Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 28, 1910, Page 4

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Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company Only 2-cent stamps recelved In pavment of mail accounts. Bersonal checks. excapt on | Omaha or eastern exchanges. not nceepled STATEMENT OF CTRCULATION. | State of Nebraska, Douglas County. s George B, Taschuck, treasurer of The Res Pubilsl Company’ being _duly sworn. | 3 the actual numoe: of full and complet coplea of Tha DAl ning. Evening and Buna. Y. ay Tee printed during the month of January. 1610, was as follows: . Treasurer, Jubseribed in my nce and sworn to before me this ".'D;s of Jauuary. 1910 ROBERT HUNTER, | Notary Public. porarily should have watled to th Address will he changed as often as requested, Tt Not a bank failure in Nebraska for a whole year. Cross your fingers. — If the ultimatum is to be, ““Clean up or go to jall,” we may as well clean up first, —— It 1s sald that New York politics has “Inside” of it something like the col- * ored comic section of & Sunday news- paper. h —— “‘Union labor revivals” will be held in Iowa this spring, trom which one is led to think that Iowa must be full of backsliders. A It isn’t safe to depend on a promise made by a candidate for office not to run ‘agaih if he wins out. Consult Bdgar Howard. —— Two more graln elevators are prom- ised to Omaha. Now for a few dereal mills, glucose works, starch factories and floyring mills, —— The reorganizers of our Independent Telephone company and the promoters of the Platte river power canal might Join forces to advantage. It vety lol the reg exmfl;“ 1 Now it 1s a ‘‘pay-as-you-enter” home. Is it not time to call a halt somewhere? The tirst thing we k}nw someone will try to make it Pay-as-you-enter’’ heaven. iy, winter's record 1s continued the, state militia will have armiy bested in actual tiejd diriag all sorts of weather. Omaha has formed an Aero club, or rather the nucleus of an aero club for the whole state. Omaha also stands ready to furnish all the atmosphere $18,000,000 warship is the next ibing on the program.: It fa to be not only the largest, but also the highest priced, therefore it ought to be named the “‘Cost of Living."” ) —— How ,is this for an improvement? An American engineer took hold of the locomotive on a Mexican road and re- duced the schedule from seventy-two hours to seventeen on one run. ‘While cawvln. the resources of Alaska the Protection of the seal would be very much to the point. In @ few years the great herd has been reduced from 4,000,000 to" 50,000, Earthquakes are being felt out at Columbus. Now, if the people out there could hang to those ‘‘quakes’ until Mr. Bryan arrives home they could use them as part of the celebra- tlon, 3 —_— If County Commissioner Bruning wants republicans to ‘‘co-operate with him wp.n he runs for re.election it would not be out of order for him to “‘co-operate’” with his republican asso- | eral incorporation law, Taft's rallroad pro. |after day to debate om the many aspects | last An Industrious Congress. Notwithstanding the efforts of some noisy newspaper critics to create the ifmpression that congress is simply mark time, those who are best in. formed, and honest enough to confess it, admit that the present sesslon has manifested habits of industry to a de- gree greater than usual with our na- tional lawmakers. Collier's Weekly, | which has been lambasting the admin- | {stration as hard and as continuously | as any of them, makes this soul-satis- fying confession in its current issue The cry that this Is a do-nothing congress s not fair. True, the session began De- cember § and Is now In ita eleventh week True aleo, only one of the important bills | proposed. by President Taft has been reri- ously discussed. But there Is no arbitrary date when congross must adfourn. The sos- slon will end only when congresk itself makes up its mind to stop. It fs normal for congress to sit until late in June; it may, Jf It feels the demand of the country, continue in session until August of Sep- tember; sore sessions have lasted antil October. There Ia yet ample time to debata adequately, and finally pass upon, the fod- gram and the other mensures recommended by the president. Meanwhile, no person who has followsd the proceedings of both houses can falrly say that time has been wasted, or that dilatory tactics have pre. valled. “The house has finished its debate the statehood bill; the senate has en- gaged In an exhaustive discuscion of the diffioult and complicated subject of postal savings banks. The house has given day on of the appropriations bill, and anyone who has followed that discussion careful belleve that the debate has been, with neg- ligible exceptions, sincere and useful. The founder of The Bee prescribed this safe rule, ‘Never write a man's obituary until he is dead,”” because the moment might produce disclos- ures that would change the whole as- pect of a care The same rule ap- plies to congress, and any other legis- lative body, which in a few hours be- fore adjournment may spoil its good reputation or make up for all previous omissions. So far as the' present ses- slon has gone, however, there 1s no real reason for complaint. On the con- trary, the work is well started and the subject matter is being given serious and careful consideration, Divisions between the ‘parties and within the parties seem to make necessary more or less compromise before projected legislation is enacted.’ But the needed majorities are likely to get together in | due time and make the record of this congress one of real performance be- fore the curtain is rung down. Bonds for New School Buildings, The Board of HEdueation is cogi- tating a proposition to be submitted to the voters whereby authority would be sranted to issue $750,000 in bonds to provide new buildings for the Omaha public schools. 'The steady growth of school attendance in Omaha makes it imperative to provide additional build- ings from time to time in which to house the classes. Buch is the pride 'of our people in maintaining ~their schools at the very highest standard of excellence that they dre always ready to meet all necessary ‘demap ‘When it comes to voting authority to issue $750,000 of school ‘bond howeve; we belleve the taxpayers have & right to know in advance just what 18 to be done with their money. We voted a $500,000 bond issue not long ago on an indefinite prospectus, and after the board got the money at its disposal it began playing favorites with different features of the building program. It we are to 'wote more bonds for new school buildings now the bond proposition should state in it just what buildings are eontemplated and the maximum amounts to be spent on each, and then no future school board will be able to change its mind and put all the money into two or three pockets to the neglect of other sections of the city equally entitled to consideration. \ Another thing which The Bee has! more than once emphasized, the fiscal pollcy of the school board by which the taxpayers are required not only to pay off through the bond sinking fund $60,000 to $75,000 a year on the cost of old school buildings erected through boud proceeds, but also to pay $25,000 a year out of cyrrent revenues for new construction, to say nothing of the large amounts spent for construction disguised as repairs, is all wrong. The present generation of taxpayers in Omaha is perfectly willing to econ- tribute its full share for providing the permanent plant for our schools in ad- dition to the cost of running them, but they should not be called upon to bear a double burden to sink the bonds and furnish money for new construction at one and the same time. The Democratic Subsidy BiH, The subsidy bill introduced by Rep- resentatiye Humphrey of Mississippi, half of the democratic minority as a substitute for a republican measure now before the house, indicates that the democrats are not opposed to the subsidy idea, except that they do not want any subsidy scheme that is pro- posed by republicans. This new bill proposes, among other things, a with- drawal of any benefit or remuneration paid to forelgn ships for carrying our clates on the board now. After reading the accounts of the Cairo and Philadelphia riots, as well a8 the proceedings of the actress-mil- lonaire divorce courts, a person is apt to feel less aspérity toward the court soclety of Louis XVI and the subse- quent reign of terror Before the winter is over theré is liity 9t Americans taking a o away from the Norweglats, the curling champlonship from the Beotch and the skating cham- plonship from the Canadlans. Spring I8 nearly here, so that may be all we ! can do this winter, mails, free admission of materials used in ship building and to protect, in ways specified, the American ship building industry. Have the democrats really been op- posed to the ship lul’gldy and the pro- tection of American industries hereto- fore, or have they simply been opposed to republican activity to build up an American merchant marine. Have they for the purpose of being offered on be- | TH against protective tariff, why did they not offer a substitute tariff bill em- bodying their ideas for the one we have and about which they have so much to say. If the ultimate good of the Amer- fcan people is at the heart of the dem- ocratic party they. could at least make a trial at constructive legislation. But Instead they have been content to sit back, draw their pay and simply hinder every plece of progressive lawmaking put forward by republicans. In his speechmaking trip through the south after the election, President Taft emphasized the fact that the pol- ey of opposition always maintaimed by the democratic party has contributed | nothing to the constructive legislation of the country coming from those dis- tricts having democratic congressmen and senators. It takes a broad view to realize the number and size of the riegated Interests of the United States. For that simple reason democratic ‘“stateemen” usually devote their time solely to opposing republican measures in order to make political capital for| themgelves at home, and the demo-| crati€ subsidy bill is a sample of such work. Spirit of the Knight Errant. The old spirit of adventure, char- acteristic of the knight errant, is not dead and every day crops out inh some daredevil sport or experiment. The ef- forts of a Jason hunting for the golden flecce look small beside a Peary dls- covering the North pole; Sir Launcelot encountering a mythical forest monster is put to shame by Theodore Roose- velt in Afriea, and the mighty Sir Ro- land, with his horn calling for succor | in time of need, has been outdone as the operator clicks off the “S. 0. 8. with his wireless instrument on the sinking vessel. America does not take a back seat for any race of people when it comes | to defying danger for sport, adventure or necessity. During this coming sum- mer a motor boat race will be run| through the rapids of the Niagara river. Just what it is for has not been | stated, but the prizes have been put up and-the race ‘‘fans” are scheduled for another “thrill.” The race will be- gin as near the falls as possible and will run down the rapids through the whirlpool to Lewiston—provided, ot course, authorities from the shores do not interfere. To do something with more thrills in it than anyone else has done is a hobby, regardless of the value of the achievement. In fact some people could even enjoy taking part in a glad- iatorial contest in this age of the world. Sports of all kinds which are popular have to involve danger to life and limb, apparently, in order to rank high as sport and to live for any length of time. These sports and contests are taken up as pleasures and as a busi- ness also. " Yeét thfs' age is so practical that ev- erything, whether adventure or sport, is turnéd to sbme account and eventu- ates in some sort of an invention. What | ";nny’be adventure at first shortly turns into experiment and the production of something “with money in it.” It was a man seeking to attract attention by walking' out into) the Niagara river twenty feet above the American falls, on a wager, who discovered that the water-power could be utilized. The balloon ascension preceded the dirigi- ble and the aeroplane. It is seldom, in these days, that anything attempted in sport or in earnest does not result in something practical. One 'of our professional preacher re- formers complains about alleged vul- garity in a certain cheap theater, and says that because this sort of an offense is not within the scope of the anti-Saloon league some other civie qcuochtlon should take it up, What's the matter with the preacher himgelf? If he is afraid to go to the front, why can’t he persuade his church trustees to do it. Or has he no influence there? The Bee will make the complaint. It is reported that only one-fourth of the $40,000 appropriated by the late democratic legislature to pay for the work of making a physical valua- tion of ¢he railroads has so far been expended. The jobless man must be even scarcer around here than anyone would imagine. That much-made-of letter from L. D. Richards, proclaiming himself to be for statewide prohibition, proves to be @ fake and a forgery. Why should prohibition zealots start in on this sort ot work 80 early in the game? 1 Nothing has been heard from Wall street for several days and it has been suggested ‘‘the street” is saving up its | breath and strength. for a most glori- ous calamity ' demonstration when Theodore Roosevelt comes home. men were born during the month of Februany. It is about all some of our orators can do now to get ready for the' existing celebrations and get over the effects of them. It 18 a pity to have that renowned French lawyer come to America to fight the Wright suits against French aviators for patent infringement. He certainly is in for a large crop of ex- perience. —_—— The first “steps” are being taken in the beef rate cases. There are so many been sincere in, their psst attitude or have they béen content to take the part of the old lady, “and just be eternally on the other side?” If they belleve In, favoring American shipowners suffl- clently to frame up & bill to that end in order to find an entering wedge E BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, If he will furnish the evidence |' It is a good thing no other great | FEBRUARY 28, 1910. Nebraska’s Experience With Variegated Ballots The Imquiry. NEW YORK CITY, Feb. 15, 1910.—Dr. Victor Rosewater, Editor The Omaha Bee dear Bir—In connection with certaln pro- b “ed changes In the form of ballot in New Yo % state, I am making an investigation into the actual working of the several forms of ballot now fn use In this country, and, on the suggestion of Mr. Clinton Rogers Woodruff, I am taking the libery of writing to you to ask if you can give me some in- formation as to the practical etfect of the form of ballot now In use in Nebraska. Is this form, in your opinion, more, or less, satisfactory than the three other principal formo-l. e, (1) the straight “party col- umn” form, (2) the moditied “party col- umn" form, with no party circles for vot- ing a straight ticket, or, (3) the straight ‘Massachusetts” form? What effect do you think It has on the amount of inde- pendent voting? Do you think that the fact that, of the nine states which, at one time of another, have tried it, only three (Colorndo, Nebraska and Pennsylvania) now retain It, Indicates that it is a transi- tlonal, rather than a permanent form? Have you noticed any other Important ef- fects, elther good or bad, from its opera- tion In Nebraska? As you are probably awara, Governor Hughes has for some time recommended the adoption of the stralght ‘‘Massachusetts" ballot in New York state. This year it is proposed, as a partial compliance with this recommendation, to adopt the ‘‘Massachu- setts' arrangement, but retain the party clrcles for voting a stralght ticket, very much as you have done in Nebraska, Iam exceedingly anxlous to secure all the in- formation possible as to the experience of other states with this form of ballot, and shall, therefore, be very grateful to you for any assistance which you can give me. Hoping that this is not asking too much of you, I am, very truly yours, ARTHUR LUDINGTON. The Answer. OMAHA, Feb. 2, 1910.—Mr. Arthur Lud ington, New York City. My Dear Sir: I have your letter of the 19th inst, and tear only that I cunnot answer your questions fully in the brief compass of a letter. In Neraska We have experimented with several forms of the Australian ballot. As 1 recall it, we started out in 1591 with a ballot much Wke what Governor Hughes recommends, (hat is to say a ballot con- taining all the candidates listed In a single column designafed with party affillations, 10 vote for whom it was negessary to make a cross after each preferred name. This was followed in 1897 by the emblem or pletorial ballot, the ticket arranged in columns side by side, the party emblem at the top with a eirole beneath for straight party voting. It is interesting to note that the Introduction of the party circle came from a legislature dominated by the so- called “allied reform forces” consisting of a tusion of Bryan democrats, populists and sliver republicans. Our present ballot, resting on & law enacted in 1901 as a com- promise hetweén the political parties repre- sented In an almost evenly divided legis- lature, consists of a single column with the names for candidates for each office arranged under the appropriate heading and labeled with their respective party designation, with & hollow square opposite each for the cross-mark,” and one blank line in which & name may be written. At the top of this present ballot we have the party circles, ofje beneath the other, demo- crat, republican, soclalist, populist, etc., in the order of precedence according to the size of the voié polled at the preceding election. Here In Douglas county, which contains Omaha, the largest city we have, we have the voting machine (the United States_ standard pattern) with the party lever, 0 that the voter may reglster for a strajght party ticket or separately for candidates on differént tickets. 5 There is no question but what the party circle Or the party lever on the machine makes for straight party voting. With the multiplicity of candidates we have to elect (there were over forty In 1908) I cannot con- vince myself that the stralght ticket is worse than the chaos that would be pre- sented If every voter had to make forty oross-marks on his ballot. The recent dem- ocratic legislature, professing the usual al for nonpartisanship which alw overtakes a minority party, tried to give us & law with a separate Maksachusetts ballot for candidates for judiclal and ed- ueational offices, but overshot the mark by prohibiting the endorsement, condemna- tion or criticlsm of any candidate by any convention or assemblage of voters, and the law succumbed before a supreme court decision. Personally, I belleve the Massd- chusetts bajlot would be desirable in local elections in which personal familiarity with the candidates s possible If we had a short ballot with not over four or five offices to fill. But I do not belleve it s desirable In state elections or In local elections where we have from twenty to forty offices to i What T have here written relates to the ballot used In the regular election. We have likewise experimonted In officlal bal- lots for primary elections at which our candidates are nominated by direct vote. The first ballot was a purely alphabetical ballot, the names of candidates In each party being printed on a separate party ticket alphabetically arranged under the respective office headings. This was prac- tienlly the Massachusetts ballot. The chiet objection made to It was the great advant- age given a candidate first in the alphabet, and the utter contusion produced by the tremendous number of candidates filing for nomination, making it necessary to center on some list in the nature of a slate in or- der to avold the nomination of utterly unfit men. The alphabetical preference has been obviated by what is called rotation, the tickets being rotated from one voting Als- trict to another 80 as to place each candi- date’'s name at the top of approximately the same number of ballots and give him an equal chance at the accidental vote The same democratic leglslature, to which 1 have already referred, transtormed our previous closed primary, in which each voter was given only his own party ballot, to the wide-open primary with all party tickets printed in columns side by side on a large blanket ballot, affording each voter an opportunity to help nominate the candi- dates of any party he may choose, condl- tioned only that he keep his cross marks in but one party column. This open primary 1 regard as thoroughly viclous. It permits one party to nominate the candidates for another party and is completely subversive of party organization and party govern- ment. We have had only one trial of it in an off-year, and will have a fullef trial this coming summer. Our whole experfence with variegated bal- lots, in my opinion, has probably expedited some reforms that would have come more slowly, but also brought along some new evils. The big improvement was the adop- tion of the Australlan ballot and the ac- companying safeguards of the ballot box to prevent fraudulent voting, repeating, ete. Outside of that we seem to be between two extremes of blind party following on one #ide and complete demolition of party lines on thel other. I belleve that we will have to find some middle ground that will insure party nominations made by the rank and file of the respective parties and give the parties an opportunity to marshal thel forces behind thelr tickets, while leavin the Independent voter who wants to scratch free to do so. I do not think, however, that we should do anything calculated to dis- franchise the large body of voters of aver- age_ intelligence who stick to party lines in order to make more effective the small and possibly more Intelligent body of no- party voters, If you wish further Information or sample ballots, 1 may possibly be able to accom- modate you, but I think you will find the samples set forth in our Nebraska session laws. In this statement you will note that 1 have made no reference to the so-called Orcgon plan of choosing Un tely States sena- tors, which Mr. Bryan has pjt on us, be- cause it does not seem to by within the scope of your questions. Yourk very truly, VICTOR ROSEWATER. Henry Clay. If the present peaceful condition is the best this modern great pacificator can do, the venerable Ken- tuckian must be turning somersaults in his grave. ] Influence of Hot Oratory. ‘Washington Herald. Mr. Heyburn recently advocated a cer- taln idea 80 vehemently in the United States senate that the only vote It got was his own; a few days later, Mr. Davis duplicated that somewhat remarkable per- formance. These two should now form a genatorial mutusl admiration and sur- yivors' assoctation. T TT] Material for a Thriller. St. Louls Republic. There is material for a dramatic novel or melo-dramatic play In the story from Texas of the man who was stabbed, sup- posed to be dead, but wasn't, recovered, moved away from Texas and now returns after many years to rescue his ‘‘mur- derer” from a long term in the peni- tentlary. It reminds one of Mark Twain— or who was 1t?—who read his own obituary in a newspaper, but wouldn't belleve it. e ' Tama Jim Baltimore American. The Department of Agriculture recom- mends the eating of certain vegetables to produce certain characteristic Thus beans produce brains, peas stimulate the tender passion and potatoes d the reasoning powers. Boston has alr discovered the first fact, which may ac- count for Its intellectual supremacy over its sister citles. That peas allieratively correlate with passion may explain why it Is instinctively taken bad form to eat them with a Khife or other pointed {nstrument, which cuts affection, while the relation of potatoes to reasop may lle In the fact that potatoes, like wise men, have their eyes peeled. LIMITING INJUNCTIONS. ories. Philadelphia Bulletin. The measure which Represetitative Moon of Philadelphis has introduced in the house te modify the lssue of Injunction by federal judges seems to conform to the changes which President Taft has advised in this regard. It is based on the principle that befote & judge shall grant & permanent or pro- longed Injunction against any person, firm, corporation or organization both parties to the dlspute shall have an opportunity to present thelr arguments .3:-0” him, in or- der that the facts on xide shall be tully set forth for the guldance of the “steps” In an ordinary case and in- vestigation that most of us would pi fer to be notified when the last ‘‘step” is taken. A peculiar element of the Philadel- phia affair is that the direoter of pub- lic safety 1s & mau by the name of court. ‘When, however, it shall appear to the satisfaction of the judge that “‘Immediate and trreparable injury’” may follow fallure on his part to act at cnce, he may fssus & temporary injunetion or restraining or- der on the applioation of one of the par- ties; but this mandate shall continue I effect only for seven days, st the end of which it becomes vold unless both sides shall have had an adequate hearing, More- over, when a judge has granted a tenta- tive Injunction of this sort he shall pub- licly record his reasons for belleving that grave damage would have resulted if he had omitted to do so. Many complaints, some of which have undoubtedly been without valid founda- tion, but others of which seem to have had a certaln basis In fact and equity, have been made regarding the use of the Injunction power by the national “courts 8o far as may be judged from the printed summary of its provisions, the bill pre sented by Mr. Moon appears to be an hon- est effort o limit the possible abuse of judicial authority in this direction, while preserving the legitimate exercise of that authority in cases where it may be plainly needed in the Interests of justice. | | Our Birthday Book February 28, 1910. W. Bourke Cockran, orator, lawyer and member of congress, was born February 1|38, 184, Mr. Cockran doesn't have to tell any one he was born in Ireland. He has spoken in Omaha several times. Fred W. Lehman, the bfg St. Louis lawyer, was born February 25, 188, In Prussia. Mr, Lehman was president of the American Bar assoclation last year. Samuel W. MoCall, lawyer and veteran congressman from Massachusetts, is §9. He is & Pennylvanian by birth, and represents In congress the Cambridge district which includes Harvard university in its consti- tuency. Rt. Rey. Mons. A. M. Colaneri, cellor of the dlocese of Omahs, was born February 2, 185, at Rome. He was formerly secretary to Bishop Scannell. Vietor L. Berger, prominently known as & soolalist leader, is just 50 years old today. Mr. Berger was born in Austria, and now lives In Milwaukee, where he edits a soclalist paper. E. C. Garvin of Garvin Bros. real estate and Investments officing in the New York Life bullding, was born February 2, 180, at Belyldere, Ill. He wen: to Nerth- western university at Evanston, and In/the early eighties was cashier of & bank in Eouth| Dakota. He has been In Omaha sinee 188 and eontinuously In his present business. C. E. Bedwell, vice president and secre- tary of E. E. Bruce & Co, wholesal druggists, is 6. He was born in Agency City, 1., and educated in Ottumwa, where he started in the drug business at 20 y of age. He has been assoclated with and one of the preprietors of 1. K. Bruce & Co., ever since 183, Rev. John Albert Willlams, rector of the church of St. Phillip the deacon, was born February 8, 1866, at London, Ontario, and sraduated Into the ministry from the Se bury Divinity school at Fairbault, Minn Mr., Wiliams has the only colored congre- gstion of the Eplscopal church I this section of the country chan- THRIFT IN CONGRESS, Some Specimens Partly Uncovered by Members. New York Sun The proposal to have a committes in congress to check Ita tendency to appro- priate without scrutiny of detall or knowl- edge of how money Is to be spent, has en- llsted the experience of Mr. Aldrich of Rhode Island, who bas been more than twenty-eight years in the senate and when he says that if he could regulate the expenditure as a business man he would save the ecuntry many millions of dollars & year—one report of his remarks makes the amount $30,000,00 and another $30,- 000,000-we welcome him as an economizer who ought to know what he Is talking Sbout and who should be pressed into service at once. We wonder only that he has not volunteered before. Mr. Bur- kett of Nebraska has told that congress s siipshod and even Igno- rant in its methods of giving the depart- ments what they ask for. He it was who urged that bulletins illuminating the stew- ardship, the nesds and intentions of publie officers should be on the desk of every senator and reprosentative when more money was sollcited. He is not a speclal- Ist, as Mr. Aldrich is, but it would be shortsighted to disregard the little ecomo- mists who protest againat duplication of accounts and multiplication of place warm- ers. For Instance, there is Hon, Martin Dies of Texas, an unfamiliar face In the house, who, coming from Beaumont, an inconsiderable town In Texas, is dismayed by the luxurious habits of members of congress and the unprotested prevalence of nepotism. With the hardihood of youth, Mr. Dies has told the house to its face what he thinks of the spectacle: “The house of representatives s com- posed of less than 400 congressmen, yet we have 423 officers and employes. These 433 mysterious persons—and I use the word ‘mysterious’ advieedly—receive large sal. aries, Of thess employes 270 THreive W ni. aries of §1,000 and upward them get $3.00 and upward (wency. ge. |$4.00 and upward, thirteen £c. %4 and |upward and two of, them receive $6,500 leach. I am sure I have never seen as many as 10 per cent of the entire number around the capitol or office bullding. No | man has ever been found who can tell | what they do. Of course, thers are some |of them who work. Nearly all the doors around the capitol have a doorkeeper, and many of them two dodrkeepers. Of one thing I am_convinced, and that these 423 men are not all engaged In the kind of work which the records of the government show them to be engaged in. R “Among the 423 officerh and employes I find one man employed on a salamy of 31400 a year as ‘assistant in the Bath- room.’ There are three others on the payroll as laborers in the bathroom. If| members of congress can charge their baths and shaves to the people and make | the people pay the, man who doctors the corns on thelr toes, what is to keep them | from charging their jeweiry and groceries to the long suffering public? My curlosity is thoroughly aroused with regard to these officers and employes. Looking through the list I find that ninety of them bear the same names ag members of congross, {and I am curious to know how many of these 423 are related to those who employ them at public expense.” | It'is easy to laugh at homespun Mr. Dies—quite the natural thing, in fact; but in his way he is as conscientious as Sen: tor Burkett and as well meaning as Mr. Aldrich of Rhode Island. NEWSPAPER READING IN LENT, An Argument in Favor of Mental § Stagnation. St. Paul Ploneer Press. Tn a sermon preached to a New York congregatfon Bishop Cortland Whitehend advised his hearers to “do without news- papers during the Lenten period and to | replace their scandals and their mass of | Ill-assorted Information with more edi- | fying works." He argued the point. at ' some length, Insisting that newspaper reading was one of the bad hablits of the | people that should be given up during Lent. Possibly the bishop was only urging ! more discrimination in newspaper reading, and with that no fault can be found, but | his general criticism, as reported in the press, Is too sweeping and wholly untair. 1f the newspapers are as bad as the bishop indicates, he should not stop at asking that they be avolded during Lent. He should be urging that they be not read at all. However, there is no reason to be- lieve that the world would be better If men and women should quit reading news- papers for forty days, Bishop Whitenead to the contrary notwithstanding. Rossibly the newspapers contain items that should not be printed In Letn or at any other time, but the press is working as hard as the pulpit-—and more days In the week— to fmprove the conditions, to spread the gospel of right thinking and right living. It would be as easy for the men of today to take to the wilderness and turn hermits as do without their newspapers, In the meantime, there will be no ob- jection to Bishop Whitehead reading “Pil- grim’'s Progress and the “Lives of thg Martyrs” untll Easter, but if he does he will be forty days behind the procession of progress. S0 Near and Yet 8o Far. the ocountry | Is that|. | her " PERSONAL NOTES. | Bulgaria furnishes another algn 1‘ | vernal efforvesconce. *“The Balkan States | Wil rise in the spring.” A proposed coalition between Dr. J-m’x | ®on ana General Botha in the formation o il South Afriean government shows what the whirligig of time can do. Butler Ames, of Massachusetts, a mem- ‘lw‘r of the House, who has just announced himself as a candidate to succeed Sonator | Lodwe, does not devote all his time to | politios. He is an inventor. Just noy te is perfecting an aeroplane. | Dr. Flexner, head of the Rockefeller In- | stitute In New York, says medielne has | been an experimental ealling throughout all history. Dr. Ilexner has evidently not read much of the printed matter that comes | wrapped around every bottle of patent medicine, Mrs. Anna Sturges Duryea has been ap- | pointed by the International School ot Peace as its officlal representative on the platform. She will deliver free of char talks or lectures before any woman's ol\fi or other soclety interested the object of the soclety, univ and arbl- tration. It is significant that Mr. Syed Ameer All, the eminent Mosiem scholar and pub- Heist, who is the first Indian to be chosen a privy councillor of the empire, at & din- ner recently given in his honor in London; attended by many of the most eminent of British statesmen and scholars referred to tudyard Kipling as “‘an Imperial asset' Anna Gould, who married Count Bonl de Castellane, and then divorced him, and who afterward married Prince Hello de Sagan, has now got her money's worth, Helle's father is dead, and Helle sucoeeds to the dukedome. Anna is therefors a “herene highness. Countess; duchess; wife of two rakes; talk of two continents—what more could any mortal woman ask? nder the new primary law of Kansas candidate, from governor to con- must have a certaln number of his petition, and he must make U vass personally, but thr ’ his friends. Among the places to which the law applies are fourteen state of- fices, twenty district offices, 1,500 county offices, 7,600 township offices and 1,500 locul committee positions. For each of the: places there are from one to ten candidates. In the aggregate the nomination pap might answer for a siate directory. PASSING PLEASANTRIES. 1 suppose the people in that gonvenu . stood J’yp for you like one man,” sald th cheery friend. “It looked just about that way,"” replied Senator Sorghum, ‘‘when came tu guum the votes in my favor.”—Washington tar. in peace “There ls one thing 1 like about Binks. No matter what he does, he comes out in the open to do it.” ‘ “1 know of one action he always is care- tul to do under cover.” ‘1 dare you to name it." “Going "home in the rain. American, —Baltimore v < chopped “Pa,” said little George, down ' your favorite cherry “That's a good start dency, son,”" responded wise Mr. Washing- on. “Now split it into rails."~Washing- | ton Herald. “Why spend three years cuitivating your volce if you don't intend to go on’ the operatic stage?’ “For the same reason, I suppose, that you've spent fifteen or twenty years in cultivating a discriminating taste for aleo~ holic beverages and yet don’t intend to go into the salvon business,'—Chicago Trib- une. ‘‘Please, ma'am,” said the servant, “‘there is a poor man at the door with 'wooden ‘Why, Mary,” answered the mis| a reproving tone, “what can we do wooden legs? Tell him we don't any."—Lippincott's Magazine. Who is the gentieman seated the e touring car?" That Is the poet laureate of a\ ‘well- known biscuit factory.”—Birmingham Age- Herald. in with want In 1a “Mrs, Uppersett takes such great interest in her baby." “Yes; she says she was delightfully sur- prised ‘when it came, as she had obtained ldeas about babies from the comic supplements, you know.''=Puck. Tutter (looking out in That dog of yours seems Miss Clara, Miss Pinkerly—Yes, lighted. Just_after you his muzzle.—Philadelphia the front yard)— to be very frisky, he s simply d came pa 100k of Telegraph, LONGING. J. N. Hilllard in New York Tribune I crave no boundless hoard Of things I can't afford, No gold or gear, No jewels fine, No lands or kine, i No treasurs heaps of anything. Let but & room or two be mine, Where I may breakfast, lunch or dine Quite regularly, And feel care-free, When 1 go home night, To meet the smiling face of her; To hear the kettle sing, the kitten purr; To kl:o:’ that in the ice chest—padiocked tight— A sirloin steak awaits my appetite, 1 pray not for Great riches nor For vast estates and castle halls, Nor palaces with arrassed walls; I pray not that Men tremble at My power of place And lordly sway; N New York Tripune. The bequest of a fortune to the prohibi tion party is disallowed by a court on the ground that it was not directed toward & charitable object. It is thus judiclally de- termined that the prohibition party is not an object of charity. Discovery is to-day and has, fo fyer, Stomach Strengthener and Invigorator sold by druggists. It it knowing that its iqg are printed on its outsi attested under oath, are the best k which it is advised. 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