Nebraska Newspapers

    THE OMAHA DAILY BEEt
MONDAY, MAY 20, 1007.
The Omaha Daily Bel
roUNDEU) BY EDWARD ROSEWATEH
VICTOR ROBE WATER. EDITOR.
Entered at Omaha postofflc econ.
tu matter.
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THE BEE PUBLISHING COMFANT.
BTATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
Stat of Nebraska. Douglas County, as,
Charles C. Rosewatar, . general manager
of The Bee Publishing Company, being
duly sworn, nay that th actual number
JJ full and complete roplea ol rh Dally,
Morning. Evening and Sunday Be printed
during th month of April. 107. was as
follows:
1 33.670
2 84.090
34,110
34.3M
34,330
34,330
7 31,400
34,380
34.4S0
10 34,800
11 34,410
i 3s,rao
11 38,890
1 33,400
1 34,690
1 34.830
17 38,090
g 38,090
J9 34.840
0 38,010
tl 83,380
12 38.090
IS 08,300
S4 88,40
tl 38,470
St 80,340
17 38,830
21 34,800
29 38,810
19 38,860
Total
1,038,410
Less unsold and returned copies. 8,864
Net total ; 1.088.B46
Dally average 84,984
CHARLES C. ROSEWATEH,
General Manager.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before me tbla 10th day of April. 1907.
(Seal.) M. U. HUNQA.TB.
Notary Publla
WHISK OCT OF TOW,
bserlber leavlaa; th elty temt
porarllly .14 have Th Be
nailed to tfccaa. Addre will hm
Any age la apparently a marrying
age tor an actress. ,
The late spring has not Injured the
crop of stories about possible wheat
(amines.
"Money Is a menace." says Colonel
Watterson. Possibly, but most people
are brave.
It should be safe now tor King Ak-Sar-Bea
to put his great fur coat in
cold storage.
Washington papers are confident the
town will see some mighty good ball
playing before, the season Is over. By
the visiting teamsT
It Is not too late for Mr. Bryan to
amend his statement about the price of
wheat and the price of silver always
being linked together.
The population of Idaho is 165,000,
so every man in the state has a pretty
good chance of being drawn on the
Haywood Jury panel.
. "PltUburg must have a new deal,"
Bays a paper of that city. The trouble
with Pittsburg deals is that there are
too many Jokers in the pack.
Honors are even. ... Senator Piatt
eays he never was a Roosevelt man
and no one can accuse the president
of ever having been a Piatt man.
"Lynching Is going out of fashion
In the south." says an Alabama paper.
Reports now Indicate that mobs are
using dynamite Instead of the rope.
Scientists now assert that fish can
not hear. In view of the tall stories
tld about them, deafness In fish must
be looked upon as a blessing rather
than affliction. .
The retiring deputy labor commis
sioner explains that he la resigning to
take a position for a window shade
company. Just so it Is not a fire
escape company.
Latest reports are that Mr. Bryan
weighs 235 pounds. But he still looks
that "after taking" picture in an anti
fat advertisement, when compared
with Secretary Taft.
The minister who united In marriage
Mr. Corey and Miss Mabelle Oilman
, at tl.,000 per is now explaining. He
ought to admit he needed the money
and let It go at that.
It is a common thing now for
Omaha's weekly bank clearings to
mount up close to the 111.000.000
' mark. Omaha is bound to keep in
good company in the clearing house
table.
f Fortunately for the people outside
i of the penitentiaries, Iowa Is to have
a new law, going Into effect next July,
1 which la expected to put some limits
on the free distribution of paroles and
pardons by the governor. v
Washington society Is trying to ad
vance the cause of temperance by giv
ing up wine at dinner. It will be
remembered that Washington society
declared It vulgar to serve butter at
dinner when butter cost 60 cents a
pound.
It now appears that the new crown
,m!ii'o of Spain will be christened Al
fonroPio Chrlstlno Eduardo Francisco
Uulilermo Carlos Enrique Eugino
Fertamio Antonio Vensncler Capet.
Later his chums will call him "Fatty"
or "Film" or "Euorty," as his physique
BtSCLlS OF MEAT INSrKCTWS.
A conference at Chicago of the chief
meat Inspectors of the Department of
Agriculture comes as a reminder of an
almost forgotten Incident, a bo at a
year old, that almost robbed Amer
icans of their appetite for meat The
publio has apparently forgotten or
grown Indifferent to the exposures
which created so much excitement a
year ago, but the report of Dr1. Melvln,
chief of the bureau of animal Industry,
furnishes ample Justification for the
restoration of national confidence In
the meat supply. All the chief Inspec
tors reported that the most wholesome
results have followed the enforcement
and operation of the new meat inspec
tion law and the consequent protection
of the domestic. as welj as the foreign
customers. Since the agitation, ac
cording to the official report, the pack
ers have spent "millions of dollars" in
new, modernized, scientifically sani
tated buildings, equipped with devices
and conveniences for the workers, and
every precaution has been taken to
make the product of the packing house
wholesome. '
In reviewing the work of the Inspec
tion service. Secretary Wilson declares
"The American people may rest assured
that they are getting the healthiest
and best meats supplied to any coun
try In the world. Conditions have
been bettered to such an extent that
people may be certain that they are
getting clean meat when it comes from
a firm whose packing houses are under
federal lnspeotion." This official view
Is supported by the results of private
Investigations made by foreign buyers
of American packing house products.
All agree that the present system of
Inspection is genuine and efficient,
thus completely vindicating the rather
radical methods employed by the ad
ministration to arouse the public and
congress to the action necessary for
the eradication of packing house
abuses.
TAXJNQ GOVERNMENT BONDS.
The supreme court of the United
States has balked the authorities of the
state of Iowa in an effort to levy a tax
on government bonds, bringing up an
old question in a new form and thus
finally disposing of It. The Iowa state
law provides that "shares of stock of
state and savings banks and loan and
trust companies shall be assessed to
such banks and loan and trust com
panies and not to individual stock
holders." The upholders of the law contended
that this was a tax upon the property
of the banks and loan companies and
not a tax upon government bonds, al
though such bonds might form a large
or small share of the property of the
banks. In the test of the case in the
state acourts, it was shown that the
savings banks held a goodly amount
of government bonds and the intima
tion was offered that this securities
were placed In that form for' the pur
pose of evading taxes, the supreme
court held that the purpose of exempt
ing government bonds from taxation
was to protect the national credit,
otherwise the national securities might
easily be taxed whenever they were
held by a corporation. Congress has
never empowered the states to levy
taxes en government bonds and the
supreme court questions the authority
of congress to bestow such power, even
if it were so disposed.
The decision settles the law for all
time to be that United States bonds
are not taxable, but are to be deducted
from returns of taxable property,
whether of a corporation-or an indi
vidual. '' The court holds, properly,
that if states could tax government
bonds at all they might tax them at
any rate and thus impair if not destroy
the national credit. The decision,
however, does not apply to taxes levied
on bank shaies against the individual
owners as is done in Nebraska and
many other states, although some of
the dividends of the stock may be
earned by investments in government
bonds as part of the bank's assets.
CHICAGO'S SEW CITY C04BTIR.
Chicago has been celebrating the en
actment by the legislature of a new
city charter, which is to be submitted
for ratification at a special election
next September and from which all
sorts of municipal blessings are ex
pected to flow.
The new Chicago charter works
many changes in existing organisa
tion of the city government, particu
larly by consolidating the powers and
responsibilities. Heretofore municipal
authority in Chicago has been out up
between numerous independent local
governments, including a Board of Ed
ucation, township boards, park boards
and similar subdivisions, each op
erating on its own account. This au
thority Is to be centered in the mayor
and his appointees and the mayor's
office Is to be' further strengthened by
extending the term to four years. The
mayor and council will continue as the
source of local legislation with certain
amplified powers and increased sala
ries. Civil service requirements are
extended into practically all branches
of the municipal employment and an
effort is made to make civil service
effective by creating a civil service
commission vested with full powers.
Outside ef Its peculiarly local pro
visions the significant feature of Chi
cago's new city charter Is that it pro
ceeds along established lines rather
than by striking out by the path that
Is achieving popularity elsewhere un
der the name of the "Galveston plan,"
or "commission idea." The scheme
of municipal government by general
committee, consisting of a mayor and
some half docen elective members,
among whom the different depart
ments are parcelled out for super
vision and control, evidently failed to
attract favorable attention from thoso
who framed Chicago's new charter.
As a consequence the charter makers
have preferred to cling close to the
normal form of municipal government
that has been evolved in this country
In the belief that .Chicago's municipal
salvation can be achieved without too
many radical changes at oie time.
It is taken for granted In Chicago
that the charter will be approved by
the voters and go into effect at the ap
pointed time. Actual experiment
alone wtll demonstrate how far it will
help the city to respond to the growing
demands upon its municipal government.
IN MEMORY OF MISS ANTHONY.
The announcement that a fund of
$60,000 has been raised for the pur
pose of carrying out the plans of Susan
B Anthony for further advancement
of the cause of equal suffrage, to which
she devoted the energies of her busy
life, comes suddenly upn the general
public, because practically no reports
of progress on securing the fund had
been made. In that respect, its collec
tion has been a marked Innovation
from the usual In such cases. It ap
pears that less than a year ago, and
Just a short time before her death,
Miss Anthony confided her Ideas for
future work In the suffrage movement
and expressed a fear that the resources
would not be forthcoming to carry It
on. A few close friends took up the
matter and the $60,000 necessary to
carry out Miss Anthony's plans and
thus perpetuate her memory was sub
scribed by less than twenty-five per
sons. As widely as a majority of the peo
ple of the country differed in opinion
from Miss Anthony, her methods of
campaign were never censured. She
was a fighter, but she understood hu
man nature and never resorted to ques
tionable methods, such as have recently
brought the British suffragettes Into
ridicule, to the Irreparable Injury to
their cause. The collection of ' the
fund, designed not only to perpetuate
her name but to put Into execution
the plans she had formed for the
realization of- her most cherished
hopes, honors her memory in a pecu
liarly fitting fashion.
PENALTY FOR PISTOL TOTINO.
The Texas legislature, which had a
regular saturnalia of reform, has dis
covered that one of its enactments
has failed in accomplishing the good
intended. After deciding that bed
sheets in hotels of the state should
be at least eight feet long, the legisla
ture passed a law designed to put an
end to the pistol carrying habit, which
had become something of a menace to
the general welfare. With that object
in view, a law was passed imposing a
tax of 50 per cent on the gross sale of
firearms, and already it has been dem
onstrated that it takes more than a
legislative enactment to break the
Texans of a chronic habit. The shoot
ing iron dealers have' discovered easy
methods of evading the law. The
steady patron of the pistol counter is
taken into confidence and induced to
pay $5 to (25 for a cake of soap or a
shaving brush and the pistol is thrown
in as a premium. In that way both the
seller and the buyer save the increased
price that would result from compli
ance with the state law.
Texas has made the mistake of going
about it in the wrong way to break up
a bad habit. A law requiring the
dealer in firearms to secure a license
and. to report his sales to the authori
ties would furniBh the police with an
accurate list of pistol toters. Then, a
law prohibiting the carrying of con
cealed weapons, If enforced, would
soon end the pernicious and foolish
practice. The city authorities In New
York are vigorously enforcing such
an edict with most satisfactory results
In the reduction of the number of
homicides. Texas has made the error
of underestimating the fertility of the
inventive genius that produces loop
holes for law evasion.
One railroad has filed with the State
Railway commission its full list of
free passes Issued during the month
recovered by Its report The passes Is
sued during the rarticular month, how
ever, ar,e not all the pasties outstand
ing which may be used for free rides
within the boundaries of Nebraska and
whose use for that purpose is prohib
ited by our anti-pass law. Holders of
annuals Issued before the new law
went Into effect are in position to ride
free between points on lines in this
state and the Intent of the law con
templates publicity of the names of all
present pass holders no matter when
they received their pasteboards.
.The story about a cyclone that
picked up a school house in an Illinois
town, carried it out a few miles and
then restored It to its original location
without injuring the building or inter-,
fering with the recitations in progress
will make interesting reading down
east, but will not create even a ripple
of surprise or Interest In the west.
The story originated in Kansas some
years ago, when the correspondent
who afterwards achieved fame as the
Chefoo liar wss working on a Wichita
newspaper.
According to the brief filed by our
Water board attorneys In the last
water works case, there never was any
Intention on the part of the city to buy
the water plant unless It could be had
for leas than $8,000,000. What for
have ww been paying salaries to all
these do-nothing water commissioners
and their engineering experts and
blgh-prlced attorneys all these four
years?
Iowa club women at the Iowa state
federation meeting were told that the
responsibility refits upon them for ralo
lng the standard of our newspapers.
If that ts tho case the continued con
tagion of yellow Jourstls In Cciata. j
scattering broadcast filthy fakes and
pouring the poison of sensationalism
Into the homes, must be laid up to the
women shirking their responsibilities.
No man has any right to hold the
office of sheriff In Douglas county un
less he Is content with the salary and
emoluments allowed by law and will
ing to turn into the treasury all money
that properly belongs to the taxpayers
received for Jail accommodations fur
nished prisoners from the outside.
The only democrat ever elected at
torney general In Nebraska has se
cured an Injunction from a district
court Judge o prevent his neighbor's
chickens from digging worms in his
front yard. What has become of the
democratic platform plank denouncing
government by injunction? .
Expert horticulturists stake their
reputations on the declaration that
fruit trees In this vicinity will yield a
fair crop, Jack Frost to the contrary
notwithstanding. That news should
be as welcome as tidings of dollar
wheat.
There seems to be dsngor that
Mayor "Jim" will be as generous with
his permits for street signs forbidden
by ordinance as he Is with pardons for
Jail prisoners.
A summary of the graft scandal In
San Francisco shows that Abe Ruef
did not do It, but Is sorry he got caught
and Is now lying about his pals.
Walt Till the Monarch Speak.
St. Louis Republic.
Dollar wheat la having his day now.
Walt till w hoar from old King Corn.
. A Reannnahle Probability.
i . Philadelphia Press.
In all probability there will be no short
age In the wheat crop except for trading
purposes.
Overflowing the nonndary.
St. Louis Democrat.
Business condition are so good In
United States that prosperity has
the
ex
panded Into Canada, Cuba, Panama and
Mexico.
Too Slow In Daeklag,
Chicago Chronicle. -
In its practice teats the naval submarine
boat Octopus has beaten all records for
quick diving. The Standard Oil octopus
used to have a high reputation in that
line, but it lately seems unable to duclt
quickly enough to escape the fire of the
Department of Justice.
Reform la the Air.
New Yosk Tribune.
In passing a bill making it a misdemeanor
to amok a cigarette in publio the Wis
consin State assembly takes the lead in
championing man' Inalienable right to
freeh atmosphere. The s next step may be
the compulsory canning of the chewing
gum breath. At last it may be said with
perfect truth that reform Is In the air.
Confeasloa Good fov itbe Coannlr
Kansas CHyj. Star. ... .
' No matter whe t a wan - baa been' be
fore, you cannot, get. away from the fact
that he is rendering a great service to
oclety and morality wjien, he does .what
Abraham Kuef I doing in Ban Francisco.
To Judge the value of Ruef's confession
and his evidence against other, one must
lay aside alt consideration of. hi personal
motives whether they . Jbe those of cow
ardice, revenge and penitence. The Im
portant fact is that In such a, comprehen
sive sytem .of graft as that operated . In
San Francisco the whol truth cannot be
known until some man who has partici
pated in the benefit of the system tells
what he knows.
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PERSONAL ROTES.
Thomaa F. Walsh, the Colorado mining
king, studied under a tutor for several
years after he made his fortune to correct
the defects in his early education.
Senator Nixon of Nevada, who used to be
a telegraph operator, ..found some gold
mines and now ha so much money that
he frankly admits he can't count It.
The Academle des Belle Lettre of Paris
ha awarded 2,000 of the 1,000 franca of th
Prix Loubet to Henry Ylgnaud, secretary
of the American embassy, for his book on
Columbus.
The decoration of the Order of the Morn,
Ing Sun was conferred upon Dr. Louis
Klopsch, editor of the ,. Christian Herald,
In New York, by Baron Takewo Osawa,
personal envoy of the Japanese emperor.
The decoration la conferred upon Dr.
Klopsch in recognition of the work done
by him In relieving famine sufferers In
Japan last year. More than $260,000 was
raised by th Christian Herald for this pur
pose. Ban Francisco Is sorely troubled with
labor unrest and racket, but the city will
not know what a real strike Is until a
bunch of Chicago teamster are imported.
The proposed monument to BUI Nye, to
be erected by the Press Humorist' asso
ciation, represents a fine spirit of fra
ternity among the t smtle-makers of the
land. Surviving members of th famous
"party liars" of Laramie may b depended
on to fatten the fund.
II. B. Irving and his Urother, Laurence,
are to publish a biography of the late Sir
Henry Irving. No leas than all book have
been written about Sir Henry alnce his
death and there are at least two other to
followone by Austin Brereton and an
other by Joseph Hutton. Th final life by
the sons will not be published for several
years and for satisfactory reason. It
promises to be an Important book, for both
sons have demonstrated that they have
literary ability.
TUB STANDARD MIST.
Rockefeller' Oil Bnalarsa Oatrank a
Hold Mia.
Wall Street Journal.
The directors of the Standard Oil com
pany have declared a quarterly dividend of
19 per share, the same amount that was
paid in the corresponding quarter last
year. This compare with tlS three months
ago.
The Standard Oil dividend Is payable June
15 to stock of record May 30.
The dividend record of the Standari Oil
company from 1898 to the present follows:
Amount
vear. Dividend, disbursed
117
23.7i.O
1i6
I'M
isr.1
lftc'I
1S!)8
. 40
.
. 34
. 44
. 46
. 48
. 4H
. 13
. 3J
W 20O
43.123.4i0
44.1)0
47.O40.&0
47,(V40.'Jil
S..HOOno 1
Total :.. .
fJSP.4KI.70i)
Aa shown by the foregoing figures, th
Standard OH company has disbursed t3S0.
4,7e) to shareholders over a period of
nine and one-half yeara. By the close of
ths year disbursements will have reached
nearly $:ro oro (V 0. or f.vir t'rrrs the out
standing capital stock of th curpjrutlon.
ROtSD AHOIT SEW YORK.
Ripple oa the Current of I.lfe la th
Metropolis.
Th depth of romantic pathos In humble
life wa sounded In the metropolis Inst
Wednesday, when Jim Pair, the blind
fiddler of TorkMlle, wa fnunrt dead on a
doorstep In Fifty-first street. Pelrts him
wa th old fiddle and In his cloyed hand
a scrap of whit pare pricked with odd
looking and apparently meaningless points
here and there. No on know that the
crap of paper contained the secret of
Blind Jim' life and death no on except
Mrs. Donnelly, th woman with whom Jim
boarded at H EaM Forty-ninth stre-t. The
moment she saw It she exclaimed: "Why,
It's one of the letters that Jim gets now
and then. It s written In the blind script."
And In a moment It was translated.
"Dear Jim." It ran. "You mustn't wait
for me any longer. I've morrled the other
one. I'm sorry, Jim. but he played the
organ so beautiful. Yours, MAQOIE."
"I guess It's the same girl he ha been
writing to for these mny years," said Mrs.
Donnelly to the Sun reporter. "She lives
out In Jersey somewhere, and he's been
In love with her ever since they got ac
quainted In the blind school up on Amster
dam avenue, where Jim learned to read
and write the. blind alphabet. She's blind,
too, and J1m- thought he was going to
marry her eome day. At leaat so he's
hinted to me, without ever lotting on a
word about her name or address.
"Jim lived with us here going on fifteen
years, but we never learned the girl ad
dress. Jim was supported by relatives in
Brooklyn and around. But he didn't sit
here and Just lay around like many a blind
and many a seeing man with money from
the folks would do. An that's how h
came to get the name of Jim the Fiddler.
"Yesterday he got a letter. I saw him
after he reads It. His face was as gray as
i).ior-o gma ana smiling just a minute
before. He Sticks the letter in his pocket.
Picks up his fiddle and goes out. He played
along tho street corners all day. Last night
he came in, went out this morning with
never a word to me, and Just as If he didn't
know what to do any more. I couldn't
think what was the matter. He must havo
sat down to read tho last letter. That was
the one he had In his hand. It Jut broke
his heart. He waited twenty-seven years
for that girl and twenty-seven year I
long time."
New York has recently found out a thing
or two about Indians' all by Itself. It knows
one thing that It neither got from "Wild
Dick" novels nor a hurried trip west; It has
een Indians-bucks, squaws and papoose
-on It streets since last October, and will
testify that there is not an ounce of ill
temper left In these hefty aborigines. These
Indlans-rome ISO of them-are playing at
the Hippodrome. They go about Broadway
and other prominent streets In full regalia
and war paint and, though bound on the
most peaceful and personal mission mere
buying of chewing gum, cigarettes or "fire-water"-lnvarlably
they are attended by
youngster who ought to be cuffed and
spanked. The kiddles follow the Indian
to the door of a shop, wait patiently until
they come out again, attach themselves to
the Indians' heel and, with Imitations of
warwhoop and ghost dances, do their best
to make the red men's life in New York a
burden to them. Strangely enough, the In
dians never do anything but wear a tor
mented look when they are molested by "d
an" An Indian, indeed, I deserving of
a feather for bravery after h has hit th
trail on Broadway.
Hamilton Fish has held the office of as
sistant treasurer of th United State. In
charge of the subtreanury in New York.
His term expiree soon and, although he ha
been appointed as hi own successor, the
Immense Job of counting th money In th
vault of th gray old building on Wall
street must again b performed. Mr. Fish
doe not wish to give himself a receipt for
the cash supposed to be on hand miles he
know that It Is all there.
Th work began reoently. Ten experts
ar at it assisted by more than a drten
laborer who work it Is to do th heavy
lifting. There I some weight about 11.000,
000,000. In the vault there are 1250,000.000 of
which 174,000,000 are in silver oolns, weighing
more than 2,000 tons, and $178,000,000 of gold,
which weighs 860 tons. More than a month's
time will be consumed In the count.
In a Broadway car long pat midnight a
robust, motherly woman sat with a well-
grown boy of about 15 beside her. The boy
had fallen asleep and his head rested heav
ily agalnnt her shoulder. A man entering
the car wa cordially greeted by the woman
and wa about to slap the boy on th knee
when the mother Interposed. "Don't wake
him," he pleaded. "He' so big now that
he . is ashamed of doing childish things.
This is the first time In a year that he ha
been my baby boy again. Let me enjoy It.
For several day a tall, poorly dressed
but well set up man stood In Park Row,
where every man and woman participat
ing At the two dally Brooklyn bridge rushes
could see him. Suspended by a cord about
his neck was a white placard two feet
square, bearing the following in crudely
executed lettering:
I WANT WORK.
NO GRAFTRR.
NO APOLOGIES.
Th candor of the man and the simplicity
of his appeal lifted him Immediately from
th status of the ordinary street fakir.
Score of sympathetic pedestrians stopped
and talked with hlra. To each questioner
he. would say:
"My name is H. W. Leonard. I cam
from Cincinnati five month ago. I am
not educated, but I am honest, and I can
work. I am not a mechanic. I have no
trade, but I have my health and muat
upport myself. I lost a place becnuae my
hands were Injured in a gas explosion. I
am well again and want a Job. I propose
to stand here until th right man come
along."
He waited two day. As usual, he stood
by the bridge this morning displaying hi
placarded appeal. From the Jostling thou
sands there emerged a middle-aged man
and woman. The stopped In front of
Leonard. He bowed.
"Have you got a Job down your way for
an able-bodied man?" he asked.
The man asked a question which parted
Leonard's lips Into a double dental grin.
"Are you sure you want me? Tbank
Ood. I knew It would come." he was heard
to say.
The reply of the couple was lost In the
clatter of the street. In an Instant Leonard
removed the placard from his neck, folded
It under his arm and trudged down Nassau
street after th man and woman.
Activities of Weatera Woiaea.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
In Iowa a woman captured a burglar by
merely hanging on to him and then turned
him over to the police, but In Nebraska a
woman married the burglar ah captured.
Let' hope the Nebraska burglar will never
envy the Iowa one.
The Price of Peace.
Indianapolis News.
The hotel rooms of the American dele-
filial it TV, I ( U .1 1 . r..nn.
, ,,
umi. ana service, koobs s ir peace la
to be more expensive than war.
Whr Spring Healtnte.
Minneapolis Journal.
Omaha Is holding a popular voting con
test for Queen of My. Now you know
why spring failed to get a quorum this
year.
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Women Avoid
Operations
When a woman sofferlnu from
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The very thoupht of the hospital,
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It Is quite troe that these troub
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MEN WASTED.
Sign of the Time Saga-eating- Melan
choly Portents.
Washington Herald.
Within the last few years the feminine
part of the world has made such progress
that It has almost seemed as If mere man
were to be shut out altogether. Of
course, a "nice" man, with real money,
can even yet find a niche, but many
modern women think, undoubtedly, that
the money would be much nicer without
the man.
It Is all right for a man to buy a sixty
horsepower automobile, but, having bought
It, the woman can run It with as much
skill as he can. She may say she had a
better time without him, too.
In every walk of life, these modern day,
we find women holding more than their
own. They are beating the men clerks;
they make the best nurses; they are at
torney !n our courts; they are skillful
doctors, and, more recently, they have
taken to cab driving, and seem to do It
well.
The only gleam of hope we poor men
have had recently comes from the Con
gregational church, which Issues an ap
peal that "men are wanted In the church,
and at once, to supplement female grace
and devotion with masculine vigor and
dlreotness."
So there Is hope for tis after all. Along
the path of Congregationalism the women
still need us, and, perhaps. If we are good,
they will allow us to see them home.
SELFISHNESS nos NOT PAV.
Oreed Shrivels the Baal aid Make
Failure Certnln.
Wall Street Journal.
Governor Hughes ha coined a telling
plgram in th following word:
."Government doe not exist for parties
and parties do not exist for the exclusive
benefit of their member. A party that Is
thinking of Itself alone is doomed to
failure."
This Is putting government - by parties
on a high plane. A party that Is thinking
of itself alone Is a party of bosses and
spoil. A party that exist for the country
and not primarily for Itself In a party
which puts principles above men and poli
cies above spoils.
Governor Hughes' epigram applies equally
to Individual as to parties. It Is as true
of an Individual aa It ts of a party, that
It is doomed to failure If thinking of self
alone. There is not In th whole world a
mora lonesome Individual than th man
who 1 wholly salflsh, nor is there anyone
who contains more elements of failure.
True success depends upon thinking of
other as well aa for one's self. It de
pends upon reciprocity. It mean an out
giving as well aa an Intaklng.
WHEAT STATISTICS OF WORLD.
Informing Figure oa the Production
of Wheat. .
New Tork Sun.
It may help us to appreciate the grav
ity of the report that come from almost
all wheat statistic of th world. In 1906,
according to a report of the United States
Department of Agriculture, there was pro
duced In all countries of the globe, taken
together, 8,877,400.000 bushels of wheat. To
this aggregate we confine ourselves for
the moment to countries that have a sur
plus for export Australasia contributed
8S,74E,0OO; Hungary, 167,512,000; British India,
281,163,000; European and Astatic Russia,
about 600,000.000, and the United States,
802,979,000, That is to say, we garnered In
th year named almost 160,000,000 bushels
M the Heat
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be located and the quickest and surest
mora than the next largest producer. This
year It srem practically sure that Russia,
Roumanla and Hungary will have no wheat
to export and that consequently we shall
have no competitors except British India,
Argentina and Canada.
Bhall we have any wheat to spare? Dur
ing the fiscal lear ended June 90, IBOft, w
sent abroad a little less than 36,000.000
of wheat and a little less than 14,000.000
barrels of wheat Hour. Evidently, In view
of the shortage In our own crops, we shall
,not be able this year to do much If any
thing toward making good the deficit In
the supplies of foreign countries. The day
Indeed seems fast approaching when in
normal years the whole of our wheat crop
will be needed for home consumption.
LAIGHIXG GAS.
Wonderful," said the professor, "Is the
strength of the huinan Jaw."
"And," added the married man, "think
of its tlrelesnness I" Washington Herald.
"What was your strike about, anyway!"
The man who was laying brick paused an
Inntant.
"About a week, I think," he responded,
putting a brick In place. Philadelphia
ledger.
Stella Is she i
lean Revolution?
Daughter of the Amer-
Uella No, Indeed; merely a cousin
the recent Cuban one. Harper' Bazar.
of
I observe that you do a great many
favors for thnt Influential citlxen."
"Those aren't favors," anirwered Senator
Sorghum; "those are investments." Wash
ington Star.
"See here," said the sweet young thing
to her newly afllanccil, "1 want in this en
gaged business to get a square deal."
So he immediately proceeded to take her
around. Baltimore American.
. Olive Do you believe that the ouick
lunch counter habit Ima a had rfo.t nn n..
neartr
viuiei n nna on t orn 8 neart. He fell
in lov with a pretty waitress Smart Set.
First Scion of British Nobility Bara
acres was desperate, wasn't he?
Second Ditto Yes; poor, old chap! Mar
ried an American heiress. Baltlmor
Amerlcaji.
General Sherman wa on -his memorable
march to the sea.
"Everything seems to be going smoothly
thus far," he said, "but something seem
to tell me that the end will be dlsastrons."
Years afterward, when he found h
couldn't go anywhere without hearing th
brass Lands playing "Marching Through
Georgia," he realized that his foreboding!
had been only too well founded Chicago
Tribune.
WHIP REMIND.
Minna Irving In Ieslle's Weekly.
The boy delights to steal a rid
By hanging on the rear;
He swings between the muddy wheels
And twirls his his thumb at fear.
But thoso less agile than himself.
Maliciously Inclined,
Soon turn his laughter Into tear
By calling "Whip behind."
Just so th man who catches on,
And rises to the top.
Too quickly learns less lucky friend
Would like to see him drop.
He finds, alas! the laurel crown
With thorns Is often twined,
And hears below him still the mean
And mocking "Whip behind."
The hearts of few ar big enough
To honestly rejoice
When others get a lift from Fate,
So hark! the spiteful voice.
It follows us along tho road
We travel with mankind.
And works confusion to our Joy
By crying "Whip behind."
We all of us are hanging on
The coach of Father Time,
Delighting In Its rapid pace 1
With reckleseneas sublime.
But if we tumble off. behold!
Our sudden change of mind
We, too, take ud tho choru then
And echo, "Whip behind."
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