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43,160 14 41,783
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13 41,780 2d 40,400
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porarily shoald hare The Be
nnfled to them. Address will be
ckaaajed ava often as requested.
In the case of Captain Loose It be
gins to look like fast and loose.
If the Palladino thinks that New
York was a frost, wait till she has tried
it on Boston.
Copenhagen is still investigating
whether there is anything rotten in the
state of Denmark.
The government's game of forfeits
with the sugar refiners is proceeding
with tests both fine and superfine.,
The disclosures of wholesale cor
ruption In Montreal establish another
bond of cousinshlp with some Ameri
can municipalities.
1 The man who has leased New York
real ectate for 999 years evidently de
sires, his heirs to enjoy a perpetual
rent day,
No modern firearm Is any more
deadly than the gun that no one knew
was loaded, which is still doing busi
ness at the old stand.
'.The Alaskan Indians swallowed the
pledge of the medicine man that he
would still the waves, and the waves
swallowed the Indians.
What Is Paris without its murder
scandal? No sooner is Mme. Stelnheil
out of the limelight than the mystery
of the slain Mme. Gouin occupies the
stage.
The War department has been
counting nosea and finds that the
United States haB 15,000,000 men of
fighting age. Quite a conservation of
resources.
It's a mighty mean thief that would
teal a Christmas package from the
top of a mall box, but the safest plan
1b to take it to the postofflce If It won't
go in the box.
The cheerful way in which Tolstoy's
publisher accepts a year's prison sen
tence arouses the suspicion that there
musts be a large margin of profit in
printing the sage's books.
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. Having planted a "votea for women"
banner at the top of Pike's Peak, the
suffragettes may be said to have deli
cately hinted to the plains the senti
fcent, "The ballot or bust."
Young Zclayitr lightly turning off hUt
protestations of affection for his Juliet,
Rays that his love was only a Latin
mood. Ho la likely to And the Ameri
can jury able to conjugate It.
The Department of . Agriculture has
achieved some wonderful things, but
it in undertaking tn impossibility in
trying to educate the publio to call It
pomelo instead of grapefruit.
'An eastern oil magnate has been
pronounced ineulally unnound at the
age of 42, as a result of Standard con
Uutlong. He will now be of service
to the preachers upon the theme
"Whether It pay." ,
People of, Peru complain unreasona
bly of the Burlington passenger station
at that place. . They say it is out of
date and cite as a reason for a new one
that it was built In 1861. This is not
showlug proper reverence for ago.
.Another reminder of the fact that
millionaires are too common nowadays
for people to keep track of Is afforded
by the discovery that George Salting
has been Alt lug away 120,000,000
v.oith of pictures to present to tho
I., tii u ilj( V
The American Race.
The report of tho Immigration com
mlsslon of the discovery of a distinct
physical and racial type In this country
In not o AMonlshing a thing to those
who have been studying the develop
ment of the generations of Europeans
after their settlement on American
oil. Only a short time ago Prof.
Benjamin Ide Wheeler In one of his
lectures startled his hearers In a Eu
ropean capital with the statement that
the people of the United States were
a distinct departure from all known
standards, and that there was in truth
an American race different in every
way from the English, to whom other
nations have been apt to compare the
population of the States.
Immigrants from other shores bring
to this country and retain here to a
large extent their home characteristics
of living, and only the narrow-minded
would attempt to urge them to aban
don their favorite customs. But with
the cradle of the first generation born
on American soil the change begins,
and with the intermarriage that
quickly succeeds, the characteristics of
all nations are merged into the Ameri
can type that canvot be identified with
any of the older races. Americans
themselves ar proud of the fact that
from some of the immigrants moat de
voted to old-world customs have devel
oped most splendid citizens, and nearly
every family here can tell of strains
and cross-strains in its own case that
have tended to develop the likeness to
the national type".
The mixture of the many races is in
a great measure responsible for this
cultivation of an American race, but
the commission finds that climatic con
ditions also have a share, as had been
claimed by Btudents of ethnology for
some time. A few radicals have even
gone so far as to point out a likeness
in Lite typical white man of the United
States to the native redskin In the mat
ter of stature, skull shape and high
cheek bones. The commission does not
go so far as thin, but does admit
ground for the persistent theory that
the shape of the head changes to a
uniform type with every race after It
is transplanted to this continent.
Thackoray noticed the tendency of
the individual to alter his moods rnd
ways during his visit to this country
hnd has recorded his Impressions on
that point in strong corroboration of
the theovy that the American climat?
altered the European In spite of him
self. The current offloinl, report of
careful Investigation along this line
settles beyond dispute that climate, so
cial conditions and the admixture of
the races have combined to produce a
people 1 who may be known as the
American race In bold contrast to any
other of the white man's divisions.
To be an American is to be not sim
ply a resident of the United States,
but an individual unit of a uniform
nation whose .characteristics mark
them apart from any and all of the
races from which they have developed,
and the citizen of no other country
has so great a reason to be proud of
hla type.
Belgium's Opportunity.
Prince Albert, who will succeed his
uncle, the aged Leopold, on the throne
of Belgium, is a young man reputed to
be of clean mind, high motives and
cultivation In all the ways of modern
progress. That was the impression he
left on the United States and other
countries during his visits of observa
tion to see how the rest of the world
lived. His accession should mean
mucb to his country.
Belgium is one of the least ad
vanced of European nations in the
matter of civilization, based on the
American standard of living. While it
Is true that Brussels afhl some other
centers of population have made
marked improvement, due largely to
association with tourists and the ab
sorption - from them of progressive
ideas, still In the country at large the
grade Is low. The country Is tho most
densely populate! In Europe, and there
has been little encouragement for rais
ing it from dense ignorance as well.
Woman Is classed with beasts of bur
den, works with mules in tho mines.
with oxen In the fields and Joins with
dogs in pulling loads over the roads.
In a country where such things ob
tain, a young and progressive mon
arch like Albert has boundless oppor
tunities, and the civilized nations will
have great cause for disappointment if
he does not steadily raise the economic
and social conditions among his peo
ple. In Belgium, as In the Congo, the
new regime must be of incalculable
benefit,
Conviction of the Ice Combine.
While the success of the ntate of
New York in its. prosecution of the
American Ice company has. been con
sidered largely a local affair, there
are some general phases of the case
that have an interest to the -whole
country. The American company had
come lntd control of the entire output
of natural Ice along the Atlantic sea
board, and by gradually closing up
harvesting houses in Maine and along
the Hudson had - squeezed excessive
profits out of the consumers and
wrought much hardship among the
poor, particularly in the thronged East
Side of Manhattan.
While the tine Imposed cannot re
pay the sufferers In the tenements for
their inability to buy tee under the
combine's exactions, still the whole
some lesson learned Is likely to bear
1U good fruit during the coming sum
mer. , Further than that, district at
torneys In New York have been taught
the need of testing the s'ate laws In
stead of supinely refusing to prose
cute, for the recent verdict was the
result of the attorney general's luter -
ference after Jerome had declared that
It was IrnpoRPible to secure a convic
tion. In this appenrs ot.e of the most
discrediting features of Jerome's dis
appointing career, for the East Alders
had repeatedly begged for action
against the Ice combine at the hands
of the district attorney, who went to
live among the Enst SlJers with a
great flourish of trumpets.
The conviction of the Ice interests
is" the first secured against any com
bine under the Donnelly anti-trust
act, modeled by the state of New York
after the Sherman law. Now that it
has been proved to be not a dead let
ter New York state people hope to be
able to control in some measure all
of the offending corporations operating
In that commonwealth.
The Passing of Zelaya.
The good offices of the United
States have been quick to rid the NIc
araguans of a dictator whom they
bated and with whom we have yet to
reckon personally for his outrages
against American interests and his
slaying of American citizens. The end
of Zelaya the tyrant, has come, but the
end of Zelaya the malefactor Is not yet.
Thus far the Nicaraguans have
gained the release for which they had
begun to battle, from the domination
of a president who knew no right but
that of the sword, no justice but that
of blood. The entire zone of unrest In
Central America has gained assurance
that the United States stands firm ns
a dominant factor in continental af
fairs to the extent of stab'.llty and
peace, and the taxpaying people .of
those republics should welcome thU,
for they are sick of strife.
For ourselves we have gained a re
newal of the respect of civilized na
tions and of our. owr. self-respect,
which may be regarded as constituting
a Chrintmas possession worth treasur
ing. The City's Garbage.
Mayor Dahlman holds that nothing
can be gained by a suit against the gar
bage contractor. The health commis
sioner says he haf, done all he can do
and everybody seems to have reached
the limit of his power except the con
tractor. If he would only get busy
and do the beet he can for a little
while it would help greatly. It seems
peculiar that there is no way under
which the garbage contractor can be
compelled to carry out his side of the
bargain. But while the city officials
and the contractor are holding aloof,
each waiting for the other to make
some move, the householders of the
city are enduring much Inconvenience,
and what will amount to, when a thaw
comes, positive discomfort. What
makes the situation the . more ridicu
lous is that the courts have held that
anyone has the right to haul garbage,
and right here when most needed the
city can get no one to do it.
The great assessment roll for Ne
braska in 1909, In addition to the in
crease of $7,000,000 over 1908, which
means $35,000,000 in actual value,
contains a number of Items that would
be interesting. For example, the
value of shares of stock held by Ne
braska people decreased over $200,000
during the year. The mechanical
tools owned in this state -fell off sev
eral thousand dollars, but the value of
dogs went up. Franchises decreased
in value, but eating houses show a
gain. Cream separators are worth
more and sewing machines are worth
less, while carriages, wagons, watches
and clocks, bicycles and stands of bees
also show a falling off In value that la
discouraging.
Cadets at West Point and all their
friends ought to understand by this
time that the temper of the public Is
against hazing. That institution Is
maintained by the taxpayers for the
education of cfllcerB who can be faith
ful to discipline so that they may In
still It In others, and the military com
mittee in congress that is being pes
tered by political influences to restore
wayward youth who have been ex
pelled may rely on popular support
for their measure to make the action
of the War department In such cases
final.
The agitation for a new state house
la already taking on the form of a real
estate speculation. This is a pretty
sure sign that there will be something
doing. Nebraska needs a new state
house, and it will be a matter to mar
vel at If the thrifty Lincoln real estate
owners do not come to the front with
nomerous sites for the location of the
I new building.
The $8 hog has been coming to mar
ket quite numerously since the loals
have got to be in passable condition.
The three-dollar-a-hundred advance in
price of hogs during the last year ought
to make a nice little Christmas purso
for the western farmer. He is surely
having his innings.
How will the implement dealers pos
sibly Becure the attendance of Omaha
jobbers at their conventions if they
take the conventions away? The reso
lution adopted Thursday afternoon
seems to have been framed in a mo
ment of pique and passed without ma
ture consideration.
South Dakota Is now going after the
express rates. That melon recently
cut on Wall street is calling attention
more effectively than tons of other
argument would to the excessive
charge people have long borne from
the express companies.
The effort of a red-headed yellow
journal to bolster up Its light on the
Omaha Wafr company by seeking to
1 stare the people into a typhol l frenzy
has been uplked by the city health com
missioner and the city chemist. The
fact that one says there Is no epidemic,
and the other says the water is free
from danger, will not disturb the en
ergetic vender of misinformation. It
will go right on shouting its sensa-j
tional scares.
The . spectacle of - Lincoln folks
crowding a moving picture show is en
couraging. The first thing we know
there will be a tiddlewlnks champion
ship pulled off down there, and good
ness knows what will happen.
End-of-t'.ie-year statistics show that
the students of Iowa university are
emulating Robert Reed, who would not
smoke the weed; but it will be inter
esting to compare returns after the
New Year's resolutions begin to fade.
Worth l.ook.-nw Into.
Philadelphia Ledger.
It appears that the young American,
Cannon, killed by order of Zelaya, was the
owner of a valuable gold mln". in this
fact may lie partiul explanation of his
fAte.
Seated Kxclnmatlons.
St. Lioula Republic.
Among the seasonal though not season
able bores is the man who remarks, as
he stumbles on the sleet-covered walk,
"The wicked stand In slippery places, but
I'll be hanged If a can."
Cut Oat the Trimmings.
Washington Herald.
What the Cook prosecution needs sadly is
at least one direct witness who can get
Into court without tramping; all over h:s
own refutation for veracity and decency
in making the Journey. '
o lliity on the System.
Philadelphia Record.
The court of arbitration In Canada has
si'ecooied so well thut out of twenty-five
threatened strikes it averted all but two.
There Is nothing in the Puyne-Aldrich
tui-lff to prevent tlie Importation of the
Bajne system to thin side of the St. Ijiw
rence. ' Hands Off for a While.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
A (congressional inquiry into the augur
frauds might prove spectacular enough and
pander to the sensational appetites of tht
public, but the question Is; Io we want
convictions or do we want fireworks? And
It is evidently the fear of the president
that the Sugar trust might in some mannet
so steer the methods of Investigation by n
senatorial or house oWnlttee that "men
higher up," by giving testimony, mlshi
cl.ilm Immunity from prosecution
We think that the president Is right.
l.re In Stntnnry llnll.
Springfield Republican.
The Grand Army and Loyal Legion pro
tests against the placing of General L.ee'8
slalile in the statuary hall of the nutionnl
capitol are most effectively bottled up.
Tho statue is already in place. The Vir
ginia delegation In congress now have de
termined not to bring the question of the
formal acceptance of the I,ee or the Wash
ington statue before vlther house for sev
eral years to come, in order that the agi
tation may die down; and It may happen
tl.nt congress will never consider the mat
ter,: at least while any civil war veteran
remains alive. Meanwhile, the .General Lee
statue has captured the federal capital.
: Cost of Irrigation Projects.
Philadelphia Record.
When .the irrigation project was pressed
upon congress it was sa.'d that it would
only cost $5 an acre. Private capital and
some state enterprises are said to have
attained results warranting this. ' When tho
work was well under way it wan gently
bioken to the country that it would cost
JID an acre. Now Senator Carter of
Montana, who had as much as any man to
do with the entrance of the government
upon a field of activity where private enter
prise had already Invested JSXI.OOO.OOO, says
the cost of water on government projects
averages between $10 and J.i0 an acre "and
the government will undoubtedly continue to
take up projects until the cost of reclama
tion reaches $1W an acre." Private enter
prise took up the easy reclamation projects
and left the expensive ones to the govern
ment. PERSONAL NOTES.
J. P. Morgan has lost a suit, showing not
only the unexpected, but the impossible,
happens.
When George Osborn, a Jewel: r, of Xew
Haven, Conn., took afurt an od clock,
brought to him to be n-pairod, lie found a
green wad of $1C0 tucked in the back of It.
Charles Saddle wa user, a farmer of M ri
don, Mich., tripped on a stone in his back
yard recently and fell across a pumpkin
In such a manner that his neck was In
stantly broken.
King Edward was recently awarded four
first prizes for hla exhibits at the Smith
field cattle show. His majesty is a tenant
farmer, not a landlord, and pays a large
sum tvery year In rent and taxes for hla
holdings. .
Butler Ames, tho Massachusetts con
gressman, who announced himself as a
candidate for the t'nlted States senate to
succeed Senator Lodge, Is a West Point
graduate, an offtyer in the Spanish-American
war and also a graduate mechanical
and electrical engineer.
Mount Joy, Lancaster county, Pennsyl
vania, boasts of having the tallest school
boy In the state. Wis name Is John Sher
nan Faslg. Is 15 years old. weighs 2Vi
pounds and stands six fet seven Inches in
height. It would take a pretty muscu!nr
Bchoolmai m to whale this youngster.
Judge Lindsey of I'cnver has been sued
for df fama'ton of character supposed to
have been i inflicted through s'nu state
ments In a magazine article. The plaintiff
Is W. G. Smith, better known in hU hab
itat as Bill," and so long In politics that
he was supposed, to hov lost all sensitive
ness. An inhalation for
Whoop!ng-Cough, Croup,
Bronchitis, uougns,
Diphtheria, Catarrh.
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To readers who follow closely the progress
of the campaign In Great Riltaln and de
sire a deeper Insight into the conditions
which produced the rebellion of the House
of Lord against the t-ixlng provisions of
Lloyd Georges budget, the epoch-marking
work of President Lowell of Harvard uni
versity on the government of Kngland af
fords a flood of light and Instruction. His
statement of tho conditions surrounding
the ownership and taxation of land In Kng
land clearly explains the bitterness of the
aristocracy In rejecting tho liberal f. nance
moasure. In the chapter In which he deals
with the powers and resources of the
botouglis of England, ho syys: "Kngll-m
local taxation, by whatever authority It Is
levied, Is exeluslvely In the form of a rate
assessed upon the occupier of the land.
They (the rates) are assessed to the
occupier, not the owner, unless he happens
to occupy his own land; and they are
based upon the net annual value of the land
In its existing condition. The net annual
value Is obtained by estimating the gross
rent at which the properly Is let, or might
reasonably expected to be let. and de
ducting therefrom the probable annual cost
of repairs, insurance and oilier expenses of
keeplug It In order, an amount that appears
to be fixed In different towns from one
fifth to one-tenth of the gross rent.
"It will be observed that unoccupied land
or buildings are not assessed at all; and
that in the case of occupied land the valua
tion is based not upon its capital or salable
value, but upon Its rental In Its existing
condition, so that a garden In the heart of
a city Is taxed only at Its rental value as
a garden. In fact, under the public health
uct It is assessed in tne general district
rate for sanitary purposes at one-quarter
of Its ratable value as a garden; and under
the agricultural rates act at one-half of
that value for all other purposes. In this
way the tax laws encourage the' holding of
land unbuilt In the cities or their suburbs,
und thero is an inversion of the doctrine
of taxing heavily the unearned increment.
So far as taxation is coneetiud. a man who
owns a tract of open ground, needed for
building, can afford to keep it vacant,
euner with a view to speculating iiioii an
Increase of value with the growth of the
town, or because he enjoys the luxury of
a garden about his house. To that fact,
coupled to the slow progress made until
very recent years in methods of rapid
urban transit, is no doubt largely due the
congestion of the towns. The sudden
change. Indeed, from solid blocks of houses
to open fields, which although less marked
than it was formerly, still characterizes
most English ciilts, contrasts strongly with
the. penumbra of detached residences that
stretch, more or less sparsely, far into the
country In America."
, One-fifth of the total area of the United
Kingdom, amounting to 16,411,yt6 acres, is
owned by Ilrltish peers. The lords whose
votes defeate-d the budget own lO.O'S.'ti'J
acres, an acreage double the area of Massa
chusetts. In the matter of individual hold
ings the average ducal domain fs 142,564
acres, an area .almost equalling that of
Chicago and St. Louis combined. Marquises
own an average of 47.5CO acres, earls 30.217,
viscounts 15,324 and barons 14,152. "Land in
England is a sacred heirloom," continues
lr. Low ell, "that is rarely offered for sale.
Few men, either In town or country, own
the freehold of the house in which they
live. Great tracts of urban land belongs
to peers or other rich men, who let them i
on long ground leases, but would never '
think of selling a single house lot outright
a cundltlon especially marked in the towns
that have grown up In modern times. Hence
an Englishman thinks and speaks habitu
ally not of the capital value, but of the
rental value of laud, and this is deemed an
easy thing to estimate. Land can hardly
be said to have a market value; and the
suggestion thut .it should be taxed as capl-.
! tal Is met by the answer that H Is more
'fair to tax it upon the actuul revenue it
produces than on some problematical price
that it might bring if sold."
A ground floor view of monarchlal social
ism in Germany, given bv Elmer Roberts
in the January Scrlbner, supplies food for
thought on the subject of government
ownership. The Government of Prussia,
which dominates the empire, is steadily
extending its control of various enterprises.
The state controls tho railways, telegraphs,
telephones, mines and the public domain.
Last year the state income from public
properties was more than the total income
from taxution and borrowings. Hallways
were the larsest sources of Income, net
ting $HS1,755,W, or about 8 per cent on the
total Investment of the state since It began
buying railways In ls-lS-3. From Its crown
forests, leased . farms, Iron, coal, potash,
salt and other mines, from porcelain fac
tories, banking and a variety of less Im
portant Industries, Prussia received ?29,
OUO.COi). Mr. Roberts shows that German
manufacturing and mining are more com
pletely under tho control of combinations
than is the Industry of any other country,
notwithstanding government competition.
The marked success of the government
enterprises, the writer points out, Is di
rectly due to a civil service system which
Is the" pde of and a power for the Hohen
zolltrn family. lnt'--i;rity and efficiency
are promoted by permanency of tonure and
a code of laws and courts to enforce them
which effectually eliminates graft or the
use of official position to promote, a private
Interest. Control of the transportation
system enables the government to Influence
the whole machinery of trade, and this
j power. Mr. Roberts remarks, "must be
I taken Into account when other people think
of competing Willi Germany In the far east
' or In South America."
!
j Tho 1'nltrd Stat s, RtiFsIa anil Japan
I are the only powers In the world which
j profess to bo on speaking terms with econ
i iimy Just now. Necessity Is laifcely re
I sponsible for the flirtation. All other
j powers worth while remain In tho spending
i class, which run beyond the limit of avail
i abl" rescources. Both Turkey and Persia.
I having reformed somewhat hurriedly, are
1 becoming chummy with money 1,'nders,
seeking to place a few notes for millions
I WHO wnii'li t'-r taiiy uii Bime piojeei. Italy
Is following tho example of Oreat Britain
In forcing a ministerial crisis on the ques
tion of increased taxution. In Fiance.
'where the population Is decreasing, taxa
tion is uteadlly mounting up and the an
' nual deficit expundlng. More revenue Is
, the main problem before the German
! Rtlchstag. and an imperial debt of 11,135,
i 875,tX.) testifies t' the skill of the govern-
nient as a snend r. In all countries the
i groaning producer of state revenue U Jul
lled with thej assurance that governments
' e. nd the cost of living travel abreast.
I
! The deud kinf of the Ilelghins. I'opold
II, was lbs second oldest monarch and
thiid oldest niler In the world. He was in
I tho third quarter of hla seventy-fourth
I year and had passed by se.en days the
I forty-fourth anniversary if his ascension
I to the throne. Francis Joseph, emperor of
I Austria-Hungary, remains the Nestor pf
world rulers, both In ag and royal grip.
He la 79 past and lias held on to his 4ob
since lierember 2. 1MK. President Dlaa
is forty-tvio days younger than Francis
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years as president. King Edward of Eng
land and President Fallleres of Francs were
born in 1841, but are young; as rulers.
Mutsuhlto. mlrtado of Japan, Is one of
the great babies . of- 1852, with a ruling
record of forty-two years. With the ex
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a'.l other rulers of note are youngsters of
SO or under. ,
The gentle art of sandbagging, commonly
known ns tipping, has reached such pro
...:... i.. t'erlln that a crusado against
it Is receiving the support of some news-
luivc-otf of SIS per cent on hotel
bills up to $S and 20 per cent on bills
above that amount measures the highway
robbery against which the rebellion Is
directed. Last summer one London hotel
boldly challenged the graft of ages by pay
ing help full wages and forbidding tips.
How the experiment fared after the open
ing acclaims of the multitude Is not known,
but the attack on the system affords en
couragement for the bled Berllnese.
WHITTLED TO A POINT.
He Rings Is heartily opposed to the tip
ping habit. Never will give tips for any
thing. She Yea. I've noticed h doesn't even
tip his hat. BalUmore American.
"I started in life without a dollar,"
boasted the financier.
"And how did you work It?" we asked.
"Well, 1 h?d some wealthy relatives."
Cleveland Leader.
"Move Inside, gents," cried the conduc
tor on the crowded trolley; "ye're breakin'
the rules standln' on the platform here."
"Some o' them ain't," piped up a little
man; "they're standln' on my feet." Cath
olic Standard and Times.
"Father," said Little Hollo, "what Is a
happy medium?"
"1 suppose, my son, that It is one who
can enrn several hundred dollars a day by
making tables and c hit Irs move around the
room." Washington Star.
"A hotelkeeper has an oevupatlon which
naturally inclines him to amiability,"
"How so?"
"KecausB to all Inquirers about rooms,
no matter how put, he likes to give a
suite answer." Chbago Post.
The Court Ephralm. this Is the fourth
or fifth time you have been up before
me for petit larceny. You are an old of
fender. I'ncle Ephr'nT Yes, sun; it's about as
tough a Job to refawm me as It Ih da
St.audahd Oil comp'ny. Chicago Tribune.
Bacon And did you feel at home travel
ing In Russia?
Egbert Oh, quite at borne. When the
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'Madison Caweln in the Atlantic.
Its friendship and Its oarelessness
Did lead tne many a mile:
Through goat's rue, with its dim caress.
And pink and pearl-white smile;
Through crowfoot, with Its golden lure,
And promise of far things,
And uorrel with Its glance demur.
And wide-eyed wonderlngs.
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Ab e-hlldhood leads the wise,
With elbows here of tattered fence,
And blue of wlldflower eyes;
With whispers low of leafy speech,
And brook-Bweet utterance;
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And whistlings clear as Pan's.
It led me with Us childlike charm.
As candor leads desire.
Now with a clasp of blnssomy arm,
A butterfly kiss of fire. '
Now with a toss of tousled gold,
A barefoot sound of green; j
A breath of musk, of mossy mold, v
With vague allurements keen.
It led me with remembered things.
Into an oldtlme vale.
Peopled with fairy glimmerings
And flower-like fancies pale:
Where fungus forms stood, gold and K
Each in a mushroom grown.
And. roofed with red, glimpsed far av
A little toadstool town.
It led me on and on and on,
Rcyond the Far Away,
Into a world long dead and gone.
The world of Yesterday; 'S
A fairy world of memory,
Faint with jts hills and streams,
Wherein the child I used to be
Still wanders with its dreams.
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