TIIE DEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, FEBKUATiT 7, 1911.
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JANUARY CIRCULATION.
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The ix-e I'ublismng company, being duly
sworn, eays that the average 'T
culatlon. less spoiled, unused and r-ur
copies, tor Uie month of January. 1911.
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mailed to then.. Addreaa will he
rhanard na often aa requested.
And there it plenty more where that
now came from.
Jefferson City's experience may be
repeated in Lincoln.
The Nebraska legislature baa been
bung ui on that hatpin bill.
Chamo Clark insists the world 1
getting bftter. But suppose the elec
tlon had gone the other way.
Austin, Tex., has pased a pure
paint ordinance. Does that include
unadulterated whitewash, too?
A meteor weighing fifty tons re
cently fell In Mexico. Perhaps that Is
what stimulated the insurrection.
The old one about' blood being
thicker lhnn water of course could not
have referred to the Missouri river.
We desire, for one, to state that
Ulue-Kyed Billy SheehBn did not sur
prise us a bit by deciding to stay in
in the race.
This fight between the - wets and
drys is getting fierce when a whole
Finland village la picked up and car
ried out to acai.;' . . -
The senate pages playing at law
making reminds ua that the " third"
house no longer exists In Nebraska.
This certainly Is progresV
six more yeais of Lodge! Isn't the pa
Hem e of the American people remarkable?
CliarleHlown News and Courier.
It is to be sure. See how they have
stood for Ben Ityan Tillman.
The bride was attractively attired In a
brldul veil, carrying a bouquet of bride's
rosea. Altoona (III.) Record.
That is certainly a novel wedding
attire, especially in the winter time.
It was very thoughtless of those'
ponVal banks to go to making good
from the very start and thus take all
the tuck out of the arguments of the
adversaries
Senator Beverldge's admission that
many of the reforms of the present
day had their beginning many years
ugo will not be kindly received in
certain quarters.
Would a carefully addressed letter
to "Governor Foks. Boston, Mass,"
reach him? The country desires to
kuow whether this man has lost his
voice.
The Deliver Republican recalls that
during the last three months a bank
burglary has been commuted In Kau
Hits every three days. What'a the
uiatter with Kansas.
The hold-up man who robbed a
fashionable Chicago restaurant may
hae been entirely wrong, but he will
iave some support at least from those
who have supped after the theater in
Chicago.
When
riusi go
the fact
Mr. Edison said
he probably had overlooked
that the German army in
time of pence requires 110.000 head
of horses Just suppose war should
break out.
Thoso San Francisco folks must
want the earth Not content with land
ing the Panama exposition, one of its
Co mi n I ue residents come along with a
a claim of $3u0. 000,00 worth of Bal
timore real estate.
Mr. Wappich points out one of the
weak places in our social organization.
It Is ni l entirely to the credit of our
civilization that we have no placet
whore patients who are victims of
senile dementia, or similar afflictions,
can be properly cared for. There is
room'for a little more reform.
The fact that the platform of the
Lincoln business men suits neither of
the factions that have rent the capital
city for several years is a strong point
in Its favor. Any effort to please the
extremists on either side would lead
direct to failure. The middle course
lu such rases is usually the wine one.
Could Avoid Extra Seiiion.
Assuming that an extra session of
congress would be required If all or
most of the Important legislation
pending were not completed by March
4, It could be avoided without any re
markable effort. Congress still has
time to do the work that needs to be
done before the day of adjournment
and there Is no good reason why it
should not quit all filibustering and I
dilatory tactics and get down to bus-j
inesa. It should be able to accomplish
more in the remaining part of a
month than It has accomplished from
the first part of December to the
present. So much business of prime
importance confronts the-lawmakers
that It will be a serious mistake from
any standpoint not to make the most
of each remaining day. The country
may not be In a humor to Justify an
extra session, granting that one will
be called in the event of congress's
failure to do what the president ex
pects of it at the regular ' session.
What the president's Intention is,
however, cannot now be determined,
for he has chosen to keep that secret
to himself. Of course, it is bis desire
that no necessity for an extra session
should arise but what he will do in
an emergency Is not known.
Desirable, though, as is the comple
tion of most of the business now be
fore congress, there is much room for
the fear that the program will not be
fulfilled. There Is entirely too much
filibustering and friction. Certain in
terests apparently are dead set against
uninterrupted transaction of business,
and many democratic leaders are to
be found in this faction. The game
of politics is absorbing too much time
and attention to give a free rein to
business. Democrats and others who
have nothing to gain by a general re
vival of tariff legislation may, in the
end, find that they had played a los
ing game to force an extra session, for
it may serve to provoke a popular de
mand for sweeping revision which
would promise no aid to the political
fortunes of the new majority in the
house. If politics is to be the impell
ing motive of the democrats, then it
would seem that the longer they could
put off tinkering with the tariff the
better. Some of he leading demo
cratic papers are agitating an extra
session for the very purpose of tariff
revision and if one were called they,
with additional forces, would undoubt
edly compel action, and, with houses
of opposing political majorities, it is
extremely doubtful If satisfactory re
sults would be accomplished.
A Valuable Snow.
Many of the great agricultural
states have been vastly benefited by a
very heavy coating of aleet and snow
and, if the weather bureau haa prop
erly read the algna for the week, these
benefits are to be extended and en
larged still further. The country was
very much in need of . moisture, la
which there bad been a radical defi
ciency. But it might be observed that
this section usually gets the moisture
it needs, in winter or summer, before
It is too late. Our "blue" prophets,
to be sure, had begun to send out their
dark predictions when the dry, open
season Was so greatly prolonged, but
now most of them will doubtless be
willing to hedge a little and admit that
the hope of a winter wheat crop is not
altogether lost. The fact is the Lord
haa a way of looking out for these
things and It ia quite a foolish habit
to give up hope and lose faith. By
experience we have found that little
w ran do will affect meteorological
conditions.
People will do well to prepare for
sharp and sudden changes In tempera
ture this week, according to forecasts.
It seems the weather man has picked
out this week to make up for what he
has failed to give us sooner. He has
idled away a lot of good time this win
ter, but yet haa ample time left In
which to- make good, and here is hop
ing he will. Everybody is happy thus
far, except, perhaps, the man who
lives on the corner and haa 50x150
wide cement walk to clean, but for the
good of the majority we may even
waive his claim to a kick and proceed
with the program.
The Country Getting Better.
Champ Clark told the Young Men's
Christian association at Springfield,
Mass., Sunday that the country was
getting better. If it were not, be said
our boasted systems of education and
religion were both failures, and he did
not believe either was. He lived
many instancea of physical improve-
I ment to support his theory and pre
.senteu a very optliultlc and yet tne ure8ent legislature should not neg
the horse . nlauaible view of conditions tndav til,... . ..-
compared with previous times.
Mr. Clark, In a general way, took
different attitude toward our moral
status than that taken by Prof. Ed -
ward Alsworth ROSS In his book 011
"Latter Day Saints and Sinners," in
which he concedes that so far aa what
he terms invasive wrongs are con
cerned, that Is forms of violent
crimes or offense, the country is grow-
jing better, but declares "We cannot
; niaki laws fast enough to keep up
Iwlth the multiplying forms of imposi
I lions." Prof. Ross sees "The carnival
! of graft, corruption, fraud and mo
nopoly extortion" on the Increase in
this country, admitting this form of
I wrong is practiced now because it pays
and the invasive klud does not. And
jhft declares "For all the risk he runs
the average professional burglar
makes less than $2,500 a year and
alongside the golden prices of
crooked business or devious finance
the reward of his enterprise Is truly
pitiful."
The Clark picture, we believe, is
much more true to life. Trof. Ruu
seems to have painted his against too
dark a background. Crooked business
and de-Ions politics have grown up
In late years perhaps, to greater pro
portions thanthcy attained In former
years and they are not extinct, but by
the grace of an aroused public con
science and a determined popular will
they have been forced from the ag
gressive to the defensive. They are
not outrunning the laws for their re-
pression. State and national author!-
ties are seriously grappling with all
these forms of Imposition, exerting pa
tient and honest and Intelligent ef
fort to thwart and defeat them and
meeting with splendid results.
In the realm of politics and gov
ernment this Is true; In the realm of
business It Is true; In the broad realm
of humanitarlanlsm, embracing Its
varied forms of charitable, educa
tional and philanthropic work, thia is
true. The fact Is that this country Is
giving greater heed to that centuries
old question. "Am 1 my brother's
keeper," today tbau the world has
ever given it and on that hangs the
issue. - Moral, intellectual, material
and spiritual forces have combined for
the uplift of humanity and they are
succeeding, not falling. But the evils
they are combatting were not born in
a day, so they cannot be destroyed in
a night. Out the mere fact that these
multifarious agencies of betterment
exist and are at work ia, of itself,
proof of some Improvement.
Postal Bank Make Good.
Advocates of the postal banka
urged as one chief argument In their
favor that they would tend to check
the flow of money from Kuropean
Americans back to their native coun
tries and divert it into local govern
ment depositories. At the end of the
first month of the experiment we Xind
this arguments sustained by the rec
ords of the banks. A large majority
of the depositors in January were for
eign-born residents, many of whom
have been accustomed to send their
savings back to Europe. This alone
tends vastly to Justify the enactment
of the postal deposits measure, for it
la a very important thing to reduce
the outflow of this money.
It waa natural that our European
Americans should take the lead in
patronizing these banks, for, as has
been repeatedly urged during the de
bate on the measures, in and out of
congress, many of them came from
countries where such Institutions are
maintained, and had acquired the
habit of patronizing them. They were
evidently only awaiting the opportun
ity to deposit their earnings In thia
country. Their examples of frugality
and saving will be very helpful and
valuable to our own people, who, aa a
class, have never learned thia lesson
as thoroughly as have the people from
many European nations. The moral
effect, then, will of Itself be worthy.
The postmaster general submits fig
ures to prove that at the end of the"!
first month's trial, theae banks have
proved successful; they have made
good. The principle, then, la estab
lished. Now it remains to develop it
by providing for as many banks as we
conveniently can. It is to be hoped
congress - may see its way clear to
grant the additional appropriation of
$1,000,000, which the postmaster
general asks for immediate use in ex
tending the postal savings system to
a large number of postof flees, whose
patrons are clamoring for it. There
la no good reason why the system
should not be rapidly extended and
we need to extend It to keep faith with
ourselves, for It was the understand
ing that if the project as tested by
these first forty-eight banks over the
country proved successful, it should
be put into general operation as fast
as circumstances warranted.
Do it Now.
The destruction of the Missouri cap
ltol by fire ought to be a plain warn
lng to the Nebraska legislators. For
a great many years the Nebraska state
house has stood in a most dangerous
condition. Several times it has threat
ened to tumble down, and always it
has been open to attack from fire that
could scarcely be combatted with suc
cess once it got under headway. Ar
chives of the state of Inestimable value
are housed In this unworthy structure.
Legislature after legislature has as
sembled there and fully realized the
precarious situation of the state's
property and records, but has ad
journed without taking the needed ac
tion. Each day makes the demand
more imperative. Regardless of any
movement to secure the erection of a
building for any purpose whatever,
I ifi i, a i it-urn., iu tane me ireuuiiuary
steps to provide Nebraska with a state
i house wherein the nroDertv anrl rec.
j ord8 of the state may be properly
. housed and cared for, and wherein the
. lppl.utnra miv assemhl tr. nerfnrm
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their duty without placing themselves
In hourly Jeopardy.
When the legislative committee re
turns to Omaha it ought to have a
iniore definite plan of action and get
right dewn to brass tacks. Enough
time has been wasted in pursuing gen
eralities aud if the inquiry is in
earnest it should take up some of the
specific Instances of alleged frauds
and deal with them definitely.
A week devoted to oratory by the
legislature may prove a good thing.
If it will only clear away the pent-up
eloquence left over from the last cam
paign and theu give the law-malvrs
a chance to go to work it will be time
well spent.
A principal of a St. Louis public
achool has been acquitted In court on
a charge of whipping boys with a rub-
ber hose. Huh, that's a snap as com
pared with the old rattan across the
hands, as was the official mode in
years gone by In St. Louts. The boys
of those days would have been tickled
o death to be favced with a rubber
hose chastisement, if that meant re
lief from the rattan.
A Council Bluff woman calls our
attention to what the Propnet maian
bad to say concerning the hobble
skirt. But as Isaiah waa a real
prophet, his accuracy in this matter is
not to be marveled at.
Reports that $250 000,000 of the
made" land in Chicago bad been Ille
gally appropriated by Individuals and
corporations suggests that all the
land-grabbing has not been done on
the western plains.
The Champ Clark presidential boom li
dlapoied to ge ahead without waiting for
the Nebraska endorsement Washington
Star.
It Is the general belief that i this
boom was not fairly launched until It
d the Nebraska endorsement.
Ti
brewd for That.
Boston Herald.
Senator Brown of Nebraska arguea that
Penator I.orlnier's alleged Hiving to the
members of the Illinois legislature could
not have been of the scriptural kind of
wMch It was said, "let not thy left hand
know what tliy right hand doeth."
Doable Trxrki e'ollotr fluelnea.
Ban Francisco Chronicle.
President Loelt of the Southern and
Union Pacific was particular to assert his
neutrality while the exposition flKht was
on, but when it came to a question of
double tracking parts of those roada he
picked out the line running the way of the
most business.
An Admirable Precedent.
New Tork 8un.
The house of representatives has taken
the view that there Is plenty of land In
Virginia and Maryland available for the
Dlatrlct of Columbia reformatory, and yet
not remote from Washington, without en
croaching upon the Mount Vernon neigh
borhood. A precedent has been established
for the protection of the most cherished
of American shrines.
llarhlnaer of Aetlvlty.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
The news report that the Harriman lines
have completed arrangements for the ex
penditure of 175.000,000 In extensions and
betterments promises the revival of de
mand for railroad supplies and equipments
and Is a harbinger of renewed activity.
Coming, aa It does, before the rate decis
ions. It also carries Its own comment on
the recent raHrcad doctrine that If they
could not get advanced rates they would
have to sit down and let their properties
go to wreck to spite the public.
Reciprocity a Share Teal.
New York Post.
The president ba put his party in con
gress to a sharp test. It has been talking
of Its desire to do something for the con
sumer and to ease the pinch of tariff
taxea. Mr. Taft haa now forced It to
show whether this was more than arrant
hypocrisy. In his attempt to compel the
republican protectionists to show their
hand, he ought to ba aided by the demo
crats, who ahouTd losa no opportunity to
press the trade agreement In congress by
every parliamentary means at their com
mand. ....
.NOTABI.K RAILROAD EXPANSION
Doable-Tracking; the Overlaad Roale
to the Coast.
New York World.
The decision of the directors of the Union
and Southern Paclflo railroads to spend
$75,000,000 In double-tracking the line from
the Missouri river to the Pacific ocean
given an Idea of the magniture of modern
railway construcUon. Within a few years
two new transcontinental lines have been
opened. Increasing to eight the number
that have developed from the first single
track road which was laboriously pushed
across the Rockies less than half a century
ago. Now the announcement Is made of
the construction pf more than the equiva
lent of this to accommodate trafflo de
mands and ii t mere Incident of railway
expansion.
The double-tracking of the Harriman
roads ia railroad development of a wholly
legitimate kind. ' It Involves no gambling
In the securities of competing lines and of
fers no occasion for federal Interference.
On the contrary, ft Invites public approval
of the management under which It has.
been Initiated. The confidence In the fu
ture which this great construction Tvork
Implies should have a good effect on gen
eral business conditions. Trafflo develop
ment on the Paclflo lines has more than
justified the most sanguine expectations
In the past, and there is no reason to be
lieve that the preparations for .Its further
growth have been made too soon.
People Talked About
Dramatic critics down east deftly insinu
ate that a hen cannot masquerade success
fully as a rooster.
In a ple-eatlng contest at Bloomfleld, N.
J., Oscar Rees, the winner, ate his pie In
three minutes. - The hands of the contest
ants were fastened behind them with
straps.
Music at the Altanta federal prison Is to
charm the wicked back to the paths of
righteousness. Care must be taken not to
let in any of the music that may have
helped to put them where they are. ,
Last fall Missourlans insisted on being
ahown the need of a new capltol and voted
down a proportion to spend 15.0u0.0iiu on a
suitable building-. Lightning and fire fur
nished the exhibit by wiping out the old
building. The latter has the best of the
argument.
Bert Hand of Garfield, Kan., who fur
twenty-two years has, suppoxed that his
name was liert Portius and that he lived
with his parents, In the happiest man In
Warsaw. He has Just l.-arned his real
name, found out wlioNhls parents wore and
met his mother and one siner, both if
whom live (n Warsaw. Ind.
Horace Gteeley's centenary did not get I original term but they oil aurerd that tlo
by without reviving bis famous notice I time hail come to remove all truce of c-n-
Clearly as he could, lie wrote. "No Ad
mittance. Kntrance on Other Street." and
was surprised next morning to see the
Tribune building adorned with a placard
that read. In capitals arranged by the prin
ters as faithfully as they could. "No Ad
mittance. Kditors on Another .-ipree."
Mrs. Bertha O. Lindsey of Cincinnati, O..
has filed a petition In the Insolvency court
declaring her Inability to meet her debts,
and Attorney Cheater - Merrill was ap
pointed ber receiver. In the petition Mrs
Llndsey declares herself as a "housewife '
it la the first time In many years, accord
ing to courthouse attaches, that a house
wife has needed the aid of the couiis be
cause of ber struggle for a livir
Army Gossip
Matters of Tnterest on and Back
of the rirtsg- Line Gleaned tram
the Army and Wavy Beglster.
Now that the signal corps officials feel
assured that the appropriation of ll-i.o
for aeroplanes approved by the house will
also be approved by the senate, plans art
being made for conducting the aeronautical
work under this approprllian. Aerodromes
alii be established near Washington. San
Antonio and Fort 1-eavenw on h nexi sum
mer, and In southern California next win
ter. As soon as the appropriation bill be
comes a law, contracts will be placed for
delivery of aeroplanes on or after July next.
They cannot be acquired before that time,
as the money does not become available
until the beginning of the next fiscal year.
The signal corps is also preparing to en
gage In balloon work next summer, when
the equipment at Fort Omaha, Neb., will
ma employed. Here are situated a hydro
gen gua plant, a dlrlgllile balloon, and bal
loons of S.000 and 2R.UM) cubic feet capacity
using hydrogen gas. and No. H). which was
used some time ago for flights from Wash
ington and w hich requires 75 " cubic fi-et
of coal gas to Inflate it. Instruct Ion Mill be
given In b th free and CHptlve balloon
flights. The dirigibles will probably not be
used, as it requires a riew engine, the ex
pense of which Is believed not to be Jimtl
fied. An unusual sequel In the com t-msrtlal
case of Colonel O. K. Cooke. I'. S. A., re
tired, will serve to reduce the officer's
official Income to Jfc.l'o a month for the
next four year, to be followed by six
years when his pay will be at the rate of
1156.25 a month. The president has finally
acted on the court-martial case of Colonel
Cooke, who some months ago was con
fronted with charges alleging failure to
properly care for government funds to the
amount of WO.oOO and the use of govern
ment facilities in the transportation of pri
vate property while on duty In Alaska. The
sentence of the court was dtsmled, and
the president modified this to forfeiture of
one-hulf of his retired colonel's pay for the
next ten years. The friends of Colonel
Cooke made much of the fact, which was
broughl before the court and set aside,
that these charges were In the t-sseesion
of the War department while the accused
oflcer waa a lieutenant colonel of the
Twenty-second Infantry, and that his re
tirement at his own request waa delayed
by the military authorities until he should
attain the rank of colonel. The president
mad this the reason for modifying sen
tence. An Important Investigation will be un
dertaken at the instance of the commissary
general of the army concerning the keep
ing qualities of the new emergency ration,
sample of which have been in storage in
this country and In the Philippines for two
years. This was the ration which was
lately- tried out by the officers on the text
rides and met with much favor, although
there has been opposition to it on the
ground that the military service does not
need an emergency ration of any sort. The
facilities of the army medical department
and Dr. Wiley's establishment in the Agri
cultural departmenl will be availed of to
ascertain the keeping qualities of this ra
tion. There Is reason for the assumption
that, if the ration as at present composed
has jiot deteriorated while stored, espe
cially in the Philippines, Its nutritive qual
ities will be preserved Indefinitely. It was
Intended originally to have this analysis
at the end of . four ears, but perhaps
enough will b known as a result of the
forthcoming investigation to satisfy the
authorities that the ration is sufficiently
enduring to meet all the conditions of the
service. So far aa is now known, the emer
gency ration will have all the characteris
tics required of it. The fact that It la a
commercial article, easily obtainable In
large quantities in the market, will make
It unnecessary to carry a great stock of It
In anticipation of an emergency, as would
be the case It it had to be specially made
for military use.
The War department haa received so
far claims amounting to $14,000 for damages
sustained to the clothing and equipment
of the enlisted men of the troops which
took part In the suppression xf forest
fires last year In the northwest. The ser
vice rendered on that occasion haa been
the subject of commendation, and It re
mains for the War department to take
steps toward the ra-lmbursement of the
troops for the damage sustained. No ac
tion will ba taken, however, until all the
claims have been received and the request
has been sent out to department command
ers to furnish the remaining, accounts.
The complete Information will not be in
possession of the War department in
time for legislation at this session. It la
expected the total amount of damages will
attain the sum of J),000. The troops in
terested In this reimbursement are those
of the First cavalry, First infantry, Twenty
fifth Infantry. Second Infantry, Fourteenth
infantry. Fourth cavalry, coast artillery,
and hospital corps. Tha service rendered
was of an arduous and perilous sort, and
the troops encountered great discomforts
and many difficulties. In Montana the
temperature fell below freezing during the
latter part of August and resulted In muca
suffering on the part of the troops. The
flrea at Yakima, Wash., were In such an
Inaccessible region that It was found to be
necessary to employ mounted troops there,
and those troops were dependent entirely
upon pack trains for their supplies.
The matter of abandoning the Meyer code
and substituting for it the Morse code is
still under consideration. If any change
Is made In the code at present In use, it is
desired to make It throughout the military
and naval services. The questions Involved
have been referred to the Joint army and
navy board for consideration. It is possi
ble that a Joint board will be convened to
consider this question alone, in order that
there may be adopted a code of communi
cation which shall be uniform throughout
the I'nlted States service.
HerOKiilllon of "tiuod Feeling"
Philadelphia Ijedger.
An Interesting Incident of the debate
upon the Judicial code ,n the house of rep
resentative was the unanimous atfreem.nt
to strike out a reference to "the war for
the suppression of th" rebellion" and nib
Hitue "the civil wur." There was some
good humored discussion between a few
old soiuiers as lo on- accuracy oi ine
troversy. and" though the il stlurtio'i has
now become academic, the word "rebel
lion" has gone from the statute book in
recognition of ' t!o d fei l.ns"
re luvta Wimic-n o (heapf
Halllmuie American.
The women of the country will be wrothv
over a bill inti iduced In the Iowa legis
lature which limits the value in damages
fur the loss of a woman, killed by the
negligence or wrongdoing of any person or
corporation, to STi.iM), whet hi r she be
mother or wife. They will argue that if
women are so cheap In Iowa, the men. es
pecially (hose wh.i make the laws, nm.i
be even cheapr.
BEREFT OF MARTYRS CROWN.
N- York World t lcfiiMlim to s.lit
dlsnitv to a rrocterllnB nhich never nhouM
have hern brought ex' ept In recognition of
a trifling mlademi anor. Mr Taft Rtnln re
Vt-al 1-lom and (onirtue vl. ich will prove
valuable In much tu-.f-e Itnporuint af falls.
Brooklyn Kaale In Ms memorandum the
president shows the keinnec'i of a lawyer
that rllf ferrnl lutes him from most of the
men who have iniipled the White 1 tonne
In the psi. His tellnnce on public senti
ment In frown ilown wild accusations and
mock heroics Is thoroughly American. 't
is a ielli;ie without which stern Judicial
prosecutions would be at once linpt acticfthle
and Impotent: without which most of us
would despair of the future of the press In
America.
Boston Tisnscropf The president s sc.
tlon In commuting the sentence of Krcd H
Warren of Kansas, editor of "The Appenl
to Reason. " is one of the wisest and most
sensible steps that he has taken, accom
panied as the commutation was with a
statement of his reasons which will appeul
to all reasonable persons There Is no
doubt, as President Taft says, that putting
Warren In prison would make the defend
ant conspicuous and feed his vanity b
treHtlng Mm seriously "when his violence,
his exaggerations, bis wild accusations ami
his mock heroics ought to be treated with
ridicule." The belief that Mr. Warreji went
Into this affair largely for the purpose of
making a sensation is the one which has
generally been sustained by the public.
TUB I.M'OMK T .
I'roarran of Ihe Anienilmeut Thruuah
Alale l.eatsln tares.
Chicago Post.
One of the curiosities of our federal pro
ledure In-the eternal vitality of a proposed
constitutional amendment. It haa a lot of
time. If not eternity, on Its side.. Last
year New York rejected the Income tax
amendment. Hut that rejection was not
final. No rejection Is final until all Hre
counted whereas an acceptance Is final
and definitely commits the slate.
So the fact thai New York turned down
the Income tax amendment last year Is
no bar to Us Indorsement this year. With
the democrats In control such Indorsement
seems not Improbable. This Is an Illus
tration of what Is likely to happen In sev
eral of the states since the democratic
landslide. Massachusetts. for example,
where the majority against the ratification
of the Income tax amendment last year
was very small, seems almost certain to
reverse Its procedure this year owing to
the very considerable Increase In the dem
ocratic strength in the legislature.
These shifts, therefore, complicate some
what the question as to the fate of the
amendment. In lw-9 Alabama ratified the
amendment. In 1910 eight more states fol
lowedGeorgia. Illinois, Kentucky, Mary
land, Mississippi. Oklahoma. South Caro
lina and Texas while of the five that re
jected it Louisiana, Massachusetts. Mew
York, Rhode Island and Virginia two, as
we have seen, are not unlikely to reverse
themselves. Last week three mor states
voted on the amendment Vermont In the
negative and Kansas and Ohio in the af
firmative, making eleven for ratification and
six against.
' When Arizona and New Mexico are ad
mitted to the union the number necessary
to carry the amendment will be thirty-six
and the number necessary to kill It thir
teen. Of the five ant la of 1910 three seem
likely to stick; there Is one more antl al
ready on record for 1911 and the forecasters
predict, hostility from seven more Connec
ticut, New Hampshire, Delaware, Pennsyl
vania, New Jersey, West Virginia and
Utah. Three, one and seven make eleven.
Where will the extra two come from?
Whether they can be mustered up or not
present year.
CHEERY CHAFF.
"Did the Motorflends buy the new house
they contemplated?"
"No. in fact, they traded their old home
off for alx fur coats." Life.
Bill You say that man's an artist?
Jill That's what I said.
Hill What kind of an artist?
Jill He makes cuts.
Bill In a newspaper office or a barber
shop? Yonkers Statesman.
Jeweler What shall I engrave In it?
Customer O. O. to H. L.
Jeweler What's that sir?
Customer (meeklyl. George Oeborne to
Harriet Lewis; but Just the Initials please.
Llpplncott's Magaslne.
"I, sir." remarked the Indignant cltlsen,
"am a taxpayer."
"Well," replied the political boss, "you
have me to thank. You wouldn't be nearly
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How long waa Pat slrk, Mrs
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"All the publlsheis In the country have
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"Cheer up. Think what k laugh we va
Kol on the fellow you stole the music
from!" Toledo Hlade,
"Mrs Hrown. Mrs Drown, come o"'ck!
Master ileorse was foolln' with a revolier
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"Is It one of the maids?" -
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"The cook? Mercy! I can never forgive
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"There's a difference In children."
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PUT TO FLIGHT.
J. Mortimer Lewis In Houston Post.
I was down Hnd out and worried,
1 was Jostled by the throng.
Life was grinding, life was hurried,
l,ife was beltiK swept along
From a task done to another
That awaited to ba done:
Mists ot doubt arose to smother
All the glory of the sun.
Rose to smother all the blueness
And to darken all the skies.
All life's sweetness, all life's triteness,
All life's beauty In my eyes.
I was old and was grown weary,
And my hair was growing gray;
All the outlook bleak and eerie
Stretched unendingly away.
And the chains of habit bound me.
Howed my bead and crushed my heart.
Age was winding fetters 'round me,
And I felt the tear-drops start:
Nothing at all seemed worth doing.
Life was sordid St Its best.
Just a weary stretch of ruing.
Oh, to Jui lie down and rest!
I was weary of the tolling
For a bitter crust to eat.
1 was weary of the moiling.
And tho world had lost Its sweet;
1 was groping 'round mo blindly,
I was aching neath the gaff.
All my thouphts were mean, unkindly,
Then-r-I heard a baby laugh!
And my gloominess went swinging
With a chuckle out of alght.
And the world was full of singing
And the duy was filled with light.
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'rij-uPLu-i.n -in - ii - ,
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the medlcai fraternity. It Is an almost In
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other Ingredients and taken properly. Mix
as follows: "Two ounces of Glycerine and
nair an ounce or inni-eiumipn rina rroin-
pound. Put these Into a half a pint of
good whiskey. Shake well and take one o y
two teanpoonfuls after each meal and at v
bed time." Smaller doses to children ac
cording to age. This treatment - often,
knocks the worst cough or cold In a day.
But be sure to get only the genuine
(Olobel Concentrated Pine. Kacti half
ounce bottle comes in a sealed tin screw-top
case. If the druggist dues not have It In
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