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J 4 HIP, BKE: OMAHA. MONDAY, APRIL 11. 1910. I li i i 1 i . THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. FOUNDED HI EDWARD ROSE WATER. VICTOB ROSEWATER, EDITOR. Entered at Cmihi poslofflce second- ciaae matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Ialljr Uee (Itirtud'ng Sunday), pT week.lSa lally Bee (without Hunday), per week.lc Dally tHee (without Sunday), one year..MJ Daily Bra and uiiikv. oik yrar e.00 DEL1VKHKU BY CARRIER. Evening Bee (without Sunday), r week.se Evening H. (with Hunday;, pr ilt..,.lc eiunriftv He, iinjt var. .....S2-M fcaturday Uee. one year 1- Addrexa all conipiamia of Irregularities In deliver to City Circulation Department. OFFICE Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha Twenty-fourth and N. Council Blurts 1& Scott Street. Lincoln bin Uttle Building. Chicago 1648 Marquette Huldln. New irork Rooms HO1-U0H No. 14 Wtat Thirty-third Street. Washington-? Fourteenth Street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communlcatlona relating to news and t-dliorlal matter ehould be addressed. Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCE Remit by draft, express or poetal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 1-cent atampe received In payment of mall account a. lersonal cnecka. except on Omaba or eastern exchange, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Slate of Nebraska. Douglas County, aa.: Oeorge B. Tscbuck, treaaurer of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly eworn, aays tuat the actual number of full &nd complete eoplea of 1 he Dally, Morning, Evening and bunday Dee printed during the month of Marco, llt. was as xoiiowsi i s,no 43410 II 43,870 If 43,110 II... ....... 43,030 II., 3,0M 4LSO0 II 43,140 484(30 48,480 14 48,080 It 48,00 f 4830 7 41,400 H..,, 48,810 48,770 IB.. 43,410 1 43,780 43,760 4.. 4a,eao 43,800 t Sl.500 1... , 43,040 43,780 .......... 43,710 10 43,180 11. ....... 43,810 12 48,880 It 41,700 14 43.130 14..,....,.. 43,M1I Total aVMSVtO) Returned copies , 10,730 Net total I Xpie.tM Daily average 43,441 CEO. B. TZtSCHUCK, Treasurer. Subscribed la rny presence and sworn to before tee thU flat day of March. 119. M. P. WALKS.K. Notary pubila Subscribers leaving; the city tem porarily akoald have Tke Be nailed to them. Address will be changed aa o'tea as reqaested. How bis is Omaha? Have you put la your gueia? The burglar continues to find more Jewelry than the assessor. Have we not bad enough of the April joke? Give us the rain. "I am not a pessimist," declares "Jim" Hill. What 1b a pessimist? I That city hall fire insurance Job looks mighty much like a frame-up. Milwaukee's socialist mayor will at least not have to make the town fa mous. . Btill It might not hurt Methodism In Rome to get a successor for Rev. Mr. Tipple. AutomobUists' demand good roads and good roads multiply automobiles. It'a another endless chain. Philadelphia may be asleep, but it kept the rest of us awake for a time with that street car strike. If those Pittsburg . penitents con tinue to come they will have . to get a few more mourners' benches. It is worthy of noto that one Pitts burg paper has the courage to discuss "Civic Righteousness," editorially. ' Mr. Hill at last lets It out that the railroads must have more money, So that Is what he has been hinting at all this time. " ' John Callan Q'Laughlin has cer tainly given "Walter Wellman a hard run and he dld't have to build an airship, either. We feaf Tillman has little chance of ever being a well man, for he reiter ates that "'this hurrah' for Roosevelt makes me sick." Mr. Carnegie was just trying to keep us from feeling bad when he said 'the ambition to become a mil lionaire' was low." " "" ; ' Colonel Roosevelt's early closing of the Incident Is a body blow to our old friends. Pro Dono Publico, Medlcus, Vox Popull et al. The threatened war between those two passionate South American coun tries proves to have been only a Peru vian bark at Ecuador. While boosting for better roads, our automoblllsts should not abuse their privileges of the roads we now have. Make the scorchers slow down. We will not require Colonel Roose velt to take out naturalization papers just because he has been made an honorary citizen of an Italian town. Somehow the testimony of James F. Oyster, who appeared before a com mittee of congress in the interest of cold storage had a fishy smack to It. ' Omaha's trade boosters are getting ready for -another tour. If they still travel as rain makers the sooner they start out the more welcome they will be. Announcement Is made that the street cleaning department has com pleted its first round of all the pavti Streets. In many cases we will have to take the street commissioner's word for it A Party Lineup. President Taft ana Attorney Gen eral Wlckersham have distinctly drawn the ilrtpa for party unity which is iiereMary to republican success. Their speeches at Washington and Chicago constitute a simple call to arms and challenge to fealty. The men who believe in republican principles must fall In, close ranks and march under the banner of "Works, not words." In reiterating his desire to read no man out of the party the president Is asking nothing unfair of those who stay In when he summons them to join with him in redeeming the pledges he and they made the people when they asked them for their votes In 1908. That is a definite Joining of the Issue. It puts up squarely to every republican member of congress the simple proposition of keeping faith with party and people alike, or as suming responsibility for failure and being judged by the result. It ought to have the effect of allaying nominal differences, unifying forces and bring ing all professed republicans to the realization of the imperative need for sane, sober action. No time Is left now to be cajoled by democratic so phistry. If congress Is to perfect a record of constructive legislation, which under the direction of the presi dent It is achieving, it must act upon bis plea that this is a time for doing things. Mr. Wlckersham but voices what every honest observer knows when he says that this administration has accomplished great results In a short period, but the president is not content to stop there, nor anywhere short of complete fulfillment of party promises. In none of his public utterances before has President Taft given ex. pression so forcibly to his determina tion to keep to his program. He has given those members of congress who must go before the people this fall something of personal moment to think about, not attempting to conceal the convlctlpn that in party discord lurks party peril. Looking at conditions as they are, at what con gress has done and what it may yet do, making due allowance for the hue and cry of Internal dissension, no re publican need contemplate the out look with trepidation. Most of the talk of discord comes from the demo crats who realize the impossibility of democratic control of the next house unless they succeed In splitting the republicans before the campaign opens. This has been th-i whole purpose and plan of the democrats during this session of congress. The president refuses to allow bis party to be deceived by such patent politics if he can avoid It. and he is talking right out In meeting, putting it up to the republicans In congress to help him make good as the real way to secure a vote of confidence. V Census Law No Joke. Persons who think they may fail or refuse to answer any question pro pounded by the census enumerator should read the bill "to provide for the thirteenth and subsequent decen nial censuses." This act makes It a misdemeanor not only to fail or re fuse to answer, but also to answer any question falsely and Imposes a penalty not less than $100. , The government Is earnest In this effort to obtain an accurate census and will have spent more than $10,- 000,000 to that end. The president and congress, therefore, have taken every precaution to secure co-operation by the people. This la shown In the rigid rules for their protection with which it has surrounded the cen sus employes. Any supervisor, clerk, enumerator. Interpreter or agent who refuses to perform the duties enjoined on him will be guilty of a misde meanor and subject to a fine of $500; for disclosing information he shall be subject to a fcne of $1,000 or Im prisonment for two years or both; de liberate falae swearing means perjury with five years in prison end $2,000 as the maximum fine, and the gamut of offenses runs up to a final penalty of five years' imprisonment and $2,000 fine. This glimpse Into the provisions of the census law affortys an idea of the serious . Importance the government attaches to an accurate census. This Importance Is enhanced -by reason of the numerous aggressive movements the government is promoting today for popular ' Improvement, most of which depend in some measure upon the very statistics this census Is to disclose. A Troublesome' Assessor ScHeme. It turns out that trouble is already brewing as a result of the action of the late democratic legislature In again making tho precinct assessors elective Instead of appointive. When the as sessors were to be chosen last year this lucrative place, which pays $3 a day for about thirty days, went a-begging, and In many precincts a man had to be persuaded, to file for the nomination and run at the election. And now that the work is at hand quite a few duly elected assessors either have failed to qualify or have resigned, or have found some pretext for getting out of the thankless Job. Running for assessor, however, may not be a harmless pastime If the pen alty clause of the law making this office elective should be Invoked. The statute declares In so many words that any precinct assessor who shall wil fully neglect or refuse. In whole or in part, to perform his duties shall be guilty of misdemeanor punishable by a fine from $20 to $100. If the county authorities should refuse to accept the precinct aisessor'a resignation and he should persist In declining to do the work, Instead of coming in on the pay roll for the customary compensation It might cost him more than he could possibly got out of It If he worked. The elective assessor scheme may run tolerably smoothly in the rural districts, but in the larger cities It Is foredoomed to travel a rocky road, and the chances are it will be harder each succeeding time to get competent per sons to go after the position through the complicated machinery of primary nomination and popular election. Bailwayi Favoring; Europe. An interesting complaint of freight rate discrimination has been referred to the United States district attorney In New York by large manufacturers who allege that railroads are giving rates to European shippers that not only nullify the protection to Ameri can Industries afforded by the new tariff, but make competition on west ern traffic all but impossible. As the steamship lines make the through rate, by agreement with the railroads, and do not file them with the Inter state Commerce commission, the latter has no jurisdiction in tne case. Under the Hepburn act the commission has power to control maximum rates, but not minimum rates. It may also deal with rebating, but no charge of re bating Is 'made In this complaint. Criminal prosecution is out of the ques tlon, so that relief is hoped for only in the process of a civil suit. Under this arrangement with the steamship and railroad companies German shippers may transport goods to the Chicago zone cheaper than the same goods may be shipped by Ameri can manufacturers from Boston to Providence. . Chlnaware is hauled from England to Kansas City for 41 cents a hundred, while 4 9 cents a hundred Is exacted to ship the East Liverpool, O., article to the same point. These Instances are cited as typical of the general scale of combined land and water rates. American manufacturers declare that If this system of favoritism to the foreigner is continued it will be ruinous to many lines of domestic tiade and industry. They ask the court to direct the common carriers to make the classified rate as low as that given to the steamship companies. To meet this demand the railroads re ply that If the court grants the re quest It would destroy the contracts with the steamship lines and result n a general raise ef rates to a com mon level. Tnls may be true ana costly litigation may be involved, but In the end the American manufac turer would be, on an equal footing with his competitor in Europe and that is the end desired. Railroad spokesmen are telling us that railroads must raise their rates to get money with which to prepare for the enormous traffic, coming . to them in the next two years. But they must not raise their rates by the lever of discrimination. Indeed, the recent earnings reports of some of the roads suggest the possibility of their con tinued solvency for a little while longer on the present level of rates. Chaos in Latin America. While Peru and Ecuador seem to have patched up their differences and temporarily avoided hostilities, war is still Imminent in South America and the pan-American peace conference, to be held at Buenos Ayres In July, may have to give way to the very thing it was designed to prevent. Peru, aside from its dispute with Ecuador, is on strained terms with Colombia and Chili and Bolivia and Argentina have severed diplomatic relations, which in dicates a tight tension of ill feeling. This Buenos Ayres conference was to be essentially a peace convention to promote commercial and political friendship and co-operation between the South American republics. The United States had made extensive preparations for participating in it. Since the notably successful visit of former Secretary of State Root to these countries the United States has made much headway in Its endeavor to allay ill feeling and establish peaceful rela tions between them and had planned on accomplishing tangible good in the role of elder brother at this confer ence. It Is high time that tue Latin Amer ican states were more cordially wel coming some such leavening influence,, for they have shown a deplorable lack of ability to evolve international peace without help. They cannot fail to suf fer serious loss commercially and po litically from such a status. It seems that even the 'example of 'Nicaragua, which ha no coherent' government and none that is recognized by the United States, has failed to arouse its sister republics to the peril involved in constant disputes and continuous military performances. In Indiana the republicans wrote county option on the statute books, butthat has not prevented the pro hibitionists from putting up a ticket of their own this year. Evidently nothing will satisfy the prohibitionists but prohibition. Omaha is to have street railway pos tal car service within a few months. With the Increased postofflce business which Omaha has to show, nothing in the line of up-to-date postofflce equip ment should be beyond our reach. And, now Mr. Hearst declares that the victorious Milwuakee socialists stole the democratic platform. If so, poor Miss Democracy cannot have many clothes left. A Nebraska man with two wives commits suicide and a Chicago woman with two husbands sues both for di- Missouri River, Improvement Kecent Correspondence on a Timely Topic, in Which the Editor of The Bee Gives Opinion of Plan to Pro Rate Coit of Work on Ad joining States Subject that is Worthy of Very Close Consideration. WASHINGTON, I). C.-Vlctor Rosewater. Esq., Editor The Bee. My Dear Mr. Hose water: What la the real aentlment In your neighborhood In regard to the improvement of the Missouri river? If the government ahould take up the plan of Improvement, would the counties or states adjacent be willing to co-operate In paying the ex pense T I ahould be very glad to have your opin ion on thin aubject, which will be abso lutely confidential, unless you authorise me to quote you. Very respectfully yours, v T. E. BURTON. OMAHA. My Hear Senator: I hasten to answer your letter making Inquiry about the aentlment hereabouts In regard to the Improvement of the Missouri river. I be- lieve there Is a very widespread publlo sentiment in favor of auch Improvement of the river aa would restore lta usefulness for navigation, the expectation being, of course, that water transportation would be cheaper than rail transportation and would be a regulator for rail rates. lou ask whether the counties or statea adjacent would be willing to share the ex- pense of Improvement. It Is hard to an- swer that question because I do not bellevs It haa been propounded or considered. So far as Nebraska Is concerned, I believe there are constitutional obstacles, namely a constitutional debt limit to 1100.000 and also limitations requiring a popular vote to ""'""" minor auDQlVlSIons to sane bonds In aid of any public Improvement enterprise. As a practical proposition I doubt If It would appeal to any of the river countiea to assume an additional rorce. Moderate matrimony, though, Is still all right. .1 Whether busting trusts as the pres ident of a great republic, hunting Hons in Africa or retracing his honeymoon trail, it rs all the same "I had a bully time." It is the spirit of unconquera ble Americanism. If discretion is the better part of valor, Maude Balllngton Booth will not go down to Kerry Patch in St. Louis and advocate this putting bells on cats as a warning to birds. Those wrestling promoters who want another match between Gotcb and Hackenschmidt should remember that this is the day of the African lion, not the Russian bear. The World-Herald is running Mr, Bryan for president again in 1912. Anything to keep him away from the senatorshlp which the World-Herald editor wants for himself. Omaha's bank clearings for the week show an increase of nearly 14 per cent over the same period of last year. There are a few ,that beat us, but not many. .. A Check t the Cheers. Cleveland Leader. An eaatern railroad which has raised the wages of its employes raised fares simul taneously. Hence this lack of cheers. Real Teat of Skill. Washington Star. Having Issued a cook book, the Depart ment of Agriculture may be tempted to try Its hand on an almanac with reliable weather predictions. How Moth of sv Boost t Indianapolis News. The question that Is now bothering a good many people is, how much larger per cent of Increase in freight rates will the railroads consider It necessary to im pose In order to make good on their per cent Increase of wages. n abher on that Boand. Philadelphia Record. Rubber has touohed 3 a pound in Lon don. The price haa Increased nearly three fold in a year, and more than four-fold In the last two or three years. Senator Lodge's committee is entirely welcome to the admission from all low tariff men that here Is an article whose Increase In price Is not attributable to the tariff. The astonishing increase In the price of TUbber, hlch has set all speculative London wild over the shares of rubber companies, seems to be the result of the enormous demand for rubber for ' the tires of automobiles. From time to time Inventors report sub stitutes, but they da not answer the pur pose. I Our Birthday Book April 11, 1810. Charles Evana Hughes, governor of New York, was born April 11, 1862, at Olenns Falls, N. Y. Governor Hughes is a lawyer by profession and for a while was a pro fessor of Jaw In Cornell university law school He Is serving his second term as chief executive' of the Empire state. He spoke In Omaha during the last presidential campaign, making a most excellent Impres sion on hla hearers. Colonel Enoh II. Crowder. assistant judge advocate general of the United States army, Is 51. Colonel Crowder la a Mlssourlan with many frlenda In Omaha, where he was atatlooed' for several years as judge advo cate of this military department.- He 'has had several special assignments, entailing great responsibility. In the Philippines and In Cuba, and Is to be one ot the representa tives of our government In the South Amer ica International conference this summer. Isidore Rayner, United States senator from Maryland. Is SO years old todsy. He was born In Baltimore and served In the lower house of congress before going to the senate. He was the attorney for Ad miral Schley In the Santiago controversy, and more lately attracted attention by hla acatbing speech In answer to Senator BurketL James B. Forgan, the big Chicago banker, was born April 11, 1H62, In Scotland. Mr. Forgan Is In on the ground floor on all the publlo enterprises In Chicago. Thomas Keama, formerly United States senator from Utah, la celebrating his 48th birthday. 'Mr. Kearns was raised and edu cated on a farm In Holt oounty, Nebraska, made money freighting to the Black Hills and struck It rich In Utah mines, but never forgets hla Nebraaka atart. Lieutenant Colonel William A. Olasaford, chief signal officer of the Department of the Missouri, and commandant of the post of Fort Omaha, was born April 11. IKS, In Indiana. He entered tne service as a pri vate In ISTi, reaching bis present grade In 104. financial burden a here the benefits of the waterway would be shared by the entire country for whooe products the channel might be made an outlet. It Hhould be re membered that Nebraska merely borders on the Mlaaourl, which la an Interstate river, as well as a nava gable atream, and Is really the trunk line, aa much If not more so than the Mississippi, of the great est watershed In the world. What has amused public sentiment In favor of waterway Improvement In this section la the realiiatlon that we, as a part of the whole country, are paying our share for Improving the coant rivers and har bora, for the Great Lake and for the Panama canal, and If these great projects are to be carried on at the general expense the coat of Improving the Interior water- ways shbuld be met In a similar manner, in other words. 1 do not believe the Im- provement of the Missouri river can be properly regarded as a local Improvement from any point of view. If the communities along the river have any incidental bene- rus thoy will be offset by providing the terminal facilities and transportation equipment to make use of the channel when navigation Is feasible, I have no objection to having my views. as here stated, quoted. It being, of course! understood thst they present my own peraonal opinion formed after attendance at several of the navigation congresses and conversation with people here locally Intereatwl In h nl,.llr,n With kind re gards, I am, very truly yours, VICTOR ROSEWATER. Hon. Theodore E. Burton, United Slates Senate, Washington, D. C. Washington Life Some IxAereaJa( and Ceadltleas Osservai at tke JTaUoa-a Capitol. A rush of tetters, rivaling In quantity tne mall pace of a gueaslng conteat, furnish lots of work for the secretaries of western senators and representatives these piping days of spring. Much ot the correspondence relate the recent row over the house rules. and their tenor gives Washington the im pression that Cannonlsm la regarded as a plague in the west. A newspaper man writing about the final act In the insur gent rumpus, following the announcement of the vote against declaring the speaker's chair vacant, added these wordi; "Among, the first men to hurry forward and shake hands and , congratulate the speaker on his personal vindication waa Representative Norris himself." Well, when that item got Into the news papers It certainly did start things In Norris direction. The boys out on the Nebraska prairies began writing letters and telegrams, de manding to .know If It were true that Norris did actually shake hands and con gratulate the speaker. They indicated that no Nebraska In surgent could stand as the real article and shake hands with the speaker. "We have been told out here," said one correspondent, "that you are more hated by the speaker than any other man In the house. Have we been buncoed?" "And the worst of it la," aald Mr. Norris In telling about his troubles In the Wash ington Times, "that the speaker hasn't spoken to me for more than a year, and I haven't spoken to him. I didn't con gratulate him, and don't appear to have any chance of congratulating him on any thing for a mighty long time to come." Another correspondent who sent out a like statement with reference to a senator, a few days later met the senator and this frost: "Uo away. I do not want to aee you any more. Don't you ever come to my office again." "Why, what Is the matter?" Inquired the correspondent. "You do not tell the truth. You send on misinformation." "In what respect?" "You telegraphed on that 1 congratu lated Cannon." , "You certainly joined those that were doing so and were near enough to do so. You got as close to him as you could and I thought I saw you shake the speaker's hand." "No sir; you did not. I never old It. 1 was just passing by. It is an infamous lie. Let me never see you again, never, never again." It's something of a compliment when Senator Bourne aaka a fellow to have a cigar, as the senator frequently does. It Is said that the senator has three hobbles, Oregon apples, mining stock and $1 cigars. He vies witli J. I'ierpont Morgan and other magnates in the expenslveness of the latter-named luxury. Senator Bourne takes a smoke whenever ha feels like it, too, and Inasmuch as he la not stingy in handing them around among his friends upon favorable opportunities, It la a bit staggering to contemplate what the cigar bill of the Oregon senator Is per annum. Some senators do not smoke at all, others manage to get along somehow with the IS to 60-cent brand, but Senator Bourne, so his friends say, cannot really enjoy a smoke unless one whole American dollar was spent for it. He wants the beat. Senator Warner of Missouri rose to apeak at a dinner that waa being given by the Missouri Republican league In Wash ington. He had been Introduced at some length, and rather sugary things had been aald about him, Whatever brought the story to his mind be didn't say. Possibly it was that Introduction. "In a western town there was a vil lage drunkard," said the senator. "I want to tell a story about him to Illustrate what a change In a man's mood drink may make. This drunkard was often under the care of the village doctor. The doctor de cided to move to Texas. The drunkard met him on the street In the morning be fore he had had a drink. " 'Hello, doc,' he aald, "understand you're going to Texas. Well, I've got a brother out there by the name of Bill. If you see Bill you tell him that my crops are rotten this year. Stock Is In bad shape. My wife needs clothes and the kids are nearly naked. If he has a little loose change that be doo't need tell htm to send It along. I'll pay It back.' The doctor said he would convey the message to Bill If be chanced to meet that person. "An hour later, when he bad had two drinks, tho drunkard met the doctor again. 'Hello, doe,' he aald, 'understand you're going to Texas. I've got a brother out there by the name of Bill. If you see Bill tell him I'm getting along all right Crops are fair. Stock not ao bad. Klda gettin' along all light. So la the old woman. !f you aet Bill, tell him I don't need any help.' "Two hours after this, when the drunk ard had had several more drinks, he met si m Mr shw "TaW T.Tu" That's the kind of cooking Ujoa every time if you use ffBlSjPiCEj , Tone's Spices put life Into your cooking. Give it ' a flavor and zest that only spices of full strength and flavor can give. Tone's Spices possess every nuality that bulk spices lark. 1 hey are fresh they are tull-atrencth rhey flavor ot fresh-milled spices. If not mf ymr grncrrt, mmnd u 10cfmnJ yoir ecera nmmm, Wm miti fwn4 rsur rmtmil Mrfc ige mnJ mmr coo o 'Time's Spicy . " There are two kinds of snicea TONK BROS. aod-eM." TONE BRO&, Deal Mclnca. Iowa ( BlMMlara el the eelv antes OLD GOLDEN COFFEE the doctor again. 'Hello, doc,' said the drunkard, 'understand you're going to Texas." and so forth. 'If you see Bill tell him I waa never In better shape. Crops are fine. Stock fat and sassy. Family on r.ay aireei. Ten BUI, If you ae him. that I'll send 1,1m some money if lie's up againsi it. The pieces of pie and the glasses of milk are growing smaller In the house restau rant at the capltol. Thla discouraging fact has been gradually dawning upon the mem bers for some time, reports the Wellington Times, and unless the shrinkage stops at once the lucky individual who is Just now conducting the eating house will find him self facing an Investigation. "This piece of pumpkin pie, mado of squash, Is Just one-quarter smaller than the 10-cent piece I ueed to buy here two years ago," remarked one of the western repre sentativcM as he surveyed the little three cornered slab. "Considering the fact that the restaurant man gets his rent, heat and light free, I do not think he ought to sting us qurto so hard. He chargea 28 cents for a turkey or chicken sandwich centu for a bowl of soup, SO oents for a piece of fish no larger than the palm of your hand, andJ wnen you buy a steak you are expected to mortgage your home to pay for It. "Senator McCumber ii over hare the other day and had a steak. When he re ceived his bill he did a little figuring on the menu card, and announced that If the whole of the ordinary steer was sold at the rate that steak brought the animal would net JfOOO. Now I call that going some." Over In the senate restaurant. Where the same scale of prloes prevails, the senators have compelled the restaurant manager to place a "No tipping" line on all the menu cards. Consequently, the carda are very hard to get nowadays, and If a guest In slsts upon having one before he orders, the waiter snatches It and buries it under the tablecloth before the next customer alt down. The sign on the oard does not prevent the waiters from grabbing all the tips they can get, nor does It keep them from neglecting patron the next day If he haa forgotten to "come across ' on the previous visit. r - PERSONAL NOTES. Mr. Ctrnegie says the ambition to become a millionaire Is a low one. It is odd how millionaires wpurn money. Nobody else dpes. In support of Its claims as an unrivaled summer resort Chicago respectfully calls attention to the fact that six bottles of beer and one perch were pulled out of its lake on the same fishing line. Mme. Anna Rogstad, the first woman member of the Storthing, which Is the lower house In the Norwegian Parliament, was a teacher in one of the primary grades of the public schools in Christian! when elected. John Tonkin of Olarsboro, N. J., probably the oldest man ever admitted to the New Jersey bar, celebrated his 87th birthday recently. Mr. Tonkin passed the bar ex amination at the February term and has been admitted to practice In all the courts. Miss Kate K. Adams, who la private sec retary to the chief of poltco ot Chicago, and has a right to make arrests when elie thinks them necessary, has established c new precedent In that ctty. She found that she had been overpaid for a part of the time, and voluntarily refunded the money to the city. Mies Eleanor R. Gebhart, daughter ot Senator William C. Gebhart of Hunterdon oounty. New Jersey, has been admitted to the bar of New Jersey. She will become, a professional partner of her father, who hat law offices in Jersey City. It is said that the women lawyers In New Jersey can be counted on the fingnrs of two hands. NEVADA'S DISGRACE. Popular An-akenlosr Against I, awe Eaposrsstsf ' Divorce.. Philadelphia Bulletin. Those Americans who believe In liberal divorce laws have no reason to regret the movement that has been started In Ne vada to do away with the fraud-Inciting statutes which tempt wealthy persona to seek a brief, fictitious residence there in order to gain freedom from their marital responsibilities, ... The citizens of that western common wealth who are striving to have the "res idential" requirement to the case of liti gants made something more than a farce and a abana ate not necessarily advocates of extreme stringency In divorce legisla tion. What they are apparently aeekl.-.g to secure U the removal from their state of a peculiarly odious stigmxv-ona that brands It as a community willing to cell for money the prlvUege of evading the statutes which prevail over the remainder of the union. Whether the belief la entertained that divorce should be granted only in exceed ingly rars instances and for the gravest causes, or whether It Is held that It ought Plb r-lfc! aJ VAK9W m GalALED coxes: : li Snappy Gingery Gintrernsmips with tr?p to them Gingerbread of the gingery kind, Spice-cake that taste of spice, you can depend f, Firm ftiosa Cniwi fnuae ben at vf Tits tney arcluU'bodted Jure the arouiaue to be given whenever i6 persons cjm nn longer live together with a tolerable degree of harmon), there is no room for Olfferrnce of opinion regarding essential ftau.l. backed by perjury. "and made available eolely for those who have plenty of caxh to spend to gratify their own Inclinations. The money which the TSwyers, landlords and amusement purveyors of Reno gain by pandering to rich easterners Who arc unwilling to abide by the laws of 'the states In which they actually live, may fatten the Incomes of a few hundred In dividuals. But If It were fifty timea an great In amount, It would he eear.Ly com pensation for the dishonor which the pro cess Involves. Both the Dakotas were formerly in the same disgraceful position. Both freed themselves from it after a hard fight; and their reputation waa Im proved accordingly In the estimation of decent people throughout the . country. Their example rhould be an instructive one for the people of Nevada. ' PASSING PLEASANTRIES. "Hllftglns and Ms wife aie Bolny to have trouble," satd Mrs, Brldgeton, "Why. he Is absolutely devoted to her!" "I know he In. But how can a woman love a man who persistently trumps Ii.m partner's ace?" Yahington Star. "I felt so sorry when I heaid your house was burned down. Mrs. Jones." "said Mrs. Hawkins. "It was loo fcnd," said Mrs. Jones, "but It had Its brlKht side. John and I were both afraid to ilischarare our conk, but now that the houre is cone, of course e don't have to." Harper's Weekly. 'Yen, Mrs. foaylelsl: has found It neces sary to ito nest and remain there tor some tlnve " "Pulmonltlsr' "No, Renottls." Cleveland I'lain Dealer. "Father. what 1s meant by bank ruptcy?" .Bankruptcy la when you put your money In your hip pocket and let your creUiuir take your coat." New . York I'res.i. What, marry old Kownders. Don't you know he ItadN a double life?" Yes. But It i don't merry him I con tinue to lead a single life. Which is worse?" Cleveland Leader. "We are going to have a fine gat'ilen this year flowers to beat the band, and e are going to raise oir wn vegetahlee." "Have you done. any work on 4i yet?". '.'(t course." , . . - "Have you been spading up and dUginii and the reat of It?" ."Not exactly, but we've sent for all the catalogues we've seen advertised free." Baltimore American, A PLAIN LITTLE WOMAN. J. W. Foley In New York Timta. Just a plain little woman, with plain lit tie ways, i Who "tidies" the parlor with aweepinK and dusting; Whose nights are for rexting between two tired days, Whose faith is abiding, neaven-seeklng. God trusting; A tlied little woman, who puts lads to bed, And lassies, and tucks them all In with caresHlng; Who breathes a sweet prayer over each little head, And devoutly knows (iod and the worth of His bltmlng- A worn little wotran, 'yet wearing a aiulle That resists the sulcus ot ,U1 time upon beauty; ; Who Is, oh. such a iAlnauce from fash Ion and stylo. But always so iiose '.upon pal 'er.ee anj duty; Yho.-,e uays ate a struggle of making ends meet, Whoso brow Is deep lined with tha real cos1, of living. Whoso sou) ban uoen tried fifty years anil found sweet, Who knows unught of getting, but knows ell ot glviny. A good little woman, who somehow hai learned The lesson of faith that wltluutnds every trial. Whoso wifehood and motherhood noa'y have earned -The crown tf her glory with tho na f denial; i A real Hula woman, w ho gives io the world Her children, reared up In tho a" riirnt llvina: Whose brow is all laureled, whose heart is an pearled With year in ond yecr out of lovli.g an'. g'lVl.lg. v, A K'ad I It tin woman for Just a dim tuy Of Kfth.t in this world wltli Its wuiidor und splendor; Who Is never too tired at the close cf her day To be watchful with love that la wist ful and tender; Who knits und who patches ar.d over her thread And needle and yarn In the nighttime Is .bending, When all of her world and lta treasurus in bed, Whose rest ne'er begins and whose task .ever ending. A plnir Utile woman vaya. with plain little Whi Ufa l, God knows, (ura a dull Hule story; Who muthe.-u a brotS ail her tlrad ltU: ., . What mensure of treeajre thai, be nets in glory) Who know a he-.- as I do, and treasuros the aniil That resists the attacks of time upon beauty; . Whose wavs were so far cast from fash Ion and style, . But oh, who walked close beside pa tience and duty? nut. mu it it ITSSl Of KSH Till CilTUIEI III i:ia:-i rsriuim iuuutt I swell , 1 tmera J iesa sw i SWia IiihJ ! " "msi BBS IB1 IB I a Lvel r i 1