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Entered at Richmond, Indiana, postoffice as second class mall matter. THE TAFT AND CANNON AGREEMENT. There has been much criticism of Taft'a peace pact with Speaker Cannon from that portion of the press which is inimical to the speaker. These papers are unanimous in declaring that Taft has weakened or else has been taken in by the speaker. There is little doubt in the minds of the public, however, that the man who has been, elected to the presidency knows what he Is about. When the president-elect, as the representative and head of his party, came into his own, he was face to face with a peculiar situation. It was reported on all sides that Cannon was opposed to any but the merest pretense of tariff revision, io which the repub lican party had pledged itself and on this platform be had been elected Taft also knew shortly before the elec tion that the speakership was safely in the hands of Cannon. Unless it could be conclusively demonstrated that he was hopelessly in opposition to much needed reforms, he could not be defeated. The much vaunted strength of the "insurgents" was not as strong as it appeared on paper. It might have been a good thing had Taft thought the principles he stood for almost hopeless for him to fight. But let us see. If he fought and lost the whole administration could not have gained anything from the foes he had made in the fight and even had he won there would have been a strong enough minority In congress to endanger the working of a necessary majority In the house. One thing Taft was assured of, and one thing he is firmly determined on, and that is to use the veto and to make It clear to the people of the Unit ed State that he would not stand for sham reforms and revision that does not revise. He can hope to do much more In this way than by antagonising at the very start, a force which has promised to carry out the policies of the Chicago platform. It la safe to say that in all probabll ity Taft will be more unpopular two years from now than at any other time. And that from very obvious reasons. No matter what the tariff revision may be, there will be half the people who will not be satisfied. Between the producer and the consumer there is a wide difference of opinion as to how the tariff ought to be revis- ' ed. The revision of the tariff can under no circumstances, be at all popular. It may very well be that Taft will find himself under fire from both these extremes at the same time and it is no wonder. It is, perhaps, too much to hope that the people will stand behind him and aid him in any fight he may have to make as did Roosevelt against con gress. . The thing which people must remem ber is, that Taft cannot please every body. He must strike an average which consumers will think too high and producers too low. The situation is one in which a les ser man might be afraid. It is worse than the Devil and the Deep Sea puz tie. The people must be prepared to be patient, and to be Impatient at no time, especially at the very start. CONCERNING THE NAVAL REAUCRACY. BU It was as far back as 1S75 that a wit ness before the naval committee of the house testified that In his opinion. "the bureau system has gradually un dermined the discipline of the navy de partment, and must sooner or later be changed." A few years later it was Cleveland who called the system "a humiliating weakness." It is . the tame old bureaucracy fighting and iquabbling, except when they call a truce to divide the plums. It is the 5ne sore spot in the administrative department. In an interview of Roosevelt's published in this month's Pearson's magnine, he says that reorganization is "absolutely necessary.". Henry Reuterdahl, the man who made the navy (take up under his criticism just hetore the sailing of the fleet to the OriMit, aiwho showed that the bureaus bad been building vessels of obsolea-

cent type, says: "Millions and millions of dollars have been misspent under this system."

It is a little encouraging then to see that the newly appointed naval secretary, Mr. Newberry, Is opposed to the administration of the navy by bureaus and will reorganize the navy as far as possible on a business basis. He is a man of excellent judgment and has been selected on account of his well known ability for organization in busness. It has been said that with business methods in force the department could save enough to purchase an additional battleship each year and that more over, the building of battleships would be brought up to the latest models and kept there. The trouble has been that the affairs have been run by one little set of older men who will listen to no one who is not of their rank in the service. The experts in the service are all younger and better trained men to whom no heed is paid. This is the very opposite from the business office method n which suggestions are listened to from the head draughtsmen. Here's hoping that the Business Man Mr. Newberry, can save the country several millions a year. He knows business if he does not know battle ships. The president once held the ob of assistant secretary and he prob ably has some idea of what sort of a man it takes to run it. ACQUIRING TROUBLE. That little war cloud which arose and has broken over Port au Prince, seems to be more than the comic opera revolutions and rebellions which have been making money for Richard Hard ing Davis and other romancers. The fall of the power of President Nord Alexis is not creditable to Hayti. He has ruled wisely and well that polyglot of Spanish, Portuguese, Negroes, Indians and the offal of the whole Caribbean coast. It does not seem that General Simon is encouraging law and order to any considerable extent. it looks, furthermore, as if the United States will have to take upon itself the very unwelcome and thankless job of straightening out the mess. In this contingency it is not any less encouraging to read the words of Nord Alexis, the deposed: "The future of my country is an archy; but rather than . call for American intervention, I would have pre ferred to blow up my palace and dfe in its ruins." With this sort of thing going on un der our very gates, this country which has in a great part been responsible for the present condition of affairs can do very little else than interfere, rather than have a European power undertake the same thing and establish a sphere of influence there. This country does not want to be burdened with Hayti. Far from it. The, best thing would have been to have supported Nord Alexis, whether he would or not. Lacking that, we might at least enforce a keeping of the peace in Port au Prince. ( To acquire those islands is acquir ing trouble. A CHANGE IN XMAS PRESENTS. A merchant in this town, who has a large retail trade, said the other day. in speaking of the subject of Christmas trade, that there had been a decided leaning in the last few years toward utility in gifts. On talking it over with a man who happened to be shopping at the same time, it was suggested that the reason was much the same as that which was responsible for the quiet political campaign. People, he said, did not rush off and buy as they used to; nor did they rush off and vote. On . thinking the matter over, people saw the folly of wasting money on cheap jim-cracks which were of no earthly use to any one and which either accumulated dust or went to the ash heap soon after Christmas. They now bought really useful gifts. The idea is growing that a gift must

New Mark Twain Story Told

Young Pilot's Effort to Show tie railed to Make Hannibal, Mo., Dec. 12. "Heretofore unpublished" stories of Mark Twain's early days continue to be dug up and in fact increase and multiply. The latest among the not previously printed used to be told by the late "Bill Curts. "Bill" was a cub pilot at the same time Mark took to the steersman's wheel, and this is the narrative: "Once on the then high class steamboat Lucy Bertram, when Sam was cutting his milk teeth at the wheel of spokes, the pilot on watch, becoming dry, went below to Irrigate and left Sam in charge. At the time he was fonder of display than a peacock in full feather, and so when a number of young country people appeared at the pilot house, and among them several gals with eyes like sunbeams and cheeks like peaches, Mark sighted a chance to show off, and though the stage of the water was mark twain (a pilot's term from which he took his nom de plume) and the run was straight for miles, the way that wheel was made to go round this way and then tother would have surprised Jonah on his Journey to Tarshish when he

be appropriate and one which can be used. So that the recipient on looking at the gift in use day after day, shall remember the giver. Barrie, in his inimitable "My Lady Nicotine," tells a story of a man who received a Christmas present which sums up the situation. The gift was an absolutely Impossible smoking stand, which, If it was ever used, immediately collapsed. After many vain attempts, the man saved it till the next year, when he paid off a debt at Xmas with it. But hia joy at getting rid of it was Short lived for after a few years' riddance back it came from another source, it never having been used, but it kept constantly in circulation because no one wanted it. Such gifts are worse than none.

A COPY BOOK MODEL FOR MR. ROOSEVELT. "Like the man who left off fighting because he could not keep his wife from supper, it has pleased this editor to say that he is disinclined to continue this controversy further because it gratifies my passion for notoriety. He must have a more contracted mind, a paltrier spirit, than even I imagined, if he can suppose for one instant that an ignoble controversy with an obscure animal like himself can gratify the passion for notoriety of one whose works, at least have been translated in all the languages of polished Europe and circulated by thousands in the New World. It is not -then my passion for notoriety that ha3 induced me to tweak him by the nose and to in flict sundry kicks upon the base part of his baser body; to make him eat dirt, and his own words, fouler than any filth; but because I wish to show to the world what a miserable pol troon, what a craven dullard, what a literary scare-crow, what a mere thing stuffed with straw and rubbish is the soi-disant director of public opinion and politics." Oh, no. Those words wrere NOT used by Mr. Roosevelt anent Mr. Delavan Smith. They were merely the ut terance of young Mr. Disraeli fifty years ago in the London Times. Such words have been used before. They might be a good copy for the president. But there are those who say he doesn't need one. At a dinner of the president of the Indiana society of Chicago, to the guests of honor, after they had passed by Wabash Mussels, Elkhart Celery, and Posey County Baked Corn, they came to Wayne County Pumpkin Pie which was accorded the place of hon or on the menu. A fitting climax! The president honored the Culture Belt of Indiana when he picked out the literary men as "reputable," but he did not pay a high tribute to the remarkable facility in writing fiction which the News has displayed. THE SCHOOLTEACHER. Haw a Yoana; Man Fresh Prom Col lege Makes His Start. A young man fresh from college who decides to become a schoolteacher has many things to consider. The profession, If it can be called a profession, is still unorganized. No standard of excellence, no diploma certifying ability, is required. Methods of teaching in public schools in New York state are very different from those in Colorado, and those in Utica are different from those in Buffalo. There are private schools of all kinds. There are almost as many methods of teaching arithmetic as there are of teaching vocal music. To obtain bis first position he ordinarily joins an agency. He takes to the agency his record at college, supple mented by as many pleasant recom mendations from his professors as pos sible, pays his yearly fee and promises the agency a certain percentage 5 per cent usually of his first year's salary, Occasionally his college will find a place for hi in in one of the schools that prepare directly for it. At any rate, he will find without great difficulty a posl tion that will support him. Perhaps it will be In a little denominational boarding school, where be will teach thirteen different subjects during his first year, as one man I know did. If he survives his first year successfully and with some measure of content in the work he is likely to be a teacher for the rest of his life. Leslie's Monthly. off Got Him Into Trouble and Coveted Impression. swallowed the whale. He shook the larboard and starboard bells alternate Iy and yelled down the speaking tube till he had the engineers madder than March hares. Nor did he let up until the head engineer threatened to come up to the hurricane deck and visit the pilot house with a tornado. "One of the gals, having noticed him at the speaking tube asked Mark what he was doing there. 'Oh, he said,' 'I was talking to the boys down on the boiler deck.' 'Couldn't I talk to 'em, asked the gal. 'Sure,' replied Mark. and the gal placed here pretty lips to the mouthpiece of the tube, but before speaking, turned and asked, 'Who shall I call for? 'The head engineer, was the reply. 'What shall I say? Oh. anything. Tell him to unship his pad die wheel.' The gal followed instruc tions in tones as sweet as peaches and cream. But alas, the master of the throttle valves, thinking it was Mark up to more of hi3 monkey tricks, yell ed back, 'Unship that dodgasted ugly mug of yourn, you snolllgoster. That gal was red headed in more ways than one when' she left the pilot house.

Freak Statute Crop Attains Record Size Lawmakers of Many States Imbued With Noble Ideas for the Uptift of Mankind Virginia Legislator Would Abolish Kissing.

The would be lawmaker who goes to a legislative chamber with the idea of converting his native state in a Utopia does not get much of a show n these degenerate days. Hhls efforts receive little more encouragement than those of the feline vocalists that assemble on the back yard fence at the midnight hour to produce what they deem a musical concert His ideaj of making life "one grand, sweet song" is very apt to draw forth taej emphatic ejaculation "Scat!" But he is not to be discouraged, and he has labored as unceasingly the present year as iu any other. There were more of him, perhaps, in Oklahoma than in any other state, for Oklahoma gave promise of extending to him the glad hand, patting him on the back and telling him to go as far as he liked. But even the baby state which started out with a constitution that provided for regulating nearly everything except the planets and the deather, and seemed eager to complete the job, has not produced the bumper crop of freak legislation so fondly expected. The new state has enacted that ho tels must supply their guests with bod sheets not less than nine feet in length, btu Texas blazed the way in this far-reaching reform. Oklahoma legislators descended up on their capital with a large assort ment of ideas for the betterment of the human race equally as unique, but they took most of them back home again. It was an Oklahoma man who regarded the cigar store Indian as a slander upon the real redskins among his constituents and who wished to banish it from its traditional post of honor at tobacco shops, but the cigar store Indian still holds forth in Okla homa as well as elsewhere, and if the tribe is diminished it is for a far different reason than that he has enemies in the camp of the lawmakers. Another, Oklahoma" solon wished to prohibit the use of cracked crockery on the table, another to make it an offense to use a roller towel more than two days, another to compel rail roads to disinfect their railroad tick ets, another to prohibit passengers on street cars from crossing legs when they have mud on their feet and another to compel householders to beat rugs and carpets outside of the corporate limits of any town. There was even one lawmaker who Am Electric Lamp Other

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sought to compel husbands to cook breakfast on Sunday .mornings in order that their wives might go to church, and one who desired that six successive visits by a yound man to the home of a young lady should be regarded as evidence of an engagement to marry. But. alas! Oklahoma rejected this Utopian program and snugly snoozing under its nine foot bed sheets, it sleeps on while there are manly sores on the body politic to be healed. It woke up for a few minutes to pass a law that required every complimentary notice concerning a candidate that is printed in a newspaper to be labelled "Advertising" In ten point type, but the Oklahoma editor still has a legal, if not moral, right, as he sees fit, provided that the citizen does ot

commit the indiscretion of running for office. Those who rejected the plan of decreasing inebriety probably went upon the theory that it was unwise to acquire a reputation for bravery. Maryland did, however, make it unlawful to serve free lunches in beverage emporiums. The Virginia legislator who tried to outlaw kissing several years ago has had no Imitators recently, but in Louisiana the man who comes late to the theater has been regarded as a proper subject for legislative consideration and possible classification among the malefactors. Many states have been supplied with laws that mitigate the terrors of the Merrey Widow hat, but these laws are not of this year's vintage and that ubiquitous vexation probably arrived too late to cause increased activity on the part of the legislative grist mill. Since women have ceased to sweep the streets with long skirts, sartorial eccentriticies have given very little concern to ambitious publicists. If it is difficult for members of state legislatures to have their beautiful dreams for regulating the universe assume shape, it is well-nigh Impossible for a member of congress to achieve the same object. Very little legislation, either wise or otherwise, got by "Uncle Joe," the boss of the big law-making factory in Wash ington, at the last session. Nevertheless the difficulties that beset him did not dampen the ardor of the man who had a little bill intended to make life more 6eraphic. First and foremost there was J.

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Hampden Moore, with hl3 plan for licensing the laundries and forbidding them to use any acids or machinery calculated to inure the delicate fabric of the dress shirt, which is an object of tender solicitude on the part of the Pennsylvania. No one has disputed the laudable

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