THE OMAHA DAILY BEE WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1903.
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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
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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.
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to before tn thl lt day of May, 1908.
(Deal.) . BOUERT HUNTER,
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WHEW OUT OB TOWN. V
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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