Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 26, 1916, Page 18

| Omaha a City of Home Owners. THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE : FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDl’l;O_]}.‘i o THE DEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETOR. Entered at Omaha postoffice as second-class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. By Carrier Many communities lay of being “a city of homes.” The title confers mo particular honor. Every community necessarily is a community of homes, be it city, town or vil- lage. The title falls short of conveying the mean- ing intended. “A city of home owners” accur- ately expresses the intent and leaves no loop- holes for misunderstanding. Omaha, more distinctively than any commun- without Sunday . ing and Sunday.. ity hitherto claiming the title, is “a city of home .4:' B'm‘]ys_‘_“.ld.’. 4 owners.” The records of the municipal water of- 2? ":;us::‘:‘“s' of .“_":':,l‘m“l:fiw in de- | fice, recently printed in The Bee, place.s Om?hl livery to Omahs Bee, Circulation Department. at or near the top of the list of American cites ' ¢ REMITTANCE. pre-eminent for home ownership. A proportion of fifty-six homes out of every 100 served by the water office are owned by the occupants. From 1900 to 1910 the gain in home ownership reported " Remit by draft, express or postal order. Oply 2-cent stamps of small sceonnts. Personal checks, e i:‘ug:l::: -nd. eastern exchange, mot accepted. OFFICES. : ’ H Omahs—The Bee Building. in the federal census corresponds with the in- South Omaba—2818 N street. cfease in the last six years and confirms the ac- curacy of local record. Very few cities of the country reach the 50 per Council Bluffs—14 North Main street. Lineoin—526 Little Building. Chi 818 People's Gas Building. New York—Room 803, 288 Fifth aven 8t. Louis—503 New Bank of Commere: Washington—726 Fourteenth street, N. W. cent score of home owners. By far the greater 3 . CORRESPONDENCE. number are under 40 per cent. Omaha's record Address communieations relating to mews and editoslal | of 56 per cent of home owners is gratifyng evi- 9 9onhe- o, Mborial e dence of progress in the right direction. It dem- OCTOBER CIRCULATION onstrates by visible proof the industry and thrift 53,818 Daily—Sunday 50,252 of the people and their confidence in the future h‘m'"'_m“""b:m‘:‘fi ."':,'.f'“;: The Bee | of the city. No other development equals home Shnp Circulation for.the of October, 1916, was | ownership in its appeal to home seekers, and Oma- 252 "“?IL WIGHT WILLIAMS, Cireulation Manager. Subscribed 'fi my "cl-.lld sworn to before me this 4tk day of ooy, CARLSON, Notary Public —_—_— e Karl I of Austria hands the hyphen the latest knockout. ~ emhe—— Unfortunately it is impossible to have either light or light debates without heat. — e When American duty yields to Mexican sen- sibilities, pride of power bows to pride of bluff, pe—— ha's distinction in that respect cannot’' be em- phasized too much or tao often. Steering for the Breakers. At the coming session of the Federated Coun- cil of Churches a commission will report on the desirability of closer control of the work of evan- gelists, It will advocate the placing, of “Billy” Sunday and others who work along similar lines under the strict government of the denomination with which they hold affiliation, and charge that denomination ‘with responsibility for the work. The “free will offering” is especially to be repre- nended, and it is suggested that a determined salary be paid to all evangelists who are recog- nized as such, This effort to assert ecclesiastical authority will be an invitation to more of an up- heaval in the religious life of the country than the advent of the greatest revivalist of modern times. As a matter of recorded history, all sweep- ing r¢forms in religion have come from just such attempts to restrain the activity of preachers who have felt the call. Savonarola, Luthér, Wyckliffe, John Knox, John Wesley, all those whose voices preached the gospel and called the sinner to repentance and made a great mark on the course of Christianity in.the days of the Reformation, did so in defiance of church authority. In this country Alexander Campbell led a few followers away from the Presbyterian church, and one of the greatest of present day denominational or- ganizations is the result. Many great preachers have found themselves unable to abide sectarian restraints, and more will. The actual business side of the church should be on a strictly business basis, but it will be very difficult to bring its moral, ethical and spiritual manifestations under strict regulation. The succesor to “Billy” Sun- day will not be a hired man. Eo— No Decadence in Sports. Eighty thousand spectators, filling twenty- nine miles of seats, watched a foot ball game be- tween teams representing universities whose riv- alry in athletics is an American classic, and thus gave impressive proof of the interest sport of any kind holds for the American people. During the summer interest is largely ‘centered on the con- test between the professional base ball teams, itself an evidence of the postulate, but at the same time millions are engaged in pursuit of that and other forms of outdoor activity in guise of sport, showing how devoted are our people to the full cultivation of their bodily powers. It is recrea- tion in its best sense. While the contest between Yale and Harvard drew the largest number of people ever assembled to' watch a spectacle of the kind, the lesser schools and colleges through- out the land saw gatherings as important in their way, and reference to the news columns will am- ply support the statement that no decadence in sport is visible in America. . — Feeding the Family. Ever-mounting prices have brought about a recradescence of the discussion of what it should cost to feed a family and experts in stinginess have paraded their plans, and are being hotly as- sailed for their statements. Before proceeding farther, The Bee would like to.suggest that the Chicago doctor has mixed his verbs. He did not feed a family of eight persons for five days at a total cost of $3.81; he starved them. His 40 cents & day is'a liberal allowance for one who has no more; experience has shown that men in groups, such as the prisoners in the county jail, can be fed as cheaply as 20 to 30 cents a day. But no one will deliberately choose prison fare, and the ambition of the citizen is to provide something better for himself and family. If we are all to adopt the regime set up by the Chicago doctor for his “starvation squad,” the cost of living will soon be settled, while porterhouse steaks, mush- rooms, celery and similar edibles will go out of fashion entirely. Unfortunately for these Spartan dieticians, men abandon the fleshpots only on the doctor’s stern orders, or when no longer able to provide themselves with. the price. Feeding ‘the family is not going to be reduced to the terms of how little, but will continue to be expressed in the old-fashioned way of how mnch. “Business as Usual” While the campaign was on, and since, for that matter, we were assured that we had little to fear ffom European manufacturers after the war is over. So far as England is_concerned, this is true, for “business as usual” is a reality and not merely a state of mind in the matter of exporta- tion to America. For example, from Nottingham in the first three-quarters of 1916, ending with September, the total of exports reached $9,050,791, an increase over 1915 of nearly three and one-half millions. This is for laces, cotton and wool hos- iery, cotton yarn, silk nets and the like® One notable item of decrease in the list reported is that Levers’ lace machinery to the value of $44,689 was imported in 1915, and none in 1916, The lace will still be made in Nottingham and sold in this country. Thus does John Bull take advantage of our free trade policy and carry on “business as usual.” > $ Se——— Incidentally, Omaha's promised next reduced water rate is still to be sixteen and two-thirds per cent higher than the 15 cent rate which Lincoln water consumers have been enjoying all the time. There is real danger that the quality of the ‘thanks may be severely deteriorated by the high ~ cost of the Thanksgiving dinner. It may be gathered from Chihuahua reports that General Trevino, against his will, regards . Pancho Villa;as an offensively live member. Three of the principal nations at war express illingness to join the League to Enforce Peace —after the war. If eventually, why not now? —— Séeing that nothing else brings us voluntary water ite reductions, special elections on bond issues and referendums should be ordered oftener. ; — . The late Hiram Maxim easily became the pre- ier gunman of hil efa. He never fooled with uzzles of &is guns and passed away as nature ended. peT—— 1t looks s if all the law-abiding as well as the law-defying railroads are in on the Adam- law injunctions—which ought to take the se off of it. Sosm—————— Here and abroad mere man mosopolizes the igning and construction of feminine fashions, o other profession affords a clearer view of n's superfine nerve. ts itgelf in the food commissioner’s office. ‘and a jobholder lets the light sink without a second operation. —— A speaker before the national assemblage of men urges the establishment of a “chair | gastronomy” in every state university. Teach how to eat or how to cook? Based on Omaha's experience with contract i the city, at any rate, could not do mmch o . Public Utilities and Conditions of Labor. , One of the too frequently neglected factors in application. From the public’s side, it was de- (% termined that service to patrons must be continu- .~ ous, and furnished at as low a charge al is con- ‘shonld have protection written in the franchise, under which reasonable wages and conditions will be made certain. Settlement of unavoidable dis- putes is to be attained through arbitration. The city of the plan would recommend it, were in element. In order that ample protection ight be assured the workers against the desire low-priced service on the one hand and in- sing dividends on the other, regulations proof st public indifference and private neglect adopted. committee making the report recognizes finality and invites discussion 26 to de- s f rking out the plan, To this uch all ' that if accomplished, it would bi\a st ess in the adjustment of what is now laim to the distinction | f THE OMAWA SUNDAY BEE: NOVEMBER 26, g ly Vietor Rasewater HE BIG WORLD event is the death of Fran- cis Joseph, emperor, of Austro-Hungary, and the succession of a néw ruling head of the ancient House of Hapshurg. In this country we look back but little over a hundred years to the founders of our republic, while in these old world monarchies the unbroken dypastic lines go back a thousand years and more and in that time have been enveloped in hoary tradition and hard-set rules almost impossible to break away from. The dead potentgte will have a “state” funeral with all the dazzling trapping, fantastic mummery and imposing ceremony that attended the burial of a Roman emperor when Rome ruled the world in the height of glory. All the old court costumes and customs will be brought forth and the costly cortege, with its glittering glamor, will again .overawe the populace with a deep sense of the wide rift that separates the common mortal from the annointed of the Lord, born into royalty by divine right. To curtail the agony and make things more comfortable for the bereaved relatives and sorrowing mourners, they could easily have an up- to-date automobile funeral, but that would not conform to the requirements prescribed %n im- perial tomes which set forth in detail every move that must be made in taking the body from Schoenbrunn, where the fife of Francis Joseph ebbed away, to the sepulchral vault where all his ancestors are interre£ As both the palace and the imperial burial vault will be mentioned fre- quently in the cable dispatches, this brief descrip- tion o{lh:m which I once wrote, after a personal sightseeing visit many years ago, may be inter- esting and timely: “As in France the historical associations of the Bourbon monarchy cluster about Louis XIV, 0 in Austria the glory of the empire is connected with the reigns of Maria Theresa and her son, Joseph IL. It was in her time that the imperial palace at Schoenbrunn: was erected, following the example set by the French sovereign at Versail- les. The Austrian palace has one advantage in that it is still the residence of the emperor at cer- tain periods of each iYear and is necessarily kept in constant repair. Fortunately we arrived at a time when the interior was visible to the public and followed the attendant through the various rooms of state. It is a beautiful building and lavishly decorated. The interior is, I think, much finer than anything I have seen elsewhere. The size of the rooms and the magnificence of the decorations impress the visitor most forcibly. The banquet hall almost equals in grandeur the crystal hall at Versailles in which King William of Prus- sia in 1871 was crowned emperor. Historically the palace is important by reason of its use by the zrst Napoleon durins his Austrian campaign. In this same building and in the very room occu- pied by the great conqueror, his son, the young duke of Reichstadt, breathed his last some twenty odd years later and was laid to rest in the im- perial vault under the Capucin church in Vienna, where 116 of the Hapsburg family have been in- terred. And near his sarcophagus was placed in after years the body of that other unfortunate and ill-fated Hapsburg, M8ximilian, emperor of Mexico, who lost his life in a vain endeavor to satisfy the ambition of Napoleon III. The fine gictnu galleries of Versailles are not regeated at choenbrunn, but the latter is surrounded by a series of gardens that leave little to be still de- sired. Also interesting are the two golden eagles, French eagles, standing high above each gate post of the entrance and now retained only on account of a bindinf clause to that effect in the treaty of ce concluded three-quarters of a century ago setween Napoleon I and Francis, the last of the ‘Holy Roman Emperors.” ” The “Story of the Streets,” printed in The Bee last week with the explanation why Omaha’s main thoroughfare bears the name Farnam street, instead of being called Main street, or Broadway or Market street or Central avenue, as is true of so many made-to-order cities, recalls that the name of Farnam street was not always what it now is. In my boyhood it ‘was spelled “Farn- ham” street arid behind this is some peculiar his- tory. The street was named, as already told, after a Commecticut financier, Henry Farnam, rominently identified with the promotion and uilding of the Rock Island railroad and a per- sonal friend of Enos Lowe, to whom unquestion- ably this comrlimem was due, gnd the name appears so I?e led orl the original ‘plat according to which Alfred D. Jones laid out the townsite. The extra letter “h” seems to have gotten in by an error of carelessness by some draftsman mak- | ing a new map of the city in the early '70s, be- cause I find “Farnham®street” spelled with the “h" for the first time in the city drectory of the year 1873 and its use in that form continued for at least ten years. 1 was under the impression that the dropping of the “h” out of Farnam street in the '80s was merely an experiment in simplified spelling to save writing 'a needless letter, but it was, in fact, a reversion to the original and correct name. I mentioned this to Lewis S. Reed, who is now the best living encyclopedia of our early geography, and he confirms this record. “Many mistakes are made about other names on our map,” he said. “I have seen ‘Cuming’ with a final ‘s,” but the street is named after Governor Thomas B. Cuming, and the same is true of ‘Will- iam street,’ which has no ‘s, but is named for Colonel William Baumer, who was thé surveyor who laid out Hartman's addition, to which the street leads. We did have a Market street, too, crossing diagonally where the jog in Twentieth street is now found, but it was vacated and disap- peared from the map.” | People and Events | The leader of the Dry federation of Chicago wants $300,000 for the aign to put the Windy City on the waterwagon. job would be cheap for ten times the sum. T . “Billy” Sunday expects to put dear old Boston ,in the dry belt at the maunicipal election next month. Billy forgot his dislike for publicity long enough to tell the Hub what to expect. Devotees of the antigne must h if the: would take a farewell view of litt‘l‘:r};ld Nex York's prize ?eelmzu. The last horse-drawn street cars in the metropolis go out of business “next April The problem of fitting penalties for juvenile offenses has been fairly solved by a Lynn (Mass.) judge. A kid of 10 addicted to throwing stones ' was required to throw 1,000 stones at a fixed tar- get in two days. : The first thing Miss Law did after her record flight from Chicago to New York was to powder her face, Achievements, honors, public acclaims, all the lures of high life yield primacy to the feminist powder puff. A cook employed in a minister’s house at Pa, cheerily d with a hobo's request for eatables. Having padded his belt with good things the hobo proceeded to get gay with the cook. It was the greatest mistake of a misspent life. The cook swung a rolling pin and the collison put the hobo to sleep with a cracked skull. Moral: Don't get gay with the cook, es- pecially a minister’s cook. A section of Philadelphia where social na- bobs reside objects to daily exhibits of laundry wash in one of the backyards. The airy fluttering of garments fresh from the tubs marred the scen- ery and wigwagged signals of husky industry in an atmosphere of social repose, reflection and romance, Haled into court, the laundress ex- lained she and her mother had to work for a iving and together Enlled down $60 a week. The solemn court remarked that industry and cleanli- ness tagged with $60 per looked good to him and should be encounfied as-an artistic addition to airy scenery. In other words, society can af- ford to move, the laundress will not 1916. Thought Nugget for the Day. All succeed who deserve,. though not perhaps as they hoped. An hon- orable defeat ls better than a mean victory, and no one is really the worse for being beaten, unless he lose heart. —Lubbock. — One Year Ago Today in the War. Italians captured heights northeast of Gorizia. Earl Kitchener in Rome held con- ferences with heads of Italian govern- ment, Assurances as to liberty of move- ment of Allled troops demanded in new note to Greece. Allles prepared to fall back on southern Serbia before combined Ger- man and Bulgar armies. Hevere British bombardment for four days desrtoyed German entangie- ments and parapets on western fronts. In Omaha Thirty Years Ago. Miss Fannie Davenport entertained a number of her young friends at an elaborate Thanksgiving dinner. Among the participants were Clara Roth, Dwight Swobe, Georgie McDonald, Harry .Warwick and Eddie Swobe. Mrs, Moritz Meyer, assisted by Mrs. 1. S. Fisher of New York, received the members of the Coffee Club at her / e /‘. Louaty, v UM & westy-Ulrd. Lne menu was a chef d'oever of culinary skill and each lady was glven a costly souvenir, a French bisque vase fllled with fine perfume. A small but enjoyable luncheon party was given at Fort Omaha by Mrs. Ceneral Wheaton. The guests were General and Mrs. Hawkins, Gen- eral and Mrs. Manderson, Dr. and Mrs. Miller and Miss Kittie Miller, Miss Brown and Lieutenant Kenzie. Mrs. Heybrook has suffered a severe bereavement lately in the loss of her poodle, Bennie. Fortunately, he was immortalized on canvas last winter by Mrs. Balbach so that his outward lineaments are preserved to his sur- vivors even though his gentle pres- ence has forever departed. Riot ran high in Mrs. Mumaugh's studio owing to the return of the dis- turbing spirit, Miss Schafer. High spirits have not prevented her from doing good work. Her . latest piece is a landscape in a delicate color on ground glass. Father Dowling of Creighton col- lege, will deliver an able lecture at Boyd's Opera House, December 8. It is sufficient commendation to say that the music will be under Miss Arnold's supervision. Mr. and Mrs. Miller of Savannah, Georgia, with their family, have come to make Omaha their home and are domiciled at 640 Virginia avenue. Mr. Miller was a merchant in Georgla at the time of the recent earthquake but decided that a calmer location would . be more desirable. This Day in History. 170! e famous Eddystone light- 3—The “house, built in 1696, was destroyed by a storm. 1757—Henry B. Livingston, for six- teen years an associate justice of the gsupreme court of the United States, born in New York Cily. Died in Washington, March 19, 1823. 1783—Ninth continental congress assembled at Annapolis. 1833—Chicago’s first newspaper, the Chicago Democrat, appeared. 1838—The legislature of the reer- ganized territory of Wisconsin met for the first time at Madison. * 1857—William Walker, the filibus- ter, landed on the Nicaraguan coast with 400 men. 1863—Battle of Chattanooga or Missionary Ridge. 1864—Fdwin Booth began his fam- ous presentment of Hamiot for 100 consecutive nights at the Winter Gar- den.in New York. 1866—Yokohama, the chief seaport of Japan, was almost destroyed by fire. 883—President Arthur -attended the_unveiling of a statue of Washing- ton®on the steps of the subtreasury building in New York City. 1889—Nearly 300 buildings de- stroyed in great fire at Lynn, Mass. 1894—Marriage of Emperor Nicho- Ias II of Russia and Princess Alix of Hesse. 1902—Fngland and Germany united to press their claims upon Venezuela. The Day We Oelebrate. Charles L. Deuel, secre and office manager for the McCord-Brady company, was born November 26, 1861, at Elwood,. Ill. He was for twenty-one years in the Omaha Na- tional bank, going with the MecCord- Brady company in 1889, R. B. Updike of the Updike Lumber and Coal company, is 34 years old to- day. He was born in Harvard, Neb., and was educated in the University of Nebraska and in Eastman college at *Poughkeepsie. Willard Chambers, teacher of danc- ing, was born. November 26, 1862, in Mills county, Towa. This is his thir- tieth year in conducting dancing classes, twenty-six of them being spent here in Omaha. George F. Engler, manager of the Engler-Jackson Brokerage company, is 32 years old today. He was born here in Omaha and employed first with Swift & Co., and later with the Melrath Brokerage company until go- ing into business for himself in 1907. Alexander Mardsen, foreman of the Remington Typewriter company, is 34 years old today. Her Royal Highness Queen Maud of Norway, born in England forty- seven years ago today. Albert B. Fall, United States sema- tor from New Mexico, born at Frank- fort, Ky., fifty-five years ago today. Sir Ralph 8. Paget, recently ap- pointed British minister to Denmark, born fifty-two years Ago today. Sir Aurel Stein, noted English ex- plorer and geographer, born in Buda- pest, fifty-three years ago today. Dr. Mary Walker, noted advocate of women’s rights and ‘‘dress reform,” born at Oswego, N. Y., eighty-four years, ago today. Ora C. Morningstar, noted profes- sional billlard player, born at Roches- ter, Ind., forty-two years ago today. Thomas J. Sharkey, formerly prom- inent as a heavyweight pugilist, born I‘n" Ireland, forty-three years ago to- Storyette of the Day. Casey had dropped in for a visit on Callahan, and during the course of his stay observed that Miss Callahan spoke several times of a chafing-dish party she had attended the evening before, Now agreed with Callahan that the latter's daughter was putting on entirely too many alrs; so, with a view to disconcerting her, he suddenly asked: '‘An' phwat the divil is a chafing- dish ?" “Chafing-dish, Casey," said Calla- han, with a sly wink at his visitor, “a chafing dish is a fryin' pan that's got l into soclety!"—New York Times. SECULAR SHOTS AT PULPIT. DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. The New York Young| Office Boy—De boss Kkin see mo callers e i, | dis mornin’, A et sachtin K “""b“’(:"'i Insistent Visitor—Say, TIl give you & pecial course of training to make office | giaiter to take this card in to him. angelic. We expect to note strong |’ Office Boy—Aw, shucks! He gives me of the success of the undertaking |bigger wages for not doin' it—Bostes about a week before Christmas. ‘Transcript. Boston Transeript: When Bishop Law- rence pleaded with his fellow-churchmen in | | the Protestant Episcopal convention that| they should strive anew to reach the people | at large and not only the people “carefully | housed,” he was voicing no empty catch- word of the times, He spoke the challenge | of the century ss it presents itself both to his church and to all the Christian com- munions. And as he pleaded the cause of democracy in religion he did so with strong emation and fully reasoned philosophy. New York World: In time of actual war & way would be found to make the Rev. Frank M. Goodchild regret his advice to| Baptists to quit the United States army.| Under conditions that may lead to war 8l-| .gee that man over there? most any day, he should not escape rebuke 'hombastic mutt, a windjammer nonentity, for an utterancs that was at least seditious.|a false' alarm and an encumbrance of the “How does young Flubdub stand i ecol~ ot so well.” “Why i that?" “He is all right enough in his studies, but he is more than suspected of cutting foot ball games."—Louisville Courler-Journal Aviator (home from the war on leave)— And then when you are up pretty high— thres or four miles, say—and you look down. It's_positively sickening. It ia stu- pendous, awful. A great height s a fear- ful thing, I-can tell you Lady (feelingly)—Yes, 1 can sympathize with you, poor boy. I feel just that way myself when I'm on top of a stepladder.— Chrisilan Register. He Is a Baptists have no grievance against army 'earth.’” regulations. In the regular establishment| 'Would you mind writing all that down or me?" they are represented among the chaplains. The National Guard regiments choose their own spiritual guides. General Funston’s | refusal to allew a southern Baptist preacher to hold revivals in his eamps was hot a denial of religious services or a discrimina- tion against s particular sect. It was a reasonable measure of discipline, Chicago Herald: “Why I do not want my boy to be a minister” is the text of a strik- ing narration of the plight of certain mod- ern preachers. A minister, long in the harness, sets forth the case in The Outlook. He speaks with fire and frankness. He comes of a religious family, is now in good standing, and he has filled positions of in- fuence. All this adds poignancy to his appeal. Here is his remsoning: “First, 1 do not want my boy to be intellectually fettered—in other words; I want him to have the sciei tific attitude and devotion to- ward truth, ¥ ¢ ¢ In the loeal church my boy would find that an open mind and a passionate loyaity to truth are neither personal assets nor community desires. ¢ * * The local church, although osten- sibly liberal, is aimost always under the direct control of the conservatives and reactionaries.” AROUND THE CITIES. Fort Wayne, Ind., is to bave a municipal convention hall. Reading, Pa., is to establish a vetail milk depot to sell milk at cost. Lake City, Pa., with a” population of about 6,000, owns its water, light, ice and cold storage plants. Toledo proposes the establishorant of mu- nicipal depots for the sale of coal, flour, po- tatoes and gasoline. ? Cleveland's two public market-houses are snid to be the finest and best-equipped -of their kind in the country. Annexation proposals adopted at the re- cent election have increased the area of Detroit nearly twenty square miles. Houston, Tex., plans to establish a muniei- pal abattoir to combat the high price of |~ meat and to insure proper conditions in its handling. \ In order to permit boys to praetice foot ball and other sports at night Pittsburgh has installed powerful electric lights on the city playgrounds. Recent reports show that Houston, Tex., is saving $5,000 a year by maintaining a municipal garage for the thirty-three auto- mobiles used by the various e¢ity depart- ments. Clarksdale, Miss., proposes the building of & municipal railroad to conbect the city with the Mississippi river, as a means_to- | ward giving relief from the present high freight rates. New Orleans plans the erection of a civic center building that shall eontain, besides a large convention hall, space for the offices of all the clubs and societies that substan- tially promote the eity’s welfare. THE LADY FROM MONTANA. Philadelphia Ledger: The eountry’s wom- anhood is fortanate in finding at Washing- ton a voice which will not cry in a wilder- ness, for it must win ference at onee as the espression of what Women with minds of their own and votes of their own are thinking on many questons that ask new light and leading from their point of view. Chicago Herald: Although the first wom- an to be chosen to congress, we may be sure she will not be the last. She is but the “Why in the worl—" “He's my husband and T should Ifke to use it on him some time."—Brooklyn Citizen. DEAR N2, KAgBBE — 1AM M MILLIONNRE'S f DAWGHTER | 80T Vet WoMew! Po YoU Tk | cAN Db AVIThG To BECOME PRETWY 2 A — DoNT woRRy . Yoo untt BECONE, PETTy e MIWTE Yo __FATER: DES { Mrs. Exe—My girl has left us. She saM I had so much company there was too much work to do. 2 Mre. Wye—That's singular. Mine has left me. She sald I had . so Iittle company M showed I had no social position.—Besten Tranacript. During the civil war a carioad of weed- 4n legs arrived at a rallrosd station te be sent to a military hospital. A man who was standing by remaried to his companion: “Those woodan lege are rather an eloquent protest agaiast war, aren't they™ “Yes,” agreed the other man; “they are what you might call stump speeches.™— Boston Transeript. The little Brimmor boy across the street 1s forever asking questions. “You had better keep still or something will happen to you,” his mother told him one night. “Curlosity once killed a cat, you ‘know.” This made so deep an Impression that the boy was quiet for several minutes. Then he said: “Mother, what was it the cat wanted to know?"—New York Tirhes. MY MILLENNIUM. Clinton Scollard, in Life. _A year ago I did not deem . Minerva e'er would be More (in my very wildest dream) Than “sister” unto me. I exercised my subltlest powers; 1 waa now meek, now boid, But even to the lure of flowers She turned & shoulder cold, 1 conjured every deft device That haunts a poet's head; Her smile suggested lemon ice Whene'er my rhymes I read I conned the stars, each mystic algn, And palmistry I scanned, Thinking, the while, would it were mine To hold her little hand! . No chance to win the mald escaped The workings of my brain, So first I fond Orlando aped, And then the moody Dane. She still was chilly as the snows; Ah, but my case was sad! I sketched her tiny turned-up nose All o'er my blotting-pad. At last, through inspiration's twist, A radiant light I saw; When I avowed me feminist, Behold, a_sudden thaw! b Now, when 1 greet her, o'er her face 1 see Jove's rapture come, And so I say this year of grace Is my Millennjum! Prescription Perfection T A the sex will gradually find their way to the halls of national legislation. Miss Rankin unique responsibility in being the first series. It will be “up to her” to show the women may make good “congress- men” sfter all and thas smooth the way for ture aspirants. St. Louis Globe-Demoerat: Naturally, it will involve some verbal ehanges in the course of debate. A member desiring to as- t to or to controvert something said by female representative of Montans, must refer to “the lady from Montana” and not, aa of old, “the gentleman” from this, that or the other stite. Quoting words spoken by a publicist of a gemeration ago, “we are 2 £ SHERMAN & McCONNELL DRUG COMPANY Four Good Drug Starea. the limbo of dead things. REAL THANKSGIVING- O.W. CERTIFICATE . RING DOUGLAS 117 NO CHARGE FOR EXPLANATION J.T.YATES, SECRETARY . W.A.FRASER,PRESIDENT FLORID ILLINOIS CENTRAL R.R. § ' The SEMINOLE LIMITED Train, consisting of Exquisite Sun Parlor Observation and up-to-date Steel Pullman Cars, runs daily throughout the year. Divect service to the south and southeast. 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