Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 8, 1909, Page 4

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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Noh ka, Douglas Coun(y 08, Geor, zachck, treasurer of The Hee Putte In‘ Company, being duly sworn, ay® that the actual number of full an Complets ’du of The Dally. Morning. Evening and Sunday Bu printed during the month of Octol 1900, was as foilows: 2 2. By ioo 2., | O 28 W 30... Returned coples . Net total Daily average . ! GEORGH B. TZ4CHUCK, Treasurer. Subscribed in my presence and sworn to befors me this 1st day of November, 1. (Seal.) P. WA v.xh.'a‘ Notary Publl [ — Subscribers leav) porarily ahou the eity teme The Bee The rear admirals seem all to the fore in denying Cook. ——ee Wonder if Judge Dean realizes now how the democratic bunch used him to pull their chestnuts out of the fire. Anyway, if he is defeated Judge Sul- livan can point to the fact that he said in advance he didn't want it very badly. Charleston s advertising “the Garden of Eden” as “just opened.” There 18, of course, some snake in the announcement. The frequency of surgical operations on modern liners makes 1t timely to re- vise the title of the old song to “A Knite on the Ocean Wave —_— Strange, isn't it, that all this trouble in thé management of our Nebraska ‘insane asylums should walit for a dem- ocratic governor before breaking out? Omaha’s bank clearings for the week show up an increase of 44 per cent aver the corresponding week of last year. That looks like real busi- ness. It's dollars to doughnuts that the answer Ig Dunn puts in'for himself in his contempt case will be mildness itself compared to the brief that started the rumpus. Sm—— = The Malne woods, ringing with the usual autumnal reports, are providing their dccustomed deer for man and man for deer. The count of carcasses thus far appears about evenly divided. ———— With Rockefeller fighting the hook- worm, Carnegie combatting pellag and Mrs, Sage contributing to the anti- tuberculosis campaign, it threatens to be a hard winter for the germ family. If the Delawarean experiment of growing potatoes in barrels continues to result in such prolific production, it soon will be possible for any family to drop a tuber in a keg and raise a full meal. —_— A dispute over & horse trade is re- sponsible for a riot call responded to by a whole squad of police. In early Omaha days a dispute over a horse trade was simply & call for an under- taker, In the present state of the drama, it is safe to assume that “The Lily," about te be imported from Paris for the American stage, is one of the specles that toils not, but does spin gossamer web One of the eastern roads having lemonstrated in a full-speed collision that its new steel coaches are life- sivers for the passengers, it would seem to be the part of good finance as well as bf humanity for other lines to install them in use without delay. . We have to thank the striking pastry makers of New York for a Thanks- giving novelty at the White House. They are golng to present to Mr. Taft a gigantic mince pie that promises to Wanted, a New Registration Law. The light vote In Omaha and South Omaha in the recent election s un- doubtedly to be charged in large part to the unduly burdensome registration law which Nebraska has on its statute books. The Nebraska law requires personal appearance gach year before a board of registrars,, sitting in the various election districts, respectively, on specified days, four in number. A man may reside continuously in one place all his life and vote at every pri- mary and at every electiofi, and still remain under the necessity of register- ing anew every year. This requirement of registration in .|the citles is for the very proper pur- pose of making sure that no one is per- mitted to vote who is not legally enti- tled to do so and to insure the ballot against fraud. But we should be able to accomplish this laudable object without making the exercise of the suf- frage so inconvenient or so harassing as to make the aiternative of shirking this highest duty of citizenship more attractive than its performance. There is no good reason why, in a city like Omaha, there should not be a permanent registration board holding forth at the city hall once every week or two throughout the year for correc- tion of registration, supplemented with a single day for registration revision through boards sitting in the various voting districts. This permanent board should record changes of resi- dence as reported to it, erase the names of people who may have died or |moved away and add those of new- comers or voters just coming of age. In addition to advertising the names erased, it should be enough to have the registration lists submitted to the vari- ous political organizations for check- ing and to require personal appearance only of those whose qualifications are challenged for good and substantial causes. Nebraska needs a new registration law, not another amendment to the present patchwork. Such a law ought to be carefully prepared with a view to making it really workable, and when 80 prepared it ought to be enacted by the next legislature without any oppo- sition. Holding Our Foreign Trade. While our government is devoting a large share of its energies to maintain an open door in the far east, it appears that our commerclal interests are in a considerable measure neglecting the opportunities which that open door is intended to provide. Consular repor reveal an astonishing lack of enter- prise on the part of our manufacturers in this direction, and it is evident that Americans must give this market more attention if they would not see it dom- inated by other nations. In cotton goods, for instance, Man- churia had been buying chiefly from the United States, but of late English and Japanese houses have been making inroads upon that trade. pelrn to be due only in part to the f.bix of the Japanese goods, for they.axe . mittedly inferior in quality, but chmn because of the fact that Ameriea-stdll supplies the Manchurian market through Chinese dealers in Manchyufia, who draw upon stocks held in Shafig- hal. The obvious remedy for this is the establishment of an American job- bing center in Manchuria with direct shipments. Such a close relationship could not fail to develop vast trade throughout Manchuria, which not only favors American eotton goods if it can eliminate the Shanghai commission and storage charges, but is also re- ported as eager for American stoves, lamps, plows, harrows and cultivators. In these and {n many other lines, all that seems to be needed is close culti- vation of the field and direct trade connections. With the one bar to progress so clearly pointed out, the remedy ought to be speedily applied, and.the Man- churian commerce of the Unifed States made the envy of all other manufac- turing nations. Lessons of Co-education. In this day of violent agitation by the suffragists, when militant activi- ties of the one-time gentler sex are apt to give the impression that mod- ern thought and ‘higher education are making woman more of an opponent than a co-worker of man, it is worth while to look into the records of ad- vanced womanhopd in some center where the experiment has been long blished. Such a fountain-head is the University of Wisconsin, where co- education has been practised for nearly forty years, and where fn the beginning it was prophesied that woman, given equal opportunities with man, would proceed to dominate his established fleld. An advanced woman, summarizing the results both in the Wisconsin uni- versity and among the graduates, finds that the man has continuously main- tained his chosen domination as of old. For Instance, woman has steadily diverged from political ecohomy, though at first attracted by the idea that therein might lle her emancipa- tion from thraldom, but after a little investigation, she concludes that the prerogatives of her own sex yield her something better than she discovers in the prerogatives of masculinity, and be such a bird of a ple as to put Mr. Vose's annual Rhode Island turkey in the background. a * 8o close Is the vote on the bonds to the two-thirds line,, which must be Passed to carry them, that it will take Yerification to make sure. Bond buy- are proverblally exacting about all z ies to a bond issue so that the nny authorities will do well . 1ssued. she declines to trade. Therefore we behold, in college, and in after lite, the man maintaining his leadership in practical and hard-headed affairs, nu- merically and vitally at the fore in the serious business of life, and virtually alone in the pursuit of politics and its ramifications. * Womat, however, as from the begin- ing, is steadfast to the more orna- mental or aesthetic occupations and have no loophole if the bonds are (o |interests, leaving the political and eco- nomic proviems for the men. Where man shans belles-lettres and other ele- gant studies or pursuits, woman neg- lects the very matters into which the militant suffragists would drive them. This demonstration from the field of thorough experiment and long ex- perience will encourage the country's muititude of old-fashioned housewives and mothers in the faith that thelr daughters will continue to be the com- plement of the nation's sons, rather than arrayed against them. One More Reoruit. Colonel Bryan's army of tariff re- form has this week enlisted one more recruit. It will be remembered that the color bearer is Congressman Sulzer of Tam- many hall, who rushed te the front at the first notice and accepted service under Colonel Bryan's own conditions. The Tammany congressman was fol- |1owed by three others, each, however, Insfsting on adopting his own style of uniform. The democratic congressman from Massachusetts wants to go before the country with a promise to remove the duties from the necessaries of life and fight it out afterward as to what con- stitutes life's necessities. The fire-eating member from Arkan- sas invokes Divine Will to commission the democratic party to abolish all ob- stacles to absolute free trade between any two spots on God's footstool. The democratic congressman from Miesouri is willing to shut his eyes and swallow anything Dr. Bryan may pre- scribe. And now comes the fifth recruit in the person of Congressman Morris Sheppard of Texas. Young Mr. Shep- pard has most agreeable and winning ways. He inherited his seat in con- gress on the death of his father, who had it before him, and he has no fear that anyone will get it away from him. Mr. Sheppard must have misunder- stood Colonel Bryan's position, because he says: 1 am opposed to protection in any sense and from any standpoint, whether on raw materials or finished products. Colonel Bryan should repeat to him that his program contemplates retain- ing the duties on finished products irre- spective of any incidental protection they may confer. Mr. S8heppard says he would go further than Mr. Bryan. He ought to know that no good dem- ocrat has any right to go further than Mr. Bryan. But, as he says he belleves in the binding force of platforms, all he has to do is to add that he belleves in letting Colonel Bryan write the plat- forms, and then he will be entitled to be admitted to the Bryan regiment as a member in good standing. Let the good work of getting the democratic party together on a prac- tical tariff program go on, Attorney General Thompson in his answer to a petition of the railroads to have the 2-cent fare law set aside as- serts that the reduced fares have not m”'?‘ railway revenues, but in- creased them. If he can only convince the rafirdads of that fact they will dis- ml- lhelr ssult. ‘Renewal of the contest over the es-. tafe Tetf by Count Creighton warrants rejteration of a remark made at the time the threatened will contest was projected, that if the count had onmly bad an inkling of what was to come he would have made his bequests to all those lawyers direct. It is said that during the state teach- ers’ convention at Lincoln as many elght teachers were compelled to bunk together in one room. Must have been almost as overcrowded as some of the school rooms. Changeable habits of employment are inevitable in a country where the presidential term is limited to four years and where men of energy are likely to advise their boys not to stay too long in any one place, regardless of the adage about the rolling stone. It is unusual, therefore, and somewhat refreshing, to contemplate the distine- tion of a man who has filled one office with great personal happiness and with much good to the world at large for half a century. The circumstance inspiring this reflection is the retire- ment from the faculty of Columbia university of Dean Van Amringe at the close of fifty years of service, dur- ing which he has be‘n a personal blessing to hosts of young men start- ing on their triumphant way. A man's real gtanding in a community js es- tablished by his nickname—the dean is affectionately known as “Van Am,"” and that sobriquet is equivalent®to a college cheer among Columbia men all over the world. its most lost one of aggressive good citizens, and western newspaperdom one of its most fear- lessly outspoken editors, in the death of Thomas B. Murdock of Eldorado. He was one of the unique group that has kept the state of Kansas before Kansas has the Amerjcan people, and that has earnestly striven to eradicate some of the things that have been the matter with it. His personal faith was well expressed when he advised the young men of his state: “Live the life that gives you the courage to look the world squarely in the face and say, ‘I am everything a man ought to be, and nothing a man ought not to be.’ Live the life that promises you an up- holstered seat in the amen corner of that happler and more glorious world beyond the grave,” In the appointment of Cameron Forbes to the post of governor general of the Philippines, President Taft has not only satisfied his own judgment concerning the fitness of the incumb- ent, but he has also placated that par- ticular form of New England opposi- ‘ THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY tion to the administration of the ls- lands which has centered in Massachu- setts, for Mr, Forbes is a Bay Stater by birth, a Harvard graduate, and a grandson of Emerson, a trinity which ought to satisfy the most orthodox Puritan. In addition, he has for years been identitied with the progressive doings in the Philippines, and has per- sonally conducted some of the most arduous of their reforms. Back to Washington Post. All chips have been removed from po- Mtical ‘shoulders throughout the country, and the fighting language stored for the next time. Beat Him to It. St. Loufs Globe-Democrat. Commander Peary is about to begin his serfes of North pole lectures. It can not be denied that Dr. Cook beat him to the lecture platform, —_— Nebraska Back in Line. Philadelphia Press. Nebraska, too, abandons Bryan, and re- verses the majority of a year ago. This will not intérfére with a “national figure." What is the loss of a state more or less to & man like Bryan, who has been losing states for thirteen years, —— . Political Salvation. Philadeiphia Ledger. San Francisco went into the campaign with the cry “Save San Franoisco,” each faction having in mind its salvation from the other fellow. It has been saved, of course. There was no alternative. Knowledge as & Prize W Boston Transcript. Amid the scoffs and jeers of the natives, the Long Island raflroad established two experimental farms several years ago. This vear it has taken twenty-four first prizes and twenty-three second and third prizes at the county fairs, and the local attitude has now changed to a desire to know how it is done, litying Oity Government. Philadelphia Pre: Boston has decided to concentrate civic power In & mayor, elected once in four years, and a city “council of nine. This Is the tendency of the day, and the course of clty eleetions over the country show trom San Francisco eastward the grave difficulty of securing good eity adminis- tration with frequent elections for many officers. Chicago Tribune, “Why all this fuss about one's private affairs?’ asked John Jacob Astor when he was appealed to for Information con- cerning his wife's application for a di- vorce. There are many people who will agree with Mr. Astor in the opinion that it is mone of the public's business. Never- theless, it is the fear of publicity that keeps many men from going the way which Mr. Astor Is alleged to have chosen. Discarding His Old Love. Springtield Republican. Norman E. Mack of Buffalo, N. Y., a friend of the Nebraskan, long democratic candidate for the presidency.” Mr. Mack is chairman of the democratic Washington Life Short Sketches of Inmoidents and Epi- vodes that Mark the Progress of Hvents &t the WNational Oapital. The “50 deep waterway boosters” au- thicrized by the New Orleans convention to camp in Washington until congress sup- plies the wherewith to “dig her deep thiough Dixie,” can hardly fall to make an impression. But numbers do not count in results as effectively as the backfire methcds of modern lobbying. The Phila- delphia Press gives editorial prominence to the lobbying system that impresses Wash- ington, and how radically it differs from the ways of bygone days. Money was the motive power them. It is equally neces- sary today, but It works in less dangerous ways. It is clean money and Is spent legitimately f thousands of dollars, ave been spent in securing laws that are now on the statute books. This money was used for educational purposes, and It was not used in Washington. It was spread out over the whole broad land. It was used in educating the voters in congressional di tricts as to be the neceaity of such laws, “It has been estimated that the reclam: tion act cost its original advocates no | than 315000 For years systematic and valuable work was carrled on to Impress the people of the country with the justice and necessity of government aid for irriga- tion. The lecture platform, pamphlets and periodicals were all used. A popular sentl- ment was aroused and congress responded. “This is up-to-date lobbying. It s the method used by the advocates of every im- portant general plece of legislation. It Is also used by the opponents of such legisl: tion. Its purpose is not to work directly upon the congressmen in Washington, but to work upon their constituents and con- vince the latter that it is to thelr Interest to have certain laws passed. If the con- stituents are convinced they will do the rest. Few congressmen refuse to listen to the volce of the people of their districts.” Most persons in the big cities have seen, usually on top of federal buildings, a little instrument which in some respects re- sembles a “horizontal windmill"—disks or balls revolving rapidly around a spindle. When the wind is blowing sutficiently hard national committee because Mr. Bryan did not object to his holding that place. Now this radical democrat seems to be turn- ing with hope to Governor Judson Har- mon of Ohlo, though as yet he s uncom- mitted to any cendidate. Mr. Harmon's party regularity 'is ‘unchallenged, and all wings of the party might be able to unite on him. This, at least, is a fair inference trom Mr. Mack's utteranc MEASURING THE COST. L4 Disbursements for Pensions for Serve fce in American Wars. Philadelphia Record. “War is hell,” sald General Sherman whilst we were In the heat and stress of our great civil conflict. But not he, nor any other of the participants in that fright- ful struggle, fully measured the cost. The clyll war has, indeed, cost more since it was ended than all the direct expenses in- curred in carrying it on. The current an- nual report of the pension commissioner gives the following statement of disburse- ments for pensions from the beginning of the government: the revolution (estl- mate). War of 18i# (service pension). Indlan wars rvice pension). War with Mexico (service pen- Cl"illl war . t“.&m by Ml i 26,383,606 Untiabied”". AT " Total §3,913,088,501 The above total does not include the pension payments for the present fiscal year, which will increase the amount to over $4,000,000,000. Since the war was ended there has been no reason to modify the térse opinion of General Sherman. He knew what he was talking about. — WATER POWER DEVELOPMENT. A Clear Expesition of Govermment Policies. Minneapolis Journal. Mr. Gifford Pinchot, the government's chief forester, is out in a letter on the conservation of water power that may serve to clear the atmosphere sombwhat. Mr. Pinchot denles that he is in favor of delaying the exploitation of new water powers In any way, but, on the contrary, favors rapid development by private en- terprise and private capital. He Is in tent only that any grants made by the government be for a limited period, such as fifty years, so that these powers shall not be given away In perpetuity. The experience of the government with reclamation of irrigable lands has demon- strated, if demonstration were needed, that publie works of that kind are far more economically and effectively carried on by private enterprise under government regu- lation than when undertaken by the gov- ernment Itself. Its every movement de- layed and impeded by red tape, the gov- ernment moves in such matters with in- credible slowness, and when it does move, the expenses are multiplied many tinfes by officlal extravagance and waste. While Mr. Pinchot does not contend that a great water power trust is actually in process of formation, he points out that the natural tendency of the times is in that direction, and that, moreover, there is already community of Interest among large power egmpanies extending over wide areas. In cenftral California the movement has Feéached the stage of a single cor- porate interest controliing the water rights of & vast region. The great point, the vital point, is that the government shall retain ownership of these vast natural benefits, for posterity. It Is useless to ery, let posterity take care of itself. The American mind totally re. jects that cold doctrine. Tt will not have it. Present greed may as well abandon the idea of gatting absolute possession of what belongs to all the people for all time. The use of the water powers it can have on falr terms. Thelr absolute unreguiated ownership it can never havy to make one pull his hat on tight these lttle disks or balls revolve so rapidly that they appear to be a circular streak. The ingtrument is called an anemometer. It is used to record the velocity of the wind, and up to last week it has performed IS IT WORTH IT! Tragedies on Foot Ball Field Force Question to the Front. Washington Post. Two picked young men chosen from among many competitors for thelr su- perior mentality and excellent physique, one at Annapolis, and one at West Point, are lying, the one bruised, broken, and probably dying, the other dead, from in- Juries reeelved in recent fodt ball games. Who can measure the grief to their fam- flles and friends to see such splendid young fellows, full of vigor and promise, the pride and joy of those who loved them struck down In an instant, and the open- Ing careers replete with hope to them and coming benefit and credit to the country they had elected to serve, forever closed? And for what? ‘We are told the game develops manline courage, alertness, endurance, and ph: cal strength, and furnishes one of the best forms of outdoor exercise. There have never been lacking, long before foot ball became the leading subject in the cur- riculs of the time, plenty of men in the army and navy and in eivil life possessing an abundance of all these qualities to carry them and the country through any emergency they have been called on to meet. Admitting that foot ball does to some extent foster manly traits, it must not be forgotten that it also develops very brutal and unmanly ones, that even the most rigid rules and penalties have not been sufficlent to wholly suppress slu ging, unfairness, and a determination to win by foul means it necessary. That it has tended and does still tend to unduly magnify and exalt mere physical prowess, setting up a misieading and harmful stand- ard among young men whose primary ob- Ject should be proficlency in their studies, there can be no question, and there is no question that an adequate amount of phy- slcal training can be secured without foot- ball. None of the other games is subject to the objections which apply to it. Every year numbers of young fellows are slaughtered and maimed “to make an American hollday.” 1Is it worth it? It we must have such spectacles, why not turn to the bull fight, which we are so ready to criticise, but which, as a rule, kills only bulls? Is it not time that the government, at least, should say that young men it takes in charge to educate, and on which It must rely on in the future, shall not be subject to such risks? If for no higher or better reason these ac- cidents Involve an economic loss to the its task faithtully, with never a hitch. A few days ago, however, when a typhoon swept over the Philippines, one of the in- struments was called upon to register such an enormous velocity that it balked. was blown off its feet, so to speak. The machine recorded a wind velocity up to 13 miles an hour and then it stopped. That was the limit. No provision has been made to register the speed of a flash of lightnin As & result Prof, Willis Moore, weather bureau chief, has turned his attention to the construction of & machine on & new principle designed to withstand any storm. The death rate among the retired general officers of the army during the last few weeks exceeds that of any other period of equal length, and is spoken of as “starl- ling” by th ider officers, No less than seven general officers have dled within as many weeks. These were Lieutenant Gen- eral Henry C. Corbin, 67 years of age; Major General Eilwell 8. Otis, 71; Major General Alfred E. Bates, 67; Major General 0. O. Howprd, 79; Major General Robert P. Hughes, 70; Brigadier General R. C. Drum, $4, and Brigadier General Adfred 8, Kimball, 69. Although some of these officers were long past middle lie, in less than half of the cases can their deaths be attributed to causes Incident to advanced age. Alto- gether forty-nine retired officers have dled #0 far this year, The United States register or “Blue which has been published bien- nally since 1817, was of over four thou- sand pages in two large volumes in 1906. Before 1817 the germ of the publication had been appearing for over twenty years in the shape of simple lists of govern- ment clerks transmitted to congress by the secretaries, but in that year provision was made for lssuing regularly & com- plete register. There was a time when the blue book was a convenlent size for , though contalning a full ros- During Washington's administration the secretaries of State, Treasury and War, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton and Henry Knox, transmitted the names of their clerks to congress, and In 1793 Secretary Hamilton forwarded to congress @ general list of clerks, agents and em- ployes on the government rolls. This lat- ter, being printed, was the first blue book or register. The government was then in Philadelphia, and in the three departments there we jess than 150 names, two- thirds being In the treasury. The tide of official travel is setting Washingtonward this week for the first time In three months. The city is still practically deserted by high place holders —an almost unprecedented condition this late In the autumn—but the signs of a neral return begin to appear. This Is due to the prospective arrival of Presi- dent Taft November 10. Since congress adjourned, August 7, the nine members of the oabinet have been taking vacations or delrg thelr work at home most of the time. Assistant sec- retaries and bureau chiefs have followed sult to an unusual degr The president in the course of his long journey has kept up with more important work, but & big grist will be awaiting him when he walks into the brand-new offices, now as good as completed. It is taken for granted in Washington that he will post- pone the contemplated trip to Panama be- cause of the brief time before the assem- bling of congress and the great amount of work he should dispose of before early December. There will be but three and & half weeks in which to prepare his an- nual message and hold the numerous po- Mtical conferences that generally ; recede & session of congr There are 286 varleties of chrysanthe- mums on exhibition at the Department of Agriculture’s annual show this year, elghty-five of which have never been dis- played before. Lovers of flowers come from sll over the country to view and study this exhibit. One of the inter varfeties is the President Taft white ball-shaped bloom, simil Fidelity. The Willlam Jennin, is also white and similar to the President Taft, except the bloom is not so round and the plant grows higher. The Edith Root 18 a besutiful pink. The President Roose- velt, & last year's varlety, is a pale pink. The Colonel Ducrosiet is one of the best of the yellows. The quill-shaped petals are the distinguishing characteristics of the Rayonnante, One of the most beauti- ful of all the specimens is the F‘ld'llly, large white bloom. Back the ple L Sloux City Tribune. When & man ean raise a family and get rich on 20 scres of land, ltke that ohap in southern Nebraska is doing, it is time to quit the strenuous life and resort to the intensive methods of farming, and stop talking ebout the scarcity of lend for tarming purposes. government from which it should proteet itself. —— AMERICA BLESSES THE WORLD. Chicago Inter-Ocean. The annual report of the auditor of the Postotfice department—its financial report —contains the usual statistics of the money order buginess. One tabulation s made which we do not remember to have seen before. It is stated that during the last twenty years more than $640,000,000 has been trans- mitted by money orders to forelgn coun- tries. It is remarked that most or all of this money is evidently the surplus earn- ings of immigrants employed In the United States. The inference is plainly correct. Ordi- nary mercantile transactions are not con- ducted through the postotfice. whose money order business is limited to small sums. And when we consider the other means of sending money, and the amounts that are carried persqnally, it is essy to see that a most conservative estimate of the amount sent by lmmigrants to their former homes abroad would be $1,000,000000 in the twenty years In question. And thus we sée how Ameriea and the opportunity of prosperity that American Institutions give to the ordinary man lighten the woes of the world. For this money—practically all of it—went to the famiHes of the senders. It made easy the 0ld age of fathers and mothers worn with toll. It brought wives and children to re- join the husbands and fathers. It kept thousands of sisters from desperation or worse in the harder conditions of other PERSONAL NOTES. » Mrs. Pankhurst ‘wants to know If the wo men of this country could not mareh on Washington. Certalnly they could, but why? New York editors generally do not secm to appreciate the seif-sacrificing spirit which one of their number exposed to axe and already scarified neck Willlam Lane Carson, who dled at Ram sey, 111, was a grandson pf S8amuel Carson, who came to Amerfea from Ireland at the age of 16, and fought with Braddock's army throughout its disastrous campaign Deacon Stillman has just celebrated his fortieth year of service on the New York Sun staff, but still sits up with the young- est cub after the paper has gone to press and talks about the wondertul days of old For the first time in years the Turkish legation in Washington Is real busy. The assumption that Turks, Syrians and Ar- menlans were not “white men” in the meaning of the natyralization law induced the embassy o sit up and take notlce Mrs. Indlana Hogan, 104 years old, and her son”Levi Howard, 71 years old, whom she characterizes as “‘my baby," passed through Kansas City the other day enroute for Anabel, Mo., to the Osark regions, where they are going for the son's health. They are discovering at Washington that Prof. A. P. Andrew, of Harvard, lately ap- pointed director of the United States mint, wrote once upon a time In sharp criticism of the paternalistic conduct of the United States Treasury department under Secre- taried Shaw and Gage. Miss Ethel Wharton is the nurse hero- ine of Wales, and the first British woman to receive the Carnegle medal for hero- ism. All Great Britain knows of the valor of her deed, but in Wales she is enshrined in the heart of every mother—for she risked her life and became a cripple to save & baby. UNIQUE LEGAL CONTEST. Attempt to Show Oklahoma Constitu- tion is Unconstitutional. Kansas City Star. The Oklahoma rallroads are attempt- ing to annul the 2-cent fare law of that state in the United States court at Guthrie, and in heir fight ugainst low fares they are confronted by a unique situation. They must prove that the constitution of Okla- homa is unconstitutional. In other states the roads have been able to attack the 2-cent laws as antagonistic to the constitutional rights of the corpor ations. In Qklahoma the constitution pro- vides that the rallroads may charge only two cents per mile for carrying passengers. So that, Instead of the usual plea that the reduced fares are unwarranted by the oi- ganic law of the state, the rallroads must show that the demand of the organic law is unwarranted by econditions. The contest Is certain to attract atten- tion because the result of the suit filed by the rallroads may have a potent influence in the solution of the rate problem. It pre- sents, also, the interesting feature of in- volving the soverelgn power of a state to adopt its own method of regulating cor- porations. The evident intent of the constitution makers of Oklahoma was to reverse the legal conditions surrounding the question of rate regulation; to remove the obstacle of “constitutional rights” so frequently |- Jected into such lawsuits to delay and ofien defeat the state In putting into effect statutes enacted by the legislaturcs In ro- sponke to public demand for lower rates, Therefore they ‘made the 2-cent fare the standard passenger charges, and placed all the responsibllity for ehowing that this standayd was unfalr upon’ the, rpadistheny el The corporation commission is made the court of arbitration. The constitution gives it the power to suspend the 2-cent fare when the showing convinces the com mission that the rate is unjust or confis- catory. But the railroads must produce all bgoks and accounts of the corporations, establish the physical value of the prop- erty, and the actual Investment involved i the operation of the road, to make that showing. ThegOklahoma railroads have appealed to the United States courts to declare this lands. It was charity that was not hAlms ~the loving kindness of the family. And the gifts that the American oppor- tunity has enabled millions of its workers in' the ranks to send back to their old homes have done more to Iift the burden from weary shoulders, to bring peace to anxious minds and to comfort sore hearts than all the “agitations” and ‘‘movements’ have done in the same period or in any other perfod. Those are but words that trouble the ear and die upon the air. Here are those fruits of human kindness—their garnering possible in this blessed land of ours by humble hands as in no other—that make life worth living. —— ON MAKING A NEWSPAFPER. The Simplest of Taske in the Opl of Those Who Don’t Know. Washington Star, Men who make newspapers sometimes be- leve that their profession 15 an exacting one. They are wrong, It is the simplest calling. Making & newspaper s an easy trick. Anybody can do 1 A lawyer with only a ‘diploma and a brass sign, who would lose & suit even it the other side was ready to confess judg- ment, will tell you how to run a newspa- per. A physielan who would send his pa- tient to the morgue before the preserip- tion has been filled will know sll the fine points of making & newspaper. An actor who never earned any other plaudit than a soft tomato will give Instrubtions in hand- ling the world's news. Any old lady who knows enough to get off a street car back- ward has positive opinions on the press. Even & soclety person who never paid any- thing but a call or made anything but a visit or 4id anything but a tallor knows how stupld those men are who write “stories,’” edit ‘“cop: wrestle with that won't fit and get the paper out on time. One rewson for the universality of perfec- tion In this trade, among those who do not work at it, is that everybody has been em- ployed in it. It is a most unusual thing to meet & man who, when the occasion seems ripe, will not say “I used to be & newspa- per man myself.” Every time & man works his country editor for & puff on the strength of a big pumpkin he graduates in journalism. When he writes a “‘plec for the Squash County Clarion about most enjoyable entertainment”’ he com- pletes his post-graduate course in newspa- per work, and when he writes a communi- cation on both sides of the paper to the editor he becomes & thirty-third degree member of the Tribe of Scribe. That so many men have abandoned liter- ature for the law, medicine and other easy walks of life simply shows that many men would rather fall In one thing than another. New York Tribune. Speaker Cannon denied In New Orleans the other evening that he was colossus bestriding 400 members of con- gress and 90,000,000 of people.” Mr, Cannon may not have been designed by nature to serve as a colossus, but it eannot be de- nied that in the house rules as he applies them he has a wonderfully stalwart and spreading pair of legy provision of the Oklahoma coustitution antagonistic to the federal constition. If the Oklahoma document is upheld it wili point the way for other states to the solu- tion of w tious problem by constitu- tional amendments rather than statutory enactments. A BUNCH OF SMILES. Knicker—What 15 & foot ball? | TA Diece of leather entirely sur- by twenty-twe men.—Jud: Bocke! raunded Imogene~Why Is it that so many wed- ings D on Wedn ? Esmeralda—Well, on Sunday everybody wants to you know; Monday s wash eaday is Ironing da. ednes- s the first day In the week when ‘g, Jeally any time for marrying.—Chi- ribune, t cago “Marry me,"” pleaded the mere ma: your -Ilpusn wish shall be granted. “‘But,’” queried the wise woman, about me large ones? '—Detroit News, “Does your heart ever reach out for the unattainabl 'No, but is not at home; there are three buttons in the back of my sgwn that I just’ cannot reach,”—Houston S What beauyful head of hair you have, my ds Do you like 17" indeed. Where did you buy Press. Yes, - Detroit Free reforming “Miss Prue has a theory for the world."” “‘What is 11" “That mothers ought dren because they alwa: ol \deas how other women's children should be brought up."—St. Louls Times. “Gladys," reprimanded her stern father, “I am shocked! 1 actually saw you kiss that tall young man with the long hair.” (Well, papa, he's an suthor,” ‘spoke up Miss Gladys with a pou "And what has that ' a0 with 12 pa, didn’t you sy with your 35 BRivoung suthdre shouln be on- cd '~Chicago News, said, “what a eplendia ‘o ould mak ra? he falt you ma; .lg'mlu anythi ol Because, deeply, you don’t s Do you imagine that Clarence Iu( any time (n speaking out and telling the Jovely Eirl what waa U8 his sind? He did not, dear children.—Chicago Record-Herald. John D. Wells in Buffalo News. Wn-n Johnnle went away to schqol He rigidly conformed to rule. At first he ed And"onesn'ormm e e T that. And then he made the Delta Phis, Who gouged out tme of Johnnie's eyes A “rush” that MW the coll Deprived him of a useful fll’(l e be ng." He was That Johnn Illd‘.&l l‘- th ense. H-hnunuucm- nd, O.— A kneecap at St Louls, g His stroum cracked at Baltimore— Interred his nose at Portland, Ore.; At every contest, win leld, Wm;m\.‘:mtfi‘h‘ Thus gradually he was bereft Tl Uthe Of the boy was teft, 4 We got his bome b, — The rest of J came b; :uul. ) A ] ¥ & ¢ » y hands do when my husband } y Vs