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THE BEE: OMAHA. TUESDAY", FEDliUAIlY 15, 1!U0. The omaiia Daily Bee. FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROPEWATER VICTOR ROHKWATKR. EDITOR. Entered at Omaba potoff:e nil second class matter. , , i. ' TERMS OF FPBSf-RlPTJON. Dally Re (inrliHllng Fumlay), per we-k.Jic Pally tlee (without Sunday), per week.l' Dally Bee (without Sunday), one year..H0 Dally He and Sunday, nnf year M DELIVERED RT CARRIER. Evening Ree (without Sunday), per week. So Evening Bee (with HunUay), per week. ..10c Sunday Bx, one year...., BM Saturday Bee, one year l.W Address all complain of trregularltlss hi delivery to City Circulation Department OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Bullfling. R.jth Omaha Twenty-'oiirtri and N. Council Bluffs IS fMtt Street. Lincoln il Little BglldlnK. Chicago lWft Marquette Building. New Tork-Rooms llul-lKtt No. S4 Weat Thirty-third Street. Washington 725 Fourteenth Ptreet N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communlcnttora relating to newa and editorial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order pnyabln to The Pee . Publishing Compaay. Only z-cent stamps received In payment of mall account. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County. .: Ueorge b. Tcchuok. treuirurer of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, ays that the actual numner of full and complete roplea of The Dally. Morning. Evening and Sunday Pea prlnttd during tho month of January. 1910, ii aa follow: 43.440 t 41,700 43,430 4 42,380 IT 43,030 Jt 43,700 10 43,600 20 43.M0 II 43,630 tl 43,590 21 41390 24 43.400 25 43,640 26 43,090 J7 44, WO 21 43,850 29 48,650 SO 41,400 II..... 43,970 6. . 43,400 43.400 ' 43,430 43.4T0 41.T0O. 43,190 at 10..'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'. II 40,430 12 43,600 II-.... 43,400 14... 43,44V) It 49,070 ' ! 41,770 Total Returned copies.,...;. .1,314,330 9,656 Nat total 1,304,606 Daily average 43,373 QKORUa B. TZSCHITCK. Treasurer. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before roe this list day of January, 110. ROBIlRT HUNTER, Notary Public. Ssbseribers leavlas; thai city tem porarily ehoala lirt The Be mailed to litem. Addreaa will be -....a .. f,e. as re.tea. Tit- It li not the fault of the investiga tors If the Beef trust U not getting roasted to & turn, i ' Never does a man's life come up be fore him so strqngly as when he la running for office. -I - II Pr. Cook is In Chile he had better be careful or he may run across Mr. Bryan down there. A time, passes politics In Germany ems to partake more and more of the Central American type. : 1 It would not be so hard to evangel ize the world' ifn this generation If It really wanted to be evangelised. The-Bee claims the flrsT copyright on calling the democratio pow-wow at Lincoln a political Valentine party. Now for the grand Jury. If you knowj anything .and don't tell It, you will have ao one to blame but yourself. And now we are told that New York is a graveyard for preachers. There are other graveyards for living preach ers. ,; . . t'' Congressman Hitchcock's World Herald says that "Mr." Bryan has handed the democrats of Nebraska a valentine. Comic- or confectionery? Both houses of congress have been omewhat.arotised by President Taffs Lincoln day 'address. They say they expect to be real busy from now on. The weather man has predicted an other cold wave, It would be a good idea If the weather - man and the ground hog would get together and not change front bo often. Perhaps the reason why New York ers have pronounoed the German . sailor crasy, because he tried to get away with a shipload of gold, Is be cause he did not succeed. .zm The only explanation for the action Of the Illinois court which imprisoned a woman for tontempt because she ig nored her. husband's will is that It was his last will n4 testament. The Iowa boy who has been amus ing himself by writing "Black Hand" letters may find that other people do not look with the same favor on such forms of Business enterprise. If anyone in t)maha does not go to church it 'will not.be because be' has no Invitation. But if he starts going to church -and does not keep it up there may bp,, another reason. Edgar Howard is so afraid that the republican president and cougress will give him the postal savings bank he has been advocating for years that he is sure now he won't like it when l.e get it. The mayor of Lincoln seems to think that if the mayor of Omaha ran run for governor, he can, too. Why not? Some ex mayors and would be mayors might also help make the race more lively. Remember, too, the old jockey phrase, "Money makes the mare go." Chancellor Avery auya truly that the great 1'nlveratty of Nebraska has been hel above even the suspicion of partisan weakness or bias World-Herald. Note the only exception in the brief period when the demo-pops bad con trol of the Board of Regents Mid started out to make it an idjunrt 10 to the fusion political machine,- Ransom's Question Box. State Senator Frank Ran so in Is alto gether too caustic In bis comment on the county option prise package valon tine exploded by Mr. Bryan, in which the Falrvlew statesman takes a rap at tho democrats in the last legislature who refused to obey bis edict to enact an initiative and referendum law. Senator Ransom wants to know why, if Mr. Bryan thjnks so much of the Initiative and .referendum, he failed to put it in his Denver platform when he had the opportunity, and whether the omission Is due to fear that it might lose him some votes in his quest of the presidency. This Inqulsitiveness is decidedly ungrateful of Senator Ransom, be cause the same sort of an Inquiry might be pursued In other directions. Why, for 'example, did Mr. Bryan put the deposit guaranty in the plat form of Nebraska and then personally supervise the proceedings of the demo cratic Rtate conventions In Illinois and New York, but never said a word about deposit guaranty in either of those states? Why did he talk deposit guaranty In Kansas and keep quiet about it in Pennsylvania? Why was he for government owner ship of railroads when he returned from his around-the-world trip, and forgetful of it when he was running for a third defeat? Why does he couple his present pro nouncement for county option with the complaint that the brewers and liquor. , interests failed to, deliver the goods In the presidential campaign in which Mr. Bryan tried to make them believe he was liberal in his views? If Senator Ransom starts a question-box there may be no end to the number of embarrassing Interrogation points that may pop out. Some one may even ask why Mr. Bryan con sented to run On the same ticket with Mr.' Ransom, notoriously a corpora tion lawyer with an unsavory ' legis lative record of corporation; subser viency, and actually ask his friends here to vote the democratic ticket straight even. including Mr. Ransom. Modern 'Ocean Wreoki. In considering ocean traffic, ocean travel and the. acarcity of ocean wrecks in these days of life protec tion one Is impressed with the com paratively' small number of fatalities. In fact, the number of casualties among seamen and ocean travelers Is very small In proportion to the num ber carried and has been getting smaller every year. "The fatal hun gry ocean" is no longer the awful term it used to be. .-- With the advent of the wireless tel egraph a revolution has been wrought. Ocean liners are no longer beyond the reach of assistance, no matter, ljow far they may happen to be' out' at sea. When storms rage and ships break ,up there is no longer the hopelessness of blank despair, if the signal of mortal distress can be shot across the' sky on the wings of electricity to bring res cuing hands. Within the last few days a great passenger vessel went to pieces on a reef in the Mediterranean sea and near Santiago, Chile, another was dashed to pieces. In both cases hun dreds of lives were lost and the world is grieved and horror-stricken. , And yet comfort may be found in the fact that these wrecks and the consequent loss of life are becoming more and more the exceptions rather than the rule. , ., One can not but help notice that ocean travel Is now much safer than land travel. Where one life is lost in ocean wrecks ten have been lost in land wrecks. It is a matter for the con cern of those who have the develop ment of land travel in charge to set their minds working to Invent devices whereby safety to life and limb for land travelers may be assured to the same degree as that of modern ocean travelers. Sanitation in the Canal Zone. One single case of yellow fever has been reported In the canal sone by the health authorities at Panama. This case is that of an Englishman who had contracted the disease in a South American port and bad succeeded in getting past the quarantine officials. The almost complete elimination of "The Fever" from the workers 'on tie great canal Is very gratifying. It has not been many years since this dread plague waa so common in that district that one could, with little difficulty, bunt up a half doxen cases in as many hours. The prevalence of health menacing conditions, of which this is but one Instance, was a reason ad vanced by those who opposed the con struction of the canal and who used this argument to discourage the push ing of the work. But on the whole the opposition and the apparent grounds for this argument Inspired caution and effort which have checked and well nigh stamped out the danger. This is another case of American methods revolutionizing things and demolishing accepted ideas. That dan ger from contagion la always threat ened in the canal cone' has long been recognized, but the American, system of sanitation and the crusade against stagnant mosquito-producing swamps more than met expectations. The pro tection of health on the canal was the one essential to the physical possibility of American workmen completing the project. Reliable authorities agree that sani tary conditions In the American camps along the eanal are aa good as they are right here at home. Aa a rule quaran tine regulations are better enforced, the water supply better protected and a strict military cleanliness observed for the protection of th men "on the Job." And It ought to be an inspira tion and a lesson to northern states, that If a naturally disease Infected cli mate like that of Panama can be made reasonably safe to live in, better health can surely be maintained In the splen did northern climate of our own coun try whenever similar precautions are taken. Laymen's Missionary Movement. To Inject business methods into religion rather than to inject religious methods Into business seems to be the motto of those who are at the head of the Laymen's Missionary Movement, which is covering this country from one end to the other. In this work an effort is evidently being made to emphasise the manliness of religion and the practicability of pushing the missionary movement to a successful conclusion In the present generation. The work has met with such genernl approval that men from almost every line of business and professional activity have become interested. Conventions are being held in all parts of the country and business men have gathered by the hundreds for the discussion of missionary methods. In New York recently 2,500 business men attended a missionary banquet. In Pittsburg, a little later, almost the same number were gathered together. In many places all over the country these conventions are being held with tremendous success. - One of the remarkable features of the movement is that it is strictly a men's movement. Bishop Quale, in speaking of matters kindred to this topic, recently said: "Religion and preachers in general have been too ladylike for the last fifty years and It Is now time to go to work man fashion and show the world that the Christian religion is not something for a man to be ashamed of." The success of the missenary work in all parts of the world and the num ber of stalwart young men engaged in it. has demonstrated that there is some thing In it which the man behind the desk has not seen. He is being awak ened to the possibilities of a great advancement in civilization by mis sionary work and has become an active factor in it. Only a few years ago the average young man believed it a mark of intellectual superiority to be skepti cal and to regard things religious as being effeminate and unworthy of a man. (Happily this Idea is waning In these day. The average business man of today believes in the principles of religion and la not avoiding activity in the different departments of religi ous work. . An eastern business man has made the statement that the interest which the business world is taking in the missionary work,, both home and for eign,, means that in a few years, in addition to accomplishing great things in the missionary world, the profession of the ministry will be made over, rejuvenated and made more attractive by it for young men who, from very excess of energy and vigor, are looking for a chance to Jump into the thick of the fight in the affairs of the world and accomplish things hitherto con sidered Impossible for the benefit of mankind. A. preacher at the state capital, eager to break into the public prints, has discovered that Patrick Henry was the first great Insurgent and Abraham Lincoln the second. . Well, well, well! Both of these distinguished men have had a variegated lot of ac cusations lodged against them, but it's really too bad that they are dead, so they cannot answer this newly trumped-up charge. The new salary raise for department heads at our High school is based on the number of classes under the direc tion of each and the number of classes depends somewhat on the popularity of the aubjejet with the student bpdy. A magnetic teacher with a snap sub ject ought to make an impression on the salary roll. It haa developed that in the Nlcara guan breach of the peace when a sol dier is taken prisoner he fights with his captors until be is captured again by his own side. This tends to sub stantiate the suspicion that a college cane rush would give the ' Nicaraguan people a much better idea of what war really is. Chief Justice Reese is a "progres sive," but he puts in a timely reminder that all the progress that has been made In this country since the birth of the republican party has been made with that party in control of na tional affairs. ' Newport, R. I., reports the coldest day of the year and a heavy thunder storm all within twenty-four hours. from, which we are led to believe that Infinite variety is again to characterize life in Newport during the coming year. Accprdlng to cable advices, the former sultan of Turkey tried to com mit suicide recently, from which one Is led to believe that the responsibility of supporting eleven wives Is too much for his nervous system. Oood Time tta Qalt. Chicago Record-Herald. Immediately following the announcement that Roosevelt would return borne In June, congress began preparing to get ready to adjourn In May. Soma times even con gress knows when to quit. Precaetlens rsjlres. Pittsburg Dlsaatua.. . Amsrieen - heiresses who buy counta, dukes and prlnoea should ba builneee ltke and insist on seeing iue property clear of liens before the purchase money la paid. If a sworn schedule of liabilities were filed and a meeting of creditors held to walvs all prior Hens the Investment would be as regular aa that In much more intrinsically valuable real estate. Ml(ktr (Im tall. ChlcaKO Poet. The defense In that New York legislative scandal proceeds as If It thought that by establishing that the chief witness for the I rosecutlon had been a (Sunday school superintendent It could throw his testimony out of court. Another Ks pin nation Called For. Wall Htreet Journal. Packers tell us present prices ar neces sary because tin re is not enough live stock raised In the, country to aupply the de mand, if that Is true, where did they et the lf.2,867,010 pounds of beef and 43,713.0iu pounds of pork which the government's returns suy were exported last yeaf and sold In competition with the cheaper meats of Australia and Argentina? I MAKING UOOD THE OVRH DRAFTS Methods Needed to Prereat Exhaus tion of Holl. Kansas City Star. In the Current Issue of the Outlook Sir Horace Plunkett tells how he was shocked years ao to observe the wastcTul me-thods of farming employed In the (t-orn belt In . ., ncuiasnM. , ne illuming 01 ins same crop year after year without regard to the effect of the fertility of the soil suggested to him the depwitor who hab- "U"J o-rew out or me bank more than he put In. It . must be recognized, however, that under the conditions then existing thU waa the natural wuv tn farm in m tn. produce the moet food for the leua. money. Those conditions have passed. The de positor now la called on to make good his overdrafts. Kc.ltiirt., .runn ,...... . including tho carefully planned rotation iv restore tne exhausted fertility to the soli, niuat replaoe the older meth ods of hit-or-misa farming. The SClentifio faxmer miMit m.1r n schedule so that ho may work part of his land back into graaa for restorative pur poses, while always making aura of the neoeasary acreage of standard grains. He must figure on the . nnmh.r ..a .m.i. than cun be profitably fed with his re- """ means or tho Babcock test he must weed nut the imnfii.ku ... from his dairy herd. He must buy pure bred seed and must know how to prepare his ground. This sort of aeiorttiri. v.... id. iiq in uoinK introduced Into the middle-west largely mrougn. xne. rrorta r,f the ,,i..i tural colleges and the national Depart ment of Agriculture. The whole country, which is feel In the nwi . i,. hi.,.. . ' vo lllEll IUUU prices for Increased production, ' Is con cerned In the success of the movement TALKING AGAINST PROGRESS. ' Constitutional Objections to fostal Savlna-s Banks. Chicago News. Senator Raynor of " Marvin n.t la one of those statesmen who h.nu. .v... the nation was made for the constitution, umi me constitution waa made for the nation. He declines Inge banks oh their merlte. He condemns inaing carter bin because he can find in the constitution no warrant for th. atlon of savings depositories in connection wiwi me rosiomce department. 1MB is the familiar argument that has been urged aa&fnste vrv nrnVr...in. movement in the; history of the nation. It was even hid 'by" manv at nn. Hm. tho. to save the nation from dismemberment was a frightful violation of the constitution. Had the argument of Senator Ravnar been allowed to prevail the republic long ago wouia nave died or dry rot or else it would hava perished ,ln' secession. mere are several grounds on which the establishment of the postal savings sys tem can be Justified. Ittshould be enough that the constitution vests in the federal government the power to establish a mt. office system. By other nations the world over the postofflce system is used aa an agency for collecting small navlna-a. Th is no good reason , why the system should not take on this same function In the United States. , The postoffioa must be regarded aa an institution intended to keep abreast of hu man progress. The monav order urvin. rural free delivery and other features have Deen addea rrotn time to time. The Inter pretation placed upon tho constitution by Senator Rayner would oblige the nation to give up the money order feature of the postal system. This would be absurd. The spirit of the constitution should be respected.. But the spirit of that docu ment calls for a' postal syatera embodying the useful features that hava been made a part of postal systems In other countries. Our Birthday Book rebruary IB, 1810. Ellhu Root, United States senator from New York, la past 65. He waa born at Clinton, N. Y., and became one of the leaders of the New Tork bar before he was appointed secretary of war by Presi dent McKlnley, and later secretary of state by President Roosevelt. Dr. S. Weir Mitchell waa born February IS, 1830, In Philadelphia. He not only stands near the top aa a medical practitioner, but Is also prominent as a poet and novel ist Albert B. Cummlna, United States sena tor from Iowa and former ' governor of that state, is 60 today. Senator Cummins was burn at Carmlehaals, Pa., and waa originally a civil engineer. He later studied law In Chicago, and removed to Des Molnea In 1878, where hia remarkable political career began. Peter 8. Groascup, Judge of the United States circuit court of appeala, waa born at Ashland, O.. February 15, 1862. Judge Grosscup has been on the bench aince 1882 and has been called on to render decisions probably In more cases of vital public In terest than any other one Judge of the federal courta. August Belmont the big New York banker and manager of the famoua houae of Belmont, waa born February 16, 1863, in New York. Mr. Belmont's v most notable achievement haa been the financing of the New York. subways. He Is figuring In the newspapera right now because of his forth coming marriage to Miss Eleanor Robson, the well known actress. Scott C. Bone, editor of the Washington Herald, la 50 years old. Mr. Bone la another one of the literary products of Indiana, and prevloua to the establishment of hia present newspaper was managing editor of tli Wavhlngton Post. William H. Gates, doing a real estate business in the New York Life building, was born February 15, 185s. Mr. Gates flrat came to Omaha In 1887 to take employment with Collins A Petty, and haa been con tinuously in the real estate bualnesa atnee 1887. Dr. William Curry, physician and opti can, waa born February 15, at ZnesvUle. Ind. He Is a graduate of Rush Medical COlle Army Gossip Tsetses of Interest On and Beak of the Itrtag Use Gleaned from the Army and Vary elstST. The Brownsville court of Inquiry Is ap proachlng the conclusion of Its deliberation. The board has proceeded In lta sessions with a determination to art at the situa tion. Involving the tragic Incidents at Brownsville, Tex., leading to the discharge without honor of the enlisted men of the Twenty-fifth infantry, on duty at Fort Brown at the time of the "shooting up" of the town. The court haa found It diffi cult to obtain Information which Is of an enlightening character. There need be, consequently, no expectation of anything sensational In its recommendations. The army medical authorities are having considerable difficulty In obtaining lha re quired number of female nurses and It Is hoped that there will be no objection to tho legislation for the Increase of pay pro vided for the nurses In a clause In the army appropriation bill as It passed tho senate and which will be one of the ques tions to be determined In conference. At preent the pay of the army female nurse Is $40 a month and it Is proponed to lit crease this to tM a month, with additional pay for service up to $66, after nine years of service, with, as usual, the $10 estra for Philippine Island service. This Is not too much when It is oonsidered that a well trained nurse In civil occupation receives from $35 to $30 a week. There are eighty seven nurses now in tha service, which ia thirteen short of the organised strength. It is hoped to obtain the 100 nurses and establish, aa well, a reserve list. The present plans for the Joint maneu vers of the regular troops and militia dur ing the present year at the nine campa proposed anticipate the assemblage of a military force of about 86.000 men. The de tails respecting the commands of the regu lar army taking part in these maneuvers have been published in these columns and the militia division of the War department is engaged In ascertaining which of tho militia troops will be available for theae exercises. This grand total of 86,000 men does not Include the troops engaged In the coast artillery exercleea, for which an appropriation of $350.ono w!H b made. The largest force will be at Fort Benjamin Harrison, where the estimate attains the figure of about 20,000 men. Including 16,000 militia, with 8,142 regular troops. The force of regulars at other places Is, approxi mately, as follows: Pine Camp, 2,681; Atascadero, 2,424; Chlckamauga, 1,836; Fort Riley, 4,141; Leon Springs, 2,489;' American Lake, 2,875; Fort D. A. Russell, 4,643, and the new camp to be located In Pennsyl vania, Maryland or Virginia at a place to be selected by General Leonard Wood, 1,869. There hi probably no occasion for a pub lic uprising In protest ever that particular Invasion of the national treaury, but it Is, nevertheless, a fitting occasion of re mark that special effort. In the form of a petition of the beneficiaries, Is being manifested in behalf of a measure pending In congress providing "that all officers and soldiers In the volunteer service of the United States who were serving In the Phil ippine Islands at the time they ware entitled under the law to muBter-ou of service, and who continued In the service In said islands after said period and were thereafter trans ported at the expense of the United States to this Country and here mustered out, shall be entitled to receive travel pay and commutation of subslstenoe from the port of embarkation In- the Philippine Islands to the place in the United States where their muster out took place, at the same rate and to the same extent that officers of the regular army would receive such al lowance if discharged In the Philippine Islands by reason of the expiration of their term of servioe or otherwise, provided that the actual cost to the government of con veying and subsisting such volunteer of ficers and soldiers on government trans ports from the said Philippine Islands and the monthly pay allowed them for the period while In transit shall be deducted from the allowance provided fqr by this act No one is in a ponltlon to definitely or accurately estimate Just how much thl legislation would ooet If It were enacted, but It Is safe to say that It would be In the neighborhood of $4,000,000 or $6,000,00fi a million, more or less, where such an amount Is involved, la of little concern. The bill Is bolstered up by Its advocates by the official commendation of the proposed beneficiaries and the fact that certificates of merit and bronse medals hava been is sued to officers and soldiers In recognition of the service described. x There appears to be no reason why con gress should authorise this disbursement of a large sum for the purpose contemplated, notwithstanding the earnest and eloquent appeal which has come from various sources and despite the fact that the enact ment of the legislation Is based on the plea that It corrects an Injustice to "those who risked their lves In the service of their country." It Is assuredly no lack of na tional appreciation of faithful service rendered loyally when congress refrains from bestowing this gratuity. I , RAILROADS AND FORESTS. Announcement by Glfford PJnchet Cnnsea SarprUe. ' New York Tribune's Washington Dispatch. The statement of Glfford Plnchot ex forester and now president of the National Conservation association, contained tn a circular letter he Issued yesterday (Tues day), that the forest service had entered Into "an understanding with certain rail roads" to prevent the survey of railroad lands within the forest reserves, is the cause of amasement to many members of congress. These unsurveyed railroad lands, aggregating more than 6,000,000 acres, pay no taxes so long aa they remain unaur veyed, this saving to their owners, the railroads, taxes which would amount to not loss than $300,000 a year, and, of course, depriving the states In which they are located of that amount of revenue. Many of these lands are understood to belong to thi Weyerhausers, the chief owners of the lumber trust and one of whom, Fred erick Weyerhauser, Is a vice president of the National Forestry association. From Mr. Plnchot'a statement it appears that the forest service haa been tricked Into such an understanding on . the specious plua that the railroads would some day acenpt In lieu of their lands the right to cut an amount of timber equal to that standing on their lands. Those familiar with the conditions Insist that the expec tation that the railroads 'will part with the title to any land they now own, prac tically without compensation, la wholly un warranted by the facta or by experience and that on thla specious pretense the forest service, entirely without warrant of .law, has entered Into an understanding whereby it has given to the railroads a gratuity of $310,000 a year In return for an absolutely unenforceable assurance that aome day the railroads would relinquish title to their lands. Test of Real Greatneaa. Washington Herald. . Surely Mr. Bryan will endeavor to kill s gobblehump or a weexack or something new and novel before he returna from the wilds of South America. Established in 1557 s Kountte Mtlhnaliiti la iHS, Chtrttr No. A bank which gives to every customer and to every department that careful and thorough service which is the re sult of over 52 years of growth and experience. Our ArTT Dxrroarr taux.tsj are fire and burglar proof; boxes of vari ous sixes, from M.OO per year up. s to I PERSONAL NOTES. With Roosevelt, Bryan, Fairbanks and John L. traveling abroad In the capacity of "private citisens of great distinction," the source of supply is well nigh ex hausted. The man who came forward a year or so ago with a scheme to burn ashes instead of coal has been keeping mighty dark this winter. This, doubtlusa, will help to lower the yea's lynching average. For many years one of the best known writers on finance and economic questions, William Dodsworth, for many years editor of the Journal of Commerce, and Com mercial Bulletin, died in hia home at En glewood, N. J. Mr. Dodsworth had been 111 only a short time, but his age, 8$ years, enfeebled him so that he was unablw to rally. Miss Pearl Nelson of Oleopolla, Pa., on November 7, In company with two bther young girls, wrote their names and ad dresses and put them In separate bottles and threw them Into the Allegheny river at Oleopolls. February 4 she received a card that the bottle and contents had been picked up at Ludlow, Ky., by Carl Mc Gough after floating over 1,000 miles. "Boots" Repettl of Washington, D. C, Is a man whose gastronomic talents cannot be hidden under a napkin. He has eaten at one sitting a ten-pound ham and forty pounds of kale and haa percolated the In terstices with two gallons of beer. This will bring into play all his latent forces, Including the vermiform appendix, that has laid dormant through untold ages In the RepetU family. NAVAL. THRILLS IN BOSTON. Much Fvas and Faanlnsr Over a Girl's Photosrraph. ( Philadelphia Record. What dire offense from am'rous causes springs. What mighty contests rises from trivial things. . Not since the Rape of the Lock haa any act of its class aroused auch por tentious events as the Rape of the Pho tograph. In the contrast between the trivi ality of, the cause and the mightiness of the contest the Boston case far exceeds that recorded by Pope. The lock was one of Two locks which araoeful huna- behind Jn equal curia. When The meeting points the sacred hair d la sever k From the fair head forever and forever, the damage done to Belinda's beauty and the symmetery of her coiffure la Irre parable. The photograph could be, and In fact was, returned, and If it had not been nothing would have been taken from the beauty of Dorothea. The theft was one which did not Impoverish her, but made him rich Indeed who had the preolous piece of pastboard bearing the counterfeit of her beauty. Among the consequences of the Rape of the Lock ware; ' All side In parties and begin the attack; Fans clap, silks rustle and tough whale bones crack; Heroes' and heroines' shouta confus'dly rise And bass and treble voices strike the akiea. The tress which the trespasser could not restore to the fair one In distress was tranalated into a comet, but the Ingenious author Is at some pains to assure us that this was merely a flight of Imagination, or, rather, a raid of memory upon the theatrical properties of classical poetry; the ornament of Belinda's head did not, In fact become an ornament of the firma ment. But the Rape of the Photograph created a disturbance, which, like the rip ples of the water when a stone Is thrown Into the pond, widened until the tide swept the secretary of the navy off his feet after he had determined to hush the tragedy up with private reprimands to the surgeon and the paymaster. Moved by a senator, who waa moved by the wife of the culprit, who la also the claimant for redress, he aet In motion the machinery of naval Jua- tioe, and a court martial Is sitting on the photograph. Belinda, robbed of one of her two curls, Raging to Sir Plums repairs, And bids her beau demand the precious hairs. So Dorothea appealed to the paymaster. What Lenox Soap Looks Like MOST PEOPLE KNOW what a ceha of Lenox Soap looKe ltKei but It will do no Harm to de scribe it. IT IS A LITTLE MORE than 4 inchoe long, al most a inchae widoi nearly l Inches thicH. Color yellow. THE ENDS, top and bottom mrm rounded so that tho cahe le easily held In one'e hand. THE TOr SIDE, of that cahe bear tho on -word LENOX, tho rashers. PROCTER la GAMBLE. THE "WBAPPER is plain but distinctive. On the Inside will be found suggestions for washing;, that re worth ae much ae a cahe of Lenox Soap costs. Lenox Soap-Just fits the hand Bros 209 g m ,"isib m . sl t ' saw Kj 1 x il or the surgeon, whichever It wan. Hlr Plume's remonstrance wa: "My lord, why, what the devil! Z dst d n th luck, 'fore Oiul you must be civil! riawue on't! 'tis past a Je.t nuy prithee, pox I Give her the hair" he poke and r.'ippot his box. Dorothea's champion, however, called up the boiRiar of the photograph on the tele phone and said things to him which sounded awful and would luok worau In print. Then the thief, who hod only taken the photograph in Jest, delayed returning It because ho had been affronted. In the next . act he and his wife went to the part. and the surgeon and the paymaster as saulted the man and took the picture, and he asked the secretary of the navy to have the young bloods trl-d. The secretary poho poohed It, and then the wife of the picture thief went to Washington and got a sena tor to insist thnt Juetlce should be done, and there has been a room full of officers In full Uicno uniform, and liviothra and Margaret ami Florence and Virginia have been In constant attendance and have had a perfectly lovely time. Justice has laid aside its scales and sword, fit emblems of a court martial of the sea, and lifted the bandage from her eye ((sufficiently to observe that the girls are awfully pretty and the young officers look stunning in full dress uniform; me "daughter of the navy" haa recovered her picture and the young raHcals who quarreled over her at a hop will get all that Is coming to them. MIRTHFUL REMARKS. ti Senator Tavlor of TennesKee tella nf Old neffru WhOHe wnrthleHH ,,n u-uu mnrflwrl I secretjy. The old man heard of it and nnu ma uuy 11 ne was marnea. i am t sayln' I ain't," the boy replied. "Now, you Rastus," stormed the old man; "I ain't snkln' you Is you ain't; I is askin' you ain't you is!" Louisville Courier Journal. She asked him If he was the photog rapher. He said he waa. She asked him if he took children's pic tures. He said he did. Mhe asked him how much he charged. He said, "Four dollars a dozen." "Then I'll have to go somewhere else," she replied: "I only have eleven." Suc cess. Rory," said iha JuinliUr, L. hear ye were at IXmlop's klirk on. Sunday font. Not that I object ye ken, but ye widna yersel Ifke yer ain sheep strayin.' away into strange pastures." "I widna care, sir," said Rory, "if it was better grass." Boston Transcript. "My dear," said the man who had tna" rled his stenographer, "sit down a wliU7v I want to have a little business talk about your expenses." "All right," replied the wife, "on condi tion that you do not begin the way you used to preface your business talks." "How's that?" he asked, surprised. "What did I use to begin with?" "Please come and take my dictation," she quoted. Baltimore American. "Here Is a story of an Arizona woman who dted at the age of 116. having used tobacco for 110 years." "Well, say, Just thin how much longer she might have lived ir she had commenced using it the week earller!"-:ieveland Plain Dealer. THE RETURN FROM ELBA. W. J. Lampton in New York Times. He Is coming back from Elba, From that far-off tropic shore. Where the lyre-bird la singing And where only Hons roar. He went for big game only. Where the forest monsters roam, Yet at no time quite forgetting There was bigger game at home. REFRAIN. He la coming back from Elba With hia sword and mouth and mn And you bet, on hia arrival, There'll be something doing then. There's a red fox In the aenata. There's a gray one In the house. There's a porcupine in Kansas, And a California mouse; There's a wild cat In Wisconsin, Indiana holds a Jug That la showing signs of bursting With a local option bug; There's a rabbit in Kentucky, In Ohio there are rats, And the Illinois belfry Is overrun with bats: There's a 'posaum In the White Huu4, k With a cat and dog all 'round, And a democratic donkey That Is pawing up the ground. REFRAIN. He 1b coming back from Elba With his sword and mouth and p n. And you bet, on his arrival, There'll be something doing then. IS M-etiiLL' vlr. if! m mm mm it 1
