THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY. DECEMBER 20, 1906. The Omaha Daily Dee, FOINDKD BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROHKWATER. EDITOR. Kntered at Omaha poetofflce second class matter. TKRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Pally Ree (without Sunday), one year. 4 00 Pally Hee and Sunday, on year Sunday Bee, one year Saturday Hee, one year -M DLUVUtKU BY CARRIER.. D.illv Hee (Including flunday, per week.-ISo Dally Bee (without Sunday), per week. ..loo 'veiling life without Sunday!, per wwk. M fcvenlng Hee (with Sunday), per week. ...loo Address romrlalnl of Irregularities In de livery to City Circulating Department. OFFICF.9 Omaha The Hee building. South Omaha City Hall building. Council Bluffs 10 Pearl Street. Chicago it n t'nlty building. New York IK Home l.lfe Ina. building. Washington 601 Fourteenth street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to new and edi torial matter should be addressed: Oman Dee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to Th lie Publishing Company. Only 2-eent stamps received a payment of mall irtnunti. Personal checka, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE HEE PL'P.LISHINO COMPANY. STATEMENT OP CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglaa County.": Charles C. Koewaler, general manager cf The Hue Publishing company, being duly sworn, as that the actual number of full nnd complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bea printed during tha month of November, 11(06 waa aa follow: 1 33,740 It 31,180 i i 3i,6o aio 2 31,880 It 30.800 4 30,600 l .0 fi t 3170 10 31,770 6 38.180 21 31.400 1 38,50 2: 31,180 8 33.450 28 31,300 9 31,330 24 31,880 10 33.030 2i 80,450 11 30.660 26 81,400 12 31,650 27 31,860 IS 31.040 IS 31,460 14 31,980 It 31.680 IS 31,030 80 31,830 Total 881,810 Less unsold copies.... 8,878 Ket total nlea 843,033 Lally average 81,401 CHARLES C. ROSE WATER, General Manager. , Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me thl lat day of December, 1908. (Seal.) M. B. HI NUATE, , Notary Public ,WHE1 OCT OF TOWN. Subscribers lam viae tha eltr tem porarily a boa Id hare Tha Bea Mailed to theaa. Address will ha eliaaaed. aa oftexs aa ra.eld. Ia compelling Governor Folk to sue for hla nalary, St. LouIb apparently regrets the reputation the attorney gave the town. It transpires that "the unwritten law" 18 not a Tecognlaed defense In tuurder cases as they are tried in' the courts of this vicinity. lhe discovery that rubber can be made from wheat was doubtless made by the patron of a factory where pies are made by machinery. With call money at 25 per cent the Hlll-HarrlmaV interests should have little outside t interference In their fight for new St.' Paul stock. Thirteen Is again an unlucky num ber this time for the baker's -dosen of creditors who have to look to Count Boni de Castellans for their money.. When enough- cars shall have been found, the real problem will be to get men to operate them, as the shortage of experienced' trainmen remains un broken. Now that famine stalks in China, those legation guards at Peking should polish their swords, as the hungry man is always dangerous, even in the Flowery.klngdom The report of the Interstate Com inerce commission shows that no divi dends have boon passed because of any effort to provide for the safety of pas scngers and employes. The showing Colonel Chamberlain makes for the sale of beer in homes for disabled veterans will probably be the signal for a demand that "the beer halls must go." With estimated gross receipts of about $1,000,000 from Rosebud lands and net receipts of about $800,000, the Indians are liable to consider Uncle Sam an expensive collection agency. "Jim'1 Hill should have no trouble in proving that there Is no water in his proposed Issue of Great Northern stock slnco the showing must be made in Minnesota, where all water is now Ice. . . Now that congress knows all that the president knows about the San Fran cisco school affair and the Browns rr;ie incident, the public will be inter ested In seeing its suggestions for im provement.. With dlplouiuts demanding the with drawn of Kaisoull and Raisoull de manding the withdrawal of the war ships, the sultan ot Morocco seems tailed upon to decide between bom bnrdnient or revolution, with chances la favor of both. Omaha's prospects for 1907 building operations are said to be as good, it not better than at any previous year's cad. As' lung as our business and copulation continue to increase we will have; to have more buildings with which to accommodate the Increasing demand.. . According to figures compiled by iiu state auditor,' th state paid during iVio last two years interest amounting U $190,22$ on Its warrant lndebtud- noi ,a. This represents, tt 5 dot cent, a to jstact "flouting debt of nearly 5,2,000,000. It Is Interesting to note that the State constltutlta sets $100, tJOO as the limit t- vhuh the state can !oriuw. in Uiu wf tkco hTJTt vsivrnsiTr tlXAMtS. The official estimate of the regents of the state university for appropria tions at the hands of the coming leg islature recently made public proves upon anal)sls to be a carefully juggled exhibit, evidently designed to conceal Important sources of university rev enue with a view to procuring In creased state appropriations. The un iversity estimate, for example, leaves out of account altogether the money which the university receives from the federal government out of the Hatch and Morrill funds. It also leaves oat of account the cash funds, made up of matriculation and other student fees, which during the last blennlum amounted to over $100,000, and will doubtless exceed that sum during the next two years. It also leaves out of consideration a number of smaller spe cial appropriations which are really absorbed by the university, such as those for farmers' institutes, experi ment station work, state historical library, etc. It is incomprehensible why the uni versity regents should not be perfectly frank with the legislature and the tax payers as to the university finances. There is no disposition anywhere to cripple the university or to hamper Its operations, so far aa they respond to legitimate demand, but there is a wide spread and growing sentiment in favor of complete publicity of all university transactions, financial as well aa others. The university appropriations have been increased in the last few years by leaps and bounds until they amount to a colossal sum, and with the other sources of revenue make the university expenditures equal almost to all the other expenditures of state government. The taxpayers certainly have a right to insist that all this money shall pass through the state treasury end be drawn out pursuant to specific legislative appropriation upon war rants, safeguarded the same as for other appropriations. The university ought to be able not only to pay cur rent expenses, but to erect its new buildings from time to time with even less than the mill levy which it has been receiving. The Increase of the basis of assessment has increased the value of the university levy tremen dously. To ask for additional ap propriations for the university out of money raised by general taxation is going It decidedly strong. . FVBL1C LAUD DM If REFORM. ' . It is perhaps too much to hope for a reform of the public land laws from the present short session of congress, but the president's special message states once more in forceful and un controvertible fashion the imperative need of it. It is, indeed, in part no new revelation, for the abuse of the land laws has long been so notorious that the failure of congress to provide adequately against It is inexcusable. But the president's summary of the fresh official disclosures of the ramifi cations of fraud where'oyj vast arid most valuable portions of the people's heritage hav.j been alienated ought to stir the national legislature to action. The purpose of the homestead law and of the timber, stone and desert land acts was beneficent, but It is for that very reason only the more intol erable that these laws should be longer permitted to be prostituted to robbery of the intended beneficiaries and to criminal enrichment of powerful rail road, mining and cattle corporations. . The . penalties ot the criminal code are, Indeed, being inflicted on some of the conspirators, but, after all, only comparatively few will be reached, and while some of the stolen land is be ing restored to the public domain, it Is at best only a small part of the whole. What the stenchful and disas trous situation requires is thorough recasting of the land laws, and it can not be done too carefully. THK STANDARD UlL PRUSECVTWSS. The government does not attempt to conceal Its anxiety over the point Interposed by attorneys on behalf of the Standard Oil company In the crim inal prosecutions for rebate violations, fpr, if sustained by the federal court. It would cut the ground froin under the cases and also from under prose cution of Standard Oil or any other offender for violations committed be fore the new rate law went Into effect and" which was not pending In court at that time. As no prosecutions Were then pending against the Standard Oil and very few against other corpora tions of like character,-- the issue is vital so far as the penal sanctions of the old law are concerned. The point la one of abstruse and purely technical construction and grows out of a clause In the new rate law obviously Intended solely to pre veat embarrassment to the govern ment In rebate prosecutions actually pending in court at the time of the enactment of the new law, Its pur pose being to strengthen It aud by no means to repeal the old law touching all past offenses, like those of the Standard Oil, for which prosecutlous had not yet been Instituted. But by reason of unavoidable circumstances In signing the act, in connection with certain decisions of the supreme court, a basis was laid on which the defense has constructed a strong appeal for a ruling that would have this sweeping result. A serious phase of the matter Is precisely the on which proved fatal to the government In tho famous Beef trust casts, namely 'hat the govern ment would havo no appeal If the lower court hold3 for the Standard Oil I contention, although tha decision might In fact be error and might be t- found ly tl'e isi;rre.no turt If the pui..t could bo icticwed oa the ptosc- cution's appeal. The failure of con gress In the previous session and so far In the present one may thus be decisive of the Issue. Though the government hopes for a favorable ruling, the public will not fall to be profoundly impressed by a contrary result with the fact that the Oil trust has placed its chief reliance for escape from Justice upon the merest technicality, which has no legitimate bearing whatever upon the question of actunl guilt. It will not in such contingency pass unheeded that a trivial technical flaw In the manner of passing the law, either In fact or In the Imagination of a trial judge, should at one fell swoop be con strued to wipe out the whole criminal past of renowned corporation offend ers, although the paramount purpose of congress was exactly the reverse. ft anything were needed to bring on a day of reckoning such a colossal fiasco would supply It. THE LIFE iSSUHASCE STRUGGLE- The struggle lor control of the New York Life and the Mutual Life Insur ance company under the new law pro viding for election of directors by the policy holders baa been the most ex traordinary in the history of the great life Insurance companies. Two par ties, representing the old management on the one hand and Interests striv ing to oust' It on the other, have In their canvass for the votes of the policy holders maintained organiza tions which confessedly required ex penditure of huge sums of money which policy holders themselves cer tainly did not furnish. It has been widely surmised that in the back ground were powerful antagonistic financial interests, apart from the legitimate purposes of life insurance, contending for mastery over the vast trust funds and resources, although tho ostensible representatives of both par ties have vehemently protested that such was not the case. The contest has been waged with such Intense bitterness that a declara tion of the majority of the policy holders, no matter for which side, seems now not likely to end it, since both have laid foundatloji for contest and continuing the struggle in other ways, and it 1b believed by competent observers that fresh investigations, judicial and legislative, are to follow. The essence of the whole effort for feform in the big life insurance com panies has been to prevent abuse Of their trust funds, and it was for this purpose that the law was passed pro viding safeguards for election of di rector 8 by the policy holders t'o whom those funds belong, and in whose in terest alone they should be adminis tered. It is therefore a disappointing and unpleasant impression that has been created of dominant Interposition by other interests hostile to stock holders in the very Bret election held under the reform law. It Is, however. absolutely certain that public senti ment, has reached a point at which perversion ot these great trust funds to the behests ot "high finance" after the manner exposed in the Armstrong investigation will not be tolerated, and Buch a result. If It has happened in the election, will be only a signal for more drastic remedial measures. . If the railroad lawyers thought they were playing a smart trick by select ing for argument ot the railway tax cases the same day on which the Ne braska legislature will ballot for United States senator with a view to embarrassing Attorney General Brown, they will doubtless find that they have fooled themselves again No member of the legislature, who would take advantage of Mr. Brown's absence to repudiate the state con vention nomination and the popular Instruction at the polls, would stand hitched any tighter If Mr. Brown were on the ground. The Nebraska State Fair board is going to ask the legislature to put Its appropriation on the basis of a per centage mill levy on the grand as sessment roll of the state. If the leg islature is wise It will do nothing- of the kind, and it it Is foolish enough to accede, we will have a repetition of the' old fable of tho camel sticking Its nose under the Arab's tent only to push in further and further until he was In, hump and all. If the board wants an appropriation let it say how much it thinks Is needed and then let the legislature say how much it will lve. , , , Out of some $28,uuo belonging to the members of the Third Nebraska regiment collected from the federal government, a legal intermediary who acted as claim agent will pocket $5, GOO hs his alleged commission. This Is an outrage upon the patriotic volunteers who enlisted in this regi ment. Nebraska maintains two sen ators and six representatives at Wash ington drawing regular salaries, who ought to be able to collect all the money due the state of Nebraska with out hiring outside assistants. Congressman Norris ventures the opinion that there Is no difference be tween any of the Nebraska senators or representatives aa to the principle of dividing Nebraska Into two federal Judicial districts so as to provide more Jobs for another set of court officers. If Judge Norris is correct, the more's the pity, for there Is about as much need tf the llurkett bill as there Is for a fifth wheel to a wagon. The charge lb made by one ot our r'fcTOOcratic city councilman that the men cn ti e street force are simp! loitering and receiving even more pay than their work Justifies. Inasmuch aa nil of the city men arc selected from lists made up by the counrllmen. It ought not to be hard to locate the responsibility for this state of affairs, If It eslsts. Why not hsve a few able- bodied, vigorous men employed on the , street force who can give full value for money received? Japanese remembrance of the Maine does uot show that high regr.rd for the United States with which the in sular kingdom has been credited. 'Twould be better for all concerned if they would think only of the Yankee Who "lifted the lid" a generation ago, I The new office of gas commissioner which the democratic city council pro poses to establish Is to be maintained on strictly civil service lines. we are sure, however, that we violate no confidence In announcing that none but democrats reed Apply. Connie In and More. Chicago News. Anv mllronil mirnnU 1 1 h omntv hnr care concealed about hia person will please hurry them to the northwest loaded with coal. Japan's Mllltnrr Load. 8t. lo'ils Olobe-Dcmocrnt. It may be true thnt Jnpntt has decided to maintain an nrmy 750,000 strong, but such a tate seems expensive In a country where straw overcoats are common. A True Bine. Springfield Republican. Secretary Bonaparte's anti-trust views enrne late In life, no doubt, or since the year 1W, hut he Is now true blue and can be depended upon as an attorney general. The president Would never put Into that office a man who had cold feet, when the corporations were mentioned. Where Silence la Becoming;. Rroo'-'yn Eagle. "Tho Chief Juf ;lce of Pennsylvania" could better have replied to Ellhu Root's plea for national supremacy, had Penn sylvania been ene of the states in which commonwealth and local government had been vindicated by Its results. Pennsyl vania has not furnished, and Is not Itself, such a vindication. Knocks for tha "Yahoo." San Francisco Chronicle. The United States expends on an average for military purposes nearly 3fX),000,000 an nually. If there is opposition to disburs ing so large an amount for the mainte nance of our army and navy, it receives scant attention, but when It ia proposed to spend 150.000,000 or $00,000,000 a year on the Improvement of our rivers and harbors, every "yahoo" in the country begins to denounce the extravagance of congress. Amaalnar Losses by Fire. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. In the last five years the United States hhs been more than a bllllon-dollar coun try In conflagrations. ' The largest Items were J292,0OO,0OO In Ban Francisco In April, last, and $90,000,000 ia Baltimore In Febru ary, 1901. A billion dollars, according to the engineers' estimate, would build five Panama canals. Most of the fire loss In this country could be prevented if the people would Insist on reforms In building and Inspection. Inheritance Tax Laws. Bprlngflald Republican. . About half the atates of the union have Inheritance tax laws, ao the federal census bureau finds, but only half a doaen of them extend the tax to direct Inheritances, and then at a very moderate rate. Neverthe less these taxes are now sufficient to yield $10,0CO,O00 or more of revenue. It would not be rash to conclude from this that if i these taxes were extended to all the states and graduated to the extent suggested In the Perkins bill before congress, an ag gregate yearly revenue of $100,000,000 or ao would result. But calculations of this na ture, however much they may excite the cupidity of the national government, will also the more strongly array the several atates In opposition to a surrender of the tax to the Washington authority. FAMOIS IX NAVAL ANNALS. Death of the Builder of the Confeder ate Ironclad Merrlmac. Springfield Itepubllcan. The maker of the celebrated confederate Ironclad Merrlmac, Colonel John Mercer Brooke, has just dlfd at Lexington, Va., 42 years after he and Ericsson revolution ized naval warfare. Brooke had been a young officer In the United 8tates navy when the civil war began, and was note! for his Ingenuity. Following Virginia, his native state, out of the union he Imme diately devoted himself to devising a new type of Ironclad warship for the con federacy. France and England had al ready produced Ironclads, but they were simply old-fashioned steam frigates sheathed over with Iron. Brooke In his design cut away the high free beard and masts and Introduced the novel ironclad ateam ram. It was a wonderful success, as the Merrlmac's easy destruction of the wooden squadron of the federals at Hamp ton Roads fully demonstrated. Only the sudden appearance of the unique Iron 'ad Monitor, designed and built by Ericsson at the saire time that Brooke was working, cheeked the Merrlmac'a conquering course. Colonel Brooke has never received, prhapa, enough credit for his performance In I ro duolng that crude Ironclad, considering It merely In Its relation to the deel pment of naval warfare. IXUERPAID POSTOFKICH CLRRK8 Faithful Servants Kntltled to a Hqanrr Deal. Minneapolis Journal. The postofflce clerk is not getting a square deal. After he has prepared himself for a civil service examination and hits secured his appointment, lu? usually commences wi rk us a substitute with the p.osiKCt of occasional though not regulir employ mint. Even when he gets a regular pos.tlon, ho begins at a sulury of $y) a year. Advance.! in pay of $Uu a year are made, but do nut come regularly. A postal Clerk m.iy worn several years at !'- without an increute or he may huvc an inrrtutv annua. ly unll his wuges amount tJ l,00 or $l 10) u year There Is no certainty or regularity, hi , ever, about the increase and comparatively few reach the l.0OO or Jl.lio lgi:e. A great majority recoivu I'joo or Via aid the ad vance to Km) or more only coiue aftjr years of service and when the clerk have be mo advance J in years and often tiav several peisous dependent upon them tor their living. That this is very meager compens.itl m fcr skilled woik and years of txi.enencj will conceded ar.d the InJ'jullee and l.areislilp which tt Involves tire made the nioro conspicuous by the fat thut there hia been practically no increase in the c.i of the jostofflce clerks fcr twenty yea a Tho present n'. lod e'f hljjh prices and great ly increased expor.f for all the necer.tj of life finds lhe postal clerk no better pre pared to meet them fian he wa twe.ty years ago. Th.;- result cf this lollcy Is to deprlva tha government of many of Its most 'Ul;n' n. en In the postal service. They can't i ff tl to work for "t'ncle' Sum" beciuse he is not willing to puy them m-arly as much as they can gut lu vutalde position ROIKD AROIT KRW YORK. Ripples aa tha erreat at l ife la the Metrnaella. A few weeka back New York critics p"lnted the ftnaer of acorn at the build re of the Pennsylvania atate Capitol, and wnn virtuous wrath denounced them aa shame- leaa a rafter The Keyatone atate tribe merely reached Into an overflowing tre.is tiry fur f9,uoo,i0 In exchange f.tr a brand of fixtures, furnishings and emblematic decorations, Including bmse Ottilias aold by the pound, furniture Bold by the foot and atalned bay wood tor fnaho.any. Now those same critics ate spieling In a different key. They have discovered a brand uf architectural s"'' at home that nar.non- I ies oeauuiuuy wmi mo graue ik-vbhijith In Tennf ylvanla. Critical Insjectlan of the new hall of Records revel p:ilntd plastor substituted for marble, artificially molded cement In place of sculpt'ited Parian, and other marked departuies from the plans. All these cheap imitations of the real thing are high ab:ve tho floors and readily deceive all but the eyes of experts. The Hall of Records was begun almost ten years ago. The land on which It stands Cost ll.S41.B53. The building itself, includ ing decorations, furniture and maintenance, has cost so far $G, 144,61 3. 73. Tho interest on the gums and the rent of qunrtera for the offices now housed In the building (a rent to be calculated at abnormal expense during the last five yeirs, approximates a grand total of $!0.0MO0O, according to the comptroller. The Capitol at Wa-ihlng-ton cost $1S,OCO,IXXI. The Congresloml li brary at Washington, covering acres of ground and regarded as one of the finest buildings In America, cost only $5,74,,X). The Boston Public library, with Its wealth of decoration, coat $3.9W,0IX). The Broad Exchange building, the langest office build ing In the World, cost $5,SO0,0O0. The Park Row bulldltiK, the tallest office building In the world, thirty-two stories high, with its WO offices, was ready' for occupancy In one year from the laying of Its foundations, at a coat of $i,750,000. The Trinity building, twenty-one stories In height, with Its BOO rooms, was ready for occupancy In a year, at a cost of $2,760,000. The St. Regis hotel, the most magnificent hotel In the world, waa completed. Including nenrly a year lost In strikes, decorated and equipped In four years, at a cost of $5,000,000. The Waldorf Astoria, with Its 1,500 rooms. Its magnificent decorations and its elaborate devices, cost $5,000,000. The flow of American cash from New York to Europe for Christmas reached the top record last Saturday. The Celtic, which sailed on December 12, carried the largest mall ever sent from New York. This con slated of 4,083 sacks of mall, containing 80,5.14 registered articles and 4,197 articles In the parcela post. On December 20 of lost year the Majestic carried the largest mall of the year, with 1,227 sacks aboard, while the Cedrlc, sailing December 6, carried the largest registered mail, or 61,227 pieces. In the Celtic's mall on Wednesday were money orders that reached the total of $905,048.8, In 58,853 orders, or an average of $15.50 for each. The largest amount went to Great Britain. This was $27S,S38. To Italy went $143,973, while Sweden came third with $,eO0. Austria received $s!.of and Hun gary $80,000. The Hermans In America for warded to the Fatherland $RB,000, while the Norwegians sent home JM.OOI. Denmark re ceived $13,000 from her sdns In this country, while Switzerland was sent $10,000. French residents of America contributed $9,000 to the homegolng Christmas fund, Belgian res idents $5,000, while to Holland went only $2,000. The smallest sum, $136, went to Lux emburg. Other small Bums went to Egypt and Portugal. Following the Celtic on Wednesday waa the Auguste Victoria, which sailed a day or two later. It carried $422,12!. Saturday tha New York sailed, enrrylng $529.4:3. Of the sum carried by the Auguste Victoria $181,744 went to Italy. $SS,0OJ to England. $31,000 to Sweden, while Egypt received $9.76 and Portugal came last with $5. Of the money sent on the New York $163 937 went to Great Britain, $76,558 to Italy, $46.00 to Austria. $32,000 to Sweden, $29,0TO to Russia. $52,000 to Hungary, $44,000 to Germany, $2.C0O to Norway and smaller amounts to other countries. The total amount of the money carried by the three ships sailing last week was $1,858,614.27. . The "telephone game" Is being worked In the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. The game consists In the operator betting somo cheerful "come-on" that he has a friend, a professor, "Who can read any card In the pack over a telephone. The swindle Is carried out by. means of a code, every card In the pack being designated by some common name of a man. When It comes to deciding the bet the operator simply calls up a confederate on the telephone, and he tells the card selected. By way of example, take the ten of diamonds, the codo name for whteh Is "Marvin." "Is Prof. Marvin there?" Inquires the operator. After some delay "Prof. Mar vin." the confederate, begins a series of small talk over the 'phone, which finally winds up byt the "professor" Informing the dupe that the car he holds In his hand Is the ten of diamonds. The game la generally carried on In sa loons, tobacco stores, barber shops and other such places. Some of the medical fledglings at Belle vue hospital menace to find amusement even In the Ills of the people who flock to the Institution for treatment. An old negro woman entered the reception room on morning last week nni stld she felt "mighty sick, indredy." When the docfr who was summoned examined her he could find nothing the matter with her. "What seems to bo the trouble" he asked. "I's? sure I has gastritis, doctor, 'cause l's got an awful pain In ma stimack," re plied the woman "Do you live near a gis houfc?" he Inquired. "Yes. I live rlpht across the street from one nnd dat's what makes me think I'se got gistrltls." an swered the old woman. "Welt, take this bottle of medicine heme with you." suld the doctor, "und If that gastritis is not gorfo In a week come back here again and I'll amputate your stomnfh." The old woman thanked him profusely and took the medicine alone with her. t A coffee wajron hns been added to the equipment of the fire department. The vehicle will r!pond to all third alarms, with a crew of three men, one of whom will mate indw!"h'.'s and brow coffee. Tho wason Is the result of a sug'testto'i made by the firenieu the:ris-lvcs, who td' Commissioner Ijintiy that on freer'ng il.tvs i f winter, when they were obliged to ftlit emir big blate. they would Ilk? to have method of warming the In.ier man. The comniisslo.isr thought It was a good I dm, had a wagon ir.adc ,ind has assigned three llremen to do duty With it. It !.aa eften been the custom of gener ously disposed poiaons to take Lot coffen to the llremen, and In fact a temperance oraniiatlon has hud a eoffee wagon fol low the tlre'nen around on occasions. Tbo mcmlMrs of the depinment sny they do not care to be the objects of charity. Smile Thut Wouldn't uie Off, Chicago Record-Herald. At the recent Ciridtri.n club dinner In Wuahington K. 11. Harrlman bud Ktuy veftnt Msh were compelled to flee ea h oUier while Jocular remarks were made fcv tbo other guests concerning the recent eon Hit for control of the llllnolt Central. It Is said that Mr. Harrlmaa smiled. lik the Cheshire ck Thin you too thin in lo look pluftipef'--root it you Eive mod pounda of good now do this without Faces ( -v Plump ond i-V'r'v arid"1 Figures sPleasing Are Won d lOtoAJ You caa failure. A WOOiicTt lot food hat bee produced that it aocomjilaaing lesa pcple. lu name is 7T as A FOOD-NOT A MCOIOINB Not a cure all, l-ut a flnh maker. It is a concentrated vegetable fat and March, rr-Jy to be taken quickly into the tyitem. It is the iliorteat and iinerf rout to Beth. W are aMoiuieiy coo Meat that PEPTOL will iacrease your weight. We oannot Uy ,uit how many pound yoa will $ia the nrst aiontn, but we do positively guaiaotee that yoa will gaia in flesh. II you do not your money word aloae tulhce. Sign frptol It far sal k letdisf drag tores. Pretest the ceoaoa belew ! the draffijt. Name- Address. TO THE DRUGGIST. Afore 1 hare signed my nrwiu) is one dollar lor of rsptol. It is asrwd Peotol rerularlr for ons and do not train in weight. K report th cirtwirtianci full to the Peptol Co., they will authorise you to ruund my money. PERSONAL NOTKS. Mr. Harrlman has plastered his estate with "Keep Off" signs. As he alms to own the whole country, this exclusive spirit may be embarrassing In time. William E. Sanderson, tho new republican mayor of Bprlngtleld, Mass., Is a "boss" In the yards of the Waeon company, car manufacturers, and haa worked for day wages all his life. The New Orleans Picayune loving cup, an annual award to the cltiien who has done the most meritorious service for the city of New Orleans In the preceding year, was presented to Charles Janvier last week. Every man who could present nt the box office a certificate from his wife that he had never told her a He waa to be presented with a free seat at a flrJt per formance In a New York theater. The house was crowded and every scat was paid for. 'Nuff sed. Representative Malcolm R. Patterson- Of Tennessee, who was last month elected governor of hla state, haa resigned as a member of the house, In which capacity he gave hla state little service. He was absent all of the last session, conducting his campaign, and has actually served only about two weeks of his present term In the house. Closely following President Roosevelt's advocacy of honest criticism of Judges comes the Bar association of Allegheny oounty, Pennsylvania, with the public dec laration that the Judges of that section are laxy positively and irredetunably laxy. In formulating the charge tho luwyrra dis creetly omitted the customary salutation, "May it please the court. The new president of Bolivia, Colonel Ismael Montes, Is a young, progressive, energetic, patriotic man and takes an en thusiastic interest in enterprise that are now Inaugurated for the development of the country. His father waa one of the ablest generals of Bolivia, and he himself has quite a record as a soldier. Before entering politics several years ago he prac ticed law. INCOME TAX TALK. Boat Powerful Snpporters of tht Proposition Heard From. Indianapolis News. The Income tax ie llndlng soma powerful friends. Adolf Busch, the St. Louis mll llonahe. Is o,t In an Inttrvlew favoring it, und he makes a strong aigument. He thinks that wc ought to reduce the tariff, and, though the Income tax, make the rich pay their proper share of the co ;l of administering tho government. "Any man," he says, "with money ahould b : ashamed to oppoec such a rearoiv.ble and Ju:'t obligation." Tho whole s.tuit.on would, in his opinicn, greatly imprcve If "tho masses . were convinced that the moneyed Interests were not evading u. single -debt they owed to their govern ment." W'-t think that the Income tii Is emi nently fair, and that until cne Is Impose the rich will not pay their proi er pro portion f the taxes. Federal taxes are practically all cn consumption. And the poor rruin with a family pays vastly mora Into the treasury than Is paid by a wealthy bachelor. Men are taxed on their needs rather thun on their properly. And this, of course, Is most unfair. .Taxation sluuld have some reference to the ability of men to py. We do not favor the tax ing of a man simply b cause he U rich. But neither do we favor dlacrimlnation In favor of the rich such as we now have. But there Is one point that has been overlooked, and that Is ths needs f fie troasuiy. Taxation ought to be tlm.ily for the purpose cf rilslng rcverue for the support of the governme nt. At t'ie present tlm? the government ne--ds no mora revenue. 8o there Is no proper or scientific basis for niiy new taxes. To Imtui'i an In c rv- mi1 an Inheritance fix t the prrs:it tltiie would be simply to Increase th s'tr- nam btkS J gL. ' month M 3 Convalescent need a large amount of a g nourithment ia easily digested form. O O Scott'jr Emulsion is powerful 55 Cm nourishment hirrMv rnnniM.j V o j t It make Hnnrv Usw,4 s , w.vmai , oui putting any tax on the dlges'.ion. A ALL DRUGGISTS. BOo. AND ino Made face or form Do vnu attractive, hesllhirr) sn thine if vou could add ubusnti.ti firth to vour frame rvltira ore cent in cje of will be returned ana your the coupon and suit loosy. Tag Feptel C., First Natwaal Stall Baildiai. Ckicsge, lU. Laboratory, Battle Creek, Mick, plus, and thus to take money out of th ordinary channels of trade. Plainly, there fore, the first thing to do Is to reduce Soma of the present tuxes and to abolish others, and then look to those new tax a, both of which are Just and fair, to make good the deficiency. A needless tax Is as bad as an unjust tax. .We ought to be able to show, not only that an Income tax Is fair which Is easy to do but that It Is a necessity. It will be Impossible to make much hendway while the government has more money than it can use. The peipla Will ask why there should be any new Lixee while, the government has a large surplus. And the question can not be answered. SMILING LINKS. "I notice you are an enthusiastic advo cate of the rato bill, Mrs. 8p-irer,b." "What do you mean, Mr. Jokem?" "I pe'ccivc you ara already cutting dowa the fare," Baltimore American. 'Are you In favor of government owner- i fahlr. ,'ulloriVH?" "No," answered Parmer Cnrntnee, "l ain't lothei In' much one way nor the other. I have had claims atiln the railroad -an claims anln the government, an' It was a stand-otT which got settled first." Wash ington Star. The plutccrat What are you crying for, boy? Haven't you everything for Christ mas that you thought of? The bov Yes. but tboohoo) I wanted some things 1 didn't think of. Brooklyn Life. "They arc talking of reforming the dip lomatic service," . "In what way?" "Filling the places of the married dip lomats with bachelors. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Tyre (yswning Oh, let's go horned Klubb What, and establish a dangerous precedent ? Tyre How do you mean? Klubb Why, it's only 11' o'clock. Phila delphia Press. "The typewriter nt our office," Mr. Sharp was explaining to the caller, who waa thinking of buying a machine, "is what they cull the visible kind." " 'Visible:' " snapped Mrs. Sharpe, enter ing Just In time to hear the cloning remark, "She's conspicuous!" Chicago Tribune. "Have you any family Influence you can bring to bear In getting your son this elec trical position?" "Do you think that Is really necessary?" "Of course It Is; to succeed In the elec tric it business, a iiihii must lie able to com mand good connections." Baltimore Amer ican. "Why don't you get somebody to indorse your policy?" asked the polltlcallly. "My friend," answered Senator Sorghum, "so long us you can get Ml the licl mo ments you want on your notes polities don't make such a lot of difference." Washing ton Star. SI(jS OP TllK TIMF.S. Chrlstmua is cumin. How do 1 know It? ICv'rvtlilng round me seems fer to show It; Ma goes n shoppln' 'meet ev'ry day. Oets lots u v birguns; gee, I .should sayl 1 ackages large an' packages xmall, rieems they keep comln' uh' don't stop at nil. Plster Is sweet to her on'rlest benu, ' 8;iys lie's a dear, but we know It ain't so; Ma's tnkln lesson In holdln' her tongue. Pa steps so Jaunty an' tries to look young; Brother Ted gave Ills old skates to the nmir That'll h dead cinch he is schemln" fer more. Fv'ry one works, even father, these days; Long abo-.it Chrlsmus we find that It pays; Mary Livlna, while don' the dishes, r'tops to write down on paper her wishes: An' I If ( 'lirixmiis don't runic purly soon, 1 11 ernand with hot air like a circus balluan. "Now, ma, can't I pet y.m n bucket of crtal? Is the wash boiler leakln'? Ixt me fix the hole; An1, dear Auntie May, can't I mall that letter? Well, grandma, how are vou, I hope you feel letter; Say. father,' can't 1 help you saw up that wood?" I simply can't stand It I'm i-ettln' so good. C"lir!!"fr i!" If cumin' how d. I know It? Kv'rytHn- round me sccui fer to show It; If It dnon't make h ii', 1 11 pro up purty soon. lrcr I'm filled with hot air, like a circua hulloon BAYOLL, NIC TltKLJS. Or aha. December, i:.0tj. wiiuaicu, a, 1 ojiu muscie wun 1 two lQ"n-lri 'fr' I