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v gabaertkera leavrlaa th city tea,
porarlly shoal The Bee
'Ut4 these. As4u wUl he
iBaee4 aa often Mm re ova teat.
No on can say by now that this
wool question ia not a yard wide.
Why will newspapers aalc foolish
questions like, "Will Bryan retire?"
Will the "spirit of 1876" animate
our American visitor to the corona
tion T
"Peace Talk Fills the Air" on the
border. Still, mere talk la better
than bullets.
Standard Oil would doubtleaa like
to have a recall on the 'Judge of the
supreme court right now.
The Houston Post ia trying to coax
a fight out of Deacon Hemphill by
saying he is supporting Bryan.
Mr. Bryan's free wool ultimatum
was expected to finish the Job in the
house, but it evidently bas not.
Reports say outlaws are now run
ning wild ' in Madero'a army. Dlas
probably would not appreciate the tils
Unctions. Former; Senator Hansbrough of
North Dakota baa gone to writing
novels. Possibly got the fiction babit
while "a" member."
Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison
will not have to go to jail for con
tempt of court Still, they are ad
vised not to do it again.
The English Lutherans have been
absorbed by the German Lutherans.
But no one will raise the question of
illegal combination there.
Aa long aa relatione between Mad
ero and .Navarro proceed on the Al-phonso-Gaston.
basis the war cannot
be so bad as she is painted.
Congressman Victor Berger baa
generously given the senate an exten
sion of time, allowing it-will not die
out completely for ten yeara yet.
As a center of musical culture
Omaha ia also making progress when
it can fill the big Auditorium for a fes
tival of choral and orchestral music
It la gratifying to know that Presi
dent Dlas is worth $20,000,000 and
will not suffer personal hardship If he
should relinquish his present position.
Orosco now assures Madero that he
la "the apple of my eye." Why la It
that ever aince Adam and Eve the
apple baa been the favorite fruit of
the devil?
If those highwaymen would only
confine themselves to holding up the
auto speeders their efforts would be
better appreciated by the rest of the
community.
W. E. Curtis advises us that New
port. R. I., Is the richest town in the
United States. Of course, he means
financially. Still. Reno ia a scanda
lously rich town.,.
Lincoln has reconsidered its inten
tion to try to stop treating in aalooaa
for the present. After the long
'drouth the temptation to have one on
the other fellow must be too strong
to be resisted.
It is authentically related that a
Teiaa man accidentally dropped a S
gold piece in the church collection
plate for a nickel and fainted before
he could recover it, 'The Lord loveth
a cheerful giver."
its highwayman . situation in
Omaha has again reached the stage
where there are always two bandits,
and on of tbem taller thaa the other.
Has anyone here seen the long man
and the short man?
Hereafter, when Bailey's crttlca d
maud to know what he baa done for
tk. country, his friends msy reply
that after six years" patient effort he
haa had the senate's convening hour
chsnged from noon to 3 p. m.
An Epehal Decision.
The supreme court decision order
ing the dissolution of the Standard Oil
will he epochal, although the outcome
of the case bas probably been largely
discounted so far aa its effect on busi
ness and Industry la concerned, be
cause It wss foreshadowed by previ
ous decisions of the supreme court,
and a different order would have been
surprising.
The decision is epochal, not because
of any new principle announced, but
rather because it furnishes proof that
in this country no aggregation of
wealth la so powerful as to be perma
nently above the law. That the great
est business organization the world
has ever known csn, and will, be made
to keep within the limitations which
the law-makers have set for one and
all must tend to restore confidence In
the integrity of our courts and the Im
partiality of the Judges unawed by the
influence or wealth of the individuals
or interests involved.
Only one point of the opinion is
likely to arouse criticism, snd that Is
the so-called hook thrown out as a
aavlng clause to big business In the In
timation that only "unreasonable" re
straint of trad la unlawful. If the
court proceeds upon this definition it
will make unnecessary the amendment
to the Sherman law, which has been
demanded to limit the offense to
"reasonable" restraint, and at the
same time will make the Judges In
each case the final arbitrators as to
what ia or la not "unreasonable." This
would seem to be an invitation to con
stant litigation to try out the temper
of the court and leave much to the
changing personality of its member
ship. The Standard OH, Itself, might
dissolve and reorganize, and go up
again to the supreme court to ascer
tain whether in its new form it would
be adjudged a combination in "un
reasonable" restraint of trade.
It this view is correct, then it will
still be necessary to enact laws that
will draw more sharply the line be
tween lawful and unlawful industrial
combinations so that the hazards of
business may be reduced aa much as
possible.
How Serious Ii It?
After Secretary Dickinson bad
written hia letter of resignation to the
president, he wrote a second note
offering to remain at the head of the
War department In view of develop
ments in the Mexican situation, it is
true, the president advised Mr. Dick
inson of hia willingness to accept his
resignation, but the correspondence
showed very clearly that the official
lew in Washington of the Mexican
situation ia much more serious than
the generally accepted view of the
public.
It seems no longer possible for
Washington to conceal its anxiety
over Mexico. Our government has
maintained the most impartial atti
tude toward the belllgerenta and may
be expected to continue to do so, but
that the ultimate necessity, of inter
vention is apprehended is not to be
denied. Senator Stone may have been
a bit precipitate in his insistent de
mands upon congress for authority to
the president to intervene, but he evl
dentlyhas more to Justify his theory
of possible trouble. The develop
ments following the fall of Juares
have not been satisfying to those who
hoped that it might lead to a solution
of the difficulties. - The Dlas govern
ment has been scarcely moved by what
Madero chose to regard aa a pivotal
triumph. Peace talk continues with
fine assurances of early results, but
it is plain on every band that even If
peace did issue from present negotla
tiona it would be no guarantee against
further disturbance, for the eccentrlo
clrclea of discord appear to be weav
ing themselves within factlona of the
rebel forces.
Congress and the Chautauqua.
Now comes the report that congress
may adjourn by June 16, and the rea
son given la the approaching hot
weather. Everybody who knows
Washington knows the atmosphere
heats up there during the months of
July and August. Yet thla reason la
not quite acceptable. Would a demo
cratic majority in the house and a
good-sized democratic minority In the
senate, eager to make campaign thun
der, so readily surrender the oppor
tunity involved In those thirty inves
tigations "started T" Anyone knows
that thirty such urgent Investigations
aa have been ordered could never be
completed between thla and the mid
dle of June. To compensate for a re
cession from this splendid advanced
position, any statesman must find a
better reaaon than simply warm
weather. What will the country aay
it Champ Clark and his friends for
sake It just when they had promised
full relief from every industrial and
governmental oppression by means of
these Investigations?
Ah, the Chsutauqua lecture bureau
calls. It la a pleading, persistent, im
portunate call that goes up to Wash
ington for senators or representatlvea,
any and all, who are willing to take
the platform at ao much per take.
What statesman must turn a deaf ear
to the call of the wild when it comes
with Its merry Chautauqua Jingle?
What of Investigations? What of
tariff revisions?. Wbst of even cam
paign thunder at such a time? Would
this nation be ao penurious, so plcay
unlsh aa to hold a statesman to his
Job in torrid old Washington when he
might be ut ia the cool, refreshing
atmosphere of some tent with a tem
perature of not more than 110, saving
hia fellowmen at from B0 to $200 a
clip? Of course if congresa only took
a recess until the first of September,
that might be a little different, and
that would enable the downtrodden
servants of the people to gather in
the Chautauqua harvest and get the
cool. Invigorating air which the balmy
breezes blow.
City Improvement.
These city plan conventions, such
as the one now in session at Phila
delphia, ought to be productive of
much good to the country aa a whole.
This one, for Instance, brings together
In one body for seversl days, city offi
cials and experts from 100 towns In
the United States, to give and ex
change ideas, formulate plana and
preparatlona for civic Improvement.
Some of them go back to their home
cities and put these schemes Into op
eration, and some of tbem are brought
to practical fruition. All this, theo
retically at least, Is helpful. How
better may American cities devise
methods for improvement than by
utilizing the experience of other cities?
It Is in the air, this project of civic
improvement, both in political reform
and physical beautlflcatton. But
when we get down to brass tacks In
a great many cases the obstacle that
blocks progress Is the inferior charac
ter of city officials to whom this im
portant work must be entrusted. Be
fore ever American cities may hope
to achieve anything like what Is pos
sible in this line, they will have to be
more careful in the selection of the
right sort of material for municipal
government. Electing a man . to an
office involving large tasks, calling for
large powers and tried experience, who
has neither, Is no way to make a city
ideal. To be sure, many cities have
finally awakened to this fact and are
going about to remedy the defect. All
cities that want to occupy the front
rank of modern progress will have to
follow suit.
Law Eeform.
Men flippantly trip from their Hps
expressions about the "greatest prob
lem before this country," but not
many have mentioned a problem
which President Taft holds to be
paramount In importance and which,
upon sober second thought, must
strike people as so. That problem Is
jnaklng Justice surer and less costly.
It formed the keynote of the presi
dent's address at the' Columbia uni
versity conference on law reform. It
needs to be emphasised all over the
United States, for there has been for
yeara a noticeable falling short from
this ideal.
To make Justice surer and less
coBtly, we must make our court pro
cedure simpler. We must make less
of technicality and more of the patent
purpose of evidence and the law, it
self. It was agreed at this conference
that both in civil and criminal practice
the power and privilege of appeal
must be limited The extent to which
courts now tolerate the privilege of
appeal often makes . a farce of the
trial and a travesty of law, to say
nothing of the unfavorable light it
reflects upon the sharp practitioner,
lured on by the prospect of a large fee.
Courta are quick to resent what
they term contempt for them and
lawyers rise upon their dignity in de
fense of the solumn ethics of their
profession. But if they would only
see what the laity sees, that It Is the
way the law ia abused in Its adminis
tration, which brings the contempt
and reproach, perhaps they might be
more ready to co-operate toward the
end sought by those high In the coun
cils of the profession who have deter
mined to effect reforms in law.
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The Water board Is now deferring
Its $8,250,000 Issue of water bonds on
the proposed $250,000 Issue of court
house bonds. It is assumed that an
additional $360,000 will be needed to
finish and eqnlp the new court house,
but no estimate haa ever been given
out to show that any such amount will
be required. - If the county board
wanta to aubmlt a court house bond
proposition it would be a good plan
for it to first trim its estimates down
to actualities.'
The democratic leaders in congress
seem particularly anxious to capture
the Ninth Iowa district formerly rep
resented in the house by Judge Walter
I. Smith. That district has not been
represented in congress by a democrat
since old Grover Cleveland days, and
If it sends a democrat this time It will
be only because the republicans do not
come out and'vote.
According to official returns the
Omaha Street Railway company
charged off $240,000 to depreciation
last year, while the Lincoln atreet rail
way company charged off nothing at
all. Anyone can see where these two
corporations will be on that basis,
relatively speaking, when their fran
chise terma expire.
Miss Ida Tarbell addressed the
young women at Wellealey. college
and then the young women of
Wellealey 'college expressed their
disapproval of their college accepting
a gift of $160,000 from John D. Rock
efeller. Talk about weak-voiced
woman having no influence. '
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A grandson of King Meoelik has
been proclaimed emperor of Abyssinia.
If he has as many Uvea aa his illustri
ous ancestor he ought to be able to
keep the Menellk family on the Job
for ai least 100 years.
Several plausible reasons are given
for the withdrawal of that application
for an electric lighting franchise in
Omaha, but not a word about the real
reason, which was a requirement to
put up or shut up.
THE CABINET CHANGE,
Cleveland Plain Dealer: Secretary Dlek-
li f on has made a good, though not bril
liant record as head of the War depart
ment. He haa dona all that could be ex
pected of him In these piping times of
peace.
Chicago Record-Herald: In Mr. Btlmson,
a younger man than the retiring secretary,
but a man of considerable legal and politi
cal experience, of sound education, firm
ness and progressive views, the president
has presumably found a fit successor to
Mr. Dickinson.
Washington Post: The republican party
of th state of New York should find Itself
In better shape through the appointment
of Mr. 8timson. The president haa paid a
high compliment to that state, and haa
opened a way for conspicuous service by
the party's lat candidate for governor.
Philadelphia Bulletin: Mr. Taft's own
qualifications In this respect sre not as
marked aa they should be tor the success
of hia administration, and In the appoint
ment of Stlmson. as In such appointments
heretofore as those of Bellinger and Dickin
son, ha does not show a practical percep
tion of th value of a cabinet ss a source
of political or popular strength.
St. Louis Republic: In view of the pos
sibility of serious trouble with Mexico.
secretary Dickinson's resignation brings
irresistibly to mind th advice of Secretary
of War Alger to Chauncey M. Depew, as
reported. In the summer of.lWR, by the ver
acious Mr. Martin Dooley of the "Ar-r-chey
Koaa : x Chanse,' says he. 'be Slcretv
lv War.' aays he. "but don't nlvr b
Slcrety lv a Warl'
BOUND AND COURAGKOtl,
President Taft'a Defense, of Canadian
Reciprocity.
Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
President Taft's talk to the Drnt.etin
granger delegation on Canadian reciprocity
nionaay was full of good sense and oiur.
ageous. enlightened statesmanship. He li
convinced that th farmers are unwar
rantably alarmed over the consequences
of reolproolty to them; but In any event h
beltevas that thla policy will he of rout
benefit to the country as a whole, and
mere nrs nis duty aa chief executive and
that duty will be followed ream.rdles nf
consequences In th way of votes. How
rerresning the contrast of this position
wun tnat or the politicians of both parties
In congress who are coins? throus-h all anrte
of gymnastics to keep or gain th favor
or tne rarming vote!
The president not onlv shows mnrun In
this matter. He shows also a better knowl
edge or the situation than do the protest
ing grangers. They say that If renlnrnnUv
goe through "we must take less for our
wneat ana less for our products, and that
means a halt In the ImDrovement of
homes and In the education of our ehll.
dren." But the president says: "If we take
aown that (tartrr) wall, we will benefit by
It, for we shall sell mora agricultural
products to Canada that It will sell to us.
Wa do now and w shall sell It even mor
after the treaty goes Into effect. That la
my Judgment." And he is right In say
ing mat we already sen mora agricultural
products to Canada than Can.rt An m
us. Mr. Shacklgford of Missouri, a mem-
mu v luq HVun wB UH mUDI COlTlUIlt-
tee, has prepared a statement of fact In
relation to this matter. It gives the sales
of leading agricultural products between
Canada and th United States for the five
yeara ending June 10 last:
Horses:
Wo sold In Canada 114172,415
Canada sold to us i,4!,iu
Difference ia our favor...
Cattle:
We sold In Canada
Canada soW.t ua
Dlffereooe'In aur favor..
Meat and dairy products:
We sold In Cnada
Canada sold to us
Difference la our favor...
$11,622,874
...:.$ 1,678,17
1.193.T9
...$ 384,383
...$17,011,047
... 904,191
$i.ios,sat
$31,586,656
6,67,884
Breadatufts:
W aold In Canada
Canada sold to us
Difference In our favor..
...$34,916,(7
Total differences In our favor
on above Items $63,030,756
Will the protesting grangers please Inform
a curious country how this can be If their
prices are so much better than Canadian
agricultural prices? Their position la ab
surd. Time to Drop Oat.
Springfield Republican.
Th National Monetary commission haa
so far expended $300,000, and It Is now an
nounced that mor money Is needed. It
should not be allowed. Th commission
should dissolve. Th only plan of currency
reform which is likely to come out of It
has already been reported by Mr. Aldrloh
and Is now before th oountry for discus
sion. Debate, In other words, has passed
beyond th bounds of this highly paid re
fuge for broken down statesmen.
Blaj Any Dream.
Philadelphia Bulletin.
General Wood says th country needs an
available army of half a million men.
But th national authorities cannot keep
the regular army up to Its present enlisted
quota of less than 109.000 men, and th
ranks of th National Guard ar far from
full. General Wood's plan means conscrip
tion, and this nation la not likely to wel
come that.
People Talked About
William Qoorge'Hake, who recently oelo
breated his 100th birthday anniver
sary in London, la said to be th only Eng
lish lawyer who ever Uved to be 100 years
old. He was ad nutted to th bar in 1835.
Major General Leonard Wood told the
house comtnltte on military affair that
th disarmament of nations was nothing
but a dream. There happened to be no one
present to prove to him that all th great
dreams of th human rae com true.
John A. Brown has annexed to himself
about all th salaried jobs In Glea Ridge.
N. J., except that of assessor, th last he
acquired being that of chief engineer of the
fire department His other office ar
borough clerk, overseer of roads, register
of vital statistics and dog warden.
Owners and agents of sixteen downtown
Chicago office buildings have been ordered
by th building department to stretch a
wlr screening over th rotundas at th
second or third floors to prevent persons
on th main floor being Injured by ethers
Jumping or falling from upper floors of
th structure.
Charles Sherwood of Albion, Wis., Is
looking for expert Information as to bow
far aa owner's responsibility extends over
a dog that persistently violate th gam
laws of th stat. Mr. Sherwood has a
colli with a penchant for trout fishing.
H has cuffed the dog for It, but each Urn
it only returns with a larger flan.
Prtno Ludwtg Ferdinand of Bavaria is
a distinguished doctor of medicine. Ac
cording to a cablegram a recent patient
was a young woman whom ha cured of
tuberouloala Th prtno also Is a skilled
performer on th violin and organ. He Is
not th only physloian In th royal house
of Wlttelsbach, for Queen Elisabeth of
Belgium, wh came from Bavaria, know
medicine, and her father was famed as an
oculist. .
Around New York
Stipple on the Current of Xlf
aa seen In the Oreat American
Metropolis from Sy to Day.
An armor plated alibi, riveted by a crowd
of witnesses, had almost secured the ac
quittal of Charles Christie, charged with
burglary, when h wss confronted with
photograph of his own finger prints on
th gian of the window through which he
entered. The prisoner's nerv gave way
and after consulting his attorney entered
a plea of guilty and was remanded for sen
tence. "1 want you to tell me the whole story."
said the Judge. "How Is it that if you are
guilty you had all these witnesses? How
Is It that with so perfect an allbl you plead
guilty 7"
"Why, no man could stand to see those
finger prints without giving up the fight,"
answered the prisoner. "I guess every
body saw them knew I was guilty.
The witnesses thought they were telling
the truth. They saw me come home "mTu
go to bed. but they didn't know J sneaked
out afterward."
After the Jury had been discharged five
of the Jurymen said they would have con
victed on th evidence of the finger prints
alone and seven regarded Bertlllon evldenc
as inconclusive.
To reach Joseph Bhanahan, a carpenter
of 248 West On Hundred and Forty-fourth
street, who wa lying with a badly frac
tured leg on the roof of St. Thomas' Epis
copal church, Fifty-third street and Fifth
avenue. Dr. Botsford of Flower hospital
had to climb a seventy-five-foot ladder In
side th church yesterday. Th Injured
man had to be lowered to th street by
ropes.
Workmen were demolishing the steeple
and Shanahan was on a scaffolding fifteen
feet above th roof when It gave way.
Dr. Botsford mounted the ladder, with
Policeman Dabau close behind carrying
his doctor's kit. He reached the tup
safely, but he had to rest to settle his
nerves before he could attend to Shanahan,
who, he found, had fractured his leg lit
three places.
The leg was put In splints, but the prob
lem of getting him down seemed unan
swerable. Shanahan Is a big fellow, and It
would have required a man with great
strength and nerva to carry him down th
ladder. Dabau solved th difficulty. At
his suggestion the Injured man was tied to
a wld plank. A rope was fastened at
each end of the plank and laborers let
Shanahan down through th skylight Into
th church.
An hour after he had met th accident.
Shanahan was taken to th Flower hos
pital, wher It was thought he would re
cover. Under a tree In Fort Washington nark
at the extreme northern limit of Manhat
tan Island last Saturday afternoon a city
laborer found two latter day "Bable In
th Woods" a pair of ragged, worn out.
half starved youngsters, asleen In each
other's arms.
They were Robert d Virles. who Is n
years old, and his brother, Peter, i years
younger, a pair of bright boys, whoa horn
may said was at 20S West On Hundred an
Thirty-third street. On last Saturday nv
did aoroethlng, they would not say Just
wnat it was, which they knew would en
title them to a spanklnar whan their moth.-
found out, so they decided to run away.
out tney aid not exactly run then-
walked. Afoot, the two little truants m,1.
their way from One Hundred and Thirty-
third street up to th woodland along the;
iiuason river, a distance of four- miles or
more. And there they had been ever since,
lost a part of th while, and non.ntiu
fearing to go back home.
At night they elept In thickets. When It
rained as It did on three nle-hthv t,, si
dled together for warmth and shivered
mrougn th long, cold hours, drenched and
miserable.
Th brothers wandered about until the
soles of their shoes wore awkv. I,uin
their feet bare. They llvd. so they said, on
scrape or rood which they picked up In the
park and upon what they could beg from
th picnickers. But picnics ar not so com
mon at this season and It was soanty pick
ing that the lad got. -
The furniture of th old Hoffman house
In New York, long under th direction of
the lat Edward Stokes, Is now being auo
tloned off and whila not bringing such
price aa th books In the Hoe library, it
Is doing very well. There are aro.
souvenirs, to be disposed of, the furniture
or the suite that Grover Cleveland occu
pied, of th room In which Roecoe' Conk
ling died, the onyx table on which Uly
Langtry had her breakfasts, and the big
chair that David B. Hill sat In when th
democrats foregathered at their favorlt
hostelry. HIU' own hotel, however, was
th Normandla, th proprietor of which
was a general on his staff while governor.
New Tork under the comnuUl on of I n
creased traffic ia beginning to resum th
ownership of It streets. For years they
privet property owners with porohea, en
trance steps, stairways, signs, showcases,
etc., until the condition had become un
bearable. Now the Sun tells us that th
borough president has ordered all to b
swept away without exception. Th Waldorf-Astoria
hotel, as well as humble
shops that hav presumed on a leni.ni
or corrupt government to take th peo
ple s sidewalks are now compelled to va
cate. Even Tammany hall "will hav to
draw in Its toes and stand erect."
Another New Tork landmark, the fam
oua Aaron Burr mansion on Riverside
drive, 1 to go befor the advancing move
of modern apartment houses, which ar
gradually covering up every available foot
of ground In the upper part of th city.
Th mansion, 140 years old, haa Just been
sold at auction to a builder and will be
torn down' at once, it stands on a plot
about 100 feet square on a hill overlooking
th Hudson. James Madison. nr..M.nt of
th United States, occupied it from 1804
to 1806.
Benevolent Sobs,
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Th International Paper company as
sart that th newspaper ar in favor cf
Canadian reciprocity because It will give
them cheaper paper. Of course, th In
ternational company's opposition to th
measure Is wholly disinterested and nan
evclent.
Th Sign I SaffteUat.
fcloux city Tribune.
Official repen from Nebraska Indicate
that th bank guaranty law haa not yet
begun to change deposit to a noticeable
xtnt. Condition ar ao prosperous over
ther that a gold lettered alga over any
bank is sufficient evidence of its sound
neaa. Who's Got th Ballon t
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Whan Governor Wood row Wilson ancoun
tare en of those buttons bearing th In
scription Tor President, Wood row Wil
son," he will doubtleaa express surprise at
th suddenness of th proposition. But be
will not. as th ordinary politician does,
place himself in the bands of his friends, I
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World's Columbian Exposition,
Sl2dy Years
MIRTHFUL REMARKS, ( ,
Minister I have at IhsI made a convert
of old Mr. Hardtack, who so long sneered
at th Idea of changing his ways. He
comes to church now regularly.
Cynic Yes, I noticed he did. and couldn't
tell whether he had a change of heart or
Insomnia. Baltimore American.
"Have you started on your list of Mon'ts
for hot weather?' " asked th editor.
"Yes." replied the scribe; "but I have
managed to think of only on."
"What Is that?"
"Don't worry people with a lot of
'Don'ts.' "Washington Star.
In the Irish rebellion a bombshell whlssod
toward an Irishman's head. Pat dodged
It with a low bow, and It went by, taking
off the head of a man behind him.
"Faith." exclaimed Pat, "ye nlver knew
a man to lose anything by beln' perlltc!"
-Tlt-BlU.
"Ruggles. which sld of th controversy
between the bald heads and the bewhisk
ered chaps do you take?"
"Neither one. Ramas;; I don't deal in
wiga and I don't sell either rasor or shav
ing soaps." Chicago Tribune.
"Jlggleton," said the man Who was away
for th week-end, "caught a brook trout.
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$550 and up for the Upright. $800 and up for the Grand.
1513-15 Douglas Stroot
The $1,800 Concert Grand is used at the Mendelssohn
Choir Concerts.
tho Standard
His little girl caught th measles. HI
boy wns caught out six times in a game of
hall, and I caught cold watching th game.
So then. I caught the next Uln back te
town.." Hi owning a Magasln.
"I think It Is disgraceful to be enormously
rlih." '
"Oh, so do 1. I was brought up to thin
that wnv. But say"
"Welir
"Don't you wish one In a whll trti(
you weren't so blamed rspeetablT" If
ledo Blade, . . I
"You observe." remarked the hoet. W7i
was showing his distinguished foreign visi
tor around Newport, "that w American
devote out-selves to pleasure regardless oil,
expense."
I'd hardly put It that way," retortwt
the wljtfy foreigner. ' Hather yu devote
yourselves to expense, regardless od
pleasure." Boston Transcript
"What Is the greatest ret-rlch-qulclt
scheme you know of?" asked the flimsy
flnsncler of his psrtner. ,
"Taking money, away from other pe'cnf'
who want to get rich quick." Washlngtl a
Star.
"My dentist has given up his professions
and gone Into the real estate huslncss."
I eee. Htm 'trying to nmKe money out)
or his patrons acres. uorton .transcript
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