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THE OMAnA DAILY DEE: MONDAY, FEIJIIUARY 1, 1904.
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complete copies of The Dally, Morning,
1 Evening anf Sunday Bee printed during
the month of December, 1908, was aa fol
lows: 1 80,930 17 30,50
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f ......... r. . . .SO.JMO tt .80,050
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..... ......81,110 25 81,800
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II 8T.010 t SO,B80
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Total D47.8M
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Net average sales 80,220
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WW; . . It. B. H UNGATE,
(Seal,) Notary Public.
Tb Omaha Grain exchange la an
established fact -
Street corner lots in. the vicinity of
Eighteenth and Karnnm streets are look
ing upward.
If ht railroads will only keep up the
grain rate war until after the next crop
la harvested Nebraska farmers will
never consent to an income tax.
Omaha people will recall the fact that
the. Chicago. labor, leader was not the
first nan to refuse to "produce the
books" while a strike was under Judi-
, clal Investigation.
J.
How htuch longer Mr. Robert E. tee
Herdrnan will hold that $12,000-a-year
job is a conundrum which several, pa
triotic and hopeful aspirants for his
shoes 'Would like to see solved.
Whltaker. Wright dead seems to be a
greater political force than some of the
statesmen of Great Britain who con
sider themselves much allvtv TheiKiwer'
of graft knows no national lines; j ;',
Rockefeller plutocratic ounnon ball
soup fciay set well ou-the popocratlc
stomach once a week,' but It would be
a strain' on the digestion -of en ostrich
when served up every day for weeks.
With Omaha as storm center,-the
merry, merry grain rate war, begun by
the Great Western and Northwestern
railroads, has spread to the gulf lines
and has assumed a magnitude unex
pected. No ghosts of Lexington disturbed the
Boston rectors In their mourning for the
execution of King Charles I. . They had
probably not recovered from the shock
of tha visit of the Ancient and Hon
orable Artillery of London.
As the consuls to the Mancburlan
ports are not to be accredited to Rus
sia, Asiatic statesmen of that nation
ality are borrowing trouble In consid
ering .whether or not they are to be
recognized. They will find It difficult
not to recognize an American wherever
he may be.
An effort will be made to compel the
Lincoln Street Railway company to es
tablish S-cent'fares for all their patrons,
but nobody outside of an lnsaue asylum
believes that the effort will be success
ful unless the concern is to be handed
over to the tender mercies of another
set of receivers.
It now transpires that J. rierpont
Morgan has been buncoed by a British
bookseller In the purchase of original
manuscript of one of Byron's famous
Voems, -which Is not original. . But this
Is not the first time that J. rierpont
Morgan has been buncoed, and It is safe
to predict that he will try to make up
In the game of bunco to get even,
A stirring open letter to the federated
and un federated woman's clubs declared
that "so long as children 6 years of
age are employed in mills and factories
In any part of the United States, there
is a crying need for uniform laws regu
luting child labor." There undoubtedly
Is crying need for uniform laws regulat
' log child labor, but the name of the par
ticular town In which a mill or factory
employing children 6 years old is lo
cated has not yet been divulged.
Some of the Douglas county democ
racy who endorsed William Randolph
Hearst for the presidency should pon
der carefully over the following note of
warning Issued to American democracy
- That a man wholly untrWd 4n political
affairs, untrained Ira office, personalty un
known to any constituency and In any
public arena, ahouliS appear aa a candi
date for president of tha United State
earns anomalous to the point of absurdity;
an4 it would be easy enough to dismiss
tha aspirations of Mr. Hearst aa of a
pisoe wit the fantaatio ebullitions of tha
ItU Oeorg Francis Train, or oven the un
aeaea whimsies of Victoria, Woodhuil of
pUr eja,
l)KHKRATH FDR TR KA I F.
, The administration is anxious, accord
ing to .Washington advices, for an early
ratification by the senate of the Pan
ama treaty, and iu view of the fact that
nearly half of Uie democratic senators
are understood to be in faror of ratifi
cation, It would seem that early action
should be taken. It Is. stated that there
will certainly be fifteen and possibly
more democratic votes for ratification,
yet it is noteworthy that only One demo
crat has yet spoken In the senate in sup
port of the treaty.
This one was Senator Simmons of
North. Carolina, who s, few days ago
made a strong srgument for ratification.
While Mr. Simmons did not wholly ap
prove of the course that had been pur
sued by our government In the Fanama
matter, he still held that what had been
done' was an accomplished fact and
should be treated as such, thus adopting
the position previously declared' by the
leader of the house democrats, but
which had been antagonized by the ad
herents of Mr. Gorman In the senate.
In the course of his speech the Kortta
Carolina senator said: "I cannot en
thuse over the alleged wrongs of Co
lombia. The treaty we made with her
was of her own seeking. It was signed
by her authorized agents, with full
knowledge of its contents. It provided
for the construction upon bcr own ter
ritory of the greatest work of internal
and International Improvement ever es
sayed by man. By duplicity and treach
ery she defeated the treaty, not be
cause she did not want the canal and
would not gladly have taken It upon the
terms provided therein, but because she
wanted in an Indirect way to
extort more money from us or
the Panama canal company, or per
haps from both. Her treachery toward
Panama and toward us In this canal
matter illustrates both her traditional
policy toward Panama and her standard
of diplomacy. In all of her history I
know of nothing to excite the admira
tion of any humane man or any patri
otic liberty-loving American citizen."
Senator Simmons declared that when be
considered the wrongs Colombia has
perpetrated against Panama and this
last great act of indifference to the wel
fttre of that long-suffering people, the
conclusion forced Itself upon hlra that
when Colombia lost ' the canal, when
Panama Succeeded In establishing her
independence, the eternal principles of
right and righteousness once agaiu pre
vailed. No one has stated the situation in re
gard to Colombia with greater clearness,!
vigor ryid lnclslveness than Mr. Sim
mons. Here is one democrat who is
able not only to look nt the matter in
Its true nature, but to , honestly and
candidly express bis views and con
clusions, without any regard to partisan
considerations. That what he said is
In accord with the nearly unanimous
sentiment of the country is beyond
question. The great majority of the
American people, unqualifiedly condemn
the course that was pursued by Colom
bia, the-plaln purpose of. which was a
"hold-up'i . of - the United States, and
fully approve the action of Panama in
withdrawing from : ft 'connection' that
was Inimical to the Interests and welfare
of the Isthmus. 'V" V , . '
.The democrats who are opposing the
cana1 treaty fcfe, wltff few Inceptions,
antagonizing the wish of their constit
uents. The treaty will be ratified and
the canal will be built. Those who are
retarding the enterprise will in due time
pay the penajty which such obstruc
tionists deserve.
(THAT CHt A 7cS THE OYB.RLAP.
The constitution of Nebraska expressly
limits the expenditure in several of the
executive dupartments of state, but
these limitations have been overriden
from year to year and appropriations
have been made by the legislature at
the request of state . officers In viola
tion of the express provisions of the
constitution. Take, for example, the
office of state superintendent of public
instruction.
The salary of the superintendent is
fixed at (2,000 per annum, and a speci
fic provision of the constitution pro
hibits any allowance for clerk hire in
the office of the superintendent This
prohibition would apply not only to the
employment of a clerical force, but to
the employment of a deputy. From the
adoption of the constitution In 1873 up
to 1801 no salary allowance was made
by legislatures for a deputy or for clerk
hire In the office of superintendent.
In 1891 the legislature made an ap
propriation of 12.000 for the salary of
the superintendent and (1,500 for the
salary of one deputy, and no other clerk
hire was allowed. In 1803 the salaries
of the deputy and clerical force in. the
superintendent's office were Increased
to (2.S00; In 1805 they were increased
to (3,020; in 1897 to (3,100; In 1899 to
(3,200; in 1000 to (3.300; In 1903 to
(3,44a
In 1891 the legislature placed (300 at
the disposal of the superintendent of
public instruction for attending" insti
tutes; (1,500 for sending -out blanks;
(1,000 for publishing school laws; (300
for traveling expenses; (1,475 for mis
cellaneous expenses, and (S,34 for
blanks for district reports. In 1003 the
legislature appropriated (5,000 in lump
sum for county superintendent, sup
plies, postage, express and telegraph
charges, stationery and office supplies,
extra jfflee help, furniture and repairs.
In addition thereto (0,000 was ap
propriated for publishing school laws
and school district supplies.
These figures are suggestive. They ex
plain In part, at least, why the state
debt is constantly increuslng, and bow
the overlap has reached the colossal pro
portion of (2.200,000.
ell defined rumors ey ' grapevine
telegraph from Washington announce
that D. E. Thompson has no disposition
to dip into the senatorial Unlit. They
slat) announce that 1. 11 Thompson is
coming home to sh his castur on the
senatorial race track, pther dispatches
from confidential sources would have ns
believe that Mr. Tbom(son lias re
turned from Brazil to adjust, business
matters that urgently require bis per
sonal attention. Which of these reports
deserves credence will probably not be
known until after Mr. Thompson has
taken a bird's-eye view of the political
map of Nebraska. In the meantime poli
ticians will all keep on gnesslng.
. 'A CALL run KCUKOMY.
There 1b unquestionably a very gen
eral feeling that the present congress
should have a due regard for economy In
appropriations and hence the position
taken by Representative Hemenway,
chairman of the house committee on ap
propriations, against any form of expen
diture In the direction of extravagance,
has jinet with hearty approval. In the
course of the debate on the urgent de
ficiency bill Mr. Hemenway called at
tention to the fact that the departments
asked for extraordinary sums for the
next fiscal year, have since increased
them and are likely to ask for still more.
He pointed out that the estimated ex
penditures of the government for the
next fiscal year amounted to more than
$40,000,000 in' excess of the estimated
revenue and this without taking Into
consideration any payments on account
of the Panama canal.
The chairman of the appropriations
committee urged that It is the duty of
congress to keep the appropriations
down below these estimates and It Is
not to be doubted that this will be ac
quiesced in by the country. While no
necessary Item of expense should be re
duced, as was said by Mr. Hemenway,
the state of tjtc government finances are
such that not a single unnecessary Item
should-be provided If a deficit is to be
avoided. He stated that thus far the
house had passed bills carrying appro
priations amounting to f242.000.0O0,
with a reduction of only S4,ono,000 be
low the estimates. If no better work
was done with the remaining appropria
tions there would be a deficiency of 30,
000,000. The necessity for some curtailment of
expenditures Is obvious. It Is not an
easy matter to determine In what di
rections this may be done. Every de
partment Insists that Its estimates rep
resent no more than imperative ' needs
and It will . make strenuous efforts to
secure what it asks for. It is the duty
of congress to carefully examine these
estimates and to reduce them wherever
It Is practicable to do so. The speaker
of the house and the chairman of its
appropriations committee are opposed
to any extravagance and will doubtless
be able to prevent It so far as that body
is concerned. If there Is a like disposi
tion in the senate a reasonable degree of
economy in appropriations ' can , tye
counted upon. That there will be no
new expenditures provided for may be
confidently assumed.
The most economic Investment the
commissioners of Douglas county could
make at thta time is to" contract for a
thorough , overhauling ; of the' .county's
books and their ' rearrangement by ex
pert accountants, so that not only any
member of the board, but any tax
payer, could at a glance ascertain how,
when and where the revenues of the
county have . been disbursed and what
expense , has , been incurred. , by any
branch of the service. 'I i
All of the Omaha and Council Bluffs
grain elevators have been declared "reg
ular" by the Omaha Grain exchange.
Now, let ""al-T the Omaha and Council
Bluffs grain elevators return the com
pliment by patronizing the exchange.
The cabinet chair embellished with a
brass plate, bearing the name of Ellhu
Root, secretary of . war, will have to be
braced on after today when Secretary'
Taft takes his place in the president's
reorganized family.
John O. Telser has come to his senses
at last. He would rather fight in the
ranks of the aggressive party of progress
than shoot In the air with a self-styled
"reform party" that never accomplishes
any reforms. ,
The Introduction of public building ap
propriations In either house of congress
is not a very difficult matter. Getting
the appropriations through both bouses
is another thing.
Boaqaet for the Booster.
Bill Barlow's Budget. J
Blessed be the booster; he shall Inherit
both the terrestrial and the celestial soft
snap.
All Over bat the Shoutln.
Chicago Post.
Hearst has carried Douglas county, Ne
braska.. Let ua make the thing unanimous
now, and aave a whole lot of bother and
worry.
Old Wlakle Outclassed.
Chicago Record Herald.
Mr. Bryan admita that silver Is not now
the paramount Issue. Well, that beats Rip
Van Winkle anyway. , It took Rip twenty
years to wako up.
Shy ss Heal Ureatnoss.
New Tork World.
Whltaker Wright's "at-rlch-qulck" en
terprises were capitalised for only JtB.OOO.lOO.
Borne American promoters have always
had their doubts about his real greatness.
Aatlca of tbo Peacemaker.
New Tork Tribune. '
Mr. Bryan delivers harrangues on "Peace"
while he Is doing all he can to stir up
strife In hia own party. He wants to make
a democratic aolitude and call It Bryan.
1 The Old Uouge Uarae.
Chicago Chronicle.
The "moral Issue" is reserved for "the
enemy's country." On the plains and In
the mining country the old gouge game
of paying debts with lightweight dollars
still holds the popullstlo boards.
Wh Leaders Disagree, What Thraf
Philadelphia Record (dem.).
On the aame day when Mr. Bryan hired a
hall In New York to make a dramatic and
spectacular announcement of his unchang
ing fidelity to "1 to 1 ' Representative Wil
Hams, the leader of the democratic minority
In the house, was making an equally fer
vent and dramatic funeral oration over "16
to 1." He declared the free silver Issue wss
as dead aa the secession Issue, and his
declaration was applauded to the echo by
big fcjiow deaaocrata.
BITS OP WASHMOTO LIFE).
Mlaor Seeaea sal laeldeats Sketched
a the Ssot.
Society life In Washington Is a succession
of giddy whirls, and the pace Is mighty
awlft for one not to the manner born. Tha
experiences of the wife of a new member
of congress, as recounted by the Washing
ton rout, Illustrates what a task It Is to
keep In the swim.
The attractive little stranger made out
a calling iit for one day and entrusted It
to hee coachman. She was whirled from
house to bouse and made so many visits
and tasted so many varieties of tea and
punch and frappe that she got thoroughly
bewildered, gtje was entirely new to the
business, but became quite elated at the
gllbnesa with which she reeled oft her social
pleasantries and tha expedition with which
the calls wero being accomplished. Wash
lnton life seemed to her one happy mate
of candle shades, elevated ' hand-shakes,
beautiful gowns and compliments, washed
down with sparkling punch bowl mixtures.
By 6 o'clock she might have dashed into a
drug store, partaken of ico cream soda
and dashed out again, In the happy belief
that she was paying a visit to a senator's
wife, so thoroughly had she yielded to the
madness of a typical afternoon in Wash
ington society.
There was no apparent reason why her
coachman should have lost his head, but
he did so, and he deposited the little lady
at a quarter past at the Identical house
she had visited at quarter past 3. Of
course, she was way -past noticing the
mistake, and she tripped Into the drawing
room and aald her little say and went on
to the dining room.
The punch bowl was directly under an
electrlc-llght conceit In the form of a bunch
of grapes. Though she did not remember
the house or the hostess, the grapes looked
distinctly familiar. Then the little woman
emerged from her delicious pipe dream of
society, and she went .forth with gathering
wrath and demanded of her Jehu:
"Man, have we not been here before
today?" "Indeed, mam, I thinks we hab,
the honest driver answered mournfully.
"We were here da first place dls afternoon.
and I begs yo pardon. Dls society life Is
so perplexln', 1 done clean forgot. What
wld doln' de Monday's round to do supreme
court houses, and do-Toosdays to de ladles
of de house of representatives, and de
Wednesdays to de cabinets, and de Thurs
days to de senators, and de res' of de week
to de smaller fry, and de Sundays to de
diplomats, does ye wondor, mam, dat my
pore ole head gets muddled?
"T nrnnnna to make an effort." said Rep-
raaantatlva TVrHns In a Brooklyn Eflltle
correspondent, "to cut . down the expense
of the government printing. This Item of
expenditure has Increased tremendously In
the past few years. The appropriation for
the government printing office for the cur
rent year Is over $6,000,000. which Is an In
crease of 800 per cent In the past ten years.
A person does not have to be here long to
see that a lot of money is wasted In the
publication of government reports, docu
ments and legislative bills. There is. ex
travagance and waste In every branch of
the government, particularly In congress.
Much of it Is due to existing laws, which
reniilrA a certain number of each executive
report to be printed, as well as each bill
that Is Introduced. I am told that every
day thousands and thousands of copies of
bills are thrown into the waste basket as
th-y come from the printing omce, because
ihm win navor ha any call for them and
It would be useless, to leave them around to
fill up space. The basements of all the
department buildings are clogged up with
M nritA dnmimanta which nobody wants.
The departmental reports are getting big
ger and more numerous every year, anu n
is about tune to call .a halt and regulate
the output. I sea, that even the appoint
ment clerk Of tha Department of Agricul
ture now gets outran annual report."
nt eteech Senator Tillman
referred to Senator Hale, with whom he
had had a controversy a day or two pre
viously. "I am free to admit," said un
man, "that the senator from Maine Is a
great . constitutional constitutional consti
tutional Adviser," whispered a dozen
senators, thinking to help Tillman out in
Ms groplngs for a word. Senator Tillman
u.t.nod and then showed his utter con
tempt for his prompters by shouting, "Con-J
stitutlonal neaaiigm.
km Im tha r-ame, after every great flood or
other disaster .that Involves the destruction
of life and property, the Treasury aepan
has bten called on to redeem a large
amount of money that was rescued In more
or less ruined condition from tne iroquojs
theater fire. Every day brings one or more
packages to the redemption division of the
treasury from the friends and relatives of
victims of the Chicago holocaust. Tester-
day a letter was recelvea rrom a monuiac
ted In Dearborn avenue, stating
that he lost his sister-in-law, mother-in-
law and father In the burning or tne
theater. He Inclosed the remains of $30
that had been handed to him by the
coroner of Cook county, having - been re
moved from the charred body of his slster-
tn-law. He said he sent the money to tne
Aenartment lust as he received It from the
coroner, and In the identical box In which
It was delivered to him.
Tha recentacle contalna only a lot of
ashes, but by the most careful kind of
work the treasury experts were able to es
tablish the fact that thre $10 bills were
ranreaantad. Tha officers of the redemption
division say that It was apparent from the
condition of the money that it naa Deen
burned hv a fierce heat: there were none
nt tha uaual evidences of smoldering. Tne
flames that reduced the money to ashes
were of that hot devouring VInd that dries
everything up In the shortest possible time.
Thta rait la nnlv one of the many that
have coma In since the terrible disaster.
Many of the people who send In bits of
mnnaw fop reriemntlnn full to aCCOmDSny
h(r . venueata with the nrODer affidavits
and evidence. ' In all such Instances the
Aenartment officials em'nln what Is needed,
nil In other m-ava An all they ran to en
able the survlvnrs to recover the worth or
partially destroyed money,
v '
Three hundred cigarettes and fifty cigars
bought In foreign shops may enter Amer
ican ports In the baggage of travelers free
of duty. But let the figure be exceeded
In the least and the offender faces the
loss of all the excess. This Is one of the
points set forth In the new circulars Issued
by Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M
Shaw for the guidance of Americans who
travel abroad. "Each person Is entitled to
bring In fifty cigars and $00 .cigarettes for his
own use. All cigars and cigarettes In ex
cess of this number and less than $.000 are
liable to seisure, but In meritorious cases
may be. released by the payment of a fine
equal to the duty and the Internal revenue
tax," ssys that part of the circular meant
for smokers.
The general limit placed on the value of
foreign goods to be admitted free Is $100.
Concerning personal goods Secretary Shaw
says:
"A resident of the United States return
ing thereto la entitled to brlag .with him
free of duty personal effects taken abroad
as baggage, provided they have not been
remodeled or Improved abroad so as to In
crease their value, and In addition thereto
articles purchased - or otherwise obtained
abroad of a total value not exceeding $100,
Such articles may be for the uae of the
person bringing them or for others, but aot
for sale."
It Is further provided that persons who
"go across" frequently and rot urn hastily,
carrying over and back extensive higrage.
"will be subject to most careful scrutiny
and prosecution" If anything wrong Is dis
covered.
Passengers boarding steamers for this
country will be furnished declarations In
blank to fill out before landing. It la sug
gested that passengers take receipts for all
goods purchased abroad, as their presents
tlon may expedite the work of the customs
officers In valuing the goYds. And trav
elers are cautioned agnlnst slyly slipping
a "fiver" or a "tenner" to the stern ap
praiser, lost punishment quickly follow.
"It Is unlawful for customs officers to
receive any 'tip' or gratuity and to offer
the same Is a violation of the law," says
tne secretary.
PLAT THE GAME FAIR.
Philoaophy of Publicity In Railroad
Managemeat.
New Haven Register.
The president of- the New Haven steam
road brought his salutary and conciliatory
publlo speeches to an end with a striking
address to the business men of Hartford.
In some respects It was the best of his
many excellent addresses, which hsve
taken their keynote from the economic and
sociological phases of railroad management
We venture to say that never before,. In
the history of great corporate life, has one
of its commanding officials gone with such
deliberation and candor at the subject as
signed him as Mr. Mellen hss done. He
has presented clearly the rights of a rail
road and associated them with the benefits'
to which the public Is entitled; he has ad
dressed himself, In addition, to the mutual
disadvantages which flow from an abuse of
those rights and benefits. It has all been
good public service.
In his address at Hartford, President
Mellen brought out conspicuously certain
facts which are of the first Importance In
connection with this subject of the rela
tionship between a great railroad like the
New Haven road and the public. We do
not wish to give the Impression that Mr.
Mellen has dug out something new and
original, and that on that account his ad
dress was memorable. Everything he said
Is as old as the road Itself, and therefore
what made his address memorable was his
admission of their truth. It "has not been
customary, for example, for a railroad
president to admit that "the day has gone
by when a corporation can be handled suc
cessfully In defiance of the public will, even
though that will be unreasonable and
wrong." This is as sound as a dollar, and
had Its truth been recognized during the
past years of. stormy and unnecessary con
troversy the corporations of the country
would have saved an enormous amount of
money, accumulated more power and killed
a political discussion which has been both
expensive and profitless. "A public may be
led, but not driven," says Mr. Mullen. The
trouble has been that the public has too
often been regarded as a pawn In the game
instead of an equal partner. The practice
has been to work on the theory that "the
public be damned." It Is Just aa human
and susceptible as the Individual who helps
to form It. Attempt to drive it, as Mr.
Mellen says, and the consequences are
lamentable to all concerned, for, as he said
In his New Haven speech, the relationship
between the two Is so close and Intimate
that the abuse of either by the other reacts
upon both.
Nor does Mr. Mellen close his eyes to
the "violent prejudice" which exists today
toward corporate activity and capital. He
thus states the fact: "If corporations are
to continue to do the world's work, as they
dre best. fitted -to, those qualities in their
representatives that have resulted in the
present prejudice against them must be
relegated to the background. They must
come out Into the open and see and be
seen. They must take the publlo Into their
confidence and ask for what they want, i
and no more, and be prepared to explain
satisfactorily what advantage will accrue
to the public if they are given their de
sires, for they are permitted to exist not
that they may make money solely, but that
they may effectively serve those from
whom they derive their power. Publicity,
and not secrecy, will win hereafter, and
laws be construed by their Intent and not
by their letter, otherwise public utilities
will be owned and operated by the public
which created them, even though the
service be less efficient and'the result less
satisfactory from a financial standpoint."
This Is a statement which will bear fre
quent and, careful reading. Reduced to
simpler terms. It reads In tnis way: t-iay
the game fair."
PERSONAL NOTES.
Oa Mr. Carnegie's estats in Scotland the
men who do not use ilquor are paid 10 per
cent extra at the end of the year.
A Berlin laundryman offers to buy shirts
for his customers If they will let him do
their waahlng. That Berliner must be
Tankee. ,
Herbert Gladstone, son of the "grand
old man," himself now a man of 80, has
spent nearly half his life thus far in the
House of Commons.
That Texas congressman who went home
from' Washington to pay his poll tax of
$1.75 will make money on his mileage al
lowance. ' Probably he rides on a pass, any
way. President Loree and Vice President Wtn
chell of the Rock Island are not afraid of
"hoodoo" engines. During their trip over
the Eastern Illinois this week their special
was hauled - by engine 100, known as
"Bloody 100." In 1893 this engine ran into
a -oundhouoe and killed several persons
and its record. since has been a bad one.
Though Japan is the latest country to
enter the circle of world powers, her em
peror surpasses all sovereigns In the length
of his pedigree. He is the one hundred
and twenty-second member In direct, un
broken descent of hfk family who has sat
on the throne of Japan.
President James J. Hill of the Great
Northern has paid a graceful compliment
to Miss Mary Fleming-ton, a beautiful
North Dakota girl, tn Inviting her, as the
representative of North Dakota, to christen
the monster trans-Paclflc liner Dakota at
Groton, opposite New London, Conn., on
February 6. Miss Flemtagton is of a dis
tinguished North Dakota family and a
student of the' University of North Da
kota. Her home Is at Ellendale.
Ex-State Senator Guy of New TorkNClty
went up to Albany recently In the interest
of some legislation affecting Manhattan
Island. He had an appointment with an
assemblyman who, to put It mildly, Is not
famed for his beauty. Mr. Guy waited an
hour beyond the time set and then the
legislator bustled In with an apology,
adding: "I'm a Arm believer In having
my 'beauty sleep,' you know." "Great
Scott!" growlel Guy, "how you muat
suffer from Insomnia."
Srandaloas Salary Grab.
New York Herald.
It will strike many persons that there Is
an urgent deficiency of common honesty In
the Insertion of an Item of $145,000 In the
urgent deficiency bill to pay fictitious mile
age to members of congreva. Whatever
technical or parliamentary distinction may
be drawn between the extra session of con
gress and the regular session, it is a simple
fact that so far as the attendance of rep
resents Uvea Is concerned it hss been a con
tinuous session. It would, therefore, be
scandalous for congress to vbte construc
tive mileage on the theory that the mem
bers had gone to their homes at the end of
the special session and returned.
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Tim NEXT GREAT MERGER.,
When tt Comes, the Necessary Treat
meat Mill Be Given.
Minneapolis Times.
It may be true and It may not be. true
the story that Rockefeller Is about to take
from Hill and Morgan control pf tho North
ern Securities company and merge the
Union Pacific and Southern Pacific sys
tems with the nortjiern roads, but that
and more Is bound to happen eventually
If the merger is pronounced legal.
By the application of the "holding com
pany" plan a lltle group of men per
haps one man like' Rockefeller, Morgan or
Hill will be able to control as absolutely
as a farmer controls his old family driving
horse, the entire railway system of the
United States. And this can be accom
plished at small cost, compared with the
value of the holdings.
Now, the supreme court may say this
form of monopoly Is perfectly legal and
regular, but after all the source of the
law Is the people. Theoretically this Is
true In a republlo and It should be true
In practice. In a republic aa Intelligent as
ours there Is little danger of revolutionary
and Ill-considered ' legislation or rash al
terations In the organic law. In fact our
people have been ultra-conservative In that
respect We have been less disposed to
make changes In our government machin
ery than has England, from which we
copied It
The people of the United States are slow
to make radical changes In their laws,
as we have said, but If a great national
railway ever threatens, we believe the
necessary preventive will be found. And
It will be lawful and orderly in its opera
tion. -Government by railway would be
unrepubllcan and believers In a republican
form of government -would not tolerate It
Diversion of Yankee Tara.
San Franclsoo CalL . .
An American was manager and referee of
Dominican battle the other day, and to
his credit may It be said there was very lit
tle disturbance and no bloodshed among the
combatants. Some , enterprising Tankee
showman might Import a tew hundred of
these amusing revolutionists and star them
as a battle attraction. They won't hurt
themselves and can't harm us and might
serve as a diversion.
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Improved Fire Fighting; Facilities.
New Tork Tribune.
Improved facilities for extinguishing Are
often affect insurance rates. In Philadel
phia the underwriters have already made a
concession of IS cents on every $100, and
they promise a further reduction of 10 cents,
conditionally, for the district where a new
system of protection has been Introduced.
By having one set of water mains for popu
lar use and another exclusively for fire
service It Is practicable to maintain higher
pressures than would otherwise be avail
able for tne latter purpose.
YOU will always find
great articles of na
tional interest, novels
by noted writers, and
good short stories in
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PAT POIJITS FOR PREACHERS.
Consternation. Is not conversion.
A soft answer may be a stiff argument
Honeyed lips cannot overcome a vinegar
life.
This would be a sad world wlthcut sor
row. Forbearance is one evidence of forgive
ness. The greatest success Is to be sble to
serve.
People without reverses are never suc
cesses. There is no Illumination tn the oil of hy
pocrisy.
Genteel sins are likely to have rough con- I
sequenoes. 0
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It Is aspiration that makes life rather
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SUNDAY AT THE FARM.
F. L. Rose In Chicago Record-Herald.
On Sunday mornings years ago, when but a
little lad,
I used to come to salt the sheep la this
same field with dad.
The little clouds that floated round I
thought were bits of wool;
The sky was blue as 'Us today and calm
and beautiful.
Now dad Is gone, and mother, too; they lie
up on the hill.
Just by that clump of popple trees beyond
the old red mill;
For time has kept a-creepln' on, and you
and I are men,
And little Robbie thinks the thoughts that
I was thlnkln' then.
There's a brown thrnaher In the tree that
stands there on the knoll,
Just hear the little tyke a-splllln' bis lm
mortal soul!
Our preacher says that man alone has got
a soul, but yet
What pretty critters God has made, and
loves 'em, too, I'll betl
I know the city pretty well; I lived there
once a while,
But I was the homesickest boy you'd meet
In many a mile.
The very horses on the street looked sad, It
seemed to me.
There wasn't n colts a-frlskln' round nor
lambs as X could see. ,
So when In June the breeses blew across
the praiiied west,
I packed my grip and told 'em I had got
enough, I guessed!
Of course, there a city folks who keep their
faith in God and man.
Though If they stay there all the while I
don't see how they caal
We've had oir troubles, wife and I, we
burled little Dot;
Upon that slope we made her grave a
green and sunny spot;
And death will never more to me seem ter
rible and grim,
Since I have seen my little girl a-smllln' up
at him.
And often now I omne out here and set me
down a spell,
Where rustlln' leaves and Wavln' grain
seem wblsp'rln' "All la well."
I wish that all who'd like to feel their dead
are safe from harm
Could coma out here and spend with roe a
Sunday at the farm.
The most extraordi
nary chapter of Ida M.
Tarbell's story of
; Rockefeller
How the Standard Oil
spies on its rivals. Facts
never before published.
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