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TIIE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7. 1907. Tim Omaha Daily Dee JfaCNDCD BY KDWAIU ROSEWATER. Victor rosewater, editor. ; Entered at Onubt poetcfflc as oond lam matjer. TERMS or BUBSCRJPTION tlly Bee (without Sunday) on yAr...W0 l(ally Be and Sunday, on year Bununy Bee. on y wvr I-je Saturday Bee, one year 1-SO DELIVERED BY CARRIER. f'alty Be (Including Sunday), per week. .150 ally Hee (without Sundnyt, per week.,.10o Bverlng Be (without Sjnday). per wrtki c Evening Be (wlto bunday) per week . . . . joc Address cmpalnt of Irregularttlea In de livery to City Circulating Department. OFFICES. Omaha Th Br Building;. .South Omaha City Hall Rulldlng. . Council BlufTa 10 Pearl Street, i CMf iv-iw Unity Building. 1 New York I&iH Home Life Ins. Building. Washington 6ni Fourteenth Street 1 . CORRESPONDENCE. ' ComunJcatlon relating to newa and edi torial matter ahould be addreesed: Omaha Be. Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Stem It by draft, exprem or postal order, ay.ibl to Th Be Publishing Company. Only Z-cent stampa received In payment of mall acoounta. Peraonal checka, except on Omaha or eaatern exchangee, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANT. .' STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION, tat of Nebraska. Douglaa County, as: Charles C Rowater. general manager of Tha Be Publishing company, being duly aworn, says that th actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally. Morning, Evening and Sunday Re printed during th month of January. I9U7, waa aa follow: 1 .....aO.BOO . IT . 31,970 J 39,680 II 31,990 31,970 1 31,790 4 Sl.tSO 20 .-...30,300 1 31330 ' 11 31300 30,300 XI 33,090 7 31,990,. 2S.,...,.,,.31,e0 33300 24 31,780 '9 ' . 8a,3e0 r 25.". 31,700 10 83340 tS 31,830 11 81370 ' 27 30,900 12 33,080 2S 31330 13..... r,.. .30,400 -v 29. t...,., i .81,663 14. .i...... .11,730 ' 10. ...81,390 l...w 81330 31 81330 1 33,180 Total 989,480 Lei unsold and returned coplea.. 9.134 Net toUl ,....,..,...973346 Dally averag 91301 CHARLES C. ROSEWATER, General Manager. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to Before m this list day of January, 1 9 07. (Seal) ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Public. WliES OUT OF TOWS. 8abaerlbera leaving- tha city tem porarily ahoajld' bay The B sailed to them. Addreaa will chaagred aa attaa mm requested. Japan will p lease notice that con gress bag ordered the repairing of tha Oregon. Mars lg eald to be trying to signal 8 again. Probably , want to know the latest about the Thaw trial. They are still arguing over the proper- pronunciation ot "Salome." New York pronounced It Indecent It may be a part of the plan to keep Japan jollied into a good humor until the Panama canal is finished and then Inrlte her to do her worst Mr. Rockefeller says he believes In a personal -devil. Pressed for details, he would probably describe a deputy sheriff carrying a subpoena. Mae McKenzle can never be a chorus girl again, if this advertising she has received in the Thaw trial Is any good at all for starring purposes. Automobile shows are all the rage In eastern cities. The humble pedes trian has a notion that the automo bile has too much of a show all the time. James J. Hill says the only way to solve the railroad problem is to build more railroads. Still, more snow plows would help some on Mr. Hill's roads. It may not be an evidence of in creasing prosperity, but the collec tions from the police court for Janu ary were greater .than for January of last year. t Another Omaha real estate man has put himself on record to the effect that Omaha needs a first-class hotel, but he seed not have gone as far as Los An geles td find this out ' Hobaon says the Japanese can take ine rnmppines at any time. The rest Ot the country feels the' sama about it, but fears the Japs are too smart to improve the opportunity. WINTER fTORM t.OtSEB. Winter conditions In an extensive, re glod of the northwest make severe live stock losses Inevitable, and a multi tude of specific case have alreadj been reported. 8U weeks of deep snow and almost continuous extreme low temperature from the Canadian boundary down to about the line of the Missouri river has covered forage on the Dakota and Montana ranges to the great Injury of cattle and sheep. The proportion of exposed live stock Is not so large as formerly, because of the breaking up of range Into farms and small ranches, but tens of thou sands of head are still at the mercy of billiards and deep-lying snow. On the other hand, the heavy snow blanket Js regarded as favorable to the winter wheat crop throughout the same tract. . : These extreme winter conditions have not till lately seriously invaded the range country of northern and northwestern Nebraska.' There is ap- Drehenslon in the grain trade of dam age to winter wheat in the southwest ern section. Including the . major part ot Nebraska, because the heavy f reus ing weather came on before the soil had any snow covering. The extent of such damage to sown grain Is, of course, not yet known, but fear oflt has been sufficient to prove already a distinct factor in the grain markets. If the blind dams and the wins; dams could be supplemented by the pilots dams there, would be no cues tlon but the unruly current of the western rivers would.be under, con trol. The Columbia river salmon output Is very short this year and the dealers are worried because the pure food law will prevent the substitution of Mi alsslppl catfish without a change a a a V&. isDet. Julian Hawthorne declares that "President Roosevelt uses execrable English.' Hawthorne has probably been reading some of the utterances by the president when he had his Irish up. Senator Foraker says he will wel come the appointment of a negro aa collector of the port at Cincinnati. It Is a cheerful sign when Senator For aker Ukea his medicine without grumbling. St Genevieve county, Missouri, boasts that none of its citlsens h been sent to the penitentiary for forty years. There are counties in Missouri where officials are very lax la the per (ormaaee of their duties. TO PROTECT MISERAL LA1TD8. President Roosevelt's strong effort Jto secure legislation at this session for the preservation of the remaining coal" petroleum and gas resources of the public domain has Instantly en countered opposition in both senate and house. No secret is made that at a protracted conference with the leading members of the senate committee on public lands the president was flatly Informed that It was hopeless to aw tempt to pass the LaFollJtte or the Nelson bill which provides for with drawing from sale all public lands containing those minerals and for de veloping them by a system of leases under stringent safeguards against monopoly or other prejudice to public interest. Nor is it improbable that what the senators Bay Is true, espe cially as some of the members of the committee itself are understood to be hostile to the administration on gen eral principles and particularly to its scrupulous care for the public lands. Public sentiment nevertheless Is un qualifiedly with the president In favor of conserving the fuel stores still un der national title against spoliation by corporation conspiracy. The reve lations the last year in the course of criminal prosecutions and the more recent Investigations by the Interstate Commerce commission and tha Depart ment of Commerce have-thrown into bold relief the necessity for prompt and thoroughgoing remedy.' ' While the title to some mineral land of which the government has been fraudulently divested . may be recovered, . the . bulk of It has gone beyond recall, and millions of acres are exposed ' In the present loose state ot the land laws. In any event the administration. - la clear of responsibility tor continuance of the situation if congress refuses to mend it, as it is practically sure now to do. In the conference that has just been held the president, according to all accounts, explicitly disclaimed any desire to Interfere in the detailed pro visions of the measure If only it ac complished the paramount purpose, namely, protection of the public in terest and rights in the public fuel possessions. No one has proposed any other method for doing this except by preserving the public title to- these lands which have been so rapidly and grossly dissipated bv frauds and abuses 'under existing; ls.wg. . , almost as absurd. There are fifty rea sons for maintaining these fifty un necessary customs ports and each rea son bears a federal appointment for some favored politician, but congress shows symptoms of being In a mood that will not respond to such reasons. The amount of money involved In the maintenance of these uselees ap pendages of the customs service, like the financial feature of the pension agency waste, is not large, as govern ment appropriations go, but It Is a cheering sign that congress Is becom ing aroused to the existence of waste fulness In the government service and is showing a disposition to put a stop to It. CAUGHT lit A MORAL WAVE. Eastern opinion of the wild and woolly west must be revised. When David Belasco or the Frohmana want to inspect a gambling den at close range to get local color for one of the dramas depleting western life, It will be necessary to hunt up one of the New York joints some time when the lid Is not on tight. The roman cers who draw monthly checks from magazines for depicting life on the frontier, in which the gambler shares honors with the cowboy, will have to consult the files or draw on their Ima ginations. Arizona, about the last of the west ern states to take legal cognizance of gambling, as a profession, has passed a law providing that after April 1, 1907, the tiger shall go Into mourning and the roulette wheels and faro, layouts shall be decorated with crape. By official decree, there will be recognition of night in Tucson, Tombstone and Phoenix aa a time for sleep and natural rest The cowboy and the prospector who have spent months on the range or the mountains will no longer he able to ' dissipate their savings in one glad round ot dissipation in a battle with the god dess of chance on the green table. All that is past Gambling is doomed, at least bo far as state recognition of the business as a subject for revenue raising license Is concerned. The Arizona gambler 'has no more standing now than a road agent. Noth ing is left for him but to hike for New York, where the game still flour ishes, between elections, or swallow his pride ; and turn his attention to selling fake mining stock to wayfar ing tenderfeet Legislative committees are being highly entertained In both Lincoln and Austin. The passage of the lie, however; is not fraught with nearly so much danger In either Texas or Ne braska now as It waa a few years aga WAHTK lit THE CUSTOMS EflFCB. In a spirit of retaliation, some ot the members of congress In whose dis tricts were located pension' agencies recently ordered abolished by an act of congress, are now making war on what they term the extravagance ot the government in maintaining cus toms houses at different places In the country where the expenses exceed the receipts. As a result of this demand, an Investigation has been made and data furnished by the Treasury de partment showing that there are fifty of these ports of entry in the country that are not self-sustaining. The data shows that at each of the follow ing ports, the receipts' for ' the last fiscal year were less than 1100; Co of v Collecting One Receipts. Kxiwnws. Doll nr. Albemarle, N. C. ...$10.00 12.4S8 1 H Annapolis, Md 4.50 '917 tiM Burlington, N. I... IS M WO IT Cairo, 111... W 40 ' - 7 Chattanooga Tenn. 81. Bi K64 IS Eaatern. Md dfi.JO 2.7W " 4! Georgetown, S. C. SS.ft 542 21 Little Egg Harbor, N. J .40 &ns 1,M3 Paducah, Ky J.7S 473 178 Roclt Island, III...., IS. GO 65 it St. Mary s, Oa 20.10 610 30 Cooa Bay. Or 41 M .. '1.28 30 Vlcksburg, Mlaa..,, T.OH 600 70 Wheeling. XV. Va... 88 .68 712 York, Me i.UO ' 141 ; 28 The Treasury department's report shows also that there are thirty-five other ports at which the receipts ex ceed 100 per 'annum, but are still much less than the expenses. For all these places, the revenues for the last year aggregated $48,147 and the expenses $144.11. Congressmen who have had their friends. named as col lectors at these points are finding it ex ceedingly difficult to offer any argu ment for continuing these expense producing officials in office. The con tention that the customs house is a warning to smugglers will have little weight when made to continue the port at Little Egg Harbor, N. J., tor instance, where the receipts last year were 40 cents, coNectad at an expense ot $105, Other' Lies lathejttt. "ara CENTER THE FIRE. ' The Commercial club and Real Es tate exchange and the various im provement clubs of Omaha are taking a banT in legislation more particu larly affecting their own varied inter ests. They are sending deler '-'oas to Lincoln to Impress upon V. ' t makers their views ot the doul It fire department, the increase oi city fund limits and the- rearrangement ot charter 'Officer,' all- subjects on which there is" more ; or less disagreement On the one subject, however, In which Omaha is most vitally interested and on which every conceivable interest that shares in the burden of municipal government, is thoroughly at unison -namely, terminal taxation no con certed action has yet been taken. The people ot Omaha should wake up to the fact that while-they are more or less Interested in various measures before the legislature, ter minal taxation overshadows them all In real importance. Omaha has been handicapped and embarrassed for years for the lack of municipal reve nues ample enough to maintain a city government fully responding to Its growing needs. It has been handi capped in this way because a large part of' the property of the railroads, property . taxable here for city pur poses, has escaped municipal taxation altogether and the taxes which the railroads ought to pay have been un loaded upon the shoulders of other property owners. Terminal taxation on a basis of a most conservative valuation .-would bring the city of Omaha approximately $200,000 a year and would provide means to enlarge the fire department, improve the police service, extend the parks and boulevards, enlarge the area of street lighting, give us better street cleaning, keep our pavements in good repair and possibly reduce 'the out standing debt, without increasing the present tax rate. It would do all this without taking away from any outside county or school district a cent of tax now received from the railroads and would be only imposing on 'the rail roads taxes which they ought to pay and which they have long wrongfully escaped. The conditions were never more promising for Omaha to secure redress of this crying evil of railroad tax shirking, from which it is suffering in common with other cities in Nebraska. What is needed, however, is for our people to reinforce and back up our representatives in the legislature and to center the fire at the focal point. If all the towns along the itinerary do as well as Spokane promises the prospective junket of the Omaha Com mercial club boosters will offer about the finest program of entertainment that has yet been held forth as an in ducement to the local jobbers to leave their happy homes for the purpose ot conquering additional territory. . Spo kane has a tew boosters who know how to do things. zoo. Steamboats In those parts are not as thick as huckleberries, but, by the same token, they are not as scarce as hen's teeth, or as Mr. Hepburn would have congress believe. The hardware dealers are not only getting down to business, but are lay ing down some rigid rules for the con duct of that business. It Is a noticea ble feature and one that young men will do well to keep In mind, that the association has excluded liquors of all kinds from Its banquet. As a matter of precaution, the house wife Is advised to wash the milk bot tle before returning it. She would be glad to do so If she had some guar anty that the next morning's supply would not be delivered in a bottle which some housewife has neglected to wash. Despite its financial failure, the Martha Washington hotel in New York is to be run "as a hotel exclusively for women, with no bar." It is not clear whether the exclusion ot the men or the exclusion of the bar is responsible for the financial failure of the ven ture. . A The Omaha Oas company must have greater storage capacity in order to meet the growing demand of the city. The sooner the councllmen recognize this fact and deal with it in a spirit of fairness and justice the quicker we will reach the goaj of dollar gas. Two packing companies have with drawn from Arkansas on account of the enforcement of the anti-trust laws. Arkansawyers will not suffer, how ever, so long as the razor-back , hog and the succulent catfish abound In the state's woods and streams. New York is organizing a company to insure bank deposits. , Until Uncle Bam devises a scheme by which bank examiners find 6ut things before the bank fails, the timid will continue to use the trusted sock and the empty cigar box in the woodshed. The Texas legislature has made it a misdemeanor' for a . man to' drink whisky out pf a bottle while riding on any railway train in pi at state. The traveler through, Texas will have to carry a dipper as a part of his hand baggage. "Uncle Pete" Hepburn declares that for many years no steamboat has passed up and down the 'Missouri north of Kansas City. It Uncle Pet would spend one ot his summer vaca tions In his district he might occa sionally hear the low, sweet toot ot the steamboat whistle as it breasts th turgid water of -the troublesow Mls- The duchess of Marlborough has to give up only $100,000 a year to keep from living with her husband, and there is still enough of the old Van derbilt spirit in her to make her feel proud when she. .drives a good bar gain. .- .-. Aa t'neipeeted Knock. Cleveland Leader. American supremacy will not take a back seat for th rest of ha world even in th matter of race problems. A convention Is to be held by Texaa negroes to protest against Japknes 'immMgration. What- the Kwovker Gets. Chicago Tribune. Any man who goes' to the president with an alleg-atlon against soma particular branch of -the government servlc has to make good or take th consequences, and th consequence are not at all pleasant to take. i AtvaBV laformatloa. Portland Orogonlan. -If the mikado will take the trouble to rad th crimson newspaper of America he will learn that'll la about to declare war on the United1 8tates. But probably their Information Is exclusive and not for consumption at Tokto. Production of Beet Snarar. Ban Francisco Chronicle. The production of beet sugar in the United States is increasing; slowly but surely. Last year the output was 846,000 tons of 2,240 pounds each, an Increase of 22 per cent over that of tha campaign of 1905-46. At present w ar Importing seven times aa much sugar as tha domestic pro duction, but there la a reasonable certainty that in tb not very remote future the home demand will be . wholly supplied by th domestic producer. That baa. been the history of every effort mad by the United Btates to meet th domestic; requirements for article which the country is capable of .producing. HEPBVRJI OJT RIVER HATlOATIOlf Tarsi a Spot LJcht oa the Slaaoaltlea of th Sabjeet. Pittsburg- Dispatch. - Th speech of th Hon. "Pate" Hepburn of Iowa on the river and harbor appropria tion bill contains a brace of proposition that lead to an unavoidable conclusion. Tha report of that lawmaker remirks which wa And In a Washington paper shows that ha states first concerning river Im provements: "When you take out the sand bar and the sinuosities from a liver you Increaa Its current enormously, making It practically impossible of navigation." After which in tha next paragraph be I quoted aa saying "of the Missouri river that the sandbars and th bends In that stream had made , it absolutely Impoaslhl of naviga tion." Th difference between "practically lm- possible" and "absolutely Impossible" is not vital with regard to navigation, since Ither. If demonstrated, knocks out the navigation. Mr. Hepburn's loa-lo, therefore, sets forth somewhat dogmatically that tak ing out tha sandbars and bends makes navi gatlon Impossible, and If they are left In It la Impossible from tha start. Wherefore navigation la forced to take to th woods or otherwise use th overland rout. This would be convincing If there were not ground for the suspicion that Mr. Hep burn baa adopted the Jodwnod style in his login, lis condemns and executes naviga tion to begin with, and then turns out his avidenoa that navigation ia necessarily, and always Impossible, Moke Dr- Graves' Too Hi Powder your twico-a-day friend) it will make you many admiring friends- those who . have keen eyes fot bright, white teeth and pure breath. Vgur sweetheart knows why. Ia haady aaatat an ar hoctl, 88a, Or. Ctcyss1 Teeth Powder Co. BITS OP WAHHISnTO 1.1 FK. Minor Seene-a and Ineldeat Skrtehe oa the Spot. Official of th Interior department ar following a warm trail . of western land crooks In New Tork City. New Jersey and Liong Island. Several colon! ef dummy entrymen hav been located In tha sec tion, and the object of the chase Is to secure evidence agninat certain railroad official and olhrra tending to show a conspiracy to defraud the United State of valuable tracts .ot coal land at th southern end rf the Big Horn bnnln In central Wyoming. Nearly lft.OOA acres ar said to hav been entered with fraudulent Intent. A promi nent government official quoted in a Wash ington dispatch. t he Chicago Tribune aid that eighteen dummy entrymen. In cluding bootblacks, cab drlvera, barber, etc., In New Tork and Long Island hav confessed that they agreed, for a price, to enter the lands, and that after securing patent they had conveyed their Interests to their employer. Th Northwestern Coal Mining company, a New Jersey corporation and the Owl Creek company, both doing buslneaa In Wyoming, have been made tha subject of Investigation. Behind these coinpanle Is said to 'stand a big railroad system that was desirous of acquiring tha land alleged to have been entered, and subsequently patented. In violation of law. In thla connection the Harriman and Gould roods ar mentioned, aa well a the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy. Th latter 1 now building a branch from its mam lino to that part of the Big Horn basin where, the lands alleged to have been ob tained through fraud are situated. Inquiry develops that while the officials of the department of justice and the in terior department have been making ar rangements to prosecute In New Tork frauds against laws governing the disposal of th public domain, Interesting infor mation having bearing on th case has been collected in other quarters. For example. It Is known that of eigh teen persons In New Tork City and Amity vlllo who made confession that they un wittingly vlolnted the law, seven or more have repudiated such confession In affida vits. These affldlvats aver that government Inspector In prosecution of their Inquiry sought to - intimidate the perrons alleged to ba Involved, and threatened that If papers submitted by the Inspectors were not signed men and women o refusing "would b put In prison." Colorado's senator-elect, the Hon. Simon Guggenheim, was escorted to the chamber of his future activities, and maybe glory, by Senator Patterson, report the Washing ton Herald. Is so happened that the first conscript father to whom he waa intro duced was Mr. Money of Mississippi, who, in defiance of the original relationship be tween nomenclature and It bearer, recently embraced an opportunity In a senate debate to declare th belief that he Is the poorest member of the body. Colorado' enator elect' smilingly Informed Money that he had heard of him before, and was acquainted with hi record. The next senator to whom th senator elect was presented waa Mr. Tillman, who had "heard of him before." In his "min strel" speech Mr. Tillman spoke of "the wan eong of Smiling Tom (Patterson), of Colorado, the sUt recently bought at auction by one Guggenheim." Mr. Patterson, evidently realising the Irony of the two encounter already ex perienced, hastened to convoy his sucoe sor over to the republican side of th chamber, "to how them what they had got," as he afterward remarked. ' It was when Mr. Guggenheim got wedged In between the portly Mr. ESklns of West Virginia and the ponderous Mr. KUtredge of South Dakota, that the di minuteness of hts . stature was em phasised. He then appeared to weigh about a hundred pound and to be proba bly a tall as Ave feet His height seems to be just about that of Mr. Allee of Del aware, of whom President Pro Tempore Frye once declared that when the Dela ware statesman addressed the chair he couldn't tell whether he wa standing up or sitting down. Robert Marlon LaFollette has been able to accomplish more In the short time he has been In the senate than any other in dividual, either on the republican or demo cratic side, say tha Pittsburg Dispatch correspondent. He got th senate to pass his aixteen-hour bill before he had been In the senate a year. It I true that when they permitted It to be pasaed the senators had what they believed to be assurances that are worth something that it would never be permitted to com out of th house committee room to which It was sent. But Robert Marlon la a resourceful young man. Although th railroad brotherhood appear now to b against him, th feeling 1 growing that a restriction of th hours a railroad man may work 1 mor for tha Interest of the traveling publlo than It I for th benefit of the railroad men them selves, because It ha been shown that th Terra Cotta wreck on th Baltlmor ft Ohio was caused. In part, by th engineer of the "dead" train, who had been on duty about fifty-two hour in sixty. LiaFollett will find ways for bringing pressur on th bouse committee that has hi bill pigeonholed. He always has found ways to get his legislation enacted, for h 1 a persistent little customer. He never had a friendly majority In any of th legislative assemblies that passed his legis lation, but ha got what he wanted anyhow, being In that respect a good deal Ilk Roosevelt. Tha punctilious standard of responsibility set up for himself by Senator Pettus of Alabama wa Illustrated a few days ago. A dapper young man called upon him, the grandson of an old southern friend long dead. Th caller talked Mr. Pettus out of $50, promising to return It in a few daya, but tha senator learned that tha young man had Immediately deserted his wife and gon to parts unknown. The fin old gentle man lost no time In hunting up th deserted wife, gav her enough money to meet her pressing necessities and also paid her way back to her girlhood home In Alabama. "If I hadn't loaned the young, scamp money," aid Senator Pettus, when asked about th Incident, "he would not hav been able to get out of Washington and desert his poor little wife. I therefore hold myself r sponslbl for her unhappy plight and, of course, there wa nothing for m to do but serid her back horn to her people." Toung, - popular, good looking and wall off. Senator Beverldga of Indiana la thought to be drifting Into confirmed bachelorhood. Recently he waa congratulating a handsome widow whose engagement had Just baen announced. "Well, why don't you do the same," she asked, "If you think I hav don right r "I ought to and If you will find me th right kind of a girl I will." re plied the senator. "If you will find another Ilk yourself" But sh stopped him. "Oh, you are perfectly af In saying that now after th engagement Is announced. Ton wouldn't hav dared to say o befor!" Champ Clark created Indignation In th New England house delegation In general and that of Massachusetts in particular th other day by solemnly asseverating thus: "Enough mud Is carried from their bank annually by tha Missouri and Mississippi river to make a stat of th union blggsr than Massachusetts and mayb a batter on too." Coaa Ont of It. Philadelphia Press. Senator Hal ha undertaken the big Job of convincing th senate that It Is not In session for talking purposes exclusively. Xrefl ROUGHS,, cold, catarrh, bronchitis, V rheumatlgm five common winter ailment which are the result of run-down healthfive ailments' there fore which Scott's Emu Is fon will cure. - ' ' .. If your health is impaired, if you "catch cold easily, have a stubborn cough, are annoyed with catarrh, feel twinges of rheumatism, are subject to attacks of bronchitis, build up your gen' eral health with Scott's Emulsion. It is the most strengthening of known foods. ALL DRUGGISTS i 60. AND SUM. PERSONAL NOTES. Alabama pronouncearise euchre a crime, but th woman who didn't get th prise already fel$ this way about it. Sir Alfred Jones proclaims that Swetten ham waa tha right man In the right place. This complete th evidence of th people against Jones. A 'isltor at th horn of Joaquin Miller expressed surprise at the abence of a library. "Books!"' txciaimed the, poet. ."I do not read books; I write them." , A man who has known E. H. Harriman for mor than twenty years said a few days ago: "The on quality that Harriman possesses which mor than ail other Is a constant source of wonder to m Is his un remitting and, I may ay, hi furious energy." Thomas. Murray, a well known Chicago merchant, declares the Osier theory er roneous In hi "Autobiography of a Busi ness Man." H aaya "My experience has been that men of mature yeara are mor attentive to their duties and abler than younger men, and I would rather hire a man past 45 who has had experience than hire a young man who doe not appreciate his position." To prevent the log cabin In which General U. S. Grant and his family lived In St. Louis county from being taken to th Jamestown exposition. Judge Leo Rassleur has started a movement to purchase the historical structure by a popular subscrip tion and to permanently locate It In Forest park, St. Louis. Judge Rassleur believes that If the cabin leaves St. Louis It will never return. HOW LABOR SCARCITY ACTS. Method Employed to EqnalUe De mand nad Sapply. St. Louis Globe Democrat. The labor shortage Is causing trouble In unexpected ways. It la compelling soma of the railroad to raise their limit of age tolerance among employe. Th Pennsyl vania road, which shut out everybody over K years of age from the rank and file of Its workers, has had to raise th dead line to 40 years. ' The Baltimore and Ohio and several other roads have had to make . a Similar move. They could not get enough workers under thlrty-flve-yar restriction. In the .present abounding prosperity the old. the mtddle-age4 and the. young ar alike employed. And the prosperity I on the up grade rather than . stationary or going downward. Another way In which th prosperity Is manifesting Itself 1 In compelling state board to go to Europe and get Immigrants, and promise them employment when they get here. South Carolina Invented this plan, and other states are adopting It. Alabama, Virginia, Georgia, Mississippi and Louisiana are moving In that dlrecton now. and there I a proposition that Missouri take a similar step. Neither the west nor the south la getting enough Immigrant to meet the demand her for workers on the farm and In the factories. Most of the present Immigrants stay in the state east of the Alleghenles and north of the Poto mac Th rest of th country needs more workers, and the South Carolina plan of going abroad to get them ha attractions. A better distribution among the immi grants would be desirable. , The local boards In the south and wait which are ostensibly engaged In enticing settlers to their home states are evidently not buay at the big Im migration ports. If they had agenU at New Tork who knew their buslnees they would probably be able to get a larger aupply of workers for their communities than ar coming In under the present con dition. Th other plan that of going to Europe for them Is still open, and It I likely to b utilised in a large degree In 1907. Whll republican prosperity hold out there will be no excu for anybody lt th United States to be Idle who Is physically or mentally abls to work, and while re publican way continue there I an ex cellent chance that the good time will tay with us. In som degree st leat PLEASANTLY PIT. "Old Fullerplunka. who died a raanth or two ago, didn't leave you anything, hey? I thought he was a near relative of yours." Neart He waa closer than the shrunken jacket on .a alxteen-lnch gunl" Chicago Tribune. "It cost more to live than It used to," remarked the economist. , "Ye," answered the eoergetlo man, "but think of how much mora business you can transact In a given time and th-' corre sponding results you can get out of Ufa," Washington Bur. . , "Mulrooney, wud yes Ilk a little drink T "Thanks, Casey; I wud." "8o wud I." Then tha battle , began. Washington Herald. r-.. T" p "Maria, what' them osculation xerclae the health board aay ain't sanitary T "Osculation, ma, la what might- be called one of tha pressing matter of th time." Baltimore American.'.-.; ' ;.'' ' "There' too much deceitful talk In this , world," said Mr. Kandof. "I think if one man ha anything to say about another h should confine himself to toe truth.' "But," said Mr. K a Mil or, "suppos there are ladles present." Philadelphia Press. "I am gratified," remarked th attorney for the state, "to find on roan willing to aerv on th jury." "I believe every c It! sen should do his duty," said the talesman, modestly. "Be sides, the defendant once poisoned my dog. I owe the plaintiff - money, and a I've Just lost my Job the fees will com In handy." Washington Star. "Never mind," ald the surgeon. "You'll come through this all right. We'll hav you on your feet again Inside of six montha" i After which they proceeded to amputate the sufferer leg. Washington Star. Employer Procrastination I th thief of time. Clerk Yes, sir; that's why 1 alwaya watch th clock. New York Sun. Dismal Old Lady 1 don't surpos I shall ever want another pair, Mr. Stlbblna. Oleaginous Elderly Shopman I 'op you'll wear out a lot mora shoe leather yet, mum. Dismal Old Lady Ah, but l'v on foot In th grave already. Olearlnoua Elderly Shopman Most 'appy to sell you a single boot, mum. Phila delphia Inquirer. . Attorney (for the defense) Do you know anything about the merits of this case? venireman I ahould say -not. It hasn't any merits. Attorney We'll take this man, your honor. Chicago Tribune. Ascum Did Shea actually ask old Rox- ndT lev for his daughter's ha Wise-Yes, Sod h claims Tie compelled the oid man to toe th mark.. Ascum You don't sayT . Wise Yes, but Shea was th mark. Cathollo Standard and Time.' . "Little boy,"sald th good ' woman, "do you always tell the truth?" 'No-mJ "Don't you know Its very, very naughty to He?" , ... "Ye'm." "Then why do you do ItT" ' "I don't. Sometimes I'm too busy to talk."-Phlladelphla Ledger. MEANIXQ OP A SMILE. S. E. Klser In th Record-Herald. We speak In many tongues, we m6n Who do th work that men must f.o With sword and apade and plow and pen My language may be strange to you; I may not know when you con-plain. Nor comprehend if you revile; Your preaching may ba all In vain. But we ar brothers when w smile. The Malay may not understand When I explain to him my creed; The Mongol, all unmoved and bland. May think that I am mad, indeed; To them the words I use may b A Jargon fashioned to beguile; But they extend their hands to me And know my meaning when I smile. We speak In many tongues, we men Who do th work that must be done, And If, perchance, some morning when The first beam slanted from the sun A savage faced you where yotl wok Upon tha farthest South Sea 11 e, - He might not know what worda yeu spas', But h -would understand your smile. , The spoken word may not convey The slightest meaning to our mlndi. But from the coldest Lapland bay r To where Magellan' channel wind. From Ganges to th Am axon, j From f rosea Yukon to the Nile, And from La Plata to th Don, ' There 1 on meaning for a ainil. 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