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TIIB OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, MARCH 5, IPOS I TrtE Omaha Daily Dee. rOUNDED BT EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOn TlOSE WATER, EDITOR. Entered at Omaha Postoffic at aacond cSaaa matter. TERMS OF "UPBCRIPTION:' Dally p. (wltheut Bandar), on ar..KW Dally Lee and Sunday, on year Sunda Deo, ' en year ' Saturday Bee. one year 1-W DELIVERED BT CARRIER: pally Be (including- Sunday). per wek.5o pally He (without Sunday), pr week. 10c Evening Be (without Sunday), pet week 4c Evening Be (with Sunday), per week.loc Addre ail complaints of Irregularity In delivery to City Circulation Department orncKS: Omaha Th Be Building. Boutn Omaha City Hall Building. ' Council Bluff IS Scott Street. Ctilctfo- 1MU University Building. New York lfiuS Horn Llf Imuranc Building. . r WaahTngton-726 Fourteenth Street N. W. ' CORRESPONDENCE. Communication relating to new and dl torlal matter should he addressed, Omaha Be, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or potal order payable to Th Bee Publishing company. Only z-cont stamps received In payment of mall account. Personal check, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, Dot accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. . . Ft at of Nebraska, Douglas Coutny, Oeorg B. Tzchuck, trensur-r of Tho Be Publishing company, being duly iworn, ay that the actual number of full and complete conies of The Dally, Morning, Evening1 ana Sunday Bee printed during the month of February, 190a, wa a fol low: 1 34,700 8300 U 3MW 17 30,800 lg 36,9110 19 30,730 20 36,300 21 38,340 21 .. 36,630 21 35,600 24.,... 30,300 2S 30,070 28 36,490 27 ... 86,860 21 36,380 '29 364150 8 84,180 36,030 S.... 6.810 30,030 1.4.. 88,940 8.; 30,030 mm mm 10........... 38,900 11 80,100 12 M 86.OO0 13.. . . 8000 14..... 36,100 16 M 3e,lM Total 1,048,650 Less unsold and returned copies.. 8,437 Net total, ..1,039,113 Dally average.-!.. 36,831 r . GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. . -. Treasurer. Subscribed In my presence and worn to before me this 2d day of March, 1908. ROBERT HUNTER. Notay Public. WHEN OUT OF TOWW. Sakscrlber leaving; th city tern, porarilr shonld. have Th B -mailed t them. Addre will be changed a often a reejaeated. Those New; .'York to Paris autolsts must by tbla time be enthusiastic good roads advocates. March Is said to be Mr. Taft's lucky month. The next president will also be Inaugurated In March. Whatever his faults, give Mr. Harri man credit for not buying a foreign duke aa a husband for his daughter. Mr. Hearst declares that he Is dis satisfied with both the old parties and both the old parties appear to be glad of It. JX New York university proposes to establish a course in advertising. Looks like patterning after the Uni versity of Chicago. A critic has arisen who declares that the marksmanship of the Amer ican navy la very poor. He may tell his troubles to Spain. Editor Watterson says it Is impossi ble to unlock a night latch with a corkscrew. ' Louisville is not In the dry district of Kentucky. It might be, a good plan to compel anarchists tot go into the business of raising tobacco in the Kentucky dis tricts infested by night riders. Briefly stated. Senator La Follette's manager admit that the senator does not expect to get as many votes at Chicago aa he had expected he would. The call for a mass convention of . the populists of Furnas county failed to draw a single member. And Fur nas county W right on the Kansas line. Mr. Bryan Insists that the trusts are against him. That ought to please him, j as no presidential candidate whom the trusts are not against will get very far this year. Robbers looted a bank at Chthua hua. Ilex., of $225,000. The amount is unusually large. In view of the fact that the robbery was committed by outsiders. ' - : ' Russia is unable to raise money for a navy. The impression prevails that Russia does not need a navy, remem bering to what poor purpose it used the last one it bad,' Borne Improvement may already be noticed In Omaha's street cleaning de partment An able-bodied man or two seem by mistake to have broken into pne of the brush-wielding gangs. . - The Russian Duma quite naturally hesitates to comply with the cxar's de mand for $1,000,000,000 for the army without some assurance that the army will not be turned loose on the Duma, "Ohloans who want office" Is the title of an article In the Cincinnati En qulrer. As space forbids the publlca tton of a directory of Ohio politicians the Enquirer does not give the names. A prominent Russian official has been sentenced to fifteen years in prison for killing ten women. He would have been sent to Siberia for life if he had committed a political offense. In Justice to the social clubs that have taken out liquor licenses the au thoritiea are in duty bound to insist that all aucb clv.ba be treated alike. No beating about the bush to evado the law oa technicalities should be connived law j "FRKPAREDXKS8" OF TH47 ARMY. The debate in, the house at Wash- ngton on the army and appropriation bill has developed a lot of facts and assertions about the condition of the American army that furnish cause for real amusement, Inasmuch as we are at peace with the world and In no need f having an army ready for the field in response to a hurry call. The situa tion as depicted would be decidedly larmlng. If any danger, Immediate or prospective, threatened the peace of the nation. Chairman Hull of the committee on military affairs pleaded eloquently for Increased pay for the enlisted men and for other amendments which promised to bring the standing army "up to the maximum of 62,000 enlisted men, which would place the country In a state of preparedness Jn case of war." He deplored the fact that there are now 32,000 vacant soldiers' Jobs, and admitted that the army was really a skeleton" and a very attenuated keleton at that. Aside from the de sirability of recruiting the standing army up to the legal maximum, the talk of being "prepared" for war with an aggregate force of 62,000 enlisted men must lalse the risibilities of the military authorities of other nations, s well as of Americans who stop to consider the case. An army of that size would be neces sary to suppress an Indian uprising, if any two tribes still In a seml-clvllized state should unite and go on the war path. With a full forco of 62,000 en listed men, the nation's army would be less than twice the size of the police force of London and smaller than the thoroughly organized, drilled and equipped standing army of a half dozen of the lesser powers. France and Germany each has more than 500,- 000 men under arms ami each could treble Its force, all fully armed and drilled, on sixty days' notice. In spite, however, of these larger armies, the military budget of the United States is larger than that of either France or Germany. , ' Perhaps there is no need of a great standing army In the United States. It may be argued that we do not need any army, except a skeleton iorma tion, as an adequate navy 18 sufficient guarantee against war with any foreign power. But It is folly to talk about being in state of "preparednoss" for war with an army of 62.000 enlisted men. Before enjoying any such state of preparedness, the militia should bo organized and equipped to the number of 1,000,000 men, ready for the field, as an efficient array to repel an in vader. If congress feels the necessity of placing the nation in a state of 'preparedness for war," it should en courage strengthening of the militia. Its efforts in that direction have been too Spasmodic, unsystematic and fruit ful in disappointing results. - DEATH-LAVEX FREIGHT. The explosion of two cars of pow der, causing the wrecking of an entire freight train and the fatal Injury of two men, near Litchfield, 111., serves again to direct attention to the neces- lty. of legislation for larger precau tionary methods in the transportation of explosives. In the case at hand, although the explosion took place two miles east of a town, the concussion wrecked houses and shattered windows for miles around. Had the accident occurred nearer Litchfield the loss of life would have been appalling. The powder was carried in two cars of a long freight train "running at full speed." Accidents of this kind are altogether too frequent One in Pennsylvania some months ago resulted in the loss of twenty lives and another in Michi gan caused the death of eight persons. In both cases the powder was con tained in freight cars and no more care was exercised in handling them than would have been given to cars loaded with nails. Every railroad company that permits such careless ness in shipping explosives Invites dis aster. Powder in car load lots, or in sufficient quantities to cause great damage to property or life in case of explosion, should be transported by pecia'l train, with every precaution for i clear right-of-way and intelligent handling. AQAISST VEPAKTMEKTAL WASTE. Action just taken by the house of representatives foreshadows a rattling of dry bones among the departments at Washington and the injection of life into some of the congressional commit tees heretofore looked upon as orna- mental rather than useful. The house, by a unanimous vote, has decided to give some of Its committees authority to go ahead and perform the duties for which they were originally appointed As far back as 1816 the house ap pointed a committee "On Expenditures in the War department." Sinco that time a similar committee has been ap pointed on expenditures of each of the nine departments of the government The record does not show that any of these commtttees has ever done any thing except to endorse formally the re ports of the auditors of the different departments. For many years con gress has looked upon these committees simply as excuses for giving chairman' ships and committee rooms to mem bers. They furnished dumping grounds for th speaker's disposition of new members, and gave them a place to hang up their hats and receive visitors Many of these committees have not held formal meetings in years and have become dormant and innocuous. It is now proposed to galvanize these committees ad make them a living working force luoK-ud o ornamental fixtures. They are to be organized and authorized to institute economies and reforms in the different departments with the object of abolishing useless places,, enforcing respect for the law, bringing . about proper application of money, Insuring the government against unjust and extravagant de mands, securing a stricter accountabil ity and rearranging salaries on Just and equitable principles. There is practically Do limit to what may be accomplished if the work out lined for these committees la taken up vigorously and prosecuted honestly and Intelligently. Abuses, perhaps unavoid able, have grown up in nearly all of the departments. Many of them are handicapped by cumbersome methods that would not be tolerated In any pri vate enterprise and others are Buffer ing from the dry rot that comes from years of following precedents made for maximum appropriations and minimum work. The field is exceeding ripe for the kind of harvest planned for these rejuvenated committees. THE MODERN HOME-8BEKERS. Transmlssourl railroads are Just now engaged in carrying hundreds of home-seekers from eastern states to those sections of the west and north west where available and desirable lands for agricultural use may be found at prices which make them par ticularly attractive in comparison with the prevailing rental and purchase rates demanded in the more thickly settled states. The advance guard of these home seeking tourists furnishes a striking contrast to the original homeseekers, the pioneers who opened the west and made the present development of the richest part of the nation possible. The home-seekers of today are riding In Pullman cars, are well dressed and supplied with ample resources to buy property that may suit their needs or fancy. They are prepared to make improvements and investments that were possible to the pioneers only after years of hardest toll and strug gle with almost insuperable . difficul ties. Many of the new home-seekers come from Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, New York and other states to the east, where they have prospered and are now making the change in order to take advantage of the enlarged oppor tunities offered in the west. The home-seekers' will find a field rich in promise of reward for Invest ment and expended energy. The west welcomes them. THE TICKETS IN SOVTH OMAHA, As a result of the municipal pri maries In South Omaha opposing tickets have been nominated for the coming spring election headed by ex Mayor Frank Koutsky for the repub licans and by present Mayor "Tom" Hoctor for the democrats. While the republican ticket could unquestionably have been strengthened in two or three places, it is by comparison Im measurably superior to the demo cratic ticket in personnel and reputa tion, . To its credit be it said that one ele ment of the South Omaha democrats made an heroic effort to unload the Incubus of the bad record of the city administration by putting new timber into the ticket, but the Hoctor ma chine, with all the loaves and fishes at its disposal, proved to be too much for them. As a consequence South Omaha voters will have no other choice at the election but to endorse all that has been done by the demo crats in the South Omaha city hall during the last two years or to repu diate them by putting the republican candidates in their places. South Omaha will probably have a Bhort, sharp and lively city campaign, with a large number of the democrats and Independent voters rallying to the support of Koutsky. Incidentally, al though the suggestion may not be popular In South Omaha, we may say that bad consolidation been voted last fall the good people of South Omaha would have saved themselves from their present troubles. On the popular vote, so far as re turned from the different counties in which the Nebraska republicans have taken expressions of presidential pref erence, Taft has a clear majority over everyone else, Including Roosevelt, and about six to one over the next highest candidato for the nomination. If the primary had been compulsory Instead of optional the result would have been even more marked in Mr. Taft's favor. The new Board of University Re gents has already gone on record In favor of wider publicity for its busi ness transactions. The university is a public institution, maintained by ap propriations out of the state treasury, and there is no good reason why every item of expenditure should not at all times be accessible and intelligible to the public. The South Omaha charter require ment of a tax receipt aa prerequisite to voting at a city election Is said to have been entirely disregarded In the municipal primaries. It may be as sumed that the election officers took the bint that the voter could qualify as a taxpayer by the Introduction of bis tax receipt "or otherwise." St. Louis glrla. are urging a boycott against a minister who Is preaching a series of sermons against the kissing habit. The boycott Is premature. The culprit may not practice what he preaches. City Electrician Mlthaelsen calls at tention aeain to the hideous sign boarda affiled to electric light, tele- graph and street railway poles In vio lation of city ordinances. These signs are only second to the billboards in disfiguring our streets. The city elec trician Bays they Injure the poles, but they ought to be removed for artistic reasons, it for nothing else. Colonel Bryan is to take a two weeks' rest at hla home at Fairview. He reserves the right, however, to is sue dally bulletins upon the progress of the great Wall street conspiracy to buy up enough delegates to the Den ver convention to prevent his nomina tion. The president has decided to appoint W, S. Rosslter to be public printer, to succeed Charles S. Stllllngs. Little is known of Mr. Roeslter'B particular qualifications for the position, but he will have a great chance to score im provement The opticians practicing in Ne braska are to be forbidden to style themselves "doctors" in order to avoid confusion with practicing physicians. Wonder which f of them think they have been insulted T A dispatch from Columbus says that "the Foraker influence has disap peared from the Ohio republican state committee." It has probably gone in search of the disappeared Foraker presidential boom. The democratic state convention Is about to meet in Omaha; and inas much as It must meet somewhere, we are glad to have the meeting here, not withstanding our divergence on the point of politics. Timely Thought. Baltimore American. This week a year hence we shall be Inaug urating a new president, and bis namo will be William H. Toft. What the Wsm Are Saylaar. Baltimore American. Iowa and Nebraaka have been enulfod by the Toft wave. The Taft wave la Ap parently big enough to engulf Just any thing. When Ther Get Their "Right." New York Tribune. Two members of the Italian Parliament engaged the other day In a hair pulling match. Aa an omen of future methods in parliamentary disputation, this should greatly encourage the suffragettes. Nobody Lovei It. Baltimore American. A senator who was speaking lis iiloae on the financial question In the senate ad dressed an audience of four. I iteret In money is always keen, but Interest In cur rency bills seems to have few throbs or thrills. nin of tho Reporter. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Th man who married the richest wjrn.xn that rhiladelphla ever produced, was once a repjf er on the Hartford Courant. Lately he hjs been furnishing- the New Yoik newt- gatherers with soma decidedly Interesting news Items. , ,, What 1 Powder t Pittsburg Dispatch. It was testified before the senate com mittee that powder is a strange conglom erate. A boy once hearing that chickens ate gravel defined gravel to mean "hair and things." The navel witnesses may apply the same definition to powder. Governor Galld'aj Good Phrase. New York Bun. Governor Curtis Guild, jr., of Massachu setts has refused to be moved by another of the periodic apeals for a pardon for Jesse Pomeroy, and has replied to his peti tioners that "Massachusetts care neither for lynch executions nor for lynch par dons." A good phrase, and it is to Gover nor Guild's credit that during- hi term In office he has refused consistently to inter fere with the execution of the law out of deference to the sickly sentimentality that sees in every prisoner guilty of an unusual or picturesque crime a martyr and object of tender sympathy. WHILE CONGRESS QIIBBI.ES. Forest Destruction la United States Goea Steadily Ahead. Chicago Post Th government forest service ha w. It ten a requiem of the tree which opens vlth this sentence: "More lumber was cu in the United States last year than in any year In Its history. The figures which follow tell where th tree have goie. Tie "cut" amounted to 87,660,736,000 boird feet, a figure really too big for the .ulnd to grasp. Th mill produced In addition U, 58,200,000 shingle and 1,812,807.000 lath, the total yield approximating O.OOO.OW.G'W fot, having a value of not less than 1700.000.000. The figure tell the tragedy of the Khr.o pine and oak. They are almost gone from the country are these trees, for in the last eight year the cut of white plna has fal len more than forty and the oak more than M per cent. And the fact of the vanishing forest is emphasized by the advance of lumber prices 48 per cent since 18)9. What is the country going to do about ltT If the forests are not to become extinct, the plan ruined by drouths and the val ley scoured by ever-increasing flood, some thlng must be done, and done quickly. And yet one of the most Important forest pre serve measure, the Appalachian mountain bill la tied up while the Congressional com mittee on Judiciary quibble over techni calities. Occasionally there comes some uch exhibition of popular government as this to reveal to u why some enlightened people still believe In monarchies. Livers Exchanged IF the active liver .of the 1 cod-fch could beput into the place of the torpid liver of the consumptive it would probably do him a world of good. Next bet thing U Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver OiL Almost at good at a new liver. The great power of SCOTTS EMULSION as a flesh-producer prove that much of the activity of the cod' liver is contained In every spoonful. AQ Diassbtsi SO, aaa (1.00, O PRESIDENTIAL FIRING LI Nil. Valaahlo Compilation of Facts Rela- tiro to Coaveatlon aad Vote. Chlcaaro Tribune. Since It organisation the republican party's thirteen national conventions have been hold as follows: ISM. Philadelphia ...Jun IT IMA Chiraito ,Ma .Ty 16 jv. nam more .....nM......Jun(i 7 Chlcafto .My Jn Philadelphia, ............. June, S ix. n. iincinnau u ...u......,.Jun 14 Chicaa-o .Junt 1XX4. Chleawo June ft i. I'liicago ......Juno 19 l.vr;. Minneapolis ,. ....Junn T 11. 8t. Louis ................. Jun IS i'i. i-niiRdftiphia , 1 1 l itw cmcro ,....nMm,.JuM n The place and date of the corresponding convention of the democ ratio party are horewlth ahownt Cincinnati ............June i I harleBtnn, S C......-..Atrril 23 Baltimore T"-" 3g 1RM. Chicago .Alitf. I iw(. jnow xoric .......... J u It 4 183. Baltimore ., , r , 1-'y 9 IK, 8. Ht. LUla Juna 97 1SS0. Cincinnati ..........June 83 jw. . nicann .. ... July 8 1KX8. St. Louis .I.,.,. Jun 6 1W2. Chlcaao June, a 15. Chicago -.July 7 W0. Kansas City July 4 St. Louis July In 18fl0 the southern wing of the demo cratic party met with the northern demo crats at Charleston on April 23, but broke away and heM another convention at Rich mond, Ve, on June 11-22, and adjourned to Baltimore on June 23, when tho nominations wore made. Chicago has been favored by both parties as the convention city, the republicans having met there six times and the demo crats four times. The second favorite with the republicans has been Philadelphia, thj-09 times, while St. Louis has been the demo crats' second choice, three conventions hav ing been hold there. The number of electoral votes received by the two parties and the pluralities are shown here: Rep. Dem. Plurality. ...114 174 ft) D. 1MW ISO 72 21 108 R. 14 . .......... .... ....... . 212 ItaiR . . km ... . H . ... ....... 2 i 4 1K72 2SS l!tl R. 134 R. 223 R. 1 R 59 R 37 D. T R. 1S3 D. 95 R 337 R. M 63 3S4 156 219 16 277 176 1G6 1X78 . iw; 1W0 . 214 lx4 1S2 . .2,13 Wi 145 1RC6 271 110 2!2 ISO 36 140 196 R. The popular vote cast at the several eon. tests was as follows: Rep. ISM 1.341.2R4 1800 ... 1.866.352 Dem. 1,838,169 847.514 1.375,157 1,8I6,728 2,709,613 2,8:4,079 4,J84,759 4,444,962 4.874.986 6,640,309 6.554.437 ,27S.(W4 6,357,0S4 D,Os2,754 1RC4 3.2ianR7 1M8 3.015.073 1878 8.697,070 1876 4,083,90) IBM) 4.4M.416 1HK4 4.R51.AK1 18X8 B.430.8M 189J 5.175.2S7 1HW5 .... 1 7,102.272 1'.") 7.219.101 1904 7,624.489 Taft and the Field. Baltimore American. Vp to date the clearly outlined Indication accredit Mr. Taft with a ratio of more than two vote to every one that can be counted against him; and "agBlnst him" embraces the field the entire "favorite son" aggrega tion. The Indications of Taft strength are of much more sweeping- and Impressive proportions, however, than may be gath ered from a mere summary of of the dele gates that have been Instructed or declared for him, as compared with the number that has been chosen for ether candidates. Six weeks Bgo the belief was general that 76 per cent of the New England vote would bo concentrated In favor of some other can didate; Just now tt looks more likely that the New England voto may be practically solid for the man who has been accepted In the public thought as standing for a con tinuation of the Roosevelt policies. There Is no longer room for doubt that the party popular sentiment In the New England states, as In every other section of the country, favors the cholco of the present war secretary as the presidential noml neo of the party. It is a sentiment which Is being so emphatically Indicated that vari ous political forces, supposedly organized to oppose the candidacy of Mr. Taft, are be ing neutralized or silenced. In Massachu setts the trend Taft-ward has grown enormously during the last few weeks. In New Tork State while tho delegation will, by common agreement, be declared for Gov ernor Hughes, It is not In the least likely that the vote of New Tork can be swung to any other candidate than Taft In case the name of the New York governor should be dropped. The "favorite on" candidates do not seem to be developing any large degree of strength outside their state areas, and, ao cording to reports of a seemingly reliable nature, there Is both In Pennsylvania and Illinois a general sentiment favorable to Secretary Taft that Is with difficulty re strained from open expression. Thus far the developing Indications point unmistak ably to Mr. Taft aa the presidential nomi nee of his party. There has rarely been In any rrevloua presidential campaign a more conspicuously Indicated drift of popu lar sentiment toward a particular candidate than there Is now in evidence as favoring the selection of Secretary Taft as the party representative In the pending presidential contest. Six Month Behind. Wall Street Journal. Wall street has suddenly awakened to the belief that Secretary Taft Is to be the next republican candidate for presi dent and is discovering that in spite of tha fact that he Is Roosevelt's own candidate, picked out by the president a year ago, and that he endorses the president's policies In every public address, ha never theless possesses many attractive quali ties as a statesman. Wall street has simply dlcovered a fact which was clearly announced on August 1, 1907, by the Wall Street Journal. On that date the Wall Street Journal said that Secretary Tuft wa fur In udvanc ifor the next republican nomination. It named among Mr. Taft's conspicuous qual ification as a candidate his high per sonal character, hi capacity for public work, his Independence of any corrupt commercial affiliations and political rings and his Judicial and diplomatic talents. It stated that Secretary Taft was In entire sympathy with the general scope and pur pose of the Rooeevelt policy and that th president made no concealment of the favor with which he regarded Mr. Taft' candidacy. It further said that If elected president, it was safe to assume that Sec retary Taft would continue the Roosevelt policy as regard government supervision of the corporations, but that he himself would be th president of the United States In fact as well as in name, and that ha would display In that office the sumo Judicial and diplomatic qualities aa have dUtlngulshed hla public life here tofore. It seem to have taken th speculative portion of Wall street about six months to learn for Itself the truth of all this. National aad Local. Kansas City Star. It at lit remain true that not a candi date aside from Taft ha had delegate Instructed for him outside hi home state. Th significance of this is, of course, that the secretary of war Is the only really na tional flgur among the republican candi date. Other. Indeed, re known mart or leu favorably beyond their own states, but evvit those known most fa .jn ably ar not jai'i 1 11 Tiii iai, lasssiii 11 1 1 iimai 1 1 in ias if--V.lt rr:: i Makes the Biscuit and Cake lighter, finer flavored, more nutritious tsfwhotesome S ft Mfi o li Lull iiLldcJ Made from pure Grape Cream of Tartar No alum No lime phosphate well acquainted with the country at large and the country is not well acquainted with them. An Illuminating; Illustration of this fact occurs in Miss Tarbell's article "How About Hughes?" In the American Maga tlna for March. Tho, Illustrations are from photograph of Hughe canoeing In Maine, fishing In the Adlrondacka, bicycling In the Tyrol, motoring' In Wale, In the English lake district and on the Morteratsch glacier, Engatidlno. Not one of them shows Hughes west of Buffalo, N. T. Shaw Nat a Candidate. Interview of Leslie M. Shaw. I have no Interest In politics except aa It relates to business. I have been quoted In opposition to President Roosevelt. On the contrary, I think tho mission of Presi dent Roosevelt is a Important as that of any of hla predecessors, except Washing ton and Lincoln. PERSONAL. POIHTEBS. It is mported that Qustav Mahler will be offered the chair In the music depart ment at Columbia. v Rev. Dr. Charles Cuthbert Hall, president of Union Theological seminary. Is seriously III at hi home In New York. The pope intends to present a gilt bronze angel, with which It Is proposed to decorate the top of the Campanile nt Venice. Governor Hughes of New Tork will de liver the chancellor' addres at tho Union college commencement, Schenectady, In June.' Booker T. Wahlngton of Tuskegee In stitute has accepted an invitation to speak on the Million Dollar Pier In Atlantic City March 4. His subject will be the "Race Problem." Mile. Marie Dumas, a gTandnlece of Alexander Dumas, ha arrived in New Tork and will ahortly make her debut on tho American stage. She has been an actress for a number of years. Basil Tanfleld Boothby, who for the last thirteen years has been engineering the building of railroads In Uganda, Africa, under orders from the British Foreign of fice, has arrived in San Francisco on his way home to England. Th Tendon huramlst who admits having thirty-two wives, several of them In the United State, shines In a class ny Him self, and break the rcord of this com munity by seventeen points, barring the dead ones of Salt Lak City. An Arctic expedition which has not at- ti-anteri much attention Is being actively equipped and will soon be ready to sail from one of the port or in nonn 01 nv.n Tt u the exoedltlon of the French Oceanographlc ociety, and the commander chosen 1 Captain Charles uenara. w r Hnwells. the American author, 1 In Rome and Is a dally visitor to the new excavations begun by Prof. Qlacomo Boul In the Forum, under the Arch of Tltu, which wa erected in 81 to commemorate the conquest of Jerusalem. The new ex cavation has brought to light a most In toroatiiur Roman foundation, that of'th Temple of Jupiter Btator, which wa built three centurios before tmnst. Allan Avrault Green, who has become In the last few years one of the chief cham pions of child life In Imaginative verse and . ho ininawl the "authors' readlnir" ino, .- , - ranks. He Is an Illinois man.' and owns a large tract of virgin timber In central lUlnols. near Galesburg. Ha ha a ro mantlo log cabin there, to which he re tires and leads a hermit's Ufa while he Is weaving the fabric of his annual fairy book. Alcohol Ask your doctor if a family medicine, like Aycr's Sarsaparilla, is not vastly better without alcohol than with it. AyersSarsaparilla NON-ALCOHOLIC A Strong Tonic -A Body Builder -A Blood Purifier -A Great Alterative A Doctor's Medicine -Ayers Sarsaparilla Free from I J. C. AVER CO., Manufacturing Chemisrt, Lowell, M. gpkW W f4"aw"lk f! ""fc ! SAID IV FIX. "Miss rechls." snld Mr. Timmtd, at the other end of the sofa. "If I were to throw you a kiss I wonder what you'd say." "Welt I'd say you were tho laziest man I ever saw." Rehobolh Sunday Herald. "Bessie Bute brags so much about her conquests," began Goldlo Hoamley. "Of course, she's more attractive to the men than I, but" "Not at all!" Interrupted Vera Cutting. "So sweet of you to say that, but I know she is " "Nonsense! Why, she hasn't nnr!y so much money as you have." ('uthollo Standard and Tlmas. Father Why, when I was your asje t didn't have as much money In a month a you spend In a day. Daughter Well, dad, don't scold me ulinut It. Why didn't you talk to grundf ather? Illustrated l.lta. JesHlca When the Judxe Hsked you how Old you were, what did you say? Margery I told him If he were a good Judge he wouldn't ask. Judge. Polly Pardon me, dear, but you cut a ridiculous figure on the street yesterday. Polly Oh, forgive me, denr! If 1 had Boen you I should have spoken. Cleveland Leader. "She certainly Is the most Ignorant serv ant we ever had!" "Tes. And to think. I got her at an ln tolllKence office, loo!" Browning's M:i.','J slne. "BllKKlns thinks he known more than anybody else on earth." 1 "You state it mildly." answered Miss Cayenne. "Since the assertion that Mars is inhabited, he goes further than that." Washington Star. "Why Is she. guttiug'a divorce-'"' . - On the grounds of misrepresentation. She says that before they were married he claimed to bo well off!" Ana wnax aoes he say?" ' He says ho was, hut didn't know It." Llppincolt's. "Talk about foresight!'' "Well?" "Old Gotrox left a thousand tons of cnal In trust, not to be touched until the young est child is of age." Pittsburg Post. "My hero has a strong face," remarked the author. "He needs it," opined tho critic. "I no tice his face falls every time ho meets tho heroine." Kansas City Journal. "They say It's hard to live with a genius." "Hosh! Were not all women geniuses, how would most families: exist?" Wash lngton Herald. HO X HOOD TOWN. Baltimore Sun. Kind God, look down on Boyhood Town and keep It green forever. The Ion main street, with shade (reos sweet, tho wharf and the dreaming river! Oh, lead us there when bowed with care ti hear Its childhood story, Its song and speech of love that teach thu light of love and glory! Ah, lead us down to Boyhood Town when we are old and weary. 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