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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY. FED R TAR Y P. 1003. The Omaiia Daily Bee. E. ROB EW A TER. EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVrRT MORNING. TLRM3 OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Be (without Sunday), on yesr ..Ij-JJ DIIy Be and Sunday, on r Illustrated be, one year 7 Hunday Bee. on year...... E! Haturaay B. on your J !" Uwntrth Century Farmer, -ne year... l.w DEUVERID BT CARRIER. Dally Ve (without Sunday), per '"I'ViS 1'ally Boa (without Sunday), jx-t ";?? Dally Be (Including Sunday). Pr a"1 Sunday Be. per copy , Evening Be twlthout Sunday), per week Jc Evenrna Be (Including Sunday). P9r,- Wfestrit -c ComplatV'er 'irWtularitlea In should be addressed to City Ulreulsuon De partment. OFFICES. Omaha Th Bee Building. . , Boath Omaba-aty Hall building, i venty fifth and M streets. Connoll Bluffs 10 Pearl atrt. Chko-.lo fnltv building. New Terk-SWS Park Row bulldmt,. , Washington 601 Fourteenth atre'.t. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to n.s and d lorlai matter should be addreaaed: Omaha Bee. Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft. xprea or poatal order, payable to Th Be Puhllehlng Cot..pany. Only -cent stamp received In payment of mall accounts. Personal check, except on Omaha or eastern exchsnge. not accepted. THE BEE PVBLIS-HINO COMPANT. STATEMENT OP CIRCULATION. Stat of Nebraska. Douglae County. ss.: Oeerg B. Tsschuck. secretary of The Be Publishing Company, being duly sworn, nays that the actual number of full and cnmplat rople of Th Dally. Morning, Evening and Sunday Be printed during th month of January. 1W6, was as follows: 1 80.230 17 ST.TIO S 2,040 II ST.nao t sm.470 i arno 4 IMIO ?0 ST.B20 S .'.... T.T 31 SO.OHO armt n ao.eno T.,.w 0,42tt i 33,100 so,i4 :i. sh,t st.too x iT.810 10 STm IS M.1BO it rw jt8.oto u st,m a o,o II STJMO 2t ,0 14 ftO,300 M ST3T0 80,000 , 31 2T.OOO . aT,o . Total jwaoo Less unsold copies ,818 Dally ay era g ... 882.TT8 S,4? OEO. B. TZSCHUCK. 8ubsortbd In my presenc and sworn to befor aia this list day of January. 1K4. (Seal) M. B. HUNOATE Notary Public. Another lesson of the unusual snow fall ! to prepare for flood" when the Ice breaks In the riven. . Tha Russo-Jap war began one year ago today. It Is high time to arrange for cloning the Incident. , The silence of one David B. Hill would lndlcata that he la still taking, hi re tirement from' politics seriously. The .hardware men attending the state meeting at Omaha are admonished to bring thttlr ice. tool along and leave their tomahawks at home. The fact that the leaders of the Ar gentina rerolntlon have escaped would Indicate that the campaign for the pres idency, of that, country Is not entirely rer. ' ow that the railroads are apparently unloading on, traffic managers all re sponsibility . for secret rebates, the rea sons for those prlnuely salaries become apparent. . v In tbe Colby case the United Slates seems to hare realised those lines of Nhakespeare: "He that Is robbed, not wanting what Is stolen, let hint uot know It. be Is not robbed at all." Having been assured that counting spots on the aun 1a In ' no way dan gerous, a lot of men would also like to know whether It Is safe to stay out late looking for spots on the moon. In the light of senatorial action It re mains to be seen If Oklahoma can en fore prohibition In tbe enabling act bet ter than Kansas has done In the con strfufon add Iowa In the statute. Governor' Mickey declared during his campaign for re-election that be would sign ah anti-pass bill If It came to him for approval. This puts it up to the . legislature to say "pass" or "no pass." The report that democrats are already organising against Congressman Hep bora In the Eighth Iowa district may he the congressman's way to present an undtVldiMl republican front to the politi cal enemy. Chicago police say that they will prou- ary cle down the number of women married by "Bluebeard" Horn tt teu, which Ik really not a phenomenal record for Chicago If, divorce court records ure any" Index. ' .a QVEnnox or rnofiKrvTiox. Since the decision rendered by the su preme court sgalnst the Beef trust there is a demand lu some quarters for the more drastic enforcement of the sntl trust laws. The feeling Is pretty Keneral that tbe last verdict agalimt the combine gives warrant to the government for instituting criminal proceedings for vlo lutlons of the law and that such action should be taken at an early day. In ref erence to thia the New York Commercial Advertiser says that the trust has used its past power, gtiined by rebates from the railroads, to lay violent bands upon the foc1 of the people and to fli prices at will, playing both ds for Its sola profit. It tin refused fair prices to the cattle raisers and has sold the products of Its pocking houses at high prices to the consumers. These facts .ire unu.uestiout.ble.' They have been established by Indisputable evidence snd the only question Is as to what shall be done by the government to put nn nd to conditions which arc admitted to be Inimical to the public welfare. Khnll the men wiio are responsible for this condition of affHlrs be prosecuted by the government or not. In the opin ion of some who have looked Into the matter carefully and from a legal stand point there is no reason why the gov ernment should not Institute criminal proceedings against the persons Identi fied with the Beef combine. This Is be ing urged by some of the most Influen tial papers of the east, Which luslst that the only way to carry out proverly the decree of injunction against t ho Beef combine Is to Insist upon the carrying out of the law and to require of every packer or corporation embraced In the injunction an absolute compliance with tbe judicial mandate. There will be universal acquiescence In the mandate that unless this Is done the members of the combine shall he subjected to tbe criminal statute. As we have already pointed out, they can bo brought under this at any time. There is no sort of doubt that the combination and conspiracy condemned by the su preme court of the United States as un lawful because In restraint of commerce among the states and in foreign trade. Is liable to the criminal provisions of the Interstate commerce law. ' This Is not a very violent provision, but such as It Is there can be no doubt that It can be effectively enforced a gainst every person who has leen shown to be connected with the Beef combine, and this ought to be done, unless It shall appear that those persons from now on will comply with the law as Interpreted by the su preme court. In this matter the administration Is pretty well understood. Its position has been very clearly defined. It has the al most undivided support of the people, and there appears to be every Indication that ultimately It will win the supimrt of congress. Wbn $75.0(10,000 or Southern Pacific Wida ar taken In New York In two hours It demonstrates that western rail road property Is Worth considerably ' more than tax commissioners of the roads ar willing to admit Investigation has shown that tbe an thracite coal companies and the coal car rying railroads, If not Identical, sr as firmly bound together as the Siamese twins and th question Is, can the liga ments b cut without killing both parties. Th attention of the member of th I legislature and of taxpayers generally lg directed to th statistical tables com piled for. To Bee, making financial comparisons of state university revenues nd expenditures during th past ten years. Th university I our largest tat Institution aud furnishes tbe largest Hem for the state budget. These 'figure are uot avsllable lu any other pitbilcatlou. The 1st fusion nominee for governor of Nebraska has come to th front with bill to Stop the distribution of free liaises among public official. He has nut. bewver, mustered up courage as yet to go Into oourt with a criminal prosecution to find out whether a pass Is not a bribe under our present laws, pimhibltlng public ofnvisl from aecept - ing anything of valu to influence their ofltcUl acta, A PLACE FOR RKFOHM. A place' for reform In our method of making up tax. rolls has been pointed out again by tbe assistant city attorney, who has discovered that a number of pieces of real estate owned by the city have . been offered for sale for delin quent taxes under the scavenger law. That the city should sell Its own prop erty for taxes Is, of course, the height of folly, and If the records were more conl plete It could not occur. The trouble arises from the fact that the assessment rolls made by both city tax commissioner and county asxessor omit altogether public and private prop erty entitled to tax exemption. It lias been contended, and, we believe, cor rectly, that this Is a misconstruction of the law, and that while proierty de voted to certain uses Is freed by the constitution from taxation, It is not, nnd should not be, freed from assessment. As it Is now, the assessor assumes to decide, without even a formal applica tion for exemption, what property is taxable and what property Is not. The businesslike way would be to have every piece of property, irrespective of Its use, listed In the assessment roll at Its ap praised value and to require the owner to make formal application to the re sponsible officer for tax exemption, stat ing the reasons therefor.- It should be the duty then of the law officer of the city, school district or county to make appearance for the exemption of public property, and no private property should be exempted on account of Its use for charitable, religious or educational pur poses unless it should be shown of record thst such property Is devoted ex clusively to that use as required by the statute. As things are now, there Is no telling how much the city Is losing every year In taxes on property that should right fully be taxed, but which has been altogether omitted from the assessment rolls by the assessors on some specious pretext. ernment of the United States has taken a position which contemplates the, con trol of the fiscal affairs of San Domingo and provision for the payment of Its obligations. This seems to be an entirely legitimate proposition and yet a good deal of opposition to It has been de veloped, chiefly on the ground that It Is not the business of the United State to see that the independent countries of the western hemisphere are made to pay their obligations. As a general proposi tion this Is undoubtedly correct. This country does not and will not assume the duty of seeing that the debts of other American states are paid. It has never done so lu tbe past and will not lo so In the future. Yet it Is a perfectly legiti mate piovlnce of this country to say to the states of this hemisphere that if they do not comply with their Interna tional obligations they cannot expect the care and support of the United States. In other words, this nation will not be responsible for other republics that per sistently refuse to do what Is fnlr and right toward other countries. The po sition In regard to San Domingo Is not exceptional, but It Is a fair warning to every Independent state In the western hemisphere. THE Q UA R TK Hit A S TK ft' S SUPPLY DEPOT A large number of Omaha business men have forwa riled a petition to con gress urging the establishment of a quartermaster's supply purchasing de pot at Omaha. The business men who signed this petition may have forgotten that when the bill framed by Assistant Secretary of War Metkeljohn designating Omaha as a quartermaster's supply pur chasing depot was submitted for ap proval to the Omaha Commercial club and referred to Its executive committee, it was cut up and foredoomed to burial without ceremony in the congressional grave yard. After the senate and house had both rejected the revised Com mercial club bill the Metkeljohn bill, in substance, was introduced in the senate and passed In good form by that body in the spring of 1900. When the bill reached the house it was referred by the speaker, as a spe cial favor to Omaha, to the chairman of the committee on public buildings, but Instead of reporting the bill for passage, it was pocketed by "Our Dave" aud kept in his pocket for the balance of the session, and the session follow ing, for no other reason than because it hnd been introduced by Senator Thurs ton nnd put through the senate through personal appeals of the editor of The Bee after It had been returned to the senate without recommendation by the former quartermaster general. In view of the fact that the present congress will expire within four weeks the passage of any bill Introduced at this late day Is almost out of the ques tion, but if the business men of Omaha want to undo the malicious mischief by which the quartermaster's purchasing depot was lost to Omaha four years ago there Is a fair prospect that they mny succeed In the next congress. Quarter muster General Humphrey Is a friend of Omaha and outspoken in favor of the projtosed measure, which should go far toward securing favorable action at the hands of the national legislature. th fnlted Statea under the Roosevelt ad ministration Is the Hon. Theodore Roose velt of New Tork. THE HAN DOMiyQO QVKSTloy. There Is undoubtedly Involved in the San Domingo question a problem regard ing the proper relations of this govern ment to tbe Independent countries of this hemisphere which Is of primary In terest and importance. How far the Monro doc trine Is to be considered lu th matter is a question, but discussion of It necessarily has more or less refer ence to that doctrine, which Is applied to every action or declaration oMhe United States that relates to any territory in the western hemisphere. Whenever any questlou arise affecting any part of the westeru portion of the world, in which the Independent republics ere concerned, It Is most natural that tli oiU'Jjii of tit United States should tie sought In regard to what ought to be done. That is the fact lu the case of San Doiulugo In regard to which there lias been an almost Interminable revolution for many years and which today needs some guiding hand and Crni direction In order to place It In a position to meet its obligations and give It a place among the substantial republics of this hemi sphere. lu order to bring this about the gor- Omaha's truant officer deserves a tes timonial as a public benefactor. Dur ing the mouth of January he has appre hended, according to his report, eleven truants, and, doubtless, saved each and every one of them from freexlng to death, falling Into an Icehole. meeting with a cpustlng accident, or some other dreadful catastrophe that always hap Iiens to tniHnts. But more seriously speaking, eleven truants in the month of January out of a school population of over 19,000, Is a pretty goood record, showing that most children in Omaha prefer to enjoy good warm school rooms rather than shiver on chilly street corners. The lower house of the Nebraska leg islature is going Into the moving pic ture show business by pulling off a repetition of the exhibition given dally lu the Nebraska pavilion at the St. Louis exposition. Would it not be a good idea to let the legislature Itself sit as sub jects fqr a moving picture exhibition? An optical reproduction of the dally per-for-nonces of the two lawmaking bodies ought to be a drawing card for every city, town, village and hamlet In the state. President Hoosevelt Is said to be hesi tating ubout signing the bill for extend ing tbe time of the settlers on the Rose bud reservation. The president evi dently thinks that when a man goes up against a gHine of chance nnd knows the rules he should be willing to abide by them, especially If be makes a winning. Poetle JsMlce. Baltimore American. To have a railroad rat bill railroaded through congress would be one of those acts of poetic Justice appealing to the feel ings of all escept th corporations that have no souls, especially for poetry In their business. The United States Steel corporation says It has cancelled an order with Rus sia for about 130.000 tons of rails rather than pay f.V)0,000 to a high Russian official. The corporation plainly did uot receive the order at the rate current for steel rails In the United States or It could easily have paid the "commission." The legislature has sat dowu upon the proposition to appropriate 5,000 to present a silver service to the battleship Nebraska as a memento of Its name sake. It must be that there are not enough silver men on deck In these parts nowadays to back up a proposi tion of this kind successfully. Li. ..X II DWtlagralsh Oaalaaloa. New York World. In holding up King Edward a the on traveller who obeys the ntl-ass law Presi dent Stli Jrney of the Great Western Inex cusably forgeta Congressman baker of jUroiiklyn. Hand a UalJ Rrlck. New York Times. If the railroads really did put P. C. Knox In the senate to get hire out of the department oT Justice, th purchase of gold bricks is no longer merely an infant Industry. The benefit they are deriving from the presenc of King Ig Moody In that department defies detection under in strongest mlcrosi oe. Men may cume unit oieo may go, but lb attorney general of Reform Sheald Begin at Home. Pittsburg Dispatch. While President Btlckney wss enlarging on the mslfesssnc of the people who use passes might he not have devoted a pass. Ing thought or two to the fact that the railroad officials who wish to stop their Issue to legislators and public officers have the full authority of law to do so? Seaatarlal Procrastlna t loa. Philadelphia Press. Railroad managers snd pretty much everybody else agree with the views ex pressed by President Roosevelt on the rail road question and think that they should bo carried Into effect. But Mr. Klklns, chairman of the senate committee which has Jurisdiction of the subject, thinks that legislation should be deferred until the next session of congress. Why It should be postponed Is not clear. The evil exists and the sooner the remedy ia applied th better. SEI.ESS n INEFFECTIVE. I Railway Joker Concealed In the Aatl ltebate ..air. New York Press (rep.). Even If the conviction of the Santa l-'e officials were the easiest thing In the world It would still nvall little when the only "punishment" that the court could Inflict would be a fine amounting to the smallest fraction of the sums wrongfully wrung from small shippers to fortify trusts. At the prospect of such a penalty as a ta.000 fine the officials of the great Atchison, To peka A Santa Fe do not cower In terror. To them 120,000 Is small change by comparison with any Item of secret rebate. If Messrs. Ripley, Morton, Blddle and nil the rest of the Santa Fe rebate robbery crew should come to the bar and plead guilty nothing would be accomplished but the transfer of the amount of the fine from the rich coffers Of the Santa Fe to the United States treasury. Nothing would be proved that was not known before, since Messrs. Morton and Ripley over and over again have confessed that they violated the Klklns law. The enemies of railroad rebttte extortion are only wasting time when they talk about prosecuting rebate robbery under the Klklns law. It Is far better for the administration to proclaim to the country that a conviction of the confessed Santa Fe criminals, under the Elklns act, would be useless and that the administration can do nothing to pre vent or punish rebate robbery until con gress provides an effectual penalty for such wrong-doing as that of which President Ripley, Secretary Morton and their Santa Fe confederates stand convicted on their own confessions. Effectual discouragement for this crime' will be had only by classing It with burg lary and other felonies and by putting crim inal railroad directors and traffic manager Into stripes for long prison terms. 01 R POSTAL SYSTEM AD OTHERS Claimed to Bet the Greatest Business Establishment In the World. Chicago Inter Ocean. The United . States has the grcateet postal system In the world. No other nation except Russia has as large a con tiguous territory for the extension of a postal service No other country has so many railroads., extending to remote dis tricts, and no, other government has given more attention to methods for. reaching settlers In remote districts. There Is a faat mall service from the Atlantic' to the Pacific, from the lakes to the gulf. There Is free delivery In most of the towns and cities, and In no depart ment of public service has there been greater Improvement In mechanism and organisation than In the Postofflce depart ment. There ar employed In and in connec tion with the 69,48$ pustofflces of the coun try 267,603 persons. Germany has 37,807 postofflce, and employs 231,671 persons in th postal service. The United Kingdom has 22.89S postofflces, and employs 179.203 persons In the postal service. France has 10.SS2 postofflces, Italy 8,070, and Austria Hungary 12,438. India has' 38,429 postofflces and boxes, and Canada 9.834 postofflces. In the fnlted States the postal service waa organised with remote settlements In mind as well as the more populous dis tricts. As the home-makers marched west ward, the details of organisation were completed. When 1,000,000 men were called Into the army In the civil war, other prob lems of organisation were mastered. With th extension of railways to the Pacific, the experience gained In war had a wider application. Out of the new experience came the railway postal service, and from that came new systems looking to prompt delivery of mail and to the development of the country. The great business establishment Is served aa well as, but no better than, the private Individual. But because the postal service has kept pace with the demands of business and has been responsive to them It has aided greatly in promoting our commercial development. Keeping the citizens In mind, the postal service reaches out to isolated mountain settlements, to fishermen and miners In Alaska, to Americans In the canal acne of Panama, in Ouam, or the Philippines, the government putting the question of serving above the question of cost. PERSONAL- NOTES. Governor Myron T. Herrick of Ohio says he has twice declined the ambassadorship to Italy because he cannot talk Italian. I'nlted Statea Minister to Sweden Thomas has purchased the Swedish building at the World's fair and presented It to Bethany college, Kansas. Joseph B. Foraker, senior I'nlted States senstor from Ohio, will continue his resi dence lu Cincinnati, having Just purchased the beautiful Goodman homestead for $100, 000. Poultney Bigelow, Journalist, traveler and author, has Just returned to America after a long Journey through the aouthern Pacific, where he has been studying the native and colonial forms of government. Carrie Nation Is In Shawne. Okl., where she has made arrangements to take charge of a local paper for a day. She publishes a card In which she declare that the Issue brought out under her direction "will be worth the reading." Probably the world'a greatest oculist is Dr. Pagenatchr of Wiesbaden, Germany, who Is consulted by almost every Euro pean royalty and by aristocrata and pluto crats from over the world. H lives a life of absolute devotion to his work, see ing patients rigidly in turn, whether the poorest peasant or the wealthy aristocrat. At his own "kllulk" he performa all opera tions. Geronlmo, the most i.olortoua of Indian chieftains, will march up Pennsylvania avenue March 4 In honor of the inaugura tion of President Rooaevelt. With Geron lmo will com Buckskin Charley, th famous l't; Hollow Horn Btsr of the Hloux, Quanah Parker of the Comanche, Little Plum of the Rtackfeet tribe, Amer ican Hurse ' " t.'uavauiics and six lu-terpretera. ROOD ABOIT XF,W YORK. Rlpplea on the Cnrrent of I.lfe la the Metres-oils. The greatest social function engineered by a New York bachelor In a generation waa pulled oft at Sherry's swell resort on night last week. James B. Hyde was th host and that he Is a generous one will be conceded In view of the cost 1100.000. Mr. Hyde is one of the weslthlest bsch elors In the fnlted Ststes. He has been described as the most Americanised French man and the most French American In the world. He has been the patron of numlierless efforts to bring about a mutual understanding between students of Amer ican nnd French literature. He Is the president of th Alllsnce Krancaise of the fnlted States, and also the founder of the famous Cercle Francalse of Harvard. The scencn of Mr. Hyde's entertainment mere set on the second and third floor of the Sherry rcstnurnnt. The third floor Is the floor of the great ball room, which for almost ten years has been used for many of the city's public and partly pub lic festivities. The requirements were that there should be room for 400, more or less, spectators of a debutantes' and hnchclors' gavotte and the speciality written Rejane play and the following ballet, with a stag for the professional part of the performance, and that all these Impediments should be re moved In time for the general dance after the first of the two suppers of the evening. The best measure of the elaborateness of the decorations nnd of the program Is to be found In the general opinion among those accustomed to festivities of such ex treme elaboration thst nothing heretofore known In the social diversions of New Yorkers, except the bill of the Bradley Martins In 1897. waa worthy to be mem tloned In the same breath. Certainly no festivity of the present season will ap proach Mr. Hyde's party In the chronicles of the year's more aristocratic diversions. CURRENT LITERATURE The great feature of the function was the specialty performance of Mme. Ga brielle Rejane, the French actress. Several versions of the performance have been telegraphed from New York, but all agree In asserting thst the nimble madams danced the can-can on top of a five-foot table will all the skill of a professional. In fact she did It with so much abandon and grace that she successfully effaced all recollection of "Little Egypt," who, until then,' held the record for this sort of specialty at Sherry's. To say that this dance of Rejane's cre ated a sensation Is putting the fact mildly, but aS It usually happens In Impromptu nnd sixmtancoua episodes of this kind, the can-can did not make marly an great a slir at the moment as it did on tho fol lowing day, when the npectators had time to think it all over In cold blood. The can-can generally has been taboood at Sherry's fcr many seasons ever since the famous Seeley dinner. In fact and so far as one can Judge from passing remarks those who witnessed Mme. Rejane's terpsl chorcan specialty say It Is likely to be put away In lavender aguln .at Sheriy's for some time. When the days are cool and clear '.he tu berculosis patients on North Brother island wrap themselves in the blue blankets fur nished by. the city and sit In the open air for a sun bath. A short time ago the health commissioner conducted a party of peace delegates to the Island. They were from England and had sen plctuies of the North American In dian. "How Interesting!" remarked one visitor, us the boat was about to land. "See how peacefully they sit. Are they the laat cf the Mohicans?" New Yorkers will be surprised In a month or so by the appearance upon Broadway of a battalion of Chinese soldiers, headed by a Chinese band. They will be armed with the latest Krag-Jorgensen rifles and will be uniformed In the latest western style for infantrymen, even down to the so-called "monkey caps." The entire battalion la to be recruited from Chinamen living In New York. After having wiMlied an old friend god speed on a voyage to Europe, a New Yorker returned to his office, and there en-gk-ed himself with the daily matters 'of his calling. Six hours after, the sailing of the steam ship be read a list of Its passengers, and found therein tha name of another friend, one whom he knew quite aa well as th man he had seen off. "Wish I'd known this," he said to hlm aelf, his eye roving regretfully from nam to name. "Could have introduced them; too bud!" And then the spirit of the twentieth cen tury awoke within him, and he smiled, ditching up a bit of paper he wrote some thing hastily upon It. called one of his office employes, hurried him off and at last sank back contented In his chair. Six hours out of port, with New York far astern, the liner was rushing along the eastward ocean lane. Thr u Its wireless ap paratus began to click, and in a few mo ments one of the deck stewards was searching the ship to deliver a message Introducing one friend to the other. "I have made one startling discover' since I began evangelistic work In New York," sadly remarked the assistant pastor of a downtown mission, quoted by the Post. "1 have found out that people here don't like to be prayed for. They consider It an Insult. I learned that peculiarity of the metropolitan mind through a very pain ful experience, It happened the first night I conducted services pt our mission. Along In the afternoon, while busy at the church, I had a call from a fellow who waa most obviously a fit subject for prayer, so that evening, near the close of the service, I re membered my castaway of the afternoon and Invoked blessings on hi miserable head. As an evidence of good faith I called his name right out in meeting. The man was present and at the close of the meet ing he ssiled into me full tilt, on the charge of defamation of character. I had the hardest kind of work pacifying him. In fact, if I hadn't been a much bigger man than he 1 doubt if we ever could have patched up differencee without physical In Jury to one of us." The winter's heavy snowfall already ha cost New York City $1,340,000, or about 1700, 000 more than last year. January made a new record for that month as to snowfall, recording 19.2 inches, muklng the total for the winter to t'.sto 48 inche, the greatest since the winter of 18D8-99, which waa 68 Inches, the heaviest ever recorded In the history of th weather bureau. CONFIDENCE JN MITCHELL Orecon Senate Adopts Heaolatloa Ex pressln Belief lu HI Hon esty and t'nrlabtoea. SALEM. Ore.. Feb. 7. The state senate, with one diss -n,tlng vote, toduy adopted a conourretit resolution expienalng confidence In fnlted States Senator John H. Mitchell, and ut the same time proposing to ad journ sine die not later than Friday night, February 17. It has been reported that a certain faction In the legislature had pro posed to adjourn to a fixed day, with Hi object of electing a successor to Senator Mitchell should he relinquish or be d. prived of his Heat a result of th Indict ment returned against him In connection with l ne ullegrd land frauds. Senator Mitchell's supporters. hoc-i. Insist en djoui nnient without day. Bird Ixire for February contains the an nual report of th national committee of Audubon societies, a document of some eighty pages. The report summarise the' history of the Audubon movement and gives most encouraging details of the year's pfogreas. Bird Lore Is published for the Audubon societies by the Macmlllnit com pany. Bright short stories, practical, helpful articles, delicious new recipes, timely hints for hostesses and beautiful Illustrations mak tip th February number of th Housekeeper, the magatlne of helpfulness. Clinton Scollard. Blsnche 11 Willis and Robert Bascom are among the writers of the Action. Published by the Housekeeper Corporation, Minneapolis, Minn. "Randy's Good Times'' Is the fifth volum of "The Randy Book" series by Amy Brooks. Randy Is the same loving and lovabl girl that she was when first seen In "Randy's Summer." Now at 18 she Is ready to enjoy to the full all the pleasure which are offered, equally eager to give pleasure to others, and dearly loved In her native village. She takes a prominent part In all social occasions, and organises the Holiday club, which holds many Jolly meetings, at which gaiety reigns while nimble fingers make countless pretty gifts. All the favorite characters of former books reappear, and the story Is full of fun and gaiety, and of love and loyalty as well. It Is no wonder the "Randy Books" are popu lar. Lee A Shepard publishers "The Quilt thst Jack Built." by Annie Fellows Johnston, Is a pleasant little story of n boy's labor of love, and how It changed the course of his life many years after It was accomplished. Published by U C. Page St Co. "Betty Wales, Freshman." by Margaret Wards. Illustrated by Eva M. Nagel. Betty and her chums get all the good and all the fun out of their freshman veer at college. Of course, there are some tri umphs, little and great, friendships made and marred, a few heart burnings, and many an honest hard won happiness. Pub lished by the Penn Publishing company. The Luxury of Children and Some Other Luxuries," by Edward Sanford Martin, Is one of the daintiest and most unique books seen In a long time. It Is verv prettily gotten up and Its wide margined pHges ar decorated with children galore. Published by Harper. "The Prisoner of Mademoiselle." by Charles G. D. Robert. In this charming tale Mr. F.oberts has come br.ck to the field cf h!s first novels, the Und of Acadia. He tei's a story winch, based on the fa rr.oja sleSe of Loulsberg. still has plenty of those nature notes which have endeared "Barbara Ladd" to Its readers. Published by L. C. Page & Co. Little. Brown Co. issue a new edition of Miss Louisa M. Alcott's stories. "Eight Cousins, or the Aunt Hill" and "Rose In Bloom." There are eight full-page lllus tratlons by Harriet Roosevelt Richards In esch volume. "Klbun Daliin. or from Shark-boy to Merchant Prince," by Gansal Mural, and translated by Masao Yoshlda. This Is a tale of a Japanese lad's rise from poverty and obscurity to wealth and honor, and will appeal to American children, especlslly boys. Readers will admire the shrewdness, dauntless ambition and manliness of the Japanese lad, and follow with Interest hi struggle for success among other sons of that wonderful nation, which has suddenly fallen Into line with the most civilised countries of the world. Published by the Century company. "Rachel Marr." by Morley Roberts. In this novel Mr. Roberts haa lert the humore and tragedies of the sea for a new field. It ia a strong and dramatic story, dealing with one of the most potent forces of na-ture-what Bernard Shaw calls the "life force." In a letter to the publishers Prof. Charles G. D. Roberts says: "Hitherto 1 have regarded Mr. Morley Roberts as om of our clever and successful contemporary novelists. Now I regard him as one of th masters." Published by L. C. Page & Co. "The, Abbess of Vlaye," by Stanley J. Weymari, Is a story full of romantic charm and absorbing Interest. The scenes snd In cidents sre related In the author's usual spirited and tersely Interesting style, and those enjoying Mr. Weyman's works will undoubtedly find pleasure In his latest work. Published by Longmans. "Nathalie's Sister," by Anna Chapln Ray, Is the sixth and last of the "Teddy" books. Readers will find this as charming and en tertaining as the previous stories. Pub lished by Little, Brown Co. "Old Love Stories Retold." by Richard Le Galllenne, Is a beautifully illustrated book, the contents of which are fully expressed by the title. The frontispiece is a colored portrait of the second meeting of Dunta and Beatrlce. There are a number of the love stories, each of which Is Illustrated. It Is a very unique and pretty volume. The Baker A Taylor company, publishers. "Guthrie of the Times," by Joseph A. Altsheler. Guthrie is a correspondent of the Times and the story In a vigorous tale of newspaper life. Published by Double day, Page Si Co. "Larry th Wanderer," by Edward Strat emeyer. Is a plain tale of every-day life, written especially for boys and girls who do not care particularly for stories with a historical or geographical background. The story has a good moral tone and Is quit out of th ordinary. Lee St Shepard. pub lishers. "Imported Americana," by Broughton Brandenberg, is a problem novel. It relates th experience of a disguised American and his wife studying th Immigration question. There ar sixty-six Illustrations from photographs by the author. Freder ick A. Stokes company, publishers. "Greater Ameilca." by Archibald R. Col quhoun, Is an Illuminating and thorough account of America's territorial expansion. Its beginning, growth and progress. The author attempt to present American evo lution as a whole; to show to what point It has progressed snd to Indicate what Its future may be. Published by Harpers. "At .'tome with the Jardlnrs," by Lilian Bell. Here we have the heroine of "Abroad with th Jimmle," by the same author, back to America, married and trying to aettle down. This book relates her experi ence as housekeeper and hostess. Pub. llshed by I.. '. Pag ft Co. Above books for sale at lowest retail prices. Matthews. 122 South Fiftceuth St. May Foil Mahtshlp. NEWPORT. R. I. Keh. 7.-TI) Nan tucket lightship, which Is nground In Bus tard's bav. mill. It la expected, be floated at high tide today. The gunhoat Hist wss lying done by ord will attempt to release the lightship st high wster. Ilrnir tines Home, NEW YORK. Feb. 8 --(Sir Thomas H'lboi't Dewar, M. P., lhe we1! known Hrltluli spoilsman h pawerger on the steamer Ijeiitst-hlsnd, which sailed today f,r Naples nd Genoa. VhA r . r ii I 1 U i zi .1 CHEATJ 4 Improves the flavor and adds to the health fulness of the food. PASSING PLEASANTRIES. "And how la Jack looking sine He mar ried for love?'' "A good deal like a cat that Is owned by a vegetarian." Judge. "What do yoi regard as tbe greatest pro duction of modern literature?" And without a moment's hesitation the publisher answered: "Mv latest magasln cover." Washington Btsr. A Cincinnati editor has bought two oil paintings, for which he paid approximately fl 10,000. Don't blame blm. Newspaper men must find some way to spend their surplus money. Somervllle Journal. "Yes, sir. he was the laslest man on rec ord. What do you reckon he did when his house was on fire?" "Diinno." "Warmed his hands at the blase, and said he was thankful he didn't have to split the wood for It!" Atlanta Constltu-; t'on. ' "You don't seem to think much of Senstor T.otsmun. Yet I heard you say once thst he was a good 'all around senator.' " "So he Is. When any question comes up that he Isn't personally Interested In h can argue eloquently on all sides of It." Chicago Tribune. "You haven't been hero long," remarked the inkwell. "No, replied the new blotter. "How do von like vour work?" "Well, It's certainly absorbing." Phila delphia Ledger. "Have the Newlyrlches got quite settlecT in innr Ili-w mnimiuii. i "Oh. ves. They've got all their ancestors buna except a few who were hung on) earth." Town Topics. "Is your son quick at figure?" "I should sav so," answered Farmer Corn tossel. "When I have decided how much A slv. him trr Ym aavnainaA. t school he knoms It isn't enough befor I have said a word." Washington Star. Mrs. Smytlie How do you like your new servant girl? Mr. Wylkyns Well, w haven t quite mad up our minds yet. Her name Is Ku phrosla. and we find It rather difficult so far to live up to it. Somervllle Journal. r l SUCCESS. Somervllle Journal. He's "worth" a million dollars, tho finan cial people say. His check for twenty thousand would be honored any day. He has three automobiles could hav seven If he would And If he rashly chose to run a motor boat, he could. He has pictures, books, and diatnonda, and luxuries galore, He has uo much it seems as if, he fouhln ft wish for more. His life is filled with pleasures that con duce to happiness. And still within bis heart he knows he hasn't won succe: . His neighbor, on the other hand, is poor i.. l.ll., w..lth His chief possessions, 'it would seem, sr nappilienn Mini iir-wiv.i. He hires the house he lives in, and I He haa no automobile, for he couldn't keep a norse. i And vet that lie la quite contented Is ob vious at a glance. He doesn't envy In the least the giant of Wlthflaaov'iig wife and children, his hum ble home to bless. He knows without a bank account that he has won success. 1 THEORIES ABOUT FOOD. Also Few Facts on the Same Sabject We hear much nowadays about health tnAm ant hvelnnic living, about vegetarian ism and many other fads along the aameJ line. Restaurants may be found In the Isrge cities where no meat, pastry or coffee is served and the food crank is in his glory, and arguments and theories galore ad vanced to prove that meat was never In tAnrted for human stomachs, and almost make us believe that our sturdy ancestor who lived four score years in romist neam ..,... kf mrk and mutton muat hav Ull I .ml. ' . been grossly Ignorant of the laws of health Our forefathers naa oiner ininin m u than formulate theories about the food the ate. A warm welcome was extenaea to an f.i..n hunnn to acomf. KIIIU, i A healthy appetite ana common sense aro excellent guldea to follow In matter of dlet.l and a mixed diet or grains, rrutts ana meats Is undoubtedly the best. As compared with gralna and vegetables, meat furnishes the most nutriment In a highly concentrated form and Is digested and assimilated more quickly than vege tables and grain. Dr. Julius Remmson on this Subject sayst Nervous persons, people run down In health and of low vitality, should eat meat and plenty of It. If th digestion Is too feeble at first it may be easily corrected by tha regu lar use of Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets sfter each meal. Two of these xcellent tablets ... dinner will digest several thou- iast.ii ssnd grains of meat, eggs or other animal food In three hours, and no matter how i. ... .inniRi-h may b. no trouble will b experienced If a regular practice ia made of using Stuart's Dyspepsia 1 ablets, Deoause they supply th pepsin nd diastase neces- . -..-fart dle-.-stioti. and every form SttJ J ' ' - -- --- w - - of Indlgeatlon will be overcome by their U That Isrge class or peopio wno come under the head of nervous dyspeptic should eat plenty of meat and Insure Its proper digestion, by th dully us of a safe, , ii.rBtlv medicine Ilk Stuart's 1 1, 1 1111- - v Dyspepsia Tablets, composed of th natu ral digestive principles,- pr-psin, aiasiss, ,.tAm nd salt, which actually per form th work of digestion. 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