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THK P.KK: OMAHA, TUESDAY. JUNE 22, 1!H. Tim Omah Daily Bee F6UNDID Bf EDWARD ROSEWATER VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. Entered at Omthl postofflce aa second clam matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally pea (without Sunday), on year..l ralljr Bee and Sunday ona year w DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Daily Bee (Including Kiindey. per week..lfc Datlv B (without Sunday), per Evening Be (without Sunday). per w Evening Paa (with Bunday). pr . Bunday Bea. ona yaar J Saturday Bee, ona year ' , Addreaa all eamplalnts of Irregularities in delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha T ..i Bee Building. Koath Omaha Twenty-fourth and IV Council Bluffs-ll Bcott Street. Mncoln-l tittle Building Chicago 1MI Marquette Building. New York-Rooms 1101-1102 No. "1 Thirty-third atreet. . Waeh!nfton-T Fourteenth Street. N. w. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi torial matter ahould be addressed: Omaiia Bee. Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, eapress or P','.a"' payable to The Bee Publishing Company Only t-eent atampa rerelved In payment 01 mall aecounts Paraonal checks, eacept on Omaha or eaatern exchanges, not aereptea. STATEMENT OF CIRCTTLATION. State of Nebraska. Douglee County, Ji,. Oeorte B Taachuck. treasurer of The Bee Publishing Compnn). oelng ul? worn, aaya that the actual number of run and complete copies of The Dally. Morn ing. Evening and Bunday Be printed dur ing the month of May. 10, wea aa fol lowa: 1 44.750 43,000 4B.4S0 4... 49.090 48.860 40,350 T 40.S40 ... 40,490 37.400 It 40.180 11 40,410 IS 40,310 1 40,150 14 40370 IS 40,510 IS 87,500 IT 40,340 Returned coplea ... It 40.1P0 It 40,130 tO 40,140 tl 40.420 ta 40,310 fl3 3,aoo g4 40,180 BB 3.40 9g 40,030 a?'." 40,100 St 40,440 8t 41.070 30 M.M0 aX 40,360 Total. .l-BBS.tOO 8,085 Net tatal 1,849,815 Uaily average : 40-318 QEORQE B. TZ8CHUCK, Treaaurar. Subscribed In my preaence and oworn to before ma thla Slat day of May. lo U. P. WALKER. Notary Public aaarrikwra tea-tag the city tem porarily skoal have Tka Be aaalled fa litem. Addreaa will ba Banker Morse is out on ball, but he is Dot cutting so much ice aa formerly. Dewey's supply ship Zaflro has been sold as junk for $300. It lasted longer than the Spanish navy. If we are to have a safe and sane celebration of the glorioua Fourth this is about the right time to begin. A beer tree Is said to have been dis covered In Africa. The arid states are expected to place their orders early. The custodian of the cloak room will cheerfully find the senatorial hats if the gentlemen desire to go home. It would be Interesting to know whether they propose to have a safe and sane Fourth In the African jungle. If Francis J. Ueney could not con vince the jury In five months' trial that Calhoun Is guilty, the task looks hopeless. Why all this fuss about a bill of $600 for hosiery Mrs. Oould is not the first person to put her money in stockings. That New York court is trying to dectds whether Broughton Branden burg Is entitled to a diploma as a doc tor of letters. Tbt expense bill of printing a few more speeches like Senator La Fol lette's ought to convert congress to the free paper idea. Speaking of names, one of the mem bers of the Wisconsin legislature is named Brew. And he does not live la Milwaukee, either. Kansas City newspapers are be coming modest. In giving a list of the great American cities the Journal puts Kansas City last. And now Creigbton university offers to furnish Omaha with a morgue it only Omaha will furnish the occupants for It. . That looks fair. The warden of the Georgia peniten tiary haa a machine to punish unruly convicts. The competition for the laxy man's medal Is closed. Now that John U.'s pastor has de clared himself oa heresy hunting. Prof. Foster may rest easy regarding his job at Chicago university. Uncle Joe Cannon says be is only the servant of the house, but he has yet a lot to learn about autocratic gov ernment from the hired girl The World-Herald has a great habit of putting up Straw men In order to knock them down and is again engag ing Itself In this favorite pastime. The city of New York has paid Mayor McClellan $83,000 to reimburse him for expenses In his election con test case. "Law suits are expensive. A million-dollar investment in a ball park at Pittsburg ought to be proof enough that the people of this country take an Interest in the sport. To the International Printing Press men's union gathering here Omaha ' shines out an incandescent welcome with best wishes for a most successful meeting. Senator Depew has been sued as a ' itockhqjder la a cemetery and now there are some who are unkind enough to say they know where he got bU trash jokea. Corporation Tax Complications. The more the proposed federal tax on the net earnings of corporations, recommended by President Taft, Is studied the more complications it pre sents. While the plan of reaching incomes from corporate holdings without running the risk Involved In a general Income tax of questionable constitutionality appears at first to be quite simple and the way for It en tirely clear, putting the theory into practice without discrimination and inequalities Is certain to be difficult. The fact is that the attractiveness of th Income tax Idea rests entirely upon the supposition that it can be made a universal tax and possibly a single tax. The old orthodox canons of taxation laid It down that every person should contribute to the sup port of the government In proportion to his ability and by advocates of the Income tax the measure of ability was taken to bo In proportion to the In come he enjoyed under the protection of the government. The Income tax Is attractive only when it alms to Im pose the same relative tax burden upon all Incomes, although not necessarily In mathematical proportion. It might be proper to tax incomes from In vested capital higher than incomes from personal services,' but to tax in comes from one form of Invested cap ital and not to tax incomes from an other form of invested capital at all would certainly tend to discourage such Investments. Still another difficulty presented by the corporation tax proposal Is that of double taxation where the income of one corporation Is derived in whole or in part from another cor poration whose net earnings are like wise taxed. This is not so serious a problem that it cannot be solved, but to avoid double taxation the corpora tions thuB affected would undoubtedly have to reorganize or change their methods of operation. The greatest objection being urged, to this proposed federal tax on cor poration net earnings, however. Is that to which The Bee called attention in discussing the president's special mes sage namely, that the federal gov ernment would be seizing a source of revenue on which the state and local governments are already utilizing and to which they would be likely to turn still more. The federal government has so far, with few exceptions, relied for Its revenues upon Import duties, Internal revenue taxes and taxes on Interstate transactions from which the state and local authorities are com pletely ' excluded. When the federal government reaches Into a new field of taxation, such as It would here, the claims of the state and local govern ments must necessarily be made sec ondary. Unfortunately our system of taxa tion for the support of federal, state and local governments has never been worked out as a whole nor has any real effort been' made to' adjust all parts to one another so ns to mark off an equitable division and avoid con flict and duplication. Whether or not a trial shall now be made with a federal tax on corporation earnings, the mere proposal will focus public attention on this too much neglected subject and should result in more substantial progress being made. British Investments in America. The editor of the London Statist, George Parish, has recently compiled some statistics showing that British capital invested in American railroads and industries amount to $3,000,000, 000 and produce $135,000,000 In rev enue to their owners. What is more immediately significant Is the state ment that British Investors had sent to the United States during the past year $67,600,000 and that the ten dency Is to enlarge father than to cur tail the amount, British investments are world-wide, but outside of the colouies are largely confined to government securities with the single exception of the United States, where they tane.in railroads and industrial enterprises. This vast sum speaks, eloquently of , the part British capital has played in our de velopment and of the faith of a hard headed people in our future. Three billions of British money Invested in the United States Is the logic which British lingoes have been unable to i overcome in the , past ana w men stands as a guaranty of friendly inter course between the two countries. Sonth American Trade. Two obstacles have in the past de feated efforts to increase our trade with South America lack of direct steamship lines and banking facilities Another steamship line has just been put in operation between New York and the east coast of South America and powerful financial interests have undertaken to supply exchange facili ties by establishing banks in the lead ing cities of the southern continent. American goods have always won favor In South America and many are now sent there, taking the roundabout way of Europe and in the past the payments have been made through European banks. With direct ship ping and banking facilities there is no apparent reason why the United States should not supply a large por tion of the manufactured Imports The countries to the south of us are progressive and wealthy and their consuming power Is great, while they manufacture little. The Department of State, or more particularly Secretary Root, has laid a good foundation by creating a bet ter feeling toward the United States, supplanting the suspicion which here tofore entertained for their big neigh bor with a sentiment of amity. A tew farseelng and earnest men have long labored to secure a trade foot hold anil now there is promise of see ing their hopes realized. Under the new conditions the chief drawback is distance, and that is not material in ocean-carrying trade. Contrary to common belief, it Is farther from New York to southern Brazil and Argen tina than from European ports, but this advantage is more than offset by opportunities for return cargoes, the I'nlted States being a large consumer of the exports of those countries. There has never been a more promis ing field for American manufactures than South America and never a time when securing it should be so easy. Kit Carson Centennial. Kit Carson, who blazed practically every trail In the intermountaln coun try, was born 100 years ago this fall, and it Is proposed to commemorate the anniversary suitably In several western cities. When a youth he took up the pursuits of the trapper and no man of all that hardy band was bet ter equipped for the rough life. En dowed with a hardy physique, abso lute courage and tact he passed in personal safety through the dangers of a wilderness Inhabited by hostile Indians. Ills highly-developed gift of the sense of direction made him in valuable to the explorers who pene trated the country. Wherever they deslrett to go from the far southwest to the Canadian border he was willing and able to guide. His genius prob ably did more than any other one man to lay the foundation for conquering the west to civilization and he died Just at the dawn of its realization in 1861. Kit Carson's body now lies In a neglected grave at Taos, N. M., and citizens of Colorado propose to remove It to that state, where his children made their home, and erect a fitting monument. A vast empire dedicated to the highest civilization Is the mon ument of Carson, Brldger, Baker and their associates, but so rapidly do things move that they arc practically forgotten. "Nullifiers and Repudiators." Governor Shallenberger'B bombas tic talk about ' nullifiers and repudia tors" may impress some uninformed folks, but It Is not likely to go very far with people who are in touch with recent political history. When it comes to repudiation, the democrats, both in Nebraska and the nation at large, have a record of their own. Even Mr. Bryan has been compelled to take to task the renegade demo cratic congressmen in the lower house and the backsliding democrats in the upper branch of the national legisla ture. The Denver platform ha3 been repudiated, both by the people who refused to vote for the candidate run ning upon it and by the democrats in official positions who were expected to be Its etaunehest champions. ' Here In Nebraska repudiation of platform pledges has been equally flagrant, although the fact that demo- pop candidates were lust year appeal ing for votes on two conflicting plat forms gave notice in advance that one or the other would have to be repu diated later. The repudiation of the home rule pledge was only part of a pre-arranged bunco game and even the promise for whose redemption the governor claims most credit, namely, the deposit guaranty, was partially re pudiated because the law enacted ad mlttedly falls far short of what the people were made to believe they would get. When Governor Shallenberger talks about nullification he is likewise tread ing on thin Ice. Who is It that Is try Ing to nullify the state constitution by appointing a state senator to a civil office in direct disregard of the express constitutional prohibition? Who was it who tried to nullify the constltu tlonal amendment enlarging the su preme court in order to turn out the Judges appointed by Governor Sheldon and seize the places for dyed-in-the- wool democrats? Governor Shallenberger's talk about "repudiators and nullifiers" would sound a good deal better coming from some other source. It Is not exactly a paradox, but nonetheless true, that the people who complain most about the bad condl tion or our 6treet pavements are usually the very ones who persistently block all efforts at Improvement that might require them to pay a few dol lars in special taxes. William J. Bryan, Jr., and Miss Hlen Berger are to wed June 24. A few weeks ago William J. Bryan, Jr., consulted his parents In regard to the matter. Ha sue ceeded In winning Hie approval of the father of the bride as well. Alexander Berger (father of the bride-to-be). Is ox tremely wealthy. World-Herald. Who would have thought it? An Omaha man Is to lecture upon "The Wit and Humor of the Bible." We hope he will not pull down as much trouble as did the Chicago pro fessor, who recently wrote a book try ing to square the Bible with the dis coveries of modern science. The frightful fatal collision of su burban trolley cars a little way out of Chicago Is blamed on disobedience of orders by the tnotorman who was killed. At any rate, the raotorman will not be able to disprove the charge. It Is encouraging to 6eud word to Mr. Taft that his summer home at Beverly Is a pleasant place, but the president has an Indefinite engage ment at Washington. Out at Kearney Mayor Jim declared amidst approving applause that he was for "Bill" Oldham for supreme judge because he believed in staying with his friends who had fought the battles of democracy shoulder to shoulder with him In the olden days. And then the conference resolnted in favor of a nonpartisan Judiciary. Ex-President Eliot of Harvard has announced his provisional selections for wh.it he terms a five-foot library of liberal education, and already it is apparent some extension shelves will be needed to satisfy the critics. The new preacher In Rockefeller's church in Cleveland declared In his Initial sermon that he had come "to preach the gospel to the poor." Strange how a preacher should get his locations so mixed up. Whether a deputy marshal is a mar shal within the meaning of the law is the point on which the Helnse con tempt case rests. A hair Is never so fine that somo fine-edged lawyer will not try to split It. General Coxey of "Commonweal" army fame was a recent caller at the White House, but this time he rode up in a big, red automobile. Times change and Coxey has changed with them. A 2Ve rl Incineration. Boston Transcript. Nebraska Is so near the extinction of its state debt that it expects to "burn the mortgage." before the year Is out. LrnF Majeate, B'Gnah. Washington Herald. An ad valorem duty on the tariff speeches delivered in the senate would not produce enough revenue to pay the senators' salar ies, In all probability. Wotlni the Strentiona Life. Minneapolis Journal. Judge Alton ll. Parker expresses a de sire to reorganize too demcc ratio party. In the matter of willingness to essay stren uous undertakings, It is evident enough that the late Hercules had nothing what ever on Judge Parker. On Both Stdea ot the Fence. New York Tribune. Senator Lorimer of Illinois will have the unusual experience of voting for a tariff bill, first In the house of representatives and then In the senate. He has gone on record as favoring the house draft and on record as supporting the senate draft Cir cumstances seem to designate him aa an Ideal agent for settling In conference com mittee tho differences between the houses. Stai dpattera llnrd I'resae-. Philadelphia Record. The Insurgents had Senator Aldrich pretty badly frightened when he had to appeal to the president to pull them off with his proposal to amend the constitution. No wonder the Rhode Island boss has an nounced that this will be his last term In the senate. Public life isn't aa much fun as it used to be. before those mustangs from the wild west were turned Into the corral. Voice of the Great Hunter. Baltimore American. The predatory rich and the wicked trusts congratulated themselves too soon If they thought that the Hons, rhlnocert and hlp potaml In Africa would draw off the light ning of MiV-TtoNseVe.t's denunciatory' elo quence from rhVi Selves'. He is,'- so to speak, shooting 116ns with his gun in one hand and potting trusts with hia Sen In the other. It may be mentioned Incidentally that any kind of game which the modern Nlmrod wants to bring down la seldom, If ever, out of his range. CRUDE A.D I'WOHTHV, Miserable Failure of American at Black Ilnnd Methods. St. Louis Times. the case of Hubert Leslie Hayes, now verging upon the mature age of 27 years, according to his own statement, who Is held sa federal prisoner because he merely threatened, as Is charged, to blow up three passenger trains of the Wabash railroad unless that company should forward (5,000 In real money to his personal address, ex cites an Interest not unusual, because It la so different from that of other cases in which so-called-black hand 'methods have been employed. Mr. Hayea has differed from those col laborateurs In his profession who have signed themselves with the dire manual of the Black Hand by having been readily caught. Most of the other gentlemen brigands who have attempted similar meth ods of procuring easy money have got away with their bluffs either by easily pro curing the amount solicited or by escaping arrrest after refusal. This simply leads to the conclusion that the American-bred mind la not adapted to the sinuous and evasive methods so adroitly employed by our Intelligent Italian confreres who come out of Corsica and Sicily, mostly. Mr. Hayes first should have secured a president or two of the Wabash system, and, having completely immured him in some dark recess of the Harts mountains, on the banks of the Wabash, far away, should have sent In tentative suggestions as to what the company might be willing or able to do in the way of ransom if, first upon the receipt of a finger and the subsequent arrival of a piece of an ear and thereafter the reception of a choice selection of nose, they would have con eluded that the held-for-ransom official would be about half out of bodily members if not speedily redeemed. We look upon Mr. Hayes" methods aa crude and unworthy of American Ingenuity. A food does aot need to be heavy to be strengthening'. E-C lorn Flak are dainty and ap petizing as well as trc-gt-ein-g'. Remember it's tbe E-C process tbat makes E-C Corn Flakes so good. Watch for the mark oa tbe package. Around New York Jpplea oa tba Cnrreat of lfe aa Sean In the Great American Metropolis from Say to Bay. Three hundred and seventy-five dollar a square foot, the second highest prlre paid for ground In the Manhattan division of New Tork City, was paid last week for a slice of 4.0O0 square feet of ground at Broadway and Thirty-second street, known as the Cnlon Dime Pavings bank property. The buyers were Kngllsh investors. Four years ago the property changer! hands for $100,000. making a net gain of $..00.00) ff the purchasers In that time. The south cast corner or Wall street and Broadway brought tM a square foot In 1905. Since i:01 the record price In the mldtown section has been tSJI.M) a square foot, which was paid for the northwest corner of Broadway and Thirty-fourth strret. How Collector of Customs Loeb broke up the White Carnation league Is one of the in teresting stories In connection with-the shakeup of the New York custom house related by the Brooklyn Kagle. It seems that for a long time certain men. well up In the customs service have been In the habit of making mysterious trips down the bay on revenue cutters to meet incoming steamers. On these trips the officers al ways wore white carnations In the lapels of their coats. No matter whether It was bleak winter or a mild spring day, the white bloom was as much a part of the costume of the officers as their shoea and ha is. None of the members of the Order of the White Carnation now make these trips down the bay. Collector Loeb fathomed the mystery of the white emblem and has broken up the order. According to high treasury officials the flower was a badge by which wealthy travelers desiring to smuggle valuable goods Into the country recognised persons who were able to help them In avoiding the payment of duty. The wearer of the carnation could always he counted upon as a "safe" officer who would see that the smuggled goods were passed without question. In explaining how the scheme was operated, a treasury official saidt "Suppose Mr. Traveler was going to Eu rope with the Intention of bringing back some diamonds, silks or other valuable goods without the formality of paying the usual customs duties. If he located the right persons, and I Imagine this was not a difficult matter, he would find ready promise of assistance. Mr. Traveler would be told to watch for a customs officer wearing a white carnation. Such an of ficer would meet the incoming steamer down the bay and all the smuggler had to do was to ask the flower decorated officer to have his baggage expedited. There the responsibilities of Mr. Travelor ceased. His trunks, with their load of undeclared valuables, would be hastened through the customs house under orders of the man with the white carnation. If there should be a settlement afterward, who would be the wiser V One of the members of the Order of the White Carnation lived In a hotel In New Tork patronised chiefly by the well-to-do. This man occupied a suite of rooms, the cost of which waa BO per cent, more than his yearly Income from the government. Apparently the extravagant habits of this officer failed to arouse the suspicion of Collector Loeb's predecessor. When Mr, Loeb got on the trail of the white carna tion story and learned what It meant, there were some dismissals. In the lot, it la stated, was the high-flying officer who lived al tho expensive hotel. , After an extended period of opposition the New York legislature in 1908 enacted the Torrens law. It went into effect last February, to the satisfaction of the great body of real estate men ana all others con templating at any time '.he purchase or sale of land. But the Influences at work to defeat the measure during Ita legislative stages are apparently still active. The first application for registration of a piece of property under the new act In Kings county has been held up and is now being contested before the supreme court. The law requires that every person seeking to have a piece of property registered must make owners of all abutting property par ties to the formal action, which is prelimi nary. In March of the present year a man bought the piece of property now In litiga tion and a month later the title to It was passed as perfect, the abutting owners permitting their part to go by default, when suddenly one of them, owning a lot abutting Just six Inches on the corner of the new purchase, challenged the proceed ings. This was a Florida tobacco Importer with a Spanish name, having an office In New York. He explained that the Title Guaran tee and-Trust company had advised him to take that course. Another of the interested parties said he had also been approached by a representative of the same company who offered to provide hlrn with good lawyers, free of charge. If he would oppose the registering of title. Meanwhile further transactions under the Torrens law are suspended all over the state until this test case, which may have to go through sev eral courts, Is decided. Title companies hate to give up a good thing. The New York police department has granted a month's leave of absence with pay to Acting Captain Kuhne, head of the Brooklyn detective bureau, who must shortly begin serving thirty days" impris onment for contempt of court In connec tion with the photographing of an accused banker some months Ago. He will go to Jail es soon as the formal order of the court Is received. Officials from all de partments of the city government called on Kuhne to express their friendship, and many police officials hinted to him that a plan was under way to reward him at the end of his imprisonment by installing him aa a full captain. PERSONAL NOTES. Ponular Mechanics saya, 'Butter 200 years old Is frequently served in India." Yet some people wonder why discontent bor dering on revolution prevallB In the land of fartines. Harley N. Piper of Bellefontalne, O., who became a hunchback after being care lessly lifted by hiH uncle. 22 years of age. has won a suit against his relative for $4,200 damages. It seems worthy of explanation whether that $r5.00 contributed to Syracuse Uni versity by John D. Archbold Is a recogni tion of past xeal or an Incentive to further fulminatlons on the enormity of restrain ing corporate abuses by law. Sydney Windecker. Sylvester Wlndecker and Mrs. Sarah Pier, all residing In dif ferent parts of Wisconsin, who were born In Lowvllle. N. Y., June . 1S44. are In robust health and ate believed to be the oldest living Amertran triplets. They hold a reunion every ear. Joaquin Miller is planning to establish rninnv of Doets and to conduct a school of pnetiy nrr his home at Frultvale In raiifornia. He has given an acre of land to Jlcnry Meade Bland and another to A Bank with ample capital and surplus In 1863 when this Institu tion became a National Dank, the capital was $35,000. This has been Increased from time to time to meet the needs ol a steadily grow ing business. Today the Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits amount to over $1,200,000.00. First National Bank of Omaha When your stomach eat I WiMT for ten mornings then keep on eating it. It keeps the stomach sweet and clean and the bowels healthy and active. Herbert Bashford. They expect to build cottages there and help found this colony. Rollin Lynde Hartt, author of "The Peo ple at Play," is a reformed reformer. His early studies of the Other Half and their amusements roused In him a quixotic de sire to make them over. To this there suc ceeded a more tolerant mood. Instead of emphasizing their evil side he has seen that It is offset to a vast degree by motives clean and good. Mrs. Taft has traveled more than the wife of any other president. She has al most as great a globe-trotting record as the president. She has crossed the Pacific half a doxen times, and has traveled In Japan, Manchuria, Siberia, China and other far eastern countries. She went to Cuba with her husband, and to Panama, and she has visited every corner of Europe with him. BREEZY TRIFLES. Bashful Suitor -Will you be engaged to morrow, Miss Sophy T Sensible Sophy I may be, Mr. Week nede. If anybody has nerve enough to ask me. Baltimore American. The girl in the grandstand looked puz ' "Do you understand the language they use here?" She asked. ' - t "Understand it!" exclaimed the wild eyed fan by her side: "why, bless you, It's the only kind of language there ls!"Chl cago Tribune. "Oh. what a tangled web we weave," said the apt quotationlst, "when first we practice to deceive!" "That's right," answered Senator Sorg hum; "deception Is mighty dangerous un less one has had a great deal of experi ences'Washington Star. Howard Before marriage he snld ho'd go to the ends of the earth for her. Coward And after marriage he did It to get away. Life. Benjamin Franklin had Just succeeded In getting a spark of electricity from the clouds. "I rather guess," he chuckled, "that'a about as near as anybody will ever come to receiving a message from Mars " Hastily reeling In his wire and pulling the kite down, he made a quick getaway, and was not in when the man came with 3SS Summer Underwear FOR MEN FOR BOYS Every action freeperfect fit quality that wears longest. 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I "What hss his previous employment to do with his efficiency?" queried his com panion. "Why. naturally, to an ex-oonductor all kinds of weather are fare weather." Bal timore American. Teacher Where was the Magna Chart signed? Intelligent boy At the bottom. Sir. Har vard Lampoon. . - IN EXTRA SESSION. Washington Star. Oh, melancholy fate! Bound to the tariff by decree of atate, I stand and watch the dally plodding clock , Suffering like Prometheus at the rock. Each morning's mall Brings letters that assail ' My conaclenoa aentlltve. .-3 n . .. l ot must I live And give My strength unto a futile tragic cry To . the great eagle bird that hovera nigh; The bird of freedom proud that repre sents The ruthless xeal of my constituents! And this because By various laws I am supposed to do the bent I can To bring unto my groping fellow-maa The heaven-born fire which Hghta The way to reason's heights. In vain I tug and strain. The endless chain Of argument that holds me In Its grip Grows tighter. There's no hope that it may slip t'ntll, as happened In that mythlo day, After long weeks of anguish and delay Some Hercules Appears and sees f My sorrowing plight and break nty booda with ease. If there's a Hercules to calm this atrese, Won t he please write and give ui hi address? ' . 'Poroikn