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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY. MAY 15, 1007. The Omaha Daily Bee. FOUNDED iit EDWABD ROSEWATER VICTOR ROSE WATER, EDITOR. Entered at Omibt poatofflca oonl ilaas matter. TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. ralljr Hoe (without Sunday, on year. .24 00 : and Sunday cms year unly Uee, one year , 2.60 oaiurdsy one year IM DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Tally Pee (including Sunday), per week. .16a I'aliy Bee (without Bunnay), per week...lOo Kvrnlns; tea (without Sunday), per week. 4o Evrnlos Kee (with Hundy, per wek....lOo A1drss complaints of Irrea-ularltlea In delivery to City Circulation Department OFFICES. Omaha The Bee flunking. South Omaha-City Hall Building. Council BiufTs )0 Pearl Street. Chicago Uto Unity Building. New York 1SH Home Life Inauranca Bldg. Washing-ton W1 Four.eenth Street. CORRE8PC NDENCB. Communtratlona relaclng to newt and ad It Or la 1 matter ahould be addressed. Omaba Baa. Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or poatal order, payable to The Pee Publlehlng Company. Only 2-rent atampa received In payment ol mall accounta. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern erhnns;e, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANT. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Ftate of Nebraska, Douglas County, aa. Charles C. Rosewater. general rrtanagef f The Bee Publlehlng Company, being culy aworn, says that the actual ilumber Of full and nnnl Af The Dallr. Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee. printed curing the month of April. 1207, ,was as follows: 33.S70 IT S5.09P 34,090 " 1 ...;.;... V SS.OtO 34,110 It 34,840 34.390 10 ,.. 33,010 34,330 SI....' 33,380 34,330 13... 30.09 0 I 81,400 21 35,300 34,260 24 33,430 34,480 22... 4 88,470 10 34,800 21 So.S40 II 84,410 27 35,830 1 35,780 22 34,600 It 38,880 2 38,610 14 38,400 30 88,080 H 34,690 1 34.320 Total 1,033,410 Leas unsold and returned copies. 3,864 Net , total 1,098,846 Dally averse; 34,384 CHARLES C. ROSEWATElt. General Manager. Subscribed In my presence and aworn to before ma this SOth day of April. 107. (Beat) it. B. HUNG ATE. Notary public. WIIEU OCT OF TOWS. Subscribers leaTlasr tha city teas, pomrlly shoald bar The Be mailed to them. Aaaress will be Changed; as No il raoaaatoa. . . Up to date the watermelon crop baa not been damaged by cold weather. It might be Interesting to learn what the ground bog , thinks , of the late spring. ' ; Mr. Bryan saya his happiness does not depend upon other ' people "agree ing with him. Bryan has a happy dis position. The country will be glad if Mr. and Mrs. Maybelle Gliman accomplish their expressed desire to keep out of the lime light The old Hanna machine Is still working In Ohio, but as successor to the original chauffeur Senator Dlck-ls an amateur. ,: ':'. Senator Piatt says, "Rooseirelt dis covered the Ten Commandments." If so, he discovered Senator Piatt break ing some of them. Harry Thaw wants to goto Africa and J. Edward Addlcks Is planning to locate In Russia. Both movements should be encouraged. Attorney General Bonaparte says he bag no Intention of leaving the cabinet, at least until the president shows Indi cations of such Intention. "To say, a man is worth $1,000,000 is a vulgar Americanism," says the London Morning Post, Yes, and more often it is also a falsehood. ' "Get out of bed with a different leg first every mrrnlng," says Julian Ralph In advice to athletes. Julian must thtnk athletes are centipedes. In order to make sure that It does not lose Its "best business-getting as set" Lincoln always gl'-es a republican majority when Colonel Bryan Is on the ticket The Immigration commission has gone to Europe to study the Immigra tion question. It may Jlnd that the Question has removed to the United States... ; The special session of the Missouri legislature has adjourned leaving a deficit both in the treasury and In the legislation which Governor Folk sought to have enacted. v Tho United States fcuprera court has affirmed another decision appealed to it from the Nebraska state supreme court. Nebraska supreme court re ports must be securing wider recogni tion. When the federal court hands down Its decision In the suit brought by the water company -asainst the city for a decree of speclflo performance we will know to what extent an appraisement appraises. Former Congressman . Babrock has decided to have the next republican convention held la Milwaukee. Now If "Bab" will just frame the platform gnd name the ticket the country may quit worrying over the matter. Japan proposes to purchase during the present year sample batteries from the gun makers In Oermany, England, France and America. Japan will also Send delegates to the international peace conference at The Hague. Mayor "Jim" for chairman of the natlonai committee is said to be part of the democratic program. The dem ocrats must figure that the only way to get enough votes to elect their pres idential ticket la to lasso them. ABOUT CROrS AXD PRICES. Jnst at this time, when every In terest Is watching the crop reports of the nation and speculating upon what the harvest will be, the figures of the Department of Agriculture dealing with the crops fn cold spring years, and the value of (he harvests In those years. Is particularly Interesting. The department's records show that the spring of 1875, particularly the month of April, was the coldest on record, until eclipsed by April of the present year. The corn crop that year, It ap pears, was not Injured by the cold spring, but was exceedingly large. The department's figures are: ' PmnHs. Value at Farm. 1874 .'. Bn;i4R.S00 2W.271.5r 1872 1,321, 063,000 4M.M7,2C4 While the corn crop that year was about 60 per cent greater than In 1874, the Value" to the farmer waa less, owing to a drop of about 3 cents a bushel In price. Wheat, on the other hand, increased 3 cents a bushel In price and with a decreased yield netted the farmers nearly as much as In the preceding year. The wheat figures: Bushels. Value at Farm. 1274 M.101.700 2:tR,S.19; 1878 . 2W.1J8.000 51.SW 9X The figures on oats, showing the al most fixed value at the farms, regard less of the large' difference In yield, are: Bushels. Value st Farm. 1874 ..: 240,300,000 2112,133,934 1875 364,817.800 113,441,431 . Similar comparisons made relating to the hay, forage and vegetable crops for the two years show quite similar results. The figures are not partic ularly pertinent except as they furnish a basis for comparison with the grain yield In a year in which weather con ditions were very similar to those of the present year, and show that the value to the farmer does not suffer by a moderate reduction In yield and that American crops have wonderfully re cuperative powers even in the face of adverse "cold spring" conditions. DECK NT TBS A TMKNTFOR JURORS' Credit for Introducing a sensible In novation In the matter of caring for Jurors drawn for servlce'in what prom ises to be a long trial of a case must be given to Sheriff. "Shad" Hodgln of Idaho, who will have charge of the men finally selected to sit In the Hay wood trial at Boise. At the opening of the case Sheriff Hodgln paid a bonus to a family occupying a neat, well furnished cottage just across the street from the court house and In duced them to turn their home over to the county authorities for the accom modation of tbV jurors. The house is" equipped with modern Improve ments and every provision will be made for the comfort of the jurors. The almost inhuman treatment of Jurors in criminal cases is an abuse that has too long been tolerated, if not encouraged, by court officials through out the country. , In the Thaw trial, for example, the Jurors were Impris oned for weeks, most of the time In cramped rooms, stripped of all facili ties for every day comforts, and gen erally treated with the precautions ob served In caring for desperate crimi nals. Similar treatment has been ac corded Jurors In other famous crimi nal cases, the courts apparently cling ing to the antiquated Idea that ver dicts may be more quickly reached by Jurors If they are subjected to actual hardships during their deliberations. The Juror is as much an officer of tho court as the Judge or the sheriff and Is entitled to as decent treatment. The example set by Sheriff Hodgln in this respect Is worthy of emulation. P0L70AMT AND STATE'S RIORT8. Senator Burrows of Michigan wants another amendment to the constitu tion of the United States, and his ar gument In favor of It contains some Illuminating citations showing the in ability of the federal government to control purely domestic affairs within the states. The subject is timely as It throws some light on the terms of the enabling act for the admission of the new state of Oklahoma providing for absolute prohibition In that por tion of the state now comprised In the Indian Territory, Just as the enabling act for the admission of Utah placed a perpetual ban upon polygamy. In a magazine article Senator Bur rows reviews the Smobt case testimony and asserts that abundant proof was offered that thousands of Mormons, S3 per cent of the total male member ship of the church, have plural wives and persist In polygamous practices, although the plural marriages In late years hare been performed In secret. The senator Insists that while the evi dence is abundant and conclusive, the federal government has no power to punish them and the state authorities, dominated by the Mormon church, ap parently condone the offenses, If they do not encourage them. He, there fore, recommends the adoption of an amendment to the constitution read ing: "Neither polygamy , nor polyga mous cohabitation shall exist within the United States or any place subject to their Jurisdiction." - President Roosevelt, In his message to the last congress, recommended a constitutional amendment giving con gress power to regulate and control the entire subject of marriage and divorce and laid special emphasis upon the ne cessity of giving congress power to deal with polygamy. Instead of leaving it to the different states. Senator Burrows promises that an amendment to the constitution, such as suggested, will be proposed at the next congress and "pressed to' a conclusion." It Is re markably easy to propose amondments to the constitution. Bills to that end rre offeref at every session of congress, but no anitndments have been adopted for forty-tf o years, and the machinery tor putting ttum through Is cumber some and not In very good working order. Aside from the merits of Senator Burrows' proposal, the fact that he makes It must reassure those states men, particularly from the South, who Jiave been fearful lest the trend toward centralization would rob the states of all their functions. Mr. Bur rows makes It plain that, despite pro visions In the enabling acts of dif ferent states, the states have absolute control, once admitted to the union, over domestic affairs so long as their state enactments do not contravene the federal constitution. The very difficulty of securing amendments to the federal constitution Is the surest guaranty that no scheme of centrali sation can deprive the states of their just and legitimate rights as defined In the original frame of government for the republic. REK1SDL1KO THS rtAMKS. If there was any one piece of legis lation enacted by our law-makers last winter on which the people of Ne braska were united without respect to party affiliations it was the anti-pass law. The whole machinery by which the railroads had made themselves a dominating factor In our politics waa built up on the free pass system and lubricated and maintained by the dis tribution of free transportation. When brought to a showdown the railroad representatives . gave it out that their companies were not only in sympathy with the anti-pass move ment, but had already on their own Initiative abrogated the free pass sys tem, and that they would welcome leg islation that would make It Impossible for any of them to suffer a relapse be cause of outside pressure or political temptation. In the light of all this the people of Nebraska had a right to expect the railroads operating in this state to obey with alacrity all the pro visions of the anti-pass law and the failure of the railroads to do so must surely be disappointing even to their friends. Confronted with such a situation, the State Railway commission is to be commended for promptly asserting its authority to require from the railroads full reports of all transportation Issued for use In Nebraska for less than the regular published cash fares exacted from the general public, or under so called special contract by which an at tempt has been made to Justify evasion of the law. The people of Nebraska will not be satisfied until the whole free pass system la wiped out, root and branch, and If the law already enacted, supplemented by the authority Tested in the State Railway commission should prove Inadequate to accomplish the object, they will insist on addi tional and more stringent legislation at the first opportunity. The railroad managers who have been deprecating "hostile" legislation ought to know enough to know that they cannot regain popular confidence except by manifesting a reasonable disposition to conform to the reform legislation already enacted. Any dif ferent course Is sure to rekindle the flames burning low. ' The' city council is divided on the question who should sprinkle the pave ments and whether the street railway company should be made to sprinkle that portion of the pavement occupied by Its tracks irrespective of the sprink ling of the remainder of the pavement. The only eatisfactory solution of the Street sprinkling problem will come when the city authorities have a right to establish sprinkling districts and apportion the expense so as to compel the street railway company and prop erty owners each to pay their proper shares. It would be very fine If Governor Sheldon could see his way clear to ac company the Omaha Commercial club's trade excursion to the Puget Sound country. It should be remembered, however, that the governor has many official duties to perform, to say noth ing of Decoration day addresses and Fourth of July orations, which might tend to keep him at home. Nebraska railroad managers may be in doubt about responding to the requirements of the anti-pass law for reports of the names of favored pass holders, but they will be In less doubt about responding to the order of the State Railway commission, whose lan guage Is plain and unescapable. Des Moines Is trying to get on the map as a grain market through special elevation allowances from the rail roads. Des Moines Is welcome to break Into the game, but Omaha has several laps the start as well as a natural advantage of location which cannot be overcome. The national pure food commission is going to give the whisky makers another chance to present arguments on the kinds of labels to be used,. It Is a waste of time, as squirrel whisky would be Just as potent under any other label. Princeton university has received a donation of f 1,200,000 from some per son whose name Is not announced. Hetty Green might be suspected, as her -name Is never announced In con nection with large gifts of money for educational purposes. A Denver man has Invented a liquid which he claims will give any man a fine tenor voice. About two drinks of the average liquid sold in Denver will make a man believe he has Caruso backed off the boards as a tenor. Since so many Egyptian camels have been tjameof after Roosevelt, the sug gestion has been made that the gi raffes should be named after Falr- banks. All right and let the rhinoc eros be named after Taft and the hip popotami after Bryan. There must be some mistake about this dollar wheat talk. We were once told that the only way to get dollar wheat was by free and unlimited coin age of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1 with out waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation on earth. A cordial welcome Is extended to the grand lodge of the Ancient Order of United Workmen for Nebraska, holding Its session In Omaha. The prosperity of the state Is well reflected In this prosperous organization. Chalk It llonn. Washington Herald. Strange things aometlmrs happen In Washington. For example: A prominent politician visited the White House re cently, and admitted when he came away that he and the president discussed the political situation! Jnrrlna- a. Cinch. New York Tribune. Though no such purpose has bean form ally divulged, it Is now pretty evident that the weather bureau means this year to shorten the sraarn In which Ice dealers can oppresa the public and to prevent a repetition of laat summer's experience. Hare Yon Yoar Share 2. Springfield Republican. The question is: Have you got all that belongs to you? On May 1 you should have had 234.16 In your pocket, as that was your share of the per capita wealth of the country. A year ago you should have had 232.22. Next year you may get another rise of 22. No Hague Conference In Ohio. Chicago Chronicle. It will be sad. Indeed, If it proves to be true as reported that the Ohio peace con gress has already gone out of business and that the respective forces of Messrs. Taft and Foraker are again sharpening their scalping knives In preparation for fratri cidal strife. Evidently Mr. Carnegie and Mr. Btead sailed for Europe a week too soon. They should have established per manent headquarters In Cincinnati. Natare Never loaea Count. Boston Herald. It Is said of the late Dean HufTcutt, Governor Hughes' legal adviser, who com mitted suicide the other day as a result of a nervous breakdown from overwork, that ha waa one of the moat brilliant men ever graduated from Cornell university. And In his comparatively brief career since his graduation he has fulfilled the bright promise of bis youth. He seems to have had one eonsplcJUS falling, however, and that waa his lniXilllty to appreciate the Importance of occasional rest and recrea tion from exacting Intellectual pursuits. It Is said of him that he never took a va cation. They reckon ill Who count on Mother Nature's carelessness as a book keeper. HOME RILE AT HOME. Protest Against Municipal Legislation from State Capital. Chicago Record-Herald. In spite of much pressure, agitation and threats, Muyor McCIellan of New York has vetoed the teachers' salary bill re cently passed by the state legislature. If ho had not done so it Is highly probable that Governor Hughes would have given the measure Its quietus for exactly the same reasons which the mayor advances. The bill was in tbe Interest of upper grade and high school women teachers and provided for "equal pay for equal work" Irrespective of sex. It waa mandatory; that Is. It deprived the local board of ed ucation of all discretion In the matter, it made it their statutory duty to pay the women affected as .much as the men en gaged In the same kind of work. As there are no men teachers In the schools of New York City below grade 4-B, the women In the primary grades were not benefited by the bill. The teachers whom the bill waa designed to benefit contended with great vigor and warmth that it waa unfair that women should be paid less than men work ing side by side with them simply on ac count of their sex, regardless of efficiency, diligence and other considerations. On behalf of the opponents of the bill, among whom the men teachers In the schools were prominent. It was argued that work that la apparently equal Is not al ways really equal; that In private employ ment men as a rufe command higher pay than women for "equal work," tbe ratio of men's pay to women's being automat ically regulated by economic principles; that if men were paid no more than women they would gradually be driven out of the system, to tho profound injury of the schools, and, finally, that, even If the bill ahould be regarded as right In principle. It was a violation of home rule. The ques tion of pay was a question for the local authorities, who knew the situation much better than the state legislature, and dicta tion in such matters from Albany was fraught with danger of pull, politics and friction. rCRHOXAL NOT IKS. John I Eulllven's Idea of a mollycod dle Is a man who weighs less than 200 pounds. Americans who enlist In their country's service are not the only ones who desert. From four British warships anchored at Jamestown there have been 160 deser tions. , Vermont has fourteen living ex-gover-nora, ranging In ay from 84 years down to half a century. The list Is headed by Frederick K. Ibrook of Brattleboro, the war governor. Peary states that he will be forced to remain at home and deliver another series of lectures, provided the necessary 260,(00 Is not forthcoming. If that doesn't i fetch it, nothing in tha world will! The aecond Mrs. Corey starts in her new career with $35,0(10 worth of brlilnl clothes. 2750,000 dot from her husband and a castle for he honeymoon In Kurope. The Flo adora aextotters are beaten to a finish. Diamonds worth nearly 215,000 were stolen i from the apartments of an actress living In a New York hotel. Tha manager of the hotel ssys he Is pussied by the theft. What pussies other people Is that the actress won't let her nam get Into print. Hon. Thomas Bent, the Premier of Vic toria, is visiting London. In Australia he is known ss the "singing premier" in consequence Of his habit of singing comic songs in the middle of his political speeches. It comes about In this way. While speaking a phrase strikes a chord of memory which recalls some half-forgotten melody, and then the premier breaks forth Ir.to song. Ellison Warren, son of John W. Warren, the New' Mexico cattle king. Is working as a bell-boy in a Los Angelrs hotel and studyirig bookkeeping in a night school. Warren pera has a 600,000-acra ranch at Engle. N. M., but the young fellow has determined to make his own way In the world and refuses to accept help from his father. He returns checks from his par- i enta, marking ! thanks." thsm "Declined with BIT9 or WA'HUflTOI LIFE!. Miner Seenes ana Incidents Sketched a the Spot. The applause and commendation heaped upon the White House bull terrier, com monly known as "Pete," have been dis credited by recent events. "Fete" Is unable to line up to his reputation. Having chaned the ambassador of France up a tree and closed his chopa on a Juicy slice of a re porter's chocked trousers, occupants of nearby departments forgot their troubles and wntrhet "Pete" contribute to the gaiety of life nround the White House. Rut every dog haa his day of ecllpsn. Tete" tins hud hls'n. A no-account purp strayed Into 'Tete's" preserves and de fiantly Ignored the sign, "Keep off the Qmss." 'Tetc" decided to teach the Mete a lasting lenon In official manners, and sailed in. As soon an he could he re treated to his kennel on three legs. A dog doctor says "Pete's " Injuries are such that he may hsve to be killed. If so, the humun victims of "Pete's " Jaw suggest that on his tombstone be engraved the In spired lines of the late "Tom" Ochiltree, written on the occasion of the violent death of Ben a tor Jones' bull pup in a street fight: "He was a fighter, a of a good fighter, but a poor judge of dogs." The various physicians who have been attending the convention of physicians and surgeons held in Washington last week havo had a most enjoyable time, for be tween tho scaions held by the various societies the members have had chances for sightseeing and social enjoyment. Although It has long been known that doctors have declared that the habit of taking a cocktail or any alcoholic stimu lant before breakfast is a most injurious one to health and have strongly advised against It, the doctors this week do not seem to have practiced what they pre scribe. It Is a fact that during the week the hotel where the large majority of the physlslans are staying was obliged to order Its entire staff of barkeepers on duty early every morning so as to meet the demand for the before-breakfast cocktail made by the visitors. t It has been stated that nver' before dur ing the session of a -Convention in Wash ington has there been such a demand for "before breakfast" cocktails and highballs ss during the present convention of doc tors and surgeons. This doea not Imply, however, that the members of the con vention retired late at night or Indulged in midnight suppers and entertainments, but the barkeepers said tt looked to them as If tha physicians were In the habit of taking an "eyeopener," and that it cam natural to them. Another peculiarity exhibited by the at tendants at the convention was the num ber of mint Juleps consumed. All records at the hotel bars were broken, for It seemed that nine out of every ten of the visitors wanted a mint Julep when they had their meals. From tbe demand for this beverage by tbe physicians it waa concluded that mint Juleps must be considered health ful, and if tha convention remains much longer In Washington the price of mint will go up to almost a prohibitive figure. June will be Secretary Taft's busiest campaign month, reports fha Washington Herald. His peregrinations will then de scribe an arc stretching from Oklahoma in the southwest around through Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska to South. Dakota In the northwest He will enter tha latter named state under tha ausploes of Senator Kittredga Instead of those of Senator Gamble, between whom and his colleague there exists a bitter feud. Senator Kitt redga has been somewhat of a third termer, though ha has always been will ing to accept Taft aa a substitute. Sena tor Gamble represents distinctly the Roose velt principles In South Dakota politics, while Senator Kittredga has been generally supposed to stand for variants, If not exact opponents, of these principles. Neverthe less, Mr. KIttredge has always had high standing at tha White House and usually has received the favors there he asked, while Mr. Gamble has experienced a good deal of difficulty in obtaining presidential approval of matters affecting factional poli tics in his state. Secretary Taft will remain In South Da kota about a week, or from June 15 to 21 While there he will make one or mora speeches a day and Senator KIttredge has arranged an elaborate program of enter tainment for him. All of his speeches will bo pitched In a political key, mors dlreotiy so than those ha will deliver In the south west. En route to South Dakota ha will probably accept several Invitations to speak in Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska. It is now considered possible that his politi cal engagements wilt so multiply within tha next two months that he will be com pelled to abandon his proposed trip to the Philippines to witness the opening at Ma nila next fall of the first Philippine legis lative assembly. , Justice Harlan of tha United States su preme court, aged 74 years, made a home run and won the game In a base ball con test at tho annual shad baka given by the Washington Bar association at Mar ahall Hall. Md., last Saturday. When Justice Harlan went to the bat tbe score was a tie and tha umpire had called two strikes and three balls. It was a critical and exciting moment, when Jus tice Harlan smashed the sphere a wicked swat squarely on the nose and drove It to deep center. Ha started around the bases and his leg work was really marvelous. His sprinting qualities surprised and de lighted the fans, who were wild with en thusiasm'. The ball went over the head of the center fielder and was lost "m the tall grass. Before it was recovered Justice Harlan had reached the home fvkite, where he stood sipping a mint Julep which had been prepared hurriedly for tha agile Kentuck lan as a reward for lining out a four-base hit and showing the younger element how to get around the bases. It is feared there will be a vacancy on the supreme court bench, as "Home Run" Harlan has already received offers of con tracts from bail teams needing hitters. The Postofflce department has yielded to the Indignant protests of cltlsens and dis continued the name of "Skldoo" for tha Venango county (Pa.) postofflce recently established. Tha name was selected by accident, any how, without any Idea tint It would be approved by the department. When busi ness made it necessary to establish the office it fell to the Franklin postmaster In forwarding the papers to Washington to suggest a nam. He was pussied, and mentlonnlng the matter at home one day his little daughter said, "Name It 'Bkldoo,' I pupa. Having no cnoire iumsir, nn wrote down "Plildoo as the suggestion of a resident. No other suggestions coming In, the paptrs wsnt through and Bkldoo It became. People laughed at first, but when they saw that the name waa likely to stick snd the Jokes began to pour in they be came tndlgnsnt. Soon protests and sug gestions for new names began to pour in and the department finally ylolded. Now Bkldoo has skldooed. Rest af All Tonics. Chicago Raeord-Herald. Pr. Osier says hope Is one of the beet medicines people eon have. A good thing about such medicine Is that one can hardly take an overdose of 1U ffl" Delicious ira i . Mo! Biscuit Lpf Templing, Appetizing ' arc made Willi Uglit, crisp, wliolesome The best food to start tbe day with Food raised with Price' Baking: Powder Is unfermented, never sours in the stomach, and may be eaten in its most delicious state, fresh and 'not, by persons of all temper tunents and occupations, without fear of unpleasant results. x WCM BAEtNO MIRTHFUL REMARKS. Prospective Purchaser I like the looks of thla automobile, but suppose I ahould run over someone and Salesman The aprlngs are so easy, sir, you'd scarcely be Jarred at all. Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Do you believe that water In stocks does any great harm?" "Well,,, anawered Mr. Dustln Stax, "water In stocks, combined with the sun shine of publicity, im responsible for a great many radea reputations." Washington Star. Cltlman Aren't any ot you suburbanites preparing to grow anything itv your gar dens thas year? Stubbuba Welt there's one thing most of us have grown already. " Cltlman jndecdY What is tnatr Subbubs Tired. Philadelphia Press. Horribly dull," remarked the artisan; "tha certainty of regular work at high wmras U wearing ma out." His comrade agread that monotony was the bane of life. Thus waa the strike epidemic accounted for. Philadelphia ledger. The prodigal had returned. "Father," he said, "are you going to kill the fatted calf?" "No," responded the old man, looking tha youth over carefully; "no, I'll let you live. But I'll put you to work and train some ot that fat off." Cleveland Leader. Visitor I found the policemen at that down-town station a very sociable lot with one another. Cltlsen Yes, I believe tney generally ciuo together. Baltimore American. Tha embesillng teller had been sentenced to six years' Imprisonment. "Your honor," ha said, with a respectful 1 1 lV2 U.1LLU' a Walx- - SHOESFOR Are good shoes. They look wear well. They repre2ent that of shoe excellence, style anJ united. King Quality shoes interest men particular about their (hoes. Every man who weirs Kiatj; Quality Shoes once invariably buys them .(f again. He knows they keep jt? j their shape longer than other shoes. II dealer socs sat carry -KING QUALITY," seal lor Price! Catalsgse, Arnold Shoe Co,, No. Ablngton.Mass. W Nir: Buy The Piano Today! EXTRAORDINABY bargains are being offered at the Hospe store at this time. We apk you to note carefulU these prices: $125, $145, $175, $190, $225 and $250. There are 6even distinct Pianos. Among them are sue& makes as Columbus, Schullhoff, Bell Imperial, Cramer & Kensington. The majority of them are special new style, strictly up-to-date Pianos These prices mean a splendid saving. They are the lowest spot cash prices the instruments can be bought for. If you prefer, instead of paying cash, $6.00 or $7.00 per month, wijh small interest on deferred payments, will make you the happy possosser of one of them. Xow come tomorrow; you know it need take you only five minutes to buy a Piano at the Hospe store. A. HOSPE CO., 1513 Douglas Street Write for Free Catalogue. ONE PRICE. NO COMMISSION. POWD2U2, CtTJCAOa bow, "the trial waa fair and tha aentenca la Just" "Ureat Scott," moaned tha prison" a counsel, "and I ' never thought to plead brainstorm for a man who actually raves." Philadelphia Ledger. First Interne What a funny little ap pendix that last patient had. Second Internet Yes; regular comic sup plement. Chicago Tribune. The month of May shivered. "Perhaps it was all. right," she said, "for you to) linger In the lnp of spring, but I won't have any old loafer mussing up my summer ault, Just understand that." ' Winter, however, begged for delay, anJV hung around awaiting a Anal declalon.yw Philadelphia Ledger. "Hello, old man!" exclaimed Dudley at the Literary Circle reception, "It's a pleaa ant aurprlse to meet you here ' "Good of you to say so, old chap," re plied Brown. "Tea, you see, I was afraid I wouldn't find an body but bright and cultured peopls herev-phlladelphla Press. m bad repute:. Louisville Courier-Journal. There was a time when May was fair, Tha fairest month we had Then pretty flowers were everywhere To make ua mortals glad. It was a month that all did praise And poets used to say (With real sorrow In the phrase) "It la not always May." But now May brings us sleet and snow And rain and hail and slush, We have but little cause, you know. O'er modern May to gush. In fact, aa we ita clouds of Ink Inspect from day to day. We're very much relieved to think It Is not always May. MEN well and they rare quality comfort who are nn tMtSMotorstioc: TOPPY SHOE OF THE SEASON A4il X THE V K