Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 12, 1910, Page 10

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Personal checks, except on Omgha or eastern exchanges, i ted STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Stale of Nebraska. Dou County, ss.: sovie 1. Taschuek, tr ef of The Beo Publishing Company. being Auly #worn. savs that the actual numoer of full and complete coples of Tha Daily, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of January. 1910, w tollowa: Taoh. GUORGE' 1 TESCHUCK. ‘eAsurer. Subscribed In my presencs and sworn to before me this st day of Jani 1910. - ROBLRT HONTIR, otary Publie. w ——————e— It 1s nearing the Hme when youth- ful Omaha should 'plan t6f an insane Fourth ot July, \ e —— . The number of divorges Branted to actresses would Indicate that the the- atrieal season never eloses. e ——— King Bdward is objecting to 'the high, cost of living. We never sug- pected he was running for office. P ——— Omaha's street cleaning de; ent is having hard Iugk, ,Om.m slow about doing work for it. A hunting dog from Omaha has scared first in thet New Yopk Bench show. Who says @maha s not getting to the front? ” Walter Wellman is planning to fiy across the ocean. Why is he running away? He surely hasn't discovered the North pole. It might encourage aviation some it a prize were offered to theé one who succeéds In tielng a tin can to the tall of Halley's comet. . —— Free govetnment garden seed is be- ing again distributed. And, it might be added, It is just as complimentary and useless as ever, With over 8,500 automobiles regie- tered In Nébraska, an agricultural state, it looks as if the farmers were doing tolerably well. DE——— The length of time required for an English election s easily explained. Englishmen have to stop once in awhile and drink a eup An English suffragette says that “Patfence fs the best thing for: the cau But it doesn’t look as though ghe had been in charge over there. It is to be noted that the change of {ncumbents in the office’ of United Etates district attorney has been made, and the fedpral bullding still stands. —_— An Onio judge says that a woman has no right to open her husband's mail. In this age of woman's rights, too. “Proud and domineering man." — Perhaps it would have a wholesome effect on American baggagemen if the Mexican law on contributory negll- gencé were in force im the United States. South Omaha is going to spread itself in the celebration of its mu- nicipal anniversary on South Omaha day. Sputh Omaha is a lusty elty for its age. Congress i going to abolish all the pension, - agencles in the country ex- cept one to be located at Washington, Inasmuch as Omaha never was made a pensign agency location, despite all its efforts, no one here will become un- casy over it. L A S — The Lincoln Star, D. B. Thompson, president, Is losing no time in mani- testing its hostility to the candidacy of Willlam Hayward for aongress. The Star cannot forget that Mr. Hayward's father was eclected to the senatorship thet D. E. Thompson wanted. A labor orator recently elose an impassidned speech with the folloywiig words: ' “The appla of discord has been cast intoour midst. If we do not nip it in the 1t will explode and daluge the world with a mighty eon- This is the one hundred and first an- niversary of the birth of Abraham Lin- coln, and as &ach year rolls by, en- abling us to get a truer perspective of the man, his stature among those en- titled to be called great steadily grows. When Lincoln was chosen president he #ent this memorandum to be printed in the Dictionary of Congress: Borti—February 12, 1809, in Hardin county, Kentucky. Bducation—Defectivll. Profession—Lawyer. Have beén captain of volunteers in Blackhawk war, small office. Four times a member of the Illinols legisjature and was a member of the lower house of congress. This. nut-shell autoblography is characteristi¢ of the man. One of the most fitting tributes ever paid to the memory of Lincoln was pronounced by the late Samuel 8. Cox, In which he aptly sald: President Lincoln was not without faults, but his goodness and virtues far overshadowed them. Nope more than he over batter fllustrated “the maxim that the mood alone are great. It was almost a pecullarity of Mr. Linceln's, among the gréat meén of history, that all his public and private utterances bear the Impress of an honest, consclentious regard for what- ever he belleved to be right and wise. Congressmen and the Courts. In a recent case of considerable im- portance regarding a contract for pa- per for the federal printing office some controversy has arisen over the right of the éourts to summon senators and congressmen to appear, either as wit- nesses or as defendants. The United States senate has instructed Senhators Smoot, Bourne and Fletcher not to ap- pear, while the house has taken a dif- ferent attitude and instructed Con- gressmen Cooper, Sturgis and Finley to answer the court’s summons. The house bases its action on the fact that the gentlemen have not been cited as menbers of cong but merely as individuals while acting under the au- thority of a statute which had been enacted by congress itself< The paragraph in the constitution which bears on this point is a portion of Article 1, Section vi., whieh reads: They shall in all eases, except\treason, felony and breach of peace, be privileged from avrest during their attendance at the sessions of their respective houses and ih going to and returning from the same. It would geem from this, the only passage bearing direatly on the point, that congressmen and senators are, to a certain extent, immune from arrest and consequent punishment while in attendance upon the sessions of con- gress, But the constitution does not provide immunity from court appear- ance While acting under special au- thority éreated by them in formal leg- islative action. The action of con- gressmen and senators bas directly in- volved the’ government in legal con- troversy and the committee of three trom each house, which has been sum- ‘moned béfore court, acted for the gov- ernment in the first place in the trans- action which is now belng tried out. The question seems to involve gena- torial honor and supremaecy, if we are to judge from the action of the sen- ate, rather than the continued re- sponsibility of senators when through a misunderstanding of. .contracts the government is made party to a suit over the purchase of supplies. To a casual observer it looks as though the members of the committee, which through their own action and under statutes enacted by congress brought on the trouble, should bear some of the responsibility of ‘“seeing it through.” postmaster at a very The -Swope Case, The whole country has been aroused recently over the investigation into the cause of the death of Colonel Swope, the aged millionaire philanthropist of Kansas City. That he was poisoned has been afirmed by the coroner’s jury, which has also added that the polson was administered in a capsule by ‘Dr. Hyde, the husband of a niece. But whether or not it was given with the dellberate purpose of killing is an entirely different question and is for the courts to decide, In reading the testimony of the case one Is taken by suggestion back into dark Egypt, where poisoning %of every conceivable kind and description was reduced to a fine art and where noble- men and kings alike kept a coterle of poisoners constantly in thelr employ, The inference to be drawn from the verdict of the coroner’s jury in the Swope case reminds one of the times of Nero. and other infamous Roman emperors.. But the testimony regard- ing the typhold culture purchased by Dr, Hyde and the number of typhoid cases which followed almost immedi- ately among the heirs to the Swope eéstate, who were undéer the profes- slonal care of Dr. Hyde, is almost ghoulish in its suggestion. Polsoning -has ‘played almost as great a part in history ss has war. The ancients resorted to polson con- stantly as political measure for the de- feat of their rivals. In Greek and Ro- man times poisoning was one of the necessary elements in politieal and so- cial ‘affairs. During the middle ages it was carried on as a profession on a commission basis of remuneration. In Italy and France it became a source of . profit and familles became im- mensely wealthy simply by the removal of wealthy young husbands with dis- agregable dispositions. One couple in France kept a diary which showed 600 victims to their discredit. Italy was even worse thun France and produced & couple who poisoned over 700 young husbands and. wives ror profit. But recent years and the advance ment cf the sclence of medietne and flagration.” How s this for a mixed metaphor? . chemlcal analysls has made it hard for poisoning to be carried on with any THE BEE. degree of flendish success. But with the development of the horrible possi bilities of poisoming through the me dium of disease culture a more difficult and terrible fleld opens. If this s really such a case, it 18 to be hoped that measures, of such severity and efMelency as to check the evil, will be enacted at once, Missouri River Improvement. The first fruits of the great move- ment for systematic waterway im- provement promise to materialize in the presént congress, whose commit- tees have practically deeided on the appropriations to bé recommended, and in the scheme thus outlined the Missourl river comes In for recognition only for the stretch hetween its mouth and Kansas Cfity. In other~ words, present prospeets are that whatever work is authorized for the upper Mis- sourf will be along the lines that have heretofore been followed for fixing the channel and incldentally protecting the banks at the danger points rather than with a view to increasing its nav- igation possibilities over what it now offers. Of course, there {8 no particular reason why the deepening of the chan nel should stop at Kansas City, except that Kansas City is the first great traffic point, and further, that Kansas City has been active, energetic and continuous in demanding that the Mis- souri be made a highway of naviga- tion. It is possible that congress and the engineers in charge may decide to extend the work of improvement from Kansas City to Omaha and Sioux City, and that, of course, is sure to come eventunally if what is done below Kan- sas City meets expectations. But it will not come by Omaha simply sitting still and, micawber-like, waliting for something to turn up. Raubbing it In. Referring to the report that Mr. Bryan's intimate friends in Nebraska are keeping him In reserve to run for the presidency again in 1912, Mr. Bryan’s Commoner reprints an article from the Wheeling, W. Va., Register, which concludes as follows: Mr. Bryan Is a vietim of more willful falsehood and misrepresentation than any other American citizen, and few other American cltizens are less deserving of such treatment. He Is one of the most dls- tinguished men in the private life of the nation, and there is nothing in his honora- bla and useful record to justify the at- tempt to make him the laughing stock of the country. ¥ Now, we protest again and call on Edgar Howard to protest with us. When Mr. Bryan's friends say they are for some other candidate, ‘‘provided, always,” Mr. Bryan does not want the nomination, are they trying to make bim ‘“the laughing stock of the coun- try?"”" Why should the boosting of Bryan for a fourth running make him any more ‘‘the laughing stock of thé cotntry” than did the boosting of Mr. Bryan for a third defeat? We ear- nestly remonstrate against such unfair conclusions. We fnsist that Mr. Bryan can run every four years for the re- mafhder of his natural life without be- coming “the laughing stock of the Cattle and Meat Shortage. The report from the Department of Commerce and Labor on the meat shortage resolves itself into a consider- ation of the shrinkage in the number of cattle, sheep and hogs marketed during the last year. According to the report there has been a greater de- crease in the receipts of live stock at the big markets during the last year than during any year since 1905. The receipts of hogs alone in Chicago show a decrease of 19 per cent; receipts in Kansas City decreased 17 per cent; in Omaha, 12 per cent; in St. Joseph, Mo., 28 per cent; at St. Louls, 4 per cent. During the last summer there was some talk among stock feeders that the price of corn was making extensive feeding impossible. a bushel could not be profitably used | as a fattener o long as the price of | marketable stock remained wheré it | was, and the same was true of hogs, | also. The result was that thousands | and thousands of grass-fed cattle were | #0ld on the market. According to the | farmers’ judgment this was the only| profitable way to sell. | Another element which accounts for | the decrease in the receipts of fattened | cattle 1s that “feeders” have been hard | to get at prices which could make feeding profitable, with the result that | the great feeding pens of the middle west have not turned out so much fat. tened stuff as formerly. On the other bhand, the pastures and range of the! west and southwest are shipping di- rectly to the packing house centers. | It is not the price of live stock, but| the profit in cattle raising and fatten- | ing that determines the farmer and| stock rafser to go in heavy or light! and governs the output that later comes on the market. The New Jersey man who has taken | his son out of Sunday school and| threatens to take him out of day school | aleo because the muyor of Indianapolls | has sentenced several delinquents to| attend church .is certainly getting plenty of free advertising whether he gets any satisfaction out of it or not, Missourl democrats are said to be boosting Mayor Gaynor for the. 1912 nomination. Is this another case of political leee mafeste? Did not Wil lam Jeunings Bryan secomd the nomi- natlon of & Missourlan for party | standard-bearer In the Gemocratic na-| tional convention of 196 Our nm]Q;l;'Vder cui!c ocontem- porary, the World-Herald, says it took‘ OMAHA, SATURDAY, four years to get the sealp of President Crabtree of the Pefu Normal school. We don't know anything about that, but we do know that It took only about four months for Governor Shallen- berger to get the scalps of the superin tendent of the School for the Deaf and the superintendent of the School for the Blind. On seeing her daughter happily married a Missourl woman prayed, “Lord, now let Thy servant depart in peace.”” The wedding cake made her sick and she immediately sent for a nurse and three doctors and canceled the honeymoon for the happy couple. A woman's prerogative to change her mind. A public school exposition as pro- posed by the students in the Omaha High school might be all right, but it undertaken should be under direction of the school authorities—this with- out any disparagement of the ability of the students to carry it through sucoessfully. A compilation of the school census shows 373,067 inhabi- Nebraska tants of school age. If the school cen- sus taken in other parts of the state is no more accurate than that taken here in Omaha allowance should be made for a shortage of from 15 to 20 per cent. Because Duluth has just gone demo- cratic in a cfty election Minnesota democrats are taking courage. It fis always noticed that results of this kind make a greater difference In February than they do in November. Chicago will have 20,000,000 inhabitants some day. That may all be, but if there is no change in Chicago's climate there will still be plenty of atmosphere there for all. { There does not seem to be anything in Rostand’s ‘‘Chanticleer” regarding the price of eggs, the cost of living or the profits of raising chickens. So why make all this fuss about it? Just So. Indianapolis News. The Investigation Into the lumber busi- ness of the country seems to have con- firmed the suspleion that the price of lum- ber is high because it is high. ' ——— 1 Who Will Objeet? Baltimore Amerlcan. Talking about postal savings banks and paternalism, there are plenty of people who, seeing the way that savings are ab- sorbed by frenzied finance, would not at all object to having Uncle Sam being a father to them. 1 ¥ in Peril. Baltimore American. Now men as a sex are threatened with the loss even of their muscular superiority, their last stand against the feminine in- vasion. A sclentist says that women are growing as strong as men. This is cheer- ful news for the.government and parlia- mentary officlals Jn London where the fighting ‘suffragettes cotne from. Hope Chased Away. Chicago Record-Herald. According to the judgment of Governor Hadley of Missouri the problem of the high cost of living will never be solved until every married couple keeps a ecow. If Hadley is right the case is hopeluu.‘ Few of the girla who are now growing up are doing anytiing whatever to fit them- selves for the exertlons they would be compelled to ‘put forth as milkers. Well Worth Fostering. New York World President Taft's signature of a proclama- |tion declaring Germany entitled to mini- mum tariff rates is an event of public im- portance. Since we sell to every German on an average § worth of goods, to every Filipino less than 81, to every Japanese #0 cents and to each Chinaman 5 cents, Ger- man trade seems quite as weil worth fos- tering as that of the far cast. And a tarift war ought to be unthinkable. of Duty. Philadelphia Bulletin, Some of the insurgents at Washington seem unable or unwilling to Feallze that the American people the far more intor- ested (n the enactment of President Taft's progressive legislation program than they | are In the fight against Joseph G. Cannon. {Even if the speaker fs as rroat a tyrant! Corn at 60 cents |as his onncrent with the present congress. The effect of the bills urged by the prestdauc wia for many years If they shall be placed on the statute books. Autharship of Sh. New York Tribune. In discussing the authorship of the Sher- man anti-trust law last Sunday we sald that ex-Senator George F. Edmunds of Vermont, probably referred to himself when he stated in a recent lotter that not Mr. Sherman, but “one of the members of the menate judiclary committee,” drew up the anti-trust law. ~ It may be, however, that the reference was to Senator George ¥. Hoar of Massachusetts, who says posl- tively in his autoblography that he was the reviser who whipped the original Sher- mah antl-trust bill into Its present shape. Mr. Edmunds and Mr. Hoar were both members of the canferenca committee which adjusted the points in dispute as to the detalls of the measure between the house and tho senate. But whaether Mr. Hoar or Mr. Edmunds did the Jion's shars of the work on the anti-trust law, Mr. Sherman’s name was the one finally and unalterably attached to it. IOurBirthday Book February 12, 1910 Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1500, and the centennary of his birth was colebrated jyst one year ago today. The memory of Lincoln is kopt green each year by vaflous commemorative celebra- tions in many places in the land and ex- ercises in the public schools throughout the nation. Judson C. Clements, member of the In- terstate commerce commission, was born February 13, 143. Judge Ciements Is o Georglan . and seryed In the confederate army. of congress from Georgis, belng appointed to the Interstate Commerce commission in 1592 by President Cleveland, H. G. Strelght, the well known mer chandise broker, was born February 13, 1862, at Poughkeepsie, N. Y.. Mr. Streight has been in Omaha since 186 and in the brokerage apd commission business most of the times Law. FEBRUARY + | pressive measures undertaken to blot out He was for many years a mmbnj about forty tons and the other two about 12, 1910. in Othe-rTands Bide Lights on What is Prans. * and For the first time since the reform bill of 1882, \he British Parliament, which as- sembles Tuesday next, will present the| spectacle of the party in power without olear party majority. In the elghteen general -elections in three-quarters of a | century, twelve won by the liberals and six by the conservatives, the winning party had a clear majority without the votes | of allles. In fact, there had been but two | distinet parties up to 1486, when the Irish | natlonalists became a united force in the | House of Commons, The following year the espousal of home rule by Gladstone drove a faction of the liberal party, led by Joseph Chamberlain, into the censerva- tre party and made it the unionist party. | Six ministries had votes, and on two oe- caslons—17 and 1852—one figure expreased | the majority of the party In power. The | liberal coalition majority in the new Par- | lament is estimated at 122, but this esti- mate s based on the assumption that all | the Irish natlonalists and laborites will | support the minlstry, That is not at all probable. The Healy-O'Brien faction of the natlonalists Is at war with all parties, | and some of the laborites are equally un- | reliable. It the ministry has a reliable | majority of 100 votes it will be fortunate. | But that majority can be held together only on the conditien that the ministry press to & conclusion ' modification or aboll- tlon of the veto power of the House of Louds. Stripping the peers of the veto power in respect to finance bills will not | y the allles. It must embrace all mipisterial measures, for without some | such modification, suéh measures as home | rule have not a ghost of a show In the| House of Lords as at present constituted. | The life of the present Parllament, there- | fore, depends on the abllity of the ministry to diminish or abolish the power with en- trenched privilege and standpatism. e A writer In the Parls Monthly, Je Sals! Tont, draws Impressive contrasts botween the birthrate of France and Germany, to lllustrate the shrinkage of the former. During thé last five years for which statistics are avallable, France's population only Inoressad hy 230,000, whila Germany's | rose 4,000,00. The writer puts it this way: “As the average population of & [rench department s 47,815, Germany has u (dsd in one quinquennlum to her populatin a number equalling that of nine Frencn e partments, while France has only suited the population of a moderate sized tuwn. According to the writer, Field Marshal Von Moltke spoke the bitter truth vhen We sald that “the French lose A Lattle every day." At the present rate of decline France will occupy in 1530 the lowest place | among the greater powers. In 1870 KFrance's | military resources were about equal to those of United Germany, but In 19l Germany |can put into the fleld twice as many men as France. And yet the soll of France is rich as anywhere in Europe. To give a few examples, the births during the last six months in the smiling Cote d'Or depart- | ment were 2,843 and the deaths 3,989, In the Yonne department the figures were re- | spectively, 2,882 and 3,62. These numbers ! tell their own tale of depopulation. Blame for this condition is placed by the writer {on French parents whose chief anxiety s | to leave their limited progeny well provided | tor, e 'nrest in India, little mention of which filters through news channels, Ys more dis- Quieting fo the government of Great Britain than the perplexities of a codlition ministry. On the eve of the Inauguration last of Lord Morley's reforms month, - reforms in India insuring eénlarged na partictpation In provinelal legislatures, a native police Inspector, Shams-ul-Alam, consplouous In running down seditious sus- peets, was shot to death In a court room | in Caloutta by a Hindu vouth. Just a |month before, in Bengal, Deputy Magis- trate Jackson was shot down by a Mar- hatta Brahmin, 18 or 20 vears of age. These | | tragedies, together with the assassination | of Sir Willlam Wyllie tn London last July, are regarded by the London correspondent of the New York Evening Post as evidence of the spread of nihilistic doctrines in the far east. “What really adds to the se- riousness of the situation,” says the corre: | spondent, ‘is the temperament of the In. |dian terrorist. In cach of the Instances | |cttea above, the sin in question ex- claimed, as soon as cawght: ‘Don't eatch | L I am not Pun-r The Hind® nihilist makes a religion of anarchism, 8nd It Is as a relig. | lous fanatic rather than as a political wx- tremist that he engages himself in blow- Ing up governmental officials. It is this attitude of his that is really dangerous, since the Kest Indlan by nature is a religious enthuslast, a devotee before any- | | thing else, and the spark from the terrorist | campfire may set the masses ablaze. The | correspondent further notes that “the re- | anarchism 1n India have proved equally Ineffective. The conviction of native news- paper men and the supression of their pub- | lications has only resulted in agitation be- {ing driven underground; whereas before | thal the seditionist did not dare to ex-| press himself in the open as boldly as he | might desire. now, in secret conolave, he | can be as acrimonious as he may choose.” | e Munieipal polities continues to clash with archeology at Rome. Commendatore Boni has sent In his resignation from the com- mission for the Zona Monumentale, which was appointed to guard the antiquarian in- terests of the district between the Porta | Capenaand the Aurellan Wall, In which are Inecluded the baths of Ca a, the tombs of the Sciplos and the arch of Drusus. The other members of the commission, accord- | {ing to him, are chiefly concerned with buliding & new boulevard through the dls- | trict with no regard for archeol He expresses his readiness, at the same time, to ald in sueh work within the gone as has to do with his province, - Rural delivery of mails in Germ.-y is to be hastened, wherever the condition of roads will permit, by the use of motor bicycics and automobiles. This is an in- | movation In the public Interest which Is lkely to be ndopted elséwhere, especlally where populdtion is falrly dense and the rapld transit of mall matter of consequently | greater Importance. Such a reguiation would give & great impeius to the construc- tion of motors Intended for service rather than display. How is Thist Charleston News and Courfer. It is sald that the meteorlies that were brought from the Arctic by Commander Peary have been sold to the American Museum of Natural Hisltory for the sum of $40000. The largesti Is sald to weigh five tons ecach. But how come? Wasn't mr—— POLITICAL DRIFT. The expanding boom for Mayor Gaynor started by the New York Horald, will Lrave to the governar of Ohlo a more n- teresting spectacle than Halley's comet. After searching Its coal bins and ecoa’ bills, Chicago Js disposed to belleve that its treasury was soaked for $00,000 more than the market value of the coal dumped into the bins. Who would think Chicago was 80 easy? Governor Stubbs of Kansas Insurges boldly and defiantly, ehallenging the stand- patters to trot out their candidate and let the people see him. The governor promisis to give him an abundance of exerclse in tho primary contest. Some six hundred employes of New Yark City who had no visible ocoupation other than drawing thelr salaries have been da- tached from the payroll. What they think of reform government ia too hot for New York papers to print. Sixty-five thousand qualified voters of Chicago, 15,000 mare than the law required, sigred the petition requiring a referendum vote at the April election on the question of abolishing the saloons in the eity. Thia issue insures a lively campalgn and valua- ble political publicity for the anti-saloon leaguers for distribution in other places. The evidence tending to show tha dis- tribution of boodle among New York legls- 1ators some years nds & measura of gayety to the explanation of a retire( member. He was short on worldly good: and long on “‘mixing” and was impresscd into service as a party sacrifice. On re- turning: from the first session hia humble home was demolished and a costly resi derce reared on fts site. His nelghbors woi dered- where he got . Kvery one of them became an interrogation point in the presence of the honorable maember. My wife did her own housewerk and saved the meney,” he explained. NRWSPAPERS AND LENT. A Layman’s Response to a Bishop's " Suggestion. 8t. Louls Republifc, At Grace church, whose Gothio lines so agreeably terminate one of New York's fa- millar vistas, Bishop Whitehead of Pitts- burg suggested to his hearers on last Sun- day that during the coming Lenten season they should “do without newspapers,” re- placing “their scandals and their masses of lll-assorted Information with more edi- tylnz works." Temporary mortification of the flesh may bo at times a good thing, but a much bet- ter thing is permanent reform. -We ve- ways made her good resolutions at night ‘because 1t left the day to do what you please In.” Now we desire to suggest to the good bishop that if he has been read- ing newspapers intemperately it will avail him little to spend forty days and forty nights in ignorance of the course of human events and then return like the—ahem! no! Return to hie wrong habits of newspapey reading Is what we are trying to say. The difference between a home table and a hotel table Is that one supplies a meal, the other a menu. The home gives you one soup, (or none) one roast, two vege- tables, one dessert, etc. The hotel offers many roasts, a score of entrees, etc. Now it 1s not Intended that any one Derson should eat through the bill of fare; the menu is simply a wide domain from whose The wise hotel patron fs known by that which he eats not. The meal is prépared for one person; the menu for many persons. Now the news- paper s not a meal; it is & menu. It Is not edited for one person, but for many persons. Not for “the mas: ' or “the masees;" that (is the Tech in which you bu [the commander engaged in the servica of the government at Washington when he found these meteorites? How could he | sell them or give them away without the permission of the authorities? Think what would have happened to old Dr. Cook, now well on his way to the South pole, if he had made any money lu that way. I member hearing of a little girl who al- |, a dgzen soups, twenty vegetables, half as | various praducts one may select a meal. | Th Is & corroding superstition. There I8 no “mass” to read & pwspaper—only indl viduals. But Into the newspaper there |s put a wide variety of things because there Is & wide varlety of persons in the world this year. The man who wants only & bumch of § graces and a little tea and toast for breaks fast cannot undetstand the Individual next him who s of an huskiness, who demands buckwheat cakes, sausage and ple; yet the hotel must take In both, 8o must the new paper. The art of newspaper reading 'may bhe divided into two parts—elimination and as- similation. No one individual not concerned In the making of newspapers has any busi- ness with the whole paper. The reader should seleot what concerns him in the day's news and pass by the rest on the other side. Fallure to do that leads to the reading | of much more than can be read carefully. Result: Misty Impressions and vague, pur- poseleas thinking. The real news of the day for any one human being is contained in not more than a dozen “stories;" choose the dosen that concern you, and eoncen- trate on them. Don't try co everys thing In the paper—not even everything on politics or sport, There are twenty dif- ‘ferent oyster dishes on a good menu; but o get enough nitrogen to keep him from starvation a man would have to eat fours teen dosen a day. SUNNY GEMS. “Are you fond of hockey?"' she asked the sashful young man. “No-0," he stammered. "I never hocked anything but my . overcoat.”—Cleveland v Plain Dealer. b “‘Everybody,"” thundered the orator, asking why the cost of living is 5o hig "'That muat be the reason, then,” inter 5 ed t f\‘lxv ©old person In the front row ) ‘Why we don't "m any gatis. ¢ faotory answers.'—Chicago Tribune. — ) “T By some of your public addresses | are. mattors of ‘nepiration. ‘‘Not s uch matters of In replied lzn:!‘or Sorghum, “‘as of tion."——Washington Star, iration,* respiras Do you ever run acrous any of your Iolfl friends in your automoblle trips? ‘“Not if they have the sense to get out Iaf et —Baitimore American. | _“Is he what ygu would call a first class newspaper mant" ‘I ®hould say so. When the ‘end-ol-} 0 ” L3 the way world’ scare was at ita helght, he | twa edltoriels written-—one to publist |;§ gia come off, the other If it didn't,'— uck. “What sort of a speech did he make Ist night?'! . ‘Grent. Nothing reminded him of an-old togy he once heard."—Detroit Free Press, “How- oen 1 tell" asked the customer, hether I am get ing tander meat or not 7' There's only one sure way, ma'am.” sald butcher, “an’' that's by eating it." ut T have to buy 1t before I can do that." 'm; that's thé beauty of the pre. weription.”'—Chicago Tribune, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, pensifing Minna Irving In Leslie's. His as the woodman's rugged fra A Knightiy wpirit bold, = | nd The simple waye and orites of old. rt was tender with a love For all humanity: | He heard the walling of the slaves | And yearned to set them free. No honest labor ever shamed His spirit sound and true; ‘That which lay neareat to his hand o never fal to do; | Through hardship, toil and bitter pain | He walked, serenely brave, 6 N upward path that led To glory the grave. 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