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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, rKUKTAHY 15, 100.". The Omaha Daily Dee. K. ROPEWATKH. EDITOR. ITHLIiJIlED K VERT MOKN1NO. TERMS OF St BSCRIPTION. Imly He, (without Sunday), one year.MJIO ImIIv He and Sunday, one year " illustrated Ueo, one year , J, Sundiiy R.e, on year , JJJ SsturSay Be, one year f JJ, Twentieth Century Farmer, on year... i-w DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Unlly Re (without Sunday), per pPjr1:''iiS J'ally Kee (without Sunday), per '!, I7n 1'slly Bee (Including Sunday), VT weK"'i2 Huriday Ree, per copy llilw ? Kvning lit (without Sunday), per wees. lo tverilng Roe (Including Sunday), Pr12c 'omplalnts' Vf VreguYu'fitiei 'in a""vfl"y. should he addressed to City Circulation De partment. OFFICES. Omaha-The Bee Rulldlng. ., , Houlh Omaha-City Hall building. Twenty flf'h and M streets. Council Bluffs 10 Pearl street. 'hl'-aao-KHfl fnltv building. N"w York 2S2 rrk Row building. Washington Jl Fourteenth street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to new; and edi torial matter should he addreaaed: OmM Bee, Kdltotisl Department. REMITTANCES. Rrnilt hv draft, express or postal order, payable to Tha Ree PuMlshlng Company. Only I-oent stamp received In payment or niall account. Feraonal rhecka. except on Omaha or en merit exchange, not accepted. TMR BEE PIRI,1RHIN COMPANY, STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Rfntc of Nebraska, noiiglaa County. ss.: feoiBa R. Tsschuck. secretary of The B Publishing Company, being duly sworn, any that the actual number of full and complete contra of Tha Pally. Morning. 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What would happen If that parlia mentary committee should some day And another fluy Fawkes in the cellar? When they have I'clow ro tempera ture In Oklahoma ond Texan, we do not mind a drop of 10 telow In Nebraska. A more systematic and less sympa thetic, distribution of relief to the poor of Dongas county has been a lotiR-felt want. The city council Is wrestling with the problem bow to All an Impending vacancy In its own membership before there is a vacancy."'' ' Kansas calls upon IjiwhoIi to help It fiKlit the 8tandanl Oil company, but so far has not designated the miignz'ne for which It desires him to write. the ha e- rnnni CM The address delivered In New York on Monday by President lloosevelt, In which he discussed the race proWem In the south, was one of tlie most important uttcranepg made by ihe chief esecullvn and will command the enrncat atten tion of the country. The keynote of the address was a plea for fairness and jus tice between the races, A policy of hon est treatment of the Inferior by the su perior race. He declared that the prob lem Is that of "so dealing with the man of one color as to secure him the riglits that no one would, grudge him if be were of another color." He urged that to solve this problem it Is necessary to educate him "to perform the duties a failure to perform which will render him a curse to himself and to all around him." The president expressed the opinion that the north should appreciate the difficulty of the problem and sympathize with the embarrassment of the south In dealing with It. He said that the atti tude of the north toward' tlA? negro Is "far from what it should be and there is need that the north also should act in good faith upon the principle of giv ing to each man what is Justly due him, of treating him on his worth as a man, granting him no special favors, but de nying him no proper opiortunlty for lalmr ami the reward 'of labor." President Roosevelt's dominating thought was fair and equal justice to all. The effort should be to secure to each man. whatever his color, equality of opportunity, equality of treatment he fore the law. This statement of a fun damental American principle absolutely essential to the preservation of our Insti tutions, It is to bo presumed will le ac quiesced in by all of our people who are not tinder the influence of a prejudice against the colored race. Speaking not as a party man, but as a representative of the whole people, Mr. Roosevelt urged that "to deny any man the fair. treat ment granted to others no better than he, is to commit a wrong upon him a wrong sure to react in the long run upon thoae guilty of such denial." What is needed, In the view of the president, is such an adjustment of the relations between the white and colored races as will not abridge or Jeopardize the rights of either. He thought that the working out of this problem must necessarily be slow, but he believed that It could be solved through the application of the principles of elemental Justice. The solution may be long deferred, bnt It. is possible of attainment and alove all else "we need for its successful solution the sober, kindly, steadfast, unselfish performance of duty by the average plain citizen in his every-day dealings with his fellows." President Roosevelt's address was a conservative and statesmanlike discus sion of one of the most important and vital questions confronting the country. Tt will not. satisfy everybody In his own party. It will probably not be accept able to a majority of the f eople 6f the south. But It will very strongly appeal to the fair-minded and unprejudiced opinion of the country. will of course count in favor of the gov ernment, though It Is by no means cer tain that it can 1m made available to avert the dissolution of Parliament and a general election. Perhaps the strong est influence In behalf of the government la recognition of the lmtortanee of the ministry remaining in power during the continuance of the war In the far east, so that Japan as Oreat Britain's ally shall get fair treatment In the terms of peace. The Balfour ministry can be de petMled Umn to safeguard Japanese in terests, having made the alliance with the eastern power, and this a new cabi net might not do. It is this considera tion quite as much a any other that gives Interest to the preseiit session of the British Parliament. If Representative AValmsley of Mis souri changes his vote often enough he may yet have the honor of first naming the next senator 'from Missouri. Massachusetts newspapers are protest lug against a repeal of the natloual bankruptcy law. tint west the fact that therels such a law has leeii almost for gotten. . Europe may be ahle to palm oft spuri ous art on America, but when It comes , to unloading spurious Industrial securi ties and mining stocks America can more than play even. Unless all signs fall the flood of legis lation at Lincoln will reach high tide the last of next week, when the fortieth day of the session closes the gates against the further introduction of bills. That Colorado county clerk who es caped from u constable when on the way to secure a ballot box may have desired only to throw the peace officer off the scent until he found out what had been done to the ballots. New York democrats are speculating as to the successor of Kavld Bennett Hill, which would Indicate that some New York .'. democrats have persuaded themselves that he would leave some thing to succeed to. Kugfiuul expresses surprise to learn that the president has decided not to present the amended arbitration treaties to the other contracting powers. This is not the first time an American states man has surprised England. The dcUlon of Japanese naval officers to Are on any collier found with Russian warships, regardless of nationality, may be Ihe means of spreading the tone of war, but it la far more likely to cause a shortage of coal In Russian bunkers. Russian employers and employes are to ctlect a Joint commission to settle labor troubles, but If they do not couforin to the' ideas of the bureaucrats it is prob able that some ulterior political design will be discovered In the findings which will nullify the entire proceedings. King Edward and President Roosevelt should feel a degree of sympathy since each has a lawmaking body "on his bauds." The chief dlfferem-o la that the king la expected to look pleasant no mat ter what happens, while the president Is given the privileges of expressing his feelings. It was to have been expected that the railroad lobby would opitose ajl leg lalation that tends to do away with re bales, drawback end other methods by which special rrHU?ges are granted to favored shippers la exchange for no litlcal support, but why should the legls lature-aUew Itself to be Influenced! THE PRIVATE PF.XSION FLOOD The present session of congress will surpass the record of any of its prede cessors in the passage of private pension bills. It Is thought that the number of these bills will be fully 3,000 and may perhaps exceed that number, which would be nearly twice as many of such acts as the previous highwater mark. This large drain upon the national treas ury Is a matter In which the public gen erally has perhaps taken too little inter est, though It has not failed to receive some attention from the press at every session of congress. Tills, however, has failed to have the desired effect of check ing the introduction of these bills. Unquestionably some of these private pension measures are meritorious, but it Is a well-known fact that a considerable number of them are uot and that if the proper consideration were given to all these bills many of them would be re ected. This has repeatedly been pointed out by members of both houses of con gress, but apparently without making any impression, since the flood of private pension bills continues to grow. The number already passed at the present session will add very materlnlly to the demands upon the treasury and will eon- stltute no small part of the expected deficit. AS TO THE ritoruSF.D WAQQX BHIDOF. OMAHA, Feb. 14, l!. To the Editor of The He: A week ago It was announced from Washington that the committee of the senate, which has under consideration the granting of a charter for a wagon and street railway bridge ncroaa the Missouri river, bad reported against the passage of the bill on the strength of arguments presented against It by Senator Millard. Thla la a project In which the people of Omaha and Council Bluffs are vitany ln tereated, but up to this time The Bee has said nothing editorially to Indicate whether It la In favor or against the proposed Im provement, we always look to The Hee to aland up for Omaha and want to know Just where it stands on the bridge hill. J. R. The Bee lias always favored every project and every enterprise calculated to promote the growth and welfare of Omaha, and especially every project that ould Improve the facilities for bringing Onmha in closer relation to the people of Council Bluffs and western Iowa. Before encouraging or endorsing any ncasure that Involves the grant of spe cial privileges to public carriers, It must, however, have assurance that the enter prise Is bona fide in other words, that its promoters are in condition to carry It to successful completion. It will be remembered that a charter was granted by the last congress for the erection of a railway and wagon bridge across, the Missouri , between South Omaha and Council Bluffs, adja cent to Lake Manawa. Against the grant of this charter The Bee made ear nest remonstrance on the ground that no tangible proof of ampis financial backing had been furnished, and there was moreover a well grounded suspi cion that the object of the promoters was simply to procure a charter for speculative purposes. The sequence ha9 fully sustained those suspicious. Whether the promoters of the proposed charter mean business or whether they simply want a charter to sell, either to a "new company or to the existing com panies, is not clear. It has been barged by the opponents of the bill that the Incorporators of the proposed 1 new bridge are not rated altogether as commanding more than $.1,000 of capital. On the other hand, it is claimed that ample capital is ready to embark in the enterprise as goon as the charter Is granted, v, . f. , It Is a serious question whether con gress would be Justified In granting new bridge charters without some guaranty that the projected improvement will le made and completed within a reason able time. This Is doubtless the view that has Inspired the senate committee la making an unfavorable report. THE BHITISH PABLlAMF.ST. With quite the usual ceremony and celebration the British Parliament yes terday eutered upon Its sixth session during the reign of King Kdward. The speech of the king was Iti about the usual vein, little mure than a statement of facts, without any special indications of governmental Intentloua or iollcy this ordinarily perfunctory proceeding was varied slightly in the present In stance by the announcement that the Balkan situation Is a sonruetof anxiety to the British government 'and also to the expression of a hope for Improved conditions In the Transvaal. This session Is spoken of in Loudon dispatches as perhaps the strongest of recent years. The ministry which started this Parliament with a majority of 134 now has a nominal majority of only 87. That majority, may vanish In a moment at the will of a man who is not a minister. It is said that if Mr. Chamberlain should say dissolution It will certainly come. In view of the fact that the lender In the cause of fiscal re form has publicly declared that dlssolu tlou cannot come too sooiv, It Is the lm presslon that It will come and that there will be a general election within a few weeks. . The government's program for the session, tt Is remarked. Is singularly uuexcltiug, consisting V hietiy of tin anil Immigration bill, a rVottlsh education bill, another workmcu's comiwiisatlon bill and a bill to facilitate an appeal I criminal cases. It Is not ou bllU, how ever, but on the budget that the session hangs. Britivb trade la said to 1 reviv tug. so that there la le danger of deficit than has len apprehended. Thi ferent thing from what It was even a quar ter of a century ago. The many new In ventions of thla age of progress will aid greatly In checking the present drift to cities. Shrewd lorea for the Poor. Ronton Transcript. Mr. Bryan's wish that the democrats should help President Roosevelt seems to be bused on his calculation that by so doing they will help themselves more, rather than on any suddenly developed ad miration for the chief executive. Washington Post. The Standard Oil company has dis charged WO employes In Kansaa on account of action by the legislature adverse to the trust's Interests. The surprising feature is that the company Vented 1t aplte upon Its employes Instead of discharging the legislature. getting; a (Jood Eiample. Chicago Record-Herald. Congressman Hepburn of lows thinks there will be a bloodless revolution in this country unless some of the captains of in dustry go a llttlo slower. Perhaps it would be well to have a bloodless revolu tion here some time Jusf to set the 8outh American repuhllra a good example. A Senatorial Joke. Springfield Republican. The petition for the expulsion of Senator riatt of New Tork from the senate, which a Michigan manufacturer has sent In. will be regarded ae a Joke. One can Imagine Mr. Piatt's face cracking Into smiles, an he reads It. Vet the petition, novel aa tt ia, probably has a very" pertinent bearing upon the queatlon of the senator's real constituency. The Michigan- man prays that Mr. Piatt be expelled because he la In a conspiracy, as president of an express company, to kill all bills coming before congress looking to the establishment of a parcels post system. Conspiracy or no con spiracy, every one understands that Mr. Piatt represents the express companies in the senate. PF.RSOfll. OTK. The Dark Side Ptrtared. Philadelphia Ledger. The statistic! of crime are depressing, yet the criminals form a very Inconsider able portion of the population. Crimea are a matter of record. They figure formidably, In the census returns. The virtue of a community is not computable. It diffi cult to determine whether thert is more crime relatively to population now than there was 100 years ago. We know that more publicity la given to crime in these days, owing to the wonderful activity of the newspapers and modern facilities for gathering newa. We hear more about crime and criminals than our forbears did. Honesty and fidelity are expected of men and cut little figure in the publio prints. For this reason exaggerated importance Is given to crime and the unthinking are persuaded that the world is grow '-ia- worse. HOW TIMES IIAVR CHAXGED. Re- Sylvester Scovllle. the newspaper man who achieved notoriety at the surrender of Santiago as "ih man who struck Shatter," died In a hospital In Havana lust Sunday. Kraalus O. Wolcott. a policeman at tached to the Oak street station. New York, has amassed a fortune of over $1'0, ( In eight years, and no one thinks or Intimates that thete Is a penny of graft in It. Word comes from Chicago that the mi gration to Rrltlsh Columbia seems to have turned about nnd to be heading now for the southwest. Nothing surprising In that at thla time if the weather reporta are to be believed. The Kenmot-e estate near Fredericks burg. Va., at one time the home of Betty Lewis, the sister of George Washington, now belonging to the estate of W. Key Howard, has been bought by Clarence R. Howard, one of the heirs. James Riley, a veteran waiter of Sacra mento Cal., died the other day, leaving a bank account of several thousand dollars. It was Riley's boast that though he had been a hotel ,and restaurant waiter many years, he never accepted a tip. He used to say that when his employer refused to give him enough montv to keep him above "that sort of grafting" he would go into some other work than waiting on table. In an address the other evening Governor Herrlck of Ohio showed that one feature of the cares of office haa Impressed itself upon him fully. "Th man In public of fice," he said, "and the editor In a news paper office are much alike In one respect. The critic of a newspaper Is St all times ready to admit that he could do much bet ter than the editor. It ia very easy for the citizen, while not wearing the often galling harness of respectability, to call down hla editor or his representative In public office, viewing, as he does, their acts only from his own standpoint and environ ment, not appreciating, becauae ne does not take the time to make a study of the situation and all that surrounds them In their positions." The only explanation that is made by the supporters of the Dodge water bill of the provision authorizing the water board to Issue a mandate to the mayor and council to levy n hydrant rental tax of $100,000 a year Is that it will compel parties who pay no water rent to con tribute their full share toward the ex penses of fire protection. While there may be some semblance of Justice In such a tax levy upon the owners of fac tories, warehouses and dwellings that get their water supply from artesian wells and ordinary wells, It should also be borne In mind that It will Impose taxes on property owners who pay for water and who, moreover, will be com pelled to pay their share of $."7,000 a year of taxes which the water company now pays after the city shall acquire the works. Conceding that the com plaint alout excesalve hydrant rentals Is Just, where will we get the relief If the hydrant tax is to be kept up? And now It transpires that the bills to save the people of South Omaha from going to the exense of a special elec tion, or being put to the trouble of ex pressing their wishes with regard to the proposed Issue of $2."0,000 of sewer bonds, is. In reality, au attempt to abro gate a contract now in force between the city of South Omaha and the atock yards company, whereby the latter had obligated Itself to pay one-half of the cost of sewers to be hereafter con structed. This may explain whr a bond election is not so much desired as a bond Issue without the aid or consent of South Omaha taxpayers. Modern Legal Kthlos Call for strlctlve- Legislation. Philadelphia Ledger. Western newspapers are giving much at tention to a bill which haa passed the Mis souri house of representative providing that any person who solicits a law suit I against another shall be guilty of a mis demeanor punishable by imprisonment or line. The legislation is aimed particularly at lawyers who solicit business and who arc known In this portion of the country as "ambulance chasers." The west has Its own vernacular and characterises the Mis sour', measure as the "anti-snltching" bill. Those who are Interested In terminology are Informed that Jhe western "snitching" lawyer la the counterpart of the "shyater." The "sultcher" has tiocomt ao obnoxious In Missouri that it Is thought expdient to brand him as a criminal. The old common law of barratry, or the bringing of unjust and "vexatious" law suits, is a statutory . offense In all the states, but the law la rarely enforced and is practically a dead letter. The snitch ing" or "shyster" lawyer who encourages law suits trmy be technically exempt from the penultles against barratry. Missouri is probably the first state which haa at tempted to reach huckstering attorneys by special penal legislation. The modest "shingle" beside his office door was the only form of solicitation practiced by the reputable lawyer of the old school of legal ethics. Foraging for clients in person or by authorized agent has always been re garded as-hlghly unprofessional, but It Is doubtful whether the "Shyster," unre strained by ethical 'considerations, can be reached by a penal statute. Several very appropriate amendments to the Indian appropriation bill have !een made by the special committee of the United States senate. One of these directs the secretary of the interior to vacate and cancel all leases for Indian lands heretofore made wheu he is sat isfied that they were secured by fraud or for an Inadequate consideration. We apprehend the secretary will have no difficulty In discovering quite a number of such lea ses within the territory ov ered by the Winnebago and Omaha reservations. tin Sore Spot Revealed. Nw York Times. The house of representatives has some times sunk as low aa It did when on Thursday It passed the president's railroad rate bill by a vote of tX to 17, but ia has rarely If ever sunk lower. Haral Chances for tha Metier. New York Tribune. Farmers in the middle west are begin ning to appreciate the advantages of ilio motor car. and their orders have given an exceedingly optimistic turn to the automo bile market. With good roads, which will be a necessity In every farming community in the near future, an automobile, rural free delivery and the telephone, farming life in America will soon he s vastly dlf- CHRISTIW SClKJlCE 1 NEBRASKA. Pending; Legislative Rill (alia Forth Severe CeaiBte, Chicago Chronicle. No one will conceive any higher opinion of tho Intelligence of the Nebraska legisla ture from the fact that It la making war on the Christian Scientists. What it pro poses to do Is not entirely clear, but the dispatches say that' a bill has been re ported from the committee of the whole which provides that "It shall be unlawful for any person to attempt to cure mental or physical aliments, real or Imaginary, for pay. without first obtaining a license to practice the healing art from the State Board of Health." Thla ia called in the dispatches "a knock out blow for Christian Scientists," probably bees use the stste board, being composed of regular physicians, will refuse licenses to Christian Science haglers. That this Is the expectation is likely from the fact that the bill was originated and promoted by the regular physicians, who crowded the hall of the legislature when it was agreed upon. The Chronicle, without meaning to In dorse Christian Science, characterizes this proposed action of the Nebraska legislature aa oppressive. To require Christian Science healers to take out licenses Is unobjectiona ble, but to require them to obtain licenses from people who are at swords' points with them la aa unjust as If the caae were re versed and the regular physicians were re quired to obtain licenses from the Christian Sciences. The Nebraska solons do not appear to have noticed that this bill will apply, If carried to an ultimate conclusion, to Chris tian mlniaters and to all religious teachers, if not to school teachers and managers of reformatories, as well as to Christian Scien tists. There is nothing more widely be lieved than that sin and Immorality are diseases of the mind. tht religion la the cure for It and that the teachers of religion are the physicians wtio prescribe the cure. Vnder thla bill, if it becomes a law, every preacher in Nebraska who preaches without a license from the state board should be arrested. The truth Is that many physicians prac tice Christian Science to some extent, and one of the foremost physicians In this city. whose specialty Is nervous diseases, makes his boast that he does so. This world Is exceedingly tired of the In tolerance of the medical profession. We do not deny Ihe value of medical science nor the great progress it has made In recent times, bue we do know that It la aa changeable sa the akles, and that with It, as much as with any other science what ever, "the sclents of toduy is the Ignorance of tomorrow." A profession which has In turns pretended to cure everything by bleeding, by purging, by sweating, by cold water, by hot water, by allopathy, hv homeopathy, by eclecticism, hy antiseptics. by sleeping out of doors and by artificial surgery Is in no way to say to anybody: You ate a charlatan and shall not treat disease." SCIEMIKIC BILLDOXINU. Kansas Waters Agitated by an Oat burst of Standard Oil. Chicago Tribune. The Standard Oil company has not for gotten how to administer summary punish ment to those who are audacious enough to question its right to control the oil business of the country. It makes no difference whether Its would-be competitors are prl yate individuals or state governments. The state of Kansas has aroused the en mity of Standard Oil. It Is to be punished. Day before yesterday the state senate passed a bill for the establishment of a state oil refinery. It wiia of the opinion that a little competition would have a salutary effect upon the price of oil in Kansas. The oil wells of the state produce considerable crude oil and a state refinery would have the advantage of having its raw material produced near at hand. Moreover, the state once found that the price of binding twine was high, and went Into its manufacture with most satisfactory results. Legislators argued: "Why not try the same experi ment in oil?" The reply of the Standard Oil people to this effrontery was swift and to the point. It did not send its lobbyists to the senate to persuade the members that they had acted unwisely. It took from Its arsenal the first weapon that came to hand. It Is sued formal notice that instead of taking the entire output of the state as heretofore, the Standard Oil company will take none, The result of this curtailment of consump tion will be no market for an output of 25.500 barrels of oil dally. Aa there are no independent refineries In the state, and as it wijl not pay to ship the crude product east by rail to the independent refineries there, this product will have to run to waste, for there are no adequate storage facilities, of shut down the wells. Even if the state de cide to -establish a refinery It will be some time before one can be started. It Is doubt ful If the oil producers will want to wait that long. Many will be ruined. Perhaps the producers will try to convince the legis lature that the business of refining oil ia full of pitfalls. This is where the real fineBte of the Standard's action is evident. It saves itself the expense of persuading the legislators. The Standard's method of dealing with a presumptuous state should not be called punishment. It la an exhibition of scien tific bulldozing. Mr. John V. Rockefeller, Jr., haa given expression to a beautiful thought. He has said that "the American Beauty rose can be produced In its splendor and fragrance only by sacrificing the early buds which grow up around It." State and independent refineries must be nipped In the bud, lest they blossom Into competitors of that American beauty, the Standard Oil company. BITS OF WAHIGTO I.IFK. Minor Scenes and Incidents Sketched the Snot. M;tir General Corbln draws from his observations In the Philippines certain evi dences In support of his assertion that the marriage of army officers In the minor grades Is detrimental to th service. He writes that nrt' account of the cost of main taining a family complaints have been filed against many officers unable to pay their debts. In his accompanying com ment General Corbln cites an Instance of a captain, who, while en route to his post, with his family, was detained by the Ill ness of a child and for a considerable period his extraordinary expenses by this reason amounted to more than II day. Another case Is that of a junior officer whose term of duty In the Philippines was completed, but who elected to remain there because of the extra pay, which would enable him to reduce his outstanding Indebtedness, described as "the result of sn Improper appreciation of responsibili ties during the first years of service." The department has decided to take no sctlon In the case of officers who are mak ing honest efforts to satisfy their creditors. Senator Dolllver was born in that part of Virginia that afterward became West Virginia. He made a speech near his old home In the last campstgn, and, growing reminiscent, said, with tears in that fa mous silver voice of his: "How well I remember this place! This is where I was born. Over there Is the chestnut grove where I have gathered many bushels of chestnuts. Why, I sup pose when I was a boy I gathered fully fifty bushels of chestnuts here." "Yes," shouted a bull-chested man In the rear, "and you have been peddling them out ever since." BR VAX ON ( ORRI PTIOX. Sal Into Indiana, bnt Strangely Omits to Censure Kentucky. Washington Post. Political corruption In Indiana attracts the special attention of Mr. Bryan, and he flagellates and belabors It with tireless energy. Without special reference to In diana, but in a general way, Mr. Bryan ad vocates an impossible amendment of the constitution, providing for the election of senators by direct vote of the people. This Is one of the remedies he advocates for corruption in politics, and he does well to avoid special application of It to Indiana. for that state has never had a senatorial election that was touched by the breath of acandal or a suspicion of corruption. No state in the union has a better record In thla respect than Indiana. And we may pertinently add that few. If any, states have surpassed the Hbosler com monwealth in the ability and standing of their senatorial representation. Looking at the past, for the present senators from that state are too well known to require special mention, the people of Indiana re call with pride the names of Morton, Hen dricks. McDonald and Voorhees. and have no reason to blush for any of their sen ators for the past forty years. Could election by popular vote have produced better results? And if the state were as thoroughly saturated with political cor ruptlon as It Is sometimes represented to be, would not that vile plague have tainted senatorial elections before this time? But there Is a state Just across the Ohio river from Indiana with whose politics Mr Bryan Is intimately acquainted. He knows Kentucky like a book, but. In hla dis courses on corruption In politics he al ways falls to mention it. And nothing In his publio career more emphatically vindi cate his discretion than hla avoidance of such a mention. For the most outrageous and notorious example of corruption In politics that haa been witnessed In this country for more than a quarter of a century was the Ooebel revolution, which by carefully premeditated force and fraud, overturned the government of Kentucky, putting out the duly elected and putting In the defeated candidates for office. There waa not a decent democratic paper In the flitted States that did cot 1 nounce the villainy of Ooebellam. But Mr. Bryan endorsed It an "regular" and made special and great efforts to pro mote it. This la history, and, with all due defer ence t the msu who has been honored with the presidential nomination of two parties, and who. by virtue of that duplex arrangement, polled In 1K5 l.nnp.ofjo more votes than had ever before been cast for any presidential candidate It Is fitting to remind him of It while he Is leading a crusarte ngulnst corruption in politics. Speaker Cannon received au ardent com munication from n woman in Oregon the other day which has become the subject of correspondence among presidential candidates. This woman annouced her de sire to carry a Roosevelt-Shaw flag to the Lewis and Clark exposition. It would have an inscription for Roosevelt aa president till 190S, when Secretary Shaw should be Indicated as the country's chlce. Mr. Can non was evidently expected to indorse the idea. Instead of that he referred the communi cation to Secretary Shaw, with the rerhark that he had "flushed some very remark able game." The speaker added: "I send this to you In confidence; it would not be pleasant for Tatt, Root and Foraker to get wind of It." Secretary Shaw soon replied, expressing his appreciation of the speaker's confidence. "But," he concluded, "If you have any more of thla kind of game, 1 wish you wouldn't flush it." One man on the government pay roll draws his salary but once In two years. This wonderful officeholder la Congressman Henry of Connecticut, who, when the na tional legislature adjourns on March 4 will receive 110,000, which sum represents his salary for the Fifty-eighth congress. Mr. Henry does not need the money and so ever since the Fifty-fourth congress has drawn his salary In lio.ooo lumps, thereby achieving a distinction never sought, It Is believed, by any other member. There are men in congress, and especially In the sen- te, to whom the 15,000 salary Is a mere nothing, but they draw It monthly never theless. . Senator Money of Mississippi haa a 7- year-old grandson who, though not averse to a fight, sees no disgrace in being worsted when the odds are ciiarly against him. He came home from school not long ago In bad shape. 'You look as though you had been in a fight, boy," said his sapient grandfather. "I have, sir." "And you look as if you got the worst of It," pursued his grandfather. "I did, sir," admitted the bedraggled kindergartner, "but he was a tenner and I'm a sevener." A few days later he waa guilty of some offense which brought him beneath the paternal rod of correction. He showed so little evidence of his fighting blood during the chastisement that his father was both perplexed and disgusted. 'You're a great fellow," he said, "to take a thrashing and make no resist ance." "What's the use," replied his crushed but philosophical son, "when you're a thirty threer and I'm only a sevener?" The proposal to admit Chinese immigrants to Hawaii, which waa agitated in Wash ington last winter and finally reached a stage where the friends of the scheme felt justified In drafting a bill, haa been drawn again to the attention of congress. The recommendations of G. R. Carter, governor of the territory, urging the amendmeht of the present exclusion law so as to permit the utilization of Chinamen as laborers In the cane fields have caused some discussion, Governor Carter declares that the natives will hot work in the fields, and the Ameri cans cannot, hence the preservation of the sugar and rice industries is seriously threat ened by ths prohibition of the Importation of coolies. When the recent blizzard struck Washing ton some of the southern statesmen began to drink apple toddy to keep out the cold. One very distinguished senator drank numerous toddles. Usually pale of face. he became redder and redder aa the toddies began to get In their work, and when he went to dinner hi face was the color of a cardinal's cap. "My dear." asked his anxious wife aa he hove In view, "what makes your face so red?" The distinguished southern statesman paused to reply. He needed an excuse and needed It badly. Then he was hit by a happy thought. He Fifty Yearn the SUndvud : Uado from pure cream of tsrfsr derived frcn grapes. gated anlmstedly out at the swirling snoa and said: "Why, my dear, I hive been sitting out In the sun for sn hour or two." Seldom has such s sartorial symphony It color been observed In the national house oi representatives as was presented . by Con gressman Fred Iindls of Indiana the othel day. A string tie of crimson hsd expansivt bows, one of which caressed the blushing leaves of a crimson carnation, resting se cure in the hoosler's lapel. A mauve wslat coat furnished a striking background, sug gestive of the days when Shattuck of Cin cinnati, now almost forgotten In the retire ment of private life, flashed upon the hous with similar, although more rotund, rai ment. Rut as young Iindls rested philo sophically In his chair, one foot, slightly tilted, revealed a vision of hosiery. That, too, was as crimson as a hsrvest moon. One of the newly rich In Washington hss hanging in the library of his palatial home a water color showing tha little farmhouse in which he was born, together with the surrounding fields and the wood lot. He explained to a party of friends a night or two ago that this, farm was the scene of a lively batt'e In the civil war, and went on: "There It is, aa true to life as tf it were a photograph. It brings tears to my eyes every time I see It. "v-hat is the old farm house, and there are the fields where I worked snd played when I was a boy. Right back there on that hill i where father, poor father, was killed." "Did he die In battle?" asked one of ths sympathetic frienda. "Oh, no!" Said the newly rich; "he fell off a load of hay." WHITTLED TO A POINT. "I listened to your sermon this morning, doctor, and It was tha first time I'd heard you preach since you were our pastor fif teen yearn ago." "Well, well! how things have changed since then." "Really er I didn't notice the chang of a single word." Philadelphia Ledger. g-g-got a s-sp-spare. Stammerly H-h-have y-you q-coupie of hours to T-t-tohrnnson? Thompson Why, I don't know what do you want? Stammerly I'd 1-1-like a t-t-ten m-m-mlii-ute t-talk with you. Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Soma people say iunch' and soma 'luncheon' and yet both mean the same thing." . , ,. "I don't think so. I fancy iunch' Is mas culine and 'luncheon' feminine." Philadel phia Press. Hans Andersen was telling where he got his training for his fslry tales. "I wrote the plausible explanations for the fluctuations of stocks," he boasted. After this we easily perceived the rest was mere child's play. New York Sun. Stlnjay See here, when are you going to pay me back that dollar you borrowed Borroughs Why, man alive, I earned that dollar. I had to work with you for a couple of hours before I got It out of you Phil adelphia Ledger. HERE, TOO, IK A FEW DAYS. "William J. Lampton In New York Sun Swear, and the town swears with you' Don't and the crowd la mad, For the whole town knows In the melting snows That the walking's p. d. bad. Oh, for a flat in some Vast wilderness where snow Is kept alway In a dry frapp Until it Is time to go In a summer rush Of decent slush, And not the kind we know. Slush, slush, slush; Slosh, slosh, slosh. Out of the slush The gutters rush; Into the slosh The gum golosh Ooea with a gllckety-gluck-gsluck. And out again with a sllmery suck. Slippery, sloppery; Drlppery. droppery; Fllppery, floppery; Skippery, hoppery We Jump On a lumo Of snow In a hump TO find that It's only a sloppv slump A devilish, deceitful, damply dump. And we get Our feet wet From the Icy Jet That shoots up our Well, no matter, . , ,, We get the splatter Just the same, And our temper Is hot. Though our feet are not. Ixok at our pants, or skirts Soaked, In the slush that squirts Out of the beautiful, everywhere. Thawing fast In the motty air. Look on us; pity us, . .. Kindly heaven: Ijet us say: "Damn!" And be forgiven. i ill ' l; ' l'i ! 1 J LSV THS D0t( : OArrChsfry Pectoral , mm . . . es e mm nanew wsMAM..sttev K!9 sMn IISIIInM Jim ft4 ltllwa gSW . nMl .leisljins i . w tfM ...( ISnM "I"S IsmiS.i,I Saras L' I fa -... S fi si mamm soaoewpw r" 1 1 1 " """"T Do not undervalue the services of a skilful phy sician. Even the best medicine cannot take the place of the family doctor. Therefore we say: Con sult your physician freely about your case and ask him what he thinks about your taking Ayer's Cherry Pectoral for your cough. If he says take it, then take it. If he says do not take it, then follow his advice. Kade T the t. C. Art Oe., Lewell, Mass. Atse auauaMtiirere ef ATKI'I PitLtVer eosatlaatloa. ATsa-a IA1B TIOOB-For the kalr. ATBft'a ABSAPakrLLA Per tki lee4. TBI"! AOUS CDKX-Por auuru asc
