Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 9, 1916, Page 26

. | | f — " VOUNDED BY KDY VICTOI ROBEWATER, EDITOR, __The Beo Publishing Company, l‘rnprlawr. ] TKHMH ()lf Bl BAC NII’I‘IUN ;!.y ""‘t‘lr By mal,l_ r month LB ly and Bunday veres 00, e .00 E:“y without nundnr vaning end unday, Eveping without Funda, l‘zny e only.., Jally wnd Bunduy Th notiee of ¢hange $10.00 frregularity in delivery to Omahs Wee, Circulation Department. NEMITTANCE, Hemit by draft, oxpress or postal order cont siamps racelved In payment of Amall accounts n advance o'l Hend of address or Only twoe l’tmm.l oh ", change, not_wecsp Omaha~The 1 rm“‘n“;"“ ‘oune i Tineoln ,Ll Little ( vmu 014 l’tq New urfi- l(nnm B Louls-08 Naw Washington-1 ruu .:‘”M on Omaha and eastern ex- MM“ u (‘lllOl!lA‘l’lOl, 56,628 Daily—Sunday 60,628 p Dwight Wil manager of ’m:' "':’: it " oyn v:zm“l'r 7:1';1 |r| 0 mbflt"d arch, 1016, wis 4 dajl b \l(}ll’l' MH 1a IA‘I & W Hubsoribed in mr t §rence and sworn ta bel this W duy of Apr! RopEwr N‘r“ Motary l‘ublln w, elroulatio any, being duly Iutlwlhn leaving tha ity u.onrfll should bave The lee malled to them, Ad- dross will be changed as ofton as requested. The March llon must have seoured an ez tension of time Into April, Ten more d.y- will determine whether the political yehicle will be & limousine or a tuneral Car, ! The romance of modern pirscy was short- lived, Greed for booty spolled the thriliing chapter, Protty near time for congress to begin fig- wring on summer adjournment, It the fences ure to be kept in repair, Munitions are sald to bave made & thousand milllonaires In Japan, The Ysnkees of the Orlent warrant the thrifty title, I I'ne certalnty of nwtlu lumncr at home will enable globe trotters to stand & fair exam~ foation In American Keography. No professed friend or otfensive partisan can wwerve Brother Charley from the plain path of duty by working up an artificial searcity of halr renovators, Colonel Bryi hnmr knocks on the wsenlor senntor are intensified doubtiess by memorios of the eruel blue pencil wielded fwenty-one years ugo, E— Our democratic friends are still busy Intro- dueing thely “Who-is-he" ecandidate for gov- ernor, He will have to speed up still more for the home stretch, The eagerness of a fow American undertak- ors for possession of Villa's body exhibits a claww of enterprise rivaling the zeal of Foxy Bob for naturalization feen, com——— The Inabllity of the weather man to appre- ciate the lean and hungry look of winter coal Lins presents the most discouraging case of Leartlossnoss embalmed in the annals of spring. Seme——— An “Bob” explains it, the fee-graft that he ¢ stlll freezing to amounts to only $76.37 a month, Yes, but for nine years this totals $8,129.16, That is why he won't put it back until he has to. The prize has been awarded for the best *geven reasons why a man should join the Com- merclal club.” The one best reason is that there I8 no good reason why a man should not Join the Commereial club, e ——— A nuccession of protests and ineldental con- versation between Washington and Berlin and London provokes “wenriness and vexation of wpirit” Telexruph and cable companies, how- ever, maintaln a cheerful front, r——mmpmm— Increasing Value of Farm Lands, The Department of Agriculture reports an edvance In value of farm lands in the United Bintes equal to more than 26 per cent within the last four years, and of more than 11 per cont within the last year, This notable addl- tlon o the wealth of the nation ls ocoasidn for both tuereased pride and apprehonsion, It will onablo us to point to an enormous aggregate of material possession, but It is also notice to the effeet that the naturally avallable portion of our wonderful domain is already in use, In. tonsive farming, utilization of land now neg- lected in the best of farming reglons, and the further reclamation of desert and swamp will Anerense both the productivity and the smployed srea of land In the United States, dut it will rot help the situation of the landloss man The frontier was long ako wiped out, and the neglected rexlons of the eountry have been ourefully seanned (n search of avallable farms. Notable achlevemont han followsd eftort to wake useful land thal had too mueh or not enough water, and the snd of this Is not yel, Bt Unele Bam cun no lonker give “forty scres and & mule™ to snyons, This does not wean fhat the Hmit of our sgriositural output has | Dean renched. Wo have just rend In the news | eolumns the announcoment that the farmers | S soluntarily restricting the whoeat output by | BUO.000.000 bushels; It s possible (0 ralse sven EYORLEr crops than were gathered In 1015, the Beat yoar ever known in this cosstry., Our farmars will be required to make wore of (heir | Vpportunity Farm values, like all others, wust be faed By surviee, which sl depends ou wany fae e laereasing value means increase (n offort ARat pratit may be produced. Few farms are Bew sificlontly conduciod, The rearganisation OF the agrioultural industiry of the country | ot pome I the yalustion placed ou tarm lands vaRtEues o advanes The Law of “Writing It In" Quite & few republicans, earnestly for the plan to write in the name of Charley B, Hughes on the republiean preferential primary ballot express fears that the votes {ntended for Hughes will not be counted for him because of ltewvitable mistakes in writing, We admit that there 1s & risk, but if the election officers will Ao thelir duty msecording to the spirit of the lnw, this danger will not be great. The writing-n plan finds ity foundation in the section of the statute providing for an ox pression of s preference for president at the primary as follows: 2146, Moo, 407, Presidential preference vols When wandidates for offices of president and vice president of the United Wiates are to be nominated wvery qualified elector of & political party subject Wo this ertole shall lisve opportunity 1o vote his preference, on his party, nominating ballot, for his kholoe for one person to be (he cendidete of his politionl party for president, and one person to be the candidate of his political party for vies presi- dont, of the United Wiates, oither by wriling the natmes of wuch persons in blank spaces Lo be left in wald ballot for that purposs, or by marking with & cross opposite the KIMM numes of the persons of hin eholos, an in the™Nase of other nomingtions, The count and canyass of these votes Is cov- ored by snother section of the election law, which applies equally to the primary, which reads: 4072, Wee. 104, Wurname of candidatel If st wny wiage of the canviss a ballot shall be found having correctly written or printed thersen the surnwme of wny person for any offise, who shall be & candidate for much office at sush elestion, and there whall be no other eandidate for the same office having the same surnams, such ballot whall Lo counted for wuch candidute, withough the initisl Jotter, or lettern, or first name or namos, writien or printed before bis surtigme may not be thows properly belonging thereto, It this were not specific enough, we have sl further the introductory article of the pri- mary law in the following words: 2184, Beo, 106, Construotion of primary lew; This article shall be liberally construsd #o that the reul will of the slectors may not be defested by sny informality or fallure to comply with all provisions of 1aw In rewpect to either the glving of any notloe or the oonducting of the primary or certifying the results thersof, To anyone who does not stick for techniesll- tien this makes it plaln enough that the law provides an extra blank line for tbe purpose of permitting the voter to “write 1n” a name not printed thers, snd that the Jjudges and clorks of election are to count the vote, 1 the wriling makes the Intent of the voter clear, desplte mistakes In spelling or initials, Mo it In up to the voter who wants Charles K, Hughes for president to “write In" the name and put a cross in the adjoining square and rely on the olection officers to do the rest, S Counting the Cost of War, Twenty months of war makes the doepest and most enduring Impression on the finances of the fighting nations. The lives sacrificed aro woon forgotten beyond the thresholds of be- reaved families, The maimed and erippled live out thelr diminished years, Property losses may be felt for u generation, and nature quickly repairs or disgulses the ravages of battletields, But the mountainous debts piling up promise to Kroot posterity with & load for ages to come, The magnitude of the flnancial operations of the warring governments aggregate $26,000,- 000,000 u yoar at the present time. A sum- wmary of the cost, compiled by the National City bank of New York, credits Great Britain with o dally expense of $25,000,000 and a national debt of $11,700,000,000, of which $8,000,000,- 000 In due to twenty months of war, Nearly # of advances and loans to the colonfes and allles, Gormany's four war loans total $9,000,000,000, Including the March loan, which brought $2,600,000,000 to the treasury, Germany, no doubt, 1s financ- ing Its allles to some extent, yet itw dally war expense of $10,600,000, officially announced, 14 far below that of Great Britain and $1,800, 000 lower than France's dally outgo. Up to the close of March France spent $7,400,000,000, The borrowings of Russla amount to $4,000,- 000,000, and its dally outgo equals that of Ger- many, Excluding Austro-Hungary and Turkey, no figures belng avallable, the war debts of the big four now total $28,400,000,000, to which must be added $165,000,000,000 debts contracted prior to the war, and thelr dally expenditures run close to 76,000,000, On the basis of these outlays, the cost to Austro-Hungary and Turkey runs the daily cost close to $50,000,000, and adds $2,700,000,000 » month to the debts already contracted, The immensity of the load future genera- tions of Huropeans will shoulder may be grusped by the statement that the present rate of expenditure for two mouaths exceeds the com- bined publio debt of the United Btates, of all the slates, countion and cities, by $1,000.000,000, ——— Let Nature Strike a Balance. The “harmless, necessary eat” is coming in for some serious, and not a little easual, con- slderation In Omaha Just now, consequent upon the suggestion of the Audubons that unlicensed Tabithas aud Thomases be deprived of each of thetr nine Nves, This, of course, Is in (nterest of the birds, supposed to he sufferers through the existence of unrestricted follnea, DId thess Audubong ever stop to think that the birds have come down to (his day from an antiquity as romute, st least, as that of man, and (hat along with them oame the eats of various kinds? Nature has & way of taking care of croatures Froat and small, and 1t usdisturbed wil they wre given & chancs to live aew NOL 80 Yely ALY YeArs ago man, In his wisdow, undertook the extermination of cor teln birds, bocause, forsooth, they ate cherries or pulled corn, or did something else unsesmly He soon fuund out his (nterference with aature's plans had disturbed an esquilibrium he knew | not of, and ho wan compelied eagerly o devote Biraaell (o conning back the birds that he might be vidded of Ihe bugs Cate mieht be banished but whe ean tell what will follow on the disap pearanes of pussy from our soonemy. Bhe WAy pounce upon her flullering prey, or disturh | he night with her lovemaking, but she has | Bor part in the goneral plan, and It may be wise e let her play For the ssntimental side, oo folke love a cal guile fervently as oth s do hrde s betier 10 lot pature sirike the balnnce when it can be done without serious lonn DL UAL Dk praree Vs, WSW By Vietor Rosewster, T WAN with & feeling of sadness that 1 sttended l the funeral of Willlmn M. Kent this last week, for he was another of the men who had helpsd put The Hees on the map In th rly days. Mo was oity editor when that funetionary was the whole local foree, and though it was long befors | had any active part in the production of the paper I know how much he wan valued by my father, who with but 1ittle assist ance, wan the whole editorial department, Kent was an Indefatigable worker of the old styls of Journaliem and his storfes wers newsy and resdable, What 1w more, ha had a personality that made friends and 1 had a host of them In thoss days. And when, after using up his vitality in other flelds, ha came baok and found o less strenuous job with us at the proof desk, In hin aulet golng and coming he never seemed Just the old Kent, steady snd industrious as he wis 1o the end, when he Adled in the harness, as all of us want to dis when our time comen The death of Will M. Woenlg also comen cloka 10 The Ten househiold, for he was at one time a member of this newspaper family and we always kept olose the bonds of personal frisndship, When & man under- Koos the Intense sutfering he had to endupe in his Inst two years, his taking off brings grief but not rokret, It 18 now detinite that the temporary chalrman of the coming republiean national convention will ha Benator Warren . Harding of Ohlo, who will Asliver, In that capacity, the opening speech ns Ala Benator oot In the last aonvention and Benator Lodge in the oonvention before that, Benator Harding was hore in Omaha during the campalgn of four years ago whep he addressed a republioan meeting in Lyris hall and made & most favorable impression upon those who wore fortunate enough to attend, I remember that e disoussed chiefly the tariff fssue, showing himselt thoroughly famillar with the phases of the subjsect which he took up. e is u newspaper man, the sditor of o puper published In Marlon. I had heard him make the spesch nominating President Taft which was o masterplece of that style of oratory and it is safe to prediot & stirring and finished address from him a# the keynote for the convention, Hin tank, however, will be comparatively easy, for the prospect Is for a harmontous and falrly smooth. moving meeting, The eleotion of the presiding officer, which four years ago required an Individusl roll eal! and took all dny, will be perfunctory and probably hy unanimous ratification of the recommendation of thy aummities, things may even be ealm snough to per: mit of u faw brief remarks by Chalrman Hilles when he raps for order, if ho Is lnclined that way. Befors the ble meeting of 19,2 wan convened, the press asens clations appited day after day for advance ocopy of whiat | was golng to sny, but the only answer 1 gave them was that thore would bs no sdvance copy. 1 oould perhaps have prepared a typewritten paper that would have read nll right In the press reports, hut it In well 1o recognize one's own limitations, 1 found T could mako rmyself hoard better, or at least farther, by having a megaphono opsrator repsat what 1 said Lo him and besides, the oratory role belonged to Bena- tor Moot and Benator Harding, still better aquipped for the oratorieal performance. A atriking figure of all the recent conventions nas been removed by tho death of Ceell A, Lyon of Texan, which occurred Inst week. Colonel [yon used to exer oise an almost exclusive proprictorship In the repub. llean party of the Lone Star state, Though born in Maryland, he was & typleal Texan in appearance. Je was an ardent political worshiper of Colonel Moowe- velt and a groat personal favorite of the colonel, He was state chalrman, national commitiesman, patronake Ainpenner, presidential reforee, all in one. o was n sort of politieal dietator In Texas and st the wams time exercised a fatherly oversight and solicitude for hin erowd. 1 recall a humorous ineldent In which the Joko was ot the axpense of Colonel Tyon, but which, nons the less, {llustrates the southern atmosphero Thres sets of contesting delegates clalmed the wsenis allotted to Taxan In the 1906 convention, During the ring Colonel Lyon himeslf, ropresenting his own Aclegation, hroke In on the colorsd man pleading for & black delegation with the customary charge that the other side drew the color line “Do you mean to say,’ interrupted Yyon, “that 1 don't have any colored men in my organization? Don't you know there nre negroes right here in my dele. wntion?’ ‘on, Mister Lyon, you have a few biack delegatos who 4o Jes' an you, tell em, hut they doan’ represent “Hut don't you know T have negroes on my M commiites and my county committoes and all throu, my organization®’ “Oh, yen, Mister Lyon, you have a few black men on your committees but they haven't got nothing to suy. All the polities you have s dons in that white mans' club you've got up at Dallas ' “What!” thundered Lyon, “Do you mean to tell thin committes that T have a white man's club that Aoen all the politiea? Who told you that T belonged to n white man's elub? DId you ever see me at any white man's club up at Dallas?" “Lordie, no, Miater Lyon' came the answer, quick as & flash, “Why, you know perfectly well it wouldn't b nnfe for me to look for you at your white man's club up at Dalla The Inugh was on Colonel Lyon and he joined in And then the committes voted to seat the Lyon dele- us. gation, Colonel Lyon made his fortima in lumber and was at the head of the Kirhy Lumber company when it matntained an office in Omaha, Thirty Years Ago This Day in Omaha Complied from Wee Files. Naboock, K Morehouse and Geneval W, N Manager Fiteh of the Northwestern raflroad have re tirned fram Cheyenne, where they have beon fn at tendancs upen the Westarn Cattle Growers assoola ton, Johi A. MeShane of this oity alse atisnded the convention Captaln 113 Moynihan, w as been in Omana | for several days on & VISt to his brothers, haa left for Chioagn The captaln was wreatly plrased wita | Nia trip 16 Omaha and renards 1t as the most prom | Wing piaee I the weat donsl Menry, Wilh & company f iy wen and thige offivers, oMt 1o aitend the funersl of Os Winimet Crawford at Kearssy They will & apecial ear attachad to the m ng Overtand tral | on the Union Pasliy ! woert ghves by the ward Bleeed Mathodist ™ A BTOAL autoese Amons the W pumbare wern solon by Misa Jewel Meuse, Mis ) | W Prosson and M N Newman North Owaba bndgs, Kalghis of Pridias (Y wit a8 Trianale lodgs, was Inatituied Thure day WAL Wit about farty members A namber of the t My I Nwbiaska lodges wain aiienida oAb vy Bt Butier a sngaged A I 18 ba purchased sal 18 young bl st | wake & valuable addithon o irving A 1he and dociia Ahe sqiing fores of e The & departinent B M Craws . o 1 Ml Pt where he has profeasiionn At ' Han N Uhe Sl oF Prawan Meos amainal Pries & The malier will » » Webgter the dules Jenne | wanrt (T befire 1he supteine platntitt and " 40 e he el ORI repres AL L Y, 1916, SECULAR BHOTS AT PULPIT, Houston Post: An Indlanapolis preacher #ays the man who doss not tell his wife | the truth under any and all cireumstances 1 @ mcoundrel. Absolutely true, and yet if ho does ho's & fool Washington Post: The governor of New Jorsoy has slgned & blll compelling the reading of the Bible in every school In the state, but the senste stil] gets its theologlonl pointers from the chaplain and Jim Martine IAte: At the next triennial celebration of the Protesant Episcopsl chureh at Bt Louls in October the Ten Commandments, Volled down to seventy-six words, will be submitted for approval. The fourth eom« mandment, for example, will rond s fol | lowr: “Mix dayn shalt thou labor and do all thy work.” The superflugus cormment sbout. rest and the Sabbath belng the Lord’'s will be omitied, This s In line with modern progress. Mowes did not understand that brevity Is the soul of wit, Mo ran on too much, If he were wlive today he would undoubtedly be & congressman or an after-dinner speaker. Vourth Estate: Before the chureh ongage In a Bucoessful advortising eam- palgn it must know ita flold. This may require & therough moing sirvey. 'Thers v no advertising panncea for gelting peo ple into the chureh. 1t Is Important to ot the viswpoint of the peopls outsids of the church, Why do they remain away from the churoh? In most church pub Meity plans ministers seem 1o think only in the terms of those who are already inside the ohurch. Men should not be invited to go to chureh upon the assump- tion that the church s a losing propom- tlon and that they must ko In to save it They must be persuaded that the church In engaged In the greatest task In the world, and that they may have a part in it If they will oome Into the church, Therefore, the church should mpesk with authority and dignity regarding its work, BRIEF BITS OF SCIENCE, A substitute for imported edible gelat'n is made In the Philippines from mseas weed Including sl the movements of the oarth, o person travels W55 miles In taking s thres-mile walk The residus from Indigo plants sfter tre extraotion of the dys In India has been found to ba an excellent fertilizer for to- bacco, That the human brain can withstand the strain of persistent work better than the munscles of the body has been proved by recent experiments, Norway will bulld s canal, nine miles of which will be through a tunnel, to open to navigation a Iake separated from thn #ea by & mountaln ridge, Recent experiments seems to have shown that richer sugar beets can be Krown in some parts of Vngland than are produced on the continent of Kurope, A Vrenchman has perfocted a horizonty! windmill with the vanes so shaped that nine-tanths of them utilize the force f the wind no matter in what direction it s blowing, An English sclentist bolleves there s an Individuality fn heart benta affecting the handwriting to such a degres that it oan be identifled when the writing 1s magnified, The removal of tar from gas by eles- tricity in the subject of a patent recently granted to an inventor of Detrolt, The operation consiats essentially of passing the wnn through an electrical field of ternating polarity betwesn receiving and Alschnrging electrodes, It |8 asserted that the particles of tarry substance in (he kan then conlesce and are deposited on the recelving electrods, BIGNPOSTS OF PROGRESS, Kdghtesn thousand bricks can be mani- factured by the steam process in ten hour Flectrification of steam rallroads in the United Btatos last year hrought the total of wiuch equipment up to mbout miles, The world's product of lead pencils probably amounts to nearly 3,000,0000,000 & year, half of which are mads from Amerloan-grown cedar, Pendleton county, Kentucky, famous for its honey, seems to have some rea- son to be proud, data showing that sev- eral bes kespers thers gathered 10,000 pounds each and one %,000 pounds, Blght years ago, W, Carl, & ocon- tractor and bullder of East 8t Louls, 11, announced he could bulld & house in & day. The house, & story and a haif cottage of thres rooms and & bath, was begun at 7 o'clock in the morning and at 6 o'clock that evening the tenants had moved In and were eating thelr first wupper. Recently this house, oceus pled by Frank Kasaros and family, burned flat in half an hour, Platinum has recently been discoves In tha mountaing about Ronda, in south. ern Spain between Algeciras and ihral tar, The Spanish government has taken wlon of the ground on which the ey has been made, and has are ranged for developing the mine under the direction of the Geologieal Inatitute An appropriation of 000 a year will be made for the necessary drilling, ma« ehinery and other expenses AROUND THE CITIES, Philadelphin pr oo yearly 0.0 000 yards of carpets and rugs Last year®t, Josoph, Mo, paved a little ovar slght miles of strests at & cost of 4.2 Meattle's publio library has instalied o spacial telephone for tha purpess of an swoartng outslde requests for tnformation The muntelpal loduing house " Louls olosed on April | with & record of B0 lodrings, for which » pald by arhing 0 the parks ot coat Meging & eellar ot Elkhart e Lrave son My five Baine lued vered a e f & tank sontaining na ot Nigh teat gasoline el that AR AuA of he munioipal oo Motnes shawa & debt of BNANN, whioh the old eouncll aheerily pasess up 1o the paw. The flaating debt 18 18 ba turnes Inte bonds I of RO or B cenia wubla yard The eost was Maher than waval ewing 19 the soarity of laber Montelaie, N J, viaima 18 be the el baby low N e United Blates. D R VA the death rale ameng bakiss un Bor ona year was only alntyofive in ) A8 ptnpared with L In LW B all New Jer Pive of (he Hema In & requisition for ehamioals In the N York iy hosplial wore Almidadibeompr acemt e Amethplonimidamesnralamide dmethy arhicaater aad ttandioe eihanetel tagalbe Phloroglusintriearbonyiinstor Oues In AWAiS priniees and proofreaders get thelt | '™ | Ind, Now York pemaved 100080 guble yards | | of snow from Ihe stresis last winier ser and 10 I LW e Ohe United Biades, | PEOPLE AND EVENTS, | “An innocent country girl from Cin einnatl,” s the way u New York paper refers to Dentist Walte's stenokraphlc companion. It 8 hardly probably that had to g0 away from Cincinnati to #et AN eyn-opener, “The Bunshine club of Laurel Bpri: N J., wtarties the town by announcing A wiug wmoker for Waster Monday night An the elub s compowed of bachelor maids, the news glves Mother Grundy ri | overtime job, and Vather Grundy offers space retes for the storfes that go with the smoke A widow of twenty-thres summers, wolghing 616 pounds, was married In %t | Lowuis the other day to s tall and sim man | from Wock Island, The bride was un- | commonly attractive In her glve-awsy | gown-#0 attenotive in fact that the Judse who performed the ceremony was too| Aazed to take the proffered fos. The regenarated oity of Byracuse, N Y., I8 backsliding In & shameless way. Com mon mothods of gambling remsin ou’ Inwed, but the sporting blood of the com munity obtalne exercise by betting on (h o | thressminute run of & coekroach moving | an egusholl on a checkarboard, The garmo | Aruwn more coln than & slot machine, | The depths of masculine curlosity were sounded recently by s dying man ai ivanaville, Ind. 'Thres days befors his doath he Induced his wife to buy her movrning regalin and had her try them on #o that he might ses how she looked In “widow's weeds'' Maving satisf'ed s ourlosity, he smiled happlly and de- parted In peace A recent Inquiry Into the eonduet of in« stitutional orphan asylums in New York City which recelve public moneys, brought | 1o lght a fine collsction of politieal chalr warmers. Most of them are cousine or marrisge relations of aldermen. Years of #0ft and eany Iving had so fattensd their upper sories that they could not remermn- ber & thing when cross-examined. In a weneral way thelr sense of responsibility to the state's wards centered itself In high living and Qrawing their pay reg- ularly, The brownastons mansion in New Yorfl City In which was nuriured the tragl: killing of Jim Wiak, forty-four years ko, in In the hands of wreckers, Lo roake w1y for & modern bullding, o Is where the woman in the case held court, amid surroundings as lavish as ever stuffed a roysl palace. In less than ninety days after the tragedy, the lifs story of Fisk Btokes and Josls Mansfisld, in book form, was peddisd from house to house In Omaha, snd proved the best seller of the sonson, #he 0UT OF THE ORDINARY. Last yoar, for the first time in more than half a century, new rallwey son- struetion in the United Btates foll to less than 1,000 miles. In 1614 the total of new milleage bullt was 1,502 and in 1913, 8,071, The % rapids traversed by the last porty Lo pass through the Grand eanyon of the Colorado droppsd them a total of 6,000 foot to the gulf of Lower California, the trip covering 1,400 miles and requiring oxnetly 101 Gnys, o extensive are the precautions taken on the ralironds that climb the Andes and Mnk Argentina and Chile, which have the #espest grades in the world, that not a fatal nccident has occurred since they were opened in 1910, In Maine during the lnst year thers wore 6,202 marriages; the oldest Lrile- &room was 8, the oldest bride was 79, the youngest bridesgroom was 16 and the youngest bride 13, There wers thres men and two women who wers married for the fifth time, Bangor, Me,, Aruggists report the re- celpt of certnin lines of goods which are produced in Germany, They wers shipped by the way of Turkey and Asia to China and from there to the United Btutes, By the time they reached Bangor they had almont completed the efrouit of the earth. A huge bowlder having ten nores of sur face above ground, from which granite in being taken for bullding the new Okla- homa state capitol, 1s sald onoe to have been a favorite bandit rendezvous. It is & wolld mass towering above the tres tops and formed of an excellent grade of stons, The glory and fame of cornerstone lay- fng is rapldly waning. A recent New York ceremony on a modern bullding consisted in driving a sliver rivet, which atfords absolutely no space for Kraven | fmmortality. Getting the name and pio- | ture In print is about all that is Jeft The highest return during the past year to any Pennaylvania egg farmer was 6 cents s domen, aoccording to W. Theo, Wittman, the poultry expert of the de. partment of agrioviture. The break in prices was the Iiest yet known, and it | | in olaimed that fall ewas and not winter ; xKn now bflnl the maximum x-rm- | By Any Other Society z J. T, YATES, Sov. Clh. ot Des | o ! Are sirong to bulld it! The Woodmen of the World Received ] 2,960 Avpiications During MARCH. 807 Greater than February. The Confidence of the people is fully justified. MUSINGS OF A CYNIC, When & woman pauses for reflection, look for the mirror, All men are born squal, but the equal ity 1s apt to end right there. In traveling the road to puccess som/ peaple slways want to out soross lots. The peopls most addioted to wastini tima are thoss whose time is ot thel own, A spendthrift is & person who saves hi money for & rainy day, and then pray for rain, Casting sheep's eyes nt & man is on way & girl hax of pulling the wool ove bis eyes. When u woman switches on her bat terfes of wrath, some men wilt, an uthers won't Behind the darkest cloud the sun L #hining, but that beautiful thought won keop you Ary If you have been caugh out in the rein without an umbrells. A man who talks all the time gets & point whers there fsn't a sufticlen | supply of truth to meet the demand for | conversation~New York Times. DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES, Mothar~Geraldine on_the merit roll again Grandmother—#he's her father's #irl, blesw hor! Hiram slways Aid the most moretriclous work! Judln Wao have evolved a -unn-nm-n bridsge prizg for all our afternoon affairs.” What fa 147" A bolled dinner in & can, It keeps the wives humw nud thelr husbhands from aeolding. ~Loulsvitle Courler-Journsl “When | went home the other night, t{red out and hungry, my wife gave me the cold shoulder “L pan't undersiand why men shoild somplain about thelr wives having the 180t word, 1 never objsct to mine having uu'lnld wu'r_’ ' ou don “Not & bit, 1'm slwayp thankful whet whe geta to 11" Hannn Transcript Child Ilhlu'ln, !nr knuwmht ) logse toll me what Is colluboration l’m,. two muthors? TAterary Parent (who knoww)—A mis take that begine with s luncheon and onds with & lawwult —~FPuck Hboy-Hise Gunsie, do you belleve In ~Hukgortion? .‘;l'(klrul"fllrl- Well, T was just !Mnk!n{ how K004 & Joy ride would come in Jus now,~ialtimore Anm jean j ~The Tm un that when' hs [ wha u ov on farm thoy had s mule et Setse and 3 Know which ‘one~ Judge, THE BUILDER. Dnmmml. America, thou Bullder! Thoti reacher up to God! Thou, vrhou -.f’ | elties grops with trust ‘ nto Ihw lmnlu empira of the sky, tand now with thy good weapons ‘In thy hands, There's & Lask here for & Jputider. % the wind It hath no That moans in from the wea! more The -?u‘ of the proud ships going un afral Nor the swest hum of cities at their mills; The beat of souls 18 in it * * * and the wings ot vzrd dreams, and the great gasp of Bos, lhm- & flame to eastward! Falf . lum lfl “‘ flmhlrl! Hoav'n faelf mma, lh- Aynasty of stary bum our stone to like a In blntui by the angry bloodied fires! They burn! Our brothers' cities! All those towers Whei o hllwry Iny cradied and whers chlt tn her golden garments like o v handmaid, brushing from her of rotted centuries, stood forth ar-eyed, s star-smudged palette in her " And God Himelf upon her brush They burn! Those anclent, splendl urn What art is left? What truth? history? The whole's to bulld aga n|| -' What n-and we alons \uw. my country, rine, And take the stone up in thy straining hands; To the of all tha nations and the tribes That e'er have played the game of des- iny, In given anew the task to shape the world Then wake, for dawn is shining on the wtone! ling thy tall spires to heaven like wong! Come, lift the world up to the rising sun, ,\mmrn. thou bullder ALLED v We Surpass Ourselves W. A, FRAZER, Sov. Com. Persistence is the cardinal vir- tue in advertising: no matter how good adve run frequently ly to be reall rtising may be in other respects, it must be and constant- y sucecessful,