Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 26, 1910, Page 10

e e THE ©OMAna DAy B FOUNDED 1 Y EDWARD ATER. EDITOR. postoffice as second PTION. Daily Bee Te Unely (with Dall Daily Daily ® 600 Evening vening Baturd Adar aclivery to Cit 8 250 150 Taritien ¥ | artment, ation Dey OFFICT Lfourth and N ¥ Btreet i Juette Ruilding 1011102 No Thirty-third St Washingt to n | Depart nddresye Fdite ant RIEMT aft, o The Ree e pan % ot xXnrems or nostal Publie « ent stamp a4 1n pave. mafl aceounts, Pereana) cheeks. excant on Omaha or enster \anees. not accepte BTATEME: State of Nehr George B. T Publisbirg ¢ Fave that th complete « Evenifg and month of Janu . 42,440 . 41,700 . 42430 . 42350 . 42,400 . 42,100 . 42,450 . 42,470 . 41,700 . 42,490 . 42420 42,600 . 42,400 . 43,460 . 42,570 41,270 Or CIRCULATION, County, =& er nt The Tea 7 Auly | sworn. numne= of full and Tha Dally, Morning Tee printed during t M0, an as follows . 43,020 | .. 44700 . 43,300 42.5650 . 42590 49,500 ", 2,09 42,850 43,650 41,400 42,970 | Returned coples Net total Dally average. . subscribed In my presence a Leforo me this 3ist day Subscribers leaving (he clty feme porarily should have The wailed to them. Addresa will be changed us often as requested, lee won. ——— Boss Murphy 18 UMPIRE of the game in Tammany hall and “Fingy” Conners is only water boy. —— Any candidate for the presidency of the United States of Central America? Secretary Knox will recetve entries, — Having decided that a hen is a bird, the Treasury department is requested to decide just what an egg is this win- ter. Now that folks are requested not to throw lhlngl at the mar.er in the | unln exchange, what is a loser going | to do when he gets mad? Thibetan royelty has fled from the Chinese army and invaded India, but it 1s doubtful if the safety of the In- dian empire is at all menaced thereby, | The real victim of self-sacrifice is the man who has the price and still resists the temptation spread out be-| fore him by the exhibits at the Auto show, —— It is not at.all surprising that a screw was ‘loosg in the Swope case (casket). But, then, Kansas City al- ways did have trouble in keeping the | lid on. —— It Senator Brown is destined to touch off the poetic muse every time he orates in the senate he will do well | to consider the consequences whenever | moved to make a speech. Even If we do try chloride of lime on the water, that will not afford any excuse for failing to .clean up the! streets, alleys and backyards. way to clean up is to clean up. —— ‘When looters were caught during the Paris flood they were thrown into the Seine. But even that sort of treat- ment of river water does not come up to what a packing house can do. It will take more lbun the state- ment of an employe to prove that| Cupid is very active in the city hall. Cupid prefers to have a clean office with good furniture to do work in. — The same cable dispatch from Chile | tells of the movements Bryan and Dr. Cook. of Colonel | There seems to be a community of Interest there which | invisibly draws these two together, — It might warm things up some if “Jef!” Davis had his way and all lhe oll of the Standard Ofl company were | piped into hell. But, just when was the ofl burner introduced into hell? | Altho\llh the “Red Caps" at Union statlon may have decided wear thelr hair pompadour, there no danger of it becoming style, Many men will still wear their hair cut bald. — the to It 1s to be noted that in the Philadel- | phia street car strike, nothing to be arbitrated. too, there is The public ROSEWATER. | | for posseseion, Both armies in Nicaragua claim the | victory and probably they have both | The | s|substununleu his argument well by ci- Secretary Shaw and Japan. The public declaration of Former | Secretary Leslie M. Shaw “that war n the United States and Japan inévitable’” is eliciung much ex- pression of surprise and disappoint ment from the Japanese press, The pecple of the island xingdom natu rally feel hurt that this attitude should be continually taken by those high in the of the American people, To them the speech of Mr. Shaw comes at a very inappropriate time, especialiy when the people of betwe esteem | Yokohama are o royally cniertaining |the 700 American tourists, A very arrogant spirit characterized the' Japanese people In all of their transactions immediately foliowing the war with ‘They apparently belleved the world was before -them a part at a time, and as made themselves un a consequence | popular with thelr neighbors and all | who came in contact with them. It looked for a time as though America | might have to help bring them to their sensed. But since that war pugnacious Japan has found itself financially crippled and her peopie are sweating under the heaviest burden of taxation | ever known. | As a nation Japan is at least more friendly disposed to the United States than to any other country. Her peo ple constantly imitate Americans and require their school children to study ‘the American language” and read American literature. American vis itors are cordially treated fin that| | by Secretary Shaw, General Bell and | Captain Hobson are noted there with | regret and disappointment. The Japanese people are not fool- | lish, no matt= how aggressive they may be. They realize that Russia| never forgets a defeat and never lets| slip a chance for retrievement. They | might involve Canada, India and other English possessions of power and re- | source. They realize that China is waking up and that the great nations | of Europe have possessions and lnter-‘ ests in the Pacific which they will pro- | tect at all hazards. the tremendous resources of America | and will hardly Invite armed conflict with the United States without the| greatest provocation. Colonel Gordon’s Farewell. The farewell address of United | States Senator James Gordon is well named by Chauncey M. Depew, ‘‘a fare- well unique.” Colonel Gordon, al- | though taking his leave of the senate after p too brief sojourn among the members of that body, seemed to be exceptionally good-natured. He had attalned the height of his ambition, even realizing the accomplishment of the prophecy made by his mother, that “if he were a good little boy he would |some day sit in the chalr of the big| iman at Washington. Yet gome might question his past career on the basis of what used to happen to the good little boy in the Sunday school book and what Mark Twain says are| the qualifications of national legisla- tors. Colonel Gordon {8 a humorist who is not ashamed of his accomplishment. With all the genial hospitality of a southern gentleman he invited Senator ‘Heybum to Mississippi to spend a few | weeks, supposedly to get over his belli- ‘cose attitude toward General Lee. He loves the negro, too, and has written |two poems to prove it. He also ad- mired John D. Rockefeller and feels sorry for the oily magnate. ‘There is no apparent worry in Colonel Gordon's heart because he happened to be & confederate soldier. |He ‘“fought, bled and skeddadled fre- quently.” The spifit of a southern gentleman fairly shines through his 1past life, for while he was capturing General Shafter he very thoughtfully allowed himself to be shot at five times by that gentleman—and very accu- rately missed. The poor marksman- | ship of the general doubtless enters largely into the frigndly recollection of | Mr. Gordon. | The genlal, whole-souled spirit of | the southern senator cannot but call | | torth a kindly attitude from the north, The war has been over for several ‘yenrs. it Father Time has been run- ning accurately, and the southern ivy and the northern evergreen hlve| united in a grapevine - twist, so to| speak. The spirits of the two sections | have become so merged that a north- erner has beén permitted to run his| | | { | pipe line across a southern plantation, | while the “‘darkles” chant a soulful paeon to the glories of the snow-bound north—or words to that effect—Sena- |tor Heyburn to the contrary notwith- | stanaing. | | Would Tax Impair State Credit? | | .Would an income tax impair state ’crm‘llt.’ Senator Brown of Nebraska |in a speech recently delivered In the! | United States senate argues not, and tations of England, Austria, Nslher-‘ ‘lnn(ll, Denmark, Sweden and [taly, | which have income taxes and where the national debts per eapita are many |times greater than such debt Is in iAmer[(‘u. The reason why this tax| | state | leans. |tendent with an incompetent THE BEE: clal crash is not going to affect their value even though the commerecial af- | fairs of the country are involved In a general revolution and “for the in come tax, to be used in a national de fense would be a protector of the state's credit.” Senator Brown emphasizes the at tested fact that the cregit of the state | after what happened to Nelson he | would know he was licked. Ordinarily is good so lomg as the credit of the nation is good. international and nation if emergency should come, the repub lic should be clothed with full and ample authority to lay a just share of the burden upon the income of the whole country.” With the possibility of this resource open to the govern ment, though the credit of private individ s might affected by the fitful winds of finance which blow, the state would be doubly secure. The credit of the borrower further- more is never impalred by a tax upon the man who loans the money. The only manner in which such crelit can be impaired is by increasing the bur- den of taxation upoa the borrower, and this applies to state and indi- vidual allke. To be gure, taxing the income of the lender might raise the rate of interest, but in Mr judgment “it would not be appre- clable.,”" Even the Jender would be slow to demand the Increase If it les sened the possibility of a safe invest ment of his capital elsewhere. Lend- ers, both great and small, are looking for business investments and they will or interests of “But war the become one. be 43,080 | oountry and words of hostility volced |continue tq do 8o just so long as the burdens to be borne by the borrower do not fmpalir his ability to meet the | the principal when | interest and due. pay “Co-Operation Tho appointment of Mr. Grant makes no change in the political situation in the | county board. He is a regular republican | also realize that a war with A"N’"Cn‘nm! will align himaself with Comm!ssione: | Trainor as did Mr. sloners Fickard and with the ce-operation of Chairman Bru- ning, republican, will continue to constitu the majority on questions of genera) policy. Scott, while Commis- Bedford, democrat | —~World-Herald. This announcement on the part interesting to Douglas county repub- With three republicans out of five on the county board, any one of them ‘‘co-operate” with two democrats and constitute the working | | majority when * such co-operation means handing over to the democrats |the decision on questions of general $ollcy Commissioner Bruning tried to ex- cuse his democratic alliance at the out- set by representing that personal an- tagonisms made it impossible for him to work with the late Commissioner Kennard, and using this as a pretext tled up with the democrats to put on the payroll notorious crooks and graft- ers who should not hold public office either as democrats or republicans. The scandal at the County hospital is one of the consequences of Mr. Bru- ning’s ‘‘co-operation’” with the demo- crats by which he helped them to sup- plant a competent republican superin- demo- cratic superintendent. Mr. Bruning talks about running for | re-election. Is he golng to run as a republican or as a democrat? If he is going to run as a republican why should he continue to ‘‘co-operate’ with the democrats and give the demo- crats control of county affairs? If he wants to run as a republican, it would be a good idea for him to begin to act like a republican right now. The selection of John Grant for the second time to fill the vacancy in the county board will command general approval for the judgment of the three county officers upon whom the appoint- ment devolved. Mr. Grant is an old goldier, a long-time resident of this county, a business man in good stand- ing and a consistent republican. Not only that, but when he was nominated |a year ago to succeed the late Commis- sioner Kennard his selection was rati- fied, first by the republicans of the dis- trict nominating him at the primaries, | and second by the people of the county | voting for him at the election. Mr. Grant will make a useful and efficient member of the county board. And now an attempt to put the typhoid germ off watch by the chloride of lime route 18 to be tried. With 250 | practicing physicians in and abbut Omaha, the only wonder {s that one of them was not smart enough to suggest | this befare the damage was done, The penllunllnry cell seems to be a good place for evolve schemes. has invented an aeroplane and now a California prisoner has finvented a scheme to prevent checks and drafts from being raised and forged. It the prevalence of typhoid in Omaha begins to abate now, the Water board will have done it. 1t recalls the physiclan who is afraid to leave town on a vacation for fear his patients might get well without him. Someone has been trying to prove that Dr. Cook was crazy when he was bere. No such thing. He was about In times of revolution | e | Brown's of | They also realize |the democratic organ must indeed be| why should | inventive genius to| A Nebraska prisoner | that 18 forced to walk during such con. | does not impede the countries men- | flicts between labor and capital may | tioned in borrowing is ‘“‘the safety of have something to say about that|the Investment makes 1t desirable” through their law-makers before long, | Under all circumstances. S —— The position taken by Senator A present member of the school|Brown fis that there Is no basis in board who Is a former member of the reason for the argument that the tax city councll, a former candidate for|will impair credit, “The burden of mayor, county commissioner and varl 1mvcrnmem should rest on those who ous other offices, gives it out that he 1s | ‘ are best qualified to take it and no quitting business to enter politics. He!exception should be made.” Our must figure that heretofors he has|state bonds, like those In forelgn only been on the edge with nothing | countries, are in demand because of more than a look | thelr safety as investments. A fnan- | the slickest thing out and. we, the peo- ple of the United States of America, | were crazy, If anyore was. It 18 not surprising that “Fingy" Conners did not resign the chairman- ship of the New York state democratic |committee. Democrais can not often afford to resign anything unloss they | expect to be out entirely. The strange thing about it fs that | the very folks who were most strenu | ous in insisting on the injection of Mr. OMAHA, SATURDAY, Bryan's school of politics into the State university are now the loudest in demanding the strictest exclusion of | the university eampus politics from and extension work. | Battling Nelson asks |fight with Wolgast. One would think it does not take half so much to con vince as that. 1t is proposed to test seed corn in chicken incubators. It is not so im portant how the test is made so long (as the farmer is reasonably sure his sced will germinate when he puts it in | the ground. What, In lownt Des Molnes Register and Sometimes one is moved to truth of the saying that ‘“‘ther: born Ty mibute.” They coming faster than that. Leader doubt the & a sucker e seem to be Chance to M Good. Denver Republican. Both Bryan and Cook belng in Chili, the rer’ might make good at last by dis covering signs of a coming trlumph in the distinguished Nebraskan. suliding Codes. Wall Street Journal That the annual fire loss in this country is eight times greater per capita than in any country of Europe shows that we need buliding codes drawn for practical use rather than for pelitical purposes, and a system of fire inspection that will inspect. To prevent a fire is better than to fight it. / Fire Mothers’ Rights Vindieated. Baltimore American, The mothers of the country have had their rights vindicated and upheld by the verdict of the courts restoring the Tillman children to their mother after thelr father | had willed them away from her. The old | pagan principle that a father alone has any right in his children and that the mother has no claim which his arbitrary will and pleg re is bound to respect is shocking to a clvilized idea of right and justice. There 15 only one thing which ean nullify a moth- | er's right to her own children, and that is when she herself forfeits them. . | Defective Seed Corn. St. Louis Republic. The discovery by a commerclal organiza- tion In Omaha that only 27 per cent of the seed corn submitted to it for test will germinate calls for some missionary work in the selection and testing of seed corn by the Agricultural College and Experiment station of Nebraska. Every northern corn grower knows, or ought to know, that frosted seed corn will not germinate, and | that the frosted ears should be rejected in selecting seed. Nebraska should go to Towa Agricultural college for valuable in- formation of all kinds about seed corn, RAILROAD NSION SYSTEM. Prophecy of Extension to Every Line in the Country. Boston Transcript, The extent to which the railroad pension system is now in effect is perhaps hardly realized by the general public, and it scems to carry a prophecy that In the not distant future this will be a feature of the service on every line in the country. Ac- cording to the latest estimates obtainable there are (74,259 railroad employes in the United States in line for pensions, about 40 per cent of the whole numbor. For years certain companies have had un- official systems, and there are now twenty- one of the larger companies_having pen- slon departments in operation. These rep- resent all sections of the country. The | plans vary somewhat, but the more com- mon basis is 1 per cent of the average wage for the ten years immediately “pre- ceding retirement, multiplied by the num- ber of years of service. In no case do the employes contribute, the companies bear- ing all the expense. The age of retirement on four roads is 68 years; an the others it is 70 years. The length of service re- quired for eligibllity varies from ten to thirty years, twenty being the average. This will doubtless be worth all it costs to the companies. With our advancing civilization the pen- slon fea is galning headway everywhere. It is only & question of time when the gov- ernment will have to establish a pension roll for its civil employes. Unless it dces this the reform system will break down of its own welght. States and municipalitics are moving in this direction, as well as the great business corporations. The adher- ence of the latter to the plan shows that it Is essentlally business-like In character as well as humane. The earning power of the years of lifc Is very unevenly distribu- ted, and employers, whether public or pri- vate, will in the future be likely to take that into account to an increasing degree. Our Birthday Book February 26, 1910. William F. Cody, our own “Buffalo BiL" s today 64 years old. Colonel Cody was born in Scott county, Iowa, and was government sacout and gulde during the civil war and later in the Indian wars. He located at North Platte and was elected | to the Nebraska legislature in 1572. More re- cently he has been at the head of Cody's Wild West show, and has shown before more people than any other Nebraskan, not excluding our distinguished political colonel. Rev. Charles M. Sheldon was born Fab- ruary 26, 187, at Woellsville, N. Y. He Is a Congregational clergyman at To- peks, Kansas, and 1s most widely known as the author of “In His Steps.” Thomas W. Lawson; capitalist and stock broker who has been playing copper against the “system,” was born February 2, 187, at Charlestown, Mass. ‘“Tom" Lawson's picturesque writings have been widely circulated In advertise ments of Everybody's magazine which his contributions made famous. Horace H. Lurton, the newly appointed Justice of the United States supreme court, 1s 8. He s a native of Kentucky and wa Judge of the United States clrcult court of the same circuit in which President Taft was a distriet judge: Charles H | tary of the treasury and now head of what is known as the Keep commission, to put government departments on a more busi- ness-like basls, was born February 26, 1861, at Lockport, N. Y. D. C. Patterson, practicing real estate and law, was born February 26, 187. Mr. Patterson is a Pennsylvanian by birth, and | was onee superintendent of schools at Wayne, in this state. He has been In Omaha, with extensive real estate hold- ings, since 1888, Hyland B, Noyes, electrical engineer with | the OGate City Construetion company, was born February 26, 1875, at Batchellarsville, N. Y. He was educated at the Unl- versity of Nebraska, supplemented with | pragtical experience In the G al Blec- trlc shops at Schenectady, New York, and with the Omaha Street Rallway company. FEBRUARY for - another | or| inducement to a continuous service | Keep, former assistant secre- | 1910. In Other Lands Bide Lights on What is Trans. piring Among the Wear Far MNatlons of the 26, are directed at entrenched privilege and | are typical of the democratic spirit whic seeks to clip the obstructive legislatiy power of the hereditary peers of Great | Britain. In both cases the privileged classes tenaclously cling to all the power they possess, but often exercised In a man ner needlessly offensive to public ment. When the German empire was founded In 1871 a Bismarckian system of gerrymandered national districts, designcd to give reluctant states the best of the deal, was adopted, and has since remained in forece. The growth and shifting of pop. ulation since the union has given numcr- | ous districts undue representation in pro- portion te population, while others adequately represented. Suffrage, nominally on the manhood basis, in reality Is divided into three classes, the first two having votes In proportion to taxes pald and the third embraces the nonpropert holding muititude. Under this system the senii overwhelming. Three years clalists cast 3,251,006 votes forty-thres membe ago the o and elected but s of the Relohstag, less than one-eighth, while the conservatives, or land owncrs, with 1124982 votes, won | elghty seats. The single vote of Krupp, en, balances half the vote of all the third class voters in that town. Efforts to reform the system and abolish | the classes have heoretofore been fruitless In Germany, as in Great Britaln, properly |ana divine right are allies, and neither ylelds to democracy without a struggle. Promises of reform in Germany | led the democracy to expect something substantial from the ministry. The meas- ure formulated by chancellor proposes a modification of the voting power of the first class, leaving the second and third |classes practically unchanged, and creat |Ing a fourth voting class composed of army end navy officers. This would merely reduce the power of the first class and vest it In another class more closely allisd with the government. As one socialist leader expressed it, “We asked for bread | and are glven a stone” and the popular demonstrations which followed volce the ppointment ovét the government's scant concessions to the popular will. close The first test vote of rival party strength in the British House of Commons, precipi- | tated on the lssue of protection and free trade, sustained the ministerial program of land taxes and free trade by a majority of thirty-one votes. The majority repre- sents the combin liberal and laborite vote, the Irish nationalists abstaining from voting in accordance with the decision of the members of neither helping nor hinder- ing the ministry on issues unrelated to home rule. For the moment the ministry is secure, having beaten down the Cham- | berlain tariff reform question, and cleared the decks for the major issue of the budget | and the veto of the House of Lords. A | plan of action on the latter and most vital fsgue, one on which the liberal allles can unite, s under consideration. Urgency is required to remove the disappointment felt in radical clrcles over the chasm hrtwoen Premier Asquith’s platform pledges and his ability to perform. In his Albert hall speech he declared that the liberals would not submit to the emasculation of mini- sterlal measures by the House of Lords, would not take office without ‘‘guar- | antees” against the vetoes of the pecrs } Laborites and natlonalists assumed that the “guarantees’ mentioned by the prime | minister had roval sanction. This hr‘Hr‘fl was dissinated by the unusual qualifying phrase in the kings speech, “in the opinion of my advisers,” and Mr. Asquith's sub- | sequent admissions. There i8 no reason (0 doubt that the issue of “mending or end- ing" the lords will be pressed forward vigorously on lines satisfactory to the progressiveness. Not only is the life of the | ministry at stake; the permanence of the liberal party depends on breaking down | the dominant tory power entrenched In the House of Lords. " Shortly after the British expedition, two vears ago, over-ran the sacred precincts of Thibet and profaned by its presence the holy city of Lhassa, the Dalal Lama solemnly vowed to propitiate the offended Buddhas or perish in the attempt. At the head of 1,00 of the faithful he began a hike to Peking, living off the natives on the way, causing more lamentation than |revenence among those whose stores were |raided. In' six months the procession |reached the Chinese capital, heedless of | many suggestions that thelr room way | preterable to thelr company. The nature of the bargain struck at Peking now ap- pears to have been one-sided. The Dalai Lama, it appears, ald not ask or seek a return visit, but the Chinese deemed a call necessary as a matter of courtesy. The presence of 2,000 Chinese soldlers in Thibet, and the flight of the Dalai Lama Into India suggests that the boss of the lamasaries s ngt a Chinese favorite, or else neglected to pay for the commissaries assimilated on the way to Peking. One fact of much significance is visible—China 1s In Thibet reasserting neglected suzerainty and reminding neighboring land grabbers that the China of today has acquired suf- ficlent nerve to dispense with international tonies. . Rallroad ‘expansion in Asia is notable if not as extensive and strenuous as in the new world. Trains now run to within a few miles of Mecoa, and the British are talking of butlding a line to Lhassa, In Thibet. A road through Mesopotamia, with a branch to what Bir Willam Willcocks calls the site of the Garden of Fden, has been surveyed, and German engineers are now planning a line designed to open the whole of Asia Minor to commerce. In the far east there is similar aotivity amonz the rallroad engineers. The Russians an- nounce that they will soon begin double- | tracking the 7.000 miles of the great Trans- | Siberfan rallway, and ' the Chinese are planning half a dozen trunk lines through their populous provinces. Altogether, the world is cmbarked upon an unprecedentod campaign of exploratfon and development. | e | Just what constitutes a prler»makln(" combine is an open question In England and one for grand fjury investigation in the United States. A epecimen of what may be done and is being done s ‘shown by a clrcular addressed to members by the Tarners' assoclation of Great Rritain. The formula is contained in this resolution “That the extremely high price of raw | hides makes it absolutely necessary for | tanners to obtain further advances on the,| finished leather; therefore, this conference, | while not attempting to regulate prices, | urges upon the members the desirability of | using every effort to bring about & reduc- | tion In the price of hides, and to sell no ieather @t prices which woujd admit of re- placement without loss.' Economy Smothered with Words, Boston Herald The first witness in the Ballinger In- vestigation filled 1,000 printed pages with | his testimony. There's much talk about cutting down the cost of running the gov- | | ernment, Has anybody thought of econo- mizing by putting the stenographers and | typists on equal salary with congressmen? | are in- | Political demenstrations In German citles | though | power of the land owners In afl election s | Herr | situation, | could be in |by the pada |of st. |cavse a creak In Senator Bill's gumshors. and asserted that he and hls almocla!v‘s!nt one of his nejghbors: | there held entitled to treatment as a human A Fire and Burglar-Proof Safety Deposit Box is economical insurance on Vaiuable Papers, Jewelry, etc. Various sizes fer various needs. (From $3 Per Year Up) Entrance to Safety Deposit aults 18 at %7 South 13th St 1 rst Natmna] PER.SONAL NOTES. Abdul Hamid is sald to be in a precarious which 1s not surprising. There no other sort of situntion an ex-sultan LAUGHING GAS. The Rev. Dr. Forthly—Brother H In view of your present spiritual o how do you think you would feel | were calied n to die? | Brother Hardesty—I t'ink I'd fiel a zood deal of cur doctor, to know whether few days ago heid office since his appoint- [all the things you've told me about ths ment by President Pierce. The wonderful [cther werld were quite correct or not strength of his grip was due to the meager- | C1CA80 Tribune. ness of the salary | Dr. Charles A, dent of Union estv, h ness, s fyu A Massachusetts postmaster who dled a ni: of this or, is th any country eannot If_they united “Yes," spoke the de. What is it, sir? | “They can't get the Colonel Ira C. Copeley of Aurora is the [raised."—Chicago Tribune. first to ralse the banner of republican in- | yyijfe—Ma, can't it o ¢ surgency In the congressional campalgn in|[for a little while? Tommy Jo Tllinols. The colonel is against Uncle Joe | there's a comet (o be seen Cannon and Cannonism, and In favor of | Mother=Well, ves: but don't Roosevelt polictes, i Govesnor Hadley of Missour! lends ofti- | Grl tlal welght to the clarge, well attesied, | any g that Senator Stone defcated Governor Folk | Briggs—Oh. yes — vegetables At the senatorial primeries two years ags | Into cow.—Boston Transcript 1 votes of the tough wards A little knock like that won't e people ) iferated the ¢ eay it shall be don the fussy old person In there's one thing they ean't skl t saya Raymond, the new presi- university, has started a movement to erect at Union a suitable memorial to John Howard Payne, author | of “Home, Sweet Home." battlesh you go too joined the b etables the riod | of o Griggs 5 I suppose you've you are living on | Knicker—Smith | more money | Bocker—No won | 1ege president and woman.—New York is all the time wanting Louis. his father was a col- his mother was a Less than twenty-five Sun. Tillman began war on tamilles controlling the Carolina. In 18%0 he was elected governor and re-elected two years later. In 1893 he stripped the senatorfal toga from General Wade Hampton. Two yea later he re- tired M. C. Butler and made his debut In | the United States senate. All this Tillmar did with a pitchfork and one eye. Countess de Castelmenardo is now ing Washington and is connected with the historic familfes of the country. Her father Thomas B. Van Buren, was United States minister to ‘Japan, and she is a great grandniece of President Van Buren. On her mother's side she also has interesting connection, belng the granddaughter of Joseph Sheffield, who founded the Shet- field scientific school at Yale. Voicing an American Protest. Charles J. Bonaparte in the Century, Many years ago a well known man in my native city sald with great contempt “Oh, he is a miserable creature! He hasn't $10,000 n tho world!” The sentiment underlying this re- mark has become in certain circles odiously tamillar. If a man has a million, he is years ago Ben the aristocratic politics of South | iy ap ment Second dunning Physiclan—8o you've lost Rogers as nt.Didn't he respond to your (reat- rh let iclan—Yes, but_not to s.—Lippincctt’s Magazine, ACCOUNTING OF STOCK. Burges Johns Come here, little glirl, come here! g Your daddy has ser.ous fears ! That no one took care, wnen combing your hair, my 1 10 Harper's. visit T what became of your ears, Why, biess me! 1 shouldi’t have said There was one on each siie of your head! But p'r'aps it {s done that way for the fun Of hearing two secrets us easy as one! Come here, little girl, come Your daddy is anxious If that nose is in pluce on face Jus. where t's Intended to be. | Dear, dear, it's too round at the end! But that'll’' be easy to mend— A little girl’s nose grows just grows, So Il be easy to pincn, here! ) see foont of your t the where it 1 suppose. Come here, little girl, come here! Your daddy with trouble Is tossed. 1t's ages since he has counted to e That none of your toes have been lost. Thank goodness!” There's ten of ‘em he There was no occasion for fear, But cvery one knows a littie girl's Should all hurry with her wherever. * goes. to:s being; If he has ten, he is named with she reverence; it a hundred, he is approached with nine prostratfons, Against this sordid abasement the manliness and conscience of the American people have revolted, and Theodore Roosevelt gave a volce to their protest. Hls countrymen will remember him as a president who was not afrald to do right. Come here, And cur He real] little girl, come here! your poor daddy's alarm. can't say, from so far away, 1f you've got the right number of arms, What! No more than two? Is that right? 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