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niE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, JUNE 22, W07.
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STATEMENT OF CTRCTTI.ATION.
Stnte of Nebraska, Pouglaa County. .
Charlea C. Roewater, general manager
of The Bee Publishing Company, belnu
duly sworn, says that the actual number
of full and complete coplea of The Dally,
. Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee prlntsd
during the month of May, 1907. was aa
follows:
1 SB,BO , IS 83,760
I 35,510 ' It 33,800
. SS.SBO 20 36,370
4 35,410 !1 36,620
t 34,300 tl 35,610
' f 30,580 23 35,500
t 85,480 H 35,630
1 35,650 25 35,800
35,730 2 34,800
10 38,890 17 86,460
11 35,390 21 35,610
11 84,560 2 36,010
It 35,486 10 35.S40
14 85,380 SI 3510
. 16 3SJ30
1 35,460 Total... 1,096,630
17 35,360
Leas unsold and returned copies 9,067
Net total' 1,083.053
Dally average 32,033
CHARLES C. ROSEWATER,
General Manager.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before me this Slat day of May, 1907.
, (Seal) M. B. HUNOATB,
Notary Public.
WHEW OCT OF TOWH.
afcserlbera lenvlaar the) city tem
porarily should biT The Baa
mailed to then. Address will ha
chaaa-ed aa oftea aa requested.
The Dearer durua has been dls
ftolved. No flowers.-
- The government has ordered the
,' Cmbrella trust to quit reigning.
'eMeaaaa ass
' Colonel Bryan says he is far from
being discouraged. He's a peerless
loser, aa well as a peerless leader.
In other words, Mr. Uryan is Batis
ied to have the democratic party do as
It pleases, so long as It follows his ad
vice. - Some folks complaining about the
prices charged down at Jamestown are
referring to it as the Jesse Jamestown
exposition.
: Jack London says, "I am not an au
thority on anything." London's vote
was all that was necessary to make it
unanimous.
The plan to Introduce cock fighting
In Chicago has failed. Cock fighting
Is a tame sport compared with the
Chicago Board of Trade contests.
''The wonders of the world have been
Increased from seven to eight. The
democratic convention in Oklahoma
has declared for statewide prohibition.
, "A smile does not cost a cent," says
the Nw Orleans States. It may not
in New Orleans, but up here it C03ts
15 cents or two for a quarter unless
the other fellow takes beer.
Carrie Nation told the Washington
authorities that she is a servant of the
Lord. Saloon keepers have a suspi
cion that she is a servant of the man
ufacturers of bar glassware.
1 ; Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson
ems to have a notion that the Japa
nese will declare war on the United
States as soon as they learn he is no
longer connected with the navy.
Women teachers in New York and
Brooklyn have decided to form a
union. They are proceeding on the
theory that a teacher is entitled to as
much consideration as a Janitor.
Tokio reports that Japanese feeling
against the United States la dying out.
(t will .disappear more rapidly when
Kurokl tells the elder statesmen about
tome things he saw in this country.
A Louisville newspaper asserts that
$50,000 were carried away, from that
city by the bookmakers as a result of
the recent horse races. tVen an edi
tor Is Inclined to exaggerate his losses.
Too much should not be expected
!rom San Francisco's efforts at honest
tovernnient. The city has had the
ther kind so long that It is almost
certain to makii some blunders at the
itart.
At least one street pavement lead
ing to and from the railroad station
'.n fit condition to permit distinguished
visitors to be carried uptown aud back
'n comfort would come in right handy
or Omaha.
The Japanese Industrial society has
declared tor aa eight-hour day and an
Increase of 40 per rent in wages. At
that rate, "cheap foreign labor" will
toon exist only Iq the speeches, of the
spellbinders .
It Lincoln people put In as much
energy trying to build Lincoln's busi
ness up as they do in trjjng to pull
Omsha'e business down ty would
get along a great deal further and
auako progreta a great deal fueV-r.
V-
LATibQRABBERS VS. LAKD REPAIRERS.
Nothing so became the public land
convention at Denver as Its sine die
adjournment after a determined but
Ineffective effort to create 'a public
sentiment opposed to the president's
forestry and public land preservation
policy. The convention adopted a
series of resolutions, rather platitud
inous in character, proclaiming the op
position of the west to any policy tha(
deprives the "home builder" from ac
cess to the. public lands by purchase
or pre-emption, and demanding a re
duction of the forest reservations
made by the president, in order tbat
available agricultural lands shall be left
open to the homesteader and the bona
flde settler. The resolutions were de
cidedly mild conipared with the ante
convention talk of the aggressive in
dividuals who have made fortunes or
want to make fortunes by monopolis
ing for present day profit the natural
resources of the west which the presi
dent insists shall be held as a public
heritage and developed for the com
mon good.
President Roosevelt's letter to the
convention proved unanswerable, and
doubtless did much to temper the tone
of the resolutions finally adopted. He
made It plain that the only purpose of
the government was an enforcement
of the laws or the enactment of new
ones limiting the amount of govern
ment land which may be acquired by
one person, stopping the fraudulent
practices by which the land syndicates
and the lumber barons have secured
control of property which belongs to
and should be held for actual home
builders; that the government pro
poses to maintain for the children of
today and the future some small sup
plies of timber and to so protect the
mountains with forest cover that
water for irrigation shall not fail, and
the rivers whose use as highways of
commerce it Is sought to restore
shall always have a sufficient flow;
that the settler, the man of small
means who has taken up a farm which
he intends himself to work and on the
proceeds of which he intends to sup
port and bring up his family, shall
not be irreparably injured by the de
mands 'of the syndicates that have
fattened on the public resources at the
expense of the home builders.
The entire policy of the administra
tion, both in the matter of public
lands and forestry reserves, has been
and Is to safeguard the rights of the
home-maker and make settlement and
development of the country easier and
safer than it is under existing condi
tions. Even the cattle barons, the
land syndicates and the timber loot
ers, so ably represented in the con
vention at Denver have been unable
successfully to assail this policy, which
has in fact been strengthened by tho
attempt of this convention to over
throw it.
V CUTTING A JUICY MELOX
President Weir of the Adams Ex
press company cannot much longer be
kept la the ranks of the captains of
industry. He has just effected a coup
that should at least make him a
colonel, if, not a brigadier general.
With the Interstate Commerce com
mission beginning to take notice of
the operations of the express com
panies, which under the new rate law
are designated as common carriers
and subjected to the supervision and
regulation of the federal authorities,
President Weir has decided that It Is
high time to cut a melon, to dispose of
a little matter of $24,000,000 lying
around in the vaults of the company.
An exhibition of that much surplus
wealth might cause some curious rep
resentative of the Interstate Com
merce commission to ask why rates
were not reduced, and as such an in
quiry might prove embarrassing Pres
ident Weir proposes to make the asset
a liability, in outward form, by divid
ing the $24,000,000 among the share
holders of the company.
Formal announcement Is made that
the "board of managers has deter
mined, to reduce the amount of capital
of the association and the reserve
fund derived largely from its investments."-
It is proposed to take this
$24,000,000 surplus and transfer it
to a trust company as collateral se
curity and to make on this an issue of
4 per cent bonds, payable in forty
years, which shall be distributed to
the shareholders to the amount of
double the par of the stock they hold.
Such bonds do not represent the debt,
but accumulated earnings, put into
securities and represented by obliga
tions of the company to pay 4 per
cent lnUrest a year on their face
value. It is a clever scheme to pre
vent the issue of new stock or the
declaration of a dividend that might
attract by the liberality of its pro
portions. The other system would
have been denounced as. stock water
ing, a pastime somewhat unpopular
with the American public. "
A financial melon was cut In a simi
lar way by this express company In
189S, but the-amount then divided
was but $12,000,000. The capital of
the company, according to Moody's
manual,. Is $11,000,000. For many
years 8 per cent dividends have been
paid. The 100 per cent distribution
in 1898 and the $00 per cent dividend
now to be distributed Aggregates
$36,000,000 which the shareholders
of the company have absorbed In the
last nine years, In addition to the
regular 8 per cent annual dividend and
an extra I per cent dividend declared
in' 18 OS and continued, each year
since. Even the Standard Oil com
pany has not been more liberal to tta
stockholders. Of course, It wouM tie
Impertinent to. suggest that the ex
press companies ought to reduce their
charges to avoid cuch difficulty in dis
tributing a surplus without attracting
unfavorable attention. It would
doubtless be Impertinent also to sug
gest that congress might create a par
cels post service, to save the express
companies the annoyance of wrestling
every few years with a swollen
surplus. "
ESD Or BRoWSSrilLE 1XQU1RT.
It Is unfortunate, from every stand
point, that the senate committee of in
quiry should adjourn without reaching
any definite conclusion fixing the re
sponsibility for the shooting at
Brownsville, Tex., which resulted in
President Roosevelt dismissing an en
tire battalion of the Twenty-fifth In
fantry without honor. The committee
has not established the Identity of the
men who did the shooting. Testimony
offered was most conflicting, although
the burden of it was that the soldiers
"shot up" the town.
The moBt regrettable feature of the
entire case Is that race prejudice and
political partisanship have been the
most Important factors at the hearing,
to the prejudice of the fact9. Those
who want to believe that the citizens
of Brownsville, disguised as soldiers,
did the shooting, in order to create
public sentiment against the presence
of negro troops, may find some com
fort in the testimony. Those who pre
fer to believe that the negro troops
did the shooting can find plenty of
point blank testimony on that side of
the case. Senator Foraker la uncon
vinced, or professes to be, and is try
ing to make political capital out of the
affair by contending that the negro
troops are innocent because their guilt
has not been proved beyond a reason
able doubt.
Under the circumstances It seems
probable that congress will receive the
majority and minority reports of the
committee and then drop the case.
That Is the natural and logical result,
since the injeorton of politics has ap
parently made it impossible that the
exact facts in the case can ever be ascertained.
WASTED-MORE COSVEKTWWS.
The Commercial club promises to
take up systematically the work of in
ducing more conventions to select
Omaha as their meeting place.
There is no good reason why Omaha
should not be a favorite, among con
vention cities not only for state organ
izations, but for associations and gath
erings of national scope. Omaha has
an auditorium unexcelled for the hold
ing of large assemblages and plenty of
smaller halls to accommodate sub
divisions of big society meetings.
Omaha has suffered in its prestige as
a convention city by lack of hotel fa
cilities, but it is improving In this di
rection, and even though there is still
a demand for a new modern fireproof
hotel of first magnitude, we will by
next year be able to take care of any
ordinary crowd with reasonable com
fort and convenience.
But to get conventions 'located re
quires work at least a year in advance,
and often the foundation must be laid
two or three years ahead. If tho
Commercial club committee having
this matter in charge wants to pro
duce results it should get busy now in
stringing wires to land 1908 and 1909
conventions, and to meet the competi
tion of other cities that are equally
alert and active in promoting their in
terests along this line. Omaha's geo
graphical location and railroad facili
ties, making It a central point equally
accessible to delegations from all parts
of the country, should give it an ad
vantage enjoyed by few other cities
and an advantage of which we should
make the most. Conventions worth
having, however, will not come with
out going after them and keeping after
them.
The president of Group One of the
Nebraska State Bankers' association
wants the backers to take the lead in
heading off fake promoters and bunco
syndicates that prey upon the public
with worthless stocks and bonds.
There is nothing to stop the bankers
from denouncing these swindlers pub
licly on any and all occasions. The
chief trouble has been that a lot of
bankers have occupied their leisure
moments by promoting wind and
water corporations and some of the
exposures might strike too close to
home.
The Nebraska railroads maintain
expensive taj bureaus that are ex
pected to prove their usefulness by
holding down the assessment of the
roads and figuring out schemes by
which they may compromise their Just
tax obligations. The tax bureaucrats
are busy all the time with the assist
ance of the railroad lawyers con
stantly at their command, while the
ordinary taxpayer has to depend on
conscientious public officers and un
biased judges to protect his rights.
Mayor "Jlrn'e" Fourth of July ukase
has made its appearance, but it lacks
all the snap and ginger which would
be expected in a patriotic proclama
tion by a cowboy mayor. There Is
nothing in it about "cutting her loose"
or "whooping it up." or "stampeding
the herd," or "a hot old time" in
tact some people may be Inclined to
doubt whether the new edict really
comes from, Mayor "Jim" or Is not an
old discarded document left over by
one of bis predecessors. -
The decision of Judge Smith Mc
pherson to hold the Missouri rate in
junction case in abeyance three
months so that the railroads may give
the S-cent fare law a trial in that state
regalia the story of the justice of the
peace who, after hearing the evidence.
declared, "1 will take this case under
advisement and reserve Judgment un
til next week Tuesday, when I shall
decide for the defendant."
The World-Herald would like to
have Its controversy with Colonel Wat
terson run on, like Tennyson's brook,
forever. That is why it Is, therefore,
baiting the Kentucky colonel for a re
ply and then for a rejoinder, and then
again another. The compliment of
being noticed by Colonel Watterson is
too flntterlng for It to pass by.
A stubborn customs offlofer refuses
to classify a lot of champagne con
signed by Commander Wlnslow of the
navy to his Newport address as
"household goods and necessities."
That customs official apparently does
not know what constitutes necessities
for a naval officer planning a summer
campaign at Newport.
Commander Peary is now looking
around for a young, vigorous and
strong surgeon to go with him to the
North Pole. LaBt report from Peary
was that he was looking around for an
elderly, pompous old gentleman with
mutton chop whiskers who would fur
nish a check to cover the expenses of
the Junket.
The Bee is glad to note the conver
sion of both its local contemporaries
to the belief that slot machine gam
bling is an evil, whether the chips are
cashed in for money or for stock-in-trade.
It has taken a long time,
however, for them to reach this point
of moral reformation. -
The local franchlsed corporations
are not bothering the Board of Equal
ization much these days. The fight
to secure full assessment of their prop
erty and franchises has been won and
they are willing to let well enough
alone.
Texas officials are arresting railroad
station masters who exact more than
2 cents a mile for railroad tickets.
They do queer things In Texas, but
somehow they have a faculty tor get
ting at the source of trouble.
Good Slsra of Prosperity.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Postal receipts throughout the eountry
are much larger than they were a year
ago. which Is equivalent to saying that
business In general Is unusually prosperous.
Groundless Fears.
Cleveland Leader. v
Prestdent Roosevelt was the man most
praised In the opening speeches at Tho
Hague. And some people used to 11a
awake o' nights for fear ha might fill rtia
world with war.
Pnbllo Land a Private Snap.
Kansas City Times.
When tho public lands convention in
Denver speaks of "we, the people cf the
United States," It means the sheep grow
ers and cattleman who wish to ue the
public domain for their private advantage.
Playing a Lifeless Gam.
Philadelphia Press.
Somebody has submitted to the president
a plan to take the trust question out of
politics. If that should be adopted there
wouldn't be enough left in present day
politics to make a stump speech about.
RrofllrmliiK tho Limit.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
President Roosevelt laughingly explains
he has no designs on the presidency of
Harvard college and that his Lansing re
marks simply meant that when ha is di
vested of his cares of office one year and
nine months' hence he will have time to
be an active member of the alumni associa
tion. Yet some people persist In represent
ing him as a candidate for continuance in
the office he now holdsl
Power to Enforce Treaties.
Milwaukee Sentinel.
The country is once more reminded of
the necessity of legislation Imperatively
needed to make the t'nlted Statea a com
petent treaty-making power, by the re
current mob attacks on foreigners In San
Francisco. Were the arm of .Uncle Sam
made long enough to reach at once theBe
hoodlum violators of our treaty obliga
tions their power for international mis
chief Vould be snuffed out at once.
Oh, Phoebe, How Could YooT
Baltimore American.
Miss Phoebo Cousins, the first woman
lawyer and United States marshal, is to
the fore with the announcement that
woman suffrage la a failure. While there
may be a dlveralty of opinion upon this
subject, it Is hardly becoming for a mem
ber of the sex who has won hor education
and position aa the reault of the movement
for feminine advancement of which woman
suffrage is a predominant phase to make
such a statement. Mlas Couxlna hns not
repudiated the advantage accorded her
personally, while she has failed to recog
nize the good of the movement which made
her attainments possible.
ADAMS' BIG MKLOt,
Shareholders of an Eipreu Company
Booked tr Slice, i
Chicago Tribune.
The Adams Express company Is about
to distribute among shareholders $24,0M,OW
in collateral trust bonda representing Urn
accumulated surplus asset of the coi-por-i-tlon.
Nina years ago it distributed .12,iMu,
000. Aa the company la capitalized for
$12,900,000, it will have declared in nine
years special dividends amounting to too
per cent, plus the regular S per cent divi
dend, and an occasional 2 per cent extra.
Manifestly here Is a public service cor
poration which serves the publlo with un
stinted profit to Itself. Even If the rates
1ml been much lower than they were
prodiral dlvidenda could have been paid to
stockholders. If there was need of the
' regulation of railroad rates, there is evi
dent need of the direct or Indirect regula
tion of express charges. ,
They can be .indirectly but effectively
regulated through the adoption by tho
United Btaies of a domestic parcel post
system. The express companies have per
sistently and successfully fought legislation
in that direction. They have had a friend
In the senate who baa been of great serv
Ice to them. The companies have pleaded
that ther ratea were moderate and that It
would be unjust for the national govern
ment to enter their Held of labor and do
the work for leas. The 300 per cent divi
dend of the Adams Express company de
molishes that argument. ,
Doubtless the domestic parcels post pro
ject will be brought up again when con
greaa convenes and will have mere sup
porters than ever before. That great divi
dend ras furnished them aa argument tfeay
will uot tail to UtOj
OTHER l. tnnj Til AX Ol'RS.
The csar of all the Russtas has given
the world an astonishing exhibition of the
dual personality in royal life. Almost at
the assembling hours of The Hague peace
conference, originally called Into exist
ence and foatered by Csar Nicholas, tho
emperor dissolves the Duma, the second at
tempt at representative government In Rus
sia. To the world at larre Is presented the
spectacle of an autocratic ruler encourag
ing peace and harmony among the nations
and at the same time demolishing the
feeble structure of constitutional govern
ment at home. One hand holds out the
olive branch aa a symbol of good will to
world powers. The other unsheaths the
sword of despotism and declares war on
political progress in the Russian empire.
A "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" la not a
novelty In the annals of royalty. Usually
the character performs his part under the
cover of diplomatic Intrigue. Nicholas, dis
carding the cautious methods of diplomacy,
leaps to the center of the world's stage as
a promoter of peace among his neighbors,
a tyrant among his own. The power which
ended the life of the Duma Justifies the act
by asserting that the members were not
subservient to the will of Its creator. A
majority did not respond to royal wishes
or heed the royal lash. The members
labored under the detualon that they had
some rights which autocracy was bound to
respect. From this Idle dream they were
rudely awakened, driven out of the royal
temple, some ordered home, others to Jail.
Lest the world should harshly judge the
act, the czar hastens to assure mankind
of his good intention by ordering an elec
tion of a new Duma. No doubt the emperor,
by a succession of elections, will eventually
secure a Duma fo Ms liking. It Is a almpln
trick, easily within the grasp of an
amateur. Meanwhile, conditions In Russia
are going from bad to worse and bombs are
popping from Peterhof to Odessa.
An American abroad, writing to the
Boston Transcript, offers a plausible Inter
pretation of the proposed visit of King
Edward to Ireland. The writer reiterates
the claim often heard before the king
ascended the throne thit as prlnc of
Wales he was aa favorable to the aspira
tions of the Irish people as his official
position permitted him to be. The coming
visit Is to be a reaffirmation of good will
and Is timed to soothe the Just indignation
of the people over the betrayel of the home
rule cause by the liberal ministry. "It
may be taken for granted," says the writer,
"that King Edward does not now prepare
for an Irish tour with the queen by reason
of being under any nonsensical delusion
that the Irish people can be distracted from
their pursuit of home rule by the pomp
and show of his royal progress. He Is too
old and shrewd a man of the world to Im
agine that he can bubble them. Why does
he go, then? It can't be much pleasure
for the good-hearted monarcli to see ono
of tho finest countries in the world given
over largely to grazing beasts Instead of to
maintaining the stout race that has car
ried the bayonets of his throne trium
phantly in every quarter of his realms. It
can't be much pleasure for him to witness
that lovely land much abandoned to tho
aged, to children growing up with littl
prospect save the hope of emigrating to
America, to the depopulation, beggary, ruin,
and downcast faces that there prevail after
"twenty years of resolute government."
Why does he go? Surely to do the Irish
people a good turn. Tp give them a hint,
one that he knows their quick wlta will
probably take. He knows the Inside of
British politics, and they know he knows
It. A mere nod from the posted friend Is
worth reams of uninformed talk at this
Juncture." Here, then. Is the opportunity
for the king to make his relsn Illustrious.
Ireland can appreciate justice, though long
delayed.
A London paper complains that "shoals
of American bunco steerers" are Infesting
London Just now and are operating more
upon American tourists than the natives.
"Already," aays a Scotland Yard detective,
quoted by the paper, "the London police
have received many complaints from con
fiding Americans who have trusted well
dressed strangers and lost their valuables
In consequence. The chief stock la trade
of these rogues is the art of Inspiring con
fidence. They have even' been known to
deceive detectives. One man who posed
as a member of a . millionaire New York
family aold a string of valuable horsea last
week to a new arrival who had ambitions
to shine as the owner of stock. The only
flaw In the bargain, from the purchaser's
point of view, was that after the confidence
man had vanished with the dollars It was
discovered that the horses belonged to an
other and respectnble American. It would
aurprlae you to know the men who are
taken In by these little tricks. Hard
headed business men and experienced men
of the world fall ready victims to these
well dressed, plausible scoundrels."
The Auatrlans are more than a century
behind us In conferring the boon of uni
versal suffrage, but they seem to have kept
an eye upon ua and to have discovered
through our experience the weakest point
In auch an elective system. Under their
lew .laws it is' made not only the legal
right, but the legal duty for every man
to vote. If he neglects thla duty he la sub
ject to punishment as for a misdemeanor,
the fines ranging from 20 cents to $2. These
I sums, small aa they seem to the citizens
of a country In which things are done In
big figures, will stand for a considerable
! degree of sacrifice by the average Austrian
who may find himself called to pay cither
' of them. If we ever reach compulsory
voting here, aa we probably will, we shall
have to see the Auatrlans and raiae them
several chips in the way of fines,
A dispute that arose some weeks ago be
tween Hungary and Croatia over the ques
tion of the official language of the Hun
garian state railways has led to an awk
ward breach between the Hungarian gov
ernment and the representatives of Croatia.
t TNi Hungarian government recently intro
dufii a bill to amend the service regalia-
jtlom i.n Hungarian atate railways. The
Ci'iitlans immediately demandnd that a
' knowledge of Magyar should not be obliga'-
toiy for state railway servants In Croatia
and Slavonla. They pointed out that the
Hvngaro-Croatlan compact of 1868 declares
railways to be a Joint concern of Hungary
and Croatia and that therefore the Cf at an
language ought to be the official language
of all Joint con-ems In Croatia and Blavon'a.
The Hungarian minister of commerce, M.
Kossuth, on behalf of the government, re.
Jected tljls demand on the ground that the
compact of lfC8 could not apply to the state
railways, Inaamuch aa they did not exist
at that date. Thla explanation failed to
satisfy the .Croatian representatives, who
at once broke off negotiations with the
Hungarian government. The breach is sig
nificant, as it shows a relapse of the Hun-garo-Croatlan
relationship into Its former
condition of mutual distrust.
Noit Too Moch of a Rood-Thin.
Philadelphia Record.
Evidently Ambassador Bryre has none
too high an opinion of the output of-our
legislatuiea, for when ha was asked If the
Oklahoma constitution waa not too much
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avlect la choosing mwnbara of taa former
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POLITICAL DRIFT.
Recent vetoes of Oovernor Hughes aro
regarded In conservative quarters aa lin
ing the governor to a commanding position
as a presldental quality.
Colonel AVattfrson's cry, "Back- to the
Cons' ltutlun," would command more en
thuslaslsm in the ranka if a pie counter
attachment waa assured.
Pittsburg Is stunned almost to speech
lessness because there has been returned
to the city treasury $50, an unexpended
balance of an appropriation for a councll
manlc Junket, j
The Toklo J1JI has taken an'unlnue posi
tion on the American preslJental question.
"Here's our hand Bill," the editor exclalmi
In substance, leaving supporters of rival
Bills to interpret It as thoy like.
A law enacted In Connecticut abolishes
ssloon srreens, giving the tippler the long
delayed privilege of kitting the highball
or dumping the schooner within optical
range of those who haven't the price.
Governor Cummins of Iowa one day this
week atopped long enough in the political
preserves of Philander Knox to assure the
Plttsburgers that "the west Is stronsly
In favor of the renomlnatlon of Theodore
Roosevelt."
The Investigation Into the' looting of
the Pennsylvania statehouae goes to show
that the air space between the legs of
chairs wa measured up and paid for at
contract rates. Even now the state is pay
ing for the hot air provoked by tho loot
ing. Johp H. Bankhcad, who waa appointed
senator froirt Alabama to succeed John T.
Morgan, owes his advancement Indirectly
to his failure to retain the seat which he
long occupied In the house of representa
tives. Ho was defeated for congress in 1906
by Captain R, P. Hobson.
Bette than a summer vacation with all
expenses paid Is tho pleasure to be had
from reading the Chicago Inter-Ocean's
dally boost for Speaker Cannon for presi
dent. Nothing so racy and picturesque has
been seen In print since Huckleberry Finn
visited the graveyard in the dark of the
moon.
Boost for Civilisation.
Baltimore American.
A bill Is to be Introduced In congress next
winter providing for teachinf of humane
treatment of animals In the publlo schools.
Several pities have adopted this course and
the humane societies- expect much result
from the work. Such teaching should be
general, as a higher standard of civilization
generally la Involved la humanity toward
the lower creation.
Can Afford to Bo Cool.
t Washington Herald.
Perhaps the main reason why Carroll
D. Wright thinks the president uses no
stronger expression than "By Qeorge" la
that the other fellow la Invarlnbly the one
who needs the cues words.
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BREEZY LINES.
"Whst's the matter?"
"Proposed to a girl last night."
"Oct the mitten?"
"No, the boots. Her father came In."
Cleveland Leader.
"That young man who calls round at
your house isn't Snuare."
"All right; next tlmo be turna up I'll turn
him down." Houston Post.
"It must be a terrible disappointment to
be a defeated candidate."
"Oh. I don't know," answered the mail
who always tries to look on the bright
side. "Sometimes It's a pretty good ad
vertisement for a law practice or a led are
tour." Washington Star.
"I see." said the shade of General Put
nam, "t.hat they are agitating my ride on
earth."
"Yes?" said the astral body interpreter..
"They have overlooked my prime nolileve
ment," declared the old warrior. "Kor, un
like most men, I got out of a predicament
by getting in a hole." Baltimore American.
Lawson Is old Bullion a real lover of
rtT
Dawson I should say so. Why, he can t
enjoy a picture unless he haa paid at least
for It." Somervllle Journal.
"Did you gt home before the storm,
broke last night?" asked the first clubman.
"Of course," replied the other. "The
storm never breaks at my houae until I get
home." Washington Herald.
"D'Auber hns a commission to paint the
president's portrait in water oolirs for
some government Institution In Washing
ton," ssld Wise.
"You don't say," replied Asoum. W hy
In wator colors?"
"1 don't know, but perhaps the Women s
Christian Temperance union Insisted upon
It." Philadelphia Press.
TASTE FOR LITERATURE.
Purges Johnson In Harper's.
The goal, a learned soul Is he!
He takei a tome upon his knee,
And be It ever so profound.
In rarest lore though It abound.
Expounded by some ancient sage,
Yet he'll devour It page by page
With careless mien and free.
Were I a goat 'twould make me gloat
In glee!
For aa thf matter atand with me,
I delve In books unceasingly;
Yet some I read of vast portent
And never know Just what they meant.
I fear (with aorrow be it said)
My atomacn a aironjrer man my n-rr
A dreadful way to be! 1
That's why I d gloat, were I a goat.
You see.
The goat a cultured taste has he, ,
And catholic as it can be.
Through libraries he'll browse with seat
And find no works he can't digest.
Though nowadays there's stuff that's writ
Would give a goat a coughing fit.
Or so It seems to me.
But, ah! the goat a husky throat
Haa he.
With clever perspicacity
I've learned a thing that startled me.
Slnoe I myaelf nave writ a booh
I scan reviews with anxious look
And all the papers that I read
Have hired a goat to do the deed
'TIs true aa true can be.
And much I've wrote haa smote a goat.
Or stuck, I fear, within his throat.
Ah me I
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