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the guilty ones. The report that Ed
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from the service, has accumulated q
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makes 1t probable that he is now In
different. to the investigation. Sec
rotary Wilson is indignant because
the New York brokers who were so
severely excoriated by him have start
ed movement to retaliate by driv-
ing him from the cabinet, and the
word was sent out from Oyster Bay
that there was nothing to the rumors
Of Wilson's retirement. 1t is regard
ed as probable that some evidence
may be secured under which prosecu-
ton may be had.
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Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, 1t
is almost certain, will retire from the
cabinet as a result or the cotton-leak
scandal-not because he Is implicated
in the slightest degree, or because his
integrity is questioned. Developments
have convinced President Roosevelt
that neither Secretary Wilson nor Sta
tistician Hyde knew what was taking
place under their noses. The presi-
dent is far from being pleased with
the outcome Of the first investigation
as it was by no means searching
enough.
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The welfare department Of the ma
tiOnal civic federation has arrived at
an agreement with the isthmian canal
commission to supply the service of
two welfare managers who will sail
with Commissioner ShOnts and Chief
Engineer Stevens for the isthmus.
The commission, convinced that proper
recreation for those engaged in the
various operations of canal construc-
ton is of Importance to their physical
and mental welfare, desires to have
these men investigate the needs and
the opportunities for recreation,
recommend their conclusions and ar
range to have carried into effect such
plans as are adopted.
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BY the collapse at st. Louis of the
Peoples United States bank, the get
rich-Quick enterprise of e. G. Lewis,
the $4,000 stockholders scattered
throughout every state and territory
Of the union will lose more than $780,
900, even If Receiver Spencer's great
est expectations as to values of the
banks securities are realized. Bank
Examiner Cook, who should be thor
Oughly familiar with the institution
affairs, says the stockholders cannot
be paid more than so per cent, thus
entailing a loss of $1,217,500. The
postofice department has issued a
fraud order against the bank and it
must cease operations.
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The attorneys have commenced an
investigation of the crop leaks from
the statistical bureau of the depart
ment Of agriculture at Washington,
with a view of disclosing whether
there has been any evidence procura-
BILE that will warrant prosecution of
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-07-20

Senator William A. Clark of Mon
tana was operated upon for an abscess
of the brain at his home in New
York. 1t is reported that he Is rally
Ing from the operation and resting
well.
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IMPORTANT NEWS OF the WEEK

NJ. Whites appointment as chief
Russian peace plenIpotentiary was
announced.
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Mai. Gen. Count Shouvaloff, per-
feet Of the Moscow police, formerly at
tache to the ministry of the interior,
was assassinated while receiving petit
lions. One of the petitioners drew a
revolver and fired five times at the
project, who fell dead. The assassin
was arrested. A great crowd gath
cred In front of the house and made
y demonstration of Indignation. The
project was the Idol OF the people.
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William J. Calhoun of Chicago has
been selected by President Roosevelt
to act as a special commissioner to
visit Venezuela and determine the
equity of the asphalt company's claims
and other yexed questions.
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Within the last few weeks con-
f1dential circulars have been sent out
by the agents of the great transporta-
tion companies informing their sub
ordinates that the agitation for reform
In railroad rates has been successful-
" stopped, and if the railroad inter
ests are properly guarded from now
until the regular session of congress
it can be asserted that no legislation
unfavorable to the railroads will be
passed.
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Judge John F. Phillips in the United
States district court at Kansas City
granted the temporary Injunction
prayed for by Missouri railroads re-
straining the state railway and ware
house commissioners and the attorney
general of the state from enforcing
the maximum freight law enacted by
the last legislature.
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Correspondents.

Successful correspondents are often
audacious in compelling attention;
some of them go so far as to actually
coin a new word of expression which
better serves the purpose and helps
drive home the point.
There is good authority for this.
plenty of it: st. Paul was one of the
boldest word coiners. He originated
500 Greek words in the Epistles alone
Some further precedent in this connec-
ton is that of a modern master of lin
guistic innovation, who declared him-
self a contributor to the language
and not a consumer" And there isn't
much danger in it either. for what we
call pure English" is decidedly COM
posite, a mosaic almost, and Of very
kaleidoscope tendencies. Any good
writer may fairly regard it as a prop
erty rather than a proprietor. Lam
guage is a utility, a tool to be sharp
ened to each mans need and use. It is
something to work with-not under
There is nc. law about it.-August Sys-
TEN.
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Then he lifted the front wheel and spun
il around.
Then the hind enc.
Then he led the bike once around the
yard in order that it might get acquainted
with its surrounding
Then he led It up to an old candle box
and was ready to mount.
There was no hurry. He looked at the
setting sun and made up his mind that the
morrow would be fair.
He looked back at the sitting room win
dows and could see nothing Of Mrs. Bow
ser.
Then he slowly, coolly. calmly ana de-
liberately gave himself a lift and sank into
the saddle waiting for him. His feet struck
the pedals all right and he began working
them but what followed he will never re-
member. Something wobbled. Something
rose up on its hind legs and howled. Some
body swore and called out to heaven to
have mercy on his soul. Then there was a
rush and a crash and bump and when
Mr.. BOWser came to he was lying on his
back on the kitchen floor and he heard
the cook ask in a far-on voice:
did you see him when he took the
grand flop, ma'am2 thought it was rhi-
nocerOs sailing through the air.
flush, Jane was the reply. mr.. Bow
ser is not dead The shock has only made
his neck six inches shorter, and he will
live to frolic again. Hold that camphor
nearer his nose while pick the grass and
cIothespins out Of the back of his neck, -
Copyright, 1905, by R. B. McClure)
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Some other Day.

The drummer got alongside his man
in the chair car and made a few re-
marks about politics and the weather,
and then told one of his best jokes. It
was greeted with only shadowy
smile, and he was chagrined. He got
off two more with no better success,
and then he made up his mind to
make that man roar or perish in the
effort. He recalled the funniest anec-
dotes he had ever told or read or
heard any one else tell, and he grinned
and smiled and laughed as he told
them, but after two hours, hard work
he could not say that he had made an
impression. His seatmate had all the
earmarlxs of man who appreciated
hIlmor, but he had listened in a heed
| less way, and only smiled furtively
and fieetingly when it had to be done.
Perhaps you haven't seen the point
of my jokes ?" remarked the drummer,
when he got through at last.
Il think I have
''Then you are not fond of stories %
81 like them immensely"
tfWeu, hasn't there been anything to
laugh at in the half dozen have
told2"
"a great deal; but, you see, I am
peculiarly situated today. I lost two
children BY scarlet fever the other
and you really must excuse me for my
seeming lack of humor. Some other
day, a year or so hence, if we happen
to meet anywhere shall ask you to
repeat all the jokes and stories you
have got off today, and I assure you
The drumer excused himself and
| took a walk into the next car, and it
was an hour before he ceased to re-
proach himself. His conscience might
have troubled him still longer had he
not accidentally learned that the al
| legged father of the two dead innocents
hailed from Chicago, and was in the
same line as himself.-M. Quad.
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around the back yard
TT is not that at ALL protested Mrs.
Bowser. Il was thinking how things
happened before"
well how did things happen? I
haven't heard that the earth stood still
because my old bike ran into the fence.
BY the way, I've always believed you
gave it a push behind"
Il wasn't within SO feet Of you when
you fell. You remember the boys, don't
your"
..And what of the boys?"
'"They called you a whale and an ell
ephant, and lots Of other things, and
one Of the neWspa pers next day had a
picture of you as you stood on your
head. Such things hurt my feelings.
your feelings be hanged, and the
boys and the newspapers, too. If l
want to ride bike in my own back
yard III do it in spite of all the peo-
pie on the face of this green earth. I
didn't know when I first came home
whether I would ride or not, but be-
ing you have said what you have III
do it now if it kills me. Get that yaller-
eyed old cat out of my sight or III be
the death of her!"
The cat made a bolt for the back
yard, and Mr.. BoWSer went up to his
bedroom and changed his clothes, or at
least his trousers. It was a warm eV-
ening for late fall, and he left off his
coat and vest. The bike was led down
stairs and through the kitchen and into
the back yard, and then Mr.. BOWSef
returned to the sitting room for mo-
ment to say:
Understand me, now. If you try to
play any tricks on me 1 viii not be
responsible for results"
But I shall stay here in the house. =
ssSee that you do. You are just the
sort Of wife that would throw an ak at
her husband when he wasn't looking. "
When he had disappeared the cook
came upstairs to ask:
els there to be an explosion, ma am ~
mo; hope not"
''But he'll jump on that things back
when it isn't looking, won't hep
HE may, but no explosion will fol-
low. You stay in the kitchen and be
ready TO help me carry him in
us it the suicide he's going to COM
Not exactly. but hen probably have
a fall"
sDear me- but what a man-what a
man! Can't we give him some chloro-
form or laudanum or something to
keep him uuiet2"
Mr.. Bowser laid out programme. He
didn't propose to make a show Of himself
holy or otherwise He knew that Mrs
Bowser would be peering from one of the
back windows, and that some of the
neighbors might be rubbering, and he said
to himself that he must be cool AMI calm
He first walked all around the bike.
Then he walked back the other way.
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men earn
Bless my soul. what are you two
talking about2" inquired the pretty
young woman who had come to call on
their mother.
"Oh. we're playing keep house.
She's mamma and I'm papa"
The guest laughed gaily, but their
mother, who had just stepped out on
the porch. blushed furiously and be-
gan to talk about the weather.
"oh, say. quit it, said a youth who
had just reached the Smart Aleck age
to his mother, who was reproving him
for smoking cigarettes. you're about
thirty years behind the times, you
know regular fogy-"
What do you means sir, by speak
ing to your mother like that2' roared
his father, who had just stepped into
the room.
''Weii. that's what you said to her
last night when she jumped onto you
about joining the ward club, was the
boys sullen reply.
ssGo to your room. SIR shouted his
father, with face purpling, "and don't
come out of it again this evening.
Then as the lad slouched from the
room, he continued:
"a nice lot the children of today are.
never would have spoken to my par
ents like that
perhaps your father never called
your mother an old fogy, or, worse
still, a fool, before his children" said
his wife quietly, as she gathered up
her sewing and left him to the empty
sitting room and his thoughts.
Children forget precepts, but follow
examples. The most beautifully illu-
minated motto. "Home, Sweet Home, =
hung on the walls viii not leaven per
petuaI nagging and harshness Of speech
| in the family circle. The man who
buries himself in the newspaper morn
1 ing after morning at The breakfast ia
bic viii not lay aside that paper when
his sons fiancee arrives for a visit or
! his daughter is entertaining her chum
| from college. The lad who is not taught
/ to draw out a dining room chair for his
sister or mother will hardly think 70
/ do so, when the family entertains some
guest to whom they desire to show
special honors. A ten minute coaching
in table manners given just before
! some particularly eligible guest arrives
viii not undo the mischief of careless
eating when the family is alone.
Americans rather pride themselves on
their bluntness. which by courtesy they
call simplicity and honesty. They speak
with scorn of the suave but insincere
| Frenchman and the demure but not
/ guileless English debutante. But after
/ all, is bluntness or brusQueness, under
the name OF honesty, really worth
while? Wouldn't it be just as well If
mothers today inculcated politeness in
I the family circle along with sincerity
| and honesty? And could not the grow
4 ing boy be taught that time spent in
being polite is not actually wasted? Is
it the greed for gold or just lack of
training in the family circles that
makes the rising generation of Ameri-
cans so rude?
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ssI see.''
"He is going on his vacation, and he
asked me to take care Of it for a cou-
pie Of weeks"
DON'T let the cook take the ak and
break it up
Mrs. Bowser knew that he had rent
ed a bike at the repair shop not Tar
away and intended to try for the third
time to master the art. but she said
nothing more and the dinner was al
most finished when he remarked.
'sThat rheumatism has got down to
my legs at last"
That's too bad
Il began to limp like man with a
wooden leg this afternoon, and I went
around and saw the doctor"
And of course he told you to fTolic
around on a bike2"
''Oh, you are ready with your sar-
casm, are you? Because he told me
that riding bike was the very best
thing I could do you call it frolicking
around If I was nearly drowned and
they were rolling me on a barrel you d
charge me with cavOrting."
Il haven't charged you with any
thing, Mr.. BoWser. IF you have been
told that riding the bike is good for
your rheumatism I should say that you
had better ride it. I'm sure don't
want to see you walking around like a
stif-legged goat"
That's more sensible That's the way
true and loving wife should talk.
have tried twice to learn how, but gave
it up each time after a fail. I'll stick
to it this time or break all my ribs.
You think can learn; don't your
well your legs are pretty short, you
know2'
Il haven't got a leg on me as long
as a clothes prop. but I can't see why
you should call them short
And then you are fat and logy. You
are what they call pudgy man, and
pudgy men seldom
What's that?' he shouted as he rose
from the table. by what right do you
call me pudgy? When did you discover
that I waa fat and logy?''
II didn't mean that, exactly. I
mean that you-you"
Woman, what did you mean2 I may
not be as thin as a rail, but am no
hogshead on wheels. It's that Internal
pYey and jealousy showing itself, and
by the Old Harry, if there is any more
Of it you'll hear something DROP Here
I am, bent almost double with rheuma-
tism. and yet you are jealous because
am going to ride bike few times
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Little Aid.

Mayor Kendall Of Wilkesbarre told
at a reception a story about a young
Wilkesbarre clergyman.
Gle was married a year ago" the
mayor. said, land his wife, a good girl.
Interested him in a charity for minor
from the pulpit. and, when a subscrip-
ton reached him, he would acknowl-
edge it the next Sunday in church
TT happened that last June, there
came to this minister on the same day
a subscription for $25 and young
son.
"a good deal of laughter was ex-
cited the following Sunday when, rls-
ing in tbs pupil. the minister said that
he felt very grateful for the small sue
cor that had arrived during the week
past. Los Angeles Times.
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BTr. Frank L. Baum. Author OF 'gThe
Wizard of o." Whose New Book,
Queen Zixi of TX Has just Been
Published.
Franklin Belts; "The Poets Cal
endar," selections from the English
poets. set in decorative designs by
Harry Smith; "a Girls Calendar" in
colOr-tint by Thomas Mitchell PIERCE;
t'Ghe st. Francis Calendar selections
from the writings of st. Francis, set
up in medieval designs, by Marion
O. Bridgman; 1.-The Omar Calendar, -
a selection of the Rubaiyat, set in de-
signs Of a Persian character by Austin
Smith.
c. n, and A. NJ. Williamson have
surged to success as it were on the top
of the wave of automobile enthusiasm.
In their new book, my Friend the
Chauffeur" they have in d measure
though this latest volume contains an
automobile and deals with a motor
tour from Monte Carlo through north
ern Italy and Dalmatia, it has more
of a sustained story than the former
Williamson books.
A pathetic interest attaches to "The
Ancient Landmark the novel of Ken
lucky by Eliza beth Cherry Waltz.
which was finished shortly before her
death 1t is the first of a series of
novels dealing with rural Kentucky
life which Mrs. Waltz had planned.
She had made a beginning upon sew
eral, but 1.-THE Ancient Landmark
was the only one finished. 1t was Mrs.
Waltz's aim faithfully to reproduce the
atmosphere and the life Of a. Kentucky
horse-breeding town, but she has
woven a striking tale round the
question Of dfvodces in the face of stiff
opposition for a poor woman who is
tied to a maniac victim of drugs. Mrs.
Waltz was prominent for many years
in newspaper work. She occupied
editorial positions on the Cincinnati
Tribune, the Springfield, O., Repub-
lican-Times, and the Louisville
COurier-Journa1. She will be remem-
bered also for her PA Gladden. sto-
ries- She wrote with an intimate
knowledge of the rural Kentuckian
for she had her home in the country
and spent g large part of her time
riding through the state on horse
back, mingling with the people study
ing their characters, modes of living
and peculiar dialect.
Hearts Haven" just published by
the BObb-Merriu company, would be
a noteworthy book from the pen OF
any writer, so sincere a work of lit
erary art it is, so full of fine feeling
so warm with life. For the first book
of its author it is truly a remark
able production Mrs. Blake adds g
new name to the long list of Indiana
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lions for her new novel s'Fenwick's
Career which is to appear serially in
the Century. beginning in the No
yember issue.
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