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TIIE OMAHA DAILY HEE: FRIDAY. DECEMBER SO, 1K)4. Tite Omaha Daily Bee K. ROSKWATEft., EDITOR. PIBIJ8HKD EVERT MmXINO. TERMS OF it-BSCRIPTION. Dally Bee (without Sundayi. one year. .f4.f Illy Ree and Sunday. nn year .! illustrated Be, one year Monday Bee. one year t... SWtuMav Hee. on' rear Twentieth Onturv Farmer, one year.. DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Dally fwithout Sunday), per copy rm'lv Ree fwffnnut Simitari. t-er meek l.i.O .lie Daily Bee inrlu4lng Sunday), per wek..l- Sunday Br. per copy c Kvenlng Bee (without Sunday . pr WMk 7c Evening Bee (Including Sunday, per week 12c- Complaint of Irregularities In delivery should he addressed to City Circulation De partment. OFFICES. Omaha The B" Building. South Omaha City Mall building. Twenty, fifth and M aireets. Council Bluffs 10 Pearl street. :hcago 1S40 I'nltV building. New York a-.1l Park Row bnlldli g. Washington 51 Fourteenth street. CORRE8PCNDENCrc. communication relating to newa and edi torial matter should be. addrers.-d:. Uiuaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Bee publishing Company. Only t-cent stamp rectlved In payment of mall account. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, rot accented. THE BEK PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OP CIRCCLATION. State of Nebraaki. Douglas Countv. ss.: George B. Tiseiiuek. eecrtar of The F Yuhllahlr,v I'nmnuni' l.alnv d 1 1 1 V SWOrn. vi that tho actual number of full and j complete Ci.rte of The Hallv. Morning.' Evening and Sunday Bee printed during ' the month of November, 1W4, waa as fol-. low: 1 81.311 2fl,4MH ,1B0 4... Sfl.sSO 40.8A0 .87.400 7 4O.I0O I B0.8M 1 48,190 10 84.100 It 80.84M1 11 31.4n 13 SM1.4MIO i mjunt IS 3TO,3t If g,3BO . 17, , fiOfv H 3W.340 u ; sw.soo tt, 80.8T0 a 39.BS0 ft z,eoo a ...t,4o 24 gO.BSft 2 3,T0O M 82,960 7 ao.ctoo fa 80.7OO a aoao SO S9.2O0 Total e,WI0 Ltss unsold copies 10,51V Net total sals . '. 40,B14 Dally average oi.MT GEO. B. TZ8C11VCK. Subscribed In my presenre and aworn to before me this JBth day of November. 1!H. (SealJ M. E. HCNOATE. Notary Public. Judge 8fgrs sends compliments of the iMdun to Pass Distributer Ager. 1 v lien ine wpainer roan nun a iook at the attractive faces In attendance upon th Ktf Teachers' convention he re- ' lented. ' The cousin of the earl of Craven, who wan sentenced to Jail for ftaaaultlng an ! InoffenNlve atrangrr, evidently wantetl to iiov true to name. NV.v that, a United States senator has hyix called to explain hlniaelf in Its j.faml fraud eases, (irepon can' no longer : IKk with seorn tiiwn Utah. Farmers in the south who are burn ' lux their -ottou to cnliiince the price ; t-ertalnly hare no rltfht to object to the ' most arbitrary methods of the trusts. 4 noHtj Japanese enipa in me nouin 'Chlnfc iea inay'lK"'eriupIy vldettes lut I BA t,. - m.-,..!.. f...l. . news may be expected from Flong Kong bOjfor Joug. j: .i - - - Kusslt has changed Its commlaslolier In the North sea bearing. ' The czar probably found a mun more dependable to vote "rljiht," no matter what the evidence may show. .Morocco has the satisfaction of know ing that In case of war with France lta people cau retire to the hills and bom bardineut will destroy little but the , property of neutrals. When Vr. Chndwlck arrrUes at his destination he will have so niauy sher iffs to icreet him that he will realize that th husband of a capable woman cannot forever remain In obttourlty. According to statisticians of the Ag riculture department the com crop for the year U worth f l,200,00t),00. And when the proceeds come to be divided thft Nebraska farmer will be pocketing bis full share. . The canons of the ennrcji are tprn'ter, but often as deadly as the cannon r.f war. and they promise to lie li.'ard with no uncertain sonnd If the ohirjrcs against Bishop Talbot are permitted to . come 4o trial. Ilie Real Estate exciiange is eminently correct when It declares In favor of an entirely new city charter but at the rate ' tit which charter revision Is progressing It may take 'steeu years to get a new charter framed. When the Chinese warships , try to I slop the movement of the. Itiptsiau Tes : aels detained in the ports of China the ; world will hao Just how far Japan's ex . ample tut affected the lighters of the j-'lowery kiugdom. V Premier Koerber of Austria has re I signed. He doubtless hud uo desire to (follow In the path of the Hungarian .premier, to whom resignation would be a pleasure If he da ml retire tit the face f active warfare. 1 ! . . -I President McGrecvy says that Cashier Hagerty was to blame for .the O'Neill bank failure and that be Is glad be was arrested. If this story Is told lu court ; the fleeing cashier may be compelled to -t return to protect bis good name. G'eneral Kouropatkln says he wsnts good soldiers. Verily, the day of the "common people" Is arriving in Knasia when the coiumsuder-ln-chlef admits that It requires men without blue blood in their1 veins to win victories. Mouth Omaha la complaiuiug at the ' cost of fending city prisoners for which the contract price Is H'i cents a meal for two meals daily. What would Kouth Omaha do if It had to pay at the rate of jn cehts a day, which it Is costing the taxparrs of louglas county to feed the lntuiHea of Its county ail I SOCTHtHX REPHEStXTATIOX. It apjiears that soother a men In con- grep have come to the" conclusion that the .movement -for-a reduction In the outltern representation In the houe, af feeling the delegations from those lntc whli-h have discouraged the negro !m;)ot or disfraiichisexl the black iitsw, i nolh lug iinfi-e than a threat, ptt v an l si I' ll . It is said that sever il leading scniheni snators and repres Mttiitlvs huVe feen giving the mitt?r cl-ts ni tciitlou since the Intrnductto'i of.'le riatt bill In the senate ntid lime con cluded that there Is no real intention to piif.it legislation, but that the "-eduction biils are to le held over the Itcn.N of t-outiieni democrats to keT. them in line i.ml prevent them from oivim'zed oMvrttlon to certain repub'l 'an lcplsla tlve pifins. v ; - It Is not easy to conipre.ie i.l Imh h'ich reasoning baa been "evolved, since It Is known to .he a fact that the. president has shown more .than a passing sym pathy with the government for reduc tion in representation from states which have cut the, aegro from the bal lot privilege, wlille there Is no doubt that the upjNrters of the movement In the house snd senate are In earnest and will strive" to secure action. Of course there are republican In both branches of congress. w-bo are uot favor able to doing anything and It Is there fore not probable that there will le action at the present session. The time of the session Is too brief and lesldes there Is no necesnity for urging the mat ter at present. It Is two years before the next congressional election. But. It can lie very confidently predicted that the Fifty-ninth congress will take up the question of southern representation snd seriously consider what should be done In regard to It In the states which disfranchise' colored cltixens and yet nsk that they be conn ted In the basis of representation. If there be, as stated, men In the south who think that the introduction of the riatt bill was nothing more than a threat, they will find In due time that they are deluding themselves. The sen timent In the north respecting the wrong and Injustice of the southern policy of negro disfranchisement Is very strong and Is not likely to diminish. The feel ing Is that under this policy the south has an unfair advantage In the repre sentation In congress and in the elec toral college and the demand for the correction of this Is much- more, general and earnest than Is .commonly supposed. That It will very strongly assert Itself In the next congress. If not at the present session. Is not to be- doubted. vyrnyABLB objectioxs. Those who oppose' the proposed legis lation -for federal supervision of rail road rates can offer endless objections, but few of these will be found to be tenable. For instance a prominent rill way president Is quoted as saying that "this, proposal that the government make our rates, If It be carried into ef fect; meaus that all competition? will be done away with, for there can be no competition wheu uniformity Is en forced by the government." Now everyone who; has given Intelligent and careful consideration . to the pro posed plan must know that H-doe not contemplate uulformWy as among dif ferent railroads, but uniformity , as among shippers on' the same railroad. Obviously this would not In the legist Interfere with railroad competition. Its purpose Is simply to compel all.rall roads to treat alike all to whom they supply transportation, leaving each road free to make its own rates, so long as these shall not be unreasonable. The aim is to put a stop to rebates aud dis crimination and to . secure equality, of treatment to all shippers, great ' and small. It Is absurd to say that, this would do away with legitimate compe tition and any competition that cannot be so described ought to be done away 'with.' ; ' . ' . v T. ).,:!!' There has already been offered a great variety of objections to' the' plan for government regulation of railway rates and undoubtedly many more will be presented as discussion of the sub ject proceeds.. Thns far.. however, hardly any o fthem have substantial, va I lie or are of a nature to seriously trouble the advocates of such regulation. I'utll the railway managers are able to suggest a different plan that would be equally ef fective the public will continue to regard with favor the one proposed. COXSISTEXT, lltCOXSIS TESVV. Consistent Inconsistency Is forcibly Il lustrated by the resolution of the Hesl Estate exchange, which 'declare that Its members favor the consolidation of the city and county governments as far as possible, but are opposed to the exten sion of the present city limits for tho puriose of taking In South Omaha. Dun dee, Benson aud Florence until such tlnio as these suburbs desire to le annexed without solicitation ou the part - of Omaha. Suppose the owners of farms and town lots outside of Omaha were constitu tionally or out of pure selfishness op IKised to the merging of city and county governments or any part thereof. - What then? Would Omalia and South Omaha taxpayers He dowu aud wait until they expressed solicitude for a merger, or would they contend that the object of government Is to give to the largest num ber of people the largest share of Irs benefits? Is It supposable that the men who have moved out of Omaha Into the suburban tow us In order to beat their city taxes will solicit annexation, while the property owners within the city lim its of Omaha are compelled to bear the burdcus by which the suburbanites are enabled to secure their water supply, gas supply, electric lights, Are protection and street railway facllltl..' It la 4u;;toe able that the' opuhitIou of subui'U:iu towns who enjoy metropolitan public utilities at the same price, and even at a lower prce. than Omaha Is paying for there municipal facilities, will solicit ru nexatlon to Omaha? lJld i renter New York, Greater C1J- cago, Greater Cleveland, Greater Buffalo, Greater Ietrolt. Greater Cincinnati and all other American metropolitan cities defer the annexation of suburban towns urtll they were solicited by these subur ban towns to do so? Is not the main ob ject of municipal reformers to extend the tax area so as to make all the people who are benefited by municipal Im provements and public utilities sharej proportionately with the property own ers of the metropolis the expense of po lice and fire protection, pavements, road ways, ' bridges, viaducts and all other municipal conveniences? URASD JVRT IX MIXXESOTA. At the last election lu Minnesota there was an overwhelming vote in favor of the constitutional amendment providing for the abolition of the grand Jnry sys tem. The amendment was carried by n majority of 121.UXI and the terms being mandatory, requiring the legislature to pass the laws nex-essary for the abolish ment of the graud Jury, action during the coming sessiou of that body is cer tain. The large vote in favor of doing away with the grand Jury Is significant of the strong popular sentiment against the system In that state and from what Is said of It this can readily le under stood. It. Is stated that in Minnesota the grand Jury system has become little more than a farce. Its general Inquisi torial powers for the correction of abuses and the Improvement of general condi tions surrounding the people have, It Is alleged, seldom 1xon exercised. On the other hand grand juries have been most energetic in presenting and Indict ing for suspected crime. It Is said that thousands of Indictments have been re turned In the last five years and a can vass of the court records when the sub ject was formally discussed before the people, disclosed the fact that, of those Indicted fully 70 per cent were never brought to trial. Under the new system for which the amendment provides full responsibility for bringing to trial per sons suspected of crime or misdemeanor will be vested In the prosecuting attor ney of each county. It will be his duty to sift the evidence of the guilt or In nocence of accused person, to determine whether or not the evidence warrants n public accusation and the formal lodg ment of a charge, and to take all the re sponsibility for haling the suspect Into court. It Is pointed out that the new plan opens possibilities In the .way of corruption, but It Is believed that past ex perience warrants giving It a trial. Doubtless there are otl.er states which have had nn experience regarding grand Juries similar to that of Minnesota, hut they are pot likely. to follow the example of that state and abolish the system. In several states the duties of the grand Jury have In recent years been enlarged. The grand Jury Is a venerable Institu tion, founded under the common law and dating far hack In English history. Un der modern conditions It has been shorn of many of Its . former functions, but It la still, very generally regarded as repre sentative of the people and one of their most valuable safeguards. The opera tion of the new system to be Inaugurated In Minnesota will undoubtedly command wide Interests ' TTHAT WILL TUET TtO' More than a month ago several thou sand people frenzied by sensational aud explosive appeals of Omaha's yellow press met at the Auditorium to give pub lic expression to their pent-up feelings over the explosion durfng the midnlg'it hours of a dynamite bomb, or can of powder, on the porch of the residence of Elmer E. Thomas. The ouly person who was permitted to give full play to his pent-up feelings was Cunningham R. Scott. All other persons who were dis posed to' participate In the outburst ex cept the Ave columblads that had been loaded aud primed by the promoters of the spectacular demonstration were sum marily choked off. Thene live guns of heavy caliber were directed to organise a committee of safety, to be composed of fifty citizens, whose names have Just been promulgated to the outer world. Now that Omaha has a committee of safety we may prepare ourselves for Martllng things. Very naturally people will want to know what the committee of safety proposes to do. Will It resolve Itself Into a vigilance committee, take the law Into its own hands and Inaugu rate a hanging bee and deporting revo lution, or will it simply continue the dis semination of well-defined rumors that have no lietter basis than Idle gossip? Will It endeavor to create a healthy pub lic sentiment in favor of the enforcement of the laws upon everybody whether be occupies an office In the city hall, the court house, an office building or a mer cantile store? Will it prefer to start an other hysterical crusade against vice and crime, and abstain religiously from strik ing at the' tap root by the prosecution of the owners and agents of buildings occupied for immoral and lawless pur poses? The chances are that, like all spas modic and explosive reform movements, the Omaha committee of safety will go up In smoke. And It Is just possible the full membership of the committee will never even hold a meeting. THE EXHXEBA TIOX OF CHIEF DUXAHCE The finding of the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners in favor of Chief of Police Donahue on the charges pre ferred agaiust him by the attorney for the Civic Federation Is a complete ex oneration for that officer. After all the evidence which the parties back of the con plaint were able to scrape up In sup port of their charges was patiently heard and carefully sifted, the board uuiiulmoiiHly came to the condusiou that the charge were uot sustained. Tho charges-hMve uot been sustalued cither In the court of public opinion, which Is as exacting aud more discrimi nating thsu the average court of law or equity. lu the court of public opinion the evidence adduced aguiitet the chief was found to I based entirely uion the statement of penitentiary convicts ' made In the hone of enlisting the Infiu ence of the Civic Federation for their liberation before the expiration of the terms they are serving. Even this un- tnistworthv evidence when analyzed proved to be contradictory and for the most part mere hearsay and rumor gath ered from nameless and nnnamable fel low criminals. This, so far as the charges related to the connivance with or protection of professional criminals by the Omaha police under the chiefs direction. So far as the charges related to the strict or liberal enforcement of the law governing liquor selling and the social evil, no dispute was involved as to the facts, the controversy turning purely on a question of ollcy In the administration of the police department. On this ques tion the board has planted Itself with the chief for a reasonable enforcement of these regulations rather than for the puritanic strictness which the chiefs op ponents profess to desire. All through the hearing aud the evi dence the good faith of the complain ants was constantly called In question. Where the charges were not frivolous they fell completely for lack of proof. The finding and decision of the police board, therefore, will be thoroughly ap proved and acquiesced In by the great majority of Intelligent Omaha people. And now It has been discovered that the decision of the supremo court that pronounces the law authorizing guar anty company bonds for public officers Invalid has vacated nearly every public office In the state because the statute expressly make the giving of a valid bond part of the qualification of the officer. This is really startling. Will they all quit at once ami leave us with out any office-holders, or will I hey hold on a few days longer and allow them selves to Ite rotated out of office by or dinary process of succession? More startling still Is the Inqury, will the In surance companies wliose guaranty wa no good refund the money? The decision ou the validity of the guaranty company bonds for public offi cers recalls the fact that there are ltonds and bonds. It all depends upon the offi cer who is bonded. Nebraska has had state treasurers who could not be de pended upou to go straight had they been bonded by all the bonding com panies In the country and all their friends and relatives to boot, and it has also had treasurers like the preseut In cumbent, although scarce Indeed, whom the people would lie glad to trust with out any bond at all. According to tlip newspapers of Clin ton, la., the .people there are not par ticularly delighted at the efforts of At torney Thomas of Omaha to secure the liberation of a man who was convicted In Clinton and sentenced to the peni tentiary for series of robberies and burglaries committed upon Its citizens. They fall lo.ee.how the cause of re form Is to. iieadvaiMd by exchanging pardons for affidavits and depositions of convicted criminals.1 There Is no good reason way Omaha should not entertain every year a large number' of big conventions not only of state organizations, but of national or ganizations a well. With Its new Audi torium Omaha Is now equipped to take care of the biggest of these meetings, and all It yet needs to put It at the front as a convention city is the successful completion of the hotel projects now In hand. 1 It is said that many court records, carried from the court; house by law yers, were burned lu the Sluux City fire. In some states there is a better rule, which requires the records to be held In public custody and attorneys to take merely certified copies. A Run , for Their Money. Chicago News. President Kooxcvdt la going to make existence us Interesting ns possible for the trusts. This Is a good thing, for the pub lic has proved almost too easy to provide them with amusement. 1 , Ample JuatlBeat Ion. Philadelphia Press. The increase of MM per cent In the num ber of deaths of passengers in train acci dents in 1904, as compared with 1!A)3, cer tainly Justified the Interstate Commerce commission in recommending the compul sory uie of the block aignal system. A New Epoch. Chlcsgo Inter Ocean. New Vear'a day will mark the beginning of a new epoch In the lives of thousands of good men who have permitted them selves to become slaves to the pernicious tobacco habit. The new epoch In many cases will continue until the day after. Distinction and Difference. Baltimore American. A ton of actual copper will bring Juet about the same price In the actual market, whether Amalgamated stock goes up or goes down In the stock hoard listing. There Is, after all, a distinction as well as a difference between copper stocks and cop per. The l.aah aa Reformer. Chicago Chronicle. People are apt to start a little at the In formation that In consequence of the rec ommendation in the president's message the whipping post may be set up In Wash ington, but let us wait awhile and see how It will work. Washington has a large ele ment In Its population which Is addicted to crlmea of a bestial nature and which regards a Jail sentence as a picnic. It feara nothing but the lash, and the la nil perhaps la what It ought to get. Let us r.ever forget that the whipping post has driven almost every petty criminal out of the state of Pelawara. Department that Pays lta Way. Bt. Paul Ploneor Pleas. No department of the' national adminis tration pays its way quit as manfully as does the agricultural department. Congrats ha i recognised thia fact In liberal appro priations. In the bureau of foreatry alone, according to Secretary Wilson's report, thett appropriations have permitted in sis yeara a alxttt-nfold Increaao In the working force and a twelvefold Increase In expend! lurea. Yet a aingla discovery mads by the bureau and r.ow applied to the production of turpentine la affecting an annual saving equal to the tutal expeudltute of the bu reau fur Mix yeAra. The department Ik the fBinuiV Alladln's lamp. Hull It and III genii produce anything called fu r JPS HOLD OtTt One of the Prehlema I pon Which the rteanlt mt War Hlnaea. The war correspondent of the Ixindon Mall discusses In a recent letter the ability of Japan to provide the means and bear the burden which a prolonged war In volvra. The resources of Russia are vastly greater and Its prevent determination to continue the fight to a successful finish resolves ths contest Into one ft endursnce. "Can Japan hold out?" therefore Is question of present Interest, which the Mali correspondent discusses with clearness and candor. He says: At the beginning of the war many Euro pean traders In the far east declared con fidently that Japnn would repudiate Its national bonds within six months. Others who professed to have Inside Information were equally sure that the government had accumulated sufficient secret reserves to meet the cost of the war for at lenst eighteen months without outside assist ance. Both were entirely wrong. Japan hss so far shown a surprising ability to bear the monetary burden of the war. yet this bur den is proving Itself very heavy. The task undertaken by the country was well summed up by Count Okums. tha famous Japanese stateman: "Russia's population said he, "Is two and a half times mora than ours, snd Its revenue and army eight times larger. At the beginning of the war the Imperial bunk of Russia possessed a specie reserve of (n,WViO roubles (80,f.U0.i), agalnit a note Inane of ew.orw.tmo roubles, while the Bank of Japan po.'sesycd KO.nuuu.noi) yen (5,f"O.0noi of ape cle reserve, against over wi,onn ino yen of notes. Jn the spring the poxlllon of Japan was this: It required, roughly. 1.250,000 yen a week to carry on the war. It had a very small national debt, and singularly honest public servants; but the home wealth was comparatively amnll, owing to the simple lives and low standard of living prevailing throughout the country. In most parts of Japan a working-man can live in comfort on a few shillings a month. I have had the salaries of many judges stated to me as 40 a year, and high officials serve the nation for wages which a New York bricklayer would laugh at In acorn. The lives of the people are unelaboratc. Homes are plain and lnex priutlve; the simple articles of diet In uni versal use are amazingly cheap; dress gen ei-ally -Is simple, and, although the Japn neae woman has some very costly artl cles of attire, those articles are to care fully kept as to last for generations. Os tentalou, extravagance and expensive llv Ing are thought bad form. All this Is admirable from the Volnt of view of building up national character. A simple people Is a strong people; but simple lives mean low earnings, end u low earning nation goes into the market as a borrower under a handicap. Some optimists, 1 am aware, attempt to srguo that while living simply the Japanese have Individually con siderable savings. There la one ready test for this, however. While savings and spare capital are abundant, the rate of Interest earned Is low. In Japan, according to offi cial returns, the annual average rate for fixed loans is 10.6 per cent. The low standard of living In Japan nidrd the empire In one way, however. It la probably true that Japan can run a great war cheaper than any other nation on earth. The Japanese business man has too often the reputation of being a trick ster; but the Japanese pubMc servant In his dealings with the nation Is honeat be yond reprnnch. It Is Impossible for one to conceive, a Japanese contractor selling thu army rotteu stores or adulterated provi sions. Japan can feed its army and navy cheaply, and the salary lists of the fighting services are little more than nominal. War came, and with war eume a call for economy. On all sides statesmen and public men appealed to the nation to save, to limit nil personal expenditure and to prepare for hard timea. The people obeyed the advice with great faithfulness. Chil dren starved themselves until they fainted from hunger In school. All purchases of luxuries, silks, furniture and the like ceased In a day. The people saved, but their saving had the Inevitable economic effect. No one bought new silks, consequently the thou sands of silk weavers, save those employed on foreign orders, were thrown out of em ployment. The furniture trade was con tracted, and one lumber district that the year before had aold millions' worth of stuff, now found Itself worthless. Thou sands of workers all over the land found their occupation gone. Half a million man the number Is greater now were withdrawn from active employ ment. At tho same time trades which were the mainstay of whole districts ceased. Thirty thousand Japanese fishermen usually set out In March from the western coast to drag the Corean waters. I -em March the capitalists withdrew their usual offer of loans and the fishermen, when I last heard of them, were staying at home Idle. Tlu great steam mercantile marine which Japan has built up so rapidly was with drawn from commerce to serve for war transport snd the cargo business ceased or went to foreign ships. The government cut down, and is cut ting down, every expense at home. Noth ing Is wasted on the field. Military sup plies are good, and the machines of death are the best the nation can secure. But the accessories of the armies are made In the cheapest . possible way. The khnkl with which the troops were clothed in summer was of such poor quality that it washed almost white by the end of August, mak ing the soldiers clear marks for the enemy. The nation faced the situation clear eyed. While the self-denial months were not wholly wise, other much more sensi ble moves were made. Mon hrought out their family treasures of art and quietly offered them abroad to raise money for the war loans. ' The heavy taxation for war expenses la being cheerfully borne. The government has taken over the tobacco trade, making It a state monopoly, and in the ordinary course of events Is hound to make great profit a out of It. The salt mo nopoly Is slso being cheerfully borne. 'Die surprising thing In Japan just now la the t-mall evidence of real dlstreaa to ba seen. The splendid rice and silk crops this autumn have helped many and they are regarded by the common people as a direct Interposition of heaven on their be half. The expenditure of part of the loan money In the country in the purchase of supplies has also helped. Much of ths clothing and food of ti.e soldiers can be made and raided In Japan, and wherever possible theso are being purchased thrrr. Women, old men and boys are doing the work formerly done by the men now fight ing or dead lu Manchuria. The absence of the former breadwinner at least makes one leaa mouth to feed. J a pun In not t fct ti.e erd r.f l' fln'm. clal resource. The law li likely to be al tered In the Inuucdia'.' future to allow for eigners to own rcul estate within the em pire. This will liable the government to ralsu a loan upon Its railways or to sell them outright. Thu new tobacco monopoly, already nientfi.nt.l, afford-: another tangi ble asset. And tha people arc willing to hvmithe.ala their last national Asset Sii tit veil their laat dmiieatlc helrloimia befurs I liey abandon the flalit. ' tv j am mr -.k.'Vw: aw mret Am w - a t ' a There is a reason, and the best Kind of a reason, why Ayer's Hair Vigor makes the hair grow long and heavy. It is a hair-food. It feeds the hair and makes it healthy and strong. Healthy hair grows, keeps soft and smooth, does not split at the ends, and never falls out. Give Ayer's Hair Vigor to your gray hair and restore to it all the deep, rich color of early life. ate ky the J. C. Ayr Cm . tewell. Ala. maaunuMurars f ATWPS CgT MCTOlUt-r'er costal. ATKK'S BARSAFAJULXA-For ths blooa. OPI'OHllMTV AM) the: ma. Western Trlbate for Hoiint irll "We I.Ike Hla Style." Chicago Kt roid-Herald. In our untutored, uncouth western way let us say that the course of President Roosevelt since he learned unofficially of his election suits tho people of the middle west clear to the ground. His Immediate announcement Hint he would not be a candidate for re-election left him free to attend to the welfare of the country with no harassing suspicion of any further political ambition, and that pleased us all. Still more acceptable was the determina tion, evidenced In his inesxnge, to reso lutely grapple with the ttatisportation prob lems rebates, extortionate or discrimina ting rates, Industrial "roads" and private cars. In this he showed himself both brave aud sane, for the discontent with existing abuses Is so great as to breed disbelief in the power of our government to cope with the evil or distrust In Its willingness to do so. In his attempt to demonstrate that' the government of the I'nlted States Is strong enoiiKh to enforce justice in this vital mat ter, lie has and will have the enthusiastic support of the central west and of its rep resentatives In congress. Astounding as were the majorities by which he was ejected, they fall far short, in our Judgment, of what a poll taken to day would show. And so, in uncultured fashion, we bid him godspeed we like his style. THE STAY-AT-HOMK YOTK. Over Three Million I'ltlaena Palled to Perform Their Dnt). New York World. The total vote for president lu the late election was 13,5UM!. This was 40ti,078 less than . the, vote In WOO, notwithstanding an estimated Increase of nearly 7,000,000 i In population and of 1,4(,000 In eligible vot ers What should the total vote have been In November hsd the Interest of citizens In the result been profound and their preferences between the candidates sharply defined? The fullest vote In proportion to popula tion ever cast lu a presidential election was In IS:, when the ratio was 1 to 5. By this ratio the vote In November would have been 16,600.000. The vote actually polled was 3,002,000 short of this. Just what proportion of these potential but absentee voters were dissatisfied demo crats, disgruntled republicans, disqualified negroes, or southern whites who hud not sufficient Incentive to vote in the absence of a real contest In their utates, there is no trustworthy method of ascertaining. But the fact that more than 3,001.000 citizens failed to vote almost one-quarter of the number who did vote Is a fact that should be a matter of serious reflection to the men who are shaping our national politics and controlling the party organizations. PKRSOSAI, OTKS. Joseph Kournler, the oldest resident of Nashua, N. H.. smokes at the age or ioj nd la spry. He Is so healthy thut all the antl-tobacoo league can say of him la that nothing could have killed that man. Reginald de Koven, the composer and musician, was presented with a nne coin poser's desk last 'Saturday by the mem bers of the Washington Symphony or- hestra, of which he is the conductor. Benjamin Campbell, who has Just berit appointed fourth vice president or tho Great Northern railway, has the reputation f being one of the most progressive traffic men In the west. He has risen to his pres- nt position from the telegraph desk. Isaac Thomas Parker, who will soon be Inducted into office as lieutenant governor f Delaware. Is conductor of a passenger rain running between r'nuaueipnia ana Pelmar. Del. He Is already quartermas ter general on the staff of the present governor. John Jordlaon, pnstinarter at Coalville, la., has written out his resignation lime without number In the last six years, but without avail. No one else will have the office and the Incumbent, under the low, la compelled to remain until a new post master may be found. A Washington (llnputch says that the Stite department, at tha Instance of the Brltb.li government, has Induced Mrs. May brick to abandon her lecture tour of this country. All the dates have been can celled. Mrs. Maybrlck had planned a com prehensive tour, Intending to open at Hart ford. Conn., in the middle of January. She haJ made a lucrative cunt nut with a theatrical agent, and Intended to devote her lectures to a discussion of the abuaea of British prison. FROM THE GRANITE HILLS of New Hampshire comes fcflTTHBA Soft, light, and (HE RICHAROSOI DRUB CO., JACKSON bTTRKKT. DISTRJHITIS9 ASTV BtM.. AYER'S PILLS -For eORttlpatlos. ATSB'S AOUg CDRg-Fot maians aaga. MIMK HAIinOAD KIUIRKS. Kshlblt of the Increased Prodnclan; Capacity of the t nlted States. Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune. The MiitlHtlca of railways, embodied In the report of the Interstate Commerca comiulxsloii for the fiscal year ending June 3". VH. furnish one of the best possible epitomes of the great progress of the United States along all lines of trade and commerce. The llgurs embrace returns from IMft.iVC tulles of railway a magnificent showing In itself the gross earnings for the fiscal year being Jl.WC.tttf .Ml, divided as follows: Freight earnlnas Passeiinei- earnings Miscellaneous earnings ... .$l,3T7.6AO; . R. 42. 314 49.630.471 Total fl.iM6.6iB.KI The average gross earnings per mile. IH.410, exceed the average gross earnings of the previous fiscal year by flR2 per mile, with f:'.6l assignable to passenger and tfl,f!2 to freight earnings. The operating expenses per mile, 1.3TS, exceeded the ex penses of the previous year by .250. ' with the ratio of operating expenses to earnings being 67.75 per cent, the ratio for the pre vious year having been 66.16 per cent. The net earnings of the roads Is re ported at fffl4.2B0.873. The aggregate of all deductions chargeable ugaluat the total la- come was fwi'.nrig, 610, embracing Interest on bonded debt, rentals of leased lines, permunent Improvements, taxes and divi dends. The roads closed the year with ax surplus of tfi2.078.47. having paid out In dividends flsi.4S0.446, an Increase of f23,R94, 13 over the dividends of the previous fiscal yea r. The whole Is a, showing not alone of in creased earning capacity and Increaaed dividends, but of the Increased producing capacity of the Cnlted States and of In creased demands for the product. With all the showing, there are reports of con gestions In all parts of the country, aud of appropriations of many millions- made by the great trunk systems for permanent Improvements, and especially for enlarged1 trackage and terminal facilities. The end of the story of progress no man can fore tell. MIRTIIFI I.R REMARKS. Humane Person Why do horses In the winter flmo? you clip your Livery Stahle Man better chancs to do It then, ma'am. More hair. Chicago Tri bune. Rllklngton- Hadkins Is a great hand to Pilklngton-Well, Banker Beckwlth wnu'lT ; uo a good man to apply to Juat now. Louis ville Courier Journal. "Sometimes." suJd Cholly, "I c.awn't help wnndahing what some of na ah living for anyway, don't you know." Jerusalem:'' exclaimed hla rough old un cle, "do you wonder that only sometimes!" Washington Stur. City Kditor You got Mrs. Uaaaaway'a speech to the Woman's Rights club, didn't you? What did she say? Reporter oh. nothing worth printing. City Kdltor Why, she spoke for more than an hour. Reporter I know but what she said wa quit sensible. Philadelphia Press. He Mole a kiss. "Sir," she said. "vou are no aentlemnn!" ureat Bcott: like a lHdy?" he amtwered, "do I kits And after a further test she admitted that ahe had been wrong. Cleveland Leader. The young woman had refused him. "I never could marry a man of your hub Its." ahe said, "ritlll, I hope you will du nothing dew rate on account of this." "1 don't know." he said. "1 can't promise. Some day I may get drunk enough to com and propose to you again." Chicago Tri bune. "Why do you stand In this one place? ansked the department store attache. "I am watching these people at the bar gain counter getting their change. I never before realized what frenzied financs meant." Washington Star. THK IHISIf VTIOAI. BIHD. T. A. Daly In Philadelphia Catholic Stand- y ard. t li , Good luck to the Aisle, America's bird, ' I i li a l siitniuf it inr uinn u mc itk; Svaif Kaix, I'm not the wan to be aayln' a wo. A That'd ruffle lis feathers. Not me! V I'm proud n' the bird as I'm proud o' ths k'A land, I i An' glad to lie under Its wing, Al t But there Is another bird alquully grand 4; X Whose prals I'm wishful to sing. I"vi, Now let ye not pucker yer face wld a smlla, w "i'is soberest truth that we've g"t ,1 A national bird In the Kmerald Idle ' That's altlly king o' the lot: Ay! "nationul bird." He is certainly that. Though others msv claim him at time.. He's busiest moat wld the fortune of pat At home an' In fur-away climes. ' An', Kaix, 'tis the Irish that lova him ths bst ' An' welcome his favoin the most; The man's not true Irish that has him for gueat W'tiloiit feelin' proud to ha host. Ho reeks out the Irish ruygardlesa of place At homo nr abroad In New Y'ork So here's to tly National Bird of the Ratal Here's "hip hip hurruli!" for the stork: WATER V absolutely pure. SriERUAN t UcCONRELL ORU! CO i 1 I j 1.1 i ft if