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

OMAHA UESDAY, JA UARY 4, 1910. 'l‘m: OMAHA DAILY BEE. | FOUNDED nv EOWARD lmqr,w,\T!;R J VICTOR ROSEWATER. EDITOR. Bnteed at Omaha postoffice as second- class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Daly Bee (including Sunday), per week lbe Daily Bee (without Sunday), per week 10c Daily Bee (without Sunday), one year $4.00 Daily Bee and Sunday, one year. 6.00 DELIVERED BY CARRIER, | Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week fic Evening Bee (with Sunday), per week 10c Bunday Bee, One YeAr........... 2 Saturday Bee, one year Address all complaintu of Irreguiarities in delivery to City Circulation Department OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Buflding South Omaha—Twenty-fourth and N Counell Bluffs- Scott Street. Lincoln—518 Little Bullding. Chicago—1548 Marquette Bullding, ' New ork—HRooms 11011102 No. 34 West Thirty-third _Str Mg Washington—72 Fourteenth Street, N W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communlcations relating to news and ed- itorial matter should be addressed: Omaha Hee, Editorial Department. 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Subseribers leaving the porarily should mailed them. have Address will be n requested. changed as often Boston is planning for a corn exposi- tion next fall. Better come to Omaha’ This is the year that brings the peo- ple of the United States to their cen- sus. The term “limited” is beginning to be applied to the ability of trains to stay on the rails. The railroad presidents do not seem to have had pressure enough to side- track the Taft special message. Some of those l;e;ro congressmen in Cuba manifest a need of Bookep T. Washington leaven in their loaf. The success of the mother-in-law in the Tennessee duel may have the tragic result of reviving all the old jokes. Oh, well, if the aeroplane is to start out as a monopoly, it will have to sall against a whirlwind of popular preju- dice. The investigating senators, back from Panama, seem to think that “let well enough alone” applies to canals as well, New Yorkers are remarking the number of violent deaths in their town, without reflecting upon the violent lives led there, ¢ Now comes Brazil with ambitions to Join us in cohtrol of Latin-America. Just because they are offered, we don't have to crack any Brazil nuts, President Taft is shocking the good people of Washington by behaving just as if he were really a citizen of the United States. How dreadful! The pitiful fate that has overtaken the widow of a former Central Ameri- can president s striking proof of the vanity of man’s brief authority. Mr. Wilson finds that the farmers are making little profit on beef; the packers say they are not; so the high pricé must be a pleasant fiction, Why should the West Indies seek further for the earth tremors? Do they not know that the sage of Lin- coln is vibrating in those waters? Ak-8ar-Ben will hold its annual bus. iness meeting this week, and all loyal knights should be in attendance. No real citizen can afford to miss this ses- slon, The gentle reader need not get ex- cited over the headline “Judge Lurton Found Out.” It only signifies that the president called to see him when he wasn't in. —— The Retai] Liquor Dealers’ assocla- tion has provided death benefits for its mem®ers. But what they are most in- terested in is insurance against the ac- tivity of the opposition. The east appears somewh: turbed over the controversy v Jared Bean, the old-time Hbrarin: from Boston or elsewhere. Hi: ought to determine that. 1is- ‘ther was ‘ame Gaynor's gain seems to have beei no | millfons Lessons of the Morse Case. JLike many another offender who re- senfs the relentless gtivity of the law | against himselt, ('hnr?en W. Morse goes to prison expressing bitter resentment against the courts. In this connection |there is an old saying about “No rogue e'er felt,” which it were kinder to him- self had Morse not put himself in the atfitude of inviting the application. Two serlous lessong are to be drawn from the case of this manipulator of The first is that the law is effective, without class or financial dis- tinction. There is a tendency among some disturbing elements to accuse the law of being partial to the rich. To all such the case of Morse must hence- forth serve as a silencer, for he had unlimited means at his command, and tried every resource of the most power- ful Interests and every trickery of the shrewdest lawyers to evade the sen- tence which the government has now decreed he must undergo. The other lesson is that the man who takes the gambler's chance must ex- pect to pay the gambler's penalty when caught. Morse had access to other | people’s money, and did not hesitate to use such funds as came to his hand from any source, running the greatest risks for the sake of personal accumu- lation of vast fortune. He shamelessly violated the law, the chance went against him, and when he was caught he defied the law and exhausted every possible way of averting judgment. His fate should serve to discourage similar attempts at high finance, and also should be accepted as indicating that the principle of equality before the law lives in the administration of American jurisprudence. New Light on an O0ld Crisi America has gained something from the recent centenary of Gladstone's birth, for on that occasion there was brought to light a letter written by Gladstone in 1889 to Henry Clews, definitely establishing the attitude of England toward the United States dur- ing the civil war, a matter which has been the basis of many disputes. ‘“Allow me to assure you,” wrote Gladstone, “that so far as the cabinet is concerned, you have been entirely misled in regard to matters of fact. As a member of it, and now nearly its sole surviving member, I can state that it never at any time dealt with the subject of recognizing the southern states in your great civil war, except- ing when it learned the proposition of the Emperor Napoleon III., and de- clined to entertain that proposition, without qualification, hesitation, delay or dissent.” The proposal of Napoleon III. re- ferred to was the invasion of the south- ern states from Mexico, where his troops then were, and it has constantly been argued that the recognition of the Confederacy by both France and England would have shattéred the hopes of the north. Inasmuch as the English cabinet proceedings are an in- violate secret, such a disclosure could have come only long after the issues involved were a closed incident, but even at this late date these assurances are evidence of the attitude of Queen Victoria toward the union cause at the time of that crisis, for the Gladstone utterance may be accepted as an offi- clal announcement of the point of view of both the throne and its advisers. Canal Zone Government, One of the first measures to be con- sidered at the reopening of congress is likely to be the bill to reorganize the government of the canal zone by the elimination of the commission. The reasons for this have already been clearly stated. The canal is to be completed within five years, Colonel Goethals has demonstrated his ability to expedite the work and the president is desirous of his direct individual re- sponsibility closely co-operating with the executive, without any possibility of the Interference of red tape. There have just returned from Pan- ama, however, several senators who are reported to be a unit for maintain- ing the existing system, and despite the willingness of the congressmen who also have recently visited the zone to agree to the administration’s plan, it may be that the bill will be blocked in the senate. The people are desirous of having the canal finished, and care little whether it be accomplished by commis- sion or engineer, but this has from the beginning been a project over which the president has kept direct control, and he ought to know whether he can get the quickest and surest results from a single head or from a division of re- sponsibility. This would seem to be one case where congress can afford to let the executive choose his own proce- dure, for he is held responsible for the fulfillment which he has promised, America's Share in Surgery. After the respectful and dignified hearing given him by the surgeons of the American cities he visited to dem- cnstrate the efficiency of his method of administering stovaine, the newly exploited anaesthetic, It was decidedly ungracious of Dr. Jonnesco to fling back at this country as he was salling for Europe the criticism that our hos- pitals were deficient in appliances and our surgeons behind those of Europe. For not only have we specialists in every branch of surgery to whom Euro- loss for Murphy. The mutual admira- tion of the two is very touching, even at this distance. It 1s evident that the tiger has not lost his smile, ——————— Now that the people have got the ex- ploration execitement out of their sys- tem, they ean concentrate attention on home affairs with especially vigilant oversight of .the legislators at Wash- ington., . . pean experts refér as authorities, but in many of the greatest advances in syrgery and medicine our selentists have been the pioneers. Qr. Jonnesco evidently forgets that it was the United States that first gave enaethesia to the world, thereby rescu- ing humanity from the barbarous suf- ferings of operations, and if He had lled that it was an American who then first discovered the possibility of spinal puncture, which is the identical method used by Jonnesco In adminis- tering stovaine. This discoverer was Dr, J. Leonard Corning of New York, and from his example grew the prac- tice of spinal analgesia, which has been used as far as has been deemed neces- sary In the profession at large ever since. It was also an American, Dr. Willlam 8. Bainbridge, who first ap- plied this method of treatment to chil- dren, and because of his discoveries in this field it is estimated that the mor- tality among children in certain ail- ments has been greatly reduced, While spinal puncture is not likely ever to replace the ordinary method of applying anaesthetics, still it is of un- doubted value in cases where general anaesthesia s regarded as especlally dangerous. ready established its place a8 an alter- native, and Dr. Jonnesco should have refreshed his memory concerning America's part in this as in other de- velopments of sclentific research be- fore he indulged in his hostile criticism, Sand Hill Reforestation. In matters of conservation people are apt to overlook small things nearby in contemplation of the great that lle beyond. This, perhaps, is the excuse that will be offered for Nebraskans failing to do what reasonably could be done to conserve one of the greatly neglected resources of their own state For many years it has been known that the waste reglons generally classi- fied as the “‘sand hills" are susceptible of reforestation. In fact, the great water-shed that stretches across north- western Nebraska is known as the “Great Pine Ridge,” because of the fact it was once covered with a reason- ably heavy growth of fine timber, which has long since disappeared under the demand for tepee poles, rafters for sod houses and fuel for campfires. Sev- eral years ago the federal government began a series of illustrative experi- ments, planting young pine trees on the sand hill slopes, and these have now attained such sturdy growth as to Prove conclusively the practicability of the idea. Three years ago Mr. C. F. Harrison of York wrote The Bee a letter sug- gesting that the legislature take steps to secure control of a lapge portion of the public domain in the sand hill country and plant the same with pine trees. Mr. Harrison, who iz an arbor- iculturist of wide experience, has made | many tests and has proven that the Jack pine, or bull pine, will grow any- where in Nebraska with little or no tention, and it is particularly adapted to the sand hill region. Would it not now be a good plan for Nebraska's rep- resentatives in congress to set in mo- tion the machinery that will provide for the complete reforestation of the ddnuded sand hills in the “Pin Ridge country? Whether this be done under control of the federal government or whether the work be turned over to the state is a matter of detail. The de- sirability of the undertaking is scarcely to be argued. The death of Agnes Booth recalls to old-time theater-goers the days when the American star achieved her triumphs by hard work, earngst devo- tion to her profession and uncomplain- ing acceptance of the hardships of transcontinental journeyings with few modern comforts. Agnes Booth was famous, and her name was a household word, before the current system 'of managerial creation of a star out of every pretty girl in her 'teens was per- fected. She carried fame into other lands as well, and detracted nothing from the histrionic reputation of the remarkable family into which she mar- ried. Though an Australian by birth, she will be ranked as an American actress, dnd her place In the theatri- cal hall cf fame is secure. The World-Herald loudly proclaims its devotion to the democracy of Jeffer- son and Jackson. All right. But how about the democracy of Cleveland and Bryan? And the democracy of Alton B. Parker and Bryan? Of course the democracy of “Big Tim' and “Lit- tle Tim,” “Fingy,” and “Hinky Dink," | Bathhouse John" and other emi- | and nent democrats is still good endugh for the World-Herald. These are ‘‘the servants of the people.” The nonpartisan aspect of the Shal- lenberger administration receives most excellent illustration in the efforts the governor is making to divorce the Nor- mal board from politics, as he can get rid of the present mem- bers and replace them with his own appointees the board will be non- partisan, according to standards. There has been too much of a ten-| dency of late for English notables to write memoirs exposing the follies and frailties of their friends, and the sur-| feited world owes a vote of thanks to Sir George Henry Lewis, the famous solicitor, known as the “Keeper of Eng- lish Soclety’'s Skeletons,” for his prom- ise to keep the corruption of the bones entombed. The Omaha and South Omaha live stock men are making their annual swing through the west keeping alive the bond of community between the great market and the producers. These trips are always worth as much as they cost. A jump of more than 160 per cent in value of Nebraska farm products in a year ought to stop some of the clatter about the injustice worked to the farmers by the Increased cost of living. barked back to 1885 he would have re- | No one will begrudge them their pros- Just as soon | democratic | The spinal method has al- |, | | | | perity, but they should not be misled by the biased statements of disgruntied politiclans. Their prosperity has come to them under republican administra- tion, and as a result of the enforcement of republican policies. —_— The decision of the government to maintain both a Pacific and an Asiatic fleet indicates a realization of the per- manency of our interests in the far east and an intention of being eter- nally vigilant in looking after those in- terests with a preparedness that shall inspire a respectful consideration from other fortes. Two Ways of Doing. Wall Street Journal Pinchot says it is the duty of offi- clals to “do for the people all the law will allow.” Many others entertain the same idea with the exception of the word “or.!" Mr. Moral Effect of Roast. Philadelphia Record. The people who so suddenly burnt their fingers in the Rock Island affair, are probably not so enthusiastic as formerly in regard to the virtues of stock specu- lation, Congressional Raw Materials, Loulsville Courler-Journal. Postmaster General Hitchcock may carry out his announced intention to prevent cows from being franked, but neither the angels in heaven, nor the demons down under the sea, can prevent raw recruits in congress from franking their bulls back to the district in the congressional record. Memory Well T Philadelphia Ledger Willlam Nelson Cromwell has been, sued as the outgrowth of an afair dating back more than twenty years, and will be asked to tell all he knows about it. It will be recalled that the gentleman was requested to tell all he could about the Panama deal, a comparatively receht eplsode, and couldn’t remember a thing worth mention- ing. ed. Chance for a Verbal Duel, Indianapolls News. Any way, Mr. Pinchot ta’ks well when he goes to telling of the fight he has waged against the land thieves and water thieves that were robbing Uncle Sam When that joint committee of investiga- tion gets to going, it might be not only rare sport but a means of public illumina- tion'to arrange a verbal duel between Mr. Balllnger and Mr. Pinchot. The Better Way. New York Sun, The intervention of the United States in Nicaragua to feed the destitute and bind up the wounds of combatants is com- mended, we have no doubt, even by the anti-imperiajists. It is satisfactory to know that the Prairle, having reached Colon, is to engage In a mission of mercy more congenial to it than carrylng wa riors to a field of slaughter. Privilege on the Kick. Sloux City Tribune, The corporation privilege tax contested In the ccurts. Some lawyers be- lieve it s ‘‘unconstitutional”” They are encouraged by the Vandewenter decision in Nebraska and the Pollock decision in Kansas that the deposit guaranty laws of those states run up against that venerable fortress of privilegd. Incorporation, being a privilege, It naturally objects to being burdened with a tax. is to be Lifting the Packers' Boston Herald. The Attorney-General of Kansas will institute suit in the courts of that state against Kansas City packers for violation of the state anti-trust statute in fixing and maintaining prices on meats and kin- dred products. Under this statute the state may become custodian of the packing houses as a receiver if it wins its case. This is a beginning of the battle which the people will make for their right to fair prices. It Is. the beginning of a battle against arbitrary and artificial charges for the necessities of life, the present day skirmishing of which will culminate in a battle more important than that which was waged against railroad rebates or even against the Standard Oil corpora- tion. The fighting will not end until right is established. Lia. A LIFE SAVING LAW. Good Accomplished by Uniform Car- Coupling Devices. Pittsburg Dispatch, Striking evidence of the efficlency and fmportance of the safety appliance law en- acted by congress is afforded in the an- nual report of the Interstate Commerce commission, published this week. The fig- ures tell the story more succinctly and at the same time more conclusively than could be done In any other way. In 193, before there was any legal com- pulsion in the matter, one man out of every 39 engaged in coupling and un- coupling cars was killed; in 1908, under the enforcement of the law, after many de- lays, only one man was killed out of 93. In other words the fatalities from this cause were reduced to one-third of their former volume. In injuries the rate was one man in thirteen in 1%3, and one in sixty-two in 1908, the casualties under the law being little more than one-fifth of those before it was enforced. This statistical showing of two out of three lives saved, and four out of five in- | Juries avolded, is a striking vindication of | the wisdom of the law and the benefit of its enforcement. It also reacts with some severity on those eminent exponents of railroad management who first opposed the law, and after it was enacted secured the postponement of its enforcement on the plep of practical difficulties, for years after it had been placed on the statute book. llv 1s hardly possible to avold reflections on | the moral responsibility for a large share of the lives and limbs sacrificed while the law was in force hut net enforced. Our Birthday Book | January 4, 1910, David W, of Kansas, January 4, Omaha for Mulvane, lawyer and politician was born at Princeton, IIl., 1863. Mr. Mulvane came to a wife, formerly Miss Minnie | McKenna, and is a frequent visitor here. W. A. DeBord, attorney ship of Baldrige & DeBora, is 45 years oid He halls from Oskaloosa, la., and Is a high-up Mason as well as a leader In Christian church circles. Mr. DeBord began studying law with Judge Sedgwick at York Charles H. Gratton was born In Syracuse, N. Y., Janvary 4, 189, He Is in the mer- chandise storage business and used to be a member of the Omaha school board Charles Wilmot Kennedy of the army, stationed at headguarters, Department of the Missourl, Is 61 years of age and has been an officer in the army since 1553, He 1s stlll' active at his profession. Fred L. Smith, one of Omaha's colored lawyers, is 4 today. He was born In Springfield, I, and graduated from the law department of Wilberforce university in the partner- | and taking a pen from his pocket, | 000,000 tor | 000 for potatoes, and $100,000,000 for tobacco Around New York Ripples on the Ourrent of Xife a8 Seen in the Great Amerioan Metropolls from Day to Day. The transfer of the business of the Amer- lean Bankers' association from the Pinker- Petective organiza- tlon under the management of Wil'lam J Burns, recently assoclated with the graft prosecutions in San Francisco, brings out an explanatory circular from the Pinker- tons. According to the circular the busi- ness of the bankers went to the new con- cern because the Pinkertons would not sign up a contract on the terms made fifteen years ago. At that time there wers 1,700 members in the Bankers' as-- soclation. Now the membership numbers 11000, and the business from that source was 1 per cent of the total Pinkerton busi- ness. Referring to the agency’'s work In running down bankrobbers a showing Is made of 9! arrests, 818 convictions, elghty-four releases and forty-two await- Ing trial. In fifteen years there were but 194 burglaries or attempted burglaries of banks, members of the association, netting the oriminals $147,065, as against 1,062 burg- ‘aries of non members, netting the crim- Inals $1,46s, ton agency to a new On Broadway one cold night recently a prosperous merchant was ' diffidently costed by a shivering young man who wore no overcoat, needed a shave, and in general bore the exterior of the commoner mendicants. “Please allow me just one the young man, nervously. of several dolars"- ““There is no noveity in that,” suggested the merchant, interrupting him brutally “But why should I, a total stranger, pa: of several dollars— "I meant to ask you for a dime, and I can glve you the best of reasons for paying it. | I have inherited a patent chemical fc |||x||.|; for a simple preparation which will prevent any window glass or spectacle lens from being frosted by warm or cold alr. With 10 cents 1 can buy enough ingredients to make a quantity, and before morning 1 can sell it all right here on Broadway. | You need it yourself.” | “Whaut will you take for a half interest | in that business?” demanded the merchant | sudden’y. “One thousand dollars, sir.” ““Then let us telk is over.” Together they adjourned to a neighboring | restaurant, and within one hour agreed | on every essentlal of an ambitious partner- ship contract. Within another week thg young man was himselt a flourishing merchant. So goes New York, a0~ word,” began “I am In need Annle Berman, a red-cheeked 17-year-old girl, who has been on picket duty for the striking shirtwaist makers, was ar- raigned In the Tombs court on two charges, one attempting to assault another young woman and with interfering with a cop. “Why, you use paint!” the maglistrate exclaimed, when he saw her ruddy cheeks. “Isn't your face painted? Officer, see if her face isn't painted.” The policeman on the bridge extended a finger toward the girl's face, but she drew back. “No, my face isn't painted,” she snap- ped. “And, besides, I'll feel my own face.” The policeman didn't essay further con- tact. “Well,”" said the magistrate, a remarkable complexion. It most too good to be real. Several witnesses/ Including Policeman Depper, testitied that Annie had behaved very badly. They sald she had an awful temper; that she tried to spit at one girl, “made a dash”’ for another, insisted that the policeman was a “bum’ and demanded that he arrest her if he dared, Annie, on the other hand, said she was provoked because the proprietor of the place had called names and told her she was a “dirty striker and without anything to eat.” The girl was Indignant over the mag- {strate's notice, of her complexion. She sald she thought it a piece of ‘“‘chutzpeh,” which, Interpreted, means nerve. “you have looks al- Arrangements have been completed for a pleturesque birthday party to be given early this week in he historic old Jumel mansion on Washington Heights, where | Washington had his headquarters in the revolutionary campalgn in this vieinity, | The hostess will be Mrs. Kady C. Brown- ell, the custodian of the mansion, and the occasion will be her sixty-seventh birth- day. Mrs. Brownell has the distinction of being the only regular enlisted woman soldier the United States ever recognized. She joined the Rifle Guards of Providence, R. I, by permission of Governor Sprague when ‘her husband went to the front in 1861, She and her husband were under fire at Harper's Ferry and Bull Run. In the latter conflict Mrs. Brownell was seriously wounded. In the customers’ room of a large brok- | erage concern in the Wall street district, | reports the Tribune, a wag posted this sign on Monday: “Yes, we know all about the | great blizzard. It wae much worse than yesterday's. We were all in it and forgot It. Tell your story to the elevator man.” The sign had been put up after three men, disregarding the spectacular fluctations on the tape, had told long storles. When the day's business was over a departing custo- mer stopped In front of the little notice added ““There are blizzards in which snow und‘ wind are lesser factors than nerve. Rack | Island, December 27, 1909."" FARMERS' FAIRY STORY. How Crop Statistics Look In a New Frame. Leslie's Weekly, At current prices wheat will bring to t farmer for the year $725,000,000, with $65, hay, $400,000.000 for oats, $212,00,- These stupendous figures cannot e grasped by the ordinary intelligence. While the gold production of the year was the greatest in all the country’s history, it fell a few millions short of the value of tho tobacco crop, and was Immeasurably ex cecded by that of the wheat, cotton and | corn crops. The production of all the c-r- | eals combined was greater In quantity f 1909 than for any preceding year except| 1906, which broke several records in the| bulk of the output. The higher prices now, however, glve the farmer much money for his work in 1%9 than tained In 196 or any other year. The aggregate value of the country's farm products for 19% would go muct more than half way toward buying out the entire railway system of the country with the accumulations of property of all sorts which have been gathered through the years. The money which goes into the farmers' pockets for thelr labors for the twelye months amounts to a fourteenth of the value of all the country's property, real and personal; and the wealth of the United States, it must be remembered equals that of our two nearest rivals com- bined—Great Britain and Germany. The falry tales contaln no greater marvels than the story of the yleld of the coun- try's farms tells us, and the latter has the more he ob |account book in which the actual profits {tary's report | tlege. showed that this bank 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 In This Bank, Which Has Over $12,000, The published statament of November 18, '09, had outstanding terest bearing certificates totalling $1,984,210, 000 of Assets. in- irst National Bankof Omaha PROFITS OF FARMERS, Proposed Investigation Goes Agninst Obutaclen. New York Sun, In investigating the high prices of food stuffs, Secretary Wilson will have difficulty in learning what spend on thelr crops and what they sell thefr products for. Few farmers keep an of even be indicated some their industry would General averages are hardly to be re garded as a sultable basis for such an Inyvestigation. Undoubtedly the great ma- |Jority of farmers are men of limited means and small income. They share that con- dition with the great majority of people the world over. The Industry shows few If any millionaires, whose million has been made on the farm, but it is doubtful if any other branch of human activity will show a larger percentage of people, who are at least in comfortable circumstances, Regarding the farmers collectively, we already have Mr. Wilson's testimony that they are prospering. The total value of American farm products last year is re- ported by him as §5,760,000,00, an Increase of 40 per cent In only five years. He does not gay whether this is farm value or market value, but farm value is implied He points exultingly to eleven years of production with total products valued at not less than $70,000,000,000. This, he says. “*has paid off mortgages, established banks, made better homes, helped to make the farmer a cltizen of the world, and pro- vided him with’ means for Improving hi s0il and making it more productive.” Thi declaration seems to warrant a bellef tha some of the consumers' money at least gets past the middiman and into the hands of the farmers. Whether this uplift Is effected by an unreasonable draft on the pockets of the farmer's fellow citizens may or may not be clearly revealed by the re- port of the investigators. In his last report Mr. Wilson says that the total cereal crop of the United States for 1909 exceeds the flve year average by 65 per cent, and that the farm value of that total exceeds the five year aver- age by 34 per cent. The farmers may not get all of the increase, but the secre- indicates that a falr share of it at least goes to the producers. PIFFLE FROM A JURIST. Conditions Are Not as Yellow as They Are Painted. Minneapolis Journal, A New York supreme court justice walls that “the age of patriotism has ylelded to the age of commercialism,” and that *up- permost in the human mind today is not the Stars and Stripes, but the dollar mark.” We don’t believe it. The dintinguished Jurlst must have eaten too much Christ mas dinner, The baseless superstition that commerce Is a selfish thing and trade utterly without bowels and sentiment is a survival from the feudallsm that despised any pursult save murder and every profit save priv- The truth ls that all national pat- riotisms today rest upon the need of com- merce and industry for organized order, law and security, and those countri whose national power and good are upheld by the commerclal and Industrial classcs, are exactly the ones whose citizens ex- hibit most national patriotism. Napoleon called England a nation of shopkeepers, but the patriotism of the shopkeepers in the course of thirteen years of war wore the Corsican down. The South despised the Yankees as devoted to the almightly dollar, but the South was conquered by the sacrifices of blood and treasure the Yankees made. Feudalism, chivalry and that sort of thing kept Ger- | many disrupted and Japan a collection of warring tribes. National patriotism s a quality of modern Germany and modern | Japan. Right here in Amerlca at this present hour s more sense of clvic responsibility, of patriotic devotion, of public ideality than ever enamated the rank and file of arly numerous people. We need them afi, in order to deal with the evils that afflict us, but we are not corrupt to the core or blind worshipers of Mammon—not by a the farmers | {out of Copenhagen the other day PERSONAL NOTES, A Brooklyn man has taken name is tamily named Hersh out a marrlage license. a household favorite that keeps a dog. Texas refuses to accept Mr, Taft's pro- nunciamento on the contents of the bottle, 1l fares the state, to hastening ills a prey, Where whisky {sn't what the labe's say. For wearing a hat three feet in diameter, a New York girl was laughed and hooted Those about the finest Barkin That in every Danes appear umpires ever. Joseph Chamberlain's election address the Britisher's show how completely he hus come to bellieve that under protective tariff the foreigner pays the tax. Has he never heard of the ultimate consumer, who has at last been discovered Inf America? After March 1, 1910, soda |fountains in Ilinols must be placarded so that custo- mers may know the Ingredients of the mixture which are sold over the counter. An order to this effect was issued yester- day by the Illinols state food commissioner because benzoate of soda and artificlal coloring matter are contained in the fruits and sirups used at some soda fountains. That was a fine tribute that President Taft pald to Governor Hughes of New York, at the recent annual dinner of the New Haven Chamber of Commerce when he sald: “It is & source of regret that I cannot meet on this platform tonight that distinguished American, the governor of New York state, whose interest In politics is to purify it. He touches nothing that he does not adorn.” YOUNG YEAR SMILES. “1 thought you told me these lots would double in value in two years, and here's a man offering me exactly what I gave for them.” ‘‘Yes; but you forgot you gave twice as much as they were worth.''—Jud to make “Well, Henry, nelghbors " “Not at all. daren’t move, they're saying. how do you like your t 1 what They're s0 quiet th mamma can't hear —Bon Vivant. He was an old darky. He woreno over- coat and the icy wind twisted his thread- bare clothes about his shriveled body. “Wind,” he demanded, - whimsical har wuz you dis time las' July Everybody's Magazine. . “That speaker tries to be accurate.” “Yes," answered Senator Sorghum. “He really 'overexerts himself. 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The butcher, and The baker, too, I'm going to thank Before I'm through; Three brewerf The drug store man, To thank them all Is now my plan. Four printers there Are in the list, Not one of them Must now he missed; 1 thank you all Kind gentlomen, For calendars great deal, Why Buy HERE'S WHY. of money, spent for any buy more soap. through. advantage of belng based on solld and at Xenla, O, tangible fact. Lenox will buy more real scap than the IT WILL DO AS GOOD WORH & soap, no matter what its price. For 1910, Joap? A dollar spent for Lenox Soap, me amount other brand. IT MAY NOT buy more bars of soap, but it will AND THE SOAP will be better. IT WILL BE OF GOOD QUALITY, all the wa: ny laundry It will do far better worlt then any of the cheap soaps THESE ARE REASONS—good r: should buy Lenox Soap. Lenox Soap-Just fits the hand ons—why you