Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 26, 1910, Page 6

‘THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. FOUNDED BY BDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR Entered class matter Omaba postoffice as second- TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily Bee (including Sunday), per week.1bo Dally Beo (without Sunday), per w-okvl?o Dally Bos (without Sunday), one year..} Daily Bee and Sunday, one yoar DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Evening Bes (without Sunday), per week 60 Evening Bee (with Sunday), per week. Bunday Bee, one year. baturday Bee, one year. Address all complaints deliver to City Cireulation OFFICES. Omaba—The Bee Buiding. South Omaha—Twenty-fourth and N. Council Blutfs—15 Scott Street. Lincoln—618 Little Bullding, . Chicago—1648 Marquette New York—Rooms 1011102 N ThiFty-tnicd_ Street, Washington—72% Fourteenth Street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to D witorial magter shoud be addressed: Umaha Bee, Editorsal Department. REMITEANCES. Remit by draft, express or posta payanle o e e Fublishing Company, Unly 2-cent stumps received. in payment of mail accoun ersonal checks, except of Omaha or eadtern exchang accepted. _ STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Biate of Nevraska, Douglas County, Sl George B, Trohuck, treasurer of OO Bee Publishing ~Company, being auly sworn, says that the actual = ms‘“, il cnd o orhing, Bve Ly “of irregul Department. W West ows! Returned coples. Net total Daily avera, B o T C e Treasurer. réhence and sworn day ‘ot March, st av’ , WALKER, M Rotary Publls — - == Subscribers leaving the city tem- porarily should Th Bee mailed to them. Addross will be changed as often ns requested. Suybscribed in my b The unkindest cut of all was that Mr. Bryan's dog had forgotten him. Hogs, they tell us, have taken a tumble, but we have not heard them squeal. Now comes the incredible report that ‘“‘Roosevelt had a quiet Sunday in Paris.” The old experiment of lighting a mateh to hunt up a gas leak has been tried again. It still works. The size of some women's hats is enough to make a man forget all about the peril of a hatpin. Perhaps Governor s’laillenberger had his fingers crossed when he was talking to that Texas reporter. It would be awful if the governor should find that the poet he pardoned was only a fellow who wrote rhyme. Bat Nelson's assertion that he is as much of a gentleman as any man will not generally be debated—in Bat's presence. San Francisco papers are trying to snub the Jeftries-Johnson fight. They are only giving it three columns a day at present. Now that we have been assured the comet will not end the world, we might resume our plans and proceed with business. Dispatches indicate that Bngland’s rubber boom is stretching, the price of the raw material having more than doubled in a year. The consolation is a little bit cold, but the thrifty housewife will not have to cook herself over a hot stove next summer putting up fruit, The peerless leader has been or- dained an elder in the Presbyterian church, and in the meantime his sena- torial boom grows apace. —_— Strange that Mr. Bryan is unable to prevent his friends from urging him for the senate, or has he yet found vut about those petitign: Still, there 1s time enough to go into mourning over those lost crops. Old Bol usually gets in some good licks after the rain has done its part. While taking to the woods Aldrich may start & lumber trust.—Atlanta Constitu- tion. What is the matter with the one we have? Having been assured for the umpty ampth time that the world is in no danger of Halley's comet, mankind can now resume its wonted task of cussing the weather man, Why it should be necessary to make the announcement that Roosevelt will not go back on Taft I8 puszling. The records of both ‘men are clearly against any sueh possibility. Mayor Seidel of Milwaukee has started out well by declining a chau- tauqua offer, which is more than cer. taln other Wiseonsin notables have done. ot As o matter of fact those demo- oratie well-wishers or the republican party are completely disconcerted over the annouriced retirement of Aldrich and Hale and thé reduction of Can- non's power. {against unreasonable searcheés and Republican Sincerity. Copgressman Longworth hit the nail squarely on the head when he sald that the time of adjournment is unimportant to congress as compared with the redemption of every pledge made to the peopie and the fulfillment of the entire Taft program. The coun- try cares little whether congress ad- journs in Jume or July, but it cares much what congress does before it ad- journs. The people must want the Taft pro- gram carried out or they would not have sald so when that program was submitted to them in 1908, and the fact that republican leaders on the floor of both houses of congress are taking the position of Mr. Longworth will doubtless sustain public confi- dence against the democratic cam- paign which has set In a little early this year—especially when the repub- licans have made good so many of their pledges already. The republican party cannot, as the Ohio congressman pointed out, afford to have its good faith questioned at this time. While there is no occasion for flylng the danger 4K, there is every reason for sobefj'eputious action, for the party Is coming up to a con- test in the fall elections which not only involves the continuance of its majority in congress, but it may in- volve the integrity of the party. Of course, sentiment plays a part in every election and it is a difficult factor to meet with argument, but ir the repub- Heans go into this campaign with the congelousness of duty done, so that they may be able to point to their pledges before election and to their re- demption after, they Wwill have nothing to fear. An honest analysis of what has been accomplished since Mr. Taft and con- gress went into power March 4, 1909, can reveal nothing but a clean slate of public service, and it is this fact and nothing else that is disturbing the democrats, who pretend to be deriving great comfort from other sources. The party has kept the faith and all it has to do now is to keep its head and not to betome stampeded, Railroads Reaching Ont. Some of the railroads are not will- ing to wait until they can raise their freight rates to get money for im- provements. The Baltimore & Ohio is proceeding with plans for the ex- penditure of $35,000,000 without reference to freight rates, and the Santa Fe has reached into its pocket and brought out $31,000,000 to invest in improvements. Here is $66,000,000 to be spent by two railroads for repairing and ex- tending lines. The work is made necessary partially because the prop- erties have suffered from wear and tear and partially to afford greater facilities to meet future traffic. Traf- fic has been increasing in this country by wonderful bounds and will' go on so increasing, but Mr. Hill recently sald that railroads could not afford to continue these enormous expenditures without the compensation of higher freight rates. Some commodity rates have gone up, but as yet there has been no general advance and before one is brought about it probably will meet with stubborn resistance, for the public is not yet convinced of the necessity for such a move, nor does the action of the Baltimore & Ohio and Santa Fe tend to convince it any more tham the report of Mr. Hill's three leading roads declaring 8 per cent dividends. This government should not pursue a narrow-gauged policy toward rail- road management or development and it has not done so, but in the present economic conditions there i{s nothing 80 overpowering in its argumentative force as to make the people believe that a flat raise in freight rates is miceunry or would be fair, Enforcing Criminal Law. Samuel Untermyer, one of the lead- ing corporation lawyers of New York, denounced trusts and monopolies as “‘worse than the robber barons of old"” in an address on “Evils and Remedies in the Administration of the Criminal Law' before the American Academy of Political and Social Science in Phil- adelphia. He also derided the con- stitution as ‘“That great document of compromises and insisted on vital changes in it. He made charges and admissions which the Samuel Unter- myer who pleads for the large cor- porations before a court of justice would not make. Mr. Untermyer wants the fourth amendment to the federal constitution repealed. It reads: The right of the pepble to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects selz- ures shall not be violated, and no warrant shall issué but upon procurable cause, supportedsby odith or affirmation and par- ticularly describing the place to be searched and the person or things to be seized. He also wants repealed the fifth amendment, which reads No person shall be compelled in any criminal case to be & witness against him- self. These demands will be considered revolutionary by some and their pro- posal by a man who defends large in- terests for large fees will provoke much comment. It must be admitted that if these amendments were re- pealed, men who strain legal points and scull arguments along devious| routes of technical hair-splitting in order to save their clients would have harder tasks before them, and so we must applaud the courage of Mr. Untermyer. tion, “Is it the law or the lawyer? THE BEE : OMAHA, TUESDAY learned lawyer in distorting the law, in stretching it beyond the point of its real meaning, or actual purport, ever saved any violator of the law from fits Just penalties. There should be no other excuse for a eriminal trial than the facts, and if they convict a man he should be punished and if they fail to convict him he should be aequitted, and no amount of skill or learning or money should be permitted to change the result. Splitting the Fees. Members of the medical profession hereabouts, as well as throughout the country, are endeavoring to devise ways and means to put an end to the practice of splitting fees between physicians and surgeons. The split- ting of feds is coming more and more to be regarded as a specles of graft, and {ts objectionable and vicious features are calling for severe con- demnation. If a physician sends a patient to a surgeon or to a specialist and then claims a percentage out of the final bill, it means one of two things—either the patient is mulcted excessively or the surgeon or specialist 18 buying nis patronage on a market where the biggest percentage will com- mand the business. Of course, this split fee business is not new in the medical profession, as a similar practice of dividing has pre- vailed at times between the physician and the druggist, the hospital, and even the physician and the undertake: But with the re- finement of the profession these coarse | forms have been tabooed and dis-| carded, so that the split-up survives principally only between the phyalelan and the surgeon or specialist. It goes without saying that the general public will be heartily in sympathy with any reform that will stop graft, either pri- vate or public, and will wish the med- ical reformers every success. This split fee game, however, is not played alone by the medical men, but also by practitioners in other pro- fessional flelds. The lawyer who sends a client to another lawyer in an- other city, or in the same city, fre- quently demands a “divvy.” This is the regular procedure in collection cases and more or less regular in other kinds of litigaticn. The lawyer, how- ever, does not ordinarily let a client get away from him if he can help it, preferring to keep the emoluments all to himself, which doubtless explains why more lawyers’ fees are not split. The minister of the gospel is sup- posed to be only occasionally 8ub- jected to pressure for a hand-out, pre- sumably because he is constantly the recipient of favors, and too often treated as a subject of charity. With him it is usually a mere matter of rec- iprocity, the physician who treats his.own fam- ily for nothing, and the lawyer who does his law business without charge, and so on down the line. If such an exchange were an even exchange no one would be hurt, but if one party gets the best of it, or if both get the besw; of it at the cxpense of a third party, the measure of graft is only one of degree. 8o if the “medics” succeed in either suppressing or only repressing the split fee evil, and set an example for its victims in other professions as well, they will be entitled to a credit mark, if nothing more substantial. The Fight for Health, One of the most hopeful signs is the persistence with which the fight!} against disease is being carried on. This is due above all other reasons to the fact that in the army battling for health are enlisted intelligent men | and women, well trained and deter- mined to push .the warfare, It is scientific as well as sentimental, and the unfon of thinkers and workers who are backing the movement means | that only good can be accomplished. These people have not undertaken to work miracles, nor do they propose to accomplish the impossible. ‘What they have set about doing is to spread the enlightenment of modern knowl- edge among those who most need it and to educate the great masses to the point where the great white plague will be no more, because each indi- vidual will understand what is neces- sary in order to avoid the onslaught of the disease. The remedy is simple and certain. The work of spreading the information is definite and exact and the result| can only be success. The workers have made much progress, but are not looking back to see how far they have come. They know the goal is still ahead of them and are pressing stead- ily forward. The voluminous report by a govern- ment expert has merely served to con- firm what was well known to the eciti- zens of Omaha—that so long as water is pumped from the Missouri river danger of contamination exists. The expert advises that as soon as possible the intakes must be changed and that better means for purification must be provided. The only real service ap- parent as the result of this official visit is, perhaps, it will serve to prepare Omaha people for the additional bond {ssue that will be necessary in the event the city ultimately comes into possession of the water plant. Governor Patterson turns from par- doning his friend, the murderer of former Senator Carmack,” and an- nounces his candidacy for re-election, Now is your chance, Tennessee, If Governor Shallenverger should the physician and § the minister recommending |/ | finally determine to go to Texas it is And he probably would be the first tolllkaly that some of his former friends deny that the prodigious skill of a loould possibly support the loss. fact, it has been suggested by one ur' two of them that the governor might £0 to that other place which is sald to be next to Texas in high temperature R —— It that Lincoln banker will come to Omaha and put up a $300,000 build ing we will let him stretch a banner both ways across the sidewalk, and he doesn’t need to linfit himself to $300,- | 000. If he wants to go higher the town can stand it. The Baltimore Sun puts a very personal question up to Lord Kitch- ener, who found New York's fair ones 80 charming he all but succumbed, asking, “Was he afraid to come to Bal timore?" The Detroit Free Press suggests that if your wife is a suffragette hiss her biscuits and see how she likes it. Those are the very biscuits you'd bet- ter not hiss. —_— Dehorning the Bul Baltimore American The cotton bulls are said to be disturbed | over the idea of a probe. Perhaps they think it will prevent them from longer pulling wool over the consumers' eyes. ) Cheer Up! There Are Others, Washington Post Bryan won't run for the senate; Aldrich won't; Hale won't. And now Governor Marshall of Indiana, who hasn't been | asked, says he won't who will; so cheer up. Mantles to the Muscam, sux City Tribune. The shedding of mantles by Aldrich and Hale does not alarm Dolliver or his asfo- clate insurgents. To the anxious query of someone who thinks that government cannot go on unless someone puts on and| wears these falling mantles, he replies that | the mantles will go to the national museum ( in the Smithsonian Institute and be put among the other relics of days that are forever gone. One Black Sheep in the Flock, ! St. Louls Republic. In connection with the defaleation of | ptain Oberlin M. Carter it ought to be| remembered that his case {s unique in the history of the corps of engineers. Scores of millions have passed through the hands of the engineer officers; this Is the sole in- stance of even a change of malfeasance. The level of integrity of the engineers | shows no fluctuation; Carter's misdoing | was a lusus naturae. ! Vultares on Liberia’s Border. Philadelphia Record. The civilized negvoes of Liberia bitterly | complain that the vuitures of the neighbor- ing colonles of England and France are spreading their wings to pounce down upon the iil-starred republic. They therefore call loudly for the help of the mother coun- | try, one of whose présidents gave his nnme: to its capital of Munrovia. The question | is whether anything of real value can be | done to save the republic from its fall, Between the whites, in whose hands is the whole trade of the, coast, and the 1,000,000 0dd savages the 15,000, civilized negroes are threatened with extinction. JUSTIFIABLE ANXIETY. Protest Against Appointing Rallroad Lawyers, o the Benel Bt. . Joseph , News-Prees, The question. of, who shall succeed Jus- tico Brewer an the United States supreme bench is of much concern to the Nebraska State Rallroad commission, according to ad- vices from Lincoln, The commission would Impress on the mind of President Taft the necessity of appointing to this high office | someone whose mind has not been formed in the employ of corporations. A member of the commission has given it out that, while there is no disposition to reflect on anyone's honesty, it is nevertheless a fact that a jurist schooled In the office of a | corporation lawyer thinks In certain fixed chdhnels. “‘Unconsclously,” says the com- mission, “‘he looks at every case that comes before him from the angle of the ‘vested | interests’ He can't help it. He thinks he is being eminently fair to both partles in controversy, wherfas as a matter of fact, he is blased in favor of organized capital, and against the people.” Unquestionably there is much in the point made by the Nebraska commission. But this is only one of several of the pitfails by which modern institutions tend to be- tray the juflst from the straight and nar- row path of the ideal judge. A bill was In- troduced in the Indiana legislature three years ago making it unlawful for cam- palgn committees to levy assessments on candidates for judicial positions, and for such candidates to pay them. The bill was defeated, but 1ts wisdom is obvious. Under an elective judiclary system our judges are necessarily involved to some extent in politics. They favor, and often find it Qiffi- cult to avold incurring obligations which they cannot, consistently with their of- ficial dutles, perform. The surprising thing is that our judges should, as a rule, show such complete independence as they do show. The judge who Is to be elected should be spared the necessity of Incurring political debts, and in the judge Who s to be ap- pointed dlsinterested openmindedness should b6 esteemed the prime qualification. Our Birthday Book April 26, 1910, David Henderson, theatrical manager, was born April 2, 183, at Edinburgh. He has put on the road a great many of the most popular extravaganzas, including the famous 1482, during the Chicago World's tair. Henry T. Clarke, ploneer waterway boomer and retired capitalist, was born April 2, 1834, at Greenwich, N. Y. M Clarke bullt one of the first bridges acros the Platte, donated the ground on which Bellevue coll 18 loacted, helped organize the Board of Trade and the Commerclal club and has been a del to all sorts of industrial &nd commercial congresses. Fred W. Hefon, general agent of the Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance company of Philadelphia, officing In The Bee bullding, is 8. He is a native of Moline, I, and Mas been with his present company in various positions continually since 192, Willlam A. Aycrigg, consulting engineer, with offices in The Bee buflding, was born April 2, 1869, at Passalc, N. J. He is & graduate elvil engineer from Renselaer Polytechnlc institute at Troy, and h had wide experience as & rallway engineer and bridge bullder. He also served for a brief perfod as ity engineer for Omaha, E. E. Muffitt, secretary of H. J. Pen- fold company, dealers in surgical instru- ments and physigians' supplies, is . He was with the Goodman Drug company from 188 to 181, and from that date with | which hes been found necessary of reduc- But there are others | ' be Army Gossip Matters of Interest On and Back of the Firing Line Gleaned from the Army and Navy Register. Several officers have been relleved from college duty and no successors have been designated. This Is a step In the direction ing the number of officers on detached duty. 'The fallure of congress to enact the | so-called extra officers’ bill make | any provision for officers who are serving on very useful duty which requires their absence from thelr line commands, compels the War department to withdraw some of the officers who are acting as professors of military sclence at universities. It is Im pessible, of course, to recall many of these officers, as the demand for thelr services is imperative. « or to The War department is arracging to have the regular army represented as generously as possible In some five military tourna- ments to occur at as many places during the present year. As s usual under such circumstances, the troops in the neighbor hood of those events will he designated, for participation. There has been at vari- ous times the suggestion that the army be excused from taking part in these tourna- ments, The point has been occasionally raised that they are moro or less of a commercial character, and it has been| pointed out by should not n be employed the: able work and hand, in connection with militla encampments, the On portunity backed by and of influential the support senators who busi| of have argued - representatt opportunity to see for themselves what the military establishment 18 doing what the defenders of thelr country capable of. The tournaments of 1910 include those at Nashville jn June, Chicago July 4 to 13, at Des Molnes at Tacoma In the last week In July at Omaha immediately following the Moines tournament. will The preliminary dates for nirg on examination the army April 11, medical corps, ur.der Fort Sherldan, 1L, applied latter. There are now appointed first lleutenants in medical reserve corps and enter the next {class at the army medical school in Octo- ber, by which time it is expected there will The its the examinations commence for the purpose of determining the relative standing of the graduates on| the lst of the officers of the regular medi- The graduating exercises will on, which occasion of Ann Arbor The York and Philadelphia for tic purpose of creat- | corps among eligible medical graduates, have met much success and there are indica- tlons of a number of candidates from those cities for the examinations occurring before the beginning of the next course at the at least thirty more candldates. present class at the school completes courge on May 1, when cal corps. take place on May 31, Prof. Victor C. Vaughan will deliver the principal address. medical officers, who visited New ing interest In the army medical with army medical school. An unusual question has been raised by in the matter of one day's pay In the case It has been the practice for years, with no hint irregu- | to begin the pay of an army of-| ficer with the day upon which he is ad-| that the | the auditor for the War department of army officers advanced in rank, of suspicion of larit, its illegality or vanced. It happens, however, officer in whose place he is promoted—by | virtue of retirement, for Instance—also re- | celves that day's pay for the same grade It is maintained that the in- creased pay due to promotion should begin which the | comptroller has There are be held that two officers cannot draw the pay of the same The situation and office. on the day following that on vacancy is created. The this question under advisement. indications that it will position for the same day. does not Involve a large amount of money. in any event, and concerns comparatively | °/¢@ginous smile, of 16 to 1, and all of the likely that the decision of the comptroller will be retro- It will at best amount to a new rule to be followed hereafter and specify- one recelve his increase of pay due to advancement on the day following few officers. It is not active. ing that an officer promoted, retired, will vice the retirement creating the vacancy. It is possible it will be necessary for the War department to amend the program for the joint army and militia maneuvers this | year in the matter of commanding officers ‘When the schedule of camps and the designation of their at the various places. respective commanding officers were for- mulated by the general staff of the War department it took into consideration the then commanding generals of the varlous military departments. By that time impor- tant changes were to be made in & number of the departmental commands. Since then it has been necessary for Major Geheral Leonard Wood to go to Buenos Ayres on a diplomatic mission and this will delay his detachment from duty In command of the Department of the East and corre- spondingly postpone the transfer of other officers from one department to another. One of the changes Immediately decided upon has been that of the command of the maneuver camp on the D. A. Russell reservation, which was to be commanded by the commanding general of the Depart- ment of Missouri and which duty will now devolve upon the post commander at Fort D. A. Russell. Brigadier General W. W, Wotherspoon, president of the Army War college, has been designated to command the mancuvers at the camp to be ostab- lished at Gettysburg, beginning July 15, This Is the additional camp, which was selected by General Wood and is intended to include the militla of the adjacent states, resulting in a saving in the cost of transportation to camps more remotely situated. General orders have been issued this week from the War department containing amendments in paragraphs of the army regulations and the manual for the sub- sistence department - in aceordance with recommendations made by General H. G Sharpe, commissary general of the army. ki Is an initial step toward the inaugura- tion of & new method of aceounting for the ration. This new system has been made necessary by the change in the amount of savings allowed organization command. ers in drawing their rations and will effect an important reform ‘in showing a true state of the business of the subsistence de- partment. The result of the propsed new plan would be the advantage of putting each organization or detachment com- mander in the position of a purchaser, and at the end of the month he would be al- lowed credit for an amount equal to the value of the rations due the erganisation the present establishment, first under the pame of Aloe & Penfold and later as at present incorporated. or detachment for that month. No at- tempt is made at this time to change the components of the ration, and the practical result of the new system will be as close The report made to the comptroller under date of March 29, 1910, shows that this bank has Time Certificates of Deposit $2,034,278.61 8% % Interest paid on certificates running for twelve months. irstNational Bank of Omaha an adherence to the preseribed ration as 1s now followed with the lberal savings PERSONAL NOTES, some crities that the army torms of activity, especially in a year when there Is much marching to be done and consider- the joint the military authorities have found themselves confronted with the im- people that the |Pald and the accounts certified army gains in friends by there exhibitions while the people of the country have an and are at and and | Des of candi- begin- one board con- vened in Washington and another board at to six candi- dates at the former place and two at the twenty-two pro- vislonally qualified candidates who will be the army the site of clause of the regulations, the only differ- ence being that under the present system it is fmpossible to trace the accounts accu- rately, whereas under the new system & true, accurate and simple form of account- | ing would be followed. No cash will be | turned over to the organization or detach- | ment commander until the end of the month, when the balance due him or the commissary, as the casa may be, will be Anthony J. Drexel, multimillionair entered a protest because a New [botel charged him $1.7 for a cup of and two eggs. The $40,00 memorial to the late Speaker Reed wiil be unvelled at Portland August. Perhaps Danville will do a for Cannon some day. An Altoons man saved a bevy of w from peril, and one by one they 1| their rescuer. What could a moro Carnesie medal mean to him now? While looking at Halley’s comet Mrs. Jo | sephine Osterman of Evansville, Ind., ag 8, became very excited and died from a sudden attack of heart disease, Mrs., Os terman remembered seeing the comet in the thirties. Frank Seldler i the biggest engineer on the Willameport end of the Philadelphia & Reading system, and he has the "littlest” engine. The engine looks like a toy along- side the monsters that handle coal trains or that go pounding along with general frelght. It 18 an engine that was once con- sidered “some pumpkins” on the road, but It has got down to pulling a worktrain. The big englneer of this tiny, old-fashioned en- gine weighs 820 pounds. “Willlam Jennings Bryan s rapidly be- has York tea In much hugee THE VIEW HAL hos of Prematu Democra New York Sun. It is almost pathetic to contemplate at| this time the rejolcings of the democratic rank and file over the election of Mr. Foss in Massachusetts and the defeat in New York of Mr. Aldridge. They see in these two events a final consummation of repub- lican downfall and appraise the retirement of Messrs. Aldrich and Hale as contributory testimony. Neither personal nor local con- | slderations affect thelr ecstacy. The repub- lican party is consigned to the demnition bowwows, and a triumphant democracy, long banished, though unjustly, from the fount of emolument and perquisite, to say nothing of the minor lssue of power and authority, 18 now on top with all banners | COMIng bald,", reports a Washington cor- waving. It is all over bu the shouting! | Tespondent. “He is clinging with great These innocents, red-mouthed and tenkolty to:what halr hie' has deft. With) bridled, but innocents nevertheless, see only | that perversity which marks men who hate Victory In the futare. They seo a demo. | Paidness, he refuses to have his locks cratic house to be chosen this year and a | !Fimmed. The result is that he has a great democratic president two years hence, and | cluster of bushy curls forming a fim from | all the 80,000 offices dance before them with [ ® !ine Just above his ears well down to his nods and becks and wreathed smiles; and | 02t collar. The mass is liberally streaked even in the darkest bush—the darker the | W!N ETa¥. A8 the hair falla away a wel more likeiy—the native smooths his hickory | f0rmed head of the dome’ variety is re- shirt and girds his loins for patronage. All| ¢*I¢d" this because two republicans districts, ' moved by disgust with the tarif and boss rule, have voted with the democrats to em- phasize their deep resentment. We do not say that the republican party is secure, far from it; but we do say that if the democracy approaches It with over- confidence, Interprets its misfortunes as an abondonment of principle and an expedfent of despair and resignation, the democratic | party s doomed to bitter disappointment. In New York and New England at least republican voters are.to some extent fnde- pendent. Smart|ng under a Senso of wrong, moral or economic, they are quite capable of temporary disaffection. They have shown It in Massachusetts and In New York, but thelr protest has not been agaln't republicanism as they understand it. They have protested against republicanism as they do not undestand it. But wo hear the democratic “View hal- loo!” and we see the democratic multi- tudes in full chase, dishevelled and inco- | herent, of & victory that so far makes its residence In a multicolored mirage and rep- resents In their wiid eyes chiefly the feed- ing trough from which they have so long '|the traveler returned, of Bryan with his | \vaaing. “Oh! no," replled the bride's “It did seem hard at one time, but tinally landed this fellow just as we losing all hope.’—Catholic Standard Times, LAUGHING LINES. Mrs, Byers—All the big berries are on the top of this box, I suppose. Peddler—No, mum; some of 'em are on uml top. of de other boxes.—Boston Tran- seript. “1 defy any one to name a field of en- deavor in which men do not recelve more consideration than women!” exclaimed the orator at a suffragette meeting “The chorus,” murmured some irrespon- sible person.—Lippincott's Magazine. Higgins—How were the arcoplutie re vesterday ? 00d, only for the fact that the oo heavy for making records, —What do you mean? Wiggins—They were pulled off over Pltts- burg, you know.—Puck. Mr, Blinks (in art museum)—I didn't know you were such an admirer of curios, Mrs. Blunderby. Mrs, Blunderby—Oh, yes, indeed; I just delight in inlquities.—Boston Transcript “I'm truly sorry, ma'am,” sald Old Hunks to the widow, ‘fo see you un such hard luck. You mustn't let it distress you, though. It may be all for the best.'" Then he went and foreclosed tho mor- tgage.—Chicago Tribune. father, Mary were and rest of the short cuts to prosperity and the higher statesmanship, Upon so slight a base they Quild the hysterical structure of thejr restoration. It is "Hark away!" and full flight for their fleshpots. A democratic victory this year will be an injury to the democratic cause. It will arrest and sober the republican contestants and realign the party upon the signal of danger; and if the democrats, intoxicated | by misunderstood successes and feeling sure of further triumphs because of rainbows in the sky or the smoke which so gracetully curls or any other immaterial and evasive thing, should take victory in 1912 for return to their old love with his barren platitudes and prophecies, his manifold croaks and his misleading admonitions, republican feuds will be called In and independence of action eliminated in the presence of a common menace. erybody Lowt Out. New York Tribune: The Philadelphia street car strike has been declared off after eight weeks of ex- hausting hostilities. It is estimated that the traction strikers lost In wages $450,000, the sympathetic strilkers In the textlle and other trades $2,200000, the Rapid Transit company $2,000,000 and other employers and business men generally $12,000000. It was a case of everybody losing and nobody gaining. The traction company and the strikers are now just where they were be- fore, except for eight weeks of experience in wasting their substance, with absolutely no results, Good Man—Ah, my poor fellow, I feel sorry for you. Why don't you work? When 1 was young for ten years I n was in bed after 5. An hour's work before break- fast, then five hours' work, then four hours' more work, then supper, then bed, then up agalin at 5 next morning: Loafer—I say, boss; where did you serve | your time—Sing Sing or Joliet.—Columblan | Magazine. IN WHISPERS, Puck. Here, love, You have ten million plunks In lieu of alimony; So pack FouRwxty gpven trunks And call the cart and pony. The moving van I've ordered here At 3 o'clock precise At 4 you then can disappear, Which suits us both quite nicely. At 51 haye a golfing date 80 plcase be prompt in starting, Or Mrs. Swift will have to walt While you and I are parting. At 8—What's that? You want to know The steps that I have taken? Don't worry, dear—a day or 50 Will do, or I'm mistaken. 1 whisper to my counsel, Fudg: Who whigpers to your law And then they whisper to the Judge, Who's known as Whisp'ring Sawyer, Apd then the judge he whispers back, They whisper all togother— They seem to suffer from a lack Of breath this whisp'ring weather. Thé judge he Whispers to the clerk, Who whispers: “Just the caper And, whisp'ring still, he scts to work To draw the proper paper One Ambition Unsatisfied. Philadeiphla Record. . 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