Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 25, 1910, Page 4

THE OMAHA DALY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATE R ICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. Entered at Omaha postoffice as second- class matter TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. ’ Dally Bee (Including Sunday), per weck 15¢ Daily Bes (without Sunday), per week 10¢ Dally Bee (without Sunday), Dally Bee and Sunday, one year DELIVERED BY CARRIE! Evening Bea (Without Sunday), per week 6c Evening Beé (with Sunday), per week 100 Sunday Bee, one year.. $2.50 Sature Bee, one_year... # all complaints of irregu to City unlation Department. OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Bullding. South Omaha—Twenty-fourth and N. Councll Bluffs—15 $cott Street. Lincoln—§18 Little Bullding. Chicago—i548 Marquette Building, New York-—Rooms 1101-1102 No. 3 Weat Thirty-third Street. Washington—72 Fourteenth Street; N W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communieations relating to news and ed ftorial matter should be Addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company Only 2-cent stamps reecived in payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted Addr delivery STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Dougles County, es.: George B. Taschuck, treasurer of The Bee Publianing Comipany. being _ duly Eworn, saye that the actual flumber of full and complete coples of The Dally, Morn- ing, Evening and Sunday Bee &In(ed dur- ing the month of Deeamber, ), Was as | headed by Mf. Roosevelt and the con- ear $4.00 | 500 THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1910. Roosevelt and Taft. The American correspondent of the National Review undertakes to prepare our British cousins for a new turn in American pdtitics by telling them the expectation prevails here that the next big fight will be between the radicals, servatives, headed by Mr. Taft. This is the way the usually clear-headed, but sometimes muddled, correspondent of this British review lets out this open secret: A great many people believe that the hitherto friendly relations between Presi- dent Taft and Mr. Roosevelt will be broken when the former president returns to the United States next year, A quarrel may be avolded, but that the radicals wiil rally to Mr. Roosevelt and the conservatives ally themselves with Mr. Taft appears to | be certain, which will place the two men in the position of being leaders of oppos- ing factions. A great many people may ‘‘believe that the hitherto friendly relations be- tween President Taft and Mr. Roose- velt will be broken when the former president returns to the United States ) next year,” but a great many more people belleve these “hitherto friendly relations” will be continued when Mr. Roosevelt returns and that President Taft will have no more ardént sup- porter of his efforts to clinch the greatest and most permanent good from the general expenditure of money and care. This may not appeal to a very large element of the publie, who have looked to the promise of cheaper rates as the result of competition between rail and water transportation, forgetting that neither form of service can exist un less on a paying basis. The rallroad drove the steamboat off the western rivers because the locomotive could haul goods more expeditiously and even cheaper than could the old-fash- foned steamboat. Conditions are, per. haps, reversed nowadays, but the water-borne freight must pay a profit to the carrier or the latter can not continue the business. Ruinous com- petition between rail and water is not the end in view, but one supplementing the other go that both will serve the commerce of the country to the best possible advantage without increasing the burdens now borne by the ghippers and lessening them wherever possible. If this can be accomplished, the return of the steamboat will be a real blessing to American industry. Test it Out. The filing with the secretary of state of an application to go on the official long been doing good work. center for the most successful medica and surgical treatment afforded any where. the gamut of congressional insurgents, as number three and Congressman Kin kaid as number four. dare deny that the three with the real goods? aviation meet by selling tickets at $1 each. build the Omaha Auditorium, way to a more finanoing. General Grosvenor, in extension of an Institution that has Omaha’s hospital facllities' are steadily raising Whe position of this city as a recognized The Washington Herald is running a series of portrait cartoons running in which Congréssman Norris appeared as number two, Congressman Hinshaw After tnis who republican members from Nebraska are insurgents Indianapolis is {;ymg Wlo raise a $75,000 guaranty fund for the next That reminds us very much of the $1 brick scheme which was Inau- gurated to raise the money needed to and which lasted only long enough to give promising plan of who achleved fame while in congress as the ever- ready political weather forecaster, is to Viewed From Afar portant if Tra t Not Tr 8t. Paul Ploneer Press. . Recently the Insurgents of Nebraska made plans for a banquet, to whieh progressive republioans of the state were to be invited. Applications were made for nearly 10000 tickets and the banquet plan had to be abandoned. A mass meeting held at Lin- coln on Thursday was attended by several thousand republicans from different parts of the state who voleed against Cannonism and the refusal of the congress In special sesslon to revise the tariff downward. Plans were adopted for the organization of an antl-CAngon move- ment In every congressional distriet in the state and for a convention to be held by the progressive wing of the party to name candidates for congress and the state of- tices. 1 Not to be Taken Literally. Chicago Record-Horald. The Nebraska insurgent republicans have held a noisy convention. Thelr speeches and threats do not, however, represent so much what Is actually going to happen in the republican party as what might happen it the opposing faotion sat too firmly on the throttle. But all the indications are that the steam pressure will be reduced by a concillatory attitude among the old-line members of the party, and that republicanism will prove it- their protest | INITS of the people. of business Your account s invited. THIS BANK IS 53d During all this time it has commanded the confldence This confidence is still evidenced by the daily opening of new accounts and the constantly increasing volume Established in 1857 as Kountze Bros. Nationakized in 1863, Charter No. 209 YEAR Bankof Omaha PERSONAL NOTES, Melville E. Ingalls, chairman of the Big Four raflrgad board of directors, will | ressed, LAUGHING GAS. Two handsome young women, becomingly slipped ‘and fell together in the be honored with an appointment as member of the Chickamaugua Park commission. We may be sure General 41,580 41,790 slushy ‘pool of the crossing. They arose wet _and angry “Wring out, ‘wild belles,” commented an observer, such an addition of insult to self once more big and lusty enough to ab- sorl its own factions, The Nebraska volce need not be taken “Roosevelt policies'” 'than the former president ot the United States, to leave Cincinnatl January 28 fof a tour of the world, which will last until Marsh, 1912, ** 1 ballot for the next Nebraska primary follows: 1. b4 b as candidate for United States senator £88ES3ORBUBESS Total whom he constantly refers as “my dis- tinguished predecessor. No two men of posifive ideas ever agree upon everything, but the long as- soclation of these two men while Mr. Taft served as secretary of war in the Roosevelt cabinet proves that they are of one mind on the big questions of public policy and animated by the same motives in the cause of good government. When the preliminary Returned coples Net Total.. Dally AVerage. ... ..... GEORGS B. TZSCHUCK, Treasurer. Subscribed in my presence and eworn to before me this 31st day of December, 1909. . P, WALKE Notary Public. == contest was on two years ago for the presidential nomination a deliberate effort was made to pit Roosevelt against Taft and make them leaders of opposing factions, but the effort falled signally, because Mr. Roosevelt showed that those who were trying to ing the city tem- have The Bee mafled to them, Address will be changed as often as request e Reviged version: How would you like to be the buteher? With munieipal politics warming up so early, South Omahi need not fear another touch of winter, —————— At any rate, the owners of sleeper trunks mo longer harbor the notion that Collec¢tor ‘Loeb fs asleep. If, as the Lincoln Star insists, insur- gency most .resembles the smallpox, perhaps the thing to do is to inoculate against it. ! The annotators will now undertake to prove that''Give us this day our daily bread” was not Intended to in- clude meat. Why all this fuss about a barefoot dancer? All the far-famed dances of the aborigines were pulled of- “au Dnaturelle,”” as it were. “It never rains, but it pours” is again exemplified by the appearance of two comets in the heavens where one only was expected. It seems to be time to jog the memo- ries of the street car men again about that rule yequiring some of the venti- lators to be opened all the time. Nebraska is to have a State League of Munictpalities, which goes to show that Nebrpeka has growing and prb— gressive cities in it from one end to the other. When it. takes a seismograph record to make people realize that they have experfenced an earthquake, it goes without saying that they must have been painfhlly shocked. Which reminds us that it was nat long ago that our amiable democratii contemporary, the World-Herald, de- clared it was not in the habit of sup- porting republican candidates, anyway. ———— All of which inakes it apparent that this newspaper cannot please everybody.— ‘World-Herald. Here {s where we agree again. And the sage conclusion likewise applies to all newspapers. ' S6maite RNs "dlcovered that the question of national incorporation was up before the constitutional conven- tion in 1787 and was turned down. Stlll, we are doing a lot of things now that the framers of tne constitution never. drbamed of. Con, Hiteheock! is ouuvow Against an extra session of the legislature, while Edgar Howard's papey i hot for it. We shall soon see what 3 pall see a8 to whether Judge Howard ¢’ stronger with Governor Shallenber; th 18 Congressman Hitcheoeks . . ! In -“fi of the high prices for com- mbn ne ties, the continuous stream of im tlon ,bears evidence of the belief 0B the part of restless European wage-workers that they will still fare better [a the industrial struggle here in the United Btates than in any country According:to Chairman Norman E. Mack of the democratic national com- mittes, 4t all rests with Champ Clark " _leader whether the demo- will pull out the next house of htatives or ot Let us suggest p Clark was floor leader last use him to block the nomination of | Mr. Taft were insincere and out of har- mony with his own position. Another effort to break the friendly relations between President Taft and Mr. Roose- velt will doubtless be made by the same people and for the same purpose, but it s just as likely to fail as it was to fail two years ago. Vooeational Education. * Much attention has been givén lately to the matter of training young men for life work at certain vocations. This goes beyond mere technical edu- cation and involves the matter of spe- clalization pure and simple. It has come to be an established feature of business and industrial life. Men may yet come up from the ranks to high position in any calling, and always will, for no plan has yet been pro- posed thdt will'shut the deor of ad- vancement to merit. The principal change suggested is one of detail. In- stead of the boy spending several years of his life in acquiring general and in- definite knowledge, he will be taken into a school especially adapted to train him definitely for a specified vo- catiom. Thus, when he emerges from school he will be prepared to enter upon the practical work in the business he has chosen. { Mr. J. Shirley Eaton has just pre- sented a monograph on the topic, deal- ing especially with the question of spe- cial educational training for railway gervice, In course of which he says: Rallroad financlal managements should incorporate an educational scheme as a definite part of their policy on the ground of business prudence. Such policies should be Inaugurated for periods of not less than five years, preferably ten, otherwise the money appropriated will be largely wasted. Ratiroads should extend the principles of definite apprenticeship to every department of the service, and should provide for two or more grades of apprentices In order to take account of differences In capacity and work done elsewhere, either In properly accredited schools or by .experience, and leading to different grades of service, Definite details of the plan, such as an efficlency wage apart from the senfority wage, and other means for stimulating the young men in the serv- ice of the railways to better achleve- ments are suggested by Mr. Eaton. The whole is worthy of consideration as marking very plainly modern de parture from the old rule of thumb way of doing business, and showing the development of industrial and com- merclal undertakings along lines that ought to make for higher efficiency and better service. THe matter of voca tional training has gone beyond experi- ment, and with the great Industries of the country enlisted in its support it will become a very important factor in our general educational plan. ‘Waterways Conservation. Interest in the preliminary report of the waterways commissfon to con- gress will turn on the implied sugges- tion that the project is to take the form of a comprehensive plan for im- provement, and not to be on’the basis of pleceme&!’ expenditure. With this poMcy established, the federal govern- ment will be able to enter on the work of improving inland streams and coast harbors along lines that will uitimately achieve the revival of thé water-borne commerce in the United States. The report yery specifically sets forth that the federal goveroment can not undertake great enterprises solely for the purpose of relleving some sec- gives an opportunity to test out the question whether candidates for sena- tor are, or are not, to be nominated by the respective political parties the same as other candidates for state and local offices, Attorney General Thompson is said to have expressed the opinion that in adopting the so-called Oregon plan the law-makers excluded the senatorship from the list of offices for which nomi- nations are to be made, because in the paragraph enumerating the offices to be filled a comma was omitted whose presence would have made it clear that senatorial candidates were to go before the primary. Notwithstanding this view the secretary of state h ac- cepted the proffered filing and indicates that he will place the names of sena- torial candidates on the officlal pri- mary ballot the same as other candi- dates unless prohibited by authorita- tive decree. 8o far as The Bee {8 concerned, read- ing the law from the standpoint of a layman, we believe the secretary of ate is right in this case and the attor- ney general wrong. The construction of the law, with or without the comma, must turn upon the intent of the legis- latyre, and in determining the intent extraneous evidence may be con- sidered. acted this law enacted other amend- ments to the primary law, but retained the provision fixing the filing of candi- dates for United States senator at $50. Why should the filing fee be prescribed if there were to be mo filings per- mitted? St another ‘law subsequently passed by the same legislature, the so- called nonpartisan judiclary law since declared invalid, re-enacted the sample ballot which is incorporated into the statute governing the regular election. On this 'ballot appears the names of candidates for United States senator labeled, ‘‘Republican,” ‘‘Democrat” and ‘‘Populist.” not so appear on the official election ballot unless the candidates were first nominated by the political parties enti- tled to confer those designations, and | no way for nominating them is pro-| vided except the regular primary for ‘which this filing has been offered. We are convinced, therefore, that the intent and purpose of the legisla- ture was to retain the primary nomina- tion of candidates for United BStates senator. But in order that there may be no mistake and no cry of sharp practice, the question should be sub- mitted at the, earliest moment for ad- judication of the court: The fairy tale being peddled that the republican congressional campalgn | committee is going to remove its head- quarters from - Chicago to New ,York | because its members have ‘‘become | alarmed over conditions in the western states” is being seriously discussed in several paper: The fact {s that the republican congressional committee has its offices neither in” Chicago nor | in New York, but in Washington., The | headquarters in Chicago is maintained | by the republican national committee, which is entirely separate and distinct trom “the republican congressional committee. The death at Salisbury, Md., . of Joseph A. Graham ends the earthly ca- reer of a man with whom readers of The Bee were in touch while he was contrtbuting to this page as editorial writer last year. Mr. Graham was a journalist of the old school,” whose charm of literary style was equalled only by the charm of his personallty. He was industrious and retiring, and | because of these traits left the chief impression of his life in Omaha on the editorial pages of The Bee day by day in the form of masterful essays and perspicuous comment on current events. —_ And now comes Congressman Burle- son of Texas with a bill to repeal the tax on oleomargarine on the reproz sentation that this tax helps boost th price of butter. What about the' states like Nebraska which have by state law tion of the country from raflroad charges that are. considered excessive. Nor will the government become en- tirely responsible for.all the demanded improvements. ‘Btates: must oo operate with the matlon n order to accomplish what is required, and rail- £ the democrats fall consider- wajority of the roads and Waterways must be har- moniously operated; in order that com- merce and Industry’ may have the put oleomargarine out of business [y substitute for butter? How will re- peal of the federal tax give them relief unless they also repeal their anti-oleo The completion and dedication of the new Immanuel hospital adds to the already exceptional hospital equipment of Omaha a fine néw hospital building The same legislature that en- ! These names could |’ Chickamaugua park is not with mathematical precision, Paris flood sufferers. Seine rampant. Helpful Pointers Probable, Wall Stréet Journal That no-meat movement may be in- strumental in revealing to many American familles just how a small amount of income to expenditure. Robbing Leut of Its Rigors, St. Louls Globe-Democrat. The meat-eater's strike s coming around in the calendar about the right time to rob Lent of some of its rigors and to greatly reduce the perplexities of church dig- nitaries who are annually beset with pleas for special meat-eating dispensations. Around In a Olrele. & Washington Herald. The price of shoes Is to be advanced, it seems, because leather is scarce, and leather is scarce because little meat is be- Ing slaughtered, and little meat is being slaughtered because people cannot afford meat at present prices, and—there is no end to this story, you know; it, goes right around in a clrcle. Congressman Hitchcock's Outburst. Springfield (Masds.) Republican. The charges agalnst Secretary Ballinger preferred by Congressman Hitcheoek of Nebraska, which are entirely distinct from the Glavis charges Indorsed by Mr. Pin- chot, seem to be devold of substantial foundation. 'Some of them are -already seen to be ridiculqusly untrue. The Ne- braska ¢ongressiian appears to have acted on the principle ‘tAdt a fresh attack on a man who Is alfeady under a heavy fire is in itself justified, regardless of the truth or the falsity of ‘the accusations. But such ‘tactics may easlly prove to be a blunder. It charges are flimsy and are readily answered, piling them up s sure to cause a revulsinon in popular feeling in favor of the accused.' The people will de- mand fair play. UPLIFT IN FOOTWEAR, Shoemakers Gently Tickle the Corns of Consumers, New York World, The National Shoe Wholesale association should be cherished forever in affectionate regard by the consumer for the delicate way It breaks the news to him that the price of shoes Is to be ralsed. It is an in- stance of how by the use of a little tact disagreeable facts can be made to sound almost like Joyful tidings. The price of shoes Is to be ralsed, an- nounces this most considerate of com- merical bodies, sufficlently “to permit the will compensate the wearer for the in- creaged cost.” This attitude of self-denial on the part of the shoe manufacturers is the. more impressive hccause only a few months ago at their urgent demand con- gress put hides on the free list so that they should enjoy the benefits of cheaper |leather. What distresses them most just now fe that the American workingman is less well dressed than they would like to see him. More expensive footwear will {1end him the needed air of distinction, and they will be pleased to supply it The hosiery and underwear manufactur- ers and wholesalers are also about to ad- vance thelr prices 2 per cent. When to gratify the "shoemen's pride in his well being the laborer or the mechanic goes to his day's work in patent leathers and spats, to wear anything more coarse than silk next to his skin would be cruel torture. It only the woolen manufacturer in turn will add $10 or $15 to the price of u suit of clothes the poor o will then be tully “‘compensated for the increased cost’ of living by its.greater refinement, umer | January 25, 1910, | @ W, B. Rose of the supreme court of Nebraska is 45 today. Judge Rose is a Pennsylvanian by birth and & lawyer by cducation. He was an assistant in the at- torney general's office and later assistant attorney general umtil his appointment by Governor Sheldon to one of the new judge- ships created by the constitutional amend- ment adopted two years ago. John Wi Alvord, hydraulic engineer, was born at Newton Center, Mo., January +%,, 1861, Mr. Alvord was the appraiser ap- pointed by the eity of Omaha for that famous waterworks valuation, which prom- to saddle our taxpayers with a' debt 50,000 to acquire the waterworks plapt which R. B. Howell had made out could be bought for $3,000,000. Herman B. Peters, genlal host of the Merchants hotel, is celebrating his forty- third birthday apd he will doubtless cele- brate It right. Mr, Peters selected Hol- steln, Germany, as his birthplace, but de- cided to come over to this country in 1882, trylng it out first at Grand Island before locating In Omaha. Blanten W. Tandy, representative for Omaha of Gabel-Jofinson-Harwood Brok- erage company, was born January 2, 1583, at Malta Bend, Mo. ‘He once thought of & military career and got an appointment to West Point, but resigned after two years and returned to thesbrokerage business. go Grosvenor will soon get in his work if lald out Kansas City people ought to be able to offer most heartfelt sympathy to the Knowing what it is to have the Kaw out of its banks, Kansas City can easily picture the economy may adjust the correct ratio of | political \|other states the movements for the nom- addition to each grade of such value as|’ [ Our Birthday Bookl literally. It Is over-strident to have literal valve, But it would be just as great an error to under-emphasize its importance. It Is & volce that represents many tens of thous sands of aniddle western voters, who are very strongly determined to make ther progressive views count in the party's acs tivity. Typieal Fighter for Pri Des 'Molnes Capital. Of course we are fre¢ to admit that the motive power of the present insurgent propaganda Is high ideals. We have been told 80 from & thousand and one chautau- qua platforms. Their's is a fight for prin- cipie. Not for them the unseemiy scrambie for the spolls of office. But there are exceptions to all rules and over in the reform-tinted atmosphere of our sister state of Nebsaska we find one of these exceptions. In that noble com- monwealth it is Senator Burkett who Is the chief target of insurgency. The decree has gone forth that having persistently maintained spesking acquaintance with Senator Aldrich, Burkett must go. So con- fident are they of Senator Burkett's early demise that the funeral baked meats are even now in course of prepara- tion and it is supposed several obituary notices are already In type. A tew days ago, however, there was one insurger who was disposed to give Benator Burkett another chance and he accordingly expressed himself In the following letter: 1 write you at this time to ask you to name me as collector of customs and cus- todian of the federal building, to succeed the present incumbent. 1 want this ap- pointment, and if I don't get it I am going 1o oppose’ you with all the vim and vigor 1 possess. " You may Know, or may not, that I resisted overtures of the B, & M. crowd to beat you the last time befause I thought 'you would treat me squarely. I will say that I have 'had some preliminary correspondence with your friend, C. O. Whedon, and am In a position to' be with you or against you. Now here 1s a man who, of course, thirks he is fighting for a principle, He ls simply the victim of his own robust appetite for office. He is a disgrace to the Insurgent cause. He I8 just as much amid Incongru- ous surroundings in the insurgent camp as a bull-thistle or a burdock stalk would be in a patch of daisies. le. feime= / Which Should be Replaced? Kansas City Star. The progressive republicans of Nebraska have taken the lead as organizers. In tnation of progressive republicans have not been organized, except as to district meet- ings here and there. Nebraska has made a state organization. The progressives of that state propose to make a vigorous campaign in every district in which there is opposition to 8 progressive candidate for the republican nomination. Nebraska's present delegation has made a good showing in congress, taken as a whole, but some of its members should be replaced by men who will stand up for the ‘people and not train with Aldrich or Can- non or their kind. The west is accustomed to winning its boss buster fights, and it will win this one. THE LOWLY TAKES A LEAP, Peanuts Looking Up and Reaching for More Monmey. New York Sun. The day which brings the news of the introduction of & self-denying ordinance proposing that the Buckeyes abstain from meat tells us that the price of peanuts in tidewater Virginia continues to move up- ward. If the peanut is to become & luxury it is time that something be done. Caught in the swirl of political economy, brayed between the upper millstone of supply and demand’'s nether stone, necessaries have become arrogant luxuries and the former luxurles have become specimens to be treasured In museums. We have learned to do without; we have been accumulating stores of merit by controlling appetite; a moral exercise. But at the goober we make our last stand, What, we ask, Is to become of the drama? What shall be the cold verdict of the top gallery without the mellowing ofls of Arachis hypogaea masticated with a wide swathe of the jaw and punctuated by the crackling of the hulls under foot? Panem et circenses—that shows how little Juvenal knew of the popular delights, nucem et circenses 1n our golden age Which has held the peanut best of fruits, What, we ask, shall awalt the reveller when the revel has undergone Its sudden loss of charm af the beginning of tie homeward way, obvious though devious? Certain schools of interpretation sing the praises of the coffee bean for & disguise. Calamus has Its advocates, 3o the orris root, so the clove. Well, take your cholce, there're all to be found just the last thing before you go out. But how explain the disguise? The clodk but reveals the savors of the bowl whose flowing you fain would hide, Our falth s In the peanut, fresh roasted, five a bag, and dump them loose In your overcoat pocket. A dlsguise which really masks the emanations of the joy that s past, a disgulse that needs no ex- planation, Its own best excuse so long as it shall remain the freeman's right tv eat peanuts on the public way and let the shucks fall where they may. The right of the freeman to his peanut must remain unimpaired. We are proud of our farmers and thelr prosperity, but they must remember that the city has some rights which must and shall be re- spected. The peanut loves the soil; after its blossom It goes into the mould to fructity, but It'comes to town to end its days in urban nights. This ls & commerce which will brook no restraint. If this thing goes on we shall welcome a great, a vie- | Marvyn Scudder, who assisted Governor Hughes In the Insurance investigation, | has been asked by Mayor Gaynor to be | one of the two commnissioners of ac- | counts. | One ot the expert shirtwalst makers | |now on strike shows by exhibit of her pay envelope for thirteen weeks that during that period she had earned $7.21 6-13 weekly. And yet #he struck. What In the world did the girl do with her money? Augustus C. Carney, widely known as the inventor of mbdre than 100 valuable electrical and mechanical devices, who was at one time a lpvmber of the Massa- chusetts legislature, ls dead at his home in Boston as the resuft of a fall about three weeks ago. He was in excellent health up to the time of his fall. Mrs, Harry Bates, Mrs. Thomas Wil- kinson and Johm Church of Portage, Cambria county, Pa., are trying to get a fortune of about $500,000 with accrulng interest for forty-nine years, it having been left by Mrs. Susan Church in Eng- land. She left the money for the erection of a home for the infirm, and as the home was never bullt the heirs contend that the money reverts to them. At the funeral of Melanchthon E. Wash- burn in Indlanapolls it developed that he had served the Big Four raflway in the train dispatching department. for more than forty-four years, had handled 150,- 000 orders and had never been respon- sible for an accident, caused the loss of money or life, or been ‘called on ‘the carpet.” There were present at the fu- neral two of als assoclates, each of whom had boen In the service for more than forty years, and neither of whom had ever caused a wreck or bloodshed by t mistakes. —_— Tom Watson's Challenge. Washington Star. bate 1s advised to hire a hall. Tom Wat- ‘#on s willing to go farther than that He wants to hire an opponent. He will pay $10,000 if Mr. Bryan will meet him in pub- He and discuss the subjéct of foreign mis- slons. Mr,/ Bryan advogates them, while Mr. Watson opposes them. Mr. Bryan ought to take him up and turn the money over to the mission fund. One result would be the disclosure of the fact that upon one subject at least Mr. Bryan and Mr. Taft are in full accord. Travel abroad, and especially in the far east, has impressed both men with the value of Christian mis- sidhs in non-Christian countries. \ Best Pluce of Al St. Paul Ploneer-Press. While we are talking of providing homes for our ambassadors it might be well to remember that home is a good place for some ambassadors, Now and then a man overeager for de- () in | heard Ing hole to a &1 njury being condemned by all who over- -Philadelphia Ledger. Stranger—DIid_you , ever reveal your fish- s b Once 1 did to & friend on his deathbed.—~Brooklyn Life. conl again? §ir How)lgus—Not L in [0 Hewligus—Absalom, we are Is your credit at the dealer's Mrs, it of bad “again,” Amanda. till'~Chicago Tribune. . [kl “1 wonder that you have a photographer your debating soclety.” ~What has his business got to do with “Only this: That he would naturally al- ways take the negatlve side.’'—Baltimore A Inoking merican. “This," remarked the newly arrived spirit, ound with strong dlsapproval, “'i% absolutely the jumping off place!” with & gleaming smile. 0, 1t lsn't” exactly that” sald Pluto, *“This is where you landed.”"—Chicago Tribune, it spade or di self four aces. “Yes, I remember him,” said Alkall Tke. e died very sudden.” Heart disea " asked the eastern tour- ‘Wall, now, 1 don’t know as you kin say was the heart any more'n the club, ond. Anyway, -he dealt his- ‘—Philadeiphia Press. Poet—Didn’t you like the verses I wrote yesterday? Editor—No—they would offend our read- ers. Poet—Sir, those lines immortal! Editor—Don't fool yourself—I “killed"’ ‘em myselt.—Cleveland Leader. Yi The Girl=You're not a bit like a lover. ou never say pretty things. The Man—Didn't 1 say that you looked like a beautiful autumn leaf? pressing »—Philadelph! The Girl—Well, don't autumn leaves want ia Inquirer, “And you want to marry my daughter?" growled the grim old father. “Do you think you can support her in the luxury to which he s accustomed ?"* “Well, sir.” modestly replied the youtl “I think 1 can guarantee that we will hi meat on the table at least once a day. There are Cleveland Plain Dealer. IT DOESN'T PAY. Detroit Free Press. It doesn't pay td be & grouch, It doesn’'t pay to wear a frown; Nobody ever made his pile By knocking every one in town. me better reasons wh: A man shouM gmile upon his way, But here is one, +Tinanclally A gloomy visage doesn't pay. 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