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THE OKLAHOMA STATS CAPITAL SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 24, 1910.
I he Oklahoma State Capital
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FRANK H GREER. EDITOR
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THE POSTAL MONOPOLY.
The Postoffice department was established prim
arily as a government monopoly tor the transims
sion of intelligence.
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WHAT IS FAME?
Yes, "What is fame?" one is tempted to ask
when such happenings us were Hashed over the tele-
graph wires a few days since, are possible.
irom Covington, Ky., came the revolting state-
ment that not only waR itie body of John Uriffin
Carlisle, for many years representative, speaker of
the house, and senator and secretary of the treasury,
hauled from the depot to the undertaker's establish-
ment, in an express van when sent there for burial,
but the great man's body was buried by contribu-
tions from those who knew him only by reputation.
A collection was taken up from t he citizens of
Covington, and only by that means was the body
saved from a pauper's burial in the potter's field.
No gathering of friends or relatives, no citizens'
committee anxious to honor the body of one of the
greatest men the Blueg'rass state ever produced, met
the coffin when it was taken from the train.
After it had been carted to the undertaker's es-
tablishment in an express wagon it was found that
there were neither relatives nor friends to arrange
or pay for the burial.
V) hat a commentary upon those knowing to the
(acts.
A nation's shame is written in that story that
comes from Covington.
And yet, it was only because of the ignorance of
the people as to his condition that such a revolting
ilcident must go down in history.
John G. Carlisle was at one time one of the fore-
most Demeeratie politicans of the nation, and a man
whose sincere honesty was conceded by all.
Sad indeed is the thought that must sweep over
r nation at recital of the facts herein but briefly
told.
Indeed, "The top of honor is a slippery place."
"Honor is unstable, and seldom the same; for she
f< is upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food."
Longfellow has put truth into words as follow*:
"A life of honor and of worth
Has no eternity on earth,—
'Tis but a name—
And yet its glory far exceeds
That base and sensual life which leads
To wanl and shame."
And you uwn  lty will lighten
If other skies you brighten
By just being happy—
With a heart full of song.
*** + *■«•** +
Faith
Do you believe in S&nt Calaus?''
Wan asked a little '.ear.
'Cheer v it:" replied the little one.
"iJon't let tho olu man hear.
"If he should learn that I am hep
Unto tins ancient fake
'Twould put his Christmas on the hum.
Ills poor old heart would break."
•ounty recorder
ft * H i
Just being happy
. . ... ^ Helps other's souls along;
it remains true to its original purpose, and is still Their idens may i   heavy
a government monopoly, so far as the letter mail is ? And thpy not stron>«;
concerned, the only branch of the postoffice depart +
ment that pays a profit.
1 he postoffice department was not originally es- £
tablished to do any kind of banking business, or any !
kind of express business or any other kind of busi- j
ness in competition with its own citizens.
It was, as it still remains so far as the letter mail
is concerned, a close government monopoly.
Take monopoly away, throw open to competition
the letter mail, and the department would break
down of its own weight
Competition would take away every mail route
that now pays a profit on the letter mail, and leave
all the unprofitable mail routes to the government. : Arkansas.
.Sometime the postoffice department, will quit do-
ing a limited banking business, or a limited express
business, or any kind of business iti competition
with its fellow citizens, and confine itself to its ori-
ginal purpose of transmitting intelligence.
And when that time came there never will be a
deficiency to meet, it will always pay expenses, and,
as the government will have no dividends to meet,
the business will be better done, and more cheaply .he iawh is on her.
done, than any private company or firm could do it. I —o—
And when that time comes there never will be a ! man ,vh" work" bv ,h«
j j a it .A" , ... never own the clocks.
restored to the postoffice? department, to which it j
originally belonged, because it is the swiftest ami !
best means of transmitting intelligence: anil the tele- \
phone will be a part of the postoffice depart  
for the same reason, and the telegraph and tele-
phone business will be a close government mono-
poly, like the letter mail, and the telegraph and
telephone business will be better done, and more
cheaply done, than ever before.
England now controls the telegraph and tele-
phone as part of the English postal service.
It took control of tile telegraph in 1870, forty
years ago.
Sometime this country will do that, aud the
sooner the better.
WHAT PAPA GETS
Hang up tho Christmas stockings
For ma and Jim and Hue,
For Myrtle, Jane and Agnes,
For William and for Lew.
And don't forget "dear papa;"'
Hang up a sock for him,
Although his chance for presents
May be extremely slim.
Oh, no! They'll not forget him—
He's got a lovely chance!
If they're not pleased on Christmas-
I'a gets—"u song and dance.!"
Jeff Davis
—o-
Among others the
i man of deeds.
Well, John n.
ing Andy's ante.
R« me day a war
well once too often.
care wili go to the
WILL COME TO THEIR SENSES
WHEN IT IS TOO LATE
The state's heritage in taking the capital and
placing it at Oklahoma City will climb mountain
' high before the capitol structure is ready for oc-
aupation—
Provided the governor, legislature aud the town
lot speculators arc able to carry out their illegal,
foolhardy plot.
Guthrie has been doing the handsome thing by the
taxpayers of the state.
The use of Convention Hall cost the state but $1.
per yew, the entire cost of quarters in Guthrie being
$22,000 per year.
Watch the expenses roll up with the state capital
located in Oklahoma City, if indeed it is located
through the illegal proceedings so far enacted
It will prove a costly lesson to the taxpayers of
the state.
They will, however, repent of their blind driven
course when it is too late.
ELI PERKINS
Ell Perkins, humorist, lecturer, news-
paper correspondent and all-round liter-
ary man. Is dead. For several years lie
-°— j had been suffering from a stroke of
ag in automobiles—In ( paralysis.
j He was born 70 years ago in the cen-
' tral part of New York, where his father
was judge. After graduating from tho
i public schools, he attended Union col-
lege. and when he graduated he was
ight get even by boost- ' appointed to a place in the treasury de-
partment.
At the outbreak of the Civil war he
enlisted and in 1304 was mustered out
in t ie rank of major. Then he invested
in a cotton plantation in Louisiana and
had the pleasure of entertaining Arte-
mua Ward, while the humorist was on
one of ids southern trips. In 1*67 he
was appointed secretary of legation to
St. Petersburg, but he did not liko tho
diplomatic service.
Coming back to the United States, he
proposed to the New York Commercial
Advertiser to write a series of letters
from Saratoga. They made a great hit,
j being full of personalities, gossip, racy
: anecdotes and fun. Afterwards, he em
( bodied these in a book.
! He then went on the field as a lee-
, ~(> " turer, and this was tho main business
I ■ , prohlhltlqnl.t ■ an't object j „f „„ |lfo ra| ,.cars „hcn
to a I iri' tmas tree Mr* full. ; lle „ „rok(, of paralvsls
, He published several books on wit and
i you arc honest with yourself, others humor.
Win go, n square deal from you. | „, Kew Yoplt a f„w
months ago, when he removed to Yonk-
iv.-eleet Dix is being feted
e a Christmas turkey.
if ht>
Talk
money
Ever
2hesty
heap, hot fools pay their good j
be swindled by it.
notice how na n ow-minded
man is likely to be?
"A LETTER TO SANTA"
We laugh at little children when the>
write their little pleas
For dolls and drums and trumpets and
the other fooleries;
We smile at them good-naturedly and
scan the scrawled request—
The childish hope, the childish faith, so
eagerly expressed—
But you and I. my brother, in our daily
dream and task
Are the little children when the trinket
things they ask.
We think we have outgrown It all that
other-time belief;
We think we tlx and fashion all our Joy
and all our grief;
Hut we are still as children wanting
Christmas cheer and toys,
We ask with ilent faith for all our com-
plement of Joys—
And jet with grown-up wisdom we will
chuckle at the note
Addressed to dca. old Santa, that the
little fellow wrote.
We—asking, asking, a king every day
and every night
For this and that to cheer us with con-
tentment or delight,
We ask as do the children —but the chil-
dren's eyes are clear,
And times there falls an answer that
the trusting child t an hear.
Aye, wo are none but children; asking
one we cannot sec
Put whom we still believe In, for the
gifts for you and me.
:it her
eently
>  aid,
FLIRTING
Ignatius of Elgin
delivered an address in which
"Flirting is one of tho most pernicious
habits a woman can have. The female
whether she he old or young, who is
continually lasting sheep's eyes at the
men, trying to attract their attenion,
Is upon a path which loads to the down-
fall of thousands of men and women.
Again, the married woman with children. ! fund l« oni
who goes about among her unmarried ' teli' f ulan
could multiply like misery,
ould be a millionaire.
friend* relating unsavory bits of gos-
about men and husbands, or who
to her young mar led women
friends with stories of what she has
grant the need for more clerks to per-
from their part of the increased work.'
Fortunately, President Taft la at the
helm, and the government employes need
have no fear that Injustice will be done
to them from the western end of the
avenue.
STEEL TRUST PENSION SYSTEM
From Washington PoBt.
Government employes who are looking
forward to Ihe passage of a pension
measure which will support them when
age or disablement takes them out of ac-
the service, may be interested, and oth-
ers as well. In the pension fund Just ea-
tahlished by the United States Steel
Corporation. A fund of $12,000,000 has
been ?et aside at the very start to
finance this beneficence, the largest sum
probably ever devoted to a similar pur-
pose and male immediately available.
Th maximum' yearly pension is 11.200
and the minimum, $144. Between these
extremes the beneficiaries are to be paid
on the basis of 1 per cent of their av-
erage monthly pay during tho last ten
years of service. Thus an employe who
ha- seen 25 years' set vice at an average
of $60 a month will receive $15 per
month. Three classes of pensions are
provided f°r, as follows:
I Pensions l y eoippulftory retire-
ment, gtanitd to employes who have
been twenty years or longer In tho
service and have reached the ag.- of
7'  years fot men and 60 years for
women.
1? Pensions by retirement at re«
quest granted to employes who have
been twenty years or longer In the
set'vii p and have reached the age <>f
years fot men and 50 years for
women.
". Pensions for permanent incapac-
ity, granted to employes who have
been twenty years or long' r in the
s.-M vi.. an,| have become permanently
totally incapacitated through no fault
of their own.
The Income of th   funds is expected to
be nearly half a million a year, ami the
pensions will be paid monthly. This
aparl from the accident
t lias been in opuation
Tho Chic
a psycholo
ago san
ent
irkara picktd
their strike.
season for
—o—
a whole lot easier to tell the
than it is to keep a he white-
ers |n I ho hope of bettering his health, j
but the effort was In vain, and he finally
j heard about their husbands is a rulner
i of lives. But alas for the frailty of
human nature. Ever since E\e
He was a genial, pleasant man, with
enormous industry, and while his talent
wa-i not of a high order, he made the
most of it and accumulated a compe-
tence
P« ace to his ashes.
The <
a? aj.-urd as
are important.
fello
fool doctrines are I
own fool doctrines •
OF MONETARY INTEREST
Society has decreed that certain styles
ustoms are right with the seasons
United States army may be sby
of ammunition, but the army of peace j ,),nf
orators is not. Winter goods are the order of tho day.
—o— j The merchants have them in abund-
ThOSe w]lO think it'* better to give 1 ante an<I the Christmas trade is crowd-
then to receive generally get the most j inc 'or counters where the season's
out of Chistmas. j newest arrivals hold the boards.
—o— . You need comfortable underwear: warm
T!   burglar who robbed a girl of her | ' and seasonable haberdashery.
listened to the blandishments of tho
snake, women have made goo-goo eyes '
at men and men have responded and
will continue to respond to the soft im-
peachment. They will also gossip and :
repeat the itories that the> hear and 1
some which they manufacture. The i
church may fulminate, the law may
but
i and this is the season for sensible shop- i threaten and society may denounce,
the practice goes on and will continue,
Wherever the tongue of woman Is loos-
ened. \\'e may legislate and plead and
promise, but these things are not to be
overcome and the happy man is the
one who goes ids way, recognising thi3
fact and paying no attention to the
things that may be -aid against him; to
[ since last May.
T'.is pension plan is on a more liberal
basis than some of those which have
| heen submitted to Congress, or rather
that have b*cn sealed down by member*
of the house committee to the basis
J congress probably would sanction, and
j Is immeasurably mote munificent titan
the nropositon to provide a fund by as-
sessing the employe* themselves, and
paying them back In pensions should
they stnv In-nthe service the allotted
length of time, it should be kept in
ndnV <00. that the steel trust pension
f"nd N wholly voluntary, with no law
or other spur to push the corporation
into It. a* must be the case wlth^clt
Sarv The steel employes make wp.oon-
trlbution* to either of the funds In .ques-
tion nn1 there are no whereases or
prov's'ons that make for graft.
SCREW LOOSE SOMEWHERE
If
- will find more hair on the dresse
calls again.
It Is yours If you take the time to I content, himself w ith the philosophy of I Frr
THE CENSUS PADDERS.
Director of the (Vnsus Durant!, after advising
with Secretary of tile Interior Nagel, and President
Taft, has announced that prosecutions will be in-
stituted against padders of census returns for a
number of cities.
In (Ireat Falls, Montana, three enumerators have
already been fined and imprisoned for frauds.
Attempts at padding' arc charged against many
cities.
Tai'oma. in 1900, counted .17,714 people. This
rear the first count showed over 116,000. The evi-
dence of fraud was such that a recount was ordered,
which showed only 812,0711.
In 1800, Omaha's census was sadly inflated, the
count showing 110,4.)^. Ten years later an honest
count showed a:j apparent drop of 102,555, which
was a serious backset to the town.
In 1000, St. Joseph was padded and showed 102,-
970: this year an honest count gives it only 77,403.
This sort of kick-back always discourages a town
that has once padded; but in every census year
there are found ambitious towns willing to take the
chanee in order to show an apparently large gain,
for real estate and other exploitation purposes, as ,
did Oklahoma this year to the tune of over 20,000. |
What care the boosters of that inflated metropolis-'
of ten years hence? It is the present they are mak- j
ing the right of their lives for and they are willing, |
as has oeen proven, to play bluff hands in desperate |
games, and this 20,000 census steal is one of them, i
The failure to correct and prosecute the law- i
breakers wilt prove nnfortonate for tho citizens;
left to "hold the bag" in 1920.
Of considerable interest to the people is the fact
that a judgment of three hundred dollars was re-
cently rendered against the Western Union Tele-
graph company for damages sustained on account
of the non-delivery of a telegraphic message, not
withstanding the fact that the telegraph blank
contained the usual printed agreement, that the
company would be liable tiwly for amount received
for sending the message. The case has been bitter-
ly fought and finally reached the United States su-
preme court where the company was held liable for
damages to the extent of three hundred dollars.
James J. Hill, the president of the Northern
Pacific railroad, thinks that hard times are coming.
Perhaps Mr. Hill is right about it. He says that
every one has been living too extravagently. and
that when the hard times come everyone will have
to cut out the high living' and get down to hard pan.
All right, Mr. Hill. The American people can do
that whenever it is necessary. The people will go
over the bridge when they come to it.
: make the purchase.
Might as well have the wear of the
| goods that you will sooner or later have
there must have some lively J to huy<
er it. | flight as well be comfortable and sat-
isfied.
■ urling Irons in heav
—o—
Don't get the idea under your hat that j
man Is great because he happens to I
e in the limelight.
\ London taxi chauffeur has written a
play, lie's not satisfied with getting the
public coming and going.
—o—
Miss Democracy in smiling these days
almost as if cj)e bad already swallowed
the 1912 presidential canary.
Might a«  well get In line for your
need* and move the winter goods orr
the counters and make room for the
tiie old fell
•knew half abo
about himstlf.
ruined.
wl,i said. If the gossips
ut him that he knew
he would indeed be
gift-stock ' that is being unpacked and I told
made ready for the holiday trade.
There are many articles In the reason'
offerings that will serve
presents for the ones to be remembered.
There are mits and gloves. «ox and
neckwear, clothing and underearments
that 'ire sensible. If not thrilling, as
suitable Christmas gifts.
BUSINESS METHODS
From Washington Post.
•! h i Smith, the successful mer-
•haut prince, in a moment of confidence
Tul«a World.
! The sympathy of the World has he« n
wdth flenotor Oore throughout the In-
vestigation brought ah'-uit. by his ;son-
: iat onpi charge lr the senate. Rut the
j evlden e he and hi-  wife gave ihe othe^
j day before the committee In Washlner-
j ton hn« not helped hi* case any. Ae-
i cordlnar to Mr* Oore. .Take TTavnon was
n constant caller a' the (Tore apart-
Thc Rev. Zed Topp announce
wars are over. Tie ought to have
this off to Carnegie a week ago.
i that
tipped
friend the secret of his rise to ; rPonts in Washington and a No at the
fortunate. "I began In a small way." he ,,rior* In Oklahoma, lone long after
said "hi t my business grew gradually, i nn which he •?  alleged to have
desirable J and 1 branched out into various lines. ofrpro,l the <*onato- a brJhe Mrs. r.ore
until the great department concern over '*'s" Pni 1 ot one time ho and. the
which T now preside became an accotn- sonator talked In heK presence of plans
pllshed reality. • °f financing the senator'!* campaign.
"After the sixteen or eighteen coordl- ip nothing Inerlndnatinc In all
nate tranche-- of the business hail heen public must recoil at the
* T.oraleen would
Christmas preset
nt. It's what you
jay, the value of
t itself doesn't
•an get on It.
The San Francisco Chronicle says that now that
the elections are over, perhaps consideration will
lie .riven to the recent artiele in the London Fort-
nightly Review, in which a Pritish writer called at-
tention to the fact that the deposits of the working
i"ii in the savings banks of New York exceeded
'!)'.  of the 44.000.000 people of the United
Kin doni. The inference he drew from this fact
that the American peopl
The farmers of Canada have begun to realize their
importance in the present day Dominion, and pro- j
pose henceforth to act together for the accomplish-
ment of their desires, aud what is particularly
striking is that they are talking of reciprocity with
the United States, thus emphasizing the natural
community of interests which exists in North Amer-
ica, despite the intervention of the man made
boundary along the great lakes.
There is considerable difference between an elec-
tion in England and Oklahoma. There they vote
for a week or more aud the vote is counted and the
result known in a few hours. Here we all go to the
polls on one day and it timetimes tal cs- the state
election board a month to figure out what the vote
should be.---Muskogee Phoenix.
The Spaniards met with the potato in Per>i, where
it had long been cultivated by the natives, but it
.was well nigh a hundred years before it was taken
, . , . , , . ' 1,1 ust >e very foolish i nver to Europe. In 1">S7 we hear of its being in
t nnk that they were being burt by a protective!
i C, when the records showed that the workers of
■ 1 nited States were able to save about ten time*
nidi per capita as those of free-trade England.
It will be a merry Christmas In Okla-
homa from border to border though we
are still deprived of our egg nogg.
Tt Is better for the country's business
to slow- down a little than to be blowing
the safety valve off every few months.
'
The King of Servia slapped Crown
Prince Ocorge. How much better if he
had o-ed suspenders '.n the royal wood
shod!
—o—
Next Sunday is Christmas. There i 
nothing startIlngly orujinal in this, hut
it may serve to remind various lazy per-
son that time flies.
Did it ever occur to you, gentle read-
ci, that Doc Cook may have heen trying
to pose a-5 Santa Claus when he slipped
those gumdrops to the Eskimos'*
The welding of the Pittsburg girl and
her 1 gless swain leads us to remark*
that there will no kicking from at least
one-half of the Matrimonial sketch.
—o—
The report that a body-servant of fJen.
Zachary Taylor Is dead would seem to
Indi atc that the supply of George Wash-
ington's body-servants Is exhausted.
According to a contemporary a tea-
spoonfnl of frozen egg seized by the
government contained Mnn.ona organ-
isms N'o wonder the things are so loud
at times.
THE WATER PROBLEM
Ohas. E. Van Hise, president of the
University of Wisconsin, declares that
the coal supply of the world will be ex-
hausted In the next ino rears
At the beginning of the nineteenth
century we had only mined S.onn.ftoo tons
of enal. hut during the hundred years
just passed we have taken out non.000.000.
Formerly It was believed
the coal supply ended, clviliztaion would
cease, hut we have now discovered that
we can develop three times the energy
which we at nresent possesQ from water
power, and this supply will never fail.
Th#  Interests that are now taking tip
the water power of the nation will
a. more than ordinary moving force in
the future.
Then, too we have In the tides and in
the S"a a source of supply of power that
can never be monopolized.
We can therefore sit down in calm
confidence that we shall be able to mas-
| ter the'problems of the future if we
keep our eyes open and maintain a care-
ful g-lp on the situation.
established on a firm working basis, I
began to consider th© question of-.enco- t 'n,'rnHt|
omy and retrenchment. Where to start
w^a" the question." Here Smith paused,
and puffed his ciqar reeflctlvely. "After
etacle of
m.\n still remaining on
and frlendlv t^rm* with ono
attempted to bribe him. Tho
righteous indignation role does not ap-
pear attractive or consistent midst such
GOV HOARD MUSES
Gen. Robert F. T..ec once wrote these
words:
"The better  ule Is to judge our ad-
versaries from their standpoint not from
ours."
some deliberation, a plan suggested Itself |
I walked down to my office and an- j
nounced that a new era was about to I
begin. T called In my confidential clerks. !
not to hear from them, but that they
that when t might listen to me. 'Gentlemen,' said T.
'business Is good, evet.vthlng In our line
is prospering hut T have decided to
make some changes.' They listened with ;
tho deference dtt*  mv position, and T '
proceeded: The first thing r find neces- i
sary to do In to cot rid of the old clerks, j
and to simplify the matter T have re- 1
solved to dispense with the services of
all over 70. i hate to do this, because
several of you present ha\e reached that
age, and your sendees are particularly i
valuable on account o< your long expert- !
enco an.i Intimate acquaintance with the
wo*-k. p-it f must, begin somewhere, and
to "ot a definite aire limit seems tho eas-
iest way out Now. T am not going to
turn yon out In the cold • Here tho Ion-
faces of m- atrefi servitors brightened
somewhat -My nlan.' say.
vide a comfortable penslo
paid from the salaries o
clerks!' "
Smith smiled
smile.
t 'is to pro-
fund—to be
tho other
In the nit
the girls a
hats, nut
A Mexican congressman, who is also a poet, fired
iwo ineffectual shots at another congressman who
insinuated that no poet was ever e fighter. This is
riot the first instance of a poet aiming at som#-
tJiinif and failing to hit.
trodueed iuto Spain, while in the previous year Sir
Walter Raleigh begun to cultivate it in Ireland from
seed which was taken over from N'ortli Carolina
it school of a Kansas town
•e permitted to wear their
his Is not the first unholy
h found encouragement in
ter state.
—o—
If that bill which proposed to make it a crime
to sell intoxicants within four miles of any college
supported by the slate of New York becomes a law
there will be a new crop of college songs in the
Empire State with all allusions to the tiu^iny bowl
omitted.
Ive than to receive
hristmas cigars
ar are concerned
lures his torture w
darn ye!
ma
trato In
r.a, has quit hi
100 nuptial ties
I hie all but one w
That Is rather
for Indiana,.
could the> do
fhcv could get
'that s settled, and
next point. Rtislne!
T propose therefo
j tlon in the simple
others? j 'engthenlng your
forth you wdll all
tr earlier
lference.'
Of
eedham township,
job because of the
which he was re- | ou
were untied by di-
high av6raye,
That utterance Is based on the sound- | ^om °r th
est philosophy, for In no other way can
we arrive ar a comprehensive judgment.
To judge of others from our own stand-
point Is to "compare things that differ."
Tt is to deceive ourselves as to the real
situation and that is always a foolish
thing to do.
Rut why do we wish to judg,
There are three reasons:
1 To secure an accurate judgment.
that will be of use to us In shaping our
course toward them.
2 To secure. If possible, some ground
for commendation; some basis for lower-
erlng them in the estimation of others
" To secure facts on which to base a
Judgment of justification for them
i  ne of these three motives actuates us
whenever we pass judgment on others
Sometimes, very likely, they are all
three mixed In our judgment
Rut it remains true, under all circum-
stances. that we should never judge of
others, except in the light of what sur-
rounds them, not us.
That means from their standpoint, not
gentle remln!seent
dlfln't orarfiy Br.<. the wls-
iMstlrr- of that, hut wlmt
If thpv didn't like t.
eh ?
have said, and (h,  work
'Xc
11 proceed to
ncreased.
said T.
must he done
meet this condi-
v and that Is by
of labor Hence-
i to work half an
Vnd with that T closed the
the
Is no such
man as
ould not
i'ou hav
'•th. And If there
business that way very long else he
Id have no business. put substitute
• government for Smith and the gov-
iment clerks for Smith's employes, and
imple of what has been
proposed fo;- the adoption In the ttans-
act'on of the nation's affairs.
T Increase in population during the
last decade was some 17.nno.fino. This In-
crease alone 1« more than five times the
number of people in the country when
Patrick Henry made his speech for inde-
pender.ee. With each recurring census
j tueie come*) the question of a fresh
ould congressional apportionment, in recognl-
be much less harsh and uncalled for I tlor , r the growtl
judgment. i
rule followed,
of the countr
! needs or representalon. Then
and Its
ivhy not
surroundings.
THE BLUE MAN
CRv Hkin Brown.1
Oon't you hate a man iVrhnfc ,^ou that's
always got the "fifties? VfTle- grim
reaper would grab him h^M be letting
hi" just dues. This miserable hangs
round yon. his jaw down to his belt:
some one ought to ralxe his coat tall,
and kick htm a pood welt
U<-  onpht to go to Hades, condemned
to the hottest kind of slzserv, he ought
to have a touch of high life to know
just what I* miserv. Tfe has contracted
this habit, he i« a calamity howling
c'-caturc. his face ought to be on the
hack- of hi« head to give him a new
feature.
This huszard Infests our streets, "With
his ico1<s so awful glum: a stick of dyna-
mite In his hip pocket would pnj him on
the hum. Ask him what's the matter,
he's afraid something's liable to go
wron" TTIs fa^e is as long as a barb
wire fence -also bis doleful song.
T am writing of the chronic blue man.
one that's that way all the time; he is
not n town builder—his countenance
committlne nature's crime. Ood cave
us this beautiful world, not to grouch m
and to worry If you blue cusses are
tired of it you can get out of it In a
hurry.
Tf you think your old blue mug Is a
taker T want to hand you this on the
level you look like a jackass—a darned
sight worse than the devil The cfty
council should pass an ordinance, for
you disgusting chants, that every one
passing you should kick you hard In the
pants
Now mv doleful, dolorous, de'lrum,
mv doleful dolorous dunce, tickle yottr-
self In the ribs, come give us a laugh
just once If you do this dear fel-
low. you'll find yourself ahead, have, a
good time In this world, for you'll be a
long time dead.
Richard Pearson TTohson, hero of the
Merrlmae a  one time kisses at other
times and jingo at all times, has wilt ten
a sion- for boys In which the hero is
one "Puck jones.'* Now if ITobson will
write a sequel in which Buck annihilates
the Japanese army, blows the Mikado's
navy Into the New Jerusalem, puts down
tho threatened Invasion and niakea.it
unnecessary to spend m>,000.00n on mn_
nitions of wai. we may all be happy \®t.