THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: Fill PAY, DECEMBER "27, 1907.
Tim Qmahv Daily Bee
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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
State of Nebraska, Douglas County, at.:
Ckariea C. RoseWater, general manager
of The Be Publishing Company, Doing
duly sworn, says that the actual number
of full and complete coplet of The Dally,
Mernlng. Erening and Bunday Bee printed
during the month of November, 117, wat
aa followe; -.am
I 7.00 l J,430
37.8W 17 MM
35.600 Jl
37,830 It 9l.30
9.eeo 20 ?!
89,60 21 f
7 rrao .22 Z-?
1 87,840 22. .....V"
........... 87,880 24.. i. 88,100
10 38.B00 21 87,590
11 37,630 it 37,090
12 87.730 " 27 87,340
12 37,380 91. .k 88,940
14 . 87rU0 29 89,590
II 37,600 20 37,690
Total 'M-JV 1,123,430
Lena unsold and returned coplet, 10,168
Net Total.... 2...', 1,113,969
Dally average. 87,10
CHARLES a ROSE WATER,
i General Manager.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before me thla 2d jay of December, 19U7. .
ROBERT HUNTER,
Notary Public
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mailed ta thesa. Addraaa will be
changed aa eftea aa reqaestea.
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The price of malt has bead nearly
doubled within the last year. More
trouble brewing.
Attorney Qeneral Bonaparte says he
Is not a candidate for the presidency.
Who said he was? ! .
Senator Tillman Is a strong advocate
of temperance In everything except In
the matter of speech.
"Dob" Evans does not look kindly
on this movement to make him a vice
admiral. He has sworn off.
Secretary Taft has called .on Secre
tary Cortelyou and ts going to to Ohio
next to call Senator Foraker.
Christmas day In South Omaha is
reported to have been unusually quiet
Only one shooting scrapewas chroa
Icled.
The new king of Sweden has made
a hit with the populace by cutting
out the customary costly coronation
ceremony.
If we can have base ball on. Christ
mas day, there Is no good reason why
we should not have f ojj ball ori the
Fourth of July. ....
Mcciure s Magazine can get aome
expert authority from Spain to the
effect that the American navy la not
wholly worthies. . .'
Oovernor Sheldon may have had to
run for his train more than once, but
It is to be noted that when he runs he
always gets there.
Los Angeles now wants a mint. It
I is diflfcult to understand why the city
4 la not satisfied with its present rornt
I in the tourist trade.
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(An Kgyptlan explorer insists that the
new woman Has been In existence
since 341 B. C, Really, she does not
! appear to be that old
'Knox for our next president" is
the slogan of a certain bunch of poll
tlclans who are also offering knocks
for the present president
Colonel Goethals Is throwing dirt at
Panama as (hough he were trying to
offer a new route for the fleet when
It gets ready to return from the Pa
cifie.
The outbreak between the bureau
of navigation and the bureau of med
icine in me ruavy aepartment re-
enforccs the old proverb about oil and
water refusing to mlt. "
1 Statistics show that there have been
1 1.300,000 divorces In this country In
i the last twenty years. The payment
of alimony may account for the re
cent financial stringency.
The editor of the Petit Journal of
Paris declares that American women
are beautiful, , but that they are "flirts,
geese and hypoceitea." Count Boni
must be Writing for the Journal.
The California fruit canners have
i laced orders for 300,000,000 tin cans
tor next year's crop. Confidence in
the purity of the contents Is doing
wonders for the canning Industry.
Mrs. Elinor Glyn, an English writer,
ays the American women have no
.aste.- On the contrary, the American
ouim are displaying splendid taste
n Iguorlng Mrs. Glyn and her coin-
BALM FVR SOTtKHKADS.
The head and front of. the little
coterie which It trying to persuade
Nebraska republicans to set them
selves crosswaya with the administra
tion by enllBtlng for LeFoDettfl for
president has let the cat out of the
bag by admitting that the success of
his scheme depends upon rallying the
soreheads who have been miffed over
Oovernor Sheldon's appointments.
That this Is the guiding motive of
most of these patriotic reformers Is
likewise evidenced by the personnel of
the following that has answered the
call. The newspaper, whose editor
wanted to be Oovernor Sheldon's iri
vaie secretary, is among me nrsi to
applaud. Another paper whose words
of praise for the governor suddenly
turned to damnation when he vetoed
the Kearney Normal school appropria
tion is taking the same tack and simi
lar grievances or disappointments will
doubtless be found to be at the bottom
of the diversion which is sought to be
made In several other quarters.
The question which Nebraska re
publicans will have to ask themselves
Is whether they are In the movement
for reform as exemplified by the ad
ministration of Theodore Roosevelt
out of devotion to principle, or merely
In quest of spoils. If the soreheads
are sufficiently numerous and their In
fluence sufficiently widespread they
may be able to control the attitude of
the party In Nebraska. No political
party, however, ever marched to vic
tory when led by men who have merely
personal spites to gratify and personal
grievances to avenge.
THE CRH18 IH PERSIA.
The Persian Parliament has won in
lta first serious conflict with the shah.
and for the first time In Persian his
tory a ruler has been compelled to
make concessions carrying a recogni
tion of the rights of his people. As
a result the shah has agreed to recall
certain parliamentary leaders whom
he had banluhed, to., banish some of
his own partisans and to put his
troops under the control of a minis
ter of war, responsible to Parliament.
This, in effect, makes Parliament the
supreme authority In the country, as
It controls the nation's purse
Persia has cut but little figure in
international affairs for years and Its
ancient glory has been preserved only
in history, attention to its existence
in modern times being attracted only
by occasional Interna) strife or tur
moil, due to an unpaid debt or the
escapade of some disgraced monarch.
The recent uprising, leading to a vic
tory for the people, was due to the
extravagance of the present shah, who
had exhausted the finances of the gov
ernment to the point where funds
were not obtainable for the most
urgent expenses. , , The Parliament
started Its plan of reform by cutting
off he salaries of the horde of the
shah's henchmen and by passing laws
punishing peculation by civil officials.
The real significance of the Persian
troubles lies In the country's location,
about the center of eastern Asia, be
tween India and Europe. Russia and
Great Britain have long desired to
take possession of the defenseless na
tion. Russia la now supposed to be
backing the shah, while English sym
pathies are with the Parliament. In
the meantime Germany 1b reputed to
be exertinz considerable influence In
Persian affairs, with a view to Ger
man control of the Persian gulf and
capture ' of the rich Persian trade.
Sooner or later, in the natural march
of progress, the Persian empire will
be dismembered with a lively scramble
among European nations for the
polls. The present crisis, it not a
step in that direction, may be Inter
eating as reflecting the spreading
spirit of popular government, which is
reaching to all quarters of the globe.
. THE TVVTH Or IlHfJO BASTS.
The annual report of the commis
sloner of Immigration contains , some
Interesting data disproving' the - often
repeated charce that under the exist
ing laws, this country has become the
refuge for the aged and dependent of
other nations. Of the 1,256,000 lm
migrants arriving in this country for
the fiscal vear ended with last June,
1,100,000 were between the ages of
14 and 44. Only 138,000 were under
the aze of 14 and only 46,234 were
over the age of 44. More ihan 1,000,
000 of the newcomers were youthful
and able-bodied, full of life and vigor
and equipped for productive and
profitable work In the many fields of
activity in which their services are In
demand. v'
According to the department reports
for several years, the proportion of
immigrants over 50 years of ae has
been very small. The foreigners
without exception, are home lovers
and few of them attempt to make
new homes or to try ventures in for
eign fields after they have reached the
age of 40. This fact alone, supported
by the statistics, should be sufficient
to, stop the agitation' for an amend
ment to the Immigration laws fixing
an age limit on the incoming work
men and homeseekers. Present lawa
keeping out .the criminal and vicious
classes cannot be too stringently, en
lorceo, out mere appears to be no
warrant for any fear that decrepit and
dependent Immigrants will seek ad
mission lu large numbers under the
exititing regulations.
Another Interesting feature of the
Immigration commissioners report
deals with the nationality of the Imml
grants. In the early part of the pres
ent century nearly all the Immigrants
were English, Irish or German' Since
1890 the contribution of these na
tionalities has constantly- decreased
nd Irish immigration has almost
ceased. In the last seven years the
mmlgratlcn has been largely from
Italy, Russia and Austria-Hungary.
The authorities offer no explanation of
this change, but It is doubtless due
to the fact that the disparity of op
portunities offered by us to the In
habitant of Fsgland, Germany and
Irelaud by becoming American citizens
Is not so great ad It was earlier In the
century, while the Increased demand
for unskilled labor has been attractive
to that class in the south of Europe.
Commissioners appointed by the gov
ernment to study the Immigration
question, with a view of recommend
ing further legislation to congress,
have made their report, suggesting
many changes to existing laws. It Is
hardly probable, however, that any
general legislation on the subject will
follow Experience of, the last few
years has demonstrated that efficient
and Intelligent enforcement of existing
lawa will meet all present demands of
the so-called "Immigration problem."
T11K LTKCmSO RKCORZt
One of the newspapers that has made
a specialty of keeping track of crimes
of violence offers the encouraging re
port that the lynching record for 1907
shows a decrease of more than 25 per
cent in number from last year, N par
ticular Improvement In law observ
ance being shown in nearly all of the
southern states. The lynchlngs of
negroes for alleged assaults upon
white women numbered but eighteen
for the year, as compared with forty-
five last year.
Credit for this Improvement must go
to the governors of several states, In
cluding Governor Vardaman of Missis
sippi, who "have taken a determined
stand against lynch law and have not
hesitated to use the state troops to
prevent mob violence. In both the
CarollnaB laws have been passed which
provide that persons accused of par
ticipation In lynching bees may be
tried in counties other than that In
which the crime was committed. In
both states the governors have taken
advantage of this provision of the
law and have conducted vigorous
prosecutions of mob leaders, having
the cases tried In counties where It
was possible to secure Jurors who
were not in full sympathy with the
accused. The conviction by this
method of several prominent citizens
has had a wholesome deterrent effect
and has served to demonstrate the
fact that lynching may be abolished
whenever and wherever officers give
proper attention to their obligations
secure enforcement and observance
of the law.
The most deplorable feature of the
lynching record for 1907 is that Ne
braska has contributed to it and has
furthermore made no effort to bring
to justice the perpetratpra of the dis
graceful outbreak.
The new United States senator from
Florida, appointed .by Governor
Broward to fill out the unexpired term
of the late Senator Mallory, bears the
name of William James Bryan and the
additional Information is vouchsafed
that "ho is not related to William Jen
nings Bryan of Nebraska." This
should be most assuring to the other
members of the Bryan clan, who will
now realize that the path to honor and
distinction is not necessarily closed to
them. There are still other Bryans
who have succeeded In pushing to the
fore. Our' American envoy extraordl
nary and minister plenipotentiary to
Portugal is Charles Page Bryan of
Illinois, and one of the first citizens
and captains of industry in Virginians
Joseph Bryan, proprietor of the Rich
mond Dispatch. It Is needless to add
that neither of these Bryans claims to
be "related to William Jennings Bryan
of Nebraska."
Government statistics show that
only ten stills have been Bet up in
the country for the manufacture of
denatured alcohol, and the product Is
not yet threatening any competition to
gasoline. In Germany some 70,000
farm distilleries are producing dena
tured alcohol and making a nice profit
on It at 27 cents a gallon. The field
In this country is still open for great
development.
New York has a water scandal
which may result In the dislocation of
one or more of its water commission-
era from official life. It is tha con
tractors for the construction of a dam
which Is to be part of the city's new
water 8upplyeystem, who have been
getting their hands In and not the
lawyers. y
While the teachers are In session In
their state organization at Lincoln
they might save us all a lot of trouble
by fixing it up among themselves as to
which of the Numerous candidates Is
entitled to the privilege of succeeding
Mr. McBrien as state superintendent
of instruction.
Responding to the summons of the
Harrison press bureau, the Clay Cen
ter Sun tells us that all the democrats
are turning to LaFollette. Impor
tant, If true. Nebraska republicans,
then, should be for LaFollette for the
democratic nomination.
"What has congress done?" asks
the Kansas City Star. Well, it haa
drawn its mileage, pulled off a one
round contest with bare fists and al
lowed Sereno E. Payne to pose long
enough to make the motion to ad
Journ until January 6.
It is asserted that' there are fewer
children In proportion to the popula
tion In Nevada than In any other state
In the union. Governor Sparks Is In
dulging In enough child's talk, how
ever, to counteract the nursery short
age.
The oldest postmaster In the service
has just stepped down and out at the
crossroads postofflce known as Max
field, Me. The newest postmaster in
the service Is ready to step In on a
moment's notice right here In Omaha.
"Governor Hughes of New York Is
the Samnel J. Tilden of the twentieth
century," says Colonel Watterson.
That sounds imposing enough, but
Colonel Watterson should explain Just
what he means by It.
"Really, I do not see why I should
subject myself to an interview," said
Henry James to a New York reporter
who had a mistaken notion that an
Interview with Mr. James might he
worth getting.
Let The Caart gaeak.
Cleveland Leader.
It may be that tha third-term boomers
won't believe it until Justice Brewer bands
down an opinion pronouncing It genuine.
, Jnmt Hie Slac.
Milwaukee Sentinel.
Now that the way la clear there is a re
vival of those speculations at to Mr.
Roosevelt't occupation when ha gets to be
an ex-president. We dare tay ht will con
tinue to aerve hit countrymen In an all
round advisory capacity.
Roosevelt Lack.
Washington Herald.
At a recent Canadian banquet, Rev. Dr.
Long declined to drink a toast to the presi
dent of the United etaUa. It it part of the
wonderful "Roosevelt luck" that people who
dislike the president ahould be forever mak
ing auch exhibitions of themselves; and,
by the way, was that the good doctor'a only
excuse for declining the wine?
Plea for Army Caateea.
Kansas City Star.
A new effort la to be made to reetore the
canteen to the army posts. It Is a singular
thing that, while the cause of temperance
It advancing everywhere under the general
niovementi for prohibition or local option,
and while this caute ahould be encouraged,
sound natjonal policy dictate! that to long
as the surroundings of army poatt are not
put under strict prohibitory regulations, the
canteen ahould be maintained In the inter
est of the army as a whole. This view Is
held by the officers of the army, by a great
majority of the soldiers, and also by their
wives, sisters and daughters, who are cer
tainly more directly Interested than are
those temperance women who brought
about the abolition of the canteen through
the misleading pressure they brought to
bear on congress.
Looking; to the New Year.
Wall Street Journal.
People-differ as to the length of the de
pression, but there Is a well Informed -section
of the business world which pins Its
faith to a rising star and looks for a fairly
active season for trade from New Tear to
the opening of spring. They base their
views on the fact that consumption, out
side of luxuries and high priced necessities.
It going on steadily; that the consuming
world at a whole haa not loat lta purchas
ing power to any great Vxtent, and that
aa business throughout the country up to
the 'time of the panic was on a substan
tially sound footing the resumption of ac
tivity It only a question of how toon the
banks can be placed on a cash basis. Tet
t Is quite as generally conceded that
though prices may come' down somewhat
there will be no rapid drop for the present
at least.
PROGRESS IN SALOON REFORM.
neapoaalhle Mea In Traffic Favor Ef-
feetlve Reajalatloa.
Louisville (Ky.) Post.
One of the healthiest signs of recent
times is the reaBinesa of the representative
men In the liquor business distillers and
brewers to consider proposed legislation
concerning this traffic, not In the spirit of
class leaders, but In the spirit of citizens
who have more at stake than the profits of
their business.
The men engaged In the manufacture
and sale of whisky have drafted what they
call the model license law. It. contains
feature! of great interest and great wis
dom. It brings the business to a basis of
common sense. It eradicates many of Its
worst features and It alms' to restrain all
Cf the abuses of the business without pro
hibiting to all men what Is for the Injury
of a few.
Following this lead, the Brewers' Asso
ciation of Kentucky at its present meeting
pledged Itself to a reform of the saloon,
to take the aaloon out of the hands of Irre
sponsible men and bring it under the rea
sonable regulation of the law.
When auch suggestions were made eight
and ten years ago they, were met with a
chorua of denunciation and were said 'to
be Infringing upon the personal liberty of
the cltixen. Men who spoke for such
changes were marked men and blacklists
were made of all men who were unwilling
to have the business go on without re
striatums of any kind.
We refer to the change, not for anlmad
version, but to Indicate the healthy growth
of public opinion. W believe It la better
for all Interests that a atrlcter legal re
ttralnt be placed upon thla traffic; that the
restrictions called for by the general ex
perlence of mankind be embodied In the
law; that the young and- Impressionable
be excluded from saloons; that drunken
men be denied the right to get drunker
that localities be protected from the Inva
sion even of the best saloons when in the
Judgment of that immediate community
they Injure its attractions or impair Its
peace.
The aaloon business has fallen under
public condemnation because of the worst
type of saloons, becauae certain saloons
have been the refuge of criminals and be
cause la the hands of bad men the bual
neaa haa been used to promote crime and
fire the blood with base passions.
Now we see the responsible men every
where awake to the necessity in tha Inter
est of good government and In the Interest
of more orderly society, ready to consider
any proposition for tha proper regulation
of this traffic. I
Bonfort't Wine and Spirit Circular in
recent number prints the report of the ex
ecutive committee of the New York Whol
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ealk Liquor Dealers' association, which
says:
We believe that our business should be so
reaulated by inflation that those fa
dealers who by a persistent violation of the
law contrive to bring upon our buslnetts
odium and criticism may be dented tli
privilege of further continuing in the busi
ness. We believe that the dealer who violates
the law la the greatest menace to the wel
fare of our bualnesa and the most serious
obstacle to its establishment on a prune
merited by the general character of the
treat majority of those Changed therein.
We believe that the burden is upon those
entaiced In the industry so to purge It or
its attendant evils that It will no longer
be subject to the attacks and rrlileHn: or
those who are seeking to uplift lta mural
one, .. ,
ROl'RD ABOIT NEW TORK.
Ripples aa the Carre at of Life la tha
Metropolis.
Frank Water, aecretary of the Holy
Name society of Jersey City, will when he
leavra the hospital In about two weeka
carry with Mm tangible evidence of the
pelf-sarrtrlclng devotion of friends such at
few could command. A big section of the
skin on hit left tide and thigh will be that
grafted' from the flesh of fifty young men
of the society who volunteered to help
him. Already thirty of these young men
have undergone the procest by which
pieces of their skin have been transplanted
to the tissues of Waters. Within a week
twenty more will offer themselves to the
surgeon's knife, and, from the success that
hat attended the former operations. It Is
reasonably certain that Waters will aoon
be able to resume hit duties aa clerk In tho
offices of the Erie railroad.
On June 17 he married May Markey, the
daughter cf Captain Markey of the Jersey
City fire department. The young couple
went to a Fourth of July picnic given by
the Holy Name society. In the evening
there wat a fireworks display, under Wat
era" direction. In some way a skyrocket
was exploded close to him, and the full
charge of fire atruck him on, the left tide.
tearing the tkln from the breast to the
knee. The wound became Infected with
poison from the explosives In the rocket,
and for nearly three months Watert hov
ered between life and death. When the
Immediate danger of death had pasted the
surgeons found that the raw wound caused
by the fire would not heal. They decided
that an extended operation of akin grafting
would be necessary, and they found no
trouble in finding volunteers.
The last article of woman's wearing ap
parel which haa done duty aa a bank haa
failed. In the course of years feminine in
genuity hat devlsd many way of carry
ing the money with more or less safety,
but It remained for a western woman to
use a bustle for a bank, as the following
advertisement revealed:
LOST 13.000 by a self-supporting womVn;
a llhernl reward will oe paid, irotn, na
W. 46th St. I
The $3,000 of the advertisement was sewed
securely by Mrs. Troth of Denver Into a
little pad stuffed with curled hair, which,
with the modern young woman in her close
fitting tailor suit. Is the only thing In the
way of a buttle worn. How or when the
money disappeared no one knows.
It was the tavlng of years. When the
owner discovered on Thursday that there
wat a little rip on the top of the pad the
Investigated and found the money wat
gone. That is all the knowt about It.
Mrt. Troth, who it a young woman.
came to New York City three months ago
to perfect herself In tailoring that she
might return to Denver and be fully fitted
to open a millinery and dressmaking es
tablishment. The money, which she wat
afraid to trust to a bank, was her capi
tal with which she Intended to go into
business.
The nerviest robbery that has come to
light In many a day was made public
yesterday by Cohen & Co., who havo
a fur emporium on the top floor at IS
East Fifteenth street. In broad day
light a week ago u heavy safe-snoylng
truck manned by four men backed up to
tho curb. One of the men placed "dan
ger" signs on the sidewalk while the oth
ers went to the roof and rigged a block
and tackle over oncof Cohen's windows.
A few moments later the big two-ton
safe belonging to the firm waa swung out
of the window and lowered to tho street,
while the policeman on post stood Inno
cently by warning away pedestrians.
The lowering of the safe waa done in' an
expert manner, with no apparent effort
at haste. The safe was loaded upon the
truck and the four men drove off with It
after carefully removing their block and
tackle and danger signs.
A member of the firm who came around
half an hour after the truck had disap
peared found that the door hud been
forced with aN Jimmy. He could not
Imagine what had become of the safe
until ho talked with his neighbors.
For the week ending December 14 of
this year the figures of the Health de
partment show that In New York City
there were 190 deaths resulting from
heart disease. For the corresponding
week in 1908 there were 141 deaths. The
startling Increase In this year's fatalities
may be graphically explained by the fol
lowing epigram of which the late Dr.
George F. Shrady is the author:
"Time Is money and overtime means
riches, sickness and death."
"A man cannot chase dollars all day
and pleasure all night without paying a
high toll," recently said Dr. Beverly Rob
inson, famous as a heart specialist, "and
thla toll la paid from his heart."
Dr. Thomas Darlington, health commis
sioner of this city, when asked for his
Idea of what paused this year'e increase
In death from weak hearts, said:
yet the public Judge. We supply the
figures. There Isn't any change In the
disease itself. Twenty years ago the di
agnosis was Just at correct as It it to
day. If the disease remains the same tho
figures have risen. Form your own con
clusion. I've no theory to advance that
Isn't open to all who glvo the situation a
glance."
There were 8,657 deaths In New York
City in 19 from heart disease, bringing
the weekly average to 106.M. The deatha
In 1907 for the week ending November 30
were 164; week of December 7. 161; week
of December 14, 190. A famous prac
titloner, who prefera not to have his name
used, aald. In commenting upon the sub
ject:
"The condition is alarming. And It It
all directly due to tha way New Yorkers
live. They do not smile any more. They
have not tlrrie to enjoy life properly. The
age Is a demoralised one."
There Is not likely to be any more in
sults to women teachers in Public School
No. 109, at Back ahd Christopher avenues.
Brooklyn, for the youths attending there
now realise that there Is at least one
teacher in the institution who is not
afraid of them. One day last .week, near
Ing her home at 1831 Atlantic avenue, sev
eral of Mlsa Hynea' tormentora appeared
and shouted names at her. Unable to
endure the Insult, Miss Hynet caught one
of the young men and gave him a sound
thrashing. Ho was larger and stronger
than the teacher but his slxe did not de
tar her from punching him until he
begged for mercy.
During the recent financial flurry, while
every one in Wall atreet was wondering
what would happen next, an old Fifth
avenue stage coacli came down Nassau
street regularly at noon every day. In
side the coach waa a man operating a
hand organ and advertising a song callod
"Don't Worry" through a megaphone,
The stage, after traversing the length of
Nassau street, turned into Wall street
with the organ going at full apecd and
the man with the megaphone atill shout
ing "Don't Worry!" A broker who hap
pened to see the coach turned to hia com
panlon and aald: "That's good advice,
but I don't see how we can take It these
days."
Remarkably MUleadlas.
' Chicago Tribune.
Admiral Bob Kvans and fleet are at Port
( Spain, a city which Is remarkable tor
not being at all a port of Spain,
l'REIIF.T-M AKIG IX NEBRASKA
Trkamah Journal: Frank HarViaon of
Lincoln, whose tola aim In life teems to be
to alwayt land himself at the public crib
la one of a bunch trying to Inaugurate a
LaFollette boom for president. Wonder
what Harrison would want If the Wiscon
sin radical could land the nomination and
election?
Beatrice Express: The World-Herald Is
generously helping Frank Harrison In his
campaign for LaFollette, and It la there
fore to be presumed the Omaha paper will
support the distinguished Wisconsin cen
dldate If he ahould happen to be nom
inated In Chicago next June.
Bloomlngton Advocate: F. A. Harrison,
the Lincoln politician. Is now flooding the
coiKftry with letters trying to ttart a
boom In this state for LaFollette for the
presidency. It It beginning to be a chest
nut to have to receive Instructions from
Lincoln politicians every campaign.
Kearney Hub: With Roosevelt out of the
way, republican sentiment In Nebraska
it divided between Taft, LaFollette and
Hughes. On a primary vote LaFollette
would apparently lead. Among the more
active rsjiubllcan politicians Taft Is the
favorite. Between the two, occasionally a
Hughes man Is found, and by those who
analyse the situation carefully ht la con
sidered a somewhat Imminent possibility.
Aurora Republican: The paramount Issue
for Nebraska republicans Just now It not
to holler their heads off for Rootevelt or
Taft or Hughes or anybody else, but to
get down systematically to the business of
organizing In order to Bend a delegation to
tho national convention In absolute sym
pathy with Roosevelt't policies. A dele
gation in sympathy with tha ner order of
republicanism In Nebraaka can be trusted
to re-nomlnate Roosevelt If he will stand
for another term, and If not. to name an
other candidate auch as Taft, who would
stand pledged to continue present adminis
tration policies.
Central City Nonpareil: In a little con
versation with Wlll-be-Benator Sorenson,
Colonel Lk D. Richards, the Dodge county
representative of the old republican ma
chine, expressed tha fear that Taft would
make a very weak candidate for various
reasons which he elaborated. It Is notice
able that the politicians in the west who
correspond to the "reactionaries" In the
east which la merely a courteous term ap
plied to those who are dead against the
policies of President Roosevelt are all very
dubious at to Taft'a strength and avail
ability, and for the "sake of the party"
they would regret to aee him nominated.
The fact that these politicians are all
singing the same tune to the same key
Inspires the sincere admirers of the Itoose
velt policies to believe that Secretary Taft
Is Just the man this anvil chorua does not
want.
Fremont Tribune: The LaFollette boomen
are at work on and In Nebraska. Simul
taneously the Tribune is in receipt of
circulars from the LaFollette headquarters
at Madison, Wis., and from Frank A.
Harrison, the well known newspaperman
and political worker at Lincoln, who haa
had a hand In doing several things In
this state, and who recently gava notice
oi nis resignation q clerk or the federal
court at Lincoln. The Wisconsin senator
is nowyln the field, evidently encouraged
by the last and final announcement of
President Roosevelt that he could not accept
a nomination, even If tendered. Mr. Har
rison hat been Instrumental In organising
a Roosevelt league in the state, but it had
scarcely gotten its name In the papers
before the presidential veto smothered It.
He now thinks the state should turn to the
Wisconsin man. Whatever the rank and
file may think about this when the time
comes It Is doubtless true that at present
they are not Inclined that way.
PERSONAL NOTES.
Mrs. Anson Jones, wife of the last presi
dent of. Texas, is still . living at Austin.
8he was born In Lawrence county, Arkan
sas, but Dr. Jones waa a native of Massa
chusetts. A Wisconsin man has fallen heir to an
English estate of $150,000,000. Somebody is
always doing something of the kind. To
fall heir to a nonexistent estate Is ex
tremely simple.
Dr. Berthold Laufer has resigned from,
the department of anthropology at Colum
bia university and will go to Chicago to
organise a department of East Asiatic eth
nology In the Field museum.
fhere is an intimation that Jtuef, of 8a n
Francisco, Is to receive Immunity, but It
would require a radical sort of Immunity
to deprive him of the five-year term to
which he has been sentenced. However, In
hia caae, anything under a century In the
penitentiary would represent aome degree
of Immunity.
Hon. Frank Pierce, the Utah lawyer lately
appointed first assistant secretary of the
interior, waa born In Vermont and ts a
graduate of an eastern college. He In
cludes former President Pierce In his family
tree, but to no other than hit personal re
sources and attainments Is he Indebted for
his preferment. He la a scholar, not a poli
tician. The crown prince of Germany has been
set to work In the office of the minister of
the interior by his Imperial father. He
reaches his dealt at o'clock every morn
ing and la usually punctual, although he
lives eleven miles away from the office. He
remains at the ministry for several hours
and then takes tuch papert at he wishes
to examine further to hit home, where he
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SHAW'S GREAT "fRECH.
Iowa Man's Exposition of Csrresff
Reform.
Boston Transcript.
How It happened that Mr.' I-esHe M.
Shaw, a country lawyer and banker of
Denlson, la., rose so auddenly to the gov
ernorship of his own state and later to tha
secretaryship of the treasury, and Is now
tha pretident of an Important trust com
pany In New York, wat made entirely clear
to all who listened the other night to hit
exposition of the needs of currency re
form. This it usnally an exceedingly dull
aubject. It Is rarely, possible, ta or out of
congress, to Interest In it anyone less
studious than a college professor. The
whole literature of the subject smacks of
academlo halls. No two glf-confessed ex
perls ever agree, and so plain people dis
miss the search for the Ideal, or the work
able, In dlsgusi. In the free silver cam
paign of IK Mr. Shaw came to the front
at the one man who, by the vigor of his
Illustrations, usually smacking of common
experiences, and the keenness of his per
ceptions, made plain the myaterlea of the
gold standard to a doubting populace.
This wonderful knack elccted.htm' governor
of Iowa. Mr. Rootevelt campaigned with
him In those years and. wat so Impressed
by what ha heard that he made Mr. Shaw
hit secretary of the treasury. Ills whole
career hat thut been built upon his ability
to make clear what other people also
verted in the turject habitually obscure.
LIKES TO A LAI' till.
"There Is one thing about a resolution te
make somebody eat crow which Is para
doxical." "What la that?"
"It Is seldom laid on tho table." Balti
more American.
"My, John, you haven't a particle of
tact."
"What have I done now?''
"Asking Mr. Hamfat to dinner and tell
ing him you will give him a good roast!
And he a bum actor!" Baltimore Ameri
can. "But. really," persisted th reporter.
"I'm sure the public would like to knoi
how you managed to live to such a great
age."
"By perseverance." replied the nona
genarian: "I Just kept on llvln'." Phila
delphia Press.
"When I started in business," said Mr.
Dustin Stax, reflectively, "1 resolved never
to tell an untruth."
"And you kept your word?"
"Yes. Whenever I had any delicate bus
iness of that sort on hand I hired an ex
pert." Washington Btar.
"Praise to glory, the south is going dry!"
shouted the temperance advocate, waving
his arms. "It will bring sunshine Into
southern homes!"
"Yes, and moonshine, brother." spoke up
the little man who had been sitting In the
end row. Puck.
Mnrk Twain had tried to spring a new
breakfast fond.
"That's one Joke the American puhllo
refuses to swallow." he remarked mer
rily, for even In the presence -of a deficit
he could be blithe. Philadelphia JUfdger,
Stranger My friend, why are you swear
ing so? f
CUHsity Why? Because of a blank fool of
a doVtor. I got some pills for a pain In
my back, and the directions ' read. "Take
one a half-hour before you feel the pain
coming on." Harper's Weekly,
The cackling of the geese had saved
Rome.
"How mortifying!" exclaimed tho
Romans. "Posterity will get the Impres
sion that we averted destruction by fol
lowing the advice of the street corner
orators."
The historians, however, have hen
careful to place the credit where it prop
erly belongs Chicago Tribune.
THE tllHISTMAS IIOAH.
Minna Irving In Leslie's Weekly. .
The day after Christmas my' 'Ittflu Year
room
Showed plainly Kris Kringle had lifted the
latch.
And generously emptied the half of his
pack .
To brighten the den of a lonely old barn.
It looked like The pick of a fancy goods
store,
Or the loot of a dozen or more of ba
zaars. With the pillows, and slippers, and head-
reste and steins,
But what pleased me most was the box
of cigars.
There were photograph frames, there were
mufflers of silk.
And neckties of colors most weird to bo
hold, And handkerchiefs, scarf-pins and booka by
the scorei
And match boxes, gun metal, silver and
gold, ,
And dressing gowns, crimson,' and' purple,
and blue.
And Christmas cards twinkling with
spangles and stars.
And things rigged with ribbons to hang on
the wall,
But nothing I liked like tha box of cigars.
When the worry and work of the 'long day
it o'er,
And Its cures are shut down with tha lid
of my desk.
Then I love to recline in my easiest chair
And give a free rein to my fancies gro
tesque, ,
With my knees to the blase and my gate
on the coals
That smoulder like rubles through red
glowing bars.
Oh, the castles I build and the dreams that
I weave
From the silvery smoke of those fragrant
clgara.
How soothing to watch by the light of tha
fire
The graceful blue spirals that slowly bh-
'" cend -
To spread o'er the celling In soft rolling
clouds.
Or with shadows of twilight fantastically
blend,
It la then I forget all the sorrows of life.
Its hurries and worries and Jangles and
Jars,
And of all the gifts merry Christmas ran
bring,
Tha best to my mind is a box of cigars.