Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-12
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

Who cares IL Juan Luna Is gone to shine
| on Agoncillo? Sixto Lopez is with us and
| the country is safe.
fleet of Spanish war ships is reported in
| the vicinity of Martinique. Did the Santiago
| submarine fleet get away?
There is no more suitable place than Chi
cago to inaugurate milk trust. Lake Mich
igan is handy and very approachable.
Aguinaldo's ebony band as well as his
yellow battalions have discovered that there
can be "a Hot Time in the Old Town
without breaking into it..
letter from Anne Boleyn to Wolsey is
printed in which beseeches is spelled "be-
sychys" and proceeding 'prosydng." No
wonder the unfortunate woman went against
a deadly spell.
An arc light statesman at Albany, N. Y,
proposes a state censorship for loud shows
that friek upon the metropolitan stage. Just
what the average local statesman of New
York deems immodest remains to be dis
covered.
The allopaths and the homeopaths Of Dem
yer are accusing each other of having has
tened the demise OF a certain citizen. OF
course, they disagree as to which served
or prescribed the deadly potion, but no one
questions their knowledge of the subject.
This giving away OF professional secrets is
n sore trial Of professional etiquette.
Miss Eva NJ. Shoutz, president of the
Young Peoples Christian Temperance
union. announces another effort to lift the
blanket off the Temple building in Chicago.
The blanket represents 100000 and 5000
persons are expected to put up $40 each.
The movement will be formally inaugurated
on the 18th inst, the anniversary OF Miss
Wllard's death.
A Montana man who stretched hemp In
the legal fashion recently refused to have
"any skypilot show him the road TO
heaven" Just before striking the invisible
trail no let loose this chunk of wisdom: "lf
any OF you follow my body TO the cemetery
do not uncover your heads and take chances
on getting pneumonia" Helena thermome-
ters were pretty low down at the time and
the advice was needed
Thomas A. Iealey of Omaha. a former
resident of Wisconsin, in a note to the
editor OF The Bee. congratulates the country
on the election OF Joseph " Quarles to the
United States senate. "Mr. Quarles," he
says lis known and recognized, in every
sense, as a man Of the people and will go
into the senate as n peoples man, with no
strings on him, or promises to fulfill. The
fact that many OF the large and influential
interests opposed him is direct evidence OF
his loyalty to the people" Mr.. Healey is
personally acquainted with the senator and
declares him to be IAN honorable, able and
upright gentleman and an answering re-
publican"
1t Is a great pity that courts deem 1t
duty to smash laws in which great chunks
of human wisdom are embedded just be-
cause they do not jibe with the constitu-
tion. An Indiana town recently enacted
curfew law designed to rectlfy many OF the
social evils of the town, but bumptious
court set It aside. One clause OF the or
dinance read "It Is further provided that
when a child comes home at the prescribed
hour and finds it's mother not present to hear
its prayers and put 1t to bed II shall report
such derelictlon to the mayor Of the city,
whose duty it shall be to search for the alb
sent mother until found, and II 1t should
be shown that the mother was not on an
errand OF necessity or mercy 1t shall be the
duty of the mayor ito administer a reprimand
10 said mother, take her hand and place at
the card table and proceed 90 finish the
game. Should the mayor, in his official
function at the card table, win any faYors
tho same shall go TO the child giving the
information"