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THE OMAHA DAILY I1KK: TIITKKIUY. DKCKMHEII 22. 104. The Omaha Daily Bee i:. ROSEWATETt. EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORNING. TERMS OF UrBSCRirTION. l'ally Bee (without Bundiiy), one year. lally Bee and Sunday, one year Illustrated Bee, one year Sunday Br, one year Suturday Bee, nni year... Twentwth Onlury Farmer, one, year.. DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Iaily Bee (without P'lnday), Pr copy. Itaiiif bA ' i k ......... i.r m f1 kc ft "0 4.WI 2 00 i.so 1.50 . i.ue 12c Dally Be (In. luding Sunday . per wek..lo Hunday B, per copy..,,,., - Krenlng h twitheut Bundayi. P" ' ,0 mening hm (Including nunu. wrf k 1f ,,... Complaints of Irregularities In delivery should be addressed to City Circulation De partment. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. -.., South Omaha-City Hall building. Twenty firth and M streets. Couni-ll Bluff in Pearl street. hl'Mio-140 t'nlty building. . New Vork-233 Prk Row bu!!dlng. Washington Ml Fourteenth street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to new and edi torial matter ahoutd be addressed; Otnana , Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. 12c Remit by draft. express or no'! order. payable to ThH Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stamps received In payment or mall account. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges.not accepted. mm BEE FlBLlStU.NU lUMrai" STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION, fit.nte of Nehraaka, Dbtiglag County, .: George B. Taachilck, aecretary of The Be Publishing Company, being; duly sworn, aaya that tha actual numbes of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning. Evening and (Sunday Bee printed during the month of November, 14. was aa fol lows: ,. 1 31,310 II S.3M a ,4oo it ..Jr.ao 1 S9,lltO U Stt.34 4 t,41SO ito.aoo b dO.BfWI K ao.a7o 8T.400 U W T 4o.ioo a m.tmo 1 SO.oon O...I. 2O.430 t 4H,ito 10 84,100 26 80.700 11 80.MMO 24.. 82,2tt0 n 8i.o3o n. .......... , 13 SO." 18 8W.700 u u.aoo a I jmmwo 15 li,2H )....'. !H,2O0 Total Less unaold copies... Net total sale ...oso.oao ... JO.BIO H4S.314 31JV1T Dally average Qttlj. B. TZSCHUCK. Subitcrlbed la my presence and aworn to otjioi mm mis juin auy tii puveuiurr. any or novemnpr, i: Sc0 Notary Public. According to the almanac, we Hre now experiencing the shortest day of the yen r. New York rt-pulilii-ans arc llnding tlmt Hti "easy boss" Is a hard one to shake off. At the rate it has boon covering ground in Nebraska no danger that the seed corn special will go to need. The new pugilistic star will have to win a few battles outside of Ran Fran cisco before his real ability will le known. - Omaha's local charities ' hare been talking about co-operating for a lung time. The thing to do now is to co operate. , It's all duo to the uncalled-for inter vention of leap year that the holidays vome this time on Sunday Instead of on Saturday. " . ' ' ! The Omaha woman who secured free- uiu irou v w u iuou in uue uecrre ap parently had her cup, of happlnens filled twice at one pouring. The report of Commissioner (Jiirtlcld discloses one. official who believes he cau control predatory corporations If given proper support. lleueral Corblu should hurry home from the Philippines. Fifteen officers at Fort Leavenworth have married with in the last six months. j It was defective electric wiring which taused the Ins of the finest club house in Washington. Other cities should profit by these object lessons. When the Women't club Information bureau gets Into full running order the inan who Is "detained at his offi-e on bUHiuess" will have to look out. ' Just a' little more snow before Christ inas and everybody will be satisfied. 1'p to the present time the. rubber shoe dealers have beeu out of the running. Since the statistics of population, showing fewer women than men In this country, have been published the rush of the "new woman" into business life is no les Inexplicable, Lincoln is said to be ogling an Omaha school teacher for principal of the high school at the capital city. The move ment of school population between Omaha and Lincoln has usually been the Other way. The city of Omaha Is getting par for its 4 Mr cent bonds. It ought to do better than that and would if its munici pal finance were managed on a more businesslike basts by the accumulation of a sinking fund commensurate with the outstanding debt i tan pon sts mat u is one 01 me nve states In which no lynchlngs have, taken place In recent years, but If the testi mony adduced is to be believed there would prol)bl.v have been more lynch taga In other states had certain ieople not lived in Utah. u i Those lst acquainted with Senator Cockrell will suspect that he has had au Inside tip to the effect that the Interstate Coruuicrve commission Is to be granted real power or he would uot have Indi cated his Intention of preferring a place on that commlsslou to one on the canal commission. Official returns of the St. Louis ex position show (1,800,0(10 free admissions o 13.80J.OUO paid admissions, or more iuao half as mauy free as paid. If tbo Omaha exposition had operated its gates on this plan It, too, would have wound up on the red Ink side of the ledger instead of returning 02 per cent nf the uio&r subscribed by Its stock TUF, BIGGKST urESTlOS. Mr. J. T. Morgan Is reported as sav ing that the biggest question Iteforo (he country Is that of federal regulation of n.lroad rales and in this he undoubtedly reflected the opinion tlmt prevails In high railroad circles. It is noted that every railroad president so fur consulted agrees that something mast le done, but there Is no one plan that commends Itself to them all. A Washington dlx putch to an eastern paper says It is re garded as simply marvelous the response that ha come to President Koosevdt's presentation of this subject In his an nual message. For a few days after the apiK'sranec of the message there was much Mid to the effect that the presi dent had proposed a step which would disorganise railroad systems a nil tend to foster a sentiment in favor of govern ment ownership. This nuiy still be the opinion of some, but the great majority of those who have given to the matter Intelligent consideration do not take this view. They realize the vast importance of the question, but they do not see in the presidents presentation of it any danger or any cause for apprehension. They understand, as Mr. Morgan is said to do, that It is a very big question and that something must be done. What that something shall be Is a matter for the most carefirf deliberation. There can be no doubt that out of the general and very earnest discussion of the subject a plan will Ik evolved which will meet every requirement, giving needed protection to the public without doing any injury to the railroads. There is no disposition In any quarter to in jure the transportation Interests of the country and no harm could 1 done them from the operation of a just policy of regulation. On the contrary a policy that would put a complete stop to dis criminations and rebates would lie to the advantage and benefit of the railroads. It Is an utterly mistaken Idea that the railroads must suffer In order that the public may be safeguarded against ad mitted evils. Many railroad managers earnestly desire that the evils be rem edied, from a conviction that It would prove beneficial to that Interest. The Chicago Shippers' association has Issued a call for n national conference In that city by all similar bodies, with a view to securing concerted action of some sort. The association adopted a resolution declaring that the time Is ripe to correct many evils of which ship pers have been complaining and that better results will be ranched If all or ganisations of shippers agree upon the most reasonable policy and put their combined strength Into the work of push ing the needed legislation through. The result of this conference will undoubt edly have a great deal o weight with the lawmakers at Washington. "'Aliove all else," said Mr. Roosevelt In his mes sage, "we must strive to keep the high ways of commerce open to all on equal terms. The government must In increas ing degree Supervise and regulate the workings of the railways engaged In interstate commerce; and such Increased supervision is the only alternative to. an increase of the present. evils on the one hand or a still more radical policy on the other." This has received practic ally unanimous public approval and started an agitation that will continue until the required legislation is secured. THK PES TIFEROVS l.OHHY-Sk-veral days must elapse before the legis lature will again be In session, but the warning voice of The Beo has already been sounded nualnst "the pestiferous corrup tlonlsts" who constitute the regular bi ennial lobby. It la urged, aa it has been before, that no corporation or combina tion, or Individual interests, have need to keep hired men here for the purpose of watching the course of legislation and interposing, stumbling blocks to keep the lawmakers from going wrong. All thi Is good doctrine and entitled to the approba tion of Nebraska taxpayers everywhere, but what would become of Mr. Rosewater It the draatlo measures he propones were to be put Into effect? His presence at previous legislative sessions has been a feature of the winter's performance and has all but given color to the suspicion that he himself was a professional lobbyist, and aa such, according to the logic of. his own argument, he ought to be abolished. But has be corrupted legislature? Iiaa his Influence been prejudicial to the cause of honest government? Can it be shown that his persistent absence would have militated In favor of better and more en durable statutes? What is the opinion of the public? What can Mr. Roaewater, knowing the Intents and purposes of his own life, aay for himself ? Lincoln Journal. Knowing the intents and pursues of liis own life, Mr. Hosewater can truth fully say that he has never, directly or Indirectly, been employed by any cor poration or Individual either to promote the passage of legislation In their Inter est or to defeat legislation that would Ims damaging to their Interest. Kuow- Ing the purposes of his own life, he can say for himself, and challenge contra diction, that bis efforts to shape legisla tion have In every instance been In the interest of the public and at his own ex pense. A few citations rr.ay suffice: In the '70s tho greater part of his time at legislative sessions was given to breaking up the penitentiary ring and the land grabbing ring for whom the Lincoln Journal was the recognised champion. Incidentally a great part of his time at Lincoln during the legislative sessions was given to the advocacy of railroad regulation legislation aud meas ures designed to protect tho producers against the rapacity of the public car riers. In the '80s much of his time was taken up at Lincoln In the exposure of Job bery, thievery aud official crookedness, for which the Lincoln Journal was always the apologist aud defender. Iti 1K87 a large portlou of his time was taken up In the exposure of the con spiracy to prevent the passage of ,the law making gambling a felony aud In the contest with the railroad lobby that mutilated the Omaha charter and cut out of It the provision requiring the rail roads to pay municipal taxes the same as other Individuals and corporations subject to taxsfiou in cities of the metropolitan class. ' In the legislative aeklnn of ISlM much of bis time was taken up tu the ex posures that resulted in the Impeach ment of four state honsi officials whose acquittal by a Scotch Verdict almost ruined the republican party and brought on the wave of populism. During the session of lt5 he spent fully sixty days at Lincoln in preparing and perfecting sixteen amendments to the constitution of Nebraska, in conjunction with the members of the supreme court. Four of these amendments were defeated by the machinations of the cortorate lobby and the twelve were submitted to tho people of Nebraska In ISOd, and would have len carried had It not been for the whirlwind of excitement attending the first Bryaulte presidential campaign During the same session much of his time was given to preventing the repeal of the law requiring the state treasurer to keep stato funds In designated de positories. In this effort he had to com bat the combined Influence exerted by Joe Hartley and the Lincoln Journal. In a nutshell, with the exception of the time taken up in senatorial contests, the activity of the editor of The Bee at the state capital during legislative ses sions has centered upon incisures cal culated to promote the general welfare of the state and to defeat the measures he believed to be Injurious or detrimental to the commonwealth. In all these years he does not rememlier an instance when the Lincoln Journal failed to go to the rescue of the thieves, the Jobbers and .corrupt combines that have beeu constantly napping the very foundations of our state. VRCSADB AVAtXST CHILD LABOR. The lalsir organizations of Pennsyl vania have storted a crusade against child labor, with a view to securing state legislation for. remedying what they term a curse. In a circular, explanatory of the movement, it is stated that about one-fifth of all children in the state 1k tween the ages of 10 aud l." years are working for wages. It is declared .that the employment of children of tender years at arduous tasks, for even the regulation ten-hour workinu day, is au evil which should never have been per mitted In any commonwealth, and some of the youthful workers !alor, ni a rule, more than ten hours a day. Of course the effect Is to stunt them mentally, morally and physically, as investigation has conclusively shown. Undoubtedly this crusade In Pennsyl vania will lead to similar efforts In other states where there Is much child labor. There was recently organized what Is called a national child labor committee, composed of distinguished citizens, the purpose of which Is to promote legisla tion that will remove or at least miti gate the evil. It Is perhaps a little worse In the great manufacturing state of Pennsylvania than In other states, but wherever it exists a social wrong is com mitted that should not be tolerated. Among the suggestions of the president In his annual message is one that the bureau of labor be giveu the means to Investigate and reitort ta congress upon labor conditions In the manufacturing and raining regions, paying especial at tention to the c6nditlons of child labor and child labor legislation In the sev eral states. It is a suggestion that should be carried out, so that the country may be given thorough and authentic infor mation on the important subject. The labor organizations of Pennsylvania are also seeking to improve conditions for women wage earners, who, it is said, are in as bad a plight as the child la borers. It Is an entirely commendable movement and ought to be .successful, as doubtless it will be. A SENATORIAL COXTEST. Chauncey M. Depew appears to be having the "tight of his life" In the ef fort to be re-elected to the United States senate. He baa -the support of his col league, Senator Piatt, while he is op posed by Governor Odell. Each of these republican leaders has a strong follow ing, btyi the governor has in some recent contests shown more strength or greater skill in political manipulation than Mr. Piatt and it is quite possible will again demonstrate this in the present case. It Is the understanding that Odell favors former Governor Black to succeed Mr. Depew. It Is an Interesting contest, from the H)lItical rather than the personal point of view. It threatens to cause a serious break in the republican party of the Em pire state and this would be regretted by republicans generally. Mr. Depew has not greatly distinguished himself In the national senate, but he has been con sistently loyal to liis party aud has been watchful of the Interests of his state, considerations which give him a good claim to re-election. The Omaha Be has reached a state of mind In which self-control la evidently Im possible. It frantically denounces the World-Herald's circulation statements and wildly berates thla newspaper for insisting on Its rights aa the newspaper of largest circulation In Omaha. There Is no need for all thla furore and excitement, gentle neighbor. A time will soon arrive when an official Inquiry can be secured Into news pap r circulations in Omaha. Talking about the matter will not affect the result. World-Herald. When the official Inquiry is made the World-Herald will, as usual, kick up the dust and play the cuttlefish, and try to extenuate the holdup performances and blackmailing tactics by which It manages every year to extort several thousand dollars from liquor dealers aud druggists under false pretenses. People wtll prooably die In state in stitutions aa well as out of them, but deaths from violence among the Inmates of Insane asylums, reform schools, sol diers' homes, etc., should W reported officially without delay. To assume that such cases are always due to bru tality or neglect does not, however, fol low. If an investigation of the affairs of the Lincoln iusane asylum should be undertaken by the legislature, the In timation that Its purpose will be "to protect" some culpable republican offi cial is altogether gratuitous. An in vestigation of this klud, if found ne-es-sury or desirable, should b directed tu getting at the facts, without bias or eoior. The council goes right on planting tire hydrants despite the mayor's vetoes, baaed on the lack of funds to foot the bills. The charter is supistsed to hold the iMindsnien of each member of the council for any excess in liability in curred over and alsive the municipal re sources, but as the lmnds are furnished by guaranty companies st the expense of the city, this threat of landsmen's liability seems to have lost all its ter rors. If the report from Des Moines be true that Minister Conger is to stop only a short time at the City of Mexico en route from China to the governor's office In Iowa as tlie successor to Governor Cummins, the exile of a distinguished Nebraskan to Bio Janeiro may not lo protracted so long after all. The depositions read In the police court inquiry prove that the Civic Fed eration Is a true reform body. Its mis sion is to procure the lileration of hard ened criminals from the penitentiaries of Iowa, Kansas and Missouri, and to reform them, so that they may become good and useful citizens. Voting Gould created indignation when he stopped a raid of fellow stu dents with n revolver, but not half as much excitement as his grandfather did when he started some raids on his own account. FrBslmlKiu that Didn't Pan. Minneapolis Journal. Thitty years siao tlil week the t'nlted Stnte senate appropriated $.m.'Kj to buy seed wheat for the grasshopper sufferers. Have you forgotten how you thought at that time that the country was ruined? But it wasn't. Moothlaar Poolttee for Defeat. Baltimore American. If salary Is nn object, Senator Cockrell of Missouri con well afford to exohango his $3.0iJ0 a yenr as senator for 17,600 ns Inter slate commerce commissioner, which, It Is positively stated, he will accept after March 4, whe-n Commissioner Yeoman, an Iowa democrat, will retire. Besides, he will have no night sewlons. BHahtlna; the Omar Business. Chicago Chronicle. The Postofflce department haj discovered that of the druggists In Chicago at least one In five sends Adulterated dnigs through the malls and the National Druggists' asso ciation haa been compelled to assist in prosecuting them tor tha good of the drug business. In view of facts like these no body can blame the people for having a warm side for homeopathy or even Chris tian Science. Conrletlon ( Land Robbers. Philadelphia Record. After the people of the fnlted States have been robbed of millions of acres there has at last been a conviction of five land robbers In Oregon. In this case. Involving S.OOO acres of timber land, the fraud was accomplished with more or less official connivance by the use of fictitious names for land entries.. Two of the convicted luml pirates were extensive timber operators and hitherto veryCrespectable members of society. jflv RAILROAD RATE It KCill.ATIOX. The Pobltc' eeda Protection. Chicago Inter Ocean. The president does not desire to injure the railways or to lessen the value of their property. He desires merely to pro tect the public. The railway managers who see this and meet the president and people half way are showing good common sense. Ootrigeuai Abases. Chicago Record-Herald. That abuses from overcharges exist Is clear, and It Is obvious also that where the trlrk of private cars Is worked the abuses are outrageous. If now some accommoda tion Is not reached between the railroads and tho car companies on the one side and the shippers and the public on the other, the public demands are certain to increase under continued irritation. Proposed Relief. Philadelphia Press. It Is merely proposed to restore lu part the original power given to the commis sion and exercised for nearly ten years without hnrm to any one. The courts can review and chanse anything the commis sion can do under the proposed amend ment. Now, the commission can condemn a rate, but that Is all. It cannot say what the new rate shall be, and its powers in that respect are absurd. Cattle Fish Tactics. Philadelphia Record. There la little excuse for the outcry that the supervision and establishment of inter state rates by a commission would be "spoliation." The railway lines within a state are subject to super-vision, and rates are fixed by the authorities of nearly every state. The proposed enactment would be merely an extension to interstate commerce of a system of control which quite generally prevails with regard to traffic within state boundaries. Railroads and the Courts, Bprlngtleld Republican. One of the strongest objections among railroad men to the president's recom mendation In regard to government control of rates la stated to be that the plan places their properties "In the absolute control of men who are not trained In railroad work." Reference is made to the interstate commerce commissioners, whu do nothing else save to study railroad questions. Much less railroad opposition Is manifeated against the plan to turn rate disputes over to the federal courts; In deed, some railroad spokesmen are advo cating that aa an alternative plan. Rut the United States judges are far leaa "trained In railroad work" than tha inter state commissioners. Btrange, la It not, that they should bo preferred by the roads? Crave Situation, Chicago Nws. Seventeen years ago congress believed that It had given to tha Interstate Com merce Commission authority to regulate tha rates. The railways aay thja author ity should not now be given. They have no additional reasons for this declaration save the additional liabilities of the lines which they control. Yet the enormous growth of the nation In the Intervening time should have placed the roads on ao firm a footing that they could afford to lower rates voluntarily at Intervals to all their patrons by way of encouraging traffic. The roads have been loading themselves down with obligations In order to multiply the wealth of the wlsarde nf finance who control them. They have formed combina tions and prepared to push up rates by concerted action. The commission is Jus tified In declaring In Its annual report that the situation from the public's peine of visa? Is crastngiy grave, BITS OF WASHIMSTfH LIFR. Mleor Sreaes lerldeots Sketched on the Snot. The senate snd house of representatives have agreed to disagree as to the building in which the Inaugural boll may he given. Heretofore the pennlon building has been used for that stately social function, but its use for that purx.pp involves two weeks' of Idleness for employee of the pension ofTtee, entailing a loss of I3,ofo to the gov ernment. The senate consented to the use of the building again. Fining opposition hrts arisen In the hous.-. however, both for economical reasons and the risk of Are, en dangering invaluable records. As a com promise the hmiso committee will recom mend the us of the library building Iecoratlons would not be needed there. The marble halls of that magnificent building said to be the finest In the world, would bo a superb setting for the great social func tion enjoyed by Washington society every four years. A statement of the goods held In store by the serges nt-at-arms of the t'nlted States senote shows some Interesting articles oin' would scarcely expect to find among tho nifessltles for running the national legisla ture. The public may Indulge Its Imagina tion to the limit. Here is the list: Thirty-three bottles of cologne, seventeen Ice picks, sixty-nine funeral regalias, sev enteen bath brushes, three gallons alcohol, two cakes shaving soap, seventy nail brushes, twelve bottles hair tonic, one fun nel, one half-gallon copper measure, eight lemon squeezers and 11 glasses. There ore many other things equally as odd. (llanelng at the senate In session from the Bulletins it requires no stretch of Imagina tion to giiess the need of hair tonic. The cologne, the nail hrtishes and the both brushes ure accounted for by the official barlx-r hop In the eopltol, but the lemon squeeiers, the Ice picks, the funnel and the ixti glasses are open to a slight suspicion at least. Senator JJurrows presides as chairman nt the table, In the privileges and elections committee room, where the 'Senator flmoot hcflrlng is in progress, relates the Washing ton Pot. It is no secret among frequenters ot the end or the capltol that the testimony atioul Mormon affairs Is not of a character to be printed In full by good newspapers. After one of the prolonged hearings Sat urday Mr. Rurrows descended to the senate restaurant for lunch. He passed a friend who was sitting at a table In the public room consuming a dish of oyirtcrs. "My hoy," said the senotor, playfully, "why do you eat those things? Don't you know that the oyster Is a scavenger? If you eat him he is likely to make you Hick." "Senator," was the retort from his young friend. "I would rather eat a bushel of oys ters than sit at that feust you have up stairs every day." The chairman passed on. The superintendent of public buildings and grounds recently sent a report to congress that the Washington monument elevator was unsafe. An examination of both the lifting and counter weight cables had de veloped many broken strands of wire. Colonel Hromwe'l stopped the elevator serv ice at once. It now depends on congress whether $2,500 shall be spent on new cables or the public be permitted to climb the stairs, fntll the elevator resumes Its trips the monument will sufTer in Its popularity with tourists. A few visitors are willing to walk down the stnlrs after being carried to the top in the elevator, but those who ure willing to take the whole climb are very few In number. If they do reach the top they ride back In the elevator and hall a cab when they reach tho ground. They have always had walking enough for some hours. Hourke Cockran, the eloquent and, as a constituent described him, the "fluent" member of the house from New York, is an athlete. Cockran takes as much exer cise as a man training for a -six days race. Although the owner of a splendid and high-spirited t m, he prefers to walk to the capltol, and tho weather must be bad Indeed when he rides. When he walks he walks rapidly, with his arms swinging at his side and his head thrown well back. A fellow member attempted to take the Journey from the house chamber to the treasury building the other evening after adjournment. He is a rather short and stout man, whose legs, while they reach from his body to the ground, are not of good length. He kept up the pace half way down the avenue, puffing along and grow ing re4 In the face. Then he stopped. "8uy, Cockran," he exclaimed, "I am willing to walk, but I refuse to run." "Run, why, my dear fellow, 1 have not Btarted to walk yet. Look here, you are a republican, and a republican who can't keep up with a democrat this year ought to be ashamed of himself." But the friend gave it up. He boarded a street car and permitted Cockran to con tinue his walk alone. A new member button-holed Speaker Can non a few days ago and. talked most ear nestly to the Illinois statesman. The latter gased after the new member aa he walked away and then siid: "He's one of the 'proper recognition' men. He comes from a district which went republican last No vember for the first time, and now he is suro that if he can get 'proper recogni tion' In the house he can keep his bailiwick in the fold. What he means is that he wants assignment on one of the good com mittees, and that's one of the problems I am up against." John Barrett, minister to Panama, sent an Impassioned wall to congress when he was minister to Argentina, claiming that shlrU cost him $13 apiece down there snd using that fact as an argument for an in crease In salary. Barrett la u medluni slsed man. When the story of the far cry about the shirts came to the president he looked at the huge bulk of Secretary Toft and said: "Taft, how much do you sup pose a shirt for you would cost on thu Barrett basis?" Congressman Fred Iaudis of Indiana was chatting with a friend at a street corner In Washington when a man cams along and. Ignoring the congressman's nod, pasad by with his nose In the air. "Odd thing how that fellow worries over trifles," ssld Landls. "Would you believe It, he actually refuses to notice me because In a po litical speech last fall J said he was so crooked you couldn't bark him Into a roundhouse. Now, what do you think of that?" Pernllar Boston Polities. Chicago Record-Herald. In the Boston municipal election thn other day James M. Curley, who Is In jail serving a sentence for conspiracy against the t'nlted States, was elected alderman. One of his fellow conspirators, who is also serving a term in prison, was elected to the legislature in November. There are few stranger things In the world than the fact that Boston can keep Its fins reputation and act the way It does. Foollac tho rialn People. Washington Post. Some of those Weet Virginia folks who voted the republican ticket with the ex pectation that President Roosevelt would break th drouth In that state are now wanting to know why Secretory Wilson dots fcvt nuk his promise good. r.irOBT H.OIR TBAOK. Conditions Rrnasht Ahoot y Short W heat res. Ch cigo Tribune. When Mlnnesnelis millers Import Can dian wheut. sTlnd it, and ship the floor out of the country-, they get back neatly 9 r"" cent of the duty pnld In the wheat. The American wheat raiders In the northwest take nn exception to that, but some of them object to granting the requrst of the millers that they be allowed to mix Cans dlsn and American wheat in equal proper Hons to make flour for export snd to re ceive the drawback on the Canadian whest they use. The millers make the request because, owing to the partial failure of the wheat crop in the northwest through rust, there Is not enough American No. 1 hard whent for mixing purpeses. To make the grade of flour for which the millers have gained a market abroad they Mend the hard wheat of Minnesota and the Hakotas with the soft wheat of Kansas and Oklahoma. The flour made from the soft wheat alon would find no Knglish buyers. If the Min neapolis millers can draw on the Canadian wheat supplies they will be enabled to re tain a large flour trade which Is beginning to dwindle. In October. 1903, l.sno.Ofrt bar rels of flour were exported, and In October of this year only son.oftt barrels. It is a question whether a certain number of bushels of Canadian wheat shall Is? shipped directly to England and be made Into flour there after It has been mixed with the softer grain of other countries, or shall be ground here, mixed with American grain, and then shipped to Kngland. In tho latter case there Is more work for American mills and railroads, and an Im portant brunch of the export trade will be retained. If the millers send flour of a different grade, or If they fall to fill orders for the kind of flour' they have been send ing, they will lose their customers, and It will not le chs.v to get them hack. The wheat raisers in the Hakotns and Minnesota who raised a little high grade hard wheat this year resent Jhe proposition Of the millers. They say the price of their grain Is 16 or 17 cents a bushel above the Canadian prie, and that the lower priced grain should not be let in to compete with theirs. They are willing, n order to sell their small harvest of superior grain nt n higher price this year, to destroy the ex port trade In flour, anil thereby Initire themselves permanently. Their policy Is a shortsighted one. The question of the legality of the plan which Is urged by the millers has been re ferred to the attorney general. If he should see no objection to it the secretary of the treasury should not delny putting it In operation. Then the market for Amer ican flour will be retained and the price of wheat maintained rnther than depreciated. l'F.R?OXAl, SOTES. As In the case of M. Twain, the story of Kurokl'a dentrt turns out to have been "txagge rated." A pension has been granted by the gov ernment of Sweden to Pierre Ibsen, brother of the dramatist. He is a lighthouse keeper. Colonel Watteisnn writes from Paris to say that the city is not so gay and festive as It was when he knew it In his earlier days. Perhaps the colonel has n little toui h of anno domlnl. The statistics showing that there are fewer women than was thought In the t'nlted States Indicate a shortage in the sweetheart supply. Let us trust that there will be no squeeze. Judge A. B. Dlssette retired from the common pleas bench of Cleveland last week, his ttrm having expired. He In tends to devote tho remainder of his life to giving legal advice and aid to those who ore unable to pay for such service. E. "W. Hoch, governor-elect of Kansas, published the following notice on the first page of his paper, the Marion Record, last week: "As the editor of this paper will leave Marlon temporarily In a few weeks, he Is especially anxious to settle up wltfi everyone who owes him and whom he owes before ho leaves. Won't all our debtors kindly respond to this request at once? We are sure those we owe will! K. W. Hoch." A HANDSOME CHRISTMAS PR.ESENT f i No Holiday Gift Would Be More Welcomed We also carry a complete line of electric gas and com bination fixtures. ' The F. M. Russell Fixture Co. 313 South 15th5treet. Hill Mm i k A MATTER OF HEALTH N lit Absolutely Pure im no SUBSTITUTE "(ID I FIX. Mistrras If you want eVgs to keen they roust be laid In a cihiI place. llrldget fH II mlntlon it to the hens at wanst. Mum. New i ork Times. Little Clara Mother, tell me a fali v tut. Mrs. dayboy (glancing at the clock Walt until your father comes home, dear, and he will tell us both one. Modern H.f clety. "Mike," said Ploddlnu Pete, "what would on do If vou was rich?" "Well," answered Meandering Mike, ' I'd ...... 111. !.. I... .I..n lib., ImI rxf .),.. ri . Illvro t IT- lllllll lirr n ... ...... . rich folks, an' be wondrrln' whether si y mm'ciii im II It'! " r- n-,,.M changed on the stren'th of my signature." Washington St'ir. llamoole observed the suspended sword. "I'm not a bit afiald." he announced; "I have a sure cure for foiling hair." And with a hopeful gleam In his eye. tenderly patted his bald spot. New York Sun. "Mnrnliiff sir. "MnrnliiK. What can I do for you?" "You told me. sir. when you hired me months ago for $10 a week that as soon as I showed signs of improvement you would raise my pay." "That Is still my Intention, sir." "flood morning, sir." "Good morning." Baltimore American. "Whew:" exclaimed the first Tdsson. "weren't those sparrews mad when I swiped that grain of corn from them?" "I should say." replied the other. "Talk alHiut your small hot birds.' " Chlrag Tribune. A CHRISTMAS FOI.KM05IG. Paul Iwrence Dunbar In the Century. Ie win' is blowln' wahmah, An' hit's blowln" lorn the bay; Dev's a so t o" mist a-risln" All erlong de meddah way; Dev ain't a hint o' frostin' tin de groun' ner in de sky. An' dey ain't no use In hoplu Iat do siiow'll 'nienee to fly. It's goln' to be a green Christmas, An' sad de day fur me. , I wish dls was de las' one lJul evah I should see. Dev's dancln' In de cabin, liey's spahkln' by de tres: But dancln' times and spahkln' Are all clone pas' fur me. Di'j it feastln' lit de big house, Wld all de wlndahs wide Is dat de way fu' people To meet do Chrlstmastldet v It's goln' to be a green Christmas, ' No mattah what you say. Dey'a ua dat will remembah An' grieve de comln' day. Dey's des a href o' dampness A-cllngln' to my cheek; De alh's been dahk an' heavf An' threatenln' fu' a week, But not wld signs o' wtntah. Dough wlntah'd seem nn dean De wlntah's out o' season. An' Christmas eve Is heah. It'a goln' to be a green Christmas, An' oh, how sad oe day I Oo ax de hongry chu'ehya'd. An' see what hit will say. Dey's Allen on de hillside. An' Martv In de plain; Fu' Christmas was like springtime, An' come wld sun an" rain. Dey's Ca'line. John an' Susie, Wid only dls one let"; An' now de curse 1a comln" Wld murder In hits bref. It's goln" to be a green Christmas, Des hyeah my words an see; Befo' de eummah beckons Dey's many'll weep wld me. i if you want to read with the greatest ease and comfort you should have one of our Artistic Reading Lamps Gaa or Electric We have the finest line of these lamps ever exhibited In the west. Everyone of them a work of art, everyone the embodiment of graceful outline and perfect proportion. An endless variety ot styles and materials polished bronse, corroded hrorue, porcelain, polished brass, Venetian Iron all In the most pleas ing designs and at reasonable prices. Sweet memories come , . back to her and occo Ghocolaies Make them sweeter. 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