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i TTIE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1007. Hie Omaha Daily Bel FOUNDED BT EDWARB ROflEWATER. VICTOR ROB E WAT ER, EDITOR, Entered a Omtht rostoffice as second class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION l Dally B (without Sunday), on yer..$4.W Daily fee and Sunday, on year J' Sunday Be, one year J-W Saturday Bee, one year -'Q DELIVERUJ BT CARRIER. Tally Bee (Including Bunday), per week. .150 I'ally Be (without Bunday), per week,.10o Kvenlng Bee (without Bunday). per week 60 Evening Bee (with Sunday), per week....l0o Addreaa all complaint of lrregularltle In delivery to City Circulation LparUnnt. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha City Hall Building. Council Bluffs-lf, Scott Street. Chicago 1640 University Building. New York-l&o Horn Life lnsurane Building. Washington 728 Fourteenth Street N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communlcatlnna relating to new and edi torial matter should be addressed, Omahl. Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal ordet 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 OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, : Charles C. Itosewater. general manager of Th Be Publishing company, bring duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete copies of Th Dally Morning, Evening and Sunday Be printed during th month of Octobc. W. was as follows: 1 36,970 IT 3B.710 t 38,690 18 M.6B0 1 38,600 38,540 4 38,360 29 40,500 t 38.650 XI 36,650 6 36,600 II 38,940 T 38,440 II ,,, 37,353 1 38,530 14 36,81'0 38,700 it 38,750 10 36,850 J 36,700 11,.... 36,490 27 35,580 11 36,630 21 37,010 It 36,300 29 36,9b0 14 36,530 80 36,910 16 36,930 II 37,330 II 36,930 Total .....1,139,4B0 Less unsold and returned copies. 9,933 Net total 1,139.565 Dally average 36,4.17 CHARLES C. ROSEWATER, General Manager. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before m this 1st day ut November. 1907. ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Public. WHEN OUT OF TOWN, gabscrlnrr lea Tins th city tens-, porarlly should have The lie mailed t them. Addrru will b chajiKd as often requested. Mr. Taft Is preparing to make an or derly retreat from Moscow. For at least cue day in the year the turkey la the great American bird, Instead of the eagle. In trying to break each other's rec ords, the Lusltanla and Mauretanla are acting very much like the elsters that they are. Colonel Bryan allowed a preacher to carve his turkey for him. He might reciprocate by preaching the sermon next Sunday. "The worn is over," says Mr. Rocke feller. The worst will not be over for Mr. Rockefeller as long as Ida Tar bell survives him. It may interest Mr. Justice Brewer to learn that the head of the judicial system In Portugal has been banished for criticising the ruler of the country. Japan proposes 'to hold an exposition In 1912. Moved and seconded that Richmond Pearson Hobson be selected as the United States exhibit for the show. According to David Warfield, the great American play Is yet to be writ ten. George M. Cohan will attend to that, as soon as he can get an after noon off. At the same time, the man who draws his money from the banks and lets the burglar get It has done some thing toward getting the currency into circulation. In another week the new member of congress will begin to wonder how it Is possible to attract so little attention in Washington as compared with his Importance at home. Mr. Bryan's Washington press bureau agent refers to Senator Bailey as being "Indeed, almost as good a speaker as Mr, Bryan himself." Note the qualifying word, "almost." A New York banker has testified that he has been living? on $1,800 a year. The rural .Impression is that an amount like' that would just about do for a New York banker's lunch. The Omaha Real Estate exchange will also send delegates to the Na tional Rivers and Harbors congress at Washington. The Missouri river Is as much real estate as water, anyway. Complaint 18 made that there are too many feathers on the legs of the agle on the new gold coins. The bird Is also well equipped with wing feath- ri. judging by 1U facility in flying, It is understood that the health oard will eot stand in the way any time the banks decide to resume the payment of germ-infested bank bills in place of the brand new germ-proof cashiers' checks. "A man ts a leader," says Colonel Bryan, "only when he Is going the lime direction the people are going and ia a littlo ahead." According to that definition, a man who la trying to outrun txjnob is also a leader. The city of South Omaha haa just een soaked for another judgment for Jamagea la a personal injury suit growing out of a wash-out. The per tonal injury business is the one in dustry at South Omaha that does not teem to have been In the least affected bv the financial. stringency. A BEOCKIHO FATAUTT LIST. The "Accident Bulletin" Just Issued by the Interstate Commerce commis sion Is a document of tragic interest for the American traveler and for the railroad managers. Accustomed as the country has become by Ihe pub licity focused upon railway accidents, the latest statistics can appear in none but an appalling light. The san guinary record shows that there were 81,286 casualties during the year cov ered, of which 6,010 were fatal. This is an Increase of 10,3 50 in the total number of casualties, as compared with 1906 and 776 in the number of killed. This does not include persons killed or injured at railroad crossings or while trespassing upon the railroad right-of-way, but only passengers and trainmen who were actually in and about trains. Chief causes of the casualties, ac cording to the report of the commis sion, are collisions and derailments. While there has been a decrease In the number of fatalities and accidents among trainmen, due largely to the more general adoption of automatic couplers and other safety appliances, there has been a marked Increase' in the number of accidents to passengers. The old causes of neglect Of orders, operators asleep in signal towers and spreading rails figure as usual as re sponsible for most of the accidents. In this respect no considerable Im provement has been shown by the railroads. The trainmen still say they are overworked and tho roadbeds prove to be not substantial enough to withstand the strain put upon them by the larger locomotives and the more heavily loaded freight cars. If any determined or concerted effort has been made by the railroad managers to remedy these defects, the fact does not loom up In the accident reports. In this connection some interesting figures are quoted by a writer in World's Work comparing the acci dents on American and European rail ways. The railroads of Europe in 1903, the latest year for which com parative data is available, carried 6,561,959 passengers for each one killed and the railroads of the United Kingdom 7,989.674 for each one killed, whereas in the United States only 1,957,441 were carried for each one killed. In the Injured list the comparison is even more to the disad vantage of American roads. For each passenger injured there were car ried on all European lines 688,120,. on all lines of the United kingdom, 350, 210, and on all the lines of the United States only 84,424. .. No one will contend that ' railroad managers rejoice In this record of slaughter, but there is little evidence of effort to' lower it. Our railroads are killing 6,000 persons each year and injuring 80,000 more. If that number of Americans were heing killed or wounded In Cuba the Philippines or were victims of some pestilence, the country would talk of nothing else and would not rest until remedies were found. As it is, the death list, large and growing as it is, s accepted as a matter of course, or at least with an indifference discredit able to the public conscience and opin ion. No other nation in the world permits such slaughter and maiming of Its people by the railways. For every preventable railroad accident the penalty should be visited on those responsible for it. ANOTHER MONARCH IN TROVBLV. Robbed of some of Its opera houffe features, the situation In Portugal ap pears to be much more critical than the dispatches relating recent woes that have befallen King Carlos would Indicate. Earlier reports . Indicated that Carlos had simply demanded a big. share of the limelight because of his decision to restore a regime of absolutism - in Portugal and, in fur therance of bis plan, had dismissed the cabinet, prorogued Parliament and banished the crown prince because he protested against some of his royal sire's high-handed tactics. Later developments show that the Portuguese, who have never achieved special distinction as a progressive people, have decided o take a hand in the present mlx-up and are clamor ing for more liberty, a .reorganized government and a new and square deal all around. Two anarchists blew themselves to pieces with bombs pre pared for the removal of Carlos, and the premature explosion revealed to the police the existence of some 700 other bombs prepared tor emergencies. Aside from this activity of the an archists, the populace Is clamoring for the return of the crown prince and the abdication of Carlos. In the mean time the premier of Portugal has been doing such valiant service In attempt ing to restore order and to work for reform that admirers, quite enthusias tic over blm, are trying In some sec tions to Induce him to lead a move ment to overthrow the monarchy and establish a republican form of govern ment. Although this propaganda has not assumed alarming proportions, it has added new and embarrassing fea tures to the situation at Lisbon. The trouble has served to call atten tion to King Carlos and to illumine bis chief claim to distinction In the fact that he weighs 400 pounds and that his avoirdupois is no greater than his cense of bis own importance. Diplo mats who profess profound knowledge of the political chessboard in Europe are not slow to predict a complete up heaval and change of affairs In Por tugal. Crown Prince Louis has al ready signified his Intention of calling a national assembly In January and providing for a nearer approach to popular government for the Portu gnese. The army and the people are reported to be in sympathy with the plan of the crown prince, and Indica tions are that the youthful heir ap parent may be summoned to take pre maturely the dignities and power that would finally be his In any event In the parliament of world politics little concern Is felt over the predica ment in which King Carlos finds him self. His government of Portugal has been lame, weak and Impotent and It Is generally conceded that a change will not be distasteful to the other powers. TOT AND KETTLE. The Impromptu debate precipitated by the poor showing of the democrats In the recent Nebraska election, for which the local democratic organ charged the blame upon the "gum shoe" methods of the democratic cam paign managers, gives fair promise of furnishing entertainment of the pot and kettle hue. That veteran demo cratic warhorse Judge Edgar How ard, pronounces) the complaint thai the democratlo Campaign lacked "ag gressiveness" to be "unfair." "It Is easy," he says, "to stand at long dis tance and swear at the committee' for not conducting a whoop-'em-up cam paign, but If the critics of Chairman Allen had stood In his shoes they could have done no better." And then, to carry the ball Into the other fellow's territory, Judge Howard pro ceeds: And it Is not a little strange that the meanest complaint against the state com mute comes from Douglas county, where the democrats appear to have laid down in order to let the republicans walk over them to victory. If the democrats of Douglas had half the courage and energy of the democrats In Platte they would b sometimes setting a good examplo to the democracy In other counties. Instead of quarreling always among themselves and giving all the offices to the republicans-. That ought to hold 'em for a little while at least before the local demo cratic bunch get their breath for an other scrimmage for position nearer kicking distance of the goal. TRADE WITH OCR NEIGHBORS. Completed trade statistics for the nine months ended with September emphasize the Importance of encour aging better trade relations with Canada, Mexico and the Latin-American countries. This has been specially advocated by Secretary Root, who, while agreeing that everything reason able should be done to develop Amer ican trade In the European and Asiatic countries, haa insisted that the great est and beet results' must follow the extension of the commercial relations between the United States and the countries on the Western Hemisphere. For the nine months period under consideration American sales to other countries were larger by $85,692,000 than for the corresponding period in 1906. Of thia increase $43,692,000 went to European countries, while the neighbors on this side of the Atlantic took goods valued at $43,000,000 more than their purchases in 1906. While the aggregate sales to Europe are about 60 per cent greater, the per centage of increase Is much larger In tho sales to our neighbors than to Eu ropean countries, the gain to European countries being but 5 per cent, while the increase In sales to Western Hem isphere countries was 14 per cent. As an Illustration, the exports to the United Kingdom for the nine months were $14,000,000 greater than for the same period last year, while our sales to Canada were $19,000,000 In excess of last year. The gain in exports to Germany was $18,000,000 and to France $7,500,000. Mexico increased its purchases of American goods by $6,000,000, Brazil by $4,000,000, Ar gentina by $1,000,000 and Cuba by $5,000,000. Sales to European coun tries have Increased 30 per cent in the last five years, while there has been a gain of 80 per cent In sales to Western Hemisphere countries. Five years ago our exports to Europe were 73 per cent of pur total foreign trade. Today they are but 8l per cent, the Western Hemisphere account having increased from 17.5 of the total in 1902 to 23 per cent of the total In 1907. Further analysis of the reports show that the bulk of our exports to Eu ropean countries is composed of food stuffs. There Is, It Is true, an Increas ing trade in manufactured goods, but it is a trade won only after closest competition and rivalry with the man ufacturers of Germany, England and France. ' In the Western Hemisphere trade the exports consist largely of manufactured goods and the competi tion is not so keen. The lesson of the returns should Impress us with the de sirability of giving more attention to enlarged facilities for trade between this country and Its. neighbors. The splendid showing made in the last five years, a gain of 80 per cent in sales of our goods, has been without any special encouragement and rather in spite of obstacles that might have been removed by congress. Officials of the Omaha Street Rail way company are on the right track in their efforts to Instruct employes how to give better service and avoid accidents. The average street car con ductor and motorman wants to give good service both to the public and to his employers, and falls short more often through Ignorance or negligence than through design. Anything that will Impress upon him the Importance of his responsibilities will surely lead to improvement. State officers are turning In expense accounts for their trips on official bust ness, which seem to vary more or less according to the test of economical traveling, although In no case betoken- lng luxurious extravagance. Even at this, the taxpayers of Nebraska would prefer to have these bills paid out of the state treasury than to have their official representatives running around the country on free passes furnished by obliging railroads that later seek to exact a consideration in the form of special privileges. On his removal to the national cap ital Congressman Hitchcock has had himself Interviewed for his own paper, as follows: "1 have been for this postal saving bank proposition a long time," said Mr. Hitchcock, adding rather lugubriously, "but It seems to be on more of tha democratlo doctrines that the republicans are stealing." The Bee and its founder, Edward Rosewater, advocated and agitated postal savings banks for years before Mr. Hitchcock ever dreamed of owning a newspaper or had a thought cm the subject of postal savings banks. It has been shown that a New York traction company paid dividends out of borrowed money, boosted their worthless stock to 2 63 and then un loaded it on the investors. Still, there are financiers in New York who pro fess to wonder why the public has lost confidence in securities offered on their Stock exchange. Senator Beverldgo is credited with the statement that Mr. Bryan can beat any republican except Mr. Roosevelt in the campaign next year. Senator Beveridge, it will bo remembered, 13 the man who so graphically forecasted the triumph of the Russians in their war with Japan. Congressman Fowler says that con gress will not indorse the administra tion's plan for reform In the currency. Even at that, the administration plan will have the advantage over the Fowler plan, which has been turned down every year by congress for the last ten years. John D. Rockefeller has told his Bible class that he does not know a spade from a heart. There are plenty of Saturday night clubs that would be delighted to undertake that part of his, education which appears to have been so sadly neglected. The Greatest Ever. New York Sun. Evidently Mr. Bryan means to be secre tary of treasury as Well as president. He Is a born financier, and as an expounder of finance there has hardly been a greater genius since Daniel Pratt. - A Premature Promise, Baltimore Amorican. Mr. Bryan says that .he would not accept a second term. At present, the danger of his being subjected to that temptation Is not Imminent. He ought to wait for a first term to be offered him before ho refuses the second. . . Discing; Displaces Talking;. St, Louis -Globe-Democrat. The party of congressmen just returned from Panama thlnka the canal will be com pleted in five years. ' Estimates on this point have been going down ever since the government engineers took charge, stopped the controversial talk and more than doubled the rate of excavation. The Modern "Way. Brooklyn Eagle. Tha elder Brutus condemned his son to death because the young man plotted against Roman freedom. And here's the king of Portugal banishing his son from Lisbon because that youth wants Portugal to bo freed from tyranny. History, how ever, shows that monarch Ilk Carlos are more common than consuls like Brutus. Wis Exmpl of at Bank. Philadelphia Record. A great New England bank, the National Ehawmut of Boston, has done a wise thing in sending out to 800 correspondents a cir cular letter urging that all banks extend every possible aid to their customers, re newing In whole or In part maturing paper and making It as easy as possible for bus iness men who are undoubtedly solvent to tlda over a temporary disarrangement of finance. While banks are commercial and not philanthropic concerns, they must be conducted on broad principles of business. and they do far more than they did fifty years ago In helping their customers In emergencies. The flower safety Is often plucked from tha nettle danger, and banks cannot afford to force their solvent custo mers Into bankruptcy. PERSONAL NOTES. Th ameer of Afghanistan finds his chief amusement In cooking and Is said to be a better chef than those In his palace kit chen. Two ministers are Tunning street cars tn Pittsburg, ostensibly for the pay, but probably with tha design of doing mis sionary work. Oenulne diamonds are being found In Arkansas, but th banks down there are not using diamonds in place of clearing nous certificates. Herr Bebel, th leader of the German socialists, is entirely self-educated and Is said to b on of tha finest orators and debaters in th fatherland The mother of a New York boy, finding that he had banged himself, cut him down and whaled him with the rope, probably on tha principle of better late than never. The death roll of the New York street cars Is forty-seven per month. With a little more attention to business any In telligent motorman could make It an evn fifty. Canadian papers bring a story of a Sootchman In th wilds of Ontario fright ening a pack of wolves by playing on the bagplpa which he providently had with him. Ia ther anything so unexpected in this occurrence as to Justify the space Un voted to it? Captain Prttchard of the new mammoth Cunader Mauretanla has risen from a humble beginning. A native of Carnarvon, be was left an orphan early In life, and In fulfillment of hla mother's last wish he took up a sailor's railing. He first became a cook on the Glean, a small Carnarvon ailing vessel. In his 14th year. After two and a half years Captain Prttchard en tered th maritime aervloa proper, and at th and of twelve years waa captain and part owner of a brig In tha slata trade. He subsequently made voyages In sailing ves sels to every part of th globe, and after twenty-on years of sea life entered th Cunard servlc In 1871. In th Intervening twenty-lght years h has commanded very Cunader, with th exception of the I t'mbrla and tha Lusltanla. JUT. OP WASHINGTON LIFE. Minor Scenes and Incident Sketched on the Spot. The first session of the Sixtieth congTess begins at noon Monday. The senate, being a continuous body, will not require the formality of organising, but may proceed to business ns oon as tha vice president calls tho body to order. In the house of representatives, formal organisation must be had, a speaker elected, and minor offi cers chosen. These oftlrers will be selected by a caucus of the republican majority, thus obviating a content on the floor and limiting the business to a roll calt on the election of the two party nominees for speaker. Since tho first congress met In 17S, 11S years ago, there have been 131 sessions of the national body. There have been 119 regular and fifteen extra sessions; thirty-nine different speakers and speakers pro tempore, and twenty-five clerks. Tha longest regular sitting was the first ses sion of the Fiftieth congress, which met December 5, 1SS7, and adjourned October 30, 1F88, a period of S days. Other long sessions were the first of the Fifty-first congress, 3rv days, and tho first of the Thirty-first, 802 days. The second regular sessions of each con gress are always short. Both houses as sembling according to law on the first Monday In Pet-ember and adjourning by limitation on the fourth of the following March. These sessions last from ninety to ninety-five days. Asldo from these the shortest ever held was the first session of the Thirteenth congress, which covered 134 days and cama immediately after an extra session. Other notable short ses sions were during the Fifteenth congTess, 141 days; the Fifty-eighth. 144 days; the Fourteenth, 148 days; tha Eleventh, 156 days, and the Fifty-fifth. 14 days. Extra sessions ore as old as congTess Itself, the first having been called together January 4, 1730, a littlo over three months after the first session ever held cania to a clone. Next came the extra session of the Fifth congress, then others during the Eleventh and Thirteenth, after which there was a liipse of twenty-four years before It was deemed necessary to meet more than twice In two years. The next extra session camo with the Thirty-fourth con gress, nearly fifteen years later. Others were during the Thirty-seventh, Fortieth, Forty-first. Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Fifty third, Fifty-fifth and Fifty-eighth con gresses. The longest extra session was during the First congress and continued "21 days. The next was a part of the Fifty-fifth congress and lasted 14- clays. Tho shortest was of ten days' duration, during the life of the Thirty-fourth congress. Altogether con gress has, since Its beginning, been In extra session 1,085 days, or about three years. Never again can It be said that the gov ernment at Washington has no sympathy for lovers. At present sweethearts and wives are favorites with Uncle 6am. who will give them, a chance to Join their hus bands or fiances now teaching school In the Philippines. The governor general haa cabled from Manila that he needs 300 new t- echers, and the Department of Insular Affairs an nounces that a special examination will be hold during the holidays to fill vacan cies. This examination will be open to the wives, fiancees, or other women who are near relatives of those already in the serv ice or candidates for positions as teachers. The age limits are 20 and 40 years. The bulk of the appointments will be made at the entrance salary of $1,200 a year. Quite a bunch of "democratic harmony" was put on exhibition In a Washington hotel Tuesday, when Colonel Bryan and Senator Daniel of Virginia met by chance In tha lobby. Both extended the glad hand and shook and then proceeded to shake each other. ' The part of the conversation that cuught the cars of eager reporters was put In print in this style: "I like you personally, Mr. Bryan," said Senator Dunlel, "but I do not llko your methods." "To what do you object particularly?" asked tho Nebraskan. "I object particularly, sir, to your at tempt to dictate to the democratic party," responded Senator Daniel, promptly. "When did I over attempt to dictate to the democratic party?" cama from Mr. Bryan. "You dictated to It In 1900, sir, when you refused to run for president unless a free silver plank were retained in the plat form," Senator Daniel answered. , "But you helped to draft the free silver platform In IBM, and were In favor of It," said Mr. Bryan. "You are mistaken, sir," retorted Senator Daniel to Mr. Bryan's last remark. "I was temporary chairman of the '96 convention, and It Is true I was a member of the com mittee on resolutions which drafted the platform. But I opposed a silver plank In committee. I regarded it as fatal to the party's prospects, and said so." Mr. Bryan disclaimed any Intention of dictating to his party, but Senator Danlol stuck to his point and then threw this hot shot: "Mr. Bryan, it la time you quit tak ing your cue from the Independence league and defer a little to the democratic party." Bryan flushed under the thrust of Sena tor Daniel. There was an angry note In his volco as he came back sharply: "It la time to stop this discussion when you tell me where I shall get my cue." Mr. Bryan turned on hla heel and walked away. Senator Daniel walked away also, shaking his head vigorously. Hugh Gordon Miller, counsel for the American Extract Manufacturers' associa tion, recently remarked for publication that. In his opinion, "Dr. H. W. Wiley, the government so-called 'food expert and re former,' Is as much responsible for the present demoralization of a great mass of the business of the United States as any one person In the country." Dr. Wiley came back at Mr. Miller, but without mertlonlng 1.1s name, In this forceful fashion: "I have no desire to Injure anyone' bus iness nor have I any objection to foods being sold under their proper names, but I do object to rranufaeturers deceiving the public. I have, for Instance, no objec tion to my old friend Glucose, but I do object to his being called honey; or "when mixed with hayseed and coal tar dy, strawberry Jam. legitimate food business cannot be ruined; It Is only the manufac turers who deceive the public that are hurt by the pine food laws. "The time Is coming, and coming soon, when we shall have pure foods in every line. Already many of the worst offend ers have rufnrnied. and In the drvig busi ness every one of tha great manufacturers Is doing his utmost to comply with the law. Laws are force when public senti ment is back of them, and public sentiment Is back of the pur food law "I look forward to the lnie when we shall have New Orleans molasses as It was 'befo' da war1 and when white flour hall no longer be us.-d for bread. Within the last year there has been a revolution in the drug trade, and people ar now reasonably certain of getting physicians' prescriptions properly filled. This work rnu.it continue, despite all tha protests i about 'hurting business,' until all food and I drugs are sold upon an absolutely ethical 1 basu. NATURE PROVIDES FOR SICK' WOMEN a more potent remedy In the roots and herb of th field than was over produced from drays. In the good old fashioned day of our grandmother few drojr wen) used In medicine and Lydia K. Pinkham, of Lynn. Mass., In her study of roots and herbs and their power over disease discovered and frTe to the woman of the world a remedy for their peculiar Ills mora potent and efficacious man any combination of drug. Lydia E. Pinkliam's Is an honest, tried and true remedy of unquestionable therapeutic vain During Its record of more than thirty years, its Ions; list of actual eurs of those serious ills peculiar to women, entitles Lydia K. Plnkham's Vegetable Compound to the respect and oonndance 01 every fair minded person and every thinking woman. When women are troubled with irregular or painful functions. weakness, displacements, ulceration or inflammation, baokaohe, flatulency, general debility. Indigestion or nervous prostration, they should retrember there Is on tried and true remedy, Lydia . Piak- ham s Vesretabl Compound. No otner remedy in tb ocuutry has such a record of cures of female til and thousands of women residing in every part of th United States bear willing testimony to the wonderful virtu of Lydia B. Pink, ham's Tegetabl compound and what It has done for them. Mrs Hinkham invites all sick women to write her for advioe. She has guided thousands to health. For twenty-five years she has been advising sick women free of charge She Is th daughter-in-law of Lydia E Pink ham and as her assistant for years before her decease advised under her immediate direction. Address, Lynn, Mass. CANADA'S BANKING SYSTEM. Hew Onr Neighbor of the North Ad minister Her Finances. lioston Herald. We have never heard anyone deny that Canada haa a moro stable, scientific bank ing system, and a more scientific, clastic and automatic currency system than the United States. Canada fortunately avoids periodical panics such as every one In this country is familiar with, and "money strin gency," either local or general, is unknown within her border. In tha United States a natlonnl bank may begin business on a capital as low as $25,1X0, the amount being determined by the population of the town or city In which the bank establishes Itself. Only one-half of this capital need be paid up in cash. The government 1 content with a sworn statement that the half has been paid In. Only one-fourth of the capital need be In vested in government bonds. And no na tional bank is permitted to establish a branch. Compare with this tho Canadian method. In Canada a bank is chartered by the Do minion government. This bank must hnve a capital of at least $500,000. Before the charter can be Issued the bank must do posit with the government one-half Its capital, $250,000 at least. This must be de posited In gold. Each bank must have at least five directors. No limit Is placed upon the number of shareholders. Canada has thirty-four banks. They are owned by 26,000 shareholders, an average of 785 for each bank. These banks may have many branches, as many as are Justified by tha demands of business. This system of branches equalises the interest rates throughout the country. In Vancouver, for example, there are twelve branches of eastern banks. The Vancouver merchant pays no more for money than If he were In Montreal, Toronto or Halifax, whero tha banks have their head offices. Each shareholder In a Canadian bank Is liable for double the face value of his shares. Thus a bank capitalized at $500,000 has the backing of $1,000,000. Each bank Is permitted to Issue notes to the amount of Its actual paid up capltalixatlnn. The gold deposited with the government Is returned by the government when the bank Is ready to do business. That 1 to say, the $SO,000 deposits Is returned minus 5 per cent, of the capitalization. This 5 per cent is held as a redemption fund which would be drawn upon to meet the liabilities of any bank which might fall. Thus all the banks con tribute to tho redemption fund for the gen eral safety, doing officially, and by law, what certain eminent financier In New York were privately called upon to do two or three weeks ago. This redemption fund meanwhile earns Interest, the government paying S per cent for It. All the banka are In this way responsible for one an other's circulation. Then, again, the note Issues are first Hens on tha entire assets of the banka. These assets, Including the double liability of the sharaholders, amounted, at tho end of February last year to $l,0O3,12,238. an ample security for the W2.434.S93 of bank notes In circulation. National' banks In the United States have no Incentive to Increase their note circulation. On tha contrary, In times like the present, they hold tightly to their notes, gripping all the funds they can and accentuating the "stringency of cash." Canadian banks have a direct In centive for keeping up an active circula tion of their 'lot?. In addition to tho In terest they earn from the loans thev make they have also the 8 rer cent derived from the government for cmo twentleth part of the notes they have In circulation. Through their branches they are In the closest touch with even' part of the country, so that there is a steady flow of money through all the channels of commerce, Industry and agriculture. J When crops have to be moved tho bank j do not take cash out of their ordinary business, they do not. In other words, call In loans, but they Issue notes and thereby Increase tha volume of money In circula tion proportionately to the demand for It. On the security behind these notes, on the management of the branches of thu chartered banks, on bank Inspection and cash reserves, on "elasticity of currency," and other portion of the general subject much might be written. Indeed, much has been written, but for some reason In our own country acquaintance with tha matter is slender. In spite of the fact that the Canadian system seem to give to the Dominion those very qualities of elasticity and automatic adjustment, com bined with security, which tha system, or no system, practised In our own country lacks and is unable to supply. Mot in the Might Direction. San Francisco Chronicle. There Is a movement on foot to unite all the savings banks of New York In such The principal difference be tween IVIocha and Java and Atbtfckles' Ariosa Coffee is that Athtsckles9 Ariosa costs you less and has more Coffee , taste AjunxxLS not, LYDIA Vegetable Compound E. PINKHAM Mi jiii..iiMikiiuaiaaiii ill II Jlllss ilium 11 nei a fashion that they would all stand to gether In times of stress. It ought to uc reed. If It does It will give additional as surance of good management, for a com pact looking to security In time of storm would Involvo tho necessity of urvelllanc In the calm periods so as to Insure against disaster when financial squalls make them selves felt. SMILING KUMAnKS. "Old Mlllyuns doesn't know how to tell a good story. He always manages to skim tn'" ream of the Joke." "But, you know, he beean life a a milk man." Baltimore American. . "Everything? we make one year Is Out of dat the next." "May I Inquire In what business you ar en paged ?" "Certainly. I'm a printer of calendars." Cleveland I'laln Dealer. "What Is the charge against Sharpun?" asked Haynor. "Conduct unbecoming a lawyer," an swered Shyne. "Oreat Hcott! Hnw can a man possibly b guilty of that!" Chicago Tribune. "Yes," said Mr. Youngnian. "I've got my decree of M. D. now, hut I'm no wealthier. All I've got Is mv title." "Well," replied Kidder, "all young doc tors get their titles by degrees, but they must have patients before they - become wealthy." Philadelphia Press. "Yes." said the society girl haughtily, "she got n duke all right." "Why didn't you get one?" "!'v I ,""'' attended a remnant sale In my life." Philadelphia Ledger. "What would you do if your daughter had a talent for piano playing such as mine l,a? "Well, I'd try to be resigned." Houston Post. , $10oo1"t lor"' Blr' cant be bouht for "No. I suppose not. I'm blamed sure ha can t be sold for lt."-Cleveland Leader. "I hear the ghost did not walk." 'You are In error," replied the Shake spearean artist, with dignity, "and not only UL"....'; . 1 e entire casto walked, sir." Philadelphia Ledger. "Has your husband a happy disposition'" 'I should say so! He has disposed ot our home and bought stork In a humorous publication." Houston Post. "Who plays the part of the hero in your new drama?" And the author, whose mind was else where, replied: "The man who Is putting up the money." Washington Star. "Never notico me, do you?" sneered th fence post. "Are you addressing me?" demanded th purnp. "Yea; you sturk-up thing!" "Huh! I guess I Imve cause to be. Ain't I well connected?" Philadelphia Press. "You'd better bp kind o' careful how you ilk to me," said Tommy, doubling hi. ta mmhII fists and glaring at tho other boy, "I've got the artistic temper'ment, and I'v got It bad!" Chicago Tribune. BlILDl.NU OF TUB WORLD. Baltimore Sun. Lean tho hill upon the mountain and th valo upon the hill. Cleave the vale and dig the channel for th waters of the rill; Plant the tree and sow the meadow with the bloom of eyes' delight, Hang the sun upon the morning and the stars upon the night; Pour ti e water of the ocean 'rognd the verges of the spheres. Loose the thunder and the lightning, set the clouds and rain the tear! Cool the far, Internal furnace of the molten globe with dew, Fix tne heavens with their arche deep and beautiful and blue: Loose the moon and nether planets In th orbit of the dark And the pole upon tne center of the sodl- acal arc: Bring tho mollusk from the atom, till th ages, rung by rung. Climb the valleys of creation till th per fect world be swung! Then bring summer on the south wind and the spring upon the hreexn. With a rose of April weather pouring down the rolling seas; Herd the lion with the leopard and th eagle with the lamb. Clothe the rock with bloomy verdure and the morning tides with calm; Charge with crystal all the fountain till the land, the sky, the stream Roll In grooves of settled orjer In creation dream of dreams! Still Imperfect? Still unfinished? Yea, the Bulldar saw the flaw. Then the gardens of wide wonder and th deaerts of wide awe Shook with sudden, strmirc pulsations as a wondrous music wuke And the air upon the billows In s thousand balsams broke, And the day and night divided a decnded from above. Winged with white, the slender-footed, rose-encircled spirit Love! Roads from roads In lanes divided, cities clustered street by street, Hammers swung snd anvils sounded, forges tlamed and sledges best; Hearts responded, huolianun labored, whis tles sounded, day was done, Down th pathways thousands hastened till the gates of rose were won! Crowned and vnapletrd with beauty world created, land and foam. It Is fln'shed. snng the Hullder, with the building of the Home! , JH Tark ott. I