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THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY. APRIL 12. 1912.
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The Omaha Daily bee
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MARCH CIRCULATION.
49,508
tat of Nebraska. County of Douglas, at.
iwigni WUluraa, circulation manager
I The Bee Furnishing company, leiu
duly sworn, says that the average daiiy
lircuUUun. lea sioiisd. unueed and re
turned coplea. (ur Hi month of Marco,
my eyas eMjiua,
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Circulation Manager,
ubscrlbed fn my presence and sworn
10 serai ma tnis stn aay ot April, isu.
(baaxj HuBkitT Ht-.VlaiK,
. Neuuy fublle.
a beertbere lravlwn ike city
teaaperarUr should have Tbe
Bo aaallcd to tbeav. ' Add rata
erlU ba rhaaeed aa oft mm re
neested. "Fore." Alio, "Ho' fe a mile.''
Governor Harmon will speak for
hlnutlt now. .
Wonder If It will b a gojod season
for dandelions?
Txa has a newspaper called the
Cyclone. Broety abeet, no doubt.
. Here'a health, long Ufa and happi
ness to the new hlthop ot Cheyenne.
Still, the madam' Easter head
gear 1 the biggest hat In the ring
just now.- ' : ,
- Up to the hour of going to press
our Missouri river hag been behaving
tolerably well.
" How roach the grand Jury coat tbe
taipayera will be the Mat Item to be
- added as a postscript.
, Champ Clark hs the joke oa the
,.. Illinois democrats who took his prea-
ldentlal boom seriously.
" The excitement over politic la
2. Kentucky esa almost crowded out
... all thought ot the mint sprout. '
.'. . .. .. .
, "What kind of democrat," asks
" Hearst, "do the people want for
" president?" A republican, of course.
" Surely Champ Clark will not for-
- get to thank Wllllamrandolpbhearst
for hi victory In the Illinois - pri-
' matie.
Whst'a that?. Election fraud In
the recent primary? Oh, Impossible,
alnc w have a reform democratic
sheriff.
According to all account, the IUl
nola presidential preference primary
simply rendered another verdict
against Lorlmer.
Chicago voted two-to-oae against
woman suffrage. Vt assume from
that that Chicago men do not favor
woman suffrage.
In view of the results, perhaps
those who withdrew their names
from the ballot displayed more good
sense than the others.
The Kew Herald raises the cry
that caterpillar are menacing the
peanut crop. Gee, and the bate ball
season Is already upon us.
D la Barra returns to Mexico as
suring Madero that any kind ot a
government win satisfy him. Just so
It govern. That la a fair proposition.
A Rochester woman left f S.ItO to
r her parrot Yet he probably will
" continue to say, "Polly waste a
cracker," just as he did before tkla
windfall.
How unkind In Cbrla to refer
again to the f 11,000 of Wall street
.-. boodle that waa traced through the
handa of Brotber-ln-Law "Tommy"
Allen la litt. At If the statute et
limitations had not run against thst
long age.
By outward appearance It look as
a it Wood row Wilson were slipping as
compared with Champ Clark. It Is
te be noted, however, that Mr. Bryan
1 still ahle to climb en either band
wagon that look like a winner.
The presumption Is thai that algn
about ' always being Omaha', real
friend la meant to lacluda assistance
" rendered to keep "Jim" In the
mayor's office and prevent us from
losing kin to toe ex ecu tire mansion
-i at Lincoln. ,
"Holland" aaya that east era dem
ocrat think tbe nominee will be a
dark horse and regard Marshall of
. Indiana as "safe." No doubt he
weald carry double and never kick
at anything. Surely bo would be
u&rk enough.
' ITie Professor' Borrowed livery.
I Governor Wilson of New Jersey
happened onto an unusually en
; thusiastic lot of admirers at Syra
cuse, . Y., the other day and they
insisted upon giving him a formal
dinner. Now, the governor has found
In his campaign perambulations that
formal dinners are not the very best
places to cultivate hoi poilol, whose
votea he la most assiduously seeking,
so he had left bis "full dress" at
home. That excuse was quickly
brushed aside, however, by a gal
lant graduate of Princeton, who
rushed In with evening clothes that
answered the purpose.
The governor is evidently getting
used to borrowed liveries. He Is
making his fight for tbe presidential
nomination In them. True, they may
not fit him exactly the pants may
bag at the knees, and the coat bang
a little loose about tbe shoulders,
but he manages to wear them and is
making a commendable effort to
divert attention from his clothes to
himself. When Or. Wilson decided
o give up tbe presidency of Prince
ton university for the governorship
of New Jersey as a stepping (tone
lo the White House, be tossed aside
all bis own clothes that he bad worn
for fifteen years In the elasa room
clothes wbirh be not only had made
to hla order, but which he held np
to the procession of student as
model of style and fabric. All these
old garment h discarded and bor
rowed a whole wardrobe of novelties
from Colonel Bryan and other po
litical tailors who play to the senaa
tlonal trade. And now, arrayed in
these freak fashions, the once staid
and conservative professor of polit
ical economy presents tbe appearance
of a Joseph' coat of many color.
Tbe crucial test will come when tho
fabric haa been thoroughly exposed
to all tbe elements of a fierce, search
ing campaign. Will they hold their
shape? Will the trousers become
high-waters and the eoat shrink?
We do not know how tbe Princeton
alumnus' dress suit set on the pro
fessor, but It could not have been a
more ill fit than the rakish, up-turn
trousers and freak coats which he
hsa borrows! from the red-sign
tailor shops down the street.
Why Juries Tail to Convict
The New York World ventures tbe
asertlon that the reason Juries sel
dom convict under the criminal
clause of the Sherman anti-trust law
la that they find the government only
half-heartedly forcing prosecution
under that clause. The govern
ment' apparent lack of confidence
In the law haa Ita effect upon the
Jury.
There baa been good deal of
complaint at the general failure of
Juries to convict In other eases be
side those brought under the Sher
man law. At the same time and In
this same connection criticism is
mad of the importance courta and
counsel give to the technique tff the
law. la H not possible that this at
titude haa It Influence upon juries
to very large extent? Tbe layman
In the jury box la naturally guided,
more or leaa. ta hi view of legal
questions, of the guilt or Innocence
of a defendant, of the equity ot a
civil cause, by the attitude ot the
professional men upon the bench and
at the bar. If they give undue prom
inence to tho technical aspects of tbe
question, I not their example likely
to Influence the Juror, eonirlously
or unconsciously?
' Ot course, the Juror must hold out
tor evidence that convince him be
yond n reasonable doubt before be Is
Justified In returning his rerdct, but
I It not possible that often hla own
mind la made up on the aide ot con
viction and be is only deterred from
passing In his verdict accordingly
by the attitude ot the court and the
era p nasi ot some of tbe counsel on
the side ot the law technicality?
Juries mat be allowed some lati
tude when tney aee courta and law
yer (training and atretchlng every
technical prladpl of the law almost
to the breaking point
April, the Unruly Month.
Reports of the volcano which de
stroyed thousands ot live and whole
village on the Panama remind us
ot the treachery of tbe element In
April. It waa lo April, 1906, that
the San Francisco earthquake oc
curred, leading to the conflagration
which practically burned over that
entire city, and it waa I April ot
the same year the report from
Naples told ot the fierce slaughter
wrought, by the eruption, of old
Vesuvius, add there are many other
similar disasters credited to this
montk-
The Panama catastrophe spring
from the oruutlqn of -Cblriqul peak
near Bocaa del Torro, and Indian
town are aid to have been utterly
swept away. This will strike Amer
icana with more force because the
completing of the canal oa the
isthmus brings tbe Panama nearer
to ua In point of community Inter-
eat. Some day. it la highly probable,
this land which is only a matter of
anfamlliar geography to a new. will
be known and traveled ground to
Americans. 'It (boold be. Here we
r expending nearly $400,000,000
In Initial cost la the greatest enter
prise ot the kind in this atrange
country, linking Atlantic to Pacific
the Occident to the orient, biasing a
aew commercial highway to the far
east If that la not enough to draw
our attention to the Panama, what
would be? Pet haps else . day may
I come In the distance when these vtl
, lages will, under American fore
thought and direction, be built far
enough away from the volcanic
mountains to be substantially free
from Imminent danger. Tbe United
States must exorcise a genuine and
general Influence over tbi part ot
the tropic. It cannot control the vol
canoes, but it can instruct the peo
ple.
The County Hospital
The explosion that baa just taken
place In the county hospital and is
re-echoed In the grand jury report
challenges public attention to that
Institution, wblch has been a source
of periodic trouble.
Incompetency and mismanagement
may have something to do with It.
but the roots of tbe evil go down
much deeper. The difficulty seems
to arise from the fact that here In
Douglas county, containing the met
ropolitan city and an eighth of the
population of tbe stste, we have a
conglomerate institution combining
a county hospital, a county poor
house, n county insane asylum and
a county dipsomania home all In one.
and under one direction.
What our county activities tirg
ontly need, as Tbe Bee has more
than once pointed out, la complete
reorganisation along lines of hu
mane, economic and scientific treat
ment We should have an infirmary
tor aged men and a separate infirm'
ary for aged women, a hospital for
tbe Indigent sick, a detention home
for juvenile dependents and delin
quents, and the insane ahould be
taken care of by tbe state for this
county as for other counties. .
It gcea without saying that Intel
ligent, honeet and sympathetic men
and women ahould be placed in
charge of our public wards, nu mat
ter where they are boused or for
what reason they are there. The
protection of the taipayera against
Impostors I alto a Important aa
their protection against extrava
gance and graft.
Our amiable democratic contem
porary construe the outcome ot the
commission plan primary to be a
handsome endorsement of the pres
ent democratic oity administration.
Get all the consolation you can while
you can.
Tbe official canvass sometime
change the results when they are
close, but the accuracy of the news
paper election return Is really a
marvel, considering the high speed
with which they are gathered and
tabulated.
Having been dismissed from tbe
university and sued and recovered
damages from the dean ail over a
2S0 gift hat. Mis Mercy 1. by all
odds, qualified a a top-liner in vau
deville. "Jack" Johnson find that Collec
tor of Custom Loeb I not a easy
as "Jlra" Jeffries and that If he
holds onto that 11,000 necklace he
will have to give up the duty on It.
Even at that, a spontaneous popu
lar demand that has to be worked
up by the full-eteam machinery of
oratory and literature cannot be so
overpowering.
In Iowa, Colorado, New Mexico,
Indiana and a tew other atate there
was no Lo rimer scandal to help di
vert public attention from tbe na
tional issue.
Steele tor the Marl aee.
Houitoa (Tex Post.
The Commoner says Mr- Bryan la ana
ioua for a democratic victory aew. It Is
a beautiful story that might pror ex.
tremely Interesting to the mart Bee.
Warklasr aa Kadleaa Cbala.
- Pittsburgh. Dispatch.
To Increase wages because prices are
high and then te raise prices twice as
much oa account of the advanced wages
constitutes aa endless chela that It kept
up will reduce the ultimate consumer to
penury.
( aoereatlaa ef Life.
New York Tribune.
The passage by the house of represent
atives of the whits phoapberus mstch bill
IS a tardy resaonss to the public demand
that the sacrifice due te the manufac
ture ef that poisonous commodity be
ended. It Is to be hoped that the senate
will concur la stamping out sa odious
and unnecessary .feature ef the match
making Industry.
Effect ef silver Orertlewa.
81. Louis Republic
The effect of overflow by the river upon
farm Unda Is very different according
to the Telocity ef the current that
passes erer the surface aa the flood SJb
sdrs. It It hi rapid and goes dowa
quickly a rich farm may be left covered
with coarse, sharp sand, almost value
Was for agricultural purpose. Under
tome rlrexuTStsnces a tenacious clay re
mains behind which la almost as bad.
But If the water cornea up aently and
slowly subsides It deposits a tins silt
whoa enriching value Is well worth tbe
lv of the crap.
' Death Hell ef filer.
Indianapolis News.
The lamentable death of C. P. Redgers.
the aviator, at Long Beach raises the
toll ef the air to 117. During 111 slaty
seeea persons were killed while attempt
ing te fly. Rodger wwa the twenty
secoad American to loss his as sines ex
periments with arroplanes began, RodsT
ers was the first man to cross the Amer
ican continent In an aeroplane. It took
him msay weeks, but by consistently
avoiding "taking chaacee" be made the
perilous Journey. He met h!s death. It
seems, aa growing careless. Making one
"dive" :mo a flock ef stills, ha attempted
a second, sr the second attempt cost
Mm his life. The aviation . death toll
would be far leas If aviators coerced
their flights te straight trips from point
ta point. Aviation is tee l.ttle under,
stood te be played with.
Tills Ha v fnOinalia
i auw af ay aaa iiii
r CSMPUXD rROM BEE TILT-a
April 12.
Thirty Tears Ago
The annual meeting of the Omaha
firs department was like a hot fire over
th election of a chief engineer, candi
dates being Ed Welsh of No. 1 and
Charles Hunt of No. t with Charlie God
frey of No. t holding the balance of
power. Welsh won out on the third
ballot. Frank P. Hanlon was elected
president, Theodoro Greevy. vice presi
dent: r. J. JJcShane, secretary, and J.
F. Sheeley. treasurer.
The St. Joseph hospital fair Is pro
gressing finely. Among other popularity
contests a silver Ice pitcher Is being
voted between Alderman Leader and Ur.
Gentleman.
A call for a meeting of Ruth Rebeckr.h
lodge No. 1. Independent Order Odd Fel
lows. Is signed by William J. Scoblc,
secretary.
The river Is eleven feet seven Inches
above low water mark.
The rlass in penmanship for the mem
bers of the Young Men's Christian s
soclstlon has becri commenced. The
course of six lessons will be M cents,
and members holding tickets fur lis.'
will be admitted free.
The Jewelry firm of Ansel. Bowen
Wbito la bolus dissolved by mutual con
sent. A. J. Bhcnard. formerly a clerk In
Kuhlman't drug store, left for Kearney,
where lis will go into business.
The Omaha Sportsmen's club encamp
ment has been postponed on account of
unfavorable weather.
Twenty Years Ago
C. J. Annls. night clerk of th Paxton
hotel, who was very popualr wito the
traveling (entry, resigned to accept a
position with J. W. Squire.
Edward Rosewster returned from New
Tork.
R. 8. Belcher left for Colorado's new
mining camp, Creede, to carve his for
tune In silver.
Th Lincoln club had a meeting In the
court room In the Bes building to cis
cuss general plant for tha welfare of tha
republican party. J. R. Reeve preside
over the meeting In the absence ot Hit
president, Harry C. Brome.
An Interesting entertainment was given
by th Chines scholsrt and their teach
ers at the First Presbyterten church.
Mandarin C. June Che made a short
address on the need of American mission
aries In China. Hishop Newman of the
Methodist church made an address oa th
missionary work In ths orient.
The Oman Medical society elected thee
officers at Ita annual meeting: president,
Dr. W. a Bridges: first vics-presldsnt.
Dr. Harold Olfford; second vlce-pr!.
dent. Dr. Kleaner 8. Dalley; secretary,
Dr. Q. W. Wnklnson; treasurer. Dr. 8.
K. Bpauldlng; board of censors, Drs.
Wormssly. Hamilton and Somera, A eom
mltteo of Drs. Lord. Crummor and Brid
ges waa appointed to prepare for a ban
quet to be tendered to th Nebraska
8tat Medical society la May.
Ten Year . Ago ,r t
President A. R eUickaey of th Chlrsgo
Great Wsstsrn spsnt Saturday looking
over Omaha preparatory to projecting
hi railroad Into this city, with several
members of his official family.
Mrs. Alios E. King, wlfs of George W.
King, died at th family residence, gtll
Lincoln boulevard.
Mary 1". Spiking died at th eg of S
years.
The Union Pacific Iron foundry closed
down tor good and th alghty employes.
whose pay averaged A a month, ware
psld off for th last time. Th work
formerly don In th foundry was to
be taken by th enlarged shops when
completed.
Charles Taylor dropped dead In front
ef fcrhlltt No. I on sixteenth street near
California, oa th Identical spot where
M. K. 7mo dropped dead throe days
before. Tsylor, ot whom very llttl was
known here, wss walking south when
h suddenly threw up hla handa. cried
out and fell to th sidewalk dead.
All day and far Into the evening, H. E.
Predrlckson acted as host te streams
of people pouring lato his new vehicle
store at Fifteenth street and Capitol
avenue.
In Judge Slabaugb's department of dis
trict court John McDonald, architect,
got a Judgment for lit. 28. th full amount
t be paid him for drawing th plant for
the now high school. John Letenesr
wss later engaged by a new board.
People Talked About
"The atory of Edward Hlne,". so lav
ishly circulated In Illinois fell down
shamefully In shaping the verdict at th
ballot box.
A speaker at the Icemen's convention
In Chicago lot loose several sobs be
cause newspapers belittle the dignity of
th business. But the sobs tailed to shrink
the price or cover the .-nanlas scales
with confusion.
The mayor of Parle on his recent visit
to Russia mad sn unusual gift to th
csar. The gift was an Eastsr erg set
with precious stones and so constructed
that when a button wss pressed the top
ot the eitg flew open and disclosed a
picture ot the cur's youngest child.
Senator Mark A. Smith of Arisen,
with his tosa only a few days eld, swat
ted an elevator conductor on th oar
because th latter did not nop hla car
on the floor level. " I'll get you oa. the
way back." th eonduotor answered te a
"dowa" call, but Marcus Aurellua got
there first with his swdtter and vindi
cated th dignity ef "the senate.
Clarence A. Richards ef Damariscotta.
M., la said to hold more public offices
demanding gratuitous services than aay
other man In Maine. He Is a town con
stable, fire warden, member of the com
mittee on apropitatlona and has Just oeea
elected chairman of the school committee.
Hui only compensation at tt which he
receive for acting as moderator at th
annual town meeting.
Countess Jacaues Alexander Dudley
van Mourlk de Beaufort, better known
In Chicago's polite circlet as Miss Iran
Kllcallen. has applied for a divorce In her
I horn town. A success! on of wife-beatings
I gave the count front page 'pace In Chi
cago papers two years ago, and the subse
quent pressure of Papa Kilgallcn's boot
on th count' eoat tails save th latter
stiff dent publicity to break Into a vaude
ville circuit.
Pres. Taft's Kecord
Atintta 1st ratios ArcomollsJit!
Wltfcoat iMBCveoMrjr Kotor.
I Pollriea ml Predecessor.
I When Theodore Kocsevelt succeeded to
ths presidency on the death of Mr. Mc
kinley ne pleased n unset r to carry out
the policies of bis predecessor. So on
expectel that by such a pledg be la
tended to bind himself to give th coun
try a copy-book Imitation ot McKlnley:
he could not have don so, had be mad
the effort, and fortunately for the coun
try sot hla own reputation he had too
much sense to enter upon any such has
ardous attempt. In undertaking to carry
out these policies he very wisely re
served to himself the right to select his
own methods. To nave aped the methods
ot bis prtdecenior, from whom he dif
fered In a great many ways, would havs
doomed his pledge to unfuifllment and
Ms administration to failure.
In throwing the whole Influence ot hla
administration to the support of the caa
UMacy both before and after the nomina
tion of Mr. Tart In the effort te have
his secretary of war succeed him In the
Wbita House, sir. Roosevelt while presi
dent made no pretence of believing thac
Mr. Tart would attempt to 'copy" the
itoosevell administration, and be fre
quently illustrated the Independence of
his ovn cabinet officer by telling of
many Instances where they differed la
matters of method, although striving to
reach th same goal. One reason why
hit tucceseor has been the victim of so
much criticism is to be found In th
disposition of many people to find fault
with tbe Talt administration on th score
of Its difference from that of the two
Roosevelt adminlstrationa preceding. And
yet no man wss more firmly of the opin
ion then waa Mr. Roosevelt during his
Isst year In th White House ot ths
essential dlffertnos between th tasks
which he had tackled so effectively and
(he problems which would confront bis
siircesor. In replying on on occasion to
the urgent apiieal of several personal
friend that he allow himself te be re
nominated at th Chicago convention of
190. Mr. Roosevelt In some such words
as these Justified his determination ' to
l-svs th White Houss at th end of hi
second term, and It possible to accom
plish the nomination and election ef Mr,
Taft aa his successor: "For th last
seveq years I think 1 have been tbe man
best fitted for president. I have nad a
tough Job to do, and It had to be done
la rough fashion. Mine was the work ef
biasing the way, but for the next eight
years I am certain that Taft la much
better sultej for th presidency than 1
ant, because ths problems to be solved
during the years that follow srs con
structive and call for a man of ths legal
training and ability which Taft haa ia
tuch abundance,"
Tbe Presidential accession.
Nor did Mr. Roosevelt hastily reach hi
conclusion with respect to Mr. Tatt'a fit
ness tor ths presidency. At th time that
thsrs was a vacancy on th supreme
bench, to which Mr. Justice Moody ulti
mately waa appointed. President Roose
velt for th third time offered the ap
pointment to Mr. Taft, who was then hit
secretary ot war, and the temptation to
accept that appointment and thus gratify
a lifelong sbbltlon waa almost stronger
then Mr. Tsft could resist. A few days
belure he reached his decision and when
his family and closest personal friends
had almost despaired ot persuading him
to decline It, President Roosevelt wrote
a letter In which, although he did not
undertake to decide a question which only
Mr. Taft himself could decide, very
clearly and at tome length emphasised
tn reasons why Mr. Taft ought to suc
ceed him at president, and enunciated
the particular quallflcatlona for thai
oftlcs which Mr. Taft possessed. That
letter of President Roosevelt was a very
potent factor In the advers conclusion
which Mr. Taft reached, for Mr. Roose
velt pointed out that at such a time a
man must not alons conault hla personal
preference, but must determine In what I
direction lay htt duty. He was frank to
say that In bit Judgment Ellhu Root
would mak a grsstsr president than
either Mr. Taft or himself, and that ens
ot th reasons why h had sent him to
South America as secretary f state waa
to give him ths opportunity of being
known by th people ot th Vnlted elates
and by them appreciated In th way that
tuch does friends at Mr. Roosevelt and
Mr. Taft knew and appreciated him. But
almost at the and of a memorable and
markedly ' successful journey, durtn
which Secretary Root visited almost every
one of the south American republics, a
serious crisis occurred In Cuba that de
mended Immsdlats attention, and Mr.
Taft Waa despatched to the scene and so
acquitted himself there that publlo at
tentlon wis promptly concentrated upon
him Just as It ksd beta when Mr. Roose
velt went oa one of his western hunting
trip and left Mr. Taft, then secretary
of war. "sitting en ths lid." It was Mr.
Roosevelt's best Judgment that while
Hoot would make a Better president than
tltbsr himself or Taft, Mr. Taft would
mak "a great president and a much
stronger candidate" before the people
than Mr. Root. It waa soon after that
that president Roosevelt est out te ac
complish Mr. Taft's nomination."
Had not President Roosevelt bees suc
cessful In convincing Mr. Taft that th
problems for th successful eight years
wotiid be essentially different from those
of th Roosevelt administration. It is
doubtful whether Mr. Taft would havs
permitted himself to be drafted for the
presidency, for he fully realised his In
ability to be the same sort of president
tr.at Roosevelt wss. In hla letter of ac
ceptance of the nomination, after giving
unstinted praise to th accomplishments
of President Roosevelt, who he declsred
"has act high ths standard of business
morality and obedience to law," Mr. Taft
thus defined what he believed would be
th principal work ot the succeeding
president: "The chief function of the
next administration. In my Judgment. Is
distinct from and a soTtaalve develop
ment of that which has been performed
by President Roosevelt. The chief func
tion of th next admlnkmauoa as te com
pel and perfect ths machinery by which
thee standards may be maintained, by
which lb law breakers may be promptly
restrained and punished, but which shall
operate with sufficient accuracy and de-
spatca to Interfere with leaitimate busi
ness aa little at possible."
Isaaalausry tvesire.
Pittsburgh Dispatch.
Senator Heyburn exhibits a touching
regard for the pristine ehartris of our an
cestral simplicity by expressing a fear
that the parcels post will ron.'Uct with
modernism. Nevertheless tbe fear la un
necessary. Neither Senator Heyburn nor
snyone els who Is determined to adhere
ta the simple Hfs of their s-rssid fathers
wjlt be obliged to us the parcels post.
Tne senate- can even wear teats If he
wishes: but we have not beard ot his
dam; it.
USIS TO A SiHLZ.
"And about th campaign fund?"
" won t permit oureelvea to take
any chance," replied Senator Snrghum,
The only fund wil let them catch us
nth te a fund t rentable InXormallon."
Washlnctob Star.
"Are you irolr.g to marry that little
T-mjmy ' Glider?"
Ves."
"Why. he' a mere cipher."
'He's six snore ciphers with a dollar
mark and a figure 1 In front of them."
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
"fv tried for ten year to please my
wife," said the married man, "and I've
never yet succeeded."
"Impossible!" ejaculated his friend.
"No, i don't think It Is," said the
married man. 1 m. goliuf to shoot my
self." Satire.
Orlrrs-What odd erprer1wts these
novelists us. For instanc. in this boek
you loaned me th author tells of the
heroine speaking in a hollow voire."
Brtgg-Well, that's all right In her
case. You are. she bad tried her vole
on the stage and there waa nothing In
It. Boston Transcript. ,
"When th levee broke I made for the
hills, and barely escaped with mv life. I
waa utterly axhaustad. My breath came
In gasps."
"I see: those were your high water
pasta." Chicago Tribune.
"Who. In roar opinion, la the greatest
b-i-o of polar exploration 7"
"I don't pretend to be a yodee. But
thM fellow who came back and owned
up that he wasn't the first to arrive
arpeale to me pretty strongly." Detroit
Free Press.
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Come, Te people, bear my story.
For my tongue must speak today.
From the first and down the ae
I have been a great highway.
With a solemn, holy finger,
God in awful majesty
Traced my path through plain and forest
From tue mcuniaina to the eea.
Long before th red man hunted.
Long before his wooing song
Reached the sweet-faced, dusky maiden,
silently I flowed along.
Waiting, glad to bear your cargoes
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back
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Prom tbe forests, fields a no mils.
Lade the graceful, swsn.llk steamers
1 will bear them joyfully
From the sea unto the mountains.
From th mountains to the sea.
BENJAMIN WADE BITLEIGH
Perry, la.
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