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THE BEE: OMAHA. FHIDAY. .ltTNK 4. 1900. Tte Omaha Daily Bee FOUNDED BV EDWARD KOSEWATER. VICTOR ROSE WATER, KMTOR. Fntered at Omihi poetofflce aa iwond :la matter. TERMS or BUriSCRlPTlON. Dally Bee twlthotit !unrl, one y'""-- Dally Bee and Sunday ohe year DEUVr.RKI) BY CARRIER. tallv (Including Hunday). per week..1Jc Xally Be (without Huntley I. P week .10: f . I fl(knn (tunitRVt fr WeeK 9' Evening " (with Sunday), per b..Ha Om. MM r ' W i Saturday Bee, one year ASdreea all complaint- of Irregularities In Sellvery tq City Circulation pepartment. OFFICES. Omaha-Tho Bee Building. South Omaha Twenty-fourth and W. Council BlaffslS Hrott Street. t in.ln-tll Utile Building Chicago IMS Marquette Building. New York Roome 1101-1102 No. M West Thirty-third etreet. M w Wehlngton-7K Fourteenth Street. N. W. I CORRESPONDENCE. Comnrunlcatlona relating to news and i edi torial matter should be addressed: Omaha 'Hm, Editorial tepartment. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft. eipreea nr Post' order, pa., to The Be. Publishing Only l-ont stamps received In iyiwnt ot mart acceuots. Personal checks escept on Omaha or eastern exchangee, not accepted. gTATEMENT OF CIRCULATION, fttete of Nebraeka. Douglas County. JS 7,' -I a t..rimrk. treasurer of The Be. Publlehlr.. Company. "In, duly worn, aaye.th.T the actua number of full and complete copies- 01 i " ""',' In, fcvenlng and Bunday Bee printed our ini U month of May. l0t, was ae fol lows; X .T0 4W t 4osM 4 40.0SO S S.MQ taoo 7 4040 40,400 87,400 10 40,180 11 40,410 If 40.S10 13. 40,180 14 40.870 IS 40,810 If 37,600 IT 4040 Returned coplca . . . IS. , IS. . to. , 81. , at. . 40.1S0 40,130 40,140 40,420 40,110 3S.S00 aa. 40,180 at 3S.S40 aa' 40,oao ST. 40,100 8S 40,440 SS 41,070 SO... SS.MO 31 40,380 Total.. I.t8t,t00 8,885 Net total 148.818 Daily average 40.318 GEORGE B: TZSCHCCK Treasurer. Subscribed In my presence and eworn to eefore me this I lei day of May, 1908 M. P. WALKER, Notary Public. 8bsrtbers leavlaa; the city tem porarily ahoald ' have Thai Be mailed to them. Address will be fkaaaed mm eftea as reqaeated. Take note that the moon was in eclipse on rising. This la our first trial of the new early closing law. wonder If those six democratic councllmen could agree on the answer to the question. "What is a demo cratT" The announcement it made that Champion Wrestler Qotch it to be mar ried. Getting ready for the match of his life. The former Turkish officials who fled from the country have been de graded. That Is decidedly more com fortable than Jpelng banged. ' ' ' A Now York critic lays modern poe try has not enough fire in it. The trouble Is that the portion which burns It never road by the public. ; The New York World says that be ing a democrat It a state of mind. If present conditions continue it is likely to become chronic melancholia. E. H. Harrlman says he would gladly retire 1 he could find anyone to handle his job. There are plenty of men who would be willing to try. A city rock pile Is all right for a summer diversion, but the eventual so lution of the problem la a workhouse that will do business all the year .round. That story about five brides recently arriving In a bunch in Iowa from Eng land should warn congress to see to It that the American cuptd Is suitably protected. A Chicago man has sued a, surgeon for robbing him of cuticle while under the Influence of ether and using It on another patient. This it reducing graft to a fine art. It la suggested to Senator Bailey of Texas there are several larger men in and about congress than any of the newspaper correspondents he has at tacked up to the present. Omaha can return the jibes: The bandits who robbed the mail car came from elsewhere, and they made the mistake of their lives when they se lected their last place of operation. A Chicago man announces that al falfa makes good cigars. They may sot be up to the Havana standard, but alfalfa should be able to run tha cab bage ft fair race as a substitute filler. Mr. Harrlman ssya the Landis de cision was responsible for the panic tnd Judge Landis lays the blame on . Mr. Harrlman. Arbitration would be 1 good way to settle their differences. Uncle Bam is just now passing around the plums In the shape of In creases in salaries to postmasters of trot. In towns. That Nebraska getting its share proves that the state It growing. It has now been discovered that the Wright brothers, who are achieving 'am at aeronauts, once lived in Iowa when small boys. It it to be noted however, that they flew away as soon as their wings would .carry them. Cover nor Shallenbcrger rode from Omaha to Peru on the Missouri Paclfl and then as soon as he returned to Lincoln prevailed on the State Board of Assessment to reduce the valuMion of ... the ' road. This' Inside history should bo made a matter of record. Revision How Often f The question how often ws should go through the travail of tariff revision Is suggested In an Indirect reference to the progress of the tariff bill In the current F.?vlew of Reviews. The edi tor of the Review, Dr. Albert Shaw, thinks that the whole system of tariff building should be changed and thst with the present method the only thing that can be accomplished, will be to take the Payne tariff bill as a basis and secure Improvements In matters of detail. For the future heiU)lnks con- ress should provide for "a good kind f tariff commission," and 4da:" "An ble and impartial commission with ue Industry ought to help us bring bout a thorough-going revision of the tariff in about the year 1917." Every revision of the tariff is so un settling to business and entails so much Industrial readjustment that It goes without saying that continuous tariff tinkering would be; worse than ubmlsslon to ordinary Inequalities. No tariff is possible that will satisfy everybody, but a tariff should Ibe made to meet conditions fairly as they exist at the moment rather than to forerun conditions yet to develop. If It were possible to secure a reasonably satis factory law now with the additional assurance that, barring unforeseen mergencies and the correction of pal pable mistakes, the next revision would not take place before 1917 and that It would then take into account results of a careful study of our entire Industrial situation by a commission of unbiased experts, the country would without question settle down to an un precedented and uninterrupted era of commercial enterprise and business expansion. Beaaiurance for Japan. As honor guests at a banquet at the Annapolis Naval academy, President Taft and Admiral Uriu of Japan had occasion to speak each aa the official representative of his government, so that their expressions are entitled to more weight even than if given in formally. President Taft makes it plain In the first place that Uncle Sam Is not going around with a chip on his shoulder Inviting a conflict with any other nation, but, on the contrary, desires to live in amity with all the world. Of Japan he spoke with a wide knowledge of its people and govern ment, complimenting both highly and expressing both the hope and the be lief that there would always be har mony and good feeling. The Japanese admiral echoed the sentiment of the president and bore testimony it was that of his people. . - A certain amount of friction be tween nations coming into intimate contact is to be expected. Just at with individuals having interests which do not always harmonise. It does not necessarily follow, however, that in temperate strife must constantly re sult. People-who seek to conjure-up a waf scare batweerithls 'country a,nd Japan fall to take this Into account. Those responsible for the destinies' ot both nations appreciate it fully, how ever, and realize also that both have more to lose than to gain by discord. This Is the best assurance of continued peaceful relations. Slobber.' Mr. Hitchcock, who has no more love for Mayor Jim than the devil has tor holy water, devotes a column of the World-Herald to handing a double leaded package of slobber to the mayor. Mayor Jim is suddenly "en titled to credit." He occupies "high and unassailable ground." He is bigger man, a truer democrat and better Omahan than some of his ene mies." Mayor Jim has been "famous for hit backbone". , and commands 'popular trust and respect." He will grow stronger than ever "if." The "if" Is conditioned on Mayor Jim's willingness to take orders from Mr. Hitchcock. "If" - he shows bis backbone to the extent of declaring hit independence of Mr; Hitchcock' It will no longer be "good for Mayor. Dahl man," but the column of. slobber will quickly give way to a column of invec tive denunciation and: condemnation "If" Mayor "Jim" can't see through the game that Hitchcock and his World-Herald are playing, he is not the shrewd politician he Is supposed to be. Talking about backbone, is it true aa currently reported At the time, that In the middle of the recent city cam paign Mr. Hitchcock summoned Mayor 'Jim" Into his august presence and demanded that he resign from the ticket? Bleached Flour Abroad. The highest courts of both Great Britain and France have recently passed upon the question of bleaching flour and their findings are particu larly pertinent In view of the conten tlon between the millers in our winter wheat belt and the National Pure Food commission. In both Instances the courts decided that the bleaching of flour . produced no deleterious effects The French tribunal even held that the testimony showed the: food quail ties of flour were actually Improved by the process. In the Brltiwh case the principal wit ness to sustain the contention that bleaching was harmful was Prof. Ladd of North Dakota, by whose ex perlments ,tbe ruling In tbia. country Is to be largely determined.' Two em I nent British scientists followed mln utely.Mr. Ladd'a experiments and ar rived at exactly opposite results. I rendering Us decision the c6urt said Whether you regard It from the point of view of dlsesllon, whether you regard It from the- point of view ef nutrition, or nether you regard It from the point of view of poaltlve harm, I rauet coma to the conclusion that tbe olatntlff ha i.h- lushed the truth of the ataiemenf in his peciflcatlon that no deleterious action on flour Is caused by the above-mentioned reatment. Flour made from winter wheat Is yet.'owish unlesa bleached and conseq uently brings a less price than the whiter product of the spring grain. f the bleaching Is harmful to health the prohibition ia not subject to crit icism, but if no one Is injured or de frauded there would appear to be no good reason for prohibiting it. Brit ish laws are much more stringent In this respect than our own and those f France are the most exacting In the world. The enforcement of pure food aws abroad Is also rigid and if bleached flour can stand the test there, but fall here, the American law must go further than necessary to Insure purity of the food. Public Health Conference. The conference of Marine hospital nd ' health officials, in session in Washington, should have the attention which itt merits warrant. There Is no one question which so vitally affects everyday life as the prevention of un necessary disease. Health or the lack of "it touches all the industrial, social and economical problems. Health Is an absolute prerequisite to reaching the highest accomplishment In every line of endeavor, but modern methods have performed wonders In mitigating the misery and economic waste ot dis eases which formerly cost thousands of lives and incapacitated other thou sands from performing their part in the world'a work. The science of disease prevention it in its infancy, but the earnest, scholarly men who are dedicating their lives to it are performing a task whose value cannot be measured. It s only recently that the causes for many of humanity's scourges were un derstood and even now our knowl edge is still Imperfect. With Infinite pains the scientific Investigators have searched out the causes of diseases, the meant of prevention and curea for many of which baffled their predecea sors. Few of them have reaped any substantial financial return for their labora and their reward Is largely in the consciousness of a good work well done. The most conspicuous examples of disease prevention accomplished by the Marine hospital service are the practical eradication of yellow fever n Cuba, the canal tone and our south1 era cities and the checking of the bu bonic plague which Invaded the Pa clfic coast cities. These diseases are so quickly fatal that medical treat ment avails little in effecting cures, but they have been stamped out by preventive means. In the light of their accomplishments the work these agencies are doing is entitled to un stinted encouragement and support. Conference of Emperors. Considerable Importance is attached to a conference between the emperors of Germany and Russia, toon to take place on shipboard in the Baltic sea. to be followed later by a meeting be tween the German emperor attd the president. of France, Mutual distrust growing out of the Turkish upheaval and the lncidenta which preceded it had started rumors ot ruptures and even of probable wart, but these con ferences Indicate that diplomacy haa evidently settled the differences it any existed. The work of the diplomat is con cealed from the public, however, and in spite of aasurancea that all had been arranged satisfactorily the people are slow to give them credence. That the emperora or the head of the Ger man and French governments will themselves actually negotiate arrange ments of an international character is unlikely. These agreements are the work of ttaw foreign offices. Their meeting In an amicable way. however. is likely to have a quieting effect upon the public mind and it la doubtless for this purpose that they are set in spec tacular surroundings. , International rivalries and jeal ousies in Europe are to many and to intense that it often requires the greatest tact to prevent a clash Fears of other nations are worked upon to secure appropriations for naval and military expenditures and tbe time in tervening between parliamentary aes sions is utilized to allay the alarm. It Is a great game of shuttlecock and bat tledore, whose continuance without mishap dependa upon the skill of tbe manipulators. After much maneuvering and sparring the governor forced the four republican members of the State Board of Equalisa tion to vote for a total increaae of 16,000,800 In the railroad valuation ot the state. World-Herald. The governor must be a modern Goliah to be able alone and single handed to force four able-bodied men to do something they do not want to do. The achievement of the four train robbers, holding up a train, Is nothing by comparison. If the governor ia the whole thing, what's the use of having anyone else on those state boards with him? The compilation of life insurance statistics for the year 1908 shows that of the total amount of claims paid by life insurance companies last year $1,860,000 went to Nebraska benefi ciaries. It would be interesting to know just how much wss collected in from Nebraska policy holders in tbe form of premiums over and above div idends so aa to strike balance and show just what Nebraska's share of all this life insurance is costing. Recently compiled railway statistics show thst North America contatna al most as many miles of railway aa all the old world combined, and considera bly more than all of Europe. 8UU, there are vast stretches ot this conti- nent waiting for railroads for their full development, which gives some ides of our possibilities for supporting lncressed population. Governor Shallenberger's flag day proposition has been intended to make Flag day come June 14, Instead of June 15. The governor must be try ing to save time, notwithstanding his famous story that concludes, "What's time to a hog?" . Another old servant has Identified the Ohio-claimant as the long tost archduke of Austria. If the claimant la really what he pretends to be It took him a long time to realise what a good thing he had thrown Into the discard. In a recent address In New York District Attorney Jerome boasted that even his enemies conceded that he was honest and capable. He is also con victed of modesty on his own admis sions. Omaha haa gotten on the map once more at being the destination of sev eral ot the smuggled Parlstan gowns sold at auction In New York. Coming so soon after that train robbery, too. Aa A Beet Worth While. , Chicago Tribune. In tabulating the wealth of uab1e knowl edge let loose upon the world during the graduating acanort do ,not overlook the baccalaureate sermons. Throwing a Seare. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Count Zeppelin, the German, gutdea his mammotrt airship 460 mllea without alight ing. English channel has an average width of seventy mllea. Ergo, panio In Piccadilly. Why Not Sen In a Kewf New Yorlk World. The bureau of labor at Washington Is able to figure out for 19(H), aa against 1907, an average decrease of 8.2 per cent In the cost of living. It la unfortunate that the statisticians cannot pay the bills. A Cherk for High M-rlng. Washington Herald. The Omaha Bee thinks the family gar den is the only solution of the high cost of living problem. In other words, the common people should understand that free garden seeda may be made to cover a multitude of congressional sins. fiaale of Prosperity. St. Louis Republic. -Mr. E. H. Harrlman hits the nail squarely on the head in saying that the good times he predicts depend upon crops and not upon exploitation of speculative schemes. In the latter, too much of the good money we got from the former was burned, and the smoke from the burning was seen In the panic of 1907. Fanny Side. of Statesmanship. Minneapolis Journal. Statesmanship la a funny thing. The tariff bill on which the senators are now working considerably increases the price of asphalt mined in California. To "protect" the California stuff,- every municipality In the union must pay an increased price for, Its paving material.' How muoh cheaper and better It would be not to have any asphalt In the United States! r Riot Amoss Earthquake Snfferera, St. lxula Republic. It Is something, of, a shock to hear that the natives around the town of St. Euphe mla, in southern Italy, have betaken them selves to rioting under the Impression -.that they have been badly treated in the dis tribution of funds raised for relief of suf ferers by the Mesalna earthquake. If the people of1 the neighborhood live .up to the name of the town they should be a soft spoken folk and exhauat every resource of gentle protest - before throwing brick bats. STEAM AND ELECTRICITY.. Traction Problems Railroad Manag ers Are Trylnar to Solve. Brooklyn Eagle. According to the Electrical Review and the Western Electrician, the great rail roads of the country face a serious situa tion. Sooner or later they must make a decision as to what propulsive power they will use steam or electricity. . The asser tion is that a stage haa been reached be yond which a atep cannot be taken without the expenditure of vast auma. . The limit of development in steam trac tion power, under present conditions, haa been reached. Longer freight trains can not be used unlesa the traction power of locomotives can be Increased. That cannot be done unless the locomotives can be lengthened. - For this, scientific reasons are given aa to the weight and where It shall rest reasons the railroad operators do not dispute, but understand. Indeed, it la admitted that tn the effort for economy In operation the locomotives have been lengthened aa much as la desirable in view of the existing curves on the lines. To give greater length ia to ask for the elim ination of the curvea. To do that la to ask for reconstruction of the line. In crease of weight means increase in the force of the impact of a running train. So, strengthening of bridges follows a a con sequence, and that means reconstruction Of bridges and abutments, 'idenlng of the gauge of the tracka might meet the situation, but then that la reconstruction throughout. To what extent the weight of locomotives haa been Increased is aeen In this com parison: In 1836 the weight of locomotives was about tan tons; since 1894, locomotives of a weight of over 100 tons have been put in operation. The latter weight Is ad mitted to be the limit. Bo the stage is reached when, if any advance In the use of ateam be made, the roads must be re constructed. That means the expenditure of hundreds of millions. On the other hand are the electric motors. These motors of the same weight as the ateam locomotives will exert from 10 to 100 per cent more traction power. It follows, then, that motors of a lesser weight than locomotives could be operated with satin factory results under present conditions of tracks, bridges and roadbed. In this view, it would seem to be Winer and more eco nomical to adopt electricity aa a propulsive power. But other considerations enter. To do so would be to engage In a revolution. Steam locomotives, in which much capital Is Invested, must be abandoned. Expensive motors must be built to take their places. Expense In electrical superstructure and in power housea in which to generate electric ity must be undertaken. There are yet other considerations. An agent of propulsion, to the uKe of which trained corps are accustomed snd to which administrative departments are attuned, must be eliminated. A power must be em ployed which, tn its development, is In the daya of its Infancy, and there must be a thorough readjustment of all the depart ments to new conditions and new Influ ence. This ia a situation the railroad op erators face, and In which the traveling public and the commercial public are equally interested. Around New York apples oa tbe Correal ef x-lfe aa Beea la the Oreat Amertoaa Metropolis from Say to Day. When Mrs. Henry B. riant, wife of the noted builder of railroads In the South. Inherited her fathers wonderful collection of art treasures, she made it her life ambition to enlarge It and house It In a filling home In New York. Her husband died, and. after she secured from his vast estate her dower of 18.000.000, she was free to search In every land for the rare and beautiful. Then she met Robert Oraves. financier and inventor. He was attracted by her. He sympathised with her ambi tion. They were quietly married In 1!04 and soon her. "castle In Ppaln" bade fair to become a real castle. It was a love match purely. The bril liant young widow of the railroad Croe sus had not lacked brilliant suitors. But when Oraves appeared all others vanished and together they planned the New Tork home at No. 7 West Fifty-first street, which waa to be their treasure palace. The work progressed msgtcally. In the great halls and galleries hung pictures that had graced the courts of the Medici; tapestries that had been the pride of Ori ental kings. But with the reality develop ing before her eyes, her dream expanded. There were counilees changes to be made and Innumerable treasures yet to be se cured. And then In the midst of the great task, when st last the finished whole was clearly pinned, but only half completed, Mia. Oraves fell 111. The malady did not seem serious at first, but she gradually grew weaker and slowly forced herself to forsake her am bition for a while, at last to seek complete rest. She retired to St Luke's hospital snd later to Edgemere. She did not gain strength. She was unhappy away from her fairyland, on which the work was stall progressing. Finally, a few weeks ago. they took her home. But she was unable to view the splendor that awaited her. When it was all finished they told her she should go through all the rooms and behold her completed work. Last Saturday was the awaited day. The last touch of the artist's hand had left the mansion an embodiment of the highest modern architecture and the rarest ancient art. But a sudden sinking spell made it Inadvisable for Mrs. Oraves to leave her bed. She was told that all was ready and that the palace only awaited Its princess. Saturday she died.' The representative of the a-aa comnanv In New Tork City who visits houses to In spect the meter or on ny other pretense will hereafter present with his credential a photograph of himself In proof of his offi cial character. The photograph, we assume, will bear on Its back or face the attesta tion of the gas company thst It is the picture of their employe.. The reason for this precaution Is obvious. Tt Is ordered by the Public Service com mission as the result of Its Investigation of robberies committed by fraudulent meter Inspectors, who obtained entrance to resi dences by false pretense. Pretended tele phone examiners are able to commit the same crime. f Art has its thousands of votaries In New Tork, but it Seemed to the passerby that never was auch an ovation given the great est of ar-lsts as was granted a humble alg i-painter, depleting a Brobdlgnagian PO' 'trait in., an advertisement design cover ing the whole side of a house. He swung on a ladder, with gallon cans for tubes, sketching Jn generous breadth the outlines of the picture as far as he could reach. Then he began to fill In, and with each stroke another interested spectator joined the crowd on the sidewalk. Teamsters stopped their drays on the street as long ss they dared. A policeman charged the crowd to clear a way for pedestrians, but made no appreciable effect on the conges tion. It waa not until the artist had stopped for the day that the last onlookers left, and even then they went reluctantly. New Tork City has 207 banks. Fifty-two of these are savings banks, 102 are national and state banks, and there are fifty-three trust companies carrying on a banking business. Through these depositories of publlo and prlvste funds 262,692,144 flows dally. The clearing house transactions show a daily average of $241,413,022 In ex changes and balances of 111,179,122. Since Its organization fifty-four yeara ago the clearing house transactions have exceeded $-'000,000,000,00. Nearly three-fourths. of the entire popula tion of New York City makes its homes In apartment houses, tenement houses,, two- family houses and In apartment hotels. The rentals derived from apartment dwell ings amount to about $15,000,000 a month or $780,000,000 yearly. . The total amount In vested tn apartment housea in the five boroughs reaches many billions of dollars, and is rapidly increasing. . New York City has 860 miles of water front fringed with docks costing $126,000,000. An average of thirty-one steamships, trans atlantic and coastwise, arrive at or sail therefrom dally. In 1908 New York's ship ping handled $1,256,042,267 worth ot goods. Sixty per cent of the nation's imports en tered the port of New York and $36,000,000 waa collected In customs duties. These fig- urea show an Increase of 76 per cent over New York's foreign commerce of ten years ago. The value of the public parks and park waya in the city of New York exceeds $330,000,000. There are thirty-six parka and parkways In Manhattan and the Bronx, covering (.160 acres, snd thirty-one park and seven parkways In Brooklyn, 1,600 acres tn extent. Central park, with a valuation of $200,000,000, contalna 848 acres, haa nine mllea of roads, five and a quarter mllea of bridle patba and thirty-one miles of walks. More than 600,000 trees and Bhrubs have been planted In this park alone. SMALL F0K8 THAT COST. Tribute Prodactlve-Industry Pays to Hats and Insects. New York World. Great enemies are met and vanquUhed. Small foes thrive while the waya and means of their banishment are sought in vain. As a case in point there comes an official statement from Washington that the Norway rat la costing the country $100,000,000 a year. Similarly, the coat of enduring the cotton boll weevil threatens to reach a far greater sum each year; there are a score of fiendu of the beetle family chewing up r.DO.OOO.OnO of forest trees annually; the chtnrh-bug genua has been equal to the destruction of about S330.000.00Q in cereals In a decade, and its capacity increases yearly. BeHid.n which, the rodling-moth in the apple treen, the borer among the peaches, the Hessian fly, the bronn-tall a,id gypxy inuths and many other nwurming pent help to pllfc up a total annual inject cubt of hundreds of millions, Begin With Kaysers You yornifr ladies who are just begHnninjrto choose your own glover-these are some facts to remember: The Kaysers have been, for 25 years, the standard silk gloves ofThe world. Yourtmothers have worn them since days that you can't remember. Kaysers have the durable fabric, woven In our factory. Kaysers have the exquisite finish, the perfect fit, which come through fifty operations. Kaysers have the patent tips and the guarantee ia every pair. yet mienor gloves cost just as much. See that ''Kayser" is in the hem. Short Silk Gloves i 50c, 73c, $1.00, $1.25 Long Silk Gleret 75c, $1.00, $1.25, $1.50 1 JULIUS KAYSER fc CO., Makers NBWYORK PERSONAL NOTES. Chancellor James R. Day of Syracuse university has arrived at Ban Francisco, finishing a seven months' pleasure tour with his wife and dsughter. . 'TV. W. RockhlU, the American minister to China, preparatory to Ms early departure for the United States, has turned over the affairs of the legation to Secretary Henry P. Fletcher. Mr. RockhlU has been sp- polnted ambassador to Russia. Miss Flora Scarff, aged 68 years, of New Carlisle, O., died recently. The remarkable feature of her death Is the fact that this Is the first time In sixty-five years that the cruel messenger has visited tho family. She waa the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Scarff, aged 86 and 78, respectively. A Fhlladelphlan observing a man In the act of beating his wife on the lawn with all the abandon he might have used on a dusty rug, a passer-by Interfered. Im mediately the rescued wife retreated Into her happy home, when she emerged bear ing a pan of greasy water, the contents of which she dashed over the passer-by. John Mitchell, former president of the United Mine Owners of America, and now national seoretary of the Civic Federation, has left Spring Valley, 111., with his family for New .York, where he will reside perma nently. Mr. and Mia. Mitchell were mar ried In Spring Valley, seventeen years ago and have made their home there since. When the new United States senator from Illinois. William Lo rimer, selects a house in the capital befitting his new dignity tt will have to be a good big one If he wants to keep his family under one roof. The senator-eleot has a brood that would delight the heart of President Roosevelt eight children, ranging in age from a baby just beginning to toddle, to ti debutante of 18. LINES TO A SMILE. How Is that?" the stalwart young fel low asked, aa he finished wiping up the floor with his hated rival. "Dear," ahe answered wltn shining eyes, it was a sweeping victory." Baltlmorj American. 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'. . , "My lasy son has at last decided on a profession that he thinks he'll like." "Good. What has he chosen?" "He wants to be a lineman for a wireless telegraph company." Cleveland Leader. Jack-Perhaps you don't like my style of dancing. Orme (In dltress)-AWeH, there is rather too much samenesa about It. Jack Er how may I vary It? Orme Suppone you tread on mv left foot once In a while. Milwaukee Wisconsin. THE MASTER STROKE. ; New York Bun. ' Cheered for his agile feat and nlmblo stunt . .) The bronsed hsll player swells ' with honest pride; ' The long and accurate throw, the wily bunt, , , The daring steal, the perilous headlong slide. i . Each in the homage of the gladsome eve Close to the publlo heart an hour" haa eat: Plucked from the blinding sun the In credible fly, - - O- fiery liner amoklng from -the bat.? Full oft the timely and prodigious whack The multitude has Jubllantiv : thrilled The great, aerial fnnca.dlsdalnlng crack And home-run wallop when the bags were filled. " Lor where the catcher like a granite rock. Kinsman to courage and unknown ' to fear, - ,, With dauntless front repels the Iron shock And awful volleys of the csnnoneer. And unforgot the pitcher's mlghtv hour, Whose fusillade immortalised his name, Held the dread sluggers helpless in his power, And broke their proud hearts , with a hitlesa game. , With feats, like these our plaudits they evoke, ' On the green dlsmond In a game of ball; These, and the Incomparable master stroke And flash of genius that outshines them all. Such as of old had made Olympus ring, And vitalised the beauteous Phldlan clay. And given to Homer's harp another string. The glorious unassisted triple play!.. - front collar. a iii i ,lf. Ill A l -sXt.ll 1 1 s r w. X 4