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THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1912. TIIE OMAI1A DAILY BEE FOUNDED BY BDWAKP ROSEVV ATfcK, VICTOR ROSEVVATKR. EDITOR. BEB BUILDINO, FARXAM AN U 1TTH Enured it Omaha Postotflce m second- cits J matter. Vrniu i ci-nrpiPTI (i S . Sunday Bee, one yer - Saturday Bee, one year ..........i w Dally Be (without Sunday), one year j J Dally Bee, and Sunday, one year ...... i DELIVERED BT CAJUUER. . ,. Evenlnr and Sunday, per montn. .,.. Evening- without Sunday, per month.. &c Dally Bee (Including Sunday), per mo..fcyc Dally Bee (without Sunday), per mo... 4ac AJdress all complaints or lrreeulartUei In delivery to City Circulation Dept. nr(lTTi MPM riemlt by draft, express or postal order, pavable to The Bee Publishing oompany. Only S-cent atampa received In payment of amali account- Personal checK. ex cept on Omaha and eastern exchange, not accepted. ' OFFICES. - ' . . Omaha The Bee building-. South Omaha-2311 N St. . Council Bluffs-U No. Main St Lincoln 26 Little building. -Chicago 10U Marquette building. Kansas City-Reliance buildin. New York-84 West Twenty-third. St Louia MS Pierce building. W ahlngton-725 Fourteenth fet. N. w. Communication relating to news ana editorial matter should be addressed Omaha Bee, Editorial Department SEPTEMBER CIRCULATION. 50,154 State of Nebraska, County of Douglaa. . Dwlght William, circulation manager of The Bee Publishing company, being duly .wont, sayi that the average daily circulation for the month of "'2ber' 1912, was ,l5i DWIQHT WIU11 Circulation Manager. Subscribed In my presence and fworn to befor. m. lg-S5f$Sj-(Seal.) V Notary Public, labecribera leavta e"r temporarllr akoald have The Be nailed to them. ,Addrea will be chaag-ed a fte re-aeated. The world has a natural suspicion of the man who claims to be too good for it. 014 Doc Cook must be the artful dodger he it still on. the lecture platform. Potatoes gala 10,000,000 bushels Is production cer 1811. Hurrah for the Irish 1 Every day It becomes more ap parent that no one can fool all the people all the time. I For can rushers, Mr. Murphy's Chicago : Cubs are playing a great game against the sober Sox. " The demand for cotton pickers is almost as great in the south as the Tain call for third-term voters. , Halt of our qualified voters are still unregistered. ' Last chance to register comes Saturday, October 88. The reappearance of Pericles and Garibaldi on the horizon ot Balkan warfare : suggests s some - good old days.4 ' 'f, : v ; 'f: .'. " -;' v ' ' Governor Wilson recently caused Champ Clark to miss his train, He did not leave him even a handcar at Baltimore. , The first failure of the third- term party was Us starting out to destroy the O, O. P. Instead of the democratic party. Those pining over the passing of the wild west we respectfully com mend to the recent events In Rawlins, Wyo.,' and vicinity. There is said to be a striking similarity between the king of Monte negro and J. P. Morgan- la appear ance, nothing more. ;.,. The Turk, it seems, still "lies dreaming of the hour when Greece, her knee in suppllance bent, will tremble at his power." Omaha, and every other city which the colonel has visited, thanks its lucky stars that, If It had to happen, It happened in Milwaukee. And now that the governor's proclamation has been amended to include the overlooked presidential electors, the campaign may proceed. It Is announced that Ak-Sar-Ben Is not yet able to give definite fig ures on his profits from the recent carnival. Well, Just bo they are profits. The colonel did not know It if Morgan contributed $150,000 to his campaign fund. Why, no, he would never notice a mere bagatelle like $160,000. It, Is to be noted that the other legislative candidates are In no way Infringing on "Mike" Lee's exclusive nome-njaae patented platform of his very own. Nebraska veterinarians will ask legislation, or rather a legislative ap propriation, to enable them to go after live stock epidemics harder In the future. It's an ill wind. For some unexplalnable reason, candidates running for offices, sub ject to state-wide vote seem unaware that one-ninth of the total vote of Nebraska win be cast right here In Omaha and Douglas county, It turns out that convention cam paigns of both Harmon and Under wood were helped along by contribu tions of Thomas F. Ryan. We take It, however, that the Items should'be credited to William J. Bryan, for it rcuEt have been his opposition that made Ryan chip In, The Colonel's Charmed Life. The fortunate escape of Colonel Roosevelt from an assassin's bullet will strengthen popular belief that he has a charmed lite. The poor wretch who sought to end the colonel's career was doubt less obsessed by an Insane Impulse, the emanation ot a diseased brain wrought up by the acerbity of a political campaign. 1 Every right-minded person will de plore such outbreaks and rejoice that the damage done' by the bullet is In consequential. Yet, at the same time, people cannot shut their eyes to the fact that the kind of a cam paign which the colonel has- been waging the indiscriminate assaults upon men tor exercising their right to disagree with him the reckless hurling of groundless accusations and vile epithets Is naturally calculated to stir up passion and prejudice, par ticularly of the weak-minded and ignorant Not that the deed of the maniac Is In the least excusable, but that it Is more understandable in the light ot the violence and virulence of the colonel's own actions. The country is to be congratulated on avoiding another sad tragedy. Whether the Incident will exercise an Influence on the election remains to be seen. Prosperity Talk V, In its physical aspects Omaha has certainly not been going backward since President Taft went into the White House, but, quite the con trary, has been so noticeably building and expanding that it is' almost un necessary to call attention to it. This new construction has not been con fined to any one section of the city nor to any one class ot buildings, but has been continuous and varied. Never have building trades artisans In Omaha been so uninterruptedly at work at top wages as during the last four years, and the aggregate ot new construction has mounted steadily higher, rather because of improved character and greater cost than of the numbers. For graphic compari son, take the permits Issued by the city building Inspector's office for the year ending July 1 last, and the corresponding year preceding Mr. Taft's election: .;. 1907. No. , Amt. J9U. July ... 152 $ 432,T90July ... Aug ... Iff , 568,700Aur ... 396,155Sept ... 600,513 Oct 881.785 Nov ..: 9.(75 Dec ... 1911 188,750 Jan ISiUDOFeb ... 221,620 March. S0l,8 April -,. 393.3S5May ... 4S0,l(OJune .. No, Amt 117 $1,234,125 m ' 404, S3 8ept Oct ... Nov Deo ., 1908. Jan ... Feb '.. March AprU . May ., June . 134 133 108 124 84 104 7 484,658 868,480 907,817 184,000 79 68 ISO 178 157 132. .62 68 83 178 1G3 148 134 850 218,195 254,400 604,320 690,020 608,848 r II Tot ..1,470 14,298.778 Tot ,.1,818 88,247,038 : Omaha's' building record is )-a record of prosperity In which every member" of the community shares, President McKtnley said, "Open the mills and the mints will take care ot themselves." Republican policies have opened the mills and kept the wheels of Industry revolving.: i ; ' The Tenement and the Farm. Calling men to the farm has not yet solved the problem of congestion In the larger cities, and It Is a ques tion it it ever will., Charles Stelsle, the church labor leader, who gives as much time to these questions as perhaps any other man," insists that the solution of the problem is not in the. wholesale transfer of the cjty's poor to the country. It Is not a ques tion ot "back to the farm" with the tenement occupants, for the reason that most ot them never came from the farm. SteUle Shows that even the larger niynbef of forelgn-born tenement dwellers came from urban homes abroad. As opposed to the view that diverting the surplus to the farm offers an easy way out, Stelzle says: ' ; : Many will, undoubtedly; find their way to the country, and there discover Ufa and Joy In the open air. But the vast majority will remain In the city. A&d alnce they are to remain there, they must be dealt with as cltlaena of our munloSpalitlei. If their lives are unreal, they reuBt be trained to learn true value. If they are living under oondi. tloise which debase and degrade, morally and physically, those conditions must be removed, to that even life In a tene ment may be sweet and wholesome. If they are In their present situation be cause of Inefficiency, they should be made more, competent In any case, the tight will be lot or won in th city. That, then, leaves .the responsibil ity Just where it was to be met un flinchingly as a city problem. Yet there Is a work to be done in getting some of the newcomers from foreign lands to select homes in the country Instead of the city. They probably would be better equipped tor the rigors of farm life than those who had spent all or most of their lives in the congested tenements. Stelsle's Idea sems to be that the "back-to-the-farm" movement must derive its chief Impetus from those in the cities who came from the farm, and that seems very rational. coking Backward ThbDqy InOmak (SMPUU&D FROM DEE fll OCT, 16. Thirty Years Ago -vi a MiMscial meetlnl meeting of the uoard of Trade a report was received i'rom WV H. McCord, chairman of the committee on fair grounds, and another rrom John Evans, a committee to draft resolutions In regard to the recent ex cursion to the Yellowstone. Another committee, consisting of Messrs. Boyd. S. R. Johnson and Secretary Gibson, was named to further the proposed establish ment of a glucose works. The Humane society meeting, through a statement by President B. E. B. Ken nedy, disclosed that efforts were being made tor improvement in character and treatment of horses used on the street railway. For the coming year these com mittees were named; Executive, E W. Siroeral, T. H. Leavitt. Mrs. J. 0. Jar dine and Mrs. P. I Perinoi fountains, Judge James W. Savage, P. I Perlne, Rev. John Williams, M. Toft and O. F. Davis. - Mrs. A P. French offers to give les sons In vocal and instrumental music. corner Saunders and Charles streets. The Burns club has leased the elegant hall lately completed by Feeney & Con nolly at Sixteenth and Burt General Manager Clark, Assistant Gen eral Manager Kimball, General Freight Agent Vlnlng, Superintendent Nlebols, Superintendent ' of Motive Power Cong- don and Director Fred I Ames, all of the Union Pacific, and Charles Francis Adams, Jr., left Omaha In a special ear for a trip of general inspection over the road, to be joined at North Platte by Sidney Dillon of the Union Paolflo. Sherman Canfield, now a student of the state university, spent Sunday with bis folks here. Twenty Years Ago Dr. J. T. Duryea, preaching at First Congregational church on Columbus' dis covery of America, said it was not an act, but a process engaged In by a host ot men, but . to Columbus belonged the credit of focusing the action ot all. Mme. Pierre Hyactnth-Loyson, wife of the celebrated French reformer, addressed an afternoon meeting at First Congrega tional church on her efforts to "re deem" France, She was representing the National Society for the Evangelisation of France. In the evening she was the honor guest ot a dinner given by Dr. B M. Stone. John S. Thomas, 89 years of age, died of pneumonia at his residence, 20 South Thirtieth street, at 12:80 p. m. B. A. Byrne, 66, died at his home, 2709 Hamilton street . ; Ten Years Ago The total number of registrations In Omaha on the first day' was, reported to be 6,804, as compared with 10.824 on the first registration day In 1900. The Christian church's national con vention was welcomed to Omaha by Mayor Frank B. Moores tor the city and also by former Governor Silas A. Hol comb, member of the state supreme court The assemblage numbered 7,000 people, 2,600 of whom were from Omaha, South Omaha and Council Bluffs. W. E. ' M. Hackleman of Indianapolis, in charge ot the convention music at the Coliseum, was the first speaker, after the addresses bt welcome and, he Was followed by Rev. W. T. Hilton, pastor ot North Side church. Judge W. W. 81a baush was conspicuous as one of the men who bad worked hard to make the convention a go. Ed W. Shannon and Miss Lorraine Mead were married at the home of the bride's father, 4217 Harney street Miss Mead was popular among . a circle of Omaha and Dundee friends and the groom was with Swift and Company ot South Omaha. .C, P. Thompson of Omaha said he was aiainff a second cron of strawberries on his farm near Council Bluffs. Mrs. Horace G. Burt returned from hot Angeles, where she ba"d been on a visit . . : , FEDEEAL C0NTE0L OF MAEKIAGES Diversity of State laws on Divorce a Public Scandal. ', Chicago News. People Talked About Strange coincidence, Isn't It, that all these terrible penitentiary insur rections in Nebraska, California, Michigan and Wyoming happen to occur in, states whose governors are themselves conspicuous insurgents following the bull moose? Omaha Is proud of Its skyscrap ers, but a few more factories, giving employment to wage-earners who in turn buy homes and become patrons of our retail merchants, would be highly desirable There baa been more or lees agitation for years in favor of an amendment oi ihe federal constitution taking from th states and vesting in congress the powei to legislate on the subjects of marriagt and divorce. However, until lately th amending of the federal constitution for any purpose has seemed so difficult ot accomplishment that the agitation has lagged. Since the beginning of the Taft administration congress has submitted to the states for approval or rejection two amendments, one relating to the taxing of incomes and the other making pro vision for the election of senators by di rect vote of the people. In fact, congress has become sufficiently responsive to pub lic opinion to justify the belief that any desirable constitutional amendment that is strongly demanded by the people may be secured. The changed situation in this respect gives added Interest to the declaration of the Rock River conference of the Metho dist church in favor ot federal control ot marriage and divorce to secure uniform ty of laws on those subject The diver ..ty of laws now existing is not only con i using;, but It gives rise to much scandal. Persons who are divorced under the laws of one state may be still in a condition of wedlock under the court rulings ot an other state. Efforts to secure uniformity of laws by concerted action of the dif (erent states thus far nave proved dis appointing. Other suggestions of the conference are deserving of general- consideration. One is that wide publicity be required of the Intention ot the contracting parties to en ter the wedded state. Another Is that a law be passed requiring the fining out ot a certificate by each party to a marriage setting forth all places of previous resi dence. Provisions ot this kind are weU calculated to prevent deceptions of a seri ous nature. EOOSEVELT AND HAERIMAN Further light on Their Intimate Relations in 1904. Indianapolis 'News. ' The : war lu the Balkans has created a famine In attar of roses and cigarette smokers are now wondering it there will be any decrease In the output of Turkish atrocities. The young anarchist who attempted to kill the king of Italy has been sen tenced to thirty years' penal servitude. This will give him time to think over the question ot whether anarchy pays, Down In the Atlantis coast towns coal operators are putting the blame for ex cessive prices on the retailers, and the latter brand the operators as extortion ists. Meanwhile both wink the other eye as they skin the consumer. Mlsa Constance Bentley of Engand, who ts In the United States trying to wear out her grief for the death of a pet cat. should steer clear of back bed rooms overlooking long stretches of woodsheds and fences. ; A Boston judge announcing In . open court the score In a world series game remarked: "Whatever that means I don't know, but there must be people hers who art interested." Still soma persons wonder why the recall of judges Is favored. ' A curious explanation of the way "Gyp the Blood" received his nickname Is given by th Brooklyn Eagle. As a gun man holding up his victims. Gyp was wont to command. "Gib the blood." using the Yiddish "gib," or give, meaning in Plain English, "Give up your blood money." The corruption of "gib' Into "Gyp" followed. -Eight hundred school children armed with flags and flowers welcomed James Wbltcomb Riley to bis old home. Green castle, Ind., last Wednesday. .. The genial Hoosler poet was showered with blos soms, the old town band tooted Its mer riest and Johnny Davis blew bis alto horn as skillfully as when Jim rattled the head ot a snare drum tn the same organisation forty years ago. It was a great day tor Jim Riley, for the old folks and the young folks of Greencastle. Down at Homestead, Pa., a girl ot 16, who; had joined a gossiping group of wives of employes Of the Carnegie steel mill, resented reflections on her lore af fair with a base ball bat The young one waded into the elders with the fury of a woman scorned. In a, few minutes 100 women were engaged In the awful mlxup. A live imagination can picture the car nage with the aid of the single statement that one of the seven women arrested was stripped of her shoes and was shel tered tn a horse blanket provided by a kindly 'oop. The Pure' One, the man whom poor Harrlman so devilishly pursued with the request that he might be permitted to raise money to help elect Roosevelt got another jolt Wednesday. Let It be re membered that Roosevelt has said that he never asked Harrlman to raise money, never asked htm to come to the White House that he might make such a re quest of him. He has denied the charge in the most positive way. We have heard Wayne MacVeagh say that Harrlman told both Twombley and Peabody that Roosevelt had done just that thing. Wednesday Nathan B. Scott former senator from West Virginia and member of the executive committee of the na tional committee of 1904, said that Roosevelt told him over the telephone that Harrlman was coming to see him and that he would arrange with the railroad man to raise funds to help Hig gins, candidate for the governorship ot New York. Scott could not remember whether Roosevelt said "Mr. Harrlman Is coming here," or "I will have Mr. Harrlman come hers-" That ties up Roose velt pretty closely with Harrlman. But it dees mors. It proves tlmi he was in communication over the telephone with the national repulblcan headquarters and Was keeping himself Informed about the campaign and the campaign funds. In this case he asked for Treasurer Bliss or Chairman Cortelyou. If he would ask Bliss about one thing, , why not another the Standard Oil contribution, for In stance, of which he says he knew noth ing? He was, so he says, very anxious to learn whether the Standard Oil com pany had contributed and yet he says that he never asked Bliss as to the mat ter! Well, he was trying to talk to him about the need for money in New Tork. He did not hold that attitude of innocent and Ignorant detachment from the cam paign which he asks us to believe was his. - '-, But there was another witness Wednes day who testified that Roosevelt had asked Harrlman to visit him in connection with the business of raising money. Rob ert 8. Lovett chairman of the executive committee of the Harrlman system, and an Intimate friend ot Harrlman, said that there could be no doubt that Roose velt sent for Harrlman and urged him to raise the rooney-4250,000. Lovett de clared that he had many conversations with Harrlman, Who had always said that Roosevelt had urged him to under take to raise this enormous fund on the very eve of election. Lovett knew all of Harrlman's movements, knew of the Roosevelt Invitation, knew of Harrlman's going to the White House and linew of his raising money after his visit to Roosevelt A large part of the money was in brokers checks, this plan having been adopted in order to conceal the names of the contributors. Mr. Lovett was under the Impression that W. K. Vanderbiit was one of the contributore. The money was turned over by Harrl man to Lovett who in turn gave U over to Bliss, the national treasurer. . This quarter of a million dollars was raised In response to Roosevelt's demand and was spent during the last days of the campaign, with the result that 50,000 votes were changed. Such Is the record of the man who was then president ot the United etatea. Tet Harrlman has been put In the light of begging Roosevelt to be allowed to give 150,000 and to raise 1200,000 more! The man who will believe that will believe anything-will "follow Teddy anywhere." NEBRASKA PEESS COMMENT. Kowells Journal-. Taft stands just as good a show of carrying Texas as Roose velt does of winning out in Colfax county. . ' Tork Times: Roosevelt Is simply goat hunting. , He does not . expect to be elected, but will be satisfied if he defeats President Taft and the republican party. Wayne Herald: If the people are against political boesism and the use of great sums ot money to influence pri maries end elections, they will, accord ing to the revelations made by the sena torial committee, vote against Roosevelt Ord Quia: "Thou Shalt Not Steal" Js the title of a speech delivered in the house against President . Taft by Con gressman Norrla, and ' they are being freely distributed over Nebraska by steal ing the postage from the government by means of the franking privilege Hastings Republican: The republican who decides that under no circumstances will ha vote for the democratic candi date for the presidency Bhould tn the name ot right and decency vote for Taft the only man who should receive a re publican's vote for the chief executive of the nation. Madison Chronicle: A. great deal has been heard and said about bosses and bosalam during these times, but one pecu liar fact stands out In this situation and this ts the frantlo efforts of both Roose velt and Bryan to play the dominant part, while ostensibly denouncing this at titude in others. Ord Journal: With Taft eliminated the republican party would go right on tor years; with W'lson out ot the way the demoeratlo party would maintain its identity and be a fighting' force. But eliminate Roosevelt and there would not bo enough moosers left to organise a pre cinct caucus. The one man party busi ness is bordering too close on monarchy. Fremont Tribune: It is now announced with some degree of unctuousness on the part of the bull moos press that the re publicans of Nebraska will be afforded the gracious privilege of voting tor their presidential candidate, That Is to say, the republican electors wtll go on the ticket "by petition." while the progressive party electors will continue to hold their stolen name, "republican.?' This outrage Is the Climax of immoral political conduct No such shameless rape ot decency was ever perpetrated in the history of Nebraska. It cannot be possible that the quickened consciences of the voters of this state will approve It when these voters go to the polls in November. The hope of the ; six bull moose electors to profit by the j theft ought to be so completely shattered las to forbid any such unrighteous thing In all the years to come. , Tekamah Journal.: Just how a repub llcan can see his way clear to voting for Congressman George Norris for United States senator any more easily than he can vote for Shallenberger is more than we can fathom. From a republican stand point he Is entitled to no consideration for he has . made the open avowal of neither supporting the republican candi date tor president nor supporting the re publican platform of . principle The journal publisher is as radically republican as he could well be and we believe In republican principles. There being no re publican candidate we -are just as strongly republican In voting tor Shallen berger as we would be If we voted for Norris. There may come a time In Ne braska when political honor Is greater when there will be a republican candi date for United States senator. When that time comes you will find the Jour nal publisher advocating the election of the republican candidate. There Is not a ghost of a show of Norris being elected for there are too many republicans in Nebraska who are looking at the matter just as the Journal publisher views it DAU HAMA AS AN "ANGEL" Philadelphia Record: Dan R. Hanna, the good angel of the Roosevelt cause, who gave $177,000 for its pre-conventlon exjpenses, Is a man with whom the pocket nerve seems to count more than blood. Springfield Republican: Mark Hanna' s son. Pan, now holds the record as the biggest single contributor to Mr, Roose velt's primary campaign fund last spring. Dan gave HT7.O90 to the cause. He con fesses It under oath. New Tork Post: So it seems that Dan Hanna (indicted) surpassed the recorded gifts of Perkins (Indictment quashed) or of Boss Fllnn (only threatened with In dictment) to Roosevelt's pre-conventlon campaign. Mark Hanna's son, although burdened with payments ot alimony, gave up $177,000 or more of his father's hard-earned money to emphasize the spontaneous nature of the movement for truth and purity In our politics, - New Tork World: Dan R. Hanna ot Cleveland, son of the late Mark Hanna, largely interested In Iron and steel, steamboats and ' railroads, , admits that he has contributed $177,000 to the third term movement His testimony before Senator Clapp's committee may be sum marlsed thus: "When did you become a progressive in polities?" "Last spring." i ' "When did the Taft administration in dict you and your associates for rebat ingr - .- : "April 21 19U." v HOW EDIT0ES SEE THINGS. ' Louisville Courier-Journal: Automobiles will never put the horse out of existent. but they do put out of existence the jackass who runs the car at sixty miles an hour on the public road. Cleveland Plain Dealer: The voice of the people rules in . this country, of course, but. it Is regrettable that so much money ts often thought necessary to make the voice heard. Indianapolis News; A New Tork woman, after a chase of twenty-five miles In her automobile, catches a Ded- dler who sold her a short-weight bushel of potatoes. Many , other housewives would do the same it they did not lack motor car and gasoline. " t Baltimore American: A university psychologist is trying to teach girls how to select husbands. If there ts one thing In which the humblest maiden thinks She can surpass the most expert scien tist it Is in exactly that feat and. with the perversity of her sex, she will go on picking out a husband to, suit her self. ' r. : Louisville Courier-Journal: president Taft assures , Plerra LoU that he Is an advocate of peace. And we firmly be lieve that the president will stand cat against Mexican Intervention, which wouia iactc a good deal of being an ef fort In behalf ot peace. It the lion hunter1 were president we should now be swash buckling In Mexico, New Tork Post: Tm going to con vict the committee before the people of the cheapest tty larceny game ever played," says Senator Dixon. 'T am a United States senator." "It's this way, judge," said the defendant In an as sault and battery case, "this here, woman said I wasn't no lady and the next minute I had her head in the gutter." Pittsburgh Dispatch; A labor union threatens to revoke President Taft's union card granted some years ago to lay a cornerstone in Chicago, because the latter Kid a cornerstone on the Boston Young Men's Christian association build ing in which nonunion material was used. Adverse fortune seems to pursue the president but it is hoped that he will not be wholly deprived of means of subsistence GEINS AND GROANS. Wiseman -I see th Invontnr nf nlnk lemonade an old circus man is dead. c-ymcus-well, be probably abstained from his own beverage to the last Judge. Fortune Teller You are going to have money left, you. Customer Glad to hear it I've only got $2 to my name. Fortune Teller Well, after paying me YOU Will hlLVA ft An)a lft vrtn HnriAiI Transcript 3frS. AnniA Tin vmi unto thA D, e u your husband? Mrs. Daton HAa.VAna nn! Whst vaii suppose we'd have to argue about?-Chl-cago .New. "I'm feeling well toaay, my mind la at ea- and my business is good." "Why are you going around telling people that?" "Well, we always put up a holler when things go wrong, why shouldn't we oc casionally admit that things are going right?"-Wlashington Herald. "Love comes and goes," said the ro mantic person. "I've been thinking about that," replied Mr. Growcher. "I notice that my wife doesn't speak very cordially to me ex cepting twice a year when the spring and fall fashions are being advertised." Chi cago Tribune. "I don't understand why Matilda has sued me, judge," protested the defendant tn a recent breach of promise suit. "1 only did the asking while she did the promising. "-Judge's Library. "I know a man who has the knack of putting anybody at all on an easy foot ing at once." How does he do it?" "He makes such good shoes." Baltimore American.' Glbbs Here's a long article on "How to Pop the Question." Dlbbs Rubbish! When the question gets ripe it will pop itself. Boston Tran scrlnt "I notice, senator." said the beautiful girl, "that you are advocating a good many things which you said four years ago would s ruin the country." : 'Yea "Vnat has caused you to believe In them?" . "I don't hfiltevw !n them, but the Pub lic seems to." Chicago Record-Herald. "Mrs. Jones said it was terrible the noise her husband made when he found the pup bad torn his shoe." - -: "Doubtless; I suppose It sounded Hke the cry of a lost sole." Baltimore Amer ican. 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