Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 15, 1909, Page 6

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While the senate is about it a pro- hibitive tariff might be "placed on Canadjan spring weather. % e e in lingering . in the lap of Spring. Twenty-three for you. gentle A fashion note says there will be fewer buttons on men's clothes this year. Bachelors may be in style. At Baltimore a Salome dancer w: convicted of disturbing the peace. The performance must have been loud. —_—— Undeér the new pay-in-advance fee bill systom the office of the clerk of the district court is expected to work like a cash registor. Nebraska's senators have been ap- pealed to to see to it that pumice stone is properly protected in the new tariff bill. There's the rub. Riehmond P. Hobson warns us again that the Chautauqua season is ap- proaching and something had to be done to attract attention to the lecture stars When the 8 o'clock closing law goes into effect will the rallroads please bring their trains jnto Omaha so that stop-over privileges will be good in the daytime? We're all for municipal ownership. But what's that to do with puying the water company $6,263,295.49 just because it wants the mogey? Oh, yes The ‘government is undertaking to determine what is whisky. The trou- ble is the more pefsistently the tester pursues his calling the more confused he becomes. 4 D — An §-year-old Chicago boy has been lost geventy-six times. That boy should be equipped with a self-acting fog ho¥n when he arts out on a cruise from home. —_— According to W. D. Howells' dellb- erate opinion, Poe was drunk when he wrote his poetry. Mr. Howells is re- spectfully referred to Lincoln’s famous remark about Grant According to the dispatches, Rev. “Billie!’ Sunday cleaned up $10,734.84 by conducting & six weeks' revival service in Springfield, 111, That's al- most equal to Chautauqua lecturing at Bryan ‘prices. Just to maintain its reputation for being & little better Lineoln proposes to shoye up the 1id-closing hour thirty minutes. The Lincoln plan must be modeled after Mr. Bryan's gradual re- ductiod tariff scheme. Waking up to the fact that San Francisco is losing money by not catering more to the tourist, a local paper declares there is more money in the tourist than in trade. Possibly, when he first arrivs — Hill and Harriman are supposed to have réached an agreement on the division of Portland, but the people of that efty will still be permitted “squat” on the land and pay freight. to the railroads. [ — to thé Of the §1,600,000 fine assessed againgt the Waters-Plerce Oil com- pany ig Texas the lawyers receive only two-thirds. Nothing but the modesty of Texas lawyers prevents them from taking everything in sight. B Departmental Efficiency. The announcement from Washing- ton that President Taff has decided to undertake the tagk of making the work of the departments more effi- clent will be welcome news to every- one who has occasion to transact busi- ness with the general government. Mr. Taft has undertaken a big job, but Mr. Taft is a large man, physically and wentally, and has a record for tackling big things, which gives prom- ise of results. That he can increase the efficiency of the individual in the service to any great extent is not to be expected, because the work is of such a routine character that employes soon lose both initiative and energy. For this reason any considerable in- crease in accomplishment must come through the change in methods. Red tape and duplication so grows upon the government service from time to time that the business man who comes.in contact with it is driven to despair. He is kept chasing from one department to another, with ex- asperating delays at each stage, until he is weary. All this involves a waste of government money and in a meas. ure failure to accomplish the purposes for which the departments were cre- ated. A start has already been made along the lines indicated, which is indicative of the policy to be pursued. The at- torney general and the seeretary of commerce and labor have been di- rected to reorganize and combine cer- tain bureaus of their departments so ivhal their work will not duplicate it- | eelf, but will result in a more smoothly running machine for the supervision of corporations. The different bureaus and departments having to do with matters concerning public health have also been ordered to consolidate, and the Navy department has been told to reorganize on a more economical and businesslike basis. Mr. Taft has fur- ther announced that a committed of three of the cabinet will be named to take up the question of thoroughly re- vising departmental methods so far as it can be done under existing laws, and to recommend legislation needed to carry the idea to full fruition. The task which the administration has set for itself is so large and in- volved that much time will be re- quired to bring about appreciable re- sults and much cavilling will doubt- less be indulged in in the meantime, but Mr. Taft i not the man to be driven from his purpose or to become discouraged. » Recklessness with Figures. Statistics are forceful arguments when rightly used, but figures, when recklessly quoted, too often carry an erroneous impression. In his effort to make a point against existing indus- trial conditions Samuel Gompers has on numerous occasions indulged in some statements which will not bear analysis. Instance his assertion that there are now a million laborers in the United States who want work, but are out of employment. Any accurate statement as to the number out of employment at this or any other time would be impossible, but the populaiion of the country is so large that a million or two million appears to be the most convenient number to handle. An analysis of the last cen figures, however, would in- dicate that a million of idle men in the industries would mean a business stagnation almost unparalleled. Ac- cording to the census there were 29, 000,000 people, men, women and chil- dren, engaged in gainful occupations in this country. Of this number 10, 434,219 were farmers and 5,691,746 professional men, leaving approxi- mately 13,000,000 at that time en- gaged In all other lines of gainful oc- cupations, ineluding merchants. Of this number there were 7112,987 persons engaged in the manufacturing, mining, rallroading, organized trades and building industries. Allowing for the increase in population since then, 10,- 000,000 would be a lberal estimate for the present, embracing all the in- dustries with which Mr. Gompers, as a leader of labor, comes in contact or takes into account in his estimate of what he considers labor. It must be remembered, too, that the season of the year precludes the employment of many in outdoor avocations in the | northern part of the country. and that there are always some people idle. The best W to grasp the truth or falsity of big figures is to reduce them to the range of personal vision. To make good on Mr. Gompers' 1,000,000 workless laborers it would be neces- men engaged in the occupations classed as labor should be out of em- | ployment. This hardl, fits In with the facts which are within the observatiom of all. Artificial Checks to Business. Those who have been bending their energles toward bringing about a com- plete restoration of business activity ever since the slump of 1807 will find some comfort in the dilemma in which the cement combine finds itself. In the effort to keep up prices artificially the combine has been holding a large portion' of the 1907 and 1908 produc- tion until, it is stated on good author- ity, that it now has on hand 8,000,000 barrels of cement. This represents 17 per cent of the product for the first named year and 20 per cent of last year's output. Whether the combine holds or falls is said to depend solely upon the action of western cement | makers, who hitherto a steadfastly refuséd to keep their products off the market but have sold at ruling prices. It is axiomatic that'in times like the present concessions rather than hold- ups are necessary to imduce capital to loosen up and engage in new building operations. Every day the combine sary that at least one in ten of all the | THE BEE holds its product increases the amount it must recéive if a profit is to be se- cured, and every penny added to the price is that much of a deterrent force upon building operations and trade re- vival. A much shorter road to in- creased prices would seem to be to encourage building and stimulate the demand in order to help along a com- plete revival of business activity. Nothing Personal in It. Two or three country papers are at- tempting to break the force of The Bee's protest against the appointment of Btate ator Majors to a position on the new| Normal board by trying to make out that its editor is inspired by motives of personal enmity. There is nothing personal whatever in The Bee's refusal to gloss over such a pal- pable and deliberate violation by Gov- ernor Shallenberger of the conmstitu- tion which he took solemn oath to up- hold and defend. The constitution of Nebraska says in 80 many words that no member of the legislature during the term for which he shall have been elected shall be appointed by the governor and sen- ate to any civil office and endeavors to clinch it by adding that any such ap- pointment and any vote in confirma- tion shall be absolutely void. If this appointment to the Normal board had gone to any other membér of the leg- islature, or had the governor at- tempted to appoint any member of the legiglature to any other civil office, strance just as vigorousl So far as State Senator Majors is concerned his selection for this place is simply incidental so far as The Bee's position is concerned. The edi- tor of The Bee was offered an appoint- ment to the State Board of Education by Governor Mickey at a time when the* governor was anxious to have someone on the hoard to hold Mr. Majors down, but the tender was de- clined because there was no disposi- tion to have any personal quarrel with Mr. Majors. In the present case it s not a question of the friendship or the enmity of anyone, but a question whether the plain mandate of the con- standing reward held up for future governors to trade members of the leg- islature into appointive offices. The democratic eity council i8 sub- mitting the proposition to vote bonds for some new fire engine houses. With the object lesson before them of the last fire engine house built standing empty, it will behgove the voters to see to it that the next ones are erected by a republican council and located where they can be useful as well as ornamental. B The county superintendent of schools is included in the so-called nonpartisan election bill, put through by Nebraska's demo-pop legisisture, but the school board members, who have complete control of the schools !in cities and towns, are left exposed to the partisanship virus. Consistency is a jewel that was lost in the legis! ture. The entire available supply of eon- tract wheat is said to be in the hands of one man, who in addition holds mil- lions of bushels of “paper'’ wheat for which the unfortunate sellers must | settle. With the wheat in the bin and the profits on the books, he should have no difficulty connecting with three meals per day. Andrew Carnegle has offered to con- tribute $1,000 to buy a pipe organ for an Omaha church, conditioned only on the ralsing of an additional $1,200. Here is another chance for the World- Herald to ery ‘“tainted money” and point out the danger of such a subsidy | corrupting the pastor and all his flock. | The president of the South Carolina | Farmers' union has issued an address urging the diversification of crops rather than artificial methods of in- creasing the price of their products. The advice is entirely too sensible to suit the radicals, but those who follow | it are likely to be the winners. Financial writers are noting that steel stocks are going up in spite of the report that the big mem in the business have been selling. Before writing it into history that the insid- |ers have taken the short end of the deal it might be well to await develop- Washington Post | An lowa judge has decided that it is not a crime to swear at a baggugeman, The Judge has about 80,000,000 Americans with him. | Principles and Practice, ; Indlanapolls News. | Fifty-tive republicans voted for free lum- jher and thirty-eight democrats against it principles can be adapled Lo an emergency. v e of the Hest Cure. | Brooklyn Eagle. | Prof. Brander Matthews and his simple spellers have concluded to pause @l the world catches up with their procession. If the Esperantists would only rest a while, 100, there might still be some hope for the survival of the English language. Small Favors Appreciated, Boston Herald. Secretary of War Dickinson appears to have the proper officlal convietion that wiforts for world peace are mot to be un- duly hastened. But he is convinced that we may rest easy in hope for the future. Reassuring as far as it goes. Uplift s Obst Chicago Record-Herald. “Uncle Joe" Cannon recently declared that in his opinion the world was better than it had ever been in the past. We agree with “Uncle Joe” but it is almost to n has done necessary “Upele Joe way The Bee would have dntered remon- | stitution shall be wilfully defled and a | | thus showing the facility with which party | | | hgs at OMAHA, THURSDAY, PULLMAN CAR RATES. Rumored Reduction Provokes a Few Pertinent Remarks. Washington Star The news has gone out that the Pullman Car company Is preparing to make a gen- eral reduction in rates, putting into effect the differential between upper and lower berths long desired by the traveling pub- lic. Tt fs tated that the new tarlff law will not go it effect before June 1 If In truth the Pullman Car company last heeded popular demand for a difference between upper and lower berths in point of price, it has only recognized {an economic truth that should have been established in the sleeping car service years ago. There is no possible question that the upper berth is a second-class ac- commodation. It corresponds to the in- side stateroom on a steamship, or to the small interfor room In a hotel, for both of which lower rates are charged than for first-class accommodations. A hotel gucst asked to pay as much for a second- rate room as for a first-rate room would indiganantly protest and would probably change his hotel. The traveling public, however, has no alternative and. no ap- peal. It must pay the rate the company demands or sit up all night. Efforts have frequently been made to secure federal legislation on this point, but without wuccess. The Interstate Com- merce commixsion has been pnable, it willing, to compel the sleeping car compa- nies to bring their tarift down to a rea- sonable basis, the public complaint against them being not merely of a lack of dis- erimination between first and second-class accommodations, but of general exorbi- tance. Comparisons between services ren- dered on a sleeping car and In a hotel show the former to be extravagantly ex- cesslve. The company has always main- tained in defense of the rates that its patronage is necessarily limited, a plea that the traveling public has been dis- posed to resist on the ground that If the rates were reasonable more business could be done. While they are about the ‘matter of re- adjusting the sleeping car tarift the Pull- man officials might properly consider the matter of porters’ wages. As the case stands today the public pays the porter, not indirectly thfough the price paid for the accommodations, but directly in the form of tips. The average porter, it is sald, makes three or four times as much as his wages in the form of tips from passengers. He depends upon the tips ana s encouraged to do ®0 by the com- pany. Yot his service is no more than that of the hotel chambermaid or porter doing the necessary work of preparing rooms for the accommodation of the Ruests. The car porter should elther be thrown absolutely upon the generosity of the passengers with a frank understand- Ing that he is an unsalaried servant, or he should be pald a sufficient wage to enable him to live without trusting to the gratuities of the public. ——e 18 TAFT GREATER THAN TEDDY!? Characteristic Outhurst from Only “Uncle Joe.” Speaker Cannon in \Leslie's Weekly. T believe the man In the White House is the greatest pre¥ident we have had since Lincoln's day. He is a man ‘of judicial temperament, & man who will not cut ucross lots. He, will co-operate with ‘on- £ress and allow congress to co-operate with him, protecting the rights of the American pecple under the law, President Roosevelt was a great exeoutive, He might be com- pared with 8t. John, the Baptist, who came hefore the Mastesy, Then there came a 8t Paul to interpigt the teachings of the M. ter, and without the St. Paul we might never have understood those teachings. Agitators, muck rakers and cranks have their place, but the republican party ha its place, and will march four mquare to vietory over them all if it is true to its policies and to its prinolples. T am not abusing the muck raker. God made himn what he is, and he evidently has some use. But this is not the time for talk; it is the time for action. Ninety millions of people pause and wait, The jobber is not placing his orders six months ahead, and the manufacturer is not preparing as ex- tensively as he formerly did, because they are waiting for the tariff bill. Therefore it behooves us (o pass the tariff bill as promptly as possible—not a perfect bill, because perfection comes from God alone. ARMY RANKS FU the With 77,000 Men No More Appli- canty Wil Be Reeruit " New York Times. For the first time since the Spanish war the United Btates arny is recruited up 1o its full strength in all of its branches, and In every recruiting station In New York, Brooklyn and Jersey City there is promi- nently displayed on the bulletin boards a notice signed by the adjutant general of the army ordering the recrulting officers to confine themselves, until further orders, 10 the re-enlisting of honorably discharged soldiers According to some reports the Increased enilstment that has brought the army up to its full strength of 77,000 men, was due to hard tim but this is denied, in part, |by the officers. They admit that many men undoubtedly fell into the ranks as a result of fingncial depression, but say that the majority are young men who have gone into the army as a career, The number of rejebted applicanis in the last fifteen months indicates that this fs true, and that those who wanted to emlist be. cause they could get nothing else to do were for the most part refused by the of- ficers in charge of recrulting stations. Many of th& recrults are mechan | some are enginéers, others are from com merclal voeations, while a good are stenographers and . shipping acoording (o & stwtement made by ticer on duty here. number clerks, an of- USE PLAIN LANGUAGE. Impressive Clemrness of Letter Packing House Rebates. Plitsburg Dispatch In warning the meat packers against the prevalent practice of overvalulng products lost or Injured in transit, Attorney General Wickersham uses plain language. In short he tells them they must quit cheating. Moreover, he recommends that the Inter- state Commerce commission shall prescribe regulations for the investigation of all clalms for damages to property In transit In the case in hand, the attorney general found that Chicago packers had valued products lost and damaged in transit much higher than the products had been sold for, . This one form of the rebate. The favored shipper may be allowed any claims he files, while the other shippers must stand & rigid investigation and probably & contest In the courts before they get anything. In a large business this advan- tage would be considerable. Mr. Wick- ersham does not mention this aspect of the matter, but his recommendation to the Interstate Commerce commission Indicates is this connecion that | Department very little to bring | speaking. The sort of iransactions he de- | prove a disappointment he had it Io mind. And the public will get a higher gpinion of the head of the of Justice, fram his plain APRIL 15, 1909, Spring puts on varied and most attractive garb in Washington, in early April. Us ually the season for bursting leaf and blooming flower Is two weeks ahead of the Omaha banana belt. It advances rapidly during the month and by May day the city is full-robed In emerald, decked with | flowers, In late April and early May the olty 18 @ delight to the eye—more attractive as a spectacle than any other time of the year. A thousand or mare parks, squares, triangles and other public grounds dot the city and are maintained and beautified by the government. The small parks and squares are filled with flowers of the earll- est bloom. These are succeeded by flowers | and follage of later bloom. Throughout the season the changing process goes oh, mak Ing & succedsion of blooms that afford visitors a never-ending charm. The glory of spring in Washington 13 golden rather than vernal, write a corres- pondent, Heére spring robs a sister season of a part of her wardrobe and appears in the dress of autumn. The forsythla and the Jasmine burdened witia yellow blossoms, dominate the city parks and the country hilisides. Yestorday these shrubs were brown and bare; today they are heavy with flowers, while as yet no season-lasting leat has appeared. The gold has precedence over the green. While the forsythia and the jasmine blos- soms dominate, as gold always has a way of dominating, their fortunes will be scat- tered In a fow days and the silver blos- soms of the Japanese magnolia, a cousin of our own grandifiora, will take the place of the gold that ruled for & day. In truth, the magnolia buds already are open, while the trees which bear them are still desti- tute of lcaves. The magnolla bears the Bt of fragrance which the forsythia cannot offer. Massachusetts avenue, from Thomas cir- cle to Fifteenth street, is terraced, the rounded, stone confined banks of earth holding scores of the torsythia shrubs. The avenue Is a burst of yellow. The beauty of the street in this April season attracts and holds thousands of strangers who are thronging the capital city. After the for- sythia, the magnolla, and thén the porce- lain perfume-filled cups of the stately tulip tree! It is a march of beauty, a succes- sion of riches, Nearly 30,000 tourists have looked the capital of the nation over during the last three weeks, and the favorite season for visiting Washington Is only opening. A fact worth noting is that the Boards of Education In most of the states along th Atlantic seaboard and In some states far ther west are now making an annual pligrimage to the national capital a part of the course of study. Perhaps 75 per cent of the tourists who are now visiting the capltal are high school students and their teachers. These sedkers after knowledge come In dally by the train load. Wash- ington Is overrun with them. This practice of permittng—or rather encouraging—stu- dent bodies to come here was Instituted two or three vears ago by some of the New Bngland states and It proved so satisfac- tory that it has had a remarkable growth. The raliroads entering the capital estimate that not fewer than 100,000 public school students will visit here during the month and the first halt of May. Naturally, the carrying companies are hopeful that the practice will ‘appeal to vducatfonal au- thorities as far west valley. Tt 1s no wonder at all that the brides and grooms ltke to come to Washington in the spring. Washington's flower festival be- gan with the snowdrops in late February, and will end only with the last of the roses in late November, Of course, it is not the flowers that bring the brides and grooms to Washington. They come here, for the most part, to see the place and to get lost in the crowd of thelr own kind, to be con- splcuous among the multitude of the con- spicuous, The guides welcome them, for the bridegroom fs liberal, and, whether he 1s liberal or not by nature, happiness makes him keep up an appearance of generosity, at least until the end of the honeymoon. It is sald that there is not & vacant room in any hotel in the city. Congress is in session, the Daughters of the American Revolution are coming, the country's newly married are there, and some thousands of other people, 1% 1s hard to make headway through the corridors of the capitol. The rotunda Is crowded to the rounded wall, Statuary hall holds the people massed. the galleries of the house were filled through the most tedlous of debates, and the supreme court, always stuffy, is suffocating. The White House is the center of attrac- tlon fer the student bodi These fine spring days they almost swamp the attend- ants about the president's home and the exocutive offices. “Cun we see the presi- dent?" “Pogsibly not: he Is very busy.” “But we have got to; that is what we came here for.” The expanaive East room fills and cannot be emptied untll the good natured president lays aside his work over in the executive offico and comes over for & handshake all around. From 10 o'clock until 1 Mr. Taft finds it impossible to give much thought to senators and representatives are crowding on him continually with schoolmarms and students who have “pull” enough to meet him in that way instead of walting over in the East room. From the White House the visitors scatter to the othes chief points of Interest. They usually do not have more than forty-eight hours for sightseeing. but they manage to see about ‘n!l the things the stranger in Washington must see. Possibly Mt. Vernon and the tomh of Washington get more attention from the youngsters than any attraction except the White House. Do they all go to the top of the Washington monument? To be sure. If the capacity of the groat glevator ves Insufficlent they ciimb the sleps on & run—63 feet up. Starting In at the bureau of engraving and printing, they witness the making of paper money from time the engraver begins untll the presses in the hasement of the treasury bullding stamp the numbers on the bills. Every boy and girl carries a little note book in which the bits of information which the guides let drop are jotted down. It is a fine spectacle; It has In It for most | perscns more human interests than the dry delLate on the tariff up on Capitol Hill Effects of Washington A 8t. Louls Globe-Democrat It is stated that a convention of Daugh- ters of the Revolution in Washington has developed insurgents and a czar. It must be in the air; but why should anyone think to be w oczar, or even a constitutional mouarch, with the descendants of the sol- dlers of the ttme that tried men's souls? A Hopeful Chicago News. Senator Bailey wags his head solemnly and prophesics that President Taft will If he disappoluts ubout the spiendid condition 0 which he|scribes are groperly characterized as cheat- | Senator Bailey the ccuntry will take it a relers. ing 4@ hopeful sign. the Missiesippl | public business because | d— PERSONAL NOTES. A lot of stenographers in Trenton kissed the office boy and he gave all of them the measles. 8hocking ingratit The Oyster Bay Pilot notes u “falling off in realty transactions” in thal Ineality of late, and that “things are quite dull.” A Methodist minister of austere principl has been appointed chief of police at Mason City, Ta. Now sinners will have to listen to him. Congressman Carl Carey Anderson of Ohlo, at the age of 10 was a newsboy and bootblack, and &t 16 had saved enough money to buy a home for his mother. Found guiity of double murder. tucky night rider has been sent to prison for a year. Evidently the wholesale as- sassin 1s allowed a reduction from the regu- lar rate. According to the London Times the Pers- fen revolutionaries have been reinforced by an Irishman and an American. While one of these lasts the policy of being “agin the government” will never be abandoned. a Ken- Chicago property owners have not yet secured much relief from paving burdens by the impoeition of a wheel tax. Owners of vehicles think the pleasure of seelng them pass by (s ample roward for those who foot the paving bills. Tt has just been discovered that the new criminal code of the state of Washington makes It a-misdemesnor for a restaurant waiter or an employe of @ public service corporation to take a tip, or for anyone to give a tip to such a person. C it s eald, owes the Injury that has come to his $2,000—or is it §2,5007—per night voice te the strain incldent to singing for the music canning factorfes. He ro- celved much money for the raw material, as much as $0,000 durivg a single season, it 1s, estimated, and now all he has to show for it, aside trom the vulgar pelf, is & sore throat and some sprained vocal chords, ruso, Wasting Good Monecy. i Boston Herald, Freakish- publications by the government in Washington continue to amuse, as well |as excite wonder. Tn the course of 339 printed pages on the subject of juvenile crime and reformation Arthur Macdonald, “honorary president of the third Interna tional Congress of Criminal Anthropology of Europe,” is allowed to prove that there is more pleasure than pain in the world by tabulating a government clerk’'s mental states for one day. Sample: “Pleasant féeling of rest «n waking, 15: unpleasant thoughts of getting up, 8" elc. to the total—"pleasant, 581; unpleasant, 158." What marvels “psychology”’ unfolds! And Uncle Sam pas the bl {me, Makes delicious hot biscuit, griddle cakes, rolls and muffins. The only Baking Powder Made from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar k] LINES 10 AT, . ak happy a8 he looks~ a married man, 100.” " - “Aln't lettin' himself get worried over th tariff on women's gloves, eh™ “Not a bit of It. His wife {s th' ‘armless wonder' in th' sideshow over yonder, Cleveland Plain Dealer. you going to in aerial a classify my art| events navigation and travel? Facetious Editor—My dear sir, we are oing to run it under “Doings in' Hixh ife."—Baltimore American. “You must learn to trust your fellow- men." said the professional optimist. “There's no use in talking that way to answered the worried-looking oith zen. “I'm In the grocery business.” Washington Star. Lady (in chemist's shop, to small boy) —What am I to take this medicine in my lad? Boy—Yer mouth, ma'am.—Life. The father frowned. “What {8 that boy watching all Glocks for?" he demanded "The mother smiled. He's got them running in a six-d Marathon race she roplied, ‘and the one that runs the longest gets olled Cleveland Plain Dealer. —— the “Why did they heavy a sentence amount? Why, he had the chance aling thousand: ‘That's what they did it for—to teach him a lesson about being a piker when he had the chance of his life to be a financier.”—Baltimore American fve that defaulter so for taking such & smail o “Please describe your Tunaway lhus band, madam.” said the detective. “I am not sure that 1 ever saw him Has he any facial pecullarities or distingulshing marks about him? “I_don't know whether he has now o not,” answered the deserted wife: “but when he went awa he had the mark:s of me ten finger nails on his ugly mug.” 2 hicago Tribune Grimsby—80 you want to marry my daughter, sir? What are your principles’ Are you temperate? Thimsby—Temperate! 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