The La Jara chronicle., 1910-05-20

ber of federal offices that have been
placed under civil service rule is
nearly 235, 900.
Much remains to be done in re-
gard to this work, not only making
more offices subject to competitive
examinations, but in removing those
that now are in this class farther
from political inf f-uence.
Public sentiment is in favor of
of appointment to office; and it is to
be expected that the number of posi-
tions comprising the civil service
lists will gradually include those OF
an increasingly higher rank.
From Jack Johnson's training camp
comes cheering news for the negro's
followers. His training comes easily.
naturally, and he takes to it as hap
PLY as a duck to water. He Is in
the physical prime of his lifetime and
what are hard and strenuous days
for Jeffries are just workouts" for
the black man. 1t will take any
amount of work to get Jeff in the
same condition and whether or not
he can come back" will not be known
until after the fight on July 4th. A
great deal of the dope from his
training camp may be sent out
expressly to awaken betting interest
in the event in order to gull the
public. but all things considered, Mr..
Johnsing has splendid chance to
pick the watermillion.
The National Congress of Mothers
will convene at Denver, June 10,
where they will hold sway until the
18th They are scheduled to exude
huge chunks of motherly wisdom,
acquired by exhaustive scientific re-
search, and of course every father
in the state will be interested. A
mong this congress there is said to
be many very bewitching, beautiful
and childless mothers-a1 are not
the venerable women whom imag-
lHdtlOn places OH d coiu peueoiai oh
spot aloof from personal contact.
We understand they are very human
and so is the old man. Merely as
.suegos ton we might add that wives
will do well to keep an eye or two on
father during the middle days of June.
Don't allow all this hullabaloo
over Mothers Day" Mothers
Congress" Mothers Clubs etc,
to cool your ardoT in striving for an
appropriate and fitting reminder that
FATHER is still on the job. and
should come in for a goodly portion
of these floral displays. Now that
mothers have had their day. and the
florists have sold all their carnations,
someone should think up a flower
appropriate to the old man for
Fathers Day" We would suggest
that in honor of the color he formerly
employed so extensively when paint
ing the town, red may not be inap-
propriate If a flower of sufficiently
brilliant hue could be found.
An Iowa Clergyman has proved that
the three wise men mistook Halley's
comet for stars and they followed it
across the desert to the manger where
Christ was born. He has proved that
the comet was doing business precise
ly at that time, and it acted just as
the stars acted that the wise men
saw when they left the desert for
Bethlehem 1t remains but for someone
to prove that it is the beacon light
which led DR.. Cook to the North
po;e.-Boulder Tribune.
The census enumerators are abso-
lutely forbidden to give out any infor'
nation to anybody of the results of
their work. Everybody can give the
correct number of stock owned by
them with the certain assurance that
nobody outside the census bureau
not even another department of the
government-wille ever learn the truth
Enumerators are also forbidden to
give out advance information of
the population.
7. Ioro,, poorJ of Trade 1r Carn.