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THE OMAHA Dany Bee FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER., BDITOR. Shabes 3 e S Eatered a Otmalis »-(om.. as second- QII. matter. Bty 'u:mu OF SUBSCRIPTION. Ine! Aunday), -I|y n»s fwmmu( D\mduy).l gor ly Bee (withou) Iy Dee and Sundag; ons year.. DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Evmtnl Bee (withous l-nny). oo we-k e vening Bes (with ek 160 OFFICES, Omaha—The Bee Building, Houth Omaha—Twenty-fourth and N. Counail "Blutte—15 Beot Streets coln—518 _Little Bullding. Chicago-—164 Merquette Bullfllnl ork—Rooms 1101-1102° No. Thirty- -third Streel Washington—72% %‘mvrlr’mn Street, N W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and ed- ftorial matter sheuld be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. g + REMITTANCES, e it by Araft, express or postal order avadle to The ee Publishing Company nly 2-cont ntamps recelved in payment of mafl accounts. Pervonsl checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. STATEMENT ‘OF CIRCULATION. State u' Nebrun. Douglas County, es.: Geors s treasurer of Tl Bre Puhlluhlnl being _duly sworn, says that th mun{ number of full and complete coples of of The Dally, Morn- lnl Fvening .nrm;.::- rinted dur- "f the month 90), was as 41,800 42,530 Returned coples..,..,. Nst Total. Daily Average GEORGE B! TZHCHULK. Treasurer, Preseiice and rworn to s lln u‘»ol Lecember, 1909, » WALKGH, Neur) Pubile. Bubscribad before me thi [t —— bacribors leaving the elty teme porarily should have The Bee mailed to them, Address will be changed 1t looks as it thls meat boycott would be nuts for the hen fruit. Another prosperity straw—a Fre- mout man swindled out of $3,000 ot real money. —— Bdgar Howard fs uhoutinz for an extra session of the legislature. That ought lo settle 1t . lnuldenully and ' unintenttonally President Taft has given Senator Till- man anpther boost as a chautaugqua loeturer, The Omahn Ministerial unioltu fig- uring on a “go-to-church'l eiknpaign. Get up an attractive proirhn and ad- vertise lt in The Bée. - Qovemor Shallenberger should soon relleve .the tehsion by letting us all know whether he is goldg to call the legislature in special session or not. The sudden popularity of the gyro- scope will hardly displace the pegtop when the first warm days come and there is visible enough mud to scratch a ring. —— The Eitfé] tower,” which again fig- ures in the news, used to be one of the wonders of the world, but it has been outclasied more than once by the new lluerlyqr} ~ Deux Willlams of the University of Miseouri School of Journallsm lauds Moses as the Q;lt great editor. - Well, he never bad to'handle the congres- slonal: repotts. B — It is to be hoped no serious results will attend the wounding of Tom Tag- gart. 'While not & good marksmah, he Is always a llvoly Addlunn to the po- litical hunting partiés Inventor Edison is sald to be solving the problem of the high price of living by a scheme to eliminate some of the middle men. Good. But how is this to help feed the mouths of those who are thus d_l-puoed A Berlin actress of unfamiliar name to Americans has beaten up her critics with ber ‘ists, which goes to show that ‘press agent arts are universal. Also, it may be she is training for a United States tour. That Pittsburg opinion that the real cause Jof high prices 1s whisky makes one wonder if in defining that com- modity Mr, Taft did not overlook the opporfunity to apply General Sher- man' kdlflnltlan of war, Advices from Washington, which seem to emanate from authoritative sources, are to the effect that a law providing for the establishment of postal savings banks will be enacted by the present congress, and probably be among the first measures of the legls- lative program recommended by Presi- : dent Taft to be put through. There is no question but that postal savings banke are earnestly demanded by the people, although, of course, cer- tain Interests are for one reason and another opposed. The chief opposition seems to come from two sections, namely, the national and state banks who look with disfavor upon savings | banks in general, and some of the big | savings banks who fear that postal vings accounts may reduce the volume of their deposits, Some other opposition is also encountered from those who object to any extension of government functions and regard the addition of the savings bank to the Postoffice department as an unwar- ranted interference of government in private business. All these arguments have been thrashed out year after year, while public sentiment favoring the Dostal savings bank proposition has steadily grown, until to meet it a promise of this legislation was incorporated in the platforms’ on which the presidential candidates of both great political parties were nominated the last time. To be sure, the democratic platform suggests postal savings banks only as a last resort after deposit guaranty shall have failed, but with such a plank in their piatform it will be awkward for the democrats to oppose a postal savings bank bill simply becduse it is part of the program of a upubllcan administration. During tife campaign and since his incumbency of the presi- dential office, Mr. Taft has openly and repeatedly endorsed a postal savings bank project, and the bill, when finally formulated, is sure to have the power- ful influence of administration backing which should Insure its emergence from congr in a satisfactery form. Postage on” Magazines. While most of the magazines are entering vigorous protest against that part of the president’s message blam- ing a large part of the postal deficit to the loss incurred by carrying maga- zines through the maills at less than cost, the New York Herald has been sounding publishers of newspapers and periodicals all over the country for views: on this subjéct. The responses naturally disclose a. wide variety of opinions, some endorsing the particular passage in the president's message and others contending that the deficit could be easily wiped out by abolishing the franking privilege or cutting down the compensation of the railroads in their mail carrying contracts. The response Qlflo"by the editor of The Bee # printed in the Herald is as lollowl' The tendency everywhera in/ postoff! development has been for athe to 8o d§ instead of up, and the only question I 18 whether the present classification mall matter is properly adjusted. 1 am prepared to say that magazines should the same rates as do newspapers, or sh pay more than they mow do, as do boghs. I think the subject should be referred to a commission, on which theére should be a representation of ‘practical newspaper and periodical publishers, In addition to repre- sentatiyes of the Postoffice department and of the two houses of congréss. It ® bardly necessary for 'us to re- inforce further what is here said. The management of the Postoffice depart- ment and the maintenance of the equi- librium betwgen its income and outgo is or should be solely a matter of busi- ness, It the [Postoffice department were run by a private corporation on customary business principles, the rates and classifications would be adjusted to the service according to definftely certified facts. The ques- tlon of magazine postage is- one of classification and must eventually be treated on this basis, the Brutal Truth. The fight todsy 1s not a mere fight over & czar in the house or & boss in the sendte, or this policy and that. To fight to the end for the democratic principle requires men who are real democrats—democrats through and through. The fight can never be won under the leadership of men, how- ever honest, who are tainted with the es- sential fallacies on which the republican perty is bullded.—World-Herald. Again the brutal truth. So-called insurgent republicans are herewith given a second notl from the local democratic organ, which pro- fesses to speak by the card for the Bryan end of the democrdtic party, that no matter how far they may go in antagonising President Taft, or oppos- ing his legislative program, they need expect mothing from the democratic side, because only ‘“through and through democrats” are entitled to leadership in the assault on the repub- lican ramparts. According to the ’ ——— Just Dbecanse the last and worst wrecK has oceurred on a Canadian rail- road ‘H still no . reason why efforts should, be relaxed to make travel safer on raliroads in this country, whose aceldent record beats the world. W At pt— lnq:é Willlam must be getting some gatistaction out of merely wateh- ing the yy-h pariiamentary elections and ‘that his British cousins can - vork themselves up into a fury over Qluthnc that does not bear the I:;‘ @ Herald’s belated pre- MM agatnst the proposed extra m of the Wi on, where its con- -Cllhl« a8 M confabbing with Qo Shallenberger? there will'be ure inspired by a extra sesslon, whether & mijority of ‘fHe’ democratic members of ther. ldgislature. petition to be put World-Herald, insurgent republican howgver honest and sincere, must al- ways occupy the rear seats, while blown-in-the-bottle democrats enjoy the privileges of the front row. It Is becoming plainer and plainer that whatever differences may exist within the republican party they are not to be settled merely by turning the government over to democratic control. The republican party is builded upon long-established and oft-vindicat truths, while the democratie party still clings to cerfain discredited and oft- ’I’H’F BEE: trick by which the democrats hope to use the Insurgents to annul the com- mission which was voted to President Taft and the republican party to administer the government and strengthen the republican policies inaugurated by MecKinley and Roose- velt, Score One for the Lawyers, Score one for the lawyers who have made a committee report to the New York State Bar assoclation going to the very core of the evils at the bottom of such cases as the Thaw case. It goes without saying that the prevailing notion everywhere is that were it not for his plethora of money and the strings pulled by his wealthy relatives, Harry Thaw would have met the fate of the ordinary murderer. Instead, however, the employment of successful lawyers commanding big fees and the purchase of expert testimony have en- abled the culprit, by establishing a plea of insanity, to escape the usual penalty and have himself sent to the insane asylum instead of to a cell in mur- derer’s row. The next step was to prove that his sanity had been regained in order to secure release from the Insane asylum, and in these efforts again the power of money to hire cun- ning lawyers and buy experts to testify precisely opposite to what their evi- dence had previously been has almost succeeded in accomplishing the object. The bar committee report, to which we have referred to, reviews this situa- tion and ealls attention to the fact that as the law of New York now stands freedom for Thaw walits only upon the discovery of a judge who will grant the desired writ of habeas corpus. “Among the numerous judges of the supreme court of this state,” continues the re- port, “the chances are there is one whose head is not able to control his heart, and the only problem in_this murderer’s quest for freedom is to dis- cover who that particular judge is. There may be a number of proceed- ings, but he will at last™be found, and then upon a petition to him, presented by a counsel persona grata, and backed up by the testimony of medical experts whose favorable opinions can be bought for cash, the path to freedom will be cleared. It is a mere question of time and money when this particular mur- derer will be set free to direct his homicidal inclinations against some other citizen. And everything ddne according to the forms of law.” The committee recommends that the habeas corpus law be amended so that real criminals of this kind who escape on the plea of insanity cannot so easily. secure liberation. We do not know whether such a performance as has been enacted in the Thaw case could take place in Nebraska as our laws now stand, but our criminal statutes should be carefully and ecritically examined by those who are competent to judge, and 'ff such loopholes- exist they should be plugged up before some one takes advantage of them. Fragmentary news reports of speeches sometimes overlook the full significance, of important utterances, and'it is not surprising to find, from a fuller reading of an address by Presi- dent Schurman of Cornell, that his at- titude toward languages in universities has not been fully understood. The modern languages he holds to be in- ferlor to Greek or Latin, when consid- ered simply as linguistic drill, but he explains that ‘it seems to me that the best hope of the modern languages is to be based on their eflielency as in- struments of liberal culture.” He adds that the boy who can read with facility German or Italian has a litera- ture revealed to him quite as fine as the Latin and tiot much inferior to the Greek. In this light President Schur- man does not appear at all the foe of has faith in the value of linguistic ac- complishment for whoever fully mas- ters a tongue and properly applies it. This talk about a net savihg to the taxpayers by the abolition of the office of county comptroller is a nice plece of word-juggling. The original design of the law-makers who created. this office was to merge with it the -office of city comptroller and have one independent auditing department for both eity and county governments. Had this plan been pursued instead of being nullified by the late demoeratic legislature our taxpayers would have been thousands of dollars to the good, the work would have been more effectively performed and no little duplication of machinery between city and county avolded. The saving by abolishing the office of county comptroller would have been more than offset by the saving through merger of the office of city comptroller. The merger scheme ought yet to be put through as a practical business proposi- tion. Ex-Governor Larrgbee of Iowa de- clares that it would not be strange if the democrats controlled , the next house of representatives. During the last campaign Willlam Jennings Bryan insisted that it would not be strange if the democrats controlled the present house of representatives. Any man objecting to his wife's gadding about may now expect to have flaunted in his face the decree disproved fallacies. It is good political tactics for the demoerats to do all they can to spiit the different elements of the republicans away from one another of the feminine professor of house- hold administration at the University of Chicago, towit, that woman is not to stay at home except at such times as she wishes, 50 that,they may bave an easier fight | against & divided opposition. But the people who have steadfastly proclaimed a preferuce for republican principles as agalnst democratic fallacies are, in our judgment, not to be so easily fooled, They- will see through the The story about the Pacific Express making way on the Union Pacific for the American Express does not sound very convincing so long as it is known that two-fifths of the stock certificates of the Pacific Express are reposing languages, and it is manifest that he h OMAHA MON DAY comfortably in the treasury of the Union Pacifie. Referring to what it calls ““Aldrich- fsm and Cannonism,” Mr. Bryan's Com- of these mighty evile has fallen upon some who claim to be democrats, as well as on some who clalm to be re- publicans.” Who would have thought it? Officers of the Postal Telegraph company vehemently deny that it is in the big telegraph combine. Senders of telegraph messages observe, however, that the rate charged by the Postal is still in each case identical with the rate charged by the Western Union, — The Lincoln Star likens the insur- gent movement, which it and its triends have started at Lincoln, to tHe smallpox. Most people, however, would prefer to avoid the smallpox, or at any rate not to go more than haif way to meet it. —_— The newly appointed chief forester is committed to earry out the Roosevelt conservation policy along the same Iines as his immediate predecessor. But it, is no part of that policy to write letters to be read on the floor of the senate. . sMerciless Massachusetts! Its new law provides jail sentences for reckless and drunken chaufteurs, also for those too youthful or incompetent. What an Invasion of the rights commonly tolerated in all growing communities! Justice and Crooked Bankers. 8t. Louls Globe-Democrat. Thirty bankeg convicted of crime in conneetion ‘with thelr business are in the Leavenworth prison. The men higher up in the financial world who have offended the laws have not escaped the penalty to the extent they expected. i ' ey — Can Roosevelt Refuse? ‘Washington Herald. Prof. Jack Johnson advances a stirring plea for Mr. Roosevelt as referes of Prof. Johnson's forthcoming argument with Prof. Jeffries. An acceptance would involve an immense sharp revision upward of moving pleture concessions and things. A Polite Reminder, Washington Herald. Japan is credited with a determination to Intimate to the United States that rail- way buflding in Manchuria Is none of “Un- clo Sam's” particular business. This, more- over, will tend. to confirm a suspicion more or less rampant ln the minds of not a few Americans, 3 — e Premature Plea of Innocence, Baltimore American. The sugar trust {ssued a statement that no executive officer or director of the com- pany had any knowledge of the frauds committeed against the government. The secretary of the company, who signed this statement, is noW under indictment in the case. Evidently, the Anawas elub retired from active businéss too soon. Long-Distance Holdup. Bostdn, Trafgoript, i The attempt of the government of Greece to coll w{‘a $12 a year on every Greok t of this country Is at once 80 prepouleroun that the protests coming thuro i sands of them are not surpris- ing. hreat to bar ail those who refuse trom remrnlnj‘lo thelr country s little short of barbarity. It is an attempt that cannot be enforced. If those who refuse to pay are to be thus penalized, their remedy 18 to beeome American citizens, when pass- ports could hardly be refused them with- out our government asking why: That Extra Sewsion. Washington Star. This prophet enjoys honor In his own country. To. meet the wishes of Mr. Bryan, the governor of Nebraska, who 1s his friend and follower, will call the legislature together in extra session to pass upon the proposition of the initiative and referen- Aum. The proposition Is described by many democrats and republicans as populistic, but it Is no more 5o than other propositions for which Mr. Bryan stands. Besides, as there are sevénteen kinds of democrats, and an increasing varfdty of republicans, what 18 & little popullsm among those groping for the light and right? LITERARY PURE FOOD LABEL, Suggestion . for Library Ma Worth Consideration. Boston Transoript. Ally who use llbrarles arg familiar with the lex expurgatorius and the ‘‘three- starred book" kept in the inferno of the public library. It is recognized that Mbra. ries must exercise some sore of a censor- ship over the bogki which are permitted to €0 into the ‘hands of readers. Literary poison must be Jabelied. Now 'comes the suggestion from the ple- turesque Charles ¥, Lummis of .the Los Angeles publie library that lbrarians should go even further. He has been sound- Ing sentiment all over the country and has found that whide they nearly all agree with him, mo-ene I8 dolng what he proposes ;~that there whould be & literary pure food law for readers.af other than works of fic- tion. The reader should be protected against what may properly be denominated ‘‘pto- maine history.” Every librarian recognizes some responsibility, and kmows that many historical works are full of errors. It is |also known that the average reader takes for gospel what he finds in-a reference book, and consults neither the librarian nor other authorities. Every library should possess Prescott's “Conquest of Mexico” and “Conquest of Peru,’’ even though they should be read for thelr charm, rather than for rellable Information about the civiliza- tions of “lost races.” Anybody who has read the works of Lewis H. Morgan or A. F. Bahdelier knows that Prescott's pleture is as misleading as it i fascinating. Jn- stances of a similar character might' be multiplied. The position taken by Mr. Lummis is that libraries are not merely conservers and distributers of books, but educators, and that education is the dissemination of truth. And it is part of the duty of the library to wean its readers from the slavish superstition of the infallibility of type. The safe way is to warn the reader that the printed book of information is not intallible, The librarian to whom the reader comes will tell him where the other side of the question may be found, where he may de- rive later Or more rellable Information, what is the vigw generally accepted by orities, or what other books treat the sub- Ject in & different light. The trouble is that the average reader does not consult the librarian. He takes the book and after reading It returns it with the convietion that it s the law and the gospel. The remedy proposed is worthy of con- sideration. Let the book itself tell the reader these things by a series of labels. JANUARY moner declares, that “the foul blight | ' solution to this mystery. 24, 1910, Washington Life _Some Interesting Phases and Conditions Observed at the Nation’s Oapitol. Bundry excuses are given to allay the pain experfenced in Washington over the | actlon of the house of representatives In recommitting the favorable report on ohanging the date of presidential inaugura- tions. In many quarters the action ls re- garded as shelving the proposition for the session. That's what hurts cerpmonial Washington. Another explanation carry- ing much hope for the town shows up the house judiclary committee in an amusing light. The committee consists of elghtesn members, most of whom are heavywelght constitutional lawyers. The draft of the provision changing the date was agreed to unanimously, yet when the house tackled it several rude laymen, unversed in tho “selerice of law,” presented a number of situations which the draft dld not cover. Therefore it was deemed prudent to give the ton and a half of constitullonal law- yers time to assimilate and incorporate the ldeas of the non-professionals, “I am just down here running a hash mill for lnnocent people,” was the re- sponse of Howard Baton, one of the pro- prietors of Eaton's ranch at Wolf, Wyo., to a Washington Post reporter. Eaton ls a typical cowboy and plainsman. He is a fitting example of the strenuous life ad- vocated by former President Roosevelt. The latter and Eaton were ranchmen to- gether in North Dakota many years ago and the two became close friends. T am here visiting people “and riding. grub line. I'm gettin' so fat that none of my clothes will fit me, except my um- brella, and I'm getting three new ribs put in that to prepare for Washington soclety. President Taft? No, I have not been to see him. He never was a cowpuncher. What do I thiok about Pinchot? I am not up on the fine points of law, but we peo- ple from the west believe that Pinchot knows more about conservation and trees than any other man alive.” In fact, he knows these questions much better than I do the way into the nearest side door.” Mr. Eaton has been following with deepest Interest the reports from Africa, tolling of the wonderful success of the ‘former president as a nimrod. “Teddy Is the best shot for & near- sighted man I have ever seen./ Without his glasses, however, he could not distinguish the Bible from a cocktall, and would be very liable to pick the wrong one, but with the ald of nis binoculars he can pull down anything from & mosquito to a bear, If it happens to come within his range.” Mr. Eaton brought down from his ranch some mountain lions and bears, which will be on exhibition at the sportsmen's show at Chicago, to be held March 19. He has supplied animals for nearly all the lead- ing zoological parks throughout the coun- try. Congressman Gerrit J. Dickema. of Mich- igan, whose candidacy for the speaker- ship filled the National capital with smiles, tigured in one talkable incident a few vears ago. He was a member of the spe- clal committee’ which Investigated the charges against Judge Wilfley of China, drawn by Representative George E. Waldo of Brooklyn. Roosevelt was furious that charges should have been made against his appointee. When the committee failed to glve to Judge Wlifley a clean bill of health the wrath of the strenuonus presi- dent was increased. Mr. Dickema called at the White House about this time and the président stood In a cornér and gave him “a dressing down.” Persons who heard what took place say that the pres- fdent made very little distinction between Dickema and “undesirable citizens." “Never again,” chorused the governors of thirty-one states, “will we choose the fmational capital as our meeting place.” This was the dicturm of the special com- mittee, consisting of Governors Hadley, of Missourl, Hughes of New York, Ansel of South Carolima, Comer of Alabama, and Harmon of Ohlo, selected to choose the next meeting place, In Washington the rights of the state, the dignity of the gubernatorial office and the prominence of the Individual are dwarfed by the dominating federal atmos- phere. - Hereafter the governors will select one of the state capitals for their meet- ing place. “Why s 1t,” complained a foreign dip- lomat at a dinner recently, “that we find it so difficult to meet the big men of Washington? I have been here for a year now and not once have I been present at a soclal function where the speaker of the house of irepresentatives was & guest. A clever Washington. woman furnishes a She says the rigld rules of soclal precedence operate to prevent diplomats from meeting the big men of congress. The speaker of the house has never conceded the right of diplomats to precede him at official o/ soclal func- tlons, The dean of the diplomatic corps would submit to most anything except be- ing compelled to take a back seat to the speaker of the house. The war {s-one of long standing and has uever been settled, Only a sedly misinformed hostess would make the blunder of inviting to a dinner both the speaker and an ambassador. This is one reason why the forelgn men rarely get well acquainted with the leaders of the senato and house. WEATHER BUREAU AND FORESTS Large as a Propheey Dissected. Philadelphia Bulletin. A new factor In the conservation dis- pute, 8o far as this relates to the pre- servation of the foresis, ls furnished by Chief Willls L. Moore of the weather bu- reau. In an official report Mr. Moore de- clares that the maintenance or the destrue- tion of vast wooded areas has no appre- clable effect In producing elther drouth or floods. He proclaims his convictien, as the result of inquirfes by the govern- ment service of which he I8 the head, that both excessive and deficlent periods of rainfall are due to climatic causes having no direct relation to the extent of the country’s forests, Therie views are at varlance with those expressed by most of the forestry experts of the United States. say, however, that the question Is one upon which there is by no means a unan- imity of sclentific opinion. It is entlrely possible that entbusiastic champlons of forest conservation have been led by their zeal Into making assertions in this respeet that are not borne out by the facts, Nevertheless, whatever fallacles may ex- ist in theories regurding the influence of forests over rainfall, it is & matter of practical observation that the molsture in An Assertion this comes from rain or from the meliing of snows, ls released much more stowly than In the open, treeless country. In for- ests there Is a dense carpet, partly com- posed of a strata of decayed leaves and of mosses, which has a tendeney to ab- sorb water llke a sponge and materially restricts its flood down wne hilisides, This 18 susceptible of demonstration, and no pronouncements by the head of the weather bureau can affect ¥ It Is only fair to| the %ol of heavily wooded regions, whether | o Means Anything, it Means Lower Prices.’” Des Mofres Capital (rep.). 1t is passing strange that political in- surgency has its home in the farming |states of the middle west. It is strange that the howl does not come up from New England and the east. , The prod- [ucts of the farming states are sold to the people of the manufacturing states ‘The people in.the manufacturing states are not insurging. But In the west, where the farmer Is selling his hogs for $0 a hundred, we are asked to rally our politics under the |insurgent banger. The Insurgent banner— if 1t menas anything—means lower prices. The farmers of Towa are selling every- thing from an efg to a horse at such prices as they never dreamed of before | Yet we are asked to tear everything up Congressman Tdwnpy of Minnesota re- lates thqt in North Dakota a farmer fin- quired the price of linseed ofl. The mer- chant told bim $ cents per gallon. The farmor bore the name of Johnson, which is u strictly North Dakota name, When told the .price of linseod ofl, Johnson's head, figuratively, struck the cefling and he ‘swore he wouldn't buy a nickel's worth of linseed of to oblige any trust- ridden country like this. Then Johrison commenced on thé Taft administration. When he had subsided the merchant asked him If he didn’t sell 3,000 bushels of flax- seed a couple of weeks before at $1.85 a bushel, and that if he had it now he could Bot 3215 per bushel. Johnson admitted that these were facts. Then sald the mer ohant: “Don’t you know that linseed ofl is made out .of flaxweed?' Johnson hesi- tated a moment and said: “Give me a bar- rel of linseed oll.”" He had not stopped to reflect that he could not sell flaxseed for $1.86 & bushel without any hope of buylng linseed ofl at a low price. Bo It goes. Thousands of men who are getting tremen- dous ‘prices for thelr own products are dis- satistied when they buy somebody else's product, In the middle west men have grown rich on the farms. Their acres have advanced in price. In Minnesota and the Dakotas individuals and syndicates have made mii- lions In the purchase and sale of lands on account of the high price of crops. Yet these very people are expected to Insurge and to denounce Taft and demand a polit- ical revolution. If ihe Insurgents have ahy purpose what- ever, that purpose 18 to bring cheaper middle west cheaper farm lands. men it would mean bankruptey. The course of the insurgents at Wash- Ington s a danger signal to business. It is a note of warning for those who borrow with which to make big improvements. It is notice to lpm‘@ who are contemplating big Irrigation projects to suspend opera- tions untll thé ultimate facts are known. To many Gotng Some. Philadelphia Record. Gentle|reader, is it not calculated to take one's breath away to pick up the daily newspaper and find the sudden announce- ment that the stockholders of the Missouri Pacific Rallroad company have voted to in- crease at one clip the bonded indebtedness of that corporation $175,000,0007 Eleven sub- sidlary lines are to be bought with the pro- ceeds. Surely the M. P. Is a going con- cern. Shoe Leathery Comfort, Boston Globe. It is comforting to have the wholesale shoe dealers tell us that, although the price of shoes {8 going to be advanced, the new prices will be so adjusted as “to permit the addition to each grade of such value an will compensate the wearer for increased cost.” - Still there are some who would be willing to get along without the improve- ments and have the price remain the same. One Assertion Worth Noting. St. Louis Republic. At the outset of an inquiry into high prices one fact may be set down for cer- tain. It is that the sustained high prices for wheat, corn and live stock on the hoof are not due to speculative manipulation of the markets. The speculating manipulator makes his money only by running prices away down while he fs buying and away up when be is ready to sell. Pity the Poor Congressman. Minneapolis - Journal. Members of congress are complaining fervently that the new salary of §7,500 does not go so far as the annual payment of $6,000 they foymerly received from the fed- eral treasury., Twenty dollars a day lsn't much when . ypu consider the grocery bill, but Jarge numbers of valuable Americans seem to get through on less. ‘Same Feeling Elsewhere. Pittsburg Dispatch. Those superstitious orlentals are prob- ably not the only ones who regard the burning of the sultan's §16,000,000 residence as an evil omen. The fire insurance com- panies have much the same sentiment toward such occurrences. ll |Kaiser’s Workroom A friend translates the following trom a German newspaper for The Outlook: In the workroom of the Kalser are the following sentences, so arranged that he has them always before him when sitting at his desk: Be strong In pain, To wish for anything that is unattain- able is worthless. Be content with the day as it Is; look for the good In everything, Rejolce In nature and people, and take them as they are. For a thousand bitter hours console your- s¢If with one that is beautiful, Glve from your heart and mind always the best, even it you do not receive thanks, He Wwho can learn and practice this Is indeed & happy, free, and proud one; his life will always be beautiful. He who Is mistrusting wrongs others and harms himself. It is our duty to believe every one to be good as long as we ve not the proof to the contrary; the world s so large and we ourselves 50 small that everything cannot revolve around us. It something damages us, hurts us, who can tell if that is not necessary to the wel- fare of creation? In everything of this world, whether | dead or alive, lives the mighty wise will of the almighty and and all-knowing Creator; we little people only lack the reason to comprehend it. As everything 18, 80 It has to be In this world, and, however it may be, should al- ways seem g00d to the mind of the erca- ture. | - - | Qur Birthday Book January 94, 1910, This is the birthday of Joseph H. Choate, distinguished lawyer and diplomatist, who served as our ambassador at the eourt of St. James. Mr, Choste was born January prices. Cheaper prices would mean In the |' PERSONAL NOTES. The assimilation by Dan Cupid of cholce assortments of the Gould and Drexel mil- llons evokes patriotic satisfaction at home and much grief to titled steerors abroad, The Charleston News and Courfer Utters a painful lament over the spectacls of women golng from door to door soliciting means with whioh to build & ‘monument to General Wade Hampton Public contractors of Chicago. threaten to make “horrible examples” of several members of the union. The soale fixes 40 per cent of a job for graft, while the whole porkers seooped In 6 per cent, A remarkable case of patriotic zeal of members of tha Manufacturgrs’ assoclation of Brooklyn In striving to capture the villainous ecels which Interfere with the steady work of their water meters. A California doctor deals the meat boy- cott a solar plexus by declaring that two pounds of porterhouse steak, cooked rare and eaten every day, will chase away the worst case of rheumatism that ever caught on. X Richard Harding Davis and Howard Chanler Carlsty are having trouble with the betler halves of thelr households and proceedings for divorce are threatened. The nature of the trouble harks back to the Inabliity of art's votearies to stand hitched. President Taft has reappointed Bill Se- wall, President Roosevelt's ftiend amd pro- tege, colleetor of customs In the dlstrict of Aroostook, Ms., and Bill will continue his gumshoe'rg after lllegul lquor sellers on the border line between Maine and New Brunswick. Nora Willlams, nurse to the Rockefeller family for two generations, died in Cleve- land, at the age of 108 years, according to records In hcr possession. Nora, who came from Wales when she was 16 years old, *irst ontered the services of thy Rocke- fellers when John D. Rockefeller, jr., was a baby. In his preliminary battle against the federal banking law in New York, the former copper king of Butte, F. Augustus Helnze, thinks he has smashed a cog In the federal machine. His lawyers called the attention of the court to the presence of the government expert accountant ae cross-examiner before the grand Jjury which found the {ndictment, and the un- usual procedure so impressed the ocourt that the case was adjourned for a week. REFERENDUM FOR NEBRASKA. Whims of the Peerless One. to Be Tested at Home, Brooklyn Eagle. It militates more or less against the dignity of a soverelgn state to be¢ under the immediate observation and diotation of a very erratic prophet who may demand all sorts of circus stunts at an Instant's notice. We note that Goverrior Shallen- berger has acceded to the order of Willlan Jennings Bryan, and will call a special session of the Nebraska legislature to take such measures as will Introduce the Initiative and referendum into the system of the state, The prophet has decided on this inno- vation as his last ditch breastwork- against the flying approach of oblivion. Free sil- ver is a long-surrendered fortress. State ownership of rallroads s an evacuated stronghold. The enemy is firing its strong- est volleys from guns In the anti-trust bastiom. A refuge In the damp swamps of prohibition was suggested to the prophet, but, on consideration, he concluded that the remedy was worse than the disease; that he could at least keep his side by dignified surrender to the inevitable) but might lose everything in the swamps. Nolraska' 18" to ' Be expertmented oh. The! experlence 18 not new to her. She had it first on regulation of raflroad rates. Later #he tried state guarantee of bank de- posits. The federal courts have saved her in each case. They may come to her rescue again. The flying approach of oblivion can only be delayed by the prophet, Oblivion is irresistible. LAUGHING GAS. Howlrd—-l’lrlfl‘!l, did my wife come In & few minutes ago? Bridget—No, sir. That heard a-hollerin’,—Harper \ the parrot you Bazar. afig;—\vhnt do they make in a chafing He—Indigestion.—Swnart Set. “Have a drink?" “Thanks; but I belong to an anti-treat olub.” “T'm going to have one.” “Then take this 10 cents and I'll join you. You can get two drinks for a quarter.’w— Washington Herald. “And why," asked Dr. Watson, “are you 80 sure that the man {3 wealthy " ecause,” replied the great deductive de- tective, “he had eggs for breakfast, there was egg on his whiskers.”—Houston Post. you belhve. queried the falr rl(hu “that men-live “l sure do,’” replied the mere man. was just ten months older than my wil when we married; now 1 am 42 and she was 30 last week."—Chicago News, “Don't “Are we slaves, or are we free mon?* thundered the orator. “I pause for & re- Pl ‘Some of us are married,” came the an- swer from the last row of seats,—New York Sun, B Tommy-Pop, what is the difference be- tween vision and sight? Tommy's Pop—Well, flatter a girl by callin don't call her a sight. my son, her a vision, but hiladelphia Record. el to you, is he?" you can “8o your husband is c ked the l)‘mpllhlllnfl‘ fend. h, yes!" sobbed e miserable young wife. “We can afford only a small cliclrlo runabout, and often he refuses to ‘stay home because there isn’t room enough with Fim for the dog." —Ullt(murn American. Mrs. vm|n:hr|do~ur- Smith says there is lots of ermam ‘on her milk bottles every morning. Why is there never any on yours? The Milkman—i'm too honest, lady, that's why. 1 fills my bottles so fuil that there ain’t never no room left for cream.~—Youth's Companlon, 4 WHAT AN OLD MAN SAID. John D. Wells in Buffalo News, Afi't it funny how we go Dreamin’ on thue life, an' so Keerless of the time that flies Right afore our very eyes! Love an’ joy blind our sight To the fleelln’ minits’ flight “Twell like spednthrift boys we say ‘Twasn't only jest a da; t a day! an’ we p'tend 8 are never-goin' t' end— Brimmin: happy days like th With the green-in all the tre Days with nary cloud or frown, Only love an' life aroun’ An'a thousand joys that line This 'ere path of yours an’' mine. Keerlessly wo pass where wait Childrun ‘at the pasture gate Wavin' at us happylike, Whilst the dancin' sunbeams strike Golden curls an 'make 'em more Golden than they was before! ms we never re'lize then We can't see 'em young again} O how light we bear our |o-4l how sweet the lrh.mll{ Wendin' in an’ out un Plelds of green an’ dancl; Beems fo us the way u Jou' Kndless miles of h .— Easy, too, to jes' That'it's never goln' t' en Yet, afore we know we will Conm m v«heu the world is still—~ nd!—-an' then we find and all is Jeft behind dtw'- 2, famed as the home of witcheratl, and is stlll hale and hearty start by seventy-ninth year, Where the brigthter fancies gr In the fields of Youth, an' k We have reached the end of the Road ‘Fore we rally thought-or knowedt

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