Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 16, 1909, Page 4

4 OMAHA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1909 1 THE OMAHA DALY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROHE“’AT!“. VICTOR ROIIWATIR NDITUR second TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTIO! Dally Bee (without lunflly) one year.! l‘w Dally Pee and Sun Vear DELIVERED BY CARRI Ally Bee (ineluding Sunday), per Ko e i Dally Bee (without Sunda. vening Bee (without Sun Saturday Bee, one yew - ndress ail complaints of {rregularities in delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Bulldmg. South Omaha—Twentyfourth and N Council Bluffs—18 Scott Street. Lincoln—618 Littie Bullding. o—isis Marquetts uilding ork—Rooms 1101-1102 No. 34 third Strest. d wuhlnnon—?l Fourteenth Street. N RRESPONDENCE, [ nmmulkluonl nhlll to news and edi- toria] matter should e Rddressed: Omaha ‘6, Editorial D.p‘mnn REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or tal order »avable to The Bee Publishing Company, Only 3-cent stamps received in payment of nafl aeeoun raonal checks, except on Jmaha or eastern exol ges, not & ed. STATEMENT OF CTRCULATION Nebrasks, Douglas County. os.: B. Taschuck, treasurer of Tha Bee lishing Company. being duf; sworn, vays that the mctusi number of full and complete copies of The Dally. Morning Rvening and Sunday Bee printed durine the month of October. 1MX. was as foilove: West w. Net total ..... Daily average . GEORGE B. TZ‘JCHULI\, Treasurer. mee and sworn to Yubscribed in bet November, 1909, ‘me lhb 1st dl! (Seal.) [ P. WALKER, Notary Publle. Subseribers leaving the city te porarily should ve The BRee mailed to them. Addresa will be changed as oftem as requested. — Did the moths get it? —_— The early bird may catch the worm, but the early political slate Invites brickbats. Connolsseurs Who order owl off the bill of fare are not complaining when they are served with prairie chicken. | County Commissioner Bruning will now have another chance to discover whether he is a republican or a demo- crat. 1t the Tobacco trust is really after eontrol of the drug trade of the coun- try It might be well for the pharma- eeutical interests to smoke up. While talking about “insurgents” do not forget the twenty-three democratic congressmen who jumped the traces to help “‘Uncle Joe" re-énact his rules. is 'sald to have an eye on Senator Lodge's seat in the senate. It remains to be seen whether the descendant’s t is better thin the famous green- Is It impertinent to note that the ac- tress who divorced her theatrioal hus- 1ght bave a fireslde socks she might darn picked out & pair of socks with a millionaire sttachment S TE——— After telling ue that the rank and file are to write thé next democratic state platform, Judge Howard already comes forward with a rough draft of what be would write l( he were the The best merchants in Omaha who give the best goods for the money recognize The Bee as their best me- dlum of advertising. Just glance over our advertising columns for a guide post to enterprising merchants. These be perilous days in the diplo- matic ehecker gam First Mr. Crane 1s told not to go, and then Mr. Combs is told not to come. But his Thanks- giving turkey may prove more secure in Peru than it would have been in Kentucky. The laws and the ordinances tell us how we may have clean streets in Omaha, but in addition to laws and or- dinances we must have a street clean- ing department manned with compe- tent people who will attend to business all the time. —_—— Iu the late nonpartisan democratic bunco game Judge Dean was picked for slaughter, but when accounts are ast it I8 found that he ran ahead of Judge Good, intended to be the bene- ficlary of the conspiracy. Bunco men themselves are sometimes buncoed. At last the New York Horse show has demonstrated its real field of serv- ice by the discovery of the constables that this annual gathering affords an excellent clearing house for the legal documents In the cases of erring wives and roving husbands. ““we splendid lessons are taught by ¢ weomen who, born blind, has just At her sight restored by an operation meid for with the savings from twenty- three. years of scrubbing floors. The “ret is perseverance in the face of semingly hopeless obstacles. The stcousd ‘s unselfish devotion, for no wcr@ Was she able to see than she de- Merm ined to wave her further earninge 10 the sight of her brother suf- Our Naval Base in the Pacific. Not ‘sinee the annexition of the |Hawalian islands by the United States in 1898 has our government taken a more important step toward the con- {trol of the Pacific than in the decision lot the joint army and navy board, just approved by the president, to es- o0 |tablish the United States naval base for the western waters at Pearl Har- 0c 'bor. This termination of a long-stand- ing dispute must be viewed with ap- proval by all who have considered the possibility of our inability to hold the Philippines in case of war. For the {only alternative was to fix upon either | Manila or SBubig bay, and under our present policy of administering the af- %(Ill‘l of the Philippines a station in those waters could hardly have been defended against a forelgn foe. The size of our army in the Philippines must of necessity restrict its dutles, in case of war with another power, to defense of the city of Manila. It would have been extremely hazardous to have the Pacific naval base so inse- curely stationed and so far from home. On the other hand, Pearl harbor long has been recognized as ideal for such a purpose. Only our sudden sur- prising acquisition of the Philippines diverted attention from its merits. | Cloge to Honolulu, Pearl harbor af- fords a wide sweep of landlocked water, with a narrow channel of ap- proach, It has room for the ghelter of vessels and the accumulation of sup- plies, is capable of being made almost impregnable to attack and has the ad- vantage of being virtually equidistant from our home shores, the Philippine islands and our rapidly developing in- terests in Alaska. Maintenance of Olongapo Philippine repair station and develop- ment of a great naval base at Pearl harbor should enable us to look after our interests in the Pacific to the best possible advantage, and congress may be depended on to take the necessary steps to make Pearl Harbor the haven of the Pacific fleet. The Problem of India. With dynamiters pursuing their at- tempts at the assassination of the viceroy and a recrudescence of the spirit of unrest throughout India, Great Britain may well be concerned over the possibility of an uprising of the Indian people against the white man's rule. England undoubtedly has done won- ders for India in opening it to the civ- 1lizing tufluences which have lifted the women oui of bondage and enlisted the co-operation of prosperous nations in the warfare against plague and famine. One might regard the in- inhabitants of the east as ungrateful, yet it must be remembered that these people are ancient and proud, with an aristocracy as eminent as that of Eng- land, and also ‘that the Briton has laid a heavy hand upon the subject races in exacting toil and tribute. The white man’'s mastery has not been without its bitter injustice, and there is reason for the hatred which fills many an In- dian breast. From the first the Indian has not understood the Englishman, nor has the Englishman understood the In- dian, One Britisher, Kipling, prob- ahly got to the heart of the Indian, but England has not yet fathomed Kipling. The problem of England in India is the old, old conflict of occl- dental and oriental mind. George Eliot's philosophy still holds good, that If men dre to be welded they must be made of metals that will mix. An Ohscured Inventor. It is a story as old as the history of invention that the man whose genius evolves important devices in the world of sclence often has his fame obscured and his profit diverted because some man of more practical turn develops his invention into commereial success. Dr. Theodore R. Timby, who has just died, was one of those theorists whose ideas would have slumbered without the world ever belng the gainer had not aggressive men seized upon them and pushed their exploitation. Yet Dr. Timby died a victim of melan- choly because he regarded himself as cheated out of full recognition for one of the most spectacular of inventions in naval engineering. Ask the American schoolboy who in- vented the revolving turret that pro- tects the great guns on our giant bat- tleships, and the immediate answer is Ericsson. This is because the revolv- ing turret was the novelty of the mon- ftor that impressed every mind, and Ericsson did undoubtedly build the Monitor which amazed the world. But the turret was only one of the features of the Monitor's departure from es- tablished naval construction, and at the outset proved to be of less avail than had been expected. The turret on the monitor showed its defects in its first battle, and the turret of today |18 & result of fifteen separate modifica- tions of the original, Dr. Timby conceived the idea of the turret from viewing old Castle Willlam in New York harbor. He showed his first model to President Tyler in 1841, and a royalty of $5,000 was pald to him for each of the three vessels built for the civil war with the turret at- tachment. One of the chief features of the monitpr was the low freeboard, Whose value has been retained In our modern battleships, which are much lower than those of Europe. The low freeboard was one of Ericsson’s tri- umphs; the turret alone was Timby's. General B. F. Tracy was one of Dr. Timby's supporters who sought to se- nm “gimilar afliction. Womanly [oure more general recognition to coapds admiration the serub- he paintpl | e " O ‘s claims to farge during his life- time. Yet the doctor might well have in the world of iavention, in- as a| cluding as they did the floating dry- dock, the American turbine, the com- mercially portable 33-inch mercurial barometer and the electric and sub- terranean system of coast defenses, Self-consciousness of the tremendous worth of his work to the world should have made his last years contented without striving after a fame which another had divided with him Honoring Washington, In planning a great and costly me- morial to George Washington that shall serve as national headquarters for the country's organized interests in the realms of science, art, educa- tion and patriotism, one more tribute is being paid to a hero who refused a crown, yet who has become greater than had he accepted ft. Where is there a monarch, living or mouldered i{n the dust, whose name shines with such immortality or in- spires such loyalty and reverence as that of Washington? We have become acquainted with the knowledge that he was human, yet we love and exalt him the more. For above his human traits he rose to the loftlest heights of individual character and public worthiness, and in his civic virtues, personal patriotism and official career as soldier and statesman he served his people with unfailing devotion and left a memory without a stain. Monarchs have lived and died whose names inspire a salute from the people they have led, but nowhere in history is there a figure appealing so thor- oughly to unstinted universal esteem as does the name of Washington Our Asset of Friendship, While influential representatives of Japan are canvassing the land and reaping a manifestation of good fel- lowship that shall serve us in our future relations with the land of the rising sun, a Turkish mission is at Washington with the greetings of the rejuvenated Ottoman empire. It is fortunate for the exchange of appro- priate ceremony that the president himself is there to receive the embassy in person, for his individuality will serve well in emphasizing the estab- lishment of friendly relations. The United States can well afford to manifest good will to a high degree among the enlightened leaders of the new movement in Turkey. That em- pire, as was the case with China, long had every hand against it. In the orient we have found our marked friendship to be an invaluable asset for our commercial enterprises, and the same should be true of Turkey. The visit of the Turkish embassy is an opportunity for the cementing of the best of amity, which President Taft will make the most of. Facility with Languages. The most marvelous object lesson glven by the Japanese in their recent visit to Omata is their remarkable fa- cility with languages. No sooner was the welcoming address delivered than one of the Japanese guests, who had been taking notes, rose to his feet and translated it into his native tongue for the benefit of his assoclates who could not understand English. When the response was made in Japanese, a re- sponse which consumed at least twenty minutes, another of the visitors promptly rendered the words into Eng- The translation showed that the ad- dress was not a stereotyped speech, but rather a real response commenting on what had been said by the other speakers of the evening and referring to the happenings of the day. 1t is plain that when the Japanese learn the English language they learn it thoroughly, and they learn it not as a mere book language, but as a living speech. It Is to be regretted that so few of us Americans undertake to ac- quire any language but our own, and that those of us who do take up for- eign languages seldom become pro- ficlent in them to the extent of fluent conversation. The day of a universal language may possibly come, but it is far In the future. In the interval com- munication between peoples of differ- ent nations must be by acquiring each other's tongue. It is hardly probable that many Americans will learn ‘to speak Japanese, but every American boy and girl should have instilled in them the ambition to learn at least two languages well enough to speak them. Adding the torture of sharks to the terrors of shipwreck makes a story of horror more blood-curdling than Dante’s Inferno. Such a narrative im- pels’the reflection, Of what use is the shark, anyway? In the face of fright- ful tragedies of surf bathing and of the deep, the inhabitants of lands bor- jdering on shark-infested waters make no effort to exterminate the monster, although scientists have demonstrated that the present-day schools are but a rempant of the original scourge. Shark carcasses could be used as fertiizer, the livers yield a valuable oil and the fins produce a gelatin which is es teemed as a dainty. The whaleships virtually exterminted one denizen of the deep, not of the man-eating variety notwithstanding Jonah's experience, and similar industry against the shark would in time rid the ocean of a terror more rapacious than many .a jungle beast. Does the scientist realize what he is doing in denouncing Niagara as a plague-stream of typhold? This is a sad invasion of Cupid's realm. Just imagine the blight that will fall upon the young romance when Angelina murmurs in the moonlight abodt the majesty of the cataract and the Para- satisfied with his actual achieve- |dise of the scene and Algernon cuts in in his practical cold way with, “Yes, lish with correct and elegant diction. | dear, but you know it's an awful mess of germs!” Truly, it is heartless for that Bostonfan to dampen public en- thusiasm for the Cave of the Winds and the Mald of the Mist, but now that the only remedy is for the Buffalon- ians to turn their electric current into the river and boil the falls. —_— Prof. Goldwin Smith's announced re- tirement from aetive journalism be- cause of his age, which is nearing 90 years, is of pecullar interest in the United States. While an Englishman by birth, who has maintained his ac- tivities chiefly in the British isles and Canada, he has written many books on American history and politics, has lec- tured to large classes in {mportant universities in the United States, mar- ried a Boston woman and has been the chief exponent from the other side of the house of the idea that Canada is destined to merge her politieal life with ours. There appears to be no Britisher or Canadian in sight to fill Prof. Smith's pla in zeal for this cause of North American unity. Omaha papers may as weii content them- selves with the discussion of thelr own 1nunicipal shortcomings and pay less at- tention to those of Lincoin.—Lincoln Star. Lincoln wants to be privileged to point continuously at its neighbor's beam and to be immune from having attention called to its own mote. The trouble with Lincoln papers {s that they assume for their city a holler- than-thou attitude, when as a matter of fact Lincoln is just the average American city of its size, no better and no worse. It is because Lincoln pretends to be so much better than Omaha that an occasional reminder is necessary to its salvation The ray of light in the gloom of that coal mine disaster is the marked hero- ism shown by so many of those grimy toilers. Confronted with death, many sought first to save their fellows. It is good to contemplate such noble con- duct—coming instictively from folks who never had heard of Stevenson's prayer, ‘‘Help vs to play the man!” The World-Herald is to be com- mended for its frankness in avowing that the purpose of its effusive sym- pathy for republican insurgents is to bring them into the democratic fold. The World-Herald has no other use for republicans than to help democrats into office. Periodical “Spells.” St. Louls Globe-Democrat. Nebraska Is a republican state with an occasional favorite son aberration. But that siivery voice is not likely again to charm Nebraska out of its wits. One Reform Neglec St. Louls Globe-Democrat. There is a comtilgsion for nearly every- thing else cornected with human life— why not one to Promote uniformity in the color of automobiles? PR RE—— Rude Knocks at Large Lids, Cleveland Leader. Give nature a chance and it works its own cure. Express companies are charg- Ing space rates for carrying big hats and the milliners are up against the necessity of cutting down thelr size. Needed. Indianapolis New: We have, as the president says, a great deal of valuable coal land owned by the government; but if we're not mighty care- ful we may discover that the satchel con- tains nothing but & package of brown pa- per when we open it up after we get home agaln —e e Settling with Uncle Sam. | Boston Herald, News of an agreement on the part of another large importing interest to refund to the government millions withheld by customs frauds is welcome, but it would | not be accepted s purchasing immunity from criminal prosecution for such frauds as are confessed. Restitution may settle the civil claim of the government, but the law requires that the thief be punished, even If he has restored the property he stole. One Way to Pay Debts, Philadelphia Ledger. The ethics of some forelgn noblemen with regard to the ways and means of satisfying thelr creditors are widely at varlance with the accepted procedure of honorable Americans. The Duke de Chaulnes married a wealthy American | girl, and upon their arrival in Paris they found themselves besieged by the clam- orous multitube of money-lenders. Word had gone forth that the bride was wealthy, and the hint to the usurers and land sharks was suffielent to make the honey- moon a painful experience of dodging the servers of warrants and writs of attach- ment, It now appears that the new Amer- fcan Princess of Braganza is having a similar disconcerting experience. The Portuguese pretender has borrowed enor- mous sums of money at usury, and his creditors have decided that with the ar- rival of his rich American bride in Aus- tria the eagerly awalted day of reckon- ing has come for themselves. The princely | | Incognito if of no avall. NEW PER REPORTERS, A Little Complimentary Publicity | Properly Placed Newark (N. J) News. | fore the vaccine was administered. | have such a vessel and that one vessel of Army Gossip Watters of Imterest On Back of the Piring Line Gleaned from the Army and Navy Register. The retirements for age in the army dur< ing 1910 comprise four brigadier generals, one of whom Is the chief of engincers. The complete list follows Brigadier General J. G. D. Knight, Jan uary 24 (colonel of engineers, who attains the rank of brigadier general today, No- vember 13, upon the retirement of General Weston). Colonel Charles D. Byrne, army medical corps, January 28, Colonel John W. Pullman, quartermas- ter's department, February I7. Colonel Valery Havard, army medical ocorps, February 18. Major Eugene O. Fechet, signal corps, March 1. Brigadier General Charles Morton, com- manding Department of the Missouri, March 18. Lieutenant Colonel Willlam W. Robinson, Jr.. quartermaster's department, April 21 Brigadier General W. 8. Pdgerly, May , (General Edgerly will be retired Decem- ber 29, 1509, upon recommendation of army retiring board). Colonel James W. department, June 6. Brigadier General Willlam L. chiet of engineers, June 11. Pope, quartermaster's Marshall, Lieutenant Colonel J. E. Sawyer, quar- termanter's department, July 3. Colonel Edward R. Wood, professor United States Military academy, Septem ber 17. Brigadler General Albert H. Myer, com- manding Department of Texas, November u Colonel Joseph B. Girard, army medical corps, December 26. Colonel Walter corps, December 31 Howe, coast artillery There are multiplylng signs of the econ- omy which congress will exercise in its enactment of legislation affecting service Interests. The president adheres to hls de- termination to have the estimates for mili- tary-naval expenditures reduced approx!- mately 10 per cent In all branches of the service as compared with the estimates for the present fiscal year. There was some chance that this order, issued originally some months ago. would be modified, If it should appear from the records of the Treasury depcrtment that the financial showing of the government had improvad. This is far from being the case. A largs defleit still exists and the new tariff act has not ylelded the Increased revonue which was counted upon. The estimate of the financlal “sharps' of the government is for &' monthly deficit of nearly $5,000,000 with a corresponding depression of the reserve. These fiduciary clrcumstances make it absolutely necessary to pare the appropriations, and it is certain that the stimates will not be exceeded in the ag- gregate by the congressional allotments during the next sesslon of congre: All of which tends to the discouragement of new and important legislation, especially that which seeks to relleve the conditions of service personnel. While something may get through, it s bound to be of little consequence, unless all the indications which now prevail of the coming session are misleading. The army medical authorities are send- ing our anti-typhold vaccine regularly from the army medical museum and some 1,000 men have been vaccinated. The . mostly members of the army hespital corps and commissioned officers of the army medical corps. So far the reports show that only one case, subjected to this measure of prevention, has developed ty- phold, and this was attributable to the fact that there was typho'd Infection be- It wilt be at least a year before there will ba compulsory vaccination, if, Indeed, such a step is ever deemed advisable. By that time the medical officers will have con- firmed the experience which s reported by the British medical authoriti The lat- est report from that source received by the surgeon general of the army gives a record of a military body In which 19,28 were vaccinated and 9,02% were not vac- cinated. The occurrence of typhold among those vaccinated was 6.6 ‘per 1,000 ard among those not vaccinated 20:1 per 1,000, or just five times as many In the latier s In the former class. The mortality among the vaceinated was 8.6 per cent and among those not vaccinated 17.4 per cent. Congressman E. W. Roberts of Mass- achusetts, a prominent and Influential member of the house naval committee, con- templates, presenting to hie assoclates on that committes the proposition of bullding one 30,000-ton battleship, instead of two 25,000-ton vessels. He is of the opinion that it will be of declded strategic advantage to that - displacement, armed with tweive 14- inch guns, which will be possible under the circumstances, is equal In an offensive way to two battleships, each with a battery of twelve 12-inch guns. The Navy de- partment, of course, will recommend the two latter with a willingness to have con- gress provide for the larger ship. It will probably be out of the question to obtat provision for more than one 30,000-ton ves- sel during the next session of congress, but Mr. Roberts believes this would be justl- fied in placing the American navy bullding program far in advance of the other na- ( tions. Another aspect of the battleship dis- placement increase which is engaging at- tention is the width of the locks of the Panama canal, which have been designed for 110 feet in that dimension. A battle- ship of 30000 tons displacement will be close to 100-foot beam; those now being | bullt are over ninety feet. The increase In beam during the last twenty years has Judge Gaynor, mayor-elect of New York, | testifies to the high character of the newspaper reporters who were assigned to | follow him during the exciting c.mp.m\.} He saye “Not & confidence was lirukcn,. nor & mean thing done. I was told that I| ought to have a manager and turn you| over to him, but T knew it was not neces- isary. 1 was once one of you." If Mr. Jannard should be asked to say some- | thing on the subject he would say the | same thing It is very seldom that the reporter cqmes in for the recognition which is his due. No squarer worker will be, found in any fleld of occupation, and no man freer from the taint of prejudice. In a great majority | of instances where men condemn him, he | has been the intended victim of their de- ceit of cunning or stupldity. The men highest in public life, who necessarily live jon terms of intimacy with him, invari- ably testify to his worthiness and his re- liabliity. More than that, they testity to his consideration practiced without their request and because they know of the slip they have unintentionally made. It is not our intention to place & halo about the head of the reporter. He would be the last to wear it contentedly. It is just @s well to remember, however, that met ‘on equal ground he is faithful to his job, his editor and the man be has busi- ness with, been at the rate of one foot & year. It is significant that the German government is rebullding the locks of the Kalssr Wilhelm canal so as to widen them for military purposes from ninety feet to 7 feet. The width of the locks of the Panama canal were determined upon after consultation with the naval authorities and at a time when the 30,000-ton battle- ship dia not appear ltkely, although no | one has felt justified In insisting that the | latest design represented the limit any | more than any one is willing to now | doclare that the 30,000-ton battleship is the | final maximum In displacement Makings of Good Cltizens. New York Sun. A Syrian or Armenian of proper mora mind and physique who desires to be- come an American citizen and who takes the oath to “‘support and defend the con- stitutl the laws of the United States” and to ‘bear true faith and alleg- | fance to the same"” Is likely to make as| g0od @ citizen as the Bulgar or the Croat who goes through the same process The Omaha Olive New York World If Senator Aldrich will don the cowboy In what other To mention tainers, whose Vesta Tilley Nat Wills of these and a own home for Edison Am Edison Pho ‘There are Edisor and hear the Edison dealer or from us. PERSONAL NOTES. The dismissal of 4,000 indictments in one day put a spectacular finish to the Sab- batarfan crusade in Kansas City a year ago. Broughton Brandenburg, bogus Cleveland interview published dur- ing the last presidential campalgn, was convicted of kidnaping in St. Louls and fined $600. Commissioner West of the District of Columbla, has resigned his office and on December 1 will assume charge of the business of the Washington Herald, a paper In which he has secured an interest. Women who break English jalls now carry individual stomach pumps, in order that while being forcibly fed they may maintain the exclusiveness that secms to author of the from ordinary rufflans. Theodore R. Timby, who claimed he in. vented the revolving turret of the fa- mous Monitor, and that, accordingly, he should have recelved the fame history accorded to John Ericsson, died at the age of 91 in Brooklyn. Harry Hawke, leading man for Laura Keene, the night of Lincoln's assassina- tion in Ford's theater nearly forty-four years ago, was one of the passengers of the American liner Haverford, which docked In Boston recently. He is 71 years company. WHERE HUMAN LIFE IS CHEAP. Homicldes are Increasing and Convic- tions Decrasing. ‘Washington Post. Human life is held as one of the cheapest commodities in the American republic, judging by the increase of homicides shown by statistics just made public by the census bureau in its bulletin upon mortality for 1%8. Within the registration district covered, the number of homicides per 100,- 000 population from 1001 to 1906 was 2.9. In| 1906 the rate jumped to 8.1; In 107 it was 6.5, reaching 6.7 in 198. This Is almost three times the average for the first five years of the century, and it is a startling exhibit for which some explanation should be found. It s true that homicides and other crimes increase during periods of depression, but in this case the increase began in 1006, which shows a rate of 4, compared with 28 for 1904. The number of murders In the United States has always | been a reproach to our civilization, but | this rapid Increase within the last fow years is an alarming symptom that de- mands investigation. Are we as a people becoming more law- | less? The facts seem to indicate it, al-’ though the statistios are far from com plete, and consequently unsafe as data from which to draw definite conclusions for the entire country. It has been long known that human life is cheaper in the United States than in northern Europe, a com- parison which {s not at all flattering to our boasted clvilization. In connection with this the report of the attorney general of Alabama s of timely interest. He finds a large increase in the number of homicides in the state for the two years past, the total for 1907-§ being | €7. This Is an appalling number of deaths from criminal violence for a cfvilized com- munity In the beginning of the‘twentleth | century. Says Attorney General Garber “The carnival of the manslayer goes on | uninterrupted and unabated, and the| deadly hip-pocket pistol, the companion of | probably over & per cent of our homicides, | continues to contribute its full share to the murder records of the state.” It is of considerable significance that notwithstanding the alarming increase in the number of murders, there is a strik- Ing decrease in the number of convictions earrying the death penalty. In Alabama, with its 657 cases of homicide, there were only fourteen hangings. The jury itself, so- ciety's defense against murderers, Is cheapening human life Merely a Reminder. Washington Post Perhaps those Nebraska democrats re- member that the path to the White House does not lie through the senate. 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Minkel, Mgr 150 and Harney Omana, Neb. Bt., 334 Broadway, Caun:ll Bluffs, LAUGHING GAS. “I never thought these department store restaurants would catch on like they have, “Why not?” ‘1l feared people would make trouble wanting sample sections of steak, or try- ing to match a plece e like the o l?l\dny bought last week." ashington Her- ald. Visitor—What became of that windmill that was here last year? Native—There was only enough wind for nn‘»| s0 we took It down.—Boston Trans- eript. other ‘There fsu't @ fashionable house to-{ night." "Why, it looks s0." “I know it does, hut it fsn't. Haven't you noticed that nobody In the boxes is talking?'—Baltimore American. “To my mind," sald Uncle Allen Sparks, “There’s nothing strange in-the populasity Everybody t wants to see it in rint just as soon as can.”—Chicago Tribune. “Prosy old Judgé Talkit got hold of and treated the po: ar Jjudiclal proceeding. Relieved' from all the envy and the strug gle and the stress, I'll revel in the popular idea of success. I'll have the dollars coming In a swift and steady flow, Sped by their own momentum whether times are swift or slow; And then, when ease s permanent and profits are precise, I'll calmly cross my legs and smile and pass around advice I'll join the gleeful chorus, as it nnunf‘ in sweet accord; To be good Is to be happy." its own reward,” “A penny saved Is penny earned, you see— And the way to save your pennies is to send them 'round to me,’ “Virtue 1s equal to a T'll outline plans to better our conditions here below— Though I won't drop sny tips on hdw the market's going to will. be When 1 can cross my legs and smile and pass_around advice. If a woman is strong end healthy in o erhood means to her but little suffering. in the fact thet the many women suffer i for motherhood. organs concerned in motherhood, healthy, strong, vigorous, virile xpectancy and makes baby almost painless. 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It of alcoho) end not & grein of habit-forming or injurious rio extract of healing, native American roots, Phnnograph A “What was it? “First, he arrested his proj and then e tried his patience - Baltimore 'S American A SWEET DREAM. Washington Star. Bome day I'm going to lead a life of economic care, To realize a futuie that is generously L4 L - e Qe —— -