Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 23, 1910, Page 6

i ¥ THE OMAHA DALY BEE EDWARD ROSEWATER FOUNDED RY VICTOR ROSEWAT PR, EDITOR Entered el at Ak TERMS OF S(BSCRIPTION. Dally Bee (Ineludi week.18e Daily Hes (without' Sreek 10 Dally Beo (without. i e 4 Sundn: at Omabs Postoffice as nday), per weak, 6o | Evening Bee (wi Ay, per wenk. & | Evening Bee (with Sunday B ¥y Address delivery to City ¥ rregrinrition Department, Omaha—The South Omaha- Councll Bluffs Reatt Lincoln—618 Littfe Buflding. ruette Buiiding o - 411028 No. ¥4 West rty-third Str Wuhlnt‘»oh-—‘!f?mlmn\h Btreet. N. W. C CE. to news and CORR DE| Communication: ting editorial tter _mhould be addressed: ditorial Pepartment. REMITTANCES, Remit by e payetle” ess or postal order ablishing Company. ived In pavment of tAonal checks, except on Omaha or lern exehang: not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION a, Dou PN George B. Teschuck, tre Beo Publishing Company. being duly swor says that the actual numpe: of full complets coples of 'Tha Dally. Morning Evening and Bunday Bee printed during the month of January, 1910 was as tollown: 1. 17 Total <, Returnea coples, Net total., Dally average. .. Treasuret. to 10 GRONGH 1. Bul U o mm“om.&“m: iy presence aud sworn y ROBLIE Look at Philadelphla and see how much worse:it could have been in Omaha, 3§ ATy — The whole Calro Gifticulty might be solved if'thé standing aimy were or- dered there for winter maneuvers, R —— Only ohe trouble about going to an automobile ‘show. The desire to buy them all e:weds the wherewithal. b e Omaha’s School board seems to be getting on to the prineiple that under- lies the “omnibus” publie bullding bill. . b The! orinaty ‘tarmer do ‘ not. lopk lke'a honopoty Aud the chanced are that he does not feel like a monopoly either. SR y— It might be a good thing, now that 'this,ls the Lenten season, for certain p’rnle r individuals in Albany to eat ' M;v ect for repentadee.” x-Vice i’rfiident “Farbanks oceu- pled the pulpit of the Amerfcan church in Berlin Bunday. Is it possible that Mr. Faifbanks is looking for more tronble?, , A famous open-air singer has sold his throat dild lungs to a medical col- lege iy, Chicago for a handsome sum. Ju’: He"“16 to Qeliver the goods ts tot stipulated. It Colonel, Bryan will only come home by, way.of Africa perhaps he will tell us that the elephants and hippo- potami’ Kkilled by Colonel Roosevelt really cominiitted suicide. ——— The surety company who went his} bond Js'sulng former County Judge! Vinlofl:,-!or for money paid out which he agrged to réilmburse. It it ever £ets- the money it will do well. )40 3 QI E——— Omaha- is in an organization to staidardize * paving speeifications. Standard spéclfications are all right, but we would like, also, to have some standaid, «work under the specifica- tions. ! | —— We' prédictod it n advance. The| Indian warefiouse has boen once more | triumphantly rosoued from the brink | of the'precipice, with the usual stage settings and all the ocalcium lights , turned on, | —_——— During, his-recent serious iliness Senator Tilliman has been the recipient | of gréetings and expressions of friend- §hip from thousands of political and pevsonal .admirers—also chautauque trnkmakers? | s ImM@msm pen- sions for our public school teachers is béginning to work. In about ten years from npw.we will have some npproxfl mate idee what it will cost Omaka to foot the b} —_— Those- dental office robbers scem to have |nsl||d@d in their calling list our old friend, Dr, Harry Foster. In view of his efiitient public services as a ready letter-writer, they might at least haveé l‘l him. R The United States supreme court has upheld the validity of the law creating the Kansas State Rallway commission. That ought to make members of the Nebraska State Rallway commission sleep mére poundly, The Hard Coal trust in Pennayl- 3250 | patience {n order to get the desired 885 | cesa. to get legislation | social standards. Presidential Persistence. President Taft seems to have ordered his administration on the basis of per- sistence rathér than coercion. The president is keeping everlastingly at thin, taking conditions as he has found them, making the most of thém and accomplishing what he can with the material on hand and in spite of existing obstacles or prejudices. He is not having an easy time of it, and will have to work with a good deal of work dome; but that he will get ac- complished what he sets out to do is a foregone conclusion. The disposition has been manifested in some quarters to eriticise Mr. Taft because he does not go after things the way Mr. Roosevelt did, because he has | not used a big stick on congress, but has insisted on using his own meth- ods. The same vote which made Mr. Taft president, also elected the con- gresamen and some of the senators, and they are under the same obligations | to their constituencies that he is. During the last few weeks there have been a.number of conferences at the White House to secure agreement on pending legislation. President Taft is primarily of judicial and diplomatic training, and realizing the varying po- | Iitical complexions and prejudices ex- | isting among those with whom he has to deal he is trying to procure harmony | of action rather than spoll the possi- bility of serving the whole people ef-| fectively during his administration. | It takes time to get things done, es- | pecially when one has to persuade men‘ with cunflieting viewpoints and inter- ests to help do them. It is a slow process under these circumstances, and that explains why it is a slow pro- | through con»l gress. The average citizen is not 0| one-sided that he cannot see and ap- preciate the persistence with which | President Taft is pushing important meagures before the two houses of | congress and the diplomacy with which | he s seeking to bring all elements of | the party tontper on his legislative | program. Prohibiting Secret Divorce. After a New York court had granted Mrs. John Jacob Astor a divorce from | her husband the records were “‘sealed” for all time. This secret method of settling domestic trouvles . of the wealthy has come into vogue in va- rious parts of the country during the last two or three decades, by which the social indiscretions and dissipa- tions which cause divorce are kept| from the public and hushed up. Such pecullar care’ of divorce records per- tains only to the people of the wealth- ler clagses and to. the powerful faml- lies In the commercial and soclal cen- ters of the world; because favors of this, kind areiseldom sought by the| families of ihgr middle and lower| classes, no matter what may be the| conditions. * ' A Dbill has been troGuced into the New York legislature which, if it be- comes a law, will require thé records of all ‘divoree. cases:in ‘that state to| be publie, the same as other court| records. It gives the middle classes what they have always had and re- quires of those, to whom special privi- leges have been granted, to submit to| the same treatment. The judge may | clear the court when the evidence is to be of a peculiarly spicy character, but the records can not “bé sealed nor kept from publiecity. i With the bars of secrecy thrown | down a great difference will be expected In the divorce records among the wealthier classes. of soclety. As a rule it is not the thought of family disruption which -make the divorce court dreaded so much as it is the fear of publicity and the social penalty publicity? brings with it. The oertainty of a public record | should exert a s#utary influence on| high society and create a more whole- some respect for domestic felicity and | " Reinforcing Omaha's Lesson, The terrible experience, which Phil- adelphia is undergoing in its present street ear strike is a repetition, only many times multiplied, of what Omaha had to endure last fall during its street rallway troubles. From all accounts both sides to the controversy in Phila: delphia gre pursuing practically the same tactics that were pursued here in total disregard of the lives and prop- erty of the combatants and in com- plete deflance of the right of the trav- eling public and the business commu- nity to continued and satisfactory street car service. The lesson which everyone here agreed was taught by the Omaha street car strike was the Imperative necessity of providing by law some" workable machinery for the adjustment and ad- judication of disputes between public service corporations and their em- ployes without stopping the wheels of commerce. The public service corpor- atlons, and especially the street rail- way companies, enjoy special privil- eges confsrred by the public and as- sume special respounsibilities to the public, and- these responsibilities should be made to extend over and in- clude the employes of these corpora- tions. 3 It the people of our great cities are to witness bloodshed and riot and a breakdown of public service every time such a dispute arises between em- ployer and employe, conditions will be- come unbearable. We do not know what may be done in Philadeiphia and Pennsylvania, but Omaha and & Ne- | vania is up for investigation now along with the Meat trust and the grocery- man's distrui True to biblical prin- clples, 1 re sms to be a season for everything (i the investigating line, braska, mindful of its own lesson, should set the example at the first op- portunity by enacting laws for the ompulsory arbitration of all differ- nces between public service corpora- | tial everdict higher. grit, but just how can a naval officer, | | wherever tection of the public against such out- rages. Really Humorous. One of the really humorous inel- dents of an otherwise dull season is the sharp lecture which is read by the Lincoln Star to the Kearney Times on “Partlsan Hypocrisy.” It is only a few months since the Star was shout- ing its head oft for “nonpartisanship” and urging republicans to wvote for democrats as a protest against partisan rule. wearing- its transparent disguise, and calls attention to the fact that it is al- ways the minority party that makes pretense of nonpartisanship and ap- peals to voters to shake off pnrunnn' shackles. It declares: In political campalgns up in this country we find the democrats shouting for non- partisanship. The voters are appealed to by numberiess orators to show their free- born Americanisin by casting aside party restrietions and voting for the man and not the party label. Down in the south, on the other hand, conditions are exactly reversed. It is the democratic campalgner who goes out among the people and pleads for partisan- 8hip and the republican who preaches the doctrine of independence. Right on the top of this the Star catches the Kearney Times in the very act of lauding Governor Shallenberger for being so vigorous in uprooting a republicAn party machine, and follow- ing this with an appeal to democrats to get together and stay together to march the party on to victory, “no matter what our personal choice of candidate kappens to be.”” All of which we sub- mit would ordinarily be very pert and to the point, but contains a grim hu- mor when we remember the “‘nonpar- tiean” antics of the Star by which it tried to lure republicans into voting for democrats last fall. Trafic Manager Stubbs does not want to say that the large increase in taxes pald by the Union Pacific in the last few years represents an increase in the value of the property. If he | were perfectly frank he would say that he difference between what the road formerly paid in taxes and what it now pays represents for the most part the taxes it used to shirk or evade. The rule promulgated by the Ne- braska State university barring candi- dates for office from circuit-riding as university extension lecturers raises another difficult question, “When s a candidate for office?” Anyone who can answer this may be qualified to grapple with that other puzzle, “What is a democrat?" Ordinarily one would dislike to be a soldler and have all sorts of pickled food, carpet tack cheese and other kinde.of “edible junk* put up in cap- eules given him to eat for the benefit of the theoretically inquisitive. It would be rather odd to feel ltke an|’ experiment station, It “natural hair suggests the char- acter and the nature of the woman,” what is a fellow going to do when he looks at the switches, rats, waterfalls, sky-scrapers, roof-gardens and the thatched topknots of variegated arti- ficial hues displayed :n the shop win- dows these days? ‘““Robnett does not secem to enough,” reads a headline. He is, ap- parently, going to take that courtmar- All admire his who is soon to be married, atford the cost of an appeal to nigher authori- ties. —— “Typhoid Mary” is again released, but under the prohibition not to do any more cooking. Judging from the typhoid fever which has followed her, she has gone, Mary may yet be called into the S8wope case in Kan- sas Ofty for expert testimony. The fact that coniractors are being notified to clean their building ma- terial off the walks and out of the alleys makes it look as though the streets of Omaha wouid be in a fairly presentable condition by judgment day. Theodore Roosevelt has a photograph of himself which he says “really does me justice.” If Colonel Roogevelt is really pleased with his own photo- graph he is different from nearly every other human being on earth. Modern Equipment. Boston Transcript. The burglar/in the Nebraska penitentiary who has invented a self-balancing aero- plane is probably qualifying to become a twentieth-story Worker when he escapes. Uhele Joe's Move. St. Paul Ploneer-Press. William Hayward, secretary of the repub- lican national committee and chairman of the Nebraska republican committee, has announced his candidacy for congress on an anti-Cannon platform. The next thing in order will be for Mr. Cannon to read Haywand out of the party. Importance, Chicago Record-Herald. The president of the American Base Ball league gets as large a salary as those of the chief justice of the United States and Senator Aldrich would be if they were com- | bined. But think of the importance of his position as compared with the ones. they ocoupy. for Merry Widows. Boston Herald Widows of veterans of the clvil war, married subsequent to 159, have been rep- Tesented by influential promoters of pen- sion legislation in congress as desirous of the same pension rights as widows who marrfed earlier, “Pressure” for this addi- tion of #4,00,000 to the annual expenditure of the governmient Is sald to have become %0 “Irresistible’ that favoring legisiation s 10 be reported In the senate and the house, The widows are not so much to blame as the “promoters” who trade on the senti- ment and chivalry of the Amerean publie to futher legislation from which they get their profits. The déserving pensioner al- Col | But here comes the Star, still have | Baltimore Amerioan. Another attempt has_been made to en- force Connecticut's blue laws, but the prosectting officers have fefused to mot Against druggists and newsdealers on Sun- day. The Intelligence of the ‘states which #till bear these anclent laws of Intolerance on their statute books should end these periodical discussions and annoyances by taking them off. As they now stand, they are & legal nuisance, a weapon In the hand of modern bigotry to stir up feeling and discord. Seeking Other Stimuls New York Amerioan. Mr. Willlam Jennings Bryan wrote an exoiting editorial on the subject of local| option—addressing It to a meeting of the | state démocracy of Nebraska. But the | Nebriska democrats, exercising a local option In thelr own way, joked and dined and highly resolved, sual, but paid no tention to Mr. Bryan's message. Mayor Dahiman of Omaha says that Mr. Bryan i& no longer Intoxicating to Nebraska dem- ocrats. And Governor Shallenberfer agrees | that they nebd some other stimulant. The | local optioh ofi Mr. Bryan seems Indeed to have swept the country. Dy N, Incremsing National Revenne, New York Tribune. The bureau of staflstics of the Depart- ment of Commeree and Lapor has just pub- lished figurss showine that importations of duty free merchandise into the United States in the seven mounths since the Payne law went Into effect were valued at $120,483,920. more than the duty free im- portations for the corresponding seven months of 1908-0. Dutiable imports showed | & gain in value of $75,29,141. These figures | fully substantiate President Taft's argu- ments. Will his free trade crities coolly consider them or continue to dismies them | as fabticated “trumpery Maliclous Use of the Wireless. Philadelphia Record. The requirement of federal licenses for Wirelesa telegraphers would be likely to effectively suppress the amateurs who now | 80 serfously interfere with the operation of officlal, naval and commercial stations. It | was the original purpose to make an elab- orate set of rules regulating the use of the air for the trandmission of electric dis- patches. The commercial and naval s tems will regulate themselves quite satis- factorily without governmental interyen- tion between them; as for the amateurs, the revocation of thelr licenses, coupled with a small penalty, would suffice to cure them of the habit of faliclous, or merely fiippant, Interference with governmental and commercial business. Relation of Newwpapers to Morals. Philadelphia Inguirer. It was suggested in Pittsburg fome time ago that ‘church people stop reading news- | papers during Lent. Tmmediately there arose a hue and cry whose echo was car- ried all over the country. The suggestion fell flat because even the most prominent | clergymen ridiculed the idea and laughed | at it as bisarte and fantastic. There was sométhing decidedly illogical about It too. The men who proposed the denial evl- | dently overjooked the fact that If a news- paper s not fit to read during Lent It Is not fit to read any other time. That with the blg majfority of papcrs such fs hot the dase was argued by the Rev. Dr. Randall of Néw York in an address before the Bap- tist Ministers' association in this city, The doctor ‘Went, dven further and upheld the dally newapaper as ad ald to morality in the great ¢ities. Projected /Abuse of Pensions. New 'York Tribune. It ‘is repqrted 'that the senate committee on pensions His almost decided to urge the pasdage at this sesslon of a pension bill giving allowanices to soldlers’ widows whose marriages were contracted since June 21, 18%0. Under the presant law the widow, In ofder to obtain a pension, must have married ‘befdre June 27, 18%0—twenty- tive years after.the close of the war. Con- gress has held that public policy required some. limitation on the pension rights of widows of veterans, who marry or re- | marry very late in life. A veteran of 75| jmight marry this year a young woman | ot 2. Her pension might easlly continue for fitty years after his death, thus re- { uiring the government to keep alive for practically . a . century the personal and | transmissible pension quallfications of a | single individugl. That would be an ex- treme and abnormal burden. PERSONAL NOTES, Now_is the winter of Philadelphia’s dis- | content, French royalists who are poor and “too| proud to work for a lving' evidently do | | not consider “working” the Gould family | as real labor. It has been quite easy here tofore. The high cost of living is explained, ac- cording to a correspondent of a New York newspaper, by “the laziness of the home- makers,” who no longer cook, bake, pickle and preserve, but buy expensive prepared | foods from the baker and grocer. [ On his hundredth birthday, Joseph Tuf- troe, u real éatate dealer of Marshalltown, Pa., was Initiated into the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, as a member of | Marshall lodge, No. 312, and thereby be- came the oldest EI¥ in the world. Reglnald Clarence, the well known bib- | lographer of dramatic data, has Dbeen| working for {wenty years on a stage eyclop dia Whish will con a'n a b.b lograshy | of plays, of which it has been possible 1o { find any record, from B. C. 60 to A. D. 1009, | | Governor Hughes delivered the university | | day adaress at the University of Pennsyl- | vania Tuesday and received the degree of | ! doctor of laws. This makes him a string | of five of these honors to which he is eh- | titied, though' four of & kind is considered | A pretty good hand. ! An inferesting man, and an important | figure In the political life of Kansas, has | | gone Into history with the death of “Nat" | Barnes of Kansas City, Kan. He was one | of the two men who chartered a special| train to take Kansas republicans to New | { York to attend he reception for ‘‘the | | plumeéd_knight” in 184, and was active in | the conyention which nominaled Blaine for | | president, Our Birthday Book February 23, 1910. Judson Harmoh, governor of Ohlo, was born February 23, 1646. He was attorhey general in Grover Cleveland's eabinct, and has a full-fledged presidential bee for the 1812 democratic nomination for presi- dent. Johnathan Bourne, Jr, United States senator from Oregon, is 65. He was boru | at New Bedford, Mass, and is one of fue | milliofialres of the Puget Sound country. He tried to head a movement two yrars 8go fo force a third term nominatign on Presldent Roosevelt. Herbert A, Doud, cashier in the United States revenus office, was born February B, 186, at Scranton, Pa. He has lived in Omaha sinee 1851, and was in the lite In- Wuranee business before entering the gov- | ernment employment. | pmake eligible to go on | rate now paia | expenditures of the government $6,000,000 | {and this fact no doubt accounts in part .| optnton dbout congre: | orable service in the w The penslon clalm agent will not oce from troubling until the last civil war veteran s at rest. Those who thought that the service pension bill, passed two years ago, represenited the limit of national generosity are welcome to do Kome more thinking over pending pension moves, three of a kind, detailed by the Washington cor- respondent. of the Boston Transeript, as | tollows: Potent infinences are afoot to bring to | the veterans of the clvil war, their widows | and children, the benefits which the mest | extreme liberality of a geherous govern- ment can be Induced to confer. Expansion of the pension rolls (s agaln an lssue with congress and three bills to that end are under consideration. The first creates a volunteer retired list, the second would | place on the pension at a dollar a day all honorably discharged soldlers of the clvil or the Mexlean war and the third would the rolls at the to soldlers’ widows all women Wwho served as nurses during the | clvil war. Neither the house committee on invalid pensions nor the senate committee on mili- tary affairs is disposed to favor the vol- | unteer retired list, yet the growing de- | mand for the passage of the bill is causing | a speclal Interest to be taken in the cam- are sayihg that If, their bill 1 only put through congress oan n6d will quit. passing private pension bilg. Furthermore, say the dollar-a-8ay. people, the enactment of thelr bill would tend to depopulate the soldiers' homes, national And st becAuse, as they say, the veteralf who are new cared for In these homes would, under the dollar-a- day 1dw, be able to oATé Tot themselves. FORWARD PFULL OF INSURGENCY lenberger's View publican Promressives. Sloux City Tribune, At the democratic state banquet at Lin- coln the other day, Governor Shallenberge critielzed the republican Insurgents H: complained of them, that they were willing to come over to the demodratic party. - The governor i to be complimented for the meeuracy with which he Interprets the Insurgent ‘movement. He sees the situation Just as it Is. Republican insurgency, whether in congress at Washington or among the republican voters of the country is not &-golng over to democtacy. Insurg- ency {s & change In the breed of republi- canism. It means that the party fs advan- | cing to higher moral grounds, to yet un- accomplished tasks of government. The so- oalled Insurgency among the republicans is not a pilling away from the party, not & pullitig down, nor a pulling back, but a pulling forward. It is ‘a forward move ment toward uncompleted work The republican pary Is llke a strong man who has been a creator and bullder ot new enterprisee. Such a_man always has on hand something yet unfinished. Sothe thing that still calls out his organizing Gove ot paign of the veterans. This one bill, providing for a volunteer | retired llst, would increase the pension | or §7,00000 annuaily. The bill provides | for placing on the “volunteer retired list,” with retired pay, the commissioned offi- | cers who served with the volunteer army of the north during the civil war. If such A law should be enacted, the pensions| which these volunteer officers now draw | would, of course, be dropped. The retired | pay which an officer of the regular arn now recelves would take their place. Ex- cept in rare Instances, the retired pay | would be greatly in excess of the pension | now recelved. The fact that the pay In almost every Instance would be greater than the pension brings to the proposed | legislation the support of practically all| the volunteer officers. The legislation also | has the support of many of the vil war privates, but some of them arc 4 sidedly | opposcd to it. The committees o. the two houses which have the bill under considera- tion are largely made up of men who| served thelr country as private woldiers, | for the opposition the bill meets in these committees. The senate committee on military affairs, under the direction of Senator Warren of Wyoming, Is trying to get together curate data showing the muwmbci of volun- teer officers now living who would benefit under the proposed legislation. There s in existence an organization of volunteer officers that is doing all it can to promote | the bill. The last data submitted to con- gress by that organization showcd that there are nmow living 6,867 men who held commissions In the volunteer army of the north. According to the classitication sup- plied by this organization the volunteer officers who would benefit are in number and ‘in rank these: Major generals, 2; brigadier generals, 25; colonels, 161; lieu- tenants, 1%5; majors, 309, captains, 2,.3}; first Heuténants, 23837 Second lléuterants, 1,666; various ranks, navy, 150. Members of the committees of congress who have made :calculations based on the above| classification” say that it would cost the| government not less than $7,000,000 to give | these officers their retired pay for one| year. Of course (o get at the net cost to the government, the amount of the pen- sions the volunteer officers now receive must be deducted from.4he sum the gov- ernment would have to pay under the vol- unteer retivement act, The data before the senate committee on military affairs estimate the amount of pensions now re- celved by volunteer officers at $1349,8%. If these figures be correct the net cost to the government under the volunteer re- tiremient act would be $5,661,7 The dollar a day gaining headway. pension movement Is There seems to; be small prospect of the legislation being enacted at | this session, but the general trend of Is that It is com- ing, and probably within the next two or three years. When the widows' pension bill, which provides a payment for every woman whose husband saw at least three months’ service In the civil war, was passed, and a little later the service pen- slon bill, the general understanding was that there would be no additional pension legislation for years to come. The widows' bill increased the pension expenses the first year about $12,000,00 and the service pen- ton bill added nearly $20,000,000 to the gev- ernment's fixed charges. Those two laws had not been in operation many months before congress began to feel the pressure for additionai legislation.. Some of the democratic members of the house are among the most aggressive dollar-a-day advocates \I)ll of West Virginia is the | leading chanipion of legisiation to pension the olvil WAF nurees. The pension com- mittee of the eenate Is now making an in- quiry to ascertain as nearly as possible how many persons would benefit under | such legislation. Ihere has been pending in congress for a long time a bill to pen- 8l0n telegraph operators who served at the front during the war. The backers of this bill assert that if the nurses are to be pensioned there is no reason why the gov- ernment should deny the telegraph oper- aters the same treéatment. Congress seems to be convinced that the country will at any time sanction almost any measures of relief for the men who fought for the union. The fact that the pension appro- priation bill of this sesslon—the bill ap- propriating the.money for the fiscal year beginning the first of next July—shows a smart reduction as compared with the last fow y % I8 being used as an argument in favor of the three bills' that are now pend- Ing. For Instance, the dollar-a-day advo- cates are suying that with the civil war my rapldly passing away there Is no valid excuse for denying those who still survive the relief that would be afforded by payiug every who performed hon- a dollar u day. Senator { In the meantime congress continues to deal out private pensions with a lavish hand. By private pensions is meant pen- glon§ granted through speclal act of con- gress. When the widows' pension blll was passed and the service pension law was enacted, the general talk about congress was that the business of passing private pension bills would be stopped. Undoul edly the committee on pensions was really in earpest in trying to reduce the number of private pension bills considered, if not to stop the consideration of them ailto- gether, but the demand from senators and representatives for favors for constituenty, was 8o pressing that the reform movement had to be abandoned before It was really started. Now the dollar-a-day advocates | with a new man of more energy energles. No political party I8 all progress ive all the time. In any working machine there 18 always some part that is wearing out. Some wheel of bolt or beam that needs to be replaced with new material. Chauncey Depéw, for example, s old. He 1s worn out. He needs to be replaced and of modern Ways. Henator Hale Is old. His views on the tariff question are fixed and cannot be revised. The force he excrts is non-progressive and he should be replaced with more modern and more progressive material, Joe Cannon s old. He means better than his severest critios concede. He has old views and should be set aside for a more modern man, « The house rules are old, They were good encugh for Tom Reed. They were good enough for Speaker Crisp, the democrat. They were good enough for Cleveland and the democratic party. But they are not 800d enough for progressive republicanism now. - The republican insurgents in the lower house did turn for a moement to the degocracy for Belp to oust these old rules, but they found democracy a broken reed, a negatlve quantity, old and flautulent in its character, incapable of appreciating the sentiment for true representative govern- ! ment that was animating the republican | insurgents. Governor Shallenberger is absolutely ac- curate in his diagnosis of republican in- surgency. It seeis- nothing in *democracy that Jures it that way. It is not now and will not be a movement toward Governor Shailenberger or his party. The progressive republican voters would no more think of turning to demacracy for rellef from the conditjons against which they protest, than a progressive farmer, having a modern reaper out of repair would think of turning to the ojd McCormick harvester he had laid aside forty years ago, now overgrown with woeds,, Tottng in the sun and rain out there in the back lot. | Helping Jugged Talent. Springtield Republican, A burglar in the Nebraska penitentiary at Lincoln has Impressed authorities by his invention of ‘“a self-balancing aero- plane;’ of which he has a model in his cell, and for making which he has been promised money backing. The board of pardons have agreed to parole the man It the district court will designate some proper person to take charge of the in- ventor while he perfécts his inventiin. This Is fine—how muich better to help a burglar. to. develop his talents in a differ- | ent. direction than to sm all possi- bilities of honest purpose in fail. .| near future it TELEGRAPH BFFICIENCY. 2 rvice Promised ¥ Companies. ston Herald Regently acquired control of the Weste Unton Telegraph company by the American Telephone company, when it was consume mated, was advertised as prophetic of ex- tension of the area of service, and at les- sened cost to users. Detalls of the plans which are to make this pledge a fact begin to appéar, and are encouraging. Not only are the wires to be utilised befwe 1 night and early morning for transinission of “night letters” at one-fifth present day rates, to be délivered prompily elther by mall, messenger or telephene, but in the I8 to become possible for urban or rural users of telephones to use to fullest advantage the sirvice of the elegraph. If, with this extension of the telegraph system's efficiency, through in- terloeking It with the vastly more rami- fied telephone system, there can go along with It improvement of the delivery tem, the public will have reason for fub) iatton, MERRY JINGLES. WEARINESS, I'm ready for the roses, and Im ready for the rain— I wish that I might wake thrumming on the pane; - I wish that I might wake to see the apple blossoms glow Out yonder In the orchard that is lonely in the snow. weary, weary, and its chill— I want the troops of summertife to march across the hill, ~Chicago Post. to hear it I'm weary of the winter JOv. Each time a chop or roast we drop We've struck the Trust a blow For forty days we've many’ way To fill the Trust with ‘woe, 8o il the dish with humble flsh And at the butcher jeer. Oh, what content if only Lent Could last the whole glad year! —New York World HUH! * riding? Huh! These city chaps ar boasting all the wiille Of whizéing past In motor cars with city gals in style. y let their siren wh they almost stun And flashing by like comet tails they think is lots of fun; But, though the big machines can speed and cost a princely price, They never give the pleasure or to me seem quite 80 nice As joy rides that the farm boys have along with Seth or Bue, Down the old road by moonlight in a horse slelgh bullt for two. Joy istles #hrlek until BI1Z With comets and aeropianes The sky is full of sights. You see them in the daylight glare, You see them, too, o' night The world Is moving mighty We all can wee it Is; But though new wonders d Say, don’t neglect your biz! —Somerville Journal. HOT STUFF. It s cold cash Upon my soul That in Fis pocket tast, Inlly come— iy it Free Press, "THE MYSTERY. J. W. Foley In New York Times. 45 v ' say8 the farmer, Who's geiting the stuff." *Tain’'t me,’ suys the packer; 1 just get enough To pey a small profit, As falr s can be." And all of them chorus Together, “*'Tain't me," n't me,’” says the tanner, “Who gets the high price For high shoes and low ones, “Tain’t me,” sayh the cannér; My margin's the same.' “"Tain't me,” says the hukster, “Who's bracin’ the game." " says the grocer; ain’t seen a dime." It's surely a puzzle To know where it goes; No maker or seller Or any of those Pariake of high prices, So they all agree; And I'm’a consumer, I'm certain *'Tain't me.” If you had positive proof female ills had made many remarkable cures, woul not feel like trying it? { for you that a certain remed If during the last thirty years we have not succeeded im convincing every fairminded woman that Lydia E. Pink- ham’s Vegetable Compound has cured thousands and thou- sands of women of the ills peculiar to their sex, then we long for an opportunity to do so by direct correspondence. 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You may use 6, " — Mrs. J. oubt about the Com, ability of this grand ¢ld remedy, made from the roots and herbs of our fields, to cure female diseases. We possess volumes of proof of this fact, enough to ¢onvince the most skeptical. oy B - o e har St piasar no . o. for 'Sivice: Vegetabl remedy lo: Justice to She e L, Hase: \ "