THE OMAIIA DAILY DEE: FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1007.
Tire Omaiia Daily Del
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State of Nebraska. Dougl County, aa.
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Bo It said to the credit of the women
of Idaho, they are not sending, flowers
to Harry Orchard. i
The Knox presidential boom seems
to be running on pneumatic tires, and
without a blow-horn. ' .
Editor Watterson has asked the
newspaper paragraphed to please quit
making light of his dark horse.
The Fourth of July is the One day
In the year that the average American
boy wants to prove that he Is not a
mollycoddle.
An Investigator asserts that "meas
urements show that the Japanese have
Increased In size hi lata years." Hebd
measurements!
The moth is said to be destroying
the trees In New England. The lum
ber trUBt moth Is dohig Blmllar stunts
In the far west.
"Kissing must go," declared Dr.
Knopf at the annual meeting of the
Conference of Charities and Correc
tions. It does, doctor.
The latest democratic ticket la .John
son of Minnesota for president and
Johnson of Ohio Vor vice president.
A clear case of t'po much Johnson.
In commenting on the Russian sit
uation the newspapers up to date have
heroically refrained from remarking
that it sounds like the crack of Duma.
Senator Knox refuses to retire from
the presidential race, even after the
published announcement that he is to
have the active support of Senator
Foraker.
Joe Weber sayo the rich men of the
country are depleting the'ehorus. The
general impression has been that the
chorus was depleting the rich men of
the country.
"What," asks the New York Mail,
"is the June bride of last year dolngT"
Chances are that she is taking particu
lar pains to see that baby gets hrough
its first summer all right. .
Mayor Schmlts says he does not see
how San Francisco is going to get
along with him in jail. The wonder
' la that the city survived so long with
Schmlts and Ruef out of jail.
A visitor at the Jaraestown exposi
tion has been fined 12 0 for kissing a
Norfolk girl. All the commodities
and necessities down that way seem to
be ruling at exposition prices.
The political pipe-dreams being In-
cubated hereabouts for consumption
by the uninformed bear unmistakable
earmarks that Indicate their paternity
as well as their motive.
A competition between the various
public enterprises in Omaha that are
looking to the community to furnish
funds to complete new buildings is
hardly In order. One thing at a, time,
A Department of Agriculture expert
declares that wolves kill from 10 to 15
per cent of the cattle on the public
ranges each year. The cattlemen will
be terribly angry when they get that
information.
A freight department spokesman of
the Burlington denies that it Is going
to ignore the Aldrlrh maximum freight
rate law. The chances are that the
Burlington law department has been
and is devoting no little time and at
tention to the Aldrich freight rate bill.
what the board sirnciD io.
Deputy County Attorney Magney
has furnished the county board with
an opinion Intended to relieve the
sheriff from the necessity of turning
back the money he has been pocketing,
which he has collected from Sarpy
county and the federal government
for lodging their prisoners in the
Douglas county jail. The deputy
county attorney quotes a long array
of sections out of the compiled statutes
relating to the government of county
jails and the custody of prisoners
which have nothing to do with the
case except to establish the legal right
of federal, city and county authorities
to confine their prisoners in the Doug
las county Jail if they do not have
sufficient jail facilities of their own
and comes to this sage conclusion:
It has been the universal custom- tn this
Mate for the sheriff to make contract rela
tive to the care of all prisoners confined In
his Jail aside from those of his own county
and to collect for the same.
The deputy county attorney, how
ever, Is careful to leave a string out
by winding up bis official communica
tion with this remark:
The question Is not entirely free from
doubt, as there Is no specific statute fover
Ing the point, hut In my Judgment a claim
of this character cannot be maintained
against the sheriff as the law'now exists.
The . trouble with this opinion is
that it assumes, as its language indi
cates, with reference to the sheriff's
control over the county jail that it is
"his Jail," when In fact It Is not the
sheriffs Jail, but was built and is
maintained by money drawn from the
taxpayers of Douglas county.
The sheriff may be under obligations
to take. in outside prisoners on agreed
terms, but that does not justify him in
converting to his own use the money
thus collected. If the sheriff can rent
out the Jail proper to the federal gov
ernment, or to the Sarpy county au
thorities, and keep the money he gels
from them, he can with equal author
ity and propriety rent out the front
part of the jail now used as living
quarters bythe Jailer to other lodgers
and deposit the money to his own bank
account. No matter how the lawyers
may split hairs, the ordinary man can
see no difference in the sheriff selling
to Sarpy county authorities the soap,
clothing, medicines and supplies paid
for by the taxpayers of Douglas county
and pocketing the money than selling
the same or other articles paid for by
the taxpayers to anyone else and pock
eting the money.
Because this graft has been the
"universal cuBtom" does not make it
legal nor prevent the county board
from demanding and enforcing reim
bursement. If the custodian of the
court house or the superintendent of
the county hospital should rent out
space and collect money from occu
pants the county board would be hot
ou their trail. The thing for the
county board to do is to figure out
what la due to the treasury from the
present sheriff and his predecessor and
offset it against their claims against
the county. If the sheriff then wants
to go into court to establish his right
to retain the graft It will be his priv
ilege to do so. ' ,
RESPONSIBILITY FOR ACCIDENTS.
In an address before the Master Car
Builders' association at Atlantic City
Secretary Moseley of the Interstate
Commerce commission makes' the
charge direct, in "language that admits
no misinterpretation, that "too tight
fisted boards of directors are respons
ible for a majority of the railroad ac
cidents of the' last year." ' He asserts
that the railroad directors of manV
lines "pay too much attention to the
stock market reports and not enough
to railroad management and proper
rolling stock." declaring that if the car
builders, whom he was addressing, had
their-way there would be no cause for
complaint about unsafe and Insufficient
equipment. He illustrates-his asser
tion by citing figures shoeing that
railroad companies, within the year,
had paid fines amounting to (28,000
for violating the safety appliance laws
and 'that these fines could have been
avoided by the expenditure of $68.03
In labor and material for repairs.
It should be a measure not only of
economy but of humanity for railroad
companies to keep their rolling stock
and equipment in proper repair. Ac
cidents are inevitable on railways, but
the safety of passengers and employes
should under no circumstances be en
dangered by criminal carelessness on
the part of the railroad company In
falling to furnish the best possible
equipment. Secretary Moseley's se
vere arraignment of the directors who
operate railroads from Wall Btreet is
accompanied by the comforting assur
ance that the federal authorities are
determined upon a policy of vigorous
enforcement of the safety appliance
laws.
WAR OX THE HOUSE OF LORDS.
Great Britain is preparing for a
campaign that promises to be much
more exciting than any that has been
held for years, the paramount issue,
being a test vote by the country on the
question of practically abolishing the
House of Lords and making the House
of Commons the supreme laounaklng,
authority. Premier Campbell-Banner-man
has prepared the following reso
lution to be moved In the House of
Commons on June 24.
That In order to give affect to the will
of the people aa expressed by their elected
representative, it is accessary that tha
power of tha other house to alter or reject
bills passed by this house should ba so re
stricted by law as to secure that within the
limits of a single Parliament the final de
cision of the House of Commons ahall pre
vail. The resolution. . If adopted by the
commons, would have no Immediate
effect, nor is It certain whether It
would accomplish anything toward the
solution of the problem that has be
come acute. It is more than probable
that it is designed merely as a cam
paign rallying cry by the liberal gov
ernment, which has failed to make any
marked record In keeping, with its
ante-election pledges and will soon
have to go bqfore the people again.
It would be interesting at least to
have the question submitted to the
people for the purpose of ascertaining
how general is the sentiment, now
rampant in the commons, for the elim
ination of the lords from legislative
affairs.
No one contends that the House of
Ixirds is a representative body. It
rarely opposes the action of the com
mons, the peers usually contenting
themselves with formally ratifying the
work of the commons. In fact, one
of the strongest arguments used by the
supporters of the upper chamber Is that
It Is obstructive only at rare intervals.
It Is contended, too, that the British
people really love the lords and would
not approve any plan for dissolution or
curtailment of their power, however
much they may at times ridicule them.
Should the people show a decided
desire to have the sentiment expressed
by the Bannerman resolution carried
into effect, Great Britain would be con
fronted by a serious governmental cri
sis. The prospect of a square test of
national sentiment on the question of
abolishing the lords would make the
next campaign In England exceedingly
Interesting.
THE CONQUEST OF THE TROPICS.
Colonel W. C. Gorgas of the United
States army has evidently been car
ried away by his enthusiasm over the
work of the army in redeeming Ha
vana and the Panama canal zone from
the grasp of pestilence and contagion
and making them habitable and
healthful. So marked has been the
development of those countries under
the new conditions that Colonel Gor
gas ventures the confident prediction
that the tropics will become the chief
center of the world's civilization and
activities. He contends that the re
turn there to man is more abundant
for a given expenditure of v energy
than in any other part of the globe,
and that man's profit Is greater be
cause he is required to spend less in
clothing, fuel and physical comforts
essential to life in the temperate sone.
The history of the world is a refu
tation of Colonel Gorgas' confidence
in the ultimate triumph of the tropics.
Indolence Is indigenous In the vicinity
of the equator. Experience shows
that the man who removes from, the
temperate zone to the troplcB performs
marvels, for a time, wooing riches
from a fruitful soli, under pleasant
climatic conditions, but that it- does
not last! The very atmosphere of the
tropics, however sanitary the condi
tions, is an opiate to ambition and en
ergy. Colonel Bob Ingersoll once said
thai if the most enlightened and ener
getic family of New England were, to
remove to the tropics the descendants
in a few generations would be wearing
breech-clouts and robbing cocoanul
trees for their food. The colonel's
picture is not much more overdrawn
than Is that of Colonel Gorgas, In his
vision of the tropics as the center of
the world's best civilizations and In
dustrial activity.
Marked development mtiBt come to
the tropics, since it has been demon
strated that northern energy can
create and maintain wholesome and
suitable conditions for labor there.
The resources of the tropics are rich
and apparently inexhaustible. They
will be exploited by men and capital
from the temperate zones. Conditions
in the tropics will be bettered in every
iespect, but the Improvement will not
be wrought by men who have spent
their lives in the torrid land. The de
velopment will come through imported
energy, the supply of which must be
periodically renewed, and the storage
battery of such energy in this country
is located some distance north of the
Gulf of Mexico.
After tha university has lost a few mora
members of Its faculty perhaps the state
of Nebraska will realise that something;
must be done. Lincoln Star.
- The university has been losing mem
bers of Its faculty continuously ever
since it was established and will keep
on losing members of its faculty from
time to time no matter what is done.
It is the fate of all western universi
ties to te the training schools to try
out new men and to lose them In the
course of time, if they develop extraor
dinary teaching ability. If the state
of Nebraska can keep a few strong
men as heads of its main departments
all the time, it can take Its chances on
a changing personnel In the less im
portant membership of its staff.
The World-Herald has suddenly dis
covered that the slot machine Is an
evil and a standing Invitation to gam
bling. The cause of this sudden dis
covery Is plainly the simultaneous dis
covery that the extinction of slot ma
chine gambling was one item on the
original reform program mapped out
for the police board at the time of Its
appointment by Governor Sheldon.
When the board acts, watch the
World-Herald claim thatIt did It.
A Philadelphia minister has re
signed because his congregation crit
icised htm for falling to have his
trousers creased. That congregation
should get a tailor for its pulpit the
next time.
Quite a bit of the Nebraska state
school fund has been Invested in the
past in securities bringing as low as
S per cent Interest returns. A chance
to put a million dollars Into gilt-edged
Douglas county bends at S H per cent
would be a good proposition for the
state financially as well as In other
respects.
Our old friend, John Jenkins, Is to
be transferred to another post In the
consular service because "his useful
ness as American consul at San Salva
dor has been Impaired" by entangle
ments In the fight between Nicaragua
and Salvador. .The Nebraska man
comes from fighting stock and could
not be expected to sit Idly by while a
good scrap was on. It is reassuring
also to note that there is no intima
tion that hlB fighting qualities have
been impaired.
Mayor Hoctor of South Omaha has
stolen a march on Mayor Dahlman of
Omaha and succeeded in being first to
touch off his Fourth of July proclama
tion. The South Omaha mayor may
not swing the lariat or Juggle the
words in the dictionary as cleverly as
the Omaha executive, but he has his
eye out to the main chance all the
time. , '
. It is reported that John D. Rocke
feller has been seen walking on tho
streets In New York "gesticulating
vehemently." Perhaps he has been
reading some of the federal reports on
the doings of the Standard Oil com
pany.
Washington has officially decided
that tobacco is a necessity for laborers
on the Panama canal. Washington
should also convince certain manufac
turers that tobacco Is a necessity in
the manufacture of cigars.
Richard Croker declares that his
father was not a blacksmith, but a
gentleman. Blacksmiths are natur
ally congratulating themselves.
Accurately Slaed Cp.
Washington Herald.
If Mr. Roosevelt really did succeed In
"bottling up" Mr. John Temple Graves at
Norfolk, It simply demonstrates the' cor
rectness of Mr. Graves' Idea that the presi
dent Is a corker.
Aa Appalling; .Thoasxht.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Colonel Bryan says President Roosevelt
chooses his official advisers front among
those associated with corporations. It Is
harrowing to think what tha president
would have done to the corporations If his
advisers had been chosen from the plain
people.
Pathos of Part la sr.
Brooklyn Eagle,
Colonel Elijah W. Halford is to, be re
tired from the army, luckily, without a
wound or a scar of one. He has been
deputy postmaster gvneral aver sine he
was private secretary to President Harri
son. , The passing of veteran heroes Is al
ways a trifle sad. ,,
CHANGES IN HI'HUME COURT.
President Roosevelt's Appointments
anal Those te Cum.
Lealje's Weekly.
Of tha nine members of the supreme
Court President Roosevelt has appointed
three Associate Justices Holmes, Day and
Moody. Chief Justice Fuller and Associate
Justice Harlan are each 74 years of age
and can retire at any time on full pay.
In 1908 Associate Justice Peckham will ba
70 and will be In a position to step down
without losing any of his salary. Rumor
has reoently been saying that each of these
Is soon to retire. These and three other
members of the present tribunal were there
when Prsldent Roosevelt entered office. If
tha seats of any two of these six persons
should be vacated for any cause within the
next two years a majority of the supreme
court of March 4. 1949, at the end of the
present presidential term, would be Roose
velt selections. This -would break all tha
precedents, except in the case of Washing
ton, within whose service the court was
created. .
President Roosevelt Is a consolidations
of the Marshall type, but the Industrial
and social problems which have arisen In K
the last few years and .of which nobody
In Marshall's day ever dreamed, would Im
pel Marshall to make a still further swing
to the strong central government side if
he were here today. It is probably the
present executive's desire, following the
custom of all his predecessors, to put men
of his own way of thinking on tha bench,
so far as he can, do this without entirely
obliterating the opposite party. The
chances are that Mr. . Roosevelt will be
able to talk through the supreme court of
the immediate future even more frequently
and more potently than federalism talked
through the court during the first third of
the nineteenth century through Adams'
appointment of John Marshall.
mollycoddle: despots.
Some Remarks oa Chancellor Day's
Lamentations.
New York World.
Chancellor Day of Syracuse university,
weeping over the Wan street mark-down
sale of slips of engraved paper aa "six bil
lions of shrinkage in the properties of the
people" is like an awestruck child watch
ing a drunken man write checks and touch
lighted matches to them. "Gee! He's
burnln' up money!" 'whispers round-eyed
Jimmy perhaps a future chancellor and
moral mentor of youth.
Dr. Day more successfully appeals for j
sympathy when because of the federal rail
road rate law and the state public utUitles
law he shrieks that
"The distinction between the executive,
judicial and legislative order la disappear
ing In a form of oligarchy named commis
sions, with an autocracy at its head as
tyrannical and supreme as the world has
ever known."
Writing as a strong man In bis agony
under the triple despotism of a president
In Washington1, a governor In Albany and
a pretty unanimous public opinion every
where, Chancellor Tj la a sight to make
one turn his pitying eyes, away. Yet is
he sure that the autocracy which most of
his fellow victims approve Is really the
worst that could be inflicted upon a hap
less people?
A mediaeval autocrat would have tickled
Dr. Day's soles with white-hot pokers to
make him more cheerfully divide his Stan
dard Oil endowment. A "Tedesco" gover
nor gtaneral In Venetla In 1K2 would have
shut him, within Silvio Pelllco In the hot
roof cells of the ducai prison for the crime
of free speech. Napoleon I would have
exiled him. Louis Napoleon would hava
silenced him in Jail. Croinwell might have
hanged him. t
Dr. Day eats well. He sleeps well. He
talks well from a stock ticker viewpoint.
No autocrat gags him or pulls hts teeth
or bolls him in oir; Has h not fallen
upon an age of weaklings and mollycoddle
despots? He should cheer up. Worse has
been: there may ba worse to coma
I BITS OF WAJHIMiTOK LIFE.
Minor Scenes and Incidents ketrhet
on the Spot.
Washington scribes who have endeavored
to fasten upon ITesldcnt Roosevelt t lu
st Igma of carrying a revolver In Ms hip
pocket are skurrylng for shelter. Gun ex
pert Pat Mastcrson. a western quick shooter
transplanted in Now York. Is aft.r them,
not m-lth a gun hut the mightier pen. Henr
Ing the report that the outlines of a gun
was felt In the president's hip-pocket by the
man who tied the masonic apron atrlnps at
the cornerstone laying In Washington,
Masterson let go a characteristic whoop
and denounced the allesator. I'nllnihrrlng
a pen or pencil he shot the report full of
holes In th!s conclusive fashion: "Prosi
dent Roosevelt Is a man of sense and Juils;
ment and of wide Information when It
conies to sldearma. He knows what they
are made for and how to handle them, and
he also mtist know that in the event of
being placed upon his defense he could be
shot dead several times while extracting a
gun or any other sort of weapon from his
hip pocket.
"The gun fighter the man who knows
how as well as when to use a firearm
places It either In a holster on his right
side or In his coat pocket, where It may
be seised Instantly and brought Into action
without delay. A half second may mean
a whole lot In this sort' of encounter, and
nobody knows It better than the president,
who never got his Ideas on the subject
studying melodramas written Just off
Broadway."
It happened on one of the Vnltod States
cruisers now at Hampton Roads, relates
the Washington Herald. A lieutenant, hav
ing met two very charming women while
ashore, Invited them on board for luncheon.
They camo and were shown over the ship.
They lingered long in the lieutenant's room,
which was daintily furnished, and they ad
mired his photographs of home. When he
was summoned on derk he left them there.
Returning, he took them to luncheon, and,
having to go on duty In the afternoon, he
excused himself so as to get Into uniform.
Aias: ne round that every button on his
best coat had been cut off. and then he
remembered that one of his fair guests
had been rather Importunate on tha
souvenir question. He got her alone after
luncheon and accused her of the'' theft,
and after some prevarication she con
fessed that the buttons were In her cor
sage. With some firmness the lieutenant
led the culprit to his cabin, pointed silently
to the denuded coat on the bunk, pro
duced needle and thread, and, going out,
locked tha door on the outside. In half
an hour he returned, unlocked the door,
found that his coat was once more tn ex
cellent order, and then with great gal
lantry bowed the lady over the side. She
has not been Invited to luncheon on the
same ship since.
One of theseever old but ever new propo
sitions that probably will receive some at
tention at the coming session of congress
Is the signing of mail by cabinet officers.
Sqme of the new men who hava come In
with the Roosevelt administration, espe
cially some of the younger men who were
shuffled in on the last round of cabinet
Changes, have been seriously discussing the
subject.
They say that the hardest manual labor
of a cabinet Job la signing tha mall, ac
cording to law.
" Some of the secretaries spend two hours
a day In the busy season simply signing
their names. A messenger stands at their
elbows and removes and blots the sheets
as fast as they are signed, and the secre
tary does not any more know what nine
tenths of the .things are that he Is signing
man tr tnev wrn writi.. in
characters.
. It is the law. and has to ba complied with,
but It Is only a dally grind, for all the
cabinet officers hate It, and It wastes about
two hours of the secretary's time that he
might very profitably devote to something
else. It used to be that treasury notes anri
bonds and the like harf to be signed by
hand, but the Job got so big that the
treasurer and the comptroller could not
possibly have managed it and the anti
quated law was changed.
"High finance Is not confined entirely
to Wall street." said John E. Wllkle, chief
of the secret service. "I saw an example
of It the other day that made me dizzy.
"One of the clerks In the treasury
wanted to go to the ball game. Ha hod
but 25 cents, his exact admission, mil
nothing for carfare.
"He announced that he would raffle his
25 cents for 2 cents a share. Eighteen
clerks took chances. One won the quar
ter for 2 cents, but the thrifty promoter
had 25 cents for his ticket, 10 cents for
carfare, and a cent for an afternoon
paper."
With the announcement that President
Roosevelt will return to the government
at the end of the fiscal year a great Dart
of the 126,000 appropriated by congress
ror nis personal traveling expenses comes
the realization that he has revolutionised
the habits of traveling as they have for
merly been practiced by the chief execu
tives of the country.
Since the appropriation was made the
president has used less than $5,000 for
his traveling expenses, and there have
been none of the glorious dashes in spe
cial trains, with every luxury attached,
which were once the accompaniments of
presidential tours.
The president's trips are never, of long
duration or for very long distances, and
he travels so 'simply as to keep tha ex
penses down to the lowest possible mini
mum. '
Commissioner of Pensions Warner has
taken steps to compel the return of thou
sands of dollars to old soldiers swindled
out of the beneht of bounty land war
rants.
A year ago Mr. Warner ascertained that
beneficiaries under the military bounty
land laws had been systematically de
prived of the greater portion of the value
of their warrants by sttorneys to whom
they had Intrusted their cases, and that
such attorneys had resorted to question
able, unprofessional, and illegal conduct
In connection with that class of claims.
Under the law, land warrants can only
be Issued on military service performed
prior to March 3, 1855.
If the soldier Is alive tha warrant is
Issued to him. If he Is dead and has left
a widow It Is Issued to her. If there Is
no widow, then to his heirs, and If there
are no heirs It may be Issued to the ad
ministrator of his estate, and It follows
that soldiers or their widows are persons
advanced in years and In many cases In
reducej clrcumstancui
An Investigation disclosed the fact that
four different firms of attorneys with prin
cipal offices In Washington and branch
office In Chicago, Denver. Cleveland,
and Detroit, who had procured bounty land
warrants or duplicates thereof for their
clients, had obtained from their clients.'
before the warrants were Issued, orders
that the warranta should be delivered to
the attorneys when Issued, and then the
attorneys, well hnomlng the value of the
warrants, would purchase them, paying
only from 50 cents to $1 60 per acre, and
selling tbem on the market for iA leaat
11.50 par acre.
Mr. Warner decided that these four
Arms had been guilty of fraudulent and
unprofessional conduct, and served notice
on them to show cause why they should
not be disbarred
Pianos Easily Bought
and Easily Paid for
Everyone recognises the dealrshlll'.y
of owning a I'luno. Kveryone realties
that a piairoless home Is an Incom
plete, home. Hut not eM-ryone rtn
spare from his business a; one tl:n
the entire- amount necessary to pur
chase an InmruMicnt.
The plan of Hospes store not only
makes the artusl selecting of a i'l
ano ensy. but arranges that the pay
ing for It shall be Just as easy. These
Is no necessity of doing without I ho
advantage of a I'lano merely liocmne
you may fed you can't pay for It in
a lump sum. Many petsntis have
their tunds invested at better than X
per cent and do not care to disturb
them and this condition Is fully pro
vided for by us.
Any piano In our store which you
select, can be paid for on the Ittile-a-month
plan. It means simply th;U
you pay us a small amount e.h
thirty days for the use of the Instru
ment, every payment being credited
to you so that at the end of a certain
A. Hospe Co.
SEND FOR FREE CATALOGUE AND PRICES
PERSONAL SOTKI.
The Carl Schurs Memorial committee
has already received more than 171,000 to
wards the mnmprlal to be established In
honor of that statesman. .
Emperor William has approved the great
scheme for the construction qf a stadium
In Grunewald forest In the outskirts of
Berlin. It is to be provided for tho pub
lic, and as proposed, will be a model of
the Greek stadium, with daily olympian
games.
Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, chief of the divi
sion of chemistry In the Agricultural de
partment, has been engaged by the French
government to make a scientific Inquiry
into th charges that French wines hava
been grossly adulterated. He will soon
sail for France.
Senator Beverldge )jf Indiana sails for
Europe this week, and will be married
before his return to Miss Katherlne Eddy
of Chicago, a sister of Spencer Eddy, sec.
retary of the f ntted States legation at
Berlin, and a niece of Mrs. Marshall Field.
Mr. Beverklge's wife died seven years ago.
Miss Helen Cannon, daughter of the
speaker. Is one of the most noted hos
tesses as well as one of the most cultured
women In Washington. She is a firm be
liever In the highest education of women,
a great reader, speaks several languages,
which she learned during the years she
spent abroad, is a splendid singer, and
holds the record In the high official set for
pedestrianlsm.
William Le Baron Jenney of Chicago, a
pioneers In steel building construction, died
at Los Angeles, Cat., Saturday, at the age
of 74. He was a native of Falrhaven,
Mass., received a technical education at
Cambridge, Mass., and in Paris, served In
the civil war as an engineer, and In 1883
constructed at Chicago for the Home In
surance company the first of th esteel In
surance building In the world.
Government Snaps Cartnlled.
Philadelphia Record.
It is related that Secretary Garfield has
been handling his broom with some vigor
In sweeping out cobwebs In the Interior
department. Among other things he found
in the patent office a discreetly conducted
library, well provided with romances to
beguile the leisure hours of the over
worked clerks. . No sooner waa tha dis
covery made than the three women
librarians were discharged And, the books
trundled oft to the magnificent congres
sional library. Formerly most of tha de
partments were provided with these li
braries, and the last remaining Is In tho
treasury, where It is no longer needed.
!Iicillry Sals
F BOYS'
for Friday and Saturday.
We have
Celebrated
mam
W
two grades, which we wish to
close out before stock taking
July 1st.
We have 15 dozen of the $1.00
grade, which will go for ... fl8)5L
And S dozen of the $150 grade, AP
which will go for . . . . . iLoVcP
These blouses are all the Star Brand
and as every mother knows what this
celebrated blouse is, they should not last
long at these low prices.
They come in neat and dark effects,'
also plain white, and we have them in ,
all sizes.
We will place them on sale Friday
morning, and we would advise an early
inspection.
A Shirt Special
for Friday and Saturday broken lines
of men's negligee shirts that sold QP
for $1.00 and $150 . . . ....
R. S. WILCOX, Manager.
i time you become Into full ownership
or the instrument. inn nieimn
meon.-i that you are not only buying
a I'lano. but saving money eacn
month that would otherwise o for
something trivial.
1'or every 1'iano In our store there
Is but one price. The price is ihe
same to the Installment buyer as to
the man who pays all at Once. Wa
simply require small Interest per an
num for the privilege of buying hy
the month. No other store In the
l nited Slates offers lower prices than
the Hospe store and few, it any, h.iv
the same scale for the time and the
cash customer. Many I'lano houses
ssv they have one price for every
one, hut Investigation will prove tho
fallacy of their declaration. The
Hospe store ABSOM'TNI-Y conducts
its business on a one price basis.
If you want a Piano don't liesltata
because you can't pay for It all at
once. Call on us and let's talk tha
matter over.
1513 Dougl&s St.
MIRTIIFVL REMARKS.
"Actors have not much of a regard for
ties, have they?"
"Neither would you. If you had to trea4
so many of them underfoot." Philadelphia
Ledger.
"Father," asked little Rollo, "what la a
Jingo?"
"A Jingo, my son. Is a man who Is firmly
convinced that somebody other than him
self ought to go out and whip somebodr."
Washington Star.
Nebuchadneszar was eating grass.
"The question is," he explained, "whether
I am a nature fake or a man fake." '
The ancients were fain to give it up.
New York Sun.
"Well, old man." said Slnnlcksnn. after
the performance, "I oertalnly was sur
prised to see you In private theatricals"
"Yes," replied Brlghtley, "but. you see.
If I didn't appear on the stage I'd prob
ably have to sit In the audience and ba
bored to death." Philadelphia Press.
"Is your son proficient In any foreign
languages?"
"Well," answered Farmer Corntossel, "
dunno as he's much on French or German;
but he kin understand every word of tha
base ball nesea." Washington Btar.
"Even if you do allow animals tha right
to reason. It is easily pro-ed that their
reason Is of a very weak kind."
"How do you prove it?"
"Because a dog will always agitate tha
tall end of a discussion, while a cat is
generally on the fence." Philadelphia,
THIJfKI.V O' MOTHER.
S. E. Riser In the Record-Herald.
Thlnkln' o' mother," ha said, "and thlnkla
o' what she'H tv
Was the reason I didn't give up and start
to the bad that day; '
Thlnkln' o' mother again and thlnkln' o
what she'd feel
Is the reason I ain't a thief the money
D luv-rv vu Bie.au
"Thlnkln' o' mother at home was tha rea
son I went ahead
Facln' the world agatn, no matter wha
people said;
Thlnkln" o' mother waa all that could ever '
have held me back
When I stood on tha pier that night, whara
the water was deep and black.
"Thlnkln' o' mother. I stopped whoa mr
1 blade waa raised tn the air,
And I uttered a prayer instead o' do In' that
dark deed there!
Thlnkln' o' mother, I tried when It seemed)
to be useless to try,
And I ain't goin' hungry no more, and I'm
lookln' you square In the eye I
"Thlnkln' o' mother, that's all; you pat tha
story in i rhyme; ' - -
It ain't no beautiful tale, there's nothhr
about It sublime;
But tell the feller who's down I'm peaatn
the lesson to you
To just keep thlnkln' o' mother, and I
. guess that he'll worry through."
BLOUSE WAISTS
thirty dozen of the
Star Blouses, in
