |, and thelr mounts will probably be designa- |, ted next week in orders from the War de- partment. Recommendations have been made for the personnel of that board, which will meet, according to the present plan, at Rock Island, 1L, where has been in session | for o year or more the board to reduce the ., burden of the foot soldler. The latter board is completing its investigations and will shortly make a report as a result of a very thorough study of the questions and tests conducted under practical conditions. The work of the eavalry equipment board will be of similar character, taking advan- tage, of course, of the conclusions of the infantry equipment board so far as they pertain to the mounted arm. The board will have the assistance of a troop of cav- alry, probably one from the Sixth regi- ment, on duty at Fort Des Moines. Ia. By this means new devices, of which the chief of ordnance of the army has & large num- It [t has fifteen to his credi., & record that easiy everywhere, and the sun never sets on his activities the United States during 4 | Representing $1,088,020,48 in policles, some $200,000,000 In exces at the same thing. for the generality of them to meet t! r Mis I " - . premiums, but they worked nobly, paying [z, onna IrVing in in Lesile's Weekly. ments swelled the panies (o $747,294,98. During the year the companies disbursed to policyholders $300,- 663,053 and laid by The surplus on policyholders’ creased nearly $60,000,000, to 353,410,426, The tigures, The report made to the comptroller under date of March 29, 1910 that this bank hi , shows Time Certificates of Deposit $2|034|278.61 3% % Interest paid-on certificates running for twelve irst National B.a.ml« of Omaha PERSONAL NOTES. Wearers of present-day millinery should not be classed as lightheaded. Consider the load. Chicago ice men promise to scale prices for the summer. Their cakes will shun the scales as heretofore. Lioyd W. Bowers, United States solicitor, Who resigned a $30,000 Job for one of $7,000 is diligently making up the deficit in his in- come by lunching on a sandwich. Woodbury. the beauty doctor, left $180,000 worth of real estate at Sea Gate. Success does not depend on new wrinkles; there are enough old ones to meet the need of the man with the tools. Miss Anne Morgan has added to her other activities by jolning a new organization known as the North Ameriean Civic League for Immigrants. 1t was established to protect allens from fradulent agents who Prey upon steerage passengers after their release from Elils Island. The Nestor of county journalists in Tili- nois is N. E. Stevens, editor of the Paxton Record, who has conducted that paper for forty-seven years without Interruption, sad who has worn the editorial harness for fifty-seven years. It is sald Editor Steven who 18 ™, (s the oldest editor in the west working actively At his desk. There is probably no other hunter or trapper In all the bear woods of Pennayl- vania who has the record for capturing and killing bear during the last year that C. E. Logue of the Wirst Fork has. He is in the lead of all in Caferon county, and a challeneg to any other Pehnaylvania - trapper. Jacob Gammerman, the Baltimore jeweler, who caught Howlett, the man who con- fesses that he robbed Mrs. Bugher of $20,000 of jewels, deserves an appointment to the New York detective force. Howlett says the New York police did not recognize him, although he wore a red wig which would have made a country sheriff sus- pletous. M. J. Bcholey, mayor of Kenosha, Wis., Introduced a new feature into Kenosha politics when he distributed 5,000 bars of Soap as a means of calling attention to his candidacy for re-election. The woap is or- dinary toilet size, and on one side of the | white bar/in raised letter is “‘Purity Soap,” | while on the reverse is a picture of the mayor and the inscription, “A Clean Ad- ministration.” BILLIONS FOR INSURANCE. ® of Last Year's ness. Loulsville Courfer-Journal. Everybody knows that ublquitous indi- vidual, the life insurance agent. He muay be imported or Indigenous, but he is e was particularly busy in the year 1000. 180 companies, he wrote Lme Moon.”—Chicago Tribune. line reflect the (mprovemcnt in financial affaire since the murky condition of 1% The Insurance agent made a good for himself last year and is entering upon the work of 1910 with improved prospects He is rolling up #0 much business that the figures already are so big as to stas ger the ordinary man's Smail wonder that finnancial magnates are struggling for control of the/great in- surance companics while the busy agent i hustling and the policyholder is paying the freight record comprehension, Improving Her Opportunities. Loutsville Courer-Journal The dashing Missiseippl widow who eays her vocation is keeping books and selling real estate and Mississlppi senators is an up-to-date and up-to-devilment person whose activities illustrate the well-worn adawe that a little widow Is a dangerous, thing. SAID IN FUN, ““The artist who is painting my pleture is very unrellable about his engagements Ofter when I go at the appointed hour I have to walt “Then you ought to take a stand about your sittings.”—Baltimore American. _Patron—-This set of teeth you made for me is too_big. Dentist—Yot sir. 81t down in the cha m:)* I will enlarge your mouth a little.~—~Bost Transcript. me time, Tommy, T sident Elliot's “five Erudite Relative. hope you will read Pr feet of books.' Tommy~—Shucks, aunty! Five feet? I've already resd ‘“Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea” and "From the Barth to Mr. Newed—Wel, dcarest 1 ever contracted bad habits rs. Newed—No, George; expand them.~Judge. you can't say you generally “Doesn't it make you angry to see rhq.‘ terrible caricatures of you that ar: pub- ed " Not at a replied Senator Sorghum 1 like to have that sort of an impression &0 abroad. It I» an axifom that handsome men are not | 0 be successful in practical affair hington Star. eorge is taking up journalism by cor- ondence.'’ he progressing?" - me him.""~ Cleveland Plain De s on considering himself many “That man insl a llon in soclety." “Yea replied Miss Cayenne, “and for no other reason than that he hns a large volce and exceptional hair.”—Washingten star, The engagement “of an American girl to a prince with a fat income’ Is announced It {8 quite evident that somebody & blundered when this news item w Of course, it's th not the income.—Cleveland Plain-Dealer “Are you going to visit those rural tives of yours this summer?’ we ask of our friend, who 0 often has amused us with his accounts of yacations on the farm, “I will if they Invite me,™ he answe of the record for 1908, The policyholders were somewhat busy It takes some hustling n $564,785,69, a gain of §19,000,000 over what hey paid in 1908, Interest and other pay- income of the com- ‘“for the future pro- ection of polieyholders’’ §342,343,374. Sta- istics a8 to how much went to low 1gations. The assets of the 150 companies at the close of 1500 amounted to $3,064,106,642, and ncrease of $264,000,000 during the yea ccounts In- which are taken from a tabula- fon by one of the leading Insurance pa- pers of the United States, give some idea of the enormous growth of the life insur- ance business. Taking the ordinary and he Industrial busin together, the in- ber of suggestions, may be tried out in|Surance in force in the companies operat- actual service under the observation of the officers. Thers are numerous questions to | be presented to the board relating to the equipment of the soldler and the horse. It is desired to ascertain what improve- ments may be made and if it is possible to effect a reduction in welght of the articles carried. Among the subjects to be consid- ered are & compressed forage ration for the horses, the meodification of the saddle, the adoption of a pad in place of the blan- ket, and an improvement In the saber. The board s not expected to go into the sub- Ject of the rifie or the pistol. Many cav- alry officers belleve that the present rifle should be abandoned In favor of one which is shorter and less heavy, expressing pre- ference in some cases for a return to the old carbine. The qurstion af cholce be- tween the automatic ["oi and the revolver is also one which engages discussion, but the subject of weapons for mounted troops is likely to be referred to a special board, {ristead of being discussed by the cavairy equipment board at Rock Island. t Combinat Aggravated Form | which has Just been indicted by a federal grand jury, is a particularly aggravated form of com- bination which might suffer a verdict of | illegality without shedding much light on the status of the ordinary trust. It is a highly complicated situation which is de- veloping under the anti-turst law, and the | sooner it Is cleared up the better for busi- ness. | e—— Recession Wave, | Philadeiphla Record, ‘The crest of the prohibition wave seems to have been reached in lilindis and Ne- braske. The local option votirg on Tues day last indicated a decided drift in the opposite direction. There does not seem o be any fixity of opinion as fo the mat- ter of liguor selling as Mlustratéd by popu- lar vote 0 §13,473,000,466. The notable gains made all along the “but they're #o blamed rich and exclusi now, they make me weary."'—Judge. THE GOLDEN HOG. western farmer wears today The smile that won't come off, And millionaires and merchants, too, Their hats to him must doff, The price of pork is soaring o The world 18 all a-gog, It _takes a golden eagle now To buy a single hog. Falr Commerce waves her magic wand Above the humble sty. dog” funds are lacking, but probably will | And charges all the rooting pigs come out in the course of future leglsla- tive i To things for which we sigh; Pianos, pictures, costly And mirrors framed in goid, And curtains of the finest lace In many a filmy fold Silk dresses for the farmer's wife ‘The grunting porker yviclds, And motor cars and up-to-date Machinery for his fields He does not have to seek for wealth In lands beyond his ken. Nor mine it from the stubborn rock, He coins it from the pen His crops have failed in other years And left his pockets flat But now on hams and bacon, lo! His fortune waxes fat ing under the legal reserve laws amounts | The autocratic hand of trade Has given it a jog, The golden calf must abdicate, It's now the golden hog. Joak the Clothes Over:Night IT LOOSENS THE DIR T and melies the work of washing very much easier. USE THREE TUBS, one for table linen, one for bed and body linen, one for the soiled towels and cloths, WET THE CLOTHES, rub Lenox Soa: over the soiled parts, fold and roll olution ach piece by itself, pach in a tub, cover with warm, soapy water and let stand over-night. TO MANRE SOAP SOLUTION: Take o calie of Lenox Soap, cut it int dissolve these in three - v ot builing peint uniil o tor. M. - solution is formed. LENOX SOAP SOLVITION does better worl than sosp, and is more economical, because there is no waste. all ploces, Bolling Lenox Soap—Just fits the hand ) | ) [