Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 9, 1910, Page 14

14 E——— ‘THE ©OMAHA DAILY BEE YOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. 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P, WALKEK. Notary Public. sSubseribed o my 1o Detore me tais 1910, Subscribers leaving the city tem- porarily should have The Bee ed (o them. Address will be changed as often as requested. It {s not the first time Rome has howled. ] The colonel and the cardinal. Good alliteration, anyway. ] Isn‘t it about time for us to build the Platte river power canal agi:in'.' e )‘ow big is Omaha? See if you can beat the census man tp the answer. e Chicago proposes to establish a club for stage women. Looks like a direct slap at Reno. —_— So long as Maude Adams plays the role of “‘Chantecler” her sister actors cannot call her an old hen. [ ——— Now, if Mr. Bryan should repudiate that alleged Porto Rico interview what a commotion there would be. he secretary of the Mabray club is called for in Hot Springs. Probably to read the minutes or the last meet- ing Looks as if the immunity bath had won when a ‘“high up” offers no de- fense to the charge that he gave a bribe of $20,000, The Columbus street carmen have proved the possibility of some good strikes by settling their within a day or two. Perhaps authoritles who prohibited the sale of licuor at the Jeffries- Johnson fight merely took that gentle way of barring razors Our new pay-as-you-enter street cars have solved the end-seat hog problem There are no end-seat hogs because there are no end seats. Help make Omaha look more like a city beautiful by beautifying your own premises without waiting for neighbor to set the Omaha’s daily real estate transfers may not be in such big figures, but there are lots of them and the aggre gate is veally impressive St. Louls jealousy has been metropolis has managed to land chief of police in court for a trial Colonel Roosevelt also showed his | sincerity by taking Mrs. Roosevelt for | a qulet spin along “Honeymoon Route" | soon after the Merry Del Val incident. | These recent destructive fires ought o emphasize The Bee's demand for en argement of the fire limits that were fixed for Omaba more than fifteen years ago | Kansas City's new mayor is said to have sold his home to pay his cam paign assessment. What does it cost to run for mayor down there? Or are homes so cheap James A. Patten has given the best reason for stopping the abuses of the oeing _duly | differences your 80 aroused by Pittsburg that the Missouri its THE BEE: Time Limit on Cold Storage. Cold storage of food products is it advancing prices monopoly, it not pocketbook of endangers the committee on the therefore, in a hyglenic to mankind, for as boc provided used lever When only as a it strikes works a the but at every family, health The senate of living is right, ating cold storage from cost tr as well as an economic standpoint and [United States-Canadian n giving serious attention to the pro-| | posal to put on a time limit The abuses of the cold storage busi- ness have led to charges of all sorts. in the staples of life 1s bad enough, but when it involves the health it becomes intolerable. Lodge in presenting the com- bill well says ‘‘a limitation of time during which perishable arti- cles of food, and more especially meat products, may be retalned in cold stor- age would be hyglenically of very great value and would tend to check many physical * troubles which are brought by those who have examined the question, to be attributable to the practice of keeping meats, particu- larly, in cold storage for a long time.” A Dbill is now before congress and other reforms are being promulgated to protect and conserve publlc health. The senate committee is charged with investigating only prices and the cost of lving, but it has skilifully widened the scope of its powers to include the byglenic aspect and it recommends legislation in this direction “at the earliest possible moment.” If the law becomes effective soon after congress adjourns it may upset the plans of the food speculators to corner the market and afford unexpected relief to the householder. Speculation public Senator A Farmers' University. Many agencies have been exerting themselves for the farm and farmer's uplift, but now the farmer himself has taken an active hand in the move- ment. Impelled by James J. Hill's cry of “Back to the farm,” 250 so- cieties, representing 8,000,000 farm- ers, will meet in St. Louis next month and lay the foundation of a plan to establish the American Agri- cultural university, where they will educate young men to be practical tillers of the soil. The movement has official support through the secretary | ot agriculture, who, together with the president, will attend the convention. The proposition is to locate the uni- versity in St. Louls as a central point accessible to farmers from all parts of the country. The university idea is the direct product of the general | determination to turn the tide from | the cities to the country as an im- portant step in solving the economical problems of present and future, chief of which is the high cost of liv- ing. The plan for this university does not ignore the fact that state institu- tions are already doing a similar work, but contemplates a much broader scope of instruction. It proposes, not 80 much to teach young men about farming as to teach them and induce them to be farmers, to actually send them back to the farms as mission- aries. It will take students from the city as well as the country. These 250 societies, with their membership al- ready of 8,000,000, are expected to contribute to its support and the gov- ernment, of course, will be asked to give financial aid. Thus far with our Country Life commission, our state agricultural colleges, expositions and agricultural evangelists, led on by Mr. Hill, we have been unable to check urban con- gestion. The best minds have long ago agreed that the question is a seri- ous one, and if this American Agri- cultural university scheme can do what no other agency has done it will have earned no end of credit marks. The School Attendance Mystery. The publication by The Bee of the figures of the average daily attendance in the Omaha public schools year by | year as a guide for census estimates has started numerous inquiries for an explanation. Notwithstanding the evi- dence of growth in every direction, the school attendance for last year seems to be practically the same as what it was ten years ago, the varlations up and down during all that time being hardly worth taking into account, The average daily attendance of pu- pils in Omaha’s public schools in 1900 was 14,664 and in 1909 14,886. In that period new kindergartens have been added, the Ligh school has been {enlarged, truant officers have been em- ployed, the juvenile court has been de- veloped and laws have been enacted prohibiting the labor of children under 16 years of age—all calculated to in- crease the number of children in the schools and the number of years the children stay in school. During this entire perlod the annual births has been steadily increasing and the proportion of children among the newcomers from outside must certainly have been maintained. Over against this we can point to ope or two counterbalancing condi- | tions. First, the marked incisase in population in our immediate adjoining suburbs, where, no doubt, some of the children are at school who would oth- stock ' market—because ‘“losing $2, 000,000 in this sort of a fight is no more (0 me than losing a dime would be to you The new freight depot put up by the | Northwesiern road less than two years 1g0 18 already proving inadequate to the traffic demands. The trouble is the erwise have been attending the public | schools in this city had their paremts net'removed outside the ecity jimits. Again there is every reason to believe that the private and parochial schools bave a much better record of attend- ance to show, both absolutely and by | comparison, this being the natural re- sult of prosperous times, making par- | ents feel justified in paying tuition for most farsighted of us have fallen far| having their children instructed in pri short of correctly gauging the rate of Omaba’s business expansion, | vately malntained schools These surely are mitigating ecircum number of | attendance shows no greater growth It seems to us that here is a subject which will well repay careful study on the part of our school authorities Consult on Canadian Tariff, The progress made toward tariff agree- ment is encouraging, but greater diffi culties lie beyond. The United States thus far has had only Canada to con- sider, In negotiating the treaty we must face the delicate task of avolding offense to Germln}'. France and even Great Britain. We could not recelve from or grant to Canada extensive tariff rights without straining rela tions with the other powers and this the United States cannot afford to do. Against amicable relations with these countries we have to consider the vast development of Canada, in which the states have not only the lion’s share, but a real responsibility, The task then calls for every pre- caution to avoid error. It is necessary to have a treaty that will meet present needs and provide for future growth. The New York Commercial has pro- posed a plan for safety to the two countries. It suggests that Canada and the United States, through vari- ous public or quasi-public industrial and commercial bodies, arrange for a conference where the mutual interests concerned in treaty-making could be thoroughly discussed. Then when these business men have reached their conclusions let them, through their delegates, meet with the government officials charged with the negotiation and give them the benefit of their counsel. A treaty of such far-reaching effect as this should not be made without consulting the business interests of both countries, and this seems to offer a practical way of doing this. Should it be adopted, the first step will be to gelect the conferees and it goes with- out saying that every interest and sec- tion of country would have to be given a fair representation. the Still Chaotic in Britain. The turmoil in British politics, which is still chaotic, has brought out clearly the fact that the majority of English voters are as much opposed to Irish home rule as they were in Mr. Gladstone’s day. It develops that Mr. Asquith has so far failed to satisfy the conflicting parties. He was generous with his promises to the nationalists for their support, but could not command their votes on any measure that would meet the Irish view, The worst phase of the situation is that the Irish them- selves are divided on the question of what shall be done for them, the Dillon and Redmond forces having been utterly unable to agree. The popular feeling now favors abandon- ing temporarily the fight for home rule lest other things of value to Ire land be lost. Many Irish leaders have come to belleve that there is no sin- cere intention in England ever to grant actual home rule. Great Britain, indeed, finds itself confronted by an unsettled political outlook. Some predict another elec- tion in a few mouths and many put it not later than next fall. No party has a majority in the House of Commons and the ministry has scant hopes of carrying out its program. Failing to do so it would have to appeal to the country once more and it could scarcely expect as large a measure of endorsement as it received at the last election. In the face of such a condition it is not only impossible to proceed with home rule legislation, but with any other on which there is disagreement. With the liberal forces apparently divided, not even the budget has been able to get through. The fact is, there is no definite and controlling leader- ship, unionist or liberal National War on the Fly. The people of the United States are to be asked to join in the national warfare for the extermination of the house fly begun in Washington under the auspices of the National Civic as. sociation. The crusade is to be ex tended to every state and local boards of health will be urged to give their co-operation for a serious, systematic campaign to destroy what has come to be regarded as one of man’s most dan gerous enemies. ¢ In cities where so much has been made of typhoid fever recently people this work of suppressing one of the great distributers of disease germs. The moving pleture will be used theaters and other convenient places to show the contaminating powers and habits of the fly. The insect will be magnified to the size of a hen and ex hibited walking across a dining table with its feet full of germs. It be the purpose to make the picture emphasize the evils, so as to arouse the people to the importance of imme- |diate and thorough action. The asso clation believes that if its crusade suc | ceeds it will have done as much to improve the sanitary conditions of the | country as any single movement has yet accomplished and made compara- tively easy by its example 1n education future work along this line. Dr. L. O, Howard of the bureau of entomology estimates that the people spend §10,000,000 annually for screens to keep the fly out of their homes. Yet they neither succeed in that nor in protecting themselves from its ravages. But the same authority says that if the people will follow the directions of their boards of health under the instructions of this cam should be speclally prompt to take UD | oy of a banking system which will enable read ] in will | OMAHA, SATURDAY, | stances, but they do not wholly solve | paign they will not oniy protect their| a[the mystery where the school children is not|bave gone, and why the public school lives, but save their Nebraska penaity screen money ‘ [ [ Our puts a corrupt the pointment to office, or other valuable consideration, an inducement for for support. Just prior to the South Omaha election a chronic office- | holder made public announcement that | | he would be if the demo jcratic candidate for treasurer were elected, The democratic tandidate for | treasurer was elected apd has just con. | firmed the prediction by the announce- | ment of his choice of deputy. Only {cirecumstantial evidence, of course practices act on promise of ap-| as votes the deputy | Chicago is doing things by censor-| ship these days. It has the police for| censors of its theaters and now pro- poses to appoint censors at the bathing | beaches to inspect the costumes worn by the fair ones and also the sterner ones. It should not be hard to find eligibles to fill thie latter position. e = In quiet, quaint old Springfeld, | Mass., they are discussing the advisa- bility of householders arming them- selves at night against marauders. If| this were in Elko, Nev., it might sound | more like reality, but coming from the heart of the effete east it sounds like a paradox. The Federated Improvement club has resoluted against voting any more bonds for public school buildings until we get a new school board that will treat the club’s committee with greater deference and courtesy. An apology from the school board is in order. | [E—— The bonding company auditors have put their O. K. on the books and ac- counts of State Treasurer Brian. The people of Nebraska made no mistake when they put the state’s strong box in Mr. Brian's custody. —e—— Conditions must be fairly good throughout the country when demo- crats feel rich enough to indulge in so many dinners in spite of the high cost of living. e Try Wor Wall Street Journal. It is to be hoped that directions on how the consumer Is to obtain the materials will follow the publication of Uncle Sam's | cook book. A Gentle Hint. Washinzton Herald 1t Mr. Ballinger should suddenly pull the bell cord and get off, it is barely pos- o that the engineer would ask no em- barraseing questions, anyway. Startling Innovation. Brooklyn Eagle. Some of the frankest, heart-to-heart ad- vertising is being done by the public serv- ice corporations. It is @ wise corporation that forestalls its own muckraking by telling a plain tale easily verified by its books. si Frowning on Publicity. St. Louis Republic. that a ribald and seénsational press may have the decemncy to respect Mr. Roosevelt's natural shrinking from publicity in all matters pertaining to his relations with important dignitaries, civil and ecclesiastical. We tr Bryan as n Revivalist. St. Paul Pioneer Press. A aispatch from New York says that Mr. Bryan is planning to retire from active political affairs to engage in church work. That may bé true, but he must still be considered a very important factor In democratic politics. He may not be the next nominee of his party for president, but the man named will have to secure Mr. Bryan's approval. Sume Old Muzzle. Indianapolis News. There was a touch of Cannonism in the republican conventlon. After the platform was read the previous question was moved, and carried, though many voted no. Thus debate was cut off, and the possibility of a minority report was excluded. This hardly seems to consist with the theory, 80 ably advocated by Senator Beverldge, and for which the insurgents are supposed to stand, that the people should rule. Breaking Tnto Philadelphia The administration is to be congratulated on the thoroughness with which it attained the object sought. The blow to the bucket shop system {s a fatal one, and if the | pursuit of the stragglers is as determined | as was the inception of the plan and the preliminary campalgn, it can but prove a complete and lasting suce The Depart- ment of Justice is enga d in other cam- palgns, and this criterlon speaks well for the & =8 of operation Watson’s Voice Uplifted. 8 rancisco Chronlcle. Tom Watson is being heard from again. He is once more lifting up his in favor of greenbacks and is denouncing as dani to the republic the proposition to create a great central bank. Tom says that Andrew Jackson is as much alive to- day as he ever was and that he will help the greenbackers to destroy the awful con- {spiracy which has for its object the crea- volce rous Americans to cope markets of the worl with forcigners in the | & Up Bueket | Philadelphia Record The attem federal authorities to break up interstate is an extension of field of interstate {to be desired that the crusade wholly suec I. The are altogether derived from gamesters who cannot afford The arrest of bucketshop professionals a fine deter rent move, but not near as decisive as wil be the proposed ation to cut | wire service et shops would find new t business witl Shops. of th Its activity commerce. It {8 muek may to lose. n The buc but they it ald of could no the wires Keepers. we [ \ Qur Birthday Book April Fawcett, judg was born 1910. Jacob supreme court April 9, 1847 the war, enlisting at the age of 14 been practicing law, before going on the bench, since 157 ev. Robert L. Wheeler, pastor of | Pirst Preshbyterian church at South Omaha | was born April #1851, at Richland Cent | Mo., #and hus been active In publie affair. =m South Omaha for many years. APRIL bucketshop gambling | into a new | be bucketshop profits the | off the | Il do|Withy & Co., has been forced to abandon | of the Nebraska | in He for one year. is & native of Wisconsin and served during | their side, noi to sirike during the lite of | Ile has |the experiment, but to mdjust thefr differ- | Y, 11U, In Other Lands Side Lights on What is Trans. piring Among the W and Far Nations of the Barth. The ape protests the against Theodore the Egyptians at Cairo possess deeper sig- nificance than is usually accorded an ebu- litlon of nationaliem. The protests volced the spirit now vivifying the greater part of the Mohammedan world. To a limited it 1s the American spirit of ' pro-British home 50 often heard In protest against the | measures of selfish legislators. | he old world it is intensified by mon- | archial tyranny and the exclusion of the people from participation In the making | of laws for their own welfare. The awak- | ening in nations hitherto regarded as pawns for world powers centers in demands for | constitutional government. A constitution is to them a charter of liberty as dear as | the declaration of independence |s Americans. No matter how limited the | concessions a constitution may grant, it| serves as wedge to split monarchial abso- lutism. To appreciate the extent to which the cry of Cairo nationalism ramifies the | old world, note what Is going on. China, the awakening glant of the east, is | pledged to a constitution eight years hence. | Native Indis, In a ferment against allen rule, has forced from Great Britain Jegisla- tive concessions which make for home rule. The exiled shah of Persia and the prisoner of Salonika are examples of the royal conceit that both Persians and Turks were unfit for constitutional government. Both tyrants were forcibly shown the error from power. Even in Russia, where abso- lutism has its greatest grip, constitutional government has made distinct advances through the legislative wisdom of the Duma. Progress is necessarily slow. Inex- perience encounters many pitfalls. The &rip or rulers, whether allen or native, Is ever tenaclous. But the signs in the older world, from the Nile to the Ganges, are heartening to the hosts of liberty in the new world. mercenary In The rock-ribbed financial Great Britaln and its ability to bear the additional taxes proposed by Chancellor Lloyd-George is strikingly portrayed by Frederic Austin Ogg in the American Re- | view of Reviews. “As as matter of fuct,’ says the writer, “Great Britain never po sessed elements of strength equal to those of today. A population of 20,000,000 in 1815 has Increased to one of 4,000,000 In 1815 the nation's accumulated wealth was under £3,000,000,000; as late as 1846 it was only £4,000,000,000; in 1882, according to Mulhall, it was £5,720,000,000; today it is variously esti- mated at from £12,000,000,000 to £15,000,000,000. | The yearly addition to this accumulated wealth In 1815 was £60,000,000; today it is £300,000,000, or six times as much. The total forelgn investment of British subjects, almost a negligible quantity 100 years ago, 13 now estimated at £2,700,000,000, upon which there is an annual income of not less than £140,000,000. During the last six years the placement of British capital in foreign countries, largely suspended during the previous decade, has been resumed on a stupendous scale, greatly to the improve- ment of forelgn trade, and distinctly to the encouragement of public and private thrift. At least £100,000,000 were Invested abroad in 198, and approximately the same amount in 1009, These are merely a fow of the more obvious evidences of the financial power of the nation.”” - The energetic opposition which the French Catholics mean to offer to the educational policy of the French government was in- dicated in the speech which M. Grasscau, the well-known professor of the University of Lille, delivered in the Chamber the other day. The government bill, he said, was a measure of respisals which tended to op- press the consclences of parents. In order to justify this measure the reporter had depreclated the Instruction given by the re- liglous orders. These professors of the ecoles libres were terrible rivals whom the state had got rid of solely by the drastic device of exile. Their property has been handed over to the liquidators, the nature of whose operations was now becoming manifest. The attitude of the Catholics legitimate, since they defended the liberty of the parent. In the name of what principle could the state fine and im- prison parents who acted in obedience to their consclence? The will of an entire people could not render, just what was un- just. M. Grousseau added that not only would he himself disobey the law were it voted, but he would do what he could to induce a good many others to disobey it. The disobedience of an individual was an offence, but disobedience on the part of 100,000 men was known as “a movement of opinion” and might exercise its Influence in Parliament. He angd his friends Intended to arouse the Cathollc youth all over France In a campalgn on behalf of truth and justice until the fniquity consecrated by the law had been redressed. The ma- jority might oppress the Catholics, could never enslave them. strength of was but Fear of violent death at the hands of some enemy so noticeable in Abdul Hamid while sultan of Turkey has become & mania since his forcible retirement from public life. As the elect of Allah ocoupy- ing the Yidiz Kiosk scores of Yaithful servitors guarded his person from violence leaving only the polson route from the kitchen the main source of alarm. All food brought to him there was tested for dangerous Ingredients before reaching the royal palate. Within the bounds fo his palace prison at Saloinke the deposed sul- tan has neither guard nor cook of his own selection, consequently his fear of violent death is painfully acute. He is living in dally terror of assassination. He Is sald to e shrieked for help at the sight of his little son, Abdur Rahim, with a toy pistol in his hand. A passing ship is a souroe of great consternation in his breast portending an immediate attack upon him. | | The overhauling of the drainage system in the nelghborhood where he i isolated Is to {him a sign of & plot to flood his house with water and thus accomplish his death Abdul wanders about his house, starting at strange nolses and the creakings of the | airs. When he passes a mirror he shrinks | A&t his own reflection. A strange contrast does It furnish to the Abdul of old—iuso- lent with power, guarded by an army and slashing right and left. How the - | mighty fallen! 1 . Sir Christopher | English Furness, shipbullding firm head of of the 3 Furness, | {an experiment in co-operstive Industry |started & year ago. He aimed to give his | employes an interest in the business of the | firm, hoping thereby to eliminate labor | |wars and strife in the ehipyard. Sir | Christopher asked that the co-operative plan, Involving the investment of small | sums In the business by the workmen and | the payment of § per cent dividends therson dition to the regular wages, be tried | The workmen agreed, on| o |ences with the managers through a joint | | board of concillation. The failure is due onsiderably, it would appear, to the tr d»; , |unions. The trade union leaders originally | opposed the scheme on the ground that| \|such projects of partuership and profit- | sharing would tend to leave trade unions | Roosevelt uttered by | irst National Gapital Surplus & Profits 700,000,00 The report made to the Co Bankof Omaha <., $500,000,00 mptroller giving condition at close of business March 29, 1910, shows: Cash and Reserve Loans and Discounts Deposits Total Assets 314 % Interest paid on me Certificates of Deposit. Total Ass c . 4716,179.09 7.832,080.57 12,185,253.49 13.637,090.14 with no reason for existence, protests were overborne by the employes of the now appears that the influence of trade unlonists has increased during the year, owing probably to the continuing de pression In the industry. Employment by the firm was not so general as had been anticipated. The outcome is discouraging to Sir Christopher Furness, who made a sincere attempt to alleviate verse to the Industrial supremacy of Great Britain, | B WHERE ARE THE HOME FOLKS? but their a majority of Furness concern. ' It conditions ad- Bryan Approaching Native Shores and Nothing Doing. Washington Post Mr. Bryan shrinks from a demonstrati of welcome upon his return from foreigr parts. His pockets bulge not with manu script advocating government control of rallroads. He has not hired Madison Square garden to fill with his hitherto never-fail- Ing voice. His only thought 18 to land and get away—not in a Queensberry sense, but literally. Quickly as he can entrain Nebraska the journey west will begin dust of Gotham shall not gather on his feet. Why this resolve? Has the perpetual candidate come to the fag end of perpet- uity? That is it. In & letter to Chairman Mack, declining a public reception upon his arrival in New York, Mr. Bryan gives as the reason therefor that he fears it would be open to misconstruction. In other words, people wouid think he was out for a fourth nomination for the presidency. for The have time to This renunciation of honors goes far to| confirm previous reports to the cffect that Mr. Bryan will stand aside in 1912, and will support the choice of his party for presi- dent—preferably Governor Harmon. Also, it betrays the fact that Mr. Bryan trea ures the belief that he has a cinch on the nomination it he wants it. Now, Mr. Bryan Is clearly mistaken. The drift from him was apparent from the day of his last stunning defeat, and it has been gathering volume and crystallization as time speeds on. it ever, mentioned by any democrat In congress, and the same is true elsewhere—at party banquets and on the stump. It does not appear that this is done in pursuance of any understand- ing In the matter. It is by general consent. Certainly, Mr. Bryan retains the admira- tion and following that his personality at- tracted to him, and doubtless always will, but as an overshadowing political entity as the chlef asset of the national democ- , he has passed GREAT CONSU? NATION. Phenomenal Expansion of Amerfcar Agricultare and Industrie San Francisco Chronicle. The United States is becoming a great consuming nation, but that fact does not prevent the growth of her exports of agri- cultural products. In 181-18%, when for- eign economists were advising us that the proper course for Americans (o pursue would be to devote themselves to agricul- ture, we were shipping to forefgners farm products to the average value of $5.85 per capita annually. In 191-1%5 the annual average per capita export of farm products had increase to $10.88, and since 1905 It has been still greater. It is in the highest de- gree improbable that any such quantities of agricultural products as we are now sending abroad would have been produced in this country if we had taken the bad advice of the free traders, that the development of American manu- factures would retard the cultivation of the land. To the diversification of our Industries more than to any other cause s owing the phenomenal expansion of American agriculture, which enables us to spare a large quantity for export. Had we made the blunder of neglecting the develop- ment of all our resources, probabilities are that we should £tlll be & country in the same « Turkey Brazll, whose populations are wholly dependent on agri- culture. Successful manuficturing and mining enterprises are a stimulus to agri- cultural production, and never militate ageinst the prosperity of the farme cepting in countries like Kngland, where he is diseriminated against tavor the manufacturer. 88 as or ex \ Tucreased Postoff! New York Tribune, The federal treasury has been helped in the last six months by the surprising earn- rnings. the | who Imagined | POLITICAL DRIFT. | The promised libel sult against Collier's weekly teemod. by that publication as & fine line of front-page advertising. Hon. Bathhouse Johw Coughlin, poet laureate of Chicago, has been re-elected to | the city council. To reciprocate the good | will of the the Hon. Buthhouse | will tssue his in book form, | Surviving friends of the late Senator Platt endeavoring to keep alive the | tamous “Amen Corner,” whereln they | noddea when the winked, They look | torw hopefully absent treatment | “The American Flag.” a booklet issued at | Cleveland in the interest of ship subsidy legisiation, has suspended publication, and the editor, one Penton, fs under indictment in Washington charged with libelling con- gressme An election to fill the vaganey in thirty-second congress district of New Y is booked for April 19. George W. Aldridge, republican nominee, Is being attacked by republicans as a politican of the Alld’s type, and Is mixed up iIn the investigation into purchased insurance legislation, His op- ponent |s James S, Havens, a Cleveland democrat Under the regime of Emil Seidel, socialist mayor-elect of Miiwaukee, the Cream City 18 promised a revolution of soclability and g00d things generally. Among the pledged reforms are penny lunches, & seat for every passenger on Strect cars, J-cent fares, municipal coal and wood yards, free water for widows who wash for a living, and work for the unemployed at unfon Wages. New York Street Commissioner Edwards, famed - for graduating from a foot ball eleven Into the official duty of street clean- ing, is an unusual and surprising official He asked last winter for an appropriation of $100,000 to keep the streets clean during the winter. He got the appropriation, kept the streets clean and at the end of the winter season turned into the city treasury #0,00 of the money unused! SMILING REMARKS. “John,” exclaimed the shocked woman, ou are eating with you knife!" “I know it. 1'm economizing. When you eat with your Knife you have to learn to balance your food. “You eat less and it takes longer.”—Washington Star, ] voters, pomes are bass for the Bacon—That dog of mine begins to show almost human intelligence. kgbert—How #0? Bucon—He hasn't touched a plece of meat in three days!—Yonkers Statesman. “A Cleveland girls claims o have fasted forty-five days.” “Poor thing! Why doesn't she quit board- ing’'—Philade;phia Ledger “The judge's pretty daughter allows long visits from that rising young lawyer.” ‘Probably she is merely listening to his arguments for a stay.”—Baltimore Amer- ican. “Have Mr. and Mrs, Squinchley compro- mised thelr matrimonial troubles yet'?’ Not quite. They agreed readily enough as to which one was to have the custody of the children, but they don’t seem to be jable to decide which fs to have the cholce of the automobiles."—Chicago Tribune, First Shade—What |s the Hall of Fame? Second Shade—An apartment house with too many janitors, “Who's that billionaire with the big tour- Ing_car and the two extra tires? That's Tennyson Binks. He's the fellow invents the personal and private mem- of the world’s great featherwelghts. Cleveland Plain Dealer. | “What's Is the cuuse of that prima don- indignation? “The press agent,” replled the impresario. “He sald she sang like an angel. She says | that all the angels she ever knew couldn t #ing. They merely checks.—Wash- | ington Star The soclety dame the distinguished aviator ‘In_spite ot the dangers of | pation,” id, | rascination at pengo’ “Chere is, madam,” he answered ‘In fact, does not the excitement of seem to be a species of intoxication “It does, madam,” sighed the aviator, “'and sooner or late one of us takes a drop too much Tribur THE SPRING POET. Pall Mall Gazette About the time of lamb and mint | The vernal poet gives a hint Of wishing to appear in print was giving & luncheon to your occu- “‘there Is an irrisistible ut'it, 18 there not, Mr. Up- it He comes unconsclous of his crimes; The jingle of his bag of rhymes | Prociaims his advent here betimes. | The ghostly prehistoric ring | Of shackled sounds that closely As grass and cling lass and spring and wing; ings of the Postoffice department. Usually | the postoffice runs behind from $15,000,000 | to $20,00,000 a year, the deficit for 1908-09 having been $17,000,000. The treasury has| to meet postal deficits out of its ordinary Leceipts, This year, however. the postal | scrvice has been almost scif-sustaining. | yra reaches not the place of doom The loss on the operations of the first six | Where fitful flashes rend the gloom nths was only $4,072,000, against $10.284,000 | That clouds the editorial room. for the same period in 1908-08. The last | quarter owed & surplus of 111,000, | Probably the happy day is not far 1]|~(,“M‘ when the Postoffice department wiil be Jle not only o give more liberal service | Yl 81Ways with the early mint, able not nl:! o Kivp. & oral servic is{ained by hope that feels no stint, but to pay The bard appears—but not in print $300 PIANO PLAYER, $375 On $2 Weekly Payments A. Hospe Co., 1513 Dosgias Steet $30 in Cash A gense of greenness in the A gusty shape upon the stair, But darkly seen, then vanished—where? air, The guardian of the outer door Observes his progress, quaking sore, Up to the landing, and—no more. He who compels the lightnings' glare pon his bolt. of blue will swear he poet never enters there. The fifth prize in the Schmoller & Muel ler Name Contest. Send in yours—eleven other prizes amounting to $1,146.