THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MARCH 8, 1908.
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0-org B. Tsschuck. treasurer of The
Bee Publishing company, being duly sworn,
says that the actual number of full and
complete . copies of The Dally, Mornlnx,
Evening and Bunday Bee printed during
the month of February, 1808, was aa fol
lows: , .
1.. sevreo i , sa,ioo
. 3 g5,30O 17 i 38,900
i 36,180 It 86,6110
4 36,830 19 36,730
(., 36,910 20... 36,300
6 36,030 21.... 30.340
7 35,640 22 36.630
t. .......... 86,030 21 35,600
... 36,000 24 36,300
10 .. 36,600 26 36,670
I 11.. 36,100 2 36,490
12........;.. 36.300 27 ....'36,660
It 2800 2t 36,380
14........... 86,160 29 36,880
II 36,1 VO
Totals 1,048,680
Less unsold and returned copies.. 8,437
Net tfc.al 1,039,113
Dally average....,., 35,631
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snallea to them; ' Address ' will be
chsiasjeel mm aftes) svs raejaested.
Nebraska for Taft at Chicago.
Prosperity shows signs of returning
from Its enforced racatlon.
Corn is king, and the National Corn
show should be the king show.
The Kentucky night rider are op
posed to smoking even the pipe of
peace.
Mr. Looney is a candidate for the
state senate in Texas. Anything In a
name?
Those New York tr Paris autolsts
appreciate Omaha's fine pavements, by
contrast, and gladly overlook the holes.
The forestry bureau tells us that
the hickory supply is fast disappear
ing. No school boy ia going to protest.
A Russian republic has been de
clared and the czar asked to abdicate.
The Russian republic is located in New
York.
"An Indian is most dangerous when
he Is hungry," says a scientific sharp.
So is a white man, If that proves any
thing. The Cannon presidential boom
teems to be of the noiseless pattern
recently ' discovered by Inventor
Maxim.
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The republican majority In Ken
tucky in the last campaign was 18,583.
Mr. Bryan had time for , only seven
speeches there.
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Colonel Bryan always , throws bc
oueta at the populists. That is all they
havs been getting, however, from the
Bryanites in Nebraska.
The assassin of Father Leo is to
plead self-defense. Beach Hargls of
Kentucky is to offer a similar plea for
the assassination of his father.
The political . rough-house makers
can get little satisfaction out of the
returns for the state convention about
to be held by Nebraska republicans.
The democratic opposition to Mr.
Bryan would feel more confident if it
required a nine-tenths, Instead of a
two-thirds, vote to nominate him at
Denver.
A Washington dispatch saya that
"Mr, Roo8evelt Is annoyed by third
term talk." Bo are Messrs. Bryan,
Taft, Fairbanks, Cannon, Cortelyou,
Knox et at.
Abe Ruef has brought suit for
$4,000 for his board while he was In
jail, or in the custody of the sheriff.
Ruef may lose his suit, but he never
loses his nerve.
President Roosevelt declares that
the American game must be protected.
A little more talk like that and all the
poker club will endorse the third
term movement.
"What does Bryan mean when he
says he does not want the support of
bushwhackers What is a bush
whacker?" asks a correspondent. A
bushwhacker is a democrat who is not
In favor of nominating Bryan. i
A 8t. Louis woman has secured a
verdict of $501 against a neighbor
who called her "an old hen." The
jury gave $1 actual damages and $500
punitive damages because of anguish
of mind. The $500 must have been
awarded on account of the use of the
word "old."
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The high school rniNCirALiHip.
The school board la again debating
the question of a change fh the prin-
clpalship of the Omaha High school
It has debated this question annually
for a numbe of years, but baa never
had the courage to take it up in a
businesslike way and come to a
straightforward decision tpon it. The
people of Omaha are entitled to have
the very best ability that can be com
manded for the salary they are able to
pay at the head of this great educa
tional Institution.
If the school board is satisfied that
we now have a principal equal to all
the requirements it should say so, and
If It Is not so satisfied, it should try to
find some one who can fill the place
better. To leave the prlnclpalship
hanging In the air until the end of the
school year and then to re-elect the
present Incumbent with the explana
tion that no one else Is applying is
neither fair to the principal nor satis
factory to the public. If it be deter
mined that a change is desirable, pub
lic notice of such determination will
bring plenty of applicants, but no edu
cator who is worthy of consideration
will go after a place requiring profes
sional standing and experience so long
as no vacancy is in sight.
Indecision on the part of the school
board In this matter' cannot fall also
to prove detrimental to the high school
itself. A principal with uncertain
tenure Is In worse plight than a prin
cipal known to be getting ready to va
cate, and much worse than a principal
known to be firmly entrenched. " In
order' to maintain authority and dis
cipline, whoever is In charge of the
high school as principal needs not only
the effective co-operation of his asso
ciates, but also the substantial back
ing of the school board all the time,
and the principal who cannot count on
that backing must have an uphill job.
The board, then, should go at the task
Intelligently and reach a conclusion
whether it proposes to back up the
present principal or to find a new prin
cipal whom it will back up.
CONSULS AND BUSIXES8.
Secretary of State Root has invited
the wrath of a good many members of
congress by having a bill presented to
abolish twenty-eight consular posts In
the American service. This means, from
the political viewpoint, the curtailment
of places heretofore used to provide
pleasant and more or less profitable
berths for political favorites. In a
rather cold-blooded manner, Secretary
Root has explained that there is no
reasonable excuse, from the standpoint
of American commercial development,
for the further maintenance of these
positions, and he asks that the places be
abolished . and the consuls . either
dropped from the service or sent to
some post where they may produce re
sults warranting their retention on the
payroll.
The most embarrasjng feature of
Secretary Root's recommendation la his
presentation of figures, showing the
folly of maintaining the present con
sular posts at the places indicated. He
cites Jamestown, Helena, for instance,
where the consular fees amount to $16
a year, while the expenses of the con
sulate are $2,475 per annum. At Jal-
apa, Mexico, the consul draws a salary
of $2,000 a year, and collects about
$800 annually in fees. Seven other
posts are named at which the consuls
draw In excess of $2,000 annually,
while the fees are less than $500. In
none of the places named Is the busi
ness sufficient to warrant keeping a
consular agent. The consular service
Is almost self-sustaining, and would
become entirely so if consuls were kept
only where they are needed.
: IS TOBACCO SMOKING IXJURlCUSt
Dr. George L. Me) lan, physical di
rector of Columbia university, has
started another discussion of the in
jurious effects of the use of tobacco.
Physicians have differed on this sub
ject, as they do on many others, al
though the weight of opinion haa been
adverse to its indiscriminate' use. Leg
islatures have passed laws prohibiting
the use of tobacco, particularly by
children, and the youth have been
taught both at home and In the schools
that tobacco is deleterious to physical,
moral and mental growth.
Dr. Meylan takes the opposing view.
He presents the results of examina
tions extending to 683 young men,
students at Columbia, 205 of whom
were smokers and 478 non-smokers.
His investigations showed that the
students who smoked were healthier,
stronger, had greater lung capacity
and greater strength than the non
smokers. Furthermore, the users of
tobacco had a better scholastlo aver
age than the non-smokers. As a result
Dr. Meylan Is forced to the conclusion
that the allegations regarding the use
of tobacco are largely exaggerated and
that the normal male being may in
dulge In It "without appreciable dam
8ge." This might be an Important Inquiry
if it were not for the fact that Dr. J.
W. Seaver of Yale recently conducted
a similar Investigation and reached an
entirely different verdict. His conclu
sions were that the smokers among the
Yale students were inferior in physical
and mental attainments to the non
smokers, and that the use of tobacco
was clearly injurious to the young men.
Prof. P. L. Lord recently conducted a
similar inquiry among 500 boya In a
public school, and concluded that cigar
ette smoking waa distinctly Injurious.
At a recent examination at Leland
Stanford, jr., unlverfclty, eighty-five
students failed to pass the require
ments tor promotion, and each of the
eighty-five waa a tobacco UBer.
All of this simply proves that any-
thing may be proved by such method.
The fact remains that "one man'a meat
Is another man' poison," and ' white
smoking may be positively beneficial to
one person. It may seriously injure
another. The man who has never
smoked never misses it, and the man
who haa abandoned the habit never re
grets it.
If ATI IS AND NATIONAL TREASURIES
The hope of universal naval disarm
ament, which is the dream of those
peace-lovers responsible for the inter
national conferences at The Hague,
may some day be realized through an
unexpected source. News from the
parliaments of the world contain
strong Intimation that naval retrench
ment Is about to be accomplished be
cause of depleted national treasuries,
rather than from any Inherent desire
to" abandon the struggle for armed su
premaey on the seas.
Formal announcement ia made that
Russia's czar has abandoned hla pro
gram for spendlag $1,000,000,000 in
the next ten years on the rehabilita
tion of the imperial navy, solely be
cause the Duma has forced to his re
allzatlon the fact that the country's
tax burden has already reached the
limit of endurance and Russian credit
has been exhausted among the bond
brokers of the world. Money will, of
course, be spent for the upbuilding of
the Russian navy, but it will be on a
scale far less dazzling than that pro
posed or desired by the czar and his
bureaucratic advisers.
Japan has a debt of more than
$1,250, 000, 000, on which it is paying
a high rate of Interest. The troubles
in the Japanese Diet have been for the
most part due to the protests of the
anti-war party In the empire against
extravagant outlays for Increasing the
Japanese army and navy. For financial-
reasons,' Japan will be compelled
to move slowly for many years, so far
as naval and military expansion is con
cerned. The French Assembly has refused to
Increase appropriations for naval and
military expenditures, and Spain has
about abandoned its plans for a great
navy to replace that lost at Manila and
Santiago. Germany has planned a
marked enlargement to its naval equip
ment, but the program may be changed
because of imperative demands for the
use of revenues to meet the Prussian
deficit and other governmental expend
itures. Italy, once one of the ranking
naval powers of the world, admits that
Its navy is antiquated and inefficient,
and that funds for bringing It up to
date are not available.
The United States and Great Britain
are the only representative nations
that have resources available for a pro
gram of naval expansion, although
plans to that end are arousing protests
from those charged with guarding the
expenses of the governments. Economy
may be more potent than peace confer
ences in effecting a limitation of naval
expenditures.
PKOHAQE IS TRK 80VTH.
Representative John Sharp Williams,
leader of the minority In the house at
Washington, has secured the adoption,
of a resolution calling for a congres
sional lnqulcy into the treatment of im
migrants in the cotton fields, lumber
and turpentine camps of the south. The
resolution was urged in reply to the
charge made by the Italian and Aus
trian ambassadors, that immigrants
from those countries had been sub
jected to state laws in the south that
left them in a condition of actual slav
ery.
Without questioning the Importance
of the investigation ordered, it is to be
regretted that the resolution is not
broad enough in its scope to include
an Investigation into the whole peon
age question In the south. It is sus
pected that Mr. Williams executed a
shrewd move in limiting the resolution
so that It will apply only to an Investi
gation of the condition of immigrants.
Complaints filed with the Department
of Justice allege a lamentable condition
among both white and black natives in
the southern states by the enforcement
of obnoxious state labor laws which
make debtors practical slaves of greedy
contractors.
The inquiry urged by Mr. Williams is
calculated to set at rest the stories cir
culated 'through Europe and halting
the tide of Immigration that had been
turned toward the south, where the de
mand for labor is great. But the In
vestigation should go further, and in
clude an inquiry Into the condition of
the helpless and ignorant native la
borers.
A BINT TO LEOPOLD.
Americans who have become inter
ested, through the reports of mission
aries and other organizations, in the
conditions in the g6ngo Free States
will be pleased to know that the
United States and England have
finally agreed to take steps to end the
slippery tactics employed by wily old
King Leopold for many years to main
tain his hold on the Congo country
as a source pf private profit. The al
leged transfer by Leopold of the Congo
states to Belgium has proved to be a
makeshift' and the British and Amer
ican authorities have decided to Bet
out resolutely to bring about the
needed reforms. The initiative was
taken in the British House of Com
mons, where the following statement
was made, showing the defects In th
treaty of cession, mad by Leopold,
transferring th Congo to Belgium:
Annexation will be annexation on lines
Waving the entire structure of the present
system Intact; the right of the natives in
their land and Its product denied; the na
tive enslaved; the vast monopolies In land,
product and labor In retention of all their
existing powers; the kiog la command of
the executive and legislative machinery. In
control of the budget, and surrounded by
the same staff of executive officials both
In Brussels and on the Congo In short, a
despotism of the most complete and far
rtachlrig character, based upon slavery and
bayonets, existing for purposes of private
profit, but sheltered henceforth beneath
the folds of a European flag, the flag of a
small people In a peculiar and dangerous
position at the best of times, a people un
consulted and Ignorant of the Issues.
Our country took part in the treaty
of Berlin by which Leopold promised
to adopt the reforms outlined for the
government of the Congo. The
record, however, shows that he has
violated every term and provision of
the compact. Leopold has oppressed
the Congo people and has plundered
them to his own enrichment. Name
less cruelties have been practiced upon
the natives and the old king has
finally gone to the extreme of com
mitting fraud in connection with the
import duties and thus given the Brit
ish government the right to interfere,
In furthering this Intervention Great
Britain haa asked the co-operation of
the United States and has received
assurances that it will be forthcoming
The United States can have no selfish
ambitions in South Africa and what
ever action this country may take will
be solely to promote justice. Great
Britain and the United States are the
strongest parties to the Berlin treaty
and decisive action by them will un
doubtedly tend to check the seemingly
endless wrangle between Leopold and
his country over the management of
the Congo territory.
OVERREACHING LAWTERS.
The cutting of several juicy melons
in the settlement of big estates and the
prosecution or defense of cases for
wealthy clients threatens to turn the
heads of many members' of the Omaha
bar. Every police court practitioner
has persuaded himself that he has just
as much legal learning and profes
sional ability as the favored few
who have captured the fat fees, and
tho disposition is already being manl
fested by a lot of 2x4 attorneys to
mark themselves up to 10x12 prices
The modest disciple of Blackstone
who gauges hla demands according to
the time consumed and the effort in
volved on behalf of his client, is in
danger of disappearing. A few more
lightning strokes of good fortune at
the feet of our legal luminaries will
be followed by an amendment to the
ethical code requiring a report from
some good commercial agency on the
size of the patron's pile before the fee
bill is made up. . InBtead of plain fig
ure tags, petitions, Injunctions and
mandamuses will be governed by a
cipher tariff translating into a rule to
charge all the traffic will bear. .
Of course, the bar In Omaha may
be juBt coming into its own, and may
have been for many years , foolishly
contenting itself with dry crusts while
the lawyers In more favored cities have
been eating frosted cake. But if the
imminent transformation is completed
the struggling young lawyer who hangs
out his shingle In this neighborhood,
and slowly and laboriously works his
way to fame, regardless of recompense
and oblivious to the smiles or scowls
of fortune, will soon be found only in
the story-books.
THE CIRCUS TRVSrs THREAT.
It is a little early yet to determine
whether tho recent bulletin from the
headquarters of the Circus trust ia just
a press agent fulmination, usual about
the time the show prepares to leave
its winter quarters, or a declaration of
real Intentions on the part of the
management. If It la a press agent's
dream, all right enough, but there is
certain to be a rousing protest If the
management of the Circus trust is in
earnest in the announcement carried
in this strange and incredible report:
The clrcua la going to worry along with'
out any freaks this year, because the nov.
elty haa worn off of the old itandbys, and
nobody can be found to take their places
and provide a novelty In that particular
tine. The freak .business la getting so poor,
the circus people say, that the high-class
folks of old don't go to It any more, and
besides folks are getting tired of 'em, any
how. If the announcement Is bona fide it
will simply serve as another illustra
tion that purse-proud monopolists
have a mistaken idea of the wishes of
the people upon whose patronage they
must depend. The American publio
has patiently stood for a good many
exactions and oppressions in the vari
ous activities of life, but we do not
believe it is prepared to submit to the
elimination of the freak as a circus
attraction. Circus patrons have a
real affection for the giantess who
walks on stilts and for the living skel
eton who eata only once a month.
They have never ceased to look with
awe upon the Wild Man from Borneo,
who spends his winters with his
parents at Kalamazoo, or to buy pho
tographs of the Circassian girl, the
bearded lady, the Fiji mermaid and
other fascinating fakes made to order
on short notice.
The American people, as P. T. Bar-
nam once declared, love to be hum
bugged, and the Circus trust will learn
Its mistake It it attempts to take away
that luxury.
Burglars operating in the second
story of a New York building caused
the plastering to. fall from the celling
of the first floor upon a pollcemau who
was enjoying a quiet snooze. The po
liceman promptly reported the owner
of the building for not keeping his
ceiling In proper repair.
A, jug of whisky from which the
ihlpplng tag had been lost was found
in a Georgia town and the express
company took 'it to the court for in
structions. The judge took the case
under advisement and when he opened
court the next day waa so full of the
subject that all other claims to the
contents were waived.
Democrats are unable to account for
the harpooning of W. H. Thompson of
Grand Island In the state convention.
Why not adopt Mr. Bryan's plan and
charge It to a conspiracy on the au
thority of "a man who overheard a
telephone conversation on the sub
ject?" The horse that is yanked out of a
comfortable stall at midnight to pull
some automoblllst out of the snow
has the laugh on the "horse-must-go'
fellow who got enthusiastic when the
gasoline cars were first Invented.
Tho Bryan platform, just promul
gated for the second Ume, is receiving
attention from the political forecasters
They might as well have started to
work at it when it was first made pub
lic nearly a year ago.
A Missouri Inventor claims to be
able to manufacture gas at a cost of
1 cent per 1,000 feet. Let him go on
and invent a meter that Is not ad
dicted to the get-rich-qulck habit.
Net am l aexpected Plrasare.
Chicago Tribune.
Still, the practically unanimous Taftness
of Ohio will be no surprise to the secretary
Pleasing; Interruptions.
Washington Btar.
In this month the monotony of work will
be broken only by St. Patrick's iDay and
the usual number of pay days.
Looking; Towards Nebraska?
Cincinnati Inquirer.
Who Is the man who really beat Beck
ham for senator? There Is an Impression
that he is not a cltlsen of Kentucky.
Iowa's Hot torn leasa Soil.
Washington Times.
That Iowa mud Is all right enough for
corn and pigs, but It never was intended
to encourage speed records for autos.
Preparing a Retreat.
Washington Star.
Suspicion on the part of Mr. Bryan that
money Is being used to defeat his nom'na
tlon at Denver Bhows a disposition to be
on hand early with a familiar Una of poll
tlcal explanation.
Makes No Difference.
New Tork World.
Mr. Bryan "cannot see where the selec
tion of Mr. Bradley wilt have any effect on
national politics." Perhaps he Is right
under his peerless leadership- the time
seems to have come when the defeat of i
democrat and the election of another repub-
lican to the United States senate can have
no effect on national politics.
No Mollycoddles There.
Chicago PoBt,
With great relief we note that "a num
ber of sailors were missing when the fleet
left Callao," and that the Panther had to
stay in port to gather them up. It would
be altogether too mollycoddllsh If all our
bluejackets went from Hampton Roads to
the Golden Gate without one single slip to
mar their good-conduct record.
Tim for Something-.
Philadelphia Record.
' If one railroad In Texas haa had ninety-
nine wrecks In seven months It ought not
complain if the State Railroad commission
has ordered It to make Improvements that
will cost (3,000,000. The company demurs
that the time Is not favorable for raising
the money, but the ninety-nine wrecks
must have cost a good deal not, of course,
anything. like three millions, but a good
deal more than the Interest' on that sum
for seven months. The commission de
clares that it will put every railroad In
Texas Into a receivership If need be rather
than tolerate roadbeds and equipment that
are a menace. The railroads themselves
cannot afford such a list of wrecks as the
commission parades.
Does It Keally Part
- Baltimore American.
Measured by the standards of his employ
ment. Andrew Hamilton was successful.
His clients were the largest and most gen
erous in the world. His Income was enor
mous. With unlimited means ha waa
prince of good fellows, and his entertain
ments shamed the - prodigality of kings,
But the glory hes gone. He was found deal
In bed, and now only a few will follow the
rest of the story. These who profited most
from hla bounty will stay away; those who
employed him to do their shady work will
not twn notice his departure. Hla kind of
suocess Is fallurs. All effort falls unless
It haa before It high principle, clean motive
or moral purpose. The lobbyist finds his
excuse In the plea of necessity, but that
does not purify the degradation of the
calling. Hamilton bore an honored name;
he belonged to an honored profession; ha
had the choice between honor and dis
honor, and he ehose the lower path because
It paid better. But did It pay?
PERSONAL POINTERS.
Mr. Edison will be going home soon to in
vent a ton or so of entirely novel surgical
tools.
Mme. Schumarn-Helnk will be a natural
ised American in June. President Roosevelt
will certainly welcome her.
Instead of going out of business at the
age of sixty, Mr. Harrlman Is still daring
his ennmles to come In and put him out.
Henry Bergh In offering 1600 as a prise
for the Invention of a humane way to
slaughter animals ought to include political
beas.
It ,1s estimated that Mark Twain has
earned 1700,000 by his literary work-
greatly to the financial benefit of other
people. ,
Conauelo, duchess of Marlborough, is re
ported to be drifting toward socialism. It
Is rather curious that the rich have never
hit upon the schema of making socialism
unpopular by espousing it.
Mrs. Hetty Green has declared that her
daughter will never marry a foreign
nobleman or any other foreigner. Mrs.
Green combines good horse sense with
her numerous peculiarities.
President Nicholas Murray Butler of
Columbia university will leave New York
on .Match 7 for a three weeks' stay In
Bermuda. During Mr. Butler's absence
Prof. J. C. Egbert will be acting president
f the university.
Big. Enrico Toselll, the music teacher, who
married the Countess Montlgnoso, the di
vorced wife of the King of Saxony, Is writ
ing a comic opera, and says he Intends
later to publish soma curious and Important
news which will astonish those who are
Interested In public Ufa.
Prof. Perclval Lowell announces that Prof.
Slipher at the Lowell observatory at Flag
staff, Arts., haa photographed comparison
spectra of Mars and the moon, showing on
repeated plates that the "Little A" band
Is stronger on Mara than on the moon, in
dicating water v pur la the atmosphere of
the plane i
ah kmwwmmt
THAT LASTS FOR LIFE
"A girl can for
get in alt months
after her marriage) all
the music It took her
twelve months to
learn." Chicago Record-Herald.
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ONLY 8)430 ON EASY PAYMENTS.
A guarantee that you get your money's worth la our One-Price) No-Corn-mission
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Call aa soon as convenient and investigate. 4
A. MOSPE CO.
1313 1XH ULAS STREET. .
SECULAR SHOTS AT THE Pt'LPlT
Atlanta Constitution: A Phlladelnhia
preacher says "Providence Is stlrrlnar the
country." The other day a Philadelphia
paper said Mr. Roosevelt was.
Atlanta Constitution ' Rniiton Is ti nn.n
her churches to the homeless. That Is,
they will be permitted to sleep there at
ignc, as wen as during the Hunaay ser
mon.
Chicago Record-Herald: A St.' Louts
preacher says girls should not object when
young men ' wlnh to hold their hands.
Naturally this leads to the suspicion that
soma St. Louis girl has been objecting.
Philadelphia Inquirer: A local preacher
of Delaware has a sermon with which he
proposes to reform the world. Judging
from efforts that have nJready been made
In that direction, he has his work cut out
for him.
Cleveland Plain-Dealer: Says the Rev.
Josiah Strong, "It Is not Intemperate to say
that there was more material progress dur
ing the nineteenth century than during
the entire preceding history of the race."
Aren't you glad you lived during this In
teresting period?
St. Louis Republic: Church members
who have trouble In believing the story of
Jonah and the whale ought to be able,
without being turned out of church, to
fall back upon Rabbi Harrison's explana
tion that it was never meant to be be
lieved literally; that It Is only a parable
and a romance with a moral.
Philadelphia Record: A gambling parson
in Missouri borrowed money from his fam
ily to repay his parishioners from whom
he had borrowed the money he lost, and
then borrowed the church from which he
had been removed In order to preach two
powerful sermons against the sin of
gambling. But If he had won 1300 Instead
of Joslng it, would his eyes have been
opened to the sin of gambling? '
Where Wo Really Shlae.
Washington Herald.
Our navy may be "Inferior" probably
always has been but there have never been
any flies on" our John Paul Joneses,
David G. Farraguts, Raphael Semmesea,
George Deweys, et at. Of course, we fell
out with ourselves about forty years ago,
and had something of a run for our money,
but before and since that time our "In
ferior navy" has always made good from
the word go.
Gallant Marao Heary.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Apropos of the London statement that
there's not a good looking woman among
the suffragettes, history Is padded with
proof that a fascinating woman can wield
more power In politics than was ever
vested In a single ballot. Diplomacy hath
her victories more renowed than those of
suffragetting.
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poo
and Cravehettes for this spring
are made up of the most graceful and best-,
fitting models that modern tailoring can
produce.
We would appreciate the opportunity of'
showing you this beautiful line of clothing
for Men, Boys and Children, even if you are
not ready to purchase.
Our haberdashery showing is, as usual,
the very finest, and some of the new color
ings in Shirtings, Neckwear and Hosiery are
beautiful.
We are showing all the new and up-to-date
blocks in both soft and stiff hats.
Browning, Eing & Co
CLOTHING. FURNISHING AND HATS
R. S. WILCOX, Manager.
The time spent in learning to- play the piano
is not wasted, even If other duties Interfere with
keeping in practice. A taste tor music, cultivated
in youth, remains an asset through life.
Modern Invention haa made it possible to con-
tlnue one's rnnslcal studies Into realms It would
be wholly Impossible to penetrate through the
medium of the average technique.
DOMESTIC INFELICITY.
Minting I henr Peckham's wife has left
him?
Blfklns Yes.
MltkJns Does he think ah will come
bark?
Hlfklns I guess so. Anyway, he told me
he was going to enjoy life while he had the
chance. Chicago News.
Penelope was telling Ulysses how she un
raveled the shroud.
"Yes," he Interrupted, "I see you took,
the buttons off my shirts, too."
Herewith she took the next train home
to mother. New York Sun.
Mr. Church Whew I how it's raining.
Lend hie your umbrella, dear? I ve got
to rifn over to the vestry meeting.
Mrs. Church But why not use that um
brella you've been carrying all week?
Mr. Church What! to the vestry meet
ing? Why. thats where 1 got It. Phila
delphia Press.
Mrs Spenders 1 wonder how you'd like
It If 1 ever got "new-womanish ' and n
slsted upon wearing men's clothes?
Mr. Spenders Oh, I haven't any fear of
you ever doing that. Men's clothes ar
never very expensive. The Catholic Stand
ard and Times.
Mr. Powers Do you mean to say that
you shopped all day and didn't get env-
thMrV Powers Yes; but I know what
everybody else got. Philadelphia Te'.e
grapn. "Mrs. Tellmors called on me this after
noon." . . V
shamefully now? 8t. Louis Post-Dlspatelt.
- OIR SUNSHINES SOCIETY. .
Baltimore Sun.
Brother and sister and Tabby and t
And the little rag doll that waa ready to
And the' dog. and the goat and the chicken
. that's Tame; .
And the little fat fellow who don't know
his name. .
But lives In aa alley and wears dirty
clothes; .
And sister's two playmates, Belinda and
Rose .
We're the Society. My, but it'j fun
Just llvln'. on laughter and ktndneea and
aun!
Nobody's President all may belong
Who come by with hearts that are merry
with song ,
And eyes that are beaming with gladness
and cheer. ,
Who like a areen world where a stream
rtpplea near.
Or a beautiful meadow where buttercuri
And 'bobolink calls and the dandelions '
blow, . ,
And you race and you run and you kick
up your herts,
Because that's tho way that a Bunshlner
feels!
We're very Informal and haven't a law
Or a rule or a system to fill you with awe;
It's Just howdy-do everybody with us,
And we never waate time over feathers or
fuss;
For all may belong, if they want to, you
Wlthbrother and Bister and Tabby and
me.
And the dog and tho goat and the dirty
f acckI boy
To the bloom and the birds and the light
and the Joy!
IIP groundhog's weather con
tract baa expired and, unless he
concludes to work overtime,
Spring is with us.
Nearly every man will be
wanting a Spring Suit or Top
Coat, and he will be wanting it
very soon.
Our line of Suits, Overcoats
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