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TIIE OMAILY SUNDAY BEE: FEBRUARY 24, 1907. Tiie Omaiia Sunday Per founded bt edward rosewatkiv victor rosewater, editor. Entered at Omaha postofD.ce a second class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Pally Pes without Sunday) one year 11.09 Iallv Be and Sunday, on year J.00 Sunday Be, one year., Saturday Bee, one year 1.69 DELIVERED BT CARRIER. , Pally Bee (Includln g 8unday), per week ISo Ially Bee (without Sunday), per week ICo Kvenlng Bee (without Sunday), per week. 60 Evening Bee (with Sunday), per week lo Address complaint! ot Irregularities In delivery to City Circulation Department OFTICES. Omaha The Bee Building;. South Omaha City Hall Building, Council Bluffs 10 Pearl Street. Chlrago 140 TTnlty Building. . ' New York 1 501 Home Life Ins. Bid. Washington 501 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and editorial matter should be addressed Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, "express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stamps received In payment tt mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THB BEE) PUBLISHING! COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, aa: Charles C. Rosewater, general manager of The Bee Publishing company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally. Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month. of Januarv, 1907, was aa follows: 1 30,000 IT 31,070 t sa.eoo 11 11,000 1 31,870 II 31,790 31,980 10 30,300 31300 II 31,000 30,600 It 33,050 T ;....31,50 It 31,640 1 38 ,9 0O 14 31,780 33,860 II 31,700 10 33,040 10 3L880 It 31,870 IT 30,600 II 31,060 II 81330 II 30,400 10 31,660 14 31,730 10 81390 II 81330 II... 31,630 10 33,180 Total... .. 883,460 Less unsold and returned copies.. 8,134 Net total , 673,346 Dally average 31,388 CHARLES C. ROSEWATER, General Manager. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this tfst day of January, HOT. (Seal) ROBERT HUNTER,.. Notary Publlo. WHEN OUT OF TOWN. akseribars leaviaa the pity tern- ' rarlly should sits The Be saalled te them. Addresa wOl be haaa-ed aa oftea as reaeste. 1 Mean, politics seems to hare become 8 habit in Philadelphia. In trying to borrow (20,000,000 Jamaica discovers that the earthquake shook its credit, along with other things. Members of the life saving crews on the Atlantic coast are in a fair way to get a monopoly of the Carnegie hero medals. The decision to change the designs on the gold coins cannot be based on the claim' that the public is tired of the old designs.. Opponents of polygamy may learn by recent events at Washington that the cure for the evil is in education rather than in legislation. .The Oklahoma constitutional con vention seems determined to copy the shortcomings of other states instead of taking advantage of them. Some of the railroad and trust mag nates are probably wondering why the president wants to wait until 1909 be fore making that trip to Alaska. . Public opinion on the railway wreck Question has passed from the conster nation to the indignation stage. The legislation stage is next in order. An Ohio Judge gave a prisoner the choice between going home or going to Jail. Being a resident of Pittsburg, the prisoner decided to go to Jail. The assertion that Secretary Loeb gets more abuse than any other man in the country needs the explanation that the abuse comes from the publlo and not from his employer. - The only way to account for the discrepancy in the allegations about that Brownsville affair Is that the president and Senator Foraker have been investigating different riots. The National Woman's Suffrage as sociation favors expunging the word ."servant" from the dictionary. It might be a good plan, and then you may call ber anything you please. A Boston astronomer claims he has "weighed all the principal stars." Per haps he has, but he'll get into hot water if he tells the weight of Lillian Russell, May Irwin or Marie Dressier. Prof. Willis Moore, chief of the weather bureau, had his right arm broken in an accident. Fortunately for the country, Prof. Moore can make weather with his left arm as well as bis right One of our naval officers has dis covered aa ear plug that will prevent gun deafness. He ought to put them on the market and give landsmen a chance to use them during political campaigns. Peary and Duke d'Abruxzl plan to approach the pole from different di rections. The precaution sterna un necessary, at the pole has shown no disposition to get out of the way of explorers. Our accommodating supreme court should hurry down that decision as to whether the free use of a dwelling house constitutes a perquisite of office for the governor. If free rent is not a perqulblte several other state officers who think they are Inadequately paid would like to put la claims for equal treatise! f " JUSTICE AND OEOORAPRT. Art hough the new Judicial division bill passed by congress leaves Nebraska Intact as a single Judicial district, an attempt Is being made to subordinate the selection of the additional Judge to the old North Platte and South Platte line of political geography, by which Nebraska has been divided In the past. With due apologies to the Nebraska delegation in congress, which Is re ported as unanimously conceding the second judge to the South Platte terri tory, The Bee is thoroughly convinced that there is no good reason . whatever for dragging the geographical , line across the bench. Is there any good reason why a lawyer otherwise qualified, residing in Omaha, or in some other part ot the state north of the Platte, should not aspire to the appointment to the newly created Judicial place? There are a dozen lawyers at the Omaha bar, who, when gauged by the test of legal edu cation, of professional ability and of experience . in the federal courts are superior to any of the candidates from the South Platte country who are urg ing their claims for preferment. The present Judge of the federal district court for Nebraska was appointed from Fremont and his predecessor from Falls City and Omaha, although the most important center ot litigation In the state has never had a Judge upon the federal bench. Why, then, should the new Judge be conceded to the South Platte? President Roosevelt has shown a praiseworthy independence in making Judicial appointments since he has occupied the executive chair. lie has not allowed himself to be bound by geography or politics, but has Insisted upon Judicial qualification as the para mount consideration. There is no good reason why he should be bound by any tacit understanding among the senators and representatives from Ne braska to use this place' either to re ward a political retainer or to shut out all real competition by the North and South Platte fence. If It should be found that the most eligible man for Judge happens to live In Omaha, he should have the place irrespective of the political map and regardless of the trades between our congressmen and senators. HIS MASTER'S VOICE. Thoeodore P. Shonts, sometimes chairman of the Panama Canal com mission, but at all times a railroad man of the type that . gladdens the hearts ot the Wall street magnates, has Joined the group of railroad presi dents flying ' danger signals and. pre dicting all sorts of calamity it the country does not at once cease its ef forts to secure freight regulation, re duction of passenger rates, the aboli tion of discriminating tariffs and other reforms that interfere with the present system of operating and manipulating the transportation lines of the coun try. Jn a recent ' address before the Iowa club in New York Mr. Shonts came out ' flatly as the champion of stock watering and stock Jobbing in railroad securities and issued a solemn warning of peril to the prosperity of the nation in a continuance ot legisla tive effort to secure reforms in trans portation matters. Supporting a con tention that the railroads have made the prosperity of the country possible, Mr. Shonts eald: There is no doubt that in the building up of these properties things have been done which, though legally right, were morally wrong: but because they were legally right and cannot be legally disturbed, what Is the use of exploiting them when no result can be secured except to furnish material for the charlatan and the demagogue and to intensify class bitterness T Credit must be given to Mr. Shonts for being honest, at least, in his ad mission that the railroad managers ot his type have kept an eye on the law, even to the neglect of their morals, in their stock-watering speculations. He contends that, inasmuch as railroad properties of the nation cannot be du plicated for the amount of money their securities represent, "then, to a large extent, there is no water in out standing stocks," and he protests against present holders of railway se curities being deprived of their prefer ential privileges "and placed on an equal footing with mere outsiders" when it comes to the Issue of new stock, or the expansion of old stock, by the all-water route. Having thought the matter all over, Mr. Shonts has a remedy for existing evils. He would have had "eminent financiers and captains ot industry co operate with the president to bring about better corporate practices." In ther words, he would have the men who have amassed millions by prac tices which he admits were morally wrong, though perhaps legally right, now go to the president and discuss with him me hods for preventing themselves from adding other millions to their swollen fortunes. It would be worth the price of admission to see Mr. Harrlman, Mr. Hill, Mr. Fish. Mr. Ryan, Mr. Belmont. Mr. Baer .and other railroad magnates going up to the White House and appealing to President Roosevelt to aid them in elaborating reformed and purified methods ot corporate management Their efforts, heretofore, have all been In the direction of warding off legislation tor that very purpose and the public will be slow to believe, without some signs, that they are for saking their old ways. " Mr. Shonts is not an impartial ob server. He sees everything from the viewpoint of the railway manager, skilled In sailing between law and morals and landing rich cargoes for his corporate masters. He cannot rid himself of the notion that the country la going to smash if the railroads can- not have things all their own way as they have in the past. He shuts his eyes to Ihe' fact that the disasters to investors in railways haTe been brought about by reckless mismanage ment and high financiering at the ex pense of the small stockholder. When Mr. Shonts and his associates show a disposition to accept a little salutary regulation they will have no difficulty In securing the support of the public and the confidence of the small inves tor, which they now assert has been alienated by "drastic railroad rate agitation." THE MISSlOIfART MOVEMENT Activity In the spread and propaga tion of the Christian religion and tho civilization It stands for has been a marked characteristic of the life of the Initial years of the twentieth cen tury. Each of the denominations or sects representing the faith ot the cross has extended Its efforts and has exerted Its utmost energy in the work ot carrying the gospel and the ethical code it represents into the uttermost corners of the earth. The zeal of the' modern missionary Is no whit less than that of his predecessor who won mar tyrdom in ages gone, nor was the spirit of support among the laymen ex hausted in Crusade or Reformation. Omaha has just witnessed a church convention remarkable In many ways. First proposed as a council, the inter- synodical gathering of the Presby terians swept far beyond the scope of a mere conference and beca'me a mili tant gathering, breathing a spirit of determination. When a year or so ago a million dollars was pledged by the church for the work ot foreign missions. It was thought that a great step had been taken. The council at Omaha pledged six millions and its members left for their homes imbued with an earnestness of purpose along this line that almost insures its suc cess. The Presbyterian missionary is not essentially a zealot. He Is an educated and trained specialist a teacher or a doctor, and he Is sent out to a desig nated district for a specific purpose. Aside from being an apostle of the Christian religion, he is an agent of civilization, and devote? himself quite as much to a correction of the ways of living in a secular as In a religious sense among those to whom he is sent In this regard the convention Just ended Is a significant episode in the affairs of the world, for it means more light among the nations who sit In darkness. TJ?K PORSE AND AUTO. The census bureau' having issued a bulletin showing the marvelous growth of the automobile manufacturing busi ness In this country in the last six jears and, incidentally, reviving ' the old slogan, "the horse must go," Sec retary Wilson ot the Department of Agriculture meets the implied chal lenge with some data showing that the automobile business of the nation, now amounting to $26,000,000 an nually, would not buy bran or chopped feed for the horses that have been ad ded to the American stables since the automobiles began getting up steam. The total production of automobiles in 1905 was 22,830, valued at $26, 645,064, as against 3,723 machines in 1900, valued at $4,748,011. In 1905 the automobile manufacturers oper ated 121 establishments and gave em ployment to 10,239 wage earners. Secretary Wilson replies with a show ing that 1,700,000 horse vehicles were manufactured in 1905, or about 700 of them for every automobile made in the country. Secretary Wilson explains, In his statement on the live stock wealth of the nation,- that "the horse must go" phrase originated with the advent ot the American railroad, the farmers being told at that time that there would soon be no further use for the dray and freighting teams of the na tion and the horse would be used merely for family driving and putter ing about the farm, finally become something of a curiosity. Then came the bicycle, which agatn marked the doom of the horse. The electric trol ley promised to make equine extinction complete, but, it anything, were needed to that consummation, it was supplied with the advent ot the auto mobile. Despite these predictions, the horse is still here and very much in evidence, his Increase In per capita and value, becoming greater every year. At the close ot 1906 there were 19,746,683 horses in the nation, val ued at $1,846,678,412, or $93.51 per head, an increase ot 5,000,000 horses since 1900, when the value per head was $44.61. Coupled with this in creased number and value of horses is a demand which Is far in excess of the supply. The cayuse and the plug are going out of use, except on the ranges' where their hardiness still makes thef use desirable, while better grades jf f animals are being required for uem the farm. In the manufacturing dis tricts and for driving purposes. JF'or- tunes are being spent for imprjvlng the breed of horses for all purposes and the Investment in this lr.duBtry alone is larger than employed in the automobile (manufacturing business. Only a few years ago th record price paid for a trotting or running horse wait $5,000, but so great has become the demand for animals with speed, achievement that tbje $100,000 mark has been reached and there Is nothing in the outlook to Indicate that such a sum will long remain the max imum of value tor tha thoroughbred. Since the days when Alexander, the original Rough Ride, broke Bace- phalus to bridle, thaf horse has been man's most valuable Uui faithful ally. In the work ot war or peace, in the performance of duties and the enjoy ment ot pleasures,' and no Inanimate invention can take his place. . DECtKT JOURNALISM. The Bee feels particularly gratified at the numerous expressions both from regular readers and from visitors from abroad of special satisfaction with the manner in which It has expurgated its reports of the filthy murder trial in New York and the equally disgust ing divorce trial In Omaha. t The Bee has aimed to keep con stantly in view the fact that it la print ing a paper for the home a paper which is to be read by pure-minded women and children, as well as by blase men about town. Without assuming to have reached the level of perfection and conceding that mistakes may be made occasion ally in the pursuit of this policy to issue a clean newspaper, we prefer to have the encomium of the home build ers and home -protectors than depend upon, the vacillating .patronage of morbid sensation seekers. The Bee believes that the advertis ing merchant prefers to announce his wares in a newspaper that he knows can be safely read in family circles Instead of In one which he has reason to believe will be thrown away by the perBon who purchases it on tho street before he opens the door of his home. The Bee believes decent people ap preciate decent Journalism, and that decent people are far In the majority over those who enjoy wallowing In in decency. PASSIXO OF THE MILKMAID. The assistant chief of the dairy division of the Department ot Ag riculture has been making a study of the practical value of milking machines with a result that knocks the romance of the dairy higher than Bossy ever kicked a pall from the grip of a green hand at the business. The assistant chief, who happens to be C. B. Lane, it should be remembered, is an expert in the dairy business and what he does not know about cows and milkmaids Is not included In the pamphlet just Issued by the depart ment under the title. "The Milking Machine as a Factor in Dairying." In this edifying and instructive doc ument, attention is called to the fact that 127 patents have been Issued by the government for milking ma chines, 'or for parts thereof, and con cludes that, owing to the difficulty in securing competent folks to do the milking by hand, "great interest, therefore, centers around the milking machine." We should rather guess yes. It there's any invention that Is designed, to .deprive..- the .eldest daughter of the family 'and the hired man from the Joy. of meeting in the barnyard or the dairy, . Just as the sua goes down, and Joining in the interest' lng and Sometimes complicated -work of Inducing the old brlndle to "give down' the publlo in general, and the daughter and the hired man In partic ular, want to know about it. Figuring it all down to a nicety Mr. Lane shows, in his report, that many American cows have bad the experi ence of being addressed by machinery and that the record shows a majority of them to prefer that method to the old hand system. ' He Is extremely frank, however, for a scientist, and ad mits that there are some objections, obstacles in fact, to the general adop tion of the milking machine. "It is be lieved," says Mr. Lane, "that such rapid milking as that possible by the use of a machine, will eventually have a bad effect on the cow and after a time she might object to the machine and refuse to give down her milk." There's the crux of the whole situ ation the milk in the ten-quart pall, as It were. This admission that there is a psychological side to the cow fur nishes the slender thread upon which the dairy maid must hang her hopes against being put put of business by the march of commercialism. It is a recognition of the cow's rights, her privilege of refusing to submit without protest to her own discomfiture and humiliation. Incidentally, every dairy maid who has Xised the arts that would overcome tbebashfulness of the most backward ajdmlrer extant knows that the cow, in the final analysis, has the power to Jnake her protests effective. The Agricultural Department's ex pert, conceding that "each cow has an Individuality," expresses the hope that the fime will come When a little versa till if- on the part of tb makers of milKlng machines will . meet , the emergency by evolving a scheme for rift arAAmtn a r Ft a anAantflnlMAf rf Vi at 1 vi.uuiiuf V ctlCUllIU una v a a-uw lyrshire, the Hereford, the Jersey and (.he unlabeled cow of the farm who when properly approached. All of this scientific talk is interesting and, at times, diverting, but we fear the American farmer will be slow to ac cept the Inventions without first con sulting the cow and obtaining her con sent The election of Dr. Harry Pratt Judson to the presidency of the. Uni versity of Chicago, which he has been filling temporarily since the death of President Harper, giving that institu tion a permanent head, is an event not to be overlooked by the friends of edu cation in the great central weal. By reason of its endowment and its lo cation, the University of Chicago is naturally destined to occupy leading place among western educational in stitutions. President Judson has been Identified with the faculty ever since the university threw its doors open to students and has had additional ex perience several times as acting presi dent which has put- him in closer touch With Its executive management and general policy than any other man who might have been considered in connection with the presidency. It may be taken for granted that the ad ministration of President Judson will be largely along the lines mapped out by his predecessor ample promise ot a progressive . expansion constantly abreast of each advancing era. The clerical co-respondent in a salacious divorce suit imported into our courts proposes to coin his un savory notoriety - Into silver quarters by 'speaking in a public hall which he has hired on a business basis' for a Sabbath afternoon. This performance must make every sincere and con scientious minister of the gospel blush for shame. The ticket taker may show a profit In the box ofQce ledger, but thii method of procuring a vindi cation for besmirched reputation is not likely to be efficacious in this community. The newly enacted immigration law Is supposed to satisfy everybody, but by the time another congress rolls around the immigration exclustonlsts will be asking again for still more re strictive measures. a The unprejudiced observer cannot fall to arrive at the conclusion that the immigration laws as now amended, if properly admin istered, ought to reach every evil against which Just complaint can be lodged. Colonel Bryan insists that the pres ident's recommendation of the reten tion of the coal lands now part of the government domain is a long step taken in the direction of public owner ship of the railroads. Most people have discovered, however, that there is a difference in holding on to some thing we have and buying something that some one else has. The two Dreadnaughts authorized by the congress will cost about $10, 000,000 each. It may hasten universal disarmament for nations to keep rais ing the cost limit until battleships and bankruptcy become synonymous terms. The railroad bosses may have strings on some members of the executive committee of our Commercial club, but they haven't twine enough to reach around the whole business com munity ot this great and growing city. There is nothing the matter with fbe Omaha Commercial club, provided only the real sentiment of the whole mem bership can be obtained on any ques tion of vital current interest A Prlae for Life. . Cleveland Plain Dealer. The reward offered for the return of that defaulting New Britain treasurer was evi dently planned with a view of securing him In good condition. The offer is $3,000 for him alive and 11,000 for him dead. ' Brtnsr Forth h Pltebfork. Chicago Record-Herald. General Del Castillo, who wants Cuba to whip the tTnlted ' States, may be a bravs man, but we have a suspicion that If Till man were to get after him with his pitch fork there would be some mora broken sprinting records. Cheer Vwder Dismal Conditions. I Louisville Courier-Journal. "Poets," says Ella Wheeler Wilcox, "rarely pour out their own heart secrets In verse." For proof of this witness the light and frolicsome manner In which newspaper poets write of the passing of the railroad pass. Slaughters on the Rati. Baltimore American. If the frightful slaughter of the railroads Is all due to "unavoidable accident," then we have not progressed since the days of tho slow but sure stage coach: It is time that some real Investigation be made of the causes of these horrors, and real re tribution be dealt out to those who ar to blame. Evidently, ths practical manago men of our railroad system Is not fully up to the resources of our modern civilisation. Hsstas Transit of Cattle. Baltimore American. Proceedings which all humane people will Indorse are those which are to be brought by tha government against several rail roads for disobeying the law providing for the humane transit of cattle. Beside tha Intrinsic cruelty of conflnlng living animals for long periods In cars without food or water, another grave fact urges tha en forcement of the law and the punishment of its violators In the danger to human health from this treatment of animals In tended for food supply. Bclence Is doing noble work In finding out causes and so fighting disease, but discoveries and treat ment will be of little effect while dangerous causes are allowed to exist, undermining the pubUo health with Impunity. SERMONS BOILED DOWN. If you want to be happy, make soma one less sad. Most men lay their sore heads onto Cielr tender hearts. A strong breath usually comes from a weak backbone. This world Is snrlched by the good more than by the clever. A man's religion never dies so long as It Is doing something. Everything Is. possible to those who do not fear the Impossible. If the voice of conscience disturbs you silence It by obeying It. The light of love shows the trua self aa the light of learning cannot The man with a chip on his shoulder never gets it from hewing to the line. An umbrella In a crowd offers a splendid field for the exercise of vital religion. Silent endeavor for things honorable has greater eloquence than stiver trumpets. It will take more than ths change In your pocket to work the change In tha world. The poorest way la the world to get a light heart Is to throw your load on others. You go forward to no prise without leav ing behind many things that seem desirable. Tou are not likely to lead men to faith In Qod by preaching crooked facts about men. gome men never make any noise In the world until they hare baen asleep for awhile. Its a good deal easier to give a man money than to give him charity when his name is at stake. It is an old trick to make so much noise with your head that folks will sot look at your heels. Cbioago Tribune, SPECIAL SALE IN WATCHES See Our Show Windows. " My credit system im for YOU. ' Take advantage of thl opportunity and get yourself a good watch. No Iron clad rules. Terms made to suit your convenience. A DOLLAR OR yTWO A WEEK WILL DO. S15.00 $1.00 a Week $1.00 a Week 20-Year Guarantee fc&.yjpA YOUR CREDIT IS GOOD SECI LAR SHOTS AT THE rCIIT. Cleveland Plain Dealer: The Rochester clergyman who announces that hades Is full of people who use tobacco would ap pear to have an unusual familiarity with that unsavory resort. Chicago Chronicle: It la not at all sur prising that a New Tork preacher who re-, signed a denominational charge some few weeks ago because he was "hampered In his preaching by an Influential section of his congregation" should" now be found writing' lurid accounts of the Thaw trial for a sensational newspaper. -Whenever a preacher begins to develop a fine sensi tiveness with respect to his Individual free dom It Is usually safe to look for him In a mora lucrative job In the Immediate fu ture. . ... ? New Tork Commercial: A New Tork clergyman publicly expounds the. doctrine that the mere vactlve membership m a church does not relive a man of the neces sity of plentifully insuring .others as to his integrity and financial responsibility. The preacher pointed out the fact that quite recently we have had instances of gigantic rogues serving the devH In 'the livery of a saint. Borne of the.r.iore sophisticated of us worldly people have long ago 'given up the notion that we ought to deposit our money la.. the hands of a banker simply be cause he1 appears at church every Sunday In a long coat and, with serious face, passes the collection plate, tt is remarkable, that that Idea Is still held by a few pious per sons. PERSONAL. AND OTHERWISE, Last year the street railways of Chicago carried 166,000,000 passengers, a majority of them by the straps. It is hardly fair to charge that Mr. Rockefeller boosted the price of oil with out cause. He has Invested in a new wig. With the city election over Philadelphia will enjoy a stretch of complete repose until the Elks gather there next summer. Leas champagne per capita was drank in this country last year than the year before, yet there was no perceptible diminu tion of the swelled head. The records of last year's cinch having been lost or stolen the New Tork Ice trust feels warranted in repeating the squeece so that the record of IU nerve may be restored. A quarter of a century ago, even less, the epithet tossed about at the Bailey investigation In Texas would have made undertakers and hospital surgeons work overtime. A woman's magazine asserts that "the dainty art of courtship Is nearly forgot ten." Perhaps the style has changed, but the license record Indicates that It Is some thing just as good. A local alienist asserts that ona out of every ninety persons in Chicago is craiy. The computation waa made before the spring campaign began, and must not be considered a reliable Index of present con ditions. A Bt. Louis woman who was rescued from a runaway horse by an unknown man, discovered on advertising for the name and address of her hero that at least a score of men saved her. Advertising- looms up as the greatest of modern wonders. 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TRY IT SHERIDAN COM: OFFICE 160 PAR MAM. TaTLEPHONE DOUGLAS 1X7 VICTOR WHITE COAL CO. TOU WON'T REGRET IT. $18.00 $1.00 tij&i $1.00 a Week y5 a W eek 17 Jewel Roclcford Movement 4 SfMOP DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. "Tou were guilty of one matrimonial mis take. I shouldn't think you would marry ' again." "Oli but you know a verdict of guilty usually leads to a second trial," replied the, gay grass widow. Philadelphia Ledger. Ha What do you learn to do at thoso hen parties you attend, anyway? 8heOh, as the real hens do. Scratch for a living while you do the crowing about ltA-JBalllmore American. Miss Slfmm This dressmaker doesn't seem to have developed the stylish curves very well In this gown. ' Miss Knox No; you ought to go to Pad der & Co. Miss Sllmm Are they ladles' tailors? Miss Knox No; upholsterers. Philadel phia Press. "Tou must have felt awfully relieved, Jane, when you finally hooked that rich , old broker." "Yes, Indeed. Just as soon aa I was sure of him I had onions for supper." Cleveland Plain Dealer. "What Was the fruit of that courtship?" , "It Is hard to tell. She gave him a. lemon : when he took her for the apple of his eye, Baltimore American. Mr. WysUn I want you to have every thing that Is good for you, my dear. Mrs. Wysun O, thank you, John. Mr. 'Wyaun But remember that I am to; be the judire of what la good for you-. Cleveland Plain Dealer. ' iK 1 -.' WHBV THE B,NOW IS, ON TUB BILL. .. ;i .- s 'ft v' i Lewlston Journal. A simple meal though this may be Of bread and buttt-r, luscious honey And dainty cup of fragrant tea, I feast besides on that which money , Can never buy; for, though the cbUl And stormy wind and snow la pUlAC In deep'ning drifts upon the sill, v Yet, winter's dreariness beguiling Come picture scenes of sun and shln I hear again the bee's 4uud droning, The ruHtllng corn, the lowing klne, The quail's monotonous Intoning; I see the furrow brown and bare. t The budding green, the slim stalk bend lng. Quaint shadows dancing everywhere In rbythmlo fantasies unending. Behold the grain In bounteous sheave Upon tho field of stubby yellow; The splendor of the crims'nlujr leaves; And o'er the resting earth tho mellow And dreamy llsrtit of purple hai; Now from the rlp'nlng fruits Wstllllng Come spicy odors autumn doy'i The promises of spring fuliilling. Bo. on by board, the loaf of wheat. And the aroma of the clover . In golden butter stored, and sweet White honey culled by llsht-wlnged rover 'Neath summer skies from myriad flowers. Are now to mind these scenes recalling While chill winds blow and storm cloud lowers. And snow on roof and sill Is piling. Office Furniture SysteMtltlsg Devices ..Desks.. This sac sella esk Cstler sUe-10 beset leef-kigh irsec. ssedaU2.50 ee Us for Cemslete Office Outfits Orchard & Wilhelm Carpet Co.