Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 3, 1910, Page 4

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The new year started cff shockingly at Martinique. — The antl-pass law doesn't seem to work very well in Minnesota. ———— * Wall street seems unable to clear up the drift of the Rock Island flurry. ———— “#oston Is planning for a corn exposi- tion next fall. Better come to Omaha's, —_— If the price of rubber keeps on - stretching, something is liable to snap. ——— Some of the big cities’ census guesses are likely to bump the bumps when the returns come in. ——— Too earnest devotion to the dollar mark has left the mark on the face and frame of the pursuer. e A——— The principle of ‘Look up, not down," will be unanimous as soon as Halley's comet is sighted. ————— Gaynor's poliecy of choosing his of- ficeholders by fitness s causing indi- cations of fits in the wigwam. Omaka has much to be thankful for and little to regret in the review of 1909, Now all together for 1910! e ) The ballet dancers of the Parisian royal opera woil their strike. The man- ager could not withstand their kicks. b e ——] All of the suppressed high jinks of the Hinky Dink ball appears to have been let lagse 1 Chicago on New Year's eve, ————————— Estrada’s: pledge for the disarm: ment of Nicaragua does not disarm the world of the suspicion that he means to be its president, The shipload of sugar that sunk on nearing New York must have been dis- couraged hy the wireless news from the customs house. A crylng baby is sometimes an ad- vantage, as the Omaha man whose life and property was saved through the baby's alarm can testify. Now that the Woodmen of the World building has findlly alighted, the real estate deals that were dependent on Its erection may beé closed up or declared off. When the Natlonal Anti-Trust league meets the National Anti-Boy- cott assoclation Gompers and his friends can stand aside and watch the fun. § The great conerete road which Gal- veston is about to build to the main- land will take Its place among the world’s wonders as the real giant's causeway. Senator Lodge denies that he will accept a‘post abroad. No lodge in the wilderness for him, when he can be both fellow and spokesman for the Hub at home. o Now for Real Work. Reports from the various centers of population indicate that the holidays have been enjoyed with especial relish by a nation hopeful under the anima- tion of a full resumption of business and every Indication of uninterrupted prosperity. Much of this public con- fidence has been based on the under- lying faith in the administration at Washington, some of whose policles, definitely announced, were given prac- tical headway in the opening days of the sesslon of congress. And now the real work of the ses- sion begins, work which the people ex- pect the national legislature to ex- pedite in keeping faith with the eiti- zens. Economic financlering of the routine of government is to be accom- plished, and in additlon much new legislation is to be enacted with reme- dial intent toward regulating existing evils and toward creating new chan- nels for good through which the busi- ness of the country may be intelli- gently and satisfactorily guided. Mr. Taft already has pointed out to congress its public duty in the matter of some of the vital problems of the day, and with the reassembling of the body he will make additional sugges- tions. It is to be remembered that the ecounsel coming from the White House is the utterance of the presi- dent of the whole American people, elected by their votes to secure the fruits of the very policies now enun- ciated by the administration. And in rendering into the law of the land the volice of the people, the nation expects every congressman to do his duty. Snow on the Sidewalk, The snow, like the rain, “falleth on the just and on the unjust,” and the busy man’s sidewalk is just as deeply covered as that of his neighbor who has more time to devote to the manip- ulation of the harmless, but necessary, snow shovel. In a large comununity blessed with a democratic administra- tion, such as Omaha, it behooves the citizen, no matter what his standing, to take cognizance of the fact that the public comfort and convenience, not to speak of the police regulations, require that the snow be removed from the sidewalks. It is unfortunate, perhaps, that the heavy snow fall of December came at a time when no election was pending in Omaha, and consequently the street cleaning department was not in a state of pernicious activity. At any rate, a number of otherwise excellent citizens and prosperous business men neglected to remove, or cause to be removed, the accumulation of snow from the walks in front of their premises, and thereby laid themselves‘liable in some degree under the city ordinances in such case made and provided. This brought several of them into ynpleasant noto- riety as the result of a sudden deter- mination to enforce the law.’ Whild it is not a pleasant duty to record these facts, and the average ne“flnape’ stands in this regard “Like angels fo a good man’s sin, weep to record an blush to give it in,” yet the fact had t be chronicled as part of the day’'s do; ings. The lesson is plain and th‘ moral is obvious The next time the snow falls on your sidewalk either get yourgelf or the hired man busy with the snow shovel. Message to All the World. The strides taken by the students’ missionary movement, as indicated in the annual report, must be gratifying to all progressive interests as well as to those which are strictly religious, for it is apparent that these crusading volunteers are carrying to all the world a message of civilization. Moral awak- ening and mental enlightenment are twin sisters, and in their spread of the gospél to the dark places of the earth the American emissaries are allies of the greatest of uplifting forces. The program indicated for the com- ing year shows the vast scope of the movement, covering as it does such countrfes as Turkey, Russia, Japan, India, Africa and the turbulent sec- tions of Latin America, where the edu- cating force of the Christian students 18 bound to be an Influence for all right living and good government. Even the worldly affairs of the work- a-day life are advanced by this move- ment, for it is well known that trade follows the missionary, so that for practical as well as for ethical reasons the students will doubtless find even larger support in the future. Theirs is one of several unselfish institutions of the sort that are making the Amer- ican known to the uttermost parts of the globe as a disciple of light and hope and happiness. Another Myth Exploded. Bo firmly fixed in the popular mind has been the idea that Mars is a planet of marvelous canals, that the an- nouncement from London absolutely destroying the canal theory will come as a shock. The latest telescopic pho- tographs were accepted by the distin- guished sclentists gathered at the con- ference of the British Astronomical as- soclation as conclusive proof thaywhat bad hitherto been deemed to be canals were merely an effect upon the eye of The location of sky-scrapers for Omaha is shficiently distributed to avold the of either congestion or coll . The new business dis- trict Appears to Include a large portion of the gid. . While we all are in earnest about conservation, there can be such a thing as too much conversation about it. ‘What is needed is some practical legis- lation, and congress cannot too soon enaét it. The fate of our resources must not be imperilled by the desive for self-exploitation in debate. collections of dark spots whose cause have thus removed from their fleld the basis of much fruitful imaginings of recent years. It was the canal theory that gave rise to the most substantial faith that Mars was Inhabited by & race more highly cultivated than omr own, With the London explosion crum- bles the whole structure of Martian population, and the human tamily is left without a vestige of this carefully constructed planetary fabric. But, after all, it is something to have built a telescope powerful enough to dispel so wondrous an {llusion, and man can afford to lose the shadowy sentiment of his Martian myth in the contempla- tion of the actual achievements of old earth’'s real people. A School Girl on Education. Washington Irving, one of the mas- ters of literary style, might well be proud of the essay written by a girl student in the New York high school bearing his {llustrious name. The es- say is a logical and edifying answer to the question, “What do the high schools do for a girl?” and is being circulated among students of the ele- mentary schools with a view to open- ing general interest In advanced edu- cation, for in New York, as in most cities, the tendency of the majority of students is to go no higher than the grammar grades. From the point of view of the girl herself the value of the high school training is interesting as confirming the faith of the parent. “High school says this youthful essayist, “prepare the girl for the highest hap- piness and the greatest service. They give her the fruit of the training through which her teachers have so earnestly led her up to her entrance to the high school. They give her the cultivation and the refinement of the well-bred woman. They ft her, if necessity should come, to avold de- pendence upon her relatives and to sypport herself in a self-respecting way. A high school education is now indispensable to the American woman. It puts her at ease In any soclety; it advances her fn business success far beyond the graduate df the business school which omits everything but the bread-and-butter studies. Every day in the high school pays not only bet- ter in Dbetter wages, but in the satisfaction of the higher life. Go for a term, or a year; each day is an advantage to you. Go the full course if possible. Business houses want educated girls, intelligent girls; they want high school girls. Don't let anyone fool you with a short- cut proposition that will fit you for a third-rate place from which you never can rise.” Frequently youth will accept sug- gestions from its own contemporaries rather than from its elders, and it is probable that this earnest appeal of a high school girl"in the midst of her hope, her faith and her work will have an influence toward swelling the am- bitions of those who ordinarily would stdp at the high school threshold. If it persuade only ome, it will have ful- flled its destiny, and the chances are that it will pérsuade many. The 'vicissitudes of the American family are such that the ought to be trained to be self-reliant; she should be no clinging vine that withers at the first blast of adversity, but instead a creature of poise and en- durance, and she ought to be able to make her own living should circum- stances compel. The Washington Irv- ing high school girl is right: The American high school is the best all- around training fleld for the battle of lite, for the gentler as well as for the sterner se: A Literary Debt. Not only do we owe a literary debt to England, but English literature in its turn owes a debt to those far-seeing and generous publishers who, with wise expenditure of their fortunes, en- dowed the authors struggling toward fame, solving their financial problems and affording them ease and quiet for the eultivation of their best inspira- tions. One such was George Smith, a scholar of plain name, but the finest instincts and attainments. He it was who discovered and gave to the world the immortal Thackeray. It is now fifty years since Mr. Smith established his Cornhill Magazine and put Thack- eray at the head of it, paying him $1,750 a month for the serial rights to his novels, and also $10,000 a year as editor, though Mr. Smith, himself, took the routine burden off the au- thor's shoulders. In the early vol- umes of the Cornhill not only Thack- eray’s books first ran their course, but the magazine also gave to the world | George Eliot’s “Romola,” Wilkie Col- lin's ‘‘Armadale,” and some of An- thony Trollope's works. Other dis- tinguished names of its bygone con- tributors were Tennyson, Darwin, Rus- kin, Tom Hood, George Macdonald, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Matthew Arnold, G, H. Lewes, G. P. R. James and Robert Louis Stevenson. It is a satisfaction to witness the stalwart, untainted survival of a me- dium which has given to the world so much that is immortal in literature, and the jubflee issue of the Cornhill, now at hand, is a living evidence of was undetermined, but which were certalnly not due to canals. Indeed, it was anmounced on the authority of Siperintendent Maunder of the solar department of the royal observatory at Greenwich, that no one ever had seen a single canal on Mars, and that there never had been any real ground for supposing that the markings on the planet supplied any evidence of arti- ficlal action. It was agreed that it were better for science that the canal theory be abandoned altogether. Flction writers and wild theorists | high endeavor and attalnment carried throughout half a century with no de- viation from its original standard. The golden age of the magazine finds its ideéals the same today ver, and to it the present generation is indebted for the novels of Mrs. Humphry Ward, the essays and storles of the brilllant Benson brothers, such gems of modern writing as Yoxall's “Wander Years, and many other productions among the current best. Nothing to excel it, from a lterary standard, has appeared in Burope or America since the days when daughter | OMAHA, MONDAY JANUARY 3, Thackeray first marked its proofsheets, and it is a pleasure for the wonderland of cornfields to take off its hat and send its wireless, but none the less cor- dial, greetings across the ocean to the wonderland of the Cornhill in acknowl- edgment of a literary debt that shall extend through generations to come. —_—_— ‘While the government {s in the mood for economizing it might give some attention to the revision of its customs service by eliminating the ports which produce no revenue from foreign com- merce. There are forty ports whose collections do not equal the expense of maintenance, as, for Instance, Ports- mouth, N. H,, where $3,673 Is ex- pended to collect $222, and Annapolis, Md., where $3.09 {s the year's revenue from a $956 office. The government spends $4,221 at Egg Harbor, N. I, to take in $167, and in twenty or more other places a similar annual discrep-| ancy is noted. It would seem to be good business to. abolish the expensive offices at ports of such trivial income. Why should the government maintain a collectorship that does not collect? Mayor Dahlman is about to give the eity council the benefit of his views of certain features of municipal house- keeping. Thé outline of his ideas so far presented Indicates a tendency to- ward economic and efficlent adminis- tration. If the mayor is sincere in his purpose and the ecity counecil will act with him great benefit to the city will ensue. The adaptation of business methods to public service is always In order. The nomination of United States senators by direct primary vote in Ne- braska may have to run.the gayntlet of the courts. In the meantime the citizens can well afford to continue a practice that has been permitted for many years of recommending to the legislature the candidates preferred, and the legislature can well afford to heed the recommendation made by the voters, Pure air, pure food and pure thought is the rule of life advocated by Mr. Wu in parting from Americans. While fidelity to the advice may not hold us al here for the full term of tifty years at the end of which Mr.| Wu promises to visit us, still it isn’t a bad suggestion to follow on its merits, coming though it does to a Christian people from a so-called heathen. ‘While “Dixie” has been announced as the preference in a voting contest for the favorite national air, ‘‘Yankee Doodle” may be expected to keep it up. —_— Born that w New York Evening Post. Sugared phrases, honeyed words, gum- dropped evidence, and the Havemeyer trust seem to indicate that there is a con- genital moral we.li{nur bound up with the saccharine principle.”’ —_— Look for the Wrouble Elsewhere. wniStioLouls Republie. In his jnauinydnte food prices Secretary Wilson of the Department of Agriculture will find.thaysthe farmers are getting no more than hey ought to for their produce, no mattey fyhat may happen to it after it is out ofj their hand A Loss to Chicago Inter-Ocean. The death of Frederic Remington is a loss to the art of the whole world. He created a mew school and did more than any other artist to deplet the strenuous lite of the frontler during the conquering of the west. His Indlans, soldlers, cow- boys and horses and game animals are the unmistakable work of the man who knows, Usefulness of a Preeedent. Philadelphia Record. A former Japanese minister, Count Hay- ashi, advises the Incorporation of Korea after the example of the annexation of Hawali by the United States. All things considered, this was by no means a credit- able act of statesmanship in view of the method of Ill?ccompllshment But it can hardly be dehied that it affords a pre- cedent for Japan in the Korean case. Governmemg_nnd Railroad Strikes. , Springfield Republican. It has before been suggested that the government be empowered by law to put under a recelvership railroads whose op- eration has become blocked by strikes. Now Representative Stenerson of Minne- sota offers a bill to this effect and finds the president disposed to give it serious consideration. Such a proposal lmplies that the government as an operator of rail- roads s more competent to deal with strikes or troubles with employes than (fnumu(erx under private ownership and opergtion; and as rairoad employes might often prefer to Geal with the government as employer, the proposed law would ad- mit of many starts and more or:less per- manent steps In the direction of govern- ment operation of the roads. It Is & measufe not llkely to be welcomed by the companies. | Our Birthday Book I‘ January 3, 1910. Richaid Henry Dana, the well avthor and reformer, was born in Cam- bridge, Mass, January 3, 1851 He Is to- day one of the leading cltizens of Boston. Williams J. Conners, the big democratic boss of New York state, popularly known as “Fingy" has a birthday today. He was born in Buffalo in 187 and started out as & dock-worker and roustabout. Congressman James A. Tawney 15 just % years old. He is the same “Jim" Towney about whom so much fuss is being made because he is the only member of the Minnesota delegation in congress who voted for the tariff bill. He was born in Gettysburg, Pa. Former Governor Franklin Murphy of New Jersey started life Junuary 3, 1846 He is & native Jerseyman, and is New Jersey's meaiber of the republican national committee, Rex H. Morehouse Is president of the R H. Morehouse company and is one of Omaha's popular young business men. He was born January 3, 1881, at Missounl Valley, and was educated at Culver Mili- tary academy and Andover academ B. Selldgohn 15 72 years old toda: is In\business here In Omaha as & whole- sale liquor dealer under the name of Wolsteln & Co., the name taken from his birthplace, since he was born in Wolstein, Germany, January 8, 1843 Mr. Seligsohn has been in this country twenty-three years. known | ures which make it stand out Bryan Pipe Dream The “Ife" Ands” Lining the Mighway that Point %0 Demo- oratic Control of Congr Brooklyn Eagle (dem.) A contribution sent by Mr. Bryan to th National Monthly for January s likely to Attract the atMntion of these who think that at the congmssional elections to be held next year control of the house of rep- resentatives will be taken from the repub- | ileans. What such a change would sig- | nify s, of course, obvious. It would mean | that the country expected downward re- | vision, and that it is dieappointed, not to | say disgusted, with the schedules. Nor has Mr. Bryan any doubt that such a re-| buke would be administered “but for the unfortunate division that manifested itself | in our party.”” That, in his judgment, took away half the chance of vietory. However, the other half remains. And there Is but one way to take advantage of | it.” We are told that the pariy must stand | unitedly against every proposed increase | and In favor of every proposed decr o | It must understand that democratic pro- ! tection 1s not a bit superior to republican | protection; also that protection, whether democratic or republican, invariably in- vites bargaining, trading and corruption Furthermore, it must realize that a pla: form which is not binding is a fraud. Hav ing thus, as It were, cleared the way fo action, Mr. Bryan concludet “If we can secure & democratic congress and pass a measure providing for sub- stantial reductions, we can enter the next presidential campaign with confidence. If, however, we secure a bare majority in | congress and then our party Is rent asun- | der by a division on the tariff question, | as the republican party was divided over the Aldrich bill, our prospects of succe in 1912 will be greatly reduced.” 1t is not often that the Eagle finds iteelf | in accord with, any program outlined at| Lincoln. Indeed, it can recall no occasion | when that has happened, but this time Mr. | Bryan has a true bill. According to a| careful calculation made by the Review of Reviews, 65 per eent of the imports remain subject to the old rates, 15 per cent are subject to higher dutles, and 20 per cent to lower charges. While, how- | ever, the percentage of increase is 31, that of decrease Is but 23, so that, taken as i whole, there has bgen a ralse of rates This Is more than sufficient justification for the contention that the consumer was betrayed. To that extent Mr. Bryan is on solid ground. He Is an oxponent of demo- cratic doctrine when he takes up the con- sumer's cause, which means that he has anything but an Imaginary grievance agalnst senators and representatives who tell out of democratic line on roll call. He 1s right in principle when he demands that revision should have the greatest good for the greatest number for its objective point, but what about practice? It makes a mockery of principle and scoffs at plat- forms. When® the editor and proprietor of the Commoner says that if his party secure a democratic congress and pass a meas- ure providing for substantial reduction it can enter the next president campaign with confidence, he formulates a thought that is fathered by a wish. But, he admits that there is only half a chance, and—he knows that there is none at all. For a majority in the congress to be elected next year is beyond the reach of his party. Many senators will have to go and come before that statement must be modified. This is not the worst of it. The president who ocouples the White House is a re- putlican. He has the power of veto and he has Indorsed legislation of the Payne- Aldrich brand. Moreover, it Is a waste of time and energy to urge that congress- men. who will ignore local interests shall bes elected. Many representatives will re- turn to congress for the very reason that they voted with the majority. In other words, they will have their seats because they did that for doing which Mr. Bryan thinks they should be left at home. 8o, however commendable part of the Nebraskan's program may be sald to be, it prescribes impossible conditions. Instead of being half optimistic it should be wholly pessimistic.” And it overlooks altogether the introduction of a new and consequential factor. Tariff rates have been referred to experts who are looking for enlightenment. It will take them about two years to gel it, and that Will be soon enough. They cannot do much worse than congress, and —they may recommend better. As for the interval, what can't be cured, must be endured. AN IOWA ANNIVERSARY. Sixty-Three Years Young and Quite Handsome. Des Moines Capltal. Towa entered upon the sixty-fourth year of its existence as a state last week. When President James K. Polk signed the act whereby Iowa was formally admitted to the union of states, the man who is now three score and ten wus entering upon his Tth year. At that time Iowa had a pop- | ulation of less than 200,000, | There were probably a few who looked out over the broad expanse of traokless prairie and ruefully shook their heads. The | smoke of the Indlan wigwam here and | the smoke of the settler's cabin there both | ascended to the sky, telling a tale of | loneliness and isolation which could hardly | be uttered In words, When the night| shades fell the roar of the wild beast was | the only sound which broke the stillness, | Only those who have lived a long life can appreclate the wonderrul transforma- tion which has here taken place. Today Towa is the leading agricultural state in the union. The claim of leadership is often | put forth when only & comparative leader- ship can be proven. Iowa's pre-eminence is a matter of authoritative facts and, fig- trom and above all other states. On New Year's day the American Agri- culturist will make a showing of the farm wealth of the United States. Jn the pros- pectus which is before us is a map of the United States giving the number of | farms In each state and the total vaice | of the farm products. This map shows | thas Jowa has 24,000 farms and that the total value of its farm products for the year 1900 is $621,000000. It 15 true that Texas has 45,000 farms and farm products valued at $i23,000,000, but Texas Is a small continent in size and it would be unrea- sonable to make diseriminating comparl- sons with that state, Tilinols falls behind Towa, its 200,000 farmy producing a product value of §587,000,000. Ohio has product valuos of $448,000,000, and New York, long far-famed for its agricul- tural superiority, reaches $431,000,000. It I1s no wonder that 310 or more per acre is beginning to be the ruling price for lowa farms. The conviction is deepen- ing that the soll I worth .he money, With the stand which lowa occuples today there is no limit that can be placed upon its future possibilities Hot Pace for the Yea Denver Republican. Let 1910 be forewarned that it is going to have a pretty stiff time of it keeping up to the pace set by its nearest predecessor. {and the skippers, | binding link between shore and deep, was | twisted from its ledge and hurled into the | tolyns and smaller cities of the vicinity | him; | rlers of the necessity of ringing door bells | second class mall maiter | tect | effect to some of the suggested reforms. CHRISTMAS STORM ON COAST. Pen Ploture of Oce Engl Bprihgtiold (Mass.) Republican of us who dwell in the safety of the Inland realize the terrors of an angry flood tide; a relentless dull gray mass of slithering seas creeping in and in and de manding its toll of life and property. The men who go down to the deep In ships and fhe women who wateh anxiously on the headlands for their home-coming, know that the cycle of the months brings in four Kreat tides. Ohe usually comes in the late summer. It is expectantly awaited by those In the hammocks of the summer cottages all up and down the grim New England coast, for It s plcturesque, Impressive and generally rather harmless, But the winter coming of the hungry sea Is a far different thing; then the beaches and houses on the overhanging cliffs are empty of the summer people. I'hen the sea comes In to hold converse with its children, the men and women who gain their living from Its overchanging bosom, the fisher people the gatherers of moss and the hardy farmers on the edges of the drear salt marsh Tver the sea is ugly and desperate at this time, but it has been years since it swept In 8o relentlessly as on Sunday. Twice before in the memory of living men Las it demanded such tribute. The first time was' In ‘861, when Minot's light, the Fury in New Few crashing seas with its crew. swept In over fifteen feet and four inches In helght. The second time was in 1898 That tide and storm will always be known as “the storm In which the Portland was lost." sea which drove the coastwise ships like feathers before it and which wrought havoe on the beaches along the coast. And now comes the third, a third which will probably go down in history as the Christ- mas tide of 199. Even 'nmow It is too early to glve any estimate of the loss of life along the coast. Too many places are still cut off because of damaged wires; too many anxious womemare still looking Into the gray offing for the homeward-bound sails, Around Boston alone the property damage is estimated at around $5000,000 and the tide came in over the beaches from Bar Harbor to Newport. . Chelsea probably was the worst sufferer because of the breaking of its dike. Win- throp was badly hurt by the rising flood, its lights were doused, its wires laid low, and many of its summer homes damaged. Great sections of the bulkhead along the state reservation At Nantucket were washed out and cottages and hotels ir Jured. The little summer colonles along the coast from Boston to Cape Cod suffered heavily, for brakewaters were undermined and the seas ate their ways under oot tages and sucked out the little struggling lawns. The towns along the great hooked cape were flooded in many Instances and people went in boats to places generally visited safely without rubbers. Some of the streets in Provincetown were under water, and it was a daring skipper who forced his ship Into the teeth of the gale which howled off the yellow headlands that mark the seaward dangers of the cape, Even fashionable Newport suffered. The storied Ocean drive was awash and badly damaged, a thing almost Incredible. From out in the deep come stories of equal s The gale blew seventy miles an hour at Block fsland and many fisher shacks now strew the beach as wreckage. The Nan- tucket lghtship weathered the storm and tide, but it was bad there, very ba And the storm itselt was a wonderful thing to see, a thing which brought the fear of God into the heart of man and made him acknowledge that the strength of nature Is Irresistible. Standing on a headland on the south shore, the wind drove the biting snow into your face so that the glittering flakes cut like knives. Through the Winding gusts glimpses of the dull gray sea could be had beyond the trembling rocks, while, with the regularity of minute guns, the combers, tossing their crests twenty feet above the waving kelp, crashed in on the coast and sent thelr scud swirling high into the alr, to be frozen and whirled away with the drifting snow. Then, as the storm above subsided the storm In the séa rose greater In lts might, the slze of the breakers Increased as they threw off the wight of the storm above, and the sea came racing in to claim its toll and to bring on its angry crest its wreckage of human flotsam. ON THE TRAIL OF THE DEFICIT. Then the tide Plans for Placing Postal Service on Paying Bas Clevelana Plain Dealer. Postmaster General Hitchcock In his an- nual report made public this morning makes one suggestion, which is novel as coming from an executive offi- cial of the government. He thinks that If the public everywhere would iend its assistance some part of the great an- nual deficit in that department might be avolded. If the patrons of the 60,000 offices scattered throughout the fation would each do his share in cutting down the cost of the service the aggregate saving would be astounding, There are too many “dummy directors” in this government corporation. Another suggestion of the postmaster general s worth notice. He would organize the thousands of local offices in districts for the better direction of the business. For !nstance a city postmaster might be given authority over the postmasters in the They would report and get authority trom he would be responsible to the cen- tral ut‘f\m at Washington. Mr. Hitchcock urges that residents in tree dellvery cities provide themselves more generally with mail boxes to relleve car- and waiting for them to be answered. This might well be made & subject for legisla- tion. Hundreds of thousands of dollars would be the resultant ving. The complaint made by the president that is causing some 64,000,000 loss each year is repeated in this report and several suggestions made to ef- a saving. Publications should be | charged a higher rate of postage, both | think. The Taft thoroughly partment, most. spirit of economy has pervaded the Postotfice de- where, perhaps it is needed The public should co-operate to give Pensions on a Wage B Boston Herald, The Rock Island road, in the establish- ment of its old age penslon system, pro- poses to place its pensions strictly on a wage basis. There will be no contribution from the employes' wages, nor will the management set aside a pension fund to provide an income for distribution. Pen- slon payments will ‘be provided from the rallroad treasury as they become due and will be charged to operating expenses each month, juet as the tegular payroll is. The pension system Is not to be considered a benevolence. It Is recognized as a proper charge on the earnings of the rallroads and 18 an acknowledgment of the theory that an industry must care for its own. They Came Acro Chicago News. There was an increase of $41,800,602 in the customs receipt of the port of New York this year, affording further evidence of how Collector Loeb has made the people Who COmIe ACTOss COme across. It was a wicked thing, a gale and | PERSONAL NOTES. Senator Depew seems quite confident that he has a stock of stories sufficlent to last through another term. Chieago grafters have found a hole inte which to crawl, the latest municipal scans dal being In relation to the tunnel, " Codfish, too, fs to rise in price. That beet critter which played leap frog with the moon set a most infectious example, “China for the Chinese,' Dr. Wu sayi is China's motto, and America 18, to blame for It. It is & poor boycott that does not work both ways, A Georgia man is the father of twenty- one children. His second wife, now % years old, is the mother of eloven children, all alive. That man and his wife would never have been lonely on a desert~sland. Captain H. H. Ellis, a ploneor of 1849 and at one time chief of police, recently died in San Francisco at the age of 80 years, Captain Ellis took an adtive part in the stirring events of the early and troublous mining days, and then Jjoined the police department as patrolman and advanced up the line of promotion until he becamo chief, the Jast head of the department to be elected by the peopl Willlam B. Norris, gneral foreman the Pennsylvania Rallroad shops at Al toona, Pa., does not agree to the recent order of the Delaware and Hudson Rail- roud company that the ideal man for work welghs 160 pounds. The short, chunky man, according to Mr. Norris, has the most endurance and he welghs from 160 to 18 pounds. No expert comes forwi to account for the endurance of the 100- pound woman, ot NINETE TEN. Thoughts on the Day and the Days to Follow. Collier's Weekly. Our future is made by purpose and by chance. Daily we pass into an undis- covered country. Daily we'try in vain to guess what that undiscovered country holds; what of allurement, what of dread. It is only in fable that men or witches look Into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow; or read the book of fate, and see the continent melt into the Shakespeare never wearied of the subject the fascination of the unknown, and how unknown indeed it is. So much does the unexpected welgh, that a wise man ca seo in definite prophecy, but little further than a fool. The advantage of wisdom is not In forecast, but living wisely now prepares for living wisely to the end: “Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.” We can not penetrate the unseen, but we can greet It with a cheer. Better than that, we can welcome It with readiness and understanding. There {s enough, at least, for Inspiration, In the saying of old Sam Johnson, that the future is purchased by the present. It is true sufficiently to make effort, hope, and falth the better course. We know the world, with all its woe, grows happler; with all its ignorance, more en- lightened; with all its error, more virtuous and just; and in this painful, slow and steady progress we know that each of us can help. One contributes policy, in- vention, knowledge; another, barred these great factors, can bring at least fortitude, Joy or abnegation. To none is denled. “That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love. THE WATER POWER TRUST. Opposition of Promoters to Plans of the President. Boston Herald. Opposition to the president's plan for the control of water-power rights on fed- eral lands will do more to convince the people that there is an actual or pros- pective water-power trust than any asser- tion or evidence that has been made pub- lie. The bill to be presented by Senator Beveridge, which has the approval of the president, is outlined as providing that title to these sites shall remain in the United States government, but that easerients for power privileges may be granted for a term of years, sufficlently’ long to prove attractive to' investment capital, and yet limited to avold perpetuity and to enable the United States to retaln a controliing power for the purpose of preventing monopoly. In substance, the bill appears to be In line with the suggestions made by Becretary Ballinger in his report, and unless it has departed radleally from those lines deserves to be approved by congress and to be copied by the legislatures of the several states to apply to their jurisdic- tions. PASSING PLEASANTRIES, “‘Dora, the mere thought of you sets my heart to throbing tumultuously!” ‘0, Geoftrey, 1 have told you a hundred times that you smoke too much!"—Chicago Tribune, “What s the motto of your nation?* ed the new comer. ‘Step lively, please, " answered . his American friend.—Buffalo Express. (%, “That chap used to be a champlon light- welght.” “What! “No. 1 A boxer?” A “grocer.”—Judge, ‘ “DId_you ever notice what Is the first thing which & man does when he gets feather in his cap?’ “What 7" “He plumes himself on American, it.""~Baltimore “What were you saying to Miss Gabby?" Not a thing, dear.” Don't be foolish. Why, you two were talking together for nearly an hou “T know that."~Cleveland Léader. Mr. Bach—I suppose, old man, you find a great many surpries in married life, eh? Mr. Younghusband—I should say so. Why, only the other day I found out that my wife Is fonder of fried onions than of ice cream.—Boston Transcript. Judge—Do you swear the whole truth? Fair Witness—It will be just perfectly lovely If you really have the time to listen. —Harper's Bazar. to tell the truth, “Do you belleve in table-tpping queried the woman advocate of spiritu sm ““Not me," replied the matter of fact man. “1 have found walter anln( more satls- factory when I'm hungry,"—Boston Herald Why do people have silver weddings, pa? ‘Just to show to the world what thelr powers of endurance have been.’—Judge. “Marla, for heaven's get in a'word edgewise! “Well, what do you want to say?"' “If you insist on our having more milk and better milk 1 may as well buy & cow— “Now, John, you Know that's not trying to get & word ‘In edgewlse. You're trying to lug It in by the horns."—Chicago Trib- une. ke please let me OPPORTUNITY, Willam D. Eddy in Atlantic Monthly, Foolish s he who, says that at his doop 1 knock but once,' & furtive moment stay, Fearing lest he shall hear, then haste away, Glad to escape him—to return no more, Not s, 1 kpock and walt, and o'er ang o'er Come back to summon him. Day aftep day 1 come to call the idler from his play, + Or wake the dreamer with my vain uproar, Out of a thousand, haply, now and then,” One, If he hear again and yet again, Wil tardy rise and open languidly. The rest, half puszled, half annoyed, re. turn play learn Wi the untimaly; ‘slonnieh - inih ey e To or slewp, nor seek nor wish te