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8 THK BEB: OMAHA, SATfRKVY, FEBRUARY 13, W3. THE OMAllA DAILY BEE j MM NDKD ftY KDWAItO ItOSfaWAklt ' " VICTOR ROSEWATKlt. RDTTOFt HKB lU'lhDlNQ. FAUN AM ASP ITTII. Knterd at Omaha postbfflce as seebrri- Mat matter. TBHMS OF BtrBSCIll!l'10S fii"day Bfft. one year fg Paturdav lit, one yesr ; Pany JW without Sunday, one year.. )'llv Her, and frunriay. ortf year...... .W IlKMVKnBD U CAmtlER. Evening and Sunday. pr month........ we Evening without 8unday. per month.. c Pally tltt. Including Suncay. Pr mo.. 6 Uallv Uce, without Sunday, psr mo.." : Addrrn all complaints or irreKularitle . i dlhry to City Circulation 5fPt; REMITTANCE. " , nmlt by draft. .utpms or postal order, taable to The bee PuhllshlnK company. Only t-rni stamps received In payment at small account Personal ohecka. cx ept on Omaha and eastern exchange, not ccented. OFFICES. .maha-The Dm building. South Omaha tail N street, round) Illuffs-H North Main street Lincoln X Utile bulldlne-Chlcago-lWl Marquette bulldlnc Kansas Clty-Itellanco bulldlnR. New York-JI West Thirty-third. St Louls-402 Frisco bulldlnif. Washlngton-TJ Fourteenth St.. N. W, corrbspondkncb. , Communications relating to news and editorial matter should be addressod msha Bee. Editorial department. JANUARY CIltCULATIOX. 49,528 State of Nebraska. County of Douglas, m: Dwight Williams, circulation manaxer of The Pee Publishing company, beinc duly sworn, says that the average dnll circulation for the month of Januar. 1913. was J,WS. PWIGHT WIl.MAMH, Circulation Manager. Subscribed In my presence and swo.n to before me this 6th day of Jebnuryi 131. ROBERT HUNTER, (Seal.) Notary Public Subscribers lenrlntt the city temporarily should hare The nee mailed tn them. Aritlreaa Trill be chanced as often an requested. Got your water rebate yot? Revlsod version: "Lower water rates Homo day." Thus far not a slnglo bad boy haH been ablo to locate one of those cab inet pies. A now union passenger station for Omaha Is a good thing to look for ward to. Food prices aro said to bo 20 por cent lower than a year ago. Notlco the difference? "A woman Is known by the cooks he keeps," nays tho Chicago News. Or tries to keep. I seoms that other cities run tholr own water works without tho wator works running them. Westward tho courso of buslnoss takes Its way particularly on Omaha's main thoroughfare. Those court house contractors evidently want a law suit. If so, they should be accommodated.. Lillian Russell says she will quit tho stage, for the lecturo platform "to tell how to llvo 100 yearo." My, but our reform democratic sheriff is dreadfully afraid tho Jail feeding graft may got away from him. The Cuban warship hastening on to Mexico runs on a coral root. And it Is probably, as effective thcro as anywhero. Still, the rocoptlon accorded tho suffragettes by tho Princeton"' stu, denta reflected no credit upon tho university. A Kentucky editor, regaining his senses, baa withdrawn from tho race for a political offtco to resume hit) honest toll. Intervention sometimes seems to he wadjng "through 'slaughter to a throno to shut the gates of mercy on mankind." Modistes disagree on the boauty of the new spring atyles. When were styles ever planned with an eye to boauty. If mediation is attempted, Mexi cans are to bo asked to stop fighting in the Interval. Yob, but who will make them BtopT With tho possibility of war loom ing up. Colonel Roosevelt's disap pointment may be relieved by rais ins another regiment. Those women engaged in the fool ish foot Journey from Now York to Washington must be enemies Instead of friends of suffrage With tho old Turks and young Turks carrying on as they are, per haps this might be the psychological moment for the middle-aged Turk. Chicago business men are having their lunch sent by parcel post. Many a hungry democrat would like to have his pie sent that way, or any other way. Think of what our income 4 ax harvest will be when we strike Mown, Chance, Cobb, McGraw, Hans Wagner and a few others of our leading salary plutocrats. Madero is credited with both phy sical courage and sympathy for the people, yet h falls, possibly because his cpurtge s tinctured with sym pathy. Felix. Dl&z told ono of our repre sentatives: "You may assure your citizens that, my future policy will he to protect American property and citizens in Mexico." Such modesty ought to Jaud Felix tho Job. Not Shirking Responsibility. "I consider the responsibility mine alone untlj March I.' is the president's characteristic reply- to the inquiry as (o his reported desire to confer with President-elect Wil son on the Mexican situation. President Taft has faced prob lems and porplexltles In somo re- spects moro trying than have come1 to most presidents with n uniformly! unflinching courage, anxious onlyj to do the right as ho saw It. As woj draw away gradually from present animosities studiously engendered about him, a bettor perspective will doubtless reveal his record for what It really Is. Already his Mexican policy of non-interference is begin-1 nlng to be vlowed at large In a fairer j light. Far-seeing people perceive j that It was statesmanlike wisdom to proceed cautiously; the jingoes and special Interest to be subserved through precipitate action, of course, do not. Abject Surrender of Turkey. Turkey's poBtponod plea for Inter vention completes lis humiliation be fore the world and leaves It little to expect but tho pity of the powers rather an Intangible- asset In casting up the accounta of conquest. It has lost Instead of gained advantage since leaving the London conference with a poor pretense of resuming war. War In not fought theso days with an Impoverished people, mu tinous army nnd depleted treasury, such as confronts Turkey. Tho Turk can now receive and evi dently expects small trophies of his struggle with the Balkans. Prevailing opinion Is that ho will have little left In Europe outsldo of Constantinople and environs, not oven saving Adri anople. Undoubtedly his original plan to drive the best bargain possible, with military defeat inevitable could havo been hotter prosecuted in London. But tho Turk's desperate national plight ovldently has not re strained his barbaric Impulses, for, according to reports, his soldiers con tlnuo responslblo for tho massacre of helpless women and children. This traditional atroclousness Is what pre cludes to him tho possibility of world sympathy. Stop Prize Fighting. Governor Morohead has beon aBked to exort his influenco against prize fighting In Nohraska, and ho may well undortako to do so. Prleo fighting Is a species of grntt that has been prohibited In most states. Nebraska In its splendid campaign of development scoks publicity, but not tho sort that comos from prize fighting. -Tho stato that permits or licenses professional pugilism, as now carrlod on, will make itself conspicuous by Invidious compari son. Every good Influence should bo combined to denl tho knock-out blow to this graft. , With a prom! nent pugilist suffering from a bullet wound undor an assumod name In a local hospital and two others equally prominent undor serloUB charges at tho capital, now would seem to make tho time opportune for protost. Quioker Election Returns. Ono of tho measures eitu.iiB be fore tho Nebraska legislature Is do iilgnod to provide for tho prompt collection, compilation and pro mulgation election returns by tho official authorities. It proposes to bring this about by requiring the lo cation of voting places upon tele phono lines wherever possible, and tho installation of i telephone In strument In each election booth by whlch communication may bo had with tho county clerk's office In each county, which, In turn, Is to be kept in tolephonio or telographic touch with tho offico of the secre tary of stato. It makes. It the duty of each election board to transmit promptly by tolophouo tho results In its district upon each offico nnd measure, and makes it tho duty of tho county clerk to recoivo and tabu late tho same, and to transmit county returns as ascertained to the secretory of state. If this plan should work out suc cessfully, and he adopted In other states, wo would before long have every voting district In the country reporting election returns by tele phone so that Uio results would be definitely known, even for a presi dential election, within a few hours nftor the voting ceased, and at com paratively little expense. It seoniB to us that overy news paper In Nebraska ought to give em phatic approval to this bill, which Is Introduced by Senator Dodge, al though it concerns the public moro directly than tho newspapers. If 260,000 people in this state perform their duty by going: to the polls to vote, regardless of time, trouble and expense to them, they are entitled to know promptly, without waiting a week, what effect their ballots havo had. The Board of Control amendment. made part df the constitution last fall, merely requires that no two members shall be appointed from tho same congressional district. Porhaps the legislature would ac complish all it wants by wiping out congressional district lines, and making all our congressmen elective at large. If unable to find enough cabinet officers by March 4 to complete tho list, President Wilson might turn them all over to Secretary Bryan for the time being. Looking BacWarrl ITkls DaV iti Omaha COMPILED TRQM PEE MLE3 EE2ELS FKimuAiiY is. t D Thirty Years Ago F J. Ramgo and A. X. Patrick started on a trip to Chicago Fred Davis, raahler of the First Na tional bank, left with Mrs. Davis for In dianapolis. Hon. P. P. Shelby, general freight agent of the Union Pacific, left for Kansas City, accompanied by J. II. Monroe. J. H. Detwller, the carpet man. has plnr-d handsome new curtains at all of the windows In the postofflco. The ferry cars will again make regular trips between Omaha and Council Bluffs, the Ice crossing having bee,n reported un safe. The opening of the roller akutlng rink lost night was well attended, with fair success. Over J60 people were present and most of them tried the rollers. Charles A. Gardner, the funniest Ocr man dialect comedian before thi public mjpported by Pat 1 1 Rosn, presented his original play. "Karl." at the Royd. From Denver comes word that O. II. Rothlker, editor of the Tribune there, Is to bo married to Miss Rounds of Chicago. A note from Eugrno Field, then working with Rothlker on tho Trlbunn, Invites Mr. Eustls of the Burlington to bring all the newspaper men In Omaha with him to Pacific Junction next Hunday and take supper wjth the bridal pnrty. Twenty Yearn Ago Fred A. Nash, general ngent of the Mil waukee In Omaha, was recovering from a severe Illness, but wan unable to leave his room. The Wells-Fargo Express company. It was announced, had decided to closo up shop In Omaha and transfer Its local office to Kansas City in June, whither General Hupcrlntcndant Andrews was to betake himself and his office force. Kansas City packers Instituted a fight to defeat Omaha's efforts at securing rates to equalize live stock traffics, a plan proposed by W. K. Skinner of South Omahn, In the Interest of the local mar ket, which wai not getting a square deal from the railroads. Tlio Hawaiian commission, representing the deposed queen, passed through Omaha en route to Washington to lay a tale of woe before the president. The personnel of the commission was: Herr Paul New man, ex-attorney general; Prince David Kawananakoa, nephew- of the late king, and 15. C. McForland, ex-mlrilster of finance. Dr. A. F. Jonas was to have lectured on "Hypnotism" before tho Llvo Issue club at the Llnlnger Art gallery, but was unable to be present, so J. R. Pectle, xv t ' e. 'ii' ct f rrof. Reyn iis, kindly consented to relate his exper iences with mesmerism, which highly entertained the club. Tn Ycnrt Asr( Mr. Mercury began a courtship with Miss Zero and after much persistent wooing, succeeded In reaching the young lady's cold, clammy heart, dropping one point below, In fact. The, body of Patrick Horan, who at 90 years of ago. died at tho residence of his son, Patrick Horan, 3C03 Charles street, was taken to Schuyler, where Mr. Horan had been one of the early pioneers, for burial. Judge W. W. Slabaugh said he had a mind to organize himself and all tho other babies born on February 29, ho could find Into a Leap Year club. He threw out this announcement In Tho Dee by wny of a feeler for recruits. Illlirll H AfrTnfnnll. Ariltnf- nnr.nl!.. leader and member of tho Board of Edu-j cation, gave an address before the Omaha 1 Philosophical society on "Education," In which he committed himself to the ) "fads" Introduced In the management of! the publlo sehools-the changing systems, ! as some called them. 1 Senator M. A. Hall, who was up from t the legislature over Sunday, speaking I of the bill he was authorized to prepare ' to place tho proposed constitutional I amendments .at the top Instead of bot tom of ballots, said this was deemed necessary 'to get voters to notice the ' propositions. He also complained of tho little Interest people manifested in pending legislation. People Talked About A nameless patriot In New York wants to borrow the 'cork leg of Kanta Ana, now In the Illinois Memorial hall, and wave It at the head of a regiment dash ing across the Rio Grande. Senator Stephenson of Wisconsin waved before the eyes of tils associates a draft fop Jl.M0.00O, the proceeds of a lumber deal, Back home the boys aro wondering If the old mat) will run again and gvo 1 prosperity a boost. I J. F, Hughes, dead In Newman, Ga., willed his entire -estate, valued at 110,000, 1 to Mrs. William Atkinson, widow of a I former governor of Georgia. He wanted j to mnrry her thirty years ago, but had to content himself with the sisterly re lation. Rev. Dr. Robert Stuart McArthur has resigned his pastorate at the Atlanta Baptist Tabernacle, which lias been stormy for months through differences between himself and the congregation, and will return to New York to resume his duties as president of the World's Baptist Alliance. Former United States Senator Warner Miller of N ew York Is dead broke. An assignment tiled In court schedules his assets at 30.1I9 and liabilities Jl'W.lSS. Senator Miller amassed a fortune as a pacer manufacturer, but bad Invest mentn ate It up. In the rohedule of as sets are, stock certificates having a face value of W5I.00O. John F. Bauer of Wllkes-Barre, Pa., who has celebrated his forty-fifth birth day anniversary, has the distinction of being the first white child born at Hays City, Kan. Hays City was one of the most Important trading posts for the In dians, and- It afterward became the lead ing shipping point for cattla In the en tire Panhandle section. Mr. Bauer came to Wllkes-Barre thirty ,yea,rs ago. Joseph Conrad, the novelist, writes no fiction stranger than his own life. Born tn Poland In 185T, he was only 6 years old when his mother was driven from home and nearly slain by Russia's ven geance In the Polish uprising of 1563. At 0 he suddenly determined to explore that part of Africa unknown at the time, and, never forgetting the determination, was at Stanley Falls exactly twenty-five years later. At 15 he decided to go to sea and eleven years later was a master In the British merchant marine. In Other Lands Pnllllrnl Crlsln In Jnpnn. The pld order rhnngeth In Japan. The passing of the old and the enthronement of the young emperor released the ties of reverence and affection which bound the people to Mutsuhlto and his policies. Changes of ministry and the accompany ing disturbances In Toklo and Osaka sig nalized a determination to make ttie gov ernment of the emplro a more representa tive one less monarchlal and more con stitutional. The preceding ministries of Marquis Holanjl and Prlnco Katsura were representatives of tho advanced policies, but the former whb handicapped by en trenched bureaucracy and militarism, while the latter eummltted the blunder of attempting to disrupt the constitutional pary' In the Diet. Both were forced Into tho position of minority premiers and their retirement was Inevitable. The new premier. Count Yamwnota, belongs to the order of elder statesmen and Is not classed among the progressive forces. The selection of a leader not Identified with exlxtlng political factions Is intended, doubtless, to bring order out of chaos and bridge the legislative chasm until a gen eral election Is held. The root of the dimmlty lies In militarism, which ha dominated the country since tho war with Russia. War debts and world-powering makes Japan the heaviest taxed country on earth. Yet tho militarists demand more. Kltlier militarism must relent or productive Industry will collapse under the load. Turkey's Future. "The future of Turkey lies in Asia," declared a Gorman diplomat who was Peeved at tho obstinacy of the Young Turks In rejecting the peace terms of the allies. Thero surely the future of Turkey must Iks marked out. But It Is u future holding no moro hope of suj cess than Turkey's past In Europe. Her bert Adams Gibbons, an American scholar, writing from Constantinople to tho New York Independent, says the suc cessive defeats of tho Turkish arpiy by the Balkan allies destroys the prestige of the Turku In the eyes of the Arabs and fanatical Moslems In the Asiatic provinces. Arabs, . Kurds, Druse, Armenians and Greeks hate each other. but nre united In hating the Turk. "Tho Turks never have shown, and never will show, the odmlnlatratlvo genius necessary to unite the races of the Asiatic prov. Inces. to construct a genuine constitu tional form of government, and to de velop tho economic resources of the coun try. There Is no money In the Turkish treasury, and the burden of debt l heavier than ever before. If foreign cap italists develop tho resources of Asiatic Turkey, their quid pro quo will amount to what Is practically ownership. Woe to tho vanquished Is not as terrible and merciless a cry na woe to the penniless!" Tninliinr u Ttmbuktti. Twenty years ago 'When a small party of French and Sengalesa dared to enter Timbuktu, thot mecca of African Mos lems "welcomed tho strangers to hos pitable graves." A relief party of 100 were massacred. Larger forces came and the fanatlo savages of Timbuktu wero either tamed or burled. Last month there was a reunion of Europeans in the tragic town. Four houses were marked with tablets to denote that they once sheltered men who dared enter the for. bidden city. There, are golf and lawn tennis clubs in the suburbs, horse racing Is a frequent diversion and steamboats plowing the Niger river is a dally routine. "The pride of Islam" Is thoroughly pro faned, and the Trans-Baharan railroad is heading Into the town. By the.beard of the prophet, the lid Is off In Tim buktu) Knd.of Xnrnl Rivalry' Admiral von Tlrpltz'a statement of Ger many's naval policy in the Reichstag sounded a Joyful note for British ears. There Is no objection, the admiral Bald, to Great Britain building sixteen war ships to Germany's ten. This admission of British supremacy Is hailed as an Im portant Btep toward a hotter understand Ing, which It Is hoped will diminish If not end ruinous naval competition. The Lon don NewB says the admiral's statement "Implies first a renewal of German's as sertion that It does not desire to contest British supremacy on the sea: and, sec ondly, an entirely new declaration that a ratio of ten to sixteen between the Ger man and English fleets secures that ob ject of eelf-defense which Germany hat in view, Tho statement, therefore, brings England and Germany very much nearer to an actual, Ihough not a formal, un derstanding as. to naval armaments." A Illscredlted I.awsnn. London's Journalistic Lawson cut a sorry figure when colled upon to prove his charges of corruption and collusion In letting a government contract to tho Marconi Wireless company. The cliarges wero a part of the violent tory campaign asalnft tho ministry last fall and involved the Integrity of Chancellor Lloyd-George, Sir Rufus Isaacs, attorney general, and Herbert Sumunl, postmaster general. Iiwson appeared before a parliamentary Investigation committee very aggressive and defiant, but, after five days of fierce examination, was compelled to withdraw nil of his charges and publicly apologize to escape prosecution for libel. The Chicago Pace Chicago boosts of a barber who regards a tip as an Insult. The motto of (he Chicago Vegetarian society reads; ''Vegetarianism is the conscious fulfillment of all the conditions essential to life." , About 500 trains leave Chicago every twenty-four hours. It ts believed this number affords needed terminal facili ties for the get-rtch-qulck crowd against whom prosecution Is threatened. Tyo of three , apartment buildings burned up on the old Midway last Tues day, were relics of tho World's fair time. Almost twenty years have passed since the Initial hot time and the concluding roast. In the opinion of Methodist preachers expressed In meeting, fltteen days should pass between the Issuance of the license and the marriage of Chicago people. The marrying parsons of St. Joe. Mich., havo not been heard from. Without a hurry call, a thirst or an order a team attached to a brewer's de liver' wagon dashed through the double window of a home on West Eleventh street, and mussed the carpet. A bill In stead of an order rewarded the call. Three members df a bankrupt firm swear to a lot of things In writing and then contradlot them on the witness stand, with Judge Lundls directing the searching. Perjury tags were attached and the trio tobogganed to the grand Jury room. HioBeesUlerB ox Officially Itrcoirnlxeit. OMAHA. Feb. H.-To the Editor of The Bee: This quite belated recognition of the much maligned Dr. Henry. Is due to the fact that I have been debating whether to Ignore or condemn him for saying that "woman suffrage Is the work of the devil." Not being able to decide, let's compromise and thank him. To those who know me as Omaha's youngest offlllated suffragist, this state ment may seem queer, but when we con sider past history It Is easily understood. Lvery great Invention, every great re form, from Fulton's steamboat to the single tax, has been called the work of his satanlc majesty by some one. and has almost immediately been accepted by the people, So now that Dr. Henry ha branded the equal suffrage movement, we may consider ourselves officially recog nized. On with tho vote; we hove to catch up with the train of progress and you're dc laying usl MINERVA ItAE QClNBY. Argument for New Depot. OMAHA, Feb. H.-To the Editor of The Bee: Omaha by all right should possess one of the finest Union passenger sta tions In the United States. Omaha Is the pivot city, gateway to the west, com mending a central position between New York, San Francisco and the Panama canal, a north and south railway being only necessary to Place Omaha In a most strategic position. It Is the gateway of eleven transcontinental railways. Docs it appeal to our civic pride or sensible eco nomics of either the railways of tho city that travelers from all parts of the worl l and local traffic generally are to bo given the Introductory shock which Is experi enced at the arrival of the viaduct sheds which now perform the service of local stations? Tho' present accommodations are wholly Insufficient and in no way fitted for the requirements. The railways owe It to themselves, owo It to the city, owe It to the country, to erect In Omaha a fitting monument of this character as a slight reimbursement for the millions gained and to be gained. The present scattered depots are dan gerous of approach, located under via ducts dark nnd unsanitary. The position of trucks makes It dangerous for the pub lic to get to trains, and the congestion frequently most annoying to all con cerned. Then, again, passengers leaving the station are required to pass out in the street and stand tn the cold wind at the head of the station watting for street cars, with no protection for women or children nt all. Strangers entering the city desiring to go from one station to the other are required to pay 50 oents to find out that tho chango means across the street only, up ono side of the via duct and down the other. All this be cause there Is no unity between tho rail ways owning the two depots, which nre within, speaking distance. Is It right that the public should be discommoded to this extent? A good solution of this problem would be to locate this magnificent depot on Jackson street between Thirteenth and Sixteenth streets, abolish the Tenth and Eleventh street viaducts, which are a nuisance and great expense. South Tenth street traffic should pass over the. Six teenth strc t viaduct, thence south via Pacific street, which In this Instance should be greatly Improved, Tenth and Thirteenth street cars cross the Sixteenth street viaduct, turn east on Jackson street and pass tho Union station. South Tenth street population can reach the postofflco as quickly by this arrangement as it ts now. The change would benefit the rail ways In dollars and cents enough to put up the Union station, giving them all of that clear space east of Sixteenth Btreet Which at this time they are needing badly. Yours for Greater Omaha, L. C. SHARP, Omaha Machine Works. Danish the Tin Drinking; Cap. OMAHA, Feb. 13. To the Editor of The Bee: Think of the $760,000 high school supposed to be modern and yet using the disease-laden tin cup for drinking. Wc could not oak for any more If the school money was handled with minute econ omy. Tho money spent by publlo officials and organizations for marble and bronze tablets on the build ing would buy several sanitary foun tains. The only service the tablets render is some publicity to the donor. Let the next organization spend their surplus by giving the school something that will benefit tho students. The Board of Education set the example of adorning the building with graven plates. Let the members sacrifice that everlasting desire to have their names before tho public and do something for tho good of the children. O. H. S. Explanation from Mr. Pitch. OMAHA, Feb. J3.-tTo the Editor of The Bee; Dear Sir To correct a misappre hension by the public, will you kindly an nounce through the columns of The Dally Bee, that the undersigned, though having served on charter revision committees, did not file for or become a candidate for the charter board, believing that th time Is not yet arrived for a new charter until the people decide what shall be done about annexing South Omaha, Dun dee and Florence. The "David A. Fitch," who was a can didate for said charter board, waB former secretary of the Citizens' union, and was never connected with the improve ment clubs of tho city, aa I have been, so far as I know. I am making this announcement at the request of many members of the Improve ment clubs of the city. F. W. FITCH. Muffled Knocks Friends are a much bigger expense than smoking and drinking. The marriage tie that binds does It so tightly It cuts right through to the bone. Some women need grandchildren to con vince themselves they aro emerging from girlhood. When a man gets a powerful yearning to be a farmer, It's a sign he never was one before. The only way you can prize having a right is for somebody else to want to get It away from you. When a man's latchkey is too thick to go In the keyhole his explanation about It to his wife la too thin. A girl is so unselfish It makes her happy to think how happy it makes her mother to make her ball dress for her. What makes a widow so Interested In listening to a man Instead of doing the talking. Is she's willing to take her turn now whn she has to. New York Press, JOLLIES FROM JUDGE. Knlcker The pen Is mightier than the sword. Mocker Yea; there Isn't any fountain sword. "Mlfw Llngerlong ought to be an easy catch for some one." "Bary catch7 Why, she has been a regular epidemic for the last ten years!" "She says she went abroad to finish her education. I wonder If she learned much." "She told mc she hod six new ways to fix her hair." Bonehead Jones tried to make on ex temporaneous speech at tho banquet last night and blew up. He completely fell down on It. Marbletop I see; spontaneous combus tion, eh?" "Our new dining room girl Is going to leave us to become a classic dancer." "Is that so? Has she any qualifica tions?" "Yes; she's the one that brought the salad In undressed." "Oh. doctor, my husband Is to give up smoking during Lentl Isn't that lovely of Mm?" "Yes, madam, and very necessary to hlB health. 1 ordered It." "The brute!" First Straphanger Sir, you havo your hand In my pocket. Second Ditto (evldontly married) Oh pardon me! I was wondering how I came to havo all that loose change. Boston Transcript "Strange as It may seem to you." said Mrs. Lapsltng, with pardonable pride, "I wnft ii frnrifl nnpltfr wlipn T ti-Mjt n tllttr J girl and went to school. Once I spelled IrvflORD Nowhere but in Florida will you find it all. Shores like the Mediterranean, lakes like Scotland's own, golf and tennis, matches and tournaments, motor boating, hunting and fishing (deep sea and fresh water fishingj, yachting, driving and automobiling on miles and mile3 of ocean beach. Wonderful hotels, bungalows, cottages. The picturesque blended with the beautiful. Nowhere but in Florida will you find old Spanish forts and walls and gates, in all the integrity of the past. Fetes, dances and Old-World carnivals, in a realm of flowers and sunshine; glorious days and gorgeous nights 1 Only bt Florida to magnificence like this the common prop erty of all. To winter here is to breathe Romance itself. This is Florida! Come I Kansas City-Florida Special From Kansas City Daily at 5tS5 p. m. It carries all-steel, electric-lighted equipment through to Jackson ville: electric fans; Pullman sleepers of the latest design, and steel dining cars under the direction of .Fred Harvey It's as fine a train as ever ran on wheels. Last chance to see the Panama Canal Work before the watar U turned In. Eight perionslly- conauciea tours in tne tmnip itvsnceiine, rxom Key Weil to Colon, returning via Klnstton and Havana. Thevettel Is new, built tn Scotland during 1911-12. especially for touring the tropica. It la equipped with Marconi wlrcleee service, electric lights and fane, and all modern convenience and luxuries. It will leave Key Wtit January 7th and 21st, February 4th and 16th March 4th and 18th. April 1st and 13th. An eleven-day trip, Including meala and berth at sea and In port. Tor 1110. Stopover privileges granted at Colon, Havana and Klngiton. Train SchtduUs, Futtman. Stmnihtf omd Illustrated WM II M fl. I.hl j. v. jovnen, Dlv.Paa. Act., Frltoo Lines. Waldheim Building, - - Kansas City. Children Should Have Good nuuionnes agree tnat an oil the Rayo Lamp is soft and work under it for hours Tho For Best Result cm Perfection Oil. Ask about quantity price and iron barrels for storms. Did you draw a mouth or eye? You will have another chance to show your skill beginning SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16th Watch for it 1 the whole school down, and for one time in my life, anyway. I was the dinosaur of all eyes." Chicago Tribune. THE KNOCKER UNFORGIVEABLE Wc have listened to tho falling of the hammer, Wc have heard the blow and sometimes felt the shock. When some mortal, wise and knowlnr. And with energy o'ei flowing. Has concluded It was time for him to knock. We have listened to the falling of the hammer. When somo human with a most dyspep tic grouch. Poured it out upon his fellows With the vigor of a bellows And was tickled when they squirmed and hollered "Ouch." Wo have listened to the falling of tho hammer, "When the sewing circle gathered nil in tune, . . And while busy In their labors Fell upon their friends and neighbors With the fury of a southern sea typhoon. We have listened to the. falling of the hammer. To the discord that the "chorus" harshly sang, To the knocks on this nnd that one. On the thin one nnd the fat one, While the blows -from the anvil shrilly rang. We havo listened to the falling of tho hammer. And our tender heart in charity forgives All except that one most yellow. Mean and measly he's the fellow Who will knock upon the town In which he lives. Omaha. -HARRY P. VAN ARSDALE. JteMrtnrWu Dtertftti Ultra' ll - .rf fill II 1 ll . . .1 . Light for Studying lamp is best. The light from mellow. You can read or without hurting your eyes. LAMP is constructed scientifically. It is the best lamp made yet inexpen sive and economical. Dtaltrt Eonytahtrm STANDARD OIL COMPANY (Netaaalca) OMAHA (