THE NOUFOUK WKh'Kl.Y NEW&--JOUUNAL KIUUAY APBIL 2 1900
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_ The Journal. _ EBtabllHhed 1877.
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No. II 22.
A tract of land In Now York re
cently Hold at the rate of $18,000.000
per aero. Thoro'H nniNy a farmer
would neil | IH ! wliolo homestead at that
rate If lie could get a chance.
Vegetarianism IB Just now bavins a
great rage In England. Among the
omlnunt men who both preach and
practice a meatless diet la the Hon.
Kdwurd Lyttclton , head master of
Klon.
Henry S. 1'rlchett In the North
American Review argues at consider
able length that the war with Spain
was entirely unnecessary , but It
doesn't seem to change the fact that
the war was carried to a successful
finish , with results that have effected
many millions. Isn't It a little late to
discuss whether It was necessary or
not ?
Wilbur Wright , who Is now known
abroad as the "bird man , " has many
crowned heads turned admiringly to
watch his wonderful aerial Journeys.
Hut among royalty King Alfonso Is
the woist victim of the fever to fly.
It has been his fond ambition to be the
first sovereign to lly. Ho was about
to malie a trip with Wright when the
dowager queen objected to the risk
mid the affair had to be called off
MEYER COUNTY OPENING.
The fact that Major McLaughlln 's
now In the Rosebud negotiating with
the Rosebud Sioux Indians for a treaty
whereby Meyer county shall be
opened , confirms the statement given
to The News last fall by Judge
Witten , that It Is the policy of the
government to open these lands as
quickly as possible.
Prospects seem good now for an
other land rush , therefore , within the
next three or four years at the least.
The pope poscsses the most costly
wardrobe In the world. He has a dif
ferent suit for every day in the year and
nearly all of them are ornamented with
gems so rich and rare that no mil
lionaire could hope to purchase them.
A special herd of llfty sheep is kept
from whoso wool all the papal woolen
garments are manufactured. His
gloves , slippers , skull caps , and sur
plices are embroidered with pearls
and the long capes literally gleam
from top to bottom with precious
stones. His rings are priceless.
Dr. Jacob II. Galllnger of New
Hampshire , who has been returned for
a third term In the senate , Is known
as the "Ready Regulator" for that
liody. Any erring senator who gets
away from precedent commits n
criminal offense , In the doctor's judg
ment , and he hears from the Ready
Regulator forthwith. He acknow
ledges himself to be an authority on
propert procedure In the senate and
"to galllnger" Is a verb in current use
among senators which means to in
struct , to lay down the law , to chide ,
to correct , censure and direct.
Germany evidently means to com
bine with the greatest army In the
world , a navy equalling If not sur
passing that of England. The German
shipyards are crowded to the limit in
turning out Dreadnoughts. At the
present time the finances of the Ger
man empire arc In a strained condi
tion but her ministers express their
confidence In an Increase of wealth
during the next decade which will
equal that of the past four decades.
Relying upon that assurance , they are
proceeding to strenuously carry out
the program of German aggrandize
ment.
This state will have nothing to do
with Carnegie's pension for retired
teachers. So the legislature decided.
Bryan actively backed the opposition
to this bill , supposably on the ground
of tainted money. The legislators and
Mr. Bryan entirely overlooked the
aged professors' side of the question ,
which Is painfully real. The pension
system has already given n brighter
tinge to the old age prospects of col
lege professors. It Is capable of great
extension. It Is doing much good.
Has the Nebraska legislature or Mr.
Bryan any better plan to propose ?
Lloyd's , the English Insurance under
writers of London , are ready to Insure
you against any contingency providing
you are willing to pay the premium.
You can Insure your dog against being
stolen , your gun against blowing up ,
your children against having measles
or your apple crop against frost. It
Is not uncommon for a man to Insure
against his wlfo having twins , and It is
reported that a murderer for whom the
police and press were searching walked
Into Lloyd's and Insured himself
against being hanged. Such a busi
ness must bo rather exciting.
Professor Willis L. Moore finds It
hard to forgive and forget the sneerIng -
Ing laughter over his signal failure to
deliver the fair weather ho promised
for Inauguration day. The science of
weather prediction bus mndu great
strides since the llrst crude attempts.
With the planting of every new sta-
tlon the weather man gets more of o
grip on his subject Nine times out
ton ho gives the country reliable In-(1 (
formation as to what will happen and
the people accept It and forthwith
forget all about the weather man. Hut
once let him make a slip and the
whole country Is up In arms.
James Stlllman , ex-president of the
National City bank of Now York , possesses -
sesses the distinction of being the
most silent man In the business world
who Is still capable of speech and
when Mr. Stlllman designs to speak
It Is usually to say "No" "If called
upon , " says Mr. Stlllman , "to advise
a youth on the thrcshhold of his career
as to the shortest , surest , easiest trail
to wealth and power , my counsel
would exhaust Itself In bidding him to
sny 'No' on nil occasions. 'Yes' Is a
drunkard , a bankrupt , sometimes a
felon. It Is frequently pitied , always
despised. 'No" leads In respectability ,
In solvency , In the encontnm and con
fidence of men. "
Daniel Frohman , one of the head
moguls In the theatrical trust , has
recently been llgurlng In a new role ,
that of divorce. And like other en
terprises with which Mr. Frohman has
been connected , he did the business up
In the best way possible hi true Chestcr-
fleldlan fashion. He issued an artis
tic little statement of the matter of his
own account In which ho explained
that he had perhaps been over ambi
tious for his wife's professional suc
cess , while she , he had discovered too
late , was pining for a domestic
career. His hope was that she would
get her divorce , marry the other man
who was a splendid fellow , and live
happily forever after. If divorces
must be , Mr. ' Frohman has certainly
shown us how to do the thing In a
genteel way.
Prince Michael Hlllkoff , the great
railroad builder of Russia , Is dead. He
learned the railroad business from the
track laborer up In America when a
young man and in Russia was master
under the government of every line of
railway In the entire empire. He con
structed the Siberian line and during
the Japanese war took personal
charge of It. He was a co-laborer with
Wltte In planning to develop Russia
Into a great industrial and commercial
nation. They had accomplished much
betore the grand dukes decreed the
war against Japan which threw the
nation back Into misery and poverty.
Had the czar been a strong man they
might have succeeded , but today the
case Is more hopeless than when Hlll
koff and Wltte began their work.
Edwin Markham , everywhere known
as the author of "The Man With the
Hoe , " has lately purchased and gone |
to live In a large old fashioned man
sion In Westerlelgh , Staten Island ,
It Is the rare poet in these days who
can buy houses from the Income pro
duced by his pen. But Mr. Markham
receives the highest prices paid to
any poet In this country for his
metrical wares. Mr. Markham Is now
fifty-six years of age and until his
first famous poem "The Man With the
Hoe" commanded the attention of the
world , he was a teacher and wrote
poetry only as a side line. Mr. Markham -
ham receives from $200 to $500 each
for his short poems. For his beauti
ful "Peace over Africa , " written at the
close of the Boer war in a single
night , the poet received $500.
If there Is one man on the face of
the earth who deserves the sympathy
of his fellow men , that man Is Eng
land's prime minister. He is pursued
day and night by ungentle hordes of
the so-called gentle sex. Ills official
residence is beseiged all the time by
bands and mobs of suffragettes , who
shy bricks through his plate glass
windows , hold up his carriage mid
employ every conceivable trick and
device to gain entrance to his house.
There seems no possibility of stopping
them. Arrests have no effect. They
believe that the greater the porsecu
tlon and publicity the stronger Is their
hope of winning the ballot It Is not
strange that the premier and leaders
of parliament are determined not to
give a voice In the government to
women who will degrade themselves
by such exhibitions of unwomanllness.
Quito a contention Is in progress between
tween literary critics as to whether
Dickens was a Socialist or not. It Is
very true that Charles Dickens did
more to reform social abuses In Eng >
land by his exposure , sarcasm and
ridicule of existing conditions and
those who were responsible for them.
But ho had no social scheme to rccom-
mend. Ho made war not so much on
the Institution as upon the evil in
human nature which conceived the
Institutions , Dickens was not a
Socialist. Ho simply possessed a re ?
markable Insight Into human nature
and a genius for portraying It. The
only remedy advocated by him was
the plain old gospel remedy of per
suadlng men and women to leave their
I evil ways and live clean , idndly lives.
I After all It IB the kind of reform that
touches t the bottom of these social
problems. i
The need of reforestation of the
cut over wooded lands has been re-1
j peatedly j mentioned in tlieso columns
| and the many reasons why It should
not be longer neglected dwelt upon ,
but | there Is one thing which works
, strongly against the reforesting of
large ] tracts , this Is the fact that as
soon us trees are planted the taxes
.start and grow as fast If not faster
! than t the trees do , though a long
series of years'must pass before any '
profit j can be realized on the enter
prise. ( It Is of Inestimable value to i
any and every state In the union to i
have j Its forests renewed , both for the i
' value of the timber to future gener
ations , , the good of the soli Itself and I
the effect the forests have on rain
| fall ( and drainage. If suspension of f
I taxation ( -nipon barren lands will encourage -
courage their reforestation It ought
by all means to be granted until such i
time as the forests become valuable !
again.
Sir Hiram Maxim , the American
born and British titled Inventor , be
lieves that the perfecting of the flying
machines marks the end of war. It
Is Sir Hiram's belief that flying ma
chines will bo carrying the malls
within a short time , that they will bo
cheaper to build than motor cars and
will fly eighty miles an hour. It ap
pears to Sir Hiram that with the per
fection of these powerful airships , no
nation can fortify Itself against at
tack. Under cover of darkness and
clouds an enemy will be able to rain
destruction upon a city be It over so
carefully fortified. It is true that this
wholesale destruction would be just
as possible to one nation as to an
other. But such mutual destruction
would accomplish nothing but ruin
and that on such a scale as of neces
sity to preclude war. Whether Sir
Hiram's prophecy overleaps the mark
no one can say at this time but it is
certain that the world Is on the eve
of great changes that will have a
transforming effect upon our future
civilization.
Dr. W. F. Grenfell , who Is devoting
his j life to work among the poor fisher
men of Labrador , Is making a tour In
this country and great Interest Is be
ing expressed In his work. Lord
Strathcona , who has been a resident
of Labrador for many years , describes
Dr. Grenfell as the most useful man
on the North American continent to
day. However that may be , he has
rescued the Labrador fishermen from
misery , destitution and ignorance and
made them a contented , thrifty people
with schools and churches and a
chance to live like human beings. He
has been much more than a medical
missionary. He has built hospitals ,
orphanages , sawmills and workshops ,
stores , schools and churches. Ho
cruises ' the coast in a hospital ship.
He holds services every Sunday , acts
as a magistrate , where there Is none ,
baptising , marrying and burying where
no minister ever goes. During the
summer he cruises 4,000 miles reliev
ing the sick and distressed at every
point. In the winter he travels 2,000
miles over a frozen wilderness with
snow shoes and dog sleds curing with
out poy and laboring without stint. Is
it any wonder that the people for
wnom ho labors well nigh worship
him.
ANY DUTY ON LUMBER A CRIME.
It Is well known that the big lum
ber Interests of the country have been
at work for months In an attempt to
prevent the abolition of the favors
which they now enjoy. They have
camped down at Washington. They
have had command of n literary
bureau. They have canvassed mem
bers of the new congress and the old.
Of course they have all kinds of
money to spend , and they have the
support of powprful men like Aldrlch
in the senate and Cannon In the
house. The result of all this appears
In the proposal for only a moderate
reduction of the duty on lumber.
It ii to be hoped that there will be
a revolt against this In congress , no
matter what it costs In delay. Such
a crime should not be permitted. The
Republican party cannot afford to bo
responsible for It. The country will
never let congress rest while the In
famy continues. From the very first
moment there should bo conccntra
tlon of effort upon the destruction of
the lumber tariff , which has never
had one legitimate excuse for ox Is
tence , and which Is today the brazen
eat of all frauds aiid the most con
splcuous instance In this country of
the power of graft.
Not one of the reasons that may be
given In support of the principle of
protection applies to lumber. The
supply here has always been more
abundant and cheaper than anywhere
else. To assert that Canada has
cheaper labor In her forests than wo
do , when there Is no tariff on the
laborer , and ho can walk across the 31
line any day he pleases If wages arc
higher on the other side , is to Insult
Intelligence , First , we gave away
these Invaluable supplies of timber ,
which should have been the resource
of the nation for generations to come.
In ] some cases honestly , but In many
others i by the grossest frauds , and In
all i for a pittance , this piopeity passed
into the hands of capitalists who have
destioycd It as rapidly as possible for
the ' satisfaction of present greed. You
I may find them among the millionaires
of our big cities , In purchased seats
In the United States senate , and their
sons among the most offensive high
rollers of the now generation. Their
wealth was accumulated at the cost of
every farmer , of every working man.
Now our forests are nearly gone. IH
this outrage to continue ?
, FEDERAL EXPENDITURES.
The Blnglo criticism which the
country will pass upon the new ad-
ministration is that , while It shows
appreciation of the financial condition
of the treasury and of the need of
raising an adequate revenue , It has
not considered apparently the neces-
slty for any retrenchment of oxpondl-
' lure. As thia will have to bo considered -
side-red , and that before very long ,
the sooner the administration sets
about It the better. It should do this
In anticipation of public criticism and
pressure , and not under compulsion.
Let any one turn to the total of na
tional appropriations twenty years
ago and he will understand what Is
meant. It would be foolish to as
sume that expenses can always be
kept at the same level. The country
grows , and expenses must grow with
it. It would be unfair to Ignore the
cost of enforcing new policies which
the country lias approved and to
which President Taft alluded in his
Inaugural. These regulative and pre
ventive policies require the expendi
ture of money , and the people will
contribute it willingly. But all these
things combined do not account for
the actual doubling of expenses with
in comparatively few years. They
do not excuse the steady rise , session
after session , of the appropriated
total. To speak of them in this con
nection may not be Insincere , but it
Is disingenuous.
The great increase In the nation's
expense account is in Items which can
perfectly well be scaled down. We
could cut a quarter of a billion and
be none the worse off. Our total ex-
'penses in connection with the army |
should shock all Americans. We do ,
not need as much money for the army.
Our navy has grown beyond all reason ,
. unless we mean to embark on a
career of world conquest , and mil
lions upon millions are spent in the
navy yards for political work purely.
Our pension system Is wide open. And
In every department and every appro-
prlatlon bill swarm the scavenger
files , looking for sustenance and gen
erally finding It. A change has to come
Either we will retrench or wo will
keep on Increasing outgo until taxes
b -onie oppressive and the people re-
bfci. Would it not be good policy to
anticipate that by judicious economy
now ?
THE STURGEON PLATFORM.
J. D. Sturgeon has served but one
term as mayor of Norfolk. His record
and the attitude which he takes upon
public questions of uppermost interest
to Norfolk at this time , bespeak for
jihlm-a second term.
During the past year Mr. Sturgeon
as mayor has conducted the affairs of
his office liberally and progressively.
He Is not a radical or an extremist In
any direction.
Contrary to certain statements
which have been circulated during the
past few days , J. D. Sturgeon Is not
in favor of making Norfolk a "dry"
town. He Is distinctly against any
movement to Introduce prohibition
Into this city.
As against prohibition , Sturgeon
stands In favor of reasonable regula
tion of the saloons of Norfolk. Saloon
keepers share this belief that the
saloons should be regulated accordIng -
Ing to the demands of good order and
common decency. Such regulation
has been exercised during Sturgeon's
administration during the past year ,
and ns a result It has been a year of
unusual good order and of little
drunkenness or crime , great or
small.
Mayor Sturgeon's Idea of regulating
the saloons Is not necessarily ex
pressed In the ordinance passed a
year ago at the Instance of the saloon
men as a compromise measure. Some
other plan , embracing a liberal regu
lation and Insuring law and order In
the community , would probably prove
equally acceptable to him.
Mr. Sturgeon was elected mayor a
year ago as ail advocate of paving
Norfolk avenue at the earliest possible
moment. He found legal obstacles
which were temporarily Insurmount
able and immediately set about it to
clear the way so that paving would
be possible. Just this week the last |
legal barrier to paving was cleared
away when outside districts were an
nexed to Norfolk city , giving Norfolk
moro than 5,000 population and thus ,
under the law , making It possible for
people of the city to vote bonds for
paving the street Intersections.
The litigation having come to an
end , the ordinance enlarging the cor
porate limits and Increasing the num
ber of legal voters within the city ,
was passed under suspension of the
rules Thursday night , and It now
iiocms ; probable that 'at the coming
city election the largest vote In Nor
folk's f history will bo cast. Every
effort has been put forth to make it
possible l for all the voters In the new
territory t to share In the first election
under the new rule.
| With the last obstacle removed ,
Norfolk I Is right now up to the paving
proposition I and the way Is clear to
put | the question up to the public at
an early date.
The News believes that the people
of Norfolk are tired of a mudliolc for
a main street , that they want to
pave and that they will emphatically
declare for paving by re-oloctlng J. D.
Sturgeon mayor.
AROUND TOWN" .
J
The Greater Norfolk Is now an of
ficial reality.
Purses on the sidewalk arc apt to be
nailed down.
Taste the water In the morning be
fore you swallow It.
Like as not your napkin will bo
pinned to the tablecloth.
Get ready for the small boy ; Thurs
day will be April Fool's day.
The girl of today Isn't quite up to the
minute unless she calls her girl friend
"Say , Kid. "
Don't kick at any stray hats along
the sidewalk. There'll be a brick
under It.
Wearing such short gowns , It's no
wonder Mary Jane had a cold. Any
woman would.
Here's another case where Buster
beats the teachers to It. He's here a
day ahead of them.
It's worth living In Norfolk just to
welcome these school ma'arms with
open arms each spring.
Some hard headed women wear
their new dresses the Sunday before
Easter , because It's so apt to rain on
Easter.
From the looks of the advance sale
for seats , Norfolk still remembers
what a rattling good show Buster
Brown ' Is.
Is there any tougher luck than to be
in the midst of a fried chicken on a
dining car just as your train draws
Into your destination ?
In behalf of its fairest readers , The
News serves notice on the weather
man right now that unless Easter la
a nice day there'll bo a housecleanlng
In ' one government bureau shortly af
terward.
Whenever a woman gets ready to
buy a suit or a waist or a hat she
asks her sister for advice. And the
sister always says : "Yes , green would
be awfully serviceable but suit your
self , of course. "
If some of the women wearing this
year's hats had happened to be at the
Junction at noon , they might very
easily have been gathered up among
the Pine Ridge warriors bound for
dear old London.
There's a man on The News whose
life Is In danger. He wrote a story tha
other day declaring that the "old
teachers" in Norfolk had been re-
elected. He Is not expected to sur
vive the week.
OVER NORTHWESTERN PRAIRIES.
Dallas , S. D. , claims thirty-five auto
mobile owners.
Alnsworth Is again engaged in a
political struggle on wet and dry lines.
Wayne Democrat : After all , kissing
Is dangerous. U yon don't get con
sumption you may get married.
The Boyd County Register has again
changed hands , Archie Tingle being
The establishment of a second rural
route out of Bonesteel , running north ,
is said to be contemplated ,
the editor for the time being.
A burglar attempted to rob the
homo of Fred Crosby , the Bonesteel
banker , but was frightened out of
the house.
Lamro Journal : F. E. Robertson
of this city has received a letter from
Washington stating that the govern
ment townslte , known as Jordan , had
been changed to Witten , In honor of
Judge Witten , who has had charge of
the opening of this county.
Wayne Democrat : The paper last
evening contained the startling news
from the Hamburg that Mr. Roosevelt
velt was "promenading the deck. "
Startling news nt least to some
Wayne county Republicans , I know ,
who fully expected to hear that Roosevelt
velt was walking on the water.
Stnnton Register : Charles Woods
shot ' an American eagle Monday and
brought it to town. It was a big one
ever seven feet from tip to tip and one
of the heaviest birds of the kind ever
seen In Stanton. Woods shot the
cnrJe out on the prairie near his home
and sold it to Emll Lcucke.
Pllger Herald : Luther Martin , who
enlisted In the U. S. navy In April ,
1900 , returned Sunday evening , hav
ing served almost three years. Luther
Joined the navy at Omaha and went
to San Francisco and was in three
miles of the town when that awful
earthquake happened. For several
days afterwards ho was in the town
assisting In the work of guarding prop
erty. Ho. returned with the licet from
San Francisco on Its trip homo from
its crnlso around the world. They
wcro seven months and thirteen days
from San Francisco to Hampton
Roads. iJuthor says "No more navy
for him. "
Wayne Democrat : Towns in the
vicinity of Sioux City should do a lit
tle more trading in that disreputable
center of commerce , then perhaps the
people of that metropolis would not
make such strenuous efforts to pro
tect alleged thieves and bank robbers ,
who make periodical trips from the
burg on the big muddy to dynamite a
bank for a billion or so. If the
cracksmen who operated at lladnr are
In Sioux City , as seems probable , the
man or sot of men In Sioux City who
put up barriers to their leaving that
city , ought to be sent to the peniten
tiary. For weeks Pierce county has
been making desperate efforts to
bring the alleged Hadar suspects to
Nebraska for trial , but sharp lawyers
have protected the yegg men at every
turn of the road and It Is unlikely they
will ever be gotten Into this state for
prosecution. Sioux City well deserves
all the "mysterious murders" and hold
ups that place Is notorious for , only it
would be very agreeable to learn that
some of her "bad actors" of the legal
fraternity were sand-bagged or thrown
In the river.
North Nebraska City Elections.
The Valentine caucus of the Citi
zens' party nominated W. S. Jackson ,
George Elliott and E. C. Davenport as
trustees , the llrst two being renoml-
nuted.
The Wayne caucus nominated the
following ticket : For mayor , Henry
Leu ; for clerk , Martin Ringer ; for
school board , F. L. Neely and D. C.
Main : for councllmen ; W. W. Kings-
bury , F. L. Neely and Albert Jacobs
in the three wards.
For trustees the Hosklns caucus has
nominated Fred Miller , John Kaulen ,
Ed Pfell , J. W. Overman , August
Deck and Gus Schroeder , of which
number three will be elected.
ATCHISON GLOBE SIGHTS.
People never fail to appreciate
goodness.
No man Is as wicked In his acts as
he Is in his thoughts.
It Is .very funny to see two old
frauds get together and try to fool
each other.
Send word to the cook to make no
more soup : The mustache is coming
back into style.
The first person to discover a new
tooth In a baby's mouth is entitled tea
a new dress.
The stepmother never has much of
a chance when the square deal Is be
ing passed around.
There is some objection because a
man keeps his wife busy all day Sun
day waiting on him.
The only way to guard against a
man hearing what you say about him
Is to sny something nice.
As an evidence against society , we
have noticed that when a man goes
to a party , he swears he will never go
again.
It Is hard work to get a girl started
to singing , but , after she begins , you
have to do something desperate to get
her to stop.
A woman will keep out her best
knives and forks longer for her own
visiting kin than for her husband's
visiting kin.
You often hear men make a state
ment like this : "lie's a man about
my age ; probably four or five years
older. "
When a woman says her husband
will not give her any satisfaction when
she accuses him , she means he will
not confess.
No man has n right to spend money
on beer , and then claim that times are
so hard he cannot pay his grocery and
meat bills.
You may think the women take the
fashion magazines to copy the styles.
They don't : They take the maga
zines to make fun of the styles.
This promises to bo a dull evening.
Think this over : Did you ever know
a really sensible man ? And are you
not something of a fool yourself ?
We have noticed that when a trav
eling man entertains a customer at the
restaurant for dinner , the customer
docs not stint himself In ordering.
It Is a husband's experience that
when he kisses his
wlfo her only rea
son for welcoming the caress is that It
gives her a chance to smell his
breath.
A fresh and promising young fellow
of this town is engaged to a girl who
has been engaged six times before ,
and he Is now generally known as
"the relief corps. "
By the time a man reaches forty ,
young people begin taunting him be
cause he has not amounted to more ,
at the same tlmo tolling of the great
things they Intend to do.
Tills Is an opinion : That opinions
are a good deal like a shiftless man ,
don't amount to much , and have a
way of "butting in" where they are
not wanted.
Every tlmo a married daugh'sr ' goes
to see her mother , she carries some
present back with her ; either a little
jam , or a pot of apple butter , or a loaf
of bread.
You can add materially to the din
comfort of othom by scolding ami
Htormlng around , but It Is difficult to
see whoroln you are bcnelltled. In
fact , Heoldlng IH apt ( o make you more
uncomfortable than others ; people
have been scolded so much they don't
mind It as much IIH they used to.
A woman was sitting around home ,
reading. Suddenly the woman
a violent exclamation. Those
aiOund with her thought she hud run
across an announcement that a Ntep
mother had murdered live or six step
chlMron. at least. But the woman
had encountered an advertisement of
stockings at $25 a pair.
If you know a "Joko" on n ninn ,
why bother him about II ? He will
get even. Today wo heard it certnln
man "joked" about a mutter lie was
touchy about. Later , we heard him
rip It to all the men who had "joked"
him , and tell stories on them they
thought other people didn't know ; sto-
iles they didn't want told.
The papers are lately paying a good
deal of attention to the foolish wom
en who buy bust developers , beauty
aids , etc. Don't stop with the women
nearly every short man sends awnv
money occasionally for a powder Hint
will make him taller. And there never
was a bald man , probably , who did
not pay out hard-earned money foi a
ridiculous medicine to make his bait-
grow.
TAFT RECOGNIZES PARTY.
Will Not Dump Southern Republicans
for White Democrats.
Washington , March 27. People who
haunt the executive offices at the
Whlto House and particularly sonic ot
the newer senators and representH-
tlves , are slowly but surely Ilitdinu
that President Taft can smile and
Hinllo and be a villain still from tli < i
standpoint of the professional politl
clan.
clan.Mr.
Mr. Tnft Is not ns explosive us Mr
Roosevelt. He docs not bubble o\er
with either enthusiasm or resentment
There Is a judge In the White Housi-
and not a colonel. He listens to all
sides in friendly , but impassive fuMi-
ion , and the newer senators , including
several from the southern states , IIBM-
mistaken this attitude , which is purely
one of judicial poise , for one of hearty
acquiescence.
Several people Have gone up to talk
to President Taft about tariff and
came away convinced he Is a standpat
ter and that he will sign any bill
which congress chooses to pas *
Others , of the more radical element ,
believe he Is on the point of Instigat
ing a political revolution because he Is
so completely In accord with their
own views. Southern Democrats have
participated In these mistakes and
some believe that President Taft Is
about to dump the entire southern Re
publican organization and turn over
the entire patronage of that section
to white Democrats.
So far ns can be learned , the policy
of the new president will not be es
sentially different from that of his
predecessor. lie Is a Republican and
always has been. If he succeeds in
office ho undoubtedly expects to ap
peal to the voters of his own organiza
tion for re-election. Prior to reelection
tion comes renomlnatlon , and in this
the votes of southern Republicans are
somewhat more essential than they
really ought to be.
Senator Smith of South Carolina and
some other southern statesmen con
ceive the idea that the president is
about to abandon southern Republi
can organizations everywhere merely
because lie did not care to insist on
the confirmation of Dr. Cruin. This
was n great mistake. Wherever In any
section of the south there Is a decent
Republican who is fairly well lilted
for any office he will bo given the
place In preference to n Democrat , as
a matter of
And In picking out these men the
Republican organization in every state
will be recognized , not exclusively ,
but in such a way ns to make it as
sured of the sympathy of the presi
dent as head of the party. In this ,
policy Postmaster General Hitchcock ,
who only recently retired from the
chairmanship of the Republican na
tional committee , will co-operate.
Instead of attempting to destroy the
Republican organization In the south ,
the purpose of the administration un
doubtedly will bo to build it up , and
to do this in t.te best way. That Is ,
to say , an effort will bo made to select
the best Republicans rather than
those who were the most active politi
cally. '
In every southern state , with one or
two exceptions , the Republican organi
zation Is a mere skeleton of
a politi
cal party. This Is not the fault of
the Republicans , but of peculiar politi
cal conditions In the south. The great
mass of Republican voters
are negroes ,
who are barred from the
polls on one
pretext or another. The result Is that
the Democrats have only a light among
themselves. They wage their battles
at the primaries , and hardly find It
necessary to go to the polls , so com
pletely are negro Republicans depriv
ed of suffrage.
In diati Uniting offices In the south ,
according to the best Information , the
purpose of the president is first of all
to secure the best material. Wherever
there is a Republican of good ante
cedents and fairly well Jilted for some
particular office , ho will bo appointed
without hesitation. Wherever there Is
no such Republican who would reflect
credit on the administration
a Demo
crat will bo chosen.
In no case will an important office
bo given to an unworthy man , whether
white or black , merely because ho-
calls himself a Republican and once
In four years participates In the cere
mony of nominating a Republican can
didate for the presidency.
