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THE PEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12. 1910. The pmaha Daily Bee FOUNDED BT ltDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER. EDITOR. Entered at Oman poatofflc as second claaa matter. TERMS or SUBSCRIPTION, pally Pee (Including Sunday J. per wee 1" Jlly Be (without PuiKlnv), per week 10c Wily Fe (without Sunday, ona year 14 00 Dally Dee and Sunday, one year 00 DELIVERED Ut CARRIER. Evening- Bee (.without Sunday), per week 6c Evening Re (with Sunday), per week 10c Hnnday Bee, ona year Saturday Bea, one ytar 1 SO Address all complainta of Irregilerltle In delivery to City Circulation Department. OEFICES. Omaha Th Kee Building. 8uth Omaha Twenty-fourth and N. Council Bluffs-lS fcoott Street. Lincoln 41 I.ltile Building. Chlcag-wriM Marquette Mulldlng. Naw York Rooma 1101-1102 No. 84 West Thirty. third Street. Washington 7K Fourteenth Street. N W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communication relating to newa and ed itorial matter ahould ba addreased: Oinaha lit. Editorial lepartment. , ' . i REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to- The Bee Publishing Company. Only 1-cent atampa received In payment of mall accounts. Persona.! checka. excrpt on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. STATEMENT Of. CIRCULATION. Stat of Nebraska, Douglas County, a.: Oeorge R. , Tsachuck, treasurer of Th Be Publishing Company, belnc duly worn, aaya that the Sot unl, number of full nd complete coplea of Th Dally, Morn- ng, Evening and Hunday Rea printed dur ing me follows: the month of December, 1H09. was aa 1 4 -41.586 17 i ,. 42,830 . ........ ,41,780 18 42,930 9 41,880 19 41,630 4 41,790 . 00.... 42,770 1 4,340 SI 42,480 ,. 42,930 4 aa..: la.eso T 41,870 :'aS 49,460 49,660 24 42,820 42,840 Bi 42,800 10 43,690 88 44,680 11 48,660 97.; 42,610 13 41.(50 88 42,930 13 44,950 89... 42,370 14 42,470 30......... 48,410 18 42.600 31 42,490 1 42,420 Total 1,322,510 Italurned coplea 10.130 Net Total ..' 1,312,380 Dally Average 42,334 GEORGIA B. TZ8CHUCK. Treasurer. Subscribed In my presence and vworn to before uie liiia '6Xmi liay ut Deuauter, iua. ' V W. P. WALKKH, i . Notary Public. : Sjberlbra leaving the city tem porarily aboald hare The Bee maile4 to them. Address will be ehadgred aa often aa req nested. How would you like to be the cen sus man? A .hand to mouth existence the silence of Zelaya. How sweet the crooked sugar check ers win look in stripes! Honors are easy, Edison rails at the monorail, but the gyroscope guys him. . . Now that there is a blue star line on the Atlantic, the national colors are all afloat.' " " i' " ; . The girls of Radchf fe have' estab lished -aWJ'bWWfilJMooin," , High, browsT Curious - jjftt a . sudden -demand there ,'ts , for Bibles, since the prices went up. ' Boil the water particularly the supply reserved for consumption after 8 o'clock. We may as well remember that the backbone of winter has more lives than a cat. Fashion Note The tall of Halley's comet, once crescent shaped, is now straight and slender. Since Mf. Carnegie has recovered the use of his leg, the pulling process may be safely resumed. As a port, of call fpr returning ex plorers, Copenhagen may be consid ered officially off the map. Recent grafting successes of the for esters may make it read "Great oaks their little chestnuts grow." Even back In the days of Adam's applr t.ry of the ultimata con sumer Was heard, In the land. The 80evndai over that Philadelphia heiress Indicates that there are phases of fast III evert in a slow town. ' Will the official poraologists kindly state what effect this cruel winter has had on the ice-cream Cone crop? The Chicago Tribune's latest crusade Is for the revival of wood fires. An other invasion of our forest preserves. Some of the corporations appear to be getting testy over the federal tax. The supreme court will decide the test. Henry Wattrson, who would call all the honest men to the front, evidently overlooks ; the , necessity for a rear guard. ' Discovery' "that the ties, of ' the Brownsvllle'rallroad are of ebony may lend color to the Brownsville shooting theory. ' ' ' ff: ..... r Uncle Sam's decision to establish an Immigration site at Gloucester, N. J., simply restores a once-famed place for the races. It Is to be sincerely hoped that hav ing mart'hed up to the gates of death, the emperor 6r Austria will now march down again. :, The question of revision downward of the alimony tariff seems to be a burning ' issue with our. local divorce courts just Dow. I ' T' . 1 Maude. Adam's tribute to Yale, fol lowing her triumph at Harvard, makes on wonder if sha is not playing for tha college championship. Malthas" Brought Up to Date. In retiring from office as president of tbe National Live Stock association, II. A. Jastro seriously reviews the problem of tbe meat supply as an up-to-date application of the hundred-year-old doctrine of the political phi losopher, Malthus, who beat Jim Hill out In promulgating the theory that the population would soon outstrip the means for subsistence. Mr. Jastro takes the point of view that cotton and corn have been stipplanted and that the meat-animal is now king, and be ing In the meat business he Is naturally disposed to contemplate the situation serenely. What Is discovered from the statis tics Is that our exports of meat prod ucts are steadily decreasing, while the home prices to the consumer are constantly advancing. And thus far this supports the doctrine of Malthus, for the results quoted can be only be cause of the fact that production has not kept pace with population growth. But the argument that we need not worry about a possible shortage 'for home consumption because we still arc exporting $200,000,000 of meat prod ucts a year, which' he holds to be a surplus on which we can draw, is hardly comforting to the consumer, who realizes that with every pound de liberately withdrawn froTfn the foreign market to satisfy the shortage at home our prices must tend to ride. . Mr. Jastro slates that we do not raise as much live stock per1 capita as In former years because the farmer and ranchman can make more money In other branches of agriculture or trade. This , is likewise dleconcertlng to the consumer, for in that case there is not likely to be any stimulus for increas ing the supply save in the maintaining of prices. While the late Mr. Malthus had trouble to sustain his theory, it Is apparent from Mr. Jastro that although we can confuse the old philosopher by producing more food, It will be only under ,the pressure of. the opportunity for a larger commercial, gain. In this connection it would be interesting to hear from' ther Beef Producers' associa tion, which was designed to avert any shortage in the meat supply, but which tfeems to have allied forces with the live stock raisers in boosting the prices of the cheaper cuts. Those Insulted Diplomats. Pity the trials of a republican form of government that has to deal with the privileges of aristocratic, importa tions. Such ' a hubbub as has arisen In Washington among the titled emis saries of foreign governments could not have occurred in the courts of Eu ropean capitals, where precedence of rank is rigorously established by royal decree of old. But If out, social: diplo mats have offended the' marquis from Spain and the ministers from other re gal ports, let us at least bear their snobbishness with the ' fortit'utfe en gendered of long experience In control ling childish petulance from across; the water. , . -. .;-.., ' Uncle Sam, like many another frugal householder, has' never, yet .been aroused by either wails or impudence without demonstrating' his ability to administer the proper soothing tSyrup, and we may trust him to attend to the case of the marquis ad his fellow patents of nobility 'with, efficacious doses of the old-fashioned remedy. These unhappy diplomats are but act ing like spoiled children ofhe kinder garten, and if they do not take kindly to Uncle Sam's treatment of the case It will be in order for their wise home governments to conduct them gently but firmly to the solitude where they can forget, if not forgive. The New District Attorney. The concurrence of both the United States benators frpm Nebraska In a recommendation to the president of Prank S. Howell for United States dis trict attorney ; practically insures the nomination and confirmation , which will make him succeed to this impor tant office. The Jurisdiction of the district attorney includes the whole state and makes the range of selection the entire bar of Nebraska, although the precedent and distribution of other federal offices gives Omaha the first claim to consideration. The selection of Mr. Howell to be United States district attorney 1b a good selection. He is a lawyer with good legal attainments and a militant disposition. He has been not only successful In his profession, but also active In the republican cause. He had much to do with the breaking up of the combine of grain buyers in Ne braska, which waa put out of business a few years ago, and he also made it hot for the fee-grabbers in our court house. Offenders against the majesty of Uncle Sam's law will therefore take due notice. Man's Inhumanity. Now that Early has been officially declared a leper, we may look to see him permanently removed from his fellow creatures, though It does not appear that be Is in any way incapaci tated -from rounding out years of use ful employment For against him is recorded the cry of "Unclean" that has come ringing down through the ages, swaying man Into tbe inhumanity born of prejudice. The real lesson of the Early case lies In the demonstration how prone the people are to be preyed upon by panic, manifestations of which were shown all along the line when the suspected leper was shunted back and forth in an Isolated car between Washington and New York, or compelled to camp In a hut remote from other habitation Brave souls have worked among the most repellant canes of this disease, In the thick of tha leper colonics, and have aided science In minimizing the peril of association. But ancient grudge dies hard, man Is slow to aban don black' superstition and when plague visits a land fright kills more than pestilence. The old spirit of fear still haunts the race, which has not yet accepted the newer creed that cleanly and upright living enables man to meet the unfortunate face to face for sane and humane ministration. Cotton Mills and Markets. Disclosure Is made by some of the southern papers that a factor that had not been reckoned with In the north has served to sustain the high price of cotton throughout the winter, and that is the Intense rivalry of the southern mills against those of New England. Early in the season the manufacturers of Massachusetts, which leads all the states In the production cf such tex tiles, agreed to refrain from buying cotton in the hope that the market would break. Tho feet that instead it has rben Is now seen to bo largely be cause the southern manufacturers have been buying steadily. In other words, while the north has played a bearish part, the south has aided the manipu lators of fictitious prices by bulling tho commodity. The purpose of this peculiar atti tude Is evident as a part of the con stant ambition .of the south to wrest the supremacy in cotton manufacture from New England. The logic of the south is that the mills should be brought to the cotton, a reversal of the long established rule of conveying the cotton to the mills, and that the policy is gaining headway Is seen in the fact that South Carolina now is approach ing Massachusetts In the number of cotton mills and the aggregate prod uct. Although the government may succeed in its design to check the evils of gambling in cotton futures, still the attitude of the southern manufactur ers In supporting an inflated market is likely to continue to be an element in maintaining higher prices for the fin ished product. Foolish Talk. There always has been, and probably always will be, more or less factional ism within every political party that is long in the asoendency. This is true of the republican party in Nebraska, and is one of tbe signs that it is an active, living party grappling with live questions as they arise, although en tailing differences 6f opinion which have to be threshed out. Such con tests are evidence of health if they, are carried on within the party and with a view of strengthening the party, and ultimately of solidifying it. Such con tests become destructive of party when they are waged around mere personali ties and fed on threats of party defeat If one faction or another fails to carry Its entire program. , Tbe strength of the republican party in Nebraska heretofore has been that its factionalism has only rarely led to defection which preferred democratic success. Opponents of Senator Burk ett are said to be proclaiming that un less1 he is defeated for renomlnatlon the democrats will win out in Nebraska this fall. The Bee has not committed itself for Senator Burkett, nor1 against Senator Burkett, but we venture to suggest that this sort of foolish talk is a two-edged knife. It is just the kind of republican factionalism which the democrats like to encourage in . the hope that democrats may be the bene ficiaries. Just remember that, irre spective of the identity of the nomi nees, if the republicans are to carry Nebraska this fall it must be by" repub lican votes. While the Insurgents at Washington were proclaiming their adherence to the legislative program of President Taft, and support for hla administra tion, the insurgents at Lincoln were considering a resolution arraigning and denouncing the president. Either there are two kinds of Insurgents or they are not keeping well in touch with one another. And ' now "Billy" Thompson inti mates a special session of the legisla ture to patch up the Oregon plan which our late democratic law-makers under took, to adopt for Nebraska. At last accounts, however, the "Little Giant" did not have a particularly close stand-in with either Governor Shallen berger or the democratic law-makers. Friends of Charles A. Goss, the out going United States district attorney, need not regard his displacement as disparagement of his service in that office. Mr. Goss had the place banded to him almost as a present and his four years of undisturbed incumbency may be regarded as all that is coming to him and fairly balancing the account. There Is no good reason why cement cannot be manufactured in Nebraska of as good quality and at as low a cost as in Kansas, where the cement indus try has taken on huge proportions. One successful cement mill would be pretty sure to be followed by others. It la pleasing to note that the edi torial associates of our democratic congressman-editor are already writing letters to themselves telling how wide spread is the demand for him to throw a, senatorial castor into tbe ring. The ease with which our battleships run aground in our eastern harbors may suggest to tbe strategy board the advisability of letting the so-called channels remain accessible to foreign vessels in case of war. The avidity with whicji millionaire heiresses are seizing upon American waiters and chauffeurs Instead of titled foreigners leads to the belief that the high tariff on coronets has not solved the problem. Credit to whom credit Is due. It transpires that the wonderful story of the Worcester airship was from the facile pen of Clarence M. Agard. Clar ence may yet reckon among the best sellers of fiction. If the Third Nebraska district had not given such a brutal democratic ma jority for the check book in the last congressional election Edgar Howard would not. now be talking up so pert. While It Is shown that the railroads get $46,000,000 a year for carrying the malls it is of course not to be pre sumed that they make any profit out of it. Discovery of the fact that Dickens wrote hlB "Christmas Carol" In mid summer because he was hard up Is an other argument against subsidizing genius. Ak-Sar-Don will do business at the old stand during the coming year with the same oflloial roster that It had last year. This spells success for 1910. A crusade for a brighter Kansas City, Kan., Is on, but it will have to be highly Illuminated to emerge from the shadow of Kansas City, Mo. Reason for Discrimination CharltHton News and Courier. It seems, according; to press reports, that In NelirnsWa it costs four times as much to express a pony aa to express a jackasH, but then, jackasses can go on paumenger care and pun lea cannot. I Where tienlna Kalla Down. Rt'. Louis Globe-Democrat. American inventors have not yet pro duced a satisfactory device for slippery sldowalks. The world awaJta some simple, harmless contrivance for this purpose and will pay for It handsomely. Stage frlghta and Others. Cleveland Leader. Aotreea tells us that she escapee stage fright by Imagining that the audience Is merely a field qf cabbage heads. Many audiences are otherwise they wouldn't stand for some of the stage "frights" we get i I Got Yonr 'Spark" In Sight? Indianapolis News. Aa to that enormous Increase In the Im portation of diamonds showing th meas ure of our general prosperity um-m-m, well, a careful search might show that a good many of the plain people are not wearing diamonds even yet What Would Happen. Washington Herald. The king of Sweden recently disguised himself for a day as a laborer, and the ad vertisement was heard around the world. Now, If a Swedish laborer should disguise himself aa a king, he probably would be quietly run In, and that would be about all. A Belated Explanation. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Ther Is. a' strong effort to correct what Is termed a misconception regarding King) Leopold's administration of Kongo affairs. It seems that there might have been atro cities, but they Were not traceable to the king's policy 'f government What a pity It la that this- explanation could not have come when It might have benefited tha old king's much battered reputation. CENSUS TAKING IN SOUTH. Employment of Bfearro Enumerator in Nearro Dlstrlats. New:York Post Th wise declslqn of th new director -of the census, Mr, E. Dana Durand, to em ploy negro enumerators to deal with the negroes In the couth will give the greatest satisfaction to the colored people of that section. It la not merely that they wish the offices aa a means of getting ahead, but that they feel that there will be more acurate reporting of their progreas in the work la In the hands of their own people. The coming census means much to them. In the face of widespread criticism of their usefulness as cltlxena and laborers, they naturally wish all of their raally phenom enal advance as a race recorded In time for the aeml-centennlal of emancipation, when the whole country ought to stop for a moment to take cognisance of their progress. That Mr. Durand's decision will be popular in th Bouth Is not probable; since ha is, however, to employ white enumerators for the whites, the edge will be taken off of any open fault-finding there may be. I I KNOCKS INCOME TAX. New York' Governor Strike at the Amendment. Brooklyn Eagle. Governor Hughes' special message recom mending that the legislature refuse to ratify tha proposed amendment to the con stitution of the United States, enabling the federal government to tax lnoomes, con tains an approval of the Income tax In principle, but disapproves the plan under which the president would levy the tax. The governor believes that the federal government ahould be Invested with the power "to lay and collect an Income tax without apportionment among the states according to population." But he points out that the wording of the amendment is so comprehensive that the government would be enabled under It to tax Incomes derived from state and municipal aecurttles and thua interfere with the revenue-raising powers of the states themselves. This affords him a sufficient reason for rec ommending that the amendment be thrown out. It la a reason that ahould have great weight with a legislature which Is not suspected of any strong preference for th Inoom tax even were It put in a less ob jectionable form. I 1 Our Birthday Book January 18, 110. , Jack London, who wrltea animal stories and other weird talea, waa born January It, 1S76 In Ban Francisco. Martin W. Littleton, the big Brooklyn lawyer, is 88. He mad tha nominating speech for Judge Parker In th St. Louis convention and I known aa a great orator. Ho waa alao In th Thaw case aa one of the attorneya for the defense. Ha la a Tennseseean. Rev. Wilber F. Crafts, theologian and vice chaser, was born January 12, 1860 at Fry burg, Me. Frederick It Balrd, who la practicing law In this city, la a member of the firm of Purdy A Balrd. He la X years old today. Mr. Balrd was born In Chicago and la a gradual of th University of Chicago, and Is now one of the teachers of law In th Creighton Umvoralty Law school Around New York Ripple a the Onrremt of life as mm la th Oreat Antertoaa. aceteopella froaa Bay to Say. Mayor Gaynor's new broom la awlahtng around In open places and odd corners with a rerklfaanesa that la rude and painful to the hamfattera. Loafers on the Job have had their hookworm Jolted and put at work on a regulation minute. Where the rules call far eight hours as a day's work, bureau chiefs are ordered to ae that th required time la put In. Anywhere from one to five hours a day, according to the attitude of th employe, have been con sidered a fair return for the city's coin. Going on a standard schedule of eight houra Is a cruel and unuaual penalty, for a place on the payroll, and amacka of tyrrany. But eight hours go or tho kicker goes. Equally dlagustlng Is th abolition of Joy-rldlng on the city' machine. The city owns 103 motor cars costing $-.1,000. Sixty chauffeurs are employed St an an nual salary of S76.000. Laat year car main tenance and supplies took $134,000. That these cars were kept busy during the wak ing houra la Indicated by the maintenance figures, and more of the wear and tear was taken in private affairs than in public business. "No more of this," exclaims the mayor. Any city chauffeur or bureau chief using a city car for private business gets the hook on the spot. The combination of milk dealera is rap Idly breaking up under the strain of the revelations of the Investigation before Ref eree Wllllan G. Brown. Two of the largest milk dealing firms In Brooklyn hav already broken, their tacit agreement to have no competition, and one. of them has Invaded the Manhattan territory. In dlMtlnct violation of the trade understanding, which confined Ita opera tions to Brooklyn. Confronted with the fact that their trade In going to the few Independent deal era who still charge eight centa and with the further situation, as admitted generally In th trade and on the witness stand by dealers, that the milk market la over Bup' plied and the prices should be lowered Instead of raised, to conform with the laws of supply and demand, these two com pantea have set out to steal away one an other's trade and get back some of the business they hav lost since the price of milk was raised on November 1. The result Is a trade war that will un doubtedly make for the benefit of the con sumer. Mllo, a prize Plymouth Rock rooster, had led a blameless, sober, yes, a patrlarchlal Uf up to New Year's. Then all was changed. Frank Rue of East Wood place, Cedar Grove, N. J., owna Mllo and the rooster's amaalng change of conduct pained him greatly. Worat of all, the rooster In duced atx Leghorn hens hitherto modest and ladylike, to Join him In alcoholic dis sipation. Mr. Rua heard Mllo crow continuously for ten minutes and went to aee what had given rlae to that unprecedented musical outburst. A bacchanalian spectacle greeted his staring eyes. Mllo lay on his back In the barnyard. He was crowing with all his might, wagging his head fool ishly and kicking. Around and around him staggered th six BuffLeghorn hens. Plainly they had lost all sense of hen propriety. They became a barnyard ballet corps. Coquetttshly and clucking Joyously they went wiggling around their lord and master. From their way of dancing they might hav been drilled aa the six Salome slaters. Their dancing ardor gradually ctfoled ,and they . zigzagged "off to their roosts. It turned out that a New Year's mince pie, heavily charged with brandy and rum, had fallen from a kitchen window sill. The record price of Manhattan land was made last week. The comer of Wall and Nassau streets was sold to the Manhattan Trust company for $055 a square foot not $700 as waa previously reported. The for mer record price was 1563 a. square foot for the corner of Broadway and Wall street 1 Wall street, as It Is known. This price of $655 la the actual price for the real estate, as the nineteen-story Glllender building la to be torn down to make room for a thlriy-twe-story structure. Thla cor nerIt Is only 26x75 feet Is therefor the most valuable plot of ground In tho world. In 1783 It sold for $5,126, In 1849 for $55,000. Sixty years later It brought $1,200,000. Well may w, like Billy Nye, find fault with our ancestors for not being preaent when Manhattan Island was sold for $25 and a cask of rum. A "gentle form of blackmail," as a citi zen calls It, Is In continual operation In New York; "and," he adds, "I don't see how on can get away from it." 'Th reason for my complaint," he con tinued, "la this. Every few days I receive a packag of tickets to soma charitable or philanthropic endeavor to get money out of th public pooket with a request to sell or keep them, and to send th money to such and such an address. I know the thing Is all right, and the object Is a worthy one, but I do not relish being sand bagged in this way. I prefer to select my own charltlea, when It comes to handing out the caah. 'You se, these ticket, and this gentle nudge to give up, cornea usually from some one I know, and your auggeatlon that they be bundled up and sent back Is fraught with embarrassment. Tt Is a sort of social blackmail that I do not think ia Justified by even th moat worthy form of oharlty." After a three-day search through a half mile of snow banka at Scarborough, Mra. Frank A. Vanderllp, wife of the former as sistant secretary of the treasury, haa re ceived the laat of a dozen pearla which ah lost while coasting on Brlarcllff Hill Monday night. The pearla were In a neck lac valued at nearly $5,000, which aha wore on th coasting party. Late in the even ing ah discovered that the necklac had broTten and a dosen of th pearls bad aliiped off. Th next morning the whole stretch of th elide waa searched and a few of th gems recovered. The search waa continued and the last of the missing pearls was recovered. Mortality on Ball Flelda. Springfield Republican. Tha Injuries received In baa ball are often cited to show that foot ball la not aloue in . being a sport dangerous to Uf and limb. Yet the statistics of 1909 prove that baae ball la much th leas dangerous, comparatively speaking. Foot ball Is played but about two months, while the other gam runs through a period of at least soven, and of coura the number of baa ball players is much larger than th num ber of foot ball players. Danplta thla dif ference, ther wor thirty baae ball players and thlrty-on foot ball player killed in th laat year. Now Let Trnal Watrh Ont. Baltimore American. Women are to organls an anti-trust league. Th truata might laugh at th threat, only now women ar particularly energatl and paralstent In th publlo work they undertake, and If they make up their minds In earnest to fight will fight to the bitter and. And all experience shows that a real determination to fight soon leads to ways and means of doing a When shown positive and reliable proof that a certain remedy had cured numerous cases of female ills, wouldn't any sensible woman conclude that the same remedy would also benefit her if suffering with the same trouble f Here are two letters which prove the efficiency of Lydia T7 n . l . i r - j c i iuK.ua.iii s v cgcuiuiu vumpuuiia. Fitchville, jand seemed two doctors but , ,. , , Bay a few words in praise of your medicine. "When I began taking it I had been very sick with kidney and bladder trou bles and nervous prostration. I am now taking the sixth bot tle of Lydia 13. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and find myself greatly improved. My friends who call to see me have noticed, a great change." Mrs. A. II. Sanborn, Irasburg, Vermont. We will pay a handsome reward to any person who will prove t? us that these letters are not genuine and truthful or that cither of these women were paid in any way for their testimonials, or that the letters are published without their permission, or that the original letter from each . did not come to us entirely unsolicited. What more proof can any one ask? For 30 years Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has been the standard remedy for female ills. No sick woman does Justice to herself who will not try this famous medicine. Made exclusively from roots and herbs, and has thousands of cures to Its credit --"5s Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women L-rsJ' to write her for advice. She has guided, thousands to health free of charge. Address Mxs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass. PERSONAL NOTES. With eggs at 70 cents a doien In New Tork the humble "ham and" assumes an unwonted dignity. Premier Asqulth speaks of Mr. Balfour's nebulosity in London, where fog Is too common to be used In striking metaphor. "In the gentle art of weighing- lemons there was rich graft." wrltea Lyman Beecher Stowe In the Outlook. The poor welghera seem to have taken the bitter with the sweet. James Dale .Chamberlain, years old. who claimed to be one of the originators of the Industry of perserving fruit In hermetically sealed cans for commercial purposes, died In Toledo. He formerly lived in Union county, Pennsylvania. Edison Bees labor king 200 years hence, when every worklngman will be a super intendent living like men worth $200,000,000 live now. Clothes will be so cheap the women will be able to change styles with every fashion, and there will be more faphlon. Doctor Cook's thrilling account of how he rescued a man from a bear Is marred by the atatement of the man that at the time of the bear episode Doctor Cook waa 150 miles away. In settling the Question of veracity there seems nothing to do but interview th bear. A notable review of the resources and developments of the south Is contained In the Manufacturers' Record of Baltimore, laaue of January 6. Special articles by ex perts familiar with the several features of southern progress, makes the publication specially valuable and enlightening. I MIRTHFUL REMARKS. "Are vou doing anything for others?" asked the philanthropist. "Sure." answered Mr. i-'roaslots. "I make a garden every year for the benefit of my neighbors' chickens." Washington Star. "Have vou ever noticed any Indications. madame, that your husband haa liver coin- plaint?" X thtnK 1 nave, auciur. averyuwy seems anxious to get away from him whenever he begins to talk." Chicago Tribune. I wish you didn't have such a flat and plebeian nose, papa," aald the aristocratic young aauRnter ok me piain uia mercuam. "That's the mark of tho nrlndHtone. my dear." replied the plodding old man. Cleve land Plain Dealer. T T ( - CatDnlK Ua 1nt V Th t n,iv Annual paving Is Fretting on nicely, but what In tne name oi an uie xienus is inn meaning of that tremendous pile of bricks lying PJ1 Wn IS THE Lauded High in the Estimate of the Knowing Musical Public? 1 It has the tone, the wonderful TONE. 2 It has the action, the most acute touch possible. 3 Durability is written on every square inch of the piano, inside and out. To hear it is to own one. Kepresentatives Kranich & Bach, Krakauer, Kimball, Bush & Lane, Cable-Nelson, Cramer Pianos.' Expert tuning. 1513-1515 DOUGLAS STREET, OMAHA, NEBRASKA Ohio. "Mr danchtcr xmh all run down, suffered from paing In her side, head and limbs, and could walk but a short distance at a time. She came very near hnvinj? nervous prostration, had besrun to couch a trood deal. melancholy by spells. She tried got little help. Since taking Liyaia is. iMnkliam'g Vegetable Compound, Blood Purifier and Liver Pill she has im proved so much that she feels and looks like another uirLM Mrs. C. Cole, Fitchville, Ohio. Irasburer, Vermont. "I feel it ntv dntv to 1I2 yonder? You've got enougn of that par ticular kind to pave the whole infernal re gions. Head Imp Those, my lord, are the good resolutions about pure politics and giatt less administrations. Baltimore American. "He's a grouch." "What's ha dona?" "He told that KlKgllan dininK room Rli'I that he'd like a little more tea and a little lesa tee-he." Cleveland Leader. "Is the pen really mightier than the sword?" "Nothing to it You don't see any homes for disabled poets.'.' Louisville Courier. Journal. "You know that pretty salesgirl I took home from the dance?" "Yes." "Well, I stole a kiss." "What did she Bay?" "Will that be all?" FRONTIER ELEGY. New York Times. He blowed Inter Lanlgan'a swingln' a gun, An' swear in'; Declarln' Red rivers 'ud run Down Alkali valley an' oceans o' gore 'Ud wash audden death on th' aagn-brushy shore. An' shot a big hole Inter Lanlgan'a floor. He blowed inter Lanlgan'a swingln' a gun, A new one, A blue one, A Colt's forty-one; He shot some, permlBkua, where Lanlgan stood. An' would have put Lanlgan In bad for good, But th' leg that h happened f shoot In was wood. He blowed inter Lanlgan's shoutin' Ilk mad, An' ravin," Gun wavln,' Gin-ugly an' bad; He shot a knot hoi outen Lanlgan's leg. (Th' wood one) an' shot th' bung outen a keg, An' nigh let th' liquor all out, every dreg. An' Lanlgan, seeln' him go-in' too far, Too frisky, (With whiskey Wuth cah at th' bar). Reached over an' pulled out a big forty- four An' plugged him between th' back bar an' the door. Till Vi A W: u u 1 m h.-mfnl than tia wa. before. He blowed into Lanlgan'a, lookln' fer gore, An' tarried; We carried Him out on a door; An' Lanlgan took a big splinter o' liK An' got out hlB jackkuifo an' whittled s peg. To atop up th' hole he shot Inter th' keg! Mason & Hamlin j UlajuV