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THF, DEE; OMAHA. WEDNESDAY, FEHRUAKY f), 1910.
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Sabaerlbera leaving fh cltr teas
pnrarlly ahoald fcara "Ik Be
dialled them. - Address will k-a
I'kaagtd aa ttu aa reacsted.
, A breakfast food trust? Perhaps!
But don't dare let anybody get a corner
on bacon, eggs and pancakes.
Governor Shallenberger has a new
peroration. Hurray! But the apos
trophe to the flag is still on tap for
suitable occasions,
Senator Brown wants to know what
Las Inflated the watered stock of the
Washington Gas Light company.
Water gas, of course.
It Isn't half so much of a wonder
.that a woman is willing to pay her
taxes as It is that her taxes were
smaller than she expected.
, King Guatav st Sweden has had his
royal appendix removed. .'The operation
Is pronounced a success and yet King
fiustav is really expected to recover.
A press despatch carries this very
suggestive sequence of thoughts: "Yes
terday a second operation waa per
formed. . Funeral services tomorrow."
A former Nebraskan has Just landed
the postmftBte'.rshlp of ' Los Angeles,
paying 6,000 a year, 'Give a Ne
braska man half a chance and he will
get to the front.
Manila is certainly becoming Ameri
canized. A recent city election in that
city brought to light wholesale bribery
and fraud. Sounds like the olds days of
county seat wars!
Mayor "Jim" will be down on the
speaker's list at the forthcoming dem
ocratic Valentine party. Mayor "Jim"
is a candidate for governor "and don't
care who knows it.1'
Two men were frozen to death in
Philadelphia during the recent cold
snap. The Quaker city has always
been slow4, but Its circulation must also
be getting sluggish.
The chances are (air tbnt the fight
in Missouri regarding the cause of the
death Of Colonel Swop will cot cease
.until the entire fortune- of that famous
millionaire h.id been exhausted.
The Rock Island . Is planning to
shorten its. mileage between Omaha
and Chicago. Inasmuch as the short
est road fixes the rate, excess mileage
is a liability rather than an asset.
Prof, Otto Jensen suggests . that a
syBtein of spelling bo introduced
whereby each person can "have a sys
tem of his .own" spelling Just as he
pleases. What a blessing to some of us.
There Is not an unpaved street in
Omaha whose abutting property own
ers would not gladly have It called a
boulevard for a little while to get It
paved at the expense ot the park fund.
James A. Cook, the American rail
way conductor, got off with two years
and ten months' Imprisonment. But,
Incidentally, ,that does not let Dr.
North Pole Cook out He'll never get
off as easy as that.
The American hen is getting so
aristocratic and high priced that the
"chicken thief" stands a gobd show of
social Immunity whitewash along with
the government land grabber and the
man who steals a railroad system.
A Harvard professor says that a per
son ca live on 10 cents a day. His
theory Is Interesting to a great many
people. But the point or It all Is, Did
he learn how, from experience born ot
necessity or d!1 he nork It out for
advertising purposes?
Timber Waste.
In a recent meeting of the Trletate
Lumber Dealers' association, made up
by dealers In the states of Kentucky,
Indiana and Illinois, a vigorous protest
was made against the wanton waste of
lumber In the country. The associa
tion wont on record .unanimously for
unlfcri.. state laws in favor of the .con
servation, of the forests. One of the
members characterized the waste of
timber as "The crime of the age."
Among other things said at the meet
ing was the following:
How long will this thing go on? I often
drive out from my houe at Ilopklnavllle,
Ky., and see where farmers have destroyed
treea and It seems like a crime to me.
Many valuable treea have been killed just
because the farmers wanted to cultivate
the land. No thought. It seemH, has been
made of the forests. In France they began
to plant and cultivate trees over 100 years'
ago. Recently at Clarksvllle, Tenn., a Urge
manufacturing company built a barb wire
fence about a farmer's land In order to
get the old rail feme that encircled It. The
fence waa made of walnut rails. In Florida
today pine lumber Is used as fuel In the
fiiKlnes on the railroads. A great deal of
timber Is destroyed In this way. Many
valuable-treea are also killed In the turpen
tine belts just for the purpose of setting
the turpentine. Here Is a chance for Taft
and Bellinger to take a hand and make
themselves Immortal. . t
When lumbermen agree on the point
of conservation of timber and the for
ests, the country has reason to feel a
sense o( hope. . But, really, have the
lumbermen a right to complain of the
waste of timber o;i the part of the
farmer? Has the larmer wasted as
much timber without tnought of re
planting as the lumberman has? It is
a good thing to take up, and no matter
who brings the topic up, It ought to
be made a subject for wide discussion.
We are beginning to feel pinched in
the matter of timber and the pinch is
tightening.
The words of Glfford Plncbot
come back and one Is compelled to
think of the work he has done for the
preservation of the forests, but his
recent plea for the united action of
congressmen and senators for the
enactment of the bill calling for the
withdrawal of all public lands suitable
for planting forests is a practical effort
along this right line.
The . American people are so busy
making money that they seldom stop
to think of conserving or preserving
anything, much less that which will
require years for conversion Into cash.
But there is plenty of time to prevent
much more denuding of the country of
its forests and the government is busy
Let others get busy also.
Importation of Farm Produce.
When one reads that during the last
year farm produce to the amount of
$647,000,000, or almost half the total
imports of the year 1:109, was brought
into the United States from outside
countries, it suggests that our farmers
are not doing their full duty., But a
closer inspection relieves thK appre
hension. The imported article! are of
a nature that have not. yet been pro
duced In America in sufficient quan
tities to supply the demand for con
sumption. Sugar leads, with . tobacco
second. Hides and skins and hay are
the other articles that really enter Into
competition with the home grown, and
these constitute rather. morexhan half
the total of farm produce Imported. Of
the articles that are tyu produced at
home, and which do not compete with
the output of the American farms, silk,
coffee, tea, sisal, manila fiber and
Egyptian cotton make up the list. The
United States Is still the best market
in the world for this sort of produce,
and will remain so as long as the pros
perity of the people Is such that they
can maintain the ' standard . of living
now set. In the report Is nothing
alarming, for over against it is set the
figures of the $8, 000,000,000 output'
of the farms for 1909,' and the present
promise that the coming season will
find the farmer as energetic, and as
forehanded as ever.
Roosevelt a Feminine Character t
The February Issue of the Forum
has made the statement that ex-President
Roosevelt Is a feminine man or,
to use the words of the writer, "Has a
feminine type of mind." But it U
carefully brought out that the word
feminine docs not mean effeminate.
The author goes on to describe the
"feminine type of mind" as the ability
to see only one thing at a time and to
be predominated by one all prevailing
motive. He says that women do not
take into consideration all conse
quences, but Just see the desired thing
to bo accomplished. "Wearing mental
blinders," so to speak, and never shy
ing at a single thing by the way, but
going straight as a line toward the
single goal.
Now, supposing that said writer
really knows how women think, also
granting that he really knows how any
one thinks, what has he proved? The
habit of seeing one thing at a time and
one goal at a time Is so common that
in reality it ean be ascribed to most
people of both sexes who make a suc
cess, of profession or business. The
history of popular government proves
that lta leaders are men of single prin
ciples and bend everything toward the
accomplishment of such. C
Now, If this peculiar method of
thinking Is feminine,, which must
mean that the 'majority of women
think that way, It looks as though the
writer had proved too much. Most men
think that way. too, so it must be that
he Intends to make us all'femtnlne. It
looks as though the author had aide
tracked the old name "hobby" and sub
stituted the word feminine In Its place.
If a hobby with a vigorous and yirllp
mental grasp la characteristic of the
feminine mind. It Is easy to account
for the militant sutirftgrette, Carrie
Nation, Mary Ellen Ler.se and some
others. But that is a rather disquieting
thought. It is a well known fact that
no two people think exactly alike, so
where is anyone going to draw the line
between the rule and the exception?
We might also ask which exception Is
to be taken as the rule?
Grand Jury Instructions.
In view of the fact that the local
grand Jury Is to begin Its sittings next
week . various suggestions are being
made as to the subjects of Investiga
tion which should be Included in the
Judge's Instructions. Borne of the ad
vice volunteered indicates clearly that
those tendering it do not understand
the functions of a grand Jury and do
no. know the scope of the Judicial in
structions.. The grand Jury la a body of inquisi
tors, constituted by law, with full
power to bring in true bills against
offenders where there is sufficient evi
dence of guilt to warrant prosecution.
The grand Jury la not a general smell
ing committee to poke Into people's
private affairs where- there is no sus
picion of law-breaking. Conspiracy is
prohibited by law and people who con
spire to throttle competition or raise
prices are Indictable, but business men
attending to their own concerns In a
lawful way are. not subject to grant
Jury surveillance.
The grand Jury receives instructions
from the Judge as to any unusual mat
ters that savor of lawlessness by com
mon notoriety and the Judge is like
wise required by statute to direct at
tention to certain particular classes of
offenses. But whether the Judge does
or does not give specific instructions
to inquire Into any matter properly
within its Jurisdiction, that cannot pre
vent the grand Jury from acting on its
own information, or Information
brought to its notice by private
citizens.
Instructing a grand Jury gives 4
Judge great opportunity for playing to
the galleries and raising dust to make
people believe terrible things are hap
pening and being carefully covered up
when nothing but the ordinary run of
petty crime has occurred. We have
had altogether too much of that In the
past, and there is no crying demand
for another Installment.
Honor of the Navy.
The court-martial In session at Bos
ton may appear to be Investigating a
tempest in a teapot, but it Is really
charged with a most Important duty.
Not only will the question of how far
a man may go in the direction of visit
ing the displeasure of his fiancee on
its object, and what form his monitory
action may assume, but It will also
settle a much vexed question as to who
Is charged with the care and keeping
of the honor of the navy The dual
nature of the inquiry and' the social
smoke It - has engendered have In a
measure' obscured the real issue, but
from this distance the fact seems plain
enough. . . , ,j
In the first place, has a paymaster,
who is not a graduate of the Naval
academy, the right to assume that in
his own 1 person he represents the
"naval set," and, acting under that
assumption, has he the further right
to Insist on an invited guest absenting
himself from a ball given by the "set,"
and is he Justified in punching the
head of the guest In question when the
latter ventures to demur at the assump
tion of responsibility. This weighty
question lurks behind a tremendous
volume of testimony adduced at the
hearings. It has resounded from Maine
to Texas, and from Puget sound to the
wave-kissed sands of Palm Beach, from
Saskatchewan to Panamaall ears are
strained to catch the answer. The
secretary of the navy declined, wisely,
to accede to the hushing up of. the af
fair, and at least one of the senators
of the United States has lent his Influ
ence to the bringing about of a possible
solution.
When it Is settled whether a pay
master has the right to punch the head
of a visiting sawbones, and whether a
surgeon of the navy has a right to ques
tion the conduct of a fellow practi
tioner who does not happen to be
connected with the sea-going establish
ment, the old world will settle back
squarely on its gudgeons and revolve
as usual. Till this is determined,
though, do not wonder that the uni
verse is slightly askew.
The city clerk at Lincoln refuses to
recognize the validity of a petition for
the resubmission of the question, "Wet
or Dry?" because each signer of the
petition did not write after his street
address the words, "Lincoln, Ne
braska." This official who, of course,
wants to keep the town dry, haa doubt
less persuaded himself that this la the
proper course and his action Is typical
of the ridiculous extremes to which
one-idea folks sometimes go. Just
suppose Lincoln were wet Instead of
dry, and it was the drys Instead of the
wets who presented the petition, im
agine the vituperation that would pour
down on the head of the recalcitrant
clerk, to say nothing or accusations of
sell-out to the brewers and saloons.
It's a poor rule that doesn't work both
ways.
Purchases of real estate for Im
provements alwaya help build up a
city, while purchases of real estate for
purely speculative purposes block Im
provement and retard a clty'a growth.
Omaha la fortunate In having so far
autfered comparatively little from the
speculative element In Its real estate
transfers, and it la to be hoped the
speculative element will be kept In the
background.
Is the old war spirit dead? Recently
in the United States senate a bill was
Introduced allowing the confederate
veterans' to use government tents for
their great reunion. Only one man
voted against the bill. It must have
been rather humiliating to Senator
Heybum of Ids ho to te the only one to
protest against the action, but then he
had his say out, anyway.
Referring to the scramble for the
democratic nomination for United
States senator, a headline In the Lin
coln Star says,. "Hitchcock Fiizled
Out." Now we protest. Just because
Congressman Hitchcock's charges of
land office extravagance have fizzled
out it does not follow that his sena
torial ambitions have fiizled out.
A Pennsylvania clergyman has de
cided that he will no longer perform a
marriage ceremony unless the bride
groom can show an income of at least
$2,000 a year. That means be Is either
making a foolish New Year's resolu
tion or else he ought to be investigated
on the charge ot unduly raising the cost
of living.
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John L. Sullivan has Just married
the sweetheart of his boyhood, a Bos-
tonlan spinster. It would be supposed
John L. had, experience enough In the
ring business not to choose a partner
on a long-term contract who Is dead
sure to lick him the- first round and
make him bow In submission forever.
Judging from the number of widows,
both grass and weeds, who are being
taken in by fortAne-huntlng confidence
men, It la evident that there should be
a more rigid enforcement of game laws
on the Indiscriminate trapping and
snaring of feathered songsters and
speckled beauties.
, It Is announced that "Dave" Francis
wants to be senator from Missouri.
We thought Grover Cleveland's former
secretary of the interior had been'
listed by Governor Shallenberger for
president In 19 It. "Dave" can't put
much faith In : our Nebraska governor'
ability to. deliver.
Spectacular 1.1 fe Ravers
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Of all recent Inventions and discoveries
none outranks the wireless telegraph In Its
appeals to human admiration. It Is a life
saver of the most spectacular kind.
Keep 'Km Moving,
Washington Herald.
Now that Mr. Bryan has denied his re
ported candidacy for another democratic
presidential nomination, somebody, will
again trot out his reported candidacy for
a senatorial .seat, of course.
Now Will Voa Be Good T
"Boston Herald.
The pork packers say that they are feed
ing: a population IS per cent larger than
they were ten years ago, from a supply of
hogs 24 per cent smaller than it was then,
and that these hogs are fed on corn which
costs 100 per" cent more now. Is It, any
wonder, they say, that prices are high?
Economy In the t'ronpectns.
.-i; iPlUsburg Dispatch. i " '
Breakfast fUd -manufacturers, Mrhlls the
people ar(t'3tnaTilns the experiment of 'living
without fiie'a,, propose to form a combina
tion. Theyllege that their combination
will be' formed for the purpose of reducing
prices, to the consumers. All the com
binations wer formed for that purpose. In
the public prospectus, but none of them
In the sequel.', . ,.
EVILS OF COLD STORAGE.
Methods of Suspending Law of Supply
and Demand.
Philadelphia Record.
Cold storage, properly employed, fur
nishes a moans of conservation and the
prevention of waste that should inure to
the general benefit. In pTactlce It las been
made to serve as a means of maintaining
higher prices In the season of plenty and
of intolerable prices In the season of lesser
supply. When prices are naturally declln.
Ing they are checked, to be afterward
pushed to unnatural limits as opportunity
is created by squeezing the market through
a combination of cold storage speculators.
This is perhaps the most flagrant ocr
I easluji of the Intrusion of the middleman
between producer and consumer with the
'Object of despolllno; both. The worst pavt
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encountered in devising any change or
remedy which shall preserve the benefit
of cold-storage while defeating Its evil
working. The most feasible suggestion Is
to regulate the time of storage so as to
prevent deterioration, and to enforce due
publicity In order, that the purchaser may
know what he Is getting.
February 6, 1610.
George Ade, the funny man, is 44. He
claims membership In the so-called
Horsier School of Literature, because he,
happens to be born In Indiana.
General Charles F. Mandrson Is cele
brating his- seventy-third blrtiiday today.
General Manderson la a native of Philadel
phia. "He served In an Ohio regiment dur
ing the War, and at Its close returned to
Cantop to practice law, removing In 1M3
to Omaha. 'He helped frame the constitu
tion of Nebraska, served ttvo terms In the
United 1 States senate and was for four
yeurs president of that body. Later ho
became general solicitor for the VJurllnp
ton road in Nebrsska, retiring about two
yearsago, and now Is part of the business
world only ' as president of the National
Fidelity and Casualty company.
John C. Howard of the Webster & How
ard fire Insurance agency, was born at
Hartford. Conn., Febtuary 9, 1.561. Ho
came to Omaha In 1SSS, working f.-.r four
years for the Tootle ft Maul wholesale dry
goods houue and then went into the fire
Insurance business.
Allen B. Romano, electrician with the
Nebraska Telephone company, was born
at Iouisvllle, Ky., February I). U70. tie
got started as operator ot the fire and po
lice' alarm bf the city and continued in
that position until the work was trans
ferred to the telephone compsny.
Alvin F. Bloom, with J. F. Bloom A Co.,
monuments, was born at Red Oak, Ja.,
February . 18&S. Mr. Bloom worked In the
business offices of The B before he went
into partnership with his father three
years ago.
Rr. Carl A. Tumquiat,. pastor of Swed
ish Evangelical Mission church, was bo-n
In Hweden February , 1S71, coming to this
country ,in If I. He studied at Autfuetlnu
oollege at Rock Island, III., and North
Park seminary in Chicago, from which he
graduated into the ministry In WT. Ho Is
! o tern lory of the Evangelical allsitlon
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War Time Boycott
tory of Attempt to Shake Dowi
Zstortiofiste rrteea of ST -rtes
at Close of tba Olvll War
Will history repeat Itself In the anti-meat
boycott of the present timet Forty-five
years ago a similar wave of public Indig
nation swept over the country, directed
against the uplift ot prices of the neces
saries of life following the close of the
civil war. At that time, too, thousands
promised to do without meat until exorbi
tant prices were reduced. Clubs were
formed to protest against overcharges
clubs of a different sort were used to en
force abstention; the government was
asked to Intervene; combinations were as
sailed because they were, In popular fancy,
solely responsible for high prices. People
lost sight of the altered conditions
wrought by war, and clamored for Imme
diate return to prices of ante-bellum day.
When the war ended, relates the New
Tork Kvenlng Post, prices were higher
than ever before far higher than they ever
have been slnco. Wheat was $2.60 a bushel,
corn $1 85. pork $40 a barrel of 100 pounds,
beef 20. . ,
The protest of the people against these
charges was quite as spontaneous as now.
Just how It started would be hard to say;
likely enough It was In much the same
way. But the hold It took on the people
was remarkable. Sevnn men, going home
one evening from business in lower New
York, agreed that they and their families
would do without meat for sixty days;
within a week their entire neighborhood
was with "them. Newspapers encouraged
the movement In strongest terms. The
New York Times, In Its editorial columns
of June 28, 18U6, put the matter to its read
ers as follows:
"Every family that leaves the butcher
severely alone acts simply with common
sense. Diminished consumption was never
yet known to fall In reducing the price ot
any articles of large supply, nor will It
fail In the cane of meat. The whole cause of
the present complaint is that a number of
speculators are trying to train the public into
paying permanent exorbitant rates. They
think that if they can hold out against
public Indignation for a while people will
get used to extortion. But thin Is a mis
take. Prices must come down, and the
sooner these speculators succumb the bet
ter." Pitiful little Incidents were frequent.
The following plalntltlve letter Is typical
of tose which appeared at the time:
"I am a clerk In a store and live in a
tenement house. All last winter I could
hardly afford to buy meat, nor can I buy
enough now. There are no reckless, ex
travagant persons round where I live, and
the man I buy a little meat of haa few
rich customers. The little bits of beef and
mutton we poor people buy costs so much
that, as my wife says. It Is like eating
money. Why, a dollar Is nothing!"
It Is literally true that there was a vast
number of people In New York City not
to mention the rest of the country to
whom the question of actual life and death
depended In a large measure on the price
of food. Yet some of the poorer people
entered Into a controversy over causes of
the exorbitant level of prices, contending
that the anti-meat movement would have
no good effect. One man, in a publics letter,
stated that he was earning $20 a week, but
thought prices were too high, because
wages were-too high.' ,
He declared tnat it was the retailer who
had the public at his mercy; that whole
sale quotations had gone down, but that
retail prices had gone up. Ho added:
"Ljok at our restaurants! Flour, butter,
suKar and coal are about one-third less In
price than they were a year ago. Why
then do not the restauranta lower their,
prices? Because there are plenty of people
with money In their pockets -to patronise
them. ' Money was never so plentiful as
now and never was spent so lavishly as
at present. Enter any theater, barroom or
restaurant and you will find there a class
of men who formerly could not afford to
patronize such places. I have repeatedly
seen rough-looking fellows that apparently
earned their living by manual labor dining
at first class restaurants on delicacies that
1 cannot afford to purchase. Our aoldlers,
army teamsters and others are returning
with pockets full of money. 'Having earned
It like hors-s, they spend It like - . This,
with the present high rate of wages, tends
to keep prices at their present standard."
Many others, who were at a loss to Ex
plain their high food billB, appealed to
the newspapers for tha reason. Here, is
the answer given by one of them:
"Your butcher will say that meat is
higher now, owing to what? The price of
gold? But, you will say, gold Is only 138
cents in paper for a gold dollar, so that
cannot be the reason. The bad season?
No, nor that either; the weather and crops
were never so fine. The army wants the
meat In the field? Why. the boys have
come home. Short supply of cattle? There
were considerably more cattle In market
this week than were wanted or sold! No,
there la no reason but that avaricious
speculators put up the price, and you
grumble and submit to be fleeced. Learn
resolutely to shut your basket up empty,
rather than submit' to extortion.
"There can be no hesitation as to what
the ultimate result will be, and every per
son who abstains from meat will hasten
it. There are many great hotels whose
proprietors can help In the matter; their
customers, at all events, will find on the
various bills of fare plenty of substitutes
for meat."
So, after that, the butchers were made to
bear the brunt of public indignation. In
a naive little note some one wrote that
butchers "once" had been gentlemen. As a
matter of fact, while they were not primar
ily to blame for the' extreme level' of
prices prevailing, they greatly aggravated
the situation by Jacking their figures above
the point necessary to show legitimate
profits. They paid the penalty by being,
socially, almost ostraclstd.
How did the boycott succeed? It would
be hard to say. Conditions then were rad
ically different from what they are now,
so that, periods cannot be taken aa a pre
cedent. Six months after the boycott be
gan the following newspaper item ap
peared: "A year atfo, in the heat of the rebel
lion, at w'holesald we were paying an av
erage of nearly 50 per cent more thun we
are paying today for provisions. At re
tall. In the shops of petty dealers, the
poor housekeeper pays aa much this week
aa he did, a year ago. This would not be,
had we a market system worth the name,
or If Industrious citisens of limited means
would combine to make their purchase of
the principal article . of every-day con
sumption In common. A carcass of good
mutton, well divided among four at this
season, might be bought at just about one
half what It Is retailed at per pound in
the butchers' shops."
Evidently the butchers are making up
for smallor sales by securing larger profits.
The appeals ' to the people to shun the
meat shops continued, but It la clear that
some of tht m were backsliding, fur prices
could not have been maintained so long
I- iF CAKE, .'.V .1
I V4ftrWy Ilot biscuit 1 4
i fC T--7 r'. t'V hot breads.
47T V '--- 'VAW Pastry, arc
V i (v- "V lessened In cost
f KSWH' ,: ) A? and Increased
I p Q 'Jg In quality and
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unless demand was at least keeping- up a
moderate pace with supply.
In tha following year, 1806, came the
Overend-Guerney panto at London, which
resulted In a violent readjustment In the
financial markets here as well abroad,
and this, with the contraction of this
country's own Inflated currency, brought
prices sharply downward. Then the man
and his wife who thought eating meat was
like eating money, were enabled to go
back to their meat diet without thinking
of how many nickels each bite of beef or
mutton was costing. ' .
PERSONAL NOTES.
Slrce the court at Danbury, Conn., has
placed a heavy monetary penalty upon the
striking hatte-, the expression "mad as a
hatter" acquires a new meaning.
Moses Harmon, the Kansas apostle of
free love, who published " his paper, Luci
fer, In Chicago for several years after it
became too hot for him in Kansas, died
In Los Angeles, Cal. He established hl
free love paper In Valley Falls, Kan.,
thirty years ago.
Robert Underwood Johrson, who has
been chosen to succeed Mr. Glider as llio
editor of the Century Magasine, has b?en
on the staff of that magazine for thirty
seven years almost since Its first publi
cation. He Is a chevalier of the Legion of
Honor of France and cavallere- of the
Crown of Italy,
Celonel Perry Fyffe, who was recently
appointed by President Taft, is on his way
to lake charge of the police of the Cans
zone. The new chief Is a soldier and ai:
editor. When appointed to hln prencnt
position he was managing editor of the
Chattanooga News. He was graduated
from the University of Kentucky and Is a
lawyer.
Meteorites that were brought from the
Arctic by Commander Peary have been
purchased by the American Museum of Nat
ural History. The price paid, It was
learned, Was In the neighborhood of $40,000.
It Is understood that Commander Peary
made a present of the meteorites to Mrs.
Pe6ry and thtt they were sold by her to
the museum.
In a, wojodchopper at r work, , near -Wf1
home! 'Mrs. Albert ftolly of Wabash, Tnd.,
recognized her husband, 'hom she hud not
seen since he marched away to the civil
war, forty-seven years ago. She believed
he was killed In battle and sold her home
and moved, awey. He could not find her
when he returned froin the south and be
came a wandering carpenter.
- this) mt the Old Block.
Boston Transcript.
James P. Piatt,, the United States circuit
Judge who rendered the Danbury decision
In Connecticut, is a son of the late Orvllle
H. Piatt, long an honored senator from
Connecticut, and one of the leaders of tho
Judiciary committee 'of that body which
framed the anti-trust act. Some objections
were raised to the confirmation of the
younger Piatt, but his charge to the Jury
In this case reads like that of a man pos
sessed of much of the courage and clear
sightedness which characterized his father.
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MERRY' JINGLES.
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One reason why I must abhor
The meat trust, I regret, .
Is that 1m will not 'trust me for
The meat I'd like to ge. ,
Clirlntlan Science Monitor.
iiia wooa to ourn; uia wine to annul
A privilege enjrtyed bv few ' a
But all may sing this little thing!
"Old ftfua to tusle! Old-steak to chew!"
-New York Mall.
" 'Tl a ciirloiis fact," snld the govern
ment shark.
As he read about commons and PrjL
"That an KiiRllshman votes with his ay 'fr
aud his noes, i.
And expresses his applauso with his 'ears."
Harvard Lampoon.
The little lkmh that Mary had
The beef trust has one ice. T
And, oh, it mskes us awful sad
Tho way they've raised the price.
-Baltimore American
Taiior. rniior, wiii you be
Valontlno. srood sir. to me?
If you willI'll gladly call ..
Winter, summer, sprlnc and fall, ..
. And, as nature ko ns the rose,
I will let yoU mnke thy clo'es Judge.
He had heard the sweetest Singing
In an operatic etvlei .
.He had heard the bells whose, rinsing
Bring a sweet and rextful smile;
He had listened to the tinkle
Of the brook ht In the dell i
And had henrd the latest wrinkle
. From tho orchestra, so swell.
The phonograph selections
He could mention them off4iand.
He had marched In all directions.
To the mnvtc of tho hftnd.
But the ham and egKiet frying ' tjT
Just before the breakfast call
Mnrte the tuno, there's no denying,
That was sweetest of them all.."
V.'nshlnKton Herald.
PICTURES OF MEMORY.
ALICE CARRY. '
Among the beautiful pictures '
That bans: on memory's Wall,
In one of a dim old forewt,
That seemeth best, of all. , .
Not for its gnarled oaks olden,
Dark with the mistletoe;
Not for the violets golden
That sprinkle the vale below;
Not for the m-llk-whlte lilies
That lean from the fragrant hedge.
Coquetting all day with the sunbeams,
And stealing thnlr golrlon ertffe;
N6t for the vtnesjon the- upland-' s
Where the bright red berries rest.
Nor the pinks,, nor the pals, sweet cowslip
It seemeth to me the.best. ,.f
I once had a little brother
With eyea that were dark and deep v
In the lop of that dlrn old forest ( 9
He lteth In peace asleep. f
Light as the down of the thistle,
Kre-p as the winds that blow,
We roved there the, beautiful summers
The summers of long ago.
But his feet on the hills grew weary,
And on of the autumn eves , ,
I made for my little brother
A bed of yellow leaves.
Sweetly his pale arms folded '
My neck In a meek embrace.
As the light of immortal beauty.
Silently covered his face; '
And when the -arrows of sunset '
Lodged In the tree-tops biiRht, '
He fell In his salnt-llke beauty, . (,
. Asleep by the gates of light..
Therefore,' of all the pictures '
That hang on memory's wall,,
The one of the dim old forest
Seemeth the beat of alt. .....
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