How The State's Servants Put In Their Time

The editor of a Democratie paper in Lansing who fearlessly exposes the thousanti and one wasteful extravagances of the Republican party, in paying excessive war salaries to State cierks and employés in these hard times, and even paying eoiue of thetn doublé and triple salaries al that, and also the paying of these clerks for partisan and politioal work at the elections, and all the other wrongs perpetrated of that sort, must expect, if he ever runa for office, to tind delegations of State employés working tooth and nail against hiin in the election. - l I I Mi I I I A Cow TOR A BABY. - A Hardin county, Iowa, man and hae wite got to that point where they agreed to disagree, and each ;go their own way. The aasets of the partnership were partitioned and set off to each, until only the baby Ieft, when the father said, "If yoi will leaTe the baby witbme I will grveyou a good cow." ïhe iBother eonsidored a moment anï deeided that a good cow waa worth f 25, and a baby- well, pretty poor proertv. She took the cow.