Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 30, 1909, Page 4

OMaila DALY BEE iu FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. second- Entered at Omaha postoffice class matter. TERMS OF BUBSCRIPTION | Daily Bee (Including Sunday), per week lse Datly Bee (without Sunday), per week 10¢ Dally Bee (without Sunday), one year $4.00 Dally HBee and Sunday, one year........ Kn"lt DELIVERED BY CARRIER. | ening e (without Sunday) per week 6c ening Bee (with Sunday), per week 10c Sunday Bee, one year 2.50 Saturday Beo, one YeAr.................. 180 | Address all complaints of frregularities in | aclivery to City Circulation Department. | OFFICES, Omaha~The Bee Building. South Omaha—Twentyfourth and N. Council Bluffs—156 Sgoft Street. Lincoln—618 Little Ballding Chicago—148_Marquette Bullding. | New York—Rooms 4301-1102 No. 34 West | Thirty-third Street, | Washington Fourteenth Street, N. W. “ORRESPONDENCE Communications.relating to news and ed- ftorial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Departhent. REMITTANC Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to Tha Bee Publishing Company, | Only 2-cent stamps ‘Feceived in payment of | mall accounts. - Parfonal checks, except on | Omaha or eastern, exchanges, not accepted. STATEMENT' OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, es.: George B. Tasehuck, treasurer of The Bea Publishing Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of fuil and complete coples of The Daily, Morn- ing, Bvening and Sunday Bee printed dur- ing the month of, November, 139, whs as ows: h follows 41,930 60 48,340 41,810 40,400 41,650 41,980 1,368,860 9,845 Net Tota 4,843,008 Daily Average 4,768 GEO. B. TZSCHUCK, Treasurer, Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 1st day of December, 19.9, (Seal) M. P. WALKER, Notary Fublic, Returned Coples. Subscribers leaving the city tem- porarily should ave e B ied to them. Address will be changed as often as requested. Now to make the next twelve months a ten-strike. Thé death of the year cannot be at- tributed to high fever. P —— Before he was flred Zelaya should have had a Maxim silencer afixed to his muzzle — Accoruln:m the news ;poru Eliza would have no trouble crossing the Ohio these days. A galn of forty millions Is noted in the customs receéipts at the port of New York, , Blame .1! on Loeb. South Omaha, but as yet none of the doors have been locked on this ac- count, Who' Wil de¢ide when the mayor, the city ¢ouncil and the ¢ity engineer all want.to use the auto at the same time? We may look for a great outpouring of Indiana's favorite Beveridge when Lew Wallace ‘breaks into the hall of tame. . ———— It Copenhdgen knew what a lot of bables had to be rechristened she might have let the name Cook stay untar- nished. The city council made short work of the unexpended balance in the general fund. But perhaps some of the things ordered dre really needed. Mr. Bryan bad an opportunity to visit Cuba in 1898 in company with a very digtinguished assemblage of Ne- braskan¥, but he preferred then the at- mosphere of Washington. Walter Wellman, . who didn't dis- cover the North pole, is now exploring ‘Washington in search of signs of a war between Mexico and the United States, As in the Arctic, he seems to be trying the gasbag route. The "“Merry Widow"” dog evidently had its compgny manners on and re- sented the familiarity of its fair mis- tress at the dog show. Happily, the bite was in the air and not in anything more substantial. Those who lament that they never sawW a le JSOW may console them- selves by taking a look at Gelett Bur- gess' latest newspaper ploture, portray- ing the Suthor growing purple In the face oveh, & clgagette. With )‘nuw;;_ as & pational song and a famous ‘Tennessee confederate given ag’ gvation on his access to the United Stafes €enate, we may all settle down wiflg’_’the comfortable feeling that it is pla”'ul ot brethren to dwell to- gether I unity, Govemnor. Shallenberger will join with Gayernor Haskell and Governor Koch inia’eonférence on the guaranty deposlt oadaver. They probably will nof it, but the best advice they co! ’!allov at present is to “let the dea beautitul rest.” THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, Courage of His Convictions. In adhering to his resolve to trans- mit to congress a special message ad- vising additional anti-trust and Inter- state commerce regulation, President Taft gives prompt and emphatic answer t6 those spécial pleaders who urged him to defer such action for political reasons. Mr. Taft is not a politician, and In his sticking to his convictions and having the courage to declare them he is establishing more firmiy that general confidence to which as the president of the whole people he is entitled. In his inaugural address last March, Mr. Taft announced his policy concern- ing corporations in these words: *I hope to be able to submit, at the first reguler sesslon of the incoming con- gress, In December next, definite sug- gestions in respect to the needed amendments to the anti-trust and the interstate commerce laws, and the changes required in the executive de- partments concerned in their enforce- ment. “It is believed that with the changes recommended, American business can be assured of that measure of stability and certainty in respect to those things that may be done and those that are prohibited, which is essential to the life and growth of all business. Such a plan must include the right of the people to avail themselves of those methods of combining capital and ef- fort deemed necessary to reach the highest degree of economic efficiency, at the same time differentiating be- tween combinations based upon legiti- mate economic reasons and those formed with the intent of creating monopolies and artificially controlling prices. “The work of formulating into prac- tical shape such changes s creative work of the highest order and requires all the deliberation possible in the in- terval. 1 believe that the amend- ments to be proposed are just as nec- essary in the protection of legitimate business as in the clinching of the re- torms which properly bear the name of my predecessor.” 1t is timely to recall this pronounce- ment now, for unguestionably the forthcoming special méssage will be found to be based on deliberation along the lines herein indicated. And the president’s firmness in developing his own ideas in accordance with his original stand will be accepted by thoughtful citizens as a reaffirmation of his consistent policy, judicially pur- sued regardless of the voice of parti- sanship. Hig present attitude in de- clining to be swérved by some of his advigers ‘on the plea -of politics is in harmony with one of the first of his announcements after he took the oath of office, that he declined to be drawn into any political controversies within the states. Races and Sanitation. The theory of Dr. Stiles of the marine hospital service that the hookworm disease 1s a result of white and black races trying to live in the same 'el|-_ mate s likely to find little sympathy among practical people, who are be~, coming somewhat surfeited with ab- struse philogophizing concerning the ills that flesh inherits. England has for generations shown to the world that the white man can live in ancient pest spots regardless of racial population, and the Briton has not only successfully acclimated him- self to the intensely different condi- tions of such countries as India, but has also vastly improved the health ex- perience of the natives, by the simple process of spreading the gospel of cleanliness. What England has ac- complished in her colonies we have done in Cuba and Panama, proving that sanitation is the safeguard for any race, and that the question of health {s not dependent upon maintaining aloofness from brethren of different hues. It has been the experience of the world that the superior race draws the inferior up, not that the inferior drags the superior down, and the white man has nothing to fear from his black, red or yellow neighbor in the matter of health, provided all follow the same hyglenic rules of living. Sanitation, not separation of the races, is the so- lution of the problem of public health in the United States, as in every clime. Safety on the Railroads. The report of the special board as- signed by congress to study safety in rallroad. travel comes at a time when an extraordinary series of wrecks makes the subject particularly inter- ¢sting, though the results announced do not afford much: encouragement. For three years the board has been in- vestigating espectally the matter of block signal® operation and train con- trol, and examining also devices cal- culated to seoure greater safety on the rails. Bad methods are reported to have been discovered om B number of single track roads, and in some cases the faults of practice are pronounced dan- gerous. A mass of information was gathered which promptsi grave criti- cism of the practice on many roads concerning the employment and dis cipline of telegraph operators and sig- dal men. Of hundreds of inventions inspected only twelve were found to havé merit, and it is concluded that the rallroads have kept pace as far as i P — The Qhdo. river will now take the center q Yol stage and do some stunts with ice’ 'and bigh water, provid- most eloguent argument in favo neral plan of improv- ing inl LT ways. ‘This stream is the onl Wlver of America that enormous amount of traffic mvlpr from time to ‘@geidedly svectacular L possible with science in the matter of precautionary deviees. The conclusion of this research, which the govermment has conducted with great patlence and At gonsiderable expense, mustibe that the defects in the rallroad serviee of the donntry are due to that umtértain element, the humah egiiation: Tnexperfente or care- ‘‘essness along ths line sets at naugl |are willing to grant. the good intentions of the most com- petent management, and the Individual unit i bound on occasion to upset the precautions of the best mechanical equipment. Until the elemeént of per- sonal responsibility can be eliminated, wrecks are bound to continue, and in the meantime eternal vigilance on the part of every employe is the price of safety. Tell the Truth. The editor of The Bee has had to stand as bogey man for the fake re- formers for 5o many years that it prob- ably will not hurt him to be paraded a little longer in a false position. But it is unfair to the earnest, sincere tem- perance people of Nebraska that they have to be bamboozled by the latest silly yarn that is being circulated through the medium of the Anti-8aloon league press. The editor of The Bde has not as yet made any estimate of the probable cost of a campaign either for or against county optlon in Ne- braska, and he certainly is not under- taking to raise a fund to support or de- feat such a measure. The Bee has been, and is, frankly and openly op- posed to county option, but its oppo- sition is based on reason and is open and above board. The advocates of prohibition in Nebraska realize this and ought to be fair enough to tell their adherents the truth about The Bee. Japan and Its Treaties, No sooner has Baron Uchida taken his post at Washington as ambassador from Japan than he is reported as presenting a new problem concerning our affairs with that empire. It is of- ficially known from the president’s an- nual message that the State depart- ment is at work on a revision'of the Japanese treaty which is soon to ex- pire, and Uchida was quick to point out that the separate immigration agreement is of Indeterminate dura- tion. Now it is understood that the real mission of the ambassador is to get the United States to agree to terminate both treaty and agreement on a date coincident with the expiration of treaties with Great Britain and other nations, with a view to having all the new Nippon compacts run concurrently and incorporate identical provisions, It should be borne in mind that we have nothing to do with what other nations and Japan may adjust between them. These are the entangling al- liances of which we have been suffi- giently warned. Japan's purpose clearly is to use international pressure to put the United States on the same footing with European powers, and there is no reason why we should sail all in the same boat. Uchida is here to represent Japan and may be depended upon to get the utmost concessions concerning immigration and other matters that we But our prob- lems are our own and our interests de- mand that we go it strictly alone in the matter of adjusting our agreements with the mikado. Any attempts to in- volve ouf treatles of the far east with those of Europe are to be viewed with suspicion, At the Omaha Agency, The Omaha Indians seem to be un- duly apprehensive as to the intention of the Indian office in consolidating the superintendency of the affairs of the Omaha and Winnebago reservations. No disposition is apparent on the part of the authorities to hamper the Omahas in any way in their advance in civilization. On the other hand, the government at Washington {s giving these Indians all encouragement and assistance to place them on the high plane of full and responsible citizens of the United States. They may be assured that the commissioner of In- dian affairs, his deputy, and those who are dealing with the problem, have only warmest sympethy for the Indian and are doing all they reasonably can do to relieve him from the embarrass- ment of red tape that has.restricted him in his social and business dealings. Regulations necessary in the past are no longer required and will be removed entirely as soon as the competency of the members of the tribe may be passed upon. In the meantime a little patience on the part of the Indian and his advisers . will help greatly to achieve the result that all so earnestly desire. It would seem as though New York were big enough and rich enough to maintain some such institution as Mad- ison Square Garden, which is about to be razed because it is not profitable ¢ommercially. The events that have | been housed in the garden have drawn | | Utah ana Oregon, |largest owner of ofl lands. |be the greatest consumer. It may surprise many thousands of people to the metropolis, who spent money lavishly, each year, but whereas lesser cities take pride in maintaining at munieipal expense convention halls which serve much the same purpose locally as has the garden to New York, the old money greed of Manhattan rules stronger than civie pride in Institutions that are world-wide landmarks. New York, whose debt has just been found to be seven times as great as that of any | other American city, left it for the na- tion’s school children to pay for the foundation of the monument of Liberty in the harbor which greets the incom- ing voyagers. New York Is prodigal in some selfish directions, but occa- sionally in niggardly moments over- looks its larger opportuniti Justice Howard of New York state takes a pessimistic view of things when he charges that 40 per cent of all the money dppropriated for public pur- poses is spent for graft. If his state- ment were true he could render no bet- ter service to the people than to point our particular cases and suggest a rem- ody. But it may be that matters are not so desperate as he says. Surely if he can convince the taxpayers that honest government will cut their ap- propriations nearly in half hé will have started a reform that will make the fame of other reformers pale. But the people know themselves too well to pay much heed to an orator who pro- claime the dollar mark above the stars and stripes Consider the ladybug; she flies not to her homé when the children inform her that her little ones are burning, yet she does more useful work for the elders. A paternal government has collected millions of the gay-winged insects and transpofted them to the California valleys to save the crops. The aphis pest has attacked the vines and the ladybug is expected to extermi- nate the aphis, her ancient enemy. It appears that the only obnoxious bug that man has not yet been able to find another bug to prey upon is the hum- bug. Another university president bewails the lack of clvilization in the people of the United States, and particularly specifies that musically we are bar- barians. Yet the census bureau has Just shown that we spend more for ed- ucation and less for recreation than for anything else. Incidentally it may be pointed out that music {s not the only thing concerning which the average university graduate has de- ficiencies. Americans have not yet fully awak- ened to the fact that Canada s doing things. Among other enterprises to be rushed is a $150,000,000 Georgian bay ship canal which will cut Detroit and Buffalo out of vast tonnage and give the Canadlan exports from the up- per lakes a direct outlet through Toronto to the sea, The Dominfon is building fast'on the experiences qf the United States. ) Nebraska lawyers have gonr on rec- ord as being willing to struggle along for a little while longer under the pres- ent form of practice, in spite of the general demand for reform in methods. This is not surprising, even if it did follow a most eloquent and learned ad- dress by the president of the associa- tion on the topic of ‘“Rational Law- Making.” Jarring the Henchmen, Chicago Post. Podtmaster General Hitchcock's report will be a distarbing element for those who have supposed all glong that the Postal department is maintained simply to give Jobw to henchmen. Parchasiug Peace. Chicago Record-Herald, Andrew Carneglo s credited with having expressed a ywilingness to give $20,000,000 for the purpose of establishing permanent peace In Centrdl'America. It ought to be possible with a’futid of that size to furnish a pretty falr police force for Central Amerlea. “Another Roosevelt Policy Ditched Boston Herald. Everybody remembers the bustling, breezy way in which the president's predecessor used to come 'intd the anteroom for a hand- shake and a hearty word with each visitor, The president ngw has people ushered be- fore him, evén though they be forelgn am- bassadors. Which is your preference? Political Financlering. Washington Star, Evidently the ‘proposition for guarantee- ing ‘bank depisits needs more thought. In its present shape it is not satisfactory. Neither the courts nor the more influential business bodies are convinced. Mr. Bryan and Governor Haskell and some western republican leaders, give it the welght of their Indorsement, but not a man of the number is regarded as a financler. It would be a perfectly lovely thing If there were no risks at all about Investments or bank deposits, but as vet there are many. And who shall say that a’l of them can be eliminated before thé dawn of the millen- nium? ) D T B— Uncoupling the Pullman Gouge. Springfield Republican, It is rumored In railroad circles that the Harriman lines contemplate the operation of a sleeping and parlor car service of thelr own, after the examplo of the New Haven, the 8t. Paul and Great Northern roads. This s the right policy to pursue, and its adoption by the extensive Harriman sys- tem would have great effect In bringing the other roads into line. The Pullman company would then become simply & bullder of rallroad equipment Instead of as now an operator as we'l as a bullder of cars. The country will In time compel an end of these divisions in the railroad serv- ice between different companies such as the Pullman in passenger trafflc and the express companies in freight traffic, | Ty — ) OIL LANDS WITHDRAWN, Conservation of an Important Na- tional Resource. The Outlook Last week, by the authority of the presi- dent, there were withdrawn from entry and |sale more than 3,000,00 acres of public petroleum land- in California, Wyoming, The government is the It is likely to scme o learn that the six largest battle- ships in commission or under comstruction In the American navy are equipped for either oll or coal consumption, and that the fourteen largest destroyers use oll exclu- sively. In his recently published annual report Mr. Ballinger, secretary of the in- terior, had calied attention to the impor- tance of asking congress to authorize the executive to reseive certain areas of these lands for the purpose of atfording a supply of fuel ol forithe future use of the navy and to make necessary regulations for the preservation and extraction of such de- pesits. No legislation, he added, exists for the entry of oll and gas liuds, other than the general mining laws of the United states, which are not adaptable to the disposition of lands containing mineral olls and At present public ofl lands have to be entered under & law framed primarily to provide for placer mining entries. Hence a radical revision of the American mining law iy necessary. Anticipating that con- gress will meet this evident need, the secre- tary of the interior has withdrawn from al) forms of entry all vacant public lands designated by the geological survey as probably containing ofl and gas. It is In- teresting to note that a leasing system for the disposal of oll on government land ix advocated, the government to dispose of the oll as a conmodity, and not In terms of acres, lke coal or other minerals occu pylng fixed places DECEMBER 30, 1909. Washington Life The Inaugural Orowd, What it Years of Metired Prosi- A close watch fs to be kept on congress by several organized bodies favorable to the enactment of a law creating postal savings banks. The latest organization openly and boldly supporting the proposi- tion is the Farmers' union, which has joined hands with the Postal Savings Bank league, and will post a legislative com- of observation. The Farmers' union has hundreds of thousands of members in the Atlantic coast siates, and behaif of government security for savings upsets the complaisancy of the opposition. “The dramatic element,” says the Wash- ington Herald, “in the contest between the friends and foos of this measure which now forms one of the biggest lssues before congress, 1s the tremendous financla! strength of the foes, the banking Interests against which Is pitted only one organiza- tion, the Postal Savings Bank league, with headquarters in Chicago, which for months has been making every effort possible to stir the public to do those things which would be felt in the halls of congress. The public demand for literature and speakers has far exceeded the funds from member- ship fees and subscriptions.” mittee at the national capitol for purposes | its activity fn | ‘THE DLDEST NATIONAL BANK IN NEBRASKA =xo showed that this bank had Established in 1857 as Kountze Bros. Nationalized in 1863, Charter No. 209 One of the Safest Forms of Investment Is a 3% Certificate of Deposit 4 In This Bank, Which Has Over $12,000,000 of Assets. The published statement of November 16, ‘09, outstanding in- terest bearing certificates totalling 8 irst National Bankfiqfif ¢ (_)’d}l e | L = | General Lew Wallace, soldier, patriot, diplomatist, author, is to recelve high honor from his native state and his coun- | try on January 11, when his image In marble will be unvelled In Statuary hall in the capitol at Washington. | The statue which will be unvelled is the | work of Andrew O'Connor of Paris, one of | the best known sculptors in Europe. It is | of Carrara marble and 1s of heroic size, being seven feet high. The figure is clad in the uniform of a major general of the United States army. The committee which | selected the artist to make the statue and to decido on the details of the work was | appolinted by Governor Hanly, acting under an act of the Indiana legislature, and was | composed of Willlam A. Fox, director of | the Herron Art institute of Indlanapolis; | Captaln J. P. Megrew of Washington and Willlam Allen Wood of Indianupolis. One of the most Interesting features of | the unvelling will be the presence of 'the | grandsons of General Wallace—Lew, jr., | and Noble, sons of Henry Wailace, Lew Wallace, jr., will pull the cord which will disclose the finished work. Midday has been selected as the hour for | the ceremony. Willlam Allen Wood will make the presentation, and Governor ““Tom" Marshall, on behalf of the state of Indlana, will respond. Senator Albert J Beveridge will deliver an address, and the | Rev. Dr. Dudley will offer the prayer. A | poem written for the occasion will be read | by its author, James Whitcomb Riley, a | lifelong friend of General Lew Wallace. | Both congress and the senate will be rep- resented officially by delegations. Charlie Taft made his first formal ap- pearance in Washington society last week when he was a guest at the dance which Rear Admiral and Mrs. Richardson Clover gave for their schoolgirl daughter, Miss Beatrice Clover, who is home for the holl- days. Miss Taft and Robert Taft also were present. When Charlie was included in the invitation, to the surprise of all he accepted, and he appeared to be the most delighted guest present. He danced with all the girls of his own age that he knew. On the way home Charlie remarked that he thought it high time he was putting on long, trousers. “Lots ‘of fellows my age have 'em,” he insisted. “‘These things make me look like a kid." Charlie has recelved invitations for sev- eral other dances. “And I'm going, too,” he sald. “Senator ‘Bob’ Taylor of Tennessee, was was hot under the collar when it was rumored that the nomination of Horace H. Lurton. of Tennes: , might be held up by insurgent senators,” said F. E. Gateman, of Memphis, at the Whard. “He got busy at once, and It may have been due largely to his work that there was practically no opposition to Lurton's confirmation, Be- fore he was confirmed, Senator Taylor took occaslon to assure Judge Lurton that no| combination of senators could prevent the | comtirmation, and his telegram to the new associate member of the United States'su- preme court was characteristic. This Is | what the senator sald: “*Your enemies have no more chance to | deteat your confldence than a cellulold dcg would have chasing an asbestos cat in hades.' “1 guess Taylor knew." When visitors in the gallery grow tired of hearing senators talk they can go down- stairs and see senators eat. The senatorial carpenters have been busy during the re- | cent recess rearranging the senate dining | room. Lawmakers and visitors, short of time, may no longer stand up to the ple counter and hurriedly bolt & sandwich and A glass of milk. That great American in- stitution, the lunch counter, has been abol- | ished In the senate. Guests must take scats at sma'l tables and await the pleasure of a corps of lelsurely negro waiters. Better provision has been made for the luxurious senators. They have a dining room reserved for thelr exclusive use. It |1s entered by swinging doors, with oval glass windows so familiar in the cartoon sketches of the senate and house. Through these windows stroliing visitors may peer and observe senators at luncheon. “Red Cloud,” the late Sfoux chlef, was the only Indian in America that coud have held up the bullding of a government | road and the construction of United States forts,” said Colonel J. A. George of Dead- | wood, 8. D. quoted by the Washington | Post. “He did this In 1866 and two years later the government abandoned its efforts | to lay out the road and bulld forts along it. | Red Cloud was the last of the chiefs to| slgn the treaty, and from that time on the government had no trouble with him. | He had accomplished the purpose for which | he had fought, and it was his boast that | he never broke the treaty he made at that | time. Soon afterward o'd Red Cloud bullt himself a home near the Pine Ridge | agency, where he lived at the time of his | death, The 0ld man was not a progress and never took kindly to schools or other | ways of the white man, and while he did not after 1868 take part In any uprisings his counsel to his people was never lun’ progress, and 1t 1s sald that at times it was | for war. Red Cloud had been blind and | deat for six years prior to his death, and he patiently waited In silence and dark ness for the time when he wou'd join his fathers In the happy hunting srounds, to which bellef he clung regardless of all ef- forts to induce him to accept the ways of Christianity. “Red Cloud's last fight was one of the bloodiest Indian battles ever fought in the west. It was the first time the In- dlans had faced repeating rifigs, and the new' firearms disconcerted them for a time, but they made six charges on the | soldiers before they. were forced to retreat, after a loss which was placed all the way trom 300 to 1,700 killed." “My name is O'Cannon,” seph, when T. P. O'Connor, niroduced to him recently, sald Unele Jo- M. P, was Then he quoted Hundred Battles, was an ancestor of Rory | Cannonan, from whom are descended the clan of O'Cannonan, later abbreviated to O'Cannon, and still later to Cannon.” Now we know where the speaker got his fight- ing blood. [ S—— PERSONAL NOTES. | Three young women of Philadelphia are from a report made to him lately by a genealogist: “'Niall of Nine Hostages, great grandeon of Owen More, king of Mun- ster during the relgy of Conn of the said to be mourning the death of a fellow purpose without apparent routine, and yet, through the visible disorder of their lives, there usually can be seen a very definite method of working. Reutine 1s as good & harness for the genius as it is for the average citizen, and for the latter, who wishes to bring his productive powers to thelr highest point of efficlency, routine Is Indispensable. Once won, routine is Invariably a stanch, true friend. It lsn't galned In a day, but, on the other hand, it fsn't lost In a day It it extend to dlet and vacations as well as to work it tends toward longevity. It generally practiced it would make for Who was married to two of them and en- [ soundness in the soclal and financial fabyi gaged to the other. Easy to see why|And as a fine, unadulterated, gentls, and they should feel indignant, but the case | city-broken New Year's resolution It can doesn't seem to be one for mourning. Queen Margherita of Italy has a weak- ness for the books of American and Eng- lish novellsts. She also reads English and Amerlcan magazines, and it is her opf that the American school of short-story writers at present Is the best in the world Senator Kean of New Jersey is one of the republican members of the upper house who has a fight on his hands for re-elec- tion. The legislature that will name his successor will be chosen next year. Sev eral of the strongest republican leaders in New Jersey are opposed to his re-election Edison has been telllng some entertain. ing stories about his early days, and natur ally draws the long bow a trifle when say ing that he aidn't know what to do with his first check, one of $40,000 for his telc graph Inventions. But Tom was a smurt train newsboy and that sort doesn't often make dullards. James Malcolm, former Rochester fire department years a member of it, recently passed away at the age of 78 years. He first joined the old volunteer fire department in 1852, when he was 17 vears old, and ran with & famous old hand engine known as “Betsy No. 2. Somg of us who are not old ean recollect the founding of Greeley, Colo., in 1§70, as the result of the great New York editor's much preaching of “Go west, young men!" About" seventy-five of the original founders of that prosperous city recently enjoyed thelr annual reunion and dinner, together with a lot of “plonesr childrer.” A bronze tablet containing a bas-relief head of Abraham Lincoln is being com- pleted by John Pauling, a Chicago sculp- tor, to mark the site of the “wigwam” in which Lincoln was nominated for presl- dent in 1860. The site is at Lake and Mar- ket streets, Chicago. The tablet will meas- ure about two feet and a half by four. chief of the and for fifty TIME FOR HIGH RESOLVES, Faney Centers on Big Things Ever in the Distance. ! Washington Post. With Christmas over and the year 190 rapidly drawing to a close, the averag: person's thoughts are lightly turning tc New Year's resolutions. The seeds of high resolve are now to be planted. The fields are to be mowed and raked, and the acorns dropped Into the furrows, soon to grow to splendid oaks. New Year's resolutions are always sur rounded with the glamour of a fine re- nunciation and herolsm of purpose. All the old weaknesses are to be cast off in a day, The new resolyes usually have to do with the big things, the little things belng ex- pected to take care of themselves. But in the course of events the little things get control and the big resolves topple like a house of cards. There is, however, one resolve that all might make with & fair chance of keep ing to it—one thing which will, of itself, bring specific and general good. Perhaps it s not an exciting resolve, and, there- fore, may be left out of the new year's plans. It is a plain, unvarnished thing— just the resolution of routine. Routine is rarely named as one of the cardinal virtues, and yet it 1s the founda- tion stone of many, many virtues. It as- sures the fullest measure of efficlency. It works, to a system, and by system alone is the world ordered. It shelters the nerves, softens the clamor, saves waste- ful motion and protects the mind and body Genluses, sometimes, work to considerable be conselentiously recommended. CHEERY CHAFF. “Did you ever hear of anything so ab- surd as an auto suggestion to another per- son “Certainly, when It is a hint for the gift of a motor car.’—~Baltimore American, Physiclan—Have you any aches or paing this ‘morning? Patient—Yes, doctor; it breathe; In fact, the only seems to be with my breath. Physician—All right. I'll glve you_some- hurts me to trouble now thing that will soon stop that.—Boston Globe, Kitty Flies—The lobstor! He' gave me an engagement' ring and now he demands its return, Belle Wings—Cell him a.terrapin, dear. Kitty Flles—Don't be ridtculous! Why should I call him a terrapin? Belle Wings—Because he wants his dla- mond back.—Chicago News, ““Well, here we are in Pompell. How in- tereuting it 1s! "Yon charlot was evidently waiting before some door. I would like to interview the ancient charioteer who drove it. T wouldn't."” nihv not? “He ‘might want to put in a bill for his time."—Loulsville Courler-Journal. “Why is it that little kittens are always 80, Interesting " - “They've got to make up thelr average before they get to be old cats.”—Cleveland Leader, Cop—What's the trouble here? Pugnacious Indlyldual-That man gave me the le op—Well, you can't block up the side- waik with it. " Take. Iy home ‘and use 1t the ]B"\:“Df—l"“a Yo go fishin',—Boston Tran- o ‘“When 1 leave here I shall have to de- pend on my brains for a living.” ‘‘Don’t take such a pessimistic view of things."—Cornell Widow. 18 quinine the proper thing to after an exposure?” ‘'After one kind of an exposure, but it will take a Buropean trip to do the other kind any good,”—Houston Post. take “You're as hard as nalls,” sald his trainer. “Well,” irritably answered the actor- pugilist. “wouldn’t you naturally expect me to be? I wear my clawhammer coat wo or three hours every night."—Chicago Tribune, THROUGH CLOUD TO LIGHT. ’hen Rigl mount I sought to climb, Jeeking a vision all sublime, The heavy clouds around me hung, And shadows o'er the mountain fluf The crystal petals wove a shroud iFor rocks and crags, in allence proud; ADd &8 1 breath ess looked around, he Alkmp helghts sesmed holy ground. Through mists and cloud I upward gazed, Cerulean sky 1 saw amazed; 1 stood In awe before God's throne, His mirrored face in brightness shown; With soul entranced 1 turned away; A limpse of heaven I saw that day, 1 stood upon the snowy peak, So filled with God I could not speak! I waited for the afterglow, Its fading, rosy tints, to throw halo o'er the lifted hi Whose glory through man's spirit thrills, The sun had sunk to rest, I thought, When lo! a miracle was wrought; A cloud was lifted from his face, His golden beams my eye could trace. Such splendors 1it the evening sky, 1ts beauty brought the dear God nigh As from a dream my soul awoke; It seemed as If an angel spoke ' “A vision this of 1ife,” he said— The gtorm may beat upon your head As up life's paths you slowly ereep, And weary mount the rugged steep. Yet, far above, God's light shall hreak, Your sunset hours new glory take. The way Is brief through cloud ohscure, Sunbeams, and not the mists endure; And when the doubt, the pain, the tears, A% you mount upwerd through the years, Are left behind with shades of night Then welcome Heaven's eternal light! Dightin, Mass. A, JUDSON RICH Lenox Soap is Bigger COMPARE A CAHE of Lenox Soap with a cale of any other laundry soap, selling at or about its price. YOU WILL FIND that Lenox Soap is bigger, that the calie is brighter) the quality better. AND LENOX SOAP 1S ought to be. CHEAP— it cheap IT ISN'T POSSIBLE to mahe good soap for less than the price of Lenox. good soap for le It isn’t possible to sell FOR WASHING CLOTHES, use Lenox Soap in the form of soap solution. TO MAHKE SOAFP S calie of Lenox S, water at formed. solutien OLUTION: Take o cut itinto small pieces, in thr quarts of boiling bolling point until a Lenox Soap-Just fits the hand