Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 21, 1910, Page 19

[ ’ ’ e YOW ." SATURDAY MAY 21, 1910. (e ira 1) | ‘, ( BN SIDELIGHTS ALONG WASHINGTON BYWAYS 1t 1s not often that Speaker Cannon be® comes intensely Interested in the proceed- ings of the hotse when he is not presiding over that somewhat troublesome body. There are exceptions to the rule, however, | and one of the exceptions was when Sereno E. Payne, co-author of the tariff law, de- | livered a campagn argument In defense pf his production. Mr. Payne's speech was listened to with great interest, not only on the republican #id€ of the house, but also on the part of demotrats. Not the least Interested mem- ber was Champ Clark, minority leader, who, &t some future date, expects to poke the Payne argument full of holes. Clark found difficulty in hearing the New Yorker and many requested hirm to step down in front of the speaker's desk. Instantly the situation took on the aspect of a drama, or Iy, according to the viewpolnt, There was & hustle and bustle to present & proper stage setting. Mr. Payne was the leading man of the -occasion. His clerk, loaded down with an armful of statistics and books of various kinds, constituted the property man, and Speaker Cannon took upon himself the duties of stage manager. Having some knowledge of the tmpor- comy tance af Mr. Payne's remarks, the speaker desired that they have the best. possible effect not only on the audience, but also on the country. Accordingly, he found a place for the leading man at the long table occupled by the offfolal reporters. With a dexterity that seemed to indicate previous experience he hustled & couple of tables to the ffont, ono for the use of Mr. Payne's clerk and another to be occupled by the official reporter, whose translation of the speech will he printed .and distributed from ono end of the land to the other. Survey- ing the stags setting with a critical eye, the speaker then dragged a chair to a spot in front af the row of desks on the repub- lican sfde, where he could enjoy the kind - of political argument which is dear to his heart. When Louls 1. Brandels, counsel for Louls Glavis, returns to his home in Bos- ton at the conclusion of the Pinchot-Ball- inger investigation, he will leave behind him the finest collection of enemies that man ever collected. Brandels has been used to making ene- mles all his life. It has happened that he has been the foremost figure in & num- ber of cases where the struggle in which was involved went far beyond legal This happens to be particularly true he strife. in the case now being conducted at the In- stigation of Gifford Pinchot. When Mr. Brandels came to Washington he was known in some quarters as a friend of Mr. Roosevelt. When he leaves Washing- ton he will, without doubt, be known as | the bitter enemy of the Taft administra- tion and everyone of importance connected with it [ It is safe to say that a majority of the members of the investigating committee have about as much love for Brandels as Ballinger has for Pinchot, Senators Rcot, Sutherland and Nelson have become weary of thelr efforts to squelch the Boston torney. After each attempt Mr. Brandels bobs to the surface with a smile that is the most exasperating facial expression ever encounterad by & discontented body of men. Instead of smoothing the ruffled teelings of the men befare whom he 15 try- ing his case, Brandeis dsliberately con- tinues to rub the fur the wrong way until the spectators are constantly on the alert for an explosion. . Mr. Ballinger will be 1o hmppier to be rid of the Boston attorney than will a ma- jority of the members of the commtttee. Buidently the only ones enjoying the situ- ation 15 Brandeis himself and the followers of Pinchot who crowd the committee room each day. R i iy L AN L Methods of Extending Meat Flwvor, Common * houwehold methods of extend- ing the meat flavor through a eonsierable quantity: of mwterial which would other- wise bé lacking in distinetive taste ars to serve the meat “with (lumplings, swnerally in the.dish “with it, to comtbime the meat with crusts, -as in Teat Ples or et ‘rolls, gr to merye -t mett on toeat antl biwoults. Borders af tiee, hominy or mashed pota- toes e examples: of ‘the same principhes spplied in dftferent waws. By serving some prepasation of Ttour, tiee, hominy or other foal rieh .n atarch with the meat we get & Alish ‘which in itself approaches pearer ‘to ‘the ‘hdlanesl xation than meat alons ] coms :in syehich <Al ‘mewt Lhavor is axtentbed through @ lezge amount of the matgtial. Througliout ‘the bulletin the measure- menks fiven 'in :the -redipes all for a level mpeonttul ot & level ouptul, as the case, may e USE OF DUMPIINGS AND SIMILAR, PRIEPARAIITONS, A -mumirer 2t -recipes ot ‘meat dishes matke' with Jumpling aml aimilar prepacations Toltawe: ATEMCT STEW WITH DUSPLUNGS, Htaw—dive pounts of @ oheaper out of beef, taur coups of patatoes out into small Pleves, two-tiinds aup cach af tuenips and ‘gatoats out Bito one-hattiinoh qubes, one- Balt ouion, choppel; ome-quarter aup @f flouy, :salc sl pepper. \ Gt stine Tt iintto semll ‘Pheces, Temning! the fat; gy out the fat and hrown the, meat in i, Whan well hrowned, cover ‘with Rolling ‘water, lwll for five minutes and then ceqoit :in @ ilaveer ‘temperature untll the meat (ks Worg JXT ‘tentder, ‘this Will require abaut ‘threo houss on the atave or five bouns ‘i :the Tiveless coolter. Add cavrots, turnips, onions, Deppar aud salt duciug the lagt Bowr of ceoking, and the potatoss fifteen minutes bofore serving. Thicken with qhe flour diluted ‘with cold water. Servs with dumplings (see balow). If this made in the firaless cuoker, tables .ave put in. Such a stew ‘may also e made of mutton. 1t vedl or pork is used the vegetables may be omitted or simply a MNttte onton used. Sumettmes for variety the browning .of the meat is dis- ‘pensed with, When white meat, such as chicken) vedl, or fresh pork is used, the gravy s often nmde rich with cream or milk thivkenwd with flour. The numerous minor aditions which may be introduced give the great wariety of such stews found m cook books, Dumplings—Twn oups flour, four tea- apuenfuls baking pewder, two-third cup milk or & little ‘more If needed, one-half teaspuontul salt, two teaspoonfuls butter. Mix and sift the dry ingredients. Work in tho butter with the tips of fingers, add milk geadually, roll out to & thickness of one-balf inch and cut with biscuit cutter, Jn some countries 1t is customary to sea- won the dumplings themselves with herbs, etc,, ar to stuff them with bread crumbs fried in butter instead of depending upon the gravy to season them. A good way to ceok dumgilings is to put them in & buttered stemmer over a kettle of hot water. They should cock from twolve to fiftwen indnutes. If it is neces- sary to cook them with the stew, enough liquid should be removed wo that they may be placed upon the meat and vegetables. Sometimes the dough s baked and served a8 biscuits over which the stew s poured. If tho stew is made with clicken or veal, it is generally termed a fricassee. B 7 A b I B M S o s e e o i e s 0tcn Zoch B e e e d Of Interest to ‘Women . | | Aven't the new veats or Wwalstooats for| wear with the -coat suit natty-looking? So eonvenienj, too. I think the mufflers we have beep weating @ll winter must have suggested tho idea, though the summer, veat does begin Juat whete the winter one; left off. They hoth pass around ¢he neck. | 1 recently saw In o #hop & peetly false walsteout in e good guality af white plque, closéd with gilt buttons and worked but- 4waholos, that comt only 90 cents; though, of ©auree, If one had the time for ii( the work 16 sbnplp enough), material for four would ocost np moce than this sum. A ohenming wrap for evenlng summer welr could be fushionéd from rejab or | Bhantung, WL lning of the new Palsley in satip foulaml. Personally, uld Hke & full clrcular owpe, Wiytrianned | savo for & roling back effect around tho nock aod down the front edgos, Alsplaying | the lidpg. 3 Fhe Gwn back would be nacrow around the Deck and increasy 9 much that at the Jower edgy wide rey might be suggested. There ahould be 1o means of closing. The right Trobt should be brought over to the left. A glimpse of the bright Mnlug would appoar 10 view with the wearer's move- meonts. )/ you want what you want when | said the wise man, Thoughts of a Philosopher, R From Hurper's Weekly. Wisdom s the uitimate outgrowth of our experience in folly, wherefore if the fool- killer were on ks job no one would Hve to bo wise. The houest critic is the knocker on our door which Opportunity uses when she ©oIes 4o visit us. The successtul man is he who can take the lemons banded him by life and sell their juices tn lemonade to his neighbors. A gl may smile and smile and be un- | withig' still, The haltbaked poet betore he gels through. If it were really true that the bLird in haud 18 worth two in the bueb, i would not be Jobg before somebedy started en Institution (0 ot 8ll the, birds in the bush n hand, While ai old head on young shoulders is considered & desiratile combination, & young wrm arownd an old waist s likely to result is uswally roasted |1 serlows comptications. First be sure youw're right, thea go ahoad, It 1s equally good ad- vice for the man who i sure he is left, Oy the whole, Judging from many years of observation, one i inclined 1o belleve that thic resily best man at the average | wedding Is the minister. Hot tempers breed chibly bouseholds. it and want .. io & buiry, ad- | 26r it in The Bee. | The wages of sin may be death, but signs are not wantlag that there ls also & larg cash advance thrown in. Chreist's Charge to Peter. “What is that to thee? ™ Jonynat is hee? Follow thou me, classes of people whose thought these words point out and copdemn. And the first are thoss who have a perverted de- sire for knowledge, Now God has placed In every rational woul a desire for knowl- edge. And directed toward right objects, and bounded by certain limitations, noth- ing could be more useful and right. With- out this God-given desire to know, there could be no rational life. We nre told by the Christ that life eternal—the highest form of religious knowledge—is to know the true God and Jesus Christ whom he has | sent. Now mentality s the glory of man Thought, unless perverted, s the divine | exercise of & divine force. The man who | thinks the most purely feels the most like God. The history of the race is but a | narrative of man's mad chase after knowl- edge. Ho has probed the earth, pursued the stars, arrested the swift footed light- ning in its course, and has wracked every system of philosophy for food to feed his mind. He would not, and could not eat unless he fed on the viands of the gods. And this hunger is to forever endure. We share a craving with the angels. Like them wo search the universe for the same food. And we are continually crossing each other's lines of flight. We fly air which their pinions fan today. And that song which they sing in praise of ap- prehended excellence will roll in waves of melody white crested from our lips when our eyes shall behold it. But pervert this God-given desire to know and the true objoets of knowledge are lost !from sight. The bounds which limit the extent of our inquiries are ridden down, and our desire for knowledge degenerates into idle curiosity. Especially is this true in matters of religion. Here a wild fileld of inquiry i permitted and encouraged. But here are bounds beyond which the human mind must not go: divine rights on which a restless curiosity must not trench; secrets which belong to God. And yet the tendency of the age, is as it was in the days of Adam, to turn away from trees around which no barriers have been placed, and fasten a wistful longing gaze on those which we have been forbidden to touch. And instead of leaving God's secrets to him- welf there are those who, forsooth they can- not out God unto perfection, are arTogant enough to deny his existence. It requires tact to be a strict yet pop- ular mother of a grown daughter, for to steer between the points of belng too much in evidence and not sufficlently so requires thought, etiguette and common sense. It is true that the continued presence of en older person acts something as a Kill- Joy to younger omes, 80 parents need not be in the room all the time, for girls must learn through experience to be easy and graclous hostesses, an art they will not aoguire if it is always done for them. Good form demands that a man, when calling upon &n unmarried woman, living with her parents or guardians, shall send 8 card for them. For him to omit this courtesy is the helght of rudeness or ig- norance of good manners, and in either case he can be severely criticised. When the card is sent.the mother or father goes into the reception room and remains for ten minutes or more, but ten minutes is long enough. It Is not necessary that both parents shall see the caller. One is GoT UGGED HalL I\WAMT TO SHOVE OFF CUSTOMER: It has occurred to us that there are three ‘ to- day where they flew yesterlay, and tomor- ' Tow the wings of our minds will beat the | ITTLE SE | | { By Rev. G. W. Abbott, Pastor Trinity Methodist Ohurch. To such God sa “What Is that to thee? Follow thou Me. In the second place these words apply to those people who demand that God shall 8ive a reason for that He does which shall come within the limits of their compre- hension. In thelr speculations they ap- proach that most sacred spot in the world— that place called Calvary. Standing within the shadows of that awful cross they watch the unfolding of that most mys- terious tragedy' which ever transpired in the universe of God. And instead of seeing the three crosses of history on Calvary's crest, and the figure of our dying Lord outlined against the sky, instead of belng overawed by those manifestations divin- ity displayed, instead of being filled with love which alone can save the soul from sin—that demand that the philosophy of that event shall be explained. Instead of proving by & personal application the vir- tue of that blood which saves from sin they propose to submit the whole thing to a keen theological analysis. The most overwhelming mystery in the universe gathers about the cross. Dr. Hodge says: { “The mysteries of nature, and the myster- |es of providence, are the riddles of child- | hood, compared with the all absorbing | problems of the atonement. We know not what it means in this life and may not in the life to come. A modest thinking | man stands back in amazement at what ya: | discontented mood, God does. As well might that insect which enough, and neither goes in with the daugh- ter. Whichever decides to be present fol- lows ten or fifteen minutes after the young hostess. As soon as the older person enters she or he is Included in the conversation. If some one special topic is under discussion Daily Health Hint. A diet of vegetables, together with milk and eggs, will provide the human systém with as much energy, it not more, as the finest steak. A Bad Lot. That fierce mosquito is a sight! hocking on his ways to think, He sleeps all day and spends the night In song while waiting for a drink! T. E M O YOUR FRIEMD- BN LEsVE | (SO0 CI0aR- A VERY MILD THE OFFICER NEVER TOULCHED Yop-You BTRUCK AT HIM- THEN FELL AND BUMPED YOUR HEAD - finds its cradle and its grave on a single leaf undertake to comprehend the beauty Of the vast forest about it as for man—a creature born to live for a day. Person- ally I am glad that such knowledge s not Necessary for my salvation, any more than it Is for me to understand the chem- leal qualities of the bread and meat which T eat from day to day. It is enough for me to know that they contain nourlshment for mind and body. And to such curtous souls ~through the text God says: “What is that to thee? Follow thou Me.” The third class of people condemned by the text are those who are foolishly anx- fous about the conditions of their earthly life. Instead of accepting the severe pro- vidences of life with an acgulesence which would homor their faith, and bging peace to thelr hearts, multitudes of Christian people sit down in a feverish, complaining, and seek a solution which vexes their lives. Why have 1 been called to tread a path so rough, so thorny and 50 steep? Why am 1 compelied to spend my life In & sphere so uncongenial to my taste? Why life under a cross so heavy and hard to bear? Why was the stroke allowed 1o come which swept from my arms one as dear &s my lite? When running along the track of prosperity at the rate of fifty miles an hour, why did the storm burst in a fury strong enough to sweep away the accumu- lations of years? And so there is no end to the question we might ask, for wonderful aro the hid- inge of divine intent. And it would not be kind to speak lightly of the afflictions through which people have to pass, Poverty, domestic troubles, and bereavements are hard to bear. It is & stony-hearted ro- ligion, and not the one learned at Gol- gotha that would make light of these things. It is hard to be hissed where once applauded; to be pursued by vile tongue and to 1le on & bed wracked with pain and roasted with fever. Bitter medicine is not @s pleasant as savory food. But quinine and nux vomica may be as necessary as beefsteak and hot biscuit. The winter which kills the weeds and breaks up the soil Is just as necessary as the summer which blooms out the flowers and ripens the fruit. And when the bitter cup Is placed to our lips let us remember that It that it has been mixed by Father's hand and that healing properties lurk among its bitter water, And through cloud and gloom comes a volce saying: ‘‘What is that to thee? Follow thou me.” of the problem And they ask: How Man Calling on Girl Should Act Toward Parents o O LN FAUE o8 KR ROV o Jodied Pt ) she is told what it s, so she can take up the thread where her entrance broke it oft. To ignore the presence of an older per- son, talking on subjects of which he or she has no knowledge, s nothing less than boorish, The parent or guardian, after taking part in the conversation for a short time, excuses hjmself or herself. This individuai Qoes it frankly, making no pretext of trying to slip out. The woman or man rises and says good night to the caller, saying that it has been pleasant to see him and she or he hopes the caller will come again seon. Then the parent asks him to excuse her. By the fact that she | has gone Into the room and been cordlal to the guest she has expressed her ap- proval of his aocquaintance. If she does not like him and prefers that her daugh- ter should not know him she remains in the room throughout the entire visit. ROSANNA SCHUYLER Doty xx tinued . DOM'Y HIT HIM ANY MORE -OFFICER- I THINK, THE POOR FELLOW 154 BIY CRAZY: CAM GET AGOOD ONE FOR 1T YOURE WELCOME -1GOT must I toil through | Things You Want to Know Possibllitics of the Gerrymander. 5 Congress will reapportion the member- | ship of the house of representatives ac cording to the new census, and the legls latures of the several states will apply the résult of that reapportionment by re- districting their states. Under the Ameri can system of politics the minority party has no rights which the majority is bound to respect. About a century ago; In fact on the heels of the re-apportionment under the census of 1810, the republican legisla ture of Massachusetts, under the domina tion of Governor Elbridge Gerry, sed buted the districts so that the federalists could not elect members of congress. In order to obtain a republircan majorl district was made, the pecullar outline of which presented a somewhat dragon-like contour. A map having this district strongly out- lined hung over the desk of Benjamin Russell, an ardent federalist partisan editor. Gllbert Stuart, the celebrated painter whose portrait of Washington has become | the accepted likeness of the Father of His| Country, came Into Russell's office one day, took his pencill and added wings and claw to the dragon on the map. He then sald “How will that do for a salamander?' “Better say gerrymander!" growled Rus- sell. And thus was coined the word “gerry- mander” to designate a practice which, from the beginning of our political histo: usually has controlled the political party destinies of the country. The census probably will show an in- crease In population of about 15,000,000 in the entire country. It 1s Improbable that the influential eastern states will consent to a relative loss in representation in order that the size of the house of repre- sentatives may not be increased. The prob- abllities are that from thirty to seventy now members will be added to the house. If the present apportionment ratio of 194,152 should be maintained there will be sixty-six ad- ditional members In the house and thirty- four legislatures will be called upon to redistriot their states to provide for the election of the additional members. If the democrats should succeed in gain- Ing control of the house of representatives in the coming election, the reapportion- ment undoubtedly will be made by the present congress during its last session, which will begin next December, after ite successor has been chosen. If the repub- Means win in November, the work of re- apportionment may be postponed to the Sixty-second congress on account of the chaotic party conditions now prevailing in the house. Not since the civil war has the reap- portionment been made by the democrats. After the census of 1570, congress was in- creased by the addition of fifty members. This was done by the Forty-second con- gress, in which there was a republican ma- Jority of twenty-three in the house and twenty-elght In the senate. The Forty- fifth congress, after the census of 180, added thirty-two members to the house. In that congress there was a republican ma- Jority in the house of twenty-three and in the senate of two. That reapportionment was madg after the Forty-sixth congress had been elected, in which there was a democratic majority in the house of twen- ty-three. The Fifty-first congress mado the reapportionment following the census of 1890, adding thirty-one members to the house. That congress had a republican majority of elght in the house and In the senate the same number. That reappor- tlonment also was made in the short ses- slon of congress after the Fifty-second congress had been elected, the house being returned with the enormous democratic majority of 127, the largest majority ever held by any party in congress. The last apportionment also was made during the | last sesslon of the Fifty-sixth congress. In that congress there was a republican majority in the house of twenty-two and in the senate of fourteen, The succeeding congress already had been elected, but in this case the republican majority In both houses had been increased. In fact, the republican .majority never has been so small as twenty-two since that time, One of the reasons why the republicans have had such a comfortably safe margin In the house ever since the last apportion- ment is that after the increase of the house from %6 to 38 members the state legisla- tures proceeded to redistrict the states. In all of the eastern, central and western states the legislatures sitting in 1901 were republicar. They drew the district lines with the Intention and purpose of making it as difficult as possible for the democrats to elect members of congress. In the south- ern states the legislatures were democratic and, In those states whers thero is any real republican party, similar efforts were | made to hold down the republican represen- tation, In 1891, although the reapportionment was made by a republican congress in its ex- piring hours, the gerrymandera were in the hands of democratic legislatures which had been captured from the republicans in the great democratic landslide which followed the enactment Of the McKinley tariff bill | stat, in 18%. A democratic legislature in Michi- gan that year erected @ district which re- mbled the hub and spokes of & wagon whoel was of the most curious gerry rs in history, but it resulted in sending several democrats to congress from what had been a rock-ribbed republican and it also gave part of the eloos toral vote of Michigan to Cleveland in 1802, York, Indlana and other whilom Liful states were carefully gerrymands 1 by the democrats with the result that o Fifty-third congress showed & demos cratic majority In both houses, for the first, last and only time since the civil war. Tho split in the democratio party on money question resulted in sweeping publican victorfes in 1894 and 1896, In 1398 the democrats made considerable gains, als though most of the democratic gerrymand- crs had been abolished and new maps had been drawn by republican draughtsman, Then came the last apportionment, the subs sequent gerrymanders by republican legius latures and five successful republican cons fonul campaigns. 12 the democrats should win in the con= gressional elections In November the re- apportionment will be made by the present congress, but tha gerrymandering will be done by legislatures et to be elected. 1f the elections this fall should turn suc states as Indiana, Ohlo, Kansas, Nebraska and West Virginia over to democratio leg- islative control those states might be so gorrymandered that the republicans would loso, under ordinary conditions, fiftcen members, representing on dlvision a re- duction of thirty in the majority, 1f there should be a great democratio landslide and the democrats were to galn control of the legislatures of such states as Now York, New Jersey, lllinols and Iowa the map- makers could assure g further republican oss of fifteen members. In other words, it the democrats should win legislative control of as many as half a dogen northern and central states in the November election they would be em- powered, on account of the reapportion- ment, to make it almost impossible for the republicans to regdin control of the house. Only once since the campalgn of 186 have the fepublicans had a majority in the house of representatives, which could not have been wiped out had the gerrymahdering been done by democrats instead of repub- licans. As it seems probable that the south will make greater comparative gains under the new census than any other sce- tion, the possibilities of a democratic ger= rymander are even more important. Paradoxical as it may seem, it is a truth that (he gerrymander of a state by the minority party, accidentally In control, provides the only adequate means of a fair division of representation between the ma- jority and minority, For instance, there are approximately a halt million demo- cratic voters in Pennsylvania who arc out~ voted by three quarters of a milllon re- publicans. Although there is & republican majority in the state of a quarter of a mil- lion, only 60 per cent of the votes cast are republicans. In the present house of rep- resentatives Pennsylvania has thirty-two members, only five of whom are democrats, The state Is, of course, gerrymandered by the republicans, and it may be sald that the job has been most artistically exe- cuted, If the democrats, by some miracle, were to galn control of the next legisla- ture in Pennsylvania they would gerry- mander the state so that, assuming a gain of six members, the republicans would have twenty-four and the democrats six- teen representatives. This would give the voters of both partles representation in congress in approximately . the ratlo of the vote cast in the state. The same thing ls true in Tennessee, where the republicans have 4 per cent of the votes and only two out of ten, or 20 per cent of the repre- sentation in congress. There have been few times in the his- tory of the nation when the political com- plexion of the lower house of congress could not have been changed by the sim- ple deviee of the gerrymanders. As It is now the gerrymanders are fearfully and won- derfully made Arkansas has a district shaped llke a pistol; Mr. Prince of the Fif- teenth Illinofs district represents a shoe- string; Mr. Pickett of the Third Jowa dls- trict represents a monkey-wrench with its jaws open; Mr. Hamlin of the Seventh Mis- souri district lives In one end of a sledge hammer which rests upon the end of another sledge hammer represented by Mr, Crow of the Fourteenth district. In states like Tennessee and Kentucky the distriot lines on the map do not present such welrd formations, but the republican dis- tricts in the eastern part of ‘those states have @ great many more people in them than the democratic districts further west. Both parties are perfectly willing to make the most of the possibility of the gerry- mander, and the legislatures to be elected this fall probably will have it in thelr power to say which of the two parties shall control the house of representatives dure Ing the second decade of the twentleth century. By FPREDERIO J. HASKIN, Tomorrow—The Slovak Union. 1t n¢ the re- 8 Types We Meet Every Day The Girl at the Races, BY BABBIE BABBLE. Says Trivia In the grand stand, “Say, I'll tell you just which horse to play, That brown one with the pretty head, He's so well groomed ard 5o well fed, Besides, his jockey looks 80 good, I'm sure he'd win out if he could His eyes are such a lovely blue; Yes, and I like his colors, too! “I don't half llke that yellow horse— ! Such a poor color, though of course I judge by more than that. 'Tis sald A horse wins sometimes by a head. And, as his head s short, you see How very slim his chance must be. My jocket with the eycs of blue looks good to me; pleas: back him, do!| “I'm all excited; It's 80 sweet To be here for the first spring meet. Don't look suprised, but let me say I'm secing my first race today, 1 know I've got a lot to learn, But just the same 1 hope to earn A pot of money—yes, don't you? And learn about the racing, too? “I really wish 1 could afford To play my horse across the board But I uppose it costs a heap. I'm quite keyed up that T can't keep Quiet until they all begin, What's that? You think win your horse will On three legs? Oh, how crus Do Let him run with his fourth leg, too! “They're at the start! They're off} Hoorfly{ That was a first getaway, 1 only see a éloud of Aust. Will Blue Eyes win? He must! He must! They're at the half! They're in the stretchl That yellow horse has won-the wretch! That's the last time I'll back the blue; 1 think it's hateful now—don't you?" (Copyright, 1910, by the N. ¥. Herald Co.) Musings of a Gentle Cynic, = = Flattery 1s merely pralsd of other pebplg, If you don't put In a good word for som people they feel put out All the world's a stage, on which every prominent character has a thousand under studies. It's easy enough to make up your mind what you would do If you were some other tellow. The man who pins his faith to & woman should use & safety pin unless he expects to get seratched Time is money. In fact, in the matter of healing a broken heart, time will do almost as well as money. When & girl jiits one man and marries another, the one who was jlited generally gets over it soonest.—New York Times