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Be mailed to tbem. , Address
will be chaaa-ed as oftea as re
.nested. :
Everything is grist that comes to
Ak-Sar-Ben's mill.
Know Omaba better and Omaha
will know you better.
The Coffee trust ought to be
ground down to the very dregs.
Lucky presidential contests come
too oftener than once in four years.
Mr. Rockefeller on the witness
stand proves to be an oil king even
yet. 7
This week will see all the dele
gates under the wire. Then for the
borne stretch.
. Champ Clark carried Gila county,
Arizona, by 17 to 1. Put one over
the sacred ratio.
The, Chicago convention is sure to
draw an 8. R. 0. house without a
C. Q. D. signal,
Our state supreme court evidently
prefers to let Omaha wrestle with
Its own paving troubles. -
These last showers mean that Ne
braska crops are again going down
Easy street at a 2:05 gait.
A national 1 president-nominating
convention needs no press agent to
drum tip a demand for seats. ,
Nothing has happened yet to con
vince Senator La Follette, at least
for publication, that he will not win.
What does the safe and sane
Fourth mean? Fewer casualties and
more able-bodied boys. Push it
along.
Apparently the safest place in
Nebraska to commit a crime and get
away with it is right within the
penitentiary walls.
Mr. Bryan's Commoner says
Roosevelt can be defeated "by any
good progressive." Who is a good
progressive? Modesty forbids reply.
, Iowa votes today in a primary
that is. to make nominations for
state tickets from which the people
will choose In the November election.
While . 4,000 New York waiters
are striking for more wages and less
work, one of their number has
started upon a tour of the world
without waiting.
The rreat $10,000,000 baiaar at
Damascus destroyed by fire sent up
a feaf ul blavN but nothing as com
pared with the light that blinded
Paul that day. '
Chicago' birthrate is decreasing, but
its population liars are not Pittsburgh
lltpatch.
That is the way they talk when the
Cubs beat the Pirates. -
One thing a commission plan city
government need not be expected
to do and that is to make the same
money available in the treasury sup
port a large retinue of payroll serv
ants at higher salaries than before.
' Prof. Holden is trying to be nominated
for governor without having anything to
do with polities. Sioux city Journal.
The professor's Intentions doubt
less are good, whatever may be said
of his chances.
A Des .Moines city commissioner
pressed the Des Moines Capital for
the reason of its change of front
toward him and here is the reason
n got: "Dear John, it was because
the Capital had been taking you at
your own word for a number of
years and we were later than others
In finding out that you were a
bluffer." That ought to clear op
"Dear John's" mind on the subject,
anyway.;" - .
The Waiters' Strike.
The strike .of 4,000 .ew York
waiters for more pay and less work
is likely to reach complete fruition
long before that movement among
traveling men to abolish tipping.
The guest is probably deriving a
good deal of quiet satisfaction from
this situation. Of course, his sym
pathies are or should be with the
proprietor, a mrge part of whose
burden the guest has all these years
been bearing. The patron would
be deeply grieved in behalf of his
friend, the host, if the latter were
forced by these avaricious waiters
to shorten their hours of toil and
come up a bit on their pay. There is
not more than 50 per cent profit now
in the hotel business, even with the
guest paying from 25 to 50 per cent
of the waiters' wages in tips. No one
can figure out how the proprietor
tan possibly afford to raise wages
Unless he fixes a higher level of -tips
and makes their extraction from his
guests compulsory on the part of the
waiter. For certainly hotels could
not find an argument for another
upward revision of the bill pf fare.
When it comes to ue serious fact,
the hotels and cafes in the land that
pay living wages to their waiters, ex
clusive of the tips they extort from
already . overcharged . patrons, are
comparatively few, and the higher
priced the' eating place, the .larger
the tips. In many instances, the
waiter's wages really amount to little
less than a fee for the privilege of
working where he may land fat
gratuities. When It comes to saying
there is no science in this class of
union labor, we take issue; What is
more scientific than the art of ex
tracting money out of a man dead set
and determined against letting go of
it? And the waiter's employer fos
ters the science by tne condition he
creates.
Fighting the Drug Habit.
President Taft has sent another
message to congress urging action to
repress the drug habit in this coun
try. Congress should act promptly
and positively upon the recommenda
tion. The secretary of state asserts
that unless the American govern
ment takes speedy steps in this di
rection it may be accused of a half
hearted Interest in this vital reform.
American missionaries and others
have done so much to aid China in
trying to overcome this habit, in
which there is a national evil, that
it would appear1 to be -hypocrisy and
weakness for us not to exert our
selves to check the scourge -in our
own land. ' Scientific investigation
shows the appalling rapidity with
which the so-called dope mania is
spreading in the United States, and
the president has more than once
called attention to the necessity of
doing something to stop it. Congress
owes It to the country to enact com
prehensive and effective legislation
dealing with the situation so far as
its Jurisdiction extends. ,
Publicity for the Church.
, The Continent of New York and
Chicago, one of the Protestant
church's most progressive publica
tions, removes its gloves to handle
the subject of "Publicity: Its UseB
and Its Limits," with reference to
the church and Its enterprises, The
editorial is thoroughly orthodox
with common sense and could with
great profit be read by all church
men.
Most newspapers are ever ready
to give the cause of religion a help
ing hand, but sometimes the news
paper has to say no, even to the
church. Hear this, from this church
organ:
There la nothing in the place of the
church In the community nor In Its mis
sion for mankind to change the unchang
ing fundamental proposition of the news
paper business that news Is something
new. The conventional, expected, ordi
nary thing can never, by any possibility
of legerdemain, be made news in a news
paper office.
How fine if every special seeker
after publicity had such a keen ap
preciation of the fact as that! Hear
again: -'
But once let the newspaper know that
the church's Idea of news is something
new that It expects only its advance
steps and fresh achievements and aggres
sive Undertakings recorded, not the
preaching and praying and singing that
(o on Just. the same week after week
and Instanter the church will go into a
different (news) classification. ...
And here is a point most remarka
ble to be made by one of the church's
own editors:
- Evil gets more attention In the news
papers than righteousness, of course, be
cause evil has no power of continuance
and Is always appearing in changed form.
But righteousness abides, continues, and
by the same token It cannot get the same
attention In the dally paper, which each
day telln the things of that day-not the
abiding things.
It would save a lot of ill feelings
and misunderstandings and harsh
word if that broad view could be
more generously shared. After a
passing reference to him,' churchman
or otherwise, seeking publicity for
personal or selfish ends, the Conti
nent comes to the crux of the whole
question, which, possibly, a daily
newspaper might hesitate to ap
proach for fear of hurting feelings
or being misunderstood:
Above all, If the church wants publicity.
It must take publicity both coming and
going. There Is no other way so. sure to
earn disgusted scorn from newspaper men
a for the church to demand the publi
cation of Its tine deeds and then whine
and beg off when Its shortcomings are
honestly exposed.
Such fearless fairness imputes
strength to the enterprises of the
church. Such an institution should
not think of asking less than this.
Its power is enhanced, its position se
cured, by Inviting honest criticism.
It must understand, as the Continent
boldly says, that the blame is not
on the secular press that publishes
a church scandal, but on the church
people who create the scandal.
Reporter's Secret His Own.
A judge in Milwaukee has again
ruled that no law requires a news
paper to divulge the source of con
fidential Information, and that he
may not be made to testify in court
against his will. This is in line with
a decision some two years ago in a
Des Moines court. It is also in line
with common sense and Justice.
It goes without Baying that a re
porter who habitually disclosed where
he got his information would soon
cease to be a reporter. The ethics
and character of modern journalism
demand this measure of protection
both to the newspaper and the re
porter. There are other professions,
the ministry, and medicine, for In
stance, whose votaries are protected
in similar confidential relation. Over
and over again the courts have held
such secrets Inviolate.
Newspaper men have not infre
quently gone to jail rather than re
veal secrets which they regarded as
properly their own, Such a case hap
pened not long ago in Missouri. It
has always seemed desirable that a
legal test of this right be made that
would bring down a ruling from the
court of last resort, so as to have
the principle settled once for all
Public opinion, we believe, would co
incide with the. decision of the Mil
waukee Judge if thorough considera
tion were given to .the subject in all
its aspects. Every reporter worthy
his calling appreciates that his word
Is his capital and when that word is
given to obtain information, no one
has a right to ask him to repudiate
it, especially since the reporter, as
the. representative' of, the newspaper,
acts in the capacity, in the final an
alysis, as the agent of the public, of
which this paper is the medium of
expression and communication.
A New York theater man proposes
to build a playhouse without a gal
lery and he goes farther and says
the theaters of the future will have
no galleries. Very well, then, let the
theaters of the future do what the
theaters of the present are not doing,
reduce prices to something like a
gallery basis. And the standard of
theater productions, -s a rule, is no
higher than formerly, at that. But
whether the theater of the future
will have no gallery is up to the
gallery god rather than the theater
builder.
Ellhu Root. Is the ablest man I have
known in our government service. I will
go farther: he Is the greatest man that
has appeared In the public life of any
country, In any position, on either side
of the ocean, In my time. Theodore
Roosevelt.
There must be a mistake about
this report of opposition to Senator
Root for temporary chairman pt the
republican national convention.
At any rate, no political turmoil
nor presidential campaign strife will
be permitted to interfere with the
starting of Ak-Sar-Ben's initiation
mill at the regularly scheduled time
or dim the glory of Ak-Sar-Ben's
royal pageantry when pulled off as
the crowning achievement in the fall.
The chief Justice' of the Indiana
supreme court reiterates that the
law is not an exact science. No,
and after sizing up some of the law
makers one wonders how it may be
called a science at all.
Have Yon Noticed Itt
Washington Post.
Did you ever notice that the boy who
couldn't memorise a stanza of Shake
speare to save his head from the block
can sing a rag time tune the first time
he hears it?
A Money-MaWlim Business.
Brooklyn Eagle.
All the leaders of social unrest are
well off and are coining money out of
tfielr. opposition.-' There is very . little
money to be made In leading cr mislead
ing the self-possessed and contented.
Hot Times In the Old Camp.
Cleveland Plain-Dealer.
The boys In blue who are expecting
somewhat of a picnic down In Cuba may
have forgotten that the June, tempera
ture In the vicinity of Ouantanamo aver
ages (Something like 130 In the shade.
Merciful Coal Unrolls.
Philadelphia Bulletin.
The coal operators say that "the peo
ple are being let off easy." When . !t
comes the turn of the people to sit n
the seats of the Judges, they may show
the same quality of mercy to the offend
ing coal trust . . ,
Proirrcnalvo Spirit Meuagr,
Chicago Record-Herald.
A spirit medium makes the announce
ment that she haa received a message
from the late Dr. Funk. The spirit of
the doctor Is reported to have said:
"Much can and will be revealed, but
honesty Is the best principle," It Is a
great Improvement on the ordinary spirit
message. ,
Convention News for Women.
Philadelphia Press.
The fact that there will be four women
delegates to the republican national con
vention will make the descriptions of that
event of Interest to women readers of
newspapers who , do not care tor poli
tics. They4 will, want to see what the
women delegates wear, and how It Is
trimmed, and whether they have a new
gown for each session of the convention.
All this Information will be Important
and necessary, and no one need be afraid
It will not be given. Few will 6e more
conspicuous than the four women dele
gates, and they will . all have . their
pictures' in the , paper, - .
EooklnoBackward
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COMPILED PROM B FIIX4
JUKE 3.
Thirty, Years Ago
The B. & M. boys are elated over their
trip to Atlantic, la., where they pounded
the local nine for a score of & to 2.
A picked nine each from the general
ticket and auditing 6fflces of the Union
Pacific, played on the grounds In Lake's
addition with the help of Frank Bandle
and Sam Nash, the ticket nine winning
the foot race by 21 to 17.
Brandt and Durley of the B. & M. nine
will go east next week on a vacation
and the club will not play during their
absence.
A special meeting of the Board of
Trade, with President II. G. Clark in the
chair, discussed paving and paving ma
terials, listening first to an address by
A. L. Barbour of Washington; D. C,
favoring the use of asphalt.
A peculiar accident took place whereby
a brick sent down a shute where some
repairs were being made at the Llnlnger
& Metcalfe warehouse struck a 10-year-
old boy, William Snyder his father
works. In Simpson's carriage factory at
play with a companion, and fractured his
skull with fatar result, although Drs,
Darrow and Parker were called in.
Nebraska City and Fremont were con
nected by telephone today for several
hours while G. W. Dorsey and Judge
Kinney talked horse.
The Tlvoll swimming school has been
formally opened. , .
J. C. Post has been appointed deputy
traveling collector of internal revenue
for the district north of the Platte and
Major Balcombe has been commissioned
as gauger at the Willow Spririfes dls
tlllcry.
A fine medal has been constructed for
John Rush by John Baumer, the Jeweler,
to be given as a prize to St. Catherine's
academy.
Twenty Years Agi
The initial meeting of the Ladles' auxtll
ary board to the Nebraska Columbian
commission was held at the Millard to
organize and outline Its work. The mem
bers were: Mesdames C. H. Van Wyck,
Wyoming, Neb.. M. A. Bock, A. Peter
son and E. L. Eaton, Omaha; E. C
Langworthy, Seward; J. H. Smith, Lin
coln; E. H. Stewart, Blair; Alice D.
Hume, Harvard; C. A. Wells, Matson; J.
H. Lynch, Hebron; Juan Boyle, Kear
ney; W. H. McDonald, North Platte;
Misses Elisabeth W. Irwin, Lincoln and
Antoinette Wortham, Pawnee City. Mrs.
J. 8. Briggs, the Nebraska member of
the National Board of Lady Managers,
was made president of the auxiliary
board.
Paul Helnrlch, assistant auditor of the
B. & M. railroad, died at his residence,
2006 Burt street. ' after a prolonged ill
ness. It was decided to have the body
taken by Edward Brandt to New York.
Many Eighth ward .republicans at
Schroeder's hall, Twenty-fourth and
Cuming streets, organized a club with
John W. Nichols as president, T. L.
Barnett as secretary and Dr. Spalding,
treasurer. i
O. B. Simpson, superintendent of the
Wells-Fargo Express company, left for
a trip through Missouri and Indian Ter
ritory. '
J. R. Buchanan, general passenger
agent of the Elkhom, returned from
Chicago, where he was made chairman
of the Western Passenger association.
Ten Years Ago
Gibson, pitching for Kansas City, held
Omaha to two hits and one run while
his teammates were, netting ten hits
and seven runs off Colonel Podge AUo
way. H. W. Sawyer of the Omaha police de
partment and Miss Catharine Brady were
united In matrimony by Father M. M.
Bronsgeest at St. John's Catholic church.
Miss Myrtle Brady, sister of the bride,
and Charles Potter were the attendants.
A reception was held at the home of the
bride's parents, 2124 Chicago street."
Mrs. W. W. Keysor gave a lecture on
"The Christ Child in Art" at the Kountze
Memorial Lutheran church.
I. J. Dunn, deputy county attorney,
filed a complaint of libel against the
Hon. Doc Tanner, editor of the
South Omaha Democrat. His sensitive
cuticle had been pricked by the trenchant
pen of that famous editor. The action
was deprecated by unterrlfled democrats,
who felt that locally they had already
enough grief to bear.
People Talked About
Mrs. Mary A. Cronan has been ap
pointed official story teller to the Boston
public library. For the last several years
Mrs. Cronan haa been a volunteer story
teller to the children of one of the branch
libraries, giving a part of her spare time
each week to various settlements.
The secretary of the historical society of
Kansas la authority for the statement
that 2.400 towns have disappeared from
the map of the "bleeding commonwealth "
The devastation occurred before the ar
rival of Governor Stubbs and William
Allen White. Everything Is lovely now.
A disciple of the Mole St. Nicholas
liar is putting out some short but classy
observations on the mortality list of the
Italo-Turklsh war. One day a fine buncn
of Italians are put out Of business. Next
day half a thousand Turks are fixed for
cemetery exercises, On the third day the
"dead ones" are scrapping as usual.
Two hundred ministers of Chicago have
approved of Dt-an Sumner's scheme of
requiring a health certificate with a mar
rlage license. This Is reciprocity with a
pure label. A doctor, unable to save a
sick person, sends for a minister. The
ministers now reciprocate by giving tho
doctors the first crack at the marriage
fee.
Miss Eleanor Stabler, a pretty Brook
lyn girl, has made a new record for
strength at Radcllffe College. Her all
round, ability and evenness of develop
ment are remarkable. Her development
is due to her tennis playing. She spends
several hours every day throughout the
season on the tennis courts. Miss Stabler
Is five feet six inches tall and weighs
110 pounds. .
It will be noted that the Boston widow
who gave up an annual income of MOO.OOO
to marry (or lore had six years In which
to accumulate feathers tor the new nest.
Within twelve months the deaths of
Joseph Pulltxer, John Jaeob Attar, Ben
jamin Guggenheim and Isador Straus,
the last three being victim of the T
tanlo disaster, raised the total of Now
Tork's inheritance tax t 120,000,000.
Never before, slnoa the tax- was levied,
nava so many great fortune fattened
the state's Inheritance revenue.
inisuav
.
Long Fight Ahead
Duration of Former Repub
lican Xatlonal Conventions
Plane for the Coming; One.
, St. Louts Globe-Democrat (rep.).
The committee of arrangements for the
republican national gathering look for an
unusually long convention. Tickets of ad
mission are Issued for Tuesday, June 18,
and for four succeeding days, and the
ticket for the last of those days carries
the legend that it will be good for all
sessions "thereafter that the convention
may continue." This indicates that the
committee thinks there la a possibility
that the business on hand may not be
completed by Saturday night, and that
work may have to be resumed on the fol
lowing Monday It Is a wise precaution.
When the national committee decided to
begin Its own work on June 8. twelve days
before the opening of the convention. It
recognized the fact that; In making out
the convention's temporary roll, It would
have a large task on its hands.
i Not often have republican national con
ventions lasted longer than three days.
Sometimes, as In TSSS, when Fremont was
selected, and In 1872. 'when Grant was
nominated for a second term, the work
was completed In two days. There was
a good deal of excitement and much un
certainty regarding the; outcome of the
convention of 1S60, whldh put Lincoln for
ward for his first term, but It did Its
work m three days, as did that of 1876, In
which It was Blaine against the "field."
and in which the "field" combined on the
seventh, ballot and . nominated Haye3.
Three days were, all that were needed by
the convention of . 1896, . which was con
vulsed by the silver fight,, and in which
there was a "walkout" by Teller, Cannon,
Dubois and their associates, -who went
over to the democracy. In that conven
tion, however, only one ballot for the
presidential nominee was 'needed, McKln
ley carrying off the prize.
But the national committee Is justi
fied in expecting a more tumultuous
time in 1912 than has been seen In a
republican gathering In recent years.
The convention which nominated Har
rison the second time lasted four days,
although only one ballot was necessary.
Likewise the convention of 1884, which
nominated Blaine, lasted four days. That
was the only republican convention in
which the choice of the national com
mittee for temporary chairman was re
jected by the big assemblage. The con
vention of 1888, which had the largest
number of local favorites ever seen In
a republtean presidential gathering, lasted
six days and was carried by Harrison.
But the convention of 1880, which, had a
third term issue before It, Grant being
put forward by some of his friends for
a new election, and in which Garfield
was nominated to end the wrangle be
tween . bigger men, took thlrty-slx bal
lots and lasted seven days, breaking aU
the republican records In each particular.
Possibly the proceedings In Chicago a
few weeks hence will be equally halcyon
and vociferous.
A WELCOME DECISION.
Freebooters of Fictitious Capital
Brought to a Halt.
Chicago Tribune.
The federal supreme court haa just
handed down a decision which is an
admirable expression of the aroused
moral consciousness of the evils prac
ticed in what is Ironically called "high
finance."
Certain high financiers of an unfortu
nately familiar type organized a cor
poration and proceeded to sell to this
corporation which ' was merely a legal
fiction and absolutely their creature
property owned by them. The valuation
affirmed in this theoretical sale was, of
course, exorbitant, but on the basis of
It stock was sold to the public.
The device Is well known, and a cer
tain kind of legal login is relied upon
to protect It. The supreme court now
has refused to countenance It, and the
wholly unearned and unsupported profits
must be returned.
The number of American fortunes that
within the last quarter of a century have
been built upon such legerdemain Is not
pleasant to contemplate. They are inde-1
fenslble from any point of view save
that of formal law. They should no
longer be defensible even from that point.
They do not represent any economy, any
benefit of organisation, any creation of
new value. They represent merely the
cheating, of legitimate Investors.
That we have permitted the Get-Rlch-
Quiok Walllngfords to thrive as they
ha" In America Is a reproach to our
laws, our courts and social morals. The
Spanish Main of our "high finance"
needs to be swept clean of the freebooter.
Sltctna- the Express Melon.
Brooklyn Eagle.
The express companies are now show
ing the government how to save $13,000,-
000 by . permitting them to run the pro
posed parcels post. They are getting
nervous. The Washington, Investigation,
It will be remembered, showed by the
books of the companies that 4,000 over
charges or undercharges had been made
by one company in one day and 8,000 by
another company in one day. While many
of these errors were honestly made by
the express agents, It is noticeable that
the company usually got the benefit.
There has been gratifying, progress un
der the Taft administration In handling
this parcels post business.
- Tinea mil Men Change.
,,j .Boston Transcript
How time does change men and their
estimates of other men! In 1908, ' Colonel
Roosevelt had not the slightest objec
tion to the designation of Ellhu Root as
temporary chairman of the republican
national convention. In fact, he was
so much pleased with It 'that he was
commonly supposed to have .suggested
It himself. In the following year Mr. Root
became secretary of state and earned, a
he deserved, the warmest praise of Presi
dent Roosevelt It is not Senator Root
who has changed In these years.
"Wilson, That's AH."
t Indianapolis News. ,
It was a good day for Wood row Wil
son. He won twenty-four, at least, of his
own state delegation, Including the dele-gates-at-large.
He won Minnesota 'also,
and Texas' solid. And. just by way of
good measure, the official vote shows
that he carried Governor Harmon's home
county In Ohio.
PRIMARY REFLECTIONS.
New York World: Another direot
primary election shows another tre
mendous victory for "the people" and less
than half the republicans taking the trou
ble to vote.
Sioux City Journal; On an average, the
colonel s popular vote at the primaries
represents about 25 per cent of the total
republican vote. The demonstration, such
as it Is, Is that the colonel Is strong with
about one republican In four. Question:
What are the other three republicans
going to do If asked to vote for the
colonel for a third term? He ought to get
all three of them to be elected this year.
Springfield Repubii-an: Again it was a
"light vote." On the democratic side, with
Only Governor Wilson in the running
against spite delegates instructed for no
body, this was not surprising perhaps.
But. on the republican side, it was much
more remarkable. It seemed as If there
was uproar enough to drive every re
publican to the primaries to choose be
tween Roosevelt and Taft. Tet fully half
of them declined Ho vote. What wlil they
do In November?
. Philadelphia Record: And after all the
hubbub and humiliation Involved In the
presidential preference scrimmage In New
Jersey, not one-half of the voter could be
Induced , to take part in the shindy. Of
course there can bo no accurato account
ing for the real proference of the. non
voters, but In declining to take part In a
brawl in which the vanquished participant
pleaded in excuse the pressure of hu
miliating necessity and the victor the
brutal joy of a bull moose, the citizens
who stayed away from the polls and are
uncommitted in advance are In a position
better to give final shape to the Novem
ber verdict.
Philadelphia Press: There is a preven
lent belief throughout the country,
wherever direct primaries are held, that
the value of such elections would be
greatly enhanced If some way were found
to prevent the voters of one party from
casting their votes for candidates of the
Other. ' Each party Is entitled to make
Its own nominations without interference,
but does not always do so under the
present system. The complaint about this
weakness In the primary system Is gen
eral, but no way to cure It ha been found,
and as far as we know none that would
effectively answer the purpose has been
suggested.
Goodaeaa Long; Drawn Out.
Pittsburgh Dispatch.
The bitterness of the primary contest
this year Is arousing a sentiment for hold
ing primaries In all states on the same
day. That would enable us to get through
with the hullabaloo and agony at one
stroke. But how Is It to be gone at with
out another Invasion of state rights by a
federal law enacting a national uniform
primaries act?
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"Sometimes," said Uncle ' Eben, you
sees a reform shouter dafs like a lawn
mower out of repair. It kin make a
racket dat wakes up de neighborhood,
but it don't cut no grass." Washington
Star.
"Captain," said the pilot, anxiously,
"I fear the vessel Is ashore."
"Humph!" ejaculated the captain, as
the steamer's nose went further Into the
mud, "your fears seem to be like the ves
selwell grounded." Baltimore Amer
ican. She I see here that a woman doctor
says the girls should stand on their
heads twice a day:
nati Enquirer.
' Millie Was that your intended with
whom I saw you yesterady?
Grace Yes, my present "future," so to
speak, Satire.
'Does he Inv her?"
"Does he love her? I should think lie
does. He's promised to marqh with her
In the suffragette parade." Washington
Herald.
Saxon It's a fine morning, San4y.
(Sandy grunts.)
Saxon 1 said It was a fine morning,
Sandy.
Sandy Verra weel.vejra weel! 1 dlnna
want tae argue! London Opinion.
Bragg-If my wife had the right to..
votn she'd be sure to favor all the can
didates I opposed.
. Ragg Pretty talk for an old married
man. Don't you see you'd have- her
with you by pretending to favor the can
didates you didn't favor. Some men
never seem to gain experience through
marriage. Cleveland Plain Dealer.
"I won't play poker with that fellow
any more. He's entirely too smooth. He
bobbed up last night with four aces."
"What's wrong about that?" -
"I had dealt him four queens." Louis
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THE STUMBLES.
Detroit Free Press.
If you've faltered by the" way,
'Stumbled much or gone astray, -Just
begin afresh today, . - -
Buckle to It,
For the errors you liave made '
And the faults that you've displayed.
Needn't leave you sore dismayed.
We all do it ... : ,
There is none so wise or great
But has faltered in bis gait.
Left the pathway that is straight.
And been humbled.
And in every great man's wake
There is many a mistake.
That his courage tried to shake
When he stumbled.
Just because you've lost one fight
Do not cease to seek the right,
Battle on with all your might,
Fame will crown you;
Yesterday is passed and gone,
It's mistake don't dwell upon,
If you'll only struggle on
They can't down you.
If you blundered yesterday,
Do not cling to your dismay,
Rise to seek a better way
When you've tumbled.-
Keep up your courage, struggle on."
Here's a thought to dwell upon.
You are not the only one
Who has stumbled;