The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, January 12, 1910, Image 4
:-. . r - v Columlran. Wertnr. OeaeoUdated with the Colomboe Times April 1, MM; with the Platte Cooatr Argue January 1.IIH. ' Katerea at the Fbetoatoe. Colambma. Kebr., m ooad el Mil loranaeoBxrno: Oaenar.evaMU.MwlM nesneM ..tLlfi ' WKDHE8DA1. JANTJABT12. 1910. BTTBOTHKB & 8T0CKWELL. Proprfetora. UktfvWAf Jl Tha date ossoelte your oa aeper, or wraaper ebowe to what time jroar eukeerlptioa k paid. Ttoe JaaOS above that aaraMBt baa bean received op to Jan. 1, 1806, taatS to Fee. 1,11V and ao on. When payment a awea,tae data,whldi ana were a a receipt, will be eaanied aeoordiaajr. DidOORTIHUAllCK-BeepoBeible eebeorfb era will eoatJaae to receive thia Joamal until the abliaberaare aouaed by letter to diaeontinae, waeu ell arrearages meet be paid. If yon do not wiah tke Joamal contjaaed tor another year af ter the daw paid for bee expired, yoa aboald wrerieaabj aetUy na to dieooatlnne it. CHAH6E IN ADDRBSB-Wben orderlnc a ahaaae la the address, eabscriben ahoald be ta aire taalr old aa well aathetr new address. PRICE LIFTERS. Senator Bristow's discussion of the causes of high prices helps to prevent the mistake of attributing the entire situation to some one cause. His rad ical tariff reduction views and his opposition to trusts are not enough to lead the Kansas man into the error of blaming the tariff and the trusts with all or nearly all the rise. He thinks the packing combine is responsible for a larger share of the cost of meat than is shortage of pro duction. He thinks the tariff keeps the price of sugar and clothing too high. He blames the railroads with using their power to cause excessive shipping, as where live stock is ship ped from the west to eastern packers to be Jratchered and then shipped back for retailing. But he recognizes also that increased demand, due to a rising standard of living, has something to do with prices. He might have added that human nature itself seems bent on looking after the producer to the neglect of the consumer, a habit which makes prices as prone to fly upward as sparks. Each producer, as experience in con gress shows, is willing to have a high tariff on the things he buys on condi tion of having one on the thing he sells. Labor invites tariffs, under standing that they raise somewhat the cost of living, on the theory that higher wages ensue. And so it runs every where, income and not outgo being the measure of satisfaction. The senator who held that the con sumer is a myth was nearer right than his critics admitted. As an active social and political force the consumer is, or at least has been, just about that. State Journal. MUST KNOW THE LAW. - "Ignorance of the law is no excuse," is an old legal maxim. Everybody is bound to know the law, yet nobody does and nobody can. There is too much of it for the memory to hold more than the smallest fraction of it. The greatest lawyers do not carry the law in their heads. It is sufficient for their purpose to known where to find it. Mr. Elliott Flower has been moved to take a census of the law of the coun try, and he publishes bis finding in the Pittsburg Dispatch. He reports 16, 000 live laws, legal rules and regula tions, which people are bound to obey or suffer more or lees unpleasant con sequences. There are according to his count, more than 5,000 federal statu- 'tea, and on an average more than 6,000 separate state laws, ignorance of wuicu excuses 00 man. It Is an old complaint that we have too much legislation, but the burden is increased many fold by the necessity of noting also the construction which the courts have put on these laws. These decisions, boxing every point of the compress on every legal principle, fill many thousand volumes, but they are als the law. Philadelphia Press. RESPECTING THE LAW. The American people need to have more respect for the law, sagely re marks the chief Police Commissioner of the city of St Louis, relative to the recent outbreak of crime in the Mis souri metropolis. True, but what the American peo ple need most is to be taught to respect the law by being punished when they break the law. Abstract ideas of res pect for the law as a great moral engine count for but little with a large part of our population. One man in the penitentiary is often worth more than a thousand lectures upon the beauty of law observance. It is often said that it is much easier to enforce a law in Great Britain and upon the continent of Europe than in this country, because the people of the older countries respect the law more. It would be more proper to say that they ftaf the law more. If a man 'breaks the law in England, the odds an about 50 to 1 that he is punished, and punished promptly. Punishment is frequently a great aid ia making the law respected. Louisville Pott. 1aiesaasss RESOLUTIONS Passed by the Union Vetarsar Re publican Club of Uacoea .at a Meeting Held' Jan., 3. 'Mi "Whereat The Union Veteran Be publican Club of the city of Lincoln, State of Nebraska, fully appreciated the true devotion and-loyality to the veterans of the civil war, and soldiers of the Spanish-American war, and the honorable and fiuthral 'services'rend ered our city, state and nation, by our distinguished citizen and statesman, Honorable Elmer J. Burkett, our seni or United States senator. Be it resolved That by his untir ing' industry and great legislative ability, he has been able to lead the way and direct in securing legislation for the people until today he stands in the forefront among the greatest pro gressive leaders and legislators in the nation. And as evidence we have but to re call a few things he has accomplished for Nebraska since he first entered congress. Senator Burkett has secured the passage of over one hundred special pension bills for Nebraska soldiers and their widows. Altogether he has se cured over 3,800 pensions, original and increase, and reissue, for deserving Nebraska veterans and their widows and children. He has had appropriated for the post office at Lincoln $350,000 and negotiated a proposition whereby the city of Lincoln is in possession of one of the finest city halls and grounds in the west. Postoffice at Plattsmouth, $50,000. Increase, post office grounds at Ne braska City, $10,000. Fremont postoffice, $50,000. Beatrice postoffice and other post office building, $50,000. Missouri River improvements at NebraskalCity and Bulo, $250,000. Complete county service rural free delivery for his entire district when in the lower house, the first one completed in the United States. Secured legislation permitting In dians in Richardson county to co-operate in drainage proposition. Divided Nebraska into divisions for federal court purposes, establish ing federal courts at Lincoln, Norfolk, North Platte, McCook, Hastings and Grand Island. Was appointed a member of the ap propriation committee in the house in his second term, and is now a mem ber of the senate appropriations com mittee the most important commit tee in congress. After a long hard fight, saved six congressmen to Nebraska in the re apportionment bill of 1901 and is the author of the bill by which members of congress are now apportioned to the several states. He is the author of the public graz ing bill. Author and ardent supporter of a bill to provide ior postal savings bank and author of a bill to teach agricul ture in normal schools. Senator Burkett's speech upon the irrigation.bill was a significant one, so much so that Guy E. Mitchell, presi dent of the national irrigation associa tion, sent it broadcast over the coun try. When in the house he saved the government a million dollars by a sin gle speech which was dubbed "The million dollar speech" because it led to the redrafting of the census bill on a more economical basis. He secured the passage through the senate of bills for the drainage of the Omaha and Winnebago lands in Ne braeka. He had passed through the senate a bill giving the court of claims jurisdic tion over the claims of the Omaha Indians against the government. He has been a constant advocate of more liberal pension laws. He was the organizer of a movement to secure a more equitable distribution of committee assignments in the sen ate, and his resolution was named as an epoch making one by the press last session. During the tariff session he secured the reduction of the duty on barbed wire from $54 to $15 per ton. He secured an amendment to the corporation tax law under which -the following organizations are to be ex empt from such taxation: labor organ izations, fraternal beneficiary societies; orders or associations operating under the lodge system and providing life, sick, accident or other benefits to its members; and building and loan associations. He secured the free admission of the paraphernalia of fraternal societies and organizations of a similar charac ter and has won tacit recognition as a champion of institutions of this nature. He secured the free admission of im ported breeding animals. He secured the establishment of the dismal forest reserve in Nebraska. He has secured the establishment of rural free delivery routes ia nearly every county in the state. He has twice secured the passaga of a bill to establish a fish culture station in Nebraska. He has secured an appropriation for the reconstruction of Fort Crook when it was destroyed by cyclone, the bill passing the day after the storm which destroyed the buildings. Has now a bill in congress asking for an appropriation of $650,000 to en large our present postoffice building in the city of Lincoln. But one of his )atestand greatest achievements was in securing through the postoffice and United States treas ury department, the designation of our city as a distributing point for the storage and redistribution of govern ment postoffice supplies for a large western territory. The great importance of this ar rangement cannot be overestimated and it but helps to demonstrate that by his alertness and energy he has justly earned for himself a second term. And all these things, coupled with high moral character, and recognized integrity have combined to make him a worthy representative of this great and growing state, and as fellow citi zens we feel to know that we have in him a becoming pride, and he it further Resolved: That as members of the Union Veteran Republican Club, hav ing confidence in the wisdom, integrity and patriotism of Senator Burkett, and believing that his past experience has qualified him for yet greater services to bis city and state, we pledge mm our hearty support." THE COST OF MAIL SERVICE. Investigations by the postoffice de partment show that the average haul of newspapers is 291 miles, of maga zines 1,049 and of miscellaneous peri odicals 1,128. The cost of handling this matter under second class rates is a trifle more than 9 cents a pound. rjust what proportion of this is paid on the average to railroads does not appear, but presumably the transpor tation charge absorbs the larger share. The significance of this appears when the mail charges are compared with those of passenger service on rail roads. The distance between Kansas City and St. Louis is approximately that of the average haul of newspapers by the postoffice. A 200 pound pas senger is hauled it. a comfortable chair car from Kansas City to St. Louis for $7. If two-thirds of the cost of second class mail is to be charged to trans portation, a 200-pound mail sack would pay $12 for the same haul. Even on the long haul of magazines there is a curious condition. A ticket from New York to Chicago may be purchased for $18, which is at the rate of 9 cents a pound for the 200-pound passenger. The Star pays express companies a half a cent a pound to transport its papers to agents. Presumably the express companies find the rate profit able. Why should it cost the govern ment eighteen times as much, even though its machinery for delivery must be increased to handle the second class matter? Possibly the amount of the postal deficit might be saved by making bet ter contracts with railroads for the transportation of mail. Kansas City Star. It is an unusual spectacle to have the president of the United States sit ting in judgment to determine the equities between manufacturers of whisky. But that is what President Taft has just done and it was a unique function to him to perform. The pure food law made it necessary for somebody to rule between the dif ferent kinds of whisky and to say what kind should have the advantage of being designated as whisky. It seemed that the law compelled a choice and when such choice or designation was made it would be to the exclusion of others. The manufacturers of so called straight whisky, produced by aging in barrels the inside of which are charred, claimed exclusive right to use the name of whisky. This meant that those who blended brands or rec tified by the use of coloring matter and introduction of water could not employ the term. And this meant monopoly for the straight whisky peo ple and bankruptcy for the others. Government authorities shirked re sponsibilities in the matter of deter mining the case. Chemists were call ed in and these disagreed. It came up to President Roosevelt and he pass ed it on to his beloved successor. Thus President Taft sat as a judge up on the case. It must have been to him a revival of old times to inspect evidence and weigh testimony. His judical experience stood him in good stead. And his decision is likely to be accepted as final and as good sense and substantial justice. He has ruled in effect that the charcoal-aged whisky is not the only whisky, for whisky was made and christened long before dis tellers began charring their barrels; that blended whisky may be so brand ed and that rectified whisky may cer tify to its identity by the use of such a name all, in other 'words, employing the word whisky but with suitable modifications. We may disagree as to the best methods of putting down the whisky traffic bat we laymen, at any rate must all agree that the president gave a common sense decision in this cele brated case. Whisky is whisky, that's all Fre mont Tribune. '.' - - - V '- - . MMBBBBBBBBBBBBBBWeWMMaWMMMMnBaaBBBBBBawaBM ' " MjBWftaak ng .naaaw- c7? snm na ana ssnnnnnnnnnnnV A y -ssannnnnnnnnnW anWsnm anna nan - .4nHBHBnMKMaHHm enWsV i- : ... nrr newMw na-Tvvnejam mj m One of the taos attractire essays tsst John J. Iogalls ever wrote was on "Blue Grass," printed years ago in the old Canaan Magazine, It baa the distinctive characteristic of his styfeta lighter vein. The article follows: -; - Attracted by the bland softness otaa afternoon in my primeval winter in Kan sas, I rode southward through the den se forest tbat then covered the bluffs of the north fork of Wildcat. The ground was sodden with the oose of melted snow. The dripping trees were as mo tionless as granite. The last year's tenacious lingerers, loath to leave the scene of their brief bravery, adhered to the gray boughs like fragile brooze. There were no visible indies tioos of life,' but the broad, wintry landscape-was flooded with that indescribable splendor that never waa on sea or shore a purple and silken softness that half veiled, half disclosed, the alien horizon, the vast onrvea of the remote river, tbe transient architecture of'the clouds, and Oiled the responsive soul with a vague tumult of emotion, pensive and pathetic, in which regret and nope contended for the mas tery. The dead and silent globe, with all its hidden kingdoms, seemed swim ming like a babble, suspended in an ethereal solution of amethyst and silver, compounded of tbe exbalrag whiteness of the snow, descending glory of the sky. A, tropical atmosphere brooded upon an Arctic acece, creating tbe strange spec tacle of summer in winter, June in Jan nary, peculiar to Kansas, which unseen cannot be imagined, but oncet seen can never be forgotten. A sudden -descent into the sheltered valley revealed an un expected crescent in dazzling verdure, glittering like a meadow ia early spring unreal as an incantation, surprising as the sea to tbe soldiers of Xenophon as they stood upon the 'shore and shoutt-d "Thalattal" It was blue graso, unknown in Eden, the final- triumph Of Nature, reserved to compensate her favorite off spring in the new Paradise of? Kansas for the loss of the old upon the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates. Next in importance fo the divine-profusion of water, light rid air,1 -those three great physical facta which render existence possible, may be reckoned the universal beneficence of-, grass. Exag erated by tropioal heats and vapors to tbe gigantic cane congested with its sac charine secretion, or dwarfed by polar regions to the fibrous hair of Northern solitudes, embracing between these ex tremes the maize with its resolute pen nons, tbe rice plant of Southern nwam pa the wheat, rye, barley, oats and other cereals, no less than the humbler verdure of hillside, pasture and prairie in the temperate zone, grass is the most widely distributed of all vegetable beings, and is at once a type of our life and the em blem of our mortality. Lying in the sunhine among tbe butteroups and dandelions of May, scarcely higher in. in telligence than tbe minute tenants of that mimic wilderness, our earliest re collections are of grass; and when the fitful fever is ended and the foolish wran gle of the market and forum is closed, grass heals over the scar which our de cent into the bosom of the earth has made and the carpet of the infant 'be comes the blanket of the dead. Grass is the forgiveness of Nature her constant benediotion. Field trampled with battle, saturated with' blood, torn with the rush of qsnoon, grow green again with grass, and earn age ia forgotten. Streets abandoned by traffic become grass, grown like rurd lanes, and are obliterated. Forests de cay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal. Beleaguered by the seven hosts of winter, it withdraws into the impregnable fortress of its subter ranean vitality and emerges upon tbe first solicitation of spring Sown by tbe winds, by wandering birds, propagated by the subtle horticulture of the elera enta which are its ministers are servants it softens the nude outline of the world. Its tenacious fibers hold the earth in it place, and prevent its soluble compon ents from washing into tbe wasting sea It invades tbe solitude of deserts, climb tbe inaccessible slopes and forbidding pinnacles of mountains, modifies cli mates and determines tbe history, char acter and destiny of nations Umb atruotiveand patient, it has immortal vigor and aggression. Banished from tbe thoroughfare and the field, its time to return, and when vigilance is relaxed, or the dynasty has perished, it slightly resumes tbe throne from which it has expelled, but which it never abdicates. It bears no blazonry of bloom toobarm the senses with fragrance or splendor, but its homely hue is more enchanting than tbe lily or rose. It yields no fruit in earth or air, and yet should its harvest fail for a single year, famine would de populate the world. One grass differs from another grass in glory. One is vulgar and another patrician. There are grades in its vege table nobility. Some varieties are use ful. Some are beautiful. Others com bine utility and ornament. The sour, A SLAP AT HIGH BROWS. "We are overburdened- with high brows," says Thomas A. Edison. "We have too many professors and acade micians." This surely is a busy world, and the n "v i i w naraer a man woras in it tne more ne discovers there) is to be done, the more anxious he is -to see things done, the less time he takes to brush the dust of granite from his hands before he assumes the next job, the greater the irritation and impatience he displays towards those he terms with little courtesy the unproductive. It is given to everyone to catch occasional glimpses of wonders that could be accomplished, of marvels which could be digged from the earth, of happiness ftMajyvfrsfaMSa ofr-.tsMs swamps ianase bora. .Timothy is a valuable servant Redton-and clover are a degree higher in the .social scale. But the king of them all, with -genuine blood royal, ia blae graes. Why it ia called bine, save that it" ia , moat vividly and intensely green, kr inexplicable, bnt had its un known, priest, baptized, it .with, all the hues of the prism, be would not have changed its hereditary title to imperial superiority-over all its hutnblerkin. Kansas is all antithesis. It is tbe land of extremes. It 'is the hottest, coldest, dryest, wettest, thickest, thin nest, ooantry, of the world. The si ran gerwnafrevosasrt oar borders for tbe first time at Wyandotte and traveled by rail to White Cjoud would with consterna tion contrast that nniaternpted Sierra of rugose aad oak clad craus with the placid prairies iof kia imagination. Let him ride along tbe spine of any of those lateral "divides" or watersheds whose. Level leasee fbisakeu lie A greasy watte, extending to tbe sky. and aewbttld be-oppreaoed 'by tbe same melancholy monotony wbioh irooda over .those, who pursue tbe receding horizon over tbe fluctuating plains of tbe ees. And let his discursinn be whither it would, if be listened to the voice of txperieoee bewoald -not start upon his pugrimsge at any season of the year without an overcoat, a fan, a light ning rod and an umbrella. The names of the dead Kansas news papers outnumber the living; her acts of corporation for forgotten-cities, towns, railroads, ferries, colleges, cemeteries, banks, fill ponderous volumes; tbe mon ey that wad' tqanderedin these chimeri cal schemes would bnild tbe capitol of polished marble and cover its domes with beaten gold. But, not withstanding this random and tpaomddic. activity, our solid progress haa -been without parallel. No com-mua.ity-ln the-'World-' can sbow a corre spondisg advancement in the same time and Under similar circumstance. Guided by- reflection, directed by pru- Idence. controlled by calm reason, upon woBi nigoer eminence tnese intense forces might have placed us can hardly be conjectured. But such a career, however fortunate it might have been onr physical surroundings have render ed impossible. The ' sudden releane of .the accumulated energy so long impris oned in the useless soil, tbe prodigious store of electricity in the atmo-phere and the resentment with nature always exhibits at tbe invasion of her solitudes, all contributed to induce a socal disord er as intemperate as their own. But an improvement in our physical conditions Is alreadypereeptible. Tbeintroduction of metals in domestio and agricultual implements, jewelry, railroads and tele graphs, has to a great extent restored the equilibrium and, by constantly conr ducting elec'ricity to the earth, prevents local congestion and a recurrence of the tempests and tornadoes of early days The rains which were wont to run from tbe trampled pavement of tbe sod sud denly into the streams and are now ab sorbed into the cultivated soil and grad ually restored to the air by solar evapor ation, making the alternation of tbe 'reasons less violent and continued droughts less probable. Under these benign influences prairie grass is disap pearing: The various breeds of cattle, bogs and horses are improving. Tbe uulture of orchards and vineyards yields more certain returns A richer, health ier and more varied diet is replacing tbe -ide meat and corn pone of antiquity. Blue grass is marching into the bowels of the land without impediment. Its perennial verdure already clothes the bluffs and uplands along the streams, its spongy a ward retaining the moisture of tbe earth, preventing the annual scarin oatioos byilre, promoting tbe growth of forests and elevating the nature of man Supplementing this material improve ment ia an evident advance in manners and morals. Tbe little log pchoolhouse is replaced by magnificent structures furnished with every educational ap pliance. Churches multiply. The com mercial element has disappeared from politics. The intellectual standard of tbe press has advanced, and with tbe general diffusion of blue grass we may reasonably anticipate a career of unex ampled and enduring prosperity. The drama has opened with a state procession of historic events. No an cient issues confuse the theme. No buried nations sleep in the untainted soil, vexing tbe present with their phan toms, retarding progress with the bur den of their outworn creeds, depressing enthusiasm by the silent reproof of their mighty achievements. Heirs of the greatest results of time, we are emanci pated from all allegiance to the past. Unincumbered by precedents, we stand in the vestibule of a future which is des tined to disclose upon thia arena time's offvpring tbe perfected flower of Ameri can manhood. which could be brought about, if only such aid such work were undertaken. Mr. Edison probably has had more of these great visions than anyone else in this country. It irks him that men should 'muss over ancient manuscripts or dispute over species of shellfish. Bather, he thinks, should they be up and doing, holding nature up for com forts, forcing content out of the ener gies of sky and earth. And still human nature yearns for the wisdom which cannot be utilized. It loves to gorge itself with the indi gestible facts of history and science and metaphysical speculation. How fine for humanity it would be if all worked all the time to cure its ills and how fearfully, fearfully weari some! Toledo Blade. UML Pocahontas -Smokeless Illinois, Rock Spring's and Colorado Coals at prices that will interest you. Let us figure with you ior your winter's supply. T. B. Hord Bell 188 Let Us Prove To YOU That You Want This Minneapolis Heat Regulator We can provide k and prove, dint if you have it installed; you wontaeU it for what it cost you. Let Us Take tbe Rkk If you-are net-aatisfiacj naoUk, does not do all we.clakn, we'-will take" it but and give your money back. We Handle the" an Thia City We know thia ia Ae beat Heatiftegu lator made regnrcUeaacprkssld we know the price puts it -within the reach of every household. Furnace or Boiler-All Knadeof FueL "Sam its Coat hi Senaoa" A. DUSSELL & SON Columbus, Nebraska Csrcw Wltiwit OKfatlet. APPENDICITIS STATE OF MINNESOTA, ) COUNTY OF STEELE. S I, Richard Jahreiss, of Owatoaaa, Miask, beiag first daly sworn, do say that I am the person named ia aad who smbscribed the fol lowing statement and the same is trac I say owa knowledge, in every particular: "I had severe paias ia asy right side, just a bovc the Appendix. I went to the doctor aad he pronomnced my case Appendicitis and advised an operation. Instead I went to Zamboni Bros Drag Store and boaght a bottle of (Adler-i-ka) Treatment. After taking it the result was iadeed woaderf aL The pains stopped and I' felt like a new man. I heartily recommend (Adler-i-ka) Treatment to anyone troubled with Appendicitis, as I know it has cured me." ncni to State SnHr ADDendidtk la bcooeilar aaaeti treatmeat. A valuable tieek.aaewiaa; aaatta Appeadlx. aad temaw aww AppeaSldtla ia caeetu; hew It can be treated without operation. Sold at Leavy'n Somtk Sidt) Drug Store. They're All Geed. Barae-Jonea, the fatuous artist many sketches for the children of ale friend. J. Comyas Carr. He once laughingly proposed to Instruct tbe eldest boy In the principles of anato my, and there and then made for him two beautiful drawings represeatlaa; the anatomy of the xood man and the good woman. In both of- which tbe heart, magnificently large, winged and backed by spreading flames, la the cen tral detail. By special request he made another drawing, illustrating the anatomy of the bad man. On being met with the reproach tbat tbe third drawing show ed nothing of the details of internal structure be replied: "There are none. Tne bad-ssan la quite hollow." On being challenged to Illustrate the anatomy of the bad woman be grave ly replied: "My dear boy, she doeant Man Old Books " Rebound In fact, for eUaythiog in tbe book binding line bring your work to i &e Journal Phojg Grain Co. Ind. 206 Here bSwori Proof: -snV snV eaanrj Ian naianV """fr- i A snVsnnnnnnnnnnnBBT Pl! awsaVaf Tl ennrsnnnnnnnnnnn (Sigaad) KICHAKD H. JAHREISS, Subscribed aad sworn to before me June 29, 1905. J. NEWSALT, Notary Public, Steele County. rjaai eaeaH kaow of tale wonderfully successful jr pktaneef that carkme aad little known omn. th Doubtful Praise. Stlpplr-Did Miss Kittle admire your four paintings? INiI)1mt 1 don't Know 8tipler-Vuat did he sn.v about thnt? Dobber-Tuut .she i-ould fet that I put a great deal of nivseir tato my work. Stlppler- Well, that's pruN-Debber-Is It? The picture I stiowed her was "Cnlvp In the .Meadow." New York Journal. Music Levers. "How do you know those iwople are sincere lovers of muir? -By tbe fact. replied Miss Cayemi?. "that they compelled their younge boy to stop tryinjr to learn to play tbe pfano." Washington Star. Soup Marks. Gneat Vou railed "Minna." Is tbat the blond, the dark one or the old wo nan? Walter- How do you know our eonks? ;ner-By tbe soup.-Meggen-iorfer Blatter. Office 100 Iw k. V T tsaEsssssss'Kar P3PF5S3SSESSS923