TIIE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THUKSDAY. FKNKUAKY 21. 1007.
Tiie Omaha Daily Bee
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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
State of Nebraska, Douglas County, as:
Charles C. Rnsewater, general manager
. Of The Bee Publishing company, being duly
sworn, says that the actual number of full
nd complete copies of The Daily. Morning.
Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the
month of Januarv, 1907, 'U as follows:
i so.soo it si.tro
t 38.680 II 31.M0
t 31,970 . II 81,700
4 tl.MO 10 30,300
( 3160 11 31,900
30,000 12 33,030
7 31,950 It 81,040
1 33,800 14 31,760
1 33,980 SS 31.700
10 ....33,040 ' t 31,830
11 81470 .17 30,500
II 33,060 II 31,630
II .....30,400 II 31,653
14 81,730 10 31,390
II 31,980 II 81,630
11 38,180
Total 988,480
Less unsold and returned copies.. 9,134
Net total.. '....973,348
Dally average 81,390
CHARLES C. ROSE WATER.
General .Manager.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn
to before m this, list day of January,
107.
(Seal) . ROBERT HUNTER...
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WHEJI OIT OF TOWJJ.
subscribers tearing; the city tem
porarily should bar Th Be
nailed to them. Address will be
chaaaed as oftea aa requested.
Wonder how many people "Jarred
loose" as a result of Mayor "Jim's"
proclamation.
Some of these Russian generals
light better with typewriters than they
did with soldiers.
Ocean steamships have added a new
smell to the steerage by providing
storage room for automobiles.
The king of Italy spends his spare
time tn collecting coins. So do the
trust magnates In this country
' It will not be so very long now until
the Nebraska legislators will have to
walk out or stand a reduction in pay.
Postmaster Oeneral Cortelyou might
take a hand in that Thaw case on the
theory that it Is a fast male problem.
Kouropatkln's testimony that the
Russian army was all right except for
its leaders and soldiers Is still uncon
troverted. .
Mr. Hearst says that 'Abraham Lin
coln was a democrat. The democratic
papers of Mr. Lincoln's day did not
seem to think ne was.
In other words, the railroads insist
there would be no car shortage if the
farmers of the west would Quit raising
so much stuff for market.
Colonel Bryan did not make much
of a sensation In his address, to the
Iowa legislature. Governor Cummins
bad already anticipated him.
Another reason for the shrinking
appearance of the Japanese war cloud
Is that Richmond Peafson Hobson has
8 severe cold and cannot talk.
It is doubtful If this new milking
machine Just patented will do the
work any better than the . kind the
trusts have been using for years.'
Women have been finally author
ized to drive cabs in Pa,rls. The
French woman ought to be1 satisfied,
now that she has the whip hand.
.A presidential boom has been
started for Senator Culberson of Texas
He appears' at least more available
than any other senator from Texas.
Theodore P. Shunts wants the rail
road let alone lest the small investor
should suffer. The small Investor is
making no claim that he Is not suf
fering now.
That old "burn-this-letter" advice
should aot bo followed too implicitly.
Blnger tlermao, former commissioner
of ithe general land office, Is now on
trial for burning some official letter.
A federal Judteihrp with a -fat sal
ary and a life tenure does not heave
In sight- In this bailiwick every day.
No wonder the competition among Ne
braska lawyers to cqnnect with the
federal pay roll is so keen.
The visiting Nebraska editors an
nounce that they are here In Omaha
"passleas, but not penniless." But
they are In even better condition than
that. If the pennies run ouVthey can
' get more from home by telegraph.
An Arkansas girl who promised to
marry any St. Louis man who would
support her Is still 1 waiting at the
church. The average St. Louis man
may be waiting for some Arkansas
girl who will promise to support him.
The action of Attorney Oeneral Bo
naparte directing that suits be institu
ted against about a score of railroad
for violations of the safety appliance
law serves as a final notice to railroad
companies that dilatory tactics, de
signed to avoid compliance with the
federal law on this point, will be tol
erated no longer'. The law was passed
years ago, in response to demand
from trainmen and labor organizations
throughout the nation, but the rail
roads succeeded in bringing pressure
upon congress which secured a num
ber of postponements of the date for
nmklng the measure operative. 'That
time has long since expired, but a
core or more of the railways of the
country have as yet failed to comply
with the provisions of the act. The
Interstate Commerce commission, has
reported seventy-eight violations of
the law and the attorney general has
decided to begin prosecutions.
In face of the record that twice as
many trainmen were killed or Injured
In 1905 as in 1885 and that there was
tn Increase of nearly 100 per cent In
the number of passengers killed, based
on the number of passenger miles, Jn
the same ten-year period, the action of
the Department of Justice would ap
pear to be eminently Just, If tardy, in
using, every precaution authorized b'
law to reduce the growing total of
human slaurhter in the operation of
the steam railroads of the country.
Reports submitted to the Interstate
Commerce commission show that for
the year 1905 one employe of the
operating departments of the railroads
was killed for erery 411 employed and
one Injured for every twenty-one em
ployed. Among the trainmen, one was
killed for every 133 employed and one
injured for every nine employed. In
1895 one passenger was killed for
every 2.984,832 carried, while in 1905
one was killed, for every 1,375,856
carried. In 1895 one passenger was
injured for every 213,651 carried, and
in 1905 one passenger was injured
for every 70,655 carried. In other
words, it Is only half s safe to travel
on steam roads now as a decade since.
Safety in the operation of American
railroads is about the only feature of"
American development that shows re
trogression instead of progress in the
last ten years. "
The solution of this problem must
He with the railroads of the country.
It will not do for them to argue, that
they are carrying about eight times
as many passengers as they did ten
years ago, in face of the fact that
the percentage of killed or injured,
compared with the number carried,
has nearly trebled in that time. Amer
ican people travel more each year and
will continue to do so as the . country
becomes richer and more densely pop
ulated. '-. Their care and safety and the
protection of the men who operate the
trains constitutes a tremendous re
sponsibility and the railway managers
must show improvement over the rec
ord of the past, ten years or confess
incompetency. No' plea, however, - of
inability to meet existing conditions
and emergencies will be accepted by
the American traveling public so Jong
as railroad managers fall o takead
vantage of every opportunity for the
adoption of safety appliances, whether
prescribed by law or made possible in
other ways, calculated to protect the
lives and limbs of their employes or
passengers.
ANOTHER MKiZAOE FROM QARCIA-
Col. Emanuel Garcia, one of the 33d
degree patriots of Cuba, has been talk
ing again and says that Cuba must,
come Into the union of the United
States of America in a mighty short
time or gojnto the scrap heap. That
announcement . would bring cheer to
Senator Newlands and other ardent
annexation advocates, were It not
coupled with the assertion, that the
tobacco fields of Cuba will absorb
every drop of Cuban patriotic blood
before any annexation scheme can be
brought about jthat deprives the Cuban
of his inalienable, right to home rule
and the office. ' Right on the heels of
Col. Garcia' talk comes theNnewa from
Havana- that the leaders of the liberal
party are demanding that the Ameri
can provisional government in Cuba
strike camp at once and get out, under
penalty of a revolution and a possible
invasion of the United States. Over
his own signature. Gen. Elolnaz del
Castillo' writes a piece to the organ of
the liberal party at Havana in which
he declares:
Welcome peace, but with Independence
and liberty." The' only peace -possible In
Cuba la to strike dpwn the Imbeciles who
place their fate In a dictatorship or who
believe that with a protectorato or an
nexation they can make sugar. Whit
will be made Is war war colossal "end
without quarter, sparing neither lives
nor prpperty. These traitors to the
fatherland, what must be thought of
thernT We are resolved that wc stuiil
not see our adorable republic of Cuba
ruled by foreigners or the plaything, of
ambition.
That raises the issue squarely. Col
Oarcla and Cn. Castillo have put
the situation plainly up to the authori
ties at Washington and asked them
to shoot or give up the guns and the
Question is what will the president and
Secretary Taft and Governor Magoon
do about it? It must be said for Gov
ernor Magoon that be scented the bat
tle from afar some time ago, and of
fered a 'solution of the problem by In
creasing the rural guard to an extent
that would have given practically
every Cuban patriot a horse, a gut and
a place on the pay roll, but was turned
dowm at Washington, and now the ad
ministration must meet the emergency.
The old swamp angels who escaped
extermination at the hand of Spain
are very hungry and very thirsty,
anxious to join the discontented hot-
spurs of lUvana who have been rest
less since the American invaders sup
pressed the cock fight and substituted
the stock trchange for the Jal alai
form' of gambling. Their numbers aro
sufficiently large to cause a lot of
trouble should they decide to adopt
the actual instead of the oratorical
form of warfare.
In the mean time the conservative
elements In Cuba, composed of natives
and foreigners from all countries, want
the United States to establish a pro
tectorate over Cuba, looking to annexa
tion which would give Amerclans per
manent and effective control of affairs
on the Island. The Piatt amendment
makes It imperative upon the United
States to protect the lives and property
of both foreigners andjiatlves in Cuba.
Without- antlelnpMng the decision of
the administration at Washington, it
is a Baf.i ivnser that this protection
will be given, even if in the doing
Gen. Castillo and Col. Garcia get their
uniforms disarranged.
LESSOS FROM AN FRAXC1SCO-
The Chamber of Commerce of San
Francisco has published a compre
hensive report on the subject of In
surance settlements, growing out of
the losses by fire and earthquake,
which contains many facts that must
prove of Interest to all cities where
Are insurance and fire protections are
problems of annual, consideration.
After setting out, at great detail, the
story of the struggle over the "settle
ment of the fire losses In San Fran
cisco, the report says "the most dis
couraging feature of the Are insurance
situation in the United States is the
Indifference of the American people to
enormous annual fire loss, due princi
pally to flimsy and meretricious con
struction." Statistics show that the annual fire
loss in the Vnited States Is about
$300,000,000 a year, while the cost of
maintaining the fire departments of
the nation Is about $260,000,000 a
year. Fire Insurance premiums cost
the country nearly $300,000,000 a
year, while the losses paid amount to
less than $150,000,000. The net
losses by Are and the maintenance of
fire departments exceed $400,000,000
annually, .which must be set down as
absolute waste of money and energy,
forming a very serious handicap in
the development of cities, as no prog
ress can be shown until this enormous
loss has been offset by new money in
new buildings and enterprises.
The share otf this loss' that might
be prevented by stricter building lawB
and better enforcement of existing
laws for fire avoidance is undoubtedly
very large, and other large cities niajf
profit by taking a leaf from San Fran
cisco's lesson in fire insurance ex
perience. SCHOOL BOARD FIX A NCK 8.
The action of the school . board,
looking toward a reorganization of Its
system of finances. Is a move In the
Tight direction. It is notorious that
for years there has been neither bead
nor tail in our school board methods
of accounting and auditing and that
no two persons could arrive at the
same result In attempting to ascertain
Just how the board stood financially.
The Juggle of a fiscal school year
differing' from and overlapping the
calendar year, which is the fiscal year
for all the other Jurisdictions, has, ,
doubtless, been, chiefly to blame, but
out of this discrepancy has arlben all
sorts of shuffling of the funds and
questionable practices for evasion of
the law. The Bee recently called the
board to task for disregarding the
statutory prohibition against spending
more than "$25, 0"00 out of current rev
enues for the purchase of school sites
and construction of new school build
ings, which has been excused on the
pretense of distributing the payment
over three "calendar years," although,
In fact, all paid out within fourteen or
fifteen months. Another questionable
practice of the board has been to
draw warrants ad libitum against
prospective revenues without regard to
the legal Ifmltatlon holding N them
within the money in hand and 85 per
cent of the actual tax levied. As a
consequence we bad a constant float
ing debt of outstanding interest-bearing
warrants, which, however, we are
glad to say has been almost eliminated
during the past year or two.
There Is no good reason why the
school bouVd finances Bhould not be
managed upon as scrupulous business
methods as the finances of any other
part of our local government. The
first prerequisite to reform, however,
is full knowledge of the present con
dition, which may be expected to be
forthcoming as a result of the board's
present action. The Investigation
must then be followed up with a thor
ough reorganization, if the taxpayers
are to have any benefit out of it.
One of the. pupils . of the Omaha
High school writes to The Bee to ex
plain the "worthiness of the cause"
for which thy have been drawn Into
a campaign to raise funds for a bronze
statue of Abahaiu Lincoln. "The
worthiness of the cause" will not be
gainsaid by anyone, but tho propriety
cf Bending public school children out
to solicit money for any cause is being
justly assailed. .It was supposed that
the school board had established a
rule against this demoralizing prac
tice and that the rule was to be en
forced without exception. Hundreds
of "worthy causes" appealing to public
Sympathy and support are presented
every year, but to allow the schools to'
be made the soliciting machinery
would run counter to their purpose
and tend to destroy their usefulness.
Without criticising the scheme to
erect a monument to Abraham Lin
coln, we know we voice the' sentiment
of a large part of this community In
saying that no further exceptions of
any kind should be made by the school
board to Its prohibition against
money-collecting campaigns waged
though the public schools.
The ordinance proposed by Council
man 21mman to Ax the charges for
rental of business telephones on the
basis proposed by the telephone com
pany Itself ought to pass. At the time
the telephone company made this
proposition to cut off a dollar a month
from the charge for Its business tele
phones, The Bee advised the council
to accept it on the spot before it could
be withdrawn and give us the benefit
of that concession at least until a sec
ond telephone system should have
been Installed. The second telephone
cannot be In working order short of a
year and a half to two years, and we
ought to have the benefit of the exist
ing company's former proposition at
least during that time.
The legislature has passed a bill to,
require the labeling of all packages
containing Intoxicating liquor. The
bill is aimed at what Is known as the,
"Jug" trade, although it is general in
its terms and applies to alL liquors,
whether consigned in Jugs, bottles or
barrels. When a beer' keg Is hereafter
sent out in Nebraska with a sign on
it, "Intoxicating liquors," people will,
have a right to suspect that It contains
beer. This will not apply, however,
to champagne, as all of the champagne
drunk in this state is Imported from
abroad and the label law can not apply
to interstate shipments.
The Omaha Commercial club must
have gotten its wires crossed. If the
protest it sent to Washington against
cutting down the mall-carrying subsi
dies to the railroads received the same
attention accorded Its protest sent to
Lincoln against reducing the passen
ger rate to 2 cents a mile, the railroad
managers will not call upon It for as
sistance again very soon.
Good for the Young Woman's Chris
tian association. Tjhe hustling , young
women havepushed the subscription
list for the building fund, out of which
their new home is to be erected, over
tne $100,000 mark which they had set
up before 'them. It has ben a long
pull, but also a strong pull, and a pull
altogether.- And, after all, It Is results
that count.
The Lincoln correspondent of the
democratic World-Herald has discov
ered "a truly great day for the people
such a day as this rallroad-rldden
state has not seen in a legislative ses
sion 'for years." Such a day, he
should have added, as was never seen
at any session when the democrats
controlled the legislature. '
Illinois Is trying, to pass a law re
quiring life insurance companies to
furnish the state with a list of Illinois
policyholders and the amounts of
their policies. Has the state any
more right to know how much insur
ance a man is carrying than It has to
know how much money he has In the
bank or what he pays for neckties.
The veterinarians of Iowa and Ne
braska have combined with the veteri
narians of Missouri in a new organiza
tion to be known as the Missouri Val
ley Veterinarian association. This
ought to place the Missouri mule on a
footing of equality with the cowboy's
broncho.
Does Bryan Take Notlref
'Cleveland Leader. '
One of the most notable advances In tho
price of Important products is the rise In
silver within the last few years. It has
gone up much faster than wheat. Will
Mr. Bryan please take notice?
Shall We C heck, the Speed f
Chicago Chronicle.
When people shall be content to travel
at the rate of twenty-flve miles an hour in
stead of seventy-five miles an hour there
may still be wrecks, but they will aot be
catastrophes horrifying humanity.
A Roatlne Daly.
. .Pittsburg Dispatch.- n
Preuldent Stickney of the Chicago Great
Western railway has a reputation of blurt
ing out the facta. Ilia lairt testimony leaven
little room for doubt that stock watering
is a recognised- part of a railroad presi
dent's chorea.
Pain of Tbrealeaed Cat.
Portland Oregonlan.
A cut of 12.0U0,C00 on the cost of mall
transportation by the railroads la at once
deep and significant the latter because the
saving Is to come through a reform In
weighing methods and not In a reduction
of rates'. It looks very much as If there
had been monkeying on a colossal scale
with the government steelyards In the In
terest of railroads.
A Heal Rtrvaa.ua Job.
Nem- York Sun.
A resolution making the president a press
censor hus been introduced In the house by
young Mr. Wharton of Illinois. Exereite
of the power p-oposed would require the
president, If he took his duties seriously,
to keep an eye upon every newspaper In
the country reporting a murder trial or a
social scandal. No doubt he would be will
ing to respond to the call upon him both
aa a moralist and a hustler, but we sub
mit, for the consideration of the president's
other well wishers, that there might be
such a thing as killing- him with kindness.
Projected Boost of Freight Rates.
Ban Francisco 'Chronicle.
It Is estimated that the contemplated
Increase In railroad freight rates will add
several hundred millions to the revenues
of tha transportation companies. It la
thus the clever managers of great cor
porations pluck the fig of contentment from
the nettle of adversity." ' Much ado waa
made by them over the fact that thv' re
cent raise In wages would add something
over a hundred millions to the operating
exjM-nses of the reads. : but . the. hundred
millions additional to be paid out for wages
will be- amply offset by the several hun
dred millions to be extracted from patrons
In the shape of an all round raUe of freight
rater. '
DKIPHII MK H AF.L, PF.I.M .
Stories .(heat the California' Lawyer
"Jaw la Sew York's l.lmellaM.
The Inability cf more than one of Marry
Kendall Thaw's lawyers to cfowd In front
of the spotlight with half the world for an
audience has caused numerous wrangles,
backfire, criticisms and retractions among
the "learned counsel." In spite of all
the California lawyer, Petphln Michael
Delmnn, holds the center of the stage for
the defense. Ever since the second day of
the trial, when he picked up the wreckage
of the case and rescued confidence from, a
disastrous beginning, IVImas has scored
point after point In . presenting to the jury
evidence favorable to the prisoner.
Mr. lelmas Is a Frenchman by birth, Is
S3 years old and practiced law In Cali
fornia for thirty year. Most of his prac
tice has been In civil cases, and some con
sider him at his best in that branch of. his
profession. The suit which carried his fame
all over the country was he contest over
the millions of the late Senator Fair. He
represented the contestant, Mrs. Craven,
and mt one of his Infrequent defeats. He
also defended a libel suit against Claus
Bpreckels, and was recently sought for the
position of general counsel for the Southern
Pacific railway, but declined.
While he never posed as a criminal law
yer, some of his greatest victories have
been won In such cases. He haa had sl
teen, client accused of homicide, and all '
have been acquitted. He defended D.. J.
Arnold, who shot Grannla after a street
fight In San Francisco. Another noted
criminal case In which he acted as advisory
counsel was that of Truxton Beale, for
merly In the dlplomatlo service, and one of
the witnesses to the killing of Stanford
White. Beale was chargod, with Thomae
H. Williams, of killing Frederick Marriott,
the editor of the Ban Francisco News Let
ter. The case had some startling parallels
with thnt of Harry K. Thaw. Marriott was
snld to have made an insulting remark
regarding the woman who afterward be
came Beale'a wife. "The defense waa car
ried to a successful Issue by "recourse to
the "unwritten law."
Apart from Delmas' native ability and the
genius which he himself would define as
hard work, he ewes his high position as
the leader . of the California bar largely
to the character of some of the most
prominent cases which he has tried. Del
mas Is the only big lawyer In California
who has consistently espoused the cause
of the people against the Southern Pacific
railroad, and who haa beaten the railroad
people to a standstill. The Southern Pa
cific railroad, it should be explained. Is
the worst-hated corporation west of the
Rocky mountains. When Frank Norrls
pilloried this corporation aa "the octo
pus," he merely voiced the feelings of all
the people about him. Delmas, from tho
time that he fought Iceland Stanford,
Charles Crocker and Collls P. Hunting
ton In the great case of David 8. Colton',
widow against these railroad barons of
the past, down to the present day, has
persistently championed all manner of
legal suits, big or little, provided they
were brought against the Southern Pa
cific. The most annoying thing to the
railroad Is that he has mostly won these
suits.
A former law partner of Delmas, who
is now engaged In litigation with his
former chief, said that . Delmas had a
standing offer from the Southern Pacific
of a I3QO.00O retainer, provided only he would
handle no more damage suits against the
railroad. "Delmas la such a fool," said
his former partner, "that he never would
take this offer, and yet he was always head
over ears tn debt. Delmas would sacrifice
anything fo: the sake of friendship, or
food, hatred. As for women, he sees them
11 In a golden hase."
i - .
They tell this story cf his schoolboy days
nt Santa Clara: Delmaa, the better to per
fect himself In Greek, solicited the favor
of private readings with Father White,
thte best Greek scholar of the Santa Clara
faculty. For the flrBt lesson he brought
his own copy of Demosthenes' orations,
whereas Father White brought none. -'Will
you read from my book, father?" asked
Delmas. "No," replied Father White; "I
need no book; I know my text by heart."
For the next lesson Delmaa came empty
handed. "Where Is your book, my' son?''
asked Father White. "I need no bcok," said
Delmas: "I have learned my text by
heart."
Any one who has ever tolled through
Demosthenes' endless orations may we'l
doubt this tale, but It comes from the lips
of Father White himself. His story Is
thoroughly characteristic of Delmas as a
student and lawyer. In Delmas' own
words, "there Is no such thing as genius.
So-called genlue merely menns hard work."
If this definition be true, then Delmas' Is a
man of genius. His former partner. Bam
Shortrldge, who Is now defending tho San
Francisco boodlers, told me that Delmns
never made a speech In court which he had
not thoroughly written out before and
memorlxed word by word. One of these
speeches alone covers MS printed pages In
the court records. In some of Delmas'
Important cases his closing arguments
lasted several days. Mr. Shottridge als
told me that Mr. Delmaa never put a wit
ness on the stand whom he had not previ
ously examined and crose-examlned In per
son. Some Idea how this lawyer prepares his
eaaes may be gained from .'this reminis
cence of one of his former law partners.
Franklin J. Bull. One day, so Mr. Bull
told me, Delmas showed him an old wal
nut tree standing on the' banks of Coyote
creek. In San Jose: "There stands my
first Jury," sold Delmas. Then he, told
how, many years ago, when he received
his first retainer, he had anticipated all
the possible points In this, h's first case,
during long afternoon walks. In the course
of which he used to Address himself to
that walnut tree, as If it were a Jury box.
When the case 'came up before the Judge
It never came to trial, because the very
first motion for dismissal was so forcibly
argued by Delmaa that, the court granted
the motion. As Delmas put It. "Mv whole
campaign waa won In the first ekirmlgh."
To his skill In the examinatlcn of wit
nesses he Is said to add the gift of eloquent
argument. In which Incisive analysis of evi
dence Is mingled with ortory of a sOTt
that appeals to the emotions. He belongs
to the old schrol of orators, as distinguished
from the strenuous, the rasuil anl the
colloquial speakers In the more modern
fashion. Yet, as one of his acquaintances
said last week: "When Delmas wants to
be esfeastlc his words are like vitriol In
a cup of heney."
The most striking of his mannerisms sre
his flowing gestures and a habit of looking
at si witness or Into the Jury box with his
head bent forward and his eyes cist up
wArd. He has a habit of holding his eye
gUieses In hlg hand while gesturing. Aa
he throws forward hla head and turns up
his eyes he raises hla glasses horizontally
end Irrfks across them, form'ng a picture
that Is dlntinctive and striking.
Beforsa All Alonsr the line.
Pittsburg Dlspatuh.
Two'cent-e.-nille fare bills- were passed
on Tuesday by the Missouri senate, the
West Virginia house and the Iowa house,
and on Thuieday the Pennsylvania heuse
fell Into line by the unanimous passage
of a bill of the same sort The state legis
latures seem to be doing their best to prtflt
by Secretary Root's warning; but we do
Dot know that some of the people who
are protesting against federal encroach
ments will be any the better pleased.
PF.RSO!, SOTF..
Count Tolstoy's n has been Indicted In
St. Petersburg on a charge of high treason
for publishing hla father's latest po""""'
pamphlet.
Major Gordon W. IJIlle, otherwise known
as "Fawnee Bill," refused to fulfill a con
tract to deliver seven bull bisons to a Mex
ican senor when he learned that thy were
to be used In the arena. He proposes to
contest the law suit.
The only surviving cousin of Abraham
Lincoln ,1s ElIJa Lincoln, who lives at Fort
Branch,' Ind. He Is said to closely resem
ble "The Great Emancipator" In appear
ance. He la I Jeet I Inches In height and
IS thin and muscular. 1
, Hon., William K. Borah, Idaho's new
senator, has the prestige at home of great
legal talent, of eloquence and of a fln
personality. He Is but 42 years of age and
next to Mr. Dixon of Montana, will be the
youngest man In the senate.
Senator McCumber of North Dakota was
the only member present In the chsmber
one evening last week! when HO private
pension bills were rushed through. Vice
President Fairbanks and Mr. McCumber
had the field all to themselves.
James K. Martine, the "'farmer orator"
of New Jersey, enjoys the distinction of
having been the candidate of his party
the democratic for almost every office In
Ms county and senate district for the last
thirty years without ever having won.
Eric Geddes, recently appointed freight
manager of the Northeastern railway. In
England, Is an American who fourteen
years ago was agent at a small station
on the Baltimore St Ohio road.J Later he
was connected with railroad enterprises In
India.
The famous talking record of former
Senator Willlaih, Vincent Allen of Ne
braska is seriously threatened by 8enator
Beverldge's latest performance. The former
spoke In a continuous stream, while the
Hoosler spread ovor four days with breath
ing apella between.
President Roosevelt, accompanied by
Mrs. Roosevelt and their two daughters,
will leave Washington on Washington's
birthday for Massachusetts to spend one
day with Theodore, Jr., at Harvard and
another with Kermlt at Groton, returning
to Washington on Monday morning. The
president will make only one speech on his
trip, and that will be before the Harvard
union.
Chief Justice Fuller of the United States
supreme court and Associate Justice Har
lan have been eligible' for retirement for
four years past, but both are in sound
health physically and mentally. Associate
Justice Brewer will be eligible for retire
ment In June and the old report baa been
revived that Associate Justice Peckham
may retire before November I, 1908, when
he will have reached the allotted three
score and ten. The other members of the
court have more than five years to serve
before any of them will be eligible for re
tirement. "HOLD, ESOt'OHI"
Railroads Beseech President' for Aid
to Stop Legislatures.
Washington Dispatch to New Tork Times.
A mighty cry for help haa gone up from
the railroad companies east And west. In
their extremity they have appealed to the
president of the United States to help them
out. They want something said which will
deter sitting legislatures from enacting pro
posed legislation. The t cents a mile pas
senger fare propaganda, has spread until It
would appear that nothing now can be done
to prevent that legislation In a majority of
atatea. Not even the railroads In Pennsyl.
vanla have successfully opposed the legis
lation for reduced passenger rates In that
stats. . ... . .
It la the fear that freight schedules will
be next considered and that the graft which
haa been enjoypd by the railroads since 1871
In the mall-carrying contracts will be In
terfered with that has caused the new
alarm. Today there are present In Wash
ington lobbyists, and lawyers who are noth
ing but lobbyists, representing the Burling
ton railroad, the St. Louis A Ban Francisco
railroad, the Great Northern railroad, the
Rock Island railroad, Baltimore & Ohio
railroad, Pennsylvania railroad, New York
Central railroad, the Southern railroad and
numerous smaller lines. Pamphlets and
newspaper publications are being utilized to
show the awful things that are going to
happen to the railroads and the people if
the proposed legislation In the matter of
mall transportation Is enacted.
The railroads which will suffer the great
est In the proposed legislation are the New
York Central, the Pennsylvania und the
Burlington. Pamphlets have been written
by the attorneys for a half dozen lines and
distributed among members of congress
with the veiled threat running through
them that the railroads will not carry the
mall and make no effort to maintain sched
ules If further Interfered with.
Members of congress who understand the
situation are Inclined to make merry with
this threat. It has been but a short while
since the Rock Island railroad, which had
a shorter route, waa In a position to get
the Postoffice department to give It a con
tract for carrying the mall bttween Chi
cago and Omaha. In order to retain the
mall contract the Burlington offered to
carry the mall for a lesser sum than
the contract price and the postmaster gen
eral gave the contract to that company.
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 Biscuit
fresh from the oven, protected
from dirt by a package the
very beauty of which makes
you hungry.
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There's WARMTH and COMFORT in Every Ton of
SEEaD GOAL
CLEAN AND HOT NO CLINKERS ALL BURNS UP
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HOT WORK AT TIIE FMIMI.
Railroad Lobbyists Workln oier
time In Washlnatnn.
. Kansas City Star.
Thm railroad lobby seems to N dnlna
quite well at Washington. Instead of hon
est weighing of malls with a possible r,
ductlon of tl!.rmo,onn the dishonest weighing
win continue and tho reduction will not
exceed I2.5n0.onn. while even this Amount is
not certain. The railroads evidently knew
what tfley were doing when thev sent to
Washington the most expensive lobby that
has ever represented them In congress. f,.r
they can well afford the Increased cost,
considering the results obtained. '"
It Is rather discouraging to attempt regu
lation to prevent gross frauds In S con
gress which the railroads are so easily en
abled to Influence. No wonder the train
men's organisation, now meeting In Chi
cago, announces that every time thev have
a bill Introduced Into congress to Improve
labor conditions on the railroads the rail
way lobby defeats Its passage. Especially
are the trainmen anxious to secure shorter
hours. But the railroads are enabled to
prevent the limitation of hours of work
In the face of the declaration of the train
men that the worst of wrecks occur be
cause employes are forced to work from
twelve to twenty hours consecutively.
Often their eyes become so they cannot
see signals and they are so exhausted that
they fall asleep at their post.
While the lobby goes on successfully
thwarting the attempts of President RooSc.
velt to force the railroads Into some sem
blance of fair dealing with the public, the
magnates are less successful In Wall street
than at Washington. In spite of all their
threats and misrepresentations the value
of railroad securities sticks pretty well
to the toboggan, sliding down a point or
two nearly every day, which Is a plain
token of the public demand that those who
control railway corporations shall keep out
of politics add speculation and devote more
time to the Improvement of roadbeds and
equipment. It may take some time to do
It, but the pubUo wlll surely find a method
of persuading railroads to do right, which
even the United States senate cannot
thwart or defeat.
PASSIKO PLEASANTRIES,
"You are letting your political rival make
all the speeches." .
"Yes," answered Senator Borghum. "It
him talk. My party will adopt all his good
ideas and hold him personally' responsible
for all his bad ones." Washington Star.
Euclid had Just announced that the part
could not be greater than the whole.
"Evidently," they cried, "he haa never
had an auto repaired."
In the face of this there were those who
persisted in colling mathematics an exact
science. New York Bun.
The minister had preached to the grad
uating class of a girls' college. The girls
of the class were on the plotfbrm all
round the pulpit and all dressed in white.
"I felt," confessed the preacher to his
wife when he got home, "like a crow on a
snowdrift."--Pittsburg Press.
Portly Damt'-Your face Is strikingly fa
miliar. Have you ever done any work for
me before?
Chiropodist No, ma'am. You are prob
ably thinking of my twin brother, who runs
the shoe store on the ground door. Ho
must have sold you these shiC8. A great
many of his customers come here, ma'am,
Chtcao Tribune.
"Dis paper," said Weary Willie, "ses dat
ver kin tell be de bark at de foot of a
tree how old it Is."'
"Huh!" snorted Ragson Tatters, "I guess
de man w'at wrote dat wus never up a
tree under dem circumstances. Dat ain't
no wuy to tell a dog's age." Philadelphia
Press.
Judge The witness told all that happened
on the second floor. Now, why do you ob
ject to his telling what happened on the
third floor?
Counsel Because, If It plense your honor,
that is another story. Brooklyn Eagle.
"What kind of a picture do you think
would best Illustrate this railroad song?"
"I would suggest a car-tune." Baltimore
American..
' "There are lots of funny people In this
world."
"There aye?"
"Yes." -
"Well, I wish you could coax 'omo. of
them to go on the stage aa comedians."
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
WHEN TIIE SI GOES DOWN.
Milwaukee Sentinel.
I have wondered what lies past the world's
far rini,
Where the great red sun goes down.
Since the di earning of youth, so long ago,
I have lunged, so longed, sometimes to go
Over the slopes and tliu mountuln trails,
The desTts and valleys, through wood and
vales.
To the land where the sun goes down.
I have gazed in the desolate, tinted west.
There where the sun go'S down,
And wondered at strange and foreign lands,
Of unknown tongues on other strands,
And longed, so longed, sometimes to go
That 1 might see, thut 1 might know
There A'lere the sun goes down.
I have looked at far-away, Jeweled skies,
There wher the sun goes down,
And longed for the deeps of a starry night,
A trackless waste and a Polestar light,
And wished that I had been born to see
Those lands and know of their mystery
.There where the sun goes down. .
And I've turned, In the dusk, from the
afterglow.
After the sun went down.
To the lights that gleamed In the city's
heart,
Tha lights In hall and throbbing mart.
And longed, so longed, for the arms and
breast
That cradled me sweet to sleep and rest
After the sun went down.
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