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Spring has sprung-dent.
-that's very evl-
The back yard way be entitled to a
little attention, too.
To the legislature,'; Here's
hat; what's your hurry?
your
At any rate, Governor Aldrlch la
not afraid to use the veto pen.
The Rio Grande eeems to be flow
ing along in the same old channel.
Why call It an "early" spring, when
it arrives on the dot of schedule time?
Why Food Iricei SUy Up.
A decline In the wholesale prices of
food staples from 16 to 40 rer cent
has been recorded in the last year and.
yet no corresponding decreases are
felt by the consumer who buys at
retail. Why? There are many sides to
the answer. The common theory for
high prices Is the trust, but In this
case that explains but little, for the
trust deals with wholesale prices, not
retail, unices It be, as Is often claimed,
that some retail merchants are In
combines.
Some commodities, like eggs and
butter, have come down In retail price,
but not proportionate to the decline
that has taken place in the wholesale
markets. Flour, for Instance, has
fallen 38 per cent In wholesale price
In the last year and yet only about
C'4 per cent on an average In retail
price. Many other similar examples
could be cited. Of course, retailers
In many cases contend that when
prloes were at the maximum they had
to sell on too narrow & ' margin of
profit and that therefore they are
only now getting an opportunity to
play even. But that is not a fully sat
isfactory explanation.
Yet the retailer Is not wholly to
blame. The consumer must share the
responsibility for keeping prices up.
He has grown accustomed to a high
standard of living; he demands the
best the market affords and the house
wife usually gets It by the best and
most expeditious means of delivery.
This all costs extra. The food articles
are put up In costly packages. They
are ordered by the housekeeper, who
does not see them until they are
placed in her home. She has not
tried to drive a bargain on any article
bought. She has simply called for
certain goods, probably without In
quiring the prlce.1 It la entirely un
like the system pursued by her mother
In former years, when the purchaser
usually took the pains to go from
store to store and really talk shop
with the merchant before buying.
But still we are living well. As a
rule every family buys the best, ac
cording to the limits of its resources,
and this has raised the scale of living
so that a new general level of living
cost must come out of the readjust
ment.
Why would not Attorney Brandeis
make a good president . for the Mis
souri Pacific?
Why should a telephone promoter
be expected to be consistent any more
than anyone else?
It looks as if Governor Dix had
cheated himself out of the New York
favorite son vote.
It Is to be noted that President
Dial's health began to improve with
the chances tit. war. , . .
If Nat Goodwin does not hurry and
marry some folks .will di f nervous
prostration waiting-. ' '"' "
As a nation. Dr.. Wiley tells us, we
overeat, oversleep and overdo. Is It
possible any of us overtalk?
Diaz might end this trouble by exer
cising his influence to land the job of
president of Honduras for Madero.
Still, it does not seem strange that
the old battleship Texas should sink
on the 'nineteenth volley from a fleet
of newer vessels.
ment for their own advantage which
they may be expected to use for all It is
worth. They will undoubtedly man-
sge to put through some redistrlcting
bills in the states where they are fr?e j
to do their own gerrymandering.
While this, of course, gives them no
strength they do not now have in the
electoral college. It does offer them
the means of doctoring many districts
to their own liking, with a view to
holding them in the next congres
sional tug-of-war.
Nonpartisan Fakirs.
Two years ago the democratic legis
lature, after running riot in passing
bills to take official patronage and ap
pointments away from republican
state officers and give them over into
the hands of a democratic governor,
Lturned longing eyes upon the supreme
court Judgeships. The democratic law
makers sought to drive an opening
wedge that would make way for cer
tain ambitious democratic lawyers by
passing a fake nonpartisan judiciary
bill. Nobody ever heard the demo
crats advocating this plan for a non
partisan bench when they controlled
the supreme court, but having nothing
to lose and everything to gain, they
suddenly became infected with non
partlsanshlp in its most virulent form.
It Is necessary to recite this prelude
In order to uncover the motive of the
renewed spasm of nonpartlsanshlp
which has now again made a so-called
nonpartisan Judiciary bill a demo
cratic caucus measure. After our
past experience In Nebraska with dem
ocratic fake nonpartlsanshlp it Is well
to look with suspicion on anything
that emanates from the democratic
camp bearing the nonpartisan label.
A nonpartisan measure proposed and
pushed by a nonpartisan body of law
yers or laymen, without political Irons
In the fire, might be entitled to consid
eration, but we do not believe It in
cumbent on republicans to help the
democrats play their game of politics
for political revenue only. '
Either Sully's reputation is a most
valuable thing or John Hays Ham
mond can hit a fearful blow to dam
age it $1,600,000. worth.
Negro Farmers in Canada.
The location in western Canada of
a colony of negroes from the southern
part of the United States undoubtedly
will become an object of much inter
est. The negro colonists have gone
prepared to engage in farming, with
a tralnload of household goods, and
they passed the examinations required
by the Dominion government to enter
Its portals. In good physical and fair
financial condition, they start with
every prospect of success.
This is quite an Innovation, for the
colored man is usually regarded as
more suited to warmer climates than
Canada has. If success follows the
venture, of this advance guard, prob
ably other contingents may follow. It
Is at least an interesting turn in mi
gration. It does not Beem, however,
at all necessary for the negroes of the
south to go so far to buy land and
settle down to farming. They have
excellent opportunities right in the
south, where just now so much is
being done to promote agriculture. Or
if they feel that they would be more
comfortable and prosperous elsewhere
the western states might interest
them and give them every advantage
accorded law abiding and Industrious
settlers.
If Mr. Bryan Is looking for a real
man's job, why has he not gone to
New York and "make the democratic
legislature elect a senator
The persistency- with which both
Mr. Bryan and Governor Harmon re
fuse to "stand aside" makes a terrible
collision almost Inevitable.
It Is a little late, but suppose Vice
President Roosevelt had been presid
ing over the senate during the closing
hours of the Lorlmer case.
Auto Standi.
If outward evidence Is to count, it
is up to the city authorities to take
action with reference to the use of the
streets for standing automobiles. At
various periods of the day now some
of our busiest downtown thorough
fares are almost blocked by standing
automobiles, and some of the taxicab
concerns have apparently pre-empted
Mere Speculation.
A report from the manager of the
Council Bluffs water works, intro
duced in evidence in the pending liti
gation across the river, shows that the
gross earnings of the plant there last
year were, in round figures, $118,000
Council Bluffs has a little less than
30,000 population as compared with
Omaha's 126,000. If the ratio holds
on water consumption, and the rates
are approximately the same, it could
not be a bad guess to figure that the
gross receipts of Omaha's water plant,
allowing for suburban business, are
six times those of Council Bluffs. Six
times $118,000 would be around
$700,000, of which $100,000 comes
out of the city treasury for hydrant
rental.
And while in the realm of specula
tlon, we can also do some other flgur
lng. If our water plant Is to rep
resent to Omaha an investment of
$8,250,000, borrowed at 4 $4 per cent,
the Interest charge will be $371,260.
The loss of taxes would ' be about
$100,000 a year. How much should
be charged off to depreciation, replace
ment and sinking fund is purely guess
work, but If it were 2 per cent it
would be $163,000; if it were 3 per
cent it would be $247,500; if it were
5 per cent it would be $412,500.
Of course, this Is mere speculation
but it may give a faint idea of the
margin of revenue left after paying
fixed charges on $8,250,000 to pay
running expenses or reduce water
rates unless future expansion or busi
ness is discounted in advance.
Tho Bee's Letter Box
Oeatrlbatlene ew Tlmaly analects
So BsoeeeUas? tvt atundreo Wares
Ate Xante fro at Oar Keadsra.
Washington Life
Borne Xstereetinf rnasee
sad Conditions Observe
at the JTatloa'e Capital.
l alalr Aarka Medical S. be-ol.
LINCOLN. Neb. March 22. To the
Editor of The Bee: Termlt me to give
the facta to correct misapprehensions
likely to be created by two circular let
ters referring to the medical college sltua-
Ion recently sent to members of the legts-
sture and the public.
As to the "report" from the "alumni"
should be understood that the signers,
If they represent any persons except them
selves, represent at most a small group
of men. While they are graduates of the
acsdemlo colleges of the university, only
one of them was ever registered In the
college of medicine.
The circumstances t1'' have led fewer
students to go to Omaha each year are
due to the fact that that portion of the
college receives no state support. If this
support were forthcoming it would be pos
sible to correct this condition. The falling
off of attendance at Omaha was due at
first to the fact that In 1903 the first two
years of work there were discontinued and
prospective students advised to go to the
university at Lincoln. Since that time
there has been a steady increase in the en
trance and course requirements which has
held the total figure much below the for
mer attendance at Omaha. The number!
of students In the "report" referred to is
given as 166. .The total, however, regis
tered In the college of medicine this year
is 108, which Includes students registered
from the affiliated school of dentistry and
In the school of pharmacy. The number
of students that would be moved to Omaha
If transferred now with the transferring
of the two middle years would be fifty.
The circular signed by some forty Lin
coln doctors deserves attention.
The present equipment for medical work
at Lincoln is by no means Ideal, and not
to be compared with the equipment at Min
nesota, Iowa, Washington university at
St. Louis and many other Institutions in
the central states. The medical labora
tories share with all the laboratories
cramped quarters and Inadequate equip
ment, and that the university and the
college of medicine have been able to
maintain the rank among other univer
sities and colleges which they hold today
Is due to the ability and hard work of
the faculty, rather than to the equipment.
The argument against the divided school
applies to conditions at Omaha as well as
at Lincoln. If a complete four-year course
Is given at Omaha it seems from past
experience that students will cease almost
entirely to go to eastern schools. Creigtv
ton Medical college does not "control prao-
ttcally all the clinical material in Douglas
county."
Of the "doctors" signing the circular, ap
proximately one-third are eclectics, many
of them connected with an eclectic med
ical couege; six are dentists, two are
homeopathlo physicians, two are osteo
paths, one Is a graduate of Crelghton unl
versity. The names of four are not in
the standard medical directories. ' Of the
forty-two signers only sixteen are regulur
physicians, or have been in the practice
of medicine long enough to have their
names admitted to the -current medical di
rectories. The total number of physicians
In Lincoln, according to Polk's last med
leal directory, is 14o.
ROBERT H. WOLCOTT,
Acting Dean,' College of Medicine.
People Talked About
The Lincoln Journal corrects the
common impression that a constitu
tional amendment has to be approved
by the governor as well as the legisla
ture before submitting to popular rat
ification. It used to be the practice
of governors to sign resolutions sub
mitting constitutional amendments,
but when Governor Dietrich refused
street space that could not have been jhls assent to one of them he dlscov
selected better with a view to imped-lered that It made no difference
ing traffic. Omaha does not want to
discourage the taxicab business, but
at the same time there is no good
reason why the use of the streets
should not be regulated and restricted
. j within proper bounds. This subject
The Adam and Eve statuary at the j na8 beeQ handled ln other clUe by
capital of Pennsylvania has been j the offlca, de8lgnatlon of aut0 8tand8
draped, but the hobble, harem
other skirts are still at large.
and
It may also have been noticed that
those democrats most conspicuous at
the Baltimore terrapin dinner were
conspicuous alno for their absence at
the Bryan dinner.
with a prohibition, subject to penalty,
of permitting any automobile to re
main unattended elsewhere ln the
streets more than ten or fifteen min
utes. While automobiles, public and
private, were few and far between the
urgency of such regulations waa not
so obvious, but their multiplication
A bill la vending before the Massa
chusetts legislature to appropriate
funds for a bronze monumeut to Ben
Butler. Some folks might want to
make It silver-plated.
lilies HI burl L. Metcalfe louka out he
whether It bore hia signature or not.
We believe, however, that where the
resolution goes beyond the proposed
amendment and prescribes the method
of voting on it, It is to that extent leg
islation ln which the governor Is enti
tled to a voice.
The sponsors cf the democratic leg
islative redistrlcting bill pretend to be
particularly liberal to Douglas county
by aportioning us five state senators
and twelve representatives. On a
purely mathematical basis, which Is
what the law-makers are presumed to
follow, Douglas county is entitled to
The backbone t winter shows no ill-
effect of long usage.' More's the pity!
Until Jim Creelman and Walt Wellman
are mobilised all signs of war must be con
sidered illusions. 4 . .
People who grunt, about the snapplness
of March breezes, should not try for the
aviation record, t'p In the air about seven
miles it Is 90 degrees below.
The Roosevelt dam is a mighty big in
stitution In fact as well as in the pictures,
but U scarcely measures up to the Roose
velt dams projected by New York's old
guard last fall.
Despite the nearness of "first aids to In
Jured hearts" syndicated by Laura Jean
Libbey, on the first flutter of the mitten
a Kansas City girl rushed Into court with
a demand for $15,000 damages.
The liar association of New York City
wakes up occasionally. On its request
three lawyers have Just been disbarred
from the courts one for forgery, another
for altering a mortgage, and a third for
larceny of money collected.
Emma Nyman, stenographer and general
office assistant to the late Louis J. Grif
fith of Chicago was rewarded for faith
ful service ln the will of her former em
ployer. When the document was pre
sented for probate, it was found she had
been left $8,000. The ' estste was valued
at 125,000. The reat goes to the widow.
Miss Charlotte Granville, formerly of
England, but now living In New York, Is
said to be the first woman to make appll
cation for membership to the Aero Club
of America. Though Miss Granville has
made upward of fifty flights as a member
of the Royal Aero Club, of England, her
application was refused by the American
club.
Ohio's kid senator, Atlee Pomerene, has
executed a clever retreat In Washington.
One ueck at Peacock alley was enough to
change his plan of campaign and seek an
other route to his destination. Peacock al
ley Is a famous corridor In Washington's
swagger hotel. It Is the lounging and show
place of the rich and near rich of some few
statesmen and substantial cltlsens and of
more rank counterfeits. The proportion of
Idlers ln this luxuriously furnished prome
nade is something like five women to one
man, reports the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The wotnen, a majority of them at least,
are chiefly conspicuous for their highly
painted cheeks, the artificial coloring of
their eyebrows and the quantity of roug)
on their Hps. Also these women fit Imo
the surroundings because of their ability
to quaff liquor and hard liquor at thai.
The most of these women do not drink
liquor. Oh! mercy, no, to drink would be
too unutterably common and vulgar. So
the habitues of Peacock alley daintily
quaff their highballs, cocktails and wine.
Atle Pomerene Is not near so well known
in Ohio Just now as he will be some day.
Those who do know him now promptly
would scout the suggestion that the new
senator might ever yield to such wordly
diversions as that offered by Peacock alley.
Five senators and five representatives
will have a fine trip to Aiasaa mis sum
mer. If the extra session oi .uni
not so prolonged as to prevent it. The last
sundry civil bill carried an appropriation
f 110.000 to allow ten members, represent
ing both houses, to visit the territory of
Alaska. The Joint committee is to make
an Investigation Into the existing conditions
In Alaska with a view to obtaining ma
terial upon which to base any legislation
that may be necessary.
The senators who have been appointed
are Nelson, Bmoot, Nixon, Simmons and
Bankhcad. The house delegation Is com
posed of Fltsgerald of Brooklyn, Bherley,
Robinson of Arkansas. Hamilton and Good.
The committee plans to visit every accessi
ble portion of Alaska and to have a look
at everything that may have a bearing on
the government of the territory.
Its members, who look forward to the
trip with a good deal of Interest, naturally
are hoping that congress will not sit all
summer. It would be impracticable for the
committee to start after September 1, be
cause, while it might reach even a remote
part of the territory, the season would be
so late that the chances of Its getting
out again before the following summer
would be slight. It would never do to have
the chairman of the house appropriations
committee and several Other distinguished
members of congress marooned in an
Alaska mining camp all winter.
A general shifting of seats in the senate,
following the exodus of those . members
whose terms came to an end with the
closing of congress, has brought for the
first time In many years practically alt
tho republicans on one side of the .cham
ber.
The reseating, as finally arranged by the
serjeant-at-arms today, shows marked
changes in the political map of the senate
floor. Senator Root will take the place
vacated by Senators Lodge and Warren,
formidable trio. Senator Burton, who
was also on the democratic side, will oc
cupy Senator Aldrlch's seat. This locality
constituted the formidable center of the
republican ranks for many . congresses. 1
Senator Jonas and Senator Gronna, who
were In the far corner of the democratic
side, will go over to Senator Flint's and
Senator Warren's seats, respectively. Sen
ator Lorlmer will occupy the place of Sen
ator Sutherland, who has moved up.
Senstor La Follette alone will remain
on the democratic side, from which he will
face his republican colleagues regular and
Insurgent alike. He could have moved over
had he pleased, but he preferred to retain
his old place. On the democratic side also
there has been a general regrouping. Sen
ators Bailey, Bacon. Clarke of Arkansas
snd Culberson will occupy the democratic
center, with John Sharp Williams, who Is
regarded as a formidable candidate fop
leadership, on the outer ring of this posi
tion. '
MANEUVERS OF PARAGRAFilERS
Brooklyn Eagle: The mobilisation will
enable a lot of Japanese cooks to pick up
I valuable information concerning tne wnr
records of American appetites.
Chicago Tribune: t'nlll war bitween the
I'nlted States and Japan breaks out In the
rural debating societies with some degree
of violence there need be no feeling of
uneasiness.
Cleveland Plain Dealer: They are laugh
Ing abroad at our mobilised army. They
say a million armed men w ill rice when thu
kaiser snaps his fingers. But t'nele Sam
only smiles and keeps his fingers crossed.
St. raul Dispatch: It would seem that
President Taft displays a cheerful alacrity
to "go to the mat" with congress on the
question of sending the troops to Mexico.
If congress wants Information. It will be
one thing, but If It Is merely heckling the
president It Is another.
Brooklyn Kaale: In the next war, as a
veteran. Mr. Roosevelt will be equipped to
lake full command of a regiment. Will
Colonel Bryan also hoist himself Into the
saddle? It would be unfortunate If the
country were deprived of all this military
Fagacity In a crisis which demands a plat
form and --a speech to explain w hat it
means anyhow.
He
and use as a common vehicle em-!flv 6taI senators ana xourieen rep
resentatives. To anyone who knows
phaslzes the need of drawing the line.
Reapportionment Unlikely.
According to most reliable advices,
reapportionment, which was defeated
in the, closing session of the Sixty-first
will be made a csixticiaie ror unitea state. congress, is not likely to come up in
senaior in in vi wcryiiiiua ne can
do to prevent It. Uncoln Journal.
Well, he"dldn't try hard to prevent
It In 1910, and what reasoa Is there to
believe that he will try any harder to
prevent It hi 19U?
There is method - la Cougrebsman
Lobeck's ambition to get on the Dis
trict of Columbia committee. Mem
bers of the. District committee are
usually lavishly baited by the Wash
ington newspapers with taffy publicity,
and the notices read beautifully when
reprinted at home.
Just to show that the Hills Have
carried the Omaha Corn and Land
shows as their guide in getting up the
Madison Square show, the New York
Herald decorates the story with the
Omaha Corn exposition photograph of
James J. and Lew V. Hill, standing
oa each aide of a great shock of wheat.
dertake reapportionment plans
Washington.
The democrats were willing to have
the Crumpacker bill passed, for they
saw la enlarging the electoral college
on the eve of a national election an
Increase of southern representation.
But a republican senate defeated this
bill, which called for a house member
ship of 433, by falling to act upon it.
It was natural that the republicans
would not want to open up the work
of gerrymandering In states that bad
only temporarily, as they believed,
gone democratic, until they could have
the opportunity of coming back into
the republican column.
that the house membership is 100 and
the senate membership 33, it is plain
tha(. we are entitled to one senator for
every three repreaentatlves or major
fraction thereof. -If the redlstrlctors
would stick to the census figures they
would have less trouble.
the extra session. ' The democrats
have found some compensation in the
possibility of gerrymandering through
n,A,n la.l.lat up a b n .4 u 'III ni. n .aa I n
Kvery time a blow was aimed at
Bill" Dech at that Bryan birthday
lour new United States senator, who
was chief engineer of the steam roller
that ran over Mr. Bryan at Grand
Island.
Senator Brown must have been
laughing up his sleeve when he talked
of advocating higher standards of pub
lic orace with the figure of Cadet Tay
lor looming up before him and that of
Postmaster Thomas In the background.
The
Ion for nilahted Life.
New York Tribune.,
suggestion that a suJiaxantlal
in
demnity or a pension should be paid to
a man whose life has been ruined b
twenty yewts' Imprisonment for a crime
of which he is now shown to have been
innocent is nut without force In moral
and equity. The present plan is to have
this indemnity given by the eorporatlu
of which be was employed, and tha
may be done. There is a question, however,
concerning the responsibility of the state
itself in such a case. At present there 1
no provision for any such repairing of
wronar w-hlch has been unwittingly done
Is It Impracticable to make any? A
least such an Incident as this, which
nappuy exceedingly rare, emphasizes the
need of making as sure as Is huinunly
possible before Imposing a grave sentence.
WllO H fcMU MMN I'. T' 1 " 1 ' "
one who st - i:p nlulil" urlinit rir
Ington Htar.
Hut." protected the p:a n titi-n
"don't nil i-oimliier Iioiipm n A kii' !
thine?"
"Sure." replied the politician, "but it
HUe - erv other K.-ml tlnliK. on e n 'I
I to make nmnev before von ian affo-ii
It." Catholic Mamlaid and Thins -
l.awjor uto-i -eiiinlnliK I - Im t o;ii
hulnnl a hurainr?
t W Itness Yrs.
1 I .a er Ami didn't u knoie h
I liui-Klar when vmi tnmrl'd Mm'.'
1 Vitn".- I did; but I ws Hrillnc
(old Bud I bud in choose between a loiri! hi
and a la'ANei . so n lint could I do. Ilovioii
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LAUGHING GAS.
"I notice your maid seems to be pop
ular with all the tradesmen; some one of
them Is continually ringing."
"Yes, she Is a regular door belle."
Baltimore American.
Bill Clerk How do you like your new
boss? Typewriter Girl Well, he's Interesting.
He seems to hsve a grouch aKalnst the
language: he insists on my writing inso
far' as one word and 'never the less' ai
three words. Chicago Tribune.
"What did you say the former senator's
oldest bnv Is dnlna?"
"He's organizing the 'Society of Sons of
Lame Ducks." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Old Rocksey Why did you quarrel with
the count, my dear?
Miss Kocksey He called me his treas
ure, and It sounded altogether too- sug
gestive. Smart Set.
"Mamma, has the man In the moon got
a wife?"
"I don't know, dear; but If lie has. she
always knows where he Is at night!"
Puck.
"Mrs. Plfflegilder complains bitterly
about the Increasing cost of living."
"Yes. I understand she declares she will
be compelled to cut down her divorces this
year to one or two." Puck.
THE POET AND HIS FAJiCY.
S. K. Kisei In the Ret ord-IIerald
"Master of my own dcstlnv am I."
The poet In bin uttle luxvely wrote;
"I ask no muster when I wih to lie
t'pon the sward Htul wuteh the ilouds
llmt flout
Across a sky that Is nn ei v own;
My knee Is lent to neither lord nor king.
I proudly serve my own sweet will alone.
As free as Is the bird upon the winn.
"I scoff at hi in who hows to kliiK or wile.
Afirtld to let his lsncy, ecu, have pla
(Who, In his groove must Ue a narrow lite
A slave receiving orders clsy hy rtiiv;
1, beltiK free to do as 1 may plenec.
Permit my soul to soai. and laugh at
ca re ;
To me there come a thotisiind ertairs
That those who chafe In bonds may nexer
share.
"I am a law unto myself; t fill
The place that I elevt; 1 chose my sphcir.
I serve no master but my own sweet will.
I am a straiiKer to the thing railed fear. '
But as he sung Ills lank landlady came
Her air was positive, her look was grim;
She called him many a disrespectful name.
And flung his satchel downstairs after
hi m.
"I have some speeches ready that will
wake 'em up," said the new member of
congress.
"Perhaps," replied Senator Sorghum;
"but It often happens that the only man
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Baltimore American.
The supreme court of the I'nlted
States has uphuld the government In Its
suit to establish Ihs validity of the law
prohibiting livestock from being trans
ported for more than twenty-eight hours
without unloading for food and water.
The law will enforce what not only hu
manity demands, but a provision also
which Is necessary for human health In
the purity of Its food supply.
"The Damon and Pythias of the house
are strolling by."
Thus observed a man about town to a
newspaper correspondent as two bulky
forms passed Pennsylvania avenue and
Thirteenth street. "Why don't you write
a story about them?"
Some members of the house keep to
themselves. Others go In threes and fours.
Ollle James and Tom Heflin of Kentucky
and Alabama, respectively, are seen often
est In company with each other.
They are both more than six feet tall.
Both are bulky senators, weighing 200
pounds or over. Both are calm and de
liberate In their movements and both
seem to be satisfied with each other. Their
offices are "Just across the hall" In the
house office building. Their desks are
scarcely farther apart in the house cham
ber. If 1 Wtin speaks Ollle James Is first to
lead the applause. If James pleads for
the rights of the common people Heflin
bangs his desk In hearty approbation.
After the day's debate Is over the two
of them almost Invariably walk cp the
avenue together. There Is a favorite stop
ping place where something Is served that
may relieve the fatigue of the labors on
Capitol hill. James and Heflin come ii.
together, order the same sort of lit til sr
water, stretch their legs over a nearby
chair and chat. In ten or fifteen minutes
they pick up their overcoats, pay the check
and stride out of the door together to a
street csr.
A Jeisey spinster Intrusted her false
teeth to the malls, and they went astray.
Postmaster Genual Hitchcock received the
following appeal from her:
"Dear frirI suppose you have received
g note from the Camden post master thai
the upper plates or my teein nave oen
lost ln the malls. They were mailed at
Camden on January I. 1 should like very
much to hear from you. if you are un
fortunate enough to have store teeth, you
know how Inconvenient it Is to have' to do
without them, and I have pot had them
even a yeir. I paid l& for them, and 1
cannut afford to get any more Just now.
So will you kindly do nhat you cai for
me. and as quickly as possible?
p. 8. They were very good teeth."
The postmaster general put one of the
beat inspectors in the service on the Job
to find the missing Ivories
on your bread unless this stamp it on
the carton.
Look for Establishment No. 3, or 3
with a letter following.
That's important, too. That means
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Uncle Sam tan now point to actual
demonstration that he can shoot
straight at a distance of seven miles,
'which probably will attract the favora-
This h aves tha democrats w here they jble attention of soma of our foreign
are ln control possessed of an tnstru- friends.
Haadoat for Ike Poor.
81. Paul Dispatch.
While bualnes may be a little dull ln
other lines, the railroads have a little fat
picking In moving the troops to the Mexi
can border.
t Life's Trasrales.
Puck.
Just when a fellow begins to luuik the
business couldn't poeslbly go on without
hliu. be gel fired.
Patriotism Iraelly Balked.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Those who think that woman should not
vols because she cannot fight are requested
to take notice that Miss Helen Akers pre
sented herself in msn's clothing at the
Omaha recruiting office of the. navy, ready
and anxious to enlist and engage In bloody
war. The only trouble was that recruits
are required to strip for physical examina
tion and naturally the lady very properly
declined ic disrobe
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