Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 6, 1910, Page 6

SFATEMENT OF CIRCULATION, Btate bf Nebraska, Douglas County, George B, Tzchuek, treasurer of T Beo bifshing Company, being duly aworn, says thab the acfual number of funl gind compidts” coples of The Dally orning, Evening and Sunday Hee print during the month of March, 1810, . asve 18 om0 “wgo 17 43,110 42,780 18 43,090 :anem0 19, . weeo 20 41,800 . 4Ls00 21, 43,940 2. 43700 13, 42710 24, .. 43100 16 .. 42810 26, .. 42,980 27, .. 44700 28, . 43130 2. 30, 8. Com -t o e Totay Hetul ned Net Daily “Copien Average GEO. B. TZSCHUCK, Treasurer, piesence and aworn 1 M. P, WALKER. SUUscrbed 1n duy of March, Notary Publie. to befure e i my s Bucribers leaving the eity tems porarily should T Bee walieg o - A Lounged as often s requost How big is Omaha? Everybody guess. That is l}l;rlunly a pretty race be tween Philadelphia and Pilttsburg. —— How cdn women get the suffrage?” aské Mrs. O. H, P, Belmont. Wait for it The moth ball and base ball go-up and down together as the seasons come and go. It is at least evident that the big stick was not lost in the thick jungles of Africa. —_— Those' fellows “higher up” seem to be as hard to get at as turkeys around Thanksgiving. | . — King Edward, it is sald, “sees his doctor every day.” But look at the king's pay envelope. S ity 2 Seems to be & spirit of jealous rivalry between the Mississippi and New York legislatures. If it is proved that one of the Morse jurors was insane it might pay Pitts burg to hunt up a few lunatics. | Now some persistent person has ralsed the cry, 'What shall we do with our millionaires?”" Ask them divide to Too bad Charley Fanning .stay there a little longer and smooth road for Mr. travel to the Vatican lay a Roosevelt to With Halley's comet due May 18, Mt. Etna still rumbling, congress in session and.the fall elections in sight, this ought to be a rather lively year. ——— The fact that a Chinaman has or- dered 150 seats at the Johnson-Jeffries fight proves beyond doubt that there is going to be some color to this affair. We have a sort of a sneaking idea that on the suggestion of Mr. Bryan for senator Edgar Howard will second the motion, county prohibition, kite tail and all The senior yellow journal which her- alded a $2,000,000 fire loss has marked it down to $700,000. That valiant fire-fighter aught to be enlisted in the salvage corps. —— An increase of 21 per cent in Omaha's postoffice receipts for March, 1910, as compared with March, 1909, is another prosperity straw that ought not to be overlooked And now ex-Secretary of State Por- ter nominates Mr. Bryan for United States senator. Thought Mr. Bryan had given Congressman Hitchcock an irrevocable pledge not to run. —_—— Over $1,000,000 of city money on deposit in the various local banks While the banks are paying the city 2 per cent interest, the city Is paying 7 per cent on outstanding interest-bear- ing debts. Good businees, that — Senor Zela, promises never again to make trouble in South America, Dr. Cook pledges himself never to give another lecture before an American audience. Commander Peary says he hds made his last Polar expedition. What is this, the millennium? The order for 150 seats at the Jef- fries-Johnson fight for certain eminent Chinamen and the news that Wu Ting Fang is soon to run over to the United States got In about the same time. St. Petersburg says Wu's mission is one of business. Yes, well, that's all right —— The first tax returns coming into the county assessor indicate a downward revision. But that was to have been expected as a result of the change of the revenue law by the late democratic legislature making assessors elective instead of appointive. It is the oft- taught lesson of experience that the assessor is much more lenient to his copstituents. it he owes his job to them. —— As between “becoming a llar and re- maining (o member of this body in good ding and speaking the truth and “thereby injuring myself finan- clally, politieally and soclally,” Sen: tor Ben Conger resigns his seat in the New, ¥ouk leglslature. After all, he is entitied 2o some credit for bringiyg to tight the culpabllity of the boodlers and aiding in the general work of A False Alarm. After all it appears that President Taft and former President Roosevelt are still personal and political friends and that the tales to the contrary are a false alarm. The fact that the presi dent and his predecessor have been in touch with each other right along is corroborated, and must be just a little disconcerting In certain quarters, though there is no reason for anyone being surprised. Diligent and persistent effort been made in the last year to create the imprescion that Taft and Roosevelt had fallen out, that the administra- tion's course in the Pinchot matter had been the means of severing a friendship that had existed for many years, Intimate friendships of the sort that has bound these men are not formed in a day, nor broken in a night. They are founded on mutual confidence and esteem and require as strong elements to uproot them. The probability is that if Theodore Roosevelt ‘decides to take an active part in the coming elec tions he will throw the whole vigor of his strenuous character to the sup port of President Taft's administration and will prove by actual deeds that he is still for the man whose nomination and election as president he did so much to bring about The charge that President Taft has been backsliding from the Roosevelt policies is just like the criticism made of Mr. Roosevelt when he succeeded President McKinley and told the people it would be his purpose to carry to completion the work the late president left unfinished. But when the time came for choosing another chief magis trate this carping criticism was dead ened in the volume of popular acclaim that greeted the republican nominees, Back to the Railway Commission. The decision of the United States supreme court invalidating the Ne- braska law which undertook to re quire railrord companies to put spur tracks and switches to all grain ele- vators allke, Irrespective of whether they were on the line or mot, practi cally puts this question back to the State Rallway commission. The law in question was the out- growth of flagrant discrimination by the rallroads in favor of the line ele- vators and against the farmers’ co- | operative elevators by withholding | trackage facilities and cars and other accommodations. however, secems to have agreed that a law making it compulsory on the rail | roads to build a spur and switch on | | | didn't | demand without regard to the condi- | tions in each particular case, is equiv- alent to taking the property of the corporation without compensation, and, therefore, confiscation prohibited by the federal constitution. A strict application of this ruling, however, without any other means of redress, would unquestfonably work a hardship. in the other direction as much, if not more, than would this requirement on the railroads. Fortu- nately, we now have a State Railway commission fully empowered o take up any complaint and render and en- force a decision. on the merits in- volved. While the legislature cannot by law confiscate the property of the railroads under any pretense or in- direction, the railroads are under ob- ligation by their charters as common carrjers to provide the necessary facil- ities to take care of all traffic offered in an expeditious and reasonable manner. The building of spur tracks and switches could be ordered by the State Railway commission on the showing of any applicant who has been refused, and it would devolve on the railroad to make out that the de- mand {s unwarragted and unreason- able and lt{ resasal in no sense a dis- criminatier” in favor of one sét of shippers as against another, The an- nulment of the law Involved in the supreme court decision, therefore, ought not to be serious in its effects, nor should it be assumed by the rail- roads to be a license for them to go back to their old practice of playing favorites against particular elevators | because put up by independent or co | operative concerns. The Hotel Problem. Omaha is still living in hopes that it will before long add to Its present eguipment a big new hotel that will outrank all the others. We regret to have to admit that we do not just yet | see this hotel in sight, but that does | not make it any less a consummation to be wished. exclusive to Omaha, but confronts nearly all of our large cities. In Chi- cago, well supplied as the city is, the outery is for still more and better hotels to accommodate the traveling public, Referring to this demand the Chicago American indulges some re. marks which are equally appropriate here: Chicago needs and desires all the splen- didly equipped hotels money and busi- ness enterprise can procure. The great convention ety of the country must have the two requisites—climate and hotel ac- commodations. It does not strictly mat- ter whether new hotels are Individual in- vestments or a part of a chain or & sys- tem or a “trust" extending .to other cen- tral points. Chicago does not care whether the hotels are put up by capital from New York or Berlin, Illinois or Paris, or whether the promoter proposes or does not propose to put up a similar hotel in San Francisco, Boston or Denver. The main point is that Chicago shall profit by wsu¢h Investment where It Is needed and 18 likely to prove profitable, and that its own facilities shall be increased. No- body ever has complained that any large Omaha in its way is as much of a convention eity as \ Chicago, and Omaha will match climate with the purification .+ - ‘elu on the lakes at any season of the The supreme court, | The hotel problem, however, is not! oity ever had too many first class hotels. | | year, so that it Chicago is not partic. | ular whether its hotels are put up by | trust, Omaha need not-be more partic ular. In fact, if the promoters of the proposed new Chicago hotel want to| of hotels, they wiil find an opening here they cannot afford to pass up. Progress of the Railroad Bill. The railroad bill before congress is undergoing the most thorough scrutiny in both houses, which encourages the| belief that the people will secure the | enactment of a law that will meet public npeds and give general satisfac- | tion. Senator Root, who made a three| days’ speech on the bill, advanced its cause and facilitated its progress ma terfally in acceptiug the amendment | of Senater Cummins to the court of commerce clause, the feature of the bill on which the insurgent element concentrated its fire. Senator Root's jaction has been construed in the light | of a compromise, but friends of the | measure regard it as a stroke in di | plomacy. 1t has not, however, com | pletely silenced opposition to this pro | vision and it may be reopened later. Opponents of the bill have seriously attacked it also because of a section that permits what they’ call “‘pooling agreements,” but which its friends in sist is a necessary and salutary ar rangement to maintain stability of traffic. This section authorizes agree- ments between common carriers, sub ject to the act “‘specifying the classifi- cations of freight and the rates, fares and charges for transportation of pas sengers and freight which they agree to establish,” pravided a copy of the agreement in each case is filed with the Interstate Commerce commission “within twenty days after it is made and before or when any schedule of any rate, fare or charge or any classifi- cation made pursuant to the agreement is filed with the commission.” Here is a possible bone of contention, but the bill declares finally and specifically that nothing in it shall be deemed as “‘authorizing the making of agree- ments for the pooling of freight in violation of the act of February 4, | 1887." Friends of the bill have urged the point that there is a sharp difference between pooling traffic or earnings and | agreeing on certain classifications and charges. The fact that this bill gives legal authority to a practice common for years-—this one of agreeing on ;classifications and charges—ought not to condemn it. But the bill is attacked again because it simply requires the filing with and not the approval by the commission of these agreements. Senator Root insists this approval is entirely unnecessary. A point objected to by the railroads is tound in the large powers it confers on the Interstate Commerce commis- sion in passing upon any schedule that is filed. This latitude is so wide as to allow a lapse of ninety days from the time the schedule is flled and takes effect and it is urged that within this extensive period the commission could virtually dictate any change it saw fit in the schedules. But the friends of the bill are giving close attention to| this provisfon and in their determina- | tion to secure the ultimate passage of a good bill may be relied on to agree to no alteration that seriously weak- ens it, | | | | ¢ | Canada Bidding for Americans | The Canadian government, accord-| ing to the federal immigration com- mission, has hit upon the novel plan| of paying cash premiums for American | settiers. The commission makes some interesting disclostires along this line in its recent report. They completely confute the popuiar impremsion that this migration of American citizens into the northern Dominion is alto- gether a spontaneous desire to get land in that fertile country. | The truth is, as this report declares, | that Canada has a systematic plan by | which it is inducing this stream of colonization. It has its agents estab- | lished in sixteen cities of the United States, chiefly in the west, and these agents work over a certain radius of | country, 8o as to cover all the territory | from which it could be reasonably ex pected to draw new citizens. For every | man induced to go to Canada and settle | | there the Ottawa government pays 33| and for every woman a smaller sum. | The success of this plan {s reflected in the fact that between 1901 and | 1908 nearly 395,000 American men and women went into Canada as emi grants. Nor have these people gone| entirely without financtal resources, | unable to buy land, and thus become permanent residents. The report shows | they have had an average of $1,000 per capita. This 18 & most remarkable | showing and throws much light on a| ubject in which the people of the United States, and especlally of the west, must feel a vital interest. | Whether it is their duty to yhdertake to divert this stream of emigration, it is at least their right to know the facts, In 1909 alone, it Is said, nearly 90,000 Americans left their own country for residences in Canada. Every man who has had his eyes open has known of this steady drift of landseekers toward Canada, but few have been fully aware of the methods employed to stimulate this migration. | The common view of the movement | bhas been one of entire friendliness. Americans have believed it to be a good thing for some of their own peo- ple to colonize the great growing sec- tions of Canada, plant American ideas and ideals and create new markets for American commerce. But this virtual pn(hu of premiums for American set- tlers at so much per head is so wholly | this strike to punish each other, | the price of hogs | Hogs are now sold before they are 2 years | novel as to give a new aspect to the situation and invite new consideration home capital or are part of the hotel |\ Strikes and Polities. Strikes as a means of settling indus trial disputes are bad enough, but | put Omaha on the eircuit for a chain|when employed as a vehicle for politi-| cal intrigue they are a worse menace. The street car strike In Philadeiphia is a forceful example of the grave consequences of such a combination Not only property and public convenl ence,’ but life, has been sacrificed as a result of this strike In Philadelphia it seems that certain large corporations in the city and state, which were at outs, have used They have used the strikers as catspaws to rake their chestnuts oat of the fire. They have ignored the claim of the public for safe and uninterrupted car service and turned their backs upon the franchise rights derived from the public, looking only to the achieve ment of their selfish aspirations. Where, of course, strikers refuse to lend themselves to such a conspiracy, these evils, If not impossible, are at least minimized. But the strikers are always looking for every advantage and are ready to accept assistance. It is not unnatural for them to join hands with one or the other of these big corporatiens when the hand'is ex tended. Whether the strikers in Phila- delphia have knowingly gone into such a combination is not certain, but it is widely believed that they have had the opportunity. It is also the confident belief that but for this very outside influence this strike would have been settled long ago. People who have granted franchise privileges to porations and are entitled to first consideration get none when these crises arise and the corporation goes into a finish fight with some hated rival in politics. If the city of Philadelphia and the state of Pennsylvania, even at such fearful cost, have brought this evil so prominently before the people that they will demand some redress the strike in the end might be counted partly good, with all its toll of life and property. Now comes a lawyer moving to quash indictments against ninety-one public officials in Pittsburg for the overpow- ering reason that the foreman of the grand jury which indicted them was disqualified because he did not reside in Allegheny county. There {is the stoutest tribute that has been paid to the Great American Technique in a long time. The expert of the Marine hospital who is to report on sanitary eonditions here in Omaha will make a personal investigation of the households in which typhoid cases have occurred, and try, also, to traeé the source from that end. Why coufd not our own sanitary officials have done that long ago? Governor Shallenberger says he is coming to Omaha to campaign against Mayor “Jim” in the enemy's country. Fix the dates right and we may save some fireworks money. Passing of “Poor Lo."” St. Louis Globe Democrat. Before the end of the year Uncle Sam must pay a claim of $5,000,000 to the Chero- kee Indians. Poor Lo Is an expression that steadily grows more poetic, except for the government treasu Square Meals and Squared Circle. New York World Men grumble ‘at the Increased price of the square medl, but they are going to pay about $350:000 to see Jeffries and Johnson meet in the squared circle. Which, after all, fs a matter of beef in another form. ) B Attacks o Army’'s Belt Line, Brooklyn Eagle. An average walk of three miles a day foi army officers {8 more reasonable than an annual test of ‘fifty miles In three days. If the reform {g determined on, the depart- ment will not have to distribute anti-fat remedles except in rare instances. | A Prophesy that Fa Chicago Tribune. Inasmuch as Colonel Roosevelt got safely out of Africa, in good health and spirits and looking like a trainea athlete. Prof. Starr has been able to dra§ a long breath and feel himself relieved of all responsibility for the well belng of the dis- tinguished traveler. FARMERS' PROSPERITY. lowa Stalwart Sounds an Alarm on Tarift Tinkering. Des Moines Capital We are not sure that the farmers of lowa realize their own prosperity Some- times it Is Impossible to make one realize that he is doing well. But the farmers of lowa can certainly lay caim to the best times they ever had. Some of them are wondering how long these conditions may continue. Some peo- ple are saying that when the farmers be- gin to produce more, prices will go down Prof. Curtls of Ames, Moin said that there was a shortage in the hog crop because of the decline In | two years ago, discouraged the breeding of hogs. But we | are d osed to disagri with Prof. Curtis. | old. At less age than that they are| converted into salt meats. The truth is that everything is high because the pro- tective tariff fs keeping out foreign made goods. Keeping out foreign made goods means that the American people are doing their own manufacturing, hence have full employment at full pay. This condition has been true so long that those who live on salarales and by wages have become lib eral spenders of money. The farmer re- celves the benefit of of this liberal spend- ing of incomes. Nothing can take this condition of prosperity from the farmer ex- cept a repeal of the protective tariff or its important moditication. The politicians are a further | In a speech in Des | Army Gossip Matters of Inferest On and Back of the Firing X Gleaned from the Army and Navy Register. Experiments are being conducted by army subsisteace department with corned beet hash, as well as with corned beef, ax & substitute for bacon in the haversack ration. 1t is desired to adopt & pound of |the hash beef In lieu of the three { fourths of a pound of bacon, and it Is be lieved that the former will materially add to the nutritive value of the ration, be sides making It more palatable. The price of bacon has increased to such a figure that it s desirable (o find a substitute which shall be cheaper and still retain the surtaining quality of the meat component The subsistence officers are not entirely | satistied with the arrangement of the | haversack ration in the matter of cover ing some of the articles. Tt is proposed to have the meat portion placed in drawn cans and to carry the coffee also in tins, which some of the experts belleve will con- tribute to its strength and flavor, | | | The Infantry drill regulations are being revised with a thoroughness which amounts to @ rewriting of the present edition. The work is being performed by Colonel Joseph W. Duncan, Sixth Infantry, acting chief of infantry on the general staff, who Is In charge of the profect; Major Clarence E. Dentler, Second Infantry, and Captain Willlam §. Graves, Twentleth Infantry | The preliminary draft of the new text has | been completed and work Is well under | way on the copious index. There will be a | discussion® of the new by the general staff before the manusoript is sent to the printer. Some Important radical changes have been made, notably In ex tended order. which Is practically entirely with the exception of the methods | which are believed, In the opinion of a ma- { Jority of infantry officers, to be satsifac { tory, such as the retention of deploying by skirmishers. The “school of *the bat talion” and the “school of the company’ remain much as they are now. provisions new, Now that congress has turned down the proposition requiring the accounting of ficers of the treasury (o annul the charges | against army officers for other payments alleged by the auditor to have been made for exercising higher command, It is ex pected the secretary of war will again take up the question in its relation to the stoppage of the pay to those officers most directly interested. The subject was brought to the attention of Mr. Dickinson during the last week, but he was not ready to commit himself to any decision. 1t may be that he will take no action at all, which leaves the matter just where it has been all along, with the auditor's request for the stoppage of pay lacking departmental ap- proval. This would permit the accounting officers to take the question into court, but it is understood that no such action is contemplated. There are those who be- leve the secretary of war should make an- other effort to obtain legislation relleving officers from this obligation, if the question is not submitted to the court, which the experts say would hand down a decision in favor of the officers. The permanent effect of the situation as it now stands s that an officer may not obtaln an adjustment of a claim of any sort with this ruling of the suditor standing unassailed, ’ The War department has lssued a new table of distances, prepared by the pay de- partment, for the information and guidance of disbursing officers of this department charged with payment of money for mile- age or other travel based on distance. It is the result of a careful comparison and combination of the best offic#l data avail- able, the figures and routes belng brought up to date and based upon the considera- tion of comparative cost, distance, and time, which determine the choice of the “'shortest usually traveled route” contem- plated by law. This table will supersede ail similar publications heretofore issued | trom any branch of the War department, and took effect March 15, 1910, from | which date it will be recognized authority for estimation of distances until corrected by competent authority. The figures upon the right of the names in the table indl- cate the total distance. Where figures oc- | cur upon the left, they indicate the miles | of “free” and 50 per cent land-grant rail- roads, over which officers, When traveling on duty and without troops, should pro- cure transportation in kind from the quar- termaster's department. It is ordered that hereafter post commanders shall report without delay to the paymaster general the alivsonment of old of the establishment of new l'nes of travel to or from thelr respective posts, and when a new route Is opened, involving travel by stage or buck- board, shall report as to the carrying ca- pacity for passengers, the number of trips made a week, the distance and the author- ity therefor, and such other information as may have a bearing In the determination of its practicability as a route for pas- senger traffic There is much animated discussion among army officers concerning the provisions of the tentative general order prescribing the physical test for members of the military establishment. The text of the order was published in the Army and Navy Register of last week and its provisions are being consclentiously tried out under practical corditions by officers attached to the army | war college and those on duty at t | Myer. Reports of the provisions of the { o1der will be submitted to the chief of staft {by April 10 8o tar as may be learned | from the opinions expressed by those offi- | cers most familiar with the order, It meets | with approval as a general proposition, long as it fs evident there is to be no modi | fication of the annual physical test beyond | that which is specified in behalf of officers |on duty in the tropics. ‘The recommenda | tions of changes likely to be made destined to include an appeal for | erasticity ing, so that due allowance may for Interruptions on account of rigordus weather, and It s evident there will have Ereater walk way of athletics to take the place of the three-mile daily walk and the six-mile da'ly ride. These and other conditions are likely to be fully set forth in the reports, that the finally adopted order will be satis- tactory and will not be unreasonabie or excessive In its requirements. Up in the Afr, hington Post. The high cost of living Is so nroud ot its accomplishment it is holding its head higher than ever April 6, 1910. threatening to do these things and we warn the farmers of this state to beware of thesa political schemes. Not a man | promising greatpr prices for farm products. Nearly every man is promising lowe prices. And we shall be amawed if any of the farmers of this state are induced to co-operate with the politicians toward the destruction of the presentaday farming prosperity Lincoln J. Steffen: Braft exposer, was born April 6 1866, San Francisco, where graft is said to flour- ish most. He is one of the ploneers of magazine muckrakers. Millard V. Robins, local observer for the United States army bureau, is 8 years old. He was born In Potomac, I1ll, and came here from Huron, 8. D. where he was reared and educated. are | in the requirements of the dally | be made | Qur Birthday Book l magasine writer and | in | the | which | to be established Indoor equivalents in the | | in Mim}esota NorthDakota ‘These states have millions of acres of productive soil still awaiting the men to develop them needs Ahe prod No land on the American continent Dakota." says Professor Thomas Shaw, and James River Valleys No The Northern Pacific | lin extends into or through Minnessta, Wisconsin, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Ore- gon. New rich territory being opened up by exten- sions now building. The Homeseeker's Chance ! for stox mas u) Pri the: val lea sta Y The Scenic Highway Thr ~—clear dry sit and plenty of sun The country ucts and pays good prices for them, that in certain sect and land expert. Th The uplands are sdmiradbly dry farming The Cannon Ball Country in Western rth Dakota fs being opened up by new es of the Northern Pacific—=very desirable, low.priced land here. Minnesota fs a state of great possibilities the homeseeker. Farm| ck-raising are making M 8 peop althy. Both states enjoy healthtul climay ne. Nearby rkets at St. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth, perior, and = Chicago— quiel the ' Northern ces for products Write tonight and find out more about se great states. Don't delay and ues steadily increase homeseekers rn ot the attractions offered, A two-cent mp is all the information costs, Write now, the Land of Fortune Northern Pacific Railway B. D. ROCKWELL, Dist. Phone Main 1596. Pass. Agent, 212-14 Century Bldg., Des Moines, Ya. A. M. CLELAND, General Passenger PERSONAL NOTES. While Mr. Morgan of New York consents to be listed at $400,000, it Is thought that in an emergency he could dig up a little m Thirty-elght bankers are in the fed eral penltentiary at Leavenworth, quite enough to hold a convention for devising a currency scheme. Benn Pittman shorthand system in States underwent a serious operation in a Cin cinnati hospital, but his physicians say he will regain his hes Because of his advanced age no anaesthetic was used, but the patient went through the bravely the venerable the, Unite ordeal The “flax king" has not calculated how | much his last season's crop of gflax will bring him, but he sold all that he| raised on one section of land—and that section brought him $49,000. The “King's’ name is J. R. Smith. His dominion com prises a stretch of the plain in western | North Dakota. | It he were going (o be a thief, Mr. Carne- gie says he would steal more than $81.10, the amount the certain Pittsburg council men are alleged to have accepted for their | votes, Every manufacturer knows the way to make money s to get the highest price, But Mr. Carnegle, according to a familiar story, sold his steel Interests for only $300,- 000,000, and when he told Mr. Morgan he was sorry he did not ask $100,000,000 more he is said to have felt faint because Mr Morgan replied that he would gladly have pald it, ] CARRYING has DEMOCRACY'S BANNER, | An Oceasional Dinner Estesmed a Helpful Innovation, New York The Commoner Evening Post. congratulates the coun- | try and itself on the growing popularity of democratic dinners, and begs to recommen the festal meal as the most appropriate | way of honoring the memory of Jefferson the week after next. “At this moment,” | it says, “when the principles of Jefferson are boldly assailed by the dominant party, it would be well it in throughout this country men could gathe not merely for the purpose of paying tribute to an invividual named Wit for the more important business holding aloft the banners upon are in scribed the principles to na- tion owes Its birth and to which it will owe Its preservation.”” Holding aloft the banner between the oyster and the soup may appear, at first sight, a rather | tedious performance; but in the long | winter of discontent that has surrounde the demacracy, It needs a little solld f to keep up the thinnest amount of courage. Shut out for | from the public crib, it has been a choice for the demo- cracy between starving and paying for its dinner. It is by no means a valueless habit in a great political par to practise paying one's way as one goes| along. Let us hope that “when th ! cracy does finally win its way the publie fleshpots will come, not ravening for all it may devour, but falth ful to the habit of self-support it has acquired in the lean years every precinct Jetferson, of which which this w0 own in demo- | towards it | of epl | anything WHITTLED TO A POINT, “Great heavens “What's wrong? 1 gave that cough syrip Never n per cent ¢ ojed the drug clerk. asked the druggist hoy hair tonfc instead o nd. We make a profit of ¥ ach.—Chlcago Retord-Herald Wifey is pudding fs a sample of thy new cook's work. What do you think of it! Hub—I'd_call it mediocre. Witey—No, dear;, it's Transcript taploca.—Bostol Miss Oldgirl—Indeed, I am not going ty answer any impertinent questions about age when the census taker comes. Let him | find out_the best way he can Miss Pert—Don't worry about the pool man. IUs an easy guess—Baltimore Amtxrb’ can, “1 wonder how George Washington man- aged to get through life without uttering & single falsehood.’” “Oh, conditfons were easier public in his day, did not expect a_constant flow ms from its celebrities,”"—Wash- ington Star. Algy, have automobile \ Have 17 Say, 0ld chap, 1 can scare a pedestrian haif to death and not touch & hair of him!"—Chicago Tribune. you leatsied how to run your “Nohody should be allowed to purchase vom a pharmaciet without a physician's prescription,” said the cautious citizen. Nonsens: lied the Aruggist. “You couldn’t_expect a dactor to know the correct Latin fc da water and chewing gum." —Washington St FLASHES FROM THE COMET. The typhoid germs ran, riot In many & human xyp The doctors probed And measures, 1o ome sald it was the water, Some sald, the settlin’'s from While others sald ‘twas gase Kscaped from Halley it; there was a strik Jduced a riot, ged upon « veigned pe Who started first the rioting To prove we can but. fail, But some folks think 'twas a red-hot stone Hurled from that comet's tail. In_Phila And tur Whe stre nd quiet; The congressmen ran riot In Washington disy The insurgents reckless The Canfion, in the fray Just how thé trouble atarted The facts 1 cannot nail, t some think 'twas ignited By sparks from the comet’s tail tried to tire Poc Brother Welsh has missed Bout that lion. 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