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STATEMENT OP CIRCULATION.
Ptate of Nebraska, Douglas County, as.:
George B. 'J'ischuck, treasurer of The
Pee Publishing company, being duly sworn
say that Via actual number of full and
'complete copies- of The Dally, Morning,
Evening and Sunday Bee printed during
the month pf January. 1. was a fol
lows: ,
I.
J.
86300
. 30,130
17,. 36,300
II 36,150
I., 34,380
4 88,400
t 88,800
t 36,140
36,800
36,190
t ,. 36,380
14,, S,10
1) 34,339
!... 33,130
1 36,430
14 86,860
II , 36,360
11 36,100
1 36,400 L
0 36,350
1 36,410
12 38,140
II 36,350
24 88,460
26 36,640
II 35,100
27 .36,140
SI 87,180
2 36,060
,... 30,80
II... 36,eo
Totals , 1,183,800
Less unsold and returned copies. . 8,460
Net total i ... ' . 1,114,840
Dally average. 80,868
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WIIEX OUT OP TOWN.
Bobscrlbers leaving: the city tem
porarily' should have) Tha Be
mailed to them.' Address will be
change aa often aa requested,
The American tleet was welcomed at
Call a o by Joyous Peruvian, barks.
Governor Sheldon wants It known
that he is for Taft and is proud of It.
An Iowa woodcutter has inherited
150,000. He. may now quit cutting
wood and begin cutting Ice.
If Colonel Bryan insists on seeking
a third defeat, why shouldn't Mr. Shal
lenberger insist on seeking a second
defeat?
. t ex-Secretary Shaw is really look
ing for an antl-Roae?eltcandidale for
the republican nomination, why not try
Chancellor Day?
It is claimed that gold has been
found in the Panama canal. Not sur
prising, as the government has poured
lots of money into it.
The German emperor refuses to take
part in the concert of the powers for
establishing reforms in Macedonia.
Kaiser Wllhelm Is a soloist.
The price has been raised on five
grades of oil. It Is Just possible, after
all, that the Standard will permit the
public to pay that 129,240,000 fine.
And now we are told that Harriman
may erect his long-promised Union Pa
cific headquarters building. He may
but what has been stopping him?
"Judge Gray is a sterling democrat."
says the Philadelphia Record. Not a
sterling silver democrat, however, and
thereforejiot acceptable to Mr. Bryan.
"History shows very few men were
defeated a third time," says Mr. Bryan.
Correct. Very few men refuse to let
'well enough alone after two lickings.
Chicago has a notion that prosperity
will goon play a return engagement
there. It la planning to hold the re
publican national convention for eight
days.
The State Board of Health has lined
up with . the health commissioner of
Omaha for compulsory ' vaccination.
The courts Mill have the last whack
at it.
Foraker save- that only 10 per cent
of the rtpubMcabs In Ohio voted for
Taft at the primaries. ' Still, that's
about 100 per cent more than voted
for Foraker. '
Those vast funds that have been
spent for, the education of the poor
whites in the south do not appear
have produced any tangible results
Kentucky,
The lata Mr. Jones Is entitled to a
vote of thanks for saving the taxpay
era of Douglas county from the expense
of a murder trial and the cost of a
legal execution. v
'New ,Vprk department stores 'have
agreed to prosecute all shoplifters, no
matter who they are.. In other Words,
they are going to quit making distinc
tions between - kleptomaniacs and
thieves." ' '" - '
The Lincoln Journal gives warning
that the antl-Taft movement in Ne
braska1 Is under the management of
"the most successful political rough
house maker In Nebraska." A rough
house maker, may make trouble, but
he never helps elect the ticket
ntonas washmqtox.
Along about midnight tonight, when
the waiters finish removing the debris
from the banquet boards at a thousand
cities in the land, the nation and th
world will have several volumes of
new light on the life, achievements,
personal habits, political leanings and
secret thoughts of George Washington,
who, according to the school histories,
played no unimportant part in the cor
nerstone laying ceremonies of the re
public about a century and a half ago.
Thanks to ReV. Mr. Weems and other
writers of that time, we have a pretty
accurate outline in tha rough of Wash
ington. We know him as a fairly good
surveyor, a prosperous farmex, a sol
dier who did not know how to get
whipped and a popular choice for the
presidency for a couple of terms. In
cidentally, we have been given to un
derstand that he was something of a
stickler for truth, before he went into
politics, and that he did not care a rap
about forest preservation.
Most of our information ' about
Washington - and estimates of his
character were formed before the
American spellbinder fell into the
habit of studying motives and seeking
hidden and prophetic meanings In ut
terances always looked upon as com
monplace and not subject to mixed in
terpretations. The orations unllm
bered at the Washington day banquets
will illuminate anew the entire sub
ject and we will be given an oppor
tunity to know Washington better
than ha knew himself. It will be
proved beyond possibility of question
that if Washington were alive today
he would be leading the fight for rail
way rate regulation, or against it, ac
cording to the leanings of the orator,
and extracts from hla presidential
epeecheB or letters will be cited to sus
tain the contention. It will be shown
that he possessed prophetic foresight
and realized that the time must come
when the rank and file of the people
would take up arms against the op
pressions of the predatory rich, Just
as he fought against the oppressions
of England's predatory king. The page
and chapter of his writings in which
he indicated this has been mislaid, but
rt will be dug up by the toastmaater.
It will be shown that Washington,
alive today, would be in favor of a
bigger army and a monster navy. He
would have to be or violate a prece
dent be was instrumental in establish
ing, lie would favor the improvement
of inland waterways, Just as he was
when he protested against the inade
quacy of transportation facilities on
the Delaware. He would be against
the third term movement and uphold
the big stick.
Plain-thinking Americans who want
to get acquainted with he father of
their country should read all the
speeches delivered at all the Washing
ton, birthday banquets. ,
STRIKES ASD PUBLICITY
While congress baa always hesitated
to pass laws for compulsory arbitra
tion of industrial disputes, sentiment
in favor of such legislation has been
growing constantly and is now being
supported and encouraged -by an il
lustration, supplied by Canada, of the
effective operation of such a law. The
Dominion enacted a compulsory arbitra
tion law in 1903 and supplemented it
last year with an amendment v which
furnished the one element needed to
make its operation satisfactory.
Reviewing the operation of the
Canadian law, a writer in the Journal
of Political Economy shows that rail
road and industrial strikes were rare
in Canada from 1903 until 1907, when
the strike of the Canadian telegra
phers compelled an amendment to the
law. Under the amended act. upon
application of one of the parties to a
dispute affecting a mine or a public
service, or upon the Joint application
of both, if It affects any other in
dustry, the dispute must be submitted
to investigation by a temporary board
of conciliation nominated according to
definite rules. In the first six months
of its existence the law was invoked
fifteen times and in only one case did
the conciliation board fail to avert a
strike. The conclusion reached by
the writer in the Journal of Political
Economy is:
As regards the Industries to which it
specifically applies, It has already ful
filled the most sanguine hopes of Us spon
sors, and has been the means of promoting
a better understanding between capital
and labor, of removing many causes of
friction, and of preventing Incalculable loss.
to the community.
Detailed reports of the work of these
conciliation boards show that the good
results accomplished were due largely
to the wide publicity given to the
points in dispute. In effect, the public
was made a party to the controversies
between employes and employers and
the merits freely discussed. The rec
ord in the Canadian cases shows that
when the facts were all made known
public sentiment practically settled the
dispute and that in only one case did
the board fail to prevent a strike.
The Canadian experience would indi
cate that compulsory publicity is essen
tlal to compulsory arbitration.
While a satisfactory definition of
heroism is hard to find, it is not dim
cult to recognize real heroism when it
is manifested. The unselfishness that
considers only the welfare of others at
the cost of self-sacrificing pain and per
sonal suffering is the kind of heroism
that commands admiration. Such an
act of heroism has Just been witnessed
in Omaha. The example of a woman
enveloped in flames from an exploded
oil can, realizing that her own injuries
were fatal and directing those who had
come to her relief to give their atten
tion to her elster similarly burned, is
a shocking yet Inspiring Incident. Car
negie hero medals may be sown broad
cast over the land, but nowhere will
they be bestowed upon anyono who
would be more deserving than this
poor woman bad she survived. It is
the lessons of such heroism right at
home that should be the seed of higher
ideals and encouragement of unselfish
devotion to others.
MR. 11 A RRIMAX'S riCTUffr.
So far as Mr. Harriman has gotten
the best of it in his personal differ
ences with Mr. Fish over control of the
Illinois Central he Is, doubtless, highly
gratified and entitled to be. A local
railroad man gives it as his opinion
that the signal victory of Mr. Harri
man will be of great advantage to
Omaha, although by Just what logical
reasoning this conclusion is reached is
not apparent.
Omaha and Nebraska are distinc
tively bound up with the fortunes of
the Union Pacific more than with any
other railroad and Insofar as the
position of the Union Pacific In the
railway world may be strengthened,
Omaha is an incidental beneficiary. In
direct benefits, however, whether Mr.
Harriman controls the Illinois Central
or whether Mr. Fish has the upper
hand, is of small importance except, as
the settlement of this controversy may
leave Mr. Harriman free to devote his
time and attention to other matters In
which Omaha, Nebraska and the Union
Pacific are more vitally interested! If
Omaha is to be a gainer, it will de
volve, then, on Mn Harriman to de
velop the Union Pacific by completing
at the earliest possible moment the
plans for its extension and improve
ment previously under way, and at all
times protecting the industries in the
territory from which it draws its
trafllc.
What the people of those sections
have rightly objected to in connection
with the Harriman policies of reaching
out into the Illinois Central, the Balti
more & Ohio, the New York Central
and other roads has been the use of
Union Pacific credit to finance these
operations. They had good reason to
object to the use of the proceeds of
bonds on the Union Pacific to buy
stocks in other railroads at the very
time whenthe excuse waa being made
that money could not be raised to fin
ish track improvements, erect a new
headquarters building and enlarge the
car shops at different points. Mr. Har
riman may have the legal right to vote
stock in the Illinois Central bought
with money belonging to the Union
Pacific, but that does not vindicate the
policy of using Union Pacific resources
to acquire other roads when they are
needed for 'betterment of the parent
property.
"VIE WWQ WITH At. ATI M."
All question whether the national
campaign is really open has been set
at rest by the promulgation of the
platform adopted by the Wisconsin
democrats in their recent convention.
The document is somewhat fearfully
and wonderfully made, but it must be
remembered that democrats generally
are still in the dark as to Just what
they are going to "view with alarm"
about this year and will be until Col
onel Bryan gives the cue. In the mean
time, however, the- Wisconsin demo
crats have adopted the old rule, "when
in doubt abuse the republican party,"
and the platform Just sent out is a
gem in that line.
After the usual preliminary where
ases, in which the party thanks Provi
dence that it is still allowed to live,
the' Wisconsin platform declares that:
The people can no longer doubt the in
herent perfidy of the system of govern
ment fostered and maintained by the re
publican party.
That Is the real democratic gospel,
torn right from the old bolt that was
first used when the party declared that
the war was a failure. It has the old
time ring and sounds a cry to arms
to the old guard. It is notice that,
while leaders may change and policies
be temporarily emphasized or sub
jected to a soft-pedal treatment, the
cardinal democratic doctrine of being
"fernlnst the government" still lives.
The platform revels in a column or
more of this kind of faultfinding and
then comes to the real, direct, specific
charge against the party in power,
which it coupbes in these burning
words:
The malefactors of the republican party.
convicted and unconvicted, are but the
shameless products of a system of public
debauchery and plunder too long endured
by a patient and suffering people.
There is no way of dodslng the
issue. The American people are pa
tient and long suffering, though they
may not know it. They have been
robbed, debauched, despoiled and mal
treated, even if they have not found It
out. The situation demands a remedy,
but the Wisconsin democrats fall to
prescribe it. The matter of supplying
the direct and specific planks will be
left to the Denver convention. In the
meantime the American people will be
asked to "view with alarm" and to
listen to democratic diatribes against
those who have 'been convicted of the
heinous offense of being republicans.
. The subscription fund for the bene
fit of the family of the late Officer
Drummy ought to be brought up to at
least $2000, and this amount ought to
be raised In a city of Omaha's sUe and
wealth within forty-eight hours. If
we want an efficient police force to pro
tect us against thugs and thieves' we
should show proper appreciation of
self-sacrificing fearlessness in the line
of duty.
It is about time to quit boasting
about that duke that Theodore Shonta
bought. He was a bargain counter
product, marked down to $300,000,
and not to be mentioned In the same
social set with the $10,000,000 prize
winner Just Hr-rared by the Vander
bllts. .
The unexpected sometimes happens,
but the expected happens much more
often. The early announcement of
the late defeated democratic candidate
for governor that he wants to run
again is entirely within the expected
class. But the people ot Nebraska
last time gave their preference over
him to George L. Sheldon and have not
been disappointed. They are not likely
to tuTfl down Governor Sheldon, who
has made good with works for Mr.
Shallenberger, who haa never made
good with anything but promises.
Enough populists have been
drummed up in Iowa to constitute
themselves into a delegation to rep
resent the' Hawkeye state at the popu
list convention called for St. Louis
next April and to leave a few at home.
Nebraska may have to draw on the
Iowa remnant to fill up its delegation.
A consular report says that most of
the canned meats sold In Chile are ot
European production and Americans
have lost that trade. Well, we will
get even by making our own Chile con-
carne.
Former Governor Vardaman of
Mississippi has warmly indorsed Presi
dent Roosevelt's latest message to con
gress. There seems to be no way of
satisfying Vardaman's grudge against
the president.
A Kansas City Judge told a boy that
if he would attend night school he
might some time become an alderman.
There Is absolutely no excuse for a
Judge on the bench using such methods
of discouraging a promising boy.
Although there'' are no strikes on in
Omaha, except the strike against vac
cination, there are more scabs working
overtime right now than ever before in
the history of the city.
Wisconsin democrats have declared
that Mr. Bryan is "the greatest Amer
ican." It is a cinch that Senator Bev
eridge will quit spending his vacation
in Wisconsin after that.
A minister at St. Paul declares that
"a preacher should have no opinions."
The preacher without opinions is usu
ally complaining because his salary is
too small for his modest needs.
The Washington J5tar has an edi
torial on "What Frank Black Thinks."
We have a copy of what ex-Governor
Black said in his Boston speech, but
it is no proof of what he thinks.
Playing- No Favorites.
- New.VW; Bun.
Bryan continues to spare neither his own
constitution nor that of the United States.
Boosting; "Horn Industry." '
Chicago Record-Herald.
The South Dakota legislature threatens
to make it necessary to reside at Sioax
Falls before one can obtain a divorce
there. This would, according to Sioux Falls
experts, result in a transfer of the national
divorce mill to Nebraska. It 1s ppfhaps
only natural that Sioux Falls should regard
the South Dakota legislature as unpatriotic.
Who Cares tor the Pedlsrreet
Louisville Courier-Journal.
A pestiferous genealogist has discovered
that George Washington was descended
from royalty In England. Good Americans
will continue, however, to think of his per
formance to the exclusion of all considera
tion of his pedigree. Mr. Washington was
an American, a soldier, a statesman and a
gentleman, and he was not responsible for
his tainted ancestry. .
DO YOU KNOW WASHINGTON f
A Frosen Imagre Bet Up by School
Book Authorities.
Owen Wlster In Everybody's Magazine.
Born February 22, 1732; died December 14,
1799; fought Indians time and place a little
vague was he not with Braddock? Mar
ried a widow named Martha; was comman
der all through our revolution; was our
first president and had two terms; wrote
a farewell address; knew Lafayette and
Thomas Jefferson; crossed the Delaware
at Trenton Just before Christmas, and sur
prised the Hessians; beat Cornwallls at
Yorktown; and was first In war, first In
peace, and first In the hearts of hla coun
trymen. v
Thse are all public facts. What does
the reader know of 'Washington the man?
Mora than likely it will be as follows:
Cut down a cherry tree with a hatchet;
owned up to having done so. saying,
"Father, I cannot tell a He;" threw a
stone very far across some river; climbed
up the side of the natural bridge and cut
hla initials; worked hard at school, was
steady; was very good all the time, and
everybody looked up to htm; of course
very brave; of courso very wise, and a
great patriot; was one of tho greatest men
In all history; was tall, strong, wore those
knee breeches of colonial days, and a wig;
looked stern; would probably lecture you,
and tell you to be virtuous and you would
be happy. Such, If I mistake not, la the
reader's notion of Washington as a man:
cold, austere, unemotional, without pas
sions, grand, not merely greater than
human, simply not human at all; a sort of
marble statue. A figure to prise, to be
proud of as an American, a figure to re
vere, but not a character to love, to be
drawn to, to feel any kinship with. In iwo
words. Immortal yet not living.
There Is one point regarding historical
persons of all countries and epochs that
both historians and their readers fall to
remark sufficiently, namely, that to be
famous after you are dead Is one thing,
and to be living after you are dead Is quite
another. And In the case ot Goorge Wash
ington we have the extraordinary paradox
that he stands the greatest of Americana,
yet the least alive of all our heroes. This
Is not at all because a hundred years di
vide him from us, Paul Revere Is aa far
away as Washington, yet much more vivid
to our imagination; so also are Benedict
Arnold and Aaron Burr and Major Andre;
so Is Pocahontas. None of these seems to
us unhumaji, or made of marble. Indeed,
to put the thing aa superlatively as possi
ble. Is It not true that Cleopatra's person
ality Is more real to us than Washington's?
If It is true, Cleopatra owes this tremen
dous survival of herself along with her
official acts to a great biographer and a
great poet Plutarch and Shakespeare
have handed her down to us alive, while
our American school books have frosen
George Washington to death. They have
preserved him fame, but killed hltt
OTHER. LANDS Til AN OCRS.
It is a. rare and dull day when a war
cloud does not appear on tha Balkans. War
clouds are the most attractive features of
the scenery, and are sn unfailing source
of interest to leng range "war correspon
dents." This Industrious ' trlb, havfhg
failed Ignomlnlously in manufacturing war
between the t'nlted States and Japan, turn
gleefully to the old reliable Balkans for
material to thrill the dlplomatsf Europe
and shake tha balance of power. The pre
sent war cloud is no bigger than a railroad,
common gauge, single track, which Austria
Is building southeast toward tha Aegran
sea. There are r.o other lines on the map
of that region, no competing line to block
a projected crossing with locomotives,
loaded freight car, nor section hands ready
to fight at the drop of a crowbar. Ameri
can methods have not penetrated that sec
tion. Tha possibilities of trouble lies In the
deeps of national Jealousy. The railroad Is
being built through a strip of Turkish terri
tory between Servla and Montenegro and
halts at the main northwest boundary of the
Ottoman empire. It Is asserted, though
denied, that Germany, which Is financing
the enterprise, has secured secret conces
sions from the sultan. This report brings
Russia Into the controversy, by way of
Fersia. where the ciar and the sultan's
troops guard different sections at the bor
der. Russia's move in that direction is
Intended to convince that aultan that the
Austratn ' railroad Is a dangerous enter
prise and should be stoppedHow the game
will eventuate Is a task for prophets. No
section of southeastern Europe possesses a
greater supply of workable war material
and correspondents are putting In over
time. Prof. John Fryer, head of the department
of oriental languages and literature in the
California university, In a recent lecture
to students on the awakening of China
made statements which possess weighty
significance on account of the professor's
long residence In the empire. He said that
Americans do not begin to realise what
Is 'taking place In China, do not realise
that with the departure from conservatism
and the acceptance of a form of Oriental
civilization she rray go further and faster
than have even the Japanese. He pointed
to the millions of people at her command,
to the rise of the "China for the Chi
nese" movement, to the acceptance of mod
ern methods of education, even to the ad
dition of the higher education for women
and to the Increased tendency toward the
growth of a real national spirit through
the enforcement of the teaching of one
dialect, and the spread of railroads, re
sulting In centralization of power. He said
that If they ccntlnued to learn as they are
doing now, and retained Independent exis
tence for aliothrr generation, China would
have an army and navy ready to meet any
of the world's great powers.
The foreign custom of tipping servants,
pushed to tho limit of extravagance by
rich, easy going Americans visiting or liv
ing In Paris, Is having a most demoralizing
effect on the servant class In the French
capital and reacts Injuriously upon house
holders. A consular report says: "A
French servant; who haa been employed
for any length of time by an American
family Is considered by the better class of
French people as spoiled for their service.
Partly as an effect of this cause, partly In
consequence of tfte socialistic Ideas which
prevail so largely . among the working
classes, and partly on account of the In
sistent readiness of the servant class In
French cities to take advantage of every
chance to Increase their Income, the est
of domestic service of all kinds has ad
vanced at least 25 per cent since the spring
of the year 1900.
The case Is still further aggravated by
tho development of the "sou system,"
which has become the despair of frugal
housekeepers In Paris. Under this system
the cook or other domestic servant who
does the family marketing is entitled to
receive from the dealer a sou or 1 cent for
each franc expended, that Is, a commission
of 5 per cent on the cost of all supplies
purchased, which Is naturally added to the
price paid by the housekeeper.
This, however, is not all nor the worst
feature of the system. The greed for com
missions Is an Incentive to extravagant
purchases, the waste of food and the pay
ing of Tirst-class prices for second-rate
meats, fruits, vegetables, fuel and other
supplies. In some households the system
is extended so far that servants claim and
receive the standard commission on gas,
eloctrlclty, outside laundry work and other
essentials, with the provision of which 4hey
have nothing to do except to make the
consumption and monthly bills as large as
possible.
' Last summer Antonio Mangana, a native
of Italy, who since hla fourteenth year has
lived In the United States, went back to
his native (and and made a special study
of the effect of emigration upon Italy.
His descriptions of some of the Italian hill
towns In Charities and Corrections show
the lingering Influence of the feudal sys
tem. Of tho absentee landlord he writes;
"The absentee landlord is one of the
curses of the country. The owner of laio
estates one well known family la said to
possess thirty such towns as Forano, with
fields and vineyards-intrusts his property
to a financial agent, whose business It is
to get as muolfas possible from the ten
ants, so that the owner may be maintained
In luxury and Idleness In the large cities.
The property owners care nothing for tho
welfare of their tenants; the agents care
less.
"The rental terms difer In different sec
tions, but before emigration had grown to
suctvenornious proportions the peasant was
entirely at the mercy of the land agent or
his padrone. Ills condition was such that
In order to get enough black bread for his
family he must accept the most grinding
terms, paying In wheat for the little patch
of exhausted soli which required the com
bined labor of man, wife and children to
eke out a miserable existence. And If,
after tolllag early and late all summer,
the crops failed In a bad season, no pity
was shown him. The full rent must still
be paid; there was no escape; he must
submit or starve, and even then half starve
through the winter. We saw families !st
winter in a town where there had been no
meat for over a month, and If they had
their portion of cornmeal polenta at noon
It meant they could have no supper at
night. The peasant never thinks of mov
ing from one town to another to hotter his
condition, Tho possibility Is too remote
and the moving far too expensive. It Is
easier to cross the ocean, and this he now
does. The third-class government pass
ports for the very poor are free. The
steamship agent will gladly lend him money
and another sturdy toiler Is lost to Italy."
Advance Aareat of Prosperity.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The entire west Is covered with a sheet
of the spotless and we hardly knew of
anything, If a hard course of reading on
the subject counts for much, that will do
next year's crops more good than this
sume mantle of purity. ,
Parity! His System.
Kansas City Star.
If Hon. Leslie M. Shaw will stay in the
west a few days longer he may take a
decidedly more optimistic view of the "sit
uation." It takes some time to get the
Wall street germs entirely out of the sys-'.em.
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NO AIU1I r5 HUE FEOSPSATES.
WASHINGTON'S ANCESTRY.
Royal Blood In the Veins of Father
of Oar Country.
Caroline Tlcknor, In Harper's Weekly."
"Lt no man fancy he knows sport,"
said the late Moncure D. Conway, "unless
he has family-treed an ancestor of George
Washington." Tet, despite the many clever
scholars and antiquarians' of America who
havt tried their hands at this "sport," It
has remained for a fellow of the Royal
Historical society of England, Rev. Fred
erick W. Raggs, to convey to us the latest
Interesting revelation regarding the ances
try of our first president.
Barring those that champion the truly
democratic standpoint, less prevalent to
day than it was In 169), which scorns to
connect Itself witTi Old World titles and
abhors royalty, there remain many liberal
souls among us who do not grudge to one
who was acknowledged first in war and
first In peaco a share In the homage ac
corded the first family of England.
Edward I was himself a mighty war
rior, and first In many wars; his prowess
was early exercised on the Turks, during
that last crusade ever embarked ort by
England's kings, and when the throne be
came his own he successfully ' carried out
his project of uniting England, Scotland,
and Wales. He brought the famous Stone
of Scone to Westminster Abbey, and un
der htm England became a mighty nation.
He was a monarch wise and great, even
though he had little leaning toward demo
cratic government and did not display spe
cial fondness for Magna Charts. Edward
Longghanks was not an ancestor to be de
spised toy his descendant.. Qoorge; of kingly
bearing and equally , long rlegs.
That this direct line of descent has not
until now been established may seem a
bit surprising In view of the exhaustive
research that has been devoted 'to the
Washington ancestry. The reason Is, how
ever, not difficult to understand when one
reflects that such research has been con
cerned exclusively with" the male line,
while this royal blood Is introduced Into
the family by Margaret Butler, who mar
ried Laurence Washington In 1588.
POLITICAL, DRIFT.
If Foraker goes, what will happen to
Dick? Me, too?
Reform halts In the Oklahoma legislature
long enough to determine whether the hotel
keeper who uses cracked dishes hss a frac
ture in his top section within the reach of
law.
Ex-Governor Pennypacker insists on thS
witness stand that the Pennsylvania state
house was "a fine Job," an assertion in
happy accord with the views of the bene
ficiaries of the loot
Ollle James, the giant congressman from
Kentucky, is the latest "mentioned" for
vice president on the Bryan ticket. "Billy
and Ollle" has the right ring to catch poli
tical kindergartens.
A southern editor comes to the rescue of
the perplexed by defining a democrat as
"a man who always votes the democratic
ticket, even though he has to suck a lemon
to take the bad taste out of his mouth."
J. Li. Brlstow, formerly fourth assistant
postmaster general and now editor of the
Salina (Kan.) Journal, has announced his
candidacy for the United States senate to
succeed Chester I. Long, whose term ex
pires March 3, 1909.
Owen Wlster, novelist and biographer, put
up a lively fight for the select council In
one of the Philadelphia wards, but was laid
out five to one by the regular nominee.
Party regularity usually leaves merit at the
post In the Quaker city.
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PLEAS ANTLT PUT.
Landlord Washington once slept In that
bed you occupied luBt -right.
Uuest That's more than I could do.
Judge.
"What was the matter with the expert
accountant who died so suddenly?"
"He was emi'loyud to ho over a large cor
poration's books; he found that the direc
tors had conducted the business exclusively
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cumbed to the shock." Baltimore Amer
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Aunt Jertisha (at a spiritualistic meeting)
Maria, come home with me. If that me
dium can see through a pint board clolh.-a
ain't no protection. Judge.
"Jones Is studying for the ministry, Isn't
he?"
"No, no; he's only selling Bibles."
"6ame thing he's taking holy orders.'
Puck. I
'What Is the matter with the poor man'."'
"He has suddenly gone crasy. Hu in n
landlord and three of his tenants came, in
this morning to inform him that the
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ing him to repair their houses throughout."
Chicago Record-Herald.-
FEBRUARY TWENTY-SECOND.
William Culleij Bryant
Pale Is the February sky.
And brief Is the midday's sunny hours;
The windswept forest seems to sigh
For the sweet time of leaves and flowers.
Yet has no month a prouder day,
Not even when tho summer broods
O'er meadows In their fresh array.
Or autumn tints the glowing woods.
For this chill season now again '
-. Brings. In Its annual round, the moi-u
When. gTeatest of the sons ot men,
Our glorious Washington was born.
Lo, where, beneath an Icy shield.
Calmly tho mighty Hudson flows!
By snowclad fell and frozen field.
Broadening, the lordly river goes.
The wildest storm that sweeps through
space
And rends the oak with sudden force
Can raise no ripple on his face, ,
Or slacken his majestic course.
Thus, 'mid the wreck of thrones, shall live
Unmarred, undinuned, our hero's fame..
And years succeeding years shall give
Increase of honors to his name.
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