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TIIE OitAIIA DAILY REE. THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1907. The Omaha Daily Bee. FOUNDED BY EDWARD HOSE WATER. VICTOR R08EWATRR, EDITOR. Entered at Omaha postoffios second class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Be (without Sunday) one year Dally Bee and Sunday, one year Sunday Be-, ont yaar Saturday Bee. one ear 14 00 no IM 1.50 DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Dally Pee (Including 8unday), per w"k-'i Dally Bee (without Sunday), per '" Fventng IM (without Sunday), per Lvening Bee (with Sunday ). Perwfek ." 3. Address romplalnts of Irregularities in as llvery to City Circulating Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. Bouth Omaha-City Hall Building. Council Bluffa-10 Pearl Btreet. Chicago 1640 Unity Building. ., New York-1608 Home Life Ins. Building. Waahlngton-601 Fourteenth Street CORRESPONDENCE. Communlratlona relating to new; and edi torial matter should be addressed: Omana Bee, Rdltorlal Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal raer, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only i-cent stamps received In payment or mall accounts. Personal check, except on Omaha or eastern exchangee, not accepted. THE BEE lfBLlSHINO COMPANY. 8TATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Slate of Nebraska, Douglas County, as: Charles C. Rnsewater. general manager of The Bee Publishing company, being duly ewora. says that the actual number of run and complete copies of The Daily, Morning, Evening and Sunday Pee printed during the month of December, 1908. wae as iuuuw. 1 31,870 17 33.870 2 30,160 I.... 31,610 4 31,710 K 31,700 31,890 7 31,880 t 38,080 t 80,630 10......... 31,760 11 38,160 12 83,060 It 31,880 It 81,760 ( 31,760 tO 38,670 tl 31,630 12 31,900 2 30,860 24 ", 26 31,800 26 38,120 27 31,770 21 31,810 it 81,880 14 31,890 10 16 33,170 tl II &0,400 Total Leaa unsold and returned copies . 30,800 . 31,810 .988.380 . 8,841 Net total 973,149 Daily average 31,391 CHARLES C. ROBEWATER, Oeneral Manager. Bubacrlbed In my presence and sworn to before me thla Slat day of December, 1906. (Seal.) M. B. HUNQATE, Notary Publlo. WHE.V OtT OF TOWK. Subscribers leaving the eltr tern porarlly should have The Be mailed to them. Addreaa will be changed aa often aa requested. Since Mexico has reached the stage of frequent strikes, its material prog ress can no longer be denied. Chairman Hull's prediction of greatly Increased cost of maintaining the army should make peace confer ences still more popular in the United States. The charge that the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific were competing lines before the merger finds its chief support in the fact that they have been merged. , Great Britain's .desire for assurances of international peace must mean that British taxpayers are beginning to con sider the expense as well as the glory of Dreadnaughts. There is danger that- the alleged plot to murder army officers at Fort Reno may cause Senator Foraker to wish he had dropped his resolution be fore he took It up. It will be difficult to convince the old-time cowboy that Wyoming Is not becoming effete since a man has been actually convicted of murder for kill lng a sheep herder. Russian bureaucrats are still paying the extreme penalty for holding office, but so long as moths seek the flame men will find the favors of royalty compensation for the aftermath. Mayor Dahlman declares that for sixteen years he has never missed chance to celebrate in honor of St. Jackson. . He might have added that he never missed a chance to celebrate. no matter In whose honor. i; ' I Testimony at Washington that enirt- j neers have not always known where to expect block signals gives ground for the belief that the alleged "sys tem" hag been of more value as an ad vertising scheme than as an operating device. , The discovery by an expert that 2,604 errors were made in the records of the Wabash railroad in two months raises the suspicion that the expert got the books intended for public inspec tion in place of those on which divi dends are based . Senator Overman's defense of the system of employing children In fac tories can be. easily understood when factory conditions in North Carolina are learned; but North Carolina has tever been prominent In the movement or a "new south." Douglas county has fared fairly well In the allotment of committeeship placet at Lincoln. If the legislature will do the right thing now by the bills in which thla city and county are specially interested, the people here will have no right to complain. Senator Burkett has made his debut as an author by putting forth a volume on the history of "The Congressional Cemetery." Senator Burkett should be careful about touching live wires unless he wants his next literary effort to revolve about "The Political Ceme tery." Governor Deneea of Illinois asks tor aa amendment to the banking laws of the state that will provide more adequate protection against fraud on depositors and creditors. If the laws are not changed he might see how a change in state bank uuunlners would afftiit the altuatlo PAt rnsr-siB afterwards. The proposition fathered In the Ne braska legislature by Representative Lee to engraft In the law relating to revenue and taxation the doctrine of "Pay first sue afterward," proceeds on the right track. Two of the big railroad corporations with large mile age extending through nearly every county In the state have for three suc cessive years refused to pay their taxes and gone Into court to enjoin their collection. The railroad tax shirkers want the privilege of cutting down the taxes levied on their property 20 to 30 per cent, while other people are compelled to pay what the authorities ask of them promptly and without dis count, subject to all the penalties of delinquency. It Is true the railroads have gone Into the federal courts as nonresident corporations with reference to all counties in which the amounts in dis pute are over the 12,000 necessary to give federal Jurisdiction and that they have not had the nerve to go into the state courts in the counties in which the amounts In dispute are less than $2,000. It is not conclusive, either, that any rule the state may lay down would ie' binding upon the federal courts "now or In the future, but the practice of the federal Judiciary has almost Invariably been to follow the precedents set by state laws and state tests In such cases. If the railroads, and all other taxpayers for that mat ter, were barred from enjoining col lection of their taxes and required to pay them in first before maintaining suit to test their validity, they would have trouble In getting any federal court to come to their relief on pre tense that they jwere being deprived of their property without due process of law, while refusing to take advan tage of the privilege offered them to recover back any money illegally ex acted. The "Pay first sue afterward" rule has been proposed in Wisconsin and in California, both of which states have had more or less trouble collecting railroad taxes resisted by the roads on the same specious pretexts put for ward In Nebraska. If our legislature ill take action along this line It will probably set the pace for other states whenever similarly afflicted. JVO CHANCE FOB SUBSIDY. It now seems certain that a subsidy for American steamships, which a few months ago promised to be one large measure of positive legislation to go on the statute book at this session, stands no chance of enactment. Two newly developed facts have so strengthened its opponents in congress as In all probability to place the bill at their mercy in the short remaining time before adjournment. The more recently discerned fact Is monopoly control by the Harrlman combine over great steamship lines both in the At lantic and in the Pacific which would come In for a big share of the govern ment aid on a tonnage subsidy basis, which was the basis originally pro posed. - Such disclosures of the In vestigation now in progress, it is en tirely credible, tend to alienate many who might have supported a broad subsidy policy. Furthermore, it bad just previously been established that the number of steamships ' between ports of the United States and South America is more nearly adequate than had gen erally been supposed and that the number Is likely to increase as the freight increases. But the proposition to substitute for a tonnage subsidy the plan of a bonus for mall carrying service, with a view to more intimate communication with the southern countries, at once offended the strong est positive force in favor of subsi dies, the same being the ship building and allied interests, which would pre fer no measure at all. ti. . At best. It would have . required united support, reinforced by the strongest administration pressure, to secure enactment of a moderate ship subsidy measure at this session, but the progress of events has been such as to discourage rather than promote success. In all probability postponing the whole subject to the Indefinite future. TREK PASS AND PASSCSQER FARE. It is noteworthy with what alacrity the two closely related measures for abolition of free passes and reduction of passenger fare are Introduced and pressed as fast as the various state legislatures convene, precedence being given to them in almost every in stance. It is true that bills of this character have been Introduced at many Besslons heretofore, but usually In a perfunctory way and with no se rious expectation of enactment. The state legislatures, now sitting, almost without exception, face a pub lic of an entirely different frame . of mind as to these and kindred subjects, to whom also' their, members for the the most part are under the obliga tions of explicit covenant., Congress has led the way by summary inhibition of free pass discriminations so far as interstate travel is concerned, and several states have already struck down the abuse within their Jurisdic tions. But aside from the political corruption and demoralisation, which alone call loudly for universal aboli tion of free transportation, the public Is obviously entitled also to the re sultant economy in the shape of lower passenger fares. - There can be no doubt that as to the greater portion of the country the t-cent-per-mile maximum, with no free passes, is a highly compensatory passenger rate. Indeed, that approxi mate standard Is already In force through competition in an extensive region in the east. No reason has yet been shown hy the roads. If relieved of the Immense burden of deadhead ism, may not carry passengers under a 2-cent limit at an even greater net profit than heretofore In the two tiers of states west of the Mississippi river as well as In those east of it. v But public sentiment Imperiously demands that the free pass abuse shall go, root and branch, and no legisla ture can without recreancy in xbviou8 duty fail to enact the necessary laws, thus establishing the condition calling for limitation of passenger charges. The lack of such limitation would be In effect a vast continuing bonus to the carrier corporations for abolishing the old free pass abuse. BUBKETT8 GRAZING LAND BILL. Senator Burkett Is proposing a bill (apparently with the acquiescence of the president) to relieve the strained conditions in the grazing land country, which will doubtless command the early attention of congress. As outlined in the dispatches, the Burkett bill provides for classification Into grazing districts of such parts of the public domain as are not suitable for cultivation or for Irrigation, or for forest reserves or other special pur poses, and the use of this land for the grazing of cattle on such terms as the secretary of agriculture shall pre scribe. The intention of the bill evi dently is to open up the public lands to pasturage of animals upon payment of a fixed price per head and without discrimination between the big cattle barons and the little cattlemen. Presumably nothing Is to be done to prevent bona fide settlers taking up land under the homestead law, even though included within the grazing districts. If not, this should be stipu lated in the bill, because while ready to promote the live stock industry In every reasonable way, the people of the west do not want anything done to shut out desirable Immigration. One weak spot in the bill on which a difference of opinion may be ex pected is its retention of the land titles indefinitely in the government. No Improvements, except of the most tem porary character, will ever be made upon the public domain, and so long as no patent is taken out no taxes will ever be paid on it to the state govern ment. A tremendous discretion Is also in vested in the secretary of agriculture and his subordinates in fixing the con ditions and charges for entry upon the grazing lands. The Burkett bill seems to be very solicitlous that every one connected with the enforcement of the law and supervision of the grazing dis tricts shall be appointed from resident citizens of the states in which the dis tricts are located. The resident citi zens are supposed to be more In sym pathy with other residents who take advantage of the law and less strict In exacting compliance with all the rules and regulations. It is notorious that the illegal land fencers and fraudulent homesteaders were brought to task only through the efforts of special in spectors Bent In from outside and free from the pressure and influence of the law' breakers. The main features of the Burkett grazing bill as outlined are commenda ble, yet congress should see to it be fore enacting any measure on this sub ject that all the loopholes for evasion are thoroughly plugged Bianr spirit towards Japanese. Governor Pardee's temperate and dignified discussion of the school ques tion In his message to the California legislature is in Btriking contrast with too many expressions emanating from the Pacific coast concerning the Japa nese and Chinese. While he believes in the policy of the California segre gation statute he advocates it in a spirit that affords basis for rational settlement of relations both with the national government and with Japan and China. It Is, indeed, not so much school segregation alone that has aroused pop ular feeling In Japan as It is the in sults and Injuries inflicted on Japa nese as such, particularly In many cases in San Francisco. That these outrages have been committed by the vicious and Irresponsible the gov ernor admits, and he does not spare denunciation of them. His firm stand in this respect ought to help materially to establish a more wholesome Pacific coast sentiment. Insofar as Japanese are lawfully in the country with rights guaranteed by treaty, it goes without saying that state and local government muBt see not only that these rights are realized, but also that the orientals are other wise treated with humane decency, without regard to technical hairsplit ting concerning the national and state jurisdictions. And if this be done, there will be no Insuperable obstacle In the way of any reasonable school or other regulation which local condi tions may require. The new organization of the county board promises a continuance of the business-like administration Inaugu rated when the management of county affairs was restored to republican con trol two years ago. All the members of the board are henceforth to be mem bers of every committee, a move quite feasible where the number is so small and conducive to. keeping the whole board in touch with every part of the work. The effect of the new deal ought to be seen In a material reduc tion of the county tax rate for the next year. A resolution to provide themselves with free postage stamps at the ex pense of the taxpayers has been voted down by members of the lower house of the Nebraska legislature. This self denial is certainly praiseworthy, but Judgment will have to J suspended until the complete record is made up. Law-making bodies have been known to choke at gnats while swallowing camels. Publicity has always proved the most effective antidote for legislative corruption. While chasing the lobby ists hot foot out of the state house, why not pass a law compelling them each to wear a ribbon badge bearing the word "lobbyist" plainly printed in letters readable at a distance of 100 feet, so that the susceptible law-maker may have no possible excuse that he did not know to whom he was talking? For some Inexplicable reason a bunch of salt water congressmen at Washington refuse to believe that the Missouri river is navigable. A special Invitation is hereby extended to all these provincial statesmen to come out to Omaha and get acquainted ' with Missouri river fluid both internally and externally. , Governor Hoch of Kansas assures us once more that the prohibitory law has been a great success and In proof cites the recent closing of over 200 Baloons on the Kansas side of Kansas City. The question Is, How did 2 00 saloons come to flourish in Kansas, not withstanding the law prohibiting them? . One of the guests prominently in evidence at the Jacksonlan feast was M. F. Harrington, president of the re cently organized Public Ownership of Railroads league. Either the invi tation to Harry Brome as vice president of the league miscarried or he neg lected to send the usual letter of re grets. I Rare Sel (-Maori Are. New York Post. Mr. Rockefeller's recent gift to Chicago University represents abatentlon from at least 76,000,000 oysters. A . Real Mystery. Chicago Inter Ocean. It Is simply astonishing how a man like Mr. Harrlman can find time for an opera tion. This Is perhaps another of his se crets. Omaha's Domestic Adjustments. Boston Transcript. The record of domestic adjustments and readjustments for eleven months of last year at Omaha was 1,648 marriage licenses and 484 divorce applications. This la a world of change. Scalftlnsc Experts Get Busy. Baltimore American. Tribes In the Indian Territory are to be formpd Into companies to control the coal and asphalt lands In- the territory. If there la any scalping done In the subsequent business transactions' of the companies It will be of the good, old-fashioned sort. Richest Nation on Earth. New York Sun. Ten years ago our. yearly production of coal wns 170,000,000 tons, and we thought It a heap. Last year we mined 400,000,000 tons. In ISM we produced ,8,600,000 - tona of pig iron. Last year we produced 26,000,000 tons. Our copper output of ten years ago 240,000,- 000 pounds. It la now, 00,000,000 pounds. In 1PM we dragged frora . the bowels of the earth minerals and mineral substances worth) about 1625,000,000. The value of our mineral product in 1.906 approximates $2,000,000,000, These figures are bewildering In their Im mensity. It Is no wonder that we are the richest nation on earth. Tet in spite of It and there la something left to hope for and there may be something left to fear. DEMAND FOR WORKERS. Supply lnequal to the Demand In Many Lines. Wall Btreet Journal. Never before in time of peace- hhs there been so much of a demand for men as now. Men are wanted In the steel mills, In the factories, on the railroads. In the army and j the navy, In the Postofflce department and almost everywhere else where worK has to be done. Last year there were 2,340 resign ations out of two classes of clerks number ing 20,000 In the Postofflce department. A Iobs of 12.1 per cent a year shows how rapidly the skilled and seasoned members of the force are being replaced by raw recruits to the detriment of the service as a rule. At this rate It would take eight years for the new to replace the old force In entirety. It is peculiar to prosperous times that labor becomes, so to speak, more mobile. Employments compete for labor, for skill and talent, and the publlo service has to take Its chances with private pursuits. Among private pursuits tbe competition Is keen enough to keep some people moving from one place to- another, without becom ing fully master of any one thing. Changes have been rather frequent during the past year, and the rise of wages for labor as well as the Increases In salaries which are still going on are proof that the end Is not yet. The men wanted are, In spit of labor scar city, not so much those who can do routine work, as those who can open new fields for the legitimate employment of capital and labor. We are now, after several years of great changes, at the point where read justments may he required for the continu ance of prosperity. PERSONAL NOTES. One of the beauties of thrift has been Illustrated in the case of a New York man ufacturer, who, by living on 35 cents a day, managed to leave loving relatives 1300, 000 over which to fight Commander Peary Is a good deal of a hustler and knows something of the stren uous life In Ice fields, but his experiences in the north are nothing to what he la having now, alnce he la under contract to' get the story of his trip In shape for publication on March 1. Arthur Chamberlain, the oldest brother of the great politician, la very unlike his brother In many ways. For one thing he is epposed to him In politics; also that he does not wear an eyeglass. Seeing, how ever, that a Chamberlain would not be a Chamberlain without some mannerism, he Invariably wears the pinkest of pink neck wear. President Roosevelt has offered the posi tion of commissioner of the general land office to Philip B. Stewart, who waa the president's companion on his last hunt In the Colorado mountains. He Is a promi nent republican of Colorado and laat year was nominated for governor by bis party, but declined to run. He Is a capitalist and a son of former Representative Stewart of Vermont Until a few weeks . ago If anyone con gratulated Secretary Taft on his presiden tial proapecta the big Ohio man would listen with a laugh and then say: "I must put you In my list of D.-F. F.'a" If asked what the cabalistic letters meant, Mr. Taft would reply that they stood for "dear fool friends," with such an accent on the "dear" as to convey the fdea that a mere forcible ord might be substitute!. ROINVI A BO IT NEW YORK. Ripples on the Torrent of Life la the Metropolis. One of the New York Insurance compa nies which gave a painful exhibition of financial legerdemain and extravagance bo fore the Insurance Investigation committee a little over a year ago, now proposes to rear the loftiest skyscraper on earth and go so high Into the air that future In quisitors must climb to reach It. The com pany occupies a marble block fronting Madison square, between Madison and Fourth avenues and Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth streets, to which a tower of fifty stories will be added. This tower will be the greatest atructure of the kind In the world, and Is to rise Ave stories higher than the great Blnger building, now In process of construction downtown. The tower In many respects will resemble In style and outline the famous Italian Camp-mile; It Is to tower 690 feet above Madison square and a1 giant clock at Its top will be vlnible for miles. In- the report that P. Tecumseh Sherman, commissioner of labor of New York state, makes In winding up the year he says that kneading dough with the feet Is still In vogue In some of the Italian bakeries In New York City, and that the sweatshops are "veritable hotbeds of disease." The report says In part: "Our inspectors have essayed to stop the kneading of dough with the feet, but have not been sustained; there Is nothing posi tively Illegal or necessarily unsanitary in the practice. "The subject of bakeries is a sore point with this department. The worst bakeriea are the old cellar shops In New York City. Yet a clause In our bakery law, as In force last year, apparently excepted cellar ba keriea In existence when It was enacted (1&5) from all sanitary provisions. Joel B. Erhardt, formerly police com missioner, does not entertain a very high opinion of New York's "finest." Writing to Police Commissioner Bingham, Mr. Erhardt says: "The police today have many valuable privileges they receive good pay, have a life position, are retired, as provided by law, on a pension of one-half their salary. Many of theBe at once obtain easier positions and make up on the new place they occupy the loss of salary by retirement. "The majority of them are disloyal to the people who pay them, having a union com posed of their own men, which Is contrary to the manual, and for this offense each member belonging to the union should be tried and dismissed from the force. As a whole, they are Insufferable. Fully one third, and probably two-fifths, should be dismissed from the force, for that many are inefficient or corrupt, and many of them are both. "The detective force Is worse than the main body they protect their confreres In stead of detecting and bringing them to book, thus adding to the power of the grafter. "I do not think you need 2,000 more men until you have the power to dismiss about 2,000 worthless ones. Then you will got better service with the 6,000 remaining than with the 10,000 working under the present law. The department never has been in such a putrid condition as It la today. I use the word 'putrid' because none stronger occurs to me at this moment." Patrick Lahey of Sands street, Brooklyn, has a wooden leg and troubles of his own. It Isn't the leg that worries Lahey, it is the use to which his wife puts It when he unstraps It. The man, who is well along in years, told his woes to the complaint clerk In the Adams street court "I've been sleeping in it for the past four weeks," said he.' "If you never slept with a wooden leg, . never tried to turn over In In bed or tuck the covers around your feet, you can't understand the troubles of a man trying to rest with one." "Why don't you take It off?" asked the clerk. "Take it off?" replied Lahey, "take it off?" Man, do you think I'm as shy in my head aa I am In my legs? If I take it -off she hides it, and then when I want to go out I got to stay In. Sometimes I do be hopping around the floor for three hours hunting under the bed, behind the stove. In the washtubs and in the top of closets for my leg. "The last time I took It off Frances (that's .my wife's name) hid It, and when I found It she tried to take It from me and threatened if she got It again she'd use It as a club to beat me. Now, there should be some law to prevent a woman making a man sleep with a false limb or to pre vent his wife beating him with it if he leaves It oft." "Sure," said the clerk. "I'll give you a summons and you hand It to her." "Hand It to her?" Man, do you think' I'm craxy? Send It to her by a policeman, and the biggest one you have." This being promised, Lahey stumped out, expressing the hope that the court will arrange matters so that he can sleep In peace and not in pieces. Even the most decrepit New York woman who has passed the allotted three-score and ten will not admit she Is getting old. That was the Impression of passengers on a Broadway car the other evening. Not a man had gallantry enough to offer a seat to an aged little woman who encountered the car at Tenth street. Glancing about with withering scorn, a young woman arose. With the "queenly manner" which she had read was dreadfully uncommon nowadays, she touched the newcomer on the arm. "Won't you take my place?" she asked. Instead of showing the gratitude expected the elderly person, who offered living proof of the advance In the arts of artificiality, lifted her too well outlined eyebrowa and flashed a glance that ought to have killed. "I am not old," she said, In a voice that sounded through the car. "Why did you offer me your seat? Keep It yourself." The girl sat down In confusion amid much laughter. "No wonder people lose man ners when politeness gets a reward llko that," she whispered. Then a man aid to his companion: "Is It worth while having any manners? And what are manners for but to be forgotten?" December's business was the largest for any month In the largest year the New York custom house ever experienced. It contributed almost 130,000,000 to an annual total of i09,90M'5. This was j more than the entire United States customs revenue In 1W To this It Is necessary to add 198, E6.065 contributed to the nation's banking resources by Imports of gold at this port The suhlreasury handled Just short of $5,ono.O0,Ono. about equally divided between debits and cedlts, the increase upon both sides being more thtn 11,000,000.000 over 1906. National bank loans, exceeding a round billion of the minimum, were about one fourth of all national bank loans for the nation. The maximum monthly clearings In New York In January were almost equal to the minimum clearings for the entire country In July, or rH.S-a.sW.ra. On the Stock exchange 26S.0O0.0t.rt shures were sold, a maximum' for New York, and, of course, there Is no other market for a com parison. Daaapaess mm Dryaess. Kansas City Journal. The White House may be damp, as John Sharp Williams alleges, but the halls of corigress are often dry enough to satisfy the most exacting. This condition, how ever, la not attributable to. the oratory of tivha (Sharp WUUawa. , i In the Name of Sense. that good common sense of which all of us have a share how can you continue to buy ordinary soda crackers, stale and dusty as they must be, when for 5 you can get Uneeda fresh from the oven, protected from dirt by a package the very beauty of which makes you hungry. I - NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY l'ARDO OF MR8. LILL1E. Ashland Oasstte: The last official act of Governor Mickey wns the Issuance of a full and unconditional pardon to Mrs. Llllle. We are sure that a large majority of the people of Nebraska will approve this deci sion. Columbus Telegram: The pardon of Mrs. Llllle will be approved by nine out of ten people In the state, and yet there has never been offered a shadow of argument or of fact to break the perfect and convincing chain of circumstantial evidence which compelled that Jury to find the woman guilty. Fremont Herald: As to the Justice of the pardon granted Lena Margaret Llllle, tried and found guilty for the murder of her husband, Harvey Llllle, there will always be a difference of opinion throughout the state. Mrs. Utile's sex, of course, saved her. Rather, the fact that she was a woman kept public sympathy to the point that the retiring governor knew he would be more or less sustained. Had a man who com mitted the same deed been convicted he would have died In the pen. In all proba bility. Hastings Tribune: The unconditional pardon which Governor Mickey granted to Mrs. Lena Llllle, who has served two years of a life sentence In the Nebraska peni tentiary for the alleged murder of her hus band, Harvey Llllle, carries with It the free dom for which the defendant has prayed, but It does not carry with it the power of proving her Innocence, There Is no doubt that the Llllle pardon would have carried more weight and would have been better received by the public had not Governor Mickey abused the pardoning power. Lincoln News: The general Indignation felt over the pardon of Mrs. Llllle by the retiring governor Is justified. It Is plain even from Mr. Mickey's own statement that he was moved by maudlin sentimentality rather than by any belief in her Innocence. He says:. "I am clearly led to the con clusion that there is very grave and serious doubt of her guilt." If he had grave and serious doubts of her guilt he also had grave and serious doubts of her Innocence. One certainly Implies the other. If the governor was not convinced of her Inno cence he ought not to have pardoned her. The governor wronged the public and weak ened Its respect for the law when he started In to release prisoners from the penitentiary and his pardon of Mrs. LilHs waa simply the capBheaf. Orand Island Independent: The last offi cial act of Governor J. H. Mlck-y was the granting of an unconditional pardon to Mrs. Lena Margaret Llllle. The history of the case Is too well known to require review. Her conviction on the charge of the murder of her husband was purely upon circumstantial evidence. The mother of the murdered man has always been firmly convinced of the woman's Innocence. No sufficiently strong motive has ever been proven. The woman has, since her incar ceration in the penitentiary, kept the pic ture of her dead husband before her and almost constantly wept Murderers do not want pictures of their victims before them as a usual thing. Certainly, If Mrs. Llllle shot and killed her husband, she la a psychological enigma. Under all of the circumstances the exercise of the pardon In this case lifts some strong points In its favor. U will no doubt, however, be severely criticised by many who "believe" Mrs. Llllle to be guilty. David City Banner: At 12 o'clock today, January 3. John H. Mickey retired from office. His last official act, at the same hour of his retirement, was to give an unconditional pardon to Mrs. Lena Mar garet Llllle, who waa convicted on March S, 1903. for the murder of her husband on the morning of October 22. 1902. Whether or not w,e believe that Mrs. Llllle was guilty of the cold-blooded crime for which she waa convicted, It must be admitted that she was given a fair and Impartial trial, that the court and ths Jury which convicted nd sentenced her had the best opportunity of finding out all the facts and circum stances connected with the murder, and were the mont competent to Judge In the case, in tare oi an mesa ikcis, ana wie further fact that Governor Mickey has, on various occasions, expressed himself In unmiktakable terms, and less than two days before expressed himself to the editor of O ABIES need Scoffs EmuUton I if they are not for bone, blood and flesh. It makes thin, peevish babies plump, con tented and rosy-faced. Pale, nervous girls need Scott's Emulsfon, It brings back the color to their cheeks and strength to their nerves. Nursing mothers must provide nourv ishment for two. .The concentrated nourishment of Scott's Emulsion gives strength to both mother and infant. Invaluable for coughs and colds. ALL DRUGGISTS ao. AND M. t-K 7A 1 Biscuit V; Mi f this paper that he believed that Mrs. Llllle was either guilty or that she knew wha committed the crime, he places himself above the courts and thd Jury and pardons the woman who was convicted less than four yeurs ago of this . terrible crime, as his last official act. By his act Governor Mickey has placed a premium' oh murder. David City Journal: Mrs. Lena Llllle waa pardoned by Governor MU-key at t2 'clock January 3, 1T. This was the last official act before he retired from office, and it was on par with many other things he did while In office that he should not have dona. In pardoning Mrs. Llllle he put his wonder ful knowledge (?) against-that of brainy judges. Jurors and the supreme court What Is to become of law and criminals when a governor sees fit to let them go free as Mickey has done since he haa been la office. Ills record of pardoning criminals Is beyond the comprehension of- all honest cltixens and he has been bitterly criticised for this last act. The rltliens of Butler county feel Justly outraged at John XL Mickey. FLASHES OF FIN. Tommy Pa, what la a limited monarchy? Pn Anything less than four klng-,New York Sun. Tes Did I understand you to say Mr. Tlmmld has a nervous affection? Jess Well, yes. He has an affection for me nml he's nervous because he doesn't know yet whether I'm going to say "yes" or "no." Philadelphia Press. "He believes thoroughly In himself," said the admiring friend. "Yes," answered Miss Cayenne. "Some people are so credulous!" Washington Star. "It takes a wise man to know when to change his mind." said one statesman. "Yes," answered the other, "and a brave one to own up to it when It Is accom plished." Washington Star. "So this," snld the newly arrived spirit, gaxlng curiously at the. landscape, "Is the Ultima Thule'" . , . ,, "On the contrary," answered 1 Pluto, "you will find this to be the ne plus sultry. Take the chuto to the left, please.'-Chlcago Tribune. "I'll never forsret the first Jackpot I ever won." said the veteran at the game. "What did you hold?" asked the young ster. "My breath, for one thing; I don't re member what else." Philadelphia Press. , "How did that university you founded turn out?" "It Is doing great work." answered Mr. Dustln Stax. "It la devoting especial at tention toward economic studies In the hope of finding a way to prevent all the wealth and power from drifting into the hands of grapstng persons like myself." Washing ton Star. ALMOST SAFE. Pittsburg Gazette. Row down, ye people, and submit I'nto the law's decree, towlt: That none shall deal In food unfit, For mortals to consume. No more can Uncle Sam endure The sale of edibles Impure; Hence those that thus offend for sure Will meet an awfnj doom. ' t . The enterprising candy man. Whose wares are underneath a ban, Must dump 'em In the garbage can Without an hour's delay. Those sweets on which the children gloat. Resplendent In their slowing coat Of paint, have not a chance remote Of further holding sway. The little folks will vainly weep t For sugar plums at prices cheap. . . They'll have to stand a tariff steep Because the law denies The right to sap' and undermine The public health with those malign Adulterations saccharine That Infants most do prise. The name Injunction also knocks All kinds of food unorthodox Put tip In bucket, can or box. With labels that deceive. The fakir that has long relied On borax and formaldehyde Must put these condiments aside. Or dire results achieve. Likewise the wicked druggist who ' Is known for gain to mix or brew -Iebascd decoctions must eschew Such arts and plainly state On ev'ry package what's within. The use of subterfuge thin Will constitute a deadly sin Which he must expiate. Wherefore, relolce, good people all. Since fond that's pure has now the call. No thought of poison need appal Pouls timid and discreet. Without a tremor ye may haunt The feed shop and the candy plant. Henceforth what more could mortals wantf 'Tls almost safe to eat thriving. It i$ food vv ill