Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 7, 1910, Page 4

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BS BTAm‘lNT or CIRCULATION Btate ul Nebraska, Douglas County, s8.: Georgi schyck, treasurer of 'rn- Bee Publllhln[ Company. being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete coples Th. Dally, Morning. Evening and 8un inted flurlnfl month of l‘ehrulry. ll 0, wll as follows |/ 43,140 ne and -worn u Subac: No ry Publie. Subscribers leaving the city tem- porarily (whould have The Beeo matled to them. Addreas will be changed an often ms reguested. The only! drawback with that chlor- ide of, lan typhold " extinguisher is that the price sounds too cheap to be good. The Plan of Uncle Sam to put immi- grants op farms will make a good many Bative-born city poopl- wish they were immigrants, And now we are told that the Fon- tanelle club Is to také up the cold water end of the game. Another water works campalgn? . —— While cleaning up the streets, don't forget. the #ldewalks on which pedes- trians who cannot afford automobiles still have to-travel: IR — The information that the Ohio river is no worse than it ever was is fine consolation for the folks who are an- nually flooded out, Is it true that an English committed sulcide because she w: for divérce, or is 1t ohly another bid for tree advertising? It now looks as though the Cook- Peary . '"he-dld-and-he-did-not” argu- ment might be destined to break out again in a new place. . Real estate in all parts-of the coun- try hae taken a jump-like that of the 00w Who Vaulted the moon, but castles just as cheap as ever, bank clearings for Febru- ary overtop all previotie records, This 1s going to be a record-breaking year for Omaha In more ways than one, It may help Wt the ecasy feeling about war eloudr; #ver Japan to know that Ruséia 18 ordering a $300,000,000 navy constructed in the very near fu- ture, ——— . Well, there is comfort in the fact that a farmer can exchange a couple ‘ot hogs for a six-oylinder, even though pork chops and diamonds are of equal value, The Commercial club will next send its “Niying squadron’ on & trade expe- dition to the north. Those North Pole explorers had better look to their laurels, It 1& a relief to know that the Balti- more & Ohig strike is beginning to fla- gle, most people would like a rest from reading about striking, rloting and lockouts. A jaint debate between Senator Rayner of Maryland and Senator ‘Burkett of 'Nebraska might be a draw- ‘| proportions in the near future, Executive Nearer the People. National events have developed a condition of affairs which completely shatters the political tradition that our chief executive Is further removed from the people than the lawmaking body. Between the administrations of Washington and Taft a wide difference has developed, Washington was set apart from the people as far as possi- ble that he might get the general per- spective of the affairs of the entire nation. He dealt with affairs of the states almost as an arbitrator and was hedged in from the people by the ac- cepted interpretation of the functions of his dfice. But mow the tendency is quite the opposite. Roosevelt and Taft have been primarily presidents of the peole looking to the people, popu- lar sentiment and interests to guide thelr judgment and they have held themselves responsible to the whole people for their actions. The constitution of the United States provides that in the election of the president the popular will shall only be indirectly effective, The electoral college, a precautionary institution, was established to stand between the people and the presidency, with the design and intent to remove the office from the shifting tide of public senti- ment and prejudice. The senators were to represent the states of the unfon as such and it was Teft to the congressmen to give the people their most direct voice in governmental af- fairs. Although our forefathers wrought wisely and well, they over- looked the extent to which -our varled and diversified interests would separ- ate the different sections, It has de- veloped that senators are, as a rule, influenced by sectional and congress- men by district interests, without power to rise above tneir own consti- tuencles' to act for the whole people. In this evolution the presidency has become the one office of the whole people. The American people have not argued this out amd accepted it 4s a last resort, but have just naturally fallen into the habit of looking to the president for leadership. Washington never took a trip over the country to get acquainted with the people. Not until Polk's administration was this done and even then it was on a small scale. But recently our -presidents have traveled the country over to keep in touch with the people and natfonal interests. As a result the presidency is primarily the people's direct repre- sentative office and has galned im- measurably in consequent importance. Marine Giants, Close on the heels of the request of Becretary Meyer for a 32,000-ton bat- tleship comes the announcement that Germany proposes to build a monster lner of pearly 50,000 tons, The age of marine glants is apparently on, and the Olympic and Titanie, the record holding leviathans of our modern ocean-going vessels, are too soon ‘to be eclipsed. Although the exact 'dires- sions of the German colossous Have not been given out, the tonngge would indicate a length of at least-800, feet, a little more than one-sixth of a mtle, The prediction that the twentieth cen- tury would see vessels 1,000 feet in length may yet prove true. The dimensions of modern passen- ger and freight vessels indicate that battleships will “also take on gigantic In the American navy yards two 26,000- ton battleships are under construction, two more of 37,000 tons each have practically been assured and the great 32,000-ton fighter 48 at least a possi- bility “within the next few years. The trend of shipbuilding toward larger construction 1s so marked that the locks of the Panama eanal have been increased In size sufficiently to allow passage to vessels of 110 feet beam, the present length of beam being less than ninety feet. monster vessels, both for commercial and naval purposes, have been ques- tioned, our present vessels are not 80 much smaller than those proposed and the suggestion of still larger ships rests on the success of those now in use. The expense if increasing the eize of these monsters, however, can not be entirely confined to the cost of the battleships themselves, for deeper barbors will be necessary as well as larger docks and wharves. Yet, whether we deplore it or approve, the trend of the times is certainly in the direction. of bigger and bigger ocean | veasels. Death Penalty in lhod' ‘Island, A Dblll calling for the re-establish- ment of the death penaity in Rhode Island is before the legislature of that state and If public utterances indicate ng card for some of our enterprising Chautauquas. ‘It one were to jude from the num- ber of quarrels in the ranks of the D, A. R. the “fighting spirit of thelr sires” 18 nelther dead nor sleeping in our gemeration, Ameris wnnh are investigating the hlgh cost of lving in Europe. It would be also to the point if they would favestigate the cost to Ameri- cans of the high Uving in Europe. 1f-he ls really appreciative of kind words, Jotin D. Rockefeller ought to remember -Colonel Geordon of Missls- Mppt n his will, for speaking so warmly about him befars the senate. It the the prevalling sentiment it .will be- come a law., Rhode Island abolished capital punishment in 1858, but since the increase of homicide in the state, bas made its re-establishment seem advisable. Maine and Rhode Island are the only New England states, which have abol- ished thé death pemalty, and compara- tive satistics indicate that they have both been great sufferers in conse- quence, The only states with which it would be fair to compare them are the other four in New England. During the year ending May 31, 1900, accord- Ing to the last national census, Maine had, in proportion to population, al- most twice &8s many homicides as Massachusetts, which retains the death penalty. Rhode lsland, during that While the practicability of such’ Rhode Island six and one-half times as many. Maine had twice as many homicides as Vermont and Rhode Is- land three times as many. Compared with Connecticut, Maine had more than twice as many and Rhode Island more than three times as many. The only possible reason for rein- stating the death penalty for murder would be the hope that it would ef- fectually reduce prevalence of the erime. Comparisons, although proving nothing, often deceptive, seem to prove that Maine and Rhode Island have been the victims of their lenlency. Iowa and Colorado have returned to the death penalty with satisfactory re- sults, after having once abolished it. There is some sentiment in the little state against the bill, but the disposi- tion is said to be to give first place in the consideration of this measure to the protection of life from outlaws of soclety. The Onnd Jury lhport The grand jury called by the district court has made its report and has been discharged after an industrious session of several weeks, and the best evidence that Omaha 1s a reasonably orderly city, with no very nolsome cesspools of iniquity or deep-seated corruption in government, lles in the fact that only a few iIndictments have been re- turned and all of those for ordinary offenses which could just as easily have been prosecuted at their own in- itiative by the city prosecutor or the county attorney. The grand jury report goes into some detall on several subjects, on which advice {8 offered, with sugges- tions of improvement of existing con- ditions. It is suggested, for example, that things in the city engineer's ofiice have not been just right and should be improved, but still nothing seems to have been found to warrant a true bill agalnst anybody. The police force is admonished, moreover, to be more vig- flant in suppressing unlicensed liquor selling, immoral hotels, vulgar theatri- cal shows and demoralizing dance halls—but even here no evidence seems to have been produced before the grand jury justifying more than an expression of presumption. The visits of the grand jury to the various county institutions seem to have evoked the usual absence of com- plaint and elicited the customary bouquet-throwing to the managements, who were doubtless fairly well pre- pared in advance to recelve the vis- itors, with everything looking spick |, and span. Even the deputy state labor |' commissioner at Lincoln comes in for a small nosegay and a recommenda- tion to the legislature that he be given more money to spend to look where more fire escapes ought to be and where youngsters barred from child labor ought not to be. All of which proves that the grand Jjury is a good-thing once in a while to enable a community to let off steam and puncture gas bags full of ugly ru- mors which the prosecuting officers are unable to nail down, and which when ‘brought into the grand jury room prove t6 be as elusive as the proverb- ial flea. : American Men. The statement of Gertrude Ather- ton that American men are immeasur- ably below titled foreigners seems to resolve itself into a matter of a dif- ference “in the art of making love.” “English noblemen have much more subtlety in making love; more finesse,” she says and then settles back in the full belief that the whole matter is de- cided, Mrs. Atherton has carried out this idea in a novel sne has written and has produced & hero after her own heart. Superior to the Ameri- can man, by the way, is this hero, and he will neither work for a living, pay his debts nor remain true to his beau. tiful American wife. Yet he is the hero. What constitutes superiority and nobility? Is it profiefency in the sub- tle art of making love, running in debt and marrying for money? Or is nobllity @ matter of heart, manhood, sterling qualities of honesty and industry, and a sepse of honor as enduring as the hills? It may be that the American idea of what constitutes nobility s, preverted because of our democratic ideas, but if so, then let it be so. For the true American man stands erect in the majesty of true manhood and looks the world squarely in the eye. He can be depended upon for fibre and sinew of body, brain and soul and he ac- knowledges the sovereignity of human- ity He'ls a prince in the simplicity of his manly honor, he can be de- pended upon for constancy in love and in patriotism, in prosperity and in ad- versity. Let the foreign nobleman be superfor in subtlety and finesse, but the true American woman will con. tinue to prefer the true American be- cause he is a man. The local democratic organ has started Congressman Hinshaw In the coming seaatorial race. It is not ex- erting itself, however, to get many starters on the democratic side of the fence, where its editor, who has just replenished his campalgn war chest by & $60,000 real estate sale, would much prefer a clear fleld. One of Governor Bhallenberger's South Omaha Police board appointees is defeated fur renomination and an- other tied for nomination for the council. An officlal commission with Governor Shallenberger’s signature to it is evidently viewed vy Bouth Omaha democrats more as a labllity than an same , had almost two and a half times many, proportionately, as Masspohusetts, Compared similarly with New Hampebire, which retains the penalty, Matne had four and one- halt as many b and asset. —_— Federal authority has decided that ‘a hen is'a bird, but here is the Ohio supreme court declaring that an egg is.not an egg when It is bad, although there is not a grocer in the wide world who will not sell & “bad one” for an egg overy time he gets a chance. that people who talk the most about erime and vice being rampant in Omana should be so careful to keep their information to themselves when a grand jury s in session waiting to hear them. —_— Strange, isn't It, The annual banquet of Iowans in New York City has just been pulled oft. The time is being fast approached when an annual Nebraska banquet in New York each year will be a possi- bility and a reality. It is remarked that Major Hemp- hill will need a strong glass to watch Charleston grow from Richmond—but then a strong glass is not so hard to find in Richmond. It is only because the appropriation bills by custom originate in the house that our Indian supply depot cannmot be saved first by a spectacular rescue act in the senate. ——e The Panama Wonder, Loutsville Courler-Journal. Jose Domingo de Obaldia dies famous as a Latin-American ruler who was removed by death instead of revolution! i Helps to the Treasnry. Chicago Tribune. Let us be careful not to speak slightingly of the Japanese war scare. It serves a highly useful purpose whenever the neces- sity arises for securing an apprepriation for another battleship. ' Rather Hard on the Prophets, Boston Transeript. It .now appears that the original estl- mates of the French flood losses have been greatly exaggerated, including enforced fdleness and other incidentals. This is rather hard for the visitation from heaven theory. ‘Water Power ns National Asset, Wall Street Journal. ‘Water power already installed * in this country would, on a steam basis, figuring coal at §250 a ton, and operating it ten hours ea¢h working day, cost $175,000,000 per annum. At 6 per cent this would equal a capitalization of $3,600,000,000. As a na- tional asset, what are our waterfalls worth? Some Things Worth Suppression. Kansas City Times. In the current issue of the Atlantic Monthly Prof. E. A. Ross accuses news- papers of suppressing news. It hap- pened that on the day of the lssuance of the magasine a report was made public containing a letter from the president of the University of Wisconsin, censuning Prof. Ross for failing to suppress announcements of the Jectures In Madison of Emma Goldman! Another Home Rule Ory. y Philadelphia Bulletin. The Porto Ricans are clamoring for & system of home rule which shall be more genuinely representative, deolaring that thelr Island is entirely peaceful and that they should have a larger voice In their own affalrs, Such a contention does not seem unreasonable. At any rate, the ques- tion is one which it might be well for congress to consider with more care than it usually beatows on the insular posses- slons of the United States. A RESTRICTING IMMIGRATION, 2 — An [ @njebt . Lesson . on Ject. Brooklyn Begle. The,grotest 'made o President Taft new and more restrictive legisla- tion-on immigration, by twenty-five foreign born editors, on behalf of the American As- soclation of Foreign Language Newspapers, had very much the character of an object lesson. These visitors are most of them €00d cltizens of the United States. Thelr average of scholarship is probably higher than that of any equal number of editors taken from newspapers printed in the Kng- lish language. Thelr average of culture is s high. Their average of consclence and of public spirit is satisfactory. Yet with a stone wall bar to immigration, everyone of them would be outside America today, A wag might say that it is possible for a country to have too many editors. We belleve that was the view of the late Zach Chandler. There is some ground for as- the Sub- cribing similar opinions to the late General Willlam Tecumseh Sherman, and to the former President Roosevelt. But the brawn and muscle that go Wwith the brains to whose demands the edltors eater, cannot be superfiuous' In a land of undeveloped Tesources, We dont want oriminals from abroad. The home supply is sufficlent. We don't want incapables. We don't want lunatics, But the argument that capability is an fm- migrant's most damning quality, because of the competition it offers in the labor market, is not one to commend itself to in- telligent legislators. ) Our Birthday Beok l Maroch 7, 1910 Luther Burbank, the flower and frult wizard, was born March 7, 184, at Lan- caster, M Among the other unique achlevements credited to Mr. Burbank is the production of the white blackberry. Champ Clark, congressman from Mis- sourl and democratic floor leader, is just 6. Champ Clark s a Kentuckian by birth and does the chautauqua eircuits, and would Iike to succeed “‘Uncle Joe" Cannon as speaker, Anthony Comstock, who 1s the Society for the Suppression of Vice in New York, | is 66, and still at it. Stephen Wise, the Jewish rabbi who is attracting grest attention in New York, was born March 7, 1872 He is a native of Budapesth. W. R. Nelson, who owns and edits the Kansas City Star, is 6. He Is a native of Fort Wayne, Ind, and founded the paper all by himself, David B. Perry, president of Doane col- lege at Creta, Neb., was born March 7, 1839, at Worcester, Mass. He Is u graduato of Yale and has been with Doane college as tutor, professor and president since 1572, Chestor B. Hunter, the graln commission man, 18 just 0. He was born In Ilinols and went Into the lumber business on Puget sound untll the outbreak of the Spanish-American war, in which he served, and since then has been In the grain busi- Dees at Chicago, Galesburg, Des Molnes and Omaha. George K. Howell of the flrm of Me- Kenale, Howell & Cox, officlng in the Board of Trade bullding, was born March 7. 188, He graduated from the law sehool of the Iowa State university, snd has been In Omaha since 1906 Dr. J, C. Hammond, physiolan, was born wing: | Ana ature is fun | chusetts, tn & peculiar staccato strain, Colonel James Gordon, the sixty-day senator whose farewell to his assoclates the other day is already embalmed as a floral classic, had achieved fame as a poet long before the laurels of senatorial statesmanship tickled his brow. Speci- mens of his bardic music now on the rounds cause one to wonder why it has clung so long to the purling brooks and somnolent bayous of hie native state Evidently the colonel hitched Pegasus to @ nelghboring post, lest its flight to the highlands would impose too great a draft on his strength. Fortunately for poesy the colonel's farewell started the music hitherto conned for local consumption and lured a prosaic world to a feast of song, How he thrilled the august senators and submerged the storied urn of Chaun- cey Depew In an avalanche of sobs may be gathered from these lines: Wine, wine, wine! Soul-inspiring wine— A ruby gem From the purple ste; Culled on the eautitl Rhine. WIM‘,‘ wine, wine! Wine of those good old 8, When love was young, When Sapho sung, And Olympus rang with thy praise. With the easy grace of an inspired bard the colonel turned from wine to epring and strikes this seasonable note: See our beautiful farms when winter 1s The forest's in bud the meadows in clover— When the teams pull the plows the farmer bringing His herd w0 the fields, where musio 1s ringing With carol of birds and humming of bees, To Aeolian harps that play In the breeze— Where butterfiles fiit on bright, golden of earth's beautiful things; the mun, above On a_beautiful world God gave us to love! | &n love the good world, love one another! an loves his family, his father and mothor His gister, and brother, his neighbor and rien He bu"mn “lite with love, loves on to the end. moon and stars a-shining Thus did the colonel “put It over" the| senate In coplous measure, playing with heart-chords weary of worldly cares, and | wooing them gently up to the culminating note, prophetic of the tearful event: r\r-w;ll is ever a word ‘When loving ones mus ? rt, h flllu the heart with 'rh and pain the turflr ps start, LT hay i o088 we love, There is & mournrul kn That echoes through our 'plrl(l‘ halls And haunts the word, forewell The ocollection of figures now trowding Statuary hall, the national “Hall of Fame,” s drawing increasing fire from the eastern press, coupled with demands for & sifting of statues or its abolition. Critlcism verging on mockery is provoked by the fallure of congress to exercise some super- vision over the contributions of the states, both in respect to the merits of the person honored and the artistic quality of the statues, ‘‘There are now forty statues In place,”” says the Philadelphia Inquirer, “and the hall is filled so far as niches of the first rank are concerned. To complete the 100 statues which will, before many years, be authorized, will make trouble for someone. If there are to be concentric rows following the are of the room a lot of the elder statesmen will be in eclipse while the men from the newer commonwealths ‘will be in the front rank. This complication is sure to cause bitterness and factional wrangling, but it is the less to be deplored because the hall at present s not an exem- piification of the sculptor's art, of the ac- complishments of particular states nor of national glory. As hall of fame it is sadly lacking in perspective as well as in artistic treatment. “The latest arrival is a bronze efflgy of the late Senator Harlan of lowa. He was legislator and but that he should bave the largest statue In the hall seems ludierous. Perhaps it 18 because he !s so little known that his friends have exhibited him as ten feet tall, but it can hardly be claimed that he overtops & lot of other men whose statues rest near him in mute sllence, unable to express any feelings on the subject which their ghosts may feel, if they ever visit the place. “The effort to ereot a Hall of Fame has falled in many ways. Its chief defect is on the artistic side. So long as each state can do as it pleases there Is certaln to be trouble for some of the conservatives.” There are a few members of the house who have such an individual way of ad- dressing the chalr that it is not necessary that “Uncle Joe" should see the applicant for recognition, relates the Washington Times, It the speaker can hear the “gentleman from New York” or ‘“the gentleman from Alabama™ it is sufficlent, There is Representative Fitsgerald of New York, for instance. Mr. Fitzgerald takes part in almost every debate, espo- clally if there's a parllamentary question nvolved. “Mr. Speak-ah,” begins the Empire state democrat, his voice rising and emphasizing espectally the “ah.” Everybody in the gal- lery knows that “Fitz" is going to have something to say. “Mr. Speak-kur,” thunders Clayton of Alabama, keeping the sound well down in his thros R * exclalms Represent: tive “Gussle” Gardner, Insurgent of Ma: S0 snappy is Mr, Gardner's call for recognition that he can say the words about three times a second. “Or, Mr. Spreek-uh,” will drawl Champ Clark, minerity leader, “I can't hear any- | thing; what Is all this about, anywa; Directly opposite to the manner in which Mr. Gardner hurls the words it requires a little over & second for Mr. Clark to de- liver himself of the necessary salutation. Representative Keller of Ohlo, called Gen- eral Kelter, or the only lving dress-suit | statesman, goes after the chalr in very much the Clayton style, only more so. Gen- eral Kelfer rather bellows the words in a deep, sonorous tone that arouses the house from its lethargy. “Misder Speagher,” exclaims Represen- tative Kustermann of Wisconsin, who has a German accent and Is proud of it. Siuce the speaker knows that voice so well, It is quite convenlent at times for him to have his gaze averted when he lsn't particular aboussecognizing a eertain mem- ber with & pe= project at that particular moment, for the speaker can well plead that he didn't see the member, Representative Nye of Minnesota, brother of the renowned Bill, s no slouch when It comes to drawing comparisons and ap- plause from members of the house. Mr, Nye, In his speech on the postoffice ap- propriation bill, took occaslon to allude to the unselfishness and devotion to duty of George Washington and the days in which he lived. “It 18 true that muckrakers lived in his day,” sald Mr. Nye, “but the mallgne -nmld .T: have been paper bag kind of spices, The ri DIE Tone's Spices contain ever) them their strength and milled and sealed as soon “fi seasoning. Asl Pibben MUSTARD JAMAICA GINGER BOOSTING FREIGHT RATES, Proposed Ralse on Meat Rates from - Missourl River. Bt. Paul Ploneer-Press. The packers have protested to the Inter- state Commerce commission against the proposed increass, but that body has no authorlty to act until after the rates are in force. This raises anew the discussion of the suggestion so often made by the com- mission that it be autherized In Investigate | proposed rate changes and decide as to their reasonableness before they are put into effect. Such provision ls made In the bill now pending In congress, but the rail- road Influence is strong against it, just as it has been in former sessions. The rall- roads contend that it would be unfair to grant this power to the commission, as, pending the inquiry, they would lose much revenue in the event of the increased rates being sustained by the commission. The argument is not wholly convineing in view of the fact that the shippers lose much money, under the present plan, when the rates are not sustained by the commi slon. True, the shippers have a recours in belng permitted to collect the overplus, but this {s usually a long, tedious process and the burden of it 1s borne by the ship- per. The question has ‘been discussed in every roport of the commission for years. The commission contends that nothing can be more fallacious than to assume that dam- ages are In most instances a remedy for the extortion of an unreasonable rate, ““Where a given rate has been in effect for years,” reads one report of the commission, “a strong presumption of its reasonable- ness arises and there is no hardship in giv- ing this commission authority, in its sound discretion, to require a continuance of that rate until opportunity has been offered to investigate the proposed advance.” argument fits the present case. The exist- ing rates have been in effect for a number of years, and.the contention of the com- mission that they should not be advanced without an Inquiry into the reasonableness of the proposed new rate appears wholly gound. T le consumer and the small shipper are the sufferers in all such cases of advanced rates. The packers promptly will, fn the present case, shift the burden to the eon- sumer. If the rate is declared reasonable, the consumer will still share the Increase. If it 1s declared unreasonable, the pack- ers will recover from the rallroads for the excess, but there s no prospect that they will return any of their recovered money to the consumers. The notice of the pro- posed advance in frelght rates should have the effect of spurring congress to amend the Interstate Commerce commission law in accordance with the recommendations of the president and the demands of the ship- pers and consumers. i — i TAFT'S PATIENCE WITH PINCHOT Sentlments of Good Will Expressed in a Letter, Philadelphia Bulletin, Hvery citizen who wants to know the basic facts regarding the president's oon- servation policy and his personal attitude toward former Chiet Forester Gifford Pin- ¢chot, should carefully read the letter which Mr. Taft addressed to Pinchot last Septem- ber. This missive has just been made pub- lic In the proceedings before the Ballinger investigating committes. It seems incredi- ble that any man who desires to reach a falr conclusion upon a question which is engaging so much popular Interest can read it without having the impression stamped on his mind that the course of the executive in this matter has been marked both by an unswerving purpose to protect the public welfare and by the utmost prac- ticable consideration for Pinchot himself. Its tone throughout s characterized by kindly sentiment toward the chief fors combined with the fullest appreciation of his past services tn promoting the cause of conservation. Indeed, Mr. Taft goes 5o far as to say, “I should consider it one of the greatest losses my administration could sustain If you were to leave it Relter- ating his firm Intention to do all that can be done within the law to preserve the na- tional resources from spoliation the presi- dent patiently points out to his discon- tented subordinate that Pinchot's continu- ance In backing up unproved charges and assalling the secretary of the Interfor while he himselt is holding an official position s most demoralzing to government discipline and efficlency. Declaring that he proposes that justice shall be done, the chief magis- trate puts his communication tp the for- ester in the form of a request that the har- assing tactios followed by Pinchot shall cease, rather than In the form of an im- perative order. Whatever the facts may be as to Secre- tary Ballinger's course It is evident that the president sincerely wished to keep Pin- chot In the public service, Not until every resource of logic and reason was exhausted are always sold in air-tight, flavor-retaining, strength-preservi bit of the essential oils. ichness of flavor. round, Tone's your grocer for nd s 10 cenls and grocer’s name. E l‘ll'u.w g “ nd L4y h- d S;Iq alks. " There are two kinds o{wlceo— TONE BROS. and “others. TONE BROS., Des Moines, lowa. Blenders of the celebrated OLD GOLDEN COFFEE This |! or Sealed Package? eumn-unuy inferior. Frequently, their !mec:’mfl:\erv:lm it takes away what little strength and flavor ma paper % fitmytobnywi«h{ BROS Snices ‘Then exposure beleft. That's tho n a sealed packag packa, Thn . whn Carefully selected mud sfiu haye no oqul for finn Sinamon ALLSPIOR cook book, IR Colonel Reosevelt comes out of the jungle with a fing ocollection of hides. Tales go with these hides. Rubber bonds are bounding in the specu- lative market of London and the suckers are biting as greatly as when Bamey Barnato stringed the bunch. Lest week a Massachusetts centenarian, who had celebrated another hirthday, credited his longevity to abstinence from liquor and tobacoo, but the man who dled in New Hampshire at the age of 110 had always used tobacco. And there you are Willlam Stotler of Wellington, Kan., edls a newspaper when he is not presiding in the local police court, and the other day he printed a story that led to a street fight with a fellow-townhsman. After the fight, Judge Stotler summoned himself to court, pleaded gullty and fined himself $5. Then ho called the other man to the bar and fined him a like sum. Lawmakers of Rhode Island are discuss- ing a bill restoring capital punishment in the state. The measure is boosted by tho convict, who declares “Meet me in Rhode Island” is the parting salute of members of the tribe, whenever they leave peniten- tlaries in nelghboring states. The lenlency of the judicial system is rated high in the jalls and penitentiaries of the country. John J. Youngson of Meadville, Pa., has served for forty-séven years as superinten- dent of the water system of the Hrie Rall- road company. He commenced work a 1ad of 18 years, when the old Atlantio and Great Westorn was first completed. Ho continues in the service of the company not because he is obliged to do 8o, but be- cause work has become a habit with him and he can't live happily uniess he is “on the job." ; _— SMILING REMARKS. “Just notice how that young actress sips from her glass of water! Isn't that funny? her h back. Just like a bird, st it? “Yes. She wants to play the second hen in the English version of the Rostrand barnyard drlm.-"—c‘lmllnd Plain Dealer, “I understand lhnl there 1s trouble brew- Meekton household.” woman who knows Bl speeches.” —Washington St ":"X.‘m that you have been reading po- Itical economy.” “A little,” answered senlxor Sorghom; “but 1 had to give it up. u.n 80 in- m-utod 1 was in danger of n¢¢ cun. the approf ong demanded con- stituents,”—Washington aur Doctor—What on earth are you telling everybody that I sald my patient was do- lirfous? Gossip—I heard you say yourself, doo- meant her hair, tory ihe was utm-hu? octor—You gum not her brains.—] tl.mvre American. “Did_he give you u any hint of his fesl- ing_toward vou?”’ “No, he kept me in’ the dark the entire evening.” ‘tht more ‘Ao you expect than that? When a man keeps a girl in the dark all the evening his_feellng toward her is clear.”—Houston Post. “Hallo!" exclamed a London costermon- or on meeting an acquaintanoe. ““Whot famages aid you et for bein' in that motor ‘bus accident?”’ " 'Bavy ¥ o s boy," accompanied by & n, "l myself and {20 for t e missus.” iThe missus! Was she hu ‘“Yes, in course! k Fl“n mind to tetcn her onb over W we was rescued bt Commeraial. / e it Ml CAN YOU TELL? Minneapolis Tribune. Can you tell me why & woman, - As she hurries to the door, Stops to put a lttle powder-on ber ar. was the Nplv. uman— T have rd lhlt sald before! That nphlu the case entirely, I sup- pose! But whatever s the reason Anywhere you chance to mest, Whether in the mirrored parior Or upon a_crowded stroet, Byen though she may b rushing To the train, with hurried foet. She will stop To put some powder On her nose! You may think she's Interestod In the merchent’s window show, i s only putting powder on her nos: All these windows are Invested With a mirror back, you know, And the merchant wots where his per- simmons grows! At the aftornoon reception You will set each woman To pre-empt ohe set position; 1t you follow up her eye You will see a mirror near her— And you know the reason why, When she puts ‘A dab of powder On her nose! That i all—for I am married And T dare not eritidise Or ‘make light of wome men's 1 T'm & husband, worried, harried, Worn to half my_usual sieh— nd_I'm trei Tiow from blanch! etk o8 LY m bl ing in the vain effort to malntaln necessary discipline did he consent to his ellmination from &n office in which the forester had persstently attempted to defy his superiors and to attack Mr. Taft's own veracity and intelligence in a manner which could no longer be tolerated. Yet I dare to call attention To the universal She, Who before the Powder Puff is Bending supplicating knee— And T think that you who read this Wil unfiinohinely agree That she needs A little po ©On her nosel wre gone; they are dust, and there survive above all such hatred and bitterness that which s good. Paul, 190 years ago, an outeast, spurned by the proud and haughty March 7, 1561 Hc 18 a graduate of Creigh- ton Medical college and limits his practice to diseases of the ear, nose and throat, Nero, denounced as vislonary, lives today, and we call our boy Paul, but we call our dog Nero." “The World’s Best Tabié Water” X [