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I THE OMAIIA DAILY REEt TUESDAY. JANUARY 7, 1908. Tiie Omaha Daily Bee. POUNDED BT EDWARD ROSBWATER. VICTOR ROBE WATER, EDITOR. Entered at Otnaht PostofTlce as eecond etnas matter. TERMS OS" SUBSCRIPTION: Datly tin (without Sunday), one year. .$4.00 Dally b and SuDday, om year ( on Sunday Bee, ana year l Uaturday Bee, one year 1-60 DELIVERED BT CARRIER: Dally Boa (Including Sunday), per week.lSo rally Bee (without Bunday). per week.lOo Evening Be (without Sunday), per week So Evening Bee (with Sunday), per week...ltk Addreaa all complaint of Irregularities In delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Bunding. South Omaha City Hall Building. Council Bluffs 16 Scott Street. Chicago 16W University Building. New Turk 1S08 Horn Life Insurance building. Washington 725 Fourteenth Street N W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to newa and edi torial matter ahould ba addreeaed, Omaha Bee, Editorial -Department. ' REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, axpreea or portal order payable to The Be i'ubllaliing Company. Only s-oent atainpa received In payment of trail account, personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, as.: George B. Taachuck, treasurer of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, aaya that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of December, 1307, waa as follows: 1 8a,0O 17 30,840 1 37,150 1 36.680 I 17,370 19 36,540 4 37.890 tO 36,660 1 37,330 21 36,360 2 86.300 T 37,00 23 36,400 t 36,200 24 36,890 t 86,530 25 36.800 15 87,030 21 36,680 II 37,000 27 3630 12 36,740 28 36,380 13 37,680 20 36,800 14 86,610 SO 36,110 1J ; la 36,550 SI 36,510 36,560 Totals 1,139,580 Less unsold and returned copies. 5,304 Net total 1,139,776 Dally average 36,444 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Treasurer. ' Subscribed In my presence and sworn to I fore me this 2d day of January, 108. ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Public. WHEN OUT OP TOWN. Babacrlbers leaving; the city (em ailed to these. Addreaa will be hanged as often aa relocated. , St. Jackson's day has come to be a movable feast on the calendar of the Jaeksonlan club. The Mosquito Indians are on the war path again In Nicaragua and many citizens have already been stung. David B. Hill is In evidence once more, which will be excuse enough for again writing his political obituary. New Year resolutions are as fragile as fine china and many of them are broken, even with the most careful handling. Boston women have plao&l the ban on Mrs. Qlyn's erotic novel. The next step will probably be to bar It from the males. "What are the political Indications for the year?" asks a Milwaukee paper.' Why not consult the political beerometer? If the Caleb Powers jury really stood 10 to 2 for acquittal. It remained to be explained why the prosecution got but two democrats on the jury, The one regret ever the inheritance by a Seattle bootblack of a fortune of (00,000 ia the forthcoming flood of reference to him as a shining mark. The United States treasury starts the new year with a deficit, due doubt less to Its extravagance in buying Christmas presents for eastern banks. Then the coming trial of Harry Thaw threatens to revive all those Btorles about the several hundred members of the original Fiorodora sex tette. Oeorge Ade wants to go to the republican national convention as a Fairbanks, delegate. Someone should tell Ade that the Fairbanks boom is not a Joke. One of the few certain things in life Is that the man who swears oft smok ing on January 1 gets a box of cigars about January 4 as a delayed Christ mas present. Parties to a marriage in New York must now have a license. If that keeps up, parties seeking a divorce in South Dakota may be required to fur bish a reason. No need to hunt a motive In any democratic advice' to republicans. The moving spirit Is to put the republicans In the hole and give the democrats some partisan advantage. Speaker Cannon says he is prepared tor an exceedingly busy winter. He will have It, If he persists In trying to head off all the legislation recom mended by tb president The American consul at Berne has written a poem In which he speaks of "a bat with a twilight brain." Aside from that our relations with Switzer land are as friendly aa ever. That cartoon of . Grover Cleveland as a teggar asktng for alms should be idopted as a trade mark of the Bryan It campaign and duly Inscribed on all lemoc ratio literature and letterheads. "What in the world." aska the Chi lago Record-Herald. "looks more dia toal than an empty candy box the day ifter Christmas?" Well, an ernty socketbook 4he day after New Year's b some dismal.-- sicturr fob baxk qemsits. States bordering on Oklahoma are already preparing to take action at coming sessions of the legislatures to meet the step taken by the Oklahoma lawmakers in enacting a measure de signed to protect depositors in state banks against loss. Some of the polit ical experts in financial affairs have been urging the adoption by congress of a measure designed to furnish sim ilar protection to the depositors in national banks. The Oklahoma law, therefore, attracts more than usual at tention because it comes 'in the nature of an experiment, the result of which will determine action in other stateB. In the analysis, the Oklahoma law has the same objectionable features that were proposed for the national law on the same line. It makes com pulsory a sort of a mutual protective association among the bankers subject to state laws, by the terms of which each bank pays a fixed sum annually to ward a fund to pay losses of banks that may fall. The tendency of the opera tion and enforcement of the law will naturally be to relieve reckless and unscrupulous bankers of a sense of re sponsibility they might otherwise feel toward their depositors and to encour age them to engage In enterprises not sanctioned by the rules of sane and safe banking. Their disposition will be to take larger chances with the money of depositors berause guaranteed against loss. In effectit must stimu late get-rlch-quick flivan'clpf-lng as against the slow but sure banking business. It is as well, perhaps, that Okla homa has decided to try the experi ment, which will Induce other states to wait for a time to see how the plan works. TUB COCNTY CQMPTROLLKR$HP. By a ruling on petition for a tem porary injunction Judge Redlck of the district court has put in abeyance the organization of the new office of county comptroller, created by the last Nebraska legislature. The carefully prepared opinion of the judge upholds the new law In every respect as being properly drawn, legally passed and in dependent in itself of all prerequisite conditions, but he discovers in his last paragraph that its enactment was pro cured In consideration of the enact ment of another law relating to the office of city comptroller, which con sideration may fail because of techni cal defects, and he, therefore, holds that the first law la invalid and cannot be made operative. This conclusion, of course, rests upon a question of fact. Without in any way intending to argue the case, it is pertinent to ask. What would have been the result had the legisla ture passed the one bill and then neglected to pass the second bill, sup posed to ba ita. consideration?.. Sup pose the governor had signed the first and vetoed the second, which he' could easily have done, because they came to him at intervals of several days? Or suppose the coming legislature should cure the defect in the city comptroller bill, for which It has ample time, inasmuch as that law Is. not supposed to apply until the end of the present Incumbent's office, would it revive the county comptroller law and validate the election already held under it? All these legal questions will pre sumably be answered by the courts before the pending litigation is ended, and In doing so they, will show us how. if the first effort has failed, we should go about it and establish the county comptrollershlp as an elective office, and eventually merge the audit ing departments of both city and county. This much, at any rate, may be taken for granted, that the people of Omaha and Douglas county want their public business subjected to ade quate audit and account, just as is the business of other large corporations, and that they want it done in the most economical manner and with cen tralized authority and responsibility. If they have not already succeeded In accomplishing their object, they will continue to fight it out along that line with the lawmakers and law Interpre ters until they get what they want. 7rri . RULE VF CASTE Iff Tilt: SOVTll. The Bouth's bid for Immigration needed to develop Its rich latent re sources Is apt to full upon dull ears In view of the action of Ooyernor Var daman and the authorities of a num ber of southern states in making It as uncomfortable as possible for foreign era ready to make their homes in the southland. The Yardaman case, while It may be an exaggerated Instance, is really typical of southern sentiment toward newcomers unable to present pedigrees tracing lineage back to the "first families." In the Mississippi Instance, the gov ernor has Issued an official order ex cluding certain Italian children from the public schools. The father, an Italian, settled In Mississippi some months ago and started his children to school. When admission was denied them he finally appealed to the gov ernor. Affidavits bhowed that the chil dren had been born In this country and that they had attended the public schools In New Orleans, where he had formerly lived. He lnslntf upon their rights aa native-born' Americans, but his appeal waa rejected and the chil dren ordered from the schools. Governor Vardaman had no more right to exclude these children from the schools, their fitness having been demonstrated, than h had to issue a ukase prohibiting the president of the United States from putting foot on Mississippi soil. Yet the State) depart ment at Washington ha decided that it has no authority to interfere. Secre tary Root, In answer to an appeal to him, has replied that the father's only recourse lies In the court. Although the Incident may be charged up as one of the vagaries of Yardaman, it leaves small room for wonder that intelligent foreigners hesi tate about settling In the south. Small wonder, too, that they do not under stand the American system of govern ment which, while promising equal rights to all Its citizens, is powerless to correct such cross abuses. SELilAO MILITARY SECRETS. The latest sensational attempt of a New York paper, In Its apparently determined effort to rupture the friendly relations between the United States and Japan is contained In the publication of a story to the effect that some representative of the Japanese government has secured secret plans of the War department for "the mo bilization of troops in the United States and their transportation to the seat of war." According to report,' this highly prized Information la now In the possession of the Japanese and nothing whatever prevents the mika do's army from sneaking up some dark night and destroying Fort Crook and other centers of mobilization and ren dering the nation supine and helpless in the face of a determined and re lentless foe. It Is apparently a most pleasant pastime to unearth stories from time to time of foreign spleg who have been caught taking photographs of Ameri can fortifications and army posts and making maps of the country's large cities. These tales are given the widest publicity and might lead to all kinds of international complications were there any foundation for them In fact. Neither the Japanese nor the representatives of any other foreign power should be classed as silly enough to waste their time In such useless efforts. The plans of American army posts and fortifications are not secret. They are submitted to congress when appro priations are asked, and any hired clerk could get all the data needed from the public official proceedings. The Investment of a few dimes In maps and post cards would be all that Is necessary to secure photographs and other graphic information concerning the topography and defensive features of American cities. In short, this gov ernment has never deemed it necessary to cherish military secrets. In case of war, our. troops would be mobilized at the nearest army posts and transported to the field of action by the railroad offering the best terms and guaranteeing the best service. A foreign nation after Information on ruch topics wastes time and money if It seeks it through the use of paid emissaries. These mysterious missions and secret work of spies belong In the class of summer fiction. They are out of place in January when the country lias settled down to midwinter solemn noes. According to a French editor visit ing in New York, all that prevented war between Japan and the United States was the refusal of France to lend either nation the necessary funds. He should explain further that France did not lend the money for the reason that it did not have it and the further reason that neither Japan nor the United States wanted to borrow It. The democratic World-Herald de clares that '";he Andrews blight has fallen cruelly upon the university." But remember that Chancellor An drews was put In his present position by the votes of a demo-pop Board of Regents under the personally exerted pressure of William Jennings Bryan. A Standard OH official crltclses Com missioner Knox of the bureau of cor porations for discussing a case pend ing In the courts. But the discussion was started by the Standard Oil com pany in Issuing a pamphlet In which it tried to prove that the court was wrong In Its findings. Washington dispatches state that Seth Bullock of Deadwood wore spats at the White House reception on New Year's day. As this appears to have been all that was out of the way with Seth's appearance, it is taken for granted that he left his gun and his spurs at the hotel. , Mr. Bryan frankly states that he expects the republican nominee will be Mr. Taft, although he would rather it were some one else. Mr. Taft has ventured no prediction as to the demo cratic nominee, but he doubtless fig ures It as going to Mr. Bryan by de fault. Oh! Mr. Johnson of Minnesota, won't you please come out and say definitely and positively whether you are a candidate for the democratic presidential nomination and relieve the apprehensive local democratic organ of Its alternating fever and ague? The State Bar association is about to bold its annual meeting In thin city. The attendance will, doubtless, verify or disprove the report that the Ne braska railroads are not Issuing passes this year even to their local attorneys. Stand I'p for the Ceoat. Harper's Weekly. ' How many democrats axe there who find Mr. Bryan's greatest recommendation as a candidate in the conviction that ha cannot b elected? I arte Baaunel Overlooked. Baltimore American. Mr. Rockefeller's annual gift to the Uni versity of Chicago this year was C291, 000, making a total of U.Srt.oa.M con tributed to tUi Institution. IU It la raj marked that he has not paid ven th flm Installment of that I3".0i,0n0 fine Imposed by Judge Iandls a few months ago. Penalties af the Presidency. Indianapolis Newa. It Is an attractive Job In certain waya, but It also has Its objectionable features. For Insance. the shaking- of 6.5 more or less miscellaneous hands on News Tear's. Think "What Mlnht Have Been." Portland Oregonlan. A federal Judge at Denver rendered a decision In favor of a lot of land fraud de fendanta and the governor doesn't like It and will appeal. We don't know that this la of particular moment to anybody In Ore gon, yet there are a few cltlsens who are likely to prick up their ears when they read about It. "The Proai and Fear less" Hashed. Baltimore American. The racial rioting at Vancouver has con siderably annoyed England. It has also In tensified the silence of England as to the Injustice of the United States toward Jap anese immigrants. There is nothing so cal culated to put a quietus to the habit of holding up moral lessons to our neighbors as to have the same lessons brought home to ourselves, with our own morals tagged on. Increased Safety on the Overland. New York World. The reduction In the number of persons killed or Injured In accidents on the Union Pacific from 2,0M In 1906 to 1,209 last year makes an excellent showing for the im proved signs! system by which this econ omy of life was effected. Mr. Harrlman's 6,000 miles of road protected by block sig nals evidence a regard for Bafety which may be pleaded In extenuation cf other shortcomings In railway management. A Sample Case of Justice. Collier s Weekly. This is the slmnle tale of brother and Bister, living on Staten Island, within a half hour's Journey of New York cjty hall. Feeling the financial depression they co veted their brother-in-law's life insurance. Brother-in-law himself was an obstacle, wherefore they hired a needy person, tem porarily out of work, to remove the in structive relative by knocking him on the head. In a moment of weakness their em ploye informed upon them. They were ar rested, put on trial for conspiracy to mur der, and confessed. Thereupon Inatice. embodied In the county court of Richmond, tttaten Island, vindicated its majesty by sentencing the brother In ten mnnih. i JaH and paroling the sister. Thoughtful sociologists who study America's ab normally high murder rate should take ac. count of this case. TENACITY OF TAFT. Persistent Demand for Fair rlay for Philippines. Chicago Record-Herald. There is no such thing aa discouraging Secretary Taft In his endeavor to get congress to give the Philippines fair play In the matter of tariff regulations. When ho was governor general of the Islands he made up his mind that for the prosperity of the island's people a free market must be given In the United States for their products, Including sugar and to bacco. He also made up his mind that for the credit of our own government, and. Indeed, as a measure of self-protection against Inevitable discontent In the Islands later on, such legislation was absolutely essential. He has fought for such legislation year after year since ho assumed his present office. He has thus far succeeded only In psrt. He has secured a reduction of the duties, but not their removal entirely. He has been beaten thtia far by the ignorant selfishness of sugar arid tobacco growers and by tho equally Ignorant selfishness of men who object to any changes in the tariff of any kind whatever. The outlook ia bad for the present ses sion, but Secretary Taft is as determined aa ever. We know positively from his record that he will keep on struggling year after year for this measure of Justice as long as lie remains In public life, and that the only condition under which he would cease to fight would be such a change in the situation In the Islands aa would con vince him that the free American, markets were no longer needed. The tenacity of Taft In all public busi ness that has thus far come under his charge Is one of the greatest of those qual ities which have made so many republi cans of the central west look to him as their best leader In the struggle to secure the realization of those national policies in which they and he believe. GRAZING AND TIM UK II (SHAFTS. Incalculable Valae of the Policies) of tho Administration. Kansas City Star. The fight of the people for the protection of the country's natural resources against the pillage and waste of vast combinations of predatory wealth will probably be brought to a substantial victory for the national welfare before the Roosevelt ad ministration ends. However, It must not be forgotten for a single day that the opposi tion Is resourceful In money and con gresxlonal representation, and that it can not be conquered unless the administration continues to receive the popular support that It has enjoyed in lta splendid policy of conservation. Also, it must be remembered that among the policies Inaugurated by President Roosevelt no other Is more deserving of continuation, more essential to the future well being of the nation, than this plan to protect the publlo domain now held and to make such additions to the forest re serves aa are essential to the best possible conservation of the timber, to the control of the water supply, to the checking of floods and the saving of the soli. It the present administration should be succeeded by one unfriendly to these measures the work already accomplished In these direc tions, no matter bow great and Important that work might be, would suffer either through a reversal of policy or a neglect of duty. Timber plunderers, with their habits cf waste, with the forest fires that follow their positively sinful methods of lumber ing; the big sheep and cattle grazers, who crowd out the small stockmen and over grase the land to such an extent that vaat areas become worthless for several years following the raid of the herds these In terests must be brought under control. They must be made to lumber and graie conservatively, to discontinue their waste, to give the small men a chance, to make room for the home builders; and they must be made to pay reasonable prices for what they get from the people's land. This Is not merely a question of stop ping graft, although that question alone Is one pf momentous Importance; It is also a question of giving everybody a square deal, of saving the trees from fire and mere timber gr.ubers. It is a question of keeping a visit's supply of timber in this country and protecting the grail ng lands In such a way that they shall be continu ously useful. And so far as the eastern forest reserves are concerned, they must be vastly extended, not only In the Interests of the hardwood supply, but a'.so to protect the valleys from the floods that devastate them when the hills are denuded. This Is everybody's business the bujilness gJT ?ver atrluvlo cltUta. ROlD ABOl'T JIKW YORK. Rlnplea on the Correal of I.lfe In tho Meronolls. Absentee landlordism la the nrlmin cause of the rent strikes now In pro are us In the crowded tenement sections of New York City. Owners lease property for a lump sum. The lessee sublets to tenants collects the rents, and makes as few re pairs In the building or buildings as poesl ble. The direct result of the system Is ex oroitant rentals, tyranlcal greed and brutality. Writing to the New York WnrM Jacob Rlls warmly commends th of the tenement dwellers In fighting "the usurious trine or lessees." Rents have been raised many times In tenement r,t .n m-t during the last few years, Mr. Rlls de clares that Improvements required under me new law ao not coat enough to Justify these advances. Two years ago a num ber of the tenants carried on a futile rent strike. Since then, without tnimh plaint, they have paid the higher rentals wnen aoin to do so. To cover the ad vances many have had tr .v. Today In many three-room flats, formerly occupied Dy one family each, there are three families one In euoh ..., . .. dltlon which materially increases the death raie. particularly among children. Mr. Rlls says, una tenement on atantnn which houses sixty families. Is leased from me owner at 18,000 a year. The lessee's income, alter deduct nr all lr f- payment or rent and le-al i hi.. possessing proceedings, Is 112,000 a year, so he has a clear profit of Moon, if tlply this one tenement by 300 with the name ratio or profit, you will see what a tremendous percentage of gain there is lor a handful of leased ihHI,m. i . - ..... . u , n iih in- ruse to recognixe conditions which make it Impossible for tenant " J H"J ICIH int-y uia a year ago. Broadway frrHiuenter. to the Identity of a comely young Southern woman who, in order to nmtent h.r.n against -mashers" n that ihn.,,.v,.. adopted a new method. On her right hand sue wore a rour-ounce boxing glove, and several men who encountere.1 he in ,. vicinity of Forty-fifth street still bear the marKs. Several weeks ago the vmimr wr,m.n moved to New York city and aecured a position aa a stenographer. She b6arded in rorty-sixtn street, between Fifth and Sixth avenue. On several occasions men have accosted her, as she Is exceedingly pretty and attracted manv nf tho i, era." When she left her home aha s,r,r ih. boxing glove. At Fortv-flfth atre.t o mnn spoke to her. -W ithout a word the Southern miss drew her right hand which had been concealed In her muff, and gave the "maaher" a blow on the left eye. He let out a cry ad started up the thoroughfare, running like a deer. Lieutenant Edmund who was In charge of the uptown Detec tive bureau, happened to be near and grabbed tile woman, who was laughing. "What's the trouble?" Leigh asked. Then ahe told her story and showed the gloved hand. "I gave him a beauty, and I guess that he will not insult any more women," she remarked. "Leigh could not catuh the man and did not detain her very long. "Oh, I've hit several others before to night. All of them Insulted me and here after any one who gets fresh will be at tended to," she said as she walked away. Huboken is to be the Gretna Green to which matrimonially inclined New Yorkers and others will resort to avoid the pub licity the new marriage law requires. There Is every likelihood that It will soon achieve prominence as an elopers' haven for bashful youths, and maids will find marrying made easy there. Under the new law, that went into effect In New York state, New Year's day, both parties to the marriage contract must appear In person before the county clerk and swear to the minute and searching pedigree which they must previously have made out when applying for a license to wed. Under the New Jersey law everything i is made easy. No marriage license Is required, and the couple may go before the nearest Justice of the peace and have the knot tied legally, simply and Inexpensively. Aa an inducement one Justice In tho town across the river offers bargain rates and a wedding march on the phonograph thrown in. There Is likely to be a run on the drug stores for the tltian mixture. A large New York department store has advertised for a bunch of red-haired girls to serve as waiters in the food adjunct of their estab lishment. So far none of the fiery-haired ones has applied for the Job. Inatead, the manager of the store has been deluged with letters, mostly from brunettes, who have offered to take on the crimson head dress If he will hold the Job open for twolve hours. Only the real simon-pure and not dyed-ln-the-wool article, he says, need apply. But how can he tell the dif ference? This Is why auburn-haired ladies have the call. "Anyone who Is observant," says the manager, "must have noticed that the red-headed girls are the ones who at tract the men. Besides, they do not flirt too much. While they can be Jollied well I sympathize with the male party who gets too gay with them." No one who does not mingle freely with the people of Wall street can imagine how large a part superstition plays In specula tion. Some traders are Influenced by the veriest trifles. One man, says the Journal of Commerce, will not do anything should a cat cross his path on the way downtown. Others habitually go short on dreary morn ings. Others again will not enter any Im portant deal on the 13th. Recently on Fri day the 13th, trading was almost at a standstill during the first hour. This date has been so much talked of that It would surprise ordinarily constituted mortals to know the significance that has been at tached to It by the rank and file of Wall street. There was a Friday, the 13th, In September, but nothing untoward hap pened. Since then there haa been upheaval upon upheaval, with the result that Wall street was more susceptive than ever ou the last Friday the 13th. Brokers have long since learned the folly of trying to dispel the crazy notinna of their customers. It Is highly questionable If even the pass ing of Friday, the 13th, without disaster will effectively allay the foibles of those who faced the day with trepidation. Su perstition dies hard. Residents in the neighborhood of Fifth avenue and Sixty-fifth street are thinking of locking up all their watches and clocks to safeguard them from the pilfering fin gers of a mysterious person who seems to have no liking for money or Jewelry, but consldera it worth whllo to break Into a house merely fur a watch or clock that may strike his fancy. Mrs. A. E. Reynolds, who haa a board ing house at BIS Madlaon avenue, ia one victim of the man's peculiar mania. Last Saturday morning she discovered that a handsome rhinestone clock, preaented to her laat Christmas by her hoarders, hsd mysteriously disappeared. Nothing else In the house waa disturbed. Mrs. Louis Slarr, Jr., who Uvea en the fifth floor of (36 Park avenue, half a doxen blocks away, left her apartments for twenty minutes, and when she returned found her handsome watch and chain, valued at ti, mlaslng. A pin cushion and bureau drawers, gleaming; with brux I c and rlnga worth several times that awouut,. wora left UDtatuhcd, For Goodness Sake Get CORN SYRUP A Treat That , Mattes You Eat PRF3SIDEMT-MAK1XO IX NEBRASKA Syracuse Journal (rep.): Some of the politicians In Loncoln are working over time trying to manufacture sentiment for their favorite presidential candidates. There can be no question but that a large majority of the republicans of Nebraska are for Taft as a first choice. Atkinson rGaphlc (rrp.): Politicians who are out of a Job are springing different presidential candidates In tho hope that lightning may strike them; but when the clouds roll by they will find that the poo pie still stand for Roosevelt Ideas, and If they cannot have Teddy they will Insist on Taft. Nebraska Liberal (dem.): Those not af filiating with the republican party will be Interested In the LaFollette campaign In Nebraska, for If Mr. Bryan should by any circumstances be defeated, LaFollette would be the first choice among the re publicans and would be preferable to many democrats prominently spoken of. Loup City Northwestern (rep.): Frank Harrison, always In the limelight with some scheme or other, now drops his Roosevelt boom and ha started a Ne braska boom for LaFollette for president. Frank sends the Northwestern his muldnn effort circular In behalf of the Wisconsin man. We hardly think Nebraska Is ready to drop Taft at present. Sterling Sun (rep.): Nebraska's senators and members of congress have expressed themselves aa favoring Taft for president. In this they are doubtless in full harmony with a majority of Nebraska republicans at this time. Hughes has a few support ers, LaFollette a few and Taft the rest. Whichever Is nominated, Nebraska repub licans will nto kick very hard. They will be satisfied If it is not Fairbanks, Knox, Foraker or some other of the trust sym pathizers. Rushvllle Recorder (rap.): Secretary of War Taft has not much time to talk about his political future, but nevertheless he says enough about the Philippines to in dicate he Is not Indulging in any dreams about the immediate future of that coun try. Mr. Taft has certainly shown a most Intelligent grasp of things during his long Journey, and while his observations may not be encouraging to those who act like galvanised frogs, they will at leant com mand the respect of the people at large. Beatrice Kxpress (rep.): The Iafollette press bureau has beeft established at Lin coin and" has Issued a batch of newspaper extracts showing friendly feeling for the Wisconsin man's presidential candidacy. As the design of the IaFollette boomers is confessedly not to create sentiment, but to ascertain the size and temperature of what is already here, the effort of the bureau may be accepted as purely one of informa tion and' not Intended to Influence the minds of Voters. As time goes on and the bureau gets into good working order, it will doubtless be able to present longer strings of favorable newspaper clippings. The first lot Is a trifle small to Impress one with the formidableness of the LaFol lette campaign in this state. . Madison Clironlcle (r) The press of the country Is busy these days peculating In presidential timber. Of daya speculating In presidential timber. Of course the outcome will be similar to all speculation. It Is an open fight In which only one can win. From the time that Wil liam H. Taft's name waa first mentioned as a presidential possibility we have been heartily In favor of his nomination. To our mind he more clearly represents ths temper and sentiment of the American peo ple than any other man whose name has been mentioned for the presidency. We have the highest regard for Governor Hughea and Senator LaFollette. but neither of them haa gained, by reason of their publlo career, the confidence of the people to the extent of that which has fallen to the lot of William H. Taft. York Times (rep.): There Is no object In supporting LaFollette in Nebraska ex cept to handicap Taft. Our state has de clared for the great secretary as em phatically aa any state poaalbly can. Our atate convention was almost unanimous and our delegation In congross Is entirely so, In endorsing him. It Is well known that the president does not think anything at all of LaFollette. He alwaya turned to Bpoor.er for Information regarding Wis consin affairs and Ignored the erratic ex- governor almost entirely. The fact Is the management of the I.aF-ollette campaign, whatever there Is of It, is assumed by a man who has Just been frozen out of a government position and who Is against the administration. Perhaps the only way any possible Injury could be done the Taft Interests in Nebraska Is to support La Follette. Broken Bow Republican: The movement for the nomination of Taft la undoubtedly stronger now than at any time alnce his boom waa started. For a few weeks after he left for tho orient the boomlet seemed to sag In the middle, but with the reitera tion of President Roosevelt's statement that he would not be a candidate for re nomlnatlon the Interest In the huge secre tary's candidacy has been Increased. Tuft's faculty of making good at every position he haa tried commenda him to re publican voters. He measures up to the pres idential standard In every respect and the fact that he will carry out the Roosevelt ideas Is sufficient reason for many people. The only objection advanced against his candidacy Is by the labor unionists, who are antagonistic becauae of some Injunc tions granted by Taft when he was Judge. This Is practically offset with them, how ever, because of the knowledge that he not a candidate of the trusts and the financiers, the men with whom the labor union people are moat at war. We Tell ran CsLkJa V Aat lah IMUlf JUfVa ttmA sWaaF laAOarsMlt lyir'i k, -As iraou. ewAM, better w, m?ZXSfci, fat Govrht, voljf, bronchi fit. forauUt ml nil iat minu. Karo Corn Syrup It more than "goodneas" it" a food to valuable in Its properties that author ities class it high among food products. Not only nutritiout but delicious a golden syrup of ex quisite flavor that pleases all palates. For every use from griddle cakes to candy. 10c.. 25c, mf 50c. In ir -tight tins. PERSONAL NOTE. Mr. Carnegie says that the civil war waa Justifiable, and now anybody whft thinks It wasn't Is without support. Lamar Jackson, a full-blooded Choctaw Indian of Atoka, Ok!., has been ap pointed to a cadetshlp In the United Statra Military Academy at West Point by Con gressman Charles D. Carter of Oklahoma. George S. Nixon, aenator from Nevada, has a ranch of 45,000 acres In Wyoming under fence and a farm of 1,000 acres In Nevada. His mines In Tonopah, Goldfleld. Columbia, Dlamondfield, Manhattan and Falrvlew yield enormous wealth. Always say, "for advertising apace," when you advertise that commodity. A Chicago man read, "For space In thla car apply to W. J. Champion," and he became greatly excited In his clamorous search to find the man, or his legal representative. In order to get from 111 in space within which to breathe. A peculiar thing, brought out of the elec tion to the senate of William James Bryan of Florida, who will ' be the baby member of that body. Is that most of the "Baby Bunch" in the senate have, as the first letter of their last name, the second latter In the alphabet, B, notably Sen ators Bailey, Bevcrldge, Burkett. Borah and Brandegee. Captain Plllsbury, the new chief of the bureau of navigation. Is a recognized au thority on the gulf stream, being the author of the standard work of reference on that subject. He devoted much time to the study of the stream while he was Connected with the coast Burvey and the importance of his observations led to his election to a fellowship In the Royal Geographical society. The exploration of the vast unknown regions In the southern watershed of the Amazon river between the fourth and tenth parallela la the object of an expe dition which is being organized In Bos ton under the supervision of George M. Boynton. It Is expected to begin opera tions at Pernambuco next July. Mr. Boynton Is a native of New Hampshire, and has spent ten years in tho Amazon basin, where his work has gained 111 in an honorary membership In Geographical society. the Royal SMII.1MI HENARKI, "Ah." said Bragley, with a view to mak ing Miss Wise Jealous, "I was alone last evening with someone I admire very much." "Ah!" echoed the bright girl. "Alone, were you?" Philadelphia Press. "When I am busily encaged in thinking." remarked the doctor, "all the noises on earth can't disturb me." "My stars! exclaimed the professor. In his astronomical way. "Do the wheels In your head make so much racket as that?" Chicago Tribune. Tli rA,vlver f nr th defnnrt r.nrniratlnn was making his first report., "Your honor," he said, "I find that the Jl.iin.iil.lnul ..nltaniDn riiii,trt.ltiv 4Vi& corporation had received evervthlng before I got there." Philadelphia Ledger. 'You must take pride in the fact that you are making history." "I don't know," answered Senator Sor ghum; "after reading volumes describing wars and the errors of selfish ambitions, I have nearly concluded that history is a bad Job." Washington Star. "Here, here!" cried the copy editor, what do you mean by saying here the prisoner laughed aloud for mercy?' ' "Mecause x nai s exacuy wnai ne aia. replied the bright reporter; "the Judge had Just made a silly Joke at his ex pense." Philadelphia Press. ' i Pastor (making a call) Your husband la one of our parlahloners, Mrs. Jyooba, I be lieve, but I have not seen him at churoht lately. ' Mrs. J y cobs No: I heard tilra say a week or two ago that he waa going to er take a layoff till the holidays ware over Chicago Tribune. The Assyrian was scratching some blare glyphlca on a brick. "What you wrltln'?' asked his chum. "Hanged If I know," responded the en graver, "but I guess some of those Asey rlnloKlsts of the twentieth centupr pan translate it all right," Philadelphia ' Ledger. 1 ' "I made Tom quite angry the) othef ' night." "How did you do thai?" "Ho buys me such beautiful JaOk roses, and I asked him If he wouldn't bring me one of those Jack pots ho and my brother were talking about to put them In, and he told me afterwards I oughtn't to have said such a thing before father. Wasn't that funny ?" faaltlmore American. TUB GARAGE, mmmm i I Harper's Weekly. There Is a stable where 1 keep My horses and my carriage; Adjoining on each side's a place My coachman calls a "garrldge, He dors nut liku the gasoline; He says it simiIIs the carrlagea, "The bl lined smell la a nulaanoe, and Hit cornea from them 'ere garrldgea.V When my man and the chauffeurs meet. A DucU flies into a dreadful rage: One of them aaya, " 'Taln't from taf place The smell don't come from my garrayge, I don't uae nuthln' but the beat. And will not while I draw me wmgea I have the cleanest place In town Look at them other big gorrayges. And then the other man butts In (He of the second place has charge) He Is a Frenchman, and he says. "Don't talk to ma of your garraghe) I use se finest gasoline Look at my bills an' see se chsrgea V. Ze smell cornea from aa osser place; Mine Is se best of all garraghea." L' EN VOI. I wonder how 'twould be If I Should get a car and sell my carrlafo. And whether I should keep It in A "garrayge," "garrarghe," or a 'gar ridge." Ifon - Aloohollo Cherry JPaotoral Eul aTl-l sWa.a. - Or. f.O.AmOs., 4 I f
