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14 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1907 The Omaha Daily Dee FOUNDED BY EDWARD P.OSEWATE3. VICTOR R08EWATER. EDITOR. Entered at Omaha Postofflce ai second class matter. TERM3 OP SUBSCRIPTION: Daily fceo (without Sunday), one yar..M-W 1'aily Bee and Sunday, on year '0 Hunday ile, one year J.6Q Saturday Bee, one year 1W DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Pally Be (including Sunday), per week..J5o Ially Bee (without Sunday), per week..l0o Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week to Evening liee (with Sunday), per week....l0u Address all complalnta of lrregularltlea In delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha City Had Building. Council Bluffs 15 Scott Street. Chicago 1M0 University Building. New York lfiu Home Life Insurance Building. Washington 725 Fourteenth Street N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Cnmmunlcatlona relating to newa and edi torial matter should be addressed, Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stamps received in payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. STATEMENT Or CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska. Douglas County, as: Charles C. Rosewater, general manager of The Bee Publishing company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally Morning, evening ana Bunaay nee princru during the month of October, 11W7, was as fullowo: 1 36,970 2 36,690 t..' 36,600 4 36,360 6 36,660 5 38,600 7 36,440 1 36,630 36,700 10 36,850 11 36,490 12 36,530 15 33,300 14 36,530 15 36,930 16 36,930 n 39,110 U 36,660 It 36,340 20 40,500 Jl 36,680 22 36,940 28 37,3 M 24 36,8tf0 26 36,78 J 2 36,700 27 38,580 28 37,0 10 29 36,SL0 30 3B,0 Jl..... 37,330 Total i,139,4b0 Lrus unsold and returned copies. 3,933 Net total 1,139,538 Dully average 36,4 J7 CHARLES C. ROSEWATER. General MannKer. ' Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 1st day of November. 19u7. ROBERT HUNTER, "" ; Notary Public. WHEN OUT Or TOWN. Subscribers leaving: the ettr ten pornrlly should have The Uee mailed to thriu. .Address rtlll be changed often na requested. "In Gold We Trust" la the accepted motto In Wall street. Secretary Taft will be In position to write an interesting story on "One Night Stands lu Europe." Jamestown Is leurning that the country will not stand for even a sec ond term for expositions. While Oklahoma has gone "dry" the new state officials are showing no dis position tu let the state become dull. While money Is said to have recov ered from its recent scare, it Is still giving a pretty good Imitation of bash Tulness. Senator Warren of Wyoming says "Bryan will run worse In 1908 than he did in 1896 or 1900." Hardly norms possible. "What is the greatest need for the improvement of railways?" asks the New York World. More cars and less oratory would help tome, It Is now proposed to tax Wall street gambling. This might help If there were some way of making the gam blers pay the tax In advance. Nebraska and Iowa implement deal ers are against the parcels post. They are afraid some catalogue house will send a tlfreshlng machine by mall. John W. Gates says that under no conditions will he return to Wall street. That's one more reason for the speedy restoration of confidence. "The way to save the boy is to trust him," says Judge Llndsey of Denver. Still, it seems hardly fair to trust the boy and make the rest of us pay cash. A Kansas City man is asking a di vorce because his wife shot him in the leg. It should be easy for her to prove that she was not aiming to hit him. Chancellor Andrews is down east talking again. The chancellor, as a rule, talks much more sensibly when he stays at home within the shadow of the university. The enlargement of local garage fa cilities Indicates a confidence .in the continued growth of the automobile habit in Omaha that may be taken for a business pointer. When Mayor "Jim" comes home we may expect a graphic description of the conspiracy against Bryan, which was scheduled to the pulled off at French Lick Springs, Grover Cleveland has refused to ex press his opinion about Mr. Bryan's candidacy. This may be accepted as evidence that he has Dot changed his opinion on the subject. By the annexation of Allegheny Pittsbuig1 becomes the sixth American city in population and closely presses Boston for the fifth place. Omaha will move up in the list when the suburbs are annexed. Chief Forester Plnchot says the Um ber supply Will be exhausted in twenty-five years. The democrats have discovered that their supply of demo cratic timber has already been ex hausted, all but one piece which has been badly battered in a couple of severe November storms. GRoITjjVG tiVMDKR Of STUCKBOLDKRS. In searching for causes and effects of the flurry in stocks and the financial depression in the east, financial ex perts have discovered some rather sig nificant facts relative to the change in ownership of stocks in big railroad and industrial corporations. Most of thve corporations bold their annual meetings and make their dividend declarations about the end of the year and, in preparation for these meet ings, the books have been opened for the proper registration of stock trans fers. The Wall Street Journal has been verifying the report that the number of individual stockholders in the great railroad and industrial corporations Is Increasing rapidly and that it has ad vanced with marked alacrity during the prevalence of low prices of stocks of all kinds. Statistics compiled show in thirty-five of the leading industrial stocks on No vember 1 a total of 152,744 stock holders, as compared with 134,990 at the same date last year, while the in crease in the capital stock of the con cerns was slight. The gain in the number of stockholders is even more marked in the case of the railroads. In eighteen of the principal railroads there are now 83,281 stockholders, as compared with 68,858 a year ago, a gain of 21 per cent. The Pennsylvania railroad alone shows a gain of 7,000 in the number of stockholders in a year, while the increase has been marked In nearly every one of the leading roads of the country. Experts generally attribute this in crease in the number of stockholders to the condition of the stock markets. The stocks have been cut In price on sn average of nearly 50 per cent In the last year, making 5 or 6 per cent dividends very attractive to the in vestor. Stock in established Industrial en terprises and profitably operated rail ways have been attractive proposi tions, even at the high quotations that prevailed previous to the break, with the one drawback that the stockhold ers had no voice In the management and little opportunity to secure in formation as to how they have been conducted. Heretofore the directors and manipulators have assumed pro prietorship and have too frequently managed, not only in disregard of the rights of the public, but also to the injury of the small stockholders. Un der new laws, the books of the rail way corporations are open and In vestors have a right to look into them. To a large extent this spirit is being extended to the affairs of all corpora tions, with resulting closer relation ship with the stockholders. These re forms can not have operated but to ward the popularizing, in a way, of the big corporations and promise still more beneficial effects in this direc tion. ASOTBEB CCBAX COMPLICATION. The completion of the federal cen sus in Cuba has started anew the fight between the factions in the island over the prospect of securing control of tho government In the election, which, the United States agreed to call after the census should be taken. The question hinges upon when the election shall be held, and Governor Magoon and the authorities at Washington are already being besieged by the leaders of the opposing factions with pleadings, promises and threats enough to make it certain that trouble is likely to fol low any decision that may be made. When the United States was com pelled to send troops to the island and assume temporary charge of affairs, with the overthrow of the Palma ad ministration, the party and factional leaders in Cuba demanded another election immediately. This was de nied. Governor Magoon contending that no fair election could be held un til a census bad been taken and a reg istration of voters secured. This de- , clslon was finally accepted by the Cubans, and comparative peace has prevailed for more than a year. It was the tacit understanding, when the census was ordered, that the Cuban election would be held early in 1908. preceding the presidential election in this country. That was apparently ac- j ceptable, but now all former under- i standings are being thrown aside and a heated controversy is raging. One faction in Cuba wants an election called at once, before the end of the present year. Another element wants j the election deferred for a year, and those who desire permanent interven tion by the United States, wlt a view to ultimate annexation, are opposed to any election whatever. It is perhaps unfortunate that the United States officials in authority in the island ever promised an early elec tion to follow tho completion of the census. The island has made marked progress under the administration of Governor Magoon. The police and rural guards hav been improved, ban dit bands have been wiped out, plant ers have been protected, roads have been built, sanitary regulations have been enforced in the cities and all the industries of the island have prospered beyond precedent. There Is still want ing, however, tangible evidence that the Cubans have acquired any greater capacity for self-government than they possessed when they made such a lamentable failure. Neither of the larger parties has formulated any pol icy that promises stability and order nor developed a leader fitted to take charge of the affairs of the republic. All the present conditions indicate a feverish desire for an election, to be followed by a return to the old sys tem of disorder, as soon as the Ameri can troops embark from the island. The planters and business men of the island are convinced that no govern ment established by the Cubans would last more than a few months. All classes agree that the govern ment of the Island under Governor Magoon has been excellent All ot them, except the political leaders, fear the result of surrendering the affairs of the country to native officials chosen by election. , While home affairs of urgent import are pressing upon the attention of President Roosevelt and congress, the situation in Cuba also demands in telligent consideration and action at an early date. RcenuiTiya the asahus club. Our amiable democratic contempor ary, the World-Herald, again shows to what extent it will go to manufacture political capital by distorting the news. It prints a telegraphic item noting the acquittal of the officers and crew of a river steamboat, charged with reckless navigation on the occasion of President Roosevelt's trip down the Mississippi, the last paragraph of which, as trans mitted by the Associated Press, reads: A great deal of Interest has been shown In this matter by the people of Cairo. The Cairo delegation to Memphis had chartered and was on the "Dick Fowler" when the offense la alleged to have been committed. To this the World-Herald adds of its own make-up: President Roosevelt la reported to have become violently angry when the "Dick Fowler" ran past him. He had Us license Immediately revoked. On the fictitious foundation thus laid the Baine paper indulges in this editorial comment: The officers and crew of the "Dick Fowler" have been acquitted of the charge of endangering the president's life by reckless navigation. This ought to make additions to the Ananias club. It is a trite saying that it takes a good memory to make a good liar, but the World-Herald Is lacking in mem ory. The incident out of which it is trying to turn a poltical trick was the suspension by order of the president of the pilot of the steamer "Fred Hart weg," which carried the Pittsburg del egation and which in defiance of in structions repeatedly broke through the line of the river parade. If any additions are to be made to the Ananias club the World-Herald fakirs are entitled to the new member ships. 'LOSSES OA" THE RA'SQLS.. Asneclal commissioner of the Ameri can Humane association has Just made a report of his investigations, extend ing over a year, Into the condition of live stock on the ranges in the west. His report has been prepared for the purpose of "arousing the American people to the necessity for action to stop this wanton slaughter of thou sands of domestic animals each year." Government reports are cited to show that for the year ending March 31, 1905, there was a loss of 2,687,027 cattle on the western ranges, due largely to starvation and exposure. The commissioner asserts that the losses each year are at least 2,500,000 animals, representing an estimated value of J24.000.000. The burden of the commissioner's conclusions is that cattle ranging is a cruel and Inhuman business and should be suppressed -by law. Without quarreling with the figures quoted, although most reports of stock losses on the ranges are greatly ex aggerated, the humane association is apparently working on a false premise and starting a crusade against an evil that is rapidly curing itself. The crusade urged against the stock man is apparently based on the theory that there Is malice and design back of his treatment of the stock on the ranges. The fact is that stockmen, while counting annually upon losses of cattle from various causes, do every thing in their power to lessen this loss, Just as men in other business take every possible precaution against losses. Each year more money is spent in providing forage for the stock during the Btormy season and greater effort exerted to secure an abundant supply of water. Improvement is be ing shown continually in these direc tions, despite the encroachment by settlers, each year reducing range area and making the water sources less ac cessible. The day of the ranger is fast pass ing. The meat supply of the future will be furnished by stock growers who keep smaller herds and, by mak ing proper provision for their care during the winter, reap larger returns than are possible under the range sys tem. wot a fair division. The prospective payment of upward of $150,000 as an inheritance tax on a single estate in probate in this county calls attention to the unfair provisions of the inheritance law, which requires all this money to be expended for paving roads outside of Incorporated cities. In a county like Douglas county nine-tenths of the pro ceeds of the inheritance tax must come from the estates of people residing in Omaha or South Omaha, and mostly from property located in these cities. Yet not one dollar of the money thus paid into the county treasury can be expended on any improvement within the municipal limits ot Omaha or South Omaha. While every one will concede that the pavement of the county roads is equally desirable to the people who live in either city or country districts and contributes materially to the trade and traffic of Omaha, yet there is no good reason why the inheritance tax fund should not be divided in soni equitable manner so that a reasonable proportion could be expended on the roadways and boulevards of Omaha and South Omaha. The practice has been pursued, with admitted justice, of apportioning the road fund be tween country and city and turning the cities' shares over to the park boards of Omaha and South Omaha to aug ment their park funds. It would not be asking too much to have the inheri tance tax fund apportioned on a simi lar basis so that Omaha and South Omaha may also share in the direct benefits. We realize that to do this will require a modification of the law, but this amendatory legislation should be put down now on the program for the next legislature. The decision of the supreme court adverse to the claim of former Fire Chief Redell for pay after he was re tired from the headship of the fire de partment must be a sad blow to the lawyers who were the chief 'gamblers in the case. The city treasury was successfully raided several times for back pay for police officers who quib bled about the legality of their dismis sals and divided the money with their attorneys, and these raids doubtless stimulated other attempts. It is to be i hoped that the taxpayers will not be again victimized by this sort of a game. The proposition to eliminate itiner ant street fakirs from our thorough fares ought to have the support of the whole business community. These nuisances used to be considered a sign of metropolitanism, but they are now generally regarded as reminders of the country town. Omaha could get along very well without them. Testimony in the case brought by Omaha Jobbers before the Interstate Commerce commission is that there has been no reduction in freight rates on dry goods to this point in seventeen years. That is pretty strong contra diction of the railroad boast that trans portation service has been constantly and steadily cheapened. A complaint sent to the State Rail way commission by Edgar Howard de scribes the depot at Columbus as "a miniature representation of Hades." Our friend Edgar Howard Is missing the chance of his life. He should have that depot photographed and put on the moving picture circuit. Mayor "Jim" says he is still mayor and will have his authority respected, but that ho won't do anything to prove it until he gets back from the east. If Mayor "Jim" is not careful Colonel Bryan will transfer to him his pat ented sobriquet of "the great post poner." "When I get to heaven I will be tackled the first thing by a lot of re porters," says General Booth of the Salvation Army. Sure, the general may count on meeting reporters every where in the next world as well as in this. The city council is accused of being too inquisitive. The real offense, however, is in being too inquisitive about things that are none of its busi ness and not inquisitive enough about things it should look after. , Governor Haskell of Oklahoma says "dress suits" shall not be worn at any social functions at the executive man sion. It will be hard to break Haskell of habits and prejudices formed while living In Kansas. Just returned to St. Louis from Europe, Adolphus Busch says he is going to make public soon a plan for the relief of the nation's finances. Is it possible he Is going to cut the price of his product? Nikola Tesla is preparing to send a wireless message to Mars. Anyone can send a message to Mars, but the man w'ho has received an answer Is keeping the fact to himself. Hound to Keep Moving. Pittsburg Dispatch. Still the west reports car shortages owing to the rush of grain for shipment. The speculative muddle does not seem able to keep the products of the country from j moving. Playing; tn Great Luck. Cincinnati Enquirer. Vice President Fairbanks was In a rail road wreck the other day, but didn't got a scratch. Mr. Fairbanks has had a good deal to do with railroad revolution In Indiana In other days, and seems to have always been a winner. Oil for the Troubled Waters. Kansas City Star. The publlo is not at all ready to accept the statement of the "vested Interests" that the president's policy created the financial flurry, but It Is perfectly willing to concede that his policy of Intervention to end the crisis has contributed more than everything else toward restoring nor mal conditions. Money (or Business lies. Philadelphia Record. General Mackenzie wants not less than S60.ou0.000 for coast fortifications, and con gress will be asked for $12u.O.V0"O besides for big ships and other naval expenditures'. Since there Is no enemy In sight or In the range of reasonable probability, much bit ter use could be found for this money in existing conditions. The West Not Quite So tiny. , Providence Journal. "What have we to do with Wall street?" the prosperous west has e ontemntmiKi v j asked. Now It la finding out Just what the I connection Is. The agricultural states need J money for two purposes to move their . crops and to replace In bank the funds withdrawn by timid depositors, and they are attempting to drain the New York banks, the connection between which and ; "the street" does not need to be demon atrated. Tha fact la that In our modern Industrial and financial system we are all closely associated and what hurts or helps any of us hurts or helps all. Tim west and south are about to experience the after math of the troubles In New York, and the only consolation la that the situation there I la In much better shape than It was. OTHER LANDS THAN Ol RS. Government spells anarchy In the. most aggravating and repressive form In Rus sian Poland. The explosion of a bomb or the pistol shot by which one or more offi cial tyrants are hurried Into eternity are mere echoes of the despair of the people. A letter In the New York Rvenlnf Post from Warsaw gives a graphic account of the repressive measures adopted by the government and ruthlessly enforced. No class is exempt from terrorism. Not alone are the supposed revolutionary societies raided and the members Jailed, but also the members of the great educational league, "Polskl Mercleri Sikolna," to whose funds the Poles of America havo abundantly contributed. Trade unions In the great manufacturirg cities of Lods ar outlawed. Soldiers, conducted by spies, raid factories, and suspected workmen, pointed out by the spies, are selxed and carried off to the dungeons by tena and hundreds. The number of arrests exceed the capacity of drumhead courts working overtime to dispose of the victims, some of whom are shot, the rest exiled. As a con sequence the Jails are crammed to such an extent that the prisoners often are com pelled for want of room to atand up for days and nights. To show how well tho government manipulated the election ma chinery In order to secure a majority nf the Duma, the writer says the election booths In Poland wero each surrounded by policemen, spies and military patrols. In Warsaw only 10,000 electors out of a total of 56.000 voted, and In Lods the vote fell from 28,000 to 5,SrO. Martial law has prevailed throughout Poland for over two years. The people are peaceful outwardly, "but It Is not the proverbial peace of death and the graveyard." The writer says It Is tho "peculiar peace of martial law, which means anarchy above wrest ling with anarchy below." There Is In every class of society an uncompromising hatred of the present order of things, which will manifest itsef whenever the op portunity comes. Whenever a financial stringency affects Europe or America the resources of the thrifty people of France Is an unfailing source of relief. With only about one third of Russia's population. It furnished I a great part of the gold with which the i Russian-Japanese war was fought. Now ' that the United States Is in need of money cable messages tell us that Prance's strong box may be opened to help relieve the stringency. It Is pre-eminently true of France that the saving of the laborer and the tradesman and the peasant furnlHh the great bulk of its capital. Their thrift lness has enabled France, not nearly so rich In natural resources as this country, or Germany, or Russia, or Kngland, with Its great dependencies, often to become the banker to which they turn for gold. It Is a fine Illustration on a bis? scale of the truth of tho old suylng, "Take cure of tho pence, for tho iounds will tako cure of themselves." The Norwegians have passed a special act which enables tho authorities to deal in a wholesome way with ablebodlcd loaf ers, beggars, tramps, aliens, and drunk- , urds who shirk their financial duty to their dependents. An ablebodied man who will , not work can bo warned by the police ' against his manner of life and told whore he is to apply for employment. Thus direct official action Is taken against Idling and Idlers. He Is to be prevented coming on the community for support, or so acting that his family becomes a charge on the poor law the Interpretation clause to Include even a man's divoice.d wife and his illegiti- , mato children. This, of course, involves j the providing of work, a task beset with difficulties, but probably easier In that country than In England, as they have Im mense tracts of available land which could be brought Into cultivation, and this it Is affirmed would conduce to tho prosperity of the country. That the country means busi ness can be further inferred from a Bug- ! gested method of preventing escape through : the possibility of work being Irregular and Intermittent. A person may be ordered by the police to go to the labor bureau, but not do so; and on the other hand there may not be any work. Loth these contingencies are realized, so the idea Is to give an unsuc cessful applicant a card which will be evi dence of obedience and also state when the next visit must bo paid. This Is a detail that may be varied, but It Indicates the size of the meshes of this official net. An English paper tells of a plan of cn-operatlvo housekeeping to be. tried near Manchester. A company Is to be formed to acqulro a site at Letchworth and to build four types of "house," varying from a sln g'e bedroom and pnntry to a sitting room, pantry, bathroom and three bedrooms. The houses will be arranged to form three sides of a quadrangle and part of a fourth. There will be a central building, In which will bo a common dining hall, with a kitchen above It, and sitting rooms and bedrooms for the domestic Btaff. Each house will be con- , nected with this central building by a kind of cloister or vuranda. which will serve as a shady place for sitting In summer. There will be a large garden covering about four acres, with tennis lawns, bowling greens, etc. Inclusive of taxes, the shares of the common dining room and garden and all other extras, the houses will be lt for from $1C0 to S226 a year. Writing of the methods of fighting adopted by the Moorish warriors around Casablanca, a correspondent says: "The French troops performed no child's play In defending Casablanca against the re peated attacks made on their position out side the city. One of the Moorish horse men's devices was to charge for a short distance at full gallop, dragging a large bundle of sticks along the ground. The sticks raised a dense cloud' of dust, under cover of which It was easy for the men on foot to advance aitu fire on tha French. The fl'e. In fact, was so hot that General Drude's tent was riddled with bullets, and he ordered the fulg flying over It to be hauled down." Swaziland, envoys from whlrh are now on their way lo England to seek an audl lence with King Edward respecting con cessions In their country. Is a large native preserve situated in the east of the Trans vaal, with a population of about 60.000 blacks and only 400 whites. The 8 wails are the hereditary foes of the Zulu. The Swazl army gave valuable help to the ! British troops In the Zulu war of 1879, and in the early days King Sobuza captured the Zula monarch, Dingaan, and tortured him to death. Owing to Its vast mineral wealth, Swaziland has been the happy hunt ing ground of the prospector and conces sionaire. In after much opposition on the part of the inhabitants, It was taken ovr by4 General Joubert, and, with the British government's consent, proclaimed part of the South African republic. Call for tho Perrleaa Prophet. New York Tribune. Pots the determination of Mr. Bryan to run for president next year prefigure the substitution of the Hon, James K. Jones for the Hon. "Tom" Tsirgart as chairman of the democratic national com mittee? Buch a change would add to the gayety of politics, tor aj a rainbow chaser the Hon. "Tom" never held a candle to his Illustrious predecessor la the art of fore seeing niajorltlt-s which never materlal- wmm J I ' -" J ...... sprite V'Jr--EEL Er Mode GRAPES - Start right! To younger housekeep ers, to beginners in the art of bread and cake making, no agency can ren der so much aid, no assistant will prove so helpful as Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder. Do not make the mistake of experimenting with others. POLITICAL DRIFT. Henry M. Whitney, democratic candidate for governor of Massachusetts, Is said to have spent i:9,000 In the campaign, and then didn't get much of a run for his money. A Bt. Louis alderman who escaped the dragnet of the grand Jury expresses the opinion that "the house of delegates Is no place for an honest guy." Ho failed to classify himself by resigning. Mayor Meflellan of New York City will finish his term undisturbed. The state court of appeals declares that tho recount act Is unconstitutional, thereby substan tially Inflating the grievances of the in dependence league. Success In uprooting bosses and grafters In San Frunclnco emboldens tho reform leaders to attack tho bosses of the state. Sacramento, where the bosses are en trenched, will witness tho first Hkirmlnh of the state-wide attack. A Philadelphia paper prints w'lth a border of sobs the news of the conviction of two embezzling officials of a Colorado town, as a contrast to tho way Pennsylvania treats her official crooks. Tho state capl tol grafters haven't seen the shadow of a court house yet. A delegate to the constitutional conven tion of Michigan has Introduced a measure providing that failure to vote without rea sonable excuse, shall be punished by both fine and Imprisonment, while everybody who goes to. the polls like a good citizen will have S3 clipped off his taxes. What re ward will come to the voter who pays no taxes has not been decided. The election of a republican governor In Kentucky will apparently result In a final disposal, through trial In the courts, of the charge against ex-Governor Taylor of that state of complicity In the murder of Goebel. Taylor, according to Louisville dispatches. Is willing to return to Ken tucky and surrender himself for trial the day after Governor-elect Wlllson takes the oath of office. He has lived In exile In Indianapolis for a number of years. OBJECTION EASILY OVERCOME. Munderaon'a Point1 Against Govern ment Ownership of Railroads. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. Ex-Senator Manderson of Nebraska who offers another case of the public man drop ping out of sight altogether when he drops out of public life has gone on to Washing ton with a crushing argument against gov ernment ownership of railroads. His point Is that federal property Is not taxable In the states and that the railroads arc a very large source of state and local rev enue. Therefore government ownership of the roads would leave tha states with out visible means of support, as It were. It Is needless to say that If this were the only difficulty In the way of the federal ownership scheme there would be no resist ing It. When the time comes for the na tion to take over the roads, If It ever does come, It will be an easy matter to soe that the states and localities are duly compensated for their tax losses. Peffer'a Time to Smile. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. From his obscure retreat In Washington former Senator Peffer Is listening avidly to the 'current suggestions for enlarging the money supply and putting some elastic ity Into business. For entertaining similar views a few years ago Senator Peffer was hissed off the stage. Browning, King & Co CLOTHING, FURNISHINGS and HATS I SIX MODELS mi N SELECTING AN models that we requirements as to $15 to $250 15th and Douglas Streets m R. s'. WILCOX, Mgr. : : EQUALLf GOOD FOR ALL PURPOSES pn A I You Don't Heed Any Other. Clean, Hot, Lasting, $7.50 VICTOR WHITE COAL CO., 1214 Farnam. Tel. Oquj. 127 ten from -EE POINTED PLEASANTRIES. "Now. Willie Bright." said the Sunday school teacher, "can you tell me what a I prophet is?" "Mure! replied Willie. "A prophet Is one of those fellows who's always g!n around look'n' for a chime. to say 'I told you so." "Philadelphia Press. "What we reed." said the financier. "Is an elastic cunency." "Yes." answered the Insurance expert, "the time Is past when a captain of In dustry can hope to set through merely with an clastic conscience." Washington lN-t. "I wish I knew a sure way to get fat," said the delicate young woman, "I'll tell you," promptly replied the young housewife, "Just send an oriier to your bou lter lor lean incut." Baltimore Ameri can, "Can you tell me the secret of predicting weather months ahead?" "In confidence, yes." answered tho hoary prophet. "You guess at it. If the guess Is t you rnll the nMontlon of people lo tho fact, and if It Isn't you let them forget It." Philadelphia Ledger. "An automobile in trouble. Is a very paradoxical kind of a muchlne." "In what way ?" "Why you have to gel underneath It to study ovir it." Ual'liro American. "Hay!" growled the first hobo, "why did'i I. yer go upter dat big house, like I told yer to, an' git a handout?" "T started tor," replied his pal, "but a minister lookin' guy glmmo a tip not ter He sez: 'Turn from yer present path. fol Ish man. yer goln' ter de clogs.' " Phila delphia Press. T a ver Your nrofesslon is a paradoxi cal one, doctor, for It progresses as a live science at a killing rate. Doctor And yours Is enually so, foe your assets increase in proportion to your lie-abilities. Baltimore American. "I should think you could easily show the errors of your political opponents." "Perhaps." answered Senator Sorghum, "hut if I should convince them they would 'mr.lv ndnnt mv suffiest Ions without riv ing me any credit for them. The opposi tion's mistakes are a part of my capital." Washington Star. TO THE HOARDER. W. J. Lampton In New York World. Say, you, With a dollar or two. Or three or four, Or a whole lot more. Stuck away, don't knock; Take that money out of your sock And put It In circulation: It's as safe as the nation, nd, bv heck! You daren't say that Is going to wreck. Circulate it: let It j;et out And move about. And vou'll flr-lity soon se Restored commercial activity. Say, hoarders, what's scaring you, any how? You ought fo know that what You're doing now to save yourselves Will send us all to pot: You're letting Panic chase away Yoer business confidence, And paralyze your energies Ard dope yo'ir common sense. 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