Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 14, 1910, Page 4

-y ‘e 1 his course to meet. their deMires, but | " road. Wh o guaranteed. Freshness is assured b the air-tight g t party has been in power so long £ 5 ereat the blenders rejolced and o y . Ko Forn e aoma 5160 408 3, weae oD the contrary that if,prevalling meth- | that ail sorts of officlal eorruption have |0 De destroyed next l:"u‘:lh’:;:l" the stralghtouts sulked and sobbed. Rules " gl El‘;kl."rehm’r '..l.b’n '2..'".""«'»3'&2"’7«.'&" Thirty-third Street. ods of corporate finance and corpor-|thrived under its sdministration. That | &lobule passes through tlie tall of Hal- | governing the branding of whisky in ac- EWS your grocer fof Tone's Spices Wumnngg-l_‘“E::.!ngmca;M N tion management conflict with the re- | party must be driven from power if pop- | ley’s comet; all right.. However, we :nrdu\bzo \:uh President Taft's dmlllu‘n 7 Ao doss not have A wo A { ON by 1 h th- | Ular government s to be preserved. are not golng to play Sajht and sit in | &Te about to issue from the Internal rev- Tues and 10 oqnts and we “will you ( ediommunicatiors telating to news asd |strictions. imposed by law these me 1| This does not sound very much 11ke | gack cloth on the tdh of the house|°HUe Office and the straights have do- ey k‘hfl; cooh Book free. ~ 0 oul H ods must be changéd to conform wit| ’ clded to put the question squarely before emember—Thereare two kinds of spices Omiaha H-:-. i‘h‘fi#—{- &nc-;;mml the legal requirements and persistent | Prelude to the democrats taking the | waiting for it to happen, st least not the grave ard venerable justices of the oy ~—TONE BROS. and “others", Romit by draft, express or rder republican insurgents into their bosom, | ¢yiq weather, THE DAy BEE DED BY EDWARD ROFEWATER. VICTPR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. Entered at Omaha postoffice as second- class matter) TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. A, Daily Bee (Including Sunday), per week. mn;{ Bea (without Sunday), per week.l00 Dally Beo (without Sunday), one year..} Dally Bea and Sunday, one year. (] DELIVERED BY CARRIER. valfll (without Sunday). per weak. vening (with Sunday), per week. BHMX Hee, one year Baturday Bes, one g Address al) ‘complains of irregularitios delivery to City Circulation Department. & OFFICES. Omaha—THe Bes Building. South Omaha—Twenty-fourth and N. Counell Bluffs—15 Scott Street. Lincoln—518 Littie Bullding. E5e 58 Taft Firm, club at its Lincoln day anniversary banquet rings out clear and unmistak- able Mr. Taft stands firm by the pledges made in the republican na- | tional platform, upon which he was elected, and he shows no . signs of weakening before the pressure of those who fear his program will disturb bus- iness or departing from the path he mapped out in order to follow extrem- ists advocating more radieal measures. Mr, Taft serves definite notice on the trust magnates and Wall street gam- blers that he does not intend to shape ests of Canada under the very satls- ress may not be interrupted. Aguin the False Prophet. Republicans who have been giving aid and comfort to the demecrats with any expectation that the demoecrats will accord them appreciative recogni- tion or reciprocate favors by extending a4 helping hand to republican insur- gents should take heed of the notides repeatedly served through Mr. Bryan's Commoner, of which this is the latest: Let It not be forgotten that the fight to be waged by the friends of popular gov- ernment Is against the republican party. BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1910. business affairs. The Bee expressed The address delivered by President |factory existing conditions and exer-|its high opinion of Mr. Scott last fall, Taft before the New York Republican |cise the greatest concern that its prog-[ when he was a candidate before the people, so that he did not have to die first to have good words spoken for him, Wonder it our amiable democratic contemporary recalls the time when the personal iInterference of Willlam Jennings Bryan forced the Board of Regents to reject their preferred cholce for chancellor of the State uni- versity and appoint another who had advocated 16 to 1 free silver and sup- ported Mr. Bryan for the presidency. — If the inhabitants of the éarth are The ‘diatiiling interests of the country are goink (o give the blenders another run for their booze. They are not satisfied With President Taft's decision cn the ques- tlon, “What is 141 whisk: Both the Stralght goods and the blenders know What it Is and have endeavored to show Attorney Generul Bonaparte, President Roosevelt and President Taft the right brand. Bach officlal conversed both wit- tily and learnedly around the samples Submitted, but with characteristic matur- Ity of thought kept in the middle of the supreme court. John C. Spooner and John SUCCESS with any kind of cooking in which spices are used—particularly gingerbread— depends entirely upon the quality of spices used. give the right flavor every time. Purity and strenpth are payible to The Bee Publishing Ci . | offenders will only invite prosecution TONE BROS., Des Moines, lowa. Only 2-cent ktamps received in payment of | and punishment. ad but rather as & warning that the dem- Bleaders of the celebrated OLD GOLDEN COFFEE G. Carlisle as amicus curia will assist the b — 1 oul mafl account oS . cast in Virginia for a cragy man for | Stale of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss:[and allay its restiessness his pronounce- . . y ——————— e | TEe B. Taschuck, (or:nflmnr of The Bee | o0 may be disappolnting in some aside. foongress. 1t 'ls not so very surprising, me-n of the artistic continue to deplore SAME OLD STORY, PERSONAL NOTES. i 670 chal KeIRNMT pamie ‘ol pull aed | quasters, Bt it will Nave vigorous| 1t sounds very much lke some pre-(gs there is room for auspiclon that She Mtil sosatihs T temaiay o s ' | complete coples of The Daily, Morning. | O - vious democratic fulminations from|gome men really elected to CONEIess |(ous wu et iobbed the AMEr- | | \other Marrtage for Title Schndal- Count Bonl threateas fo marry another | Eveilng ahd Sunday Bee printed during the | applause from the people as a whole pital of its most ploturesque aspect, ises Americans. | month of January. 1910, was as follows: |.n4 ghould have the cordial approval |tHé same source. and have not been in their right minds | says a writer in the Washington Star. Ten a3 e ol Americar 'mrli and it there 1s one of the > In 1896 we were told that the re-|g time. years ago the casual visitor could be en- kg | 4 o sort left she deserves It of all who are engaged fn legitimate bilbllean sebts vt ve” AHNG I PRIGH il the tranced by the sight of the quaint Koreans |, V/éNn& Witnessed on Tuesday another of | i, o RS e tedpeath bibves Rait ol business and who have nothing to fear sauntering about the streets in thelr hats |''°% SPectacies which make all decent |,o ahout you? I so, keep It. It is worth trom a senaible and rational enforce.|POWer 80d 16 to 1 free ailver be #ub-| n the recent municipal election in Which looked fike a section of stovepipe and |AMericans think of the “international | 300 of Unele Sam's silver halves. ment of the laws againset combniations | **1¢ited for the gold standard or the | Boston it cost Fitzgerald $10,600 10 Lo | their striking robes embroidered in O | RGN L N 4, Bacdonul. Awgrepe. Mr. Roosevelt has started on & 108-milo ‘ersonal checks, except Omaha or eastern exchanges, not acoepted. ———e Réturned ¢oples. Net total, . s | { 3 Treasurer. g Subscribed '&l‘n !;Ix;‘pru.not ;na sworn to befors mie this day of Jaguary, 1918 ROBERT HONTER, § Notary Publie. _— To the farmer: Be sure your seed corn is up to test. — ¢ As a weather prophet the ground hog is evidently subject to occasional relapses. " —— Mr. Bryan says that we in Nebraska have a high license law which is “one of the best of its kind in the union.” Why not hold fast to it-then? St Claimants ‘for that train robbery ward money ‘are still coming in. It's a great, lottery,.and the worst anyone can draw is & blank. / | SER R — It was not the fauit of Governor Shallenberger and his democratic leg- islature that they ‘did’ not get the | Oklahoma certain ¢haraetérs who were sealps of the members of the State Normal board. : + SERT————— After paying $600,000 back duties to the Usited States government the sugar trust will be more apt to revive the old dubtrine about' honesty belng the Best policy. o A go-tochurch campaign is about to be started in Omaha. Results may throw new light on the question why 80 many.people prefer to stay at home or go 'somewlere olse. Too bid Mr. Roosevelt has not been told "about the number of the wolves in northerw Italy, which. have become #o dangerous that trcops have been sent out 'to'kilk them oft Now that the old market house is removed from Capitol avenue, it will be in order .for an. enterprising rafl- road to réach out and take possession of the street thus yacated. Y —— The Dahimanites are talking about organizing a flylng squad to attend the demderatie valentine party at Lin- coln. JHbt remember in Lincoln it's after 8 o'clock all the time. e — The. etforts of President Gomez of Ouba to ‘mugsle those newspapers op- posed to his administration would in- dicate that .the .administration iay have something to cover up. Becatise' Peilry has given that chack for $10,000 to the fund for. the dis- covery of the south pole is no reason why it will heceme epidemic to treat $10,000,checkn 90 recklessly. It now looks ag it congress might stretch the. $1,000,000 for Missouri river ‘improvement over the whole stretoh from the mouth to Sioux City. That would'be decidedly bettgr, SN0 EE A —— £0 long as the numerous investiga- tions {nto the cause of the high price of living:db not stop short of the facts and de’hot ast longer than a gener- ntlon,:vnl-m not.going to find fault. We-atill_insist that as & devated fol- lower of Mr, Bryan, Edgar Howard, whose loyalty . has er been sus- If Mr. Taft was expected to gay some- “STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION, | thing that would ‘reassure Wall street ocrats are lavishing encouragement on 80-called Insurgents simply to use them as stepping-stones, later to be kicked country would never regain prosperity. Mr. Taft's speech before the New York Republican club is almost in the nature of an accounting for the first year of his administration, and re- assertion of his determination to make it the keynote of his administration “to clinch the Roosevelt policies,” to use his favorite expression, As such it will be accepted as proof positive of his good faith and fixedness of pur- Haskell in Hot Water. .Gavernor 'Haskell of ;Oklahoma is again brought Into the limelight on a charge of irregularity in handling state funds. A trial i8 In progress in @Quthrie to determine the legality of certain state expenditures and the employment of certain men on private work at state expense. Onme of the men, O. T, Smith, a personal private secretary to the governor, was mixed up with him, it will be remembered, in the Muskogee township bend deal. Ever since the organization of the state of Oklahoma there has been a scandal of some sort, being aired in its courts, on charges of graft and irregularity on the part of the state official Governor Haskell has had ‘his hahds full most of the time defend- ing himself, and several times since his election he has faced serious ac- cusations. Last winter he Was brought into the public eye for hrboring in wanted In Texas and Arizona for crim- Inal offenses of various degrees of seri- ousness, and he'turhed them over only when forced to do so by federal auth- ority. / Shiortly after the last presidential campalgn Governor Haskell found him- self indioted for participation in town- ite frauds, and while demanding trial on the merits he_hid behind every pos- sible technicality of the law. That he| would allow the suspicion to stand and | not insist on being vindicated could reflect little glory on the Oklahoma ex- ecutive, 5 Oklahoma has been under demo- cratic control since its admission to the union. That particular fact wovld not ordinarily be considered more than a mistake, but for the succession of rows, investigations, indictments, law- suits and what not, involving the hon- esty and integrity ofsthe governor and assoclated officials. * And it is not to be forgotten that Govenor Haskell was d to be secretary of the treasury had the fortune of politics in 1908 turned in favor of the democratic candi- date for president.. Canada and the Mother Country. “It England is attagked," sald Sir Wilfred Laurier, the Canadian premier, recently, ‘“we are lable to attack, al- though I do not say that we shall al- ways be attacked, nor that we shall take part in all the wars of England. In that matter we shall have t be guided by clrcumstances” upon which the Canadian Parliament will' have to act.” ~ In this statement Sir Wilfred Laurier has almost said that In case of a war between England,and any other power Canada will use her own judgment as to acting as an English ally-or a8 a neutral. That this would be the case it war broke out between HBngland and the United States Is hinted as strongly as 8ir Wilfrid, under existing circumstances, could well do. That he wishes to indicate that peace on the North American continent is of nara- mount interest to Canada is very evi- dent, ’ It must not be thought that Canada is not loya! to England, for that Is not true, A spirit of loyalty toward England fs more evident in Canada pected, should uot be accused by the Commonef of *“‘trying to make him the iaughing stock of the country.” | G. M Hitéhoaek has sold & bullding for $50,000." Won't be a bully senatorial campalgn ;fund. We speak for the first $1.00.~Kontern Laborer. Not, so. fast, en G. M. lets loose of his $50,000 he will expect to enlist more than fifty boosters with it T e W The report now is that the Nicar- agean insurgent general retreated towardl thé enemy. This mistake win Jrobably ggeount for the fact that there mfil.pnup fought i the Central American riot now than ever befgre. But Canada is fast developing fnto a great nation by herself and her great men, realizing that faet, wre not going to jeopardize the possibliities of that development by rash acts in the defense of policles for which Canada is ot responsible. Canada will not strike for indepen- dence from England &0 long as re- lations with the mothier country are as kindly as they are. It could have its independence if it wanted it. for Canada is a powerful country In re- sources and in men, and England could ardly prevent it. But it wishes evi- dently only to work far the best inter- become a military dictator and the bogle of imperialism would uproot all|: our free institutions. In 1904 we were told that the re- publican .party must be driven from power or Theodore Roosevelt would be & second “man on horseback’ and the odious trusts would dictate to him ‘his every act. In 1908 we were told that the re- ,|publicans must be driven trom power, and the slogan, ‘‘Let the people rule, nailed to the mast’or the ship of state would founder and the shipwreck would leave no salvage. 2 On each of these occasions the peo- ple declined to be intimidated by such threats from false prophets, and the country has gone steadily forward un- der republican administration enjoying unprecedented prosperity and correct- ing industrial evils and governmental abtises as they have arisen. It will be up to the people to say whether there is any more call now for turning to the democrats as sa- viors of popular government than there has been since they heaved a sigh of relief when the last democratic president went into retirement after four years of panic and calamity. The First Six Months. At the close of Cleveland’s second administration . democratic leadérs made the -~excuse ‘for -the terrible condition ‘in which ' national af- fairs were found to be, that the principles of the democratic party had: not had a fair trial to prove by practical application that they were good. It is evident from the cirticism of democratic leaders that they have not been willing to give even six months, in which to let the Payne tariit law demonstrate its superifority over tbe Dingley law. This in consistency is well pointed out by President Taft in his speech in New York when he says: The amount ‘of misrepresentation to which the tarift bill in its effects as a downward revision bill was subjected has never been exceeded in this country, and it will doubtless take the actual operation of the tariff bill for several years to 8how to the eountry exactly what the leg- Islation and its effects are. Six month’s time hardly affords a fair trial for a new revenue law, especi- ally when every known Influence ha: been brought into play to deceiva the general. public .as to the changes made and their actual working effects, and yet the figures computed to show the first six months’ recelpts’ under it are decidedly creditable to the claims of the new tariff law. fact democratic leaders would cry “bad faith” no matter what tariff law were enacted, so long as it retained pro- tective duties, or even if it adopnted democratic ideas on the subject of the tariff. The effort to hold the new tariff responsible for the high sost of living is a similar piece of insincerity which the president quickly punct ires. Quoting again from President Taft's address: ‘We shall be called upon to respond to the charge in the next campaign that the tariff, for which we are responsible, has ralsed prices. . If the people listen to reasonable arguments it will be easy to domonstrate that high prices proceed from an entirely different cause and that the present tariff, being largely a revision downward, except with respect to sllks And liquors, which are luxuries, dannot bs charged with having increased any prices. But this will not prevent our demo- cratic friends from arguing, on the prin- clple of “post hoc propter hoc,” that be- cause high prices followed the taritf, therefore they are the result of It, and we must not be blind to the welght of such an argument in an electoral cam- paign. President Taft has not been an ex- As & matter of | A good deal of fuss Is belng made over the fact that several votes ware elected mayor, and the other fellow Boston. William Salter, an Englishman, was recently defeatéd for Parliament and mow his wife has been élected a member of the London county council... Presum- ably Salter will now have a chance to wash dishes and tend the baby. Engiish women have written two van loads of letters to Premier Asquith, but it 1s safe to say that in hone of them are there térms of endearment which will start domestic trouble in the pre- mier’s household. . g Cause da Effect. Wall Btreet Journal. A Diil to make the breaking of eampeign plédges by elected candidates a penal of- ferse has been introduced into the Ken- tucky senate. Now for & heavy appropria- tlon for increased jail accommodations. . Cold Storage Ourlowities. . Springfidla Republican. Some of the Investigations into the high prices ‘are bringing out eurious If not im- portant faots. ‘It was not widely known, for instance,® that since last April there have been ‘stored in three of four cold storage plants in Jersey €City about 200,000, 000 eggs for the market during the present winter: - The supply ‘at present 18 reéported by a cold Storage authority to bé about 0,000,000 which 1670 getting freshér every 3 . Ve ' e e One Prop of High Prices. . Boston Herald; | 33 Twenty-six .members of the strawboard cartel have been.fined $2,000 each for: par- ticipation in a combination for the purpose of boosting the price ot thelr, product, ana have been ordered to abandon their secret arrangement . under penalty of. heavier assessments. This is only one cartel out of many. It dges pot involve any destruc- tion of business, or any irterference with the progress of prosperity to break. such cartels as these. There are scores of them in.the country today, each using lts. power to create artificial market conditions and to fix prices arbitrarily, If these. {llegal prcps were knaoked out by the law there would be a perceptible drop in prices. Who Are the Losers? Chicago Record-Herald. Guggenheim copper stocks depreciated $10,000,000 {n five hours the other day jowing to a rajd that ts alleged to have been made by J. P. Morgan because the Guggenhelms had refused to take his ad- vice in connection with the formation of the much talked of copper merger. Don't make ‘the mistake of supposing that the Guggenheims are the ofies who will lose the $10,000,000. The Joss will be sustained by a 10t of people Wwho did not have money ough to enable them to ¢ling to copper stock which they had bought before the rald was started. It muy be difficult, therefore, for the layman to understand ms were punished, but what right have laymen to expect to un- derstand these things, anyway? ———ee ) WHOLESALE AND RETAIL PRICES Marked Difference in the Price Up- 1ft in Both Lines, Indianapolls Journal. In the figures sent to th® senate/by the Department of Commerce and Labor show- ing the percentage of increase in whole- sale and retall prices of staple articles of food between the years 1680 and 1908, only fouf out of the thirteen articles mentioned show. that the percentage of increase- in the retall price has been greater than the | percentage of incresse in- the wholesale | price, viz.: Butter—Wholesale, Blgin, 2.8, creamery, extra, #1.5; dairy, 246; retall, 3, no quality mentioned. Coffee—Wholesale, 3.0; retail, 5. Dressed Mutton—Wholesale, 21.4; retall, 8. Ham—Wholesale, 21.9; retall, 8.8, The othér nine articles show greater in- creases~a the wholesale price; Bread—Wholesale, 2. Lheese—Wholesale, 2. Hgge—New laid, wholes Lard—Whalesale, 63.3; retall, Beef—Wholesale, fresh, 11.§; tall, fresh, 1. It, 10. con— W hol Milk—W hole: Potatoes—W Wheat Flour—W| winter, 3.5, retall, cated. It to the ordinary buyer for domestic tremist, and as a consequence ho hay{ % ®ome of these figures appear disappointed the extremists. ¥ holds to the principle that great changes in @ great nation must of necsssity come slowly. He holds that the present ad- minfstration has a right to as fair o trial in its work as has the individual, but he insists that people ehall not allow themselves to be decelved by the " oconservative—in meat products, for insiance ~it must be remembered that these are 1908 prices, which were considerably lower than the prices of 1910. This |s shown by Bradstreet's commodity Index, which, tn 108, ranged between S.2M8 on January 1, which was the low point of the year, while the index number for January 1 of this year was 52310, the highest poimt it has ever attained. man who eries there Is no wolf. “wolf, wolf,” when The death of County Commissioner Joha A, Scott, on the threshold of his political service as a public offielal, is to be greatly deplored, because Mr. Beott gave every promise of efficiency and ' usefulness, - qualities he had al- ready demonstrated in private life and But the point of the comparison is that there has been no unreasonable [ncrease in_ retall prices. Even in the o in- stances where there has been & greater in- orease in the retall price than in the wholesale prige it has been sma) com- pared with the actual increase of the Wholesale price. On the other hand, the @reater inerease In the wholesalé price of the other nine commodities shows that the rotaller {s-making o smaller profit on them than he was in 1899, the year on which the ‘| numbers among riving at & declsion that will touch the right spot. That will be at the bung In the cask. bullion. The Turks and Persians proudly novation {s the most painful for the Si- amese, those mysterious people whose na- tive garments are as graceful and flowing as those worn by the anclent Greeks; they nOW appear as correct in apparel as a Pa- rislan boulevardfer. The minister from Blam, Phya Akharaj Varadhere, who was has been absent for three years in his na- tive land, has returned to Washington with évery’ trace of eastern customs obliterated. Thie courtly envoy formerly wore his ex: quisite robos of sofi white woul and the gracéful headdress, which is a cross be- tween a turban and the East Indian drap- ing. Belng a man of cultire and learning and deeply imbued with the reticence of his race, he resented the attention which his costume attracted when he ventured Into the streets. Bo he adopted the color- parture of the former charge d'affalres of Slam with his three little children, the last trace of orfentalism excepting the Chinese 18 eliminated from the Washington streets. The Land of the White Elephant has a capable and graclous hostess in the wife of its first secretary, Wdward H. Loftus. The only woman in the legation, shé is its officlal chatelaine, though the hospitalities which this country extends through its en- Voys aré generally of the stag order. Women are not consplcuous soclal figures according to the eastern philosophy, but Mrs. Loftus is not bound by these tenets, and is one of the most popular figures in the forelgn contingent. A group of senators in the clakroom Were discussing the other day the origin of the term “euckoo,” relates a correspond- ent of the Brooklyn Bagle. Senator Till- man modified this term during the rate’ bill fight by speculating about the identity of the “Seniitorial Spanfel” who would intro- duce the Roosevelt rate bill. The late Sena- tor Morgan is credited with having cotned the expression “White House cutkoo.” It of the Sherman silver law. President Cleve- land was at times bitterly attacked. To his defense invariably rushed Senator Vilas of Wisconsin, a man with a deep, eavern- ous voice, and a habit of thrusting his head forward to emphasize his words as he lald a mantel of gush upon the be- labored administration. It was just after Mr. Vilas had given one of these exhibi- tions that Senator Morgan said: “The trumpet had sounded, the forces were marshaled, the clock had struck at the White House, and the cuckoos here in the senate put thelr heads out of the boxes and responded to inform ps the time of day.” man to use the cuckoo phrase in congress, Many years ago, when the debate on the Missouri compromise was In progress, a member from Ohlo continually sought to end a speech which Mr. Randolph was making with cries of “previous question.” Finally nettled at the interruption, Mr. Randolph said: “In the Netherlands a man of small ca- pacity, with bits of wood and leather; will, o a few minutes, construct a toy, that with the pressure of a finger and thumb, ery ‘Cuckoo, cuckoo,’ with less of inge- nuity, and with interior materials, the peo- ple of Ohio have made a toy that will, without much pressure, cry, ‘previou; Question, Mr. Speaker, previous question, Many of the sharp things sald In con- gress are left out of the Congressional Record. Representative James C, Cobb of Alabama was responsible for the ‘query, “Mr. Speaker, where am I at?' but it was cut out of the Record. Senator Wol- | cott once quoted, for the benefit of Sena- tor Carey, the Spanish proberb, “It is a waste of lather to shave an ass.”” In the interest of harmony the sentence was left out of the Record, The senate has the reputation of being & slow moving body, but on February 1, with the assistance of the parties lnmter- ested, performed an act of speed seldom | equaled. Senator Thompson of North Da- kota, who was appointed to the senate on November 10 last, had resigned, and the governor of the state had been so notified.: On the morning of the 1st Senator Thomp- son's resignation was read In the senate, he produced his successor with his cre. dentials, who was sworn in at once. The new senator Is W. W. Purcell of Wahpe- ton. Senator Purcell 15 @ heavy-set man, with & well-defined absence of hair on the top of his head. He at once qualified as & member of the bald-head brigade, which its members such dis- tingulshed senators as Gallinger, Bac Carter, Depew, Burnham and Taylor, —. \ Cuba’s Progress. Philadelphia Record, Cuba has gone through the year with- out pestilence and disorder. A third of its children are at school, where a sixth were ten years ago. Iliteracy sappearing and is far below Spain today. The Cubans neglect the bullot. At the election in De- cember, 1909, only 260,000 votes were cast, out of 420,000, but as -education spreads, public spirit will grow. Cuba al- ready shows what every Bpanish-Ameri- can country will become, @s it has like opportunity. . Now for 1t Woods. Washington Herald, 1f those haughty people responsible for the high cost of living have tears to shed they must prepare to shed them now. Triat militant and aggressive friend of the masses, the Hon, Stephen B. Elkins of West Virginia, is on their trall armed and equipped with a particularly sharp stick! accredited to this capital in 1901, but who [#sh American mother. less raiment of Burope. Now with the de- | opinion Wwas in 1898 during the debate on the repeal |’ | But Senator Morgan was not the first It was the raiding by bailiffs of the res- cans In what would be otherwise only the adventure of a European profiigate with his oreditors arises from the fact that |Prince Miguel was recently ‘induced”— with §5,000,000-t0 confer, his title upon the foollsh American daughter of a more fool- The sordid details of this commercial transaction will be recalled—how the prince refused to go forward with the af- falr until the 35,000,000 was turned over to proached he was found to be in pawn at @ hotel and his future mother-in-law had to pay his bill and send him rallroad fare —how his progress to the altar was one continuous dodging of sheriff's officers. Now comes this spectacle in Vienna, for the scandal of which European public holds the American wife to blame. Has she not millions, and s it not her duty, from Huropean viewpoints, to pay her husband's debts? On what other consideration has the American girl been allowed to call herself ‘‘Princess of Breganza?’ And more scandals are promised. It seems that there is a ‘“syndicate” of Prince Miguel's creditors, who say that he agreed to pay them 20 per ‘cent, or §1,000,000, out of the ‘‘dowry” of 000,000 he recelved, and that he has not paid. In other words, it seems thut . Prince Miguel has capitalized and promoted and underwritten for the marriage market and that the promoters are threatening to go to law to recover thelr vendor's commis- slons. Faugh! What utterly disgusting affairs | these “alllances” between ~American omen of wealth and European “‘men of title” sooner or later turn out to be! What outrages upon every sense of Amer- fean decency with respect to the marriage relation and the considerations out ~of which it should arise they all are! —— ] Hot Race to South Pole. Philadelphia Bulletin. If the National Geographic soclety’s pro- Ject to send an expedition to find the south pole shall materlalize in accordance with the suggestions of Peary, the feature which will be apt to attract the most popular attention wil be the fact that this enterprise will be conducted in virtual rivalry with a British scheme to achfeve the same feat. While scientists may de- scribe the undertaking as an important step In research, the average man will probably view it chiefly as an interesting race between the two nations for the lower pole. An Offset. Washington Herald. President Taft's complaint that "nobody ever drops in at the White House" is nicely balanced by Emperor Willlam's complaint that everybody seems bent on dropping in at the royal palece in Berlin, ) Our Birthday Book || Fobruary 14, 1910, Judge Smith McPherson was born in In- dlana, February 14, 148. He located at Red Oak and became district judge, and then member of congress, being appointed United States district judge for the south- ern aistrict of Iowa by President Roose- velt in 1900, “Mogy'' Bernstein is 3 years old today. His official title s chief probation officer and his real name Is Moses. ‘‘Mogy" started out as & newsboy, and In charge of the newsboys for The Bee, but has branched out into various lines of business and I8 now himself a publisher in the per- son of the Mogy Publishing company.s Philip Potter, manager for Nebraska for the American Surety company of New York, was born February 14, 1865, in Balti- more. He was educated at Hobart college and Brown university, and was In the mercantlle business before he located in Omaha In 1886 Henry Hiller, proprietor of the Hiller Liquor company, Is celebrating his birth- day today. He is a native of Germany and lived In Red Oak befors lecating in Omaha. “If it comes from Hiller’s, It must be good. s iuwyers—how as the wedding day ap- | . he s accompanied by Major in restraint of trade, fraudulent stock ventured abroad fn thelr £ . _ [ldence there of Prince Miguel of Bra-|MKe As s : hic | watering and evasion_of. just obliga- In 1900 we were told that the re-|$103,000 to be defeated. ~This, we o it Mn":’ (: rlh:un:(.: ..:.;; {gatite, & UiNAVOrY GEEBGSY OF tise FOlgD. Mrnnrlnu; .‘.;m.x\ {Ixclun.l)..tnrm) hy,ruw:“l; ‘ [ tions tb the government publican party must be driven from |take it, {s another {llustration of the Wow a1y olin . Rathbd m"'fi“’]m tn. |Ing family of Portugel. T of xlhn fcal disability, of course he w { » ¢ power or the gentle McKinley would |high cost of the necessities of lite in The interest and the disgust of Ameri- |*° *'° \ BEdwin Morris, head of the Nelson Morris | Packing company, has pald $100000 for a Meéxican ranch of 220,00 acres, together with 20,00 cattle. The ranch is seventy- five miles from El Paso, Lawyer L. D. Brandels, counsel for Glavis (the discharged special agent) be- fore the investigating commission, s a brother-in-law of Secretary Bailinger's cabinet colleague, Secretary Nagel, The anncuncement of Mrs. Marilla M. Ricker, a iawyer and leader in the sui- fragette movement, that she I8 to be a candidate for the governorship of New Hampshire has created a sensation. Mrs. Ricker, who is wealthy, is now In Cali- 1 fornfa, and has sent a dispajch announcing herself as a candidate rights platform. Mrs, Jane Morrls of Sand Gap, Jackson county, Ky., is $ years of age, and has had a total of 5% descendants, of whom 468 are living, and of whom forty-three _ are great-great-grandchildren. As she is still vigorous, and some of her descendants on & woman's in the fifth generation are approachin maturity, she may see descendants in sixth generation. \ FPOINTED PLEASANTRIES, Friend—Now, my dear woman, don’t you teel the loss of & man about the house? Widow—Not with the kitchen stove smok- ing the way it does.—Baiupiore American. “I have six doctors and they can't agree on what ails me. Three think It's one thing, and three think IS another. What would you advise me to do. Discharie them ail?” “No. Hire one more and give him the deciding vote."—Cleveland Piain Dealer. “We greatly admired your speech, Sena- tér Gargle”" 4 TR L “Well, I'm free to confess that I cop- sider it one of the finest inspirations my secretary ever had.’~Cleveland = Plain Dealer. Miss Sweet—It is just the eort of en- gagoment ring 1 preferred. None of n& others wero nearly so pretty. How thoughi ful of you! ! George—Not at all dear. This is the ring I have always used.—Kansas City Journal. Benham—We are getting near the birthe duy of the man who never told a lie, rs. Benham—We don't need the annle versary to remind us that he is dead— Judge, “Ive come here,” said the man at the lunch counter, ““to escape being talked to it bother you when some- s to you by the hour?" “Not & bit,” sald the other man. ‘““The more anybody talks to me the faster I can work." “Great Seott. What do you work at?’ by “I'm a shorthand reporter.”—Chicago Tri- une, 8o Jellaby always gets a warm welcome at_home?" “I suppose 0. I know his wife always }u.wpu him in hot water."—Baltimore Amer- can. First Boy—Where wer goln’ in such a rush? Second Boy (on the run)-—Fire alarm! . B.—~Where? S. B.—Boss sald he'd fire me if I wasn't back from dis errand in ten minutes.— Boston Transeript. A VALENTINE, 8. E. Kiser in Judge A valentine I waft to you; In baliad form, you see, 'tis wrought. Its graces may, alasl be few, 0 But with my ‘dearest hopes ‘tis ffaught It it be lame In theme or plot, Condemn me, for the fault §§ mine; But pity my unhappy lot— Oh, piease accept my valentine! ) There may be others, it is true, That please -your fancy and have not Such faults as mine present to view. The laden postman' may have brought A_thousand others all unsought, Each voleing hope in every li But let this touch a tender spot— Oh, please accept my valentine! 4 If_there be any rhyme askew Or any “I'" that lacks a dot, O'erlook the fault, I prythee do, For 1 have done my best, God wot! 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