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THE BEE: OMAHA. FRIDAY, MAY 7. WOO. .. - J Tire Omaha" Daily Bee FOfNDED BT EDWARD ROBKWATER, VICTOR BOSEWATER, EDITOR. F.ntered at 6mahe port of ff Ice second class matter. ' - "- T : TERMS Or BCBBCRIFTION. Daily flee (without Sunday), one yaar..'K Dally Bee and Sunday ona year DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Daily Bee (Including flundsy). per week..lSc Dally Bee (without flunday). per week.. 10c Evening Bee (without Sunday . per week Evening Rn (mlih "imdayl, per week 1e Sunday Bee. one year WW Saturdiy R-e, on rear 10 Addreaa all oomplalnJs of Irregularities In delivery to CUy C'h-ealatton Department. orocES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha Twenty-fourth and N. Council Bluffs IS Bcntt Btrset. Llnroln-SH Llttl Building. Chicago 1M8 MSrqueM Building New Tork Rooma 1101-1102 No. U West Thirtv-third Street. Washington 7 fourteenth Btreet, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. r'ommunlcatlons relating to newa and edi torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. RES(ITTANCE. Remit by draft, express or poatal order, pa bl to Th Baa Publishing Company, only 2-rent stamp received in payment of mall accounta. Peraonal charka. eacept on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. HTATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska. Douglas. County. George B. Taaehuck, treasurer of The Bee Publlahlng company, being duly aworn. says that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed during tb month of April. 10, waa ai ronow ; 1 . . ... 18.SS0 M.000 .... II.4N .... a7,B00 . I 41,300 IT.;.,.; 41,00 t t 4 I JT.H0 40.U0 40,000 40,410 40,400 44JM 40,040 40,450 48.880 2 1 2t !...... t 40,840 T . . . 41,000 1 41,480 1 41)000 19 ..-41,400 11; ;. 37,000 It 41300 It 41.440 11....'. . 9,SM ti s,sso t, 40,350 H : .eo , S0 . ... ,. 0,9O J iZ'. aO.OOO" 1 ASaO"1 ' Total' Returned copies . M3S.410 11408 Net total 1,838,007 Dallv average 40,840 OBORQE B. TZSCHUCK. Treasu -sr. , Subscribed In my presence and twgrn to before ma .this 1st day of May. 10. . ' . '. i. at P. WALKER. ' ' ' Notary Public. . WHEN OCT OK..JOWM. a bribers teaTla the rltr tem po rarlly sho e Tke Bee nailed 'to - them. Address Will be chaaged as often aa reqaeste. For light entertainment, take in the electrical show. The score stands 11 to 11, with the rest of the game postponed by the um pire. . .. What's In a name? Three Shamo kin girls have won fame in a musical way. .. . At-any rate) the tariff debate Is demonstrating that the vest Is on deck. . t Senator Aldricn says bo Intends to retire.. Ms tho statement specific or advalofetn?' ' vt Earjy house cleaners In Omaha made the mistake of falling to count on the dust storm, . Governor Shallenberger hag Issued a Mother a day proclamation. Is Mayor. "Jim" going to let a chance like this go by? City Clerk Butler has an Idea that he may' have to serve aa president of the cottncll In- addition to his, other duties. Unlikely. i -T-j: Unless, b Idea go on the free list Mr. Roosevelt wlil have a nice bill to pay when, he tries to get through the cus tom bouse, on bis return. It 'remains to be proved that golf players are good hands at beating car I'ct. but the season of the year is at handtwhen they may try. A Boston actor haa been convicted tif. killing- his wife. Any of his col- leagues .couia nay. told dim it was easier and sarer to get a divorce. On sailing, for Europe "Boss t'roker announced that he was out of IK'litlog for good. That Is more than he can say of, his reasons for enter ing it. ' While-the total of hogs packed since Varcb 1 bows si decrease aa compared It h - last " vpar, take note that South CUiiaha gets- in with-a aubatantlal In crease. v Softie aclentlsta are jredict?i earth- quakes for the month of May. At early spring brought thousands of peo timeithat might cause alarm, but here pie Into the aectlon between the Mis lo tfcsj tornado belt we are prepared for sourl river and the Pacific coast. The anything. ! building nrogram of immense masnl- - jtud in all the western cities Is a re- tp to oats air. nryan nas uot congratulated Mayor Dahlman. Neither has Major Dahlman congratulated Mr. Bryan., but then, he haa never had the ouaslfn. i . . ,' Two Frenchmen recently engaged l a pistol duel and both were hurt. Tit Is thing is getting really ao serious that tennis balls or something of the kind rhouli be substituted. If Nebraska Is to be the experiment t'.atten for Brjanlte legislation. It Is culy natural that Lincoln should be cjQie an experiment station for Inno M.tions In municipal legislation. Auottter man' who' went through the whirlpool raplda at N'lagara In a barrel Is dead. ' Many a man who haa taken trips through the raplda by the barrel route did not fare half ao well. The Peace congress objects to the army and navy placards, glorifying war t attrtict reerulU. Why not pro test ageinst the bill boards altogether The army and navy -posters ar not the worsC onea. ' ' V Appeal in Mitioari Rate Cate. The determination of Missouri to appeal from the decision of Judge Mc pherson, declaring Invalid the 2-cent fare law, muat be encouraging to other atatea. Including Nebraska, which have similar laws. Though all these 2-cent fare lama have not been assailed as yet. It Is essential that a decisln on the merlta of the principles Involved should be secured from the highest court In the land. , That states have the right to regu late rates and on the other hand that railroads are entitled to exact a charge which will produce a reasonable re turn on Invested capital are points no longer contested, but on the contrary have been definitely settled In the af firmative long ago. There are points, however. In this case and others which are likely to arise which have not been adjudicated, and for the mutual bene fit of the railroads and the public It Is essential they should be decided at the earliest possible date. The determina tion of receipts from intrastate as dis tinguished from Interstate traffic la one which presents no serious diffi culty, but the ascertaining of the net revenue from such sources Is a com plicated problem and the methods to be pursued In reaching a conclusion have not .been definitely marked out by the courts. Interstate and Intrastate traffic are carried on ,the same trains and the ap portionment of transportation cost and the fixing of a rule for dividing the capitalization account between the two sources of Income are vital and unde termined factors In making equitable rates. The sufficiency of the showing by the railroads that the cost of carry ing local business is much greater than for through traffic, and if so how much greater. Is something the paying public. Is Inclined to, question, though it satisfied the lower court and was de termined In the decision reached by the trial judge. The problem of rate regulation is so complex that no wholly satisfactory outcome can be expected so long as two rate regulating bodies, the state and the nation, enable the railroads to play shuttlecock and battledore with the two clashes of traffic in efforts at dual regulation. So long, however, as the two systems prevail It Is desirable that tho points of difference be elim inated as far as possible by decisions of the court of last resort. Changing Immigration Laws. The United States senate has re ceived and placed on file resolutions of the legislatures of Ohio and Penn sylvania requesting more stringent immigration laws. The congressional commission appointed to Investigate the subject has not reported, but has been holding hearings In a desultory way. It la said to lean strongly to a recommendation for an educational qualification for Immigrants. ? ' That some of the prohibited classes manage to work their way into the country is patent to even casual ob servers, but the fault, If any, liea with the administration of the law or the weakness of Its administrative fea- tures. Without departing from the long-established principle which the United States has followed from Its i earliest days, no restrictions can be I placed upon the entry of the honest, able-bodied and Industrious. Adher- ! ence to this policy has been one of the chief factors In making the , United States the great country which It Is today. Those who have come here from abroad to take a man's chance and become Americans have done fully their share toward promoting progress and developing our resources. 1 The greed of steamship companies and the lureof opportunity have un questionably landed many , on r our shores who are undesirable, but exist ing" laws ' are quite comprehensive onnuah to pxclude them. If necessary h,,M ho mr riidiv an- I)H.d. our free public school system , can and wl1 ,Br)lve the problem of fhn1(, ft.alT18t wnom na other charge l,hn tllifai-anv nn n lif. ralserl , Ilia II Mi"-!" . At me mOHl tpey.-wui uisapurar with the second generation. The hon est, able-bodied snd Industrious Immi grant la a source of strength instead of weakness snd the United fUatea cannot afford to shut them out. . . . . . . . .11 A I Signs of the West. Unmistakable signs of the - growth and development of the west are to be seen on every hand. The settlers' rates made by the railroads In the , flection of the emansion of th coun try which backa them tip. A most significant fact along thia Hue was brought out In-an Interview in New York with a prominent rail road official whose road reaches Omaha regarding the character of the traffic now being carried over his line. This railroad official states that during the financial flurry of ISO' and until a recent date his road hauled only a minimum amount of farming, manu facturing and mining machinery, in dicating unmistakably that expansion in the Industries had ceased or fallen to a low ebb. During the last few months this clsss of shipments has at tained' a volume' comparing most fa vorably with the most prosperous times preceding the panic. All these signs point to the fact that the western business man who has been preparing to reach out and tha Investor who Is looking to the west has bullded on a firm basis. The west haa done more than carry Its share of the load Incident to the financial and Industrial - depression and doing more than its share toward full re- sumption. If the east will only catch the western spirit It will not bo long until everyone will be so busy that the troubles of the past will be forgotten. Reinforcing the Commodity Clause. The administration has lost no time In making it plain that in case the commodity clause of the rate law, which has been .declared inoperative, Is turned to account by the common carriers to resume the evils at which It was aimed congress will be asked to apply the remedy. As the court has sustained the principle of the law while holding that certain sections are not as far-reaching as they were sup posed to be. It would be a foolish course for the carriers to disregard the Intent of the act, which was to prevent discrimination, either direct or Indi rect. Right at the outset Mr. Taft has made It plain that he stands for the square deal. He has no desire or pur pose to cripple In any way the legiti mate expansion of the business of the railroads, but the direct or Indirect ownership of producing companies must not lead them Into favoritism in rates or transportation facilities which will build up such industries at the ex pense, of those otherwise owned. If the railroads do not by subterfuge evade the prlvllegea granted them un der the present law, as Interpreted by the supreme court, there will be no pressing pcesslty for additional legis lation. It is up to the railroads to prove their good intentions and here la a chance for them to show whether their professions of reform are earnest or pretense. "Thoroughly Investigated." The result of our recent bond elec tion would indicate that Omaha will vote anything In the shape of a bond Issue without respect to the purpose or consequences. A large majority of our people are nontaxpayers and are quite willing to vote onto the taxpay ers all sorts of obligations. Whether the pronouncement put out over the name of the Real Estate exchange ex erted any large Influence or not In carrying the water bonds, it is deserv ing of a little attention as an example of how men otherwise careful will per mit themselves to be misled. Thia pronouncement starts out with a declaration that the Real Estate ex change has "thoroughly investigated" the question and come to certain con cluslons set forth as reasons for favor ing the water bonds, as follows: 1. Tha water bonds will not be a tax upon property, as the whole purchase price will be paid from the sale of water. That is certainly perspicuous. "The bonds will not be a tax'." Of course not. If they were there would be no necessity of voting bonds, because the mayor and council would levy the tax. If "the whole purchase price will be paid from the Bale of water," how long will it take? The bonda are to run for thirty yeara, so that for the first thirty years, at any rate, none of the purchase price Is to be paid off, except a 8lnkln fund 18 "eated. and, the sinking fund will come out of the tax- payers either aa water rates or taxes. 2. That the water plant Is a good Invest ment Is shown by the fact that Ita net earnings twelve years ago were tiol.Oi. The men who signed this circular knew that this is not "a fact," but merely sn estimate, and never put out ;. before except as an estimate. It may be near the truth and it may be wide of It, but It Is not "a fact." If, how ever, the net earnings of the water works were approximately S21.000 twelve years ago, how could any one have figured at any time that the property could be bought for $3,000, 000? S. The voting of bonds cannot Influence the decision of the supreme court, as that court never considered evidence not sub mitted to the lower court. This Is a purely legal proposition on which lawyers differ. Everybody I knows tbst a court may be ' influ- enced" by the actions of the litigants, I even though not Incorporated Into the AuMana The city's case rests, among , v V ' other things, on an allegation that the j appraised value of the water works is exorbitant and yet the people have now voted bonds in an even greater amount to buy the plant. Whether or not that will "Influence" the court re mains to be seen. 4. If an Omaha syndicate of shrewd In vestors Is anxious to acquire this plant at Ita appralaed value under a limited fran chise the city can better afford to own It with a perpetual franchise. This starts out with an "If," repre senting a mere supposition. No new syndicate, any more than the present owners of the water worka, would want to take the plant, except on terms promising profits. That la true not only of water planta. but of any other public utility requiring a franchise for operation. It all conns down to the price and the terms. 5. When Baltimore, Detroit, Milwaukee and Buffalo furnish water at cents per thousand gallons and Philadelphia at 4 centa and make a profit each year, at the ptesent rate of 36 cents Omaha can either pay for the plant quickly or reduce the rates. This is deliberate Juggling of the figures, because the water rate quoted for other cities ia the lowest rate ac corded the biggest consumer, while the rsle quoted for Omaha Is the high est exacted of the smallest consumer. The lowest meter rates charged in Omaha Is 8 cents for 1,000 gallons. Whether Oman can reduce water rates materially after paying $8,263. 295. 49 for the water works, also re raalDs to be seen, but It la certain that tt carnot reduce rates to the schedule which the Water board haa publicly proclaimed to be reasonable for serv ice in Omaha. If a "thorough investigation" by the Real Estate exchange of the question produces such half-baked concoctions. what would have happened if merely a casual inquiry had been made? The World-Herald tries to make a point because The Bee has declared that had the voting machine been used Instead of the psper ballot, the de sire to re-elect Mayor "Jim" would have pulled the lever so fast as to make a clean sweep for the democrats. No one who knows anything about It i will question The Bee's assertion, but neither will any one who knows any- thing about it question that any repub lican who was elected or defeated got any votes not intended for hloi. The paper ballot was substituted for the voting machine because the voting machine could not accommodate all the candidates on the ticket and the law requires all nominees of each party to have the same advantage of straight party votes that any other nominee enjoys. Omaha whist , players are cutting quite a swath In Boston. Presum ably the people there did not imagine that such an intellectual game had penetrated so far Into the Interior of the country. The Impending passage of the cen sus bill haa turned all eyes on the plum tree. , While frosts may nip many of the buds, there Is certain to be a fair crop on trees in sheltered places. ' The shah of Persia has promulgated a new constitution. The trouble with those oriental constitutions up to the present has been lack of sufficient vi tality to survive the first summer. laformatloa Waated. Charleston News and Courier. Does anybody know how the Hon.. Wil liam Jennings Bryan settled "The Mystery of IMS?" J a 4 are Line of Courage. Kansas City Star. Judge Smith McPherson, who courts a full Investigation by congress, unquestion ably has the courage of hla technicalities. Rivals for Supremacy. Washington Poet, t'nele Joe sa.ys backbone Is the secret of success In the house, hut It Is the general Impression that a good strong pull help some. Isn't This Awfal. Philadelphia Record. The attitude of the government toward the sugar trust officials Is absolutely cruel. It proceeded against them clvlly and recov ered two and a quarter mllllms. Now the special attorney for the government an nounces that there will be criminal prosecu tions. After the government has got their money away from them how are they going to hire lawyers? Aatonndlng Rnmnrs Boston Herald. Rumors that the battleship fleet was practically Incapacitated for service by Its trip around the world require official con firmation before acceptance If It la true that "masts were- sprung, plates were loosened,- electrical machinery. Including the fire control, hopelessly out of order;" as Is repbrl'edj' such facta consti tute the most serious charge against the "system" of the Navy department that has yet been made. What would become 0f th passenger boats of any of the trans- j oceanic line. If they were not able to atand j the strain of a leisurely cruise around the world without Incurring the necessity of complete remodelling on their return? Are our war eagles weaker than these doves of peace? Wetness la a "Drr Tom, Boston Herald. With the close of Worcester's first year of no license the police liquor squad has made , " V".. ::.:,.:;: ay. sales of liquor made at the license drug stores, of which there were aeven until May 1. The figures ahow that the shipments of liquors by express through wholesale dealera, who have .an agreement out of the city tor shipments, average 460 case and - r " r .... "y TOr "looked Into. "Any man who for ao .mail a I; , " " ng eiimi- nated. Added to these figure, are 160 gallons of hard liquors, all being claaeed under the head of whisky. The slips from the licensed drug; stores ahow that to persons who signed for the liquor to be used for medicinal purpose there were 11S.O0O sales, which the police say mean 3B.08O quarts. 87,243 pints. WHAT THE DECISION MEANS. New York World: Now that the federal government haa won the commodities clauae case, how much Is the victory worth? Philadelphia Record: The supreme court of the United States decides that the, ao called commodities clause of the Hepburn law Is entirely constitutional and perfectly uaeless. Boston Transcript: The decision of the supreme court of the fnlted Slates, sus. talning the commodity clauae of the Inter atata commerce act, which had been over ruled by tha district court, shows the sus tained vitality of the Iloosevelt policies. It may also Indicate that the supreme court la not ao conservative aa It used to be. Well Street Journal: For all practical purposea the anthracite carrying railroads may be said to emerge successfully from the long litigation over the ' commodities clauae ,of the Hepburn law. Their direct holdings of anthracite and of stock in cor porations which mine hard coal have un queationably been acquired In times past In good faith, and In this respect the railruad companies are safely within the terms of the decision as resd by Justice White. Springfield (Mass.) Republican: Wall street seems to take a very favorable view of the commodities claus" decision, even though It Is generally adVerre to the con tention of the coal roads. Some effort is apparently to be put forth to make It the occasion of such an outburst of speculative operatlona for the rise as will draw the public back Into the stock market. It may serve auch a purpose, but the position of coal road or other atocka will hardly be said to have been Improved by thia judicial deliverance. Nw York Sun: The great railroad ln taresta of the nation, have happily found In thia moderate construction a city of re fuge from thia drastic and revolutionary statute: a great peril has bn averted. To the extent that the law was economically sound It has been auatainel Tc !ho ei- tent that It sou gilt to invade the province of the atatea by Indirectly compelling the tarrteia to sell their coel mines which some hsd owned before there were any rall rosdkli haa failed with others of "my policies." In this respect it has g me to tie soap heap of futlie or Invalid legiaUtlon. Around New York Bipplas ob the Cnrraa ef as Bean la tas Oreet Amerloaa Metropolis from Bay to Pay. The breadth and effectiveness of tha fear Instilled by the "Black Hand" organisa tion was strikingly shown In New Tork recently. A theatrical benefit for th fHnilly of Lieutenant Petroslno. the New York nollre officer asaslnated at ralermo. Slcllly. last February, was only partial success owing to fear of a Black HHnd outrage during the performance. As such benefits go In New York, the affair should have netted IS.ono. Scarcely half that sum wss realized. Threatening letters had been received by the managers of the benefit, and the publication of their re ceipt prevented the patronage expected. This Is but one of many Instances Of the malign Influence exerted by this criminal organisation and ita suppression la the most serious problem facing the police au thorities of New Tork and other large ci ties. A writer In The Survey suggests that New York muat organize a new and distinct branch of the police force In order to control the criminal tendencies Of the large Immigrant population an expert "foreign squad," In short, recruited from the countries from which the Immigrants ave come. The writer argues with con siderable plausibility. Ppeaklng of the "30. flnno Italians In New Tork he shows that the Italian quarter can be effectively po liced only by men who know the ltaJlati language and Italian life. But what are the existing conditions? The New Tork po lice number lo.nnoo men. but out of this army only about fifty are Italian, and many of these are American born, un acquainted with the dialecta of southern Italy and from families which are out of touch with life In the local colonies. The consequence Is that New Tork haa become a paradlae for the Italian criminal. The average policeman Of Irish or German de scent la as helpless to deal with conditions ss an American traveler set down for the first time In Naples or Milan. A Black hand plot may be hatched out under his very face and he be nons the wiser. Under existing conditions the residents of the Italian quarter are at the mercy of any blackmailers who elect to prey upon them. Some times surprise Is manifested because Itallana are so unwilling to come forward and testify against the men who are ter rorising them. There Is nothing strange about this. Their explanation la that if they set themselves against these gangs ven geance would surely he visited upon them In spite of all the police might promise or attempt In the way of protecting them. The waiters unions of the East Bide of Manhattan sre emulating Sampson before the Temple of Gaso. The untona. In their might have declared that tips must go, and that, instead of the waiter being de pendent upon what he can work out of the customer, his employer shall pay him a minimum wage of $3.60 per day. If the unlona can carry through the pro gram they will be greater than ths legisla ture of the state of New Tork, greater than an endless roll of social reformera who have tried to do away with the aya tem of tips, but have Ignomlnloualy filled. Unlonlamr if It succeeds, will deserve a statue In Union square from the thous snds of homeless men now left to the.un tender mercies of the restaurants. In the less pretentious the restaurant the better the waltera are paid. In thoae ruah eating houses, where a man s allowed to carry alx dinners baWnced upon an upraised palm, the employer Is compelled to Pay living wages, because no customer will Up for such service. From that level up to the lobster palace the walter'a wagea decrease, because hla tips lncreaae. In aome of tha high priced placea, where the proprietors compel their patrona to pay the waiter's wages, in addition to the scheduled price of food. It is reported that waiters pay a bonua for their Jobs. That practice Is com mon In Europe, but has not become do mesticated here as yet. Broadway restaur ants do, .however, permit the waltera to extort tips by any sort of coercion short of actually going through the customer's pock et s. Climbing by means of a drain pipe up the side of the building to a height of sixty five feet. Fred Ferguson, broke open a skylight, then lowered himself to the main floor by meana of a slender rope, parked twenty live chickens In a bag, and. then repeating the periloua climb, reached the street without Injury, but lust in time to be arrested. Arraigned before Magistrate Crane In ths Harlem court, the owner of the chlckana. Bernard J. Wroth, withdrew the complaint, and the climber waa sent i to Bellevue hospital to have his aanlty , , k h ae,pel.at, chances with I ,w.n P msnne ." said the life Is, In my opinion. Insane,- magistrate. "Hal" Is dead. Suicide aay the police. He lumped out of a window at 245 West Nine teenth street into the basement of the tenement house at 222 West Twentieth street. His neck waa broken and the police aay hla aulclde was due to grief. "Hal" was a mule, IS years old. He was the property of Mrs. Kate Hyland who owns the Central boarding stable at 246 West Nineteenth street. He waa used to haul a truck. Six months ago his team mate, Daisy, died and alnce then Hal has grieved. James Wilson, the night watch man, said that Hal moaned continually and apent many sleepless nights in his stall. Night after night, he aaid. the mule would keep his eyes on the stall where Daisy formerly slept and weep bitterly. When Wilson went out to breakfast Hal kicked a hole through .a brick partition, crawled through, want to a window and Jumped to the cellar of ths tenement house. He was Instantly killed. While Hal was kicking the tenants of the house in the rear became alarmed. Sev eral ran Into the West Twentieth station next door, and told Policeman Hughes. Before the officer reached Hal the latter had accomplished his end. "It waa a aulclde pure and simple," the lieutenant at the desk of the sistlon-houso said. The outcry amonK the clergy that New Yorkers are not bothering much about re ligion. Is borne out strikingly by the fig urea from the building department for the last eleven yeara, from 18! to 1905. Inclualve. Roughly speaking 2i churches have been hi. lit In the last eleven yeara to take care of a growth of population represented by ITA") dwellings and 10 hotala. Each of the new flathouses, 11.706 In number, rontslns an average of at least forty persons of churchifolng age-oiS.UW persons. Each of the 4.6 dwellings, most of them two family affairs, holds, on sji average, ten persons-43 000 In all. Tha 280 hotels, many of them akyacrapera, art eatiinated to ac commodate inw.000 peraona. Thua. the total Increase In churrhgolng population, accord ing to the building department atatlstlcs. Is auout 7M. persons. As against tills there are 19u new churches, mostly com paratively email affalra. aa la shown by their llmttad average coat. New York haa taiaed $1 076000 for th iiu,ison. Fulton celebrstlon that begins Sep temher . next, snd PMW or tne amount will be devoted to aeronautic features. The reproduction of Fulton s Utile steamboat will have a right eeltlng with fast motor boats and airships skimming around as It nioctt Lpatrcaiu at Weston's walking pace. a. 1 i t We label all to protect ourselves as ' well as you. We cat& make a mistake- of tailoring or a mis judgment in cloth wltH- out learning about it at once. A kick in time .saves ;" us from nine. A book about young men's fashions (ana other' mens) free for the asking. It's worth more. Kuh, ttathtxti 6 Fischer CtV CHICAGO PERSONAL NOTES. . "Mothers' Day," which takes place next Sunday, , will have a e lder observance than ever, we are told. Somebody ought also to say a good word for "dad." Mrs. Annie Vanderkas, who for twenty years has been a cook In the family of the late Joseph W. Bebcock, former con gressman from Wisconsin, Is bequeathed 110,000 In the will. Prof. J. T. Goode, In a communication to the bank clerks of Chicago, asserts that ,0t years hence the Niagara river Vill be a dry bed and a great river will flow from Lake Michigan to tha gulf of Mexico. It appears - that James T. Williams. Jr., who has been named for civil service commissioner by President Taft, la the former correspondent of the Boston Tran script, who attended Mr. Taft In a confi dential capacity during the presidential campaign. The antl-big-hat bill In the Illinois legis lature, directed again the "ungainly, un womanly, preposterous, dangerous and dreadful" headgear now affected by the fair aex, seems to be popular with the members, having been advanced on the house calen dar by unanimous vote. Evidently it la the intention to pass It and thus put the lid on the lid. Mme. Olive Fretnated' has teen enjoying an ovation lately In Minnesota, her native state, where her Scandinavian countrymen have received her with open arms. In Minnesota. Governor John Johnson, who went to school with Mme. Fremsted In St. Peter, Minn., presented her with a silver laurel wreath at the close of her concert. At St. Peter, where the prima donna was born, practically the whole town met her at the station, heard her concert and es corted her back to the train. LINES TO A SMILE. "What side will Jenlts take in the polit ical debate?" "Being a photographer. I suppose he will naturally take the negative." Baltimore American. "So you think you will let your son Josh study law?" "Yep," answered Farmer Corntossel. "Josh will make a good lawyer. He's got what I call a legal mind." "What la that?" "He kin find a good excuse for doln' about anything that suits his particular convenience." Washington Star. "The writer you Introduced me to the other day was not at all Imposing In his appearance. In fact, I thought ha had a very poor carriage." "That may be because he Is nothing but a hack." Baltimore American. "Are you fond of works of imagination?" "Well, I read the weather reports every morning." Cleveland Plain Dler. "He Isn't one who 'hides his light under a bushel.' Is he?" "On the contrary. He thinks he's ths A Remarkable Purchase AT A Remarkably Low Price! Holmes Music Co., Mankato, Minn.V sold 'to Hayden Bros, their entire stock of Musical Instruments, consisting of Pianos, Organs, Piano Players, Player Pianos, Small Instruments, Sheet Music, and Talking Machines. This entire stock will be on sale Saturday at a enormous savings in price. Watch Daily Papers for Descriptions and Prices. Don't forget the day of sale, if you wish to secure a real, incomparable bargain Saturday, 1 whole electric light-plant, and that tha whole place would be . dark If h shut down for a minute." Cleveland lealer. The Bossfm afraid I'll, have to let you go. The Employe I thought you said I waa In line of promotion? . The Boss You misunderstood me. You were right In the firing line. Cleveland Lieader. Woman of the House (opening' the door about alx Inches! No, I've got aothlrg ti give to tramps. You've been here before, anvhow. haven't you? Ruffon Wiats (turning sadly away.)-. Now that "you mention It ma'am. I think I hev. I reco'nlze yer scowl. Chicago Trib une. THE POET-PAINTER. Autumn dropped In . And tipped his brush' ' i 5 With violet and gold. 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