TIIE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, DECEMHEK 24,- 190G.
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VICTOK ROSEWATER, EDITOR.
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STATEMENT OP CIRCULATION.
State of Nebraska. Douglas County, a:
Charles C. Roeewater, general manager
of The Bee Publishing company, bains; duly
worn, says that the actual number of full
and complete copies of The Dally, Morning,
Evening- and Sunday Bee printed during the
montn or November, wa a louows
1 33,740
i 31,660
31,860
4 30,800
1 31.070
1 35.160
1 36,580
, 33.450
9 31.830
10 33,030
11 30,660
12 31,650
18 31,040
14 31,380
16 31,230
Total
Less unsold copies.
14 1."0
i; 31,90
j b0,8O0
II 31,480
to 81,770
21. ...f... 31.400
21 31,160
13 31,300
24 31,680
25 30,450
3S 31,400
J7 31,860
tl 31,480
29 31,550
10 91,030
.951,910
. t,87B
Net total sales t48,033
lally average 31,401
CHARLES C. ROSE WATER,
General Manager.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before me thia lBt day of December. 1906.
tSeal.) M. B. HUNG ATE,
Notary Public
when oi'T or TOWW.
Subscribers leaTlns the city tem
porarily should hmr TUm Bra
mailed to them. Address will be
changed as often aa resjeeated.
Christmas should be a day to con
tribute to the happiness of others.
It Is evident that olllcers of ' the
Twenty-fifth Infantry were never in
tended for detectives.
Having at last found a champion in
the local democratic organ Senator
Millard's candidacy for re-olectlon is
still In the hands of his friends.
The advertised Impression of British
army officers that Japan could Whip
the United States is corroboration that
American history Is not a strong
feature of British education.
Inquirers seeking information as to
what the Water board proposes to do
are respectfully referred to the board's
paid attorney paid, however, not by
the board, but by the taxpayers.
With Ireland demanding th prlv
llco of growing Its own tobacco,
American producers may be able to
sympathize with the Filipinos who
complain that their market Is re
stricted.
The discovery that islands in the Pa
clHc have changed'"shape will lead to
a demand for another appropriation
for charting the ocean unless prec
edents are to he disregarded In the
Navy department.
Congressman Klnkuld Is to make a
trip to I'auama In company with a leg
islative committee looking into labor
conditions on the canal zone. The
tropics ought to warm up the states
man from the big Sixth.
Omaha's weekly bank clearings are
almost up to the 112,000,000 mark
Our business houses and financial In
stitutlons must be driving a pretty
good trade to clear that much money
through the bunks in one week.
The "harnessing" of Victoria falls
In South Africa is to be accomplished
before "mere sentimentallsm" becomes
well enough acquainted with the situ
ation to insist that the natural beauty
of tho sceno shall be preserved.
If trouble between the organization
of firemen and that of engineers is to
be permitted to cripple western rail
roads still further, both sides will have
difficulty In securing that popular sym
pathy by which strikes are won and
lust. i
County Attornevwelect English an
nounces that he will take up the Coal
trust rases and push thein as soon as
ho aj.-uimes oftlce. Some of tho coal
dealers who figured on securing relief
by helping to retire Judge Slabaugh
from -the county attorneyship are In
dinger of being fooled.
Intoi state Commerce Commissioner
I.;: no does not exculpate the railroads
from blame for tho car shortage. The
railroad managers would be In much
better position to defend themseh''3 if
this troublo were not a rectVrrlng one
each succeeding 'year, varying only in
degree of hardship Inflicted on ship
pers and public.
A war 1 said to be on between the
Kotk Island aid the Burlington for
th mull contracts between Chicago
and Omaha, each claiming that under
the rules of tlie rostoffice department
it l. entitled to the award of tho big
ger part of tho west-conilng mail.
There may be a fight between those
two railroads, but If so it is more
lil.ely simply a friendly ronttst to see
wku tji the bluest pull.
TllK JUDKIAL VirtSlOX BILL, .
Indications ate at band that a su
preme effort is to be made when con
gress reconvenes to secure the passage
of the Burkett bill creating a second
division of the federal judiciary of Ne
braska. Tor at least six years the pro
moters of this legislation have been
scheming to get it through so as to
make places for friends who aspire to
appointments on the judicial staff and
they think now that they are within
reach of the goal.
The Bee is on record against this
bill from its Inception and sees no more
unification for It now than when It
was first proposed. It Is notoriously
place hunters' bill. The litigation
In, the federal courts arising in the
Nebraska district doee not warrant the
duplication of the costly machinery by
which the federal courts are adminis
tered and no one Is being deprived of
substantial justice nor inflicted with
unnecessary hardship under the pres
ent arrangement.
The fact Is that the court is required
by law cow to hold sessions In several
designated Interior cities In addition
to Omaha, but In no one of them, ex
cept possibly Lincoln, Is any business
worth considering brought up for judi
cial attention. Occasionally the court
dockets have been congested so that
the service of another judge assigned
temporarily for that purpose from
some other district has been called into
requisition, but the necessity of two
marshals, two district attorneys, two
court clerks and two sets of assistants
for each of them has never been ur
gent.
On the contrary, the usual dilatory
methods seem to have become so en
trenched that when a judge from an
other district, who has recently been
helping out here, insisted upon ex
pedition in the dispatch of business the
lawyers and court attaches acted aa If
they had encountered an earthquake.
Attorneys competent to pass an opinion
say that with one such judge bent on
expediting litigation the docket for
this district could be kept practically
clear, except on extraordinary occa
sions. Of course, in setting forth these
facts The Bee will be accused of try
ing to protect Omaha's selfish Inter
ests as the principal seat of the court
as constituted. But that Is neither
here nor there. Another federal dis
trict court for Nebraska would be sim
ply an unnecessary expense to the gov
ernment without any commensurate
benefits. Congress ought not to pass
the proposed bill no matter what pres
sure Is brought to bear by senators
and representatives stimulated by the
prospect of additional jobs to be filled.
GROWTH OF iiA til'FA CTt'RES.
The report of the National Bureau of
Manufacturers Shows that the manu
facturing Industry "has kept pace with
the general growth ofthe couutry.' tlje
total increase in the- last five years
having been at the rate of 30 per cent.
There is thus in the official statistics
a story of unprecedented expansion,
whether It be measured by the gain in
total property values, in agricultural
production, in freight tonnage or in
exports.
But though the export balance has
been growing, amounting now to more
than $1,500,000 a year,' and though
the proportion of manufactured com
modities to the total exports has been
Increasing, the bureau's report puts
special stress upon the fact that it is
not as large nor as rapidly increasing
as it should have been. Its report
make it clear also that the Increase of
exported manufactures since 1900 Is
far below the Increase In the total
manufactured output.
The Inference which Is emphasized is
that our manufacturers are neglecting
the foreign markets and that if manu
facturing Is to continue long to develop
on a solid basis such neglect must
cease. It is pointed out that in many
classes of Important wares, not only
Is the domestic market now fully sup
plied, but there is also a large surplus,
for which there can be no outlet ex
cept abroad. Yet so intense is activity
in tlhe home field that sufficient atten
tion will probably not be generally
given to the outside markets until
sheer necessity drives our manufac
turers to them.
1TICW ISTHMUS RuUTR OPEAED.
By the opening of the Tehuantepec
railroad a new transportation factor
of farreachlng importance has sud
denly become operative, although this
road of only 192 miles' length, the
route being about 150 miles north of
the Panama canal, together with ex
tensive terminals on both oceans, has
been in eourse of construction for sev
eral years. It did not, however, un
dertake to receive traffic until It was
In perfect readiness, not only to trans
fer It rapidly and cheaply across the
Isthmus, but also to operate two fleets,
one from New York and the other In
the Pacific to connect with San Fran
cisco and the Hawaiian Islands, so that
the instant tendency is to divert a
large bulk of freight which has been
carried by the old transcontinental
railroads or by sailing ships around the
Horn.
The construction of a new road
requiring so large an amount of capi
tal, in the face of the Panama canal
enterprise, emphasizes the vital rela
tion of the Isthmus to freight move
ments, and how rapidly' it is being
practically utilized. Engagements of
freight, which will begin to move Janu
ary 1, are so large as to tax the Initial
capacity of the new route which is to
be greatly enlarged. Hut the moat im
portant fact is that even the opening
of the Panama car.al a few years
hence is not feared by the interests
that have opened this route.
The deepening conviction i.i ts,, w
world's freight can be transferred
across the isthmus, whether by canal
or by rail, so much more cheaply than
by the old long haul across the con
tinent that the tonnage will tax new
facilities as fast ns they can be sup
plied. The success of the Tehuantepec
route would certainly corroborate this
view. Its chief feature Is provision
of the latest terminal equipment for
loading and unloading ships, with a
scheme for multiple tracks between
termini. The fundamental purpose
Is identical with that of the Panama
canal and suggests the immense effect
In prospect of the actual connection of
the two eceans by a waterway.
JVET BKSVLT VF CAR ISQVIRT.
The Interstate Commerce commission
has concluded Its necessarily hurried
examination into the Inefficiency of
transportation service apparently with
out having formulated any compre
hensive remedy. But the mere fact
of making the Investigation under the
president's peremptory order, in view
of urgent complaints of coal famine
from various localities, is already oper
ating to relieve the situation, because
11 roads have been stirred to put
forth extraordinary exertions. To this
extent the investigation has been
highly beneficial, and It has served
also to direct universal attention to
one of the crucial tests of our trans
portation facilities.
The whole hearing has been charac
terized ly a disposition on the part of
various interests to evade responsibil
ity for transportation shortcomings,
the raiiroads throwing the blame upon
shippers cr upon car manufacturers,
and tho shippers throwing It upon the
muds or the public. One interesting
phase 1h the charge which one road
brings Dalnet another, or all the roads
of one section against those of an
other of wrongfully withholding care.
But it is a noteworthy fact that no
witness, whether representing railroad,
shipping or any other interest, ap
peared before the commission to deny
the inadequacy of existing transporta
tion service. On the contrary, con
spicuous railroad men were foremost
among those most positively asserting
such inadequacy and depicting its
harmful consequences. This, therefore.
Is the serious problem to be solved
after the more pressing temporary
emergency shall have been met.
Undoubtedly the effect of the hearing
has been to create at least a presump
tion that no one factor is to blame
for the evil, but that all in one degree
or another have contributed to It. Con
sumers and dealers are negligent and
dilatory in ordering, and there is in
excusable delay in loading and unload
ing. But back of that the fact re
mains that the carrier companies have
failed to keep abreast of the country's
growth, lacking sufficient cars, tracks
and terminal facilities, and In Im
portant particulars not making econ
omic use of -tk means . at tiielr dis
posal.
It Is announced from Des Moines
that Colonel Bryan will soon deliver
there for the first time a new lecture
which he has already arranged to re
peat next Bummer at eighty-six Chau
tauqua engagementb. If, as is cur
rently reported, Mr. Bryan receives a
minimum, or even an average, of $500
for each lecture to which an admis
sion fee is charged, his income for the
coming year is already assured. In
this connection it Is only fair to give
simultaneous publicity to the state
ment made in the last number of Mr.
Bryan's Commoner to the effect that
he exacts no compensation whatever
for political speeches and that "his
campaign work Is a source of expense
to him rather than a source of profit;
for his traveling expenses amount to
considerable for each campaign and
his income from lectures Is cut off
while he Is at work in the campaign."
We rejoice to see prosperity smile
upon any of our fellow citizens, and
surely if the Chautauqua business
holds out at this rate Mr. Bryan's
hope will be gratified "to make
enough from his lectures and writings
during a part of the year to enable
him to devote the rest of his time to
gratuitous service."
Our compliments to Alexander
Johnson, secretary of the National
Conference of Charities and Correc
tions, for his unsolicited public testi
monial to the high character and re
liability of this paper. The Bee ap
preciates being appreciated, particu
larly by thoughtful and Intelligent
men like Mr. Johnson, who have had
an opportunity to observe and to judge
newspapers published throughout the
country. We are always glad to
know that the standing and Influence
of The Bee Is as high and higher
abroad even than it is here at home,
where It admittedly holds first place.
The prott-Bt against the juggled ex
hibit of the university funds is not a
charge of misappropriation, as Borne of
the regents Beem to think, but a de
mand that the money which they spend
shall all puj through the state treas
urer's hands the same as other public
money. The cash fund at the univer
sity should be treated the same as tho
cash funds at the other state institu
tions, which also receive money in ad
dition to what comes In from taxa-
j t on. The thing that looks suspicious
j about the regents position is that they
proUst so much.
The suggestion that the coming Ne
braska legislature do away with paid
chaplains in the two houses and call
upon volunteers among available min
isters to ask the daily blessing Is meet
ing with some favor. The suggestion
has been made, however, several times
before and received with equal favor,
but at tbe crucial moment two needy
clergymen constituents, of .some ambl-
tlous legislators bare put in a touching
appeal to be connected with the pay
roll and traded themselves into the
Jobs.
The payment by the Burlington of
its city taxes In Lincoln without pro
test for the first time In three years is
considered of sufficient imjKrtanre to
warrant featuring in the local papers.
The reason for this extraordinary per
formance on the part of the Burling
ton is not explained, but presumably
the amount involved Is less than
$2,000, leaving it no opportunity to
get into the federal court for an In
junction. A contribution of $1,000 has been
made by William Jennings Bryan to
the Lincoln Young Woman's Christian
association building fund as a memor
ial to his deceased el3ter. Here Is a
tip for the solicitors for the money
still needed to erect the proposed new
building for the Omaha Young
Woman's Christian association.
Governor Mickey seems to be spend
ing most of his time nowadays consid
ering applications for the libe.-iit.on tf
penitentiary convicts. The boarders
at the state prison must Have had no
tice to hurry up while the bare are
down.
From the Increasing number of dam
age suits being filed by cattle shippers,
the railroads may lose more in the le
gal departments than they have saved
In operating expenses by holding trains
until they procured the maximum
load.
raylnar for Mr t lafnr t Inn.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Fining the trusts may bo equivalent to
marking up the prlca of sugar, oil and Ice,
but the people are willing to pay some
thing even for this sort of satisfaction.
The Pinch Reciprocal.
Washington Herald.
A Nebraska coal dealer has been given
the extreme sentence for entering Into a
conspiracy In restraint of trade. Juries
and judges are not disposed to look leni
ently upon transgressions of the coal man,
with present prices and weather both pre
vailing. Blowlnsc Other People's Money.
Chicago Record-Herald.
A vice president of the Mutual Reserve
Life Insurance company has been sentenced
to the penitentiary for two years for doing
as he pleased with money belonging to the
policyholders. He naturally resents this
as an Innovation that is wholly unreason
able and in no wise consistent with the
doctrine of good will toward men.
Sasre Money to Good la.
Philadelphia Record.
Mrs. Russell Sage has given fifteen acres
of ground to Columbia university aa a
Christmas gift. The land cost $300,000 and
was a much desired addition to the prop
erty of the university, which It adjoins.
Considering the noble benefactions of Mrs.
Sage, It may be deemed an ultimate good
that her late husband In his lifetime was
such a successful gatherer-ln of the root
of evil.
"V-
Amnasaador Bryee.
Washington. Post.
If Imitation be the slncerest form of
flattery, the appointment of Mr. James
Bryce to be the nmhaBsador of Great
Britain "near" the capital of the I'nlted
States, which may be considered as settled.
Is Intended to flatter and please the Ameri
can people. Instead of sending us, as has
been customary, with rare exceptions, an
estimable gentleman like Lord Pnuncefote
or Sir Michael Herbert, a gentleman trained
in the forms, traditions and etiquette of
diplomacy, the government has selected to
represent it here a man eminent as a his
torian and publicist, prominent as a politi
cal leader, and an Influential member of
the liberal government at the present time.
This Is certainly going one better than we
have ever done.
THE JOVIAL s.A.M'A.
Splendor of III Popularity In.
dimmed by Time.
Collier s Weekly.
Santa Claus Is a stout, elderly, conserva
tive, self-made sulnt, with a Jovial tem
perament. In type plutocratic. His wealth,
If tainted, has never been theodorlzed or
subjected to the germ analysis of Mr.
Moody. Why this Immunity? His gifts
are, In the main, unnecessary and unequal.
He givts to the slender starveling a tin
whistle, to the stuffed rlchllng a golden
automobile. His Christmas cigars ore
notoriously violent, his mementos In the
way of slippers, gloves and dressing coats
often do injustice to the human form di
vine. Yet nothing we can say, In truth
or malice, can dim the splendors of his
popularity. Suppose ha should become
sensible, useful, necessary; suppose iie
should withdraw his flood of little gifts
and devote their value to some humane
Institution, like a Home for Honest Poli
ticians or a College for Domestic Ser
vants. Would the world bless him? No!
In a week we should class him among the
robber barons. The world, though a wise
and temperate planet, refus-.s to be in
structed or Improved at the present season.
Hall, therefore, to St. Nick! liilh, bravo,
and likewise banzai!
SALVATION AHMY FI AMES.
Chancellor Andrew' Criticism Re
ceives Killtorlul .oport.
New York Evening Post.
Chancellor Andrews of the I'niverslty of
Nebraska is the late.-t student of philan
thropic methods to join In the criticism of
the Salvation Army and its methods, which
began publKly nt the lust nr.tlonal con
ference of charities. "The Army's meth
ods," he says in an open letter, "are vicious
and pauperizing, and are calculated to
make your relief work a plague." He also
censure the Army for its failure to niuk"
a satisfactory statement of the disposition
of its funds, or to submit Its accounts to
the Inspection of any outside committee.
There are suggested here two entirely dis
tinct lines of. criticism. That a lurge
amount of the Salvation Army's work is
in the highest degree efficient and pialse
worthy, we suppose that all Its critics
would concede. Its Industrial homes, "res
cue work," and farm ' colonies appear to
embody the "self-help" principle quite as
well-a must private charitluv, and better
thud many. Iiut an orginizatlon which
appeals for and receives wide pub lie sup
port ought to be able to show sound
principles, aa well as practice. The good
work of the "Army would not suffer from
full discussion of the Inadequacy of Its
financial statements and the autocratic
powers which go with Its effective quusi
milltury organisation. It may be recalled
now thut a wealthy Englishman once of
fered to endow Ocueral Booth's work with
a Urge sum et money on condition of
Mr. Huxley's approval of its methods, but
his approval was withheld for much the
same reasons that Dr. Andrews and others
are bow advaucibx in this country.
ROt SU AUDI T SEW IOI1K.
Ripples on the Current of Life la the
Metropolis
One of many perquisites enjoyed by of
ficials of Greater New York Is free tele
phone connection with their homes. The
value of the great modern convenience Is
generally conceded, but appreciation Is en
hanced by the absence of the monthly bill,
which runa from 1 1.1 to JJO In the metropolis.
Connection with the homes of department
chiefs Is deemed necessary for the dis
patch of public business, but why all
subordinates should ba favored likewise
raises a largo Interrogation point before
the ryes of men who hold the city's purse
strings. Comptroller Metl wants to know
why the city should foot the telephone
bills of the small fry and demands to be
shown. Meantime the bills are resting In
capacious pigeon holes.
"If Henry C. Frlck has paid $2.T0.nnn for
the city block which contains the Lenox
library building be has acquired the most
costly residential site In the Cnlted States,"
says the New York World. "Not thirty
years have elapsed since the completion of
the handsome structure which James Lenox
designed, with reasonable expectation, to
be his monument to posterity. Now, less
than a generation later, It Is snuffed out
to give place to the mansion of a man
whose fortune was then lying burled In
the bowels of the earth. Is there any ro
mance of steel Ingots more Interesting?
"The bonanza kings built their palaces
on Nob hill and made San Francisco a
world's show place. I'ork and wheat king
have reared pretentious homes on the lake
shore drive In Chicago. Railroad and real
estate and brewery fortunes have given
distinction to New York's house architec
ture. But it has remained for the steel
and copper kings to attempt the highest
flights of architectural ambition. Mr. Car
negie's Italian palazzo, Mr. Schwab's
French chateau and Senator Clark's mu
seum of architecture mark successive
stages In the rivalry. To these Mr. Frlck
Is now expected to add something that
will overtop all else In magnificence, aa the
site he has chosen exceeds the others In
costliness. What will It be a Blenheim,
a Trianon or a doge's palaoe? The public
will look to him to say the last word In
ostentation."
A New York lawyer has been compelled
to abandon an accident suit against the
Intcrborough Street Railway company upon
the discovery that his client, the plaintiff,
Is a woman and net a man, as he had
believed her to be for more than three
years. To add to the attorney's perplexi
ties. Mi strange client has disappeared.
In January, 1S03, a friend asked the law
yer to take up the case of Gus Selb, who
had been injured by failing from a Fifty
ninth street cross-town car. The client
came to the attorney's office and related
"his" story.
She gave the name of Gus Selb, and
there was nothing In her appearance that
suggested the feminine sex, unlesn It was
her unusually large brown eyes. Se was
dressed neatly In a black sack suit and
her hair was cropped close to her head.
The lawyer began suit for :,000. The client
was working as a waiter In a restaurant
When told that the case would soon be
brought to trial she objected and said
she wanted It settled out of court, but she
wanted more money than the company
cared to give.
The lawyer engaged a physician so that
testimony could be offered of the Injuries
caused by the accident. The physician
discovered the woman's sex, and when told
that she must submit to a physical examl
nation she disappeared.
New Yorkers no longer marvel at the
great ocean vessels- that steam into harbor,
When a stfanger points with admiration
to a great ocean palace the Gothamlte will
say: "Walt; they're building a much big
ger one." The Great Eastern, the mart
time wonder of fifty years ago eald to be
not only the largest that ever was built,
but the largest that ever would be built
was 60 feet long and 8J feet beam, with
gross tonnage of 18,916, and engines of 11,
0U horse power, enabling it to steam thir
teen knots per hour. The Lusitanla, the
mammoth of the Cunard line that Is now
in Clyde water, is 7W feet long, 88 feet
wide, with a gross tonnage of 32,600. It la
to have engines of 68,000 horse power, and
will travel twenty-five knots an hour. The
Lusitanla la thus 100 feet longer than the
Great Eastern, five feet wider, with prac
tically double the tonnage and speed, and
more than six times the engine power.
Nor Is this the ultimate In marine con
struction. Not to be outdone by its British
rival, the Hamburg-American company has
given an order for a vessel to be finished
in 1M08 which is to be SCO feet long on the
water line forty feet longer than tho
Lusitanla, with a beam of 90 feet and a
gross tonnage of S5.000. The engines to be
Installed will exceed 70,000 horse power, and
the plan is that the speed shall equal that
of the Lusitanla. Size and speed are to
be combined in the new monarch of the
sea, for In addition to being the biggest
things afloat they are to be driven through
the water a knot and one-half taster than
the spt-ed of tho Kaiser Wllhelm on its
record trip.
"Certain Items of local news substantiate
New York's claim to be the most cosmo
politan city in the world," remarks tho
Evening Post. "Paris has nothing to show
In actual living ethnic diversity that ap
proaches the following gleanings from a
few days' hni.enlngs in New York: (1)
On the Fast Side the Jewish consumers of
kosher meat have struck against the prices
exacted by the retail butchers, and these
in turn have uglted against the tyranny
of the liovf trust. (2) The appellate term of
the supreme court heard pleadings In tho
cuse of Joseph McCullough, who sues to
recover the sum of $71.26 expended for meat
and drink consumed at the wake of his
uncle, Peter McCullough, which expenditure
the executcrs refused to recognize as neces
sary. (3 In the Bohemian colony on the
upper East Side there Is strife bctwuen
the free thinking section of the community
and the pastor of a Presbyterian church
of the san.e nationality. The latter has
been threatened with assassination, so bit
ter do feelings run which weru first en
gendered when John Hukb and Jerome of
Prague assailed the Roman Catholic
church. t4) In Brooklyn there wus enacted
a sudd-n "Cavallerla Rustlcana," a
verlstlc as V'erga ever made his story, when
Ruffaele Frauscse, 21 years old, ali-w his
brother, Andrea, ag;d 18, after winning
away his bride from him. Semite and Celt,
Cz.eh and Latin New York can sl.ow the
working of racial trait and passion dally
within Its own gates. The author who
scours the world In search of variegated
local color could save money by putting up
at the Waldorf."
8me years ago lmuel Ely Qulgg, then
a congressman, express d the opinion that
the police commissioner of New York C.ty
should be "an intelligent despot." The
Idea was ridiculed th'n, but Mr. Qulgg
del Ives some satisfaction from the knowl
edge that tbe grand Jury of New York
county haa made a reconiniueidatlon ap
proaching somewhat closMy In his view.
The commissioner, says the Jury, should
hold ofllce for at least ten years and should
be removable only upon proof of charges
which he has had opportunity to mest.
Able to Do a. I.lttle Iloalnea.
Indianapolis News.
In spite of that Immerse loss Mr. Rocke
feller sustained as a result of a slump
In the stock market, he and Mr. Roger
seem to have picked up $1'. . In rail
road bonds without siralnln tbemselvts
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Rushvllle Recorder: It will be Interesting?
to watch how the legislators will handle
the party pledges at Elncoln In January.
There Is one thing certain and that Is ft
any monkey business Is attempted, the
people will know how to act. We believe
the voters of Nebraska have come to that
par where they Insist upon being repre
sented and not flap-doodled every time
their Interests come up. They are deter
mined to run their own affairs, and the
railroads must be prepared to give and ac
cept a square deal. Nebrnskans will no
longer submit to being political slaves.
Rushvllle Recorder: While a great deal
Is being urged In the matter of passing a
direct primary law, some of the papers
are beginning to point out that what Is
needed la attendance at the primaries when
they are called Instead of leaving It to
the towns to put up all the politics. This
should not be. but there Is only one w:av
to settle that question and that Is for
those who have the privilege of voting; to
get out and do It. If they do not think
enough of the privilege of voting to use
It, they should be disfranchised under the
law. Nothing kills like Indifference. It Is
the cause of a very large percentage of
public grievances In every state of the
union.
Tekamah Journal: A few democratic
newa. ap. ra in the west, nota' ly among ten
being the World-Herald are editori
ally so puerile as to belittle the work of
Secretary Shaw, because he was a "country
banker" from Iowa, Tho World-Herald
get Its strength a a " metropolitan, news'
paper from the money these country bank
era" handle. These country bankers are all
of them Influential men who take a deep In
terest In the welfare flf the country. The
city banks depend upon the country fellows
aa their main source of deposits. Whit
would Omaha's banks amount to if It were
not for their country connections. They
would fare poorly If their country friend
did not turn cash and securities their way.
The World-Herald can be In better buslnesft
than in belittling the Intelligence of the
"country bankers."
Lincoln News: Senator Millard, who
never had any real acquaintance with the
people of Nebraska beyond the city limits
of Omaha, still falls to realize that he Is
down and out. In an Interview given, on
hi return home from Washington for the
holidays" he modestly asserts that he can
accomplish more thnn any other man whom
the state might send to the senate. Senator
MUlnrd declares that his membership on the
public buildings committee and ti e facMha
he Is chairman of the Panama canal com
mittee give him "pull" In securing Ap
propriation for Omaha. Nobody will dis
pute this, nor will It be questioned that his
whole activity ns senator ha been along
that one line; but Nebraska has other Inter
ests than this, and after March 4 next they
will be looked after In the senate by E. J.
Burkett and Norrls Brown.
Jlowells Journal: If at some future time
the voters of Nebraska rise up In righteous
Indignation and pass some drastic legisla
tion which shall place a heavy hand upon
the railroads of the state the manager
of those great corporations will have only
themselves to blame. They are certainly
doing everything In their power to Invite
trouble. Take the action of the B. & M.
and tho Union Pacific railroads In fighting
the payment of their Just taxes, that in
Itself should be enough to arouse public
Fentlment and set the people up In arms
against a rank Injustice. This editor be
lieve In treating the railroads right, but
he thinks that the roads should In turn
give the people a square deal something
they are not now doing. We repeat, they
are bringing trouble down upon their own
heads and sume day the storm will break
and they will wish that they had exer
cised better Judgment and a little more
common sene In dealing with the people of
Nebraska.
TUdcn Citizen: The usual quantity of
gratuitous advice Is being given to the leg.
Islator who early In the coining year
Is your baby thin, weak, fretful? S
Make him a Scoffs Emulsion
baby.
Scoffs Emulsion is Cod Liver
Oil and Hypophosphites prepared so
that it is easily digested by little folks. ',.
Consequently the baby that is fed on
O Scoff s Emulsion is a sturdy, rosy
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Just think ol your whole home from the
basement up being more comfortably heated
this winter than ever before. Picture to your
self that cold room or hallway belnR just a
makes heme bright and
will be called upon to formulate laws tha
will make every man rich at tho expense of
his fallow. The work of the legislature
will be more than ordinarily dlffcult; so
much has been promised by the republican
platform and so much Ir expected of thn
representatives and senator that there Is
grave danger of the passage of bills that
may defeat the purpose Intended. Public,
sentiment Is so thorouKhly aroused against
the high-handed and lawless acts of Incor
porated capital that the wisest counsel ami
mature Judgment will be required to pre
vent tho enactment of laws simply hostllo
to great business interests that aie a neces
sity to Nebraska's progress. Shrewd and
crafty workers will administer to the
prejudice and cupidity of law-makers, while
clamoring constituents will form a powerful
stimulus In the opposite direction. Hut with
all sentiment and, extraneous motives elim
inated, the passage of laws that are whole
some and Just, or to the contrary, rest
upon the erring human element. To sirlko
a happy mean between prejudice and bias
1 one of the hardest tasks for energetic,
Intelligent humanity to accomplish, but this
is what the republican legislation Is ex
pected to do, and the result will prove
whether or not Nebraska made a mistake
at the last election.
liAlGIUMM fiAS.
"Do you deny that this Is your wife's
slgnalure on the back of this cheek?"
"lxi mo see it. No, that imVt her writ
ing. Site never wrote anything yet with
out adding a postscript." Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
"There Is one quotation from Iongfel
Iow'h 'Excelsior' which would muke a good
molto for that railroad bill."
"What Is that?"
" 'Try not the pass.' "Baltimore Ameri
can. "Yls, ma'am," said Bridget, "III bo
l'avin' ye. I d.in't like thut snip of a dudo
thot does be caHin' on Mlas Mabel."
"The. Ideal" exclaimed her mistress. "He
doesn't call to see you, so what "
"1 know he don't, ma'am, but I'm afraid
some o' the neighbors might think he doeB."
Washington Herald.
Lenders By the way, that 15 bill I loaned
you
Iiorruught-:I haven't forgotten, old man.
Don't worry; I Hill have It in mind.
Lenders Yes, but don't you think it'a
about time you relieved your mind? Phil
adelphia Ledger.
TOO LATE.
Ninna Irving In Leslie's Weekly.
'Twas Christmas ve and hitter 'cold.
The snow was falling fust;
The Icy branches creaked and moaned,
And shivered In the blast.
He trudKed along the frozen road,
A lad with yellow hair.
Who bore a bundle on his back
And hummed a merry ulr.
When last he trod those hills and daK-s
It whs a summer day;
The birds were singing overhead.
His heart was light and gay;
His dreams were all of sunny islea
And billows bounding free,
And, heedless of his mother' tears,
Ho left her for the sea.
But after many a weary month
Of hardship, toll and puln.
He longed to see athwun the dusk
The lights of noine again
Old Tray, the collie, by the fire
In his accustomed place,
And at tht window, best of all.
His mother's smiling face.
He drew a picture as ho went
Of walls with holly bright,
A cory table spread for two
With linen fresh and whit".
And while the lale of foreign lands
And stormy sens he told.
His mother's loving, wrinkled hand
I'pon his curls of gold.
Tho dizzy flakes had ceased to fall,
ne nuaineu nis eyes to mara
The glimmer of the lamp-lit panes,
But all was still and dark.
No Joyous hark rautf out to greet
I HO I l pi MB Of yui
The coid white snows unbroken lay
Around the silent door.
II.' saw onon tho snowv sill
A wreath of Immortelles.
And then his ornhaned erv arose
Ahove the t'hrl!ma bells.
Ills mother's lonely watcn was o'er;
No mere to v eo or wait.
She walked In glory with the stars
tie nal returned too lute.
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