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"V A THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1010. 10 A SIDELIGHTS ALONG WASHINGTON BYWAYS LITTLE IFOM TOE WEEK END) Things You Want to Know Possibilities of tho (Jerrymander. jggglog fjjjff KE'g HOME PAGEQ s It 1 not often that Speaker Cannon be comes intensely Interested In the proceed ings of the boose when he is not presiding over that somewhat troublesome body. There are exceptions to the rule, however, ' and one of the exceptlona wm when Berono E. Tayne, co-author of the tariff law, de livered a, campagn argument In defense pf hla production. ' Mr. Payne'a speech was listened to with great Interest, not only on the republican side of the honBo, but also on the part of democrats. Not the least Interested mem ber was Champ Clark, minority leader, who, at some future date, experts to poke the Payne argument full of holes. Clark found difficulty in bearing the New Yorker and nuuiy requested him to step down in front of the speaker's dual:. Instantly the situation took on the aspect of a drama, or comedy, according to the viewpoint. There was a h untie and bustle to present a proper kUub setting. Mr. Payne was the leading man of the occasion. Ills clerk, loaded down with an armful of statistics and books of -various kinds, constituted the property man, and Speaker Cannon took upon, lilmscjf the duties of stage manager. Having some knowledge of the unpor- t Aw A ttt Imwr pent Twtitf tance of Mr. Payne's remarks, the speaker desired, that they have the best, possible effect not only on tiie audience, but alao on the country. Accordingly, he found a place for thu leading man at the long table occupied by the official reporters. With a dexterity that seemed to indicate previous expertenco he huntled a couple 6f tables to the front, one ttrt tlte use of Mr. Payne'a cleric and another to be occupied by the official reporter, whose translation of the speech villi be printed .and distributed from ono end of the land to thB other. Survey lnif the stOKo sotting with a critical eye, the speaker then dragged. a chair to a spot In front of tire row at desk on the ropub llcan sjde. where lie could enjoy the kind mm m u 1 smwiiiiiii 111 -rrm ttt mi mi i Method of KxteiMlins; Meat Flinrns. Common household methods of ' extend ing the" meat flavor -through .-a mrttarabhs quantity- of ntetil whhm would other wise be tacUmg .hi' dtethiotWB tasba are to srrve tho meat -with .flumplm, ireneraUy hi tldiah Tilth .tt. -to combrrca .tiie meat with ctSatW, ' hi meat rfilea or meat .rolto, or to aaxve ttte .nsttt m .toeat And biscuits. Borders xtt thSi hominy or roaahed pota ttxts .ftm .xrot"- ttt .-tha) game principles applied hi dfffarent -way. By. serving ome jn-apersatian art 3 tour, .rtae, .homray or otlirr iuail tch .hi tarch -with tlw moat w e,t m -diah vHicii In ltaetf anvnooBiua peacer .to :tia TfcAfauwai ratton than .meat liotf jiuil cotD) :ra rrrtltcft :tl iwat flavor is exutaird .thnutfh A hrrjca .amount at the niAtetUil. Thraugitout tths bultotln ties -maaaute-nienas rtyi :m ttioa ratl 'oall lor a .level iraottful oar ctk tovl onartul, the eaaa may Jie. ' HT 33tHttKiaNQS jaKD BTMTIiATl :iurmbrcrt rrctja .tor -moot fl Mhea Tnafta with udjimnlhteT And .liuilar jnqpacftttmia Jfolbmi irtMT sxnw imn arutmutfras. SMK lvi jtounds of 'Ohsapor oitt tit be, Jtour ostun at jiatatoea .-out into amall pleee, :tw.UlMki irp aoh at iuimlaa .trml i 'jtirmta -out .btb ioiav4iitMniit) -aubes, tne- Juff kaulon, iOBpNdi .one-quarter uup jtf flour. hmiU and jwper.- Cut ttna rmasUihtto "U 309 nmvlng' the .fat; My out fttta tat and brown the, tuat:ln.tU Wlum-well trrowtwd, oovwr-wlth N vwllhw -TMter, lll Jtoc JJtw mlnuUai and then cek:hiitawerrtemvrture until the ' ttwMtt :1a idoue. Jtf endtr. tlika will .require . Abojtt tthcea .hauiw -on the atuvp or five bottm in :th 3lals cooker. Add .cacrots, ., turnips, jmhms, jepiw .and U during the ' hint .tur rt GAoHing, .and tha putatoea .fttlei mhiuM before aorymg. Thicken with h Jhjur .diluted with oold wtr. ' BtvV with .dunuJliiura Owe bekw). it this dlah .made In the fireteati cooker;, the :'; '' inlxturo mutt be ;rlicUd when the vga- '' ' table .are ;put in. .Such a stew may also Of IrCtercst.to Vtmien J Aren't tha -oaw veatii -or watoWoats forj wer with tl -coat suit nattjt-looklng? So eonvenleni. tog. I think the mufflers we lukva buen wettdng .all Whitur inuat huve auMitueted tlto idea, though the summer vtMt ,doea begin JuH -whore the wlntr ouo Wftt off. They birth around itlte neck. ,1 ro.-ntlj' &w lp . )Hp pertly faWo walstvowt la a ood qualtV V white plqu, ckittod wti gilt b(Hton and workod but itNihokM, -tht co(t .only 0 oenU; though, of 4urae, tf one bad -the time lor ii the work 1a Uivpl nougtx), niatorUl for four would oat no nKce thun thla sun). A otwMKning wrp or vulng aumnMtr wor could be tuahtonod from rajal) or alkanlvuig, with .lining f tlw new Palalyy I UXUu;n in aatln JouUrU. PerooAlly. 1 hvuld like full circular cave, uifU-kjurved ave fur a rolling buk (tect around tho nock Mid down the front edgus, duiplaylng tiie llulpg. ' yh turn batk would U ixctm around t!if M id tacrjoae ao 4Uuoh that at the Water edtf? Wide rovers might be auggufied. Thr aitould be no luani y x;Ujlug. The rlht tr-ot alwuld be tuooght over to the UUr A lunpae at the bright llolng would appuar In view with the wearer's move nuMHs. Wloan ou want what you want w-hou ' jouJ1 ant .. in a imrry, ad- ' f err 14 for it in Th Bee. rhlch Is dear to his When Ix)uis K. Brandels, counsel for Louis Olavls, returns to hla home in Bos ton at the conclusion of the Plnchot-Ball-Inger Investigation, he will leave behind him the finest collection of enemies that man ever collected. Brandels has been used to making ene mies all his life. It has happened that he has been the foremost figure In a num ber of cases whero the struggle in which he was Involved went far beyond legal strife. This happens to be particularly true ln the case now being conducted at the In stigation of (3-lfford Pinchot When Mr. Brandels came to Washington be waa known in some quarters as a friend of Mr. Roosevelt. When he leaves Washing ton be will, without daubt. be known as the bitter enemy of the Taft administra tion and everyone of Importance connected with it ! It is safe to say that a majority of the members of the investigating committee have about as much love for Brandeis aa Balllnger has for Plnchot Senators Kcot, Sutherland and Nelson have become weary of their efforts to squelch the Boston at- Lrtu , irrw ll m Lrrue- IFJ nt torney. After each attempt Mr. Brandels bobs to the surface with a smile that Is the most exaapwailng facial expression ever encountered by a discontented body of men. Instead of smoothing the ruffled feelings of the man before whom he is try ing hla case,, Brandels deliberately con tinues to rub the lur the wrong way tintn the spectators axa oonatanfry on the alert for an explosion. Mr. Balllnger -will "be no trappier to be rid of the Boston attorney than will a ma jority of the members oT the commtttee. Evidently the only ones enjoying the situ ation la Brandels himself and the followers of Plnahot -who crowd the committee room each day. he made of muttun. R veul or pork is used thB -vegetables may be -omitted or simply a little onion -used. Sometimes for variety- the browning .of the meal Is dis pensed -rlth. When white meat, BuDh as ahfclren -veal, or fresh pork Is used, the gravy is 'Often Jirafte rich With cream or milk lUldkamid -with flour. Tha numerous tnmnr .additions -which may be Introduced give the great -vattety of .euch stews found .hi audk JroOka. Dumplings Two oups flour, four tea apuoiifuui baking powder,, two-third cup milk or A little -more If needed, one-half teaapotmfn'l salt, two teaapuunfuls butter. ' Mix And Mttt the dry ingredients. Work in tho .butter with the tips of fingers, add milk gradually, roll out to a thickness of otufeball inch and out with biscuit cutter. in aunie oountrles it is customary to sea son jthe .dumpling themselves with herbs, etc., or to stuff tbxun 'With bread crumbs fried in hutter Instead of depending upon tire gwivy to season them.. A good way to uook dumpitnga is to put them in a buttered teainer vw kettle of hot water. They should cook from twelve to f tf ten jninute. If it Is necue ary to cook them wtth the stew., enough liquid aritauld be removed so that tliey may be placed upon tire weal and -vegetable. Sometimes the dough Is baked and served aa biacutta tnur which the stew is poured. If tho stew Is made with cliickvn or veal, it is generally termed a fricasuaa. Thoughts of a Philosopher. from Urn-pur's Weekly.. WUdom Is the ultimate outgrowth of our experkmce In folly, wlistrefore if the fooU killur were on his Job no one would live to bo Whj. J The hor.tt crttio la the knocker oa our dour which Opportunity uaes when she come to visit ua. TIm auxxtuufful man is he who can take the K-iuons ivanded him by life and atdl tliulr juices In lmunado to hia neighbors. A glij n.ay smile and smile and be un willlu' Mill. The haiC-Uikcd po.l Is usually roasted butor lie get through,. If it were really true that the bird la Itaud la wrth two lu the bub, K would nv be .long before ouubo4y started aa lueUtuUoa to got all Uta, Uioj la tha buck lu lnuvd- Wliila aa old -head us youug ahouidera is cunsld4i'd a Uirtble 4onii inatlou, a young urin arouud au old waist la likely to teeult lu serloiw complk'atiuas. Flrat be ure you're light, iWa g ahoad, said tha wise man. It is etjuaiiy good ad vice fr the man who la sure tie U left,. Ou the wlwW, Judging frotu nuuiy years of observation, on ia inclined to UtUve tliat the rea4iy twt maa at the average wedding U the m in Later. Hot tumpeia breed chilly households. The wugi of sin iuay be doaih, but signs are not wanting that there la also a large caau advance thrown in. of political argument heart raster r J r 1 Srf J hrlnt's Charge 'in Peter. John'pa ,hat 0 thCT Follow thou me-" It has occurred to us that there are three classes of people whose thought these words point out and condemn. And the first are those who have a perverted de Ire for knowledge. Now Qod has placed In every rational aotil a desire for knowl edge. And directed toward right objects, and bounded by certain limitations, noth ing could be more useful and right. With out this God-given desire to know, there could be no rational life. We nre told by the Christ that llfo etemal-the highest form of religious knowledge Is to know the true God and Jesus Christ whom ho has sent Now mentality Is the glory of man. Thought, unless perverted, s the divine exercise of a divine force. The man who thinks the most purely feels the most like God. The history of the race Is but a narrative of man's mad chase after knowl edge. He baa probed the earth, pursued the stars, arrested the swift footed light ning in its coarse, and has wracked every aystom of philosophy for food to feed hla mind. He would not, and could not eat unless be fed on the viands of the gods. And this hunger Is to forever endure. We share a craving with the angels. Like them wo search the universe for the same food. And we are continually crossing each other's lines of flight. We fly to day where they flew yesterlay, and tomor row the wings of oar minds will beat the air which their pinions fan today. And that aomg which thay arng in praise of ap prehended excellence will roll in wave of melody white crested from our llpa when our eyes shall behold it. But pervert thla Ood-glven desire to know and the true ohjocts of knowledge are lost from sight, The bounds which limit the extent of our inquiries are ridden down, and our desire for ksowVedge degenerates into idle curiosity. Kspedally la thla true In matters of religion. Here a wild field of inquiry la permitted and encouraged. But here are bounds beyerod which the human mind must not go: divine rights on which a resties curiosity must not trench; secrets -which belong to God. And yet the tendency of the age. is as it was in the daya of Adam, to turn away from trees around which no barriers have been placed, and fasten a wistful longing gaze on those which we have been forbidden to touch. And instead of leaving God's secrets to him self there ju-e those, who, forsooth they can not find out God unto perfection, are arrogant enough to deny his existence. How Man Calling It requires tact to be a strict yet pop ular mother of a grown daughter, for to steer between the points of being too much In evidence and not sufficiently so requires thought, etiquette and common sense. It is true that the continued presence of an older person acta something aa a kill joy to younger ones, so parenta need not be in the room all the time, for girls must learn through experience to be easy and gracious hostesses, an 1 art they will not aoqnlre tf It ia always done for them. Good form demands that a man, when calling upon an unmarried woman, living with her parents or guardians, shall send a card for .them. For him to omit this courtesy is the height of rudeness or Ig norance of good manners, and in either case he can be severely criticised. When tho card ia sent, the mother or father goes into the reception room and remains for ten minutes or more, but ten minutes is long enough. It Is not necessary that both parents shall see the caller. One Is GOT PLUGGED Hi.w- VOOR FRIEJSD- MIL DCIGAR. ITW'avP ivmt to shove orr Ifr't-UY-leave- aVervmujd &OMIR3 ON SOJ-lE CUSTOMER- J J csHlM JtT7D cgUfo)irW ir HE. KiCKS v ' ( WTIto me- ) TOOMOCH- ) V-ll -" HftUP iO-IT VT- VOU Ol f ( Qti HIM Ar laE.VOU YOU CANT ROGUE- I MORE-OPTICER' kc?W lK'fflftr V' I THINK THE POOR GTt j to ' go oM-rn witmesv ' ' " THE MYOv THE OfTICEK NEVER CAM GET AGOOD ONE BOUT TJ-US TOUCHEO YQU-YOU for IT YOURE OUTRA'6iS?t TRUCK AT HIM- , WEUCOME -IGOT , ys then rem AHD , CTSI L niNE." j ' ' wuriMuHT, 11 a, tr.THS 1 1 I I x v By Rev. O. W. Abbott, Pastor Trinity Msthodiat Church. To euch God says: "What Is that to thee? Follow thou Me." In the second place these words apply to those people who demauid that God shall give a reason for that He does which shall come within the limits of their compre hension. In their speculations they ap proach that most sacred spot In the world that place called Calvary. Standing within tho shadows of that awful cross they watch the unfolding of that most mys terious tragedy ' which ever transpired In the universe of God. And Instead of seeing the three crosses of history on Calvary's crest, and the figure of our dying Lord outlined against the sky, Instead of being overawed by those manifestations divin ity displayed, instead of being filled with love which alone can save the soul from sin that demand that the philosophy of that event shall be explained. Instead of proving by a personal application the vir tue of that blood which saves from sin they propose to submit the whole thing to a keen theological analysis. The most overwhelming mystery In the universe gathers about the cross. Dr. Hodge says: "The mysteries of nature, and the myster ies of providence, are the riddles of child hood, compared with the all absorbing problems of the atonement. We know not what it means in this life and may not in the life to come. A modest thinking man stands back in amazement at what God does, Aa well might that insect which on Girl Should Act enough, and neither goes In with the daugh ter. Whichever decides to be present fol lows ten or fifteen minutes after the young hostess. , As soon as the older person enters she or he is Included In the conversation. If some on special toplo Is under discussion Daily Health Hint. A diet of vegetablea, together with milk and eggs, will provide the human system with as much energy, If not more, aa the finest steak. A Had Lot. That fierce mosquito Is a sight! 'Tis shocking on his ways to think. He sleeps all day and spends the night In song while waiting for a drink! T. E. M. EW YORK EVajIMJftUQIUW Qt& UUIK HEMLD COX Al RigtiU RtttrvML finds Its cradle and Its grave ou a single leaf undertake to comprehend the beauty of the vast forest about It aa for man-a creature born to live for a day. Person ally I am glad that such knowledge Is not necessary for my salvation, any more than It Is for me to understand the chem ical qualities of the bread and meat which I eat from day to day. It Is enough tor me to know that they contain nourishment for mind and body. And to such curious souls -through the text God says: "What Is that to thee? Follow thou Me." The third ohass of people condemned by the text are those who are foolishly anx ious about the conditions of their earthly Ufa. Instead of accepting tho severe pro vidences of life with an acQiilesence which would honor their faith, and br,lng peace to their hoarts, multitudes pf Christian peoplo sit down In a feverlBh, complaining, discontented mood, and seek a solution of the problem which vexes their Uvea. And they ask: Why have I been calltd to tread a path so rough, so thorny and su steep? Why am I compelled to spend my life In a sphere so uncongenial to my taste? Why must I toll through life under a cross so heavy and hard to bear? Why waa the stroke allowed to come which swept from my arms one aa dear as my life? When running along the track of prosperity at the rate of fifty mtlea an hour, why did the storm burst In a fury strong enough to sweep away the accumu lations of years? And so there Is no end to the question we might ask, for wonderful ar the hid ings of divine Intent And it would not be kind to speak lightly of the afflictions through which people have to pass. Poverty, domestic trouble, and bereavements are hard to bear. It Is a stony-hearted re ligion, and not the one learned at Gol gotha that would make light of these things. It is hard to be hissed where once applauded; to be pursued by vile tongues; and to He on a bed wracked with pain and roasted with fever. Bitter medicine is not es pleasant aa savory food. But quinine and nux vomica may be as necessary as beefsteak and hot biscuit The winter which kills the weeds and breaks up the soil is Just as necessary as the summer which blooms out the flowers and ripens the fruit And when the bitter cup Is placed to our lips let us remember that it tlat it has been mixed by Father's hand bitter water. And through cloud and gloom comes a voice saying: "What is that to thee? Follow thou me." Toward Parents she Is told what it Is, ao she can take up the thread where her entrance broke it off. To ignore the presence oC an older per son, talking on subjects of which he or she has no knowledge, is nothing leas than boorish. The parent or guardian, after taking part in the conversation for a short time, excuses hjmself or herself. This Individual dots it frankly, making no pretext of trying to slip out The woman or man rises and says good night to the caller, saying that it haa been pleasant to see him and she or he hopes the caller will come again soon. Then the parent asks him to excuse her. By the fact that she has gone Into the room and been cordial to the guest she has expressed her ap proval of his acquaintance. If she does not Ilk him and prefers that her daugh ter should not know him she remains in the room throughout the entire visit BOSANNA SCHUYLER Congress will reapportion the member ship of the house of representatives ac cording to tho new census, and the legis latures of the several states will upply the result of that reapportionment by re districting their states. Under tho Ameri can system of politics the minority party has no rights which the majority Is bound to respect. About a century ago; In fact on tho heels of the rc-apportlonmcnt under tho census of 1810, tho republican legible- tu re of Massachusetts, umlor the domina tion of Governor Elbrklgo Oerry, .redistri buted the districts so that the federalists could not elect members of congress. In ordnr to obtain a republican majority one district waa made, the peculiar outline of which pri'senled a somewhat dragon-like contour. ' A mop having this district strongly out lined hung over the desk of Benjamin Hu8ell, an ardent federalist partisan editor. Gilbert Stuart, tho celebrated painter whoso portrait of Washington has bocomo the acceptc.1 likeness of the Father of Ills Country, came Into Russell's office one day, took his pencill and added wings and claws to tha dragon on the map. He then said: "How will that do for a salamander?" "Better say gerrymander!" growled Rus sell. And thus was coined the word "gerry mander" to designate a practice which, from the beginning of our political history, usually haa controlled the political party destinies of the oountry. 'The census probably will show an In crease in population of about 15,000,000 In the entire country. It Is Improbable that the Influential eastern statep will consent to a relative loss In representation In order that the slie of the house of repre sentatives may not be Increased.. The prob abilities are that from thirty to seventy new members will be added to the house. If the present apportionment ratio of 194,182 should be maintained there will be slxty-slx ad ditional members In the house and thirty four legislatures will be called upon to redlstrlct their states to provide for the election of the additional members. If the democrats should succeed In gain ing control of the house of representatives In tho coming election, the reapportion ment undoubtedly will be made by the present congress during Its Inst session, which will begin next December, after Its successor has been chosen. If the repub licans win In November, tho work of re apportionment may be postponed to the Sixty-second congress on account of the chaotic party conditions now prevailing In the house. Not since the civil war has the reap portionment been made by the democrats. After the census of 1870, congress was in creased by the addition of fifty members. This waa done by the Forty-aooond oon gress. In which there was a republican ma jority of twenty-three in the house and twenty-eight in the senate. The Forty fifth congress, after the census of IS80, added thirty-two members to the house. In that congress there was a republican ma jority In the house of twenty-three and In the senate of two. That reapportionment was made after the Forty-sixth congress had been elected, -In which there was a democratic majority In the house of twenty-three. The Fifty-first congress mado the reapportionment following the census of 1880, adding thirty-one members to the house. That congress had a republican majority of eight in the house and In the senate tho same number. That reappor tionment also waa made in the short ses sion of congress after the Fifty-second congress had been elected, the house being returned with the enormous democratlo majority of 127, the largest majority ever held by any party In congress. The lost apportionment also waa made during the last session of the Fifty-sixth congress. In that congress there was a republican majority in the bouse of twenty-two and In the senate of fourteen. The succeeding congress already had been elected, but in this case the republican majority In both houses had been Increased. In fact, the republican majority never has been so small as twenty-two since that time. One of tha reasons why the republicans have had such a comfortably safe margin In the house ever since the last apportion ment Is that after the increase of the house from 3rd to 386 members the state legisla tures proceeded to redistrlct the states. In all of the eastern, central and western states the legislatures sitting in 1901 were republican. They drew the district lines with the Intention and purpose of making it as difficult as possible for the democrats to elect members of congress. In the south ern states the legislatures were democratic and. In those states where there is any real republican party, similar efforts were mada to hold down the republican represen tation. In U91, although the reapportionment waa made by a republican congress in its ex piring hours, the gerrymander! were In the hands of democratic legislatures which had been captured from the republicans In the great democratlo landslide which followed the enactment of the McKInlcy tariff bill In 1890. A democratic legislature in jVflchi- Types We Meet Every Day BY BABBIE BABBLE. Says Trivia In the grand stand, "Hay, I'll tell you Just which horso to play, That brown one with the pretty head, He's so well groomed and so well fed. Besides, his Jockey looks so good, I'm sure he'd win out If he could. His eye are such a lovely blue; Yea, and I Ilka his colors, toot "I don't half like that yellow horse Such a poor color, though of course i I Judge by mora than that 'Tie said A horse wins sometimes by a head. -And, as his head Is short, you see How very slim his chanoe must be. My Jocket with the eyes of blue Looks good to ne; pleasi back him, do! . ... ... i "I'm all excited; It's so sweet To be here for the first spring meet. Don't look suprised, but let me say I'm soc-lng my first race today, I know I've got a lot to learn, But Just the same I hope to earn A pot of money yea, don't you? And learn about the racing, too? "I really wish I could afford ' To play my horse across the board. But I Suppose tt costs a heap. I'm quite keyed up that I can't keep Quiet until they all begin.. What's that? You think your horse will win On three legs? Oh, how cruslf Do Kin that year erected a, district which re Botubltd tho hub and spokes of a wagon wheel. It Was one of the most curious gerrymanders In history, but It resulted la Sending several democrats to congress from what had been a roek-rlbbed republican state, and It also gave part of the elec toral vote of Michigan to Cleveland In lstf. New York, Indiana and other whilom doubtful states wore carefully gerrymand ered by tho democrats with the result that' the Kifty-thlrd congress showed a demo cratlo majority in both houses, for the first. last and only tlmo since the civil war. Tho split In the democratlo party on th money question resulted In sweeping re publican victories In 1W4 and IK. In 1SW the democrats mado considerable galiu, al though most of the democratic gerrymand ers had been abolished and new maps had been drawn by republican draughtsman. Then came tho last apportionment, the sub-, sequent gerrymanders by republican lugls laturee und five successful republican con gressional campaigns. If tho democrats should win In the con gressional elections lu November the re apportionment will be made by tho present congress, but tho gerrymandering will be done by legislatures fet to be elected. If the elections this fall should turn such states as Indiana, Ohio, Kansas, Nebraska, and West Virginia over to democratlo leg islative control those atates might bo so gerrymandered that the republicans would lose, under ordinary conditions, fifteen members, representing on division a in duction of thirty in the majority. If thero should be a great domocratlo landslide and the democrats wore to gain control of the legislatures of such states aa New York, .New Jersey, Illinois and Iowa the map makers oould assure a further republican loss of fifteen members. In other words, If the democrats should win legislative control of as many as half a dosen northern and central states in the November election they would be em powered, on account of the reapportion ment, to make It almost impossible for the republicans to regain control of the house. Only once since the campaign of 1896 have the republicans had a majority in the house of representatives, which could not have been wiped out had the gerrymandering been done by democrats instead of repub licans. As it seems probable that the south will make greater comparative gain under the new census than any other amo tion, the possibilities of a democratlo ger rymander are even more important Paradoxical as it may seem, It is a truth, that the gerrymander of a state by the minority party, accidentally In control, provides the only adequate means of a fair division of representation between the ma jority and minority. For instance, there are approximately a halt million demo cratlo votera in Pennsylvania who aro out voted by three quarters of a million re publicans. Although there la a republican majority In the state of a quarter of a mil lion, only 60 per cent of the votes cast are republicans. In the present house of rep resentatives Pennsylvania baa thirty-two members, only five of whom are democrats. The state is, of course, gerrymandered by the republicans, and It may be said that the Job haa been most artistically exe cuted. If the democrats, by some miracle, were to gain control of the next legisla ture In Pennsylvania they would gerry mander the state so that, assuming a gain of six members, the republicans would have twenty-four and the democrats six teen representatives. This would give the voters of both partiea representation In congress in approximately the ratio of the vote cast In the state. The same thing Is true in Tennessee, where the republicans have 46 per cent of the votes and only two out of ten, or 20 per cent of the repre sentation in congress. Thore have been few times in the his tory of the nation when the political com plexion of the lower house of congress could not have been changed by the elm pie device of the gerrymanders. As It is now the gerrymanders are fearfully and won derfully made Arkansas haa a district shaped like a pistol; Mr. Prlnoe of the Fif teenth Illinois district represents a shoe string; Mr. Pickett of the Third Iowa dis trict represents a monkey-wrench with Its Jaws open; Mr. Hamlin of the Seventh Mis souri district Uvea In one end of a sledge hammer which rests upon the end of another sledge hammer represented by Mr. Crow of the Fourteenth district In states like Tennessee and Kentucky the district lines on the map do not present such weird formations, but the republican dis tricts In the eastern part of those states have a great many more people In them than the democratlo districts further west. Both parties are perfectly willing to make the most of the possibility of the gerry mander, and the legislatures to be elected this fall probably will have it- In tholr power to say which of the two parties shall control the house of representatives dur ing the second decade of the twentieth) century. By raiTDzrmio j. kabkibt. Tomorrow The Slovak Union. The Girl at the Itaces. Let him run with his fourth leg, too! "They're at the start! They're off Hoorayl That waa a first getaway. I only see a cloud of dust Will Blue Eyes win? He mustl He mustt They're at the half! They're In the stretch! That yellow horse has won the wretch! That's the last time I'll back the blue; I think It's hateful now don't you?" (Copyright, 1910. by the N. T. Herald Co.) Musings of a Gentle Cynic. Flattery Is merely praise of other people, . If you don't put In a good word for some people they feel put out. All the world's a stage, on which every prominent character hua a thousand under studies. It's easy enough to make up your mind what you would do If you were some other fellow. The man who pins his faith to a woman should use a safety pin unless h expects to get scratched. Time Is money. In fact, In the matter of healing a broken heart, time will do almost aa well as money. When a girl jilts one man and trarrles another, the one who was Jilted generally gets over It soonest. New York Times.