frllE OMAIIAV DAILY BEEt- THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1905.
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Tim Omaha Daily Bee
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State of Nebraska, Douglas County, s:
Charles (". Rnsewster, general manager
of The Be I'ubllehins company, being
duly sworn, says that the actual number
of full and complete copies of The Dally,
Morning, Evening and Sunday Be printed
during the month of November, 1164, was
as follows:
1 W,70
t 31.SM
I IUN
4 30,800
( 3170
3S.10
7 30.630
1 33,450
t 31.830
10 33,030
11 30,660
12 31,650
It 31.040
14 314160 .
IS. 31,330
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Total
Less unsold copies?.
It 31,180
i; io
II 30.000
II........ 31,430
l. ....... 31,770
II.., 31,400
11. ....... 31,160
21........ 31,000
24 31,380
It 30,450
31,400
27 81,350
28 31.480
8150
8 31,830
i'.....;
381,310
, . . 3,873
Net total sales 843,033
Dally Average ., 51,401
CHARLES" C. TtOSEWATER.
-General Manager.
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WHEN OUT OF TO WW.
gabacftbers leaving the eitr
porarlly should have Th Be
mailed to 'them. Address will be
chanced as often as rcat4.
The president went ' the "stand
patters" oue better by not speaking of
the tariff at all.
' In asking lur u "torpedo planter"
Fan Francisco should specify one that
ihu remove the explosives without dan
ger to itself.
; In declining to be quietly deposed
Uev. A. S. Ci'apsey showed a determi
nation to nil as no publicity coming in
his direction.
The fate ot negro troopers may be
considered "Exhibit A" in the case of
the canteen against uncontrolled grog
shops near army posts.
That Arkansas Jud.ge.wiuk. la intro
ducing business methods Into the prac
tice of the federal court is not likely
(0 become locally popular.
; With two national conventions and
.constitutional convention in progress,
JUluhoma seems to' be approaching the
sisterhood of states under, full pres
sure. i If Major Lacey, has been able to
maintain his law practice while serving
nu congressman he has demonstrated
ability ot an order seldom found among
statesmen.
Almost I3UU.VU0 has been turned
Into the state treasury as fees collected
during the blennlum. This is m show
ing of which the state officers may be
very proud.
In that flood which blotted out sixty
lives in Arizona, fate showed the fool
ishness ot those who declare the terrl
tory needs more water. What It needs
Is better distribution. .
United States district Judges may
be surprised to learn that mlttiml are
elastic when the government transfers
over 100 prisoners from state prisons
to Fort Leavenworth.
: President Vau Cleave ot the Manu
facturers' association struck a popular
chord when he declared It the duty of
employers and employes to co-operate
rather than to conflict
It Japanese are able to establish the
allegation that, strictly speaking, they
are not Mongolians, the San Francisco
problem may be solved without re
course to the big guns.
New York is waging war on "fake"
fortune tellers and the real test of
municipal omniscience will come when
the "fakirs" are to be segregated from
the genuine "prophets."
Kansas has discovered fraud in con.
lection 'with schonr land- leases; and,
is it has keen found too early to in
lueoce the next ctate election, the dls
very may be based on facta.
The statement that Japan threatens
$ drive Itussla out ot Manchuria re
tails the fact that Russia promised to
cave without trouble which the czar
nay have forgotten n the excitement
it home.
The Suggestion that Prof. Wood row
. fVtlson be the democratic candidate
.'or president In 1808 evidently comes
from men who think the pendulum is
twinging in the same direction as when
't struck Judge Parker.
The statement that President Roose
velt is anxious to report to congress
all facts regarding the discharge of
negro troops may cause the authors ot
the .rttolutlnns to Insist that tbe fol
K'Wtn regtilM course, : v ,-.
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A ROTABLE TBVST DECISION
The decision of the United States
court of appeals at Cincinnati, prevent
ing the Continental Wall Paper com
pany as a' conspiracy In restraint ot
trade from recovering On a large claim
ot debt from one of Its customers,
while it is based on no new principle
of law, Is at this Juncture an adjudica
tion ot far-reacblng Import, because it
lays illegal combinations wide open to
attack on their most vulnerable side.
The full record ot the case will be
necessary for ascertainment of the pre
cise technical effect ot the decision,
but the abstract in the press' reports
discloses the fundamental point that
the equity power of courts in all its
amplitude can be Interposed as a bar
in the operation of trade conspiracies
at the most vital point of. contact in
business. If Illegal combinations or
trusts cannot collect at law claims for
debt in the ordinary course ot business
which when untainted with conspiracy
against trade are legal and enforclble.
they are practically at the mercy of
every individual, firm or corporation
with which they deal.
The equity resources ot the courts
thus become a reinforcement and n
supplement to all those penal sanctions
with which legislation has lately been
arming public authority. The latter
Indeed are of vital importance, but
hardly more for their direct and spe
cific results than for their influence in
concentrating and stimulating public
sentiment, which courts as well as leg
islators and executive officers respect,
to an extent emboldening individuals
to bestir themselves against invasion
of their rights. Therefore, as this
process progresses, trade conspiracies
will be antagonized by the full power
of the people exerted nnder the spur
of individual interest at every point of
the compass, instead of the compara
tively few points that organized public
prosecution ordinarily strikes.
The fact that trade conspiracy has
not been thus attacked in its modern
obnoxious forms is in large part due
to their very modernity, and not so
much to lack of remedies under the
common and statutory law. It has
taken time to arouse the public to the
changes in industrial and commercial
methods and abuses during the last few
decades and to find ways to enforce
and apply for their correction Just
principles of law which were long ago
evolved and vindicated against like
abuses under different conditions.
Much has been now accomplished, and
wtth the people aroused and the courts
responding to the exigency the work
Is going, forward more rapidly than is
yet generally appreciated.
IBS MIL WA VKKE TO THE CO A S T. '
The filing ot amendments to its arti
cles ot incorporation, adding $150,
000,000 to its present stock capitalisa
tion of $107,838,300, is Interpreted in
railroad circles as conclusive evidence
that the Milwaukee system Is resolved
to push with all speed extension to the
Pacific coast, and to foreshadow an
even more strenuous struggle between
the Hill and Harrlman groups tor
mastery in transcontinental transpor
tation. For it is becoming clearer
every day that the controlling forces
In the Milwaukee are identical with
those in the Harrlman confederacy.
The transcontinental project of the
Milwaukee, which in the form ot ex
tensive construction westward has in
deed been In actual progress for a
year, would seem therefore In one as
pect to be a renewal of the gigantic
strife for control of the Northern Pa
cific in 1903, the settlement by agree
ment under the form ot the Northern
Securities company having turned out
only a truce, and the Hill interests in
the end winning on the main point.
In a broader view, however, the Mil
waukee extension must be inspired by
the tremendous development now in
progress or in sight in the mountains
and the grain and grazing regions of
the northwest. With existing trans
portatlon facilities greatly overtaxed
by the unparalleled activity in trade
and industry and with . the certainty
ot Immense Inflow-' ot population and
capital into those regions, the tempta
tion to railroad investors and man
agers to be forehanded therein is sim;
ply working out Its natural result and
fulfilling the prediction ot E. II. Har
rlman eighteen months ago that the
west was about to enter upon an era
of unprecedented competitive railroad
construction.
DAXQEROCS OR ADS CBOSSIROS.
Omaha has been very well supplied
with overhead crossings by the railroad
companies, but these have been placed
only where the conformation was fa
vorable. A number of much traveled
streets have been left without protec
tion. The "deadly grade crossing" is
still too much in evidence in the city.
That no serious accident has been re
corded is due more to good luck than
good management Many crossings
along tne Belt Line and the Elkhorn
tracks in the northern part of the city
are entirely unprotected, while similar
conditions exist in other sections.
The city of Omaha was forced by
the railroad companies to carry on a
long and expensive fight In court be
fore the viaducts were built Three
times the matter was taken f the su
preme court of the United ,ites and
each time the decision was? given in
favor ot the city. When thJ Viaducts
were built the railroads seemed to
have concluded that they had done all
that was needed. to be done, and have
left the grade crossings unprotected by
viaducts and in such condition that
other t'afflo uses the streets at its own
risk.
At different times it has been pro
posed that watchmen or automatic
gates be established for the protection
ct surtax traffic, bat these tuujej have
never reached any definite result
Omaha is probably the only city in ths
country where such a state of affairs
exists. 1 The railroads have been very
enterprising In providing block signals
and other safeguards for the protection
of their own traffic and should be com
pelled to establish some sort of system
that will protect the users of the
streets and avoid the danger that now
threatens. If the city council dcslrra
to effect a real reform here is a splen
did oppoitunlty.
TUB CHAQRKS FLOOD.
The flood of the Chagres river,
which rose twenty-eight feet in a day,
and which drains a region in which
ten inches ot rain fell within the same
time, conveys some suggestion ot the
difficulties to be dealt with in con
structing the Panama canal. Its route
Is crossed and recrossed by that capri
cious stream, now flowing placidly and
again a destroying torrent. We In
this country are familiar with no river
phenomena approaching in sudden
ness, violence and extent the torren
tial floods ot the Chagres, which must
be completely controlled as the first
condition of canal construction and
maintenance. The plan adopted in
cludes dams of a magnitude unprece
dented in engineering work to retain
these prodigious Inundations, in fact
converting them into vast lakes that
are to form important sections of the
interocean waterway.
The flood that is now in full sweep,
destroying no small amount ot the re
sults of labor along the canal route,
Is only a sample of the refractory
natural forces that must be dealt with
and permanently conquered before the
historic work which the United States
has undertaken can be completed, and
which altogether is the most formida
ble now in progress anywhere on the
planet.
The city council has passed up to
the street railway company the most
difficult problem it has faced since it
was born. Just how to eliminate the
possibility of a round-trip ride for a
single tare and at the same time pro
vide a universal transfer is not going
to be solved in a day. In the mean
time the present unsatisfactory trans
fer system will prevail. All the coun
cil's tinkering with the proposition has
not materially aided in the solution ot
the question. It the convenience ot
the public were consulted rather than
that of the company, the transfer ques
tion would soon be settled.
Many legislators-elect are visiting
Lincoln at present making preliminary
arrangements for their residence dur
ing the winter and each emphatically
announces his Intention to vote for
bills intended to carry out the platform
pledges. This feeling among the re
publican members should be taken ad
vantage of and carefully prepared
measures aimed at the objects to be
accomplished should be presented early
In the season In order that the splen
did spirit . now exhibited be not dissi
pated in consideration ot conflicting
proposals.
Lincoln is Just now enjoying the sen
sation of having rival street railway
companies contending for the city
streets. This situation must be re
freshing. Heretofore Lincoln people
have been accustomed to stand aside
while the corporations took such
streets as they desired. It ought to be
explained, however, that in the present
instance the row is entirely between
the companies.
Governor McDonald's refusal to
grant requisition for a Mississippi
negro until assured he would not be
lynched shows that he baa made ma
terial progress since he Joined in re
fusing the protection of Colorado laws
to Moyer and others.
The South Omaha live stock market
reports shows a very large Increase in
receipts ot all kinds of stock over those
for last year. This with prices main
tained at the top notch is certainly a
most encouraging condition.
The city council is determined to
allow the paved streets to go just as
tar to ruin as the heavy traffic will
take them. Twice within a week It
has refused to appropriate money to
make needed repairs.
Mayor Jim is writing letters to the
council, which are receiving about as
much attention as though they were
not written. The mayor seems to have
very little influence with bis own ad
ministration. The Commercial club is finding out
that it has other functions besides
those ot attending to railroad rates
and la becoming more active in various
directions. This is an encouraging
sign.
The attempt ot the interested cor
porations to Isolate Douglas county
and estrange the rest ot the state from
It is now becoming apparent to all
Having been exposed, it is certain to
fall.
Kaorks from All Sides.
Baltimore American.
The troubles of th oil men are getting
to be almost aa numerous as thos of
the Ic man. Australia Is now on ths trail
of a branch of ths Rockefeller octopus.
Aa Kxaerat"t Notlaa. .
Indianapolis News.
From day to day w ax Informed by
xpsrts that th days of political bossism
ar over, but as yt no on haa heard of
any political boss applying for a Job at
real work.
Caaertaklas; a I an- Contrast.
Bprtcg-fleld Republican.
Tobacco smoking la prohibited on th
campua or within ths preclnrta of th unl
verxity of Nebraska, but under a rul Just
promulgated by Chancellor E. Benjimln
Andi-s tuiuU aha clii lubacce
be expelled.. This ruls would not have
been deemed good Americanism fifty years
go, but nstlonst habits In, this respect
bav a good deal changed sine then.
J Davis a a Thriller.
Loulsvlll Courier-Journal.
Persons who expected a thrill for their
J;dod nerve center from the entrance of
former Oovernor Jeff psvls of Arkansas
ln.to ths' senate may be doomed to dlsnp
polntment Mr. Davis hue announced an
antl-everlng clothes platform that Is as
conspicuous for banality as for boorlshncss.
Walt tor the Verdtet.
Philadelphia Ledger.
An Omaha Judge made forty-seven men,
HI of them rich and some of them million
alrs, stand for two hours whlls an Indict
ment agsJnet them for eormplrscy in rw-
traint of trade was being roaA Probably
ths shrewd Jurist figured that this would
be the only real chanos of dealing out
punishment.
Afraid of a gin re Deal.
Kansas City Times.
A fight may be made In ths innate against
the confirmation of William H. Moody for
associate Justice of the supreme court.
Many questions of great national Impor
tance will come before the supreme court
for settlement within the next few years,
and the "Interests" want Just as few square
deal Justices as possible.
Aa Amsalsg Pheaomeaea.
Baltimore American.
The Oil trust Is mnklng a pathetlo plea
to ths public for aid and sympathy In Its
troubles with the law. The sight of an
octopus weeping crocodile tears may In
terest the naturalist as an unusual phe
nomenon, but It Is feared it will only aid
to the gayety of an unfeeling publlo now
tn the full and delightful seat of the new
sport of "trust-busting."
Aa t'rtllftlna- Incident.
New Tork Trlbuns.
A neg-ro shoemaker was 'burled in Bum
mervllle, Oa., the other day. For forty
years he had been sexton of the white
Prssbyterian church, of which he was a
member. He bad the affection and rerww
of whites and blacks allks for his Christian
virtues, and his shop was Vthe resort of
mose in trouoie and In need of comfort and
counsel. His townsnennla
filled the church to pay th last honors to
uncie Bmlth Knox, and th white people
of the community will raise a monument
to his memory. If some wretched black
criminal naa oeen guilty of "the usual
crime" th news would have been tele
graphed all over ths country. May not- the
press of north and south do something for
the alleviation of the negro problem by
recording such indents as this, even
though they are lacking In sensational
quality, rather than by dwelling continually
uponthe misdeeds of the worst specimens
of the racer
BLOW FOR SIMPLIFIERS.
Wave of Spelllnc Reform Recede
from lah.
Pittsbursr Ii)tnt
Tt is doubtful If Dublin lntr..t v.
revived In the late lmni .n.mn. ..,
even by the news that the New York Board
caucauon has formally voted It down
M to t The United st..
court has looked askance at It, congress la
discussing a revolt aarnlnst rv....i ,
Record In hasht BngHsh: the newspapers
carefully restore th .. v..
- ....... uriun
8lving government reports to the public;
cannon naa left spelling to his
...ograpner and the rest of the country
"million aoout It.
The New York decision I nf !.,..
nut ov utr
cause ths change was recommended by the
school superintendent, and had therefore
a sort of official standing. Seeing that the
board would havs none of it. however,
Superintendent Mixwell urged that he only
desired If any children should adopt the
simplified style It should not be held as
wrong spelling. One of the board members
summed up the majority view when ha
said If any Individual adult wanted to
auopi ins new spelling he could do so; the
publlo schools should not be used to fasten
the dipt spelUng on helpless future gen
erations. Bo. despite the presidential tavnr k
spelling must await the slow procession of
the centuries. Those who
that way can do so If their correspondents
do not kick, but
crimination In the schools. If a child should
nui oe cnecaea ror spelling a word Car
negie fashion, why should it t u
a 8mlth or Jones fashion? In this matter
"peiiing rerorm one reformer Is as good
as another or aa bad.
A FAVORKD PEOPLE.
ar Plambs of Prosperity In Statis
tical Garb.
Washington Star.
As a people w Uk .i , .
- - w signs ot
our p. parity brought to our attentoi
We ar fond of th statistic t:.at r.ll up
Into the millions. We have become ratuer
used to mlHons. We have even be.un to
think In b.lllons. The tenth figure was
rare.y emp.oyed a o htury ago. In som
conipa.1 o..s recently compiled relat.vs to
American progress It occurred cnl, onoa.
i " m total wealth of the coun.ry was
estimated at .,u.0,O.w,XW. In .u It was
placed at Utt.uuo.uuu.ooo. mor than one
hundred times as much. Th nr ..l.i..
wealth, K Is comfor.L.g to know, grew in
mos u years rrorn tlM to over 11,261. Taat
Is on rsison why th individual Amer ca.i
likea to ae the figuies that teil tu aiory
of his affluence, botn as a unit i ,i.u
great community and as a o mlxr of. th
ricnei iuu in tn w ru. Just on mor
contrast of this same sort hn.nr.
on. showing that w ai not spe. d hrl.is
iu our amuenc. in lsuu there wi only
l.OJO aavlnga back depitora in th Un ted
fiutea, or on for evry t,3ul of th. p pU.
lation. while in 1906 th. war 8.00 JuJ de
p.'Sitirs, or oue for every Sixteen people
in in country, to avaiag of dep tits In
thU class of Ins I utljns ftll fn.m t.v. i
ltuo to about StUO in but th total
leaped from 600,000 to l3.3CO,0U),OOa
One of the surt slns of our g ewth
and prosperity Is famished by the statis
tics of railways. Accord n tn ni.llmi.u
calculat.ona by th I. te a . t C mmeros
com mi sion in preparation for the forth
c..m ng repo t in ral way ea-nlnir . th
20j, Oj m.lte if ioad c nstltutl ig abut t
p r leni oi in total uriiM durl g th I st
A ca: year t2.319,it.Oje gross, or ab ut 1 17 -ftW.I.?
net The gross arnlngi wer 10fd
a mil, ana me net earnings (3 M0.
Th aie hlg .Iy slgntftcant fig .ins. They
are even mors significant in t. 1 gh of
the fact that they represent heavy ad
vances over th e r p s l ui. Thus, th
net earnings for ths 1 st tlsotl y -ar ti e
$97,cO0, 00 1 rger than tt p vo s twelve
n.onths. That means that mo tf-di er
carried and mor people tr.iv ed, bo b,
Items standing for Increasing pro-porlty.
Will ths futur b as marvel us in its
own wayT What of ths statistics of a
century hence t Will our p esent d y won
deis of contrast our proudly exhibl e.1
signs of growth and gain bs shrunk Into
Inslgn flcir.oe by th - overwb I Ing to al
of 2UU&T Or have w gained air ady st the
most rap d pa po sl l-, leaving for f j-
ur gener-tl ns to score advances 'n ot r
directions than that of pi Ing up bl Hon f
If wi aa a paople ma nag In th next ceo
tu y io aolv our a cl l pro' I -ms aa aue
cersfully as we have a q - red ricres ''ur
Ing th hundred yra a n w pan. w w I
have In truth srniwl the nnlu f all the
' eerld as a estiva b eaed by fat
BITS Or WASHISQTOS LIFE.
Mlaor Sceaas aad laeldeata Sketched
a the Ss-at.
Commissioner of Internal Revenue John
V7. Terkes recently received a letter from
a farmer who wanted to know If farmere
would be permitted to make alcohol on
their premise "ae they manufacture
cheese." The commissioner, replied that
there was no objection to a farmer making
alcohol In his backyard, provided he es
tablished a distillery there. '"This offlce,"
said the commissioner, "know of no
processes by which alcohol can be manu
factured except by distillation, and aa
regular' distilleries ar the only kind rec
rgnlied by law, alcohol manufactured un
der th supervision of thl department
must be manufactured at 'regular" distil
leries. FVr your Information, howsver. I
will state that there la nothing mysterious
or complicated about a 'regular' distillery,
and that the manufacture of distilled spir
its at a 'resmlar' distillery Is probably
lmpler than the 'manufacture of cheese. "
Instructions ars given for the farmer
who wants to mak alcohol In his "back
jrard." He will b required to give bond
to prevent him defrauding the government
of the tax on spirits produced by him.
He will be required to establish a distillery
warehouse and to tax pay or d'-n-Uure, as
he may wish, th alcohol produced by him.
All of this will be done Unde governmental
supervision, but the gnvernment pays for
supervision. The manufacturer of alcohol
does not.
"If you Investlirat," wrlts the commis
sioner, "you will find that the manufac
ture of denatured alcohol 1 simply a busi
ness proposition, so far as the American
farmer Is concerned, and h will not be
deterred from the business by what you
term 'ridiculous red tape of the regulations
and Instructions.' "
Representative Nicholas Lorrworth, son-in-law
of the president, had some visitors
at his home at Eighteenth and I streets.
"Have a cigar," said Mr. long-worth,
wishing to do the honors of his home. He
went to his cigar humidor, a big, hand
some one that stands In his offlce. "I
have got some of the best cigars here you
ever smokod. You will enjoy them."
The door of the humidor was locked.
Mr. Longworth searched through his pock
eta and could not find the key. He looked
on hia desk. It waa not there.- Then he
ran for th butler.
"Open that humidor, plense." said Mr.
Long-worth when th servant came In. The
butler stood on one foot and then on the
other.
"Beg pardon, sir," he said, "but Mrs.
Longworth has the key to that case."
Secretary Bonaparte Is Just now the ob
ject of more attention by that class of big
lawyers of the country who are employed
by the large corporations than Is any other
member of the cabinet, says the Washing
ton Herald. The reason Is not far to seek.
In few weeka he will be attorney general
of the United States and will personally
conduct the prosecution of the Standard
Oil company and cases against other trusts
of huge aggregation of capital that aro
liable to be attacked by the administration.
Through their agents tn Washington the
big corporations lawyers In all parts of the
country are making careful Inquiry Into
the character, capacity and temporal quali
ties of Mr. Bonapart. They want to get
his measure before they have to face him
in court. The first thing they will lenm
of him is that he is an artlstocrat In feel
ing and deportment. He Is too proud t
be bossed and too cynical to be fooled.
No "Interest" or no person does or can
control him. He does his own thinking
and a very clear article of thought his
mental machinery turns out, too, with
barbs of wit and sharp edges of cynicism
that inflict smarting wounds on tie adver
sary who arouses his ire. Mr. Bonaparto
has never had a large law practice, be
cause he has been too busy wKh bis own
affairs, but h is a lawyer of profound
learning, great Industry and a genius for
detail. Whether he Is, ambitious or not. In
the sense that most men who get' Into
high office In th United States are, is a
question which even th very few persons
who are his Intimates are able to answer.
They give It as their opinion that he would
rather be attorney general than president,
and that with his natucal hatred of vulgar
and greedy rich men be will prove a terror
to every trust magnate in th country who
comes under that head.
For a good many years Speaker Cannon
has had critics galore, but ths one person
on whose Judgment he ever depended im
plicitly was his late wife. Mrs. Cannon
was kindly but severe in her criticism.
Many a time after a speech In th house
Uncle Joe, disregarding all other opinion,
went home to hear what she had to say.
Sometimes It was unstinted 'praise and
congratulation, but again there were times
when Mrs. Cannon would begin: "Well,
Joe, that Was vry good, but not nearly as
good as you are capable of doing. If you
bad given that on point a little mor
study and investigation you would not
have floundered about so in that last collo
quy you had," or, "Joe, you dragged mis
erably in your speech. That last story you
told was so drawn out that you quit lost
th point you wer trying to make. While
1 1 knew what you were driving at I be
j Uev I was In a hopeless minority la your
audience."
Francis Marlon Cockrell, formerly United
States senator from Missouri and now a
member of th Interstate Commerce com
mission. Is In a somewhat precarious con
dition, not having recovered at all rapidly
from his partial breakdown of a month
ago. He is compelled to remain closely In
his Washington residence and at th re
cent election, for th first time In thirty
years, waa unable to caat his vote. For
mor than thirty years he probably has
been the hardest worker In publlo Ufa.
Several years aero his physicians warned
him to perform less labor, but he disre
garded this admonition and even now his
family has a hard tlms to keep him from
overworking himself. He has not gon to
th offices of the Interstate Commerce com
mission for a month, but Insists upon doing
a certain amount of official work at his
residence every day, including Sunday.
It la generally agreed In Washington that
Viscount Blusu Aokl, ambassador from
Japan to th United States, la the spunk
iest diplomat ever aeen there. When the
viscount made his first call at ths State de
partment to protest against th separation
of Japanese from whit children In th
Ban Francisco public schools ther Is said
to have ensued th most heated colloquy
Secretary Root has ever hsd with a for
eign diplomat. The ambassador of his lm
perial majesty waa wroth all through and
he let th calm-tempered Mr. Root know
It without mincing words a bit Mr. Root
forthwith communicated with the president
and th result waa th Immediate dispatch
of Secretary Metcalf to Ban Francisco .to
look Into the situation carefully and make
a full report to. th president. Viscount
Aoki'a wife la a German of high birth and
he med to feel that th treatment ac
corded th children of Japanese at Ban
Franclaco was a personal insult con
stituting an International Incident of grav
portent
Overflow lint Air.
Chicago News.
People who prophesy war between the
United States and Japan may hav over
looked ' th fact that both . nation hav
ttatsoia who are ever years of
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rERSOXAI. NOTES.
Peary and Wellman are very good friends
now, but If one gets to the pole first there
will be coolness between them.
Seventy-two hunters were killed through
out the country this season, with some
back counties to hear from. The danger
of this sport must be what lends it sest
Louis N. Parker, the dramatist waa born
In France; his father was an American;
his mother an English woman; his first
language was Italian and he was educated
In Germany.
It Is said that the trustees of the Uni
versity of Chicago, at their next meetlan,
on February I, will elect the present act
ing president, Harry Pratt Judson, to suc
ceed th late Dr. William R. Harper at
tbe university's president. It Is understood
that John D. Rockefeller is backing Dr.
Judson.
Frank H. Mason, the American consul
general at Paris, has been designated by
th State department as an additional man
ager of the American commission now In
Germany to lnvesturate tariff conditions.
Mr. Mason is a tariff expert of wide ex
perience, and is especially well posted in
all matters pertaining to textile trade.
Prof. William M. Howe, son of Mrs. Julia
Ward Howe, Is being mentioned as the next
president ot the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology. He was graduated from
Harvard and also from the Institute. The
cxar of Russia recently conferred on him
the degree of knighthood of the Order of
St Stanislaus for hl achievements in metal,
lurgical science.
On result of Mr. Hughes' election to the
New York governorship Is to deprive the
United States government of hia services In
th prosecution of the eastern coal-carrying
road nnder the anti-trust law. Hia place
la. to be taken by George C. Todd of New
Tork, who has before been associated wit)
the Department of Justice In trust prose
cutions.
James J. Hill, president of the Oreat
Northern railroad, takes immense pleasure
In recalling that he cut the first stenoil and
marked the first barrel of flour ever manu
factured In Minneapolis. This was In 186$
or 1NG0, when he was agent for a line of
freight steamers running on the Missis
sippi. The particular stencil was kept by
the milling company for yeara, but at last
was destroyed In a fire.
LAMB DEFENSE OF TRIST.
Standard Oil Apologist Dodges tbe
Main Point. .
Chicago Chronicle.
Sometimes even great logicians will miss
the point of a question.
This Is eiemD fled In the case or a uiana-
ard Oil attorney who shows that prior to
th. nrs-anlsatlon of the trust the pries of
kerosene waa 46 cent per gallon, while
it la now 15 cents per gallon, ana mat as
against the former price of 70 cents for
lubricating oil the present price is IB cents.
"With these facts in view," ne sys.
whit s-rievance can th publlo have
against the so-called grinding trust T"
it Annm not occur to the lawyer mat mere
are other thlnfs than high prices that are
rx asainat trusts, and especially
against the Oil trust. He Tcasons that the
kerosene monopoly has reduced prices to
the consumer and that It has tnereuy od
talned a clean bill of health. That la a
non sequltur.
Wm have to consider. In ths nrst place.
whether the reduction In price would not
it the Standard OH trust never
had been organised; whether the reduc
tion wss not In spite of th trust rainer
than because of it Then we nave to con
whnther the trust did not employ
Illegal methods In crushing out competi
tion, and, most Important or an, wneiner
th trust by Its very existence does not
violate th law today.
Th... vinlderationa. it Is plain, are not
to b brushed asld with th mer aaor-
inn th.t th trust has reduced th price
of oil to th consumer. A man might ateal
a dosen gold watches and sell them at nan
th.ir value, but he could haraiy put in
th defense that he, hsd reduced the price
of gold watchea. The point wouia not oe
wall taken.
n It u with ths Kerosene trust. It can
not answer all charges by pointing- to the
price of oil. It must explain now it la aoie
to reduc the prlc. After that it must
explain why It perelsts in violating the
law which pronlMIS it irom oemg a irusi
at alt
Th Anrtrint, of the Standard Oil attorney
Is that the end Justifies the means. Have
you throttled competition? Oh, ye, but
w. h.va reduced prices Ar you a com
bination In restraint of trade? Tes, but we
sell oil at 14 cents a gallon.
if that mrt of a defense were valid no
larcenlst, grand or petty, ever would go to
ths penitentiary
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GIVES BIS CASE A WAT.
Army Caatee Opposed by DoetM
Who Cares tor Drsiaksrds.
American Medicine.
Th army canteen was discussed at the
recent Meeting of the soctlon on hygiene
of th American Medical association, where
It was shown that the sale ot beer In th
old canteen, though undoubtedly an evil,
was much less objectionable than th low
dives around army posts which it drove out
of existence. We can never reach perfec
tion In this world, and our whol live are
passed In selecting ths better of two things
or rejecting the worse of two evils. It was
assumed that every physician had that
much senae, yet ther were present som
who thought differently, and one speaker
actually stated that tit increase of army
drunkenness caused by th abolition of tbe
canteen was a step In th right direction.
What is the logic of that statement la
view of the fact that he makes hia living
by caring for drunkards? Should we pre
sume that to be the reason why h favors
an Increase of drunkenness? It is a shock
to know that h approves a principle of
prohibition whloh increases intemperance
in ths army.
PLEASANTLY POINTED.
"We are making a line showing this sea
son," pathetically murmured the railroad
president as he proceeded to count up th
penaille asHensed against his company for
rebating. Baltimore American.
"Jimmy's got a great schem to get out
of school thfse days."
"How does lie work It?"
"He goes out an' washes his face an th
teacher thinks lies sick an" sends him
.lume." Philadelphia Inquirer.
Tim There goes a man who has don
nuch to aroua the people.
Him Ureut IkUu- SK'tuiur, I suppose?
'I'lmNaw; alarm clock manufacturer.-
ew York -Times.
"Father," said the small boy, "what Is
'a prominent cltlsen? "
"'A prominent citiien.' my son, Is a man
who always has time to get up and mak
a speech on th slightest provocation."
Washington Star.
"What's that you're mixing, dear? A
cake?" asked Newllwed.
"No," replied his wife, "it started out to
be, but I think it'll turn out to be some
thing entirely new." Philadelphia Press.
Prospective Purchaser Is ther any way
to get rid of the odor of an automootla?
Lealer Certainly, sir. Always run tb
machine at a rate of speed sufficient to
keep ahead of It. Chicago Tribune.
"Can any little boy tell me," asked Pear
Teacher, "why theae are the shortest days
In the year?"
"My pop sex," spoke up Tommy Smart,
"It's because you have to spend so much
money fur Chrls'maa presents now." Bal
timore American.
"Th monarch of today ars wise Inthelr
generation," remarked th shads of Dio
genes, as he carefully filled hia lantern
with th beat automobile oil. "In olden
times the klnga used to keep fools; no
they let the fools keep them." lialtlmor
American.
DECEMBER.
Baltimore American.
Gone Is dreary, dull November; In Its plaee
is gay December,
With Its hint of Christmas sunshine and
Us boast of Christmas cheer.
"Tls the month of fetitWft graces, of bright
hearts and happy faces
"Tia the gladdest and tha merriest month
that comes in all ths J sax.
'Spit Its snows, 'tis always Jolly with Its)
mistletoe and holly.
Green and fresh as April's springtime, red
and warm as glowing June;
And the life it aeta a-hummlng, with th
cry of "Christmas coming!"
Has the sound of carols in It, and of bells
in merry tune.
'Tls the month of children's longing, land
the little ones are thronging
In anticipation eager of Its pUaaurg and
Its prlds;
8on will be all move and buatle, every
thing will hum and hustle.
In th happy work of getting ready foe
ths Christmastlde.
A DA If IN DECEMBER.
Maurice Francis Ean In New Tork Sun.
Cloer as th water In thos northwest
lakes
(TJke spruce-bound Huron, where th win
tergreen Seems set In crystal, and th glistening
sheen
Of cedar In the waves nw woodland
makes)
Is this fair day. Heart! Gay youth care
less wakes
Wood echors with its shouts; brown, rd
and green
Ar oak leaves and tb holly; you hav
seen
Ths fairy wind kirk puff balls, as tt shakes
Ths withered golden rod? O peaceful tlm.
O closing year. O rionned. sunnv duv.
When gon at all
tus caDrlcea of
spring
And languors of th summer, now th
chime
Of th last bell sounds near, yet far
away,
And clearer, clearer all dear memoriae
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