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4 THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLANTA. GJL. 5 SOITH FOBBTTH »T. Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mail Matter of the Second Class. JAMES B. GUY. President and Editor. SUBSCRIPTION PBICE Twelve months ?5c Six months ..... 4_ c Three months'! The Semi-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday and Friday, and is mailed by the shortest routes for earl delivery- It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinruiahed contributors, with strong departments of special value to the home and the farm. Arents wanted at every postoffice. Liberal com mission allowed. Outfit free. Write to R. R- BRAD LEY, Circulation Dept. The only traveling representatives we have are J. A. Bryan. R. F. Bolton. C. C« Coyle. L. H. Kim brough and C. T. Yates. We will be responsible only for money paid to the above named traveling repre sentatives. NOTICE TO SVBSOXBEBS. The label used for addressing your paper shows the time your subscription expires. By renewing at least two weeks before the date on this label, you insure regular service. / In ordetWng paper changed, be sure to mention your old. as well as your new address. If on a route please give the route number. We cannot enter subscriptions to begin with back numbers. Remittances shculd be sent by postal order or registered mail. Address all orders and notices for this de partment to THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOLRNAL. Atlanta. Ga. a THE GOVERNOR’S MESSAGE. Governor Brown’s message to the General Assem bly contains a number of recommendations which are practical and praiseworthy; it contains others from which, we believe, a majority of Georgians will em phatically dissent. y On such constructive measures as the reclamation of swamp lands, the survey of soils, the establishment of a state highway commission, the strengthening of t nan rance laws and the development of educational Interests, most good citiiens think alike. The gover nor has done well, however, to urge these needs upon the legislature with particular emphasis. He has pre sented them convincingly and it is to be' hoped that his timely suggestions will be followed. His attack upon the railroad commission law and the registration law are not new, nor is it supported by any new argument. The fact is these issues, if issues they may still be called, have been thoroughly threshed out long ago and settled to the satisfaction of the people. No department of the people’s business is more im portant than that which has to do with the relation ships betwen the public and the public service cor porations. This is a matter that involves millions of dollars every year and touches the daily interests of the merchant, the manufacturer, the investor and, in one way or another, the interests of practically every citisen and every home, in the commonwealth. It was to safeguard these common interests that the railroad commission was enlarged and was given more definite authority. Its increased power en tailed new duties and made essential the service of every one of Its added members. As a commission which stands for even justice between the public and the public service corporations and which impartially protects the right of each and looks to the pros perity of both, it should be conserved, not weakened in its efficiency. • The present registration law is part and parcel of that progressive measure broadly known as the pure election law. It is designed to give full potency to the honest voter’s ballot, to mace our primaries and elections truly expressive of the people’s will, to make our governnunt really popular by making it clean at its very source. If it be stringent,, that is only to its credit, for any law dealing with theft and corruption must be unequivocal if in any wise it is to serve its purpose. Naturally , and rightly, it is stringent as regards the floating and corruptible dement that drifts like scum to the polls on election days; but for that very reason, it is eminently liberal to good ciuenship. It provides that the registration books shall be opened each autumn concurrently with the tax books, and that they shall remain open until within six months of the general election. Thus every voter Is given ample opportunity to qualify himself for the rightful exercise of suffrage. Under any statute whatever that might be adopted, there would have to be some time fixed for the closing of the registration books. The existing law only leaves time enough for an adequate purging of the lists. A man who neglects to register within six months, es peeially since the la v has become universally knbwn In the state, would in all likelihood fail to do so even though he were given the entire twelve in which to do so. This statute is open, perhaps, to certain con structive modifications, but they should be made by its friends, not its enemies and they should be made with a view toward strengthening, not weak ening it. Pure elections, and especially pure prima rise, are at the very base of good government. We do not believe that the people of Georgia will ever countenance any step that would tend to make their primary- and election methods less scrupulous. On the contrary, they demand that they be rendered even tnore secure against dishonest and debasing influences. The electorate of this state would, indeed, welcome a law. if such a one is possible, requiring the adoption of the Australian ballot system at every poll in every county. But the suggested repeal of the registration law is a look in the reverse direction—a look back ward, toward old evils and outgrown tyrannies with which our people have done fojever. As we said in the outset, however, this proposal is not new and it is supported by no new arguments. Indeed, it may be considered as a closed question, and we have abundant faith that a progressive legis lature will keep it such. Viewed in its entirety, the Governor’s message carries much that is commendable. The General As sembly, it is to be hoped, will remember the good and forget the bad. OUR GOOD ROADS WORKERS. One of the most useful conventions of the season is that of the Georgia federation of road authorities who are meeting this week at Athens in conjunction with the highway department of the state university. Some two hundred delegates, representing more than a hundred counties are in attendance. The value of such a conference can scarcely be overestimated. It will not only quicken the good roads spirit throughout the state but, what is even more important just now, it will direct this general enthusiasm into definite and well organized and. therefore, more effective channels. If the officials of one county are to build roads that will render their full measure of service, they must understand the purpose and the problems of neighboring counties. If the state is to have a thor oughgoing system of highways and not merely a broken series of road-links, all the counties must works cooperatively. For this reason such a convention as is being held at Athens Is of particular value. It enables the men who are directly in charge of the road building in their respective counties to exchange views, to profit by one another’s experience and, above all, to reach a common understanding and sympathy in the great enterprise before them. The result will doubt less be that each official will return home with a more liberal perspective of his work and with a clearer sense of the truth that he is building not only for his immediate community but for the com monwealth as a whole. It would be an appropriate thing, we believe, for this convention to take note of the state’s need of a central highway commission and to urge the impor tance of such a commission upon the general assem bly. Georgia has made wondrous strides in road building within the past five years. The record shows, indeed, that with the exception of New York, she has surpassed all other states in the nupaber of miles of roads constructed. There is scarcely a county within her borders that is not alert and active in the good roads cause. If to this enthusiasm she will now add the guidance which will come through the assistance and supervision of the state itself, her future progress will be all the more sub stantial and gratifying. At the last session of the legislature there was introduced a bill to establish a state highway com mission but in the rush of eleventh-hour business it failed to pass, It' is to be hoped that such a meas ure will be presented at the approaching session and will be enacted. _ > The convention of good road workers at Athens is fortunate in’ having the co-operation of the uni versity’s highway department. This department, though but recently created, has rendered far-reach ing service to a number of counties and it stands ever ready to give scientific advice and aid to every community in the state. Road building has become, or is fast becoming one of the great practical arts of the time. The returns upon the money invested in road improvement or extension depend largely upon the methods by which it is spent. The university’s highway department shows how these funds can be spent with the highest economy and efficiency. THE WEALTH OF COTTON SEED. The annual convention of the cation seed oil mill superintendents, being held this week in Atlanta, il lustrates the wonderful growth and compass of a southern industry that is comparatively new. Scores of delegates representing millions of cap-' ital and divers fields of trade are present from al most every quarter of the Southeast. The subject matter of their conferences covers a remarkable range of interests. On Thursday, for instance, they are discussing applied chemistry, mechanical engi neering, the employment of labor, methods of mar keting and a number of other questions which ex tend from the general laws of science to the min utest details of economics. And in the course of the convention, there will be presented in one form or another problems that concern every business and every household in the land. It is hard to conceive that an industry reaching so far as this has developed in less than a generation and, indeed, within the past decade. Yet, such is the case. It was not many years ago when little or no attention was paid to the so-called by-products of the South’s staple crop. Here and there could be found some farsighted investor who discerned the possi bilities of cotton seed and hulls, but for the most part this great residue of the crop was ignored, or turned to little practical account. But it has come to pass that today this very res-, idue all but rivals in value and interest the cotton itself. It has numbers of new products to the South’s manufacturing output and has extended her commerce to faraway countries. It has opened new fields of employment to thousands of people and rich fields of investment to capital. In a noteworthy sense, it has served to reduce the cost of living at many points. It has shown that from the cotton plant, man can secure not only his raiment, but also important items of his food. For these reasons the present convention of men who are engaged in this young but gigantic industry is particularly interesting. In their efforts to perfect it, to widen, its scope and increase its profits to the individual and to the section as a whole, to extend its usefulness and its fame, they have the heartiest good will of all the Southern people. Candidates and Higher Education Cleveland Plain-Dealer. There is not a prominent candidate for nomination for the office of president of the United States who is not a university graduate. Furthermore, there is not one who has not earned subsequent honors, either from his own alma mater or from another college. And there are more candidates for nomination this year than ever before; the result is more in doubt *han ever it was before. Theodore Roosevelt is a graduate of Harvard, and he has earned and been honored with further degrees from his own and from other universities. William H. Taft is a Yale alumnus. Other institutions of learn ing have recognized his scholarship and his achieve ments. Senator La Follette Is a graduate of the Uni versity of Wisconsin, with similar post-graduate hon ors ahd degrees. Governor Harmon was graduated from Denison University in 1866, and several degrees have, since been conferred on him. Champ Clark obtained Ms ed ucation from Kentucky university, Bethany college and the Cincinnati Law school. Oscar Underwood was graduated from the University of Virginia. William Jennings Bryan was highest in his class when Illinois university gave him his bachelor's degree in 1881. Since that time, his own college and other institutions have recognized him with double-L honors. Times have changed since Andrew Johnson became president in 1865. That executive, tradition says, was unable to read or write until after his marriage, when his wife Instructed him in these useful arts. Illiter acy is not an attractive quality, particularly in one elected to high office. Even Mexico may be congrat ulated on the defeat of Orozco—a man who could not write his own name, but who might have been the president of an American republic but for Huerta's victory. THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1912. THE DREAM-LOST > By Dr. Frank Crane If I had to choose between the things I have missed in my dreams and what I have gained in my waking hours, I should not hesitate. Give me the dream lost. Just as the mendacious fisher tells that the biggest fish were those that got off the hook and fell back into the water, so my greatest prizes are those that slipped out of my hands as I tried to canry them over from dream to da£. The Yox in the fable called sour the grapes he could not reach (though, by the way, who ever heard of a fox wanting grapes?); but as for me, the sour grapes are too often those I get, and the luscious ones hang too high in the arbor of dreams. In my dreams I find pocket books, great fat ones, stuffed with green, and when I am about to spend the money I wake up. In the daytime I lose pocketbooks. In my dreams I am unani mously elected; by day I am not - IgiLx ... • » even a candidate. • It is said of Coleridge that he composed the poem “Kubla Khan” in a dream and wrote out a part of it when he awoke, but could not finish it. The last lines left him. < The other night I composed a perfectly stunning drama. It was novel, striking, epochal. The situations were entirely new, the interest was intense, the lines were beyond Shakespegre, and the conclusion was a dramatic thunderbolt. I lost the whole thing before I could get my clothes on. It had vanished like frost on the windowpane. 4 If I had all my dream-lost treasures I should be wise as Solomon, witty as a Mark Twain, clever as Herrmann the magician, rich is Rothschild, and hand some as the Old Nick himself. If you could only visit the inside of my mind when I am asleep you would certainly say, “He is the deuce of a fellow, and no mistake." There are too many things going on when one is conscious. Every chair and table distracts one. Every sound and odor and other bodily sensation gets in one’s road. But in dreams it is you and your pure idea. With that perfect union there is nothing to forbid the banns. Still, it Is about as well, perhaps, in the end. The classic question has hever been settled, whether the king who dreamed every night that he was a beggar was happier than the beggar who dreamed every night he was a king. And when you say heaven is but a good dream and hell a bad one, you haven’t mended matters; for one can really be happier and also suffer more Intensely, in a dream than in waking. To live on earth and dream of heaven is possibly as well as to live in heav en and dream of earth. When we awake there are compensations, when we dream there are none. The highest joy and the highest pain are those of the unloosed mind in dreams. —.— r The Ragtime; Muse CELEBRATED THE RIGHT WAY. . f You don’t have sich celebrations As we did when I was young— Firin’ anvils and orations By the Hon’rable Jim Bung. Our parades began and ended With the Kipe and Bimson bands An’ we thought the sight wuz splendid. Me an’ Sally, holdin’ hands. “ I don’t give a durn for speeches Like these silk hat fellers make; There wuz in Bung’s roars an’ screeches Elerquence an’ no mistake, The miiretiy, too, wuz trainin’ At its captain’s stern commands— We had fun, unless ’twuz rainin’, Me an’ Sally, holdin’ hands. What Bung said wuz *worth repeatin’— All about the grandjol’ flag. How we’d cheer, though we wuz eatln’ Peanuts from a paper bag! Wish I’d git some mor£ sich plaesure With the runnin’ of life’s sands Like them memories I treasure — Me an’ Sally, holdiri’ handle! Pointed Paragraphs There’s nothing green about the grass widow who goes after a rich bachelor. • • • Naturally a female attendant in a lunatic asylum thinks everybody is crazy about her. • • • Many a girl strives to make a name for herself rather than attempt to make a loaf of bread. We can see the whole Chicago convention in the moving picture shows, and escape the oratory, too. • -♦ • Job was a patient man, but hv never found the cat asleep on the piano just after he had varnished it • • • When you meet a woman who is indifferent as to the size of her feet, it’s a sign she is merely waiting for her turn to ride in the undertaker’s wagon. Saving and Investing Talks SAVINGS BANKS’ INTEREST RATES. BT JOHN M. OSKISON. There is a movement under way to reduce the in terest rate paid on deposits in savings banks. As a thrifty American jJou should be familiar with the ar gament of those who are forcing the change. First of all, put aside any im pression you may have that the reduction is urged by schemers or crooks, for there is no question of the honesty of the men who say that savings banks can’t go on paying as much as 4 per cent and maintain a reasonable surplus. Some of the strongest men in.-the New York State Savings Bank as sociation, which has taken up this matter lately, contend that 3 per cent is a sufficiently high return to depositors, and the real end and aim of a savings bank ought to be to protect the principal of a depositor and keep that unimpair ed, rather than the paying out of Si - y a high interest rate. By conserv ing their profits in this way, say the advocates of con servative interest payments, the surplus of a savings bank can be built up, and the whole institution strengthened. The thing the depositor chiefly cares about is the safety of his deposit, not the rate of in terest; and the bank with a surplus—a strong surplus —affords that protection. There is agitation in the association for a law re quiring all savings banks to accumulate an “adequate minimum surplus.” To make up the figure suggested some of the New York banks which now pay 4 per cent would have to reduce their rate to 3. Properly, the investments of savings banks are lim ited strictly to very high class securities. Many bonds now held as guarantees of savings banks solvency are selling at a lower price in the market than the banks paid. Conservative bankers do not like to carry secur ities on their books at a value greater than can be realized in the current market, even though they feel sure that they will be redeemed at maturity at their face value. They believe that a bank ought to be in a position, every day of its life, to liquidate and pay 100 cents on the dollar to every depositor. As a patron of a savings bank it will pay you to find out something about the variety and standing of the - securities your bank owns. You can figure out yourself pretty accurately what rate of interest it cdn afford to pay pou. When you know that take a stand on the question. These banks are run for your accom modation, and for no other legitimate purpose. You should control them in .this and other matters. WOMEN’S CLUB WORK In the Field of Art. BT FBEDEBIC J. HASKIN Since tne love of the beautiful is essentially a fem inine characteristic, it was most fitting that the sub ject of art should receive great attention from the earliest beginning of the worn- •Q and schools of the country. A companion volume, ’•Outlines for the Study of Art," has been pronounced, of equal practical value. • * • The federation as a whole has worked primaril} for two objects, namely: the placing of all art ob jects Imported from foreign countries upon the free list, and the establishment of art commissions, both state and municipal, throughout the country. In ad dition to .this, the clubs are working continually for the establishment of permanent art collections in each state capital, as well as in other large cities. The Women’s club of St. Louis has established the nucle us jf a permanent art collection for that city which will be augmented every year through its Influence. Besides these general objects, the several state fed erations and also the individual clubs continually vie with each other in Initiating special activities for ex tending an Interest in art in their own localities. More than half of the state federations now have traveling art collections which are shipped from one town to another, thus giving many clubs a chance to study from pictures which would otherwise be unobtainable in a small town. Sometimes states exchange their col lections. During the past year Illinois has lent to Ne braska a collection of oil and water colors by well known Chicago artists, which have been widely circu lated and greatly appreciated by the clubs privileged to command their benefits. In St. Louis a committee composed of one member from each of the city and suburban clubs has made a number of collections n f reproductions of well known paintings and pictures of classic sculpture, together wltb art reference books to assist In their intelligent use. The first of these was sent to the canal zone, where it was much appre ciated by the American women now living upon the isthmus of Panama. Others have been circulated among the rural towns of several surrounding states with good results. • • • The art study classes taking the general federation courses are introducing into their working plans sub jects of general and popular interest instead of con fining themselves to the study of classic works of art which filled up their programs a few years ago. Now such subjects as "What can the Women’s club do to raise the standard of taste?”, ‘‘What can be done-to improve dress and home decoration?”, "What can be done to lead to a better appreciation of the work In the arts and crafts?”, can the clubs do to Influents civic life in the direction of the beautiful?”, are among the newer topics presented upoi\ the club programs. • * * With the realization of the fact that true art lies only in a proper appreciation of beauty wherever It is found, comes the discarding of many of the false and unnatural art standards which constituted the earlier art work in many clubs. Every community has its objects of natural beauty and the art department of the club should seek to encourage the appreciation oi them and to secure their proper preservation. Some times prizes are offered by clubs for the best photo graph of the most 'distinctive trees of a town or of an artistlcj>icture of some bit of neighboring scenery. These pictures may be exhibited in the town library w in public school buildings and afterwards preserved for future use. • • • Perhaps the most extensive and popular work of the art departments of women’s clubs has been the placing of art objects upon the walls of public schools and the formation of public school art leagues. In one territory where distances are great and educa tional facilities limited, every public school In the ter ritory received two fine pictures from the club wom en of that territory. One large department club in a western city has expended over SIO,OOO in school house decoration. The decoration of a school building as a memorial to some prominent woman is a custom orig inating with the Civic club, of Philadelphia, which raised sufficient money to decorate a school In such a manner as to make it a model and then induced the board of education to rename It as a memorial to a woman who, up to the time of her death, had been de voted to the improvement of the civic conditions of her city. • « • The art department of the Alabama Federation of Women’s Clube arranged to award a plaster cast of the "Winged Victory of Samothrace” to the first high school In the state which would raise half of Its cost. It went to the new Sydney Lanier school In Montgom ery, where it is receiving so much admiration that oth er schools In the state are endeavoring to secure sim ilar decorations. Many of the clubs are now holding traveling wrt exhibitions and using the proceeds to purchase pictures for the decoration of public schools. • • * The value of the work women are doing for the ar tistic improvement of the country is being generally recognized. In Minnesota, the art committee of the Federation of Women's Clubs has been made an asso ciate with the state art commission which it was in strumental In founding. In Kansas the club women have been asked to provide an advisory commitee for beautifying the grounds of the capltol. • * • The Missouri club women have taken for their motto "Art in the Market Place” and have arranged innumerable exhibitions for the benefit of the people who ordinarily have little opportunity for such pleas ures. In Mississippi free traveling art exhibitions under the auspices of the clubs are enthusiastically received. In Nebraska three traveling galleries of original paintings and a box of pottery have been pro vided by the state federation to be loaned only to fed erated clubs, and this one inducement has added a number of clubs to the membership roll. This state federation has also provided a number of portfolios of English, Flemish and Dutch art for the use of in dividual clubs Interested in these subjects, together with the needed descriptive books. The women of North Dakota have placed a magnificent statue of the Indian chief, Sakakawea, upon the capltol grounds at Bismarck, the first public monument ever erected by the of that state. When a Boost Is a Knock Chicago Tribune. When Mr.’Champ Clark obligingly wrote the testi monial for a patent medicine he was not taking him self seriously as a candidate for president. The ep isode justifies the country in not doing so now. There have been lamentations in the Republican party over the "loss of dignity.” They leave us cold. Such dignity as has been lost has been lost laudably rather than lamentably, but in the case of Mr. Clark we have a different matter. Mr. Clark’s testimonial would lose no value for the patent makers if he were elected president. It would be unique and Mr. Clark’s position would Be unique. A wood cut of his noble features would con tinue to adorn the statement: "It's the best all around medicine ever sold over a druggist’s counter.” Among the sayings and writings of American presi dents this would be notable. The nation would be proud of Mr. Clark and as president he would find that his indorsement of patent medicines would be sought more energetically than ever before. Collier’s Weekly, which directs attention to the case, has illuminated Mr. Clark’s mentality. He has not taken hlmeslf very seriously as a candidate for president and In this at least the country can agree with him. en’s club movement. There is hardly a club on the rolls of the general federation which has not in some manner contribut ed towards securing a higher standard of art for the nation, even though its efforts were confined entirely to its own lo cality. One of the most popu lar publications of the federa tion Is its "Handbook of Art In Our Own Country,” which summarizes what has been ac complished for art in America. It has been compiled through the united efforts of the club women of the nation and con tains a list of the most artis tic buildings in all of the more important cities and all of tier notable works of art. It has been widely circulated, not only through the clubs, but among the libraries, museums, colleges xJTjOME topics FrjJRS.UHJTELTO/l SIMPLE TASTES AND SXM?X>E LIVING. I was on a train some days ago speeding to Ath ens commencement, when my attention was attracted to a family of foreigners, well to the front of me, who were either Italians or Russian Jews. They were eight in number, men, women and boys. They were from New Orleans, I presume, going north to work during summertime. They were as merry as larks, and enjoyed them selves very much as we rushed along in clipping style. After a while a man reached overhead, took down a little white bag, a kind of a poke, and took out a moderate sized loaf of bread which he cut into four sections, and he distributed them to the women and girls. Then he reached in and took out another loaf, cut off a section for himself and motioned to the others, boys of various ages. They came over, took each a chunk of bread, went back to their seats ana ate that unbuttered, plain bread like it was pound cake! They were thoroughly satisfied with their lunch, coming back again for another supply when they had eaten the first allowance, crust and all. The only diversion was a 5-cent bottle of coca-cola, with the glassy beads on the outside of the botle, just taken from the ice. When they finished the coca-cola . and the hunks of bread their repast was finished, and \ they were well pleased, and in no wise abashed as to the lookers-on who saw the whole performance. Where they were born nice white bread is not so plentiful, so they enjoyed the bread and their hunger was appeased. When I got off the train they were shaking off the crumbs, and from the length of their railroad tickets I judged they would not stop this side of New York. It was actually refreshing to watch these untutored children of another country, who cared nothing for frills or fashions, and who relished their humble fare in a most unsophisticated way. When I thought of the dining car in our rear with a $1 dinner waiting for fashionable epicures or rich people, I wondered if there was a soul on that crowd ed train who was happier or so well contented as those good-humored, careless and uncultured travelers, who solved the problem of subsistence with such ease and satisfaction. • • • THE BEIGE OF LAWLESSNESS. One of the' speakers on commencement day at the University of Georgia discoursed on this present era of lawlessness In Georgia. As we know, Georgia was one of the 13 colonies of Great Britain, and has had a code of laws for civil government for 150 years, but his statistics were fearful figures as to prevalence of crime and the meager amount of legal correction and punishment. He said there were 100 murders commit ted in Georgia last year. Os these murderers only four (as I recollect) received the full penalty of the law. He further said tnat an outraged public more than often took lynch law as their protection and to vincucate outraged justice. I did not catch all he said on this line, but I saw his speech stirred the men on the stage, two of whom were the two federal judge* of our state, siting side by side, not to speak of tho governor and a nufnber of prominent lawyers and dig nitaries seated on the stage. If I had been given the opportunity I should have asked: "Do the fgcts sus tain this terrible criticism of Georgia's incapacity to govern herself?” I presume the young man’s figure* were taken from the official records. Otherwise, he would not liave dared to announce them so boldly in the distinguished presence of these administrators oi the law. God forbid that I, an old lady, going down th* sunset slope of life, should clamor for the gallows or the electric chair in Georgia, but I do say that open disregard of law and the power of money to eave th* guilty from legal punishment is not only, demoralizing the progress of criminal law, but is unsettling public confidence in the administration of civil law or th* adjustment of civil suits. Take the Morse case, where a very'rich man was convicted of the embezzlement of other people’s money and sent to Atlanta's federal prison to serve out a very small term of legal punishment as compared to his proven culpability. The stolen money was flung out to greedy lawyers who made money talk before u President Taft, and Morse, the convicted embezzler, is free and enjoying the fruits of his embezzlement. I wouldn't vote for Mr. Taft for that reason alone, be cause there was simply no excuse for Morse’s pardon. This reign of lawlessness begins at the top and goes all the way down to the bottom. The young speaker spoke truth. • • • THE STEAM BOLLEB DC POLITICS. When the Taft faction decided to count in the dele gates friendly to President Taft and count out the delegates that were elected in the respective states for Mr. Roosevelt and others opposing Mr. Taft, it wa* rabid politics gone clean crazy. The most of these counted-in delegates were hailing from states that have never elected a Republican president and they were only figuro-heads in Chicago and less than fig ure-heads at home. Therefore, the whole thing became grimy with fraud as well as insolence. The steam roller was de ployed to further tyranny and the whole business prov ed iyielf to be rotten. Nobody respects such a nom ination, and I am astonished that Mr. Taft has coun tenanced the effort. It means a finish to the Taft regime, and the story of the steam roller will be heard from Maine to California and from the lakes to the gulf during the months ahead of us, reaching to th* November election. • Personally, I am glad of it. It takes a thunder cloud to clear the atmosphere in hot climates, and we will have a political storm that will rush over the whole country very soon. If the Democrats are wise they will not quarrel at Baltimore, and especially they will not allow a steam roller to be in evidence. It smacks of insolence and tainted money to force any sort of a political nomination, and a red-hot time in Baltimore will only bring on a Democratic revolt from boss rule. I have been hoping (I will not say pray ing) for a grand split-up in the Republican party for many long years, because the Democrats have been chronic splitters ever since the war, hence their dis asters. The Republican party has actually outlived itself and has disintegrated because of its greed, and these old blood-suckers should be detached from the strong box of the nation for j übllc safety. I am delighted with the split in Chicago. It is a sign of clearer skies and clean< r politics. A thing of duty is a job forever. • • • It is usually safe to judge a man by his manners • • • A bigamist is a man who has more wives thsn brains. • • • Jumping at conclusions' is a woman’s idea of phy sical exercise. Taking a vacation usually means getttlng bored at exorbitant rates. • • • You never see a girl* hike for the kitchen when she wants to kill time . • • • ( It’s awfully hard to quarrel with people who won’t pay any attention to you. The popularity of a homely girl may depend on the sum her father can write a check for. VACATION DAYS i When I think it best to enjoy a rest I don’t go to Cork or Rome, to the mountains flee, or infest the sea —I just lie around at home. With ms trusty pipe—which is good and ripe—I seek for the Goldun Fleece in a rattling book, in a cozy nook, my feet on the man telpiece. I do not sigh for Ital lan sky or yearn for an Alpine guide; I do not crave for the ocean wave—l’m perfectly satis- ‘' fied. In books I find from the beastly grind relief that is net- j ter far than to blow my wad '"or a tour abroad in airship or mo tor car. I climb no hills and I pay no bills for breathing the mountain air; I am not mobbed and I am not robbed at home in my easy "hair. I pay no cash a] for autrageous hash but feed on the things I like, and I do not wake at the morning’s break with tour ists somewhere to hike. lam not clubbed by the cops or snubbed, as tourists are often spurned; my jaws don t creak in attempts to speak a language I never learned. And when I am done with vacation fun no wearisome tales I pour from a tireless jaw of the things I saw—so no one _
