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THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1912.
fTHE Omaha daily Bee
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I Sabscrlbers leaving the city
I temporarily shoald bave Vke
f Bee mailed to them. Address
wilt be changed as oftea as re
I quested. '
I Almost caught up with that precip
itation deficiency? ' .
Poor little Astor baby, born with
k handicap of 13,000,000.
I Prudent men like Mr. Bryan will
discount populist endorsements.
' What a. thick-headed dunce Solo-
fnon would be today in comparisons
The Taft special will, not even
frhlstle for the crossing at Armaged
don. ; , .
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I Where does money come from?
fesks the little boy.
ourse.
Oil and steel, of
Brand Whitlock, report says, will
to back to literature. Is that what
e calls it? , , r , :
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To the Stationers: Try a few other
convention cities, and then come
Wk.to Omaha -
" The colonel's real objection to the
southern negro is that he does not
outvote the other, fellow.
That suit to dissolve the moving
picture trust might be put on the
bill aa a dissolving view..
Japan's Up-to-TJate Buler.
The ancestral spirits of the new
emperor of Japan were duly in
formed of his accession, which was
solemnized with all the mysterious
ceremonies of Shlntoism, and yet
Yoshohito Harunomiya is far from
being fossilized in his ideas and man
ners. Holding to oriental formal
isms apparently means nothing in
his case so far as anti-occidentalism
is concerned. His dress and that of
his wife and three children is west
ern; his sympathies are broadly cos
mopolitan and his vision modern
and progressive. Young, he belongs
to young Japan. And so his acces
sion Is hailed as another step In
Japan's forward course.
No fortuitous circumstance brings
so ardent a cosmopolite to the Japa
nese throne. It Is the logic of evolu
tion as inspired by the advanced
reign of his illustrious father and
predecessor, in whose time the na
tion rose from inconsequential ob
scurity to a front rank among world
powers. It is befitting, therefore,
that the United States and other
great nations should send special rep
resentatives to attend the funeral of
the father and pay the respects of
their government to the son. This
event should mark another era of
good will betweeen Japan and her
neighbors and serve effectually to
allay Jingoistic prattle about war, at
least for a while.
Inflaming; Eace Prejudice.
Senator Newlands of Nevada, a
democratic statesman born in Missis
sippi, goes Colonel Roosevelt one
better on the negro question. The
colonel. In his bid for the white
southerner's vote, refused admission
to his convention of the southern
negro delegate, declaring that In the
south his new organization was to
be a "white man's party." Senator
Newlands comes out for an exclusive
"white man's government," and a
constitutional amendment withdraw-
lng the, voting franchise from unborn
members of the negro race.
A former president of the United
States cannot tread upon such dan
gerous ground as this without Invit
ing mischief. So long as the reins
of government rest In safe hands the
negro will have some one to appeal
to for his constitutional rights.
Nevertheless, It does no good to in
flame ' smoldering embers of race
prejudice by preaching disfranchise
ment.' Our nation poured out money
and blood, almost' without limit, to
extinguish the color line, and it must
never be drawn again. "It is for us,
the ' living, v to' see ' that 'these dead
shall not ' have ' died In vain."
Demogogy would never have enabled
Abraham Lincoln to fulfill his mission.
The way that these political suit
ors are flirting with Miss Suffragette
is something too awfully awful. .-
Chicago retailers have been having
a "Made-in-Chicago" exposition.
Omaha retailers beat them to It. ..
, Jack Johnson had hardly retired
jthan some money-mad pug fired a
challenge through his bedroom win
dow. " V"-';."
It is now referred to as "The In
evitable Party," Yes, It was bound
to come, - for ambition knows no
limit. ' ',
The St. Paul girl .who, wrote, a
novel with her toes Just couldn't
help : but make a good many foot
notes. . '
, That senator who favors abolish
!ng the .Congressional . Record, per
haps could find no other way of
breaking Into It.
Congress has evidently reached
the stage of the bashful young suitor,
wno couia not rake up courage
enough to leave.
ine most oiting accusation we
have heard of late is that of the Cln
clnnati soldier, who says his wife
stole and wore his false teeth.
To some of us it looks a little in
consistent for Governor Aldrlch to
he opposing a second term for PresI-
dent Taft while urging a second term
for himself.
: Up to last accounts Orozco refused
to recognize the American govern
ment, , If we are correctly advised,
the gentleman does not recognize
any government. ' '
; The state tax rate for pext year
to to be one'milf less than, this year,
This Is about the only real argument
against the ; proposal to reduce the
frequency, of elections.
'ii These third termers Just will not
It down. "We stand at "Armaged
don," shouts the bull moosej "We
are really standing for something,
says Miss Jane Addams.
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I La Follette's magazine is as pro
gressive as ever, but it seems sud
denly to have lost its standing as
the inspiration source of the prbgres-
ilves In favor of the Outlook.
After reading Mr.' Bryan's com
ment on Governor Wilson's accept
ance speech, the impression remains
that no other similar document ever
pleased him better, barring only
three acceptance speeches 'of his own.
locking Backward
1Kb Day inOmalia
COMPILE l FROM BEt FIXE-a
AUGUST 17.
Thirty Years .i.jro
Military headquarters is agog with re
ports of a threatened uprising of Sioux
Indians at the Pine Ridge agency, In
dissatisfaction with Agent McGllllcuddy.
There are quite a number of cases of
typhoid fever in Omaha.
Henry Slert had his place on upper
Farnam street photographed today by a
traveling artist.
Miss M. A. 8mlth, chief clerk of the
Union Pacific ticket department and
niece of Thomas L. Kimball, while
swinging a friend on the grounds of L.
A. Ooss's residence, became entangled
in the guide rope, and was badly, though
not seriously Injured.
Mr. A, H. Hasklns. formerly with the
Grand Pacific at Chicago, has been
engaged as clerk at the Paxton.
H. C. Brome of Norfolk is In the city.
Ben Gallagher has returned from
Sidney.
United States Senator Charles H. Van-
Wyck is In town.
John Swaclna at Bohemian hull, South
Thirteenth street, offers a reward for
Information leading to the return cf a
large black sow, weighing about 250
pounds, lost from his premesls.
Currier, Omaha's. leading photographer,
1212 Farnam street, wants a boy not less
than 15 years old to learn photography.
A first class girl who must be a good
cook, washer and Ironer, may have work
at M Der week by Inquiring at the of
fice of Lee, Fried and company.
John McKInnon employed in the B.
ft M., residing at Mrs. Wilson's on
Nineteenth and Dodge, died yesterday.
Mrs. J. S. Shropshire, of the Union
Pacific freight auditor's office, was mar
ried to Mrs. Cordelia Crowe by Rev. J.
W. Ingram.X
Twenty Years Aa
The Union Pacific base ball team was
advertising for games for Saturday, of
fering to play for "money, beans, chalk
or glory." Will Fulton was receiving the
challenges.
There was no fire In the city hall, but
there was a red hot roasting of J. M.
Wilson, sidewalk inspector, appointed by
Mayor Bemls. Major Balcombe of the
Board of Public Works did the roasting
and Wilson was not allowed to reply in
his own defense, but Wilson made a de
ntal in The Bee.
Mrs. Charles McDonald and sister left
for New York, which was to be their fu
ture home.
Hon. Lorenso Crounse and his daugh
ters returned from Washington. He was
to be In the state In the interest of his
candidacy for governor for some time
before going back to the seat of govern
ment. ' " ''
WllHam A. Paxton of Omaha was
among the Americans wno arnvea in
Paris.
C. J. Raymond, who had spent quite a
time at Hot Springs, S, D., returned loud
In his praise of the place.
.' Mrs. . B. W. Nash, Miss Nash, , Mlsj
Mary Nash and Miss Adeline Nash left
for a trip through Canada, Mrs. Nash's
old homeland. Misses Mary and Adeline
after visiting Quebec and other eastern
cities were to enter the Academy of the
8acred Heart at Manhattanvtlle, U I.
Need of Better Fannin?.
The United States produces 70 per
cent of the world's supply of corn,
24 per cent of its wheat, 50 per
cent of Its cotton, in fact, 31 per
cent, or nearly one-third, of the
world's chief agricultural products.
This gives us distinction as the lead
ing agricultural country, and yet
statistics show that we are not in
creasing this production as fast as
we should, in proportion to ours
and the world's consumption.
-Some recent comparisons have
been made which show that except
as to cotton, the burden of maintain
ing this work of supplying the world
from the farm falls chiefly upon the
middle ' weBt. These comparisons
show, for instance, that in states like
Massachusetts, New York and Penn
sylvania, the average annual income
of the farmer Is $388 ; that In states
like Virginia, North and South Caro
lina, It is 184; in Alabama. Mis
sissippi and Louisiana, $189, and in
states like Nebraska, Iowa, Indiana
and Illinois, the , average annual in
come of the farmer is $663. The
average number of acres tilled, the
average amount received for live
stock and other things figure about
In the same ratio.
Now, even in the middle west we
admit the need of more and better
farming, and if the need is apparent
here, what must be the case in those
other sections, where land Is
neglected or impoverished by Inat
tention to intensive methods? Such
comparisons as these while, perhaps,
not entirely conclusive, ought to con
vlnce anyone that the right kind of
farming pays for all the trouble and
expense it costs. Of course, land In
the middle west and far west being
newer is more productive, but in
addition to that, it Is being better
cultivated than some in the older
sections, and yet not as well culti
vated as even It should be. 1
Ten Years Ae
W. A. Compton, a car builder, was
robbed of a watch and $14 In cash by a
man who pretended to be his friend.
Dick Ferris was in Omaha. He had
come from Minneapolis, where his stock
company wa to play the winter and was
enroute to Lincoln, where one of his sub
ordinate companies was furnishing warm
weather amusement.
John White of Chicago, secretary of
lodge No. 4, Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks, and who seconded Ken
tucky's nomination of George P. Cronk
as grand exalted ruler, arrived in Omaha
from Salt Lake City, where the Elks had
held their convention..
Colonel E. H. Crowder. T. 8. A., judge
advocate, who had recently returned from
the Philippines, arrived in Omaha an
was the guest of friends.
"Humanity is golnd mad over worldly
pleasures," said Rev. J. W. Conley at
the First Baptist church.
Rev. P. F. McCarthy, chaplain of thu
Convent of Mercy, completed twenty-five
years In the priesthood, and the event
was observed by the celebration of solemn
high mass at I a. m. in the chapel of the
convent, Fifteenth and Castellar streets.
The national convention of popu
lists consisted of Just six self-ap
pointed delegates. Yet in Nebraska
the populist label Is still carried on
the official ballot by mlsbranded
democrats bent on raking In a few
thousand votes that do not belong to
them.
Old King Corn and Prince Wheat
and Duke Oats and his lordship, Hon
orable Apple Crop, and the rest of
the imperial dynasty that rules this
agricultural realm, are about to
usher in , another golden age that
will make Pericles look like an im
pecunious straw boas.
, Are they going to draw their edi
tors of the endewed newspapers from
the same old human family out of
which cities, states and nation now
get their public servants?
People Talked About
MOTHERLANDS THAN OURS
Significant Events and Conditions Noted in the Old World.
British Politics.
The recess of the British Parliament
until October, coming on the heels of two
ministerial defeats in bye elections, starts
a freshet of prophecies of the early down
fall of the Asquith ministry. Currents of
political 'ntelligence from London give
evidence of concerted efforts to magnify
tory victories Into liberal party disasters,
and by suppreslon of essential facts give
the Impression that the liberals and their
allies are discredited at home. In the
two recent tory victories at Crewe and
northwest Manchester purely local condi
tions determined the Jesuit In the Crewe
division liberal and laborltes divided their
vote between two candidates, thus allow
ing the tory candidate to win with a
minority of votes. The Northwest Man
chester division formerly was a tory
stronghold which was liberalized by
Winston Churchill, now flrst'lord of the
admiralty. ' Yet tory success was made
possible there only by the tory candidate
renouncing the party creed of protection
and standing on the liberal platform of
free trade. These two seats make a total
of eighteen liberal seats captured by the
torles since the general election of 1910,
and afford good ground for the justifica
tion of the victors. It is worth while
noting, however, that tory jubilation
transferred to cold print carries an ex
pression of unfelt fear lest the ministry
may not survive the two years needed to
make the Irish home rule bill a law.
Home rule is the nightmare of the tory
household.. All the energies and resources
of the party, every political scheme in
genuity and experience can devise, are
centered on the defeat of self-government
for Ireland. Consequently every in
cident which lends strength to tory hopes
calls forth an excess of jubilation and
prediction. Meanwhile the allied support
ers of the ministry have a clear majority
of 100, are thoroughly united on all vital
Issues and equally determined to tarry
out the ministerial program to the limit
of Parliament's life.
Joha Chinaman and His Pipe.
The revolution in China has brought
about a very curious situation with re
spect to the opium traffic. In 1907 the
government undertook to stamp out the
vice, and India agreed to reduce her ex
ports of opium to China by a tenth an
nually, so that in a decade the trade
would be stopped. At the request of
China it was later agreed that this time
should be shortened, provided China
should meanwhile succeed In suppressing
entirely the growing of the poppy. There
seemed some Chance of this till the revo
lution produced a temporary choas in
the midst of which farmers In many dis
tricts managed to resume poppy grow
ing, which is difficult to suppress unless
neighbors turn Informer. As yet the re
public has not been able to establish such
systematic local government as to re
piles the evil, and consequently both
poppy culture and opium smoking are
increasing. But India In the meantime
had been counting upon the revenue
from the sale of the agreed quantity at
famine prices, and the merchants are
dismayed by. the slump caused by home
competition. To enforce China's part of
the agreement Is impossible.' and as the
next best thing the India opium merchants
are joining In the demand to stop ex
portation, in order that they may work
off the stock which they already have In
China. Thus the government Is exposed
to ' fire from these , curiously different
quarters. ! ' '. '' '''' ; '
Armaments as an Insnrance.
Tn a recent speech in the House of
Commons Prime Minister Asquith em
phatically declared that Great Britain
has no cause or occasion for a. quarrel
with any country in any part of the
world. "Our friendships," he said, "are
In no senss exclusive friendships, and for
a very good reason. The greatest ot
British interests remains, as It always
has been, the peace of the world. ' If, as
is unhappily the case, there Is In this
country, as elsewhere, a growing and a
lamentable expenditures upon arma
ments, both naval and military, there Is
no power In the World which does not
know perfectly well, so far as we are
concerned, and so far as we are com
pelled to take part In the expenditure,
that we have no aggressive purpose. We
covet no territory. We have neither the
desire nor the temptation to extend !n
any way the range of our responsibilities.
rut those responsibilities are world wide,
and If we are compelled, as we are, to
direct from other purposes more pro
ductive and more advantageous to man
kind the funds we are now spending on
the maintenance, in particular, of our
supremacy at sea. I am speaking what
everyone In this house knows to be tho
absolute and literal fact when I say that
that expenditure is regarded by us sim
ply as an Insurance a 'necessary In
surancefor the enormous interests, both
domestic and external, of which the gov
ernment of this country and the House
of Commons are or ought to be the faith,
ful and vigilant trustees."
A Troableiiome War.
Unlooked-for economic results of a
troublesome character are springing from
the war in Tripoli. Europe Is feeling
sharply in diminished trade with Turkey.
The closing of the Dardanelles to mer
chant ships weakened but did not break
the corner on wheat maintained by
Frenchmen speculating on the necessities
of the war. As a direct consequence In
France flour is held at exorbitant prices
and bread is 5 cents a pound In Paris,
the highest in the history of the country.
What renders the situation acute Is a
decided shortage 'In the wheat crop of
France. Demands for the remission of
the tax on foreign wheat are flouted by
the government. To do so would endan
ger the political support of wheat grow
ers, and rural interests must not be sacri
ficed for the general Interests. The ques
tion, of Intervention rests largely on
French initiative. France holds a large
mortgage on Turkey and cannot safely
urge a settlement on the Italian basis.
Nor Is France disposed to offend its
neighbor by pressing Turkish claims.
With, the government in a predicament
the French wheat grower and wheat syn
dicate, safe from an Invasion of foreign
cereals, are playing on velvet and taking
all the traffic will bear. Owing to the
vast consumption of bread in all French
families the distress of high prices is
general and discontent Is manifest in pub
lic clamor for relief.
Blllboaid in France.
The French government has decided to
legislate billboards out of existence by
a ruthless scheme of taxation. Boards
less than six meters in length will be
taved HO a square meter yearly; from
that size up to ten meters, 20 a year thi
square meter; thence up to twenty meters.
MO, and all above that size $80. Thus a
signboard or hoarding fifty meters long
and three meters high and there are not
a few as large as that will be taxed
112,000 a year. That is prohibitive, as It
Is doubtless meant to be. Even a sign
only five meters long and two high will
be taxed $100 a year. It is estimated
that the average tax under the proposed
law will be more than tl.feA) on each sign
and It Is expected that in the great ma
jority of cafes it will prove prohibitory.
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United States Outstripped.
Recent statistics show that In the last
twenty years the foreign commerce of
Italy has Increased by 150 per cent, while
that of Germany, which is commonly
supposed to have made the greatest ad'
vance, has Increased only 130 per cent,
and that of the United States, with all
Its vaunted growth, 1 only 97 "per cent.
Congratulations are due to Italy, which
presents the most notable example In his
tory of the rehabilitation of a fallen
power; but there Is some Implied reproof
to the United States for letting itself be
so far outstripped by two European lands.
One Obstacle to Armaments. -
. After scraping together the millions of
money necessary for the construction of
monster battleships a new difficulty con
fronts the nations. Without resorting to
a policy of conscription they find it al
most impossible to keep their . fighting
craft suitably manned. "In time of peac
prepare for war" is a hoary old maxim
of the political engineers who find delight
In turning pruning hooks into spears. It
needs, however, the patriotic persauslon
of actual war to keep armies and naviei
In fighting trim.
XN0X AT MIKADO'S FUNERAL
1HISE GIBIS OF 0UES.
Philadelphia Record: Handsome is as
handsome does, and soft words butter
no parsnips. These two chunks of
proverbial wisdom are applicable to our
relations with Japan. It is flattering to
the Japanese to send the nearest thing
we have to a prime minister as special
ambassador and representative, of the
American people at the mikado's funeral.
Philadelphia Ledger: Nothing but good
can come from the closer insight by
America and Japan of the national as
pirations and needs of one another, and
Secretary Knox will worthily represent
the feeling of this country toward Japan
and Its people, which, barring some oc
casional exceptional vagaries, is one of
kindly good will.
Springfield Republican: Secretary
Knox's mission to Japan, as special am
bassador to the funeral of the late em
peror, . may be productive of valuable
results In the diplomatic field. In any
event, the courtesy of the act of our
government fn sending him will be ap
preciated In Japan. The secretary of
state and the president are to be con
gratulated upon their decision to pay
this high compliment to the JapanrSj
people.
Pittsburgh Dispatch: The designation
of Secretary of State Knox to represent
President Taft at the funeral of the late
emperor of Japan directs American at
tention once more to the Orient. This
unprecedented official tribute to Japan
is frankly taken as another evidence ot
our desire to maintain the cordial re
lationship that has existed between the
two governments since the days of Com
modore Perry. If, incidentally, it offers
the American secretary of state the op
portunity for first hand acquaintance
with the statesmen of Japan there are a
number of matters In which both coun
tries are Interested.
POLITICAL SNAPSHOTS.
..Philadelphia Record: If Curtis has 8,000
majority for senator in Kansas we pre
sume that Stubbs, who has carried a ma
jority of the assembly districts, . will re
tire In obedience to the Roosevelt princi
ple that the people should rule.
New York World: The congressional In
quiry into campaign funds Is a great
success In showing that those who can
best inform the committee are either dead
or refused a summons by the committee
itself. .
Baltimore American: The head of die
New York zoo has declined the offer of
a genuine bull moose on the ground that
all the specimens of that animal im
ported die of indigestion in this climate.
The bull moose now most in evidence will
have probably the same trouble of Jhe
species In attempting to digest much that
it has lately swallowed.
New York Sun: Some surprise is elici
ted from nonprogressive lips by the ap
parent readiness of the Red Sunflower
Stubbs to take the primary nomination,
his technically and by districts, for sen
ator In congress from Kansas, although
his republican opponent, Curtis, got sev
eral thousand more votes in the whole
state. The surprise must be ironlca!. The
(right) people rule.
"Jim. I want some money to get ready
to go away with."
"My dear Julia, you don't realize how
real!.- poor we are. Why, the wolf is at
the door." '
"He always Is when I want anything
for myself. That wolf s a goaf-Baltimore
American.
Bessie-Wonder if Mamie knowo that
we are looking at her new gown?
JessieCertainly. Whut do vou 8UP
pose she is walkinK down the street
for?-Philadelphla Telegraph.
Maude, indignantly: "Why, this isn't
my parasol!"
Maud's mother, warnlngly: "Hush,
dear. That cover looks like real lace!".
Cleveland Plain-Dealer.
"Who says there are no woman humor
ists?" . "I don't know. Why?"
"My typewriter spells as funny as Josh
Billings In his palmiest days."-Louis-ville
Courier-Journal. .
. "Yes, we bachelor girls often give a
yachting party an never think of asking
a man along." f
. "Well, well. Don't you ever get. lone
some?" . :
' "Oh, well. If we do we hug the shore."
New Orleans Picayune.
"So the engagement Is broken," said
Maude.
"Yes," replied llaymie. "I am glad I
found him out in time. His ideas about
the alimony a divorced woman ought to
have are absurdly parsimonious. 'V
Washington Star. , -
Griggs When I don't catch the name of
the person I've been introduced to I ask
It it s spelled with an "e" or an "1." It
generally works, too.
Brlggs I used to try that dodge myself
until I was Introduced to a young lady
at a party. When I put the question about
the "e" or "i" she replied indignantly:
"Sir! my name Is Hill." Boston.
Country Store Keeper Km afeard that
new assistant won't do. Mandy. He seems
a weak-kneed sort of chap.
Mandy Weak-kneed! Why, I'ketched
him yesterday with that fat Simpson gal
on his lap. Boston Transcript. .
"Are you going to send your son to
college, Mr. Jenks?" - .,
"No; he's always at his books, takes
no Interest in sport o any kind, and :
as he will never do anything on a foot
ball team, I don't see any use In wasting1
the money." Baltimore American..
THE LITTLE REFORMER.
s Baltimore Sun.
Things have been growing better
In every way. all along,
Since he came down with his beauty, v
His lilting of laughter and song.
There are fewer and fewer shadows,
And the care seems easy and light,
And we go forth happy at morning
And we come home smiling at night. ;
Things have prown sweeter and calmer.
And the fear and the doubt and the dread
Have lifted like clouds in the summer.
And the sun shines brightly Instead.
He does not preach nor propound us,
In fact he has nothing to say
But there never was such a reformer, ,
With such a wonderful way. ,
When the day and its toiling are bitter.
And we come home weary and worn;
Why. we look at his sweet face smiling.
And it's joyous we are with morn.
He never gives voice to a doctrine.
Nor tells us the wav to do,
But there never was such a teacher
.Of the beauty that keeps men true. ,
He couldn't talk much If he wanted,
And he certainly cannot be wise.
Except In the sweet of his smiling
And the twinkle of mirth in his eyes.
But that is enouKh God knows it
To make a whole world reform;
And his little bare-feet are so cunning.
And his little soft cheeks are so warm
OUR NEGLECTED OPPORTUNITIES
A Surplus of Blowing, a Paucity of Results, in Many Instances.
Indianapolis News. '
The consumption of beer during , the
lineal year ending with June fell orr a
million . barrels, compared with the pre'
ceding fiscal year. A cool spring blew
considerable foam off the brewery divi
dend. .. - '- - ' ' V.
Booze fighters striving to consume all
the "ohbejoyful" in sight are up against
large job. ' Over 250,000,000 gallons of
whisky and rum are stored away in dls
tlllery warehouses, training to dolivcr the
usual solar plexus.
While' the Detroit" grafting aldermen
were filing Into court the other day a
heartless onlooker merrily whtatld the
tune. "Hail, hail, the Gang's All Herat"
The unfeeling wretch was quickly chased
out of the building. . ,
Mrs. Caroline Humblrd is the largest
Individual personal property taxpayer In
St Paul, Minn. She will pay taxes next
spring on $231,750. This may be torn
pared with J. J.. Hll's personal property
assessment of 1149,600, and that of Freder
Ick Weyerhaeuser, $18,800.
Queen Wllhelmtna of Holland Is said to
be the mot extravagant in dress among
her peers. It Is said she spends $24,000 a
year on- personal attire. The. queen ot
Italy cornea next,- with an txpendttur
of $16,000, a considerable part of which
goes tor lace. , Empress Victoria Augusta
spenda H2.S00 to $14,000 on her wardrob
It is settled that the bull moose party
will run Dr. A. O. Bewick against Con
gressman . Nick Longworth in the First
Ohio district , Nick la not complaining
for publication, but the .'aside" remark
of "Princess Alice" are warm enough to
elt the spear that knows no son-in-law.
v.' !.- - u ? v.
Mrs. Agnes Rlddls, who Is a membw
of the Colorado legtslatura, li also very
domestic One cannot see how s.. could
be more domestic, as she gets up at S
o'clock in the morning that she nay Et
breakfast for the men who start out each
day with the milk from the Glen-Riddle
dairy. She has succeeded in getting a
number of hills for fanners passed, and
thinks them oat as aha cooks and ews
and sweeps In her ranch horns.
Repeated demonstration that we are
not equal to our opportunities ought to
lessen the cry that opportunities are no
longer equal to us, which is the slogan
of those that would create discontent
and profit by It. Wrv "do not know
beans," Mr. Vancamp says. In the Inter
view in which he shows that our packers
Import two. million bushels of beans a
year, from various European countries,
paving a, duty of 40 per cent The con
sumer, who has . been crying about cost
oucrht to know what this means as to
the tariff enhanced price and the pro
ducer ought to know what it means in
lost opportunity. Indiana has . the soil,
climate and ajl that is necessary to
raise more of this product but our farm
ers do not raise It, and packers go else
where for their supply, even -to Europe
This is only one Instance. In, this land
of boundless acres, and spares population
we do not even raises potatoes enough
for us to eat. Vast , quantities of this
staple were importedlast year. Figures
for 1909 show: that we are woefully be
hind other countries tn raising potatoes,
not only absolutely, but relatively. In
that year Great Britain raised an aver
age acre yield ot 221 bushels of potatoes.
Germany 208, France 160, Russia Ut We
tall the list with ninety-four. What
ought' we to say to ourselves if we can
not raise as many bushels of potatoes to
the acre as Russia? For one thing. It
meant importing that year $3,(77,034 worth
of potatoes. .
Soberiy spfaklng, are people, who
vaunt' themselves, or are vaunted by
their spellbinders, as the most ener
getic. Industrious, intelligent, ingenious,
etc., on earth. Justified In cjmplalnlng
of the high cost of living? It we coulJ
show that we led the world in the
mastery of the soil and got from it
more than any other people, and then
faced a scarcity, there might be Just
cause." As It is, it would seem that we
are in the position of the woodman in
the fable. Who cried for Jove to recover
his axe which had fallen Into the stream.
The answer he goUwas to set to work.
that the gods only helped those that
helped themselves.
We face the same condition ull along
the line. Recently we quoted the report
of a scientist In out government ooil
survey, who showed that we had land
suitable for every kind of cf ape, but thai
our opportunities were wasted. 3e
showed, for example, that the whole
of our present corn crop could be raised
in Indiana, Illinois and Iowa and . with
ten million acres of land to spare. But
to do so we should have above forty
bushels to the acre instead of twenty
five, which we average. We should have
two hundred bushels of potatoes to the
acre. We should have half a bale of cot
ton to the acre instead of a third. Our
live stock produced $2,00,000,000 worth ot
fertilizer a year. Half of It is wasted,
and to make good we spend $130,000,000 a
year for chemical fertilizers. Verily we
need not complain about fading oppor
tunities; about laws to do 'this, that and
another thing for us, but to put our
shoulders to the wheel and cur brains
to the management, and get from the
soil what It will give us If we apply
the same care that the people of Europe
apply to their work. Such care - would
soon make an end of Importing beans
and potatoes and other articles of food
and leave us leisure 'tO) grow rich.
Hoary Political Formalities.
Boston Transcript ' -The
American sense of humor Is never
quite in full working order 'during the
early stages of a political campaign, else
the "formal notification" custom would
have been long since abandoned, and
candidates would have learned to put
forth their "confession of faith"- without
the excuse of "accepting" a nomination
which they had been seeking with eager
ness somewhere between' a year and a
life time. . t
do not take
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Mighty Factor la Prosperity.
New York Journal of Commerce.
The farmer Is still an essential factor
in our national prosperity. Some statis
ticians are estimating that the value of
this season's crop will . reach the enor
mous total of $3,000,000,000, provided noth
ing happen to '. Interfere with present
prospects. This is fully $500,000,000 more
than last year's yield, and about equals
the capital stock of American railways.
riaased aa afyatery.
Ksw York World.
Senator Williams' amendment admit
ting foreign built ships to American reg
istry when owned by Americans !s a
great step toward restoring the Ameri
can flag on the seas. How It ever came
to be adopted by this senate te a mystery.
Siikstifaies of Imitdimns
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