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Hubscrlhed In my presence and aworn to
before me this 1st day of April, A. D., 1904.
(Seal) M. B. HUNOATE,
Notary Public
Admiral Alexleff may pass the rubber
tamp to General Kouropatltln. He Is
beginning lils "I regret to report" terles.
In the absence of war persons who
want to display personal bravery may
tide on special trains to th World's
fair.
The author of "Mrs. Wlggs of the
Cabbage Patch" certainly owes the dty
of Louisville something for the advertis
ing the book has received.
If Colorado keeps up Its work much
longer positions as trades union organiz
ers will be classed as "extra hazardous"
by the life Insurance companies.
We truBt the daughter of Bret Ilarte
has not taken as ber example any of
the actresses Introduced to the public
by the pen of her brilliant father.
The opening of the St Louis exposi
tion is the signal for the exit of several
thousand skilled mechanics from St
Louis to other parts of the country.
The military attache who Is to be sent
to Santo Domingo will probably see
more fighting than the military attaches
now cooped up In Japanese and Russian
cities.
Long ' range critics who object to a
Centllo woman because she voted for
Reed Smoot for senator should find out
who was running against him before
they take final action.
"The best time to stop a strike la be
fore you begin it," declares Terrence V.
Iowderly which la the most sensible
thing Mr. Towderly has ever uttered m
connection with labor troubles.
If Texas will publlrh the result of Its
Investigation of the books of the Wells,
Fargo Express company early enough
It may help a Nebraska board of equall
natlon in the work of making an assess
ment By treating Us vanquished sailors so
well Russia does not offer enough en
couragement for victors. The soldiers
on the Yalu may be hankering after
tome of the feasts prepared for the
survivors of the Chemulpo fight
If the members of the old Panama
fcaual company are not more careful of
their cash than they were of their ma
chinery there will shortly be a lot of
penniless f renchmen in fans wbo will
have nothing to sell to the United States
a second time.
This is an off year , all round. Feb
ruary had twenty-nine days and May
day, which is usually strike day and
moving day, has come on Sunday when
tans and express teams do not move
and the wheels of commerce and In
dustry do not turn.
Note that Omaha's report In the
weekly bank clearings record shows a
substantial increase as compared with
the figures for the same week of last
year, while the average for the country
Is ou the decrease aide of the ledger,
Omaha's bank clearings reflect a healthy
and expanding business.
The suggestion embodied In a brief
filed in the supreme court that because
be carried a railroad pans the county at
torney of one of our Nebraska counties
fa,iledto prosecute a charge of murder
. egalust a 'railroad detective would If
true Indicate' that things In that Juris
diction had come to a pretty pasa.
Railroad property in Nebraqka should
be aaaeaaed for taxation on the same
basis ' as other property no more, no
leas. The property of Individuals and
corporations U being listed at full selling
value an1 the railroads should be ap
praised with the same object of getting
the valuation at which they would sell
a a nominal market,
AKXinit HAILHOACS At a nT.
The first question which the fltste
Board of Railroad Asseamnent will have
to dorlde after It convenes next Monday
Is whether each of the reapoctlTe sys
tems of railroad that operate In Ne
braska shall be assessed uniformly mile
for mile or whether earh of the several
parts of the system originally Incorpo
rated under a different name shall be
asaeaaod separately, aa has been the
custom previous to the enactment of
the new revenue law.
At the very outset It should be ap
parent to the board that the piece-meal
aaneasment of the five systems that
operate the bulk of the mfteage in Ne
braska is a task that cannot be per
formed equitably with the figures and
fans within reach of the board. The
returns' made by the Burlington, the
Union Pnolflc, the Rock Island, thfl
Northwestern and the Missouri Taclflc
represent the capitalization, gross and
net earnings of the whole system and
fall to show what proportion of the
stocks, bonds and earnings is td be cred
ited to the sepnrate lines and branches
that make up each of the railway sys
tems operated In-Nebraska. The same
is also true relative to the rolling stock
of these systems, which Is distributed
over the entire line and used wherever
It may be needed, whether It be In Ne
braska, Iowa, Wyoming, Missouri or
Kansas.
The assessment of railroad systems on
the basis of their capitalization and
earnings, distributed mile for mile, Is
by no means at variance with law,
equity or usage. That method has for
many years past been pursued in the as
sessment of the property of telegraph
companies operating in Nebraska. . The
Western Union Telegraph company, for
example, has always been assessed mile
for mile for its entire mileage In the
state, although it is composed of vari
ous lines absorbed by It In due course
of time, Including the Pacific, the At
lantic, the Great Western and the Amer
ican Union Telegraph companies' lines.
It has been held many times by the
supreme court of the United States that
the property of railroads, telegraph and
express companies engaged In Interstate
commerce may be appraised as a unit
for the purpose of taxation and that a
proportion of the whole, fairly and prop
erly ascertained, may be taxed by the
state In which It Is situated. That prin
ciple was affirmed most emphatically by
the national supreme court in the case
of the Pittsburg,: Cincinnati, Chicago &
St Louis Railway Company against
Backus, 154 U. S., 421, Involving the
validity and constitutionality of the In
diana revenue law, enacted In 1801.
Says the court in that case:
Our conclusion Is that this act is not ob
noxious to any of the constitutional ob
jections made to it There remains the
further question whether In the actual
demonstrattoa thereof In this cas there
has been any Illegal assessment of the
property of the railroad company. . It Is
charted that the valuation was Increased
from t8.S38.063 In 1H90 to $22,666,470 In 1S91,
and It Is not to be denied that such a great
Increase suggests that which Is unfortu
nately altogether too common an, effort to
cast an unreasonable proportion of the pub
lic, burdens upon corporate property.
It Is stated by counsel for the plaintiff
In their brief that the Increase from 1&90
to 1091 In the valuation of all other than
railroad property In the several counties
through which Its road extends was only
43 per cent, while, as appears, that of the
property of the plaintiff waa more than
ISO per cent. Btlll. it must be borne In
mind that a mere Increase In the ax seas
ment does not prove that the last assess,
ment Is wrong. Something more la neces
aary before It can be adjudged Illegal and
excessive, aad the question which Is to be
now considered is whether the testimony
shows that the assessment made by the
state board can be adjudged illegal. In
arriving at the basis for the eatlmate of
values the board has considered the cost
of construction and equipment of said
roads, the market value of the stocks and
bonds and the gross and net earnings of
each of the said reads, and 'all other mat
ters appertain! n thereto that would
slat the board In arriving at a'true cash
value of the same.
It was pointed ont by the supreme
court In the testimony of the railroad
officials In this case that the great value
of the terminal facilities of the plaintiff
corporation In the cities of Chicago and
Pittsburg and the absence of terminal
facilities of any particular value In any
of the cities of Indiana was immaterial
In making the assessment on the basis
of the total' mileage of the road within
the state of Indiana assessed on the
basis of capitalization and earnings of
the whole line, even although It tra
versed several states.
It was also pointed out thst the roll
ing stock of the complaining railroad
was not used exclusively in any one of
the five .states In which It did business.
consequently that the distribution of its
valuo for the entire length of the road.
mile for mile, did not invalidate the as
sessment In conclusion the United
States supreme court, affirming the de
cree of the supreme court of Indiana,
declares:
Notwithstanding the shadow cast npon
the action of the board by the large In
crease In valuation, we are forced to the
conclusion not only that the act Is not
open to the objections made to Its con
stitutionality, but also that there Is no
sufficient testimony to Impeach the conclu,
slon and determination of the state board,
In the case of the Cleveland, Clncin
natl Sc Chicago Railway Company
against Backus, Justice Brewer, deliver
lng the opinion of the United States su
preme court, further makes this declara
tion:
The true value of a line et railroad Is
something more than an aggregation of
the valuation of separate parts of It oper
ated separately It Is the aggregate of
those values that arise from a connected
operation of the whole, and each part of
the railroad contributes not merely the
value arising from Its Independent opera
tion, but Its mileage proportion of that
flowing from a continuous and connected
operation of the whole. This Is no dental
of the mathematical operation that the
whole Is equal to the sum of all Its parts,
because there Is a value created by a re
sulting from the combined operation of
aU its parts aa one continuous Una This
la .something which does not exist and
cannot exist until the combination Is at
firmed.
IhM-islons rendered since the cases
above clt4 are all la line with the prop
osition that the valuation of a railroad
system for taxation purpose should In
clude the entire system, whether its
trackage is located in one state or half
a dozen states, since It would be Im
possible to ascertain by any mode of
computation bow much any part of the
system has contributed to earnings of
the whole, which in the nature of things
constitute Its basic value.
ItATlOHALlZt CORrvRATIUXS.
Some of the most Intelligent students
of the corporation problem advocate the
policy of nationalizing corporations that
engage In commerce between the states.
Among these Is Judge Grosscup of the
United States circuit court at Chicago,
who In a recent address urged this
policy with ranch force, lie took the
position that corporate enterprise is
essential to our Industrial development
and progress, that much which has been
achieved Is due to it, and that the cor
poration is here to stay. The problem,
he said. Is not how to destroy the cor
poration, nor how to hamper It or trip
It up, but how to make It a helpful
servsnt to the uses of mankind.
In the opinion of Judge Grosscup the
paramount aim in any solution of this
problem must be to fit this new form
of American ownership to the industrial
life of a republic. Corporate ownership
should be widely diversified among the
people at largo and with as much safety
to them as other forms of property.
The first and great step to this end is
to nationalize the corporation. "Five
and forty masters now ordain its poli
cies; it should be governed by one
master and one policy. The corpora
tion is no longer the sole concern of the
state where Its books happen to be kept
or Its directors meet. It had become
the concern of the whole country over
which its enterprises reach. The day of
the New Jersey policy has gone. The
day has come for an American corporate
policy." While. this view may not at
present be very largely acquiesced in,
there Is reason to think that it will in
the not remote future grow In accept
ance and become a matter of earnest
popular consideration.
One of the foremost corporation law
yers of the country. James B. Dill of
New York, has for some time advocated
the enactment of a nntlonal law, along
the lines of the national banking act
providing an opportunity to organize cor
porations, national In extent whose
business relates to trade with foreign
countries or between states, without
abridging the powers of the state to
create local corporations. He nrged that
we can look for no effective publicity
no effective restriction or regulation of
corporate power under a diverse and
systematically opposed state legislation.
Therefore public opinion formulated into
statutes, to be of the highest efficiency,
must be uniform among all the states
and national in extent.
Such are the views of men who have
given most careful study to the subject
and they merit serious attention. These
able lawyers do not find any constitu
tional objection to the nationalization of
corporations and there appears to be no
sound reason why a law along the lines
of the national banking act applicable
to manufacturing corporations engaged
in trade between the state would not be
constitutional. It is to be expected that
In trade between the states would not be
pose a policy of this kind, but this class
la not strong enough to defeat it If there
should be an earnest popular demand
for such a policy. The question Is an
important one and la likely to grow in
public interest
OBKMAH VJCJf OF MitlfRUt DOCTRMB.
It'll very well understood. by Intelli
gent Americans that the Germans have
a very poor opinion of the Monroe doc
trine and this la confirmed by a volume
on "The Americans" just published In
Berlin, one chapter of which Is devoted
to the much disliked doctrine that pre
sents a barrier to European aggression
In this hemisphere. The author of the
volume Is a prominent publicist whose
views may be accepted as reflecting
those of bis countrymen. II argues
that the conditions no longer exist which
gave rise to the doctflne and thinks the
time la near when its "absurdity" will
be seen and the rejection of It will be
rapid. According to his view the polit
ical aafety of the United States no
longer requires adherence to the Mon
roe doctrine and that its maintenance
la one of the most dangerous factors for
the peace of this country.
What prompts thla la seen In the
statement that "European colonies In
South America would cause as little
trouble for the United States as the
colonies In Africa" and that the Inter
ests of this country demand the rapid
development of South America for the
promotion of our export trade, which
It la Implied can come only through
European colonization, such aa the Ger
mans are effecting in Braxll and one or
two other southern countries. Now the
Monroe doctrine does not In the least
Interfere with Europeans going Into the
countries of South and Central Amer
lea and colonising there. It does not In
terfere with any commercial enterprises
which European countries may under
take In any of those countries. It slm
ply protects the Independent republics
of South and Central America against
aggressions on the part of any Euro
pean nation for the purpose of seizing
territory or destroying the autonomy of
a republic and establishing its author
lty therein.
This the United States adheres to as
firmly today as at any time In the past
and there Is not the slightest probability
that the policy will ever be rejected.
The great majority of Intelligent Amer
icans unquestionably believe that It is
Just as essential now to our national
security as when the policy wss an
nounced snd that It would be a very
grave mistake to remove this barrier
against European aggression In this
hemisphere. To do that would be to
open the way for a struggle between
J the nations of Europe to acquire terrl
tory In South and Central America, the
result of which would be that in the
course of a generation or two most of
the southern continent would be under
European domination. The American
people fully realise the Importance of
South American development but It Is
not necessary to this that the Monroe
doctrine shall be abandoned. Let the
people of Europe go to South America
as freely as they please and establish
themselves there In whatever way they
please. There la nothing, to prevent
their doing this. But the governments
of Europe must keep hands off the ter
ritory and not meddle with the political
Institutions of the southern republics.
This is the mandate of the Monroe doc
trine and It will be enforced.
TUB COMMERCIAL VllirPOlXT.
The St Louis exposition is expected to
attract Chinese visitors of intelligence
and to furnish opportunities for extend
ing trade between the two countries. It
is pointed out however, that In order to
realize this it will be necessary to mod
ify the regulations of the Treasury de
partment governing the admission of the
Chinese, which are such as to Impede
the landing of those who are exempt
The New York Chamber of Commerce
had the matter under consideration a
few days ago and the chairman of Its
committee on foreign commerce stated
that the regulations to be applied to vis
iting Chinese this year, if fully carried
out will prevent those people coming
here, so drastic are the requirements.
The chamber adopted a resolution in
viting the Chinese government to ap
point a commission composed of repre
sentatives of official and commercial
China to visit the United States for the
purpose of becoming acquainted with
our Industries and commerce and thus
contribute toward establishing a better
understanding between the two nations
and enlarging and extending the trade
relations between this country and
China.
There Is no doubt that the Louisiana
Purchase exposition will offer an oppor
tunity for Improving commercial rela
tions with the Chinese empire If the ex
clusion regulations are modified so as
not to make it as difficult as at present
for Chinese merchants to enter this coun
try and It is well that so Influential a
body as the New York Chamber of Com
merce has taken the matter up. It
should have the support of similar or
ganizations throughout the country and
also of the exposition management The
plan Is suggested of allowing the exempt
classes officials, merchants, students or
tourists to come in on credentials fur
nished by the diplomatic and consular
officers of the United States stationed in
China, and there can be no sound ob
jection to this. The interests identified
with Asiatic trade are manifesting a
proper concern In this matter and a
modification of the exclusion regulations
Is probable. ,
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TMt 3 KLKQRAPR'tt BIRTHDAY.
Sixty years ago today the first mes
sage was transmitted over a telegraph
wire, notes the New York Commercial.
This message was sent from Baltimore
over a line connecting that city with
Washington and announced the nomina
tion of Henry Clay for president by the
whig national convention. The event
excited no great interest, the people of
that day little suspecting that this In
vention was the Initial step In a move
ment that was to make a revolution In
the diffusion of knowledge and In the
business relations of mankind.
It Is bard to realize, remarks the Com
mercial, the difficulties under which
people In different towns and states
and countries communicated with one
another even so late as the generation
of Jackson, Webster and Calhoun. The
news dispatches and market quotations
that appeared In the dally Journals were
Invariably stale when they came from
any considerable distance and no one
could tell what the situation might be
at the places whence they came at the
time such Information reached him.
Foreign news waa weeka and often
months old by the time It arrived in this
country and dispatches between our gov
ernment and its ministers abroad were
correspondingly alow In reaching their
destination.
What a marvelous revolution In the
affairs of the world the telegraph has
wrought In the less than two genera
tions since the first message was trans
mitted by wire. The Western Union
Telegraph company alone owns 1,100,-
000 miles of wire over which, In 1003,
nearly 70,000,000 messages were sent
The total number of telegraph messages
transmitted in this country In that year
was 9tS0O,O00, a record that waa sur
passed by Great Britain by about 2,000,
000. In France, In the same year, the
record was 60,500,000 messages, In Ger
many 43,000,000, in Austria-Hungary
80.000,000. In Russia 19,000,000 and In
Japan 17,000.000. These figures serve
to Indicate the tremendous part that
the telegraph plays today in the affairs
of mankind. Its contribution to the
cause of civilization baa been lncal
culable.
The managers of the St Louis exposi
tion are Just beginning to have their
troubles. Cass Gilbert the well known
New York architect, who designed sev
eral of the World's fair buildings, has
brought suit In the United States circuit
court against the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition company for $17,113.00, al
leged to be due him. Mr. Gilbert's en
tire bill for services rendered from the
date of bis engagement was $78,500, but
he says he has received only $31,386.04.
Just think of the poor down-trodden
architect who received only $31,000 for
a year's services which be values at over
$75,000.
a
That veteran politician, John II. Rea
gan of Texas, a recognised democratic
leader, appears to be seriously alarmed
over the political outlook. Judge Reagan
declares that if be had his way he would
select William J. Bryan aa the caudl
date, but Intimates that be cannot have
hla choice under prevailing conditions.
If we go Into the contest with contest
ing factions In the party." nays Reegan,
'defeat is Inevitable and the practices
of Roosevelt and the policy of the repub
lican party will have four years more In
which to become crystallized, and that
would be the end of constitutional gov
ernment" Such a dismal prospect how
ever, will not seriously alarm the intelli
gent masses of American people. The
prospective end of constitutional govern
ment did not seem to seriously disturb
the slumbers of Reagan when he was a
member of the Jeff Davis cabinet In the
palmy days of the southern confederacy.
Pope Pius has apparently come to the
conclusion that France Is no longer a
Catholic country, something, that has
been evident at this distance for some
time. France would have a hard time to
classify Itself along religious lines and
Its political character Is not as stable
as its people could wish.
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When the signal corps establishes Its
balloon experimental station at Fort
Omaha, sending up paper balloons and
parachutes from Coitrtland Beach and
Lake Manawa will cease to be an attrac
tion and nothing less than a flylug ma
chine will draw an Omaha crowd.
Now comes the tug-of-war between the
self-styled loyal democrats of Nebraska,
who stand for exploded theories and
dead Issues, and the disloyal democrats
who have set their backs on political
graveyards and their faces toward the
home stretch on the race track.
No matter how the present war may
end, Russia can never return to the posi
tion It occupied before hostilities began.
The mujlk has begun to take an interest
In public affairs and the dawi of the
revolution, which there Is ground to hope
will be peacenlile. Is at hand.
Something" Wrong;.
Chicago Record-Herald.
It appears that neither the democrats
nor the republicans are thinking of nomi
nating an Ohio man this year, oven for
vice president. This Is almost uncanny.
. Strotchlna; the Old Farm.
Bt. Loula Olobe-Democrat.
Uncle Bam has acquired title to a strip
of land fifty miles long and ten miles wide
on the lathmua, an area of 600 square
miles. Including the Intorocoanlc canal It
Is quite a likely addition to the old farm.
Savlna- Grace of I'nbellef.
Philadelphia Ledger.
One scientist says meat Is not good for
us; another Jumps upon coffee; another
attacks white bread; the milk carries dis
ease, while 8,000,000 bacteria are busy on
every strawberry, and even the money Is
full of germs. If we believed all we see
we should take to the woods.
newspapers Ahead of Magaslaes.
Bt. Louis Republic.
The trouble with the popular magazine
Is not that It seeks to print absurdities or
falsehoods, but that It conveys wrong Im
pressions by lending to "personal views"
the element of authority. The newspaper
does not attempt to convince the reader In
presenting news, but offers the matter for
what It la worth at face value, so stating,
and expects the reader to form hie own
opinions. The least educated person will
have no difficulty In estimating the value
of news or In separating the false from the
true. But frequently well-educated, persona
are mlslmpresaed by presumably author
itative statements published In the popular
magaslnes. If the question of comparative
confidence Is raised the newspaper can feel
sure of Its honors.
PERSOXAX AND OTHERWISES.
Weatherly speaking, April's finish waa a
peach.
The "total destruction" of the Missouri
strawberry crop Is reported at last Now
bring on your spring.
The famous Indictment of Aaron Burr
will be securely cased at the Bt. Louts
show, so that the state supreme court can
not get at It
- Just to save time and prevent confusion
among the stenos, mirrors have been re
moved from the elevators in the city hall
of Philadelphia.
Xt Is announced In megaphone tones that
all camels on the Pike at Bt Louie will
wear two humps. All ether varieties of
bumpers are spurious.
Blx honorable members of the Missouri
legislature are seeking lobs on the St
Louis race tracks. Evidently the boys have
burnt those 11.000 bills.
There will be something doing In Bt
Louis next July. The proprietor of the
Hell Gate brewery Is a member of the
New Tork delegation to the convention.
The son of a Washington millionaire
cheerfully pays a fine of SU0 a month
rather than go stow with his automobile.
The pace is swift but the money comes
easy.
A beer famine threatens Pittsburg and
a revolution Impends. The prospect of
the Smoky City without loaded schooners
is enough to ohange the ochre tint of the
rippling Ohio.
Father Knickerbocker la putting out a
loan of 337,000,000. The city's expense roll
for 1904 calls for 1106,000 AO. The two sums
together are sufficiently Juicy to keep the
wolf from Tammany's door.
The most remarkable evidence of Bible
Inspiration recorded in modern times comes
from Hanover, Pa, A woman who paid
27 cants for a copy of the good book
found a tioo between the leaves.
New fork's Inheritance tax rivals the
profits New Jersey derives from trust com
panies. One estate about to be closed
will net the state 31.000.000. Death dutlee
yield from 33.000.000 to 34.000,000 a year.
SHORT lEBHOJt,
Doubt determines nothing.
Faith owes ber force to facta
Kicking raises nothing but dust
There Is no short cut to happiness.
He who will not choose must lose.
Salvation Is more than a fire escape.
Virtue Is not a matter of vocabulary.
Nothing succeeds where the soul falls.
With Qod. Ufa aad love are synonymous.
A little sller.ee may save a lot of sorrow.
A sharp man always cuts his own fingers.
Repentaace cannot tear up the roots pf
the pasL
No man reaches the sUge of triumph but
by the steps of trial.
The man who takes life aa a dose always
finds It a bitter one.
A man makes no particular progress by
patting himself on the back.
. Virtu may b Its own reward, out It la
not It own advertising agent
Bom men expect to acquire all their
good habit In their second childhood.
When a maa la content with what he Is.
he is ncvex, content with what be bM.
Chicago Tribune. '
SEC-CLAR SHOTS AT TH PtTTLPTT.
Brooklyn EaaU: A poor Methedlat
preacher In Montana played roulette and
won. He ho Hero a the Lord directed him
to do It They don't believe that way la
the tenderloin when they lose.
Kansas City Time: Trie Bt Louis Asso
ciation of Congregational Churches pro
mulgate the doctrine that a wife I a
drawback to, a divinity student That a
divinity student Is a drawback to a wife
seems to be taken for granted.
Boston Transcript: According to Pr.
Hen son, aa reported, none but rascals be
come multi-millionaire. Isn't this rather
ungrateful, coming from a Baptist, seeing
what on of the multi-millionaires ha dona
for the Baptist In a financial wayT
Nashville American: A plain preacher
from the Vermont hills has coined a new
epigram which deserves to live. Discours
ing upon the hard work and small pay
of himself and other who labor In the
poorer districts, he exclaimed: "How shall
a man support a sealskin wife on a musk
rat Incomer That la a question which
perplexes trany a man with wrinkled brow.
Boaton Globe: There was a time not so
very long ago, either when the Idea of
the pope bestowing hi blessing by long
distance telephone would have seemed
shocking to almost anybody. But In these
days of eminent "practical common sense"
the church, of whatever denomination, em
ploys the most modern agencies. If Plus
X can't visit Venice In person, what more
American than that he should transport
his voice thither by wire?
DOMESTIC P LB ASAK TRIES.
"She's In a frightful dilemma."
"How so?"
"Why, Jack proposed to her last night
and Inalata upon having an answer before
she will have time to Tearn whether Tom
Intends to propose." Chicago Post.
Teas May Sharp won't marry that old
Mr. Roxley.
Jess Has she broken off the engagement?
Teas No, but she's trying to make him
mad ao that he'll break It. In that way
she'll have a chance of getting his money
anyway by suing for breach of promise.
Philadelphia Press.
"Darling, will you be mine?" he whis
pered.. 8uch wsa the beautiful American's agita
tion that she could utter only a few small
checks.
Put they were enough to betray the secret
of her heart.
With a cry of Joy his Grace folded her In
hla arms and kissed her a hundred times.
Puck.
"Doesn't your husband care enough for
you to quit smoking?" asked the caller
who dnean't mind starting trouble.
"I think he does," answered young Mrs.
Torklna; "and I care enough for htm not to
ask him to." Washington Star.
"How old Is your boy?"
"Well," replied the economical woman,
"that depends on whether the question Is
asked by a street car conductor or sum
one else." Chicago Post.
"Why did she marry him? He hasn't any
money."
"I know, but she has plenty."
"But he hasn't any bralna, either."
"True. But people kept telllne; her how
stunning they looked together till she Just
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eouldnt boar the Mr ef letting him tM
away." Detroit Free Prea.
"Bo ah threw Mm ever after he got the
marriage UcenaeT''
"Yes"
"Do you think he'tl evor marry nr,m v
"Not unloaa he ran find another g rl
the same name, so that he can una t;
Uoenae he now baa." Chicago Post.
Jokeley Colonel I understand you'r vo-v
fond of Mlaa Roxiey.
Colonel South Tea , suh. 1 am I'd a'io"..
propoae to her if 1 thought She'd havo i
Jokoley Why Shouldn't she? Kh n
reach and It's the moot natural thh.r i
he world for a poach to have a col,, re!
Philadelphia Ptoss.
Mr. Ferstiaon was In th midst of a I
and elaborate statement sotting forth 'ti
ros eon a why he wis so late In gottirir
home that night when hi wife Interrupt 1
blm.
"George," eh anld. "why do you tmi,
Sit th4 on me? Think how the bonk i nt
liaher are begging and pleading for hijrh
grade fiction!" Chicago Tribune.
MOTHER'S HOLIDAY.
Ethel M. Colsoa In Sunday Magazine.
Jack speaks:
Mother's gone off on a Vtaft Goodness! It
does seem so queer
One woman should mak such a dlff'rcnce,
but don't I Just wish ah was here!
I'd give a round dollar thla minute for a
single short look at her face:
For horn 1 ao wretched without her, I
hate to come Into the place.
Father' a bear for crossness. Sister's ai
blue as can b.
And nobody' got half a moment to Ink a
the least nolle of me.
They snap off my head In a twinkling, if
only I venture to speak.
If Mother were here they'd soon altar, but
goodness! She's gone for a week I
Susie muse:
Mother' gone off for a vlat It all seems
so sad and so strsng.
I know I shall cry before evening, if mat
ters don't make a quick change.
There might be a death In the nousehoKl.
I've got such a lump In my throat
And nothing seems worth the least effnrt;
even Dickie won't chirp a faint note.
Poor Pus doesn't purr or look happy, poor
Fldo scare wiggles his tall.
We all try to seem fairly cheerful, and all
of us wretchedly fall.
With Mother at home we'd all brighten,
think shame for our sorrowful ways,
But Mother's gone oft for a visit ahe's left
us for seven long da) si
Father thinks:
Mother' gone off on -a visit It seems like
a year since she went
And yet It was only this morning; but oh!
what drear day we've spentl
I almost believe she's a fairy, she shells
so much sunshine about
I know she's the light of the household
dear light for a little gone outl
The meals ars like funeral parti, we all
Bit silent and sad.
The boy's Ilk a glowering Gorgon, poor
Susie is almost aa bad;
I don't feel so very much better always
mournful when Mother' away;
I wish she was back at this moment but
she's gone for a week from today I
Mother ponders:
Well, her I am off for my visit but really
I wish I was horn!
With three-part of th best of me missing,
It lan't much pleasure to roam.
I thought I should cry that last moment,
when all their dear eyes 'gan to Oil.
But there! I've come oft for a visit They
planned It; enjoy It I will!
And yet I can't help feeling lonely, and
wishing 'twas time to return;
Every time I recall those dear faces my
heart begins freshly to yearn.
Of course they can manage quite simply
I kr.ow It as well a can be;
But I wonder Just what they are doing,
I wonder how much they'll miss me!
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