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o THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: 'THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1007. Hie Omaha Daily Km. FOUNDED BY EDWAUD ROSEWATKR. VICTOH HOSKWATEH, EDITOR. Knterrd at Omaha postofflie a second class matter. TKIIM8 OF fil'HPcniniON. Tmlly Hf (without Funday), one year.. 14 fO iHilly lire and Sunday one year "0 fiiimlnv lu-r. imp year 2..rO Baturday Hoe, one. year 1.60 IKIIVERKt RT CARRIKR fully l)-e Oncliidlrm Sunday, per week. .15c IHlly Hee (without Sunday!, p:r week. ..lee Kvettlng Hee (without Bundiiyi, per wek.fci Evening lleo (with Sunday), per week lOo Address all complaints of Irregulnrltles In delivery to City l'lrculntion Department. OFFICES. Omnha The fieo Untitling. Houth twntiha tlty Mall nufldlng. C'ounrll HlufT.x-15 Bcott 8tret. ChlcBgn--IM Unity Hutldlng. New York l. Home l.lfe Insurance Rldf. Washington !I1 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi torial nia.tter should be addressed. Omaha Uie, Editorial lwpartment. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Hee I'uhllshlng Company. Only 2-rent stamps rerelved In payment of mail accounts. I'ersonal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not ncrfpted. THE REE FUHMSIUNO CXJMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. 6tr.t of Nebraska. Douglas County, ss. Charles C. It. sewater, general manager of The "Reo Publishing Company, being duly sworn, savs that the actual number of full nml complete copies of The Daily, Morning, EvenlnK and Sunday Rea printed durlr the month of April, 1907, was as follows: 1 33,670 IT SS.090 I 34,090 IS W.O90 8 34,110 It 34.840 ' 34.390 SO 35,010 34,330 21 33.360 34,330 It 36.090 T 31,400 IS 85,300 84,380 2 4 33,430 34,450 tS 35,470 It 34,500 26 8o,340 11 34.410 27 36,030 12 35.730 21 34,600 II 36,630 2t 35,510 14 33,400 30 30,660 II 34,690 1 84,630 Total 1,038,410 Less unsold and returned copies. 9,884 Net total X.038.846 Dally average 34,284 CHARLES C. ROSEWATER, General Munnger. Bubscrlbed In my presence and sworn to before me this Both day of April, 1907. (Seal) M. 11. H UNGATE, Notary Public. WHF. OI T OP TOWS. Subscribers leaving the city tem porarily should have The Ilee mailed to them. Address will be changed as often as requested. Pat Crowe's lucky star must have been born with him. , If Pa Rourke has not furnished the weather man with a season pass be bhould do so at once. Judge Alton B. Parker may be won dering why no one ever suggests that he make a second race for the presi dency. Red flags are to be barred from parades in Chicago. King Ak-Sar-Ben Is the only potentate who Is not afraid of red flags.- If the police want to locate a green goods game let them get after the Texas watermelons that are appearing on the market. Eastern newspapers are trying to . ascertain the authorship of "Beyond the Alps Lies Italy." It sounds like Senator Beverldge. The Washington Herald refers to Secretary Taft as "a equare man." Hardly. "An all around man" would bo a better description. Even if the crops bhould prove a . total failure this year, Wall street will bo on band with its annual appeal for ' federal money with which to "move rthe crops." Secretary Wilson is a little Blow In making the claim that the administra tion, through the efforts of the Weather bureau, Is responsible for dollar .wheat. "Why do men stick to the derby hat 'year after year, while the women ln fci.it upon a new stylo of hot each season?" asks a woman's page writer. That's the reason. "It Is said that the president pays no attention to rules when playing card" says the Birmingham News. Why should he. when he never holds anything but trumps? People are now asserting that Sena tor Foraker is a Christian Scientist. The report may be due to the fact that Ms presidential boom has been receiv ing the absent treatment. "I calculate that' we know one-Eeventh-blllionth of 1 per cent about anything," says Thomas A. Edison. Yes, but the average Is pretty fair after George Bernard Shaw's knowl edge la added. It would be In accord with the eter nal fitness of things for Lincoln to put In a protest against Governor Sheldon accompanying Omaha's trade excur sionists on their northwest expedition of oommerclal exploration. Tha building, inspector has served notice on the council of several build ings in decrepit condition. After On ana's recent experience with build ing collapses one would suppose that the authorities would not palter with the owners of dangerous structures. One Lincoln paper is of the opinion that the chief offense of the indicted Lancaster county court clerk "I that he Is a successful money maker." Pre sumably that will be the excuse offered by lougla county sheriffs who lined ;helr pockets with county Jail graft. ' "Generally speaking," said Uncle Joe Cannon In an address at Albany, "I don't take much stock In these early candidates; they remind me much of what they call 'sooner dogs' out west. They put up a hell of a holler before they striko the trail at all." The 11 lueUati'ja, wb.Ua Lot elegant, Cts. LA ST ST It A It" FOR THE CCBAX9. Work of taking the Cuban census has been commenced and we venture the prediction thut if the question, "Is life worth living?" were submitted by the enumerators, the returns would be an overwhelming negative. All In all, the Cubans, when their restless disposition and reverence for custom are taken Into consideration, have be haved exceedingly well under the In novations forced upon them by Gov ernor Magoon and other official rep resentatives of the American govern ment, but a suspicion obtains that the Americans are rushing the Job a little too fast. They have changed their mode of government, amusement and almost their manner of living to com ply with the wishes or mandates of the Senor Americano, but they are in mood for revolt over the last straw, the decree that the Cuban dog must pay a tax or be shot. The reformation of Cuba, along American lines, has been marvelously rapid. 'Under the American occupa tion the Cubans have been shown the difference between a depleted treasury and a surplus that has become un wieldy and burdensome. They have been taught that revolutions are out of style and that a school house on the hilltop is worth two arsenals in tile valley. They have submitted to golf and the stock exchange as substitutes for cock flgWIng and Jal alal. The grab bag social has supplanted the official lottery and many Cubans have acquired the habit of working in the day time and sleeping at night Instead of sleeping all day and drinking and gambling all night. They have sub mitted with more or less good grace to all these Innovations, and still the government of the United States Is not satisfied. Under the direction of Gov ernor Maroon an order has been Is sued taxing the Cuban dogs and com manding policemen to search the houses for unlicensed animals. All Cuba Is naturally In revolt agatnBt enforcement of the new order, which contemplates the ruthless in vasion of most sacred prerogatives. The right to own dogs no Cuan Is ever satisfied with the possession of one dog Is a3 Inherent and hallowed as the right to Ignore soap, and the Cuban will not submit without protest. If not violence. "A score of beautiful Cuban senoras and senoritas called at the palace today," runs a dispatch from Havana, "to protest to Governor Magoon against the dog tax order. Governor Magoon did not receive them, so they left their petition, with a poem on dogs' souls." . The reports indicate a most tense feeling on the part of the Cubans, who openly assert that they would raher go back to the old regime and bare their necks to the heel of the Spanish tyrant than to suffer longer the humiliation of. beg ging the privilege of keeping a dog. The 6ltuatton Is all the more critical since Secretary Toft has engagements that will prevent him from going to Cuba for months to come. Under the circumstances nothing remains for the administration except to prepare for a Cuban revolution. SENATOR. STF.PHEKSOXS PLATFORM. The personal platform announced by Isaac Stephenson, who will succeed the brilliant John Colt Spooner as United States senator from Wisconsin, will cause a readjustment of the opin ion expressed in the east, where, notic ing that he is a multimillionaire, peo ple have Jumped to the conclusion that he will at once qualify for member ship in the "Millionaires' club," com monly accepted In certain circles along the Atlantic coast as the proper alias of tho United States senate. Sena tor Stephenson is a very rich man, but his attitude on public questions will surprise those disposed to think that riches prevent a man from being a use ful citizen or a desirable public servant. In accepting his election by the Wisconsin legislature Senator Stephenson proclaimed the following platform: First Prompt and thorough revision of all tariff schedules, reducing duties wherever possible without reducing wages of labor. Second Strengthening the Interstate com merce law, giving the commission full power to regulate rstea and services. Third Legislation authorising and equip ping the Interstate Commerce commission to ascertain tho true value of railroad prop erty; the newest cost of operating the rail ways and the amount paid therefor. Fourth legislation requiring the adoption of the best known safety appliances and prescribing strict regulation In the opera tion of trains In connection therewith. Fifth Strengthening the Sherman anti trust law and Imposing such additional pen alties as will deter property Interests from combining in violation thereof. . Blxth A constitutional amendment for the election of United States senators by direct vote of the people. t Seventli A federal tax upon Incomes. Eighth A federal tax upon Inheritances, the :iina not to Interfere with the taxation of .inheritances under the Wisconsin state law. Plainly Mr. Stepheqson does not propose to enter the United States sen ate under false pretenses. His ' col league, Senator LaFollette, was ac corded a frosty greeting when be took the place of Senator Quarlea and has ever been at outs .with the dominant forces In the senate because he has champloued what the old guard has been pleused to term "ultra-radical" Innovations In legislation. Senator Spooner steadfastly adhered to the old alliances and was either tacitly or Lopenly opposed to every plank in the platform of bis successor. Ills retire ment removes a first rank fighter from the forces of the old regime and the accession of Stephenson adds a voter, if not a fighter, to the ranks of the ad vocates of the new order. On tho second, third, fourth and fifth planks of his platform Sonator Stephenson is with President Roose velt and the administration on matters alresdyV etrrtoj, their way to ooa grvfcbloJiil ''f-iiL -ni enforcemenl. His first declaration, for "a prompt and thorough revision of all tariff schedules," Is a step in advance of the administration and promptly places the new senator outside the pale of the dominant faction In the senate, which Is composed of ardent standpatters. The declarations In favor of the elec tion of United States senators by a di rect vote of the people and of a federal tax on Incomes and inheritances are in keeping with the spirit of his constitu ents. While Senator Stephenson has been chosen to serve but the two remaining years of his predecessor's term, the program he has outlined for himself In the senate will keep him busy and, If successfully carried out, make him strong, If not invincible, for re-election. SO HALF-LOAF MRASVREH. The national council bill, designed by the British ministry as a sop to the advocates of, home rule for Ireland, has met Its foredoomed fate and will be dropped from the government pro gram of legislation to be enacted at the present session of Parliament. Irishmen throughout the world who understand the conditions and terms of the measure will not lament its failure to secure recognition. It was a milk and water proposition at best, falling to mark even a healthy step toward the larger policy of home rule to which the Irish nationalists are Irremediably pledged. Unquestionably the home rule advo cates have displayed political wisdom In refusing to support the Blrrell bill. Its acceptance would have served as an excuse for further delay In enlarging the scope of the measure and would have tended to retard rather than hasten the enactment of a home rule measure giving Ireland a native Par liament with a responsible executive authority and power over all affairs purely Irish. The rejection of the Blrrell measure by the Irish is notice upon Great Britain that Ireland will not be content with half-loaf concessions, but will continue pressing its demands until the home rule question is settled and settled right that Ireland is ready to wait and fight until its claims for recognition in the widest measure of self-government are grunted In their entirety and not by piecemeal patch work. AS 10 DOLLAR OAS. Dollar gas for Omaha is a consum mation devoutly to be wished. But the real question Is how to get It, and nothing Is to be gained by becoming hysterical on tho subject. Under con ditions as they exist today only two ways are open for Omaha to get dol lar gas. One Is by persuading the company now . supplying the city to make the concession andMhe other Is tor the city to build a gas plant of its own. According to the best legal ad vice the granting a second franchise to a new gas company, conditioned upon dollar gas, Is not feasible. Some Inside history bearing on this question may a3 well be made known now as later. The Omaha Gas com pany made an offer last year to reduce the price Immediately to $1 per thou sand cubic feet In exchange for a new franchise extending over twenty-five years in placer of the remaining tjwelve years of Its present franchise yet to run. The mayor and council did not see fit even to entertain this proposition. It was subsequently dis covered that one section of the city charter placed an Insuperable bar in the way of acceptance of the proposi tion. This section reads as follows: The mayor and council shall have power by ordinance to contract with any compe tent party for the supplying and furnishing of water, gas or electric light or electric power to the publto or private consumers within such city, and the rates, terms and conditions upon which the same may and shall be supplied and furnished during the period named In the ordinance or contract, but no franchise shall be granted, extended or modified except as provided In this act. Any such contract exceeding the term of ten years shall be void. It has been repeatedly held that a franchise Is a contract and this section of the chartor would void any new franchise extending over more than ten years. Manifestly no new gas company holding only a ten-year fran chise could be financed. So this lim itation must put a quietus upon all schemes for a competing gas company. An amendatory bill permitting of longer -contracts when ratified by pop ular vote failed in the last legislature so that for at least two years the char ter limitation will stand la this form. So far ns forcing dollar gas by ordi nance making it a misdemeanor to charge more, that would seem to bo tho height of absurdity. The present gas franchise embodies In It a sliding scale of rates which la conclusive upon the city. The federal court recently held with reference to water rates fixed In the franchise of the Omaha Water company that the city could not repudiate its own agreement and It Is not likely that any court vrlll permit It to do any differently with reference to the gas franchise contract. . It comes back, then, to this as the only alternative to municipal owner ship that concessions must be se cured, If at all, from the gas company now, serving us. The gas company Is not likely to make voluntary reduc tions without some consideration In return. A new twenty-five-year fran chise such as formerly proposed Is out of the question, but a ten-year exten sion might possibly be legally worked out. Unless something Is accom plished In this direction It will be up to the enlightened selfishness of the gas company to determine when, If at any time, further reduction In price would increase gas consumption suffi ciently to prevent In a a of Yroflts. Omaha nutomobiMsts are given for rnal utitke tUat thej- Svlll Lava to tlow up when going through the city limits of Fremont. Just to be on the safe side foresighted auto tourists will provide themselves 'with enough money to pay fines In unlooked-for emergencies. Railroad officials should be careful about boasting how much money has been spent to make their roads safe until after the State Board of Assess ment finishes up its labors. If the Union Pacific really spent $3,000,000 within eighteen months for automatic couplers, air brakes, train signals and similar appliances some Of the In creased value may be taxable In Nebraska. Mrs. Potter Palmer Js said to have declined an offer of marriage from the king of Servla. Her suspicions may have been aroused by the fact that the offer was made at a time when King Peter was letting Europe know that he would have to raise money from some source pretty soon or pawn his crown. If the eruptions in the World Herald are conclusive evidence there is no question but what the South Omaha School board committed a cap ital crime when It failed to keep on the payroll the aunt of the World Herald's South Omaha reporter. The forthcoming state school appor tionment promises to break all previ ous records. Wonder if the demo pop organs throughout Nebraska will give any credit for It to republican custodians of the school fund? It is said that the present season promises to see more paving and re paying done in Omaha than for many years. The work is imperatively needed If Omaha is to maintain 1(8 prestige as a well paved city. The war between the Postal and Western Union telegraph companies Is said to have bten adjusted amicably. This is 1 'cr ncw8 to the stockholders of the tympanies than to their pa trons. An Indiana woman has been sent to the ' Insane asylum because she tried to buy out several shop keepers. She should have confined her efforts to shopping Instead of trying to buy. The Pennsylvania legislature has ap propriated $25,000,000 for good roads. The escape of the grafters In Pennsyl vania Indicates that the road to the penitentiary Is Impassible. Three of n Kind. Louisville Courier-Journal. Tha Chicago wheat pit. Ohio politics and Sherman's definition of war closely resem ble one another. Are the Doctors Immune f Washington Post. Now that Mr. Rryan haa pointed out tho similarity between lawyers and highway men, some of his admirers must be won dering whether he will go so far as to find a comparison for the doctor. Klnar Corn's neserve. Indianapolis News. If there Is anything In the theory of the Chicago wheat Jugglers that the world can not, this year, raise all the wheat It will need, it moy open vast possibilities for increased popularity to that splendid and plentiful cereal, Indian corn. Klcklnnr the Clinreh PfW Trust. Kansas City Star. Judge Landlu of tho United States court at Chicago, In sentencing the members of the Church Pew trust, declared that he would "rather dig In a ditch at $1.60 a day than be engaged In such a business," Thore Is something really Bhocking about this declaration from Judge Landls. Not that he should severely reprimand the Church Pew trust, but that he should dis play such a lock of Information concern ing the wages of ditch diggers! Will Bryan Pass It Ipf Kansas City Stale. The announcement that William J. Bryan may, "ut the proper time," refuse to accept the democratic nomination for president and pass the honor on to Hoke Smith of Georgia prnhahly depend upon circum stances connected wholly with republican politics. No doubt the nomination of Taft, for Instance, would hasten the arrival of "the proper time." But If the republicans should name someone like Foraker, Mr. Bryan might conclude that It would be un wtae to name any candidate nearer Atlanta, Gi., than a resident of Lincoln, Neb., as the democratic standard bearer. ACCIDENTS FROM DERAILMENTS Strenccth of Rood and Increase In Weight and Speed of Trains. Philadelphia Press. Tho appalling derailment on the Southern Pacific, which brought death and mourning to so many homes In Reading, was only one of many accidents due to defects In the track. Such accidents now constantly Increase. They had been for years diminishing. About five years ago they began to grow, and In recent months they have become nor j fretjucr.t than for years past. Tho Iron Ago, In an article on defective steel rails, makes the cause perfectly clear. The weight and speed of train and locomo tive have grown. The strain on the rail has Increased, often by the square or cube of these changes, as strain from weight grows with geometrical rapidity at high speeds. The rail has changed little. The roadbed has altered not at all, or only on certuln lines. Naturally, accidents come. On ono Important line the Iron Age says that a recent computation showod that while driving wheel loads had. increased more than 49 per cent In a given time, the weight of rails had grown but 16 per cent. Add high i-ed and the track is sure to yh'ld at some weak point to the now loads. The rail committee of the American So ciety of Civil Engineers reported In 1906 that In general driving wheel loads had In creased 0) per cent since 196, when the rail specifications still In use were adopted, and In the tame time the, maximum rail weight had grown only from H pounds to 100 pounds per yard, or S3 per cent. This, too. Is only for the heaviest rails. They are not generally laid. They are present on few lines, and then only In places of great strain. Oil most Urns the old sixty-pound ' rail of 1', with Its switches and fastenings. Is still In full use, when the strain pf (he locomotive has grown 6(i per cent In t. n yean This la enough to explain a terrible d's astir like that on the Southern Pii-lflo a Wtvk ak'o; but what shall be catd of a niauagi ii.' nt that adds Cv per cent to tho ITa'n en a track and but a fraction. If any, tu is icsistaiicer not SD ABOVT JIKW TORK. Hippies the Current of life In the Metropolis. The vocal skill of Omaha's former fog horn, V. O. St rlckler, lost none of Us son orous tones In the transition to the humid atmosphere of New York. There, as here. It breaks out unexpectedly and Is esteemed a rival of the thrillers' of Coney. Mr. Strlckler s latest effort Is a vocal solo In the New Tork Sun In defense of Christian science healers, who attempted to treat a woman allllcted with . pneumonia. The woman died. A coroner's Jury charged the healers with responsibility for the woman's death and requested the grs.nd jury to t.tke jctlon In the case. Mr. Strlckler declares the coroner's Jury was composed principally of doctors, who could not cure a sore thumb, much less pneumonln. In cluded In thj trouncing he gives the al lopaths, homeopaths and osteopaths are mortuary statistics showlnrr that most of the small percentage of death under Christian Science treatment were victims of the drug doctors turned over to the healers In tha last extremity. IIo admits without mental reservation that a ceme tery promoters the doctors have the healers beaten to a standstill. That's the real Strlckler stuff. More than 1.000 workhorse teams will participate In a novel and Interesting parade on Memorial day. It wljl be the first workhorse parade under the auspices of the Woman's auxiliary of the American association for the prevention of cruelty to animals. The object; of the parade Is to Induce the owners and drivers of work horses and the public generally to take more Interest In their welfare. The Judses will exclude all horses that are dock-tailed or In any way unfit for work. The places of honor will be given to the horses long est In service, best cared for and most con siderately handled. While the classes of workhorses to be expected will be divided according to the occupation- of their owners, there are to tie several divisions on tho basis of age and service alone, The newly published statistics of Crime from the chief clerk of the district at torney's office have more than pnsslng Interest, chiefly because they show how hard It Is to convict wrongdoers. In 1 there were ' 78 cases of nssatilt In New York City, but only 297 convictions. In 144 homicide cases only fifty-three convictions resulted. While homicides do not seem to be materially hindered by stringent en forcement of laws, minor offenses usually do. It Is therefore significant to note that in 1906 the number of lesser crimes far ex ceeded that of any previous year, there being a dally average of nearly two as saults more than In 1905. A tight silk dress was responsible for some target practice in a New York court when Mrs. Blanche King, in trying to prove that the garment did not fit her, had a friend try to button tho garment. It was so tight that tho button flew off, hit ting a bystander In the eye. He howled with pain and Judge Hoffman adjourned the caso, Mrs. King, a plump, pretty woman, wife of a curb broker, Arthur King, sued Ben Axelrod, a tailor, for $47.75, the value of a piece of silk which she claimed to be ruined In making a spring dress for ber. To prove that the dress did not fit she put it on in the Judge's room. Then she asked her husband to button it in the back. He refused, whereupon she called on a woman friend, who tried, with tha result that the latter got a record as a sharpshooter. The little brown men from overseas have been the wonder and the toast of tha town for several days past. The Japanese battleship, cruiser, and torpedo boats that have been lying oft Grant' tomb and to the southward, on the Hudson, have, been surrounded by endless crowds of visitors. while the men have been welcomed and made much of In every nook and corner 1 of the town. Tho officer have had the time of their lives. It is noticed that while most of the younger officers speak excellent English, those of a more advanced age are con tent only to attempt their native tongue. The younger ones have hadthe advantage of education In America or England, which was denied the others. The smallest bootblack In New York 1 a 6-year-old Italian, who has a stand at Third avenue and Fourteenth street. A pusserby discovered the miniature shiner the other day when he stepped up on the stand and requested a polish. The boy looked around for his father, who own tha stund, but the parent was not to be found, whereupon the youngster came back and gravely took up the brush with the air of a man who Is "on the Job" at all times. His little black head was barely level with the customer's shoes, but he went about the shining operations with practiced ease. When the first shoe had acquired a polish the bootblack raised himself on tiptoe with a comically business-like expression and I blew upon the polished surface with a ' vigor that almost threw him off his bal ance. The father showed up In time to col lect payment. "If you want to know how sensitive folk are In this town, listen to the reason soma of our tenants give for cancelling their leases," said a renting agent. "Here are letters from five families who wanted to move because they lived In funeral streets. A lot of people. It seems, are sensitive about that. There are certain streets those In the neighborhood of churches where many funerals are held and those leading to the Long Island ferries that are usually traveled by funeral 'parties. House In those streets are becoming a poor In vestment. People move away frequently, and very often they give as their reason for going the fact that the sight of so many hearse get on their nerve." Fros, Fish or 1'onllryf Philadelphia Record. Customs officers are now disturbed over the question whether a frog la a fish. If so Its skin, even though dressed and finished. Is entitled to come In free of duty. But the appraiser claim that frog skins are duti able at 20 per cent under the general head of "skins dressed and finished. It Is only a few months since the treasury classified frogs' legs as poultry, and If their legs be poultry their skins cannot be flnh. On the other hand, If their skins are fish skins their legs cannot exist, and no duty can be collected upon nothing, for It Is an ele mentary fact of natural history that fish do not have legs. Few things sre so stimu lating to the Intellectual faculties as tha problem raised by the tariff. To mu buuiUoa or be el taa. to ennch soups or gravies, you need Liebij Company's Extract of Beef 'i J Thit Is real beef eitntct, perfectly pre 19 tni not weinered by adulterations 'tar fareica substances. y 7f.'3l i a-r i rKRKOHI, JIOtEl Corey's days as president of the Steel Trust are said to he numbered. So am the hairs of his head, but that no sign he Is getting bald. The colonial premiers have had a good time and the experience. A lxmdon seclsl statistician estimates that each of thorn has received eighty dinner Invitations. It Is a curious circumstance that the re cent rioting In San Francisco should In many Instances have been led by refugees, who since the earthquake have been fed and housed by charity, and who have de veloped a degree of laslness seldom equaled since the extinction of the Digger Indian. A brilliant young lawyer has failed to get the Job of city comptroller at Detroit becau.se he Is single, the mayor having de cided that ho will have only married men around him. The mayor has not explained whether he thinks married men ore the more trustworthy or whether he favors them simply because they need the money. There will be a public celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Louis Agassis in Sanders theater, Cambridge. Mass., on the evening of May 27. Among the speakers will be President Eliot of Harvard, Colonel T. W. Hlgglnson, Prof. Ii well and Prof. Nlles. Tho great museum founded by Agassis at Harvard university will be open all this week, espe cially to school children. Percy A. Rockefeller, son of William Rockefeller and nephew of John D. Roeks- ! feller, la building a country home In Con ! n.ctlriit which ts unlike nnv other ever planned. Perhaps tho most extraordinary feature of It Is a confined air space In the walls, forming a nonconductor of heat, cold or moisture. The air space, It Is said, will make the house warmer In winter, cooler In summer and dryer all the year around than any other man's homo, rich i or poor. Raphael Auglera Dlmayuga, formerly tho chief lieutenant of Agutnaldo, has become so completely reconciled to American rule In the Philippines that he has come to the United States to perfect himself In prac tical railroad building and operation. He is now employed by the Erie and Is leatnlns rapidly all he can about construction, main tenance, etc., with a view to turning his knowledge to account in the building, of railroads In the Philippines. He Is a mem. ber of a prominent and wealthy Filipino family. Prof. Mosetlg, who was drowned a few days ago by falling Into the Danube, has long been famous In this country as tho discoverer of the use of Iodoform In medi cine. He was without doubt one of tho greatest surgeons of the present era. Born of poor parents, he practically educated himself, and his fearful struggle against poverty In his early days made him the firm friend of those In humble walks of life. He would perform an operation upon a poor man absolutely without fee of any kind. Indeed, It is said that at least half the operations he carried out were done out of charity. SMILING HUM ARKS. "What brought you here?" asked the Judge. "That," replied the prisoner, pointing to a policeman, "but I waa drunk." Houston Post. Knlcker Carnegie Bays that millionaires rarely smile. Bocker Evidently they never look In tho glass. New York Sun. "Do you think men have more courage than women?" "Certainly not," answered the professor. "Everybody knows there Is more peril In the first Ice cream soda that) In the first straw hat." Washington Star. "I was delighted. Mis Plumpton," began Mr. Rlchluy, "to meet your mother today for the first time, but I was surprised to find her so very er " "O! don't mind that," hastily Interrupted Miss Plumpton, "I take after father, you know." Philadelphia Press. "I see where your new enterprise has gone Into the hands of a receiver." "Yea, and I wish It was a telephone busi ness." "Why?" "So I could hang up the receiver." Balti more American. "I can't understand why she Isn't happy with him. He's certainly very attentive to her."- "Thafs Just It. She argues that he it Every-d&y. The importance of soda crackers as an article of daily consumption can hardly be overestimated. No ether wheat food contains such nutritive values in correct pro portions. This is only true of Uneeda Biscuit the ideal soda cracker. As fresh cn your table as from the oven. Crisp, clean and appetizing. In moisture proof packages. NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY k TODAY'S T WHATEVER PRICE $15 TO $40 THE SPRING SUIT BOUGHT HERE IS ASSURED LY OF EXCELLENT VALUE. WE PRESENT A FULL RANGE OP STYLES IN MANY MODELS, AND A GREAT VARIETY OF FABRICS. THERE CAN RE NO QUESTION ABOUT THE FIT. OUR NAME ON THE SUIT IS A GUARAN TEE OF ITS THOROUGHGOING QUALITY WE COULDN'T AFFORD TO HAVE YOU DISSATISFIED. STRAW HATS ARE DEOIXKIXQ TO RE CALLED FOR LIGHTER-WEIGHT UNDERWEAR AND SPRING NECKWEAR ARE HERE IN A GREAT VARIETY OF KINDS AND COLORS. "TRUNKS. Browning, Ming z Co R. S. WILCOX Manager. An Age of MUSIC And how dull is the home where there is no music. It Is no longer necoseary for peoplo to have long years of Instruc tion, or to spend many weary hours at dreary hard practice In arriving at a point where they can play a llttlo. The 1907 models of the Victor Talking and Singing Machines are find ing welcome in our very best homes and by our most dis criminating people. 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Hospo Co. 1513 DoughiH St. Omaha, Nob. couldn't bo so attentive to her If he hadn nad a lot of experience before with some one else. Indianapolis News. "Ah!" suld tho doctor, "you ride a great deal In the trolley cars, yott say?" "ies, sir," replied tho new putlent. I sec. lour trouble Is uu to your sedentary habits. Now, when you're at work what do you dor' "I'm a molurinaii." Philadelphia Press. "Why did you send that man Grafton GraliU to congress?" "Well," unswered Fanner CorntoaseL wo kind o' thought It 'ud he cheaper to turn him loose on the national government Instead of eticouragtn' him to give all hi thno to the local taxpayers. "Washington TO A llOillX. T. A. Daly in Catholic Standard. I heard thee. Joyous votary, Pour forth thy heart In one Sweot simple strain of melody To greet the rising sun, 1 When it across the morning s verge Its first faint beams had flung And found the crimson ot thy breast tha whlap'rlng leaves among. In thine own tree Which shttltMrArl thu Thy mate, thy nest, thy young. I marked thee, sorrow's votary,- When In tlio noon of day r Young vandals stormed thy sacred traa aiiu uore mine nil away; The notes of grief that rent thy breast touched kindred chords In mine, For memories of other days, though slunv berlng, still confine In mine own heart The bitter smart Of sorrow such as thins, I hear thee now, sweot votary, Hoslclo thy ruined nest. Lift up thy flood of melody Against the crimsoned west. Forgetful of all else In this, thy one sweat Joyou strain. I thank thee for this ecstasy of my remem bered pain; Thou Ilftest up My sorrow's cup To sweeten It again. s0 NEEDS ! : -i I it I I V V. V.:
