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EVENTS OF THE DAY HELD TO A FEW LINES. UTE EVENTS BOILED DOWN Personal, Political, Foreign and Other Intelligence Interesting to the General Readers. WASHINGTON. Suffragettes from all states present ed their petitions urging woman suf frage constitutional amendment. Senator Thornton, democrat, has as sailed the democratic party’s determi nation to put sugar on the free list in 1910. “Ty” Cobb called at t he White House with Representative Tribble of Georgia, and President Wilson greeted him warmly. Senator Gronna attacked the tariff bill, saying it' would not benefit con sumers because it would injure if not destroy the producers. Senator Lewis has introduced a resolution to authorize secretary of treasury to withdraw treasury privi leges from national banks which com bined to depress federal securities. The postoflice committee has in definitely postponed action on the Bryan resolution on assurance of postmaster general that he would not change parcel post "regulations until tested. Twenty-five to fifty million dollars of government feuds will be deposited in the national banks of the south and west at once by Secretary Mc Adoo to facilitate the movement of crops William Jennings Bryan’s son Al bert W. !Vvan, an att/.che of the American legation at Lima, Peru, has reached New York on his way to Washington for f- conference with President Wilson. Delegate Wickersham, before the territories committee urged govern r ent railroad for Alaska, and declar ed the Guggenheim and Morgan syn dicates controlled every mile of Alaskan railroads. Commissioner Chambers of the fed eral board of mediation received ~ tel egram from William Sproul, president of the Southern Pdciflc railway, ask ing the board to mediate a threatened Strike of its conductors and trainmen. The public lands committee have reported favorably a'bill by Senator Sterling permitting minors over 18 years of age to file on a homestead, the provision of the bill extending to female as well as male minors. Republican senators have made it clear that they will not hasten con sideration of tfie tariff bill if the president and democratic leaders of congress insist upon the enactment of currency legslation at this session. Sweeping reductions in through and class rates from Atlantic coast points to almost all Iowa cities have been ordered by the interstate com merce commission in its decisions of what are to be known as the Miss issippi river and the interior Iowa cities cases. With the American government ab solutely opposed to the Huerta re gime. administration officials be lieve the friends of President Huerta will prevail upon him to retire in fa vor of a provisional president, accept able to all factions, who would con duct a general election. To an accompaniment of arguments between counsel and members of the committee, between democratic and republican committeemen, and be tween Martin M. Mulhall and every body connected with the case, the cross-examination of the alleged lob byist for the National Association of Manufacturers is proceeding haltingly before the senate investigating com mittee. v DOMESTIC. Fly pests are said to cost the Unit ed States $157,800,000 a year. Cincinnati is asked to raise $4,779, 285.52 for expenses of city govern ment in 1914. Nine electric engines for the New York Central will haul 1,000-ton trains at a rate of sixty miles an hour. Halley, Idaho, has just rerused to buy out for $30,000 the private cor poration controlling its water supply. The estimated daily average con sumption of cigars in the United States is 21,718,448, and the cigarettes 23,736,190. Mrs. M. B. Chester of Middletown, N. J-, wife of a boat builder, has started from New York with two of her ten children to walk to Minne apolis. Herman Peters, a volunteer fire man of Macomb, 111., was burned to death and property damage of $120, 000 was caused in a fire destroying the plant of the Western .Stoneware company. Peters fell through a sky light into the flames. R. S. Sigrnan, Ashville, N. C., has retired at 81, after serving sixty years as a railroad engineer without having had a serious accident. One hundred and fifty employes of a coffee firm with offices at Boston, Montreal and 'Chicago will receive $250,000 under the will of Charles D. Sides, senior member of the family. Federal Judge Grubb fined the Southern Wholesale Grocers’ associa tion of Birmingham, Ala., $2,500 for contempt of court in violating a de cree issued in 1911 commanding the organization to abide by federal anti trust laws. * Captain Patrick Grace, who had a record of having saved eight-nine per sons from drowning, is dead at Mont gomery, N. Y., aged 76 years. Motor car owners in Missouri this year will contribute $150,000 in taxes to put the state on the good roads map. The state contributes $225,000 for the same purpos’e. With a company of state militia present to prevent violent scenes, a “run 'for government land” will start from Dodge Gjty, Kan., August 4. The prizes will be the pick of 10,000 acres of government land in Hamilton coun ty. t The United States is a heavy cof fee drinker, with 800,000,000 pounds last year, or 9.33 pounds per head. In an average year the Mississippi carries out to sea 136,000,000 tons of mineral or/earth salts in solution and 340,000,0000 tons of mud. The smallest commercial electric motor weighs less than two pounds. It is used where a little power is re quired, such as for dental drills, etc. Governor Major of Missouri will take charge of a gasoline traction en gine and four graders. August 20 and 21, the day set apart in his procla mation for improvement of the pub lic highways. J. Pierpont Morgan will be sued for $5,000 damages by Solomon Kunt sler. whose 14-year-old son, Jacob, said that, he was knocked down by I Mr. Morgan's automobile on the street last month. The Atlantic County Mosquito commission, which has been granted, a $26,000 appropriation by the New Jersey Board of Free Holders to rid the country of mosquitoes, may try to lure the pests to death by musical vi bration generated by electricity. A recapitulation of the casualties ' which followed the crashing of the machine driven by Odin Johnson in to an electric light pole at the La goon (Ky.) Motordrome show that the gasoline from the tank of the cycle burned no fewer than thirty-five I persons. "The Old Man of the Pacific," a turtle whose age is said to be 800 years or a trifle over, has just chang ed its residence from the California coast to the New York Central Park menagerie. The turtle weighs 464 pounds, and is six feet 8 inches long from tip of nose to tip of tail. Shouting "Muerto a Oiaz (death to Diaz), a strong contingent of Mexico rebel sympathizers gave a riotous re ception at Los Angeles, Cal., to Gen eral Felix Diaz, instigator of the revolution in Mexico City which cul minated in the death of President Ma i dero. He was saved finaaly by a pla toon of police, who, with drawn clubs, drove back the excited crowd. WAR ECHOES. A five days' armistice was agreed to at a peace conference between the delegates of Servia, Greece, Monte negro and Bulgaria. The return of Nanking to the side of the Peking government is consider ed as having taken away the corner stone from the southern rebellion. “Cheche” Campos, a general of fed eral irregular troops, was executed after the taking of Torreon, said a de taled report of the battle received by the constitutionalist commttee. with the northern-forces say that four chief. The northern Chinese army is pre paring for a big battle in the vicinty of Sa-Ho. and all the troops available are hurrying to the front. Officers with the northern fordes say that four Japanese who were captured at the fall of Huko forts have been ordered transported to Hankow. Reports indicate that the rebellion in China is nearly ended. General Using has fled from Nanking, which has returned to the allegiance of the north, as kave the cities of Soo Chow. Chin Kiang and other districts in Kiang Su province. The southern forces north of the Yangste river are reported to have resumed allegiance | J to the Peking government. The Daily Telegraph’s correspond | ents with th“ Greeks at Saloniki de j scribe the recent battle between the i Greeks and Bulgarians in the Djuma districts as the moot hotly contested and sanguinary of the entire war. Confirmation of a reported mutiny of the garison of Coro, the capital of the state of Falcon, Venezuela, has been received. The rebels are in command of the place and are exer cising the functions of government. FOREIGN. One Oldham (England! machine shop employs 10,000 men. C. F. Simpson of Kansas City was elected president of the National As sociaton of Real Estate Exchanges, and Pittsburgh, Pa„ was selected as the next meeting place, at the closing business session of the annual con v'ention at Winnipeg. Mrs. Edith Rigby, a well known suf fragette, has been sentenced to nine months’ hard labor for setting fire to the country residence of Sir William H. Lever at' Irvington, Lancashire, on July 8, and causing damage estimated at $100,000. The trades federation has called oft the proposed general strike of miners in South Africa. The busiest rail wav station in the world is that o< the Gare St. Lazare. Paris, for the total number of passen gers arriving or den^ring j8 officially set down at 45,000,000 annual ly. According to official information mere than 100,000 Japanese males are now quartered throughout Mexico. The record price of $250,000 was paid for the horse. Prince Palatine, winner of the Ascot gold cup, by J. ill Joel, the South African millionaire. At the railway stations in Russia books are kept wherein passengers may enter any complaint they wish to make. The government of Argentina lias introduced a bill into congress oq the lines of the Sherman law, declaring unlawful all trusts and combinations in restraint of trade and production. Germany has more than 65,000,000 people living in an area less than that of Texas. A glass bottle blowing machine in vented in Germany has a speed of 2, 000 bottles an hour, equal to the work of 250 expert glassblower. The ambassadorial conference at London settled the status of New Al bania." A prince will be nominated six months hence to rule over the new state. In the meantime' ». com mission of control, composed of one representative of each power, will or ganize the administration with the aid of a Swedish officei Great Britain has decided against participation in the Panama-Pacific exposition at San Francisco in 1915. Glasgow corporation tramways car ried duri-jg the last financial year 270.000. 000 passengers, an increase of 38.000. 000 over the previous year. * WILSON AND BRYAN BELIEVE MEXICAN CRISIS PAST. WOULD AVOID ANY HASTY ACTS Both Federal* and Constitutionalist* Have Promised Protection to Foreigners. Washington, D. C!—Developments in the Mexican situation were con flned to efforts on the part of the ad ministration to prevent unnecessary agitation over the revolution. So far as the United States is in formed, both the l'ederals and consti tutionalists are complying with the desire of the American government for the protection of foreigners and their property and there is a hopeful feeling manifested in official circles that efforts of influential Mexicans to bring about peace may be successful. In the meantime President Wilson and his advisers are opposed to any attempt to force the American gov ernment into any hasty declaration of policy. Secretary Bryan promptly denied a 6tory that European governments are pressing the United States to action. On the authority of the president himself it is known that the only documents from foreign powers to the United Slates on the subject in recent months were those transmit ted when the diplomatic representa tive in Mexico City recently gave a* description o' conditions in the re public to their home governments with the request that the information be conveyed to the United States. The president has told inquirers that in no case was there any suggestion or intimation of action desired, but merely a recital of conditions. Senate Done With Mulhall. Washington.—The lobby commit tee has completed the examination of Martin M. Mulhhall, “ex-lobbyist” for the National Association of Man ufacturers, and the grilling of that individual will he transferred early next week to the house end of the capitol. Chairman Garrett of the house committee announced that the examination of Mulhall by his com mittee would begin Tuesday or Wednesday. The house investigation, it is be lieved. will produce more bitterness even than has characterized the sen ate investigation, which has been, de voted largely to the routine reading of letters in which reference was made to Mulhall's alleged relations with members of congress. One Other July Drier in Kansas. Topeka. Kas.—The month, of July, 1913, was the second driest month since the local weather bureau was established, thirty years ago. The total rainfall for the month was 1.57 inches. In 1887 the total rainfall for the month of July was 1:06 inches. Kansas streams that have never been known to go dry are dry now. More than thirty Kansas towns have been compelled to shut off all water for lawns, and a dozen towns have hardly enough water for domestic supplies. Building Still Remains Firetrap. New York.—The Asch building, on Washington Place, the scene of th® Triangle Waist company's fire in March, 1911, when 148 lives were lost, is still a firetrap, according to in spectors of the Bureau of Fire Pre vention. who summoned to court four occupants of the building on charges of violating the fire aud labor laws. One Killed, One Injured. Clinton, la.—Mrs. Otto Schendel, wife of the Milwaukee station agent at Titus, was killed and her husband Injured, when a railway motor car on which they were riding collided with an automobile at a grade crossing west of Titus. Severe Storm in Missouri. Joplin, Mo.— A storm that assumed the proportions of a tornado swept the eastern part of Jasper county and a portion of Newton county. Several persons were reported injured. Husband, 82, Kills Wife, Aged 85. Montville, Conn—Albert Rogers, 82 years old, shot and killed his 85-year old wfae at their hame here, and then attempted ineffectually to end his own life with the same revolver. Tha shooting followed a quarrel over a trivial matter. Congress is Called Off. Kansas City.—The Mississippi com mercial congress, set for Wichita, Kans., next October, has been called off because the national congress is in session at that time. Garibaldi at Panama. Panama—General Giuseppe Gari baldi; grandson of the Italian patriot, and one time chief of staff of the lat® President Madero of Mexico, has reached the isthmus on his way to Ecuador, where he is going as a rep resentative of an American firm. Edward Morris Ailing Man. Chicago.—Edward Morris, 'million aire packer and head of Morris & Co., is seriously ill at his residence, 4800 Drexel boulevard. He is eanstantly under the care of physicians. Cotton Takes a Jump. New York.—The covering of about 5,000 hales of July cotton by belated shorts produced a period of excite ment In that market and ran the price up to 12.25, or 46 points. Later it reacted to 12 cents, where it remained till the market’s close. Fleming Succeeds Pepper. Washington.—Secretary Bryan has appointed W. B. Fleming, a lawyer of Louisville, Ky., as a foreign trade ad visor of the state department, to suc ceed Charles M. Pepper, resigned. NEBRASKA IN BRIEF. An immense harvest of grain has been taken care of in Dodge county, the yield being heavy and the quality of the grain good. The city election held at Blair on the question of issuing saloon licens es resulted in the defeat of the wets by ninety-two majority. The Equal Franchise league is busi ly circulating an initiative petition for a constitutional amendment for wo man suffrage in Nebraska. Ben Schneider of Norfolk, a for mer Beatrice boy, has invented a package carrier for stores and has been offered $10,000 for the patent. Rev. W. A. (Billy) Sunday, th« evangelist, is coming to Omaha after all. His promise has been definitely secured by the inter-church commit tee appointed to secure him. A steam pipe on the derrick at the Burlington railroad's new Platte river bridge exploded, seriously injuring the engineer, H. W. Smith, about the right side of his chest and over the hips. Over 2,000 chickens were loaded on a car at Valentine and shipped to New York City. There were farmers from all sections of the country there with chickens. The Gage County Teachers' Insti tute will be held at Beatrice August 25-29. Carroll G. Pearse of Milwau kee formerly superintendent of schools in Beatrice, will appear on the pro gram. The railway commission has per mitted the Burlington to make a ?> cent reduction on the charges for shipping mineral water and soda pop from Milford to Lincoln. The new rate is 6 cents a hundred. Paul Cobb, younger brother of the famous Detroit ball player, who was released by the Lincoln club, accept ed terms with the Ogden (Utah) team in the Union association and will leave at once to join the club. The Fremont city council has or dered improvements that will cost $10,000 made at the municipal water and light plant. These will include new pumps, that will insure no other lire loss from lack of pressure. , J. T. Savan of Auburn, a leading or chardist. states there will not he more than half as many apples raised in Nemaha county this year as there were last. While some orchards are quite full, other have a light crop. The Farmers' State bank of Mar quette has t^en granted a charter to operate a bank at that place with a capital stock of 910.000. The officers are: J. S. Mavel, president; O. E. Bedell, vice president, and A. L. Hill, cashier. A school in packing and grading ap ples will be maintained on the state fair grounds September 1 to -5. The instruction will be given by experts and will qualify the patrons for work in the apple orchards at excellent wages. Secretary of war, Lindley M. Garri son, has accepted the Omaha Commer cial club's invitation to be its guest at an informal luncheon. August 28. This information comes to General F. A. Smith, through whom negotiations have been conducted. Norfolk's first big fall festival will be held September 17, 18, 19 and 20. Hereafter it is to be an annual event. Automobile racing, motorcycle racing, a base ball tournament, mu6ic by high grade bands and many other forms of entertainment are promised. I he annual reunion of the pioneers and -old settlers of Burt county will occur at Tekamah In Folsom park Friday, August 22. The Rev. H. L. Powers of Lincoln will be the chief speaker. B. H. Robinson of Omaha is also on the program for an address. According to a report made by Sec retary Whitten of the Lincoln Com mercial club there is $887.36 remain ing in his hands subscribed to the fund for the relief of tornado suffer ers last spring. There has beAn $1,104.78 disbursed of the $1,992.14 subscribed. W. A. Taylor of the Omaba-Denver Good Roads association has been noti fied by the Goodrich tire manufac turers that they have completed ar rangements t erect permanent mark ers every turn in the overland route bewteen Omaha and Denver, via Lin coln and Hastings. City Treasurer Ure of Omaha has sent $200,000 to a New York banking firm to pay sewer and paving bonds issued twenty years ago and maturing August 1. The treasurer’s office con tributed $25,000 of extraordinary in terest earnings to assist the city (n paying the bonds. S. R. McKelvie of Lincoln, lieuten ant governor of Nebraska, will be the orator of the day at Dunbar on the occasion of the annual picnic, which takes place Tuesday, August 12. A program of fine attractions has been secured, and a big attendance is as sured. The first State bank of Lodge Pole filed an application with the State BanklDg board has been granted a charter to do business. The bank is incorporated for $20,000 and its of ficers are: W. G. Melton, president; A. B. Persinger and B. J. Bates, vice presidents, and J. W. Rogers, cashier. Omaha newsboys will enjoy their annual picnic August 27. Plans for the affair are just being made and the committee in charge was an nounced last night. Its members are Tony Costanzo, Mike Barto, Eric Nel son and Mogy Bernstein. Another test of the new city wells a! Beatrice was made at Zimmerman springs by the Dempster company, .'..id the flow of water was increased considerably. The pumps registered 1,339,0(10 gallons and If that amount can be secured every day the water problem in that city will have been solved. The case of Shimick vs. the Cuda hy Packing company has been appeal ed to the supreme court from Doug’as county. The plaintiff obtained a judg ment for $10,000 for damages received while in the employment of the com pany. Andrew Nielson, a chiropractor of Beatrice charged with practicing medicine, surgery and obstetrics with out a registered certificate from the state board of health, waived prelimin ary hearing when brought before County Judge Walden and was bound over to the district court He was re leased on $300 bond. PUN ELECTRIC LINE MEETING TO BE HELD TO DETER MINE THE MATTER. UBOR INSPECTORS AT WORK Chief Deputy Pool Says Inspection Will go on Until Funds are Ex hausted. Lincoln.—Plans for the extension of an electric line, the Luce line, from Brookings, S. D.. through Sioux Falls and Sioux City to Omaha are being formulated by promoters of the line according to reports received here. The Luce line now extends out of Minneapolis and St. Paul to Marshall, Minn. The company is now engaged in extending the line to Watertown, D. Another extension from Mar shall to Brookings will be continued to Sioux Falls and ultimatelv to Sioux City and then to Omaha. Whether the line to Brookings will be siarted at once will be decided at a meeting to be held at the rooms of the Brookings Commercial club early in August. The extension now seems probable. The feasibility of the extension to Sioux Falls and on south is admitted by the directors of the line. It would mean a straight track southward. The lines in western Minnesota and east ern South Dakota are being rapidly extended on account of the level stretch of land. A rich and rather thickly settled part of the country is being traversed. An electric line con necting Omaha and the Twin cities has often been considered, but no plan so feasible as this one has ever been suggested. Are “On the Job.” “1 noticed" said Labor Commission er Pool, "a recent editorial suggest ing the checking up of Omaha fac tories and other institutions that em ploy working people. This editorial was probably prompted by the inci dents in connection with the Bingham ton lire, and in connection with the suggestion I wish to say that under our present law the bureau of labor is charged with this duty. “Since April 15 inspectors have been in the Omaha field making as careful and intelligent inspection of such in stitutions as is posible with the lim ited appropriation given us. There are now on file in this office reports from 190 institutions which employ laborers in Omaha and a great many of these reports show that the in spectors are exercising great care in making their examinations. “Inspectors are charged to look carefully into the sanitary conditions under which the employes labor; see that proper fire escapes are provided; that unusual hours are not exacted from employes and many other things. "The work will be continued until all factories and other establishments which employ labor have been thor oughly inspected, or at least so long as the revenue appropriated for that purpose holds out. “We have two inspectors working in the city and would like to have more, but our limited appropriation will not permit it As far as it goes we will make our inspection as thor ough as it is possible to do.” To Use Blank Cartridges. Lincoln, N’eb.—General orders coy ering the assignment cf officers to the guard maneuvers to take place Aug. 11, have been Issued by Adjutant General Hall. Accompanying these are a copy of orders issued by the War department assigning Lieuten ant Colonel Waldo E. Ayer of the regular army to the Fourth regiment, Captain Walter C. Babcock of the Thirteenth cavalry to the Fifth regi nient. First Lieutenant Forrest E. Overboser to the Signal corps, Cap tain Alfred A. Starbird, Fifth Field artillery, as aid to Colonel Ayer; Cap tain Edwin S. Hartshorn, Fourteenth cavalry, as aid to Captain Walter C. Babcock. The orders are very strong as to care to be taken that no member of the guard shall be allowed to carry ball cartridges and a strict examina tion is to be made along these lines. The guard is also instructed to so conduct themselves along the line of march- and during the maneuvers, so that people along the route will be glad to have the guard return next year. Kigan is State Veterinarian. Lincoln, Neb.—Dr. L. C. Kigan- has been chosen by Governor Morehead for the position of state veterinarian. He will supplant Dr. A. Bostrom who has held onto the place since the be ginning of the Aldrich administration. Representative F. W. Schaupp of Gage county was chosen as secretary to the veterinarian. The latter will take the place of Miss Amanda Beck man. Rye and Barley Show Increase. Lincoln, Neb.—Rye and barley, small' grain crops that are not so wide ly talked about as wheat and corn in this state, nevertheless, have some thing to commend them this year. Figures announced by the state board of agriculture recently show the- rye acreage this year is 33 per cent great er than last year computed on the re turns from eighty-four counties which have reported. Likewise the barley acrcage increased 76 per cent over last year—a gain that will iikely be exceeded by no other crop. May Make Same Changes. Lincoln.—L. G. Brian, the new in surance commissioner, now occupies the chair until lately filled by Charles Clancy. It is understood that all the Insurance examiners have been noti fied to report at the office and it seems to be the genera! opinion that there will be seme changes. The new beard will have the filling of the places. John Gilchrist, the actuary, who haB held that position under sev eral administrations, is at present time visiting in Europe and may not be reappointed. _ /> . _ / “Every battleship a floating col lege." This is the aim of Josephus Dan iels secretary of the navy, as out lined by him before leaving on a tour of inspection of navy yards, training stations and equipment on the Pacific coast. The secretary proposes to convert every battleship and training station into a school where enlisted men will receive three hours’ daily instruc tion under graduates of Annapolis. Besides making enlisted service more attractive. Secretary Daniels says this new plan will offer to every , young American an opportunity to receive a minor college education at the same time that he is serving Uncle Sam. It will offer a chance to young men to fit themselves for a trade or a profession, so that when their enlistment is ended they may become useful citizens. T_ _ it__1 _ n._. IVintnl*' in otner woras, secretary trail plan Is to make the navy a great educational institution in time of peace and thus a more efficient defense in time of war. Speaking of improvements and changes which he proposes to make, the secretary said: “The most marked change will be in connection with the enlisted men 1 wish to make the service mere attractive than it has been in the past and remove from it the vestige of complaint that it is simply a position or drudgery. "Within a short time I propose to arrange for 4 system of training, both aboard warships and at the training stations, where enlisted men will find the opportunity to follow a particular bent looking to establishing themselves in a trade or profession. “Arrangements will be made by which each of them will have three hours a day to pursue studies. It will be possible for them to select one of twenty courses that have a relation to the navy, among which are those of electrical engineering, civil engineering, draftsmanship, steam engineering, naval architecture and studies of like character. “I want to make these courses such that service in the navy will be a stepping stone for these men for the future." | SECRETARY TUMULTY NOW LL.D. ' j !-. Secretary Tumulty now thinks the president has nothing on him. for recently St. Peter's college, an insti tution somewhere in New Jersey, made Mr. Tumulty an LL.D. The president's secretary returned to Washington and was at his desk as usual, unruffled by his new honors and degree. He was at his office early and was sitting at his desk, while nearby and watching him was a politician from Trenton, N. J. This gentleman had been a frequent visi tor on Mr. Tumulty, for he wanted a good job under the government. Mr. Tumulty was going over his mail and the gent from Trenton was watching, hoping someone had resigned and that he could get the place, when the ; president, having come to his office ! from the White House, walked into 1 Mr. Tumulty's office. | “Good morning, doctor,’’ was the , president's greeting to his faithful j man Friday. Tumulty blushed, but returned the greeting. The politician, however, pricked up his ears at the appellation and after the president had gone into his private office, the gent from Trenton got up and walked over to Tumulty i and said: "Didn’t I hear the president call you doctor?” "You did.” "Are you a doctor?" asked the politician. “Got my degree yesterday,” answered Tumulty with pride. "Well, dis is luck,” said the gent from Trenton. "I’ve got an awful pain In my side. What shall I do for it?" Mr. Tumulty looked at the gent from Trenton for a while and then said: "My prescription is that you take a long walk." AS HIS CONSTITUENT SAW IT Representative '‘Phil” Campbell of Kansas is the proud father of a young daughter who likes unusual j pets. In her young life she has lav ished affections on all sorts of queer pets, her latest acquisition being a chameleon—one of thos£ tiny reptiles which assume the color of any arti cle on which they are placed. The chameleon has a tiny gold chain about its neck, and at the other end of the chain is a pin, that it may be attached to one’s waist. Not long ago one of Campbell’s constituents, a cattle dealer, with scarcely an interest in the world out side of livestock, came to Washing ton and called at the Campbell home. Mrs. Campbell was out, and Campbell himself was in the tub at the time, so the young daughter, with the chameleon pinned to her waist, marched into the parlor to entertain the visitor. ’ Conversation went along fairly ivell for a moment. Then the cattlc-deallng constituent noticed the chame leon. and watched it with fascinated eyes. For a full minute he was silent. Then he pointed a fat forefinger and demanded: “Where on earth did you get that thing?" The young daughter smiled and stroked the chameleon's back with a loving finger.” "Oh." she replied, “I bought it." The cattle dealer was sileut for another minute. Then he spoke again. "Bought it," he repeated, wonderingly. Then he leaned far over in his chair. "Say." said Le earnestly, “tell me. How much is lizards a head, anyhow?" SENATOR NORRIS’ LITTLE MISTAKE i This is a tale of how Senator Geo \V -Norris of Nebraska was almost arrested. He had been a senator but little over a month, having graduated from the house of representatives, which pedigree explains his crime. The senator .wao standing on a corner in Washington, thinking of the day when he Ted (he fight in the house to overthrow Caunonism, when a car hove into view. He took it When the car readied the Peace monument it turned to the right and landed the musing senator on tho\ house side. He got ofT. strolled into the office building, still in a trance, walked down the corridor to room 214, opened the door of that room and mechanically hung up his hat. An exclamation followed from a stenographer who didn't look exactly familiar. Senator Norris glanced up In an annoyed way. and of a sudden began to realize that the furniture of the room had changed over night. Then, and only then, did tne statesman realize that. Instead of riding to the senate office building and walking unchallenged Into his magnificent mahog- \ any suite, he had returned to the old room he occupied as a representative ^ and taken possession. / •