Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 18, 1910, Page 6

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REMITTANCES, Remit by draft, Sxprets or postal order to The Bee Publighing Company, recefved in payment of nal checks, except on arn_exchange, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CTRCULATION, State of Nebrawka, Douglas County, w Goorge B, Taschuck. treasurer af Th Bee Publishing Company. being duly sworn, says that tha mctual number of 1) and complaf fes of The Dally, orning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of February, 1910, was as follows: 1. B3 2334 GEORGE B, TZBCHUCK, Treasurer. Subseribed in my presency before me this 38eh Sfl oF Bebrusry 1310 RoskRy HUNTRR, otary Publle, Subscribers loaving the eity teme porarily showld have The Bee mailed to th Address will be changed as oft #s reguested, Mary never suspected that her “lit- tle lamb” would be worth $10. From all reports those lowa reform school girls need a little more reform- ing. S The next thing in order will be Mayor “Jim's unu’l clean-up procla- mation. A base ball pitcher gun has been in. vented. Better make it rapid fire and &ive it to the umpire. Take note that the bbek beer season has arrived on schedule time in spite of the 8 o'clock lid law, A pound of plntinuin“co-u in the neighborhood of $710, but it may yet have a fat rival in the pork chop. —— Interviews that are not printed in the World-Herald would probably make still more interesting reading, —— A Chicago servant left $5,000 to the family by whom she had been em- ployed for thirty years. Sort of a re- bate, T —— Since Japan ‘gives 'assurance that “war with the United States {s incon- celvable,” we would better order those other two battleships at once. The newest r whatever that is, and fear Is expressed in some quarters that that is “what is the matter with con- It might be a good plan to leave the mortgage on the old Webster home- stead up In New Hampshire so that it will seem more as though Daniel were still alive. ¥ It someone could get a corner on all the cold wave Jokes perpetrated at the expense of Mr. Fairbanks the cold storage monopoly need not be such a ddpru-hh matter, — That Los Angeles man who has two extra ribs which he is planning to have removed should take warning from the trouble Adam got into when he had one of his taken out. It is an even guess that J. Plerpont Morgan will bring: home several blocks of Roman ruins for bric-a-brac in that famoug collection of his. And next time he will'have a cortier on Roman ruins, Benator Dolliver's declaration that “the time hag come when plain Eng- lish must be used by congress in pass. ing legislation,” is something of a slam ou the law-makers who have heretofore been on the job. —_—— James A, Patten is a humorist, all right. . While blowing himself to a trip to Hurope, he {8 objecting because “the American people are too extrava- gant.” They really have to be when he 18 bgosting prices of ‘what they must buy, X b e The Mmdustry of the World-Herald correspondents in searching out folks to stapd fOr interview boosts would indicate that they expect to connect When President Taft spoke feel. ingly not long ago about the ecriticism to which his administration had been subjected he drew attention to the difficulties besetting the gréat office which he occuples. It is no easy task to be the chief executive of a critical people. It s not an easy task to be the leader of a nation of ambitious people with widely diversified inter- ests and with sharply conflicting po- litical ideas. ‘Within the history of our republic many subdivisions and bureaus have grown up under the administhative de- partments, a tremendous volume of business has fallen upon the judiciary and the work of the legislative branch has increased almost beyond Its power of accomplishment. While this has been going on the progress of the country as a whole has made many changes and reforms necessary. Everyone knows, of course, how these changes and- reforms can best be brought about without reference to the conditions at Washington, and when the administration does not do things forthwith as demanded then the guns of criticism are trained upon the president. Heretofore every subdivision, com- mission and bureau has had the ear of the public sometimes over the head of the department chief. The same thing has been true with regard to the policies of former administrations and everyone desiring publicity and political advertising has had an open door to the press. In fact, the public has often indicated a preference for the word of a subordinate over the word of the chief and with that as a basis many movements have sprung up to decry the administration. And the worst criticism which has arisen at this time has been the charge that President Taft has suppressed in- formation because of his insistency that information for the public shall come through the responsible head of the department itself. Of course, no administration is free from mistakes—some mistakes are inevitable, considering the complex governmental machinery which must be moved in all accomplishments. When a man has been given a great task to perform with complicated and delicately ‘running machinery to be used in its performance, he las a right to expect a falr chance to make things go and to look for support, rather than obstruction, from those who are professing the same purpose. Dr. Wiley on High Prices. According to Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, chief of the bureau of chemistry of the Agriculture department, the deep- down cause of the high prices is the desertion of the farms by the ‘‘city- struck country boy.” The lights and dazzling show of city life, together with the accumulation of great for- tunes’ in commerce, have lured the country boy away from the homestead and from the basic occupation of cul- tivating the soil. As a consequence Dr, Wiley says the number of .non- producers to be fed is increased and the number of producers has de- creased. To this condition he attri- butes the present high cost of farm labor as well as the high prices of farm produce. As an explanation of the fact that the total amount of the agricultural products are vasuy greater now than they were in former years, the ratio between the amount produced and the amount necessary for food, in this country alone, indi- cates to him a decided increase in the demand over the supply. The great pure food expert refers to the well-known fact that for years the country hoy has been ‘“‘going to the city to seek his fortune.” -That he has found it in many cases is true, but that he has not in many others is also true, as evidenced In every city by the number of laborers, small- salaried clerks, masons and carpen- ters of country birth and breeding. While the east abounds in abandoned farms the west ra a cry for help as every harvest comes around and the percentage of farmers to total popu- lation has dwindled to less than 49 per cent. In addition to this he cites to the large number of fruit and sugar orchards in the east, and especially in the northeast, which have been felled for lumber. We may be thankful, however, that Dr. Wiley does not leave us entirely without hope. The equilibrium to which all natural forces tend will have to be restored by repopulatipg the farms or at least stopping the exodus and that is precisely the direction to which the increased prices of food stuffs are pulling. “Hoch Der” Hog. ‘With, pork bringing 11 cents a pound on foot, the hog 1s in a fair way to become enthroned as the king of the barnyard. ago “‘the American hog was & humble sort of a citizen,” as a well-known humorist has sald. Fe was fed on slops from the kitchen, sour milh and sell, while he received a soft berth only at butchering time in the fall. His grunt did not sound like a dollar sign In those days and he was, the least recognized of the domestic ani- with the $50,000 with which Candi- date Hitehcock recently replenished his war chest. —_— A death from typhold fever in the state penitentiary st Lincoln is re- ported, the vietlm having been in- carcerated there for eight months, so that he- Jnot possibly have im- bibed the germ on the outside. Here is where the Missourl river certainly bas an alibt ot 0, o . mals. But a fat hog today is worth more than a fat steer was in 1894, The market i calling for hogs of all degrees of fatness and the farmer with & pen full of hogs may ride in automobiles. The rise in the price of hogs began about a year ago as a direct result of the law of supply and demand—s0 we| are told by the Journal of Commerce. In the fall of 1908 the price of corn Only a short time that grade of corn which would not|: THE BEE the big margin of profit from the corn rather than to run the risk of smaller profit by feeding to hogs and cattle, As a result, many hogs were marketed fattened only on alfalfa. Last fall when the price of hogs was up a little and corn was down, every kind of a hog was sold, big, little and fat and razorback, leaving the supply of hogs in the country now small. The high price of beef has Increased the de- mand for pork and the price is still soaring. The present price of meat has added anoth incentive to the ‘‘call of the farm' for the average man who is Inclined that way. There is no ques- tion of the profits to be realized from the soll. Some states are even dis- cussing the advisability of a “hog spe- clal” as an educational feature of the spring agricultural campalgn. It really seems queer that farmers have to be urged to get better seed corn and wheat, raise more and better fruit and raise more hogs and cattle when there is 80 much profit in all of these things for the farmers themselves. Ahead of the Game. Our old friend, Edgar Howard, has again gotten ahead of the game and, if volcing the democratic sentiment, as he claims to do, the purpose of Ne- braska democrats is to get rid of the direct primary and restore the old con- vention system at the earliest oppor- tunity. Judge Howard seizes upon an alleged remark of Judge Cobbey, who compiles our statutes, to the effect that in his opinfon the decision on the so- called nonpartisan judiclary act killed the whole primary law, for a excuse to say that he will shed no tears if the law is dead. Further than that, this democratic oracle declares: The convention plan of making nomina- tions is really the ideal plan, provided all the people would partieipate in the party primaries. Nothing could come oloser to the rule of the people than the convention system, {f only some means might be de- vised to draw the people to actual part in the township and ward primaries. We thought the Nebraska primary law would #et nominations closer to the people, and yet we have seen primary nominations made under that law with only a handful of voters participating. For our part, we want to see a primary law which will encourage all voters to take part. If we can't get that kind of a law, then we are quite ready to return to the convention plan. Judge Howard has here shown his hand, but has shown it prematurely. 8o far as anyone knows, the direct pri- mary still prevails in Nebraska just as it wonld hav: prevailed had no fake nonpartisan judiciary law been perpe- trated. The decision of the supreme court adverse to that law does not af- fect any other law not at issue. As a matter of fact threp of our supreme Judges are now sitting on. the bench who were nominated by direct primary and elected after that decision, as were also all the county officers elected last fall in this state. The direct primary is being used right now for the various municipal elections in Nebraska, and so far as anyone knows will continue in force until some legislature changes it. There is nothing to prevent any political party in Nebraska from resorting to the con- vention plan and using the primary simply for ratification, just as the dem- ocrats do in Wisconsin. Perhaps that i{s the ideal plan. If so, we will join Judge Howard in advocating that it be tried out. A Joseph’s Coat, Notice is officially served that the Anti-Saloon league had nothing whi ever to do with calling the Nebraska county option convention recently held in Lincoln and that the County Option league formed on that occasion is en- tirely separate and distinct from the anti-Saloon league. This is interest- ing information, but does not alter the situation. It simply reminds us of the old days of the three-ring political eir- cus when “the allled reform forces” exhibited in one end of the tent as democrats, at the other end as silver republicans and in the middle as pop- ullsts, 8o our versatile prohibition agitators are simply clad in a Joseph's coat of many hues. They meet today as the anti-Saloon league, tomorrow as a county option convention and the next day as the allled church socleties, each time under some other color of the rainbow. The same speakers talk and the same auditors listen to the same old speeches, and they resolute under one name endorsements of what they, themselves, have done under an- |’ other name. Some people will be fooled, but when Joseph’s coat comes oft they will see what is behind It. It is suggested that Omaha put an upper limit on the height of buildings and draw the line at twelve stories. Omaha has fot as yet been seriously troubled with skyscrapers, but has a far greater grievance against the ten- story bulldings all on one floor. A lower limit on the height of buildings that will prohibit the erection of new structures of less than three stories facing the main thoroughfares would be quite in order. Banker Gurney -of Fremont rein- forces his opposition to postal savings by saying before a congressional com- mittee that while the legal rate of in- terest is 10 per cent in Nebraska, “it has gotten so that we hardly ever charge more than that now.” One well known Nebraska banker got in trouble not long ago by writing letters. It seems that it is no longer safe for a Nebraska banker either to write or talk. ——————— The Commercial club is to-make an effort to help the census taker bring Omaha’s population up to where it should be. The Commercial ' club OMAHA, FRIDAY most noticeably by bri: bout the consolidation of Omaha and South Omaha before the census date. Bat the time for bringing that about seems to have been allowed to slip by without even a serious attempt. The University Democratic club has resoluted denunclation of the enforced retirement of President Crabtree of the Peru Normal. It will now be up to the Peru Normal students to form a democratic club, and denounce the enforced retirement of Colonel Bryan and Governor Shallenberger from the university extension lecture circuits, Still, there 1s .room for doubt whether the demverats would ve been so averse to providing automobile transportation for, the vice president and speaker If “‘Sunny Jim' and “Un- cle Joe" were not repiiblicans, —_— Judging from the samples we have had, Dr. Cook could be elected to the United States senate from Arkansas without much trouble. - Arkansas is the place for him if he only knew it. The slow movements of the camel must have been rather irksome to Colonel Roosevelt, unless he s so blamed tickled to get back to civiliza- tion that he does not care. Judge Norris Is sald to be debating with himself- whether to run for sena- tor, governor or congressman. Now, it he were only triplets! Abusea Rights of the Public, 8t. Louis Republic. Either or any party to a labor contro- versy which adopts the attitude that there is “nothing to arbitrate” Is reactionary and irritatingly unjust to the public. The public often has been damned, but in the last analysis it refuses to be damned. e Freight Rate Boost Enjoined. Philadelphia Record. Elght railroads have been enjoined by a federal court from Increasing the rate on coke from Connellsville to Buffalo until the Interstate Commerce commission shall determine the ‘reasonableness of the in- crease, The complainants were Buffalo steel companies, which sald that the In- crease would amount to, a diserimination against them and in favor of the steel in- terests of Pittsburg, and Gary Ind. Philadeiphia Press. The farmers' instruction trains—one has set out on a three days’ tour through South Jersey—which are a comparatively new ag- ricultural feature in the east, aré an old story in the middle west. The railroads, co- operating with the state agricultural col- leges, have been Instructing western farm- ers for several years In the science of the soll. It {s obvibus that It pays the rail- roads to do this—an fittease of crops means more business, It pays the state In advan- cing land valués. 'Above all, it pays the farmer. So, all aroind, it 1s an admirable economic movemetit. Py T EXPURGATED LITERATURE. i Contents of Schiool Books Froveke ' O%jaction. Philddémmé Record. It 1s becoming‘/sd" liard to find things that may b6 tatlit!sn the public schools that it ‘may be Wededsary to turn: them back “exclusi¥ély to’ the three Rs, and-in view of the fact that the children are not over-educated in ‘Teading, writing and arithmetic; With & little spelling and geog- raphy on' the side,/ thls result would not be wholly deplorblé. Sehool books are manufactured for the most part in the north ahd camps of confederate veterans have repeatedly deriounced the sort of his- tory of the civil war which the grand- children of the men who followed Lee and Johnston and Jackson are learnipg from their books. We can't blame them much; if our school histories of the revolution were made In Englind we should scruti. nize them very Closely. The Hebrews of Cincinnat! have had the reading of “Shylock” in the public schools stopped, though It seems to us that the Christian olvilization of the Shakespearean era suffers in that drama a good deal more than its victim does. Of course the stage Irishman and tho stage Jew have been driven from the contemporary stage, and it is not. entirely safe now .to caricature anybody except an American, who, of course, has no friends. A delicate-minded teacher in the Brook- Iyn sehools some years ago excluded Long- fellow's “Bullding of the Ship” because with poetic licensgnot - to say licentous- ness—he pictuted the hulk rushing into the arms of of the ocean. Now a Boston woman, not southern, but painfully anxious to efface all traces of sectionalism, de- mands that “Barbara Fritchie” be pro- scribed on the ground that the lines A shade of sadness, a blush of shame, Over the face of the leader came. The nobler nature within him stirred, are an unwarrantable reflection upon the southern manhood that followed “Stone- ‘wall Jackson through Fredericktown. Per- haps we had better, conting school history to the Greeks and Romans, though there may be too many descendants of the Romans in thid country, and in Boston, at least, too many descendants of the Greeks, to make even this wholly safe. Our Birthday Beok March 18, 1810. Grover Cleveland would be 73 If he were allve. Willilam Sulzer, the red-headed Tammany congressman,. was born March .18, 1863, at Elizabeth, N. J. Mr. Sulzer has orated at least once for the edification of Omaha democrats at their Jacksonian fe Victor Murdock, the militant insurgent congressman from Kansas, is # today. He was born in Kansas and edits & news- paper when he is at home attending to his own business. General Charles Morton; in command of the Department of the Missourl, Is cele- brating his sixty-foprth birthday, which is a prelude to' Ald retirement from active service, General Morton has a notable milltary record” ‘He entered as a private at the opening of ‘the clvil war and goes out as a brigidier general. John L. Webster, lawyer and orator, was born March 18, 1841. He Is a native of Ohio, but has been practicing law in Omaha for many years. He presided over the con- vention that framed our state constition, and hes aspired to various offices from member of congress to vice president. In the interval e has achieved & reputation of being the best dressd man in Omaha, with particular emphasis on his faney vesta. 2 H. F, Curtls, general agent for the New York Central & Bt. Louls rallway; was born March 18, 1564, at North East, Penn. He was educated in Minnesota and has was especially high’ and the farmer|could have helped the census taker | been in his present position since 1902 MARCH 18, Slashing Red Tape Proposed Meorganimation of the Business Msthods of the Chicago Evening Post. One of the most radical and interesting departures in tbe theory and practice of business organization is belng worked out on the Union Pacific rallroad. It is known @s the “unit system of organization,” and while it comes as a rellef to the more |rigldly organized businesses, it Is not with- out its significance for large business oper- |ations In general. It 18 not, to tell the truth, very well de- scribed by its name. Nobody would guess what the echeme comprised from looking at its title. Ply as an attempt to unite the minor ex- ecutive officers of the division in working for the Interests of the company Instead of for thelr own particular department. In spite of & vast deal of nonsense about Its “system,” the average large organiza- tion Is frequently bullt up on the most completely feudal lines. There is the “big boss” at the top, and a handful of depart- ment bosses below, each endeavoring to “make a showing” for his own department, each one jealous of interference and quite vnable to prevent the company's wffairs in general from going to pleces if the crisls in question does not come clearly within his provice. The relation between these minor barons is formal in the extreme. Letters pass back and forth; the files are Klutted with correspondence tending to ex hibit the demands and performances of “my department,” and the red tape which the American business man professes to scorn 1s woven in and out and around about some of the simplest “family” transactions. That is the sort of thing which the Unfon Pacific rallroad hopes to abollsh through the reorganization of its system. Under the new scheme the minor executive of- ficers of each division—the master me- chanle, train master, division engineer, chlef dispatcher and what not—are made assistant superintendents. While each one of these assistant superintendents is stili interested primarfly in his own department, he nevertheless has the power and author- !| ity, when necessary, to step into any situa- tlon and command it. If he happens to be on the spot at an ugly mix-up at the roundhouse he can take charge until the right man reaches the spot. Each is en- couraged to work and think for the whole division, and not, primarily, for his own department. Major Charles Hines, who has been work- ing out the detalls of the scheme, gave the Western Rallway club a fairly typical fllus- ;| tration of the situation which they hope to meet: “But now, when we have a blockade, in- stead of having to send two or three of- ficlals to one place, we hope that one man can perhaps go down and clean it up, It required by stress of weather or otherwise, We can scatter our officlals where they can do the most good. We have probably all ©Of us bepn through blockades, we have probably all chased around engine houses &t 3 or 4 o'clock In the morning, and we have heard a man say: ‘Now, this is not up to my department, it 18 up to the other; my part is all right’ And some railroads have gotten up a speclal blank to show Whether the engine was ready first or !| whether the train was ready first, and there 18 a long argument as to how many hours the power was in service, and the r‘_!ull 18 that they chase the engines out on the road and they die because there is a blockade of trains there. We expect tu eliminate this whole question of whether the train wan ready first of the engine was ready fifst. We claim that, the time of our officials s too valuable to eontinue to be taken up in these personal—that is what they amount to—differences of opinion as to why certaln things were or were not done, We want to move the train, and not talk so much about why it 4id not move, That 1s what we are all here for—to move the train v The simplification has been real, it is sald. The number of letters written has been cut by % to 60 per cent, and many other galns are claimed for it, And its larger significance the major ex- d very well when he sald: Il this system elaims is to reflect what 1s a general tendency today in organization the world over In various lines of work. This stystem happens to be adapted to rall- way wofk on the Harriman lines. The navy has been going through a similar process. This system means in its last analysis de- centralization. In nearly every line of ac- tivity today decentralization {s the order. Tour branches of government work hi been decentralized in the last year and a half. The national bank examiners have been decentralized, the forestry service has been divided into districts, the Post- office department has increased the number of its districts, the quartermaster's depart- ment of the army has been decentralized to a considerable extent. The big corpora- tions like the telephone companies are in- troducing stmilar principles.” It may bo that in the next few years, With this somewhat revolutionary scheme in operation, the Union Pacific will take the place of “Jim" Hil's roads as the “mchool for railroad presidents.’ PERSONAL NOTES. ‘Word has been received that Dr. Cook is coming home. No certainty about it, how- ever. Cook himself may have sent the word. Dr. J, C. White of Boston has discovered that motoring causes women to become bald. If halr that Is clinched by nature will not cling what hope can women have for continuing the sport when they enter the wig stage? E. R. Petery of Denver, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, 80 years old, gave up only two weeks ago his dally job of carrying newspapers. For sixty years be hasn't worn socks, and he says he hasn't had cold feet In all that time, Mrs. Ellen H. Richards of the Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology faculty lays the present high cost of living di- rectly at the door of her own sex. She asserts that man is driven dally nearer and nearer poverty by woman's extrava- gances Barney Kelly and Thomas O'Connell, two of the oldest locomotive engineers on. the Southern Pacific, each over 70 years of age, have ben retired on pensions. For over forty-five years they have handled the throttle, and for several years have been pulllng the Red Bluff local between that city and Bacramento. Millionaire and president of seven cor- porations at the age of 4, Dahlel Waldo Fileld of Brockton has gone back to school to make up the education he lost in youth, e is the richest student in his own- right at Harvard, and the oldest. He probably is the only Harvard student that has made his millions himselt before going to college. Philadelphia Bulletin. Theodore Roosevelt's constitution is sald to have resisted successtully all the dangers of tropical fevers and “the sleeping slok- ness.” The indications now are that it will be subjected to & much more severe strain Gnless its owner manages to side- stop some of the banquets which are wait: ing for him. But it can be expjained sim-' TEARS M, Revercnce Shamrooks at Chiengo. Some fifty squnres of Irish wod, sprinkled with growing shamrock, brought to Chi- cago for the festivities of St. Patriok's day, became an Irish shrine for two days befors President Taft stood upon it while addressing the Irish Fellowship club. The #od was placed on a rough table and ex- hibited in an alcove of the La Salle hotel Young and. old, rich and poor, lnst year's Immigrant, and the young American re- moved by generations from Ireland went by the hundred to pay thelr tribute, relates the Tribune. Some Jaughe some Were merely ourlous, some went at the orders of those dear to them, but many Wwent as devotees go to the shrine of a saint, as a man goes to his loved onc's grave, Men removed thelr hats as they ap proached and more than one woman kissed the green grass and wept, regardless of the staring crowd. A detective was placed on guard for a time, but it was fonnd that he was not needed. The sod had voluntary guardlans, and it would have been a brave man who would dare to touch it Every one was curlous about the sham- rocks, and took. great delight in discovering them. The turf was In fino condition, and the shamrocks green and numerous In spite of the fact that it was cut fn mid- winter, subjected to a jolting vovage of 1,00 miles by land and 3,000 miles by water in rough crates, confined for some days in a pent house on the roof of a Chieago sky- scraper, and again removed and stood on end In the clectrio lighted rotunda. For a time one dear old lady constituted herself an apologist and custodian for the sod, telling strangers how the president sof the United Stafes was to have the privilege of standing on it, and explaining how a little care, and water, and sunshine would bring it to its natural green luxurlance, and she told them of the beauties of Tre- land. “How long is this golng to be here?” asked a man, who evidently had run sev- eral blocks to get there. When teld it would be open to public-inspection for two more days he was much relleved. “I just heard about it," he explained, “and If this was the only day I was golng right out to get my mother and bring her down. She's been talking of nothing else for woeks, and feeling bad because only the few, who could go to the banquet could see ft, Gee! She'll be glad tonight.” A man, evidently a wenithy traveler, watched the crowd for a time and then walked over and asked what wae the at- traction. When he was told it was the Irish ‘sod from which President Taft 1s to speak he took off his hat and stepped for- ward, remarking: S “My mother came from Galway." A blg young man who looked like a col- lege student escorted his mother into the room. As she pointed ot the shamrock she said to another woman: “It's many, many a year since I came downtown, and I never expected to again, but when I read of this I knew I had to come down once more; s sent for Jack and he brought me. Isn't it wonderful?" A short time afterward ‘a venerable woman wrapped In costly furs, a w with a stern face and a “proud walk, tered. She looked at it with her glasses and without them, wiped them.and wiped her eyes, caressed it and siipped a pinch of grass and shamrock into her purse. She left and came back again. Then the tears came and she knelt and kissed the sod and hurried away. A stout, poorly dressed woman with big rough red hands stood and 'watched the sod for a long time, glaring fealously at every one who ‘touched it. Suddenly she spoke: £ *“What are they goin' to d the might?¥ = -0 a1 “Put it tn some park,” wi “But they must put it in consecrated ground,” she said. “It wouldn't be fit ta put it just anywhere. Sure, if they don't bless the ground I don't belleve the sham- rocks would grow there." Perhaps she thought ‘some one smiled, ““Tis true!” she declared, defiantly. “Every fut of Irish ground is holy with the footsteps, sure an’ the blood, too, of saints and heroes.” The man, whose mother was from Gal- way, had been ‘standing by. ““This has been worth the trip from New York,” he sald. “My mother will-be glad to hear I have seen and touched the ould 80d."” While the devout Irishwoman at the hotel club, was recetving TYURE L petition | trom the Sisters of Nax who have a | convent at La Grange, to obtain for them | & “bit” of the sod, promising to preserve it carefully forever in_the shape of & minia ture Ireland. ' e e——— TURN ON THE LIGHT. Worth Investigating. Boston Heradd, The allegation by The Omaha Bee, on the authority of fhémbers “of the South Omaha Live Stock exchange, that present record-breaking prices for hogs and pork are the result of a corner which 18 being engineered at Chicago, ought to recelve at- tention from the senators at Washington, who have ‘professed a desire to discover all the causes of the Increased cost of Ilv ing. Here is & specitic instance Which bears all the earmarks of speculative manipula tion of an Important food product. If the senators will demand the presence of the pork packers with thelr books, and will trace the repeated increakes in the last two months to their irreducible causes, we shall have much light not only on the cause of the Increased price of pork, but on the increase in other'food prices, where shicilar conditions may be traced through siwilar processes' to identical oauses. LAUGHING GAS. I _guppose lite fn thé attention to many detalls. “Yes," replied Mr. Crossiots. "I have an noyed 'my Wife tefribly by forgetting to take down this ‘for salé' sign when we haJ invited company.”—Washington, Star, suburbs Tequ “‘We Included our congressman fn the ‘grace’ we sald at the breakfast table thiy Cleveland P ochorus ladies were at one of Victor ‘s concerts on . complimentary with a r. Her- Two o) ticke! M xclalmed one of thes her program, ‘hasn't bert a tremendous repertory’ “Well, T wouldn't exactly plied her friend; “but he s fat."—Everybody's Magazine, Y tha ting pretty, Before elections ‘you invariably say it all shouting."" tor Sorghum; “but I teke oare not to say whether we afe going out for joy or revenge.''~Washington Father—What kes you 8o extravarant with my money, sir? Son—Well, dad, I thought you wouldn't like to spend it yourself after working so hard for {t.—Boston soript. “Why so gloomy, old chap?" “The doctor has ordered miy wifs to spend two months in the count: 1 8nderstand, my poor fellow.” ut you don't understand! She won't go!"—Judge. itade Lady Caller (confidentially. to het hostess) My dear, why doesn't the dean pad hia logs? %Illa of the Dean (patheticaly)<But rhy dear, he does!—London Punch, “I'm afraid,” said Demcon Hardesty, shaking his head, “we'll have to take our new preacher in’ hand and stralghten up his doctrinals a bit." . 20y, e alnt preaching hercey, is he?” asked Brother Keepalong, : “Well he come mighty close td it. When I asked him the other it think that the upbraidings of onscience would be one of the worst tortures of the lost mouls in perdition, he said: ‘Nonsense, deacon! Nobody that has'a conscience will ever go therel’ "—Chicago Tribune. 83 CONVERAAON, W, D. Nesbit In Chicago Post. The parlor light was Jow and dim, Yet not too divn and not too low; He talked to her, she talked to him— Yet what they sald they did not know. They talked about the latest g:{. They chatted of the newest ) ut ehow each one. med to say (. A different thing wl(h‘.l.mlg,‘lnd 100K, ., "Theytalked about the flood 4n Franee, And of the yow at Epgland's polls, Of_an amusing circumstance, Of chocolate, of breakfast rolls, Of making ohi Of plotures in 8 magasine, Of what they put in good cigars, Of how ‘to crank a blg machine. They laughed at some unconselous joke, They Judsed her latest photograph, They “talked about the city’ And of her uncle's epit They gravely spoke of polltics Of how falr woman's lack of gnfle | Would do away with graft and tricks— But- more they sald with look and smile, At last he sald that he must go; It took some time to say ' Dight''~ ‘The parlor lamp burned @m -and low, But" bc:'.h their hearts were glad and was demanding that the sod be kept holy, Leo J. Doyle, chairman of the general re- ception committee of the Irish Fellowship GOLD D ‘things and Besides its cleansing our strength. 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