Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 5, 1903, Page 4

_THE OMAHA DALY BEE B. ROSI WA'I'ER EDITOR. PUBLIIHID FVIR\' IOINI\G TERMS DF SUBSCRIPTION ally Bee (without Sunday), One Year. ally Bee and Sunday, One Year. lustrated Bee, One Year. day Bee, One Year. Bee, One Year Century Fasn, DELIVERED BY CARRIER. §Elly Bee (without Sunday), per cop; ily Bee (without SBunday), per weel B Bee (including Sunday), per week. 170 unday Bee, per copy.. ivening Bee (without Sunday), vanln. Bee (including Sunday), per Zomplai in deiivery should be addressed i City Circulation De« partment. OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Building. Bouth Omana—City Hall Bullding, Twen- ty-fifth and M streets. Council Bluffs—10 Pear] Street. Shicago it Unity Bullding New 2328 Park Row Bundmg “uh|nnon—601 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editoria) Department. nEm'r'rA\iLEs Remit by draft, s or postal order goyable to The Boo. Publishing Company. ls 2-cent: sum]y- Pml in payment of accounts. Fersonal checks, except on or Gglern exchanges, not accepted. B Bl PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.: George B. Taschuck, secretary of The Bee Company,. being duly sworn accual number of full and fes of The Dally Mornin & unday Bee printed during {he month of Beptember, 193, was as fol- lows 2 1 18, 1. 18, sSEREREESES Total. Iaq unsold and returned coples. Net total sales.. Net average sales. flmmm n, TZSCHUCK. r‘?lcrl. m. ay. “y “ nd sworn to aarE (Seal.) ‘Notary. Pubile. ‘PARTIES LEAVING THE CITY. Parties leaving the city at mny time may have The Bee to them regularly by Bee Business a8 often as desired, Anything else to be enjoined? Don't - &l rush into court at once. Ak-Sar-Ben IX 18 sure to break a rec- b if he can only get oft without a k. track. 2 eingtrapt—— It is unnecessary to be reminded that ‘the . foot ball semson is now on. The casualty Jist will begin coming in shortly, EE—— The political mathematiclans should - wtudy the new rules for nominations on republic of Guatamala is bank- /The republic that has a surplus tnnnry like that belonging to 8am s the exception. ————— wicked flee when no man pur- sueth. So the political office seeker_who feays exposure always imagines that someone who has it in for him is after The gentleman of the green cloth who publicly confesses to having run a " erooked gambling joint declares that he 8 out of the business for good. Quite likely. CaES ey " Hyery republican in Douglas county ‘should register his choice of candidates for county offices tomorrow, so that the \ t:tfl.m-m of direct nominations shall huve a fair trial. i Sem—mee—— ¢ " Bdgar Howard wants to know what Judge Barnes would have done in de- -dng several cases for which Judge ~ Bullivan is criticized If he had been on the supreme bench. Elect him supreme Judge and see. He will do his duty consclentiously and to the best of his ~ ability, he has promised. em——— _ President Harper of the University of Ohicago “in introducing Mayor Low of . New York to his student body referred * to him as a man fit to become president * of the Unlted States. Mayor Low's fit- ness is not to be questioned. The uble is that the United States has many - qualified citizens, but only one ‘ean be president at a time. Emrr—m— Omahlia has a right to be proud of the ificent displays made by its retall ‘merchants in their various business es- tablishments whenever the occasion - comes for entertaining any 'considerable - number of outdf-town guests, Omaha’s reputation as an up-to-date trade center __rests with the retail merchants, and it is _ gratifying to find them always alert and ., ready each to do his share toward main- taining supremacy. """ Republicans who want factionalism ~_stamped out and hurmony restored in M‘ld Douglas county should give expression to thelr sentiment voting for the “Harmony candidates” at the primary election tomorrow. These eandidates are fairly distributed among _all the elements of the party and all parts of the county. They are, more- s , men of unimpeachable character ¥ pu acknowledged capacity. a1 " Bvery republican voter in Douglas mwtmhvlwl’hmh JUDGE VINSONHALBR'S EXHIBIT, OMAHA, Oct. 3, 193.—To the Bditor of the World-Heral 1 submit herewith a statement of the amount of funds which have passed through this office and those now on hand, beginning January 4, 1900, and endfhg October 1, 1903: Received from Judge Irving Baxter, my Predecessor.................. Recelved on sundry accovhts. .. Recelved on account of Douglas county Disbursements !rnm J-nunry o October 1, 1008: Douglas county.. [ Balance cash and Iolml on ID- proved securities Amount of witness fees turned over o me by Judge Baxter still unpaid and which are included in”the above statement Amount of witness fees paid during my Incumbency, from January 4, 1900, to October 1, 1908, It you will kindly publish this statement in your paper I shall greatly appreciate it. DUNCAN M. VINSONHALER. For the benefit of Judge Vinsonhaler and for the information of the public the above financial exhibit is .repro- duced. Judge Vinsonhaler's statement would have been cheerfully published by The Bee had he seen fit to favor it with a copy. We regret to say, however, that the exhibit is not sutficiently instructive, The exhibit fully confirms the statement 28,800 | made by The Bee that Judge Vinson- haler has had in hig custody anywhere | ¢, from $20,000 to $30,000 of money be- longing to the county and to various trust funds for the last three and a half years. But Judge Vinsonhaler fails to tell how much interest this money hias earned for the county or for the various estates for which he is the legal trustee. Judge Vinsonhaler admits having in his possession at the present time a bal- ance of $25,508.27, exclusive of uncalled for witness fees. At 2 per cent a year $25,000 would earn $500 a year or $1,750 for three and a half years. These ques- tions naturally suggest themselves: Why has not Judge Vinsonhaler credited the county with the interest and turned over the amount earned on county funds at least’at the end of each year or ut the end of his first term? ‘Why has he failed to eredit interest to the Byron Reed company on the $1,700 which he had held in his. possession more than three years and finally paid under a decree of court a few months ago? If the money in hll custody is de- posited in bank on interest or loaned out on securities, why does he not make a detailed exhibit of the amount on de- posit in banks and the amount loaned out on securities, the same as any other custodian of public funds would make and should make? Judge Vinsonhaler admits in his ex- hibit that he received $138.40 from his predecessor for unclaimed wi fees, Why did he not pay this money over into the county treasury at the end of' the first six months, as the law requires him to do, or at the end of the first year, or at the end of his first term? ‘Why should he hold it during his sec- ond term? What other inference could there be than that he intends to bold onto it for several years longer if re- elected for a third term? To be sure, the amount is not very large, but the offense is just the same under the law as if the amount were fifty times a¥ large. The least satisfactory part of the state- ment is the “Credit on sundry accounts, $223,165.56,” and the “Disbursed on sundry accounts, $225801.23.” Suppose such a statement were made by a state or county treasurer or the treasurer of a large corporation;” would that be ac- cepted by the taxpayers or board of di- rectors as satisfactory information? E—— BXTRA SKSSION OF CONGRESS. President Roosevelt, according to the latest reports from Washington, is de- termined to call an extra session of the fifty-elghth congress next ménth. Sena- tors and representatives who have called upon him to urge that a speclal session is unnecessary have, it is said, received assurances that the president had de- cided that it is the duty of the govern- ment to keep faith with Cuba in regard to the reciprocity treaty and the under- standing is that this will be the only matter which the president in his mes- sage will ask action upon, It has been assumed that financial legislation would be proposed at the extra session, but there is reason to believe that this will not be done. In- deed, it is stated that there is a gen- eral understanding among the leaders of the majority that no financial “legis- lation will be attempted either then or at the regular session and that the presi- dent has been brought around to this view. While there is probably sub- stantial ground for this statement so far as the extra session is concerned, it 18 hardly likely that the regular session will pass without an effort being made 1o secure currency legislation. The sub- committee of the senate committee on finance, which has been considering the currency question, is expected to intro- duce a measure, although nothing has recently been heard regarding its work in this direction. Should it not Lring forward a currency bill, pursuant to its instructions, it is very probable that a weasure will be introduced in the house. As to the position of the administra- tion in regard to the question of eur- rency legislation there is no definite in- formation, but it would not be at all sarprising to find that Mr. Roosevelt bas become convinced that there is no pres- ent requiremént for financial legisla tion and that agitation of the subject in congress would possibly have a bad effect under existing conditions. The fact is, as we have heretofore pointed out, that there is no real demand for additional currency legislation, the sup- THE OMAHA the United_ States, the increase in the stock of money during the last fiscal year was nearly $125,000,000, about 89 cents per capita of the population, and as a leading financial paper remarks ought to allay any fears of contraction. The fact is that the agitation for more currency does not come from the legiti- inate business interests of the country, but from the speculators and the pro- wotérs of industrial combinations, for whom eurrency inflation could never go too far. As now indicated the call for an extra session of congress, which it is sald may be issued this week, will have special reference to the reciprocity treaty with Cuba. There is uncertainty as to what congress will do in regard to this, but the chances seem favorable to the rati- fication of the treaty. UNAVAILABLE CANDIDATES, In making selection from among the various candidates who filed their money withh the county committee, every re- publican should take into account, first, their integrity; second, their capacity, and, third, their availability. Notori- ously dishonest or incompetent wmen should bave no place on the ticket, but a man may be honest and competent and ‘still unavailable under existing cir- cumstances, This applies for example to the candi- daéy of D, M. Haverly, A. H. Comstock and Robert Smith for clerk of the dis- trict court. Mr. Haverly's integrity or -npuclty cannot be called in qugstion, but 'his nomination would be impolitic because it is deemed desirable to take the clerk of the district court from what is known as the anti-machine wing of the party. In other words, If Mr, Hav- erly was nominated the machine wing of the party would have to give up the candidate for sheriff, and both Allan and Harte, the candidates presented by the antl wing of the party, are lamentably lacking in the most essential qlmllpcu- tion. Mr. Haverly has been, moreover, honored and favored with two terms as unty clerk and therefore has no spe- cial cleim for another office at this time. Nejther Mr. Robert Smith nor Mr. Com- stock are regarded, by those familiar with conditions, as strong enough to de- feat Broadwell, the present incumbent of the office. Mr. Smith, besides being too active in the past in the cause of prohibition, has made a great many per- sonal and political enemies, and Mr. Confstock, who is genfal, lacks the mag- netism that is requisite for a successful campalgn against Broadwell. The most important office to be filled this fall is that of county assessor, be- cause under the new revenue law the assessment made next year will stand for foar years. Of the three candidates who have presented themselves, Harry D. Reed is the only one that possesses in an eminent degree all the requisite qualifications, He knows the value of every acre of ground in the county. He is rigidly honest and cannot be moved or swayed by corporate influence or by personal pressure of wealthy property owners. Messrs. Ostrom and Shriver have both made records that would have to be defended. Mr. Shriver was assoclated with an unsavory combine in the city council years ago and is alto- gether too wobbly to be depended upon as an impartial and nervy assessor. Mr, Ostrom’s work on boards of equalization, as county commissioner and his employ- ment during the last session of the legis- lature as a lobbyist for the bridge com- pany that has created so much scandal in this state leaves him open to attack and would make his election very difi- cult. Among the four candidates for the of- fice of sheriff Mr. A. J. Donahoe is the only man that could enter the race without a handicap. Mr. Harte has been wixed up with the bridge and road grad- ing deals and with other questionable measures, and therefore is in no condi- tion to present himself for promotion from commissioner to sheriff. James Allan has been a chronic office holder and lobbyist, His eareer as deputy United States marshal is not very com- mendable and leaves him vulunerable to attack. Fred Hoye would bave been an avallable candidate two years dgo, but his recent election as eity councilman for three years would render his elec- tion as sheriff very. difficult. While there is no law against any man holding two salaried offices at the same time, there 18 an unwritten law that does not permit an officer to draw two salaries for two offices when his whole time ought to be given to one of the offices. The experience with a former city coun- cllman who was elected register'of deeds and drew two salaries for nearly a year is too fresh in the memory of the people, and while Mr. Hoye promises to resign after he is elected sheriff, it is question- able whether the people would regard his promise as binding; Mr. Donahoe is a splendid specimen of manhood with an unblemished repu- tation. He has never asked for any of- fice and has never held any office. He has been a member and leader in the ranks of organized labor and is decid- edly popular among business men as well as working men. Of the three candidates for treasurer, Mr. Robert Fink is the only one fully qualified by experience for the duties of the office. Mr. Gondep is a reputable gentleman, but has no considerable fol- lowing and consequently stands no show of nomination. Mr. Fred Stubbendorf is a retired business man with ample means for the remainder of his days. He has no special claims on the party, having never taken any active interest in its affairs. Mr. Robert Fink is an expert accountant and was the chief bookkeeper of County Treasurer Helm- rod for seven years, and for the past three years has been an accountant In the office of the city treasurer. He is highly recommended by City Treasurer DAILY BEE: MONDAY, agreed that the South Omaha candidate, Mr. Ernest Ij. Gustafson, is entitled to the position’ by reason of his location as well as by reason of bis eminent fitness. Mr. Gustafson has been deputy city treagurer at South Omaha for the past five years and Is splendidly equipped for the work gdevolving upon the county clerk. As between Messrs. Tullis and Bod- well very little need be sald, Mr. Tuliis being a practical teacher and resident in one of the country precinets. Being the only candidate from the country precinets presented on the available list it would be the graceful thing, as well as good politics, for republicans in Omaha and South Omaha to unite upon him. s IN REGARD TO PENSIONS. The u}mmlun!onor of pensions has been doing some figuring, says a Washington dispateh, to find out what it would cost the government to put into force the recommendations of the Grand Army veteraus for a more liberal pension law. Hg finds that the proposed law would add something like 200,000 pensioners to the roll and that it would cost in the neighborhood of $25,000,000 to pay the additional pensions. There was a slight reduction in the pension account for the last fiseal year and the ‘fact was re- garded with considerable satisfaction. How the people generally would view such an addition to the account as the pension mpmluloner figures would re- sult from the proposed law is a ques- tion which those who are urging the legislation should seriously consider. It is presumed that every one will ad- mit that the government has been most liberal in the granting of pensions. It has paid in this way since the pension system went into effect more than two thousand milllons of dollars. No one complains of this. The money has been well bestowed. The men who fought to preserve the union were fully entitled to this bounty from the government and no loyal ‘citizen has ever objected to its payment. There are a great many peo- ‘ple, however, who think' that the gener- osity of the government in this respect has about reached the lmit and that the union soldiers should be satisfied with what has been done and not de- mand an increase in the pension ac- count, especially in view of the fact that there has been a considerable addi- tion to the pension roll of soldiers in the Spanish war, the expenditures of the government' on this account having amounted to more than $5,500,000. It is said that the subject of pension legis- lation will take up much of the time of the fifty-eighth congress and it is more than probable that the result will be a considerable addition to the ex: penditure on pension account, \ E— The avithdrawal of the fraunking priv- ilege from the officers of Porto Rico will doubtless cast a_glodm over official cir- cles in that little Jsland. Up to this time the Americans farrying down there have been able to send home by mail anything from a ,postal card to a steamer trunk without charge simply by inseribing a signature across the tag, which in addition had the effect of eas- ing the passage past the reyenue col- lectors. If the American office holders in Porto Rico have to pay postage in the future at regular rates they may be expected to strike shortly for higher salaries. Of course, this does not ap- ply to the native officials whose vorre- spondence is limited. Here is an extract from a report made by the deputy labor commissioner for Nebraska to the Association of Officials of Bureaus of Labor Statistics of Amer- ica, as embodled in the printed proceed- ings of that body: I belleve in securing everything of im- portance as simply as possible. Practica- bility ceases where superfluity begins. It 18 a good thing for the people of Nebraska to know the platform upon which their state bureau of labor statis- tics is conducted, even if they have to go all the way to Washington -to find out. epee—— The insurance commissioners’ conven- tion wants Uncle Sam to help them get after wildeat insurance concerns by barring them from the use of the United States mails. The first thing for the insurance commissioners to do is to agree upon some test that will define the line distinguishing the wildeat from ‘the sound institution. Every wildcat insur- ance company always insists that it is conducted just as honestly as the safest. eetmy—— The Lincoln Star has just passed its first birthday annbversary, which means that it has suecessfully run the gauntlet of newspaper croup, colic and the vari- ous other ailments to which the journal- istic infant is always exposed. It will be admitted by its most unfriendly critics that The Star has improved steadily and bas far surpassed the expectations of those who made the forecast for it at its birth. There ought to be plenty of good sub- stantial men in Omaba willing to serve on the school board. For some unex- plainable reason the best men usually bave to be drafted, and even then try to evade response to the public requisi- tion. The importance of the interests centering in our public school system demand ability and integrity in their management now more than ever before. Speaking of the new revenue law Tax Commissioner Fleming is quoted as say- ing that “the railroads, of course, are not to be raised at all unless we can get the courts to heip us.” The question was up to the courts not so long ago in a case which if decided for the people would bave afforded the desired remedy. But Judge Sullivan flunked. , eme——— It is intimated that congress when it convenes will stir up the postoffice scandal afresh by a new and indepen- OCTOBER 5, 1903. HARMONY TICKET Recommended Candidates for the Republican Primary Election Tuesday, Oct. 6, 1903: For Clerk of the District Court— W. W. BINGHAM For County Sheriff. A. ). DONAHOE. For County Judge— CHARLES S. ELGUTTER. For County Treasurer— ROBERT 0. FINK. For County Clerk— ERNEST L. GUSTAFSON. For County Assessor— HARRY D. REED. For County Coromer— EDWIN F. BRAILEY. For County Surveyor— PETER A. EDQUIST. For Ceunty Superintendent of Public Instruction— J. H. TULLIS. This ticket represents both wings of the republican party and is as well dis- tributed over the territory included in Douglas county as could be under ex- isting conditions. The candidates for clerk of tlie district court, county treas- urer, county judge, sheriff and assessor are fairly divided between the so-called machine and anti-machine elements. The nowination for county clerk is a concession to the republicans of South Omaha, Mr. Gustafson being their unan- lmous choice and the only candidate from South Omaha who filed his name with the committee. Messrs, Brailey and Edquist, for coroner and county sur- veyor, have no competitors in the race. Mr. Tullis is recommended because he resides in one of the country precinets and may therefore be properly consid- ered as a concession to them. Let it be understood that there is no dispositivi on the part of republicans who have endeavored to harmonize the party to dictate to anybody. They coneede to every republican t right to express his preferen for any candidate he may deem most worthy and competent. But they sin- cerely believe that the momination of the men named above would command the united support of the rank and filg of the party and insure success at the coming election. L —__ ___________ ] investigation would probably pan out better if directed into soe other chan- nel in which administrative abuses have secured lodgment. / The wicked flee when no one pursueth —that may account for Judge Vinson- haler's fears that detectives have been employed to search his former Missourl home for information concerning his per- sonal and political career before he landed in Omaha. eTe——— Time for Whispering. Boston Herald. - When a man makes a fortune It Is shouted from the housetops. When he loses one it is quietly whispered. There's a good deal of whispering being indulged in now. —_— Freedom Wooed and Won, Philadelphia Press. The Kansas school teachers have won & great victory. It has: been decided that they have a right to get married, and we can still look upon Kansas as the land of freedom. Let Wall Street Worry. New York Tribune, Were Americdn rallroads ever busier? Could there be hetter proof that the coun- try is soundly prosperous, no matter what passing flurrles may cause temporary un- easiness in Wall street? Casting out the Jomahs, Philadelphia Record. As for some of the trusts—the Asphalt trust, for example—they are like certain predatory \monsters of the deep that sim- ply swallow the lesser fishes whole for future digestion. When the mons! themselves are flung upon the financial shore their undigested victims are found inside of them. Perhaps H Minneapolis Times, A Nebraska man who has hitherto borne a good reputation for truth and veracity reports that he ran across a colony of rattlesnakes the other day and killed forty- two of them. If this had happened in Kansas we would have been disposed to make some allowance for the great con- sumption of drug store whisky in that com- monwealth. Where the Shoe Pinches, Kansas City Times. y giving the price of beef another boost in order-to meet the increased wage scale demanded by the employes; the increase will be made a means of profit instead of a loss 10 the packing houses. It will there- fore be seen. that the new wage scale is a splendid thing for everybody except the ninety-nine people out of every hundred who are not identified with the packing industry sh & Winter, ii.asas City Journal. Perhaps you are not of those fortunate ones who have learned what & marvelous charmer a quiet book by a quiet lamp may be during the long, cold evenings of winter, 1t 50, you will never regret if you acquaint yourself with this subtle, amlable, delight- ful charmer before spring comes again. It can make a long evening and a long-winter but too short. Where its seductions are Judiciously ylelded to it sometimes brings fame and fortune and always brings hap- piness; and if fame and fortune do not attend it, where happiness is they cau eas Ay dispensed with. . sk il ',, " Wy PLANT TREES OR IRRIGATE. The First an Essential C of Moisture. Chicago Chronicle The secretary of agriculture has been in- vestigating the subject of tree planting on the western plains to protect the molsture in the sofl andias a substitute for vast systems of Irrigation established by the government. He is a belated Inquirer in that fleld of study and experiment. The late J. Sterling Morton was a ploneer in arboriculture, and his experiments, ex- plained by his written dlsquisitions, form A complete systsm of tree-planting ‘o pro- tect the soil in the now treeless regions and in the deforested regions. But as a recent recrult Secretary Wilson Is doing good service. Pine trees grow well on the prairie sand hills. In a few years a young forest grows into luxuriant Nfe. The molsture in the soll is protected and the new forest growth prevents the rush of flood waters to the valleys and the destruction which a river deluge would produce. To raise trees is less expensive and more efficient than the plans of irrigation. It is not certain that the proposed plans of irrigation for the plains and the sub- mountain territory are practicable under laws for the protection of natural rights. If the Arkansas river, the Red river, the Rilo Grande or the Colorado should be dammed and their waters impounded far upstream, to be there distributed through x'flnuon works, the streams would allow or thefr beds would be dry below the dams and the irrigation plants. The water courses throughout thousands of square miles of territory would be dried up in order that the territory above might be amply watered. The lower river valleys would pe deprived of water for the benefit of the upper valleys and adjacent plains. It is the commonest principle of law that every farmer along the line of a natural water course has a right to his equal sup- ply of water. The owner of land at the head of the stream cannot dam it, shut It off and divert it in such a way as to de- prive the farmers below him of its bene- fits. Property may be condemned for mill purposes and other purposes for public use, but it must be paid for at an ap- praised value, This is the law which must govern the irrigation projects. The great rivers of the west cannot be dammed for purposes of irrigation without the payment of dam- ages to all the property owners along hundreds of square miles of territory whose lands are turned into a desert by cutting off the water supply. The amount of damages would exceed that of the pres- sent national debt. Mr, Wilson is quite right, though some- what late, in recommending tree-planting as & means to conserve the productiveness of the western country. Immediately and in the end it will be Infinitely cheaper and more effective than cutting off the water on the great western rivers and their tributaries. servator WEIRD THEORIES EXPOUNDED, Sample of the Way & Government Fm. ploye Keeps His Name in Print, Chicago Tribune. Dr. Wiley of the cliemical division of the department of agriculture recently experi- mented upon his “poison squad’ with borax. All of the squad surviving the diet, but whether it was of any benefit Dr. Wiley does not know and cannot find out until a big volume of statistics has been compiled and analyged, which will take a long time. Before announcing the effects of borax he will try salieylic acid on another squad. ‘What the outcome will be will not bs known, probably, for some yedrs, for sal- feylic acld may be as profuse In statistics as borax. Dr. Wiley announces that the time is rapldly coming when the human race will be hairless and toothless. He does not say just when the world will be filled with bald headed, empty gummed people, but he is quite convinced that hair and teeth, like lobsters and buffaloes, are on the way to extinction, The race is to lose its hair be- cause of increased intellectuality. Hut is Intellectuality increasing? Is the world any more Inteliectual than it was in the golden ages of literature, art, and music? The race is to have no teeth because of the preva- lence of readily chewed breakfast foods. Perhaps, also, it will have no stomach be- cause of the use of predigested foods. As breakfast itself is not eaten by some per- sons, perhaps that will disappear, to be followed in turn by dinne: and supper. If a person can get along without breakfast it ought not to be difficult to get along with- out supper. After a time dinner might be eliminated, which In a few generations might eliminate all the alimentary machin- ery. There would be some advantages in There would be no more appendicitis y of the other newly invented ‘leit- and we should gradually get rid of many details of the interngl organization which have come down to us from our re- mote simian ancestors, and which may have been useful to them but are of no use to us. If Dr. Wiley were to consult facts he would probably find there were just as many bald heads when the she bears went for the impudent boys as there are now in proportion to population, and that as pre- digested and readily chewed breakfast foods are hygienic fads, teeth will remain for the delectation of dentists and appendices for the enjoyment of doctors. Hope of Getting Even. Chicago Chronicle. No liquor will be sold at the capitol dur- ing the coming session af”congress. The statesmen will undoubtedly get even, how- ever, by getting drunker than ever at con- gressional funerals. ba never use Ayer’s Hair Vigor. Ever think of that? tsume: PERSONAL NOTES. King Bdward is rapidly becoming Amer- fcanized. He uses Missourli apples, Colo- rado cantaloupes and Georgia watormelons. Joseph Chamberlain has more than on half of the 5500 known specles of orchids. He is most successful as an orchid col- lector and ralser. Mr. Rockefeller says the secret of suc- cess in life is to work hard and hold on. Most people can,do the former, but they fall down on tenacity. Leland M. Finks, of Calhoun, Mo, claims to have the coat of arms of the Washington family, Washington's official pedigree and a silver watch which formerly belonged to the “Father of His Country." The electric roads of the United States last year carried three times the popula- tion of the globe, according to the state- ment of the fares turned in. No doubt the total numiber of rides would allow for an extra one all around. John C. Hinnershitz of Alsace, Pa., has just been elected clerk of the court of quarter sessions of Berks county without or consent. Although there ated contest lasting about two weeks, the first intimation of his can- didacy recelved by Mr. Hinnershits was the official notice of his election. Annfe Rooney, a young woman of good character in Seattle, Wash., has adopted the uniform of a United States marine and declares her intention of wearing it instead of the skirts in which members of her sex usually enfold their persons. The pelice say there is no law which will pre- vent her carrying out her, purpose, as she does not seek to disguise her wsex by wearing the habiliments of man. LAUGHING G. “Terrence, what s the doctor's diagnos's of your case?"” ‘He hasn't told me yit, but I'm bettn’ it'll be iv'ry cint av tin dollars."—Chicago Tribune. ‘WIr I wish ‘m a nle&‘!; ge cmlmlry ace where 1 could give a en party. D band-Just for the pleasure Of Invit- ing some of your friends, eh? “Well, yes, and the pleasure of not mvit- Ing some.” ~Modern Soclety, “I'd rather ‘hea ll‘l pil of lM! Dlev.‘e." t she fl. it s0 badly it sounds llkl lfllllllhln' el ~Town Toples. Blonde Girl—I want some rice; let me see, how much do I want? rocer—Wedding or pudding?— ‘Ionkun Statesman. “Fulling & man's e Uncle Allen In the “mT- ur:?“f:w ens. hl ence In_the me! s tace. ""—Chicago Ti r} " “Ty Bunkins as good &s his word?" asked one business man. “I think he is,’" replied the other. ‘His word isn't good for anything.''—New York Press. Fred—Of course, she poses a good deal, awfully nrcu May—on, did you hear of the mean triok Mr. Kammerer played on her? Fred—No, what was it? WMay—He teok & snapshot of her while as in the act of eating corn off the c Philadelphia Press. 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