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    THE OMAHA DAILY UEE: Fill DAY, FEBKUAKY 22, 11)07.
Tire Omaha Daily Dee
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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
State of Nebraska, Douglas County, as:
, Charles C. Rosewater. general manager
j ef The Bee Publishing company, being dul
aworn. says that the actual number of full
and complete copies of The Dnlly. Morning,
' Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the
i month of January. 1907, was aa fpllows:
I IP.... 30,900 17 1,T0
K 1 32,680 II 31,990
31.970 It 31,700
4 31,960 JO.. 80,300
...31360 . 11 31,900
30,600 22 33,050
'.....31,950 Jl 31.640
33,300 ' 14.., -..31,780
V t 39,100 It ,..31.700
" 19 33,040 ! 31,820
i 11 31370 17...- 30,800
.,11........ ..33,040 11 31,830
II 30,400 1 31.653
- 14 31,730 10 31,300
II 31,930 ' II 31.630
II 33,180
ToUI 983,483
Less unsold and returned copies.. 9,134
Net total 1 973,346
Dally average ,; 31,396
CHARLES C. ROSE WATER.
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to before ma this list day of January,
1107.
(Seal) ROBERT HUNTER...
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WHES Ot'T OF TOWS.
. Babaerlbera learlasr the city tens
orarlly ahoald have The Bee
ana lied to thea. Addreaa will he
ehaagred aa aftea aa requested.
Senator Smoot's opponents will be
Blow to forgive him for having only
one wife.
The sale of mileage books at higher
rates Is likely to go slow until the
2-cent ra,te law becomes a certainty.
It la to be noted that the train tup n
who la killed Is usually shoujderod
with the responsibility for the . wreck.
Only 1,362 new novels were pub
lished last year. Cyrus Townsend
Brady must have been Indisposed part
of the time.
Senator Bailey'says he advised tho
Standard OH company to keep out of
Texas. ' Doubtless he wishea they had
followed his advice.
In the lapguage of -Mayor "Jim,"
Lieutenant Governor Hopewell ought
to stand ace high with the woman's
suffrage brigade from now on.
The designs on gold coins are to be
changed by order of the president.
No order from Washington can change
the designs we all have on gold coins.
- President Roosevelt informs Massa
chusetts revisionists, in effect, that
the tariff pitcher is to be carried to
the well again in the campaign next
year.
Champ Clark of Missouri says the
democrats are beginning to sit up and
take notice. Heretofore they have
been satlsed to sit ud and take their
medicine.
Congress has authorized two battle-
ihlps of the Dreadnaught type, so It
will be difficult to convince ship
; builders that the 'Japanese war talk
; did not serve a purpose.
"A wife must train her husband and
keep htm trained. Just as one trains a
young mule," says Mrs Carrie Chan-
man Catt We take it for granted thnt
Mr. Catt was properly lriluel.
A St Louis Judge says the law has
nothing to say about how or when n
woman shall spend her husband's
money. Even " Judges occasionally
realise the Impotency of the law.
It Is asserted that the Investigation
6)1 senator uailey a record will cost
tho atate of Texas $50,000, but the
senator should not be blamed. Ha
did everything possible to prevent It.
i . The Nebraska editors cut the name
, of Third Assistant Postmaster General
Madden out of their resolutions, but
he will have no difficulty in Identify
lng "himself as the man referred to.
A new telephone directory Is. being
distributed to patrons' of the Omaha
exchange, but the telephone by which
; Police Commissioner Droatch Is
reached at his home is still scheduled
under the name "Molse."
Chief Engineer Stevens reports that
dirt Is being removed from the Pan
ama canal at tho rate of 200,000 cubic
' yards a week. If the Authorities
-wrangle over the contract a little
' longer Mr. Stevens may have a chance
1 to complete the Job.
Former Stat Treasurer Mortensen
has som pretty sturdy Ideas as t,o
' how public money should be handled.
His demand that the same safeguards
'surround all funds whether spent for
tho State university or for the State
"Uaform school Is entitled to attention.
ox a lriir Tack.
Tho paid lobbyists and hired tax
agent of the Nebraska railroads, who
are opposing terminal taxation for the
piiTore of enabling tire roads to con
tinue to shirk their city taxes, have
taken a new tack. They started out
by declaring that terminal taxation
would 1'icrely divert to the cities taxes
iiotv pair! throughout the state, but
when cornered were compelled to ad
mit that no county, school district,
township or road district would lose
1 irent of mil road taxes now enjoyed,
but that, on the contrary, the railroads
would he compelled to pay city taxes
dn their terminal property over and
abovo what they are now paying on
that property under pretense 'of dis
tribution. Having failed to hold their ground
on this point, the railroad spokesmen
have fnced about. They are endeav
oring to'prejudloe legislative member",
by asserting that the proposed termi
nal taxation for city and village pur
poses is only a step toward breaking
down lh unit system of assessing
railroads for state and county pur
poses, end that to protect the unit
system of assessment no deviation
must be allowed with reference to the
taxation of railroad property within
the corporate limits of cities and vil
lage?. A moment's reflection by any Intel
ligent man will show how ridiculous
thlrt contention Is. Even If the cities
which might possibly gain by terminal
taxation wanted to attack the 'unit
system 36 applied to state and county
taxation, they could not for the reason
that tholr representation in the legis
lature la but a fraction of the mem
bership of that body and by no possi
bility could they contro' a majority
for any proposition not absolutely fair
to every part of the state.
Thrj fact Is. the railroad hirelings
are becoming desperate through ex
posure of their frauds and deceptions.
Their opposition to terminal taxation
Is grounded solely on a desire to save
their corporate masters from paying
c'.ty taxes Justly due from them, and to
make a showing that will convince
their employers that they are still
adept at legislative smooth work, and
that their usefulness as lobbyists Is
not ct at an end.
MORE PAY for postal clerks.
The postofflce appropriation bill
passed by the lower house of the con
gress contains a provision which af
fords deserved relief to about 25,000
overworked and underpaid clerks in
the postoffices of the ' country. The
development of the postal service In
the last decade, particularly In the ex
tension of -the rural free delivery ser
vice, has caused a continual and per
sistent' demand for greater compensa
tion, for employes charged with the
rduty of delivering the mails by rail
ways and on suburban routes. Con
gress has yielded to pressure for more
pay for the' railway mail clerks and
the city and rural, delivery carriers,
but until now has failed to recognlzo
the claims of the loyal workers in th.e
clerical departments of the postal ser
vice.
Attention was called by The Bee
more than a year ago to this unjust
discrimination against the postofflce
clerks, with an urgent appeal for a
recognition of their services In keep
ing with the treatment accorded em
ployes In other branches of the postal
system. By an order of the postofflce
department, employes are prohibited
from working, through any organiza
tion for Increased emolument and the
maintenance of a lobby at Washington
la strictly prohibited. The movement
started In Omaha for the relief of the
postofflce clerks attracted attention
throughout the country and the In
creased pay provided for them In the
pending bill Is undoubtedly due to the
campaign of publicity In behalf of a
merited claim.
By the terms of the bill whichhas
passed the house, clerks in postoffices
of the first and second class are to be
divided Into seven grades with salaries
ranging from $600 to $1,200 per an
num. The present system of pay cov
ers about the same range, but the plan
of promotion Is so restricted that bul
a very few clerks In the first class of
fices have any prospect of receiving
more than about $800 a year. , The
proposed law will permit the advance
ment In offices of the Omaha class, In
the course of a few rears, until the
average pay of clerks will be about
$1,000 a year Insi id cf $800 as at
present. Under conditions heretofore
existing competent clerks, necessary to
tho proper conduct of the postal work,
have been drawn from the service bv
tetter offers from private concerns or
have remained In tho. service 'with a
Justifiable feeling of beins underpaid.
The postofflce clerks are to be con
gratulated and congress congratulated
that a scale of salaries and a system
for their adjustment has been devisc.l
that will place the question of com
pensation ro? cjerfcs on a more,
satisfactory basis. . .
KXD THE JAIL FkKDI.XG GRAFT.
The bill introduced in" the legisla
ture by Representative Tucker to end
the Jail feeding graft In Douglas
county ought to be passed by the leg
islature without opposition. The bill
provides simply that In counties hav
ing more than 100,000 population the
board of county commissioners shall
advertise tor bids for supplying meals
to the prisoners in the county Jail ac
cording to definite specifications set
forth In the advertisement and let the
contract annually to the lowest and
best bidder. v
Tho enactment of such a law -uld
enable this county to save from 30 to
50 per cent of what the Jail feeding
has cost the taxpayers In the past. It
would destroy the sheriff's monopoly
of e Jail kitchen and require him, if
he is to continue as caterer, to do it
on the score of being the lowest bid
der. The bill, however, will have the
strenuous opposition of the present
sheriff, who Will be loath to let go of
this most lucrative perquisite of h's
office. His main contention will be
that, being elected as a republican, b
should not be deprived by a repub
lican legislature of such a good thing
as Is afforded by the Jail feeding busi
ness. This is the same argument that
was urged when the bill was up to
stop the fee graft of the clerk of the
district court. There la no assurance,
however, that the office of sheriff Id
Douglas county will be filled perpetu
ally by a republican, but whether
filled by a republican or a democrat,
the sheriff should be held to definite
compensation and the Jail feeding
handled on a business basis under
contract.
We cannot see how any one In tho
legislature can defend and champion
this graft, unless there were some
thing in It for him as well as for the
sheriff.
r-VfMJT HOLDS HIS SEAT'
The senate of the United Stated in
exercising its right to pass upon the
qualifications of Its membership has de
cided that Senator Reed Smoot of Utah
shall not be deprived of his seat simply
because he Is a member of the ruling
body of the Mormon church. The
vote for his expulsion fell far short of
the two-thirds necessary for that con
summation of the wishes of petition
ers, nearly 1,000,000 In number, who
have wazed a most persistent cam
paign against htm since his selection
by the Utah lopi!ature in 1903.
Much misinformation has been
printed throughout the country In con
nection with the Smoot case. The
general impressi.iu has been given out
that Smoot hlms-lt Lis been guilty o'
plural marriage when, as a matter of
fact, his most bitter opponents have
not made that charge against him and
the committee of the senate whlc!;
reported In favor' of his expulsion
stated specifically th.tt no such charge
had been made and that "the senator
Btands before the senate In personal
character and bearing above criticism
and beyond reproach."
The only question before the senate
was whether Smoot, as an apostle and
a member of the governing body of the
Mormon church, had given aid and
support to thnt hierarchy In Its defi
ance of the laws of his own state
and of the government, . It was
urged by Smoot's opponents that his
Vendowmenf house" oath was Incom
patible with his oath as a United
States senator. This charge was not
strongly substantiated as there was
but little testimony offered as to the
nature of the oath. Mr. Smoot de
clared before the committee and in his
address before the senate that the "en
dowment house" oath does not bind
him to any obligation Incompatible
with his oath as a United States sen
ator, but that he could no more dis
close the wording of the oath than
conld a Mason divulge the secrets of
his order.
After a hearing extending over two
years,' in which every, effort was made
by the advocates of expulsion to make
a case against Smoot, the senate has
decided that it has no ground upon
which to base his exclusion except tho
fact that-he is a member of the Mor
mon church. The vote on the motion
to expel Smoot Is simply a notice that
the senate of the United States will
not allow religion to be considered
among a senator's qualifications for
membership. ,
POPULUR QOVKRKMEST IN OERMANT.
Emperor William's address to the
new Reichstag is at once congratula
tory and conciliatory. The results of
the election assure him that his co
lonial policy will stand, as the Issue
In the campaign hinged on that prop
osition, the former Reichstag having
been dissolved because it refused to
vote supplies for the army In South
west Africa. The overwhelming de
feat of the socialists, who secured the
defeat of the army budget, was suf
cient cause for the self-congratulatory
note in the kaiser's speech from the
throne, but, according to the cabled
reports, he made no effort to urge the
victory as a vindication of the auto
cratic idea of government, going,
instead, an unusual step In the
other direction by bespeaking and in
viting the co-operation of the Reichstag
in support of the national sentiment
and the common welfare of Germany.
The German people have been
growing more aud more restive under
absolutism, coupled with mlltartsm
and paternalism, and the kaiser ap
parently has a keen appreciation of
this feeling. In most diplomatic
terms, In his address to the new
Reichstag, he put in a word for his
constitutional right and" promptly
followed It with an expression of con
fidence In the popular branch of the
government, represented by . the
Reichstag. "Just as I am willing,"
said the emperor, "to observe con
scientiously all my constitutional
rights and privileges, so am I confi
dent the new Reichstag, composed of
intelligent men, will acknowledge
that Its highest duty Is to preserve
and strengthen - our position among
civilised nations."
The Reichstag Is about the only
heritage the democratic government of
184 8 left to Germany. It represents
the voice of the people of the empire
as expressed by secret ballot and man
hood suffrage, although its powers in
legislative matters are not large. The
body has been dissolved four times by
the present emperor for failure to sup
port his policies, and In each of the
three cases previous to the recent
election the new Reichstag has done
the . emperor's bidding. With each
election, however, the Reichstag has
Improved Its standing as a parlia
mentary body of power and has be
come more fairly representative of the
peopje. The kaiser evidently appre
ciates this growth and recognises thnt
In order for him to push on in the
path he has marked out he must com
mand the support of the Reichstag for
bis policies and purposes.
The Introduction of a bill Into the
Nebraska legislature for a maximum
rate on express company charges sug
gests another abuse that should be
remedied by law. Express companies
should be required, when they accept
prepaid packages, to deliver the same
without extra charge to the place of
address anywhere within the limits
of the municipality In which the party
resides. The present practice is for
express companies to deliver packages
only within a narrowly circumscribed
area and to notify people outside of
that district by telephone or postal
card to call and get the package
which the sender had paid the com
pany to deliver. In other words, the
exprens companies should be prohib
ited from collecting at both enda for
the same Bervlce.
Members of the legislature should
remember that they are all pledged to
keep the appropriations within the
lines of the most Economical adminis
tration of the state government and
that this pledge of economy extends
In spirit, if not in letter, to the whole
sale raising of salaries cf public offi
cers state, county and municipal.
If the state were out of debt and had
a good surplus In the treasury, a sal
ary boost all around might be excusa
ble, but under the circumstances, with
a special levy needed to make good the
deficit caused by successive overlaps,
it should require mighty good reasons
to Justify salary raises at the hands
of our law-makers. -.
The appearance of a delegation
from South Omaha before the legisla
ture in behalf of consolidation must
have opened the eyes of some of the
outside statesmen to the fact that
there Is a healthy annexation senti
ment In South Omaha among those
who have the substantial interests of
the city at heart and at the same time
tend to confirm the statement that the
great majority of the "antls" rep
resent the Influence of the office hold
ers, present and prospective, fearful
of being pried loose from the payroll.
Our rope-throwing mayor has now
constituted himself a moral censor for
the community, trying"to determine
by personal Inspection . whether a di
vorce court with a salacious trial in
progress is a proper place of amuse
ment for the populace. Mayor
"Jim's" verdict as handed down is as
followsr "On seeing the crowd -which
Is in here at present I have Just about
changed my mind. It would take a
pretty heavy Jolt to fease that bunch."
No danger, certainly, of any divorce
trial teasing our cowboy mayor.
The proposed law making members
of the Omaha Police commission In
eligible to run for other offices during
their terms on the police commission,
which seems to be on a fair way to
the statute book, may relieve the
pressure somewhat for future police
commissioner appointments.
Activity of Noise Makers.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Three hundred thousand planoa were
made In thla country last year, notwith
standing the fact that aocietloa for the
suppYeaslon of useless noises were organ
ised in several places.
SpotMa;htlnar the Troth.
K Et. I.OU1B uione-uemocrat.
Oeneral Kouropatkia lias told us what was
behind all of the Russian defeats In Man
churia. Aa we recall those stirring- events,
the Japa were always behind, and very
close behind, every one of them.
I.ese Msjeale.
Baltimore American.
The Pennsylvania house of representa
tives actually made merry over the mea
saee aent It bv Mr. Baer of "divine
riant" fame. Thla act of audacity la apt
to give a sudden boom to the popularity
of lese mnjaate throughout the country
and vastly to stimulate Its commission.
The I sunt IMerovery.
Chicago Record-Herald.
A Connertlcut bank failed a few dsya
ago, and tbe bank examiner has just made
the discovery that It did business In an
Irregular manner. Perhaps the examiner
farclea tbat his report will be comforting
to the people who woitkl have taken their
money out l( they could have heen ap
prised of the bunk's unsoundness before
the collapse came.
State Ulrri In Boose Baalaess.
New Tork Tribune.
The South Carolina legislature has abol
ished the state dUpensary. Lack of confi
dence In the expert knowledge and busi
ness capacity of the dispensary board was
followed by lack of confidence In the tonic
quality of the fluids It dispensed to the
public. Now every county la to bave Its
own board If It wishes, and local Ideas and
prepossession! are to triumph against cen
tralised taste and management.
A Sensible thaase.
Kansas City Star.
The bill Introduced by Representative
Champ Clark which provldea that 10 cents'
worth of any kind of American stampa
placed on a letter in addition to the 1
cents postage will guarantee Ita delivery
by special messenger If the words "special
delivery" are written on the envelope. Is
a sensible one. There la no good reason
why a particular style of special delivery
stamp ahould be required any more than
there Is reason why the government should
Insist that W cents poets ge ahould be evl.
denied by a 10-cent postage stamp rather
than five twoe. The bill baa paased the
house without objection and It la to be
toped that the aenate will not huut around
for a reason to defeat 1L
I.KaaoSS OP WASHISttTOJ'S I.I FK.
Sabllaae Character ef Americans
atloaal Here).
The eloquent and scholarly "grand old
nian" of Massachusetts, the late Senator
Oeorgre Friable Hoar, delivered an address
on the virtues of Washington before the
fnlon league club of Chicngo some ten
years ago. Few addresses of like charac
ter approaches It In lofty patriotic senti
ment, beauty of diction and analyrla of
the virtues which ennobled the life of
America's national hero. It la Inspiring
and appropriate reading for the "day we
celebrate." It follows. In part:
"There la one unerring test of true great
ness, whether In literature, or In science,
or thought, or action, or character. That
Is, that It ems to be cotemporaneoua with
all the generations. The Hebrew Scrip
tures, the essays of Bacon, the plays of
Bhakeepeare. Homer and Virgil and lante,
the character and glory of Alfred and Lin
coln and Franklin. Plato and Socrates and
Cicero, and the Declaration of Independ
ence, speak to ua today, freshly, and with
out loss of effect by reason of remoteness
of time. They would have made a like Im
pression In the time of the Hebrew or the
Greek, or the Roman commonwealth. They
will apeak with like effect hereafter In all
ootnlng time to any generation that hath
ears to hear.
"That la conspicuously true of Washing
ton. If you were to read of him In Plu
tarch there would be no sense tbat he waa
out of place. He would still be the most
perfect of Plutarch's men. If you were to
read of him In the page that telle the
sWy of Alfred or the Bruce, of St. Loula
of France, or the greatest and best of the
men of the Hebrew commonwealth, there
would be no feeling that he did not belong
to his age, but only that there was a
better and purer Alfred or Bruce or St.
Loula or Hebrew monarch. Bo I believe
there never will be a period In all coming
time when a character like that of Wash
ington will excite a sense of incongruity or
of antiquity, but only the natural feeling
that a chare-cter of supreme excellence has
been bestowed by God upon man.
"It Is the great good fortune of the peo
ple of America, especially of the youth of
America, that we have for our national
hero a character whom they can take aa a
model of behavior In every condition, every
transaction, every occupation, In life. I
cannot think of any question of morality,
of courtesy, of noble and elevated behavior,
of expediency In the conduct of doubtful
and difficult affairs, which a young man or
an old man could not safely answer by
asking himself and telling himself what
George Washington would have done In a
like case. I do not know of any other na
tion on earth that possesses such a model.
"Think how poor were Washington's re
sources. During a large part of the time
when he waa besieging the British army In
Boston he had scarcely powder enough to
Are a salute. His few cannon had been
dragged by oxen across New Kngland from
Tlconderoga. He had no money to pay hia
soldiers; no drill officers to teach his raw
recrulta military discipline; no military text
bonks for hla engineers. His life waa al
most a eolitud amid the Jealousies and
strifes which existed In that day In quite
aa large degree as now, among his gen
erals and officers, and (what has happily
passed by now) among the troops of the
different colonies. The Inexhaustible pe
cuniary resources of England promised an
Inexhaustible supply of troops, native or
mercenary. His great antagonists had the
support of a powerful navy. I would not
undervalue the navy of the Revolution,
whose great sen-Ice to the cause of ln
pendenee has been ao much overlooked.
Indeed, It Is doubtful whether without -
the war for liberty could have been brought
to a successful close. But Its chief service
waa In the destroying of English -com
merce and not as an aid to our military
operations. '
"So, in the time of framing the constitu
tion and In administering the government
for the first eight years, Waahington had
nowhre to look either for example or for
Instruction. All the paths he trod had to
be broken out by himself and his great
companions and associates. We who find
our path broken, macadamized, leveled,
biased by the sure and safe preoedenta of
126 year can hardly understand the diffi
culties which beset Washington. And yet.
In hla whole life, from the time when, but
a youth of 24, he gave his wise tout vain
counsel to General Braddock, and brought
home all the laurela of that most disas
trous expedition, to the time when, full of
years and honors, he left to his country
men his farewell address that almost In
spired political bible, the adherence to
which ever haa brought and ever will bring
to us safety, prosperity and glory, the de
parture from which Is the path to danger,
ruin and shame he never made a mistake
and never gave unwise counsel to hla coun
trymen. ... 1
"There are some charactera. unhappily
few, of whom we nearer think as atruggllng
with or conquering temptation. Sin did not
beset them. I suppose this was never yet
literally and perfectly true of any man or
woman. Yet It was aa nearly true of
George Washington as of any man or
wo nan. Integrity, unselfish and unambl-
! tloua service, Industry that Bought no re
pose while It remained to be done, unhesi
tating lf-aacrlflce. purity not only unsul
lied but untempted, were all hla. The temp,
tatlon to evil never seems to have beset
that lofty nature, nor besieged that Im
pregnable fortress. The devil Is an ass.
But he never waa such an asa as to waste
his time tempting George Washington.
Washington's virtues were the cornerstone
virtues. They were the virtues which lie
at the foundation of all civil society as well
us of ncble Individual character. The vir
tues' of .Washington are the virtues which
we ascribe In our humble. Imperfect and
faraway conception to divinity.
Think of his abaolute veracity! He con
ducted with his own hand a vast corrw
apondence. enough to tax to Its uttermost
the strength of mind and brain and body
of an athlete even if he had had to bear
no othtT burden of public care. Hla pub
llshed correspondence nils many lare
volumea, and there Is a great deal, I sup
pot, still unpublished But there Is not a
trace of duplicity, of concealment, cf Bay
ing one thing to one man and another to
another, of assurances of respect or good
will, that no doubt come from the heart,
bucu as I am acrry to say, disfigure tho
correspondence of some of his famous and
honored contemporaries. The, little fable
Invented by Weems, hJs enthusiastic biogra
pher, bar become the standing Jest cf many
a generation of Irreverent boys. But no
body ever doubted or ever will doubt that
George Washington could not tell a lie.
could not act a He, could not think a lie;
that a lie could not live In bis presence,
or thnt all falsehood and dissimulation
would allnk abashed and confounded from
the gase of those eyee and firm that per.
feet wlrness. V
He had a weighing and balancing mind.
His Intellect was like a pair of accurately
adjusted scales. He did not often, espe
cially In clvjl affairs, urlgtnatp the policies
upon w hich he acted. But he. listened care
fully and patiently to every counael from
which he could get Instruction, and then
brought It In the end to the sure teat of
his own unerring Judgment. He weighed
the advice of hla great counsellors, the
claims of contending parties, and of Jeffer
son and Hamilton and Adama and Picker-
lng. In a balance aa Infallible aa the golden
scales which the eternal hung forth to
heaven.
Betwixt Astrea and the Scorpion atgn.
In which, according to Milton, the arch
rebel read and knew his fate.
But after all, Washington has but one
lesson for us, one lesson for the country,
one lesson for each of his countrymen. It
Is the old leswon. older than history, old
aa creation. That Is that Justice, veracity,
unselfishness, character, He at the foun
dation of all national and all Indlvdual
greatness. Justice and freedom are the
parents of fate. To the larger and surer
virion there Is no such thing as fortune.
Where these are we have .no need to con
cern ourselves with what the day may
bring forth. The product of the eternities
will bo secure. The coetnlc results will be
the same, whatever the dally event may
be. It la to this that the story of George
Washington la a perpetual witness to his
countrymen. It will be their fault If they
do not make their country Ite perpetual
witness to mankind.
RAILROAD PROSPERITY.
flroae Rarnlnaa foe lMt Year Shew
Tremendous laerean.
New York Financial Chronicle.
The year 1906 adds another to the long
series of years recording large and con
tinuous gains In railroad earnings. And,
as It happens, the latest year In the magni
tude of Ita further Increase vurpaasea all
Its predecessors, furnishing a fitting climax
to the series. The amount of the Improve
ment In gross revenues would Itself be sure
to attract attention, but, added to the note
worthy gains of previous years. It fur
nishes further testimony to the marvelous
Industrial expansion experienced In thla
country during the laat decade, to which
the railroads themselves have so largely
contributed and In which they have been
the most Important single agency.
Our tables. Just as they stand, show an
Increase for the twelve months of $221.
0R2.462. The totals are of huge proportions,
the aggregate for 1906 being .131.t.S9
and for 1905 tt,907.4.247. And yet this
does not cover absolutely the whole rail
road system of the country. The mileage
represented, embracing alt the roads In
the country from which we have been able
to procure returns, la 186,687 miles. As
there were probably about 210,000 to 115.000
miles of road In operation during the
twelve months, this leaves 26.000 to 10,000
miles unrepresented In our tables. Tho
earnings for much of this mileage It will
not be possible to get at all for the calen
dar yenr, and the returns for the rest will
not be available for some time to come.
We should Judge that If we could get re
sults to cover the whole railroad system
of the country the increase for the twelve
months would be In the neighborhood of
C40.000.0CO, of which 1136,000,000 was made
In the first six months and $105,0(0,000. In
the laat six months.
Let the reader ponder well what such
an addition almost a quarter of a thou
sand! million dollars means. Let him re
call further that In 13C6 we put the Increase
for the full mileage at $180,.000 and that
In the same way we estimated the Increase
for 1904 nt $10,000,000. Furthermore, that
previously we computed the gain for 103
at $210,000,000, for 1902 at $ios.oooro. for l1!
at $155,000,000, for 1900 at $120,000,001, for 1P99
at $140,000,000. for m at $90,005,000 and for
1P97 at $75,000,000. It will be seen that we
have here an agregate Improvement for the
ten years from 189(1 to 1900 In the prodigious
sum of I1J25.000.O00. In other words, aprsxe
gate gross earnings of United States rail
roads for 1906 ' were $1,235,000 larger than
they had been In 1S9G. the year of trade
prostratlcn and of' the, sliver campaign,-
PR R SOW A L XOTE9. , . '
A 'New York policeman has been ! dis
missed for dubbing Inoffensive cltlie'n de
spite the plea that he 'was drunk at the
time. Thus is more, unhapplnesa projected
Into the life of the copper,
' Samuel Brooks of Annapolis, Mdi, , re
cently concluded his fiftieth year of con
tinuous aervlce In the state house as mes
senger to the governor. During- his term
of office Mr. Brooks, who recently cele
brated his seventy-sixth birthday, has
served under sixteen governors.
Ivan Panln, who came to this country
from Russia a dosen or more years ago
with strong nihilistic tendencies, graduated
from Harvard and gained aome literary
distinction, .haa not been much, heard from
of late. He Is making addresses In nopn
day prayer meetings In New York.
Lester Leamon, a republican member of
the legislature from Jaaper county, Illinois,
Is rather proud of the fact that he Is taller
than Abraham Lincoln, -for whom he en
tertains the' most profound admiration.
According to the beat authorities the mar
tyred president stood feet 4 Inches, but
Mr. Leamon la 6 feet 7 inches Ip hla stock
ings. After March 4th there w ill be two gradu
ates of West Point In the senate, Mr. Du
Pont of Delaware, and Mr. Brlgga of New
Jersey. Mr. DuPont was graduated at the
head of his class In 1861 and aaw consider
able service In the civil war. Mr. Brlggs.
who Is thirteen years younger, did not
graduate f npm the academy until 187$. He
waa attached to a cavalry regiment for
several years. , .
John Armstrong Chanler has conveyed a
deed to the University of Virginia for hla
Merrle Mills estate near Cobham, Va.,
containing 400 acres of land, residence,
paintings, statuary, books, etc The con
veyance la Bubjeet to the right of Mr.
Chanler to continue In ' possession during
his lifetime. The purpose of the convey,
ance la to secure eventually a home for
such retired professors of the university
aa the rector and visitors may designate.
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BLOCKED FOR A TlWR.
BUI rattla Oat Watered Stork aa a
Rate Nsklig Asset.
Philadelphia Record.
A a is well known, a darling project of
Senator LaFollette, Is so to amend the
railroad 'bill aa to empower the Interstate
Commerce commission to fix "reasonable"
freight ratea on the basis of the actual
value of the capital, and not on the
watered stock of a carrying company. His
bill for thla purpose hns been slumbering
In the Interstate commerce committee of
the senate since last session. At length
the bill was called up In committee last
Friday, when nine senators were present,
five of whom voted for reporting It favora
bly. But when two senators, Messrs. Till
man and Clapp, left the committee room
the vote waa reconsidered, and the bill Is
where it wae before. It makes no differ
ence, however, whether It had been favora
bly reported or not, as there was no pros
pect of Its passage In the brief remnant of
the present congress against a powerful
opposition. In the next congress this
measure of so much Importance to most
of the railroad corporatlona will be brougf".
up with the strong approval of President
Roosevelt and Mb Interstate Commerce
commission.
8MILIXG Lll9.
"Nrw designs on gold coins, eh?" sniffed
Pmythe, laying down his paper. "Well, I
don't care. A fellow with some of the old
designs got mine." Philadelphia Ledger.
"I wonder they don't elect humorists
more to legislatures."
"Why so? '
They would come In so handv for the
Jokers In the bills." Baltimore American.
"He's perfectly wild over hla new auto."
"Huh! You should see him under it.'
Milwaukee Sentinel.
"Did that speech of yours convince any
body ?"
"Certainly," answered Senator Sorghum:
"It convinced my friends Out home that 1
am atill an able orator." Washington Star.
"Now that you are married, my son.
listen to me."
"What Is It, dadT'1
"Try to be a husband, not an ex-bachelor."
Washington Herald.
"So your son is going to apply for ad
mission to the ar? I didn't know that he
had ever read law."
"He hasn't. It Is the Intention to prac
tice the unwritten kind. There seems to be
considerable doing In that line lately."
Chicago Record-Herald.
"Ixwk here!" demanded the drummer who
had Just descended from the train at
Lohetockvllle, "what Is that hotel you are
calling? I never heard of It before."
"Why, boss." replied . the colored porter,
Hotel Hungerford, nee Occidental, yo1
know, sail.' Puck.
WASHISUTOV.
From . "Under the Elm Tree." by James
Russell Lowell.
Soldier and statesman, rarest unison; .
High poised example of great duties done
Simply aa breathing, a world'a honors worn
As life's Indifferent gifts to all men born;
Dumb for himself, unle.a It were to Ood,
But for his barefoot aoldiers eloquent.
Tramping the enow ot coral where they
trod.
Held by his awe In hollow-eyed content;
Modest, yet firm as nature'a elf; un-
blamed r
Save by the men his nobler tempor
shamed;
Not honored then or now because he
wooed
The popular voice', but that he still with
stood; .I.-..'
Broad-minded, hlgh-souled. there la but
one
Who was alt this? and ours, and all men's
Washington, --,.
Minds strong by fits. Irregularly great.
That flash and darken like revolving lights.
Catch, more the vulgar eye unschooled to
wait .
On the long curve Of patient days and
nights.
Rounding a whole life to the circle fair
Of orbed completeness;, and thla bananced
. soul t ,
So simple In. its grandeur, coldly bare
OfdTttperleS thearritv 'standlnr there
fa perfect symmetry of self control, ;
Beems not so- great at first,, but greater
grows r
Still aa we look, and bv experience learn
How grand this quiet it how nobly stern
The discipline that wrought life-long throes
This energetic passion of repose.
A nature too decorou and severe, -Too
self-respecting In Its griefs and Joys
For ardent girls and boys,
Who find no genius in a mind so clear
That Its grave depths seem so obvious and
near, . , - ,
Not a soul great that made ao little nolae.
They feel no force In that calm,' cadenced
phrase,
The habitual full-dreaa of , hla well-bred
mind.
That seems to paco the minuet's courtly
mase
And tell - of ampler leisures, rsomler
length fit days.
His broad built brain, to self ao little kind
That no tumultuary blood could- blind.
Formed to control men, not amaie; .
Looms not Ilka those that. borrow height
of hose:
It was a world of sta trier movement then
Than thla we fret In, he a denlsen
Of that Ideal Borne tbat made a man for
men. , ,
Placid completenesa, life without a fall
From faith or highest alms, truth's breach.
less wall,
Surely If any fame can bear the touch,
Hla will any "Here!" at lust trumpet's call.
The unexpresslve man whose life ex
pressed ao muck.-
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