Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 23, 1909, Page 6

6 THE OMAHA EVENING BEE FOUNDED BY I""l:\_ub‘floll!:'!ill\. VICTOR ROSKWATER, EDITOR. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietor EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY BEE BUILDING, FARNAM AND 1TTH. OFRICIAL PAPER OF THE OITY OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CQUNTY Entered at Omaha postoffice DELIVERED BY CARRIERS. Evéning Bee, without Kunday, per week 6o Fuening Bee. with funday. per week e Dally Bee, without Sunday, per wuek Sunday Hee, per copy . Dally Bes, including Sundey. per week ..i5c Address complaints of irregularities in @elivery to Clty Cireulation Department, STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION State of Nebraska, Douglas County. sn.: George B. Taschuck. treasurer of The Fee Publishing Company, being duly sworn says that the actual number of full And complete coples of The Dally. Mornink. Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of November. 1 follows: . 48,070 41,9% 43,060 44,100 43,700 41,600 41,890 41,980 40,340 41,600 41,790 1,780 41,700 43,240 0,810 40,400 TOUY: oo viss Returied Coples, Nut Totai Lully Avernge. . b gve GHO, B. TZSCHUCK. buoseribed in my presence before e this st day (Seal) v flg awern of Lecember, 1w, M. P. WALKER, Notary Pubiic. s i SRR 40 RS Subscribers leaving the olty tem- worarily should mve 1Th B wailed to them. Address will be changed as often as requested. Cupid 18 almost as busy as Santa Claus. Next we shall be hearing of the stovaine habit. The Bluefields battlefield proves to have been red enough. The latest mode for the dressmakers is customs house trimmings. —_— Shortest days of the year? it's the season for going short. — The reorganization of the starch in- terests will probably stif(eu things up a bit. Well, D A Happy New Year's | be the settlement of th. strike. it would iwhmen's i If you don’t do it right away you will never have a chance. Christmas is at hand. That ought to be a very tasty dish of Bacon that we are about to serve France. — Close after the jingling of Santa’s bells may be heard the rumble of the annual water wagon parade. From the sugar reflnerles to the| finery of women, the trail of the smug- gling crookworm is over all, —_— Having figured up the batting aver- ages of the aurora borealls players, let us consider the Polar season closed. — The iconoclasts may dispute who in- vented the reaper, but there can be no Question concerning the reaping of its rewards. ( 1 === While the University of Chicago ex- pects no holiday, gift from Rockefeller this season, still it may be disap- pointed.:; OId habits are hard to break. Lo e e The Chicago’ Board of Trade has dropped its Argentina playmate for bad behavior. Just before Christmas some people dre as good as they can be. The revival of an old suit In the su- preme court reminds the public that 1g Dunn is 00 longer permitted to prac- tice law fn Nebraska courts. This had almost been forgotten. Napoleon Hicks proves himself worthy of the name, but it is doubtful it any qf hi “medical examiners” wiil ever pdrade very prominently their ‘‘esculaplan’ certificates In the mesntime, the question to what might be developed if the records of the Interior department were searched far enough back has not been answered by the World-Herald. “Uncle Joe” Cannon will be more than ever & bad man now since his land has been taken by condemnation to ald & Douglas county dralnage project. It scems like he never could get in right. Ever since Worcester, Mass., ceased being the largest dry town in the world strange: reports of wondrous sights have been coming from there. over-indulgence or the quality that prodtices this condition? The @istribution of the reward oftered for the convicted train robbers promises & take up as much time in the courts as the trial of the principals. This matter, should be submitted to arbitration and not be permitted to run up & bigabill of expense for the public to settle, « ", —————— Is it When Fanning Goes to Egypt. The forty centuries that looked down from Egypt's pyramids on Napoleon's army of invasion eaw a wondrous sight, but nothing to compare with that which is promised the forty-one cen- turies that will look down from the pyramids on Colonel Fanning when he invades the sacred soll of Ahmen- Hoteb and Ptah. Full panoplied in all the gorgeous splendor of his dress parade glory, Colonel Fanning proposes to mount to the highest pinnacle of the loftiest pyramid and thereon plant the gonfalon of Dahlman Democracy tri- umphant. This will be either the be- ginning or the closing of another epoch for Egypt. In the days of old Rameses we can plcture Colonel Fanning being recelved at the gates of Thebes or Memphis by the mighty monarch's most valiant and noble warrfors. Not one of the shepherd kings but would have stripped himself for the purpose of doing honor to this ambassador from the dual courts of Ashton I and James the Only. Fancy dwells lov- ingly on the thought of Cleopatra, her sensuous beauty unadorned amid the luxury of her splendid barge, all gilt and ivory, lying In wait near the Pharos of Alexandria, that she might greet the distinguished guest from far- away Nebrask: And so on through all the ages one may conjure up with little stretch of the Imagination the welcome that would have beén ex- tended to Colonel Fanning by any of that long line of rulers who brought Egypt down from the darkness that preceded civilization’s dawn through all its lost magnificence to the present day. But, alas! The only king of Egypt Colonel Fanning ever met was Pharaoh. Animosity Exposed. The disposition on the part of the scandalmongers to predetermine the results of the investigation of the Bal- linger-Pinchot episode, is simply an- other exposure of the animosity ani- mating this disreputable propaganda. Such villification of a court of law about to undertake hearing of a case would lodge the offenders in jail, but under our freedom of political discus- slon there is no holding the hounds in leash unless they transgress the libel laws, and long experience enables them to dodge such responsibility. In the meantime, the administration is continuing calmly toward a full, free and frank exhibition of all the evi- dence in the case, and the discrimina- ting public is able to see for itself that there is to be no suppression of any feature of the controversy, Decency on the part of the muckrakers is not to be expected, and the howl that they now are putting up 18 due entirely to their chagrin over the administration’s hon- est attitude toward both Pinchot and Ballinger and toward the public. ' Effrontery of Guilt. The audacious demand of the sugar ring for reimbursement from the fed- eral government must be viewed as a part of the villainy of a hardened old sinner, and if there ever was any in- tention of showing any mercy to the offender, now (is the time to aban- don it. Such a preposterous plea as that for two years the confessed crooks have been -over-paying the customs, is a last desperate attempt to justify themselves before the nation, and to throw dust in the eyes of the people. It ought to have but one effect. There may have been a disposition on the part of the federal treasury not to be unduly harsh in the matter of re- funds. But now exact-fustice must be meted out to the ring whose effrontery is more brazen than {ts guilt, and in its final accounting the government must see that the combine pay to the uttermost penny what is due the public coffers. Buch monumental cheek should not be without its reward, which in this case ought to be the limit of the la Obedience to Law. ‘What shall be sald of a man who has been elected by his fellow citizens to the highest law-making body of thei land, when he breaks out in advice to business men of the country to refuse to obey the law which the nation has enacted? Is not that'a display of the most sinlster form of anarchy? Joseph Benson Foraker, former sen- ator, has sat on the bench, but since his return to private practice he seems to have abandoned his judicial temper- ament, for we now behold him not only ‘“‘vehemently denouncing” the corpo- ation tax, in the language of the news chronicles, but also advising his hear- ers not to file reports or pay assess- ments the law directs, This would be an astonishing flaunt- ing of deliberate disobedience of the law, If it came from any but a paid pro- fessional pleader of special inter h. | Mr. Foraker today is a corporatis :Bt:- torney, whatever high honors may have been his in times past, and the voice of rebellion-is that of the chronfc of- fenders agalnst whom \this very cor- poration tax is aimed. Not the one-| time judge, nor the one-time senator, here is heard, but the hireling of the interests which the federal government in justice to the public is seeking to regulate. The corporation tax was enacted by Thié cotisolidation. of the Omaha and ‘Winnebago reservations is intended to expedite, rather than hamper, the ad- ministration of business affairs. In a very short time the Omahas will be re- leased entirely from the close gusrdi- anship of the federal government, and thetr agency will expire naturally. Pending that date it will be just as well 4f the two tribes are brought into a little cloder contact. the congrss of the whole people, after mature deliberation and the most open discussfon, It is on the statute books. If it is & good law, or a bad law, re- sults will determine. It it is bad, it is bound to be repealed. If it is um- constitutional, the courts will decide. But 80 long as it is the law of the land, 80 long it must be enforced and obeyed. This open deflance of the federal government on ihe part of a corporation mouthplece proves = how more power, tempted, but it is apparent that a re- adjustment and in some cases an exten- sion of authority is essential. The ship- per is shown to be still at the mercy of the railroads in some arbitrary rate of busines companies as a permanent Investment. Peo- ple will always want to talk. Iimit their discussion of King Leopold the good which might be sald of him with- out doing violence to the truth. TH E BEE: ( e e e e )MAHA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1909. timely s the effort of the administra- tion to enfore the people's enactment of this particular enactment with {ts publieity feature, Obedlence =af the law is the fundamental principle of our nation, and such a flagrant attempt to decide that the law shall be nullified, as though he were the spokesman in advance of the supreme bench, is, on the part of Joseph Benson Foraker, as it would be on the part of any other person, the most unlimited arrogance and insufferable invasion of the rights of our government and the dutles of loyad citizenship. Checks on the Railroads. The anpual report of the Interstate Commerce commission is valuable as pointing out the limitations body which should be removed if the commission 18 to be made the effectual safeguard abuse which it was designed to be. of that aingt discrimination and In its vigorous recommendations for nothing radical s at- matters, and while the commission does not desire to Interfere with any legitimate rights of the roads it does seek to check any excess of greed which would dictate alterations of rates to| the manifest injustice of the public, These proposed extensions of the in- terstate commerce law are in line with the suggestions already made by Presi- dent Taft, from whom a special mes- sage on the subject I8 expected. necessary checks upon the railroads are to be fully presented to congress, and that body will be held responsible for | any laxity In providing such legisla- tion as may be necessary to protect those rights of the people over which the commission ought to have tull ini- tial jurisdiction. The Judge Lurton’s elevation to the su- preme court bench is a demonstration of the possibilities of evolution for the American boy. a confederate soldier, and but for his mother's personal which secured his release from a fed- eral prison he might have been di- verted to a vastly different career, for In his youth he was plea to Lincoln t was Lincoln's interest that enabled him to take up the study of law. Still another count has been discov- ered by the rich American widow who married him to be of no account. the meantime he has been squandering the fortune her first husband built up by strict attention to American indus- try. In An Indiana bride complains that the climate of her Nebraskan husband is too cold. not tally with the temperament of the heroines of Indiana fiction. natives read Tarkington to no purpose? Such lukewarm reality does Do the Stripped of Polar degrees and uni- versity degree, Cook will soon be naked of honors, and will have nothing left of his Arctic fruits but the $100,000 from his lectures. No wonder he made a dash with the gate receipts! Rendlng‘the‘a‘t;ry of the decayed condition of wardrobe and furnishings of a New York soclal leader whose | estate was up for settlement, the ordinary thrifty householder real proud of his possessions. makes For a nn-non whose immediate doom was predicted if the lords rejected the budget the English appear to be pre- paring their plum pudding with an air of cheerful indifference to the bow- WOWS, Judging from the universal execra- tions in the newspapers of all cities, the American population is divided into two classes, human beings and chauf- feurs, A Necessary of Life. ‘Washington Post. Mr. Morgan gives us another {llustration sagacity by buying telephone Suspending the Rale. Cleveland Leader. The newspapers of the world refuss to to Up Against It. Brooklyn Eagle. “Navy may bar trust goods,” 18 a catchy headline. But without steel trust armor, and coal trust coal, to say nothing of other detaf’s, 4 navy would not be worth having Stimulus for Civie Pride, Kansas City Star. The outcome of the franchise election is not a victory for Kansas City alone. Every city, big or small, that is fighting for an- vanced and enlightened conditions is en- titled to take fresh strength and courage. Exceeded the Wyoming ‘Washington Herald. A Wyoming court bas declded that a certaln young man had a perfect right to break his promise of marriage to a girl who changed the color of her hair three times within & week. Wise and upright juage! Even love cannot be presumed to bo so blind that it will fail to make note of that. Going Som St. Louls Globe-Democrat. While serving as an assistant army sur- geon General Leonard Wcod, in & region Infestéd with hostile Indlans, voluntarily covered 100 miles on foot in twenty-four hours as a carrier of dispatches. Later he distinguished himself as a Rough Rider. He will shortly become the army chiet of staff, which s also going some. Skating on Thim lee, New York Tribune, / The season when skaters drown because the ice Is too thin has again opened. Neither common sense nor parental au- thority entirely prevents fatal accidents from this cause where sport 1s sought on ponds, lakes or rivers. Where access can be had to rinks, & modest admission fee is really & low rate of insurance whioh a person who Is fond of skating might be &lad to pay. Some Things Yo u Waunt to Know The Holy Land--The Church of the Holy Sepulchre. In the center of the marble pavement of the/ Greek portion of the Church of the Holy Sepuleher in Jerusalem is a short marble dolumn which is decared to be, by the Orthodox, the exact center of the world. The Jews and the Mohammedans assert that the exact center of the earth 1s the tip of rock at the top of Mount Morlah, where Abraham offered up Isaac, where Solomon’s Temple stood, from which Mohammed ascended into heaven, and which is now shéltered by the magnificent Dome of the Rock, usually known as the Mosque of Omar. None of these theories takes Into account the belief of the sclon- tists that the world is a spherold. The really important thing is bellef that the center of the world is in Jerusalem and the duly authenticated center of the Chris- tian world s the marble column in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. A Visit to the Church of the Holy Sepul- cher, that edifice which shelters the tomb of the Lord and which has been for cen- turles the most venerated spot in Chris- tendom, 1s an experlence productive of curfously conflicting emotions. In the first instance, there is no good reason to be- lieve that the Sepulcher 1s really that in which the body of the Savior was laid. In fact, every lomical and reasonable argu- ment goes to prove that the holy spot is somewhere else. But even If one accepts the site as authentic, it is {mpossible for any reasonable creature who has grown to manhood under modern influences to be- lieve one-tenth of the legends and the sa- cred nonsense with which he is deluged upon entering this great church. He re- fuses to belleve that a block of stone cut with modern stone saws is the very block upon which the body of the crucified Lord was laid. Even the Armenian priests will admit that the true stone of unction lles underneath and that the block which thousands of Christian pilgrims kiss every day has been In place only for a few years. One Is glven a stick which he shoves through a brass bound hole in the wall to touch, in the darkness, the socket In the rock in which the Cross was set. He is expected to kiss the end of the stick and thereby acquire holy merit. No one Is apparently concerned with the fact that the socket In the solid rock wherein the cross is set is at least 100 yards away from the place which one is gravely sured is the exact spot where Jesus wa crucified. In fact, the church makes no &ppeal whatever to one's Intellect or rea- son. Tt is a great house sheltering an en- ormous collection of absurdities which in themselves |are so contradictory as to make faith in thelr authenticity impossible. But If one can forget the hordes of beg- gars; If one can forget the Mohammedan soldiers stationed there to prevent the vari- ous sects of Christians from murdering each other; It one can forget the foul air, the filthy floors, the nolsome odors and the all but visib'e presence of countless milllons of germs, then he will find the Church of the Holy Sepulchre an appeal to his higher emotional faculties which will compel his reverence. How long ago men came to believe that this spot marked the place of sepulure of Jesus Christ is pot known. In the third century it is réeorded that a Temple of Venus stood at this spot and the Christians then complained of the desecration. When the great Constantine, emperor of Rome, embraced the Christian religlon he bullt a group of edifices af this place ahd sur- rounded the tonif"'With a row of columns, This was the beginning of the church, A. D. 3. These bulldings were destroyed by the Persians In the seventh century, but were immediately rebuilt. In the tenth century the chur¢h was burned and in rhe eleventh century It was ruined by the Mos- lems. The present chur®h was built by the Crusaders early In the twelfth century, al- though, of course, many additions and 1e- pairs have been made from time to time. The church is the joint property of the Greek orthodox church, which has the largest share; the Roman Catholic church, the Armenian church, the Syrlan church, the Abyssinta church and the Coptic or Egyptian church. The Church of England 18 the only Protestant church having any pecullar privileges, it being permitted twice a month to celebrate the holy com- munion In one of the chapels of the church, There fs almost an endless succession of processions winding In and about the halls and corridors of the great church, wor- Shipping at the varlous sacred shrines. But each sect Ignores a sacred place pe- cullar to another and denies strenwously the authenticity of the traditions of the other sects. The Holy Sepulchre stands in the center of the great rotunda, which is the prineipal feature of the edifice. This rotunda Is the common property of all Christians, oriental and occldental, orthodox and hetrodox; it Is the one place In the Christlan world where all sectarianlsm is forgotten and the Christian pligrim 1s free to come and wor- Ship according to the dlctates of his own conscience. Whatever may be one's own religious be- llef or unbellef, the heir of twenty cen- turles of christian civilization cannot look upon that Sepulchre without emotion. Its dirty marble, its solled tinsel, its forty three twinkling lamps, stand not In the way of the imagination place which faith has long accepted as the spot where was laid the body of the Crucified Jesus, the spot where He arose from the dead and where He made unto the world His supreme revelation. This is the spot for the possession of which Chrls- tian Europe for two long centuries battled In vain. This s the spot which was the inspiration of that most remarkable of all psychological folk-movements, the Cru- sades. This s the spot so holy that never has it passed from the ownership and | cohtrol of the Christian church, for even when the Crusalers sought to deliver the Sspulchre from the dominion of the Sara- cens, although unknown to Europe, this church was safely In the hands of the Orlental Christia Here come annually tens of thousands of pllgrims from every quarter of the Chrls- tlan world. Russian peasants In compa- nies of several hundreds, at the expense of every bodily comfort, make the great sacrifices necessary to bring them to the Holy land. And here, at the tomb of the Lord, one sees them prostrate themselyes and kiss the holy stones In a passion of religlous fervor and zeal which must im- press the American onlooker with the fact that to the miserable Russian moufik the consolation of the Christian religion is a very real and potent thing. Here comes a cowled friar from the mountains of Northern Spain who has begged his way along the long journey with & faith that rivals the passion of Peter the Hermit himself. Here comes a prelate of the Church of Rome, who has been laboring for the cause of Christ In far-away America, who thanks his God at the alter of Constantine that wherever Christ was burled He lives everywhere today in the hearts of man. Here comes an Ethioplan with skin black as night, from the heart of Africa, a priest in the Church of Abye- sinia against which all the powers of Islam and of paganism have not prevalled. Here comes a Nestorlan pligrim from Chinese East Turkestan, a representative of the tiny remnant of that once great Christian church which held sway over all Asla, even unto China and Japan. Here comes, in the uniform of a Twentieth cen- tury Crusader, a Salvation army captain from the east end of London, whose seal equals and whose morals are far above those of the giod English soldiers of the Cross, who followed Richard of the Lion Heart, into battle against Saladin. Here comes from the United States the presi- dent of the woman's university, who here, amid this incongruous convention of all types of Christians, gives thanks unto her Risen Lord for her own country in which the teachings of Jesus Christ have resulted in the emancipation of her sex. One wishes that the church was clean, one shudders to think that Mosiem swords must preserve the peace between the bick- ering factions of those who follow the lowly Nazarene, one is depressed by the squalor and the superstitions; but one is forced to remember that the religion of Jesus Christ is for all men of every shade of opinion, of every race and color, of every age and century. No armor of ma- terfalism, no defense of rationalism, no argument of veason {8 potent to with- stand the powerful emotional influence of the spot which is after all, to Christians, the center of the world. BY PREDERIC J. HASKIN. Tomorrow—THE HOLY LAND—Bethel- hem of Judea, BANK GUARANTY IN ACTION, Situation Created by Two More Bank Fallures, New. York Tribune, It wiil be Interesting to see how the Ok- lahoma officlals meet the situation caused LY the suspen:'oa of two mors of tie state's guaranteed banks. The two new suspen- slons occurred in a chain of banks run by the president of the Oklahoma Bank and Trust company of Oklahoma City, which closed its doors on September 2, That bank was the largest in Oklahoma, having $3,000,- 000 in deposits. Its growth appears to have been mushroom-like, for a year before its deposits were only $355,000. Such an increase was an instance of the beneficlent results of the guarantee system, if we are to be- lieve varlous statements that emanated from Oklahoma before the troube came. And certainly the state appears to have re- garded the flourishing Columbia bank with much favor, since at the time of its fall- ure It held $156,000 of state deposits, besides §75.000 of the guarantee fund, The fallure of the Columbla exhausted the fund, which, of course, fell far short of paying the lMablitles. Bank Commls- sloner Young of Oklahoma issued a state- ment on October 3 showing that he had | paid $508,647 to depositors from the guar- antee fund and $1,98,647.27 from the assets | of the bank. About $:04000 was still due to the depositors, Thus the Xuarantee fund did not result4n the prompt payment tn full of depositors, and, indeed, it ls understood that some of the bank's llabllities remain unpald even now. All that is now clalmed for the Oklshoma system of handling a fal'ed bank is rentarkable specd in lquida- tion. But a diepatch to The Omaha Bee, to which we are indebted for these facts, shows the method by which the assets were quickly turned over'and claims settled. The quick work, it says, has been due not only to collections and to sale of collaterals, but in “settling wjth depositors by turning over to them bil's recelvable.” That is, the depositors accepted the paper in the bank's portfolio in payment of thelr claims. A very good showing In liquidation can be made If depositors of a bankrupt Institu- tion accept its paper at face value and take thelr chances with it instead of taking thelr chances through waiting for the recelver to collect upon it. As & mere matter of bookkeeping a large and quick realization upon assets is possibie In that way. Another novelty exhibited in the settle- ment 1s also described in the same dls patch to The Hee. “The only difference from the procedure In unguaranteed banks," it says, “is that, instead of apply- Ing the money secured on assets pro rata ing to take the bills recelvable from the portfollo at or near face value got them, while those who wanted money had to wait, At this distance it looks as If there had been a scramble to make a record In set- tling up the affairs of the bank promptly, S0 as to show as good a case as possible for the guarantee law. The method adopted gave évery opportunity for favorit- ism and irregularity to enter into the lqui- dation, and it Is not surprising that there was much dissatisfaction. The grand jury went Into the matter of the liguldation, but Governor it were an attack upon the guarantee law, not an ajtempt to administer Jjustice. With the guarantee fund exhausted, it will be Interesting to see what will be accom- plished in the way of “rapld liquidation" of the banks now In troub’e and how it will | be accomplished. PUBLICITY FOR ACCIDENTS, Sovercign Remedy for Many Railrond Blundery. St. Louis Republic. Without entering into the detalls of the Esch bill, which the house of representa- tives passed the other day, it will hardly be denled that full reports of all railroad accidents which It requires to be made to the Interstate Commerce commission would give publicity to Information that might help greatly in reducing the number of such accidents. In remedying an evil the first step is to ascertain its principal producing causes If a train going over a certain road at a certaln speed Is wrecked by a broken rail full knowledge of all the clrcumstances will help the managers of other roads sim- llarly equipped In estimating the momen- tum of moving trains which their own roads will bear. If, in any instance, over- fatigue of train hands or station hands is | & contributing cause of the acldent pub- licity of the fact will help others to avold this source of disaster. When President Samuel Spencer of the Southern railwdy was killed on one of his own lipes a few years ago ho probably did not know that his life was In the hands of a sleepy traln dispatcher. If Mr. George Gould had known of the defective rall in the Carolina road which cost the lives of a number of his fellow-travelers the other day, and came near costing his own, he surely would have avolded that road or in- sisted upon slow and cautious travel over it. Publicity Is thé soverelgn remedy for all evils of obscure origin. There are hun- dreds of engineers, and probably of others who are not engineers, who might give to all depositors of the institution, Bank Commissioner Young is paying certain depositors, first, while others are walting willing'y, or otherwise.” This means, we suppose, that the depositors who were will- raliroad managers valuable hints in the prevention of accidents If full publieity were glven (o the causes of All those which happer For here is the | Haskell took it out of its hands, | on the grounds that the proceedings before | Afraid of Ghosts Many people are afraid of ghosts. are afraid of germs. the germ is a faot, to a size equal to its & terrible than any fire rors reathing drago the water we drink. self and develop. vital force, languor, restlessnes sleep is broken, it time to guard e It increa impurities, enriches en Medical Discove system of clogging ach and org hat the germ finds no weak habit-forming drugs. All its ingredien wrapper. It is not a seoret nostrum || Around New York | Ripples on the Current of Life as Seen in the Great American Metropolls from Day to Day. Between 330,000,000 and $60,000,000 cover the range of estimates placed on the valuo of the Christmas remittances sent from this country to the old world this season. One steamship salling from New York last Friday carried $10,00 in money orders | alone—$62,000 of them being for $10 or less A Saturday steamer carried ‘$371,00 fin money orders. Other outgoing steamships have carrled money orders amounting to §7,624,963—an Increase of $2,20812% over the sum sent last year. Nearly $2,000,000 went to Great Britain alone, while Italy's peo- ple were remembered with §1,782,131 in gifts, large and small. In the number of money orders there was a gain of 140,619 over 1608, Banks and the express companies Have been garnering a harvest from last-minute glvers, and the St. Louls alone, It Is es- tmated, will dump $1,600,000 of Uncle Sam's Christmas cash into Europe's stocking pot to mention the hundreds of bagsful of other presents. Banks have .for a lopg their smail foreign draft business at Christmas time as a good barometer of the general condition of the country and the business of the banks this year shotws a great increase over that of last, | cases a8 much as 50 per cent. time regarded Willlam J. Burns, the former secret sery- lce man whom the iInvestigation of the Oregon and Washington land frauds and | the San Francixco graft prosecutions have | made one of the best known detectives in the country, has made his permanent head- quarters in New York, and has established the Willlam J. Burns National Detective Agency, with its main office in the Park Row building. Already he has been re- | tained In place of the Pinkertons by tho | American Bankers' assoclation, which rep- | resents 1,000 banking institutlons, to do thelr protective work. The American Bankers' assoclation is the | largest single client employing detective agency work In this country. The Pinker- | tons have done the assoclation's protective | work since 1895 and In this service had made an extensive collection of the plc- tures of bank crooks and data concerning them. Fred E. Farnsworth, general secre- tary of the assoclation, issued the following statement: “The relations between the . protective cdmmittee of the Americah Bankers' asso- clation and the Pinkerton National Detec- tive Agency having been terminated, the protective work for the assoclation will hereafter be carried on by William J. Burns' Natlonal Detective agency in New York City, with branches In other cities and correspondents throughout the United States and elsewhere.” James Stillman, gresident of the National City bank, the “Standard Oil bank,” as it 1s popularly called, has heen pounded not | a little by the “muck-rakers,” but now and | then he does something showing that he knows how to make good use of his money. Mr. Stillman safled for Europe the other day, but before he left he called on the Rev. Dr. Braun, and handed him a check for $20,000. One-half was to be used for buying Christmas presents for those who otherwise would have gone without and the balance to be used to ald cases of suffering as Dr, Braun thdught best. Dr. Braun is one of the oldest and largest hearted of the Catholic clergy in New York and is always at work among the many poor of his populous parish Mr. Stillman is the sort of a man who will get more Christmas enjoyment’ out of the $20000 than from what he spends on himse / Hartwell Stafford of Hackensack has a large sized grouch; he just does not care who knows It, and, fn fact, publishes it to the world In the form of high priced ad- vertising. Probably Stafford has good cause for resentment, but of that let the reader be the judge. Stafford caught a burglar in his housé recently, and was promptly Informed by Mr. Burglar that unless let go he would ‘do him up.” But Stafford ignored the threat and had the prowler arrested, feel- ing secure In the thought that a long term In prison would make the culprit take a kindlier view of the matter. Judge Milton Demarest sentenced the intruder to only one year in prison, and now Stafofrd sees trouble ahead for him- self. He declded that Hackensack would not be a peaceful residence town for him a year hence, for the thought that you are going to have some one'do you up' | cannot be agreeable to a man of simple | habits. Hence the following ad: “I bought this house for a home. It is 1deal In location, arrangement, convenience | ana 1 hate to sell it. | “Four weeks ago 1 captured & burgla: !in the house and he threatcned to do me {up if T a1d not let him go. 1 caleulated | that it would be many years before he would get the chance, but Judge Demarest | sentenced him to just one year. In a short time, therefore, he will be among us again “If I take a gun and protect myself I will probably get about twenty years, and if he sticks & knife in my back some dark night he will probably get about six months. “I do not think the 0dds are falr, conee quently I get out, and 5o here Is a big bar- ain for somebody. It doesn't need much cash; Just enough to make It sure that the property won't be thrown back on my hands and I won't have to %0 back there to live. Edward J. Nally, president of the New England Telegraph compapy and vice pres- ident of the Postal Telegraph and Cable company, last Baturday told the jolfit leg- islative committee which is Investigating the telephone and telegraph companies that the keenest rivalry exisi betwe the Postal and the Western Union Telegraph companies. Ephralm J. Bage, counsel to the committee, had asked Mr. Nally if there was not & ‘“community of interest” —a working Agreement—between the two big companies. ““There positively Is not” replled Mr Nally. “There has been the hottest kind fortify the body against all germs by the use of Dr. Pierce’. the vital power, cleanses the composiTion and with record of #0 year | where he graduated Few people Yet the ghost is a fancy and If the germ could be magnified would appear more n. Germs oan’t be avoided. They are in the air we breathe, The germ oan only prosper when the condition of the system gives it free scope to establish it- When there is a deficlency of « sallow oheek, a hollow eye, when the appetite is poor and the inst the germ. You can Gold- the blood, puts the stom- of digestion and nutrition in working condition, so tainted spot in which to breed. Golden Medioal Discovery'’ contains ao alcohol, whisky or ts printed on its outside but a medicine or KNOWN of cures. Accept no substitute-~there is nothing ‘* just as good.”” Ask your neighbors, I of competition between the two companies, It has been one lang, persistent strife, Here is the whole sltuation: The publlo will patronize whichever company gives the best service. It {s not interested to know that the Postal Is flghting the West. ern Unfon. It fs up to both companies to offer the best they can. This makes con- stant rivairy. To say there is any working agreement between the two s far short of the fact. The committee’'s counsel asked If there Was not an agreement between the West- ern Unlon and the Postal when rates were ised on April 1 1907, “There was an understanding about it replied Mr. Nally. “The traffic superintendents of the two ssytems met, I belleve, and the raise was decided upon. PERSONAL NOTES. Only a few days poke around In the closets and drawers looking for things, and not afrald the children will get wike to state secrets, Mrs. Sallle McKinney, who, tradition says, led Quantrell snd his band ifito Law- rence, Kan., on the memorable occasion of the sacking of that town on August 21, 1w, died in Emporia after a long lliness. Vietor F. Lawson, the /Chlcago new per publisher, it was anhounced by offi- clals of the Young Men's Christian asso- clation, will contribute $100,000 to a §1,000,00 fund being raised by that organization os a Christmas gift. A Chieago judge rules that landlords mey not exclude from tenements familics that have children, at least not by reason of such possession. Landlords naturally feel outraged at the Intimation that there mere men! you can Cheer up, more, and be | arc rights other than their own. Don Herring, a son of former State Sen- ator Grant Herring, now of Sunbury, Pa., who s a student at Oxford university, England, was one of the winning team in the Oxford-Rugby match. This is the first time an American has ever played in the Intervarsity match. Don was well known In athletic circles at Princeton, with honors In 1907, Cross, sccretary of probably is the only public official In the United States who lgns his nickname to state documents, ‘Bill Cross, Sccretary of State,” Is the unaffected signature he has affixed to rec- ords and correspondence ever since he began his tenure of office, November 1, 1%7. He does this on the authority of a speelal opinion handed down by, the at- torney general of his state, BREEZY CHAFT, “De Christmas tree, “reminds me of a mans everyday life, It ain' gwinter 'mount to much 'ceppin® foh what you hustles to pervide it wif,"— Washington Star. Colonel Willlam H. state for Oklahoma, sald Uncle BEben, Little Willle—Say, pa, what is a forget- me-not? Pa—It fs the knot in the string a woman ties around her husband's finger, yny son.— Chicago News. She—There fs really an on_one's gloves, you know. He—True; you have to get your hand in before T8 eab do. it Transcript. Nagg treats her hushand as she schoolboy.’ Did you hear how she punished me ‘minor fault the other day? She made him stay in the house after sup- per and button her shirtwaist down the back eleven times."—Kansas City Times, “Did you hear what that manager sald about his new play No, what was {t? “That there would be the it he couldn't get American, art In putting properly.—Boston ““Mrs, might “Yes. him fc evil to pay an angel.”—Baltimore “That speech of your corridors of time.'’ “That fsn’t what I want,” answered Senator Sorghum. “What I'm after is a speech that will echo around the stove at the cross-roads grocery store.”—Washing= ton Star. will echo down the sald the chairman of the investi- gating committee, I wish you would tell us where the $i7,000 called for by this voucher went . I don't know where it went." You don’t know?" “No, sir. T am an honest man. I kept my eyes closed while the money wis being disposed of."—Chicago Record= | Herald. SHOPPING EARLY. Chicago News, I am a worn and broken man, I'm sick and lame and blind; Search from Beersheba clear to' Dan, No wreck like me you'll find but one short year ago t whole and hale vas—but then I did not know That awful Christmas sale! t downtown, the wife and T, Ve went Into a store 1 don't know what she wished to buy, 1 don't care any more; 1 saw\ her drawn and bloodless 1ip, I know my face went pale When, Iike & speeding battleshi; We charged the Christmas sa One fatling madam knew no fear, She took my nose a prize; 8ix dozen hat brims slit my ear, And hatpins Kouged my eyes. One damsel butted like & goat, And when I ra‘sed a wall she crammed a bundle down my. throav— le! Buch was the Christmas sal Oh, shopper, bait a polar bear, Pay vattlers social calls Go pull & Turkish wrestier's hair, Or shoot Niagara Falls GO beard the lion In his den, (o twist his tasseled tall— But, shopper, dear, I say again, Shun—shun’ the Christmas sale! in Not an, Milk Trust The Original and Gonuine HORLIGK’S MALTED MILK The Food-drink for ANl Ages, St restaurants, hotels an;! fountains. elicious, invigorating and sustainng. Keep it on your sideboard at home. **® ‘Dea't vl without & A quick lunch prepared in a mingte, Take no substituteé. Ask for HORLICK'S. Others are imitations-