Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 13, 1909, Page 4

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P, WALKER, Notary Publle. —_— o Subscribers leaving the city tem- porarily should have The Bee mailed to them, Address will be el STATEME State of Neb: Strange, how the natural gas falled Just as congress opened up! Thaw now wants his release because he has no piano. Won’t Santa Claus bring him one and keeép him quiet? —— And now the price of hogs 1s mounting at a rate that makes one dizzy. It surely is the farmer's year. Omaha girls who helped destroy a tradition at Wellesley are not the first of their kind. Omaha girls are progressive. ln‘ reading of the death of the famous chemist who reduced the cost of gas, remember that it was the cost, not the price. Now that the Prairie has been re- floated, let it remember that the way to Nicaragua is not across lots, even on dewy nights. A Ou boy orators will be pained to ob- serve that a Chinaman has carried oft the Ten Eyck prize of $2,600 for pub- lic speaking at Yale The courts having labeled the com- bines ‘‘fragile,” the window glass in- terests may consider themselves log- lcal in going into one. The woman who gave a bridge party on the eve of her fatal operation may be said-to have made her ruling pas- sion strong in the face of death. — With corn selliug at the rate of $2,300 a bushel, the Corn exposition is putting up prices at a rate that ought to quit the most enthusiastic. — Invention of a torpedo which “picks up the sound of a warship's propeller and rushes to it” should bestir the genluses to devise a noiseless warship. — It is safe to assume that Mr. Crane of Chicago is having a whole lot better time as a private tourist in Tyrkey than he would have had as mlnls(‘er in China, The *.Gaynor enthusiasts who are boosting him for the next democratic candidate for president might wait a few weeks and watch him on the may- or's job. The Nebraska debaters yho lost both the afMrmative and negative sides of the same question have established a record that ought to be permanently preserved at the university. Bcores of abandoned ice houses in Maine and along the Hudson are ready for harvests if New York state Is to follow up its conviction of the ice com- bine with practical results. It these frequent disgraces of the battleship Nebraska are really due to incompetent officers and mutinous men, it1s time Secretary Meyer per- sonally took a hand in cleaning ship. While the ice combine appeals from the verdict of gullt In New York state, 1t ',u(hl to be graclous enough in the meantime to consider itself on its good behavior in its attitude toward the consumer. Oge advantage of the Nobel prizes Is that they serve to call the whole world's attention to scholars who hitherto have enjoyed only a restricted fame. For instance, Selma Lagerlof, Need of New Legislation. Popular confidence in the ability of the United States to have its own way in the courts suffers a rude shock In contemplation of the annual report of Attorney General Wickersham, wherein are set forth many of the limitations which confront the Depart- ment of Justice, with suggestions for remedial legislation. Many proposals have to do with technical matters of judicatory procedure, wherein it Is shown that the government is ham- pered, and of these one of the most important s the plan to expedite the removal of a prisoner iIndicted for crime in one district from the one in which he may be apprehended. Mr, Wickersham objects to the practice of substantially requiring the whole case of the United States to be tried out before a commissioner or judge on habeas corpus in‘a district remote from that in which the indictment is found, on application for a warrant of removal. But against his claim that this process often results in a complete failure of justice will be raised the right of the prisoner to habeas corpus proceedings, a right which must not, indeed, cannot, be Invaded, and it is dificult to see how the government can avold a full preliminary hearing in such a case without enlarging its risk of surrendering its prisoner again to liberty. One matter that has been per- sistently demanded and is now re- newed s the broadening of the right | of appeal of ‘the government in crim- inal cases. It would seem to be a mat- ter of equity that the United States have the same right which the de- fendant possesses, wherever the cong stitution permits. Another cause hampering the crim- irial procedure by the government is the statute which prevents the United States from using against any prisoner testimony given by him in previous judicial proceedings. It is an apparent injustice against the government to permit a prisoner to tell unchallenged a story entirely different from one al- ready on other records, and there ap- pears no good reason for letting the prohibitive statute stand, since the constitution guarantees any prisoner against self-crimination, ,which was the original intent of the statute that has been used as a shield by criminals. The attorney general makes a strong plea for an immunity statute to meet the conditions which arise in the efforts of tle government to procure vital testimony. He argues that the same reasons that called for the en- actment ,of the special immunity statute as to proceedings under the in- terstate commerce laws apply with equal force to criminal prosecutions generally. ‘‘The United States,” he urges, ‘‘should have the power to com- pel incriminating disclosures by giving a compensatory immunity {n all cases where Individuals stand between crime and its detection and punishment.” Citing the beneficial results.of the developments of the sclence of pen- ology in various states, Mr. Wick- ersham pleads for a national law for indeterminate sentences parole and suspension of sentences’ In actual working, he holds that such a law! qn courages and assists those who are not hablitual offenders to become good and useful citizens, and he sees no reason why the United States should be be- hind the individual states in a move- ment of this character. Union of the Cities. The matter of union between the two Omahas is now squarely presented, the director of the census having fixed a date beyond which consolidation will be useless for census purposes. Four months remain in which to determine if the two citles are to continue to stand before the world in their present remarkable attitude. Every interest of ccmmerce, of industry, and of soclal and political economy, requires that the two cities be united under one gov- ernment. The arguments on this point are so many and have been presented so often that repetition is needess. There 1s but one way to get together, and that is to get together. The commercial clubs of the two cities should act In the matter without fur- ther dalliance. Keeping Eyes on Japan. Dispatches from European capitals indicate that St. Petersburg is greatly perturbed over the alleged renewal of Japan’s Intention to annex Korea in direct opposition to the treaty of Portsmouth. Such an act could not but be construed as a grievous offense to Russia and might occasion a new cause for war. Tokio, no doubt, will be ready with a disclaimer, but the cir- cumstantial detail of the reports from Seoul and elsewhere make it apparent that the czar has need to be alert if he is not to be checkmated in the in- ternational diplomacies which are be- ing renewed after having been halted by the assassination of Prince Ito. The United States has a peculiar reason for looking askance at the po- litical maneuvers of Japan in extend- ing its sphere of influénee in the far east, for this government's existing treaty with the mikado's empire has little more than gnother year to run, and in the revision of it we must not be 8o magnanimous toward our friend overseas as to refrain from keeping an eye upon his movements. It was only last year that we had to arrange a temporary agreement with Nippon concerning the co-operative control of laborers coming to this country, a feature which may prove to be a Swedish authoress, has been little read in this country, but her receipt of the Nobel prize for literature will Insure world-wide audience worthy of her pen stumbling block in the preparation of a.now treaty, A nation which so sorely taxes the ingenuity of the trained diplomnats of Burope may be counted on as using THE BEE: QMAHA, MONDAY its utmost astuteness In efforts to be. guile our diplomacy, which under mod- ern conditions has every need to be unusually wideawake in all its inter- national dealings. The March of Surgery. Medical men of Ohio have just cele- brated the centennial of Dr. Ephriam McDowell, ‘“‘father of ovariotomy,” whose marvelous operation of a hun- dred years ago brought fame to hls state and country. Inasmuch in those days anaesthetics and antiseptics were allke unknown, the daring and hazard of the McDowell operation, that of removing an internal tumor from a woman, may be appreclated. At the time Dr. McDowell was vigor- ously attacked, one critic denouncing his operation as “‘outrageous and mur- derous.” But his patient recovered and lived to bless him for forty years thereafter, and npnrntlonn based on the McDowell method became common. Today Prof. Jonnesco is enlighten- Ing the surgeons of America, home of anaesthesia, on the merits of stovaine, which he injects Into the spinal col- umn, thereby rendering the patient in- sensible to pain, yet enabling him to retain consciousness. The value of the discovery has been accepted by dis- tinguished members of the profession in New York, who see in it possibili- tles for safe surgery among those whose constitutional affections make them liable to collapse from the use of ordinary anaesthetios. It is .evident that sclence has achieved one of its greatest miracles for humanity in removing from surgi- cal operations the barbarous suffering of the early days, when even the most practiced skill was powerless to elim- inate, or even to alleviate, the element of suffering and shock. « Meat from Other Markets. The growing shortage in the world’s meat supply is turning the attemntion of the beef eaters to other than Ameri- can markets. Argentina has for some time been making headway with its shipments to European countries, and packers from the United States are even now preparing to manipulate the stock yards there in addition to their own. This fact has caused apprehen- sfon In Great Britain, which seeks a gource of supply that it may control without Interference. Judging from the official reports of the success of the experiment of ship- ping Australian chilled beef into Eng- land, the meat problem is in a fair way to be solved for Londoners. The beef was two month® jn transit, but was landed in €xcellént condition and held its own against Argentina com- petition. Large importers have ar- ranged for the construction of packing plants in Australia especlally for ex- ports to England, and Australians are jubilant in expectation of a great im- petus to cattle farming in that coun- try. The proprietors of London res- ‘taurants testify that the Australlians have demonstrated that their chilling procesd i{s superior to the freezing method of other countries, and prophesy a great future in England fof Australian chilled beef. It is even suggested that the importers will now be willing to go farther afieid and that New Zealand will eventually come into the scope of operations. Get at the Facts. Since the county commissioners ren- dered a Scotch verdict in the county hospital case, the county attorney may not feel called upon to act in the mat- ter. This evasion of responsibility 18 not fn line with the duties of his office. He should push this matter vigorously to the end that the truth will be reached. If a crime was committed there it should be punished, and if no crime was committed the persons ac- cused should be exonerated. The path for Mr. English seems plain enough, but will he take {t? After a trial lasting eleven weeks the thirty-three steel firms and agents under Indictment at Boston on charges of collusion in city bidding have been acquitted. This case was made nota- ble throughout the nation by being quoted by President Roosevelt in a message to congress iu April of last year. It resulted from Investigations of the Boston Finance commission, | whose members were unquestionably | sincere in their report that the de- fendants had combined to maintain prices. But under the technicalities of the courts of law the evidence was subjected to a different test than that applied by the commission; the court found that the defendants had a right to combine to advance their own in- terests so long as they did not create a monopoly, and the jury took the view that no monopoly had resulted. Thus s again {llustrated the fact that there is a line of demarcation be- tween natural commercial agreements and collusion in restraint of trade. The esteemed Lincoln Journal couldn’t even avold distorting the facts in connection with the confolidation of Bellevue and Hastings colleges. There 18 much regret in Omaha at the departure of Bellevue college, but there is no serious opposition to its going. In fact, Omaha men who took part in the conference, that led up to the combination of the two schools, all voted without restraint for the action taken by the synod at Kearney, and the Hastings school will find nowhe more earnest supporters than among the citizens of Omah The passing of Red Cloud is not the matter of moment to Nebraskans it might have been twenty-five years ago. The notice of his death merely serves . DECEMBER 13, 1909 to recall to the minds of early settlers episodes of frontler days that have been forgotten under the accumulated experience of the busy life that has developed Nebraska within the span of a litetime from the condition of an Indiad hunting ground to that of one of the most prolific agricultural wealth producers the world knows. Charlle Towne wants to butt Into the Nebraska guaranty law case, ask- ing to be made special counsel for the state In the final hearing at Washing- ton. Before determining this point the attorney general might look up the history of the railroad rate case, when an attorney general of Nebraska stepped aside and allowed an eminent political colleague of Mr. Towne to address the court. The case was hope- lessly lost. —_— A life insurance president reports that while we are combatting other diseases we are letting heart, kidney and brain troubles make tremendous strides. He concludes that we are liv- ing too fast and advises a less strenu- ous life, with simpler eating, drinking, working and playing. Whereupon the fast liver will doubtless have recourse to his familiar plea of being allowed to burn out instead of rusting, A woman who had already served ten months of her sentence for per- jury In a New York divorce scandal hi at last succeeded in having her case dismissed on appeal. She has no redress for her durance, but, while technically innocent, has suffered the Penalty of guilt. Her case affords re- flection on the inadvisability of get- ting mixed up in the doings of the swift set. The work of establishing the physi- cal valuation of the Nebraska railroads under the law passed by the last legis- lature is going to be sufficiently costly. 1t it should be valuable in proportion to the state, it will be the greatest athlevement the democrats have to their score. A Safe are. Charleston News and Courler. The Sugar trust is still in business, al- though we venture to say that a private citigen who had 8o robbed the government would have been making shoes in the pen- itentlary, Up To The Consumer, 8t. Paul Pioneer Press. The governmént proposes to stop the Sugar trust from stealing $10,000,000 a year by its system of short welghts at the cus- toms house, Doubtiess the Sugar trust will get even by advancing the price to the con- sumer. High Road to Popularity. St. Paul Ploneer Press Preéident Taft Is said to be glving con- siderable thought to a reform In the system of taxation. He can cinch his renomina- tion and re-election If he can devise some plan that wilt compel the other fellow to pay the taxos, An Exainple of Enterprise. Boston Transcript. . Two hundred thousand farmers are inter- ested thithe Natlonal Corn exposition now in progress at Omaha, where $50,000 In prizes will ba-gikeribiited. This ought to glve edge to the exhibit that New England proposes to make-hext year. # i Duty and Destiny. New York Press. President Taft's drastic action toward the little Napoleon of Central Amerion smacks more of tho breaking up of a drunken brawl on our national doorstep than of any imperialism. Tt {s merely another case of fulfilling American “duty and destiny." Highway to The Heart. Chicago Record-Herald. In Omaha recently a young woman who worked a8 & waltress In a restaurant became the bride of a man whom she had seen for the first time when she walted on him an hour before the wedding. He must have noticed that she didn’t have her thumb in the soup or else that she wiped his plate We are getting disposed to be chary af accepting the promises of the imaginative genlus, Edison was to glve us years ago a cheap electric motor. He hasn't done it. Now that other “wizard,” Nikola Tesla. announces that he is planning to bulld a huge electric power plant which will en- bale him to operate all the telephone, tele- graph, lighting, traction and industrial sys- tems of the earth by ‘wireless currents.” 1f he does it, all right; if he doesn't, it will be about what we expeoted. P —————— OFFICE HOLDERS MULTIPLY. Increased Number Due to Government Expansion. Chicago New: A recent government publication shows the number of federal officeholders and employes to be 31006, The Increase in tha roll during the last two years is 4,000, showlng that the number not only is large but Is growing at a rapid rate. Presentation of these figures has given rise to fresh criticlsm of governmental methods. The suggestion is thrown out that the number of names on the federal payroll s unnecessarily large. Its rapid growth s supposed to indicate waste of public funds. 8till, the fact is that the people of the country continually are asking their gov- ernments to do more for them than has been done In the past people on the part of the government means more government officcholders and employes. This I8 true not alone of the national government but of state and municipal governments. The mercantile or manufacturing concern which enlarges the fleld of its activities must take on a large number of employes. The same is trus of governments. One difference {s that the mercantile or manu. facturing concern can measure more' easily than can a government the value of the enlarged force, because the output and the profits of the former should grow in pro: portion to the increase in the size of the payroll. A governmental agency has no such useful measuring rod by which to Judge results. This condition of affairs constitutes a strong reason why from time to time sys- tematio and thorough Inquiries should be made to determine as nearly as possible the relative value to the people of differont pranches of the public service and to as- certain it some of them should not be lopped off or if separate agencies should not be merged. The waste In expenditures on behalt of government necessarily ia large unless the best possible methods are employed In carrylag on the government. | nensive More work for the | Around New York The Innovation In eriminal augurated by Justice Maloge Ing eminent law; sons accused of crime, had In New York a few days ago. Oristant!, an Itallan woman charmed with the murder of her husband, was defended by Sam Untermyer, and mcquitted. Seif- defense was the plea of the accused, and it the jury with in ite first test In fact, the jury was 8o pleased the showing of that the members subscribed to a fund for the benefit of the accused, but Mr. Untermyer would not accept it for his cllent, stating that the sum of $00 allowed him by the court would be given her and was sufficlent for her needs. One of the many features of the trial was a showing of the handicap of poverty in securing jus- tice. Out of his own funds Mr. Unter- myer spent $1,000 in securing evidence for his cllent, being obliged to meet and over- come police opposition on all sides. In his summing up he spoke of the confine- ment of witnesses in the House of De- tention. August Branchi, & witness, had told how he had gone to see Alfred Cris- tantl in the House of Detention and been thrown out by a police officer. Mr. Un- termyer sald: ‘“‘American people are oriticlsing French methods of administer- ing justice. We had better look at our own methods. I can concelve of nothing more shameful than the situation dis- covered by that correspondence offered by me here earlfer in the trial. It that Is the way justice is administered here we had better wait @& while before criticlsing France and its methods." There is going to be a chance for more lawyers of note to defend poor prisoners in murder cases. Judge Malone has as- signed Willilam B. Hornblower to defend & penniless man named Washington. This case will be tried on February L De Lancey Nicoll has been appointd counsel in a murder case soon to come on. Existing conditions In the garment trades in New York City is one of the industrial and social toples discussed in the current Issue of the National Civic Federation Re- view. It Is disclosed that 5 per cent of the_garments are made in tenements hygienfcally unfit to be uted as work- rooms. This Is a revelation of importance to both the producers and consumers In this industry. -But there appears also the cheering information that many employers have planned improvements, in response to the offer “to acquaint all manufacturers in the trade with the best that is being done in weltare work for employes, that all may be stimulated to adopt possible in their own concerns, and to in- form them of the worst conditions existing in the manufacture of garments, hoping that they may co-operate in the effort to Improve them.” These employers, who are leading manufacturers in the country, were deeply impressed, and there is promised a rapld extension of welfare work in this line of Industry. The Co-Operative Service league of New York has Varled the strident and scattered ory of “Vote for women!" by A demand of “Hotels for women!" Tne members have gone further than that. They have directed the architect husband of one of the members to draw plans for “a Hotel home for women. Nol’ a hotel Home for women,” The structure is to treat women gudsts as other hotels treat their male guests. It is not to be a Home, but a semi-charitable, emphasis on the H, but a real home where respectable and self-respecting women are to be housed in treedom ahd comfort. Guests will be permitted to come in at night at any hour they choose. They can lte In bed all day I they wish to. There will be a cafe in addition to the usual dining room, but the list of bottle names on the menu has not been yet arranged. The barber shop will be supplanted by a hairdressing and manlcuring parior, with women bootblacks. Sald oné of the sponsors ror the move- ment: “There will be nothiug charitable about it. The managers wili not attempt moral guardianship over the'women guests. To get In, of course,- & woman must be known as properly vouched for, but after that she will be allowed to live her home lite as she chooses, provided she pays her bllls, respects the rights of her nelghbors and does not smoke clgarettes,'s The Gilsey house, once a hotel of such magniticence that it Was regarded one of the sights of the city, but which long has been eclipsed by many modern hostelries, has been sold to Rube R. Fogel of 177 Broadway. It is rumored the price paid was $1,600,000. What Fogel will do with it W a question which Is Interesting the old timers and horsemen who have made it their headquarters since it was built in 1870. There has been rumors that it will be torn down and A twenty-story building put up on the fine site at the northeast corner of Twanty-ninth street and Broadway. Combinations of leading bread baking establishments located in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and on the west «f the Hudson into & glant baking trust that will control the output of upward of 6,000,000 loaves of bread a week s the object of negotl tions and conferences which are now go- ing forward.' Representatives of con- cerns which have (hree-quarters of the entire “factory” capacity of this profitable territory have already taken part in these conferences, and it is now declared by prominent bakers that a combination is inevitable, FIXED FOR TROUBLE, Armories Stocked with Useful Supplies, Boston Transeript. 1f there are those who have taken alarm iat Mterature so seriously as to be appro of the finvasion of the United States, such may derive comfort from the knowledge that the invader will not find us unarmed or compelied to fall back on fowling pleces. The Bpringfield armom is turning out the new service rifles at the rate of 800 a day. We must have now Unecle Sa avallable, In the hapds of the army and militia and stored against possible emer- gencies, well on towards 500,000 rifles of the best pattern. Our condition of “‘prepared ness” is very different from what it was Just before the Spanish war. We then had only enough magazine ritles to suppy our small regular army. We did not have 80,000 of these weapons until the fighting with Spain was over. The deficlency wits not chargeable to this one officlal or that, but to the fallure of congress to provide in peace against the possibility of war. COr Poki at Peers. Springtield Republican Is England getting the shivers over the t campalgn? At the Trafalgar squafe meeting on Saturday some of the demou- strants bore turnips on the ends of poles as an emblem of the general Intelligence ot the peers. The London Sunday Times in ing the meeting said: ‘‘The turnip emblem was tossed about by the mob and torn to pleces, and it looked Iike & head on & plie 1n the twiligh* = practice in- ansign- vers to defend poor per- was established to the satisfaction of Lawyer Untermyer | it when | BOOSTS FOR THE CORN SHOW. Plattemouth News: The National | the dates may not have been pleasing (o | those outside of that city, | that 1t is there, that it is a for Nekraska to have the s Who oag should attend. There are a whoie lot of things to be learned at great how. and Al | woula hardly belleve. By all means take | advantage of the chance and go up and | take In the great,show. | Kearney Hub: The corn show at Omaha 18 a great success, according to the news | paper and other Aside from the dcmonstrations In producing the best cereal types, the comparisons and Interchange of thought awakens a deeper interest through out the country even amchg those Who Ao not attend, the result being that the two corn shows that have been held have sel several million people to thinking about the breeding of cercals, the prgparation of sofl and the conservation of molisture purpose of course being an Increased yield per acre—who wera previously plodding along In “the same old way."” The ben that will be derived from the “corn sho | moverrent will be far greater than the | tirst stretch of the fmagiration can reach Fremont Tribune: The National stow at Omaha must have a salutar | tect upon the production in Nebraska of | the state's principal farm crop. Such ex- hibitions impress themselves most dls. tinctly upon their immediate environment and for that reason the National Corn show 1s of pecullar benefit to Nebraska The award of prizes has Alstinguished the men who received them for their care and study In corn culture. It is worthy of note that the winners of the highest reports. growers scored the same signal ‘lu«l year Indiana s not one of the chlet | corn states in the total quantity produced, | but its sctentific growers are doing much {to direct attention to its possibliities. Tt i8 no small honor to achieve such notable distinction. It is worth observing, too, that a neighbor of the winner of the best ten ears-of corn in the world this year is a neighbor of the winner of the same high honor last year. This emphagizes the value of example and shows how the solentific spirit is contagious. The value of the National Corn show arises from the stimulus it glves to more intelligent corn growing. As yet, even in the best corn states, the average yield and average quality are pitiably small. It did not just happen that Mr. Clove last year or Mr. Overstreet this year produced such perfect specimens of corn. It was the intelligent | application of sclentific principles that did [1t. It ts impossible for the farmer to ao- complish what success Is attainable by a disregard of natural laws that he may | know if he would and that he may apply with exoceedingly profitable results. Seed breeding, sced selection and cultivation all atford ample scope for study. It is a sclence, not an avocation. Not until the farmer comes to fully appreclate this will his prosperity and the posibilities of the corn belt reach thelr maximum. Such enterprises as the Natlonal Corn show drs calculated to do much toward hastening that day. HEADED FOR SAME TERMINAL Secretary Ballinger and Fofester Pin- chot Not Far Apart. Washington Herald. Says The Omaha Bee: “By ‘addressing a personal ‘correspohdent, Mr. Pinchot has given the public anothe statement of his views on conservation. Couming 0 close upon the annual report of Secretary Ballinger and containing al- most ldentical suggestions as those of the head of the Interlor department. Mr. Pin- chot's letter adds little to what has gone before, but shows that both officials still claim to be striving to accomplish the same general results, and that they can pull together if they only will. Out of all the weary disputation, it s to be hoped that congress will find a speedy way of evolving the necessarry legislation that shall silence further dispute along these lines.” The point made by the Bee Is signiticant and well worthy of attention. It is en- tirely probable that Mr. Ballinger and Mr, Pinchot can pull together for the public welfare in the matter of forest conser- vation along ratlonal lines, if they them- selves try real hard and their injudicious principals cAn get well under way. There may not be such ‘a tremendous difference of opinion between these people people may actually think. = Mr. Taft has devoted conlderable attention to the mat- ter, and he has concluded that both men ar> patriotic and seeking to do the square thing. He has warmly praised each. If left to itself, and freed of all outside In- terference and meddling, the Ballinger- Pinchot controversy, so called, might sim mer down to a real harmony of endeavor, as the Omaha Bee suggests. If both men are striving for the same general resuits, and the only vital dif- ference betweeen them Is a question of method and proeedure, surely the publie at large can trust to the patriotism and common sense of the Taft administration to see to It that nothing goes harmfully awry. Congress doubtless will be callsd on to provide definite lexislation of such a character that the carrying forward of the conservation idea may be divested of embarrassment to efther officlal | Above all things, we think, the country | desires an end to an unseemly and un- | necessary aispute Beneficent Wealth, Boston Herald, To the Rockefeller milllon for the cam- paign against the hookworm and the Car- negie million for fighting pellagra, s 1 be added the Crocker million for attack on cancer. These are benefactions for all man- kind, investments in good that are entitled to front rank in the beneficence of a gen- erous age. To these glfts and to Others, such as the endowment of ths Harvard Medical school, with its magnificent plant, the fund for medical research in New York |and other notable instances In which the [sciénces of medicine and surgery have at- |tracted the interest of philanthropists, | mankind owes much of its increased ch ‘e |of life and opportunity for work and Ilohle\'em»nl. Scraping easury Philadelphia Record. According to offiefal figures, the sea power of the Upited Btates I8 second only to that of Great Britain, In spite of the stupendous " activity of Germany In con- structing warships. It will go hard with our fiigoes, who are always for the flag |ana the largest appropriations as well g with the armor-plate and ship lobbies, it the sea power of the United States shall not woor’ exceed that of Great Britaln, The only drawback is in the fact that the bot- tom of the treasury at Washington has been well-nigh reached. Aommsemetee——— R Yankee Invas Cleveland Plain Degler. 1t is stated thet Awerican lnvestors have secured control of most of the roller skat- ing business In England and that Amerioan roller skates are admitted to be Infinitely superior to the Beitish article. Perhaps some daring Yankee will la on offer to ll«n ibe house of logds for & skating rink. tom, Corn show 1s on at Omaha this week, and while the fact remains thing that show and the person who stays away will miss | & treat, for It he goes he will get his cyes Auguata | OPen to many things If he 1id not sce he the | |awards are Indlana men and that Indiana | triumph | partisan frignds keep hends off untll the | two as some | would have us think—or as some | PERSONAL NOTES. It seems that one bribg pald by the sue trust was per week, #@nd that direct ’ | returns from this amounted ta $8 are mors Seotland, but A of John, It Is now discovered that th Smiths than Macho, probably “Sandy The king of Swed. good King, but as to bis« dore the foreman of t reported Mr. Rockefeller often that he has no active oconneection with | Standard Ofl that his nter n preventing the concern from being dissolved may be | ascribed to friendMness. | Mrs. David B. Lucas and Mrs. Mary B, |1de are the leaders in a movement to put married convicts at work on farms and to apply thelr earnings to the relr |families. Mrs. Lucas has offerrd a traoct |of 4,000 acres of land in Colporado for the i\\H‘ of conviets for five years. | Abraham Bressman, who dled last week at his home In Newark, lived to be mora than 102 years old. Until ho taken | 1 recently his eyesight was almost perfect {and he could read newspapers without glarses. A few days before his death Mr | Pressman went into the cellar of his home | ana chopped some firewood. nlds keeps ah: in \ ms to be a very Ability as a steves « gang has not yetd has & »xplained of was Pierre Lotl, the celebrated author, whose real name is Viaud, and who has made his whole carcer n the French navy, being stationed first as Weutenant and then aptain In foreign and colonial ports, where his talent of observation furnished him with materfal for his striking novels, is about to be placed on the retired list, owing 1o his age. “Uncle Jake" Wildonet of Newark, N. J., Who §s sald to be the oldest locomotive engineer in the United States still 1n active service, has admitted that he s not as young as he used to be. His former dis- dain of the Osler theory recelved a setback a few days ago when, while tn a hurry, he leaped from a moving locomotive and suffered a sprained leg. as THE ZELAYA OF NEW STATE. Capers and Caprices of Boss Haskell of Oklahoma. Kansas City Star. For the second time Governor Haskell has Interposed to defeat the plans of the Oklahoma attorney general in his efforts to enforce the laws of the new state. The first Interference of the governor was in the prosecution of the Standard Oll, and the supreme court of the state upheld the contention that the governor had the power to order the prosecution stopped. Now the governor has taken an advanced step even over the first case, and has stopped a grand Jury Investigation which the attorney gen- eral was conducting to ascertain if there had been fraud in connection with a bank tallure. It is difficult to dlstingulsh the line be- tween petty politics and a brcad publio policy In states where almost eyery lssuo raised 1s subject to political Interpretation. In Oklahoma, because of the,conflicting political interests and factions now attempte ing to secure control of the new state's gov= errment, there may bo reasons for the con- tlict between the governor and the attorney general that are not apparent to the public, But generally speaking, the Oklahoma governor has raised a question that will create national interest. 1f the governor of a state has the power to annul the action of an attorney general; 1o dictate the policy of that official as a part of state adminis: tration, its importance will not be limited to Oklahoma state affairs. Whatever mo- tive may have influenced Governor Haskell, ho has created what the Kansas vernacular terms & ‘“real situation.'” s o The people of Oklahoma elected an ate torney general just as they elected Gov=- ernor Haskell. The people In other states elect attorney generals in the same way. It s obvious that If the sovernor has the power to override the legal department, to order the attorney general mot to pursue certain investigations, and to dismiss any sult he might start in the name of the stote, then that officer is a useless factor in the state goyernment, and of no more importance than a mere law clerk to the governor, 1f the %overnor's power s supreme, it will, of course, increase his responsibility to the people. The governor and not the attorney general would be accountable for any failure of law enforcemient, and the chief executive could not hide behind the indjfference of the state's logal department as An excuse for the negleét of the people’s Intcrest against law-defying corporations or any violation of atate statutes. For not even Governor Haskbll would contend that his authority was limited merely to pre- nting the enforcement of law. Therefore the whole country will watch and walt while Oklahoma solves the prob- lem: Why an attorney general? POINTED PLEASANTRIES, ‘Whatever Binks wears, he always looks would look “AIn't it $0? Why that m ~—Cleveland swell If he wore ear muffs, Leader. “A man never knows how many friends he has until he gets into politics.’ “True,” answered Senator Sorghum, ‘‘nor | how few he has until he gets out of of- fien,"—Washington Star. “1 should think fiction writers would be e men to call on for jurles.” Why s0?" “Because they are natural Baltimore American. born tales- men, “Ruggles, 1 hear you are a happy father, I congrat—" “Slop_right there, Ramage. lets.""—Chicago Tribune. It's trips He—Look yar, Miss Booker, I'se & bone ter plek wif you Ehe—Wha's matter, Rastus? He—Wha' for when a gem'lan salutes you on de strect, you no roturn his solus | tion hey.—Boston’ Transscript “I wonder what the xt ten years will be?" “Probably devices to protect us from the Inventions of the past ten.'=Cleveland | Plain Denler. inventions of the “That fellow made money, tainly Is a faker” | “Indeed, he is. Why, surong, thats why ho Bullt his' new houss | on a bluff."—Baltfjnore American, but he cer- the hagblt was so Mrs sesses Mrs tact? Mrs. Pyne—Tact 1s & woman'a abllity to make her husband believe he is having his own way.—Lippincott's Magasine, Pyne—Mrs, Blank “tact Hyne—What certajnly pos- Is your definition of 'Twas In the gloaming, man had just stolen a ki “Sir." exclalmed the fair mald, with an outward show of Indignation. %You are a heartless thief. “That's righty" rejolned the bold young man, “but you are to blame for it." “How am I to blame?”" she queried “You stole my heart” he answered.— Boston Herald MUTATNE OMNIA TEMPUS, Last year she was a butterfly Merged deep in life's frivolity; She fluttered thru' the mystic maze, And held her own with quality; She prided herself upon her wit, Her volce held much of promise, Her sphere was & most exalted one, "TH she murmured “Yes,” to Thomas This year her bearing Is sedate, Subdued her aspirations; The mystic mase has lost'its charm. She loves not its gyrations; 8he has left the realm of higher art, To more exalted moulp— You'll find her at the Corn Show, Concoctin’ bread and rolls, ~BAYOLL NE TRELE and the young