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Tim Omaha Daily Bee. E. KOSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVEP.T MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Pallf Em (without fiundavt. on vear.Hm Pallr Bee and Sunday, one ear 00 Illustrated Bee. one year 160 "under Bee, one year t.M) Saturday Bee, on year 1 50 nir.f.tvirpim nr rinmciL rallr Bee (Including flunday), per week. .170 iMlly Bee (without Sunday), per week.. 120 Kvenln Re fwlthmit Knnriavk. n,r week f.c Evening Bee (with Sunday), per week.. .15 Sunday Bee, per copy tc Address complaints of Irregularities In ce- itij v ijiri uiaiiun unci. OFFICES. , Omaha The Bee Building;. South Omaha-City Hall Building-. Council Bluffs 10 Fearl Street. Chlcago-NMO Unity Building. New York IWiO Home Life Int. Building-, Washington SOI Fourteenth Street. Communications relating- to newt and ed- cauurmi iepsriment. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, ".iijib to i lie rjrtj x-iiDllsuins; vomimny. Only 2 -cent stamps received as payment of umana or eastern exchanges, not accepted THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION State Of Kehrnnkft. Hnutf!.. Countv. I C. C. Rose water, secretary of The Ee ""iienins; company, reing nuiy sworn, says .that the actual number of full and complete conies of Tlie Dally, Morning, F.venlng and Sunday Bee printed during the month of November, 1906, was at fol lows 1 31JIOO t SI. HO 1 81.S30 17 81.TTO 1 81.140 81.TRO sn.nTO SO.Hdft 7 8S.I8O 84,in 8 1 ,300 30 81,000 II 81.8MO 12 SO.SoO 13 31.200 14 aiso 15 81.4SO it S3.nno II xn.sso JO 31.300 81. BOO 22 SI. 430 a 32,sno 14 81.M30 IS 82,400 SI.,.. itO.O.IO 27 81,011 3 81,680 23 81.G40 10.... 81,680 Total : Lett unsold copies....... .94,nno . 10,312 Net total salts 036,238 Dally average 81.207 C. C. ROSEWATER, Secretary. Subscribed In my presence and eworn to before me this 1st day of December, 1806. (Seal) M. B. MUNQATE, Notary Public. wiiK.t oct or TOWW. beerlkers leaving- tho city ten pormrlly shnnld have The Bee mailed to them. It It better than a dally letter from borne. . Ad-, dress will be chanced at oftea as requested. How about your Christmas shopping? Don't watt till the last minute. Now, wouldn't boido one like to draw that vacant United States inarshalshlp for a Christmas present? Undoubtedly former United States Marshal Mathews has been a victim of circumstances and there have '. been others. ' Jf the secession of the provinces has . . reauy uegnu in Russia the ciar may find that race antagonisms will preserve his throne. The South Omaha grafters all "staud In. whether they are democrats or re publicans. Graft is not confined to party r creed. ... While all will agree that the currency of the country should be elastic there will be soma argument as to who should ao the stretching. ' Fortunately for tho fuel nnnronrlutlon of the average householder, anthracite coal miners are willing to wait until next spring for higher wages. Since express companies cannot le gally collect money on "c. o. d." eonsla-ii. ments of liquor to Iowa, company agents may una a lnrge part of their work gone. The Interstate Commerce commission Is evidently of the opinion that Jf it had sufficient power it could regulate rail roads, but Is not quite certain how that power is to be secured. Congressman "hacklcford has carried the Missouri tight agalust the "bosses" to the bouse of representatives, but so far he has failed to do more than make the minority ridiculous. For the first tUne lu twenty-five years Mr. Bonaparte is absent from a meeting of the Civil Service Reform league, but he is doing as effective work for the league as at auy time heretofore. The decision that New York ballot boxes ait) not to be eued will encour age Tainmnny Hall, for It Is easier to get the votes Into the boxes than to prove that they are honestly cast The passage of bills for the reUef of postmasters whose eulmrdinates get away with the cash Is uot calculated to make those officials exercise the same care they would lu their private busi ness. With a freight rate on sugar of 24 cents per hundred pounds from Manila to New York western men can see some of the possible effects of making the Missouri river navigable in fact as weU as lu theory. The state coaveutlou of couuty com missioners has debated many problems, but the problem of problems that has come up for solution Is, how to make the railroads piry their taxes without loaluf those passes. The deeleloo that county officials can not use passes and then collect mileage from the state wUl vgo a great way to ward abolishing free travel, as the state of Nebraska pays 10 cents for what the official can buy for 3 cents. If John Sharp WlUlaaoa wants to pre serve harmony among minority commit teemen, of the hens, be will find It ueo e.ry to js?ae r-jt out snan ea each casual rt, for where twe democrats aaet tiara U sore to be a wrangle. T.DCCATIMi THE 1SD1AX The present commissioner ' of Indian affairs, Francis E. Lenpp, has Ideas re- g-ardlng the method that should be rur tied In educating the Indian which If not altogether novel are certainly Inter eUuj(. In his annual report he points out that the Indian has as distinct an Individuality as any type of man who ever lived and In order to Judge him aright we must learn to measure him by bis own standards. Little can be done to change the Indian who has already passed middle life. He Is likely to re main an Indian of the old school to the last. But something can be done with the younger adults, though the main hope lies with the youthful generation, who are still measurably plastic We must educate the-, boys and srlrfs. rather than merely Instruct them, Is the admonition of the commissioner. He thinks the ordinary Indian boy is better equipped for his life struggle on a fron tier ranch when ho can read the simple English of the local newspaper, can write a short letter which la intelligible and knows enough of figures to discover whether the storekeeper is cheating him. Having aciuired this bis time could be put at its best in learning how to do those practical tasks which are likely to fall to him. A like method of instruc tion should apply to the Indian girls. Give them the rudiments of an educa tion and then let them learn the ordinary domestic tasks and duties, so that they may be qualified to take care of a home. This is a common sense view and there can be no doubt 'that had it been adopted long ago the condition of the Indian generally would be better than It is, though on the whole it Is now com paratively satisfactory. Commissioner Leunp has made a moat careful study of Indian character and therefore what he says merits attentive consideration. RtSTMCTlXa COTTOX PRODUCTION. The acreage planted in cotton this year was less than the preceding year and of course there was a corresponding decrease in the ctod. with result In ir higher prices for the staple. The plant ers are advised by the president of the Southern Cotton association not to in crease the acreage next year, It being urged that the present estimated 27,000, 000 acres is sufficient under normal cli matic? conditions to produce enough cot ton to meet the demands of the spinners. It is declared that the legitimate law of supply and demand is the only true me dium of regulating fair and legitimate prices of cotton. The matter is one in which all con sinners of cottou goods are more or less Interested. It Is also one which 1ms a very Important relation to our foreign commerce, in which the exports of cot ton occupy the leading place. It is very probable that the planters will heed the advlcv not to Increase the cotton acre litre, and if so the Increasing demand miiHt inevitably raise the price. If this should go on for a few years the effect would be to make cotton goods almost a luxury, materially reducing the -'t- elgn demand for It and also the home consumption. Then would come a reac tion and in the end the planters would be no better off. Moreover the policy ad vised would stimulate efforts in new fields of production, so that the southern producers might find themselves con fronted with a formidable competition. The counsel of the president of the cot ton association Is of questionable wis dom. TARIFF US PHILIPP1SK PRODUCTS. The house committee on ways and means has entered upon a hearing re garding the question of reducing 'the tariff on Philippine sugar and tobacco. President Roosevelt in bis message and Secretary Taft In his annual report urged a reduction to 25 per cent of the Dlngley rates on those products of tho Islands, all other products to come Into the United States free. The proposed reduction on sngar and tobacco is oi- posed by the domestic Interests. In an interview a few days ago Mr. Thomas F. Walsh of Colorado declared that if sugnr is admitted to the Amer ican market at '5 per cent of tho Dlng ley duty the effect will be to kill the beet augar Industry in his Ktate. .He paid that Cuba and the Philippines could soon produce all the &ugar consumed In the United States and that the cheap labor there would starve the American sugar beet raiser out of business. He expressed the opinion that the proposi tion is merely a design on the part of enormously rich, greedy speculators, who are Milling to adopt any means for the accumulation of more money. They propose to exploit the Philippines for their own selfish euds. "It means." said Mr. Walsh, "the ultimate ruin of an In- dustry that is full of the brlghest prom ise for thousands of Americans. It means that the people of the United States shall pay tribute to a trust for- ever for one of the necessaries of life." He believed that if the beet euxar in dustry is protected against this danger it will aoon be able to furnish chean sugar to the people of this country, mat- lng a home market for home labor and consequent prosperity for all. But If the beet augar industry Is wiped out the Sugar trust wUl repeat in the Philip pines what It has done lu Cuba and every pound of 'augar will be under lu control. The represeatatlvea of the American sugar-growing Interest who appeared Derore Uie ways and mean committee pointed out the great difference in the wage paid in the Philippines and here and declared that the producers In the Islands art not in need of anr assist- anea from congress. Undoubtedly there win oe Heard an eouaUr earnest otmoal. Hon on the part of the domestic tobacco growers, natwitlntsaiiug tL fc-t thai Secretary Taft and others have said that no possible injury ceuid be done to the THE- OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1003. American tobacco Interest by allowing the tobacco of the Philippines to come Into the United States at the reduced rate proposed. President Rmmevelt said In his an nual message: "I do not anticipate thnt free trade between the Islands and the United States will produce a revolution In the sugar and tobacco production in the Philippine islands. So primitive are the methods of agriculture in the Phil ippines, so slow is capital In going to the Islands, so many difficulties surround a large agricultural enterprise in the islands, that it will be many, many years before tho products of those Islands will have any effect whatever upon the markets of the United States." Unquestionably if the proposed legisla tion should be enncted It would be a long time before It would have any ap preciable effect upon domestic interests, but it Is altogether natural that those in terests should endeavor to secure them selves against the possibility of future Injury, however remote, and there is every assurance that they will make a" vigorous fight against the proposed re duction of duties. THS BRA S3 BAXD RETRAIN, A year ago) this winter a traiuload e Bn,,ti. r.. i ii. i j of South Omaha politicians and ward """'in wuu a Drass oana accompani - ment went down to Lincoln to remon- strata aT.in.f iii...i.. strate against any legislation that would enable the people of South Omaha to decide for themselves whether they wanted that town annexed1 to Omaha or not, and they were successful In fright ening the Douglas delegation into cut ting the annexation clause out of the Omaha and South Omaha charters. Since then public sentlmeut in South Omaha in favor of annexation has grown from day to day, and It is ad mitted on all hands that if the proivoal tion for a consolidation of the two cities were now submitted It would cany by an overwhelming majority. The true Inwardness of the brass band demonstration was the anxiety of the South Omaha real estate speculators and grafters to plaster a few more mort gages on the town before they let go their grip on the municipal machinery by which they have managed to filch money from the taxpayers and fill their own pockets. It Is a matter of notoriety that every bond deal In South Omaha has been more or loss tainted with cor ruption and graft. It was perfectly natural that every proposition looking to the issue of more bonds was viewed with suspicion by the rank and file of South Omaha taxpayers and that was doubtless the reason why the sewer bond proposition was defeated at the last election. But the South Omaha grafters and rlngstersare not easily dis couraged. Within less than six weeks after the election they are hard at work to con summate, a scandalous real estate deal by which a site that Is not worth over $7,500 la to be uuloaded upon the city for 115,000 for a city hall. With this end 1n view they have, offered $1,000 to the party that has Invoked the power of tho courts to enjoin tho hsue of city hall bonds as an inducement to drop his suit, and they do not even make a secret of It. "We are working to build up South Omaha," they cry, "and even If there is a side graft In the sale of lots and a rake-off on the bonds, and an other rnk'e-off on the contract for build ing, the town will have something to show for it." This may placate some people in South Omaha, but should uot be sub mitted to by the great body of South Omaha - taxpayers without a remon strance much louder than the brass band that went to Lincoln. And now It transpires that the Doug las county board has not yet adopted the resolution to reduce the price of feeding prisoners in the county Jail from 43 to 30 cents a day, but tho reso lution is still under consideration. Very naturally the question suggests Itself. Why so much procrastination, when the couuty is paying $150 a week more than the city Is paying for tne city is paying ror a like service? Can .anybody stand up and face the i mu . . , i community In defense of this Jail-feed lng graft? The 8t. Louis Board of Education has adopted a resolution prohlbltlnz the playing of Itugby foot ball by students of the public schools, including the high school, either at home or abroad. Thbi is a good beginning of the movement to suppress the brutal sport that has been popularized in the United States almost aa much as bull fighting in Mexico. The executive committee of the Com mercial elub has taken it upon Itself to expedite the removal of Mr. Iler's tenant from the premises he now occu pies. The next thing the executive committee may be expected to tackle will be the more expeditious construc tion of the Her interurban trolley line from Omaha to Lincoln. City officials seem to have had little trouble in finding a way to get around the charter provision prohibiting over laps and transfers of funds, and county officials may be depended on to find a way to get the money to keep the ma chine running. Former Senator Thurston still bat Queen Lll on his hands. Hits time she only asks congress to appropriate $10,. 000,000 in payment of her claims result ing from the peaceful revolution of 1802 and the annexation of the Sand wich Islands. neporta that have reached the Omaha Real Estate exchange aay that the Standard Oil company does not consider a pipe line from Kansas City to Omaha feasible, which, interpreted into plain English, mean that It does sot consider It profitable to supply oil In Omaha by pipe line at a cheaper rate so long as It enjoys the monopoly of supplying Omaha with oil "at any rate It may see fit to chsrge "Ise of the Postal Leak. Postmaster General Cortelyou evidently Is a brave man. He suggests the revocation of the franking privilege, which caused a lost of HS.Sr.Ono laat year. Keeplatr la the Lime Light. Baltimore American. Mr. Fairbanks hat now a fine chance for following the precedent established by Mr. Roosevelt and keep the vice presidential office visible to the naked eye. Sabllme Reaefleener. Chlcaro News. After observing; that Mr. Jerome was getting interested. Philanthropist Ryan de elded that It would be only another benefi cent act for him to answer the questions. Prodnee tho Goods. Chicago Record-Herald. Thomas A. Edison has Just made another of hit regular soml-annual prediction! that the electric automobile Is about to put the horse out ot business. The public has de cided, however, that It will not believe Mr. Edison until he exhibits the goods. Soaring- Cost of Urla. Sonns-fleld Renuhllc&n. I i no cost or living continue! to advance . ai0ng with the feverish prosperity which The cost of living continues to advance , emoracet tn8 country. The one saving fact t0 ' consumers is that foodstuffs are not oing up. But for all commodities thert hat been a marked Increase for the month and a heavy advance over a year ago. Prices now rule the hlsiiost known In twenty-two years. Teaee by Extermination. Chlcag-o Chronicle. "The entire world Is today naturally look ing for peace," says General Horace Por ter. "The only question Is how to secure It" It seems to be the opinion of most of the generals and admirals and of a good many civilians who want things that be long to other people that the only way to secure it is for every country to spend Itt last dollar in setting ready to make a Kil kenny cat fight for It. If they are right the only hope for universal peace lies In universal extermination.' A Snarcestloa for Judge Manser. Fremont Herald. A suggestion to Judge Munger: It Is cur rently reported that the members of the federal jury now on duty In Omaha are be ing supplied with free railroad passes every time they want to take a trip out in the state to visit their families. Now It so happens that the railroads giving these free posses have several Imnnrtnnt nil. pending befork that tame court where those Jurors are icrvlng-. Perhaps the glvlna- of the free passes may not Influence the Ju rors. Perhaps they are built of such mean stuff that they never feel called upon to return favor for favor, as every gentleman should. But all the tame the Herald anr. gests that District Attorney Baxter ought to get his grand Jury buey In thla matter. It has been held by some of the etrons; courts of the nation that the acceptance of a free pass by a Juror disqualifies him In a case where the railroad company it Inter etted. Perhaps a jgrand Jury investigation would disqualify all of Judge Hunger's Jurors. Perhaps the pass business has been so good- that cvorr bis grand Jurors would be disqualified. , Bvt no matter; the Investi gation should be (hade at once, Judge Mun ger cannot afford lo have" his court under suspicion. Everybody believes In him at a man and as a magistrate. It is his duty to seep tne records ,pf his Jurors and court officials at clean as hit own food record. PERSONAL NOTES. Speaker Cannon) says the representative of the Isle of Pines will have the same standing as the Wild Man of Borneo. This assures him a circus Job, anyhow. Garret A. Hobart. aged 19 years, ton of the late Vice President Hobart, has been elected a trustee of the Presbyterian Church of the Redeemer of Paterson, N. J. Hetty Green keept about S0O,O0O worth of diamonds on hand at all times. She never wears any of them, but the knowt that they Increase in value at the rate of I per cent a year and holda them as an Investment. l Some of the most valuable and least sus pected spies that guard the Russian em peror are women of high rank. They fre quent the fashionable salons ot St. Peters burg and Moscow, but often visit the mott distant parts of Siberia, When President Loubet retires from office at the expiration of hit term he will go to his little farm at Montelmlar, whero he will spend most of the year, and the short time he will visit Paris ha will liv. in an unpretentious apartment leased for 11, ow a year. Chauncey Mitchell Depew, Junior repre sentative of New York in the tutted .... m j, , i, nuiea ; States senate, occupies a larger amount of ' , i,,r. m nr amuum or 'Ctr UTT1 ""'T th" any otr mem,r ot cr.gTe.s. Cor,-re.s- man "Tim" Sullivan has the shortu.t bi ography in the book. Congressman Candler of Mississippi. Just at soon as he took the oath laat week, stepped over to the box at the right bf the speaker's desk and dropped In a bill nro. vlding for the erection of a public building in Tupelo, Ml... Thl. is the third time he has done so. and' hi. n.w...nr Has done to, and hit predecessor. "Prl vato" John Allen, did the same thing at each session since he first went to congress twenty years ago. The Leaven of Righteousness "Every man, sinoe .inert came out of tho forest's has seen the compslling power of kind nes worlt its miracles in the world. . . And yet so curiously are we constructed whenever the mu.tard seed of some man's faith in decency does grow in a com munity and blossom there we stand agape at the ancient tin.-worn spec laele.andcall our neighbors to witness the marvel of these modern times." Preface to William Allen White's article on Folk In December McClure's Maga zine. Don't you want to read the rest of it? All news stands. 10a, ILU a year McClure's Magazine tl-60 East Z2d Street New York BITS Or WAIHHOT01 IJFE. ' Minor Scenes and Incidents sketched oa the toot. Congressman Huff Of Pennsylvania Is one of the few men In the house of representa tives who does not worry himself about committee assignments. He knows It does not pay. He had an experience with the late Thomat B. Reed which he passed up to younger members (who sought to Im press their Importance on Speaker Can non. "At a dinner one night," he tsld, "Red asked me In a severe tone of voice If I didn't want to get a good committee assignment to that I could work. "No, I came here to rest," raid Huff. When the committee assignments came out Huff was down as a member of the committee on postoftlcet and pott roads. That year the committee worked four hours every day and the colonel scarcely had time to an swer letters from hit constituents. Mem bers that pestered the speaker got as signments to the committee on ventflstlnir and acoustics. The Oklahoma boomers have set a mark In the line of mascots. At their special train was reelina- alona- over th vr. swept prairies Washlngtonward. the boom ers spied a rasorback easllv trvlnv rvinpln. BI..MB wnn me engineer and keeping up wun me trjin." The bell rope was pulled, the train stopped and the whole croud n off and ran the pIk Into a fence r. ,nj caugnt it. The animal was taken aboard ana brought to Washington ss the hoom. ers' mascot. He It registered at the Ra leigh and hat a room to himself, for which the delegation it paying 2 a day. Over the door Is nailed the motto In big letters, "In Hog Slgno Vlnces." and under this the couplet. "The Queen of the Fays herself might ride on a tweet little pigling Justi fied." Many haul work Ins-, not Intelligent n.nrv. lng, bureau chiefs snend their nir. iim. collecting "papers In reference to a case, commenting with minute eagerness on each. ana corresponding with other officials In reference thereto," says a writer in tho World Today. With many an official the watch word Is a. "clean desk hi. m. In transacting public business is to refer every letter and document to some other official. Instead of doing business, he Is putting work off on others, a iimni. i... of Inquiry to a department has been known to bear on Its face over twenty references before the information desired by a cltlsen was forthcoming. Coincident with this mighty work of "reference," are many, many letters, and wordy letters at that. In each of which the case Is restated In Its entirety. The worst thing that can befall many an ablebodled man, ordinarily industrious. Is to find, on assumins- office, thnt thr i. - stenographer at his disposal. This stenog rapher must be kept busy. It would never do for him or her to be Idle. The official would be false to his trust. So he dlctotes letter after letter, and weary are those wha have to read what Is written at hit dictation. Talk of the congestion of the courts! It Is as nothing wrien romnnpA1 n .. struction of public business due to the fact that the bureaucrat it long on "references" and letter writing and very short on In telligent labor of an expert character. He Is responsible for the prevailing notion that mo lovtrnment serv ce consist. . many cement sockets for an equal number of well meaning persons. If he dared to do so the commissioner of pensions at Washington ....... , . wumpiie a delightful volume, putting therein the strange applications for pensions that como to his office. Some of these letters belong to the "too good to keep" class and they find their way out Into the world, where they add a good deal to the hilarity of na tions. Some applicants for pensions mani fest the most childlike Ignorance regarding the method of procedure necessary when applying- for a pension. They teem to think that all they have to do la to send an application to the pension office and Uncle Sam will forward a check by return mail. Borne go ao far as to send personal letters to President Roosevelt, and the writer has knowledge of at least one ex-soldier who feels confident that he had his pension rls ' from $10 to $13 a month by a letter sent to the, president telling him mat If the pension was not "rlx" by a certain time the applicant would "Jlne the dimmy crats." Soon after the close of the civil war there came to the pension office In Wash ington the following unique and poetical application for a pension that went the rounds of the newspapers at least thirty years ago, for a copy of it is In a scrap book that old: hi3LFJ!!lm'M,on'r .f Pennons Washington. these many years I've tried In vain an honest Pentlon to obtain For wound received In Sixty one at first Battle of Bull Run one of ohioes tons so brave An'S hlLt0rth froJlti the unlon ave Ajid whilst Engaged in above said fiaht a rebel Shell took liulf my sight Not content by taking an Eye this treacherous shell In Passing by took my Eye Brow Clear of the bone and Left me as unconscious aa a stone from Hill. uiiaier 01 urvsial I te.a i rrom tho jaw bone to the Ear thanks to god my life was snared Cheek and Kve hm. hm -i a and one Kve w.. ir t n,. for to wris-ht and read Poetre I hope that with that Eye to see the day when unkel Sam his Cripples will pay. The magnificent railroad terminal which la being built in Washington at a cost of $14,000,000, and which will succeed the pres ent unattractive railway stations in h. Thodore JttT.'h l"U"tr"" Theodore Starrett in the current number national capital, la described and Illustrated of the Architectural Record. According to the writer in the magasiue referred to, "the terminal station Is a monument In enduring- granite to th. Chi. cago World's fair and itt architect. Daniel H. Burnham." The design of Mr. Burnhara hat been to erect a structure which may easily be assimilated, architecturally, with the plan for beautifying the national capl- a pian already under way. EDWARD ATKIKBOX. Hotablo Stadeat of goolal and Polit ical Economy, New York World. Edward Atkinson filled a role for which he has left no successor. He was a na tional mentor whose function It was to cor rect, to reprove and to chasten. Statistics were hit ttock In trade, and pamphlets of which hit output wot prod igious, the vehicles of his propaganda. The frequency with which he was in the wrong- lent effectiveneaa to hit vlewt when he was right. As a student of social and political economy the scope of his Inquiries ranged from theories of banking and the distribution of food products to economi cal jroceaso In household kitchens. Equally with his voluminous works on free trade, the currency question and cotton manufacture, his fuel-saving oven Is a monument to the variety of hit researches. Yet it Is in his controversial writings and advocacy of the Impracticable that Mr. Atkinson perhaps served bit highest use fitlneaa. To the support of unfeasible projects be brought a convincing logic and an attractive etyle. What In one of lesser gifts would have been merely the crotcbeti If a crank he dignified with an art that almost persuaded. With all his fouiia he had moral courage and moral courage It la sufficiently scarce In this country to atone for all manner ot ur. onal Idiosyncrasies, i PURS, THE HEALTH Of the Whole Family Depends Upon the MILK SUPPLY; o)iyjj(iyj Brand Condensed EUHQEL.GC Sold Ever ywhere; Better and Safer than Fresh Milk Borden'8 Condensed Milk Co. NEW ANCIENTS OF THE SENATE. Tenacious Orlp of Members of tho Vpper House. New York World. Senator Proctor's determination to resign In 1909, two years before his term expires, may be the result of political heredity, lie succeeded George F. Edmunds, who had resisted because his Intimate friends had passed out of public life and his official duties had becomo irksome. Advancing years can hardly be the reason for Senator Proctor's proposed retirement, and his friends are all clinging tenaciously to public life. Although he was born In 1S31 and will be seventy-eight years old In isos, nobody would regard seventy-eight ns.an advanced age for a United States senator. Justin 8. Morrill, who came from Mf. Proctor's etate, was eighty-eight when he laid down the burden of life and duty. That lusty youngster, Edmund Winston Pettus, I sstlll representing Alabama In the senate. He was born back In 18a, while 1 James Monroe was president, and his term does not expire until 1909. He Is ten years older than Proctor. His colleague, John T. Morgan, Is even more youthful, for he was not born until 1824, snd consequently is only 81 years old. Uncle Shelby M. Cullom of Illinois, who has been looking like Lincoln for the last four decades. Is two years older than Mr. Proctor, and does not regard his senatorial office as especially burdensome. William B. Allison of Iowa. Is nine months older than Mr. Cullom and outranks sit hi. colleagues In point of continuous service. Even Senator Piatt and Senator DeDew are not much younger than the senior sen ator from Vermont, for Mr. Piatt was born In 1833 and Mr. Depew In 1831. Henry M. Teller is a year older than Mr. Proctor, for he was born In 1830. He hat been repre senting Colorado in the senate ever since Colorad.0 was admitted to statehood except for the three years that he served In the cabinet of President Arthur. In view of the records of some of his colleagues It It not ttrange that In his per plexity over Senator Proctor's curious con duct Senator Allison Is trying to And out what Mr. Proctor Intends to do to amuse himself for the next thirty years after he quits congress. Stirs Soortlnn- Blood. Washington Post. As long as the gambling instinct remaina there thould be no effort to stop the con gressional distribution of free seeds. No one has ever yet been able to win a bet on what will come up after the contents of one of those packages have been planted. Toncblnar sv Tender Spot. Louisville Courier-Journal. A bill haa been Introduced In congress providing that members of that body who travel on passes shall not receive mileage. There Is a legend that a rat without Claws was once introduced in the lower regiona No Secrets To Hide We have nothing to conceal; no secrets to hide! We publish the formulas of all our medicines. You will find these in Ayer's Almanac for 1906; or write us and we will send them to you. Then show the formulas to your doctor, and ask him what he thinks of them. If he says they are good medicines, then use them. If he has anything better, then use his. Get well as soon as you can, that's the point! ran BfllLK! COLUMBIAN Brand Evaporated CREAM YORK. I.IXE9 TO A SXILE. "Whet would you do If the people of your state were to clamor for your resignation?" "I'd profit by the hint," answered Senator Sorghum, "and keep a closer eye than ever on the legislature. "Washington Star. "So that hair-raising detective story of your's didn't go?" "No; the Insurance scandals and the book came out at the same time. The fiction was coo tame." Detroit Free Pre.t. "Awful Jam at Mrt. Blnglobuns recep tion, wasn't It?" ''i'es, it whs. There was such a crowd In the dining room that I couldn't find space to crook my elbow sufficiently to gut my coffee cup to my lips." Cleveland Plain Dealer. First Cracksma nTl 'Ot d'ye t'lnk o1 dat? Dere ain't nuttln In dls safe but some receipts fer life Insurance premiums. Second Cracksman Say, I'm goln" to quit dls business. Pete's too much competition nowadays. Cleveland Leader. "Whv does ' a ripntl.t ai dental parlor?" "Well, you know, a parlor means a draw ing room." Cleveland Leader. "Borum is greatly taken with the new thought Idea." "It's about time. He's never had a really"' new thought In his llfe!"-Dotrolt Free Press. HEART BEAT OF THE CIIOWD. W. V. Nesbit In Chicago Tribune. We thread our way through tangles; we Jostle through the aisles. Yet each haa for his neighbor the merriest of smiles; It is no time for fretting, for fuming, or for frown When we go with the current that surses up and down, When we can hear all faintly, aa in tome far off tong. The pulsinc chords that measure tht heart beats of the throng. For once the world Is moving In one har monious way. The folk live in the eplrlt that blesses ifinnimas at) . They dream of waiting, stockings hung- from the mantel shelf And each one thinks of others, and no one thinks of self And man, and maid, and matron, and youth, and grandslre bowed Thrill with the common cadence, the heart beat of the crowd. Thoughts go In mystic fashion with glad ness In their train To city and to village, to little country lane; And pictures rite before us of days that used to be Of the dim light of morning- that showed the wondrous tree, And all the olden sweetness and all the rkllura snnv Swell chain like In the music the heart beat ok me mruns. The world is better for It It coaxes back Visa ninillaa That echo, all the laughter of wondrous And life Is brighter for It, for this brief fSBon spent In elbow touch while footing- the Road of uooa inuni, For here meet great and humble, and here meet poor and proud. And here all know together the heart heat f the crowd. f.O. AyerOe Lowell, JtaM.
