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TIIE OMA1IA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 100G. The Omaiia Daily Bee E. ROSE WATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORNINO. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Tally Dm (without Sunday.," ,ne year. .M TO lally He and Sunday, one year .w Illustrated Bee. on year -M Sunday Be. on year Saturday Bee. one year i-6 DELIVERED FIT CARRIER. Dallv Bee (Including Sunday), per week.. 17c Dally Bee (without Sunday), per week,.12o Evening: Bee (without Bunday). per week o Evening: Bee twlth Sunday), per week. .10c Sunday Bee, per copy ............. so Address complaints of irregularities In de livery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha-City Hall Building. Council BlufTa 10 Pearl Street. Chicago NWO I nlty Building. New Vork-15M Home Life Inn. Building. Washington 601 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communication relating to news and ed itorial matter should be addressed; Omaha lire. Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. 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Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before ma this 31st day of January, lft. (Seal) M. B. HUNUATB, Notary Public WHEN OCT OF TOWS, gabaeHbera leaTlag h city tem porarily should ksrt The Dee malic to (hem. Address will bv rkssgti aa ftca reqae.ted. The reports from Hons; Kong lndicnte tbat William J. Bryan has asuuinwl the role of the bull In tho China shop. Tlio statement that Mr. Ixn&worth is not rich may have to be qunllned after an inventory of his present in taken. A famous Chicago plan tut Is ho id to foe' missing: from home. Her forthcom ing concert tour will doubtless be an nounced later. Perhaps Venezuela will give the Vnited PlBll'B f1Ul'lK7 I UHll J IV Hrjlir till the operation before really starring to test the Monroe doctrine.' What about that water- works ap pralsemeutt . Is Ji not tlmei for the water board to get another injunction to furnish the exense for another in definite postponement? Theoretical sermons on the relation of organized capital and organized labor are always Interesting, but the men at the heads of these organizations are most likely to solve the problem. Before going on another strike against Uncle Sam Chinese should remember that Mr. Bryan baa not been particu larly fortunate as a prophet in forecast ing policies ot he United States. The city council is the board of di rectors of .the corporation of the city of Omaha. Some people, are aspiring to the city council tbat no taxpayer would employ to direct anything or anybody. Up to the hour of string to press seventy-nine republican candidates have taken out their declaration papers to enter the contest for twelve places in the Omaha city council. Just seventy nlna, and still they come. In resigning from the committee on privileges and elections Senator Patter son evidently desires to preserve the friendly feeling between Colorado and Utah, without offending the women of Colorado, who bare votes. President Baer says the average price of anthracite coal at the mines is $2.444 per ton. The Omaha retail price of $10.50 should make every consumer an active champion of regulation of freight rates t or something else. Senator Lodge's announcement that he sold bis railroad securities so he iould consider the rate bills from an an prejudiced standpoint will be thor oughly convincing after he shall have voted, providing be votes right. The nomination of Erastos Benson was made unanimous by the Fontanelle governors on motion of John McDon ald, and now the big sheriff and all his deputies and Jailors are rooting for Broatoh. Apparently Mr. Ure"s efforts to annex the sheriff's office to the Ben sonlan -contingent has been abortive. If William J. Broatch bad bad his way, Frank E. Moores would have gone to the penitentiary. If Erastus A. Ben son bad had his way, Tom Henntson Would have gone to the penitentiary. And now Moores is being importuned to take up with Broatch to enable Den fclsou to get even with Benson. Such fci Che whirligig of politics. j The telephone editorial. Issued at so touch per, is a conspicuous feature of our Jirlfty demo-pop, but the discussion re calls the sawdust pie editorials pub lished years ago In the defunct Omaha Republican, which usually wound up Vlth this sententious sentence, "We de jlr It distinctly understood that we do 4Mit jut to be und4'ktood," etc I BAILROAD IXVESTlQATtOX. There Is a strong sentiment In con gress In favor of an Investigation of the alleged merger between the Penn sylvania Itallroad company and several other companies, and undoubtedly the joint resolution Introduced In the senate yesterday by Mr. Tillman will 1e adopted, Tliis directs the Interstate Commerce commission to Investigate the alleged discrimination by railroad com panies embraced In the so-cnlled merger. A few days ago there was read In the senate n letter from Governor Pawson of West Virginia, stating that there has been discrimination against coal ship pers In that state and expressing the opinion that the Pennsylvania compnny controls the trunk lines of railroad which traverse West Virginia, though It may not legally own a controlling part of the stock. The governor charac terized the existing conditions as in tolerable. Last week the lower branch of the Pennsylvania legislature by a prac tically unanimous vote passed a resolu tion directing the attorney general to Investigate the Pennsylvania railroad and all the other coal-carrying roads as to whether or not. they are violating the provisions of the state constitution which prohibits common carriers from directly or indirectly engaging In the mining of coal. This provision of the Pennsylvania constitution Is very plain and explicit and there is no doubt that It has been violated by every one of the conl-carrylng roads. The fact that they are engaged In mining coal has been very conclusively shown and we are not aware that the offlclnls of any of the roads have ever denied It. The results of these Investigations, as suming that they will be made and thoroughly pursued, will be very Inter esting and may cause prosecutions by both the federal authorities and those of Pennsylvania. PORTO RICO'S PLBA. "I earnestly advocate the adoption of legislation which will explicitly confer American citizenship on all citizens of Porto Itlco. There is, iu my judgment, no excuse for fuilure to do this." So said President Roosevelt in his last an nual message. As yet congress has not complied with the recommendation, nor is there tiny Indication that it Is likely to do so. In their petition to congress the Torto Iticaus say: "Itather tlinn have a gov ernment of our own we have applied for American citizenship. If you grant us citizenship, as we hope you will, then you must grmit us Immediately home rule. There cannot be In the world American citizens who have' no right to designate their own lawmakers, nnd ( who have nothing to say about the til- rectlng and administering of their own interests." How far it would be Judicious to go In granting the people of Porto Rico the home rule they desire An a tiuestlnn for careful consideration, "Mt tTu?rr can be no doubt that they should be given American citizenship. They rtnlin to have been promised this when the Island was taken possession of by the United States, but however this may I it is now a plain matter of Justice that they be made American citizens and there should be no unnecessary delay In con ferring this upon them. When .that has been done congress may consider .at leisure the demand for home rule as pre sented in the petition. I OCR FUTURE PROSPERITY. There are some persons who take a pessimistic view of the country's fu ture, believing that we are too rapidly using up our resources. They are ap prehensive, also, that the time la not remote when we shall not produce suffi cient of the products of the soil to sup ply the wants of our own people nnd must import more or less largely from countries which have an agricultural surplus. In a letter to the Philadelphia Ledger Mr. Willis L. Moore, chief of the United States weather bureau, . considers from a meteorological point of view the pros pects for a continuation of the present prosperous conditions, so largely depend ent upon the products of the soil. He remarks that there have now been four years during which the great wheat and corn belts of this continent have bad an abundance of rain during the growing season, and the fifth year back (1901), while having a deficit over the corn region, had a surplus over the spring wheat states that produced a to tal crop of wheat in excess of the aver age. For the four years preceding these five the rainfall was generally a little below the average, but the product of the cereal crops was fairly good. Mr. Moore says it is possible to have an other succession of four years of boun tiful rain, but it is highly improbable. One thing, however, not to be forgotten is, that as the result of the teaching of agricultural science through the Depart ment of Agriculture and the state agri cultural experiment stations farmers now understand how to get a fairly good profit from the soil under condi tions of short rainfall that formerly would not hsve returned a profit to the husbandman. "Our country is so large," writes Mr. Moore, "and Its climate so diversified, tbat it is almost impossible for meteorological conditions to Injuri ously affect more tham a portion of our agricultural area. For Instance. It would be practically impossible for this country to hsve such a famine as oc casionally occurs over a large portion of India and which leaves the people famishing for the barest necessities of life." Science Is teaching us more and more each year bow to'mlnlmlze the severi ties of nature, while at the same time we are learning how to better utilize and obtain larger results from the soil. There will be progress in this direction, It is not to be doubted, to keep pace wiiit the Increasing demand for u.'rkul- tnral products. There need be no con cern or apprehension respecting the ability of our people to supply them selves with food. Not only are there millions of acres beyond what are being used for the production of foodstuffs that the application of scientific meth ods of cnltlrntlon will make available, but It Is estimated that probably ft), rKiO.oiio acres of wheat-producing land will be brought under the operations of the reclamation service. So far, there fore, as the future prosperity of the country depends upon agricultural pro duction, there Is no reason for pessi mism. We shall continue for an In definite time to produce from the soil enough to supply our own wants, with something to spare In the more favora ble years to meet a foreign demand. QVOWAHBANTO. . The Board of County Commissioners has unanimously instructed Sheriff Mc Donald to close down the lid In Douglas county outside of Omaha aud South Omaha. If tills resolution was simply a sop thrown to the Civic Federation it would scarcely deserve comment, but people conversant with the functions and duties of the board will be puzzled where the board got Its authority to di rect the sheriff in the performance of his duties. In other words, what right has the board to Issue orders to the sheriff any more than It has to issue or ders to the county Judge or to the Judges of the district court. Nowhere on the statutes can any au thority be found for the board to exer cise the functions devolving on execu tive officers charged with the enforce ment of law and maintenance of order. Individually, members of the board have the same right as any other class of citi zens to request the sheriff to arrest par ties who violate the law In. his presence or that of any of his deputies, or upon complaint filed with some magistrate to srrest law-breakers and hold them in custody until they are released on ball or acquitted by a court of Justice. Manifestly the board labors under the delusion that It sustains the same rela tion to the sheriff that the police board of Omaha sustains to our chief of po lice, when. In fact, the sheriff Is an elec tive officer amenable to the people, while the chief of police Is appointed by the police commission and subject to its or ders and those of the mayor. True, the Board of Commissioners when acting as an excise board is em powered to license the sale of liquor and has a right In the discharge of this func tion to refuse license to any applicant upon its own motion at its discretion, or when a protest Is filed charging the ap plicant with lawless conduct. In the latter case It can refuse license only after a hearing has been given if in its Judgment the applicant has violated the law. When once a license has been granted and Issued it can be revoked only after the eonvlctlon of the licensee before a magistrate or upon Indictment in the district court. Under such circum stances the sheriff is required to act in conformity with the statutes and re gardless of any Interference on the part of the county board. Incidentally It would be pertinent to ask whether It Is necessary for sheriffs to serve notice on anybody to desist from violating the law and why the board did not direct Itself to the county attorney with a request to proceed against law violators, if it knows of any? Is not the county attorney the proper officer to take the initiative in the prosecution of law-breakers, while the sheriff and his deputies are merely expected to serve papers and make ar rests under his direction, unless a breach of the law is committed in their pres ence? The municipal ownership commission, made up chiefly of officers and employes of public utility corporations, and sub sidized by August Belmont, president of the New York Subway, will begin the study of corporate ownership of gas, electric lights, water supply and street railways In this country and In Europe, with a view to enlightening the public as to the advantages and drawbacks of the relative systems. The Information conveyed will doubtless be Instructive, but the conclusions arrived at will have to be taken with a grain of allowance. In the Impending municipal coutest there are altogether too many square pegs .trying to Insert themselves Into round holes. There are fence carpen ters aud hod carriers who want to be come' building Inspector, there are briefless lawyers who want to play city attorney, and there are copy holders who want to be city comptroller, and elevator conductors who want to con duct the affairs of the city of (rninha as councllmen. The real effect of the suspension of trade with Germany under the most fa vored nation clause seems to be fore shadowed by the Germans hastening to pile up American supplies before tho present treaty Is abrogated, while there Is no corresponding rush of German goods to the United States. After congress has prohibited the sale of cocaine in the District of Columbia the natives may be compelled to resort to the "dope" used by the specialists who make a living by writing speeches for congressional spellbinders. The Proper Caper. Washington Post. It has been about decided to build a lock canal at Panama Instead of the knock canal upon which so rquch work has been dons. "Ho Has, Gits." Philadelphia Record. Government lawsuits sometimes turn out quite profitably to the parties prosecuted. It is estimated by competent authorities in congress that something ilka $2tO,0OO,O0S was tha profit of J. Plerpont Morgan and his associates In the Northern Securities merger after It was declared unlawful by tas oeuru. it is ol Strang that ta high financiers In the deal have regarded the, decision of the courts with no little complacency and good will. Pretty (;ood Ciweaa. Baltimore American. It la said that lxnon.onri tons of coal have been stored In case of a miners' strike. This Is certainly an unlucky number for somebody, and the nets will probably be on the poor, dear public. In case of a guessing match. I P to the Senate. New York Tribune. The house of representatives now steps aside to let the senate wrestle with tho session's three most ttrgnnt pieces of legis lation the rate bill, the statehood bill and the blil reducing the tariff on Philippine Imports. Perils of a Governor. Louisville Courier-Journal. Governor Puttison of Ohio Is being treated by two physicians of different schools, who never consult with each other, or call at the sama hour. Instead of putting the gov ernor In a glass case, as waa done on Inaug uration day. It would seem to be mora pru dent to put him In a steel safe. Hana-lna; Oat Hla Sign. Washington Tost. "I am almost afraid to go to tha table," aatd Dr. Wiley. "The butter la painted, canned goods are kept for years and sold for the genuine article and tha foods we eat are fraught with germ life of a harmful nature." The doctor's talk Is a sure sign of the approaching spring. He needa sassa fras. More Work for Secretnrv Wilson. Chicago Record-Herald. A servant girl In the household of a Pottsville (Pa.) family was slicing potatoes for dinner the other day, when she found one, that waa . particularly watery. She waa about to throw It away, when the knife struck something hard. She cut It out and showed It to her mistress. It proved to be a pearl, which Jewelers value at $40. Now, then, here Is an opportunity for Secretary of Agriculture Wilson. Let him take up Immediately the Investigation and propagation of the pcarl-bearlng po tato. There Is not a constituent of any congressman but would like to have sample and experimental packages of that vege- ; table. The seed of a potato that grows pearls would be much more highly appre- j elated than several packages of peas good only for a cheap porridge. WASTE OP COAL. Progress of Experiments Designed to Check It. Philadelphia Press. Americans are noted the world over as an extravagant race. Economy Is surely a virtue about which the people of this country care little. But in no other respect perhaps, are Americana more wasteful than ear and so did other senators. Nobody ex In the use of coal. This brand of fuel Is pected the bill to pass. The West Virginia consumed at a frightful rapidity. Judged , senator himself had no Idea a few days ago by the way In which they are turned into ashes It might be supposed that every bill from Maine to California were bursting with unmlned anthracite, or bituminous. In round numbers, the United S'ates burns SSOCOO.WO to.is of coal every year, which costs the consumers approximately $700,000. 000. This la a moderate estimate, although while householders pay upwarde of $7 a ton for anthracite In the eastern cities, the great bulk of bituminous cosis the con sumer less than $2 a ton. There Is nearly five times aa much soft coal burned as hard coaL ,. The United 8tatea geological survey Is now carrying on ,a aeries of investigations with a view to siojiplng the needless wast of this precious fuel,,; How to get ,the same amount of heat.;Of; energy by consuming , which Denver had never seen before. He less coal is the problem. So far its ax- ran the entire range of department store periments have .been Interesting, even if offerings from needles to pianos and took they do not reveal any specially new fact two or three pages in his newspapers every or may not be fruitful of Immediate and day to advertise the bargains. A delega practical results.1 j tlon of advertisers waited on him and pro- Tt has been demonstrated with Iowa posed a return to tho former cordial rela bltumlnous that a ton of coal. If first con- tlons. Patterson, of course, accepted the verted Into gaa' and then burned, will , proposition, produce almost three times as much energy t as If the coal were put under a holler to Senator Murray Crane of Massachusetts generate steam directly. In nMier words, ' coming to be known as the best "mixer" a gas engine eats up only a third of the ( in the senate, although he has served but coal that must be fed Into a steam ensrine a short time. that will do the same work. Off-hand, It ! One of his friends is Senator Piles of looks as If at one stroke the nation might J Washington. Piles is a new member, too. save nearly $KOO,coo.OnO annuallly. However, like many another experiment which works handsomely In theory, this one Is less satisfactory In practice. Engi neering experts say that while the gas gen erator saves nearly two-thirds of the coal required by direct steaming, yet the far greater cost of Installing and maintaining the country, you know. You go to Flint the gas engines Just about consumes the and tell him it will be folly for him to be difference. so that there Is but little econ- ! gin talking so soon. Tell him he wants to omy after all. Nevertheless, t will be a fortunate day when a way Is discovered to stop the awful waste of coal which Is now depleting the country's fuel resources with appalling rapidity. A KEW PK.SIO QI KSTIOX. Spanish War Veterans riling on the Roll at Lively Rate. Indianapolis News. The house on Thursday passed the an nual pension appropriation, amounting to $140,000,000. As usual it has been passing private pension bills by tho hundreds. And this In snlte of President Roosevelt's ex- ertutlve order making any man over 2 years of age pensionable. The general bill passed this week 'gave the force and effect ot law to the president's order, thus ad mitting that the authoilty to make It waa at least doubtful. So we now have a gen eral pension, appropriation of $110,000,000 hundreds of private pension bills, and legislation-proposed by. the house which will give a pension to every man who served In the union army who iu more than 62 years old. It was thought, by the way, that the president's order Would stop the flood of private pension bills. Apparently it has had no such effect. J But It Is not of civil war pensions that we are now thinking. Our policy with reference to them is fixed. But ara we not In danger of overdoing the business in connection with the pensioning of men en gaged in the Spanish war? That war lasted only four months. The total enlist ments were only 274,000, of whom only 80,000 were actively engaged. Yet Mr. Gardner of Michigan, who had charge of tha pension bill In the house, gave It as his opinion that twenty years from now we should still have fioC.OOO names on the pen sion roll, of whom 132,000 would be charged to the Spanish-American war. Already there are more Spanish-American soldiers on the roll than there were In Shatter's army, which numbered 16,000 men. More than one-fourth of those who saw active service are now pensioned. We think that this thing should be stopped at the very beginning. Every man fairly entitled to a pension should have It. There Is no wish to discriminate against tbe men who were In the army raised to fight Spain. But the Idea that we should now be paying pensions to more than ona fourth of those who saw active service, and that there should be more pensioners than there were' men in Shaffer's army, and this within eight years after tha close of the war. Is absurd. They saw little hard service, comparatively few of them saw any service at all outside of camp life. Tha hardahk and sufferings which they underwent are not to be mentioned In tha sama breath with those endured by the men of the union army. They have, an.1 c m- hiv. no such claim ua the Amur fcaa tiwi'la. k KITS OP WAHIaTO LIFB. Minor Sreaes and Incidents Sketches' on the Snot. The hlghor ranks of army life ara stirred to their depths by promotions following the retirement of Lieutenant General Chaffee. The promotion of General John C. Bates to the highest rank evokes no criticism, but the promotion ot General Bell as chief cf staff Is not so kindly received In Interested quarters. Objection Is not based on General Bell's qualifications, which are reyarded as excellent, but be cause he Is Jumped over the heads of sev eral senior officers with splendid records. The Army and Navy Register Intimates that the advancement of General Bell Is responsible for the clause in the army bill now before the house declaring the. grade of lieutenant general vacant on the re tirement of the present occupant. "This provision," says the Register, "will take effect as soon as the act Is approved. If the clause remains In the bill. In other words, if the act is approved before IJeu tenant General Bates goes on the retired list, there will be no office of lieutenant general to which General Corbln or Gen eral MacArthur or any one else may be appointed. It Is certain that tha provision will he ruled opt on a point of order when the bill comes up for consideration In the house, because It Is obviously of the char acter of new legislation to make It subject to such a method of exclusion from the regular appropriation bill; It rests with Chairman Hull. In the end, should tha point be raised to take the question of re tention of the clause before the house and set aside the decision of the chairman of committee of the whole house. If this Is done, or If the provision pass the house in any war. It Is certain to go through the senate without obstruction or opposition. So, it may be considered that the office of lieutenant general Is really In Jeopardy." The question In the senate now Is whether Senator Scott Is a gay deceiver or whether It Is merely a case of one of his Jokes turning a trick for him that he has no Idea of placing to his credit. He had his bill placing the military telegraph oper ators of the civil war on a pensionable Status passed by the senate. Just before he began advocating the pas sage of tho bill he assured the senate that wnat he was going to do waa to deliver an essay. "If any of you have anything to do," he told his colleagues, "you might as well go about it. I'm going to tell you frankly that I will occupy about twenty minutes In telling facts In which you are not Interested." Many of his colleagues took his hint and absented themselves from the senate cham ber. After talking for about five minutes he stopped, looked over the senate chamber and decided to quit. Immediately afterward Vice President Fairbanks put the cuestlnn whether the bill should pass. Nobody objected, so the bill was passed. Scott grinned from ear to of getting the measure through. Senator Patterson's determination to fight It out with his democratic colleagues over his right to vote as he pleases on the Santo Domingo treaty does not surprise anybody who knows anything about his record. The Colorado senator owns a morning and an evening newspaper printed In Denver and some years ago he had a quarrel with the union which resulted in a general strike. The union succeeded in Inducing every big advertiser In the town to take his patronage away from Mr. Patterson's newspaper. Mr. Patterson thereupon bought a controlling interest in one of the largest department stores In the town. He established an era of cut rates the Ilk ot A day or two ago Crane heard that Piles Intended to make a set speech. He gum shoed up to Piles' desk, which Is in the rear row on the republican side, and said: "Plies, I hear Senator Flint is going to make a speech. Now, you and Flint are from the Pacific coast, the same part of observe the unwritten law and sit quietly until he gets warm in hia chair. Of course, I know he will make a good speech, but you will agree with me that It is better for him to refrain for a time, and you can j tell him with the utmost propriety." Piles got red and bit his lips, but he didn't make a speech. If Congressman Ixmg worth would have it so he could get his entire wedding outfit for nothing. Enterprising haberdashers, tailors, hatters and shoemakers want to present him with the finest samples of their art. providing he will let them advertise the fact. Ixmgworth buries himself In the depths of the capital to get away from them. He walked down Pennsylvania ave nue. Washington, the other day. A friend pulled him over to a clothier's window and showed him something. It was a wax dummy standing in a fine pose in the cen ter of a wilderness of shirts, scarfs, gloves and hats, Immaculately dressed In an after noon wedding outfit and wearing this placard: "Nicholas Long worth in his wed ding clothes." From the annual report of the Capital Traction company, operating the atreet railways of Washington, it appears that considerably more than half the persona Injured on the company's lines in 1906 owed their hurts to disobedience of the rule that prohibits passengers from entering or leav ing a moving car. The number of persons Injured In the year was 403, and the cause of their accidents are classified thus: Stepping off moving car 139 Attempting to board moving car 78 Collisions with pedestrians 30 Collisions with vehicles t Car started while alighting 18 t ar started while getting on e FU in car Hand crushed in gate 1 Collision of cars 37 Struck by pole t Collision with bicyclist Fell from moving car 44 Employes U That Is, 217 of the unfortunate 403 would have escaped Injury If they had not been In so great a hurry to board or quit theelr cars. Opie Read had luncheon with the presi dent a few days ago and told him this story about a recent horseback trip he took through Arkansas. Read rode up in front of a shanty and found a native sit ting on the end of a lug In a broiling hot sun. "Why don't you move over In the shade?" asked Read. '"Taint time ylt; fever ain't come on, "answered the cracker. "What's the matter?" "Chills." How long have you been" living here?" '"Bout thirty year." "How long have you had chills?" "Bout . thirty year." "Why In thunder don't you move If you have chills that bad 7" "And ratrh some other disease I don't know nutliln' bout? Not much, nils- ttr, .When Juu ve gut tUllls ou kaoa I Made From Grapes Made From Grapes Made From Grapes Made From Grapes PS.ICI OAKINQ POWDER CO., CHICAGO. . what they are. I want to tell you some thing, mister. I've had chills so long and shook so much I ain't fit fur nuthln' 'cept to sift meal and shake down persimmons." Senator Pettus. the oldest member of the senate. Is grieved over the report that his Illness the other day was due to an attack of vertigo. "I wouldn't have minded It," he remarked to a friend, "if they had said that I had stolen a sheep or Insulted a woman, because nobody would have be lieved that; but when it Is reported that a man 100 years old had an attack of vertigo, there are a lot of people who would believe It. But It Isn't so." Senator Pcttus is 86 and Is a candidate for re-election In 1908. PERSONAL JIOTK9. All the Judges In Minnesota have returned their railroad passes to the companies, and not a word of disapproval has been heard from one end of the state to the other. Score one for us! An English woman has renounced her allegiance to King Edward as a graceful preliminary to marrying an American gentleman. Of course the Japanese suggestion about British army organisation waa a Joke. But the explanation does not help matters. Japan's ally will not catch on for a year or more. Tho editor of a New York funny paper has been robbed. Tbe thieves left word that they did It for a Joke, but as the Joke cost the editor $1,000, he thinks he could have bought several better ones for the money. Some of New Tork's easy crowd who paid as high as $5,000 for x"medical boots," are denied the satisfaction of trying the boots on the cuticle of the con man. The police put him beyond the reach of the kickers. Prince Khlllhoff, who has acquired fame In connection with the Transslberlan rail way, renounced his title and estate when a young man and emigrated to this country, where he worked at a bolt machine at a salary of $7.60 a week. Two Kentucklans argued the question of John D. Rockefeller's fitness to enter heaven. The negative orator enforced hla points with a shotgun, sending his op ponent on a reconnoisance to the other shore. Pending a reporfHhe decision Is held up. Those Georgia traveling ' men who are clamoring for legislation to compel hotel proprietors to change their bed linen be fore assigning a new guest to a room are too all-fired particular. Next thing they'll be asking for Individual toobrushes in the hotel lavatories. Congressman Nehemiah D. Sperry of New Haven, Conn., Is one of the few rampant teetotalers In the house, which Is probably the reason why Speaker Cannon made him chairman of the committee on liquor (raf fle. Usually he has a rather disheveled ap pearance, which moved a colleague to say that "Sperry looks like a keg of nails." ANNOUNCEMENT Wheeler Sewing Machines for more than fifty years I the standard type of ro tary shuttle-movement If or making the .lock stitch, will sold by the SINGER SEWING MACHINE. CO. The Wheeler & Wilson Mfg. Co. will continue to make these machines as heretofore, the change simply effecting greater economy in the cost of selling, a saving which will prove to be of material benefit to purchasers, who will now be enabled to select at Singer Stores LocK-vStitch Machines scillating, Rotary or Vibrating, Shuttle. Prices to Suit All Purses. Many Styles of Cabinet Work. Needles for All MaKes of Machines. MACHINES RENTED, SOLD, EXCHANOECa Singer Sewing Machine Co- 1514 DOUGLAS STREET ALSO- Nebraska Cycle Co. 15th uui.hariiy &trU . Ooviha. NfluMJUs It MSES TO A SMILE!. "Paw, can an honest man play poker?" "Yea, Tommv hut ha can't win any thing." Chicago Tribune. Old Bill Mlssgimmons of Belleville re marked to Tom Pendergrast, as he sat down gingerly on one edge of a dry goods box: "Tom, did you ever see a gol durn boll Just where you wanted it?" "Yes." said Tom. "the one on you Is ex actly all right for me." Kansas City Jour nal. "A pretty girl, even If she Is poor, can have all the attention she wants, can t she?" "Yes. There's only one that can beat her." "What's that?" "A homely girl with ths coin." Detroit Free Press. Mrs. Hewligus Abaalom. they say there Is going to be another coal strike. What la to hinder us from putting In our next win ter's supply? Mr. Hewligus Why er nothing Aman da, except that I haven't paid for the coal we're using now. Cliicago Tribune. "I like this nmke of automobile better than any other in the whole show," said the girl in the fur Jacket, with enthusiasm. "Why Is It better than tha rest of them?" asked the girl with the three-cornered hat. "I was knocked down by one like this the other day. and It didn't hurt me a bit." Chicago Tribune. TO MY VAI.EVTIXE. Oh, my love, she lives in a little brown house Just over the fence. And she flits to and fro as still as a mouse Just over the fence, And I look and I long, It cannot be wrong If I list to the song That Is sung by the maid In ths little brown house. Just over the fence. II. Oh, the little brown house just over the fence, I love It so well. For her life lights It up with a sweet radiance Which naught can dispel: One day through the curtain I aaw her, I'm certain, I knew by the gleam of gold In her hair; Oh, the essence of sweetness most surely la there. Just over the fence. HI. Oh, that little brown house is far more dear Than it evra- has been before to me; Than It war before the clothes line broke. And my love in such sweet accents apoke; With a hop and a Jump I cams "ker plump" Right over the fence, 1 And her sweet face flushed and her voice waa hushed. As she tugged away at the broken line; And I vowed In my heart, "Thou shall be mine," Oh, Joy of Joys, oh, hope of hopes. Forever to manage her tangled ropes. IV. Perhaps I'm not up to the average mas But I'll always do the best I can; If I am of sterner stuff bereft, I'll make the most ot what Is left; Kind nature has amply made up to ms For any sort of deficiency, In endowing me with a language subllm To address my love In a valentine. BAYOLL, N. TRELE. Omaha, Feb., lSOa. & Wilson hereafter be Chain -iStitch Machines Elastic Seam. No Bobbin, No Shuttle.