Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 22, 1910, Page 4

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STATEMENT b CIRCULATION. ‘ ot Nebraske, Douglas County, s&; Treasurer o The | ulle fl "‘?‘ llnl dul’ f ‘w?lln" By l‘ln I: .l the month of l-rc as fol U West Sta: Bee PuhlllUnl Ivere gang T915. 42,870 | 43,110 43,030 nmf ows 48,770 44,210 subscril lu'll\d sworn [ bflor%w & ul ercn | hllc. R o _,_.E..‘?'J.'LL+ Subseribers ving the eity ¢ vorarily | aho Uhve The Bee mafled to b A will Le chunged as oiten s reyuested. It must be bad poetry that will get a man his discharge from a peniten- dtary. "7 1t is asking a 1ot of thé spinster to enjoin on her the plea, ‘‘Help the cen- sus man.” It 1s still hard fof the beéf barons to gee Colonal Roole"h as the apostle of pelce. “The nearer the Mght the methods of the Bigin butter board get the darker hey Took. m St. Paul speaks of holding lan elec- tion' with no politics in-it. * Tell that o'the cénsus man, . The Los Angeles man who has had @ ealf’s: jaw grafted on him must not be blamed for ‘beefing: —— "rha' gomet is getting up earlier in Omaha -every day. To accommodate those who stay up late-at'night, —_— The fact that 'they couldn't find Dr. Cook's brass on_the Mount' McKinley peak is no sign he ne: had any. “What fs the first,thing necessary | to become ‘a ‘great - financier?”’ he asked. ‘“‘Gét hold' of a lot of money.” — There is something olly about the standard. set by the Kerosene league which is leading a crusade against the nmiosquito. qr. Hearst rahuel to. admit that the boom fired by his man, John Tem- ple Graves, at the Jefferson day ban- quet is a Noomerang, —_— Mr, Bryan'is said to have a speech up his sleeve that will startle the peo- ple. Now, If he just keeps it there he mdy make d blg hit with it. » Bx-Boss Richard .Crokeris observa- tion, “I see that the democrats are still | in the fight'| is not necessgrily proot that his eyesight is improving. | Omaha h under way An aub.t and.. wonlfl rather nét 6 Afterfered with’ ‘at thig sass l\:or troubles 'in the | bulldlng,‘r'fl-\ | ““What lmp of. pervernlu." xclaims | the Néy' York Warl “Inspired Mr. Bryau fo drag uw‘&e.- shiver, issue out of “‘A gravej at t‘hh dme?” Don't lnuL Guuu nnln v, Phie “recplver - ot~ Ape Indeperdent | | the balance one way or the other. Otllisg ot Ar¥er: Duy opelt Arbof day came from two sturdy old ‘p oneers’of Nebraska, the flate J. Stefr- ling Morton and Dr, George L. Miller, who belleved in the practical neeessity ot planting trgpes, They appreciated its advantages also as A means of beautifylng barren stretchés, but | primarily their purpose was utilitarian. Nebraska was a prairie state and so were its neighbor They needed for- )| estry for commercial and sanitagpy rea. sons first and, secondarily, to adorn their plain exteriors. 8o in 1872 the people of Nebraska, under the gulding impulse of these two men, began set- ting aside one day in every year for tree planting and soon other states | took it up, until today most of them have set apart April 22 as Arbor day. It may be too much tp suppose that either Dr. Miller, who seems to haye concelved the idea, or Mr. Morton, who, as a public official, was chiefly ingtrumental in getting it before the people, foresaw the tremendous possi- bilities of their scheme, but it cannot be doubted that they were prophetic in, their vision. = With afl.the forpsts that nature gave- this .country .and those reared under the artificial nur- ture of man, we have come to the time very early in our national life when thé need of more timiber confronts us. Faster than new trees have. grown, forests have been devastated or used up until all the facilities of a resource- ful government are required to de- vise ways and means of conservation in the effort of providing enough tim- ber for actual commercial’ uses, If this Arbor day spirit could carry would come nearer fulfilling the mis- sion its authors intended for it. After thirty-eight years statesmen ‘of the present are exerting their efforts to make it accomplish even greater 're- sults than it has thus far, although its influence has already been great. = ' More Money {or Irnntmn. President’ Taft was ‘criticised se- verely by the opposition party in con- gress and through its press when he proposed. to jssue $100,000,000 in bonds to carry out all the irrigation projects the government had on foot, but it now appears that all this crit- feism was-ill-timed and based upon a lack of information, for there is a be- lief that completion of these enter- prises will require more like §200,- 000,000. This providing water for the semi- arid land of the west is too big to in- vite small-bore. opposition, and the sooner all parties awake to this: fact the better for the country at large, which so keenly needs the land irriga- tion will provide. The cost of reclama- tion has risen like the 'cost of other things and the pmjecn have ' been widened in &copé, 8o that, lo‘al.he! thege causes nocu-nuy call,, greater. outlay. X But the matter of lemponry cost should not enter too vitally into con- sideration as a determining factor. If irrigation in the west . as a means of territorial conquest were an experi- ment there might be more room for argument, but it has passed that stage long ago. It is'now, and has for many years been, actually transforming semi-arid land into fertile soil and multiplylng its value to hundreds of dollars an acre in many séctions. .The money already expended by the gov- ernment for this purpose will, it is es- timated, have irrigated 30,000,000 acres of land, giving it a value of from $100 to $750 per acre and, while there is room for shaving these figures pos- #ibly, in some cases, there is no room for denying that Uncle Sam has only begun to reap the profits from thisin- vestment in redeeming western land rich in natural resources, Hearst's Verdict on Taft. It is too-bad that Mr. Hearst. felt bound to disparage Theodore Roose- velt in order to pay President Taft a tribute, for it detracts from the good effect of the latter. Comparisons are always invidious, and especially when personal feelings are allowed to tilt Mr. Hearst's verdict of well done on the first_year pf ‘the’Tatt administration would have ‘catried much more welght bad he not formed it so largely at the oxpense . of 'Mr. Taft's predecessor, | whoge oa(mllrny with the masses will not down ‘even under 'the ubtle influ- | ence of such & compliment 19-the pres- ‘Pm administradon, \ Friends of ‘the pniylm will take I Mr. HParn compliment for what it |is worth, fo it ‘8 Mot at all surprising telaghone is mdking b chie) troubls wlm the, has bee: too .mn Promisés. The | Independents : broml.u.l altogether whe 1 e ‘Swobe | before whom miYder m is being lrlefls‘h!l made the remarkable ruling that a witness who seems freally to about the fa may tetify. The man Who' turnh: from consider- ing the cost of living to the price of | dying-must ter of 'incom, wages of sin t A Ike ta bo Sar-Hen,, refjtivig L Molo wants to have a real “bully” time he will arrange his dnu to it satisty thig MN. 23 rm h”fi o i ' The wchodF DoRWT 1T VgL surance for: OQmaha o bulldings. It's dollars will not veokon, with the mat. for Eherd le ‘also the be tonsidered. Presid 9k saya he, would 1 'S by any two Omahu fire underwriters. ' oW domothing | that even o’ mdn who has nlww.rmbeen on the other side' of the politieal fence should admire and appreciate Mr. | Taftand his work. The rugged hon- ‘euy ‘of. pmm nncuconlla(em intelli- | sence with” whith ‘his, administration |has gone nboux.m bulneu must, in | time, perforce, be recognized, and that | Mr. Heatat. xhould some’to the awak- jening a little in ‘advance of some others gives no oceasion for surprise. A fair analysis of what has been accomplished or undertaken at Wash- ington since March 4, 1909, will sat- fsfy any honest mind thet the first year of the Taft administration has been filled with persistent metivity in direction 'o[‘ cnnllructlvl‘.le‘lllk done that wilh'nMflaamy and |, ‘lb ummww Aptérest since he a broader, more practical meaning it | THE BEE: ()\{ AHA, FRIDAY, APRIL 29 1910. except that they are very unlike In temperament. The Taft administration is going through the same ordeal that every administration has gone through. Cleveland was excoriatéd by his own party, McKinley subjected to cruel ac- eusations and Rooseveit 'was pilloried in the foram by men in and out of his party. When the time comes the peo- ple will judge Mr. Taft by facts and not by fictlion and the verdict of Mr. Hearst as to his sincerity and accom- plishments will be the general verdict. Youngest Civil War Officer. Civil war veterans have never been able to settle the dispute as to who was the youngest surviving soldier. Many have claimed the honor, but if they come to decide who was the youngest officer they will not meet with such difficulty, for that distine- tion .undoubtedly belongs to Major General Frederick D, Grant, who was made a captain as aide on his father's staff by the latter April 20, 1863, after the battle of Grand Gulf at the tender age of 13. A Dbill recently introduced In the lower house of congress serves to bring out this interesting bit of information. The purpose of the bill is simply to correot the military record of General Grant, so that he may become a mem- ber in his own right of the Grand Army of the Republic and the Loyal Legion and have his name restored on the memorial in the Vicksburg Na- tional Military park, from which it was effaced when his war record came into question. It was a most remarkable coincidence that led General U. 8, Grant to bestow this great honor upon his eldest son. ‘The boy was with his father on a steam tug in the battle of Grand Gulf and when his father had the tug run be- tween the federal gunboats and confed- erate batteries to find a place for land- ing, drawing heavy firé from southern guns, the lad displayed great bravery, to attract the attention of Governor Richard Yates of Illinols, who was on board. The governor of- fered to make out a commission for the boy as a captain, but General Grant drew the bay aside and told him he did not want him to have a commission, but that instead he would make him an aide on his staff under the rank of eaptain and this he did, writing a note as a matter of record. - General Frederick D, Grant pre- served that note until recently he lost it, and it therefore became necessary for his friends to present a bill to con- gress to validate what the little mem- orandum might have done, strange, too, that such formal action rhould be necessary when General U. 8, Grant in ‘'his Personal Memoirs makes distinet record of his. son’s par: ticipation with him in the war. 1t would seem difficult }o east about ‘ar any objection to the enactment of thig bill, for certainly it #s highly de- sirable that the son or the great civil war commander should represent his distinguished father in, the councils of the Grand Army and himself have ‘the right to wear the little bronze button that stands for so much in the hearts of loyal Americans. Types of City Government, St. Joseph has just put into effect a new city charter, whichis a home product acquired under the constitu- tional provision in that ‘'state which permits cities to formulate and adopt their own frame of city government. The new St, Joseph charter is de- scribed as a half-way station between the commission plan and the ' old method ot mayor and council. Its former city councll of nine members chogen by wards gives way to a council of five members c¢hosen by the city at large, and the powers of the mayor are also emphasized and extended. The principle of the commission plan of city government jnsofar. as it concen- trates authority in a fewer number of officials is adopted, but the separation between the executive, administrative and legislative branchés . is retained. If the city eouncil is to be continued its réduction to & membership’ of five chosen at large is likely to destroy representation of different sections of the city, and makes it possible for the councilmen to live all in the same block. We believe the Omala plan of choosing councilmen from wards, but electing them at large, meets this diffi- culty in a more practical way, Whether our American city govern- ments, will tend to conform to a single type or will be bullt on different plans and specifications in each case remaths to be #een. A tremendous lot of ex- periméntation 1s fn progress in this country. as between various forms of organizing « and - administering mu- nieipal affdirs, and apparently it de- vyolves upon each city to find the plan best suited to its ngeds and to adapt it by modifications designed: to make it conform to local conditions to give the best results. The perfect fitting, ready-to-wear eity charter is yet to be made. — Edgar Howard gives a long list of distinguighed Nebraska democrats who would do credit to the party as its candidate ‘fof United States senator, but it is to be noted his liat does not fnelude the demioeratic congressman- red. Feditor from this district. HMdgar once ran for congress from this district him- self, and knows what happened to him, e 4 John C. Troutan is the Dewly ap- e 4 pa elping Mr. voit ::rmuhursnz}‘y‘:t l:hn:. pol- k?a’ffi‘%m b diffedit to ind twe {p ;publie life closer together in an that they are apart fn thelr methods argues nothing pointed eounly commissioner to suc- ceed Mayor ‘Traimor of South Omaha, and 1t 1s up te Cmu:::l‘n::r “Troutan ke it he wi om uu‘:upp!:toa necessary to, ve-election. When he runs again this fall he win run as & republican, and he will have It seems || ! nothing to galn by playing assistant | democrat in the court house as Com missioner Bruning has done, No one questions Commissioner Troutan's In-| tegrity or good intentions, and it de- volves on him to use sound judgment and stand up straight for the interests of the taxpayers and against crooks and crooked work of all kinds. Attorney General, Thompson has ruled that the special corporation tax, imposed by the recent Nebraska legis- lature, is to be computed on the actual capital stock subscribed for and issued, and not on the nominal amount of stock authorized under the articles of incorporation as the ‘maximum that may be issued. This Is common sense, and the only wonder is that anyone ever held differently. There s no reason why a corporation should be taxed on the privilege of increasing its stock before it takes advantage of the privilege. In other words, there is no reason why a corporation should be taxed on something it has not got any more than ad individual ought to be taxed on wealth he hopes some day to have. Lincoln ia confronted with a pecu- llar situation in its dealings with the local traction company, which also sells electric light' and power. The franchised corporation makes out that it s reaping glorious profits on the sale of electric current, but is getting the worst of it on street car traffic, and insists that it is entitled to in- crease of fare or release from the oc- cupation tax, otherwise it would be making the electric light and power patrons pay returns on the investment used for transporting street railway passengers. Evidently, there are dis adyantages as well as advantages in the merger of public utility franchises. ‘Wonder if Mr. Bryan will prefer “Tom” Taggart for United States sen- ator from Indiapa over Senator Bever- idge? Judge Ben B. Lindsey tells how Mr. Bryan pulled chestnuts out of the fire for the ¢riminal corporations in Colorado in helping elect their at- torney to the senate. Will he do it again in Indiana? Warnings Unheeded, St. Paul Ploneer Press. id too bad that the fruit trees do not know enough to keep under coves until thé weather man tells them it is safe to come out. It Rare Unity of Sentiment. §t. Paul Ploneer Press. Colonel Bryan announces that he will not be United States sepator from Nebraska. It is interesting to, find Colonel Bryan agreeing with the Nebraska republicans. Chifcago Rééord-Herald, Lord Kitehetier ‘dnnounces that he s in favor - of ‘eacé,”Hotwithstanding = the fact that he & dinfaitied and doesn't seem to ‘have' any'‘Gthidf 'serious ditficulty on hwa:orisL otuselol - P — Good Thing. fgp, (he Heds. Chicago Regord: Hopgld, The people who are keeping anarchists from _approaching .Colonal - Roosevelt are probably affarding the anarchists even more protection than the colonel gets be- cause of their watchfulness, Openings tor Plowmen. Indianapolls News. With 301,080 acres ot public land in Mon- tana and 51,640 in New Mexico thrown open to settlers, it does 160k as If our produc- tlon ought to speed up a little in its chase after increasing popylation. d Going. St. Louls Globe-Democrat. This week $5,000,000 of gold will go out to Furope from New York, to re-enforce the $11,600,000 which went out in the last three weeks. Our mines, However, will produce mbout $100,000,000 this year. Moreover, we can draw from the test of the world all the gold which we need, and whenever we need it. This is one of the advantages which have come to 'us through republican Jegislation. A PRAYER AND A STORY. Fancies Dubble from Depths of Anticipation. Brooklyn Eagle. There is nothing stereotyped about the ocation offered up by the Houston Post: *Oh, Lord, now that everything is coming our way, purge every democratic soul of hot air and valnglory and Insert large in- stallments of common sense in every dem- ocratie craniym; and, oh, remember, Lord, our proneness to mdke fools of ourselves just when we have the world by the taill and a downhill pull, 'and see that we don't get in bad this time' The only part of the prayer likely to be answered is that proneness to folly shall not be forgotten. But why ask that it be remembered? Suppose it to be converted from a minority into & majority in the house of representatives, what would hap- pen? Of an Indiana dog the story s told that it contracted the habit of chasing the Twentleth = Contury Limited a few rods along the platform, which prompted a stranger to ask the ktation agent whether it expected fo catch’ the train. Here's the answer: “I don't know, but I don't wonder so much about that as what in thunder he thinks he would do with it if he ever did cateh it.” Quaint th Our Birthday Book J. Sterling ‘fll: day, was born Ap 1910 founder of Arbor 22, 1882, in Jefferson county, New York, and his birthday is commemorated by the holiday. He lo- cated in Nebraska’in 1854, taking up a small home: near raska City, which has sinBe become known as “Arhor Lodge,” and which is maintained by lis sons as an arboretum. Willlam M. Ivins, noted New York law- yer and reformer, was born April 22, 1%L He ran for mayor of New York City a few years ago and took 'a prominent part in the last New York municipal election. John D. Quackenbos, . physiclan and author, was born Aprll 2, 148 He used to be & protessor of rhetoric {n Columbia university, and s best known as the author of a stanidard work on rhetoric that has plagued generations of school ehildren. Bd P. Berryman, with Leé-Glags-An- dreesen Hardware company, is celebrating his forty-eighth birthday today, He s a member of the Park board, and a colonel on Governor Shallgnberger's staff . and wade an unsuécessful offort to beat Mayor “Jim" for the nomination at the head of the last democratic city ticket. | time doing it. Around New York Ripples on the Ourrent of X as Been In the Great Ameriow Metropolis from Day to Day. Swell weddings are the premier exhidbits of feminine Interest and curiosity in New York. Bargaln counter days are a close sccond In numbers and an equal in the pressure exerted in getting to the front. The Gould-Drexel nuptials was not excep- tonal As a drawing card for curious women. Rain did not dampen thelr ardor, and the wreck of hats and gowns by jost- ling pressure and the elements were trifling compared with ecstacy of a peep at the glad olothes of a rich bride. Peeple in “the provinces,” where weddings are chiefly tamily epochs, scarcely realise the depth and breadth of the interest excited by a wedding in the millionaire row in New York, So eager are women to get next to the exhibit of finery that they resort to extraordinary devices and cheerfully take risk & mere man would not dream of. On former occasions of the kind eager curiosity’ prompted women to hide over night In dark corners of a church, glide through coal holes in church cellars, olimb through windows, or, forming fiying wedges, overwhelm ushers at back and front ddors. These experiences are §o com- mon that cordons of police are ®Jw neces- sary to enable those directly concerned to participate in the ceremonies with reason- able decorum. Indeed, the disorder of curlous throngs renders church weddings among the uppertendom of the big town |' a show that tests the nerves of the star performers. A bargain sale extensively advertised by a New York store packed the street in front before the store opened on Saturday morning, and the pressure from the rear guard crowded the firing line through the glass front windows. The crash of glass started a panic. Many were cut and brulsed, Scores were trampled. Police re- serves saved many from being Injured by scattering the crowd. They had a hard They had to force the Women and children on the outside of the crowd away and work In that way until they reached the store. Then they took the women who had been bruised, cut and crushed Into nearby stores, where they were treated. Nome of them wanted to have thelr wounds dressed by ambulance surgeons. After cooling down the injured and mussed multitude meandered home- ward, thinking mightily about the uncer- tainties of twenty-five-cent bargains, There are now about 1,000 inmates of Sailors'’ Snug harbor, the weil known New York refuge of disabled and indigent men who have salled under the American flag. Almost all nations are represented in this number, but every forelgner must have salled at least ten years under the Stars and Stripes, while native-born Americans who have seen five years of such service are eligible. Besides proving the extent of his sea service, the applicant must show that he is disabled and without means of self-support. About 100 inmates die each year, and as the number of admis. sions usually equals the loss by death,” the population of the harbor remains at about the same figure. The average age of men admitted is 61 years, and the average age at death is 7. Of the men admitted last year, says the Metropolitan one had been at sea for sixty years; the shortest period of sea service was six years. To settle the question whether engineers, firemen, wait- ers, stewards, and all the varied employes can be regarded as pros- pective ‘heirs undef = Randall's will, = the trustees summoned legal ald, and firally evolved the following rule for guidance: A saflor 1s one who is concerned with the working of the ship. According to this rather arbitrary definition, many who spend their lives on shipboard are held in- eligible, and for many years the applica- tions, of engineers and firemen were stead- ily denled, but they are now admitted, al- though the fact is not generally known among them. It would disconcert anybody to have a roast chicken, nicely browned, explode with a loud noise just as the knife was inserted in it, and it would startle the most intrepld epioure if the explosion was fol- lowed by & gas that drove everybody from the room. Therefore, it is not to be won- dered at that Mrs. Elizabeth Jones of 1467 Broadway, Brooklyn, was much agitated when a chicken she had bought from Butcher David Kahn of 1427 Broadway, Brooklyn, and which was bought, dressed and cooked under her personal supervision, should burst like a black hand bomb just at the instant she was about to carve it. Mrs. Jones had invited company to din- 'Iner and got the chicken for the especial benefit of her guests. Mrs. Jones jabbed the fork into one of the wings of the fowl to steady the bird, brandished the carving knife aloft, and in her most winning way asked: “Mrs. Smith, will You have some of the white meat?" Smith smiled her acquiesence and Jones plunged the point of the blade into the chicken just below the breast bone. Instantly there was an explosion like that of a big firecracker, and the interior dec- orations of the bird were scattered to the celling. Mrs. Jones and her guests pulled away from the table immediately and looked at the chicken with bulging eyes. Mrs. Jones went out and got a policeman and told him to go into the dining-room and sep for himself. He did so, and by an exhibition of unparalled herofsm got the fowl Into & bag and took it to the station house. Then Mrs. Jones got out a warrant for Butcher Kahn and he was arralgned in the New Jersey avenue station. Magl trate Hylan held him in $600 for explana- tion. The bluecoat in the case carries the chicken about with him as evidence, Setting & new record for the office + of United States district attorney, the last of many checks covering, all told, more than 4,000,000, has been turned into the national treasury by District Attornéy Henry A. Wise of New York. The money was col- lected In finés and forfeitures in the year that he has been in office. Some $3,000,000 represented fines collected from the prose- cution' of the sugar frauds by Henry L. Stimson. Here are the figures of the amounts sent to Washington: Sugar fines, American company, $2134,000; Arbuckle $500,000; National company, $650, . $350,000; smuggling for- $40,000; ball forfeitures, $35,000; $4,000,000. feitures, grand tot ) of Prosj One sign of prosperity is lhe number of weddings ocourring and to come. It'ls about the best sign, too, from a busines standpoint, while as to the sentimental view of brides, the best s the optimistic one of the more, the merrier. t. Paul Ploneer-Press. A steamship agent says Colonel Roose- velt's trip through Burope will Increase Immigrétion 200,000 Some one IER!ONAL HOTES Charles W. Morse sh with petitions to Secure prison, and put in his spare poetns 3 quit bothering his release from time writing Bunion shoes, for thelr namesakes, by & New York firm betray the secret, but bunion Miss Ty Leung, who has been appointed with Inside compartments $4.00, are advertised The shoes do not they cherish new immigration station on Angel island, San Francisco, to recelve a federal appointment. It may be all right for the Chinese to awaken, but when they come from their dreams with a torch in one hand and a gun in the other, there is a' widespread de sire to give them a sleeping potion The well-known New York lawyer, Sam- uel Untermyer, maintains “that the crime of perjury is committed In at least three out of five cases tried In the courts in which an issue of fact is Involved." Mrs. Clara Shortrldge Foltz of Los An- geles has been appointed a member-of the State Board of Charities and Cofrections of California. She Is the only woman on the commissfon and was the, first woman admitted to practice law In her state. Mme. Durand, a candidate for the chani- ber of deputles in Paris, brought a poor 1dlot to the platform to “‘debate” with her, thereby pointing out the unfalrness of the French law, which allows the insane man to vote and run for office. How can clever women be suppressed? GRANT AND ROOS Notable Contrasts In Two Ex-Presie dents Abrond. Washington Star General Grant was a silent man. He was sententious even In private conversation. One of his friends pronounced him the best listener of his generation. His iInterest in affairs and his desire for Information were boundless. Set speeches in public were wholly out of his line. S that when he went on his tour of the world, neither his hosts abroad nor his friends at home ex- pected him to turn talker. And he aid not, | He met only the formal requirements of hospitality In that particular. | Mr. Roosevelt Is very fond of both oon- | versation and public speaking. With friends | he 1s something of a monologist. In public, while not an orator, he Is often in voice. | Pulpit or lecture platform, stymp or the rear landing of a railroad coach, finds him ready and willing. He s versatile in the matter of ‘toples. His wide reading has brought him much and a variety of In- formation. It is not difffcult to get a “rise” out of him. A simple request is suf- ficlent. So that tire addresses he has deliv- ered, and those he has promised to deliver, are in the nature of things. When General Grant left home there was no wide expectation, if any at all, that he would ever return to politics. The third- term movement developed later. Interest of the world at large was in the most suc- cessful great Roldler, with one exception, of recent years. Von Moltke was the other man who had swept things before him in the fleld of war on a gigantic scale. And Europe admired .then, as It admires mow, a great captain. It bowed low before the mil- ftary hero of the American civil war. When Mr. Roosevelt left home there was already gossip in circulation about a po- litical future for him. Some of his admirers were predicting his return to the White House in 1912. This was cabled abroad, and it explains in part the extraordinary inter- est that attaches to the man wherever he goes. Forelgners unfamiliar with our pol- itied are greeting a visitof of whom they are expecting notable things In office again. They see In him, according to thelr infor- mation, both a former and a future prési- dent of the United States. The silent man, whose political career was thought to be ended, was accompanied by one American newspaper chronicler on his trip—a man of the finest talents as a Journalist, whose work was much admired John Russell Young's letters were the de- lght of millions. of readers. The voiceful man, still a political quantity, has a bat- talion of correspondents in his train, and Is | glving them something to write about at | every stop he makes. He is the subject of | more readable “copy” than any other man | LT, the | assistant to the matron In charge of the | Is the first Chinese woman | the subj ot aviation tn Iy a soar American Any 1. Baltimore Indignant Customer jewel box. 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Evening Post stalrway and the cted and are oty When the cullud lady's smashing all the marble statuettes And the hardwood flc roller-skating pets, When the grand plano’s damaged by a can of color spilled are rulned by the s Intermost recddses by a mam who should be killed— O it's then we sce & plcture never painted; nor drawn, When the soap I8 on the stalfway and the rugs are on the lawn. When you're eating from the gas range and are sleening in the hall, And you sit down In the kalsomine Intended for the wall. And ‘the batter cakes are tinted with m dash of - indigo, And your coffee tastes of benzine amd there's borax in the dough— O a broom will send you sidewisp like a timid. startled fawh When' the soap is on the stairway and the rugs are on the lawn. A, for somewhere cast of Suez, where the best is likn the worst, And o human habitation by housecleaniny 18 not cursed. 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