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The Fort Sumner review., 1911-05-13
WASHINGTON.

Drafts of arbitration treaty between
the United States and Great Britain
are being discussed by President Taft
and his cabinet.
Three state senators and two rep
.resentatives were indicted for bribery
by the Franklin county, Ohio, grand
jury, which has been engaged il in
vestigating corruption in the AS
sembly.
Representative Warburton, a newly
elected insurgnt Republican from
Washington, has announced he will
introduce two resolutions designed to
support his bill placing sugar on the
free list.
The controversy between the Postof'
flee Department and the railway mail
clerks because the latter has not been
allowed to organize union, will be in.
vestigated by Postmaster General
Hitchcock.
Western members are discussing
the matter of introducing a bill be-
tween now and December calculated to
enlarge the present scope of the Bu-
reau of Mines so as to include metal
ferrous mining operations.
The Senate committee on finance
has decided to devote the time be-
tween now and Saturday, May 13, to
hearings on the Canadian reciprocity
bill Immediately after that date it is
expected that the bill will be report
ed to the Senate.
The Supreme Court of the United
States upheld the constitutionality OF
the establishment of the reserves for
any national and public purpose, and
settled once for all that the federal
government and not the states, may
say how the reserves shall be used.
Western horse breeders are soon to
be called upon to cooperate with the
government in a most comprehensive
movement looking to the raising Of
army mounts, and the territory west
of the Missouri is to contribute it's
quota of horses for the cavalry of the
future
Determined to prove her aged mil.
lionaire husband insane, Mrs. Stillson
Hutchins, socially prominent in New
York, Washington and London, has
flatly refused an offer from her step.
sons to increase her allowance $4,000
annually if she would withdraw the
lunacy proceedings.
United States Steel corporation, the
American Sugar Refining Co. and the
American Woolen Company, have
been placed on the programme of the
Democratic House for investigation
the shoe industry is under fire; and a
Senate committee on expenses has
opened the way for re-investigation
of the charges against Senator Lori
mer of Illinois.
The Fort Sumner review., 1911-05-13
An Eve to Business.

A dressmaker had sent her serv-
ont to post letter and was anxiously
waiting her return.
did you post my letter all right,
Mary?" she asked as the maid-of-all
work returned.
Oh, yes, ma'am!" replied Mary,
holding penny out to her mistress.
What is this for?" again asked the
fair employer. 81 give it to you for
the stamp"
II didn't have to use it ma'am. l
put the letter in the box when nobody
was looking" explained the innocent
Mary.-Ideas.
The Fort Sumner review., 1911-05-13
Time SavInq.

A new version of the new long ia
miliar while you wait" sign is found
in an uptown avenue where barber
shop and tailoring shop stand side
by side. In front of the building hangs
a sign on which are displayed the
name of the tailoring concern and the
name of the barber shop and this an
nouncement:
Suits cleaned and pressed while
you are getting shaved. New York
Sun.
The Fort Sumner review., 1911-05-13
Keep Clean.

Keep your house and your belong
ings clean. Let the blessed sun, the
greatest physician in the world, get
all through you and all about you.
Get your full share of the free air of
heaven. Eat to live and not live to
eat" as sage philosopher of the long
ago tells us. Keep your house clean
in which you live and keep the
house" in which your life lives
clean, ard all will be we'll.
The Fort Sumner review., 1911-05-13

For two weeks had to be propped
up in bed and lost 80 pounds in
weight. l was in terrible condition, in
fact, came very near dying. AS
last resort began using Doan's Kid
ney Pills. Since then I have gained
back my lost weight and feel wonder
fully improved"
Remember the name-Doan's.
For sale by all dealers. so cents
box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
The Fort Sumner review., 1911-05-13
Mixed Metaphor.

Bishop Lawrence of Massachusetts
thinks that as a mixed metaphor"
from the pulpit the following can hard
ly be surpassed.
"One of the country clergy who was
rebuking his flock for their apathy,
declared that but spark of grace re-
mained to show that they were at all
alive. Then, in a parenthesis, he add
ed, Lord, water that spark. Human
Life.
The Fort Sumner review., 1911-05-13

81 suppose" said the beautiful girl,
you write for the mere love of writ
ing'
"Yes," replied the sad looking poet,
but | still hope to some day be able
to write for at least Is cents line"
Judge.
The Fort Sumner review., 1911-05-13

of S erious disease.
Doan's Kidney Pills
should be used per-
sistently until the
backache and other
symptoms disappear.
Mrs. d. X. Jeffers,
Colfay Wash sayS.
The Fort Sumner review., 1911-05-13

Something for the Hen to Grow About.
When a duck lays an egg she wad-
dies off as if nothing has happened.
When a hen lays an egg there's a HI
of a noise.
The hen advertises. Hence the de-
mand for hens eggs instead of ducks.
The Live Wire.-The Lariat.
The Fort Sumner review., 1911-05-13

Mrs. Bacon see by this paper
that prior to 1925 all women's shoes
were made without heels.
Mr.. Bacon-And l believe it is a
fact that they have been going up ev-
er since.-Yonkers Statesman.
The Fort Sumner review., 1911-05-13
Caution.

did you ever tell the proprietor OF
the hotel that the roof over your room
leaked?" asked one travelling man.
NO" replied the other. Il was
careful not to let him know it. He'd
have charged me extra for shower
bath.-Washingto Star
The Fort Sumner review., 1911-05-13

You cannot step twice into the same
stream, tor as you are stepping in,
other, and yet other, waters flow on.
-Heraclitus.
The Fort Sumner review., 1911-05-13
KIDNEY CHlLLS AND BACkACHE.

If, when you get wet or take cold,
1t settles on the kidneys" and there
is a shivery, chilly sensation in the
back, it shows kidney weakness which
The Fort Sumner review., 1911-05-13
A MonopoIy,

Urbanite-What did you come to
the city for?
Country Boy-To earn an honest
living.
Urbanite-That's all right. You'll
find no competition.
The Fort Sumner review., 1911-05-13

Ten smiles for a nickle. Always buy
Red Cross Bag Blue; have beautiful clear
white clothes.
The Fort Sumner review., 1911-05-13
Kill the Flies Now and Keep

disease away. A DAISY FLY KILLER
will do it, Kills thousands. Lasts all season.
Ask your dealer, or send zoe to H. SOM
ERS, $50 DeKalb Ave, Brooklyn, N. Y.
The Fort Sumner review., 1911-05-13

Let amusement fill in the chinks Of
your life, not the great spaces there
of.-Parker.
The Fort Sumner review., 1911-05-13
ASSA US

SPECIAL ROUND TRIP EXCURSION
FARES
to
CALIFORNIA POINTS AND THE Pa
CIFIC NORTHWEST
from
MAIN LINE COLORADO POINTS
on the
DENVER & RIO GRANDE RAILROAD
"The Scenic Line of the World"
as follows;
$4,000 to San Francisco. Los Angeles
and San Diego, Calf. Tickets on
sale May IL, 13, IA, 1911.
$65.OO to San Francisco, Los Angeles
- and San Diego, Calf One way
via Portland or Seattle. Tickets
on sale May IL, 13, IA, 29, 80, 81,
1911.
$4,000 to Portland, Ore, Seattle and
Tacoma, Wash, and Victoria and
Vancouver, B. c. Tickets on sale
May 49, 80, 81, 1911
FINAL RETURN LIMIT JULY 81, 1911
Through Electric Lighted Pullman
Observation Sleeping Cars and Electric
Lighted Tourist Sleeping Cars between
Denver and San Francisco, via
RIO GRANDE-WESTERN PACIFIC
For full particulars, reservations, ETC.,
call on
RIO GRANDE AGENT
or address
Frank A. Wadleigh, GenI Pass'r Agt,
Denver, Colo.
The Fort Sumner review., 1911-05-13

Heroism is endurance for one mo-
ment more.-W. T. Grenfell.
The Fort Sumner review., 1911-05-13
Hood 8
SarsaparilIa

Is the specific remedy for that
tired feeling so common in the
spring or upon the return of
warm weather. 1t purihes
and enriches the blood.
Get it today in usual liquid form or
chocolated tablets called Sarsatabs.
The Fort Sumner review., 1911-05-13
SPORT.
WESTERN LEAGUE STANDING.

Battling Nelson will receive only
$4,000 for meeting Jack Redmond in
Kenosha, Wis, on the afternoon of
Memorial Day.
The Fort Sumner review., 1911-05-13

Humor is great solvent against
snobbishness and vulgarity-Seaman
The Fort Sumner review., 1911-05-13
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Gold. 75c; Gold and Sill
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Cold and Silver refined
for free mailing sacks,
536 Court Pl.. Denver
The Fort Sumner review., 1911-05-13

Is often the beginning
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-28
StOggs Kept Boring In

stoggs is very sociable man, He likes
TO talk with any person with whom no
happens to be travelling. He made a trip
up the LAttle Miami railroad the other day,
and found a seat alongside OF a solemn
looking man who kept his gaze out OF the
window. stoggs tried TO catch his eye 50
as to open a conversation with him, but he
didn't succeed
StogEs offered the man his paper. The
man shook his head without looking
around. The conductor came along, and
stoggs said 20 himself surely he must
look around now" but he didn't
man in front handed out two tickets
and pointed silently TO StOggs companion,
stoggs began 20 grow uneasy. II was the
longest time he had ever been in a stran,
gers company without finding out some
thing about him-where he was pointing
for, At least
Al length the brakeman came with some
water. and the man turned around 10 get
some stoggs availed himself OF the op-
portunity TO say:
Going far east az New York;
mo" SroWled tho man.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-28

stoggs waited until the stranger had
quaffed a pretty liberal quaff. when he
remarked:
New York is a duh place at this time Of
year, anyhow. Mebbe you're striking for
Philadelphia 10 see whether the old towns
changed any since the exposition"
The surly man gave an impatient shake
OF his head.
Perhaps Cleveland's your Destinations
put in Stoggs, not at all disconnected.
NO" the man gTowled.
Cant be you're going this roundabout
way 20 Chicago?"
TO this the stranger didn't offer a reply
Of any kind Then stoggs rose up and
twisted around little, fronting the stran-
ger, and said:
Il spose you've no objection 20 telling
where you are gOingT
Hang a." cried the man, I'm going un
for seven years."
Then the deputy sheriff in front told
stoggs that he'd rather not have folks
talking 10 his prisoners, and 5toggs hadn't
anything further 10 say.-Railroad Mana
Magazine. a.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-28
She Cried Most Beautifully"
Name and Address.

Il never knew until today" said Mrs
Empson, what lot Of suffering there is
in the world"
What brought it home to your" asked
Willie Enpson.
"A woman. / never saw anybody in such
awful distress. Poor soul, l cant think
Of her even now without crying myself.
Mrs Empson,' she said--I don't know
how she found out my name, but she did
4 want to ask favor of you. May / come
in?'
Certainly said, Come right on in.
II there is anything l can do for you
shall be glad to do it,
There is something you can do she
said 1 used TO live in this flat 1t was
let me see-three. four, five, yes, it was
five years ago. l occupied the side room
that looks out over the churchyard and
that picturesque church
Yes, said /, there Is such a room. II
Is occupied by my eldest son
Then she asked me II she might see
the room.
"T hope you will not think me crazy
she said, but / believe l should feel bet
ter II 1 could just sit in that room for q
few minutes. 1t is the dearest spot on
earth TO me. The greatest Joy and tho
greatest sorrow Of my life were expert
enced in that room. Love came TO m,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-28

But not so pretty as Mary" observed
the Post Graduate Husband, diplomatic
ally.
I'm thinking differently" declared
Mary. with some abruptness. 80 I'll be
asking you to call me May hereafter If
you've no objection"
The Post Graduate Husband frowned, but
as he could find no reason in law or ethics
for his objection he said nothing.
Therefore Marys letters came addressed
to the shorter and more frivolous name
and when she telephoned the orders TO the
butcher and grocer she opened all converse
ton with a conscious giggle and This Is
May McGarry speakin.'
And she wore pink bows in her hair!
| Indeed the Amateur wife suspected her
Of annexing for that purpose Woof-Woof' $
best neck ribbon.
! The Helpful Handmalden got up later
and later, and her cooking, which had
never suggested any great respect for the
human stomach or even the human palate,
| got worse and worse
Finally one evening as the Post Grad.
uate Husband and Hisc Wife sat in the
dining room, the climax came.
Mayor May--in a vivid blue silk dress
stood in the doorway
evenin'," she said, ingratiatingly, and I'm
1expectin' a few friends. Could l receive
them there?" Et
Stunned, speeches. the Amateur Wife
could only stare at her. % -s8f
But the Post Graduate Husband, after a
thunderous mol" spoke strongly, brutally
and much to the point.
At the end Of his harangue the Naughty
and no longer Helpful Handmaiden wear.
ing the air Of Mary, Queen Of Scots at her
execution, gazed loftily past him.
Her eyes fixed the shrinking gaze of the
Amateur Wife and slowly, fatefully she
spoke words of doom:
I'm be relieving you of my presence al
tho end OF the month" she said.
And the Post Graduate Husband and His
Amateur Wife sighed-a sign OF genuine
thanksgiving a.
Copyright, 1911 by the N. Y Herald Co..
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-28

My Dear Loretta: You think there is a
right man for each girl? You seem 20
think Of 80 many things that interest girls
that he ought TO come up for cOnsidera-
ton. Every girl thinks about him. And
he interests women, too, especially II they
have married the wrong one. Poetry and
ancient history are full OF loves OF right
men and girls And l know some girls who
absolutely believe that there is Just one
the affinity, the right man. / should
love TO have you answer this question
PANDORA.
You are al your old tricks, Pandora. You
have let out your disconcerting question
then you eoolly sit down on the box and
shut Hope In. / feel like throwing up my
hands and pleading In slangy eloquence:
Ask me something easy!"
do not know. The only woman ] have
known who felt positive about IL was one
whose right man" died in the early stages
OF their engagement II Is too gruesome
TO conclude that the right man Is the dead
man.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-28

there, and hope and death. l want to see
the place again
Mrs. Empson wiped her eyes.
1T was pitiful" she said. "Of course, /
showed her the room She sat down on the
edge of the bed and sobbed and cried as
If her heart would break never felt so
sorry for anybody in my NE / couldn't
stand II to witness such grief / went out
and shut the door and left here there to
fight II out alone
Mr.. Empsons own voice was husky when
he spoke.
Poor woman" he said 81 guess We
don't know half what is going on in the
world. How long did she stay?
About fifteen minutes. i only saw her
a moment when she came out. She had to
hurry to catch train. She Just stopped
to thank me and to say goodbye"
Had to catch a train" said While Emp
son "Oh, 1 say!"
Then he made dash for his own roman
tic den.
She got away with that silver comb
and brush, the opera glasses, a pair OF
cuff buttons and SO in cash ' said Willie.
"Oh, mother!"
Mrs. Empson was indignant but suu
sympathetic.
Il don't care II she was a thief" she
said. She certainly knew how to cry the
most beautifully Of anybody l ever
knew st. Louis Republic.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-28
Loveless Homes as Seen by a Governess

and retires late, but she has even less
time to her children. When they come
home at noon she has gone TO a bridge
whist luncheon. After school closes for the
day they return to a motherless home, for
she is at a club meeting or a tea OF a
musicale.
Every once in a while a dreadful tragedy
Overtakes such an unmothered family, a
tragedy so appalling that there is no hush
ing 1t up. Police department and press are
frantically appealed to. And when the
details OF the affair are unearthed, the
public is very apt, especially after reading
touching accounts OF the mothers grief TO
eXclaim; What an ungrateful child Such
lovely parents and such charming home "
The American parent is the most gener-
GUS in the world, with every thing except
what goes to build character in children
personal influence An American mother
will sacrifice her own love of good clothes
and good times that her daughter may
have them. She will arrange functions
that will advance her daughters social
interests. She will risk health and eyesight
to supply her daughter the hand made raj
I ment which Is now supposed to be the
/ hall mark Of the truly smart young woman
But she is TOO absorbed in all this to really
/ get close to her daughters real life in.
terest-to actually know the real girl.
When 1 hear the world say Of a girl
/ What an ungrateful daughter" ] catof
myself asking what had the girl to b.
gratefm for-hand- embroidered lingerie Of
mother-loye: We talk about the danger,
which surround the working girl, starving
for food and suffering for warm clothing
What Of the girl whose heart is starvinl
In the midst OF material luXury2
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-28
Lorettas Looking Holds Upto Right Man. Question

But 7 know women who have had three
husbands and found happiness with all.
They could each be the right one, Unless
this just a suggestiOn-wOmen change their
tastes in men periodically as they do their
skins
It's a bit diseonoerting 20 think that the
man YOU marry tomorrow, believing him TO
be the right one" may be the wrong one
in five OF six years But It has happened.
Some times the period OF rightness Is even
Shorter. We will not mention our friends;
but there was Josephine. She thought Ma
poleOn was the right man when she mar
ried him. She could not have thought IL
later when he pinched her cheeks-to hurt
not In fun-and poked her when she knelt
in prayer, not 10 speak OF other unmis-
taxable proofs Of hts unfitness.
Do you know, ] do not believe there Is
an answer 20 this question. II Is like How
old IL Ann But il Is interesting.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-28

An ex-goveTness, writing in the New
NDrk World, passes severe structures on
gArtaln species OF society woman. She says:
Family skeletons cannot be hidden from
gOverness. She Is not merely in the
home but Of Il. Provided that she is
blessed with the maternal instinct and
sympathetic nature. she is often closer to
the children Of the household than are the
parents. She sees parents as they really
are, through the eyes OF their children,
and she hears the family skeletons rattle,
a. the children hear them.
After twenty years experience as gov
erness. commanding good salary and
living among both the moderately rich and
the Unfortunately rich l can honestly say
that money and ambition are building
strange barriers between American parents
and American children. Blood may be
thicker than water but It cannot defy the
laws OF propinquity and temperament, en-
vironment and personal Influence. In thou
sands OF American homes today children
are not what their parents make them, bu
what their teachers, gOyernesses-yes, ant
seFvants--make them,
In certain fashionable homes the father
is more like visitor than a member Of
the family circle. HIS wife belongs not tC
her children. but TO the world. II she II
to hold her own In the social game, sh,
must be always in H. When her children
are awakening TO their nursery and schoo
life she is just returning from a dance o
ball. When her children are preparing
for bed she Is absorbed in dressing 10
dinner, the play or the cotillon-
Where the family wealth is not so grea
the mother must work all the harder {
achieve social success. She rises earl
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-28

Those ancient loveresses YOU refer 20
mostly died young. The ones who lived
long enough 70 afford any practical data
never seemed to get beyond the expert
mental point Cleopatra tried out a mum
Der Of men. She may, in each instance,
have believed she had found the right
one" Romantic history which nctitiOnists
have not embelished takes the ground that
she was peeping over his shoulder, using
him as a prop, while she planned further
investigation 10 see II his imperial master
was not the real right man.
But this is what l think. II man comes
along who shows no glaring differences
from your ideal, he is the right man for
you. And, II he continues not 10 do any
thing 10 positively prove that he Il the
wrong one, ] know girls well enough 20
count on their habit OF idealiEation, and ]
predict that you will never find out that
he u not the right one"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-28
9 The Bees h0me Magazine page )
BY AMERE MAN.

The exclusiveness Of the heights Is as
nothing to the exciusiveuess Of the depths.
Though It took Kipiings "Tomlinson" to
discover that hell is not a free port Of
entry. any one who moves into suburb
must realize in very short time that
while society above stairs may call the
queens Of the local kitchens viii hold
sprenely aloof from newcomers.
While the neighbors in Mountainvile had
promptly left cards at the home OF the
Post Graduate Husband and the Amateur
Wife Mary. the Helpful Handmaiden, re-
NAMED utterly unrecognized by the social
arhiters below stairs She had gone relig-
iousiy 10 mass and Lenten devotions as
well, But no one spoke to her
l--sThe deposed queen Of Finland. who ruled
over the basement on the left, gazed
haughtiy over the head Of the Helpful
Handmaiden when they met on their way
to church.
Even though the exiled empress who
controlled the culinary destiny Of the fam
H. on the right had occupied the very next
seat al 3 special meeting called to form a
local ladies auxiliary" Of the A. O. H.,
she remained totally unaware Of Mary's
existence
or course, Mary returned seorn for scorn.
IT'S sort OF lonesome out here she con-
fded to the Amateur Wife, For. Of
course, maam, ! couldn't be expected to
associate with the kind Of trash that's
employed out here. A woman OF my edu-
cation would scarcely take notice OF their
employers. ma'am"
A the Amateur Wife had found many
Of her new neighbors delightful she failed
utterly 20 understand the Hsndmaiden $
attitude
But suddenly without any apparent rea-
son, the barriers OF below stairs" were
let down and the Submerged social leaders
OF Mountainville We'd with each other for
Mary's favor.
Even the Amateur Wife did not suspect
that she was personally responsible for the
kitchen cabinets change of policy But
she had confded to a friend next door
that Mary possessed savings bank book
and, the news having gotten down the
dumbwaiter in some way Mary's stock
had risen accordingly.
~ 'If you please, ma'am. I'd like to hav,
dinner a little earlier than usual I'm
gcing to a party" Mary announced
Almost as pleased as Mary herself, tn,
Amateur wife consented to the change In
the dinner hour. and even persuaded tn,
Post Graduate Husband that out OF defer
ence to the Helpful Handmaiden's party
he must come home an hour earlier
Many came home at o'clock the mex
morning, and all that day an air of gloon
thick as a November fog, overcast hel
ccntenance, The breakfast was exercrable
Mary's deterioration, which was marked
and rapidly progressive. dated from tina
hour.
She had begun by changing the dinner
hour. 49,. 49,
u was on the second week Of her socia
walton that she decided 70 change hei
me. sa..-.#
Mrs Mann" she inquired one morninf
GH'e removing the breakfast dishes ID,
like the name Mayo
Certainly, answered the Amateur
Ne. ITS very pretty name"