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Now watch the corn grow.
Climb Into Ak-Sar-Ben's band wagon.
Like the street car, it always has room
for one more.
Wonder If Mount Tele will have to
stand the blame for present weather
conditions, ' too.
The question is, Can a nonpartisan
Judiciary be produced by working
politics in the bar association?
According to the calendar, the Glor
ious Fourth does not arrive until Sntur
day. But the small boy makes a calen
dar of his own.
According to the Chicago Record
Herald, all Colonel Bryan has to do now
to get into the enemy's country is to
cross a Missouri river bridge. '
Having put the automobile to use to
1 assist in the gentle art of smuggling,
the success of the horseless vehicle can
so longer be open to question.
Another air line from South Dakota
to tne uuir of Mexico has been pro
jected and Incorporated, but it is one
thing to project a railroad and another
thing to build it.
The people of Omaha are not so much
Interested in which of the rival con
tractors get the contract to repair the
asphalt pavements as they are In hav
ing the pavements repaired,
Omaha gets the next annual state
tournament of the Bohemian turner so
cieties. Omaha may be depended on to
do the right thing in the way of enter
tainlng the turners when tbey come.
Iowa republican clans are gathering
at Des Moines. Iowa republicans never
bad occasion as now to be proud of the
eminent men contributed out of their
ranks to the public life of the country.
If Omaha transplants its vicious ele
tnents from the front yard to the back
yard, perhaps it will escape Its period
leal advertisement by Imported profes-
slonal reformers as "the wickedest city
In the world." And perhaps it won't.
It would appear that were it not for
the untimely intervention of Circuit At
torney Folk boodling in Missouri would
be on a fair road to a place among the
most respectable as well as the most
lucrative occupations in that common
wealth. '
By the way, where was the Tax
payers league while the corporations
were getting in their fine work
with the South Omaha Board of He
view? Is the league organized simply
to get rn on the distribution of gov
ernor appointed police boards?
The Incorporation of an Omaha elec
trleal company way down In Maine
calculated to arouse suspicion that
there Is something behind the concern
that will not bear the close inspection
that would have been invited if the
articles had been filed nearer home.
The agitation over the decision that
until further notice sessions of the Ne
braska legislature will le curtailed from
forty, to sixty days is confined to the
state capital. Lincoln hotel keepers
and professional lobbyists do not relish
the prospect of a short legislative ses
Ion.
Electric railways are going through
the same stages of evolution aa did the
team railroads ' In their early days.
About ten are built on paper to every
one that materializes la iron and steel.
It will be found, however, that wher
ever there is a. real demand for the
service the capital will be forthcoming
lor the work of actual construction.
TUB HKW DSPAHTMKIIT.
Tomorrow the new Department of
Commerce and Labor will nter tipon
the full scope of operations for which
It was created and preparations for
which hare been going on for several
months. The Interesting event will be
ncconipllnhed quietly, without fuss or
friction, all the arrangements for trans
ferring bureaus from the old depart
ments to the new having been perfected.
Hr-sltles the bureaus already In opera
tion In the State, Treasury and Interior
departments, which are transferred to
the new department, there are two
bureaus created by the act of last Feb
ruarythose of corporations and of
manufactures. Of these the bureau
of corporations has commanded the
largest share of public . interest, since
it is authorised to investigate the or
ganization and business management of
all corporations engagea in trane among
the states or with foreign countries.
The creation of this bureau was a con
cession to the demand for publicity and
Is n departure that is necessarily ex
perimental. It Is anticipated that in
the exercise of its authority it may have
to run the gauntlet of the courts, for it
is highly probable that some of the cor
porations will resist investigation. The
law provides that the information ob
tained by this bureau shall be sub
mitted to the president, who will de:
clde whether or not it shall be made
public. Thus neither the secretary of
the department nor the chief of the
bureau is empowered to disclose any
facts relating to the organization and
management of corporations, so that
only such of them as are not complying
with the laws need to have any fear
that their affairs will be made public.
The new department is expected to. do
valuable work in the Interest of our
manufacturing industries and our for
etgn . commerce. It will doubtless . be
able to obtain a greater amount of in
formation from American consuls than
has been done, though In regard to this
it is to be said that the consular service
for several years past has shown such
notable zeal and efficiency as to have
excited the compliments and the emula
tion of other governments. It is be
lieved, however, that still further Ira
provement can be made and this the
new department is expected to accom
plish. The new bureau of manufactures
will take an active interest in the Indus
tries of the country and should prove a
source of valuable Information to Amer-
ican manufacturers. Thus we may ex
pect soon to see the Department of
Commerce and Labor assuming a large
and highly Important place in govern
mental affairs.
Secretary Cortelyou, the head of the
new department, Is a man of fine execu
tive ability and Indefatigable Industry,
who can be depended upon to secure the-
highest efficiency In the work of the de
partment Mr. Garfield, chief of the
bureau of corporations, will faithfully
discharge the duties of .'his ' position.
while the chiefs of the old bureaus em
braced in the department are men of
experience in the public service and of
proved ability.
iT MAT BS JOHltSON.
The Ohio democrats will not hold their
state convention until the Utter part of
August, but the question of a candi
date for governor is being considered
and the indications are that the man
will be Mayor Tom L Johnson, of
Cleveland. There is no doubt that he
can have the nomination If he desires
it, but he is quoted as ' saying that he
does not want to be a candidate If he
can find anyone else to run. The reser
vatlon is important. There are many
democrats in Ohio willing to accept a
nomination for governor, so ' that the
party boss need have no difficulty In
finding a candidate. The natural in
ference is that he does not Intend to
very seriously look, for one and as Mr.
Johnson will undoubtedly have absolute
control of he convention it seems a
pretty safe guess that he will be the
candidate. ,
Should he, however, positively refuse
to accept a nomination It would be very
conclusive evidence that he does not
think the democrats have any chance
to win in this year's election, even with
the campaign financial resources which
he could supply. Mr. joiinson is a
pretty shrewd politician and there is no
doubt that he is thinking of the pos
slbllltles of next year, when the demo
cratic national convention will be cast
ing about for a presidential candidate,
and he will be governed with reference
to this in making up his mind whether
or not to be a candidate for governor
of Ohio,
rN jtrir RttcnuTAu.
The most noteworthy fact in the final
result of the German election ia the gain
of twenty-three members of the Reich
stag by the social democratic party.
which will have eighty-one represents
Uvea in the new body. Another signifi
cant fact is the loss of. representatives
by the agrarian league, which, shows al
most as strongly as the socialist gain
the reaction from the tariff demands of
the agrarian element The clerical or
center party has lost ground, but re
mains the most numerous body in the
Reichstag, though only about one-fourth
of the whole. There is practically no
change in the conservative and national
liberal parties, which together have 103
members, one more than the clericals,
while the radicals are. with the excep
tion of the Polish faction, the heaviest
losers.
While these changes have a certain
significance, the Reichstag continues to
be a patchwork of parties, of which it
Is remarked that none can harmonize
to supiort or oppose the designs of the
government, or exert any great Influ
ence to modify them. Terliapa the most
Important matter witli'wbh-h the new
RelclMitag will bare to deal is" the com
merclai treaties yet te be ; negotiated
and it Is lmiOAgible to foresee what Its
attitude will be In regard t these, upon
which the Industrial and commercial In
terests of the empire so much depend.
It II evident that the government will
have to be exceedingly skillful In shap
ing its policy In order to carry through
the measures It desires, for it must ef
fect combinations that will not be easily
accomplished. Meanwhile the social
democratic party is exultant and its
leaders confidently predict the ultimate
attainment of its objects.
ALIOGETtttn TUU M V'.'H ISCII'LW K,
The refusal of Superintendent Fearse
to overrule the decision of the principal
of the High school to withhold the di
ploma of Graduate Sutphen because he
was guilty of an Infraction of military
discipline In the High school cadets' en
campment has become a matter of In
terest to the patrons of the public
schools and especially to the students In
the High school. While Mr. Sutphen
mny have mode a mistake in appealing
for redress to the courts before present
ing his claims to the Bonrd of Education
the lward cannot afford to ignore the
Issue Involved or shirk the responsibility
it has assumed by passively endorsing
the action of the principal of the High
school, which evidently also hag the
sanction of the superintendent.
Without venturing to discuss the legal
points involved the Sutphen Incident af
fords a striking example of excessive
and unreasonable discipline. It should
be borne in mind that the Omaha High
school is not n military school and mili
tary training is not the primary object
of its creation and maintenance. Mili
tary training for boys is desirable for
its athletic exercises rather than as a
course of instruction in the art of war.
Intelligent young men deficient In mili
tary training have at least as much right
to get diplomas as intelligent girls who
do not take nny military training. The
only condition upon which the board
would have a right to withhold a di
ploma from either a boy or a girl is
through deficiency in, all or part of the
prescribed course of study. Would
young Sutphen be entitled to a diploma
if he had not been piesent at the Au
burn encampment? If so, why is he not
entitled to it after the encampment?
Assume that the diploma Is not simply
a certificate of competency in the field
instruction given to High school stu
dents, but also a passport for the holder
to enter higher educational institutions.
To withhold arbitrarily this passport
from young Sutphen would be tanta-
mount to robbing him of six months or
more of precious time which he would
otherwise be able to devote either in the
beginning class of a university or other
academic institution. If the board can
arbitrarily despoil one student of his
right and privilege to pursue academic
studies under pretext that he violated
military discipline after completing all
the work required for graduation, It can
do so with impunity under nil sorts of
pretexts. It seems to us that the dig
nity of the school board will not be
seriously impaired nor will the disci
pline of the public schools be weakened
by a summary revocation of the order
of Principal Waterhouse that prevents
the secretary from issuing the diploma
,to young Mr. Sutphen.
A very Important decision defining
the obligations of common carriers has
Just been rendered by the Indiana su
preme court in a decision that upholds
a law which requires express companies
to interchange business with one an
other without discrimination. The court
holds that the Indiana law enacted in
1901 was designed to prevent unfair dis
crimination by one express company or
combination of express companies, act
ing as common carriers, against any
consignor or responsible company en
gaged in the same business. The law is
declared to be in compliance with the
legitimate exercise of the police pow
ers of the legislature. The principle
enacted by the Indiana supreme court is
doubtless In strict conformity with the
rulings of the supreme court of the
United States in interstate commerce
cases involving specific incidents of dls
crimination against shippers and locall
ties by railroad companies.
Lord Rosebcry in appealing for sup
port for a projected British school of
technology says It is scandalous that
the ambitious youths of Great Britain
should be compelled to go to the United
States and Germany for technical train
ing. It may be scandalous, but it Is
none the less a fact that if they want
the best technical training they will
have to look to the American educa
tlonal institutions to furnish them the
opportunity. And there is no danger
that Great Britain will outstrip the
United States in this direction, or that
the American youth who wants the
best will ever again have to go to Brit
ish schools or universities.
It is worthy of note that when Iowa
republicans meet in state convention to
nominate candidates and map out party
policies, all the men occupying high po
sitions of honor and trust by grace of
the party are on hand to lead and to
direct. They help shape party action
rather than wait for the party to tell
them what Is wanted. This Illustrates
the difference in republican leadership
between Iowa and some of its neighbor
ing states and explains the front place
Iowa has achieved in the national coun
ells of the party.
President Diaz will participate In the
Fourth of July celebration In the City
of Mexico. The Fourth of July has a
significance for Mexico as well as for
the United States. Had this country
remained a British colony through nil
these years since 1776, iio republic of
Mexico would have been' able to secure
a foothold on its southern border.
tuern nor
ly UerM.
Oh Klndl
Baltimore America
The act of the governor of f'ennaylvanla
f'nnayl
In declining an Invitation to n editor'
Va nin.f mrmm m human nn. 11.1 r r, , ( .a V, t r
I did not like tha idea of watchinsthe poor
editors try to eat banquet fare with mus-
tles on. Or he may have been afraid of a
rousting In the toasting.
Agitation on the Mmrarri' Renea.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Missouri boodlers must have gained
the Impression in some way that Circuit At
torney Folk la conducting a revival. The
mournera' bench la crowded every day.
SqaeallneJ on the Hoc
Washington Poat.
An Interesting development In the Mis
souri boodle Inquiry shows that one states
man accepted a bribe to squeal on other
members of the combine who had tried to
hog the corruption fund.
F.Ten Greeks Were Takes
In.
Boston Transcript.
The Or?ek In this country have already
established the reputation of being a useful
class of citizen and of acquiring American
ways with eagerness, and the fact that a
number of them have been badly bitten by
a get-rlch-qulck scheme bears out that
reputation. How would the great specula
tive centers subsist except for such folk
as these?
. What the Stronar Man la Not.
Boston Whim.
The strong man Is not the soldier on
horseback with saber drawn. The strong
man Is the man with folded arms who
utters the truth regardless of consequences.
No one can Injure a man who refuses to be
hurt; you may kill him, but you cannot
touch the man In him. He wields a power
that he would have to give up If he
stooped to physical force.
Hoar and Break Away.
Springfield Ylepubllcan.
There haa not been any embracing or
kissing yet at Kiel, but the kaiser Is mak
ing the American naval officers and crews
feel at home. Meanwhile the English are
waiting patiently for the opportunity, when
the squadron reaches British waters, to
make the German reception look like SO
cents. Then they will say: "See how much
more we love you." It's all very delightful
for Uncle Sam.
Muddy and Meaningless.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The Iowa democrats, while sensibly re
fusing to reaffirm the Kansas City plat
form, and while condemning certain points
of the republican financial policy, if the
republican can be said to have such a
policy, are not very happy when they com
to formulate a financial policy of their own.
The paragraph In their platform defining
that policy la as muddy and meaningless
as the modern fashion of platform making
could require.
C'olleare Education and Wastes.
Baltimore Sun.
A prosperous business man sends his son
to college and finds a place for him In his
counting room when the son graduates, and
the road to success Is open to such a one.
But In the case of the graduate whose
frther haa no place to offer him and who
haa no capital to embark In trade there
are serious difficulties. When he applies
for employment he generally find as his
rival the boy who was never educated be
yond the grammar school, who went into
the counting room at the age of 12 or 15
years at a few dollars a week. This boy
has been learning the business while the
college man la at his books,, and when the
tatter has graduated- the livtter finds that
the boy of his age has completed his ap
prenticeship and la In the possession of a
good position. The college man who la
over 21 years of age Is not ordinarily will
ing to begin with the duties and wages of
the 12-year-old lad, and this Is often the
only place open to' him. "
PATRIOTISM AND NOISB.
Plea for Limiting- the Racket on
Ia.
dependence Day.
New Tork Independent.
It Is time that all persons who have
reached the years of discretion should enter
protest against the celebration of Inde
pendence day by unlimited and unqualified
noise. We are not quite of the opinion
of Carlyle that the dislike of noise Is a
measure of civilization although there Is
something to be said for that, too. Neither
do we believe in regulating the pleasure
of youth too strictly by the taste of age.
All young people apparently delight In
pure unmitigated nolae, and a youth, ac
cording to our friends the evolutionists. Is
In a state of Inherited savagery. It Joy In
squibs and crackers would seem to be a
confirmation of Carlyle's decree. However,
youth also has Its right and privileges.
Let there be noise on the Fourth of July-
savage, nerve-rending, peace-destroying
noise, not without the desired accompani
ment of burnt ' clothes, lacerated fingers,
deoculated heads and lockjaw the last
evil bringing the relief of silence at least,
But we pray for a limitation In time. From
on n rise to sunset I surely sufficient for
the national relapse Into barbarism. And,
above all things, the discharge of cracker
and gun for days before, the Fourth
should really be stopped. Every police
man who silences this premature celebra
tlon is deserving of more praise than he
who captures a burglar red-handed from
his crime. We celebrate a day of Inde
pendence, not a week of aaturnallan
license. And when you come to think of
it, there 1 not very much connection be
tween nolsa and patriotism. Let all things
be dose decently and In order.
RAILROAD INFORMERS.
Load gqaeal for tha Nam of the
Party Who Sqaealed.
Detroit Free Press.
J. C. 8tubbs, traffic director of the Harrt
man system of railroads, haa taken a posi
tion before the Interstate Commerce com
mission which he will find It difficult to
defend. Charges are being Investigated
against the Union Pacific which. It 1
claimed, has been allowing rebates to cer
tain grain dealers In Omaha and Kansas
City. This I not done by a discount on
freighta, according to the complaint, but
by favors granted In the way of elevator
service given by the company. Mr. Btubb
claim that the accusation la brought by a
high official of the Atchtaon, Topeka At
Bunta Fe railroad, a competitor of tha
Union Pacific. The director and the gen
eral counsel of the latter want the charges
put in writing and the man making them
brought before the commission for cross
examination. Chairman Knapp summarily
disposed of this objection by announcing
that the commission would take the part
of complainant and ordering the Inquiry to
proceed.
If the commission exposed all of Its
sources of Information It would soon have
few of them to rely upon. Its Investiga
tions are much in the nature of those con
ducted by a grand Jury where the greatest
possible secrecy Is observed In1 order that
witnesses may feel themaelves protected,
and the widest knowledge of facts obtained.
There Is no hardship visited upon the
Union Pacific because of this silence on
the part of the commission. If the com
pany be guilty It has violated the law and
unfairly Injured a rival that suffers by
conforming to the law. If the accused cor
poration be Innocent, .It haa only to make
It showing; for Mr. Btubb said to the
commission: "We have all the Informa
tion you desire and are prepared to give It."
When the commission Is (-atlsfled that there
la reason for Invextlgatlon Its business and
dJty Is to go ahead, and every reason la
against betraying it Informant unlea he
be needed as a witness.
BRYAN'S 1ST BACK IX IOWA.
Bt. Louis Globe-Democrat: Col. Bryan'
favorite plank was completely Ignored by
the Iowa democratic convention. A more
unnelghborly or unchrlatlan-llke act could
hardly hav been conceived.
Baltimore American: When Mr. Bryan
was informed that the Iowa democrat had
turned down the free-llver proposition he
aid nothing. Which was one of the most
apt remark Mr. Bryan ever made In hi
Ufa.
Minneapolis Time: The platform of the
Iowa democrat may not amount to much
In Iowa, but It I regarded by politicians
generally as a pretty fair statement of
average democratic opinion throughout the
Union. Free silver la not going to figure
very eitenslvely fn the next national
campaign but there will be a good deal
aid about the tariff.
Indianapolis Newa: The meeting of the
Iowa democrats reminds one that no one
has recently mentioned the Hon. Hod
Boles for the presidency. Of course, Iowa
has been distressingly republican In recent
years, but still at the same time there are
some more or les friendly disagreements
among the dominant aa to certain foreign
trade policies and the right of the Iowa
democrats to have a favorite son who can
at leant promise much Is not yet forfeited.
Philadelphia Ledger: The democratic
demoralization that resulted from the two
Bryar campaign haa been a misfortune
for the whole country. In some states, a
In Pennsylvania, the party haa been prac
tically destroyed, so that honest political
dlaaent has no effective means of expres
sion. The rehabilitation of the minority
party upon lines of patriotic conviction I
thus of universal Importance, not for one
election, but for the general welfare, being
based upon common sense and experience,
and the Iowa democrats may prove the
leaders In a growing cause.
Washington Post: While the convention
failed to rise to It opportunity to sound
a keynote for the democrat of the nation
Its result are signified nt a Indicating the
real lack of support that Bryan has In his
own country. He haa managed to keep hi
views before the people, accompanied by
hint of dire result If any attempt were
made to Ignore him, but the Iowans have
made it very plain that he la reckoning
without hi host. The democrats of the
country will doubtless be encouraged by
the action of their Iowa representative to
proceed with the work of reorganizing the
party on a basis that will command the
return of former adherent and open the
way for new and needed results.
Springfield Republican: The Iowa con
vention also has It lesson for Mr. Bryan.
He Is fighting a losing battle In behalf
of silver. Personally he la tronger than
that particular issue, In all probability,
throughout the western democracy. Many
Iowa democrats responded to his personal
appeals, but he tied them to a dead weight
In the convention. Meanwhile, the new
radicalism, which ha a future, was already
In sight In the person of Judge Van
Wagenen who advocated government
ownership of railroad and secured 200 votes
In favor of the policy. Can there be much
doubt of sane opportunism, by dropping
the stiver Issue, and Identifying - himself
with the living radicalism of the twentieth
century, he would be a greater power than
he can now hope to be In the democracy
of Iowa and the nation?
Philadelphia Press: The ending of this
fusion between the democrats and popu
list In Iowa may deprive the republi
can of a few gold democratic votes, but
for every vote lost to the republicans In
that way the democrat will lose five popu
list votes. Mr. Bryan has many more fol
lowers In Iowa than the old greenback
party had. It I not an exaggeration to
calculate hi personal strength at one-
third of the 209,406 votes he received In 1900.
He has toured the state on more than one
occasion and demonstrated hi personal
popularity. The rejection of his Kansas
City platform by the democratic state con
vention may Influence him to show hi
power again. But It Is not a matter of
moment to the republican whether he
doe or not, aa the attitude of Iowa and
the weat In thl and next year' campaign
la already placed beyond all doubt.
PERSONAL NOTES.
Dr. James Chalmers of Elgin, Til., has
accepted the position of president of the
agricultural college of South Dakota.
Mr. Marshall P. Wilder I certainly a
courageous woman. It needs courage to
be married to a professional humorist. ,
Richard Strauss, who Is by many authori
ties regarded as the greatest of living Ger
man composers, completed hi thirty-ninth
birthday last week.
The king of England recently appeared
with a swallow-tall coat and a red necktie.
A king may wear a plug hat with a sack
coat and yellow shoe if he want to.
Colonel Elijah Walker of Somervllle,
Masc, haa the distinction of being the only
surviving field officer of the Army of the
Potomac. He 1 one of the oldeat veteran
also.
"Dave" Pratt of Dalton, Mass , the driver
of the president's carriage when Craig
the Secret Service man, was killed, ha
written a four-act play, which will be pro
duced next fall.
Citizen of Tioga, Pa., hav erected I
monument to the memory of John Schaef-
fer, a railroad watchman who was killed
recently while attempting to save the life
of a woman who was crossing the Reading
track.
For the first time In the history of Spain
a worklngman haa been elected a member
of the cortea. Hla name I Jaime Angles
He Is a cooper by trade and he represent
Barcelona, that hotbed of disturbance,
anarchistic and otherwlae.
Major Edward Carpenter of the army has
presented to President Roosevelt the head
and skin of a mountain sheep which waa
killed by the major' son In Utah. The
president will add thl trophy to hi collec
tion In the White House.
When Rear Admiral Melville, chief of the
bureau of steam engineering, goes on the
retired list in August the last of the mem
ber of the naval board of construction who
acquired their knowledge of the building of
war ships from practical experience will
have disappeared.
General Fltzhugh Lee has accepted the
invitation of the Daughters of the Revolu
tion of Jersey City to deliver an oration at
the unveiling of the Paulus Hook battle
monument, Jeraey City, on October 24.
General Lee Is a descendant of Light Horse
Harry Iee, who commanded the American
In the Paulus Hook fight, July 19. 1T79.
When Henry Irving wa rehearsing for
hi production of "Faust" he experienced
much difficulty In restraining the exuher
ance of the super, who persisted In being
light-hearted even In hade. Sir Henry Is
proverbially long-suffering about uch mat
ter, but hla patience finally gave out and
he thundered: "Kindly remember that you
are supposed to be In hell, not picnicking
at Hamstead heath."
Lata of Work for Idle Hands.
New Tork Tribune.
Loud and urgent are the calls from west
ern farm and orchard for scores of thou
sands of wage earnera for the harvesting
of the crops and the garnering of the fruits.
But too many Idlers, tramps and beggura
In our cktes, and In the country regions
also, turn Ot-sf ears to such appeals and
refuse tempting opportunities to earn hon
est and comfortable livings. The vagrant
spirit, the "deadbeat" desire to get along
without working, ia too conspicuous everywhere.
BtTi or WAsrriHOTO liffj.
Minor Scenes and Incidents Sketched
en the Spot.
Secretary Moody of the Navy depart
ment Is rarely able to complete hi dally
round of duty within tha legal limit of
eight hour. Ofter he Is tied down to his
desk until 7 p. m., and frequently lug
home a bundle of documents over which
h bum the mffinlght oil. Of course he
does not expect his department clerks to
follow hi Industrious example, but he be
lieves eight hours to be a moderate return
for the liberal hunches of new crisp bill
which Uncle Sam hands out on certain
day to hla employes. Some clerks think
eight hours too much, and have put up a
game of soldiering calculated to rile the
temper of the department chief. The other
morning on the way to hi office Mr.
Moody opened the door of the room in
which the clerical work of the bureau of
navigation la done. He was surprised to
find that not one man was at hi desk.
The hands of the clock on the wall pointed
to .
Mr. Moody asked Rear Admiral Taylor,
chief of the bureau of navigation, to Inquire
whether the clerks had made any change In
their tioura. The chief clerk reported that
the clock waa ten minute fast and that at
9 o'clock every man In the bureau was at
work.
"A clock that Is good enough to quit by
Is good enough to go to work by," retorted
Mr. Moody.
Mr. Moody also found that officers In
charge of bureaus and division were In the
habit of getting to work late or staying
away from the department on slight pre
texts, and that when they were not there
the subordinates had nothing to do. Mr.
Moody said that he did not wish to tie tha
officers to their desks, a moat of them
work after : and at night, but that some
arrangement must be made so that the
work should not be Interrupted when they
reached the office late or not at all. He
ordered that officer must have some good
reason for not being at work.
Work In every bureau of the Navy de
partment now begin exactly at o'clock,
or a few minutes before. It does not stop
until 4, and Mr. Moody's weather eye is
wide open.
The seventeen-foot bronze statue of Lib
erty surmounting the dome of the capltol
I not to be painted white, at least not at
present. Senator Cockrell has Ideas of hi
own, and It was a protest on his part that
stopped the painting.
When congress adjourned preparations
were made to give Liberty a coat of white
lead to remove the weather stains. I Scaf
folding was built and workmen, who knew
nothing of art, except as applied with a
whitewash brush, began the Job.
Senator Cockrell goes to the capltol most
every day, and. noticing the scaffold, he
asked:
"What are they doing up there?"
"Painting the statue," was the laconic
answer of a policeman.
'Painting Liberty?" shouted the senator.
"That beautiful bronse statue! What
color?"
"White," answered the policeman. "Some
body said it looked dirty."
Senator Cockrell was angry. He walked
out and, shading hi eyes with his hand
and looking up at the white blur, boiled
with rage.
''Stop it!" he cried; but the workmen so
high up paid no heed to him. The senator
went in and saw the representative of the
sergeant-at-arms of the senate, and de
manded that the work be stopped.
'It's a shame to ruin that statue with
white paint," he declared. "If it. is not
stopped Immediately I'll make somebody
suffer for It when congress meet again."
Order were at once; Issued for the work
to stop.
Don't let these fellows whitewash tne
grass or paint the tree white while I'm
gone, either," Senator Cockrell cautioned
as he left the capltol.
'Age stains sometimes are good thing
for our publio building." Senator Cockrell
bellevea, and It look as though somebody
will have to ellmb up and use a barrel or
two of turpentine removing the white paint
from Liberty.
A postal card written in Amsterdam,
Holland, and mailed to a person In Apple
ton, Wis., at a coet of 6 cents, wa stopped
at that point recently by a cablegram coat
ing over J5. The card was written by a
man In Amsterdam, Holland, to a friend in
Appleton, but after It wa mailed the writer
for some unexplained reason decided he
did not want it delivered at lta destination.
It wa too late to top it In the mall In
Holland, ao he cabled the Poatofflce depart
ment at Washington. Aa the complete ad
dress of the card, something of It content.
date of mailing, etc., had to be cabled and
the description made complete, the cable
gram was necessarily a long one, and the
rate is SO cent a word. The cablegram did
Ha work, however, and a telegram from the
Postofflce department at Waahlngton
topped the postal card Just In time to pre
vent It delivery.
The Washington correspondent of the Chi
cago Tribune reports that "extravagant and
outrageous rental are being paid by the
government , for pneumatic tube service
without corresponding benefit to the public,
there being , little or no avlng of time In
the transportation of mall. Expert who
have made a thorough Investigation all
agree that the rate are excessive, espe
cially when It Is taken into consideration
the small amount of time gained aa be
tween the pneumatic and the wagon aervice.
"That these ratea are beyond all reason 1
shown iconcluslvely In New York, where the
system" has been in operation for a number
of years An enormous rental of I414.14S a
year la "being paid by the government In
New Terk. and the saving of time Is only
"Phew" It's Hot.
Everybody we met yesterday made Home such exclama
tion. Our first warm day at that. What will become of
those, poople when it gets good and hot. There is all kinds
," e,
of advice coming from all kinds of places about the good
ness of their particular lines of merchandise, and the wise
man will investigate before deciding, and if he investigates
we feel reasonably sure of his patronage.
As makers of every stitch of the clothing we sell we
are amply able to make better clothes, give better styles
and values than the ordinary stores, and our suits are
homespun, wool crash, serge and other light weights at
$10 and up certainly cannot be beat.
NO CLOTHING
R. S. Wilcox. Manaftr.
Ayers
Hair Vigor
Turning gray? Why
not have the early,
dark, rich color re
stored? It's easily
done with Ayer's Hair
Vigor. A splendid
dressing, too.
J. C. lt C...
I.W.U. Mai,
thirty-five minute under most favorable
circumstances, while the ordinary saving
ranges from ten to twenty minutes as com
pared with the trip from the postoffice and
railroad station by wagon or electric car
and the transmission of mall by the tube
service. For thl small saving the govern
ment ta paying nearly t&O.aw. and, accord
ing to the testimony of some of the official
of the New Tork office, the time saved Is
so small It I hardly worth consideration."
SMILING REMARKS.
'"Weary, dey want 10,000 farm hand In
Iowa."
"Llmpy, I've already cut de state out of
me Itinerary." Cleveland Tlain Dealer.
Barnes When I was young my mother
always used to sing me to sleep.
Shedd Tes, women sre good at that sort
of thing; but It takes the father's voice
to wake a fellow up in the morning."
Boston Transcript.
"What kind of furniture Is a weather
bureau?" asked the young man with wide
ears.
And the sad-eyed boarder answered.
"I should Infer that It Is a sort of refrig
erator." Waahlngton Star.
Will She take a very small shoe, doesn't
she?
Nell Oh, ye.
Will What size?
Nell Two lzes smaller than her foot.
Philadelphia Ledger.
"I reached the turning point In my ca
reer seven years ago."
"Well?"
"Well, I neglected to turn when I reached
It, and that's what made all the trouble,"
Chicago Pot.
"Here, take thl rifle!" cried the excited
showman. "The leopard has escaped. If
you find him, shoot him on the spot."
"Which e-spot, sir?" gasped the green
tent boy. Chicago News.
Agent Tes, sir, I will guarantee that this
Is the most concentrated food you ever ate.
Consumer But I don't want that kind I
want the kind that spreads all over my
system. Brooklyn Life.
Miss Doveye We girls are Just wild about
Victor Pretty.
Mrs. Blnthalr Now, I simply can't endure
him. I like strong, stern-browed men of
Indomitable will.
"Qracloua! What for?"
"They are so easy to manage." Philadel
phia Press.
"I am a self-made man," said the proud
Individual.
"Well, you are all right except as to your
head," commented the other part of the
conversation.
"How'a that?"
"The part you talk with is out of propor
tion to the part you think with." San
Francisco Wasp.
"Well. uh," said Brother Dickey, "I
frald Br'er Jlnklns will never git along in
de worl'I"
"Why what de matter wld him?"
"Only dls: He akeered er thunder en he
can't dodge llghtln' I" Atlanta Constitution.
"And now, yours man," said the old
parson, solemnly, "let your dally motto be:
rOn high!' "
"No, that's my nightly motto," chuckled
the sporty youth In the Panama. "I spend
my evening ort the roof garden." Chicago
News.
Jane I blush sometime to think my
great-grandfather waa a plain old pioneer.
John Well, the score I even; If he was
here he would, no doubt, be aahamed of
you. Detroit Free Presa.
"Don't you think you're working too
hard?"
"Well, there' a lot of unfinished work
before me, and I've got to cover the ground
In a very ahor.'. time."
"Better low down a bit or the ground
will cover yea In a very short time."
Philadelphia Press.
JUT WIFE IS A BUN1NBBS MAX.
Leavenworth Times.
My wife she Is a business man
She deals In real estate;
She wakea and talk
Of cinder walk.
And keep it up till late;
She also talk of taxea till
She frets and fumes and grleve
She Interview the city hall.
And tell them they are thieves.
My wife she Is a business man;
She hath a business head;
She sits and thinks.
And frowns and blinks,
And doesn't go to bed;
She say a plumber's devious way
Would bring a seraph low;
And name her tenants variously
Because they grieve her so.
My wife she Is a business man;
She cottagea erecta;
' Bhe aleepa and dream
Of board and beam
And bricks and architects;
She takes her houses by the roots.
And holat them up on high.
And roam on risky scaffoldings,
Between the earth and sky.
I think my wife I wonderful;
No woman I so wise;
And yet I tremble when she stands
Between the earth and sklea;
And brick are hard and hearties thing
When dropped upon one' pate.
I often wish some billionaire
Would buy her real estate.
FITS LIKE OURS.
