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TIIE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, ' FEBRUARY 4, 1910. Tits OMAiS4VbxiLY"BER JTOT7NDED BT BttWARD ROPEWATF.R. VICTOR ROMiyvVATEIV EDITOR. Entered at Omalia poetoff lea, aa second claaa matter. , TERMS OItTn3CR1PTION. Dally Bee (Including Sunday), per week. If Iily Bee (without Sunday), rxr Dally Bee (without Sunday), one year. .MOO Dally Bee and Sunday, one year 6 00 DELIVER-; BT CARRIER. Evening Bo (wltHfnt Sundny). per week. c Evening Ree (with Sunday), per week...lfe Sunday Be, one year 11. SO Saturday B, on year 1(0 AddreM all niravibilnii of Irregularitlea In delivery to Ctty Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The He Building. South Omaha Twentv-fuurth and N. Council Ultiffa-jr, Hi-olt Street. Lincoln f.l I.lttltJ DulldinK' Chlcagrv- 154X Marquette Building. New Vnrk--Rooms 1101-1102 No. 34 Went Thirty-third Street. Washington 72 Fourteenth Street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications .relating to news and edltorlnl matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Deportment. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, axpreM or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stamp received In payment of mall accounts. Personal checka, except on Omaha or easterntyd-hanges. not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Hate of Nebraska, Douglaa County, sa.: George B. Tischuck, treasurer of The Bee Publishing; Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Mr.rning. Evening- and Sunday Bee printed during the month of January, 1910, waa aa follows: 17 a,830 It i.... 43,700 1 4a, 030 20 43,830 21 49,590 22 43,590 21 ..41,350 24 . 40,800 26...., 49,640 28....'. 43,030 27 43.620 1 49,440 2 41.700 t 43,439 4 4t,3S0 6 43,400 43,400' 7 43,440- S 49,470 41,700 10 43,380 11 43,430 12 4fl,00 IS 43,400 14 43.400 15 49.S70 1 41,770. Total .J.. Returned copies. . Net total :. 1,304,665 Dally average. . . ji ? 43,373 GEistttjij ii. Tsi'H liCiv, Treasurer. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to beioro iua this 3WIT day of January, 1!)10. ' JIOBURT HUNTER, '. NoUry Public. 28. . 20. . SO. . SI. . 43,100 43,660 41,400 43,970 ,1,314,380 9,638 subscribers levvlwst .! eltr tem porarily should ' hare The ilea mailed to 1ltm.-- -Adttrew will be chaageal ata ofteat frveaeatad. .1. 1,:; - Now,, Mr. .Ground Hog, It is up to you to make good.'' : ,Word comes that a Champ Clark for President" club has, beu organ ized by Oklahoma democrats. More political lege niajehto. The toan 'who' U anted to draw $2,000,600 out Of aa Omaha bank in which ho had no deposit must have been a reader 6f the" yeTlow journals. and made deposits to Inflr own pri rata accounts and pocketed the inter est. Our treasurers have since learned that if the law governing deposits of public money Is to be stretched, It is a good deal safer to stretch it In favor of the public than in favor of their own personal perquisites. Forestry Policy. The sensational features of the change in the national forestry bureau must not be allowed t,o create the im pression that there has been, or is to be, a change in the forestry policy of the government. The need of pre serving our present forests and of creating new forests to replace those that- have been destroyed was empha sized tinder the Roosevelt regime, and the work brought to the point of taking definite shape under - Mr. Plnchot. The. supplanting of Mr. Plnchot as chief forester with Mr.' Graves Is not in the llr.e of change of policy, but new evidence of .deter mination to keep going forward on (the same path. The new chief for ester, Mr. Oraves, had previously been the first assistant cf Mr. Pinchot and had gone from that position to the Yale school of forestry, where he was co-operating In tne movement, al though in a slightly different way. The new chief forester, therefore, would probably have oeen one of two cr three men. if not the only man, who would have -been recommended by Mr. Plnchot aB his successor if he the people of Tennesaes the leseon they ought to learn from the episode. Wel coming home the released sheriff with brasa bands and a crowd of 10,000 sym pathisers arruea an unregenerate public opinion. ; The Alternative fparned. New York World. A Nebraska parkins; concern ha shut down a Jhe result of decreased business due to the meat boycott. It might hava tried the alternative of reducing prlrea. though that plan, of course, would have been contrary to trust principles. The Democrats and Postal Savings." The earnest advocacy ny President Taft of the postal savings bank ant) the sincere effort which 4s being made in congress to enact legislation for Its establishment is putting the democrats In an awkward position. Many demo crats have been advocating postal sav ings banks for years and trying to make the people believe that repub licans had no purpose or expectation of putting a postal savings bank bill through, and now the democrats find themselves in the awkward position of being themselves compelled either to fish or cut bait. That the demo crats do not want to support the postal savings measure is plain from the way they are seeking for pretexts' or ex cuses 'to oppose it. ' When Governor Bhallenberger re turned from Washington two weeks ago he inadvertently let the cat outof the bag as to the democratic position on the postal savings bank when' he referred to that subject In his official statement of reasons' why' he would not for the present call the legislature In extra session. The paragraph in point Is as follows: ,. -. i The governor said he found a strong sentiment In (he cost for a puslal savings bank law, and that the prospects were that this congress would enact Biich a measure. A postal savings bank law will Inevitably drain the money of the western states to the great financial centers of the enst. Ho was convinced that a guaranty of deposits law that would keep the money of Ne braska In our own state, provide equal se curity to that afforded by a postal aavlngs bank law and keep Nebraska money avail-I had been retiring of his own free will. fr6m jj,, pncklnn; h. ndquarters to cattle Opening: for Federal Taxation. Philadelphia Press. The supreme court at Washington flatly refused, as with the Western lTnlon, to let Kansas tax the Pullman Palace Car company nn Its capital, because Its cars ran through Kansas. The property used over the .Country should not be exclusively taxed only at Its origin. If the Instru ments of Interstate commerce are free from state taxation as they go to and fro federal taxation should reach them. t l(y of the (.olden Flood. Sprlnsflcld Republican. T;ie losses In Pails are sure to be very large, but no country In the world Is so well aMe. to aland them. There's many a franc slowed away In the French stock ing. Tho Increase In the wealth of Franc? In 1M9 was estimated at about a billion dollars. Rut the American tourist alone will make frood to Paris Its losses In very few seasons. No city In the world ha poured Into Its lap such n stream of gold by foreign plr asure-sekers as the French capital. TIME FOB IXTFRFBnEiVCR, Scare Dlspitch from Omaha Starts n Roar. a Boston Herald. An Omaha dispatch reports orders sent able foi NcbraHka bunlnpss and business men was a consummation very much to be desired. ! In other words, the , democrats, while professing to be fronds of the postal savings bank, are -sure, it will not work out satisfactorily. They are The sensational features of the j growers and live s;6ok men throughout the ilmne-ei In the hear.sTim of the fnr- west to defor shipments until further estry bureau must not bd either to make people oai fact that the work o; the federal au thorities is only a -part of what is Around New York SUpplea oa tba Cvrremt tf Ufa as Bee la tb areas Am no a Metropolis from Say t Say. oi me ior-!"1 e,,.,,,.-.., u... 22.5 for the same out 3 permitted i ",lce' Ipmcht. of cattle and meat to rtood at M.6 per cant Ivlm.a of thai " markp"' " belns- lnrreaJ'd' I ployment has mult 1VIOU8 Of ttie Meanwhile- distributing agents of the pack-, ,rf ,rt afraid that the postal ' savings hank will put their pet project of deposit guaranty out or business and take away some of the political capital which they were banking on to bring them closer to democratic victory. It will be Interesting to watch and see' whether the democrats in congress vote, for or against the postal savings bank bill on final passage. called for In executing a forestry pol icy. The federal autfiorlty extends only to forests in thei public domain, crs' combination are advised to get what they can for stock on hand and are given assurances that prices will be higher. This as a result of Ihc boycott. What can the consumer do about It? Can he starve the meat packers Into surrender and keep them and possibly in the territories not yet ! ln submission? And if he cui why should . . ... . , . . I he be obliged to slarvt himself In order to admitted to statehood, whereas by ( obtaln fc dpft)7 Whe) fcny lndlvldual far the larger part of our foreBt land : interest or ussoclatlon of Interests secures Is entirely and exclusively In state ! such control of a food supply and its mar- ! jurisdiction, and it Is highly question-!.kot u,a 11 can- control . the situation at Tha Interborough Rapid Tranalt system a few days ago handed up an agreeable surprise to its ,000 employes on the sub way and elevated roada. It was a boost In wages .corresponding somewhat with the elevated coat of living. Tha advance, which affeota conductors, trainmen, gatemen, ticket agents., platform men, train clerks and band switchmen, will raise the pay rolls of the Interborough I1W.00O a year. The schedule sent out to the various barns is aa follows: Present rate. New rate. Conductors S2.10 to S2 60 to t2.S0 Trainmen 1.S0 lo too l.W to 1.20 Oatemen 1 70 to 1 80 10 Ticket agents 1.H0 to S.S5 i 00 to I. SO Platform men 2 00 to 2 10 3.10 to 2 20 Train clerks ! 10 t3 2 40 2.25 to 1.80 Hand switchmen ..S JOto 2.50 2.10 to 1 80 Only two classes of employes do not get an advance, motormen and special police men at stations. It Is said tho motormen are receiving $3. So a day, the highest rate of wages paid In the world for similar serv ice. In the circular notifying the men of the Increase In wags It was also announced that recreation rooms were being erected at the various terminals. There meals will be served at cost and provision made for the entertainment and comfort of the em ployes, It Is announced. The proponed pensioning of employes, It was said. Is being carefully considered and a plan Is now being formulated by which a pension fund can be started without ex pense to the employes. In the state of New York, the quarter ending Beptamber 30, 190!), shows that the percentage of unemployed among trades union workmen was 10.3 per cent, against I 22.5 for the same quarter of 1908. In 1907 It While Increased em- ultlplled labor disputes, the chief cause of Idleness still Is the lack of work. The average earnings for union members during these three months were notably larger than in 19031233, aa against $20.. In 1907 the record figure up to that time the amount waa $227. Tho depression cf 1901? cut heavily Into the membership, and tho number of or ganizations has continued to decline; yet there wa, from March to the end of Sep tember, 1909, a total Increase of S.tiOO names; 372,729 workers are registered In t,XS unions. able wbether anything congress can ! w,n' rf u,,atln ' ,u,t lt8 own pur; J The same six months of laos showed a loss poses. It is time that the people, through do could impose legal restrictions or the government and It laws, should inter regulatlons upon forest lands wholly fre and exercise Its right to protect the According to John'Tgmple Graves, "the united ,' republican party is . not yet." As to 'the, united democratic party Mr. Graves' ihafntalns a dense alienee. i lu- 1 .1 i'.i v.' .V It one 'cold storage' warehouse in Jersey City as held 3S.OflQ.000 eggs eleven months, how many New York folks have been eatltfg the fresh-laid variety t.' '". 1 '.';'. T.". ' Omaha banks show up well' in the complied returns of the last call of the comptroller for a statement. Omaha banks have ixeen showing up well right along. From the! discussion in congress it is plain that the only way to keep the census out of- 'poUtlc ' is to appoint none but tried and true democrats as enumerators.., .v .- -,- r - Members, , of ' a ilg, .brokerage firm that has' failed with' liabilities of $7,000,000' ascribe , their trouble to the high cost of ' flying. ; That's as good a scapegoat, as any.. . An anonymous "taxpayer" asks the Water board to tell the long Buffering public, "ilow long; on Lord, how long?" Better put the question direct to the Lord, who alone knows. These divorces lu hign life with big alimonies are not calculated to lessen the divorce evil. . A law limiting ali mony allowance and fixing the fees for divorce lawyers might help solve the problem. ' A little more work and a little less noise from the direction of the State Labor bureau might, produce better results ln the enforcement of the laws regulating the hours for women and children. " .. The state treasurer of Nebraska has Just had his record day for volume of receipts. Put it down as ah axiom that unless the people are enjoying a fair degree of prosperity . the taxes do not come ln. ;, v. - v The demonstration that an airship flight can be made" through a snow storm means that the flying machine can be acclimated a!uiott anywhere. The air route to the North Pole may yet be a reality. The forthcoming gatfest of Ne braska democrats may have to be pulled off without any imported head liner. But w hy the, need of importa tions when the native product is so plentiful and everyone klndergartenei In the school, of the greatest demo cratic spellbinder who ever mounted the rostrunit'T .x'"'"' Why the Widows Win Out. "Samivel," said the elder Weller. ln the course of one of his numerous hortative discourses, directed 1 to his aspiring son, "Samivel, bevare of vld ders." When this expression of warn ing Is quoted, it must be borne in mind that the elder Weller was a waggoner and drover, expert ln the ways of horses and neat cattle, but none so wise but that he fell captive to a widow's wiles. It may have been out of the depth of his experience that his observation was produced; under its stigma the widow ha rested for many years. Now comes & learned judge to her side and says she. is -better fitted to be a wife because she has.' had ex perience and knows a thing or' "two which she did not know before her flrgt matrimonial venture. Replying to a question as to whether a woman is happier when she marries the second time, former Judge A, J. Dlttenhoffer of New York says: They understand men better. Tiiey have developed beyond the sentimental stage and know that life Is not all love and kisseu. They upden-tand the need of a home. They do not expect a husband to be content with a smile when the house IS untidy and the dinner spoiled. As a general rule the woman who marries a recond time is more apt to make the home happy, becuuse she is more settled and domestic. She Is more prudent. Bhe Is llkoly to think more of her household duties than her finery. ' She has profited by her earlier mistakes and she Is more Willing to compromise the little difficulties with her ' second husband than her first. A study of the records of the divorce courts will show ' that when ' a woman marries the second time there is less dan-' ger of trouble In the home. This triumph of experience over hope is supported also by Rev. Charles H. Eaton, pastor of a New York Bap tist church and friend of John D. Rockefeller. He declares: The reason why seconcj jtjSrriagel so often are happier for womA; is that mar riages today are based mur and more upon money Instead of upon congeniality and co-operation. Young girls read ' the ranluon notes until their only lata ot mar riage la to find a rich husband who will pay their millinery and dref suiaking bills. After they have been married ' a little while they discover their mistake and if they have an opportunity U jnari y ' again they exercise more care in : the' aeleellon of their mates. 'Then, too, tc woman who has failed to make a tureens of her first marriage and marriage la not a success unless both husband and wife are hap'py puts forth extra efforts to make her sec ond union a success. All of which must be very encourag ing for the widows, to whom no one will begrudge a second trial. But a maid muBt be a wle befqre she can be a widow, and the young chaps will probably go right along, doing as they have always done, taking . chances with the dearest girl in the world, re gardless whether she knows enough about cooking to boil the. water with out burning lt. When Strephon meets up with Chloe, or Daphne, or Phyllis, he has no thought of establishing a training school for wives, and even if he be mistaken now and again ln his choice, he will likely bo guided by the heart rather than the head ln matters matrimonial. It never was the widow s fault, but her ' misfortune, that she has had to add to her other charms the advantage of experience. within state limits. The policy of the federal government must be sup planted with ' co-operative effort by each of the state governments before we can make a full showing of re sults. The federal government through Its forestry bureau can do a great deal in the way of object Ipsson and experiment, but the states, pri vate individuals and corporations will have to do their part, too. A University or Chicago professor, who recently toured the country with the Japanese commission", says the most significant thing, he discovered was the .universal spirit of brag and bluster 'Which pervaded- every city of size ln the country. Of all the fifty- five or more stopping points visited by the Japanese every ,'one of them, we are assured, boasted of some feature which could not be duplicated in the land.. That is a bad trait we are dis posed to deny. There is an ancient and homely adage, "If you don't blow your own horn, who will?" people from possible abuse of that power. It Is an Inherent right of the people, and It la time that It should be exercised. I Four yeara. age. the republicans went before te people with a definite record of acnH vernier tn' the shr.pe of congressional legislation, on which the vote returned: ...aa. "a ell done." If the present -ceugraao writes tht Taft progranrj cu the tlacrte books republlcanaVnt ..have; a rlht to ap peal conflitiitty-jy.tkM ie?il fo. an other votev 01 atioval. And now lt is announced that our new minister to China, W. J. Calhoun, who was appointed to succeed Minister Crane, has arranged to sail for Peking from San Francisco March 8. From the way Mr. Calhoun has been keeping quiet lt was naturally supposed he had started for his post of duty long ago. The Real Estate exchange will be on the right track if it conceives lt to j be its duty to enlist capital for pro ductive improvements that will earn good, returns. Mere trading . may yield broker' 8 commissions, but it does not build up the city nor add to real estate values. The local democratic organ halls the election of a democrat in a demo cratic congressional' district ln Mis souri as fraught with tremendous sig nificance. When a republican was elected a few months ago ln a repub lican district in Illinois it didn't count for anything. A county treasurer lu -Cleveland is reported to have an oferfi'Qwljig.jafo with an accumulation $f-public, money which he dare not deposit lx. tin) bank for fear of violating ;tbe: law' wblch limits him to a certain contract quota. That same ort of a sta'f used 'to be put up by state and county treasurers In Nebraska, who werer-re tn law would not jiermlt ttwifw fo opea de DosK accounts with a.bak fojrUTo of ilu'tr funds aud then turned around A stranger tarrying within our gates declares that Omaha's streets are Just now "the roughest, nastiest, filthiest streets in all the west." A pretty tough Indictment, which ought to start something ln tne street depart ment to remove the dirt as well as the odium. The failure of that Mexican meat packing establishment must also be due to the tariff. If we had only per- mltted the marketing of Mexican dressed beef, without the payment of Import duties, lt might have done a flourishing business. Nearly 600 fatalities in mines In this country in three months is a showing altogether appalling. The conservation of human life should have first call on the talents of our constructive statesmen. TRUSTS AHU THOl BI.ED. Cora ln ST Derialona In Tobacco and Standard Oil Cases. New York Letter ln Philadelphia Ledger. Had investors and speculators become satisfied that President Taft would Im mediately proceed tp, tear down, utterly to eliminate, all the combinations of capital which are somewhat vaguely and now in accurately called trusts then the little spasms In the securities market of the early part of last week .would undoubtedly have become a groat panic, possibly equal ing that of October, W7, In the best-Informed ,. circles there has been no doubt slncs.i the., meeting of the railroad pre!dent .with iPresldent Taft at the White House of , what the course of the administration wpi((d "be. It was well known that the president would feel lt to bo his duty In case the supreme court con firmed the interpretation of the law In tha tobacco company and the Standard Oil company caaes, which was made, by the lower federal courts, to causa the Depart ment of justice to learn whether combina tions exist In violation of the anti-trust law; and. Jf prima facie evidence showed that these corporate organizations exercise the power to restrain trade, then proceed ings would be begun for their dissolution. But there will not be an Immediate bom bardment, a sudden and violent attack all along the line. That probably will be un necessary. If tha Standard Oil company must dissolve and the tobacco company and after thai some of the greater corpora tions is tested by the interpretation of the supreme court, which compelled the Stand ard Oil company to dissolve, than ungues tlonably all of , the other combinations would aa soon as possible take voluntary steps to relieve themselves of the accusa tion of acting illegally; that is to say, pre pare ror dlnlntegratlon. After the railway presidents had dis cussed with President Taft various ques tions relating to the regulation, and here after the strictler regulation, of the rail roads, under the interstate commerce law, they were preparing to depart from the White House, when the president asked them to remain with him for a while, as he wished to talk over with them, infor mally the Issue between the anti-trust law, aa Interpreted by the lower courts In the tobacco case, and tho many combinations of capital, by m-ans of which much the greater part of interstate business of the United States Is now carried on. When these railway men returned to New York la was with tha Impression that the president feels that he will be com pelled, ln case the supreme court affirms me interpretation pf the lower courts, apoedlly to Institute vroeeedings having for their flrat purpose the gaining of Informa tion as to whether this or that corporation exists ajid carrioa on business in violation of the law. rr v. . in- country may as well make un It. mind to the fact 'that unlesa the sum-em court reads Into the Standard Oil and to- Dacco company coses an Interpretation now hoped for, but not greatly expected, then we must raeo one of two conditions. Ther muat either be an amendment of the Sher man law or there muat ba buslnaaa chaos, r in president will not ahlrk his duty In case the supreme court should say that the Sherman ls.w forbids combinations which, although, honorably organised and conducted, nevertheless have a lurking or inherent power to restrain trade. of 26,000. "There were two vacant seats in the subway car when I went In," , said the young man, quoted by the New York Sun. "I took one of them, and right behind me came a man and a mighty good looking ycung woman. The man took the other seat, directly opposite mine, and the young woman stood looking up and down the car. I got up, gave her my seat and re ceived a grateful smile. "That would have been all right if It had stopped there, but at the same mo ment that the young woman smiled her thanks the man across the aisle raised his hat and thanked me, too. Then I saw a great light. That man knew that his wife was attractive and he took the only seat for hlmaelf." "What did you do?" he waa aaked. "I went out on the platform and told the guard that the public service commis sion ought to make them put on mora cars.". ... . 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NATIONAL PHONOGRAPH COMPANY 75 LakasUa Avaaaa, Oraase N. J- Nebraska Cycle Co. represents the National Phono graph Co. in Nebraska, and carries huge stocks of Edison Phonographs, including the models mentioned in llio National Phonograph Co's announcement , on this page today, as well as a stock of over 100,000 records. . ivr i. 1 iPx .TsjeDr&siicsi ,yviv :JbO. 15th and Harney Sts., Geo. E. Mickel, 334 Broadway, Omaha., Neb. Manager. Council Bluffs, IaP A Tkosskt I'nespreaaed. St. Louis Times. A Nebraska lawyer has declared that the Indiana axe beggara Tha Red Man. being a taciturn fellow, will probably refrain from responding that the whit man is a thief. A Matter of t'olor. Washington Herald. . Peru has presented a gold medal to a cer tain distinguished Nebraakan. It might mora appropriately have been faahloned of silver, liesldea, gold Is a sort of lemon color. Jam! I.Ik Tennessee. Springfield Republican. - It la a riueallon whether tha Imprison ment ,of former Sheriff Shlpp of . Chat tanooga for contempt ot the United States supreme court In permitting the lynching u( a negvo undur his protection has taught Our Birthday Book Tebmary 4, 1910, John Mitchell, miner and labor leader, waa born February 1 1870, at Braldwood, III. He achieved the height of fama during the anthracite strike. He la now at tha head of the Industrial burtau of the Na tional Civic federation. R. D. Phillips, president of the Phllllpa Medical company of this city Is 44. Mr. Phillips la a native Pennsylvania and studied at Doana oollega. John Nicholson, deputy clerk of tha United Htates circuit court, was born In Manchester, England, February 4. Ha came to the United States with his parnnts, and finally located In Grand Island, Neb. When George Thummel became United Htates marshal, Mr. Nicholson cam down to Omaha with him and waa hla chief office deputy. When Mr. Thummvl became clerk of the eli cult court for the NVhiaska dis trict, he appointed Mr. Nicholson hla deiuty and be has been holding down the offltv ainca, . X beautiful, red-haired blonde is missing from an . uptown Broacway restaurant. When asked the reason the manager sim ply said: "She's fired on account of her looks." "Looks! Why, she waa the beat looking glr you had. She waa a regular headllner here, a bill-topper. Wasn't that bad business policy?" "Stop right there," the manager interrupted. "Business will be better without her. What's more, I'll not try to hire a successor who looks anything like her. This is why she and all others of her stamp are time wastera, though not always because they like to be. Nearly any plain waitress can cover twice the ground. The beautiful, golden haired, big-eyed creatures lose 15 minutes In 'kidding' before they can get a Broad way sport to center his attention on a bill of far." A New Torker decided to give a dinner the other night In recognition of hospi tality showered upon him by his friends this winter. He asked two women he knew to go to a Jeweler's and pick out some little souvenirs for the women guests. The host did not know It, but a detec tive accompanied tha gifts to the house. Each woman found at her plaoe at the table a handsome box. When these were opened there were cries of admiration. One woman drew out a diamond ring, another an emerald brooch, another a diamond orescent, a fourth a neoklace of pearls, an other a diamond tiara, and so on, until the output of the boxes represented about tuO, 000. The host had forced a smile when the first box was opened. As each trinket revealed seemed more costly than the last his Jaw fell. Perspiration began to trickle down his fsce, which got so red that the women became alarmed. Then they ex plained that tha Jewels were a Joke and wera borrowed for tha occasion. 'Say, John." remarked a Tenderloin po liceman to a Greek fruit dealer, "I'm going. ln here to get a shave. If you sea the boss coming, let me know." By "the boss" hs meant the sergeant In tha old days called the roundsman. The patrol man, thinking that ha had "protected tha rear," to use a military phrase, stretched out In tha barber's chair. When he was well lathered and prepared for a com fortable shave, supposing that the ser geant would b steered off from his post, the Greek cam walking In, Immensely pleased wilh himself, and remarked: "I find htm all right, Bill. Hers hs aes." It eost tha patrolman a day's pay. Attorney Samuel Untermyer, for his work ln connection with the eonsildatlon of tha Utah Copper company and Boston Consolidated Copper company, will receive one of the largest fees on reoord. accord ing to tha bill Introduced to enjoin the Utah consolidation. Mr, Untermyer will receive 1,200 shares of Utah Copper stock, which has a market valuation, on a basis of 155 a share, of nearly tlSOlOOO, and $581, 2S0 In cash, a total of mora than 1760,000. PERSONAL NOTES. At a circus sale In Pennsylvania the other day the horses brought more than tha camels, although the latter were cried up as being able to go eight days without water. Madame Thebes, tha necromancer of Paris, who sees the United State at war with Japan this year. Is no doubt busy pumping the unforeseen Seine flood out of her cellar. The president of France fell Into the flood, and had to go horn to change hla clothes. Usually a president of France gets Into hot water before his term 1b over, but M. Falllere's experience is new. A club of beef eaters has devoured 400 pounds of steak at one sitting ln spite of the rising market. What will the consum ers' boycott amount to with the interfer ence of such, lusty strike breakers? The wife of a Nw Tork waiter, who IS suing him for alimony, declares that her husband's Income from tips Is $100 a week. The contention that the practice of tip ping pauperises Its beneficiaries Is plainly Incorrect. , Among the authors who have again been returned to Parliament In England la C. F. G. Masterman, an under secrettBry In the cablnot. He Is one of the promising young men ln present day English politics and when his book "In Peril of Change" was brought out It attracted much attention. J. Kler Hardle Is another re-elected mem ber whose name Is on many title pages. Twill Hart Brother Joki, St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Independent oil paopl In . Loulstsna claim that the railroads down that way discriminate In favor of the Standard Oil company. It would cut old John D. to tha quick, it he thought ha was inadver tantly getting tha better of Ms brother man. No I4ta Words There. Chicago Tribune. Truly there aeema to ba no. good reason why an Indictment should not be written In aa plain, straightforward, concise, and unmistakable language as that which a man uses, for example, when ha Is mak l-.g a complaint at the orilcs of a gaa con. pan," . , TIDE RISES AGAIN. Prosperity mu m I.ora (or Old World Tollers. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Government figures show that the tide of immigration into the United States is gradually rising again. The Influx, In creasing steadily year by year for more than a decade, was suddenly cheoked in 1607. For a time more foreigners left these Shores than reached them from abroad. The fiscal year 1807 saw the Immigrant arrivals cut from the 1.2H5.S49 of the pre vious twelve monthn to 782,870. Tha next year the arrivals fell to 751,786. An official statement from Washington show that, If the flgur reached during the first six months of the fiscal year 1910 is duplicated between now and June, last year's record will ba surpasaed; probably the arrivals will be mora numerous than during any year since the record of 1907 was established. This turn of the tide In dicates that industry has fully recovered from ths paralysis which overtook it In the fall of 1907. There Is work to be dona, and tha workers from foreign countries are flocking across tha sea to do It. Immigration statistics have long been considered an Industrial barometer regis tering the condition of the labor market. Unforturately tho prosperity which this influx evidences is not distributed with en tire fairness, but so far as it Indlcatos the existence of plenty of work the rUo of the tide is a rea-inable satisfaction. SUNNY OEMS. "I understand you, hava said you might retire to private life." Yes." said senator sorgnum. "it s an right for m to make that sort of a re mark. But I'd hale, to have any of my rnTiutltunnl. eou It "WuuhlH.nn Slur Doctor Now. McTavlsh. tt's Ilk this: you've either to stop the whisky or loose your eyesight and you must choose. McTavlsh Ay weel, doctor, 1 m an auid man noo, an' I waa thlnklm I've aeen aboot everything worth aeeln.' London Tattler. "Perhaps It waa late," said one 'man. "Maybe the motorman didn't see.-us," ventured a second. , . "Ho done lt 'cause he wanted to, that's all," said a third, and when the, others looked at him they aaw he wore a cap with a motorman's number. Buffalo Ex press. "Somebody In this paper ' denies that buckwheat cakes make a good substitute for meat." ' " "Well, he can't deny that they make a good substitute for scratchy flannels." Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Uncle George, we are studying synon yms in school, and I want to know the difference between 'cut' and 'sneaky.' " "According to your mother, it la the dif ference between what you do and what Mrs. Jones' little b(iy does." Puck. "Father." said little Rollo, "what is sn Insurgent?" "An Insurgent, my son, Is differently de fined. Some rea-ard him aa a person who defies the lightning; others as one who does not know enough to come In out ot tho wet." Washington Star. . "He can't seem to make any money at anything." "No the poor fellow has a college edu cation. Cleveland Leaner. "Here Is a story of an Arizona woman who died at the age of lit, having used tobacco for 110 years." "Well, say, Just think how much longer she might have lived If she had commenced using the weed earlier!" Cleveland Plain Dealer. HERE'S YOUH CHANCE. J. M. Lewis In Houston Post. Are you plugging, day In, day out, for a very scanty wage; Envying the rich and haughty? ' Pat a puncture In your rage. If you're poorer than Job's turkey, If you haven't got a bone, There's a way to mend your fortunes, to make all the world you're own. Don't be weeping, don't be sorry, don't go grieving any more; There's a plutocratic fortune humbly knocking at your door. . I can tell you how to got lt ln a Jiffy; I have seen What a fellow wrote about it In a recent magazine. Fix some shelves up ln ysur cellar, In the dark and dank and gloom; Raise the toothsome agaiicus, cultivate the glad mushroom! It's a wlnnerl It's a daisy! It's a gem without a flaw! You can make a fortune. What's thst? Haven't got a cellar? Pshaw! Oh, well, do not be disiouraged. Mush rooms might have failed, you know; But here's one ymj cannot lose on; on that's bound to be a go! Here's a fellow t'lls about It chickens! Got It? Got that down? , You can make a fortune at It In your ba'k Ut, here In town! Get a hatcher and a brooder; they will make you rich and glnd. What? You haven't got a back lot? Liv ing In a flat? Too bad! 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