Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 29, 1910, Page 6

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Thus far Governor Patterson has not litted his voice for the disarmament policy. 1t Jeifries wants the real punch let him try the one the colonel used at Cairo. \ e e Anna Held says she will quit acting to raise potatoes. At 20 cents a “bushel? \ Thomas Dixon says “innocence is utterly unkuown in New York. Who 1s Thomas Dixon. " e Two Missourl kids, he 76 and she 68, have eloped! q& married. Who could have objected? Uncle Jim Wilson has got out twenty cook books, and not one of them is on that five-foot shelf of Dr. Eliot's, 1 : Mr, Taggart goes into the fight with his sleeves rolled up. What he wants to watch is the other fellow's sleeves, L l L e e Mr. Roosevelt has not yet hastened to add that he meant nothing personal by his allusions to race suicide in Paris. Mr. Bryan_says he is happler than President Taft. Strange fow a man will fight to make himself unhappy. The king of Slam is coming to the United States with only forty of his wives, Likes to travel alone, probably, ——— It probably will not hecome neces- sary, though, to put up the bars against wholesale desertion from the senate, Home cares, about which the club women and suffragettes speak so anx- fously, seldom keep them away from the convention. —ee A herd of elephants raiding Dan- ville, the home of Uncle Joe, looks a bit ironical. Even insurgents should know when to stop. And if anybody doubts Mr. Bryan's mssertion that the chances of demo- pratic success are always good, let him turn toward Indiana, A sapient writer'in a magazine tells us that the only way to exterminate Tats is to starve them, tell how that is done? This is the season when you cant put two evils out with a single siroke, Use the hookworm for bait and catch your own fish and break the meat trust. / “Possibly Mayor Gaynor goes to the ball game to gee” how many from the city hall are there,” says the Boston Herald. Yes, or maybe he goes to see the game. With one general being thrown from an nntomoblle&nd another from a horse, safety for army heads seems to lie between the plebelan trolley car and walking. It is not surprising that a man pamed Plucket would see danger in the agitation against high prices. Mr. Plucket is pregident of the Assoclation of Cotton Goods Makers. L e -] “I belleve & man must be a good pa. triot hefore he can be a good citizen,” sald Colonel Roosevelt and Paris went wild, Did not thé people of France Mmaw that simple truth before? . . Will he kindly | | State Conservation Secretary Wilson's advice for each state to organize to.couscrve the fer tility of the soil ¢ommends ftself. If an equilibrium in the law of supply and demand is ever to be attained It must come through some process that will increase the productivity of the farm and until that is brought about it will be useless to try to combat high prices, for they will come as a natural conséquence, State conservation would not only not conflict with national, but would give It greater effect, The secretary of agriculture has called attention to the rujnous system of robbing the soil of its vitality, a tem practiced so long in the east, where land 18 now low in price as well as potency. The people of the east need to understand that they cannot escape the penalty of natural laws by fleeing from thelr impoverished farms and taking up maiden soll in the west. The country {eg rapidly coming to the time when it will require active duty of every acre of its land, cast or west, north or south. A system of fertiliza- tion, of conservation, must be intre. duced in the east where the soll has been so long cultivated without help. The country cannot afford to retire that,land. This hegira to the west has already had the effect of running prices up in some cases too high, not for the pleas- ure of the west, but for the good of the easterner who buys and for the people as a whole. There is still much land in the east that might be nurtured and made to yield more and there are great areas in the south still in their maiden heath that could be bought cheaply. The west stands with open arms al- ways to recelve Its newcomers and urges them to come on, but this land in the south must also be employed if the country is to accomplish the best results comprehended in this schemé of conservation. Some of the eastern raiiroads, though rather late in the day, have come to realize the necessity of soil conservation and are offering induce- ments to get farmers along their lines to take up intensified farming. The west has set the example in this great movement and the older sectlons of the country should not delay longer in following. Keeping Faith with the Filipino. Another evidence that the United States s keeping faith with the Fili- pino is shown in the fact that trade between these countries has increased 66 per cent since the new tariff law, removing duties on all domestic ‘mer- c¢handise passing between the islands and the United States, became opera- tive last August. The value of goods shipped from this country to the Phil- lippines from July 1, 1849, to March 1, 1910 (all under the new tariff ex- cept for the month of July), was $10,- 161,276, as compared with $6,871,764 for the corresponding period the previ- ous year. The value of goods shipped from the islands to the states for the same period was $11,420,475, an in- crease of more than $4,000,000. This increased trade is as great as the increase with all other portions of the noncontiguous’ territory of the United States for that period, The fact, no daubt, strikes the Filipino as final proof that the Taft policy of the “Philippines for the Filipinos” was made in good faith. Mr. Taft as gov- ernor general of the islands promised the people that he would exert his best influence to obtain satisfactory .reeip- rocal relations for them, but neither he nor they could have counted on exactly the influence that has come to him for his use in making geod on that promise. Not since William MecKinley enun- ciated his doctrine of “benevolent as- similation” has the United Statcs taken one backward step in the progress of its determination to help the Filipino to help himself. It has matched the blessings of clvil government with those of commercial and iIndustrial prosperity and will not recede from its original promise in either department of life, “Get Thee Behind Me.” When Senator Rayner led Senator Dolliver up on the mountain of tempta- tion and promised him all the riches that lay below if only he and his in- surgent associates would come into the camp of democracy, he did not specify which of the idols the republicans stlould worship, as arrayed before the eye they stood, these time-honored paramount {ssues—free silver, tariff | for revenue only, government owner- ship of railroads, evacuation of the Philippiues and scores of others. Must !they fall down before Baal-Berith, | Baalzebub, Gad or Zephon? It was a trying hour, but Senator forcing the tempter behind him Whether Senater. Rayner had a serl- ous thought in this studled bit of stage- craft, or whether it was merely an op- portunity afforded the Insurgents of re. afirming their position, matters not beside the fact the Iowan's answer to the Marylander must be taken the answer of this whole tosurgent move ment 1o its relation to the democratic party: So far as making an alllance with the democrats is concerned, that is the only handicap we have ever had in the course we are pursuing. ¢ ¢:® ¢ It (the republi- can party) is large enough and good enough to carry on the fight for good govern- ment; but if T ever Aid feel any tempta- tion to leave it, I would have to look over & Kood many things hefore 1 would pitch my tent with the democratic party 1t is gratifying to note that republi- can insurgents are not deceived as to the democrats’ motive in doing what they may to foment and foster fac. tional diccord in vhe republican ranks. Dolliver came off more than conqueror, | Rayner's invitation, divested cant, betrays the whole scheme. While it is time for closer harmony between republicans, there is and has been no irreconcilable differences be- tween them, and the fact that all are committed to the fulfillment of the Taft program Is the best assurance that they will be standing on the same platform when congress adjourns and they go back to face their constituents for another campaign. Of course, it the democrats could force a wedge In between insurgents and regulars be- |fore election that would, in fact, split | them; it would be a splendid thing for | democratic success. of its May Be Some Fruit Yet. Weather has a great deal to do with a person’s feelings. A few days ago when the thermometer was below freez- ing and the snow clouds hung heavy about every other man you met had something to say about the total de- struction of the fruit crop, but when the mercury ran up and the sun came out and the air really became spring- like the same sort of change became apparent in people’'s minds. ““Oh, I do not think the fruit is all destroyed,” men would say as they passed the day, And perhaps the latter version is correct. Undoubtedly the official weather bureau was correct in saying vast quantities of fruit had been de- stroyed. Yet there is always a chance that even the weather bureau may be in error and everybody knows how often these pre-season predictions of a ‘“‘total loss in fruit’ fail to come true. We have had them before and then harvested fairly good fruit crops. Na- ture has a way of repairing most of her losses and she many even re- pair this one this year. At any rate news has not come of the loss of Cali- fornia's fruit crop and Nebraska still has a chance left for a corn crop, so the country may be saved after all. A Great Training School. Among other services which the Union Pacific has performed during its existence has been the training of a very large number of high-grade rail- road men. One man after another has come up from the humblest position on this great railroad through the gradations of rank until~ he has reached the point where the Union Pa- cific could no longer advance him be- cause the higher offices were already ably filled. Then this man has stepped from a subordinate position with the Union Pacific to the head of some other great railroad. Scarcely a rail- road of importance in the United States is without a strong executive officer who has obtained his railroad education in the training school of the Union Pacifie. Mr. W. L. Pdrk is the latest of these experts to be graduated. He began as a brakeman and filled each position, step by step, until he was general su- perintendent of the system, whence he goes to be the responsible head of the Illinois Central. The list might be extended indefinitely, but the passing of Mr. Park serves to emphasize this {point, which is not generally recog- nized. The Union Pacific is a. great railroad, serving a great country, splendidly managed and able at any time to furnish experts in railroading who can take hold of another system and bring it up nearly, if not quite, to the established Unifon Pacific stan- dard, | ! We earnestly hope that our fellow citizens in Lincoln will not hide their light under the bushel in the discussion of their municipal problems in cal- cium. The open debate that has been in progress in the capital city con- cerning the ethics of banners and the desirability of buildings of more than two storfes in height Las been most edifying and we are sure that the gen- eral temper of Nebraska citizenship has been greatly fmproved thereby. We fear it would be something in the nature of depriving the state of its vested right If the city authorities should now retire behind closed doors and reach a conclusion without let, ting the public know the process whereby the end was attained. certain mine promoters defrauding stockholders out of $7,000,000 to $10,- 000,000, should be watched with In- terest, and if sustained the claims should establish another obstruction {to that species of criminality that en- ables a set of men to take money from credulous persons, glving nothing in return but some nicely embossed paper. Cheyenne and Wyoming courts have a chance to set a precedent for the mine fakir. The gathering of republicans of Ne- braska at the dinner in Omaha next month will be the prelude to the In- troduction of a number of booms that are being carefully incubated. Get your tickets early. The game Is open and anybody can play. A Custer county man advises dis- contented city workers (o come to the farm, where there are so many oppor- tunities for growth. But until the farm carries electric lighted, asphalt paved highways its lures Is not going to be irresistible, < ' — The State Commercial Clubs now in gession at Columbus have a fine op- portunity to deviop much that is of real interest and benefit to Nebraska. The program for the present session is an attractive one. e—— Fining a landlord because of unsan- itary condition of the premises for ! which he collected rents is placing the responsibility where It properly be |lobgs. When a landiord becomes as The suit at Cheyenne alleging that || interested in the care of his property as he is in the revenue he derives from it much that is now being com- plained of will be remedied. “Public sentiment,” cratic party, but to the things the democratic party stands for.” If Mr. Bryan can get any comfort out of that he is welcome to it Jarring Loose. Indianapolis News. The packers have made a slight reduc- tion in the price of pork, the butter trust has made a reduction of 3 cents a pound, and even pig iron Is lower. Eat hearty, consumer! Bolled Down. Washington Herald. Considerable cable expense might have been avolded had the colonel's Parls speech been wired In, “Be good, and you wil be happy.” And that would have told the entire story. Well Based Confidence. Kansas City Star. 1f Governor Hughes rules as soundly on the bench as he did in the vetolng.of the -cent fare bill, he will fully justity his clevation to the supreme court of the United States. Too Much of a Good Thing. Baltimore American. A young plunger in Wall street be- came melancholy over the fact that he always won In his ventures, and finally killed himself as the money came too easily. The same feeling which made Alexander the Great miserable because there were no more worlds to conquer, re- appears in this modern phase. Why Sclentists Grow Weary, Chicago Tribune. Mankind is slow to avall itself of the dis- coveries of sclence. It has been proved be- yond a doubt that & human being can exist In comfort without & stomach, thereby escaping many aches and pains inseparable from the possession of that organ, yet in- stances in which a man has parted volun- tarily with his stomach are exceedingly rare, if Indeed thers are such nstances on record at all. No wonder our scientific in- vestigators become discouraged at times; s0 much of thelr work goes for naught! HERE'S HOPING! Injury te Frult Crop Likely to De Exaggerated. Springtield Republican. It is probable that the reports of damage to frult in the middle west from the cold and snow will prove to be greatly exag- gerated. Rarely does the frult crop of any section escape being killed by frost at least once every spring—killed in belief and re- port at the time of the happening. One of? the western agricultural experiment sta- tions has found that apple blossoms in the pink stage can stand cold down to 20 degrees above zero; in full bloom the ther- mometer can fall to 2 degrees without do- ing materfal Injury. For pear blossoms in the same stage the lmits of cold endurance are given ms 20 and 27 degrees; and for peach blossoms 23 and 28 degrees. The lowest temperature reported from the cen- tral west in the storm which is sald to have done damage amounting to $30,000,000 or more among frufts and vegetables was 26 degrees. TARDY VINDICATION, Hot Bread Given ‘014 Place in N tion’s Alffections. Washington “Times. The secretary of the Department of Ag- riculture has issued a bulletin in defense of hot bread. This form of pabulum has long been regarded as marking the bound- ary between the north and south more dis- tinetly than did the rod and chain of Mason and Dixon. The steaming roll and the risen biscult, in which the willing but- ter melts, like summer rain in the parched earth, have been regarded as typifying the warmth of the hospitality which of- | fered them. They savored of the home and the delicate hands of the housewife rather than of the commercialism of the bakery. They made and still make in the land where they are Indigenous, a positive joy of the morning meal, rather than a hasty expedlent for bridging over the work of the early hours. They were too delicious not to come under the ban of the grave sclentists who, like the physiclan of Sancho Panza, delight in forbldding us to eat the tempting things set before us. They have been made the text of hygienle sermons and held up as a ready agency of certain suffering. Nobody except the sclentists and thelr echoes seemed to know just why hot bread should be full of Indigestion and misery. It was accepted as a fact, while the disciples of hot bread calmly continued, until a green old age, to enjoy the repast. Secretary Wilsonu, who comes from the west, may be regarded, from a sectional point of view, as an Impartial arbiter, and he has laughed away a nation's fears. Hot bread, he tells us, 18 as wholesome as any other kind of bread. It makes brawn and brain and conduces to the spirit of cheer- fulness. He is already the dean of the cabiuet. By acclamation the south will nominate him to his present position ‘for lie Our Birthday Book April 29, 1910, William Hayward, secretary of the re- publican national committes and chairman of the republican state committes, was born April 2, 1577, at Nebraska City. He is & graduate of the University of Ne- braska and {s famous as & foot ball player, a practicing lawyer, a former county judge, served in the Spanish war and car- ries the military title of colonel. Inci- dentally, right now, he is running for con- gress In the First Nebraska district Lorado Taft, the famous American sculp- tor, 1& just 5. He was born at Elmwood, 1iL. and his work has taken prizes in many national art exhibitions. Harry Payne Whitney, millionaire and sport, was born April 29, 1872, in New York. He last figured prominently as the person to whom Dr. Cook confided his secret on his return from his Polar expedition. Tom 8. Kelly, state manager of the Trav- cler's Insurance company, with offices in The Bee building, ls celebrating his 45th birthday. He is a Missourlan who has to be shown. John Urlon, cashier for Armour & Co. at South Omaha, was born April 2, 1871, at Elmer, N. J. He was in the banking business at Fargo, N. D., for ten years prior to accepting his present position in 1897, Frank H. Gulick, plano tuner, s 8 years old.~ He was born In Mount Carmel, Pa. and educated in the Omaha public schools | and Creighton college. He has been In the piano business as salesman and tuner for elghteen years. \ August Borglum, pianist and music teacher, is celebrating his 34 birthday to- A He was born in Bear Lake C'ty, 1daho, finishing his musical education in London and Paris. He is also secretary of the Omaha May Festival assoclation, APRIL says Governor | Folk, “turns not so mueh to the demo- | | between the offices of Doc. | legal | 29 Washington Life Some Interesting Fhases and Oonditions Observed &t the Natlon's Oapital In the Iast half dozen years newcomers from the west have the senate’'s tradition imposing on | new members respectful silonce for an Inde- finite time. Senator La Follette was the first Insurgent against the unwritten rule and what the Wisconsin senator left of it Senator Cumimins sent to the cemetery of has-beens. Nowdays the elder statesmen do not “view with alarm' the malden ef- forts of new members. They'sit up and take notice, eagerly measuring the breadth and depth of the new force. Senator Pur- cell of North Dakota delivered his “maiden speech” last Monday, his theme belng the pending railroad bill, and was listened to with flattering attention. “Sen- ator Purcell,” says the Washington Times, “Is a big man physically and has a big volce, It is not an unpleasant voice, despite its great volume. His dellvery Is good but he gave no suggestion of finished oratorical accomplishments. For nearly an hour he dissected the rallroad bill, finding fault here, glving a little praise there, but on the whole contending that the measure was not exactly what the country wants. After he had concluded democrats and republi- cans like congratulatedl him.” vigorous shattered “The sad case of Mr. Ballinger Is an- other exemplification of the truth of the old saying about the ingratitude of re- publies,”" writes the Washington cor- respondent of the Brooklyn Fagle. “Mr. Ballinger gave up a lucrative law practice to come to Washington. He didn't want to come, he says, but ylelded to the per- sistent pleadings of Mr. Taft. Immediately he became a target for attacks all over the country which have grown flercer month by month. “Now he Is spending the money he had accumulated against the future In a struggle against odds to save his reputa- ton. It s asserted by friends of Mr. Ballinger that the end of the present In- vestigation will leave him bankrupt, it not in debt. He has the highest priced attorney in the south and the best pub- lic land lawyer in the west. Both men have assistants, and they will spend at least eix months on this case. Their fees will be high. “Mr. Ballinger says he made a terrible mistake in first accepting office under Mr. Roosevelt. He got a telegram from Mr. Roosevelt one day of nearly 1,00 words, telling of the imperative need that he should accept the position of commissioner of the land office. After long hesitation Mr. Ballinger agreed to serve one year. He says he went into the Taft cabinet after similar persuasion.” Officlal guides, those who wear consplo- uous badges and conduct the uninitiated around and show them the sights of the capltol and the library are artists when it comes to acoustics, reports the Washing- ton Times. They know they must talk in order to appear to earn their 5 cents a head and they know also that there are some places where they cannot talk. One of these places 1s the chamber of the senate of the United States. Notwithstanding; the talk goes on. The gulde arranges when he has con- ducted a party into one of the senate gal- laries to take a positfon in front of his charges. He holds a concave derby hat be- fore his mouth and the sound of his volce is reflected backward. He technically vio- lates the rules, but he gets away with it The lecture of the gulde on the senate members, 13 interesting. It runs something like this: “Now, ladies and gentlemen, this is the senate chamber. That is the vice president presiding. The assistant secretary is read- ing a bill. Yes, those are the pages seated around the vice president. And now, ladies and gentlemen, you ses many senators of fame before you. There is Senator Root on the left, among the democrats, Not room on this side. Yes, with halr banged in front. Former secretary of state, you know. And there is Senator Balley, the orator. He Is one of the greatest orators wo have. Right behind him is Jeff Davis of Arkansas. You all know about him. Everybody does. Made a speech once on running an ofl pipe line from here to hell. “On the right there, thoss two talking together, they aro Senators Aldrich and Hale. They run the senate. They are lead- ers of the senate I should say. Right next there is Senator Lodge. Yes, the one with curly hatr. Right back of him is Senator Dolliver. He Is also a great orator. No, 1 don't know when he is going to make a speech. Nobody ever does. “Across overe there is the press gal- lery. That's where the reporters work Some people say they work. Can't prove it by me. It must have taken & lot of nerve for a man to start in the restaurant business right under the nose of Dr. Wiley and his pure food bunch, observes the Washington Times. When the Department of Agricul- ture, however offered u shack free of rent and a clear fleld for the patronage of the government clerks at noon hour they found & man to tackle the job. The shack Is only a small thers by & contractor. most significant point, affair left Its position is the for it sits right Wiley and the food sleuth, Solicitor McCabe. So here beneath the thumb of the eminent pure foodist, In danger of having his lemon ples nabbed 1 the meringue doesn't show direct and immediate descent from a hen, and of being hauled before the courts if a speck of 20-mule-team borax is found hid- ing In & cream puff—hers must be the ideal pure-food hang-out If such there be in all the land Well, the man has prospered in his ven- ture In a small way. There are no com- petitors near him and he gets the trade from most of the employes. Some there are, however, who Will not be converted. It seems natural that there should be some ono whose love of the familiar war cry, “one egg, draw one black’ must keep them to the cherished and maligned quick and germful haunts whére men feast at noon. But that such a one should be Doc, Wiley passeth the understanding of the whole department. Scorning the germ- less ple, the pasteurized coffes and the bofled ham, Doc. Wiley generally walks a halt mile from the office to an obscure lttle dating house. Its patrons speak of it as “The Dirty Spoon.’ The government's chief chemist was re- itly discovered &t the Dirty Spoon ‘Fletcherizing & “ham an' " in perfect con- tentment. Inquiry of the proprietor re- sulted [n the Information that Doe. Wiley was one of his best patrons—though they a1an't know he was. Grafts on Newspaper Tre Springfield Republican, Colonels Bryan and Roosevelt call them- selves newspaper men. Mr. Bryanbell that the newspapers will grow In power as time goes on, and he Is right, Mr. Roose- velt regards the Outlook as & side issue, while with Mr. Bryan the Commoner |s hin relfable staff. 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The claim in behalf of the automobile tires that they are cheap because they ‘‘go 80 far,” recalld the explanation of Wash- ington's being able to throw a silver dol- lar across the Potomac on the theory that a dollar went farther in those days. Chicago's husky girl emblematic of “I will' chuckles merrily and applauds the live one who went after husband’s “affin- ity” with a rollingpin. Surely that's the short and ugly weapons in such emer- gencies, For a square deal, though, the chasing should not be limited to the affin- ity. Cardinal Merry del Val received his early education in England at a private school near Slough, + where his propensity for playing practical jokes procured for him the punning nickname of ‘“Merry Devil." The cardinal secretary of state is one of the few members of the Sacred college who can speak English with fluency, and is the only cardinal who plays golf. Anthony Mestrick of near Hastings, Co- lumbia county, Pennsylvania, appears to be the champlon potato farmer of western Pennsylvania. He still has on hand 4,000 bushels of potatoes of last year's crop which altogether amounted to 8,000 bushels, The hard winter kept him from filling orders he recelved, and his selling price now is considerably lower than he would have recefved then. Women's “skyscraper” heeled shoes.have come in for another drubbing, this time an offical one in Chicagg. Building inspectors have decided, after caretul scrutiny of fire- escapes on bulldings where large numbers of women are employed, that the French heels are a menace to life and limb in case of panie. “The slim, pointed heels would catch between the iron slats of the steps of most fire escapes,” said one Inspector. FIGURES FROM THE Notables of Bygone Days Passing Off the Stage. New 'York World. obltuary colims furnish interesting flgures in ST, The roster of past. At Portiand, Ore., died George H. Wil- llams, Grant's attorney general and the last surviving member of hls cabinet, and at Paterson, N. J., Rear-Admiral Entwistle, Qlstinuished for his conduct In the battle of Manila Bay, but more Interesting here for the reason that hls first sea service was on one of Farragut's gunboats. At Char- lottesville, Va., died General Thomas L. Rosser, who was a cadet at West Point when ordered into the field by President Lincoln, but who resigned to cast his lot with the confederacy. Another West Pointer, General §. G. French, who had the double distinction of being the academy's oldest graduate and the oldest surviving confederate general, died at Florola, Ala., aged 93 years, Two ladles with a unigue prestige as war-time social leaders and hostesses have passed away—Mrs. Frances A. Scharff, whose house at the ecapital was a fav- orite rendezvous in Lincoln's administra- tion, and Miss Julla Custis Lee,-who was preminent in Washington soclety in the early '00s. Among war-time figures of The New another a great HEAR THE lesser note was George P. Floyd, recently dead in Minneapolis at the age of 8, who while a friend of Lincoln, had the sin- gular distinction of driving Jefferson Davis to his Inauguration. In this city died Joseph W. Woods, a veteran telegrapher, who was the first man In New York to learn that Sumter had been fired on. In Brooklyn, dled Mrs. Lucinda P. Wil- Mlams, and at Whittler, Cal, Simeon Brownell, each of whom had assisted many negro slaves to escape from bondage by the “underground railroad.” The deaths are reported of two negroes with a pe- cullar claim to notice—a former slave of Jefferson Davis, who ran away at the outbreak of the war and became & cor- poral in the Unfon army, and a Hannibal (Mo.) negro, who wa tav to read and write by Mrs. U. 8. Grant These latter were humble figures on tho stage of events; thelr roles were small, yet it is profitable to note their passing for the memories it awakes of a romantic past. GENIAL JABS. “What did vou think.' asked the stage manager of the playgoing friend, “of the storm scene we had in the play?" “Fine,” answered the friend tainly was struck by the lightninj timore American; T Wareham Long—You've heerd o' the milk o' human kindness, hain't yuh? Goodman Gonrong—Yes, but I hain' ‘never seen any but wou's been skimmed.— Chicago Tribune, cer- —Bal- Philanthropist—\Will vou subscribe $ to help a poor man who is troubled with loss of memory? Financler—No, I won't. A lost memory is as good as a fortune :hese days.—Life. \ . ““Have you thought of the expense of liv- ing if you marry my daughter? Have you remembered the bills?" “Bllls have no_terror for me, sir.” “They haven't? Why not?" “Nobody would trust me, sir."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. “Men don't go out between the acts as much as they used to,” sald the matinoe &irl. “No,” replied the old playgocr; “the average show nowadays makes It unwise o do wo. The musie by the orchestra I likely to be the best part of the perform ance." ‘ashington Star. ““Are you going to have summer?" “I think not." “Aren’t you going to try thing?” “Oh, rage. a garden thls to raise any- yes; I'm trying to raise —Baltimore American the mort- “That pugillst has a tremendous reach.'” Yes, but his antagonist has the niftiest voeabulary."—Chicago Tribune Janitor—Who was dat whistlin’ tube? Helper—Woman wants more steam Junftor—Hit de third times wit de hammer. “Now, your conduct during the trial ma have considerable effect on the jury.' “Ah, quite 80," responded the ultra su defendant. “And should I appeur ested or just mildly bored?'—Kansa Journal. down de on de third floor front plpe a couple o Boston Heral “ WHEN WILLIE KISSES TEDDY. Springfield (Mass.) 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