Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 19, 1910, Page 10

10 . THE OMAHA DAny Bee FOUNDRD BY EDWARD ROEEWATER plhe = - | VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. Hutersd at Omaha postoffice as second- claas matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. % F (neluding Eunday), per week 1t eo Daily Bes 0o Cwithout Bun. e DELIVERED BY CARRIER. ing Bee (without Sunday), per werk. 6¢ € Bee (with Sunday), per week. .100 Hes, one year. $2.60 P compleia, of i i 18 ress all complains o i ¥y to City Circulation gknmm OFFICES. maha--The Bee Building. th Omaha—Twent, y-tourth and N. ‘ounctl Bluffs—16 Seott Street. coln—£18 Little Bullding. hi v—-lu Marquette Building. New York—Rooms 1101-1102 No. 31 West Wflnrd Street, abhington—118 Fourteenth Street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE, ommunications relating fo news and o matter shoold be ~addreswed: Omahe Bee, Baitorial Department. - REMITTANOES. JRemit by draft express or postal order puyable to The Bee Publixhing Company Only d-oant sta recelved in payment of mafl accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or easterh exchanges, not accepted e sl - B o 4ol STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nehraska, Douglas County. a4 : B. Tzachuck. treasurer of The Bes Publlahing Company. belng Auly sworn, says that the actual numpe: of tull end complets coples of Tha Dally, Motning. Eveuing and Sunday Bee printcd doring the month of Januars. 1910, was as follows: 42440 . 1. [3 | nals, with the added impression that our laws are shams and of no impor- tance at all. There have been many delays and miscarriages of justice, it is a shame to say, but mob violence does not help matters. In fact, it makes it worse and in the long run defeats its own frenzfed purpose. Mob violencoe al- ways partakes of the nature of revénge 42850 41,350 | 43,470 43,600 41,700 . 48,640 43,290 43,420 . enem0 42,600 . 40,830 | 48,400 . 48,080 43,460 .. 41,400 | 42,570 . 48,970 | 41,770 Total ...,, 1,314,280 | Réturned coplpe, 9,638 Net total, <02 1,304,668 Dally average. . A3 % G 3 HUCK, Treasurer. Bubsctibed n my presence and sworn to before me this st dey of f.nu:}k. 1910, ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Pub ving he city fems have The lieo tuailed to them. Address wiill de vhanged as often us requosted. Ex<Governor- Sheldon to ex-Presl- dential Candidate Bryan: I saw it fret. : "California is now trylng to be con. trolled by two schooi boards and is ;:lly having the scholastic time of its The World-Herald trles to make out that a demoerat ntay disagree with Mr. Bryan and still be a democryt. Well, THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, Warning from the Illinois Riot. The herolc defense of two negro petty criminals made by Sheriff Nellis of Calro, 11l, will, without doubt, put him down on the pages of history as the peace officer, who, using the only effective methods, suppressed mob vio- lence and upheld the honor of the law. Although it is to be deplored that any- | one should lose his life in a riot, yet it is still more deplorable that there should have. been oceasion for such vigorous actlon. One of the noticeable things about the Cairo riot and the re- pulsion of the mob s that the armed protection of the law and the order ‘to shoot if necessary” should alome prove effective. But It is a sad con- dition of affairs that shooting should be the defense necessary in' this cen- tury of advancement and clvilization. An eastern clergyman has made the statement that mob violence is an im- | patient protest on the part of the great jcommon people against delay in the administration and the too frequent miscarriage of justice. He assérts that In every case mob violence has béen instigated by a continued flagrant violation of law and erime ogainst iodividuals. There may be grounds for this statement, but that mob violence is justifiable or ever really accomplishes anything but harm and more erime, is not true. No re- Bpect Tor law or for justice is aroused in the minds of the criminaily inclined by equally eriminal outbreaks. On the contrary, it tends to make martyrs of . 48,09 | the victims in the eyes of other erimi spirit/of revenge. enforcement of law, as In the recent case of the two Kansas City negroes, does more to prevent crime than all the mobs in creation. In the meantime |it is to be hoped that the example set by Sheriff Nellis of Cairo will be of benefit to the other peace officials of the country and that twe terrible fate of the leader of the mob will be a widrning to all leaders who would in- stigate mob violence for the unlawful visitation of vengeance. | Night Riders and Federal Indiotment. In the indictment of the '‘Night Riders” by the federal grand jury a hard blow has been struck at the law- and creatés an equally antagonistic| The strict and sure who want to expedite the settlement |ing on business then It does not speak of still unoccupled parts of the country. | *®! fOF the present methods of conducting business.”” A8 a plain matter of fa here tl - . have been grave doubts In the m}vfl ol Ex-Governor Sheldon's Program. |many thoughtful Americans whethef legith After a protracted hibernation in the |mate business of any kind is conducted cotton country of Mississippl former |'n Wall atreet Governor Sheldon has returned to Ne: braska with a complete plan, perfected | in all its details, to solve the eternal orl 1 Use Wireleas, Boston Herald. | The record of the interference 6f amateur | wireloss operators, In and arovnd Boston, liquor problem once and forever 80 |ywii (ne effort of responsibie operators to that it will never bother us agaih. | sccure Information about the naval tug, Careful perusal of the program of 1{q- [NIna, is damntng; and it will bs utiined no uor legislation outlined by the "x—gnv-;:f;“xb:‘r‘hv ','f"""' tor leglsiation which !ernor shows, however, that it fs In fact | voe o o sr Authorities to put an end to scifish, mischiovous ahd ofttimes criminal merely a resurrection of the plan he of their | usy apparatus in which many 'hul formulated for submiseion (o & OWners end udes induige . ature st ——— e special session of tho leglslature after \winily Shoeking! the election which dcereed that ho was ! ®uitimore AMisrican to have a democratic succdszor in the| It now develops that the sugsr trust nas shocled and wounded to think that I8 trusted agents would so far forset governor's office. The questions h | propounded to the members cf the then i b Ly, | helr native integrity as to eommit frauds. out-going leglslature cover the main|on, the goycamment for the purpose of proposition now advancod, natrely, tho | unlaw fully adding to its protits, Of course, enactment of a law for state-wide pm_‘;hml the truet known the nefarlous sourcs hibition suspendable in municipalities | % rigedblgiod e S B { g A em wi This answel e wa by & three-fifths vote. The addition of | of 104 eariviered etbpioyes that it has de- new planks which are now affixed €0 seried them. to the question of ways and mcans and are of minor moment, oxm\q! ingofar as Phlladelphin Biiletin, they might be impracticable without| morcibie proot of, thé extent to whish of- prior congressioval leglalation, if nol|fice holding uhder the government has T T — The KFederal Pay Rell. _ clvil serviee cammission showlog that the of federal authority. 14 L, |number of foderal empioyes is now 7,- The Bee expressed its opinion of this | s Progross toward the half miilion program at the time it was mul- | mark ls golng on mt & rate which makes gated by Governor Sheldcn, and its|!t seem probable that this will be reachea Y A 3 |befora very iany yéars. Fortunately, subsequent embellishment dvcmx ",m,th! Hrot hderity <ot thade. Pilices lire change it in the essentlals. Nebraska!fiea by compstitive examination, and no s now, and has been so héld by the|longer regarded as ‘‘patronoge” to be courts, to be under state-wile pronibi- | Peddled out. With all its defects, “elvil q vice reform,” has At least conferred tion, e t where the people of incor- ScrViee re g lon, excep people of INCOTr g na) penetits 11 this ifection. porated cities and towns vote to license v e s FROm St the sale of liquor under regulations NEW HOMESTRAD and limitaticns prescribed by law. In this declsion every gualified voter in every community is the equal of every 2 Bimars -American. other qualified voter and the majority, The opening to homestead settiement of rules. The Sbeldon plan would make |L(H® acres of public Tands which have oense votes desiring to change from dry iimportance. It s understood that the to wet, and presumably would permit 1ands to be released are valuable for agri- two prohibition votes to overcome three;:“"“"" purposes, &nd belng so there wiil license votes recorded against changing | vy ::::lal::nolfh:y A N LBy the from wet to dry. Instead of mniurl!)':xovemmum in adcord with the provisions rule it would be the rule of two-fifths, |of the homestead law. If cut up into 160- which everywhere else 1s minority rnl..l“"e parcels there will be 25,000 farms ¢ passed around, and It cut into eighty-acr Most people belleve Nebraska has a $ y-acre parcels’ the number ot ead pretty good license la®—at any rate |y be doubled. T of‘NSimeutead setliers | all proposals for radical innovations 80| The release 6 this 4,000,000 acres will yet far projected have been rejected. pre TEAS. Avothed Distribution of the Public | watn Plagned. reserves. There are-large areas. of land ‘democratic contemporary that {ngteAd | gy de the restyves, but ‘Whish have mever of taking The Bee to task for reprint-|béen taken up by homesteaders. Altogether ing the county option lugubrations of there’ ate more than 200,000,000 acres of our distinguished democratic state | thefe surveved, |but undistributed lands, senator, the Hon. “Doc” Tanner, it ad- [ 0 ::::l fi?‘;,;’mom::'mi“:; g dress itself directly to that lclnm-§ 4 100,000 5 oot it kota, over 22,000,000 acres in Colorado, @bout lating light of democracy whoaa | 2100000 mcres In California and 20,000,000 P‘FBI{T:{‘ 1 it would have m.cmfll altogether unconstituticnal inyasions|sMOWn is affoidcd by the report of the, leave 190500000 avres in'the national forest | We Woui_d‘-;E&QHl ., onr amiable | WOt of the Mississippl river which have | been surveyed and which @re not heid in | RY 18, 1010, ————— e in Oth—er Lands Bide Lighte on What is Fraus. piring Among the Near and Far Natlons of the Barin Japaness methods of benevolent assimila- tlon, which attract international attention In Kores, have reached full development In Formosa. The island ceded to Japsn as A meagre trophy of successful war with China, fifteen vears ago, has undergone a remarkable transformation. Walter A Bmith, one of the American sugar kings of the Philippines, who recently visited Formosa, tells in the Cablenews of Manila what the Japs have done to the island and ™o natives. Bome of the atives objected to the swallowing process and took to the Wwo0ds With such weapons of war as they could procure. Insurgency gave the Japs | fome exercige for a few years, but they | | fnally buried (he dend mnd corralled the | rving. Mr. €mith says the remmants of the | rebellious natives, §0,000 in number, are | herded together In large corrals, sur- rounded by live wire fences, and guarded | by targe detachmonts of police, The sexes | aro fgidly separated, with a view to the ulti-tinction of the race. Every square| mile of the cultivable territory Is utilised |In ratsing tea and sugar under Japanese supervision. Ths new government bulit steam_and olectric rallways In every reedsd direction, openkd fine ports, eon- structed rodds and bridges, water works, eleotr'o lght plants, and set a hustling pnoe for evary eubject of the Mikado, who |followed the flag to the Island. Material prosperity under efficlent and stable gov- ernment {8 evident on all sides. Taihoku, tho capltal of the Island, has a population of WOO0M, and has been transformed into a modera elty. Wide streets have beesn opened, end wherever a native house stood In the way of stroet Improvement, ob- | Established in 1857 as Kountze Bros Nationalized in 1853, Charter No. 209 A bank which gives to every customer and to every department careful and that thorough service which is the re- sult of over S years of growth and experience, Out BAFETY DEPOSIT VAULTS are fire and burglar proof; boxes of var'- ous siges, from $3.00 per year up. irstNational LINES TO A LAUGH. A £} ready done much for the development of | the ibrthern district, and the new {ine | — will undoubtedly work beneficially for both | «iye pever besh offered & bribe,” bragged Bergen and Christiania the eloguent politic il "Cheer up, old man)" shouted a plker in the front row ‘your luck may change.'— POLITICAL DRIFT. Both Ohlo and New York are backward for pointers on graft. Buffalo Expre “That candidate insists that he was de | | teated by the trusts.’ looking | structed park plans or other public pro- | Ject. 1t Is swept away, and the owner given | such compensation as the authoritles sL-rJ [fit. There are a few schools devoted to | rudimentary education. Separation of the | races, such as San Francisco proposed and | Japen rosented, Is carried out in Formosa | schoo's, the natives not being allowed in | ! clismes with Japanese boys and girls. A | {tew native policemen constitute the sum | total of native participation in the govern- | ment. . In every way the supremacy of the | Japanese ls impressed upon the natives, | |and opposition, commercially or ~other- | | wise 18 not tolerated. In he opinion of |this American observer, the change | wroughts in Formosa by Japan in little | more than ten years is a trlumph of en- | lightened despotism. e Raisull dead? And Perdicaris | The notorious Morocean kidnaper and ba: 4it is sald to have been put out of busi- | ness by poison. It s only & report, possi- |bly a means of enabling the plcturesque | bandit to read another installment of his own obituary. Just a plain, ordinary bandit with extra large ambitions, was Ral!‘\\ll.l when in May, 1904, he chatienged the world's | attention by selzing and carrying off Mr. | Ton Perdicaris, an American citizen living | tn Tangler, and his stepson, Mr. Cromwell Varley, a British subject. In the spring of 1004, Ralsuli made an especlally notabl coupe by capturing Mr. W. B. Harris, cor- respandent of the London Times, whom he | held as a prisoner until he was ransomed. living! n- | { Yes” answered Senator _Sorghum, Six jobe In New York City, paying $,000 | “whenever & man gets tha worst of It he cach, have boen stricken tiom the payroll | likes to'console himselt with the idea that 24 th 3 s ' Jot, | he had a mighty big antagonist.’—Wash- a the holders stricken In a vital #pot ington Star. An Indiana man who voted the stralght | — democratic tioket al last week grew | “How do you-like your imported London ehaufeur? . woury of thé task and died at the age of | “ije understands his business perfectly 106. but one fn a while he clogs the machinery ( Former Senator Edmunds of Vermont in [Of the car by dropping an “h" into {t."- a letter to Senator Dillinghum of that state | C1IC480 Tribune. attacks the proposed income tax amend-| “Did you ever see such coarss halr as ment to the federal constitution as & dan- | Young Idleboy's? You could almost use his head for a sweeper.' a vacuum sweeper.'—Cleveland aler, gerous encroachment of federal Tower and urges its rejection | Anderson Roddenbery, the new | nan from Georgla, elsbted to fil| n ney, 18 regarded in Washington as the greaiest dispenser of words since talk- Ing was invented. The esteemed Jeff Dhvis of Arkaneas ls clearly outclassed. There is a bill before the New York leg- islature, having considerable support, which Drovides a special poll, one day before the general election next fall, at which women over 21 years of age may vote on the ques tion whether they shall have the tull rignt of suffrage. taxing | "y Plain De “Noah had a shipload of specimens of &)1 kinds of creatures” sald one small boy,. “Yes," veplied the other. Theodore Roosevelt of his d American. co e_was the —Baltimora | ‘There's only one way I can think of to head off thix suffragette movement, sald the mere man. “What is that,” asked his wife. “Make the legal age for voting 35 years instead of 3L.'"—~Washington Star. “Pardon me,” began the now acqualn- tance, "but are you the Mr. Cadley Nu- Governor Hadley of Missourl is endeay- | Fitch who wrote that magasine articie last & month for us?" oring to show that Senator Bill Stone can- | ' ‘Yes," interrupted Nuritch, ‘‘but, of not read his titlo clear, nd suggested | course you'll underatand that I don't make ). banator 3 b of | & business of that sort of thing.' ¥ that the senator consent to a recount of | & bus o e i gl PR the primary ballots cast two years ago. But | grjcle,"—Cathollc Standard and Timek. the foxy old senator dodges the issus and : sl . dark. | "I hope you will be interested in yonder leaves_the governor whistling in the dmh,l gonuten Tl e peatias et g slgned him to © you out to nner."" IMMUNITY BATHS 1751 "ahall be" responded the lady ad- dressed. "That gentleman gas formerly m e's behind his alimony.™ +—Washington Herald. Welcome Ruling of Court in Sugar Fraud Cases. New York Post. . v ‘"Are you going to take your motor car we're not so sur s 1t has so often siing. acres in Montana. Some of theee areas|Even this feat of banditry did not ocateh | v ¢ about that. . |less element in Kentucky, which, as a are irredeomadle “bad lande” but a eon-{m:publlc eye to any extent. Raisuli then rev.:r:“nd::ll:: :::l';:l;::lti‘."::\d"::d::;& 4t oat know:® sneweredMr.. Chuggine ‘South Omm.hl aas result. of investigations, has been A negro herb doctor, without even | Mderable perdentage of the yet unoccupled | made a master stroke by descending, May |, trial with other employes of the com- | '™, & tone of slight embarrassment, ust celebrated its o ! lands In the newer states will i band upon the splendid | f vou do take #t out, where will you aiantol; dubbed ‘‘the foster child of the to-|, y, to practice, 4 1d to hi eventually | 18, with a large D pany on tharges formulated by grand jury. | go?" oiolpal birthday . aumber twents:[yu. O 0, lght Riders” have| .. rico to practice, is sald to haveibe put to productive uses through irrigas | chateau of Mr. Perdicaris, on & hill N | Judge Martin of the United States eiroult | "1 can't say positively.” hree. But twenty-three does mnot ted’ Rnabt white: B doctored the Swope family twice and.at | tion processe 2 four miles from Tangier, and carrying off [, ) T " otable service to the | How lom, would it take you to et spell “skidoo for South Omaha. beon. pros 5 otate JAWS 9%1$10,000 per oo, If the investigation | There arc aiso immense land tracts not |tne wealthy owner and his stepson Into the | oo e Sunice and of popular resard for A niacs i e ———— felons, lawbreakers, peace breakers|os hat case goos far emough fit° Thay |included fo’the' speciatireservations which |mountains. Representatives in behalf of |yo oy "y “immunity bath” Hap be. | tioning me in that manner. T onis e L The most pecullar thing about the |*0d for interference with the freedom | gevelop that a carpenter, a blacksmith Have HOL yst' Beer Wirveyed. Leaving | the captive American were quickly made 10 | o e aimogt as notorlous a feature df our postoffice robbery at Ralston is that, thie robbers should have selected Rals: ton as the place to do the stunt. i + The latest automobile patent is on 8 device for cranking the machine from the chauffeur’s seat. Less dan- ger now of being run over befors you get started. (' Some people seem to.think that.if the tall of Halley's comet would only wipe out the New York Stock exchange they would be perfectiy willing to be wiped out themselves. 7 & e According to Mr, Kruttschnitt, the Union Pacific has saved the publie over $160,000,000 in ten years. Unpub- lished postseript: Also made a few millions for its owners, — . It seems to have turned out all right for the couples who weré married in Omaha on Council Blufts licenses, but the“'parsons” may have something to explain to the authorities. f ———— . The New York Stock exchange has at last bxpelled a member from the or ganization—which goes to show that in addition to.bulls and bears, the i e | What really hurts the World-Herald most in “Doc” Tanner's open confes- slon is the intimation that its own editor-congressman was elected only by the help of "liquor interests.” : Bandits held up and looted a New York hotel this week. This goes to prove the statement that if one really wants to experience wild and woolly existence he should go back east. R4 e The city council {s ealling on the Water board to expiain. ‘Careful read- fug of the oty charter shows that wWherever it is mentioned the Water board is declared to be paramount. Just ‘becausé Nebrasks is out of debt and the State treasurer has a lit- tle ‘money on hand, every branch of oficlal service is getting busy on to apend a bigger appropriation. If the Kansas mayors really have formed a trust-they will find them. selves In'clover uptil the primaries come aroynd for city electioms. Every- one knows what Kansas thinks about deposit guarguty the. filing 'exark"or m::-.- preme court. ' In ‘- the meantime the establishment of poStal savings banks will make it so that no one will miss the guaranty schem A new example of a “spite hedge" of individual citizens, but little im- pression seems to have been made upon them. But now that the federal dictments on the charge of conspiracy for tlie restraint of trade and for in- timidation, we may expect a more of- fectual barrier to be thrown up against these practices and that with the fed- eral goyernment “in the saddle” an end will come to the whole business. Kentucky, the home of the American feud and American ‘“‘Moonshine,” is giving up, with a good deal of re. luctance, some of the methods and ro- mantic customs of centuries ago, Not that Kentueky is behind the times, but that the chivairic and daring spirit of a Morgan still rums riot in her veins and ylelds to ‘modern industry with reluctance. But when her com- petitive. methods in business are car- ried to such an extent that a ruthle: war of extermination is waged among tobacco raisers it is going a little too far. A trial by a federal court on the proper charge, provided the trial es- tablishes the guilt of the partles in- dicted, should put a damper on this relic of medievalism Measures for Irrigation. The bill now'before the. United States senate for the issuance of $30, 000,000 In ocertificates to continue the work of reclamation meets with ap- proval throughout this western country. The east, although not unfavorably in- ¢lined, has nothing directly at stake. This bill will provide the necessary funds for putting the water, now stored in resérvoirs, where it will be of great benefit to the settlers In their work of opening up new tracts In sev- eral western states. These certificates call for fcash from the government eventually to be repald out of the pay- ments by the settlers, A great deal of money has already beén spent by the government in mak- ing possible the Irrigation and recla- mation of great stretehes of desert lands, rendering them suitable for cul- tivation. Immense amounts of money have been spent in the erectlon of great dams and reservoirs for the stor- irrigation, and it would be foolish to stop short of completion. The people reclaiming these great wastes of land which, when once thelr richness and fertility are made possible of develop- ment, are sure to support a large popu- lation. One réason for the fallure of neces- ry funds is that the withdrawal from the markets of vast tracts of land for investigation as te the possible pres- ence of minerals and metals, has cut off a source of revenu has been found in a western univer- sity. The young men of that instltu- tion have grown bea 80 as to be im- mune from the social responsibilities required by the coeds. thege lands would furntsh needed funds without which some other way must be provided. The possibilities of great profit from reclalmed artd soll must appeal to all congressmen and senators and a plumber also rendered profes- Aluska out of the count, the greatest wi- Washington by the many Trenton memhzI criminal law procedure s the insanity | propristor of the car—not the chauffour.” f ashington Star. government has stepped im ' with 1in-| |two and it would be wise to have that age of water for both power and for|' of the west are greatly in favor of The gale of |' surveyed 4rea ls In Arlzona and aggre- gates about 29,620,000 acres. There are yet neatly 27,000,000 acres of uncurveyed lands n Nevada and more than 24,0000 acres zt this class in Utah. Plainly enough, the ational government is stjll an extensive landholder. During the flscal year which closed with last June the receipts of the general land office from the disposal of {public lands was $9,285,00, and -from In- | dian lands $2,334,000. N sional services to the Swopes during| their illness. oy Andrew Carnegie says that million- aires must justify their existence; and one is led to ask for the standard of justification. Is he to set his own standard, or are the people to do so? There is a slight disparity between the | point. definitely settled In advance. Tmipresstve Facts Concerming Raile road Baruings, St. Louts Ploneer Press, A bulletin issued by the Assoolated Ship- pers’ Publiclty Bureau of New York fur- nishes some striking figures that are to be used as arguments against the plan of the rallway companies for an increase of freight rates throughout the country. In the original campalgn of education, the rallway companies used the shipping statis- Count Boni's parents are now suing the Princess de Sagan for their sup- port. Moral: . If you do not want to be badgered to death by ‘“‘busted” no- blemen and their relatives, keep clear of the Bonis. They are not haif so Sonny as they sound 2 The Springfield (Mass.) Union is re. | tics of and 197 to support their con- sponsible for the statement that Pres: tention that an increase In rates was warranted. The shippets have used the ident Taft holds the record for specch- making. If such a statement is al- lowed to go unchallenged some of our Bryanites will probably secede from the union. same figures to prove the other side of the case. In the ‘decade under discussion there Was an inerease of 3.5 per cent in miles of track, ™ per cent in the numbsr of passengers earried, and M2 per cent in tons' of r¥ight transported. The present tonnagé " ‘dffered to the raflronds eauals that of ‘1907, ‘and all indications are that the volme of business for !hr\runl year will exceed that uf any year in his. tory, furnishing a fully adequate return on the investment necessary 16 supply the factlities added by the transportation com- panies. In a financial way, the statistics show an increase of .$368,208,68 In the net ncome of the raflronds in 187, compared with 1897. In the same period the dividend rate was increased from 6543 per cent to 623 per cent and the total increase in the amount of stock paying dividends was $3,345,206,22. The total outstanding capital stock of rallroads in 1907 was §7,366,861,691. The amount necded to pay 6 per cent divi- dends on this capitalization was $441,411,701 The actual nét income of all the roads in 1807, after paying operating expenses, fn- Tremendous quantities of crude oil have been (iscovered in northern Al- berta and companies, organized under Canadian charter, have the territory under control. But it won't make any difference, John D. will get it even- tually. — is going to orate on Jim" “Washington the Man' at a Washing- Mayor ton 'birthday banquet at St. We knew Washington was a good horseman, but were not previously aware that he eould rope a steer. Joseph. ‘Theodore Roosevelt, jr., seems more pleaséd with the results of his own hunting efforts than he does With| terest on bonds and ail other fixed charges those of his father and brother. He|was $440,461,188 or more than $5,000000 in got the prize with just an old bow and | eXcess of the amount needed to pay 6 per 4 Tadke: cent on all the capital stock, including arrow of the eupld 9 watered stock and overcapitalization. It s evident from these officlal figures that the present scale of freight rates is producing reeults more than sufficlent to provide reasonable returns upon iegitimate rallway stocks. “Finin, Too Mild St. Paul Ploneer Pre Isn't this & funny worll? A few rs ago nearly one-half the people were shout- Ing for free silver because the gold doliar bought too much, and now they are kicking because it does not buy epough. | Our Birthday Book New York Herald. With Chief Justice Melville W Fuller of the suprome t of the United States| 71 years old Friday, and Assoclate Justice | John M. Harlan 77/ next June, and both | vigorous In mind and body, the age limit | of man ls surely lengthening February 18, 1910, Myron L. Learned 1s celebrating his forty-fourth birthday. He is a native of Vermont and studied in Boston Law school, and was aseoclated In & law firm with John L. Kenaedy from 1888 to 1307, since | which time he has been pracuicing on his Bloux City Journal, | own account. Mr; Learned ls president of No matter how dark the outlook, the fe- | the Omaba club, and also chairman of the publicans never give way (5 despalr. There | Fepublican county committee. Is always the bright prospect that My, | Willam F. Wappleh, lawyer and police Bryan may do something that will put the | commnissioner, was borii February 19, 156), | gemceratic party in such shape aa to pre.| 8 Keokuk, Ia. Mr. Wappich bekan his vent taking edvantage of its opportunity, | Fééidence in Omaha an his (whnty-seven Dbirthday and hes besn here eontinuou since, with a brief intermission. Ak-Sar-Ben would have a Keid time pulling up = in- itfation without him. Brigadier Genera! Willam Crogler, chler Dependence Well Pinced. Waraning to treet Gamblers. Philadelphia Press. President Taft dealt an honest entl stiff blow to the gambiers of Wall street last Saturday when he informed them that “if | op ordnance of the United States army, wa. the enforcement of the lsw 15 not consis- | born In Ohio, Februaty 1, 185 He Is well tent with the present methods of uny-lk.,n “to many people here. of Mr. Perdicaris, and Mr. Gummere, con- ! sul general at Tangier was urged to make évery effort to obtain Mr. Perdicaris’ re- !lease. American warships were sent to | Tangler a persuader and Secretar: qt | State Hay issued the uitimatum, “‘Perdi- {catis alive or Raisuli dead.” Mr. Perdl- ! carls was given his liberty and the incl- dent closed. . King Albert I, the new ruler of lklmum,l. is reputed to be a gentleman and a scholar and an expert in engineering. The latter | qualification Is largely the result of a stu- | aious visit to the United States some years ago. In. this swing around the iepublic he dodged all_the social functions he could, preferring to see the wheels go round in big shops and mills. When he struck Pittsburg the mighty captains of industry there showed him through the endless miles of big works until his tongue was hanging out of his mouth, but he was happy. He wanted to pitch camp and stay a year. Which was good evidence of the stutf he had in him, for most visitors are keen to get out of that city of unholy mirk, money and madness by the first traln, The prince and George Westing- | housé hit it off like long-lost brothers. Everything that concerns industry has the right-of-way with his attention, especially the sclences. He's well up on electricity, metallurgy and economics, and has lec- tured on these subjects considerably more than once. e 'Ireland’s prominence i the political af- tairs of Great Britain at the present time |is rivalled by the recrudescence of Gaelic orlging outside of the Bmerald Isle. Untll a very recent period Germany supplied all the printing In Gaelic characters that was to be had In Europe, the art being wholly lost even in Dublin. German col- leges and libraries contain almost as many Gaello documents as Ireland. The Gaello revival at home restored the print- ing art and Gaelic books and newspapers are now quite numerous and multiplying. The most interesting feature of the re- vival, however, Is its development across the Bnglish channel. Throughout Bel- gium and France there is a veritable Celtic wave arising that finds its force, not alone n the study of the Gaellc tongue, but in the claims of Irish descent belng made by the best famlilies of these coun- tries. In these, as well as in all Burope, Ivish exiles for centuries have sought the prises_of life denied them at home and achieved merited distinction In every line of action. The continental stream was far less noticeable than the tide to the west. | but it made up In strength and native ability what it lacked in numbers and loft its impress In each. The present re- vival abroad springs from the Irish lit- erary uplift at home, stimulated, doubt- less, by the persistent political cohesion | of the people and their tenacious struggle for reclal autonomy. o A wonderful bt of rallroad was re- cently opened to travel in Norway, con- necting the capital, Christiania, with the | west coast port of Bergen, surmounting | the willlest sort of mounteins at & sum- mit level of nearly 8,000 feet through the Gravehals tunnel, 5811 yards long. The | unity of Norway for & thousand years has been held by virtue of the sea. The de- | scendants of the Vikings, were compelled | to g0 down in ships by reason of the fm- | paseablo mountains which divide the country Into three districts, the southern or Christiania, the southwestern or Ber gen, the northern or Trondhjem. It wa as late ms 1880 before the railway (o Trondhjem was completed, while only now s Christiania jolned by steel to Bergen These lines will do mueh for the kingdoxn commercially. The Mrondhjem live has ai- 1 plca. Starting out from the basic princi- | ple that no man shall be compelled to in- criminate himself, the practice has been carried to the absurd point where a man can go before a grand jury and by a beautitul display of frankness make him- sel) impregnable against all attack in any way connected with anything he may have happened to touch upon In the course ot his previous testimony. As a scheme ot preventive inoculation it is infinitely super- for to vaccination. The custom might have been established for rich millionaires o |y 1aia for the music while somebody be haled into court once a year or so, on danced a charge of/not keeping the sidewalks in | Andno:omewh"r' sweet perfumes were frout of their offices olean. THereupon the | oo LOOUCIEL |\ 1\ s nis visitors glanced accused would glve reasons why he could And the world his great splendors was not afford to have the sidewalk cleaned, | poting and the next time he was sued for taking | With envious gase, but each moment had wn a millien dollars frem some one, he could [ o preclous that he must employ it plead immunity. Judge Martin's decision | With closest concern. Wondrous wealth comes In time. But'h.: hh;:n? FUTILITY. ‘Washington Star. He labored for years with a resolute will To rise to a lofty position, g And dreamt of the day when his diligent sl Would come to its golden fruition; And at last came success; and the bliss that came too Had but little thing to allo; ‘The world was his own, but he ¥ it elt rather ue, He hadn't the time to enjoy it. wn; the time to enjoy it. Don’t let prejudice blind you to your own self interest. 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