Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 16, 1909, Page 6

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Remit by draft, express or postal order, axable to The Bee Publishing Company, e Lo 10 6o 10e STATEMENT OP CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss: George B. Tzschuck, treasurer of The Bes Fublishing company, being duly sworn, says that the aciual nuuiber of full and complete ;?.:s;- ofn'rh. Dally, nr;;nln.t Evan!nl“hlfig ay Bee printed during the month of Maréh. 1009, was & follow . 39,100 39,380 38,930 Total . Léss unsold and Net total . Dally average afk . GEORGE B. TZ a2zo SCHUCK. Tr A 4 bed in r) 1 'a'yd”?nx;’:‘n 5‘“ 0 before me this. vl G Naary Fublie. (Beal) WHEN OUT OF TOWN. abscribers leaving the efty tem- rarily o have The Hee | alled to them. Address will be l'IlI' As often as requested. Watered stocks are not believed to be of any assistance to navigation. Don't make fun of Pittsburg. Wait until the sprlng,hule—c!eanlng time is ended. * The southern Night Riders need a change of mounts. Substitute the héarse for the horse, /inter is the dull time for balloon- ing, but with the advent of the base b v nwle::l? ggnlhu .lvlbu- ,be more bt llinols is still short one senator. It has been a long time up to the present since lilinols failed to get all that was coming to it. he government 18 on the market foff 54,000,000 worth of clothing for thg army. That sort of orders ought loihelp some, [New York is agitating the widening of Fifth avenue. ‘Before that could be accomplished the big hats are liable to 80 ottt of styfe. e — A chair of fisheries is suggested for the Chicago university. THe average fisherman is content with a dry spot of earth or a chunk One Nebraska senator wants lum- ber put on the free list and the other wants hides taken off the free list, That 100ks iike a compromise. In Washington Mr. Bryan is already rupping for United States senator. Here in Nebraska the time for him to filé his petition will not arrive for an- other year, W Thirty-two killed in a religious riot in Mexico is a pretty good record. What those Mexicans could do if they really started out to have a fight is problématical. ST ——— The frequent contests of wills on the ground the testator was not of sound mind suggests the question whether a sane man can accuraulate a really. big fortune. A Florida mob which lynched a man was so considerate of him that it gave him a ride in an automobile first. No danger, bowever, that this style of autoing 'will become popujar. Nebzraska's demo-pop law-makers have decreed that buildings over two stories high shall be equipped with ‘‘one more fire escape.” Prepare for an influx of fire escape venders. The Japanése-are sald to have se- cured control of the rallroad lines in Manchuria. Just wait until Hill &nd Harriman decide to invade the fleld and connect them with the water routes. i epp——— Tuberculosls germs are said to have been found in milk in Milwaukee. Just why thig shoyld be of any interest to the residents of a place made famous by: another kind of drink is not ex- plained. it the, present -eraze for bullding Dreadnaughts keeps up some nations are likely to find themselves in as em- barrassing a position as the man who spent Afr ‘migney he had tor a pock- etbook. ’ Governor ' Shallenberger's approva of the 8 o'cleck closing law is justified | quring the Spanish-American war by a | Governor by him on the ground that it is really a re for the benefit of the lquor interests. ™ Stringe how those prohibi- tionists should enthuse over a law in- }mtl_r party colleagues in the house— Clinching Roosevelt Policies. Before his induction into office Mr Taft repeatedly declared that the great work of his administration would be to clinch the Roosevelt policies and render effective the feforms started under the administration of his prede- cessor. The time was not sufficient after the enactment of legislation un- der Roosevelt to do more than make a start toward giving the country the | full benefits. Both prudence and com- mon sense dictate that the ground gained should be thoroughly secured before plunging into other problems. Otherwise the administration would inevitably find itselt with a multitude of tasks undertaken and little per- formed. The interests against whose miscon- | duct the Rooseévelt policies were di- rected would like nothing better than to have the administration of Mr. Taft yleld to ill-considered clamor to strike out into new flelds. - The president now serves natice on all that the adminis- tratlon is not to be moved.from its purpose. The Departments of Justice, Commerce and Labor and Interior have particularly to do with these reforms, and their heads, together with the In- terstate Commerce commission, have been called together to censult regard- ing future procedure. Co-operation by all the departments charged with workipg out these problems gives promise of tangible results. 4 No method has vet been discovered of ¢uring the 1ils of the body politic by the wave of a magic legislative wand or the simple running amuck of actions at law. The interests to be combatted have been so. thoroughly intrenched that intelligent, concerted effort is still necessary. Mr. Taft has assured the péople there will be no backward step, and he is going about it in the logical way. ¢ Senate Democrats Floundering. Atter four houfs of conference sen- ate democrats reached no conclusion except that they could not agree. De- mocracy in the upper body is evidently Just as’ hopelessly divided as it is in the lower house. At the end of the sesslon it was announced that a reso- lution had been adopted to present a program for an income tax, substantial reductions in the tariff schedules and particularly for a cut in the duties on the necessities of life. Even with such a general declaration it was necessary | to provide that the action of the con- ference should not be binding on the members, as some announced in ad- vance that they would not support the th‘l‘llll. General debate on the tariff bill was postponed in the senate in order that; the democrats could get together, but the effort has shown thefutility of it.. The uv:;udg senatoms are finding themselVes' in the same ‘sitmation a: under the necessity of going ahead and passing a tariff bill without the aid o the democrats as a party organization, Following on the heels of the numer- | ous other internal disagreements the complete demoralization of the party organization over the tariff points to the conclusion that democracy as a na-, tional force can no longer be rallied even with the battle ery “I object,” which has heretofore been potent when the reépublicans’ proposed anything. « Adjournment of Congres: Senate leaders express the opinion | that the special session of congress will | adjourn by the.first of June and there appears to be no reason at this time to question the accuracy of this fore- cast. If this shall be accomplished the wishes of the president and the coun- try will be complied with. On the ad- vice of Mr. Taft congress has confined itself strictly to the business it was | called upon to transact and by so doing results are being accomplished. Revision of the tariff was under-! taken in response to' a univereal de- of the work business in all lines neces- sartly halts. The schedules are so nu- merous that they affect directly or in- directly every business interest in the ceuntry and until the provisions of the man goes beyond immediate require- ments with manufaeturing enterprises, and even in that the future is apt to be overdiscounted. 1 congress shall accomplish its leg- islative task and adjourn by June it will have general approval. Death of Ex-Senator Butler. In the death of former Senator Matthew C. Butler of South Carolina the south loses one of its notable fig- ures. From the breaking out of the civil’ war until advancing years put a stop to his activities he was prominent in all the affairs of the south and a leader of sentiment in that section. In the civil' war he rose from the rank of captain to that of major general and 108l & leg In the service of the confed- eracy. The war over, his election to the legislature in 1866 and subsequent years made him a conspicuous figure in the reconstruction period. The year 1877, the practical close of that period, tound him in the United States senate, where he served until 1£89, whea the rule of the old-time aristocracy in South Carolina gave way to Tillman and others. The most conspicuous feature of his career was the course taken by him in {gard to the existing mand and pending the consummation | but was inserted in Water Bill No. BEE: petuation of sectional strife was doing to both north and south. In the case of -the southerner, particularly, with the sting of defeat still rankling, it re- quired both foresight and courage, for it meant temporary ostracism .from former friends. General Butler pos- sessed the qualities which mage him a potent leader in the movement. The south can look up to him as one who went down to defeat with them and then led them up out of the slough of despond. Such a Haste. Why are the people of Omaha asked by the Water board to vote $6,5600,000 of bonds at this particular time? Why this haste to get ready to bor- row money to pay a judgment which may be rendered in a case which can- not be even argued in the supreme court for six to eight months? From the very start those high- priced Water board lawyers have been telling us that they are sure to win out in all their water works litigation and that the appralsement of $6,263- 295.49 will never stand. Are they getting cold feet, or were they bunco- ing us all the time? If you had a law suit which your attorneys had been telling you you were certain to win and had gotten you to pay them $50,000 to $60,000 in retainers and fees as they went along and then suddenly came to you before the appeal wae set for hearing and advised you to negotiate a mort- gage on your property right away and get ready to fork over, what would you think of them? Wbuldn't you think the other side had been busy? In this water works litigation the apparent over-haste of the Water board bond boosters is still more strik- ing when the wording of the law is considered. Water Bill No. 2, relating to the purchase of the water plant, which is the law under which the Water board is supposed to be now acting, reads: Sajd water board shall thority and power to act on behalf of such city in all matters pertaining thereto, including the appointment of ap- pralsers whenever required; the general supervision of any resulting appraise- ment; the acceptance or rejection of any award resulting from any such appraise- ment; and of all other negotiations con- nected with or pertaining to the acquisi- tion of such water plant. Provided, that 10 acceptance of any such appraisement shall be binding upon such city unless bonds are voted for the acquisition of such water plant under such appraise- Rt have sele au- . First and foremost, so far as the records of the Water board go, there is no award and there i8 no acceptance of any appraisement to be ratified by the people. On the contrary, the rec- ords of the Water board show (1) that the pretended appraisement signed by two engineers, from which the third dissented, was rejected; (2) that the Water board appointed an- other engineer to represent the city, calling on the water company to ap- point a second engineer to proceed with a new appraisement under the purchase clause; (3) that on refusal of the water company to name its en- gineer or to acqulesce in the rejection of the appraisement the city rescinded its action electing to buy and employed experts to draw plans for a new water works to be constructed without re- plant. If the Water board records show, and the water works lawyers contend, that there is no “acceptance” of any ap- praisement to be voted on, how will voting $6,500,000 in water bonds at ‘his time be a ratification of the ac- saptance? In the next place, the bond proposi- tion as formulated by the Water board ettorneys and submitted to the people does not even refer to the appraise- wment. It is simply a straight-out i sue of bonds for the general purpose of acquiring a water plant. The sec- tion requiring popular ratification of | the award was not in Water Bill No, 1, on demand of the editor of The Bee in order that the people might have a veto upon any deal the Water board might undertake to make with the owners of the water compan No new law are a certainty no prudent | reading of the law, except by twisting the ordinary meaning of the words, n he made to give the Water board a right to assume that the voting of a blanket bond issue, with no reference | to any appraisement, fulfills the con- dition that ‘‘no acceptance of any such appraisement shall be binding” unless | bonds are voted ‘‘under such appraise- ment."” It the supreme court of the United States six months to a should decree that the city of Omaha must pay $6,263,295.49 for the water year hence | plant under its contract, there will be | plenty. of time to vote the bonds after the judgment is entered, and it may be doubted whether any bond issue now voted will avoid the necessity of voting again after the appraisement Is ac- cepted. Perhaps those democratic law- makers down in Texas hesitated to follow Mr, Bryan's command to enact a guaranty deposit law in order to find out first whether the deposit law put on the statute books under Mr. Bryan direction in his own home state will hold water. It the constitution does not count as & bar to a state senator accepting from the governor prohibited ap- bringing about a better understanding between the north and the south. He was not only a leader, but a ploneer In the movement which ha# resulted in the rapid effacement of sectional lines, a service which won him recogunition commission as & major general of vol- unteers. The country will long remember the men who first recognized both the fu- tility and the injury which the per- pointment to the al board, why should a little thing llke failure of the Normal board bill to repeal an amended law cut any figure We will know pretty soon whether Shallenberger's supreme court appointees or Governor Shel- don's supreme court appointees are standing on constitutional ground But then if there are to be no party nominations for judges this year the OMANA, FRIDAY, APRIL demo-pop desire to make political eap- ital, which was back of the whole deal will be disappointed whichever way it goe! Boston wool buyers are scouring Wyoming trying to buy the season's clip. Because the results of storing in Omaha last year instead of trusting to the tender mercies of long distance buyers was so satisfactory, the east- erners are making little head Omaha market offers a mutually sat- isfactory deal to Wyoming and the sheepmen are showing they appreciate it The legislature of the state of Wash- ington is debating some freak legis- tion on the marriage question. There is a second-hand stock of freak bills, covering a wide fleld, on file at Lin- ‘coln which the Washingtonians can have at reduced prices if their own supply runs short. Two local newspapers that de- nounced the award of the appraisers at $6,263,206.49 in most unmeasured terms are now advising the people to vote $6,600,000 in water bonds to take the plant at this price. What pro- duaced the change? Considering their moderate experi- ence, the rejuvenated Turks are show- ing themselves Industrious cabinet makers. They have turned out the second complete set since the advent of the new regime only a few months ago. Now that the doctors have succeeded {fn amputating the appendix from a majority of the people, they have dis- covered a new disease, pellagra. It threatens to become fashionable as its predecessor. U racoring Hix Words. Chicago Tribune. When a man of Mr. Roosevelt's pecullar temperament encounters a liar he finds it difficult to hold converse with him in diplomatic and strictly conventional lan- Buage. One of Prosperity’'s Pulls Baltimore American. In ten vears the United States has ex- ported $16,000,00 worth of condensed milk, which proves that the cow and the can are important factors in the commercial pros- perity of this great land. Trend of the Times. Charleston News and Courler. When Loulsiana follows Cannon and Payne in congress, who shall say that she will repudiate a republican candidate for president, who believes in a white man's government of the south? A Classieal Reminiscence. New York Sun. Medea bolled a ram in a caldron and it come out a tender lamb, as innocent, help- less and pitifully bleating as that modern fiction, “‘the ultimate consumer." Will Hon, Sereno Elisha Payne know the house tarif bill.when the senate gets through with 4¢3+ ———— By Way; of information. Washington Herald. It is our painful duty to disillusionize certain esteemed contemporaries. “Mooley," the benign, beautiful, and altogether lovely White House cow, has not yet chewed up all the grass on the White House lawn. In fact, “Mooley” is not permitted to graze on the aforesald lawn, and never has been. She Is a modest back-lot cow. Uncle Sam's Income Improving. Pittsburg Dispatch. ported by the assistant points out that they those of 1%07, and materially ahead of those of 1%8. The principal deficiency now is in internal revenue receipts. The natural deduction is that It may be less important to provide new revenue In the tariff bill than to get it out of the way and give business a chance. secretary, who NEBRASKA'S PAINT LAW. Dealers Must Get Rid of Back Num- ber Stock. American Paint and Oil Dealer. Of all the forty or more bills affecting the paint industry and introduced this win- ter only one has passed, viz: In Nebraska, which, with the one passed last year In Vermont, goes iutg effect July 1, 1908. These two bills radically affect the stocks on hand, regardless of the provisions in both laws which waive the formula re. quirement of such goods already in dealer’ hands, for obviously, with emphasis thus placed by the state on the portance of the formula label, the people of these two states must already be looking askance at anything in the paint line that bears no formula, though presumably they will continue buying food and drug stuffs, soaps, cigars and all other proprietaries (bearing no formuld) with continued equan- imity. Their caution in regard to paint, however, will have some basis In Nebraska, where the mere possession of paint without the formula label, either “for sale or use is declared prima facle evidence of viola tion of the law, with fines and jail sen- tences uncomfortably suggested, and many may not understand that they have only to prove that this painf was in ‘the state be- ford the law became effective. At best, all this unlabeled paint will be | a back number after July 1, and obviously no manufacturer can afford to take back, or exchange such goods. Nor can he af- ford to send formula labels, for almost every maker has been improving his for- mula from year to vear, and the degler would share his reluctance to place formula labels or goods bought at various times and perhaps from various nakers, jobbers, ete., with all the responsibility therefor A similar situation presented itself in Towa when the formula law was adopted there several vears ago, and a simple cal- culation showed that the return or ex- change of goods on hand would bankrupt the manufacturer. Much demoralization and loss was caused before dealers selzed the situation, and then there were hurried “elosing-out sales.” with additional loss, though later the provision protecting stocks on hand was extended to November 1, 1509, and now the latest advices are that tb Towa officials consider the law uncon- stitutional, or inoperative at least, and de cline to enforce it lowa dealers should continue cautious, however, until the law is repealed or an officlal announcement is given out by Commissioner Wright, and Nebraska and Vermont dealers should immediately recog- nige the situations in their states and plan such spring painting campaigns they never pushed before. In no other way can they move stocks on hand before this paint becomes back-number stock, publicly known as such and salable ealy by sufferance. The | | service Increasing treasury receipts are again re- are not far hehind | | ter nearly 2% times the road’s income. | tore the supposed 1m- | 16, 1909. Around New York Mipples on the Ourrent of Life As Seen in the Great Amerioan Metropolis from Day to Day. Thomas F. Rvan, P. A. B. Widener €. Whitney forked over Metropolitan ago. confession of judgment to | by the company for return of a pot | noney squeezed of dead and Willlam L. a check for $6 Securities company Bikins 82 to | Metropolitan-Interurban whale minor Jonahs some ten years ago. Wher the traction whale was getting its appeti; in shape for business in 189, Anthony Brady picked up the remains of the bank rupt Wall Street and Cortlandt rallway company, Itfe into it. The combine told Brady he would burn his fingers in the deal. Brady soon realized that he was “up against it and agreed to turn the remains over Ryan, Whitney and assoclates for $250,000 In due time, as ago, he received a check from the prise $250,000. dum from Mr. Whitney Brady to dcposit the check and money and then to draw it was for $965,607.19, get Thomas F. Ryan L. Elkins and P. A Thomas Dolan, B. Widener for $11i,- @278 each and to pay to Moore & Schley, bankers and hrokers, $134,028 The total of theme six checks was 282, and the amount remainjng for Mr. Brady was $273,- 814.37. Mr. Brad: testiffed that he fol- lowed the instructions. Thi= is the Jloot now returned by the promoters. Bvelyn Cook, 631 West Fifty-first street, the New York Central tracks avenue, at Ninety-seventh street, was set upon by two boys, who thrust her against the wall, took two $1 bills from the pocket of her jacket and fled. It was done so quickly that the girl was taken by surprise, but she wasted no time in screaming. Instead she gave chase and pursued the two to One Hundredth street There they turned in thelr tracks and ran back, but Miss Cook was after them again, and at Ninety-sqventh street she. caught one of the boys. This time it was his turn to be surprised for she got a kind of half-Nelson on him, to the ground and sat on him. was ascending in Park when she boré him Policeman Hartmeyer came along and In the Kast One Hundred station the bills were The other boy es- and arrested the boy and Fourth street found in his pocket. caped. Figures by the New York Board of } lives a month, most of them children’s, o and average, have been sacrificed to the craze for automobile speed in that city. The number of fatalities resulting from improper manipulation of motor cars be- tween January 1, 198, and April 1, 1906, was 101. This Includes persons run down and Kkilled while riding In cars In accidents. There have been seventeen automobile fatalities in the three months ended March 31, 1909, There appears to be an impression among motor car owners .and drivers that the streets between the curb lines are for the exclusive use of vehicles, except at cross- relieve from responsibility any motor car driver running down a person anywhere but on a crossing. A fair conception of the millions of dol- lars which annually are poured into the treasuries of the traction companies of Greater New York is shown in a summary of the reports of the companies for the last quarter of 18, issued by the public commission. The gross earnings lines from operation were 98, and operating expenses $10.- 712,89, leaving net earnings of $7,085,%1 Other income amounted to $1.007.88, making the total net income 35,086,080, The South- field Beach rallroad had a total gross in- come of only $1.%, against which are charged operating expenses of $153 and {axes of $226, leaving a deficit for the quar- The of all twenty-seven companies %3, and their llabilities $360,- of twenty-seven total asset are $3% 041,043, \ Some time in 1911, probably early in the spring, New York's great public library now building in Bryant park will be opened to the publi. Those who have fretted over the delay may find consolation in the fact that the building is being constructed of marble as perfect as it is possible to quarr been use: selection it that fully To illustrate how close was the will only be necessary to say 120,000,600 tons were rejected be- clection of the 30,000 tons was made. The three great public libraries of this clty—the Astor, the Lenox, and the Tilden —were consolidated under the name of the New York Public Library on May 2, 18%. The award in the competition for the erec- tion of the new bullding was in November, The removal of the old reservoir and actual work of laying the foundation were begun in the following May. The cornerstone was laid November 10, 1902 The roofing was finished in 1906, fhe total cost of the building will about ¥:,000,000. be In the outer room of a Wail street offic this sign was ted a few days ago ‘Please do not whistle; we do all that our- ressenger boys on service in saw a funny side The ding evidently selves. the & to the twenty whistle “How queries. notice of them asked: ‘“When »* “'When does the concert begin? ticket 7 and came down after days, and of the office has had it replaced by one bearing in aggres- sively bold letters simply the words, “Don't whistle. do you for a sign manager much simllar two the Important Decision in th Springtield Republican. It looks as though the United States su- preme court might be divided on the forth- coming decision In the so-called commodi- tles or coal-roads-in-interstate-commerce Delay in rendering the judgment is 30 being Interpreted In Wall street, which hangs expectantly on the Monday's Wash- Ingion news from week to week. The cause turns on the question whether the power of congress to regulate interstate commerce involves the power to prohibit in any ca It will therefore be a deelsion of large im- portance;” however It goes. Making. case T — ut Down. Boston Transcript The Civil Service Reform association is entitled (o congratulation. The census of- fice for the first time in history fs going over to the reformed basis, and & stal- #art advocate of merit system occuples the White House on what looks like an elght-year lease. Prospects of this reform were never more favorable than now, and | Thomas Dolan and the estates.of William | jotntly the rew The check was the answer and a suit instituted of franchises | hypothecated by a combine of Philadelphis and New York traction promoters when the swallowed Ferries Intending to blow some to Brady testified two years Metro- | poiitan Securities comps ny, but to his sur- Instead of for With the check was a memoran- Instructing Mr. the | his personal checks to the order of William C. Whitney, willam years old, who lives at $he screamed then in order to bring help | alth | established that since January 1, 1908, seven | ings. They want a law passed which will | About 3000 tons of marble have | for within an hour more than | n GOLD DUST, unlik the surface. food That’s the safer way. begins to dissolve and water. | way. | Made by THE N. K. Makers of FAIRY One million women simply detest washing dishes because they have not yet found the right way e ] If you were compelled to do all your house- work in the way your mother did before you, it would be almost unbearable. And still many women cling to the ancient soap route when washing dishes. There’s a better way, an easier way, a safer way. GOLD DUST added to your dish-water will make your dishes whiter and cleaner than they ever can be made without it. That’s the better way. e soap, cleans more than It goes deep after germs and hidden particles, and sterilizes everything it touches. GOLD DUST does all the hard part of the task without your assistance, because it clean the moment it touches the That’s the easier *Let the GOLD DUST Twins do. FAIRBANK COMPANY SOAP, the oval cake. | omm—— e e e s———— PERSONAL NOTES. x-President Roosevelt has started ench branch cof the Ananias club. Wiillam Thomas Hayward, conceded | be the best joekey of his day, died at his ‘hmni' In Sussex, N. J. He was in his sixty- | ritth year, having been born at Northamp- ton, England, December 21, 184. | Jdohn Navin Haslett, dean of the news- | paper profession in Pittsburs, died there | after a long illness of stomach trouble. He was 68 years old and for forty years was | eity editor of the Leader, retiring recentiy | on account of his health. Benjamin J. Lang. who has been in the | first _rank of American musicians for a |third of a century as a planist, teacher, conductor and organizer. and whom Liszt called his best pupil, died In Boston after | an extremely brief iliness at the age of 71 | | years. a to | A real joke has been cracked in the Eng- | tish Parilament, where a member moved to subsi.tute “paralyze’ for “amend” in the stereotyped form of preamble to the Irish land bill. In soberly ruling the amend- ment out of order, the chalrman sustained the dlgnity of the house. Mrs. Jennie F. Mutealf of Winchester has just won the private secretaryship in one of the largest English tea firms in the world at a salary of $1,600 a year and ell expenses. The place was awarded by a competitive examination, In which there were some twenty-five competitors, sixteen of whom were men. The appointment 18 for three years and she i to go first to Hongkong ahd then to India The best armed monarch In Europe today pts the new Ciar Ferdinand of Bulgaria. His bedroom is filled with weapons which are not there for any ornamental purpose, |but for use. The sinister cellection in- | cludes guns, revolvers, daggers, and here and there on chairs are cudgels and | knuckle dusters. A small and wicked 100k: | lies at the head of hi¥ bed. Though he | takes all these precautions, Ferdinand is a | courageous man, but he suffers at night from a constant dread of assassination. | ! THERS' CONGRESS. | | Mere Man Must Take His Medicine i and Look Ple | Boston Transeript. | From the bench Judge Peatzck of New | York has announced the decision that “the father is not lord of the household; he has no absolute rights; he cannot dictate—but he must get the consent of the wife on all matters pertaining to the education and bringing up the children.” It has been noted that in recent years the typleal father has relinguished or has been. forced to abandon, & direct interest in the training of the young. On the vital subject of child culture, now rated as a science, he has offered no advice and no- body has thought it worth while to appeal to him for suggestions. This matter is monopolized by mothers’ clubs and mothers’ congresses at which the nearest thing to male representation I8 an occasional ad- dress by a young college professor. The father has made no protest against his humiliating exclusion, but provider. Of his formal dethrone- as the lord of the household by the courts of law he has nothing to say. Long ago Mr. Howells, a professional |and minute student of woman, warned man of his impending overthrow as an authority in intellectual mattérs. He de- | clared that woman, having emancipated herself from the narrowing drudgery of the household, devotes her time furlously 0 mind's growth. She does most of the serious reading In books, which are written mainly for her and chiefly by her, and is also the more thorough reader of family ment | ing revolver, with all its chambers loaded, | he shamelessiy | confines himself to the silent role of the | the newspaper. 8he knows more of the crafts and. arts of the professions and of the sclences than does the average man 8he can drive a nail without smashing a thumb, which few men can do. Her club life is Intellectual, while that of man sensual. She is the better paFliamentaria having made a flerce study of manuals ana rufes of order. She Is an orafor and a debater as well As an ossayist and her club meetings are fvely, Mtevesting and Instructive. She knows what she wants and does not stop with the adoption of fruitless resolution. s witness the ‘cam- paign of the English suffragettes, This 18 the well-equipped mother who has undertakef o rear the children, and it the father is not glad to have her do It, at least he has hot the ‘temerity to say s0. Certainly it Is no. father who sug- gests a fathers' congress with the object of wresting the boy from Women's® rulc The call is made by a number of malc high school principals who feel the in creasing pressure of woman's competition It s they who cry out, that. the father should assert himself and train the boy. “in a man's way." ereticoisitsmtosis Drummer—You boostéd for flie “school o mittee (o get a pretty school teacher from the town? Why, you haven't any children? Storekeeper JasonsNo, ibul, stranger, | had an eye on business. As soon as the pretty teacher arrived a1l tha big boys be- gan aneaking down here and buying hair oll. clean ‘collars and sweet soap by the wholesale.—Chicago News. why k- Y Dropd- e &3 ternal “Kynny, land = wan nnu&hu. ¢ “What ls the' roasoh " ‘Apparently, because they are everything. '~ Baltimore Ametican “Da Wald fheé vietim @f1th palm, “you're ‘awfuily crudl.) “Why ‘so, son?" Cause on't lick me oftener.' “What's that? - 1f you licked me oftener I'd get tougher and it wouldn't hurt so much.”—Cleveland | Plain Dealer. g 50 man First Hunter—That breech loader of yours is a good gun, but the sights are very bad. Second Hunter—Yes, that's right. In other words, It Is more honored in, the breech than in the observanee.—Boston Herald. ‘“You people have a primary law out here. How do you like ft?'" “Suits me first rate. Give me a chance to take a whack at a bum congressman without going outside of my party to do it."—Chicago Tribune. sald the mild mannered e of those of Cicero.” “His speeches.’ acoffer, “‘remind “In what respect? “Nobody reads them except under com- pulsion. " —Washington Star, “How {s Dr. Jones getting on® “Doing wonderfully well." “Do you suppose he will sucoees In earv- fortune?” he removed the appendix t citizen a couvle of weeks ago.” ¢ The appendiz, eh? What ald he get out of e “An automobile." THE HOMESTEADER'S DAY, (Dedicated to Judge Witten) MORN. How bright the morn, after drowsy Night Has fled before the slanting rays of sun | The ambient air is breath of pure delight, | And makes a joy of labor to be done. H NOON. The rolling sweep where fortile acres lav. Glows broadening in golden light of d Full on the hope of harvest's promise ra | WIill come contentment and surcease from are. Houston Post. 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