Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 10, 1909, Page 14

LSRN Bevias VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR t second- e Lo TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. it Sunday), one one year R%l:.'.’fl'.‘uq Dmv-ln BY CARRIER. ), ’n m l: , per weok. -n. 2%, wu ). par wi 0 e mor latnte of |mnl-r"-l- in .%'y.m .Mon Department. '-my—lburth and N. Seott St ilat mmu“‘u dl\l-.. West R oAl Fourteenth 8t Stroet, N. W. NDEN W.w.amz P ;‘fi' ‘Bee bl hlbll.hln‘ mpany. pany. m nd in uymo:tt ot nnam nnm..-. not accepted. STATEMENT OF cmr:vbAflorv of M . . y sworn, sAYS lg-l m hm "and complete ks, Douglas Count Arsaauter of "ihe Bee (Feal) WHEN OUT OF TOWN, Subroribers Jeaving the oity tem- porarily wshould have The Bee malled to them. Addross will be ehungod as often av requested. b e ———— Omaha’s street cleaning department has just installed some new water wagons. Significant. B R — Governor Shallenberger to Senator Majors: What's the copstitution be- tween friends, anyway? TEET—— ‘With 8 o'clock closing in force, Ne- braska may be logleally classed as be- ing in the semi-arid belt. A messenger in the Colorado legis- Iature has heen arrested on the charge of theft. Something evidently es- uitl the legislators. b — 4 Bverybody is walting with bated breath for the Jacksonian club to pull off that ratification meeting and whoop it 'wp tor Mayor Jim. e It is to be noted that nome of the democratic ple-biters, who connected with the payroll, are showing their re- sentment by resigning. Returning to Washington, Senator Barkett declargs that Nebraska has Lad its fill of democrats. It has more ‘han its fill in pots. Crazy Snake will be open for a vau- deville engagement when he finally deeldes to come In out of the wilds and allow himself to be captured. The new head of the reorganized Fish trust started life as a water boy. It he has kept in practice he should be able to flo Sclentists are busily engaged dis- cyssing what is the normal tempera- ture of man. It all depends on whether the home team wins or loses. It the illegality of the $3,000,000 of ‘Wwater bonds voted in 1800 is ‘‘notori- ous,"” what have we been paying some 000 to those high-priced lawyers enpy —— No wonder an $8,000,000 bakery company has been organised in New York. At the present price of flour the business demands large capitaliza- tion. Four women who called on Speaker Cannon to present a tariff protest es- caped without being kissed. The speaker confines his efforts strictly to heroines. Perhaps it can be arranged to aban- don standard time and go back to sun time, which would push the 8 o'clock closing hour approximately thirty min- utes ahead. Missouri is giving the rallroads a taste of injunction medicine by re- stralaing them from putting into ef- fect the 3-cent fare. It's a poor rule that won't work both ways. Mrs. Fanny Van Zant, the mother of the Texas republie, is dead. She lived long enough to see her child mar- ried, divorced, remarried and rearing # large and vigorous family. ———— A Michigan court has decided that even at 17, if a girl is not old enough to bebave herself, she is not too old to be spanked. If the age lmit is to be relsed that high, the family slipper will bardly last through the rearing #f 3 large family. Thbe annual frontage water tax got Jost 1n the legislative shuffle, but it got far esough to be shown up as a con- feagion by the Water board that a de- figlt which must be made up from taxes is eertain it Omaha buys the present wlant and pays $6,263,206.49 for it. | weakening. The Experiment lhtion. Nebraska 1s to essay an experiment both novel and dificult this fail in electing three supreme judges and two regents of the State university, besides district judges and county superintendents, without party nom- Inations or primaries.—World-Herald. When The Bee sald that the election of a democratic governor and legisla- ture meant that Nebraska was to be- come an experiment station for ques- tionable legislation, it predicted truly. The experiment that is ahead of us by reason of the so-ealled monpartisan Judiciary bill is not only “novel and difficult,” but liable to prove danger- ous In the extreme. We are having a sample here in Omaha right now of what this election may become, with the floodgates wide open for anyone and everyone who as- plires to become a member of the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners by submitting his name at an election ‘‘without party nominations or prima- ries. The requirement of a petition for judielal candidates signed by 5,000 voters might operate as a brake, but still it is doubtful if this requirement does not set up an unreasonable ob- stacle for running for office and estab- lish a qualification for holding judicial position not sanctioned by the consti- tution. 1If so, the 5,000-name petition will be knocked out. The World-Herald suggests that the prohibition of party nominations and primaries “will put great power in the hands of the State Bar assoclation’ and leave it to the lawyers to name the judges before whom they are to practice. If this is what the new law is intended to do, or the way it works out {n practice, it will certainly be a bad law. The judges should represent the whole people and not just the law- yers who want to have a pull in eourt. There is quite enough favoritism be- tween judges and lawyers practicing before them now without accentuating it. Self-preservation is the first law of nature and to protect and safeguard the courts it may become nocessary to organize a popular movement to pre- vent the proposed experiment from wrecking the cornerstone of our free government. The Sugar Schedule. The beet and cane sugar interests of the country are uniting to secure fa- vorable action on the sugar schedule in the new tarift bill. The two inter- ests are not competitors for the sufie clent reason that we do not produce sugar enough to supply even approxi- mately the home demand. Last year the importations of sugar amounted to 3,371,997,112 pounds, against a do- mestic production in the same year of beet sugar 967,223,010 pounds and cane sugar 514,320,000 pounds, a total of 1,481,648,010 pounds. In other words, for each pound of sugar pro- duced {n the United States two and a half pounds are imported. It is asserted that the sugar indus- try cannot be maintained without the ald of a protective duty and as against the argument that protection will not assist In bringing the output up to the point of supplylng the needs of the country the development of the beet sugar industry is cited. From the early '90s, when it first gained a foot- hold in this country; it has grown un- til the production last year amounted to over 000,000,000 pounds. The pro- tection asked is not only based on the general theory of protection, but on the further one of creating an indus- try. It has the added claim to recog- nition that it benefits sections of the country which have few products or industries coming within the scope of the tariff schedule. The composition of the senate sub- committee which has this schedule un- der consideration is such as to insure it due consideration, being composed ot Burrows of Michigan, Flint of Cali- fornia and Smoot of Utah, all heavy sugar-producing states. Nebraska, with one remalning factory, has an in- terest in the final disposition of the question. The beet sugar industry is particu- larly adapted to sections of the coun- try where general farming is not so profitable, particularly the irrigated sections, the fallures in Nebraska be- ing not so much because it did not pay, but because something else paid bet- ter, Breaking Away from Bryan. Evidence is accumulating that the bsolute sway which Bryan has exer- cised over the democratic party is The breaking away of Congressman Fitzgerald and his Tam- many colleagues is not surprising or perhaps even unexpected in the Bryan camp. New York democrats have never exhibited any love for Bryan, either In conventions or at the polls. But any revolt against his leadership to be effective must ‘come from gec- tions where the democracy can deliver electoral votes with reasonable cer- tainty. It is to the south, therefore, to which his opponents in the north must turn for an effective force to end his sway. Among the twenty-three who fol- lowed Mr, Fitzgerald in his action con- cerning the house rules were several from the south. Representative Clark of Florida, not one of the twenty- three, in the debate on the tariff bill boldly declared his independence and said he would no longer follow in the populistic path of Bryan. Congress- men from Georgla, Tennessee, Louls- fana and Virginia have also broken sway. Hoke Smith of Georgia, in a recent speech in Buffalo, proclaimed the demand of the south for a new leader. The anti-Bryan sentiment is spreading among democratic leaders, &nd all that is lacking now to make it & potent force is & man strong enough to rally the dissatisfied ones and weld THEBEE them Into a compact mass. Talk about Fitzgerald of New York, how- ever, belng the man for the purpose is ridiculous both because of his lack of abllity as an orator and because of his corporation afiliations depriving him of strength among the rank and file. To produce results the growing sen- timent must center around a leader from some state where there is at least a prospect of democratic success. The politiclans of the party are tired of marghing every four years to the strains of a funeral dirge and the rank and file of the party, to whom its prin- ciples are dear, show signs of being weary of following after false god: even to the accompaniment of a sll- ver tongue and a pleasing personality. —_— War on the Drug Habit. The alarming proportions which the drug habit has attained could not be emphasized more than by the fact the dealers in _drugs have themselves seen the necessity of taking steps to curtail it. At a recent meeting of the Pennsylvania branch of the American Pharmaceutical association a resolu- tion was passed setting forth the duty of the profession in this regard and putting the members on record as against the selling of harmful drugs for improper purposes. It was agreed that such drugs should be sold only on the prescription of a physiclan and that no such prescription should be re- filled without the order of the physi- clan, The druggists have it within their power to eradicate the drug evil if they will. The conditions under which harmful druge are manufac- tured and sold to the retaller are such as to make it a much simpler problem than the curbing of abnormal appe- tites for strong drink. The limitations upon thé persons who can sell drugs are of a character to preclude the sale of any considerable quantities in a sur- reptitious manner. Eliminate the un- scrupulous and over-greedy druggist and the problem is more than haif solved. Diaz for Another Term. In response to a delegation of busi- ness men of Mexico, Porfirio Diaz has congented to accept the nomination for another term as president of the republic. Though the election does not occur until October, the result is already predetermined, there being scarcely a possibility of even an oppos- ing candidate, much less of a success- ful competitor. Next to the people of Mexico the an- nouncement is of interest to the United States. It is an assurance that the era of stability and progress in Mexican affairs is to continue. During the many years Diaz has been the president and ruling spirit in Mexico that country has emerged from the chaos into which practically all the Latin-American countries had lapsed |and has become strong enqugh to as- sist the United States in the uplift of others less fortunately situated. Its material resources are being developed and some progress, slight though it may be, has been made in raising the masses from the slough of despond into which they had sunk. Under Diaz' wise leadership, Mexi- can development will continue with every prospect that when the time in- evitably comes for him to lay the bur- den down Mexico will have reached a point where our next door nelghbor will not be a source of worry and possible international complications. Those cities which own their own water works and are so pleased with them that they would not think of go- ing back to private ownership are all enjoying reasonably low water rates. If Omaha pays two prices for the pres- ent water plant and then has to invest upward of $1,000,000 more for neces- sary repalrs and betterments, when, if ever, would oyr water consumers get the benefit of lower rates? A political platform is binding, so we have been told, as much as to what it omits as to what It contains. anyone see any 8 o'clock closing planks in any of the numerous platforms run- ning at large in Nebraska last year? President Baer of the Reading road s conferring with the anthracite coal miners regarding the scale of wages. Can it be possible the Lord has re- moved him as the sole executor and dictator of his coal estate? James Patton, the Chicago grain man, is sald to have made money at the rate of $10,000 a minute when he unloaded May wheat the other day. At that rate he will soon be able to The New v York Democratic club, which Bryan addressed last year, did not look his way this year. When asked the reason the president re- marked that the club was looking for | A tramp was made sick in Kansas the other day by some bread and jelly given him by a sympathetic woman He could stand the bread all right, but the jelly was too much of a surprise for his stomach. The Backett law still lives by which local officers in Nebraska who fail to enforce any law may be ousted by de- cree of the state executive, but it lives fn a state of suspended animation. There may be a dispute as to the terms of the deal, but no one will ques- tion that the liquor interests delivered the goods to Governor Shallenberger and the democratic ticket last fall. ———— A Nevada county has been awarded the triek mule offered by Bryan as a prize for the community showing the Jargest gain in the democratic vote. DI |11+ equation of the people's re-established | house at a cost of $1,000,000, and has sent | bassador to the court of St. OMAHA SATURDAY APBIL Possibly after he has been in Nevada long enough to have acquirgd a resi- dence he will join the divorce colony and seek a divorce from democracy. Cincinnati Bnquirer. Now that the lull has come In the dis- cussion of the lariff on stockings, mere man rises to humbly Inquire what econ- Kress proposes to do about socks. A Shocking Discovery. Philadelphia Press. A decision of Judge Taft has been quoted In the government's brief In the sult to dissolve the Btandard Ol com- pany. Such a shock Iy enough to make John D. Rockefeller forswear the royal game of golf, now that the president ha become a devotee of the niblick and put- ting iron. New Ory im Polities. New York Mall “Retrenchment and reform" is really go- Ing to be semething better than a cam- palgn cry or a congressional spasm. Econ- omy is again becoming a popular policy, as it has long been a national necessity. The outlook Is for a steady progress toward the adoption of a system under which income and outgo may be adjusted to each other with some approach to ex- actness. This Is & promise Altogether new to American politics. Forest Fires. Philadelphia Record. It is sald officially that locomotives do not set 9 or even 75 per cent of the forest fires, but they do set about 6 per cent. of them, and the Forestry commission in New York has notified the raflroads that traverse the Adirondacks that from April to November they must use ofl-burning locdmotives. It was found that the ex- pense of electricity would be prohibitory, and the vee of ofl will add about $0,00 a year to the expenses of the rallroads. For- est fires, however, are a pretty serlous menace to life and property, and the rafl roads will have no ground of complaint it the states shall take adequate measures for preventing the other 4 per cent of them. Police Power of States. Boston ‘Transcript The decisfon of the supreme court that the provisions of the immigration laws de- slgned to suppress the “‘white slave traf- fic'" are unconstitutional and therefore null and vold Is another argument for the fed- eral government's being clothed with greater powers for the protection of allens within the United States. If the rescue of “alien women" Is Jeft to the “police pow- ers’” of the states it may be accomplished in some but not in others, according to the zeal, humanity, and energy of the local authorities. The “traffic” i1s a shameful fact. Congress passcd what it deemed ap- propriate legislation, but the supreme court now says that in so doing congress trans- cended its powers. BRYAN'S WAVERING INFLUENOE Reach for the Goods. New York Sun, Our old friend Bryan seems to be reced- ing further and further every day from that leadership upon which his fructiferous newspaper and his chautauqua lecture tours depend for their opulence. This tariff discussion In congress is playing the very deuce with his control of even the timid hinds who for so long have been bellowing| Bryan in obedience to the prevailing super- stition at home and to the counsels of their . own ignorance and Irresponsibility; but the precipitgtion of the tariff con- troversy has ohanged many things. There was 1o reason under the old tariff why they should not play the fool to thelr hearts' . content. Their actual interests ‘were safe, and they thought it a good time to spoed the bagatelle;: but things are ait- ferent now. If the system s to be re- constructed and the schedules readjusted some of thelr interests may he imperiled, who knows? Away then with the unmean- ing raptures over Bryan and let us get to business! So the home folks here and there sent out a frugal snd hard fisted admonition, and here and there we see old time Bryan fuglemen returning to tholr covers and definitely lgnoring the Peer- less. It was very well in 1907 to dally with the Nebraska prophet and to proclaim his heavenly commission. The long-haired children of the piney woods could be thrilled and tamed by no other message. His name extorted a shriek from every audience, and eloquence rose easlly to that time honored bait. Now there is no time for these thrice told tales, The southern tight -wad Is as heremetically sealed in Georgla or Loulsiana as the northern tight wad in Penmsylvania. 8o business usurps the place of sentiment and acquisition puts on the livery of a common cause. The ferment has just besun to work, and it is unlikely now to be arrested. Tha final result may be the elimination of this and peradventure other mountebanks from sanity. POLITICAL DRIFT. The Minnesota legislature has passed a bill giving the right to institute commis- slon governments wherever & majority of voters so declare. Colonel Henry Watterson exhibits his old-time vigor by taking a fall’ out of “the Money Devil" in a three-column para- graph in the Courler-Journal. South Dakota is to bulld a new state out commission looking up designs. ' Har- risburg, Pa., will be passed up. Former Vice President Fairbanks Is looming up as a possible American am- James. He | qualities mentally and finunelally. Congressman Hobson's views on tariff revision are expressed In this remark, “While 1 am a democrat from surface to core, I am & protectionist from top to bot- tom."” Six million words have been spilt over the tariff in the house of representatives. The conservation will begin In earnest when the senate gets a half-Nelson on the measure. The mayor of Mason City, Ia., has ten dered the post of chief of police to a local preacher, who has orated frequently larea of optum cultivation. To make this for “a clean administration” The ides in ‘to have ihe preacher fit the deeds to his words. Most legislatyres pause frequently for breath when acting on appropristion bills carrying & million or so. Pennsylvania's lavish solons worked overtime shoveling out the coln for all sorts of things, run- ning the aggregate at least 15,000,000 over the state's revenue. Very properly this happened in & bullding which looted the state treasury for 36,000,000 Some seven years ago Boston purchased 1% acres of land for §25,000 on the recom- mendation of militia officers. It was in- tended for use as & rifle range. Recently & city commission looked over the land and found it & vista of swamp and swamp shrubbery, worth about §1,000. It is fair to say that Mr. Maybray of Council Bluffs snd Little Rock did net have Boston on his clreuit. 10, 1909. In Other Lands Bi4é Tighte on What is Prans. piriag Among the Near and Far NWatlons of the Barth. The recent settlement of the Balitan con- troversy, whereby Austria's land grab is confirmed and Servia disarmed. makes for the yeace of central Europe about as af- fective as clalm jumpers promote the good will of & western community, Vigllance and armed readiness alone maintain the ad- vantage. Russlan was not prepared to defend the Integrity of the states which regarded the empire as the protector of the Slavs. Germany and Austria knew the moment when Aannexation was possible without the risk of war. Before these united powers, with mighty armies ready to march and war chasts well filled, Rua- sia wisely ylelded. With a shattered mili- ry organization, an army eXhausted and dispirited by a fecent @sastrous war, re- sistance to the demands of the Drelbund would have been folly. The humliliation of the Cwar's government at home 18 wide- spread and openly manifested. In the higher oircles It takes the form of social ostracism, and is evidenced with an in- tensity bordering on lwult to offictals directly and indirectly responsible. It I8 more than a temporary ebullition of pu lle temper. It carries a deep and lasting wound to national pride, which time slowly heals. e The spirit of concillation shown by the French ministry in dealing with the strik- ing state employes of the postal and tele- h departments is regarded by the lead- ers as a surrender of the government to organizsed labor. This is the conviction borne In upon observers of events in France by the exultant and deflant attitude f the radical laborites. A few days after the ministry conceded the principal demandds of the strikers, Parls was placarded with & labor manifesto Insulting the gov- ernment, and a lke spirit runs through the public speeches of the agitators. Premier Clenenceau is roundly criticized for allow- ing “treasonable utterances to pass un- heeded. The outward show of indifference in reality may be a mask for preparations to strike whei and where tiie blow is most effect ve. Such @& course would te character- istic, The extremiats may be allowed to run thelr course up to the limit. When that point is reached, in the opinion of the government, the agitators may discover, as ald the vineyard strikers, that the gloved hand pf the premler is a powerful “malled fist.” e " Winston 8. Churchill, author and pariia- mentarian and an exemplar of the strenu- ous life in England, recently made a trip through much of the country of central Afriea, where Theodore Roosevelt and party will hunt, and his remarks on the climate will interest friends of the ex-presi- dent. “Ten grains of quinine a dmy for each person” was the dose which helped to pull the party through. Mr. Churchill speaks admiringly of the glorious beauties of the Uganda region and says: “Every white man traveling through that country meems to feel a sense of undefinable oppres- sion. The air is soft and cool, yet the con- trast betwoen appearance and reality Is striking, for this enchanted land is cursed with malarial attributes, A cut will not heal, & scratch festers. In the third year of residence even a small wound becomes & running sore. One day a man feels per- | to fectly well, the next, for no apparent cause, he s prostrate with malaria of & pecullarly persistent kind, turning often In the third or fourth attack to blackwater fever. To the wise hunter-or explorer these condl- tions suggest the need pt concluding the business on hand at the earliest moment and hiking over the shortest route to civill- zation.” o The German naval program, which has become the nightmare of Bugland, was formulated by Admiral von Tirpitz in 1900 and given the sanction of ldw the same year, It provided for two fleets of bat- tle ships, the cost of which up to 1920 would be about $200,000,000 or $10,000000 a year. This law has been amended until now it provides that by 1917 the navy shall con- skt of thirty-elght battleships, of which twenty-elght shall be Dreadnzughts, twenty armored cruisers of battleship equipment, thirty-eight protected cruisers, 100 torpedo boats and a great number of auxiliary oraft, all manned by ,00 men. “The cost of the navy by that time,” says the New York Tribune, “will be more than $1,000,000,000. Whether that will be a greater foree of Dreadnaughts than Great Britain will have to be seen.” - The tendency of Bnglish politiclans to magnify the Irish mote and ignore the beam in thelr eyes was fllustrated in & recent debate In the House of Commons. Earl Percy, in an attack on the govern- ment for its alleged fallure to enforce the laws In Ireland, brought a sharp retort trom John Redmond, the Irish leader. He cited officlal statistics showing that n the years 1905-8 there were 389 cases of ders in England, while during the period there were but thirty-seven oyal Bakin It Has No important proposal to the Egyptian gov- ernment regarding the Introduction of tobacco cultivation. In return for certain controlling rights, the company has of- fored a minimum annual payment of $8,600,- 000, which is considefable more than the present annuaJ duty on tobaceo imported into Egypt for manufacture there and re- export. Moreover the company offers to, finance the cultivation and provide all ex. pert assistance required. The Egyptlan ofticers are sald to look with favor on the offer, o A correspondent of the New York Times, writing from Yokahoma, declares that Japanese officlals are rigorously boyecot- ting California goods whenever they can distinguish them. The boycott is limited to imports from California, and Is enforced as a means of reciprocating the (ll-will to- ward Japanese shown by Californians In various ways. A dead-letter health law has been revived and applied to shipments of American canned goods. But the In- spectors show impressive skill in selecting for condemnation goods bearing California labels. All other American goods are strictly fredh, healthful and commended to the natives ady dlet MIRTHFUL nmnxs. “Now," sald the dllt!nlullh.d representa- tive, “we have arranged the tariff precisel; as tl lhcalld be and all you have to do {3 “No lnlvl‘rad the distingulshed sen- aor, ‘mot ‘amen,’ ‘amend.’ "~Washington ar. iWhet are you reading?” « ‘Paradise Lost.' " “Why, no you're not, you're reading ‘Rev- erles of a Bachelor'. “That's what I said.”"—Houston Post. ihidow' and ‘window' are very much alike." ‘Well, and what's the answer?" heh I get near elther 1 always look out.”—Boston Transcrip “You know him, don't musiclan. Plays ond fiddle In one of the h!l( orche-lru the country."” es, I've known him since long before he wfll married. He plays second fiddle in his own house, too.”"—Chicago Tribune. ou? He's a fine “I they are lookini for a ambassador to Great poor man for ritain," sald the tall ders in Ireland. In London alone were, during this period, ninety-two ders and almost 3,000 attexapted murders, while the total number of indictable cases in Ireland were 9,000, against 84,854 in Eng- land. Mr. Redmond further showed that, while there had been a considerable in- crease in serious crimes in England in the last twenty years, there had been a steady diminution of crime in Ireland during the same period. In the light of these statistics attempts to defame Ireland present a sorry spectacle. " In an officlal ¢ircular on the oplum traf- fle, Sir Frederick Lugard, governor of Hong Kong, recapitulates ti forts being made to restriot the business and the ob- stacles encountered. Most effeotive of the means employed is the limitation of the reduction in cultivation effective the quan- tity ta be drawn from the country is to be reduced annuslly, and sale to women and children prohibited. The chief obatacle (o the reform 18 the difficulty of suppressing smuggling. The price of oplum in Hong Kong is double that of China, consequently the Chinese smuggler turns & trick as smoathly as Bret Hart's creation. Gov- ernor Lugard estimates that 14,465 persons trequent Hong Kong’s oplum foints an- nually, and argues that moderation must be exercised in suppressing the evil. e The active life of a modern warship ranges from ten to fifteen years. Every year brings some radical change in con- struction, armament and speed, The ships of tomorrow outclass those of today, fore- ing the ships of yesterday backward to the junk pile. Ten of Britain's warships, lords of the sea twenty-five years ago, are soon to be sold for serap fron. They were once first class battleships of 10.000 tons, one of them, the Collingwood, which rammed and sunk the Vietoria in 1892 Each cost about $2.800,00, and were unsur. passed in their day. But they are hope- lessly out of date now and not worth for fighting purposes the price of powder to blow them out of the water. - A Constantinople ocorrespondent of & Berlin paper repcrts that the Brit| American Tobacco company has made change Absolutely Pure Economizes flour, butterandeggs; makes the biscuit, cake and pas- try more appetizing, nutritious and wholesome. Royal is the Only Baking Powder Made from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar Substitute ‘There are Alum and Phosphate of Lime mixtures soldat alower price, but no housekeeper regarding the health of her family can afford to use them. Alum s a metaliic acid of well known injurious propere tles. Makers of cheap baking powders conceal its use. alsle, ling to hl.ll nvflt 'm willing to go. ut |I|e on't want 'a poer ambasia- dor,” he gryowlod ~Cleveland Plain Dealer. e greatest living de tective. Myer—Indeed. What made him famous' Gyer—He once discoyered the plot of ¢ comic opera.—Chicago News. Gyer—There goes ltn_llchr—md Jones lose control of hk o Bocker—Entirely; his chauffeur won't lo him use it at afl.—New Ym Jllfl. “RATHER A CHILD,” Wilber D. Nesbit in Chicago Post. Rather a child would pray for me Than some one in a marble shrine, For the love that lisps at a mother's knee Is so wondrously fair and fine That m words go stralght and the words with' n xnca that they have alone— Go out and enward past star and star Till they tremble unto the throne. Rather & child should lisp my name In a blessing when comes the night Than to hear it breathed while the candle flame Lends the r a holy light, For the hrill-sweet voice of 'a chila can rise On the mystical wings of love And cleave t.ha sllence beyond the skies To th ening ear above. The bedtime prayer, the white, white wh, An:ouu light that is low and dim, The fllr. wee head fl\lt is bwln down, And the message sent up im 1~ ‘Then you know lu-lhw thfl the pure 1s aonear to the Boul of Th a-near o o For sighs that rack and rwlun that A Ghoad-balme it beings. w ey ‘Wonderful, too, the simple trust Of the child fn the boon it a It can lift us up from sherds With & stren; For a child But it ask The hand that fashioned the farthest suns Lent the grace to the climbing ross, Rather a child should pray for me Than the godllest man on earth, For the prayer made in the childish key Is the prayer of groatest worth— And I sometimes think that the good God sees How we trust, and has gravely smiled At the simple words and the bended knees And the faith of a little child. THE NEW HATS For Easter There are almost as many styles in Hats as there are men to wear them. Whatever your per- sonal fancy, it is here. And it’s time for the from. the old Hat. 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