Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 8, 1909, Page 10

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Will a spread eagle on the new post- age stamps give wings to the postal service? The question arises whether the cen- tral bank is not already here in the person of J. P. M. | *The northwest switchmen struck just in time to avoid having to dig the frogs out of the showdrifts. e In the annual review of the best self-advertisers of 1909, let us not overlook Mr. Stubbs of Kansas. —— Is it not time to hear the cry of the antl-imperialists against our looking after our interests in Central America? ‘With the enthuslastic commendation of Presldent Diaz and Secretary Wil- son, old King Corn doesn't need to worry. The reappearance at Washington of the problem, what is straight and what is blend, indicates that whisky will not down. Aud now the congressman-editor has abandoned the bank guaranty law and returned to his first love. Poor old paramoung! Ig Dunn hasn't had enough of it. He proposes now to go through to a fare-you-well with the court. But he will apologize yet. ————— Disclosure of $100,000,000 in per- sonal property In Chicago that has hitherto escaped taxation ought to make it easy to tax it now. It is proving to be a hard winter for trenzled financlérs who had prison sen- tences held up on appeal. The frost for them seems to be general. ‘ —_— ' The esteemed Lincoln Star is still having cenniption fits over Omaha's wickeGneds. It's too bad, but somehow or other 'we'll have to bear it e To Mr. Gags ark that real love cannot come tp & man till he is past three score, every youthful lover in the land 18 apt to respond, “Oh, you Ly- man!" Bragil's ‘efforts to lure our canal workmen to the service of its railroads give Uncle Sem that tired feeling that & housewife feels when her neighbor coaxes her cook away. The proposed abolition of the elective system in the blg universities may be taken to Indicate that the time is at| hand for intensive cultivation in educa~ tion as in agriculture. ———— It the immigration officials want to earn the gratityde of the American people, let them. head off those sixty cvonfessed black-handers who are headed (bis way from Europe. — Iconoclasts have attacked the gene- slogy of Boston's famous old elm. Shades of Oliver Wendell Holmes! Is none of our anclent institutions any Jonger safe from ruthless sttack? ——— over the dowry brought to & prince by his American bride, yet millionaire's foolish daughters will persist in send- ing good dollars after bad ceronois. ——— The President's Message. The judicial temperament of the president is apparent throughout the text of his message to congress. Calm and dispassionate, it is nevertheless clear and convineing, and his recom- mendations lose nothing of vigor in being expressed with a quiet and statesmaniike dignity. It is a fine test of a njan's command of his in- tellectual ferces to be firm for his own ideas yet tolerant of the views of others and the members of congress no doubt will be ready to acknowledge that Mr. Taft in manifesting a concili- atory attitude toward that body, has done so without degarting from any square stand for his own principles, thereby accomplishing a difficult feat graclously and effectively. The mes- sage, and {ts favorable reception in both houses, indicate a complete under- standing between the executive fumc- tions and the working legislative body, which may be expected to cultivate a co-operation of serious effort and pro- ductivity throughout the session. Three-matters of vital inportance, re- ferred to in the message, are reminis- eent of Mr. Taft's inaugural address of last March. Therein he referred to his intention to bring before congress at its Decomber session “definite sug- goéstions In respect to the needed amendments to the anti-trust and the interstate commerce law, and the changes required in the executive de- partments concerned in their enforce- ment.” Somewhat changed conditions since then, and the fact that crucial cases under those laws are pending be- fore the supreme court, impelled the president. to defer these suggestions, which are to be made the subject of a separate message In due season. The matter of Injunctions likewise wag specifically treated in his inaug- ural, particularly as ¢ancerning labor unions, a feature which he is careful to avold mentioning in the present in- stanee because the celébrated Gompers- orrison-Mitchell appeal is about to be given final comsideration. But on the topic of injunctions at large he is as firm as ever in urging legislation that ghall modify injunction procedure to accord with modern equity, a policy which, as he poluts out, was a plank in the republican platform on which he was elected. Another pledge of the party to which he calls attention 18 the matter of pos- tal savings banks. He is unwavering in his faith that the people desire such banks, that they will in no wise con- flict with established interests, and ‘| that they should be considered as a dfs- tinct propositlon entirely apart from the general subject of curreney reform. As an additional inducement to thrift among\ the wage-earners, he is very earnest In recommending speedy enact- ment of legislation that will enable the Postoffice department to undertake their institution. His mention, in this connection, of governmental guar- anty of deposits 18 a reiteration of his inaugural stand, when he said that the postal savings banks would “furnish the absolute security which makes the proposed scheme of government guar- anty of deposits so alluring without its perniclous. results.’” The review of the tariff conditions effectually set at rest all wild rumors of international warfare under the “maximum and minimum” clause, and the annduncement that the gpecial commission will be busy for possibly three years compiling its expert in- formation on tariff matters serves to reassure the timid that no disturbing element is likely to obtrude itself into the business world; it must be mani- fest to every merchant that finances and commerce have a clear field for prosperous operations without con- gressional interference. Nothing could be more satisfactory than the comndition of our foreign re- lations as Indicated in the statement that no serious problems are engaging attention and that the State depart- ment already is at work on revivals of the best features of expiring treatles, such as that with Japan, with whom we continue on the most cordial dip- lomatic terms. Underlying the refer- ence to the Monroe doctrine may be discerned the notification to the world that though conditions have not war- ranted any recent re. rtion of that doctrine, it still lives, and will be ef- fectiyely maintained against foreign aggression in the Western hemisphere, although it may not be used by any de- linquent to shield itself from financial responsibility. The Central American situation is so largely a local affair that it was not to be expected that any extended reference would be made to it, and it is evident that the admin- istration has it well in hand. One matter on which the president dwells forcefully is that of reform in judiclal procedure. This is distinctly a Taft policy, and one very near to his heart. He has stated very convincingly the needs of the case, and his presen- tation of the facts is likely to result promptly in the proposed measures for the expedition of justice. In reviewing and sustaining the re- modeling of various bureau operations in the seversl .departments, and in recommending adjustments in army and navy matters with a view to im- proving the united service, the presi- dent shows how compact is the rela- tionship of cabinet with executive. He again endofses the Roosevelt policies without equivocation, especially that concernipg the comservation of re- sourges, which 1s one of the best heri- tages of the prévious administration, and which Mr, Taft promises to treat {n detail in & speoial message later in New York's new district attorney is said to be planning to appoint & woman asiistant. . Wil be turn over to her «n}?& againdt the too-militant suffragette; the, prosecution of cases | jand commissioner’s tie session. According to the 1 trom the ce, the state tn- stitutions are eating up appropriations made for thelr support rate which promises bountiful deficiencies for the next legislature to take care of. This will not astonish anybody who remem- bers the career of the state institutions under the last demo-pop administra tion. Benefit of State Supervision. Lack of any form of governmental inspection seems to have been respon- sible for the conditions which led to 8ross irregularities in the conduet of an Tmportant fire insurance company in the east, now disclosed. As is usual in such cdses, the directors are sud- denly plunged into great actlvity, but no evidence is at hand to show that when their vigilance would have counted they exercised the supervision that would have prevented the fraud. State supervision séems to be the most suitable safeguard against this sort of thing. The public mind rested content in the matter of insurance after the disclosures of a few years ago, satisfled that New York state, where the largest insurance interests of policyholders, centered, had taken effective steps to protect the public from any more juggling with assets. But it appears that too much was taken for granted. In enacting strin- gent rules against life companies, the fire interests seem to have been over- looked, and now we have the amazing disclosure that the New York insur- ance department has made no exam- Ination of fire companies in years. Any form of Insurance is not a matter of private enterprise, but I8 a public concern. The insured has the right to a reasonable guarantee of the stability and safe conduct of his com- pany. State supervision of all insur- ance interests {s as fundamentally essential to the general welfare as is similar espionage over banks. The in- surance company s the depository of funds upon which man expects to draw in the day of misfortune; and if there has been laxity in administering the affairs of any one company, the pres- ent is a good time for governmental regulation of some adequate form to be inaugurated. —_——— Barbarity of Red Tape. To what unjust uses governmental red tape may be put fs well {llustrated in the case of Paul Ruggiero, now de- tained by the commissioner of immi- gration at Ellis Island. Ruggiero éame to this country at the age of 17. For six years he has been married, and his wife and children have their home in New York. A few months ago he caught| a severe cold, and his physician recommended a sea voyage. He sailed to Italy, stayed in that country one week, and returned here, where an order for his deportation was promptly issued because it was found that he had developed tuberculosis. Had he taken out naturalization papers in this country, he would have been permitted to land without questicn. Instincts of humanity dictate that he ought to be permitted to proceed with- out detay to his home in New York, both for his own sake and for that of his family, but the rule of the red tape system is Inexorable, and the commis- sioner held that he had no alternative but to follow the strict interpretation of the immigration code. Fortunately, the victim of the law's injustice has active friends, and these have made an appeal to ‘Washington, with what ef- fect remains to be seen The Street Lighting Contract. Several points have turned up within the last few days which reflect no great amount of credit on the city couneil. It had been known for months that the contract between the city and the electric lighting company for street lights would expire very soon. It had also been known that there is a controversy between the city and the electric lighting company as to the rights of the latter on streets and other public property. It had been known, too, that some mod- ifications in the street lighting system are very essential In order that the service may be Improved to something like a modern standard. With all this knowledge at hand the city finds fitself at the expiration of the lighting company’s contract con- fronted with a proposition from the lllh\un‘ company which embodies nothing in the way of improvement in service. This contract has been re- jected on the advice of the city at- torney, and the matter has been re- ferred agaln to the councll committee without definite instructions. Whether this committee has a comprehensive plan for improvement in street light- ing service, or whether it has no plan at all, it should make early report to the council in order that the rights of the citizens will be fully protected. The desirability of renewing the contract or entering into a new con- trct covering a long perlod of years, while the suit to test the rights of the company is pending In the courts, may well be questioned. It would not be unwise if the_ council were to limit the time of thé contract’s duration to the life of the council, at least. It might even be well to let the contract for no longer than a year, especially in view of the fact that the suggested changes in the street lighting system can hardly now be Installed within a year. This course will give the codn- cil time to take measures for securing the improvements needed, and would obviate the necessity of hasty action another time. The reports of the violations of the child labor law in Omaha are doubt- less exaggerated, but it would be im- possible to exaggerate the Incompe- tency of a truant olicer who admits knowledge of the viclallon of tbe law the | ready to carry prov THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1909. and neglects to report the same as re- quired by the duties of his office, be- cause to make such a réport necessi- tated the writing of a letter. The wooner the service is ridded of a serv- ant of this kind the better it will be for all Holdrege should re- tire from the management of the B. & M., which he has so long efficiently directed, it will mark the eclosing of an epoch most notable in Nebraska history. Whatever else may be said of Mr. Holdrége, he has proven most eff- cient in the direction of the great or- ganization of which he is the active and responsible h His public ut- terance, several years ago, that he w managing his road for the stockhold- ers, may have been the central thought of his policy, but Nebraska is gridironed with tracks that were built under his control for the pur- pese of giving outlet to the people of the state. Mr. Holdrege, if he does go, will be best remembered for the raliroad work he has done in Ne- braska. If George W —— The wild west must have a persist- ent virility when it can overcome the traditions of Berlin opera and get itself set to music under royal auspices. As a lyric legend, the red man is reported as tickling the kal s fancy. Ger- many ought to be able to stand for one American opera after all that we have stood for from that side. of offered an important chair to an Amer- fean whose lectures woke up its stu- The Universtty Budapest has dents. The more Europe investi American scholarship, the more realizes that the old world no longer holds the patent rights on learning. it West Point reports that each cadet graduated represents a cash investment of $10,000 on the part of the govern- ment. Proper education of the Ameri- can young man for & commanding position in (hll. as in any other walk of lite, is worth all it costs. ——e Bishop Goodsell, who has just died, was ‘ordained to the ministry at the age of 18, which recalls the fact that in those early days of the Zlnoteunth cen- tury a youth who was ‘ready for life's work in his late teens was not con- sidered an infant prodigy. ©On the Tohogman. Brooklyn Bagle. By judiclal polariscope test the Sugar Trust is way below 18 Dutch standard. The Happy Afterthought. Washington Post. The official statement that the Rock Island system was divided In order to avold @ government sult comes so late that it suggests the happy afterthought. — Vindication Graft., Cleveland Plain Dealer. The people of San Franciscp apparently have more consideration for Abe Ruef's health than they have confidence in his honesty. They have lef him out of jail because confinement behind immovable bars threatened to give him mollygrubs or something of that sort. A Future Probability. Buffalo Express. The withdrawal from entry by the presi- dent of 3,000,000 aeres of petroleum Tands in Californla, Wyoming, Utah and Oregon does not look as If there would be any re- laxation by’ this administration of the pol- icy of conserving natural resources. One reason for the withdrawal is the need for assuring & fuel supply for the ofl-burning ships of the navy. Possibly the' time will come when the government will be pump- Ing ofl from its own wells and doing its own refining. Dreams of Speed Maniacs. Philadelphia Record. One enthusiastic motor flend proposes the building of & motor highway from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast, with road- houses and garages established, five miles apart, for thb convenlence of travelers. As & matter of precaution there should be no trees or telegraph poles on elther side of the proposed motor course. Such obstacles to miscellaneous locomotion, as the daily newspaper reports show, offer invineible temptation to the average chauffeur. The road houses should also be heavily insured. AUTOS IN THE ARMY. istorie Mule Likely to Be Separated [ Weekly. Shall we sing a requiem for the army mule? He recelved his death sentence as burden bearer of the army when those short-coupled, high-powered automobile trucks used in the invasion of Boston last summer began toting commissaries at twenty fiye miles an hour out to cavalry outposts which It would have been im- possible to feed In mule style. We have reflected follows: 1. The mule can hold his own ofily as & pack animal for mountain trafls and boggy country, 2. As & waggn-pulling animal on a road he ‘oses to the auto-car because equal efficlency Is gained for 2 per cent of the cost; the mule is always as tired as the soldier when a day's march Is over, and bis load-hauling speed s about the same. The auto-car, with & dvink of gasoline, is ons on out from the main eamp to the outposts and eavalry scouting camps—branches of fleld service that have siways gone hungry in actual warfare, through isolation from the wagon train. 3. To replace the wagon train of an army brigade on the move, an auto- car train of from thirty to forty cars would be meeded, one of the cars to be fitted up as a traveling ropalr shop, Each cay would haul n load equa’ to a six-mule team. 4. The auto-car for this service is still undeveloped. There are ‘suitable engines and underparts, but the bodles lack adaptability for the army's needs. They must be suitable for sleeping guar- ters, bulit to withstand the roughest. kind of usage, and cApable of rapid repelr when injured by underbrush or 'other cause. They must solve the problem fhe ala-fashioned wagon bow .solved for. the prairie fretghter. 5. The most pragticable step that could be taken immediately would be to appoint & commission Gf three army officers, engineers who are thor- oughly famliliar with automobiles, and set them at the task of developing a model army cer, which mode) in thme of emer- gency could be' furnjshed to bui'ders along with specifications thet wbuld guarentee the greatest utility in the field. 6. There is no reason why the next time an army takes the field 1t showdd not go aimost muleless, with ita base of supplies tucked away With its reer guard, and a8 mobile as Its cavalry scouts chead. y I From curb to root it will measure 416 Around New York Ripples o the Current of Lif #s Seen in the Great Ameriean Motrepells from Bay e Pay. Heart whole and fancy fres for half a century, Miss Loulsa Ewen of New York, one of three bachelor daughters of Gen- eral John Ewen, eloped with And married & bogus German baron, Boto von Koenits, t wesk. Boto, as he Is called for short, 18 a fine, gentlemanly crook, with A Jall record and some escapades that would not look well in print. In hié zeal for meney to maintain himself in a life of ease he commissioned matohmakers to secure him an American heiress, and dill- wently searched the country from the At- lantle to the Lakes. New York proved to be the best market for a matrimonial swindling game, and Boto stuck to It untl! he landed the prize. One of the sisters of the victim 18 convinced the bogus baron hypnotized Louisa. Two days after the elopement she issued a statement from the honeymoon retreat at Lakewood, N. J., indicating only a partial return to consclousness. She sald: “My husband has told me of his past, and I am sure that whatever the mistakes he may have made, he will not err again I don't care what they may say about him, I belleve in him and love him, and will stay hy his side’ A few days before the elopement the bride-to-be executed a mortgage for 160,000 on her home at 23 West Kighty-sixth street. When the reporters cornered Boto after the mariiage he flashed a wad of | bills at the bunch, exclaiming, “I am no fortune hunter." This last summer 7000000 to 8000000 people made 20,000 trips to Coney Island They spent there $0,000,000, mostly In nickels and dimes, and the-total sum was three times what this nation pald to| Napoleon for Lbulsians, or six times what | we pald Russia for Alaske. There are In Coney Island peanut stands the size of a broad top desk which rent| for $1,000 a season. The men who sell trankfurters pay enormous sums for the right to stand where they do, and get thelr money back In the nickels of the 20,000,000, On week days the attendance is large, but on Sundays and holidays It rises to & point where each visitor has room only to be happy standing stil. On the Fourth of July 400000 peopls crowded Into the little 1sland, bathed, shot the chutes, were photographed and ate “red-hots.”” It was belleved that Coney would not hold a single additional visitor, but on August 15 a new 100,00 came, making 500,000 in one day. It 1s a wonderful business—this Coney Island—but a very risky one. The 900,000,- 000 nickels depend upon the weather. When the mercury drops, profits fall to nothing. If a plague should break out and the island be quarantined, boats would stop running and the people would stay in thelr city homes. The Coney Island farmer must harvest his crop of niokels while the sun shines. New York's largest skyscraper will cast its shadow over the Battery. Towering thirty-one stories above the ground, it will contain 1,000,000 cubic feet with a rentable area of $560,000 square feet. In it will be ten miles of plumbing, twenty miles of steam pips, sixty-five miles of conduits and wiring, and 3,000 electric fixtures. feet. In building it will be used 14,000 tons of structural steel, 7,600,000 common bricks, 900,000 face bricks, 45,06 barrels of cement, | 596,000 square feet of floor arches, 206,000 ubic feet of cinder fill, 125,000 square feet | of girder covering, 40,000 square feet of | partition tile, 120,00 square feet of column Govering, 210,000 square feet of wall furring, 5,000 cublc yards of caissons, 17.00 cublc yards of eafth excavation, 2,160 cubc feet of granite, 20,00 cublc feet of Indiana Iimestone, 3,00 tons of ornamental terra cotta, 8,000 square feet of wire lath, 8,000 square yards of plastbr, 400,000 lineal feet of spruce sleepers, 810,000 feet of comb grain yellow pine flooring, 2,80 windows, 60,00) square feet of glass, 3,000 doors, 280,000 | |pounds of window welghts, 30,000 feet of | copper chain, 454,000 feet of ground, 80,000 | feet of ploture mold, and 0,00 feet of | base. \ Cinders required for floor arches and be- tween slespers of the floors will fill 500,000 cublo feet, approximately 26,000,000 pounds, It represents the consumption of 125,600 tons of coal, syjficient to develop 55,000,000 horse power hours of energy. There will be 2,100 horss power boilers, 2,00 horse pewer in engines, 1,200 kilowaits in generator capacity, #,000 square fest of radiator surface, 100,000 candle power in | electric lights, | 0l buildings on the site are being torn down. The structure will be an addition to the twenty-five story Whitehall build- ing. The completed skycraper will front 1.2% feet on Washington street and 100.8 on Battery place, covering 51516 square feet, or twenty-one eity lots. It will cost 5,000,000, Out of the Grand Central station the other day came a couple the sight of whom caused citigens who saw them to admit to themeelves that there might be, after a some’ basis of truth in the “Uncle Jos! jokes of the allegedly funny papers. Tho | old man grasped his carpet bag and bulg- ing green umbreils firmly, and looked up and down the street, his mouth agape, “There's & heap o sights in New York, 1 guess, Maria," he said. “I misdoubt if we see them all.” w2, The old lady's mouth set grimly “Well, Silas,” she replied, and her mai ner was more than significamt, “bein’ as I'm with you, there's some, I expect, that you ain't goin' to see!” They are still wondering uc a hotel near the park over the extraordinary request |made the other night by a young English- !man who is on his first visit to New | York. Just about 7 o'clock he went up to | | $4.000,000 tor PERSONAL NOTES, The recent death of Richard Watson Gilder makes the volume of essays entitled “Lincoin, the Leader,” his last book, as it 1s aleo his firat and only book of prose. John Masterson Burke, who In 1902 gave the institution and mainte- | nance of a home for convalescents, died of | bronchial pneumonia in New York in bis 9th year. Lord Stratheona, the veteran high com- miesloner of Canada, has returned home [from London. He is 8 years old and hoids |the record as @ transatlantic passenger, having crossed and recrossed more than 160 times, The fact that the estate of the gentleman who was host to the president last sum- mer amounts to $10,000,000 may be no sur- prise to the heirs, but the figures surprise the assessor about nine and a half million dollars’ worth, Final accounting In the estate of Blood- good H. Cutter, the “farmer-poet,” who died at his country home at Little Neck on September 2, 1906, was filed at Mineola, L. I, by Richard W. Smith, as executor. It shows that the estate of the dead poet amounted to $676,977. When the cruel war is over and the smoke of battle cleared away, it is to be hoped that whoever caused the Prairie to |butt into Delaware mud will come forward with something In the nature of explana- tion and apology. Even a landsman knows that the ship of the present is Imperfectly equipped for eutting across lots. John Hays Hammond is chairman of the | National Civic federation's committee on prevention of mining accidents. Other members of this committee are John Miteh- ell, Dr. J. A. Holmes, minitfg expert of the United States geological survey, and D. W. | Brunton, president of} the American Insti- tute of Mining Engineers. PROSPERITY OF THE FARMERS. Oalculations and Comment Inspired by Rich Fiel Philadelphia Record. We are eating more than we used to, and that is the reason—or one reason— why our food costs more. Secretary Wilson says that beef costs mcre because farmers | are fneding high priced corn to their stock. But why Is corn high? Fourteen or fifteen years ago there was a blg crop of wheat, and the demand for It was so poor that the price was low, and in one vear the | farmers were estimated to have fed 75,000, 000 bushels of wheat to thelr stock. But that did not make the stock high. The bureau of statisties calculates that in the last twelve or thirteen vears the per capita consumption of wheat has in- creased more than a bushel and a half. That Is an fnerease of nearly one-third. We know of no attempt to show how much meat we eat, but the figures of the Cin- cinrati Price Current show that the total number of cattle killed at the four great western centers of the beef Industry and the total hog killing In the west ineroased close to 30 per cent in the last ten years The total consumption of meat may not have Increased as much as that. The eastern hog killing showed practically nc growth. But while these figures are suffl clent proof, they suggest a larger consump tion of meat per person. During the ter years covered by the comparison we have made the exports of hog products fell oft more than one-fourth, and the Department of Agriculture reports that the number of cattle In the country has increased almost 80 per cent In ten yéars. Yet the price goes up, presumably hecause more people are eating meat freely. This is the best year the farmers ever had, and they have had thirteen years of unbroken prosperity. They have had only two short crops in that time, and in both cases the high prices more than made up to them the decline in quantity. The pros perity of the farmers makes the country prosperous, because the farmers buy o much when they have plenty of monay. But how oan the farmers have high pros- perity unless there is a keen competition for their products? We despalr of identity- ing the point at which this circle of pros perity may be sald to begin. The con sumers of food buy freely, and that gives the farmers money enough to buy freely of manufactured goods, and the industrial population {s well employed, and being well employed It buys more wheat bread and beefsteak, which means prosperity for the tarmer, and so it goes around and around LINES TO A LAUGH. Mrs. Myles—Who s that man throwing that kiss to? {the office desk In evening dress. am going downtown for dinner,” he |saia, “and it may be rather late before |1 get in. I shall take my key with me, |ana will you please let me have a Key to {the front door?" | | At the same hotel & woman from out of | town approached the desk a night or two ago and asked: “At what time do you lock the front door?" RAILROAD EXPANSION, Some Compurisons Calculated to Ex- eite Wonde; Leslie's Weekly. In 1909 the rallways of the United States is have & capital of $15,000,000,000, which | almost equal to the value of the country entire property of all kinds at the time of | Lincoln's election. Its gross earhings for & single year, §2,600,000000, are nearly three | times as great as the whole of the interest- | bearing debt of the national government. The 1,600,000 persons on the payrolls of the railways of the United Statés represent a larger force than were under Grant, Lee and the rest of the union and confederate commanders at Appomattox. They are a bigger army than Japan and Russia com- Mrs. Styles—It must be you, dear. H wouldn't he throwing me & kiss. Why not ciuse 1t's my Statesman, husband.”—Yonkers i | “I give you my word, the next person | who Interrupts the proceedings.” said the Judge sternly, ‘“‘will be expelled from the court room and ordered home." | “‘Hooray!" cried the prisoner. Then the judge pondered.—Judge. Vhere does Leulla get her beautiful wn eyes " From her mother. Uie them."” ““And where does she get complexton 7' “From her father's drug store.”—Cleve- land Plain Dealer. She hes eyes just her ruday Warderi—He was the coolest and most | polite convict that ever e from prison. Reporter—That s Warden—Yes. He left behind him a note to the movernor beginning, “I hope you will pardon me for the liberty I am tak- ing."—Kansas City Journal Drum—The trouble with you, Cornet, that you never do anything except w you are on a toot. Cornet—Well, at any rate. they don't have to pound me. to make me do my duty. —Boston Transcript. “What degree did that explorer mention bined had in Manchuria when, in 1905 President Roosevelt brought the peace « Portsmouth. as the place where he made his most Inter- -?.don‘t rn-rll." said one geographer, dnswered "the other E———————— “But my impression is that it was some- thing like the ‘third degree.' "'—~Washington Star, “pop?" “What is it, son?" “Is an osteopath an end man In & min. strel show?'' “‘Gracious, no, child! idea into your head? “Well, they told specialist in" bones. What put such an at school he was a Itimore American, “If you want to be an orator, my boy, you've got to practice whenever you have an_opportunity.” “1 do, uncle, but I pever can get anybod: to listen to me and what's the good of talking to yourself?'—Chicage Tribuna “You and that play since you fought a duel Jertalnly,” answered the French play- wright. “Have we not d our lives to advertise each other? '—Indianapelis News, ht are fast friends “Have you any place open for me In this establishment?’ asked the conceited young man. ‘Two or three places,” sald the ployer. “‘What are they, pleass?’ “The front, side and back doors.'-—St. Louis Star. A MARVELOUBS STORY. W. D. Nesbit in Chicago Po: Her halr was wondrous fine And brighter than spun gold, An aureole divil Ot graceful coll and fold; Heaped high upon her head, Or bound within a net, or, glinting gold and red, Wound In & coronet. rn em- Buch hair ets sing, Such artists paint, In loop and strand and ring, In curls both odd and quaint— The sunlight came to play Amid its glossy strands When it ehe would array ‘With her bedimpled hands. Men paused to give her praise, Not for her comely grace, Not for her gentle way Not for her lovdly face, But for her won§rous hair, Which had the fubtle gleam Of sunbeams in the air Above a laughing stream. And when it was unbound It fell below T waist Its waving ringlets weund The curves that beauty traced. Such hair the mermaids combed And sang their siren lays ‘When brave Ulysses roamed The seas In olden days. But it s not of this We started out to write; The point of all we'll miss It 'tis not kept in sight. 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