Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 20, 1910, Page 6

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REMITTANCES, Remit by draft, express or postal order payable 10 ‘he lee Publishing (ompany, Unly i-gent stamps received in payment of | mail 4CEOUNLS. Fersonal checks, eXcept on Umalia o eastern exchaoge, ot accepled. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. | Btate of Neuraska, Louglas County, sa.: George . aschuck, (reasurer of The Bee Publisning Cowpany, veing duly sworn, #ays thai (he actual number of full and complete coples of The Lally, Morning, Lvening and Sunday Bee printed during tie wonth of April, 110, wus us foliows: w news and Returned coples . Net total. Dally ave ‘Treasurer. Subscribed fn my pi and oworn to before me this 2d day of M. P Notary Fuolle becribers leaving the city tem. porarily ahould have The B wmailed to'them, Addresses will be changed as often as requested. Now come on, Old Sol, smiling. and keep Uncle Joe is 74 years ol_d, but you cannot make the insurgents realize it. Speaking of names, Dr. Barber heads the Nebraska Jentists for the coming year. —_— Here's where the ball player has a ready made answer for the comet— “‘Never touched me, It’s good advertising for Creighton university and every other university that has an observatory. o ] Somebody has sikgested that Pitts- burg send its grafters to jail in re- lays, Or build more jails. It has been discovered that spurious champagne is being panned off on the public. Be on your guard Sweeping the comet’s tail looks like altogether undue familiarity that is likely to bréed dangerous contempt. The prosecuting attorney of Cook county has seen to it that Representa- tive Link of Illinois is not a missing Link, e Confidential Btenugrl.p:er Kerby was not short-sighted, it seems, for he admits he saw his finish before he started. An expert tells us that the Panama canal is not a canal at all, but a big lake. There now, see how somebody has messed up the job. The man who pines for ‘‘the good old days” forgets that they, like every thing else, served their time and would be useless in another age. ‘Why talk about making Omaha a “city beautiful” while giving free rein to the hideous billboard nuisance? The two are irreconcilable, Pennsylvania democrats want a man who can reorganize their party in that state. They do not want much, do they? Even Jim Jeffries would hesi- tate to tackle that job. ““Uncle Joe' trouble is that he talks as it he were the whole repub- lican party-—very much like another distinguished gentleman, who talks as if he were the whole democratic party. A New York paper says there are two reasons why it is futile to discuss the senate's action on the long and short haul clause in the railroad bill and then proceeds to dllcuu it for nearly a column. Much is being made of the fact that Dr. Hyde plays cards with the “‘ordi- nary” prisoners to pass the time. If guilty, why should & man who takes human life consider himself above one who steals a chicken? Why has Mr. Bryan waited until now to berate and denounce the Omaha brewers in public? Is it be- cause every time he has run for of- fice he has been the Dbeneficiary of thelr money and votes? The thralldom of superstition still exists in this age of unsurpassed en- lightenment when people in New York and Texas will flee for refuge from the supposed calamity of the comet. But it is significant that the human sowl when it feels that death is near in- stinctively turns to religion, ¢ ) - Oregon's Experience. In the discussion of the initlative and referendum five states out of the whole forty-six have been cited as |states which have taken up with this scheme of direct legislation. Fortunately, we have in a recent speech delivered by Senator Jona- than Bourne of that state a resume of the experience of Oregon with the in- ftiative and referendum which may throw some light on its actual work- Ings, Oregon being the particular acme of direct popular government. The initiative and referendum was first utilized in Oregon in 1904, when two propositions were submitied to popular vote. In 1906 eleven more propositions were submitted and in 1908 nineteen more, making a total of thirty-two distinct propositions submitted at three elections. What are the propositions for which in Oregon it was deemed neces gary to take a popular vote? The |compllation presented by Senator Bourne, slightly condensed, with the vote on each proposition, is as fol- lows: SUBMITTED 1904 Direct primary law.. Local option lquor law SUBMITT! Omnibus appropriations state institutions....... Women suffrage. Moditied local option liguor law. sissesdoees SO Purchase of Barlow toll road. 316% Requiring referendum on cull- ing constitutional conventlon 47,061 Citfes to make own charters, 67 Legislature to fix state print- 3 .. 63749 Municipal initiative and refer- for 43,018 36,%72 Prohibiting passes e Earnings lux on Same on express, and telegraph.. SUBMITTED 1908, Increasing legtslators’ pay.... 19,601 Permitting location of state In- stitutions outside of state capltal ..... Inereasing supreme three to five... Changing election, November . Giving sheritts prisoners . 60,443 Free passes for public offiolals 25,56 Appropriating $100,00 for ar- morles . .. 38,507 Increasing university approp- rlation from $47,500 to $125,000 annually wHan Woman suffrage amendment. 36,88 Fish wheel operators’ fishery Dill 16,582 Gill net operators’ fishery bill. 56,130 Giving eitles control of liquor selling, pool rooms, theaters, free railroad .. 67,281 comp'les. 69,635 telephone . 70872 52,46 | 60,571 31,002 21,162 84,123 31,301 Oregon plan choosing senators 69,668 Proportional representation 48.868 Corrupt practices act. 54,042 Requiring Indlctmem by grand Jury 62,214 28,487 Creating ver county.. 43,948 26,778 This list at any Tate will afford some idea of what may be expected from the initiative and referen@um. Presuma- bly no scheme {8 too hair-brained or too preposterous to fail of the neces- sary number of petition signers in Oregon to put it on the ballot, and it is reasonable to suppose that the num- ber of measures submitted for popular vote will increase from yeam to year rather than decrease. Comparing the two states it is not out of place to ask what redlly desira- ble legislation Oregon has secured through the initiative and referendum that Nebraska has not secured without it. Nebraska has had direct primaries as long as has Oregon, and has now also the Oregon system of choosing United States senators. Nebraska has had a local option law for thirty years, and it has worked fairly well. Ne- braska has stringent anti-pass laws; it taxes common carriers at good, stiff rates; it has increased the number of supreme judges to accommodate grow- ing litigation, where Oregon has failed to do so. Nebraska had a corrupt practices act long before Oregon, and its State university, instead of having to go to the referendum to get $125,- 000 a year, enjoys an income of nearly $500,000 a year. Of course, it might be desirable to have an initiative and referendum on moving the state capitol or relocating the university, but public sentiment in Nebraska has never fully crystallized behind any measure and kept after it persistently without real- izing on it, without walting for an in- itiative or referendum. In other words, Nebraska has so far maintained representative government, which, while it has gone wrong occasionally, has on the whole responded well to popular demands whenever enforced by real majorities. And the people will continue to rule in Nebraska whether they do so by initiative and referendum or by electing their law- makers as heretofore on the current issues of the day. Improving Railroad Business, Rallroad gross earnings reports for April show a continuation of com- parative increases, reflecting the gen- eral stability of business throughout the country. While net earnings fail to sustain the same high level, they still leave margin enough for generous gains in incomes. But gross.earnings form the most accurate index to bus- iness activity. Net earnings are influ- enced from within, as in the present case, by such factors as wage Increases and expenditures for betterments whose advantages are permanent and are of bemefit to the public only indicating the relative ncome and cost of operation. Railroads comprising a mileage of 86,023 miles, more than one-third the total in the United States, for the month of April reported gross earn- ings as $60,761,768, which was a gain over the same month in 1909 of nearly 16 per cent. The greater significance state most widely advertised as the| | regions of 0| outcroppings. THE | of this appears when we consider that | while these reports include the big | coal-carrying roads, most of the min- |ers the bituminous districts were idle during April, down the traffic in coal extensively and also tation in the south, whose railways are ously crippled. Other traffic, there fore, was so large that it was able to produce a 16-per cent gain in gross earnings. The fact is, as shown by complote statistics, that railroad earnings thus far in 1910 are larger than they have ever been in the United States. It will | be difficult to evade the force of these | figures when shippers are asked to submit to the demands of the railways for a general raise in the level of freight rates in addition to the con- tinuous edging up under cover of re- classification. | A Practical Explorer. Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, the| British explorer who ha& come necarer | than any other man to reaching the | South pole, proposes to turn his ad- venture to practical account by going in search for coal in the antarctic | the south where he saw evidences of deposits on his recent ex- | pedition, The world will at once be seriously impressed by this afnouncement be- cause Sir Ernest has gained the right to a hearing by his conduct with ref- crence to his polar excursions, making no improbable claims that had to be subjected to the test of scientific demonstration for proof, nor has he sought to use his experience ,|purely for commercial purposes, but rather to promote scientific research and material progress in navigation. But with all the interest in polar discoveries, the world will manifest a keener concern in finding new sources of fuel and if Sir Ernest can accom- plish this mission he will be entitled to almost as much gratitude as if he had discovered both poles. The world’s supply of coal is limited, that is those sources that are known to exist and can be reached. Lieutenant Shackleton believes a tract of 4,000,000 square miles within the far south regions contains rich deposits of coal, for on his way south he perceived its He is now determined on an expedition within a year to verify his supposition, The world may some day find other | kinds of fuel to supplant coal, but until it does it will have to conserve its min- eral resources and develop new ones as rapidly as possible. The next prob- lem after discovery would naturally be that of transportation, but that, difficult as it may at first seem, would be solved in due course. A Few Acres Still Left. Before going prematurely into sack cloth and ashes over the belief that all the farming land in the United States has been occupied, the people of the overcrowded sections snould cast their vision westward and take courage. Here is one writer enlightening his readers with the lugubrious statement that no more wheat land can be found in this country, when as a matter of fact in the Panhandle of Texas alone there are fully 7,000,000 acres that only need the touch of the plow and the seed of the sower to produce mil- lions of bushels of good grain. Esti- mating that tnis land would yield no more than ten bushels to the acre, we would have 70,000,000 bushels, cnough to keep the wolf from the door a little while longer. / But it is not necessary to confine at- tention to Texas; other states in the west, Nebraska, for one, have still vast areas of available wheat land, which it will require years of coloni- zation to exhaust in settiement and occupation. Some of the sweeping ranges of Nebraska and adjacent states never used for other than pasturing purposes will some day be turned into wheat and corn flelds, probably as soon as their need for such becomes apparent. It is idle for uninformed people to indulge in pessimistic prognostications | about agricultural conditions so long as they do not take the time to famil- iarize themselves more thoroughly with all the facts and this is not the easiest thing for them to do. It is exceed- ingly difficult for the easterner to appreciate the immensity of the west, to understand that there are single counties out here larger than several of their states. Some of them do not even realize that it is the west to which they have to look for their food supplies. After all, the greatest tribute yet paild to Britain's late monarch is that offered in the visit of a hundred thou- sand of his faithful subjects from every walk of life to his dler to cast one fleeting glance upon the face of Edward. This stream of humanity that poured through Westminster hall past the catafalque from early morn- ing until late at night is the testi- monial that counts. ————— The initiative and referendum s now Mr. Bryan paramount issue, transcending all others, including free silver, free trade, Emperor McKinley, deposit guaranty, trust extinction, in- come tax and government by injunc- tion. Fortunately, he still has woman suffrage and the Henry George single tax to fall back on when he needs an- other paramount. Mr. Bryan says he wrote the initia- tive and referendum into the state platform adopted by Nebraska demo- crats in 1896. Correct, but he has studiously kept it out of numerous » thus cutting | that during April the cotton transpor- | |embraced in this tabulation, was geri- | democratic platforms written since for fear it was not as popular as he now thinks it fs. The work of taking the census is |now complete so far as the counting goes, but the tabulation is yet to be made. Jn the meantime the situation most resembles the period that elapses after an election between the closing of the polls and the announcement of the result. be floated to enable the Park board to develop Omaha's park and boule- vard system. Fifty thousand dollars { |in regular revenue from taxes and road fund ought to make a tangible showing. The Union Pacific will spend in im- provements in Omaha within the next two years at least $2,000,000. The this great property evidently have no lack of faith in Omaha’s future. Of course, it should be explained that many men have seen things In the sky before this comet came. Some folks have seen two moons where there is but one. If the Ballinger-Pinchot investiga- tion could have been conducted with less display of malice and personal spleen the outcome might be antici- pated with more satisfaction. — A Necessary Appendix. Bostgn Herald, Colonel Bryan's’statement that he will never agaln be a presidentlal candidate should be accompanled by an affidavit. Making a Good Start. Cleveland Leader. So far, King George is saying in public only what 1s sensible and well expressed. He may be advised rather carefully, but if he uses suggestions he certalnly gives heed to good ones. Superfluous Reasons. New York Tribune, Colonel Bryan takes needless trouble in glving varlous reasons why Mr. Roosevelt could not be the democratic candldate for the presldency. The one perennlal and suf. ficlent reason is that the party cannot weil have two candldates. Bammure American. The chaplain of the house of representa- tives, in praying that muckrakers may be- gin thelr reform labors at home, forgot that if all reformers begin with their own affairs, they would have too little time left to attend to their neighbors. Don’t Worry. San Franclsco Chronicle. Conservationists are asking the question, How will mankind get along when timber becomes so scarce that -~ the supply of matches cannot be kept up? Probably they will do as the anclents did, unless In the meantime someone Invents a substitute that will dispense with the use of wood, which Is not at all improbable. Baltimdré American. The charge fs madé that the girls of the country smoke 'clgarettes in secret and are more addicted to the practice than are boys. This fs on'c par with similar charges which break out every now and then from some frresponsible source about the general practice by women of smoking and drinking which proves to be without foundation save in the ever active imagin- ations of the accusers, generating in sweep- ing fashion from a few individual instances brought to their notice. [ AR R BRYAN AND THE HOME FOLKS. How the Democratic Shindy ewed at-Long Range. Pittsburg, Dispatch. 1t reports from Nebraska are correct, Mr. Bryan no longer needs to come east to in- vado “the enemy's country.” He can land right in it by stepping out of his own yard. From all accounts his neighbors in his home state are rapidly getting over the habit of letting him do thelr thinking. His pronoungement on prohibition six months ago seems to have caused the trouble. His subsequent explanation that he had no intention of considering prohi- bition as a national issue, but merely re- ferred to the propriety of the principle of local option dld not mend matters. What- over the Nebraskans may think of local option enough of them object to its being made a Bryan issue to cause a halt. Where- upon Mr. Bryan discovered another lssue and Immediately began-a campalgn for a special session of the leglslature to pass an initiative and referendum bill. Instead of rallying to this call many of the demo- cratio leaders replied that not only had they falled to observe any urgent necessity for a speclal session to pass such an aect, but that they were equally unable to see why they should vote for such & bill at any session. All this following a disastrous attempt to sccuro a dollar each from fifty democrats to file the nomination of Mr. Bryan for United States senator before he returned home seems to denote that the Bryan star is rapldly declining in its home batliwick. The prospect that Mr. Bryan will wage war upon the recaleitrant Nebraska democrats who refuse to follow his leadership is halled with delight by the republicans, who assert that the row in the democratic ranks will lead to the election of a republican legls- lature and a republican senator. Our Birthday Book May 20, 1910, Marion Butler, once populist United States senator from North Carolina, was born May 20, 1863, in Sampson county of | that state. He was chairman of the popu- Iist national committee for three paigns. Clark E. Carr, lawyer, author, diplomat and friend of Abraham Lincoln, is cele- brating his seventy-fourth birthday., IHe was born In Boston Corners, New York, and has been prominent in Illinols poli- tics. He was minister to Denmark under Harrlsow’s administration, and was presi- dent of the Illinols commission for the Omaha exposition. George A. Hoagland, lumberman, capl- talist and one of Omaha's ploneers, was born May 20, 1843, in Booneville, Mo. The Hoagland block stands on the site of the residence he and his family occupled for many years. Mr. Hoagland ls also a great devotee of hunting and outdoor sports. Court 8. Carrler, city ticket agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul rall- way, is celebrating his fifty-ninth birth- day. He is & native of Pennsylvania, and was ticket seller at the Unlon Pacific de- pot in Omaha from 1873 to 1883, when he assumed his present position, cam- Another $50,000 of park bonds will| a year In addition to more than that| men vested with the management of | strange | Washington Life Interesting Phawes Conditions Observed the Nation's OCapital The quietest representative in congress hails from Brooklyn and answers to the name of Richard Young. He makes a speech. His efficiency Is in quite work before the committee and hustling for votes for measures in which he is Interested. This silent statesman has to his credit an achelvement capable of ex- tolilng his fame in a babel of Janguages every hour of the six sunny months of the vear. He was instrumental in giving Coney Island a place on the map. Coney was a barren streteh of sand when Richards' prophetic eyes sized it up, | many years ago. He was park commis- ulnner, with considerable “power to act.' During his term, he admits in his auto- blography, he “transformed this island into a beautiful seaside park, bullt the sea- walk and concourse at that and macadamized the boulevard to the sea.” The tremenduous vocal powers of Coney deplored since then makes ample amends for the founder's impressive si- lence these later day nele Joe" Cannon a “lame duck” by any Washington Times, but wondering how he will he deeides to quit public speaker has just passcd lhis fourth birthday. “It doesn't feel any different to be sev- enty-four years old than it did scventy- three,” he said. “I feel as well and strong now as I did when years younger. My blood has no lime Jn it, so far as 1 konw, and my veins are not hardening. My heart action Is good. “There s only one thing that worries me sometimes. 1 don't know what I wil do with myselt when 1 retire from public life. Some day I probably will have to glve up this work In which 1 have been Interested €0 long. 1 have been In it now, you see, for thirty-six years. It has grown | to be rather & habit. “I suppose I'll find something else to do, but I can't figure out now just what it will be.” The speaker hasn't expressed his views as yet on the suggestion made by Champ Clark recently, that “Uncle Joe" owed the public a book of reminiscences. cannot be called means, says the he cannot help get along when lite. The seventy- To have been borl, reared and lived 6 years in Alexandria, Va. only six miles from the national capitol, and never hav- ing entered one of the many magnificent public buildings in Washington, never hav- ing seen the White House until last week, never hl\lng looked upon a president of the United States until she saw President Taft in the afternoon, never having seen & cireus or play, and never having used a telephone until prevalled upon to try the great convenience yesterday. s the unique history of Mrs. Eliza Simpson, 621 Bouth Henry street, Aloxandria, Va., who 18 in Washington visiting a nephew. Passing the White House, which Mrs. Simpson for the first time looked upon, President and Mrs. Taft came out of the grounds in an automobile. It was the first time she had ever scen a president. When she was born, In 1845, Tyler was president. Since that time elghteen presidents have been In the White House. Senator Robert L. Taylor of Tennessee says he has found the fountain of eternal youth. He says that he has discovered how he may live 100 years. “I am absolutely certain that with the ald and consent of my constituents in Ten- nessee 1 can live to be 100 years old,” said the senator. “It I8 just this way. Time files so fast here In Washington that the century mark is reached, or could be reached, I should say, without a fellow knowing it. I have been here three years and it does not seem like three weeks. “Campaigns for re-election come with the most astounding rapldity. They say the| term of a senator is six years, but I think | it is all a mistake. I think the terms last from about October until May and then another campaign. “If my oconstituents just keep on sending me back here to Washington I shall never dle. Old Ponce de Leon came along too soon with his quest. He should have been clected to the senate and re-elected con- tinuously as long as he wanted to keep on coming to Washingtan, and he would have located the fountain of youth.” They are telling a story in Washington of @ conversation said to have taken place not long ago between Rbpresentative Burleson of Texas and former Representa- tive J. Adam Bede of Minnesota. Judge Burleson 18 a member of the committee of appropriations, and is, therefore, closely assoclated with Chalrman James Tawney | of that committee. The Texan Is exceptionally fond of Mr. Tawney, and he was asking Mr. Bede's opinion as to the effect of President Taft's Winona speech upon the prospects of Taw- ney's re-ejection. Bedo was somewhat in doubt, and Burleson explained. “I like Jim Tawney; he Is all right. He is for the reduction of the tariff in the interest of the people; he is for economy in public expenditures, and he is an honest man." * remarked Mr. Bede, “he is almost a democrat.” Women are still interested spectators at the Ballinger-Pinchot investigation. They go there from curlosity and sit throughout the hearings. One of the regulars was| heard to say to her companion the other day, “What is all this about anyway “Why,” sald the other regular, ‘Mr. Ballinger wants to sell all the government land, and Mr. Pinchot doesn't want to." “Ballinger 1s right,” sald the first regular; “4t the government fold all the land, we wouldn't have to pay any taxes.” REGULATIONS HELP RAILROADS. | Signiticance of Forelgn Demand for Securiti Philadelphia Record, Financial organs continue to admonish us that we must not legislate regarding railroads and other corporations, or make any critical remarks about them, because it would dry up the streams of capital But we have recently had occasion to no- tice that the rafiroads were getting nearly | the amount of capital annually that James J Hill told us some time ago they needed, and the Paris correspondent of the New York Journal of Commerce says of the pend- ing sales of something like a hundred mil- lions of American securities: “All the large French banking interests are without ex- | ception cordially co-operating to make the new movement & success. The list of American loans ready to be launched shows a total of necarly 0,000,000 francs, which are to be publicly offered before the end of the month.” The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul wil issue a loan of $30,000,00) and other large loans will be put out by | the Cleveland, Cincirnati & St. Louls, the St. Louls & San Francisco, the New York Central and the Ualtimore & Ohlo. The { rarely | resort | piano music on and Amberol R ing 100 Record The Amberola, $200 | one to the other at will. Offers you more than a piano or even a player- piano—for, at best, these instruments give you ly, while the Amberola plays 2/ of the best of a/ kinds of music. The Amberola plays both Edison Standard ecords, and you can change from Has drawers for hold- s. 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Mickel, 334 Broadway, Council Bluffs, Ia, PERSONAL NOTES. New York has a woman who saw French In retreat from the Russlans Moscow. Frank Stanton does not deny the soft impeachment that he is the Atlanta poet who has become a bank president. Fiorence Nightingale on her ninetieth birthday, though in Infirm health, is “free from suffering.” One who has done so much to relieve others should herself be immune. Numerous warnings have been issued based upon the fact that Mark Twain and the late King Edward used tobacco. Some- how these do not seem deeply impressive, $0 many men are free from the habit and die earller. Stll active and in good health, Charles H. Cramp head of the famous Philadelphla shipbuilding company founded by his father, celebrated the elghty-second anni- vergary of his birth at his home in the Quaker City. The movement to obtain a safe and sane Fourth will do a great deal toward saving the country If it will encourage as a sub- stitute for firecrackers and the toy plstol the old-fashioned oratorical fireworks which used to accompany the reading of the declaration of Independence. Prof. Henry C. Emery of Yale, chair- man of the United States Tarlff commis- slon, and absent on leave from the uni- versity salled from New York for the pur- pose of investigating the tariff commis. slons of Germany and Austria. He goes alone, and expeots to be absent until July 1, Mrs. Johanna Downing of East Boston, together wtih her daughter, Mary Ellen, and her son, John, will soon be reunited to her husband, Patrick J. Downey of Caldwell, Idaho, formerly of Portmouth, N H., from whom she parted after a quarrel forty-two years ago, and from whom, until recently, she had not heard since thelr separation. at RAILROAD ROLL, OF HONOR. nique Record of Safety in ger Transportati New York World, With the fiseal year ending Juno 30, 1909, according to the annual report of the bureau of rallway news and statlstics, soventeen railroad companles of the | United States completed u six-year term | without -a passenger killed, ninety-five companies a five-year term, 177 companies a four-year period, 22 companies throe years, 287 companies two years, and 347 companies, out of 368 reporting, one year of immunity. This gain In safoty was accomplished | mileage and with u multiplication of risks through additions to train schedules. The mileage of the death-lmmune American voads of 1908-9 was 169,657, Only twice in half a century has the no-fatality record been made on the rallways of Great Brit- aln, which have now, according to the bureau report, & mileage of 23,600, These figured facts of safety on the Iulll are in gratitylng disagreement with a popular idea. As explaining contrary im- pressions, we have to remember that whereas most traln wrecks get Into the news, nothing is sald of day-to-day trips without event. The bureau statistics seem to demonstrate that rallroad managers and employes are taking increased care and that the mission of the block signal s be- A\ the TAPS ON THE FUNNYBONE. Extract from a young woman's letter from Venice: “Last night I lay Grand canal, drinking it all never scemed so full before.” Magazine. “A little while ago I saw a man torturing a live lobster while an agent of the Boclety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animaly was watching him.” “What happened then?" “Well, then he go pinched."—Chicago Tribune. in a gondola in the in, and life —Lippincott's “When Adam delved and Eve span, who wag then the suffragette? £ “Hve, of course—didn't she raise Cain?" —Harvard lepuon T mea where that airship inventor fn to deliver an illustrated lecture on aviation.” ppose the illustration will be by sky- lights.' —Baltimore American. New Customer—I see you have Van Falu- tin for a customer. Are you aware that his ancestors came across on the May- flower? Tullor—S0? It's too bad he doesn't try to_emulate thelr noble deed, What do you mean? I made him two suits, come across yet.fPuck and ‘he hasn't the little boy was heard sporte I'll bet yer any Harper's “Aw! come ol to remark. “Be amount of money up to b cents. Magazine. “I have to face the fact,” mused tha fashionable photographer, as he looked over some recent pictures, “that there are some very ugly features in this business.”"—Bal- timore American. 1 don't s'pose m( comet serves any u ful_purpose cavortin’ 'round up yonde Nx:)pc Dr. Hank Burdock says it's th vermiform appendix of the solar system. —Cleveland Plain Dealer, “Bhe' card elul “‘What's the matte! to win a prize yet?'- the most Dopullr member of our hasn't she been able Detroit Free Press. Hamm-Do you recognige the profession? Ticket Man—Yes. But it you'll stand out of the line quietly I won't give you away.— Cleveland Leader. 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