Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 1, 1910, Page 10

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Tom Taggart still has Lick Springs left, though. “Some big corporation will be sure to grab Jeffries' press agent. “Was Hughes afraid of defeat?” asks a democratic paper. Piffle. e The defeat of “‘Pluto” Taggart prob- &bly will not bear the water market, ?nu;h. sane Fourth?" Why reserve sanity for one day in the year? e e e Stilt it is much nicer to call a man Ja auburn-haired insurgent than a red- Plded rebel. “;A Michigan minister says singing makes the devil mad. Can you blame bim, sometimes? —_— Now if Mr. (f;rneg\e can coax the dove to fly into the temple of peace it will be all right. . With the census man and the asses sor both at large the,average citizen has a poor chance to escape, Senator liepew says he 18 going to rope, but he has not tried to make anybody believe T. R. sent for him. The colénel has not aroused Eu- rope's curiosity to the point where anybody has asked to see the big stick. B — % That senatorial endorsement serves to identify Mr. Kern as the last demo- cratie vice presidential nominee, any- £ The! collapse in 'the South Pole &heme should not be taken as any r,tlacuon on the stability of the pole 1tself, It was a cowardly trick to sick a whiole “herd of elephants onto Uncle Joe's town when he was away from home. oo Before blaming him, remember that the fellow with an axe to grind always has to have somebody else to turn the stone, — cAndrew Carnegie can erect his pal- aces of peace, but he cannot stop the fighting between South American re publics. —_—— Why not add a sporting department to the Congressional Record and put Mr, Sulzer in charge? It might cheer him up. ! Dick Croker says he is going to come back to America and take his place with Tammany. Is there still a Tammany? —_—— 1t will be interesting to hear from the colonel's own lips the pitiful tale of how those Europeans tried to keep up with him, Just-as the tendency of prices starts down the railroads file a new list of higher rates, which helps solve the problem, of course. ' — If the Queen of May will begin her rale by reforming the weather man she ' will go down in history as one of the good sovereigns. . p—t A A'Hot Springs paper has swatted Dixie a hard one by referring to Gov- ernor Vardaman as “the spokesman tor the, entire south.” $ e )jusv now engaged in a campaign of ad- Christian Endeavor. { The laymen's missionary movement, which has come to be generally recog nized as the most potent, agency of religlous propaganda {late years, is taking steps |tremch itself against the |hood of a reaction in sentiment | when the tidal wave of early enthusi-| | asm passes off. It will hold a natlonal | | eongress in Chicago May 3-6 for the purpose of laying definite plans for| | permanent work with a systematic or This will tend to meet a |criticism offéred from within as well {as without the movement and to strengthen its already firm standing in public estimation | In an enterprise as far-reaching and | [ influential as this it is natural for men | to inquire as to its origin, who first| suggested the idea? A young man in | the city of Washington, a member of | the Christian Endeavor, is the real au thor of the Laymen’s Missionary move- ment, according to the word of Rev. | Franets ®B. Clark, founder and presi | dent of the Christian Endeavor. And | Dr. Clark is not alone in ascribing to | the Christian Endeavor the origin of | many other of the aggressive forces of Protestant evangelization today. When Dr. Clark founded the Chris tian Endeavor at Portiand, Me., in 1881 upon very humble lines, he did not foresee ifs destiny, and yet it has extended its membership to all lands and to the islands of the sea and is practical in en- | likeli to | ganization {ding other millions in the next two years. It takes the child and holds it through youth on into manhood and womanhood, gives .it its early training incchurch work and thereby supplies the adult forces with their material. Though more aggressive than ever, the Christian Endeavor is not so much in the public eye today as it was some years ago, but stands back of the Lay- men’s ‘Misslonary movement and other eimilar agencies as the author and in- spiration. Father Endeavor Clark, as he is called, has glven these twenty-nine years of his life to the work, never re- ceiving a salary, paying his own ex- penses on five tours of the world, go- ing ten times to Burope and making countless trips across the American continent. It is this fiber of Christian manhood that has made laymen's movements possible and that must keep them going if the work begun by the Christian Endeavor is to be carried to ultimate success. A Forward Movement. The passage by the House of Lords of the British Parliament of the Lloyd- George budget for 1909 amounts to an admission on the part of the conserva- tives that the reform features of the budget are healthy. When the na- ture of the bill was made public a year ng& it raised a tremendous sterm of opposition. Debate was high and loud and the bill was furiously de- nounced by the opposition as being most revolutionary in its nature. The government admitted that some of the propositions in the bill were novel, not in theory, but in practice. It was ad- mittedly a long step forward ip the form of taxation. Especially was this true in those provisions which contem- plated the assessment for purposes of taxation of the unearned increment of land and for the levying on the enjoy- ment of luxuries. Another distinctly novel feature was the provision which tended to discourage race suicide by allowing unusual exemptions to fath- ers of families. After the budget had been read in the House of Commons one facetious London stock broker put out a sign, ‘‘Sell South Africans. Buy baby carriages.’ The lords absolutely balked at the budget and Parliament was dissolved, the matter going to the country. The liberals were returned, not with abso- lute power, but with ability to control by forming a working coalition with the laborites and the Irish nationalists. This is undoubtedly accepted by the lords as amounting to an endorsement |of the Lloyd-George theory of taxa- | | tion, which is directed to place the bur. | den of tax on those best able to bear it, | The progress of this experiment will be watched closely In the United | States, where many novel methods of |raising revenue for public expenses |are continually being tried. Its most | interesting phase is that of taxing the {unearned increment of land, which is, |at least, a step in the direction of sin- gle tax as explained by Henry George | and his school of economists. Kill the Pests. | Intensified farming and soil conser- | vation lose much of their value when | |not coupled with an intelligent combat | 1ul the pests that destroy crops. In 1909 the money value of our crops was estimated at $8,000,000,000, and ientific. experts estimate that fully| 10 per cent of this amount was lost by damage done by insects and another| 10 per cent from fungus diseases, making a total destruction of about $1,600,000,000. A bill is now pending before con-| gress which seeks to prevent some of this vast waste by prohibiting the man- ufacture and traffic in adulterated and misbranded Insecticides and fungicides, The bill is based on the result of in- vestigations which show that fraudu- lent remedies have been in common use for years in agriculture and horti- culture, doing tremendous mischief. It would seem necessary that the government exert every influence in the direction that this measure points, or else see. much of its work of acien- tific farming and fertilizing soil neu- tralized. It requires no argument to show that a healthy plant is subject pests just as in an imperfect plant, and that labor spent in increasing the | productivity of the sofl or etability of |land and seca | vegetation is positively | |80 long as the same degree of care|lation and acute difficulty in provid- thrown away and intelligence is not exercised to ward killing the pests. Thousands of dollars have been spent by the Depart ment of Agriculture in working out the control of these pests, but if it is unable to recommend the proper rem- edies to the people after working out | the process the latter becomes useless and the money ha% been thrown away An investigation made in tion with the consider connec of armament but the ability of defe its forces or potency se, feed Its statistics in pauper to on disclose popu frightful increases for To it the inquiry ing employment masses | pursue this dismal further might be stated that 125 persons died of starvation in England and Wales in the last year and still keep within of | ficial facts. Incidentally of marriages and births | diminishing The apparent the number steadily solution does not Britain seem to be even to now | 'took the | | wash it down,” One | ion of this bill |of the great handicaps in working out | body and mind. It equally foolish to attempt to of the other categorical tions, except to remark that here was tired an answer any ques } a full-blooded American citizen in the hey-day of his happy manhood, with a lot of time his hands and a bully time and on good chance to have a he chance That all to it, colonel Cheer up and remember that “burgoo with a thimbleful of the best ever to is there is and you need not stop the thimbleful at If, as that Harvard professor says showed that some of the lead arsenate | the destiny of its army of unemployed | mosquitoes caused the collapse of an- in common use by tained nothing but compound that would either kill or seriously injure trees. Paris green was also condemned for spraying pur- poses, as it contains soluble arsenic which will destroy foliage. On the other hand, it was shown that much of the formaldehyde used in the north west to prevent grain rust, instead of containing a 40 per cent strength, con tained only 10 per cent. In this case the result was simply that the formal- dehyde did no good and kept the farmer from preventing rust his grain fruit growers con white arsenic, a to Song Birds and Salaries. Oscar Hammerstein has retired from grand opera. The sport of princes and millionaires will know him no more. His reason for going out is that to continue would mean bank- ruptey. vagarious manifestations of artistic temperament by the high-priced song birds he has had caged at the Manhat- | tan opera house. Mr. Hammerstein went into the business as a “bull,"” in- creasing his offers of payment for service above those fabulous prices al- ready prevailing at the Metropolitan, and now he is reaping what he was then sowing. The singers alone have profited. Nowhere else in the world have such prices been paid for mere songs as were given by the management of the rival opera houses in New York, and nowhere else did high-priced per- formers show such capricious and un- reliable tempers as were exhibited in New York during the last season. Se- cure from want, these gifted individ- uals showed no inclination to recog- nize an obligation to the public willing to spend its dollars on them. Per- formance after performance was called off because some one or other of the great stars of opera declined to appear. One refused to sing because she did| not like the way another singer was dressed; another refused to go on be- cause she did not like the way another member of the company stood on the stage. One of the male members of the galaxy declined to sing because an- other male member of the same com- pany was sitting in a box looking at him. This list of trivial and inconse- quential excuses could be greatly ex- tended were it necessary. It is suffi- cient to make most of us satisfied with our plebeian tastes and willing to en- dorse Mr, Hammerstein's return to vaudeville. It may be in days to come that these autocratic singers will re- alize that the goose who laid golden egg has been slain, and themselves. In passing it is pleasing to note that Mr. Hammerstein receives from the Metropolitan company $2,000,000 for his contracts, costumes, scenery and other portable remnants of the Man hattan Opera company. This salvage will enable him to get out with a profit of about $1,000,000 for his four years’ work as an impresario, a fact that will entitle Mr. Hammerstein to a share in any sympathy that the public is likely to bestow on the song birds. the by Are Britons Falling Back? Is Great Britaln in a state of de-, cadence? Some students of the times believe it is. One English writer who has collected statistics on conditions in his country takes this view. He believes that this great power whose sun never sets on its dominion s steadily losing ground socially, indus. | trially and politically, while other na tions are advancing. In his view in- vention is one of the important in- dexes to the condition of any country and on this point he says: During the last twenty years, with the exception of the Parsons steam turbine, no invention of prime importance has ema- nated from Great Britain. Practically all the inventions which have so profoundly influenced the soclal and industrial lifg of late years have come to us from abroad. This question may be studied with | more equanimity since it is opened up by a loyal subject of the British crown whose chief concern seems to be that his people shall arouse rrom their na- tional lethargy and, if possible, regain their position among the world powers, Pursuing the line of scientific in- vention, he points out that electricity in its commercial uses has been de- veloped almost entirely by foreigners and that nearly every innovation in in- dustry has been made by the American. He cites other forms of industrial ad- vancement introduced by several Eu- ropean nations, but none by England. Applications for patents by Britishers are steadily decreasing, while increas- ing by forelgners. What patents Britons are taking out are of a trivial character, he says, as compared with those .of the foreigners. But it is not necessary to consult this authority to know that financially Great Britain is not the power it for- merly was. Its national debt is ac- cumulating by alarming degrees, with- out a corresponding increase of re- sources. It no longer is able to hold to its vaunted claim as the great lend- ing nation. Indeed, if that country should be plunged into war tomorrow fo the ravages of these parasitical - its greatest problem would not be that '.4 The deficit he ascribes to the | is its lack of contiguous farming ter-| | ritory. i Treatment of Criminals, Chicago judges, Olsen | Two and Gemmill, out of the depth of long ex- | without some of our vigllant and alert | perience on the beneh, principally in |college professors to cry out these pit-| dealing with offenders against the| criminal code, have spoken words that | deserve deep and caretut consideration. | | These jurists have determined after| many that man s naturally | |prone to break the law, and that the| | surest protection society has against the criminal is the certain administra- | tion of punishment. Whether men natural bent be for evil or for good, it is conclusively plain that an unfortu nately large percentage of the race di | rect their efforts into wrong channels. It may be worth while for the student of soclology or psyschology to pursue | these misdirected individuals with the | student’s quest for information, but for the purposes of society in general | it is desired, first of all, that a check be put on the wrong doing. The re form of the individual is a secondary consideration, for the reason that so- clety owes little to the individual,| while the individual owes everything to soclety. If it be possible to accom- | plish the reform of the convict erim- inal the result justifies the effort. But before this reform is undertaken so- ciety has a right to make sure that the crime will not be repeated. For these reasons the judges main- tain, and others who have given the matter attention are convinced, that certain punishment is the most potent deterrent known. If the criminal is| assured in advance that detection will | be followed by the tation of a pen alty commensurate with the nature of | the offense he is likely to halt before | entering on his fillegal design. A difficulty in the way of the law has been the mistaken zeal of emotional reformers, who seek to interpose the sheltering character of mercy before the offender has had an opportunity to “bring forth fruit meet for repent- ance.”” If these well-meaning persons can be brought to appreciate the value of properly applied. punishment they will see the desirability of assisting the cause of justice to the general body in preference to the coddling of the crim- inal. If it can be impressed on the offender’'s mind that the penalty ex- acted from him is not, taken in the spirit of vengeance, but for compensa- tion, and he be given an opportunity to contemplate this truth while work- ing out his salvation, his ultimate re. | | form will be as certain, and probably | more lasting, than if he is allowed to | go “‘unwhipped of justice” because a touching plea has been rendered in his behalf, and some philanthropist has promised to stand sponsor for his good behavior. \ Get the Burgoo, Colonel, Colonel Watterson, oppressed by the sins of a nation, like Habakkuk of old, lifts up his voice in despair and exclaims, “Oh, Lord, how long shall 1 cry It is of record that the Lord let the minor prophet cry quite awhile and visited not His fearful vengeance upon the Chaldeans until, in the utter ex tremity of his hope, Habakkuk pro claims, ““1 will stand upon my watch and set me upon my tower.' Then the vision came Mr. Watterson is alarmed, not only that his nation is going pell-mell to |the demnition bow-wows, but that in | the crisis of its peril it is contronted by even a than that | trom which he would save it. It fs “the man on horseback’ again, “‘the most startling figure that has loomed up on the horizon of history since Napoleon Bonaparte,'—Theo- dore Roosevelt, seeking ‘‘autocratic power, self-perpetuating power, a benevolent despot,” who would selze the reins of this government and drive on in his mad race to imperialism, treading under foot the rights of his helpless fellow beings! Worse than Napoleon from Elba, he is Caesar, flushed with the glow of conquest, fresh from his invasion of the Gaul He comes, this mighty conqueror, | from lion-hunting in Africa, king-tam- ing in Europe, to culminate his tri-| umphal march through the nations of the world In a demonstration surpass- ing that for Dewey, down the bay and along the river front and through the streets of a thousand cities of the land! And for what? Why, to pave the way to his perpetual power as president, Gentlemen, in the language of Ed- mund Burke, “Long enough have we been cajoled, derided and'deceived— it ts time for us to act!" Listen further to Colone! son's proof: Does such a tour de force come by chanee, or is it planned and prearranged far ahead by keen foresight and skillful stagecraft? Why Africa in the first place? Then, if Cairo needs must be, why Rome? Why Vienna and Budapest? Why | Berlin? Why Paris? Why London? Nothing could be more convincing. It would be folly to suggest that this man Roosevelt, after seven strenuous years in office, had sought the quiet, sedate jungles of Africa, filled with feroclous beasts, as a place to rest his vears greater menace | | Watter- clent Rome and Greece, we should lose no time in declaring war on these pests, which might, at any moment, plunge this nation into the same abyss of destruction. What would we do falls for us? The democrats who are thundering about the difference in republican opinion as to details of the present tariff law, probably forget the Wilson Gorman tariff that split their party in 1894, the bill which, when it came back President Cleveland signature, drew from him demnation of ‘“‘party perfid veto to for his the and con “Gumshoe Bill" Stone, “‘the gentle. man from Missouri” on the democratic side of the senate, made a speech the |other day against the resolution favor- investigation Light in ing an into the cost living eyes, of any hurts his form Woodrow Wilson says the country must look to the west for its new leaders and the New York World as rts that no man’s opinions are more uniformly sound than those of Prince- ton’s president. It Brothers Gaynor and Hearst keep up this cross-fire of telling tales out of school, the country may get a pretty good line on at least two of the coming candidates for presidential honors. The St. Louis judge who decided that “title to a seat in a street car rests in the man who gets it first,’ must have been trying to vindicate the end-seat hog. A New York paper is beginning al- ready to commiserate the west on its crop failure. Oh, do not worry, we will have enough left to feed you folks on as usual. There are a few plums left in the gov- ernor's basket, but most of them are’ not worth having.—Baltimore American. Those are usually the kind that get left. Some of those tears shed over Gov- ernor Hughes’ going on the supreme bench and forsaking the reform forces in New York look a little crocodiligh. . “Back to the farm,” shouts Mr. Hill and Mr. Watterson commands, "Hn_&-k to the constitution.” Keeps a fellow constantly on the trot [ —— Moral Exhortatl w York Wao France can now appreciate the kind of moral exhortation that the United States has been experiencing for the last fifteen years. If it does not feel uplifted it mains a country without ideals. n France. re- Let it Go at | Denver Republican. i After all, perhaps it Is better for foreign | noblemen to be permitted to unload spuri- | ous old masters on the millionaires than | the spuriors new masters with which sev- eral of thelr daughters have been encum- bered Musing from Mutton to Pork. Louisville Courier-Journal. If Mary had a little Yamb that followed her peregrination, she could drop in at the butcher's shop and become as rich as all creation. Bt If Willie's sedentary pig, that eats to satiation, were (ransferred into currency, what a Rockefellerization! Ax the Cards Lie. Philadelphia Bulletin As the cards le In congress just now, it would appear that the members are torn by the conflicting desires of putting | through Taft's program and of getting away to patch up their political fences at | home. When: such an occaslon arlses it is generally noticeable that the fences get the most attention, Pledges and Performance, Indtanapolls < News. Men violate pledges as much oy failing to carry them out as by legislating posi- tively against them. And the question before the republican party Is one of car- rying out the pledges made by the party to the people. No political organization is free to dlsregard its pledges. We are inclined to believe, therefore, that Mr. Taft will be able to get some good.things | done, and that congress will see the folly | of turning its back on the' reform’ pro- | gram. Even the senate Is likely to feel the force of public opinion, and to yield to some extent to it. | | Our Birthday Book May 1, 1910. James McCrea, president of the Penn- sylvania raflroad, was born May 1, 1843, in Philadelphia. He entered the rallroad ser- vice as rodman in 165, and has stayed with it unt{l reaching hy present high po- sition at the head of |the Pennsylvania | system three years ago! James Ford Rhodes, the historian, |Is 62. He was born in Cleveland, O., and his | chief work is & history of the United States sincs 1530, filling elght large vol- umes, Stmon N. Patten, professor of political economy in the University of Pennsyl- vania, was born May 1, 1862 at Bandwich, 1l Dr. Patten was ralsed on a farm, and after studylng (i Germany became o of the priucipal American authorities in economic theory. John A. T. Hull, congressman from the Des Moinces, la., district, was born May 1, 1841, in Sabine, O. He served with dis- tinetion in the union army,.and has been a pronfinent figure in lowa polities. ' for many years. would- be | sas | SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT. Boston Herald: The Spokane finiste as abandored the puly he 1ving In a re )t fanciful theories and npr nd de 1 Mmselt candidat d '1 who brcaus whs wctical ideas t nEress. a life pe « do and never Américan: In ehurch n may even find hi sthe more fittle | Presbyterian Lineoln, Neb the Honorable William Jennings Bryan wa |ordained as elder last Sunday. This is in the line of lay orders in that denomination, but it comes next to the order of the min Ister, who in effect 18 a preaching elder Why should not the silver-tongued one o A step farther? Why not take full orders Jand go forth with the everlasting evangel his {ips?. Mr. Bryan is known to have for the pulpit and he has ad mirable addresses of a religlous nature that | he has delivered the country ove be thing unique and Interesting in Amerfean politics for one who has repeat- | edty for t to ¢ ) Ppulpit Springfield Republican port of the New “York I propert | durir observes a hodest A leaning ru he presidency nter In the annual ation of Trinity church ng that the value of its fnereased by nearly $500,000 . the rector, Dr. Manning. Trinity parish is essentially organization.” It might be ha come in for by Corpos show has a mis added th [ not & 1t work 11t 18 not o impressive the yearbook makes number of during the aleo of late missionary outsiders assets §14,600,000, communic W, | The ted Nave communi- music 18 very ' elaborate re compared with those gen people’s churches ir district doubts are inspired the advantages of enormous church dowments. A rich church, like rich man can best forward refgion by ceasing to be rich total nts 7. increasc year four mission churches o | cants, | “uppor but n the results e the | same as to en- FAME'S WATERLOOL0O. Chicago News finable offense |tinger in a fine is only 85, 80 it may have with justifiable mayhem Baltimore American: A town in Nehraska With the appropriate name of Waterloo has passed an ordinance prohibiting barbers from eating onlons in business houre, If they do so, they will 'no longer be in good |odor before the law New York Tribune: A rvather striet ordi- ;nmm'- relative to barbers has been adopted |In Waterloo, Ta. A= it neglects to punish with death the practice of deluging a customer with ‘bay rum without Ms con sent, it is a dismal fallure. Pittsburg Dispatch: A Nebraska town has passed an ordinance making it unlaw- |ful f6r barbers to eat ontons during work- ing hours. In oréer to be fair the [should pass un ordiance making |lawful for barbers-patrons to eat |during shaving hours, Chicago Tribune: In" Wat Neb |has been made an offense punishable by a fine of $5 for a barber to eat onfons he- ™ nm 7 a. m and 9 p. m. Waterloo bark who consider such a city ordinance oppre sive are at liberty 10 move over into Elk- horn or Klorence, where they can cat any- thing thev choose. To some extent this is fstill'a free countr. Des’ Moines Register and Leader: festly, In for custome Waterioo, a barber mouth, Neb. to put his But the to be joinea counct it onlons un- Mani- the talkative barber was the indi- sought to reach; but they overreached The- impossibility. of « defining “gossip” mighit not be an ihsuperable obstacle for a Judge of mimble mindi but to cut a barber off “ from the inalienable right of free speech, any novice will say, is an ‘attack on the constitution whigh not. alone -in- validates the measure, but smacks of both anarehy and monarchy. i P —— PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE, If Mr. Halley's show will come closer to | the Jegal closing hour of § p. m., a much larger audience will brihg §by to theé box office. Fritz Augustus Heinze is on trial in New York. And Butte 2,000 miles away Fickle fate oft plays shabby tricks on copper sports The draught has, been broken in Arkan by a decision of the supreme court that it is lawful to. sell native wine in packages of five galions or less. A Englishman is going to gantic pill factory .in. New York Dick Croker {x coming -home. Isn't pill enough,.for a defenseless communi Colonel Geor; Harvey of Harper's Weekly delicately insinuates that colonels don’t amount to much anyhow, particularly the esteemed Colonel Roosevelt and Colonel Bryan: Rital astronomers are diligently the 15,000000-mile tail of and handing the anxious reader tales of their own vintage. Ample fdom on both to tie the can Right on the heels of the earthquake at Atlantic City comes ablue penciled contradiction, coupled with ex- pert assirance that the trémor was caused | by a landlord jumpihg delinquent | boarder start a gi- And « ane docking report of an George Barrie of Philadelphia is the lat- | est nero within reach of a Carnegle medal His business house bears the street number | 1313 and his automobile carries the same woeful figures. But He dotes on the hoodoo thirteen, and waxed fat in person and in purse despite his bold deti of superstition. The author of the rallroad crossing sign, “Stop! Look! Listen!" who charged $2,000 | for the mental job, is as one tied to a post in & race with the Chicago man who won & judgment fee of $5,000 for one word. “Is It legal for me to marry him on hjs death-bed?’ 4 woman asked. “Yes, an- swered the lawyer, who after the funeral sent in a bill for $00,000. A jury sald $35,000 was enough and some over 1t would | showing that vidual whom the councllmen of Waterloo | | Halley's comet SERMONS BOILED-DOWN. No mar who dodg: A man he does Some n'bo falthful to divine daily dutles. < gets tired of his religlon when K at it to cure the hop tige casler to seem fit with ink filling 1t than to be oth with t to live an (bout erity Kkely to have always Vs sin e he endea me's happine It's no The countg move for thar success looking call most harmle v lonely plac walking with God & amusement Is pois the o men Tt who are sote To be gulded by the senses alone i« w thoug ship. The the golden never hus | » talk to his friends about his plety One of the uld let the compuss steer (he thing: wbout exposing wolve p will turn and to rend y DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES “Why don't you to tea some evening, 1 don't believe mother. He's Detroit’ Free voung map yp 2 Press. contirme Aro they we Lhey gave Harper's ella la its teeth Ithy? wby an zar He—What in_the ring She—Oh about base they seript kind of stone darling Jack, aeat, | all diamenas Very expensiv would at s voti None whatever ) wouldn't "keep me tying to explain to her what about. "=\ ashington Star objection woud you have to Mr. Groucl he I8 voung eplled Wigwag o that two 1t s pet theor an live as cheaply as one Youngpop—Huh! —1t's piain to be were never the father of twin delphia Record mine seen Phila- Vicar (severely) was and sorry, Mrs. Smith, to pbserve that your husband walked out of church in the mid- dle of my sermon last Sunday Mis. nith—0, vou really must excuse Im, sir; ‘es a somnambulist, and walks i is sleep, you - A, P, 1 surprised Squire Durnitt (of Lonelyville)—Our town's g0t the four biggest llars in the state Uncle Welby sh_(of Drearyhurat)--1 guess that's Tig You're three of ‘em Who's the fourth?—Chicago Tribunc | ‘And vou say you love me?’ Devotedly!™ “With the cost of living as high as it 132" ‘Indeed 1 do, and when the cost of living is less 1 will prove my love by making you my wife."—Huuston Post 1 madam, but the way that » aisle Ix staring at you must weive: Do you wish me (o in- Pardo man acros; be very off terfere ‘Oh. no. thank Your husband! 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