Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 22, 1909, Page 6

e OMAHA DAy BEE. l'Ol INDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER VICT()R ROSEWATER, EDITOR Entered at om-n- voflo((lfl as second clase matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dilly Bes (without Sunday), one yn-r--t:g B 14 %EL‘I'{"’RQ&‘“ Bee (wlthou) E" ing Beo (w! Evening Bee (wi Surday Hee, one Saturday Bee, .‘ rens all ogm re sélivery to City Cliculation Department. orl'xcll. OmalmeThe Bea Bulldis South @mah, 'nty- ulm‘ nd N. r” Cound Blll L'nm UA B IldlM "}“l::r’ 1102 M West Washington- 'fi"mnmm Street, N. W CORRMSPONDENCE” Communicatidns réiating 1o news a torial _matt, Addresscd Bee, Bdito; 'le‘t A'S(‘S!‘fl- flemit by drAft, express or postal order ayable to The ublishing Company, 2-cent stam olit Sunt Bunday), per whek nd edl Omaha not accepted STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. l((:u of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss. eory PubiisMing Company, belng duly sworn Tays that the aceai_number of full and sumplete coples of The Daily. Morning, Kvening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of November, 109, was as follows: Total. .14 Returned’ Coplea. Net Total. . Dally Avera GEO. B, TZECHUCK. “Treasure: Subseribed in My presence and sworn 1o bafore e this 18t day gf Decomber, 155, [t P. WALKER, Notary Publle. ——rerrgEac——————— bsoriher: leaving the ity teme vorarily should have The Be mailed to them. Address will be dbanged an ofte od. Dally Bee (iniudt rman pey week. 1 ). r weok, Ior "{ g y)p'por week n: iarities in vételved In payment of ‘ersonal checks, except on @ B. Tzschiick. treasurer of The Hee Pe—————————————————— What ghall we do with our ex-presi- dents In Nicaragua? The sugar riig appears to have been trylng to put Mr. Parr below, Scoffers will how taunt the king of Denmark with' being an easy mark. e —— e Governor Hadley seems to have been showh that “Show me” has come to stay. B At ohe | ‘maintains. his goody-goody tatk, John W. may get to be known as “Bearly Gates, Bellef In the rumor of a new rubber‘ comibine requires no gréat stretch of th| imagination. e — Pnnslam conelude that war is not Parls has thy greatest evil testod them Alll B Well, T ‘Dl‘ Cook will deubtless find his low- esf: temperature '1s in the shadow of tha Dane's disdain. 8 — At any'raté, the prior clatm of Santa éven Copenhagen Claus still stands; cagnot shake that. - — T'he beet sugar promoters detected in lagd frauds evidently patterned after lhl!l 'é8né conding. TR tt— Wlth the ban lifted from Red Cross stamps, Amerlea may say Merry Christ- mad to Merrie Bugland. G;‘wu“fl(‘n Eu!ldnhouer:nly not be but he isn't afrald of Mayor “Jim,” taking apy pnnecéssary chances. iy Will: those Who did not enjoy the great polar hippodrome be able to get back ‘tHelr money at the box office? T e The Florida orange crop Is never The poet with the frosty tongue is down on the safe4ill 1t 1s barvested. penthduia. i3 —————— ‘!‘id' Omaha man who gave his motfior' a Chiristmas’ present and then blew gut his brains had a queer notfon of holiday obligations: ory of wholesale Imita- tlons in the-Astor jewels makes some of tHe stortes of the extravagance of the ych read 4 little bald. e e Housewives. who grumble against 's coinbines for boosting prices will that it was the women of Ken- tucky who formed a pool and cornered m obi the turkey erop. Chicago has discovered that it is the victm of a new form of graft, and that the sponges it buys at $3 a pound are ow It I8 trying to tilléd with sand. expinge the sponger. < With the North pole controversy relegated fo obscurity, the scientists will' be able to devete more attention te that is raging among surgdobs over the merits and demerits to the dispy of atovaine. Jhdge: Grenscup, Who offers himself as bandidate for president if his pro- posed new party can find no other can- mes out in pralse of the gtimes Grosscup Is a didate, now compines. cup that runneth over. ‘ E ] ' Governor Shallenberger says he has ined what to do in re- nesslon of the legisla- This will keep the matter open Nebraska could struggle along even through the dull @ays of January sad February without not yet de gard to an JLure. for some time, but, the presence of that body at Lincvln. Silencing the Muckrakers. The Ballinger-Pinchot controversy, so-called, Is an unfortunate product of the modern muckrakers, involving two sincere men, each devoted to the public service, in & misunderstanding which was In a fair way to adjust itself into a harmony of endeavor if the scandal- mongers had kept hands off. Now, as & matter of justice to both men, an official investigation is to be made so that all this poisonous clatter shall be set at rest. In its decision to review the case fully and opegly, the administration is manifesting Its accustomed frankness with the public. It has been repeatedly shown that Mr. Ballinger and Mr. Pinchot both have been working zeal- ously, with the best of motives, along similar lines to aceompligh the same | rezults for the general welfare in the matter of furthering the administra- | tion's conservation policy. In spite of this, consclenceless scrjbes have con- tinued to hound the departments, con- ess and the executive, and the sud- deh turning of the tables against the muckrakers should serve to silence them as to this particular affair. But while the Ballinger-Pinchot epi- sode {8 now in a falr way to be made a closed incident after open exhibition of all the actual evidence, it is not to be supposed that the hissing of the yellow serpents will be permanently stopped, for 8o long as the government lives just 80 long will there be creatures of venom low enough to spread infamous doctrine against any victim they choose to malign. No man in public life ever has been free from the crawler, and no matter how often Washington drives the vermin out, the unclean will return to his habits. The Corporation Tax. It was not to be expected that the corporation tax would remain on the statute hooks without suffering a con- certed attack from sources inspired by the corporation lawyers, and such a campaign is now in progress. For- tunately, we have a secretary of the treasury who is not readily dismayed, and he fully understands the animus behind the abuse that the opposition is promulgating under cover, and is calmly proceeding with the routine work of enforcement based on the regulations recently anmounced after careful deliberation by the secretary and the attorney general. Doubtless the law will be attacked in the courts, on the basis of comstitu- tionality, but at present it is an active statute, and as such is to be enforced, both for the sake of the necessary reve- nue thus provided for and also for the sake of the knowledge which the gov- ernment will thus be able to secure of the inner workings of corporations sus- pected of being in collusion. It is this publicity feature of the law which drives terror to the hearts of the pro- moters, and any attacks upon the meas- ure are sure to be based on seifish gon- cern as against public welfare. Standing Firm in Nicaragua. The readiness of the administration to meet every turn of the Nicaraguan situation displays a thorough imsight into affairs in that troubled republic. All Zelaya's efforts at sidestepping will stands firm in its initial resolve to de- mand a-stable executive control with which it may. treat concerning Ameri- can Interests within the Nicaraguan borders. It 48 manifest that thus far Zelaya has sought to trick the United States; as in the beginning, he still dominates his congress, and the newly elected president is a creature of his cholice. The insurgents remain actively in the field, and their revolutionary success may be required to determine the issue. The presehce of American warships in Nicaraguan waters must continue a wholesome factor. There can be no relaxation of vigilance on our part until the last vestige of Zelayaism is wiped out of the land. Copenhagen’s Verdict. Atter having been #o ready and en- thuslastic to acclaim Dr. Cook as the discoverer of the North pole, it took great moral courage for Denmark to reverse itself, and in all the circum- stances it must be taken for granted that ‘the University of Copenhagen stood ready to strain every point in the explorer's behalf. Coming as it did on the same day as the American com- mittee’'s declaration that he had not established his ‘claim to the Mt. Mec- Kinley exploit, the Copenhagen verdict 1s doubly shattering to the faith of the many ‘thousands who believed in the suave and entertaining traveler and lecturer, It should be noted that the decision of the Danish savants is that Dr. Cook has not proved his case from a scien- tific viewpoint. Thus he remains dis- credited by the exactions of scholar- ship, but there undoubtedly will be those who will cling to popular beliet in his protestations, since he himself laild mo claim to being an expert sclentist, and his report was plainly that of a layman. If he never reached the pole, there is to be said of him that he was a mighty good guesser, for his narrative, preceding Peary's, was astonishingly close to that explorer's in its report of temperatures and other conditions at the pole. As the case stands, Peary has gone unchallenged, and learning has acknowledged him as the discoverer of the pole. Cook won a wider-spread popularity, and while the idol seems to have been shattered, still there will be those who will see in him a martyr. The sorrowful tone of the Copenhagen verdict makes it apparent that even the sclentists are prone to spread the avail him naught, for this government | THIT BEE: OMAHA, WEI mantle of Christian charity over his lost cause. ‘The general public, weary | of the whole affair, will be glad to turn its attention to other affairs that are more worth while in the practical bread-and-putter fields close at home. For after all, what does the North pole matter? Business and Pleasure. The Nebraska Normal board has served notice on the various communi- tles to be inspected after New Year's that it is out for business and not for pleasure, and doesn’t care for midnight suppers. Nothing in this warning, however, will necessarily be construed as an indieation that the citizens of a community may not serve the visitors with a modest refection some time be- fore 8 o'clock in the evening. The board may have its 6wn pecullar views as to_just what constitutes business, end where the line dividing business from pleasure should be drawn, but it is not clothed under the law with power to prescribe to the citizens of any community what they may or may not do in the way of entertaining vis- itors. This being the case, it is reason- able to presume that, being warned in advance of the coming of the distin-| guished gentlemen on whose word will depend the location of the so much de- sired and sought after normal school, | the citizens will govern themselves ac- cordingly. In Nebraska hospitality is quite likely to take the form of tables decked with snowy linen, tastily gar- nished with attractive tableware and heaped with such comestibles as even old Lucullus might have envied. The| Normal board cannot prevent this, but it would be a mean and suspicious mind that would harbor the thought | that the warning is sent out thus far in advance that the eitizens may have time to get ready. ——e— Helping the Settler. Senator Burkett's bill deesling with the entry of lands under the reclama- tion laws will relieve a situation in Ne- braska and other parts of the west that is becoming unbearable. It was-not the intention of the original act to hamper settlers, but to assist them, and the time limit was fixed solely for the purpose of preventing the land be- ing gobbled up by speculators or large holders as it was under the original pre-emption and homestead laws. The government having failed to provide the water for irrigation purposes within a reasonable time, has been enforcing a hardship upon the entry man by com- pelling him to remain on his land con- tinuously when it was in an unproduc- tive state, thus forcing him to waste his time and strength. Under the Burkett bill it will be pos- sible for. these settlers to make final proof and secure patent to thelr land in advance of the government's fur- nishing the water. This will 1éave them free to go abroad and éarn a livolihood, at least, while waiting on the detaMed processes of the reclamation service. The delay has been occasioned by an insufficient amount of money, and not by reason of any ineficiency on the part of the government’s agents or offi- clals. A real Japanese invasion is reported from Massachusetts, where the sched- ius is making war on-the gypsy moth, which has worked havoc among the Bay state trees. The predatory insect is welcome to our shores if it will ac- complish all that is claimed for it. With New England killing off the moth and the south exterminating the cotton- boll weevil, the fermers and planters can add more joy to their laugh. The debate on the garbage question has not yet gone beyond the point of crimination and recrimination. For the good of the community the city council, the mayor and the health com- missioner should give over calling names long enough to come to some conclusion, then they can resume their diversion of abusing one another as soon as they like. Bullding Inspector Withnell is to be commended for his stand on the mov- ing picture theaters in Omaha. These places should not be permitted to over- step in any way the limits of safety. They cater almost exclusively to women and children, and for this above all other reasons should be surrounded with every safeguard possible. The czar of Russia may be an auto- crat, but he knows a good thing just the same. That's the reason he had a representative at the Omaha Corn show trying to secure not only the best seed corn, hut the services of an admittedly experienced man for the purpose of ad- \vancing agriculture in his empire, Senatorfal courtesy seems to have broken out in an aggravated form among the Omaha city councilmen. | Putting over an important matter be- cause an absentee member has told somebody that he would like to be| heard on the matter {8 certainly stretching the point. The voice in the telephone may not become an lssue in Nebraska, but it will always be a pleasant memory for some of the folks who have been trying to promote an investigation of affairs at the Lincoln hospital for insape. m—— ] Omaha has been singularly free from | damage by fire during the winter, but this is no reason for reiaxation of vig- flance on the part of those entrusted with the care of property. No Doabt of the Kingwhip. New York Tribune. The year's crop estimates show that corn |or I8 A Aublous question, but there is no doubt that the average yleld should be and could be inerensed. A little over twenty five bushels of corn and fitteen of wheat 18 not & satistactory record for progressive American farmers. Evening Up Thing : Louteville Courler-Journal. There s no consolation for the moneyless man In the report that & yacht owner was drowed, near Roskaway Polnt. A poor man fell over a pumpkin in Virginia in the prime of life and broke his neck. “Speed the Parting Guest. Cleveland Leader. Bryan, s headed south, and it Is sald that he will at least go as far as Rio Janelro. It doesn't matter much. There s less concern about him, in national poli- tios, than there has been at any other time for nearly fourteen re. Not the Whole Works. Plttsburg Dispateh, It is uldoubtedly correct, as Judge Gross- cup surmises, that the corporation has come to stay. But that does not prove that the combination of corporations to prevent competition between them is one of the things ordained by providence, Thinking People Worth While. Harper's Weekly. One thing that all the natlons, even China, at last have come to know ls that the mass of the people must be taught to think, and to think somewhere near straight, and tralned to competence In ac- tion. No nation is safe in these times, no matter how sagacious are her statesmen, whose people are too ignorant or too stupid to be trusted with a share in thelr own government or to be efficient in its support and defense. \ \ Rival Standard 0i1 Profits. Springticld Republican. The First National bank of New Yorl which |used to be khown as ‘Fort Sher- man,” has never lost the strong financial footing gained in the days of specie, pay- ment resumption. It pays regular annual | atvidends of 32 per cent on its capital ot | 10,000,000, ana yesterday declared an extra dividend of 8 per cent, making 40 per cent for the year. In 1902 it déclared the equiva- lent of a stock dlvidend-of 1,800 per nent, thereby increasing its capital from $500.06 to the present figure, \ Reaching the Tender Spot. Baltimore American. The government hae found the tendar spot of the illegal trust. Trusts are no- torious for their nerve and their only vul- nerable place is the nerve controlling the pocket. This has been selected for the next attack, and the government, now that the courts have decided that the oll trust is a combination unlawfully in restraint of trade, bas decided not to buy from it. This is going to the heart of the problem with a direct and effective simplicity. Boom in Rallrosd Dividends. Springfield Republjcan. The railroads were talking poverty at a great rate the other day, when the north- western switchmen's strike for more wages threatened to spread. But they are sing- ing another tune in the current dividend declarations. Louisville & Nashville, even In the face of a short cotton crop, goes back to its old 7 per cent rate, and Read- Ing raises Its rate to 6 per cent, following Norfolk & Western, Atchison and a num- ber of other lines in similar action. Here Is a confession of prosperity which should t hush “the talk of higher freight L — River lmtflnem.m Must Come: ) ""Kdhsas City Star. One huhdrell ‘Hifllion dollars secured by, bond issue and/applied to Missouri.river {mprovement; would be paid back in freight rates, and coWequently In prices, to the people of. the west. In addition, business would be stimulated and the surer move- ment of crops and- coal and other frelght would . relieve jthe wealth of the west of its greatest existing peril. Large expenditures for Missourd river fm- provements must come to be regarded for what would they would be—the best pay- Ing Investment which the country, or the western part of it, could make. Farmers Make High Prices. Leslie's Weekly. An Omaha banker says that the farmers | in the west are holding their corn for bet- ter prices. A Lincoln (Neb.) grain man re- ported that at one of his country elevators he offered two farmers 8 cents for corn, and they replied that they would bring in 10,000 bushels when the price got up to $l. We do not blame the farmers; they are entitled to all they can get for thelr produce. But what becomes of the story in the muck-raking papers that the nigh prices of tarm products are caused by com- binations of wholesa'ers and retallers and that the farmers do not get any benefit? Tell that to the marines, but not to the tarmers, h e ety | FUTURE OF FOOD EXPORTS. Greater Production Needed to Con- trol World’s Market, Wall Street Journal. In point of values this country ig dding less now than In any recent year to supply foodstuffs to other peoples. Our exports of breadstuffs, provisions and live stock for eleven months this year are the small- est In five years, even thoush we have had excellent crops and a fair supply of live’ stock. We are still shipping an average of 000,000 worth of these products a month, compared with $33,000,000 monthly In three earlier vears. But thb days of rising rec- ords on the old basis are apparently past and we are facing a situation that is quite new to us, after a century of surpluses of such size as to be a determining factor in the world's prices. This tendency to shrinking volume of export credits for food products gives rise to a number of questions. Are we destined to become an importer of foodstuffs from non-tropical countries? If 50, how soon and where from? Is it population’s growth or the alloged decline in soll fertility that tends to wipe out our margin of surplus? may it not be both? What substitute, balance of trade when our farm products | | fanl us? It American agriculture Is on losing ground, by growing less from a given out- lay of labor and capital on land, then it is time to soupd the alarm. The frontier method of robber farming must give place 10 the eastern rotation system, such as the Pennsylvania Germans have practiced for 100 years or more. The role of animal life in the restoration of soils may be learned from them, for they care for and fatten their lands as they fatten their cattie and thelr sheep. Our future as @ supplier of foodstutts lies in the union between live stock husbandry and sclentific tillage on the same furm. If wisdom rules here, we may regain in a higher form our prestige as the seler of animal and vegetable products to Eu- rope. If we fall there the future of our agriculture must work out its destiny in the domestio market, in which no other country in the world Is.s0 blessed. But our wheat growers, our dairymen and our stock raisers will profit \mmensely by having to is still king, In acreage and yleld, with wheat In second place In ares, but third, after oats, in yleld. To what extent the acredge can be Increased in future years competo with European methods and mas- ters, where the growfng of grain and the breeding of lMve stock have been sclences it any, have we In sight to preserve our | W ashingtonLiif: Some Interesting Ohanges Ob- werved in the Family Side of Tife in the White . Senators Stone and Warner, both of Mis- souri, had a plcturesque tussle for prece- dence In the senate one day last week Each was trying to make a hit by introdue- ing A& bridge bl | Mr. Warner | arose and sald: “‘Mr. President.” The vice president sald: ‘“The junior senator from Missourd." Mr. Stone thought that the designation hardly fit him and looked across the hall He saw Mr. Warner standing. “Am I the junlor senator Stone. “The chair recognized tor first because he saw plalned Mr. Sherman | offered a blll authorizing the city of St | Louls to construct a bridge across the | Mississippi river. “The senior senator from Missourl," said the vice president when Mr. Warner had sat down. Mr. Stone solemnly introduced a bill authorizing the city of St. Louis to construct & bridge aoross the Mississippi river. was standing. Mr. Stone inquired Mr. the junior sena- him first,” ex- Then Mr. Warner Captain Megrew of the capitol police Is a nervy man, but when Carrie Nation ap- proached him he lost that characteristlc and hid his everpresent cigar behind him. Carrie asked the gallant captain the way to the Union station, and he, with much grace, escorted her to the portico and gave the necessary directions. When she had gone he turned and spluttered: ‘“As If_she dldn't know where the station was." Previous to this the champlon hatchet thrower had been a visitor to the su- preme court and to the house of repre- sentatives, all the time, however, under the watchful eye of one of the capitol detectlves. While passing through the corridor on her way to the house she took occasion to dellver a curtain lecture to several gen- tlemen who passed her puffing away on their Havanas. The entire expense of the White House, according to thy National Magazine, in- cluding the salary of the president and cost of clerical and office aseistance Is a little more than the sum alloted by the Hollanders to Queen Wilhe'mina, and is certainly not an extravagant ratio of ex- penditure, contrasting the proportions of the two countries, The total appropriation for this year, for telephone service, automobiles, house-keep- Ing, care of conservatory and greenhouses, printing, lighting and the multifarious trifles necessery to keep up such an es- tablishment, is $277,%5, the lowedt sum ex- pended In the maintenance of the White House since 1004, except during the ast two years of the Roosevelt administration, when a record was made by keeping down expenses to about $160,000 each year. With the exception of these two years the ex- penses have been higher, chiefly owing to appropriations for repairs and, additions, which vary from yekr to year. The highest executive expenditures are about one-tenth of the @il list of Germany and one-elghth that of England. Captain Archibald Willingham de Graf- fenveld Butt, United States army military ald to the president of the United States, lives with two brother army officers in an old-fashioned house just a stone's throw from the residence of Representative and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth. It 1s & few doors removed from the Alibl elub, the most ex- clusive ahd unique soctal “organization in Washington. Captain Butt’s house s filled with interesting mementoes, curios and sou- venirs gathered by him in his tours around the country with Presidents Roosevelt and Taft. The souvenir which Captain Butt prizes most Is a letter written by Theodore Roose- velt, which has been framed. It was writ- ten by Mr. Roosovelt to furnish a perman- ent record of the famous horseback ride by the president &nd his mi‘ftary ald, which later caused Mr. Roosevelt to insist on riding and walking tests by army and navy officers. The president desired Cap- tain Butt to have a written record of the incident, and In course of timé the letter will become a valuable document, It re- cites the history of the ride, gives the route, names the places where new horses were obtained, and tel's of the terrible condition of the road and the drlving sieet, rain and show which beat into the faces of the horsemen. A true Rooseveltian touch s given in the fiial sentence of the letter. The writer told how both the riders returned In ex- cellent condition and declared that this turnished ‘“‘conclusive proof” that the rid- ing and walking tests for army and navy ofticers was not upduly severe. Eugene W. Chafin, one of the presiden- tial candidates in the last natfonal po- litical campalgn, drifted into Washington the other day. After calling at the White House In the morning, he went to the capitol and admired the historie paintings of great men In the republic's other days. Outside of the senate chamber Mr. Chafin haited to take & look at a painting labeled Thomas Jefferson. “Mistake,” observed the prohibition | champion to his companion. “I spent a lifetime studying Jefferson, and I know { his picture when I see it. That's & bad counterfeit. A ljttle farther along the corridor Mr. Chafin came across & painting with the name of Patrick Henry attached to the trame. “That's Jefferson,” sald the tem- | perance leader, | 8ome one tola Bltiott Woods, the super- | intendent of the capitol buflding, and inv right. an igation showed that Mr. Chafin was “These half-baked statesmen give me n pain,” said Representative Pat Gill, as he 8tood among & group of Missourians In (hc lobby of the Willard. “They think they- are Daniel Websters before they find out that Joe Cannon 18 speaker. “There's an old darky barber down In | the house shop that’ has them sized up right, and he has a gift of blarney that | would put Boyrke Cockran to the blush |One of these new representatives blew into the barber shop this morning. He | iooked a littie frowsy, and one would as- | sume that he nad dined heavily and slept | tghtiy. “The barber faucet at once. * ‘Mistuh, yo' " he asked. 1 am,’ w ank?' “Oh, 1 jes' couldn't mistake it. a statesman when I sees one. minded me of mah ole fren' Ben man of Ohlo Je s00n us yo' set down in mah chair’ “‘In what respect do 1 noble man. * ‘Yo' bretf, sah. turned on the blarney 18 a congressman, ain't the reply. ‘Why do you 1 knows suggest that ntleman? asked the new states- There are six large boilers opecating fhe lighting and power plant of the United States capitol. Fires are under some ono of these bollers all the time and for over fifteen years there has never been a time for LOW years. that all the fires have been extingulshed This plant operates eleven elevators, fans and innumerable electric Nghts. When everything is running In full blast the power 18 represented by 1,000 kilowatts 121,000,000 amperes, equal to 321,605 horse power. With this tremendous work to Ao there Is never a hitch, and under the super | vislon of Chief Klectrieal Engineer Glier and his able corps of assistants the Hghts &t the capitol never flicker nor the power waver. ———Xy PERSONAL NOTES. The most sensational feature of New York divorces nowadays Is the amount of money the falr plaintiffs can spend in a twelvemonth. York In the sum of $2,00 for breach of promise. And just when the old man is in no mood to honor & draft. “Posterity will judge Leopold a great king with & grand relgn,” says the official de- cree. As an expert in divorco he is al- ready so regarded at Reno. Wu Ting-fang Is said to be satistied to be transferred from this counury. From this it would appear that the distingulshed Orien- tal has no more questions to ask here. Thousands of wild ducks are sald to have met their deaths in Oklahoma this year by mistaking the ofl lakes for water and set tling down upon thelr surfaces. For this, however, the Standard company can hardly be held responsible, With the passing of Chlef Slugamus Ko quilton, who died on the Yakima Indlan reservation at the age of 9, the shoot tribe, 100 years ago one of the most powerful In the northwest, has become ex- tinet. PASSI OF THE SLEIGH. Vehicle Remains. Boston Transcript. 18 little -short of treason to carp at progress. We shall hardly be able to do #0 'If in its manifestations we balanc: what we have gained against that which we have lost. Yet a feeling of regret oan hardly be repressed at times when the things of life and love that once carried thelr thrills no longer possess Interest for a new generation. It is not more than a Guerter of a century ago when the slelgh- ing season meant a serles qf réad carnivals all over New England and in Boston In particular. Its coming was awaited with cager Interest and enthusiastically, almost tmproved n it arrived. 1t rapluiously, a sleigh of some description ‘and it was pretty sure of making its appearance at the earliest opportunity. The press went into descriptions of turn-outs as minutely as it now reports the ladies’ gowns at a New York horse show. There are sleighs still, and there are con- servative people who like to recall the old festival days of the road by using them. On a pleasant Sundhy there may be heard quité a Jingling of the bells over the boule- but they seem comparatively lone- some and there s more pathos than pleas- ure in listening to them. The output of these vehicles is annvally small. When the sleighing 8 good the automobile can ‘be run, and the two methods of transportation do not sympathize. Those who own the motors can put & little more value into them by cutting out the cutter. They can still be scen on the speedways at appointed times, sbut as a public pastime their day ls nearly over. GROCERY STORE POLICY. Innovation Worth While in Govern- ment Departments. Kansas City Star. A stapd-pat senator is quoted as saying thut Secretary MacVeagh of the Treasury department “runs: his. office a8 he would a fitst-class grocery store.’ And this Is only onme of the many “attacks” on the secretary since:he sald, in his recent Bo ton speech, that the system of tariff mak- ing in this country was one of “bartering between different sections and different in- terests.” Come to think of it, the country could scarcely ask for anything better at the hands of the government departments or of congress than that they manage their affairs as affairs arc managed in a first- class grocery store, which s likely to_be about the best managad of al: business ln- stitutions, A first-class grocer buys eco~ nomically and asks only reasonable profit. He neither seeks nor acquites monopolistic control of any commodity and he never practices extortion. He using all legitimate and honorable means to promote his business and He sells neces- stties at sma’ler margins of profit than he. makes on luxurles. He constantly keeps in mind the rights and the means of the masses of the people, H More than all, he has no favorites. What the country needs is a broader applica- tion of the policles of the first-class gro- cery store in the conduct of its leglslative Young Zelaya has been mulcted In New Muckle- | Little More Than the Memory of the | Evéry man who owned a horse also owned | is enterprising, |, WHITTLED TQ A POINT, What do you think of Cook as an ex- plorer now He's out of sight!"—Fhiladelpnid Lad- ger. Mra. Crimsonbeak to_do with that porous plaster, Mr. Crimsonbeak—I'm. golng fo tune it will play on the planolal Statesman, Jnlln‘“‘ o what onkers self, aln't Ne? do you know why He gave Stuck_on hi ‘Is he? Say, | up the idea of becoming a physiclan? Why? ‘He was afraid he couldn't feel pulse without giving her heart Cleveland Leader. g blel’ “Mazte Dingwell offered to sell kisses at the church bazar for a dollar apiege.” Dear me! DId she do w No. She made the Mmistake of glving away & samples, &hd then nobody wouid buy."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. She—I'm living on brown bread and water to_Improve my complexion, He—How long can you keep it 8he—Oh, indefinitely, 1 guess. He-Then let's geot married.—Boston Transeript up? He—There's one thivg 1 will say you make quite as well as your mother used to make it She—What's that? He—Trouble.~Jersey City Journal “Papa, dogs always chase cats on land, don't they?" oy do everywhere, But, papa, do ocean a sea puss '~ Baltimore “What nice manners those polite lttle Thompson boys have!" ‘Yes. They are always like that—just be- fore Christmas.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer, my son." greyhotnds chase Amerjean. I suppose you all drank a toast to your host " “No, we ocut that out.” “Why, 1 am sure it gram, the last toast.” “That was the trouble, It was the last toast, and so we cut it out.” “But why 7 “Well, you see, drunk standing.” was on the pro- it whs to have been {ouston Post. A CHILD'S CHRISTMAS PRAYER. J. W. Foley in Collier's. Dear_Lord, be good to Santa Claus, Ho's been so good to me; 1 never told him so becausé Ho 18 80 hard to see. Ho must love little children so To come through sr and storm; Please care for him when cold winds blow And keep him nice and warm. ) Dear Lord, be good to him and good To Mary Christmas, too. I'd Ifke to tell them, if I could, The things I'm telling you. They've both been very good to me, And _everywhere they go They make us glad—no wonder we All leurn to love them so. Please have hira button up his coat 8o it will keep him warm; And wear a scaff. about his throat If it should start to storm. And when the night is dark, please lend Him light if stars are dim, Or, maybe sometimes you could send An angel down with~him. Please keep his heart so good and kind That he will always smile: And tell him maybs we will find And thank him’ after while. Pleuse keep him €afe from harih and keep Quite near and guard him when Ho's tired and lays him down to sleep. Dear Lord, please @o! Amen, The crowning glory of Christmas good cheer is a box of good cigars. In boxes of 50 these ci= Bars arg unrese: ly commended for holiday gil lelyonaccountof theguals ity each brand sepresentss. GRUMBLER, $1.50 We invite inspection wwith out obligation to buy.' and administrative business. Let us sell you one of these su- perb home entertainers now-—Ilet us keep supplying you from an un- bounded stock of records during the year to come. Everything good sald about the “Victrola" ap- plies also to the “Victor” talking machine-—they’'re smaller, that's all. ‘‘Victor."” An exquisite appearing, fascinating sounding. “Victrol Too large t0 be classed as a talking chine; too small to be classed as a piano, but THE very ‘‘go between’’ for A Joyous “Gift” ma.~ There’s one of the Victor Co.’s products for every sized purse—pay $125, $200 or $250 for a ‘‘Vietrola''-— or $10, $17.50, $25, $32.50, $40, $50, $60 or a-$100 for a It’s a bit of modernism YOU cannot afford to be without—we have the line— you have the Christmas gift desire—let’s get together. 1613-1515 DOUGLAS STREIT OMAHA NEBRASKA