TIIE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: APRIL 3. - 1910.
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STATEMENT OF CI RCVl.ATION.
State of Nebraska. Douglas County, as :
George B Txrhnrk, treasurer of The
Baa Publishing Company, being duly
sworn, aaya that the actual number of
full and complete copies of The Iailv.
Morning, F.venlng and Sunday Bee printed
during the month of. Marc
i'h,
1910, was
as ronows:
1 M,77t
2 48,810
I 43,760
4 48.4U0
1 43.SM
f. ......... . 41,600
T 4I,40
1 49.870 1
17 43.110
1 43,030
19 43,090 ;
20 41,800 i
21 43,140 j
21 41,890
21.. 49,490 I
24 49.660
25 49,690
21 49,630
27 41,400 !
2. ... , 48.810
2 49.770
10 49,410
1 1 43,780 !
. . 43.T0O
. 49.710
43,10
II 49,810
II 49,80
II...,..-. . 41,700
tt,l?0
.... 49,490
Total
Returned coplca...
Net total
tally average
1,898,400
10,790
1,318.640
49,441
GEO. B. TZSClirCK.
Treasurer.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn
to before me this list day of March,
119. M. P. WALKER.
Notary Public.
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auaata !( reaeste4.
If Mount Etna la fooling the scien
tist our advice Is ."don't fool with it."
Plant trees and help Nebraska make
good on the name, "Treeplanter's
state.'?
Pittaburgers are so used to ashes
that all they needed to do for penance
was to put on sackcloth.
The expression, "Darkest Africa,"
la only, a relative term after all, par
ticularly during llon-huntlng season.
"Naples waits for Roosevelt" reads
the cable dispatch. But Naples will
not do much waiting after he arrives
there. .
Chancellor Day want it, distinctly
understood that he does not intend to
become a back number on his' own in
itiative. ' . '
Wonder if it has occured 'to those
London editors that tne Cairo orator
will pass through their city on his way
to the United States:
The best thing about the life of the
late David J. Brewer is that he en
Joyed every day of his life, and he
lived to be a good old age.
The congregation of that New Jer
sey preacher who resigned because of
baldnase evidently forgot to include a
wig for him at the last donation party.
Andrew Carnegie has discovered
that he has missed his calling thinks
he should have been a reporter. Well,
we might try him out on night police.
For the benefit of the Massachusetts
bank, which has recently been robbed,
it might be well to say that none of
the officials happen to be mixed up
in It
The Egyptians should remember
that Mr; Roosevelt's success is often
explained that be does not care what
other people think about what he says,
anyway.
The Ohio house of representatives
has put tbe anti-lobby bill at the end
of the calendar must want to get all
the lobbying done before the bill
cornea up.
With an Arkansas senator wishing
to consign Rockefeller to hades and a
Chicago preacher deifying him, it be
gins to look as if John D. had been
playing favorites.
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The finding of still eatable food in
an Egyptian tomb, where it had been
burled for 3,000 years, certainly takes
the record away from the New Jersey
cold storage warehouses.
The mayor of PltUburg, who was
recently hooted off the stage, is begin
ning faintly to realize what it is to be
in "I'ncle Joe's" shoes during "trou
blesome times" In the house.
An Interesting fact about the new
Canadian railway which is being built
north from Edmonton, Albera, is that
it is owned by a former Kansas City
man but recently become a citizen of
Canada.
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"Some one has stolen Governor Had
ley'a peach trees from his country
home. The robber was evidently very
short-sighted, because the governor
does all the pardoning and la head of
the prison reform movement in that
etate." Shert-aig htedi VhyJ: bat
was not'evea coinuioBTaenae, "
Problem of the Strike.
The people of the United States
are accumulating enough eiperl
ence with the strike to be con
vinced that it ought to be abol
ished. Thy have given it a fair
hearing and have found it to be
inimical to the best Interests of em
ploye and employer alike, unfair to
the public as the innocent third party
and subversive of business stability.
As a remedy for industrial ills It has
proven an utter failure. It Is re
pugnant to the highest sense of Jus
tice and an Inevitable barrier to com
mercial, political or social peace and
progress. It accomplishes nothing
that it undertakes, for where it wins
temporary concessions it lacks the In
herent power to achieve a permanent
victory and engenders a feeling of re
venge and resentment, inviting re
newed hostilities In the future.
There is a pretty well defined feel
ing that, although the strike may have
been useful in Its day, the time has
come to put It out of buslneas. Canada
and New Zealand have no strikes and
both are enjoying nearly, if not fully,
as great prosperity and happiness as
the United States. These countries
have compulsory arbitration laws, that
not only prevent strikes, but militate
to the great advantage of commerce
and labor by preserving Industrial
peace and fostering a sane, healthy
sentiment between labor and capital.
The New Zealand law provides for a
council of 'conciliation as the court of
first Instance and a court of arbitra
tion as the final tribunal. Disputes
are submitted by both parties to the
council, and If It falls to reach a satis
factory agreement the case Is taken
to the court of arbitration, whose find
ing is as binding on both parties as
the decision of any court of Justice.
While one student of the New Zea
land law says it would not be
adapted to the exigencies of the
United States, it Is Interesting to note
that he observes in this connection
that this law would operate success
fully In no country lacking the un
bounded prosperity growth in popu
lation, wealth and Industries that
New Zealand has. If these are the
prerequisites for the successful opera
tion of such a law, then there is no
country in the world where it would
be more eminently successful than the
United States.
But whether New. Zealand's law Is
Just what we need In this country does
not alter the fact that we need an or
derly solution of the strike problem.
We need something that will prevent
the periodical paralysis of Industry
and the general social disorder that
accompanies most big labor disputes.
If we could even hope to obtain indus
trial peace by meahs of the strike, we
would be paying entirely too- high e
price, but we cannot hope for such a
result. Strikes have come to levy
tremendous tax upon the jrooral 'and
financial resources 6' the people and
Industries they affect without yielding
adequate recompense. There- -is na
good reason why the public, an inof
fensive party, should be called Upon
from tljne to time to endure the multi
farious .hardships which the strike en
tails, merely because two stubborn
contestants do not want to have their
differences arbitrated. If relief is to
come it must come through this same
third party, rising to the full stature
of Its right and might'.
Force of Enlightened Opinion.
The force of enlightened public
opinion to prevent flagrant injustice
has long been recognized In free coun
tries like ours, but tbe Impression has
prevailed that in a country like Rus
sia, ruled by sheer despotism, no out
side pressure could have any apprecia
ble effect without an army and navy
In the background. It Is gratifying,
therefore, to have the assurance of a
man like George Kennan, long familiar
with Russian history and conditions,
that the recent acquittal of Tchai
kovsky and the comparatively light
sentence of Madame Breshkovsky,
charged with political offenses for
their activity against the Russian gov
ernment, are due to the Intervention
and support of their English and
American friends.
Mr. Kennan gives a long list of ex
treme penalties meted out to persons
engaged In the same work, and even
less obnoxlourtd the Russian govern
ment, but whose cases have not at
tracted attention abroad and whosa
offenses had not been taken up by
powerful English and American sym
pathizers. The whole number of po
litical offenders tried in Russian courts
In the first eleven months of 1009, he
tells us, was 9,248, of which 6,977
were found guilty and 3,206 were sen
tenced to penal servitude or death.
The record In these cases Is sufficient,
in Mr. Kennan's opinion, to show a
frequent failure of Justice and a rare
exhibition of mercy, and to establish a
strong presumption that had Tchai
kovsky been an ordinary Ruaslan,
without friends In England and Amer
ica, he would have been punished by1
administrative process after the court
had found him not guilty, as scores of
Russian politicals have been.
The result of these trials convinces
Mr. Kennan that Russian political and
penal methods may be changed or
modified by the pressure of enlight
ened public opinion in England and
the United States. If this Is so. and
there is every reason to believe that It
Is. there la room for hope that the
walls of Russian prisons may eventu
ally be broken down, not by official In
tervention of ao-called friendly govern
ments, but by the never-ceasing pro
test of outraged public sentiment
which recognises no lines of national
ity and, stops at no geographical
hmindarloa - hut-will ewehtuairv "fattY
over a world-wide area to to" relief of
the downtrodden and the oppressed
"wherever they may be.
Kins; Menelik.
Rumor had it the other day that
King Menellk is dead, but subsequent
reports effectively deny It. He Is now
aald to be convalescent. Yet. no mat
ter what the fact may be and no mat
ter whether King Menellk be dead or
alive, he has been one of the most
unique figures in recent history. He
claims direct descent from King Solo
mon and the queen of Sheba, and has,
all In all, been a noted character.
King Menellk was the son of. the
crown prince of Shoa, and while yet a
boy fell Into the hands of Trlnce Theo
dore, who at the time was an aspirant
to the throne of Abyssinia. This
worthy kept him under surveillance
In a city called Gojam and sought to
win his favor by giving him his favor
ite daughter In marriage. Howaver,
during the civil war in the United
States Menellk escaped, raised an
army and made himself "The Negus of
Abyssinia." Since then he has poved
a warrior and a diplomat.. He drove
the Italian army back from Ills bor
ders and even showed modern chivalry
in allowing the prisoners of war to re
turn to their own forces unharmed
after the battle.
Menellk has been a progressive ruler
and has in many ways developed his
country successfully. He has stirred
his subjects to vigorous activity in the
development of some of the resources
of the country and has built up the
city of Adls Abeda, which has been his
new capital since tbe Italian war, from
a straggling Tillage to a city of 80,000
inhabitants. He has produced a well
organized government, with strict
treaties regarding boundaries with
Great Britain and a thorough commer
cial treaty with the United States. He
has accomplished enough to be recog
nized as one of the greatest native
rulers of Africa and, whether dead or
alive, la to be honored.
Features of the Income Tax.
On the scope of the pending Income
tax amendment and the effect of an
Income tax, should one be Imposed,
no one is better qualified to speak
than Prof. E. R. A. Seligman of Co
lumbia university, who la recognized
as the foremost authority In this coun
try on the subject of finance and taxa
tion. Fortunately, we are soon to
have the views of Prof. Seligman tak
ing " issue with the position of Gov
ernor Hughes of New York in an arti
cle contributed to the Political Sci
ence Quarterly, already available In
advance sheets. Prof. Seligman com
bats Governor Hughes' objection to
the proposed amendment, which, he
says, he would otherwise favor, that
It would Impair the credit of the atate
and local governments by exposing to
federal taxation incomes derived from
money invested, in their securities. In
the Judgment of Prof. Seligman, Gov
ernor Hughes' opinion Is erroneous in
three respects: , .
(1) His Interpretation of the' legal force
of the amendment la Incorrect
(2) Even were his legal Interpretation cor
rect, he falls to take aooount of economic
faotf which would prevent the oonaequencea
which ha fears.
(I) Even were hie viewa correct, that the
constitutional amendment would operate
to change the law In the direction indicated,
there are valid reasons why the law should
be so changed.
Under the first heading a series of
supreme court decisions lare quoted
to prove that state and municipal
bonds would henceforth, as before,
be exempt from federal taxation by
reason of the essential character of
the implied restrictions in the consti
tution, which would not be altered
one whit by the amendment. On this,
however, the citations do not appear
to be conclusive, and In all probability
it will take another supreme court
decision to construe the words, "from
whatever source derived," and tell us
definitely whether this permits of a
favored tax-free class.
Under the second heading Prof.
Seligman emphasizes the point already
made by Tbe Bee, that the income tax
would not materially affect the credit
of the states to borrow money whether
it Included or excluded Incomes from
investments in state bonds, because
the tax would be capitalized insofar
as holders of existing bonds are con
cerned, and on future purchases of
new issues the Interest rate would be
computed simply to make the invest
ment yield relatively the same return,
allowing for risk, that would come
from investments in property to the
same amount. We have now exam
ples In many states of taxable and
tax-exempt securities, so far as the
exercise of state taxing 'power goes,
and the municipalities whose bonds
are taxable have not had their credit
destroyed, as compared with those
whose bonds are legally exempt from
taxation nor appreciably Influenced,
except ac far as the large or small
area of tax exemption tenda to stimu
late the demand for tax-exempt securi
ties. Under the third heading tbe conclu
sion is reached that if we are to have
an Income tax at all, It ought to apply
to Incomes from all sources, and that
there la no good reason why the
agencies of the state and local govern
ment should be exempt from general
taxation, designed tr fall on all alike.
In this connection It Is brought out
that the same rule of legal interprets
tlon which would exempt the Incomes
from state and municipal bonds from
federal taxation would likewise ex
empt the incomes drawn as salaries
by atate and municipal officers and an
exemption of these, salaried officers
from the Income tax. which all other
salaried persons would have to pay.
would In effect ralae the salaries of
every, such officeholder to the extent
of the tax. In othejr words, we would
have a privileged class of officials
spending, if not absorbing, the rev
enue derived from the forced contri
butions of all the rest. Inasmuch as
the power of the federal government
Is exercised by lawmakers represent
ing the people of the different states,
there is always ample protection to
the states against the encroachments
of the federal government, and the
reason for exempting federal securi
ties from state Interference Is not
equally valid for the reverse.
Prof. Seligman s conclusion' Is' that
tbe prrding constitutional amendment
t no', only lepally defensive and po
litically innocuous, but It is, above all,
eiononikally sound, and from every
point 'of view eminently desirable,
even though It may not be necessary
for the present to use the power that
would be thus conferred on congress.
Nevada Divorces.
The divorce mecca which made
South Dakota famous has now hied
Itself to the sand wastes of Nevada
and "colonists" are flocking thither
from the east, west, north and south
to find relief from the "chains of mat
rimony." The divorce colony at tteno
is the most flourishing in the wnole
country and men and women of walth
and influence go there In great num
bers for an application of the divorce
courts' healing balm and then go their
ways completely cured until the next
time. Nevada is thus becoming fa
mous as a healing resort and is reap
ing the benefits of a cure-all for mat
rimonial misfits.
And yet there really seems to be
some requirement regarding residence
tn Nevada before a divorce can be pur
chased. Falling to realize this, one
man only stopped over between trains
for two hours to establish ' a six
months' residence.
The. auspicious court objected, apol
ogetically, for having to insist on a
little longer stay. Possibly six hours
would have been more nearly suffi
cient, or perhaps three visits of two
hours each. Nevada courts really
ought to be that strict, for this Is a
serious consideration. The Judge in
question certainly appreciates con
sistency and very evidently believes in
vigorously upholding the laws of the
state. The country as a whole ought
to shout aloud, because of the fine
sense of the high moral standards of
society which he evidenced on that oc
casion. And yet, Reno muat be careful about
Its divorce Industry. This is the age
of germs and microbes, and if Ne
vada's courts are too free and reckless
in severing domestic tie, the domes
tlcus lnfellcltus species may be turned
loose, unwittingly, in large numbers
with more serious- 'effects than "ever
produced by grasshoppers In Kansas.
If the hen that lays the golden egg Is
not to be killed, the divorce decree un
der seal of Nevada's . coat-of-aras muat
not be discredited or be permitted to
go to discount on the matrimonial bar
gain counter.
Postoffice Eobberiei.
After the robbery of the United
States postoffice at Richmond, Va.,
authorities have been aroused to the
demand for better protection of funds,
stamps and . other valuables which
go to make up postoffloe equipment.
Last year over 4,000 office were
raided and the amount of booty car
ried off must have been considerable.
Too few of the criminals were cap
tured and too little of the, loot was
recovered.
Craokamen apparently find less diffi
culty In robbing postofficeB than they
do banks because, except in those
cases where a city has a government
depository, the postmasters keep all
valuables in the office safe, which is
usually a cheap affair and Is easily
opened. Whether the Richmond post
office was well guarded and bad a
good safe is not known, but under any
circumstances it waa neither suffi
ciently heavily guarded nor was the
safe heavy enough to resist, success
fully, the effort of the robbers.
No prudent business man would be
thus careless about valuables In large
amounts, especially when they are ao
easily moved and their Identity lost
as are stamps and money. These
should be at least as well protected
as like valuables are in commercial
affairs. In addition to this, postmas
ters are not held responsible for the
robberies, according to law, if - they
can show that all valuables were in
the safe and the safe locked at the
time of the raid.
Although drastic measures to pro
tect the postofficeB are not necessary,
yet more strict supervision would do
no harm, for the present system
strikes the observer as somewhat care
less. Not even the certain punishment
of criminals by federal authority can
prove an effective deterrent to post
office robberies when the opportunities
are spread out in too tempting a man
ner. The Lincoln Journal says "the ob
vious way to solve the platform prob
lem is to free parties from dealing
with special non-party Issues," but It
declines to view the question of li
censing or prohibiting the sale of
liquor as a non-party Issue. In other
words, the Journal reserves to itself
the exclusive right to draw the line on
what should, or should not, go Into
the platform, yet It wants it distinctly
understood that It la uncompromis
ingly opposed, to any minority dicta
tion. When the postal savings bank bill
was up for final passage In the sen
ate, Just one democrat had the hardi
hood to stand out from under the
part whip and vote for It. Tbe bill
wll come up soon in the house, where
the democrats who have been talking
for postal savings will embrace an
other chance to go back on their own
professions. We have one democrat
representing this district in congress
who has been preaching postal sav
ings whenever it was out of reach.
Will he have the nerve to vote for It
when tbe democrats in the house are
lined up in opposition? Or will he
have a convenient excuse for being ab
sent at the crucial moment?
An athletic meet, or auy other
wholesome kind of a meet, that draws
together such a galaxy of youthful
brain and brawn from many states,
becomes a factor of vital importance
for the upbuilding of our national life.
This system of friendly rivalry between
boys and young men of the various
sections, cannot help but have a broad
ening Influence and therefore make
the gathering desirable apart from the
prime purpose of establishing new
athletic records.
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The Chicago Board of Education
orders the lockers enlarged to fit the
glrlg' hats, declaring It to be woman's
Inalienable right to wear a hat as large
as she pleases. That may be true
enough, but can't a school board get
In under this inalienable right plea
somehow so as to place a limit on the
size of the locker?
The announcement that Mr. Bryan
Is to arrive In New York on April 15
must be only a partial report. It falls
to state whether he has hired Madison
Square garden for the purpose of re
peating his last home-coming speech
proposing government ownership of
railroads as a final paramount.
Tbankfalneas Justified.
Philadelphia ledger.
tn thanking a friend for the gift of three
gallons of whiskey, Mr. Roosevelt ha sup
plied the teit for countless rostrum thun
derlngs, but It should be remembered that
he was In the snake zone.'
The Mlsatnsj Courier.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Glfford Plnchot did not disembark when
the steamship on which he had sailed
reached Europe at least the reporters who
were watching for him did not see him go
down the gang plank. Perhaps Mr. Pln
chot, being only leas strenuous than the
colonel himself, jumped off and took a
crosscut by swimming.
Speculating on the Count.
Buffalo Express.
The director of the United States census
la quoted" as looking for a population re
sult In tha coming count of between &V
000,000 and 91,000,000. The 1900 population
for the continental United States was about
76.000,000, and the net Immigration alone
since that time must have added some 8.-
000,000. Dr. Durand la evidently trying to be
conservative.
Unlejae Railroad Plea,
Philadelphia Record.
In the face of - law expressly prohib
iting the Boston A Maine railroad from
Increasing freight rates on Us subsidiary
leased lines In answer to an injunction of
the court compelling the observance of the
law, the company pleads Justification (or
advanced rates "because the law has lapsed
through non-enforcement!" Thia plea
would Justify violation of all tha command-
menu If no one should file objection.
SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT.
Cleveland Plain Dealer; Bishop Law
rence hits the nail on the head when he
says that many of tho.se who oritlclse pub-
lto men are more at fault themselves, 'there
Is for too much indifference to tha com
monplace duties which every cltiaen owes
to his country.
San Francisco: Chronicle: The Porter-
V411e preacher who said that women who
lanced "were no better than abandoned
females" got the most natural reply In the
world eggs In any style. No other re
joinder seemed to be so much In keeping
with the remark.
Torpnto Mail and Empire: The church
court that has had tha case of tha Rev.
David Hick under consideration has ac
quitted the reverend gentleman, and, as a
consequence, Mr. Hicks may resume his
place in the pulp)t. The Rev. Mr. Hicks
had charge of a congregation In Essex
county. He had a large family, and (000 a
year upon which to live! Having many
mouths to fill and many little onea to
cloths, Mr. Hicks Incurred liabilities, and
these so oppressed him that in a panic he
went oft to tha United States. His sudden
exile resulted In the laying of charges
against him. He was accused of financial
irregularities and of deserting his pastorale.
The court appointed to try him has ex
culpated him. He Is declared by his jurlges
to have been guilty of no wrongdoing.
But the court hardly went far enough.
It should have tried the congregation and
have held it responsible for the troubles
Mr. Hlcka has experienced, unless It were j
proved that tha people are so few In num
ber and so poor that the salary paid thttir
minister is as much as they can afford.
Our Birthday Book
. April 3, 1810.
John Burroughs, naturalist and intimate j
friend of Mr. Roosevelt, waa born April i. .
lf8", at Roxbury, N. Y. He has written a !
great deal on animal and outdoor subjects.
Fred W. Taylor, who had charge of the ;
agricultural exhibits at the Omaha ex- j
position and now la In business In Denver,
Is hO. He was born at Weeping Water, Xeb., j
and was at one time a professor In the j
University of Nebraska, being later con- I
nccted also with the Buffalo exposition and
the St. Louis exposition.
Rev. William J. Long, remembered for
his nature-faking bout with President
Roosevelt, was born April 3, 187. lie Is a
clergyman aa well as author and In charge
of a church at Stamford. Conn.
Darius Miller, head traffic man for the
Burlington, la 61. He was born at Princeton,
III., and has been railroading nearly all
his life.
Victor Morawltz, the New York corpora
tion lawyer, was born April S, 1S69, In Bal
timore. He does quite a little writing for
the legal magaslnes.
Htrphen W. Htookey, president of Belle
vue college. Is CI. He was born In Marion,
la., and was dean of the faculty of Cos
college at Cedar Rapids previous to going
to Bellevue.
Richard W. Jepsen, in the grocery busi
ness with hi father and brothers on Cum
ing street, waa born April t, 1893, In
Omaha. Ha Is a graduate of tha Omaha
High school.
Paul B. Burleigh, bankar and broker, Is
S. Ha. la a native of Omaha and has oc
cupied positions with the Merchants Na
tional bank and. tha Braodola bank. .
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EVEEY-DAY RELIGION.
Baltimore Sun.
'When all is said and done at last.; and
oreeds have warred with creeds,
When mn have coined new terms toiclear
the ground of verbal weeds.
When systems chang and doctrines clash
and some put off the old
To down the faiths that nem to them a
clearer light to hold;
Although it may be silly, yet It's bark for
you and me
To the everyday roliglon that was taught
at mother's knee.
The new fads have their 'beauty, and well
grounded thonght may bring
A ciirnfort to believers who enlist beneath
their wing;
The ologles and innta and the abstracts
and the new
For those who seek adventure In soul-comforting
may do;
But there's nothing quite so filling in aught
that I can see
Like the everyday religion ithat we learned
at mother's knee.
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Some criticise the Heaven, of khe Bible, and
ome smell
A little too much brimstone in the old-time
Bible hell:
This one thinks creation wasn't scien
tific quite.
And this one's half convinced that he has
seen another light;
But when they've passed opinions and the
choice Is left to me,
Mlno's the everyday religion that we
learned at mother's knwe.
Jut plain and sweet and simple, with its
creed of faith ajid tru.-w.
In golden rules of brotherhood, in life be
yond the dust,
In toy and son eternal, If in this life
we've seen fit
To ohey the ten commandments and that's
all there is to It:
No fancy frill or trimming; rait it's good
enouRh for me
The everyday religion that we learned at
mother's knee.
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DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES.
HolmeftTou've got a morris chair at
your house. I suppose?
Henpeck Yes.
Holmes Great for comfort. Don't you
entov it?
Henpeck 1 do when I gt a chance, but
Maria's cat usually beats me to It. Cath
olic Standard and 'rimes.
Young. Wife Gregory,
dear.
what is tht
trouhle?
Worried Husband Nothing. Millie' noth
ing except that I've lost the combination
of the lock on the office safe.
Young Wife Ts that all, dear? Whv. yolt
can advertixe for 1U can't you? Chlgago
Tribune.
"She keeps her house In the most com
plete order."
"Yes, hut it lias one drawback.
"What ts that?"
"I have noticed that these model house
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Returns,
wives who keep their homes In apple pie
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News.
"Polltenass always pays."
"I don't know about that." replied Mr.
Hunting Work. "I had a pr4ty sood po
sition as a bill collector. Put I made my
self so agreeable that people held out on
payments for fear I'd stop calling on
them." Washington Ptar.
"If your husband beats you." said ' the
Judge, "why do you live with him?"
"I don't live with him, your honor. Ho
lives with me." Baltimore American.
Ted Are you making any progress in
your love affair with that young widow?
Ned It looks that waV- She has lust
put on second mourning. Lipplncott'a Ma
gazine. "There, are no martyrs these days."
"Oh, I wouldn't say that."
"Do you think thero are any people
today who would suffer tortures for tholr
beliefs?"
"My wife ht.lleves that an elffhteen-lnch
walnt looks' better than a twenty-two, and
I think she suffers a lot of genuine tor
ture because of that belief." Houston
Post.
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