Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 22, 1909, Page 4

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REMITTANCES. mit by draft, express or postal order la to The Tes Publishing Company, cent stamps received In ment of | Account Permonnl checks, except :’.“1 Dally Bee AV EMEN " 3 State of Nebraska, Douglas County. ss.: George B. Tzschuck, treasurer of The Bee Publishing Company. being duts orh, cays that the actual number of full and mplete coples of The Dally. Morhing Fvening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of October. 190, was as follows: | ...48,380 2. o 2. 48,640 26. 42,510 3. age . vhves B4 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK, Treasurer. Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before me this ist day of November, (Seal.) LA as requested, Judge Hook also had a line out for ‘he Standard whale. e — For Council Blufts the Horticultural show is the apple of the eye. —— The best thing about the foot ball teason is that the early closing law ap- plies. A Looks as though Uncle Sam might have to put a few moré nicks in Nica- | ragua. —_— But it will take more than all this flood of agricultural oratory to irrigate the crops. —_— This 1s the week when the man who turned his back on the farm is glad to turn back. If 1g Dunn was tired when he wrote that abusive brief, at any rate he now has time to rest up. You may break, you may shatter, the trust as you will, the scent of pe- troleum clings round it still. Reversing the famlliar record of dis- orders, Nicaragua's case seems to have evolved from chronic to acute. ' et For some inserutable reason the su- preme court seems disposed to ignore 1g until the apology is forthcoming. C — The death of a child is chronicled as a regult of using too much soap on its skin. Safe to say it wasn't a boy. What sepms to be most needed at Panama {s a line of men with um- brellas to keep the canal from getting wet. Last year Nebraska polled in round figures 270,000 votes and «this year 207,000, Just a transposition ,of a cipher. It must be evident to all stars by this time that in the New theater galaxy they may shine only as part of a constellation. Those London suffragettes who re- fuse to be either fed or clothed in prison, are carrying the self-denial policy altogether too far If those mikes want to get thelr money back all they will have to do is to put the show on the vaudeville eir- cult as soon as the trial is ended. i titivsei— The Indlana mayor who celebrated his victory by giving three tons of candy to the school children must have sweetened the way for re-election. ~ Mr, Carnegie’s prediction that the lines between white and black will soon be obliterated, does not appear o Bave been accpmpanied by personal Axample. Notwithstandigg the fact that our burty-up wagons have been burned up, it is hardly safe to pull off anything in Omgha coun(_w( on the delay of the [x:l!” reaching ‘the spot. Now that Cornell’s race suicide sta- tistielan has figured it out that by the year 2059 there will be ho more babjes, ‘ domlers in go-carts will have to begin Central Labor union people com- . plain that Governor Shallenberger told One of the lessons of the belated rescues from the death pit (ollowing the disaster at Cherry is the astound- ing physical endurance of man. Most of those saved from the tomb had for nearly a week lived solely on the water to be obtained from the seepage ac- cumulating in the holes scraped in the coal floor of the mine. They breathed in much poison from the gases that filled the galleries. Yet they were able after seven days of incarceration to stagger forth, and thelr recovery when above ground was speedy and in most cases thorough. Of all the animal life of earth man alone is able to endure such exhaustive experfences. Mark Twaln recorded in his newspaper days a marvelous and veracious report of how a party of shipwrecked men In an open boat had literally starved themselves into a con- dition of perfect health, in spile of their emaciation. That narrative is one of the most striking authentic cases in print of man's ability to rise superior to physical deprivation and suffering. The power to endure has been the basis of calculation in many fields of human endeavor. In the realm of sport It was at the foundatjon of the ancient Marathon contests and the more modern form of the six-day foot race, which has beheld man lashing himself into requirements which would have killed a horse in the early stages. In the field of labor the test of phys- ical strength has been exacted from distant ages by taskmasters, and even self-imposed duties have been made more exacting because of one's ca- pacity for strain. The candle of hu- man life will often burn at both ends for a long time before the final spurt of flame. Two other notable lessons are taught by the episode at Cherry, the contrast between melodrama and real life, and the personal value of religious train- ing. Such a rescue on the stage would be enacted full of color and shouts. But what could be more dramatic than the survivor's quiet statement, “There was no cheering, nobody had voice enough; we just sat down and let them take care of ui Such a gray mono- tone of repression on the stage would be characterized as overdrawn® The men had simply and naturally relaxed, the tension was ended. In that long slege they had been well inspired by the unwavering faith of the rugged Scotchman whose religion was a lamp unto the feet of his companions in calamity. His hearty psalm-singing in the depths of that utter darkness en- dowed the flagging with new spirit, and his practical and efficlent appliga- tion of the boyhood lessons of a pious mother had in them all the qualitles of the sublime. The Concrete Battleship. In this day of singular developments in architecture and engineering, one of the most novel evolutions is the so- called concrete battleship now .nearly completed as a part of the“aation’ permanent defenses of the Pp([lppina. This plece of construction has heen planted on one of the smallsislands commanding the entrance toMamila harbor, and from its hull of ‘Masdiry rise turrets of steel armor plate shield- ing 14-inch guns which can be trained in every direction. The concrete structure takes the place of a fort, and is as unusual a contribution to the naval architecture of today as was the monitor in its time. It is only one of several inno- vations included in the thorough for- tification af the bay, which will be made well nigh impregnable with big guns, mortars and mines, but if Manila ever has occasion to repulse an enemy, the concrete battleship may be called upon to give an account of itself. If THE 1 fact that the automatic electrical con- trivance brought both locomotives to a dead stop without any influence from an engineer in either cab, seems to have been convincing that the inven- tion is sure in operation as well as simple of construction and inexpensive of installation. It goes without saying that any in- vention 'which would make good on such a promise would be hailed as epoch-making and that its general use would soon be demanded in the inter- est of both corporate property and of human life. Normal Schools. The settlement of the dispute be- tween the two contesting normal boards has cleared the decks for an in- crease in the number of normal schools to be maintained by the state under authority conferred by the recent Ne- braska legislature. For a third of a century Nebraska got along with only one school for the training of teachers, but for several years has maintained two such schools. The acquisitien of two more normal schools will, there- fore, double the present equipment and facilities and presumably double again the expense of maintenance. The law for the acquisition of an ad- ditional normal school 4n the western part of the state provides an appropri- ation of $35,000 to construct butldings on a site containing not less than eighty acres to be donated by the city or town in which it is located. It goes without saying that $35,000 will not erect much of a bullding and at best wiil leave nothing with which to run the school when ready for business. The second normal school law ap- propriates $90,000 for the purchase of buildings, grounds and equipment of the Wayne Normal college, the pre- sumption being that there will be Ift- tle, if anything, left when the purchase price is paid, so that even after acquir- ing this school no maintenance fund will be avallable. The appropriations for the two nor- mal schools now in operation, exclusive of permanent improvements, to carry them through the current biennium were ag follows: Peru. Kearney. Salarles $105,000 $82,000 Expense 39,400 24,700 Deficlency 3,600 vesve WORRIN u.d's B eiiess s $147,000 $108,700 It is costing the state, therefore, $125,000 a year to run its two existing normal schools, and it will not be long before four schools will require twice thig sum, or approximately $250,000 a year, without counting the necessary appropriations for building construc- tion and replacement, and without counting the additional money devoted to the junior normals and the teachers’ training work in the State university. We simply submit that for a state of 1,600,000 population Nebraska has been traveling pretty fast on the nor- mal school race track. A World-wide Condition, Lest the American who marvels at rthe high prices of his household neces- sities Be¢ome obsessed of the idea that he {8 alone in his trouble, let him turn to the re¢ords as just compiled by the Departntent of Commerce and Labor, where he will find the consular reports of other countries indicating that the complaint is an international one. Eng- land, France and Germany are having their own troubles with prodigious budgets which are bringing protests from people already burdened with taxes which the increased cost of living makes it a hardship to meet. . Austria is shown to be experimenting with new trade treaties with the Balkan states, avowedly designed to secure a larger supply of food products in the hope of cutting the prices exacted by the large land owners. Hven Switzerland, it prove worthy of the confidence re- posed in it by its designers, it may be the forerunner of an entirely new type of fortification along all our coasts. Down in Tennessee. Old-fashioned school boys who have now grown into sedate fathers or re- trospective grandfathers cannot but re- flact how times have changed when they read that the Tennessee State Board of Health has issued a general order against kissing, the order to be posted in the public schools. There was a time when kissing went by favor, but, alas for these modern days, when it goes by general order number 0-4-2, just as the “Jingle bells"” season is about to get under way. All the joy has gone out of the sleighbells’ laugh, since the boys of the old days were ‘‘Seeing Nellle home,’” and the Board of Health is not letting the lads learn whether the nut-brown maiden has any features worth pro- claiming in ‘loud and luxuriant song. What is to become of old Tennessee, to be sure! No kissing in the public schools? A great order, and every pretty scheol marm in the state in duty bound to see that it is properly en- forced. Railroad Trave]. The necessity for limiting the human factor, or Personal equation, in the op- eration of rallroads, if the most dread- ful and fatal of wrecks are to be avoided, has compelled the heads of them one thing and did another. That's nothing. For commisseration se¢ the " brewers, who will repeat the tale with slight variations. % It all depends on whose ox s gored. The despotic tyranny of the courts did not exercise the World-Herald very 'dflly whest W, J. Connell was on the . grill for alleged contempt, but now Aithat it is its old friend Ig Dunn who . s up against it, the World-Herald boils oygr 1n,_indigaation, leading lines to make definite and per- sonal {nvestigation Into the merits of inventions designed to make collisions impossible. The traveling public will be grateful for the information that so confident are the raflroading interests of the re- ilability of a devicé on which they fin- ally had pinned faith, that the presi- dents of several important roads ac- tually imperilled their own lives by riding In two locomotives driven at full speed head-on toward each other. The held up to the world a model of thrift and prosperity, is well to the fore among nations whose people find it difficult to live a comfortable, satis- factory existence within their means. It would seem that in European countries, as in America, the long periods of prosperity have so raised the standard of living that the family with a moderate income is confronted with the alternative of either going without some things to which it has been accustomed, or adopting more economical ways. There is no denying the fact that the spirit of the age has been prodigal, but the new conditions are world-wide and not local nor ex- ceptional. Review of the harvest figures, as com- piled by Bradstreet’s for 1909, shows a gain, despite the general drouth, in all important crops except cotton and hay. The gain of the corn yleld over that for 1908 is 3.7 per cent, and of wheat 9 per cent. Corn is indicated as ylelding 2,767,316,000 bushels, which is 160,000,000 bushels less than the record crop of 1906. Potatoes break ali records with a total of 367,- 473,000 bushels, and tobacco also sets a new figure, 895,185,000 pounds. The leading six cereal crops aggregate nearly 5,000,000,000 bushels, a gain of 7.6 per cent over 1908, and only 4 per cent below the highest records. Yet all this visible abundance must be but an incentive for more hus- bandry, in the face of the argument that the world's degmand for food has actually overtaken the combined ef- forts of agriculture. Masculinity has not apparently awak- ened to the fact of a feminine conspir- acy against him. No, it s not the suffrage, but fashion in a new form. The latest cult is that a woman shall wear a gown whose color scheme shall conform te her ‘mood. This would mean a variety in the wardrobe that would st r humanity. It would seem to be up to the frugal husband BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1909. 0 begin a campaign of education to onvince the wife of his bosom that she looks perfectly horrid, yellow, wrinkled and old in any but her favor- ite color, Président Widhett of the Nebraska Rallway commission is said to have gone on record at the Washington meeting in favor of complete federal control of rallway regulation. The logical outcome of this program would be to put all the state commissions out of business. The good doctor's job, however, is safe for a few years longer. The Bee is printing a compilation of county officers elected in the various countles of Nebraska who will take office with the beginning of the new year. This is Information that may come in mighty handy almost any day and save much time and labor. Cut it out and put it in your scrapbook. The five-foot library of evidence in the Standard Oil case might be put on the market as the true story of “Jack the Giant Killer' up to date. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Speaker Cannon wants it distinctly under- stood that there is another Joseph who can resist temptation. Good Deeds Live After. Pittsburg Dispate. Aldrich admits that “Andrew Jackson was a great man, but he is dead.” It re- mains to be proved that his opinfons died with him, however. A Close Call. Wall Street Journal. Great Western's two recelvers ask for compensation at the rate of $50,00 a year each. If they had held their positions a few months longer at this rate they might have owned the road. —— Much Dignity, Little Fun. Baltimore American. In Nebraska the campaign was conducted entirely by means of circilars matled to the voters, campaign oratory and meetings being cut out. This way of dolng things has a great deal more dignity than the old way, but it misses a lot of fun. A Simple Explanation. Des Motnes Capital. Mr. Bryan is now explaining why the democrats lost Nebraska the other day. The explanation ¢s a magnificent exhibition of that exciting exercise known as “beat- ing around the bush.” The simple secret is that the republicans had the most votes. Do & Wholesale B Boston Transeript. Perhaps it was long impunity that made them bold, but certainly the perpetrators of the New York sugar frauds were not doing “a retall business” when they swin- dled the government out of the duties on fifty-three tons out of one cargo by false welghts. —— 4 A Yi om tl ot. Philadelphla Press. The Yankee sea ~captain's proverblal originality is sustained ’lllll Wheén fifty miles off Hatteras recently a Boston mariner blew six waterspouts that threat- ened to swamp his ship to kingdom come with & shotgun, Merely Assistant Glant. Philadeiphia Press. The purchase of telegraph stock by tele- phone Interests 18'an evidence of the strides made by modern invention. For many yeard“tfié telegraph seemed to hold an un- asshilfble positioh as the leader in long dictéHee' communication. Now it seems in danger of becoming merely an assistant. ——— Burope Weak in Epithets, New York Wor Aftét writhing for centuries under the iron oot of the oppressor they are slow in Burope in learning the ways of the peo- ple truly free. It is only occasionally, as at the recent soclallst congress at Lelp- sle, when orators address one another on the floor as “lfar,” “monkey,” “ass” and “féol that the bright light of reason breaks through the slumbering intelli- gence of the masses. — An tra Philadelphia Pre: President Taft never displayed his human #lde more clearly and tenderly than when he requested the privilege of acting as honorary pallbearer at the funeral of his old classmate, Raymond Patterson, a Wasshington correspondent. He throw offi. clal dignity to the winds and took his place in line with newspaper men and other friends to pay his trijute of love and re. spect to the memory of a fellow alumnus. That simple act will touch the heart of everyone who belleves in human friend- ships, New York Tribune. We sald yesterday that If ex-Senator Hemenway, the expert of the new senate committee to supervise appropriations, sue- ceeded, as he hopes to do, In cutting the 100910 total of $1,014,000000 to less than $1,000,000,000 for 1910-11 he would be entitled t & statue in the capltol's hall of fame. Now comes Senator Jonathan Bourne, a member of the committee, with the un- nouncement that he expects to reduce the government's expenditures for 1910-11 by ““from $50,000,000 to $150,000,000." If he splits the difference and makes a saving of $100,- 000,00 Mr. Bourne will be entitled to a whole hall of fame to himself. TAFT MARY OF TRIP, Thankfulness and Rejolcing, Ome Note of Apology. Leslie's Weekly. with the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean, down the Pacific ocean to the southwest corner of the country, aeross through the territories and that great domain of Texas to St Louls, down the Mississippl into New Or- leans and now here. 1 have made—the Lord forgive me and the Lord help those Who heard me,—200 and odd speeches, and I have been able to sustain the hearing of 200 more; and 1 am able to say that we never in all our country's history were as homogeneous a people, as closely allied in all our hopes and ambitions and in all our pride of country and patriotism, as we are today. It is possible that there are corners in this country that have escaped me where there is discontent, but, If so, I have not found them. In evely town-1 had most sald In every hamlet—in every city and country and in every ® 1 have found the individual saying to himself, ‘I am content here, because I know what will make this city or this town or this eounty the best one In the state, and I am going to do that very thing, And so, with re- spect to the state, the ambition is the same—all proud of the opportunity to be the citisens of the town or the county er the state where he is, and all proud to b Americans—the type to which we have “1 have been on this trip of mine from | Around New York ' Ripples on the Ourrent of Life &5 Seen in the Great Amerioan Metropolis from Day to Day. The chase for a possible chunk of news in New York, when it revolves around an individual of prominence, puts the over- worked strenuous pace to the supreme test. On such occasion ihe reporters for i pers are either armed With cameras or accompanied by & snapshotter and woe betide the person who attempts to dodge. The other day Mrs. John Jacob or returned to New York without ad- Vance announcement. An army of re- porters and camera men grested her at the station. This fs what happened as told\ by one of the papers as new: Quick as a flash Mrs. Astot took ad- vantage of this, and, Jarting around be- hind them, she hurried over to the cab- stand, calling “Cab! cab! please, a cab!" when she was fifty feet away from the nearest vehicle, The door of this was open and she quickly stepp:d in. Her mald followed, £ave a hurrled order to drive to 8 Wash- ington square, North, and they were off. The cab Mrs. Astor had taken went down Fifth avenue, across Union square and down University place to Washing- ton square. There, in froat of the resi- dence of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin 8. Guin- ness, where Mrs. Astor, were the photog- raphers lined up once more. They had pre- ceded her in taxis and the subway. Instead of alighting, Mrs. Astor had her mald tell the cabman to drive around to the back of the house. The photographars ran around and took up positions there in the alley. Frustrated again, Mrs. Astor gave Instruction to be driven uptown. The cab continued on to the end of the alley to University place, turned north, went as far as Fourteenth street and then west to Fifth jvenue. Here the cab-driver wad ordered to go to the Wal- dorf. Upon reaching the hotel Mrs. Astor and her mald got out at the Thirty- third street entrance and the mald paid for the cab. While she was doing so Mrs. stor stepped into an automobile rougham and started back for Wash- iugton square alne. Whea she arrived the Guinness house she remained in the cab several minutes, sitting well in a corner where a camara could not be leveled at her. Severall were still poised for action. Finally the door of the hous: opened, the butier came out, opened the cab door and Mrs. Astor almost ran up the high stone steps. Her. dress had caught in the cab door, but she pulled it loose. She had a book in her hand and shielded her face with it. The door was slammed behind her. John McCormack, the Irish tenor, who made his debut at the Manhattan Opera house recently, has already become & great favorite with his fellow countrymen in New York, reports the Tribune. Arthur Hammersteln says that he was being shaved the other day by an Itallan whom he often patronizes and who is a great partisan of Enrico Caruso. “I asked the barber,” sald Mr. Hammerstein, “what he thought of McCormack. ‘He' a fine singer, but he's not in Caruso’s ¢l re- | plied the tonsorial artist, whereupon a man who had been waiting to be shaved Jumped up and in a brogue as broad as the East river retorted that the Italian didn’t know what he was talking about. Though Mr. McCormack s one of my father's chief artists, 1 dldn't want a tight, as I like the barber and the Irish- man looked as if he could whip the whole shop, so I suggested that the two temors were of different type, McCormack belng a lyric and Caruso a dramatic tenor. At this the son of the Emerald Isle roared out, ‘I don't care what kind of a tenor Johnny McCormack Is. I know he can sing like hent » Timothy J. Donohue, the oldest inspector of customs in New York City, Is credited by his fellows with possessing a nose which can smell concealed diamonds and other jewels six feet away. “Old Tim," as he 1s known, has more selzures of that sor( to his credit on the records of the customs house than any other inspector employed there. His duty is to wander aimlessly about the steamship plers and “frisk” in- coming passengers, relates the Press. Many persons may not know what “frisk” means In customs house parlance. It is the art of stumbling or brushing against a person so skilitully that the Inspector can rub his hands over the pockets and person of the suspect and ascertain whether he has smuggled goods concealed In his clothes, and at the same time prevent the suspect knowing what he Is doing. In the thiryt-five years or longer that Donohue has been at it on the New York plers he has “frisked” thousands of Amer- lcans and foreigners after they ha: landed and are awaiting to get their lug- gage through the hands of the other in- spectors. If any Incoming passenger stand- Ing on a trans-Atlantic line pler sees a short, stout, gray-haited, gray-mustached man, quietly dressed, caryying a cheap um- brella tied in the middle with a string and stumbling about as If fresh from the back- Wwoods and looking for someons whom he cannot find, that is “Old T4m" Donohue, In his eager quest he bumps against every- body; seizes overcoats by the pockets, rubs his hands up and down gers as he trips over baggage, acts half soused, never apologizes and keeps right on. After the Inspectors are through with a passenger {whom he suspects he steps up and Invites |him to go to the office to be searched. It 1s not often his suspicions are misdirected, Owing to the Increasing popularity of hotel weddings, some of the big New York hotels are considering the advisability of erecting small chapels to meet the demand. It is sald that several of the Fifth avenue hotels will announce before long that chap- els may be had for weddings, the same | ballrooms are let for social events. The nearest approach to a chapel in any hotel s at the Waldorf-Astorla, which, with newly acquired fittings especlally for wedding ceremonies, will turn a room like the Astor gallery into a chapel. Fifty weddings are booked already at the Wal- dorf-Astoria for this season, and the fad |18 on the increase. Weddings are also being booked upon a |large scale at the Plaza. the St. Regis and !the Gotham, where arrangements are now | being effected to turn any sort of a room into a chapel Many of the chapel fittings at the Wal- |dort were used for the first time on No- vember 17, at the wedding of Miss Made- line Teresa Kuser and Hentley H. Pope. All the decorations were ecclosiustical, the meats arranged in pew fashion and |there whs an altar. Even the lights were | regulated to shed a dim churchiike glow, |and hidden chimes pealed until & few mo- ments before the ceremony. Philadelphia Record. The telegraph and the telephone are to be consolidated. Doubtiess there is money in this for the shareholders, and there may be conveniences for the public, but the public will have to look sharp if it is to get anything out of the deal. The pro- bred all those races with whom we have [ Moters of the big trusts always explain in amalgamated—to be Americans, and to rejoice and thank God that the starry advance that they are eager to render a better service, but of course they are not flag waves over us, & united country and | philanthropic concerns; they are only after & united nr larger profits. BABAKING AWAY FROM BRYAN. *n Celonel Mournfully Sobs, What's the Use? Charleston News wnd Courfer (dem.). We agres with Harpers Weekly that it " fight for true and sound democracy ls to be made between now and 1912 let it begin at once,” and that “if democrats who A their party from a repetition of that folly and blunder (the folly and blunder of 1908) and to keep out of the predicament in whicn they then found themselves, they cannot afford to waste any time. That is all true, every word of it, but We wish our hebdomadal friend would tell us whe are the “democrats from principle’’ Of which it speaks, where are they to be found and what have they done to impress themselves upon the party or the country? Can our contemporary name a single man in the demooratic party who has not In recent years trimmed his prineiple to sult conditions? Has there not been a disposi- tion on the part of the so-called leaders of the democracy to gain w footing In the party by consenting to almost every doc- trine of expediency that has been preached unto them? How was it during the last sslon of the congress? How many of the democratic members stood fast by the party when the tariff question was under dis- cusalon, and have we not all boasted over- much that the republicans have simply stolen our policles? Does Harper's Weekly know of any political fad whatsoever that promised popular strength that the demo- cratic party has not adopted since Mr. B became its chief apostle? The great Nebraskan, we belleve, is now at work steadlly for *another nomination. not sald that he will not be & & renomination, which is equiv ing that he will be a candidate, and we know him se well that we have nominated him, not because we belleve in him, or be- lieve that the party under his leadership could posaibly gain a victory, but because we are satisfied that he will be the candi- date of the democracy In 1912, and that the party will follow him, so utterly inverte- brate is the democracy and so wholly in- competent is its leadership. —_— REFORM THE PARENT. Need of Revival of Famous Session in the Woodsh New York Tribuni Precocity seems to be inherent in the modern youth, but, to judge from the num- ber of storfes of orimes committed during the last few days by boys who ought to be in the grammar or high schools, it would appear that the time has arrived to restore the rising generation to its old status. In Kansas a youth of 17, with a companion of 15, robs a bank, kills a policeman and in- Jures another man. At Syracuse two young men with wild west aspirations, one of them 18 and the other 18 years of age, climb aboard a train while at the station and enter the express car to rob it after the train s well under way. At New Albany, Ind., a I7-year-old reader of cheap blood and thunder novels, in an effort to rob the Merchants National bank, shoots ang kills the cashler and serlously wounds the presi- dent of the institution. There'is some reason to believe that the boys themselves are not entirely at fault. Parental responsibility rests more lightly upon heads of households today, apparently, than it did a generation ago. However we may deplore the use of those persuasive means o much in vogue in the boyhoods of the grandfathers of the present genera- tidn, and however much we may approve of the modern methods of moral suasion— where it works—there still lingers the sus- plcion that a session in the woodshed with the stern father and a good strap might have a most salutary effect on soine of the present day juvenile criminals. Prob- ably many persons might say, if they would, in the words of the New Albany father: ‘““To tell the truth, the boy never had proper care. He has reared himself |and was an inveterate reader of cheap novel It 18 to be feared that many par- |ents are too busy to devote the proper amount of time to the training of thelr children, and where this is the case they have only themselves to blame when shame and disgrace are brought upon their heads by thelr offspring. ARMY DESERTIONS, wes for Taking “Fr Army Lite, New York Sun, Adjutant-General Alnsworth reports that 4,93 cnllsted men, or 497 per cent deserted from the army during the last fiscal year, s compared with 4.60 per cent the year be. ore. As the country has become more |prosperous the Increase of desertions of itself s not surprising, but that there should be several thousand desertions from ch Leave” of about 70,00 men (excluding the Philippine scouts), particularly when there has been an addition to army pay, Is deplorable, However, thers. has been some improve. ment in attaéfiment te the service during the fiscal year 180605 there were 6,238 de- sertions, or 74 per cent of the comple- ment. % In & dispatch from Washington General |abolition of the canteen, the monotony of |garrison life, the increasing amount of work and study demanded of a soldfer, and the ease with which remunerative employ- ment can be obtained in civil life, account for the large number of desertions, Ma- jor-General A. W. Greely two years ago |included in his annual report as com- mander of the Northern division ten reas- ons why o many enlisted men took “French leave.” The most potent of all, in our opinion, was excessive non-military work about the posts, such work as a day {laborer ought to do in_place of a soldier. |The market wage for Such work, which is often dlstasteful and worse, s from & {dollar and & half to two dollars a day, The soldier recelves not much more than fifty cents for this work and for bemg a soldier too. He has his rations free, it may be urged, but General Greely has told us thet in variety, If not in quality, the soldler's rations are not as good as the |tare the day laborer can command with his wage. ———— POINTS TO YOUNGER MEN, mts Subjected to Rigld Phys- teal Teats. St. Louls Globe Democrat. The new conception of the duties of a president will compel the country to select younger men than it sometimes did for- merly. Jackson was 66 years of age at the time that iliness selzed him while on his New England trip, and physically he w feebler than his years. Taft is only 52 years of age. In comparison with Jackson, Taft, of course, s even better equipped intelligently to talk on the big issues, social and political, of the hour than he is physically to traverse the country’'s mag- nificent distances. The country is larger in 1908 than it was in 183%—larger in area, in Inhabitants, and in the number and the | variety of its luterests. And the demands of many kinds on its presidents have in- creased proportionately. Hereafter the man who aspires to the post of head of the government will need to stand as rigid a physical examination as do the candj. dates for admission to West Point o Anpapolis, and he must be ready to talk Intelligently to all sorts and condidtions of men on all themes and at all times, In much more than a metaphorical sense g president of the United States hersafter will be the First Citisen of the republic, Are democrats from principle wish to save an army with an authorized strength of | Alnsworth {8 quoted as saying that the | PERSONAL NOTES. Herman Baehr, (he republican who k feated Tom Johnson for re-election & mayor of Cleveland, O., s a brewer. The “ultimate consumer” of gas In Minneapolis is about to have his inning. The gas compahy offers to come down from 81 to § conts if the city will renew ita franchise. The London funnier than he knows. Says he: “Mrs. Astor MAy prove as exacting in the selection of & new husband as she has been In the ©choice of a London house. She has taken no less than three of these within recen years." New York has had a condemnation com- mission engaged for fourteen years upon @ matter that might have been settied In & leisurely way in six months. That the commissioners were pald at the rate of #6000 annually aplece is now being ocon- Sldered as a coincident eplsode not devold of Intereat. A girl at Camden, N. J., fell down/ the Stairs of a factory and recovered $2,500 damages In spite of the charge that her French high-heeled shoes and not the de- fective steps led to her trouble. The jury seemed to think the stairs should accom- modate themselves to the high art of the heels. No less competent an authority than G. M. Slemons, editor of the Amsterdam Telegraph, who fs now in this country, es- timates that Dutch people have inveated at the present time in American -securiti between $450,00,00 and $600,00000. In pro- rating this enormous sum among the esti- mated population of thrifty Holland, which Is placed around 5,000,000, we find the in- teresting and startling fact that if the Wealth were equally distributed it would work out at nearly $100 a head for each one of the population cor Is — PEERLESS ON THE TROT. Colonel Down-the-World Trip Provekes Reflections. Washington Post. It ls announced that Mr. Bryan wil Spend the winter in Texas, not far fror Corpus Christl, and that he will then sajl for Brasil early in the spring to see what is worth looking at in that all too little land and partake of of the hospitailties of Then Mr. Bryan Is to make a tour of Eu- Tope and delivers a stump speech in Scot- land and participate of the hospitalities of that famous club that Hume, Robertson, Adam Smith, Ferguson, Walter Bcott, Lockhart, Black, Clerk, Jeffreys and 100 others of the grandest of the races made 80 {llustrious, WIll history repeat itselt? In 1%06 the G. O. P. was walking the floor. The odds in July were that the next house of represen- tatiyes would have a democratio majority, and they were saying that it John Sharp could notlook the speaker he could act ft. And 20 It appeared until a certatn night In August, when the Peeriess One, after trotting around the globe, landed in New York City and made a stump speech in Madiron Square Garden. He shifted the lssue, he challenged to a new field, ana then the G. O. P. saw the opening ana took advantage of it, a hablt it has. The congress that autumn elected was republi- can and Joseph G. Cannon Its speaker. Mr. Bryan will return to this country the late summer of 1910. Will he again open the box of Pandora? We see what his henchmen are doing in Ohio, They are after Governor Harmon and that gentle- man has as much to fear from B friends as he has from the repu ans. Since the death of Johnson of Minnewots, and with Harmon out of the way, who could dispute the nomination with the Matchless in the demooratic. natienal.eon- vention of 19127 A southern man? Whom? We all love to | talk about “a southern man" off years; {but even if we could find a suthern man to challenge the supremacy of Mr. Bryan, he would be disastrously beatcn In convention, the It Gaynor should turn out a Sam Tilden, the thing would be mightily simplitied Lol A BREEZY TRIFLES, { “IMd your polar reseache; enabl i shoul 84y 50, replied the 1 hey were the means of E.“:xp e some ged lecture contracts.”—Washington Patent Medicine Man—Did you get photograph of that fellow who_ useq one pottle of our compound and wrote tnat he had no further use for his crutoh? Assismuni—No. He has been in bed ever since.—Fhiladelphia Record. ‘eracker’ hi e e from the hookwornd” ¥ llable to. airest as |mafe cracker!”—Cleveland Plain Dealer, Foot Ball Coach (after the —Boy are you all here? ERmAiEROTA Quarterback—1'm not; I left an ear part of a finger somewhere nea |iwenty-five-yard line.—Chicago | Herald. and tne Record- Inquiring Henderson—Paw, wh; e pihauirin what Is singl Fathe; sn't twins, hat's when the doctor says it Harvard Lampoon, Gulde ez wooh ex 1 kin borry a dorg we'll be yeady for your huntin’ (113, Amaleur Sport~Why, what's the matter with your dog? Gulde—On, g7 WL he's !b:» valuable!~Chlcago “Your children are preity well trained aren’t they?’ Yes, 1 flatter myself that they are. I've got_‘em xo | they don’t even corr:ct my Tammar before gompany.’'—leveland | Leader. “Wh rted this fuss?’ demanded the policen “Offic lained the man, “that feller raise & turned to me &n' sald dere's looking at ye!' " “well?” “Well, when ‘e sald it ‘ls eyes was crossed!"—Chicago Tribune. — First Baby—Milk Is § cents a quart Second Baby-Great Scott! We start in being_ultimate consumers mighty early.— New York Sun. She (sternly)—I heard & noise very late. | He (facetiously)—Was It the night fall- ing? he—No, it wasn't. It was the day break- | ing.—Baltimore American. “JUST SIXTEEN, Is there ever a time when the skies are ®o bright, Or the grass so dellghttull, {1s there ever & time when so light As when one Ereen, the "heart fs Just reached sixteen? [An, then is the time when the ple Aurll of -life . Are enjoyed to the fullest extent, efore We are touci by the world's toil and strif And our wills to its will are bent; When the touch of & hand or a greeting a, Wiil bring to the heart a thrill; And there's never a care to obstruet our way, And the world seems full of good-will Before we have quite put away childish things And have just tasted grown-up fun, The hours pass so swiftly they must have/ w And We know there'll be we'll know, And wrinkles will We know because ings, our work Is so quickly done. times when sorrow crease our brow; grown-ups have told us 80, But what do we care for that now? Just sixteen years, 'Tis the middle of spring, With ita April-liKe sunshiae and showeis, hen the ‘song of youth we are lea o o, ) 13 . ' A » s .