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THE BEK: OMAHA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1913.
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Mayor Gaynor,
Tho unexpected death of Mayor
Oaynor ot New York Bummons the
attention ot the whole country, be
cause the oftlee Is ono ot more than
more local Importance, and because,
also, he was a character ot command
Ins personality and Impressive Indi
viduality. His passing will brine;
forth many a measure ot tho man
from as many different angles, all of
which, however, will, we may bo
sure, credit him with superior quali
ties that make greatness, although
coupled with weaknesses and small
nesscs that always mar greatness.
As mayor of Now York, and as
Judgo before that, Mr, Qaynor chal
lenged admiration for bis fearless
assertion of tho courage of his con
victions. Ho was mado mayor ft?
Tammany, but was not Tammany's
mayor, as was conclusively proved by
the failure of Tammany to make him
its candidate for another term. At
one time ho was seemingly on tho
point of becoming a factor in tho na
tional political arena, but circum
stances prevented, and it Is idle to
speculato on what might have been.
Whether the death of Mayor Oay
nor will simplify or still further con
fuse tho Impending municipal cam
paign In Now York will shortly be
disclosed.
Lookind BacWairl
TkisMHnOnmk
COMPILES
OOP (,
bec nvta
SKIT. ia. r POO
fataorifcera leaving tho city
temporarily cbonld hv The Be
Mailed to tkctxu Addresa Trill be
cfeamsed am often sua reaacated.
Jhc-w demands a "square deal,"
pad here Is hoping he goU it.
Coaticook and Shorbrook mar now
dip h & Into their little holes ot
pbscurlty.
' Canada, evidently has a fow fool
hnto 'worshippers. Just as we and
Other countries have.
'
Our eld friend, Dr. Cook, will
tog&k to us. "Who says our Omaha
Commercial dub la not progressive!
Thaw's deportation may not have
been altogether regular, but you can
not blame Canada for any Irregu
larity,
That proposed big tax on colossal
Inheritances no more testes us than
that threatened big tax on huge n
comes.
Mayor Gaynor did not leave Tam
many In doubt as to his opinion of It.
"Corrupt scamps" was his latest ex
pression.
If the sultan's slaves danced the
turkey trot, they did it because they
had te; our sweet American women
dance it from choice.
Whatever else may bo said about
hm, everyone will admit that Mayor
Qaynor managed to get the center ot
the stago whenever he wanted it.
John Klrby, Jr., says the National
Association of Manufacturers will
contlnuo its "class fight" But with
new men and new methods, wo
take it
Those Missouri and Arizona Judges
seed not have to worry their wise
fyeads about tho propriety ot pink
tights under diaphanous gowns, for
old Boreas will settle it soon.
Overdoing a Good Thing.
Tho westorn governor who sends
prisoners to the woods to work un
guarded will have to hurry if ho dis
tances the warden ot tho California
penitentiary at San Quentin In leni
ency to convicts. This official has
allowed 1,400 prisoners, Including
four awaiting capital punlshmont, to
leave the prison grounds to attend a
ball game unguarded, with no assur
ance but their word to roturn. For
tunately, all returned and everything
went woll, Evidently the warden is
now convlncod of the ultimate suc
cess of his theory. Whether tho leo
lated location of San Quontln, which
is not an easy place to escape from.
onters into vital consideration, it is
questionable if this experiment
proves anything ot final value not
already known, These samo con
victs might not all feel the same way
about returning next time, If the
experiment could not bo made a per
manent practice, of what valuo is it?
Admitting all the strong points in
favor ot the honor system ot han
dling convicts, this really seems like
overdoing a good thing. Such
wholesale and unusual freedom, is
noring all safeguards, is not noces
sary, to say tho least, and so far as
the principle' of the honor system,
Itself, is concernod, subjects It to an
oxtra strain.
Twice Told Tales
Could anyone Imagine Woodrow
"Wilson, no matter how scrimpy his
Alary, appearing on a stago in a tent
show with soml-vaudovlllo perform
M it he were secretary of state?
1
Th Backwardness of Brother
(Wea4 ia eemiac forward to push his
ylsw ter a duplicate set ot mains to
grre the hydrants separately from
th rest ot us is almost lnexplalnablo.
That' Is an interesting disclosure
about hydrophobia being curod by
quinine. Still, hydrophobia is too
rare a disease for this to stimulate
much ot a boom in the qulnlno
isarket. "
It must be admitted that from
some sort ot censorship, public sentl
ment, probably, wo are gotllng a bet
ter average grade of exhibitions in
the moving picture shows than at
first presented.
It seems that someone else also
sees how near to home in his cabinet
family President Wilson struck when
ho declared that no man Is entitled
to praise from another man for doing
his duty by neglecting his own duty.
Safety on American Railways.
The Railway Library tor' 1912 sup'
piles encouraging information as to
tho number of railroad accidents and
fatalities tor that year, which is
especially interesting In view of tho
agitation tor foderal control ot
physical railroad operation growing
out ot rocent wreaks on eastern lines,
Attention is directed to tho fact thai
twice in the history of British rail
ways tho London Board ot Trado was
privileged to boast that a year had
gono by without a single fatality to
a passenger in a train accident. This
has been the basis of invidious com
parisons in our own country ot Brit
ish and American railways. Such
immunity from accidents really Is an
accident itsolf, according to the rail
ways' contention, nevertheless tho
Railway Library Bhows;
Every year this aocldent of Immunity
from such fatalities befalls on more
miles of American railways than there
aro miles In Germany, France, Austria.
and tho United Kingdom combined, and
1911 was no exception, as this statement
shows)
Number ot operating compa
nies ...a.,. .i...... 90
Mileage of these companies.... 101,i$t
Passengers carried SU,UI.BU
Passensers carried one mlle.,..ll,Jls,J3.0M
Passengers killed In train acci
dents , None
Passengers Injured In train ac
cidents , 3,(
This is a mighty favorable show
ing, Along with It goes a welcome
reduction In tho total number of fa
talities on all American railroads,
and undoubtedly this Is due In large
part to the fact that these roads,
most prominent among which are
leading western lines, have lnvosted
millions ot dollars in safety appli
ances and are exerting vigilant ef
forts to promote sate travel.
According to dispatches Europeans
are astounded at Sccrotary Bryants
persistence in chautalktng, but, ot
course, they cannot understand the
pangs ot poverty that come in trying
to eko out an existence on 1 12,000 a
year.
House Leader Undorwood defers
announcing bis intention to become
a candidate tor United 8tatea senator
"until after the president Blgns the
tariff bill." As it there were any
doubt about it) Ob, why wait, Mr
Underwood?
When Mayor Gaynor entered the
race bio enemies said he bad only
messed things up in favor of Tam
many, which, had Gaynor kept out,
-would have been surely and badly
beaten. Well, now that Qaynor is
out of (t, will it bo any easier to beat
Tammany?
Thirty Years Ago -
The Port Uurona handed the Union
Paolflrs another package by a score of
Mo i. Uy way of balm the nccount of
the game says "the decisions of the um
pire were most absurd, and prove that
gentleman, one might say, entirely
Ignorant of base ball,"
Wilt Redlck and Miss Mamie Wood
were married, and the couple left tor
the east expecting to occupy a new house
on their return, which Mr. Redlck has
built on, Georgia avenue.
A laWn party was given by Mr. and
Mrs. J. M, Woolworth at their residence,
Courtlandt Place. The Fourth Infantry
band played during the evening, and
visitors occupied themselves examining
the ctirlos bought from Java and the
Philippine Islands late by Charles Wool-
worth. Many who were unable to bo
present sent their U for tho completion
of Trinity, with their regrets.
The third day at the state fair brought
It within the line of an unqualified suc
cess; at least 10,000 people were In at
tendance.
The funeral ot Mrs, Estella Schrocder,
wire of Ferdinand Schroeder took place
from the residence on Tenth street. She
waa the daughter of Hon. Fred Metx.
Rev. Mr, Patterson conducted the serv
ices at the houso and at the grave Mr,
Houck pronounced tho benediction In
German. The pallbearers were Colonel
Chase, John G. Brandt, Henry Pundt, M,
Parr, Charles Belndorf and William Krug.
The North Nebraska Methodist confer
ence Is In session at the First Methodist
Episcopal church with Bishop Isaao E.
Wiley presiding,
Twenty Years Aro-
Joseph P, Frenxer has gone east on an
extended trip and Intended to stop for a
visit ot the World' fair In Chicago.
Dr. A. h. Talmage of New Haven,
Conn., accompanied by his family, waa
hero visiting his brother, who was very
sick.
Miss Minnie Haas of Allegheny, Pa.,
arrived a the guest of her sister, Mrs.
Lou Rothschilds, H North Twenty-third
street
Grand Chief P. M. Arthur, the cxecu-
tlvo head ot the Brotherhood of Loco mo.
tlve Engineers, arrived in the city, ac
companied by A. n. darretson, general
assistant conductor or the Order of Rail
way Conductors, for conference with Gen
eral Manager Ed Dickinson of the Union
Paolflo aa to conditions affecting their
men on that road. Grievances had beon
aired for some time, and it wa felt that
the time had como for councils between
the leaders on both sides,
Arthur L. Nelson, editor of the Western
Laborer, died of hemorrhage of the brain
at the Presbyterian hospital, lie was
well known In the city, especially among
the union labor men, ills Illness was of
brief duration.
Tern Years Ago -
ur. ana Mrs. it. p. Hamilton returned
from a summer's outing along the shores
of Lake Superior.
It was announced that Mr. and Mrs.
P. H. Updike, who had bought a hand
some home at Thirty-sixth and Farnam
streets, were preparing to return to Har
vard, jeo., weir ronjr Place ot rest-
aenee, to live.
Miss Alma Fredericks entertained for
Miss Mayme Hutchlns, Mrs, James Cook
and Mrs. William Roberts of Chicago,
President A. B. 8tlckney of the Chicago
Great Western railroad wm the guest pt
mo city and through the business men
given a royal entertainment He was met
out in Iowa by two carloads of business
men and escorted to the Her Grand hotel
In the evening he was the center of at'
traction foe a large number of represent'
stive men at the Commercial club, where
speeches were made felicitating him upon
the entrance of his road into Omaha. Tho
occasion. In fact, waa In celebration ot
this advent. Mr. Btlcxney made a notable
speech, In which he dwelt at length upon
Omaha, Nebraska and their future.
A. M. Collett, retired general foreman
of tho local Union PaeUlo shopa, was pre
sented with a tin watch by his fellow
men In the car department, W, W. Cross-
man making the presentation.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Rogers an
nounced the engagement ot their daugh
ter, Jeannette, to Louis C, Nash.
Ilelplnir n Brother.
Referring to brotherly love. Senator
William H. Thompson of Kansas said he
never saw It more beautifully exempli
fied than the way In whloh Green nelped
hla friend Brown over a rather difficult
place.
Borne time ago the Greene called at tho
home of . the Browns. Brown, not ex
pecting the call, was absent from the
domestic camp.
"Oh, Mr. Green." remarked Mrs. Brown
during the conversation, "I want to astc
you something! I was looking through
my husband's desk this afternoon and
found some of the queerest tickets you
ever saw. One was marked 'Mudhorse,
8 to 1, another waa marked 'Getaway,
10 to 1 and so on like that What do
you suppose they refer tor
"That's an easy one, Mrs. Brown,"
waa the smooth rejoinder of Orecn.
"Your husband Is probably making a
study of archaeology."
"Archaeology!" waa the wondering re
Joinder pf Mrs. Brown. "Do you really
think so? How very Interesting."
"Yes," responded Rrpther Green, "those
queer looking tickets you found are un
doubtedly relics of a lost race." Boston
Herald.
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JOLLIES FROM JUDGE.
Nnthlnsf to Penr.
Cato Sells, the new commissioner of In
dian affairs, told n story to a Washing
ton bunch the other night In demonstrat
ing that pur fears are often quite ground
less, On entering a fashionable cafe In one
of the big eastern cities some time ago
Mr. Sells said, a doctor was amazed to
see one of his patients happily plowing
his way through a layout of beef. In
stantly he speeded to his side.
"What In the world aro you doing,
Smtth7" demanded the doctor In his se-
aret voice. "Didn't 1 tell you not to
eat beefsteak?"
"You certainly dd, Doc," frankly ad.
mlttcd tho patient, "but everything is
all right. There Is no occasion for alarm."
"You are disobeying my orders!" heat
edly explained the doctor, "I want you
to understand''
"Don't get excited. Doc," Interjected
the patient "As T satil before, there Is
no occasion for It I can easily settle for
the steak and pay your bill, too." Phila
delphia Telegraph.
Church Ilells.
An energetic young priest In charge ot
parish In Cambria county, Pennsylvania,
had succeeded In raising money enough
to build and equip a new church, all ex
cept the bell. To get enough money for
the bel, he held a meeting ot his pur.
Ishloners, at which the members of his
building committee made speeches. All
except McCarthy had spoken. One men
tioned their fine church! another, their
comfortable pews; another, their splendid
altari and another spoke of the stnnm
heat they had in the church and of tho
cpal In the cellar for the furnace. They
wero all sorry, they said, that they were
without a bell and hoptd the members
would be able to make further effort
and secure the money for that purpose.
Then came McCarthy's turn and he
spoke as follows! "We have a flno
church.. Our pews is comfortable and
our atlar Is grand. 'TIs true we have no
bell. But," sold he, "we have steam
heat Iq tho church and plenty ot coal
fn the cellar. . Tho dlwle wld the bell.
Lets put a whistle on the church."-
Everybody Magazine.
People Talked About
Thaw and Charlton Oases.
Italian lawyers evidently do not
take to young Charlton as American
and Canadian lawyers do to Thaw.
The accused murderer at Como faces
trial In a strange tongue unable with
out tho court's aid to obtain even
formal defense, while tho degenerate
nun slayer In Quebec is besieged by
legal lackeys, ready for his money'a
sake, to mnko a travesty of Justice,
No ono Is foolish enough to suppose
that professional ethics plays a part
In etthor caso. It 1b money, nothing
but money, the comparative lack of
It on one band, the limitless posses
sion ot it on the other. It is holding
no brief for the young American Is
Italy to raise this combined spectacle
to public view. There is nothing in
the evidence to show, as the lawyers
say, that the Italian barristers are
any different in this respect than
some attorneys In other countries
Lawyers do not appreciate strictures
of this kind, but as exponents ot a
profession that makes so much ot irjt
ethics, and ot its duty to the public,
they have no right to resent It
I.nok Out for the Crnnb.
OMAHA, Sept. 11,-To the Editor of
The Bee: Did you hear that crash? That
was the high cost ot living coming down
In response to the effect of the new tariff
bill. Isn't It wonderful what a tariff bill
can do, when It comes to the domestlo
economy of tho housewife? I read In the
printed reports prepared for Nebraska
that Senator Hitchcock says tho bill has
taken the tax off necessaries and placed
It on wealth. Here aro some of the ar
ticles placed on the free Hat, all In dally
requisition In the homes of the people,
espeolally the homes of the worklngmen:
Antimony ore, limestone rock, asphalt,
asphaltum and bitumen, fabrics of Jute
yarns, wool blankets valued at less than
40 cents a pound, textbooks, sugar ma
chinery, caatlron pipe, surgical catgut,
cement, creosoto oil, denatured alcohol,
flax and hemp, fur and fur skins, gun
powder, pig Iron, splegelesen, ferro man
ganese, wrought Iron slabs and blooms,
photographic moving picture films, steel
Ingots, blooms and slabs, cattle and other
live stock, wheat sawed cedar, angora
goal ana aipaca wool ana paper twine
lor Dinaing wool.
What a priceless privilege to the busy,
economical housewife, trying to make CO
cents go aa far aa a dollar used to,
when she can walk Into the grocery store
and buy her dally modicum of antimony.
ore with the knowledge that she Is not
paying any tribute to the robber trusts,
entrenched behind a tariff wall. And
think ot the untold quantities ot splog.
elelscn that wtl now be lavishly used
In homes where hitherto it has been con
sidered a luxury. Pig Iron, top, will bo
heaper, and every man can buy his sur
gical catgut and steel blooms with emo
tions ot untold Joy, because they will no
longer bear an Impost; moving picture
films will be used as commonly as Brus
sels carpet hereafter and no one need go
without paper twine for binding woo),
because the democrats have redeemed
their promise to reduce tho cost of living.
OLD FOOT.
Various Reflection.
OMAHA, Sept 11. To the Editor of The
Bee: When mankind are unable from
political causes to regulate their lives ac
cording to the dictates of practical reason
thoy complain without hesitation and con
demn without discrimination; yet women
cheerfully endure the tyranny of fashion
and men acknowledge themselves slaves
to vicious habits, and very few are ready
to rebel or to challenge the authority pf
their masters,
Worldly pleasure and whitewashed
wickedness are bosom friends, and while
they are not always found together they
seldom wander far apart When our
vigilance becomes in the least degree re
laxed we lose the power of distinguish'
ing the ono from the other.
Our Ignorance Is often Insulted by hav-
lng arguments set before us which we
cannot decline, and yet cannot answer,
J, 8. Mill submitted the following logical
puxsle, the solution of which, according
to Prof. Hamilton, la Impossible:
'Achilles Is JW feet behind the tortoise;
they both start running at the same In
stant! .Achilles runs ten times as fast as
the tortoise, yet cannot pass him; for
when Achilles has run this 100 feet the
tortoise has moved ahead ten feet and
when Achilles has run the ten feet the
tortoise has advanced one foot, and so
on forever." The solution of this prob
lem Is certainly beyond the Jurisdiction
of the common understanding. B. O. M-
Editorial Pen Points
Brooklyn Eagle: Given wooden cars and
wooden heads to run them, spontaneous
combustion couldn't be averted by any
railroad pn earth.
Washington Post: Still, it may havq
been the announcement of Emmellna
Pankhurst's visit that made tho flro In
surance companies wapt to get back to
Missouri.
Cleveland Plain Dealer: The Interna
tional Association of Dancing Mastere
proclaims that the tango and the turkoy
trob ore "all right If danced with decor
urn." Which to many will appear like
saying that stealing Is all right It you
do It honestly.
Springfield Republican; Professional
medical optimists have been chearlng us
up through the dog days by telling us
that It's really the most healthy time
of the year. But there Is no need to
worry no the dog days go; when De
cember comes It will bp proved np les.i
remarkably salubrious. There Is no sl'ckty
season for the optimist
Indianapolis News: If, as Mr. Frank A
Vanderllp assures the country, S,O0O,00i
a week for five years can profitably bo
Invested In developing the country's
electrical Industry, why should anybody
hesitate longer? And likewise with such
profitable possibilities before him why
should Mr. Rockefeller blow In 110 to
Join an automobile club?
Chicago. .Tribune: The frequent cases of
trouble over the display of tho stars
and Stripes north of the border should
have warned Mr. Jerome of the spirit In
Which his Innocent and public recourse to
the national pastime would be mlsun
derstood and resented. There seems to
be a most regrettable lack In Canada
ot that alttllchkelt upon which Lord
Haldano rolles for the perpetuation of
peace among Anglo-Saxons.
Philadelphia Record: Most of the Pull
rr.an stock, something like four.rifths of
It, Is water, or to be more exact, It Is
made up of stock dividends, paid from
the surplus earnings after the payment
of UDerai dividends. Tho stock dividend
In March. 1910, was J,OQ0,C00, and in 19W
It was sa per cent of the then existing
capital. Would It bo altogether unrea
sonable to suggest that the company
should have used some part of these
phenomenal profits In burning a lot of
Its wooden cars before they were telescoped.
Mlsa Uabe) Nelson, the 11-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Nelson
who live on, a farm in the town pf Meno
monee. Wis., recently assisted her father
during tho harvest by driving the binder.
Announcement has Just been made that
Lome "W, Mullroy, B, A the blind hero
of the South Amcan war, has received
the appointment ot lecturer In English
and Canadian history, at the Royal Mil
Itary collsge, In Kingston, Canada.
Colonel John A. Joyce, the "great poet
ot Missouri and vicinity its persuaded that
a bronse bust pf htm would be the finest
decoration Washington could have, and 1
passing tho hat for the price. Mr. Joyce
believes In pushing a good thing while
you're a live one,
A Boston correspondent at Coatlcook
shjuldrs responsibility for Jerpm break
Ing Into, that little game. Jerome was an
Innocent spectator of the play until th
newspaper man dropped 14 Into the pot
and dropped out Thereupon the New
Yorker filled the vacancy and trimmed
the Coatlcookera.
Alfred Austin, the late poet laureate.
was lucky in his work as a journalist
For many years he did his dally task at
home with the assistance of a telegraph
wire run Into his study sixty miles from
the London Standard office. Hla Ipstruc
lions come over the wire and his edi
torial article went to town by train
Fonr.et'rres he would telegraph the whobi
article.
The oldest barrister In England, W. A,
Gordon Hake of Brighton, who Is a cousin
of the famous Oenernt Gordon, celebrated
his one hundred and second birthday re
cently. For fifty years Mr, Hake has
lived at 3 Old Stelne, Brighton. , one of J. A. Dickey, lato of tho Wilcox Herald,
four houses built In the reign ot George has leased the Harlan County Ranger.
III. which, with its cobblestone front and
Mrs. Toungwlfe How do you make
mlnco pie?
Mrs. Matron Oh, out pf anything!
Peter. Peter, punkln eater,
Bought and used a carpet beater,
Now tho doctor's down the street,
Beating microbes out ot Pete.
Hobaon Are you In favor of that cur
few law?
Dobson Yes; I'm In favor of any law
that reduces the number of dogs.
"A famous lecturer says that the
slashed skirt shows whether or not the
woman Is qualified for the ballot"
"Huh! He means the ballet"
Sarah The Bible speaks of people who
strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.
Clara Well, I think I'd rather swallow
a camel myself. I Just hate bug.
While styles have changed, by fashion
led,
She's stilt a theme for Jest,
Although In truth It must be said
She's no more overdressed.
"My plea," said the proud young law
yer, "seemed to deeply affect the Jury,"
"Yes," replied the Judge, "I was afraid
at one time that you would bring about
tho conviction ot your client In spite of
his Innocence."
She broke the trotting record,"
Said he, all clean and slick.
Say, talk about your steppers!
alio maae tne rest ioo,k sick."
What horse was that?" I asked him
"XTv rialltrhtni- ua"
She broke the record lately
or tno turuey trot, did she."
Knlcker What did the town look ltko?
Bockcr X movlnir Picture show of
molasses In winter. Ne,w York Sun.
Odd Bits of Life
A Pennsylvania millionaire wants a di
vorce because his wife won't let him go
to church.
W. E. Sherwood is dead In Evansvllle,
Ind., from poisoning communicated by a
new pair of socks to a scratch pn his
foot.
Camels Imported from Asia have been
tried In Australia wtlh fair success for
hauling wagons In regions lacking rail
roads.
A 'Michigan woman, St years old, haa
become the mother of twenty-fpur chil
dren, and It Is reported that her husband
remains an optimist
One of tho world's largest church organs
Is on electrical Instrument at Hamburg,
which has 12,173' pipes, some ot which
are thirty-seven feet long.
By a German process the exterior of
automobile bodies can be given a metallic
coating, fine particles of metal belnf
sprayed on under high pressure.
The only man Jn the country whose
name and address reads the same way
whichever end you start is O. M. Reger,
Reger, Mo., according to the Brookfleld
(Mo.) Gaxette.
A copperhead snake, about to bite
child, was attacked and killed by a game'
cock n an Ohio town. Congratulations
to the child, the rpoeter and the town's
correspondent.
Nine cows strayed Into the rlght-or
way of a Wisconsin railroad and ate como
dynamite they found near the track, liu
man life may have been saved, but beef
has gone up again.
Jesse Child? of Forsythe, Ga., Is ex
hlbltlng a stalk of com grown on his
place on which there are nlncwell ma
tured ears. He planted a great many
varieties of corn and found several stalks
with six and seven ears.
Warren H. Spangler of Montelalr, N
J., caught a four-pound bass which re
tatned Its lite In a curious fashion. When
It was cut open a small and very feeble
field mouse jumped out and a moraent
later waa caught and eaten by the camp
cat
Nebraska Editors
Stories in Figures
OLD JJR'ER MERCURY.
I.
Ole Brer Merc'ry sot on a Urn',
De topmoa' Urn' ob de tree.
An' de people fussed an' de people fumed.
But "I won't come down," sex 'ce.
"No, sir-reel
DIs llm' ob de tree
Looks good ter me," ,
Said dat coptraryole Brer Mercuree.
De stores laid In der fall stocks ob goods,
An' folks put ooal In dere cellar,
But still he sticks to dat topmos' llm',
Like de stubbornest kin' ob a feller.
Yes, sir-reel
On dat llm ob de tree
As glum as kin be,
Sits dat contraryole Brer Mercuree.
De ole woman goes to de attla
An' digs out her coat an' fur,
But ole Brer Merc'ry sticks like glue
To dat Urn' an' he will not stir.
"No, sir-reel
I'll not stir," ses'ee.
"Till It pleaaes me."
Dat pestiferous oleRrer Mercuree,
Way up In Canady folks say
De col' win's are a freexln ,
An' dars frost in Arlrony.
But his ole ears er deaf to reason.
Yes, slr-ree. . .
As deaf as kin bee,
On dat llm ob de tree,
Sits dat obstreperous olo Brer Mercuree
When we put all de new fall duds In soalc
An' buy thin duds Instead;
When wo git dat coal hauled back to de
ya'ds. . .
Den he'll take It Inter his head
Ter flop down from dat tree
As spry as can be ....
He'll flop down offn dat topmos llm.
An' he'll flop so low dat we cain't sto
him.
An' we'll shiver and freeze
An' sniffle an' sneeze,
An' "I won't come up, no, no, slr-ree,
An' ole Brer Welsh he cain't make me,
Will say contrary ole Brer Mercuree.
Bayoll No Trele.
old-fashioned windows. If an object of
much Interest In the town.
Don't fight a man with a wooden leg.
That's the advice of .Michael Brophy of
South Broadway, Tarrytown, N. Y., who
npw lies In the Tarrytown hospital with
three ribs broken and a punctured lung.
Brophy had a fight with James McStay,
Just over from Ireland, bringing a wooden
teg with him. When hostilities started
McStay unhooked his wooden leg and
used it with as good effect as It he had
a ahlllelah and Brophy waa carried from
the field.
v France has over 4,150,000 women work
ers. There are 1,$S3 local labor unions In
Canada.
United States last year produced W.J3..
000 barrels of salt
The United States army has more than
,300 telegraphers In Its ranks.
A proposed memorial tower at San An
tonio, Tex., will be 02 feet high.
visiting n New York, saw an X-ray skirt SS? B,Uare nl,e' anJ a Ppu,at,on of
In a fashionable restaurant He says ho
took but one glance at the garment and
Its fair wearer, but the Impression seems
to have been sufficient Inspiration for
five paragraphs of description and com-n-ent.
C. M. Reynolds, for about ten years
publisher of the Sutherland Free Lance,
has disposed of a half Interest In that
newspaper to Miss Grace E. Martin. Miss
5,b06,193 persons.
The estimated dally avcrag" consump
tion of cigars In the United States la SL
71MU, and of cigarettes. S.TaUM.
Japan each year produces more than
W0.CO0.000 bushels of rice, nearly W.000,000
pounds of tra and more than 55.000.0C0
pounds ot silk.
At a recent election In Sweden the fact
was revealed that only 10 per cent of tho
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SALE OF LOTS
AT
PRINCE GEORGE
BRITISH COLUMBIA
SITUATED at the confluende. of tho Froser and Nechaco Rivera in Central
British Columbia, 4W miles north-cast of Vancouver, B.C., and 467 miles east
of Princo Rupert, B.C., or midway between Prince Rupert and Edmonton, Alta.,
on tho main lino of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway.
(I By reason of its central location, Prince George will be the natural distribut
ing point for the extensive tcrrit ry comprised in the Pacific Province .of the
Dominion, and it has therefore lone been the expectation of the general publio
that upon the completion of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, Prince George 7
will early become a I arge and important centre.
q Having purchased what was knoa as the Fort George Indian Reserve No.. I
for the purpose of locating a townsite thereon, tho Grand Trunk Pacifio Develop
ment Company Limited hos couscd the same to be surveyed and platted and, will
offer lots in this townsito for sale by public auotion at Vancouver, British
Columbia, Wednesday September 17tb, 1013, and at Edmonton, Alberta, Wednes
day, September 24th, 1913.
(Tho terms of this sale will be one-quarter cash and the balance payable In
on, two and three years with six per cent interest. For further particulars and
plans apply to: q RYLEY,
Lead CommUsloaar, Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company, Winnipeg. Manitoba
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Martin was for seven years assistant 1 wamrn voters were disqualified for fall
postmaster and Is also familiar with lure to pay taxes, as compared with Si.
I newspaper work, per cent of tbe men. (
NEBRASKA MILITARY ACADEMY
You ahould not put it off much longer. It ia not fair
to your boy. If lie is not doing his best in school, it is a
serious matter and should receive prompt attention.
Tho NEBRASKA MILITARY ACADEMY makes-a
business of developing boys; prepares them for college
and business. School opens September 17. Send in your
application at once. For information visit the school, talk
to our patrons and inquire of
B. D. HAYWARD, Superintendent, Lincoln, Neb.
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