Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 30, 1916, Page 6

8 THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1916. CHEERY CHAFF. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD nosnirflm VICTOR ROSEWATER EDITOR X THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY PROPRIETOR Entered at Omaha postoffice as second-class matter TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. By Cartier By Mafl Daily and Sunday... Daily without Sulids: Evening and Sunday Evening without Sunday. Sunday Bee Dail Sanl notice of change of a "lvery to fifn-n. Bee, Circulation Department. REMITTANCE. Remit by draft, express of postal order. Only2-cent stamps tiken 0 payment of small mccounts. Personal checks, maha and eastern exchange, not accepted. i et Tt ot bt OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Building. South Omaha—2818 N street. Council Bluffe—14 North Main etreet. Lineoin—828 Little Ifllldln‘.! 818 People's Gas Building. New_ York—Room 803, 286 Fifth avenue. 8t. Louis—503 New k of Commerce. Washi st f inglon—126 Fourteenth W CORRESPONDENCE. Shites iamere S e AUGUST CIRCULATION 55,755 Deily—Sunday 51,048 t Williaras, alreulndflclm ".'.'J'&'"..;': '{::t ?;: " ' l’v‘vnr“h. n‘ cn”l‘:‘.’;;:’far the m:n:h of Angust, 1916, was 85,78 fillyl.’ only. . except on 7nd 81,048 Sunday. osoce? 1, SILCIS puiater e, thia B4 day of Sevi LR NERT HUNTER, Ngtary Publie. Subscribers leaving the city temporarily should have The Bee mailed to them. Ad- dress will be changed as often as required. e . Still, some means may be found to relieve the great day of its Mullencholy. Remember that Nebraska can celebrate its semi-centennial of statehood only once! — Next week is a's big week, with some- thing doing every minute, Strangers welcome! — The report that.Villa is raising a beard flatly contradicts recent _nm:ofl of a close shave. —— \ That democratic promise of ‘reducing the cost 'of living will have to be characterized as *an iridescent dream.” All Nebraska governors seem to look alike A magnitude to _the artist who painted those or- namental medallions. em—— Laundry, prices are going up. Cleanliness, to make sure of being next to”godliness, is trying to perch on the topmost rung of the heavenly }!dder. ) —— No doubt Judge Howard appreciates the friendly consideration of Mr, Pearson, A com- plimentary half column in the judge's best style is in order. A S—— - Our 6-cent electric light rate does not become effective until January next, but that will' not prevent us from burning a little for Ak-Sar-Ben and the semi-centennial celebration. —— Mayor Jim isn't saying a word, but when it comes to doing the honors for a distinguished guest no aspirant for reflected light can push him into the background and keep him there. % ———— | Nebraska democrats will please take notice | that “Boss” Arthur Mullen is' their only duly secredited medium, of communication (with the president and govern themselves accordingly. i — The land area recovered by, the Allied push barely equals the territory captured by the Ger- | mans in the Verdun offensive, This ties the score and leaves the combatants territorially “gbout where they started last spring. [ . i —————p . Labor unions are getting wise to the fact that : p‘nm;u with employers (willfully broken dam- ‘age the foundation of unionism. The failure of the sympathy walkout in New York materially - strengthens the position of organized labor in the metropolis. - i . Accordimy to official Japan, former Minister Sakatani spoke without authority on the immigra- tion issue, ' The disclaimer is chiefly interesting for failing to disclaim the existence of the senti- ment which provoked the disclaimer. Sakatani prematurely “spilled the beans.” Towa authorities experience much trouble in ‘securing from the victims testimony against the promoters of crooked races. This was.to be ex- pected. No matter how sore a victim feels about his losses, few care to expose their weakness and follies to public gaze. Reluctance to give oneself away forms the ‘most effective shicld for swindlers, R Bryan to the Rescue Franelsco Chroniel It is announced from democratic headquar- ters that William J. Bryan and Presidefit Wil son have buried their respective hatchets, and that as evidence of the harmony now prevailing high democratic quarters, Mr. Bryan will take e stump for the president. Presumably, the main service expected from i Mr. Btqu will be to expound the mysteries of the adminifration's foreign policies, which were %0 admirably directed by Mr. Bryan while secre- tary of state in the intere'it of “deserving demo- crats, He will, however, probably refrain from re- peating one of the most elpquent and fetching graphs which he introduced into most of campaign speeches of four years ago, and ‘specifically in an address to a great meeting at Indianapolis on October 17, 1912, in which, re- M.!:" to Mr, Wilson, Mr. Bryan said: - “We present him, not only qualified in every ‘way, but we present him pledged to a single term, that he may be your president and spend no time dividing patronage in order to secure delegates; that he may spend no time in planning for re- election; that he may give you all his thought rd.u!l his energy. I believe that when a man lifted «by his countrymen to this pinnacle of ¢ he ought to tear from his heart every thought of ambition and on his bended knees ?fllecr'lte his time to his country's service. That is our ideal président and we present to you a (jman who measures up to that ideal.” _ No paragraph in any of Mr. Bryan's speeches pur years ago was delivered with more spiritual wer, or evoked more thunderous and continued lause from the great audiences who thronged 10 hear the once boy orator of the Platte. It was & platform declaration by which Colonel Bryan et great store, It was, in fact, his pet plank in atform which he had written, not only by ireason of the great moral principle involved, but or certain practical reasons which readily occur 0 us, and which were doubtless appreciated by ) nmlh‘ude of Colonel Bryan's irers. Probably no plank.in the platform of 1912 did ore o secure the election of Wilson. than that, w, alas, not available in the present emergency. Stop-Watch Statesmanship. Collier's Weekly does a distinct service tp the campaign of education by collecting and setting forth expressions of public regard on the labor question reflecting the inner sentiments of Woodrow Wilson when he was not seeking votes as contrasted with his vote-getting words: Extract from a baccalaureate sermon of June 13, 1909, by Prof. Woodrow Wilson: “You know what the usual standard of the employe is in our day. It is to give as little as he may for his wages. Labor is standard- ized by the trade unicn and this is the standard to which it is meant to conform. No one is suffered to do more than the average work- man can do. In some trades and handicrafts no one is suffered to do more than the least skillful of his fellows can do within the hours allotted to a day’s labor, and no one can work out of hours at all or volunteer anything be- yond the minimum. “I need not point out how economically dis- astrous such a regulation of labor is. The labor of America is rapidly becoming unprofitable under-its present regulation by those who have determined to reduce it to a' minimum. Our economic supremacy may be lost, because the country grows more and more full of unprofit- able servants.” Extract. from a letter of Woodrow Wilson, dated January 12, 1909, in reply to an invitation to speak at a banquet of anti-strike and anti- boycott advocates: “I am a fierce partisan of the open shog and of everything that makes for individual liberty, and I should like to contribute anything that it might be possible for me to contribute to the clarification of thinking and the formation of right purposes in matters of this kind.” At a dinner in the Waldori-Astoria on March 18, 1907, Dr. Woodrow Wilson spoke as follows: “We speak too exclusively of the capitalistic class. There is another as formidable an enemy to equality and freedom of opportunity as it is, and that is the class formed by the labor or- ganizations and leaders of the country.” Collier's is careful to explain that these sen- timents of Mr, Wilson are not ours. They are op- posed to the views held by us and practiced by Collier's for more than thirty-three years. We reprint them here because they have an impor- tant bearing on the question whether the demo- cratic administration, in what it did during the last week in August, was actuated by sincerity of lifelong conviction, The Bee is able to add to this interesting compendium still another, which, to our mind is even more directly in point than the others. Woodrow Wilson, while president of Princeton university, was requested by Prof. Frank Parsons of the Bureau of Economic Research, in a letter under date of September, 1905, to join with others in signing this declaration: 1. We favor thie eight-hour day. 2. Believing that the eight-hour day means a lgnger and richer life, a fairer diffusion of wealth and power, a better citizenship and a ’gi(hcr civilization ghroush leisure for educa- ion, recreation, civic and social life, we wel- come each step in the progress of the eight- hour movement and earnestly Nope for the success of the tyfiog glhiul u.ions in their efforts to secure the eight-hour day. Woodrow Wilson refused to sign either of the propositions, saying: “It seems to me that nothing of this sort can be decided thus in the abstract and that no valuable conclusion can be arrived at except by a real discussion of specific cases.” Here we have what Woodrow Wilson then really thought of the eight-hour day—what he probably now thinks abput it, when permitted to think free from the threéats of labor leaders and unbiased by the allurement of labor votes. E— Frenchmen Can Still Tell a Good Story. The tale of the aviator who brought down three enemy planes in two and one-half minutes, and then fell 10,000 feet without getting hurt, shows the French have not lost the art of story telling. On the contrary, the war seems to have stimulated the faculty, and some really worth while yarns come to us'now and again from “Somewhere in France,” Rigid rules of censor- ship have piqued the invention of the corre- spondents, and their capacity for embellishing romance is continually showing more and more what man may do if the incentive or necessity be presented. We may as well believe this story about the aviator as much of ‘the other informa- tion we have from the front. It is a war of won- derful things, and nothing seems impossible in the list of accomplishments, least of all long- distance lying. Germany’s Message to the World. Von Bethmann-Hollweg, spokesman for Ger- many to the world, sends forth another message, pressive of the unchanging attitude of the Ger- man imperial government as to the war. “Ger- many will not be permitted to think of peace while her house is burning,” says the chancellor. “She must first extinguish the fire.” More or less than this could hardly have been looked for as the utterance of the great empire. It is formal notice to the world, too, that the end of the war is not immediately at hand. Germany has met reverses in battle, but has not been beaten to the extent of being willing to sue forlpea:e. This is in ac- cordance with the views of the most capable ob- servers, who have' for weeks agreed that the of- fensive of the Entente Allies must gain ground much faster than it has if Germany is to be put into a situation that will even approach an end to the war. Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg gives a picture of Germany united, its people animated by lofty patriotism, its resources ample, and its faith in ultimate success unshaken. Ad- mitting’ the truth of this, no combatant was ever placed in the position now occupied by Germany without in the end being brought to the point of making terms. Nations as patriotic as the Ger- mans, as highly animated, as well equipped, and with the world to draw on for supplies, are bent on forcing Germany to talk peace. It ig yet only a question of which side is.stronger. The rush of world events nowadays largely overshadow the revolutions of peace. Some day | history will record the political changes wrought by the direct ‘election of United States senators, which now pass unnoted. An inkling of what history may embalm can be gathered from the report from the Bay State that Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, campaigning for re-election, “rode into the fair grounds at New Bedford on an elaborate oxcart.” Only those who know the sen- ator can fully measure the magnitude of his con- cession to the mighty rural vote, By fixing his. itinerary so as to reach Omaha just in time to review the afternoon historical pageant and to leave the city immediately after his €vening address, the president avoids all en- tanglements with the knife-wielding factions. As a smooth politician the president can give our local democratic “leaders” cards and spades and still beat them at the game, l “Why I Am for Hughes’’ Raymond Robins The republican party—though often domi- nated by the masters of special privilege and made by them the instrument of vast exploitation —has a rank and file of men and women who have proved their capacity to reject false or dis- honest leadership. £onceivcd in moral revolt against human slavery, it was born, baptized and nurtured in the supreme national struggle to maintain the national heritage and fulfill the ?romiae of equal opportunity to every citizen, s not its rank and file best calculated to sup- port a leadership that will create a national mind and conscience, and having preserved the integrity of the nation against the heresy of se- cession, will it not develop and maintain a pro- gressive national program of social and economic organization? I hope so, I think so, and this is one of the reasons why I am for Charles E. HugHes, We need industrial preparedness, with a* pro- ram of standardization in our economic life. ‘or the workers, we need living wages, fair hours of labor, workshop sanitation and fire protection, with accident, sickness, old age and unemploy- ment insurance. Trade agreements and arbitra- tion should take the place of individual exploita- tion and industrial civil war. For capital, we need the intelligent co-operation of government, both at home and abroad. When this war is ove. we will face the most intense industrial competition that the world of commerce has ever known. i A corhprehensive protection of the home market and support for American foreign trade is in- ‘dispensable if we are to preserve industrial pros- peritr, For both capital and labor we should develop a progressive policy in taxation that will lift the fiscal burdens of government from labor and enterprise and place them upon monopoly and privilege. These things and these conditions I -believe will be sped on their way by the election of Charles E. Hughes. Can these imperative national needs be worked out by a state's rights democratic party that plans a state-dominated militia, with its menace of shiftless incompetence, spoils politics and organized snobbery jn a national defense force, at a time of worf:! peril? More and more it becomes plain that most of .our pressing prob- lems of large import are national in scope and will yield only to national action. Yet we find the democratic the modern, and, let us hope, the last, stronghold of the advocates of local sov- ereignty. This doctrine of individualism, sec- tionalism and disunion menaced and almost pre- vented the freeing of the colonies from foreign domination. This doctrine well nigh defeated the adoption of a unifying constitution, wherein the American nation became a fact. Wherever the fight for more efficient and more humane government has been waged, this baneful doc- trine of states’ rights has been invoked to rally and shelter the anti-social forces, to arouse sec- tional bias, local jealousy and all the mean, nar- row passions that hold men’s eyes upon the ground, when great human needs call upon them to look beyond the rough and dusty road to the far country that is worth the toil and sacrifice of the long, hard journey. I bélieve in the character and courage of the nominee of the republican party. He is the most conspicuous example in our history of the ?ouibilities that American politics may hold or success in able and unselfish public service. For myself, I gladly enlist with the great major- ity of the progressives of the nation under the leadership of Charles Evans Hughes. The Cost of Living I Louls Globe Democrat’ The term “high cost of living” has never been a joke except among the few, jesting at the scar who never felt the wound. Some wits have in- verted or transposed the saying to make it read “cost of high living,” and while the problem was less acute than now, such pleasantries were tol- erated and even laughed at. But with practically all prices now on a steadily ascending scale, and with the question of how much more the cam- el's back can carry before it breaks, anyone who undertakes to discuss the. question of living costs, their causes and present and continuing ef- fects, must take up that task seriously. The ublic mind is no longer in the mood for persi- SIge about such a serious matter. | Defenders of the administration who seek to square with existing facts and figures that re- markable plank in the Baltimore convention on which Mr. Wilson was elected, which declared that the comparatively low prices of that year were excessive and the plain results of a protec- tive tariff, attribute all present phenomenal ad- vances to the outbreak of war in Europe. But prices were advancing after the adoption of the present democratic tariff law and before the be- inning of war. In March of last year there was issued from the Bureau of Labor Statistics a large pamphlet entitled “Retail Prices, 1907 to December, 1914.” In the comparative prices set out in the many tables of figures, it is shown that comparative prices of all sorts of meats rose at an average advance of approximately 13 per cent between 1912, the year in which what were called high prices were denounced as effects of pro- tective tariffs, and the end of December, 1914, after the country had been under a free trade tariff law for fifteen months. The same sad story is told and can readily be found on pages 12 and 13 of this instructive compendium of prices of lard, eggs, butter and milk. In ‘another table higher cost of fuel is shown. In bread weights we quote the pamphlet directly, where, on page 20, it is reported that “Comparisons of weights on December 15, 1914, and on December 15, 1913, are available for 228 brands, and of that number the weight of six brands was heavier on Decem- ber 15, 1914, than on the corresponding date of 1913, the weight of eighty-nine brands was un- changed, and the weight of 133 brands was lighter.” A still more striking part of this showing is to be found by comparison with another federal official report. Not long 150 we quoted a census bulletin showing that in December, 1914, there were 600,000 fewer employes in manufacturing establishments than in the same month of the year 1909. That was three months after the be- ginning of the war, but before its great demand was felt on our industry. Such a falling off in employment means, invariably and inevitably, a heavy Iallin% off in demand. Yet prices were still soaring. . The chief virtue of democracy, as it was pictured to the voters of 1912, was its Y;)wer to lower prices of the necessities of life. as anybody seen them going down? People and Events In the eyes of at least one woman a certain Kentucky man is worth $1,000,000. She sacrificed a fortune of that amount by remarriage. As her share of the fortune reverts to her children by the deceased father, it is unlikely the sacrifice will be as large as it looks at first sight. - The last of the school lands of Kansas, about 1,000 acres ,was taken up last month, making a totalof 46,343 acres disposed of in twelve months, The school land endowment of the state origi- nally comprised 2,476,628 acres, for which pur- chasers paid the state $7,885,573, or an average of $3.19 per acre. Oregon points with pride to one family dis- tinguished for soldier sons. Mrs, E. B, Merry- man of Portland witnessed the enlistment of her fifth son in the United States army, making a wotal of 291 members of the Merryman family who have seen service in the army during the Revolutionary war and since. Among the effects of the late J. P. Morgan were $8,000 worth of cigars which cost $1.25 each. The after-dinner smokes of the banker Colossus were ordered in 5,000 packages and were spe- cially made by a Cuban. From tufers to $1.25 is some smoky span, but the joy of one is no greater than the other, provided the taste fits the grade. ‘has been Thought Nugget for the Day. It has been a thousand times ob- served, and I must observe it once more, that the hours we pass with view are more ha, rospects in ey with pleasing than those crowned fruition.—Oliver Goldsmith. One Year Ago Today in the War. Greek Parllament voted war sup- plies and state of slege in Macedonia. British fleet and French batteries pounded German defenses on Belgian coast, French captured hill in Champagno and penetrated second German line. Rome reported Italian offensive making headway in the Tyrol. Turks in Mesopotamia reported in full retreat toward Bagdad, pursued by British. In Omaha Thirty Years Ago, M. C. Meagher, formerly of Roches- ter, N. Y., was married to Miss Jennie E. Webb of Chicago, who has been spending the summer in Omaha. After a wedding trip to Denver the young couple will make their future home in Omaha. A large number of delegates, friends of candidates, lobbyists and the usual “lookers-on-in-Vienna,” have left for Lincoln to attend the republican con- vention. Among the departures were EDITORIAL SIFTINGS. [ Philadelphia Ledger: The G-cent loat is | acquiring something like the notoriety of the eight-hour day., Houston Post: Ten years from now Uncle | Sam will tax everything from a man's morn- ing yawn to his hopes of salvation. Washington Post: A successful business ' nan can easily be identified when out motor- ing by the fact that his wife is at the steer- | ing wheel. | Boston Transeript: Mr. Wilson says he will not attack Mr. Hughes on the stump., Maybe he is going to send him a couple | of firm but friendly notes. | Washington Post: However, there are quite & few preelection prophets on each side who deserve to be rewarded with a| nice, soft berth in the court of claims. | Philadelphia Ledger: A friend of Kitch- | ener quotes him as saying: “No officer should be an orator or speker.” In civil life, as in the military sphere, there is a progressive reduction of the premium upon mere eloquence. | Baltimore American: The new British armored car leaps trenches and ditches like a cavalry horse. The inventive genius | of the age is responding wonderfluly to| the unusual demands, but the drawback to this invention is that it is not construc- tive, but ruinous in its bearing on human life. New York World: According to a state- ment from Ottawa, Canada’s net debt is now $668,621,270, an Increase since July 31 of $23,417,356 and of $186,212,385 dur- ing the past year. The net debt has nearly doubled since the war began and there Judge Stenberg, Dr. Mercer, Casper E. Yost, John M. Thurston, Judge Crounse and the never-to-be-forgot- ten Pat O'Hawes and Frank Walters. The advisory board of the Young Men's Christian association met to consider questions connected with the erection of a new building. Howard has been a total expenditure on war during the past four months of $76,310,719. With the population and wealth of the country taken into consideration, the figures are formidable. Springfield « Republican: Perhaps not a great distinction but one worth claiming is that of having built the first concrete boat. The honor belongs to the United States, the bureau of navigation announces, | apropose of the launching of such a vessel in Norway the other day. The American | pioneer T“ built at Fairfield, Md., in 1912, It is entitled to a humble place with the first successful submarine and the first suc- cessful aeroplane, both Ameriean inventions. WOMEN’S ACTIVITIES. Women campaigners for Hughes will visit thirty-one states, making a special train tour, in October. More than 100 cities are B. Smith tendered his resignation as member of the board and P. C. Hime- baugh was elected to fill the vacancy. Andreen and Emberson is the name of a firm of well known business men who have started a soap factory in South Omaha. The residents on’ Phil Sheridan and Park avenue met in Porter Bros.’ store to consider matters connected with the pavement of their streets, Dr. R, C. Moore occupied the chair and C. V. Horton acted as secretary. The feeling of those present at the meetdng was in favor of cedar block pavement. Mr. Burson, an experienced foun- dry man, is in the city with a view to locating an iron foundry here: The assistant 'city engineer, A. J. Grover, announces that he is the p‘rt;ud father of twins—a boy and a girl. This Day in History. 1792—An attack of over 700 In- dians on Buchanan’s Station, near Nashville, was repulsed by a garrison of fifteen men. 1840—Foundation laid for the Nel- ndnn Column in Trafalgar Square, Lon- on. 1846—The Mexicans recaptured Los Angeles from the Americans. 1866—Rev. John Hennessy was consecrated Catholic bishop of Du- buque, Ia. 1870—Public funeral ceremonies were held in New York for Admiral Farrazut. 1891—General Boulanger, = ex-war minister of France, and subsequent leader of a party that threatened the overthpow of the government, com- mitted’ suicide at Brusels. 1904—~George F. Hoar, United States senator from Massachusetts, died at Worcester. Born at Concord, Mass., August 29, 1826. 1909-—President Taft attended the International exposition at Seattle. 1911—By the breaking of a pulp mill dam at'Austin, Pa., the town was practieally wiped out and more than 100 persons were killed. 1912—The governments of Bul- garia, Greece and Serbia ordered the mobilization of their armies against Turkey. The Day We Celebrate. Lucius A, Welsh, local weather forecaster, is just 68 years old. He was born in Union county, Ohio, and n official in the United States signal service and the United States weather bureau from 1873 un- til_the present date. Henry B. Liggett, secretary of the Pantorium, was born September 30, 1844, at Akron, O. He was educated as a physician and practiced for thirty years, moving to Omaha in 1899 to enter his present business. Max Rosenthal was born September 30, 1860, near Baltmore. He was connected with the Peoples Store for five years, moving in 1893 to Port- land, Ore, where he established a branch and returning to Omaha in 18&4 to engage in business for him- self, Cadet Taylor is 68 years old today. He was born in Putnam county, Illi- nois, is a printer by trade and was at one time part proprietor of the Omaha Daily Republican. Walter G. Silver of the City Trust company is celebrating his thirty- ninth birthday today., He is a native of Lostant, Ill, and before coming to Omaha was with the Harris Trust company in Chicago. Rear Admiral William P. Day, U. 8. N, retired, born in New York sixty-elght years ago today. | Rt. Rev. Joseph G. Anderson, Cath- | olic bishop of Boston, born in Boston fifty-one years ago today. Wilton Lackaye, one of the well known actors of the American stage, born in London county, Virginia, | fifty-two year ago today. Cyrus Northrop, president emeri- tus of the University of Minnesota, Born at Ridgefleld, Conn., eighty-two years ago today. Winthrop M. Daniels, member of the Interstate Commerce commission, born at Dayton, O, forty-nine years today. Dr. John Henry MacCracken, pres- ident of Lafayette college, born at Rochester, Vt, forty-one years ago today. Dr. Henry A. Buchtel, university chancellor and former governor of Colorado, born near Akron, O., sixty- nine year ago today. John Holland, owner and, manager of the St. Joseph Western league base ball team, born at El Paso, Tex, forty-four years ago today, G. N. (Nap) Rucker, pitcher of the Brooklyn /National league base ball team, born at Alpharetta, Ga., thirty- one years ago today. Timely Jottings and Reminders. Fifty thousand visitors are expected in Battle Creek, Mich., today to hear Colonel Roosevelt deliver the open- ing speech In his western campaign tour in the interests of Hughes. Methodists throughout the country are to observe Sunday as rally day, the occasion being the 150th anniver- sary of American Methodism under Philip Embury. President Wilson is to address members of the Young Men's Demo- cratic league at Shadow Lawn today, which has been designated by the democratic national committe as “Young Men's day." Charles E. Hughes, the republican residential nominee, is to conclude his tour of western New York with a speech in Buffalo tonight included in the itinerary. Mrs. Jane L. Armstrong is to be the first woman warden in New York penal institu- tions, having been appointed to take charge of the Valerie farm for women. She is the wife of ex-Semator William W. Armstrong of Rochester, N. Y. Mrs, Catherine McCulloch of Chicago, well | known as a lawyer and suffragist, has of- fered her services to defend Mrs. Ivy Barnes, accused of shooting her husband. Mrs, McCulloch thinks that the jury that tries this woman should be composed half of women. Mrs. Russell Sage, who is 88 years of age, celebrated. her birthday on September 8 by giving $40,000 worth of presents. She gave | and gifts of $5,000 each to five other ins tutions. Her gifts up to the present total $85,000,000. The congressional committee of the Na- tional American Woman Suffrage association reports that 85 per cent of the congressmen who replied to their letter in regard to their view about the federal suffrage amendment announce themselves in favor of it and their intention to vote for it, Clubwomen of Pittsburgh are going to be- gin the club year by putting into practice their theories as to dress reform, in the sense of being simple. At the president’s reception to be held at.one of the hotels on October 3, all of the women will wear simple white dresses, instead of the elaborate reception gowns that have been in vogue of late years. | the wayfarer, as a sort of preliminary. Her father—Can you support my daugh ter in the style to which sho has been Ac cuxtomed ? Lover—No-0, sir. Her Father—Then take her, young man. } was afraid you thought you could.—Puck Redd—And does your wife take an in- terest ln the car? . Greene—No It seems to be the only thing t the place she doesn't want to man- —Yonkers Statesman. DBAR, MR, YABIBBLE — \ AW SECRETL MARRIED- ~How CRAN | KEEP IT A SeCReT © -— CARL MEYER o~ PE AS POLTE AS You AN o weR W Comeany ! Mrs, Youngwed—There s one queer thing 1 can’t understand about Charley when he knows how anxious 1 am to meet all his relations. Mrs. Oldwif> Mrs, Youngwed—He always puts mo off when I want to meet* the nice uncle he is ) continually getting money from.—Baltimore i A e he “whole_cheese" L S IR WA-OUT-WEST. What is that, my dear? First Westerner (in New York restaurant) 1 —Shall we go? Second Westerner—Don't be in a hurry. If we wait a little longer maybe we'll see v a New Yorker.—Lite. “I'm walking for my health,” announced “Well, it ain’t healthy for tramps around here,” was the unsympathetic comeback.— Louisville Courier-Journal. RESTING TIME. i New York Times. { The quiet days are coming. On the hills The sun glows palely, while the zephyrs y wing noiseless ways. Where once the bab- ‘ bling rills Told merry tales now only silence falls, And when a lone bird for some wanderer calls Its plaintive notes no faintest echoes bring Thelr Gone are the volces that the summer knew— Those gay, glad voices joining vale and steep; Bare are the bowers where rare-hued flow- ers grew And tall ferns nodded, while the slumber- ing trees Whisper, in dreams, breezs, Those dewr, sweet secrets that a tree should keep. to every passing Bright were the hours of sunshine; bright the days When ‘neath blue skies, sued its quest. Now Indian summer's chastely gleaming haze Bathes all the earth in quiet, minor tone, Yet summer's love has come into its own, And heart to heart its many triumphs rest. fond love put- | “Why, bless ye, child,” she told me, when 1 asked her how It was— She kept on sweetly smilin’, ‘peared to have no cause; Taint my world, or cows, or chickens, or my corn that's washed away; ; God just loaned them to Aunt Josle, an' He wants them back today.” { though she And when dear granny passed away she wasn't exactly glad, She jest kept on a smilin’, but the smile was awful sad. “It dear God wants to take her, why He kin,” is what she sald; “We had her while a livin’, an' God wants her now she's dead.” She ain't had much to speak about earthly treasures goes; Excepting that philosophy, Joste knows. ~ But it's better than all the other things that{gold could ever buy, To smilel like my Aunt Josle, when you feol as the kind Aunt you'd like to ery. 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