THE.- OMAHA DAILY BEEi FRIDAY, MAHCTI 8, 1907.
Tiie Omaha Daily Bee.
FOUNDED BIT EDWARD ROSEWATEK.
VICTOR ROSEWATER. T.DITOR.
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THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY
STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
State of Nebraska, Douglas County, :
Charles C Rosewater, general manager
of The Bee publishing company, being duly
sworn, aays that the actual number of full
and complete copies of The Dally, Morning,
Evening and Sunday Pee printed during ths
month of February. 1907, was as follows:
1 31,600 16 31,980
1
S 30,100
4 31,630
t 31,680
6 31,670
7 33,190
31,660
33,130
10 30,450
I J 81.780
11 31,670
13 31,640
14 31,640
17 30,390
IS 33,630
It 33,080
20 33.660
21 33,470
22 39,400
J$ 33,060
24 30,630
26 33,080
2 31,860
IT 38,060
28 33,130
IS 31,860
Total. .
.896,730
Less unsold and returned copies... 9,763
Net total 886,967
Dally average 31.C77
CHARLES E. ROSE WATER,
General Manager.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before me this 1st day of March. 1907.
(Seal) M. B. H UNGATE.
Votary Public.
WHEN OCT OF TOW!!,
subscribers Uavt th city tern'
norarlly should nave Th Bn
Bailed to them. Address will be
changed aa often aa requested.
Mark Twain seed not be so proud
of his white suit. Senator Bailey has
one, too, given by the Texas legisla
ture. Mrs. Eddy must now realize-that she
made a mistake when she" failed to In
corporate herself qnde'r the laws of
New Jersey.
An English educator says one
should use both hands' in writing.
Most of us do, since typewriters have
become popular.
Wisconsin is full of men who want
to fill Senator Spooner's shoes. They
will find It much easier to nil his shoes
than to fill his hat. ' ' ' . '
Mr. Harrlman 1s quoted as having
expressed confidence in his ability' to
hold his own. ' The charge Is that he
is trying to hold more than that.
Every nation to be represented at
The Hague peace conference favors
universal disarmament, after all the
other nations have set the example.
Chicago republicans are doubtless
chagrined at Colonel Bryan's refusal
to make speeches for the democratic
candidates in the municipal campaign.
The Nebraska law against Sunday
base ball playing will remain as it
is. The practice of playing Sunday
base ball games will also remain as
it is. .
The report that Mr. Harrlman is
trying to buy the Reading railroad Is
chiefly interesting as showing up one
railroad which Mr. Harrlman does not
own.
An Idaho man claims to have found
a hole Jn the ground 8,000 feet deeD
Many a western mining claim has been
capitalized for millions on a poorer
snowing.
It Is to be noted that the railroads
have been careful not to circulate their
recent publication entitled "The
Omaha 8ponge" among Omaha bus!
cess men. '
Governor Swettenham of Jamaica
must at least bfl credited for maintain
Ing his dignity. He Quit his Job Just as
soon as he learned from London that
he had resigned.
The American consul at Kloho
re-
ports,, that Japan is overstocked w
ith
cannea goods bought during
the
Russo-Jap war. No
feels like fighting.
wonder Japan
Congressman Kennedy declares that
he saw a boat on the Missouri river
he came across on the bridge. Th
boat should have been photographed
before It got away.
Governor Carter of Hawaii says he
would bo willing for his daughter 'to
marry a Jap. A photograph of the
daughter might explain why the gov
ernor feels that way about it.
The new passenger rates are effec
tive at once between Nebraska points,
although they may not affect the in
terstate tariff until after a thirty days'
notice to the Interstate Commerce
commission.
The Omaha Water board has held
another monthly meeting given to the
laborious business of approving the
minutes of the preceding meeting and
allowing on bill. The members will
all be promptly on hand, however, to
draw th next installment of their aal
ia aa soon aa da.
LIFE IXSVttAyCK ISVISLApON.
In a brief filed on behalf ot the As
sociation of Life Insurance Presi
dents, of which he is the head, protest
ing against Insurance legislation pend
ing In different states, Qrover Cleve
land reinforces the chorus already be
ing raised by railroad presidents and
high financiers against what they are
pleased to term, "hostile legislation,
due to vindictive, feeling and mislead
ing prejudices and In dangerous dis
regard of safe and conservative busi
ness rules." His chief complaint is
against provisions of various proposed
bills which specify the kind and char
acter of securities life Insurance com
panies may accept for Investment of
their trust funds. Mr. Cleveland con
tends that the market Is always bo
good for these specified securities and
the demand for them so strong as to
make them undesirable, at obtainable
prices, as securities for life Insurance
trust funds. He contends that It
would be Impossible for Insurance com
panies to handle these securities at a
profit or to meet their obligations to
policyholders If limited as proposed In
the pending legislatures.
Evidently Mr. Cleveland Is viewing
the proposed legislation from the
standpoint of the Insurance official
rather than that pf the policyholder.
The holder pf a life insurance policy
has become aroused by exposures of
methods employed by some of the big
companies and is demanding that his
investment In Insurance be safe
guarded as carefully as his deposits In
savings banks and trust Institutions.
The national government makes spe
cific provision and limitations as to the
character of securities that may be
dealt with by national banks and
nearly every state In the union haB
laws defining and designating the se
curities that may be held by savings
banka and trust companies. The pol
icyholders, through the state legisla
tures, are trying only to secure similar
legal provisions for the safety of their
insurance Investments.
Referring to a bill In the Illinois
legislature that life insurance compa
nies in that state shall invest in Illi
nois securities, Mr. Cleveland denies
that Illinois policyholders would be
benefited and he deprecates legislation
of that kind for fear It would result
In fights between states and diverse
legislation inimical alike to Insurance
companies and policyholders. The real
grievance of the policyholders, how
ever. Is overlooked. This Is less
against the character of the Insurance
company investments than the meth
ods employed in handling the trust
funds. The policyholders have seen
their money used to organize pools for
manipulating speculative stocks and to
promote trust concerns and syndicates
that have shared enormous profits
which should have gone to the benefit
of the policyholders. Back , of the
pending legislation In. the, states,
against which Mr. Cleveland com
plains, is the desire to make It Impose
Bible for the Wall street financiers to
get possession of the insurance funds
for speculative purposes. While the
purpose of the proposed legislation
may not please insurance magnates,
the cause of It belongs to them. .
CVBA'S OVERSHADOW1KO ISSUE-
The administration at Washington
has formally, If reluctantly, admitted
that chiefest among the causes making
it necessary for Secretary Taft to pay
an early visit to Cuba is to consider
personally the policy and propriety of
abrogating General Leonard Wood's
decree forbidding cock fighting in Cuba.
No mere matter of governmental rou
tine compels Secretary Taft to let the
War department take car of Itself and
to leave his presidential boom in cold
storage while he hastens to Havana to
confer with the proud and haughty
leaders of the Cuban patriots. ' They
are demanding no promise aa to when
the hated Gringos will leave the Island
and allow Cuba to exercise Its blood
bought freedom and Independence.
They do not worry themselves about
the workings of the reciprocity treaty,
the manipulations of the Sugar and
Tobacco trusts, the wreck ot the Palma
government, nor of any plans Uncle
Sam may have in incubation to restore
stability and permanency In Cuban at
fairs. No such trivial matters would
or could induce them to demand the
time of such an important factor in
the government at Washington, but
they want him to understand that free
dom shrieked when the anti-cock-fighting
order was promulgated and has
been shrieking ever since. .
La Lucha, the organ of the liberal
party in Havana, In an Inspired and
Impassioned editorial on the subject,
shouts this stirring battle cry: "Long
live the cock fight, the most Innocent
spectacle on earth." The editorial
goes on to declare with emphasis that
the more pleasures and vices a people
have the greater their culture and civ
titration. The editor admits that while
It Is difficult to get 100 Cubans to as
semble to consider any serious purpose
It is easy to mass 100,000 to protest
against the decree forbidding cock
fighting.
ine cock ngnung issue is oy no
means a Joke In Cuba. Planters and
business men are complaining. They
show that the Cuban laborer used to
work four day a week for himself
and family, on day for the price of
his lottery ticket and one day for
money to back hi favorite cock in the
pit. Since lotteries and cock fighting
have been under the ban, the Cuban
sees no necessity for working more
than four days a week and the Indus
tries of the island are suffering ac
cordingly. This lends a commercial
and trade feature to the situation
which must compel Uncle Sam to sit
up and take notice. It Is predicted
that Secretary Taft will eucceed in
fixing a compromise that will allow
the national sport of the Cubans to
be carried on In the suburbs, outside
the big towns and cities. Because that
plan worked In the Philippines he may
be Induced to adopt It in Cuba and
find Justification In the showing that
by no other means can the Cubans be
Induced to go to work.
FARM BAHK FOR THE PHILIPPINES
Those enthusiastic populist who
framed the Osceola platform demand
ing that the farmer be allowed to go
to subtreasurles of the government
with potatoes or other farm products
and exchange them for coin of the
realm are now faced by Inducements
to go to the Philippines, where, by an
act ot congress at Washington, they
may find a modified realization of their
dream. The act known aa the Philip
pine Agricultural bank bill, passed in
the closing days of congress, provides
that the proposed bank shall make
loans only on agricultural lands and
farm products, the purpose being, as
explained by Secretary Taft, who was
the prime mover, to encourage the de
velopment of the natural agricultural
resources of the islands now suffering
from lack of greatly needed capital.
The Philippine government Is made
sponsor for the new venture and is
authorized to guarantee 4 per cent in
terest on capital invested in the pro
posed bank, the investment to be a
first lien on the bank's resources. Sec
retary Taft, In urging favorable con
sideration, expressed confidence that
the bank would give a new Impetus to
farming now carried on in a haphaz
ard manner in the Philippines. New
agricultural implements are needed
and an entire new equipment for the
Filipino farmB, and under existing
financial conditions there it Is Impossi
ble to secure money for these pur
poses. The new bank will have no
patrons but farmers and will loan no
money except on farms and . farm
products. It will at least be a novelty
n banking and Its failure or success
will be watched with keenest Interest.
The success of the experiment Is rea
sonably assured so far as It depends
upon the natural agricultural re
sources of the islands. The question
to be determined la whether the en
couragement offered by the proposed
bank will be sufficient to develop
among the Filipino farmers the energy,
now sadly lacking, but primarily es
sential to any plan for placing the
agricultural industry of the archipel
ago on the advanced plane desired by
the promoters of the measure.
THAT MARKET HOUSE "FAILURE-"
The decision of the council to aban
don' the market house on lower Capi
tol avenue and arrange for th re
moval of the building will, doubtless,
be heralded fax and wide as another
example of disastrous failure attend
ing a munlcipally-owned project. The
truth is, hpwever, that the city mar
ket house scheme in Omaha has been
badly bungled and purposely wrecked
from the start.
The desirability of a market house
in which the venders of food products
could expose their wares for sale,
bringing the producer and consumer
closer together with consequent re
duction in the cost of living. Is unde
niable. The opposition to the estab
lishment of a market house by the
city sprang almost wholly from the
retail grocers and butchers, who
wanted to retain the system of private
marketing, which they thought largely
to their advantage. Unable to head
off the proposition altogether, the old
council waa prevailed upon to select
a site in no way suited to the purpose
and to erect upon it a building scarcely
better suited. This was followed up
by the establishment of a counter mar
ket by an association of the local gro
cers and a successful blocking ot all
efforts to center the market business
at the city market house.
Our city authorities could not have
proceeded in a manner more surely
calculated to destroy the whole mar
ket house Idea and to disgust the pub
lic with a view to bringing public sen
timent to the point now reached,
where it would acquiesce in complete
abandonment. The market house has
Indeed been a costly experiment, but
It qpuld have been made a sue cess
with any kind of business manage
ment.
The Jail-feeding graft conducted by
the Douglas county sheriff Is costing
the taxpayers of Nebraska hundreds
of dollars every year. The state has
an interest In having the meals fur
nished on a competitive basis because
the state would save on the care of
prisoners held her for sentence pro
portionately even more than would
the county. The price fixed by competi
tion for feeding county prisoners
would be the same price charged to
the Btate for state prisoners.
The county commissioners are up
against a kink In the law which pre
vents them from spending more than
11,500 on Improvements at the county
Jail without first securing a vote of
the people. That Is very much like
the law that prohibits the school board
from spending more than $25,000 out
of current revenues fa any one year
for the purchase of school sites and
construction of new buildings. But
the school board has never allowed
the law to Interfere.
The anti-pass bill has gone through
the house, but Is still to be endorsed
by the senate, where the question ot
excepted classes will probably be
threshed over again. The Bee some
time ago suggested that th anti-pass
bill In Nebraska be made to conform
as closely as possible with the anti
pass section of th railway rate regula
tion act put on the federal statute
books by congress. The railroads are
not doing business In Nebraska alone
and no harm would come from bo
framing our law as to permit them to
make uniform arrangements for state
and interstate passenger business.
Down In Saline county a former
county Judge has actually been con
victed on a charge of embeaslement.
There Is hope yet that the proceedings
against the bunch of former Douglas
county officials who pocketed all sorts
of fees which should have been turned
Into th county treasury may pan out.
Mr. Van Duzer, the congressman-at-large
from Nevada, showed up In
Washington the other day for the first
time in a year and a half and was Im
mediately surrounded by a bunch of
creditors. He made his escape, how
ever, and is still a congressman-at-large.
The Omaha Real Estate exchange la
thoroughly In favor of consolidation
of Omaha and South Omaha. Any
thing that contributes to the upbuild
ing of Greater Omaha will contribute
to the stiffening up of real estate val
ues over the whole area ot the greater
city.
France proposes to apply Its maxi
mum tariff schedules against American
Imports. It may be necessary to re
taliate by refusing to allow France to
put any more French labels on Cali
fornia champagne and York state peas.
Public sentiment In Omaha gener
ally would declare against a street car
strike, particularly at this time. There
ought to be a way by which the parties
to the controversy can adjust their
differences.
A New York paper refers to Ne
braska as "the state where the winds
always blow." That's all right, but
the Nebraska winds have something
worth blowing about.
The Increase of $2,500 a year In
congressional salaries does not appeal
to Senator Spooner... He Is expecting
a Job that will add it least one more
cipher to that sum.
Wrecked In a Gale.
" Now York Bun.
The Fifty-ninth congress goes, but Plain
Subsidy remains. It Is likely to remain
until a better plan la devised for restoring
to the seas the American merchant marine.
The Coming Bnmp.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Bumper crops of Ice are reported from
all parts of tha country. Which may bo
taken as a good Indication that the con
sumers will be bumped , as usual this sum
mer. Some Other 'Oay.
Washington' 'Poet,
t'p to the hour of going to press. Gov
ernor Cummins has 'neither shed tears nor
Implored Mr. Shaw to reconsider his deter
mination to shake the dust of Iowa from
his feet .
From Jackson to Roosevelt.
Wall Street Journal.
The signing of the Aldrlch bill is the first
Important . step In the , abolishing of the
Independent treasury system which was ts
tabllshed in Van Buren'a administration as
a result of Jackson's war on the United
States bank.
From Jackson to Roosevelt covers a pe
riod of over seventy ear.
Grateful to Congress.
New York World.
President Roosevelt has a way of ap
pearing always grateful to ' congress. He
signs, tha bill giving the- government the
right of appeal In certain criminal cases,
although It "comes lamentably short of ac
complishing what should be accomplished."
Still hs considers it "a certain advance."
Of course It Is. Congress knew how much
more he wanted and took pains to concede
just as little as possible tn order to dis
arm him.
Construction of Libel Low.
Philadelphia Record.
A verdict of $6,000 for damages tn a libel
suit against a New York newspaper has
been set aside In tha United States circuit
court on the ground that in an article
capable of two dlsllnot constructions un
mistakable Inuendo must be shown to
make tha publication libelous. It was also
held that libel should not be Inferred from
random extracts, tha true' meaning of an
article being only ascertainable from an
examination of its whole contents. This Is
a new ruling, but It seems to be based upon
sound reasoning. Tha theory of accidental
libel la hardly tenable.
FLAG LAWS I'PHELD,
Decision of the Supreme Court la the
Nebraska Case.
Chicago .Tribune. .
Tha supreme court of the United States
haa upheld the constitutionality of the Ne
braska law against the use ot tha national
flag for advertising purposes. This Is tha
first time tha highest tribunal In the land
haa been called upon, to pass upon such a
statute. In the case'' of Ruhstrat against
People, Involving the Illinois flag law of
1899, the supreme court of Illinois declared
the statute unconstitutional, and aa the
state had no power to appeal from the de
cision, the flag haa been without protection
In this state. In the Nebraska case the
state supreme court upheld the statute and
thus paved the way for an appeal to the
supreme court of the United States and a
final settlement of the question.
Much of the ground Is knocked from
under the Illinois decision by the opinion
delivered In Washington. The Illinois su
preme court held that the UnKed States
government was tha natural protector of
tha flag and that as congress had not seen
fit to pass any laws for its protection it
was not the business of any other body.
The United States supreme court holds
that any state has the right to protect the
national emblem from Indignities within the
Jurisdiction of that state. The Illinois
court held that as the. state clearly could
not prohibit the use of the national flag
within its borders by all classes of cltl
sens it had no right to prohibit Its use
by any one. But the United States court
holds that ths prohibition of the use of
tha national- flag for such purposes as
were mentioned In ' the statute was nut
such an abridgment of personal rights as
contemplated by the constitution, and tn
other decisions has held that tha ques
tion of reasonableness of degree Is to be
considered when it Is alleged that a mod
erate exercise of a power is void if an
unlimited extension of It would be.
tITV w mint T NEWSPAPERS.
extraordinary Conaltlona la Butte
Dae to ' Strike.
The refusal of the newspapers ot Butte.
Mont., to accede to tha demands of the
pressmen for Increased wages and the sus
pension of publication when a strike waa
declared, has produced extraordinary con
ditions In all walks of life In the great
copper camp. Never has there been a
more convincing demonstration of the fact
that a city without newspapers lacka only
a funeral oration or eulogy to end Hs
misery. In explaining present conditions In
the copper camp, a correspondent of ths
Portland Oregnnlan writes: "Civilised
man, aa represented In the region once sup
plied with news by four great Montana
newspapers, has learned something since
February 11, 1W7. Never again must the
newspapers of this field labor with civil
Ised man to convince him that he should
have the paper left at his front door every
morning and proclaim his merchandise
through the paper's advertising columns
Civilised man's books show that the news
paper pages are worth more to his store
than all the windows he can decorate
beautifully, all the front yards he csn lit
ter with handbills, all the billboards he can
plaster with posters, all the streets he can
Illuminate with banners, all the sandwich
men ha can equip, all the grotesque forms
of advertising he can devise and he has
devised many. He has learned that the
women, who do the bulk of the buying,
have a habit of planning the shopping
campaign largely along lines suggested by
the newspaper advertisement, and that
habit Is hard to break.
"The newspaper shut-down In Butte and
Anaconda came at the height of the bar
gain sale season and when spring goods
were arriving. To show what Mr. Man
thinks of It, he In advertising his wares In
newspapers published In other parts of the
state, but he Is not satisfied with the re
sults, because these papers are, of neces
sity, old when they reach the field af
fected, are strange In appearance and of
limited circulation.
"Theatrical managers, Including man
agers of Joyous comic opera, are playing
heavy tragedy roles. The gorgeous bill
board, already threatend with abandon
ment by the more enlightened 'showmen,'
has forged another nail for tha coffin that
will hold It eventually. It emphatically
has not delivered the goods. Scintillating
star and fetching soubrette move majesti
cally and caper devilishly to half filled
houses, while gloom piles up In tha box
office.
"Civilised man has learned something
about newspapers he never would have
learned had there been no newspaper sus
pension. He has learned that newspapers
are of value, not only as disseminators of
Information, but as a preventive of tha
dissemination of misinformation. Rumors,
damaging to business Interests, that would
have been quieted by denial In or omission
from the next Issue of the paper, originate
In Irresponsible sources and gather volume
as they spread. The average cltlsen has
no means of securing accurate information,
and, assailed on all sides by alarming
stories, he Is ready to believe the worst.
"One of the leading business Institutions
of the state was forced to Issue an official
statement In the form of a circular to re
fute a rumor of financial embarrassment.
Fears that undoubtedly never would have
existed had the newspapers been In opera
tion led to a run on a bank and threatened
serious consequences for a time. Crimea
that never take place are related with cir
cumstantial detail and names. The de
fendant In a noted criminal case, who had
Just been convicted, wan reported to have
committed suicide the morning after the
newspaper suspension. Full particulars of
the awful deed had traveled by word of
mojth all over the city before a jobless
hewspaper man volunteered to "get the
straight of If and discovered the prisoner
enjoying a hearty meal at the Jail.
"The observer notes as never before the
rapidity with which Information can be
spread by the Up process. Oenerully, It Is
wrong when It starts and becomes less
nearly accurate as It proceeds, but It gets
around In a hurry and sometimes It !s true.
What do you hear?' Is the Inevitable ques
tion when people meet. The reply Is al
ways qualified and referred back to an
'authority,' unless it Is a negative. Third
cousins of men In authority on either side
of the controversy are consulted with a
deference that must astonish them. The
principals themselves preserve silence,
broken only, by stated declarations that
they will never yield. The publlo listens to
all It hears, tries to separate truth from
falsehood, and yearns for its daily paper
again. The people here will be slow to
say hereafter: 'You can't believe half you
see In the newspapers.' They have learned
how much falsehood the newspaper kills,
how little falsehood It prints. The natural
born liar has a chance to tell 'whoppers'
and escape now,, because his victims either
have not the time or tha means to refute
his statements.
"The condition In this field, precipitated
by a strike of less than twenty men, has
many absurd and some sinister aspects re
sulting from the great strength of organ
Iced labor and the close relations of the
unions. Mining and smelting being tha
baslo Industry of this region. It was con
ceded that a strike of miners would
paralyse business for months. The fear
of a general strike has been allayed. In
part at least, by the announcement that
the leading mines will pay tha advanced
scale and will continue to operate, al
though with greatly reduced forces. The
troubles of the lesser unions are not likely
to causa more than temporary embarrass
ment or confusion. But great harm was
done during the period when the state
awaited the miners' vote. Merchants,
guarding against a possible long depres
sion, shaped their plans along restricted
lines, abandoned contemplated extensions
of their business, cut their orders and. In
many Instances, made tentative arrange
ments to move to other places. Real es
tate values fell. Men that owned homes
listed them for sale and prepared to leave
when tha general shut-down should come.
Almost all lines of business received a
check that cannot be overcome for a long
time.
"Much of this would have been obviated
had the newspapers of Butte and Ana
conda been In operation during the period
of uncertainty. Partly by sane editorial
admonition, but more by the conservative
and accurate presentation through the news
columns of the facts of tha situation, the
newspapers would undoubtedly have
quieted the fears of those that were In
fluenced to their Injury by groundless
rumors. The facts. In their worst light,
do not Justify tha harm that has been
done, but without newspapers, aliva to the
situation and competent to treat It In
telligently, tha general public suffered."
Prostatic Offsets.
Philadelphia Record.
Railroad officials who are complaining of
tha epidemic of 8-cent fare bills ought to
remember that the public prohibited them
from giving free transportation before It
commanded them to sell transportation at
prices not to exceed cents a mile. The
carrying companies must be saving a great
deal of money since the free list waa sus
pended by law. And. besides, the law la
protecting tha companies from the exac
tion of rebates by great shippers, and
there must be a good bit of increased in
come from this source.
NATURE PROVIDES
FOR SICK WOMEN
a more potent remedy la the root
and herb of the field than was ever
prod a cod from drags.
In the good old fashioned days of
oar grand mothers few drug were
used In onedleiaea and Lydta E.
Ft ok ham. of Lynn, Mass., la ber
study of roots and herbs and their
power over disease discovered and
gave to the women of the world a
remedy for their peculiar ilia nor
potent and efficacious than any
combination of drugs.
LydiaE. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
la an honest, tried and true remedy of unquestionable there peutto value.
During its record of mora than thirty years, Its long list of actual
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immediate direction. Address, Lynn, Mass.
PERSONAL NOTES.
The Nevada congressman whose only ap
pearance during the term was to claim
11.100 mileage ought to make a hit us a
promoter of nerve food.
Should the proposed railroad to the top
of the Matterhorn be built the traveling
athlete will not have much of an advan
tage over the traveling Invalid.
A pet bill of Senator LaFollettes got
through the house by a vote of 233 to 0.
Evidently the scheme for hailng tha gen
tleman didn't get into both branches of
congress.
On the very day that congressional sal
aries become (7,500, one senator announces
his retirement because he cannot afford to
stay. What good will this "raise" do our
statesmen, anyway?
It Is said that Governor Hoch of Kansas
does not Intend to serve out his term. He
has accepted a number of assignments from
a lecture bureau for this summer. He Is to
receive, so It Is said, $150 a night, and will
be able to make from $10,000 to $16,000 a
year. j
Boston bewails tha fact that tha "old
raahloned lobster of commerce" Is becom
ing scarcer every year. Whether the
human variety Increases is not yet a sub
ject for official inquiry. The melancholy
prospect elevates respect for the sacred
codfish as tha old reliable means of salva
tion. A New York bachelor Judge, who was
asked to pass upon the respective fitness
of straight or curved front corsets Is in a
position of sufficient perplexity to offer
a word of sympathy to a Cleveland
brother who is asked to decide whether
the odor of onions Is offensive or re
spectable. Elbert H. Gary, chairman of the board
of directors of the United States Steel cor
poration, has purchased and presented to
the Northwestern university law school the
library of the late Prof. Mortts Volgt
of Leipzig. Volgt was probably the most
distinguished world scholar on Roman and
civil law. The acquisition of this library
by an American law school will be a bitter
dlsappontement to European scholars.
Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish Is making some
what of a flurry In New York society by
Introducing original Ideas at her enter
tainments. At her latest, largest and most
novel luncheon she tickled her guests with
jocose quotations. An attractive widow
found this at her place: "She Is pretty to
walk with, witty to talk with and pleasant
to look upon." Another guest, devoted to
bridge, found this: "She jests at scores
who never played at bridge."
TWO YEAR! OF- ROOSEVELT.
Review of His Services as aa Elected
President.
Charles M. Harvey In Leslie's Weekly.
In recounting the successes and failures
of Mr. Roosevelt In the two years of his
service as an elected president several
things need to be taken Into account.
First In a large degree the radicalism
with which tha president ha been charged
has been thrust upon trim by forces which
not only shaped themselves Independently
of his will, but most of which were In
operation long before he entered office.
Second His aim haa been to go only far
enough to meet th necessities of the sit
uation and to head off demagogues who
would go much farther If they were elected
and who, as he feared, would probably be
elected If ha failed to act.
Third With his natural Impetuosity and
his seal to correct evils, and also to avert
evils before they had a chance to reveal
themselves, he has. In some Instances, gone
farther than he intended at the outset.
Fourth When.'as in the Brownsville case,
he has made mistakes, he has been quick
to correct them.
Although the United State haa only S
per cent of the world's population, it is
producing in 1907 fully per cent of the
world's gold, SO per cent of Its silver, 40
per cent of Its Iron, 43 per cent of Its steel,
45 per cent of Its coal, 50 per cent of Its
petroleum, 60 per cent of Its copper and
75 per cent of its cotton.- Between the
election of Harrison in 18M and tha com
pletion of the first half of Roosevelt's pres
ent term on March 1 107. the wealth of
the United States has doubled. More
wealth has been added to the United
States' total since Roosevelt entered office
In September, 1901, than was In th country
as a result of tb accumulations of all the
presidencies at th time of Lincoln's In
auguration in The value of the tangi
ble marketable property In the United
States today Is greater than that of the
United Kingdom and France combined,
which are the second and third nation
respectively, on this roll. Every succeed
ing sunrise In 1807 sees tlO.OOO.OU) added tn
th total of th wealth of the United Stat
Naturally this stupendous expansion In
the country's Interests and activities In th.
last few year has created problems which
nobody thought of even as recently af
Arthur's days In th White House.
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LAMilUVU UA9.
"I cannot sing the old aongw," she mur
mured, running Icily over the keys.
' Kn I have heard," atilil the other girl,
sweutly.
It la believed the mutiml coolness dated
from this Instant. Philadelphia Ledger.
Sweet Young Tiling Auntie, are you In
favor of putting a lax on old bachelors?
Elderly Relative IMttlng tajra on old
bachelors? Uraotoim, no! I'd have 'em put
on the old widowers Instead. 'ITiey're the
ones you want to watch, child. Chicago
Tribune.
"I consider Roosevelt the most remarka
ble servant the republic has ever had."
"Why so?"
"Well, for one thing, ho gave us four
years' notice." Washington Star.
"Pid I hear you eay, old chap, that mar
riage has made a new man of you?"
"That's right."
"Then thut wipes out the ten I ow
you. Now lend me five, will you?" Mil-'
wauke Sentinel.
The railroad magnates on the etonil
plainly was Irritated.
"Hold on, gentlemen!" he exclaimed.
"You are asking about my methods as
though you Intended to go into the bunco
business yourselves, and I have plenty of
rivals already."
Hut they assured him that curiosity
their only motive. Philadelphia -Ledger.
"I suppose you have come to register a
kick," growled the theatrical manager, as
one of the vaudeville stars entered his
private office.
i nann t any sucn Intention," said th .
vaudeville star, pleasantly; "but I don't
mind having it registered. My kick Is eight
feet and a half." Chicago Tribune.
"That fellow Is very energetic In adding
everything that comes up to his 'Teaching
All Profesnions In Ten Lessons.' "
"Yes. but he rather overshot the mark
when he offered rates for a correspondence
course in the unwritten law." Baltimore
American.
"How were those eggs t left for you
last week, ma'am?" asked the honest agri
culturist. "Every one of them Was rotten," she re
plied vigorously.
"I am sorry," he said: then bowed low
and Inquired deferentially: "Hut were they
perfectly satisfactory otherwise?" Judge.
"I hear that you called me land shark," '
asld the real estate dealer hotly.
"Yes," answered the customer, "and t
desire to spologlr.e for it. The lots you
sold me s re under water at high tide.
You're really a marine shark."
However, even this concession did not
seem to restore the entente cordlale. Phil
adelphia Ledger.
He What do you think? I overheard
Mr. Spoonem talking to Mls Phatter in the
conservatory, and he told her she was
IWfet enough to eat.
She The glutton! That Phntter girt
weighs fully 2U0 pounds. -Judne.
"Haven't you sometimes sacrificed your
conscience In conducting your trust opera
tions?" . "Oh, yes," answered the billionaire, "but
a man who surceeda In the world must ex
geot to make some sacrifices." Washington
"Gee whls!" exclaimed Weary Willie,
"ain't dese trusts fierce? Suppose dey
should rolne da price o' beer!"
"Well," replied the other, "dat need'nt
worry us so long aa we kin raise de prlo.
of it." Philadelphia Press...
THEY'VE GIVEN PA A RAISE.
S. E. Klser in the Record-Herald.
Bay, you ought to hear ma alng1n-she's as
happy as a lark,
And her smile stays on from mornlrr" till a
long time after dark; .
She's been buyln' rugs and gettln' a new
costly switch to wear.
And she takes a cab whenever she goes
callln' anywhere;
She has bought herself a dlmund, and you
ought to see It blase;
Ma's aa cheerful as a robin they hav
given pa a raise.
Sister's busy gettln' dresses that'll cost an
awful pile,
And the hats that she's been buyln' are th
very latest style:
She's to go abroad this summer with some
people named the Cooks;
Is she happy? Well, I guess so! You can
see It by her looks;
Djir gora iiumimn souks ana aancio ana
In forty thousands ways
Lets us know that she is. cheerful since
they've given pa a raise.
Pa still works the same as ever, and he's
smokin' stogies yet;
Wears the stilt he got last summer, and I
guess he's still in debt;
Anyway, he starts off early and come
home fugged out at night,
And his forehead's g;tiln' wrinkled and hi
hair is turnln' white;
Can't, somehow, help feelln' sorry as I sit
and watch him gaze
With a vacant look at nothln". Yea, theyv
given pa a raise.
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