Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, February 13, 1912, Page 4, Image 4
ilih ULh,: OA1AMA. XLhSDAV, J-EBKUAKx" 13, Mi THE OMAHA DAILY BEE J-Ul'M'KL- BY EUU ARO KOSEWATKK VICTOR HOSEWATER. EDITOR. HKK Bl lUHNO. FARNAM AND 17TH Cnund et uinaaa poatulfite a second class matter. .y.M IMS 55r T&RVS OP Sl'JitSCKlPTlON. Sun Jay fees, um year Saturday i-ee. on ear Ke.lr Bee tlthout Sundav), on yeai Kaily B end Sunday, ona year l.tUVERED U-V CAKKIKR- C mill fliinftaW NT mO, 1'ruly Bee osa-ludlrtc. Sunday, per mo- 5 uajlv Be (without Sundarl, per " An ill corr.plairm or Irregularities is delivery lo Citv Circulation Dept. REMITTAXCKA. , Hewitt by dr.'t. upren or postal order, pavabie to Til IW Publishing company Wily t-cent rump received In payment of until accounts. Personal checks, ex cept on Onus wid eestara exchange, not accepted. Omaha-The Bee Building. South Otniht-au N St. louncll Riuffe-"!. Scott St. Lincoln- Little Buildlnr. htraeo r Marquette Building. Kanaaa Oty-Rellanra Building. New York-M Weal Thirty-third. Wathlnrto-i ""3 Fourteenth 8L. . CORRESPONDESCB. . Co-miiuntcatlona relating lo news and ritltorial matter should be addressed Omaha Bee. Editorial Department. JANUARY CIRCULATION. 49,728 ltat of Nebraska. County of Douglas. : Dwlght Williams, circulation menu-ei rf The Be Publishing company, bring duly sworn, says Uia the avsvage daily circulation, lees polled, unused and re turned copies, for the mouth sf January, 1912, waa if.iSS. DWIOHT WILLIAM. Circulation Manage-. FutwertbeJ In my presence and aworn lo before ma this ith day of February. UU. (Seal.) KOBERT Hl'NTKR. Notary Public Sabsrrtbero Warlas Hly lessparaHIr sheala have Tbe He mailed la tkesa. Address will be ekaaced aa af tern aa re seated. Nothing so arouses a sleeping town u a national convention. - Thou Fire Amesdmesta. Except for the publicity voluntarily glvea by tbe newspaper the people of Nebraska would be left almost wholly (n the dark with reference to five Important amendment to the constitution submitted by the last legislature for adoption at tbe com ing election. Under the method of constitution-changing now prevailing in this state the decisive vote on the amendments will take place, not In the November election, bat in the April primary. The fire amendments briefly epitomized are as follows: 1. Initiative and referendum, 1 Doubling salaries of member! of the legislature. 3. Creating an appointive board of con trol for atata Institution. 4. Providing for only biennial elections after the year 1314. h. Empowering cities of mora than 5,000 Inhabitants to frame and adopt their own charters. Only once before have as many constitutional amendment been sub mitted for ratification at one time in Nebraska, and on that occasion they were all defeated, the multiplicity of tbe amendments contributing to that end. In this list of five are some that will meet with a division of opinion, and other that will encounter the ob stacle of Indifference. The danger thai threatens arise sot only from tbe multiplicity of amendments, but also from the still greater multiplicity of candidates and office on the pri mary ballot, sure to test tbe staylns power of the voter. An amendment submitted two year ago fell by the wayside of Its own inertia, and in the absence of persistent agitation It will not be surprising It one or two of these meet a similar fate. qnences, nor are we threatened with any. Undoubtedly Hayti and the United States will be all the better off for our action. That is practically what we are proposing to do in Hon duras and Nicaragua. If our govern ment feel that it can afford to ex tend this policy generally In that sec tion, then, it would seem, nothing need stand In its way. The president and secretary of state urge It- At any rate, closer relations between us and all our neighbor in the Carib bean and between all of them must bo established by some means. Tbe Everglade were swamped bad uough without thl latest overflow. Never mind, th venerable secre tary of agriculture I able to boa hi own. row. f Old Wilkin Mlcawber still leads tb batting list of - the Dickens' character. ' r Duelling In Franca baa been re duced to an exact science by mean of wag bullet. Soma of these "favorite sons pro bably have that dark, brows taste la their mouths already. ' "Back to th farm" used to be yelled only at th dumb ball player. Now It I a national cry. James B. Duke ot the Tobacco trust la soon to retire, but U ducal dynasty has not decided to abdicate. 1 Baltimore I entitled to tbe demo cratic convention, for It baa bad ao tarn since tbaj old champion Oriole ceased to warble. ' "Coagreat Faces) Important Week.' Headline. Tea, and that same headline hat been written each lion day line congress convened. "My political career i not muck different from that of some other senators," remarks Mr. Lorlmer. Bat even that doea not excuse him. The Courier-Journal calls It "Gov ernor Wilson' tergiversation. Those democrat call each other awful name when they get mad. Tbe Folk-Clark farce la Missouri Is ' referred to aa "A Victory ot Peace. ," How can there be a victory, where t there I nothing to win or lose? J Tbe foot ball field baa been short ened ten yards. Now, If they would only shorten the foot ball season tea days, th casualty list might diminish Itaelf. , - . ( On tabloid biographer says ot Mr. ; Bryan that he "edit the Commoner." ( Gee, don't they know Dick Metcalfe , needs a little thunder, himself, to run f for governor? I Judge Gary Insists those records : tbat were burned contained no Steel trust secret the government would care to know. Certainly not, that la , why they were burned. . Now, It w only had retained that opes primary, wouldn't H be line for I th democrats to fix up a harmony ; slate for themaelvea, and then come over and help the republicans out A lew mora penitentiary murder I might dampen th ardor of the parol . land pardoa squad, who would turn ', loose, a soon aa sentence I pro : nounced, every convict who puts up a 15 teartnl tale. i Ti incident at Bellevn proves : that the service of the Lord Is lust at righteous and noble saving neighbor! boose from flames aa pray , lag ia church to cava souls from the fire hereafter. 10a always think more of your friend with (he anto after be has dashed madly by yon as yon were .' standing la the dusa waiting for a car and spattered a lot ot th slush upon your alee, new suit ' , j B t -vtoat is the matter with our army" is being discussed In a series f articles contributed by ataff offl cers to a popular macula. What ia the matter with our army? Perhaps some ot th Spaniards who went ap against It ia Cafca. or the Filipinos vrho cot their experience In the 1'hltlppinea, might give first bud in f oration. ' ; Getting: Back the $100,000. Here I a schedule ot price which. dispatches aay, has been virtually prearranged In Baltimore for the ac commodation of the delegates and visitor to tbe democratic national convention, to be held In that city next June: First class hotels. DM a day. ' Second class hotels, tw a day. Third class hotels. 131 a day. First class lodctns houses, $20 a day. Heeond class lodging houses, KM a day. Other lodclng houses, 130 a day. la taxi cabs, it for the first bait hour and V for each hour thereafter. In Chesapeake Bay steamers, 3S per state room. Presumably Baltimore knew what was about when It put up the f 100,000 cash bonus that landed the dt-mocratic convention. Presumably the hotel keeper and other public service people were not acting purely from philanthropic motive. There I rack a thing as casting one's bread upon the water and, after many days. having It return multiplied manifold. This scriptural treasure may occur to torn of th delegates aa thy go to pay their bread sad other bill when th convention la over. The figures, so reports say, rep resent only th outside service. All details, such as, for Instance at a hotel, bell boys, towel, Ice water, etc., will corns extra. The Salvation Army Barracks sr said to be over crowded aow. No deeping will be permitted la th convention hall after regular work hours. Th police will be Instructed to prevent lounging on the streets. All delegate, therefor, wk have no relatives or other mean ot free entertainment In Baltimore will be compelled to seek refuge in a hostelry of some sort. No guilty democrat will be allowed to escape. United Statea battleships In Chess- peak bay, however, will salute tbe convention free ot charge. Baltimore's slogan: Why b a con vention city unless you can get tbe money ? A moat appropriate shib boleth for the party ot reform and re trenchment that puts Its convention up at auction. ' ' Beg-ardlets of the Verdicts. Regardless of the verdicts which the committees on Investigation in tbe cases ot Senators Btephenson and Lorlmer submit, it is safe to say that the methods anda means by which these men were elected to the senate have, by the wide publicity of these tnveattgatlons, been so unpopular aa to be uninviting to candidates for tbe senate in Wisconsin or Illinois, or other states in the future. And If only tbat has been done, substantial progress baa been achieved, whether the final pronouncement of the Inves tigator i adverse or favorable to the Individuals involved, or whether they are retained in their seats or not. No sans man, who has kept up with any measurable part of tbe Lorlmer case, believes that the meth ods by which Lorlmer became a sen ator were what they should have been. Nobody, not even the senator reporting In favor of Stephenson, will dare aay that $107,000 should b spent without knowing where it la to go, to be elected to a seal In the upper branch of congress. Terhaps It serves a better and larger purpose sfter all to let these men remain In the senate, where they will be con spicuous examples ot th evil of un savory politic. But-th lamentable truth Is that they do not stsnd out In s bold relief from all their col leagues aa It might be wished they did. since they, probably, only over did what. In a measure, too many others, both democrats and repub licans, did. 1 Unseating a senator would not be a victory unless at th same time ve had uprooted a bad practice In cor rupt politic. It Is the hops that we have dons this thst encourages good people to view with equanimity the fat of cither Lorlmer or Stephenson. Regardless of th verdicts in their cases. It Is safe to predict that their successors will not be elected by the same method that gave them their commission. Thirty Years Ago A strike of t'nion Pacific moidera took place at the shops today. Striken aay they are soinc back, presumably having had their Kiievancea adjusted. The grand jury has returned seven In dictments. The regular monthly meeting of the Board ot Trade listened to a discussion on paving atone and river Improvement President Clark appointee P. &. Her and John A. Horbach to draft a memorial to congress for an appropriation to protect the Missouri river bank. L. C. Northrup, formerly district Judge and United States attorney of Kouth Carolina, was admitted by Judge Savage to practice at the bar of this state. The committee In charge of the fifth annual ball of Enslne Company No. 1 to be held March is at Masonic hall. Is made up of I. V. Lane, C. C Field. C. If. Pickens, Charles Hunt, E. P. Beard. George Crager and W. J. Whltehouse. Mrs. Howard B. Smith left for Chllll- cothe, O., where her father Is lying critically III. The setter connection with the Coemus house was being made under tbe super vision of Contractor Hugh Murphy. J. A. Gillespie of the deaf and dumb asylum la asking for Information regard ing th whereabouts of a deaf and dumb boy about S years old, who got away from the asylum and has not returned. Messrs. Wroth and Jones, two ener getic and experienced lumber dealers, formerly of Michigan, have opened aa office In the McDonald building, opposite the Grand Central hotel, and will handle all kinds of lumber st wholesale. Omaha'a new plan ot city govern' meat sllmlnate all party labela from the ballot. It also prohibits municipal officials from undertaking to Influence other city officials or em ployes In mstters political. The per son who In advance of th time for filing, and before all the entries are made, agrees to let soma one else pick his candidate for him, la not living up to the spirit ot the com mission plan law.v Announcement Is made that the current expense fund for the Univer sity of Omaha has been raisod ac cording to schedule, but this should not prevent any one disposed to con tribute from making an additional subscription Just tb same. Ilcoliini Backward llmDnv inOmalia f COMPILED FROM BE.E III" 1R. 14. Twenty Years Ago It was tbe decision of th Douglas County Beet ffugar association, which met at the Board of Trad, that no factory would be eatabllshed In Omaha for the year, at least. Dr. George U Miller pre sided over the meeting. The committee. which made a report, urging that the pro ject be pushed, waa John T. Clarke, George S. Hicks, A. W. Fullried, Eraatus A. Benson, O. J. Ptckard. Miss Florence Richardson of Platts- mouth waa visiting Mrs. Bliss Cobb, 9X3 California street, and other friends. Ex-Governor Larrabe ot Iowa, called oa The Bee while In th city enroute to the Black Hills. George E. Barker, vice president of th National Bank of Commerce, received a letter from a crank, who threatened to blow Mr. Barker out of this world in a hurry if be did not send him all the money his bank contained. Mr. Barker kept back at least It cents. Mr. and Mrs. Dal ton Rlsley entertained the Bhesaay High Five club at the Mer rlara In the evening. Mrs, Pettlbone won the ladles prise and Mr. Pettlbone the gentleman's. Others present were: Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Bryson. Mr. and Mrs, Draper Smith, Mr. and ' Mrs Charles Oratton, Mr. Milton Peters and Miss Ueltyberg of St. Louis. . Ten Years Ago County Treasurer G. Fred Elaasser filed his report tor January, showing a balance on hand ot tl52.7VT.56. Jndsw W. W. Slabeugh returned from Hannibal, Mo., whither 'he had been called by the sickness ot Mrs. Slabaugb's sister. Marie Morrlisey, 11 years of age. died at her home, 1 South Thirty-second avenue. The Au Revolr Kensington club was en tertained by Mrs. Frank 8. De Vor, 1711 Park avenue. In the afternoon. Charles J. Greene, returned from Chi cago. Mrs. Elisabeth Belden. mother of Mrs. C. W. Lyman, died at the Lyman home, UM Burt street, at I a. m.. at th age ot 71 Mrs. Belden, who had resided ia Omaha for thirty years, had been In poor health during the entire winter. W. H. Green and party returned from Guatemala, where they spent three weeks. They reached New Orleans en their re turn In time for the Mardl Oraa. Around New York stipples si the Cin-nl f Life aa Heea la the Great awerleas Metropolis Owns Day te Day. Of course, there ought not to be any suspicion of ulterior motives on th part of any one engaged In re forming our city government. It goes without saying that the ulterior motives are always actuating the other fellow, Secretary Xnex'i Caribbean Visit. Undoubtedly on ot the chief ob- Jecta of Secretary Knox's coming visit to th Caribbean countries is to nave the way for the relatione that should exist between those countries and the United Statea consequent upon th building ot tbe Panama canal. Mr. Knox, who haa urged con free to sanction th loans to Nicaragua and Honduras, seems exactly tb man and thta the strategic time tor thl mis sion. Th United State should pro mote cordial relation, not only be tween It and these "countries, but be tween them severally. Whenever tbe unbroken pursuit ot peaceful Industry among these little nation to the oath is established w shall heed to concern ourselves very little with problem that bow vex us. . But many Americans believe It Is going too far to buy these conditions with an extension of our financial protectorate over these countries. The Honduras loan, exceeding $100, 300,000, has sot yet been approved by the senate for that reason. Those opposing tbe proposition ask that it we grant this concession to Hona j as and Nicaragua, as we have already done In the case of Hayti. where shall we draw the line? It will establish a precedent that will be difficult to break. European countries might be come too generous In their loan, knowing that back -'of the volatile Central American republic stood Its powerful guarantor, Uacla Sam. It seems to be simply a question of how far the United States can afford to go la this direction. In the case of Hayti ws practically took over the financial conduct of the government But we saved it from bankruptcy and restored economic prosperity, and thus far hav met with so evil conce it Is to be noted that office seekers who want to climb on to the repub lican ticket .by the Insurgency step ladder Just naturally go to demo cratic organ tor publicity and encouragement- aa a duck takea to water. Thorns Edison only take four and one-half hours sleep In order that be may get In plenty of time at work. Obviously Mr. Edison either doee not belong to a union or gets time and a halt 'for overtime. teas sad rffeet. Indianapolis News. Taken by and large, It would seem that Senator La Folletle la entirely Justified In feeling what la technically known In polities a ."a bit sore." tvilsaa si Wary Bird. ' - Brooklyn Eagle. Secretary . Wilson is not to be caught la the swampland of Florida. It he were to undertake to expose all the crooked ness of farming there aeuld be no "corne ous" from the cities and the "back-to-the land' movement would be retarded by official Interference, A laaae tvr SVaader, Indianapolis News. And yet one caa't help wondering why the steel trust reduced Its average price by gelling lower abroad than at borne, as Mr. Schwab declares, instead of doing so by selling lower at home -than abroad, which policy would have added appre ciably to Its popularity and might have avoided a great deal of embarrassment ia the way ot official Invemtgatioa. Farilrts) i-aaaas Last. Philadelphia Racord. General Porflrlo Dtas may he excused if be takes a saturnine satisfaction In the news from the country which, dlsoeur- teously dispensed wtta his senrlcea, which were undoubtedly valuable, but had by ties lapse of time become h-ksome. The gore amen! that he was the head of was not republican much hslow the surface, but r vu a firm government: ft main tained the peace and tt fostered the business Interests of the country. Madero isn't keeping the peace, People Talked About Governor Wilson to Colonel Watterson: "Speak to sne, love. O speak!" Owing to an overflowing waiting list of th parent organisation the Lorlmer Inquiry witnesses will be obliged to form a subsidiary Ananias club. Itlllalre Belloc, the English author, who was some years ego a favorite lecturer, says that he left Parliament "because I was getting sick of the vilest and dirtiest society In which I have ever mixed In all my life." Are you a Burke? Prepare to flock to th standard ot Governor John Burks of North Dakota, whose presidential boom haa been an runs In New England. Will Kelly and Shea fall in er watch the pro cession so by? William MeAdoo, who built th Hudson river tunnels, recently made what la said to have been a record run In a special train en the Southern railroad, covering the 20 miles from Charlotte, N. C, to Oreenvllle in Mn minutes. Leo Gow. a Chinaman, said to be the first foreign born Chinaman to ran for office In America, Is a candidate for eounctlmaa at Georgetown, Colo, - The first thins, he did after announcing him self was to buy a rllk hat to complete his stylish attire. - Superior ability of hie- wife in cooking mince pies and' Irish stew wan for St. Louis preacher an appointment aa missionary to the Island of Jamaica. Christianity, like an army, adjust Its pare to the fullness of Its Interior de- parftnent. William Watson, the English poet who is asaia In this country, 1 willing to forgive Americans for the . way. they treated him when he was her before. say a dispatch, which also quotes Mr. Watson aa saying: "I have been working recently on a little' work which will be published simultaneously ever here and on the other side In about a month." The tax assessor of Spokane county, Washington, wtll put eta women deputies oa the road next spring, with particular Instructions to set out In the personal schedules the value of the household good ta the hoeaea . visited. Milady's Jewels are to be Inspected and valued as never before, provided milady Is careless enough t give the assessor a peep. New Tork papers minus the pure truth label Intimate that some of tb Wood row Wllsoa fund collected by. Colonel Wattenoa cam from th Puritan Jeans of Jostah Quiacy and th demure Quaker purs of Frederick Courtland Penfleld, a New Yorker who annexed a Philadelphia heiress. Judging by the notes the fund created-the contributions were- ta' good sound money, , Stares Klwar Taaael. ' A blast of rock LOOS feet below the level of the Hudson river connected the bores of the Cauklll tunnel aqueduct last week, completing what Mayor Gaynor classed aa "one of the greatest feats of engineering In history." The tunnel aqueduct will carry the waters ot the Catsklll moun tains under the river from Breakneck mountain to Storm King mountain, and waa the most difficult and expensive sec tion of th new water system which will coat the city tlOO.oUO.tot. "In a syphon so huge." says the New Tork Times. "It was absolutely necessary to go down to the very foundations of the mountains, to the solid granite of which the tie ribs of earth are built When it Is remem bered that the Hudson is no ordinary river, but I really a mighty fiord, a deep valley cutting the Appalachian range and Inundated by the sinking of the whole surrounding surface, th Importance ot a thorough exploration of the site chosen fur the passage of the aqueduct will be appreciated. "This exploration was made doubly difficult by the narrowness of the gorge formed' by the mountains and by the great depth of tbe glacial and other de posits tilling the bed of the river. Vertical tunnels bad to be sunk on each bank, and from these shafts and from tbe sur face of the river Itself numerous drills were sunk. It was on the basts ot this examination that the work waa finally proceeded with, and the fact that the horizontal bore, cut simultaneously from each side and starting from the bottom of shafts 1.200 feet deep, waa made to meet with a divergence of only one-eighth of an inch, la sn astounding teat to the lay mind. The tunnel, when its lining shall have been completed, will do its work far from the general human sight and ken, but It will remain as striking a monument ot human endeavor and daring as anything existing in the world today." Tet Beeosae-a Sculptress. Pauline Margulles, child et the tene ments In the east side, was drawing pic tures of her playmates on tbe sidewalks ten years ago.; today, at 17,- she Js sn accomplished sculptress, facing, art critics declare, a great future. Her family cam here ten years ago from Roumanla. They were poor. They saw her crude drawings on the sidewalk and knew she wss talented, but what could they do? Money was needed for meat and bread, not for art lessons. Poverty couldn't keep her from being an artist. Mud. charred sticks even watermelon rinds, became her material for work. In the university settlement her dreams came true, for there she waa taught the rudiments of art Two years ago her father placed some of her drawings In his shop win dow. A passing artist, attracted by the work, made It possible for her to attend Cooper Union. In one year she won six honorable mentions, a stiver medal for drawing and a bronae medal for modeling. Since then she haa won so many prtsss she cannot count them. Rich friends are going to send her abroad to Italy, where there are wonderful teachers and things to copy. And yet, she says, she's her mother's "little girt" A tteaoureeful Wosaaw.. ' Miss Mary Donnelly, cashier Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont's new "suffrage lunch room" In New York, waa praising during aa afternoon lull, the resourcefulness of her sex. , , , . 'Let the antl-suffragists bewars." ahs said. "Woman is bound to get th vote everywhere. She is too resourceful to loss. "How resourceful woman Is! A girl sat in a train one day with an uncut magasine in her hand. ejhe. wasn't read ing: she couudn't. She was Just lifting apart the edges of the uncut leaves and nearly standing on her head to peer at the text and the pictures within. So an old gentleman across the aisle took out his knife shyly. "But the girl didn't look at him. She kept on peering between the uncut pages. And finally the old gentleman opened his knife and reached across the aisle, but The girl drew a hairpin from her pretty coiffure and proceeded to cut the pages briskly, s 'The old gentleman drew back and his neighbors smiled, thereupon he said sotto voce: " 'I've heard that woman can do any thing with a hairpin, but. at any rate, she can't sharpen a pencil without a pen knife.' "At that moment the girl still Intently reading, took a pencil from her pocket book, bit three or four splinters of wood off the end of It and calmly made a note on the margin of her magmaine." Aa Esperlsaeat tbat Palled. The first woman's bar at the new Tsnderbltt hotel has perished from the face of th earth. Large men with broad shoulders now sit before the buffet which was once dedicated to the feminine, and wreathe ot the Incense of perfectos linger among the rare old Chinese paintings on the walla of that retreat The English butler who was wont to serve dainty drinks and ere me vtolette and curacoa In thm-stetnnted glasses now Is content to purvey the Scotch highball of commerce. It was decided several days ago by the management to abolish th bar for the fair, because the Idea did not seem to find especial favor In their eyes. It was only aa experiment, aa Innovation. One changes chairs about a new hotel from this corner to that and moves rugs about and bangs the pictures first on that wall and thea en this. 8a tt waa that the woman's bar, with Its Chippendale chairs of the Cathay influence, and Its blue and yellow rugs. Its grill work in the windows, baa been transmuted Into a cafe where on may have a cocktail, chat with a friend and be gone to other realms; brush ing one's high top hat oa the way. Talked ta the Flaeat. Tbe traffic cop shot up hi hand sud denly, tb girl stepped sntUngty across in safety. But there waa a scream of brake and a hum of curses from the line of auto. Th big limousine ground gently to stop. Th taxi behind did it best, but veered, smasbed and settled oa Its right axle like a hurt thing. iNobody had been hurt, and the rush started agala at the wntatle. All but tbe lone taxi, whose driver waa now getting out slowly. He went straight up to the demigod hi blue. "See what you done with yer blasted flirting! be said, shaking his first. "Laid m up for a weak. Run m In If you want ta and all the rest of It, 111 ret! you straight Just this one that the whole pack of you brass buttoned hsdy killers ought to be rua la yourselves." A ReJolader on CaraJaarae H KEARNEY. Neb., Feb. Mi-To the Editor of The Bee: I note a letter from A. J. Snowden. in which the writer makes a couple of utterly absurd and exaggerated statements. He says the reason so many farmers patronise mall order house Is tbat they sell a better quality of goods for at least S per cent less than the home merchants. Nothing could be further from the truth. Count ing coat of transportaUoa and of getting an order through a catalogue house. I venture to assert, there Is very little tbat the customer could not buy aa cheaply In hi home town tof cash. As for quality, the good handled by cata logue houses are usually of the cheapest make and often of a grade the home merchant would not dare to handle. Another statement even more absurd I that he ha known merchants to buy farm products tor half the price they old It at Now. butter and eggs are the chief farm products handled by retail merchants. Usually the merchant pays the fanner In trade Just what he expects to sell these at At the most a cent of two per pound or dozen Is all the mar gin tbe merchant expects, and In many Instance such produce is handled at a distinct lose. Mr. 8nowden is quite a bee man and sells considerable honey, both to local merchants and Jobber. He Is, -I happen to know, very desirous of getting the top price for his own product, and it I should tell him I could buy better honey for 2t per cent lea than h asks he would think I had a brain storm. Yet such a statement would be no more ex aggerated than those he makes. The fact la that ths foundation tor the mall order evil lie in Ignorance and greed; Ignorance of real business condi tions and a greed one can aptly term "penny , wise and pound foolish." Those who send money away' In this fashion should stop to reflect that they are merely building up huge millionaire con cerns In the east, with no interest what ever In their community except to get what money they can out of It; that do not pay a cent toward th taxes In their community, and that are slowly driving their own merchants out of business and keeping down prosperity and land values. Live and let live" le a wise old Ger man proverb. All classe of men depend one upon the other. Were we all fann er and none consumers, farm products would go a-begging. Were we all con sumer and none farmers, th high prios of living would probably be only within th reach of millionaire. Bot equitably distributed and In th proper balance, Slslnai t tbe Trouble. New York Sun. Th chief trouble with Mr. Taft Is that he doesat praeice tbe Midway Plaisaoc style of peiitica, - " both producer and consumer can pros per in a reasonable degree. But as to1 the measure of success at least here In) the west the farmers have certainly had least cause for complaint In the last decade. The cry of the high cost of liv ing, therefore, come with lea grace from them than from any other class, tor it Is this very high cost of living that Is putting more money in their pockets. . ' N. H. JOHNSON. CHEERY CHAFF. "That was an annoying coincidence." said Mr. Bltftglna. "It took great tact to manage it- ' 'V hat s the trouble!" "The pension examiner and the life In surance doctor both called on me at the same time." Waahingtca Star. Cook An' why waa th sew maid dis charged? Laundress Sure, it was because of her not 'tendin' to Fldo; she let him get into th' room where little Miss Bessie had th' measles. Judge. "Why is there so much talk about the stage's needing elevating?" "Why not?" - "Any time it wants to elevate itse'f hasn't It got wlngar Baltimore American. Collector Sir, this ia the 250th time V called on you. The Man-That's a good score. What's the gam: Chicago News. Mistress One thing more. Norah, I hope you haven't a young man. The New Maid Oh. no. Indeed, mum; he's nearly ej. Chicago Post, ... "Going to the ball tomorrow night Mr. Lankeyr . "Thanks. Miss Peeehley. I wilt I had! forgotten that it is leap year." Chicago Tribune. - - - THE GAT LIFE. ' Chicago Record-Herald. He hurries every morning to catch a cer-' tain car: He goes ta work where hundreds ef other! toiler are; ... i HI course ia never varied; he has not time to stray; The route that Is th shortest he takes: day after day; I He works upon a schedule that changes not at alt I In winter or in summer, in springtime er! in tall. He starts In every morning. Just as he' did before, ' To do a certain duty and never any' more; , He has his thirty minutes st noon to rest! and eat, And when the day Is ended lie hurries to the street To start his Journey homeward, night after nlaht the same, Jammed In with other people who do not know his nam. He does not know his neighbors, to them' he Is unknown; Beyond his little orbit his faos ia never: shown; He hurries every morning to catch al certain car; At nlirht he clings where other sad-faced: straphangers are. And wonders how the people exist out on the farms. Deprived of social pleasures and all the city's charms. V rSaSi, 1 bakiic ; f ir E . . Absolutely Puro m Eranonilzes Batter, FIonrt i 7 Erjgs ; makes the food more . M fj appetizing and wholesome i m The only Baking Powder made S 111 g from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar Kt J J J' Its Strength and Richness Appeals to Coffee Drinkers - , 300 CUPS TO THE POUND. t ONE TEASP00NT UL MAKES TWO CUPS. 7 Putltstid by th Growers ol India Tea A LITTLE SAGE ID SULPHUR E STHE GRAY HAIR VANISH A Harmless Way to Darken Hair; Simple Remedy for All Hair Troubles. Who does not know th value of Sage and Sulphur for keeping the hair dark, soft and glossy and In good condition? A a matter of fact. Sulphur I a natural element ot hair, and deficiency of it in th hair is held by many scalp specialists to be connected with loss of color aod vitality of tb hair. Unquestionably, there ia no better remedy for hair and scalp troubles, especially premature grayneas, than Sg and Sulphar, It property pre pared. Tbe Wyeth Chemical Co-apaay ef New Tork put out aa ideal preparation et this kind, called Wyeth' Sage aad Sulphur Hair Bemedy, in which Ssae aad Sulphur are combined with other valuable reme dies for keeping the hair and scalp la clean, healthy CuodlUon. . If your hair Is loosing its color of con stantly coming out. or if yon are troubled with dandruff or th. Itchy scalp get a fifty cent bottle of Wyeth'a Sage and Sulphur from your druggist, oa 4t according to tbe simple directions, and eee what a dlf fereace a few days' treatment will snake In the appearaae of your hair. All druraists sell It, under guarantee that (be money wtll he refunded if the remedy n not exactly as represented. fperisJ agent. Sherman V MeCoanell Drag Co, Cor. Kth and Dodge. Cor. Mth and Harney, Car. Mth and Fai-aam, SR-g North Mth St, Loyal Hotel. J