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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY. DECEMBER 9. 190. Tiie Omaha Daily Bee. K. ROSEWATER. EDITOR. PVBUSHED EVERT MORNINO. TRRVI OF Bl'BBCRIPTION Dally Be (without Bunday). one year. M "0 rmllr Km anil Hundar. one VMt W illustrated nee, one ye "under Be. one year. Illustrated Bee, one year fundar Be. one year at,in4ft nn Vir l.nu Twentieth Century Farmer, on year... 1 00 DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Dally Be (without Sunday), per copy ... Jo Illy Fea (wKhont Sunday . Pr wek...l-c Pally Bee (Including Sunday), per wee. .wo Sunday Fe. per copy S Evening B (without Bundey), per week 70 Eenmf Bee (Including Sunday). Coil plaint ' 'of " rrresrulart ties' 'in vJf should ha addressed to City Circulation De partment. orriCEa. Omaha Tha Bm Building. South Omaha-Ctty Hail bulldlnf. Twenty fifth and M etreete. Co-wll Bluffs-10 Pearl street. ( 'Mrs go 1940 Cnfty building. Naw Terk-ttM Park Row building. Washington H Fourteenth street. CORRESPONDENCE. Ornlmunlnatlon ralatlng to newt and edi torial matter abould ha addresaed: Omaha Ba, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. . Remit bf draft, esprea or poI order, parable to Tha Boa Publishing Company, Only J-eent tamps repaired In payment or mall account. Personal check. eacept on Oman or eaatam exchanges, not acceptea. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT Of" CIRCULATION. Bute of NehraaWa, Douglae County, as.: ' Oeorse B. TMchuck, secretary of Tha Baa Publishing Company, being duly sworn, sava tha tha actual number of full and complete eoptea of Tha Dally, Morning. Evening and Sunday Baa printed durlnd tba month of Norambar, 1904, waa aa fol lows) 1 1 SJWO X S,4O0 17 W,S1M I M,1M 1 1W,840 4 ..S.4flO It OTJHK) t OO.IUW JC. SO.STO BT.dOO fl 2,MO 7 ao.iow xi sw.eoo I M.550 ' n W.4BO 4A.1M M S,aBO 1 84.10O Xfi ...SW.TOO ii .....stM M saao 12 SIAOO S7 SO.0 13 JtA.Oft 21 : W.TOO 14 mjton . is jro.aso o aoo Total Lets unsoldr copies.. ........... .. 9B6,0!W ... 10,610 Nat total aaJaa 4.B14 Dally average 8J4HT GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In my preaanca and aworn to befoia at this Soth day of November, 1904, (8a M. B. HUNQATE, , ' Notary Public. Among other good things, the late lection seems have broken the tinea of Tillman's pitchfork. The slump on the stock market will probably find fall lamb with an much fleece as those of the spring. The next question ts. How much more money will be needed to finish the Au ditorium and where is it to come from? Lincoln Is not the only place whose society people commit the heinous offense of "holding mutual admiration societies." Colonel Watterson may consider It a happy coincidence that ba timed ' his visit to Europe so as to arold that Ken tuck drouth. The German Judge who decided that poker Is not a game of chance must hare takes lessons In the "science .from an American expert exponent. . Mr. Carnegie's eagerness to testify lu New Tork may make Ohio courts as much trouble as President Beckwlth's Inability to collect bis thoughts. Despite his usual plain language the president seems to bare left the "tarlff rlppers" and the "stand patters" guess lug as to bis ultimate position on the subject of the tariff. "Let well enough alone." aa a motto need only to be changed by the addition of the words, "If well enough Is right," to meet the full approval of the man behind the president's message. Omaha is to entertain the national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic i next Saturday. He should have a reception In every way worthy the man and the' office be holds. , Mute Superintendent Fowler's bien nial report is a plea for higher salaries for school teachers and higher1 axes, for school patrons. If the outgoing super intendent does not stand solid with the , school teachers it will not be his fault. It is to be hoped ; the Independent grain' elevator about to be erected by 'members of the Omaha Grain exchange will'be Independent not only in name but in fact. Experience has shown that competition Is nearly always succeeded by combination. i - i Wken John Sharp Williams .said no republican, not eveu the-president, can propose s 1U of benefit to the country for. Which be will not adriso democrats to vote, ba showed that he had recovered to a greater extent from the campaign than some of the democrats of the north have done up to this time. All this new fire apparatus and en larged Are force atill seems to have no effect on the underwriters, so far as the rates, for Are risks in Omaha are con cerned. The underwriters keep right on threatening increased Insurance tolls just aa if we were1 doing nothing to make fire fosses less burdensome. Paople who attend the inaugural ball Saturday. March 4, need not fear a dese cration of the first day of the week, as the manager of the affair promises to quit promptly at 12 o'clock, sud that there, will be no turning of the hands back,' although congressional, precedent lulgh warrant such procedure. Renalaf Millard has Introduced a ' petltlouVt the women suffragists asking that the. word "sex" be stricken from all the statehood bills. If the seuator succeeds in Inducing congress to strike tha word "act" out ct all statehood bills now pending, hr may hereafter be en acted, he will have accomplished a greater feat than any mau who has ever held dowa a seat lu either house of con giaaa. N T aid fur the rHitirnxts. In 'bis reference to the' rhllfpifities the prcaMcnt said that "every measure taken concerning the Island should be taken primarily with n view to their ad vantage." and lie pipit-wed the opinion that we should Rive them lower tariff rates on their exports to the United State. I nlcKS this is done it will le a wrong to extend our shipping laws to them. The president also favors legisla tion to encourage American capital to seek Investment in the Island in rail roads, factories, plantations and In lum bering and mining. Speaker Cannon Is reported as saying that he deems the adoption of a tariff and governmental roltey with respect to the Philippines a necessity. "We've got the Philippines anil are going to keep them," said Mr. Cannon. "The burden, then, is on us to provide by 'wise legis lation for their development, not -at the expense of the federal treasury, but out of revenues of the Island. A policy for the' Philippines, touching the matters covered In the measure passed last win ter. Is as necessary as was the govern ment aid extended to the west and north west. Congress then gave aid to the construction of railroads and improved the rivers so that American citizens could develop the resources of that great domain." The concurrence of the president and the speaker of the house of representa tives In regard to the necessity for 1 i 1 eral legislation in behalf of the Philip pines may be regarded ns assuring the desired action nt the present session of congress. The bill liefore the senate which provides for a more, liberal policy toward the archipelago is to be voted upon next week and It Is not doubted that It will be passed, since there ap pears to be no serious opposition to It. The popular .verdict having been most decidedly In favor of the retention of the Philippines the obvious duty of the gov ernment is to mnke every provision necessary to the Improvement and de velopment of the islands. They are n part of the national domain which we cannot afford to neglect, even though the promise be remote of a return for what they have cost. . A (WAVE AIISTAKt;. The city Board of Review has decided to assess the terminals and railroad property located within the right-of-way of the respective roads within the city limits of Omaha at the figures fixed by the State Hoard of Equalization. This. to use a mild expression. Is a. very grave mistake. The assessment of railroad property by the, State Board of Equaliza tion is made on the mileage basis with the value of the terminals and all local Improvements, depots, depot grounds and trackage alleged to lte distributed over the entire mileage of each of the dif ferent roads. While the distribution of terminal and depot ground values has always been a delusion and a snare -its assessment for state and county taxation purposes is nt least theoretically based on correct prin ciples. It .is grossly unjust and unrea sonable, however, to adopt the mileage basis for the assessment of railroad ter minals, depot grounds and right-of-way trackage for municipal taxation. Under the constitution of Nebraska the. basic principle of. taxation is that each individual and corporation shall bear their just. proportion of the tax bur dens, based upon the value of their prop erty and franchises. The true value of all property, real and personal, within the city of Omaha, including the prop erty of railroads, Is from $120,000,010 to $125,000,000 and the ratio of the value of railroad property to all other property Is at least one-sixth, or from $20,000,000 to $25,000,000. Manifestly the Just and reasonable proportion of city taxes, which the railroads should pay In Omaha is one-sixth of the total amount .of taxes levied upon all property. Last ' year the total city tux levy amounted to $1,400,000, and by rights the railroads should have paid one-sixth of that amount, or $233.33.1, but on the basis fixed by the State Board of Equal isation the aggregate amount of city taxes paid by the railroads, within and without the right-of-way, which includes depot grounds and depots, trackage, ter minal facilities, railroad headquarters and railroad machine shops, roundhouses and all other property in about $33,0(X. or $200,000 less than they should have been If the railroads paid their Just share of the taxes levied for municipal gov ernment. '. By this evasion of their just propor tion of municipal taxes the railroads have increased the burdens of -all the other taxpayers in Omaha by $200,000 a year and incidentally inflicted incalcu lable injury upon the city of Omaha. Fully three-fourths, or $15f),0(N), pf the taxes which the railroads have evaded hare fallen upon real estate, and .as the value .of real estate is gauged by Its net earnings the imposition of the additional $150,000 of taxes represents a deprecia tion of real estate values by many mil lions. It Is conceded by the big trust corporations of New York and Philadel phia that make mortgage loans on mu nicipal property in all parts of the coun try that real estate in Omaha is cheaper than In .any' other city of Its population in America. Tiie difference between the value of property li: Omaha -and other cities of equal population Is due almost solely to the fact that tuxes are higher and the earning power of- reul estate lower than In any other city of like pop ulation. While It Is true that the right of Omaha to levy a municipal tax upon the railroads in proportion to the value, of their terminals and trackage facilities through its streets nud alleys is now being tested lit the courts, it Is a grave mistake for the city to recede one lota from its ponltlon while the case Is pend ing lu the courts. It would be far better that the Board of Equalization should assess the property of the railroads at its true value and leave the collection of the tax subject to the Hum I decision of the courts than to ae them at a mileage basis and allow them to beat the city out of $200,000 a year. At the very best, the amount they would pay " n in"' basis Is too trivial to be considered, and we feel sure the people of Omaha would prefer to have this trivial amount levied upon their own property rather than remit It to corporations that have received dona tions in right-of-way and depot grounds worth millions. In a nutshell. If the city Is right in assessing railroad property In Omaha for municipal purposes at the value which the railroads themselves have placed upon it time and again In the courts, it should stand upon 'ts right until the highest court in the land has decreed otherwise. THK ULT.OMARUAMS& TAX The tax on oleomargarine colored in Imitation of butter is 10 cents per pound and an effort Is to be made to reduce this to 4 cents. Against this proposed reduction the dairy Interest of the coun try is united and has prepared to make a most determined fight. It Is stated thnt since the convening of congress Ietitions have been pouring In asking that no change be made in the (Irout law, which provides for a 10-cent tax. and It is understood that the dairy In terest of the country Is to be strongly represented at Washington in opposition to the Boutell bill, which proposes to reduce the tax. Another interesting contest over this matter Is therefore promised, with the chances In favor of the existing tax be ing maintained, though a compromise Is of course possible. It Is said that the organization and determination of the fanners, east and west, in support of the existing law, has astonished the most exierlenced members of congress and while the bill reducing the tax may be reported from the house ways and means committee the general expecta tion appears to be that It will certainly mejPt defeat on the floor of the house. A member of that committee is quoted as saying that defeat of the Oleo trust Is Inevitable and this appears to lie the general opinion, if the dairy interest maintains the vigorous fight It is now making. With the farmers of the coun try united In favor of maintaining the Grout law it is most unlikely that con gress will reject their demand. ' . TRIALS SHOULD BE EXPEDITED lu his annual report the attorney gen- erul of the United States directs atten tion to the law's delay in federal courts and recommends legislation for expe diting trials. The attorney general cites several instances of conspicuous delay In the prosecution of' persons charged with offenses against the government and notes that in two cases the defend ants fled the country and are still at large. Proceedings against other de fendants under the indictment cannot be carried on until the absent parties are apprehended and it is quite possible that this 'may not be done. Indeed the prob ability is that it will not be. The president in his message calls at tention to this and urges action by con gress. He points out that criminals who have sufficient means to enable them to take advantage of a system of procedure which has grown up In the federal courts, and which amounts in effect to making the law easy of enforcement against the man who has no money, and difficult of enforcement, even to the point of sometimes securing immunity, as regards the man who has money. Thts presents a condition that cannot fail to attract general attention and which the president remarks should especially command the consideration of the bench and bar of the country. The subject is not new. Very fre quently for many years men eminent In the legal profession and as members of both national and state tribunals have discussed the question of the law's de lay, particularly in the federal courts, and have suggested remedies, but the matter has never received serious atten tion from congress. The president says in his message: "At present the inter ests of the Innocent mad are amply safe guarded; but the Interests of the govern ment, that is, the Interests of honest ad ministration, that Is the Interests of the people, are not recognized as they should be." This is an Indictment of existing conditions in regard to the federal courts which manifestly calls for reform and It would seem that congress, the many ex perienced lawyers in which must be fully aware of the conditions pointed out by the president and the attorney general, cannot fall to give serious con sideration to n matter which Is so obvi ously important to the proper adminis tration of Justice. It ts an unquestiona ble fact that in respect to the matter of a prompt "administration of justice this country is far behind most other nations and particularly Great Britain, and this fact is not at all creditable or compli mentary to us. Reform In this respect is Imperatively demanded, if worse con ditions are not to ensue, and the country will expect congress to give heed to the admonition of the president and attor ney general. The reproach to the coun try Involved in existing conditions should not be permitted to continue. Many of the complaints registered before the Board of Itcvlew upon inves tigation prove to be directed at property which is not legally taxable. A great deal of valuable property In Omaha, both real and personal, pays no taxes because entitled to exemption. This includes, in addition to all public buildings and pul- lie property, such private property as Is devoted exclusively to educational, char itable and religious purposes. Under tills head hospitals, schools, churches and parsonages, art galleries, cemeteries, etc., are passed entirely by the assessor. As a matter of fact, however, the law which exempts, these properties from taxation does not exempt them from as sessment and they ought to be included In the assessment roll, If only to let us know bow much the taxpayers In gen eral are paying to the support of these Institutions la the way of relief from taxation. As the tat list is now made up. the question whether or not particu lar nmnertt is entitled to exemption is determined by the assessor, although no such authority is vested In him and no evidence Is exacted to show that the property Is leinr used for the purpose specified. If alt this property were as sessed and those entitled to exemption required to come liefore the Board of Review and make a showing to that effect, there is no doubt that a great deal of. taxable property that now escapes under pretext of legal exemption woniq be made to pay taxes the same as other property. The Auditorium is a semi-public insti tution. From the financial report Just made public it is disclosed that the rev enue from iolltlcal nieelngs during the last campaign amounted to $004, whereas the charge for one of those meetings within our knowledge was $2oo. It Is clear, therefore, that all did not pay the same price or the revenue would be a multiple of $20. From the same report it will be found that the rental derived from the two nights' oc cupancy of the Auditorium for the two Ak-Sar-Ben balls was only $.'100 or $150 each night instead of $200. The Audi torium should have a fixed rental schedule without variation except by action of the executive board. t . L 9 The ruling of the state supreme court that all legislation which authorizes cities or counties to compromise legally levied taxes Is unconstitutional will have a tendency to hamper the efforts of the railroad lawyers and tax agents who are making such strenuous efforts to block the collection of taxes levied against the railroad corporations in the various counties, with a view to negotiating compromises by which the railroads would secure material reductions of the taxes levied against them under the new revenue law. The apostolic delegate to the Philip pines says the pope desires peace in the Philippines. In tills he will have the hearty co-operation of the United States, which has reduced Insurrections to the smallest proportions in 200 years. The Impresaton la There. Philadelphia Preaa. Pretty nearly every democratic congress man took to Washington a different story of how it happened, bul they all agreed that It did happen. . Show Ip the Book. Chicago News. President Roosevelt recommends a public accounting for campaign funds. The presi dent does not seem to care whether the politicians love htm or not. Equal (a the Task. .. Chicago Tribune. Whatever may be. the requirements of the office of adjutant general of the slate of MnanachUHetts, we are satisfied that General Miles will circus fully up to the Job. . . -' Pipe Dreama. Indianapolis News. Bourke Coclran ' cliww. to ascertain the cost of Uir campaigns, pnst and future, reminds one. In a Way. of the lata Sena tor Ingalls. who on one occeHon made some remarks about an Irldcscofit dream. Walling Xatlvtata. Itadely Jarred. Philadelphia Record. After all the walling by our. natlvlsta that the unprincipled ateumehlp companies were destroying the foundations of pur na tional existence by bringing Immigrants here for less than $10 apiece, we have the aasurancc of the commissioner general of Immigration that the Intellectual; moral and physical qualifications of the Immi grants who got Into thla country during the last fiscal year were higher than ever before. Expansion of tha .avy. Chicago Record-Herald. While, therefore, it would be unwise to cripple the naval service or to Interfere with the carrying out of accepted plana. It Is certainly desirable that we should ex ercise great sobriety of Judgment in dealing with thia subject. And one thing that ahould be perfectly obvloua to the nation Is that we should not build a big navy Just to have It and boast of It. There could be nothing satisfying In It If w ahould oome finally to recognize that It was a useless luxury. ' PERSOXAI, NOTRS, The police of Naw York are engaged In a campaign to discourage the notion that self-help extends to taking things from the counters of tha department atorea. Frederick Vanderbllt seldom goes any where In society, lie dislikes It extremely and It la aaid that ha frequently absents hlmaelf when his wife haa house parties. A Philadelphia Judge has decided that a wife may go through her husband's pock eta, but a husband cannot go to his wife's porketbook for money. This is one of the poor rules that doesn't aeem to work both ways. Blr Lowthian Bell, one of Great Britain's famous metallurgists, who visited thla country fourteen years ago at tha ago of 75, haa Just been elected president of the Brltlah Institute of Mining Engineers. Ha la atill vigorous at tha aga of 89. Prof. Barrett Wendell of Harvard uni versity, who has gone to the famous 8or bonna institution In Paris, haa keen moat cordially welcomed by educators and lit erary men of that city, who are much In terested In the flrat efforts to Install an Kngllah department In the famous uni versity. Timothy I Woodruff, ex-lleutenant gov ernor of New Tork. is taking boxlnglea aona with a featherweight pugilist as hi trainer. Ha spends half an hour every evening with the glovea on. He started the practice, ha says, for exercise, but adda that ha hopes some day to go in tha ring with Prealdent Roosevelt David R. Francis, president of tha Bt. Louie fair, aaya that one of tha smart mi thinga ever aald in tha ground was uttered by ona of the attendanta at tha Turkish mosque on the Pike. An elderly spinster fell Into cOnveraatlon with thla subject of tha sultan, who speaks excellent English. She waa muih Interested In hla spiritual welfare and aald to him: "I hops you go to church every day like a Christian." Tha man replied quickly: "No, madam, 1 go every day Ilk a Turk." There waa a great hubbub In New Tork City for a week over a lot girl of 14 who waa supposed to have been kidnaped, but who haa returned to her home and made- what looks like a natural explana tion to thoaa who understand tha working of tha childish rnlnd. "I wasn't loat," h aid, "and I waan't kidnaped. I . want away from home of my own accord and have earned ray own living for whole week. I left horn beraua I did not want to go to school becauea I was the lartttt girl In th claaa noun Afiorr sew tork. Ripple the arrat of Life Metrnpitlle. New Yorkers are Just waking P " fact thst while ths contract for electric lighting rails for I,fnO candle power arc light, there hasn't been a light of that standard In sight In the city for four years. Information has bn furnished to Commissioner Oakley of the Department of Water Supply. Q and Electricity, to the effect that net one of the arc lights In the city's streets furnish greater than a l,200-candle-powr light. While the aver age would not run more than l.OW candl power. Pinned between two piles of pier at the foot of West Twenty-third street so tightly that the combined effort of a score of firemen and policemen were required to release him before the rising tide should cause death by drowning, a man supposed to he George Fahey became a raving maniac and died In s hospital. A police man heard Fahey's cries for help. A rop was passed under tha man's arms and five men attempted to pull him out. but only wedged his body In more tightly. The rising tide was at the level of the frightened man's chest and his screams urged the rescuers to greater haste. Four more policemen were summoned, but their efforts proved unavailing. An urgent call for more help brought a flreboat and the members of a nearby hook and ladder com pany with axes and hooks. The water had risen to Fahey'a chin. One man held his head above the water and poured whisky clown his' threat, while the fire men chopped at the piles which held him prisoner. When It was nip snd tuck whether the tide or the rescuers would win, the piles gave way and Fahey was taken out a rav ing minlac, and resisted efforts to revive htm. None of the real estate' booms In south ern snd western towns a few years ago. when building lota that had been staked out In corn fields were sold two or three times a day "by the front foot," has ex ceded In activity the speculation in Bronx property. A correspondent of the Philadel phia Ledger relates that a few daya ago brokeis were quoted as predicting that the boom had reached Its height and as ex pressing the opinion that If It continued much longer there was danger of a dis astrous collapse. But Instead of diminish ing, the speculation fever has become more virulent . daily. Many out-of-town people have been attracted to the scene by the stories of fortunes made in a day. In every corner In the boom districts, which number about half a doien, groups of men, women and' children are talking "lots" and comparing values here snd there. It looks more like an election day than any thing else. All the old vehicles that could be mustered are utilized to carry the pros pective purchasers around. As fast as they are emptied they are filled with new buyers, scurrying off In all directions. Mln utee meant dollars, and the men who want to buy were so thick tha men who had property for sale had but little time to spend with one party. There Is hardly a lot for miles around which has not been sold two or three times within the last eight weeks; but atill there are thousands of ,lots for sale at all prices. On the Rout hern boulevard and Prospect avenue the sales made are said to show an In crease of 10 per cent ov-r prices reported on the asking price of the preceding Sat urday. While viewing the animated acene an old real estate broker remarked. "Heaven help the people who are loaded up , when the bottom drops out of this boom," One of the latest notions adopted by New Tork mothers who go In for the cult la to make baby take Its afternoon nap out of doors, and that In all but sero weather. In a box, made especially for the pur pose, fastened securely outside the win dow, the modern baby takes Its afternoon siesta unmindful of the cold, for It Is well wrapped In warm blanket and aurrounded with hot water bottles to guard against tha chill of a late rail afternoon. Instead of breathing the dead air of the ordinary sleeping apartment it la taking Into its tiny lungs pure oxygen on which tt Is to thrive and grow atrong. One Co lumbia professor, who breathes according to theory, was one of the flrat disciples of the fresh air nap for his offspring: and now there are scorea of persona In the city who are following In his wake. Prosperity among Wall street brokera haa cauaed a general movement for larger offices. It la estimated that the leases signed within the past month by bankera and brokera Intending to move Into new offices will aggregate an annual rental of over t2.00O.O0O. Not for a long time, if ever before, haa there been such a general moving Into larger quarters, for, In the present market boom, financial firm can barely get men enough to handle their business, and in almost every active house the clerka are kept until 10 and 11 at night In order to keep up with the work. The remarkable growth of club life In New York City la shown by the fact that whareaa a decade ago there were barely 2,000 bona fide club members In ths metropolis, a recent compilation re vealed more than 60,000 resident members of some sixty clubs, exclusive of societies having no houses of their own. This In cease of more than 100 per cent la quite out of proportion tq the Increase In gen eral population. It I an Interesting fact that an Increasing difficulty Is being ex perienced by even wealthy men In gaining admission to any one of a half dozen ex clusive Fifth Avenue clubs. Membership, for Instance. In the Union club la a privi lege aa rare aa It la coveted, and the earn may be said of the Knickerbocker club and other faahlonable organisations combining business with pleaaur. Head ing the list with a required fee of $1,000, the Knickerbocker la tha moat expensive purely social organisation In tha United States with which to attain Identification. More than $8,600,000 haa bean Invested by the various New York cluba In eatabllah Ing home for themselves, and a ratinu of 6,000 or mora atendants la required to maintain them. J. P. Morgan Is the most prominent clubman In the city. He be long to eighteen organisations, and his annual dues approximate $7,000. With a living rabbit bound tightly to him, while a piece of the animal's akin six Inches wide is grafted securely to his leg. the life of Cornellua Poet. 16 years old. of Paaalac, N.. J., la depending upon that of tha rabbit. If tha animal lives until tha grafted akin takes hold tha operation will ba a moat remarkable ona In medical annals, besides aavlng the boy's Ufa. It Is two years since tha boy was burned, and unleta new skin can be made to grow on tha place where ulcere now ara, tha vital drain n tha boy's sytm will kill him. ' Tha burn on tha boy's leg and thigh Is fourteen Inchea long and ten Inches wide. Tha boy waa playing near a match factory two years ago, and picking up a wet piece of phophorus put It In his pockat. Tha heat of tha body dried It, tha phoaphorus took fire and terrible burns resulted. Aatealaklag Moderation. New York World. The American Shipper' asaoclation ac cuses tha Railroad frusta of. planning to gtt $260,000,000 mora per year by raising rates. I that all? Cltve. In India, with power absolute, was "astouUhta at bit own moderation I THK PRF.IDF.XTa MEMlOF.. f ever the Field. St. Ixuls Olnh.j.omorrt (rep.V Comprehensive, ei-erinV and Illuminating. A Man nf Idea. Chicago Chronicle (rep.. The utterance of a man of Ideas, of cour age and of power. The Voice of the Peot.le. ( Cincinnati Enquirer (dem.). The prealdent today speaks with voice of tha peopla. the lareaaaat Artltlty. Minneapolis Tribune (rep ). The dominant note Is Incessant activity on the part of the federal government to secure the welfare and Increase the pros perity of ths people of the Vnlted States. A Striking reatnre. Kanaaa City Star Unci.). The striking feature Is Its completeness. It ahows how thoroughly Mr. Roosevelt has considered the whole field cf federal responsibility, need, powers and limita tions. A t'rylna Sin. C'lilcsgo Record-Herald (Ind.). The president haa laid his finger on the crying sin of the railroads. The ending of rebates will be the beginning of a new era. They have built up some powerful corpora tions and are the mainstay of others. The president who stamps out rebates will leave little of the trust problem to be solved. Aa Admonition. Kansas City Times (ind.). ' At once an admenitlon against Intem perate and hasty action on the part of congress and n warning to the trusts that they must sooner or later act "In a spirit of Justice end derenry," and "with due regard for the Interests of the public as a whole." BACK TO THK FARMS. Hopefal Slgcn for Pntnre Prosperity and llapplneaa. Chicago Chronicle. Secretary Wilson conveys to the American people the more than welcome Information that the desertion of the farms for city life which has been going on at an alarm ing rate for the last twenty year seems to have come to an end and that some thing like a reaction has set In. If this Is true nothing could be a more hopeful sign for the future prosperity snd happiness of this country. I'ntll a few years ago American cltlea prided them selves greatly on their rapid growth In population and never wearied of presenting statistical tables showing an annual in crease of from 10 to 20 per cent. After a while It was observed that all the cltlea not only of this country but of all countries were growing In the same way. Finally it dawned on our understanding that the farms were being proportionately deserted and that what we had been priding ourselves on was nothing more nor less than a deplorable national disease. AV'hat we had hailed as solid municipal muscle and fat waa Seen to be dropsical wind and water. This wild flight of the country people to the cities Is something of a mystery, be cause It has taken place simultaneously with an Immense amelioration of the lone liness and hardships of farm life. In our day the trolley car darts by the farmer's gate, the letter carrier hands him his mall and the bus calls to take his children to school. Farm work Is now beginning to be done by storage batteries. The farmer ia no longer compelled to manufacture every thing he needs, but can buy it for a trifle at the nearest town. On his table are the finest periodicals and books In the world, he reads them by an electric light, be tele, phones bis orders around the farm or his gossip to hla neighbors and rides to the depot In an automobile. How It Is that men so pleasantly situated, with the sweet privilege of looking nature In the face, breathing unpolluted air, drink ing pure water and eating pure food, can give it up for the grime and filth, the smoke and stench, the close quarters and adulterated food, the starvation wages and Incessant strikes, lockouts and mobs of the city will always be regarded as an Insoluble problem. Not only do the farmers wrong them selves when they flock to the city, but they Inflict a terrible Injury on society. Agri culture I paralycad and the cltlea are glutted. Impoverished and corrupted. When they have come to the city and made themselves and everybody else miserable The awarded to TTTrPU TO over all other infants' foods THE HIGHEST AWARD of the " World's Fair Saint Louis " This is even higfier than the Gold Medal Your Eyes 1)14 -aa aver atop ia thlak that, with tUa emeeplloa of tha heart, tha aye la tha hardeat worked part of the body. Aa laaat aa yea ara awake and yaar ea ara open they arc work. Imm I" your service. Three pair of aaaaclea control the moveuieat of each eyeball. Tha two eyeball asavo aaaatly together. Wk. aa thlak of thla rMambr wa ara eselaalva anaaafartarlaa optlelaaa make aar owa laBSVS aad ara tha "Foaatala Head" for optical wark. of all kind. Ulaaaee atted f 1 aad op. Hutesoa Optical Company, Exclusive Opticians 213 S. I6lh St., Paxton Block, Omaha. 1 Wbaleeala aad Retail Parlory M. A JX mm CREAM MWffi Improves the flavor and adds to the health fulness of the food they then propose as a remedy not a re turn to the farm but socialism. "Back to the farm" should be the watch word of Americans. It Is to be feared that Secretary Wilson is fur too sanguine, but if Ills prognostication Is correct It I the best news this oountry has heard since the surrender at Appomattox. PI.EASASTI.Y POINTED. ll lllHl P n ut", I 11 lie r.'l - i at ll:r! p. m. and was accepted at 12.01 a. m. Philadelphia Ledger. "I see that lr. Iowle says that he can make It rain money. '" "Well, that's the sort of shower that would reconcile a man to the fact that he had forgotten to bring hla umbrella." Cleveland Plain Uealer. "Is thla Miss De Muir?" "Yes, sir. Pray be seated." "Thank you. Miss De Muir, I am M. Hoppendyke. I wish to ask you what your intentions are tn permitting my son dance attendance upon vou six evenings In the week." Chicago Tribune. "How do you manage to save up money for Christmas gifts?" "I arrange for the plumber and the coal dealer to draw mv salary on alternate w,feks. Then I work nt night, and what t get Is all mine." Cleveland Leader. "When I feel discouraged," said the Rev. l)r. Fourthly, "1 Just take a walk In the cemetery and read the Inacrlptlona on the graves of my former parlshoners. There I am Informed that they are all In heaven, and I can return to my labors with a consciousness of work well done." Cleve land Leader. King Frederick of Prussia, who waa look ing at his giant grenadiers, had begun tn wonder If they were good for anything ax. cept to look at, after all. "Talk about your Big Sticks!" he muttered- "Great Scott) I've got a regiment of 'era!" Chicago Tribune. "Do vou believe that people who marry In haste repent at lelaure?" "No," answered Mlsa Cayenne. . "Some times they are kept so busy finding fault that they never have any leisure." Washington Star. Buxom Wife Oh, John, why do you per sist In wearing; tnose tignt trousersr 'jne make you look so thin. Hubby "Taln't the pants make nie loo skinny. If you. Mocjern Society. AT THE KD OF THE SEASON. Milwaukee Sentinel. I met a little quarterback. He was a bird, he aald.' There were eome tran upon hla faca And bumps upon his head. "Our bunch Is to the bad," said ha, "We are a crippled crowd. This morning when I looked them o'er 1 swear I wept aloud." "How many are there on your teamT" I asked the tearful lad, "How many did you have before They put you to the bad?" "Alas," said he. "a few are hera And some, I trust, In heaven. Before the season opened up I think we were eleven. "We wera a sassy bunch," quoth he, "Before we got our pullback. Two of us in the churchyard He Our center and our fullback. "Our right guard broke his vertebra, Our left guard lot an arm. I am the only player left Who haa not met with harm." I sought to ascertain from him How many were in heaven; But he could only weep and say, "Kind sir, we were eleven!" TT IB) H oa Preaalaea .Katabllabod mm, KM Nell Miss Tassav says Mr. Golden pro posed to her on Wednesday nlsht, but she didn't give him her answer until Thursday. n I 'J J