Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 6, 1910, Page 6

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Mr. Hearst will have to get a new megaphone. —_— The Macedonian “Who will help Mr. Bryan?" — cr} Ten yeat’s more of fibbing, girls, the census man has.gone. —— e That must have been a totem pole the natives handed Dr. Cook. —_— It was tulips, not two-lips, Dutch girls pressed on the colonel. — If Mr. Asquith keeps on he may get those lords to eating out of his hlnd. " the It is suggested that*even tbc brlber is entitled to his dues. Sure, open the door. ’ May day started houleelelnlng in the state of 1llinois as well as Chicago, it seems. America’s natural respect for age was shown in the case of Edward Pay- gon Weston. ——— Lee O'Neil Browne ought at least be glven a chance to explain how he come by that name. Wonder what member of its staft the Outlook will assign to cover the Jeft-Johnson fight. Insurgency at Wnnhlnm;n does not | appear to lessen the president's enjay~' ment of a ball game. “‘College girl compelled to eat oys- ters blindfolded.” Taking a mean ad- vantage of a poor, blind oyster. ——— 8t. Louls speaks of having “five sky shows.” Ringmaster Hicks has gone Brother Barnum two better, evidently. not a candidate. for any declares Mr. Bryan. Cer- tainly not, there is no election on now. —— “I am The pen may be mightier than the sword, but the latter has got the artist's brush beat in this game of love, An Indiana man gets a divorce be- cause his wife chews tobacco. An- other case of man trying to monopolize 211 the rights Mr. Roosevelt had to wait an hour WARD ROSEWATER. | uation | tanatically | necessary to harmonious, | much that he did insert. |several references to war, Crisis in Congre The striking thing about the whole sit- to the impartial observer is the evidently sincere conviction on the part each side that it Is itselt loyal ‘to, re- publicanism and wholly in the right and that the other, either wiltully recreant or | eIt deceived, is more or less consclously a band of public enemies The Associated Press in its dispatch from Washington has thus summed up all there is to this hubbub in congress | between the so-called ‘‘regulars” and insurgents"—a fight for personal ag- grandizement on each side Instead of a faithful effort to further the inter ests of the republican party and sub- serve the public welfare by carrying out the Taft program of legislation. It Sepator Cummins and Senator Aldrich could step aside—if that be successful actlon—and let things proceed on their merits, there might be no occasion whatever for this apprehension as to the fate of the Taft measures and if these factional leaders nad the inter- est of their party and people as much at heart as they have theéir own per-| sonal interests, they would be willing | to step aside, | The great trouble is that ambitious | leaders in their rivalry to win have read into the president's proposals| and measures much that he never placed there or intended should be there, and have read out of them | What the president recommended to congress is what the republican party promised the people in its platform in 1908, and what the people said they wanted when they gave the republican party their votes, The people, therefore, can have no interest in the selfish am- bition of the leaders on either side. Of their taking up the time that should be devoted to business with private quarrels, the country is heartily sick and tired. hat it demands is real action and it is sure to manifest its approval or disapproval, as the ulti- mate case may be, at the polls this fall. The insurgents, who arrogate (o themselves the right of voicing the Roosevelt policies and attacking the regulers as the enemies of those poli- cies, have bitterly condemned the pool- ing provision in the railroad bill. But they must be deluding themselves to think that the people have forgotten Mr. Roosevelt's position on this very proposition. In his message to con- gress December 3, 1906, the former president said: The anti-trust law should not prohibit combinations that do no injustice to the public, still less those the existence of which fs on the whole of benefit to the public. In that same message he also said: Often raliroads would like to combine for the purpose of preventing a big shipper from maintaining improper advantages at the expense of small shippers and of the general public. Such a combination, in- stead of being forbidden’ by law, should be favored. Since the insurgents have chosen to criticise President Taft and attack the regulars in congress on the charge that they are not “carrying out the Roose- velt policies,”” it is well that we turn back to some of these policies and see just what they are. The truth is there has been too much deception, too much sophistry, and not enough down- right honesty and fairness in this fac- tional fight and the men who have talked loudest about ‘“Roosevelt poli- cies” may not after all be the ones who have done most for those policies. Roosevelt and Peace. Golonel Roosevelt could think of only enough to fill one column to say on peace before the Nobel Prize com- mittee and he padded that out with His Sar- bonne speech in its full text comprised a page. One may scarcely hope to re- sist the humor of this. But it Is this paradoxical aspect of the Roosevelt character that him a powerfully effective advocate of international peace, far more effective tnan Tolstoy as the apostle of the doe- trine of non-resistance. It gives Roose- velt the tdvantage of posing as a non- | partisan, It is difficult to say anything new on this trite subject of world peace, ’but Colonel Roosevelt has at least | put the thought of “the peace of right- eousness and justice’” in an interesting |light. He must receive general ap probation when he says that “‘peace ig usually good in itself, but it is never | the highest good unless 1t comes as the | handmaid of righteousness, and it be- |comes a very evil thing if it serves| at Brussels for his frock eoat. St. Petersburg for his trousers. It 1s all clear enough now why King ! Edward went to the weeks ago. He is now reported to be in fine form for the colonel's visit. Seven years ago, when the bond | issue for the establishment of the mu- country a few nicipal lighting plant was pending, the ‘ pense of national honor is not the sort |the militant democrats of Nebraska | jater president of Coe college at Cedar Omaha Double-Ender fought it tooth | | of peace the world needs. Greed, avar- |decline to sup thervefrom. and nail. ways? Has it seen the error of its| Efforts to get “Dick” Metcalfe on the track as an opponent to his former employer in the race for the senate|for international peace which ought to | It em- 1 Arbi- | may serve to occupy the democratic workers while Mr. Bryan is getting ready. When theé. time comes ‘‘the peerless’ will be found at the starting line. In view of the fact that the census enumerators have not as yet forwarded | their figures to the census office at ‘Washington, the ‘‘estimates” pub- lished by the junior yellow will be listed along with a great many other | “discoveries” made by that famed and \nurprmu Jonrnq. ends of despotism and anarchy.” World )pf‘uw 18 the wrong definition to apply | worst of it is that these evidences ure, had been there the year before. to this thing for which the powers nmo‘ | been striving |18 what they want, The peace that per- | mits one nation to infringe upon the | obscures | lrl;:hm of another, or that | from the view of one the rights of an ()Ih(‘l‘ or that prevents war at the ex-| |ice ana arrogance must be curbed in | nations as in individuals and if it can- | ot be done with peace, it had better be done without peace. Mr. Roosevelt laid down a program | insure it if put into practice, braces these five propositions: tration treaties, perfection of The Hague proposals, application of the principle of the United States govern ment in relation to the several states @as embodied in the federal conatitu- tion, lmitation of armaments and a| league of peace. the necessity of an agreement among | |all nations to limit their armaments | before that part of his program will become safs He comes a long way |nal lies in its lack of police power to {enforce its articles and without such [ will be glad to have this official ver- {dict from makes | merely a8 & mask for cowardice and‘ Mr. [gloth or an instrument to further the | the dictatorship of the man whose Taft once waited longer than that at| from renouncing his well known posi tion on strong navies and big armies in the absence of such a universal agreement. [Ile is right in declairing that the weakness of The Hague tribu- power no tribunal or alliance, agree- | ment or compact will ever have much more than a moral effect, He has done well to invite foreign nations to a study of the American constitution in its or- ganlc power of reguleting peane be- tween the central government and the states for analogies to be followed in ordaining and maintaining peace be- tween the world and fits various na- tions. Such a study may have a good effect, inculcating some American ideas where they may bear fruit. Keep the Oven Hot. Hot bread is not harmful to diges- tion, says Secretary Wilson, Good! It is the way in which it may be eaten. That is what many people will say they have thought all along; anyway they a paternal secretary of agriculture in favor of the hot biscuit, bun, roll or loaf. S0 mothers and housewives, keep your ovens hot and proceed in the good, old way to cook the hot bread and serve it hot. Secretary Wilson probably never made a ruling that will become more popular. Everybody loves to think of “the bread that mother made,” and this decision will back him up in his traditional contention that it was su- perior to any other bread Of course hot bread, like cold bread, may be rolled in such forms and poorly masticated so as to deier or impair digestion and hurt the stomach, but it has always seemed like a pre- sumption upon the standing evidence of the big, fat, lazy boy with red cor- puscles coursing through his veins, to argue that a soft, feathery-light roll properly saturated with butter could hurt anybody. The proof of the bread, probably, is in its product, after all. It is indeed a relief and a comfort to have this sanction of,official authority on our side that we may go on in this darling indulgence of our childhood without the beguiling fear of fatal consequences. Just how the housewife will take this ruling of the secretary’'s is an- other matter. Cant of the Demagogues. President Taft referred to the ‘‘cant of the demagogue” at St. Louis in speaking of the criticisms made of his appointment of Governor Hughes to the supreme court, and left very little chance to avold the conclusion that he had Mr. Bryan in mind when he used | this very descriptive term. Mr. Bryan is about the only conspicuous poli- ticlan who has seen fit to make sharp criticism of this ecppointment. The president showed, however, a spirit of eminent fairness in his unwillingness to belleve that Mr. Bryan said exactly what had been attributed to him, namely, that Mr. Hughes was not the most desirable man for the place be-| cause he was not an implacable foe of (he corporations and wealth. We belleve the president 1s right in | nuumlng that the people do not want to exalt to such positions men who are “‘implacable foes to wealth and cor- porations,” but men *‘who are foes to nothing but what is wrong and who are in favor of eqnal justice to cvery | Interest and everybody.” The popular mind has been poisoned too much by this virus of prejudice against wealth responsible for this sordid sentiment can be no better described than by the term demagogue. But Mr. Bryan found fault with Gov- erno Hughes as an associate justice lon the sround chat he had opposed the proposed in.ome tax amendment to the federal ccnetitution, The fact is Governor Hvghes did nothing of the sort. He favors the income tax as a principle, but what he opposes is the form in which the amendment has been submitted- to the stntes and how Mr.| Bryan could fail know this is etrange indeed. | m—semey | Insurgency at Home. | 1t pains us deeply to be compelled to chronicle the fact that the hitherto pa- | tient Nebraska democratic donkey iu; beginning to act like an unbroken | broncho under the continued spurring | rur the ‘“‘peerless leader.” From all| parts of the state come the most sig- | nificant evidence of open revolt against | | word has hitherto been law. And the | not mere mutterings, but are out- Righteous world peace | | spoken utterances of democrats who | ISt Is just ¥ vears old today. | have come to that point of recalel-| trancy where they actually insist on | thinking their own thoughts. The| fountain head at Fairview still purls its limpid stream of inspiration, bul | ©One of the members of the demo-| =n-ratic party, who is not locally insig- | nificant, because he holds & high office | by virtue of the suffrages of his fellow | | citizens, replies to Mr. Bryan's letter: | | “1 chalienge your right to embarrass the democratic voters with any more of your hobbles,” and a little further | on says: ‘If thesdemocratic party in/ the last session falled to make good its | promises to the people it ought to be | dealt with accordingly, and even an extra nuion in my judgment could | mot save It." | This most open and direct, though « Of course Mr. Roosevelt emphasizes 5 respectful, deflance of the ‘‘great com- | with various business establishments unti] mnner" is certainly conclusive evi- |dence that Mr. Bryan has enough of | {usurgency in his own party in Ne- | brasak to warrant him in attending to BEE Aive wires. and corpérations as such and those (I | Our Birthday Bookl | Irish brogue with him. OMAHA, FRIDA MAY his own affairs and letting the repub lican party deal with its own Insur- gents in ite own way. He never had in all his life a better opportunity to| apply the lesson of the parable of the mote and the beam. | eorge Ade regrets the passing of the old-time editor who called his con- temporary, not an insurgent or an un- desirable, but a ‘“poltroon, a hell- hound, a pusillanimous liar, a cur, a whelp, an unmitigated horse thief, a caftiff, a skunk.” Well, there is noth- ing to prevent Mr. Ade from starting a paper and inaugurating a return to/ good old days and ways. —_——— The orator of the occasion giving advice to a newly fledged flock of | Presbyterian ministers, told them to mingle with the women of their flock, and added, “Don't let them adopt you.” And this man is familiar with the history of the race from the day of Adam downward! The. dust that is kicked up by the opposition to the president is not suffi- clent to obscure the clear light he sheds on public questions. ‘Al 1 am appealing for is justice and a square deal,” i8 his answer to the “howling dervighes.” | The siren whistle may not be dis- covered in time for the trade trip, but that fact will not prevent the people along the route from knowing that something is happening. The men who usually go on these excursions are The railroads are not making the problem of railroad legislation any easier by their course. Boosting rates that were already excessive will not lessen the demand for stringent gov- ernment control. Even the Anti-Saloon league de- clines to accept Mr. Bryan's program for Nebraska. This reduces him to the support of the Commoner and the Lincoln Star, which are still faithful, although the Star wobbles slightly. Wonder what Seth Bullock and some of the other western friends of the colonel will say when they read about that two hours’ “tea drinking" Talk about your molly- Do They Look It? Wall Street Journal. Internal revenue receipts from spirits for nine months increased approxtmately $10,000,000 or nearly 10 per cents. Are the ‘ary” state really dry? Who Gets the Priset Pittsburg Dispat:h. There is strong competition between Bal- linger and his opponents as to which side is qualified to act as committes on mem- bership of the Ananias club. JARAR AR Now Watch the Schedule Rive. | Indianapolis News. The five largest radlator concerns in the country have formed a merger. So it will probably be made plefity warm enough for the people. who want to use hot water or steam heat after this. Where Fort Waitn. Minneapolis Journal, The man who finds a substitute for rub- ber will confer a benefit on the world and make himself rich. The present extraor- dinary- demand for rubber has sent the price up from 84 cents to $2.60 a pound in two years. J Rayner's Rash Assumptio; : New York Tribune. Senator Rayner is rash In assuming the right to Invite insurgent republican sena tors to seats at the democratic table. His intentions may be hospitable, but he hasn't access to the keys of the democratic pantry and fs not consulted when the democratic chef writes out the party's bill of fare, Land Specuintion fn the Woat, | Springtield (Mass.) Republican. The danger spot in the present specul tive situation Is the west, and its land boom Is the danger. All accounts agree that this speculation in farm lands spreads over the entire western part of the coun- try and is running to excesses. And it is just as much & ‘‘margin” speculation as any ever known In the stock market, which the west always looks upon as mere gambling with other people's money. Lands are bought at higher and higher prices, and mortgaged to the top notch for money with which to move on and buy more land. It is safe to say that the next panic, unlike that of 1907, will start in the west. May 6, 1910, Robert E. Peary, polar explorer, was| born May 6, 1866, at Cresson, Pa. He en-| tered the United States navy as a civil| engineer in 181, and has been with most | of the important Arctic explorations in the | lust five years, claiming to have achleved his goal a year ago when he reached the geographical pole, returning to dispute honors with Dr. Cook, who declared he John T. McCutcheon, the famous cartoon- He is an | Irdianian, which accounts for the literary | flayor of his drawings, and his last exploit | was to trall Mr. Roosevelt into the jungle. | Rev. 8. B. McCormick, chancellor of the Weatern university at Pittsburg, was born May 6 188 He used to be pastor of the | First Presbyterian church at Omaha, and Rapids, Ta. John Raines, law-maker responsible for the Raines hotel law, was born May 6, 1540, at Canandaigua, N. Y. He is a lawyer, and has also served in congress. 1 John Power, three times sheriff of Doug- las county, is 6l today. ie was born at Waterford, Ireland, and brought a rich He s a democrat in politics, and is & eooper by trade when not in office. Cornellus Claassen, with th company, Is celebrating his 38th birthda: He was born on 4 farm near Beatrice, Neb, and educated at Havorford college. 8. P. Bostwick, vice president of Payne, Bostwick & Co., real estate, loans and rentals, in the New York Life bullding, wi born May & 180, in Cayusa, N. Y. He came to Omaha In 18%, being assoclated going In the real estate business with R. C. Peters & Co., from which he heiped o ganize the Payne, Bostwick & Co. corpe tion. He s also a membur of the Omaha | mathod of compensating the rallroads for | before him a great, 6, 1910 X l Washington Life | ®t the Naslon's Oapitel | has under Two or three times & year some patriotic | scribe in Washington gives assuranoce that the United States treasury Is Impregnable Locks, bolts, time combinations, network of electric alarms, automatic safety deyices and live watchmen together make your Uncle's strong box secure against direct attacks of cracksmen. The news is inter- esting, also truthful. But the smooth worker s wise enough to shun the direct road. Experience teaches him that a round- | bout route is the safest and surest way to | the nation's vault. One of the newly dis- covered routes to the coin Is thus described by the New York Tribune's Washington correspondent “Such quantities of obsolete and useless public documents are being shipped into Vicginia under the franks of members n(} congress that emphatic protests are begin- | ning to reach the members whowe franks this waste paper bears. The reason for this deluge, which is arousing the ire not only of the postmasters, but of those to| whom the stuff is addressed, is that the mails are being weighed In that state. | Once in two years the mails in a given | section of the country are welghed, and the | average struck is made the basis of com- pensation of the railroads until there Is another weighing. Of course the heavy public documents, anclent volumes of the Congressional Record and similar valuable publications, greatly increase this average. It is asserted that the railroads employ the entire time of a man who goes about ask- ing the secretarles of members of congress to mall this, that or the other publication to addresses furnished in order thus to cheat the government. A thorough investi- gation of this antiquated and Inaccurate carrying the malls would doubtless prove far more popular, and possibly not less profitable, than the Increase of the postage rates on perlodicals so energetically advo- cated by the postmaster general. Without dissent the senate has passed the resolution of Senator Heyburn of Idaho, | calling for an Investigation by a special | committee of three of the methods used by | the police in the ordeal which has come tc be known the country over as the “third degree.”" The investigation promises to be one of the most Interesting In which congrees, or either branch of it, has taken a hand for a long time, reports the Washington Timos. Senator Heyburn was moved to introduce the resolution in the first place by the re- ports of gross brutality of the police in the Willlam Seyler case at Atlantic City some weeks ago. If half of the statements made as to the treatment Seyler received were true, the injustice dealt out to him was shocking and revolting, and fitter for the realm of an absolute monarch than for a free and enlightened republic. Numerous other cases can be cited where the police brutality has been as great as in the Sey- ler: case. It is not only proper that the senate should go into the facts as to the admin- istration of the “third degree” in this coun- try, but in view of the alleged cruelties, the wonder {a that an investigation has not been made before. Naval officers are tgnorance displayed by congress the other day, when someone sought to learn the reason why. the bot- toms of the trousers of enllsted men in tile navy are loose. Representative Hob- son, who was educated in the Naval acad- omy and ought to know, gave the follow- ing explanation: am iuclined to think that the trousers of the sailor were evolved in the days of Noah, and that when the first sailor began to swim he found it better to have the trousers loose at the bottom, to get his stroke more effectively." When Mr. Cooper of Wisconsin, with an air of inoredulity, asked if he really thought there were sallors in Noah's ark, Mr. Hobson replied: “My statement is based on the mssump- tion that the world is a water planet, and trom the very beginning naval affairs have been of the first importance. Noah and his family survived because they recog- nized this inherent pre-eminence of the question of adequate naval preparation, The human race was once saved by a ship, and 18 going to be saved again by ships. The sallor could not make himself web-footed, 50 from the earliest times he spread his trousers out at the bottom. His trousers flared out in the infancy of man and they will still probably be flaring out when the last trumpet sounds.” Naval officers declare that the reason why enlisted men wear flaring trouser bottoms is so they may be rolled up to permit wading to and from the beach, if necessary, and to get them out of the way when the barefooted men are swabbing down the decks. laughing at the the lawmakers in The congressman with & red necktle was entertaining & friend who had formerly arrived from the “old sod” but had a tained fame as the man who had carried “the Fourteenth precinct in the Twenty- second ward,” relates the National Maj azine. With such a visitor to entertal the congressman thought the best thing was to take him to Harvey's Lobster pal- ace. The gathering there somewhat im- pressed Pat, but when the walter placed rich, red lobster, set down with an alry and nonchalant wave of his hand, Pat's eyes opened a trifle wider than usual with astonishment. L “¥ou did not get anything Ifke that In| your native town,” remarked the enter- tainer. ‘These red lobsters are conzidered a delicacy suited to the palate of a king, and, T understand, were in high favor ever since the time when Nero insisted on hav- ing them for every meal—have you ever seen one before?" “Ah, go on wid ye'' was ‘SBeen one? lsn't the coast of Ireland red with those fish—aithough a few of them have escaped lutely and come across | 1d got Into congress In Washington. the reply BATTLESHIP BU Nation’s Pace Not Quite as Lively s | the World Lea Baltimore American, Amerlcan battleships of DING. | | The tirst Dreadnought class the Delaware, have recently gone into commission amd are now a part of the Atlaniic fieet. On May 12 the Florida, a ship of somewhai greater tonnage than | the two naval leviathans ‘ust mentioned, will be launched at the government navy yard on East river, and the Utah, & sis- ter ship to the Florida, Is about in the same stage of bullding, The Arkansas and the Wyoming, larger ships than the Flor- i0a. are on the ways and provision has heen made by the present congress for two | ships of & tonnage far greater than any batileship now In construction either for our own or any forelgn navy. The sum- mary sounds rather formidable untll com- parisons are made. The race in bullding Dreadnos with a rush. and the United States, though | not exaetly | ing st the qu r streteh, the ts 1s on | Bchool board. | commission | have seventeen | found flowers be {once | the North Dakota and| 1 Great Britain expects by 1912 to b twelve battleships of the Florida type In By 1812 Germany expects to steelclads ranging from 18500 1o 22,000 in commission great warships were put afloat in German vards last year, and when all the naval ships which the kaiser's government now onstruction g0 into commission will rank ahead of that tons Five the Gorman navy of the United States In aggregate tonnage. | Italy, Spain and Russia are bullding great battleships, Brazil has one floating fortress of the most powerful type Argentina has just placed an order in this country for two that will be of the Wyo ming and Arkansas class, Even China is about to place orders for three battleships, and Turkey is seriously thinking of mak- ing a start In navy bullding. and THE BLUE AND THE GRAY. Signiticant Re morial Day Exercise Washington Post re is the answer the commander-in- chief of the Grand Army of the makes to the patriotic course of Gordon, a former confederate soldier, for a few short weeks a senator In Bixty-firet congress from the state sissippi “It is recommended grave of a former ¢ ames and | the | that federate piaced thereon, as a trib- ute to the bravery of the man who fought on the other side, remembering that he. two, was an American soldier. We enemi but now friends. The long dark night is over—at last we areé a united people. Out of the darkness comes no echo of discord between brothers, no n strife, no bloodshed, but universal fellow ship lights the lamp to guide the f young republic.” This is a passage of the annual procla mation touching the decoration of o diers graves on May 0. That is almost the universal of Americans, north and south, The man 18 now twoscore and five yvears of who was born the day ‘the memorablc scene at Appomattox was enacted most of the men on either side fought that bravest of wars are now burfed valor in the bosom of mother earth, their spirits with God. It one people, and but for gration we should soon be eous as Scotland, or Bavaria, or We can imagine that July 4, 193, there will be gathered together at Gettysburg more than 1000000 Americans, men, women and children, from every state and vieinity of this Union to celebrate the valor of both sides on that gory field and do honor to the heroes who fell there By that time every one who fought that great battle long will have been gathered o his fathers; but these, their descend ants, will do justice to both the au. e met there in death grapple a century b fore, and each will be as proud of the blue as of the gray, and as proud of the gray as the blue, wherever the fer 1 were , no sentiment who is one foreigh as homogen- Provence, countr tmm RECLAIMING DESERT ARPAS, Success of the Government the Arld Wesi Philadelphia Ledger. When the federal government undertook to muke a number of desert areas In the west and southwest available for agri- culture by damming streams which eould be utilized for irrigation, it was virtually certain that the new productiveness of the land would tempt the alert and enterprising settler, The only doubt then existing re- ey in lated to the prospect that the government | would get its money back. Washington dispatches sdy that the time has now ar- rived when doubt on this point is to be dispelled. ‘In one of the reclaimed areas there are 35 farmers from whom payments were due on April 1. Nearly two-thirds of these met thelr indebtedness three or four months in advance, and it is belleved that of the remainder only ten wiil fall to pay in full. A few delinquents will probably be found in a second section, owing to especially unfavorable conditions, but in & third it is believed that every farmer will meet his engagements In full. It was originally intended that the money put into these improvements should be a loan, not a gift, and when paid should be reinvested in similar enterprises. The present outlook is pleasing not only because it vindicates the government's policy as a financial ven- ture but also because it seems to assure a turther development of it. Republic | of Mis- ‘ t of our | and | PERSONAL NOTES Virgnia lynchers who have been indicted it Indignation Jury 4o not attempt to conceal th They regard the action of bordering upon the represensible Sclentiste promise to glve warning several years before a star shall strike the earth but have discovered any recipe by | which people may etain a cheerful state ot mind after having been warned Jeftries, (t driven from the ringside by bolls, can console himselt | with the thought that old Job did not have 68,000 saved up from the vaudeville clrcuit to carry into retirement with him General F. . Grant {s now qualified to | wear the buttons of the Grand Army of the \m».mmlv and the Loyal Legion. It has been established that as a boy of 13 he served as volunteer ald on his father's staff, carried dispatches and was under fire in the Vicksburg campaign Some distingulshed and able ters went about with the Roosevelt in Egypt, but not one of them appears to have recognized Mrs. Cleveland In the exploring party when they climbed up th&big pyra mid. Mrs. Cleveland has written the | to triends in New York General Nelson A Miles s to deliver | Phi Beta Kappa oration at Colgate versity in Hamilton, N. Y. June { When the civil war broke out Mr. Mi in @ crockery store in Roston has not had the bencfit called steadily grow of a wide lite the as not Philosophical Mr repc party news the was clerk and while what used education ing student experience he ot o be popularly a libe has been in the school James C. Ridgeway, the b-ye old son ot W. D. Ridgeway of Te P sylvania, is the champic ear-old long distance walker in Bradford county Last | week he accompanied his fa her and helped [drive two head of cattle from Terrytown | to Wysox. and on the return trip they drove |three head he distance is twenty-two { miles and litte walked every sty of and upon reaching Jjumped and danced and sald he could walk wice that fa TSAID IN FUN, ou trying to thix year? indeed ) mortgage township. the hoy the way home Are anything on | place Yes, raise wr Baltimore Amerl Tk Going U mmer 4 Farmer Corntosse the money. but iU's o' folks around (o hites and lower (h tar. the mosquito average.'—Washington sir than Real Estate sut—1_tell you the death rate in this suburb ix lower any other part of the county ear Vietim—1 belleve you T be found dead hero ‘myself. Journal wouldn't Chicag: Co-education is a good gets his study and his simultaneously, and is work “Just lots tlon thing. The boy courting finished then ready for save dad adua- g0. While the girl can of money by marrying in her gown."—Washington Herald “Better dodge dat town, Tramps ain’t popular in towns ‘We ain't tramps now; Don't youse know de took 2" ~Louisville Cour Weary. we're population ensus is heing Journal. about my apera- what trouhle the appendix—' times. “Do let me tell you all tion for appendicitls, ahd surgeons found with the “Oh, I've heard it a dozcn it out."—Chicago Tribune. Cut o what dey gits free,’ sald Uncle Eben. “Dar'd he a heap mo' good advice taken If it was wrote as & perscription an’ bought at de drug store Washington Sta ! MEESTER MAREKA TWAIN, T. A. Daly in Cathollc Stanford Dey say eet was hees job for joke An' poke fun at seempla folk. I don'to ondrastan’ 1 fievva read w'at's 1 only see da way 1 donta ondras * evra time he passa by show to me so kinda es_beautiful- to see; dough I'm domba Dagoman So strange, S0 queer een deesa lan’, He nevva luugh at me. ““People doesn’ val en hees book; he look— an’ An' dey dat say An' maka fun les mebbe so, dey lie Zex mebho so dey no could s smila from hees eye. w dat he ees gon' an’' change ‘nudder land dat eesa strange heem as ect can be, can baylieve dev dere '0_heem, poor stranger, Dat here he was to me. he only_joke weeth seempla folk sec are kini as I find The greatest living tenor ““ Not since Jean de Reszke has a tw.or compassed both Italian and German Opera with the absolute distinction that Slezak displayed last night.’’ Reginald de Koven in the New York World. And Jean de Reszke himself, today the greatest voice teacher in the world, says, living tenor.”” And Slezak I consider Slezak the greatest sings in Italian the benuhful arias from *‘ Otello’’ and *‘ Aida,’’ and in German, from “‘Tannhauser ** and “‘ Lohengrin ** for the Edison Phonograph These arias are rendered on Fdison Amberol Records, bringing Slezak’s wonderful voice into your home exactly as he sings at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York. The Amberola is the hl b-ulyo e witE s of Edison, combinin, muxerphn ‘of cabinel the Phonograph's work. Lt plays beth Edlson Standard and Edison Amberc) Hecorda Other t; at same Edison Standard Edison Amberol Records Mmmon-u Records. . ak rnur Amberol Healer about our money-sav Records and the attachmeny to play them. of Edison Phonographs %lke- everywhere in U, 80 .. lluom!m e i Py - e play twice as long’ . . 0 m.,no vhr A-\-l Rocords? 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