Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 29, 1910, Page 6

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Mayor “Jim"” dldn't expect to get many votes in Lincoln, anyway. Dr. Cook 18 another witness to the fact that cheap notorlety is very ex- ponsive, after all, first person who n‘retud having mar. ried too many relatives. — 1t the cartoonists are to be belleved Uncle Joe never lost hil grip on that clgar, no matter what happened to his gavel. ———— The Councll Biufts census man missed his chance by rot doing the counting while the Mabray trial was in progress. Onusnsfii ii 503 “stteet paving this season thah“in“8ny“ond year for a long time, Omaha must keep ahead of the processlon, ——— A Georgla boomer has started a magazine and named it “Blade and Bludgeon." But that does not sound much like booming title, ——— [ Victor Roséwater, have you a personal, wpeaking acqualntance with one Harry Lindsay?—Bdgat Howard's Columbus Telegram. Yes. What about it? Andrew Carnegle wants the state to take halt the estates of rich men at thelr death-—-and Andy has long been determined not to dle rich, — The editer of the Houston Post has recently bought a Bible, Buylng a Bible {s so unusual in Texas that it im. mediately draws a top head among the news, With thy t of the pinless hat & new version of the seriptural verse will appear-—and they shall beat thelr hat- pins into plow shares, or words to that effect, —— Andrew Carnegie’s philosophy is not attracting so much attention as does his money, but then philosophy never was guoted very high on the stock market. When the eft ‘eity council of Franklin, N. H., ordeted the labor agitator out of town in order to prevent a ‘strike the union men went on a strike just for revenge. ‘Ward politios in Pittsburg hereafter will be rather tame, and the man who dares to stand for alderman will cer- tainly have to have plenty of bronze about his makeup. Never mind, the weather man will be forgtven much more readily for fail. ing to predict a balmy day than for promising good weather and falllng down on the delivery of the goods. —_— Notice is given that all forms of has- ing at West Point will be punishable by expulsion and the minor forms will be less frequently overlooked. Life at ‘West Point will immediately be valled & bore, A woman reformer deplores that in these days no housewife can make a suit of clothes for her husband—but she forgets that not a husband in the country would stand for a home-made costume in these twentieth ocentury days. PR Estrada has offered a solution for the Nioaragua revolution by volunteer- g to withdraw his candidacy for president provided Madriz will do the same submit the cholce of the to poPular vote. That prop- osition is almost toa, revolutionary to ®e popular in revolutionary Nicaragua. Safeguarding the Water The administration measure relative to the conservation of water power on the public doman by the federal au thorities has recently been sent to the senate. It would empower the secre tary of the Interior to make leases for not more than forty years of sueh power sites on the public domain as may be llable. The proceeds of these leases are to be so apportioned that the roads and schools of the coun- ties in which they are located ehall #ot one-third and the United States treasury the remainder. Objection has been ralsed to this meastre by the congressmen and sena- tors from the néwer states in which the public domain is to be found, who want control given over to the states in which the water power sites are located with privilege to Jease them for such length of time and for such & price as they may see fit. The op- position has gone so far as to prepare & substitute measure comtaining these provisions, The reasons given for this action are that the government will be slow to act and will further hinder the states in their growth by the requirement of the lease fee. The “administration handicap” would or- dinarily be considered an advantage. The federal government would be slow to act, It s true, but it would also prevent abuse of the rights and privi- leges thus obtained. There 16 a vast amount of water power in the world and industry is just awakening to the economy of its use. According to an accopted authority, the available hydraullc power of Eu- rope is dlatributed as follows: Aus- tria, 6,460,000 horse power; France, 5,867,000; Germany, 1;426,000; Great Britain, 965,000; Italy, 65,600,000; Norway, 17,600,000; Sweden, 6,750, 000; Bwitserland, 1,600,000 Russia and the Balkan states, which are among the districts left out of the above list, also possess great possibil- itles which are 'as yet unknown: and consequently undeveloped.: It is safe to say that the water power available in all North America at least equals the total power of Hurope. Tt {s be- ing protected by the Dominion govern- ment, in Oanada, although it 18 not considered of much value In" Mexico. In the United Btates, howeéver, the su- pervision of the larger/part of it is in the hands of the states Tor use as they may desire, retaining only, the super- vision of government reservation and public domain, and it should continue that retention. The Senatorial Bathroom, To bathe or not to bathe, that is the question which our grave and rev- erend senators have been debating. ‘Whether it is nobler in the mind to endure the soapy bathings of the old- fashioned tub or with an official “masseur’” to end them. To bathe pe- fodicallly; to get clean; to have to an- swer to tho constituents for the sen- atorfal bathroom. There's the rub, For what the people may say about them when trying to shuffie on the senatorial ocoll for another six years must give all pause. Figuratively, thus mused Senator Bristow of Kansas and Senator Bailey of Texas augibly on the floor of the senate. Never having outgrown their boyish dielike for a combination of soap and water, apparently; they do not propose to have to charge their habits at this late date in lifé. It Is easy to understand Senator Bristow's attitude, for Kansas has been “dry” for lo theése many years and deviation from the traditions of the state might proved deadly, Benator Long went down to defeat because “he did not speak the Kansas language” And it yet remains to be seen what will happen to Senator Bristow if he should discontinue the Kansas bath. As to Senator Balley, llkewise, ‘for we are told that nearly all the liquids com- monly used In Texas are imported, However, the country may rejolce that bathing is not compulsory for United States senators.. The senators may still keep Saturday night sacred to the bath it they sd'desire and the Congressional Record will doubtless chroniele the fact officlally upon quest, “Politics maked strange bed- fellows,” as everyone knows, and pol- itics may yet require bathing habits approved by popular initiative and THE BEE democratic electoral votes as con. fAdently as Georgia or Misslssippl, or the other solld south states that have taken the Ballot away from the freed man and his descendants. But so far the disfranchisers In Maryland have been blocked, and it remains to be seen whether they are 10 have their way now after the ma- |jority of the voters have gone on record repeatedly against disfran- chisement trickery. Platforms, Personal and Otherwise, One of the real puzzies of the sys- tem of direct primary nominations eonsists in providing the machinery for the formulation and promulgation of party platforms. When the old conventions nominated the candidates and made the platforms there was sel- dom a serfous question of the one fit- ting the other because the friends of the successful candidates must, In the nature of things, be in control and the program of party measures reflected the“sentiment of the dominating ma- Jority. The first state-wide primary law put on the Nebraska statute books pro- vided for a platform convention, made up of delegates from the various coun- tles, to meet‘a week or two after the primary and define the position of the party on the current issues. The ob- jection to this method of platform- making was that the candidates, being nominated first, could easily say that they had a commission direct from the rank and file and were under no obli- gation to regard the platform as a con- dition of candidacy. Particularly was this true in such cases In which the candidate may have announced In ad- vance of the primary where he stood on questions of the day, and could hold up his nomination as a popular endorsement of a personal platform more binding on him than any party platform superimposed later. The recent legislature amended our Nebraska primary law by moving the date of the platform convention ahead of the date of the primary election. Under the new deal the platform- makers convene some three weeks in advance of the primary and are sup- posed to lay down the party law on which all candidates appealing for support at the primary must gtand. But there 18 nothing to compel a candi- date to stand on a platform thus pro- mulgated, especlally one flying a plat- form of his own, and, if it should hap- pen that such a recalcitrant should win out at the primary anyway his nomi- nation would be equivalent to a repu- dlation of the party platform on an appeal from the duly chosen platform- makers to the voters themselves. With the open primary, euch as we have, and nothing to prevent voters of one party helping to nominate the candl- dates of another party, this outcomé {s much more than a possibility. On the other side, the candidate for nomination who keeps still except to ay that he prefers to let hid party make the platform, and to express a, willingness to run on sany platform thus made, i8 at once accused of hav- ing no definite opinions and of sacri- ficing his principles to his greed for office. It is plain.that the problem of the platform in connection with direst pri- mary nominations I8 yet to be satis- factorily worked out, No King for France, The duke of Orleans has made up his mind that France wants @ king and that in the near future the French people will flock to his standard and once more ralse his house to the throne of empire. But there really is no house of Orleans, in spite of the fact that since the fall of Napoleon I1I various members of that family have paraded the empty title. France is a republic and the titled nobility of that land is a relic of past ages and obeo- lete soclal conditions. But how about France itself? Is it craving a return to monarchial gov- ernment? The duke of Orleans-ar- gues that it does and that the recent protest against the manner in which the government settled certain prop- erty matters which were taken over from the Roman church plainly indi- cates it. He argues further that mili- tary aftairs are once more calling for the leadership of nobility and royalty. It is really doubtful whether a sin- referendum. Maryland Disfranchisers. Maryland democrats, llke the child who won't be happy till he gets it, are still persisting in their efforts to dis- franchise the negro. The Maryland distranéhisers have tried ‘to accom- plish this several times before by va- rious devices, the last time by a mod- ification of the grandfither clauee con- stitutional amendment. But the re- publicans and more liberal democrats have each time put up a united oppo- sition that has kept Muarylgnd from taking this backward step. Maryland is, as a matter of'¥uct, a border stute, in which there is no pos- sibllity of negro domination and no gle member of the old ruling family of France possessed the ability and in- tegrity—it we read history rightly— to manage the affairs of France better than is the case today. The record promise, even though some modern redundant noble families of royal blood would prefer to think so. The French people are fairly well governed No change is desired except by those who, like our own jobless politicians, might be placed in authority change could be brought about. But even if France did change her form of government, the Individual who would lead and who would be at the head of the resulting organization would be not necessarily the claimant oxcuse for disfranchisoment on the score of fear of upsetting a. white man's government. Marylal how- ever, does Hfot belong to the, sold south as gauged by the unfaltering lineup for the democratic ticket and casting its elgetoral vote for the demo~ cratic presidential nominee, irrespec- tive of the lsshes. Maryland has gone republican, in whole or In part, in sev- oral dential years, and it is this that inspires the democratic distran- chisers to remewed and continued ef- forts. If the negro vote oould be eliminated by some manipulation o the election laws, democratic as- cendancy in Maryland would, in their opinion, be firmly entrenched, and Maryland could be counted om for of royal blood, but the one who could best rule the factions and forces within his power and distribute them to the best advantage under existing conditions. State authorities in Georgia are pleased with the thorezgh amd very acceptable work of the convicts on the public highways. - The roads are béing transformed from the worst to the best in the south and sections which have hitherto been out of the world are now of easy access. This method of road buliding, under the direction of the state, ellminates convict contract labor with ®s sttendant abuses, while the state gets the benefit of the labor, also the profits which hetetofore accrued to private companies, and the conviets themselves are reported to be better satisfied. There Is stil]l a sentiment in the south, however, that the ‘“chain gang” 1s a mistake and that the pris- oners thus “paraded before the public gaze” are openly humiliated, thus ledving & stamp upon their lives which Is never forgotten by soclety. It Is argued, further, that road work pun ishes rather than cures criminality and is therefore wrong In prineiple. One thing must not be overlooked in the consideration of convict labo thorities and prison experts long ago discovered that convicts are much bet- ter off it put to some sort of useful oc- cupation. In fact, every modern prison employs its convicts In order to oc- cupy their minds, keep them out of mischief and save expense to the state. Only one kind of work is concelvable, and that is manual labor. The advantage of using convict labor for road building lies in avoiding competition with skilled free labor. The disgrace of being publicly herded in convict gangs has been obviated largely in Kansas, which puts only the trusties on the road, allowing them to wear blue jumpers, with broad- brimmed hats, and further requires the guard to go unarmed simply as a “boss.”” This method s said to place a premium on assignment to the road work and the prisoners allowed to go out in this way ‘‘are envied by those less fortunate, who have to labor within the prison walls."” Employment at hard labor s a prison requisite and the more servicea- ble it can be made to the state and the more humane to the prisoners, the bet- ter for all concerned. ) . A democratic protest against a ‘‘one- idea” campalgn is one of the humor- ous events of the season. What would Bryanized democracy do without a of French rulers would not give such| today and are fairly well contented.| it al “one-idea” paramount? By edict of Mr. Bryan it was “16 to 1" in 1898, “anti-imperialism” in 1900 and ‘“‘Let the people rule” in 1908. By edict of Mr. Bryan it will be county prohibition in Nebraska in 1910. A campaign of one idea is the democratic limit. Our amiable democratic tontem- porary tries to make out that Governor Bhallenberger 1is opposed to county prohibition. He never sald so in so many words, but, on the contrary, ran for governor last time as a populist on a county prohibition platform, and it is dollars to doughnuts that if he runs again on two platforms there will be a county prohibition plank in one of them. — And now comes our old friend, Laurie J. Qulnhy. with assurances that he talked and voted for 16 to 1 free silver in 1896 not benuue he believed in it, but only as W cholce of evils and as a step in the direction of pure flat. The principal difference between Mr. Quinby and the chief apostles of free colnage is that he ls more frank than they. The city's asphalt repair plant is get- ting ahead of the city street cleaning department. In the natural order of things the winter's accumulation of dirt and filth should be removed: before the repalr gang starts patching the ‘| pavement. o Running tor office in St. Louls must be a serious undertaking. When the oity clerk of one of the suburbs re- fused nomination by the anti-adminis- tration party policemen had to protect him from bodily barm at the hands of the petitioners. The democrats tn congress could not even select the members of the rules committee without quarreling among themselves, and yet they try to make people belleve they would agree it given control as a majority. platform does not read at all like the real thing. It doesn’t say anywhere ‘“‘jar loose,” or “bet your last copper,” or “‘rake in the pot.” Wonder who wrote it for pim. Mayor “Jim's’ Although not on the program, it'will be in order for someone from Lincoln to address the conference on the sub- ject ot “Conservation of Our State In- stitutions.” Springfield (Mass.) Republican. The success of the contest against Mr. Cannon in the house has been the sudden making of another gentleman from Ne- braska—Mr, Norris. To have been the author of the famous Norris resolution, whose introduction precipitated the memor- able struggle, s enough to Insure him & footnote at least in our political history. | The achievement may also be capitalized {in & United States senatorship. Mr. Nor- ris 5 & comparatively new member of | congress, having served since 1%3. His home town is McCook, & name which has | fighting assoclations. Nebraska seems to be on the firing line of American politios to stay. Qur Birthday Book Warch 89, 1910 Bugene F. Ware commissioner of pon- #lons under President Roosevelt, was born | March 3, 1841, at Hartford, Conn. He 1 lawyer from Kansas who writes poetry under the name of “Iron Quill." Henry White, former ambassador to France, is just 8 years old. He was born in Bailtimore and was long in the diplo- matle service as secretary of the legation in London. Stephen Bonsal, the author, was born March 3, 18§ In Baltimore. He bas triveled widely, played war correspondent and was also connected with the dtplomatic service Roger Q. Mills 1o 78 yoars old. He v & Kentuckian by birth and was for many Years & member of congress from Texas, during which tUme he achleved fame as wuthor of the MUl's tarits bill OMAHA, TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 191 Washington Life Some Interesting _Fhases and Conditone Obeerved o the Nettew's Oapitel. tore ample room for their efforts, the h of representatives designates Sunday memorial tributes to deceased membe atorical exercises are held as frequently the Grim Oid Reaper furnishes a taxt, and occasion. They are the lonesomest svents in the congressional calendar, surpaswing the pathetic loneliness of & democrat on & Bryan election night. One of theso events was pulkd off a week ago Sunday befors & magnificent array of empty benches. A fow of the house guards and three members with epeeches to unioad made up the sud- fence, an average one, each responding to the call of duty. Once in a while curionity or the tired feeling lures a spectator into the doleful chamber. “I recollect one In- stance of the kind,” relates Senator Dol- Myer of Iowa. “A statue was to be ded- foated to the first president of the United States. Know his name? No, not George Washington. He wasn't the first president of the United States. The first man who ever held that title was named Hanson-— first president of the first congress of the confederation. His title was president of the United States. “I delved around In the books and worked up some of what I thought were mighty in- terasting historical data. On the appointed dily I4marched into the senate chamber and thers were sleven pages and three senators thers. Two of the senators, like myself, were to make speeches. “The two other senators made thelr speeches. Belng my seniors they came whead of me. Bach when he was finished promptly walked out. “When I came on my audlence consisted of Senator Hoar, the pages, the presiding officer and a fair gallery. I got up and commenced very much discouraged. “Senator Hoar was deeply Interested He followed me closely. Presently he moved up closer to me and began taking notes. He proved as good an audience as & full senate and I turned myself loose to. entertain him. “He became s0 interested that he would occasionally drop remarks such as ‘Re- markable, really, Where did you get that?' and the like. I thought I was making a great hit with the veteran, and was im- mensely pleased. “When I finished I thanked him for his attention and interest, and he replied: “Not at all, senator. I was much in- terested because I have to make & his- torlo speech myself shortly, and I wanted to get notes on those researches of yours. Of all the senators at fhe capital, reports the Washington Herald, Senator Warren gets over the ground with more speed than any other. He comes in with a rush, looks over the papers scattered on the, top of his desk, bolts out to his committee room, in again and out again, always busy and on the go. Benator Warren's faculty for transacting business is the wonder of his colleagues. The business acumen of the New Englander is joined with the hustling activity of the westerner, Senator Warren was born in Massachusetts, but has been identified with the business Interests of the west since 1368. His committee assign- ments are such as to require a hustler. He is chalrman of the military affairs committee and is an Influential member of the committees on appropriations, public bulldings and grounds, public expenditures and rules. To all of these he gives atten- tion, his western life and experlence en- abling him to do a great amount of work. “Charlle Mann, who has had charge of the press gdllery In the hotse of repre- sentatives for the last thirty years, says that Jullus Chambers, author of “Walks and Talks" in the Brooklyn Hagle,is responsible for the present very complete collection of tamous American editors which is one of the Interesting features of the gallery. All four walls of the long room occupled by the correspondents are adorned with framed photographs, and in some cases paintings, of men whose names are identitied with the development of journalism in this country. “It was way back In 1882, sald Mr. Mann, “that the idea of this gallery of American editors was originated. Jullus Chambers suggested it. At that time he was the Washington correspondent for the New York Herald, I think. Looking at the vast expanse of blank wall he suggested to me one day that we start a gallery of famous Americans. He sald he would furnish a starter with an artist's proof of a portrait of General Grant. He was as good as his word and this picture was the first to be hung on the walls here. About twenty years Iater, when the collection was de- voted exclusively to journalists, I gave the drant picture to the Washington Press club. “Followihg up Mr. Chambers' suggestion that photographs of American editors be obtained for the gallery, I wrote letters to the editors’ of all the newspapers repre- serted’ at Washington by special corre- spondents, asking for pictures. Since that time we have collected photographs of the most famous of this country's editors. I was unable to get two photographs which 1 especially desired. They were of Horace Greeley and James Gordon Bennett." Senator Elmer J. Burkett has suddenly | discovered that his cigar bill Is growing to enormous proportions, reports the Wash- planation. The senator is just on the eve of a campaign for re-election to the senate. Up to date, however, the campalgn has been conducted from his office in Wash- ington and he has not yet put In a stock of campalgn smokes. It the senator does not know why he ts buying more clgars today than he did a month ago some of his triends do and they are enjoying not only the situation but also | the cigars. Recently a friend of the senator | dropped into his office for a soclal talk. He | had been there but a few moments when | he pulied out & box of cigarettes. The sen- | ator eyed the clgarettes suspiclously. | “Have @ clgar, please,” he said. | <On, I preter a cigarette,” his friend an- swered. “This Is & very excellent cigar,” remarked the senator, “and I really wish you would try m” The olgar was accepted. The next time the friend went to Burkett's office he was | again compelled to abandon™ his cigarette in favor of one of the senatorial cigars. | Suadeniy i1t dawned on him that the states- | man from the plains of Nebraska dislikes clgarettes intensely and almost to the point of disliking those who use them. He told the story around the capitol and now Sen- |ator Burkett 1is being confronted aimost hourly by some friend who begins the con- versation by offering him a cigarette. “T don't smoke them." the senator al says. “Please smoke & Clgar with me.” Formerly the senator found it possible to keep & box of clgwrs in his office and load up his pockets before going to the eapitol each day. Now the outgo Is 5o large that he has & box in both places. But he has not Jearned yet why he is getting rid of more cigars than formeriy. ys Rafiroads not prepared yet “for & more mbjtious scheme of Instruction in poiite- ness for their employes might try the cor- respondence school idea ington Times, and he Is in search of an ex- | they provoke an atmosphers befitting n,»“ :irst National| Batik of ()»maha We Are Installing in Size Which Rents If you have any valuable papers, Jewelry, ete., you cannot afford to be without a safe deposit box Total A mwn POUTICAL comm' Alblon News: Governor Shallenberger an- nounces that he will swallow any kind of a platform in order to be re-clected. Northern Nebraska Journal: We see by one of our exchanges that Congressman Latta has “been very busy the last few days.”” Well, well, are there more checks than usual to write? Kearney Hub: Governor Shallenberger will have a reputation as an artful dodger fully established before the governorship campalgn opens, having recently declared that he 18 against county option because it spelled “prohibition,”” but he has modified his position and now declares that he will run on a county option platform if the democratio convention so resolves, Hastings Tribune: Bdgar Howard says he will produce the name of the prom- Inent democratic lawyer of Omaha and the well known republican offico holder In Lincoln who have agreed to be- come tools of the corporations for the next campaign. FHere's hoping that Edgar will not walt until the campaign closes before he publishes those names. Blue Springs Sentinel: The report comes from Washington that Congressman Hin- shaw will not permit his name to go before the voters of the Fourth Congressional dis- trict as a candidate for congress at the coming primary election. This will have a tendency to clarify the atmosphere in this district conslderably and should leave & oclear fleld for Hon. Charles Sloan of Geneva. Beatrice Express: C. O, Whedon, candi- date for United States senate, thinks, ac- cording to a published Interview, that If the “Insurgents”” could unith with the demo- crats to change the house rules they could form a similar combination to change the tariff. He thinks if they could get together for one purpose, they could do so for an- other. If the “insurgents” could work in perfect harmony with the democrats in congress, perhaps the democrats would nominate them in their respective distriots. Or would the democrats have candidates of thelr own? Grand Island Independent: lican papers are urging adopt county option—a false political label, by the way—instead of offering the people a fair and square vote, decline to discu the distranchising feature of . thelr plan. They may continue to ignore the question in the campaign should they succeed in influencing | the republican convention to adopt that plan; and the democrats, avoid- ing It as they almost surely will, challenge them. But it will be a mark of weakness that 1s likely to drive many republicans into the democratic ranks and draw from the demovratic ranks, no voters In return. Friend. Telegraph: Various newspapers over the state are indulging In considerable talk relative to prospective and avallable candidates for the republican nomination for governor. Out of all that have been mentioned to date Hon. C, H. Aldrich of Davld City seems to be the general choice, due largely to the splendid record he made in the state senate two years ago. His record and his publicly expressed views on important problems before the people point him out as the logical and typical repre- sentative of progressive republican thought in this state, and without assuming to dic- tate we think the advocates of progressive republicans ought to center on his candi- dacy. West Point Republican: Edgar Howard will not be a candidate for congress this year. This is the fiat of the doughty edi- toh, himself, set forth explicitly in a letter to C. M. Gruenther of the Platte Center Signal. Mr. Howard's friends sce finanlity in this decision, but It may not affect Mr. Latta the same way, because he recently and publicly pronounced Mr. Howard to be the biggest and most accomplished pre- varicator in the state. So, it is quite pos- sible that Mr. Latta may still regard him as @ candidate, in face of this positive declination. Mr. Howard makes a prima tacle case of refusal to run upon the “un- written law” of a second term. It has been suggested that he be prosecuted for pleading the law, In this instqnce, because he is altogether too shrewd rot to know that the law in question will fit all cases as little as a particular garment will fit any man, The repub- Still Ahead of the Game. Loulsville Courler-Journal, At any rate, Uncle Joe may console him- self with the fact that the Insurgents have downed him only once, while he has made enough grease spots of the insurgents to settle the dust on the road from Dauville to Paradise. The Soi Cleveland Leader. The Omaha Bee thinks that Senator Jeff Davis is too quiet. In the senator's case, just about how qulet does The Boe con- sider quiet enought Snrplusl'nd He, thelr party to|! i'mnouoo /Wmoo pital ¢ our SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS Another Section of Boxes of the Fop Aar for $3.00 Per Yesr Mr. Carnegie thinks that a man who dies with millions ought to, forfeit half of it to the state. Why, rather than submit to this, a whole lot of them Would keep om living. John P. Suton of Lineoln haa been chosen by the editors of the American Catholio encyclopaedia to write the chapter on | Catholic activities - and - inflvence in the settlement and upbuiid of Nebraska. Dr. Zahle, the demooratic head of the Danish ministry, whose wife i8 & public stenographer, has taken steps toward the abolition of the censorship, which haa foi vears controlled the production of dramatic works in that country. In his advocacy of a “shfe and sane™ Fourth of July, Governor Hadley of Mis- sourl Insists that the most effective way of reaching the source of the racket is te legislate against the dealers in explosives. Leave young America alone, but muzsie the penny grabbers. Colonel Watterson sagely remarks that “to one who has read a little history, and witnessed the making of a great deal of it, In point of fact, has attained to years of discretion—maybe, in his own conceit, to yoars of reflection—dog fights seem, some< how, less Important than they were." Mrs. James A. Lo Roy of Pontlac, Mich., has been appointed to a clerkship in the land office in the Interior department and has begun her work, one detall of which is to affix the president's signature to all land patents or warranty deeds. She is the only clerk authorized to sign the president's name to any officlal document, and will slgn on an average from 6,000 to 7,000 & month, After twelve bodies were removed from the furniture store crematory In Chicago last week, the authorities discovered that the law requiring fire escapes on the bulld- ing had been ignored in the usual way. The inspector reported to the fire chief] last August that the building should havi tire escapes. The report was approved forwarded to the bullding commissioner, and was lost in the contusion of business i that office. Twelve lives is a terrible pric to_pay for officlal neglect. ] PASSING mwnms. I ‘Why dan't you buy L] ‘house. It's jui a::: i v rent’’ ‘Seott. You don’t un paying rof easy, do you?"~<Detrolt Frea P “iOccasionally & couple of 1 that the law’ of & case agrees common sense.” es; and then there are reuuluumul ound. —-Pllluhurfl Post. “You have always had the mxmn}.. gard for the will of the majority.’ ““Yes," replled the eminent statesnhnj “but every now and then a will turn{ up with ‘the .most unreasonable .codiclk''— ‘Washington Star. lrl 1 ith mfl “So you discovered who was staling RN Jrine voostere? |3 “How a1d you find out®” “The detective 1 employed watched ail the new hats in the neighborhood."= ‘Washington Herald. Pt i “Jones {s @ great bellever fn the ford of_habit “I suppose that fs why Ne married n¥ stenographe: “What has that to do with it?” “He thought She would keep on taking dictation.”—Baltimore_American. MAKE NO XQQQ Merchant, if you wauld teke in vvv XXX, oh, be YYY, mum now your golden chances CCO And widely advertlIl; For if you don't you'll end your DAAA, A silent business soon deKKK.—Bostm Transcript. THE REPORTER'S ENVOY., | Barton Braley In Puck When earth's last paper {s prirted, and forms 4nd the metal ate cold, When_the ndal is anefent, aid Tho latest extra is soid. We shall loaf—and, Lo>d, how we need It with nothing at ail fo do Till the boss of the perfect paper shall ci! us to work anew, And’ wheny we shall work a# we'd llke ®, each on h! line; Ana ‘the' truth snail be in our copy axd nothing shall intervene; We shall write real stories about ther— gar and millionaire~ For an editor Keen and feariess, a paper that's on the square. We shall work in a rush and a Wufry, for is the goodly game, all not dig in the gutter of filth and shame; And the copy readers above us shall leave our ‘features” alone, And the stories that fill the columns We shall recognize as our own for We shall have no foolish assignments, no cruel missions of pain, To torture the Broken-hearted of blacken the sinner's stain; scoop and be ‘scooped a-plénty,’ we all love the flurry and poise, We shall flght with the bukiness office and and fuss with the copy boys; But each of us shall be human, and sach us shall be free To write the thing as he wsees it for the Paper That Ought to Be. 3