Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 2, 1910, Page 6

Bubaoribed in i ~_ ~efore me this mé DaiLy BEE “FOUNDED BY SDWARD ROSEWATER plwaal Gonitie o VICTOR Bntered at Omaha postoffice as #econd- clhgs matter » W ROSEWATER, WDITOR any TERMS o7 SUBSCRIPTION. g ily Bee (neluding Bunday), per week. Dadly n;eu':'ma:{')z 3 woek Datly ithout Sunday), one year Dally &nd Sunday,’ one year. DELIVERED BY CARRIER. g io% Bee twithout Sunday), per wesl Ew"-."m Pea ('-'-"u. nday), per weel Sunday Bes. k) Adaress s coms rregular delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha~The Bee Bufil Bouth Om-—'x'wemy-::nn and N, Councll Bluffs—15 Street. Linc: Bofiding Chica Marquette Bullding. New York—Rooms 1101-1102 No. 84 West l"ollmnth Street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. P to news should” be addressed: Omaba. Bes, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. p Romit by draft, or postal order ble to 4" m’.”gmmu Company, Only 2-cent -tun}r received In payment of ME Sccounts. Fersonal checks, except op Omahaor eastern exchanges, not accepted. STATEMENT OF OIRCULATION. of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.: orfe B, Tasehuck, reasurer of The E blishing ~Company, being daly Tttt o] i3 a i, Brening and Bunday Bes.prigted ¢ the month of February, 1910, was 16, .0 16. Returned coples Net total Duily ave) ge. . 44, GEORGE B, TZSCHUCK, Treasurer. lence and swi of Februar; T. HUNT! Fesi . -Notary Pubite. Subsgribers Jeavink the city ‘teme porarily Whowld Bave The Bee mailod (e them, Address will be Hofi' I ‘bu break your astragu- lous, sde for damages. to 0. 428 e It 18 & cold day when some. com- munity does not start a corn testing campaigd, | e e ——— There must be Wheels somewhere in Nicaragua, to, account for the large number of revelutions, nd~lfl.!§"hol iu made his debut at Bodthi Omaha. « The ond-seat hog will be in evidence a little later, — A flood in Nevads is. a deal of a rarity, N@yads 18 the s inta which;hieretofor allsorts of mofsture have been R . o, Thy and: Jury {8 etting ready to consid®t “cocalne, Jand someone has asked if the consideration is to be an 1ntnch erimegt. & R ¥ ? John D. Rockefeller has fixed it all right. | Chicken may go sky-high if it wantg ‘to’ now that John D. has just purchaged ‘2,000 pheasants. ———— |/ Febriary gains in Omaha's bank clearing®: figire @n ‘Mcrease of more than 20 per cent over February of a year ago. Pretty good showing. “‘Spring house cleaning has begun at Oyster Bay,” It is very wise, for somebody might get cleaned out about the middle of June if it had not been begun. y \\ That edsterner who pretended to commit sulcide to test the love of his wite was sorry it was not the real thing before his telghbors got through with him. e rep—— The deciston of the Georgla supreme Court giving the surgeon no fee be- cause s patient died will meet with general favor among patients in the same_position, ) % The United States mmy support too many physietans, but Omaha’s mem- bership of the medical fraternity seems to be making both ends meet % and then some. A-cétiiof of the drama has been pro- posed and it might be suggested that the fire department would do pretty {Swelll “Many of the modern “dramas” are too ‘warm alréady. The feftries-Jobnson fight 1s attract- ing 8o much l"en!lou that it bids falr to put primary election candidates to considerable disadvantage during the early part of the.campaign. /““The United States supports too < maby physicians” we are told, Judg- ,« :zm préss reports regarding the =% = of fees paid to * New York couj lienists” In the that 1s very true. - ?mn fl'ul.llon to experiment | with chloride of lime sesms to have had ‘A jmost: quieting effect on the 'l!m'mbln of our junior yellow. But there's Wb telling when the dread dis- easq will break out agaln. Efm- Indlans are to be lm: coptrol of the money and lands w! the government has been holding for themy. < Note a rising barometer .of | buslness activity tn the nelghborhood of ‘the Omaba reservation. e of.” The re- spected count must not expoetto have 8 way because he million with a The Contribution to Science. The completion ‘'of Mr. Roosevelt's Tfrican hunting expedition brings to a close a remarkably valuable, as well as lntbr-lh,, effort. Insofar as the hunt s concerned it is the world's record in duration of time and the number of beasts and birds brought down. Afriea hag béen the scene of many historieal hunting expeditions, but never has a hunt on the dark continent beem con- ducted so successfully, with so little sickness and so few accidents. The selentific value of the expedi- tion ean not be measured at once. The extensive study of animal life made possible through the collection sent home will correct some of the zoolog- feal data of our text books and add other data hitherto unknown. Several hundred speciméns of antmal life have been added to the museums of our countyy, as well as several thousand birds. The majority of these trophies go to the Smithsonian institute in Wash- ington, aithough many smaller mu- seums will be also enriched, Mr. Roose- velt keeping only six for himself. This great collection is the most remark- able ever made, mot only from the wide range of species covered, but especially from the rare specimens ob- tained. Of the rarest, the glant elands are sald to be the most valuable, no perfect specimens of this mammal be- ing possessed in Amertca. Some have questioned the huthanity of this expedition and have censured Mr. Roosevelt for "‘taking such pleas- ure in the slaughter of animal life.” But these critics are few in number, for the value of the: work, from the viewpoint of sclence,,is not to be depreclated. When the mounted callec- tion will constitute a great addition to that already in the Smithsonian. Furthermore, the study of animal life 498 | has given to Mr. Roosevelt the in- formation necessary to make him an authority on African fauna, adding an- other contribution to our sclentific lit- erature, Take it:altogether, this ex- pedition, while affording the great ex- president an enviable vacation, has been productive of results of inestima- ble value. An Unintentional Accomplishment. .~ While voleing s sentiment, which thirty years ago would have been cheered to the echo, Senator Heyburn of Idaho was astonished at recelving a rebuking silence. The spirit of eivil war days has been slowly dying a natu- ral death. The oratorical effulgence of flery orators kept it alive for years, but recently little has been heard and less thought, of an unforgiving nature, from either side of the old Mne. But, forgetting this, the ' senator {rqm Idaho waved the “bloody shirt,” pro- claiming anew the treason of ' the qouth. 'No ome cheered him' during hig speech and whem he had finished the people of ‘the United"States knew that the war spirit was dead. - ' Senator Heyburn wrought greater than he knew. He is a gifted speaker, yet instead of arousing the slumbering war spirit to renewed life by his efforts he has extinguished it entirely. The majority of the people of the yolinger generation in ‘America do mot know where Mason’s and Dixon's line used to be. The civil way Is a matter of history and the old antagonistic senti- ment is dead. This country can not afford to har- bor a bitter sectional grudge simply for the sake of tradition. Our fature {8 to be determined by the policies and initial actions of today. The, past ean not be changed and there is no call to bring back the bitter spirit of: those days when our nation bled from un- natural strife. In the words of Geén- eral Grant, as appropriate now as ever, “Let us have peace.” Let us bury Senator Heyburn's speech with the execution it accomplished and then forget it. U Government for Alaska. ith the opening of great reaches of wealth-producing country in Alaska for development the necessity of a sultable governmétit for the en- tire district becoméd more and more imperative. Althdugh new among our possessions, Alaska bids fair to be one of our richest territories. It has an area about twice that of Texas and In wealth of metal, mineral and lumber stands far ahead of the states and provinces under tht’olulrd of our gov- ernment. As the truth of this be- €0) .widely known thousands of hérdy individuals will go there for set- tlemiént. But no stable’form of gov- ernment yet obtains, and in some parts the law of the guw’ and of the.vig- llantes is the only one recognized, The settled communities of Alaska are separated by hindreds and thou- sands of miles of wilderness, with the pack mule and the sledge the only means of communfeation most of the year. The people are too widély scat- tered as yet for a representative form of government and teo aivided in their interests to get close together. Blec- tions could be held, but the roving habits of the population, under stress of the climate, would make. reliable representation difficult. A provineial form ot government, like that in the | Philippine islands, is neither wanted nor ry, for the majority of the are of American birth and breeding. As for a commission form of government, that aléo has its seri- ous disadvantages as well as its ad- vantages, . Federal control of Alaska for some time s necessary it the natural re- | sources there are to be conserved. The country must not be turned over to be despoiled by unscrupulous exploiters, who would only. develop for their own ends and when the wealth of mine and had been exhausted would leave it & barren waste. 8o the ques- - THE BEE: tion 1s, what kind of a government shall we give Alaskat How congerve its resources and at the same time open it up for development? How shall we supervise ana eontrol so as to hirder 1} the least and protect it the most? And Taxpayers Foot the Bills, The reversal by our state supreme court of the verdict in the Mauserjdes murder case looks like the injectfon of more technidalities of the law to de- lay, if not to prevent, substantial jus- tice. The court orders a new trial be- cause of error committed by the di trict judge in admitting testimony that should ‘have been excluded. Which reminde us of a story something like this once told by the late William B. Hornblower In a lecture to a body of New York law students: A distinguished lawyer was arguing his case when the presiding judge rapped him down with the remark, ‘Never mind that. Your client s presumed to know the law." “Yes, your honor,” was the reply, “I un- derstand that my client is presumed to know the law. ‘“The cabman who drove me down here today s presumed to know the law, “The boy who blacked my boots this morning is presumed to know the law, “I, myself, am presumed to know the law, “But, your honor, it takes & supreme court and a court of appeals to keep you stralght.” = In thé meantime the taxpayers foot the bills for costly new trials. { ) A Public Defender. Douglas county last year paid out| $3,746 as fees to lawyers defending indigent criminals in the district court. At present the judge who happens to be presiding over that particular division appoints some lawyer to de- fend the prisoner whenever application is made in due form, setting forth that { the accused s unable‘to hire his own legal adviser. The result is that this $3,745 makes’a nice little pot which is cut up in chunks, ranging from $25 to $100 each, and distributed by the eriminal court judge among his friends at the bar, which favors are supposed to be duly appreciated and recipro- cated. It seems to us b%t this is a rather costly luxury for ouf taxpayers to in- dulge, particularly as it is done with- out their knowledge and with only their tacit consent. The deputy eSunty attorney who does the prosecuting is { glad to serve on a salary of $1,200 to $1,600 a year, and certainly a salary of $1,800 could command as good tal- ent as Is furnished by the lawyers usually engaged in criminal practice. The creation of a salaried position of public defender would give as good, if not better, results than the present sysfem, and save the county at least $2,000 a year. It will doubtless be urged that leg- islation will be needed to bring about this change, but no legiglgtion is neces- sary. -~ All that {s required is for the judge of the criminal court to desig- nate a lawyer to be the public defender and reappoint him for each case in- volving an indigent prisoner, and the thing is dome. If the permanent em- ployment ‘of one lawyer at a fixed sal- ary would not spread the fees over a wide enough area the appointment might be made for three months at a time so as to let a few more lawyers in on the distribution. To pay out $3,745 In one year for defending crim- inals is a needles waste. of publie money. , Councilman McGovern s treading on dangerous ground ,when he says he would like to have the legislature wipe out the Water bbard and eud its paramount existence. He ought to know that the Water board is a sacred relic, not to be touched by profane hands, and that the Water board law- ers still expect to come in for $25,000 to $50,000 more of easy money. Mr. Bry has never had any trouble- heretofore in getting Ne- braska democrats to let him frame their platforms for them, and if he persists fn his desire to put the demo- cratic label on a county option plank this year, we will see the democrats eating out of his hand when the time comes. Twenty-one bids to provide fire in- surance for the‘city hall were found when opened by the city council to be 4dentical in the price asked. If such a thing happened in any other line of business, it might be regarded as circumstantial’ evidence of a rate- making ¢ombine. ~ o Colonel Roosévelt has not arranged to bring down one of those Egyptian “sphinxes.”” We have very few of those ‘specimens In this country and the habits of the species might be studied to advantage by the gossjps of America. Those Philadelphia strikers who are going from house to house solleiting assistance by which to continue the strike certainly lack a wense of humor. Of all the people on earth who want the strike to stop the householders are the first. One of/the reffeshing features of the rallway rate fight is the fearless independence manifested by our busi- ness men and shippers. The abolition of the free pass and the cessation of rebates has evidently produced a change. The average man considers himself very lucky this spring if he has a gar- den plot and a congressman to send bhim the seed. But after the “things" have begun to grow he is thankful chiefly for the garden plot, —_— of another Omaha bank formed as a state bank [} OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1910. to take advantage of the deposit guar- anty law should set some people think- fng. Not a single state bank in the metropolls and biggest city in Ne- braska. Why not let the th commis- gloner and the city veterinarian trade places for a month? If the health commissfoner I8 so suré ho could do the veterinarian’s work so much bet- ter, perhaps the rule would work both ways., b The University of Nebraska basket ball team may take a trip to Japan for a game. If Nebraska snould win, do you suppose it would take Interna- tional arbitratfon to smooth out the ruffles in the Japs’ feelings? Every Little Helps. New York Tribune Perhaps one proposed exchange of pro- feasor's between Denmark and America will be that the learned Danes will become leas easy to be taken In by American ad- venturers, | —_— An Ola_ Story. Indianapolis News. Why all this pother about the uitimate T getting short weights and shogy measures? He's used to it, isn't he? Be- sides, how else ocould dividends be what they are? The Short and Merry Lite, Pittsburg Dispatoh. ‘Warships which five vears after they are put in commission are condemned as unseaworthy seem to represent the theory of a short life and & merry one, which al- ways turns out to be a very costly one. \ Dend Basy. Brooklyn Hagle. Senator Aldrieh could save $300,000,000 for the country; so he says, it allowed to run it his way. When & man has run a shop as big as Rhode Island for @ good many yeags, running what there is lefs-of the universe seems like taking on a popoorn department, Upper Minsso! provement, Bloux City Journal Senator Burkett has Introduced a bill, which later he will offer as an amend- ment to the tivers and harbors bill, edlling for an appropriation of $250,000 for the pro- tection of the banks of the Missouri river at Omaha, South Omahsa and in the imme- diate vicinlty of Omaha, where, it is sald, the river has beeri doing much damage. In this connection it 1s declared the Ne- braska delegation is determined to make & strong fight for something more in the line of justice for the upper Missourl than is represented In the rivers and harbors binn it passed the house, Sloux City, however, up to date, is not represented fn the activities of this reform. INOCULATION FOR TYPHOID. Experiments Conducted by the Army at Fort Wadsworth, Brooklyn Eagle. If the experiments now being conducted at Fort Wadswerth on_Staten Island shall prove successful, has been no more useful sclentifio disoovery since the isola- tion of the germ of tubereulosis, Some 320 men,-all volunteers, have been Inooulated with,the, “killed” germ of typhold, which; 18 expected to act as a protection from, the disease as effectively as inoculation;dlees with smalipox. The experiments have not gone far enough vet to prave theix, protective value,.although it has been shown that no more serious fm- mediate effects. follow. the injection of the virus than in the case of vacéination for smallpox. The, formula lias been worked put at the army medical laboratory in ‘Washington, and the government sclentists have great faith in its potency. Typhold is & scourge even more to be dreaded than consumption on at least one account, Every dweller in towns breaths in thousands of the germs of consumption, but robust health usually atfords protec- tlon against thelr development. The typhold germ seems to have little respect for a fine physique. Men and women of robust physique are stricken down with it frequently and thelr chances of recovery seem as slight as those of the more feeble. Héretotore the only protection from typhold has seemed to be the sand filtera- tion of the water supplies of all cities and towns, United action in that direction Is almost impossible and the complete protec- tlon of rural regions is beyond human in- génuity. It the army laboratory has dis- covered an antidote for the diseass, the usefulness of the discovery will extend until such an outbreak as that at Ithaca a fow years ago will seem to our chil- dren as strange as the plagues of the middle ages now do to us. The future course of the inoculated soldiers should be watched with the greatest care. If they have really become immune, & better day has dawned In our clvilization. Our Birthday Book Mareh g, 1910, John W. Foster, diplomatist and onmce secretary of state, was born Maroh 3, 1884, in Indiana, and has represented this gov- ernment in a great many international commissions. e is now living i Wash- ington, Alexander E. Orr, the New York merch- ant and capitalist, 1s 79, He_will be re- membered as having served ws president of the New York Life Insurance company during the period after the insuranee scan- dals, ) Charles R. Sherman of Sherman & Mo- Connell Drug company was born March 2, 1862, at Montgomery Center, Vt. He went 1nto the drug business as a clerk at Oneita, In., In 1577, Aocating in Omaha four years later and commencing. business as Sher- man & McCannell, in 188, Mr., Sherman 18 & smember of the Omaha Water board and also of the Board of Trustees fgr the Nebraska School for the Deat. John H. Shary of the International Land and Investment company, with offices in The Beo bullding, was born March 8, 1872, #t Wilber, Neb. He has made quite a suc- cess ih real estate and land colonization. H. T. Lemist, president of the C. B. Haves & Co., 15 celebrating his fifty-fifth birthday. Mr. Lemist was born in Boston and once clerked in the banking Nouse of Levi P. Morton {n New York. He has been in the coal business since 1873 Harry Rowley, vice president of the George H. Lee company, born Mareh 2, 1874, at Birmingham, Mr. Rowley s ® printer by trade and WAs for years fore- man for the Rees Printing company. He has Ween with the George 'H. Lee ocom- pany since 1901, Brigadier General Henry B. Carrington, U. B A, retired, the old Indlan Tighter of the Siouk wars of 165-150, was born in Connecticut March 2, 184 At the close of the war he was sent west with his regiment and put In command of the Mountain district, Jdcluding most of Ne- braska. He was retired by special act of congress as a brigndier general in 1904 General Carrington is an suthor of dis- tinction and is af present living in Hyde '| lisher. A poll of members of both hotsss of con- &Tess on the pending postal saving bank bill, made by the Washington correspond- ont of the Chlcago News, shows deolsive mojorities In favor of the measure. In the house of representatives, out of 13 polled, 193 were favorable, thirty-three ageinst and elght-elwht nom-committal. Of the senators forty-nine are for postal sav- ings banks, ten against, fourteen non-com- mittal. On the proposition of depositing savings In local banks, thirty-nine sena- tors were favorable, elght for purchase of lands and twenty-nfis non-committal There were seventy-nine absentees in the house and nincteen in the senato when the poll was taken, at least a majority of whom are counted favorable. The poll by states shows the senators of lowa, No- braska, Kansas, Illinols, Minnesota, Mon- tana, South Dakota and Wyoming support the proposition, though divided as to the disposition of the savings. In the house poll Nebraska Is recorded five for, one ©bsent; Iowa, nine, for, 1 non-committal, one absent; South Dakota, two for; Wyo- ming, one for; Kansas, seven for, one non- committal; Colorado, three for. In fact the showing presents the western members nearly unanimous for postal savings banks and easterners divided with a majority against™ Victor Murdock, Insurgent, sometimes finds time to write for the magazines. Mr. Murdock also publishes a paper at Wichita, Kan, 5o he takes a deep Interest in the hearings now on befors the house postof- fice committee concerning a possible in- creso of mecond class mafl rates, and, A member of the committee, asks a number of questions, Recently there was before the committee the president of the Century Publishing company, relates the Washington Times, He was endeavoring to show that the ulti- mate subseriber would be about the only person to get it in the neck If the rates were increased. Mr. Murdock -seemed to think sfich a thing was possible, too, so the following dialogue ensued: “Mr. Scott, 18 it not true that those In the mechanical departments are thoroughly or- ganized, and that you could not make up the Increase out of those departments?” asked Murdock. “They are thoroughly organized,” the answer. “And the advertisers are organized, also, and they would not stand for yo ing the increased postage on them. 'They are. o organized,” said Mr, Scott. “Well, then, your cnly recourse would was tors, the men who write for the maga- sines?" suggested Mr. Murdock. “‘You are mistaken; they are the best or- ganised of all,” rejoined the veteran pub- ““You are not & member of the union, Vie, or yow'd know all about it,” sald Repre- sentative Smith of Californla, while the committee members laughed. — So long as a member of the United States senate remains on his own side of boys run at his beck and call, 1gnore the presence of mere ditizens when- ever he rides, and In fact, each individual sonator fs lord of all he surveys. When a senator gets over on the house #de ho must conduct himself after the fashion of the members of that easy-going body, or else have his dignity Joited oocas- {onally. Senator Smith of Soufh Carolina went over to the Mouse bullding a day or two 880 to attend a hearing of & committee, be to lesderi the remuneration to contribu-|' TEE BRYAN VALENTINE. Bloomington Advocate: The demoeratic party in this state did not relish the valentine Bryan sent them this year. The party 1s agalnst county option. There is already weeping and gnashing of teeth Tekamah Herald: The county option pill prescribed by W. J. Bryan for the democrats looks as large as & balloon to the Omaha bunch. They may as well Mmake up their minds to gulp It down; they will have to take it. St. Paul Republican: The Phonograph has declared against county option, W. J. Bryan has declared for county option. When we have dared to disagres with Mr Bryan, we have been told that we are presumptious. What about the Phono! graph? We"ll bet a nickel Dan didn't know that Bryan was going to do that: Paplilion Times: A number of demo- cratic editors have refused to follow W J. Bryan Into the county optiod camp, but most of them, however, olalm that the temperance question s a separate moral Issue aside from partiean politics and uJ such Mr. Bryan is entitied to his ow opinion, but that he cannot force county option Into the democratic state or national platforms, Auburn Granger: Since W. J. Bryan has come out so earnest on county option it will be proper to speak of the demo- oratfc parties of Nebraska. Well, this tep on the part of Mr. Hryan will have a tendency to make more independent voters t n ki a gt [ and fewer party followers, and as the | PAFTOt You sold me firet great step toward trus demacracy is )" to disrupt parties, the Granger must hur rah for Bryan and his awakening. Nebraska Clty Press: Old Dr. Bryan, with his bag of oure-alls, seems to have ehcountered serious opposition on the part of his democratic patients against his | latest remedy fn the political drug store. Dr. Bryan is belng reviled these days by his erstwhile friends and many of them @0 not feel dlsposed to forgive him for his lack of foresight, as they call it. We belleve Mr. Bryan is not so obtuse as not to fealize that county option 1s to be a big factor In the coming campaigns of Ne- braska. The prohibition movement, in- ead of dying out, as its opponents In- sist, 18 very much alive. While we have never glven . the county option feature much thought, we believe It will be adopted in Nebraska. We belleve Dr. Bryan is correct In his jump from the top of the fence and that he will make friends in the end—not because we belleve Is right—but because he has the cour- age of his convictions. We do not belleve county option is the cure for the llquor evil. Lgeal option Is the only way to settle one of ‘the most perplexing evils we have before us today, and good salton regula- tlon, coupled with local optfon, will make the liquor business as near Utoplu as it 18 possible ‘to make it, PERSONAL NOTES. It appears from a law sult n 8t. Louls that Mrs, Hetty Green has recelved $14,- 47 in interest on a $,000 mote and still has the note. Colonel George 5. Anderson of the general staff of the army, on duty in New York as chief of staff of the Department of the East, bears a remarkable resemblance to Major General Frederick D. Grant, for soveral years commander of the depart- ment. | By the will of Mathies Hollenback Arnot, disposing of an estate valued at from §5,- 000,000 to §10,000,00, which was pyobated at Elmira, N. Y., the city of Elniira re- celves his art gallery, with an endowment fund and his home, together.valued at bl . ay O T Mo 3 Of B ment of State. Ile sayy she is undobr an able lawyef, and it i & pleasu Jeot to establish a Richard Watson Gl | possible, to perpetoate Wnd realizo his (A lofty ideals of alvic patriotism and to oot tinue the efforts for the imprbvement of the conditions of eivia life, Which con- stituted so large a part of Nw own work, in the form of a fund of 8100, binger of s ferent from other American. —Baltimore Sun. ( But never has its 1 (] That Moses of But 6t has There men Beside it of gai riches What time the wite ntbP\‘m har £Y! They may have &ho has been in the Department of 3 lce ever since she came into the Dronrt. y to Im to do her justice Announcement has been made of a pro atlent memoriglly ler, and, o falie to ba nown as the Richard Watson G Fund for the premotion of good oftl: — ) SMILING REMARKS, “Always something new newadayn’ "')";.h“ I:mv‘;’”n-t made & girl at Smity . 1 a'on'véw."-—n’. Review. Bluebked—Are you olog to be the ham e, oot They have & mlm by .M\‘, -\ Robin—What' asoline bird Hicke—I sea uceceded In ing the hens ik 5 ,..,-k:"" T peta?-] Wicks-—By Boston Jinks—I saw something cheap at m.dase ain counter t " Binks—What was 1t? Jinks—A man walting York tor hin wite—xmm 01 Lady—1 want you to i "ot W Swlor ery badly. Bird Deajor—Wéll, madam, f'n & y better lr:lt};ld”ar‘.‘fl”m 'hm “fil‘}‘nyo-hm v::on mnmflr:& that me began down the Romans allowed fidr wives to “Nonsense! The lown any that you Signs of Spring Suburban lots are turning gveefy And thoughts to gardens go With radishes in In many 4 gleaming row. Nor heed what you may A TEDDY ON THE NILB. 8. E. Kiser in the Record-Herald, The Nile is wide, the Nile (s long, the Nlg story, sror has o "Nile till now achioved glory; ¥ Mbul?’o that great, historle trot ‘water BESUES e e e h ‘s or, - ; lhd':l'; reserved for us to grack ug ver ne who Iiffparts & deathless fame to thed far-reaching river. he barge of {hap'% mighty prince upon its tide has floated; n temple walls along its’ shores tho deeds kings are noted; ave often bent thefr knees and_murmured invocations, has_been succor to long dead and long forgotten nation: oseph :uy have sat and dpeamed rnere hed Wl her husband’s o6, Tt may be that Marc Antony, while flodting { on it gl Confessed Lo y, adl; CIM);P tra that he-loved hes wiNly, mad 't Iu.mn.uo.'ar the :;‘ barge's edge in falp ‘weather, ve their mirrored cheeks press lovin, together, And there, while ‘she was 104th to 1ob the cares of state sue her, rs A He may have held her brownish hand and quotad poems to her. re yet the Corsican had reached the of his ambition $600,000. Philander C. Knox, secretary of state, told' the' house ‘committee ‘on' appropria- tions that Miss Annle H. Shortridge has been In the government service since Mr. He 4aid not ke the way some visiting cross-examination the cotton growers from the south, and he arose to ask some ques- tions himself. “Will the gentleman pleaSe ' give his name?" asked Chairman Scott. “Smith,” replied the senator. “Please state your full name,” com- mapded Mr. Soott, in a téne which indi- cated that there might be'several Smiths in the country. “Ellison Dy Rant Smith,” responded the senator, “And where' are you from and what do you ropresent?” asked Mr. Scott, endeav- oring to be patient. “I am from the United States senate,” replied Mr, Smith. N “Oh, yes; of courde; to be sure; pray proceed, senator,” sald Chairman Scott. The other day Senator Dolliver recéived & letter from a man jn Iowa, as follows: “I would not vote for you for the job of dog catcher.” Senator Dolliver returned the letter with the following written across its back: “My Dear Man—You are laboring under a misapprehension. I am not a candidate for the position of dog oatcher.” The senator participated in a little in- cident In the senate blevator the other afternoon that would-haye gladdened Roose- velt's heart. The elevator was pretty well crowded when the senator came hustling down the corridor, “shooing” four children ahead of him. They must have started at about the age of 4 and stopped at the age of 9. “All yours?” asked another senator, “You bet!" sald Dolliver. This one here, and he indicated a pretty child, the littlest, “Is the one that played havoc with your walnut sweets.” “Well, I declare,” sald Senator No., 2, and he leaned over and put a question to her in baby talk. She only hung her head till the elevator reached the semate floor, Then Dblliver “shooed” her and the others out into that corridor, “When I was a young lawyer,” says Congressman Keiter of Ohfo, “my friends used to tell me that I ate too much, They sald I would kill myself it I aidn't cut out midnight lunches. Well, I've eaten those all my life, and the men who eriti- clsed me have been dead for twenty years."” Now that he's over 70 the general still In his night lunches. He works den till 10 or 11 o'clock at night, own town, eats a cheese sandwich or a German sausage, drinks & couple of #lasses of beer, smokes a clgar, goes home and to bed, and sleeps the sleep of the unworried. | — Bygome Political Ine Philadelphia Bulletin. The news that the Roach shipyard will 800n be sold at publid auction recalls one of the livellest chapters in the histoty of the building of the new American navy. It was the dispatch erulser Dolphin, turned out by John Roach, which was officlally condemned under the Cleveland mdminis- tration for “structural weakness'-and the #ame Dolphin proved itself & staunch, strong and seaworthy vessel in aotive ser- vice for more than twenty years after- ward. I rpristng Inference, 8t Paul Ploneer Press. President Taft has lssued a warning to the Wall street gamblers that they must canfine themselves to legitimate business. The country will be surprised at the la- ference that Wall street has any legitimate bustoess, . Olney was attorney “general. New York cotton exchange brokers were |8 & stenographer and general clerk, and Bhe began helght He saw !I.;hoae waters and turned back; his was an awed yfldnlon The Nile is wide, the Nile 18 long, the N1l® But neVer has the ‘Nife I fow" achleved b flo?l:l.rl and Elrlpfl‘ are Our Teddy and our floating down the river, Tmparting honor that shall last_goreves and forever. 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