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But don't you ever find places for any
OF them" is asked.
Precious few. You see we do such a
rushing business; We don't really touch
any but the biggest people" He is inter-
rupted by the man across the hall.
Got anybody here TO go on the road
with a vaudeville sketch? Two men and
a young girl. Must he blond. young,
speak a few lines. 25 per-"
Run down stairs after that girl that
just left. is the answer, and the man dis
appears.
See? Oughtn't 10 give it TO her, per-
haps. but some way or other she kind Of
takes me. Looks like sister, | guess. Lord.
keep her from this life!"
The same view of the profession is taken
in another room. where a pretty young
woman. well gowned and with quick. alert
gestures rises TO the knock.
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cant adopts n similar position and there
il a whisper and a negative shake of the
clerk head. That il all.
One of the applicants is a Trctty young
girl Of about 10. She comes in looking
frightened. She slides stealtbily 10 a
corner OF the counter and leans over, the
color ~suffusing her face from chin To brow.
Before he gets through you feel IA sorry
as she apparently docs for the role Of the
refuser. She says something are
quite sure il is an encouraging Never
mind, it may come to-morr ow and with
head a little lowered goes out.
Hate TO sec the young ones come in. "
he vouchsafcs when he has sufficiently
recovered his equanimity.
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Dog knew the Horses.

FrOn The ~. Louis Globe De nuOcrdi,
Il saw a curious illustration the other day d"
says a business man. of the wonderful acute
ness OF scent possessed by the dog. Three or
four carriages were waiting in front OF a fash
ionsble Broadway establishment when out
OF the door there cane IA fat poodle. troiting
l~eisurcly along. lie raised his head and took
a look At the line of carriages. The drivers
were in a little group chatting, so that no car
rage had n human occupant. The poodle
went across the pavement, shifted at the leg
OF one OF the horses and went on. Ere he
reached the second carriage he was forced
toward the middle of the sidewalk by two
people going In the other direction. tie went
past the carria e. door. snelled the leg OF one
OF the horses, then turned back, and without
hesitation. jumped into the carriage. curlef
on one Of he seats and went TO sleep.
He had evidently lost his mistress IN the
store, but he remembered the carriage and
ID entined II by the horse
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President Mary u. Woolley Of Mount
Holyoke College is the first woman to he
elected q senator of the united chapters Of
the Phi Beta KAPPA Society. Her election
took place at the last tricnn,al council, which
vas recently held at william and Mary
College, Williamsburg. Va. The senate con-
sists Of five officers and twenty members,
ten Of whom are elected at each council
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ION FARM LANDS 90 YP.
Twenty Acres sell NJ the Record Price ef
$3.50 al Acre.

Wall Street may continue to turn back
somersaults. The Iowa farmers are not
borrowing trouble. They have u gold mine
which gets richer every year.
What is believed TO be the highest prico
ever paid in that State FOR farm land AZ
such was recently received 10y the owner
or twenty acres near Webster City, near the
middle Of the corn State.
the purchaser thinks the price OF $3.50 an
acre is not too high. The seller, w. n.
Glow, bought this same twenty acres eight
years ago for Ss5 - an acre. and nj that time
the price WAS thought a pretty long one.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-13
ONE ON THE -pREsIDENT.

Minneapolis Journal. William D.
Haywood, secretary of the Western
Federation of Miners, has one on the
President. In his letter to Congress-.
man Sherman the President took up
the Hartman sheer that he could buy
that crowd" meaning political
party, and commented that it show
ed Hartman up as a dangerous citi-
zen no better than Haywood or Meyer.
Haywood, who is on trial for his life,
issues from his cell a statement that
while exploiting the doctrine of the
square deal the President does not
always practice it. 1t certainly was
not a square deal to assume the guilt
of a man about to be tried and to add
the great weight of a White House
judgment that he ought to be removed.
In all probabilities the President did
not distinctly have in mind that Hay
wood is at the present time in the
hands Of the judiciary and that his
rights are just as sacred as those of
the President himself. He merely
wanted to make a comparison and
Haywood's name coming into his mind
he used it. He might have used the
name of someone else whose case had
been adjudicated with as much force
and with more propriety. He might,
for example, have said that Hartman
was no better than Gaynor and Greene
or Capt. Carter, j. R. Sutton or House
of Mirth Hamilton.
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CONCERNING AvoIRDuPoIs.

The men who preside over the af-
fairs Of the agricultural department
are mighty hard set to please They
say there are too many fat people in
the country. All we'll and good. The
thin man will agree with the verdict.
But then they turn around and say
there are too many thin people in the
country, too. The department means
we'll, however, and Is conducting ex-
periments to show the fat ones and
the lean ones how to strike an aver
age.
There are two prescriptions offered
by the dietary experts to get thin or
fat. To the fat man who wants to re-
duce his avolrdupois the government
says:
Eat little, sleep little, and drink
less
To the thin mas who is anxious to
get out Of the human skeleton class
it says:
Drink all you can; eat all you can
and sleep as much as you can"
Here's hoping the earnest gentlemen
of the agricultural department will be
successful in their laudable effort. and
who knows that before the presidential
race reaches the last quarter Taft. the
fat, and Fairbanks, the thin, may be
near enough to the average weight to
make an even fight,
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Central News Bureau,
P. O. Box 8, Chicago, Ill.

Chicago, April 10.-Efforts Of politi-
clans in Iowa to induce citizens to vote
for establishing municipal public util.
ity plants are being defeated owing to
the several failures of such plants and
the high cost of operating those now in
existence throughout the state. Judg-
ing by the experience of the municipal
tiles there that have been operating
their own lighting plants it is most
unlikely that citizens of any community
in the state will sanction the establish
ment of a municipal plant in their
town. Reports recently compiled by
M. j. Francisco, an electric lighting ex-
pert, show numerous instances of the
failure Of municipalities to operate
their plants in a business-lil1e manner,
to give good service or to make the
cost of the service compare favorably
with the cost Of private service.
Audubon leased its lighting plant to
a private concern after finding it's own
operation too costly to be desirable.
Alton lost its entire investment and
abandoned the plant. Leon citizens
found their plant was not paying oper-
ating expenses and sold it. The plant
at Upton first proved unsuccessful and
was then destroyed by fire and the cit
liens are now getting satisfactory serv-
ice from private concern. The cleo
trio lighting and the water plants at
Spirit Lake both proved failures and
were leased to private parties. The
Webster City plant owing to misman.
agement and political influence is prov
ed costly and unsatisfactory. Business
N, az, of m, ou,o a ra con,nla ipinc hittnrly
of the poor service.
Citizens of Fairfield when they found
that lights. were costing them seven
cents an hour in comparison with the
average cost of lights by private con.
Germs Of 0209 an hour, decided to tear
out their plant and are now trying a
new system. Charlton with popula,
ton of 1850 spent on its plant $4,000
and now must spend $4,000 more to
rebuild It, The cost of lights is $129.82
per lamp per year while many cities
get it from private corporations at from
$50 and $50 lamp per year. Mt. Pleas
ant mas been compelled to spend SIS,
600 in improving a $4,000 plant and
the cost Of lights is still very high.
The cost of lights per hour in the
following towns operating their own
plants is compared with the average
cost of lights furnished by private com
panies, .0209 per hour: Ames, .0S36;
Bellevue. OPP; Bloomfield, 082; Char
iton. .O519; Colfax, .O426; Esterville
.O271; Indianola, .0790; Keosauqua
.042; Lisbon. .O545; Mt. Pleasant
.0682; Marshalltown, .0313; New Hamp
ton, O64; Nicola, .O325; with water
power instead of coal; Seymour, .04;
Spencer, O36; West Liberty, .042; Win
terset, .O335.
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THE FACTORY AND THE CITY.

The most enterprising cities of the
United States today, those that are en-
1oying a healthy growth, are the ones
that maintain active commercial bod
les, backed by funds sufficient to carry
on thoroughly organized exploitation
campaign. For years the cities of the
west have been engaged in this work.
San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle,
Denver, Colorado Springs and other
points have had active business organ
izations exploiting the resources of
their community, reaching out after
factories and organizing campaigns to
bring institutions to their cities.
The middle west has done little of
this work. There is not the need, it
has been argued. In this section the
natural advantages are so well known
that they do not require the labors of
boosters. That the Mississippi valley
states are rich in natural advantages is
true beyond question, but that the sec
ton is so rich that 1t can afford to sit
idly resting on it's oars while location
seekers pass on to the points whose
advantages have been spread far and
wide by publicity bureaus, is neither
true nor logical
1t does not follow that to bring in
dustrial institutions to the city giving
bonuses is necessary, but there are
cases where it is good business policy
to make it worth while for an estab-
lished institution to change its location
or to make concessions to a new con-
Germ when there is sufficient reason to
believe the returns will justify the ex-
penditure. This question was brought
y u # r = f
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IOWA BOOKS THIS SPRING.

Des Moines Register and Leader
Several books in which Iowa has a
proprietary interest are announced for
spring publication.
Emerson Hough, who is Newton
product and a graduate of the State
university, is represented by "The
true story of the "bad man" of the
American plains, cow camps and
mines Both the men who defied the
law and the men who brought the
law to the frontier are characterized
striking contrasts between such men
~. Pat" Garrett and wild Bill
Hickock and such desperadoes as
Plummer. Helm. Ben" Thompson
"Broncho Kid"-and the later James
brothers
Alice French, or Octave Thanet, as
she is better known, daughter OF
the late Judge French Of Davenport
has followed up "The Man Of the
Hour" one of the notable novels OF
1905, with new book, the serial pub.
LEGATION Of which begins in The Read
er Magazine next month.
Edith Rickert. whose parents arc
residents of Northwest Des Moines,
will be represented by a romantic
novel of sunny Provence entitled "The
Golden Hawk" Miss Rickert is well
known by reason of her two successful
novels: "The Reapers" and "Folly.'
During the year new books may
be confidently expected from Hamlin
Garland, Rupert Hughes, Roy Rolfe
ellison and Ellis Parker Butler, 10
mention only few of the more active
writer's
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THE LENGTH OF THE SKIRT.

Cedar Rapids Republican.-Perhap
if the legislature had confined more
attention to the length of the chorus
girls skirts, less harm would have
been done in Iowa. The chorus girls
skirts is one of the most harmless
things for legislators to trifie with
The bill for regulating the length Of
these skirts was introduced we be-
lieve, by the same member who want
ed wives put in the penitentiary for
leaving their husbands unfed and I'M
protected. He is man with queer
ideas, full of queer ideas. He halls
from Marion county and his peculiar
attitude toward public questions is
probably due to the fact that there is
still considerable brush left in that
county. The fact that he wanted to
make the skirts extend at least twelv,
inches below the knees shows a lack
of versatility. He did not know that
such skirts on some chorus girls
would almost drag on the stage floor.
II Mr.. Teter had been an habitue of
the theater he would also have known
that the mischief making on the stage
is not in the length of the skirt, nor
in it's brevity, but in the height of the
kick and the rapidity of the whirl. The
bill should have stipulated that the
chorus girls should not lift their fee.
more than, say two or three inches
from the floor. For downright mod
esty commend US to the chorus girl
who never gets her feet more than
few inches from the floor, but havoc
fills the air when one of them gets
one of her feet up five or six feet
above the stage.
This is friendly advice to Mr.. Teter.
There is still few days left of the
present legislature and we do not
know how the time can be better ap-
piled than by amending his bill along
the lines suggested. If we are going
to be freakish we might as well be
practical freaks
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WHAT'S THE ANSWER?

What is the cause Of the psychic
wave now dashing over the earth?
What can knowledge of the stars
do for maternity?
What has caused the romantic and
sentimental wave that has commenc
ed to operate in the past year and
what are it's effects?
Can you give the answers?
If you can, just send them to the
Eugenics In San Francisco, a new cult
delving deep into the mysteries OF
psychological research The Eugen
les would perform a greater service II
they would join in downing the Boss
Ruefs and Mayor Schmitzs and in help
ing to raise Frisco from the dust and
ashes that trailed in the wake of the
earthquake.
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this. all is pleasant and monotonous.
The dogs sleep quietly on the car steps
and the hogs root contentedTy under
the train. The engine grows red with
rust, the infant passengers grow up
and stroll off to vote; a star or two
fall out of the heavens and the moon
shows signs of season crack and gem
eral debility.
"At last. quietly, with no fuss, the
train begins to move. The surviving
passengers hurry to overtake it. Ev.
cry one climbs aboard, the throttle is
jerked vide open and once more the
engine roars down the track at a mile
a minute breaking records right and
left--only to expire again Of general
debility few stations further on.
ut is ali very mysterious and no one
seems able to explain it. Southern
trains run very fast when they run.
but when they stop 1t almost seems
easier to pick up the landscape and
move 1T along past the train than to
bulge the latter"
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is HE HEDeINe2

Washington Post-Mr Bryan has
not surrendered. but he has attempt
ed to hedge, as witness the following
from an editorial in the Commoner: 4
ct is the part of wisdom to look
to insist upon the doing of anything
before the people are ready for it. Mr..
Bryan said on August 30, last that he
regarded government ownership as the
ultimate solution Of the railroad ques-
ton! but he was careful to say that he
did not know that the country was
ready for it or that a majority of the
democrats favored it. Mr. Bryan has
no desire to face government owner
ship upon the country against the will
of the people even if he desired to do
so.
He is still of the opinion that govern
ment ownership is the ultimate solu-
ton" Of the railroad problem, but he
is content to wait until time shall RI
pen the crop he has sown. But will
Mr.. Bryan allow his party to put in the
platform of 1908 plank condemning
question. Silence on that subject will
DE equivalent W CHe luuOTSeLueHC Oh Tie
proposition. The nomination of the
father of government ownership, and
silence on the subject, would not only
condone the heresy. but amount to the
most emphatic approval of it.
We have fallen on times when a pc.
litical party is ruined when it attempts
to flank an obstruction. The electorate
is so intelligent and Is becoming so
well informed that it can no longer be
fooled by the mere verbiage of plat
form. A party must tell what 1t be.
lieves and not conceal what it disbe.
lieves if it would prevail on election
day. Mr.. Bryan is VIGOROUSLY in
trepid, and it is time for him to let his
party and the country know what sort
of platform he wants and what sort
of platform he will tolerate.
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THE BLESSING OF SEVENTY
YEARS,

Mark Twain in the North American
Review.-When passed the 7Sth mile
stone, ten months ago, instantly real
lied that had entered new country
and new atmosphere. To all the
public l was become recognizably old,
undeniably old; and from that moment
everybody assumed a new attitude to-
ward me-the reverent attitude grant
ed by custom to age-and straightway
the stream Of generous new privileges
began to flow in upon me and refresh
my life. Since then I have lived an
ideal existence; and now believe
what Choate said last March, and
which at the time didn'. credit: that
the best OF life begins at 70; for then
your work is done; you know that
you have done your best, let the quail
ity of the work be what 1t may; that
you have earned your holiday--a holt
day of peace and contentment-and
that henceforth, to the setting of your
SUM- nothing will break it, nothing in
terrupt 1t.
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RAPID RAILRoADINe.

George Fitch of the Peoria Tran
script Herald, has been travelling ex-
tensively through the southern states
and from mis- description of the way
they run their trains it is plainly evi-
dent that that section does not need
any speed limit law. And when once
stopped tEey are in no hurry to start
out on their wild career Here is a
short description of a regular stop:
Once a southern train stops ii
seems to take an act OF legislature to
start 1t again. For extemporaneous
off-hand distance catch-as-catch-can
stopping the southern train mas nc
equals anywhere. AT any time. bowl
ing along, over beautiful stretch Of
track at 49-miie-an-hour clip it will
begin 70 stop. That's another thing
about southern trains. They don't
hurry about stopping. The engineer
shuts off steam and lets the old cat
die, so to speak The train runs slow.
er and slower, finally ceases to nave
apparent motion, and at last'stops alb
solutely.
ut is a fine sight to see southern
train when it has entirely stopped. Ii
stops and stays stopped with a tenac
ity that would be ! magnificent if ii
were to be applied TO anything else
The engine pants awhile and then
ceases to show signs of life. The
trainmen climb down and sit around
in dazed attitudes. The passengers
get out and sun themselves, and those
who are in hurry push on ahead
Little tendrils of Virginia creepers and
wisteria vines steal up over the rails
and begin to climb the wheels.
Time passes, denoted by the rising
and setting of the sun and other celes
tial phenomena Nobody seems wor
ried. lease of all the native passengers
All is peace and quiet. Now and then
some traveller gives Shrek and goes
temporarily insane. Then the other
passengers crowd around and ask aim
how crops are up north. Aside from
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OLD AGE PENSIONS.

The system of pensioning pioneers
when they reach the age of 65, which
has been in practice in several of the
Australian states. may become the gen
eral practice in that country. The
cemmlssion that was appointed by the
federal government of Australia in
1905 to devise a scheme of old age
pensions to prevail over the, entire
commonwealth has reported favorably
and action upon the recommendation is
looked for soon. At the time of ap.
pointment pension systems were in
force in New South Wales and Victoria
and The commission also examined that
prevailing in New Zealand. In New
South Wales the maximum pension is
$3.50 week for married people, $3.50
q week each, which may be claimed at
the age of 65, but the total income. in
Guiding the pension, must not exceed
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$3.50 a year. The cost to the state Of
$4,000 persons is $3.50, 900.

$3.50 year. The cost to the state Of
$4,000 persons is $2,540, 900.
Victoria pays maximum of So a
week, claimable at the age of 65, or
earlier in cases of dangerous or I'M
healthy occupations, and requires 20
years residence-the income, including
pension, not to exceed $3.50. In Vic
toria there are 11,452 pensioners, and
the total cost to the community is ST.
025,000. In New Zealand the maximum
is $3.50 week-in the case of a mar
ried couple the joint income, including
pension, must not exceed $780, The
pension may be claimed at the age of
%, after rs years residence. and the
system is administered by the police
magistrates without boards, at trifling
cost. There are 1900 pensioners and
the total cost to the state is 81, 625, 900.
The royal commission recommends a
scheme of old age pensions for the
Commonwealth of Australia, to be paid
out of the consolidated revenue, with
maximum of $3.50 week, payable at
%, Or at so in cases of permanent in
capacity. Payments are to be made
fortnightly through the postoffice, and
the total income, including the pension.
must not exceed $780, The cost is es..
timated at s7,5OO,OO0 year, and the
pension is to be granted as matter OF
right and not as charity Restric-
tons are imposed as regards persons
of drunken or disreputable habits, the
allowances may be suspended on cause
and penalty is proposed for supplying
any pensioner with intoxicants. The
commissioners do not consider that the
grant of pensions will discourage thrift
and suggest that spirit of independ-
ence will be encouraged by the estab,
lishment OF an assurance system enabl-
ing those who work to provide for old
age, to do so under the assurance of a
government guarantee.
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THE KISSING WOMAN.

New York World.-In her "bestest"
bib and tucker, with her lips al in a
quicker, she kisses when she comes
and when she goes. She may dess;se
"the creature" yet her greetings
chiefest feature is the kill she plants
beneath that creatures nose.
She forgets the microoe danger that
threatened friend AMI ST. anger by the
kisses most promiscusus that It's fash
ion to decry. She SINGERS and she
sips. on the brow the cheek the lips,
and she often harils her hostess fe v
en- the eye.
There's no danger that's alarming
when the kissing friend is charming,
but when the kissee doesn't like it, a
good plan we suggest: Let the dame
who would have kissed her pass the
endearment to the mister, this will
doubtless please the mistress and
yet it mayn't be best.
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pendices. In Buffalo, where he minis
tiers to large and influential church,
he has lately been involved in little
unpleasantness with the Torreyites. 1t
CHANGED that his course of addresses
on the modern view of Scripture
synchronized with lie Torrey meet
ings and drew down upon him the re-
Duke of that mighty evangelist;
whereupon his mails grew heavy with
letters of protest. One of these epis-
ties ran something like this: "Sir:
| understand now why you have been
led astray by the higher critics. 1t
is less than a year, l am told, since
you underwent the operation for APP
pehdicitis, and any physician will in
form you that when the vermiform
appendix comes out the patient suffers
the total loss of his moral nature. This
explains your case pretty clearly"