Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 15, 1909, Page 4

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The burrs are opening on the annual crop of “What I Have to Be Thankful Ifor” chestnuts Noiseless and smokeless cannon? Yes, but not the same. This is the electric invention of & Bmoky City res- ident. And now the British suffragettes have taken to cowhiding such men as Winston Churchill in public. Pretty, pretty! Mrs. Speyer’s bequest of $10,000,000 for charity shows that the benevolent actimilation of wealth 18 going happily onward: Omaha’s street cleaning department is playing in luck when the heavenly flushing machines come 8o conveniently to the rescu A Kansas instructor has invented an electric device to determine whether a boy has been smoking. Another way is to test his breath. The tramp caught hiding in the pres- ident’s private car may be expected to boast all the rest of his life about his Mayflower ancestry. The scientists speculating as to how the whale lost its teeth might consider the possibility of Jonah having been too hard a nut to crack. Having shredded about everything “olse in sight, the professors of the Uni- versity of Chicago are now declaring the United States constitution obsolete. The prediction of preacher that one hundred years hence woman will be ruling America naturally raises the question what on earth she is doing now. R We shall soon see whether Kdgar Howard got instructions to soft pedal on hig' demand that “Down with the federal courts” be the next paramount issue. —_— With: Chancellor Avery as their dis- tinguished rooter, the bleachers should take heart in the great game of the Nebraska millers against Secretary Wilson. The Lincoln Journal says the liquor laws are being no more flagrantly vio- lated im that burg now than they were before Lincoln voted itself dry. Let it go at that. Statisticians are aseribing the in- crease “of suicides to the strenuous life. Yet progressive man will go right on with his preference of wearing out as against rusting out., —_— When it comes to getting him to pick up the hot end of the Sackett law poker, the anti-saloonists discover that Governor Shallenberger is not much different from Governor Sheldon. Women of New York's swelldom are said to have adopted a new walk known as the horse show glide. Judging from the pletures, it's a carriage such as would put any self-respecting horse to shame. K —_— According fo the World-Herald, the next democratic platform will be writ- ten by the rank and file of the party. But the usual precaution will be taken to provide some member of the resolu- tions committee with an advance copy of a platform such as Mr. Bryan would write if that duty were to be delegated to him CHE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1909. The Freeing of Mme. Steinheil. Forth from the shadow of the guil- lotine steps Mme. Steinhell into the free air of France, after one of the most extraordinary trials that ever has stirred the pulses of emotional Paris No doubt the jurors took into consider- ation the fact that the prisoner was a woman, that she had suffered the cruelest of mental tortures, whether innocent or guilty, and that by her conduct in prison and in court she had shown a genuine desire and intention to redeem herself if given the oppor- tunity. And so the woman with a past goes forth to achieve a future. In spite of the accumulation of proofs of an in- volved career which had brought her to this desperate situation, Madame Steinheil is given, in one of those strange impulses that seize the French temperament, as much of the benefit of the doubt as though she were on trial in America, where innocence fs presumed. The judges in their scarlet robes look up from their books of legal lore which they have been pon- dering while the jurors weighed the case, receive the foreman’s word of ac- quittal, and give it their official seal. It {8 an impressive modern interpreta- tion of the mystic, masterful acquittal of old, “Neither do I condemn thee.” But let the woman deafen her ears to the applause of the Parisian throng; let her heed not the allurement of those who would exploit her case among the tinsel and the gaudy lights. For he for the woman of old whose record was traced in letters of sand which the elements were quick to ef- face and which no man has ever read, all ambition and endeavor should be based absolutely on fidelity to the com- mand, “Go, and sin no more.” On Guard at Washington. President Taft's eulogy of Raymond Patterson, the well known Washington newspaper correspondent who has just passed away, calls attention to one of the potent forces of good citizenship which Edmund Burke in his day char- acterired as the fourth estate. Mr. Taft's present individual tribute is a specialization of the general remarks that he made to a gathering of legisla- tive correspondents in the east during the winter preceding his nomination for the presidency, when he spoke in warmest praise of the sterling qualities of the men of the newspaper corps at the average state capital and of the staff writers at Washington. All public men know, as Mr. Taft expresses it, that, with rare exceptions, the newspaper correspondent in the halls ot legislation, whether state or congressional, is not only loyal to the state secrets confided to him by public men, but is also absolutely faithful to the Interests of the people. While lead- ers of partles may at times be vulner- able to attack, the legislative corre- spondent must keep the public posted ainst all public perils. The tricky or the crooked politician fears the in- corruptible newspaper man at his el- bow. The presence of that alert and fearless inquisitor is a salutary check on deep lald conspiracies agalnst pub- lic interests, and the legislative cor- respondent in state or national capital maintains a wholesome and efficient safeguard against political chicanery that would invade the people’s rights. Mr. Patterson’s case is not excep- tional, but is & distingulshed example of the power in the hands of the fourth estate. A classmate and for thirty-five years an intimate personal friend of Mr. Taft, “Raymond,” as he signed himself, never hesitated to report facts or express convictions If he deemed op- position or eriticism demanded for the public good. The duty of the newspa- per reporter, such as 18 the Washing- ton correspondent in thé highest de- gree of that craft, is to keep the people posted, and in fulfilling that duty with- out fear or favor he is performing one of the most necessary functions to en- lightened free government. One Ship Subsidy Exhibit. ‘While the subject 1s under consider- ation in this country, the presentment made by Vice Consul General Fuller at 'Hongkong concerning the ship subsi- dies of Japan may be of interest as bearing on the trans-Pacific trade of the United States. Mr. Fuller reviews the operations of the Nippon subsidy system for the last ten years, and pre- sents figures to show that the results are so unsatisfactory as to throw doubt on the practical value to Japan. The experience of the subsidized lines seems to disclose the fact that they are not carrying any greater annual tonnage of cargo than when they first started, and that the increase in the number of passengers is comparatively insignifi- cant. But if Japan has not profited by the subsidies, the United States has, for the consular tables show that the transcontinental railways operating to San Francisco and Puget sound have become large feeders for the Pacific gained In exports while Japan has los In this connection it will be remem- bered that Mr. Hill put into commis- sion modern steamships designed to wrest the Pacific trade from the Jap- anese ships, but their operation with- out subsidy resulted in such a loss that he had to stop, and the vessels now are rusting at their wharves. The Japanese experience is not con- clusive, for it must be evident that no subsidy, whether a direct grant or in the form of a mail contract, can de- velop trade along any course where there is not sufficlent commercial ae- tivity to stimulate commercial enter- prise. The Japanese have only recently subsidized a new route to South Amer- fca which is already reported as mak- ing Inroads on the traffic through Pan- ama and San Francisco. That is a fleld well worth watching, and may afford different results from those now' re- ported by Mr. Fuller Fake Nonpartisanship. The fake nonpartisanship behind which the democrats tried to mask in thd recent campaign in Nebraska was pretty well exposed before the election. But since the election the democrats, themselves, are no longer disguising the fact that it was a masquerade in which they were engaged. The ‘Bee has once before quoted the following extract from the demoeratic World- Herald under date of October 12: The democratic candidates stand squarely on a nonpartisan platform. They are mak- Ing no partisan appeal. Neither they nor the party to which they belong could con- strue thelr election as a partisan victory. Here is what Mr. Bryan's Commoner now says about ft: In Nebraska the democrats came very near electing their judicial ticket. When it is considered that the republican candi- dates on the judicial ticket two years ago were clected by over 24,000 majority this is a gratifying gain and & promise for next year. Note that the Commoner calls it & democratic ticket’ and not a nonpar- tisan ticket. Note, also, that the Com- moner regards whatever measure of success may have attended the nonpar- tisan bunco game as & promise inspir- ing democratic hope for next year. It any republicans permitted them- selves to be fooled by the nonpartisan fake Into voting the democratic ticket at the last election it is time for them to wake up. Entangling Foreign Alliances. It was a gracious act for the distin- guished banqueters in New York to drink to the health of King Edward on his birthday, but not so fitting for men to sit in silence and permit to go un- answered the eloquent appeal of a cel- ebrated king's counsellor from Canada for an Anglo-American alliance. It the gifted Canadian had firm ground for his assurance that our rela- tions point to a necessary reorganiza- tion for a closer alliance of the two Anglo-Saxon countries, then it is time for us to take heed and cling close to our traditional policles. Toast the British ruler we shall be happy todo, as a friendly people, so long as the British shall remain content, and birth- day congratulations may continue to be a cousinly and a proper act; but when it comes to taking on entangling alllances with any ambitious European. monarchy, even though the appeal be made in the soft and pleasant voice of one of her colonial children, we will remember the days of old when in- triguers sought to draw us into the maelstrom of European politics, and stand fast in the faith ¥pat what we could not do for the sake of France, which had just befriended us, we can- not now do in these later days when the victor must be the one who can go it alone. The wisdom of avoiding foreign complications has been manifest from the beginning of the American repub- e, and we will no more tolerate being inveigled Into dangerous alllances to- day than we could in Washington's time. The Wages of Carelessne: Every shocking mine diseaster very properly prompts immediate investiga- {tion with a view to perfecting safe- guards against repetitions of such oc- currences, yet these fatalities continue with distressing frequency. The latest appalling catastrophe in Illinois in- stantly inspires the inquiry who is to blame, and the answer seems to be as readily forthcoming that a miner's careless use of a torch was responsible for the tragedy. Familiarity breeds contempt for danger, as for everything else. One of the first attributes of the miner, know- ing the special peril in which he is placed, ought to be an excess of cau- tion, yet the history of most mine ex- stance, a deliberate invitation of de- struction and death by a foolhardy in- difference. Men above the earth may piln and invent safety devices till the crack of doom, but all precautions and forethought will have no avall so long as incendlaries of carelessness go down into the pit. In the old days the name Jamalca was synonymous with the word rum, dealt in that cargo from the British West Indies. But latterly Jamaica's chief industry has been the shipment of fruits and the luring of tourists. Visitors this winter will find the plan- tations devastated by another of those hurricanes which periodically visit those regionge but in that climate na- ture soon repalirs its ravages, and while the crop loss will make it a hard season, the trade doubtless will soon be restored. The rainfall in the latest visitation seems to have been a record- breaker. Four feet in four days is a prodigious amount of water, sufficlent mercantile fleet. Apparently we hlve‘w wash away the last lingering flavor | of rum from the reputation of the banana-land. P To the protest of commercial inter- ests of the country against the pro- posed increase of telegraph tolls might |be added the inquiry, what has become of the new devices which were to revo- lutionize telegraphy and bring down rates. Wireless for a long time has been promising overland service, and automatic mechanisms for multiplying the capacity of wires have been ex- ploited without any manifest quaking among the established companies. If it be true that Western Union and Postal have a rate compact, it would seem that there is not yet hope of competi- tion from the newer mediums, and it might be worth while to look into the plosions reveals, as in the present in- | and many a trim New England craft | matter whether such a combination is within the law Speaker Cannon's statement that he had a chance tq trade a free wood pulp for the presidency is supposed to be based on a conversation with Herman Ridder of the New York Staats-Zei- tung. Aside from the fact that Mr. Ridder repudiates the {mputation, there are two things to be noted: First, that Mr. Ridder would have found it impossible to deliver the sup- port of the newspapers of the country to anyone. Secondly, that fhe extent of Mr. Ridder's ability to elect his pre- ferred candidate i®= on record in the campalgn of Mr. Bryan. The promised enlargement of Omaha's Union station will be a much deseired improvement, but while about it why not provide some tragsit con- nection with the Burlington station? If these two stations, separated only by train sheds and tracks, cannot yet be wholly merged, passengers should at least be accommodated with a con- necting subway. Wyoming ‘morals are looking up. Not only has there been successful prosecution that will tend to terminate the ancient range feuds, but the sheriff has also declined to share in the re- ward money, modestly stating that as a salaried state officer he had only done his duty. Since Judge Good still holds on to his place on the district bench, all those nonpartisan democratic lawyers who were promised the salary by gu- bernatorfal appointment may solace themselves with the thought that it was the other fellow who was to have been buncoed. It goes without saying that the third generation of Bryans, when placed in private tutelage in Germany, will be thoroughly safeguarded against the contaminating democracy of the Amer- ican public school. An applicant for naturalization h been uncovered in Chicago who never heard of a congressman or a senator. That's nothing. There are lots of con- gressmen and senators who are never heard of. President James of the University of Illinols is undeniably right: the col- lege hoodlum should be treated by the law the same as any other. Reversing the Current. Wall Street Journal. If the prices of farm products continue to moar, “back to the farm' may become the slogan of the city dwellers. Fi & the Uplift, Baltimore American. The millions that are being devoted to the study and solution of public health prob- lems should make Americans a longer lived Ppeople than théy are today. Analyals of the Test. Chicago Tribune. President Taft has come back home welghing more than he did when he started on his trip. No, there is nothing the matter with the presidential digestion. It is ban- quet-proof. > Every Wheel Rollin, New York Tribune. The unused surplus of freight cars, which has so long figured as an evidence of halt- Ing business aotlvity, has now been con- verted Into a deficit. There are not enough cars to go around. No wonder the raflroads are extending thelr facilities and enlarging their capital. National Farm Ducked. Boston Transeript. Instead of a resolution favoring the re- duction of congressional mileage rates from 10 cents to 5 cents, it would have been more patriotic for the national farmers to | condemn the dispensing of free seeds by the government. A Sanitary Precaution. Boston Globe. It is possible to take & more cheering view of the nolseless divoree. True, justice should show no favor to the rich. But in cases like that of “Astor against Astor,” the noiseless diyorce Is necessary on ac- count of indecent details. A judiclal quar- antine under such circumstances Is war- ranted. Some few may complain, but the general public will be thankful. Open to Convietion. Pittsburg Dispatch. Senator Aldrich's campaign to educate the west in favor of a central bank is serted to be entered upon with an open mind. The senator is open to conviction on any monetary plan so It's a central bank; and the west is likely to respond | that it is equally open to the conviction | that the central bank won't do. | Bditorial Amenities in Texas. | Houston Post. { Under the tension and stress of the boy- | |cott the Galveston News has instituted | |against the Houston caynival, we may be driven to concede that it was admissble | for the feller to steal the growing vege- |tables from the Nttle garden cultivatea by | | the aged and dependent Inmates of the O | | Women's Home, but we would dle In our tracks before agreeing that It was ever right to rob the cripple of the $2.75 he had secreied In his wooden le There's the Financlal Rub. St. Louls Republic. | The asonal dersand for money In the United States,” of which Senator Aldrich spoke in St. Louls, has becn a disturbing | lelement in finance and a well understood {factor in Wall street speculation for many {years. It is due to the fact that the United States Is the greatest agricultural coun- try in the world and that crops must be |paia for and hauled to market before they can go Into the hands of merchants and |consumers. It presents a problem In American banking and finance that ealls for careful study | | m———— | Huge Harvest Figures. } Springfield Republican. The corn crop as finally figured out by the Department of Agriculture cannot be | considered disappointing, except to those | Who early in the summer were demanding & record yleld of 3,000,000000 bushels or | more. The 316,00 bushels now re- Borded makes a crop some 100,000,000 bush- els above that of last year, and the larg- est ever produced, ve only in 1508, when 29271416000 bushels were grown. As the wheat and other chief cereal crops also | nearly” reach high record figures, and as & potato crop is reported of 37,473,000 bush- els, against 218,986.000 last year, the coun- try cannot complain of lack of foed abund- ance. Actual famine conditions are very far ffom existing, even though something Iike famine prices seem (o preval | try, | protitable. They must sacrifice something | | aistrust | sablishea. An editorial in the last number of Amer- lcan Industries, organ of the American Manufacture association, pertinently bears on the tour of the Japanese com- mercial commissioners to the United States. There is no secret that the purpose of the mission is to Investigate commercial and industrial methods in this country, and adapt such as may be applicable to Japanese conditions. Becoming acqualinted With American business captains rivals In importance a knowledge of methods to the end that trade misapprehensions may bo dissipated. The editorial discusnes thess misapprehensions, their cause and cure, and the possibility of increased trade relations between both countries. The ar- ticle follows: The Japanese - American Commerclal Weekly, published in New York by Yeljl Anraku and edited by Kaju Nakamura, both well educated Japanese of broad views, finds it necessary to lesue an ap- peal to the Japanese commerclal deleg tion now leaving the country after a two months’ visit. The appeal is based upon the unfortunately widespread bellef in the United States that many Japanese manu- facturers and merchants are gullty of “Intrigue and dishonesty in the matter of political, as well as busine: dealings,” to quote the Japanese-American Commer- clal Weekly. It would be vain to deny that such an opinion Is held in this coun- try. So strong s the opinion, or belte whatever you may term it, that many manufacturers not only refuse to enter the Japanese trade, but also turn back any orders which may come to them from Japan. For instance, a New England con- cern manufacturing speofalties widely used in machinery manufacturing, recently re- fused a Toklo order embracing practicaily every article’in their catalogue on the ground that the articles would be used as sampies, or models, and that no reorders would follow. Sald the president of the concern: “If the Japanese wish to imita our goods, they must get thelr samples in another way. We certainly will not help them.” This same spirit which, if unfortun: must have a foundation of fact, caused a number of manufacturers practically to close their doors to the Japanese cemmercial commission during its visit to the United States. The Japanese-American Weekly above Quoted is perfectly frank In the matter, Its editorial appeal says: ‘““This accusation against the Japanese s known all over the world, and the natural consequence Is the total distrust of their words and acts. We deny this as an entirety, but at the same time we are often kept in silence and even bound at times to admit it in part. A few days ago the writer was asked on this point by a gentleman in Newark who said he heard a compiaint to the effect that the Japanese stole a patented invention and even hid .the original name of the manu- facturer of the machinery. Similar com- plaints have been often olrculated to and fro and it now seems that there is a sy tematic campalgn on in this ecountry to deprecate Japanese commercial morality, though we are at a loss to discover the motive for this campaign. The above men- tioned complaint may or may not be true, but the distrust of Japanese in this country and elsewhere exists. The writer also fcund many cases where he cannot defend his ewn countrymen, but he had also found similarly dishonest Americans in many in- stances in his personal dealings. We wish, but unfortunately cannot expect, all Japan- ese to be ke Buddha, just as much as we cannot expect all Americans to be like Christ. No country or ceuntries have & monopoly of everything good, but every nation of people has good as well as bad just as there Is night wherever there is day." Editor Nakamura, although admitting the fault of his countrymen, naturally argues in their defense. He quotes from a speech by Dr. L. Leon, who s connected with sev- eral Japanese publishing hous “I can safely say that I have pretty well slzed up the American opinion of the Japanese. The people of the east, Massa- chusetts fn particular, are almost in love with Japanese, but the people of the middle states, including Chicago, Milwaukee and Cleveland, regard Japanese worse than the erpent, yet they admit that they have never met Japenese in considerable num- bers and have only heard of them. This is due to thelr igmorance. I saw a mani facturer who has been dealing with the Japanese for more than twenty years, d claring the Japanese merchanis to be the most honest on the face of the globe." In concluding his appeal the editor claln that his countrymen's shoricomings are due to their ignorance of modern business methods, adding: “In short, they are not educated enough to know what is commercial honesty and wise enough to digest the principle of ‘honesty Is best policy.’ The men who b leve In this proverb may not be ‘honesi’ in its true sense, and they are aiways l'a- ble to beecome dishonest it the ‘dishonesty’ should prove to be the best money-making method. We, however, do not want to draw a line between the two lmits of honesty but we are anxious to have our people well educated up to the standard of the western Idea of commercial morality, the lack of which means absolute dlstrust, Herein lays our appeal to the Japanese commercial delegatlo: which is now In this city. The members of the delegation are more or less modernized representa- tives and therefore they may not learn much from their present trip to this cnun»l but we earnesily hope that they will induce their friends and business junlors who are still sticking to old business meth- ods in their small field to come to this country and learn the business enterpris which are well systematized and practiced, that they may attain hmmensely greater perspective than they now have in the island empire. First of all, they must learn to spend a few dollars to make business to win their admirers.” The continuance of conditions which un- doubtedly prevent a desirable increase of our trade with Japan Is greatly to be deplored. Publicly a frank interchange of opinions, frequent visits of business men trom one country to another, are the reme- dles which will clear away all causcs of With new and effective patent and trade mark laws In Japan and a care- | ful observance of fundamental busine; principles, cordial and mutually satistac- tory commerclal relations will again be es- | | | New York Tribune. We pay a grateful tribute of respect to the California judge who the other day im- posed a menteace of ten years' imprison- ment upon a manslaying automobilist, and then suspended the sentence for a proba- tionary period during which the conviet will be required to pay & round sum monthly. for the support of the children TOUCHES THE SPOT. qns of the Rallway Business Association. Pittaburg Dispatch When the railroads, aroused by the crusade for legislative regulation, sug- Eested that the manufacturers of rail- WAy supplies Investigate and use their Influence to stem or turn the tide of hostile sentimént, it is improbable that they counted for any such report as that presented by the executive committes of the Railway Business association. That report goes right to the spot After & year's investigation this com- mittee announces as itg conclusion that “there will be ne recurrence of the pub- lie agitation against the rallroads if the reasonable desires of their patrons are not disregarded by the management of the rallreads.” It declares the convie- tion that “a large part of the antagonism to rallroads has its origin in displeasurs over what seems inconsiderate treatment given by the raliroads. Disregard of the reasonable desires of rallroad patrons in- flame those immediately affected and glve opportunity for arousing widesproad entl resentment among the masses of the peo- | ple” The commiittee, therefore, urges the railroads “to redouble their efforts in the direction of strengthening the personnel of those grades of thelr employes who come most in contact with the public and have most to do in forming public opin- fon.” No real benefit, it warns the rallroads, “can come. from a general program of obstruction to regulation, . which has come to stay. There will be commis- stons, whether the rallroads like it or not." Warning is given lest the return to prosperity and the present recession of hostility foster heedlessness and re- sult in a lapse Into practices that will furnish material for another anti-raiiroad campaign, It is &ratifying to find that the rep- resentative rallroad heads who took part In the meeting In New York frankly recognized the force of this criticism, and promised attention to the recommen- dations while deprecating the spirit of legislation enacted hastily in a_moment of public frritation. The Rallway Busi- ness assoclation has performed a service In directing the attention of public util- Ity corporations everywhere to the most fertile origin of popular hostility and the method of overcoming it. —_——— OLD-AGE PENSIONS, Trend of the Times in the United States. Chfeago Record-Herald. At the meeting of the American Federa- tion of Labor the question of securing old age pension legislation, trom congress has recelved more attention, and a bill Stgnifica; providing for the establisnment of an in- | dustrial “home guard" has been drawn. It is reallzed that our constitutional s ftem presents serious, it not insuperabls, obstacles to such direct and frank/ old age pension legislation as has been en- acted In England and is proposed in France. But there are those who belleve that in some indirect way a pension sys- tem for industrial veterans may tabliehed, While this matter is being considerea by organised labor the federal government Is studying the problem of superannuation In the clvil service, and Secretary Mac- Veagh intimates that he will have some pension suggestions to make In his first report. Siates and municlpalittes are wrestling with pension problems for eivil employes, either designed to extend exist- Ing systems or else to cover new classes of employes, rds private or. quasi-public in- dustry, the old age pension movement fs steadily, and by no means slowly, gaining ground without the spur of legislation, The New York Central lines, It is an- nounced, are about to be put into effect an old age pension system for all of thelr employes that reach the age of 0. Manu- facturing companies, banks and other con- cerns have adopted the pension feature 8 & guaranty of greater efficlency and zeal. Socurkty for old age after a life of honest indusiry is as necessary as it fs Just, and whe legislation is out of the Question self-interest and breadth of mind should lead to practical measures for sueh secuidty on a voluntary basie, The conversion of the New York Central lines is significant, Who will eome next? — RETURNING ACQUIRED WERALTH be es- Kennedy Benefanctions Public Gratitud New York Journal of Commerce, The example of the late John 8. Ken- nedy in the acquisition and disposal of great wealth should not be allowed to pass out of mind without an effort to give the lesson a lasting impression. No man engaged for 8o long a time and with 80 much keenness in large financial opera- tions was likely to escape all criticism but we have never heard anything of Mr Keunedy's methods which aid not conform to the highest prevalling standards. He certainly maintained an honorable repute- tien in this community for many years, notwithstanding his uacquisition of so many millions by the full use of his great ability and many opportunities, In disposing of fully half of such an enormous fortune for the benefil of sci- ence, art, education and pure philanthropy in the care of the sick, the unfortunate and the worthy poor, he aid so, not only with a liberal hand, but in a judicious manner. He did not tle up his gifts in a manner to detract from their value in order to gratify a desire to dictate the way of using them or make them a monu- ment to his name, but left it (o the iy cretion of others to apply them with the most useful and beneficial effect. The community afforded him the opportuni- ties of acquiring his wealth, and though tn employing these he rendered service by his abflity in the direction of great pro- ductive and distributing enterprises, he returned a large share of it for the bene- fit of the same community. The Is one that entitles him to public grati tude, and the unalloyed will give his mame Is a better monument to his memory than could reared by any material display Command have been STUDYING THE WEST, Mighty Helpful {n Expanding Narrow Eastern Ches: Denver Republiean. Mr. Clarence H. Mackay, president of the Pastal Telegraph company, is anything but a man who could be charged with fgnor- arce of the wept, and yet he has returned east after a tour extending to the coast filled with astonishment growth of this section and of its people It simply means that an eastern must make frequent visits to the missouri region to keep informed cifie at the rap'd the onterprise man trans. In New York he may meet many western men, and | he may read roports in newspapers of the country's developiaent, but he will miss mueh of what Is doing If he makes no personal inspection. Mr. Muckay advises eastern men to make visits of this kind, and it would be well if many of them accepted and acted upon his good counsel. They would understand the western situation better and many whom his crime made fatherless. Were such just judgments more frequent our public roads might again be made safe for public use. would be disposed to look with more favor upon western enterprises and opportunities for investmery exampie | epute which it | —— PERSONAL NOTES. ‘ F. Augustus Heinze gets his ovations at the old home at Butte, Mont., but still goss to the New York markets for his indiet. ments The work of writing the Hfe of ‘the late President Danfel C. Gilman, of Johns Hop- kins university, has been committed to Dr Fablan Franklin, newspaper writer and former professor. James Curry, a fisherman, found 150 pounds of ambergris in the Straits of Juan de Fuea, a fow miles from Port Townsand Chemists examined the find and pronounced its value to be §100,000 The New York public serviee commission, | having given some attention to the activ- itles of gas meters, found that while 9§ | per cent of them register too lttle, 408 per cent work overtime with great regular- | ity | Bragansa, who married a mess of Amerl- can dollars, dcclares that his high sense of honor demards that all his debts be pala in full at once. This touching devotion to honor is belleved to be the expression of un acquired taste. | When the 50 “Dig her deep through | Dixie” boosters reach Washington armed | With plans and speeifications of the Taft cocktail fabricatod at New Orleans thers | Wil be something doing In the capitol restaurant and similar confectionaries. Edward A. Trevelyan, who was notifisd by telegraph that he had fallen heir to an Englith estate of $10,000,00, gave up his four-dollar-a-week job as dishwasher in a Cambridge restaurant and started for New York. He was unwilling to dfscuss his inheritance until he had seen his attorney there, Dr Rose Ringgold i the only woman contract surgeon In the United States army. When on duty she wears a divided skirt and a uniform coat. She I8 especlally in- terested in the hospital problem of an army in the field and has made a study of the work of the Japanese hospital corps in the war with Russia, Former Justice Roger A. Pryor of New York, who says that he and Mrs. Pryor have been ‘“‘wedded sixty-one years, and are still in love," declares: ‘‘Mrs. Pryor and I differ on only one thing in (he world. 1 am in favor of women's suffrage and she is against It.”" Under those condi- tions it will be better to stand pat. Theodore McCune, Arctic and African explorer and follower of the wea as cap- tain of a merchant vessel for thirty-five years, died at a hospital in Pittsburg, Sea life tiring and his venturesome spirit not being satisfled with explorations in Afrioa, McCune, assisted by friends, fitted out an expedition for the far north. He was away two years and did not recover from the hardship endured during the trip for a long time. Five boys ranging from 17 to 21, belong- |ing to respectable families in Kansas City, |are in Jall charged with committing a series of highway robberies. During the |daytime each worked at jobs paying trom {912 to $0 a week. At night they playea the robber role, not 80 much for the money gained as for the excitement of the thing. “It was funny,” sald one of them, “to hear what fool things a fellow would say when scared by a gun'' There will not be much fup in the affair for afflicted par- ents, and/ decidedly less for the youngsters when the courts finish the ‘remorseless &rind.” | SMILING REMARKS. “They tell me Rooseveit has had a nar- row escape,” sald Mr. Falrbanks. De- termined not to be outdone he sought a barber and had a close shave himself.— Philadeiplila Ledger. a—— “I understand that pretty girl who h formed the habit of rejecting her is the daughter of a photographer. i ‘what of ft?" “It accounts for her ability in develop- ing negatives."—Baltimore American, ““Father, little Rollo, iconocias 'An iconoclast, my son, is usually a man Wwho seeks to ‘overthrow other people's Idols In the hope of seeking recogmition of his own works of art.’i~Washington Star. couple,” said Mrs. Simp- | kins, “got married u few days ago, aftel a courtahip which had lasted fifty years.' “1 suppose,” replied Mr. Mimpkins, ‘‘the poor old man hud become too feebls to thold out any longer."—C Recora- Herald. said “what is an 480 Examiner—What is an alibi? Candidate for the Bar—An allbi is com- mitting a crime In one pluce when you are in another place. If you can be in two other places, the alibi is all the stronger in law.—Puck nobody “Strange ever knew worth sixty million untfl he di “Oh, he ‘was very reticent hy, that man wouldn't even take the assessor into | his confidence.”~Philadelphia Ledger., he was In dcyeloping the idea of truthfulnses a teacher asked the question, “What i t best thing in the world to' do, and at Ahe [tame time the hardest?" A litile girl raised her hand, timidly. “Well, Emma?" “To get married.""~Harper's Magazine, ‘ ‘Remaing to be seen,’ " ald the custo- d'an of the Egyptian department in the museum, pointing at the mummy in the glass cas moldy ! But b Tribune, answered the visitor. “How referred 1o the chestnut.—Chicago Mr. Pecksniff and Mr. for the first time. Fou' look like u person of some cons quence, sir," spoke Mp. Turveydrop, “but your deportment is not quite up to the cor- rect standard,” Sir,"” quoth Mr Turveydrop had Peaksnitf, surveyin, | him With lofty scorn, “I eannat forget that {You probably have an Immortal Soul, but | you look like Ineffable Ass."—Chicage Tribune, THINKIN' TE& Hermann, in > »ug and lean and | hireur's youny And ne e ers il and Jin Just & sor. of i Wuy Liey spoke ® Bitting on a feuce rau tnnuing, till they aubbed him Thinkin' Pim: | Vietor A He ew York Sun Was lanky, was old of his broth- n',"* was the Never had & knack for laarning, never had | A KLACK 10T play, Just & suboorn snack for thinking four- teen hours every day; Couldit heep him at Lis studies, cared Lo fish or swim, Acted like an ignoramus, did that dreamy Trunkin never “Lim | . When he donned his father's breeches and | went out to plow the corn Twasn t long before they found him, that balmy Momday morn, Lylng in waving ciover covered with nis old straw brim, While the mules had broken harness—run | away from Thinkin' Tim. Well got & hundred thrashings, they didn't do him good 8o they took him from ihe corn | they wei his splitting wood: |"Twasn't long before they found him sitting | on @ broken |imb With his ehin ad elbow [ like for Thinkin' on he but d and y im, ing—Natural | “Never will be thrifty ne uch & worth’ worth his lodging, ™ hbors sald; s ort of sapling would be betier off if dead But the very brightest dlamonds | years both rough and &im. |80 it happened with this rustie, with this | lazy Thinkin' Tim | Yes, the country woke 6ne morning and Tim's earlocks had been shorn, And he wore a tle and collar, first that he had ever worn; |And he sald farewell forever, and by Jink W |h'); env d'hlm AP ded Vith a fortu or Ppatent L awar Thinkin' Tim. 50 the lie for y - [ . 8 s [ 3 v