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HERRICK DEPLORES WASTE ideas concerning how Uncle Snm's money matters should bo handled. Undo Sam Is extravagant and wastes bis money, according to Mr. Ilcr rlck, who explained by way of profaco that In tho early history of tho United States, where thero wcro foreign complications, men of ability preferred government eorvlce bocauso of Uio promlnenco It gava them. Later, whon tfeeso foreign complications had disappeared and tho country was onco fairly started, this class of mon preferred to dovoto their cnorglcs to commercial aad industrial enterprises, which may bo taken to mean that the former gov ernor doesn't want a cabinet Job at all. "Many of thoso who havo nssuWd tho administrative functions of gov ernment," ho said, "are so poorly qualified Uiat tho consequent waste and extravaganco are nppalllng. Tho ovldcnco is conclusive that in tho national government itself thero is a vaal and growing amount of extravagance in administration. "Senator Aldrlch gives it as his opinion Uiat tho national government could save $300,000,000 a year if it woro conducted on a business basis and Managed as cleverly and efllclontiy no a largo corporation. This amount is 40 per cent, of the whole cost of running tho government and it is $33,000,000 more than all the dividends paid to all tho stockholders of nil the. railroads' In tlio United States. "To tho high cost of operating tho national government may bo attributed fee duties on many articles Uiat otherwlso should bo admitted at a lower rote or put on the frco list. It is not tho tariff Uiat Is responsible for the Wa cost of living, but it la cumboraorao public business methods, public extravagance and waste, which aro largely responsible for tho high tariff. HUGHES FOR SUPREME COURT idency hod not President Taft appointed him to All the vacancy caused by the death of JusUco Drowor. Governor Hughes neeaUy announced that ho Intended to reUre from politics And devoto his 'tteaUoa to making money for his family. As govornor he recolves $10,000 a. year and aa a JusUco of tho Supromo court ho will get $12,000. Ho could ara much more practising law. On this account bo hesitated about accept taff the honor offered him by tho president, but aftor being urged by Senator Root and other party leadem ho look it Governor Hughes was born in Olons Falls, N. Y., April 11, 18G2. His father was David Chaao Hughes and his mother was Mary Cnthorlno Con ,10)11?. He wns graduated from Drown university with tho degree of A. B. in 1881. Ho recolvod his degree of Lu. D. from Columbia Law Bchool in 1884. He was married Decembor 5, 1888, to AntolnoUo Cartor. Mr Hughes was admitted to tho Now York bar In 1881, and received a prlxe fellowship from Columbia Law school in the same year.- He practisod law In- Now York city unfit 1891, whon ho assumed tho chnlr of professor el law in Cornell university. Ho- became notnblo, through tho llfo Insurance invesUgatlon. Ho was oloctod governor In 1890 and ro-clcctcd In 1908. POLICE CHIEF FOR LIFE guilty ,of zlonionts, necessary, Chief Young showed tits cowman houso tho day after his nppolnlmont whon ho announced that the pollco would not molest tho Chinese of St. LohIr for playing fan tan. Ho Bald a Chinaman had as much right to ulnv fnn tan as a Gorman has to piny plnochlo. Then tho now chief snld ho would permit boxing boforo rcgulnrly organised clubs. "Ullly" Young Is worth $100,000, """WjCordlng to roports, but his woalth has novor Intorfored with his duties ns a policeman, Many n poor family down In tho old Soulnrd stroot district, where Young was captnln for several years, knows how bouio of his wealth ban gono to rollovo Buffering. Colonel pouco xorco on mo worm's inir grounds una his work In that respect helped a 101 wnon uio uoaru invosiiguicu ins NEWEST DEMOCRATIC HERO "Groat safe," voiis, statu, Republican runUB. this: "This Is not wholly a partisan for which Cunnou linu Blood aud typllloH" Mr. Haven's Is a lawyer and a former purtnor of the late Representative James Brock Perkins, whom ho succeeds. Ho was born lu Woodsport, Cayuga -county, in 18QU. iiu wns grauuuted ; Ho wont to Rochester Immediately uftor graduating, ,wns admitted to tho bar in 1880, and has pructlued law over since. Although nctlvo lu Democratic politics, ho has noyer before hold public olllce. Ho lu regardod as u typical iinitinni'iir nr riwi nui oniutfii Myron T. Ilcrrlck, former governor of Ohio, Cleveland banker, railroad director nnd possessor of onough of this world's goodfl to keop the wolf away from most any old door, has been men tloncd agnln recently as a posslblo member of President Taft's cabinet. Tho sun hnrdly rlaos and Bots In Washington without some rumor that a cabinet ofllcer Intends to resign nnd tho latest of theso Involves Frank lin Mnc Vengh of Chicago, socretary of tho treas ury. Mr. Muc Vcagh sold It was nows to him, but, despite his statement, some of tho wIsoncroH pro ceeded to pick his successor and Ilcrrlck headed tho list. Nobody doubts that Mr. Horrlck would mnko a good secretary of tho treasury. Ho knows tho financial gamo from A to Izzard and recently In a speech In Now York showed that ho hasBomo Charles Evans Hughes, governor of Now York, who in October will leave tho oxecutivo chair at Albany to don tho robes of the Supremo court of the United States, has boon in the limelight ever sinco he conducted the probo that revealed tho big scandals in tho Insurance world. After he defeated William Randolph Hearst for governor, Mr. Hughes naturally got into line for tho presidency, as a New York governor al ways la regarded ns a possibility. Theodore Roosovolt, howovor, wanted his friend Tnft to bo president and the result is history, But Governor Hughes kept on doing things, as tho race track gamblers, among others, can toBtlfy, and in 1012 it Is moro Uian probablo that tho namo of Hughes would again be heard in connection with tho pres Tito board of police commissioners lu St, Louis hns choson a chief for llfo., Col. William Young Is tho man who bends tho pollco department of tho fourth, largest city in tho United States. Most ovorybody In St. Louis who knows Colonel Young nt nil callB Iiiin "Hilly." Ho has boon on tho St. Louis police forco 32 yonrs, start ing as a patrolman and working himself up round by round until ho now enjoys a salary of $5,000 a year, an uutomobllo and othor accessories that go with such a job. When Col. Kdniond P. Creecy got Into the mlxup ovor tho shortage In tho pollco relief asso ciation's accounts, although ho wob In no wise nny connection with tho alleged emboz Governor Iludloy, who appoints tho no llco board, decided that a chnngo lu chiefs was Young wns ot tho head of the regular. rccoru. Scott! Why, If this thing keens un oven John Dal.ell and Gen. Harry Bingham ain't It wan a Republican member of cougross talk ing tho day after James S. Havens. Democrat, was elected representative or tho thirty-second district of Now York. Following so soon after tho election of Fosb In one of Massachusetts' Republican strongholds, tho election of Mr. Ha who was not known outsldo of Ufa own uuturalty created more than u rlpplo In tho Mr. IlavoiiB, who made tho high cost of living his buttlo cry, Just as a lot of othor Democratic cniHlldatOB nro going to do lu tho campaign that 1b to como this full, sums up his election llko victory. It Is a victory over tho thlncs for tho Ideals which Governor Hughes from Ynlo lu 1884. ASSESSMENTS MADE RAILROAD PROPERTY OF STATE GIVEN ATTENTION. NO MX AGENTS TO PROTEST Work Done on tho Shortest Time Ever Recorded Other Mat ters at the State Capital. Tho Stato Board of Assossmont as ocsBed tho railroad proporty of tho state without n speech having been mndo by any railroad tax agent. Tho IncrciiBo over tho valuation lost year Is $1,101,392. Tho Incrcaso is con fined to the Chicago, St. Paul, Minne apolis & Omaha and tho Kearney, Central City and North Platte branch es of tho Union Pacific, This makes tho total full valuo of nil rntlroad property In the state $273,893,217. The governor was absent, being out of tho Ity. Those present were Brlnn, Cowles, Junkln nnd Barton. After an Informnl discussion the board con cluded to make tho asscssmont at once, aud this was dono. Tho vote waB unanimous. No other railroad valu ation In tho stato was changed. A. W. Scrlbner of tho Union Pacific reached tho stato houso Just a mo moot after tho work had been con cluded, sp did not got to deliver his Bpoech. Tho following table shows tho changes: Value Per Mile. Union Pacific 1909. 1010. $32,000 31,700 Koarnoy branch ...$32,877 Central City branch 31,667 North Platte branch $17,600-20,000 25,000 41,460 St Paul, M. & 0 41,442 Tho action of the State Board of Assessment marks the shortest Ume on record that any Nebraska board ever completed tho valuation of this class of property. Heretofore it has been the custom of tho assessing board to llston to addresses of rail road tax agents and spend many weeks in consldoraUon of tho ques tion. So far as tho present board Is concerned it arrived at the con clusion that it could fix tho valuaUon of the property Just as well on the reports made as it could by listening to the tax agents rectto their pleas for a reducUon. In the afternoon the board mot again and added to tho Burlington tho 8 miles of new road from Lincoln to Denton. This was valued at $25,000 a mile, which increases, tho total valu ation that much. Lighting Plant Not Profitable. At the meeting of tho Nobraaka State Electrical assoclaUon, President Scouti of tho County Electric Light and Water company, assorted that tho city of Lincoln lost about $3,000 during the last year on its llghUng plant and at that no estimated loss Is given for depreciation of proporty. Site for Goose Farm. An enterprising capitalist who wnntB the Lincoln Commercial club to furnish him tho site for a goose farm somowhero around this city has submitted a financial prospectus In dotnll. In It ho bIiowb how an invost- mont of $G0O enn bo mndo to produco roturns of $339,700 In three years, Umo. Apportions School Money. State Superintendent Bishop has certified to tho state auditor tho amount of money to be apportioned to tho various counties of tho Btato, derived from tho forest resorvo fund. Tho total nmount distributed amount ed to $2,837.34, Involving n total acre age of 589,002.93. National Guard Rifle Contest. Adjutant General Hartlgnn has Is sued an order directing that tho stato lompotltlve rlflo and rovolver shoot of tho Nebraska national guard shall bo held at tho Htato range ut Ashland commencing Monday, July 18. The Postmasters' Meeting. It Is probablo that tho noxt conven tion of Nebraska postmasters will bo hold In Omaha. This was tho senU- mont expressed by most of tho mem bers of tho executlvo committee, which met at Uie Lincoln hotel to which met at Uie Lincoln hotel re cently. Tho convention this year will be hold In Lincoln. The Sibley Rates. Tho American Express company hns filed a statoment with the stnto railway commlslons that tho Sibley rato will bo put Into effect on ship ments between Nobrnska points rout ed through Julesburg. Tho Pnclllc Express company, which formerly op erated on tho Union Pacific Express company, refused to put In tho re duced rates on such shipments, claim ing that business pnslng through Julo burg, Colo., was Interstate. This con tentlon deprived tho far western No- brnBknns of tho benefit of tho act. Oars to Go Down. Tho bars will be down May 9. Lin coin will bo wldo open on that dato and every man, woman nnd child In tho city who hns tho price may ship in a cane ui uccr nr more ami u will be delivered to any homo lu Lincoln Another Petition for Dean. A numorously signed petition from Blnlno county wnB Mod with the sec retary of stato In behalf ot .Initios R. Dean, cnndldnto for tho domocrntlo nomination for congress In tho Sixth district. KEEP MOUTH CLOSED. Law Regulating Census Enumerators Is Strict. Tho census enumerators aro not supposed to open their mouths in so much as oven a guess as to tho fig ures that any department of tho con sua will show In tho ond. Tho tak ing of tho census is supposed to bo a Btrlitly confidential operation and Undo Sam lu going to see that tho enumerators do not talk so much ns to botray tho confidence thnt is placed In them when Uioy tnko tho oath for tho work. In other words, tho census Is for a public record to ho given out by tho government In duo tlmo and not to bo gossiped nbout by Individual enumerators whllo tho work is being dono. Supervisor of Census Helvoy of tho First district Bays that tho law is very plain ub well nB sovero on this point. Tho penalty tho law has fixed on an enumerator who divulges any information obtained while In tho progress of his official duties Is $1,000 line or not ovor five years of Im prisonment. Tho census enumerator Is constantly piled with questions con cerning his work nnd what ho has found and especially is he dally aBkcd dozens of times for an opinion as to what tho population will bo found to number at tho final count Tho law, asldo from restricting him from giv ing out doflnlto Information, provides1 thnt he shall ndt even mnko a guess nt final figures of any kind connected with the taking of tho census. This provision Is made because It is pre sumed that if the enumerator gavo out his guess ho would bo basing thnt opinion on something that his oQlcInl work so far had showed him. Slnco tho law provides thnt the In dividual or tho corporation accurately divulge all rcquirod information to tho enumerator, it at once provides for tho absolute sccrocy of the enu merator in order that no unfair ad vantages shall bo taken at any point, or in any way. Tho enumerator of manufacturers' census backed by tho authority of Undo Sam, probes into tho moat socret books of all firms and corporaUons, and tho gov ernment protects that manufacturer from having his business secrets gos Bipod about in tho neighborhood at once by attaching tho penalty to the sin of divulging Uio faots. All in due tlmo the director of cen sus at Washington, D. 0., will give out tho official roports, and it Is pre sumed that until he does no one per son shall know any more nbout tho census than does another. It is thought that tho official statements will bo ready some Umo in July. Cash In Stato Treasury. The state treasurer's report for the month of April shows Uiat thero Is still plenty of cash in the state treas ury. Tho balnnco the first of Uio month was $684,889.28. Saturday night tho balance was $628,403,43. Tho re ceipts during the month woro $169, 819.77 and tho disbursements woro $226,305.62. Tho permanent funds Invested nmount to $8,578,584.08, di vided nB follows: Perm, school $7,803,097.29 Perm, university 201,637.39 A. C. E 496,031.56 Normal endowment 77,817.21 Grlgware, the Train Robber. Sovoral pcoplo In Lincoln are con vinced thnt Frank Grlgwnro, tho con victed train robbor who escaped from tho federal ponltontlnry April 21, Is hiding hero. Sovernl persons, among them women, havo called up tho po llco nnd Insisted thnt a man nnswor lng tho description of Grlgwnro had been scon In their neighborhood. Escaped Fugitive Overhauled. Axel Johnson, for over two ycarfl n fugitive from Justlco under Indict ment in the Lincoln division of fed- I ornl court, has been captured at Twin ifnlls, Mont, ana will bo brought back to this city for, trial, Ho Is chargod with counterfeiting. Omaha Debaters Defeated. Taking the nflirmntlvo on tho ques tion thnt labor unions nro, on tho wholo bonoflclal, tho Omaha high school debuting squad wan Judged to bo defeated In tho contest with tho Lincoln high school trio. Cost of the Campaign. Tho published report of tho com mittee ot fifty which hod charge of tho dry campaign hero bIiowb that tho receipts wcro $3,158.63 and tho expenditures amounted to $3,142.89. Voss Gets Office. A writ of mandamus askod for by Wilfred E. Vosb to compel Mary V. "Qulnn to deliver to him tho office of county superintendent ot Dnkota county, hns been allowed by tho su promo court. It wns alleged that Vosb did not possobs a teachers' flrBt grado certificate when elected county superintendent and was Uioreforo In eligible to tho office, Ills certlflcato had oxplrcd on October 20. Prior to that dato ho took n teacher's examina tion beforo the county Biiporlntond- cnt of Thurston county nnd completed oxnmlnatlon October 16. New School Location.' Providing tho park board will Bub iult a proposition for $50,000 for park purposes, tho school board will agroo to locato tho high school building on the Davenport tract. This tho school boaru unniiy ucciuea, ronowing a wrangle for mnny months. Tho Dav onport tract contains eight acres and was bought by tho school board soma years ago, Somo ono objected to tho construction of tho building on tho ground because It was considered too low, so tho school board hold tho mat- tor up for discussion, v RAISING PERSIAN CATS HAS PROVEN PROFITABLE Michigan Country Women Increase Their Incomes By Breeding Felines Have Decided Advantago Over City Cousins. "Why couldn't country women rnlso Persian cats 7" queried Mrs. P. Frank lin of tho Abbottsford cattery, whon she was approached about tho ndvisa blllty of women on the farms taking ap that lino of money making. "Thero'a no reason on onrth why they couldn't, and ovory reason why they should be moro successful than city women, rhoy havo bottor milk for tho pusstoa for ono thing, nnd for anothor they anvo ovor bo much moro room. The more room tho cats havo tho better nd larger thoy grow, mid tho larger they aro Uio moro valunblo. On tho back end of a city lot, tho cats really io not havo enough room to do their best I havo n portablo runway for ulno, which I movo ovorywhoro on my lot, but I could do much hotter if I bad tho' 'all out doors' of tho farmer's wlfo." Mrs. Franklin has been in the busi ness for years; has taken first prizes it different stato fairs; has been prosl lent of the Detroit Cat club, aud is consulted dally by women who aro starting In tho business, says Michi gan Farmer. "A nood breeding cat may bo pur chased for $25," snld bIio. "Of course, you could got a kitten for $10 or $15, A Flno Type but It is better to pay more and got n cat, as you never really know what a kitten will bo until It Is a year old. In 65 days the klttons are born, nnd In a couple of months, they may be sold at from $10 a piece up to as high ns you daro ask and are ablo to get. Thore aro usually from two to six klt tons, though sometimes there are eight'. It is bettor to lot. tho mother raise only four, nnd keep a common, ehort-hnlrod cat to mother any others. Thoy should not bo weaned under two months, to got tho host results, though some wean them younger. "Aftor they nro woaned food them milk three times a day. I always scald tho milk, until thoy nro a year old. Aftor that I feed them porridge and milk in tho morning, and a meat meal onco n day, beef, mutton, liver, honrt, anything but pork. I feed n grent deal of beef heart Thoy nro flno mousors, and If you havo n Persian cat around you will never ho bothered with mlco. They love grass and catnip, too, and CONVENIENT BROODER HOUSE A small, convenient brooder houso used by the Mnlne experiment station Is hero shown. This is built on run nora nnd may bo moved easily, Two 16-foot pieces of 4 by 6-Inch timber serve ns runners. Tho onds of tho tlmbors, which project boyond tho house, nro chamfered on tho under side to fncllltnto moving. Tho houses nro 12 feet long; some of them nro six foot and others seven feet wide; bovoii feet 1b tho bottor width. Thoy nro six foot high In front nnd four foot high at the back. The frame Is of 2 by 3 Inch lumber; the floor Is doublo board ed nnd tho building Is boarded and covered with a good quality of heavy roofing paper. Pnpor Is proferrcd to Bhlnglcs for outaldo covorlng. This kind of covorlng for tho wnll Is not so likely to bo Injured In moving as Shingles. A dqor two feet wide Is In tho center of the front nnd n slx-llght window, hinged nt tho top, Is on each sldo ot It Two brooders nro placed in each at thoso houses and 50 to 60 chicks nro put with each brooder, A low partition sopnratoa tho flocks whllo they are young, but later It has. . . i ii. fn . t . i io ue mauu uiKuur. uiu uouncb nro largo onough so that a person enn go In and do the work comfortably, and each ono accommodates 100 chicks un I havo a bushol of catnip dried every fall for mlno. "Persian cats aro no hardor to ralso than ordinary alloy cats, no matter what you may hear ns to tholr doll cacy. You can keep them out doom all wlntor If you want, and In fact, the stud cut must not bo brought in. Thoy. must bo kopt dry, but tho cattory need not bo heated. -Build shelves so thoy can climb, study them as you do your babtoB and troat their llttlo rjlmenta much the snmo. "In plckng out n queen, tho woman must bo caroful to look for what we call 'typo.' The cat, above all things, must bo broad botwocn tho eyes, must havo a short noso, small cars, a cobby, or low broad body, short legs, a short tall and a long coat, Uio longer the, better. Bluo, yellow and black and,' yellow cats, must havo yellow or or ange eyes; silver cats must havo green oyes, nnd white cats should have blue or amber oyes. "I have found all colors equally hardy. So far as I can soo, a white cnt Is ns hardy as a bluo or tortoise Bholl or a Bilvor. In breeding it Is best to breed color to color. If you do not tho color of tho Biro will predom inate if ho Is older and lino bred, un- of Persian. less tho queen Ib also lino bred. Then the colors will bo about equal, "Of courso, you want your catB reg istered, as a farmer registers his prizo stock, and only line-bred cats can bo registered. You must bo sure thero is no common blood, though after four generations a cat with common an cestry may be registered if it has been carefully line-bred that long. It U curious to note, though, that tho old, short-haired ancestors may crop up in their descendants ot tho seventh and eighth generation, Just as tho ono drop of bad blood shows in tho human bo Ing aftor a century or so," Tho cats aro remarkably Intelligent, nnd seemingly understand everything which is said to thom. In disposition thoy nro much llko people, many of thom being loving and good naturod, whllo others havo tho veiled claw In tho paw ot silk roady for offondors. If you hnvc boon In the habit ot call ing thoso long-haired beauties "An goras," stop it They nro "Persians." til tho cockerels aro large enough to bo removod. Packing Pork at Home. Tho New Hampshire experiment station recently conducted somo feed ing experiments with shoatB. Fifteen of tho shonta wcro divided Into tlvo lots ntld fed 35 dnys. On soaked shellod corn there was a gain of 82.2 pounds, at a cost of 7.3 cents per pound; on shelled corn nnd sklmraod milk a gain of 141 pounds, nt a cost of 7.4 cents per pound; on sbollod corn and middlings a gain or 99.3 pounds, nt a cost of 8.9 cents per pound; on shellod corn, middlings and skim milk n gntn of 129 pounds, nt a cost of 8.2 cents per pound; and on shelled corn, corn middlings and mo lasses n gain of 104.8 pounds at a cost of 8.89 cents por pound. Wealthy Farmers. Tho United States farmer Is, col lectively, tho most wealthy capitalist tho world has ever known. By the last coiibub tho farmers had Invested in agriculture In UAltod States $20,000, 000,000, which inst year produced $7,000,000,000. Such a yearly Income means $C80,000,000, a month, or $19, 000,000 a day. .