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.J A B THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JANUARY 7, 1917. THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER vrCTOB ROSEWATER, EDITOR THE DEC PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETOR bitml at Osaaka poetrffiee an seeeaa-claaa sutter . , TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, ByCarrler 10 ' '' " xritt - Hairy ana BmMl. .'.. ........ Daily vritheat 8 under .....4e. ........ Kvenmg .ud- Sunday. . . ... v . .-..see Kvening without Sunday see - Sunday Bee onlyw. . .lse. . naiiw ana aandav alee, xaree yeara in By Han per yrer . ..$.00 ... . ... . . . . 4.00 . .. 1.00 110.00 oene, Mun pi snens. . . --- liery to Omaha Bee, Cu-euletiea Droartmant. .... :-s-'. REMITTANCE Remit by draft, exarees or postal nrner. Only -eenl lOT taken in. payment nf sell aeaaniate. Personal eneeke. assent on Omaha and aaatarn onhange, not aacantaa. OFFICES Omahn-'Tha Bea hulldlnf. , South Omaha M. etreet. . - . Council Blurts M North Main street, Linaohi 2 Uttla Builduw. 'CMaaara 818 People'e Gas Building. New Yer Room 80S. 2 Fifth aeaaae. St. tonie M New Bank of Commerce. Washington TtS Fourteenth afreet. H. w. , CORRESPONDENCE , Addreaa amnswaleetloBe relating to mora and editorial ..... n 1- C BJt4al Hf itlltent mailer w vww , .. DECEMBER CIRCULATION . ' 53,368 DaUy Sundr 50,005 DwnTht Wrmaraa, eh-rujatlon rannnser of The Baa Publishing company, hern duly .worn, sere that the average circulation for the month of December, 1816, waa (1.888 daily and 80,008 Sunday. ' DWIOHT wnXIAMS. OhJenktann Heaasel. Subscribed la my praaene ud worn t before me this 4ft day -.'fJ-H, Noterr Subecrib-rs (savins ha .k...U h.e. Thai Bat oVesa will be chant ad aa eftaa repeated.. citv temporarilv nailed to them. Ad it look more, like deluge thin a "leak." Westward the star of business in Omaha takes its'coufK.-, y- ' ...., : Contrary tO first impression, . Tom Lawson evidently started something-, t , fhe'wntion of Tumulty in connection with the peace note leak appears t.nYe created t real tumult. - " 'S'-' " ' :.l ( :. -A German-count1 hat relinquished his title to nobility to .become' 'n Amerfcaa citizen. ' Fair exchange,! no robbery 1 -,. i : 1.1 , Lg. ' . I' ;''A i geuMemin, riot les than s represenutiw ia'txmtTtu, .TJ)n If ifposaible, it ,it, (or one and the. tame person. to be bpth? , Stock gambling revelations are useful now and then in, showing up : Wall! street's .experts in the act of ."atacldirrtHe specnlators' cards." ';t ' Wonder Jf the city officials erer thought to match, up the .estimates on which were based the July tax-levy and the actual allotment of the funos th following January I ' . ' A seismic shakedown of 300 persons in For mosa Is not' much of a record for that locality. A shakeup in the nearby Philippines last year dislodged a thousand jobholders. ,,,; ( . ' ; T1ie ahntot seed appropriation controversy has again been settled in favor of free seeds. : All right, CongreosMan 'Lobeck, we will take oofs in about the same varieties ihat yoo sent us hut year. Of 'Nebraska'l eight presidential electors, all but two harbored ambitions to serve as mes senger.. A junket , to Waahrngton, with traveling expenses' paid, is an awful temptation to deserv ing democrat' v' '"' f," ' ' Change becomes the order of the day. at the state houses. ;,Nw. faces vary the scenery and new brooms stir the dust in neglected corners. Animation and renovation are tceonnted speci6cs for political djy rot - ,v ' . , As things line up with the new year in Mexico, revolutionary music, promises some variations. The projected .union of Villa,. ZapaU and Diax insures . lively serenade for Senor Carranza, with good prospects for a dirge at. the finish. An increase of 16.28 per cent in the popula tion of state institutions is an unpleasant reminder, of misfortune' jfcxctedifl the census speed limit In NebratM aseighWing states, shifting oft the public: hardens which should be borne by kindred has grown to suspicious proportions. - 'Nearly rh6le week of .the valuable time of of the United States "senate has. been consumed passing a motion -expressing approval of efforts to secure -peace ipj Europe. This looks like rather costly m&tion, but it may be economy for the people after all, in thus absorbing time that would otherwise have been used in pushing raids on ihi .treaiiry." .... ll y . " ; ' Piling TJp War Debts. , Estimates of war debts pded up by the fighting nations to date, compiled by the Federal Reserve board, lean strongly to conservatism and are con siderably 'under calculations, based on less com plete sources of information. They show 4 total war debt for the five, principal .. belligerents of $49,455,00b,toXVoi which the entente allies' share is S9r0dr,)0p' ntf,ttt .fcronsak'emfrt $20,000, 000,00ft Th figures cover interest-bearing obliga tions, .excluding the vast inflation 'of bank cir culation in. all .warring, nations. Tat annual review of. the New York Journal of-Commerce enumerates In detail the. loans marketed by the allied nations, including the colonial divisions of the British empire, and Italy, Belgium, Japan and Serbia, and shows an all-around total of $37, 365,000,000; or $8,000,000,000 more than the reserve board estimate' With like detail the Journal' fig ures the war-debt!-of "the central powers, Ger many, AustHavHungary, Bulgaria and Turkey, at $16,3S4,q(,000,: U7,000,000 under'the reserve aboard (ptil.'.i i .'. i-'.v' 1 ' 't X ' A few billions either way ate of little conse ; quence in a war of epochal magnitude. 1 Where millions are. Spent every hour, variations in the footingi. are inevitable... , It is sufficient to know that the cost to . date is one-fourth greater than the combined cost of the Napoleonic wars, and all succeeding wars', up-.to 1914, " The immensity of; $ju,iu,wm,uuu or war oeDts may ne grasped ny a few simple' comparisons.'. It is six. times greater than , 'the combined, debts of the United States and all'lfs eivil'divwioBS' ifi' 1913, six times the value' of the. agricultural and mineral products' of this country in 191.6, and forty, times the total of Umalia Mik clearings last year. ..Moreover, the war1 debt's afe piling up at in increasing -ratio, At the" rate "the money is flying "die Omaha bank deposits totaling $96,700,000, would, barely keep Training of an Actor. j ( . One of the most interesting interludes of the day is afforded by Mrs. Minnie Madden,' Fiske in her stand against the repertory theater as ,a training school for actors. Mrs. Fiske impatiently denounces the idea that actors, may be developed and perfected in the knack' of '"holding the mirror up to nature" through, the experience of appear ing in a number of roles in qnick succession. Her own plan at least the inference is drawn from remarks accredited to her is that the actor should study a role, play jt, master it completely, and, wherl he has exhausted all its possibilities and can find in it no new suggestion fop emotion or expression, to discard it and take, up another. ' All of which suggests that Mrs. Fiske ihas beer wise all the days of her greatness in declining to submit to interviews for publication. In the pres ent instance her views are given us through the medium of a conversation at dinner "recorded" by one of the table company and through him published in a January 'magazine. -The eminence of the lady entitles her opinion to respect, at least but some who have watched "her career will wonder what might have happened had her own rule been applied t6 her own case. For it is not always that her name has been associated with that of Rebecca West, or Hedda Gabler, or Leah Kleschna, or Becky Sharp, or Nell in the Salvation Army play. For the matter, of that if we were to call the roll of characters enacted by Mrs. Fiske since she attained the real condition of stardom, it would lead almost to the conclusion that she has acquired a considerable repertory. Yet it was long before she gave us Mary of Mag dala that she was slowly climbing upward through a maze of forgotten roles to the shining eminence on which she is now fixed. . .' Mrs. Fiske's dinner conversation is interesting to read and must have been doubly interesting to listen, to, but the actor of the .future will be made is has the actor of the past. He will take his course through a long line of small parts, just as did every one of the great ones, and learn the tricks Mrs. Fiike now seeks to cheapen (while she is shaking her whole bag of them) and will use them, just as did Booth; Barrett, Jefferson,. Ma cauley, Raymond,. Dillon, Mansfield and all the rest 1 The way to greatness is through hard work and genius shines brightest when it is toiling hardest. v !'.; , 'f . . i, ' An Acknowledgement of Onerousness. . Before the event passes too "far into history it is up, to us. for Omaha to acknowledge the gracious spirit manifested bjv Lincoln over the award to Omaha of the Farm Loan bank for which, the Capital City had also put in a bid. Express ing gratification that the bank should go to the city "of our' second choice," the Lincoln Star says: ;''t .i,,r..'-' ?. :,., , '; ; ' As a matter of fact it was an unequal con test between' this city and Omaha in many ways. Omaha's financial resources are so much beyond those of this city that such an insti tution, depending as a farm loan bank does to some degree upon support from local capital, would naturally seek the larger cijtjr. More than that the logic of politics pointed to Omaha, which city seems to have had more potential friends, at court than had Lincoln. - Therefore it may be said that Lincoln .hV, not surprised, however much disappointed its people may be,, at the announcement, that Omaha has been "chosen. , The main thing is that Nebraska is to have one of these banks, whereby the agriculture of the state may receive such stimulus and sup- ' port as the farm loan system is calculated to afford, and be at all times in close touch and sympathy with its administration. , ' Lincoln harbors always the spirit of the good sport and knovss how to lose .without repining... . i,..; , :? ' .,' irj" This should' go a long ways toward strength ening the feeling of mutual interest between.. Lin coln arid Omaha which,-we -most coirfess, was strained somewhat by Lincoln's attitude toward our effort to secure a Federal Reserve bans; when it refused to concede the superiority of Omaha's financial, resources, wilh the result that the bank went to Kansas City. We are sure our Lincoln neighbors would .prefer to have had the reserve bank come to Omaha and thereby enhance the prestige of Nebraska rather than to be located in a rival city in. another state. , ; i ,? it, , . ; ' For both Ornaha and Lincoln, the moral of it all is that pulling together can be mutually help ful, while polling apart benefits neither, v -, , " '" Peace, Politics and PsJavtr. ' ' The senate of the United States has adorted a mo'dified 'and carefully dehorned endorsement of the president's request that the belligerents submit to him their peace terms, but only after the republicans'-had pointed oat the hole, into which, the president had thrust the country, by his note. The resolution adopted is sufficiently mild to be the expression of a sewing circle or a Chau tauqua assembly, hut may serve at the White House in-lieu of more enthusiastic commenda tion. ., Thus another effort of administration sup porters to. make a little more political capital out of the war ends in the exposure of their insincer ity. The remarkable outburst of Senator Lewis in discussion of the resolution is noteworthy. Had his statement on the floor of the senate been made in October,- it would have cost Wilson the elec tion. 'The country is no nearer to war today than it has been for more than two years, and not so near as it was" in May of 1915, nor does it require any superhuman effort or preternatural ability to keep us out of war into which no one cares to see us enter. ,The palaver of the prophets of democracy at Washington amounts only to a studied effort to divert oublic attention from seri ous home issues. .. - ; Hectic breathings of possible events involving this ; country in the European "war mark ,Ihe speech of Senator Lewis on the peace resolution, Oratorical speculation is the senator's unfailing standby. He is equally at home prophesying gloom ai in chasing rainbows.. , Bnt he assumes big risks in posing as the. megaphone -of the administration..' "There, is the ever-present, danger of being held to strict accountability"" v ,!"dirls go. wrong because they want to," is the moral 'drawn in a lurid tale of the sensational Philadelphia,' tragedy. ."played up", by a . yellow journal which looks specially to ttplifters to spread it broadcast. Such a doctrine taught in a book would be barred" from the public .library and excluded from every family fireside. Vet it passes urirebuked under 'its more insidious" cover. ."''' t "The retired government , of Roumania, from the temporary security of Jassy, posts a "declara tion of defiance" in the few sections of the coun try omitted from the, Teutonic itinerary. Several" good roads extend from Jassy into the interior of Russia, a fact which lends considerable tonal push to the defiance. , -; - i By Victor Baaewatar OMAHA will be justly proud of the beautiful new home of the First National bank which, as its name implies, has the longest continued existence as a national bank of any in the city and before that was a private bank, dating back almost to the very beginnings. It is a part of Omaha history that a bank was established De cember 10, 1857, by the Kountze brothers and that their first banking house consisted of a small one story frame building of but a single room on the north side of Farnam between Twelfth and Thir teenth streets. Since its debut this is the bank's fourth move, the first being to a larger building to the eastward where the Nebraska National bank now - stands, the second to the building across the street but a block further west which stood on the site of the structure now being vacated and whose occupancy in 1886 marked the third move, only to be discarded today after thirty years for another jump to the new business center. It is related that in the early days the purchase and sale of gold mined in Colorado was a considerable part of the business transacted by the bank and that a long shelf extending around the east side and north end of the room was fre quently covered with tin pans filled with the precious metal. - , I When the national banking system was estab lished! the Kountje bank took out a charter in corporating with $50,000 capital, out of which has grown the present gigantic financial institution with its allied trust company. ,1 saw, this very week, a letterhead of the bank carrying a docu ment dated January 1, 1866, on which was printed the directory of the bank at that time, just fifty years ago, as follows: E. Creighton, president; A. Saunders, vice president; A. Kountze, cashier; H. W. Yates, assistant cashier; H. Kountze. As we all know, Herman Kountz, whose name alone appears on that stationery without ( official title, later became the president of the bank and during the rest of his lifetime was its central figure. ' V It in no way detract! from the ability, and prestige of those who have1 succeeded him so creditably to dwell upon the pre-eminent influence which Herman Kountze as head of the bank exer cised in Omaha's business community, where for many years his approval or endorsement of a project bridged the gap between hard sledding and assured successi As a rule, however, as I dis covered more than once, he was sparing with his advice, not offering it unless asked for. He also was possessed of an almost excessive modesty, doing his charities anonymously, and an extreme abhorrence of personal publicity, and particularly averse to being pictured in the papers. When I once sought his permission to use his1 portrait in one of our special illustrated editions during the Trans-Mississippi exposition, he nor only re fused to furnish the photograph but insisted he would be highly displeased if I procured one else where. I argued With him that, aS one of the exposition officers, he was in a semi-public posi tion entitling people to know how he looked, and, for that-occasion at least, I think I softened the force of his objection. It is only too bad that he could not have lived to see the palatial new quarters in which the bank for which he laid the foundation is to be housed for the next span of its career. , . .-.. . .".. ' An interesting souvenir in trie form of an annual pass over he Union Pacific, dated Decem- 'ber , leco, ana expiring isecemDcr oi oi tnc same year, waj brought to me a few days ago. It is of usual card size and is filled in and signed in the handwriting of "W. F. Durant, Superin tendent" from the name) I take it, a member of the same family as Thomas C. Durant, the presi dent of the company. The pass was' recently found among some papers in the city engineer's office and the reason it was brought to me was because it is made out to the name of "Andrew Rosewater, Engineer's Office," in a word, because it is a pass issued to my uncle when he first came to Omaha as a mere tad to go out with one of the Union Pacific surveying parties for which my father, who was then in the telegraph service here; had assurance that an opening would be forthcoming. The; inscription On the face of the card says, "See other side," and on the reverse, in addition to the usual conditions exculpating the road from liability for accidents and warning against presentation by any other person is this notice:::"This ticket is not to be presented or used by the holder to procure a pass oyer any other, road," The question immediately arose in my mind: What other use could be made of a pass' over the Union Pacific in December, 1865? The beat answer obtainable from data within my reach is that it would enable the holder to travel, presumably in work trains only, over a stretch of track not exceeding forty miles, for the completed construction in September, 1865, was eleven miles and the boast is made that it reached all of forty miles by the end of the year. .: ; For retrospect into Omaha history there are few. better authorities than John T. Bell, one Of our pioneer court reporters now running a little paper out in Newberg, Ore., from whom. I have this fascinating : story of his first visit to Beltevue. which he says he has written by sug gestion of an inquiry from George G. Wallace for. certain other information wnicn ne was unaoie to furnish. He writes: ; ", . "That letter reminded me of an incident connected with my first visit to Bellevue. We were living at Fontanelle. My brother, Will, and I had traded a span of. horses for a span pf mules. I, hitched -those mules to a buggy and started to St. Joe, Mo to bring a sister to Fontanelle.,; The distance to Omaha was forty miles and, though the road was in splen did order, it took me all day to make the distance, for the off mule proved to be of no earthly account . ' -' ' ., "I stayed in Omaha that night and in the morning when I drove down to the steam ferry landing was told that the wipd was too high to admit of running the boat but that I . could cross on a rope ferry at Bellevue. I managed to get that far along' on my journey and tied, my team to a rack around the public square. There I hung around all day. I was only a boy and was like a strange cat in a garret among the people of that bustling town of , perhaps 100 inhabitants. I had driven down to the ferry landing on arrival, but found that I could not get across the river until the wind went down at sundown. . ., , ,.. . .. 4 Vi: . "Along in the afternoon a man drove, op with an excellent span of horses and tied them to the rack alongside of my team. I was sit ting in the buggy waiting for Old Sol to conclude his day s work. I wished I had a team like that Just before sundown the man came back and bantered me for a trade. He k asked $25 to boot I told him I couldn't give it. ' He gradually dropped down to $15 and finally wanted to know my' name and where I lived. Then he proposed that I give him my - note for $15, payable in a year with 12 per cent , 'interest I accepted the proposition and we went into a store, be drew up the note. and I -signed it Then he helped me to hitch up. "I picked up the lines and the electricity that reached my hands from the bits of that . span of horses was in marked contrast to the feelings experienced previously in efforts - to t induce that off mule to mosey , along at the ' rate of about three miles an hour. I hurried down to the river, was put across at once and until away in the night I sped along the road through the big Cottonwood forest on the Iowa side -of the Missouri river, fearing the man ould overtake me and make me trade back. , I never heard from the -holder of that note and . forgot his name in a short time." Last year imports of gems to this eonntrv were valued at $51,000,000 equal to one day's expense ot the shooting match m Europe. The gems are assured a place on the son, also the .,..1.,., . v. .. i .... I TOnANrl HeaJih Hint for the Day. , Very email Infants should not be taken out when the air la filled with dust unless the face la well protected by a veil.. . i , One Tea Ago Today in' the War. Heavy French cannon Ore deatroyed .German posts near Boiasona. , Russians repelled Austrian asaault northeast of Csernowita and captured town of Czarorysk . Austriana reported Ruaslana broke their lines In Volhynia and Gallcia, but were thrown out Von Bernstorff undertook no mer chant ahip should be torpedoed in Mediterranean till all on board were aafe. ' In Omaha Thirty Tears Ago. Mrs. Carter gave a reception at which she waa assisted in receiving by the following: Mrs. Harrison, Mrs. Ramsey, Mrs. Oarneau, Mrs. Bier bower, Misses Carrier, Boyd, Carr and Shears. " ' Miss Bailey pleasantly entertained a few of her friends at her home, cor ner of Nineteenth and Grace. Pro gressive euchre waa indulged in and a spirited contest waa had. ; Those who attended were Mr. and Mrs. Gannon, Mr. Hicks, Mrs. Haskell, Mr. Ander son, Mrs. MoKenna, Mr. Livesey, Miss Bishop, Mr. Latey, Mr. Hodges, Miss Long-, Mr. Tunica,- Miss Fearon, Mr. Copley, Mr. Pickens,. Miss Roderfor, Miss Col let te, Mr. and Mrs. - F. E. Bailey and Mr. Roderfor. . ' ., Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Eddy enter tained the following at . the club: General and Mrs. Crook, Mrs. Reed and Mrs. Colonel Stanton. Mr, and Mrs; Samuel Burns gave a reception to celebrate the coming out of their daughter. Miss NeHie Burns. The ladies who assisted in receiving were Mrs. Dr. Coflman, Mrs. Hime baugh, Mrs. Dorrance, Mrs. Howard B. Smith, Mrs. Colpecser, Miss Lacy and Mias Connelly . J. M. Buchanan and W. L. Eastman have opened an office at 1413 Farnam where they will transact real estate business under the firm name of J. M. Buchanan A Co. The Union Pacific band held its an nual election of officers when the fol lowing were elected: Director, F. Ryhner: president H. Brewer: man ager, Louis Leader ; treasurer, H. Jackson. t This Day In History. 1718 General Israel Putnam, rev olutionary hero, born at Salem, Mass. Died at Brooklyn, Conn., 'May 19, 1790. 1799 Daniel Tyler, who command ed the first division of the union army that advanced to defeat at Bull Run, bora at Brooklyn, Conn. Died In New York City, November 30, 1882. 1817 John Bassett Alley, million aire shoe manufacturer and member of congress, born at Lynn, Mass, Died at West Newton, Mass., January 19, 18. , 1861 Last territorial legislature of Kansas met at ' Lecompton ans ad journed to Lawrence. - - r', 1862 The French army landed at Vera Cruz, Mexico. 1867 A movement to Impeach President Johnson began in the house of representatives. ' 1878 Strike of 70,000 miners and Ironworkers in 8outh Wales. - 1879 Marriage of King William III of Holland to Princess Emma of Waldeck-Pynnont . , 1890 The German Dowager Em press Augusta died at Berlin. Born September to, 1811. ' - 1895 Korea proclaimed Its inde pendence ot China. The Day We Celebrate. Abel V. Shotwell, one of the Shot well brothers, has a birthday today. He waa born in Marengo, 111., Jan uary 7, 1883. .,:. Thomas J. Mack-ay, rector of All Saints, is today celebrating his seventy-third birthday. .. He is a native of Ireland, a veteran of the civil war and had a church, in Council Bluffs before he came to Omaha. . . Dr., Frank M. Conlln is Just 34 years old today. : Ha waa born In Madison, Wis, but set up his practice In Omaha. :-. -. . - Gordon Hewart, solicitor general in the new British cabinet born at Bury, England, forty-seven yeara ago today. , George . Bronaon Howard, , author and-playwright born in Howard coun ty, Maryland, thirty-three years ago today. . '. Rear Admiral Caspar F. Goodrich, TJ. & N retired, bora in Philadelphia, seventy years ago today. . - ,, -. Dr. Meiancthan W. Stryker, late president of Hamilton college, born at Vernon, N. T sixty-five years ago today. ' - I . ' - ; i Maurice " K. McLoughlln, former world'a champion lawn tennis player, born at Carson-' City, Nev., twenty seven years ago today. - William E. (Kitty) Bransfleld, for mer base ball player, just appointed an umpire In the National league, born at Worcester, Mass., forty-two years ago today. . . , Storyette of the Day. ' As he dislikes motor cars, a country squire always kept good horses. Re cently he bought a handsome mare, and a few days later asked his groom what he thought ot the new arrival. "She's a line looking animal, sir," replied the man, "but I'm afraid she's a bit touchy." ' 1 "Why do you think so?" questioned the squire. - ; "She doesn't seem to take to no One, sir. She can't bear me to go into her box to groom her." .' "Oh, she'll settle down in a . few days," the squire reaaurred him. "Everything's strange ' to her, youlj know., I don e think there a much wrong with her temper." "Nor did I at first sir," replied the groom. "But, yoo . see, she's kicked ma out o' that there box twice already, and, when you come to think of It, that's very convincin'." San Francisco Argonaut ; . HERE AND THERE ' v Giity million doihve is the eathnatea total paid by Americans for chewing sura every year. ,' , - y 7 Colorado raaks ant and California airn4 anions the Stains of the Union prodseinc beet lugmr. , ... . . . ;..; - Thirteen' pairs of twina are hleradecl ta the preeent student body at the Unieanitr af Neoraaka. ' ;','.." f -,! , ,,,. . Meraphla la arransins for a his festival next Mar to eelehmU the completion of tno new bridge across the Mississippi Blear, Emperor William's Chrlatasaa sift ta Pope Benediat was a Bible asacntfieeothr llhani aatad and bound at the royal pristine works la Berlin,-, , AROUND THE CITIES V Greater New York apent S187.lZt.S0S in building operations last year. . The ehaapioa policewoman of Minnea polis, Minnie A. Madlsoa, unable to reform her husband with stick and star, haa gone into court for assistance ta ehaahux him over the divorce route. During the year ISIS Broektao. Mass., re tained its supremacy as the world'a lea&ng center for. men's shoe manufacturing by shipping lS,tS8,lSt pairs of shoes, with av to tal Taluatioa estimated at 6.80,8S5. SionVcitr proposes to hrre.it $20 in a legislative bureau at Dee Moines and tn re turn reewsve a diagram of legialative iokera which may interest the city. The quality of tno Jokes of atataaaonnablp frequently are worth the price. : New York talks of launching a moeameat to raise by popular subscription the where with to buy Madiaan Samara Garden and present It to the city. Mortgagees took over the snu-dea a few weeks ago and are ready to let- it go at aoat. V - St, Joe's Commerce crab celebrated the new year by changing its name to "the Chamber of Commerce." New officers were installed and a live commissioner from Iowa appointed to extend Its aetivitiaa and pot the "dig" la the dignity of the title. , San Diego's oj aimed over exposition gave Its farewell rasp at midnight Now Year's night. A huge erowd sang, "Anld Lang 'Syne." aa the midnight hoar struck. Ks ti ro ates place, the attendance for the year at S.tst.tot.' Slightly under the record for 1915. -. s V . '- Dee Moines police report substantial pro gress in boose gnsaling daring the peat year. Arreata for intoxication numbered t.47t againat 2,960 In 1915. Last year waa "dry" from atart to ftniah, while ltlft was hah wet half dry. Despite vtha- absence of saloons, getting, a tank full ia a Question of digging op the price. . , , -,t ' Chicago has succeeded after yeara of liti gation tn ending abstractions to the exten sion of Michigan boulevard north of the river along the lake front to Lincoln park and beyond. - The extension will, make the f amoue boulevard the longeat and ' finest in the world. -The railroad smoke smudge at Grant park ia to bo banished also. This will make Chicago'a front the finest aver. ' A TALK TP THE BOY". V Strickland W. Oilman. ' ' Coma boy, to your dad, let me tail you soma things ' Of the man 'who loved' ma' aa I'm loving yon. For the heart Is a pendulum heavy . that swings -. , Aye forward and hack as all pendulurna - do. j ' And tonight mine haa swung far away to : the time When your, dad Bad a dad, Jnat as yoa have my eon .' ' A djut to whose anna I was welcome to - climb 1 - ' - ',: - '.- - - s When hla day In the eorneld or meadow was dona. ' I crept Into als arms that were stronger. my lad; And hla hands O so tender -were harder than mine. ... For the world had been harsh with the dad of your dad v Tet I wish that my soul wars aa gentle and fine. As the one roughly clad in that body of his, . That ao lavlahly gave of his strength for the one Who now shelters yon. And my prayer's ' burden Is That yoa may think so of your father, my son. . , : What I've gained I have gained hia the heavier ooat; He In embryo held all things I have done; Tet X fear gravely fear there are tuinga I have loat , That eadly diminish the triumph. . my son. go lie close, little man there's ao little know. , . , Except that I leva yoa and yon can love me. , - And I emlle with content that you're loving me ao, - - And am glad In that love, aa my Sad used to be. DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. "How did tier friend break It to bee gently that she had suddenly become a wldowf "Told her ahe looked ao atunntng tn mourning that It waa lucky aha had a chance to wear it" Baltimore American. "Co yoa knew that our bookkeeper ta abort In hla accounts?" "Tee. a tew hundred bones. Conse quently Bo works every night and.-oever wanta a vacation. Let him alone. We're ahead of the game." Pittsburgh Foot Blackly I'm going to give, a doctor ana Wbltely Why don't yoa take aa enve lope and save it yourself T Judge. ' "So you bought that car from Baxter. What did It coot your' - "A thousand and all the respect I bad for Baxter as . a truth-teller." Boston Transcript, . Widow (weeping) Tea, poor Tom mot with a horrible death. He fell from the ftth-story window and waa Inatnntly killed. Friend (sympathlaingly) Dear, dear! la It possible It waa m bad aa that? Why. I understood that he only fell from a third story window. St. Louis Post-Dlepatch. , bEAR MR. KAB.mE, LtYYBt UIVtH A HWOSALOF mSMfr -WHAT SHAU.X to? , - -rALpettn , . . jAMa HAVE VIM found Aim MAKE ; mi 3t rrt Booker, the Agent Whit rave yoo the sudden Ideal that 70a oould play Shylock? MuKffer, the Comedian I Juwt . heard about tt an I says that a the part tbr me, 'causa I got a dialect that's a riot.-Puck. . "Is he henpecked ?" v "I think he must be. Hia wife Is a very sweet, delicate. uooffens1vv tactful woman, who never says Boo to an out sider." -Life. . , oUBS. jUUIDU, A SUlItej WUCS.S. IVUI Uaa,UtU- ler nu a arypuc way 01 csiKins;. "She can't help tt, poor thing. She was awfully tongue-tied when she waa little.' Louisville Courler-aTournaL , Miss B. What ft frightful nlht for a nance i uut, 01 course, you ve a vm. Prng-al Suitor Welt not exactly but I'm brought "your rubbers. Puck. On the menu card of a bis hotel in New York the following notice 'I printed: "Articles brotiirht Into the hotel and used at the table will be charged for s though furnished by 'the house." 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