THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1913.
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JANUARY CIRCULATION.
49,528
State of Nebraska. County of Douglas, u;
Dwlght Williams, circulation manasor
ot The Bee Publishing company, being
duly sworn, says that the average dally
circulation for the month of January,
19U. was O.B8. DWIQ1JT WILLIAMS,
Circulation Manissr.
Bubscrlbed In my presence and sworn
to before me this Sin day of February,
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(Seal) Notary Public.
Subscribers tearing; the city
temporarily ahonld hare The Dee
stalled fu them. Address will
chnnaed n often n requested.
Wilson, president. That's nil.
Goodbye
o' yerself.
"Bill"-' Taft. Take koer
That cabinet pudding is also a sur
prise pudding.
The government is now trying to
stick the Qlucoso trust.
John'D. Squeezed Carnegie Headline.
Not because ho lovod him so.
Two living ox-prosldonts more
4han we havo had- for quite some
time.
Tho Bee is against frauds, fakes
and charlatans In medicine, politics
and Business,
Champ Clark's span of mules are
conspicuous for their absence from
'Pennsylvania avenue.
With a professor's Balary of 6,000
, a year, Prof. Taft barely comes la
under tho income tax.
Everybody wishes tho new presl-
'(lent a pleasant and profitable four
years' sojourn In Washington.
From the swimming way it got
past the presidential veto, the Webb
bill must hnov been web-footed.
And hotels are not the only fire-
caps Into which unsuspecting peoplo
lured at the risk ot thoir lives.
IVn European surgoon has reported
Morgan "90 per cent good." That
ibout ono-tonth off his Wall street
ting.
The San Francisco Chronicle says
the Union Pacific "is a railroad that
ends nowhoro." Well, it ends at San
Francisco.
Anway, the Wilson administration
is starting out with bettor treatment
tho Weather man than did Its
klcccssor. '
3W that good Dr. Abbott has re-
d faith in a sulphurous hell,
laps ho may yet backslide on the
n-cups-of-coffeo doctrine.
la to be hoped Governor More
head has all his gold-laced colonels
numbered and Inventoried so he can
check up on tho roturn trip.
Huerta seems to havo proved one
thing, that tho way to get a man , like
Ofozco to currender Id to knock the
head off ot tho man next to him.
A reunion of those who have been
offered and refused to take cabinet
; portfolios under the now admlnletra-
tlon would be an Interesting gather
1 In.
The Bee baa said that tho Dowey
hotel was not the" only one exposing
guests to brimstone as well as tire
I And Omaha i's not the only town In
Nebraska where such "hotels" flour-
0,
LPresIderit Taft does not retire to
rivate life "kicking and squealing'
tcS&se the American people decided
u'ot to retain him In office. Which
iow Mr. Taf a bigger man than
time others.
n mio amlahlM Inral content.
- i UflQ Mfc "Mf -'
ierarles cannot understand how The
See should expose medical fakes and
frauds itfhose- money that paper ac-
Wa&ni mint. Wfl hAYB no
I.- ' ... . .
4mbt it la a puxslor to an eaitonai
h register-
Mr. Hoot Js A sentimental Idealist
about one touch Pt practical common
bkk: Rev. Dr. Anna. Howard Hnaw,
Tet Mr, Root has gerved his cour
In suck exalted positions as sec
ry of war, ecretarjr of state and
ts United States senate na nooa
iWnVed great corporations Into em
B . . . j .-.I
orlnk aim In legal actions mvoivws
Wiltons of dollars. Temperance in
ch to a great "Virtue, especially u
eperanc reioriaers.
The Turnover.
The turnover of tho government of
more than 00,000,000 from an out
going administration to an Incoming
president warrants the focusing of
all eyes on the Inaugural exercises at
Washington.
When tho succession merely passes
along within the same political
party, tho turnover naturally excites
less interest than when, as today, for
tho first time in sixteen years, and
for the third timo In more than half
a century, the control is transferred
across political lines.
We believe wo are well within the
truth in aaylng that never before
Were the peoplo of all sections of the
country, regardless of party affilia
tions, lrl a more amiablo mood to
ward both outgoing and Incoming
presidents, or more willing to cooperate-
with their new chief ex
ecutive for policies that promise
progress and prosperity.
In a word, it is the genoral dis
position, as it Is certainly pure, to
give President Wilson an absolutely
square deal, and to judge him fairly
by what he does.
Giving the Case Away.
That a metropolitan water district
ought to be created composing the terri
tory that the Omaha water plant la
obliged to furnish with water (Is) the
Idea for which the friends of Senate FUo
No. 17 are flghtlng.-World-Herald.
This gives the whole case away,
and admits tho object is not to save
the revenue from stock yards and
packing houses. What the Water
board politicians really want Is a dis
trict separate and distinct from the
city to exempt them from the home-
rule-chartor-maklng power. This
was conclusively shown when the
political engineers consented to yield
the fovenuo from breweries, distil
leries, electric lighting plant, office
buildings and hotels supplied by
their own wells, which in ossenco
cannot be distinguished from stock
yards' and pocking house self-supply.
Tho real purpose, therofore, Is to
perpetuate themselves In office, and
to mako our people coutlnue to go
down to Lincoln for legislative relief
every time they havo some water
works problom to face.
But even it we were to bars a
wator district, why should the peo
ple be saddled with such a monstrous
bill as drawn up and presented by
our Water board overlords?
Why should the men behind the
bill want special authority to let con
tracts, and buy materials, amounting
to thousands and hundreds of thou
sands ot dollars, by private deals
made in the dark without competl
tlve bids?
Why should tho man who drew
tho bill want to make' tho lower
limit of his own salary $6,000 with
no upper limit?
Why should He insist that he, as a
salaried employe, shbuld be his own
boss as If two different men could
not be found to fill two separate
Jobs?
Why should tho Water board not
have to make understandable finan
cial reports of their stewardship ot
this $7,000,00 plant periodically?
Why should tho Water board want
to retain power to dispose of bonds
at private sale, In repetition of tho
odjous f 7,000,000 secret deal.
Why should the Water board want
the- Initiative, the referendum and
the recall open to tho people in other
municipal affairs, but absolutely pro
hibited for all water works matters
and themselves as officials?
Why should the Wator board
politicians be so careful In barring
employes from political activity to
limit the prohibition to "municipal"
politics, leaving them tree to be used
in all other political Tights?
Why should the Water toeard Insist
on continuing the fake nonpartisan
election by which they are chosen In
party primary, with complete dis
franchisement of all who vote at elec
tions qnly?
Why should tho Water board In
slst on naming their own colleagues
for the full unexpired term when all
other public bodies con fill Xicancles
only until the next election?
Why should the Water board in
sist on itself conducting Its own elec
tions, naming its own Judges and
clerks of election, canvassing its own
returns, and oven requiring personal
endorsement ot "tho secretary of the
Water board" on every nonreglstored
voter'B certificate?
The pretense lc made that this bill
is modeled after a law In force some
where else. We'll wager dollars to
doughnuts that nothing like it can
bo found anywhere.
It turns out that 8,000 home own
ers In Omaha have already been com
polled to pay tho Water board til.) 5
for Installing meters that cost 96
This extra tax shows haw considerate
the Water board Is of the little fel
low. By the way, the contract, to
supply these meters, Involving more
than ?J 00,0 00", was made In secret
without competitive bids.
What would be the use ot a home-
rule charter-maumg power If we
bad to belabor the legislature, made
up of members who know nothing
about our local conditions, every
time we havo some problem ot mu
nlclpal government to solve?
The Joke ot the season was sprung
t Lincoln by the Water Board
satraps contending that subjecting
the management of the plant to the
city government would throw it Into
politics. Might throw it out; It
could not throw It in deeper.
Looking BackuW
ThtsD&ittOmalia
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COMPILED FROM DEB TlhZH j
000 C .UAllt'H 4. ? OPOl
'liui-iy 'cnra Ago
While the Ice lias gone out ot the river
at various points below It stilt remains
solid at Omaha. Though some are ap
prehensive, the weather has been all
right so far for a quiet unsensatlonal
breakup.
A small fire did alight damage to the
St. Charles hotel, on tho alley at Twelfth
street between Harney and Fnrnam.
An order of E. P. Ripley,' general
freight agent of the Chicago, Burlington
A quinsy. Instructs agents how to route
freight.
Call fop a meeting of the Custer post
Is signed by George M. O'Brien, com
mander, and C. F. Fitch, adjutant.
A strong team Is the new coat firm of
Benson & Collin, Their office Is at Ben
ion's old stand, 211 South Thirteenth
street.
It Is stated that Governor Dawes has
determined to appoint Judge Wakcley to
the newly created place on the district
bench.
George Coulter has finished putting the
new electric apparatus In the fire de
partment. It works so nicely that the
men can get out In fifteen seconds.
Mrs. Charles P. Storm has been called
to Nevada by the serious Illness of her
ton.
Lyman Richardson has returned from
New Orleans.
Mrs. Alma E. Keith left for Chicago
to buy goods.
Mrs. Captain Hwobe and son came In
from the west.
Twenty Years Ago-
Owing to the success of the kinder
garten experiment In the Omaha public
schools, City Superintendent Fltzpatrtck
announced that he would recommend o
the Board of Education the opening of
two more kindergartens, one at Leavun
worth and one at Castetlar schools.
The commission merchants of Omana
met and decided to work against the sale
of butterlne In Nebraska. George Has
kell was chairman of the meeting and
Mr. Gllck secretary. It was stated tint
the creamery men of the state had se
cured the Introduction In the legislature
of a bill prohibiting the manufacture or
sale of butterlne In the state unless
colored a tight pink hut, so that It would
be distinguished from real butter. This
bill was favored.
General Manager Dickinson and Buper.
Intendent of Car Service Buckingham
put In another busy day going over the
demands ot the Union Pacific switch
men, who wanted their wages figured ny
the hour. It was objected to by tho com
pany on the grolind that It would entail
an additional outlay at once of VAC00.
Jim Corbett, who showed at the Fnr
nam street theater during the week,
proved popular with tho cyclists white
here. Jim was a great wheelman' and
took several long spins on the bike with
the boys, which also had an Indirect
beneficial effect at the box office.
Ten Years Age-
Eta and Iota, the two Omaha chapters
of the Phi Rho Sigma, the national
medloal fraternity, held their Joint an
nual anniversary celebration In Royal
Arcanum ball in The Bea building, with
a banquet following at the Her Grand.
Among prominent Omaha members at
tending were Drs. A. S, Jonas, W. II.
Christie, A. II. Cooper, A. B. Llnquest, IS,
Davis, F, 8. Owen. O. H. Blcknell, B.
W. Christie, A. C. Stokes, C. F. Mayer.
Mr, Mayer, who was an Eta, acted as
toastmastcr.
B. Leban fell suddenly at the carnt'r
of Thirteenth and Dodge streets. When
h came to he discovered he had lost
between 17 and $12. A knock on the head
caused his fall. It came from a man
who was accompanied by another man.
They fled. Tho police captured two men
later. They were brothers, evidently tn
right ones.
The McKlnley club held a meeting ut
the Millard and picked this spring elec
tlon committee, the men representing the
wards, from First to Ninth, respectively:
J. J. Pleraon, C. E. Foster, Dan Riley.
Sydney Smith, II. G. Counsman, J. 13.
Fradenberg, E. J. Neville, H. A. Fostjr,
C Q. McDonald.
Mrs. Suvllla 8mlth died at the ripe o'ul
age. of SI years at the family residence,
B4X South Twenty-fourth avenUe.
The first Omaha Water Board was duly
organised with former Governor James
E. Boyd chairman, Isaac E. Congdcn
secretary, until a commissioner should
be chosen to boss the whole Job, the
commissioner-to-be then serving In the
state senate under tho title of A. B.
Howell, author of the taw creating the
Water board.
Editorial Snapshots
Chicago Tribune: As to that Dayton
corporation. It might "register" a kick
and 1st It go at that.
Chicago News: Pressing the "no sale"
key, the cash register trust readily finds
the money for the fines, but there Is
no part of the mechnlsm tl fit provides
(or a jau sentence.
Baltimore American: The ex-sultan ot
Turkey thinks the wcn:en ot the western
world are sUiri nr.d Imperious. And each
hectored member of the British cabinet
murmurs sadly, "Me. too."
St. IxjuIs Republic: Governor Wil
son's Intention to uie his room at the
qapltol every day may have been reached
by experience whlen '.AiUftit him that tho
boys behave better when the school
master Is around.
Washington Post: Tom Marshall hr.a
declined a grant of (,K0 tendered htm
by the Indiana legislature for house rn!
but alter he naa been in Washington a
while that vice president's aalary won't
look so large to him.
Sioux City Journal: The saving ot
115,000,000 by cutUng oft on battleship
would look a whole lot more economi
cal It accompanied, by the lopping off ot
at least the same amount for pub'.lc build
lnfs and rivers and harbors.
New York Bun: A retiring president's
vote Is never listened to. All the same
Mr. Taft'a renewed suggestion ot an an
nual budget Is wise and salutary. Some
day the United States, weary of harum
sea rum spending and spepdthriftlsm, will
follow, will have to follow, the example
and practloe of all other civilized nations.
Chicago Inter-Ocean: The bald truth Is
that It Is none of our business whether or
how the Mexican faction leaders kll off
each other- Tor th.e welfare, of the
masses of the Mexican people It Is per
haps desirable that tbey should kill off
each other, as the brawling English bar
ons did In the wars of the roses. Mexico
Is In much the same state now as Eng
land was theo.
Aimed at Omaha
David City Banner: The Omaha Bee
wants a law to make smokers build th
roads. Why not make "booze fighters"
help? They need good roads to navigate
on a whole lot more than the smokers do.
York Times! The people of Nebraska
have a sort of proprietary Interest In
Omaha. It Is our metropolis, we sustain
It, we havo to deal with It. to go there
betimes, and. we have a right to have
n word to say about what shall be don
to us when wo are there.
Hiiwclts Journal; Just on the Q. T.
Opinha Is to have no relief from 'the
honors of the A o'clock closing law. In
other words tho present l?glslnture will
refuse to take any backward steps rela
tive to liquor legislation. Now If Mayor
Jim will quiet down, tho metropolis vrlll
get along very nicely even If Its people
have to tolerate a few laws that arn
highly pleasing to tho remainder of th!
state.
Oakland Independent: What Is the
matter with our Scandinavian friend
Congressman Lobcck, from Omaha. Of
the entire Nebraska delegation he was
tho only one who voted against the Webb
bill, to prevent tho shipment of liquor
Into dry territory. It looks very much
like a representation of Dahlmanlsm and
lower Omaha and we are disappointed
with our professed "county option" demo
cratic .statesman from the Second dis
trict. And In the senate that much
vaulted antl-standpat. progressive, better-thon-Burkett
reformer. Senator Gilbert
SI, Hitchcock, tried to queer the mcasiir
by Inserting an amendment excepting
liquor Intended for "family use." The
"Omaha Idea" will crop out In their
statesman When it comes to the test, it
seems.
Grand Island Independent: The Omaha
water controversy, by the way, afford
some proof ot what Grand Island will
have gained If. by the time It la as big
a city as Omaha, It still' retains the
municipal plant. And, comparatively
some Idea of the value of Grand Island-
present plant and franchise can be
gained even now. Grand Island could
sett Its utility plant and make a mighty
fine profit' out of Its Investment. But
It won't and thereby will prove It, In
years to come, to have been a still more
profitable undertaking.
Sliver Creek Sand: Omaha, already over
burdened with Its sins, Is about' to add
another to tho long list If the preachers
havo their way. Thirty of them are at
work trying to secure the notorious Hilly
Sunday, slang sltngCr and blasphemer, to
hold a series of so-catted revival meeting
In that town. No wonder that Omaha
gets roasted by outsiders when even lis
preachers aid and abet such scandalous
proceedings.
Lexington Pioneer: Omaha physicians
are making strenuous efforts to defeat
the bill now before tho legislature to pro
hibit the surgical rake-off between coun
try practitioners nnd the Omaha high
brows, wherein the country doctor re
ceives a percentage of the big fee for
furnishing tho subject to be carved up.
The bill ought to become a taw and stop
tho cold-blooded barter over the un
fortunate 111 or Injured human beings.
Twice Told Tales
A Sociable Trio.
Senator Joseph W. Bailey of Texas,
whose seat was near the main door of
the senate, was In tho midst of an
Impassioned speech one day when Sena
tors Warren nnd Overman met near tho
door a few steps away from him and
began to converse In an undertone. They
looked toward the door, then toward
Baltey; turned to go out, then came back
and began their whispering again.
Suddenly Senator Bailey stopped In the
middle of a burst of oratory and said
something In an undertone to the two
senators. Senator Stone of Missouri, pre
siding over tho senate, thinking Mr.
Baltey had been disturbed In his speech
by the whispering, rapped sharply for
order.
"Oh. that's all right, Mr. President,"
said Senator Bailey, "they weren't dis
turbing me. I Just told them I would join
them as soon as I got through here."
Washington Star.
Didn't Like the Signature.
A Chicago woman whose husband re
cently provided her with a checking ac
count decided, the other day, to save a
2-cent stamp by persuading the grocer's
boy to carry a check to his employer.
When he returned later with a supply of
household .necessities he handed back her
check.
"What's the matter with It?" she Indig
nantly asked. "Doesn't Mr. Dobbeon
know that It's just as good aa the cash?"
"I don't know," the boy replied. "He
never said not'n' to me about It, except
he would like to have It signed some
other way."
She had signed It:
"Yours truly, Anna."
That was all Chicago Record-Herald.
The Crowded Way.
"The late General Booth," said a Sal
vation Army captain of Philadelphia,
"used to admit freely that the bad man
had more fun-at least while carrying on
hU business than the "eood man.
"Stroking his white beard, he. put the
matter In a neat epigram one nlsht In
New .York.
" 'They say the way of the transgres
sor Is hard.' he said. "At any rate, It
certainly Isn't lonely.' "
People Talked About
Wetcome the coming, speed the passing
president
By a vote of Z.EO0 to 11.000 the socialist
party put the hook on Bllf Haywood and
yanked him oft tho national executive
oommlttee.
Congressman nuneson o! Texas,
whose nam appears on the cabinet slate,
looks like a picture of Sir Walter Scott.
He la a great newspaper reader, a fact4
that explains why things came his way.
Owing to the low temperature on the
foothills, Denver cartoonists give "Old
Harry" ths kindly hand by dressing htm
In fur-trimmed garments.
An unprecedented rainfall following an
unprecedented cold spell, puts sleighing
out ot business In Los Angeles and makes
boating the proper recreation. For
the moment the "city ot angels' is
strictly In the swim.
Iko Bees Men!
ox
Hotels, fiooit nnd Had.
OMAHA. March 3. -To the Editor of
The Bee: Tour Sunday editorial explains
quite accurately one of the principal
reasons why the respectable hotel men
of Omaha and the state arc at present,
trying to get a law through the legisla
ture defining, or rather restricting, the
use of the word "Hotel."
In Omaha, ns you know, .there aro
many places under the name of hotel,
which are In fact nothing but the hell
holes you describe, and the stranger
coming to Omaha unacquainted with the
streets and locations Is, as you say, at
tracted by their electric signs and un
suspectingly goes there.
The city of Omaha owes somo protec
tlon to Its visitors and out-of-town guests,
and we hope The Bee will aid and assist
In the passing of ft law to protect the
name "Hotel" and prevent Its use by
Immoral and Irresponsible persons.
The word "Hotel" should be confined
strictly to the use of a licensed owner
or leasee, who should be examined and
known by a license board, cither city or
state, who, having tho power of con
trolling such licenses, could, In a short
time, make the word "Hotel" on a. build
ing represent what it should-a respect
able place for the accommodation of
transient persons.
CON ANT HOTEL COMPANY,
By G. H. Conant.
A Iloost fop the Fallen.
LINCOLN. Neb.. March l.-To the Edi
tor of tho Dally Bee: It Is a well known
fact to the people of Nebraska that n
legislature Is In session here. No doubt
the taxpayer will have evidence In abun
dance after the solons return to the'.r
hmm nnd nil is over. Friends nnd cm-
plcycs of various state InstituUons ask )
for laws they hope will be beneficial In i
their opinion for the good of humanity
In general.
Sinco tho latter part of the '60b we have
Had a penitentiavy In our state. The men
"higher up" have selected subordinates I
to manage this Instltutlon-shall we say
of reform. During this hair century we
have no special data at hapd as to what
degree of success In reformation. We
hear stories of brutality by those In
charge of Inmates. Rumors are rife of
drunken guards and reckless methods In.
times past. Even to the smuggling of
firearms to Inmates. Nay. more, opium
has got behind prison doors in our great
ttate, and wo a Christian nation. What?
Law Is now asked for to stop the tratnc.
The blighting effect of this curse that
departed officials permitted In their day,
Is found within this prison.
I understand this has been going on for
ntneteen years tho opium habit in Jail,
as It were. In passing through one
notices many young men whose ages
range from 17 to S2 years, as well as
many older, and they aro here for re
form. In what name? In the name of tho
state of Nebraska. Could a mother's
tears help an unfortunate boy? WIU he
come home reformed or a confirmed dopo
fiend?
Aside from cnpttal punishment, the
writer believes In reformation. But he
believes In the Interest of humanity this
punishment should reform. Is It not time
to call a reform for our reformatories?
It Is true the present regime Is demo
cratic, but wo are not talking politics.
Sentiment with an upward tendency can
be established and those In authority
compelled to attain to it. Of course, the
"maudlin" and "disgruntled" and dls- 1
appointed office seeker Is not to be con- '
tidered In this. Another source where
"dope" Is secured is the irresponsible
druggist, who thinks his "field white unto .
the harvest" and has only pecuniary
gain In mind. In the name of one of the
greatest ot great states, something should
be done for humanlty'R mike.
TEE JAY AITCH.
More- About That Hotel Fire.
LINCOLN, Neb., March l.-To the Edl
tor of The Bee: Permit me a word rela
tive to tho Dewey hotel fire and some of
the comments thereon. Everybody knows
what tho reputation of that hotel was.
therefore nothing need be said on that
core. But the assertion that the taws
aa to fire escapes was riot enforced Is
untrue. While labor commissioner, I
personally Inspected that place. It had
a fire escape In accordance with law,
and I could not go behind that fact. 1
had no authority to condemn the .build
ing, although I knew It was a firetrap
and so did everybody else who knew any
thing at all about It. At niy suggestion
Governor Shallenberger appointed Charles
Wlthnell. then building Inspector ot
Omaha, as a deputy under me, and we
worked together during my entire In
cumbency of the labor commissioner's
office. We forced the erection of numer
ous flro escapes, and In one Instance
bluffed a hotel man Into erecting one
before he opened his hotel. I say
"bluffed." because that Is the only word.
. But before state officials are de
nounced for not enforcing tho laws, why
not Investigate and ascertain how well
the state equips these officials for per
forming their duties. While labor com
mlsstoner I had the assistance of a sten
ographer. Then the department was al
lowed U.600 a year for all expenses asldo
from salaries, out of which had to be
paid all printing bills, postage, telephone,
telegraph and other bills; also travel
ing expenses. I was hotel Inspector,
factory Inspector, manager of the state
free labor bureau, state statistician, was
charged with the enforcement of the
child labor and female labor laws and
all other labor laws, together with laws
regulating the matter ot hanging doors
to public, buildings, and some fifteen or
twenty other duties. The hotel Inspection
law charged me with Inspecting every
hotel, boarding house and lodging house
four times a year. Aa there are some
thing like .000 of them It meant tt.000
nH traveling upwards of
1M.000 miles. Yet there are those who:
raise merry hell because the labor com
missioner doesn't do his full duty. I
personally saw to It that every hotel
In Omaha and Lincoln was properly
equipped with fire escapes, but that was
about all I could do under the clrcum-
BtU anyone is to blame ror the horrible
results ot the Dewey hotel fire It Is the
public, which loads down the statute
books with laws and then refuses to pro
vide for their enforcement. Chief Salter
of the Omaha Fire department, and the
fire chief ot practically every city, can
telt you what fearful handicaps a pubtie
servant In such a responsible poaltlon
labor- under. Some of these days Ne
braska will be horrified by learning that
some big factory building ha. been burned
and that score, and hundred, of men and
women have been cremated. Then the
people will denounce the labor commls
. - . tnrftnir the laws. ior-
sloner ir
,h t .ney have peg-
gettul of the fact that iney n
acted and refused to provide tue com
Imlsstoner with the ways and means of I
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enforcing the laws. If the cremating of
a score of people In tho Dewey hotel fire
will arouse the people to a realizing
sense of duty they owe to themselves and
the general public, then thoso dead will
not have died In vain.
WILLIAM M. MAUPIN.
JOLLIES FROM JUDGE.
He No, I never take cocktails.
I pre-
ter milk as a beverage.
She I should think It would curdle.
Crawford How In the world did he
mistake his wife tor a burglar?
Crabshaw He happened to wake up
as she was going through his pockets.
"Paw, can you tell me the difference
between a suffragist and a suffragette?"
"Yes, my son. A suffragist Is a woman
who has the wishbone and the suffra
gette, Is a woman who has the backbone."
Hiram Tho doctor says Ezra Is suffer
ing from auto-lntoxicatlon.
Silas Guess that's It, b'gosh. The fet
ter acted jest like anyone else until he
got that automobile.
Wife (opening letter) Here's the doc
tor's bill, dear, and It's something fright
ful. Phew! It smells of ether.
Husband Doubtless he thought I'd need
an aneasthetlo when I received It. Bos
ton Transcript.
Nell Are you very particular about how
your chaperon looks?
Belle Um-yes I want her to look the
other way. Boston Transcript.
"Did you tell her when you proposed
to her that you were Unworthy of her?
That always makes a hit with them."
"I was going to. but she told It to me
flrst."-Houston Post.
The minister was visiting nt the home
of little Alice.
"Did you bo to church with mamma
and, papa today, my dear?" he asked.
"Yes, sir," said Alice; "an' we got
there at the most Important part."
"Indeed!" said the minister, aglow with
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Now Altogether
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WHEN HI FADES AND
A LITTLE SAGE
Mixture of Sagd and SuU'
phur Prevents Dandruff
and Falling Hair,
When you darken your hair with Sage
Tea and Bulphur no one can tell, be
cause It's done so naturally; so even. It
Is also splendid to remove dandruff, cure
Itching scalp and stop falling hair.
Preparing this mixture, though, at
home Is a mussy and troublesome task.
For about SQ cents a bottle you can buy
at any drug store the rrady-to-use tonic
called. "Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Hair
' . vm urwamst, put this ml. ,
turo up themselves but make It too
j "Wyeth's" j
anticipation. And what wns that-nn
sermon?
"No, sir; the collection."
'"You can't get Into that set."
"Why not?" , .'
"They're too exclusive."
"Well, they gotta have somebtfdr
snub."
The pretty storekeeper wns unpacking
and assorting somo now1 poods wHelf tier
best young man eptcred. She stooped
behind the counter a moment and aroe
with flushed face.
"I'm glad to see you're stocking up,"
he said.
There's an unaccountable coldness be
tween them now.
"Of(Course the office ought to seek llie
"""f 'don't know about thai," renllud Sen
ator Sorghum. "A man who stands around
waiting for an office to seek hint prob
ably wouldn't havo cnertry enough tu do
anything with It If It came his way."
Washington Star.
BLOWING BUBBLES.
(.;. W. Hubler In Atlanta Journal.
Bonny, brown-eyed, laughing boy.
Father's prldo and mother's joy.
On the mansion's lawn he stands.
Bowl nnd plpestcm In his hands.
Blowing bubbles.
Rising, Bllttering In the, sun.
Floating, bursting ono by one.
Nothing else ho seems to see,
Happier than a king Is he,
blowing bubbles.
Though 'tis but a childish Runic,
Still It seems to me tho same
Which we men and women play
Are we not from day to day
Blowing bubbles?
"Building castles In the air." ,
Dreaming dreams thot seem so fair,
Dreams of glory, fortune, fame:
Ah, how llko this dear boy's game,
Blowing bubbles,
Men for fortune play, or fame,.
Boys for fun that's In the, game.
When our bubbles burst we cumtf
Misery's cup boys only laugh,
Blowing bubbles.
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than cleai
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Opportunity is Knocking
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"Ut the COLD DUST TWINS
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j
TURNS GRAY USE
TEA TO RESTORE COLOR.
men there will be no tilsuijaKtnt.
Tod Just dampen a BtWMftVr soft
spskf i
brush with "Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur"
and draw it through your hair, takln
ope small strand at a time. Do this ut
night and by morning all gray hair dis
appears and after another application .or
two becomes beautifully darkened and
more' glossy and luxuriant than ever.
You will also discover dandruff Is gonu
and hair has stopped falling.
Gray, faded hair, though no disgrace.
Is a sign of old ago and as we all devil tt
a youthful and attractive appeaanw.
get busy at once with Wyeth's Sage 4r!d
SulphUr and y.ou'11 look years younge
Inquiry shows all pharamclats' In' tuwn
here tell lots of It.'
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