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TTTE OMAHA DAILY REE? WEDNESDAY. .TANTARY 1. 1003
Tun Omaha Daily Bee
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STATEMENT of L'IRCULATION.
Slate of Nebraska, Douglas County, sa. :
Chillies c. Koaewaler, general manager
of The Bee Publishing Company, being
only sworn, says that the actual number
of full and complete copies of The Dally,
Doming. rJveiung and Sunday Bee printed
during tha month of November, 1W7, was
. follows: ...
1 37.000 I 3?'?9
I 37,820 17 38,400
I 35.800 11 38'180
37,330
, 9lildU
20'". 37,090
M 36,970
2i" " 37,300
it'' 37,380
n' 36,100
31,680
( 39,690
T 37,390
S 37,840
t 37,390
10 35,900
11 37,530
12 37,730
II 37,380
14 37,340
16 37,610
25 37,590
It. 37,090
It 37,340
2 36,940
It 39,690
0 37,090
Total 1.133,430
Leva unao'tl and returned copies. 10,188
Net Total l,M3,ar,9
Oally average 37,108
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R03ERT HUNTER,
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WHEN OCT OF TOW.
8 o bar r I bora learlnir the pity tens,
porarlly sboald have The Be
mailed to them. Addrea. will be
changed aa often aa requested.
Write it 1908.
Thoso navy doctors are making a
lot of peoplo sick.
Here's lliat it lirovcs a prosperous
ud happy Now Yt:ar to every reader
of The Bee.
No tine in fighting for a seat on Ihe
water wagon. There will be plenty of
room after a few days.
Still, a surgeon In command of a
rattlcship would naturally want to per
form an operation on the enemy.
"There is'plonty of fight, left in the
democratic party," Kays Colonel Wat
terson. So Do Armond and Williams
have demonHtrated.
Some of the political medicine that
it; beins manufactured in the east
should be suppressed by the enforce
ment of the pure food law.
"Joe always liked fairy stories,"
saya Governor Folk's mother. "Joe"
Is now listening to fairy tales in con
nection with a senatorial boom.
"Pittsburg," according to the Dis
patch, "is the best advertised city in
the country." "Worst advertised"
might come nearer to the truth.
At any rate, Hobson's prediction of
a naval war has been fulfilled, even if
it did occur in the bureaus at Wash
ington instead of on the high seas.
Congressman Hobson says there is
room for vast improvement in the
Congressional Record. Recent events
tihow that the Record needs a sporting
editor.
It will hardly be necessary for
"Fighting Bob" to return to Washing
ton with-the fleet to put down that
mutiny in the Navy department
bureaus.
Colonel Bryan is reported to have
killed many ducks on his hunting trip
in Texas. If that does not soften Mr.
Cleveland, democratic harmony Is out
'if the question.
"What do the western farmers want
with so many cars?" asks a petulant
eastern paper. They load grain in
some of them and use the other to
store their surplus money In.
Mrs. Eddie Foy says the will )e
pleased to have her husband play Ham
let If he will quit playing the race.
The theater public would prefer that
Id die go on playing the races.
Mr. Bryan does not wax enthusiastic
over tha promise of a snowstorm in
Denver during the convention. He is
accustomed to getting hia frosts at
election and not at conventions.
Senator Davis of Arkansas declares
tie will never eat out of the hands of
(he trust. He will not need to do bo
so long as he and two of his daughters
are eating a th nubile ni counter.
Scientists assert that theman who
will drink a gallon of buttermilk a- day
and cease worrying will find his life
prolonged. Still, It is something of &
tutk to drink a gallon of buttermilk
without worrying.
"W. J. Bryan of Nebraska will likely
be the next president of the United
States," says the Fort Worth Record.
When spoken rapidly to tie stonogra
pl.rr. "like to be" sounds Terjr much
I ke '"likely be," bat tner li difference.
TJC old axp niEAtir.
The dyins year has whispered its
record of achievements and disasters,
Its triumphs and Its disappointments,
lis successes and failures Into the ear
of lis successor, 1908, born today, and
accompanied the etory of the past with
the expression of a message of hope
for the future.
The career of the dead year has
been checkered and Interesting. The
air, at the time of its birth, was super
charged with fear and doubt. Finan
cial savants and economic experts re
membered that its ancestors had been
traveling the pace that kills and that
young 1907 would have to bpar the
sins of its parents. Some of the pre
dictions were realized and, after an ex
citing youth, the old year encountered
disastrous storms which left much
wreckage on the financial shores and
died Just as it realized that the worst
was over alid that there was plain sail
ing ahead.
The new year dawns under a Rentl
ment and conviction that the worst Is
over and that the future Is freighted
with promise of Improvement. The
dead yean loft the country with all the
essentials needed for recovery of pros
perity. It bequeathed a crop of the
greatest value In the nation's history.
It had ajready entered upon Its books
contracts with foreign countries that
assure a profitable trade for the new
year In farm and factory products and
made certain a continued inflow o(
gold as needed. It has left evidence
that supply and demand were more
nearly on an equal footing than for
several years.
Perhaps the most encouraging
feature of the outlook for 1908 Is the
general feeling that there is nothing
wrong with the country and. that the
so-called "panic." which will place
1907 in the class with 1873 and 1893.
has wrought all the devastation possi
ble under existing conditions.
The country knows the extent of the
panic and that its causes are no longer
operating. Some of the big industrial
concerns in the east are already an
nouncing a resumption of work in the
mills and factories. Factories which
reduced their forces and curtailed
their output during the "panic" are
preparing to renew work. Scared
money Is again coming from its hiding
and seeking employment in trade and
industry. Confidence is being rapidly
regained and the country is headed for
a mo'-e healthy bals.
All conditions considered, the out
look and conditions justify the hopeful
wish that the new year may be a happy
and prosperous one.
it- or rvBtw vf.t o.s its.
Out of the vast volume of discussion
relative to currency reform plans
conies t the comforting assurance that
the leaders In congress have about
agreed upon the early adoption of one
simple proposition which promises to
do much toward removing one of the
annoying and apparently senseless ob
stacles in the way of smoother rela
tions between the business world and
the federal treasury. The proposition
is embodied in a concurrent resolution
which declares ps follows:
Resolved. By the house of 'represe nl at Ives
of the United States, the senate concur
ring, that It Is the sense of the congress
that the secretary of the treasury should.
In lila discretion and under such regula
tions as he may prescribe, permit the re
ceipt of certified checks of banks In pay
ment of public dues, the deposit of the same
In depository banks, end the drawing of
checks against such depository accounts
by the disbursing officer In stibtreasury
cities as well as elsewhere.
The plan calls simply for the adop
tion of recognized business methods by
the Treasury department. No law ex
ists against the use of checks by the
Treasury department, in the transac
tion of business, but one of those "long
line of distinguished precedents," some
times more potent than law, has kept
secretaries of tho treasury demanding
thai payments to the government be
entirely in cash. The plan originated
in the days when It was necessary for
the government to guard its gold sup
ply, and ever since then It has been the
custom for the government to demand
the payment of customs duties in ac
tual gold coin. The adoption of the
resolution would relieve the govern
ment of much red tape now needed to
comply with an unnecessary and obso
lete custom. The secretary of the
treasury would, at his discretion, de
posit the government receipts In na
tional depositories and check against
them, just as the business man checks
against his bank account.
TO UIMM1ZE WRECKS.
Congressman Douglas of Ohio has
offered a bill In congress providing for
a law to minimize the danger of rail
road wrecks. His measure provides
that the federal government, through
a board of "accident commissioners,"
shall conduct a searching Inquiry into
the caae of every railroad wreck of
consequence and to report upon how
the accident might have been averted,
as well as to who was at fault. Upon
the facts presented by this commission
It shall be the duty of the federal au
thorities in the district In which the
accident occurred to institute prosecu
tion against the person or persons to
blame.
The Ohio congressman, while his
aim is laudable, makes the too com
mon error of proposing additional leg
islation where It Is not needed.' Under
the existing law It Is the duty of the
Interstate Commerce commission to
collect and report all such data as
that called for. The commission makes
quarterly reports of such Investiga
tions, In great detail, and nothing re
mains to accomplish the result detlred
by Mr. Douglaa except the necessary
activity on the part of existing law of
ficers to bring the prosecutions. The
practice is too common in this country
of leaving Inquiries into railroad
wrecks with the finding? of the cor
oner's jury and the damage suits
brought by persons Injured or by tiie
friends of those killed. Little effort
is ever made to locate and punish those
responsible for the accidents.
Railroad managers Insist that they
are already using every reasonable
precaution, both human and mechani
cal, to prevent wrecks, but the fact
regains that the number of accidents
Increases and the resultant death list
continues to grow. Carelessness of
trainmen, Imperfect rolling stock, mis
placed switches 'and all the old fa
miliar causes of wrecks arid collisions
still figure In such accidents, and it is
rRrely that any effort is made to fix
the blame and punishment upon in
dividuals. In some countries, notably
in Canada, the authorities make vigor
ous prosecution of engineers and other
trainmen through whose carelessness
wrecks are caused, and, in case of im
perfect equipment, fine railroad com
panies heavily and frequently punish
the officials in authority.
MR. TAPrS ORE AT SPEECH.
Excluding altogether Us bearings
upon the political situation, the ad
dress delivered by Secretary Taft be
fore the Boston Merchants and Manu
facturers' association must strike
every one who reads it as a remark
ably clear and cogent review of the
successive steps that led to the recent
panic coupled with a brief outline of
the course that must be pursued to
restore the country to normal condi
tions. The charm of Mr. Taft's speech is
not In its oratorical flourishes or
rounded periods, but in its perfectly
frank and plain spoken enumeration
of the various causes contributing to
the industrial "breakdown, as he sees
them. and the open confession
that he has no single cure-all to pre
scribe to guarantee Immediate and
complete convalescence.
Mr. Taft naturally resents the im
putation that the panic was brought
about by the attitude f President
Roosevelt toward Ill-gotten wealth and
law-defying corporations. He denies
that a reversal of the policy of the ad
ministration in the prosecution of
trusts and renewed submission to dis
honest business practices are neces
sary to counteract the evil effects of
the panic.
The principal strength of Mr. Taft's
speech Is his reiteration of his belief
that the conservation of the rights of
private property and corporate enter
prise require "limitations upon tho
methods In the use of capital and the
exercise of the right of property that
are Indispensable to prevent the abso
lute control of the whole financial sys
tem of the country by a small oligarchy
of Individuals." He again declares
himself squarely against government
ownership of railroads, but equally
convinced of the necessity of govern
ment control of these railroads to pre
vent abuses and discriminations.
The arguments presented ought to
convince even thoee who have opposed
what are known as Roosevelt reforms,
but who are open-minded enough to be
persuaded, that the safety of property
and capital Is not to be insured by
undoing what has been done toward
curbing excesses, but in holding the in
dustrial situation level and building
anew upon more solid foundations.
Mr. Taft classes himself as a conserva
tive, and his speech shows what he
moans by conservatlshi conservatism
that makes justice paramount.
Mr. Bryan of Nebraska probably has
no objection to being represented in
the senate by a namesake, but when it
comes to the White House he wants to
be represented In person. For that
job be has no understudy and no
proxy.
Good Resolves.
St. Nicholas Magazine.
The time of good resolves is here. What
new ones can our minds evolve? Suppose,
good friends, that we this year resolve to
to keep each good resolve.
Mending Hoom Only.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
It Is stated that in an Omaha theater half
smoked cigars can be checked at tha door.
But it may be seriously doubted If the man
who carries one of these checks should be
given a seat.
An Early Start.
Philadelphia Press.
The Fairbanks delegates In Indiana art)
to be elected the first week In February.
This is rather early, but the distance
tome presidential booms will have to
travel makes a prompt start deairable.
In Line with Business Methods.
New York Tribune.
There seems to be sound sense behind tha
suggestion that congresa authorize the rep
resentatives of the treasury to receive certi
fied checks in payment of dues Instead of
insisting on cash payments. The govern
ment would be only accommodating Itself
thereby to current and modern methods of
business.
PlUar of the High Coart.
Brooklyn Eagle.
If anyone thinks that John M. Harlan
should retire from the supreme court of
the United States, such an one should learn
what Judge Harlan's views upon that sub
ject are. If his life is spared, he will re
main upon the bench until that court shall
adopt his views on colonial law. The court
differs from him now only by a majority of
one.
Command of Hospital Ships.
Philadelphia Record.
One element Of the controversy over the
appointment of a surgeon to the command
of a naval hospital ship should not be
overlooked. It la provided In the Geneva
convention that hospital ships In order to
preserve their neutral character should
have a noncombatant officer In command.
This Is a requirement which a naval officer
of (he line could not fulfill In time of war.
The rule established for army relief ships
that they should be under command of a
medical ataff officer aided by a competent
civilian master mariner answers the re
quirements. Admiral B.ownson's rule that
only Una officers be put in command would
not be In compliance with them at alL
I FI 111 Ell BI KIXKM.
Some Knotty Problem Paaaed 1 P hy
the Old Tear.
Wall Street Journal.
The year W" dose with Some thlnna
definitely settled, but with many more
things still standing on the schedule of un
finished htisiness. Among these are a num
ber of left-over problems, some of which
must comprise part of he burden of next
year's work.
Among the most pressing of these Is the
bank and currency problem or group of
problems. It is not to he expected that
there will be any such radical reform as
that of the establishment of a central bank.
That sentiment In favor of the central
bunk is growing Is unquestionable, but It
will take continued agitation to bring the
country to, or rather back to that ideal,
which, was shattered in Jackson's adminis
tration. The. most that can be accom
plished nt the present session if congress
Is tn Impart a certain degree of additional
elasticity to the present bank- note circula
tion. Another left-over problem Is Included in
the numerous contests between the tall
roads and state authorities, involving the
question whether minimum railway rates as
prescribed by act of legislature are. or are
not, confiscatory. In several southern
states the issue Is on the point of being
compromised, but In others, both east and
west, th'e question Is submitted to the su
preme court, where tho final decision is
awaited by the financial world. Some of
these decisions will undoubtedly appear
some time during 190K, and whichever way
they go their significance will be funda
mental for the future of Investment.
A third left-over problem Is the segrega
tion of coal properties from the manage
ment and, control of railroads. Under the
Hepburn act, amending the Interstate com
merce act of 1KK7, It Is required that from
and after May 1. 1SW, It shall be unlawful
for any railroad to transport from any
state to any other state any article or com
modity other than timber or the manufac
tured products thereof, manufactured,
mined or produced by It or In which It
may have any interest, direct or Indirect,
except such articles or commodities as may
be necessary for use In the conduct of Its
business as a common carrier.
This presents one of the most difficult
problems tn the segregation of rorporate
properties,. The problem Is rendered all the
more difficult In some of the coal compan
ies, because of the liens which bondholders
have on the mining properties controlled by
certain coal roads of the east. Any plan of
separation which might prejudice the equity
of security holders Involved would be sub
ject to no little litigation before it could he
put Into practical effect. Yet there are but
four months to accomplish what tiie law
requires.
Another class of unfinished problems
arises out of tho financial changes which
have come about as a result of the panic.
Numerous . reorganizations will have to bo
undertaken, especially in Industrial lines.
Some of the short-term note Issues will
during the coming year require finHiicing.
There will still remain the unsatlsried de
mand of railroads for capital to Increase
their equipment, their facilities and their
general capacity to handle tbe growing
volume of freight which they have helped
to develop along their - routes. Evidently
there Is going to be little time to eat the
bread of Idleness, If these questions are to
be brought to substantially permanent solutions.
"WEARING OFF" MKAftOX.
A Few Seasonable Nnagestlon and
Several "Don't."
. Cleveland Plain Dealer.
It is to be supposed that any adult at
the age of discretion has enough btamlna
and will power to refrain from any habit
or practice that Is detrimental to himself
or to others. If he is not gifted with this
moral force no amount of "swearing off"
will be of any avail. A "swear off" is not
made to be kept. A man with good com
mon sense and a modicum of Intellect does
not require this fictitious re-enforcement of
his Instinct. If he knows that anything la
not good for him he will eliminate It, and
will do it without the bras and cymbals
of a vaunted "turning over a new leaf."
The man who tells hla associates how good
be Is gdlng to be during 3908, will, without
much doubt, fall lnglorlously by tho way
side before the. first month of the new
year ha run Its 'course. For the man who
"swears off" admits by the mere act of
swearing off that he is pitiably weak. If
he requires this artificial stimulus to In
spire him to decency and common sense It
Is reasonably certain that he Is too pliable
and too lacking in self-reliance to trust bis
own motives: wholly devoid of that
stamina by which a "swear off" can be
made effective.
The best policy Is not to make a show of
virtue, but to consider carefully the re
sults of 1907, and to think which of these
might have been bettered by Individual ef
fort. Then make the 1908 resolutions, for
good resolutions are always commendable,
whether at New Year's or at any other
time. And, having made the resolutions,
forget to mention them to ono and sun
dry, forget to put on a Pharisaical physiog
nomy of conscious righteousness, forget
that It Is necessary to publish one's worth
to the world In order to prove, it. If ono
is partaking too freely of the Inebriating
bowl, If one is too negligent of his serious
work. If one finds bis work is too much
his all In all. If one feels that he has not
been sufficiently considerate of his fellow
beings, whether in the family circle or
elsewhere. It Is well to acknowledge pri
vately these shortcomings, and to en
deavor, selfishly, perhaps, to eradicate the
error and to start on a new tack.
But don't "swear off." ton't assume
the "unco guld" air. Don't become a bore
and a pest. The marking of the new year
is purely arbitrary, and hus nothing logi
cally to do with the assumption of good
ness. The Fourth of July or All Fools'
day Is quite as appropriate a time for
ceasing to make a fool of one's self as is
the traditionally honored Initial day of the
year.
T If K V BAR'S KMBEZZLF.MENTS.
A Better Showing; for (irneral Hoi
eaty In America.
Chicago Tribune.
There has been less dishonesty in the
Vnlted States In 1907 than there was In
1906. Whether men have been more
closely watched, or have found It easier to
resist temptation, the fact remains that
the embezzlements, forgeries, bank wreck
ings, etc., for this year approximate 111,
000,00, while last year they footed up 114,
739,0(0, the largest total since 1HW. when
they aggregated 3.234.uc0. The country has
grown enormously in wealth during the last
thirteen years. There are more banks and
more people handling trust funds. There
was a financial panic this year, and such
a panic is likely to. expose whatever em
bezzlers or bank wreckers there may be.
Perhaps the wonder Is that only fll.OuO.O 0
has gone astray.
Of that sum the banks and trust com
panies lost $6,00(1.000. mostly through dis
honest officials or employes. Public offi
cials handling city, county, state, or na
tional funds have been more successful
In keeping their hands from picking and
stealing this year than they were last.
Their peculations aggregated only 77S,
Cjo while last year they amounted to about
ll.iuo.nti). More money was handled and
less was stolen. There has been gratify
ing progress in one particular at (fast.
roKM OF THE n.v.
Death .of the Old War.
Full knee-deep lies the winter snow.
And tbe winter winds are Wiarily sighing:
Toll ye the church hell sad and slow,
And tread softly and spenk low.
For the old year lies a-dying.
Old year, you must not die;
You csme to us so readily.
You lived with us so steadily.
Old year, you shall not die.
He lleth still; he doth not move;
He will not see the dawn of day.
Ho hath no other life above.
He gave me a friend, snd a true, true-love.
And the New Year will take em away.
old year, you must nut go;
So long as you have been with us.
Such .loy as you have seen with us,
Old year, you shall not go.
He froth'd his bumpers to the brim:
A Jollier year we shall not see.
Hut tho' his eyes are waxing dim.
And tho' his foes spenk 111 of him.
He wss a friend to me.
Old yvur. you shall not die:
We did so laugh and cry with you,
I've half a mind to die with you,
Old year. If you must die.
He was full of Joke and Jest.
But all bis merry quips are o'er.
To see him die, across the waxte
Ills son and heir doth ride post-haste.
Hut he'll be dead before.
F.very one for his own.
The nlclit Is stnrrv anil colli, mv friend
And the New Year blithe ami bold, my
menu.
Comes up to take his own.
How hard he breathes! over the snow
I heard Just now the crowing cock.
The shadows flicker to and fro;
The cricket chirps: the light burns low;
'Tis nearly 12 o'clock.
Rhnke bands before you die.
Old year, we'll dearly rue for you;
What is It we can do for you?
Speak out before you die.
His face Is growing sharp and thin.
Alack! our friend Is gone.
Close up his eyes; tie up his chin:
Step from the corpse, and let him in
That standeth there alone.
And walteth at the door.
There's a new foot on the floor, my
friend.
And a new face at t lie door, my frlrtid,
A new face at the door.
Tennyson.
The Bachelor's evr Year Rerery.
"Sweetheart, I never knew t loved you so."
The lover said, and bent to watch the
grace
Of love's exqulsileness and light and glow
Bloom there again upon the mulden face.
The treasury of years gives back to him
I he jewels and the gvms or love s requite;
And through the misty tears that come
to dim
His eyes he looks upon the old delight.
And there beneath the jasmine and the rose
Km wined upon the trellis and the vine
They plight t lie troth no ending ever
Knows;
Sighed he: "Sweetheart, forever, ever
mine!
The cuckoo echoed In the shady grove;
"Forever and forever, and for aye!"
He kissed her lips, and passed the treasure
trove
Along the glimmer of the leafy way.
The cuckoo murmurs from the coppice dark,
I no leaves rail cluttering upon the walk;
The lover bends his ear. alas! to hark
But silence, only silence ocmes to mock.
No low, sweet, accents greet him he's
alone!
Then the old lover, wrinkled, bent and
gray.
Klases the face ns chill as chlllest stone,
And puts the old daguerreotype away.
Horace Seymour Keller.
, A l.lttle Kong of the Dawn.
Black was the road I came over;
My lashes with tears still are wet.
The shades at my elbow still laugh as 1
stumble:
I am weary and heartsick, and yet
I am fixing my eyes on the Kast and tl.t
dawning
Where my hope and the morning are met.
Curtis Wager Smith.
The Old The New.
On light-spent, bleak and barren ways.
The hoar year's frosts do fall.
Reluctant march the banished days
Time's shepherd folding all.
Th olden days! once golden days!
Sad stars that homeward turn!
But o'er far hills soft rose-light thrills.
Of dawns that mornward burn.
A matin song the wise winds sing,
Prophetio winds, though bold.
I'P heart of hope! e'er beckoning
New marvels dim the old.
Omaha. Marshall Pancoaat.
- The Old Year's Legacy.
The bells were ringing out the hour
At midnight on New Y'ear's eve.
Alve the cradle of tha New
The Old Year hovered, taking leave.
"SVhat shall I leave thee when I go?"
He said. "Pure babe, sent forth to meet
The soiling, grinding, weary world;
What shall I lay here at thy feet?
"I will not leave my mantle gray;
Thou hast a new robe, fair and bright;
I will not leave the griefs and cares
That turned my hair to silver white.
'T will not leave the vows unkept,
The blasted hopes, the useless tears;
My wisdom all too dearly bought.
Is far too bitter for thine ears.
"But, blotting out the background dark.
The iong, sad days of this, my span,
I'll leave thee all Its Joys to fill
With mem'rles sweet the heart of man.
"Thine be the happiness that's past!
Thine be the gladness, not the care!
Earth shall forget my griefs, whose sum,
With future Joys shall not compare.
"For now I give men double weight
Of glad and happy thoughts, through thee.
My sombre form fades fast away;
My brightest smiles alone they see."
So spoke the Old Tear, and the New
Flung across the winter dawn
Dear memories of yesterday,
The joys lilled full, the sorrows gone.
Margaret D. Gardiner.
The Old and the w.
The King Is dead! Ixing live the King!
Toll, passing bells! Ye Joybells ring!
A year has left our sum of life;
A year is added to the strife.
The chancea of the old are gone;
The new, its luck has Just begun.
The passing year has tombed Its dead;
But bidden graves wait on ahead.
The past had joya as well as pains;
Which holds the future loss or gains?
The dying year was friend or foe;
The newborn's face what man doth know?
What matters hates and love expired?
Now la tlio time by hearts desired.
Our feet upon a threshold stand.
One closing door, one wide to hand.
That closing door will ope' no more;
Tli a open one leads on to more.
And, if we fear Its unknown track.
Into the past there's no step back.
Speed we or weep the closing year.
We cuise nor bail the new one near.
Yet, mark! the last has slipped our grasp;
The new Is ours, 'tis in our grasp.
The old has passed beyond our will;
The new's to mould for good or 111.
Toll, passing bells! Ye Joybells, ring!
The King, is dead! Long live Ihe King!
Baltimore Amerteaa.
Dirge of the Year.
Orphan Hours, the Year Is dead,
Come and sigh, come and weep:
Merry Hours, smile instead,
v For the Year is but asleep:
See, ll smiles as It is sleeping.
Mocking your untimely weeping.
As an earthquake rocks a corse
In its coffin In the clay,
So white Winter that rough nurse.
Hocks the dead-cold Year today;
Solemn Hours, wail aloud
For your mother in her shroud. '
As the wild air stirs and sways
The tree swung cradle of a child.
Bo the breath of these rude days
Hocks tfio Year. Be calm and mild.
Trembling Hours; she will arise
With new love within her eyes.
January, gray Is here,
Like a sexton by her grave;
February tars the bier;
March with grief doth howl and rave.
And April wen but O ye Hours! .
Follow with May faUxst lloweis.
-Shelley.
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A SEW YEAR'S TIIOI (illT,
Itoora for Individual Improvement lu
Every Direction.
I.lppincott'a Magazine.
There is no more pathetic case of self
conviction than the annual summing up of
memory before tho tribunal of hope at the
closo of the year.
Taking an honest inventory of stock and
sales, what one of us Is not desperately
In debt, wickedly reckless and extrava
gant of other's confidence and trust, wor
thy of banishment from deluded society,
quite misplaced and falsely estimated?
There are novelists who would fain be
painters, actors who yearn for the author's
name, soldiers who know that they should
have studied medicine; nay, there are even
lawyers of brilliant reputation who would
gladly exchange lots -with the starved
teacher, the discouraged clergyman, tho
obscure poet. .
Out of the very depths of our restlessness
and discontent comes nature's fairest vision,
the unuttered and unutterable word of our
secret powers. Every vivid, sensato thing
In creation Is conscious of possible, unex
pressed power; this consciousness It Is
which gives lest to life. And one of the
conditions of effective existence is the sim
ultaneous desire to recognise our powers.
We need no prophet to make us sure that
Just the "bundle of relations" which pro
duced this particular entity have never
been co-ordinated for another, and will
never again be repeated by infinitely ex
perimenting nature. We are rightly indig
nant, then, with the poor return we are
making upon its investment.
Power and the unquenchable desire to ex
press that power in distinct, original, ade
quate terms, nature Implanted at birth in
each of us.
LABOR LEADERSON DEFENSE
Montana Men Accnaed of Violating;
Federal Injunction Are
on Trial.
HELENA, Mont.. Dec. 31 fcharged with
defying the United States government by
their alleged violation of the Injunction
Issued by Federal Judge Hunt, restrain
ing all persons from interfering with the
operations of the Rocky Mountain Bell
Telephone company In this state, four
labor leader of Butyt, Joseph Shannon,
William Cutts, Richard Murray and Peter
McDonald, will appear In the federal court
today to answer the charge of contempt
Nearly fifty witnesses will be brought
here to testify. . The defendants, It is
alleged, deported a number of men from
Butte who were employed on the Bell
company's new building In that city. The
whole controversy grows out of the tele
phone girls' strike, which haa been on for
several months.
NINE COMPANIES NOW TWO
Mar Department Will Retain All
Troop at Golaaeld for
Time.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.-The War de
partment has been In correspondence by
telegraph with General Funston in San
Francisco relative to the disposition of the
troops at Goldfleld In conformity with the
expressed intention of the president to
maintain the force there pending the meet
ing of the legislature of Nevada, General
Funston contemplated a reduction in the
number of troops .at the mining camp,
but the War department has decided to
retain there all the present force number
ing 23 men. In the Interest, however, of
simplicity and to avoid the maintenance
nj) a considerable number of officer who
were not needed It has Instructed General
Funston to consolidate the nine companies
into two.
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Mcl their graUful acJcnowUdgment to all who
have contributed to the success of the year just
cloned and extend to yon, their bet wishes for
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PEItSO i. NOTK.
These are the times when the lit tin grippe
germs will catch you if you don't look out
A Denver girl has become the wife of an
Indian. Mean to tako such advantage of
the poor red man.
An unlettered citizen of Iowa cashed a
marriage license under the Impression that
It was a 15 clearing house certificate. Am,'
he couldn't even use tho license.
Eleanoro Duse has twilight the celebrated
Capponl palace near Florence, Italy, for
600,000 francs. In the monumental pllo, onco
the abode of ono of the proudest of tha
noble families of Italy, she Intends "tn
spend tho evening of her life."
Tho Union League club of Brooklyn ban
Invited Bishop Charles U. Galloway
Jackson, Miss., to speak at its Abraha
Lincoln birthday celebration on Februul
12 next. Tho bishop is a great admirer
Lincoln and will treat his subject from
standpoint of the foremost thinkers of ll
south.
I DMIaa Tltirvall nt RrtatAl Pftlill . r'lnlmlta
be the only one now living of the 1,770 sill
era of the abolition paper which called
a meeting of anti-slavery men In HartfrM
Conn., on February 8, 1808. Tho documn
Is owned by Edward Everett Newell, of !!
same city, a cousin of the late Senas
Joseph R. Hawley. fl
On Wednesday, last. Dr. William StaJ
of Washington celebrated his 100th ChiiJ
mas. He is the oldest Inhabitant of )
District of Columbia, and was one of la
forty-niners who went to , California I
search of gold. Dr. Starr has a sister llvl'i
in Michigan who Is 96 years old, and
"baby brother," who lives in the same staT,
is 85 year old. They can trace their an
cestry back to the Wesleys.
I.AMT YEAR'S SMILES.
Mrs. Kearney Ye're lookln' very mourn
ful these days, Mrs. Hannlgan.
Mrs. Hannlgan An' no wonder. Sure,
there hasn't b-en a funeral In the parish
to liven wan up fur over a month. Phila
delphia Press.
"The Idea of nominating Snaggs for con
gress! Why, he couldn't curry his own
precinct."
"That cuts no figure. We're going to
nominate a man for president next year
that can't carry his own city, county or
state." Chicago Tribune.
"It's enough to make
man turn an-
arehlst."
"The unequal distribution of wealth?"
"No; the unequal distribution of l.eat."
Louisville Courier-Journal.
"I suppose you feel well repaid for the
money you put Into libraries."
"Yes." answered Mr. Dustln Stax, "It's
kind of pleasant to vary tho monotony of
seeing your picture In the magaslnes by
having your name mentioned on 'a few
buildings." Washington Stsr.
"John, they don't ever ell dress goods hi
Wall street, do they?"
"Gracious, child, what put such an ab
surd ldeain your head?"
"Well, I'm euro I heard you the other
day talking about wash sales." Bultltnore
American. '
"I tell you his days of usefulness ar
past."
"O, pshaw! What are you talking about?
He can still be a bank director." Detroit
Free Press.
"Your father is in politics," said the
stranger, "Is he not?"
"Yeh." replied the boy, "but mom thinks
he' git tin' cured of It."
"How do you mean?"
"Why, his stuininlek hs gone back on
him an' be can't drink like he useler."--Catholic
Standard and Times.
"These, pianos look too cheap," said tha
young woman with the picture hat, her
brow contracting slightly. "Show me
some of tha beat you've got."
"Yes. ma'am," said the salesman. "May
I ask how high you care to go?"
"Me? O, I only go to O, but I want on
with all the octaves, just th sums."
Chicago Tribune.
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