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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1903. Tint Omaha Daily Dee FOUNDED BT EDWARD ROHEWATER - VICTOR ROSEWaTER. EDITOR. Entered at Omaha Fostofflc econd elan matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Dally Tee (without Bunday). on year..$4V Dalljr Hen and Sunday, on year Sunday Be, on year J baturday Dee, one year -60 DELIVERED BY CARRIER: Dally Bee (Including Sunday), per w,k-5 Dally Hee (without Sunday), per week,.10o Krenlng Bee (without Bun.lay). per week to Evening Bee (with Sunday), per week...lOo Addreaa all complaint of Irregularities In delivery to City Ctrrulatlon Department. OFFICES: Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha City Hall Hullrtlng. Council Bluffa 15 Bcott Street. Chicago 16) University Mulldlng. New York-Rooms 1101-1102, No. U Werl Thirty-third Street. Washington 726 Fourteenth Street N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. " Communication! relating to news and edi torial matter ahould ba addreaaed: Oraana Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The Be publishing compan; Only 2-cent stamps received In payment of mall account. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchangee, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, as.! Cleorge H Tsschuck, treasurer of The Bee Publishing company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Be printed during the month of April, ivua, van aa rjiiowsi i sa.MO f M.BBO I 36,900 36,750 4 . 37,010 6 ... 36,800 B7.680 7 37,840 ; 37,040 ' . ... 87,10 . 10 37,060 11 37,060 11 37,050 It.......... 31340 14 37,320 16 37,180 ....... e,eoo 87.140 M.B50 38.8S0 SS.BSO It to tl 12 38,460 2 36,060 J 4 86,860 16.... 36,650 H 86,600 tl 36,760 H 36,900 29 86,690 SO 86,970 Total X,108.oao Less unsold and, returned copies.. 1M41 Net total........ 1,097479 Dally average.... 36,673 . GEORGE B. TZ8CHUCK, Treasurer. Subscribed In my preaence and sworn to before tn thl lt day of May, 1908. (Deal.) . BOUERT HUNTER, Notary Public. WHEW OUT OB TOWN. V Subscribers leaving the city tem porarily ahoala ksr The Bee mailed to them. Address Trill he changed a oftea mm requested. Indiana Is to have a presidential candidate after all. His name ia Debs. Minnesota balked at Bryan for second place on the ticket. So does Bryan. " The Wright brothers' flying machine Is different from most Inventions In that line. It files. Only 2,638 persons were Injured In street railway accidents In New York In the month of April. Governor Hughes refuses to become a candidate for the vice presidency. He prefers ,V . be busy about some thing. The Washington base ball team has signed a Pitcher named Salve, in the hope that he may rub it In on some of their opponents. "How long does a dream last?" asks a Berlin scientist One has lasted twelve years, in Mr. Bryan's case, and he hasn't awakened yet That noise of a man clearing his throat may be Charles A. Towne get ting ready to state his willingness to be Bryan's running mate. Bryan, Watson and Debs have all been around the presidential track be fore. Mr. Taft will be a new entry, but is already a strong favorite. Pittsburg has furnished another il lustration of the fact that a stock ticker has no place in a safe and con servative banking establishment Isn't the president In danger of getting himself in the the nature faker class by declaring that a certain sen ator has "sweetbreads for brains?" Richard Croker's daughter refuses to marry, an Enilfth nobleman. The Crckers have strong objections to al lowing money to go out of the family. Uncle Sam will have his share in the great corn show at Omaha. It would have been careless almost to the point of crime if congress had ordered otherwise. 1 Attention 4s being directed to the fact that congress will adjourn without action on thousands of pending bills. Most of them should never have been introduced. An Interesting yarn is being spun about charges of graft in connection with the management of the affairs of the American Woolen Goods Manutac turlng company. The Japanese positively refuBe to allow China to build a railroad in cer tain Chinese territory. The Japs have their own idea of the power behind the Asiastlo thrones. The mayor of Milwaukee is going to make a gubernatorial campalga in a balloon. He is not the only mayor with gubernatorial aspirations who Is up in the air most of the time. A Nebraska murderer has secured a reduction of one year In his sentence as a result of a new trial. At this rate, if he gets trials enough he can escape the, penitentiary altogether. The rush tor the position left vacant by the death of Secretary Bennett of the State Board of Equalisation sug geats that Governor Sheldon's plan of going slow In selecting the next In cunibent is a good one. The place is too important to be hastily filled. OOTKRIWH BVOHKS' VLT1MATVM. While other men more or less promi nent in the public eye have declared in advance their determination not to accept a nomination tor, the vice presidency, the declination 'by Governor Hughes of New York of that pros pective honor ia so explicit and une quivocal that he may be counted out of consideration for second pladB on the ticket to be nominated at Chicago. In a letter to General Woodford of New York, Governor Hughes said! I should not care to be thought lacking In appreciation of tho distinction of th office. But for reasons whloh are eon trolling and leave no room for discussion, and though I would be deeply sensible of the honor thereby conferred, I should not be able to accept, and would not In any contingency accept a nomination for the vice presidency. And, even were I elected, I could not serve. ...... Governor Hughes has established something of a reputation for saying what he means, and meaning whathe says, so his statement of Ills attitude toward the vice presidency may bo ac cepted as final and Irrevocable. His letter to General Woodford contains no hint, however, of another matter In which the' people of New York, and of the entire country, are interested. On former occasions Governor Hughes has Indicated that he had no desire to seek or accept another term as chief executive of New York, but was anx ious to retire from public life at the close of his present term of office. The people would have been better pleased had ho given General Wood ford some Intimation of a willingness to continue the work he bag so well begun In New York and which is yet far from finished. Some of the meas ures he sought to have enacted into law have been defeated, by combina- tlons and machinations of politicians of both parties, and there Is a gen eral Impression that no other man could so successfully push these re forms to consummation In law as the present governor. ' Qualified as he is for the presidency, the vice presidency or any other high office, the issues to which he has given bis tlmo and attention for the last two years belong to the domain of state hood and his retirement, for any rea son, from the governor's chair would be a loss to the better sentiment of the, state of New York and to the cause of good government everywhere. As a candidate for re-election as governor, Mr. Hughes would perhaps add more strength to his party's ticket in New York than he would as a candidate for the vice presidency, and his con-, tinued service in the governor's chair would do more for his party and his1 state than any service he could per form as vice president A FLEA THAT APPEALS. Besieged with Invitations from for eign nations for a visit from the American fleet on its way home from a tour of the world, the Navy depart ment at Washington has one appeal for a Bight of the great fleet, now under command of Admiral Sperry, that should be granted. The request comes from the leper colony at Molo- kal, Hawaii. The inhabitants of that colony, several hundred in number, doomed to a living death of isolation on an island of the Pacific, do not ask that the fleet should stop at the colony, but only that Its route be changed so that it shall pass near enough to be seen by the unfor tunates. Medical science has changed opinion on the question of leprosy and the best authority now contends that it is not a communicable disease, but is due to other causes than contact; but preju dice, fear and suspicion are still too strong to accept this contention un questioned, and the unfortunte vic tims of the malady are sentenced to isolation at Molokal. Their request for a sight of the fleet is a pathetic illus tratlon of their loyalty and their love for the old flag. If it will bring even temporary brightness into their deso late lives to have the battleships steam by, in eight of the island, the Navy de partment should, as a matter of com' mon humanity, give Admiral Sperry orders to comply with the appeal from tho lepers. TUB MAROONED COLOXEU Senator Isador Rayner of Maryland while perhaps unfortunate In the se lection of his client, has at least done a service in bringing the facts in the case of Colonel Stewart of the coast artillery service, to the public atten tion. Colonel Stewart, by order of the president, has been marooned at a de serted army post In Arizona and Sen ator Rayner has made an eloquent at tempt to picture him as an American Dreytuss. Unfortunately for the sen ator's case, be was compelled to have printed the president's letter relating to Colonel Stewart, and thereby ex poses the weakness of the attempt to make a national issue out of a peppery colonel, who Is being disciplined by the army authorities. In the course of a letter to Senator Rayner President Roosevelt said: j lie (Colonel Stewart) refuse to retire unless he la made a brigadier general. I shall certainly not make him a briga dier general, because he Is grossly untt not merely to be a brigadier guncril. but lo hold hi present rank In the army. Ilia career has not been distinguished for a number of years; his usefulness has been diminished, indeed it has not only Irrevoca bly passed, but he Is a nuisance In the service, being both Incompetent and temper amentally unfit to exercise command over enlisted men, or to control other officers. or to behave with propriety when brought In contact with civilians. The question appears to be simply one of army discipline. Colonel Stew art stands convicted by a number of his peers as a man with a chronle grouch, with whom no one can got along, and at thi same time un officer who has done nothing for which he can be placed on trial. He has a fac- lty for making things painfully un pleasant for all around him, and ap parently knows when to stop Just short of breaking the rules of the army. The effort to make him a mar tyr muBt fail because his case serves to Illustrate how he is being protected rather than prosecuted. As commander-in-chief, of the army, the president is charged with the re- ponslbllity of preserving discipline. Five brigadier generals of the army have furnished the president with suf ficient information to warrant him in adopting the methods he has em ployed to prevent the colonel from working any serious harm to the ser vice. He has accordingly sent Colonel Stewart to the abandoned post in Ari zona where, as he Bays in his letter to Senator Rayner, "there are no enlisted men or junior officers over whom he can tyrannize, but few civilians with whom he can Quarrel, and no officer of superior rank to whose command he might, to the great detriment of the army, some day succeed." Senator Rayner may fume and wax eloquent, but the facts and the records show that he has been unfortunate In the selection of a protege. In no other army in the world would Colonel Stewart get off as easily as he has done. He retains his commission and his pay, and should consider himself in great luck. MALADROIT METHODS. The renewal of the attack on Chief Donahue through the medium of the alleged effort to enforce the Sunday law in Omaha, lacks the potent force of sincerity. The petition filed by the attorney for the "social service" com mittee of the Ministerial union is so maladroltly drawn that Its purpose is apparent to even tho most casual reader. Mr. Holmes has not exhibited the ordinary astuteness of a trial law yer, but has rather adopted the tactics of one who realizes the weakness of his case and hopes by Bheer assurance and unwarranted assumption to cover up Its deficiencies. In his construction of the statute Mr. Holmes goes to such lengths as would scarcely secure serious consider atlon even in a backwoods Justice shop. By implication he would have us believe that to arrest an individ ual means to incarcerate him. He in slnuates that it was the duty of the chief of police and the sixteen patrol mon who assisted him In looking up the alleged violations of Sunday peace and good order in Omaha to have thrown into Jail each of the 613 Indi vlduals whosv names' were reported to tho city prosecutor for action. This suggestion certainly reaches the height of absurdity. Suppose the plan had been carried , out, and that the city prosecutor had moved with no more celerity than has marked his course in dealing with these Sunday cases, what would have been the result? Either 500 and more of our citizens would have languished In jail during the last five months, or their cases would have been summarily dismissed and the vindication of the dead and forgotten law, suddenly revived by Mr. Holmes and his associates, would still be lacking. The statute quoted by Mr. Holmes says that the officer "shall arrest and detain any person until legal warrant can be obtained." Now, in the case of these 513 persons ac cused of violating the Sunday law, each and every one of them was to all intents and purposes arrested and de tained until a legal warrant could be obtained. It is not shown that In single Instance any of them has sought to evade or avoid either the arrest or the subsequent trial. Any delay that has been experienced in the matter Is due entirely to the machinery of. the courts over which the chief of police and his subordinates have no power whatever. As fast as the legal war rants were made out and Issued by the city prosecutor and police Judge they were served by the police officer. That all these accused were not tried Is due simply to the exercise of ordl nary common sense by the prosecutor, who wished to ascertain what course would be taken in the matter by the higher courts before he occupied the time of the examining magistrate with the hearing of so many persons, who at the best can' only be convicted of a misdemeanor. Nothing aDDears In the record at any point to show that the police force, acting under the di rections of the chief In carrying out the orders of the mayor, has been negligent, slothful, or derelict in duty, Mr. Holmes reaches an acme of as surance in hU assumption that the courts will construe the word "may1 to mean "must" He has no warrant for this, whatever. The probabilltie are that the court would In this ln stance, as has been done in others, construe the word "may" as giving the police officer discretion within his Judgment to determine if immediate Incarceration is essential to the deten tlon of the culprit until a legal war rant can be obtained. In the case of the persons accused of violating the Sunday law no effort was made to escat, ud the police, exercising ordl nary prudence, merely secured their detention until the legal warrant could be obtained. The cause of justice, of good order and good morals has suffered none In this regard, and the demand of Attor ney Holmes on behalf of the "social service" committee that the chief of police be removed from his office be cause he did not summarily imprison 500 good citizens of Omaha would be ridiculous. If it were not sent before the world as the deliberate act of body of men supposed to represent the cause of good morals and good order in the community. One recommendation In tho report of the "social service" committee of the Ministerial union commends itself. The report says: "Especially should needed amendment of habit by many professors of religion be affectionately rged." If some of these energetic professors of religion were to amend their habits so as to conform a little more closely to the teachings of the gentle man who founded their religion, much good might result and much petty bickering would disappear. The water works case Is now before the supreme court of the United States on an application that may result in a rehearing. While waiting for the court' action, It might not be out of order to discuss what may be done in event the decision already rendered against the city is upheld. The plea for more extensive man ual training in the public schools is not likely to fall on deaf ears. The Omaha Board of Education has taken conservative but definite action in tho past on this matter, and will undoubt edly give the plai proper support In the future. Mr. Bryan has found something else that he is opposed to, and takes much exception to the president's naval pro gram. It would be interesting to now Just what Mr. Bryan would do If he were president, but the probabili ties are that this will never be an swered. If the city council should now re verse itself on the push-cart proposi tion it would be merely carrying out Its established policy. Up to date the democratic majority has assumed as many attitudes as possible on every question. Washington has a persistent rumor that Secretary Wilson Is soon to resign rrom the cabinet The rumor is a little early this year. It usually gets into circulation in the dull news days in July. y . ine Pennsylvania railroad has placed 1,000 new freight cars in com mission In the last week owing to in creasing business. The idle car prom lses to be a memory before the summer is over. The chief of police has secured per mission to provide a machine for tlm ing the flying autos. This may or may not reduce the speed, but it certainly should remove disputes In the police court , Senator Piatt insists that it he waa .married to Mae Wood his secretary apparently made no record of .it The senator Is getting old and feeble and cannot be expected to remember all his marriages. The United States circuit court has decided that the president had the right to dlsmlsa the Brownsville riot ers. The court will now have to set tle with Senator Foraker. Harry Thaw's personal debts amount to $200,000. "If I am Insane," says he, l m not responsible for my debts and won't pay 'em." Evidently there Is method In his madness. Light In Twilight Land. Minneapolis Journal. The president wants plenty of llaht in that "twlghlight land" between the powers of the state and federal governments. He seema to think there la more or less trust SKuiauggery going on "in the gloaming.1 How We Get that llama. Washington Herald. A physician says our round shoulders are caused by tho habit of continually reaenmg into tne pocket of our clothes. Btlll, we can't see anv r,miv tr. as long as the cost of living continues us upward flight. Short In Years, Great In Volume. Cleveland Plain Dealer. aiio man wno sold the first railway ticket in thla country died the other dav In Rochester, N. H. Thl forcibly recalls the fact that a scanty seventy year cover the wnoie history of railroading in the United States. Presumably the late ticket seller was also the first railway official to be asked what time the next train leaves. Vake Way for the Boom. St. Louis Republic. Now that the government mint ha be gun coining gold piece one more with the old-time motto, "In God We Trust. it I of Interest to recall the significant coincidence that the panlo of last vear began Just about the time the new coin without the motto made their appearance. We may indulge the hope, therefore, that coincident with the appearance of the coin now being minted w may note a marked boom In our reviving national prosperity. TIHIUXU SIGHTS FOR NEWCOMER Brief Moving Pen Plctare of a, iyt. tlonal Convention. C. V.' Camp in Metropolitan Magaslne. To a newcomer a political convention is an citnerto unlmaglned carnival of senile frlsklness, noise, temper and down right lunacy. The social leader, the mil lionaire; the flashy, hall-fellow-weljmct who lives by the sweat of his political brow, the important politician from a small city, the diffident, nervous country lawyer, the gaping backwoodsman and the suave, confident statesman, all mingle here to plot and plan, to mine and countermine to charge and retreat and to take in flank an J in the rear, Just as armlo thug with strength and strategy for the mastery of a field. And a the smoke of battle brings beyond the surface of civilization' veneer the primeval lnstlnots of man, so I the rougher man exposed in the bitter fight of the convention hall, with It am bitions, its hatreds and its lust of powe Although auch moment do not come in all conventions. In each the same lack of dig' nlty may be found. The easily aroused laughter, the readiness to cheer at sny and all times, the hlgnly strung nerve on which. It may happen, an orator play with results that can bs compared to the ease with which the French people were accus tomed to raise and pull down their popula heroes these are suuie ef its Inalienable trait. BOUND ABOUT KEW YORK. Ipples on the Current of Life In the Metropolis. The greatest gambler New York ever new, possibly the greatest thl country ever produced, cashed In hi checks finally hen Theodore Allen died a few day ago. His baptismal monitor waa abridged to the first syllable, hence he was commonly nown os "The" Allen. HI occupation was confined to poolrooms, and one of his boasts was that he had run a poolroom since the civil war without having seen a orse race or betting on one. The son of Methodist minister, Allen started out right, but struck the wrong path, from which he never branched off. His leading characteristic was determination, and once avlng arrived at the conclusion that the orld was against him because of his gambling habits, he decided he would fight It alone rather than retreat, a virtue which put to a better use would have made him man admired and respected. Strangely Inconsistent with his whole career, "The" made two campaign contributions, one to elect Abraham Lincoln and the othef to help Jerome along to victory. He was far from being entirely sordid or callous, and a warm and generous heart beat in Ms breast, notwithstanding that his calling was calculated to make him indifferent to the wants and suffering of other. He gave his money freely to the poor, and to his everlasting credit It can be said that he paid the funeral expenses of some 400 penniless people. In addition to this he dopted five children and aided his wife, who was a very religious woman and a practical Christian worker. Allen ran to aphorisms naturally and made them on all subjects. Here are a few of his sayings: When I play with a man I am not gambling. Ho Is." "Rum, rum, misery and poverty. It'a crape on the door, a grave In potter's field. No rum for mine." "I believe In the old law. I gouged Tim Casey's eye out because he chawed off a bit of my ear and bit off a hunk of my lower Hp." "Nine-tenths of the world Is a cheat and lie. But I'm aafe at home. I'm In a desert all day, but when I go home it's like coming into an orchard with green trees all around. They don't cheat and He there." And it was "The" who a short time be fore he waa half carried, half dragged on his palsied limbs to visit District Attorney Jerome, the last noteworthy event of his life It was Allen, who since war days had boasted that he was the "wickedest man in New York," who said with some show of satisfaction: "Go ask the undertaker up the block. He'll tell you how many hundred funerals I've paid for. Go ask the grocery man how many families I've footed the bills for when the men were out of work. But It all comes home some way or other. It's come home to me a thousandfold." Coney Island, which long has prided It self on Its ability to tell a con game when It sees one, even If the rest of the country can't, has been taken in once or twice in it career, each time tn an effort to get fire insurance policies at a price some where near what persons in other parts of Greater New York have to pay for them The detail of the latest attempt to get bargain price insurance came out last week with the arrest of the price-cutting agent on a charge of grand larceny. While the complainant only paid out $46 for a $4,000 policy which has been pronounced bogus. Coney Island merchant who also patron ised the philanthropic agent estimate that worthless policies aggregating between $1,000,000 and $3,000,000 have been distributed in Coney Island, Fiatbush and Borough Park. There Is a young man in New York who has built up perhaps the most artificial business that the city has yet produced. He is professional escort to rich and un attended women who long for the sights of gay New York. Their husband and fathers here on business, weary and worn out when night rolls around, pay this young man to escort them to theaters, res laurants and to see the sights, while they are with business friends. The young man has built up a business In less than two years that Is surprisingly paying and so successful that he seldom has an after noon or evening free. He stumbled into the "familiar friend" profession, as he call it, purely by accident. One day he was seated in the Waldorf corridor when an old gentleman, who was In the next chair, asked him what was the best ahow In town. The young man named several. The old gentleman thanked him and told him that he had to take hi wife and daughter to the theater. "But I'd rather be licked than go," said he. "I'll take the Job for $3," said the young man. The old gentleman looked surprised. Later he learned that the young man was all right. That night he earned his $25. Then the old gentleman Introduced the young man to friend, and the next night he was the escort of his wife. One by one tits clients kept on Increasing until he found all his time taken up. The opening of the Singer tower In New York, which is to be gorgeously illuminated by electrlo lights, has raised the question how far away its splendor will be visible at night. Popular estimate of such dts tances are apt to be exaggerated, for the reason that the distance does not increase in proportion to the height. Thus an ob ject to 100 feet high can be seen thirteen miles away, and one 200 feet high but five mile further. The next hundred adds nearly a much, but the rate steadily falls till a 1,000-foot tower such as New York means to have could be seen only forty two miles away. The Singer tower, being leas than 700 feet above the sea, would be visible at sea under the most favorable conditions only about thirty-five miles away. "Nothing help digestion more than to have a pretty woman sitting opposite you," remarked a New York physician in speaking about foods and digestion. This statement, like a goulash, contains much both of sauce and substance. "With a pretty face opposite one does not eat as much a otherwise he would, and that 1 good for him," continued the doctor. "He talks; he listens. His masticatory pro cesses are more delicate and restrained. He does not 'shovel in' the food. His fork and spoon do not describe the shortest dis tance between two points In their travels from plata to mouth. His knife does not travel at all. In fact, it can be said that a man enjoys hla meals better with a pretty woman sitting opposite." All of which means if you cannot find the pretty girl it's no use of eating, because the food will do you no good Tlea Ike Score. Chloago Record-IleraM. It appears that E. H. Harilman Is ft base ball enthusiast. This fact will endear him to a large number of American people who have hitherto been inclined to regard him aa a cold, hard, unfeeling person, whose only desire was to wickedly control all the railroads In the country. ' rallies OST a Bluff. ' Pittsburg Dispatch. There seems to be a disposition among the railroad magnates to abandon for the present, at least, that scientlflo experiment of raising freight rate so high a to make It even for the public's not shipping any freight at all. No need '"Dat't ttmft tti" 'iuckltbtrrj. THE Gotzian Shoe, ia made for comfort a3 well as stjle and durability. The lasts are modeled on plaster-of-Paris casts of real feet. This is one reason why it fits and keeps its shape. Your name on a card will will bring our artistic stjle boot Shows what's what in Shoedom. '1 u StM r;p'ni,:;;iiiiriii SJ Laa II it'll . Ml 19 11 W III IV Ill II III III III . .f III I II I'll . . M IWh.il S' -if' "Fits Ilka your footprint" Made In St. Paul by C. Gotztan & Co. since 1853 IS POVERTY FASHIOXAHI.KT Promise of l ess Display' Among; the Newly Blea, Wall Street Journal. Poverty is commonly regarded as a mis fortune and has often been looked upon as a diFgrace. Nevertheless, Henry Clews says that since the tremendous decline and panic of 1W, Involving such heavy losses to large hold er of securities and men of affairs. It has become quite the fashion In society circles to make a frank acknowledgment of pov erty. For instance, a woman will say, "We can't go to Newport this year, as my hus band has met with such losses that we can't afford It." Another will announce that she ha discharged half of the household serv ants, and another trat ah has sold her automobile and Is now going around In a hired hack. And all thl waa ald with a laugh and Indeed with a certain amount of pride. Poverty would, therefore, eem to be com ing popular and fashionable, and Insofar a thla mean lesa display, less demoralis ing exces of luxury and more saving. leading to greater Investment power in tne future, it I a good thing. PERSONAL NOTES. Major General Leonard Wood, tT. S. A., accompanied by the member of his family, arrived In Marseilles Friday from Manila by way of Gibraltar. He left at once for Bwltserland, whence he will go to Farts. General Wood la in good health. Francis Galton, the eminent British scientist, has Just begun his eighty-sev enth year. In the serene hope that the human race, even though he will not live to see it, is destined to improve prod! glously through the new science of eu genlcs, Jn which he was a pioneer. There are octogenarians and not a few nonagenarians in tho membership of the Retired club at Washington. Brigadier General Daniel H. Rucker, U. 8. A., Phil Sheridan's father-in-law, la a member. The general was born nlnety-elx years ago last Tuesday, and he has been In the army, for he is tlll In it, for eventy-flve years. He Is hale In mind and body tody. Bo much for the army life. He la one of the most picturesque member of the Retired club Prof. Walter A. Wyckoff of Princeton who died Friday, wa virtually a pioneer among the social investigators, and by adopting the life of the day labore.r In search of work he wa able intelligently and sympathetically to present his point of view from personal experience. He lock his hard knocks like a man. not to make a sensation or acquire notoriety, and th? 'careful account of his wanderings and hardships In search of employment did much to open the eyes of people to prevail ing conditions. r- ll'NNV OEMS. "nut " rrteil Miss Woodbv. Indignantly, "since I declare to you that the Joke Is original With me, isn't It impudent of you . ,.-... W, 1.9' "Not at all," replied Mr. oVesterTleld; I .hnuM he still more Imouaent and un- gallant to believe you hat old." Phila delphia Press. 1 "Your state, I understand, will send an unlnstructed delegation to the Denver con vention." . , . . "That Isn't so. Some of the best educated men we've goti In the state will be in that delegation. You mean unpledged, don t you?" Chicago Tribune. "There can bo no possible doubt," said the promoter with a strong emphasis, 'that there Is money In this mine." , "The gentjeman Is quite right, said the stranger who had stopped to listen. "There' a couple of thousand of mine In it." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Model Cltisen Boys! boys! Playing ball in school hours? Don't you ever think of the future? Boy De future? Sure! If we goes f SELECT FROM THE SELECT Every piano we, sell 1 worthy of our backing. The piano that comes up to our standard pleases the customer. We are piano experts and will not sell a piano mat we ao noi ueneve is una customer' satisfaction is the measure But among the good piano that leader in its class which we take especial exceptional merit. They are the pick select from these "selects" according to that you are getting the best values In TWI CliKIS THB CAXX.B VEI.BOH .., MB xnUAXX, TBI BUSK a Z.AVB .... TBB KXAVICa: BACK Don't buy from hearsay. Investigate every stor In Omaha. You will find our values unequalled. We are the only atrlctly one price no commission store In Omaha. That 1 the Hoep plan. If you can't call, write for particular. Jt ' will pay you. A. HOSPE CO, 1513 DOUGLAS STREET, BBABOS XOUKt; WC0I,T. UAJf.T. TOMK. KB, COUBCtt XltVTJU, XWA. of slippers school, we mleht arow un an be teacher at only six hundred a year, while If w lavs away an' practices ball, we mlnht get Job In de big league at t ree t ousand. Puck. "f.silv." said Mesndertna- Mike. "I don't blnme dat dog of yours for tryln to bite me. "U')i nntr" "VWunaa it shows his Intelligence. Tn last time I came dls way I handed hlmJ a niece of pie you gave me, wasningion mar. v "Whv don't ye take a short cut whlnl ye're goln'. to yer work?" asked Cassldy "Shure. there Is no daclnt short cut, re-1 nltri Paspv. "Of course there is. Ye could go acrosJ the Counthry club's grounds. "Shure, that's not darlnt. D'ye think want to be took fur a golf player?" Cath olic Standard and Times. TUB VOICE OP THE FOREST. Mnacrlhed to Olfford Plnchot. KQ . U. 8, Forester, Conference of the Governors, May1 13, 1908.) f My voice cries out of gray antiquity V And brands you slayers of earth's price less things Ye devastators of the forest kings That held their sceptres by this western sea Fro ve were born bsse Ingrates that ye be! Ye braien spoilers! lo, the future brings God's gathered wrath, for still the wood lnnd rlnaa With piteous death-throe of the slaugh tered tree. O shameless vandals of a mammon age Hear ye my words: "Where fruitful fields now bloom Deserts shall stretch, whose lords are drouth and sand. And on those waatee famine and death shall rage, Wlille starving peoples, blighted by that , doom, 8lta.ll curse you for the desolated land!" Columbia, Pa. LLOYD MIFFLIN. The Pessimist I can't understand why people take so much pleasure In their clothes. THE PHILOSOPHY OF DRESS The man with a grouch will find a cure for It here. Our new suits are a Joy, The patterns are cheerful and snappy. The garments are stylish in mt' ' ' ' "V v And the perfect fit and th moderate prices are a sure cure for the 111 nature that comes from discomfort. Suits $15 to $40. 7l7BroWrir2-. Klrg--( Fifteenth and Douglas Bts. 11. S. WILCOX, Mgr. GLASSES FOR THE YOUNG should be selected with exceeding care. The right glasses may cure any defect In vision. The wrong glasses ars pretty sure to result la permanent In Jury to the sight If your youngsters need glasses bring them here and have us examine their eyes, so you will be sure of glasses that will aid and not injure. II. J. PENFOLD & CO. LEADING OPTICIAN'S. 1408 Farnam St. vaiue lor mo price. r e rente mat our of our success. we back there are five piano each the pleaaure in selling because we know their of their respective classes. You can you own taste and pocket book, knowing the world. tISO J,mj (3 a Boau, $375 pay BT a nonta. , $300 say $a a month. $178 pay $10 m Month. .$480 yay $18 a month. it V i , " . . . "V . .
