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TIIE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, MAY ' 21, 1908. TitE Omaha Daily Bee FOUND ID BT EDWARD ROSXWATrR VICTOR ROSBWATER, EDITOR. Kntered at Omaha Postofflee M MOi elM matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: fllf IU (without Sunday), one year..H elly Ie and Sunday, one year Sunday Be, ona fear J Saturday Hm, ona rear DELIVERED BT CARRIER: Dally lie (Including Sunday), par week.JBe Pally B-a (without Sunday), par week..l0o Kvenlng Bee (without Sunday), par week So Evening- Be (with Sunday), par week...Mo Addreas all complaints of Irregularities In delivery to CMy Circulation Department. orncEg: Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha City 1111 Building. Counrll Bluffa Scott Street. Chloao-!640 I'nlrersttr Building. Now York-Rooms 1101-1102. No. M Wtt Thlrtythlrd Street Washington 728 Fourteenth Street N. W. CORRESPONDFNCE. CommuiMcatlona relating to news and edi torial mattar should be addreeaed: Omaha Bee. Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. 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Notary Public when out or lotrif. Saberrlbt-ra leavtast h ally tem porarily ahoald kavo Tfce Baa mailed to then. Addreae will a i" ka uiici aa oftoai as ejaoetoo,. The backbone of winter has been bent, if not actually broken. "Money making ia a disease," says Mr. Carnegie. Most folks are im mune. The "whirlwind" campaign for Johnson in Alabama did not raise much dust after all. Of course, the socialist who does not like -Debs as a presidential candi date may vote for Hearst. The governors are to meet next year in the middle west. Omaha should put in the first bid. Feeding 70-ccnt corn Is one of the reasons for high priced beef, and there is not much money In it at that. Commander Peary says be is in ur gent need of money. He knowa how it feels, then, to be with the majority. London did not take kindly to George Ade'a "College Widow." The "College Widow" must be known to be appreciated. England threatens to put the bar en American hops. This is a reversal of form. In this country the hops are put on the bar. Mayor "Jim" may be assured of one thing and that Is, the support of all of the loyal f ana in his advocacy of Sunday base ball. Senator Tillman has gone to Europe to be away until October. Prospects for a restful summer In this country are growing brighter. x Congressman Vreeland and Senator Aldrlch are both warmly In faror of currency legislation, but each la op posed to the other's kind. .; The "allies" who published bulletins a month ago to the effect that "the Taft boom is rapid! waning," ought to discharge their press agent. .The Nebraska parson who resigned lis pastorate rather than give over bis real estate business, shows his faith In Nebraska aoit, at least The congress has paired a deflency bill for 17,000,000. The government has also presented the Standard Oil company with a dsiclency bill for 2.. 40.000. With oorn soaring around TO cents In Omaha and plenty still iu the hands of the Nebraska farmer, It doea not look very much like hard times In the Antelope state. Another candidate la being trained to succeed President Diss ot Mexico, About a dozen men have been trained for that position, but most of them have died of old age. A man has been sent to jail at At Jantlo City for trying to Impersonate W. J. Bryan. His deceit was discov ered when he declined an Invitation to make a public address. The; revolt ot the insurgents In th house ot representatives cornea a lit tie late. If it had been started In March Instead ot May it1 might have bad some effect on legislation. An Indiana detective la convinced that Mrs. Guinness bad "a silent part ner." Her matrimonial partners al ways became silent aa soon as .they fee transferred their property to her TAHirr PROGRAM. While persistently clamoring tor a revision of the tariff and signally fall ing to offer any comprehensive or def inite policy on the question, the dera ocrata are already attempting to make political capital out of the republican action, looking to an early revision of existing schedules.. When there was an apparent sentiment In congress In favor of the appointment ot a non partisan tariff commission, to make scientific investigation of the ques tion and report ita findings and recom mendations in congress, the demo cratic leaders violently opposed the plan, Insisting that It meant more delay and demanding that the tariff be revised "at once." Now that the republicans bave planned to have the finance committee of the senate, and the ways and means committee of the ouse sit during the summer recess and conduct tariff bearings, the demo crats are shouting against the plan and pleading for the appointment ot tariff commission, so obnoxious to them a few weeks ago. Ultimately it will be found, as usual, that the republicans are pur suing the proper course. The party la practically pledged to a revision and adjustment of tariff schedules at a special session of the new congress, to be held immediately aftor March 4, 909. This plan, first urged by Mr. Taft, has been endorsed by President Roosevelt, and has been approved by the republicans in many of their state conventions. It is accepted as cer tain that the national platform of the party to be adopted at the Chicago convention will unequivocally declare for tariff revision at such an extra session. Preparatory to this, the hear ings of the committees ot both branches ot congress will be of great value to the new congress. These bearings will be printed and the con gress that will bave tariff revision aa one of iU duties will be furnished with all the data obtainable on the subject. The adjustment of sched ules must be made by the congress and experience baa shown that the work of tariff commissions has never been of any great service to congress, while it has always been a prollflo source of delay. The tariff revision that will be un dertaken at the next congress will be an adjustment of the system to bring the protective tariff into accord with the commercial developments and in dustrial changes of the past eleven years. It will provide for a reduction of schedules that hamper competition and the widening of the nation's trade field and retain those necessary to" the protection of American Indus tries and American laboring men. It will probably be highly disappointing to free trade democratic statesmen, but there is every promise that it will be satisfactory and beneficial to the country. POLITICAL WATERED SI OCR. Referring to the campaign that Is being planned by James T. Lloyd of Missouri for the fight for control by the democrats of the house In the next congress, Mr. Bryan, through the Com moner, says: Mr. Lloyd's committee is a democratic! committee a committee composed of real democrats who are wedded to democratic Ideas, and who are making a fight for denv erratic reforms. That being true, tha com. mlttee hai no dlepoeltlon to collect funds frcm predatory corporations, and could not secure such contributions It It desired to. It must make Its fight upon the contrlbu tlona aent In by the democrats who are In terested In democratic .success. The Com rooner, therefore, appeal to Its readers to send contributions to Mr. Lloyd for the carrying on of this work. Tha democratic fight ought to be made by the rank and file of tha party; a small sacrifice on the part of each democrat would enable the committee to supply tha necessary literature and get tha party records before the public. Certainly the committee under Mr Lloyd has no occasion to call upon Predatory Wealth for contributions, The committee "is composed of real democrats who are wedded to demo cratic ideas." and they know how to carry 'districts for the democratic can didates without resort to the use of money. They hajre carried the south for years without the use ot corrupt ing money, and Colonel Bryan, in a recent speech at - Madison Square Garden In New York, onpnly approved the methods employed by the demo crats in carrying the south for the party, declaring that If the negroes were aa numerous in the north as they are In the south the white voters ot the north would disfranchise them just as they have-done In the south. In opening bis campaign for the Control ot the house in congress, Chairman Lloyd has a distinct ad vantage over his republican opponents In that he Is able to use a lot of polit ical watered stock, secured through methods ot inflation or intimidation that are not available in the north. He can start with a nucleus ot some thing near 100 democratic congress men from the south, who owe their elections to disfranchising laws and who are sent to congress year after year without contest, tinder the opera tion of a southern political regime which leaves nothing to chance. The Congressional Directory, the of ficii! publication Of datA Cuuuerulug members Of congress, throws some very Interesting light on the political ca reers ot these "democrats who are wedded to democratic Ideas." Nine members ot congress, for example, come from the state ot Alabama. Th total vote for these nine members at the last congressional election was 61,647 to 6,993 tor the opposition, a total vote In the state, on the selection of congressmen, ot 68,638. The total vote for congressmen In the Eighth and Ninth congressional districts of Iowa, just across the river from Omaha, waa 73,808, or about 6,000 more than was polled tor the entire state of Alabama, with Ita nine mem bers. Minnesota has the same number of members of congress aa Alabama. The total vote for congressional can didates in Minnesota was 213,861, compared' with 68,639 in Alabama. The voters of Minnesota are not "wedded to democratic Ideas," and accordingly allow all male cltlsena ot legal age to participate in the battle at the polls. Georgia has eleven congressmen, According to the Congressional Direc tory, two of them "received all the votes cast in the district," but the number is not stated. The other nine members were chosen at. -an election at which 26,789 votes were cast for congressional candidates, or over 1,000 votes less than were cast at the same election in the First congressional dis trict In Nebraska. Florida has three members of congress, elected by a total vote less than that cast for congress men in the Second Nebraska district. Arkansas has seven congressmen, elected by a vote less than that cast in the Ninth Iowa district. South Car olina has seven democratic congress men, elected by a total of 27,909 votes, or 8,000 less than the number of votes cast for Congressman Hull and his opponent In the Des Moines district. Louisiana has seven congressmen, chosen by a total of about 86,000 votes, and Mississippi has eight con gressmen, elected by less than 20,000 voters. Colonel Bryan, waxes exceedingly eloquent In denunciation of the "cen tralization of power" at Washington, although the greatest illustration of the evil effects of centralization of power is furnished In the south, the work of "democrats wedded to demo cratic Ideas." THE VRRBNCr DEADLOCK. Despite the hopeful tone of Washing ton dispatches, following the prac tically unanimous adoption ot the Vreeland emergency currency compro mise by the house, the outlook for In telligent, well-digested currency legis lation at this session ot the con gress has never been very bright and all indications now are that the sen ate and house conferees will fall to agree upon any compromise that would stand a chance of being adopted by both branches. The senate and house have passed two radically divergent measures. The Vreeland bill, as passed by the house, contained but one provision, that charging Interest on government de posits in national banks, that was in the original Aldrlch bill, as passed by the senate. The Aldrlch bill provided for additional circulation based on bond securities. The Vreeland bill provides for currency based on bank assets. , There is no similarity or pos sible harmony between the two biys. The difference is not one of detail, but one of principle and it would appear Idle to talk ot a compromise measure coming from the conference committee. While the country at large may be convinced that some currency legis lation Is necessary, it Is perhaps bet ter that action should be deferred rather than that a bill should be passed, in a hurried compromise at the closing days of the session, that might work hurt Instead ot benefit to the country. Out of the conflict may come the adoption of a law creating a currency commission. This Is provided for in the Vreeland bill, in a number of sections which may be framed into a separate bill by the conference con mittee. The measure provides for the appointment of twelve members of congress and six outsiders to Bit dur ing the summer and to report to the president "not later than January 1, 1909, and their report shall be forth. with transmitted by the president to congress with such recommendations as he may deem proper." The scope of the proposed commission's work Is thus defined: That it shall be the duty of this com mission to investigate carefully the causes of the recent financial crisis and the rela tlon of the banking and currency system thereto, and to make recommendation to congress for auch changes In the existing DanKing and currency system as may. In their opinion, be. dealrablo; and aald com mission may also recommend auch changes as they may find desirable and within tna constitutional power of congress In regard to the banking Institutions of the states and In the laws governing the dla trlbutlon of public funds. Prompt adoption by congress of this proposition and active work by the commission would furnish congress with material for the intelligent prep aration and consideration of a measure, at the short session, that would meet the demands of the country. The country can better afford' to wait a year for a proper currency law than to take the risks that might follow the adoption of patchwork legislation on the subject at this session 1 THE RATE-MAKIXQ POWER. While the scope of the' Nebraska State Railway commission has not as yet been exactly defined, its existence has had a direct and beneficent effect on conditions. ' It was but natura that tha CuiuuilaaSuu Ou ita Oiulza' tion should be overwhelmed with ap plications for changes in rates and Ue mands tor relief from many parts of the state. The commission was not disappointed in this and since It waa formally constituted a little more than a year ago, its docket has been filled to overflowing with various petitions from communities and Individual ship pers. All of these bave not. as yet, been acted npon. The commission has taken up the matters as fast as pos- slble and has generally succeeded to adjusting local rates to the satisfac tion of both shipper and railroad. One ot the greatest benefits that has come to the people of the state through the existence ot the commis sion has been the reduction of rates on coal 'from the western fields. The adjustment ot grain rates and rates on live stock within the state has also been taken np seriously and relief granted as fast as possible. The railroads, naturally, bave not taken kindly to the course ot the board, but bave submitted with what ever grace they might to the orders issued. The existence of the railroad commission, so far, has more than en dorsed the wisdom that created it The Union Stock Yards company objects to being classed as a common carrier because of Its assistance In unloading live stock for the railroad and will endeavor to secure from the supreme court an order to that effect. This is an argument between corpora tions and one that does not interest shippers very largely, because the rate will be charged just the same. Claude Monet, the French artist, Is said to have destroyed paintings valued at 8100,000 because they did not come up to his artistic Ideals. He might have done better by adopting the popoular custom of Parisian ar tists by discovering that they were genuine Van Dykes and unloading them on American connoisseurs. "Mr. Bryan is' better known and better understood than he ever was before," says Governor Folk of Mis souri. Perhaps that explains why there ia so much opposition to Bryan in states that used to be so en thusiastically for him. A democratic congressman wants to know what it will cost to repair the battleships after their trip around the world. Practically nothing. The ships are kept In almost perfect condi tion and their service does not Injure them. The list of names published In con nection with the commencement pro gram of the Peru Normal school shows that the schoolmaster is not only abroad in the land, but his numbers are daily increasing. Senator Jeff Davis of Arkansas is planning for a busy summer on the Chautauqua circuit. That sounds like open defiance of the "Society for the Suppression of Unnecessary Noises." The Judges of the juvenile court got their report before the grand jury a couple of days after the theaters had closed and it will likely be forgotten by the time the. next season opens. Favorite SSs to Ike Shelf. Chicago Record-Herald. Taft, having fixed things up at Panama, returns to put the final crimps In tha fa vorite son foolishness, ... Wanted. A Bit of Kxrltement. Washington Hesald. Unless a little excitement cam be stirred up. over the vice presidency. It doesn't ap pear that the Chicago convention will amount to much . In the way . of a good time. , Oklahoma's Governor Balks. New Tork Bun. Governor Haskell of Oklahoma has vetoed an anti-trust bill because ha "would not destroy the cow to kill the tick." The governor should take care. He will be con demned aa a hireling of the corporations If he behaves In this way. Sharp Fall tn Immigration. Springfield Republican. Immigration Into the United States dur ing the first four months of this ralcndar year amounted only to 124.39. compared with 404,332 In the r.ime time last year, and SS3.UB !n the first four months of 1906. This Is Indicative of a smnllor In coming of all;ns for the whole year than has been known since 2699. when the ttreat business recovery from the depression fol lowing the panic f)C 1S8.1 began Present Benefits of Economy. Baltimore American. The peorio who worry over the fact that In 200 years our national resources will be exhausted are more altruistic than the Irishman who wanted to know what pos terity had done for him tliat he should do ao much for posterity. Still, notwlth standing the glaring, if selfish, truism of the Irishman's suggestion, It la also a fact that If every generation took care to safe guai d the interests of posterity, it would make life better worth the living for it self. STATE) WITHOUT A PARTY. Old Distinctions In Oregron Destroyed by New Election Lswi. Portland Orgorjlan. Party ltnea have been virtually obliter ated In Oregon. For years there has beun a tendency In that direction; and the pri mary law and insistence on statement No. 1 have about completed tha dissolution of the republican party; while the democratic party already had become so weak that It had virtually ceased to live as a party, and since has existed only by professing non partlsanshtp and being wielded as a club by republican factions to beat out the bralna of each other. From two-thirds to three-fourths of the voters of the atate are registered aa repub licans; but that fact signifies little or noth Ing. It doesn't mean that all electora so registered Intend to vote for republican candidatea. The past, for years, has proved this. Men haven't registered aa demo crats, because It haa seemed to them that it would be absurd, since there was r3 democratic party. Hence they have regis tered as republicans, but with no Intention ofaoting for republican candidates for any of the offices over which there might be a oontest. Tha fashion of tha day now is to rec ognise no party ties or obligations. It really haa become almost abaurd for any. body to run for office in Oregon as a re. publican,; especially for an Important office. Tha Interpretation given generally to the primary law virtually annihilates the uaages or claims Of party; for it makes politics a contest or scramble between Individuals for place; which ia more odloua or offensive in candidatea who rely on party numbers than in thoaa who do not. but who frankly claim tha benefits of tha nonportlaarahlp which the saw system is pledged to enforc. GOVERNORS AT WASIIMOTOW. How tho Western Eaeeatlvea looked Throagh Eastern Spectacles. Washington correspondenta' ot eastern papers have definitely discarded a moldy dlsortpltve phrase that has been In steady service for mora than a quarter of a cenJ tury. In all the descriptions of the scenes at the conference of governors not ona rings in "tha wild and wooly weat," whose executives and representatives bore away much of tha honors of the hlatorlo as semblage. The New Tork Herald of Sun day devotes a page to pictures and de scriptions of the Incidents, particularly tha peculiarities of the governors evidenced by dress, oratory and movement. The sketches of the governors of the mldle weat follow: Nebraska's governor, CI. L. Sheldon, al though a republican, clung close by the side of Mr. Bryan all through the confer ence. If Governor Sheldon did not wear his hair so long he and not Governor Hlg gins would have been pointed out aa the "baby governor," but his black locks flow gracefully to hla shoulders and then turn up In a roll ilka that which at once adorns and obscures the back of the neck of William Jennings Bryan. Tha Nebraska executive plainly had "stage fright" when he ascended the diaa and stood by the side of President Roosevelt to sound loud the glories of hla atate. He had recently made a railroad Journey from the Pacific coast back to Lincoln, and he Insisted upon de scribing the glories of the scenery through which he passed. His language was flow ery. The president watched him closely for five minutes. Then Mr. Roosevelt diverted his steady gaze from Nebraska's gov ernor, not In contempt but In pity, for It waa evident to Mr. Roosevelt that Ne braska's governor, havTrig ventured upon tha most dangerous ground of oratory that of florid description that had not been carefully prepared and memorlxed knew he was going to "fall down." Judge George Gray, another of the democratic candidates for president who attended every session of the conference, was every whit as sym pathetic with Governor Sheldon as was the president, but being less bhrdened with re sponsibility he was freer with his tongue. His wings are weakening, and when he falls he'll be hurt," Judge Gray whispered to a companion while Governor Sheldon continued bravely to flutter around high In the air. But when Nebraska's governor reached the earth again from which he had taken such sudden flight he settled down to real business and made a speech that was more liberally applauded than probably It might have been had ha not attempted his haxardous flight. ' Governor Folk of Missouri, though not the senior of Governor Ulgglns, looks nearly twenty years older. Governor Folk has lost the debonnatr air that dlattn gulah'ed him when he was last east, only a little mora than a year ago, In mien he la now grave and solemn. Moreover, hla clothes don't fit as well as they used to. There Is now about the cut of his coat and trousers a noticeable looseness and "bag glness" that reminds one of William Jen nlng Bryan's manner ot dressing. It may be that it Is Ms raiment that adds appar ently to tha age of Missouri's ambitious young governor. Borne of hla friends say that he has so profoundly studied the char acter, achievements and methods of Mr. Bryan since the report gained currency that Mr. Bryan favored the Mlssourlan above all others except himself, of course for the democratic presidential nomina tion thU year that Governor Folk uncon sciously has adopted the Bryan style of dress. Governor Folk probably strove harder than any other member of tho conference to Individualize himself.' He worked as hard almost as President Roosevelt, and had the hardihood to undertake the or ganisation of a revolt to the president's complete domination of the conference. The Mlssourlan took the lead In very move that had obviously for Its object opposi tion to the president's absolute mastery of tha assemblage's procedure and results, but in the end he was compelled to ac knowledge complete defeat and yielded gaacefully In the closing hour of the con ference to the away of "Rooaeveltlsm," as he previously called It. A friendship developed at the conference similar to that between the governors of Kentucky and North Carolina waa that between Governor Hock of Kansas and Governor Burke of North Dakota. Thoy "chummed It" around Washington from the hour of their Introduction to their departure for tho west on different rail roads. In the recent election Oovernor Burke, a democrat, who shows plainly hla Irish ancestry, astonished the northwest by driving the republicans out of power In North Dakota. "Can I do It the next timer' he said, repeating an Inquiry. "I don't know. But I consider It my duty to try." Which caused hla playmate from Kansas to aay of himself: i 'That's the way I look at my own case out In Kansas. And If Governor Hughes of New York, whom I respect very much. doesn't take the same view of thla ques tion in relation to nimseit, tnen lie s a strange sort of a governor." "North Dakota," said Governor Burke tn a llttlu pop-up speech, "la bounded on the north by the wind-swept plains of Mani toba, on the west by the mountain-ribbed state of Montana, on the south by South Dakota, and on the east by John Johnson." Governor Johnson was one of tho marked figures of the conference from Its opening. Even the president paid htm particular honor by calling him twice to preside a distinction bestowed by Mr. Roosevelt upon no one eluo. The Minnesota executive In physical conformation looks more like an Indian than bwede by deceit. Hearty and' democratic In manner he strides about as If walking in sandals, and, Indeed, his tread la high and careful, like that of an Indian. Until three years ago a country newspaper editor, hla friends declare that the presidential bee now bulling ao nois ily in his bonnet and which dehumanises ita victims, to a greater or leaa extent haa changed neither his manner nor view point. He and William Jennings Bryan did not meet often while here, though their casual meetlr.ga were marked by outward cordi ality. Governor Johnson Is neither a ready nor a fluent apeaker, and this he aaya of himself. Jamea J. Hill, one of the world's greatest masters of transportation and ac counted one of the shrewdest Judges of men, takea pride in Governor Johnaon aa a typical product of tha northwest. "Keep your eyes cm that young governor of ours," he aald to Andrew Carnegla while Governor Johnson was presiding over the conference. "He may neither be elected nor nominated for president this year, bat he has the essential Uncolnsque quality of sincerity and sympathy. Ha works all the time. Keep your eye on him. He la young and full of tha health of the north west." Governor Cutler of Utah, was kept busy explaining that ha waa not a Mormon. Ha la email, but compact of stature, and looks more like a typical New England peda gogue that a western politician. Although a member of the committee on resolutions, and put there by the president, the Utah executive aeemed earnestly to endeavor from making himself conspicuous, cm RJ-U-U-U-U- UUUMl For making r-rw quicldy and delicious hot biscuits, hot breads, cake and pastry there is no substitute for row u lJ O U CREAM iMitie The active principle ol which Is derived from grapes, pure cream of tartar, the most wholesome of aU fruit acids No alum Ho timq phosphatco . . Those caring for hesxlth must avoid alum powders. Alum is a sharp, poisonous, mineral acid Study the label. cream ol rinrrrt named. wftwrnr TWO TYPES OF PREACHERS. Measare of Their Power la Reaehlna- tho Multitude. New Tork Sun. The message of the Rev. Dr. Aked to his congregation on Sunday seems to have been that Christianity Is dying and run be nursed back to health and vigor only by the expenditure of lnrg sums of money. With ample means at Its disposal the churches, if he Is correct, could sound a call that would bring men and women to the altar In auch numbers as to re establish completely Its power In the land. While Dr. Aked Is lamenting the exist ing conditions, a former base ball player, Mr. William Sunday, Is conducting a series of revival meetings In the middle west that have aroused a spirit most hopeful and encouraging for Christians of all denom inations. Mr. Sunday's appeals have awakened In men and women of all classes, of all degreea of education and of all grades of Intellect a devotion to Christ and the sect of their choice that haa amased and rejoiced those who sympathize with the cause which he represents. Tet Mr. Sunday has no, great endow ment, no rich bank account. His converts Joyfully defray the expenses of hla re vival meetings. Hla success Is due to his apparent sincerity, to his ability to stir up In his auditors, a realisation of their responsibility to God and to bring them contrite and humble to the mourners' bench. He reaches their consciences, their hearts, their minds. His work Is done without elaborate machinery, without the expensive adjuncta of the modern 'Institu tional church." Money tha churches can use always;' yet an examination of the extraordinary work of Mr. Sunday, who la affectionately known as Billy, will convince Dr. Aked' congregation that money is not the only thing needed. PERSONAL NOTES. "The" Allen, the New York gambler, left a big fortune. The question Is not as to where he got tt, but as to who Is to get it. Dr. Robert Goldbeck, once noted as a pianist and composer, died at St. Louts Saturday, aged 73 years. In his youth, in Prussia, Goldbeck was celebrated aa a Virtuoso. Fifty years a volunteer fireman, 70 years old, and still In the active ranks, going to fire alarms and fighting fires, la a record not surpassed by any other fireman in Pennsylvania, or possibly in the country; and yet such Is the record of George V. Corl of Harrlsburg. Mrs. Elisabeth Cuater intends to build a home for Impoverished literary women In a memorial to her husband, who fell in the Little Big Horn fight with the Indians soma thirty years ago. Mrs. Custer has recently bought a site for the proposed home in Bronxvllle, Westchester county, New Tork. A Bcattle millionaire who ran his auto mobile over a llttja girl has been found guilty of murder In the second degree. The penalty may be from one to twenty years In the penitentiary and a fine of $5,000. Evi dently the people of Washington have be come tired of beln killed to make a speed maniac's holiday. A tablet, commemorating tha life and public service of the late George 8. Bout well, former governor of Massachusetts, congressman, senator and secretary of tha treasury, waa dedicated at the Groton cemetery late Friday with simple exercises. The memorial Is the gift of Andrew Carn fgl. General W. A. Bancroft, Moorefleld Storey, Albert S. Parsons and John Ritchie. Those who find the higher education of women unimportant would doubtleea dis cover something rather Interesting In the short career of Gervalse Raymond, a bril liant .Texas girl who -has recently made herself famoua In tha legal ctrclea of Mexico, She has been engaged In a strug gle with the ablest lawyera in Mexico and she haa contested every Inch of ground with such adroltneaa and akll In the high est courts of the realm that she has finally won a great victory, which makes her father a millionaire at a time when he was ready to abandon the fight and quit the country without a dollar. BREEZY TRIFLES, "What'a the matter with your airship?" "Nothing," replied tho Inventor. "Put you smaehed It." "That wasn't the fault of the ship. It would fly all light If the earth would get out of the way." Philadelphia Lelger. "Work la something that none of ua can avoid." i "That's rlaht " answered Mr. riMn Btax. "Even If you hire aomebody to da your work you've got to work hard to keep him from loafing or spoiling some thing." Washington Star. 'Why doea your friend look so blue?" "His mother was lying at tha point of death and he promised to get her an auto mobile If sa would live." "But she died?" "Nope, she lived." Houston Post. Manager How did the woman look who put In this matrimonial advertisement? Clerk For ona thing, she waa drassed fit to kill. Manager (nervously) Then I guesa we had better not Insert it. Baltimore Ameri ca a. "Is that man a lobbyist?" "My dear sir, thera are no lobby lata. But there must be patriotic people wao 3rll perfectly. m Buy ealy where tartar la glye members of the legislature advice on public needs entirely outside their own range of experience." Washington Star. "I notice," said the determined young woman, "that you don't care to sit alon In the parlor here with me any more." "Oh, I don't know," repll-d tha lover, who was growing cold. "Why?" "Well, I Just want to remark that you'll either have your courting m here or your hearing In court." Philadelphia Press. "But are you sure you love me?" asked Miss Shrude. "I swear It!" replied Mr. Terner. "I value you aa I value my life." "Ah! but do you value me as you value your life insurance?" Cat hollo Standard and Times. "The animal trainer who waa a witness In that damage suit showed the effects of surroundings in his testimony." "How ao?" "He displayed so much horse sense In answering dogmatic questiona categori cally." Baltimore American. Mrs. De Weary And so you have been married five yeara and are as much In love with' your husband as ever? Mrs. Cheery Yes, Indeed. "Hum! What business Is your hus band In?" "He'a captain of a sailing ship." Spare Momenta. ' . . WHAT TUB CYCLOAU DID. Down arouRd the river, With terrific roar. Down aroMnd the river The cyclone tore. It struok a man on horseback And lifted him aky-hl6h, Then landed him astride a rail In a pasture land near bv. It snatched the horns from one old cow And stuck them on a pig; It awting the parsaa -madry -round t And made him dance a Jig; It grabbed a fat bartender up. All quivering with fears, And wedged Tilm In a pew In churcu, Whera he hadn't been for years. It carried full a doien eggs To a hen that wished to set: And not a single one waa cracked. They'll all hatch out, you bet! It snatched the feathers from a hen And stuck them In a pillow; It took the town musician's harp 'And hung it on a willow. It turned a steeple wrongslde out, And over at Fort Crook It smashed the mess room dishes up, And slung them at the cook; It took the ears of an armv mule And stuck them on Captain Gayso The things became him passing well. - But no one dared to say ao. A Bellevue man had a trained rat. To which he waa quite devoted; The cyclone demolished his home and art. And the rat on the swift gale floated. When all the clouda had scattered. And the cyclone ceased Its whirl. They found the rat 'neath the merry widow hat Of a Bellevue college girl. Tt tied m. ntnlr tmhnnn,t Round the neck of a mooly cow; Many have tried to untie the knot. And many are trying now. It found an entrance through the ear Ot a reporter caught in the rainstorm. And formed a layer of hot, hot air, Which later caused a bralnstorss It vanquished one old rooster They nay, who surely know. That hide nor feather can bo found, ' There's nothing left but crow; And that waa found on the topmost limb Of an elm on a Child's Point bluff Shall I tell you more of the cyclone. Or have you had enough? Omaha. Omaha. BAYOLIj ND TREXB. ' The Pessimist Nothing ever suits ma. Tha Optimist That's because you never went to the right place, REGULAR AND HALF SIZES With our original system ot rutting clothes in both regular and half sizes, hardly 'a ma a La a hundred that we can't fit offhand. And we ran fit that -odd man Cn a fCW huura outlie. The Custom Tailor can't begin to sliow our range of patterns. As for the Strles well, we practically set them. bulla 915 to 40. lBroWnirvs? V Kirg--(3 Fifteenth and Douglas Sis, K, 9. WILCOX, Mgr. mm
