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T1IK HKK: OMAHA. "WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1V 1910.
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r Tinv Omaha t Daily Bee,
FOUNDED HT EDWARD ROSE WATER.
VICTOR ROSE WATER, EDITOR.
Entered at Omaha pustofflce a second
elae matter.
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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
Btate of Nebraska, Douft-la Count, ss.:
Georxe B. Tehuck, treasurer of The
Bee Publishing Company, being duly
sworn. says thAt the actual number of
full and complete copies of The Dally,
Morning. Evening and Hnnday Bee printed
durlnr the month of February, 1910. wu
as follows:
1..
....... 43,140
....... 43.800
. r 43.E70
....... 4a,7a-
43,030
....... 41,740
....... 43,810
....... 43,080
43,910
43,980 1
....... 43,700
IS...
1C...
IT...
1...
It...
to...
II...
...
21...
34...
...
43.070
40.880
43,880
43,890
43,770
41,980
43,930
43,870
43,840
43,810
43,930
43,100
42,100 '
444(80
21. 43,440
T 41,700
IS.......... 43,870
Total
Returned " coplss. ,.','.., -, ,
Not total
..1,199,860
9.990
.1,189,970
iany average. .... ; J. 43,498
UE0RGB B. TZSCHUCK,
' ' Treasurer,
Subscribed In ray presence and sworn to
before ma tiila JStu day of February, ma.
ftOiifcJKT HUNTKR,
fiotary Public.
Subscribers leavta- the city tem
porarily should have The Bee
mailed to I hern. Address will be
chanced as of tea as reqaeetrd.
. At last accounts' the rating "of In
gratitude" was still In cold storage.
Omaha's present' Are limits date
from 1894. ; Omaha has been growing
some since then.
It must be an awful feeling to win
$60,000 on a lottery ticket and then
to lose the ticket. , ' ; '
The . Spanish premier has appealed
to his country to "Europeanlze" It
self. Why not tell It Just to "Brace
up?"
There Is considerable speculation
in Ohio about the floating vote along
the-Ohio river front. .Whither 1 it
drifting?' - "
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'The' most apt comment to be made
on the Patten incident in Manchester
is that the exchange thought it would
do it first. j
L'Now the flow of the campaign fund
will disclose whether that $50,000 sale
of r World-Herald . reaL estate was for
real money.'
Clean up the city is to be Mayor
"Jim's" "next slogan. Never mind the
slogan. Just clean -up beginning
with the streets.
It Is evident that young Mr. Knox
is a "chip t)ff the old block" diplo
matic, as an ambassador he will not
admit that he is scared.
It la, evident that the men in the
box in Philadelphia have been "bunch
ing the strikes,; , even though they
may not have made a safe hit. v
Has any scientific society made ar
rangements to inspect Theodore
Roosevelt's records? A little matter
like that should not be overlooked.
Filings under the Nebraska primary
law do not close for more than three
months yet. The Anal entry list may
look very different from the present
ippearance. . "
Another expert is coming to Omaha
to throw light on the cause of the
prevailing typhoid. If we can only
get two experts to agree, it will be
smoother sailing.
The supreme court of Georgia holds
that a woman may change her mind,
but then It was not really necessary
Tor any court to take the trouble to
make such a decision.
it is to be distinctly understood that
Mr. Bryan reserves the right to de
cide for himself not only as between
loyalty and disloyalty, but also as to
the degrees of loyalty.
When the Navy department made
the exhibit that food is aa cheap as
dirt In China, the Cleveland Leader
Immediately inquires, ."What is the
tariff oa Chinese dirt?"
In Italy an official can fight five
duals and come off with a scratch
and yet have the honor of all concerned
perfectly satisfied. Why cannot the
Italian duels be made more exciting?
we are to have a cbange in the
management of the county hospital
let us have a change for the better,
and not for the worse. Still, almost
any change would be for the better.
What hold has the bill board bunch
on our city council? What is the use
of talking about a city beautiful so
long as the council is a willing party
to the. disfigurement of the city fcy the
uoisome bill boards?
Purpose of the Census.
In explanation of the purpose of the
census to be taken this spring PrtH,!
dent Taft has Issued a proclamation,
asking all the citizens of the United
States to answer questions frankly and
without hesitancy, assuring them that
nothing told the enumerator will be
disclosed under penalty of law. The
purpose of the census Is not to invest!
gate incomes or property-, values for
taxation or to pry into business or prl
vate affairs. It Is Mo compile a vol
ume of reliable statistical Information
as a sort of decennial stock taking
for comparison with previous complla
tlons and for government reference
during succeeding years.
A source of wonderment to. all Is the
amount of information gleaned during
the taking ot a census. The data thus
gathered at this time, especially will
be of untold value, covering as It will
race, occupations and professions, in
comes, property, agricultural and com
mercial conditions and everything, in
fact, necessary to complete under
standing ofwhat America is and owns.
Much depends on the results also as
the basis for future congressional and
state affairs. The enumeration will be
the guide to the formation of new con
gressional and representative dis
tricts in many states of the union. It
will also determine the rearrangement
of all sorts of governmental districts
for the facilitation of public business.
Many people do not like to tell
about their business or private affairs,
regardless who, the questioner may be,
and especially if he is an official of the
law." The average person is tempted
to twist things for the sake of appear
ances, to give one sort of a twist to the
assessor, another to the Census-taker
and several original varieties of twists
to' the newspaper reporter. The pur
pose for which the Information is to
be used governs very largely the
amount and accuracy of what is given.
But for the coming census it is hoped
full compliance will be made' to re
quests of the enumerators, not be
cause of the penalty of a fine for re
fusal, but because we all want full and
reliable returns.
Meat Prices in England.
While American consumers are find
ing fault with the price of meat lu the
United States, It Is little consolation,
although no relief,- to know that the
Englishman is from 4 to 6 cents a
pound worse off. It matters little
whether the meat is American refrig
erated. South American frozen or Brit-,
lsh .slaughtered, the general prices of
any and all kinds are higher la England
to the extent mentioned. This condition
prevailthroughout the 'British isles,
varying unappreciably even where lo
cal competition Is keenest. Compari
son of prices there with the corre
sponding prices here has recently been
made by the consular-service, and has
been of no small Interest 'among all
English-speaking peoples. ;,i -
In America the brisket sells for 5
cents. a pound, while in England the
same piece sells' for. 10. Stewing beef
sells for 11 cents here,' as against 14
there; round, 14 here, as against 18
and 20 cents; rib roast, 14, as against
20; sirloin, '16, as against 20; "rump
steak." (our porterhouse) sells for 20
cents here and 26 there. " This same
ratio is disclosed also in prices of
other meats. . . ...
A general sentiment prevails In Eng
land favoring domestic products of all
kinds, and this is so noticeable In the
meat markets that some shops make
it a point to advertise "British beef
only is sold here,", and these shops get
the major portion of the trade, even
though imported beef is slightly
cheaper and often' better. It is
charged that, like their .American
cousins", English butchers frequently
"fudge" on the public so that "British
beef" is any beef slaughtered on Eng
lish soil, no matter where it is raised
or rattened. Consequently i several
hundred thousand head of cattle are
shipped to Englalnd annually to be
sold aa native beef.
The cause for high prices in Eng
land is tho same as that given here
the high cost of beef on the foot and
of the. feed necessary for fattening.
The English people complain and have
started investigations' just as we have,
which, very like those in America,
Have so far resulted chiefly In enlight
enment, but not in lightening the load.
Western Ideas on Eastern Farms.
With the establishment of an agri
cultural department as an adjunct to
the New York Central railroad a new
Idea is being Introduced in the rural
districts of the east. It is the applica
tion of western metnoda to eastern
farms and to eastern conditions. The
railroad expects to make it a success
ful experiment, not only from the
farms to be cultivated, but also be
cause of the traffic resulting from put
ting new life, new energy and new
ideas into the farming constituency of
Its territory.
The idea obtains quite generally, al
though erroneously, throughout the
east, that the soil there fa run out and
worthless and that the farmers of that
section cannot compete with, the more
vigorous soil of the middle west. But
the fact that the westerner is learning
to, renewthe soil by scientific pro
cesses and make it capable of cultiva
tion for an indefinite length of time
has never occurred to them. It has
also been forgotten in the east that
continental Europe, which has been
cultivated for centuries, is still a very
profitable farming district. The west
is learning and the east must learn the
principles of soil restoration and con
servation by both precept and example.
It is pathetic to look over the aban
doned farms In some sections of the
east The weeds and underbrush have
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grown rank and tall and the buildings
are In tumble-down condition. No one
seems to care what happens to that
magnificent country, fend yet agricul
tural scientist say that with proprr
treatment and care those farms can be
made to produce as much as they ever
did. The present condition Is attri
buted to the lack of proper methods
and the trend of national immigration
from the east to the west and to the
cities. But lhat there is now to be an
ftTort to change this U a matter of no
small importance. The rejuvenation
of agriculture In the east should give
back to the states along- tho North At
lantic seaboard "fence more a good,
healthy, vigorous farming constit
uency.
Ease Ball Season Opening'.
With the coming of the warm days
the base ball germ has taken on life
and Is at present stretching itself for
a season of great activity. On the va
cant lots and In the streets of the city
the game has already begun and the
"kids" have started the fight on the
umpire. Away off in California, down
in southern Texas and along the gulf
states the big league teams are prac
ticing steadily and the sporting col
umns bulge with the dope on the com
ing season. While every season of the
year baa its sport, no season is quite
like the summer eeason and no sport
is like base ball. The American peo
ple can go crazy over base ball with
remarkably little effort. When once
they are started they do not stop and
nobody cares. The boys catch the
spirit first and as- soon as vthe
proverbial spring game of marbles is
possible the base ball game is in full
swing. It has been well said that the
most popular poem In America is
nothing of Browning or Kipling, Inlnd
you no other than "Casey at the
Bat." It surely is typical of the Amer
ican game, although it gives but a
rijnall idea of the extremes of lunacy
possible on the "bleachers."
Is This Another Foreery t
Among the collection of self-
solicited testimonials which the latest
democratic candidate for United States
senator from Nebraska modestly
prints in bis own paper is the follow
ing, which raises suspicion of the same
kind of -forgery which the same paper
tried recently to .perpetrate on an
other distinguished Nebraskan:
T.' W. Blackburn, active among local
democrats, said: "I believe that the can
didacy of Mr. Hitchcock will meet with the
approval of tho majority ot Lancaster
democrats. ' With his entrance- Into the race
fresh blood has been Injected Into the com
ing fight. He will be an able representative
of the state, and would not, even If 1,500
miles away,- forget that Nebraska was his
home and that ha was primarily represent
ing this state."
While this Is printed under the head
of Lincoln, everybody knows there is
only one T. ,W. Blackburn In Ne
braska and that be lives in Omaha and
not in Lincoln, and that . he." registers
as a republican and not as a democrat
and that he .said nothing of the kind.
If our T. W. Blackburn, has a double
in Lancaster county, the sooner we
know it the better, so that we can
keep the republican and democratic
twins separate and distinct. The real
T; W. Blackburn would never have
made the mistake of putting the hiding
place in Europe, to which Mr. Hitch
cock decamped when the vote on the
tariff was impending, only 1,500 miles
away.
If this is not another rank forgery,
what is it? ;
Changing Preachers.
The changes in the personnel of the
preachers occupying pulpits in Omaha
churches seem this year to be more
numerous than ever, and the move
ment,, in response to calls to larger
fields or bigger salaries seems more
active than usual.
As a rule we regret the loss of these
departing preachers who stay with ' us
an all too short time, and almost be
fore they have become thoroughly
Identified with the community and get
really in touch with our Interests fly
away like birds of passage to other
climes. The preachers who are more
permanently attached to" their churches
and who are with us and of us year
after year, are generally steady-going,
industrious and progressive workers
for the upbuilding of Omaha along
practical lines, while the new crop,
even before they get rooted in" the
ground, want to turn things upside
down, experiment with impractical the
ories, and accomplish in a day reforms
that require years. It is always the
latest-come preacher who thinks his
new home Is the worst vice-infested
place be ever saw, and conceives it to
be his mission to tell how bad we are
In order to make his work of redemp
tion shine brighter.
Every community ought to change
some of its preachers once in a while
in order to appreciate better those we
have kept and those we have lost.
If the perusal of Commander
Peary's proof were to be only a fore
runner of a trip over the country on
the Chautauqua platform the people of
Kansas City, St. Louis and a few other
Cooked towns would raise a roar to
have the congressional committee sup
press them.
Occasionally one hears a sound from
the gables in the attic of the past.
The carriages belonging to J. Edward
Addlcka are being sold In Newport for
storage debts. Will you have to search
the pages of ancient history to find
out who Addlcka is?
The Omaha Ad club is figuring on
entertaining its guests, during the
meeting ot the National Association of
Ad clubs, with a home product dinner.
We used to have dinners of this kind
when the patronize home-Industry
movement wae first started, and those
who participated still have a fond re
membrance. 1
Will Edgar Howard produce the
names of the "prominent democratic
lawyer in Omaha" and the "well
known republican office holder in Lin
coin" who have hired out to the cor
poratlons as "fixers' for the coming
campaign? Will Edgar flunk? Will
a duck swim? '
It is authentically reported that
Mme. Tatrastlni fainted at the end of
the "mad scene" in "Lucia." Having
seen Mme. Tatrazzlni, the question
naturally propounds itself, who or how
many carried her off the stage?
A Pittsburg . editor is asking his
readers to tell him what he can do
with $100. '-- It is not surprising that
an editor should be bewildered at the
thought of spending so much money
all at once.
John L. Sullivan maintains that the
romance has gone from prize fighting
What else could anyone expect a man
to say when he has been licked as hard
as Sullivan was the last time he
fought?
Poar to One.
Chicago Trlgune.
As the pool now stands, four states have
ratified the Income tax amendment and one
n an reiusea to ao bo, in rial defiance of a
platform Its legislators should have re
peeled.
Even Rut Stores.
Brooklyn Eagle.
Rome has Improved since the late Julius
Ceaser was stabbed In the back. Now her
statesmen fight duels and wear court
plaster on their faces for a week or so In
consequence.
Knock for Iowa Conscience.
Charleston News and Courier.
It is now claimed that the Iowa con
science la keenest, because a man from
that state has made restitution to the
government for having bored a hole in
Lincoln penny, but the chances are that
his repentance was due to the fact that
he found that he could no longer pass the
coin which he had mutilated.
Pashlaa? a Good Thin a: A Ion a.
Sioux City Journal. .
The retail meat, dealers blame It on
the , farmers, .. the wholesalers and the
packers. The wholesalers will blame it on
the farmers,, the retailers and the packers.
The packers will blame it on the farm
ers, the wholesalers and the retailers.
The farmers will blame It on the retail
ers, the wholesalers and the packers. And
there you are.
Appreciation of Hand-Made Art.
San Francisco Chronicle.
The fact that Mr. Wolgast, the new light
weight champion In pugilism, is being
flooded with proposals from theatrical
managers, some offering him so much as
12,000 a week, ought effectively to silence
those cavillers, who assert that in this
country there is no real appreciation of
home talent in art. '
Worklaa- Off the Deficit.
" Philadelphia Press.
The tariff and; 'the revenue provided by
the present congress last August -Is doing
Its work. Today; last fiscal year, the
reflctt was1 $81,628,000. To date, the fiscal
year, the deficit Iv $23,660,000. By the end of
the fiscat year 'this will be almost gone.
Were the revenue for the current fiscal
year from the -Income tax on oorporoutions
already in there. would be no deficit.
PENSIONS FOR MERRY WIDOWS.
Novel lea. for that Saajared Palm of
facie -Sana.
New'York Sun.
Senator Root has announced his Inten
tion to oppose 'a pension measure now on
its way through congress. An act of June
27, 1890, granted pensions of $8 a month
to widows of deceased soldiers and sailors
whose marriage occured prior to the pas
sage of the bill. The benefit was limited
to those without income or means of sup
port other than their own' dally labor and
to those whose 'actual net Income did not
exceed 1200 a year. The law of April, 1908,
removed the income restriction and in
creased the rate to $12 a month, thus pro
viding for the payment of that sum to all
widows of soldiers and sailors subject only
to the condition- of marriage prior to June
27, 1890. The measure now before the sen
ate proposes the removal of the time limit
and the payment of a $12 pension to wid
ows of soldiers and sailors irrespective of
the date of marriage.
Opposition to an extension of tho pension
system calls for independence and courage.
The argument of earlier years was the ob
ligation of the- nation to devoted women
who cared for the home- and the family
while the soldier-husband was In the field
fighting for his country. The argument of
today is the obligation to the ' devoted
women who marry veterans and care for
them and nurse, them in their decllqlng
years. It is estimated mat some or zv.uuv
have been engaged in that laudable enter
prise since June 27, 1890. and the country
Is asked to recognize their devotion to the
extent of $12 a month, presumably retro
active and cumulative. ',
The United States has paid military pen
sions amounting, In their aggregate, to $4,
000,000,000. Sentiment, and not legal or fi
nancial obligation, has toeeti the controlling
influence.' "Without sentiment the world
would be a hard and cheerless place of
residence, but there is a point at which
sentiment goes to seed. It is a fair Infer
ence that Senator Root believes that senti
ment in the matter of pensions to soldier's
widows has reached Its proper limit, and
there are a great many people who will
agree with him.
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Our Birthday Book
March 18, 1810,
WUtls J. Abbott, the well known news
paper man and political writer, was born
March 16, 1863, at New Haven. He ran
the publicity department for Mr. Bryan's
last campaign.
Pr. Robert S. Anglln, the oculist and
aurlst in the Karbach block, is 63 today.
He Is a Canadian by birth, and graduated
in medicine at Queen's university at Kings
ton. . J
Louis V. Carrier, chief clerk of the gen
eral baggage office of the Union Pacific
railway at Council Bluffs, was born March
16, lttS.t at Geneseo, III. He has been con
tinuously In railroad work since 1875.
John N. Rem me!, chief clerk of the local
freight' office of the Chicago North
atstorn railway, was born March 18, 1872.
He is a native of Wisconsin, where he
started out as a telegraph operator for. the
Northwestern. Mr. Rem me I has been In
Omaha for five year v-
Around New York
SUvplee m the Oarreal at Ufa
aa aura to the 0rt Asaerleaa
Metrepella freaa Bay to Pay.
While sentimental New Torkers were
shedding gobs of tears over the banish
ment of picturesque horse cars from local
oenery, the callous-hearted push to tne op
poslte extreme by Introducing high poire
automobile hearses. They reason that
dead New Yorker ought to be put out
sight as quickly as social regulations per
mlt. They consider encumbering the streets
with slowly moving funerals a serious dls
(urbane to business and a needless tax on
the nerves of spectators The automobile
hearse will obviate these discomforts and
give the deceased as well aa the mourners
a Joy ride that Is worth the price. The
machine combines space tfr the casket and
seats for eight persons, and, catyspeed up
i rum iiva to twenty miles an nour.
The rush to the cities does not find its
sole explanation In a general longing for
the glitter and excitement of urban life.
The city as a labor market draws Its
crowds. One charitable organisation livNew
Tork reports that while the supply of man
ual labor for spring will scarcely be up to
the demand. New York Is flooded with peo
ple In search of clerical work, and search
ing In vain. "The class to worry about Is
that which Includes the clerk, the sales
man. and the man who thinks that by not
learning a trade he has a chance to be
come a bank clerk, and then a bank presl
dent. 'Anything to be In New York' Is
the outsider s slogan. As long aa that
continues, there will be more men than
Jobs." (
"That's an easy lot whicb hangs about
the broker's office here," said the cashier
of a fashionable uptown hotel, quoted by
the Sun. "They'll bite onalmost anything;
even the brokers themselves will.
"The morning that the sentence of Lupo's
gang of counterfeiters was announced, as
one of the brokers passed my desk I asked
him If he had ever seen one of the phony
dollar bills that had been passed. He
had not, so I took one of a lot of brand
new dollar bills that I had Just got from
the bank and passed It through the grating.
He looked It over. Then he took It into
his office, where everybody took look
at it. Well, they got a big magnifying
glass and scrutinized the bill and I'll be
banged If they didn't take a whole hour
off Just looking at It. Then one of them
came out here and offered to give me $5
for It. Of course, I then had to show hlra
the tlllful of such bills."
Some Brooklyn housekeepers are availing
themselves of a plan by which they make
two pounds of butter out of one pound
and a pint of milk. The pound of regular
store butter Is put with a pint of milk
into a sort of double boiler affair, in Which
the butter Is mixed with the milk by means
of a paddle not unlike thai of an Ice cream
freexer. From this a rather soft substance
emerges, to which some of the less con
sclentlous housewives add a bit of coloring
matter, for the mixture Is a bit paler than
the original pound of butter which went
in. When the composition has cooled It
becomes hard and to all Intents and pur
poses butter. It certainly weights two
pounds where there was only one before,
and, Is so like the genuine that most fam
ilies do not know the difference. As but
ter is now selling in Brooklyn for about $8
cents a pound, the thrifty souls are get
ting two pounds of this "Just aa good" for
42 cents, and in this way reducing their
creamery bills. '
A portly man. who looked like "aW Ar
menian,' boarded a Broadway car at
Bowling Green and sat next to a placid,
spectacled old fellow, who was reading a
little blue volume bearing the title "Mar
cus Aural bid. ". The. portly man handed
cthe conductor - a dollar bill, fiattlns. 95
cents, chiefly In dimes and nickels. He
lipped the change in what he supposed
was his overcoat pocket. At Park place
the foreigner got up. Before doing
so he felt-In the pocket In which he be
lieved he had put the coin. He did not
find It. His face lit up, and he turned
to his quiet neighbor, and remarked.
"You have, niy money in your overcoat
pocket.",
The placid man stared at the foreigner.
who took off his hat, and bowing to the
Imperturbable one said, with emphasis,
'I say you have my money, 95 cents, the
change of a dollar, in that pocket," and
the foreigner pointed to the other man's
pocket. ' Again the self-possessed old
party stared and went on reading.
The foreigner leaned over and putting
his right hand in the overcoat pocket of
the disciple of Marcus Aurellus extracted
95 cents. - Spreading the money out In his
palm the foreigner shook his other- hand
at Mr. Aurellus, and sald
"You see, It was as 1 said. We were sit
ting so close that I thought your overcoat
pocket waa mine,"
Mr. Aurellus' calmness was more notice
able than when he first lifted !) '
from his book.
A little Greek restaurant in New York
has neted its owners a fortune. One of
them cooked and the other waited on the
few tables when they began business,
twenty-five or more years ago. Today one
of the men they used to serve with the
pies of Pericles and the thumb-bits ot
Themlstocles, Is putting up a new building
for them. They paid $54,000 for the land,
and they are spending $57,000 on the build
ing, exclusive of the cold storage plant,
which la to cost $16,000. A cellar and two
sub-cellars are hewn out of tthe solid rock
Above ground there will not be many
floors. The speciality of these thrifty
Oreeks is the serving of food, so they Insist
upon ample restaurant space. They have
a theory that a table should pay 100 per
cent a day. In this country Greek sculp
tors turn easily to carving out fortunes.
"The announcement that there are more
than 1,600 cases of divorce, separation, and
annulment of marriage on the calendar of
the supreme court at present, to be dis
posed of before June 1," says the New
York Times, "Is somewhat disquieting.
But that court administers the law for a
very large and thickly populated district.
In a population of 4,000,000 the appeal of
1,600 discontented married couples for re
lease from their marriage ties need not
be taken aa an Indication that the com
munity is already In a state ot moral de
gradation. Doubtless, the complaint In
many cases Is Justifiable. Until lately
marriages have been too easily contracted
In New Yorlu- We may hope that one of
the effects of the new marriage laws will
be a decrease in the number of divorces."
4
Toe Msieh Uniting- In.
Philadelphia Press.
Amateur wireless operators who flash out
Idle messages, which confuse and mislead
the operators of wireless stations are
clearly a nuisance. When the steamer
Tagus was in distress recently her signals
for help were interfered with by an amataur
wlreleas operator on the top of a New York
sky scraper. There Is a growing demand for
a law ot the air which will suppress ware
leas trilling and Jocosltes snd have the air
-'-ir for bona side messages.
' v vTTie only Dakln g PowJ
y ' made from Hoyal Grapo . '
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PERSONAL NOTES.
If Messrs. Shaw and Hobson insist upon
having war with Japan, there Is no reason
why they should draw tho country into
their private concerns.
For sending a fake telegram as news to
London paper a man nanKjd Horner has
Been sent to Jail for six weeks. Similar
tactics would' not be practicable 'In this
country yet, owing to lack of Jail space.
"Killed by Joy," was the coroner's ver
dict In the case of Mrs. Mury K. llen
drick, who dropped dead at South Nor-
walk, Just after she had been paid $5,000
in cash for some property by Zenus C.
Buha.
Prof. Thomas Nixon Carver of Harvard
university denies that the trusts have
been more efficient than Individual con
cerns In lowering the cost of production,
but says that they have been abf& to lower
the cost of distribution. .
Hannah, the Missouri mule laid out by a
Brooklyn car. managed to land a "good
lurk" souvenir on the shoulder of the
motormaa a moment before the crash came.
It Is characteristic of the Missouri mule to
make an Impression at home or abroad.
Whon Bryan MullanDhv of JodIIii. m.
died In 1861 be left one-third of his large
fortune to be devoted to help immigrants
passing through St. Louis "on their way
to tha west." . The fund has grown to
about $1,000,000 and the trustees have noth
ing to do but draw their salaries. The
Supreme court has denied the right tc
divert the fund to other ftubllc purposes.
Oliver Harrlman, millionaire banker.
president of the Westchester Horse Show
association, has filed at Mount Vernon
N. Y., his oath of office and appointment
as deputy sheriff of Westchester county, by
onerirr Bcherp. Mr. Harrlmai has a man
sion at Purchase, on the outskirts of White
Plains. He is one of the staff of rich
deputies Sheriff Scberp has appointed.
DEMOCRATIC FOLLY. '
Policy of Negation ProTea Parlv
Undeserving; ' of Power.
Minneapolis Journal.
Some of the democrats think the demo
cratlo senators were under no obligation to
m poHiai sayings uank bill, which
was a repuDiican program measure. Tha
platform had demanded It and the president
had adopted it as part of his irreduetble
minimum of performance by his party at
this session. This, It Is claimed, made the
bill a political Issue and absolved the dem
ocrats from voting for It.
Of course, If the democratic senators can
reason that way .and make their constitu
ents feel that It Is all right, they may have
saved their own seats. But where' have
they landed the party with the large Inde
pendent vote, which, it Is acknowledged,
sways the country, and which flits from
one party to another, largely on the merits
pr demands of their records? Can the dem
ocrats satisfy this element by mere nega
tion?
The attitude of the democrats In congress
ever since the Taft administration came In
as been weak. It proposed nothing as an
alternative for the Payne tariff bill. It did
not even make a virile protest against its
adoption In the house, while In the senate
the democrats divided and floundered, part
of them supporting and part repudiating
their own platform, which specifically de
manded fVee lumber, free ipulp wood and
free Iron ore.
The republicans have committed enough
e i one kind of
sex. There
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blunders to lose them the house In the com
ing elections, but' their opponents have
made enough mistakes to counterbalance
them, and leave the parties about where
they stood at the beginning of the admlnln
t ration. , ,. .
It la often said that the people hold the
party in power responsible, and that they
vote to rebuke it If it forgets its. pledges.
This K to a great, extent,, true, but It Is
also truo that the discriminating Independ
ent voter of today asks himself what he Is
going to put In the place of the party he
relieves. When he look" aC the record of
the democrats lately, he Is almost com
pelled to say that whatever the shortcom-j
Ings of the republicans, the democrats hn' A
not deserved power.
CHEERY CHAFF.
Inebriated One Sliay, " mlshter did you
alio me beat out that friend of mine?
Stranger I saw you 'running down the
street, but I didn't observe any competi
tor. Inebriated One You didn't? Why, I went
by that lamp post back there's if It waa
standing still! Puck.' .
First Physician So you lost Ro-i-. as
a patient? Didn't he .respond to your treat
ment? Mecond Physician Yes, but not to my
dunning letters. -rLlpp(ncott's, Magazine.
"John," queried hep husband's wife, "If
some bold man were, to kidnap me would
you offer n reward?" '.
"Sure thing," replied the wife's husband.
"1 always reward those who favor me." -Boston
Courier..
"What do you "think of this theory that
the comet will sweep the earth with Its
tall 7" . . .
"Oood Idea," . replied the public-spirited
man, "If the comet can be persuaded to
give some of our street -espcalal attention.''
Washington Star. . ...
Reoprter How was the opeatlon,' doctor?
A success? . . ' ..
Doctor Perfect. We found things not
before known to science.
Reporter Hut, 'doctor- they -tell me that
the patient -died. .
Doctor (impatiently) That's Just lik
you laymen. Let's bury the subject. Hal
tlmore American,
Friend Wfiat? You don't m,ean to say
you saved the lives of those freezing men
by mental treatment?
Kxplorer Yes. indeed. We persuaded
them that they were watching one of the
early season's ball gam. Puck.
."Hold, man! What would you do?"
"I would die! From this brldsre I will
leap Hio-yon: .mighty rtoirviu.! axl ,nd It
all-all.,"
"Heavens! But if you must,' Walt twenty
minutes until I can send fr my moving
picture machine; this will make a corking
film." St. Paul Dispatch.
- TELL" ME NOT.
Teil me not In box-car numbtrs' '
Life Is but an empty dream.
If you're working for. a railroad..
Oh, how happy life must seem!
Life Is business on a railroad.
Where you have to do thins right,
uo just what the yardmaster tells
Labor hard from morn till night.
you.
Lives of railroad men . remind us
We must never be sublime.
But when going leave behind us
uarnlshes upon our time.
Garnishes which perhaps some other
Wandering on this stormy main-
Some forlorn and wayward brother-
Seeing shall pass on again.
When our working days are over,
And our harvest davs are spent.
With our shoes all worn and dusty,
With our backs all tired and bent.
We shall near the gates of heaven,
But InHlde we'll never get,
For St. Peter there will tell us.
We've no railroad men here yet
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