Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 17, 1910, Page 6

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REMITTANCES, Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The Pes Publishing Company Only 2-cent stamps received in payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or enstern exchange, not accepted M West STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. T T lvyg being duly tual - number of complete coples of The Dally, Kornine. Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the mont‘ of February, 1910, was as follows: - 15, Returned coples. Net total GEQRGE l 'rzngruucx. reasurer. Subseribed in m. before me thils ué 3 Sy, 310, H‘JN ; T! ouu Public. ubscribers Jeaving t porarily _should have The mailed t5 them. Address wiil be @ed as often as requested. . — elty tem= "Unclo-.Vne" l-yu ‘e can sing, but let us hope he' willimoft{ Khnrmm wnmm a lnng' time, but got on the map at last. Suppokedly the drop in the price of butter indicates that it 18 not so strong as usual. —_— What is the matter with calling the new styles of millinery this spring the “Dreadnaught hats? Speaking of prices, one shudders to think of Mr. Patten's, wrath as he re- turns from Manchester. - One of th_e_nrgt. prerequisites to pav- ing the way 6F a'‘elty ‘beautitul in Omaha Ig+4o enlarge the fire limits. Another Boston tea -purty, Four tons of ancient eggs have been ordered thrown overboard if that classical city. There seems to be a difference in the “‘open door” policy asg construed by the older and younger members of the Knox family. If medjation can avert the threat- encd strike of locomotive firemen, arbi- tration can settle the strike of Phila- delphla street car men, Democratic interest i ‘‘the future of insurgency” turns entirely on the possibility of using the insurgents to boost democtats ‘nto- office. City “Comptroller 'Lobeck proceeds on (ho t.hqol'y that the early bird catehes the polftical “worm. Sometimes it @loes, and sometimes it doesn’t. Paul Mortdp: will be vico president of, D. E. Thompson's Pan-American railroad, which wiJl make it look even more like a Nebraska enterprise. ! An eastern school teacher has lost his job because hé ‘toM’ the pupils there is no guch thing as “hell.” And he'had been teaching for years, too. e —— It the firemen had a particle of that “brotherly love" in their hearts they would not try to érowd those Philadel- phia street carmen out'of the limelight, /The suggestion of another republic in South America should be frowned down at once. There are revolutions and rebellions- éhoughi down there al- ready. The Wright brothers have ‘‘signed up” to show Newport gomething about high fiying. They Wil have to go some, for Newport knows a little along that line itseft. The hat/ pin ordinance has duly made it ‘appearance in the Omaha city co”cll If we must have freak legislation, why can't we.start some- thing original? * Wi It tunlwu that the only man who escaped with hi# life in the Alaskan mine explosion wore the number 13, A “Thirteen” club ought to prove pop- ular In those parts., \ SEpe——— It Edgar Howard doesn't want:to show his Whole \lnd at once, he might pame first ' the “promirent Omaha democratic lawyer” whe has hired out a8 & corporation “fixe - St. Louls' police faroe is und & shake-up over the of the police relief funds there is any cause for nuphlu but still it would not be a bad idea to have our, owir’ police ‘and’ fire relief funds checked UD obceiiw & while. T Magnanimous Mack Murphy. Chairman Mack and Boss Murphy have cracked the best political joke of the season in their assurance to the public that they will not try to freeze Bryan out of the democratic party Nothfng but the spirit of altruism could prompt such magnanimous action, Anyone can picture Mr. Bryan as he finally receives this bit of be- lated news that means so much to his future as the quadrennial candidate of his party for the presidency; see him relapse from a state of tense ex pectancy into ome of calm and peace ful repose and consolation. Before turning from the humor of this situation, it should be observed that with all their charitable impulse, Norman B. Mack and Charles F. Mur- phy decided not to freeze Mr. Bryan out of the party only after they had become satisfied that he would not at- tempt the leadership of the party again, nor essay to run for president in 1912, 1f Mack and Murphy believe this, then, of course, it would be fool ish for them to antagonize Mr. Bryan any further ‘by pretending to read him out of the party. They would simply be wasting ammunition that they will need for other purposes and disrupt- ing their ranks even more than they are disrupted already. Divested of his jelentless ambition and shorn of his power, Mr, Bryan would be no more objectionable to them in the demo- cratic party than any other private in- dividual. Subdued and surrendered, he might make a very agreeable mem- ber of their organization. And it is only after viewing the matter from this sp\'ndpolnt that one can appreciate the magnificent concession Brothers Mack and Murphy have made. But more seriously, those who know Mr. Bryan best will be slow to believe that he has forsworn his political am- bition or decided to relinquish the leadership of his party. Every move he has made since his last defeat indi- cates that he is only realigning his forces for a new attack and strength- ening his ranks for the next battle. Canada and the Tariff. » INegotiations between the United Statgs and Canada over tariff ‘conces- slons continue with Canada appar- ently in an obstinate mood. Canada refuses to concede to us even privi- leges it acecords to France and Ger- many and maintains this course with- out the least signs of yielding. Can- ada has had the big end of the tariff relations ever since the year 1890. The diserimination enjoyed” by Eng- land has' made but little diffefence and American exports to Canadian markets have continued to exceed them all. Canada has been known even to take more than she is enmtitled to un- def out trade agreements. Her seal- ers have killed our seals, her railroads have grossed and-recrossed our bound- ary line, paying but slight attention to'the orders from the Interstate Com- merce commission® and her shippers have had the use of our ports and free shipment of goods across our frontier. Some of these privileges Canadian shippers can not well get along with- out and she before losing them ‘would make real concessions. By the end of this month the maxi- mum rate of our new tariff on Can- adian goods, shipped into the United States, will go into effect unless lifted by presidentlal proclamation. . The added tariff duties will be calculated to put pressure on our nprthern neigh- bor if left to take their course, but while this is going on a bitter feeling would be aroused between the two countries, which neither can afford to incite. It behooves us to use all possi- ble. diplomacy to avoid friction and maintain friendly intercourse. Canada has no right to ask of us more than she asks of Buropean nations, but, on the other hand, we cannot afford to be unreasonable nor at the same time to permit Canada to force a one-sided ex- change. Military and Public Highways. The recent debate in congress on the use of convict labor to construct the proposed military road between Fort Leavenworth and Fort Riley, in Kansas, has resolved itself into a dis- cussion of the value of rockbed high- ways for public trafic. The advisabil- ity and desirability of good roads seems to have taken precedence in this particular measure. Good roads have proved to be an economic value to the country and it only remains to get them. All the congressmen, -ap: parently, favor rockbed highways and when they have been persuaded that convict labor for road making is also advisable they will become the most ardent supporters of a nation-wide good roads movement. Figures are quoted to demounstrate that it costs just half as much to mar- ket produce over macadam roads as it does over ¢lay roads, such as are quite common throughout this coun- try. European countries have long recognized this; in fact, long before even Roman times the rock road was common and convicts and prisoners were employed In their construction. With the advance of civilization and its accompanying progress in the de- velopment of transportation facilities the overland route had fallen into dis- use to a very great extel The auto- moblle, however, has emphasized hquitural products are to be moved a nually and travel is constantly increas- ing. It now costs over $1,000,000,000 & year to move our farm products to the points of shipment over our or- dinary dirt roads. With paved road ways It is estimate that $500,000,000 eculd be saved annually on this haul- ing. That amount saved every year would soon pay for the construction of a rock bed for every main traveled road in the country, John C. Calhoun. The latest American to be honored within our national hall of fame s the South Carolina statesman, John C. Calhoun. Born during the closing days of the revolutionary war, of the rugged stock of Scotch Highlanders, an American In heart and a glant in ability, he was of the fiber that made our Independence possible. Living in the south, amidst customs, traditions and activities fostering extreme ideas of states' rights, his motives and opin- fons were naturally blased. But, though a champlon of the states’ rights doctrine, he stands among our na- tion's great men in ability and sincer- ity of endeavor. ! Two great figures in American his- tory tower above even the presidents of our nation during their time, Dan- fel Webster and John C. Calhoun. Champions in the conflict of those earlier years, they fought the cause of the north and the south with efforts so gigantic as to dwarf contemporane- ous events. They embodied the spirit of those years and, although Calhoun lost, it was from the weakness of the cause and not from inferiority of abil- ity. Realizing his defeat his heart throbbed with fear for the people of the south and as he closed his eyes in the stupor preceding death he was heard to murmur “The South! The poor South! God knows what will become of her.” In these days of peace and quiet when sectional animosities are dying out we can see with a clearer vision that Calhoun, the southern statesman, was patriotic even when mistaken. We can acknowledge his ‘ability, his cour- age and his conscientious devotion to his principles. He was of a type of American manhood deserving to rank with the others given representation in the national capitol, where the greatest efforts of his life were made. A fitting tribute to him as a man and Lodge of Massachusetts, of the ‘“Web- ster succession,” in the senate when the statue was received. Thus with a touch of sentiment, deeply impressive, the successor to his glant New England antagonist pronounced the eulogy to the genius and statesmanship of John C. Calhoun of South Carolina. Citizenship Once More. The Lincoln Journal persists in the contention that we have ‘‘noncitizen’ voters and that The Bee is indulging in' verbal quibbles wheh it says that the right to vote in Nebraska on so- called “first papers” is not conferred on “noncitizens. ‘The best authority on citizenship is the United States supreme court and nowhere has that court gone into that subject more in detail than in the tamous Boyd-Thayer case which went up from Nebraska, In the opinion rendered the court held that Governor Boyd was entitled to his seat because, as a cltizen of Nebraska at the time of its admission into the union, he thereby became a citizen of the United States, irrespective of the final steps of his father's naturalization. In that case the court, among other things, quotes Chief Justice Taney as saying: We must not confound the rights of citizenship which a state may confer within its own limits and the rights of citizenship as a member of the union.. It does not by any means follow, because he has all the rights and privileges of a citizen of a state, that he must be a citizen of the United States. He may have all the rights and privileges of the citizen of a state, and yet not be entitled to the rights and privileges of a citizen in any other state. The court also there quotes with ap- proval the opinion in the Slaughter house cases, which held that the first clause in the fourteenth ‘amendment “recognized the distinction between citizenship of a state and citizenship of the United States.” No one will take issue with the Journal in its assertion that the right to vote is not a necessary part of the right of citizenship. But in Nebraska, as in most states, the right to vote is confined to citizens, and we have no “noncitizen” voters. A terribie screech comes from the local democratic organ over the pro- posed use of the paper ballot instead of the voting machine in the impend- ing South Omaha municipal election. Omaha municipal election, in which the democrats pulled out half of their ticket, while in the last county elec- tion in which the machines were used, the democrats lost everything. On this basis the democrats have no “holler” coming. Kansas is trying to make a sensa- tion out of the fact that Walker Wes- ton was “all In” after stepping off sev- enty-two miles on his seventy-second birthddy in the Sunflower state. How many miles is a man supposed to walk on his seventy-second birthday in Kansas? Those San Franciscans are great for again the value of the road both as a wl of travel and as a means of lon and there is a very ihood of this emphasis ex- .to the military road as well _public highway. “As an economlic factor in our coun- try's affairs good solld roadbeds are wore (mportant than most people redl- trec’ endous quantities of agri- celebrating. Some patriotic thief on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the theft of Toby Rosenthal's famous ‘Blaine,” gets away with a $10,000 painting that hung in the Golden Gate Memorial museum. The Commercial club is to be asked to prevent the Merchants' and Manu- facturers’ association from sending.out a statesman was delivered by Senator|' The paper ballot was used !n the last | OMAMA, THURSDAY literature opposing county prohibitio How the Commereial club is going to control tinet organization is not disclosed. The Commercial club has enough to be responsible for in the HNterature sent out by its own authority Even after so long a suspense, it is gratifylng to learn from the special correspondents that those natives did not, in truth, call Colonel Roosevelt Bwana Tumbo, but Bwana Mllubl. which, of course, makes all the difter- | ence In the world, Bwana Tumbo! The idea! A Chicago man wants a divorce be- cause his wife killled and cooked the family horse and made him eat that as well as the family goat. Evidently his domestic felicity lacked the neces- sary spice to act as a good sauce. It must have hit the ‘“‘street’” pretiy hard when a New York judge recently called the Stock exchange a ‘“‘Gam- blers’ club.” The name the brokers would apply to the judge might lead to contempt proceedings. Trenton, to enforce its demand for an old-fashioned Fourth of July, pro- vides for three hundred automobiles and passes an ordinance prohibiting the firecracker. Must be a joker in that deck. —_— A London savant investigating the skull of a woman declares she lived 600,000 years ago, What a blow it would be to sclence if he should later discover that she lived only 580,000 years ago. One man who protend- to know de- clares that the ‘“mikes” were mulcted to the tune of $5,000,000 in the course of ten years. Didn’'t know there was that much easy money lying around loose. _— Can’t Keep It Dark. Indianapolis News. If the railroads are still contemplating an increase in frelght rates it would seem more Judicious for them not to make such glow- ing reports of the increase in their net earnings. Cheer Up! ‘Wall Street Journal. With a beef trust and a coal trust and numerous other combinations controlling necessities the report that there will be no automobile trust will be cheering news to the wage earner. ettt e Whe Are the Others? New York Sun. The admirer who resented the treatment James A. Patten recelved on the Man- chester exchange and cabled to Liverpool that ‘‘Patten Is ong of America's finest men,” should relieve the public suspense by naming the others, Cherishest Hope. Philadelphla Record, The government syit agaihst the Beef trust has mnow reaghed the grand jury stage. Let us, while. chewing our dear steaks, fondly hope_that the grand jury has not been ]lld‘ {”ched by the cul- Pprits agajnst wham vears have been spent in the, collection of ipculpating testimony. ANOTHER ROOSEVELT NOW. bl The Mighty Hunter as He Emerges from the Jungle. Cleveland’ Leader. The most famous hunter that ever shot blg game at the head waters of the Nile is quotedds saying’ that he is ready to lay down His vifle for good and all. He declares that he has'hunted enough. Now he is ready to quit. Men often speak that way about a favor- ite sport when they have indulged in it long and without stint, only ‘to change thelr minds after awhife. Roosevelt may do the sidme thihg.' His resolutions have welght, and he fs the master of his own ways, but he is very human. However this méy be, there is another Roosevelt for the cotintry and the world to watch now. He 15 out of $ho jungles. This return to civilization will bring to the front the Roosevelt who is a student of men and events, a voraclous reader of history, an ardent grappler with hard prob- lems of national and civic life, a man of wide outlook upon the world and deep interest in all that ertains to the larger affairs of humanity. Americans are golng to be very proud of their former president when they read of the honors Europe will shower upon him and the speeches he will make and the incisive comments he will volunteer, now and then, upon matters of wide importance and local interest. They are going to real- ize, more than ever before, the many-sided bigness of the man. It is better than hunting, better than the studles of a “faunal naturallst.” It will place Theodore Roosevelt before the world at his best, which {s a best hard to better, Our Birthday Beok March 17, 1910. Futrick Cudahy, one of the Cudahy brothers, who have become famous as meat packers, began life on St. Patrick's day i the morning in the year 18 He was born, as were most of his brothers, at Callan, Ireland, and is now located in Milwaukee. Francls J. Heney, the big San Francisco lawyer, who' has been doing things to high-up criminals on the Pacific coast, was born March 17, 1869, at Lima, New York. He was taken to San Franclsco when he was only 5 years old and was educated there. - Y Albert . K. Smiley, philanthropist’ and sponsor for the Mohawk conference, called originaly to discuss the Indian question, but more lately taking up the subject of world peace, is 82 years old today. He was born in Maine and was for nineteen years principal of & Friends’ boarding ‘school at Providence, Rhode Island. Rev. Patrick A: Judge has also a St Patrick's day birthday. He was born in Ireland and is in his fifteenth year as pastor of the Bacred Heart church in this elty. Thomas Swobe, retired leutenant colonel of the United Btates army, is 67. He used to be in partnership with J. E. Markel In running the Millard hotel, and is now interested in the Milton Rogers & Sons company, hardware. P. C. Heafey, undertaker and funeral dlrector, is & St ' Patrick's day product. Mr. Heafey has been coroner once or twice and s one of the colonels of Governor Shallenberger's staff who didn't resign. Here are four more local St Patrick's Aay celebrations: Oeorge Parks, the South Omaha bullder and contractor; P, T. Mec- Grath, who also works in South Omaha; J. C. Kinsler, the lawyer; Mark Coad, tel- ler of the Merchants National bank, MARCH 17 an entire separute and dis- | 1910. Shamrocks St. Patriek’s Day. | The drum's loud roll, “the clarion's blare The sidewalks lined with colleens fair, There's Gaelle music in the air— "Tis Patriok’s Day In the mornin’, The shamrock on each coat s seen In all its soft, perennial green, The rs can't dim its verdant sheen— "fis Patrick's Day In the mornins Thelr thoughts today are wandering free Through dear oid Brin o er the ses, Who bravy The s y walits, lone, on Freedo slle) morn| The gallant men who fought and bled To place the green above the Oh, not In vain their blood was shed— "Tis Patrick's Day in the mornin', Sott stra n hear of music fill the air Killaney's Lakes 8o Van Vocht" and “Sweet Adair “Tis Patrick's Day In the mornin's The boys from Cork to Donegal— ' Some, as the gallowglasses, tall— March past 'mid ringing cheers for all On Patriccs Day it the mornin's Good fellowship shines forth today As sparkling as the shamrock sprayj We pledge the loved ones far away On Patrick’s Day In the mornin’, Here's to old Erin's verdant isle, God guard her from the traitor's wile, May freedom o'er her valleys smile On Patrick's Day in the mornin'. EUGENE GEARY. Ireland’s Shamrock. Through Erin's lsle, To love awhile, As l(wn and Valor wander'd, g A thousand arrows squandered; Where'er they pass, A triple grass Shoots up, with dew drops streaming, As sofily green As emerald seen Through purest crystal gleamin, 0! “the mrock, the green, immortal nd_Chief Old Erin's native Shamrock! Says Valor, 8 ey spring for ' me, Those leaty gems of morning!" Says Love, For me they grow, My _fragrant path adorning." But wit percelves The triple leaves, And cries, “Oh, do not sever A type that blends Three godlike friends, Love, Valor, Wit, forever!" the ' Shamrock, the green, Shamroc Chogen leat and_Chlef 0la Erin's native Shamrock! So firmly fond May last the bond They wove that morn together, And ne'er fall One drop of gall On Wit's celesttal feather! May Valor ne'er His flowers divine, Of thorny falsehood weed ‘em! May Valor never His standard rear Against the cause of Freedom! the Shamrock, the green, Shamroc] Chosen leaf f Bard and Chief Old Erin's native Shamrock! THOMAS MOORE. “See, o! immortal o! immortal Spring in Irel Sweet spring, you are an Irish lass, And wearing af the green, Your jeweled feet run o'er the grass And gems by all are seen: Rare dlamonds and emeralds You leave behind, my queen: The Seventeenth of March wiil come ‘With wearing of the green. Thrice welcome, darling of the vear, Sweat colleen of the green, The hearts of Irishmen you'il cheer St. Patrick's Day, I ween. Each son of Brin loves you, They hall you as their queen, And all the world s happler With wearing of the green. For the winter days are over And wé tread the breathing sod, Irish soldier, Irish lover, Of his country and his God. To a martial alr these verses As the colors bright are seen. The eolors of old Ireland That's the wearing of the green. —Philadelphia Public Ledger. The Rising of the Moon. (A. D., 1798). “Oh, then tell me, Shawn O Tell me why you hurry so.” “Hush, ma bouchal, hush and listen!" And his cheeks were *I bear orders for the Cay Get you ready quick ani For the pikes must be together At the risin’ of the moon!"" arrell, “Qh, then tell me, Shawn O'Farrell, Where the gath'rin' is to be." “In the ould spot by the river. Right well known to you and me. One word more for signal token, Whistle up the marchin’ tune. With your pike upon your shoulder, By the risin’ of the moon!" Out from many a mud-wall cabin Tyes were watching thro' that night; Many & manly heart was throbbing For the blessed warning light. Murmurs passed along the valleys Like the banshee's lonely croon, And a thousand blades were flashing At the risin’ of the moon. There besldé the singing river That dark mass of men were seen— High above the shining weapons Hung thelr own immortal Green. “Death to every foe and traltor! Forward! Strike the marchin' tune, And hurrah, my boys, for freedom! 'Tis the risin’ of the moon.” Well they fought for poor old Ireland, And full bitter was their fate. (Oh! what glorious pride and sorrow Fill the name of Ninety-elght!) Yet, thank God, e'en still ars beating Hearts in manhood's burning noon Who would follow In thelr footsteps At the risin’ of the moon. —~KEEGAN CASEY. “The Wearing of the Green.” Oh, Paddy, dear, and did you hear the news that's goin' roun The shamrock is forbid, by law, on Irish ground; Patrick’s Day no more we'll keep, his colors can't be seen, For there's a bloody law agin' the Wearing of the Green; I met with Napper Tandy and he tuk me by the hand, And he sald: “How's poor ould Ireland, and how does she stand? She's the most distressful ever you have seen; They're hanging men and women there for Wearing of the Green. Then since the color we must wear Is Eng’ land's cruel red Sure Ireland's sons will ne'er forget the blood: that they have whed; You may take & shamrock from your hut and cast It on the sod. But ‘twill_take root and fiourish still, tho' under foot 'tis trod: When the law can stop the blades of grass from growing as they grow, And when the leaves In summer time their verdure dare not show; Then 1 will change the color I wear on my caubeen, But_till that day, please God, I'll stick to Wearing of the Green. to grow st. country that i But If at last our color should be torn from Ireiand s heart |Her gous with shame and sorrow from the dear 0ld soll will part I've heard whispers of a country that lles beyant the say, Where rich and poor stand equal, lght of freedom's day; Oh, Erin! must we leave you, driven by the tyrant's hand, Must -we ask a mother's welcome from a strange but happy land! Where the cruel cross of England's thral- dom never shall be seen. And where, thank God, we'll live and dle, stjll. Wearing of the Green. 10N BOUCICAULT. Kiek? n the Would the Avernge M Springtield Republican, Strong dental is made that & great com- bination of automoblle manufacturing con- cerns has been projected under the finan- cing ot.thehouse of Morgan. Yet this would be the one squeesing trust which the aver- man would view with great compla- lmey We have equipped Meetings of A telephone call will reserve one for your use. irst National d:&mko Omalu_ Gapital « ,$500,00000 Surplns &Profits 700,000,00, TWO NEW ROOMS adjoining the SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS, with every convenlence for the holding of Committees, Directors, Corporallons Assets Over #13,000,000, mj PERSONAL NOTES. Colonel Roosevelt has cut “bully” out of his vocabulary. visit to Cork, however, pardoned for reviving time.” Francls L. Quimby of Claremont, N. H who is 8 years old, cut seven cords of wood this winter, driving six miles to cut it He has hauled it home and Is now cutting It up into cord wood. The estate of Samuel J. Tilden, which has been In the hands of executors since 1884, s practically wound up. There is still a cash balance undistributed and a part of this will be used In erecting a statue of Mr. Tilden in New York City. A site near the new public library will probably be chosen. President Taft will stand on a platform covered with Irish sod this evening while addressing the Irish Fellowship club In Chicago. As a souvenir of the occasion he will be presented with a gold-headed black- thorn stick adorned with rows of knobs that would, rightly used, ‘transform a shindy into a Quaker meeting. A high-cost-of-living investigation going on in Ohlo s reputed to have revealed evi- dences of a state-wide combination of gro- cers and butchers against price-cutting. At the same time testimony has been taken by the Lodge high-prices committee at Washington which places the net profits of retall grocers and butchers as high as 83 per oent. “General A. W. Greely writes from Flor ence, Italy, a sweet-tempered letter about his own promotions In the army and his honors at the hand of congress by reason of his Arctic journeys. He never had any promotions nor any honors from that bedy because he was @ distinguished Arctic ex- plorer. Congress never recognized him as a polar hero. But, he adds amlably, “the fallure of congress to recognize my Arctic services, which received the highest European honors, was never per-onally crit- fclsed and did not embitter me.” And the general says ne hopes that congress will honor Mr. Peary in some suitable way. WORKING THE OLD POLICY. the word During his admirers may be “a corking good Freight Rates Based on What the Traftic Will Bear, Sioux City Tribune. The Omaha meat interests charge the Burlington road with starting the move- ment to Increase rates on dressed meat, and forcing the other roads into line. It would be Interesting to know what was used to force the Illinois Central, the Great Western and the Wabash loads (which have no lines west of the Missourl river). It looks as if the distinguished J. Plerpont Morgan kept a lookout in one of the tall towers of New York for prosperous spots on the map of the nation, and that as soon as they are discovered the suggestion is wired down to tap those spots for as much of the profit as possible. But what- ever the method, the scheme is working and the packers are going to start a back tire that the man In the tower will be able to discover before long. The railroad theory of rates is that they shall be based on the value of the service to ‘the shippar, This 18 the modern euphemism for Jay Gould's statement of the way he charged—‘all the traffio will bear.” ! 1 BREEZY TRIFLES. “T understand it s & gasoline cf which struck Jonesbs " e “Yes, and 1 think that is why he oems bent on “smelling out a sult,'’—Baltimore American. He—~Would you clever? She—Beautiful, rather be beautiful or 1 think. You see, there are lots of stupld men, but only a few blind ones.—Boston Transcript, “What made you cut that puppy's tail off so short?" “‘Economy,” replied the man who moes to extremes. “Wife Insists on having a dog, but I'm determined there shall be as littia :x; possible of him to feed.”—Washington Star. They tell me, dear boy, that your. tim- idity in operating your car caused a bad accident." “Yes, old fellow. The accldent might be properly described as a nervous break- down."—Philadelphia Press. “Let me sell you the 1910 style book. It tells what will ‘be worn and why. “T know already what I'll wear and why. I'll wear my old clothes because I haven't the price to buy new ones.'= Kansas City Times. “Well, well!" surprisedly’ ejactlated the patent-churn , Who had not visited the hamlet before in’several months. ‘‘When did you change the name of this hotel to the “Taft' House,?" “Right, -tter we built on that big bay window,” replled the landlord of the host- Sy at’ Whittiesville.— Puck. The Doctor—You must put & porous plas- ter on the small of you back. The Lady—That's impossible, doctor. I'm going to the opera, tonight—how would 1 look?—Cleveland Leader. “Henrletta,” said Mr, Meekton, eat anything I find growing on still be a consistent vegetarian ‘‘oan I tres and “Certain} Oh, joy! I notice that a lot of our chickens have taken to roosting in the woods."—Washington Star. fo—— OLD IRELAND. i Far hence amld an isle of wondrous beauty, Crouching over‘a grave an ancient sorrow= ful mother, Once a queen, now lean and tatter'd, seated on the ground. Her old white bair. drooping dishevel'd round her shoulders, At her feet, fallen an unused royal harp. Long silent, he too long. slient,” mourning her shrouded hope and heir, Of all the earth her heart most full of sorrow because most full of love. Yet a word, anclent mother: You need crouch there no longer on the cold ground with forehead betweem your knees; O you need not sit there veil'd in your old white hair so dishevel'd, For know you the one you mourn Is not in that grave; It was an illueion, not really dead. The Lord i not dead, He is risen again, young and strong, in another country. Even while you wept there by your fallen harp by the grave, What you wept for was translated, pass'd from the grav The winds favor'd and the sea sail'd it; And now, with rosy and new blood, Moves today in & new country. —~WALT WHITMAN. the son you love was Tested for 7 Strength and Flavor Freshness and strength are the first es- sentials of quality spices. 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