TIlK BEE: OMAHA. MONDAY, MAY 9, 1010.
THE ONLVllA-'DAILYjjER
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STATEMENT OF" CirtCDLATlUN.
State of Nebraska. Douglas County. ss.:
tieorge 11. Tsschtick. ireaHiirer or The
Ilea Publishing Company, be. rig duly sworn,
ay thai the actual number of full n'ul
complete copies of The Daily. Morning,
Evening and Sunday Bee punted during the
month of April. lttiO, was ua follows:
1 41.800 J 8 ."
t 48,910 17
t 43,100 JS 3'360
4 44,400 1 4aJB0
t 43,770 !i 42,560
4 43,840 21 42,660
7 4J.690 Tl 42,620
42 090 13 43,100
43,060 14 41,400
10 44.UC0 i 42.840
11 42,840 2 43,830
12 42,660 17 42,600
13 42,000 IS 42,690
14 42,680 ti.. 42,700
It 42,700 10 ...43,970
Total , 1,284,540
Returned copiss 10,421
Net total 1,874,119
Dally average 42.470
OEORUE B. ' TZSCHl'CK,
Treasurer.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before me thia 2d day of May, 1910.
M. P. WALKER,
Notary Public.
aherrlbrra tearing; the city tem
porarily should have The Dee
mailed to them. Audrcmea will be
changed aa often aa requested.
Has the weather man been trying to
hide the comet'.'
Iowa senators are coming borne.
Congress hat not yet adjourned.
Long live George V! And may he
make a better record than the other
Georges.
Sarah Bernhardt has begun one of
her "farewell tours." Must be her
final farewell.
Our guess on the Omaha census Is
that a large majority of the guesses
have overshot the mark,"" '
Strange how all those Illinois legis
lators who got the money just hap
pened to be democrats.
Some of tho New York suffragettes
are coming to Omaha to tell us what
we want. Welcome to our city.
"The United States Is all right,"
says the laird of Skibo as he sails
away to Europe for the summer.
Washington la looking for a big fruit
crop and California will probably come
also to the rescue. So, cheer up while
jou can.
An Atlanta paper publishes the pho
tographs of two negroes who com
mitted murder. My, but they ara get
ting considerate down there!
A wise man in Boston has predicted
that Colonel Koosovelt means to write
a book or two on his experiences
abroad. How did he guess It?
The democrats Beem tq be agreed
that their next national contention
will not be run by the same long dis
tance telephone that ran the last one.
The poor, downtrodden packers
hava one friend, anyway. Governor
Kort of New Jersey has refused to
grant papers extraditing J. Ogden
Armour.
Mark Twain ia going through what
, most big men do w hen they die hav
ing It said of him by about every tenth
man. "I know him when he wasn't
, much."
It Is high time the "rich American
girls were beginning to "freeo the
fortune hunters," the betltled foreign
era who come seeking wives with large
doweries.
It Is significant that both former
Ambassadors Lincoln and Choate pay
much the same tribute to the late King
Edward, emphasizing the personal and
private side of his character.
Mr. Bryan has hit a happy pl.rase ln
calling the farm "the gymnasium of
he nation and nursery of the repub
lic." It Is significant, too, when one
thinks of that Fnirvlew farm and its
ambitious proprietor.
Eastern newspapers think Waterloo,
Neb., a rather aesthetic community be
cause It passes an ordinance forbidding
its barbers to eat onions,' but to get
he full force of this one mutt be on
ipeaklng terms at least with the
Waterloo onion.
The sundry civil service appropria
tion bill before congress carrier one
Item for Nebraska In the sum of $37,
(00 to complete the public building at
Kearney. Needless to add that Sena
tor Norrls Brown lives at Kearney
vbajD he Is at home.
I t
xasKS facing n.iag ueorge.
The political crisis in Parliament Is
only on? of the grave problems facing
Orrat Rrltaln with which, Its new sov
ereign muRt grapple. It Is serious,
touching the national life at every an
gle and on Its solution must depend to
a large extent the solution of every
other. Nor doe the duty of maintain
ing Hrltlsh "Influence for International
peace constitute King George's chief
task, Important as that Is. He finds
his country by comparison losing
ground while others are gaining ln
finance, commerce and industry, and
herein lies the severest teat of his
power.
Whether, as an Knglish writer has
said, Great Britain Is in a state of In
dustrial decadence or not, it is not
making progress in these lines. It Is
borrowing more than It la lending, not
only ln money, but Inventions that in
fluence the social and Industrial life of
the nation. Not In twenty years has
England turned out an epochal Inven
tion, and Inventions are taken aa one
criterion of a country's growth and de
velopment. In the case of England It
seems to be a fair Index. The social
and industrial status of any nation are
closely correlated. Its army of unem
ployed is Increasing, making poverty
general, because wages are low and
labor discontented.
These conditions loom larger in the
eyes of the world than even the crux
of the political strife and must consti
tute the chief problem confronting the
new king. It seems that England's so
cial and industrial destiny must be
worked out through Its colonies, for
Its contiguous territory is all too
small to offer any material extension
of agriculture. It may be that King
George will be the first to soe his way
out through th!". channel, for it was he
who aroused the world a few years
ago, after touring the British colonies,
by calling on England to "wake up"
and look to the development of Its In
sular possessions along lines of closer
harmony and co-operat:on.
V. 4 SrW SJ '
Meddlesome Intrusion.
And now comes the Anti-Saloon
league, through its Imported salaried
superintendent, with a formal demand
on Governor Shallenberger to include
the enactment of its county option law
among the subjects to be considered In
any call for a special session of the
legislature.
This meddlesome Intrusion will nat
urally be resented by the governor,
and probably also by his political ad
visers who had been figuring on put
ting the whole question Of liquor leg
islation to sleep by the initiative and
referendum route with the' Idea-; thit
they would thereby make themselves
immune to further Importunities from
anti-saloon sources.
Why, Indeed, should anyone speak
ing for the Anti-Saloon league tall on
Governor Shallenberger to put county
option on the special session program
along with the Initiative and referen
dum? The excuse for projecting tho
initiative and referendum Is that It
was inserted in last year's democratic
platform, although It was notiit-4he
democratic platform upon which the
governor and legislature were elected.
But when it comes to county option no
such side-stepping is possible, because
the governor ran tin a populist on a
populist platform, as well as a demo
crat, and the populist platform on
which he was elected distinctly and
specifically pledged him to county op
tion. So if platforms are binding
Governor Shallenberger is commlttted
at least as much, if not more, to county
option than he is to initiative and ref
erendum. During the campaign the Incongru
ous position of the governor running
on a popullBt platform promising
county option, and on a democratic
platform promising personal liberty
and home rule, was repeatedly pointed
out by The Bee with the intimation
that one side or the other was going to
be fooled. It Is, therefore, really
mean for the antl saloonists to try to
drive him Into a corner and compel
him to show his hand at this particu
lar time when he would most like to
be let alone.
World Crop Reporting: Service.
If the international crop-repoitlng
service is perfected as projected by the
fifty countries forming the Interna
tional Institute of Agriculture, It may
become difficult for speculators to con
trol the prices of agricultural staples
and more nearly possiblo for tho law of
equilibrium to operate. Congrets has
recently published and had distributed
an inteiesting report made by a Ger
man delegate to this institute which
sets forth fully this plan of cr.iy re
porting, which ought to be most Im
portant at this time when so much is
being said rnd done about the high
cost of living.
This International Institute of Agri
culture, which was organized at Paris
in 10t". has for Its main purpose the
obtaining of reliable Information as to
the world'a supply of wheat, rye, bar
ley, oats, corn, rice tnd cotton that
will enable legitimate agricultural and
commercial Intorosts to arrive rt an
actual basis of prices for these staples,
and remove the contro; or them from
(lie hands of stock gamblers. The
United States, that has suffered so
much from the evil of fictitious prices,
is one of these fifty adhering nations,
and congress Is evincing a keen Inter
eft in this movement. This country
nor any other needs additional proof
of the peril of market manipulation.
The law of supply and demand and
that alone fhould govern prices. Act
ual shortage of crops, by area of per
acre yield, must enter Into the forma
tion of prices, but speculation as to
what the results are likely to be, or
systematic deception with reference to
them have no right to con'rolllng In
fluences. The three important factors
in the economic life of nations are
agriculture, commerce end consump
tion, and they have a legitimate Inter
est in obtaining reliable and authorita
tive Information as to the world's sup
ply of these staples for the purpose of
fixing prices. The farmer has a right
to a price that will pay him for his
outlay and a reasonable profit, but he
has no right to a price beyond that,
and If he consults his best intersst will
not desire it, for a price that curtails
demand is hurtful to him. But no con
cession Is to be made to the man who
trafflcks In the staples of life purely
for speculation and this most disas
trous of evils is aimed at In this far
reaching, world-wide movement at fix
ing prices.
The system of obtaining this au
thoritative information has been re
duced to simple details which seem to
promise complete success. The first
step Is to obtain from all the adhering
countries reports of the areas of the
different crops; the second, reports on
the sowing conditions, climatic and
otherwlpe; third, periodical reports on
conditions and progress; fourth, pre
liminary estimate; fifth, preliminary
reports during harvest; sixth, final
statement of yield soon after harvest;
seventh, reports on circulating stocks
and stocks In wire-houses.
Need of Raising1 More Cotton.
The campaign for intensified farm
ing ruiiBt be extended to the cotton
fields of the south. A prominent south
ern planter says that at the present
rate of development In manufactories
the south will soon be consuming all
of Its raw material, exporting none to
(he mills of New England or abroad.
Such a result would revolutionize the
Industry of cotton manufacturing,
closing down many factories and send
ing the price of cotton goods up be
yond all reason. The cotton grower
and manufacturer of the south would
profit, at least up to the point where
the Influence of exorbitant prices re
acted in a reduction of the demand for
the finished product.
Today in all the world there are ln
operation 128,280,000 cotton spindles,
of which only 27,880,000 are in the
United States, but the number Is rap
idly increasing in Dixie, and If the
present rate of Increase la maintained
cotton spinning will overtake cotton
production down there within a few
years. Today these foreign factories
depend largely for their cotton on the
south, which last year produced a total
of 18,828,846 bales, which was still
only about 2,000,000 bales more than
the output in 1899 and the 1899 crop
was double that of 1889. The world
consumes outside the United States
about 12,000,000 bales a year.
From these statistics but one con
clusion is possible -that cotton pro
duction is not keeping up with capacity
for cotton spinning and that the pro
duction of raw material must be in
creased. There are two primary reme
dies for the situation. One la to open
up to cultivation some of the vast
areas of the south today lying idle and
the other Is to Increase the yield per
acre, which can be done with cotton
aa it is being done with corn undfr the
system of Intensified farming. Here is
an Inviting subject for our agricultural
and soil doctors, aa well as immigra
tion officers of the country, who might
holp by diverting landseekers to the
south, where land Is plentiful and
cheap. ,
Mercy and Justice.
Striking an even balance between
these two elements is one of the great
problems ln life. The character that
equally possesses both and can exercise
one without violence to the other in
the exception and not the rule. Jus
tice Is the stronger of the two, because
it involves more often necessity, a
wider scope of human rights and a
better mental poise. It is safe to be
merciful if one can at the same time
be just, to "temper justice with
mercy," but it is dangerous to be mer
ciful if justice is cheated.
The judge who yields to a tender
emotion, a maudlin sympathy for the
erring, and lets off a guilty man with
too light a penalty to meet the de
mands of the law, or none at all,
strikes a blow at justice. He looks
only at the case of the condemned
man. who, no matter what his pitiful
plight may be, has no nght that should
bo considered before the rights of so
ciety which he has offended. The
larger rights aro those of the people,
and they are tho rights to be conserved
and protected before those of the crim
inal, or the offender against the law.
Impulse and emotion tend to blind
the eye to Justice. In the home. In
business, at the law, the principle is
the same. To be just we must first
know the truth and then apply the
law without fear or favor.
, Over ln Illinois they seem to regard
It as something suspicious that certain
members of the legislature Immedi
ately after adjournment either paid off
mortgages or bought new houses, or
acted as if they were "flush." When
our late democratic Nebraska legisla
ture adjourned members of the Doug
las delegation, who could previously
have pleaded poverty, forthwith took
pleasure trips to Honolulu, to Europe
or to Hot Springs and began traveling
around in automobile. But, of course
there Is nothing suspicious in this.
Faithful and efficient service in In
conspicuous position deserves tribute
aa well as brilliant achievement. The
death of Ephriam P. Ivens takes The
Bee's oldest continuously employed
compositor. printer of the eld school,
who was with The Bee and its founder
ln the early struggles, always ready
and always loyal. In his later years,
burdened( with physical aliments, he
had been practically pensioned, .vork
ing as he felt disposed. Althouga un
known probably to our readers, he
formed part of the complex machinery
which produced for tbem their daily
newspaper for more than a quarter of a
century and, while this machinery will
continue to revolve as before, he will
be missed by those who were associ
ated with him.
The water company wants the city
to pay 6 per cent interest on money
invested ln improvements pending pur
chase which looks a little high. But
still, the city is paying 7 per cent In
terest to the water company on the
money due for hydrant rentals which
have been held up by the high finan
ciers on the Water board. A "do
nothing" Water board cornea high, but
we must have it.
Governor Shallenberger is busy de
livering a nonpartisan political lecture
on the subject of "Education," the
point of which is that everyone should
be educated to vote the democratic
ticket whenever the governor Is run
ning. Speaker Cannon says he hopea to
live until 1915 that ha may dance the
Virginia reel at the dedication of the
Panama-Pacific exposition ln San
Francisco. Not even the insurgents
will want to deny him that pleasure.
A St. Louis preacher Bays dressing
for Sunday Is a labor to be avoided.
Our women may have to learn the
habit of their Japanese sisters, who
keep their hair done up and sleep on
their necks.
The weather man seems to have
spared the Commercial club trade
boosters the necessity of traveling this
time as rain-makers. But the Omaha
boosters will freshen things up just the
same when they get started.
New Orleans has not been scared
out of the race for the Panama exposi
tion by San Francisco's puree of
16,000000, but will really get down to
business before the Louisiana legisla
ture, which convenes today.
Some of the president's captious
critics kicked when he did not mention
Secretary Knox in his public utter
ances and now they are kicking since
he did. Looks like knocks cither way.
Saanlcloaa Rnthaalaam.
Kansas City Times.
Western republicans may set this flown
as certain: If the so-called administration
railroad bill was the right kind of a bill,
the enthusiasm of Aldrlch and Steve Elklns
would be lacking.
A Minority of One. '
Chicago Tribune.
It must have surprlaed Mr. Bry.in when
he looked around and fHurd that he was
the only man who had risen to oppose a
vote of confidence In Governor Hughes as
a auprema Judge. '
'HhplvluB" Hnoaevelt. 1
Washington Herald.
The funniest political euggeatinn we have
heard in many moons is the one promul
gated by gome unnamed person to the
effect that Mr. Roosevelt might be
"shelved" by electing him to the United
States sedate I
- A Whang from the Sooth.
Boston Herald.
After all. tl.ere'a no admiration for T. R.
quite o warm aa that of a red-hot south
ern devotee. Saya Clark llowella of At
lanta: "I'nder conditions which are not
at all unlikely to exist, Theodore Roose
velt, If he is nominated for the presidency
two yeara hence, will .split the solid south
from h 1 to breakfast."
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A Few Tltlra Left.
Cleveland Leader.
The men are taking up more names from
the animal kingdom for tholr club organ
izations. Klk. moose and stag ara pre
empted. The women may be expected to
take the hint. The Confederation of Ducks'
Clubs would be fascinating, and nothing
could be more dent- than the American
League of Gentle Gaaelles.
Patting Meawontilhllltr an State.
Bonton Herald.
The supreme court haa been Insistent In
Its declaration of the sovereignty of state
hood and its repeated decisions affirming
the antl-monopolj- laws of the states ought
to turn the attention of those who are look
ing to Washington for relief from every III,
and suggest the power and responalblllty
that properly rests in atato capltolB.
Paulina of mi Old Warrior,
Boston Transcript.
Another Unit with tho historic paat Is
broken hy tho death of General N. A. M.
Dudley, whose original cominlsalon In the
regular army was signed by Franklin
Pierce In 1KS5. General JJudley bore an old
Massachusetts naino and there was a cer
tain fitness In Lexington being tho birth
place of an American aoldler wlioae aerv
lee antedated the civil war and also was
In active command almoat a quarter of a
century after It conclualon. That longevity
la consistent with all the ranka of the
profession, that many thousands of bul
lets miss to one thut hits la evidenced hy
the fact that if every minute Genera Dud
ley naa under fire In fighting confederatea
and Indiana i counted the total la ninety
days.
Our Birthday Book
Charles It. Cramp, the big shipbuilder,
was born May . In Phllndelphli.
Cramp's shipyards are known the world
over, and are reputed to bo the best In
this country.
H. A. Center, nead of the department of
chemistry In the Omaha High school, la 42.
He was born right here In Omaha, and
after graduating at the I'niverslty of Ne
braska finished his education In graduate
work at Heidi Iberg. He has been teaciung
chemistry to Omaha High school I Hplls
slneo I!'T.
Kdward W'. Hlmeral, lawyer, with offlin
l'i the First NVtlu.ia! bank building, n !-Z.
He was born In Stubenvlll. O., Juc-.itrJ
at Ktnyon college and admlttrd to the cur
lit Omaha in 1S78.
Ellis II. Wltsun of th M Carthy-Wilnn
Tailoring company nai horn May 9, I a, at
VliR-ennes. Ind. Mr. Wilson hii i:i the
tailoring boxlners In ft. I.iuls from I'.S .
y.2. Mnce wnii-.i time he has been In charg
of the lailuiing imblijiiineiil in Omaha
Around New York
Bipplea aa the Cnrrtnt of X,lfs
as in the Orsat American
Metropolis froaa . Say to Say.
Halley a comet Is doing some good to
New Torkers. A fair percentage of the
population are coming out Into the open
from ths burrows In the neighboring can
yens and looking up. The rare exhllara
tlon of gating skyward gives nteded cxer
cine -to the rubber of the neck and pro
duces Joyful elasticity in the tills of deal'
era In optical Instruments. Telescopes and
marina and field glasses are In great de
mand, giving the business a boom It has
not experienced for years. All classes of
people have become astronomers, and as
a rule thy are not buying small, cheap
Instruments, but first-class telescopes that
sell from $.7) to $30. Pawnshop are among
the places where the cheaper glasses or
small telescopes are being sold In great
quantities.
Through the strains of a harmonica and
a pair of clappers, Louis Kaplan, a tailor
of 40 East One Hundred and Thirty-second
street, early In the morning heard what
sounded like someone forcing the door of
bis shop. Kaplan, who Uvea behind the
tailor shop, and his wife were asleep when
the muBio of a lusty harmonica and a pair
of "bones" aroused him. Someone was
playing merrily In front of the store.
Ha was about to turn over and go to
sleep again when he heard a noise above
the music. He crawled on his hands and
knees Into the store.
Just then Patrolman McDonald ap
pronched and found three young men, two
of thm making the music and the other
apparently Idle. McDonald was not sus
picious, until he raw Kaplan ln Ms night
shirt standing at the door and signaling
over the shoulders of ths three youths,
who stood backs to the door. As McDon
ald closed In the three darted away, drop
ping a steel Jimmy and the harmonica and
"bones."
After a chase of two blocks McDonald
caught one of the youths; the others es
caped. He was charged with attempted
burglary. An examination showed that
someonn had been using a Jimmy on the
tailor shop door. The other two young
men made good their escape.
Twenty thousand pounds of goat meat
Is consumed in Brooklyn weekly now be
cause of the high prices demanded for
beef, lamb, mutton and pork. It Is selling
at ft or I cents a pound lower than mutton
and lamb, and no effort is being mad to
violate th law by concealing Its Identity.
Most of the goat meat is used by the poorer
classes. Many of those who us It say
they Ilk It fully aa well as th higher
priced meats. They also assert It Is
equally nourishing. Most of ths goat meat
supply comes from ths western meat cen
ters, and th goats are sent here, dressed
for the wholesale market.
Dealers In that borough say that last
year scarcely any goats were sent to their
market and that now goat meat Is a recog
nised commodity, which seems to be grow
ing ln popularity ln the poorest sections.
It Is thought If th existing high meat
prices continue th use of goat meat will
spread to Manhattan and the Bronx and
thousands of persons will use that flesh
as a substitute for more expensive meats.
What the consumers fear Is that as soon
as the meat trust knows th goat Is com
peting with It In th most Important mar
ket ln this country It will proceed to cor
ner the goat supply and Jack up the prices.
A well dressed stranger entered the of
fice of Justice William B. Williams, Mont-
clalr, N. J., and after shaking hands as
tonished th Justice by saying: "I'm hero
to redeem that counterfeit 110 bill I passed
on you. Two years ago I called on you
with my girl and two witnesses and you
married us. I handed you a $10 bill. I
had a counterfeit In my pockotboo thai
I'd carried for several years. I never
missed it until yesterday. Then I remem
bered that I'd accidentally handed you tho
bill." Th caller produced a good $10 bill.
but the Justice refused to take It. "Don't
let that worry you, nr.y dear fellow," he
laughed. "I never knew It was a coun
terfeit. No kind of money sticks to me
over night. I'm married, myself."
Magistrate O'Connor of New York
staitled a pickpocket brought before him
hv his knnwledaa of thieves' slang. "I
ruppose," said the magistrate, "you were
framing a sucker to get away witn a
whnl. front, or at least you expected to
snag a poke or a super and a alnnsr. In
stead you got dropped by a flatty and were
canned for a sleep, eh 7" Fifty years ago
George W. Matsell, special Justice and
chief of police m iNew rora, eauea
"VocSbulum; or th Rogue's Lexicon." He
would understand today the meaning of
"sucker" "noke." "suner ana a siang."
but what would h say to "a whole front?"
Now "retting a whole front Is to take
everything the victim has. "Bupor and
slang" Is an, old Slang pnrase in ngiana
ss in America.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Clabba. of No. S01
Bowery and Jimmy Brondl went to the
rlirht eourt with all their relatives In tow.
They told Magistrate Hermann that they
were about to participate in tne weaning
f Mi- Paul Clabba to Jimmy Brondl
and that the Magistrate had been chosen
to officiate.
"But," said the perplexed court, "Is not
Mrs. Taul Clabba already married?"
"Ah, yes." answered Paul, smiling, "but
I wish that she marries Jimmy Brondl
here, and to hltn I will give all our fu-ni-ture."
Magistrate Hermann explained the divorce
laws to a tearful band of Italians who
made tholr grief known to all Sixth avenue
when they departed.
Of the 71 cabin passexgrrs on the An
chor liner Caledonia, from Glasgow and
Ijr.donderry, arriving last week, forty
seven were young women who are to
marry thrifty Scotchmen during the nenct
few weeks. The Intending husbands have
been here long enough to get settled and
put enough by t send for their near
brldts. The number of approaching newly
weds on th Caledonia was a record for the
Anchor line boats,
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Betrothal Announcement.
San Francisco Chronicle.
It Is announced that William Randolph
Htarat hat decided to at last take back
Miss Democracy to his bosom, that erratic
and somewhat shopworn spinster having
finally reached the point where she is
ready to accept him as her prophet and
prince. The wooing haa been long and
stormy, but the ending is to be happy. It
Is true thSt the announcement comes from
' the Hearst aid lather than from the other
j party to the treaty, but since Mr. Hearst
professes to be willing to forgive and for
get and to take back the forlorn and shel
terleat wanderer to his protecting arms, one
may, be very well assured that there will
be no coyncfi or delay In accepting the
Invltat'on.
Hurt IblMWl
lndianapolla Na.
The coincidence of a k'lllng frost In Ne
braska and the refusal of th county com
missioners to let Mr. Bryan apeak In the
(ocrt hou!e must, of ci.urse, be regarded
merely a a coincide
Better Spices
Better Cooking
Spice quality dernds upon purity "ancj strength.
Fresh, purr, selected spices go tw ice as far at
sice purchased in bulk and kept in a paper bag.
Exposure to air and moisture spoils spjee, that'iwhy
BliE WPItK
art always sold In strength - flavor -
Spices arefoo good to let spoil.
uniform high quality. Just to prove that there u a
fast drfferenct in spices, wt want you to try Tone's.
We guarantee you have never had a spict of better
quality. Ask your grocer
HOT
PSPPtR
SatnON
CINNSM0M
PEMNQ
CLOVES
MUSTARD
NUTMEfl
ALUPICI
CTC, ETC.
for Tone epicct.
If fi Jo nl hmttm thm,
nnJ mm 10 twntt mnd htm
fliml. Wm will amnd regular
rmtail packarm ttom owr cook
book, n Toni Spies Talk. "
There are two kinds of
spices TONS SRUtl. and
"cttrrt."
TONE BROS., Dcs Moines, Iowa.
tltmdtr, afik, famomi OLD QOLVtTi COTTIL
PERSONAL NOTES.
Manila Rlcker, cne year old. of Dover,
N. H.. Is thought to hav more grand
parents than any other girl In New Eng
land. She hat eight grandmothers and
thre grandfathers.
It is suggested to have a ' Mothers' day."
which Is all very well, as th mothers de
serve all the honor, public and private,
Which can be paid them. But ths fathers
might be allowed some slight recogni
tion, If It extends merely to their existence.
Saleswomen throughout the country have
been sending congratulations to B. F.
Hamilton of Saoo. Me., who has Just at
tained his ninety-first birthday. Mr. Ham
ilton was the first merchant to employ
saleswomen, and the people of his town.
men and women, boycotted his store ln con
sequence.
Th Grand Army post in Brocton proposes
this year to decorate the soldiers' graves
on Memorial day with baskets of growing
pansles rather than with cut flowers
i sensible departure. As Ophelia said:
Thore's rosemary, that's for remembrance;
pray, love, remember; and there Is pansles,
that's for thoughts."
In th days of th Spanish war Corregldor
Island was associated with Ineffective
marksmanship. The War department Is
determined to hav that strong position In
Manila harbor held more efficiently than
when Dewey sailed Into th bay, and has
sent twenty companies of coast artillery.
now stationed at Fort Schuyler, which
hav a notable record for artillery prac
tice. Howard Land and John Clark Kldpath,
th latter a cousin of the historian, sailed
from New York by the Koyal Mall Liner
Atrato to Invest $3,000 In grazing land near
Santiago, Chill. They are cowboys undsr
20 years of ag and sold out a big ranch
near Dallas, Tex., to get their capital for
th Chilian venture. They say they expect
to raise big hards of cattle and to ship
them on the hoof to New York on th com
pletion of th Panama canal.
A VICTIM OK SCIENCE.
I'robabl Fatal Result of Search for
,T)phna Germ.
Brooklyn Eagle. ,
The reward offered by the United States
government for th discovery of the germ
for typhus fever, having stimulated many
surgtons to active investigation, Dr. How
ard T. Rlcketts, surgeon In the United
State marine hospital service, went to
Mexico City to pursue the search. He Is
now reported to be down with the disease,
and likely to die from It. He may thut
add one more name to the list of modern
martyrs of science, who get but a passing
thought from th pr-occupled people of
the United States.
Typhus kills hundreds of persons In Mex
ico every year. It Is a, virulent fever,
highly contagious, repulsive In Its various
phases, fatal ln about 18 per cent of the
number attacked, and In case of recovery
is often followed by continuous mental
weakness, or nervous Irritability, which
makes life almost a burden. It Is espe
cially a peril to soldiers In camp, though
not so much now at In past years. Thou
sands suffered from It in the Crimean
campaign. Nowadays sanitary camp ar
rangements have reduced th danger to a
minimum. The Isolation of the germ would
practically eliminate the prrll of typhus.
If Dr. Rlcketts dies, other men will keep
up the search. They will do It, whether
any reward Is outstanding or not. Devo
tion to science as science, and to human
ity as humanity, never had a broader de
velopment than at th present time.
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21b E I hi - - 1 vatm a wim bf
jvANDW asr I -WmjMtjfll i I HOMES. TBERE IS NO
r r-Ai cn I -'irtl?f ' j j STR0NEE1 PIGOf Of KENT '
CfttALED I 'TOfrtt"---H ' j THAN CONTINUED AM
POXES I l J J inciiein8 mfbuiiii
Gas Service
How to Get Hot
We spoke yesterday of gas ranges being used
throughout the year.
The greatest contributing cause to this is the exten
sive use of the Gas Water Heater.
There used to be but one way to procure hot water
throughout the house that was to make a fire in the
coal range. The water heater, however, has done away
with this trial.
By the small effort of lighting the burner in the
heater you may, in a short time, draw hot water from any
hot water faucet throughout the house.
For the bath, for kitchen or laundry purposes it is
the most convenient and economical way to obtain hot
water.
Omaha, Gas Company
aroma - retalning packsstt. Toot's
We test them repeatedly to insure
POINTED PLEASANTRIES.
Miss A Does your husband consider yol
a necessity or a luxury?
Mrs. B It depends, my dear, on whether
I am cooking his dinner or asking him for
a new dress. Boston Transcript.
"You should wash your money." said the
doctor to the wayfarer.
"That's wasted on me, doc," quoth the
other man. "My valuables have all been
In soak for a long time.1 Cleveland plain
Dealer.
"So you don't mind standing up in the
street car?"
"No." repled the base ball fan. "I shut
my eye and make believe It's the wwid
hnlf of the seventh Inning." Washington
Star.
"One word more," said the ' manager.
"Don't write a play loo expensive to be
staged."
"What do you mean?"
"Just this: The price of white paper lets
out snowstorms and, of course, all eating
scenes are barred." Louisville Courier
Journal. The cow hud Just Jumped over the moon.
"I have no patience with the folks who
are afraid of the comet." she cried. "Bring
It on!" New York Sun.
"And how did the old rtian treat you
when you asked him for his daughter?"
"Fine. Ha wanted to know If 1 didn't
have some brothers, and said he had threi
other girls he could spare." Cleveland
Leader.
I'ncl Joan Don't It say In the declara
tion that a Just government derives Its
power from the content of the governed?
t'nole. Sllan Yes; and It do beat every
thing what the governed will consent to.
Life.
"If you have any trade or occupation."
asked the woman of the house,' "why don't
you follow It?" i
"Ma'am." said Turfold Knutt, with his
mouth full, "I work fourteen hours every
day."
"How? At what?"
"Wit." me mind, ma'am, same et all de
great Inventors do. I'm tryln' f think up a
subs toot for Injy rubber." Chicago Trib
une. I I
MYSTERIOUS JIM.
.T. V. Owen in New York Times.
He turned up kind o' sudden like,
Cam In a walkln' on the pike:
That's all they ever k no wed of wher
He com from 'for ho landed there.
He took his meals with Tommy Clare,
An" glner ly you'd find Mm there
With lasy look an' smllln' face,
Jes' kind 0' hangtn' round the place.
He acted Innocent an' mild.
Like he had lived all undeflled:
He didn't do no work, but Jest
Loafed wher It suited 'lm the best
Some took delight In guyln" Mm.
An' nicknamed Mm Mysterious Jim,
But he kep' on without a frown,
Jes, kind o' hangln' round the town.
One night Hood's store was busted In,
An' lookln' whore the money'd been,
They found It Just as they had feared
The cash had kind o' disappeared.
Mysterious Jim had vanished, too;
They searched the country through an
through,
An' found Mm ten miles south o' Hood's,
Jes' kind o' hangtn' round the woods.
They rounded up Mysterious Jim.
An' quickly got the drop on Mm;
He showed a gun, but didn't shoot.
He seen It wouldn't hardly suit.
They searched their man, an' found th
goods .
Thut he had stole back there at Hood's,
A leather bag that held the spo
Was kind o' hangln' round his neck.
Then they prepared to take Mm back;
Of horses, though, there was a lack;
Then Jim he opened up his talk.
An' swore an oath he wouldn't walk.
They swore he shouldn't ride a step.
An' both them vicious vows was kep',
For ther they left Mysttrlrius Jlra
Jes' kind o' hangln' to a limb!
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