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THK HKK: OMAHA. FRIDAY. MARCH V2. 1915. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD RQ3KWATKR. VICTOR ROSEWATRR. KDITOR. Th Pee Publishing Company. Proprietor. TFR WILDING. FARNAM AND FEVENTrTKNTIf , KnlwJit Omihi postofflre a seeond-clsss matter. TERMS OP etT BflCRIPTION. Hy rsrrter Fiy mall per month. I r yur. j,Mv snfl ?undr e H it Tallv without Sunday... 4 00 Kvenlng and flunday v 6 no F.venlng without Sunday 2f0 4.00 Sunday B- only av :.) Send notir of change of address c.r complaints of Irregularity In delivery to Omiht Bee, Circulation le pertinent. KFM ITTA NCE. Remit hr draft, espres or postal order. Only two rent stamps received In payment of small ae oount. I'erwnnal checks, except on Omaha and eastern ichang, not accepted. OFFICES. Omha Tha Be Building. South Omaha Sit N street. Council l-luff-M North Main street. Lincoln Llttfa Building, rhlcago SOI Hearst Hulldlng New Tork Room IMS, ts Fifth avenue.. Pt. Lculs-Wlt Nw Hank of Commere. Whlngton 7 Fourteenth St., N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Adores communications relstlng to wi and AU tonal matter to Omaha ilea, Editorial Department. FEBRUARY CIIUTTL LATIOX, 51,700 Stat of Nebraska. County of Pouglaa. an Ilght W illiam, circulation maiiHgcr of The ! Publishing rompany, being duly sworn, says that tlie avarase circulation for the month of Kehrunry, 1!H6. DWIOHT WILLIAMS. Circulation Manager. Suhecrlbed In my prearnre and aworn to before inc. this Id day of March. lms. t ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Public Subscriberg leaving the city temporarily tbonld hare The lire mailed to them. Ad dress will be changed aa often as requested. rf Varon 18 Thought for the Day 5cff by Ann Phtnix Life i$ mad vp, not of $icrifl(x or duties, but ofUUU Uiitu$, in vhich $milc$ and kind tX'set and mall obligation t, given habitually, an what win and preserve the heart, and -cure comfort. Humphrey Vary, Well. If wheat is contraband that In differ ent. We produce wheat. If it is right and proper to shortwelght the bread, why not also the bu,tterT The commander of the German cruiser must have, unwittingly Jumped from the Frye-lng pan into the fire. The coroner will have to auk. bis friends to hurry if they want to help him out before bis office is abolished. Efficiency and economy in the Postoffice de partmentcertainly! But Justice even before efficiency or economy. The eternal fitness of things lend a melan choly touch to tbe stiff fight required to put the coroner out of business. : Tbe Missouri Pacific will now be expected to do business without pleading the poverty act. Those viaducts are overdue. In his wildest imagination John O. Yelser never dreamed that bis newspaper-a-public-car-rier scheme would bring him so much free ad-, vertlslng. Harry Thaw is still comparatively a young man. If the fortune holds out several crops of lawyers yet to come may hope to get In on a slice of it. General Villa puts out another warning sgslnst outside Interference in Mexico. Let no one extinguish the spotlight which the genersl focuses on himself. Cheer up! Robins are piping, candidates an appearing, shamrocks are blooming and the pie pan is steaming for the faithful. What more could a grateful republic, do in early March? The plum tree Is to be shaken for a few Ne braska postmastershlps. The democratic crying child will not be satisfied, however, while the big ones continue to hang in plain sight, but out of retch. In view of the gallant fight for municipal votes for women put up by a bachelor at Lin coln, devoteea of the cause owe him not only a resolution of grstltude. but those delicate llobsonlan attentions which make bachelor life worth while. Tbe last Nebraska legislature submitted three constitutional amendments, not one of which was ratified at the polls. With this object-lesson before them, the present set of law makers should have an incentive to go slow be fore putting any freak measures up to popular vote. A party consisting of Mr. and Mra. Henry W Yale. Jlr. and Mra. George w. Doana. Judge and Mrs. Havage atartfd for New Mexico In a special cur to be Jitlned at m. Joaeph by Mia. Johimon. Mra' atea' afater. Another party with the aame deatiiiatlon la made up of Mr. Touaalin. Ma dauhur. Mlea N UK, Toua!in: Mr. Meredith of Hooton and In: Ranaunie of liurllnston. and the two will meet In New Mealco returning torcthvr after a three wreka' Jaunt. I-ocal Odd Fellowj awooped down oa P. J. Utaley at -Rlvervlew." at the head of Caldwell street and preamud hlin with a silver water service aa a token of ealeem to be earned with him to Chhaao. whtre be la moving-. T. H. UoCaaUa of the Commercial National bank returned from tha Waahlngtoq Inaugural ceremonKa and. contrary to expectation, eaino back unmarried. ' A man who understand the tea buainea ran find employment at Moore tea store, i.T North sixteenth street. General Paeaenger Agent More of the Talon t'. cine, toother with hi wife and Mr. and Mr. Lyman KtcherdaoB. have gon. to New Orlean. and point In llorlda for a few wetka' trip. ...... , . New! sppolnted election registrar .re: Fouila I WV - ChrIente'; ward, John Car, and The Sinking of the Frye. The sinking of th Frye by a German com nicrre destroyer Is by far the most serious In cldent of the wr, so far as the Pnited States I concerned. Little question can be made but that the fact Is due to n excess of seal on part of tbo captain of the Kltel Frcldrlch, and it is hardly likely that this action will be upheld by the ucrman government. That the Frye carrlel a cargo of wheat, and had cleared for a DrltlKh port, ran not by Itself Justify the course of the German officer, unless the whole contention of the German government with regards to forxi- fcttiffs be abandoned. Germany has persistently objected to the attitude of Great Britain on this point, and the United Statea hns inslHted on the right of traffic between unblockaded ports for all noncontraband cargoes. The disavowal by the German government, of the actg of Captain Thlerichens will doubtless be forthcoming as soon as the facts aro understood in Berlin, and the episode will be remembered only as one of the unpleasantly annoying oc currences of the war. In its general aspects, the case resembles, much the Mason and sltdell In cident of the civil wsr, out of which we backed as quickly and as gracefully as possible. Union, Central and Southern Pacific Roads. Testifying at San Francisco in the unmerger suit against the Southern and Central Pacific railroads, Julius Krutschnitt declared that the Southern Pacific hsd been "coerced" by At torney General Wlckersham Into selling the Cen tral Pacific to the Union Pacific. But Mr. Wlck ersham was Justified in the action he took in this regard by all the facts in the rase. If any Tart of the Ilarrlman merger constituted in it self a restraint of trade. It was the union of the Central and Southern Pacific lines, which gives the latter almost absolute control of the rail traffic to and from the Pacific coast. Harri man's merger was to carry out the original Huntington plan, conceived and partly executed when the Southern Pacific was built. The order to sell the Central to the Union Pacific was Intended in conformity with the de sign of congress in giving government aid to th Pacific railroads, that one continuous transconti nental line might be built and operated under one management, reaching from the Missouri river to the Golden Gate. This would have been brought about under the Wlckersham order, had it not been for the cunning interference of the California railroad board; the failure of that union of connecting lines has made possible the tontlnuance of a situation that Is not favorable to California, or to any part of the region served by the roads In question. If the idea of tha Callfornlans prevail, and the Central Pacific be operated as an Independent line, it will be to the advantage of the northern and southern routes, and means the diversion of much traffic iiom tbe port of San Francisco. Omaha is deeply concerned in this matter, for it is the eastern terminal of what should be tbe greatest of all the transcontinentar railways. Had It not been for the pernicious meddling of the California board, presumably instigated by the Southern Pacific, this great system would now be in full operation. Aa It Is, danger exists cf the Central Pacific lapsing agaln into the phy slcal decay in which Harrlman found it fifteen years ago. when the Huntington crowd were let ting the Hue from San Francisco to Ogden go to pieces in favor of the Southern Pacific. Carranza ja Coldly Courteous. The personal note sent by Venustiano Car ranza to President Wilson, called forth by the notice sent from the State department demand ing better treatment for foreigners In those por tions of Mexico tinder the control of "the first thief." is couched in terms of dignified courtesy that scarcely conceals the hot resentment of tbe Mexican leader. Nor doe it -iv ..ti.f.. tory assurance that the rights of foreigners will be any more carefully regarded than has been the practice there of late. Obregon Is warmly defended by his chief, while Villa, truculent as usual, announce, his determination to Join with Carransa to battle against invasion. It is quite apparent that none of the Mexican bandits is in clined to give over the brigandage carried on under the name of war. and that the situation In Mexico Is unimproved by the latest of American warnings. Score Ag-ain for The Bee. Score again another notable public service hy lb Bee through tbe enactment' of a law abol ishing the coroner1. offlc the ut consplcu ou. remnant of the fee graft In the court house, whose extinguishment was proposed, and alone consistently advocated, by The Bee. The use lessness and expenslveness of the coroner', of ce. and the fact that whatever good purpose it ever served has been outlived, are becoming patent everywhere, and movements to do away with It are on foot In many places. By the ac tion now taken in Nebraska we have made te biggest progre. toward actompllahlng this re form. Of course, the coroner will not go out of busines. overnight, but. after expiration of the I resent term, we wjll elect no more coroners, "ben the time comes for puttm. the change XL1 HT; M n0re 'cW. "form should be Inaugurated by the establishment of a public morgue that will .top once and for .11 t:me the grab game of tbe undertakera for tho bodies of the accidental or homicidal dead. . veli? ,"Upreme co,lrt o' N-w Jersey .u.taln. a verdict granting $6 a, week for 300 week, out or the workmen', compensation fund t0 a man injured while playing with a fellow workman Tbe court observes that "it I. but natural to lh,t oun8-n will play pr.nk. upon 0M another while at work, and that an employer of Ubor take, certain risk, from that .ource " ,f ??ty f,r8t rU,e ,hould to add playful prank.- t0 their roster of risks. Reno 1. about to takeTtgld place on the divorce map. While th. rest of the eountry reprobates the offensive moral scandal which th. legislature ha. revived. Nevada and Reno de serve tbe dubious credit of seeking th buaine.a openly and ab0v, board. No preachment of form or uplift dlsgul the movement to give legal sanction to th Barnum motto: "Get money, honestly If you can. but get money." Strictly speaking Oman, styles are not a tnow at all. They are exhibit, of creative art. dealgued to adorn nature', best handiwork. r TicTom loixwiTia IltEARH Thomna A. Walaon tell the story of the hlrth of thi tplri'hon twlr a story, however, that warrants tolling and retelling heaus It goes Into the Intimate life history of an eiwif h-makin event In whlrh he, himself, was one of the prlni.il actors. Without any fine oratory Mr. Watn Is fa.--clnatlns as well tit Interesting, lie Just huhbles ovt-r with exuberant pride In tho pnrt he tookm mnklng the crude telephone Instruments with whl' h Prof. Hell performed his experiments, and there la an add"d charm In the outcropping of a vein of dry humor serv. Ing to lighten a weighty subject. It goes without saying that no one else can ever experience the peculiar f. eling of exultation tha; must have come over Trof. Hell at one end of the wire and "that boy Watson" at the other when they first real ised that they had succeeded In conveying audible sound by electricity coursing through a wire perhaps fifty yards long. By comparison tho repetition of the conversation with scenery carefully set and with In struments certain to work, although 1.600 miles apart, marking the first direct transmission of the voice serosa the continent, must have been tame and devoid of excitement. The ocean-to-oceian long distance phone proves that the electrical conveyance of sound has no length limits except those conditioned by Imperfect mechanism. To be told that the telephone has leen In operation less than forty years recalls that Omaha was amo i the first cities to lie tclephonlcally equipped. Over in President Yost's office there hangs on the wall a fac simile of th first telephone directory for Omaha, which Is dated July 10. 1879, and Is about the slw of a small handbill printed on one side. It contains the names of all the subscribers, the epitome of the pro greaalvo citizenship of the town at that tlie"', and in the list both the office of The Bee and the residence of Ita editor. 1 have one of the early directories goins back almost as fsr. The "dlrectiona for use" printed In these old directories, as follows, make Mr. Wat son's account of the first telephone Instruments an1 their operation more vivid: "L Always hang the telephone on Its hook, as your circuit cannot be used by others until the telephone Is so hung. "2. Never touch the Instrument when the bell hammer stands away from the bell, as that Indl- catea that tho line is In use. "J. To signal, press the button on the right of the bell. "4 To communicate with the central office, sig nal two bells, wait for their response, after which remove the telephone from Its hook, and be care ful to push tho hook to the left; and then, holding the telephone firmly to the ear, you will hear the voice of the operator at the central office. If you hear nothing, turn the switch to the right and call, as It may be aomeone on your own circuit. "5. To converae with stations on your own cir cuit: Hgnal slowly the number of the station you desire to converae with. After receiving their re sponse, sound your own signal, that they may know who Is to talk with them. ". To converse with stations not on your own circuit: Notify the central office with whom you wish to be placed In communication, first giving your own name; then hang your telephone on Its hook, and as soon as tho desired connection Is made the operator at the central office will tap your belt once ss the signal to go ahead, and prompt atten tion to these slgnala is desired to aave waiting on the part of either party. "7. Bpeak clearly and distinctly, with your lips gently touching the telephone. "8. When your signal la sounded always answer by repeating It. then you will hear the station call ing, sound their signal, that you may know with whom you are to talk. ". Subscribers will please to limit their use of the telephone to three mlnutea In succession, as others may wish to tise the circuit." In the Wataon narrative he told of the difficulties encountered In devising a method of signaling to ie.t people know when someone wanted them to respond on the phone and relieve the original necessity of keeping th receiver constantly at the ear. He did this by call bell system, which mesnt that every phone on the circuit rang every time thst a"hy one of them did, and he had hitched up twenty to forty phones on a circuit, with the result that whole neigh, borhoods were kept awake by the Incessant ringing. My recollection Is that five or, six phones on a circuit was a maximum here tn Omaha, each being numbered and operated with a corresponding signal with short taps of the bell. When the phone rang, if, for example, we were No. 8, we had to Ilaten untu more than throe taps sounded to make sure that the call was not for us. The only advantage of these old-fashioned four and alx.party line phones wss that they enabled all the connected houses to break In on th same con versation and listen and talk back and forth as if it were a family gathering. I never think of the telephone without harking hack to the dreadful night ot our Omaha tornado, and the merciful service rendered by the telephone In that emergency. The Atlantic Moothly not long ago con tained a short essay depicting th switchboard story of tha great Iroquois theater fire how the flash of th lights snd the quick messages from homes to hos pitals and morgues, to doctors and nurses, and po licemen and firemen, wrote the story In biasing lines before the eyes of the operators. The same word plctur could have been patntvd using the switch board experience of our Omaha storm for material. When I referred recently In this column 40 an "ex position of manufactures" which I had seen et up In a big department atore In Baltimore, In which the processes of making the goods oti sal there were Mim trsted by live exhibits. I had no Idea than an exposi tion of Omaha-mad good wa being- planned along similar lines hy on of our wm big department stores. 1 looked through thla exposition at the Burges-Nah cstabtlahment and was very favorably Impreaaed by It. Huch aa enterprise is especially calculated to open our eyes to the number snd variety of things we us mat are oeing made right her among us. It eniphu alse. too. the vaat good that may be accomplished by a patronlze-home-lndustry campaign. By compuii son with tbe exposition I had seen in the eadt the one here is perhaps more an exhibit of home products than of home production, but It will well bear repeat ing and suggest poaaibUltlea for a widened scop which ampler time for designing and preparation would easily Insure. People and Events Th antl-tlpplng bill ha made Its bow in th low. legislature. By working the divorce route Reno hope to equalise the diminished output of the Coroalock lodo. Statistic compiled by the Insurance Spectator show that 1!,XJ.000 worth of property was buruod up In tbls country last year. Twenty-flv thousand men Constituted New J'or't City' anew ahovaltng army last Sunday. Work awaited S.QOO more, but hands could not be had. Kinll A. Treriger, typewriting champion of Green Bay, Wis., ha put on the scoreboard a record of u wrord la one minute without an error. Admiral Carden of the allies' iardanolle fleet la a long way from Tlpperary, but lit parental horn I near there, lie was born near Athlone, Ireland. Mayor Mltchel of New Tork, who goe to society dances, says that dancing la a comfort to the sole, provided the sola ia not a fixture In the corn belt. San Francisco plans to hold public thanksgiving services en AprU 18. th ninth aiwilvaraary of th shak-dowa and th fir. In honor of the recovery of the city. rtv thousand mor men have ben given work by th opening of two big glass plant, on in Pennsyl vania snd one In West Virginia, Th revival la du to th atoppag of glass plants In Belgium. "A beautiful Datamation count" has been sen tenced t a yer'a Imprisonment for playtn th piano near an open window, it I a groat pity th beautiful countea ar obliged to live in stub a hewtlea country. Poaer for WowMer. RKNMNGTON. Neb.. March ll.-To the EWItor of The tlee: Ir. Woofter hai revealed himself to lie a "Bryan crltl ix.T" In exactly that snv old gran diloquent Myle aa all Bryan rtitlciaers do. In other words, he holds that Just he ii;se our present secretary of state Is a 'peace advocate," It Is Mis duty to Muell the uprising which occur over the entire world. However, I ask you to permit me to inform Mr. Wooster ot a few of tho many essentials thst an av erage American cltlxen constantly benrs In mind: 1. Kvcry knock at Bryan's reputation Is a booFt for him. for we know that he would not be In charge of American af fair If he were lacking in qualifications for same. (If he doe not have enough manly pride about himself to reslttn, why doesn't Mr. Wilson propose his resignation?) I. A man's manly pi iGe Is not dis played by shirking from his duty the first time he Is needed (aa Mr. Wooster advocates Mr. Bryan should have done In the Insignificant Mexican affair, and probably as Mr. Wooster would have done had he been In Mr. Bryan's place, in order that he could show his super abundant supply of manly pride). 3. K volution decrees thst only I he fit test shall survive. Mr. Bryan's career speaks for itself. (Three times nominated for president nnd three times was he defeated. Now secretary of state.) 4. A treaty is good only as lung as it Issts, and Mr. Wooster need not fear that the treaty made between 1'nlted State and England, France and Russia is going to act ss a preventive of our entering hostilities with the previously mentioned European nations, if such is necessary. My friend from Silver Creek flatly op poses the Idea of It being necessary to send our fleet to Mexican waters. A safe rule for this gentleman to bear In mind is. not to condemn or tear down one thing until he can recommend something better to take Its place.. A. O. NELSON. Foaadatloa bat Sratlraent. OMAHA. March ll.-To the Editor of The Bee: The so-called "Public Welfare" bill Is pending In the state senate. It passed the house largely because It Is applicable to Omaha only, and the heavy Increase of taxation which it would im pose upon property, of course, relates only to Omaha property. The country delegate in the senate is Kirrm.,i i saying. "Well, if Omaha wants to fritter sway ita money on bestitlful visionary schemes of this nature let it go to it. It does not cost the rest of the state any thing." This public welfare bill I built upon sentimentality. It Includes many different subjects of legislation not con templated by its title, and therefore it would be void, under well known deci sions of the supreme court. If enacted. These various subjects, moreover, are covered either by existing law or city ordinance, or by other bills pending In the legislature. In conclusion, let me say that the chief objection to thla bill lie In the fact that It will pile up an enormous expenditure which will be saddled upon the taxpayers of Omaha to no good and sufficient pur pose. I hope the men who would have to "pay the freight." should this bill succeed, may without delay telephone and write the members of the Douglas county delegation in the senate to atrangle I ! win in in committee. T. J. BBEBE. MI9VV-. O. W. Building. A a Appeal for Jewish Rlahte. hW lOHK Mrrh ,0-To th Kdtt'- of The Bee: Permit me to address -you. snd through you to yo tr readers, upon a matter engrossing the attention of the people or the world. Nearly fiOO.OUO Jew, are fighting in th rank, or the armies of th belligerent nations, battling oh behalf of the coun tries wher they have auffered and are still suffering terrible injustice through the deprivation of tho right accorded to all other citlsen. While the husbands and aons are on the firing line, the wives ana aaugnter. the mother and sisters sre t the merty of anti-Semites, who. notwithstanding Jewish heroism and the patrinio sacrifice of Jewish blood, aiv inciting the populace against them. ThU ia notably the case In Poland. It Is a Pitiful stat of affair, one calling for the Intervention of all justice and lib erty loving men and women. We. Jews, look to America, to the over powering senee of rignteousness of the American people, to espouse the cause of the d.000.009 Innocent men. women and children, driven and hunted for no other reason than they cling to the faith of their fathers. The Question naturally arises: "What can be done?" Th Jewish Dally News has suggested a plan for th calling of an American Jewish conference for the purpose of bringing to tha attenUon of the nation the deplorable plight of the Jew of Europe. This proposal liaa received the nerty . endorsement of leading public men and women. We appeal to you to aid ua in thla humanitarian work. America, thi coun try that haa always opposed tyranny and succored the oppressed, can play no nobler part In thla terrible world's drama than raise its mighty voice and demand in the nam of all that 1 sacred that the carnaae of unoffending human being cease. , We ask you to help us, and the free, un hampered pica of th United State can best do so, to secur full eiual right for Jtw the world over, "for hav wo not all one Kather, baa not Cne God created s?" jfl. 8ARASOHN. Editor Jewish Dally Newa. Prklk Oat la Ik Opea. OMAHA. March U.-To th Editor of The Bee: I are that Dr. Sedla-.ek and Walter Uren are wanting ;hoe who writo articles favoring prohibition and temperance to aiga their full uain. and they wonder why they do not Uo so. I ran e no reaaon why :iny person who writes an article for vuhhVatton should not be expected to sign ills name to Jt. snd certainly no one wh favcr ao popuK.r a movement as prohibitl.yi now la. need fear to ahWw hi hand. Th time wa, and not long smtxi. when it was not popular to favor prohibition, but that time la passing with tremendous peed. Cities, state and nation ar falling Into the prohibition band ws.ou with a rapidity that I truly t ait linn and vary gratifying to alt who favor good government and morality. Mr. Breoa live in Iowa, has he not beard of tb thundering of ttm prohibi tion in hla state and doe he not know of the remarkable ucoe of the cam paign for the moral betterment of Dea Moiree? Today, no on wUI attempt to defend th Mlooa and mighty few have th cour age to apoloalie for It. ' Can either of these gent'emen give, a reason why the merlcnn saloon should he allowed to W. M. FARR. Editorial Viewpoint St. litils Glotm Democrat; The presi dent will not make any unnecessary tlmlt on that travel allowance now. Ho may need It next year. lloston Transcript: Pttik. an average between the Berlin and l'etrograd dis patches and no candid man can deny that there was some kind of a battle. New Vork World: Ire enormous good fortune of the people of the 1'nited states In tho torm ami strera of theso earning years Is thst their chlf maglrtrste Is sane tho sanest mind lodny that is intrusted with tlv: responsibilities of government anywhere in civilisation. New Tork Post: The reduction of the Dardanelles forts was brought forward as an argument by Senator Dodge for heavier coast fortifications. If the forts had held out and . the allied ships had suffered. Senator Dodio would have asked for more battleships. No matter who loses In Europe, the prophets of "pre paredness" always win. Baltimore American: A steel company In Pltteburgh refused to bid on a 4.om,0 order for steel shells from Europe on the ground that while its authorities wrr? not opposed to either side in the, war, they did not want to make money from Instruments used to slaughter people. Here is an instance that sometimes the line of humanity Is drawn even In busi ness, popularly supposed to be above all merely human and humane considera tions. Philadelphia ledger: Just about the wisest man we . have in the world at the present time lives in America, and he is a maker of marketable thliiKS who is studying methods, putting in improved machinery, inventing economies, planning publicity nnd salesmanship and getting business and to insuro his margin or profit Kor. good people, this old earth is just about to take a new start, and the fellow who If ready Is soins to gather In the' ducats. Springfield Republican: Secretary I-ane In announcing Dr. Rittman's discovery of n Improved process for the production ot gasoline rejoices that the independent producers are to have a better chance In competing with the Standard Oil com pany. The latter's patented process la now three times as effective as its rivals'. Dr. Rittman's process is "confidently ex pected" to increase the product of the in dependents by at lest 100 per cent, snd "perhaps more." Perhaps so. but other handicaps will also have to bo removed oerure the Independents establish manv 1 considerable "foundations" for Philanthropy. LINES TO A LAUGH. ' Dunn tlie entire rerviee you neer kept our eyes off th diamonds of tbe woman In front of vmi," rcmonatrrtted l e Well." replld she. "there are sermons !n stones." i'niladelphla Ledger. 1 io'o inai voun man 10 in- mis fit the rennies and the dollars would tnke 'sr or themselves ' Me savs he tried to. Hut he seems ! squanders nearly nil his spre time play- m. 1 fniu 11 if , v asninKcuu "On dollar, please." said the deutlsl. "A dollar! But vonr lsn reads: Tain less extraction of teetT fre." " "Just so! But as vou hollered a bit. this does not spily In your case. I do my painless extrnrtltig fre exactly ss 1 c'tnm. When It hi:rts. t rhsrae for It. One dollar, please. "Boston Transcript. "Yes." said the oung physician f aristocratic Unease, "our family has a motto, but I prefer not to use it. It 1s a little too suggestive 1n my profession." ' What ts the motto?" "Faithful unto death." Boston Tran script. The returned litre was received with open arms. Socletv f'ocked to him In swarms snd drove and mobs. Thev made a lion of him. And lie? He made a monkey of himself. Phila delphia ledger. "So you were a witness In a lawsuit?" "Yes." "Die! the opposing attorney bother you much?" "Not at all. He kept Interrupting nie so much thet It oeenied I was at home tel ing mv storv nnd ma wa correcting me as I wet.t along." Detroit Frc Press. WEALTH. There's a little house on the 11 111. It's not much for looks, 1 agree. But you never tried To see what's Inside. And that makes a difference, yoit see. Of treasures no more could it hold: It's o'erflowing with diamonds and gold That wealth could not buy; 'TIs In heart and In eye. And the h:ilf has never been told. I would not change it. rot 1. For the t'sar of Russia's domains; The United States Mint Is simply not in't With tlie wealth that cottage contains Though no hank would take It In trust. There no danger from moth or from rust: It s so crowded In there. With my son and my heir. That at times I'm almost nonplused. When the day's work comes to a close, You go home In your limousine; Hut I don't need a car; It's not very far To my kingdom, my throne and my queen. As soon as niv door come In view. The wealth of the world pours through; Then eyes they grow bright. And arms they clasp tight. And I would not change places with yon. In the little house on the hill. Oli. I am a prominent man. But when I'm outside, To my work I stride. And nobody knows who 1 a.m. But I am contented to be Just myself, not you, you see. For though I'm obscure I'm not at all poor. But I'm wealthy as wealthy can he. Omaha. PA VI P. For years we have been stating in the newspapers of the country that a great many women have escaped serious op erations by taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound, and it is true. We are permitted to publish in this announcement extracts from the letters of five women. All have been recently received unsolicited. Could any evidence be more convincing? IHoDonov, Me. w I had pains in both sides and such a soreness I could scarcely straighten up at times. My back ached and I was so nervous I could not sleep, and I thought I never would be any better until I submitted to an operation, but I commenced taking Lydia 1 Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and soon felt like a new woman." Mrs. ILiywakd Sowers, Ilodgdon, Me. 2 8helbtville, Kt. "I suffered from a severe female trouble. My right side hurt me badly it was finally decided that I must be operated upon. When my husband learned this he got a bottle of Lydia E. 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