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10 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1007. The Omaha Daily Dee FOUNDED BT EDWARD ROSE WATER. VICTOR ROSEWA'TBR. EDITOR. Bntere-d at Omaha postofrio as second class matter. TERMS OF (SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Pe (without Hunday) on year..t Dal I it irn and Sunday, one year J- Bunday Hm, one year J ?? Biturday bev one year DELIVERED RT CARRIER. Dally Pee (Including Sondsy). per wt,c'-l! Dilly !'. (without Bundav). per week... too Kvenirg Pee rwlthout Bnndsy). par wpeK-, Kvenlnir I'.r (with Hundoy). per week....! Acldrr m complaints of Irregularities In de livery to City Circulating Department. OFFICES. Ornshn The Bee Building. otith Ornnha Cltv Hell Rulldtng. Council liluffs H Pearl Street. 'hlrnfo-iGia t'nltv Bulldlne;. ., New York ISf. Home I.'f In. Building. Washington SOI Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCFJ. Communications rletlng to news and edi torial matter should he addressed: Omaha Pea. Kdltor'al Department. REMITTANCES. Remit hv draft, express or postal nrfler. parable to The Pee Publishing Company. Only :-rent stamps received In payment or mull accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or enstern exr.hsnges. not accepted. THE BEK Pl'BLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT Of CIRCULATION. B'ate of Nebraska, Douglas County. ss: Chnrlc C Roswnter. general manager cf The Re ruhtiehfng company, being d'iiy STvorn, savs that the actual number of full and romplete roplea of The Dally, Morning. Evening nd Sunday Pee printed during the wonin or December, l:i06, wa as ionow. I 81.870 17 33,870 J 81,760 II 31,760 1 80,980 81,010 si.no t 31.T00 . 81.690 7 81,880 t 83,080 30,630 10.. 81,750 11 88,150 11 83,050 It 81,680 J 4 81,690 II 88.170 If 30,400 Total 20 38,670 tl 31,680 ft 31,900 tt .10,880 14 31.710 It 31,600 2 12,120 IT 81.770 tt 31,610 it ., 31,880 SO 3000 II 31,810 . . .988,380 Leas unsold and returned copies.. 9,841 Net total 973,149 Dally average 81,391 CHARLES C. R08EWATER, Oeneral Manager. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before ma this Hit day of December, 100. (Seal.) M. B. HUNQATE, Notary Public HHE Ol'T Or TOWS. Subscribers leaving; the city tem porarily ehoald ksvt The Dee mailed to them. Address nlll be chanced as often as requested. Chief of Police Donahue will soon be able to write a thrilling novel on the subject; ''Between Two Fire's." The disaster at Kingston may induce the Danes to put their West Indian islands on the bargain counter once more. 8t. Petersburg reports an earth quake, but may later admit that it was only the wrong man finding the powder magazine. The Ohio river Is now demonstrating the fact that It is no better than the Missouri, but It will with difficulty con vince Chairman Burton. That New York Judje who fined liquorice dealers for forming a monop oly can depend upon popularity with the American small boy. While Attorney Jerome declares that legislators can be driven like sheep, "Andy" Hamilton knows that It is easier to lead them like lambs. It Is to be hoped the prohibition of the use of opium by Chinese officials will be reflected In the news sent out by oriental pipe-line correspondents. Major Hersey's expectations of reaching the north pole thlry-slx hours after leaving Norway should not deter him from taking provisions for at least a week's trip. The child labor law advocates have Bwooped down upon the legislature. The invasion is to be described not as "a petition in boots," but as "a peti tion in petticoats." When the Interstate Commerce com mission is given power to punish un necessary delays in the transportation ot freight the express companies may lose a little business. The more our people read about dev astation by earthquake, volcanic erup tion and tidal wave, the more the geo graphical Jocation of solid states like Nebraska and Iowa must appeal to them. The endorsement ot Colonel Bryan's railroad views by Governor Vardaman Indicates that the governor Is resolved that centralization of power is not to bo dreaded as much as loss of popu larity in Mississippi. It Harvle Jordan's remarks on the cotton situation are correct, the sooner the south brings the spinners to the fields rather than sending the cotton to the mills, the better it will be for consumer and producer. The Kingston disaster has proved the advantage of wireless telegraphy over cables subject to terrestrial ague; but as "high finance" has not taken up the system seriously it may still be considered an experiment. While the government's cancellation ot coal land entries may work hard ship upon some Innocent parties, the bill to give persons la possession pref ere nee seems to be in the nature of a reward tor questionable practices. The assertion that W. R. Hearst seeks to overthrow John Sharp Wil liams as democratic house leader is chiefly Interesting from the fact that fee was unable to accomplish the job during his membership in the house. DAtiQEROUS MILL LKV1F.S. The lower bouse of the legislature has made a, special order for the dis cussion of the resolution presented by Representative Tucker- declaring against appropriations by percentage mill levies, except so far 88 already provided for. The Bee has gone on record several times In opposition to this method of appropriating money out of the state treasury. The per centage mill levy Is fraught with dan ger because it Imposes a perpetual tax eure to increase from year to year with out limiting It to any definite amount. This, of course, Is the real reason why those who are lobbying for special ap propriations for different institutions favor the plan. Once a percentage mill levy appro priation Is made It runs indefinitely until some future legislature stops it. In other words, the legislature Impos ing such a mill levy commits all suc ceeding legislatures to repeat the per formance by acquiescence, and It would take an unusual effort to secure a sub sequent repeal. Instead of presenting to each legislature the needs and re quirements in definite figures for which appropriations are asked, the levy scheme enables the lobbyists to point to so much money In the treasury, present or prospective, "which belongs to us" and which cannot be used for any other purpose. Each legislature is Judged by the extravagance or economy of Its own ap propriations and each legislature should be responsible for the amount of those appropriations. To provide for continuous mill levies for particu lar state Institutions increases the state tax rate without relieving the menace of overlap and Increased floating debt. If there Is no good reason why the tax rate should be Increased the legis lature should amend the law fixing the levy for the general fund, raising the maximum to 5 or 6 mills instead of 5 mills, to which it Is now limited. This would provide ample funds to take care of all the legitimate demands without going' It blind or putting a premium on extravagance. THE SUBSIDY BILL' The form of subsidy bill that a ma jority of the house committee has agreed to report Is Open to attack for falling in some of Its most important features to promote the central pur pose on which the subsidy movement has been advocated. It has been urged mainly for the expansion and improve ment of communication and closer re lations with South America, to promote which Secretary Root made his mem orable southern tour last year, and which President Roosevelt has never ceased to urge with respect to the navy, to Panama and to every other oppor tunlty. It Is therefore discovered with no small surprise that more than one third of the total sum proposed to be paid from the treasury under the bill would go to steamship lines now plying In the Pacific ocean, not to South American ports, but to oriental ports, and that, too, without special safe guards for new or improved service there, or even for naval reserve exi gencies. If the complaints made by competent authorities, not at all hos tile to the subsidy principle, that the effect for the most part would be merely a bonus to existing lines, not necessarily related to South American trade and travel, instead of a stimulus to new and better steamship service, are at all warranted, then the whole subsidy Bubject had better go over to a congress disposed to prepare a meas ure In accordance with the only pur pose on which such distribution of pub lic funds can be even plausibly con tended tor. ,- HUOIIES AND THE LKQL1LATURK. , It is the universal testimony that Governor Hughes looms larger in the use of power than he did as a candi date before the people. For, the prac tical difficulties that have crowded upon him since he took the oath of office have been incomparably greater and more numerous than those of the campaign In which he acquitted him self with singular ability and judg ment. No sooner was he in the ex ecutive chair than he was confronted with an appointive state service and a legislature officered, organized and controlled by the same machine of his own party, the most elaborate and powerful In the country, which had op posed his nomination and which was inspired by every motive of self-preser vation to thwart or wheedle him. The test was crucial and unescapable, be cause Governor Hughes had plighted faith explicitly, though without dem agogtsm or vainglory, with the people for true and independent service. It is now admitted, even in hostile quarters, that Governor Hughes has avoided the moat dangerous rock, on which ill-wishers sought to steer him, by refusing to enter Into irrelevant contention and bickering with the leg islature o'n the one hand or on the other to attempt to coerce It with pa tronage bargains and tricks on the plane of typical machine methods. He stands his ground as chief executive, declaring when the pinch came that if the legislature should defeat him on that score and fall to fulfill the pledges of the campaign, he will simply take an appeal to the people. Positive re forms thus are put in the true and sig nificant relation of an, Issue, not merely between the legislature and the gov ernor, but between the legislature and the people. Governor Hughes baa at the outset emphasized tie vital point to be ob served in the two score states whose legislatures are now sitting: Broken promises need by no means be conclu slve If the chief executives. Immedi ately elected by the whole people, poa- sens the discretion as well as the cour age and Integrity to clinch the Issue of responsibility. For this every gov ernor, with the right to call extraordi nary sessions and other prerogatives, has ample power. the railroad stock sitcatios. The status of the slock market shows that the cumulative disclosures regarding railroad management and finance has not been without effect upon "the public," which In final an alysis Is the real price factor. The re turn of funds from the interior re flected in increasing bank reserves and sinking call loan rates not only does not stimulate general stock buying as normally occurs In the latter half of January, but the tendency, especially among stocks of the roads to whoso manipulation public attention has been directed, is still toward lower quota tion levels. In the face of unparalleled pressure for transportation far exceed ing facilities for service we have the extraordinary fact that the average of stock prices Is lower than it was a year ago. ' Indubitable evidence Is also at hand that Investors and that section of spec ulators whose, operations are most In timately adjusted to Investors' senti ment, are deeply suspicious 1 of poten tial influences over transportation and related properties, although they may not go to the length of Stuyvesant Fish, who. In a recent notable state ment, positively affirmed that these stocks are now wholly at the mercy of manipulating cliques. The average in vestor stands aloof from the uncer tainty and hazard of Such a situation, leaving the market to the gambler In chances as to what the hidden powers may do. But this frame of mind, pro duced by the operations of professional gambler and financial manipulator, affects not only the whole list of pres ent stocks, but also the proposed new Issues imperatively required if funds for immense needed new construction and betterments are to be forthcoming. This identical point Is even more conspicuous in the minds of foreign critics and investors, who are empha sizing it In a manner, perhaps exagger ated, but certainly extremely hurtful to our business Interests in general. The London Times, when it declares In editorial comment on the disclosures before the Interstate Commerce com mission and like facts concerning our railroad management, that "the whole Interests of the shareholders, even In the largest lines, are mere gambling counters in the hands of possessors of enormous wealth, amassed by down right plunder," may distort an evil phase, but It does not outdo expres sions by other critics, both at home and'rfbroad. J. J. Hill Is therefore wide of the mark when he blames the popular pub lic control movement for the attitude of Investors. National and state legis lation, on the. -contrary, 1b aimed for abatement Of those evils which have produced the distrust now widely man ifest. And unless it Is to spread fur ther and have still more serious con sequences, those who are responsible, the manipulators of "high finance" and Jugglers with the great transportation properties who "think in billions," cannot too quickly mend their ways. The railroad lobbyists and political agents are working night and day un der cover by misrepresentation to pre judice the legislature against Omaha with a view to heading off terminal taxation. The railroad spokesmen pre tend that terminal taxation would take away from the outside counties and school districts some of the money they now receive as taxes from the railroads and give it to Omaha. If terminal taxation meant simply the transfer of taxes from one place to an other the railroads would have no ob jection whatever. They would just as soon pay the money to the city treas urer at Omaha as to the county treas urer at Broken Bow. The , truth is that terminal taxation would not di minish the taxes ppld by the railroads to;any county or school district in the state, but would compel them to pay city taxes, which they have been chron ically evading. It is because terminal taxation would make them pay taxes now shirked that the railroads are, against it. Readers of The Bee will take notice that the supreme court has given this paper the decision In the case made over the payment of its bill for adver tising the legal notices required by the scavenger tax law. Malicious compet itors had undertaken to spread the Im pression that The Bee was trying to gouge the county by a padded bill, when. In fact. The Bee's bill was ren dered at the precise legal rate. The publication of these notices was an es sential part ot the proceedings by which the scavenger law was put Into iorce aud resulted in the collection of thousands upon thousands of dollars of back taxes that the county would otherwise have lost, to say nothing of the impetus which the clearing up of tax Hens has given to real estate trans actions and building improvements. i Congrees appears to be disposed to appropriate the munificent sum of $100,000 for Missouri river work be tween Kansas City and Sioux City, this handout coming from a total distribu tion of ISO, 000, 000. It the Missouri river were only some little mud creek passing the back door of an obscure southern town lesa difficulty would be had in securing recognition for Im provement money. . J A bill has been Introduced at Lln coin to prevent foreign Insurance com panies from removing to the federal courts suits brought by citlxens of Ne- kraska to recover on claims, which practice is said to be a favorite one with companies that want to escape their obligations and wear out the claimants to the point of compromise. The Idea would invoke favor If It could ' be applied to nonresident railroad cor porations that appeal to the federal courts to help them escape paying their taxes. Nonresident corporations that take the benefit of special privileges under Nebraska laws ought to be com pelled to submit to Nebraska courts. The World-Herald sfcHl Insists that Senator-elect Brown may not "fairly be said to stand as the choice of the rank and file of the people of his state." This Is Indeed amusing. Mr. Brown received his nomination In re publican state convention1 and sub mitted' his name for endorsement by vote of preference at the polls. Had the democrats won a majority of the legislature and elected "Billy" Thomp son, whose candidacy was put through the same form, the new senator would, of course, "stand as the choice of the rank and file of the people of his state." The Honorable Mayor "Jim" has gone to Denver to attend a cowboy meeting and so extraordinary does the expedition appear that the local demo pop organ heads the news Item "The Mayor Pays His Fare." This must be the first time the Honorable "Jim" has been up against such a proposition since he secured a strategic position as secretary of the State Board ot Transportation some ten years ago. Compensations of Defeat. Philadelphia Press. Colonel Brynn has eighty-six engage ments to lecture the coming summer at 15CO a lecture, which shows that It pay to ran for president and not get there. One Marked Difference. Portland Oregonlan. Practically all the Immigrants from Eu ropean countries become Americans not only in form but In heart. Immigrants from the orient never do. That's one dif ference. Not Seeking- Tronble. Baltimore American. The tTnlted States, not bnlnr on nf ihn signatory cowers. Is disinclined to Inter- ! fere In the Congo affair. Perhaps Uncle Sam Is getting a trifle tired of being the big International policeman to whom all the other powers and nations Insist on telling their troubles. Depends on Point of View. Kansas City Times. Differences of opinion regarding the Brownsville riots hive caused republican members of the senate to explain that President Roosevelt Is a fine man, but for once he's wrong; and the democrats in sist that while the president Is a most un safe and exasperating official, for once he's right. Let l l Kill the Heir " Wall Street Journal. A holding company which holds another holding company, and so on ad Infinitum, seems to be a device by which the hold of the stockholders on the one end of tho series Is so fe.r from the office holders at the other end that the Investor has little chanca of locating the seat of responsi bility, If Indeed he can perchance find any body that is willing to acknowledge that he has any responsibility whatever to the stockholder. Who will be strong enough to hold the holding company which has succeeded In removing Itself to the ninth degree of distance from the stockholder? Is it not another case of killing the heir In order that the vineyard may be ours? Hoosler Ileforin Ideas. Springfield Republican. Governor Hanly of Indiana, who receives a salary of $8,000 as the chief magistrate of a, great state, evidently cannot see why the officers of life Insurance companies should be permitted to receive much mors He recommends In his annual message that life company officluls be limited by law to salaries not In excess of $10,000. This would not be an unreasonable restriction for all companies save the larger ones with headquarters In New York City. But It Is a clumpy way of getting r.t the mat ter of restricting the expense extrava gances of the business. That can better be done by placing a hard and fast limita tion upon premium loadings and compelling the companies to keep their expenses within the loading. Excessive Rates for Mall. ' Philadelphia Record. Tha house postal committee must, In- deed, have been astonished to have a sec ond assistant postmaster general admit that the railroad compensation for carrying the malls mlrht be shaved a little he said S per cent, and the committee made It 10 and that there was no such loss In tho transportation of second-class mall matter as the department has been accustomed to represent. The department carries an enor mous amount of government mall for noth ing, and It Is rapidly extending the rural free delivery service. Either or these would account for the deficit But in addi tion to this, the railways are paid on a schedule fixed a generation aco, and the pay for carrying scaond-class matter Is pretty good compensation, considering that very little of It goes to a considerable dls- tnce. CVSHION FOR A FALL. Pathos of Colonel Bryan'a Tumble Into a Snowbank. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. With Interest not unmixed with awe we read that William J. Bryan has been thrown into a snowdrift. A part of the significance of this great event is snld to be found In the fact that Mr. Bryan at the time was riding behind a runaway team. We are not pursuing analogies, although we are prepared to agree with thore who will say that such an adventure Is not new In Mr. Bryan's experience. While It may be true that he has beeii thrown Into a snowdrift more than once. the fact that he was given the chanca to be thrown into a snowdrift the second time la the fact which sets him on a higher niche in the temple of fame than that of Alton B- Parker, who was permitted to be thrown Into a snowdrift once, but who will never get the chanca again, because the snowdrift was so high and Mr. Parker struck It with such force that he ha never alnce got out. and all hop of his resurrection Is now abandoned. Nobody Is digging for him and his presence In the snowdrift congeals It to the point of Im pervlouaness. Being thrown Into a snow drift Is not. It is true, a new experience with Mr. Bryan. He was so well seasoned to It that thla experience at Spokane, though the third In consecutive order, may not deter him from taking another ride behind a skittish team next year. As for the fact that this latest flight and descent was behind a runaway team. It offers nlhlnv In I h. mAV At V r I tl V lfla nlh.f elnerlente. cam, ,n lh, .me ,,,, I bis next one. OTHER LASD4 THA Ot RS. In spite of the feet that the liberal ma Jrlty In the British House of Commons and the conservative majority In the House of Lords have failed to reach a compromise in regard to ma eaucawon mn, the nonconformist churches are rallying their forces to fight out the question to the bitter end. A correspondent of the New York Times, In outlining the plan of cam paign, says the nonconformists are deter mined to starve the church tchools out of existence and couple this with an agitation for the radical reconstruction of the House of Lords. "With them," says the correspondent, "It Is really a matter of life and death. From their beginning. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, they have had to fight for their religious liberty even against tolerant Anglicanism Intolerantly applied and If the present campaign has done one. thing. It has cer tainly unified and welded together thi churchmen and others who arc not commu nicant of the Established Church. An other thing Is certain: A future election will reveal the fact that the Church of England has lost Immensely by Its refiunl to accept (he very liberal terms offered by tffe education bill of 1906. In the circum stances It Is not singular that enlightened continental publicists should be amazei at the failure of the House ot Ixrds to reach a compromise with the government, snd should express their sympathy with the 1 latter. Among the many manifestations from this source Is the following note from Dr. Max Nordau: 'May the liberal admin istration In the coming year succeed, In spite of clerical and aristocratic opposi tion. In establishing the laic school, whlc'i will bo able to form generations of Eng lishmen free of dogmatism, with a scien tific bent of mind, and trained to the use of their critical ptfwers." " The indications of growing popular dis content In India are closely watched In Europe. Tho Paris Temps has a significant article on the Indian National congress. After giving a sketch of Mr. Dad ibhal Naorojl'a career and a short history of the rationalist movement. It remarks that the annual congress was not taken seriously until just recently. India was still for English politicians the ideal colony, abound ing in riches and full of literary and ar t i-tlo emotions. But now the situation N changed. A Justifiable anxiety has taken the place of the former general optimism and confidence in the security of Brlti ,h power. There Is not a mutiny to fear, but the situation Is serious none the lees. A few administrative mistakes and an un popular measure the partition of Bengal soon showed how greatly tho Indian ml id had changed 'during the last twenty years. The Temps criticises Sir Bampfylde Ful ler's way of dealing with the nationalist movement. The speech of Mr. Naoroji, It thinks, was really academic, but the na tionalist party, it points out, recruits all the disillusioned and discontented together with most of the well educated Hindus, and the hold of Ihe party on the mass of the people la the stronger, because the proportional number of politicians among the Hindus Is low. The Temps also refers to the Mohammedan list of grievances re cently printed In this Journal and remark that It does not help to make the situation more easy. Stephen Owynn, the poet and the new member of Paillament for Gal way, proves himself a practical business man and a political economist of the right stripe In his articles on "Town and Country" in the Dublin Free Press. He says the Ire land of tomorrow must not be simply an agricultural country. No purely agricul tural country la ever progressive. Farmers are not good customers of each other, and need artisans and manufacturers as neigh borsthe nearer the better. The town and the city are as natural and needful In the plan of human happiness and the social economy of the nation as Is the farm. "I believe In agricultural organization," he says, "and I see the necessity of It as much as does any man In Ireland, but the fore most need Is the development of town llf I would rather see one new cloth mill than ten or twenty creameries, and the most logical man In Irelund today Is Captain Ottway Cuffe, who, promoting a woolen mill In Kilkenny, has promoted also a local theater. The duty of all who wish to keep men and women in Ireland Is to take I thought for everything that can strengthen the Irish towns to the fostering of those Industries which make town life neces sary." Chinese gods are liable to' be harshly treated In the future, as their worshipers have Just discovered that It Is cheaper and better to beat an Idol with a club when they desire a change In the weather or other gifts than to load It with Jewels and costly attire. Chlfu and the surrounding country had been suffering from a drouth which threat ened to ruin the crops and bring on a famine. The devout Chinese farmers lav ished money, Jewels, chickens, rice, roast pigs, eggs and all kinds of dainties upon their rain god and clad him In silken, rai ment. All their worship was of no avail. The sky remained cloudless and the earth was still parched. One day the farmers became strenuous. Something had to be done and soon. In sheer despair they went to the temple and took the rain god Into the streets. There the farmers stripped him of his choice farments, threw him Into the mud. spat upon him. beat him with a club and kicked the luckless image through the streets all day. Late at night the god was carried back to the temple, washed and restored to his clothing and former dignity. Early next morning tha rain began to fall heavily and continued sev eral days. Public notice of comprehensive increases In the postal, telegraph, and telephone charges has been gives In Austria, Rates cn local letters In Vienna and changes for money orders are also to be raised con siderably. Telephone subscribers will have to pay rates from V) to ln per cent h'ghcr than those recently in force. The govern- j mP"t asserts that these increases sre necersary In order to provide funds for the j maner pay wmcn is 10 o graniea n posiai viiiviam saiiva ainu a ri iiib a i i i ij ii ui iiiv telephone system. Notwithstanding the ex planation tha Increase has a-ouiei much Indlvwition, especially among the commer cial classes, which point nut that at a time when all civilised countries are endevcr ing to provide cheaper pnstal facilities the Austrian government ouTlii not to bo j making Its own postal system more ux- pensive. In official Russian circles It has been denied that any s-rtous disagreements have murked the negotiations with Japan concerning the new commercial treaty and fishery convention. No difficulties hive arisen lit connection with the proporel re vival of the commercial treaty of 189S, in accordance with the provisions of the treaty of Portsmouth. Furthermore, the Russian government Is milling to cc needs extensive right to Japanese fishermen In the way ot drying, salting, and cannlnz facilities. The debated points are the opening of the Bungs rl river to navigation, which .Japan demands for Its own vessel and which Russia stands prepared to grant to all nations, and the appointment of Jap anese consuls at Vladivostok. Petrorav lovsk. and Nlkolaievak. In return for which the Russian goverrtnent would ask ilk privileges in Japanese porta. POLITICAL DRIFT. A railroad collision and a. pitch Into n snowbank gives a touch of variety to Mr. Bryan'a preparations for the battle cf lKt. Governor Hanly of Indian recommend that the salary of a life Insurance official be limited to 110.000. This Is $2,000 more than he gets for running the whole state. Members of the New York legislature have received the usual courtesy from the Pullman company. To evn.le the law the passes read. "Mrs. Blank and one.' Members are expected to slip In under the "one" blanket. William R. Hearst's friends ardently In sist that Mr. Hearst without the rightet doubt Is to have the seventy-four d legates and the four delegates at larre from New York stnte for the democratic national con vention cf lng. The Kansas legislature has raised the pav of the higher court Judges, and his not been very rsdleal about It st t!t. The pay of the supreme court Justices has been raised from HOOD to $4,000, while the dis trict Judges sre to be paid $3 000 a year In stead of 2.t0. Kentucky republicans arc becoming ex ceedingly active In the Interert of Bcretary of War Tnft for president. Eleven news papers In the state. Including one I.ouls vllle dailv, are carrying the secretary's name at the head of their columns as the state's choice for president In 190S. 8enntor Tillman, apenklng of the preju dice against the negro north as well as south, snld: "The negroes In the city of Washington are not permitted to drink at the bars of the Wlllard, the lUlelnh and other hotels, and every servitor knows It." whereupon there was a ro:ir of liughter In the senate, which Mr. Tillman could not understand a: first. The chaplain of tho Tennessee Ugis lature, at the opening session, Ins ead of praying for the numbers, prayed fir the people of the state. The skypllot of the Colorado senate opened proceeding w.th this sentence, "we thank thee that we are alive; that wo uie sober and out of Jail." The wisdom of the Tennessee preacher Is self-evident and there afe no flyspecks on the ci.urage of the Colorado pulpiteer. WORLD'S IlKtoniJ WKALTH, Material Achievement Worthy of aa Enwle'a Seream. Cleveland Leader. A government report soon to be Issued shows that the United States is so far ahead of all other nations in wealth that there Is really no second. It deals with facts which are In themselves one huge eagle scream of material achievement and opulence beyond comparison. It seems that the American republic stands now for more than twice the wealth of any country In Europe. It surpasses Germany and Great Britain and lrrland together. It makes the riches of France and Russia combined modept by contrast. The value of the property of the Amerl-an people Is nearly four times as great as the prodigious sum . which represents the na tional debts of all the nations of the earth. This country has more gold and more money, more railroads and more Internal commerce, more manufacturers and more mining, more farm products and more banking facilities and resources than any other in the world. The United States beats any other nation in the multitude of Its forehanded and comfortable wage workers and In Its prosperous farmers. It leads all other lands In exports and In the balance of trade in Its favor. No other country spends so much money or has so much to spend. There is more gold In the United Btates treasury than In any other place on earth. There Is more money In that treasure house and more evidence of national wealth. American millionaires are richer by far than old world kings. They have the great est fortunes the world ever saw and the largest Incomes. And their countrymen live better and save more than the people ! of "" European state. Many wlao siuaenis 01 win " tendencies of the times believe that these vast fortunes are far too biff. The presl dent struck a popular chord when he ad vised that they be cut down and held In check by progressive Inheritance taxes. But what revenues that system would turn Into the coffers of thu nation! Then what might not be undertaken and carried through the complete success in the way of Internal Improvements and engineering teats for the betterment pf the nation's domain and the enrichment of generations yet to come! What might not be essayed In the educntlon and equipment of man kind to fit the new environment created! NEIGHBORLY GOOD WILL. Exposition of th Conatrfa Policy Toward Other Republics. New York Tribune. Secretsry Root has enriched the lltera ture of American statecraft with an epi grammatic exposition of this country pol icy toward Us weaker neighbors at the south, which Vlll be remembered and cited by the side of his predecessor s character isation of American foreign policy as a combination ot the golden rule and the Monroe doctrine. Speaking of the smaller countries around the Caribbean and of the .Am. nr mem are hbvuib .w... ,fer ft, maintain stable and decent .,--nts he said: "First, we don't want to take them ourselves: second, we don't want any foreign nations to take them for themselves, and. third, we want to help them, and we will." n-.. . mud nOl De uencr put. is not aft Hem In the statement which Is not In accord wltn me ion our rovernment. There Is not one which Is or can be construed as mewicing in anvbody. There Is not one ..tui, .hnuld not receive the hearty ap proval and support of every thoughtful American cltlxen. And for a starter, why not apply that admirable policy, practically, to our very near and very needy neignoor, im can Republic? TO THE PUBLIC! The nurchase of a piano Is one ot the most difficult problems to solve. Reding the advertisement, of different makes only add. to the nule as many ot them claim to make the best piano. How can a layman decide for and satisfy himself that he Is obtaining the Sei? value for hU money? His only safeguard will be to depend upon S word Mi 1 reputation ot a particular make, regardless of blar- ,nK haTKoln once said: "Yo cannot fool all the people all the time " The truth of this assertion has been positively dem onstrated by the Knabe Piano, which ha. stood the limelight of pub licity for over sixty years, and to the possession of which at the nresent time 60.000 satisfied purchasers point with pride and affec uon The public could not have been fooled continuously for over half a century, and this vast army of patrons certainly woull not hve invested upwards of FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS In Knabe Planoi unless they were convinced that the Knabe Is the best piano and that one cannot go wrong in buying a KNABE A select and complete stock of Knabe Pianos may be found at our warerooms. and an inspection Is respectfully Invited. Piano of all makes taken in exchange. Time payments If de sired. Also Planoe for rent. v KNA1JK CABINET GUAND FOB 4SO. A- Hospe ah i !sritKCicnF.Trn ootRRHon. Farewell Balate to Peanaylvaala'a Retlrlna- Chief Rxeratlr. nttsburg Dispatch. The retirement from the governor's office of Pennrylvanla to the privacy and ease with dignity of Sohwenkvllle of bo unlrti a public character as Samuel W. Penny packer mu!t not pass without notice of lila unexampled chsrsoterlstlos. It c.'.n be averred with confidence that Penn'vlvanl never hnd a governor llle him before; and the assertion can be added, perh.ips w tn less confidence but ccrtilnly buoyed up by the bright llltmlnns of hore. that we never shall look upon his like again In that ofTVe. In the four esr of hi public rerl Governor I'onnypacker achieved the emi nence of presenting the most remirl;)hl plexus of Inconsistencies ever dlsjlayrd be fore rt dasiled public. Personally honest, he could torn n blind eve to xonie a mating exhibitions of political dishonesty while sternly suppressing othrrs. He snuelched a scheme r.f influential politicians for a grand grib of water rights and quietly permitted an absorption of slMill-ir rights for the benefit of n great corn iratlon. He Indlc nHntly renrohated porscnnl denunciation of pub'.'.e men by the press, but extolled the. Htntpsmanshlp of a senator who publicly branded the "dnllar-mnrk" on the fore heid of a cltlien of Philadelphia and then made perfect the self-contradiction by ap pointing the branded cltlxen to in office of responKllillity under hi administration. He protested that the advise verdict of the people In the election of j was Wave of miKled popular feeling. Hnd made haste to call the legislature In sprclal ses sion to redeem the bad record which he denied. nut of nil his unique manifestations that contributed to the Joyousness of p..l'tlcs we shall always maintain that the climax m reached when tlfls historical student em balmed In a state psper the desertion that In England. In the year of gruce 1S)3. after Gllray. Wilkes ar.d Francis had had their day. any one who libeled or e-arlcatimd public characters "would have been drawn and (;uartered and his head stuck upon a polt! without the pates."' Farewell to Ptiinypacker! The valedic tory on his official career Is ml com pletely und tersely expressed by the com ment of John McDonald Clarke when iwir nutn hnd Invited him to a private view of his working model of Niagara Falls: "It's wonderful! I never saw anything like tt before and I never want to see nnythlng" like It agnln." LIKES TO A LAIMI1. Jones has given up Scotch and drinks rye Instead." "What tor"" . , "He said he could stand snakes, but not plaid on;s." Haiper's Weekly. He said he would blow his brains out If I refuhed him." "Did you accept him?" "No; 1 knew he rasn't a good eriougtt shot to carry out his threat." Cleveland Plain Dealer. "I tell you. John, many a man never knew happiness until he was married." "That Is so, my dear, but on tho other '"'o) you mean thing!" Washington Times. "Did your discomfort result from eating too much preserved fruit?" "No; I felt all right until I accidentally lead the confessions on the labels." Washington Blar. "He warmed up considerably In his ar guments." "Yes: hut I think that was partly owing to the hot air In them." Boston Tran script. Chlmer I'm surprised that you should speak so unkindly of Miss Gusch; she speaks well of you. She was telling ma that you loaned her a book of your verses und she thought them lovely. Klmer ies; so sue tola me, uui wnen sua returned the book the pages were still uncut. Philadelphia Press. ( "That Bcroggsby girl Is Very fond of animals." uoes sne own nutuy . . "I should sav so. She hns a canary blrdJ stuffed crane and a Teddy bear.'-;ClevaS land Plain Dealer. "I don't give money to tromps. What do you do for a living?" 'Please, mum. I work for the 8oclety for Tsvchlcal Keaoarch." "Indeed! And what work do you do for the society, pray?" I help In the Investigation of material spirits." Baltimore American. "Fxtry! Extryl" yelled the newsboy. "Why, I don't see anything unuauul 1st this," said tha customer. "Yes, there la," said the boy. "There a an unusual scarcity of news. Extryl Washington Herald. "The good die young." "What mnkfl VOU think SO? "You have paased the middle age, haven't you?" Houston Post. "I know a man." averred Vncle Allen Sparks, "who belongs to six secret societies, and attends the meetings of all of thorn, in fact, 1 presume I know him a great deal belter than his wife does." Chicago Trib une. Cltlman What's the matter with all you Swamphurst fellows? You don't seem to like my friend Backlots. Sububa No; he's selfish. Cltlman Oh. come now. Sububa That's what he Is. A barn near him caught Are the other night and he put It out without waiting for the rest of u members of the Bwamphurst Hobs to reach the scene Philadelphia Public Ledger. MY t'ICICOO CLOCK. I'm smoking my pl,w and blowing rings The clock ticks on the cuckoo slug The knell of every hour. At Intervals a passing car The nearuy winaow seis An engine whistles from ut'ar; it i . i i. . i . . i. ,i.a 1 1 r . L i w , a i n ir Alls liucn. livivw wii ' " . " - And marks another hour. I'm smoking my pipe and blowing rings And thbugnts come trooping on sephyr wings. Ot kindred far away. The stars send down their gleaming light. The moon looks from her lofty height, I hear soft voices of the night; The clock licks on the cuckoo sings, An hour has passed away. No fire In my pipe no circling rings. But etlll each hour the cuckoo sings, Quite steadfast as before. A silence falls o'er all the earth. Hushed now the Joy of voice and mirth. Till dawn shall mark the morrow a birth; Still ticks the clock and softly sings The cuckoo as before. FRANK B. THOMAS. Omaha. January, 1M. Co., 1513 Douglas Street