THE BEE: OMAIIA, WEDNESDAY, MAT 10, 1911.
The Omaha daily Bee
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APRIL CIRCULATION.
Madero and Hit Army.
If Madero ever had real control
over his rebel force In Mexico he
must have loat It, as shows la the) dis
orderly assault upon Jaurez. He did
not order the original attack, It seems,
and says ha gave no orders to ad
vance, although press correspondents
say the heard him Issue such orders
some time after fighting had begun.
No matter about that, his army ap
parently did as it pleased, with or
without, by or In spite, of any com
mand from him
attorneys and policemen in Nebraska
who fail to enforce the letter of every
law as other people read It, he will be
kept busy from now on twenty-four
hours a day, and then some.
Anti-Affinity Laws.
The Columbus Journal believes
Ohio should follow the examine of
Kansas in enacting a law punishing
men who desert their wives and fam
ilies. It holds up to public approval
the so-called anti-affinity law enacted
The descriptions by the last Kansas legislature as a
spent that much, but good old Dame
atnre has contributed to our park
system that which could not be bought
for many times the money we have
pent. The number of dollars a park
system has cost Is not the best meat-
ring rod.
Mere Official Confirmation.
Indianapoll New.
Inasmuch a It would probably be Im-
poaalble to find out any mors than we
suspect, the Investigation of the trust is
not likely to cause any shocking effect.
48,106
Siata of Nebraska, County of Douglas, sa:
Dwlght William, circulation manager of
The Be Publishing Company, being duly
wort), aaya that the average daily circula
tion, tea a polled, unuard and returned
copies, for Uie month of April, 1111, was
48.101 . D WIGHT WILLIAMS.
Circulation Manager.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before me this 1st day of May, 1U.
(Seel.) ROBjIKmaiUNTER,
Notary Public
Sebacrlber levlagj the etty teaa
o rarity have The Be
Mailed laves. Aa vrlU be
Chang! eel mm eeata mm n
And there was a hot Urns In old
town 1 Paso that night.
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At any rate, Nebraaka is right la
the thick of It down on the Mexican
border.
agree that It became an "uncontrolla
ble, uncontrolled and blood-thirsty
mob," and they probably have not
overdrawn the facts. "Insubordina
tion and a lust for the fight of which
federal concessions apparently had
deprived them" Is given at the animus
that drove the rebels onto Juaret.
It Is manifestly a tersely told truth
here was a pack of hot-blooded, ad
venturous Mexicans about to be dis
appointed In their hope of getting to
shoot not a well-trained, systematic
army, but an Incoherent mob of men.
Madero Is chagrined, disappointed
The day before he had Impulsively
hastened messages of felicitation to
President Dlas upon his avowed Inten
tion to resign.
Another thing forcibly emphasized
by this attack on Juares is the reason
for President Dlaz'a determination to
resign only after assured that the
danger of anarchy as a consequence of
his retirement has passed. It will
take a strong hand to maintain order
in Mexico. Madero baa not yet shown
that he possesses the necessary
strength. The situation is not en
couraging. W see now how hard it J
ia to stop war of this kind, In a conn-
try of this kind. Talk of American
intervention continues. The circum
stances have imposed a strain upon
Washington diplomacy, but we may
expect the reins to be firmly guided
there.
Those Mexican rebels fight a -good
deal the way the St. Louis Browns
play ball.
If Diaz should lose his job he could
easily get another one as a western
league umpire.
It costs $11 a minute to talk from
Omaha to New York. There's where
Urn Is money.
Senor Madero might exclaim with
the three witches, "Babble, bubble,
toll and trouble."
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It Is not necessarily a sign of a
man's literary attainments for him to
pay $50,000 for a single book.
A Baltimore politician exclaimed,
after the election went his way, "Ood
bless everybody." Oh, you mint Julep.
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i m young man wno was nned $100
for 'swatting the umpire probably
wishes now he had made a good Job
of it
The Japanese war scars has disap
peared. Maybe Captain Hobson has
stuck It up in his Georgia watermelon
patch.
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Perhaps the reason this spring has
been so favorable la that the spring
poets have behaved themselves an
usually velL
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Aasm a says toe way to get a
good mayor la to advertise for htm,
Sura, get a Bed oa him by using a
Bee want ad.
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Jef fries has gone to the coronation
and Johnson says he Is going. Right
on the heels of the Anglo-American
peace pact, too.
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Those Mexicans &av an inviolable
love for peace, aa the. bearer of the
whit flag could testify If he had not
been shot off his horse.
'Tree List Passes th House." Tes.
but don't get yourselves up to a pitch
of expecting such a free list to give
you something for nothing.
A Transcontinental Telephone.
Completion of connections by tele
phone between New York and Denver
via Omaha marks another milestone
In the utilization of this great Inven
tion. Yet the spokesman for the
American Telephone and Telegraph
company says the lines will soon be
connected up from New York to San
Francisco. That will give us a com
plete) transcontinental long distance
telephone. This Is making rapid head
way, for the telephone Is still In
its Infancy. Although it was In 1837
that Pago of Balem, Mass., observed
that an Iron rod suddenly magnetized
and demagnetised would produce cer
tain sounds, it was not until 18TS that
Alexander Graham Bell developed the
Idea to a stag of practical usefulness.
Within the lifetime of a young man,
therefore, this marvelous Invention of
the telephone has been brought to Its
present development, Its lines criss
crossing the country like cobwebs,
stretching over mountain and valley
and stream, Into the remotest nooks
and corners of the earth. And now
we are to have the consummation of
th enterprise In a single circuit car
rylng the human voice from the At
lantic to the Pacific.
It Is fair to expect that talking at
distance however great will become
an ordinary business transaction and
that the rates can and will be made
popular Just as has been the case with
the telegraph.
model. This law provides that where
man abandons his wife and elopes
with another woman or not he shall,
pon conviction, be imprisoned in tho
state penitentiary for felony. The law
makes provision also for a reconcilia
tion, in which event, upon proper
proof of his intention to support and
care for his wife and fsmily, the
erring husband may escape the pen-
lty of the law. "It Is the only such
law In the country," says the Ohio
paper.
In which It Is wrong. This Kansas
law is doubtless a good one It must
be. for It has many earmark of the
Nebraska law enacted by the legisla
ture of 1903, in operation now eight
years, whereas the Kansas law has
been operating about eight weeks.
The Nebraska law makes punishable
as 'felony the abandonment, not only
of a wife, but of a child or children
and fixes the penalty at a year in the
penitentiary or six months , in the
county Jail. And like the Kansas law,
It makes provision for restitution, so
that If after conviction the man shall
give a sufficient bond in court binding
him to live -with and maintain his
family, the court may suspend the
sentence.
But the Nebraska law, apparently,
is even wider in its protective meas
ures than the Kansas statute, for it
pplles to a recreant wife or mother
as well as to deserting husband or
father, imposing on her precisely the
same penalties as upon the man. This
is nothing more than right, for often
it has developed that women have for
saken their homes. If Ohio Is looking
for a pattern it probably can do no
better than to use Nebraska's, which
takes precedence over the Kansas act
by reason of his age.
The New York girl who wears an
appendix for a watch charm is of th
same kin with tho who used to wear
livs lizards en their bosoms.
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The Mexican Insurgents led the at
tack, hut those Insurgents In th son
ata at Washington seem to have beat
a retriat and let Oalllnger In.
One ot Martin Luther's letter re
cently brought $.B00. Just think of
the money he might have left some
body If he had oaly had a typewriter.
The death rate of ad men in Ohio
Is said to hsve Increased of late. Dis
closures of dolaga In Adams county
and at Columbus sre enough to send
the pioneers to their graves.
Colonel Lorlmer doubtless consoles
himself with the thought, however,
that while they may take his seat in
the senat away from him they cannot
deprive him of his season ticket to
th ball park.
la th meantime, why does not non
payment of royalities and taxes con
stitute ground for forfeiture of the
Independent Telephone company's
francb(f What says our omniscient,
but lnactve, city lav department
about it?
Advertising for Mayors.
It Is hard to know Just when to
take a humorist seriously. For here is
Adam Bede declaring in a speech at
Pittsburg that the best way for a city
to get a mayor is to advertise for him
in the newspapers and that there ia
no reason why one man might not go
from city to city, successively acting
as the mayor of each. Ue thinks the
day is coming when w shall have
men specially trained for governing
municipalities, Just as we have now
for managing great commercial insti
tutions. And the speech leads
paper that knows Colonel Bede quite
wen to remara mat wnue ne is a
humorist, he has said something serl
ous for once
Well, perhaps Minnesota's funnr
man is 'right, at least as to the latter
proposition he seta up, for it is
method practiced by German cities.
Certainly there Is need In this country
for skill and experience In the gov
ernmeat of cities. Most students of
the affairs admit that our chief weak'
ness Is in city government. If it could
be arranged te turn over our city af
fairs to. men of proved integrity and
trained powers and have them rti on
a purely merit basis, why, of ours
it would be a splendid improvement
but the trouble there Is that old
human nature stalks in again.
As to tbs getting of mayors by means
of newspaper advertising, that is pre
cisely the way many cities have been
getting their mayors and there Is ample
evidence to convince fair-minded mun
mat, many a city naa been get Ung
uis short end of the bargain, i t
course Bede's method of advertising
differs a little from the one that has
been commonly pursued. His theory
may not be Impeached If we might
pick our mayors to be Judged.
If w wr to believe the electrlo
lljbt spokesman every other fran
chised corporation in Omaha Is
poaching on th streets. But the
United States court has declared that
the electric lighting company has no
right to use our streets, either. Then
it Is merely to dcld between trespassers.
The latest threat to invoke the
Sackett law is directed at members of
the city council in aa interior town
charged with refusing to publish
statement of municipal receipts and
expenditures. If the Sackett law la
geod for law-defying officers It cannot
well discriminate as to particular
kinds of laws in a stat like Nebraaka
with a motto Intended to max all
law look alike. But If the governor
la to pull the Sackett law on all the
mayors, councllmen, sheriffs, county
Two of Oat Mlad.
Chicago Inter-Ocean,
Woodrow Wilson told the Knlfa snd Fork
club of Kansas City that great car should
be taken In chooalng democratic leaders.
W have no doubt that Mr. Bryan and
Prof. Wilson are. In strict accord on this
proposition.
Taft at His Best.
People who admire a man with the
courage of his convictions, whether
favorable or opposed to Canadian re
ciprocity, must applaud the answer
given by President Taft to the delega
tion of the National Grange remon
stratlng against the reciprocity agree
ment. Mr. Taft practically told his
visitors that the time for discussing
the merits of reciprocity so far as he
was concerned had passed; that he
had looked carefully into the subject
before he acted f ihat he had con
vinced himself he was right and pro
posed to go ahead regardless of per
sonal or political consequences in the.
thorough belief that a short experi
ence with reciprocity would prove its
value to the country as a trade stimu
lator and its harmlessness to our own
people". In other words, the president
is willing to stake his own political
future on the wisdom of his action In
negotiating the reciprocity treaty with
Canada, and, whether right or wrong
is determined to fight it out along that
line without wavering or turning back
This declaration of his position
must, as we have said, command for
the president unqualified public ap
proval. All must agree that unless
he was thoroughly satisfied that he
was making the right move he should
never have started with his reciprocity
proposals, and having started and
brought them this far, it would be la
mentable weakness, for fear of pollt
leal disfavor, to back up or to leave
the reciprocity agreement to an uncer
tain fate between a democratic house
and a republican senate. The only
reason for the extra session was to se
cure action by congress because the
regular session had failed to act one
way or the other. Having fathered
the reciprocity treaty, the president
has assumed responsibility and stands
up to say that it Is a responsibility he
will not flinch nor shirk.
The State University Democratic
club at Its annual banquet discussed
prospective presidential candidates
with Bryan first, Wilson second,
Champ Clark third and Harmon left
out altogether, unless Included in the
caption of "dark horses." Needless
to say, the debate was pulled off at
Lincoln, a suburb of Fair view, and oa
of range of all the hard Harmon
boosting that has been indulged in by
our local democratic contemporary.
It'a pretty hard to keep those Insur
gents together down at Washington,
Here is Congressman Norrls, who
voted with "Uncle Joe" against re
ciprocity, voting with .the insurgents
again for the farmers' free list, and
here's Senator Norrls Brown, who in-
surges occasionally except on reciproc
ity, voting for a stand-patter like Gal
linger for president or the senate.
What next?
Still, that find of supposed prehis
toric fossils and relic must not be al
lowed to detract from our other old
fossils and mossbacks that have to be
moved from in front of the wheels of
progress every little , while.
From the silence Into which he has
lapsed one might suppose that the
abolition of the senate and the plan
to toss the constitution into the waste
basket were the only novelties Victor
Berger could think up.
Kansas City advertises that it has
spent $$,600,000 on its park and
boulevard system. Omaha has not
Around New York
BUpplee oa th Current of fclf
aa Been la the ret America
Metropolis f rem Cay to Xay.
A Shewtae; Worth While.
St. Louis Republic.
When 18,000 men of the army, or even
11,000, if that be th really correct total,
can live under canva in Texas and Cali
fornia for two month with only one case
of typhoid, the Spanish war must be con
ceded to have had lesson for us a val
uable a th privilege It brought for
Cuba.
Decoratla fthlfee'a Laird.
Brooklyn Eagle.
"Seven cltle warred for Homer, being
dead, who, living, had no roofe to nhrowd
hla head." But twenty-one republic have
honored Andrew Carnegie In hla lifetime.
Logicians, willy nllly. must bow to the
Rule of Three and acknowledge Mr. Car
negie's advantage over any poet of the
past, while com libraries ar still unplaced.
INCREASE! IN AGRICULTURE.
Striking; Flsjarea oat Improved Acre-
aad Lead Value.
New Tor gun.
Preliminary reports of the bureau of the
eensu Indicate that the number of farms
and their aggregate acreage are little
greater than they were- ten year ago.
Partial returns are at hand for about half
the states, and general conditions appear
to be much th same In th eaat and the
west New Tork had EM.720 farm in 1900
and 214.K0 in 1910; the number of Improved
acres was 15,600,000 and 14.tX.00a In Illinois
farms were 264,151 and 260.863 and th Im
proved acreage was 17,099,000 and 28,005.000.
In many state there has been toe in both
number and improved acreage, aa in New
Tork. and in other only a relatively in
considerable change, a in Illinois. Kansae
farms have Increased I per cent. In num
ber and 4 per cent In Improved acreage.
Minnesota's farm acreage increased S per
cent, and Missouri' 7 per cent. Pennsyl
vania lost 4 per cant The notable gains
hav been in the northwest, though even
there they ar not evenly distributed.
North Dakota farm advanced 84 per cent.
In number and 11J per cent. In improved
acreage; South Dakota. 47 per cent, and 40
per cent., and Idaho 74 per cent, and 96
per cent.
In the entire area reported there appears
an Increase ofyless than I per cent, in the
total number of farms and about 15 per
cent, in th total Improved acreage. The
most salient figure In th return ar tho
showing the rise In th value of farm
property, especially In the west Selecting
states In different regions the advance In
the value of farm land and building have
been, in percentages: New Hampshire, 28;
Massachusetts, 21: New Tork, St; New Jer
sey. 81; Pennsylvania, IS; West Virginia,
M: Illinois, 99; Wisconsin. 75; Kansas. 169;
Minnesota, 88; Missouri. 106; Nebraska, fJ4;
Oregon, 241: Colorado, 283; North Dakota,
814; South Dakota, 25ft, and Idaho, 47. Only
less striking ar th figure showing th
Increased expenditure for labor, an In
crease entirely . out of proportion to the
Increase in cultivated acreage. Not U
than 70 per cent more money was paid for
labor In 1910 in the states reported than la
1900. This i a partial explanation of the
higher coat of farm products.
In Missouri, where there was a decline
of 8 per cent, in the number of farms and
a gain of 7 per cent in Improved acreage,
the amount spent for labor was 88 per cent
larger and that for fertilisers was 78 per
cent larger. In Kansas, with a 8 per cent
increase in farms and 19 per cent, in acre
age, the labor expenditure went up SO per
cent. In Illinois, with I per cent, decrease
in farms and 1 per cent increase In acreage.
labor expenditures increased 90 per cent
In New England, where there was an ac
tual decrease In farms and acreage, labor
expenditure Increased 60 per cent., and
practically th same condition appear In
New Tork, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Th eastern states have also gradually en
larged their expenditure for fertilisers.
There la much that I encouraging and
nothing that Is alarming In th farm condi
tion of the United States.
People Talked About
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Mr. Boa la the New Tork manager of
tn Hamburg-American Line of Ocean
Bteamablpa, la an enthusiastic yachtsman.
and has been decorated by the emperors
of Germany snd Austria and the kings
oz Italy sjnd Sweden.
Mrs. Elizabeth Mensle, of Newport. Me.
1 thought to be the youngeat great-grand
mother la th at ate. 8he la 87 year of age
arm a native of England. Her great-grand
child. Elisabeth May Dorson, la two years
old.
Governor Stubbs of Kansas Is flying to
tb relief of the lady mayor of Hunnewell,
and "this state a going to be made as dry
aa It Is possible to make It" This la welL
Kansas is too temperamental to be trusted
with stimulants.
By th action of the Arkansas legislature,
a definite limit of Intoxication la estab
lished for state offtclaia. Each will bo en
titled to one square drunk, hat might be
accidental; but a second offense would be
prima facl evidence that it was premedl
ated.
Ex-Senator Chauncey M. Depew of New
Tork proclaims himself the happiest man
In America. No official duties; no begging
th president for patronage, no listening
to speech making tn Washington. No ap
plications for railroad pease. No demands
for after-dinner speeches. An occasional
board meeting; plenty of money; good
health; a Jolly disposition; and no publle
future 1 What more could aa old man aeaf
Heroism worthy of a medal c-r a more
useful reward towered above the ommon
plac In New Tork th other day. and Is
now. enrolled In the gossips of millinery
dom aa a classic of carnage. A mere man
at that. H arreared In a Broadway store
with an enormous hat, demanding that the
money paid for It b refunded. His mad
nerve whs as conspicuous aa an architec
tural wart on a bungalow, and he didn't
ear a continental who saw It Whil
waiting for someone in- authority to nego
tiate th transaction, he told hi tale of
woe loud enough tor everybody to bear.
My wife bought this hat" he said. "Sh
doesn't need it Sh has already bougnt
three hat thl spring. Shs paid 835 for this
on. 6he has never worn It It Just came
home last night I can't afford te throw
all that money away and I want you to
take th hat back. She wouldn't bring It
down, so I undertook th Job myself." H
got th money. '
In I860 surface railways In what is now
New Tork carried tO.8a0.dM passengers; lit
1910 they carried t8,82.4M. The yearly
number of rides per capita rose from 100 In
1870 to 150 In 1890, 230 U 1890. 34S lit U00 and
812 in mo.
For these striking ratios of Increase, says
th New Tork World, there are many rea
sons, all operating with Increasing force.
It grows even harder to walk from home to
work a the city expand; faster transit en
larges the area of activity; riding for pleas
ure grows much more common; and a nlckle
oes not look as big as It did when wsges
and the price of comm6dltls were lower.
B'y 1816, when the first Ot the new subway
should be In operation, th population ot
New Tork will be averaging one carfare
each a day. By 1980 th yearly verege of
ride per capita will be nearly 400; the
dally total for th city will be more than
,000,000; the yearly total Some 2,00.000,000-
probably much mors than that If we then
have a really complete rapid-transit System,
for tn this matter supply creates demand.
The number of annual rides per capita Is
probably not capable of such rapid In
crease Indefinitely. Still by 1950 New Tork
wilt probably be taking ten billions of rides
annually at a cost. If far condition do
not change, of 8500,000,000 a yeSr, seven
times' as much as at present
The question is often debated aa to
whether persons who lose their lives In a
fir developing with great rapidity undergo
extreme physical suffering. An authori
tative opinion Is expressed by the New Tork
Medical Journal, which says:
"Unnecessary anguish of mind has prob
ably been felt by relatives Ot th unfortun
ate workers who wer killed in the re
cent fir In Washington Place by reflection
on the supposedly agonising pais caused
by such a death. Where a great bulk of
highly inflammable ubatanoe Is qulokly
consumed In a closed space, th result I
the production of large quantities of carbon
monoxide.
"This gas, it Is well known.' eomblnee
with th haemogobln of th blood to form
a compound that refuses to combine with
oxygen. The result is a speedy and prob
ably painless asphyxiation before th
flame have had a chance to attack th
bodies of the victim." f
"No, we do not Ilk Women customers."
said the manager of a large ssf deposit
company down In Wall Street quoted by
the Sun. "And over half of ur- boxes ar
subscribed for by women. In the first
place they com too often and tay too
long and take up too much room when
they are her. They distrust us and think
we have the key to their boxes. Of course,
w haven't But th mere necessity of
two keys, one for us and on tor th box
holder, and th necessity of using both
keys at one In order to unlock th vault
creates an impression that We ar prying
into woman' affairs. Then they ar afraid
that somebody will interrupt them in the
booths where scissors for clipping coupons
are kept Th scissors must be chained
down after thl. Too many ar carried
off every day. Then th Women are al
ways afraid th door of th great vault
ar going to close and lock them In. But
th worst of it all Is that those earn
women don't keep anything valuable In
their boxes." The manager whispered:
Love letters! That's all, in nine cases
out of ten. Ridiculous, isn't It? No, I'm
not married and never have) been."
At certain hour of th day NeW Tork'
harbor take on th appearance of a great
rallroadrelght yard. During the last
month 1,622 car have been ferried across
th North rlvr from Nw Jersey to Man.
hat tan on an average In a day. To trans
port these mile of car some 250 great
car-floats cross ths rives' every twenty
four hour. Thl does not Include the
heavy traffic between New England and
the south both of passenger and freight
cars which passe on down the East
river. It Is a surprise to find that, in
spite of the enormous volume of shipping
sbout Manhattan island, ths railroads oc
cupy the greater portion of docking space.
Between the Battery and Sixtieth street for
instance, there ar eighty-five great piers.
of which forty-three ar allotted to rati
road and forty-two to steamship lines. Of
th total length of ship's bulkheads In this
section 48 per cant ar used by ths rail
roads, IT per cent by steamships and 1$
per cent by traffic
One reason for high tax lea b faxes tn New
Tork City I said to be the high charge
mad by hotel for th privilege ot letting
cab stand along tbelr frontage. There
are something like 1,400 taxlcab in th
city,, and they pay license fees td tb city
of 310 each or 814.800 in all. But th
hotels and leading restaurants ar balag
paid, it is declared, at least $100,00 a year
by the cab owners for stands to front of
their places.
New Tork Sum It Is strange thst none
of the despatches that recount "the dese
cration of the Mosque of Omar" by British
explorer searching for the Ark of Cove
nant and what not mention th lurdan
tree of Kak-el-Fakir, which overhung the
Ite at least a far back aa the Caliphate
ot Hum Ga-Mon.
New Tork Herald: If it Is trus that
the excavators have absconded with sacred
relics surreptitiously obtained the Indigna
tion of the Turks is readily understanda
ble. What right a band of foreign archaeo
logist hss to loot Solomon's temple any
more than to plunder St. Sophia's Itself Is
not apparent. Th exploration of western
delvers In Asiatic dust-heap have some
time given rise to a bslief that they were
conducted on the theory of a higher law of
archaeological treasure trove.
New Tork Tribune: It doe look a little
like sharp practice for a company of for
eigner to bribe the guardian of Omar's
mosque, make secret excavations, dig up
relics, snd scuttle Sway home without the
authorities ef Jerusalem knowing what they
war about. But tf they reatly found some
Important relics of Solomon's time. If not
of that of Moses, ths whereabouts of
which, as a Jerusalem paper declares,
'none know except God and these english
men," they deserve at least a hearing. Th
Implied partnership of th Almighty and
the Englishmen In knowledge ought to
count for something m their behalf.
PEPPERY PARAGRAPHS.
Kansas City Star: Up t thl tint Presi
dent Diss' resignation is very much like
that of James Wilson, seeretary of agrl
culture-
Washington Post: An Omaha girl som
nambulist walked downtown dressed tn
blue silk pyjamas. Well, maybe ah was
asleep I
Houston Post: The Inquisitive sub
scriber of Wharton has stumped us at
last He ask us where a telegram will
reach Mr. Bryan. All w can answer la
that Mr. Bryan' voting resident I Lin
coln. Neb.
Baltimore American: A weatern railroad
ahowed genuine consideration tor ts men
when It reduced salaries of officials la
order to avoid reduction of wages. The
men higher up can better afford cuts than
the little fellows at the bottom digging
their way up.
Chicago Record-Herald: The Arkanaas
house of representative ha passed a bill
providing that any publle official Who get
drunk a second tune may be ousted. The
trouble will com when the defendant'
lawyer make hi accuaera specify con
earning the manner of determining whea
a man ia drunk th second ytu.
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Baking Powder. Made from Grapes.
Makes better more healthful food
Cold without deception
NO ALUM-NO LIME PHOSPHATE
"Alas tm food rnsust therefore act aa a potaoa..
fret Jean, TmU Unwtmly.
Head tho latest
pay Ka baking pander unless
tho label shows It to bo ntado
front Cream of Tartar
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LOOTING TES KOSQUE OF OMAR.
BREEZY TRIFLES.
"That prima donna sings Ilk an angel,"
said the musician.
"Tea." reolied th Imoreaaario:" "and she
comes pretty near wanting m to pve the
streets with gold for her.' Washington
Star.
"Have any serious trouble with your new
automobile?"
man without being a.l to set away fceXor
kA mux mimKaf ' Trtlajrt TCI Of at.
gvt uiuoi - ---
'It Is a Brest mistake for a man to pre.
tend to be rich."
Have you tried Itr'
Tes. I thought my pose would eecure
m invitations in society. All It brought
was a bunch of Black Hand letters." Chi
cago Post
"Ha!" eald Burloch Bones, mysteriously.
I have discovered that the man you think
o lacking In energy, really has a great
deal of push."
"How did you find it out?" asked the
admiring friend.
Hist! x saw nun tnis morning buying
a baby carriage and a lawn-mower. Balti
more American.
She Tou were in that elevator thst fell
fourteen stories to th basement. Mercy:
How did you feel?
He I was never so taken down In my
life.
"Half the world doesn't know how the
other half lives!" sighed the long nosed,
sharp chinned party.
"well. It Isn't your fault," said the party
?t the second part; "you're always trying
o find out and tell." Chicago Record-Herald.
"Doctor, my baby suck his flat contin
ually. What is the matter with him?'
"Madame, he has an advanced case of
cheirophagy."
"Mercy! What Is cheirophagy?"
"A deal re to suck the fist." Toledo Blade.
Mendelssohn was writing his "Songs
Without Words."
"What's the use of words?" he said: "you
never understand what the average singer
la saying, anyhow."
Bull, as he might have reflected, it takes
an awfully good performer to make a piano
talk. Chicago Tribune,
MOTHER.
Tou may sing me your song of golden hair.
You may sing of raven tresses,
Tou may sing of a sweetheart young and
fair.
To whom your heart confesses;
But I'll sing ot one whose feeble step
In the valley fainter growing;
Of her sllv'ry crown
Who wandera down
Where the aettlng sun is glowing.
Tou may press to your' heat the wind
some bride
And cover her lips with kisses.
As you proudly exclaim: "The world Is
wide
But there Is no love as this is!"
Tet the love of maid will oft prove vain,
Hearts growing cold that ono seemed
tender;
But true as yon star,
That gleama from afar,
Is she whom my love I render.
As time recedes, like the ebb of the tide.
And the wave-swept shore's left dreary,
VVhen gone in youth with its Insolent pride
And the soul from the struggling weary,
'Tis then, again, I would comfort seek
With thou trembling arms about me;
How that gentle smile
My worries beguile!
Nor troubles, nor cares can flout met
Then quaff, it you will, to her head of
gold
Or drink to those raven tresses.
And drain your beaker, like lover bold.
To whom your heart confesses;
As for me: here's to her whose feeble step
In the valley fainter seeming;
To her sllv'ry crown
Who wander down
Where the setting sun is gleaming.
Kearney. Neb., 191 L N. H. JOHNSON.
Is due to tho dobllltatlng weather of tho season,
and to the Impure Impoverished devitalized
condition of tho blood caused by too close con
finement, too little outdoor air and exercise, too
heavy diet during tho winters
It Is cured by the great constitutional remedy
jrsood's Sarsaparilla
which effects Its wonderful cores, not simply because It contains sarsaparina,
bat because It combine th almost remedial values of mor than twenty
different Ingredients. There is no real substltut tor Hood' Sarsaparilla.
U anted te bo any preparation td to b " )nst ss good," you may be sor It
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Telephone Talks
No. 2
TELEPHONE COURTESY.
In telephone affairs, as in every other busi
ness, the personal element must be considered.
You are human, and the person with whom you .
talk as well as the operator who connects you
are human.
The hastily spoken word and its inflection,
no matter what'its provocation, conveys an un
desirable impression. Courteous talk over the
telephone is like oil on machineryit prevents
friction and pays big returns.
Our operators are required to be brief but
polite under all circumstances. They are in
structed not to answer complaints or carry ou
any conversation. Their whole time is taken
up in etecuting orders for connections.
In dealing with you we try to be forbearing,
considerate and Courteous, realizing that tha
wire between u takes none of the sting out of
unkind Words. Our operators try to treat vou
as they would face to face; won't you afford
them and the persons with whom you
talk the same consideration?
NEBRASKA TELEPHONE CO.
A. F. hlcAdamB, Omaha Manager
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