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6V . 'HIE HKE: OMAHA, WKDNT.SDAY. MAliCII .in, 10tf. Tins' omaiia Daily Bee: FOUNDED fcT EDWARD ROSK WATER. ICTOIt ROSKWATEK. EDITOR. Fnlml at Ointbt postofflce eacor.d elaaa mailer. TERMS OP 8UBSOK1PTION. Inl1r Pea (Including- Sunday), pr weeVWa Illr M (without Sunday), r" wk.11 Ialljr (without Sunday), on year. .14 "J Laily Iw and flundar. ana yar 00 JJKUVKKED BT CARRIER. Kvenlha; Fea (wl'hotrt Sunday), par weak e Kvenln Ie (with Sunday), per wk...l1f Hundar Be. ona year J Bafurtar Boa. ona rear , A4drs all eomplalnts ft Irree-ularltlee In delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha Tha Pm ftulldlns South Omaha Twnty-fourth and N. Council niuffn U fcott Street Mncoln m Little Rullrllnr. Chlnaao IM Marqwtte Building. New York-Rooms nOl-1102 No. 51 Weat Thirty-third Street. . Waehlnfton 758 Fourteenth Street N. W. CORRESPONDENCE!. Communlratlnna relating to- newa and editorial matter ahould be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Apartment. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, eapree or postal order payable to Tha Bea Piihllehlng Company. Only -pent atampa received In payment f mall accounts. Peraonal cheeka. except on Omaha or eaetern exchange, not accepted. STATEMENT OT CIRCXTt.ATION. Btate of Nebraska, Dougla Connty. : OaorreV R. Tsachuck, treasurer of Tha Bea Publishing Ompany. being duly worn, aaye that the actual number of full and complete eoplee of Tha Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bea printed during; tha month of February. J 110. waa aa roiiowsi 1 43.1 40 tl .70 It 49.800 IT 48,80 II... 40,S0 II 49,770 14 41.M0 It... 4S.S90 tl 43,070 II 40,040 14 48,010 li 4a,ao II 43,440 IT 41,700 II.......... 43,070 t 43.800 4S.ST0 4 MT0 1 48,080 41.T40 T.... 4UM ,0S0 4a,sio it a,eo 11 44.704 II.. UM II 4U4 14 Total 1.1S9J60 Returned! eopieo. ........ ....... . ,sao Nat total i,U.70 Dally arerae 40,4M , OBOJvOB B. TESCHUCK. Treasurer. Bubaertbad In my preeence and awora ta before ma thla 14th day of February, Hit). AOBBT HUNTER, Notary Public. sjfcaertkeva learlaa; the city teat porarily iheall kav Tata Baa aaallee) te then. Addaeaa will ha akaaga aa oftcm aa reaeeted. It la a ten to one shot that the Har vard students will call that 45-year-old millionaire freshman "Grandpa." It the game of foot ball aa played in Australia is not dangerous. It ahould travel by some other name. ' But the month of March la not over yet. A dozen lions may be lurking in the pigeonholes of the weather factory. We have no Mount Etna in thla country, but we have- Pittsburg,1 Al bany, Jackson, Miss., and congress for substituted , The old adage, "Open your purse and mouth cautiously," has not be come obsolete, however much it may be neglected. " ' Wanted By an English bishop, a word which will ' completely express ono'a feelings when be hits his thumb With the hammer. If the final decision of the Browns ville affair depends on a dog, it is time to settle the whole matter, even if we have to kill the dog. The statement comes from New York that women are to blame for the high price of eggs. What, are they wearing eggs on their hats? The South Carolinian who dynamited his land Instead of plowing it la orig inal to Bay the least, but it aavora too much of Black Hand methods. Of. course, no slur is Intended , in the assertion of Prof. Lowell that the Inhabltanta of Mara are intelligent or ganisms, but not at all like men. And now the state of Mississippi has unearthed a bribery acandal Just aa "Uncle Jim" Cordon had challenged the admiration of the world to h(a stats. Tho St. Louis policemen who put out a fire which had caught in a sky scraper Easter hat by trampling cer tainly had the courage of their convic tions, i . Now that several sailors have been killed in explosion on the Charleston, it is time for another long string of magazine articles depicting the ineffi ciency of out navy. Captain Klein, sentenced for graft Ing In Pittsburg, sends out Easter postal carda bearing these words, didn't help build the state capltol." Ono point In his favor. It begins to look as though fire in surance companies as well as Ufa in aurance companies are making a point of examining people's pocketbooks aa a' precautionary measure. Omaha appreciates the words of praise showered by Wyoming wool men, but it would appreciate them much more if tho Wyoming wool clip were all marfrtted through Omaha as it should be. If tho dental member of the Omaha Water board ia fully equipped to tell ua all about water purification, why waste taxpayers' money by Bending 1,600 miles for a representative of. the Marino hospital? The discussion of the queer things about tho dog pound recalla that it la oomo time since Omaha has had an ag Itatlon for musiling tho dogs. If any local dealers have an overaupply of dog mustles on hand another conveni ent dog scare might bo arranged. Democratic Backsliding. Tha Kentucky state senate, by a vote of 17 lo 17, defeated tha resolution to rat ify the propoad lncone tax amendment to tha federal conetltutlon. Thua Ken tucky la the thl'd aouthern state to throw Ita effort agalnat thla moat equitable plan Of taxation. Georgia first, Virginia ceo ond and Kentucky third Mr. Bryan's Commoner. It is not that the throe states al ready rejecting the incomo tax amend ment are southern atatca that is sig nificant, but that they are democratic states, and by thla action are repudi ating and trampling under foot a plank of the Denver platform aup posed to be binding on all good demo crats, both aa to what It contains and to what it omits. Certain northeast ern states, more particularly New York and the New England states, where wealth is so concentrated that the proposed income tax would fall with added burden aa compared with other states, were naturally expected to oppose the amendment, but the democratic Btatos of the south have no auch excuse. Kentucky, however, 'has been recalcitrant on other occasions when It has refused to take Mr. Bryan'a advice, notably when he trav eled all the way to ita capital two years ago to tell the democrats In the legislature whom to chooBe for United States senator. Georgia and Virginia have ordinarily kept in line, and why they ahould fall to accept the income tax ia not clear. This much ia certain, however, that if the Incomo tax amendment is lost it will be because of democratic backsliding. Insurance Investigation in New York. The vigorous investigation of al leged insurance irregularities in New York state by State Superintendent of Insurance Hotchkiss la developing much interesting material. Like the life insurance investigation of several years ago, it develops that a case of securing desired legislation at the hands of the New York assembly was tho source of trouble. When it ia necessary for an insurance company to buy influence in order to gain a hearing the company itself, although not to be censured the less, can not be Justly held as the only culprit. New York state is not to be taken as a model for civic morals, If we read current official report rightly. A low atandard of civic duty has been dis covered in public service in that state during the last few years and dis closure seems to have but little de terring effect The life insurance ir regularities of a few years ago, which were thoroughly aired and properly, punished, have been apparently no warning to other , companies doing business in the state. A regular, sys tem of retainers fees between insur ance companies and certain members of the legal, and political professions have apparently obtained. The Allds bribery case, still before thevetate sen ate, "bids fair to be eclipsed by these fire insurance bribery, cases. ( Every effort possible should be made to as certain the truth and a punishment ahould be meted out to the culprits ef fective enough to put. a' stop' to all such transactions hereafter. Mount Etna; Tho recent volcanic activity of Mount Etna in Sicily during the last week has naturally caused consterna tlon on that little island. Although this is a very different sort of an eruption from that of Vesuvius, which occurred a few years ago, yet it bids fair to do much damage. Instead of emitting ashes, smoke, hot cinders and sulphur, Etna ia rolling molten rock down its slopes in great broad atreama. acorchlng. burning and de vastating everything in the way, One would think that the people on thla island would become discontented because of the earthquakes and erup tiona which have visited it, but, like the dwellers on the mud flats of the rivers Of this country, they flee for safety when it is necessary, and- then return again, rebuilding their houses and places of business and go to work. It la apparently impossible to dlscour age them and they cling to their homes on the island the same as they have done for thousands of .years. Just Vhat the earth hides deep be low Ita surface that such eruptions should be continually taking place ia not known. . Sclentista have told ua that if we were to pierce the earth's crust for a distance of seventy-five miles we would find rock formations dleaDDearlng and Ita constituent ele ments molten , or perhaps gaseous. Some go further and say that the eruptions of volcanoes are simply the escape of some of the interior com position of the earth through caverns whereby it gains access to the out side. But these explanations are purely theoretical for lack of abso lute data on which to base conclu sions. But we do know that In cer tain localities over the surface of the earth there are vent-like formations from which come destruction and des olation and that Italy, Martinique and Sicily, especially, have been great sufferers from such manifestations in all ages. Panama and Costa Rica. Unless pending negotiations fall Secretary Knox will be able to per form a aervlco of great Importance to Panama and Coata Rica by a peaceful settlement of the boundary line sep arating the two countries. This ques tion of boundary dates back over a hundred years and has been the cause of much trouble and disaffection to both. There Is no Hi feeling over tho matter now except Impatience on tho part Of the two states that it has been allowed to drag along for such a length of tlmo.' The history of thia whole question, incidentally, affords a good Idea of the possible beneficent application and also the limitations of arbitration or mediation between sovereign states. But this la not the first time these two states have tried to settle the boundary dispute by arbitration. Alfonso XII of Spain tried it in 1886 and later President Loubot attempted It, but neither reached a permanent solution, and as a result the treaty drawn up at the time was mutually ignored. Tho surveys in both cases were Incomplete and inaccurate and generally unsatisfactory to all con cerned, when Panama was a part of Columbia, as well aa since 1903, when it gained Ita independency. It Is rather interesting to note that all efforts made to settle this trouble within recent years have been of a friendly nature, although some diffi culty was experienced shortly after the year 1903, when the United States minister to Panama, Mr. Barrett, at tempted to effect a settlement. But conditions are now different and the whole situation is to be placed before the chief Justice of the supreme court of the United States by Secretary Knox and finally settled, maps, records, surveys and former treaties being the evidence used as a basis for decision. There is little doubt but that thla course will be satisfactory, since present negotiations are volun tary, friendly and are to be final. Justice Brewer. Tho sudden death of Justice Brewer of the United Statea supreme court naturally shocks tho whole country, but more particularly the people of thla section, because he was not only appointed to the bench from our sister state of Kansas, but was also assigned to the circuit made up of the states of the middle-west In a word, Justice Brewer, more than any other present member of that high tribunal, was re garded as a representative of the great agricultural region of the Mississippi and Missouri valleys. He was cred ited with being more intimately ac quainted with conditions prevailing in this part of the country, and with look ing at the big questions constantly coming up for adjudication, from a broader point of View because of thia fact. Justice Brewer's great legal ability was universally conceded, although some of the decisions in which he had leading part have provoked severe criticism and dissent. Inthe famous Nebraska maximum rate cases Justice Brewer really formulated the decision adverse to the state by hla preliminary grant of an injunction which was affirmed on appeal to the supreme court, and in so doing seemed to show a distinct leaning toward the railroad's side. The law as he laid It down in those cases, however, has . since been Utilized to bring about more effective railway Regulation and will probably help'pave the way for complete asser tion of government control. I From another standpoint Justice Brewer occupied a unique position on the bench in being associated for many years with his uncle, - Justice Field, serving as colleagues In what is ac claimed tho highest court of Justice known to history. As a member of tho famous Field family, which gave to the world tho builder of tho Atlan tic cable, a recognized leader of re ligious thought and two great Justices of the supreme court. Justice Brewer has added luster to the name. A paid orator Imported from Colo rado, whose chief asset is that he Is a friend of Judge Ben B. Lindsey, is to be let loose on Nebraska to tell us what we are missing by not conferring suffrage on women. A reading of Judge Lindaey's story of political cor ruption in Colorado, where women vote, would lead to the conclusion that Nebraska without woman suffrage is still In better condition than Colorado with it. The pioneers of Nebraska laid out the roads on good liberal lines, with a far-sighted view to the future, and made the main roads wide enough to accommodate all the traffic likely to be developed. The change from horse vehicles to motor cars ls'not only mak ing more use of the roads, but also using more of the roads. The orlg lnal road-makers In Nebraska did not commit many serious blunders. And now we are told that the Wash ington filtration plant cost 3, 400,000 and that when St. Louis figured on similar" equipment the estimate called for $2,000,000. The $6,600,000 bonds which we voted to buy the Omaha water plant are evidently only starter. Champ Clark, the democratic floor leader of the house, Bays that in hla opinion a nonpartisan speaker is far off. Champ would like to be speaker but he knows that he would have hard time pretending to be a nonpar tlsan. What would interest Nebraska in conservation more than any other one thing would be soma feasible plan for conserving atmospheric heat and mois ture and delivering it on order as wanted at any period of the year. It U reported thai Count Bonl Is now starting negotiations with the morganatic widow of King Leopold with matrimony In view. Well, any one who could keep Leopold In lino ought to he able to handle Bonl. Mayor "Jim" touches a tender spot In Lincoln when he talks about remov ing tho atato capltol. Hero is where Lincoln claims a vested interest con stitutionally exempt from Invasion. The chances are that there will also be considerable figuring done in Great Britain to make it appear thai the House of Lords la to be "revised upward." A pottery Saved ICtm. P.altlmore American. The aerate of the United Siatea has In-d'-ed falltn on rarlous times when the pre siding officer of that august body had to call hlincelf to order for aneexlng at It. The Living; Should Help Some. St. Louis Globe-Democrat One county In Nebraska haa In hand 127,000 for good roa'la derived from an In heritance tax. Rut la It In order for the living to rely on tho dead to keep the common hlphways In order? Shlalna; la Ileflecteil Light. Pittsburg Dispatch. . Hefore very long every man who wlahes to bulk lnr?e In tho publlo aye will be tak ing a eteamer to meet Roosevelt Then It may become ao common that tho really prominent man will bo the ono who stays at home. Cbeaty I.tahta In Eclipse. Cleveland Plain Dealer. We are told that diamonds hava made an other advance. But who weara diamonds nowadays? Only one minstrel troupe re mains In existence; the modern hotel clerk Is a quiet gentleman anna glare and glitter, and oven an Astor doesn't hesltata to une paste. Time Stretcklna; tk Perapectlve New York World. Tho death of the "youngest veteran" of the civil war at the seasoned age of 62 Illustrates how far Into the paat the period of tho rebellion haa receded. We are to day as distant In point of years from tha firing of Sumter and tho call for volun teers as the country was In Jackson's sec ond administration from the end of the revolutionary war. What Do You Think of Tklsf New York Tribune. Tha negro Pullman car porter, who. when arrested for Speeding his own auto mobile, said ha was In a hurry, as he had an Important real estato enterprise pend ing, disclosed another causa of tha In creased cost of living. It Is to be devoutly hoped that tips will not follow proportion ately the upward movement in prices of food stuffs. That would be rubbing It In, t Back to the Vacant Lot. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Why not return to the vacant lot? Tha idea of cultivating unoccupied urban prop erty Is now many yeara old, but It haa never been developed to Its full possibilities. Potato" PIngree first popularised tha plan; others have urged it since. Cultivate the vacant Jots. Back to tha soil is a good slogan. If one can get no farther back than the first unoccupied place of city land go there with apade and hoe. Tho harvest comes not only In what one gathers from the ground, but In Increased health and a sense of satisfaction that one haa wrested something tangible from na ture and become at last a real producer. CAN THIS BE MR. BRYANT Aaaamea Hopeful Tona Far front Home. Chicago Inter Ocean. . . The report of Mr. . Bryan's speech at Lima, Peru, published, in the ourrent issue of the Commoner, ia .calculated, to give the publlo a start of surprise. It suggests that her tha outh Ameri can climate haa av wonderful effect on Mr. Bryan'a point of view or there la another Mr. Bryan who , has been managing to conceal himself successfully from publlo notice in this country. It waa the most cheerful speech 1 There waa. nothing at all the matter with tha United States in that speech. v He said it was a great country. Here is a specimen of the noise tha eagla emitted down in Peru when his tall feathers were lightly tweaked: ; 1 There Is mora altruism In tha United States than anywhere elaa in the world; the people of tha United States are doing mora In an Unselfish way for the benefit Of the human race than any other people. If this soems boastful, I beg you to put tha statement to the teat and you will find that there is scarcely a place In the world that our people hava not already unselfishly Invaded, with no other pur noaa than to raise the level of mankind and to carry help and happiness to. those who hava been less fortunate than our selves. Up In thla country Mr. Bryan's general tona Is one of warning and unpleasantness. No sooner does he appear than everybody knows that something's wrong. It Is a waste of time to look to htm for words of ohaer and consolation. Something Is not, only wrong when Mr, Bryan heaves In sight with all his ora torical sails bellying In tha braese, but something haa got to ba done and done quickly. If It Isn't, tha ship of state, re publican institutions, humanity itself, are morally certain to founder in a very short time. Now it Is Imperialism that must ba gotten rid of at all costs if we want to escape Instant destruction. Now it Is the croaa of gold- that must be knocked down and carted out before we get crucified on It. Now It is the protective tariff that must ba chucked overboard on the instant or ha won't guarantee results. . Many people apeak of him aa "Old Dr. Bryan," because they instinctively asso ciate him with the announcement of aotna old and reliable or some perfectly new dis ease which can only be cured by care fully soaking the mind every morning and night In tha solution he proposes. -Why oan't Mr. Bryan give his own coun try a little of his cheerfulness? Why re serve all his optimism for the Peruvians, who cannot appreciate it properly, having had no opportunity to realise the lovely contract It affordar Why not turn himself loose up here some time and admit that the and of tha republic la not eternally bobbing In sight? We really can't see why an orator, who radiates cheerful patriotism down In Pertir South America, can't do the same thing in Peru, Inddlana, I Our Birthday Book March SO, 1S10. Oeorga W. Clabaugh, vice-president of tha Omaha Oaa oomany and manager of tha local gas plant, waa born March SO. 1859, in Cumberland, Md. Ha was In tha Wyom ing cattle business In the 80s and went Into tha gaa bualnesa In 1H90, in Philadelphia, coming to Omaha shortly after. Ernest O. Harwood, of Harwood Har wood, real eatate, with offices In Tha Bee bulhltng, la IS yeara old today. He waa born In Fullerton, Neb., and was on tha road as traveling salesman for several Omaha conoerna before engaging In tha real estate bualnesa flva yeara ago. David C. Dodda, railway mall Clark, waa born March 90, ISO. at Tranquility, O. Ha worked for Ftoooo Brothers, fruit dvalers, and tha Deere Harvester company prev ioua to entering tha government eervlca in 1MB. Around New York SUpplea aa tba Carreat af Ufa aa Been ta tba threat Aaaertoaa Metropolis froaa Stay to Say. All the races represented in tha hetero geneous population of tho Battary district of Now York participated In the funeral of Ttattery Dan" Finn last Saturday. There were turbanod Turks and Syrlana, Egyp tians with dinky caps. Chinamen, Japa, French, Germans and Irish and a host of Americana prominent In tha political Ufa of tho big city. Twelve carrlogea were filled with flowers, there were two bands, vehicles of unknown number and marching delegations from many socletlea, constitut ing a throng that must hava given the Hibernian aoul unbounded Joy on Its on ward flight "Battery Dan" waa a char acter typical of hla environment. The nick name defined the territory over which he reigned aa a political lord. His methods wero of the rough house order, the only kind possible In that section, but beneath a rough exterior waa a heart that re sponded to the needs of the unfortunates of ail races-. - He had been a soldier In tha civil war, a volunteer fireman, base ball fan, a fisherman, a booster of New York, but a knocker of tha police. Though with out legal training, but possessing an abundance of rough and ready common sense, he "was appointed by Mayor Mo Clellan a magistrate of the section in which he lived and died. Ills doings on the bench reflected the characteristics of tho man. "Battery Dan'a plain, outspoken manner of administering Justice caused him to ba Idolized by his friends and nelghbora. Ha always said that tho weak and oppressed needed a friend at court, and he was going to help them. Ha soon became fa mous for his advice to policeman. While many of hla actions had a humorous as pect, it was never denied tht t ha mixed much common sense and knowledge of human nature with his decisions. An underslied boy waa once arraigned before him by a 200-pound policeman. "What Is the trouble?" asked "Battery Dan," peering over his glasses. "Your honor," said the policeman, "I ar rested this boy at Canal and Lafayette streets for interfering with the police com missioner's automobile. He was driving a heavy team and tha automobile was unable to get by." "Horrible!" said tho magistrate. "Young man, do you realise tha helnousnesa of your offense?" Sobbing, the youth said he did. "Well," continued "Battery Dan," "hein ous as It la, I am going to discharge you. But I warn you that it ever again you are brought Into court on a Blmtlar charge I shall deal with you severely. I shall sen tence you to tha Waldorf-Astoria for ten days with a muzzle on. I will teach you who owns the city." One . afternoon when the Giants were playing at the. Polo grounds -Magistrate Finn, who was an Inveterate "fan," ad journed early to sea the game. Walking down Third avenn with his probation offi cer, Barney O'Connor, he met some friends of a prisoner he had held. They pleaded with him to accept bail for the man. While he was meditating what to do a patrol wagon filled with prisoners being transferred from the Morrisanla court to the Harlem prison came along. The prisoner whose friends had interested the magistrate was among the number. "Stopl" shouted Magistrate Finn,, run ning into tha street and waving his black thorne cane.. "Where la tha prisoner?" ha aaked, reading the name from tba paper that had Just been handed him. Taking the prisoner from the van he went to a nearby saloon, where ha announced he would bold court. - Everyone in the saloon doffed his hat while the accused man waa arraigned. Then tha ball bond was made out and the prisoner formally discharged, and the magistrate invited everyone to hava a drink. f- "It doesn't hurt to do an act of kindness to a ' fellow man when it Is within our power," he said. Eighty-seven poultry dealers In New York City have been indicted for a conspiracy to fix high prices in tho market and share pro rata profits thereby obtained. They are charged with preventing competitive dealers from obtaining stalls In the mar kets to dispose of their produce. The ac cused poulterers are prosecuted under the provisions of a state law aimed against unlawful combinations in restraint of trade. The trial is likely to be an eye opener for persons seeking first-band in formation as to the Inoreaaed cost of living. According to a verdict brought In by six men sitting as a Jury before Justice of the Peace James H. Belethe, In Morrlstown, N. J "damn" is not an oath or a "swear word," such as Is prohibited fcy the vice and immorality act of New Jersey. Surrogate David Young, who was on trial for saying that Mrs. Nellie FItaherbert of Dover "talked Ilka a damn fool," acknowl edged ha had used the expression, but his counsel Insisted that such an expression waa not swearing. The Jury agreed with him and acquitted Young. Mrs. Fltzherbert testified that she was in Mr. Young's office In Morrlstown re cently to get a copy of a will in which she was Interested. She read the copy, and told tha aurrogate that-n was not a true copy. He offered to bet her a dollar that it waa a true copy. She took the bet and put up her dollar. Tho copy was compared with tha original and it waa shown that in the copy the Word "not" waa left out, completely alter ing one of the provisions of the will. She won her bot. Later Mrs. Fltzherbert vlsiud Mr. Young's office again and taunted him upon losing the bet. She told him that he "was an ngni, out in tha wrong place.' became angry, and aald: "You talk like a damn fool." Ha Mr. Young said that he had great prov ocation, and merely wished to add em phasis to an assertion. Tha expression was merely an adjective lptended to convey tha Idea that Mrs. FItaherbert talked not only Uke a fool, but like a very big fool like very much of a fool. He did not mean tnat she was a condemned fool. 1 They If Oraw, Baltimore American. According to experta government seeds are getting batter. No longer do ououm mB vuiuo up wnen aquashea were expected, and no longer does tha beet make its appearance when tho carrot was looked for. It la safe now to plant gov eminent com without getting barley or oats and Uncle Sam's graaa seed no longer produoea weeds. Thla will ba welcome nawa -a those who go to congressmen for ineir seeds. 'Everybody Loalagr," New York World. According to ona of tha heads of the racaing trust, pack era' proflta hava de clined beeauae of tha higher price of meat. as far as can ba discovered everybody u losing and nobody gaining by tba Inoreaaed coat. Tha altuatlon would ba Gilbert lan If it were not eo distinctly serious to con- aumars fj f iiUitiau BAKED FOOD, i i r rv ay cw fresh, good, Wholesome, si n t l economical. ucauuy M ir v-y tSo Atom Ho Lima PERSONAL NOTES. An English witness in a local court ad dressed tha magistrate aa "your lordship" and the magistrate ordered htm to "cut that out." If the United States authorities at New York aucceed in convicting the maccaronl smugglers, thoy will probably feel like put ting feathers in their hats. Dven If the Now York heiress who Is ad vertising for a aoul mate were to find him, tha chances are that the authorities would not let him out of the asylum. A Pittsburg grafter Implicated sixty of his pals, because after his conviction they refused to provide for his wife and family. Ha now doubts that there Is honor among thieves. Chief Weather Forecaster Moore boldly classes the ground hog as a fakir, while John T. Roberts of Darlcy, Pa., defends the shadow prophet as a sure thing that la, as sure as the official weather forecast for March 4, 1909. That man Darby la an offensive knocker. Both Low will be tha new president of the New York Republican club, succeeding Robert C. Morris. A committee appointed by President Morris to help welcome Mr. Roosevelt includes Attorney Oeneral Wick ersham, Henry W. Taft, Senators Root and Depew, Timothy I. Woodruff and William Barnes, Jr. Lee Lynch of Masan, Okl., who weighs 320 pounds, Is the baby of his family. He Is a clerk in a general store conducted by his father. It Is said that when measuring cloth Lynch does not make use of a yard stick, but simply stretches the goods across the top of hla trousers, it being just a yard from one suspender button to the other. Mr. Rockefeller doesn't have to save up money Just because ho has promised to en dow the biggest foundation ever. He has given $50,000 to the Georgia School of Tech nology In Atlanta. The gift Is made with out conditions, but it is understood that Mr. Rockefeller would be glad to have It used In constructing a building for the Young Men's Christian association. Moonlight larks are nearly as perilous to married women in Kansas City as joy rides and hotel suppers. A watchful horse doctor came upon his bettor half and a strange man snuggling under a park tree. The carving act was omitted because tha strange man saw the horse doctor first and didn't wait to exohanga greetings. But an up-to-date coiffure waa badly mussed In tha subsequent proceedings. Pittsburg; and Ita Grafters. Philadelphia Record. Pittsburg shows a disposition to do Its full duty, and this Involves tha punish ment of the glvera as well aa tha takers of bribes. In a prior scandal the city sent railroad president and a banker to the penitentiary, and it will fall far short of Its duty If it shall not send half (a dozen bankers to prison for making a purse of $102, D00 for councilman In consideration of getting the city deposits. Gas Service 66 Request Maintenance:V- Recently we quoted prices of maintning standard . axe and single, mantle lamps. !) Thia referred to display lighting, lighting of stores, shops, offices, factories, etc. What we want to impress on EVERYONE is that we wish to do the same for every consumer we have, right in their own home. For this service we have established a " Request Maintaina.nce,, for your home, by which lamps may always be kept in perfect repair. , It is a system PART of which is "Up to you." Let us explain. Omaha Gas Compa - r w "ID L A. 1. 1210-1211 GUCKERT a IIcDONALD, Tailors Wo are now displaying a ties for spring and summer wear. Tour early Inspection is Invited, as it will afford an opportuni of choosing from a large number Wo Import in "single suit lengths," and a suit cannot be d ipi; cated. An order placed now may bo 317 South Fifteenth Street Y , gm, itl.. 1 1 HaJBJ ajsayssas1 J'HfT Tf 1 POINTED PLEASANTRIES. "What are the degrees of a stingy man's married life?" "I suppose they nre matrimony. " parnl mony, testimony and alimony." LtuHUnora American. Stella I wouldn't marry tho best man on earth. -' Knlcker Itave I t J you to? Harper's Bazar. "Here," solemnly ald the Bostonlan, solemnly ald the Bostonlan, Varren fell." pllod the gentleman from Cht Ing a speculative eye up anCr perpendicular of Bunker Hill uoneraj warren leu. "4r.?,f VArtll.iH Ik. vaii cago, runnlr duwn the per monument. "Mum have been a swell sub ject for a moving picture act" Puck. Teacher of Bible Class Why were Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego cast Into the fiery furnace?" Small Boy My papa says It was because they were Insurgents." Chicago Tribune. Evangelist Young man, you are on tha road to hell! Reprobate Glad I ran across you on this line. Aro you going or coming? Cleveland Leader. "Judging from the way you play whist, I would say that you are a democrat." "Why so?" "Because you always do the wrong thing at the right time for your opponent."-" Judge. "My son, do you ever think of providing for a rainy day?" "Sure, pop; I never forget to get a rain check." Baltimore American. Judge What do you do during tho week? Witness Nothing. . Judge And on Sunday? Witness I take a day off. Jut) e Oh, 1 see. What salary does the city pay you? Llpplncott s. THE WONDER IS. Baltimore Sun. The wonder is that all the wor:0. bo good and sweet, The captains and tho kings who rulu, the people that we meet; The trouble Is, we want so much we can not feel content With Just the portion of the dream that unto us Is tent. The wonder Is we cannot see beyond our narrow strife TV... V f I, hn.nl..a hlnm I. a , ,11, U II J V. 111.' UUUIIUIG.S U IV W 1 . , fills the vales of life; The trouble Is, we do not care to kneel and look around us. Upon the living lovelinens with which tha , i days have bound us. The wonder Is we take our walls of care for all that Ilea ' Around us In the world that. lifts to wide and starry skies; The trouble In, the selfish will that burns us and consumes us, While everywhere the light of love in vain' with lovo Illumines us. The wonder la that in this world we've heart for anything, Except to ilHten and to learn, whllo gray Grief folds her wing, And muHlc chimes, and tinkling rhymes and fairy bells awake The hearts of love that give and take for sake of lovlng's sake. The trouble Is we do not know how much of goodness goes Updh the tide of teeming Ufa that round leaps and flows; With beauty here and beauty there, and God's Impartial will To save us harmless from the hate that haunts and hounds us still. 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