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10 TIIK rKE: OMAHA. WEDNESDAY. MAKCII 2X 1010. n ill ill I t v.- Trn omaiia Daily Bee. FOVNDKD nir'aclJWARU KOPEWATKR. I VICTOll ROSE WATER. EDITOR. Knterert lit Omahl potofflc at second tlua matter. ' C . --. , ' ' ' " ' TERMS OF trtfllHCRIPTION. Pally IIm (Including Hunday). per wk Wo ft"? Bffla'.M Dally Dm and Bunday. one year....... DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Evening Fee (without Funfley). pir w""?? Evening (witn mmnay;, p-r w",tVCi sometimes perpetrated solely to ln Bnnday one year f J"? Saturday B". one year rirr i- rluence market speculation, but the Address all complaint of irref uiamiea in delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICER. . Omaha-The B Hirudins Routh Omahfi Twenty-fourth and N. Council Uluffs 111 Prott Street. Lincoln SI Uttla Building. r.ki. 1 - . o tr.rnii.ti. nullrilnc K.w Topk'-Rnnma 1101-1103 No. 34 Well Thirty-third Ftreet. - Washlngton-T26 Fourteenth Street N. W. PnilRESPONDENCE. rnmmiinlpallntii rnlatlnv to news and editorial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, F.flltArlal Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, expre or postal oroer i payable to 1 ne Mea i-iiDiiyning 1 """'""'i Only 2-rent stamps rernlved In payment of mall accounts. Fersonal checks, except on Omaha or eaatern exenange. nm - . , I statement OF ctrCuxatiop.' VoZJt, p'Mctiurernoyf "he Pea Publishing Company, be'n fluiy sworn, says that tna actual """"-' V full and compiea eoplea of The Deny, . . i i -jt a . . .4 a . T. d nrimea momma, r.tunini during tha month or Feoruary. inv, -"nu aa followa: 1 43,140 1 ... 43.800.1. 1 43,270 4. 4a,f70 1 43,030 41,740 7 i. 43,310 ....!..?. 43,08av: . . 42.S10 " 10 4fl.9S0 11 ' 43,700 It 43,100 . II ..L 43,100 14 43330 15 aa.rro 16 43,80 17 49.W0 jr 4a T70 to 4i.tso tl II. tl 14 4a,ao 43.A70 43.M0 4a,io " 43,30 If 43 440 ,7 "' 41I700 18 43,070 ToUl I.139JM Returned coplea Mo Not total x,ie.70 I D.ii, aver.,e ........... .... .4.- . TrM.unr Subacrtbed tn my praaance and; aworn to peiora ?na xaia, zam oay oi r eoruary, v. !.- -s 1 KOUJSRT HUNT ' ' Notar I TKR. Notary 1Mb Ho. laUerlktM Irava tk elty tem porarily 'aliM" hT Tha Be Battled AJdraaa will ba; chaa(d a af ta mm recreated ' Now for' a safe and sane wind-up of the congressional session. If you will listen hard enough, when you go out Into the. country," you may hear the pussy willows purr. - . V . Did someone .suggest that firing a Cannon 1b the bost way to make a big noise )n Washington these days? The MabTa7-wIndlers got varying sentences up to two years and $10,000. What the lawyers got is not stated. , ., There are;' ocularr evidences that the municipal, asphalt '.repair plant is actu- , ally, starting)' wortf.': - Congratulationa. JaPw Wheh jChclrew Carnegie really wants to get rjd of hjlt. minions he will -Degra to endow bis libraries for maintenance, ."Done. UP brown, " remarked Com- 'mander Peary as he. canceled' his en gagement at Birmingham. : Just a lit tle frosted, rothelr; Pearyv . ,4 ' . South. Omaha lu .having .trouble 'in selling" its paving bonds. If South, Omaha vere'a part of Omaha lt would have oo'seritfus trouble ofthat kind. And' Mil) people credited .with being otherwise sane will continue to put up good inoney at the box office to look at fake wrestling matches or fixed boxing bouts V ...7! '.V Political' "'preferment has no ' seductive charm for ua. A plain ' private' Nebraska oltlien la good enough for ui.- -Alblon News. Sarnie pere. ' Itow .about you, Edgar Howard? Thlese'. ac cumulating railway wrecks suggest that perhaps we were a trifle s premature in felicitations on tho ad vances scored iu safety of railway travel. It, is .ikw determined that women shall tell their right ages to the census taker. This is what might be called an invasion of the. divine' right of womatr." "" ' JcffMcS'Ifl writing the history of his life, which may indicate that he wants tq kncjV'.Xtiiat 4a ai& about himself be - fore the final knockout is scheduled to takejalace,-. , - i " - -r. ' It is suggesiea mat. tne rosiai &av- lnga ban, will put a goo.d. many old Btock)p,g t-of .existence. . No guar- antytheirgrv that It win reduce tho t ,i price of stoctlngs. It might be. suggested by way ot re Joln4e ict the man who says that eat ing spinach makes a man ambitious 'that M. does ' even' more than that.! ft"! usually puts a lot of sand into him. I " ' ' All thi. world lovea a lover, but it l -noticed that all Americans love a lover wlio wifl:buckie downandworktosuD- .port th of . his choice.- Note: Young Knox Is said to be making good. ,JJiv,Norrt h -teUgrams from every atate mine antbh. Ona men from Penn- ww Vr TJ T." kve order. "Organize the Cubans and v fhttt' he la tha loB-lcal candldata fori tha !eaMencjr In 1,-Unooln Star. Acknowledge thex telegrams. " Judge Norris, "tul don't let them turn your hea,.. , It turns out that one of our new fire engine bouses is built on a creek bed whicb baa made its foundations defec tlvs. i Wliy la' It that when the city or schoql ..board, buys real, estate It often acquires a hole in the ground a aaoirat&raof earth on which no one Ua would build? . ' ' , Crop Prospects. AVUh the coming ef the spring days foreBlghted folks naturally turn to the country to see what the crop prospects for the year may be. The "crop killer" Is, also preparing to get busy and one may expect to hear reports of damage varying all the war from partial to va1 1 T la t Vi a vnviilor thtnir onrt the people In the farming region think . hout It than do those In the great . . v, . . .. ciues. ua.uB larger part of the crop forecasts come from the country districts and vary only as the ability of men to judge from outward appearances. An exceptionally large acreage of wheat was planted last fall all through the middle west The ground was gen erally dry then and it was not until almost the middle of November that the seed got a good start. Then the gnow came early ana nas stayed wen. Tn. wntr was extremely cold at 1 ne Winter was extremely com at tmeg an(j waa often feared that the sprouted grain had been frozen. In thJ eftatern part of Kansas and to a certain extent In the eastern part of Nebr,ska BOme damage has been .... "noticed In the stand of grain. It seemed ir v V, ...... ui uuwu ycumyo, nui m have etarted. Yet as the warm weather continue it seems that much of that grain supposed to be, dead has begun Uo Krow and with moisture will pro duce a yield. The lack of moisture is BQ ,ar noj. regar(jed as serious for the snow was fairly heavy in the winter and the cold weather kept it on the ground. The warmer weather has now thawed the ground out and everything is growing. The corn crop will be put in later and if good seed is used the crop should be a big one. Barring un- foreseen disasters, Nebraska and the whole corn belt are, due for a good year s crop, the killers to the con trary notwithstanding. The Simple Life for Cheap Living. With all our efforts- to bring down the cost of living only a few have quietly and effectually solved the prob lem. . Their method has been, to re sume "the simple lif" by confining themselves within the' limits of their Incomes, as in the days of old, buy with scrupulous care, practice economy and avoid waste. People who cut their garment according to their cloth ap parently succeed now as formerly and live well within average means. According to the history books, the old fashioned , frugality and sterling endurance made our forefathers what they were -the stolid reliable sons of hard rc.e- They lived frugally, per haps, not from choice, but from neces slty, and they "saved the extra cent.' The life of those good old days was In ' many ways a trial and hardship sickness and privation were taken as a matter of course. The bright side of every situation' was madv the most "lof even though'the struggle tar ex lstenoe became tae an absorbing prob lem. In these modern days of plenty, we complain that we -cannot "get ahead and lay up something for a rainy day.' If our expenses seem large we think nothing, about it and simply let it go Americans are not apt to stop to equalize the income and expense of the family budget for "what we want we usually get regardless of the cost." The spirit of the frugality of other days applied to ' our modern conditions would be one way of meeting ' the problem of the cost of living, but it is not, flkely to. be embraced by many, because, we live in ; a. different atmos phere. The;simple lifo is the thing for people with simple- desires. To travel at high speed we must pay for the fuel. General Wood as Chief of Staff. In the recent re-assignment of com- m-ands ' "V the-army, General Leonard Wood haB been ral8ed t0 the rank ot cnier oi stair, as a surgeon in tne United States Army he began his mili tary career in the year 1886. Then by dint of hard work and perseverance signalized by an exceptional ability as an executive and military tactician, he began to rise steadily until he has now reached the top. The career of Gen- eral Wood has covered a wide range of experience varying from chasing Apaches in Arizona under General Law ton to the organization of the 1 first civil government in Cuba. And through it all the executive genius has made him a leader to be recognized Vigorous In action, with a keen under landing of human nature he has been backed up in all of his efforts by the moBt energetic national character of Ipu'r time and has forged to the front with remarkable rapidity. General Wood's career has been ex -ceptlonal. It is .seldom that an un trained young man just out of college -for uch he was when , he began service under General Lawton de Ivelopg such distinguished ability in I Ilia. Tt'lAk iL. 1 I ""'""f u.o ureaaiug out of the Spanish-American war Dr Wood.' as he was then called, became 'o" 01 ine Iim ' volunteer caTalrr,' known as the "Rough Riders." At tne close oi tne trouDie ne was placed in charge of affairs in Cuba tth the very laconic, but comprehen- lv lnem- government. i nis ne ald wltn 8UCQ 8k,u and thoroughness that within hardly four years after the ciuwi vi iuo war iuo uuuau rrpuuiiu waa ready to try to stand alone, with a good system of school, good sanitary I conditions and with a modern equlp- - 1 ment for municipal and state govern ment, ' .''. m It is only rarely that men have risen orlso high. In our regular army without the preliminary training of a West Point education." Although the earll- eat years of the republic saw the mili tary leader developed through experi ence, recent conditions show a natural tendency to favor the West Pointer. But whatever may be the benefits of a West Point training the new chief of staff Is an object lesson of the possi bility of reaching that position though Individual strength overcoming the ob stacles in the way. Fire Limits and Building- Ordinance. OMAHA, March 21. To the Editor of The Bee: Vou are on the rlRht track In ad vocating enlargement of the fire llmlla, but fire limits on paper are of no uh unless building ordinances are enforced acalnst vaalona of whatever J:lnd. The trouble la that the building ordinances are suspended by the mayor and council whenever som big business concern, or some mnn with a pull, wants to be favored. In one enso that came to my attention the building or dinance was suspended for a structure lr. the middle of tho city because a lumbr dealer expected to sell a bill of lumber amounting to perhaps $200. Fire limits that are trampled down at will are no fire limits. ' n. It. This communication hits the nail on the head and demands the attention of those who are talking about making Omaha a city beautiful. The present fire limits were established in 1894 substantially as they now are, and should certainly be enlarged in view of the tremendous growth of the city since that time. But while we have had fire limits on paper, It is notorious that they too often have been ineffective in the past because of the leniency of city authori ties to those who have insisted on either openly violating the provisions or claiming exemption on the flimsiest of flimsy pretexts. The real reason when traced down uncovers something like this sale of lumber referred to or the lease of a vacant lot through some real estate ' agent or the owner, who would be most strenuously opposed to having a shack put up by his next door neighbor, but forgets all about the city beautiful when a few dollars rent are in sight. It is hien. time to enlarge the fire limits of Omaha, but it is also high time to stop granting indulgences to people who want to get away from the building ordinances. An Echo of the Past. If open confession is good for the soul, one man in Omaha must be feel tng better. During the free silver craze no more ardent advocate of 16 to l'Was to be found in this vicinity than Laurie J. Quinby, and yet in the last number of a little periodical which he publishes he has the frank ness to eay, "It is a good thing that we did not get free coinage of silver." Of course, incidentally he intimates that his former contentions have been vin dicated because tested by what It buys our present gold dollar is about a 50 cent dollar, but on his own theory a free silver dollar would now be a 26 cent dollar. .. The almost humorous part ,of It is that some folks, who 'In free silver days were favoring free coinage at 16 to 1 and justifying their demand on the ground that it would raise prices, are the very ones now who are mak ing the loudest outcry against the higher prices which, have come under the gold standard in direct contradic tion to their dismal predictions. One distinguished statesman, it will be re membered, declared at that time that so long as the gold standard continued prices would continue to fall, and that until the gold standard was gotten rid of it would be useless to tackle any other problem or to attempt any other reform. It is, therefore, refreshing to have man like Mr. Quinby, who is thor oughly conscientious and always cock sure he is right, admit that '"it is a good thing we did not get free coinage of silver." Governor Shallenberger's peniten tlary warden is also for civil service nonpartisanship and permanent tenure for the heads of all state institutions although he candidly admits he really hadn't thought of it until he connected with the payroll through no fault of his own except that he is a democrat Civil service in state institutions will come, but it will be ineffective unless It brings with it at the same time a board of control that Is not changed every two years by the fortunes of politics. Our amiable democratic contem porary Is again saving the direct pri mary, which has become odious chiefly because of the wide-open amendment engrafted on it by the late democratic legislature. These democratic saviors should have saved the direct primary from mutilation in the house of its pretended friends, but real enemies. A -young woman lawyer down east wants to take her violin into court and play for the Judge. All the other law yers have naturally . demurred to the action because she is a better musician than lawyer, and they know they would stand no show at all under the spell of such pleading. And now we are told by Congress man Hitchcock's paper that Judge Norrls' greatest mistake was in shak ing hands with "Unce Joe" after it was all over. There seems to be a dreadful fear somewhere that Mr. Nor rls may get Into the senatorial race. When Mr. Roosevelt hears of that bill to pension ex-presidents by putting them on the retired list as commanders-in-chief of the army and navy be will doubtless say, "I appreciate the compliment, but resent the imputation that I cannot take care of myself." Some of our effervescent magaaine writers are getting their trolleys crossed. Here is Judge Ben II. Llnd- sey telling the readers of Everybody's that Senator Guggenheim is not, and never pretended to be, a politician be yond contributing to campaign funds, while in Hampton's magaazlne the same Senator Guggenheim is placarded n an article by Uen H. Hampton as the politician of the Guggenheim In terests. What's the answer? In an attempt to exterminate a both ersome rat by fire an eastern scientist burned his barn. But Just think of the value of the scientific discovery that rodents may be successfully de stroyed by fire. . .1 A I.lTely Scrapper. Philadelphia Record. It must be said of Joseph a. Cannon that for a man of 73 he Is a pretty husky fighter. eminently Correct. Chicago Inter-Ocean. Uncle Joe Cannon appears to bo pretty nearly correct In one proposition: That a majority rules. I Tio Trouble Wortn'Mentlonlnaj. Boston Htrald. Taft says the only trouble with the peo ple of tho Vnlted Ptates ' Is In gottlng facts to them. As tha most travelled Pres ident on record, and a very , substantial fact In himself, the present Incumbent has not had much trouble. I'rupheta Confounded. Pittsburg Dispatch. The experts who variously demonstrated before Colonel Roouevelt went to Africa that he voul3 perish from fever, sleeping sickness and lions, all and singular, are now compelled to admit that, while they have known much of other things, they knew not Roosevelt. Colonel Hryan'a Generosity. Chicago Tribune. It was generous on the part of Mr. Bryan to stand asido and permit Editor Hitchcock to announce himself a candidate for the United States senatorshlp, but Mr. Bryan s so accustomed to giving up presidencies to men who Beemed to have better claims to them that his latest act of aelf-abnega-tlon probably did not cost him a single pang. Negroes' Higher KHocotlon. Boston Herald. President Taft stands loyally by the Du- Bols as well as the Booker Washington standard of education for the negro. If the race is to be ssgregated more and more, and by the compulsion of necessity as well as Its own increasing race consciousness and pride Is to live its own life In proxim ity to but also separate from the white race, it obviously needs the guidance of men "who are something more than hewers of wood and drawers of water. IVOTAII1K HATH DECISION. Victory of the Corn Belt Meat Aa- aoolatton. Sioux City Tribune. The victory of the Corn Belt Meat as sociation before the Interstate commerce committee marks an epoch. It is a date to remember, February 28, 1910. It was a tremendous result not only In actual ac complishment, but in the principles ac knowledged and precedent established. It reduces the freight rate on hogs at 304 points and "on cattle at over 700 points, and on sheep at over 1,000 points- all these points in the state of Iowa. The reduction on .hoes alone, or the putting them back tov,uit they were before 1908, operates a Bavlng to this Btate or over three times ' tH Salaries of the state board of railroad commissioners every y"ar, and, Incidentally, it convicts that board again for the treachery attempted. In this litigation also, the Meat Pro ducers' association won a fattenlng-ln-transit rate which will effect a saving of from 120 to $40 a car on every car of cattle or sheep hauled In that manner. The re duction applied, is the greatest on sheep and. according to Clifford Thorne, the able Iowa attorney who handled the case, and who Is now a candidate for railroad commissioner, this reduction amounts to from 15 per cent to 20 per cent from prac tically every town In the state of Iowa, The actual money saved by this victory exceeds $100,000 a year. This Is equivalent to 5 per cent on $2,000,000. But the most important thing of all Is the complete reversal of the old method of rate making -on live stock. This decision, this Iowa victory, puts live stock rate making practically upon a distance basli that terrible postage stamp rate. The In terstate Corrfmeree commission could not be made to see why it costs more to haul a car of cattle a mile in one place than it does to haul it a mile in any other place In the state of Iowa, or any other atate, for that matter. The question of water competition could not be lugged Into this case. This sweeping decision should encourage the people of South Dakota to expect something in the way of reform of freight charges on their great commodities. Every shipper ought to have a new map issued by the Iowa railroad commission, showing the old and new live stock rates. It will make him prouder of the state of Iowa and the character of Its men. Our Birthday Book Harch 33, 1910. J. C. I.eyendecker, the artist, was born March 23, 1S74, In Germany. His work Is most frequently seen in the cover designs for Collier's Weekly. Henry Llvesey, brick maker, Is seventy six yeara old today. He Is an Englishman by birth, having come to this country on the Fourth of July, 1S12. He Is one of the pioneers of Omaha and has been In the building and brick business here since 1S58. Philip J. Kunz, contractor and builder. is celebrating his forty-fifth birthday. He came to this country irom uermany in 1SS5, and is prominent In the Builder's Ex change. A Cake of Treats Ice Cream Fudge, Eclairs and Layer Cake are never so good as When made with Runkel't Baking Chocolate. It's real chocolate twice as strong as ordinary choc olate for it contains no sugar fuller flavored infinitely mora delicious. Once you try it your pantry wilt never be without RunkePs Baking Chocolate Army Gossip Mattel of Interest O. and Back of tha Tlrtng X.1d Olaanad from tha Army and Wavy Baglatar. The fifteen Junior officers of the pnrps of engineers of the army, who are now In the canal lone on a temporary assignment for Instruction, will return to this country about the first of April and be assigned to Important public works here, still under Instruction. This Is In lino with th policy which has been adopted by tho chief of en gineers to have newly appointed officers of his corps serve for two years on va rious projects. Of this period, one year is spent in the actual examination of practi cal work, with the officers In charite of districts as Instructors. The second year la spent In the engineering school at Wash ington Barracks. An order has been placed by the War department for WO Maxim rafle silencers, and It Is likely that orders will be placed later for additional quantities. It is not intended that the rifles of all soldiers will for the pifsent be equipped with the silencers. The first Issues will be made to selected men of troops and companies, probably to those whose rifles are equipped with the telescopic sight. Tho Bllcncers to be purchased ure of the Improved form developed by the inventor to meet objec tions raised by the commandant of the school of muskelcry after tests of the first form at that place. The repoTt of the school of musketery was favorable to the principle of the silencer, but attention was called to certain mechanical defects, sucu as inability to fix the bayonet to rifles equipped with the silencer. The defects have been overcome In the later form of silencer, which, practically becomes an in tegral part of the rifle, although removable when desired, and which does not interfere with the use of the bayonet. The new form was successfully tested recently at the (Sprlngfleld tMass.) Armory. Some of the members of the first class at tho military acuderny are destined to have their graduation postponed this year. The. question came up in connection with a cadet who would ordinarily be graduated In Juno, but so much punishment duty imposed remains unsatisfied that he will have to be continued at the military academy and graduated after the rest ot the class. It Is held at the War depart ment that the date of graduation is a mat ter which is within the discretion of the secretary of war to determine cither as an entire class or as to Individual members. As a condition precedent to such gradua tion the cadet is required to have success fully completed his course of study and to have fulfilled all disciplinary obligations imposed In conformity to existing regula tions. It has happened In the past, when a cadet has been found deficient In a particu lar study at his final examination, to per mit him to take another examination in that study at a date fixed by. the academic board, with the approval of the secretory of war, when his graduation has been de ferred and made to depend upon passing a successful examination. It lu considered therefore, there is no objection to deferring the graduation of a cadet who Is wanting In discipline, as is evidenced by punishment imposed bud remaining unsatisfied at the date of graduation of the class. It Is quite evident that elimination aa a means of helping promotion In the army has received a formidable setback and probably much the Binie condition exists in reference to the same proposition In the navy. General Bell, chief of staff in the army,, 'was originally Inclined to favor elimination. He has since come to the op posite view, as has beon set forth In the hearings before the house and senate mill tary committees. The secretary of war, too, has belief in the effacy of elimination which should retire army officers on a graded scale of pay. The petitions which have been circulated in. various places among army officers against congressional adoption of an elimination bill for the military establishment have had their in fluence at the capltol and there has been much communicated in other ways to representatives and senators, so that, if the proposition emerged from the military committees, It would meet with objection and be defeated. More than that, the com mittee sentiment is opposed to elimination as It is understood in those quarters. Bo that there Is no occasion for tho apprehen sion which has existed among army offi cer's of what they know to be disastrous legislation which would prove In (he end more harmful to efficiency in its demorali zation of the personnel than any good which can be Imagined of this process of riddance. Much Interest is taken in the action on the part of the secretary of war in the case of those army officers against whom the auditor for the War department has filed charges for deduction of pay on ac count of the decision, adverse to them, in the matter of exercising higher command. As is known to those who have been fol lowing this subject, congress, or at least the house, has refused to cancel by legis lation these charges Imposed by the audi tor. No further action is expected on the part of tha accounting officers of the Treas ury department and it remains a question whether the secretary of war will order the suspension of pay in the instances designated by the auditor. Tha present indications are that the War department will do nothing in the matter, pending an other attempt to obtain legislative relief, which is considered entirely Justified by the circumstances. But it Is evident that no favorable issue In that direction is possible with Mr. Hull, chairman of the house military committee, on record so emphatically opposed to the measure. In the meantime, officers who have claims which they have reason to regard as Just are discouraged from filing them with the audttor In those casea where there have been receipts of higher command pay. This has resulted In un appreciable falling off in claims on the auditor; and officers who have In their careers at any time received pay for exercising higher com mand are confronted with the prospect thut the suspension may be requested whenever their accounts are ransacked in the audi tor's office. BRYAN' AND THR SKV.VTORSHII. Some Observation on hat Did Mot Happen . Washington Post. It Is again announced that If the legis lature of Nebraska to be chosen this year shall turn up with a democratic majority on Joint ballot, Mr. William Jennings Bryan will not be a candidate for United States senator. Mr. Bryan is an engaging personality. He has a large following, and all of us must respect Iiltn for his purity of life. It would have proved fortunate for this country If Mr. Bryan had been a senator In congress tha twelve years, 1S96-190S. There his preachments would have been thrashed out in the thick of intellectual and patriotic combat. It would have saved the democratic party from some of the chips and whetstones Mr. Bryan gave It for fads the meanwhile, such as bank guarantee and that other Impossibility, Absolutely Hoys J ""Q?" Bsklny Powder pv.'' ;J fir. I! tmnrovos tho flavor ( rW.J and adds to tho - V w W ( 'VV,-? iioallhfulnoss fgf.f .M rpgCr- of too food Ky XY Absolutely Pura r' (rr ; 4HLt, v&d 3aU-o limiting material production by act of congress. Mr. Bryan has not met anyhody face to face In debate since the Fifty-third con gress. In the iienato he would have to answer and be answered by men of "hard- headed common sense." He would bo weighed In tho balance where Clay, Cal houn and Webster were weighed. He would there see the process of separating the refined gold and the base dross. A debate between Bailey and Bryan on some constitutional question Involving the lsnue of paternalism Would help mightily, and then Tom Carter might Bcrve to take B&me of tho kinks out of Mr. Bryan's statesmanship. It would be well for the country if Theodore Roosevelt were senator from New York and William J. Bryan senator from Nebraska. ; PERSONAL NOTES. Percival Lowell, the Harvard professor, who maintains that tho theory of canals on Mars Is a correct conclusion, has sailed, for Europe to lecture before the astronomi cal Institutions of England anid tho conti nent. William Carroll Reed, who was born In Vicksburg, Miss., March 13, 1810, celebrated his 100th birthday by registering to vote la Bakersfield, Cal. Somebody asked to what he attributed his health and vigor. "To the fact that I drink only the best whisky and smoke only tho best toUacco," Mr. Reed answered. Harvey Hldley, 51, a painter of Reading, I'a., read In a newspaper several days ago that his aunt, Mrs. Mary nine, had died in Troy, N. Y., and left him an estate ex ceeding $100,000. Hldley, who had been em ployed In that city for a year,' wrote to a law firm In Troy and found that the news paper article was correct. Hi A. Duncan, president of the Marine National bank of Bath, Me., has signed aa cashier or president every bill issued by the bank since it was organized, forty-four years ago. To keep the record Intact the bank officials have on several occasions, during Mr. Duncan's Illness or absence, held the bills until he was able to sign them., Mlsa Helen Gould gave $lfiO,O0O to the Girls' college in Constantinople lust year. Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt gave $1,000000 for sanitary tenements, and is supposed to have given half a million to a home for cripples at Chappaqua, N. Y. Mrs. Russell Sage gave $2,500,000 to schools and colleges, $300,000 for the reltaf of aged women and $180,000 for an industrial home at Lawrenoo, L. I. Seventy-fivo years ago W. S. H. Weltoh of Saginaw, Mich., now about 90, watched from a hilltop on the outskirts of Owosso for the Halley comet. With him were a rtimber of friends and relatives. They have passed away and Welton has not seen th comet since. But If Providence Is kind Welton will witness a similar pheno. menon on May 19. He now Is organizing a party to go to the same hill with him and see the comet scheduled for that date. H has fifty friends enrolled. ' MISERY FROM BACKACHE GOES AND OUT-OF-ORDER KIDNEYS ACT FINE Several doses regulate the Kidneys . making Backache and Bladder toouble vanish. Out-of-order kidneys act fine and back ache or bladder misery Is relieved after a few doses of Pope's Diuretic. Pains In the back, sides of loins, rheu matic twinges, debilitating headache, ner vousness, dizziness, sleeplessness, , in flamed or swollen eyelhhi, worn-out feel ing and many other symptoms of clogged, Inactive kidneys simply vanish. FrequenO, IfctUnfMl and uncontrollable urination, due to a weak or Irritable blad der is promptly overcome. The moment you suspect any kidney, bladder or urinary disorder, r feel rheu matism coming, begin taking this harm less remedy, with the knowledge that there is no other medicine, at any price, 5 c l -JJ- ! id, hi mt.f "-t "fr" f - - n-ti -I,, The "Ara-Notch" locks the collar shut in front and makes it easy to put on and take off. 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Srnnrt Set. "Touch one hair of that lady's head and you will answer with your life!" said the hero, striking a perfectly defenseless atti tude. "Gee!" hissed the villain, "and a new set of puffs would only cost $7. Why go to extremes?" Cleveland Leader. Stubh I notice your wife doesn't, wear her MW-button gown to church now. renn No; it was too embarrassing. Every time a button turned up on the collection plate the parson glanced at her.- Boston Courier. "The Junior partner wants to see youv right away." announced the bookkeeper.! "1 guess it's tho bounce for yours." f "Nix," responded the office hoy. "Ha only wants to find out what new players have been signed." Washington Herald. Haughter But I. don't intend to marry yet; 1 want to study. Mother Absurd: The men will only think lens of you In the end if you know much. Daughter Oh, now, mamma! You always expect other men to be like papa! Boston Transcript. Uncle Wclby Gosh wag painting a ruda sign over his shop door, and the neigh borhood boys were Jeering him for his lack of skill. ."Hoys," he asked, pleasantly, "do you think you can beat it?" "Betcher life we kin." "Then beat It!" he thundered, starting at them with his paint brush. Chicago 1 1'lDUIlO, 1 2! THE INSURGENTS CHARGE, Boston Transcript. , , " Insurgents to right of him, Insurgents1 to left of hi in, lnsurgenta In front of hint Volleyed and thundered; Still In his seat he sat, titlll Uncle Joo atood pat, Haying not this nor that- While tha world, wooderod. , :. There at his lofty post ' Like some gray voiceless boa , While half that rabid boat i- ' itose to aery mm. All of the long night Uinougli There ho sat grim to View- : Watching tho faithful fW , Who (still stood by him. Stormed at by shot and arhslk Unmoved he lot them yeUi . Hearing his own deatb-kiuiu Many times sounded. Ills not to reaaon wh. His but to sit on hlgU. Viewing the battle lilgh Quito unnstounded. .' Deep In hla heart he knew Aldrlch would sen him through, I'ayne would be faithful, too, Whoever blundered. So ho Just sat there dumb, Waiting for hWp to come, Possibly thinking some, Wliile the world wondered. J- made anywhere else in the world, which will effect ao thorough aad prompt a cure, aa a fifty-cent treatment of Pape's Diuretic, which any druggist can supply. This unusual, preparation goes direct to the out-of-order kidneys, bladder and urinary system, cleaning, healljig and strengthening these orgnni arfl Viands, and completes the cure before youy realize It. ' ' ' A few days' treatment with Pape's Diuretic meatus clean, active, healthy kid neys, bludder and urlrtury organs ai"1 you feel fine. Your physician, pharmacist, banker or any morcantlle agency will tell you that Pape, Thompson & Pape, of Cincinnati, k a large and responsible medicine concern, thoroughly worthy of your confidence. Accept only Pape's Diuretic fifty-cent treatment from any drug store any where In the world. NOTCH Cluett, Peabody 6c Co., Maker l'JP"T" If ARA- A .- - j