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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THUIiSDAY, JANUARY 14. im J The Omaha Daily Bee. rOUNDBD BT EDWARD K08B7WATER. VICTOR nOSITWATBR. EDITOR. Entered at Omaha potofflc M second class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Pally Re (without Sunday), on ftttTl ti ?l taily B and Sunday, on year DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Patty & (Including Bunday), pe' wek..lSc Vtly Bm (wlthaut Bunday). par week. .loo Evanln Re (without Bunday). par week Bvenlng Baa (with Sunday), par i5 Sunday Baa, ona year - 'fS Saturday ona year ' Addree all complaints of lrrr gularitles In delivery to City Circulation department. orncES. Omaha The Be Bulldlnr. Bouth Omaha Twenty-fourth and N. Council Bluffs 1 Bcott Street. Llncola tl. LJttl Building-. Chicago IMS Marquette Building. New York-Room 1101-1102 No. 34 well Thirty-third Street. Washington 1M Fourteenth Street. N. w. CORRESPONDENCE. Communication relating to new and edi torial matter should ba addreseed; Omaha Bee. Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The Bee Publlihlng Company. Only (-cent stamps received In payment of mall account. Persona) checks, except on Omaha or eaatern exchange, not accepted. STATEMENT OB" CIRCULATION. Rat of Nebraska, Douglaa County, a.! 0org B. Tssohuck. treaaurer of The Bae Publishing company, being duly sworn, ay that the actual number of full and eomplet eoplea of The Dally. Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of December, 1KB, was aa follow: 1 S7.7M IT vi, am 1 .....STJIO a sr rSTO 4 , - , . . ,S7iO0 rr,so II SS,BOO j i., M.Tta 10... TM 11. MM 11... ST.O10 SI.. 3T.OO.0 14 TOO tl B,4oO KM 90 17. -BTA0 Sl BB.M0 2 V . ... T30 l o i . . , . . a3oo 81 . . SS,SB0 y .-..s,sio .m SS.TS ll...-.aaao IS-., iff.. u. . jM.no V ii . SJT,sS0 1. .TelT0 Lataa unsold and returned eoplea. . Mat total....... "M5Si lly average , ... . .... , . u.. J.J' 4 Treasurer. ITiili.i.rrli.rt n m enaatlfta and SWOm tO f-txrfora-ro UHsvSJL day of Jfmb.T, ISM. ' ROBERT HUNTMR. I Notary Publla. xravm out or towjt. Safceertbeva Uacrlaar tka eltr tana yeruilr ahamld Bust Tfc Baw buU4 (am . AAdrc) will ft stiagal aua atom m reate4. Denver la boasting a 3-weeka old ; baby that talks fluently. Yea, It's a Klrl. Tea, and Nebraska's democratic leg islature la making more history day by day. The annual January melting Is more ; noticeable In the coal bin than out , stde. Commissioner Brunlng will now try tto. explain. thedifference between a ; urandn "understanding ' it Kern' Tuns f6r vice president and lands In the United States senate why draw on Imagination for a par i allel' . . The senator from the Union Stock yards seems to have gotten his trade mark on the whole legislature already. Koxy! ' 8ome burglar who were found in Tom Lawson's 1 home escaped without being compelled to- buy copper stock, from him. . Even the latest data about Scylla and Cbarybdls does not make.lt quite clear which was the rock and which the whirlpool. ' The Conductor ot the water wagon reports that he is losing more passen gers by transfers than he is gaining in fresh fares. 1 The next time Mr. Bryan runs for president one of hts 1908 members ot the electoral college will find himself on the black list. - Senator Tillman has at least re frained from expressing a hope that th lions will bite an African hunter some time this year. Oscar Hammersteln refuses to talk about his row with the business men ot Philadelphia, it he won't talk. maybe he 1U sing. -Baltimore proposes to pipe natural gas rrom west Virginia, way nui from the nearer and limitless source of supply at Washington? Mr. llarrlman has returned to his desk In New York and owners ot rail roads will be more careful than ever about leaving them out over night. i . , . 'Senator Tillman Insists that he must bo eithor vindicated or convicted. He should be satisfied to let It go with a plea of confession and avoidance. . 'Abdul Hamtd, the sultan of Turkey, has a private fortune ot 1120,000,000 on deposit with the Bank of England. Turkish taxpayers know where he got 'it ; . s A. onan Doyle, author of "Sher lock Holmes," has undergone a sur gical operation which, we take It for granted," was performed by Dr. Wat son. , A Chicago architect expresses fear that the building of skyscrapers in that city will crack the earth and cause a great disaster. An earth that has stood for Chicago this long cannot be that thin-skinned. 'The now president of the New York Central assorts that it will require the expenditure ot $7,(00,000,000 to sup ply the improvements needed by the nation's railroads within the next five jears. .The American farms produce that much wslih every year. FREIGHT It A TKS AD KARX10S. The apparent determination ot eastern railroad managers to force a marked Increase In freight rates Is being bolstered up with some statis tics and arguments that fall to bear the test of Investigation and compari son. W. C. Brown, the new president of the New York Central, has printed an array or figures showing that in the last ten years the cost of labor and material used by railroads has In creased from 30 to 76 per cent In the face ot a net reduction of 10.69 per cent in freight rates. He argues that t material and labor had cost the same In 1907 that they did In 1897, the expense to the railroads would have been 1676,000,000 less than it was and If the 1897 scale of freight rates had been In effect last year the railroad earnings would have been about $90,000,000 greater than they were. He concludes: Pact of this character furnish their own argument. Figures such aa these require no elaboration. These are the conoiticna with which the railroads of the country have had to contend during the last ten yeara and the conditions that confront them today. These are the facta that must be frankly spread before In vestor to whom we are trying to sell se curities to obtain money for necessary improvements. All ot which is a clear case of beg ging the question. The people and the railroads are dealing with condi tions of 1908 and not With those that obtained In 1897. The volume ot traffic is a very potent factor in the fixing of freight rates, but Mr. Brown falls to show the increase in the amount of business and to- explain that the 10.69 ficr cent reduction in rates bas been more than offset by the volume of business, the facilities for handling it. the more equitable dis tribution of shipments in all direc tions and many other features con tributing to more economical and profitable operation. He might, with as much reason, go further back and show what a great reduction there has been In freight rates between Omaha and Salt Lake City since the days when all shipments between the points were carried by ox teams. Neither do President Brown's con clusions fit In with the last report of tho Interstate Commerce commis sion. This report deals with the claims of the railroads that the losses they suffered in 1908 warrant a radi cal advance in freight rates. It shows. In brief, that the gross earnings of all the railroads for 1908. while $164,- 464,941 leBs than for 1907, were still $98,875,470 in excess of those of 1906, the banner year in American railroad earnings, and $342,158,231 greater than the earnings in 1905, a remarkably prosperous year. The net earnings, although $111,051,006 less than In 1907 and $59,349,138 less than In 1906, were still $37,658,604 greater than for 1905. According to the commission, whatever .might have been true In Individual cases, the rail roads of the country did not suffer so severely in comparison with years of normal traffic and business conditions as they would make out. The evidence all appears to be that the railroads have not suffered from the depressed conditions ot the last year any more than have other indus tries and enterprises and consequently have no special warrant to recoup their losses at the expense of their shippers. TBS SAVANNAH INSURRECTION. ' Georgia is furnishing another illu minating illustration of the difficulties that attend the enforcement of a law obnoxious to the people in a particu lar( locality. Tho old conservative city of Savannah U in open rebellion against the state's prohibition law and its inhabitants are openly defying the state authority. County, city and town officials, public prosecutors, po lice officers and constables are in league with a majority ot the people and doing all in their power to show their contempt for the law and their determination to ignore it. All kinds of liquors are sold without resort to assumed names or subterfuge'of any kind. Just as they were before the pro hibition law was enacted. The plan of tho city and county offl clals is very similar to that adopted in many Iowa towns when the-Iowa prohibition law was supposed to be in effect. The saloon keepers are ar rested once a month and fined in the amount that they formerly paid as a license, and that is the end of official cognizance of the existence of the liquor traffic. Of course, tho temper ance workers are not idle. The presl dent of the Georgia Woman's Chris tian Temperance union, who is not a resident of Savannah, has made an in vestigation of conditions and reported to Governor Hoke Smith that "an archy is rife in Savannah," and the governor has been asked to send the militia to Savannah to enforce the law. The formal order for placing the city under martial law has not been issued, but the governor has given warning of bis intention. In the newspaper he owns In Atlanta ap pears this editorial reference to the case: Th sheriff, the prosecuting attorney and the court of Savannah will find that they have been aowing dragon' teeth unless they promptly take sleps to remedy a san ation which la not to be tolerated by the people ot Georgia; and In the nam of tii people of Georgia w call upon th authorl tira ot Chatham couniy to. vindicate and enforce the law. They owe it to their good name as law-abiding cltisena to do this; but if they persist In their defiance It will then become the Imperative duty of the governor to take a vigorous hand in this matter. And when ha does ha will make his efforts effective and complete. Interest Is added by the showing made in the1- Savannah papers that there is more drunkenness in Atlanta, where Governor Smith lives. In pro portion to the population than in Sa vanuah. The difference !a that Sa vannah is selling openly, even defi antly, while Atlanta is indulging its bibulous tendencies In npeak-easles and by stealth, making a pretense at law obedience, but buying, selling and drinking liquor as heretofore. Ot course, tho Savannah Insurrection may b put down by fore ct arms. If need be, but the whole thing develops into something ot a sorry farce, as have so many previous attempts, to make people good by legislative decree. WHAT OF THOSE GRAND JURIKSl When It waa seml-offlclally an nounced a year or so ago that a grand jury would be called by our district judges for every term of court Tho Bee remarked that while an occasional grand jury was highly desirable, there was a possibility of having too much of a good thing. And now another term of court is fast approaching, with no grand jury as yet called. Last year we had three grand Juries in Douglaa county and each one of them, after emitting a long series ot recommendations, suggested that an other grand Jury should be called at the next term of court In case those recommendations were not all promptly carried out to the letter. In other words, these grand Juries recom mended the calling of a grand Jury for each term of court, but the judges have seen fit to ignore this recommen dation. It comes to this, then, either that the grand jury's recommenda tions are to be binding on everyone but the Judges who call the grand juries, or that the district judges con sider the recommendations of these grand Juries to have been fully exe cuted and put into effect so that no further grand Jury admonition Is necessary, In the meantime the Judges have raised the pay of all the county attor ney's assistants. Possibly this will put the county attorney In position to handle his office by himself without grand Jury help. A GREAT GAME. The Douglas county bunch at Lin coln are playing a great game. It Is to be noted that they are the most lav ish contributors to the first hopperful of bills Introduced in both house and senate and among the early numbers are the particular bills on which the local democratic machinists have Bet their heart. The Douglas county bunch is bell- wet her ed by some experienced law- smiths who know the way of legisla tive log-rolling and that tho way to beat the other fellow is to make him deal first. It the Douglas county members can start their measures first and keep a clear track so as to pull them out early In the season, they will then be free to hold up and shake down the other fellows' bills to their hearts' content. Let the Douglas county players take their tricks first and they will call every hand that Is dealt afterward for a showdown, un less they are sure of a big slice ot the pot for themselves. In legislative see-sawing, however, two can play at the same game. It is reasonable to presume that among the democratic majority in the state house there are some law-makers who have also had their eye-teeth cut and that they will know enough to know that the way to keep the Douglas county bunch in the traces is to hold their bills up in the air, at least, until the end of the session is In Bight and they can do no serious damage by getting off the reservation. Great game that. The democratic World-Herald Is throwing bouquets at the Howell- Ransom city charter with which Omaha was inflicted and afflicted twelve years ago. That is the city charter that gave the railroads almost complete Immunity from municipal taxation on their valuable terminals and fixed things just as public service corporations wanted them. If that charter of twelve years ago was such a good one, why is it no one is propos. ing to go back to it? The newly elected democratic mem bers of the county board may be justi fied from their point of view for swap ping votes for good committee chair manshlps. But, It the tie-up includes loading the county pay roll up with crooks and thieves, the sooner they untie themselves the better. A Washington commission has re ported plans for ending usury, sup pressing nostrums and banishing drunkenness from the District of Co lumbia. The surprising feature ot the report is the implied confession that such abuses exist in the national capital. It took one hour and twenty min utes to read the hypothetical question prepared by the defense in the Hains murder trial and the expert witness promptly answered It with, "I do not know." Apparently there is room for a big volume on "The Humors of the Law." " Congress haa practically decided to increase the salary of the president to $100,000 a year. As that is more than even the topliners get on Chau tauqua circuits it will be an additional Inducement for a certain candidate to make the race again in 1912. Tom Johnson will be the democratic candidate for congress in Ohio to suc ceed Mr. Burton, promoted to the sen ate. Republicans fear that the anx iety ot the Clevelandltes to get John- Ison out of town may result in his elec. tlon. "lighting Bob" Evans says he does not know why the fleet was sent to San PrancUco. He only knows that he wag told to take it there and did so. The real fighter on land or sea executes orders without question. No excitement is caused by the government's coll for the return of $25,000,000 that have been on de posit in the national banks. The banks do not need the money. While an aeroplane may be pur chased for $5,000, it should be re membered that the repair bills and the accldeut policies add a neat amount to the original cost "B. R, T. Troubles" is the heading In a New Yorle paper. It refers, how ever, to the troubles of the Borough Rapid Transit company and not to those ot B. It. Tillman. Turkey bas agreed to accept $10,- 800,000 from Austria-Hungary for the provinces of Bosnia and Herzego vina, thus furnishing a gold lining to the Balkan war cloud. Officers of the Anti-Saloon league seem to be a little backward in ex pressing themselves on Governor Shal lenbergerti choice ot police commis sioners for Omaha. When Governor Shallenberger's ju dicial appointments are made we will have a chance to see what the demo cratic idea of nonpartisanshlp on the bench looks like. The rush to inscribe signatures on the lobbyists' register at Lincoln has not yet Jostled or crushed anyone. The lobbyists are there just the same, and more a-comlng. Who Waa Slangt San Francisco Chronicle. Congress la bussing like a nest of dis turbed hornets, but there ore no signs yet that th person who has raised th dis turbance thinks that he has been stung. Taklnsr Tbelr Owu Mrttire, Boston Transcript. The same Impeccable sonata that foels so keenly Roosevelts shortcomings voted by an overwhelming majority to have the forthcoming census taken on the spoils basis. Pash One, Kick the Other. Baltimore American. A prosperity wave la predicted for this year. This la a prediction which people can largely help to bring true. And the first step In Its verification Is to drive the calamity howlers to cover. In the Image of Oklahoma. New York Tribune. Governor Bhallenberger seems to be In tensely Interested In persuading the Ne braska legislature to pass a law com pelling the banks of the state to guaran tee onjB another's deposits. He takes the Bryan-Haskell national plaUorm very se riously. Is Nebraska to be recast In tha image of Oklahoma? Helping- Hands Extended. New York World. To the eternal credit of the United States be It said, onfy this country has sent to tho sufferers 4o date more money than th public collections of Italy Itself. Tha South American countries come next; then Eng land, with $600,000 against our t9.G00.000. That Japan has sent more than Germany, Tur key than Austria, Australia than Russia, are other surprises. Devotion to Spoils. New York Tribune. Congress clings desperately to th pa tronage which census appointments fur nish. Both houses have rejected the idea ot using genuine competitive teats In se lecting the extra force needed for th next two or three years In the census bureau. Too few federal lawmakers are able to take a broad view of things when it comes to surrendering the right to dl.Oense a little first aid to followers who look askance at the Idea of getting what they want through prosaic competition. PASSING OP THE VANDERBII.TS, The Faaally Ceases to Be av Factor im Railroad Affairs. Philadelphia Record. W. C. Brown, the new president of tha New York Central, Is not a Vanderbllt. There are plenty of Vanderbllt, and most of them are pretty good fellows and cap able railroad men, but no descendant of the old commodore is the chief executive ot the great railroad system he established. Mr. Callaway began work as a clerk In a freight office. Mr. Newman, who has just resigned, began In an equally modest way. Mr. Brown, the' new president, la 66; at 16 he waa a aectlon boss. Afterward h waa a telegraph operator and a train dis patcher itnd he has occupied almost every station In tha railroad service until after a few yeara of a vice presidency he suc ceeds to th presidency of this great cor poration. A TALES OF TWO STATES. Skars) Coatraat la Party Dlselollae la Ohio mum Kentucky. Washington Post. The difference between a party that says things and a party that does things is well Illustrated In th achievement of a demo cratic legislature ot Kentucky and a repub lican leglalatur of Ohio. There was a beautiful faction fight on the south side of the sinuous, the graceful, th romantic, th silvery river that separates these two great republics, and the result was a te publlcan senator from the state of John C. Breckinridge and John Morgan, Henry 1). McHanry and Henry Watterson. There was Just as beautiful a quarrel on the banka of the turgid Scioto, at a place called Columbus, on the north side of the delightful Ohio, and tremendous things might have come of It, and did threaten to com of It, but lo and behold, what promised to b a pitiless bllzxard of re lentless February Is turned to a delicious morn of glorious and efflorescent May. In Ohio the republican are reading the 133d Psalm. Over the river at the "confederlt X roads." the faithful are looking on the Scriptures In th light of those somewhat worldly of our forefathers who were com pelled in their youth to read and ponder the 119 eermons old father masters deliv ered on the 119th Psalm. Our excellent friend, William O. Bradley, comes to the senate a republican from Kentucky, and for Intellect and for elo quence he will not lower the high standard set by the old commonwealth of Clay, of Crittenden, of th Breckenridges. and the more numerous Marshall. A better lawyer than ha la a statesman, more fitted to per suade a Jury than to convince a senate, yet Bill O. Bradley, as his Intimates love to call him, will assert himself and be a positive force from and after the day he entvrs upon his office of solon of Capitol Hill. And Ohio haa sent Burton here, and that great stale baa not contributed more brains lo that august council smc Allu X Thar man If ft it in 1ML not jin about new YonKi Ripple oa the Corrent of Lite la lhe Metropolis. The usual annual slump In New TorVs milllnnalredom Is about to begin. The as sessment roll of personal property for the current year has been completed and those burdened with large. Invisible resources may come In and swear some, t'nder New York's law anyone whose name Is on the roll may secure reduction by a swearlng off process, the amount of the reduotlon usually depending on th vigor ot th swear and the force of the victim's roar. As the roll now stands the widow ot Rus sell Sage and Andrew Carneglo head the list with 15,000.000 each. The Vanderbllt fnmily Is put down for 3.900,000 and John D. Rockefeller for $S,5oo.OOO, a trifle less than his last quarterly dividend from Standard Oil. Ida A. Flagler, IJlla Gilbert, Florence O. Sutterwhlto and Clifford Brokaw are the other name on th mil lionaire list. At the head ot the realty list stands the Waldorf-Astoria, assessed at lll,9i0,000, which Is $100,000 less than last year. The eecond most valuable piece of real estate in the city, according to the tax rolls. Is the Pennsylvania terminal, which by the work done during the year has In creased from 11,000,000 to 111,176,000. Th Metropolitan Life Insurance building rank third, with an assessment of tl,48G,0OO. During the last year, with th figures for one month missing, it appears that 414 persons were killed In connection with the steam and traction railways In Greater New York and 62.1S5 Injured. Cases of serious Injury, however, yield much smaller fig ures, or about 2,000 altogether. The ex hibit Is Impressive and not to be considered as exceptional to the year In question, since these statistics have only Just begun to be collected by the publlo-sorvlce com mission. It appears that the traction roads alone kill about 360 persons each year and Injure from 2,000 to 3,000 more to damage able extent, and for this they have to pay a lot of money. During 1907 the New York traction companies paid out nearly 2,600,000 In damages and the legal expenses Inci dent to damage suits alone were 11,077,351 As most cases of damages must have been settled without suit, the lawyers cost the companies apparently about as much a the injured persons suing. , The Hudson memorial bridge, the latest drldge designed by the New York Bridge Department, Is more Interesting perhaps from an engineering standpoint than any other around New York. It will serve not only as a connecting link between New York and Spuyten Duyvll, a suburb, but will also commemorate the discovery of tha Hudson river by Hcndrlk Hudson nearly 300 years ago. The bridge and the ap proaches will be about 1,600 feet long, with four semi-circular arches of 108 feet span on the Spuyten Duyvll side and three on the New York, with an enormous arch of 700 feet between them. The remarkable feature la that th bridge will be reinforced concrete, exceeding In magnitude many times any arched bridge ever built of atone, brick or concrete. The crown ot the main arch will be 185 feet above Spuyten Duyvll creek, or fifty feet higher than the floor of the Brooklyn bridge above tho East river. The bridge, which will take three years to build. Is designed so tha greatest stress on the concrete Is not moro than 760 pounds per aquar Inch, and on the steel 20,000 pound per square Inch, which are both well within th safe limits. The weight of the steel reinforcement in the arch end piers Is estimated at 12,000 tons and the concrete 136,000 tons, making a total of 148,600 tons. Miss Maxlne Elliott thought she would make a little tour of Inspection over her new theater, in Thirty-ninth street, one morning last week. It Is a very pretty theater, and Miss Elliott is as fond of It as a child la of a new toy. Adjoining the star's dressing room la a perfect dream of a bath, with tiled floor, an enticing porcelain tub, all the latest thingumbobs In the way of showers, sprays. mirrors, pomades, cerates and perfumed waters, known In their fullness only to a popular actress. Miss Elliott entered her dressing room. opened the door of th bathroom, and started in. She only started, for in a fraction of a second she backed away with a shriek. A vision, surpassing fair, had met her gase. Lolling luxuriously back In the tub, which was nearly filled, was the un adorned of well, call him Mike one of the atage hands. His head was above the water, and from his Hps protruded a dainty, gold-tipped cigarette, the curling amoke from which mingled with the de licious vapors of the bath. Miss Elliott sunrraoned other attaches of the house and a charge was made upon the bathroom. Mike waa found sitting up m the tub, rubbing a delicate pink cream Into a beard of several days growth, while on a tub near by alood half a dozen bottles of fragrant waters, all of which had been sampled. He laughed when they caught him. A few minutes later a huaky but odorous person, about three-quarters clad, might have been seen making toward Sixth avenue. They were one stage hand ahy at the Maxlne Elliott theater, that night, but Mis Elliott played with unuaual fervor, PERSONAL NOTES. Mr. Taft's cabinet Is eomplet again, and correspondents are almost too busy with congress to build him another just now. According to certain medical authorities the howling suffragette of London la merely the victim of hysteria. And she wont take a thing for It. Since the gentleman who ran on th socialist labor ticket for the presidency haa been refused a pardon for muTder, It 1 perhbps a well that he failed of election. Inheritance tax return Indicate that Charlea T. Barney, president of the Knick erbocker Trust Co., of New York, who killed himself during the panic of 1907 left properties aggregating nearly 1000,000 above liabilities. Charlemagne Tower ha been telling hi friends that rumor wrong him when it ays he's after Ambassador Whltelaw Relil's Job at London. "I am not aeeking nor do 1 desire any office," he says; ! wish to live quietly In Philadelphia." Senator I.a Follette's heralded weekly paper has just made It appearance under tne title of La Follette's Weekly Maga sine, published at Madison, Wis., and with this legend on the title page: "Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free." Platon Brounoff, a musician, na'ive of Russia, haa gathered from the people of the East Side, New York City, 2u0 Jewish folk songs. He waa moved to the task, he ays, by the fact that In thes day of revival of the familiar aongs of almost very nation, the folk songs of th Jema eemed to be neglected. One hundred thouaand dollar a year a a retainer, and (l.oao a day when he la ac tively on the Job, Un't half bad aa a salary for a 41-year-old lawyer. That's what Morits Rosenthal, the Standard Oil attor ney, receives. H waa born in Dixon, III., and graduated from ttio Michigan uni ersily lu 1&& jiTLaann. i.i inBanking is the essential feature desired by the averago depositor If a bank has ft large capital and surplus account; If it confines its loans largely to business houses handling large amounts of saleable merchandise; If its bond investment account includes only those of the very highest grade; If this bank always keeps on hand an amount of cash largely in excess of legal requirements; And in all these matters uses the cumulative judg ment of years of experience; this would seem to bo n v good bank for YOU. Investigate this bank along these lines. Ftfst National Bank of Omaha Thirteenth and Fwnam St. Entrance to Safety SopoaM Taalta la oa lath street. 1mmm0mmimmrm' mmmmmmmmmmmmmm i Would You Pick Up a $10 Bill If You Saw it On the Street? Here's an opportunity to SAVE money just as good as finding if. fi.Qlony's Annual Reduction Sale Is How On All formerly priced $45 and $50 Suits NOW... .$35.00 AU formerly priced $40 Suits NOW. ..........$30.00 All formerly priced $35 Suits NOW $25.00 Every suit will be made to Molony's measurements; will be cut by Molony personally and will receive Molony's special attention in all details of workmanship. Molony clothes reflect the person ality of the wearer; they emphasize his Individuality. Good clothes carry a strong prestige both In the busi ness and social world. Molony clothes are all the words "good clothes" Imply. They look well, wear well and are "comfortable." SAID IX FIN. "Say," said Mamie, "what make "em so anxious to discover the North pole?" "wen," answered Maud, thoughtfully, "I understand It would make a nerfpnttv lovely skating rinlc." Washington Star. Blobbo Women are certainly contiadic- tory. . Blobbe That s right. It a when a woman get hot at you that she treats you coldlv. Philadelphia Record. "Dearest," b said, "let's be married next Christmas." "Geoffrey," said th young woman, look ing at him suspiciously, "1 could stand your wanting to bunch two seta of presents In one, but you've found out that my birth day cornea on Christmas, too, V Chicago Tribune, "Th private detective who was shadow ing the great financier hit upon a certain way of making him show his hand." "What did he do?" "He disguised himself aa a manicurist." Baltimore American. "I aee It is stated that King Edward consider the English, national hymn too slow." "Perhaps It worries' him to thing the king isn't saved with more celerity." Cleve land Plain Pealer. Bridegroom (In church) Good heavens! I've forgotten the minister's fee. Best Man That's all rlaht. We'll send the ushers around with the collection boxes. Boston Transcript. "I never answer my husband back when he gets In one of his fits of passion. T have discovered a way of smoothing over matters which has made a great hit with him." "What means do you use?" "Tha rolling pin." Baltimore American. "Jane, there waa a whole pie In the pan try. What became ot It?" "My young man called on me las' night, ma'am." "And did he eat all that pie?" "He waa forced to, ma'am. There was so very little variety to choose from, ma'am." Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Blffen's daughter la very strict with him." "Yes." "He asked ber some time ago if he could A GOOD FRONT We are making a special sale of Shirts. Fancy patterns, madras cloths, pleated or plain bosoms, coat styles, cuffs attached or de tached. The designs are genteel and exclusive and at these prlcaa. For odds and ends from our $1.00, $1.50 and $3.00 Tlnn. $1.15 For Shirts that told regularly for $1.50. SI. 65 For the $2.00 and $2.50 grades; and For those that have been $3.00 and $3.50. OTHER SPECIALS Broken lines of Mufflers at HALF FKICE. Broken lines of $1.60 and $2.00 Gloves now $1.15. All 50c Neckwear (except black and plain colors) 35? or Three for $1.00. All Fancy Vests 33 J PEH CENT DISCOUNT. 20 DISCOUNT On all Heavy Weight Clothing for men, boys and children. Br9wn.ng,1.ng WW- & Company IU S. WILCOX, Mg i -1 - - i SI January ,f 11KIXQ TUI8 marrv as-aln. flh. fnM titm fc. a,,m r t,. permitted nor to pick the kind of step mother she desired.". , "Well?" "He la still unmarried." Cleveland main Dealer. A1VTOSIV AND CLEOPATRA. ' W. D. Nesblt in Chlcao 'ros't. '(Prof. Kerrero asserts that Antony mar ried Cleopatra for her money). I am busted, Egypt, busted: ' Over head and ears n debt: Creditors all dog my footsteps O, would that they could forget! I would like ,to take the riding. - Take thee to a matinee. But I haven't got a ncudo Any trlflmg charge to pay. Though my scarred and veteran legions Kick because I made them Join. StHl they will not travel homeward I'nless I produce the coin. Listen. Egypt! Hear the howling Of the fretting, angry horde! They aay If I do not settle They will levy on my sword! Thothmes Tadmuk, the pawnbroker Round the corner from the sphinx, Holds my watch and gold sleeve buttons When- he sees me pass he winks! Why, I . even tiaven t carfare! And today at my hotel When I couldn't tip tho waiter Now, did that look very well? And the base plebeian rabble Are presenting bills In Rome. Where my angry spouse, Octavia. Barricades herself at home And write me for alimony. Saying If I don't come down With the cash, then a mandamus Soon will yank me back to town. As for the, star-eyed Egyptian, Glorious helrvsa of the Nile Could you spar mo ten or twenty For aay just a little while? Give to Caesar crowns and arches. Let his brow the laurel twine-"- . I can acorn the bill collectors With that bank account of thine. t am busted, Egypt, busted; Hark! the Insulting bailiffs ry, He haa come with an attachment. An attachment? So have I! 'Tis for you, O regal woman My poor secret you can' guess. Listen. Cleopatra, darling. Make m wealthy with a "Yes!