,
still, how am I ever to find out that you received it? I
trust the Lord will take care of it.

UNHAPPY PENITENT.

P.S.--Ezekiel 23d chap., 15th verse.

The Conscience Fund is presided over by E.B. Daskam, chief of the Division
of Public Moneys. All these quaint and tragic records of the quickening of
conscience in America are carefully filed away.

While a separate record is kept of the Conscience Fund, the money
constituting it is placed in the Government's big vaults and becomes a
part of the nation's finances. It has been suggested that an act of
Congress be passed setting aside this particular fund for some national
benevolence.

HOCH, DER GOVERNOR OF KANSAS.

Taken to Task by a Recalcitrant Legislature Because He Said "Set 'Em Up,"
He Talks of Things That May Happen on Resurrection Morn.

Governor Edward Wallis Hoch, of Kansas, is a big man, with a slow manner
and a keen sense of humor. Born fifty-seven years ago in Kentucky, as soon
as he had graduated from a freshwater college he moved westward. At
twenty-five he found himself editor and proprietor of a country weekly in
Kansas; and the step from journalism to politics proved an easy one.

When Hoch talks about "trust-busting" legislation he speaks quietly and
seriously, with shrewdness and intelligence. At other times he is capable
of enlivening the dull routine of official work with a touch of
unconventional pleasantry. During the recent legislative eruption at
Topeka one of the more impetuous representatives introduced a bill which
had already been passed. The Governor vetoed it, remarking that it was up
to the representative to "set 'em up."

A member of the opposition, thinking that this was a dangerous expression
for the Governor of a prohibition State to use, had a resolution adopted
calling on the Governor to explain. Governor Hoch was extremely busy, but
he disentangled his signing hand from the pile of bills before him long
enough to dash off the following reply:

To the Senate--I am in receipt of Senate Resolution No. 40,
introduced by the Senator from Atchison County, requesting
me to explain what was meant by the term "set 'em up," as
used in my veto message of Senate Bill No. 341. This
expression, used playfully, and without having any
particular meaning, and possibly hardly comporting with the
dignity of your body, seems to have had, if not a good, at
least an unexpected effec