Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 23, 1910, Page 13

— THE WHE ©OMAHA DAy BEE { VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR Entered at Omaha postoffice as second- elnss matter. 1PTION. week wee! TERMS OF SUBSC y K, oG uding Sty per g:fiy Be# (without hmd:fl. o Baily bee (without Butday), Vully Tee and sunddy, one year . DELIVERED BY CARKIER. (Wilhoul Sunday), per week 6e | per week. ¢ 182 | J10c | o | o Bunfay . Bee, one ye: batlrday e, one yeaf.. Address all complainty ot Irregular deliyer 1o City Cireulation Lepariment. B OFFICES. Omaha ~The Bee Bouth Omans—Tyeniy-fourth and N Councll Biufis-1p Scott Street. Lincoln<bi8 Littie Bullding. licago—1548 Marquetle Buiiding o New York—Rooms 11011102 No Wry-tnira Rjreet Washington—72% Fourteenth Street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and itorial matter should be - addressed. Omaha Bee, Editorial Depariment. | REMITIANCES. 2 Remit by Araft, express or [posial order pavahie to The jiee Publishing Company Only 2-cent stamps reosived In payment of | mall acconnts Personal ehecks, except on Omaha or enstern exchange. not accepted. ing. M West | oF CIRCULATIO Btato of Nebraska, Douglas County: George B. Tachuck. treasurer of The Bee Tublishing Company, being duly #worn, says that the motua! nurber of full ind eompleto cop! of Tne Dal Morning, Evening and Sunday Hee during the month of Ma follows. Roturned Net total Daily Subscribed 1o 'm; resence and sworn before ul‘lhl-’ ’ln of H;r*. sbiie. aving the eity tem. .porarily should have The eo mailed (o them. Address will be ged as often as reques Congratulations to 'the Omaha-Elks on their magnificent new home. e —————] It is, of course, more dignified for elder statesmen to rétire than to re- sign. The prisoner pardoned on his | sturdy Americans- who lived not Merk Twain, The morning and evening of this man’s life were not as one day. The sun that rose In ruddy glow in the Missouri village and shone brightly past the mnoontide, set ‘behind dark clouds in the Connecticut hills. Na- ture by ome of her strange .paradoxes decreed that the life devoted to others' joy should go out in the gloom .of private grief, " Samuel L. Clemens was one of thosc in vain because he lived not to himself. Alwaye, even as he desecended into the valley of personal sorrow, he felt for his tellowman ahd tried for the word that might glve cheer and comfort, pos- sibly dispelling some shadow within, The world owes something more than it realizes to the man who makes it laugh, and 1t our ébligation to Mark Twaln ended there it would be great, but it goes far beyond that point. His | was a wholesome, healthy humor be cause it went down into the realities of lifé and brought up some Kernel of truth or philosophy that was of tangi- ble value. - He hated sham and hypoc- risy with such consistent passion that he was able to picture its absurdities s0 as to make'them odious and re- pellant. He was essentially a ‘“plain, blunt man,” so 'much so that even in his writing he steadfastly refused to give up the colloguial tongue for the purist. ‘His faithful adherence to the vernacular finally -brought to him a mastery of ‘style all his own, which others have been eager to essay. This 18 all- the more strange, t0o, in view of his lack of early traiuing, his rugged young manhood belng spent on steam- boats along the Mississippl. But to compensate for this lack he possessed a prolific fund of hard, common sense, became an Inveterate reader and stu- dent, had a prodigious memory and capped all with a natural power of ex- pressing the very thought In the very way that ‘gave the best effect. Hig satirical’ fietion ‘s full of these in- stances. The afternoon of Mark Twain's life was .marked by a sedateness that showed plainly he had realized the tragedy as well as the comedy of hu- man existence, and the evening passed with few rays of light save those that burst irresistibly from the sun of his own cheéry: leart which -even the pangs of domestic grief scarce could hold in eclipse. The friendships of his later ‘years were with the big men of poetry is the first man to escape through the lines, e Chances are that the colonel did not find Paris very gay at the hour of his arrival—7:30 a. m. Now, do not let April fool you with this réturn of spring into taking off anything you should keep on. o e e Just remember that The Bee is boosting for Omaha every day in the year; and.in about eight editions daily. ApmT—— A fire that has just burned up $100,000 worth of property at Lincoln is further testimory that the town is dry. Btill, nothing In the law is intended to operate to prevent people from planting trees after Arbor gay has come and gone. Yes, the democratic World-Herald 1§ the only paper in the country that puts Roosevelt inside in order to make first page space for Bryan. Five train robbers eseape and three Mabray mikers get -out on bail at Leavenworth. Not such a hard place to get away from, after-all. b Congressman Fowler has’ revealed the hand of the insurgents” further in- tentions with regard to Uncle Joe, Which looks like the malled Bst. his day and he took his place with them as easily as-he had taken it with the 'bappy-go-lucky fellows on the river boats. ‘He had a versatility -of character that never sufféered in any company. 'The refreshing simplicity and boyish ‘heart that Ilived -out through 'the rollicking pranks of Huckleberry Finn never lost its youth- ful vigor or its power to arouse an- other’s love. —_— ~Railroad and Mine Disasters. It"is Jamentable that our activities looking to the protection of lifé have not been as skillfully directed as those that conserve the financial résources of great industries.lke mines and rail- roads. ' Perhaps the reason.is that the problem of ‘conserving life is greater than that of making money, At any rate, the fact is.forced upon us that rallroads and mines operated by men whose services come at high cost still ihave much to'learn in the art of pre- venting accidents that cause death by ithe wholesale. Prior to the quarter ending Decem- ber 31, 1909, rallroads had made en- couraging progress in reducing the number of accidents, but reports for those three months disclose a discour. aging increase in the number -of .cas. walties. One thousand persons were killed' in those ‘ninety days by our American rallways and 22,491 were injured, an increase in injured 6f more than 5,000. Omaha will soon have a metropoli- x electrigygervice for collection and very of i1 between the postofiice, ots'and #ul do ‘not gpoll it. ' \ 8, i the knook- “Is not this thing -of ecalllng them “the senior Morgan” and ‘““the junior Morgan" a disrespectful way to ret,r to two of our most prominent multi- billionaires? Could Mr. Bryan's request for no reception on his return have been based on the memory of that “Home Folks' demenstration? If so, no onz could blame him. The Baltimore American observes On the same day that this report is {ssued we read of forty mihers being |eitombed in a southern shaft. :This {s only one'of & number of :similar mine disasters coming in quick succes- slon in the last year, the most appall- ing’ of which was the Cherry haveoc. It must'be that culpable negligence is somewhere involved in the train of these slaughters. At least the con- clusion is unavoidable that the same amount 6f trainéd and sclentific effort is not put into minimizing the -possi- bilities of accident in the mine and on the railroad as 18 put into the manage- ment and develpment for the purpose of giving efMcient service and produc- ing maximum earnings. This is a sub- that the suggestion of Governor Crothers of Maryland for president comes a little too late for an April 100l joke, but is monetheless funny. Perhaps the South Omaha school children who earned a reward by un- covering the train ‘robbers last fall may earn another reward by helping to recapture the escaped couviet. Those democrats who had an idea that Mr, Bryaa would merely declare for county prohibition and let it go at that, without doing anything to put it in the democratic platform in his home state, have another guess. S Not to be outdone by the insurgents in congress, nor the woman's suffrage convention, the - Daughters 'of the American Revolution have pulled oft a Jittle pow-wow stunt of thelr own at Washington.'© ~* * S pr——p——— iUncle Sam has just discovered in looking over. st of laws that he Is short one an official “who might #ob his st box. It would he aigood idea to fix up a little tion on it, for the strong box is get- ting<more and more hefty right now, ject that must recelve saner cmutqorm tion in this country. Sper—— Democrats ‘and Postal Savings, What will the democrats in the house do when the postal savings bank bill comes up:for final passage? The Denver platform, which the apostle of democracy insists is binding on every democrat in congress, declares out- right for postal savings it the guar- anteed bank eannot be secured, and it been pretty well demonstrated that the guaranteed bank will aot be secured this session. But when the postal savings. bill was up in the sen: ate, although quite a number of dem- ocratic senators sald they favored the plan, only one recorded himself in the affirmative on final roll call, and every other demoeratic senstor who voted voted “No.” Here comes Mr. Bryan in his Com- moner Wwith! expliclt directions as 'to what the house democrats should do. It is to be hoped,” says he, “that the democrats of the house will try to im-« prove it (the bill) by amendment, but having ‘every effort tmprovement question is, Will this advice be fol- lowed any better by the democrats in the house than it was by the democrats in the senate. Or will they line up as a party against postal savings simply because the bill is put forward as a republican administration measure? No Need to Worry Yet. Imperative as is the need for cau- tion and wisdom in shaping the rail- road bill now before congress into ang effective law, it really does not seem necessary to grow pessimistic at this stage of the proceedings. There is every reason to encourage the bellef that congress means to give the coun- try a broad, safe measure framed to meet the exigencies of the case out of the lessons of our experience to date. The country has the record of the republican party as the author of all the best in railroad and trust legisla- tion as an earnest of good faith in the present. ' The Sherman anti-trust act, the Elkins law and the Hepburn act are all of republican origin and, while they are not perfect in their opera- tions, have accomplished real reform and real goed in dealing with the large corporations. But beforé“we come to the measures widening and facilita- |/ ting the scope of power of the Inter- state Commerce commission, we should stop to acknowledge that that body came into being through the ef- forts of the republicans. Following the enactment of all these laws came predictions of dire disaster that would befall the rail- roads and other moneyed interets of the land, but theee calamities have not come true. On the contrary, the great commercial institutions have gone on accumulating strength; raillroad con- struction has proceeded as never be- fore in any period of history and cor- porate management has become wiser and more efficient.- If we care to look at this situation from ‘the standpoint of political ex- pediency we still find room for hope, for the majority in congress today in- vites its own peril if it fails or neglects to give to the country a good law pro- viding “for -an interstate commerce court for the ' proper ~regulation of trafe, rates and agreements by rail- roads. “The mst rigid analysis of every section entering into the bill and its most careful consideration are highly desirable, and after going through this legisiative crucible the measure ought to emerge in a reasonably sat- isfactory condition. Broad-Gauged or Narrow-Gauged? ‘Down in Lineoln a veritable hornets’ nest.has been stirred up by the refusal of the ecity council to permit the dis- play of an across-the-sidewalk sign temporarily in front of a bank during the construction of a handsome mew building, with the usual charges and ‘countercharges that theé municip: thorities are discouraging private en- terprise ‘when they ought to en- courage it. This is the same old contention ‘be- tween broad-gauged and ' narrow- gauged policies in the upbuilding of a city, and it is the same question that confronts every business enterprise from time to time. In this particular instance' the narrow-gauged policy is sought to be justified by the declara- tion that there must be no speeial priv- ileges to anyone that everyone cannot enjoy, to which the answer is made that the city can well afford to let down the bars for,a‘temporary street sign if by doing so it can get a fine per- manent improvement in the shape of a modern, up-to-date bullgln:. Here in Omaha we have the habit of putting up with a lot of inconveni- ences -and. nuisances while' new build- ings are in progress, and while new en- terprises are being established. Omaha has preferred the broad-gauged policy to the marrow-gauged policy, and we think has results to show for it. While some few may have enjoyed special privileges for a little while, the whole community has been the gaimer in the loag run. A ecity may in its infancy do some things and.draw the lines less strictly than they ought to ‘'when it gets bigger, but the city, like' the indi- vidual who does busimess on a broad- gauged,” liberal plan, is apt to get further than a .narrow-gauged neighbor. —— The insane ward of the Douglas county hospital is again reported over- crowded. The care of the insane, however, strictly speaking, belongs to the state and not to the county, and these patients should be in the state insane asylums. If the latter institu- tions have no room for them these asy- lums should be enlarged. If Douglas county once accepts it as its duty to provide for the insane it will be hard to get the state to give relief, Outside of Omaha The Bee is prac- tically the enly Qmaha newbpaper that Is known and quoted. The reason fs clear—-it is because The Bee has al- ways not only maintained its own high | character, but kept ahead of what the size of the city really warranted from a newspaper standpoint. The best way to boost Omaha is to send The Bee to out: own friend: All the raillroads entering Omaha are discovering that their freight ter- minal facilities here are inadequate to the growing traffic, if not already iu- adequate. ‘The railroad that wants to look ahead in Omaha for twenty years should take a look backward twenty years, and figure that past growth is not a marker to what is in store. OMAHA, SATURDAY, ~ eific train robbery, going on the theory | they would make a dash at the first opportunity The controversy oyver who shall cel- ébrate the Panama ‘eanal project has narrowed down to Washington, New Orleans and San Francisco. San Diego tried to butt in, but promptly read out of the race by the San Francisco Chronicle. Those dogs and ir;;i;nat have to sacrifice their lives In the Hyde mur- der trial to prove just how dead dtrychnine can kill will derive little consolation from the fact that they are martyrs to the great cause .of sclence. Reforms Trimmed with Joy. Baltimore Amerioan. 1f, when the Pullman company reduces its rates, it will also inaugurate a system whereby the public is relieved of paying the porters’ wages, there will be cause for genuine joy Which Will Move First? Washington Herald. The getting together of the Independ:nce league and the democratic party seems to depend upon ‘whether the mountain shall g0 to Mahomet or Mahomet to the moun- tain. Someth of n OMneher. Kansas City Star. Another argument in favor of the postal savings bank is found in the fact that the “bankers' colony” at the Fort Leav- enworth penitentics’y now numbers thirty-elght Why Worry Set Pittsburg Dispatch. Why should demecratic leaders Qe flur- ried because Mr. Bryan resurrected some of the old clatter about ‘thie quantitative theory of money? What reason was thers for expecting anything else from him? Political Ratnbow Chasing. Baltimore American. The program of the soclal democratic ad- mintstration of Milwaukee sounds like an advance notice of the millennium. If its practical carrying out realizes all its prom- ises, then there will be a revolution in municipal government. But after all, the great bar to the milllennium still stands even in altrulstic socialism—human nature, which probably is prevalent even In ad- vanced Milwaukee. the Pansme Barth. Springfield Republican. When the United States took over the work of bullding the Panama canal it was estimated by the engineers that 108,795,000 cuble’ yards would have to be excavted. The excavation record shows that this figure was passed about a wéek ago, there being some 71,000,000 cublc yards. still to be removed. ‘The additional Aigging ls due to the ehlatgement of the dimensions of the canal prism, made by the American en- gineers after the work was begun, to ac- commodate ships of inereased tonnage. P S ¥ Protection in Great Britain, _ New -York Tribune, Mr. Balfour's declaration In favor of admitting wheat from the British colonies into the United Kingdom :free of duty, while -imposing & 'duty upon wheat from other countries, is quite In accord With protectionist -prineiples when epplied on an imperial seale. The importance of such £y arrangement to the .Briish, food sup: ply ‘may be estimited from the fact of Tecord ‘that thé graln crop’ of Baskatohe- wan was 9,000,000 bushels in 1599, 87,000,000 in 1904 arid 206,000,000 in 1909. What it will be in 1914 may almost stagger the imagination, while without any flight of the imagination it may well be reckoned that in & few years the cblonies of the empire will be, able to supply the de- mands of the United Kingdom. JR————) Imports and Extravagance. New York World. The foreign trade of the country for March, 1910, shows a balance against us of $19,%4,000. This is the first unfevor- able March balance in ‘fiftcen years. It is the heaviest unfavorable balance In that month since 1898, just befare a'bad finaneial (break, and: 1869, when reassured foreign ocapital was still rushing in to fi- nance industries aftér the war, Only once in forty-seven years has an entire caten- dar year shown an excess of imports. Never before now has a flood of imports overbearing the natural export ‘balance conaisted so largely of (Imported luxuries. It after a very bad record in the last half of 1900 the present year continues as it has begun, ‘it ‘will be a pussie or & portent. The national sin of extrava- gance, private and public, unless attended to, may ‘fores itself upon attentién. ' Qur Birthday Book April 83, 1910. ‘Willlam ‘Shakespsare, bard of Avan, would be celebrating Nis birthday todhy it he were still mmong ws. ‘He was born at Stratford-on-Avon April 23, 1864 The strangest part of it all ‘4s-that the world walted for a Nebraska university professor to dig up the records of a lawsuit In ‘which Shakespeare's deposition was taken. Arthur T. Hadley, president of ¥ale uni- versity, was born April 23, 1886, at New Haven, Conn. -He was professor of political economy ‘in ‘that institution before 'being promoted to succeed President Dwight, Chauncey M. Depew, United States wen- ator from New' York, is 78 today and still telling stories and cracking jokes. He was born at Peekskill, N. Y. Mr. Depew is a lawyer by profession and was once resi- dent of the New York rallroad, and was mentioned as candidate for president of the United ‘States. ‘Thomas T. Bckert, former . president of the Western Union, was born April 23, 152, st Clairsville, O., and although retired from active business, is still hale and hearty! Geperal 'Eckert bad charge of the mili- tary telegraph for the unioh army ‘during the war. D ‘ “Winthrop Murray Crane, United Btates senator from Massachusetts, is 7. ‘He was born at Dalton, Mass., a0d bullt his fortune a8 & manufacturer of writing paper. Carter H. Harrison, former mayor of Chloago, is celebrating his §0th birthday. He is & native son of Chicago, and his father was mayor of Chicago before him. Carl Suyder, author and magaaine writer, was born April 23, 1899, at Cedar Falls, Ia. He was once editor of the Council Bluffs Nonpareil and Is well known in Omaha. Bdwin Markham, poet and literary oritic, was born April 23, 182 in Oregon City, Ore. One of his principal clalms to literary fame is “The Man With the Hoe.” He is now Hving' 10 Brooklyn, ¥Francis Lynde Stetson, the big New York lawyer, was born April 23, 1846, &t ‘Nelson Page, author and novel- He 18 a Virgiilan by birth.and most of his successful fiotion the sou¥ was In Other Lands Bide Lights on What ix Trans. piriag _Among the Neer and Far Nations of the Narth | King Menelik of Abyssinia has fully re- covered from the recent attack of obituary notices gathered by enterprising clipping bureaus, ing the negus with the But the royal tional proot of health and hilarity. royal treasury Is In need of funds and the tax collector s abroad in the land offcnsive patriots who are dodge their dues by “hollering’ against increased taxes, Have been corralled by the squad of soldiers and the npise ef- fectively squelched with curved sabers. chopping off the heads of the -prineipal kickers and dodgers, and their property, King Menellk Impresses minor tax insurgents that prompt paymsnt | conduces to longevity. The moral effect of the proceeding Insures accurate ‘and honeet schedules of property and chpcks spirit of gayety striving ‘{the tendency to hide movable assets over the border before the assessor arrives, o What promises to be the greatest labor battle ever fought in Germany was in- augurated early In the month by a leckout of employes in the bullding trades. It is sald 200,000 workmen are involved at pres- ent, with every likelihood of the number | belng increased as the heat of the gontest rises. Primarily the | organized employers. employers demanded that the employes should enter, at the beginning of this month, upon an entirely new form of con- tract, the chlef features of which Some weeks ago the were {that the men should no longer object to | plece-work, that uniform conditions of | 1abor should prevail throughout the empire and that there should be a general system of labor exchanges organized and con- trolled by the employers alone. The em- ‘| ployers presented this proposal to the men as an ultimatum, which must be accepted by the men under penaity of a lockout, The men, in their trade unions, very promptly and almost unanimously rejected the proposal, and a lockout was in conse- quence ordered by the employers. o Taxing the unearned increment in land, a proposition embodied in the British budget which the landlords denounced as confiseation, is becoming a popular form of public revenue in Germany. It has been the vogue In cltles for several years, and under it ‘they have thrived wondertully. The general goyernment wants a slice ‘of the usufruct and proposes, as a starter, to dip Into the unearned increment; pot In Berlin. It s expected ithe cities will re- sent ithis action as another step In the en- croachment of the federal,upon the munici- pal authorities, but likely the kaiser's min- isters will have their way. The divorce evil is growing in Englana at a disquieting rate. Civil judicial statis- .| ties for 1908, recently issued, show an i crease of 1526, over the preceding year. The distinotive feature of the showing is the preponderance of petitions for divoree by husbands and of separations, a proceed- ing . different from divorce. Separation orders granted by magistrates numbered 7285 :in. 1908, “making, with divorces, @2, and judiclal separations, 28, a total of 7,865, This gives a 'peréentage of 22.53 per 100,000 of population. 1In Italy, where ‘i voree ‘as- distinguished from - separation Js jnknown, separations. on an average for. elght years amounted to only $2, or two per 100,000 of the population. - Americans who decorate their bosoms with home decoration ibadges for the pur- pose of impressing -the -proletariat while traveling abroad, should cut Servia out of their itinerary in the future or chuck the decoration ‘in the* bottom of the grip. Bervians are tired of decorations. They have become as much of a human burlesque s the beribhoned chest of & delegate whose vote is eagerly sought by rivalls. A much decorated ex-minister Has otganized the Servian Anti-Decoration league, which is growing rapidly, -and promises to rid the chesty landscape of medals and posters. The fiurore is such that the government, pledged to economy and reduced taxation, fears that its work- ing subordinates will demand more real money and ‘fewer pewter medals. in- their pay envelopes. o Ceell Rhodes' dream of a paflrond from the Cape to Calro is steadily approaching realization. By the end of this year the entire ‘line will have been surveyed, and construction will follow fast on the - heeis of the surveying corps. The rallroad will bo 5000 miles long, and construction has been pushed with a vigor that would 'do credit to an Amerfcan rallroad contractor. Locomotives are now running to a point forty mliles beyond the Congo frontier, or 2,187 ‘miles from Capetown. The roadbed is completed for six miles further north- ward, and by the end of April it is ex- Ppectéd that the rail head will be a hun- ared -miles within the Congo territory. Through trains are now running . twice -a week ‘between -Capetown and the Victoria Falls and between Victoria Falls and Broken Hill. | [ WATTERSON TO TAFT. 'A Message of Cheer and Good Will and an Invitation. Loulsville Courier-Journal. There have been presidents before you, Mr. President, who were glad to get out of the White House. The job is by no means what it.is eracked up to be. To a sensitive man it must be at times almost unendurable. it takes a tough hide, tough hide, to stand the meannesses and treacherles, the half-lylng and the lying outright, the misconception, misconstruc- tion and double-dealing to which every hour of the day and every day in the year the president of the United States i Jected. Mr. Taft has shown himself too | thin of skip. God made him for chief jus- | ghief justice he wquld haye made—instead of chief mamistrate. ' | There's one comfort. He ls a gentleman and an honest man. He -was born and bred. a-gentleman. . Whenever the qualities that go to the making of a gentleman have bad occasion to put in an appearance Taft has shown large, indeed. His letter to Git- ford Pinchot was almost a noapequitur. Bxcept that he had . been grossly misled wnd .decelved in -Ballinger it would have put Pinchot in & hole. But he shone out resplendent the other evening when he was 80 suddenly and so sorely tried by the audience of rude, unfeeling and unthink- ing women Who, when they hissed the modest expression of a difference of opins ion, gave thelr cause mway. The Courfer-Journal touches its hat to, you, Mr. President. We look toward you, Mr. President. There is still good fishing in Kentucky river—yes, in Eagle creek and Etkhorn-=Mr. President, and, when that fdur ‘years':term s vp, and you are slck and tired of honor and glory, come to Gold's cpuntry, Mr. Presjdent, and we'll have s burgoo and a thimbleful of the best ever to wash It down. The tearless laments drawn from newspaper morgues and reference books, are pouring In upon the royal castle, fill- household furnishes addi- The Some [ confiseating | fight was forced by | sub- | tice of the supreme ocourt—and an Ideal & under date of March 29, 191 that this bank has Time Certificate 3% % Inter | months. Deposit $2,034,278.61 pald on certificates running fok twelve The report made to the comptroller 0, shows s of est irst National Bank of Onlaha PERSONAL NOTES. | A Cineinnati man has tailed for more than $1,000,000 with assets of less than $400. | That might be termed a successful fallure. | 'The parting remarks of Mr, Clarkson of New York as he losos his grip on a federal Job seem to be made more In anger than in sorrow. | Philadelphia politicians deny that they are | as bad as those in Pittsburg. The denial may be ascribed to modesty rather than to resentment. | Hetty Green's son explains that he is a| bachelor because of his wealth. Yet there are .women who would not regird wealth as an insuperable obstacle. A New York judge has ruled that a | woman has no inalignable right to change her mind. On that - point, however, honor may yet change his mind. Dr. Pritchett of the Carnegle foundation announces after his tour of the west, in- specting stato universities, that ouly two out of twelve comes up to the "Carnegie standard. Colonel L. P. Roes of Lawton has en- tered the race for the democratic nomina- tlon for governor of Oklahoma. He is un- derstood to favor local option and a resub- mission of the probibition question. Comet watchers entertaining doubt as to the location of the appendix will be com- forted by the assurance of a writer that “the tail glows for miles and miles behind it.”" Rise early and watch it wag. Edward 8. Ellis, a resident of Montelair, N. J., was 70 years old recently. Just fifty years ago this spring young Elils assisted at the birth of Beadle's dime novels, by | producing-one of the classles of that amus- ing series, ‘‘Seth Jnnu.‘ or the Captive of the Frontier,” a tale that'won a cireulation of more than 50,000 coples and was trans- his Daniel Waldo Fleld of Brockton, Mass., millionaire and president of numerous.cor- porations, has enrolied as a special stu- dent in the Harvard School of Business. He is 45 years old and-ls studying as hard s the hardest working ‘grind"* in the uni- versity, Mr. ‘FieM s an employer .6t labor on a large seale. He is a shos manu- facturer ‘and employs ‘about 5000 people. He'ts marrted. S THE FAREWELL KNOCK. y (8 S Doletul Effeet of Separation from the Pie Counter. Springfied . (Mass.) Republican. The poor Grand Old! It is now in a po- sition .where most everybody enjoys giving it a kick, and absolutely nobody is atraid to. Here Is that sonorous old fighter in the ‘party ~trenches, Geperal James 8. Clarkson, shooting arrows into the hide of the 0ld pachyderm, as he retires from the suryeyorship of the’ port of New York. “Fhe first right of man is to earn his lv- ing,”" ‘says Clarkson, “and in that the re- publiean party is not protecting .the citi- sens.” It is.certainly just now mot: pro- tecting Clarkson in the right to take his living from the public erib, :Another ar- row: ‘““Amy debt ‘the negro owed the re- publican party has been paid. The party has betrayed him. He should divide his vote.” And_ he adds by way of. another shot: “The republican party was swept into power by .sentiment. For twelve years it has lived through commercialism." Most people saw commerclalism .in con- trol of the party many -years pror -to twelve years ago, or when Clarkson was nearing the zenith of his political careen lated Into_eleven' languages. % LAUGH IT OFF. “The prospects for speeding o seem fine," ejaculated the ama four, as he prepared to let the out. “Right, you are," chuckled tie rural con: stable darting from behind a tree. * all right. Fifty dollars,"—Baltim oqn. “T ain't no saint, boss." sald “I wunst voted &' couple o' hu Peaters In my precinet, an’ they th s rond r chauf- machine e penitentiary for it." reat Caesar!” exclaimed the man had just befriended him, “I did the thing nd they sent me for it g0 Tribune. to congress “What do you think of & man with a rip in his coat and only three buttons on his vest?" Ho should elther get vorced."'—Boston ‘Transcript married or di- 11 this wine champagne™ ause th its name." It's a bad one. No sham about it. Tl headache you get from It i the real thing ~Washington Herald Why do the assical education o A B deal,” replied the statesman, “If he becomes eminent in affairs he can select an anclent author as his press agent instead of employing some modern person who will be more expensive and less ef- ficient.”’—Washington Star. the “You were very cold last evenin phoved the young man to the girl he | callél on. Then he ‘added anxio “What s the outlook for tonight?" “Falr, and warmer {onight,’ came answer promptly.—Denver News. In the hereafter the man encountered a singular group of animals—two or three beavers, an otter and some seals, all shiv- ering, though the clfmate, To say the least, was mild. “We were skinned for your wite's furs,"” they explained, eivilly, wseeing his per- plexit 8o ‘Then Cirole s 1," quoth he. eforth they wandered on together.— agazine, The Judge—I'll {Ine you:§2:for vagTangy. The Prisoner—Wot's dat? The Judge — You are without visible t. Oan you pay the fine? dge, dat's de bigigest fool de clrcumstancos, dat was ever asked me—Cleveland, Leader. A MAN, A-GIRL AND A CURL. i Cella M. Robinton In Smart Set On the rack it ‘hung-all day, Near the ribbons bright' and’ gay And the ties, But at night among her tresses, When she wore her pretty dregses In the gulse Of a bud of fashion’s choosing, It was really quite amusing, Buch sad sighs The little curl would hear Whispered in a pretty - ear, And_the lles (To-'make a ringlet tremble in surprise) Of the crimson of her lips And -the crimson- of her cheeks, That lay all day In an alabaster box On the dresser with (he locks Not' far awi And near it, on the side, Peroxide! When the ringlet heard him whisper hat he never could resist her, Al the beauty of her bloom And her charm, The ringlet lost its grip And suddenly let slip To his arm, Where it fell, a golden wave, And, trylng quick to save It from The malden lost her. head, And bitter tears she shed In her alarm. The sudden heavy shower ‘Washed the color, llke a flower, From her cheeks. And that's the reason ‘why Now he's_very, very shy When he calls Upon the pretty lasses, And always wears his glasses o thie balls, Low Prices Do almost new-——regularly sold for § weekly payments. new $300 plano, for only $166. Small' payments. f A Howard Piano $245. | Piano $125. A Shulhoff Plano $165. A Cramer Oak Piano $138. the Business . A fine looking upright, quarter sawed oak case Reynolds Piano, | 276-—we, offer at $145—on $1 ‘Aun ebonized upright Hallet & Davis Plano, as good as any A mahogany Imperial Piano, must be sold at once—only $155. An Irving A Nelson Piano, a K Cable Nelson Piano, Columbus Plano—all under $200-—all on easy if you want the choice bargains. payments—all get Stools and Scarfs FREE. ' and scarf with the Ohlo Valley Gem Upright for §45. We turnish a stool Come soon A. HOSPE CO., 1513 Douglas Street P. S.~~Have you seéén the $376 Player Plano.on §2 weekly payments? old plano as part payment. 26 rolls free. You will want this—and tradé fn your whe WE ARE MOVING PIANOS J« ‘Used Instruments at Hospe’s Selling Fast i