Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, April 02, 1910, EDITORIAL, Page 14, Image 14
14 THE BEK: OMAHA. SATURDAY. APRIL 1910. The umaha Daily Per rOfNDFD BY F.nWARD ROfEWATKU. VICTOR ROSE WATER, KMTOR. Kntered at Omaha postufflca as second class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Bee (tnoludlns; Sunday), per Dally Bee (without Riinday), per week. I' Dally Bee (without Hunday), one year..4J0 Dally Bee and Sunday, one year 600 DEL1VKRKD BY CARRIER. Kvenlnf Be (without Sunday), pr week.Rc Evenlna Bra (with Sunday), per week.... Me Hunday Bee. one year J oJ Halurday Bee, one year ' Addreae all complaints of trrerularltlrs In deliver to City Circulation Department. OKFICK3. Omaha The Bee Bulldln. South Omaha Twenty-fourth and N. Council Bluffs IB Hoott Ptreet. Lincoln 41 Little Building. Chlcaa-o IMS Marquette Hullding New York Rooms lKl-llOS No. H West Thirty-third Ptreet. Waahlngton 725 Fourteenth Street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and editorial matter ahould be addressed. Omaha Dee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, eprej or postal order pavable to Tha Ree Publishing Company. Only 1-cent atampa reoelyed In payment of mall acoounta. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraaka. Douglas County, as : Oaorfe B. Tarhuck. treaaurer of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly worn, says that the actual number of full and complete coplea of The Dally, Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of March, 110, was aa follow a: 1 45,770 1 49,870 t 43.810 17 43,110 $...,, 49,700 IS 43,030 4. 49,080 19 43,090 6 48360 20 41,800 41,SO0 21 43,140 7 48,940 SI 48,880 43,790 - 3t 48,490 48,710 24 48,000 10. 43,160 26 48,690 11 48,810 1 48,630 12 48,980 27 41,400 13 41,700 J 49,610 14 43,130 29 48,770 16 49,630 SO 48,410 81 48,750 Total 1,396,400 Returned copies 10,790 Net total 1,315,80 Dally average 48,441 i GEO. B. TZSCHI'CK, Treasurer. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this fflat day of March, 1910. M. P. WALKER. Notary Public. abecrlkwra learla the city teas, aorertly aeal4 kava The Be mallet ta theaa. Aadre.a will be ckil aa aftea sue ra.sted. It Is up to April to make good as the month of showers. Mount Etna is still "erupting," and with true trade union spirit Vesuvius threatens a sympathetic eruptron. Judging from the output, the demo cratic roorbach factory at South Omaha is again working overtime. No one would object to the "boy wonder" taking that trip to Venus If he would-only cay less and get busy. That athletic meet should have had a rope-throwing contest on the pro gram to give Mayor "Jim" a chance to perform. It is now suggested that instead of writing his autobiography Jack John son is to write about "Police judges I have met." The April uplift magazines are now fighting the Cannon-tnsurgent war over sgain with all the vim of a Nicar agua revolution. Take note that Nebraska's first State Conservation congress has been duly pulled off without any Plnchot Ballinger fireworks. Wonder how long it will be before eggs and pork as a possible bi-mone-tary standard will be advocated by some sage of democracy. But it does not help the crops for the weather man to say "it looks like rain." Do not haggle about appear ances,, but just turn it on. The prince of Monaco has granted a constitution to his people and there is a seven by ten celebration in that Rhode Island-like monarchy. When Omaha becomes a relay point for transcontinental aeroplane traffic it will, of course, be one of the high spots on the air line map. With the assessor and the census taker coming so closely together it will be absolutely Impossible to make the neighborhood .gossip go around. A trifle premature for the Washing ton correspondents to worry about what Theodore Roosevelt will say on his western trip this coming summer. .Summed up and boiled down, the milk In the cocoanut Is that Missouri river water tastes all right but might look better If bleached with chloride of lime. The chances are that Mississippi would get along better If it would squelch Governor Vardaman for keeps nd elevate Uncle Jim Gordon on a throne. What about enlarging the fire limits? Can It be that the hitch Is due to the aversion of some of our franchise corporations to putting more of their wires under ground? Now that a noble English woman has come to America in search of a rich American husband, our heiresses may awaken to the necessity of con tervtng America's natural resources. When Theodore Roosevelt told the Egyptian editors that he, too, was a newspaper man they ell sat up, feeling as 'tfine as B, fiddle, or something like that, and immediately started sorae- Roosevelt's Conspiracy of Silence. Whether Mr. Roosevelt has cablod Mr. Plnchot to meet him or has in vited Minister Straus to a conference, or from time to time has Interviews with distinguished Americans whom he may meet on hi9 European itinerary, we may put It down as settled that ho will not give public expression to his views on American politics or take sides In any pending political contro versies until after he gets back on American soil. It Is authoritatively announced In the current Issue of the Outlook, which parades the name of Theodore Roose velt as "contributing editor," and whose publisher is now with Mr. Roose velt's party, that Mr. Roosevelt "not only Is not expressing any opinion con cerning American politics, but that he Is not even forming any In his own mind, and will refrain from doing even the latter until sufficient time has elapsed after his return to America to enable him to become entirely familiar with the whole situation." Speaking for itself, the Outlook goes on to say that no one who knows Mr. Roosevelt would expect anything else and adds: Ho far from acting on unconsidered Impulse, as he has sometimes been charged with doing, he la not accustomed to de cide any question until all the elements necessary to the decision are before him. Then his mind acta with expanding rapidity, and when a judgment has once been reached he rarely finds reason for changing It, because all the reasons have been duly weighed before the decision. The readers of the Outlook may, there fore, snfely disregard all statements pur porting to be reports of Mr. Roosevelt's political opinion. When he Is ready, after his return, to declare his views on current political questions, whether through a public address or through the Outlook, It will be .so done that there will be no possible question aa to their authenticity. So put it down that for three months more Mr. Roosevelt will probably be freely talking about hunting In Africa, the latest In art, literature and science, European government and diplomatic intrigue and world peace, but on the subject of American politics, Cannon ism and insurgency, tariff revision and railway regulation be will maintain a' conspiracy of silence, and when, in his own time, he has his say everybody will sit up and take notice. President Taft Prefers Results. President Taft has placed a definite program of legislation before congress and, although sectional and factional interests have been the cause of much bickering and delay, yet the program steadily is making progress with but little and unimportant changes. Presi dent Taft knows that his administra tion will be finally tested by results, and with characteristic eagerness he has been pushing the forces at his com mand to keep all the party promises that have been made. He is not blind to the fact that the public has been put in a suspicious and critical attitude toward him. Although his way of do ing things may not be exactly the same as those to which the American people have been lately accustomed, that is no sign that they are not thoroughly practical. His efforts have been to the point and he has been constantly push ing to have the entire program carried out that nothing of real importance on the administrative slate may be left over for the next session. In seeking to get results President Taft has not undertaken. to be a trouble hunter, nor yet to make himself a source of contention. Because of this be has been called weak-kneed and gullible, both of which statements are without foundation in fact. Although he does not court antagonisms to his proposed measures, yet he Is steadily guiding the great federal legislative machinery and hopes to be able to stand before the people, when congress adjourns, with a finished program and promises transformed into real reform laws. Let the Nonresidents Help. The statement made by Building In spector Withnell directs attention to the need of impressing nonresident owners of Omaha property with their duty to help out in the upbuilding and beautifying of the city. Not that all of our nonresident property owners are remiss In these respects, but that the nonresidents as a class lag in enter prise behind those who are living here as part and parcel of the community Is a self-evident fact. Omaha occupies a peculiar relation to many of Its nonresident property owners who have become Interested In our city as investors, originally not from choice, but from compulsion. Many of them found it necessary to take over their holdings as security for loans, and for many years felt that they had gotten the bad end of the bargain. With tho later growth and prosperity of Dmaha, however, It has transpired that not only have the non residents come out whole on these transactions, but they are in position to reap handsome profits. This change in conditions calls for a corresponding change In the attitude of our nonresident property owners toward their investments here. Where they formerly figured simply on avoid ing loss and keeping from throwing good money after bad, It is now incum bent on them to realize that they possess really profitable Investments which can be made still more profit able by proper maintenance and im provement. It is for the nonresidents to realize also that they are full part ners in every public enterprise carried on by Omaha, sharing in the benefits and morally bound to help carry the burdens. We regret to have to say that the nonresident property owners have not in the past done their full share for Omaha as compared with the resident property owners equally interested, al though, of course, there are quite a few notable exceptions. Nearly every nonresident property owner has some one In Omaha representing him, and the Omaha agent should take upon himself to Impress his principal with a sense of proportionate responsibility for the city's future advancement. The Periodical Coal Strike. A general walkout of 300,000 coal miners In the United States, on a gen eral strike order, means that practi cally all of the bituminous coal mines of the country are shut down, with no definite assurance of starting again until a new wage scale agreement has been reached. The strike being so general presents a problem of consid erable Importance to nearly all sections of the country, but there will be no coal famine for at least sixty days, as large quantities are in storage in an ticipation of this strike, 1 The source of the trouble Is the peri odical renewal of the wage agreement between the miners and the operators, accompanied by the demand for an in crease In certain wage scales, princi pally a raise of 10 cents a ton for miners and a corresponding amount for shot flrers, together with certain im proved mining conditions. At present no signs of settlement are visible and when the miners left their work they took all their tools with them and prepared to remain "out" indefinitely. The miner contend that while the cost of living has increased 60 per cent during the last 'ten years wages have Increased only 12Vi per cent. This argument has often been advanced be fore, but Its force will appeal stronger this time to public sentiment, although not to the operators, inasmuch as the larger wage scale asked would add many thousands of dollars to the ex pense of running the mines each year. The operators , of Course, maintain that a wage increase would have to come out of the consumer. 8ince a coal minora' strike has been regularly recurring on the occasion of the annual renewal of the wage scale there Is reason to expect a peaceful set tlement, probably on a compromise basis,. Andrew Carnegie and the West.. After having spent several weeks In the west, particularly along the Pacific coast, for the benefit of his health, An drew Carnegie has returned home a full-fledged supporter of the west and a great admirer of western progresslve- "ness. He recently made the remark that the western people are larger, the western women are more beautiful, and all are better developed physically, put more into life and get more out of life than do their neighbors in the east. He declares he likes the -west and has only words of glowing prophesy for ita future growth. A man of the nature of Andrew Carnegie is naturally taken with this western country. There is a hustle and a go about it which is inspiring even to those well along in years. On every side the appearance of enter prise, the thrifty farms, the busy cities and the breezy air of the people may well appeal to him after having spent so much of his life In eastern cities, especially among the hard-grinding conditions prevalent In the higher cir cles of business effort. It is, perhaps, a western conceit that the west ex pected to have him pleased with the way we do things, but, then, we are not disappointed, for he really seemed pleased and said so openly. Our district judges are still hand ing out prize packages to friendly law yers in the form of appointments to defend Indigent prisoners at so much per out of the county treasury. This distribution of favoritism cost the tax payers last year $3,745, or more than the salaries of two deputy county at torneys. At least half of the money could be saved by commissioning a public defender to look after all those cases. The problem of finding suitable and satisfactory material for country road pavements is not a local problem, but Is worrying the authorities charged with road-building In all parts of the coun try. All agree, however, that it is worse than foolish to lay an expensive pavement on a country road and then let it go to rack and ruin for neglect to keep it In repair. Our amiable democratic contem porary is having a terrible time with "Cannonltls," which Is breaking out all over it. A few doses of spring medicine might possibly afford it some relief. n Judging from the skyrocket-like eruptions which have been taking place on the sun, the "sun dogs" are celebrating either the "return from Elba" or a safe and sane Fourth of July. Brother Castro is homesick, but he does not need to return to South America to get over it. Just send him a package of firecrackers and he will soon feel right at home. French officials are now talking war between Japan and the United States. But then, never mind so long as the United States and Japan do not talk war officially. The Canadian-United States tariff agreement has been hailed as a victory for both countries. What is the dif ference If only both are satisfied? Farmer la Olajaatle Traat. Philadelphia Bulletin. Mr. Armour's theory that 7.0U0.0OA or 1,000,000 American farmers have formed a gigantic trust to boost food prices Is Interesting. But since many previous efforts to unite farmer Into a nation-wide com bine have utterly failed, the public would like to have a little more proof before It believes In the existence of any such organisation. An Kireptlon to the Rale. Chicago News. Compulsory virtue Is not always Its own sole reward. Etghty-cent gat has proved enormously profitable to the producing company In New York. Looming l a. Pittsburg Dispatch. Nebraska has not sent Norrls' statue to the National Statuary hall yet; but he looks about as large to the congressional eye as any of that state's more regular statesmen. The, Good New War New York World. Jim Hill says the railroads need to spend $!.00,000,000 in the next six years. They ought to be glad, as a matter of economics, that the law will not let them squander the money In rebates. Will the Trust Miss Itf Indianapolis News. Members of the boxhoard trust have each been fined $2,000 for forming a combi nation In restraint of trade; but even at that there la probably a neat balance left on the profit side of the ledgr. i tblrtln "Responsibility." Brooklyn Eagle. Now cornea Mr. Armour paying that he cannot be held accountable for high prices, that the farmers are growing more and more exorbitant and that If they will be less exacting In their demands the packers will reduce their rates to correspond, and the conaumer will benefit accordingly. Of course, the farmers will enter a dlKclalmer, specific or general, declining to assume re sponsibility, and more or lees vigorously resenting the soft Impeachment. Inci dentally, they might select as a defender the enterprising agriculturist who recently took one of his prize porkers to market In an automobile . How much he asked for It waa not stated. Just Sentences for Rebatera. Philadelphia Bulletin. The confession of a steamship line man ager In New York that he has been guilty of rebating In conjunction with certain railroads, ' has been followed by the impo sition of fines amounting to KOOO. This form of penalty may have been Justified by the facts brought before the court. Yet while subordinate officials who merely obey the orders of those In power over them should perhaps not be too severely punished, there Is a growing belief that the surest way to stop lawbreaklng rebates on the part of common carriers Is to put tha really responsible offenders In Jail. The statute on the subject Is now so plain that nobody can plead Ignorance of it. Congressman Norrls' Fame. Washington Times. Norrls of Nebraska has become on of the Institutions of Washington and has been made to know that he has acquired real fame. One of the Washington sightseeing autos was slowly wending Its way about tha capital the other day. The guide caught sight of Norrls walking on the sidewalk, close by. "There, ladles and gentlemen,' 'he said, "Is the famous Insurgent, Norrls of Ne braska. He's the man that kicked 'Uncle Joe' Cannon oft the rulea committee in tha house the other day. You can't keep those Nebraska people down. They're al ways breaking out in some new spot." Whereupon, there were cheers from the sightseers, and, while Norrls blushed Ilk a red, red rose, the women In the crowd gave him tha chauteuqua salute. Then ha hastened on lest they try to Hobaonlze him. j DEMAND FOR SQUARE DEAL. Premature Criticism of President Taft'a Administration. The World Today. The difficulties which lie In a succession to any popular hero are obvious. Presi dent Taft followed the most universally popular man America ever knew. Different In temperament, he Inherited Issues which his predecessor had precipitated and a congress which was only too ready to taste the sweets of Independence after six years of discipline. The great financial In terests looked to him for a "safe" ad ministration; people at large looked to him for a maintenance of Rooseveltlsm. He had no political organization other than that of the republican party Itself, and this organization waa already plotting rebellion against the policies on which the pejpie had supposed they had delivered a final verdict. Such difficulties required for their solution something more than a Judicial temperament, a sunny smile, and a mem bership In the corporation of Yale. And we believe that he will yet show himself to possess such needed abilities. To condemn Mr. Taft for failing to be like Mr. Roosevelt Is akin to the ridiculous. Nobody can be like Mr. Roosevelt. To claim that the present administration Is running contrary to the Roosevelt pol icies Is equally unjust. It also tr.kea time for a new administration to develop ita own Individuality. The difficulty with Mr. Taft's administration Is that it is utterly lacking In a magnetic personality on the one side and a political manager on the other. But tho American people ought not to pass Judgment on his admlnlstiation be cause of the lack of two such essentials. It Is unfair to expect him to do In his first year what his predecessor did not do until his fourth. The president deserves H-squme deal. He also needs a press agent. Our Birthday Book April a, 1910. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia university, was born April 2, 152, at Elizabeth. N. J. Pr. Butler was pro moted from the headship of the department of philosophy and has been president of the National Education association. He has visited In Omaha several times. Rev. George B. Foster, the Chicago uni versity professor of the philosophy of re ligion who raised a small hornet's nest last year by combatting the Bible's Infalli bility, Is 52. He was born at Alderson, W. Va., and was a Baptist preacher before he went Into educational work. George Havens Putnam, the big New York book publisher, was born April J, 1M4, In London. Mr. Putnam la a student and author of books as well as a publisher of books. J. Iawrence I.aughlln, professor of polit ical economy In the University of Chicago, Is Just 60. He was with Harvard university before coming west and Is an authority on money and finance. Judge William A. Redick of our district bench is (1 today, He was born right here In Omaha and practiced law with his father, John I. Itcdlck, for many years prior to the latter's death. Judge Redlck la serving his second term as Judge of the district court. ' Dr. Andrew' Johnson, practicing physi cian offlcing In the Brown block, waa born April 2, 1W0, In Sweden. He waa super intendent of the Nebraska Institution for the Feeble Minded at Beatrice under Gov ernors Dietrich, Savage, Mickey and Sheldon. In Other Lands Side Lights aa What la Trans, pi ring Aaaoag the STeat and rax aratleaa ef tha Berth. For the fourth time within twelve months tha death of King Menellck of Abyssinia Is reported. Last May word came out of the dark empire that poison had dls posed him. In August and September apoplexy was -credited with doing Its deadly work. .The same cause Is given for the present reported demise. More cred ence Is given the present report, being accompanied with biographical notes and parentage and age of the king's successor If Menellck has actually shuffled off his mortal coll at the age of 66, European doctors cannot escape censure as "acces sorles before the fact." Tho king was, or Is one of the very few remaining independ ent munarchs In Africa. Practically all others are vassals of foreign powers, or subject to their Influence The king liked European ways, his queen restated for elgn Innovations. Soon after the king and his warriors welcomed the Italian Invaders to hospitable graves In his mountain de files, German, French and English influ ences became mixed up In the rival court faction. All were mightily Interested in the king's health and brought doctors to the capital to promote his physical wel fare and mix political medicine with the regular treatment. In the ensuing rivalry of tha doctors, tha German medic charged the French M. D. with poisoning the king. The shocked ministers of the king Inves tigated the charge and acquitted the doc tors, but the kings suspicions were aroused and he waa re-assured only when the doctors Involuntarily swallowed large doses of medicine compounded for himself. At least onoe a month Menellk Indulged In an extra large feast with his favorites, and the rest of the time short ratlone and dyspepsia tablets conatituted tha royal bill of fare. Doubtless one of these gorging feasts was the Immediate cause of his alleged taking off. According to Abyssinia history the royal line of Menellk extends farther back than that of the emperor of Japan ao far, Inded, that the names of Solomon and the queen of Bheba mark Its legendary, If not actual beginning. The empire Is about as large as Germany and contains an estimated population of 10,000.000. Conspicuous among the natives welcoming Theodora Roosevelt to Egypt was Abbas Pasha II, Khedive of Egypt by grace of Great Britain. Abbas Is nearly 86, hand some and athletic, wears European clothes topped with a real fex. He la a grandson of the last real monarch of Egypt, Ismail Paaha, who spent $21,000,000 In various en tertainments In honor of the completion of the Suez canal. The present Khedive has not the means nor the Inclination to beat the spending record of his grandfather. He manages, however, to bear the strain of higher cost of living with a salary of r00,000 a year. He speaks and writes French, German, Turkish and Italian as well as Arabic. Ha Is a pianist of no little ability, a crack horseman, a hunter, a scientific farmer, a fair locomotive engi neer, a capable military officer, a lover of good literature and grand opera, a hard worker at hla official duties, and an Ideal host. Like Mr. Roosevelt, Abbaa Is strenu ous. He arises at I o'clock In the morning and superintends, from the saddle, the work upon his farm before driving to the palace, where his routine work as Khedive begins. Tha appropriation and political ends of the game having been achieved. Great Britain's war scare has subsided. All's quiet on tha North Sea and the navy yards are humming with activity. The German government has chosen this period of calm for publishing an official note to show that the Brltian admiralty authori ties are wrong in their estimate of the dreadnoughts Germany will have In com mission two years hence, and also have exaggerated the speed with which they are being constructed. Germany assured the country that there is no new departure In her naval program, and no menace to anybody In her prosecution of a policy begun years ago. Germany so far has had rather the better of thle controversy, be cause its attitude has consistently been that what It Is doing for the development of Its navy la no other nation's business, and therefore requires no defence from Berlin. By a vote of 280 to 3 the French senate passed the old age pension bill. Should the Chamber of Deputies agree to the Senate changes the scheme will go into effect before the end of the year, and all workers who have reached the age of t or have spent thirty years In toll will receive pensions from the state treasury. Uke the German workmen's Insurance scheme tha French bill places a premium upon thrift and requires that the bene ficiaries shall contribute as well as their employers and tha state. Obligatory pay ments of from 4 to I franca a year over a period of thirty years are marie the con ditions of a pension averaging about $) at the age of 65 years, the payments by the workmen and women being supplemented by contributions of the same amount by the employers, the government pledging Itself to make up whatever deficiency there may be. Experts differ widely as to what this annual cost to the state will be, but It Is supposed that when the plan gets Into working order It will average about 115, 000,000 a year, the Initial payments being greater than that amount by perhaps $11,000,000 for several years. The provisions of the "law of assistance" of 1905, In which the pensionable age Is fixed at 70 years, are merged In those of the new scheme and there are detailed provisions made for the protection of the Insured In times of unemployment and during military service. The outburst of nationalist Indignation against the pro-British speeches of Theo dore Roosevelt in Egypt Is generally re garded as Justifiable. No Observant trav eler questions the beneficial results of British rule and enterprise In the land of the Pharoaha, but the average native dislikes alien rule as thoroughly aa would Americana, Saxons, Teutons or the Gaeltlo races and properly resent crltlslsm of na tional aspirations by a stranger. Like India, Egypt has In recent years developed an agressive and militant native party, opposed to British rule. The "nationalists" desire the early withdrawal of British authority, not in order that an effective Turkish sovereignty may be re-established, but that an Independent Egypt may take Us place among the nationa of the world. The agitation has given much trouble to the British government so firmly established at Cairo. It waa the anxious concern of Lord Cromer to deal with the sltiatlon effectively and wlaeiy while he waa ruling the country, and since his re tirement Sir Eldon Gorst has had much to contend with. Egypt was affected much aa India was by the Japanese victory over Russia, tha natives being encouraged to think that their white masters were not necessarily Invincible. The Persian and Turkish revolutions also were great stim ulants to natlvlst aspiration, mora espe cially, perhaps, because of the bonds of religion ' which bring Persia, Turkey and Egypt within one spiritual empire. Adds mm tiiU i A A. I iHc;M r' i' ii rn. POLITICAL DRIFT. One of the New York papers, in Its story of the conviction of grafting senator. remarks: "Allils sipracitc vx etaoln ol A." The outcome certainly warrants the criti cism. Tha public printer of Ohio has been con victed of cashing a false voucher for 15.501. Twelve other Indictments will wait his return from the secluded re treat of tho Ohio bankers' colony. Hiram W. Johnson, who Is to make the race for governor of California on the ticket of the Lincoln-Roosevelt League of Republican Clubs, declares that he will make his fight as a disciple of Theodore Roosevelt and as a champion of . the for mer president's policies. South Carolina has a candidate for the democratic nomination for vice president In Hon. Thomas H. Waring of Charleston. His versatility. If not tils availability, Is attested by the fact that he edits a news paper which has steadfastly supported Bryan for fourteen years. It is related that when Speaker Cannon was waiting for the Insurgent verdict two weeks ago he told this story: "A man had been run over by a train. An employe wired that his head and both legs had been cut off. Later he sent another wire: 'Accident not bb bad aa reported. Your husband's legs were not cut off.' " Interest Is quite lively In the tariff fight expected to develop In the Indiana repub lican state convention next week. Senator Beverldge voted against the Payne-Ald- rlch bill. Being a candidate for re-election, he expects an endorsement of his course, while administration followers In sist on approving the tariff bill. A tariff plank that will satisfy both aides will demonstrate the undiminished skill of Hooslers In platform building. Ipset Price tor Husbands. Hartford Courant. The price of husbands killed In the Cherry mine is rising, but It cannot yet be considered excessive. The claims of fifty widows have been settled by the St. Paul Mining company at prices ranging from $800 to fl.DOO. Before other claims could be adjusted some Inconsiderate person sug gested that the prevailing rates were too low. One hundred widows who held out for better terms have now been offered a uniform rate of $1,800 per husband. A Fain ou Meeting". Chicago Record-Herald. Friends of both the colonel and William, R. I will hope there may be no occasion for the distinguished traveler to make any speeches, when he reaches Berlin, concern ing the advisability of establishing a secret ballot In Prussia. 1. asasnsaWaaaMsBBsMAM mm i i ' - i Fi-t a 1 1- :L. The report made to the Comptroller showing condition at close of business March 29, 1910, shows: Cash and Reserve $ 4,716,179.09 Loans and Discounts . . . 7,832,080.57 Deposits 12,185,253,49 Total Assets 13,637,090.14 MAHOGANY, OAK - WALNUT CASES NEW PIANOS GUARANTEED FOR TWENTY YEARS 190 CUT FROM $250.00 One Dollar a Week STOOL AND SCARF FREE A. HOSPE CO. 1513-15 DOUGLAS ST. World's Best Pianos: Mason & Hamlin, Kranich & Bach, Kimball, Bush & Lane, Hallet & Davis, Cable Nelson, Cramer and Others. r c - Hcallilol Qualities to (he Food Economizes Flour, Duller and Eggs . -V Arnt"i O'm s. nArAM maae irom iioyai urapc cream ol Tartar Ko Alum I 'Jo Utno Phosphates SUNNY GEMS. "Miss Singsong, who Is anxious to , engaged bv an opera manager. Isn't fl'f 1 for the position. She has a very hi t nielnlllc voice." "No wonder, when you consider her if nerve." Baltimore American. . "Did you give tha scraps of meat to dog. Norah? "You forgot, mum, that we'd quit esl meat. muni, but Ol give th' naste tn rot tops an" pertaty pairln'." Los Ang4 Express. "I tell von I must have aome mom roared the king of Maritania. who hs) sore rinsnclal traits, "somebody win in to cough up." "Alas!" sighed the guardian of the u. tiry, who was formerly the court Jes "all our coffers are empty." Tlt-BIU. "I believe he will kick" about matters the celestial regions." "O. 1 don't know. He won't have same argument that he had on earth." Wht vnu mean" "He won't be a taxpayer there." Pit burg Post. Symptoms of the Fever. In the spring the young man's fancy rail the meadows sweet wun nay, For the soul Is dead that slumbers In u merrv month of May. And Maxweltun braes are bonnie when t evening shadows fall I In the gloaming, oh, my darling, with t stars for tapers tall. Jennie kissed me when we met on this si - of Jordan's wave ' Once upon a midnight dreary, with the Iq and crouching slave; ; It was on a summer evening quoth t raven "Never more," I And the dying soldier faltered on'tho w New England shore. Chicago Record-lferalit WITH PRUDENCE IN THE PARK, E. W. Townsend In New York World I pipes a redbreast In de park while stro Ing wit me steady, And, wondering what bold It was, say "Duchess, what'a de reddy?" Well, say, she dopes It right, all right sues farmer-born. Is prudence And puts me next on holds and trees, nl v. Ishlng wiser students. I runs an elevator In de building wliel she s wolking, And ev'ry day we chats awhile betwt her hours of clolklng; But Sundays we ve a date to stroll, b always she's for going Out to the park where sha can pipe grass and posies growing. And listen! she knows where to chase find de foist wild flowers. And when she cops one, den her eyes a BUnclilne after showers. De op'ra singers ain't got notting on h when she's laughing. And dough she's from de farm dat skolt to tie good at charring. She lilds me for me ignorance about tt trees and posies; She says 'twill take her, years to teaoli nl crocuses am t roses. All right, b'chee, I hope It does! But dls know already No rose or robin In de park's as pretty a me steady. BTKBBffiaM mmmmsm I j Capital ' $500,000,00 .Surplus&Profits UMOUAJU leal