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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1907.
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Tt IE Omaha Daily Bee.
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8TrK.VENT OF- CIRCULATION.
State of Nebraska, Doug lea county, as!
Charles C. Rosewater, general mtntrsf
of The Bea Publishing" ' Company, being
duly itwn, aaya that (na actual number
of full ana eotnp'ete cobles of Tha Dally,
Morning, Evening and Sunday Bea printed
during tha month of June, 1907, waa aa
follows:
1 '.. .84,630 IT ta.480
t. ....... 48,801 II . 84,490
I M,liO It., 00,480
4 , 84,44 JO.. 84,310
S 84,410 M 34VM0
( 88,810 12 8M10
T 84,430 II 88,780
1 86,400 t 34,000
I 88,904 It........ 88.BTC
10 84.680 S4 84,560
11 '84,430 IT 8MTO
11 4,S36 II. 84,470
II....'.... 1,440 St........ 84,440
14 , 84,930 JO 88,980
16 87,170 .
16 86300 Total. ..1,09480
Leal unsold and returned coplea. . 10,389
Net total ... : , 1,08431
Dally average 84,197
CHAIU.E9 C. ROSEWATER.
Oatieral Manager.
Subscribed In my preeence and sworn to
before ma this 1st day of July, 1807.
(Seal) M. B, HUNOATD,
. Notary Public.
, WHKlf OUT or TOWW.
abaerfwer leavlaa; tha city tem
porarily ehonld aavw The) Be
mailed ta them. Addraas will be
chan are as artea a. relocated.
Did you find a "zone of quiet
Ot course, Colonel W8tterson would
not back any dark horse that was not
a thoroughbred.
Bernard Shaw refers to newspaper
reporters' as pests. Some pest must
bar stuns Shaw. ..
The Octopus has won the submarine
prise. The .octopus seems ' to thrive la
water aa well as on land.. "
In expressing a desire to, be shown
what he Is wanted tor, John D. Rocke
feller exhibits Missouri symptoms.
In the meantime, Japan goes -on
treating the Koreans ab6ut as the San
Francisco haodfums treat the Japanese.
New York has discovered that the
best way to start street cleaning la to
remove Incompetent street cleaning
official.
German physicians hate discovered
that red noses may be cured by elec
tricity. They may also be cured by total
abstinence. '
The first statewide direct primary
under the new Nebrapk law will be
held September 3, 1907. Mark the
date down.
Dr. Kellogg of Illinois say we will
all be cracy la. S00 years. It Is apt to
come earlier than' that It Pa Rourks's
hired men do not braoe up.
Journeymen plumbers are asserting
that they cannot live on $5 a day. The
statement earrles the astonishing Infer
ence that some ot them must have
tried It. . ,
John D. Rockefeller Bays he did not
inow what the United 8tates court
officials wanted with htm. He seems to
Siave been afraid, too, that he might
nd out
That Maryland woman who married
a bogua earl the other day may be
consoled by the thought that she did
aj well as some American women who
have married real ones. '
A. Philadelphia crook has confessed
to sixty profitable robberies. The record
Is a good one, la view ot the fact that
he Is not a. contractor, on the Pennsyl
vania state capitol building.
All this advertising of the fact that
Uncle Sam ha an ' unwieldy treasury
surplus Is going to snoourags .congress
men to build their "pork bar'la" for
pext session 'k use on generous 'lines.
i .! jjts', ;.,
Sixteen tatQeehtps fcave been sent
to the tPaoificl-ThJ may Te In the
nature vpt either a gecpehtnt to.tbV
Japanese Jingoes or a warning to the
"unwhJped moV" In San Francisco. V
3 In trying to get Information about
. the Standard Oil trust,' Judfce Landls
3 of Chicago apparently made the? mja
,o take of 'subpoenaing JohnD. Rocke
2 feller instead ot aeruJfng tor Ida Tar
3 belt ;
Rainfall In Nebraska so - tar this
season las been a little below normal,
put cor' la Nebraska Is rapidly catch
ing up and premises to show
weather .man when : it comes . to
the
tha
home stretch.
DelocMfts.' to the peace conference
at The liague disagree on the proposi
tion of inviolability ! private prop
irty In times of war. Agreement ou
that point would rote claim attorneys
f a lucrative practice. ( ,
MISnEPRKSEHTtXQ THE JVtOflft
DifcusKlbg presidential polltica with
particular reference to the Brownsville
incident, the. New York. Independent
says:
The nearoea declare that they will not
vote for Mr. Taft, nor for any ona else
whom President Roosevelt will favor. It hi
amatlns, aa It la unjuet, that so deep and
so seneral a feellns has been aroused. And
tha negro rote will be strong enough to
control the result In several states. If the
democrats put up a popular candidate.-
The Independent Is eminently cor
rect In declaring that this Is "amating"
and It would be more amating If the
unnamed negroes . the Independent
purports to quote really represented
the sentiment of the whole body of
negro voters. But any negro, or white
man, for that matter, who declares
that the negroes will not vote for any
one for president favored by Mr.
Roosevelt and will vote for the demo
cratic candidate unless the republicans
nominate an anti-Roosevelt man speaks
entirely without authority. The negro
republicans may have a preference as
between candidates for republican
nomination, but as between any repub
lican so far. mentioned and any demo
crat in harmony with policies pf the
democratic party in the sonth, (there
can be but one choice for htm.
Almost on the same day that the
Independent recorded the above Gov
ernor Hoke Smith was delivering his
inaugural as the new chief executive
of Georgia, outlining the democratic
program. In this address Governor
Smith comes out boldly for negro dis
franchisement by a grandfather clause
constitutional amendment along the
line of the Alabama law. He would
confine the elective franchise (1) to
all persons who served in the con
federate army, (S) 'to all their
lawful descendants, (S) to all per
sons of good character who under
stand the duties and obligations ot
citizenship, (4) to all persons who can
read and write to the satisfaction of
the election officers, (6) to all persons
owning forty acres of land and, (6) to.
all persons owning 9 500 worth of tax
able property. This, he assures the
publio, will effectively sidetrack the
negro vote without colliding with the
fifteenth .amendment
Governor Smith further invites the
negroes to support the democratic
ticket by ' advocating the withdrawal
of equal school facilities from negro
children. He has the hardihood to de
clare: Tha honest student of history knows that
tha negro race was improved by slavory
and that tha majority of tha negroes in
this state have ceased to improve sine
slavery. Few have been helped by learn
ing from books. All have bean . helped
who have, been taught or made to work.
His plan, therefore, Is to teach the
negro children manual labor, but not
enough reading or writing to qualify
them to vote under tire grandfather
clause scheme. -
v No matter then' how some disap
pointed negro office seekers may 'talk,'
no intelligent negro who has th fu
ture of his race at heart can or will
hesitate as between - the republican
party, which has alwayB stood for free
dom and enlightenment 8nd the demo
cratic party, which Is trying to get back
as close as it can to old slavery days.
PRIMARY LJ.W COMPLICATIONS..
With the approach ot the time tor
tha preliminary notices required by
the new primary election: law, those
who are charged with the administra
tive work imposed by the new plan for
nominations are discovering a lot of
things about which they are not sure.
The city clerk ot Omaha, for example,
has asked the attorney general to en
lighten htm upon the relation ot the
primary to the registration of voters.
And other questions equally pertinent
are sure to be propounded. The law
as passed, after being variously
amended, at different stages of Its
transit through the two houses of the
legislature, Includes some crudities
and a few contradictions. In many
other places it leaves, to the wise dis
cretion ot the administrative officers
to determine minor details not defi
nitely fixed.
The Inauguration ot direct primary
nominations In Nebraska will present
complications chiefly Insofar as those
depended upon to put the law Into
operation make complications for
themselves. They should remember
that the purpose of the lawmakers was
to duplicate, so far as applicable for
tho selection of candidates on all party
tickets, the same machinery that Is
employed for the selection . between
the respective party candidates at the
regular election. They should re
member that the great object to be
achieved is to give every voter an
equal choice In the' selection ot the
nominees of the party with which 'he
affiliates and to insdre.that the nomi
nees of each party are really the ex
pressed choice ot a plurality ot the
members of that party participating In
the primary election. . It they
will keep these things In mind
and use common sense In deter
mining any disputed matter, giving
the benefit ot the doubt. If any, to the
individual voter rather than weighing
any supposed advantage which one
candidate may have' over another, the
primary law will be made to work out
all right ;
Borne necessary experimentation Is
Incident to the installation ot any
great piece of machinery with so many
ramifications, but the: weak spots and
mistakes will soon he disclosed and
can be strengthened or remedied later
by amendatory legislation.. If .the
officials c-harged with-th preparation
for and management of the direct pri
maries set about M with' a 'determina
tion to make the law- operate success
fully the difficulties will be soon over-
J coma. . Jf they act about tt with manl-
test deposition to make the law a
failure they need not be surprised If
they, themselves, suffer In the rebound.
Buitviyaa a? firs losses.
. Experts appointed by the Interior
department at Washington have Just
made a lengthy report upon the build
ing lessons taught by the fire losses in
the large cities of the country. The
report contains the startling declara
tion that the boasted advance In the
matter of fireproof construction In the
building of American cities is not war
ranted and that the defects of con
struction from a fire-resisting point of
view are still marked.
While the experts have not discov
ered anything startlingly new, some of
their recommendations are particularly
valuable, or would be if adopted by
municipal administrations. They call
attention to two important factors that
work for danger In building construc
tion, the one being inadequate water
supply and the other the failure of city
councils to overrule commercial pro
tests and adopt rigid building laws.
The report asserts that less than 3 per
cent of the property loss at 8an Fran
cisco was caused by the earthquake.
The rest was caused by fire, which
could not be checked on account of the
failure ot the water supply. The ex
perts declare that few, if any, cities
In the country have taken proper pre
cautions against Are, by providing But
flclent water protection adequate to
meet the demands for fire fighting pur
poses in case of a great conflagration.
It Is to be regretted that our cities
do not profit by the lessons of disas
ters. San Francisco is being rebuilt
almost exactly along the old lines and
the new San Francisco will be, to a
large extent, a duplicate of the former
city tn defects of construction. On this
point the report says: 1 "
"WThen we sea plainly, aa we may, looking
backward, that nearly all this destruction
and suffering might have been prevented
by wise forethought and provision, we feel
that wa must sand a .warnlns to all tha
oltlea of tha world. Any city that dlare
gards tha warning will be guilty of a gnat
crime.
In a word, the demand is for an Im
provement In building standards, more
liberal use of re-enforced concrete, bet
ter materials In foundations and a gen
eral adoption and enforcement of more
rigid laws relating to the water supply
and to the exclusion of combHStible
material In building construction tn
business districts. '
BULLETS AS PEACE PROMOTERS.
While Mark Twain Is hobnobbing
around with royalty In London, the
peace delegates at The Hague con
ference are furnishing material for
a novel or serial story ot real
humor. Just now the delegates are
up to their eyes In the discussion
of a protest about the. kind of bul
lets ' used by the American ...sol
diers. These men of peace have; not
given any very clear Idea of what
would suit their fancy in the bullet
line, but they have made It plain that
the Krag-Jorgensen, the Mauser and
the Spitx bullets leave much to be
desired in the gentle art of killing and
maiming. It appears that they want a
rifle bullet that will kill without hurt
ing, leaving the victim with a smile on
his lips rather than with distorted
visage and blood-soaked garment
Testimony offered at The Hague
shows that the Krag-Jorgensen is not
by any means as ragged as its name,
but may pass through a man without
hurting him very much and Its use Is
apt to leave a top-heavy hospital list
comparod with the subjects for the
burial squad. The Mauser Is open to
the same criticism, but the real bolt
ot wrath is aimed at the Spitx. This is
a new bullet which does Its prelim
inary work all right, hut is so con
structed that after it enters the body
It has a habit of veering from the
course, and the victim, as shown by
autopsies, looks as though he might
have swallowed a cannon cracker Just
before It exploded. Of course, the
man who stops a Spits also stops fight
ing, but The Hague sages think it
Inhuman to disfigure a corpse the way
a Spits does, and they want the use of
the Spits prohibited by an Interna
tional agreement
The world Is not bloodthirsty. It
wants no more wars, but the delegates
at The Hague are wasting their time
It they hope to make war a pink tea
affair, accompanied by no more danger
or terror than a French duel. It would
seem to be a better plan to encourage
the promotion of universal peace by
substituting harmless substitutes tor
force atd violence. War will not be
stopped If it Is made a possible pastime
for mollyooddles or to be conducted
along lines that will not shock the gen
tle sensibilities ot the peace theorists.
It Governor Sheldon Is really nc
trouble to find colonels for hla staff he
can doubtless discover a numerous
bunch still at large who bought uni
forms during the reign ot King Ezra
the First and the Last
Governor Hoke Smith ot Georgia re
fers in his annual message to the "Jug
trains" of the state. The Oeorgla rail
way commissioner admits his inability
to tell the difference between a Jug
train and a Jag train.
The Boston Herald says that Boston
might get one or both of the national
conventions if the city had a hall large
enough to "seat 14.000 odd persons."
Delegates to a national convention are
not necessarily odd.
A farmers' union in Louisiana ad
journed a session the other day to
lynch a negro who had been charged
with aaaaalUsg a woman. The south
will continue to be slow In developing
so long as its most prominent citizens
persist in giving such diversions prefer
ence over business.
Governor Sheldon has Included in
his primary' election proclamation the
nomination of a candidate for univer
sity regent to fill vacancy. Here is a
chance for some ambitious patriot
The election will be held the first Tues
day In November and the returns can
vassed about the end of November.
The successful candidate may expect
to get his commission about the first
of December, entitling blm to serve
with full glory but no pay until the
end of December, with fair probability
that no meeting ot the Board of no
gen ta will be held during that time.
Don't everybody speak at once.
The Lancaster County Bar associa
tion, which, although made up ot dem
ocrats and republicans, assumed (o It
self the function of nominating the re
publican Judicial candidates in ad
vance of the primary election, has not
had even a pleasant look in the col
umns of the state press. It Is pretty
hard to make people believe that the
lawyers are entitled to a monopoly of
naming the Judges before whom they
expect to practice. ' '
The fear that the voting machines
will not be large enough to accomo
date all the names to be voted on at
this fall's election need not worry any
one. The machines- are large enough
for state, Judicial and county tickets,
and if the school board and city tick
ets are crowded off to a paper ballot
no serious damage will ,be done.
The records of the county court
show an Increase of more than 10 per
cent in the number of marriage li
censes Issued during the month of
June, Just passed, as compared with
the same month last year. This au
gurs well for 200,000 population in
Omaha in time for the 1910 census
takers.
The Commercial club has formally
adopted a resolution expressing
thanks to everybody who had anything
to do with promoting the success of
the recent trade excursion to the
Puget Sound. The trouble with these
blanket resolutions of thanks is that
in covering bo much.' ground they
spread out mighty thin.
The next thing that, will be needed
to make the Gibson law effective will
be a decision of some competent au
thority defining exactly ;where the line
Is to ba drawn between selling liquor
at wholesale and selling it at retail.
One Office le-aa Ron ah Rider.
1 Houston "ptt.
Captain Bloan Simpson tit 'Texas, formerly
of tha Rough RJdra, Is aest of Houston.
His presena give 'ua ttf opportunity to
say that Houston Is Ibeiy comxnurtUy in
this world or any other" tfttit today contains
a Routrh Rider whot'doesfi'Jt Hold an offtee.
and it is a distinction worth having for
even a day or two,
Lewd Soke tor Rookefellar.. .
Chicago Inter .(Ocean:
If Mr. Rockefeller would only come to
this city, where his company has done
auoh a fine business and earned so much
money for bo many years, aa If ha were
really glad to come, we should all try
to make hla Interview with Judge Landls
aa painless as possible. It is bis' disin
clination to coma on here that la turning
some of us against him. Wa have our
feelings, and wa can't help It.
Proatable Mutuality la Graft.
Philadelphia Record.
One of tha most interesting personal fea
tures of the Capitol scandal la that after
Mr. Cobb's plana had been adopted. Hi. Durd
Caanel put through the legislature a bill
requiring tha architect to be a Pannayl
vanlan. This bowled out Cobb, but It didn't
Interfere with tha use of bis plana, and
Huston, who bobbed up aa the native Penn
sylvania architect, threw $8,000,000 worth of
contracts, let without legal authority, to H.
Burd CasseL State patriotism Is expensive.
"Hlvhea- Law" laarohy.
Indianapolis Newa.
It really sevms almost a waste of time
for courts to try cases when tha "higher
law' is Invoked. Why ahould not soma
state frankly accept tha situation and place
on tha etatute books aome such simple
declaration aa this: "Any man a hail have
the right to kill any other man that baa in
sulted, or that ba suppose has Inaultad a
woman ef bis family t" That would give
private vengeance a legal, aa well aa a
sentimental status, and, hasten tb progress
to anarchy. .
'
laidea W rait a.
Indianapolis News.
Notwithstanding the general prosperity
that baa prevailed In this country for.
aome years and the rapid Increase of
wealth, there are still rapid lncreaee of
wealth, there are at 111 many persons who
are not yet millionaire. Numerous. In
deed, are those wbo may be clasaed aa
still In quite moderate clrcumstancea. Not
very person becomes a millionaire at a
Jump. Among theaa poor, but honest
people one often hear men dlcuaeNwhat
they would do If they wera millionaire.
Not being able to build brownntona front
or Indiana limestone residences of the
colonial style, they like to indulge la the
cheaper pleasure of bunding castles In
the air and of telling what they would do
If suddenly wealth should coma to them.
Aa a general rula, their program Involves
schemes of large philantbopby and
beautiful altruism.
lacrre-aaLaar Hallrvad RBipaeat.
' Philadelphia Record.
Although railroad companies complain tn
some lnatancea that an unfriendly attitude
of public aantlWnt make It dlfficolt for
them to ralae canltal, they go on buying
rails and car and other supplies and have
not entirely glvea up tha construction of
extension Within a week or two several
of the larger railroad companies bar made
oontracta for rolling stock to an amount of
Xlt.u00.0n0, aDd order for lis.OX.tOt ar peud.
Ing. , Ttte HtrMman line have ordered 4,004
refrigerator cara, and tha Mlaaouri PaclAo
baa ordered !. freight Tha New Tors
Central la about to order mora than a hun
dred locomotive and 4.000 cara. and the
Rock Island will enjor t,eo frefgtt ear
The amount of raUroad capital raised tins
year Is very targe, although ona might aup
peae from aom things that ara aatd that
investors were afraid to pat tooaxf lata
ra'JrvaJ,
ROCJTD ABOUT UK XT YORK.
Rirvle the Carre at of Life ta the
Metropolis.
Mr Eetelle Moran, a New Tork wo
man of 14 and married eight years, gave
an amusing explanation of tha common
phrana, "Having a good time," to a Judge
of on of tho local courts. Katelle's hue
band, Thomas, Is a hard working man.
aober and saving. He had eaved up 1108
and handed It over to Retell for safe
keeping. Then wa born In Kstaire's up
per story the Idea of "a good time," mo she
skipped out, leaving hubby to hold the
sack. She waa gone from her husband
about two montha, and, la tha vernacular,
"blew In all the dough."
Finally Thomas, after soma amateur
aleuthlng, discovered Eatelle'a where
about and visited her, determined to
coma to some satisfactory agreement, tie
wa shocked when he found that Eetelle
had made $101 disappear within two
months, and promptly chlded her for It.
. According to Estelle's complaint,
Thomas Anally grew very angry and
truck her several blows In the face with
hla fists. Bhe had a warrant sworn out
and Thomas wa placed under arrest.
"I had a Ana time," she declared to
the magistrate In a confidential and trust
ing tone of voice. "Do you know I'
haven't enjoyed myself so much in eight
years as I did those two months. It wa
just grand."
It Is said that tha permanent hotel popu
lation of New Tork City Is today not lea
than 198,000, and everybody who Is familiar
with tha city knows that aa fast aa the big
hotel are opened they are filled with per
manent boarders and eaaual patrons Ilk
the big apartment bouse In Washington,
although It la difficult to determine where
tha people all coma from.
There ara US new, up-to-date, high-priced
hotels In New Tork City, where the rates
for lodging alone in tha humblest rooms
ar at least 12.50 a day, and range from
14 to 88 a day, with a bath and without
meal It la atated that 9,000 families have
given up their homes and are now per
manently established In tha hotels and
apartment houses, chiefly to avoid the an
noyance and the expense of housekeeping.
The difficulty of getting servant tha enor
mous Increase In tho Coat of food, the trou
ble of marketing and other care and
anxletle connected with housekeeping are
thus avotdrd, and for thoao who are able
to pay the bill, there la a greater degree
of luxury and comfort, with absolute In
dependence from care, for tha asm money
In a well-appointed hotel than can be bad
in an ordinary realdence.
New Tork, which rank second ' among.
tho world's cities In population, largely
surpasses London in wealth and In tb
volume and variety of Ita business activi
ties, says Leslie's Weekly. Tha United
Btatea passed England in extent of manu
facture In 1880, In Iron and steel production
In 1996 and In coal output In 1800, and It
leadership In each of these field 1 rapidly
lengthening.
New Tork City ta tha business capital
of a country which produces 10 per cent
of tha world's wheat, 2S per cant of It
gold, S3 per cent of It oil, 86 per cent of
Ita manufactures, 40 per cent of Its Iron,
4 per cent of Its steel, (1 per cant of Ita
petroleum, 65 per cent of Its copper, 70
per cent of Its cotton and 80 per oent ot
it corn.
The wealth of the United States In HOT
Is 1113,000,000,000, or a much aa that of
Ita two nearest rivals Oreat Britain and
France In tha aggregate. As tha United
State's natural resource ar only tn the
early stage of their development and a
it supremacy over the rest of Its old
time rival Is steadily Increasing, Ita so
cial and business leadership In tha world
la aaaurrad.' . ' '
A waiter In oils of the shopping 'district
restauraqta displayed a very masculine dis
regard for the fitness of soma thing when,
tb other day, he aeated shopper No. 2
at the table where shopper No. 1 wa
calmly sipping her puree of split pea. No.
wore a plain, amooth navy blue suit.
with very straight whits collar 'and cuffs
and a tidy compact hat. No I aank into
her chair with a swish of silk petticoat
and a whiff of rose perfume. Taking oft
a little cinnamon colored coat which Just
matched her willow plume and her sun-
pleated hair In shade, ahe revealed a frilly
lace waist and a ehaln with purse attached
which dangled from her neck to her knee
and Jingled Innumerable bracelet the
while. She ordered on with an olive
In it Between sips both shopper looked
at every newcomer with an expression
which said plainer than word: "Pleaae
don't think that this person Is a friend
of mine."
Police Commissioner Theodora A. Bing
ham want a yearly salary of $16,000. He
now get 17,800. The expenaea of hla office
are so great, he declare, that hi annual
stipend ought to be Increased, and he has
eent a communication to that effect to tho
member of th board of estlmat and
apportionment, which ha th power to
fix the salary of the police commissioner.
In a recent magailne article the com
missioner declared that th salary of tho
police commissioner ahoUld be such a to
make tha plac mora tempting because of
tha temptation already existing from
other sources, lie aald that a gambler In
New Tork had told him that SO other
gamblers would be willing to pay $1,000 a
month for protection. Th police com
missioner who accepted such a bribe as
that could make $int,000 a year, Including
hla $7,600 salary from th otty. Th com
missioner kicked tha man out of hi office.
"For all th talk over hare against tip
ping w are beginning to Import ona of
tho woi-at forma of It," growled a Nerve
Torker Juat back from Pari "Tha other
night at a fashionable restaurant I saw
a large tip sent, moat ostentatiously too,
to the head musician he had probably
played something by special request Tip
ping tha musicians 1 very popular In Parla
both at rcatauranta and concert cafe
I have aeen a woman aak for her escort's
pocketbook, calmly take out a hundred
frano bill, and smilingly send It to th chef
d'orchestre. Just because he had fixed
hi eye on her while playing tha laat num
ber. A famous lawault recently between
a musician and a restaurant proprietor
developed the amasing fact that tha mu
sician made more In tips alone than tha
profit of the business amounted to for
the other. And now tha custom ba com
over hera. If don only In tha high
priced French reeturanta at preaent, but
I suppose It la only question of tlraa
when It will bo exacted of ua In even the
cheapest eating houaa In town that offers
poor mualo with still poorer food."
Thre couples, husband and wives, of
th highest repute, dined at a New Tork
city, hotel a few evenings since, and the
hoat and hla wife directed that the coffee
be sent to their room This waa dona,
and tha waiter, calling later for the cupa,
saucer and spoons, found that threa of
tha epoon were missing. Ha reported
tha matter to tha manager, who quickly
made a demand for tha return of the thre
spoons. Tha host and hostess wera greatly
mbarraaaed. and you may Imagine tha
feeling of their guest but th manager
tu obdurate. A little search disclosed
tha missing apoons beneath the table. Tha
hoat and hostess on the following day
protested In vigorous terms to tha owners
of tha hotel and got this reply:
"Sorry, indeed, very sorry you were
mbarraaaed, but w stand by our sua-
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PERIORAL NOTES.
Th house at Litchfield, Conn., In which
Judg Tappan Reeve started tha first law
school In this country In 1774, ha Just
been sold at auction to parties who will
aee that It la preserved for It historic
value.
Private advice from Europe Indicate that
Helnrlch Conrled. director of the Metropoli
tan opera house, has not benefited so much
by his European trip and his rest In Ger
many aa has been expected. There la strong
reason to believe. In fact, that Mr. Conrled
will' never be able tb resume active work
at the opera house.
William Edenborn, who Is twenty times
a millionaire, and the richest cltlsen of
New Orleans, Uvea with the simplicity of
a $76 a month clerk. He la president of
the Louisiana Railway and Navigation
company. He wa born In Germany and
came to America at the cioae of the civil
war, first settling In Pittsburg.
Abdul Hamld, the sultan of Turkey, has
a hobby for carpentry and cabinet work.
Before . he came to the throne, and when
ther . seemed little prospect, of hla suc
ceeding to the heritage, of Oaman, he spent
a good deal of time In the joiner's shop
and became a .fairly aklllfu) workman,
capable- of earning hi living anywhqr.
Prof. F. B?tLoomts of ? Amherst j col
lege, accompanied by two students, has
started oft an expedition to Nebraska and
Northern Colorado, to secure, If possible,
fossil remains of mammals of the Miocene
aga for the biological department. This
will make the third expedition that has
gone out this summer in search of these
relic
Frank Hamlin, who waa recently chosen
attorney to the board of civil service
commislonera of Chicago, la the aon of
the late Hanntbal Hamlin, vice president
of tha United States In tha first Lincoln
administration. Tha younger Hamlin wa
born, In Bangor, Me., In 1862, was graduated
from Harvard and from tha Boston Univer
sity law school, and then went to Chi
cago to practice.
Prof. Muensterberg of Harvard, la
one of tha Intereated spectators at the
Haywood trial In Bolae, Idaho. He la
making a psychological atudy of Orchard,
who has admitted seventeen murders,
bealdea numberless other Crimea, In hla at
tempt to help the state fasten tha guilt
of Steunenberg'a death on W. D. Haywood
and other officer of the Western Federa
tion of Miner .
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fltella Can he drive with ona hand?
Bella More than that; he can hand with
one drive. New York Sun.
Pater Well, my boy, no you have- Inter
viewed your girl'a father, ehT Did you
make the old codger toe the mark!
Bon Tea, dad. I waa the mark! Mon
treal Standard.
"But," asked the young doctor, "whj
do you always order champagne for every
new patient that comes to yout"
"Because, my boy," replied the old prac
titioner, "I can JudKe by what the patient
suye whether or not he can afford it. That
helpa me when I oome to make out my
bill." Philadelphia Press.
The express companies protested loudly
agalnat the plan of a parcels post.
"We are too patriotic," they said, "to
desire the government to assume tha rlfik."
. "Think It would be a losing venturer'
"Sure thing. Why, wfth all our experi
ence we seldom declaro more than a M0
per cent dividend." Philadelphia ledger.
Prof. McGoosie (auddnnly checking him
self) Pardon me, Misa Genevieve, -for
talking ao long. When I get atarted on my
hobby I never know when to stop. I ought
not to have assumed, anyhow, that yoU
are Interested In antiquee.
Miss de Mulr Indeed I am, profeasor.'V I
could listen to you for i hours. Chicago
Trlhun
THB STAR-SPANGLED FIFTH.
W. D. Nesblt ItTJudge. ';::" '
Oh, say, can you see by the dim oandU
light .,
That hns glowed since the laat ' Roman
candle exploded ;.
While we stood on the lawn at a late hour
lost night . - '
Can you see If they're gone, aa most of
ua foreboded T. i
Little Johnnie's left . ear wyt be uaeleas,..!
' --rifearr ' -f 4
And pape'e scorched nose makes his face)
very queer .'.-
DIAL HmV. 111! IN HIT KrMnfl , F lulr Wltl.lCOTB
yet wave,
Or did he acquire a sky-rockety shave? v
Uncle, Henry ha gone for some cotton astl
salve I
To apply to tha 'arm of your poor slater
Llaale
And the doctor keepa speaking of things
he must have; . ...
All nlnht has the druggist been awfully
busy.
Father cannot alt down ao he stand, with,
a frown.
And looks out at the fires that are biasing
o'er town.
But say, do poor grandfather's whiskers
yet wave.
Or did they melt off In that crash th
bomb gave?
All day he was warned that. It might not
be beat
To be showing the youngster the tricks
of their fireworks;
He waa told that hla beard - ahould be
ahoved in hla vest.
Or the eparka and the flame would 'ex
hibit thir dire worke.
I, and Liisle, and John, with our cutlols
gone,
Buffer here on our cot In the gray of th
dawn.
But tell us, do grandfather' whiskers rat
wave
Or did he acquire a July-Fourthlsh havf
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