Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 16, 1910, Page 4

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Oh pshaw, ama expositio Boston wants that Pan The suggestion of airships for police men must be a move to elevate the law. “‘Heavenly Houston” is alliterative, but not 8o impressive so long as it is in Texas, Why may we not look for an early literary production on “Some Kings 1 Have Met?" The mere signature which the new king will use, "By George,” ought to phow emphasis, If congreks adjourns June 4, its members will have ample time for their chautauqua engagenients Mr. Taft admits he wrote the Bal- linger exonerations, Now, what are you going to do about {t? Events of the last few days might have suggested that the comet's tail may be made of ice instead of fire. No one should expect children to be sane on the Fourth until grown-up city counclls set a common sense example. Sinking the Saltillo” sounds so much llke sinking the stiletto that one all but forgets the horror of a watery grave, Mr, Bryan's water wagon does not seem to be as popular with his fellow democrats as an ordinary stieet sprinkler. An epidemic of mumps from one thriving Nebraska town. Can it be that the water supply there is contaminated? If Colonel Watterson's fear is well founded, then Colonel Roosevelt is doing just right to get all the tips he can on how to be a king. When Senator Depew objects to be- ing classed as a humorist, his wish shodld be respected, particularly since there Is no reason for not complying. The press dispatches say those were | black doors that clanged behind the four Pittsburg grafters. The color is of little consequence, though, after a man is in jail e An eastern contemporary says the kaiser has one distinct advantage over the colonel, being a grandfather. Is that an advantage? Mr. Bryan is sev eral times a grandfather. Labor Commissioner Maupin {s com plaining because ford does not run his court to sult him. It is barely possible that Mr. Maupin does not run his office the way other folks think it snould be run 1t the Jeff-Johnson affair should fall | through because of a failure to agree on a referee or for any other reason sports of that species ought not to ask the public to put any further confi- dence in the good faith of prize fight ers. free advertising game. Texas is about to spring a candidate for presidency whose name s Cone lacks of being Johnson, and all he eligible is the election to the governor #2ip of the Lone Star state, for which What the people is, has lohnson made his peace with he fs now running wp here will want to know Brother Palsview 6 10c | reported | Police Judge Craw-| But perhaps its only part of the i Getting Closer. | While it s | chickens before they are hatched, the | prospects seem to be brightening for | more harmonious action by all the ele- ments of republicanism in congress in support of the legislative measures that make up the administration program President Taft has never despaired of uniting the republicans in both houses | for the practical performance of plat. | form pledges, and has displayed In finite patience and tolerance in his |efforts to impress upon all factions what they owe to thelr party and to the country. If the results of his White | | House conference prove to be as indi- [cated In the reported agreement for | concert of action, the remainder of the | session will be devoted to doing things. | The assurance that the republican | majority will pull together with the | president will ‘of course be disquieting |to the democrats whose entire efforts have been directed toward splitting the republican ranks and putting obstacles |in the way of the president's recom- mendations as their only hope of demo- cratic success at the coming elections. | The insincerity of the democratic pro- fessions has been more than once demonstrated, most notably when the postal savings bill went through the senate with the vote of every democrat but one recorded against it, in spite of | previous protestations of friendliness to it. If the republicans Itne up for the Taft program of legislation, the demo- |crate will be again in a similarly lawkward position What of the Maine? Whether it was Spanish perfidy or American carelessnese that caused the destruction of the American battleship | twelve years ago and led to the war | with 8pain or not can now have little | effect upon relations between the two countries, but it is nonetheless desir- |able that the wreck be raised and the fault fixed if possible. This shoald be done, if for no other reason, to hush the cry that the United States has not dared do it for fear of consequences and, further, it should be done to bring ! the remains of the brave soldiers who sank with the ship to the surface for an honored burial at Arlington. | It is sheer folly, though, for any na- |tion to indulge the sentiment that the | sinking of the Maine alone provoked lthe war between the United States and | Spain. War was seemingly inevitable jand the havoc in Havana harbor did no more than hasten it. Spanish cruelties |in Cuba caused this war and the Ameri- |can government's altruistic conduct in | first freeing Cuba from a tyranny that had become intolerabte and then estab- | lishing social order and political lib- I»rt.v is all the justification that it will ever need. The United States set out to do certain things for Cuba's salva- tion and it has done precisely what it | said it would do. Should investigation |now prove that it was not Spanish | perfidy, “but’ American negligence that destroyed the Maine, the result could | not possibly have any serfous effect, | because the powers of the world have | long ago affirmed America’s action in | this crisis. | Some engineers believe the action of | the water in these twelve years will not have seriously affected the wreck, so that as much evidence bearing on the | cause of it will be available as at the |outset. If such is the case it will do no harm to let Spain-be represented by an expert engineer when the raising takes | place. 3 Trade Schools for Girls. | A school where poor girls may learn trades that will increase their wage- earning power has been established in | New York and scems to be working | with promising results. It is yet in| | the experimental stage, but if it proves | |ultimately a success it may become the | first step toward the extension of the scope of public school education in a very practical direction. There is a tragic side to the shop rgirl'a life which the founders of this | school recognize and which, if this | kind of training succeeds, may be ma- | terially lessened in its power of evil. | Lack of material comforts has a great | deal to do with many social wrongs, |and so this project is more social or | moral than industrial. It undertakes |to teach the gir! a trade, or at least I give her a working knowledge in the rudiments of a trade that will make worth more than she | otherwise would have to take. There is no thought of instilling false no- | tions of manual labor, but just the | contrary. The idea is not to teach the | kirl that she is too good for any kind of service, though it may sometimes seem menial, but to inspress her with the fact that if she must earn her own living, she must fit herself to earn °i | decent one, one that will pay her | wages that will keep her above the danger line” socially. The argument is often made thal {most girls who work for wages insuf | ticlent to meet all their expenses live at home and do not have to meet them all. That may be true to some extent, but that very fact is an argu- ment in favor of increasing the girl's | earning power, for her willingness to work for an inadequate wage lowers the general level and places the girl |'Who has no home or who cannot live | at home at a fatal disadvantage. Thus far the chief difficulty en- countered by the New York school is to get girls who need the instruction and who at the same time can go with- out work and wages long enough to learn. Most of them come and stay such a stort time that they get little | benefit from the training, but plans are being made to deal with this problem. | her services |1ocomotion, like al} others that we have | tried in this country, calls for the sup- 3 { t¥obably extend to the smaller dittes, | coming fnto Omana on ofe rosd and never safe to count|Of its practicability there can he no|going out on another doubt —— | Airships Need More Than Air. | The announcement that Colonel John Jacoob Astor has determined to promote aerial navigation is good news, for the kind of promotion he will give is pre- cisely what the new enterprise needs. Air is the first essential, but not the final one in the ultimate success of fly- ing through space. This method of port of something a little more sub- stantial than air. It s said that Mr. Astor proposes to put up a cup for a race in America and to supplement this award with “sub- stantial” cash prizes. Such stimulus and assistance by men of imihense fortunes is what must be enlisted be- fore this wonderful science may be wrought out to any practical benefit. The fact that Colonel Astor is an en- thusiast in alrships gives even greater encouragement, for he is not likely to require any prodding, but, on the other hand, will attract the attention of other men of large wealth and possibly arouse a sort of friendly rivalry that will be extremely helpful to the plo- neers in the business. We are still far from any satisfac- tory standard of efficiency in flying through air, but the mere demonstra- tion that such a thing is possible in sures eventual success. It was difficult to awaken national {interest in the scheme at first, for the reason that most people believed flying could never become more than experimental, but now that public confidence has been quickened all are coming to the point where they are at least willing to be shown. Crossing Bridges. Recent court decsions have made it certain that Omaha will have to re- define its relations with several of its public service corporations very shortly. These corporations are now using our streets for the transaction of their business merely by tolerance and so long as this state of affairs con- tinues it will naturally be unsatisfac- tory. The credit of the corporations as money borrowers is impaired, and the rights of patrons and public un- defined. Only two solutions are so far pro- posed—either the voting of some kind of a franchise or municipal ownership and operation by the city itself. Yet, even so, there is no use trying to cross bridges before we get to them. What these corporations want will doubtless be formulated in a written petition to the mayor and council, and only when we know what privileges are demanded by them can we tell whether they are asking too much and how far these demands must be modified. If the city and the franchised cor- poration managers cannot get together on terms that look reasonable and fair and that would be acceéptable to the people as a whole, the alternative of refusing to grant any franchise and resort to municipal self-service will be worth considering. In this case the city must be on the watch to drive the best bargain it can get, and occupying | the strategic position it does, it ought to be able to protect itself fully | and make sure that our people suffer from no one-sided proposition. It turns out that an overplym(flml from $12,000 to $15,000 made by Ne- braska corporations who were re quired to pay their corporation taxes based on authorized instead of actu- ally issued capital stock, will have to be reimbursed by special act of the coming legislature. This point wa: ralsed before the corporation tax law went into effect and corporations which tendered the proper fee had their checks returned with the demand for the illegal excees. Whoever is re- sponsible for this enforced contribu- tion should be legally liable for its re turn, but the chances are that some enterprising lobbyist will pick off a percentage for persuading the legisla- ture to pay back the money which should never have been collected, Senator Balley is not our kind of a dem- ocrat.—WorM-Herald Come now, did not Senator Bailey head the Texas delegation to the Den- ver convention that lald down the democratic creed? And if by accident the editor of our local democratic con- temporary should get into the United States senate, will he not line up from the start behind Senstor Bailey, who is the real democratic leader of the senate, and go through whatever paces the Texas senator may command? Mr. Bryan is going to hire a hall to unbosom himself of his political prog- | nostications to the ‘‘faithful” {n Omaha. If he had only pursued the | same plan in Nebraska City the dem~: ocratic county board of Otoe county | would have had no opportunity to re-| fuse him the free use of the county court house for a back-fire on their legislative members. —_— The complaint of census enumera- tors that they are underpaid is unques- tionably well grounded, although & few | enumerators seem to have gotten on the list who would be overpaid no matter how much they received. But big pay or little pay, enumerators took the jobs of their should deliver the goods as best they know how. A small part of that $30,000,000 which the Burlington is to put out would be profitably invested in paying !in getting too far ahead of the game. (8} ] i Omaha will welcome a big, m\w} modern hotel when it really arrives,| but would prefer to have it bullt of | stone, brick and steel rather than| merely on paper. The hotel is com- ing, but there is nothing to be gained It was plainly a mistake to put Sir Ernest Shackelton's lecture on in Omaha's big Auditorium. The only sure way to fill that great temple of art and learning is to pull off a fake wrestling match or to distribute free tickets to an automobile show. — It hac just been discovered that Mr. Aldrich’s retirement is due to the re- cent visit. to Washington of those belligerent suffragettes. That being the case, hie friends cannot blame him Verbal Fisticuffs the Thing. St. Paul Pioneer Press, Representative Smith of lowa has a bill in congress to prohibit papers from pub- lishing accounts of prize fights or plctures of prize fighters. He probably thinks the space should be devoted to the congres- sional settos, Athletic Ideals Overdone. Philadelphia Inquirer, Athletics in a mild measure are good for any one, but it is not the whole of life to | be the best haltback or pitcher, the best tennis player or bowler. These things we ought yet to have done and not to have left the uther undone. The real complaint against our colleges Is that they are not able (o glve young men those ideals and those ambitions which are going to be of best service, not only to them, but to so- clety, when they get into the fierce con- flict where the fittest alone survive. Foolish People Tempt Danger. Sioux City Tribune. It is o be regretted that there were 80 many casualtles among the people who insisted on getting close enough to have a good vlew of what would happen when a powder magazine blew up. There is excuse for conservatism in the tear shedding, how- ever. With so many opportunities for over- loading the gasoline launch and rocking the rowboat and fooling with unloaded fire- arms, it is a reasonable assumption that few of these foolish ones would have come through the summer in any event. Boosting Frelght Rates Philadelphin Record. It is evident that the railroads of the country are determined to Increase. their charges. The excuse is that they have had to ralse wages and that materlals cost them more. But their net earnings have been increasing at a rate that breaks the force of this plea. The real reason is the belief of the managers that they can get more money out of ship- pers. If they will eliminate all discrimi- nations and treat all parts of the coun- try with equal fairness there will be less disposition to complain because freight charges are 15 to 2 per cent higher than they have been A STRONG PULL TOGETHER. ' Good Results Shown in House Ralle rond BIlL Chlcago News. Now that the administration railroad bill as amended In the house has passed that body by a large majority the outlook for other important bills-on the administration program naturally is thought to be ex- tremely good. The postal savings bank bill, the conservation bill authorizing with- drawals of public lands from entry and the bill limiting the power of federal courts in the/ granting of injunctions have such a force of public opinion behind them that congress would be rash indeed not to enact them In accepable form. Passage of the railroad bill In the senate is a fore- gone conclusion and adjustment of differ- | ences in conference presumably will not be aitticult. An effort is being made to show (hat In- surgent republicans in the house who voted for the railroad bill changed their atti- tude toward the administration by o doing. On the contrary, they merely proved the | truth of the frequent assertions that they are seeking good leglslation and are anxious to co-operate with the president By their efforts the raliroad bill has been materlally Improved. . It objectionable fea- tures which they had stricken out are not restored In conference and if useful addi- tlons which they caused to be made to the | bl are not sacrificed when Mr. Aldrich takes command and the last touches are given to the measure the country will profit materially by thelr work. The progressives have secured Important results in varlous ways thus far in the sesslon and are likely to produce other im- portant results before it adjourns. Though the regulars are feverishly cager to save their faces by misrepresenting the attitude anad the achievements of the Insurgents, the country is not likely to be deceived as to the value of the services rendered by the latter. PUT ON THE BRAKE! [ | | | Extravagance end Waste a Menace to the Nation. James J. Hill in World's Work The laws of conservation are everywhere few and plain. As the way to resume spe- cle payments was Lo resume, so the way to conserve capital is to quit wasting it Materfal resources are conserved by taking steps to stop their destruction. Just so the wealth of the country, its capital, its credit, must be saved from the predatory poor as well as the predatory rich, but above all| from the predatory politicia Nothing less Is worthy of honest mer or of a people II\~| g under a government of thelr own fash- | loning and control The ideal of Intelligent economy must be restored; let the rule be that every dollar | unprofitably spent marks a erime against| prosperity just as much as does the dissi-| pation of material resources. | Expenditure must be cut down all along| the line, since a comparison with twenty | years ago shows that it might be cut in two | without Injury to any real interest | Credit everywhere should be conserved | by a sharp serutiny of new bond Issues. The | nation should reserve them for the crisis of war. No state need ever borrow again 1f it 1s wisely and honestly governed. The| clty that has fifty years of corporate life behind it, or has found It ne ary to re- fund any portion of its bonded debt, in- stead of paying at maturity, should be slow | to draw upon its credit or morigage the| lives of its children yet unborn | | own accord ABd| Sop grafting, the offspring of public ex- travagance and the parent of clvie decay not only the gross form that robs trea uries, but the more subtle and more dan- the people themselves | Individual and public economy; a Just dis- | tinetion between a nigh standard of com-| fort on one side and vulgar ostentation or | half the cost of a subway to connect The feeling is that in the larger cities at any rate this system of education must be made popular and then it will the two passenger stations at Omaha To go from one to the other is so an noying and Inconvenient to travelers criminal waste on (Le other; a check Income wasting, debt creation and credit Inflation—these are the essentlals of the| new and better conservation, | " on | Then they discovered their “'gl Around New York Mipples on the Ourrent of Nife A8 Seen In the Great American Metropolls from Day Day. surging ambition to shine one Jogeph Hocker Gaynor and lald his hopes before him. Hocker Is a big man physically, a modern giant In height and flesh and of moderate mental equipment He sald he wanted to be a policeman and was afruld he might not pass the mental examination. The mayor “sized him up" and sent him to the chairman of the Civil Service board with this suggestive note: This will Introduce to you Mr. Joseph Hocker, who wants to be a policeman. He says he has undergone the physical exam- ination and passed, but fears your menta test. feet five inches tall, and 1 trust he Is mental glant also, because we are In need of the latter kind on the police force. “He is too big for the detective force; he could not go Anywhere without being seen. Is there no way to get a few little men, even hunchbacks and ‘singed cats,’ on the police force o that we can make detectives of them? “We do nov need glants for detectives. We are more in need of little fellows who can go through keyholes and knotholes, and it they have eyes in the back of their heads also, all the better." The arrest of “Oom_ the Omnipotent,” chief fakir of a cult recruited from among teeble-minded women, calls attention to the great increase in charlatanism in the metropolls. “Even the casual observer of our dglly life,” comments the Tribune, “must be struck by the Increasing evi- dence of a rapldly spreading revival of the old bellef in fortuns telling in all of its forms, old and new, chiefly among women. The anclent practice is disguised under new names for the benefit of the cultured. Of these aura reading' appears to be the latest, but crystal gazing, tarot cards, palmistry (which may be classed with forgotten phrenology), astrolog clalrvoyance and trance mediumship more than hold their own, while at the bottom the European peasant witch’s divination by tea leaves and coffee grounds still flour- ishes, the latter, by the way, a method of comparatively recent orlgin, since cof- fee was not Introduced in Kurope until the end of the elghteenth century. The latest revival of superstition is also the worst vet, that of bellef in the woman with the ‘death thought,' the caster of spells, the witeh.” Filled with a among ‘“the fines called upon Mayor Arab, fr.. the 10-week-old baby camel of the Bronx 200, kicked his bedclothes around too much Saturday might and crushed one of his little toes against the footboard. Camels have only two toes to each foot, but they are sensitive, especlally on the young animals. So Dr. W. Reld Blalr, the veterinary, was summoned early to the en- closure where Arab, jr., and his mamma were confinéd. The keepers didn't know exactly what the trouble was, but they were sure some- thing was wrong, for beautiful large tears streamed in floods down mamma's hairy cheeks as she gently cuddled the poor little “Junlor,” who couldn’t stand up. Dr. Blair soon discovered the trouble. He amputated the broken toe and put on a soft bandage. The little camel stopped whimpering almost immediately, and his mother dried her tears, “Get your binnacles, mates, and see Hal- ley's comet. Only $1 each,” announced a peddier who sells wares to sailors, and he stood in Washington stfeet, Hoboken. Plet Heln and Eduard Matken, firemen on the steamer New Amsterdam of the Holland-American line, happened along and turned a weather ear to him. “Every landlubber knows about the comet,” the peddler said. “You fellows who sail the seas aren't going to let them get ahead of you, are vou? Halley says his discovery will set safl at 5 a.'m. Here are the glasses and they would be cheap at half the price.” The sallors said they would probably be up and doing &t 5 o'clock anyway, so they parted with $1 each and pocketed the glasses. At the stated hour they took up a posi- tion in front of the New Amesterdam's pler and aimed their purchases heavenward. o8 were brass tubes with isinglass at the ends. They adjourned to a place where they partook of liquid refreshment and talked it over. Hein and Marken were In the sailors' Sunday parade in Washington street. As luck would have it they spied the peddier and swooped down on him like a man-o'- war on a fisherman. They quickly in- formed him in German that they would show him a comet. He afterward said (hey keptsthelr word. A crowd gathered and a policeman ked the peddler if he wished to make a com- plaint. He declined to and sald he only wanted to live and forget. He declared his intention of confining his sales to neck- ties, key rings and the like in the future. \ — “We caught him with the goods on said Detective Muggey to Magistrate Bai low, in the Tombs court, when he a: raigned Thomas Quigley, a former convict, on the charge of working the “pocketbook dropping” game. The pocketbook contained a contederate $1,000 bilk and was dropped In front of an immigrant. “Produce the evidence,’ said the court. “We can't,”” explained Muggey. ‘‘When I pinched him he swallowed the bill." “Swallowed the corpus delictl, eh?" sald Mr. Barlow. “Three months on the lsland.” “The richest meal I ever had" said Quigley. Is New York City growing? Has it still a transportation problem? Take notice. In the last year the subways alone ear- ried 256,783,961 pald passengers, an Increase of 35, before; a percentage of increase of 16.10. And In the next year, it will carry more passengers still. shifting the Lond. Philadelphia Bulletin. Along with the announcement that the New York Central raliroad has raised the pay of 6,00 employes 30 per cent, comes the word that the Boston & Maine road has determined upon a 20 per cent Increase in pdssenger fares, and judging from the talk other rallroads are planning similar increases in both passenger and freight rates. From this it would seem that a large share of the Increased burden posed upon the raflroads by higher wages will have to be borne, after all, by the riding public and the shipper. British Republic a Ralubow. Boston Transeript Those Americans who at every change of sovereigns in Great Britain speculate as to the coming of a British republic should gerous specles that Infects the masses of | make a note of the deciaration of Phillp | Snowden, a leading Laborite member of Parliament: “No member of the labor party attacks the monarchy.” His further declaration: “We are a democratic party, not republicans,” is luminous of a distine- tion many Amerl confound radical success in Great Britain with hostility to the monarchical principle a He is certainly a physical glant, -lxl 60 over the business of the year | im- | s overlook when they | THE FIv GEORGES. An Addendam to Mistory Now in the Mak St. Louls Republic | Thackeray died too soon. His “Four | Georges' will presently need an addendum {and a title change to make it known as “Flve Georges.” If the cable advices from London depicting In severe outlines the character and aspirations of the new King have any approximation to truth, what hand but Thackeray's could do justice to the addendum? It is dnfalr to assume that the career of the fifth George will demand the same sort of treatment alfeady glven to the four Georges, but, none the less, the name he takes on his ascension has sinister associa- tions In America and no very enlivening assoclations In England and other parts of the world. The first George brought to England not only male and female favorites of scandal- who exploited the country for thelr own benefit and sold offices. War at home and abroad marked the reign of the second George. Culloden in Scotland was fought during this relgn and England was drawn Into the seven years' war. The events leading to the loss of the American states were not the only dis- graceful things about the reign of the third George. Corruption throughout England reached a pitch never equaled In any American state capital or cify hall. He was insane for years. The fourth George, known to some as the “first géntleman of Europe,” a title that caused Thackeray to scoff, the George of Beau Brummel and Mrs. Fitzherbert, was a pretty tough citi- sen It all accounts are true. One thing vouchsafed to these Georges has been long life. Some of them were late in coming to the throne, but in spite of the irregularities and excesses of their lives they seem tg hang on. It George V, now 45, should survive only as the youngest of the other four at the time of death, he has twenty-two years of reign before nim. George 111 was 82 at the time he dled. —— THREATENING THE MIDDLEMAN Moves for More Economical Distribu- tlon of Necesnnries. Boston Herald. One beneficlal result of the agitation over the increased cost of living has been a determined inquiry Into the cost of dix- tribution of commodities. Between the money recelved by the producer and the price charged the consumer there is a wide gap. If that can be closed, the cost to the consumer can be reduced, and there is a reasonable belief that with Improved methods of business organization, of hand- ling and transportation, such a reduction In feasible, In New York legislation has been proposed providing means for investi- gation directed at this phase of the cost of living problem, and for a permanent state authority for the correction of un- Just practices it such exist. Here in Massa- chusetts the proposed commerce commis. slon would have similar powers of in- vestigation. This {8 not a mere theory, but @a problem of sound business economy. Pri- vate enterprise seeks to eliminate every unnecessary expense in its processes of In- dustry and trade. There is no reason why soclety, through its established agencies, should not adopt a similar policy and make the process from producer to con- sumer as direct and economical as pos- sible. ] Our Birthday Book May 16, 19 § Levi P. Morton, vico president of (he United States under President Harrison, was born May 16 1524, at Shoreham, Vt., and is therefore cclebrating his eighty- |sixth birthday today. Mr. Morton is head {of the banking house of his name in New York, and has been In the public serview |in several capacities, Including governor of |New York and minister to France Joseph Medill McCormick, now publisher and controller of the Chicago Tribune, Is 3 years old. He was born in Chicago, and is the grandson of Joseph Medlll, who first made the Tribune famous. Charles F. Weller, president of the Rich- ardeon Drug company, was born May 16, 184, In Jefferson county, Oblo. He is a graduate of Duff's college, and served with distinetion in the unlon army during the war. He came to Omaha from Rt. Louis {in 1567 as manager of the Richardson Drig company, and has been president of the corporation for the last twelve years. Dr. Charles F. Crowley, professor of chemistry in the Creighton Medical college, is 41. He was born in Detroit, Mich., and educeted at the University of Michigan. Dr. Crowley was professor of chemistry In Detroit college before he came to Omaha in 1904, and is aleo city chemist now. John R. Dumont of the firm of J. H Dumont & Co., 1eal estate and insurance, was born in Omaha May 18 158¢. He is a graduate of the Omaha High school and studled also at the University of Nebraska Cedric Potter, agent of the Union College Gymnasium assoclation, Is celebrating his twenty-second birthday. He is the son bus llves, but a horde of lesser Hanoverians | long as | PERSONAL NOTES. has decid ’. forelkn ne Ve Petersbu g The Russian government hire A press agent to assist | paper representatives in St getting the news straight George V balks at taking the o the Prince of Monaco refuses to b at all. Looks like the crowning | insurgency Fashion utilizes overything that |along. The ‘‘comet hat" is the | adorned with a star of pink roses and | pink osprey tall. | Former Police Captain who led the police in breaking up the historic Haymarket riot, in which many policemen wore killed and wounded twenty four years ago by an anarchist bomb, died of heart disease In Chicago. Mrs. Jane Foster Shaw of Steubenville, 0., known as the smallest mother the | world, died at Fort Myers, Flu, 7 yea of age. She was twenty-seven fn helght and the mother of three children Being a lover of plano music, a diminutive plano was bullt for her In honor of the late Samuel tirst president of the Southern Railway company, and one of Georgia's most dis tinguished sons, & portrait sgatv. size in bronme, set upon AP-pedestal Knoxville marble, placed on the plasa, the Atlanta Terminal station, will be p: sented to Alanta and to Georgla King Albert of the Belgians has the d tinetion of being the only royalty, who ha |served an apprenticship as newspaper 1. porter. Four years ho was the regula accredited marine reporter of a Belgln woekly, and In the pursuit of his dut traveled through most of the countries { Europe, visiting the shiprards. CHEERY CHAFF. Act ) Willlam Ward of herole ‘beating a man just on the mere suspicion that he was | hones Ho emiled bitterly. “I'm not through yet,” he continued. “I'm going to find out Who started that rumor about me, Philadelphia Ledger ‘“There was certainly which resulted in my housekeeping." “What was (t?" “First she broke down, and broke up.”—Baltimore American. tate up a contrary wife's giving then she “Do you to tell being fat “Yes,” answered the zen, “I get more transportation money when I buy a rallway Washington Star, mean me you enjoy philosophic for ticket “'Some sclentific sharp clalms that mn, door produce optimism,' I does, [ know. Just now all the fans are saying that it is better to do your losing eatly In the season.”—Plttsourg Post, clti- my queried lightweight “By the wa. “who I8 the America?” “It fs still & matter swered the wise guy. title for the coml dealer, the fceman s entitied News. the near-sport, champlon of of doubt,” an “Some claim the while others say to It —~Chicago “8he says she could have married milions in_her youth." “Then her forbearance is more remark- able than I thought. She only married five or six.”—Kansas City Journal “Do you think King Edward's death will result ‘in much trouble for the English people? “1 am afraid ode to begin w Baltimore American. “BiN, There {s Alfred Austin's and more to come, sald Ben Jonson, one day when were dining at a London coffee how did you come {o write that play, ‘Titus Andronicus, any “I was in a reckless mood when I wrote that thing, Ben," answered William Shak- speare, “and I didn't care a hang what 1 did. Somebody had told me I was a dead ringer for Hall Caine!"—Chicago Tribune. OUR LITTLE NEEDS. Detroit Frea Press A little more of loving, a little less of pain A little more of sunshine, & little less of rain; A little more of friendship, a little less of strife— These are what we're wanting to make the perfect life. A little more of laughter, and fewer, fewer sighs, A little more of twinkling, than sorrow our eyes: A little move forbearance, hate, A little more of patience, less quarreling| with Fate. in a little less of A A little more of kindness, little lens severe. little more of sweetness, austera, A little more of honor and less of business areed, See, brother, sce how little it is we really need! a a little e little more of silence, and less of hasty speech, little more of practice and less desire to preach; little more of smiling, with fewer droop ing chins, little more of [l A A virtues and fewer -petty little more of pr blame, More thought for all our loved ones less for future fame; ing, a little les, and of Philip Potter, and is & graduate In elec- |trical engineering from Unlon college, which he Is representing. | Here is the story of a retail furni- ture firm in Cleveland that woke up to the possibilities of advertising quality. This firm has been the leading fur- niture house in their community for 51 years. They have never sold any- thing but the highest grade furniture ‘)‘e( they were not commanding the | trade they should, and knew it. They engaged the services of an ad | vertising man who advised a campaign "nl straight talks on furniture qualities |and values as against cheap and in- ferior furniture. | This campaign consisted of 14 | “talks” 8-inch double-column, a new | talk each day, and culminated in a full | page announcement of the firm's meth | ods, ideas, ideals and quoted the |names of their manufacturers. In a letter to the advertising man | one of the firm wrote: “We are very | well pleased with the results from this advertising, as we have had quite a number of sales, direct results from |same. In fact, the day of our opening | we had over 1,600 people in our store in & couple of hours' time." And this, mind you, without a hint of a sale, without quoting a price. | Don't you know. Mr. Merchant, that | the people of Omaha are just ay inter- ested in honesty and quality and value, | will respond just as liberally as the people in other cities, if you tell them about your values and qualitie We offer you our advertising col- A litle more of doing than talking of the deed, Bee, brother, sce how little It is we reall need. ‘ Talks for people who sell things . umns, our 42,000 home circulation, our advertising copy and illustrations our help, to make your advertising successful. Windows Newspapers. The retail dealer who depends ou the sidewalk and the weather for his trade might as well hire a boy and &e dig in his garden It i8n't necessary to be sensational to advertise; simply make readable news of your advertising. It I8 the business of the newspapers to dis tribute news and if 1 want a moderate priced stylish hat your advertising Is ten times more interesting to me than the Associated Press dispatch that some galoot in Oklahoma or Texa hanged himself. Good advertising Is news. Print t!ds on the celling over your bed so that you will read it first thing every morn ing when you wake up. Remembe: when you write your ad. Tell peop)® something they want to know, even if it is that muslin has gone up, and they would better buy, because in your opinion it is going up some more 1f you are changing your store arrang: ment—tell about it; some of your cu tomers will step in to see how it look Don't be lazy when you get up your ad; stir yourself to be as Interesting as If you were talking to your be: . o & v “\ " » customer, and all your custopgrs "fl» others, too, will gladly read ; .m._»