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KSZ3S&&Ga3E&Krw!rt,-mHimKB Pt rs-atsMsuHfcysnrrS&rtiRil iwu iiyjuywa b h f. i If you take any part in the celebration of Decoration Day, if only as a spectator of what others do, better be well dressed. HART S6HfFFNER & MflRX make some unusually good blue serge suits for us; styles correct, qualities all wool, prices right. We have other fab rics, of course; grays, browns, tans; of all styles. SUITS $18.00 and up Hot Weather Shirts, Suits, Hats and all Furnishings For Men This store is tho home of Hart Schaffncr & Marx clothes HART'S One PriGG Clothing Store 13th Street Advertised Letters. Following io n list of unclaimed mail matter remaining in the ?t,t uihV" :il ColumbnB, Nebraska, for tho pono-l end ing My 10, l'Jll: Letters Minn Herlh:i Ii.uky. G. V. Clark, .1 anion Convey :j. Amies OKrjIo. Ben Dexter, Miss Louies Dinniutr. (. K. Jones, Kernie Mulgrue, W. 11. .Montague, Joseph l'reie. Kobt. I'nrkr. (icing' Wil son. Henry Wilkey, R W. Hums. Garde Wm. Firum. J. I J Gardner, Will Elftman. V. O. .lon-n.(J. E. Jones, R. 1L Stickley, (Jims Siepbwip. Wdber Sticuelmeier, Ohat-. Steward ", John Zacarcwski. Parties calling for any of tho nbiv will pleabesay, "advnlit-ed." W. A. Mi.i.iM'i:i!. 1". .M. Marriage Licenses. ChBB. Keynold.-on, Albin Vivian Thicle, North Platte George A Fenton. Cetlar Itupids... Jennie Terkinp, Concord, N. II Daniel L. Bray. Columbus Bercie C. Napier, Columbus Harry A. Graves. Columbus Emma A. Hoppen, Columbus Jamea M. Sullivan, i'latlo Center. . Maryj. Dunn, Platte Center Christain E. M (ireiner, Ola, Ark. Mary M. Lnbens. Columbus . ."ill . as . r.i . 5. . 52 . lo . ! . '2S . as . 21 . 12 Delightfully Situated. Jeremy Sanderson, the well-known sociologist of Duluth, was condemning Bf? international marriage that gives r lAmerican girl's beauty and millions - v some elderly and withered noble- hoBe mercenary foreign hounds that filch our girls," said Mr. Saiuler Bon, bitterly, "are well off well off, I mean, In the Calhoun use of the term. "H. Clay Calhoun, testifying in an assault case, spoke of one Washing ton White as 'well off.' "'Now, witness,' said the cross-examining lawyer, 'when you declare White to be well off, what do you mean? Is he worth SlOOu?' " 'No. sah. Oh, no, salt, said Cal houn. " 'Is he worth $5,000?' " 'No, sah. Mali gracious, no.' " Is he worth $1,000?' "'No, sah; he ain't wurf 17 cents.' '"Then, how is he well off?' " 'Bekase, sah, his wife am an A No 1 washlady and keeps de hull family In bang-up style.'" Lark Now a Pest. Assemblyman Struckenbruck. the farmer-blacksmith of San Joaquin, Cal., Is devoting a great deal of his time to getting votes for his bill to permit the shooting of meadow larks He says that the birds destroy not only grain, but have lately developed a fondness for melons that is proving disastrous to the cantaloupe crop. One of the strongest bits of evidence cited by Struckenbruck is that when the agricultural demonstration train of the University of California was sent through the state to teach the fanners how to raise their crops on scientific principles the meadow lark, properly stuffed and mounted, occu pied a dishonored place among the ex hibits as a "pesL" Observation In the fields has also shown that the bird is too busy pick ing up the farmers' grain to devote any time to singing. He claims that the lark, whose rippling melody, which was once the harbinger of spring and the inspiration of rhymesters, has now become an ordinary thief. Sturdy Iceland Horses. The use of Iceland horses is spread ing in Denmark, especialy in Jutland; they are excellent farm horses, being hardy and resistant to fRtigue. The Iceland horse is small, stoutly built and strong. They aro bred without selection and live in an almost wild state. There are about 45,000 of these horses in Iceland; from 3,000 to 4,000 are exported yearly, to Den mark and to England and Scotland. Noted Woman Sculptor. Mile. Jane Poupelet is one of the three women sculptors who have been warded a bourse de voyage or travel ing scholarship by the French govern ment. She was awarded a bronze medal at the Paris exposition in 1000 and her work Is beginning to be well known in France, where it appe?rs regularly in the Salon. Fashion Note. This slim craze has its disadvan tages." "As to howr The narrower a girl Is the less dis play apace she has for diamonds." HE SAW ALL THE REAL SIGHTS Wonderful Things Uncle Timrcd WH nesced in the City Did Not In clude Museums. "Well. Uncle Timrod." says the nephew after breakfast, "I wish I could take you around to see the sights of the city today, but I've got a lot of iip"::snt business on hand; so I'll hr-ve to let you run around by your f 'f. Here's a !i.t of the museums, city hall, public b-'"ci!;;, parks and things like that, v.i'h directions how to get to each one." That evening Trcle Timrod comes home weary, but ssii.-fied. "Well' asked th nephew, "did you have any trouL.e Ending your way around?" "No; 1 got on fine,'says Uncle Tim rod, contentedly. 'And did you think the public build ings and museums and parks were as fine as you expected?" "Well. Jimmy, I tell you. I got so interested In seein' sights that I never got to one o them places. I seen a machine in a window that pulls taffy, an' a whole lot o fancy knifes In an other, an' one place I seen a clock that tells th time anywhere on earth, an' I seen a whole window full o' ca nary birds an" pups, an' I looked into a barber shop that hni wlmmen bar ben, an' I seen the fire engines run an ihe patrol wagon conies an takes a fel-lt-r t jail, an' a street car run into a automobile, .an a 'lectric train whizzin round an round in another window, an" nigh o 'o 50 barrels o" apples In front of a store, an" a compass in a window, an' n place whur they cut oysters open ler ye an I et a dozen right there, an" a feller paintin' picters in a window an sellln 'cm frames an all fer a dollar an' two bits apiece, an Oh, laws! I can't begin to tell ye all th' sights I seen. I'm clean tuckered out. an' my neck hurts because I watched two fellers washin' windows 'way up II) floors Tom th' ground. I counted it three times. Twicet I made it 10 an' oncet 20. so I guess I'm on th' safe side. Yep. I certainly have been seein' th' sights, Jimmy." Judge. BOOKS LOVED BY THE BLIND Taste cf the Sightless Is for Pages That Glow With Color and Action. Literary r.ivorites of the blind might by some be thought to be limited chiefly to works of a contemplative, introspective character, treating of that inner life with which the sight less are perforce so familiar. What, one might ask. have they to do with light and color, with visible shapes and outlines, with stir and movement, as noted by the sense of seeing? And yet the blind, even those born blind, habitually use the vocabulary of their more fortunate neighbors, and the verb "to see" is by no means ex cluded from their phraseology. Thus it results that their taste in books Is rather for the objective, the pages that glow with color and are alive with action, than for the intense ly subjective. The works circulated among the blind of New York state by the state library at Albany form an Instructive list in this regard. From the current report we learn that Mark Twain's 'Tom Sawyer" is the best-read book of the lot; Mrs. Wiggin's "Rebecca" sto ries are almost equally popular; Owen Wistor's "The Virginian" is a prime favorite; and so is Mrs. Gaskell's "Cranford." as might not have been expected. The very last on the list of 21 is "David Copperfield." which is far outdistanced by certain works of the nonfictum class. In the list of periodicals printed for the blind it Is to be noted Ith regret that no fewer than four styles of typography are used New York point, American Braille, English Braille and .Moon while a fifth, line letter, is used In many of their books. Not in Chicago. A Chicago man was dilating to a party of eastern drummers on "the western spirit" plus Chicago as es sentials to success. To illustrate he delved into his own early history, which had been rather turbulent. "Why. at one time I was out of work for six months at a stretch." he said, "but I never lost my nerve, and 1 got there." "Six months at a stretch." repeated skeptical listener. "What on earth did you ever do for sustenance?" "Sustenance! Great Scott, we never had any of that in those days," replied the advocate of the Windy .City. "Why, I used to feel satisfied If I got enough to eat." DRUMMER OF ARC0LA LITTLE FRENCH LAD PUTS AUS '' TRIAN ARMY TO FLIGHT. Napoleon's Great Career Built Upen Heroic Episode Which Illustrates Extraordinary Military Value of Spirit-stirring Drum. There stands in the French town of Cadenet, his native place, a monument to tho memory of "The Little Drum mer of Areola," Andre Estlenne, the hero of one of the most romantic epi sodes In French history. It was an episode that Illustrated the extraordi nary military value, so often attested by the world's greatest generals, of what Othello called the "spirit-stirring drum." It may be said, curiously enough, that Napoleon Bonaparte's great career was built upon a drum, for the battle of Areola was won by the beating of Estienne's drum, and the TJorsican himself always dated his confidence in his own fortune from this battle, won in 1796. The circum stances wero the .: Bonaparte, hemmed In with a small army at Verona, between two greatly superior forces, sallied out at night, made a forced march, and with 14,000 men fell upon the rear of 50.000 Aus trians. The battle lasted seventy-two hours. On tho second day of the fight ing the Austrians obtained such a po sition that they completely and mur derously swept the bridge of Areola, which the French had gained, and which they must hold If they expected to win tho battle. It was an unlooked-for movements No officer was near, but Andre Es tienne, the little drummer,-was there. He went to his sergeant and told him that he should cross the bridge with his drum, and beat it on the other side. "But," protested the sergeant, "be fore you place one foot upon the bridge you will be killed. No man on earth could live on that bridge. How ever, can you swim?" "I can," said the drummer. "Then swim across with your drum." "Impossible!" returned Estlenne. "Should the drum become water-soaked. I could not beat it on the other side." But the sergeant was equal to this difficulty. Being himself a fine swim mer, he plunged into the water, bade Andre mount upon his shovlders and hold his drum clear of the water. In this way the two crossed the river! Andre beating his drum lustily all the way. Once on the other side, he pounded it in a way to well-nigh wake the dead. The Austrians who wer6 massed near were nearly all raw re cruits Hearing what they took to be the drums of an advancing force ol French, and remembering the terrible French onslaught of the day before, they fled. This left the bridge clear, Mid the French began to pour across Andre was joined by other drummers The Austrian flight became a rout The French swept on, with Andre Es tienne. still drumming at their head Soon the whole Austrian force was re treating, utterly beaten. Years late Estienne's heroic act was celebrated by being represented In stone on the front of the Pantheon al Paris. The funeral of the little drum mer of Areola was attended by a great concourse of French officers and sol diers. A Huge Earth Dam. The big Belle Fourche Irrigation dam in South Dakota, which is the largest earth embankment in the world, is nearing completion. Con struction of the project was author ized by congress on May 10, 1904, at a cost of $5,000,000. From an engineering standpoint the Belle Fourche project is one of the most interesting which the govern ment has yet undertaken. Its princi pal structure Is the earthen dam. This wonderful dike, which closes the low est depressions in the rim of a natu ral basin, is 6,200 feet long, 20 feet wide on top and 115 high in the high est place. The inside face of this structure, which has a slope of two to one, will be protected from wave and ice ac tion by two feet of screened gravel, on which will he placed concrete blocks, each 4 by 6 feet and 8 inches thick. The cubical contents of this dike will be 42,700,000 cubic feet, or about half of the famous pyramid of Cheops. The reservoir created by this dam will cover about 9,000 acres, and will be the largest lake in the state. Popular Mechanics. Raised the Price, Judge Hiram C. Flack of Vest Lib erty said the other day to the Pitts burg Gazette-Times, speaking of the notorious disfranchised vote sellers of his native Ohio: "Some of these men, I understand, even claimed that they didn't know it was wrong to sell one's vote. They were worse, then, than the voters of Cashel. "All the voters of Cashel used to sell their votes, and a reform candl date once got the preachers of the town to preach against the sin of such scandalous conduct. "The day after these sermons the reform candidate said to a party leader: " 'Well, how will the election go?' '"It will be close and difficult and expensive, sir,' was the reply. " 'What do you mean?' said the can didate. "'Well,' said the party leader, 'the boys didn't understand that vote sell ing was a sin before, and they always let their votes go for $2 apiece; but, now they know eternal damnation Is awaiting them, I understand that ev ery man jack of them has put up his price to $4.'" Teachers to Go Abroad. American and German-American school-teachers will go abroad next summer in great numbers, and already 300 reservations have been made on steamers. The trip will be made un der the auspices of the National German-American Teachers' association, which is to hold the convention of 1912 in Berlin. Both countries are In t crested in the .convention Baby Contest DURING the month of May we give pictures away, 1 dozen best cabinet photoa to the prettiest boy baby, prettiest girl baby, and fattest baby, one year and under. Every baby entered will get one picture Jree. Gallery north of Thurston hotel. Competent judges will be chosen. GERMANS CHEATED IN BEER Short Measure Costs the Thirsty $12,- 500,000 a Year, Says a Munich Statistician. A Munich statistician estimates that Germans last year were swindled out of $12,500,000 worth of beer, all through getting short measure, and this it seems has been going on sys tematically for years. No wonder that the beer drinkers of the fatherland are in a ferment of excitement about it The discovery arose out of the prose cution in the courts of Munich, where beer drinkers forgather at the original fount, of a big beerhall proprietor and his staff of waiters who were ac cused of- habitually serving short measure with intent and malice afore thought; that is, their liter and half liter steins never contained the quantity fixed by law. The prosecution alleged that the brewery which stood behind the beer hall made $92,500 a year extra profit by giving false measure. The case resulted in a conviction, but the defendants brought scores of, witnesses to prove that In Munich, Berlin, Leipzig and other German cities, and also in Vienna, short meas ure was always served. "No German in his life," said one witness, "has ever drunk an honest measure of beer." Needless to say this last revelation has made a painful impression. New York Sun. HOW THE BURGLAR BREAKS IN Window Is His Usual Point of Entrance, and Early Morning His Best Time. Nearly all burglars get in, not through tho door, which the house holder is so careful to bolt and chain, but through the window. In London In one year 357 burglars got in through windows, only S5 entered through doors, 15 through fanlights and 11 by "breaking out." False keys were used 25 times. The favorite hours are two to six in the morning. The householder falls into his soundest sleep about an hour after dozing off, and is least likely to hear a burglar, say, between one and three o'clock. But the policeman on duty since ten o'clock, must be growing tired by cock-crows, and that seems why the burglar selects the later hours. The housebreaker chooses cither the very early morning, when the family Is likely to be out, or the dinner hour, when persons are not apt to he think ing of him. Between six and eight o'clock in tho morning there are 3S3 cases of housebreaking. Then, during the next five hours, from eight to ten o'clock, the total is only 114. Phila delphia Inquirer. Measuring Meteor's Speed. An interesting use has been found in astronomy for the bicycle wheel. By fitting such a wheel with a series of opaque screens placed at regular intervals and then rotating it with the aid of a small 'motor at the rate of from 30 to 50 turns in a minute before the cameras used to photo graph meteors, one investigator has succeeded in measuring the velocity of the meteor's flight. The principio depends upon the interruptions pro duced by the screens in the trails of light made upon the photographic plates by the flying meteor. Tho velocity of the wheel is known at 'ororv -inRtnnt hv minn; nf n rhrnnn- graphic record, and the length of the interruptions indicates the speed of the meteor. No Chop Suey in China. "I have just come from a trip to China," said the foreign agent, "and I found everything to eat there except chop suey. While seeing the sights In various Chinese cities I would occa sionally drop into a restaurant to have a bite of native food. An order for a bowl of chop suey invariably was met by a mystical shake of the head. The fact Is that they don't cat chop sue? in China. An intelligent Chinaman tells me that chop suey is eaten only by pigs, cats and Americans. It is the American corruption of some Chinese dish that probably was very good There is a legend to the effect that It was invented by some practical joker in San Francisco's Chinatown and from there is has spread over the entire United States and most of Eu rope. Even London. Paris and Berlin now have their chop suey joints where respectable natives go and consume the stuff under the impression that they are being wicked. Chinamen in American toll mo that chop suey is eaten only by the poorer Chinese, wh order It in the dingier restaurants be cause it is cheap." : me Franklin M'dse. Co. (Not Inc.) Ladies' and Men's Fine Tailor Made Suits and Top Goats 2 612 West 12th St. 2 Columbus, Nebraska LIKE TO WALK IN PUDDLES A Grovm-Up Man Tries to Ascribe a Reason for This -Fancy of Boys. "It may not he a matter of grave fnoment," said a, grown-up man, "but X would rather like to know why. small boys like to walk in mud puddles. "I don't refer now to 'the boy in rubber boots; his motives in wading In puddles and in deeper water lean understand. He Is proud of his water proof boots and he likes to surfeit himself with the delightful conscious ness and proof that they are water proof; he likes to brave and pass un scathed tho perils of tho deep water ways of tho gutters after a heavy rain; though with his first boots any way he is likely to overdo this a lit tle, to keep on trying to see how deep he can go till at last he steps into a place a little deeper than tho rest and gets his boots filled. - "Still, I can understand the boy and his rubber boots, but I don't quito see through his fancy for walking or step ping In puddles generally when ho has leather shoes on. Maybe hero too it Is because he likes to tako risks, or perhaps It is because of his innate de fiance of rulo and convention. "A bunch of small boys will one after another try jumping over a pud dle to sco if they can clear it, and then sooner or later one is sure to como down within the edge of the water. But that doesn't disturb him; on the contrary he rather enjoys that experience, and then you may see the bunch wind up by all running or walk ing through the water. Why do they , do this, getting their shoes wet and muddy and getting them wet causing them to wear out the sooner, to say nothing of causing their mothers care and worry not only over shoes but stockings? But all boys like to slush through mud puddles, and for that matter so do some older people, too "I like myself when I have on ruh hers to walk right ahead regardless of the pools of water on the sidewalk In fact I am likely to step in them de Hberately if they aro not too deep, sc that I may get the water over my rub bers to wet my feet. I like to slash ahead unhampered and really in doing this simple little free action I find enjoyment. And I guess it is a sense of this sort that makes the boy find a pleasure in scampering or stamping or walking through mud puddles; he likes to take the risk and sec how much water he can get Into without getting his feet wet. but the thing he likes best about it is its defiant unfet tered freedom." Man a Back Number. It is tho year 2000. Tho famous and successful lady orator Is addressing e large and enthusiastic audience. A' .the end of her speech she says: "I believe, that this is the time foi me to publicly acknowledge by indebt ncss to one who has been my com .panion, my counsellor, and my guide who has upheld my weary hands wher the task seemed too great for mj strength, who has cheered me wit! loving words when I returned worr and weary from mj arduous duties ir club and on platform, who has bj thoughtful, constant ministrations giv en the blessed knowledge that always there Is for mo a haven of refuge anc rest, a harbor of comfort and cheer my home. All that I am, and all that : have. I owe to that inestimable man my husband." At the back of tho hall sat a little pale-faced man. whose face, as thost gracious words fell on his cars, bright ened wonderfully. This was her hus band. All his patience and self-sacri flee were rewarded at last. Perfumes as Antiseptics. New York dandies who perfumt themselves are laughed at, and yet scientist, writing in the Scotsman says all sweet odors arc conducive tc health and arc harmless. lie asserti positive antiseptic properties are pos sesscd by the ells of lavender, eucalyp tus, clove, ro. ..nary and other plants moreover, they possess the power t destroy bacteria. And does not th doctor recommend the air of a sunlit pine wood? It has been said by a fam ous writer that whenever tho sur shines on the fragrant herbs they ex press their gratefiUness in health-giv ing ozone. Lavender water, eau dt cologne and attar of roses drive of. headaches and invigorate the jaded mind. Even to robust persons it steady health, says Sir William Tern pie. the effect of certain sweot odors is to stimulate the mental faculties and give positive pleasure to their ex crclse. They counteract or combat mental disease, have a beneficial In fluence on temperament. He Is Getting the Rescue Habit. Elsie Radford, tho young man whe rescued a small boy skater who had fallen through the Ice in a deep pond has again appeared in the role of res cuer. Thirteen-year-old Margaret Wes ton was dared to cross the thin ice tc a little island that poked its head up through the ice about one hundred feet from shore. Margaret wouldn't take a dare, and In a few minutes sh had crawled stealthily over to the isl and, and then started back. Almost at the first step the Ice began to crackle under her. she lost her courage and retreated to the island, where she sa! down to wait. Radford saw her predicament, and, putting on a pair of hip boots, went tc the rescue. He waded in and made his way through the broken ice end water to the island: hoisting the maid to his shoulder, he waded back r- n waist deep, and carried - to dry land. Philadelnhia Times. The Retort Religious. Representative J. Hampton Moore, as secretary of the so-called "Five o'clock club," in Philadelphia, onco wrote a note to Archbishop Ryan ask ing him to bo the guest of the club the following afternoon. The archbishop replied, substantial ly as follows: "I am sorry that I can't accept your cordial invitation for tomorrow, but I shall be at the confessional all after noon, and would be glad to receive any or all of your young men there.' Eleventh Street E. N. W AIDE Proprietor Successor to Brunken & Haney BOTH PHONES 26 Special for Saturday, May 13, Only CANNED GOODS r Ferndell Special, Wax Beans, regular I c A price 20c, Saturday price Jf Ferndell String Beans, regular price j cn 20c, Saturday price jd Ferndell Pumpkin, regular price 16c 1 1)1 A Saturday price 2b Ferndell Salad, regular price 25c, OAf Saturday price )u Ferndell Plum Pudding, regular price QC0 30c, Saturday price Jj Sliced Peaches, regular price 35c, Qfln Saturday price OUu Apricots, regular price 35c, 1itio Saturday price OUu COL GREEN'S SPORTY OFFER How the Good-Natured Financier Got the Best of the Confi dence Man. Just because Col. E. H. R. Green is fat and looks good-natured, and has a sort of out-of-door air, some of the sharpers in New York had him sized up as easy when he first returned from Texas to take care of the properties of his mother, Mrs. Hetty Green, writes 1 a correspondent. It may be, too, that me coionei s Dreezy canuor kiuu oi coaxed the boys along a bit. He will talk on any subject when he feels liko talking, with a frankness unusual in the hanking fraternity. "Here's my old friend. Mr. Hinks," said the colonel the other night, at his hotel, grabbing at a well-dressed man. who was walk ing by without speaking. Ills old friend, Mr. Hinks, shrunk into himself and was obviously embarrassed. After a moment's talk he got away, and the colonel's well-padded sides shook. ""Hinks is one of 'cm," said he. "I'd just landed in town when Hinks came up to me one night in the hotel. He had met me in Texas, he said. So-and-so had introduced him. I didn't remember him, but the name he men tioned was that of a good friend of mine, and I thought maybe my mem ory was at fault. By and by he opened the trap. He told mo of the good thing he had under cover, and that I could make a million dollars if I'd just put in a few thousands. It was a gold mine, and he had the gaudiest maps and prospectuses I have ever seen. I listened to him un til he got through. 'Hinks,' said I, 'just between friends, I've got a gold mine of my own that I want to sell. Now, I won't buy a mine, but I'll tell you what I'll do, I'll draw cards with you, the winner take both. That's all either is fit for.' " Colonel Green got another good laugh out of it. "Thero's a free masonry among these fellows, I think." said ho. "No one has offered me a gold mlno since." Justice and Judges. A New York judge, it will bo re membered, recently declared unconsti tutional the new law that an auto mobilist, having run over a pedes trian, must stop and leave his name. The judge said that the automoblllst had a perfect right to run away and leave his mangled victim to bleed to death alone for the reason that, in criminal cases, no man is obliged to bear witness against himself. James Halden Wilkes, president of the Street Defense society of Atlanta, discussed this legal decision at the so ciety's last meeting. "And that," he cried, hotly. "Is called justice. Well, indeed, it was a search after justice once defined as a blind man looking into a dark room for a black hat that isn't there." See that Stripe! That h dbtlnctivc of Cooper.Wclls & Co. 5 Style No. 69 One of Uic best known 25 cent stockings made. 2-ply Combed yam with sufficient twist to give most wear. We recommend No. 69 to our pat rons because wc believe in it. Come: in black only. Sizes 82 to 0l- TJT " .. smJ. ffion ?W m'iHxm? "P" . 1 f iiTl Mini W .' iff IS. r ff-' ' ., J. 9Tj..w fjm s :ss. w.',JL7, vrA.'mrr A&wmw mxmy ft.''. . S '4'.A7AfJ,S ij. H. Galley For Salt Grocery MAKES $30,000 IN A DAY "Telephone Boy" May Cause Stampede of Wall Street Pikers by Hie Luck. As the result of the passage through bankruptcy of a local firm of stock brokers. James R. Keene's plunging "telephone boy" has been hauled into tho limelight. An acrimonious con troversy occurred In court as to whether he had made $30,000 or $50. 000 by taking advantage of the so called Hocking pool. The "boy" M sistcd that ho "cleaned up" only $30, 000 on that deal, and stuck to thia statement. The airing of his market dealings is likely to cause a stampede into tho "telephone boy" business, and give new encouragement to the thou sands of pikers who bury their spare money in Wall street graves, selected through tips, secret information and sophisticated rumors. It seems a pity therefore that there couldn't have come out along with Mr. Keene's telephone boy's story a few dozen stories about tho other telephone boys whose mar ket operations have accumulated noth ing for them but a series of diminutive tombstones. There are 999 of them to every successful piker. Indeed, If statistics mean anything, tho man who puts hrs money into chicken-farming almost hopelessly hazardous as that occupation is known to bc has a bet ter chance of getting out whole than the telephone, boy plunger and his as sociated speculationlsts. It is an un fortunate circumstance that the exam ple of one successful clean-up haa moro weight with this endlessly re cruited band of idealists than a hun dred thousand failures. New York Press. Quick Traveling. Every one in eastern Oregon calls State Senator Rowerman "Jay," and thinks that when it comes to trying a hard fought criminal case there is none better. Not long ago the late candidate for governor defended a participant in a shooting scrape at Fossil and a material point In the case hinged upon the testimony of an aged Tennesseean. "Where were you when this shot was fired?" queried counsel for the defense. "I were about ten feet beblnt the feller what got shot' "And were you there when the mar shal arrived?" "No, sah; I wa'n't nowhere nigh the place." "You must have traveled pretty fast," suggested Mr. Bowerman. The witness projected his goatee over the rail of the witness stand and in a confidential tone of voice said: "Well. Jay, I'll tell ye; I made Jest three tracks between Knox's livery barn and the cotehouse." Portland Orcgonian. ri w;v?Kffi ' -'"- -. : :&3mrtim. lad Z- t IMot Iron But Lots cf Hard Wear in Them. L&'fiiihJm fjTO.B m Wmt KHkVK li' i'30bbb1HbT!DI BHH& " V V . r J J j. & j VlTI t m V w. 4 i M im: T (I