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TIIK WV.Vr. OMAHA. NA'tTRDAY, FKHIilTAIiY 4. 1011. Tin: omaiia Daily IItj-: FOUNDED BY El IWARI ROSE WATER. VICTOn UDSKWATER, EDITOR. Entered at Omaha postofflce as srcond "as matter. TK.IlMH OP Sl'BSCIUPTION: imriav lice, one ar 12. ii tstuidnv Bee, oii year II 60 i ally B e (without Sunday), one year..M" I 'ally Bee a?iil Monday, one year J1' 1'KIJVKRKLI 1)Y CAKKlKR. livening Bee (without Monday), per week c l.vnniK (with fundavl. per week...l"c I'anv lice. (Including Kun1a) . per week..). allv Bee (without Hunilav), per week...l"c Address all complaints of Irregularities In delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICK8. i h 1 1 a -T Ik- lie Hulliing. South OnaTia-62 N. Twenty-fourth St. oiini'll liiuiix 1 rcolt e-irtet. Lincoln-) little BuiKllng. . I hlraito-IMH Marluclte Itulldlng. s l.anfai" itv Hehance Building. .Ww York 24 West Thirty-third Street. t ashington 71f. Fourteenth Street, N. w. CORRF.SPON DENCK. ommunlratton relating to news and laitorlal matter should be addressed Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Hemlt bv dratt, expiesi or poftal order, I avable to '1 he Bee Publishing Company, unlv I'-cent stamps received In payment of i.ihH accounts. Personal etiecka except on i niaha and eastern exchange not accepted. JANUARY CIRCULATION. 45,826 male of Nebraska. County of Liouglas, Uwtght Williams, circulation manager of 'I he Hee Publishing company, being duly worn, aaya that the average dally cir culation, lea rpoiled, unused and returned copies, forthe month of January, lull, .ofM UWKHir WILLIAMS, i Circulation Manager, fliibscribed In my presence and awoi n to before me lhi 1st day of February, ml. tScal.) liOUEHT Hl'NfKB, Notary Public. Snuaerlbrra leaving; Ike rlly tern pnrarllr should have The) Bee mailed tn them. Addreaa rrlll he cb.n.ed .a nfte a. req.c.ted. The town of Chalk, Kan., hasnot jet been erased from the map. Commander Sinims might give us a toast on "The Speeches 1 Have Not Made." Honduras is one of the most inter eating souvenirs Mr.. Morgan has col lected. Folks no longer scent spring by the robin's twitter, but by the crack o' the bat. Strange as It may seem, Nodaway county, Missouri, Is said to be a wide awake community. The nearest Joe Bailey has come to voting for anything lately was pair ing on the ship subsidy bill. Emigrants from Adams county, Ohio, will naturally not be attracted to Vermillion county, Illinois. Those insurrectos are getting close to Texas again. The Rangers may yet have a chance to shoot. Justice will have Its way. The au thor of "The Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight" has been found in Texas. Groundhog or no groundhog, we are going to have an early spring. Chicago street carmen are talking strike. That pension of $36,000 a year ought to be enough at least to throw the hungry wolf off little Manuel's track. Speculators In cold storage butter are said to be losing large sums of money on the decline. Wonder if any of them live In Omaha. Most ot the candidates for senate In the various dead-locked "contests have been too busy running to stop and define their positions on any vital issue. The slavery question was settled in and over Kansas so the New York Times asserts. But even so, why keep refreshing the Kansas mind on the subject? San Francisco ts duly and officially thankful ,for Omaha's friendly senti ment and support. All right, let us have reciprocity when the proper oc casion presents. That Chicago g rl la not to be allowed to marry l he t row Indian. For what raws? Clilcajo Font. It might revive the "Three Black Crows" yarn for one thing. The Baltimore American says Con gressman Joshua Frederick Cockney Talbott ought to be able to bring the national democratic convention to Baltimore. Well, if he had one more link to his name he might. A resolution from the Farmers' longress of Nebraska favoring parcels post has been presented at Washing ton. Parcels post has many sileut advocates, while Its opponents are making a continuous noise. Some local charity association might gather in good, money by put ting on a living tableau show with City Clerk "Dau" Butler poslag as 'Injured Innocence" and John O. Yeleer as "AJax Defying the Light ning " That legislative investigating com mittee might send out a search war rant to find the nineteen Greeks who registered and voted from a down town pool hall, containing nothing but tables and chairs, in our last city election. The res Moines Register and Leader writes an editorial ou "Vhy Not Come Together?" referring to tii senatorial deadlock iu Iowa. It (night have saved itself the trouble by sending lis office boy over lo the Capital oitii e to pop the question to its liur No Trenches for Them. The Brotherhood Welfare associa tion, which might as well be called the Sons of Rest, wss just getting its anvil chorus under a full bead of steam in its convention at Milwaukee, when a circular Inviting able bodied men to enlist In the army and navy fell into the hands of a delegate and nearly 'jreclpitated a riot. The cir cular was ad appeal for more men for military service. "Tear it up and throw It in the waste basket," shouted many voices. The Milwaukee conventloners are sometimes referred to as unemployed and are reputed to be gentlemen of leisure who do not seek or want to work. If they were in earnest, they would not be out of work long. This country Is going to Europe, as our immigration statistics show every year for large numbers of men to per form tasks which, our own unem ployed refuse to perform. Public ser vice corporations, contractors on street improvement and excavations, railroad work and similar enterprises, find it generally Impossible to supply their demands for common labor ex cept from the ranks of these immi grants. Go to the average employ ment agency and you may find proof of this fact. A large percentage of their traffic is with foreign laborers, who come over here, take what they can get and within a few years find themselves in comfortable circum stances. The flotsam and Jetsam of the American population could get the same work at better wages, but they will not take it. Hence no one needs to be alarmed over the industrial sit uation in the United States simply be cause a lot of chronic kickers choose to hold a convention and bewail the fact that they are unable to amass fortunes without exerting any effort to get them. If Cupid Waits for Mail. The Chicago postmaster Is consider ing the advisability of closing forty six substations on Sunday because information be has had - gathered shows that there is no realjned or demand for their service on that day. He has found that more than one-half of those receiving Sunday mail at these substations are boys and girls or young people getting love letters. One recent Sunday just 13,000 of the 2,190,000 residents of Chicago got their mall and It required the labor of 1,000 mall clerks to give it to them. Now, it strikes the postmaster that the 1,000 mail clerks are as much entitled to their Sunday's rest as are these people to their love mis sives, which constitute more than 50 per cent of the letters. It is quite probable that this situ ation in Chicago could be duplicated on a smaller scale In othep cities and that the actual demand for keeping these Outlying substations open on Sunday is small. If business houses can do without their mall on that day, certainly lovers and others who patronise che substations should. In Omaha we have no Sunday carrier de liveries which would Indicate that we have no needs but that can be subserved by the morning opening for an hour at the central postoffice. The crowds that flock into the sub stations, are chiefly children and young folks and, whether It be a happy commentary upon their piety or not, church people on their way home from morning worship. Un doubtedly these people all could wait until Monday for their mail and give the men who work every other day during the week a chance for a day's rest on Sunday. There is some food for aerious thought in this Tor the churchman. The Child and the Home. A recent number, of the North American Review contains a very In teresting article on the child and so cial reform by a minister, who makes !the remarkable statement that "Somewhat, but not very much, can I be done for the moral Improvement of the present adult generation." If I ha la rtirht It la ralhoe 4lun,,il.. to the efforts of those reformers who strive to supplant penalty for crime with a kind of absent treatment rem edy that frowns on all sorts of pun ishment. Ministers as a rule, 11 may be assumed, have much experience in trying to get men to turn from their sins and reform, hence it will not quite do peremptorily to dismiss what an eminent man of the cloth has to say upon this subject. Of course, no one Imagines that he has despaired of the regenerating power of the gos pel. But, just the same, he adds: 1 am pertusded that, while the reform of an adult criminal or degenerate who ha biCJina auch In chlHhood la not Im possible, it liiom is accomplished. At any rate, every conalderall n of economy and cffi c Iv. nes would lead us u ap proach the pi obU in of reform at the point rf least res stance, and especially to turn ttii- btlateu tndeavots fpr reform Into ef lo ta fir prevention ClnldhJd ia the time of ulnnie plasilcity i nyalcally, mentally snj moially. Childhood, of course, Is the time to begin making men better. That Is the, principle on which our philan thropic institutions are working. It goes to the root of the whole system of social reform. But, with all its good achieved, looms often a tragedy in the loss of filial devotion, for which the chaiitable influence from outside has not been as solicitous as it should have been. If In the nur ture of the child, If In taking up the segleoted duty of the home, it Is pos sible to keep alhe the spark of re spect for parents and home In tbe child, the charily that-does it will have all the more to commend its ef forts. It is not lo be supposed that this thought lias entirely escaped those who are patiently doing this kind of work, but now and then It seems to have received too little at tention. Of course, It Is the derelict home, or parents that created the need for the outside aid. But even so, filial devotion had better be wasted on the unworthy than allowed to perish, and honor for the institution of home can not be spared from any social reform. Our philanthropy Is only supplement ary, after all. Curbing- Sale of Firearms. A marked increase in the number of homicides and suicides by shoot ing has led officials of the New York coroner's office to start a movement which they hope will lead to new legis lation restricting the sals of firearms, particularly revolvers. An expert who has been In the coroner's office for thirteen years proposes to exact a high license of shopkeepers selling re volvers and compel a purchaser to have a permit from the police before he can get his pistol. Application for the permit would force him or her to give toe name and address and be questioned as to the object in view. The police, it is assumed, by using their discretion, could head off many crimes right there in their incipiency. Senator Timothy D. Sullivan is sup porting this plan and proposes a bill to the legislature of New York mak ing it a state prison offense to carry concealed weapons. Of Course if a person is determined to commit Buiclde, or even murder, he might do it without the use of a revolver, but the New York laws and laws of many other states, in contem plation, having already restricted the sale ot poisons, thus effecting some restriction there and reducing the pos sibility of self-destruction that much. No argument isv required to convince people In this country of the impera tive necessity for sotne legislation that will tend to discourage the frightful destruction of human life with firearms. For years the cry went out against the "pistol toter" in the south, the best element of , the south joining In it and some good has come of the protests, but the grim re cords of homicides and suicides are too widespread to make this a sec tional question. It is a question that should receive prompt and vigorous handling in most states of the union. The New York proposals may at first seem Inadequate, but they would be made very effective. With proper restrictions laid upon the traffic of firearms and state prison penalties for violations of the law, there is reasonable basis for the belief that men would hesitate to sell, buy or carry these weapons promiscuously. Wanted A Remedy. The legislative investigating com mittee looking into the election condi tions In Omaha will hear all kinds of evidence, much of it based on mere rumor and hearsay, but some going to actual evils that call for remedy. ' Thfe conditions surrounding elec tions in Omaha in respect to registra tion and special certificates- for non registered voters are duplicated with variations, only in degree. In South Omaha and Lincoln, and wherever a dense population requires registration of voters for identification and pro tection against repeating and fraud. Tbe looseness of the law and the care lessness of the election officers, whether willful , or merely negligent, can be established not only for Omaha, but also for Lincoln, where it is noto rious that nonresident students are regularly vote! by the hundred and Imported floaters sworn in by profes sional freeholders. What is wanted, therefore, we say, is not only to bring out these facts, but, more Important, to devise a rem edy that will lessen these evils and make our elections more nearly re flect correctly the expressed will of the legally qualified electors. The people who can give Information about wrong-doing "under existing law are not necessarily the people who can suggest the remedies. It is the duty of the lawmakers to work out prac tical legislation that will safeguard tbe ballot box against fraud and per version, and at the same time uphold the constitutional guarantyof a free and untrammeled 'ballot for every male citizen over the age of 21 who has resided within the state the time prescribed by la. v. City Electrician Mlchaelsen would have all royalties and occupation taxes from lighting companies put into the lighting fund and leave the amount to be appropriated from the tax levy unchanged. If they had to choose one or tbe other, the lighting companies, which are the beneficiaries of this fund, would probably prefer this, too, because it would give" them an Indefinite and constantly expand ing lighting fund without reference to the tax rate. The taxpayers would get the blggent benefits by having tbe amount to be appropriated -. for tbe different funds fixed and the proceeds of royalties and occupation taxes ap plying to reduce the tax rate. The New York World must be be ginning to think it misplaced its con fidence during the late campaign. It declares that "Boss" Murphy. "Billy" Sheehan and "Tom" Hyan are willing to wreck the democratic party lu or der to make Sheehan senator and .abruptly asks, "But how about Oov- eruor Dix?" The governor, whom the World vouched for during tbe campaign as a uian 'who would run his own office aud act upon his own convictions, stubbornly, ao far, re- j fuses to move one iiuh to save the preventing Tam- A pauper who died at the county hospital turns out to have an estate valued at between $5,000 and 16,000. There ought to be some way In such esses for the county to recover the money expended for the keep and care of the deceased, who must have falsely and knowingly misrepresented him self to be indigent. The Incident sug gests the Inquiry, How many people are the taxpayers supporting at the j county hospital who are able to pay their own way? Initiative and referendum in Ne braska turns out to be much like county option. During the campaign it was "the" county option bill and "the" direct legislation measure, but after election it is "any" county op tion bill and 'any" direct legislation measure. Anyone with half-way perfect vision can see a fine row brewing In the Ne braska legislature if congressional re apportionment reduces Nebraska from six to five congressmen and forces a redisricting for congressional rep resentation. It begins to look as if our demo cratic congressman and senator-elect might "eventually be for Canadian reciprocity if the wobbling of his newspaper may be taken as an Index. Corrallna- the Herd. Houston Post. Speaking of gerrymandering Texas.. The Omaha Bee wants to know If It takes so much trouble to corner our five republi cans? Lord. no. The motive Is to corner a couple of hundred thousand democrats. oln Down for the Truth. Baltimore American. Spain's desire to know all about the raising of the Maine Is natural, and It ap pears Just and reasonable that the Informa tion should be furnished. All these years the stiKina of the Maine's destruction has retted, Justly or unjustly, upon Spain. The truth should be known and admitted, no matter whom It hurts. o "Beds" Wanted Here, Baltimore American. America Is the land of liberty, but It has no room for those who plot against law and order. Very properly an anarch istic demonstration In New York was dis persed Sunday, jven though It was not directed against this government. The United States cannot afford to harbor the "Rods" under any conditions. , Kllrsdlnl Classified Service. New York Tribune. The passage of Senator Frye's bill put ting customs officers under the classified service would be of public advantage in relieving the senate of the duty of pass ing on nominations for collectors, assistant collectors, surveyors and naval officers of customs at the various ports. At a great majority of our ports these posts are of minor Importance, hardly ranking with thlrd-claas postmasterships. Presi dent Taft is also anxious to see the second and third-class postmasters classified. There Is room for a large reduction In the list of the nominations which the senate now confirms, spending a good deal of profitless energy on that labor. Ill.tX K1U THl'J FOE'S ADVAM'K, !oalor Younit's thrilling; Hide to the rirlnar Line. New York Tout. . Are the progressive men of Iowa asleep at the switch? asks frantically Senator and Kditor Lafayette Young of the Des Moines Capital. Do they not realize, he agonizes. that if this "so-called trade agreement with Canada Is voted by congress, the farmers t the I'nlted States will be "made to compete with all (he pauper labor and cheap lands of the world?" Leat anybody think that Senator Young Is asleep at the switch by being In Des Moines endeavoring to secure his election to the achate when the liberties of the farmer are endangered In Washington, Senator Young hastily adds: "The editor of the Capital is In telegraphic communication with Washing ton, and will depart for Wahlngton at any minute when he can be of service toward defeating this reciprocity agreement." As for Canada, Senator Young's opinion of what the agreement will mean to the do minion ought to end any possible opposition to It there. If the agreement pauses, Mr. Young says, there will be a "tremendous rush" for Canada on the part of farmers, "one hundred millions of dollars of Iowa money will be Invested In Canada thin year lU," and "ten or twenty dollars" will be added to the value of every produc ing acre In Canada In which case the Iowa farmer who wants to make money had bet ter go to Canada by the first train. A; least Senator Young Is consistent: he has always bean a hide-bound "standpatter.'" And he Is net afraid to talk out, while Ii.surgent Cummins has not as yet, f und voice to tell us what he, who haU be n to bitter against the I'ay ne-Aldr'ch tariff, thinks about the reciprocity agreement. People Talked About The new senator from Tennessee Is a prohibitionist and the new senator from Ohio neither drinks, smokes nor swears. By her work among the poor whites In the south, MtH I.ydla Holman has won for herself the title of being the American Florence Nightingale, In one of the wild sections of our country. The ediuir of a democratic newspaper in Maine bewails the recent victory of his party, saying: "For the first time In fifty years we have somebody to defend, and we don't know how to do It." Sweet are the-mses of adversity. Governor Johnson of California has signed the Walker-Young anti-racing bill, which contains comprehensive prohibition of wagers, both oral and recorded. The new law becomes effective February 15. and presumably kills horse racing In California. F.dward Henry Collins, believed to be out, of the last surviving sons of the revolution, died at his home In Monrovia. I'al.. b6 ytars old. His father, llfiiry Collins, as a mere boy, served through the revolutionary war. The father was til years old when the son was burn. In the heart of Indiana, at a point in Brown count, which marks the cnter of population in the I'nitrd States, is a log Jail, where the prisoners go home to Iheii meals. In this way the Jail atltfie b natural craving for club life without ur fictlni,' the tax rate. That 1'iicie Sam alwas pays his debts, slthouKh Kometlmes he Is slow, wan proved to James M. Palmer, a veit ran of ' t lie civil wr. Recently Mr. I'.lunr received ll.t'l for clothinR. t.cii'g the balance due him which he (vied to :et in !' J'alntei ia 72 year old. and wax a number of the party, if that be many's triumph. j t:igi. th Ui?oiri uu!r). In Other Lands id zarhta on WiV. ta Trans ptrin jinioBf the Hear an Tar Ration of the Carta. The live wire of hn::nn ;rosiss In the old world Is doing business right along. Old Institutions, traditions, customs, are given shocks of varying power, and fat headed monarch are forced to sit up and take notice. Look around and note the awakening and the uplift. There Is China, awstke and alert, summoning foreign medi cal aid to stamp out the plague, shedding queues, outlawing th opium pipe and pre paring for constitutional government. In dia Increased native representation In pro vincial councils and presses forward for genuine home rule. Persia is shaking oft the fetters of centuries, and Turkey, be sides exiling Abdul and proclaiming a con stitution, Is diligently teaching the faithful of Islam that It Is meet and proper to live on terms of friendship with non-believers. Portugal pensions Its exiled king while looking up pointers on republican govern ment. The republican Impulse In Spain hesitates to strike, contenting Itself with hurling an occasional bomb, while the same spirit In France Is perplexed to find new sources of taxation. Socialism keeps the Hohenxollerns as near the chalk line of duty as the waist line permits. Little Mon aco stopped the game long enough to se cure a constitution, and the UermanUed provinces of Alsace and Lorraine are prom ised limited home rule. Grave constitu tional questions. Involving heredity as a co-ordinate leglwlative force. Is up for early settlement In Ureat Britain. If these grouped events, a few of many, do not convince skeptics of civilization's advance to higher levels, one more may be sum moned as a clincher: The tall hat Is going out of fashion In Kngland. Canadian delegates in attendance, at the Inauguration of the government of the South African union last October have re turned home with gloomy tales of Dutch ascendency everywhere in the conquered colonies. Some of the things mentioned showing how the wind blows are worth noting. Empire day has been abolished. A large sum of money has been voted to pay pensions to officials of the late republic. Measures have been taken to restrict Immi gration, but this Is directed mainly at con tract cheap labor from India. These are minor signs of the times In South Africa. Back of them is a policy that looks fitr into the future. That policy has to do with placing Boers upon the land as farmers. I'nlted with this Is the bilingual education plan, whereby the Kngllsh and the Dutch languages are to be taught In the schools, and all legal notices must be printed In both. Discrimination In the selection ot teachers la cited as another grievance, pref erence being shown Dutch teachers over English In a lower standard of examina tion. No remedy for these conditions Is suggested by the Canadian Imperialists. They content themselves with the recital of the painful facts, coupled with a lamenta tion over defeat turned Into victory for the Boers. The grant of self-government made inevitable the conditions mentioned. Boer ascendency could not be averted under any system of majority rule. Th Dutch con stitute three-fourths ot the farmers of the united colonlea, and are potential factors In the activities of the cities. The percentage of English on the land Is comparatively small, and many of these are one In senti ment and aspirations with their Dutch neighbors. The majority ot the English are in the cities, their number rising and falling as mining and commercial life pros pers or declines. Ind cultivation is the dependence of the Dutch, and that beats a mining proposition for endurance and permanent results. MM The federal pie counter in France pos sesses no more appetizing morsels than other nations hand out to hungry favorites, but the proportion of the population which reaches the counter and sticks constitutes an unrivaled record of seal and persever ance. Official reports show the number of officeholders In France has reached WU21. and Is growing every year. The average yearly increase In officeholders for the last fifty years Is 4,600. In half a century the Increase In population has been only 10 per cent, but the civil service pay roll has swelled from $49,000,000 to $137,000,500. In round figures, France's population Is 89,000.000, so that one person In every thirty-nine has a pull at the public crib. The civil list In the United States totals M7,74 persons in a population of 92,000,000. or one officeholder for each 2o0. Allowance tiust be mad for employes on the French' railroads, telegraph and telephone services and other utilities con trolled by the state, the number so em ployed vastly Increasing the public pay roll. But the aggregate Is swollen beyond reasonable needs. The Paris Gaulols as serts one-third of the number could be lopped off without Injury to the service. French thrift In money matters Is the ad miration of the world. It shines with eiual luster In office getting. The ideal of the middle class citizen Is to get an easy, well paid Job under the government en titling him to a pension. Doubtless a good deal of the French taxpayers' money could be saved If sinecures were abolished, but It wculd need a strong man to undertake this task. Stories of morganatic marriages lend spice and some disagreeable odor to the romances of the royal houses. Whether true or false, alliances outside of the royal circle are accepted by subjects as the privilege of heirs to and occupants of the throngs. No ruler of recent tlmea has shown the courage of King George In meet ing a speclflo accusation of bigamy and demonstrating In court the utter falsity of the charge. The discredit stocy differed from the usual morganatic alliance In that no moral wrong was asserted. As the story had It, marriage was contracted long be fore the present king was prince of Wales and Jielr apparent to the throne. The death of his elder brother, nicknamed Prince "Collars and Cuffs," changed the status of the new prince of Wales, and would have annulled a real marriage out side of royalty had one existed. At the time of the death of King Kdwa'd the story was again revived and widely pub lished, garnished with details which gave it the appearance of genuineness. One ot these was to the effect that the then prince of Wales, on tho eve of his royal marriage, hurried to the bedside of the 1 dying atMf wife, comforted her lat hours on earth, paid all expenses of death and burial, and was then providing gen erously for the education of the two sons raid to have been born of tbe union. All this whs shown in court to have been without the slightest foundation In fact By utterly diNproving the story the king honir himself and the fumlly life of the nation. Mount rriion !a ffsraarded. liiiludclphla Bulletin. , By an overwhelming vole the HouHe at , Washington has debarred the comiuixgiun- ! era of the Dixtiict of Columbia from es- jtaiilldliing a penal reformatory within ten ' miles of Ml. Vernon, the home of our flrt J president. In a tr I of land ien miles ' H(uare, u h as is the I rt i t. there cer tainly are to he- found other s'les an eon- venli nt as that near Mr. ernon and leas liable to offend national kvutlinent. The Bee's Letter Box Contributions en Timely Bmbjeets Wot exceeding Two Hundred Words Are Invited from Our Benders. Rertproeltr and Prlr-ee. OMAHA. Jan. 29 To the Editor of The Bee: 1 notice In The Bee of today the pro posed reciprocity with Canada plan re ferred to In a New York dispatch as a "lever to lower food prices." From what little study I have given the subject It strikes me this view is not far-fetched. While I doubt the expediency of any sweep ing lowering of prices, yet I believe a better general level could be reached and I also believe such trade relations with Canada as a .reciprocity treaty would bring about wculd tend to effect a better balancing of pricer We should never look for "cheap" prices again In this country, for It Is not a efieep-prlce country. We are brlnitln our resources up to the point where we are soon going to be able to cope with high prices as easily or easier than we were able before to co with the cheap prices. Besides, cheap prices was one ele ment that figured In the most distressing panic this country ever saw and we want to do away with all elements of panics. But as to reciprocity, we have been crying for such a system in this country ever since James O. Blaine gave It such promi nence, and now that we have an oppor tunity to put It Into effect between the I'nlted States and Canada, two strikingly similar countries, practically one. In fact, we should not stultify our professions by failing to do so. I see nothing In such a policy which the ultra-protectionists could not consistently adopt. It Is straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel when men will oppose such a treaty with Canada and then go before congTess and fight for plac ing this article or that on the free list be. cause It has a sectional significance favor able to their selfish political Interests. By all means, let our congress co-operate with the president In giving us reciprocity with the Dominion. JOHN H. M'HRNRT, Heal Hairy Inspection. OMAHA, Jan. . To the Editor of The Bee: I wish to register my satisfaction as a citizen over the fact that our dairy in spectors are getting "down to business " "A score of B0 Is considered sanitary," and Inspector Bossle informs us that eight wholesalers come below that mark; that Is to say, that after all the to do during the past six or more months on the part of the citizens, the local papers and the city coun cil have reached so high (?) a standard that there are still tolerated In our midst eight "unsanitary" dairies supplying milk to our citizens while only aix are sanitary. It Is clearly the duty of the inspector to do something, right here and now, with S07, 29 3, 245.7, $1.5. and I am looking for ward to the continuance of the good work which Inspector Bossle seems to have put on the right road. I would like to see retailers and restau rants take hold of the Idea of advertising from which wholesaler they get their milk. WILLIAM WEEtMAN. Jeremiah on the firing; l.lne. SOCTH OMAHA. Feb. l.-To the Editor of The Bee: In Monday evening's Issue appeared an article headed "All Favor Charter Changes." I notice In reading said Article that his honor. Mayor Dahl man, is very solicitous about arranging the charter so that the "poor" laboring man might exercise the light of suffrage. If my memory serves me right) I believe that there Is a provision In the general law which states that the laboring man shall get two hours to vote from his em ployer without any deduction on his miser able day's wage. I read also that the city clerk. Hon. "Dan" Butler, is very anxious that the "poor" working man would have an oppor tunity to register and he suggests Satur days, when the working man Is off in the afternoon. I eften wonder why our politi cal chieftains don't familiarize themselves on the working hours and the general con ditions of the down-trodden and oppressed laboring man. Who Is representing the laboring man and all the other honest citizens? Scan over the political pedigree of many of our law-making worthy warriors in the state house, the county court house, the city hall or elsewhere. Who do theee civic warriors or humming birds that occupy the aforesaid mentioned building represent? Here In South Omaha the humming birds are owned body and breeches by the beef trust. What Is needed nowadays is civio patriotism and what surprises me Is that our citizens don't elect patriots to office In place of bunko artists. JERRY HOWARD. Onr Stock of Volcnnle "posters. Boston Transcript. The destructive demonstration of the vol canlo Ml Taal In Luzon reminds us that In that dependency we have a very prolific source and center of seismic energy. We no longer have to depend upon Vesuvius and Etna, Popocatepetl, Collma or Pelee for nature's pyrotechnics; we have a fine bunch of our own In the Philippines. There are twenty-three well known volcanoes there, eleven of them more or less active. More than that, the volAino of Albay In south-eastern Luzon la said to have the most beautiful cone of any mountain in the world, though Its outbursts have fre quently been very destructive. For eighteen years, between 180 and 1X97, there was an average of about fifty-four earthquake days for each year In the Islands. The Bush & ily see why the piano they f"7?- r nj I gressive factory like the Bush ci Lane Co. The wonder ful Bush & Lane scale combined with skilled workman ship and the best material obtainable produces a piano with the fine tone and wearing qualities that are found only in pianos of the higher grade. 'Each piano stands as a monument to the piano making genius of the Bush & Lane organization. See these pianos, get our prices and you'll buy a Bush & Lane. Catalogues mailed on application. Al. Hospe Co. 1813-13 Douglas Street. HAS t:0 SUBSTITUTE r Absolutely Puro Tho only baking powtiiw mada front nova I Grape Croam of Tartar 111 ALL" !,K3 U?. Fii-SPilATE JOLTS OF THE PARAGRAPHIAS. Kansas' t'fiy Star: Now that women are allowed to sit on Juries In the state of Washington they should be reminded that after a verdict Is brought in It will be too late to change their minds. Ixulsville Courier-Journal: If there ever was a case In which lynching was permis sible It was that of the New York fool who didn't know It was loaded and shot and killed a perfectly good cook.' 1 Chicago Record-Herald: After he had been hazed by his loving friends a Colo rado bridegroom had twenty ot them ar rested and kept In Jail over night. Ws recommend him for a hero medal. Louisville Courier-Journal: A Toronto banker has been sentenced to serve six years In the penitentiary for having stolen $40,00. This side of the line he would have been tried for six years If he had had so much to spend. Cleveland Plain Dealer: An eastern man Is being sued for a board bill, the plaintiff charging him with boarding with her for twenty-eight years without paying a cent for the privilege. Even the effulgence of a star boarder fails In time. Minneapolis Journal: A blow has been struck at the beautiful divorcees now domiciled at Reno. The Nevada senate has parsed a bill which prohibits the use of cigarettes in that state, and It ia predicted that the lower house will also approve th bill. Cruel and unusual, indeed. PLEASANTLY POINTED. "That young hospital doctor is going In for politics." "I hope not on the lines ot his profes sion." T'How do you mean?" "Isn't he at present a ward healer?" Baltimore American. "What are you going to tell the people when you get home?" "Nothing." replied Senator Sorghum. "And all that I ask is that they'll recipro cate and not start In telling me things." Washington Star. "Why, yes, he considers himself a real poet." "I'm sura ha isn't." 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My rage In a Berserker state, A heavy chair I shied With superhuman vigor straight Athwart that cat. Ha died. I spoke one final fearful curse. I slept, Inert and flat, I woke to find the universe Unmitlgatod cat. I hurled a Jug with deadly hand. He died. I slumbered. Nix! H Imitated Housa's band From four-elghteen till six. But I'll rut short this tae of strife And tell you, In a line. I killed that tomcat, life by life, I'ntll I'd bagged all nine. I slumbered, freed from his fal-lals; I woke, upon the verge Of madness. All his bosom pals Were singing him a dirge! Lane Piano 0 : to Every piano buyer should in vestigate the wonderful im provements made in piano building, as arc found in the construction of the Bush & Lane Piano. These improve ments are so practical and can be so clearly understood that, when explained to them, the most inexperienced can read buy should be made by a pro