Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 10, 1910, Page 4

THE- OMAHA DALY BEE. FOUNDED nr unwum ROSEWATER vidron nnsnwn'rn B >rron Entered st ()mlh- pomthtice as “second- rlass matter, e P DEIN TERME OF. BUBHCRIPTION. Daily (thel u-a-y). per week.1bc Daily (without Sundap), per week 10 Drily Bee (without Sundas), ons year..#00 Uaily Bee aiyl Sunday, gne. year. DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Evening) Bes (without Sunday), per week. Evening Bee (with Sunday), per week.. Sundey Bee, one yen Baturday Bee, om r s Address all eomplains Bf irreguiarition I delivery to, cny Creuiation Department. OFFICHE, Hee Buflding. South a—Twentyfourth and N, Counctl Blufta—ts Scotf Street. Lincoln~8i8. Little. Buj) Chicago-d8s lllmufl't"u”dlnl- 102 No. M West 'rhmy lhlrd Streot Washington~728 Fourteenth Street, N. W, CORRESPONDENCE, anmum n(lorn “"!5‘ !u news and editordal addressed: 0mnhl rtment. s« npm'rnw-ws Remithby draft. express or. postal order payablecia The Bee Publishing Company. stampe recelved in payment of nts. 'ersonal checks, except on Omaha n;-wmv exehanges, not accepted STA’ lulw'r OF GIRCULATION. ke, Douglas County. o ack. treasurer of The Bea Company, being Auly sworn, the actual fiumver of tull and t§ coples of OmmhaTh comple f Tho Dally, Morning, Evening’and Sunday Bee printed during the month efdanuary, 190, was as follows: £ 48,340 . 41,700 42,290 43,420 Total'; Eh e nemrn.d ‘cople: Net Yotal. Dally average. Treasurer. Subscry in RO ER‘I‘ HUNTER. Notary Public. '5‘;—‘::—- nb-Mlnr- leaving the city t porarily should have The Bee matled to them. Address will be Ged ay biten &b request The Wayitd sat c&«n streets 1s to clean tHem, . 1t argoplanes fild' By eggs at the present piice 'wé comld all afford to own a !oekfl them. &7 It is juat poulble Jack Johuson may get his knockout in the courts of New York long before he as a chance to meet Jeffries. One of ‘the prominent characters in | & new French play is'a jackess. Are « we to infer that this Is a political play with -D-Am rican setling? —— 3 Dfi Wilay's, m”lclon ‘that egme are geting Imlller proves true, the only remedy will be’ & law compelling the dult? to“detegis by welght, ——ee Mlyor Gaynor of Ne New York would like to do away with personal taxes. Here's a chaiice. for - WMayor “Jim” to| advocate d.on( awith all taxes. Philadelphts' {s all stirred up over | an fce cream wi rAnother example | how slow Phll-da)pnln i8." Last sum- | mer was the time for the ice cream war, An extra levy of 9 mills on every dollar of tafable property in Omaba | will serve toiremind us v‘hnl a costly | luxury we ‘have ‘had our Water board. A nation-wide rec..uon ‘tor Colonel Roosevelt when he returns from | Africa? By all meal and let it be Just as big and big-hearted as it can be made. . Several “meaty’’ orations were re- cently delivered by congressmen. The meat-boycotting constituents of these congressmen should be informed of thelr action at once. —— Uncle Andrew Caruegie would en- shrine his name in the hearts of a gratef: ‘pbobfe It he would stop put- ting up Mbraries a while and establish | a free public pie factory. Report now has it that the comet | has three tails. It must be a mistake. | has clients. Lawyers and Lawmaking. A »ill introduced in the New York legiglature making it a felony for any mie mber of elther house to accept a fee or retainer for legal or ather services from any individual or corporation in- terested in legislation, prompts the Lincoln Journal to say that such a law is needed in Nebraska. “In Ne- braska there has scarcely been & ses- slon for twenty years,’” declares the Journal, “in which some prominent members well known as attorneys for some interest or corporation have not appearéd.” It goes on to say that Ne- braska pays members of the legisla- ture but $300 for a two years' term, for which the election expenses fre- quently cost the candidates more than their salaries, and that when the in- from other sources his work in the leg: islature naturally follows '.the ponderance of compensation, THat there is'a measure of truth in this will be generally admitted. Ordi- narily lawyers would be expected to make the best law-makers because of their legal training and supposed famillarity with laws. But a lawyer is 80 accustomed to representing either side of a case for which he is retained that he has difficulty when he goes to the legislature in shaking off the fdea that he is not there solely to represent the particular clients who pay him. At the same time most of our law-makers are personally- interested in some pri- vate business or profession, whose wel- fare is their especial care, the chiet difference being that the nonlawyer is not looking for good-pay clients, and does not have so many lines out at one time. We have had legislatures in Ne- braska made up predominately of farmers, and they have never failed to take care of the agricultural interests. The assessors, for example, make their rounds in Nebraska in April, when the farmer's surplus of grain and live stock is at the lowest, The farmer ig exempt from the laws limiting the| labor of women and children, and has the benefit of most severe penalties for stealing horses, cows, hogs and chick- ens. This is doubtless as it should be in a state primarily devoted to agricul- ture, but it is because the farmers have had the say in the legislature, It goes back, then, really to a ques- tion of representation and misrep- resentation. . The. large interests and corporations should have equality be- tore the law and before the legislature, the same as the farmer or wage- worker. A lawyer who has no clients is certainly not calculated to make a better law-maker than a lawyer who But a lawyer who goes. to the legislature and takes retainers, which he would not otherwise get, for the express purpose of lnfluenc!ng leg- iglation is simply taking a bribe and | should be amendble to the laws we now have -against. hrib ;lvlng ;nd bribe-taking. ' ' The Lenten Season. With Ash Wednesday ~the Lenten sbason has begun in the.,religious { world. Services in churches nuguglr out the land have inaugurated for thousands of people the obsérvance comimemorative of the ¢losing days of | Christ’s life on earth. In connection | with the commemoration of Lenten |season is the observance of the forty !days of fasting and deep thoughtful- | ness, which in some churches is also a period of ‘“sacrifice for charity's sake.” There are few church people ‘who complain about the Lent interfering with their soclal pleasures, although there are a few. The majority really welcome the season, glad of & chance to rest from social duties and the ex- tra demands of other seasons of the year. It does them good to stop, to listen to the sound of their own thoughts™ for a time and realize a sol- emn duty for the sake of religious principles. The world is moving pretty fast in this century and if one is going to last in his efforts it behooves him to look to reflective rest occasionally. The téndency of man in all ages of history i8 to get away from the spiritual and | emphasize the material. |are not over spiritual in these days, {there is more spirituality among the | men of the business world than is gen- erally realized. This J8 winter and what astronomers soe Is just a set of the latest furs whlcl; the comet 18 wearing, A Ney York woman willed her for- tune to her three doxl and her hus- band, share and “share alike. The husband doubtless got more than he expected, But, really, isn't he a lucky dog? —_——— The increase In salaries for public school principals may have come with- out &by log-rolling, but we may be sure that the teachers will not sit still without an effort to pull their salaries | up, toa. ——— Thé law in the state of Maine which provides for fining a hunter who acei- dentadly shoots a companion would look pretty good on the statute books of Nebraska. Accidental shooting is too common. General Chamorro has eluded three columns of soldiers and has escaped ‘o thé woods with his entire army, It would not take a very large strip of woods to hide all parties in this Cen- tral Amerifcan riot. Ong new firm of contractors ap- ieared in the list of paving bidders seforc' the eity councll at its last meet- ing In response to the advertised invi- tation for proposals. Advertising in The Beerevidently brings resuits. \Exl.emuutmg “the l‘.n(lnh Spmow. | Pittsburg, Pa., show an {ncrease of | ““The English sparrow must go,’ | says the Department of Agriculture at }V\uhln;mn It has been a menace to ‘mlny specles of native hirds besides ‘belng of no appreciable value as a de- )ltroyer of insects and worm pests and lbelng a great nuisance 1 horticulture. |In fact, the English sparrow has been | outlawed on all counts known and has | been condemued to extermination as a detriment to the country as a whole. The work of destroying these ‘“‘cun- ning, destructive and filthy birds” is no small job when one considers the number of them in this country. This task has been taken up by the biolog- fcal survey at the behest of the De- partment of Agriculture and the work is actually begun. A pamphlet has been {ssued urging that all nests and roosting places frequented by spar- taken not to interfere with the nests of native American birds. This pamphlet pronounces a very severe judgment on these birds, de- claring, among other things, that “in its ecomomic relations the English sparrow among birds is comparable to the rat among animals,” About the only credit given is that it consumes considerable weed seed, but in every othlier “way it has mnothing to bo: The main source of grievance is found in the fact that it is a great destroyer of vegetables and fruits while In the cumbent is in receipt of a large salary | pre- | While people | rows be destroyed, great care being | 'HE BEE bud and that it has reduced the num- ber of native American birds, of which we have been so proud. A few years ago the sparrow in- fested the public buildings at Wash- ington to such an extent that much damage was done. The custodian of the grounds and government buildings |employed an expert rifieman to shoot them off. With a small-caliber rifle the expert was busy for many weeks. But this method is practically out of the question in cities, besides being very expensive. Attacking the nests seems, therefore, to be the best method, although polsoning and trap- ping are not prohibited. The trouble with all methods {s that care must be taken not to carry on the war of ex- termination so carelessly that we de- feat the end in view by killing hun- dreds of songsters and birds of plum- | age. Ready for the Fray. Twenty-two feet fronting on Farnam and that portion of the World-Herald bullding at 1412 Farnam have been sold for a consideration of $i0,00. This property was bought by the World Publish~ ing company in 1889 and has always been the home of the World-Herald. The com- pany has feased the building temporarily (for six years) untll the newspaper Is lo- cated in new quarters.—World-Herald Read this in connection with the well known fact that the World Pub- lishing company fis practically G. M Hitcheock, who s editor of its publica- tions and also drawing $7,500 and per- quisites & year a8 mewmber of congress, and the political significance of this sale will be better appreciated. The i and $50,000 ought to make a pretty | fair campaign fund. As Nebraska senatorial contests go, s man with an advertised roll of $50,000, and still has a right to stand as the barrel can- didate. A siik-stockinged democrat posing as a friend of the common, peo- ple and at the same time ready to put $50,000 into the jackpot has a perfect right to draw cards in the game. Now | for the official announcement of the candidacy of G. M. Hitchcock for the democratic nomination for United States senator. The Stock and Money Market. Recent reports from Wall street in- jdlcflte that the heavy buying expected for February has not materialized and that there is a consequent uncer- tainty among both bulls and bears. Where has the trouble and the hesi- tancy come from? To be sure, it is largely speculative and will not ma- terially affect legitimate business, yet it is causing all interests to notice that conditions are not just as they would like them. In spite of this the jobbing trade in all parts of the coun- try is fairly heavy. It is not a surprise that a setback, however temporary, has followed the artificial ‘inflation of stocks, noticeable during the few months at the close of last year. It is a rule in specula- | |tion that depression always follows. over-inflation and booming. there has been inflacton s admitted publicly by financiers in both east and west. Bankers have been keep- ing close watch of it, and although the stock exchanges of the country do not lead directly into banking circles, yet there is an effect felt by them, a check, although slight, in trade ex- tension and business expansion. Eastern papers are connecting the protest of the public against high prices with the dullness of the stock market. Of course the effect is indi- rect again, but, nevertheless, such a protest will have its influence, The thought brought out by the boycotts concerns the reason for such high prices on everything, 'especially the necessities of life. This would natu- rally check the demand on the mar- ket. The fact that speculators attribute much of the present uncertainty on the market to the protest against the that there has been inflation. |could be no great shrinkage simply from a protest. These conditions are reflected in the banking business, yet the clearings in all clearing house citles in the United States show an ‘Increase of 14 per cent over last year. Some cities, like | naturally 16 per cent. The bank statements | 000,000 in cash, loans have increased $6,637,000 and there is a decrease in the surplus reserve of $9,277,000, which in itself is about equal to the average of all margins for previous years. The president of the Associated Ad do not want fiction either in alleged news reports nor Iin advertising an- nouncements. He should have added that advertising in papers notoriously glven to faking tends to place the ad- vertisement also in the fiction class, |every married couple should keep a |cow to help reduce the cost of living. Well, flat owners might not be so par- ticular about keeping cows in apart- ment houses they are about bables. The Omaha city counc!l has passed a resolution calling on the Nebraska delegation in congress to get an appro- priation of $250,000 to protect the Missour! river banks opposite this city. That ought to settle it. The courts will be asked to deter- mine finally whether the Omaha street railway system is engaged in interstate commerce which brings it within the OMAHA | congressman-editor has been groamlng‘ himself to get into the senatorial race, |’ more hidden away somewhere else, | That | cost of living is in itself a confession | 1t stocks were on a sound basis there| themselves show a decrease of $10,- ! The margin indicated is $23,867,000, | Clubs of America declares that people ™ Governor Hadley of Missour! thinks | THURSDAY Jurisdiction of the Interstate Com merce commission; There must be other street rallways in other cities bordering on state lines that are in the same situation that might help throw some light on this question. vt e——— “S8hall the United States do some- thing for Peary?"” is a headline in one of the eastern papers. Well, really, ‘wllh all the free advertising he has re. |ceived and the Chautauqua season |coming on he ought to be able to do |something for himself. How can Governor Shallenberger's appointees be expected to conduct a training school for attendants in the State Insane asylum, when it takes all their gpare time to run political train- ing schools as adjuncts to the demo- cratic machine? —_— The difficulty encountered by Min nesota in securing a new head for Its | State university emphasizes the good fortune of the regents of the Univer sity of Nebraska fully tackled the same sort of a propo- sition last year, Dr. Cook has been located again. Dr. G. J. L. Doerschuck of New York is -‘lhe discoverer. It is not a surprise |that the Doctor found him. | with a' nama 11ke that ought to be able ‘|to do most anything. Well Worth Its Cost. Chicago Record-Herald, Again let us acknowledge that the wire- imu is worth much more than It has ever cost. A Kick of Long Ago. Boston Transcript. So It appears that even 116 years ago |the cost of living was so high that Gov- ernor Samuel Adams was moved to send & message to the legislature with respect to it. The same old world It Manifestation of the Uplift, Washington Fost. Rich beyond the dream of avarice, the farmer's mind turns to higher things, so an awakened consclence moves him to apply i for a dissolution of. the sllent partnership heretofore existing between himself and the gambler in, foodstuffs. ! Down to the Worry Level. ! Indtanapolls News. People who have recelved with absolute indifference reports that $10, $20 or $50 counterfeit bills were In circulation are now soriously disturbed. A counterfeit $1 sllver certificate of good workmanship has been discovered. i N s This o Plot? Ao gihe Boston Globe, SR How ashamed Japan will feel when it learns that the 2,00 Japanese cherry trees which were presented to the United States government by the municipality of, Tokio are infested with worms and fungus dis- eases. So that they will all have to be destroyed, Captain, Hobson, possibly, may see a plot in this, B gl | Our Birthday Book r-lmfl‘r? 10, 1810, President Ira Remsen of Johns Hopkins | university was born February 10, 1846, in New York City., Dr. Remsen made his reputation originglly In chemistry and is a member of the board of experts who passed on the benzoate of soda contro- versy. James Mooney, gne of the grdat authorl- {tles on the: language and customs of the American Indian, 1s 4. Mr. Mooney is |attached to the Smithsonian institution and was the man who mapped out the wonder- ful Indian congress held undér thé auspices of the government in connectfon with our Omaha exposition. He 18 a native of Rich- mond, Ind. Harrison Gray Otis, proprietor and edi- |tor of the Los Angeles Times, was born February 10, 1847, at Marietta, O. General |Otis has bullt’ up the most successful newspaper on the Pacific coast. E. G. McGilton is celebrating his fitty- | first birthday. He was born at Eau Galla, Wis, and graduated from the state unl- versity and law school of that state. He | has been practicing law successfully in | Omaha for more 'than twenty years, and is | now & member of the firm of McGilton, Gaines & Smith. George J. Stondy, clerk in the quarter- master's department at the Omaha depot, was born February '10, 1846, Mr. Stoney 1 & native of Ireland, and his military record cummrmw\F with: enlistment during the civil war., He ix also prominent in Masonic circles. George. G. Crager, captain of No. 6 fire house, is 4. Captaln Crager has been in Omaha since 188], and In the fire depart- | ment since 1891, George L. McDonough, colonization agent | with offices in The Bee building, was born February 10, 1845, at Higginsport, O, Lieutenant Troup Miller, U. 8. A., to General Morton, is 81. |is a West Point graduate and with the Ninth cavalry and the | cavairy, James B. Nickerson, | States mershal, was born in Illinols, Feb- ruary 10, 187+ He was for a time employed | in the jJaw department of the | ern raflway, later the railway mall ser | being appointed to his present position four | years ago. | Clement L. Waldron & McEifresh was born February 10 1884 He went (hrough the University | of Nebraska and the University of Wis- | consin, and beforé golng Into professionul | practice for himself was | Greene Breckenridge & Matters. | aide has Seventh chief deputy United is the trade- mark which is found on every bottle of the genuine Scott's Emulsion the standard Cod Liver Oil preparation of the world. Nothing equals it to build up the weak and. wasted bodies of young uu! old. A Druggists ius & Good Luck Penay. EBRUARY when they success- | A man | '|Jawping for them, according to the man- | )| was a month ago. /| fire-eating populist, who became a demo- Lieutenant Miller | been | Northwest- | ice, | Waldron of the law firm of | assoclated with | {éun put s 10, 1910, POLITICS IN NEBRASKA. Schuyler Free Lance: The Nebraska in- surgents will not cut much fée. The matn part of thelr boosters are democrals who want to use them Rushville Recorder: Well, Jim Dahlman has filed and a few more have mentaily filed a hope that he will not be permitted to make this state the laughing stock of the union. Tekamah Journal: From the jarrings that so many republican papers In Nebraska are giving the Lincoln Star one would think the Star outfit would take a tumble to themselves that they are getting some advertising that is better for a competitor than for themselves Kearney Hub: Edgar Howard has & brace of political définitions describing a republi- can standpatter and & republican insur- gent. According to Howard, the former has an office and the latter ts one But In what class shall we look for the demoerat who is starring as a rep.blican insurgent? Hastings Tribune: W. J. Taylor has an- nounced his candidacy for congress from the Sixth diswrict. Taylor was ones a popu- list leader, but now he is a democrat, and | yet he advocates the election of Laiollette for the presidency. The worst trouble with Mr. Taylor appears to be that he doesn't really know whether he is afoot or horse- back. Papillion Times | next United Bryan ought to be our " States senator, and perhaps |he may yet be. With Shallenberger for 11{0\Nm»x and Bryan for senator the demo- crats would stand a most excellent \Ilnnt\‘i of keeping Nebraska in the democratic | column. It is very doubtful whether Wil- | | lam H. Thompson and Jim Dahiman can do this. Lyons Mirror: How did Dahlman, who is known everywhere as a champlion of the saloon element, Burt county at the primary election? votes of the goody, goody, republicans. Will those so-called temporance republicans dare repeat the | | rotten deal? If they hell will be| ca By do dates of the Bible. Bloomington Advocate: There are in- surgents and insurgents. ~The little coterie of disgruntied statesmen'of Lincoln, who | thought to ride Into prominence with the | new candidate for the senate, have not met with much enhuslasm over the state. | The state contains thousands of true in- | surgents who are progressive repubiicans trom principle not because they want of- | fice. Scott's Bluff Republican: The blow that | killed the insurgents was the one handed them by C. O. Whedon, when he filed for the senatorial nomination. Before this ac- tion was taken many people over the state believed he was working for the interest of the people and that something was | really wrong, but since he filed for office and they realize all is being done in the interest of Mr. Whedon, public sentiment has taken a decided drop, and Mr. Burkett is stronger with the people now than he Schuyler Free Lance: And now W. J. Taylor, the crooked-necked statesman from Custer county, has filed for the democratic and populist nomination for congress in the Sixth distriet, He comes from the same county as does ex-Judge Dean and that was supposed to be what Dean was to go after. Custer county like Holt county is an in- cubator for hot-air statesmen and there may be more from Custer as the campalgn advances. Repreflonutlvn Taylor was a crat because he had aspirations politically. He certafnly is a “beaut.” St. Paul Republican: The big spludge | about’ the so-called insurgent movement at Lilcoln, was“&hort” and sweet, and ‘dled an awful death. Perhaps the men who were trylng to stampede the ‘state’ at a critical moment, by taking advantage of | a condition, will learn from it that if they | want to make a success of a political movement, they must do it incognito. Thelr names are enough to give an awful smell to. anything, Bud Lindsay,’ Paul| Clark and Adphabet McKesson are not| wands to conjure with in any pure gov- ernment move. I Nebraska City Press: George W. Norris | of McCook, congressman from the Fifth Nebraska, has made a name for himself | in Washington, and those of us who like to be called “insurgents” love and admire this fearless and intrepld Nebraskan who 1S not afraid to speak his mind and opinion, who is not in keeping With that bygone standard of republicanism, the player of “peanut politics.”” Mr. Norrls s one of the twenty-six “insurgents” who make Jo- seph G. Cannon lle awake nights. Norris | has nothing to do his | Davenport, | hs wife $100 a week. A check is, | hardest | Chicago health department bulletin, i No Lime \Phosph PERSONAL NOTES. A California judge has decided that the mule is a deadly weapon. Mayor Gaynor actually seems to think that when a man on the municipal payroll name should be erased. L. A. Kalinsky and his wife live at 106 Albemarle street, Baltimore. Mr. Kal- insky Is 116 years of age. He is the old- est man In America. A court has ordered the arrest of Homer the cartoonist, for not paying often the thing on earth for an artist to draw. Homer can draw a free breath easily enough, since he is out of the court's jur- tsdiction “Every time you get cold feet,” says a “mark t down and see how often you get a cold | Do the same thing every time you get your |feet wet. You will find that your ideas about cold feet or wet feet have been more wrong than right.” John Dooner of New York, who holds the record for devouring twelve pounds of steak at a sitting, has lost his city Jjob and must now go out into the dold world and seek employment. With the passing of Dooner the New York City government loses 280 pounds of a man who did more than any other city employe between 12 and 1 o'clock. /A s THE ANTI-TRUST ACT. Enforcement. New York Evening Post. Ex-Senator Edmund's letter to Mr. Clarles P. Howland on the anti-trust law presents more than one element of unusual Interest. In the first place, it comes from a man of §, but is written with a vigor and inclsiveness much more suggestive of 28; and it comes from a man who was, for a generation, one of the small and remark- able group of great lawyers In the United Stater senate. There are, in Mr. Bdmunds' letters, ‘two particular statements of fact that deserve speclal notice. The first is that the anti-trust act, which is habitually referred to under the name of Senator Sherman, was not his work, or the work of any other member of the Finence com- mittee; it was completely rewritten by the Judiclary committeé, and was really the work of “one of the members of that com- mittee"—which s merely Mr. Edmunds' way of saying that it was his own work. represents the spirit of the west and if he 1s not good senatorial timber, we should | like to know who 1s? Wilber Republican: The gum shoe poli- ticians of the state at their insurgent meet- {ing in Lincoln which was called to in-| surge against the Nebraska delegation at| Washington did not work up much en- | thusiasm. The reason is plain. The people | | of the state don’t see any very good reason | {Why a real oarnest, progressive republi- | can should be trying to stir up sentiment ' | agatnst the Nebraska delegation, which | Ihas at all times been found working for| | the things that these self-styled Insurgents {claim they want. If the meeting had | | been called by the Cannon-Aldrich stand- patters there would have been some sense [in it. They are the only fellows that have any grounds for a kick on the |record of the Nebraska representatives. Tekamah Journal: Thé democrats are, as | much at sea as to w to do in reference to becoming eandidates for office as are republicans. Beyond a doubt, however, the Tekamah Statesman with the checkbook | artist at his back will show Edgar How- ard of Columbus that the democrals of the | Third Nebraska distriet much prefer a | candidate that can open wide the barrel to one whose financlal resources are woefully at varlance with his brain abllity, There is no republican nor democrat in the dis- trict who will not admit that the Columbus editor when It comes to & comparison of mental attainments, is a glant, while the | man who holds him in contempt s a | pigmy. The present representative has the power to furnish congressional cronies with | expensive cocktails, while Howard could | give them a mental feast every time he entered into conversation. “Money makes | the mare go" is as fastidious a truth now as ever, especially In Third district dem- | oeratie polities, ! I | | legislative | senators and Carter's Great Effort, Palladelphia Press. Senator Carter of Moniana has done him- |selt proud. His specch on the proposed lpmllfl savings bank law was both eonvine- |ing aud comprehensive. It is worth read- ir Senator Cartor indicates that the maln purpose of thé measure is to en- cours thrift among the masses of the | | people “by furnishing widely distributed, ccnvenlent and absolutely gate depositories whereln small sums may be placed &t<a low rate of ‘interest with the faith ana oredit of the government pledged to repay- ment." That 1s the sum and substance of it. ‘ S it——— Provial Agminst Dosbt, St. Louls' Times. 1t the explorers really seek the South pole they will be unable to obtain any Eskimos as witnesses: but/ probably they on all the regorts, | plishing gr {only in the The other particular statement of fact is that, In the Knight case, the declsion in which did so much to weaken the efficacy of the law, the feeling of members of the bar of the supreme court was that the cnse had been very feebly and inefficiently presented to the court. As for Mr. Ed- munds' general views, they are entirely in line with what has recently become a growing conviction in and out of govern- ment efrcles—that a vigorous upholding of the law along lines that time will make plainer and plainer is capable of accom- at and vitally-needed results, No |law administers itself; and in the case of & law whose scopg i8-s0 comprehensive and whoee subject-matien i8 so complex, we have got ta he prepared for difficulties and delays in establishing its efficiacy. It is last few years that anything like adequate attenton has been given to the carrying out of the purpose of the law. It will be time enough to throw it into the waste-basket after serious effort to en- force it shall have been given a trial of reasonable duration, . ) Hoéw it Was Drafted and Methods of PASSING PLEASANTRIES. “A woman hasn't any sense of humor," sald ‘he cynle. “Perhaps that I8 wo,” answered Miss Coyenne. “The. lack is probably what keeps us from laughing At some man's ef- forts to be serlous.”—Washington Star. Swift—Do you mean to send any valen- tines this year? Smith—No. Valentines always miss thelr object. A girl fa aimost sure to laugh at the sentimental ones, and/ .cry about the comics.—Tudge. “‘Seems to me," grambied thé o1d rooster, “you're laying smaller eggs tham your reg- ular average. : “Well, then" cluckcd the old hen, “I don’t need any assistance ‘in ocackling over om, , Kindiy_ chase vourself sround the yard."—Chicago Tribune, “Have you broken ot sleeping in church? “Yes—entirely." “Congratulations. “Quit golng Leader, ourself of the habit I met young Fakir on, the st time ago and hé, lold me he n'n"mnm; How did you do it?" to, church.”—Clevelan made it too fast’ How was that?” “Went to the penitentia: for counter- feiting."—~Baltimore American. Nig oty vy o There was a jolly bachelor % Who dled at elghty-elght, And by his will the good man left The whole of his estate To women who had answered nay When asked by him to wed For he declared he owed to themn The happy life he'd led. ~New York Telmm. WHEN THE IDIETM&. Dodd Gastit In New York World. 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