Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 9, 1910, Page 6

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Only 2-cent stamps ved in payment of mafl checks, except on o it i tehidoiisrasnlon S it e 3 STATEMENT Off CIRCULATION, State of Nebraska, Douglas County, e George B, Tzschuck, treasurer of The B Publishing Company;! being Auly sworn, says that the sctudl numoer of full and g coples of The Daily. Morning, Eveiing and Bunday. Bee printed during th month of January, 1910, was as follows: kY $ Returped copl Net total, Daily average, ¢ ..., 48,973 GEORGE B, TzngUCK, reasurer. Subscribed in my premence and awarn. to before e this 3ist day of January, 1910. ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Publc. bacribers leaviug the city teme Borarily whould have The Bee to them, . Address will be &ed as uileu as request = e ——— A breakfast f60d trust? Perhaps! But don't dare let anybody get a corner on bacon, eggs and pancakes. Governor Shallenberger has a new peroration. Hurray! But the apos- trophe to the flag is still on tap for suitable occasions, Senator Brown wants to know what has Inflated the watered stock of the Washington Gas Light company. Water gas, of course. | ———— It isen't half so much of a wonder that a woman is willing to pay her taxes as it fs that her taxes were smaller than she expected. King Guatav 6f Bweden has had his royal appendix removed. ‘The operation 1s pronounced a success and yet King Gustav Is really expected to recover, A press dispatch carries this very suggestive sequence of thoughts: “‘Yes- terday a second operation was per- formed., Finéral sérvices tomdrrow.” ——— A former Nebraskan has just landed the postmastership 'of 'Los Angeles, paying §$6,000 a year, Give a Ne- braska man half a chance and he will get to the front. — Manila is certainly becoming Ameri- | canized. ‘A recent city election In that city brought to light wholesale bribery and fraud. Sounds like the olds days of county seat wars. Mayor “Jim" will be down on the speaker's list at the forthcoming dem- ocratic Valentine party. Mayor “Jim" is @ candidate for governor ‘‘and don't care who knows it."” —_——— Two men were frozen to death in Philadelphfa during the recent cold snap. The Quaker city has always been slow, but its circulation must also be getting sluggish. [l e The chances are fair that the fight in Missouri regarding the cause of the | death of Colonel Swope will not cease .until the entire fortuic of that famous millionaire has been exbausted. The Rock Island = is planning to shorten its mileage between Omaha and Chicago. Inasmuch as the short- est road fixes the rate, excess mileage is a llability ratler than an asset Prof. Otto Jensen suggests that a system of spelling Dbe introduced whereby each person cun “have a sys- tem of his owh''—spelling just as he pleases. What a hlessing to some of us. There I8 not an unpaved street in Omaha whose abutting property own- ers would not gladly have it called a boulevard for a little while to get it paved at the expense of the park fund. Jamesa A. the Amerfean rail- -way conductor, got off with two years and ten months' imprisonment. But, incidentally, that does not let Dr. North Pole Cook out. He'll never get off as easy that. The Amerfcan hea is getting so aristoorgtic and high priced that the “‘chioken thief" stands a good show of social Immunity whitewash along with the government” land grabber and the man who steals a rallroatl system. ot o Rbort v il 5 A Harvard professor says that a per- gon cam live on 20 cents a day. His theory is Interesting to a great mamy people. But the point of 1t all is, DId he learn how from experience born of necessity or did he work it oit for advertising purposes? THE BEE: Timber Waste. In a recent meeting of the Tristate | | Lumber Dealers’ association, made up | | by dealers in the states of Kentucky,| Indiana and Tilinois, a vigorous protest wag made against the wanton waste of | {lumber in the country. - The associa-| tlon went on record unanimously for| | unifery. state laws in favor of the con- | | servativ.. of the forests. One of the| | members characterized the waste of | |timber as “The crime of the age.” Among other things sald at the meet- |ing was the following: How long will this thing go on? 1 often drive out from my house at Hopkinsville, Ky., and see where farmers have destroyed trees and it ‘seems like a erime to me. | Many valuable trees have been killed just because the farmers wanted to cultivate! the land. No thought, it seems, has ht-on} made of the forests. In France they began to plant and cultivate trees over 100 years ago. Recently at Clarksville, Tenn., a large manufacturing company bullt a bagb wire fence about a farmer's land In order to get the old rail fence that eneircled it. The fencé was made of wainut ralls, In Florida today pine lumber Is used as fuei In the engines on the rallrodds. A great deal of timber is destroyed in this way. Many valuable trees are also killed in the turpen- tine belts just for the pufpose of getting the turpentine. Hers ls a chance for Taft and Ballinger to take a hand and make themselves Immortal, When lumbermen agree on the point of conservation of timber and the for- ests, the country has reason to feel a sense of hope. But, really, have the lumbermen a right to complain of the waste of timber on the part of the farmer? Has the larmer wasted as much timber without thought of re- planting as the lumberman.has? It is a good thing to take up, and no matter who brings the tople up, it ought to be made a subject for wide diseussion. We are beginning to feel pinched in the matter of timber and the pinch is tightening. The words of Gifford Pinchot come back and one is compelled to think of the work he has done for the preservation of the forests. But his recent plea for the united action of congressmen and senators for the enactment of the bill cailing for the withdrawal of all public lands suitable | for planting forests is a practical effort along this right line. The American people are 8o busy making money that tney seldom stop to think of comserving or préserving anything, much less that which will require years for conversion into cash. But there is plenty of time to prevent much more denuding of the country of its forests and the government is busy. Let others get busy also. Importation of Farm Produce. When one reads that during the last year farm produce to the amount of $647,000,000, or almost half the total imports of the year 1309, was brought into the United States from outside countriés, it suggests that our farmers are not doing their full duty. But a closer inspection relieves tha appre- hension; The importéa artickes are of a nature that have not yet beeh pro- duced in America in sufficlent quan- titles to supply the a@emand for con- sumption. Sugar leads, with tobacco second. Hides and skins and hay are the other articles that really enter into competition with the home grown, and these constitute rather more~than half the total of farm produce imported. Of | the articles that are not produced at home, and which do not compete with the output of the American farms, silk, coffee, tea, sisal, manila fiber and Egyptian cotton make up the list. The | United States is still the best market in the world for this sort of produce, and will remain so as long as the pros- perity of the people is such that they can maintain the standard of living now set. In the report is nothing alarming, for over against it is set the figures of the $8,000,000,000 output’ of the farms for 1909, and the present promige that the coming season will find the farmer as energetic and as forehanded as ever. Roosevelt a Feminine Character? The February lssue of the Forum has made the statement that ex-Presi- dent Roosevelt s a feminine man—or, | to use the words of the writer, “Has a | feminine type of mind.” But it is| carefully brought out that the word | feminine does not mean effeminate. The author goes on to describe the “feminine type of mind" as the ability to see only one thing at a time and to| be predominated by one all prevalling | {motive, He says that women do not| take Into consideration all conse- quences, but just see the desired thing | to be accomplished. ‘“Wearing mental | blinders,” so to speak, and never shy- ing at a single thing by the way, but golng straight as a line toward the | single goal. Now, supposing that sald writer really knows how women think, also granting that he really knows how any- one thinks, what has ne proved? The habit of seeing one thing at a time and one goal at a time is so common that in reality it ean be adcribed to most people of both sexes who make a suc- cess of profession or business. The history of popular government proves | that its leaders are men of single prin- ciples and bend everything toward the accomplishment of such. Now, *if this peecultar method of thinking fis feminime,. which must mean that the ~majority of women think that way, it looks as though the writer had proved too much. Most men think that way, too, so it must be that he intends to make us all feminine. It |100ks as though the author had side- tracked the old name “hobby’ and sub- stituted the word feminine In its place. If a hobby with a vigorous and virile mental grasp is characteristic of the feminine mind, it is easy to account for the militant suiiragette, Carrie Nation, Mary Eilen Leuse and some | | attending to their own concerns in a == | others. But that is a rather disquieting | Veterens to use government tents for thodght. It is a well known fact that no two people think exactly alike, so where is anyone going to draw the line between the rule and the exception? We might also ask which exception is | to be taken as the rule? Grand Jury Instructions. In view of the fact that the local grand jury is to begin its sittings next week varfous suggestions are being made as to the subjects of investiga- tion which should be included in the judge’s instructions. Some of the ad- vice volunteered indicates clearly that those tendering it do not understand the functions of a grand jury and do no. know the scope of the judicial in- structions. The grand fury is a body of inquisi- tors, constituted by law, with full power to bring In true bills against offenders where thetre is sufficlent evi- dence of gullt to warrant prosecution. The grand jury s not a general smell- ing committee to poke Into people’'s private affalrs where there is no sus- picion of law-breaking. Conspiracy is prohibited by law and people who con- spire to throttle competition or raise prices are Indictable, but business men lawful way are not subject to grand Jjury surveillance. The grand jury receives instructions from the judge as to any unusual mat- ters that savor of lawlessness by com- mon notoriety and the judge is like- wise required by statute to direct at- tention to certaln particular classes of offenses. But whether the judge does | or does not give specific instructions | to Inquire Into any matter properly within its jurisdiction, that cannot pre- | vent the grand jury from acting on its own information, or information brought to (its mnotice by private citizens, Instructing a grand jury gives & Judge great opportunity for playing to the galleries and raising dust to make people believe terrible things are hap- pening and being carefully covered up when nothing but the ordinary run of petty crime has occurred. We have had altogether too much of that in the past, and there is no crying demand for another {nstallment. Honor of the Navy. The court-martial in session at Bos- ton may appear to be investigating a tempest in a teapot, but it is really charged with a most important duty. Not only will the question of how far a man may go in the direction of visit- ing the displeasure of his fiancee on its object, and what form his monitory action may assume, but it will also settle a much vexed question as to who is charged with the care and keeping of the honor of the navy The dual nature of the inquiry and’ the soclal smoke it has engendered have in a measure obscured the real issue, but from this distance the fact seems plain enough. In the first place, has a paymaster, who is not a graduate of the Naval academy, the right to mssume that in| his own person he represents the! ‘“naval set,’” and, acting under that assumption, has he the further right|' to insist on an invited guest absenting himself from & ball given by the “set," | and is he justified m punching the head of the guest in question when the latter ventures to demur at the assump- | tion of responsibility. This wellhlyl question lurks behind a tremendous | volume of testimony adduced at the| hearings, It has resounded from Maine | to Texas, and from Puget sound to the wave-kissed sands of Paim Beach, from Saskatchewan to Panama, all ears are strained to catch the answer. The secretary of the navy declined, wisely, to accede to the hushing up of the af-| fair, and at least one of the senators of the United States ias lent his influ- ence to the bringing about of a possible solution, When it is settled whether a pay- master has the right to punch the head of a visiting sawbones, and whether a surgeon of the navy has a right to ques- tion the conduct of a fellow practi- tioner who does not happen to be connected with the sea-going establish- ment, the old world will settle back squarely on its gudgeons and revolve as usual. Till this is determined, though, do not wonder that the uni- verse is slightly askew. The eity clerk at Lincoln refuses to recognize the validity of a petition for the resubmission of the question, “Wet or Dry?" because each signer of the petition did not write after his street address the words, ‘Lincoln, Ne- braska.” This official who, of course, wants to keep the town dry, has doubt- less persuaded himself that this is the proper course and his action is typical of the ridiculous extremes to which one-idea folks sometimes go. Just suppose Lincoln were wet instead of dry, and it was the drys instead of the | wets who presented the petition, im- agine the vituperation that would pour down on the head of the recaleitrant clerk, to say nothing of accusations of sell-out to the brewers and saloons. a poor rule that doesn’t work both WAays. Purchases of real estate for 1im- provements always help build up a oity, while purchases of real estate for purely speculative purposes block im- provement and retard a city's growth. Omaha is fortunate In having so far suffered comparatively little from the speculative element in its real estate transfers, and it 1s to be hoped the speculative element will be kept in the background. Is the ol‘d'vur lperl dead? Recently in the United States senate a bill was introduced allowing the eenfederate | OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, thelr great reunion. Only one man voted agalnst the bill, It must have been rather humiliating to Senator Heyburn of Idaho to ve the only one to protest against the action, but then he had his say out, anyway. Referring to the scramble for the demovratic nomination for Untted States sengtor, a headline in the Lin- coln Btar says, Hitcheock Fizzled Out.” Now we protest. Just because Congressman Hitchcock’'s charges of land office extravagance have fizzled out it does not follow that his sena- torial ambitions have fiszled out. A Pennsylvania clergyman has de- cided that he will no longer perform a marriage ceremony unless the bride- groom can show an income of at least $2,000 a year. That means he Is either making a foolish New Year's resolu- tion or else he ought to be investigated on the charge of unduly raising the cost of living. John 1. Sulllvan has just married the sweetheart of his boyhood, a Bos. tonian spinster. It would be supposed John L. had, experience enough in the ring business not to choose a partner on a long-térm contract who is dead sure to lick him the first round and make him bow {n submission forever. Judging from the number of widows, both grass and weeds, who are being taken in by fortane-hunting confidence men, it is evident that there should be a more rigid enforcement of game laws on the indiscriminate trapping and snaring of feathered songsters and speckled beautie , It 1s announced that ‘‘Dave” Francis wants to be senator from Missouri, We thought Grover Cleveland's former secretary of the interior had been listed by Governor Shallenberger for president in 1912. “Dave” can't put much faith in our Nebraska governor's ability to. deliver. Spectacular Life Saver. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Of all recent inventions and discoveries none outranks the wireless telegraph in its appeals to human admiration. It is a life- saver of the most spectacular kind. Keep 'Em Moving. Washington Herald Now that Mr. Bryan has denled his re- ported candidacy for another democratic presidential fomination, somebody ~will agaln trot out his reported candidacy for a senatorial seat, of cours Now Will You Be Good? ‘Boston Herald. The pork packers say that they are feed- ing a population 15 per cent largér than they were ten years ago, from a supply of hogs 24 per cent smaller than if was then, and that these hogs are fed on corn which costs 100 per cent more now. Is it any wonder, they say, that prices are High? i A Edonowmy, in the Prospect /Piisburg Dispatch. Breakfast #86d ‘manufacturers, while thg people arg making the experiment of living without mead, propdse to form a combina- tlon. They. ‘allege that their combination will be'forfmed for the purpose of reducing prices to the consumers, All thé com- binations were formed for that purpose, in the public prospectus, but none of them in the sequel. — BEVILS OF COLD STORAGE, Methods of Suspending Law of Supply and Demand. Philadelphia Record. Cold storage, properly employed, fur- |nishes & means of cobservation and the prevention of waste that should inure to the general benefit. I practice it has been made to serve as a means of ‘maintaining higher prices in the season of plenty and of intolerable prices in the season of lesser supply. When prices are naturally declin- ing they are checked, to be afterward pushed -to unnatural limits as opportunity is created by squeezing the market through a combination of cold storage speculators. This is perhaps the most flagrant ocr castap of the intrusion of the middleman between producer and consumer with the object of despolling both. The worst part of the matter grows out of the difficulty encountered in devising any change or remedy which shall preserve the benefit of cold storage while defeating Its evil working. The most feasible suggestion is to regulate the time of storage so as to prevent deterioration, and to enforce due publicity in order that the purchaser may know what he is getting. Qur Birthday Book February 9, 1910, George Ade, the funny man, Is 4. He claims membership In the so-called Hobsler School of Literature because he happens to be born In Indiana, General Charles F. Manderson s cele- brating his. seventy-third birthday today. General Manderson 18 a native of Philadel- phta. He served In an Ohlo regiment dur- ing the war, and at its close returned to Cantop to practic: law, removing In 18 to Omaha. ‘He helped frame the constitu- tion of Nebraska, served two terms fn the United - States senate and was for four véars president of that body. Later he became genéral solicitor'for the Burling- ton road In Nebraska, retiring about two yg:r-\uo. and now Is part of the husiness world ‘only as president of the National Fidelity and Cosually company. John €. Haward of the Webster & How- ard fire insurance agency, was born at Hartford, Conn., Febiuary 9, 136l He came to Omaha in 1883, working for four years for the Tootle & Maul wholesale dry £00ds houge and then went Into the fire insurance business. Allen B. Romano, electriclan with the Negbraska Telephone company, was born at Loulsville, Ky., February 9, 180. He SOt atarted us operator of the fire and po- lice ‘wlarm ©Of the city and continued in that ‘position until the work was trans- ferred to the telephone company. Alvin F. Bloom, with J. F. Bloom & Co,, monuments, was born at Red Oak, Ja February 9, 188. Mr. Bloom worked in the business offige of The Bee before he went into_partnerdhip with his father three years ago. Rav: Carl A. Turnquist; pastor of Swed- ish Evangelical Mission church, was born In Sweden February §, 1574, coming to this country in 181 He studied at Augustina ocollege at Rock Island, 11., and North Park-seminary in Chicago, from which he graduated into the minisiry in MW7, He ls 0 ¥ecrvtary of the Evangelical Mission Raalav 0f Nebraska. y FEBRUARY War Time Boycott Story of Attempt t0 Shake Down Extortionate Prices of Neoessa- ries at Close of the Olvil War W1l history repeat itself in the anti-meat boycott of the present time? Forty-five years ago a similar wave of public Indig- natlon swept over the country, directed against the uplift of prices of the neces- |saries of life following the close of the |elvil war. At that time, too, | promised to do without meat until exorbi- tant prices were reduced. Clubs were formed to protest against overcharges: | clubs of a aifferent wort were used to en- |force abstention; the government was asked to Intervehe; combinations were as- sailed hecause they were, in popular fancy, solely responsible for high prices. People | lost sight of the altered conditions | wrought by war, and clamored for imme- | diate return to prices of ante-bellum d When the war ended, relates the New York Evening Post, prices were higher |than ever before—far higher than they ever have been since. Wheat was §2.00 a bushel, corn $1.85, pork $40 a barrel of 100 pounds, beef 220, charges was quite as Spontaneous as now. Just how It started would be hard to say; |lkely enough It was In much the same way. But the hold it took on the people was remarkable. Seven men, going home York, agreed that they and thelr families would do without meat for sixty day within @ week their entire neighborhood was with them. Newspapers encouraged the movement in strongest terms. 'The | New York Times, In its editorial columns {of June 28, 1865, put the matter to its read- ers as follows: [ “Every family that leaves severely alone acts simply | sense. the butcher with common Diminished consumption was never yet known to fall In reducing the price ot |any articles of large supply, nor will it fail In the case of meat. The whole cause of the present complaint is that a number of speculators are trying to train the public into paying permanent exorbitant rates. They think that if they can hold out against public indignation for a while people will get used to extortion. But this s a mis- take. Prices must come down. and the sooner these speculators succumb the bet- ter.” Pitiful little incidents were frequent. The following plaintitive letter is typical of those which appeared at the time: “I am @ clerk in a store and live in a tenement house, All last winter I could hardly afford to buy meat, nor can I buy enough now. There are no reckless, ex- travagant persons round where I iy, and the man I buy a little meat of has few rich customers. The little bits of béef and | mutton we poor people buy costs so much | that, as my wife sayd, it is like eating | money. Why, a dollar is nothing!" It Is literally true that there was a vast number of people in New York City—not to mention the rest of the country—to whom the question of actual life and death depenided in a large measure on the price of food. Yet some of the poorer people entered into a controversy over causes of thé exorbitant level of prices, ‘contending that the anti-meat movement would have no good effect. One man, in a public letter, stated that he was earning $20 a week, but thought prices were too high, because '| wages were- too high. He declared that it was the retailer who had the public at his mercy; that wholg- sale guotations Had gone dbwn, but that retail prices had gone up. He added: “Look at our restaurants! Flour, butter, sugar and coal are about one-third less in price than they were a year ago. Why then do not the restaurants prices? Because there are plenty of people with money in thelr pockets:to patronize them. Money was never so plentiful as now and never was spent 8o lavishly as at present. Enter any theater, barroom or restaurant and you will find there a class of men who formerly could not afford to patronize such places. I have repeatedly seen rough-looking fellows that apparently earned their living by manual labor dining at first class restaurants on delicacies that 1 cannot afford to purchase. Our soldlers, drmy teamsters and others are returning with pockets full of money. Having earned it like hors:s, they spend it like —. This, with the present high rate of wages, tends to keep prices at their present standard.” | | | | | Many others, who were at a loss to x- plain their high food bills, appealed to the newspapers for the reason. Here is the answer given by one of them: | “Your butcher will say that meat is | higher now, owing to—what? The price of fgold? But, you will say, gold is only 138 { cents In paper for a gold dollar, so that | cannot be the rghson. The bad season? No, nor that either; the weather and crops were never so fine. The army wants the meat in the field? Why, the boys have come home. Short supply of cattle? There were considerably more cattle In market this week than were wanted or sold! No, there is no reason but that avariclous speculators put up the price, and you grumble and submit to be fleeced. Learn resolutely to shut your basket up empty, rather than submitsto extortion. “There can be no hesitation as to what the ultimate result will be, and every per- son who abstains from meat will hasten it. There are many great hotels whose proprietors can help In the matter; their customers, at all events, will find on the varlous bills of fare plenty of substitutes for meat.” So, after that, the butchers were made to | bear the brunt of pubiic indignation. In {a nalve lttle note some one wrote that butchers “once” had been gentlemen. As a matter of fact, while they were not primar- ly to blame for the extreme level’ of prices prevailing, they greatly aggravated the situation by Jacking their figures above the point necessary to show legitimate profits. They pald the penalty by being, soclally, almost ostracised. How did the boycott succeed? be hard to say. Conditions then lcally different from what they are now, 50 that, periods cannot be taken as & pre- cedent. Six months after the boycott be- gan the following newspaper item ap- peared: “A year ago, lon, erage of nearly 0 per cent more than we are paying today for provisions. At re- tall, in the shops of petty dealers, the poor housekeeper pays as much this week as he did & year ago. This would not be, had we a market system worth the name. or 4f Industrious citizens of limited means would combine to make thelr purchase of the prineipal article of every-day con- sumption in common. A earcass of good mutton, well divided among four at this season, might be bought at just about one- halt what it is retalled at per pound in the butchers’ shops." Bvidently the butchers are making up for smaller sales by securing larger profits, appeals to the people to shun the meat shops continued, but it is clear that some of them were backsliding, for prices could not have been maintained so long | | It would were rad- in the heat of the rebel- thousands The protest of the people against these | |one evening from business in lower New | lower thein| at wholesale we were paying an av- | hot biscuit, hot breads, pastry, are les: in cost and increased in quality and wholes:mcnell. md the food at home and save money and health unless demand was at least keeping up a moderate pace with supply. In the following year, 1866, came the Overend-Guerney panic at London, which resulted In @ violent readjustment in the financial markets here as well as-abroad, and this, with the contraction of this country’s own iInflated ocurrency, brought prices sharply downward. Then the man and his wife who thought eating meat was like eating money, were enabled to &0 back to their meat diet without thinking of how many nickels each bite of beet or mutton was costing. PERSONAL NOTES. Sirce the court at Danbury, Conn., has placed a heavy monetary penalty upon the striking hatters, the expression “mad as a hatter” acquires a new meaning. Moses Harmon, the Kansas apostle of freo love, who published his paper, Luci- fer, in Chlcago for several years after it/ became too hot for him In Kansas, dled in Los Angeles, Cal. He established hiy free love paper in Valley Falls, Kan, thirty yvears ago. Robert Underwood Johrson, who has becn chosen to succeed Mr. Giider as tho editor of the Century Magazine, has been on the staff of that magazine for thirty- seven years—almost since its first publl- cation. He Is a chevalier of the Legion of Henor of France and cavaliere: of the | Crown of Italy. Celonel Perry Fyffe, who was recently appointed by President Taft, s on his wa to take charge of the police of the Cana zone. The new chief is a soldler and ai editor. When appointed to his prescnt position he was managing editor of the Chattanooga Néws. He was . graduated from the University of Kentucky and is a lawyer. Meteorites that wereé brought from the Arctic by Commander Peary have been purchased by the Ametican Museum of Nat- ural History. The price paid, it was learned, was in the nelghborhood of $10,000. It is understood that Commander Peary made a present of the meteorites to Mus, Peéry and that they were sold by her to the museum. In @ wpodehopper at ‘work negr ~he# homé, Mrs. Alfert Holly of Wabash, Ind., recognized her husband. ahom she had not seen since he marched away to the civil war, forty-seven years ago. She belleved he was killed In battle ard sold her home and moved awey. He could not find her when he returned fromi the south and he- came a wandering carpenter. Chip of the Old Block. Boston Transcript. James P. Platt, the United States circuit judge who rendered the Danbury dedision in Connecticut, is a son of the late Orville H. Platt, long an honored senator from Connecticut, and one of the leaders of th judiclary committee ‘of that' body which framed the anti-trust act. Some objections were raised to the confirmation of the younger Platt, but his charge to the jury in this case reads like that of a man pos- bt o MERRY JINGLES. One reason why I must abhor The “meat trust,” 1 regret, Is that is will not ‘trust me for The meat I'd like to get. ~Christian Soclerice Monitor 0ld_wood to burn! Old wine to drink!" A privilege enjoyedl by few But all may sing this little thing: “O1d eggs to taste! Old-steak to chew!" —New York Matl, "Tis & curlous faet,” the govern- ment shark. As he read about commons and pe “That an Englishman votes with his a and his noes, And expresses his applause with his 'ears.” —Harvan Lampoon snid The little lamb that Mary had The beef trust has one ice, And, oh, it makes us awful sad The way they've raised the price. ~Baltimore American Taiior, taiior, wili vou be Valentine, good sir, to me? If you will:I'li gladly call Winter, summer, spring and fall, And, as nature gowns the rose, I will let you make my clo'es —Judge. He had héard the sweetést singing Tn an opératie style: He had heard the bells whose. ringing Bring a sweet and restful smile; He had listened to the tinkle Of the brooklet in the dell And had heard the latest wrinkle From the prehestra, o, swell, The phonograph solectiofs— He could mention them offshand He had marched in all directions, To the musle of the band. But the hafn and egglet frying Just before the breakfast call Made the tune, there's ng denyin That was sweetest of them all ~Wnshington Herald. 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