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THE OMATTA PATLY HKFJj TUESDAY. MATICII 17,-1003. Tim Omaha Daily Bee. FOUNDED BT EDWARD IIOBEWATEU. VICTOR RC8EWATER, EDITOR. Entered at Omaha Postofflc aa second las mtiUr.' TERMS OB SUBSCRIPTION: Pally Dm (without Sunday), one aar..M W Dallir ht and Sunday, ona year J Sunday Bee, ona year J -J Saturday bra. trno roar DELIVERED 13 T CARRIER: Pa.Hr Dm (including Sunday), par week.tto Dally baa (without Sunday), per waek.loe Evening Dm (without Sunday), par wtfk to advening lirm (with Bunday). par wwi. AddrMa all complaints of irregularlUee la dallvary to City Circulation Department. OFFICES: Omaha The Da Bulldlnj. Soath Omaha City Hall Hulldlng. Council Dluffa 15 Boott Street. Chicago 16tt University Building. New York ilJt Horn 14r a Insurance Building. Washington 72B Fotirtaanth Street N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. CommnnV-atlnne relating to newa and edi torial matter ahould ba addreeaed. Omaha Dee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order rayabla to Tha Dm Publishing company, mly 1-cent stamps received In payment of mall account a. Personal checks, except on Omaha or caatern exchanges, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. .. State of Nebraak. Douglaa Coutny, ss.t George R. Tsachuck, treaaurer of Tha Pee Publishing company, being duly sworu, aya that tha actual number of full and complete conies of Tha Dnily, Morning, Evening and Sunday Daa printed daring the month of February, ltf, waa aa fol- sows: 1 870 1 88,100 IT SM00 M.r0 , 18,70 SO 89.300 11 8,340 II., 80,630 II,,.,., 8 6 00 14........... BS.S0S 16..., 86,670 tt 88,490 IT tejao IS 86.380 21... 3M50 S 89,300 I SS.1BO Oe.aaO se.sio ............ 30,030 T 88.M0 8S.03O I... 18,000 10...... S9.S00 II........... 00,100 U...... 89,800 it scaoo 14 84UOO 18. .......... M,1U . . Totals , 1,048,980 Less unsold and returned cop lea. . . S,3T Nat total 1,039,113 Pally average : 86,031 GEORGE D, TZ3CHUCK, Trsaaurar. Subscribed In my preaenoe and sworn to before ma this 2d day of March, 1904. ROBERT HUNTER. Notary Public WHEN OCT Or TOWSf. . Sabserl a ra leavln; ta city teaa. aarartly eaaala. aav- Tka Baa aaallea t taesa. Addrea win ha ekaaga4 aa ftea aa raqaeataa. First robla tales are due. All ready for St, Patrick's day In the morning. The price ot brown sugar has ad vanced. The maple sugar season has opened. Japan may claim to be the politest nation on earth, but In a recent meet ing China apologized first Speaker Cannon Is assured ot the Domination at Chicago it he can secure the Totes ot 411 delegates. That new fire engine, James C. Pahlman, will hare to go some to pout as well as Its namesake. The man In a hurry to get from New York to Paris will take a steam ship instead ot an automobile. "Mr. Bryan has no business ability," says the Baltimore Bun. Mr. Bryan's snug bank account is the best answer to that charge. Colonel Bryan is going to feast the democratic, and populist editors ot Ne braska. Nothing is too good tor these editorsJust before election. A lot of good people in South Omaha now admit to themselves that they made a mistake last fall In not voting for consolidation with Omaha. 1 1 ' ' . "It Is Bryan or Bust." says the Charleston News and Courier. By substituting "and" for "or" the Cour ier's statement might be mbre accu rate. Mr.-Carnegie ; urges that four addi tional battleships are needed to pre serve peace. Mr. Carnegie still draws a healthy Income from the armor plate factories. There are now 3,141 islands in the Philippines, although Spain sold this country but 1,200. Just shows how even, islands will multiply under re fabllcaa rule. Water always seeks Its level. The disappointed candidate for the repub lican nomination for sheriff last fall is now printing communications In the democratic World-Herald. . Senator McLaurin ot Mississippi has offered an amendment to the Aldrlch currency bill providing for the issu ance ot government currency on raw cotton. Populism dies hard. I - Secretary Root's proposition to abol ish a number ot useless American con sulates is meeting with opposition by both parties in congress. - The lure of the pie counter is nonpartisan. Secretary Metcalt says that every foreign nation admits the superiority Ot the American navy. Everybody will be happy, then, as soon as Hobson and the magazine writers are con Ylnced. It those New York to Paris atttoists do not all get here before the base ball season opens they may find that some of the enthusiasm bottled up for their reception has been uncorked lor the heroes ot the diamond. we note with sorrow and regret that. Edgar Howard lists the demo cratic entries in the gubernatorial race without giving cither number or color to of own Mayor "Jim. What's the nuttert Is te too heavy to weigh In? THIS CVVTlTHrS OBAtlt KKStRrXB, The Crop Reporter, the official pub lication of the Department of Agri culture, shows thst despite the enof- mous exports of 'cereals our farmers still hold a reserve supply, represent log many millions of dollars, available for marketing between this and har vest time. The report places the supply of wheat fn the farmers' hands on March 1, 1808 at 148.721,000 bushels, which added to the supply in the warehouses at export points, gives a total available supply of 181,617,000 bushels. This is about IS, 000, 000 bushels less than the reserve supply for the same date In 1807, but is in excess of the average for the ten-year period. The corn reserve on March 1 was 862,438,000 bushels or 87 per cent of the crop, as compared with 1,288,' 000.000 bushels held on March 1 of last year. This reserve is about the average for the ten-year period. The poorest showing is made in oats, where the farm and market stocks are but 276,000,000, or about 26 per cent below the average reserve. Nebraska farmers are holding 60,872,000 bush els of corn, compared with 118,886, 000 bushels in reserve last year; 11, 837,000 bushels of wheat, compared with 16,732,000 bushels last year; and 18,051,000 bushels of oats, as compared with 32,600,000 bushels last year. - . . The net result ot the report is a source of congratulation for the Amer ican farmer. In spite of high prices and short crops, he still holds about the average reserve in grains for which there Is an active market. It means that he has about one-fifth of his product still on hand as an avail able asset readily convertible into cash to meet any demands that may arise before the new crop is ready tor the market It is . another evidence of the independent financial condition of the American farmer, which is the best ouaranty of prosperity for those sections in which agriculture is- our chlet industry. KKCOQSlZWa ARMY TBLtOJtAPEtBM. Andrew Carnegie has taken action which should serve to remind con gress of Its shameful neglect in recognizing the surviving veterans ot the military telegraph corps which did such honorable and trying service dur ing the civil war. While congress has persistently refused to place these men on the roll of persons eligible to pensions, homestead privileges and other exemptions extended to every other, arm ot the military service, Mr. Carnegie, who was one ot the founders ot the United States Military Tele graph corps, has decided to place on his private pension roll at $144 a year all surviving members ot the corps who are recommended to him by their association. The financial aid extended, by Mr. Carnegie will be profoundly appreci ated by those ot the veteran tele graphers, . who are dependent, but it is nothing lees ot humiliating that this recognition of their services should come from a private citi zen and not from the govern ment for whom these men risked dangers and perils in the field as great as those faced by the average soldier. The military telegraphers were not ensconsed in safe places during the war. They did' the servioe now per formed by the signal corps, frequently extending wires to tha very field ot battle and rendering a patriotic and self-sacrificing service 'unexcelled by any other arm. They were entrusted with the cipher codes ot the govern ment and their positions were ot great responsibility. x There were some 1,200 of these in telligent, daring and brave men in the military telegraph service ot whom less than 200 survive. For thirty years they have sought - the same recognition given to other veterans ot the war. but congress has 'refused to go further than to grant a certificate of honorable discharge. The bill now pending In congress to place these men on a parity with private soldiers ot the civil war, so far aa pensions and homestead rights are concerned, should be passed as a Just, if tardy, acknowledgement. '. court noaat bond proposition; The county commissioners are to be commended for taking , the necessary steps to make sure that the, court house bond proposition, which is to be submitted to the voters of this county. will be in precisely the proper form. Douglas county is in better shape financially today than it has ever been before and its resources are growing taster than the increase in the de mands upon them. From the stand point ot financial ability the county is in position now for the first time to swing the construction of a new court house on an adequate and creditable scale without unduly ' disturbing its treasury operations and without ma terially increasing the taxpayer's burden. The court house, when built, will bring its benefits to the public tor Tears to come and it is no more than fair that the cost should be spread over a succession of years by the issue ot bonds payable at future dates. At the same time these bonds should be so issued that they may be taken up in reasonable sums from time to time as we go along so that, at least, halt ot the debt may be extinguished, if conditions prove favorable, by the time a twenty-year period expires. With the assurance in prospect that the bonds will be bought as an Investment for the state school fund, there should be no difficulty la so conditioning the terms upon which they are Issued as to give ns these desired options of re purchase at stipulated periods. With the bond proposition carefully drawn to provide for all these contin gencies on the financial side, it may confidently be submitted for ratifica tion of the voters on the merits of the need for new court house aeeommoda Hons. BRYAN AND DEMOCRATIC IDITORS. The announcement that Mr. Brylan is to entertain the democratic and pop ulist editors of Nebraska at a dinner at Lincoln on March 81 has only local significance. "The newspapers are an important part," says the local demo cratic organ, "of the campaign ot or ganisation Which Is being carried for ward and there are several things which will come up for discussion in the conference to be held In the after noon." Mr. Bryan is too shrewd a politician and too familiar with the sentiment of democratic newspapers throughout the nation to attempt to give a dinner to "democratic and populist editors" outside of Nebraska. It would be de cidedly interesting to observe the re sults of an effort on his part to enter tain the democratic editors of the country at a dinner. Admitting that "the newspapers are an Important part of the campaign ot organization," Mr. Bryan would have great difficulty in securing a list ot -democratic editors as guests at a dinner of national scope. In New York, tor Instance, he could not well Invite Mr. Hearst, who has heretofore been looked upon as a dem ocratic editor, but is now out of the fold. He could not invite the editor of . the democratic New York World, which is dally publishing the "map of Bryanlsm" and offering statistical arguments to show the utter hopeless ness of a democratic campaign under the Bryan leadership. He i could not invite the able editor of the democratic New York Times, who is bitterly op posed to Bryan and Bryanlsm. He could not invite the editor ot the dem ocratic Brooklyn Eagle, which has served tormal notice that it will not support the ticket nominated at Den ver if the platform contains anything of Bryan or Bryanlsm. There would be no guest representing the demo cratic press of New York City. The searcher for guests would not find conditions much Improved after leaving New York City. The demo cratic Boston Herald and the demo cratic Philadelphia Record are opposed to Bryan. Chicago has no democratic paper. Editor John R. McLean of the Cincinnati Enquirer and the Washing ton Post has not been attending demo cratic banquets for many years. The St Paul DUpatch1 is democratic but Editor Thompson favors the nomi nation of Governor Johnson, aa does also the editor ot the Duluth Tribune. That practically exhausts the list ot democratic editors of prominent papers in the north. Ex-Senator Patterson of the Denver News and Norman E. Mack , of the Buffalo Times would doubtless accept invitations to a dinner add conference with Mr. Bryan,' but' the rest of the guests would have to come from the south and, even at that, some of them would hardly be warmly welcomed. Editor Watterson ot the Louisville Courier-Journal, Editor Bryan of the Richmond Times-Dispatch and Editor Hemphill of the Charleston News and Courier, three ot the leading papers In the south, are either openly oppos ing Bryan or hoping against hope that some other candidate will be nomi nated at Denver. One active waiter would be able to serve all the guests at a dinner to the distinguished democratic editors of the nation tt Mr. Bryan were the host. In criticising President Roosevelt the other day Senator Bailey broke Into verse: I Too bad for a blessing. Too good for a curse. I wish in my heart He ware better or worse. It waa a sort ot mixed compliment to the president, very similar to some doggerel circulated in Texas when the fight was being made against Bailey on account of his Standard Oil connec tions. - The last two lines ran: He's too big to throw away And smells too bad to keep. The democratic World-Herald thinks that Governor Sheldon should employ a censor for his speeches in stead of a stenographer to avoid hav ing later to explain them. Neither would be necessary If the particularly hostile papers did not purposely dis tort and misquote what he says. The governor, however, wants to realize that the World-Herald is constantly on the watch for a chance to trip him up and to see to it that the chance is not given. It is refreshing to find Mr. Harrl man and President Roosevelt agreeing on something. "Mr. Harrlman spent 33,000,000 in putting the Colorado liver back Into Its channel. He had to do It, of course, to save his railroad, but if he had not done it hundreds of farms would have been devastated and Mexico would have had a claim ot sev eral millions against this country. President Roosevelt wants congress to pay the Harrlman claim. It is really funny to' hear the local democratic organ, which waa subsi dized with great gobs of money put up by Marcus Daly, W. A. Clark and other silver bullionalres In 1836, talk ing about a threatened repetition of the methods of that campaign "to cor rupt the press." Archeologlcal diggers In lower lEgypt have exhumed sheets of papy- rus that reveal the existence of an oil monopoly in that country more than 2,100 year ago. As yet nothing has been discovered to show thst ancient Egypt bad a Chancellor Day. Colonel James M. Guffey of Penn sylvanla denlea certain reports and makes it plain that the Pennsylvania delegates to the democratic conven tlon will not be Instructed for Mr. Bryan nor for any other candidate, This will have to be accepted as final and official, as Pennsylvania democrats obey Colonel Guffey as implicitly as Nebraska democrats obey Mr. Bryan. A Kentucky murderer has been granted a two weeks' respite from hanging in order to enable him to finish writing a book. The respite should have been granted only on con dition that the condemned man should not finish his book. The best Inspection of public school buildings is the inspection by the parents of the children who receive In struction there. Let the parents visit the schools frequently and complain out loud about everything that does not look right "The Thaw case developments are highly amusing," says the Pittsburg Press. Perhaps, to those who can find anything amusing in a case that is so thoroughly disgusting. . Pain from a Sore Spot. Kansaa City Star. Paul Morton has a plan to curb the rail roads. Since the antl-paas law went into effect a good many people think the rail roads ought to ba not only curbed but paved. ' Indianapolis News. ' A Remote Peril. Dr. Wiley's suggestion that the mothers of the country organize a union is worth serious consideration. There is probably nobody in tha country who works harder of longer than they do for less pay. PosatMe Ravagei of War, Chicago Record-Herald. Diamond dealera oredlct a drorj of So ner cent In the price of arems unleaa tha South African diamond war ceases at once. If the prediction is fulfilled It may ba neoea sary to have derricks for the nunnia of unloading tha diamonds at the next In ternational wedding. Play In a; the Game of Politics. Louisville Courier-Journal. In short and in fine, the editor of tha Courier-Journal knows but one iv tn play the game of politics, and that Is to place the cards flat upon the table, face upward,, . and to say . to each and every comer, "Beat that, you son-of-a-gun, and you beat me!" A Long; Reach Shackled. Springfield Republican. The Pennsylvania capltol grafters find the Jong arm pf the law around their necks In dead earnest. The verdict of guilty against the ; bunch, of them seems too soundly baaed to be nullified on technicali ties by thf jblgher courts, as were the verdicts against Schmlts and Ruef In San rTanciscQ. .. j COST, Or jLIVINQ LESS. Sosae Naeeaaarle Reachable Wtthoat 'a Stepladder. Philadelphia Ledger. The readjustment of prices and wages inevitably Indicated by the recent disturb ances in the economic world is going; for ward quietly, but surely, in all parts of the country. It Is not yet known how con siderable the reductions will need to fc before things are brought !r.to balance again. These rhan, as a rule, are not effected rapidly or easily. They are only good, moreover, when they are accom pllahed slowly and naturally. Nothing is more foolish 4han the thought that these are matters to be determined in an arbi trary way. Intervention by powerful hands may retard, . the regular operation of economic laws, but demand and supply will assert themselves In the end. Indefinite numbers of people are without work, or are only partially employed. In all our large industrial communities at the present time, and the fact is not to be concealed that wages will be lower when labor is abundant. It Is not an agreeable prospect, but it Is only by paying each worker leas that the employer can engage In his Industry .at all. The limited demand for his products requires that he should furnish them at a lower price. If he pays less for his material and less in wages, and la satisfied with a smaller share for himself, he can perhaps continue to operate his plant nearly at its accustomed ca pacity. With these less happy conditions for working people It Is pleasing to note a long-delayed decrease in the cost of living. Bo trustworthy an authority as Brad street's reports that we have now reached the lowest level In nearly three years, al though, aa Is obvious to all householders Of any experience, prices are considerably higher than during the low period In 1906, Only tea. vinegar, potatoes, apples, grains and a few other food articles seem to be higher at this time last year. It is toler ably certain that this altogether whole some and gratifying, decline has not yet proceeded as far as It will, and aa It should, for the advantage of the people. When the buying power In tha large Industrial centers declines the farmers must be willing to sell their products at lower' prices. These are all self-evident rules In politi cal economy, but they are commonly fop gotten. They explain much which we see going on around us day by d.ty. and the and of it ail will be good. White Indian A white Indian b a kk (ft dlan. When ths Indians first saw a white man thty were sure h was ilea. Whits iUn kX man was their arjucnent "Pale-race" is the name they jave Pale faces can be cured. ' When blood U properly (ed the face flows with health, Scott's Emulsion is a rich blood food. K Civts new power to the bone marrow from which the red blood springs. 111 AM Orassfetai SOa. aad ll.OO. 8IT8 Or WASHINGTON E.IFB. Matter of Preaeat latereat at the Hatloaal Capital. The senate committee on postofflcea and post roads is rapidly whipping Into shape a postal saving bank bill, combining the beat features of the bills of Senators Knox, Burkett and Carter, and the completed measure Is likely to be reported to the senate this week. The principal features of the measure aa now outlined makes every money order office of the presidential claas a postal bank from the start and the post master general la authorised to extend the system to other money order offices aa fast as practicable. It Is provided that accounts may be opened and depoelts mad by any person 10 years of aire or upward. No person may have more than one account Corporations are barred from opening accounts, the de sign being to encourage Individual savings and nothing more. The initial deposit of an account must be to the amount of fl, but additional de posits of 10 cents or multiple thereof are to be allowed. An Interest rat of I per cent per annum on deposits Is allowed. No interest Is to be allowed on deposits In excess of $500 made In any One year, and at no time la interest to be paid on a deposit of more than $1,000. The depositor, after the first year, may draw interest. In other words, on a total of 0,000, but for no greater amount of the time in which the deposits accumulate. Two hundred dollars is fixed as the maxi mum amount of 'money a person may de posit in any one month. It Is provided that withdrawals shall ba made tn even dollars, except In settling up accounts. National banks are prohibited from col lectlng exchange on any savings remit tances. There Is a section also which pro vides that all postal saving? are to bo re garded as publlo moneys, subject to the safeguards and preferences provided by statute therefor. They are to be exempt from setaure or attachment and from taxa tion. ' The amount of a deposit cannot be disclosed by any official except by order of the postmaster general. Of particular Interest are the provisions with regArd to the deposit of postal savlrurs funds In national banks. Funds may be deposited In such banks with the approval ot the secretary of the treasury. Interest must be paid by the banks to the govern ment at a rate of not less than SVs per cent per annum.; Two per cent Interest Is to go to pay tne saving depositors ana tne sur plus Is to be turned Into the general postal funds.v To meet one of the objections raised by country banking interests to the establish ment of the postal savings system it is provided that deposits of funds must bo made In the county or locality where the savings are received. This Is the distinctive fee' j re of the Kndx-Meyer bill, and is one that has done much to remove a source of strong opposition to the postal aavings innovation. ' In cases where banking faclll- ties are meager the funds may be depos ited tn national banks In the next con tiguous place. "Postmaster General Myer Is receiving great credit for the energy he has so suc cessfully directed to getting the movement started," says a Washington dispatch to the Chicago Record-Herald. "For several years the subject has' been agitated, but antagonistic Interests have staved off ac tion. BUI have been introduced and re ferred to committees and then pigeon-holed under the pretext that other postal reforms pressed for more Immediate consideration. "When Postmaster General Meyer began his work the most of Ms well wishers had little hope he would win even a preliminary round In the near future. When congress met this winter hardly anyone would have predicted the passage of a poetal savlnga bank bill through either house before ad journment of the sesa'su. But here 1b a bill framed by ti committee working in dead earnest for practical results, and tho senate le declared to be on the point of passing It. With such unanticipated progress, it will be strange if the establishment of tho postal savings bank system be not an in stitution of the government before the end of the present administration." Regarding the present status of the army pay bills the Army ana Navy Register says: Tha army pay Increase la still In the senate military committee, which has before it the army appropriation bill as it passed the house with the clause providing for an Increase Jn pay of the enlisted force. In the same quarter is Senator Warren's bill which alms to Increase the pay of the com missioned officers, aa well as the enlisted men, and authorises in the form in which It passed the senate an increase of 40 per cent in the pay of the soldier. The present intention of Senator Warren is to amend the house provision for In crease of pay In the army appropriation bill ' when it is reported from tha senate military committee, and to that end he has obtained some statistics on the subject. The changes made in the clause as It passed the house contemplate an Increase In the pay of the ftrst-claas sergeants of the hospital corps from MS to $60; first-class privates of the same branch who are acting as cooks will be designated as "acting cooks" at $30, the pay received by other cooks; the other changes relate to length of service those men who are paid from $16 to $21 will get an additional $t on the second and third enlla'tment and $1 for each succeeding enlistment up to and including tha seventh; thoae receiving between 1 and $36 will get $3 additional for each en listment, those receiving $36 and more will get $4 for each enlistment up to and Includ ing tha seventh. The estimate of the cost of the incorpora tion ot the provisions of the Warren pay bill in the army appropriation act show that the extra cost per annum In the pay of the enlisted force, active Hat, will be $6,251,009, and for tho retired enlisted force $3C2,000, an Increase of 41.S per cant. The increased cost In the pay of active officers will b $3,a3,000 and of retired officers $b!M,0O0. These figures are necessary In orVter to Insert in the army bill the appro priation for the item of pay for the army providing for tha Increase which was not taken care of in the house. The army bill will not be reported from the senate mili tary committee fer a wrek or possibly longer, and In the meantime the senate military committee will acquire further In formation concerning tha Increase of pay, together with other usual data concerning the bill. Prosperity la tfc Coaatry. New York Tribune. The farmers ot the country bav still In reaerve from last year' wheat crop 118.721.000 bushels. Wheat is now quoted at $1 a bushel for export. Thej two facts help to explain the prosperity of the agri cultural sections of tha country a pros perity whkh has not been shaken by the recent financial and industrial disturbance. First Pae ar Nethtatf. Minneapolis Journal. If the Bryan men think they can "Roose velt" Jehn A. Jchneon Into taking, tha demooratle nomination for vice prealdent thay will find him a bard eltlaen to rope and tie for each a purpose. H has his finger crossed. n er - v 1 r'--- v"S? m BREAKFAST day riizht breakfast the createst least tax upon the Il4 Shredded Wheat Biscuits with a pintlM of hot milk will supply all the eneriryP -needed for a half dar woXM&f and the cost, is arv,,f M? wX five cents. ifi Jr.TFn t.M.Vf..a I. - .p - - -" lunchaoai ar an nul itk Siar-"iiiiiwewi" NEBRASKA TO MINNESOTA. Valnabl Object Leaaon for North tat Repnblleaa. 0 Minneapolis Journal. The ..Nebraska republicans were not mealy mouthed about indorsing Taft, They Indorsed him thoroughly and elected dele gate to the national convention who are sincerely for him. They are for him, be cause they believe in him as the right leader for the republican party. They are not for htm merely because President Roosevelt Is for him, though that did not hurj Taft with the republicans of Ne braska. Ws cannot help thinking that the Ne braska state convention waa a valuable ob ject lesson to Minnesota. The conditions In this stats are as plainly sympathetic toward the Taft candidacy as they were shown to be in Nebraska. The republicans of this state want Taft to lead them. Then why not say so as the republicans of Nebraska have done? The argument that Minnesota should not give itaelf un reservedly to Taft because he may not be nominated should have no weight. Even political expediency, which is the only ar gument that can be brought against In structions, does not support the plea ot the neutrals. The way for Minnesota to have vetght In the national convention Is to be there with a delegation which hon estly and effectively represents the senti ment of the slate for Taft. If Taft Is nominated, even the political expediency people will be able to see that a good job has been done and that Minnesota was at the front In bringing about the result. Inasmuch as prestige and prominence are what, they are always thinking about. this ought to be exceedingly pleasing to that sort of politicians. t PERSONAL NOTES. King Alfonso got away from Barcelona with nothing more exciting than the burst ing of a bomb in a water pipe. Probably a demonstration against the plumbers. A Rustolan restaurant In New York which goes by the name of a "tea room," Is rap Idly making a fortune for tt proprietor. Its specialty is vodka and all New York wants to taste It. One of the president's guests at luncheon recently waa William Sewcll, a former guide in' the Maine woods, but now col lector of customs for the Aroostook district of Maine. Bewell was a guide for the presi dent on several hunting trips. As ' everybody knows. Hall Calne, the novelist. Is a native of the Isle of Man, and the most distinguished one. He has been made a member of the governing body of the Island, the house of keys, the sessions ot which he. frequently attends, faithfully doing his duty there. Miss Helen E.' Haines of Brooklyn, who Is at Saranao .lake, for her health, has been notified that she has been awarded a pension of $100 a month by Andrew Car negie. Ths award was made without her knowledge. For fifteen years Miss Haines as been managing editor of the Library Journal, but has bean forced to resign the position because ot 111 health. The finely manicured right hand of Minister Wu is an Instrument of his suc cess as a diplomat. When Wu scores a point tn repartee the hand quickly covers half his face. When Wu wishes to dodge question the hand helps the artful lips. With the slender fingers rubbing the flat yellow nose ot the famous oriental statea- rren It's a wise old owl that can read the thoughts of China's minister to the court of Unci Bam. 3 Sivcst Van Gan't Boat Love "snaps' and CORN SYRUP i j Delightful on bread. uung vnai s reiicr In air-tight tin, CORN . i-.u-c-- j (. .i a FOR. Ml"?- bv Mtinwi y; t-- that tvX ammmf -U&y men. vr :r digestion. TwU'Ar. Mitil .L. . uws am siae a.s i a u... . ; .,-1 , j ,r-i f flTi. . PASSING 11 r" - ' "Tou have be-n s:.-' . haven't you, John'. ' "Yea." They say hla nc. temper. How did ahe a.. "With anything that ca.... timore American. r . "How pale and careworn Mrs. bu.v looks?" "Yes, ahe has on her Ienten complexion.'1 Cleveland Ha In Dealer. "Ah, Gabriel's trump nt last." crd the man, rising from the :ruve in the la. day. "What la It?" limu nil his female neighbor. "I aay It's Gabriel's trump." rresfcn0W' bUt What l,t 'rnlladelPnla "All your speech needs," raid the admir ing friend, "Is a few original Ideas." "That shows your careU-aHtieas," an-swe-ed Senator Sorghum. "There la never any telling how the public will regard a new Idea. Never adopt an Idea until It has been thoroughly tried out by some one else." Washington Star. "I suppose your town Is' getting a bit more fashionable now," said Cltlman. "Tea" replied Subbubs. "we used to sum. plain of our 'chills and fever,' but now we call It 'malaria.' ''Catholic Standard and Time. "I didn't notice you at the mother's con gresa. "No." replied the woman addressed. "I'm not a theoretical mother, you knw. I have six." Philadelphia Ledger. They met at tho lunch counter. The girl with fluffy hair had ordered Ire cream, cake, chocolate pudding, and cream puffs. "For the landa aake, Belle!" exclaimed the girl with the picture hat. "How can you get away with all that stuff?" 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