Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 27, 1910, Page 4

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Looks like & tug of war between the ultimate consumer and the ultimate producer, It is possible that even ‘‘gay Paree’ might vote dry if the question were submitted right vlhl- minute, It doesn’t strike us as fair to put out that story about the $28,000 touch on a New York banker without send- ing along the key to the puzzle. Note the appropriateness of turning loose a federal grand jury to overtake the cause of high prices under the direction of Judge Kenesaw Mopuntain Landis. Omaha is to be officlaily represented at a meeting of the Nebraska State League of Municipalities. It may yet be susceptible of proof that Omaha is located within the boundaries of Ne- braska. Congressman Latta of the Third Ne- braska district stakes his reputation as a political prophet that the demo- cratic candidates in 1912 will be Har- mon and Shallenberger. Respectfully referred t¢-Jpdgar Howard. The mfi ‘barefoot dancer, who has been enraPtiiring London audiences has been ptricken from the British court list pérmitted to appear betore the king, My, but King Edward is get- ting partigular in his old age. sional Investigation th the decapitated Mr. @ witness stand. An anx- fous publfe ,will soon learn whether Mr. Glavig fired all his ammunition at the first sortie or saved some for the: second pennd. - That starts offis Glavis on) It Hetty 'Grean thinks she is too poor to est meat, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Degnegie and a few other folks llkggam who have to count their pe: , will do well to inquire whether of the veetarian diet. That ama libel suit has bean thrown ot of court before even reach- ing the stage of taking testimony. This must be & sad disappointment to the accused fmen who were counting on this trial’ to turn up a lot of good newspaper, iead!ines. To think that “Jim' Hill should be permitted to call at the White House and have an audience with the presi- dent! If the visitor were “Jim" Jef- fries or ‘“Jim" Corbett the question would, of course, have no significance and pass without adverse comment. City Attorney Burnam's official re- port for the year is strangely sllent on the most important episode that oc- curred within his jurisdiction. He should have told how he managed to get along for several weeks, while his thief 'assistant, who boasts of being the only real lawyer in the office, was debarred from practicing in the courts. Army engineers are to be asked to nake an estimate of the probable cost of works that will keep the Missouri river permanently in its channel in this vicinity, and the request is to be coupled with a demand upon congress for an appropristion of the funds necessary up to $1,000,000, Just on » rash impulse we venture to guess ‘that it will be much easier to get the sstimate than to get the appropriation. 6y can afford to keep oft | THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY JANUARY 27, 1910. Battle of the Boycot The anti-meat crusade is bearing its legitimate fruit, and, as might have been expected, the farmers, who are most directly affected by the threat ened reduction in prices of meat, are planning to retallate. (n Kansas one fgroup has already organized for the purpose of boycotting the products of | unfon labor. As the labor unions have |taken .the lead in the anti-meat cru sade, it will become them to bear with what patience they may the effects of the farmers’ reprisals. It will not ben- efit, either side to sidestep by alleging that the “meat trust” is alone re- sponsible. The farmer will suffer most from reduction in the seiling price of meat, and the workingman will be the loser in event of a boyeott on hie product. In this situation lies the strongest argument against the boycott. It hae always been recognized as a two-edged weapon, and its use has been strongly reprehended at all times. It has been denounced as unfair and un-American, and is under the ban of the courts, It belongs in the category of weapons that are being discarded by civilized nations, In its present application it ought to work some good, however, for it wili show to both sldes how unjust it is. Another promise of the situation is that people will learn that high prices ure the natural outcome of conditions easily understood. The prosperity of the farmer depends on his ability to sell his produce for the most money obtainable. - This is true of the work- ingman, who prospers only when he gets bigh wages. Now, raw material can not bring high prices, unless the finished product also ‘brings high prices. So, the farmer can not pect to gell his grains, meat animals und the like at top figures and buy the output of miils wnd factories at a lower level. Nor can the workingman look for tup pay and expect to buy on the basis of rard times. And all the |mel< of middlemen between the producer and the ultimate consumer are subject to similar conditions. With this inter- dependence understood and appreci- ated, the lattle of tae boycotts ap- pears sill;. Nelther side of an ex- change can expect to recelve high prices and pay low. - Stock Market Sensitiveness. The sensitiveness of the stock mar- ket is again illustrated by recent in- cldents showing how the speculators discount the probable action of the government. The circulation of re- ports forecasting a goneral onslaught by the administration on all the big corporations is credited with producing a decided slump In quotations and a nervousness in securities that bode no good for legitimate industries, to say nothing of speculative enterprises. A statement from the White House to the effect that no indiscriminate trans- actions of corporations engaged in in- and that the president’'s position had been outlined in his message to con- gress, which still expressed his views and purposes, immediatey produced a steadying effect and an upward move- ment in the stock market. That the president should not take cognizance of stock market jugglers in determining on the course of the gov- ernment with reference to suspected law-breakers will nownere be gainsaid, but it is plain that the stock market operators take cognizance of the gov- ernment. Whether: the president should permit false reports of his in- tention, put In circulation to influence the stock market, to'go uncontradicted opens up another question. The stock market resembles a see-saw, of which ‘one side is always down when the other is up, and the very correction doubtless turns the scales more or less to the advantage of another set of operators and does not necessarily off- get the winnings of the perpetrators of the hoax. Ordinarily, it would be bet- ter to let stock market players pursue their game under their own rules, each looking out for himself at his own risk. Occasions may arise, however, when innocent victims and legitimate undertakings are entitled to protec- tion against false reports, in which | case the president will be justified in !making the truth known because no | one else can do so with the same au- thority, ¥ Waste and Conservation. Americans have been roused lately from their habits of extravagance in ura now pursuing most zealously the course that is ultimately to lead to the conservation of what 18 left of the ance wonderful natural wealth of the coun- try. 1t may be that the high prices for foodstufts will have a simila> ef- fect. The American housewife has loug rested unaer the accusation thst she wastes as much as would serva her French pister to mamtain a family Out of this habit of waste, borne of the national tendency to exttavaganco, hes come a condition that in some moasure is chargeable with responsibility for the present situation, Eftorts to iInduce the farmer to uncertake mew ways of cul- American yield, Intensified agriculture is rec- ommended as certain to produce addi- tional revenuc, and thus to be sufi- clently profieble to Dbe attractive. Why may not the workings of the cook- ing schools und the household economie classes have 8 similar effect by teach- ing the housewife to do with less and achieve the same result? It does not appear to Le necessary to eat less to accomplish this; conservation of focd served to the fumily ought not to mean terstate business was contemplated, | dealing with natural resources, and | tivating the soil promise him increasod | hand. But jet the food be better pre par and let those portions that are perfectly good, but are now wasted, be served in gome one of many attracudve wayg, and the end of conservation will have Leen served. If the farmers can make their lands produce more and the housewives can make what they buy feed more, then the problem will have been solved. America can then continue to feed the world, and high prices will cease to be the bugaboo it I8 to the man behind the pocketbook. A Fair Sample. Thank God, Omaha lsn't of Nebraska.—Blair Pilot That 18 terribly dietressing, but per- haps our neighborly critic will be good enough to inform us where to go among the cities and towns of Ne- braska to find a fair sample of the state. Most Nebraskans possessed of common sense who take pride in their state also take pride in Omaha as the metropolitan ecity of the state. No well grounded movement for the bet- terment of Nebraska, or for the de- velopment of its resources, fails to en list the hearty*® co-operation of Omaha, because the people here fully realize that the state, and all the cities and towns in it, are mutually depen- dent on the same source of prosperity and must go up or down together. Nebragka furnishes the raw material out of which Omaha is made, and if Omaha fs not a fair sample of Ne- braska, it cannot be a fault chargeable to Omaha. a fair sample The Indian Supply Depot. Inasmuch as the latest attempt to abolish our Indian supply warehouse is not directed at the depot in Omaha alone, but at all the depots in all the cities in which they are maintained by the government, the question 18 pre- sented in a new form. When the ef- fort was simply to strike Omaha from the list of places in which Indian sup- ply warehouses should be maintained it was up to our spokesmen to show that Omaha's peculiar geographical situation and superior railroad facili- ties made it a vantage point for the purchasing gnd assembling of Indian supplies and their distribution to In- dian agencies in the central west as compared with other distributing cen- ters. The question now is as between the system of purchase and inspection at depot points and the system of pur- chase without inspection until delivery at the Indian agencies, | Abolition of the depot system will cut the government off from whatever advantage accrues from transportation in large quantities and the check on contractors which inspection at the depots provides. At present the sup- plies are bought at wholesale for de- livery at the depot cities, where they are reshipped as required to the In- dian. agencies. In other words, the ‘government is doing right now. what most big corporations do who buy in bulk for a large number of branch houses, while the proposed change would go back to business methods that have been generally discarded. Under such circumstances, it seems to us that it is incumbent on those who are advising the change to show first that equally good or better results could be had for less money with the supply depots abolished. We may breathe much easier now since we have been assured that there is no imminent danger of the comet taking a header into the sun: Qur most eminent long distance computers inform us that the comet edged up to /01 Sol” last week as close as he dare go and then was only 4,000,000 miles away. If he keeps this distance, as he now seems likely to do, the sparker in the sun's engine will probably continue to work without interruption and we will all be safe, at Ileast for.a few thousand years. ] gressman Macon and Congressman Bennett to retire to the back yard and helve it out with thefr fists were it not for the fact that Mr. Macon would be physically at a great disadvantage. The Arkansas member belongs to the | bantam class, while "his opponent | would size up with the middléweights. The only way apparently that they can get at one another on the same level {8 to pace fifty yards and throw se- lected words out of an unabridged dictionary. It is given out on no lesser authority than himself that W. H. Thompson, who likes to be known as the “Little Giant,” will run for the democratic |nomination for United States senator. The “‘Little Glant’ has run for about every office on the roster, and has once in a while been allowed to catch a | hopaless nomination when no one else wanted it. It remains to be seen whether his running gait on the democratic race track has improved. | Omaha's suburban towns are to be | officially notified that they must pro- | vide their own fire protection and not depend exclusively on the Omaha fire department. Still, if any of them are threatened with a real bad fire Omaha may lend them a reel of hose or a ladder. Now we know why the cost of living has gone up. According to the World- Herald it would all have been avolded bad the people only voted for Bryan instead of for Taft, and the way to bring prices down now is to vote the democratic ticket at the next election. An Tilinols farmer has been discov- ered who has the hardihood to de- clare that he has sold hogs at $8.25 that it be furnished with a niggard per hundred weight, “the highest price It might be in order to invite Con-| I ever got, even higher than in war times, nd that he h 1d other farm produets at correspondingly high prices. _As a matter of fact, we have not heard many real farmers com- plaining about getting too much money for their output. “Uncle Jim" Wilson airs a suspicion that American farm produce may be selling cheaper abroad than at home. Still, 1f 8o, that fact aoes not seem to stop the stream of immigration from European countries to this land of high prices and high wages. Sure Sign of Wealth, Cleveland Plain Dealer. Possession of a touring car was formerly held to indicate one's wealth, Now it's the sang frold with which one orders three oggs for breakfast. What Next? New York World. The example of western farmers in hold- Ing thelr wheat for higher prices has been followed by Virginia peanut growers, with the result of an advance in price If farmers take to speculation, the consumer may well be concerned about the cost of living. \ Overreaching Greed. Baltimore American. Some light on the Increase of cost of living Is thrown on the subject by an in- vestigation of the milk increase in New York by which the manipulators of this necessity of life are c’earing not thousands, but millions. Power may have been the anclent Moloch to which humanity was ruthlessly sacrificed. Greed is its latter- day equivalent. —_— | A Comcrete Example. Philadelphia Record. The merger of two prominent cement companies with a combined capital stoek of $10,000,000—$5,000,000 common, $2,000,000 pre- ferred; the preferred bearing 7 per ocent cumulative dividends—has an ominous look for the buyers and bullders. Of course, economy of production is the professed object of consolidation, but nobody s so gullible as to anticipate any consequent reduction In prices. Mergers usually por- tend higher prices and bigger dividends. A LIFE WELL LIVED. Tribute to J. A. Graham, Former Editorial Writer of The Bee. St. Louis Times. Joseph A. Graham, who died at Salls. bury, Md., January 2 was a man who enjoyed a special kind and degree of es- teem in St. Louls, where he spent some twelve years of his lite. He belonged to that fine type of gentle- men who ltke to have thelr qualities sought out by the world and who seldom stand forward in the throng unless urgently in- duced to do so. v He held to the high philosophy that worth will not exist in vain and that true modesty can never be accounted a fault, even In an age of much self-assertion. He was perhaps not quite a conspicuous figure during hi€ life in St. Louls, yet he made his character and worth a positive force, and his friendships were among those who were best worth knowing. There was the rare quality of delighttul surprise In his quiet demeanor. Those who considered him frst and last as a news- paper man, where 'hls good judgment and sound taste were nlways in evidence were sometimes afforded mueh pleasure by dis- covering that the''hewspaper man was ‘ondly versatile fii®his tastes. When the big' musicians came to the Odeon in the cortéert season, you might oc- casionally ‘surprise & quiet, somewhat un- Impressive looking ‘gentleman, whom you would ‘find examining, with keen eye, a famous. violin or ‘cello, and you would find that he knew the comparative merits and spectal dlstinctions of all the instru- ments which were historical, His fondness for dogs and his knowledge of them was well known. When Caspar Whitney took chdrge of Outing Magazine he was not long 4n diseqvering that Mr. Graham' was just the man who could write about pointers andsetters and other hunt- ing dogs wtlh a fondness and discernment which delighted all true sportsmen. And there were the scholarly habits of mind of the man which served as armor to his gentle nature and made him foreeful and strong. Finally, his fine and placid mind was such that his interpretations of life were kindly 'and optinfistic. He knew that it was good to live! and such are the men who, by one of God's blessed paradoxes, know that it is also good to die. \ ]our Birthday Book | January 27, 1910. Samuel Gompers, head of the American Federation of Labor, s celebrating his six- | teth ‘birthday. Mr. Gompers was born in | BErgland, but has been a labor leader in this country for many years. He s a clgar | maker by trade. | General John C. Black, former commis- |sioner of pensions, was born January 27, |1839, at Lexington, Miss. He was educated, | however, in Illlnois and went to the front in the civil was as an Illinols volunteer. |He was commander-in-chief of the Grand |Army of the Republic six years ago, and |18 now president of the United States Civil Service commission. | A. B. Stickney, best known as president |ot the Chicago & Great Western, from which position, however, he has lately re- tired, is just 6 years old. Mr. Stickney Is a native of Maine. Omaha will always give him credit for buflding his raliroad to this |point and forcing the issues that started |Omaha as a grain market, Ralph Modjeska, eongineer and bridge builder, was born January 27, 1861, at Cra cow, Foland. His mother was the great |Polish actress, and he, himself, lived in |Omaha at one time when he was connected with the engineering department of the |Union Pacific. He is now living in Chi- | cago. | James P. Conner, member of Jowa's con- | gressional delegation, is celebrating his |fifty-ninth birthday. Mr. Conner Is & | Hoosler originally, but has lived at Den- nison, Ia., most of his lite. Dr. 0. 5. Wood, ‘an Omaha pioneer and veteran physician, was born January 27, 1832, at Binghamton, N. Y. He graduated |in medicine in Philadeiphia and has been practicing here since 158, John T. Dillon, with law offices in the New York Life bullding, was born Jan- uary 21, 18, at Roseville, Ill. He prides himself as having always been a staunch republican and that his grandfather freed his slaves while his father refused to own any, although able to do so. Willlam Grant Lansing, state agent for Nebraska and western lowa for the Nano- tuck Sk company, with headquarters at Omaha, 18 41 years old. He was born in Brooklyn and has been a successful travel- ing salesmen nearly all his life. Willlam Lampmann, sccountant coumty treasurer's office, is just 3. His birthplace Is Dresden and he was edu- cated in Germany. Mr. Lampmann served |as private in the Firsi Nebrasks in the Philippine in the Roosevelt and Taft Policies of the Former and the Extent to Which They Nave Been Forwarded by the Latter. The extent to which the administration of President Taft has adhered to the “Roosevelt policies” is dispassionately dis oussed by the Washington correspondent of the Brooklyn Eagle, and pertinent facts Quoted for the benefit of hasty critics. To show what the Roosevelt policies were the writer quotes President Roosevelt's list'pre- pared near the close of his term, as fol- tows: Conservation. Raliroad rate control, Control of monopoly. Pure food. The praise of decency. The new diplomacy. Making the land laws serve the people. Business administration of the govern- ment. Income tax. Honest Journalism. Square deal. Inland waterways, Country life. Further defining the Roosevelt policies, the following may be given: Trust regulation, Pure food. Uplift of the common people, It is generally admitted, says the Eagle correspondent, that conservation of na- ticnal resources was the greatest of the Roosevelt policies. He once declared this Question to be the most important before the nation. It embraced the protection of the forests, the water supply, the public lands, the coal, phosphate and other natural deposits, and in fact all the riches be- stowed on the country by nature, which the government held in trust for the people. The enthusiastic friends of Mr. Roosevelt Wwho served on these defunct commissions have been aggrieved because President Taft has not sought to revive them. The pr dent has not asked congress to appropriate |the money for re-establishing these com- misslons. Consequently the work of de- jveloping popular interest in the public |1ands, forests, waterways and of devising schemes to Improve life on the farm, through commissions, has lagged. Some charge that in this respect Mr. Taft has not carried out a Roosevelt policy, Immediately after dismissing Gifford Pinchot, the president sent a message to congress on conservation, in which a dis- tinct forward step was made in advanc- ing this Roosevelt policy. At the same time a dosen bills, framed by the at- torney general, were Introduced. They are far more sweeping In their aim to save the forests, water power and the public lands from falling into the hands of greedy monopolists than any measures that had been approved by Mr. Roosevelt. President Taft has recommended dras- tic legisiation for federal control over Interstate corporations. It s not be- lieved that fair minded men will accuse him of having attempted to break down the Roosevelt policy of corporation con- trol. The Taft opening wedge was the corporation tax fn the tariff law. Now, he has supplemented this with a demand for federal incorporation of all Interstate corporations. President Taft has yet to make a move to dissolve a big trust. There have been some minor sults under the Sherman law which have resulted in fines. Aside from this no move has been initiated by him In the courts to lessen the activities of trusts. Of course ,the Taft adminl tration is carrying on the suits against the OIl Trust, the Tobacco Trust, the Union Paclfic and the anthracite coal roads, instituted by Mr. Roosevelt. Mr. Wickersham says he is walting the out- come of the appeals in the Tobacco and oll sults before attempting any big cases. The criminal prosecution of officers of the Bugar Trust now under way was in- augurated by the Taft administration as a result of the unearthing of evidence, the hunt for which was started by Mr. Roosevelt. ‘ The fact that President Taft has en- tered into working agreements with Sen- ator Aldrich and Speaker Cannon further trusts would not suffer at his hands. Mr. Roosevelt regarded these two leaders as reactionaries and the chief stumbling blocks In the way of his measures. Mr. Taft says they are dealing fairly with him and that he will continue to co-operate with them in getting his bills adopted. Theodore Roosevelt strongly urged the imposition of an inheritance tax and an Income tax. He sald that when the tariff wus revised congress should levy an in- come tax. President Taft, early in his ad- ministration, declared for an inheritance tax and later changed his mind. At a time when there seemed to be a majority in the senate in favor of an income tax the president proposed a corporation tax to avold the enactment of what might | prove to be an unconstitutional Income tax measure, Advocates of the pure food law belleve they have a real grievance against Mr. Taft in his attitude toward that law. Thelr chief complaint Is his famous decision on “What ls Whisky?' This question had beon aniwered by (he Roosevelt administra- tion. A couple of court decisions and three or four departmental deelsions had com- bined to restrict the use of the term “Straight Whisky” on all liquor save a very small proportion of the total produc- tion. Within & few weeks after entering the White House President Taft reopened this question. A few weeks ago he gave a final decision in the matter which is supposed to please the whisky men, just as it has displeased the advocates of a strict Interpretation of the pure food law. Strong efforts have been made to break | down the act for the protection of the public supply of food and drink. A board now in session s expected further to mod- ify departmental rulings against the use of preservatives in canned foods. This board, however, was appointed originally by Mr. Roosevelt. Mr. Roosevelt belleved in a big navy and so does Mr. Taft. The former pro- voked criticlsm in congress and raised dissension in the army by frequently pro- | moting young officers to the rank of gen- eral. Mr. Taft has not followed this policy. His few appointments have uni- formly followed the rule of seniority. A careful analysis of the Roosevelt policles and the purposes of the Taft administration leads to the conclusion that there has been no great backward step by Mr. Taft. The chief Qifference between the two men is one of methods. Commenting on the correspondent’s re- view, the editor of the Eagle says: It is | true that President Roosevelt beat the big drum In front of his reforms with an assiduity and effort which were the envy of half the showmen in the country, but the feeling that Taft has abandoned the policies of his predecessor is not wholly, or, perbaps, chiefly, due to the absence of hurrah in the present administration. The average Voter who feels In this way lacks the information and the skill to make the emphasizes the bellef of some that the|, Fifty Years the Standard Dr.PRICE'S CREAM POWDER Made from Grapes RS Makes the food of superior healthfulness . and finest quality PRI GES § ‘;h N4 U[ NG p ol %“ i ol 2, ~— Aldrich and Cannon are, as the correspondent polnts out, friends of President Taft. They were enemies of Roosevelt, and there Is a very widespread distrust of both leaders. Many voters feel that any man is their friend only because hie helps them to the things they want. Therefore ,they distrust Taft for the company he keeps. For these reasons the work which Presi- dent Taft has done, In carrying out the Roosevelt policies of corporation control and of conservation of natural resources, does not get the credit which it deserves and falls to confer upon this administra- tion the popular favor which attended his predecessoy. ) PERSONAL NOTES. The rascal who picked a Boston police- man's pocket goes to jall for a year. A light enough sentence for lese-majeste! Mr. Taft belleves that the should be the head of his party. There's one Rooseve't'policy that has not become impaired. Mrs. W. Eames Colburn, wife of the head of a Chicago banking firm, has built a modern seven room house for her thirty- tive prize cats. The house Is fitted up with brass beds, silk draperies and lace curtains. The duke of Orleans sneaked right into France the other day and was promptly turned right around und sneaked right out again. This appears to be the duke's cute company they keep. these days. Vegetarians need not crow over the fact that meat eaters are joining thelr ranks. The recruits have enlisted only for a short term, and though inspired by principle, it is not a principle Involving affectionate devotion to fodder and sawdust. John McCutcheon, the Chicago cartoonist, has been hunting In Africa with the ex- president and has established some prowess as a slayer of wild beasts. Two lions and a rhinoceros or two laid their lives at his feet (on urgent compulsion), to say noth- ing of smaler game, ury Theft a Mystery, Philadelphia Bulletin The action of congress in formally re- lieving the assistant treasurer at Chicago of all responsibility for the theft of $173,000 in thousand dollar bills from the sums en- trusted to his cutody recalls one of the most pecullar cases of peculation In gov- ernmental annals. It is now nearly three years since the money disappeared, and all the efforts of the secret service have failed either to trace it or to find who took it. Possibly the mystery will be cleared up later—but In this instance, at least, the theory that the man who steals largely from the treasury funds Is sure to be promptly caught and punished seems to have proved erroneous. Tre It Will Help Some. New York Tribune. It begins to look as if the meat strike would make this year's observance of Lent, now rapidly approaching, a record-breaker in the way of unanimity and enthusiasm. Tenn. analysis which the correspondent has made, but the people are commonly uncommonly 00d judges of the political current. Presi- fents, like other men are kuown by the to rub it in — just apply it. president | little way of getting his name in the papers |/ SUNNY GEMS. “DIQ that dollar dinner your admirers gave you prove of any benefit?" “My wife says it did,” replied Senator Sorghum. It sent me hiome with one of the biggest appetites 1 liave had in years.” —Washington Star. “How did that woman ever ride into popular: favor "I guess it was on account of her grace- ful carriage.”—Baltimore American. manage to Knicker—You look tired. Bocker—Yes, 1 was up all night flying the baby.—Harper's Bazar. “What is the you know of?" And after a moment' gins replied, “Gasoline. m cxpensive perfume thought Mr. Chug- Chicago Post. ‘Do you believe that spirits ever return?" Not much, If they are good spirits and one. 18 careless enpugh to let them be around where the servants can get at them."—Philadelphia Bulletin, “‘Where have you been for so long?” d the head man of the menagerie. Been watching one of the animals cleas his throat, sir,” repiled the attendant. “But does It take half an hour for an animal to clear Its throat?”’ “Yes, sir; it was the giraffe, Yonkers Statesman. Benjamin Franklin, full of his schemes for drawing electricity from the clouds, had dropped in at a hardware .store. “Well," said the salesman, “what is it?* “Wire, please,” unswered Benjamin. “In a moment,” the salesman sald, turn- ing to wait on a woman customer who had just come In Bven in those days, as we learn from this ,the man who wa# in a hurry got the busy signal sometimes,—Chicago Tribune. THE MAID AND THE CANARY. Detroit Free Press. She watched the canary, This maiden contrary, So busily preeming himself In the sun; His teathers he olled With his bill, and he tolled To smooth and to polish Each disarranged one, He pulled out the stray ones, The ragged and gray ones, His wee little body He shook in delight, He eyed himself gravely, Then satisfied, bravely A whistling sonata He gave with his might. 8ir— “Oh, Dick,” cried the lass, “Shall I buy you a glass? You're all the time fussing And priming, 1 swear; You're all the time shining Your feathers, or dining, To make yourselt pretty eems only your care The way that you slick Up your feathers, now Dick, And spend o much time On your looks is absurd, You vain little, proud little Stuck up young bird." Then she fixed her hair back, And reached down somewhere For a soft chamols rag, And she powdered her nose, She stralghtened her belt, And she, woman-like, felt At the back to be sure Of just what, goodness knows. 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