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THE OMAHA DAILY REE: Kill DAY. i DECEMBER 16. 1004. The Omaha Daily Bee. E. ROEWATER, IDITOR. PUBLI8HCD EVERT MORIOKO. TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION, ivrnen ST HARRIER. Ially Pee (without Sunday), per copy.... Iiljr Bee (without Sunder) . per wee...le Ialljr Bee (Includtn Sunday), per weeh..Jic Hundsy Bee. per copy ! Kvenln Bee (without Sunday), per wees i JSvenlnc Bee (Inctudins Sunday). Pr 120 lompliinVs' if 'irreVarittee In d,,lTTr should be addressed ts City Cireulatioa IX partment. offices. " nmaha-Th Bee Bulldlns; , , South Omaha City Hail balldlnf . Twenty fifth and M afreet. Counpll Bluff la Pearl atreet. Chicago ln Vnlty bulldlns;. , New York tt Park Row bu!Mln. Waahlnrton tul Fourteenth atraet. CORRESPONDENCE. Contra uo tea ttona relating to nw and edi torial matter ahould be addressed: Oman Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, e press or poetal order, I arable to The Bee Publishing Company. 'nly I-rnt stamps recetved In payment of niall accounts. Personal check, except tm Omaha or eastern exchange, not acceptea. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OT CTRCUtATION. State ef Nebraska, Dou-la County, aa.: Oeore B. Ttschuck. secretary of The Bee Publishing" Company, being- duly aworn. save that the actual number of full and complete roptee of The Daily, Morning. Kntr,g and Sunday Be printed durln the month ef November, waa a fol low: ..S14SI0 ..39,400 ..M,1M ..SV.40O ..40 .AAA ,.8T,4O0 ..4O.104 ..90.S0O ..41,19V . .84.100 . .SOAfv ..31434 ..HO .060 . .IW-TOO II.. IT.. U . It.. X. . n.. a., a.. 24.. 9.. M.. 17.. ...T.80 ...S.40 ....S.8O0 ...a.TO Z9.KHO ....S,aOO 20,4ftO .JU ....JTB.TOO ....saeo ....ao.uoo ...W.TOO ..... ..,.2u.sow 10... 'a..'. 12... u... It .. 15.,. Total , 6,oao Less unsold copies 1Q.HW Net total sales 045.B14 Dally average 31.SW OKO. B. TZSCHUCK. Sabacrlbed In my preaence and worn to before me tbia Mh day of November. 1904. (Seal) M. B. HUNOATE, . Notary Public Premier Tint ahould be thankful that lie la In Hungary and not la Colorado. (orernur Mickey ia at work on bis ' message to the legislature. Make It pert and pointed.!. i .' Th vtoxt question: "Will tle work of the Board f Review- run the gauntlet of the Board of Equalisation t III the light .of the charges against Jt:!ge Swojne, other federal J ud fro may ask perrriiRnion to amend their expense u (counts. Colonel Bryan's assurance that all democrats favor municipal ownership and operation f electric lighting plants, needs amendment. Tito newpresldeut of Switzerland Is suJd to be a man with a record for "doing things." America's example Is not lout upon the vwld.-J Tolstoi bus opened book stores of IiIm own In Russia'. YhuSjtettlng an Maniple to a number '.of ' American nu thorn who ur- more verbose than popular. A Texut newspaper announces that the Lone Star state baa "yassed the six shooter period In lu career." Have the citizens begun to Import gatllug guns' President Smith's remarks regarding the mother-in-law would be more Inter esting If he would explain whether he waa speaking in the concrete or in the attstract. Aa the time for the formal retirement of. Da rid Bennett Hill approaches one Is caused to wonder just hotTmuch he has believed himself to be in politics since the "first battle." Oue day's marriage license ' list In Omaha shows applicants from Are dif ferent states. As a matrimonial mar ket Omaha may get ahead of Its posi tion aa a grain market. The New Tork World has reached the state of mind where It refers to the late election as "the democratic Sedan." From the standpoint of a Missouri dem ocrat it must appear ino.-e like the siege of Paris. The Tammany leader says that organ ization maile no application for poaitUtt in the - inaugural parade. Tammany bra res cannot be expected to be good In dians as long as they control New York City's affairs eu j lj An Iowa official has discovered that there Is more Immorality in the small towns of the state than in the cities. If. this Idea gains general belief the sensa tional preachers will bare to revlaw their stock sermons. Omaha's banking institutions were never In better flnanciul condition nor kmuder In point of available assets. No wonder the bankers are not dlspoaed to lear their own stocks in order to keep down their tax assessments. New York seems to have contracted the exposition habit. Just as the Empire state commissioners are winding up their Pt. Louis work they announce that they will ask the legislature to Increase the appropriation for the Portland allow. Taking advantage of the recent state ment of Senator New lauds, the Cincin nati Enquirer announces Its freedom from the sway of Bryan. Aa this paper Is prtnttMl In Ohio its defection will hare little e,ffect upon the electoral college four years from now. The Union Pacific is again paying Its t liy tsxes in Lincoln under protest. Yet the railroad tax bureaucrat keep con stantly prating about the railroads being the only property owners who always My their taxes promptly and lu full,. It secius U be a growing habit for them te pay no Uxe In this state except by suvae of tluaj process of compulsion. ' Iny Bee (without Sunday), 7er.4J JjJ IUr and Sunday, om year....... j7 Illustrated Bee, od year "", J 2 Kundsy Be, on year J-Jr Balurday Be, one year r? Twentieth Century Famer, one year... TRUST COHPAST SCFKRTISIOX Trnst, companies haTe bad a remark able growth in recent years and the re source) of tneee Institution nave reached such a volume and are so widely employed' as to snggest the question whether it will not be found expedient to subject them to some form of federal supervision. In bis annual rcixirt the secretary of the treasury says It Is mani fest that unless ooneerratlrely managed the trust companies tnsy become an ele ment of danger to our financial system. They are already, he points out. national In character and some of tbem of inter national Influence. He therefore sug gests the propriety of a law giving these Institutions of large capitalisation the privilege of Incorporating under federal law. with corresponding supervision. Secretary Shaw expresses the opinion that It would be necessary to extend to them the distinctlre pre rog stives of na tional banks beyond the capacity of be ing designated financial agents of the government, thereby justifying federal jurisdiction. He would not have tbem brohght into coniietltlon with commer cial banks, but they "should be required to keep an appropriate, though relatively small, reserve within their own vaults, lest In times of financial distress tbelr large deKmits in national banks Increase rather than diminish the evils of finan cial panics." This suggestion of the secretary of the treasury Is certainly worthy of consider ation, but there Is doubt as to its prac ticability. A leading financial paper. In referring to it, remarks tlist trust com panies are stste Institution niid no more subject to federal jurisdiction than any other local agency of business. "They are national In cbarscter and of inter national influence only in the emc that many a great commercial or industrial cs tabllshnient is no, because its dealings are not confined to the limits of a state or necessarily of the country, t'nless there Is to be a great extension of the definition of interstate commerce, con gresH can assume no owcr over them and It is only on account of their cur rency function that national banks could be brought under Its jurisdiction." This probably reflects the view of the, men connected with the trust companies, but it Is by no'meana conclusive. If these powerful financial institutions continue to grow, which undoubtedly they will, and to exert an Increasing influence upon the financial and commercial affairs of the entire country, it is by no means un likely that In time state Jurisdiction will be found Inadequate to their proper regu lation and supervision. If it should 1m found practicable for the federal govern ment to assume supervision of the insur ance business, on the, ground that it is "national and not local In Its applica tion," it would seem that the same rea son applies to trust companies which do a general buslnens. Secretary Shaw has simply suggested legislation to 'give trust . companies of large capitalisation the Kivilir of In corporating under Jederal lnv jyitli con responding, supervision. Why should there le any objection to this? It would in no wine lcseu the opiortuultles or Im pair the uscfulnct4H of these companies. No restriction would le placed upon their field of operations. The eff eel would rather he to strengthen the'tu In 'public confidence, necessarily to their advan tage. The secretary of the treasury Is not alone In the view that these com panies, unless conservatively managed, may become an element of danger to our financial system. THE A'Etr ri'RRHSCY BILL. The currency bill Introduced by Repre sentative Hill of Connecticut and re ported favorably by the committee on banking and currency, proposes nothing radical. As stated by the committee tho purpose Is to give the secretary of the treasury authority to meet the' shortage of 10 denominations by the iHxue of $10 gold certificates, to permit national banks to Issue notes of $" and upward as public convenience may require, and thus to al low the silver certificates to be Issued in $1 and (2 denominations, ns may fie necessary to meet the public demand. The measure permits the deposit of cus toms receipts lu banks which arj govern ment depositories and repeats the .1,(S0. (XX) limit on bank note retirement. It also provides for the recolnage of silver dollars lnt.i subsidiary silver coin. It will le seen that th bill cai hardly be regnrded as a currency reform meas ure and we do not see that there can be any reasonable' objection to it provi sions. Of course there .Is democratic op position to It, from those chiefly who are hostile to the national Ivanks and would have them Ignored in any currency legis lation, but such opposition will make no impression upon congress or the country. The bill is Intended to Iwneflt the public and would doubtless have such result.' The promptness of the banking and cur rency committee In favorably reporting the measure is an Indication that It may Im passed at the present session. i. . ... J t DISTRIBUTION OF IMUlOriAXTS- The question of making some provision for the distribution of immigrants, so that fewer of them shall congregate in the large cities and create alien colonies, Is receiving earnest consideration at Washington. We have heretofore called attention to the proportion of the com missioner general of immigration for the establishment of a bureau of Information from which Immlgraut could learn on their arrival all that they should want to kuow about the country and especially regarding labor conditions. It is further proposed that the government shall to a considerable extent control the move ment of aliens after their arrival lu American ports, not by any compulsory meaua, of course, but by showing them where they are likely to find the best opportunities for employment. There Is a movement to divert the tide of Immigration toward - the southern states, wnere there is said to be an active demand for white labor, and the south ern railroads are giving the movement hearty support. It has teen found very difficult to Induce Immigrants to go to the south and In view of past experiem-e there is not mm h encouragement for the present movement. Even people from southern Europe, who It might le sup posed would naturally prefer our south ern climate, do not to any considerable extent go to the south. It is the opinion of the commissioner general of Immigration that only by a profer distribution of Immigrants tan the evil of alien colonies in the large cities be corrected and there Is no doubt as to the soundness of this view. The matter Is manifestly important nd should recelre the early consideration of congress. ABOLISH THE MUS1CIPAL DVMP. One of the features of the rerlsed charter for metropolitan cities should be the abolition of the general fnnd and the snbstltution of specific amounts which the mayor and council sbsll be empowered to lery, collect and disburse for salaries of officers and employes, street repairs, removal of gsrbsge, main tenance of public buildings and other purposes. Under the old charters and existiug charter the general fund has really leen a municipal dump. Into which have Iteen thrown not only the amounts levied and collected for general purposes, bnt also premiums from bond sales, surplus re ceipts from back taxes, and monies re maining in other funds that had not leen drawn ,out. This practice has be gotteu most of the extravagance and waste with which our city has been afflicted. Nearly all the overlaps created by succeeding councils are to be traced to abuses generated by the general fund. The remedy lies in the extension of the present system of specific approprifi tions to all branches of municipal ex penditure, including also the (Teation of an emergenry fund upon which the mayor and council may le authorized to drsw only In case of some public calamity, such as great fires and floods. The alxilition of the general fund would by no means be n radical innovation. The present charter already fixes the amounts which the mayor and council may lery for the fire department, the police de partment, wate. hydrant rental, public lighting, public library and public parks, but It leaves the door wide open for ex travagance by not fixing the amount to le expended for salaries of city officials and employes, for the malntennm-e of the city hall and city Jail, for street re pairs and for other purposes that could readily Ik? designated under .specific heads. In opposition to this proposition It will be argued that the legislature cannot possibly know bow tnnch in dollars and cents it will require to supply the va rious unknown and unknowable munici pal demands. This is a delusion that can be easily dispelled by an Inspection of the municipal payroll and the ap propriation sheets for each year. These will disclose not merely the municipal payroll, but also the amounts disbursed out of th( general' fnnd for various pur poses and Incidentals. . By averaging the amounts expended out of the general fund during the past three years and classifying the expenditures under sepa rate heads, a general average can be arrrived at that will enable the legis lature to make liberal provision for all the wants of the city and effectively plug up the holes through which the city treasury has been drained under rat-Ions pretexts. At the meeting of the Southwest Im provement club the councilman from the Ninth ward offered to look after the in terests of the Seventh ward while the councilman from the latter ward remains sick. This offer, while doubtless made with the best of Intentions, entirely mis conceives the idea of conncilmanlc duty under our scheme of municipal govern ment. All the counciluien from all the wards are supposed to hare equal responsibility for matters requiring pub lic attention all over the city. To prevent councilmen from regarding themselves as representing only a ward constit uency, they have been made to look to the whole city for their election, the ward boundaries being respected in order to secure a geographical distribution of the places. Previous to the enactment of the present, charter we had ward councilmen elected by and responsible to their particular wards, as well as councllmen-at-large but our present councilmen combine both sets of offices in themselves. The official announcement that the fund has been completed to make the Rockefeller donation to the state uni versity effective will doubtless cause the local demo-pop organ to throw another spasm of inflamed indignation. To think that any money that has passed through the bauds of the Standard OH magnate should defile the temple of learning sup ported by the taxpayers of this state Is enough to elicit a piercing protest of permanent irreconcilability. All those good words that have been said attout the superiority of western universities as compared with eastern Institutions of higher education, will now be with drawn so far as the I'nlverslty of Ne braska is concerned, and boys and girls who wish to drink in the oil of learning will be advised to go to the fountain head at Chicago Instead of to the side stream at Lincoln. ' After New Year's big, shiny wagons delivering meat from the packers' dcot to retail dealers, will 1m- seen again on Omaha streets but that doea not signify that the retail butchers will supply their customers with irk cIioimi, real cutlets, sirloin slices and sausages at cut-rate prices. Statistics show that, lu Ihe WIscoumIu wood this fall, one hunter was shot for every deer killed and the newspapers of that state are using this as evidence of 1he couiarative harmlesaueMS of the sMrt. They doubtless compare It with football. (iaad relley gtlek Tm. New York Tribune. ' Kconunii; I ( ,,.be hs watch word of emigres. CuttU g thtvwat sccurdlng to th financial eloth Is unflrr sll clrrumtm-e a wise policy. Sobered by the Betairaa. Indiana noil News. It mut he a little trying Tor thoft mem bers who can see thftr rongresslonsl finish lees than three months away to keep up their enthusiasm Just now. Hellaaee ml the Traata. Washington Post. After reading the president' message the trust hare a wonderful appreciation of the wlrdom of the men who plared that "by and with the advice and consent of the eenate" clause In the nation's or tanlo law. Sow Hatch the Far ri. Chicago Tribune. Now tht the cattle raisers have formed a combination In opposition to the Beef trust, there Is nothing for the plain peepul to do but to get out of the way a quickly ss porrtble and 1ft the two fight It out. The Greatest Rver. Indianapolis Nws. The magnitude of the Roosevelt maiurity of considerably over 2,U,one In better J prectted when we recall that both Hayes and Harrison were elected without even a plurality of the popular vote over their principal opponnt. Prospective ( hane of Diet. Pittsburg lilxpatcri. Report from the west that cattle raisnrs re getting up a combination would. If such a combination were possible, cause the consumer to ponder gloomily on the prosperity that goes to the other fellows. With a cattle raiser' combination work ing In harmony with the Packers' trust the ordinary man wojld be drivrn to In vestigate closely the nutritive qualities of the Japanese army ration. Halting; the Baltic Fleet. Philadelphia Record. If it be true that the orders of the Baltic fleet to proceed to the far east have been countermanded by the cxar, and that Ad miral Rojestventky has been directed to loaf around at a aafe distance from the danger sone during the continuance of the war, then the autocrat of Russia ahould be credited with the possession of more com mon sense than his kitchen cabinet of grand ducal uncle and cousin. A fleet that stampeded at the sight of Innocent Ashing vessels In the North sea would cut a sorry figure when opposed by Togo's ex pert gunners and torpedolfts. particularly since the Japanese admiral has been' re lieved of anxiety from the Port Arthur fleet and could throw his whole power against the landlubbers and horse marines under the command of- Rojestveneky. BOOSTIXU A ODD MM.. Iowa Coaareasanaa Sprlaca aa Inno vation la Legislative Meaanre. . New York Sun. ' Hon. John A.. T. Hull of Iowa, one of the most experienced members of the House of Representatives, is the sponsor for the oddest bill that has been Introduced at the present session of the Fifty-eight congress. The purpose of the measure la commend able, for It Is designed to provide means for the training of cltliens , liable to military duty In the use of firearms. The first fifty-one line of the bill aa printed are devoted to sefrlng forth a scheme for the organtiatlon.pf target clubs under government auspices, and making provision for their support by the government. Tacked to this part of the bill, however, sre 180 lines of explanation, argument and assertion which, might properly belong to a report of. a comml.tte on the bill, but have no proper place. In the measure Itatlf. Hera .are a few aamples: "Our permahehr military establishment or regular sHmy must from the nature of circumstance be Vmall, and in the event of a war with one or more of the flrst clas power of trie world we must depend very largely Upon the militia and the volnnteers for our fighting forces." "We believe for practical purposes in battle tht the Individual behind the rifle Is the military unit." "Great Brltlan, now that she has many rifle range established throughout th country, appropriates 10,C0f; a year fur encouragement of rifle practice In England. Thl is augmented by many private donation, the king giving i,00rt, and Mr. W. W. Astor, formerty a cltlaen of the I'nlted States, recently donated X10.00C for this purpose." Approximately 1,360 words of this sort of stuff are In the bill which congress Is asked to enact. It was referred to the committee on military affair and ordered to be printed. Mr. Hull is the chairman of this Important committee. The presence of this mass of incongruous matter leads to' the suspicion that Mr. Hull did not draft the measure himself or even read It over before he Introduced It. When It emerges from the committee room It la likely to be a glaring example of the pitfall that beset the way of a gonial lawmaker. IERSOAI. NOTES. The Increase In the number of republican state legislators this year In Texaa Is just 100 per cent, bringing the total number up to two. Henry Watterson I In Pari to place his grandson In school in that city. Ill three aona were educated In the French capital and his daughter In Switzerland. "All th crooked ones in't In jail yet," say Hetty Green, making- Word with her mouth aa to bankers. The only thing off that color about Hetty fa her name. The recent death of James N. Tyoer, at Washington, leaves only , three of the thirteen men living who cast the electoral vote of Indiana for Abraham Lincoln. It seems to be pretty certain that Sec retary Wilson of the Department of Agri culture will retain hi place. It la ap parently easier to get good lawyer than good farmer. A careful perusal of the Hat of con fidence game that work successfully In New Tork City for year without discov ery lead one to believe that the man with a job lot of gold brick on hand ihou'.d loao no time in getting to the metropolis and setting up shop. Therese Humbert, the notorious French swindler, who is confined In the prison at Rennet, ha developed such a mania for writing abusive. Incoherent letters to offi cials concerning the supposed dissipation of th Crawford millions that the authori ties are considering her transfer to an asylum for the Insane. Newton L. Penn. ald to be the last lineal descendant of William Penn. has juat died In Hartford, Conn. HI body will be in terred In the Penn burial ground. He wa a deep student and translated Into Eng-llxh a great quantity of French play and poem, beside doing considerable wprk. Rev. r. Augustus L Uarebner, professor of church history and dogmatics n the Evangelical Lutheran Concordia seminary at St. Ixmls, who has Just died in that city, gave Instructions that after his death a post-mortem should be held In the luterent of science, aa lis believed bis dlaeaae wa not understood by Ihe specialists who at tended liim Among the articles of "movable property" left by President Kruger when ha died were Inventoried:' On bottle of snuff, on tall ailk hat, on black ear tube, various psalro books, a large bible, six smaller Bible, eight button decorations, a purse containing one Tranfvaal sovereign, on Transvaal half sovereign, in, Tiaitavael ' hilling and on straw hal ! ITS OF WSltlOTO( t,IFK. Mlanr Sreaea mm Incidents Sketehe a the Sa-el. One of the Hoosler congressmen-elect answers to the name of Ananl Baker. He is tlng Initiated Into the mysteries of official life In Washington, chaperoned, by Senator Bevertdge.v Every person to whom he Is introduced hoists an Interrogation point when the name Ananias Is menttmfd. silet.tly and sometimes vocally Inquiring If the Hooeler lives up to his name. One man frankly said: "That Is an odd front name of yours. Mr. Baker. Nothing personal In It. I hope." "I've been a good many years explain ing about that name," Mr. Raker replied, "and I guess I can make a few more ex planation for the benefit of the peorle like you who live in Washington. My name I Ananias, all right, but I am not named after the Anania ynn are thinking of. The nikti who was struck dead for lying did not rurnlsh me with my name. There Is another Anai las In the Bible. He Is the holy man who baptised Saul. I wa named In his honor. I trust you hnvt not only learned some Bible history by this explanation, but some manner ss well." Mls Margaret Wade, society editor of the Washington Post, has been selected a social secretary by Mr. Fairbanks, wife of the vice president elect. The appointment has caused much comment, because Mis Wade was barred about a year ago from th White House In her professional capacity by order of Secretary Loeb, which, presumably, was suggested either by the president or Mrs. Roosevelt. Miss Wade refused to comply with certain regulation set down by Secretary Locb because she considered the treatment prescribed by thoe regulation Ignominious. The aoclety reporters were placed in one part of tho White limine and ordered not to go any where else. Miss Wade contended that she was there on invitation of the president and Mrs. Rooitevelt and refused to remain In the position designated by the ushers. Rally not much Importance can lie at tached to the matter because until March Mrs. Fairbanks' social dutfrs will be only those of a senator's wife, but the private secretaries of Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs. Fairbanks must necessarily negotiate ail the exchanges of social courtesy between the president's family and that of Senator Fairbanks. The salary of a I'nlted States senator, like that of a member of the house of representatives, I tS.OOO, and he Is allowed, in addition, mileage at the rate of 10 cents per mile each way between his home and the capltol for each session of con gress, a private secretary at I1.M0 (If he Is not chairman of a committee, In which cae be has the appointment of a higher salaried clerk) and $125 for stationery. That eem modest, say Pearson's Magaxine, but th perquisites and emoluments not set down In the law sre numerous and at tractive and account In no small measure for the tenacity with which a email caliber senator holds on when once he has been elected. The senate Is a small body, but It takes a big amount of money to run it, as the following extracts from the last annual ap propriation bill will show: For compensation of senators t 4W,nnn For mileage or senators For expenses of the office of vice president (there Is none by the way, but Mr. Frye occuplea this room! y Chaplain Office of secretary of senate Document room Clerk and messengers to commit tees Office of sergeant-at-arms and door keeper Postofflce Folding rornn Engineers,, elevator service, etc Senators' secretaries .. Stenographer of Investigation and Inquiries Reporting debates MisceMatieous, not Including the ex pense of the capltol police force, one-half of the total 75.O0O be ing paid by each house 45.0HO '.7ti0 l.OHO Tl.BM 10.120 lt7,30 1M.SM J 7.68 27,520 27.45 lo.rt ;n,ou) M.ouo 169.600 Grand total $1,287,873 The total of $1,227,873 tell In a general way the story of how expensive It 1 to record the doing of ninety lawmakers. nd to keep them comfortable and happy for a period of twelve months, but It Is the details that are most Interesting. .In 1878 a senator of the lnlted State provided himself out of the public treasury, In addition to hi salary, with his mileage, hi $126 for stationery and one clerk, If he happened to be the chairman of a commit tee. That wa practically all. In 1904 a I'nlted Statea senator would sniff at one clerk, and declare It Impossi ble to attend to his work without two or three. Such a thing a paying for a clerk out of hi pocket, as hi predeceasor. up to a comparatively few year ago, were accustomed to do, would be regarded by the senator of today as a crime. "The senate's youngest man after next March," say the Washington Post, "prom ise to be Representative Burkett of Ne braska, who has thirty-seven year to his credit. Hi prospective honor may be taken away, should the tate legislature that elect next month pick ome young colt not now In the public eye. "Although the senate Is supposed to be cnmnoae.l laraely of old men, and al though the oldsters are still very numer ous there, thre score and ten being no distinction whatever there, young mn r rapidly gaining the eats. Mr. Hemenwey, who will be the new senator from Indiana, I 44. He and hi colleague, Senator Bv erldge, who i 42, will be among the young est men In the senate. But Senator Dick of Ohio, who succeed Senator Hanna, an old man, I only 4. Benator Knox, after several years aa attorney general, i young a men are accounted nowadays, being 51, which happen also to be the age of Benator Crane of Massachusetts, who en tered the senate with him. There re only thirteen days' difference In their age, the Massachusetts man being the senior." The statues in the old hall of representa tives never cease to be object of Interest to the tourist throng. The latest accession la that of ex-Senator John J. Ingalla of Kansas, who, a an Incisive speaker, wa never urpaaed among the multitude of men who hav come and gone In th rota 'tlon of national legislation. While the sculptor was chiseling away a big' hump on the Ingall overcoat collar th other day, a tourist of prpnounced Ger man accent approached and gnsed rev erently. "Isn't that he great newspaper reporter who died a few years sgo In Kana?" he nnHy Inquired. To him the man I tig lis. whose classic sentences and poetic sentences entranced the senate, wa unknown, but the man Ingall. who stood at the ringside In th far west and reported a champion prise fight for a New York newspaper, wa Im mediately recognisable. Speaker Cannon 1 now wielding a gavel made from a piece of dogwood which grew on the farm where he waa born near Guilford. N. C. John C. Fox of that plac presented it to Mr. Cannon. "I'ncle Joe" was delighted to gel the relic and ssaured Mr. Fox that h would take th best rsra f p. "But you know," he added, "the life of a gavel In th house of represent, lives Is a short, merry and difficult one. It has a rough road to travel and ia sub jected to great many hard knocks. t doesu t lad th atiiipl !if by s consid erable sight," ( ftII.ROn RF.Gt LTIO Demands I anSnt Be lsre. Kansaa City Star. The svr.atnrs sn1 i rpresentstlvrs know that the people sr- with the president -in this railroad Issue. There are some popu lar demands that cannot be Ignored. Mr. Hill's Fine Scorn. Philadelphia Noith American. James J. Hill, soul of the late great Northern Securities company, looks with unspeakable scorn upon the proposition to authorise the Interstate Commerce com mission to fix railroad rates. Mr. Hill. !t will be remembered, looked from an equal altitude of scorn upon the federal suit la break the merger of the northwestern rail roads. Yet the merger Was broken much to the ntirprlse and disgust of Mr. H'li. Aaather Mistaken Magnate. Pittsburg Dispatch. President Ramsey of the Wabash rail road Is quited in an Interview as declartnS that the railroads of the country mill be united In opposition to the arrendment of the Interstate commerce law to give the commission the rsht to "fix freight rates." As this phrsse I accompanied by an asser tion that the change would put Into the hands of the commission "one of the most Important departments of railroad work' It I charitable to suppose that Mr. Ram sey has been misinformed as to the charac- ' ter of the proposed amendment. It doe not put Into the commission's hands tho power of general rate making. No one has proposed to take that department of rail road work from the hands of the proper railroad offtclala. The proposition Is that when a rate Is proved to be unjust by actual hearing and Investigation the com mission shall hava the power to fix the proper rate to take Its place. The HalU for His Life. San Francisco Chronicle. The president !s determined that the present corporation shall serve the public properly and It will be the fight of his life. In our opinion he will enjoy It. And the public will enjoy It also. The flrct step Is to know exactly what is now going on. That Is now posslhlr through the Bureau of Corporations, or will be when Its powers sre enlarged to include the Investigation of transportation problems. The next step Is not only to prohibit but' prevent what ever Is found wrong At various steps it will be found that new legislation will be required. It Is not Impossible that this may Involve a contest with congress, or at least with the senate. We do not know that they will occur, but If it should th outcome Is not uncertain. Willi the people Iwhlnd him In, the force which has Just been exhibited the president will secure any legislation which he may ack which Is reasonable, and he will never ask for that which ia unreasonable. If reason consists In Just laws Inflexibly administered. The hour Is come and we believe that President Roosevelt Is the man for the hour. And If he solves this most momentous of econo mic and social problems he will deserve a monument which will overshadow the dome of the Capltol MILI l.IKS. Brlggs Hello. Dlggs! How are vou? Dfggs Brigge! Well, I declare! Then there's really nothing serious the matter with your eyes? Brigs My eyes? Of course not. Who said there was? Dlggs No one. but when I was passing the collection pla'e In church last Sunday your sight seemed to be very bad. Phila delphia Catholic Standard. Treat That little boy of yours was over at our houae yesterday. Spawnger Ye. Do you think he s like me? Treat Well, he Is and he Isn't. He asked me for ft drink, but he meant water. Cleveland Leader. "Mr. Grtbberley doeen't seem to have any nativ pride," said Mrs. Oldeastle. "Oh. no!" her honleas replied, "but you can't expect any from him. being that he Morning, Noon or Night, between, or with meals, JLaTB1.fi goes well. Always the same Pure, Sparkling, Health promoting, and Delicious. IHE RICHARDSON DRU6 CO., SHERMAN & McCOMMELL DRU: CO., M JACKSON STREET, DisTRiaiTiitQ Aamnn. SOMEBODY said. "Keep your knees warm ana you're ALL warm. That's the whole secret of ulster popularity for the bend of the knee carries more nerves than any other part of the body. This ulster a com promise between an auto mobile coat and a long sacque is as good to look at as it is comfort' able to wear. Made of broadcloth it is iined with fur, and has broad fur collar and ciiffs. For driving call ing, and for evening wear it stands alone. Thn price it governed by the lining and trimming, and ranges from $65.00 to $150.00. Ask the dealer to show you this Gordon Coat even if you don't want it It is a splendid specimen of tailoring outside and of fur fitting within. GORDON & FERGUSON, St. Paul, Minn. EstabUwd 1871 rnrai fv jeveler ' -i .!tCSC mm aV ss mmT IfiixtonliTXy tirr Vr,riTnTinmnviVinnnK. &TB3ZXXX Fifty Years th9 Standard MB MM1 Uada from pure cream of tartar derived from grapes. was born in Canada." Chicago Itecord llerahl. "They say that the American tieople drink only half a gallon of wine npiete dorii g the ycr." "Is that I wondr wb drank my ten gallons dining the Inst twenty yenrs?' Cleveland I'lHln Dealer. The members of Rev. Dr. Fourthly' con gregation nettled themselves resignedly in their seats. ll. hud J.ist said: "One word more and I have done." The diH-tur looked k-enly at them over his glasses for a moment. Then he closed the book In front of him "Amen!" he sold Chicagu Tribune. "Well." said Kwoter. "it Is very true that "no news Is Rood news.' Therefore" "Kxt use mi ," Intel rnpted Hitrr. "nit you'd never make an editor, believe that." Philadelphia I'rers. The bargain counter rush is here And folks. In areents si.ler. Are vowing that another year Thev'll tart out in October. Washington Star. SMIinu MKS. Janice Barton Adams in Denver Post. O! we've s.irely got them guessing, tho beloved friends of ours. Wond'ring what they're going to get for Christmas: Thev are working to the limit all their shrewdest guessing powers. Wond'ring what they're going to get fur Christmas. In the iiulet of their chambers In the gath ering twilight gloom. In the church und in the office and the family living room They will oft sit In a study brown as Kate s burnt onion plume Wond'ring what they're going (to get for Christmas. Within their beds the wee one talk In whispers soft and low. Wond'ring what they're going to get for Christmas; They wake from pleasant dreaming of the ' dav with eyea aglow, 'Wond'ring what they're going to get for Christ mas. They'll tell each other of their hopes an Oft repeated tale And talk of Santa visit, that they never knew to fall. And wish their sparkling eyes could only pierce the future veil, Wond rlng what they're going to get for Christmas. And we old fellow, tell the truth, are Just as bad as they. Wond'ring what we re going to get for Christmas; We ofttn sit while resting from our lahnrs of the day Wond'ring what we're going to get for Christmas. And ia It not a njeasur. too,. au .old, bald headed boy. A pleajre that upon your sense of pleas ure never cloy. To often sit and revel in antlelpatlve Jova Wood ring what you're going to get for Chrlntmas. A. WATER 3 lfTH AND DOOaV RETAIL AOIVTh IIS A i JC Mnfcnif. m ww ananM If your ChrMuis jifi are in boies bearing lbs earns COPLEY thy will be pi resisted. Tbis nams I a guarantee cf vjuallty As U rle. sp in and be shown. VMrninTtrrrmt 1
