Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 24, 1903, Page 6

. 5 § i " THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1908. THE OMAHA DALY BEE E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTI Daily Bee (without Sunday), Une Year. Dally Bee ahd Sunday, One’ Year. Lliustrated Bee, One Year Bunday Mee, Une Yea Buturaay Mee, Une X Twentieth Ce y DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Dally Bee (without Sunday), per copy.... ¢ Bee (without Sunday), per week...lic r week. .lic $4.00 600 20 w 1w < ily Bee (ncluding Bundiy) Bunaay Bee, per copy ... e Evening Eee (without Sunday), pe K b Evening Bee (including Sunday), week . l()c | Compl rregularities in delivery shoulu be addressed to City Circuiation De- partment. & OFFICES, Omaha—The Bee Bullding, Bouth Omana—City Hall Bullding, Twen- ty-Afth and M Streets Counctl dlul!ll—llll l’rfirlug:ml. Chicago—16_ Unity Bullding. York—232 Park Row Bujlding. hington—ol Fourteenth Btreet. CORRESPONDENCE. 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Notary Publie. -_——— - #!l'hlpl the ground hog is reconsider- ing his determination. smsE——— No extended explanation should be | .,mmiccion broadened, yet there is need The call | needed from a retiring pastor. with the bigger salary is always the voice of God. gt m——— Great conspiracles to kill off the en- tire police force of Omaha depend chiefly on the state of the imagination of the versatile police reporter. The refusal of President Mitchell of the coal miners’ union to accept a lucra- tive lecture platform engagement is an- other evidence that his head is level. Em— The American Bowling congress s having a heated session on the question of loaded balls. If nothing else becomes loaded the congress may yet conclude 1ts ' business in peace. EEpent————— The sultan begs to acknowledge the note of the European powers and will take their request under consideration. He used to do the same thing when his creditors repeatedly sent him their bills. S———— Emperor William is said to be the Iqt- est automobile enthusiast. Having suc- ceeded in giving A new Iimpetus to the fad we may expect him with his usual thrift to go into the business of manu- facturing horseless vehicles. baaeeee——__J 3 President Francis of the St. Louls ex- position is in London getting next to King Edward. He has not yet sent word that the king will visit the exposi- tlon, but we need not be surprised to have such tidings any minute. E——— Fusion members of the Nebraska leg- islature may be few in number, but they could make a demonstration If they wanted to. Up to date the most atten- tive spectator would not be aware there were any fusionists whatever on deck. eTER——————— The approaching end of tho session is the most powerful agency working for the compromise on the statehood bills. lq the life of this congress did not hap- pen to expire next week by limitation the deadlock would be apt to last clear into summer. EEpE————— We fear the public hardly yet ap- preciates the remarkable change that has taken place in the executive office of this state. Governor Mickey comes to Omaha to address church gatherings. His predecessor came to Omaha to pre- side over bull fights, Representative Nelson explains that arter studylng the Omaba ‘city charter for . three “weeks the only points he could . find that needed : patching were three or.feur sectlons relating solely to political jobs. There are a number of places whiere the charter could be ma- terially improved, but as there is no politics in.them such improvements will have to go by the board. erte———— The exit of ex-Senator Allen from the newspaper field by the merger of his paper with its chief competitor cuts shart ‘& journallstic career of which much was expected. Senator Allen must have come to the conclusion that he could do more by his voice than by his pen. Many men graduate from journal- ism Into politics, but few make the transition successfully from politics to Journalism. —_— The medical college men want the law relating to the dispositiop of corpses of public charges changed so that more of . them will find their way to the dissect- ing room and fewer to the cemetery. As the law now stands the body may be claimed by any relative or friend and then burled at the public expense, for which the undertaker gets $25. It is needless to say that with a $25 fuoeral in sight few paupers dle without friends. This is a serious matter which the legislature should consider. B «ALUE OF ANTI-REBATE LAW. The chairman of the Interstate Com- merce commission expects good results from the anti-rebate law. He points defects in to out that it will correct th the crminal provisions of the regulate commerce. Under the old law only the officers or agents of a common carrier were indictable. The anti-rebate law subjects the corporation to punish ment. The original act prescribed im- prisonment. In the opinion of Chalrman Knapp this was a defect, because rail- road men were unwilling to give infor- mation for fear that the result might send a friend or acqualntance to prison, whereas they would have testified if the consequence was simply to impose a fine on a rival corporation. The new law will thus enable the commission to ob- tain evidence which it could not secure before. Under the old law a shipper was not indlctable for taking a rebate unless it effected an actual discrimina- tion in his favor. “It was not sufficient to prove that a concession had been made from the tariff by rebate or other device; it was necessary to also show that some other shipper pald the tariff rate or some other higher rate for like and contemporaneous service.” This In most cases was out of the question and especially in the most flagrant instances. The new law remedies this. Another featuré of the Elkins law commended by the chairman of the Interstate Com- merce commission s that expressly con- ferring upon the federal courts jurisdie- tion to prevent rate-cutting by Injunc- tion. All these features of the new law had been recommended by the commission and they very materinlly enlarge and strengthen its powers, but whether or not the law shall be as effective as ex- pected still depends upon its adminis- tration, or in other words, upon the watchfulness and the diligence of the commission. There are many who be- lleve that more could have been accom- plished than has been done for the pre- vention of unlawful discriminations had the commission been more zealous in the performance of its duties. We do not question the correctness of the views expressed by Mr. Knapp, who has ear- nestly sought to have the authority of the of aggressive action on the part of that body In order to restore public confi- dence in it. The new law must be firmly and falthfully enforced. There must be the exercise of the utmost vigl- lance to see that it is not violated. Tt will not do to take it for granted that the common carriers will not now ven- ture to contravene the law, or that the large shippers will not make an effort to induce the carriers to diseriminate in their favor, despite the fact that this is unlawful and punishable by a heavy fll.ze. In & word, the anti-rebate law will prove valuable If the proper and ade- quate effort is made by the Interstate Commerce commission to render it effec- tive and not otherwise. Tt 18 to be pre- sumed that that body, which Is not. at present very strong in the public confi- dence, will now that it has secured the authority it asked for be more energetic and zealous in ehforcing the law. S—— NO SUBS(DY LEGISLATION. The decision of the house committee on merchant marine not to report the ship subsidy bill disposes of that ques- tion for the present congress. The bill had passed the semate and its sup- porters in the house felt confident that they would be able to get it through that body, but four republicans of the committee, all western men, voted with the democrats against reporting the measure and It {s safe to say that should further effort be made to get it before the house it will be unsuccessful. The purpose of the bill is to promote the bullding up of an American mer- chant marine by a system of subsidies and there has always 'heey a strong opposition to such a policy. This has been very much increased since the organization of the International Navl- gation company, which now controls most of the steamship lines between this country and Europe. It has been urged that this company would be the chief beneficlary of the subsidy, an ar- gument quite sufficlent of ftself to kill any measure of this kind. It is pos- sible, though hardly probable, that an attempt will be made in the next con- Eress to revive the ship subsidy bill, The fact is that a great many repub. licans who formerly favored this policy, belleving it to be the only practicable way of bullding up a merchant marine, have since the steamship merger was effected become Oopponents of the policy and they are not likely to again support It. It s2ems safe to say that tle fail- ure of ship subsidies in the present con- gress puts an end to that question for a long time, UUR INSULAR POSSESSIONS, Only one of our insular possessions presents conditions that are satisfactory and that is Porto Rlico. The little is- land is doing well and its people appear to be entirely contented. It appears from the last report of the governor that the economic Improvement of Porto Rico, as indicated by statistics of ex- ports and imports, has been remarkable. The trade of the island has more than doubled within the last two years and in all directions there has been a marked improvement under American rule. There is not so satisfactory a sit- uation in Hawall. The business of the island h not materially Improved since its annexation and there Is more or less dissatisfaction with existing conditions, particularly the restriction regarding the Importation of labor. It appears that on the whole the people are not so well con‘ented under Amer- fcan rule as they were before. It is in the Philippines, however, that the situation is really serious, making @& most urgent demand for relief from congress. While It is true that the is- lands are pacified and the only trouble now belng experienced is from the ladrones, who are said not to be num- erous,, unless financial and commercial conditions are soon improved there is strong probability of grave ditticulty with the people, many of whom are| practically destitute. Congress has al ready unduly delayed provision for the relief which the Philippine commission and the commercial Interests of the archipelago have gshown to be necessary and it would be deplorable if the ses sion should end without something being done. Mr. Wright, vice governor, says the best people among the nativ of the Islands are looking with favor on American methods, but it cannot be expected that they will continue to do 80 If not given the rellef they need. accomplished in Porto Rico furnishes an example of what is necessary to the improvement and prosperity of the other lnsular possessions. ———— ELECTIVE OR APPOINTIVE CITY ATTORNEY. One of the changes which the pro- posed charter revision bill would en- graft on the Omaha charter would make the office of city attorney elective in- stead of, as now, appointive. It would not only take the city attorney out from among the officers responsible to the mayor, but would also vest him with the power to appoint the assistant city attorney without even confirmation by the councll. The question is, Would an elective city attorney give better results to the taxpayers than an appointive city attorney? Election has been tried in this and in mauy other states, but has not proved very successful, so that in every large city in the country, with few exceptions, the city attorney is appointed by the mayor, someétimes subject to confirma- tion by the council, but not Invariably 80. The reason is easy to gather. The city attorney is the law officer of the corporation of which the mayor is the chief executlve. He must be the con- fidential adviser of the mayor in almost every matter of public business, and it is certainly highly desirable that the mayor and his legal adviser should have confidence In one another and pursue the same general policy. Making the office of attorney elective runs the risk of having the mayor and attorney chosen from different political parties and committed to opposite publfe poli- cles. Such a condition could not but produce constant frictlon to the detri- ment of the city's interests. Our Jawmakers must remember that they are not legislating for the day or for particular persons when they make a charter, but are providing a frame of government which may stand for years to come. The present charter of Omaha has remained practically unchanged for six years, and there is no telling how long it must wait again for revision. To revolutionize charter provision out of spite or to make it easy for some par- ticular person to connect with a job ought to be below the dignity and pur- pose of any legislative member. Yet the proposed amendment relating to the city attorney seems inspired from no other motives, #od8 Republicans at Lincoln are about to complete the preliminaries of their mu- nicipal campaign by making nomina- tions for police commissioner at a sup- plementary primary. In this case the contest for favor turns directly upon the policy to be pursued in fixing the amount required for liquor licenses and the strict'or liberal enforcement of the Slocumb law. Ina word, Lincoln people are fully enjoying home rule in the ad- ministration of their police department, denied to Omaha by the governor-ap- pointed police board, that deprives the people here of all opportunity to say directly or indirectly who shall be re- sponsible and what policy shall be pur- sved. There is no good reason what- ever why Omaha should not be accorded the same right of home rule that Lin- coln has. — The assignment of Captain W. A. Mer- cer by the government at Washington to take charge of an Indian reservation out in Utah indicates that the depart- ment never took any stock in the com- plaints lodged against Captain Mercer during his service as Indian agent at the Omaha and Winnebago reservations, The worst charge against that officer while on the Omaha reservation was that he refused to play in with the poli- ticlans and land grabbers' ring, who de- pend upon the co-operation of the agent in the exploitation of the red man. AL L We often hear of the advantages of rural towns as sites for large educational institutions and of the disadvantages at- tending thefr location in great ecities, The experience of Cornell university with the present typhoid epldemic there shows that there are disadvantages of rural locations as well. A small town 1s seldom able to provide facilities for sani- tation conforming to the most advanced demand. — The World-Herald clairvoyant, who undertook to tell how one of the new water commissioners would have voted If he had only voted at all, now tries to get out of it by saying that he relied on another trance medium who stands high In the democratic party and whose word will be implicitly belleved. Who is the other man? If he exists in fact, why not give his name? —— The last time they were heard from the franchised corporations insisted that they bhad grgcefully aequiesced in the supreme court decision requiring them to pay taxes on their entire franchise values. But their acquiesence was evl- dently intended only & temporary affalr. ) Detroit Free Press. The exposure of the turf investment frauds comes before the American news- papers have finished expressing their amaze- meat at the gullibility of the Freach as re- i e vealed by the Humbert swindle. has & monopoly of the “easy mar! Acquire Haman Characteristics. | New York World. Park squirrels, overfed by admirers, have lost their former thrifty habits and must be cared for at public expense. Squirrels are disgustingly human w king the RHetter P Indlanapoils News. This scheme of making anthracite out of | soft coal will no doubt furnish an amusing | experiment for the scientists, but the coal dealers have a better one—they make money out of it. | Probably She eeds the Money. Chicago Record-Herald. The Montana legislature is being urged |to give Mrs. Steven Murphy a reward of | $3,000 for being the mother of triplets. This It seems evident that what has been | - 4 is a good move. The mother of triplets ought to have consolation of some sort and money 18 what she generally needs most. The Loutsville Courfer-Journal. One of the objections urged against the admission of New Mexico as a state s that the people who spring from the Span- ish stock “are led by dishonest and un- scrupulous men.” It this were an insuper- able obstacle to statehood, how many of our existing states would it be nec: to remand to the position of territor| lass House Agnin. Our Textile Ineficiency. Cleveland Leader. The sale of & famous and splendid Per- sian carpet at auction In New York for $38,000 is an extraordinary reminder that all the boasted inventions and appliances of the most advanced manufacturing ng- tions of Europe and America are beaten, very decisively, In the making of floor cov- erings, by the nomads of Turkistan and the primitive weavers of other Asiatic coun- tries. It is common for manufacturers of rugs and carpets in this country and Eu- rope to confess the superiority of Orlental designs by copying them as closely as pos- sible, and the artistic beauty of the pat- terns and colors of the rugs which were made many centuries ago in the heart of Asia 18 not more remarkable than the 1 iDg qualities of the dyes used and the thorough workmanship of weavers. SOUND, HEALTHY TALK. Rights and Wron of Organised abor and Ory zed Capital. Detrolt Free Pre There is a downright pleasure in read- ing the speech made by Mr. E. E. Clark of Cedar Rapids, Ia., to the Twentieth Cen- tury club at Boston. He enunciated no novel doctrine, promulgated no new and undiscovered principle of right and half a century ago his statements would have been dismissed as axiomatic. But a mighty revolution has been working since then and there is such a tendency to merge the individual right that it is endangered from the forces of both capital and labor. Mr. Clark represents. the latter on the anthracite coal strike commission and his address has an added importance in consequence. The clever retort of the commissioner to the memorable assumption of divine right by President Baer has a value which loses sight of a merely smart bit of re- partee. It recalls the too often forgotten duty of those who wleld great power toward those whose conditions subordinate them. That plain duty is in “elevating and im- proving the conditfon of mankind” and in “encouraging order, industry, thrift and self-respect.” But even more noteworthy from this source is his construction of the rights of personal liberty as bearing upon the aggressions of ‘organized labor. The individual striker may strike with his fellows or remain at work. No striker has the right to use violence or intimida- tion agalnst the man who elects to work. No striker hak the right to destroy or in- jure the property of his former employer. “It organized labor canmot work out fits salvation without’ resorting to unlawful acts, its existence cannot be defended. No employer has a right to blecklist any man who wants to work and labor has legit- imately kept within his privileges, no mat- ter how obnoxious to organized labor or any of its membership.”” There ig a Whole economic gospel in these propositions. When they are accepted capital and labor will be working shoulder to shoulder. PERSONAL NOTES. |New Jersey proposes to invest $350,000 in gbod roads this year. ' The republican candidate for mayor of Philadelphia was elected by a majority of 138,000 votes. Sir Christopher Furnass is called the J. Pierpont Morgan of Great /Britain. He is the president of a big shipping company and two golf clubs. The New York Sun tells Senator Mor- gan that ‘“‘the tail end of a long and gen- erally creditable public career ought not to be a mule’s tail."” J. B. Davy, lnstructor in botany at the University of California, has been appointed chiet agriculturist and botanist of the Transvaal government, initial salary of $5,000 a year and expenses. The Papyrus club of Boston, composed wholly of authors, has just celebrated its thirtieth anniversary. It has numbered among its membership nearly all the dis- tingulshed men of letters in the modern Athens. President Roosevelt had more fun than a schoolboy at the wedding of Senator Cockrell's daughter—joked with the girl shook hands with the matrons and ex- changed “jollying" remarks with the young and old men. Dr. F. L. Gardiner, one of the leading physicians in Washington, is dead. During the Harrison administration he was the first White House physician and at other times had among his patients James G. Blaine and Thomas B. Reed. Colonel De Lachaise of the French army has been reprimanded by the minister of war for having told some recruits that the red, white and blue of the French flag represented three royal familles—the Ca- pets, the Valols and the Bourbons. He manifested his resentment of the reprimand by resigning his command. Congressman Fordney of Saginaw, Mich., was arguing In the house on behalf of some measure. Opposition developed on the part of some republicans and that made Mr. Fordney even more earnest in his ar- gument. He reached a feverish compari- son as to the objections raised and the benefits that would accrue. “Why, Mr. Speaker,” sald he, “the objections raised here to the passage of this bill dom't amount to a fly track on the map of the world.” A laugh went around the ma- hogany desks and Mr. Fordney’s bill passed with a whoop. General Booth, the Salvation Army leader, cracked a few jokes with statesmen while he was in Washington. Senator Frye sald to bim: “When I was in London I was much interested in your organization. In fact I thought of joinin; ald the general; “you would not submit to our discipline.” Senator Alger sald he understood Hanna intended to join. “Ah, I should make him chancellor of the ex- | chequer,” was the revivalist's reply., Sen- ator Hoar was introduced jocularly as worst man in the senate.” sald the general, heartily. “I want to meet all kinds. The bad I want to help and the &00d I want to help me." “‘Better not," ..“..I HINTS FOR THE LEGISLATURE. ! Creighton Courier: The press north of the | Platte is unanimous in demanding that the | Norfolk asylum shall be rebuilt. It looks | as though a lever as strong as that ought to be sufficient to pry up the necessary ap propriation for the work North Platte Tribune: A bill has been introduced in the legislature forbidding hunters from constructing blinds, hiding places or structures in the rivers and | streams of the state for the purpose of shooting wild geese or ducks blinds very few geese could be killed, and the passage of such a measure would prac- | tically destroy the sport of goose hunting The sportsmen of the state are up In arms against the bill, and it will meet that early death which it deserves. Springfleld Monitor: They are still | pounding away on a bill to re-apportion the state into new judicial districts. Under the new bill Sarpy county is to be joined to Cass and Otoe to constitute the Second district. The new bill provides for four less judges than at the present time. It will probably never become a law, as there are too many with political uspirations who think themselves fitted for the position of district judge that will fight it, hoping that some day the lightning will strike them and elevate them to & judgeship. Toblas Express: While there are pos- sibly some explosions of threshing ma- chine engines, caused by incompetent en- gineers and defective bollers, we do not belleve they are of sufcient freguency to justify the legislature in passing the bill introduced in the lower house, and which provides that all engineers must have a license to run and operate an engine and also have boilers inspected by the state boiler inspector. The threshing men claim it will cost them year, as It requires each man to pay $5 for a license and §6 to have the boller in- spected. Loutsville Courler: There is a bill in the state legislature to tack Sarpy county onto Cass and Otoe in a new judicial dis- trict. Perhaps this bill will carry. It seems to us that the present number of Judges is about correct. The new bill does away with four of our present district judges. It will be a smail saving to the taxpayers, but will be a great incon- venifence in a great many different ways. The judges have about all they can handle successfully now and if more work fs as- signed them they perhaps will not be able to clear the Hocket up each year. Judge Jessen has about all he can do to look after Cass and Otoe countie Falls City Journal: The democratic papers are having an awful time. They want to find fault with the legislature and put stumbling blocks in the way of legisla- tion, but they can't get a chance. The corporation lobby has received euch scant courtesy at the hands of the legislators as to discourage these papers in making any attempt to show that the legislature is the creature of the corporations. The Bur- gess bill has passed the house and when it passes the senate it will be such a body hlow to the printing trust as to convinea the democratic press that the republicans bave made some anti-trust legislation that the democrats forgot to do when they were in power. York Times: That there will be some kind of revenue Jegislation by the present leglalature is almost as good as assured. Nearly every member has his mind made up to this and will co-operate with the committee. It must be borne in mind, how- ever, that all important legislation fs the result of compromise. No one can get ex- actly what he wants.nor precisely what he thinks would be best, where there are so many different ideas and opinions. Each one will have to yleld something and each must show respect for the copvictions of others. It we have a revenue law it will be a compromise bill, no doubt, and the legislators will show as much wisdom in what they yield as in what they secure. Broken Bow Republican: Representative Tooley only secured forty-one votes in the house Tuesday for his reapportionment bill while there were forty-eight recorded against it. It was on the reapportionment tssue Mr. Tooley was elected. The bill has not been passed upon by the senate, where it is also on file, and it is a bare posetbility that it will pass that body and be returned to the house for its concur- rence. But if such a thing should occur it is hardly probable that the house would change its vote. Personally Mr. Tooley has our sympathy, as that bill was his whole stock in trade. We predicted before election that the scheme would not suc- ceed in the legislature and it would be useless to elect Mr. Tooley on that issue. But he succeeded in attracting the atten- tion of the public through his bill and got not a little notoriety out of it for his effort. Tekamah Journal: One of Platte county’s delegates to the legislature proposes to en- deavor to have no partlality shown in the purchase of voters at any election, but de- sires that all voters shall be pald—in a way. Looked at from anmother point of view, it is a fine agalnst those who fail or refuse to exercise their rights of franchise. He has introduced a bill providing that each voter shall be assessed a tax of $3. If he appears at the polls and votes, the election board presents him a receipt for the tax, but If he remains away the tax stands against his account. The man In- troducing the bill 1s a fusionist and thinks that 1t it should carry there would be no more republican victories in the state, as there would be no more stay-at-home fusion voters. He might be disappointed in the ffnal outcome of his measure, as it has been quite conclusively shown that there are republicans who neglect to vote. Hartington Herald: It would be a good fdea for the legislature to place the crime of embezzlement in the same class with that of forgery by removing the time limit. At present the statute of limita- tion runs against the crime of embezzle- ment. Cedar county has at the present time a case which shows the absurdity of the present law. Ex-Treasurer Tom Ziegler has been found ehort, interest added, over $30,000, and the probability Is that he will be permitted to go scot free because of the statute of limitation run. ning against the crime of embezzlement. Lawyers claim it is exceedingly difficult to prove a case of forgery under the most tavorable conditions. Why the statute of limitation should run agalnst embezzle- ment and not against forgery is a conun- drum we find ourself unable to solve, and a8 yet we have not heard a reasonable so- lution from any member of the legal fraternity, Hebron Register: The citizens of Geneva are in no wise disturbed over the recom- mendation of the legislativd committee, that the girls' industrial schpol be abol- ished at that place—in fact they agree with the committee. But back of thls ment” s & bulldings used for one of the five state normal schools recently provided for by the legislature. Hebron also has e fine building and most desirable site for a nor- mal school, and the Commercial club should take this matter up before it is too late. The legislative committee on public lands and buildings, after visiting the girls' fn- dustrial school at Geneva, recommended the abolishment of that institution, and the removal of the Inmates to the Kearney school for boys. There are but thirty in- mates in the school at Geneva. The schoo! was built in the §0od old boodle days and there mever was &0y need for the ineti- tution except to PAY off & few political debts. Without such | BITS OF WASHINGTON LIFE. Minor Scemes and Imct on the Spot. faction of featherless chickens. are conducted at southern stations, while the reeults of the experiments is yet a matter ot conjecture, | success. Experiments were recently serfously un- dertaken by officlals of the German gov- ernment having this end in view, and are now in progress, Of course, it will be some time before suficient data is obtained to be of value in discussing the question, but the work will be taken up in this country, and it is believed with more real hope of Success, owing to the more favorable and advantageous climate and other conditions. The idea of a breed of featherless chick- ens is not as farfetched or ridiculous as would at first appear to the lay mind. The wonders which science has achieved in the animal and the vegetable kingdoms are well known, and this latest contemplated task is not even conjecturally impossible of achlevement. A dozen plans have been tried to lure Senator Quay away from the senate, and thus break up the fight for the statehood bill. None has been successful. The latest attempt was when a friend in Florida who thinks Quay might be in a much better business than fighting for statehood sent him the following tele- &ri Fishing was never so good. Tarpon are biting everywhere. Sport l& magnificent.” Senator Quay read the telegram and |emiled one of his queer three-cornered | smiles. Then he wrote this reply: “Tarpon may be biting, but I am mot. M. S. Quay.” A dejected man from Iowa stood in Stat- uary Hall, reports the New York World. “This politics game is not what ({t's cracked up to be,” he sald. “Now, listen to me. There was a young fellow out in my state who went to the Philippines and got consumption. He returned and put it up to his friends to get him a government place In some high altitude where he could live. Bix of hie old chums back in the home town in Towa wrote to me and asked me to get him work. I hustled around and got him & job as consul—got 1t dy my own efforts and through my own pull. “The news was carried in the home paper and each of those six men wrote to the sick man and told him that the job was secured through his own personal influefoe and efforts. Then it came out that the chap couldn’t take the job because the place isn’t far enough above the tide-water. hereupon,” sald the lowa man, as he savagely bi~. the end off a cligar, “each of the six friends back home wrote to me giving me bally-whack because the fellow wouldn't take the job they had individuelly secured for him.” A deputation of Baltimore singers had an appointment at a certaln hour with President Roosevelt, whom they wished to attend a sangerfest next June. The singers failed to appear on.time, but when Sen- ator McComas of Maryland appeared with another delegation Mr. Roosevelt thought they represented the sangerfest. The presi- dent welcoméd them cordially, saying he was very fond of German songs. He con- tinued talking in that strain until, Senator McComas precipitately explained that this delegation had come to invite the president to attend the annual dinper of the Hiber- nian soclety of Baltimore. These was a laugh all around, the same being renewed when the singers appeared later and heard from Mr. Roosevelt of the mistake he had made. Since the president's “‘race suicide” let- ter, in which he deplored the lack of chil- dren in American families, was printed he has been overwhelmed by letters of congratulation from all parts of the coun- try. The most convincing exhibit came to- day. It was a photograph from Bucyrus, 0. It showed a sturdy man and his equally sturdy wife, surrounded by twelve chil- dren, all their own. Beneath the picture was written the simple legend: “Not sullty.” letters a day, “Ope of the most remarkable letters I ever recelved,” he says, “arrived on the morning the first full accounts of the Mar- tinique disaster were printed n the news papers. The writer said he saw that the American consul at Martiaique had been burned to death. He applied for the place, and wound up with the sentence: * I make this early appiication so as to get In ahead of those loathsome creatures, the officeseeker: “Another curlous letter,” continued the president, “came from a member of the Union League club in New York. It wouldn't be fair to tell his name. This man wrote me that he had met a traveled German coming from Burope on the Deutschland, and that the German had confided to him that In the interfor of Nicaragua there was a lake 120 miles long and thirty miles wide that was deep enough for navigation. He hastened to tell me this important news inasmuch as he thonght it would be well to have the lake looked up as & part of the route of the {stimian canal “He was In earnest, t0o," sald the pres- dcnt, “regardless of the fact that Lake Nicaragua has been the basis of the Nic- aragua canal plans for the last half cen- tury or more, and appears on every real map of the country ever made. “One of the most harrowlng experiences 1 ever bad In the way of letters, though,” sald the presideni, “was shortly after I came into office.' Some deviilshly ingenious democratic newspaper correspondent sent out a story in which he said I was anxious to have the people advise me on publlc questions. He said I was thirsting for ad- vice. “The result was,” continued the pres- prices—$3.50 up. The present figures re| Having settled with more or less satis- the effect on the human stomach of certaln food preservatives, the Agricul- tural department is turning its collective mind to the problem of producing a breed The experiments and those having the affair in charge are sanguine of ultimate THE OLD RELIABLE Ki POWDER | ; Absolutely Pure THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE fdent, with a shudder of horror, “that in two days my mail doubled in size and in a week quadrupled. The people evidently had advice on tap." EXTENDING RURAL DELIVERY, Over One Million S re Miles of Ter. ritory Covered. Milwaukee Sentinél. The Postal department is to be congratu- {1ated on the marked and continued success |of the free rural mail delivery system, { which has now passed well beyond the ex- | perimental stage. Like most new things, it met with stiff opposition at the start, when proposed by the Farmers' Grange as- soctation, but trial has proved that most of the objections urged against it were, if not entirely groundiess, at least overdrawn. Under the businesslike management of Postmaster General Payne—whose anterior practical experience of postal administra- tive work made his appointment a speolally suitable one—tho rural service is being not only expanded and improved, but is gradu- ally getting to something like A self-sup- porting basis. Wise economies which in- volve no impairment of the service to its beneficiaries have been suggested by ex- perience, and extra cost has been partly dftset by the doing away with superflious postoffices and obsolete routes. This use- ful development of the public service has been quietly and unostentatiously, and without brag or flourish of party trumpet, pushed forward during the four years sincoe its adoption, until today, as is reported, it covers over 1,000,000 square miles of ter- ritory and serves 21,000,000 people, A large measure of this rapld, but in every local case well considered and warranted, exten- slon s due to the sound policy of appoint- ing a specially qualified and practical busi- ness man like Mr. Payne to the headship of & distinctively business department. SAID IN FUN. “It may be true sald Uncle Eben, “dat riches don' bring happiness; but you wants to bear In min' jes’ de same da: @ can make a heap o' trouble.’ gton Btar. “Your pastor must be a financier." “1 should say so! Why, he has a scheme to fund the church debt at 2i4 per cent, and I belleve that some day he'll capiializo the church and issue common and preforred stock.”—Puck. by—Here's an awful defect in OUEERaTy Baw Book on Tire Stoke Naggsby—What is 1t w-1n He has the pleture lttle ewe lamb on the ram page—Baifimore American. Kidder—And then I thought there is uarreling with a milkman. hat's right. He'll make you ler every time.—Detroit Free Press. s hold and fell into Even then 1 just drop- d, with an en- The monkey lost hi the crocodile’s waliting jaws. his wits did not desert hi in -for dinner,” he gaging smile.—Yale Reco) “I suppose you'd like to be worth a milllon dollars?” she suggested. “No, mum,” replied the tramp. “It'ud be too much trouble lookin' after the All 1 want i that some feller worth a million dollars shall pervide '—Chicago Post. Tutor—Richard, you will please go to the blackboard and demonstrate the propo- sition that the square of the hypotenuse of & right angled triangle is eaual to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. led Son—What's the use? I'm wills ing to admit it.—Philadelphia Press. ot Aty POEM BY STONEWALL JACKSON. wl fer me. The Richmond Times is authority for the gtatement that this poem was written by Stonewall Jackson while he was serving with the army In the Mexican war: The tattoo beats—the lights ate gove, The around in slumber les; The night with solemn pace moves on, | The shadows thicken o'er the skies; But s my weary eyes hath flown And sad, uneasy thoughts arise. 1 think of thee, oh, dearest one, Whose love my early life hath blest— Of thee and him—our baby son— Who slumbers on thy gentle breast. God of the tender, frail and lone, Oh, guard the tender slecper's rest. And hover gently, hover near To her, whose watchful eye {8 wot— To mother, wife—the doubly dear, In'whose young heart have freshly met Two streams of love so deep and clear, And cheer her drooping spirits yet. Whatever fate those forms may show, Loved with ’Blvuuloj\ almost wild— By day—by night oy or woe— By fears oppressed, or hopes begulled, From every danger, every foe, O God, protect my wifé and child! Now, while she kneels before Thy throoe, Oh, teach her, ruler of the skies, That, while by 'Thy behest alone, Earth's mightiest powers fall or rise, No tear is wept to Thee unknown, No hair 18 lost, no sparrow dles! That Thou can'st stay the ruthless hands Of dark disease, and soothe its pain; That only by Thy stern commands The baftle's lost, the soldier's slain— That from the distant sea or land Thou bring'st the wanderer home again, And when upon her pillow lone Her tear-wet cheek is sadly prest, May happler visions beam upon ‘The brightening current of her breast, pok nor angry tone Sabbath of her rest. No frawning Disturb the AN EXTRA All that the winter suit needs to be good as new may be a fresh pair of trousers. We've a lot of odd and broken lots at various present “extra” reductions, NO CLOTHING FITS LIKE OURS. Hrowning, King 5 Go .Ln—l—.n\‘) .