Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 8, 1910, Page 6

FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. - v b Vo el Yt o] % YICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. Entered at Omahapostoffice as second- altu matter. - ot — TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Bitly Bee inetudt Daily Bee (withou Dully Bee (without Sunday). Dally d Sunday, one year Fveni !u(‘mnmt lunhn pev wnluc Bvening Bes (with per 100 lunqn: Bee, Satyrday Be e delivery to mh(lan Dav-mnmt FFICES. Omaha—The, B e Bullding. 'wenty | founh and N, mee‘lljgx.lf-' ““ Street. Inooln- Chica 1548 lulldlnl R SorkeRooms. TIoj- 1102 No. 34 West T ashingion— Fourtoenth Street N. W. COMISPO\D'N(‘I Communications relating to news and cditorial matt Tatuylmn’vdr“ Omaha Bee, mxfi‘Ancu P mit b r postal order ,;'-m- .l The hu rumunm. Company, tamps recsivad in payment of L Accounta. Bersanai checks, excapt on Omaha o eastern exshange, not acoepted. ATATEMENT OF CIRCOLATION. e n County, co mu“ reasurer of -hln cunun.r‘.. being duly actual number of l lll 0- l‘. Dl‘ Df Thl Dlfl.yd aleg, —"&"? pasy By flnfl 3 ml ru-ry‘ 1910, was by Tatal R’CII!B'I ovpl- . Net total .. Dally average. . e GEORGE B, TZRCHUCK, Treasurer. nn me lhl- llfioxé‘ op and sworn to w 1910 onu ubile, Subscribers leaving the city tem-~ porarily should have The Bee matled to them. Adfress will be changed as often. as requested. A . Meat barons have confessed that goat has been gold for lamb. The scapegoat? EmT—h—— Only one d-moqlth yote recorded for the postal savings bank bill in the senate, Is a plitform bihding? If Mr. Bryan does not hurry home, he may find that “Brother Charley” has usurped his place dn the lime- light, ; It is tantalizing to "‘: the dispatch that strawberry shorteakes are regu- lar diet in Florida during the month of March, —— Corn planting, time 1§ tagt approsch- ing. The wise farmer will have his seed corn tested before he puts it in the ground. Omaha was always put down as & B00d show town, but it is steadily leoming up still bigger on the show- man's maj Another Omaha church hag burned up its mortgage. Churches do not liquidate their Pu except during prosperous timi After trying to By & pork chop for dinner a man can g¥ to an automobile show and never wince. Hverything else looks cheap ‘after that, Anyone who has been at New Haven after Yale;had defeated Harvard in foot ball will mot be easily. convinced that Yale wae ever a church school. o] It is rather significant that a man was “accidentally killed In an Austrian duel.” Jdst what do 'they intend to do to each, other In an Austrian duel? STT—————F The late grand jury proves to be rofuse in presumptions, but short on Indfotments. If a grand jury camnot tecure the evidenee to support the pre- sumptions, who can? The Boston professor who (hat the statq should laony has. the right idea, !rue to mesd reiteration ‘lse can control matrim insists itrol matri- or it 18 too at no one For lack of robins at Atlantic City Ihis spring women are appearing on |he board walk wearing straw hats al- teady. 9 “just as good!” ldea is evi- lently not confined to mercantile busi- 1088, A New Hampshire woman asks for | divorce because her husband does ot know the war {s over, This Is tossibly explained by the husband that he war has never been over so far 8 he ls concerned. The ocal democratic organ is Melous that repubdlicans are trying to oment discord within the democratic touseheld of Nebraska; The demo- Tats s¢em to be dolng tolerably well vithout, assistance. Down in Lincoln somebody has ‘eéen checking up the probate court ecord of ',ul'fi ‘against the last receding porsonal tax returm of the leceased. TFhat's taking a mean ad- antage over A man who canpot talk wek. T It would;seem that Oklahoma demo- rats stll]l .conslder themselves bigger han_ ths Mtlflu 0( the United is_only ex- W~ \yh‘h‘ufldl!fl&om ltution of the ataté .of Oklahoma. ‘ou really have not time to look at it Mmm False Labels in Politics. ““When shall pure food prineiples be applied to politics?” asks the Lincoln Jourpal, basing its inquiry om a lettar questioning the ingredients of the Mefohants & Manufacturers associa- tion of Omaha, which is eéngaged in & campaign of publicity to gcounteract the agitation of ‘the Anti-Saloort league. Although the names of the officers aré printed on the letterhead, the label of the Merchants & Many- 5 | facturers’ assoelation of Omaha does not seem to give the Journal sufficient information as to who's who and what's what in the organization. When we come to talk about false labels in politics, however, we have several more flagrant examples to point to without going very far from home. Last fall in promotian of the campalgn for the election of so-called nonpartisan judges, agents of the democratic state committee put out misbranded lMterature over the forged name of “Progressive Republican League,” chiefly. devoted to personal attacks on the republican state chair- man and the republican national com- mitteeman. The democratic state chaifman lled llke a gentleman when he disclaimed responsibility and as- serted that he knew nothing about the fraud, But the dissemination of the falsely labeled documents was pro- cured through local democratic com- mitteemen and pald for with money left over from the Bryan volunteers the year before and turned over to the demooratic state committee, Another rank case of false label is that in which democratic nominees masquerade as populists in order to get populist votes by false pretenses. This indefensible fraud has been, and s still, practiced by democratic of- fice seekers who in every other walk of life would be scrupulously careful not to commit theft. The stealing of the populist label gave Nebraska's electoral vote In Bryan in 1908 and put a democratic governor in the chalr. To the Lincoln Journal we present our compliments. We are for a law that will do away with false labels in politics, Thomas O, Platt. In the death of Thomas Collier Platt of New York another of the unique figures in the political history of our country has passed away. Besides be- ing a man of execeptional versatility and power he accomplished much in politics and in national affairs directly and indirectly. He had been in the pub- lic éye for many years because of his prominence in state affairs in New York and also because of his early in- fluence in the republican party as one of its leading spirits. Mr. Platt was in the United States senate at the time of the trouble be- tween President Garfield and the con- gressional delegation, from New York and with Roscoe Conkling became the first to have the unique distinction of resigning from the United States senate after the civil war. He was universally trusted by the politicians of his state because of his mental grasp of political affairs, and in his time he was the leader of political leaders. Senator Platt will go down in his- tory chiefly for being the unintentional instrumentality by . which Theodore Roosevelt was elevated to the presi- dency. It was Benator Platt who forced the nomination of Roosevelt as vice president on the ticket with Wil- lHam MoKinley in 1900. While at- tempting to end the political prospects of the then governor of New York by shunting him to “the office of the dead,” he unwittingly placed him in a position to give to the natlon service of immeasurable value. And it is the irony of Mr, Platt's fate that this last and greatest service to the nation should have been the very thing which he most desired to prevent. A Bureau of Public Health, The efforts to make some provision for federal protection of public health have resulted in a lively discussion in Washington of the desirability of a department or bureau having this par. ticular work as its function. The senate committee to which the propo- sition has been referred favors a bureau subordinate to one of the existing departments, while the minor- ity, headed by Senator Owen of Okla- homa, is pushing for a department Wwith a chief in the president’s cabinet. Both sides, however, are agreed upon the advisability of some federal activ- ity for the public health with speclal reference to effectually checking yel- low fever and bubomic plague, Conservation of the public health a8 a whole 1s a most important matter, but there is question whether present provision in such matters-is so flag- rantly inadequate as to demand a cabi- net department. The states already have boards of health and the govern- ment has its military and naval medi- cal corps, the function of these belng to oversee the public health in the territory within range of their author- ity, respectively. The government has already accomplished much by way of example In the enforcement of quar- ‘antine regulations as well as maintain- Ing sanitary and hygienic conditions in the canal zone and other territory oc- cupled by those engaged in govern- ment enterprise. Individual states are perhaps less effective in the work of king after local health affairs, In- terstate quarantine regulations, to the extent of closing traffic to and from #tates infected by a malignant plague, until such time as that state can con- trol the situation, ‘might stimulatée state boards to activity amd acoom- plish the desired improvemeat. . . . ' Those favoring radical action by ’I'H'F BFF. federal health authorities have layed great stress upon the'gpread of the bubonic plagne along the Pacifh coast, This plague, it is sald, has been carried over a large territory around San Francisco by infected ground squir- rels and wood rats, But this, it would seem, is a matter for the state of California to look after. The co- ordination, however, of the various federal activities that have to do with health and sanitation Into a single bureau would be a good move. Chicago’s Vice Commission, Mayor Busse of Chicago has just named a commission of thirty proml- nent men and women, distinguished in different business fleids and profes- slons, to report upon wice conditions in that city. In his public statement constituting the commission the mayor declares that there is nothing to be gained by shutting eyes to the fact that vice exists {n its various forms In Chicago as in every large city, and that Chicago is no better and no worse than other places of its size, The commission {8 expected to suggest practical measures of con- trol and repression that may enable the city to adopt and pursue & com- mon sense policy in connection with this social evil. Mayor Busse is correct in saying that Chicago is not alone troubled with the vice question. Hvery city of any consequence finds a condition eon- fronting it which cannot be met by mere theory. Here in Omaha, as else- where, the subject is a favorite one for demagogues who want notorfety, and misguided uplifters ignorant of the past and with no adequate apprecia- tion of the present. Our mayor might appoint a vice commission for Omaha to wrestle with the question and find out whether anything should be done differently from what has been done, but perhaps it is just as well to let the Chicago commission work it out first and take advantage of its recom- mendations, when made, as may seem applicable here. The Rockefeller Foundation. When the bill calling for the incor- poration of the “Rockefeller Founda- tion” was introduced In congress con- siderable comment was called down both of praise and censure. There is scarcely a community, the country over, which has not raised a voice in protest against this ‘Standard Oil method” in business. Rockefeller has been denounced by almost every bad name and his ways reviled. It makes no difference what he does, says or dreams, he is censured and black- guarded from ore end of the country to the other, and the consensus of public opinion is that he deserves it. But granting that the fortune he has amassed, whether wrongfully or not, is his under the law of the land, |' why should he not be encouraged to devote it ‘to charitable’ purposes: He has given away a colossal sum al- ready, and although nearly every gift aroused a tumult of dispute, yet Mr. Rockefeller can find plenty of charita- ble and educational institutions still willing to be the reciplents of his ben- efactions. If this fortune were to be sguan- dered simply to satisfy Mr, Rockefel- ler's personal wants ana whims, pro- test would be much more justified than If it is to be disposed of in a way to make it a self-perpetuating source of benefit. The good that may be done may be made permanent, while the life of Mr. Rockefeller must be transitory after all. So the general public may as well accept the benefit, make the nfost of it and see that as much of the fortune as possible really goes to charity, education and human- itarian objects. Helping the Indian. The announcement that the bureau of Indian affairs is preparing to teach the “noble red man” to farm has re- vived the old subject of the “abuse of the Indian.” The experiment in agri- cultural education may yet be a suc- cess, but not without veversing previ- ous experience in helping the Indian to help himsell, Many mistakes have hitherto been made trying to ‘“civilize the Indian” and many of them are due to the poor ability of those selected for the task, yet the irresponsive atti- tude of the red man has to a very great extent invited faflure, It is useless for those who get thelr idea of the Indian from the writings of Cooper and Longfellow to say that our federal government does not treat him with proper consideration. Al. though former mistreatment cannot be denied, yet tha government has not en- tirely neglected its wards. Since the establishment of our republic the De- partment of Indlan Affairs has spent over $500,000,000 in behalf of the red man. It {s now spending $9,000,000 annually for his support, including the maintenance of the Indian schools. This does not take into account the forty-uine Indlan schools supported by religious and. private organizations. |, ‘When It s remembered that there are but 300,000 Indians in the United States these figures carry more signifi- cance. Yet in spite of all this the In- dian is slow to take advantage of his opportunities. However, it is to be hoped that the present efforts to make him stand alone will bear fruit and that the practical assistance now tardily given him may result in devel- oping his abllity and preserving the remnant of the race. Our old friend, Edgar Howard, pre- tends to think The Bee is ‘“‘rejoicing” over the election by the democratic legislature of Mississipp! of a corpor- ation lawyer-to bo United States sen- ator In preference to a friend of the OMAHA, ’I'UE‘IDAY MAR('H 8, 1910. people. Oh no, Edgar, not “rejolc- ing.” Merely filled with pity that democratic professions are so lament- ably weak In its performance. Democ racy in Mississippl is not much dif- ferent from democracy in Nebraska, as Edgar'’s own expertence with the hostile check-book has demonstrated. The announcement is made by Edgar Howard in his Columbus Tele- gram that the corporations have al- ready selected the men who will lay the foundation for control of our next state senate, with this further infor- mation: The democrat selected by the combina- tion to fix the democratic senatorial nomi- nees 18 a prominent Omaha lawyer. The republican selected to fix the republican senatorial nominees {s now holding one of the best offices In the state Well, that lets us out, [ - From the standpoint of those who wear them it is interesting to know that nearly 10,000 tons of Chingse halr, taken from the heads of “the quick and the dead,” were shipped to America last year to be made into rats. How fortunate that the chloride of lime process and the breaking up of the fce that has prevented aeration, are to arrive at the same time, so that when typhold is put to rout each remedy may help vindicate the other. —— Now that Vesuvius has started in with its regular eruption after we have had Cook hats and Chanticleer hats, it 18 up to some enterpriging milliner to invent a red hot eruption hat with an earthquake attachment. The New Jersey preacher who re- wigned In order to raise chickens must have been a Methodist. No other ex- planation can be found for such a close affinity between the clergy and the chicken raising business, remarks that it George Washington were alive he would be a citizen of Texas. What did George Washington ever do which would require him to live in Texas if he were alive? A Texas editor The ten years of closed season on seals should help out the average man in the cost of living, but then just think of what he will have coming to him at the end of that time. —_— It is charged that a lot of the Cali- fornia scenery is infected with the bu- bonic plague, but if so, it is sure to be remedied by the authorities before the next ‘‘tourist season” opens, Another Turn of the Screws. New, York World. The threatened advance in the price of diamonds, the importation of which in February was the, largest in the history of the trade, poluts to a further Increase in the cost of living, ‘l'lrl“ IR Antien, Now ‘that' m“n% o hu passed Mr. Aldrich's Bill providing for that “business comn\mlon. congress may. feel that it 1s 6 far fidvanced toward saving that 000,000 & year 1t can make a lit- tle larger appropriations, Unique Ariny Ree: 8t. *Louls Globe Democr Four ganerals in the United States army, soon to be retired, served as youthful rivates in the ofvil war, then went to Point and graduated, and now are brigadlers. A record like that, beginning with a private's knapsack, is highly credi- table. ) Vibrating the Home Chord. Washington Herald. The first words from Mr. Roosevelt as he emerged from the jungles were, “I am homesick—mighty homesick?” Call it advertlsing or whatever you will, but that sort of talk mccounts In large measure for the former president's remarkable and sus- tained popularity, PACIFIO NAVAL BASE, ! Pearl Harbor, in Hawail, Considered the Beat. Philadelphia Bulletin, President Taft's definite announcement in his recent Newark speech that the scheme to spend millions for the creation of s mighty American naval station in the Philippines had been abandoned, de- Serves attention, Nelther at Manil Sublg Bay, but at Pearl Harbar, in Hawall, which 1s some 5,000 miles nearer the comst line of the United States, “the great naval buse of the Pacific”—to use Mr. Taft's own words—Is to be copetructed. This is an eminently sensible declsion, however deeply it may disappoint some of the uniformed strategists who have written and spoken as if they thought “a far- flung battle-line” were an indispensable ad- junot to national greatness. To have erected huge fortifications on the other side of the earth's biggest ocean, to have filled them with magazines of ammunition and large garrisons, and to have provided vest dock and repair facllities under the rarge of thelr guns, would have cost enormous sums—with no certainty that the United States would be able to hold them in case of war, ; ‘Whatever may be the ultimate destiny of the sprawling archipelago in the Asian seas, no one ‘doubts that Hawall will stay under the Stars and Stripes. Naturally it is an outpost for our far western seaboard —a point of vantage whose Importance will be greatly increased when the Panama canal is finished. That is the place for docks and forts and batterles of heavy ordnance if the pesition of the country in the Pacific is to be strategically strength- ened. Our Birthday Beok March 8, 1910. Homer Davenport, the famous cartoonist, was born March 8, 1867, at Silverton, Ore. He originated the dollar-mark eartoon for Mark Hanna, and besides drawing plotures breeds Arablan horses. H. C. Brome, with law offices In the bullding, was born March 8, 1866, in Bullivan county, New York. He started practicing law at Stanton, Neb., In 167 and later removed to Norfolk, com- ing to Omaha In 1889. H. L. Whitney of the land and . tax department of the Northwestern rallway, is 41 years old today. He was born In Righmond, TIl, and has been with the Northwestern rallway for tweaty-one years, The new home of the Dime Savings bank in New York City, embodies the latest profective devices and conveniences In bank conitruction. The vault, rising behind the banking screen, Is the notable point in the Interlor. It Is structurally quite indepen- dent of the buflding. It stands on its own foundation and cannot be entered from below. The vault is 12x23 feet and has electric protection on the top, sides and bottom. This protection is under a conting of bronsze and marble. First in the electric protection come a layer of wood so thickly filled with elec- tric wires that the insertion of & knife blade Into the wood at any point would cause the alarm to ring. Under this wood come the walls of concrete, two and a halt feet thick and ribbed with Interlaced iron bars, and finally the shell of chrome steel and iron. This is three inches thick. There are two doors of steel and iron welghing thirteen tons, but so carefully adjusted that they may be moved with one hand. There are three time locks. A thin layer of steel divides the vaulls Into parts. One is for currency and the other for securities. The wall may be easlly cut through in case one of the doors should, through any cause, refuse to operate. The electric communication with the vault leads out of the bullding through a secret joint, but should the wire be discov- ered and cut it would still continue to ring, just as a telephone does when the recelver has been removed. So anybody trying to get away with any of the $500,000 more or less in cash that will be usually deposited in the bank, or the securities, which may be still more valuable, 18 not going to find it an easy job. The two doors of the vault are in the eastern and northern w and ohe is en- tered from the treasurer's office, while the other gives directly on to the space back of the banking counter. Mindful of a bank robbery that took place several years ago, when the robbers watched through a win- dow for the minute the treasurer was alone and then broke Into his office, there are three doors to the office of the treasurer in this new bank, and the door leading {m- mediately to the office cannot be opened, except when the treasurer touches the button on his desk. “Nobody is golng to poke out a good eye just for the sake of getting a glass eye” sald the city salesman, quoted by the Bun, “but I know a man who makes money on his glass eye. He goes to Europe three times a year on business. ‘While thers he does a little trading in Jewels & side line. It is on the home- ward trip that he turns his glass eye to good account’ In the cavity back of it he carries two or three small, but valu- able diamonds. Half the duty, saved is his commission on those stones alone. The customs inspectors have never got onto him. Naturally they can't go around Jab- bing thelr fingers into people's eyes.” Magistrate Kernochan walked past the Forty-second street police station the other day just In time to see four red faced policemen dragging a Swede to port. He was obviously Intoxicated. He sang ber- serk war songs as he battled the coppers left and right, and, white halr and pale eyes and all, was a man of might. Kernochan observed the struggle with Interest. The desk Jleutenant and the doorman had to come out and.add propulsive power before they got the Scandinavian lunded. Next morning Kernochan mounted the bench at 9 o'clock. The first man to appear before him was the fighting Swede of the night before, neat and trim, eyes clear, color ruddy, not & bit the worse for wear, “Ay tank Ay ben lettle bit stewed las' night,” sald the Swede, frankly. ‘Day copper ‘say Ay have ay oase of tin hats. But Ay feel bully dis har morning. Ay no mean to gat full" “How much did you drink?".fasked Ker- nochan, in interest, “Ay tank Ay drink four quart visky," sald the Bwede. “But Ay can't tell, Ay no keep count after fourth bottle." “Don't you feel bad at all?” asked Ker- nochan, “No," sald the Swede. “Vhy should Ay feel bad? Coppers hit me a lettle on day head, but Ay do not mind that. Ay guess maybe ben nolsy." “Doesn't your head ache at all?’ asked the magistrate. “Not even a little bit?" “Vhy, no,’ sald the Swede. ‘Ay not dreenk enough for make may head ache. Ay yoost ban happy." “Dismissed,” sald Kernochan, leaning his head on his hands. “No penalties the law could enforce would touch a man with your constitution.’ “Tank you,” sald. the Swede. sald Kernochan. “There is not, I believe, another city on the globe t) arket to correspond to New York's ‘Paddy’s market,' " says one of the old time New Yorkers. * ‘Paddy's market eannot be found dur- ing the week, and it is not until Saturday night that it springs up in all its glory. It 18 & mongrel market. Dealers in all the blg markets throughout the city dispese of their perishable produce, such as fish, meats, poultry, frult and vegetables, to peddiers at an absurdly low price late Sat- urday night. These peddlers station them- selves along both sides of Ninth avenue from about Thirty-fourth to Forty-second streots. From around 6 o'clock on Saturday evening untfl midnight it 1s difficult to | pish your way along Ninth avenue In this | ection. The crowds are phenomenal and | they come from all over the city. Poor | tamilies that have ones lived in the neigh- | borhood and then moved to the Bronx, to the lower cast side, to very remote sec- | tlons in every direction, appear with great market baskets on thelr arms and leavo | with the baskets overflowing with food of | all sorts and with innumerable bundles be- sides. “Meat 13 sold there, not by the pound, but by the plece. You can buy your fish in the samo way. Frult, such as oranges and apples, you buy by the pail instead of by the dosen. There are almost no quart measures In ‘Paddy's market; a pall |s used to measure beans, peas, spinach, to- matoes and all the vegetables that are usually purchased by the pint, quart or small measure. “The produce sold at ‘Paddy's market' js much better than you would suppose it could be. It Is first class stuff, a good deal of it, and s simply’ sold cheap to the peddiers because it would not keep over in the other markets until Monday. Few New Yorkers apart from the regular pgt- ronlzers of the place have heard of ‘Paddy's markel,’ but it is ope of the unique places of New York." Pittsburg Dispatch, It anyone tried to bribe the public prose- outor of Jersey City on behalf of the pack- ers' combination it was grobahly the office boy. Office boys are of the greatest use mowadays In signing notes for millions, dumping stocks at the psychological mo- ment and doing many things that the emi- A Fire and Burglar-Proof Safety Jewelry, etc. Var Entrance to Safety Deposit Vaults {s at 37 South 15th St PERSONAL NOTES, Attorney Gomml Wickersham will be the chief speaker at the Appomattox_ day dinner of the Hamilton club in Chicago next month, Senator Gordon's farewell speech did not break the Congressional Record, but mada such a demand for it that an extra edition has become necessary. John W. Gates, whose financlal specula- tions have made him a national character, {s mentioned as a possible candidate for governor of Texas on the republican ticket. Patrick Peterson of Buxton, Ta., bored a hole In & new Lincoln penny, and was so sorry about it after he realized that he had mutllated a “coln of the realm” that he wrote an apology to President Taft. Collins Graves, hero of the Mill river flood disaster, famed In prose and verse for his race with the torrent at his heels from Willamsburg through Skinnerville to Haydenville, warning the people along the way of the danger, died In his home at Willlamsburg, Mass, at. the age of 70 years, Lmst year the tobacco business of this country amounted to $150,000000. That is nearly $10 to a family. A saving of 3 cents a day in each household would remove these appaliing statistics. Terrible, be- cause when thus analyzed they reveal the character of many of the clgars that of- fend the air. Colonel John Dietrich, a friend of Abra- ham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas and Gen- eral Grant, died in his home In Plainfield, N. J., of general debllity, aged 89 years. He possessed many tokens given him by the three great Americans. He made a for- tune in California in 1849 and was present with Grant at the surrender of Vicksburg. Ninety-two men Indicted for capital crimes are awalting trial in Chicago. Beven city contractors and near-blind inspectors have also been Indicted. committee and two grand juries are fer- reting out shady doings around the city ball. These alone Insure the district at- torney's office & year's run to Its full capacity, Why Appropriations Olimb Higher and Higher. Washington Post. Senator Aldrich spake the words of truth and soberness when he sald the federal government costs $300,000,000 more than it would cost if run by a business man on business principles, with a view to effi- clency, economy and honesty, There Is not & doubt of it, Ours is the costliest govern- ment in the world. We pay for it more than $1,000,000,000 per annum, and that 1s not all. In this gigantic computation no account is taken of the forty-six state governments, the hundreds of county governments and the thousands of municipal governments the American people have to support, The poet Pope thought that the best gov- ernment which was best administered. Thomas Jefferson said the best govern- ment was that which governed least. Another school has it that the best govern- ment s that which costs least. Robert Toombs served elght years in the United States house of representatives and elght years in the United States senate. He was & man of glant Intellect and tremen- dous force of character, and It was his boast that during that entire sixteen years he got not a cent out of the federal treas- ury for Georgla. How long would a states- man as that hold & job In our day, in Georgla, or out of Georgla? It the people want a frugal government, let them ralse & crop of men like Toombs and send them to the two houses of con- gress. But the people do not want, and will not have,-a frugal government. They seek senators who will “get things" for their states, and representatives who will “get things" for thelr districts. They prefer a statesman who can secure & pension for an old soldler to one who can make an argu- ment like Webster or Toombs. Instead of retrenching, before this cen- tury concludes its second decade, the fed- eral establishment will cost $§2,000,000,000 annually, even if we shall be so happy as to escape a big forelgn war. As the poet of the Kentueky “Pennyrile" sang: Roll on, roll on, thou silvery moon; Thou carest not & for expenses! oes Beltter ———— and is r. called “high-grade” well as CHEAP. ~he as good as it ls. nept head officers would never think ot An investigating | Deposit Box iseconomical insurance on Valuable Papers, ious sizes fer various needs. (Erom $3 Per Year Up) irst National Bankof Omaha ' WHITTLED TO A POINT. AR A . ““Whi are your terms for r‘m‘d‘l‘ Nrklc | 4 “'Spot cash.”—Houston Post, “What Is your favorite book just nowd & novel, ecclil or religieust A novel, but religlous, spect. “What i¥ that?" “It Is keeping lent, all right.~Baltimorq’ American too, In one roe She (reminiscing)—Don't you rememb: dear, that lovely gorge up in the Whit mountains? He—At the Hawthorne? Say, that was about the swellest feed 1 ever tucked In.— Boston Transcript. action?” ¥ Practically the same as the lawyed means it, my son. When the doctor tried your heart action he sticks you for money, and when tie lawyer tries it he sticks you for alimony.”—8t. Louls Star. Family Friend—1 rnnmlulu'-e my dear sir, on the marriage of your daughters 1 see you are gradually getiiis all the wiria off your hands, Goldbranch—Off my hands! . Yes; but the worst of it 8, 1 have to keep all thelr hus+ bands on thelr feet.—Spare Momonts. ou, “It you get strictly fr freah eggs,” the BILQ man was saying, ‘you've got to pay fol lhe{_n hat's s0," Mine have cost me $.87% & dosen WIROR et mpossible!" "\'o{ at all impossible. T keep half % dozen hens.”~Chicago Tribune. / rémarked _the l\lbllfllll’{ll!.l hl “How.dld they manage to get all those facts about the milk trust?” “In the natural way, I “How was that?"' “Pumped the American. Novice—It must be a dreadful sensalion to run over a_man! Chauffeur—Not nearly go dreadful as to run over a cow—and {t doesn't injure the machine so much,—Judge. They were setting up the golden calf. “What do think of -1t?" . they tically asked the wise man, b will look ehsap encugh, when the food barons begin to put up the price of veal,” he answered, and gloomily stalked away.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Ella—She sald she wouldn't marry the best man on earth. Btella—She kept her word. The ceremony was performed in an airship.—Judge, “I ghould think Wiffles Needrox would bé ashamed (o give: his daughter away when she marries that rich oid spoundrel’* Hg's not golng to give her away.” “Who “Nobody, he's golng to sell her~Baltie more American. “Fifteen-two and & palr makes four,' sald Subbubs, who was playing eribbage Popley. “What have you in your ..Ah.., “Just the sweetest little ootsumstootsums girl {n the world.""—Catholie Btandard and Times. “I'm going to have my boy learn elecs trical engineering, chemistry, physics and law and incldentally take # course In phy= sical culture that will enable him to ens dure all sorts of exposure and musculaf strain." “Great Scott! What for?" “I want him to be able to run his owm automoblle.”~Washington Star, \ AXIOMS THAT FAILED, y Chicago Pést: A “Aim high," they sald to Willlam Brown, And he chose notions elevated; To common things he gave a fro He felt for greatness he was fat Alas, he did not rise to fame, Nor realize his high ambitions— He put so much thought on his aim He quite forgot his ammunition, And “Hitch your wagon to a star,” ‘Was what they counseled Henry Walkea, He wished to journey on and far Behind a steed that was no balker, Alas. the journey {hat he made Was not’ distingulshed by its farnes His wagon led no cavaloade Becauso he overlooked the harnes “Do not put all your eggs,” they -Al To Hiram Perkins, “In one basket." Now, Hiram had it in his head To some day own a theasure casket, ’ Alas, he.met the worst of fagem— He' thought of fortune in #%lather, But while assembling all his-erates He did not think the cggs to gather. “A burnt child dreads the fire,” they tol@ To Julfus Miggles for his tralningi” He walited then tili things were cold, Even a lukewarm chance disdaining. Alas, although his fingers ne'er Wero scorched by anything he handled, The fortune that might be his care Today in other hands is dandled. “Cheap” IT IS THE SORT OF SOAP thet app majority of househeepers. IF IT WERE MORE EXPENSIVE, they would not use it as freely as they do. IFIT WERE CHEAPER, it would not-—gould not Work Than Joaps WE MAHKE THESE CLAIMS for Lenox Soap; IT COSTS ONLY A TRIFLE MORE than any of the cheap soaps; but it does much better work— IT COSTS CONSIDERABLY LESS than so- laundry soaps; and do good worls as the best of them. IN OTHER WORDS, Lenox Scap is GOOD as s'to the Lenox Soap-Just fits the hand “Pa, what does the dootor mean by n--\’ replied Popley, absent mindedly, ’.