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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, DECEMJIEK l, liK).r).
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C ROBE WATER, EDITOR.
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C. C, ROSE WATER.
Secretary.
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' before me this 1st day of December. 1W.
(Seal) M. B. HUNUATK,
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WIIK.4 OIT or IOWJ.
Subscriber learlag the) city tem
porarily ahnald bav 'Ihe Be
mailed to them.' It Is better tha
dally letter from home. Ad
drees vrlll be obaaged as aMcn aa
renovated.
Merry Christmas to you all.
On to Shoshone is the cry of the Jliu
11111 burlington extension.
Santa Claus will now take a rest for
another year, but will not return to Lis
aboriginal homo in Moscow.
In the meantime, United States At
torney Baxter declines to retire. Few
die and none resign from a fat office.
The outgoing members of the County
Board Bcctn to have been Baxterlzed.
They are not quitters, by a long ways
If they know themselves.
Italian thieves who attempted to steal
a copo of the fifteenth century should
remember that J. IV Morgan is now
busy settling an Ohio railroad deal.
If a few more Russian telegraph lines
are reported destroyed the public may be
convinced that much of the "news" from
the seat of war comes by telepathy.
The story of William R. Taylor, the
father of the Granger movement, is the
story of many other honest public men
who have discovered that republics are
ungrateful.
When the British navy "turns out" to
greet the Japanese naval heroes next
summer the Russian naval officers who
contributed so largely to the glory of
Japan should not be forgotten.
Canadian statesmen seem to be so de
sirous of remaining ou friendly terms
with the mother country that they do
not want to be too closely associated in
business for fear of the inevitable fric
tion. The Impending .ppolutment of H. H.
Baldrige as United States attorney will
smash no crockery in the Omaha crock
ery company, although it may smash
some earthenware in the political pot
tery. As long as hazing cases at Annapolis
re confined to courU martial composed
of naval officers it Is probable that the !
"code" will have a friend in court as it
&as only existed by permission of tho
men who are to try it
The first volume of Morton's "History
of Nebraska," which has been overdue
for several years, and for which J. Ster
ling Morton never wrote a Une, is about
to make its appearance, bound in calf,
and Illuminated by half tone.
A sure footed and simple flying
machine, projected by John r. nolland,
following the wake of the Keeley motor,
has been steered into the Tatent office,
and a panic among the bats in that in
stitution may be anticipated.
The merger of street railways in New
Tork City, underground and overground,
la announced, to be followed by the is
sue of a few hundred millions of merger
securities that are to be floated by Wall
street and eventually find their way Into
the vaults of the life insurance com
panies at profitable margins to the un
dertakers and underwriters.
It must be pleasant to Mg, Bryan to
think that President Diaz waited until
he reached the opposite side of the earth
before deciding to Issue gold certificates
lu Mexico, The southern republic, for
all of Its wealth In silver, seems to be
going about the establishment of a gold
basis with considerable less nonsense
than waa seen In the United States.
TBK I HRJMMAS TIX.
Another year has nearly run it, course
and again the feast of Christmas Is at
band. This is the mot generous and
beneficent of the; seasons the one that
calls into activity the purest and gen
tlest se-ntJinent!. thnt docs more than
any other to break thnmph the crust
of selfishness and open the heart to
kindly offices, tlint exerts tipon old and
young alike a softening and elevating in
fluence. It does not matter greatly
whether a man recognizes or appreciates
the Christian idea that is associated
with this season; if he have the better
instincts of humanity, if all the nobler
and tenderer feelings that belong to a
true manhood are not frozen within hhu
be cannot altogether resist the persuad
ing influence of tile ChrlsUmns time. I'n
bapplness may conie to the man who
cannot on this day find tlio means to
testify his affection for family or
friends, .or to him who realizes that in
spite of all his efforts he could not do
all that he would have done, but thrice
unhappy la he who banishes all thought
of kindly largess at this time and con
demns himself to abide In the gloom and
cheerlessness of his selfish or sordid na
ture. The custom of giving presents on
Christmas, although not universally ob
served In Christian countries, Is as old
as It fl beautiful, and it has made hu
manity all the better by making it more
loving and self-sacrificing. If It some
times leads the more generous to go be
yond their means, still the Impulse
which prompts the extravagance is a
noble one. The beulguant influeuce of
the custom is of inestimable worth. How
nhall we measure the flood of gladness
and gratitude that will sweep over
Christendom today lu response to the re
membrances of affection? How weigh
the Joyous heart-thrills of Childhood in
millions of homes lu every Christian
land, or calculate the volume of pleasure
that age will derive from the offerings
of love and friendship?
This and other like celebrations grew
up out of the felt needs of the human
mind and human society. The name
and the peculiar significance of Christ
mas Mere given it under the new dis
pensation. But the observance of Yule,
the decorated trees, the illuminations,
the gifts, the greetings, were old before
our era was begun. They were con
ceived and developed in the dim dawn
of our race's history, out of the needs
and the indefinable longings of the hu
man heart. It Is well that there should
be music and light and feastings at the
very time when material nature is most
given up to cheerlessness and gloom and
death. It Is well that at times men
should give gifts and wish good wishes,
each to the other. It is well that for at
least one day in the yeur tho vexed
world should have a stimulus to
thoughts of peace. It Is a notable and
worthy achievement of the Christian
church that it tsbould have Identified
uch a day and such deeds with one
of the two great festivals of the Chris
tian year. Never before was the vogue
of Christmas so great where It has long
been observed and never did so large a
part of the world's inhabitants, in so
many lands, take part in the celebra
tion of the festival which embodies the
spirit of Christian teachings.
To all its patrons The Bee extends the
season's greeting.
AXUTHKR GAME OF Hl'ACO.
It Is easy for demagogues to make
some people believe that the moon Is
made of green cheese. When the propo
sition for a municipal lighting plant vs
up before the people of Omaha one year
a?o. it was opposed vigorously and
viciously by merchantable politiciuis
aud marketable uewsiapers. These
despicable mercenaries succeeded in
nuiling a largo number of our people
bclievo that the scheme for a municipal
lighting plant was gotten up In order
to defeat the acquisition of the water
works ly the city, when, in fact, the
ordiuanco submitting the electric lii;ht
proposition was Introduced in the coun
cil under sham pretenses, with the idea
that It would be put to sleep lu some
pigeon bole.
To the surprise of its parent,
the late president of the gas com
pany decided to. go out of the street
corner gas lamp business and his friends
in tie council pushed the municipal
lighting ordinance to final passage. It
is a Uiftter of notoriety that the framcr
of the proposition worked with tuivclit
and main against it at the polls, sho.il
dor to shoulder with the heelers who
were plugging against it at so much
per.
The same' outlit is now bemoaning
the Inability of Omaha to secure
cheaper light and glibly talk about dol
lar gas, knowing all the time that the
parties who offered to give us dollar
gas were simply trying to procure a
franchise to sell out. These dollar gas
promoters asked for a franchise for
forty-three years with no royalty to pay
before the end of five years, and ten to
one their concession would have been
sold to the United Gas company, and
the city, as well as the private con
sumers of gaa, would not have been any
better off than they are now. In other
words, the present company would have
secured an extension of its present fran
chise for thirty years and under the
charter of the new company would have
been in position to avoid paying a roy
alty for five year. This would have
caused a loss to the city of one hun
dred thousand dollars, at least.
Nobody in the council, or out of it,
bag ever yet been able to give any good
reason why Omaha should grant a forty
three year franchise for dollar gas when
fifty cent gas may be procurable in
Omaha before the end oft ten years; es
pecially In view of the ultimate estab
lishment ef a municipal lighting plant.
The transparent game that the bunco
gang Is now playing does not require
Illumination even from a tallow candle.
i.il invar isvisiHurioy.
Among the lnvcf ligations, made by tho
bureau of corporations none will have
a greater interest for the general public
than thnt of the so-called Oil trust, a re
port of which is understood to be nearly
ready for submission to the president.
Whether or nt Mr. Roosevelt will de
cide to make the report, or any part of
it. public is uncertain, but as the bureau
of corporations was directed by con
gress lo make the Investigation the prob
ability Is Hint the results will be laid
before that laxly and thus given to the
country.
It Is possible that the facts regarding
the bulsness methods of the Oil trust
will lead to its prosecution, but of course
nothing definite in regard to thl can
be known until the report Is In the hands
of the president. According to press
statements from Washington a short
time ago. the president had determined
to institute proceedings against the trust
if tho Investigation disclosed facta that
would Justify prosecution. There was
then indicated a feeling In administra
tion circles that If any warrant were
found for prosecuting the Oil trust there
would be no hesitation in bringing It be
fore the courts under the anti-trnst law,
which it is the general belief has been
persistently violated by this corporation.
In his report Commissioner Garfield
stated that the result of the Oil trust In
vestigation would soon be submitted to
the preseldent so that some information
in regard to it may be expected at any
time. Whatever the president may con
clude to give to the public. If the report
should not be transmitted in full to con
gress, will receive even greater attention
than did the Beef trust report. In view
of the fact that the packers are being
prosecuted It is by no means improbable
thnt proceedings will be Instituted
pgnlust the men in the Oil trust.
Out in Colorado they have reached
a higher level in the matter of the ap
propriation of the public domain than in
Nebraska, which is quite natural, in
Colorado, for example, there is a revolt
against the new order recuilrlng occu
pants of forest reserve lands to pay
rental to the government and a Denver
paper denounces this charge as taxation
by executive order, and usurpation of
power by tho president. We are told
by the same authority that "the presi
dent's disposition to make his own will
the law Is responsible for this forest re
serve tax, which will antagonize many
who agree with him on other matters."
We do not betray any confidence In say
ing that the president does not expect
everybody in America to agree with him
on all matters. Wo apprehend, how
ever, that he will not recall the order
or apologize to anybody for issuing it
It is announced semi-offlclally that
that the prince of corporaion lobbyists,
Colonel J. H. Ager, has decided abruptly
to discontinue his lawless but lucrative
practice, and retire to his native heath,
on a farm In Wisconsin, where he will
cultivate the soil hereafter, instead of
cultivating the members of the legisla
ture, state officials and eminent states
men out of a Job. The impending retire
ment of the great railroad slate maker
onrt Hluner nf nnniml nnstehoarda hv
courtesy will create an aching void at
the state capitol that cannot be filled In
our generation. But what is Nebraska's
loss will be Wisconsin's gain. There
is Just a bare possibility, however, that
Colonel Ager may change his mind or
have it changed for him.
In deciding that he will talk In pub
lic only when he has something to say
Pope rius has greatly Increased the
work of special correspondents in Rome
who must till a certain number of col
umns a week: but he has made It easier
for the public to determine the false
from the true attitude of the Vatican.
Washington club men rememler when
poker was the game of senators while
the younger generation will remember
the distinguished members of the upper
house aa devotees of a game with less
chances for losing money if the oppor
tunities of losing reputations are
greater.
The French are beginning their cam
paign for the election of a president
which may account for the fact that they
are willing to submit the Moroccan ques
tion to international arbitration pro
vided the arbitration board can decide
upon a meeting place.
In refusing to give a list of policy-
holders iu Missouri the New York Llfe
insurance company is ewaenuy or (n
opinion that a "snap" is no "snap" when
evervone knows about it and it Is not
supplying ammunition for unf riendly
commissioners.
The Nebraska delegation In congress
has contributed some very tempting
packages for the Christmas blockings of
their constituents, it only remaius lo
be seen how those gifts will pan out.
A young niuu from Missouri, who has
been sleeping iu a shed, has provoked
our loquacious and verbose conteni-
nnrnrv Into n half column of editorial
meditatiou. "'Twas ever thus.
nrrralta for Arlatorraey.
Philadelphia Record.
What distresses the new king of Norway
is the want of an aristocracy in that land
of simple habits. He might possibly recruit
an aristocracy by the importation of a let
of the Insurance grafters, for whom this
country will soon have no further need
either for use or for ornament.
Savin tho f'oastttot ten.
Boston Globe.
Nearly 1K.000 visitors have Inspected the
Constitution at the Charlestown navy yard
during the last year. The cost of main
tenance Is very small. If Uncle Ram Is
too poor to continue te pay It for aenti-
mental reasons, a trifling admission fee
for visitors would obvlouslv moke him
whole again and perhaps aht him a tittle
profit, to help nay the salail" of Wash
ington officials.
K Strana-e Discovery.
St. Louis Gtobe-Demotrat.
A Sugar trust lobby has been discovered
In Washington. . It must hate been dis
covered by the police, because the rest
of the country tins known a jout It for
some time. I
A t liaaae of Tman
ior.
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Washington Poet
China and Japan have agreed that
"Japan shall occupy the same position In
Manchuria thnt Russia did before the
war." Just a change of tenants, as It
were, for China.
Wonder of the Tear.
Harper s Weekly.
William It. Elliott, an Indiana civil war
veteran, has refused to accept an accumu
lated pension of JK.oOu on the ground that
he was never In a skirmish nor heard a
shot fired. This Is remarkable enough, but
what is more ro la the fact that it was
with the greatest difficulty he convinced
the pension office he was not Joking.
Work for a Boer Man.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
- The latest estimate is that about half
of the revolutionists on the Isle of Pines
are from Iowa. Senator Allison is mani
festly the man to settle the trouble Quietly
and without bloodshed, though with con
gress and Dolliver, and Cummins and Hep
burn on his bands, he la a rather busy
man. He shows no wear and tear, how
ever. Senator Gives His Measnre.
Springfield Republican.
After a conference with President A. Js
Cassatt of the Pennsylvania railroad at
Washington, Senator Penrose of Pennsyl
vania announces himself in favor of the
rate-control policy of Mr. Roosevelt and
Senator Knox. This seems to throw light
upon Penrose's conception of whom or
what he represents in the United States
sonata.
Simultaneous examinations.
New York Tribune.
It was the "simultaneous examination"
ef the Chicago banks controlled by one
financier that called the turn on frenzied
finance la the western city. It was not
possible for the cash to bo in three places
at once, and the real status was thus
disclosed. The illustration ought to be
Interesting to other banks where similar
methods prevail if there are any such.
PKHSOAL -Oi'tS.
When Senator Ciark settled Jl,ow,0"0 on
his new grandchild last week, he merely
gav one month's output of ills famous
United Verde mine. No matter how many
grandchildren, the senator is loaded for
them.
A man named Claus lives near Mar
shall, Mo., and ho has a son whom he
named Santa. The latter about this sea
son of the year hardly dare appear in
public because of the alleged jokes per
petrated at his expense.
Edward Robinson, former director of the
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, has been
selected aa assistant to Sir Purdon Clark,
the new director of the Metropolitan Mu
seum of Art, New York City. Mr. Rob
inson graduated at Harvard In Wi and
studied five years abroad.
John M. Oearin, Oregon's new senator,
at the age of 19 entered a Catholic uni
versity in Canada for the purpose of
studying and qualifying for the priest
hood, but at his 1 graduation he -elected
to follow the law-instead, which he has
practiced in Portland for"the past twenty
five years.
Though an American citizen now, Colo
nel John Sobicski, once prohibition candi
date for governor of Missouri, indisputably
is rightful king of Poland. He lives at
present in California. He was born In
Poland la 1M2, and be and bis daughter
are the only known
direct descendants
of Poland, John
of tne warrior king
Sobleskl.
Raymond Lynch, known among his
friends as "Judge" Lynch, the veteran
proofreader of the Courier-Journal, wus
retired by that paper today on a pension
for life at full pay. Mr. Lynch was born
in Louisville In liCi, and in 1KJ6 waa ap
prenticed to the Louisville Journal, pub
lished by George D. Prentice and George
W. Kissinger.
The first man to stereotype a newspaper
page was Charles Craske, who died ou
Sunday in Woodbridge, N. J., at the age
of S3. He did this great thing In lttU,
at the suggestion of Horace Greeley, and
the result, of course, was a great though
still a gradual change in newspaper print
ing, for it was years before it was the
general practice. Mr. Craske had carried
en the craft of stereotyping and electro
typing in New York City for over flfty
years, his company being la Pearl street.
CHRISTMAS PLATITIDES.
Old Hat Good, and Beneficial If Lived
lp To.
Christmas comes but once a year and
that is too bad. The Christmas spirit
ought to rule all the year round. That is
the time when earth is lifted nearest
heaven. If we could but fix the motives
which control men then and give them
perennial force, if we could diffuse
throughout the whole year the light
heartedness, the ingenuousness and senti
ment of mankind at Christmas time, the
world would bo better for it.
Men and women are made little chil
dren again the hardest of them. Tender
ness and the spirit of giving, peace and
good will prevail. Exchanges of gifts, Joy-
UBn"B . . .m
pier and better men, women and children
for . .,.,on. church bells ring, anthems
are lifted up, and the simple story of
Christ lu the manger, the salvation and
j h of Srlly. u retain a
thousand tongues.
Imperceptibly the Influence of Christmas
does extend throughout the year; the in
fluence of that first Christmas nineteen
centuries ago has made the Christian era,
and it is the promise of the world's future.
It symbolizes the entire uplift of the hu
msn race, and holds the bright prospect
of a time when intelligence and Christian
virtues, the law of the commandments
and the Golden Rule shall wholly and
powerfully control human conduct, when
education shall have become world wide.
I hen there will be no more people born
M .r , horB lnt
when enlightenment and higher and
broader effort will make of man a more
effective and finely spiritualized being, and
the world a nearer approach to paradise.
I Those ef us in the present generation
( have seen much of actual progress which
may be thankfully ascribed to the influence
ef that which we celebrate on Christmas.
Christmas . will have its best influence
when It makes the Individual reflect upon
Its meaning, when It engenders humbleness
and simplicity and purifies motive. This
platitude baa been rung as often as Christ
mas bells have sounded, but the eld plati
tudes are best at Christmas, as In every
ether time. The eld truths are the truths
we live by. or ought to live by, and the
truths by which we have our best living.
DITS OF WASH1M4TO I.IFR.
Minor Scenes and Incident krtrhed
on the Spot.
To prove to his cuastttut nts that he was
ready to do somctliing to Justily drawing
I. lb salary. Conic rcssinau William S. Ben
nett of New Voik City mailed WV.'OO let
ters, one to fvny otrr In his district,
telling them he was ready to look auor
their interests at the national capi'iil. Now
the ll'in. Mr. Hennrtt Is a busy man. He
hiis work to do. His constituents by th
thousand want things, and unless he
"makes good" tnere will be trouble lu his
distnrt next fall.
A surprisingly laign percentage ot the
voters that were addressed have replied.
More than a thousand would like an In
crease in pension. Mr. Bennett will be
able at the coming session to gratify about
three of these requests, aside troin those
in which he msy persuade the iK-nsioti
office to make a re-rating on the legal
aspects of the case. By private act he
can favor an extremely small porccntage
of the total. Several hundred more re
plies came from jieople who want the
congressman to got them places. With
no new census establishment being cre
ated on the spoils basis, and little that Is
new outside of the civil service, most of
these requests will have to be denied.
Those modest voters of the Seventeenth
New York who have expressed their will
ingness to take seeds and public docu
ments can be accommodated, for lu an
urban district, where agriculture Is not
a hotly pursued industry, the opportunities
to plant seeds are rather limited. Mr.
Bennett can deliver an extremely small
part of the orders which are filed In re
sponse to his request. It is safe to say
that the word "regret" will come to be
Angered very nimbly on the keyboard by
the typewriters who execute his replies.
At the hearing on the tariff on Philip
pine products one afternoon last week
Champ Clark pot into a colloquy with a wit
ness on the Ftihiert of lnhor that prompted
the witness to explain what had been said
concerning the benutiful Cotta-batto valley
in Mindanao.
"It would be a wonderful place for sugar
plantations all right," he said, "If you
could get any labor there. But the trouble
Is that the only labor you ought to have
is Filipino, for the gentle Moro scorns the
sugar plantations. But you cannot get
the Filipino because of the cheerful habit
the Moro has of cutting the Filipino to
pieces on sight."
"Do you mean that the Filipinos would
all be killed who went there to work?"
asked Mr. Clark.
"Certainly," said the witness.
Mr. Clark swung around in his chair
and murmured softly to Ms neighbor:
"There is tho solution of the whole prob
lem. Send them all to Cotta-batto."
(Requests for pensions filed at the pension
bureau are many and unique. Several re
cently received explain themselves:
"I got blood poison by beinge hit with
a hens eg wen I cam back from the frunt.
The eg was not good wen you send my pen
sion 1 want the Heed made sos my wife
can't get none of it. She throde the eg.
She war a rebbel."
Equally appealing and remarkable was
another letter sent to tho Pension office in
which tho applicant set forth his claims to
a pension In this wise:
"The way I got my War lngery was a
ketchin' of a hoV. Tho Hog war wanted
by our captain for forege. We waa chasln'
the hog and she crawled threw a hole' an"
I thot I were about the alze of the hog,
and tried to crawl threw, but 1 stuck an'
In tryin' to wiggle out I throde the rales
off an' one hit me on my hed and nocked
me senseless. I do not think the hog
had nothln' to do with my line of duty,
for I did not ketch the hog. Wich she
never waa caut, so plcze send along my
pension."
One aged pensioner had evidently made
a serious blunder by taking unto himself
a wile in his old age, for lov. of gain
seems to have been the motive of the
woman who married him if the following
letter stated the facts in the case:
"Dear Mister Govcrument, Pleze to fix
up my penshun papers so as my wife cant
draw my twelve dolers a munt when I am
ded she say she marryed me for lov an
to be a ole mans Darling but now I no it
waa for to git my penshun on herself by
being my widower so pleze let my penshun
end with me but pleze doant let on to her
that you got this from tne or I would have
a hot time of it and times is hotter now
than I can stand. So when I send word
that I am no moar then send her this If
you want to but not until the penshun is
shut off whltch it is her Just desserts for
niarryln for money an In a Mersheenary
spirrut."
One day there came to the pension office
a very old and subdued looking man who
could scarcely totter along with the help
of two canes. By his side was a very
robust and perfectly self-reliant young
woman of perhaps 30 years of age. When
some one went forwurd to ask what was
wanted the young woman said:
"Well, 1 11 Just tell you. This Is my hus
band, and we ain't getting enough pension
that's what we ain't. We'rt getting only
$10 a month, and we know a man that
wasn't In the war half as long as my
husband was and didn't get a shot in him
and he gits his twelve a month, and we
want our pension raised to that flgger or
more."
Congressman John Wesley Gaines of Ten
nessee and Robert Adams, Jr., of Pennsyl
vania somehow or other have acquired
reputations as being very poor speakers.
When either begins speaking the galleries
become empty about as rapidly as though
the house was on fire. Mr. Adams began
a speech the other day and there was such
a rush outward that the man whose duty
It-is to lower the flag at adjournment
started to perform that tatk. A member
of the house who had not been listening
! to he Seches came to the same conclu
sion as he pushed into a crowded elevator.
"When did the house adjourn to?" be
asked the elevator conductor. "It hasn't
adjourned." said he. "Mr. Adams of Penn
sylvania is speaking." he added, whereupon
the member guessed he would go home
anyhow.
Inele Sam's Halting; Pare.
St. Paul Tioneer Press.
Uncle 6am could with advantage te the
service, if not with profit, institute tii.
j collection of mail In the larger cities by
automobile wagons. Two men, one to drive
such a wagon and one to dismount and
j collect the mail at each box, could cover
I five or six times the territory probably
mat two men can now cover. Such a
method of collection would be much mere
expeditious. It would be advantageous
throughout the year, but it mould be par
ticularly advantageous during the holiday
rush. A more general res.trt to automobiles
In the mad service for transportation be
tween stations, for delivery and for collec
tion will doubtless come In time, but Uncle
Sam ought not to be too slow about it.
Anethrr Tradition Wrerked.
St. Liuis Globe-Democrat.
Another tradition has been swept away.
There was no such person as Hendrlk
Hudson. It has been found by examining
official documents that tne explorer was
Henry Hudson, an Englishman, and that
be needed an interpreter la conferring with
the Hollanders.
The Song
of the Hair
There arc four verses. Verse-1. Ayers
H air Vigor makes the hair grow. Verse 2.
Ayer's Hair Vigor stops falling hair.
Verse 3. Ayer's Hair Vigor cures dan
druff. Verse 4. Ayer's Hair Vigor al
ways restores color to gray hair. The
chorus is sung by millions, in all lands.
The best kind of a testimonial"
"Sold for over sixty years' .
Made y the t. O. Ayer Ce., LeweU, Kus.
AIM KtamfsotBrere ot
ATM 8 SARSAPARItLA-Pet the Moo. ATBB'S PILLS For eeMtisatiea.
AYER'S CHBRBY PBCTOKiX Fereoafbs. AYBB'SAGUB CUKX ForattUnaaadafi
THE HIG STICK,
Central City Nonpareil: And now At
torney Baxter's head has fallen Into the
basket. If business continues this brisk
the headsman will have to hire an assist
ant and borrow a grindstone.
Blnlr Pilot. While we regret that our
friend Mathews was caught napping, never
theless there Is much consolation to know
that the president proposes to enforce the
law as much agulnst the rich as against
the poor.
Pender Republic: Marshal Mathews and
District Attorney Baxter have both been
ousted from office by the president as a
result ot the Klchards-Comstock land fen
cing case. Too bad that Judge Munger's
official head Is out of reach of the presi
dential ax.
Howells Journal: Tho big stick has been
given another awing and this time it has
landed on .he political head of Irving F.
Baxter, United State district attorney for
Nebraska, who has been asked to resign
by the president. Here's more power to
Roosevelt's good right arm and may he
continue to swing the club until every
dishonest and neglectful federal office
holder in Nebraska, and every other stale,
is taught that a public office is a public
trust.
North Platte Tribune: And now United
States District Attorney Baxter has been
removed from office because he did not
prosecute the government land fencers
with more vigor. President Roosevelt's de
mand for a "square deal" means some
thing. He doesn't propose that the wealthy
land-grabbers shall got off with a light
sentence while the small fry receive the
maximum sentence. In this the president
will be upheld by the people. Every official
who fails to do hla duty without fear or
favor should be removed from office.
Kearney Hub: Another red-hot sensation
follows close upon the heels of the removal
of United States Marshal Mathews, in the
demand by the president for the resignation
of United States District Attorney Baxter,
all growing out of the fiasco In the dispo
sition of the ease against a couple ot cat
tlemen for fencing the public domain. It is
evidently th determination of the president
that the prosecution of offenders against
the land laws shall be the real thing Instead
of being merely perfunctory, but there is
nevertheless a feeling that the judge of the
court Is really more blomable than either
the marshal or the district attorney.
- Norfolk News: The removal of I. F.
Baxter from the office of United States
district attorney does not strike the aver
age Nebraskan as lacking the elements
of a "square deal" so much as the dis
charge of Marshal Mathews. It Is not ap
parent In this state that there was any
"square deal" about the Mathews matter,
but It is believed that Baxter might base
brought about a different result in the land
fencing cases had he prosecuted Richards
and Comstock with the same vigor that he
would a poor devil who might have used a
cancelled postage stamp to send a letter to
tba old home with an appeal for money to
pay his board.
Bancroft Blade: Irving F. Baxter, United
States district attorney, has been requested
by the president to resign as a result of
the Inadequate sentence inflicted on Rich
ards and Comstock, the wealthy cattle
men, who pleaded guilty to the charge of
fencing and using government lands. In
last week's issue we stated that it seemed
rather severe that one man should bear
the burden of the whole federal court.
Now It begins to look different and Baxter
received Just what he deserved. The only
thing that there is to regret is that there
is no way of reaching the federal judge.
A clean house at the federal building right
now would have a wonderful effect on the
railroad tax cases now pending.
Fremont Herald (dem.): Baxter, Irving
Baxter, the Immaculate young man who bas
been acting as lawyer for Uncle Sam at
Omaha, has been asked to resign. At last
President Roosevelt appears to be getting
his eyes open to the real situation in
Omaha, If anybody connected with Judge
Munger's court was responsible for the
baby sentence meted out to Comstock and
Richards it must have Wen Baxter. He
owed his appointment to men who stand
very close to th rattle Interests In western
Nebraska. Baxter knew all th evidence,
in the cases against the cattle barons. He
knew the measure ef their guilt, but admits
that he gave Munger no advice on the sub
ject. While the Herald has very little sym
pathy for Baxter, believing him not at all
qualified to hold the position, yet we still
believe he was entitled to a hearing before
the fall of the official axe. The president
ef the nation ought to be bound by the
rules of common decency, even when fight
ing republican officials in Nebraska.
Beatrice Express: Once more the Roose
velt axe bas descended and the head of
Irving Baxter, United States district at
torney, is In the basket. The official Is be
headed because of his actions in the cattle
fencing case. This will be good news In Ne-
I braska. It was well known that Baxter was
the chief offender, when Mathews waa fired,
and the general hop waa that Mathews
should not be allowed to suffer alone. Now
Coal. Wood. Coke, Kindling.
W. sail th. beat Ohl. arts' dorado Coals -cl.an, hot, lasting:
Also tho Illinois, Hsnns, Shorldsn, Walnut Block, Btosm CJ, Cts.
For gon.rsl purposes, uss Chorokoo Lump, f 6.60; Nut, f 9.00 por ton
Mlsssurl Lump, f 4.76; Lsr.o Nut. 64.60-makas s hot, quick firs.
Our hsrd c.sl lo tho BCrtANTON, tho host Pennsylvania snthrsclts.
Wo slsosoll 8psdrs, tho hsrdost, snd dssnsst Arksnsss hsrd cos
All our eosl hsnd serssnod snd weighed over sny olty scslss dsslred.
COUTANT d SQUIRES ,,4B..TaSM
that Baxter is out It Is quits certain that
a really creditable official will get the po
sition. In the matter of district attorneys
the state has suffered. In the matter of
pride at least. There was one man in th'.
office who was known to be shielding of
fenders. The effort to displace him met
with a surprising amount of opposition.
Finally the man whom nearly the whola
state has endorsed was passed by and Pal
ter was appointed. He waa the associate
counsel of a great railroad company, anil
was also the associate of those who wanted
to protect the fence kings and homestead
manipulators. Hhe appointment never ought
to have been made, and It is too bad that
Roosevelt must find this out from experi
ence instead of from the people who already
knew. If there are any men In atill higher
places who are mixed up with the Baxtor
Rlchards combine. It Is to be hoped that
they will be exposed and properly dealt
with.
SEASONABLE SMILES.
"It costs a good deal to get a thnrourh
college education, doesn't It, Henry. '
asked one of his friends.
"Naw!" responded the husky young ath
lete. "It ain't costln' me nothln'. Chi
cago Tribune.
"Mamma did you ever flirt when you
were a girl?"
"Yes, my dear; I did once."
"And were you punished for ftf
"It led to my marriag with your
father." Tatler.
"Of course." said the man who had
opened the new atnr In the place, "I
haven't a great deal of capital, but I'll
win. I'm going to run my business on
regular business principles."
"You are?" said the local banker, be
coming Interested. "Po you get a rebate
on freights or have you a serret under
standing with the wholesalers r Chicago
Tribune.
Fond Father So you want to marry my
daughter?
Ardent Admirer Yes, sir.
Fond Father What are yonr prospects?
Ardent Admirer She Is willing If you
are. Philadelphia Telegraph.
Mrs. Jawback I'll never forget how
sheepish you looked when you proposed.
Mr. Jawback Naturally. You had been
pulling the wool over my eyes for some
time. Cleveland Leader.
Parson Jackson Does you take this man
fo better or wuss?
The P.rlde-Ah'11 take him lest as he am.
If he gets any bettwr I'se 'frald he'll die.
and if he gets any wuss I'll kill him mah
self. Puck,
"Mv husband hss asked me not to buy
him any Christmas present this year."
"Are you going to?"
"Oh, ves, I need some things thst I
can't get any other way." Cleveland
leader.
"But, doctor," asked the young prac
titioner, "why do ou always order cham
pagne for every new patient that conies
to you?"
Because, my boy," replied the wise old
medical man, "I can judge by what he says
whether or not he can afford it. That
helps when I come to make out my bill."
Philadelphia Press. ,
THFJ LKSSO OF CHRISTMAS.
Leigh Mitchell Hodges.
Long years ago, o'er the seaa of the morn
ing, In a wee village, sleep-folded by night.
While lonely shepherds awaited day's dawn
ing. Shone on a stable a wonderful light.
And in a manger no birthplace more
lowly
For there was not any room In the inn.
Born unto Mary and men. the Child holy
Cam to live with us and h of our kin.
Angels oa high sang out gladly their greet
ing: "Peace upon earth and good-will to all
men:"
Nature rJolced at Its God and man meeting.
Never to be wholly parted again.
Thus came our Christmas, and through all
the ages,
Dreamed of and looked to and longed for,
in turn
It has been welcomed by children and rasi'S.
Lighting one lesson lor all men to leatn.
For, as He came to lift up those who stum
ble. Comfort the weary and weeping, sjid shine
Into the homes of the helpless and humble.
Driving out darkness Willi love all divine;
Smoothing with hope the long road w must
travel,
Gilding with faith the drear hours of our
day,
Bringing us strength tangled trials to un
lavel, Giving us peace on the storm-ridden way-
So we. Ills brothers and sisters, must ever
Hallow His birthday with works of good
cheer
Done in His name, that the stricken may
never
Doubt that His presence Is still with us
here.
80 we must seek. In the byways and corn
ers, Those who are lonely and troubled and
pad.
Those who are friendless, the weak and the
mourners,
Wlih our great heritage making them
glad.
Thus, and thus only, th gifts that He
brought us.
All the rich treasures of hope end of love;
All the blest truths that He tenderly taught
us,
Can be bestowed, aa of old, from above.
Thus, and thus only, the gold link ef kind
ness Forged long ago on Judea's bright plain,
Can be recast, till some Christmas day
find us
All bound as one lu love's unending chain.