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6 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDED BT KDWARD ROSE WATER. V1CTOU R08EWATEK, EDITOR. Knt.rr1 it Omsha postofflcs as cond class iittur. . . j TERMS'OF 8UII8CRIPTION. 8Lindy Bee, one year f'f? HMurday tee, cms year ls,lly iie (without f,in1ay). one year. 4.(W Daily lies and Hutiday, one year S.w DELJVEHED KV CARRIER. Evening Bee twlth Sunday), per month. 25c lJaily Bee, ln lutiiiig eundayj, per mo., tw lially Me, (without Sunday), per mo.. 46u Addrena all irnnplslnts of Irregularities In delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha Tha Dee Building. Bouts) Omah N. Twenty-fourth BU Cuuni ll )lwfls-)6 Hcott St. Lincoln i Kittle Building. thirKO U4a .Vlarnuette Hulldlng. Kansas City K? liance Building. New Ynrfc 34 West Thirty-third St. ' Washington 52 Fourteenth 8., N. W. CORREfci'ONDEMCE. Communications relating to newa and editorial matter ahouid be addressed umalia Bee, ETilltonur1 Department. . REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to Tha Bee Bunllxhlng Company, only 2-cent stamps received In payment of mail accounts, l'emonal check except on Omaha, and euatern exchange not accepted. MAY CIRCULATION. 48,473 State of Nebraska, County of Douglas, ss: Iwlght WllUama, circulation manager of The Bee I'ubhshlng Company, being duly worn. says that the average dallv circula tion, lens spoiled, unused and returned copies lor the month of May, 1911, was. .I4. U1V1UI1T W IL.11 A1S, Circulation Manager. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 1st day of June, 1911. (Seal.) ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Public Subscribers tearing the) etty tem porarily skoal bar The Be mailed to them. Adarese will s changed aa oft.a mm reaested. In the case of our superintendent of schools, what is Washington's gain is Omaha's loss. In singing that old familiar song, "The Sun Shall Ever Shine," lay em phasis on "erer." Br proclamation of the governor June 14 Is Flag day. Mark it down on your calendar. ' Senator Cullom is writing his me moirs. Senator Lorliner has not be gan on bis as yet. . "By their ball teams ye shall know them," observes the Baltimore Sun. "We resent the Imputation. Strange, If Mr. Bryan la always right, that the majority of the people can never see It that way. . What effect does the breaking of a "gentlemen's agreement" have on the standing of a man as" a gentleman? The Memphis ' Commercial-Appeal1 says the suffragettes have raised an even f 100,00ft. To put whom overt Still we dd, not know that winning apolrr tTiarnptonshlp -means as much to our sportsmanship as winning the ball pennant. . ' ' . Colonel Roosevelt's maxim that "No man Is Justified In doing evil on the ground of expediency," cannot be re iterated too often. The Ohio legislature concluded its session in revelry. The trouble is there bad been too much revelry earlier in the season. The old Macedonian cry has come as usual from Kansas this time for 12,000 men to work in the wheat fields.' My, but times are hard! It's dollars to doughnuts that the Union Paotflc moves into its new bead quarters building ahead of the grand procession into the new court house. A mob composed entirely of negroes recently lynched another negro at Shelby Miss., which shows that the black man is willing to learn from his white brother. : The republicans and democrats at Washington are preparing for a ball game. ''Could the viBlt of Ty Cobb to the White House recently have any significance as to that? I A lot of opium has Just been con fiscated at 8an Francisco on a tip from Washington. Which seems to show that we cannot quite believe every thing John Chinaman tells ns yet. For a man to graduate from college at the same time with his son is quite a novelty. It happens much more frequently that a man graduates from college at the same time with his wife. "I have-held my love and duty to my five wives,'" observes the sainted Joseph Smith, president of the Mor mon church. Which proves, of course, that President Smith Is no mere ordi nary man. Omaha's city council consists of twelve members, with seven doing all the business. If we put the govern ment of the city Into the hands of seven commissioners, four of them will be able to turn the trick. rt Just happens to happen that the Nebraska Press association and the Nebraska Retail Liquor Dealers' asso ciation are holding their annual con ventions in Omaha simultaneously. No necessary connection, however. Now that the democrats in congress have repudiated Mr. Bryan, some up start rises to remark that it will not make much difference who Mr. Bryan endorse for the nominee next year. Such density. Just as if Mr. Bryan has not survived three former repudl. atlons. Reciprocity Makes Strange Allies. As "polities' makes strange br-d-fellows," so reciprocity plans sepm to make strange allies. Senator Root, the personal and political friend and supporter of the administration, bo cause of his great Influence, happens to be the one and only serious obsta cle In the way of the unconditional acceptance of the president's reciproc ity program. His amendment, while It may be rejected. Just now blocks the passage of the measure. This creates the anomalous circumstance of forcing the president to depend upon his po litical adversaries for the balance of power needed to push the bill through. Here is Senator Stone, for Instance, an uncompromising democrat, vehe mently declaring his purpose of stand ing by the president In his effort to secure the passage of the bill una mended. The condition only goes to show how sharply It Is possible for men of the same political faith to differ on this proposed reciprocity with Canada. President Taft and Senator Root, of course, freely accord to each other the right of honest difference of opinion in this case, yet it Is all the more sug gestive of what strange alliances the Issue has created. No section of the country, any more than either of the parties, has been, or Is, united on it. Naturally enough, the democrats as a whole favor the plan, not for itself, but because it tends toward tariff de struction, and they see In it possible ity for political capital, yet even the democrats are not a unit on it. Truly, no issue in many years has run its dividing lines as Irregularly. Consolation. Omaha may take all the consolation it can out of the information that the proposed reorganization of the army divisions and departments will not hit us as hard as we feared. At the same time, what The Bee said about some one having been asleep at the switch is emphasized by the following com ment in the Army and Navy Register with reference to the resolution call ing on the secretary of war for the reasons for the new move: Itls-too late to make any change In tha order which has been Issued, to take effect on tna it or July; besides, the officers have been designated 'on account of the new arrangement of commands and the transfer of other officers. Incident to the change, is under consideration. Evidently the only thing to do is to make the best of it and recoup in other ways. Cardinal Gibbons. Seldom, if ever, in- the history of our country have the . people of the United States, through their official representatives, the beads of the co ordinate branches of government, honored anyone as they honored the venerable Cardinal Gibbons at Balti more on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of his priesthood and the twenty-fifth anniversary of his cardl nalate. The president, a former pres ident, the vice president, the chief Justice, the speaker and' members of congress participated and the reports say; "The wheels of government came pretty near to a stop while those who sit in charge over them paid honor to the cardinal." It takes a great man to bring the wheels of this government cinaA in standstill. Cardinal 0160008 is a great man; great because good and useful; useful to his fellow men. to his country. The distinguishing as pect of this pious man's character, after all, is a deep, passionate love for his fellows, and he has so dove-tailed his loyalty to the United States of America into his love for the Common wealth of pod as to Inspire patriotism and religious fervor in others by the same dynamic influence. But Cardinal Gibbons has been big ger than any dogma. Otherwise he never would have been thus honored. A faithful servant of the Catholic church, he has been a true American and a broad-minded man of the world, In the sense that his parish was the world unlimited by creed, unfettered by ecclesiastical codes of conduct. To him the office of priest means service to mankind. And Champ Clark's homely humor rather hit it pointedlv -"He has been a potent force among catnoiies and republicans." All people, no matter what their religious, social or political beliefs may be. love a man like this. And this nation may well slow down its great machinery of state while it takes time to pay him homage, for it owes this man something for his unselfish and unceasing ministry, by precept and example, for civic righteousness and national patriotism. Cunningham Claims Fated. According to usually reliable Washington correspondents, the Cun ningham coal land claims of Alaska have been adjudged Invalid and will be thrown out, or annulled by the commissioner of public lands within a week, or so. If true, this land, then will revert to the government with all rights to its disposition fully restored. Of course, the Cunning hams, even in this event, would have the right of appeal to the secretary of the interior, but It is assumed that since the secretary of the interior happens now to be Mr. Fisher instead of Mr. Balllnger, his approval of the commissioner's action Is a foregone conclusion and the corporation would be wasting time to go through the routine of appealing. Far more important than the fact that this result would mark a victory for the government as the ultimate end of the imbroglio that culminated in Balllnger leaving the cabinet, is this other fact, that such a decision would mark a turning point In the THE HEE: administration of public land, setting up a precedent that the government naturally would follow In acting upon other similar claims. It should be borne In mind that, with all the noise raised over the Cunningham claims, they number only thirty-three as compared with a total of 1,100 claims whose validity Is brought Into question on the same basis of fraudulent procedure. So that while the annulment of these Cunningham claims would represent an achievement worth while, It would be but a starter toward closing up the whole situation, though, of course, the Cunningham claims are supposed to be the most valuable. If now congress will work out a method In pursuance of the presi dent's plan of leasing this valuable mineral land to parties able to de velop it on royalties advantageous to the government, which will retain title to the land, it might serve to stop confusion, prevent such condi tions in the future and help develop these rich natural resources Superintendent Davidson. The acceptance by Superintendent Davidson of the position of superin tendent of the public schools for Wash ington and the District of Columbia means his departure from Omaha, and the announcement causes real regret among our people. Superintendent Davidson has been exceptionally successful in his conduct of the Omaha schools, and while the credit is to be shared with the efficient corps of principals and teachers under him, our schools have made better progress, maintained higher standards and run with less friction since his advent than ever before during a like period of time. Superintendent Davidson has per haps shown brighter by contrast with his Immediate predecessor, by whom our schools were used as a foot ball of personal favoritism and political wire-pulling, the teachers terrorized until they hardly dared call their souls their own and the schools thoroughly demoralized. Dr. Davidson quickly brought order out of chaos, demon strated that he was a schoolman and an educator and not a mere politician. He was at once found to possess scholarship and culture, as well as executive ability In a word, to be the kind of a man who could be presented with pride as the head of our school system. The fact that he inspired confidence and displayed real capacity naturally gave him a larger field and a freer scope of action, and as a con sequence the position of superinten dent under Dr. Davidson has become much more important and will be Just that much more difficult to fill with the right man to take his place. The rejection of a claim for $60 in favor of a member of the State Board of Education for delivering the com mencement address to the Peru Nor mal school suggests the. question, How much of this kind of graft is going on? The Rev. I. F. Roach is doubtless a good speaker and a conscientious min ister, but the official position he holds is supposed to 'be an honorary one, carrying no emoluments. It would be Just the same as if a member of our school board should undertake to get his-associates to vote him $50 for talk ing to the school children on Decora tion day, and has still less justifica tion. Another conclusion to be drawn (from the special election In tha Ninth Iowa dis trict) rests upon the still further reduction In the republican majority. World-Herald. Where do you get thlsT With about half the vote out, the successful re publican has nearly 1,300 to the good, as against 1,847 last year. If the stay-at-homes had voted in the same proportion, as they doubtless would, the republican lead would have been more than 2,500, and show an in crease of 700. The democrats will have to scrape hard to get a crumb of comfort out of the congressional elec tion across the river. The snobbery denounced by Presi dent Taft in his reprimand to the colonel who refused to permit an ap plicant to take an examination for promotion because he Is a Jew is not confined to army circles. The same race prejudice is every now and then cropping out in other places where it does not belong, and occasionally right here in Omaha. Some other people besides the discomfited colonel should take the president's words to them selves. The city council is going to insist that the Library board apply for spe cial authority of the council and have It advertise for competitive bids on every purchase made. We can see the councllmen going through the list of books prepared by the book commit tee and cutting out titles that do, not sound good. The wonder is how the Library board has been able to get along all these years without this councilmanlc assistance. The Teat to Cam. Tt. Paul Ploner Press. Madero won his fight on tha battlefields, but his courage will be put to a stronger test when ha takes up the work of re distributing the federal patronage In Mex ico. Greasing tha Toboggan. Pittsburg Dispatch. It Is reported that the Cunnlnsham claims ara to be rejected, not because they were fraudulent, but because the claimants Bid not comply strictly with the law. This looks like letting everybody down easy ex cert the claimants. Pasaea) Kp m Boom. St. Louis Olobn-Democrat. Justice Hughes 'of the supreme court has again turned Ms back on a presidential boom. These repeated exhibitions of reso lution and principle by the Judge are bound to raise the subtreasury style of whiskers In tha public estimation. OMAHA, THUKSAY," JUNK i NEBRASKA PRESS COMMENT. It Falrbury News: The announreme nt that j Vi lli ' llsywntd will probably enter the j practice of law In New Tork City will be i regretted by most Nebraskans. lie Is one i of the state's brightest and most promising j young men. i JW aver City Times-Tribune: Dryan is j killed again. This time the World-Herald, his former guide, philosopher and friend, ha put him In the procession with a hearse, nil on account of Mr. Itryan's atti tude en the tariff on wool. Aurora Republican: That Chester H. Aldrlch Is governor of Nebraska Is so ap parent that "he who runs may read." What a welcome change It Is to have a man In the executive chair who will not hedge or trim on any proposition! Tkaroah Herald: Is it not enough to Jar confidence to have John K Webster have himself Interviewed In Washington and to tell that Senator liourne Is very much In favor of Norrls Brown's re-election to "the senate. Webster's support sl ould be enough of Itself to defeat Brown. Reward Blade: The people of Nebraska will want Governor Aldrlch 'for another term. He hns mnda himself popular with all classes of citizens, and will undoubtedly receive the nomination for a second term without serious opposition from any quarter. He has certainly "made good," and Is deserving a second term. Falrbury News: When a farmer can haul to market more grain In the same tin.e over a dragged road than he can ovr.r a natural highway, It stands to rea son that dragging saves him money. The substitution of road dragging In our schools for foot ball would provide a game that is not only less strenuous but more profit able. Hastings Tribune: William Hayward. who has Just completed a trip around the world, has come to the conclusion that New Tork City has the edge over Nebraska City, and therefore he is going to leave Nebraska and locate In America's metropolis. Hay ward made himself heard while In Ne braska, and he will also make himself heard when in New York. Kearney Hub: Chairman Husenetter, is sues notice that there" lll be a meeting of the republican state central committee at Lincoln June 9. This evidence that the grand old party Is still doing business at th old stand may be a surprise to some, but It Is Just a beginning of the work of republican restoration In Nebraska, the most conspicuous part of which will be a majority for the republican candidate for president next year. Kearney Hub: There Is barely room for the suspicion that Willlnm J. Bryan has determined that there shall not be a dem ocratic president during his lifetime unless he Is the candidate. His present course is causing a split in the democratic party that will not be readily healed, if It can be healed at all. Even Mr. Bryan's long time friend, the Omaha World-Herald, de clares that "it Is hard to see the Justice In Mr. Bryan's fierce attack on his fellow democrats," etc., etc. Falls City Journal: Governor Aldrich's statement that while he opposes the Inflic tion of the death penalty, he signed the death warrant for Jackson for fear some future governor might release him, might have seemed to some a rather far-fetched excuse, but in the light of the report of Warden Smith of the penitentiary, the governor's fear Is entirely Justifiable. The statistics complied by Smith seem to show that the average term served by life pris oners is eight years, due to a variety of reasons, but the most prominent one being pardons bestowed by governors with a soft head and a tender heart. Blair Pilot: These are th days of the Valso mentioned." not of the "also ran" for publio -tftlce. .Fred Volpp of Scrlbner has been mentioned for governor on the democratic ticket next year; also Senator J. H. Morehead of Falls City, who was president pro . tempore of the senate and since the death of-Judge Hopewell would succeed to the office of lieutenant gov ernor should and extra session of the legis lature be called. They are both "wet" and "startd-patters" of the moat approved cor poration type.' Two others mentioned are of the progressive type, Senator J. , A. Ollls. jr., of Ord and Representative E. B, Quackenbush Of Auburn. Either of the two latter would -be far more suitable timber for governor of progressive Nebraska, but the two first mentioned would be best for the democrats to nominate from the re publican standpoint. Governor Aldrlch would skin them a lot easier than either Ollls or QuackenbUBh. People Talked About DACHE Mr. Bache is a New York banker who knows all phases of the business rom the president's desk to the messenger's lobby. Mrs. Ziditt Betrous. awaiting deport-uion at New York, fooled the Immigration of ficers In a curious way. A little boy was btrn to her while she waited and men, of course, no Immigration officer dared to exclude the mother of an American cltlsen. President Taft has been Invited to visit I'bly, Mich., by John Lusk, proprietor and editor of the Ubly Courier. Miclilgun. Mr. Lusk, In writing the president, pointed out that when Mr. Taft was a "cub reporter" on the Cincinnati Gazette at 112 a week Lusk was getting $26 on the same news paper. Constable Joseph Richard of Lewlston Is the smallest constable In Maine. He Is 22 years old and fifty-three Inches tall. Soon after his appointment by the city government In the early spring he made an arrest. His prls ir cr v.:s an Intoxicated i-ian who obligingly waited while the little con stable sent for the patrol wagon to haul him to the station. How little mankind signifies In the scheme of tjature la shown by a rather morose calculation of the Italian Prof. Zuocaiinl, who had figured out, among other things, that estimating the world's population as 1,500,000,000 the whole human race at present living could stand com fortably shoulder o shoulder In an area of WO square miles. General Hellebond, the Belgian minister of war, has made an li t.ovstlon In military matters by establishing Sunday as a uy of rest for all branches of the army. Henceforth all soldiers will be given a for mal permit to spend Sunday at home, and on their return to the barracks they must piesent to the commanding officer this per mit, signed by the head of the family, as evidence that they have been at home. 8, 11)11. Around New York Stipples en the Current of Xlf aa Seen la the Qreat American Metropolis from Day to Day The now gun-toting law. of New York. Just pussed by the legislature snd signed by Governor IHx, Is as stringent as any similar law In the statute books of this country. The carrying of a deadly weapon, concealed or unconcealed, without a writ ten license from the proper authorities. Is made a mlsdemennor ptinlshnble by fin or imprisonment, or both. In the discretion of the trial court. The law puts the black jack, sandbag and similar weapons In the deadly weapon class with the revolver, and possession at home or office, as well as on the person, without license, brings the owner under the provisions of the law. Licenses are obtainable from the authori ties of the city, town or village, where the applicant resides. In the .matter of the ssle of weapons the lsw provides that any retail dealer, pawnbroker, or other person before selling any firearms of a sli:e that may be concealed on the person, must enter the time and date of sale and the name, age and occupation of the buyer, with the make and manufacturer's number of such weapon In a special register, which la to be subject to Inspection by peace officers. He must also demand the production by the purchaser of his permit to have such a weapon, and the date and number of his permit must also be set down In the regis ter. The law, of course, does not apply to wholesale dealers. A dead pig prevented a disaster In the reptile-house at the Bronx zoological gar dens last Thursday, when Kaa, the twenty, foot regal python, escaped into the runway back of his cage. Head Keeper Charles Snyder and four men were moving Kaa with a sack over his head Into a new rage. The hindmost keeper shoved Kaa's tail into his new abode, and the others pushed each armful of snake In after. Kaa was all In but his head. This was the critical moment, for when the sack was removed the snake lashed out at those who had been holding him. As Snyder snatched the bag away the man holding the head made a desperate effort to push it Into the cage, but failed. Instantly the snake flung Itself forward into the three foot passage. The keepers tried torun, but were Jammed tightly together. There was every chance of the snake's getting a twist on one of the keepers and crushling out his life. SnydVr saw one chance. Ten feet away lay a box containing the body of a pig, provided for the python's next meal. Sny der snatched up the pig and threw It be fore the lashing head of the snake. Kaa reached for the carcass and wound his twenty feet about It, In a compact coll. Snyder and his men leaped forward, hurled a blanket over the colled reptile, seiaed It, with a mighty heave flung It Into the cage and slammed the door. In the decision given last week by Judge Hand of the federal courts, Involving highly technical scientific matters, the court stepped aside from the questions at Issue to berate "the provincial legal habit of mind'' of American Jurisprudence. "I cannot stop," snld Judge Hand, "with out calling attention to the extrordinary condition of the law which makes It pos sible for a man without even the rudiments of chemistry to pass on questions like these. The exhorbltant expense of time Is the least of the resultant evils. "In Germany the court summons techni cal Judges who can intelligently pass upon the Issues without groping blindly among technicalities, wholly out of their ken. How long we shall continue to blunder along nobody knows, but all persons not conven tionalized by provincial legal habits of mind ought to unite to effect some ad vance." The quick luncher sat one day within the dairy lunch, undecided as to what he should squander his dally quarter on. Something rattled at his elbow. A Brunn hlldlo person with a pile of plates bal anced on her funnybone was waiting Im patiently for his order. He had determined to reform to a quick lunch, to slow It down, to bring back a little of the Joy of eat ing. "Good morning," he said pleasantly. She cocked her head, opened one side of her mouth and bellowed to the kitchen: "One corn!" "Do you not think this quick feeding," he ventured, "a kind of moral malady?" "Chicken salad, 'an he wants It quick!" she cried. "Consider." he cried, "the dignity, the fineness, the history of the lost art of gas tronomies. If you have ever read the Dissertation Upon Roast Pig.' by Charles Lamb " "One pork chop! One lamb chop! Slide 'em along!" "If you know' your Horace, your Lucul lus, your Epicurus, you will remember" "We're all out ot them." ".What young ladyT .Did you think I was ordering? I've not made up my mind" "Sayl" she Interrupted, "If you think I'm paid five seeds a week to be kidded by every necktie clerk This here la a quick lunch!" And the oheck was 40 cents. One of the chief features of the reor- 1 ganlzatlon of the New Tork police depart ment, which is now under way, will be aimed to enable citizens to find a police man when he needed. It has often happened that those in need of help have gone many bjocks in a vain search for police assistance. The plan for remedying this involves the establishment ot what will be known as "fixed posts" In many parts of the city. In a general way the nlajn la to hn v fp'ollceman on duty constantly at the inter sections of certain streets which are of Importance from a police viewpoint. The men on duty will always be within hailing distance of anyone at the corner, although they will patrol each of the four blocks for one-halt their length. The three platoon system, which has been approved by Mayor Gaynor. will give the city more police on duty after 6 o'clock in the evening than there has been for many years. The three platoon plan will give the uniformed force eight hours of patrol duty, eight hours ot reserve duty and eight hours off. Ignores m Privilege. Chicago Record-Herald. E. H. Gary offers to tell all he knows concerning the United States Steel cor poration, in spite of the fact that he might secure a writ of habeas corpus ' If he wanted one. WALT HAM csssssaVVATCIlBss 3w THE Waltham is America's pio neer watch. To day here and abroad, it is recognised as the high est type of a time-piece. That is why "lt'$ Tims You Md M'altkam" Send for DcscrlptiT Booklet WaltkaaWstc Cs. Wslttii.slsM, GARY'S GLAD, SWEET S0N0. Philadelphia Record: Judge Gary thinks that If the Steel trust were allowed to put on the garments of Uncle Bam and carry a flag nobody would take any further note of Its plundering. Maybe. Boston Transcript. President Gary of the Steel trust sees the age of competi tion fading and the age of co-operation en tering with the government fixing prices. If this Includes furnlshln.it the price to those who do not have It Mr. Gary's scheme will meet with popular approval. Kansas City Times: Judge E. H. Gary, the executive head of the Steel trust, wants the government to take the corporation by the hand and lead it along the paths of righteousness. The government might be gin by suggesting that the trust sell steel aa cheaply to Americana as to foreigners. St. Louis Globe-Democrat: Mr. Gary of the Steel trust has expressed more sense in speaking of the trust problem for a few minutes than has been expressed In any other way In the last half dozen years. He concedes not only the vital necessity ot government regulation, but he goes farther and points out why such regula tion must be as to prices as well as methods, and Is necessary not only for the people, but for the combinations them selves. Indianapolis News: Uke a good press agent. Judge Gary plays to the human side. He is much concerned with the wel fare and wages of the workers greatly afraid wages will suffer If there Is any cutting such as the republic proposes. Judge Gary's real concern Is whether he will be able to pay dividends on some hundreds of millions of watered stock. As for the Steel trust's concern for the workers. It Is well to recall that the Survey's Investigation recently showed that up to a short time ago they were be ing required to work twelve-hour shifts and seven days a week In the Pittsburg district. Poor Relatione. Baltimore American. It should be made clear to some of the radicals now flying off the handle that the "rule of reason" ot the supreme court ts by no means to be confused with the "reign of reason" of the French revolu tion, and that the Goddess of Reason of that period Is not even remotely related to the American Goddess of Liberty. In fact, the two ladles were never even on speak ing terms, being by no means In the same set. Useless Guessing. Philadelphia Record, we do not know what will happen to morrow,. but we are always so near to the edge of the event that It Is hardly w6rth while to lose much time In prolonged specu lation. What's the use of further guessing as to the cause of the destruction of the battleship Maine In Havana harbor? Stimalna for "Dnilnrtt." Brooklyn Eagle. If the brainy men of the trusts are sent to prison, there to confer with the brainy men now filling the cells, the business of picking pockets will be accelerated In all Its branches. Your telephone bell rings it rings again. You are busy and do not answer. The operator finally reports to the party calling you, "They do not answer." (Note, she never says, "They are not there") Then she disconnects you. Five seconds later just six seconds too late you an swer. You get ho reply.' You angrily, exclaim, "My bell rang." . , Your delay' caused either the loss of a customer or inconvenience to a friend. You cannot afford either. At certain hours in the day, everybody wants to talk at the same time, and telephone calls come quick and fast. At such times all we ask is for you to. be consider ate, remembering that the "Central" on your line will answer you as quickly as possible, and will do all any operator can do to give quick and accurate service. Nebraska Telephone N Co. A. F. McAdams, Omaha Manager. fpL WABASH SHORTEST LINE TO I Ts LOUIS DOUBLE DAILY SERVICE Low round-trip summer excursion fares to St. Louis, Detroit, Buf falo, Niagara Falls, Toronto, Mon treal, New York and Boston. Through Car Service From Chicago Information regarding rates, routes, berths, etc., cheerfully furnished. AGENT FOE ALL STEAMSHIP LINES H. C. SHIELDS, G. A. P. D. OMAHA, NEB. Wabash City Ticket Office, 16th and Farnani Streets ' SUNNY GEMS. "MsdHtne, your Infernal I t'le d g bit rn Just ost now. 'Oh, thank ou rt much rr trllir toe V iromptlv. I'll lime him tske tr ai!iiei'V 'or It right away"- HhIi imore Ami than w ; Maud-Jack Is telling around th.it you are worth oiir wiitclit In gold, t-.thel The fool sh bov. h ts he t. l ing it tor Maud-Ills creulti rs, dear Host n Trans cript. "1 mislaid If lt night." "llsrd lines: ( an't yml think where yon put it?" "Tea I put it on the wrong card." To. ledn Blade. Tt amp Mlslcr. would you give me nickel for a meal? frilestrlan For a glass of beer, more llk.lv. Tramp Wotever you savs. hiss; you're payln' for It. Boston Transcript. I'apa I'm sorry, my dear, but our phyet- ... I.. I .ltd I ... In.i.l I. V, . linn n w lllir llir i,n..,r., ,,ii.-r nc II., . , procured for us Is a good one, she is , ft porf ct bear. Ill Tommv Oh, psrift. do ke her If she's mil 1 trained beat i-lnrilansnol s News. i, j i THE UAJJ I. Los Angeles Kxpress. Who brings delight lo daddy's breast? The bsby. Who always is a welcome guest? The bsby. Whst cooing, laughing, prattlng mite Is king of all the household there. And keeps Its psrent. day and night. Divided 'twlxt Joy and despair? The baby. For what does rtsddy toll all day? The baby. And mothers wear their lives away? The bsby. Whst little dimpled, rosy face Dispels the gloom when days are drearl What tiny toddler on the plsce Becomes more lovsble and dear? The baby. What brightens every home each hour? The baby. What Is the household's sweetest flower! The baby. What little hand leads sturdy feet In paths of right along life's way? Who makes the Journey smooth snd sweet With love and sunshine, every day? The baby. Who Is the future "coming man?" 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