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STATEMENT Of. CTRCTTLATION.
State of Nebraska. Douglas Countjr.es.:
Oeorg B. Tisohuck. treaaurer of The Bee
Publishing company, being duly sworn, says
that the actual number of full and complete
coplea of Tha Dallv. Morning. Evening ad
Sunday Bee printed during tha month or
February, J0. was -as follows: ;
1 SS.tlO lis... SS.SM
1 OT.1T0-' MXMO
1 39,000 '1T..' 8S.T70
4 SS.oeO It i 'WO
I 89,050 19 S,10
SS.ftSO CO 39,080
7 37,000 Jl 3T.100
f 39,330 2: 40,900
.....ft 39,080 ZI 33430
10 33,390 C4 3930
11 . ; i . .'. I 39,910
11 39,830 !l 3940
II 39,790 27.. 33,030
14 37400 It 37430
Total 1,087.090
Lesa unsold and returned eoplea. 943
Net Total 1,07743
Dally average 33,S
i- OBO. B. TZ8CHUCK.
Treasurer.
Subscribed in my presence and sworn to
before ma this 1st day of March. 1909.
M.' F. WALKER.
(SealK. . ':. Notary Public
WHEN OUT Or TOWN.
Subscribers leaving tha city tesa
liurarlly tkosU . ksT The Bea
mailed to them. Addrcaa will
vkaaged as ottea as reaiaaated.
It's million-dollar snow, all right.
Bonaparte has retired to St, Helena,
at Baltimore.
Indiana has a' deficit of 11,000,000.
Why not tax the' author?
Speaking ot name, Rock Flint has
been appointed Inspector of quarries
In Wisconsin.
It is proposed to produce a modified
version of Salome. ' jolng to serve It
with drcssingr ' "
Congressman Nick Longworth is
now a.t liberty, to make a record on his
own account, it he can.
Report indicate that a good many
Washington officeholders have found
themselves without transfers. '
It (s hoped that the next congress
m ill remove the Maine instead of ask
ing the country to remember it.
The young man whose parents give
him a good start it) life too often
breaks the speed limit later on.
Mr. Roosevelt la one of the few men
who will not believe that an editor
ever has any use for a pair of scissors.
"The week la being given up to
banquets," says a Washington dis
patch. AH diet along the Potomac, as
it were-. -. -.
A desperado who had defied the po
lice at Cincinnati was captored by a
coal dealer.' Easiest thing in the
world for the coal dealer.
Servia ha magnanimously agreed
not to attack Austria. This will re
lieve the scare of all of the European
powers that are backing Austria.
It la possible that the Washington
undertakers may be selfish enough to
oppose the plans for having the In
augural date changed from March 4.
The, .necklace of pearls brought to
Omaha by the Greek did not come ex
actly as a gift, but several Omaha men
are a little . more prosperous as the
result. ,
Former Governor Hoke Smith of
Georgia is going into the chicken rais
ing business on a -large scale. - WOn-
dr what particular vote he is trying
to capture?
i
A London woman has relinquished
an inheritance of $50,000 rather than
remove to Chicago. Still, some con
tend that English people know little
about tbl country.
Former Senator Piatt says he will
eliminate all of hi personal trouble
from hi book of reminiscences. The
volume, then, will be as dull 'as the
Congressional Record.
All of the anti-Japanese bills in the
Montana legislature hav been killed.
That' right. Montana could take care
of about half the population of Japan
without feeling at all crowded.
A bill pending In th Illinois legis
lature provide that professional
drunkards shall be Isolated, li Is sim
ply Impossible to separate a profes
sional drunkard from hi menagerie.
The nauiiuy of a aifiius; uuuiroittee
1 the beat Indication that the legisla
ture of Nebraska is getting ready to
quit. Just how soon Is sot Indicated.
Th sifters will have plenty of work
before they get th file cleaned up.
. The Treasury Deficit.
President Taft' administration i be
gins w'lth an apparently paradoxlcat '
financial condition. Business , condi
tions throughout the country are sub
stantially sound. Credit, both public
and. private, is strong; Imports show
a healthful Increase, crop ' prospects
are promising and all the elements
which make for a returning prosperity
are manifest and growing, even if the
evidences of returning vitality are not
pronounced. Their existence Is indis
putable. Opposed to this situation is
the fact that the fiscal year, which will
end on June SO, Is certain to show a
deficit of 1110,000,000. with a pros
pect that it may exceed that amount.
The situation then presented Is thst,
while all private enterprises are pros
perous and showing daily gains, the
public account is running behind all
the time and . the administration will
be pressed with the urgency of mak
ing some provision to strike a balance
between Income and outgo.
Since the beginning of thj year the
government has called for4he return
to the national treasury, of lotue. f.55,
000,000 held by national banks. The
imposition of an interest requirement
of 2 per cent upon funds held by the
banks has resulted In the release of
a large amount of securities, chiefly
government bonds, which were de
posited as pledges for such deposits of
public money. The banks are return
ing these deposits because they have
an abundance of money from indi
vidual depositors which they may. use
without paying the interest demanded
by the government. On account of
this condition, the banks have a glut
of bonds on their hands and are nat
urally not enthusiastic over the pros
pect of the bond supply being further
angmented by the Panama bond Issue.
The banks have a surfeit of bonds
bearing a low rate of interest and are
at something of a loss to know .what
to do with them.
The reflex of this condition is shown
In the quotations on Panama bonds.
The earlier Issues of these bonds sold
readily at 103 or better, but are now
being bid for at par only. Should the
treasury seek to market the $45,000,-
000 of these bonds In order to bring
the total emission up to the $130,000,-
000 authorized by the Spooner act.
there is serious question whether they
could be disposed of at par, unless In
dividuals take them for investment
purposes, as the banks can not use
them to advantage. . .
The situation, however, is far from
alarming. The treasury deficit Is
likely to have the effect of impressing
congress with the necessity of check
ing extravagance In appropriations
and against Ill-considered legislation
on questions of finance: It is believed
by those at the head of the Treasury
department that normal conditions
will be restored and the .treasury def
icit turned to a surplus if natural
conditions are allowed - to obtain In
the way of legislation and administra
tive policy. The first severe test of
President Taft's administration, there
fore, will be in the measures he de
vises for the safeguarding the public
credit and restoring confidence to the
enterprises of the country.
Reform for Revenge.
One of the most depolrable condi
tions that has prevailed in Nebraska
has been the opposition of a number
of interested persons to the growth of
Omaha and Douglas county. This
dates back to the earliest times in the
history of the state, when the rivalry
waa keen for political and commercial
eminence. It is needless now to re-.
count the various phases and manifes
tation ot tnl rivalry, of the bitterness
that grew out of the fact that Omaha
became the business and Industrial
center of th state.
It Is not true, as has often been
charged, that Omaha ha sought to
dominate the affair .of the state,
either in business or politics. The
spirit that baa prevailed in Omaha haa
alwaya been that what Is good for Ne
braska la good for Omaha, and along
this line the cltlsens of the metropolis
have consistently proceeded. The
time cannot be said for some other
and smaller communities In the state.
A great many have proceeded, ap
parently, along th line that what Is
good for St. Joe, or Kansas City, or
St. Louis, or some other outside point,
is good for Nebraska. Periodically
Omaha is submitted to public criticism
and abuse by men, who, while pre
tending to act for the state, are really
acting for some selfish purpose and
hoping that by arraying the state
against Omaha they can secure their
own selfish ends. .
When the revenue bill that is now
the law was before th legislature the
cltlsens of Omaha were at Lincoln
fighting the hardest to secure the en
actment of a law that would 'place the
burden of taxation equally where it
belongs, and the corporations , then
used the cry that is now being raised
to align the country votea against
Omaha in order that certain provisions
of the law should be moulded to
suit the convenience of the railroads.
When the terminal tax Mil waa pend
ing the same fight was carried on, but
In this Omaha's argument prevailed
and every community in tbe atate
profits aa a result of tbe enactment cf
that law. The cry of reform in the
revenue law is sgatn raised In the leg
islature and the author of the pro
posed law defenda his action by at
tacking Omaha aad citing that the
property . owned In this city escapes
taxation, inasmuch aa these charges
hav been made again and again be
fore the Stat Board of Equalisation,
and hav been annually threshed out
at the sittings of that body. It must
be apparent that th proposed, law la
reform for revenge rather than for
revenue. v . r
It is not Omaha's fault that this city
was found to be located the most ad
vantageously for the purposes of com
merce and Industry, but it is Omaha's
misfortune thst the Jealousy of a num
ber of smaller communities Is continu
ally being vented In the legislature
and elsewhere. The clllxens of Omaha
are proud of Nebraska, and as loyal
and energetic In tbe upbuilding of the
stste as any can possibly be. They
havq no vengeance to wreak on any
one and regret deeply that any should
feel a grievance against Omaha that
can only be settled by enacting' a reve
nue law especially to meet the end.
The Stuff of Soldiers.
A thrill of pride must quicken the
pulses of Americans who read of the
experiences 6f the West Pojnt cadets
in their efforts to reach Washington
on the morning of March 4 In time to
take a star part in the Inaugural pa
rade. The 400 cadets, traveling In
two special trains, reached Baltimore
about 7 o'clock in the morning to find
the wires down and the track between
Washington and Baltimore blocked
with "snowdrifts. Railroad men could
offer no encouragement and rather
frowned upon the proposition of Colo
nel Sibley to "make a way." "There
are more telegraph poles on the tracks
between here and Washington than
there are standing," reported the rail
road superintendent. The com
mandant replied that the cadets would
attend to that and the special trains
were allowed to atart their fight
against the blockade.
When the first section cleared the
Baltimore tunnel, the snow from
which had been shoveled by the
cadets, tbe snow was falling In a
blinding sheet. The train was stopped
and a member of the victorious foot
ball team of West Point led the charge
with 200 of his fellows. Telegraph
poles were removed and dangerous
obstructions piled into the ditch. Old
railroad men who were out clearing
tbe tracks gaped in wonder at tbe vim
and intelligence with which the cadets
tackled the obstruction problem and
the scientific way In which they re
moved obstacles. In an hour the track
bad been cleared to an open space,
some nineteen miles In length. Then
the second relay came up and took
relief duty. At noon only five miles
separated the cadets from the national
capital. The cadets worked with
clock-like regularity and with as much
discipline aa though they were in an
engineering corps clearing the way for
an army to go through to Washing
ton in war time. At 1 o'clock they
pulled Into the Washington terminal
and two battalions of cadets, spick and
span in the dress uniforms to which
tney had changed and showing no
signs of the forty miles of hard work,
marched out of the station to take
their places In the Inaugural parade.
No .livelier body' of men passed the
reviewing stand and no military or
ganization showed a line so perfect
or a step so springy. Six hours after
the parade the cadets were back In
West Point and at their regular work.
It was all a part of a day's work. Of
such stuff are the American soldiers
made.
Reform Work for Bankers.
Convicted bankers serving terms in
the Western Pennsylvania peniten
tiary at Pittsburg have discovered an
apparent shortage of some $26,000 In
the penitentiary accounts, and a thor
ough investigation of the books of
the institution has been ordered. One
of the banker convicts, appointed to
audit the books, discovered the dis
crepancy some time ago and other
bankers behind the bars, have been
working with him to ascertain the de
tails and extent of the misuse of
funds.
The discovery suggests a wide field
for operation in the penal institutions
of other states. Ohio has a "bankers'
row" in its penitentiary and nearly
every state in the union has one or
more bankers on its convict roll. Most
of these men have been sent to prison
on account of the facility in doctor
ing books in order to conceal pecula
tions and violations of the banking
law. Naturally they are the men best
equipped to examine the books of the
big penal Institutions to ascertain
whether the state is being mulcted.
The discovery in tbe Pennsylvania in
stitution may do much to remove the
prejudice juries apparently have
against sending bankers to prison,
even when the evidence is strongly
against them.
The Sugar Trust's Fine.
The United States government has
won a rather important victory in the
decision of the jury In the federal dis
trict court at New York assessing a
fine of $134,166 against the Sugar
trust, which was found guilty of de
frauding the government by the use of
a device which caused the scales to
register untrue weights, thus cheating
the federal government of its proper
customs duties Imposed on raw Im
ported sugar.
The decision and the fine imposed
are, of course, important, but they are
insignificant compared with the expose
of the methods of some of the btg in
dustrial corporations in defrauding
the government and gaining a distinct
advantage over competitors. Tbe tes
timony offered showed conclusively
that the Sugar trust had sole owner
ship of a device, the use of which
reduced tbe weight of the trust's im
portations from 10 to 25 per cent,
owing to tbe needs of the day's busi
ness. It is claimed by th government
that this device was used on 23 4 car
goes of sugar and that proof of the
charge will show th government has
been deprived of custom duties ag
gregating nearly $2,000,000.
Tbe defense plsced its main reli
ance on th fact that the prosecution
was a "plant" and that the informers
were to receive a large share of the
money recovered from the tiust. If the
case was successful. Public sentiment
Is always against informers, but In
this case the means clearly were Justi
fied In securing the needed Informa
tion convicting a big corporation of
one of the most contemptible of meth
ods in securing an advantage over the
government and over Its competitors
in the sugar refining business.
Secretary Wilson has coaxed the
western farmers to raise durum wheat,
and now is trying to convince the west
ern millers they can't bleach the flour
made from th durum. Ills position
seems a little , bit singular, but the
spring wheat millers of Minneapolis
don't care what happens to the winter
wheat millers of Nebraska.
The restoration by the Union Pacific
Coal company of several thousand
acres of valuable coal lands which had
been unlawfully sequestered and the
payment of a stiff fine for damages Is
something of an Indication that the
secret service under Secretary Gar
field's direction has been of value.
"Whisky Is whisky, and nothing
else is whisky," is the final decision
of Mr. Bonaparte on the question,
"What is whisky!" which has been
before the Washington authorities for
several years. Mr. Bonaparte Is clearly
qualified to answer that other ques
tion, "What is a democrat?"
The assault on Douglas county in
the legislature by the representative
of Lancaster county does not surprise
anybody, for it is habitual. The only
thing to be discovered now la what
new plum the Lincoln senator hopes to
secure for his own community.
Mr. Fairbanks upon retiring from
office paid for the inkstand, the pur
chase of which created so much crit
icism a few years ago. The democrats
will, of course, refuse to be satisfied
until he pays for the ink he used dur
ing his four years' term.
Dr. Lyman Abbott Is making a tour
of Porto Rico for material for a series
of special articles for the Outlook,
There will be no room for such arti
cles In the Outlook when Editor
Roosevelt gets his typewriter properly
oiled.
Walter Wellman haa advised An
drew Carnegie to establish a newspa
per In Washington. Tbe suggestion
will give Mr. Carnegie a chance to
show whether he was In earnest when
he expressed a wish to die poor.
Mr. Bryan is such a magnet in the
east, that people are trampling each
other to death in order to see him. He
ought to . return to Nebraska, where
his legislature is taking all sorts of
liberties with his platform.
Senator Aldrlch and Speaker Can
non are both In jfavor of a permanent
tariff commission, composed of experts.
At that, however, the advocates of a
permanent tariff commission will prob
ably not give up the fight.
Judge McPherson's decision has not
ended the 2-cent fare fight In the west.
It is the hope ot the railroad attorneys
that this will affect action in other
states, but the clamor for reduced
rates will not be stilled.
Charles P. Taft, a brother of the
president, has paid $37,000 for the
painting, "Shearing the Sheep." It is
surprising that J. Pierpont Morgan al
lowed anyone to Wat him to the pur
chase of that.
For Six Month his Suffering was
Beyond Words One Mass of Irri
tation and Itching was Dreadful
Slept Only from Sheer Exhaustion
Almost Out of His Mind After
24 Hours' Use of Cuticura Slept
Like an Infant and Then was
CURED IN ONE MONTH
BY CUTICURA REMEDIES
"I am seven ty-seven years old and
one day, some years ago, I fell from
a atep-iaader, bruising
my heel. In a few days
1 could nut walk. I
called in a doctor and
inside of a week erysip
elas set in. The doctor
had not cured me of
that when I was taken
with eczema from head
to foot. I was sick for
six months and what I
suffered tongue could
not tell. I could not
sleep day or night because of that dread
ful itching; ajen I did sleep it waa from
sheer exhauuion. I waa one mass of
irritation; It iaa evert in my scalp. Th
doctor's medicine seemed to make me
worse and I was almost out of ray mind.
I read of Cutioura and sent my wife to
the druggist, who waa a member of my
4odn of Odd Fellows, for a aet of the
Cuuoura Soap, Cuticura Ointment and
Cuticura Resolvent. I used them per
sistently for twenty-four hours. That
night I slept like an infant, the first
olid night a aleep I had had for six
months. I waa not araid to use plenty
of Cuticura Ointment and Cuticura Soap
with hot water and in a week's time I
waa able to put on my clothes again,
in a month I was cured. From that
day to thia I cannot praise the Cuticura
Remedies too highly. I may add that
I have a very heavy head of hair which
I owe to Cuticura. W. Harrison Smith,
R.F.D. 2, Mt. Kisco, N. Y.. Feb. 3, '08.''
A single aet of tha Cuticura Remedies
is often sufficient for tha treatment of
tha most torturing, disfiguring, itching,
burning and aoalr humors, acaemaa,
raahea and irritations, with loaa of hair,
from infancy to aga, when all other rata
dies fail. Guaranteed absolutely pur
and may be used from tha hour of birth.
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MetrvpellB from Say to Day.
Circular No. 4. Ixsued from the New York
offh-e of the Simplified Spelling board, an
nounces that another larse aectlon of tha
Standard spelling book has been trimmed
up In modern artistic fashion. The chief
point of attack has been the ea which
ancient spelling chucked Into words where
they were not useful nor ornamental, and
only served to stretch the "airing" of
printera under the ancient piece system.
Tha circular contains almost 11,000 sepa
rate words In tflie simplified form (such
as. rime, gard. Hand, autum, center, honor,
helth, aetlv, lmarin, dortrln, tic), and
33.000 forma ending "ed" now simplified to
"d," or "t." according as they are pro
nounced (as srmd, burnd. compeld. inetild.
snapt. atept, dropt. atopti. It makes a
pamphlet of thirty-two pages, of wh'ch
the first four contain an Introductory ex
planation and condensed list of rules.
Every afternoon a short stocky man
with a wooden box under each arm rushes
up and down Prk Row Into saloons, nickel
odeons, cigar stores and rentauranta, where
small chart la needed. He la known an
"the Park Row change man," and carries
from flOO to tXO In small change on each
trip ha makes.
The money Is arranged In rouleaus, or
rolls, stamped and sealed, In amounts vary
ing from II to 110 and made op of pen
nies, nickels, dimes, quarters and half
dollars. These he sells at an average profit
of 5 cente a roll, shopkeepers being glad
to pay this for the accommodation. Tha
Park Row dispenser of lubricants, food,
cigars snd other neccsary things Is always
ready to take all the change he can get.
"Tho change man of the row" haa two
assistants, who gather all the small coin
the- can get, from the circulation rooms
of the big newspaper offices, subway' and
elevated station, and the-"flrm of change
artists" hr.ndles hundreds of dollars a day
from which they derive a tidy weekly in
come. This Is only one of the petty, paying
industries of the Row ttiat few of the
hundreds of thousands of persons who pass
up and down Park Row dsy In and day
out know anything about.
Voicing the opinion that journalism haa
come to occupy hig-h public ground and that
there should be no curtailment of the free
dom of the press In its consideration of
demagogues and political humbugs who set
themselves up as statesmen. Supreme
Court Justice Gaynor in an oration on the
occasion of the laying of the cornerstone
of the New York Press club's new home,
gave approbation to the efforts of fair
and " honest newspapers. He said: "The
prens of the country haa within the last
twenty years improved vastly. Today to
meet a journalist is to meet an educated
gentleman, no matter to what department
of the paper he belongs. Newspaper men
respect tl emselves and each other. Today
a scandalmonger Is shown the door in a
newspaper office sooner than anywhere
else. Jn their public conduct public offi
cials are held up by the press to the full
est publicity. The press should be free to
put demagogues and political humbugs
in a bunch separate, where they can be
easllty distinguished. None of them can
survive the touch of Ithurlel'a spear of
truth the pen of enlightened Journalism
In a free country, governed In tha last an
alyals by those thinking persons who make
free and lasting opinions."
. Mrs. Russell Sage and others have pur
chased a tract of land in Jamaica, county
of Queens, for the purpose of experiment
ing In the building of - model tenement
houses after the English style. The broker
In whose name title was acquired said
today:
"The plan still lacks deflniteneRS. I have
no knowledge regarding the amount to be
expended in the buildings, nor do I know
how many or of what form or site they
will be."
The site Includes more than forty-eight
acres just outside the heart of the Italian
and Polish sections of Jamaica, tf the im
provement proves successful model tene
ment houses are to be erected in many
places In Manhattan, It Is said.
"That man had a positive mania for red
headed women," said a witness In Justice
Scudder's court, Brooklyn, testifying
against John Tyler Dupont, whose wife,
Helen, Is suing for divorce. "Why, your
honor," the witness went on, "he has had
aa many as three, four and even six red
headed girls with him at once In various
public places. I have seen him."
Iawyers and spectators looked Inter
ested, the justice was aroused out of his
judicial calm, and everybody waited for
further particulars. It was Margaret Ful
ler Elser, the complaining wife's sister,
who was on the stand.
"We all went to Coney Island for tha
Mardi Gras of 1907," Mrs. Elser particu
larized. "Helen, this husband of hers, my
younger sister Gertrude, and her fiance,
John Acquellne. Dupont suddenly disap
peared from us In the crowd and we
searched for lilm. We found him In a
cafe there, seated at a table, drinking
with no less than half a dozen women.
And every one of them had red hair.
"He apologised. Joined us again and five
minutes later was 'lost,' as he called It,
once more. This, time we found him. an
hour later, on the beach, kissing another
woman. And she was red-headed, too!
"Another time I met him coming from
a road house on Ocean parkway. He was
hugglng and kissing a Voman. Tea. she
had red hair. Then, again, I found him
on Park Row and at Coney Island once
with two girls; again with four. They
all had the same sort of hair red!"
The magnitude of th local transporta
tion systems of New York City Is made
clear by the statistics given In the report
of the public service commission for the
last calendar year.
Surface, subway and elevated lines car
ried more than 1.30O.OUO.00O paobengers. being
66 per cent more than were carried on all
the steam railways of the country. It Is
as If every man, woman and child of New
York's 4,000,000 population rode on one of
the local lines 323 times In the twelvemonth.
There Is no other Institution that affects
so closely as the transit lines the life and
comfort of tha people of the city. Next
in Importance come the lighting systems.
It Is Interesting to know that the yearly
receipts of the transit companies exceed
ti2.OOl.O0O, that New Yorkers consume an
nually about one-fifth of all the Illuminat
ing gaa produced In tha country, paying
therefor about 130.0u0.ouo. besides t2P.000.OOa
for electricity.
A hptevlarl for the tiadi.
New York Tribune.
The senate must have been overcome
with the emotion which the spectacle of
confident and triumphant virtue always In
spires when it heard tha Hon. Joseph W.
Bailey object to confirming a nominee for
a post in tha cabinet on tha ground that he
had performed aome legal eervlce for the
Waters-Pierce company. Mr. Bailey, wltu
hia intense consciousness of impeccability,
la ever prona to condemn In the walk and
conduct of other public servanta-or proa
pective publlo servants what ha generally
condone to hia own personal and political
record
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PERSONAL NOTES.
Most sections of the country are dis
posed to give the ground hog a foremost
place as a winter weather prophet.
People who had the 'discretion to slay
away from Washington and read the papers
got the clearer idea of what happened
there.
Prof. Starr says that Mr. Roosevelt can
not survive Africa, yet the professor has
survived nine trips there. Possibly he car
ried a rabbit's foot.
Rear Admiral Schley as president of the
Arctic club appeals for funds to aid in
the rescue of Ur Frederick A. Cook. If
Cook is alive he should be found by Peary
without the necessity of sending a special
searching party after him.
Miss Elisabeth Planklngton has presented
the Milwaukee public auditorium with a
magnificent pipe organ, to be installed Id
the largest of the secondary halls, which
Is to bear the name of the donor's father,
John Planklngton, In consequence ot tha
gift.
When F. W. Alblan, who owns a Junk
yard In Armourdale, Kan., leaves his place
of business to go home at night he knows
that everything will be as he left It when
he returns in the morning. Alblan haa a
largo timber wolf for a watchdog. The
wolf will allow no one to touch U except
its master.
"From February to April, 1908," writes
Dr. Sven Hedln, describing hia adventures
In Thibet, "I disguised myself as a Ladakhl
and blackened try face every night and
morning. At critical moments when Thib
etans approached our caravan I uaed to
run after our droves of twenty-five sheep
and goata, whistling and shouting to keep
them together and playing the part of
sheep driver to the best of my ability."
1 MK.V OK MATCHED JIDGME.M',
Oaly tine Member of President's
Cabinet I ndrr Fifty.
v Boston Transcript.
Mr. Taft'a cabinet certainly ought to be
characterized by maturity of Judgment,
since Frank Hitchcock la Its only member
under fifty, he being forty-two. The sec
retary of agriculture Is the nestor, but
bears his seventy-four years with an ease
that must make him an object of envy to
unofficial farmers. Mr. MacVeagh gra
duated from Yale when President Taft was
5 years old. Mr. Nagel Is 60. Mr. Taft Is
younger than the. majority of his advisers
being In his 62d year. He la two years the
junior of his vice president. Such differ
ences in aga between presidents and their
cabinet leaders and vice presidents have
been not uncommon. Often cabinets have
been recruited from older, if not better,
soldiers, and the vice presidency haa been
the aolatlem for an ambition so long con
tinued aa to be almost venerable. The ad
ministration ought to be learned, for the
preaident, vice president and every member
of the cabinet are college graduates. One,
Mr. Nagel. holding a foreign degree as
well. Mr. Nagel has. moreover, In his time
filled a professional chair.
Acearacr with tCmpkaela.
Chicago Record-Herald.
The message best descriptive of the feel
ings of the Inauguration multitudes that
came out ot storm-swopt Washington was
tha weather bureau cipher bulletin "Fur-
dog helmuth rogation dedona" with the
accent on the first syllable of the second
word.
The New Dispensation.
Washington Herald.
Under the new dispensation, presumably.
malefactors of great wealth and undesir
able citlsens. will be quietly asphyxiated
rather than whacked on the head strenu
ously with a big stick.
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BREEZY TRIFLES.
"I am a poet."
"let me see your poetic license."
"I haven't It with me. but here are r
Jnctlon slips from some of our best pulili
cations." Lioutnvllla Courier-Journal,
"Would you advise a young man to gi
Into politics?"
"Without hesitation. If he is really fitt.ij
for politics he wont' take advice: he'll In
sist on giving It." Washington Star.
"I may say that f hae at last arrived
at years of discretion."
"How now?"
"Today I had a chance to get even wlih
a man and didn't." Kansas City Journal.
"Do you believe In a government bureau
for children?"
"Well," replied the thoughtful mother,
"It might do for boys, but 1 think uiv
daughter would prefer a dressing lalilo. "
Philadelphia Ledger.
"I am afra.d, mamma, that Fred Is a
little profane."
"Oood gracious! Why. my child?"
"Because when I came in last night,
when he was talking in the parlor about
the Panama canal, 1 heard him aak pspx
what he thought of the dam lookout."
Baltimore American.
Miss Roostlow (reading fashionable in
telligence) De qneshn oh fethehs Is still
ondeclded for 1909. Now, aln' dat rldlck -lus?
Mr. Roostlow No, chile. Ah nevah lias
been able to mek up man mln" whetheh
hits bes' to buh'y 'cm er buhn 'em. ruck.
"let me ssk you one question," said tin
leader of the suffragists to an attentive
masculine listener. "Would you give up
your seat in a street car to a womsn?"
"No, ma'am." the nisn replied, "I
wouldn't." .
"And why not?'; uttte. suffragists de
manded. "Because I'm a motornian." the man re
plied. Cleveland Plain Dealer.
THE MOTHER OF THE MAN.
St. lyouls Globe-Democrat.
No perfect woman she, but unafralil
She walked the ways of life,
A loving daughter first, then afterward
A loyal, loving wife.
She sst upon no pedestal self-reared
In lofty pride alone,
But shoulder close with workers walked
To worldly fame unknown.
The simple duties of the common lot,
Its loves. Its hopes, its fears.
With klndlv heart and BteadfMRt faith to
I brave
j Whale'er might bring the yeara.
She had her place In life, a lowly one;
But even In her thought
She neither shirked the task nor unearned
rest
From present duty sought.
And when a aon she mothered won hi
way
To fortune and to fame
The foolish world looked on and wonderrd
much
Whence all his courage came,
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