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4 TIIE 0MAI1A DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, JANUARY- 9, 1908. The Omaha Daily Dee. FOl'KDKD HT EDWARD ROKEWATER. VICTOR ROflfcWATER, EDITOR. Entered t Omaha Postofflce aa second class matter. TKRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Delly Bee (without Sunday), on year.. $4 00 Dally Bw and Sunday, one year '0 Sunday U, one year Saturday He", inn year 1-aO DKLIVERKD BY CARRIER: Dally Bee (including ftunday), per week..lSc Daily Bee without Sunday), jut week. loo Kvenlng Bee (without Sunday), per week c Evening life (with Kunday). per week... loo Address all complaints of irregularities In delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha City Hall Building. Council Bluffs 15 ficott Street. Chicago ttvto Cnlverstty Building. New York 15m Home Life Insurance Building. - . WaahlnKlon TJ Fourteenth Street N. W. j i CORRESPONDENCE?. Communications relating to new and edi torial matter should he addressed. Omaha Bee, auditorial Department. ' REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to Tim Be Publishing company, onlv 2-oerit stamps received In payment of mall aocounts. Personal chocks, except on Omaha, or eastern exchange, "ot accepted. . STATfcMENT OF CIRCULATION. Slate of Nebraska. 1ouhIbs County, ss. : ti.orge II. Tzschuck. treasurer of The Rre Publishing Compsnv. being duly sworn wavs that the actual ' number of full and complete copies of The Dally. Morning-, Evening and Rimdav Hee printed during the month of December, 19U7, was as fol lows: 1 36,400 17 36,840 2 37,150 IS 36,630 3. . . 37,370 19 36,540 4.......... 37,390 20.. 36,580 6..... 37,330 21 36,360 ... 36,960 22 36.300 7 37.090 2 3 36,400 8 36,300 24 36,890 9 36,930 25 36,600 10 37,030 36,680 11 . 87.000, ,27 - 38.890 12 38.740 21 36,360 13 37,530 29 36,800 14 36,610 SO 36,110 15 36,950 11 36,610 1$ 36,960 Totals 1,138,980 . Less unsold and returned copies. 9,804 Net total 1,189,776 Dally average 36,444 GBOROE B. TZSCHVCK. Treasurer. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 2d clay of January, 19n8. ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Public. WIIHN CUT OF TOW.f. Subscribers leaving; the city tem porarily should have The Bee mailed to them. Address will be changed as oflen aa requested. A Chicago boy attacked a mule with an empty rifle. The mule was loaded. Funeral private. New York has apparently lost Us financial prestige and its political pres tige Is also estray. Caleb Powers Is said to be planning to write a book. He ought to call it "Jurors I Have Met" "What must the democrats do to win?" asks the New, York World. Get .a few million more voteH. With more than a million dollars in cash on hand,' the city treasury of Omaha looks pretty good. Statistics show that there are 8,000,000 telephone girls in the world. And every one of them la busy when you aro in a hurry. The strike of ice cutters in Wyo ming suggests the query. "What are ou going to do when the ice man comes next summer?" "The new $10 gold certificate is the prettiest money printed," says the Houston Post. It is only half as pretty as a $20 gold certificate. A New York burglar made the mis take of breaking into the house of a Tammany leader. He managed to es ape without being robbed. Ex-Congressman Grosvenor wants to bo United States senator in place of Foraker. Occasionally something hap pens to reconcile the Ohioans to For aker. Pittsburg bottlemakers report that '.heir orders from Georgia have dou bled within the last two months and '.he goods ordered are not for milk 'jottleg, either. The death of Edward Hanlon re moves from the sporting world a man who won many laurels for America in rowing contests. The tempest In the teapot stirred up by the Railroad commission serves to show what that body might accomplish and probably will when it gets to working together. Tin Cup, Colo., should have a vote of thanks. Its citizens, in mass meet lug assembled, both decided that they would not offer congress any advice on currency legislation. Senator Burkett is finding that it is hard to satisfy his Lincoln admirers. Whenever he does anything for any other section of the state he hears a kick from his home folks. Senator Dick firmly announces that he will -climb into no bandwagon ex cept Ihqof Senator Foraker. Senator Dick is'trfo modest to get into a band wagon without an Invitation. "Mr... Bryan cannot f command the electoral votes of the eastern states," gays the New York Sun. He can com mand them, all right, but they do not seem to have drilled to obey his com ruanda.J The men who are trying to start a riot at Gold field should go down to M uncle. lad., or over la Kentucky, and gee bow the "Night Riders" do things. Investigation shows that the trouble at Gold field was confined to a prema- Ur explosion of Sparl TUB ALDRICH HU.L, .,- ' The measure offered by Senator Al drlrh of Rhode Island, proposing leg islation amendatory to existing cur rency laws, may be accepted" as the basis of any action congress may take upon that subject at the present ses sion. It represents, admittedly, the wisdom of the senate republican lead ers upon a subject which has created the widest divergency' of opinion in both branches of congress. While not wholly in the nature of a compromise, it contains some provisions proposed by the American Bankers association, some remedies suggested by advocates of a purely asset currency, and par tially embodies recommendations made by the secretary of the treasury and the comptroller of the currency for remedying defects in tUe existing sys tem. It contains, it is true, some of the weaknesses of the different reme dies proposed, but it also contains most of the elements 'of strength In other propositions. The bill provides for jyi additional issue of bank circulation, up to $20, 000,000, on securities other rlyap? those Issued by the government, including state, municipal and Industrial bonds in approved cases, subject to the dis cretion of the comptroller of the Cur rency and the secretary of the treas ury, whose Joint action is essential to the authorization of the additional notes and to the acceptance of securi ties on which' the issue is based. The increased circulation shall in no case exceed 75 per cent of the value of the bonds deposited. A monthly tax on the Increased circulation Is provided to compel the retirement of the issue as the emergency which caused it passes. National banking associations, outside of reserve or central reserve cities, now required to keep a reserve equal to 15 per cent of their deposit liabili ties, shall hereafter at all times at least hold two-thirds of such reserve in lawful money. Had such a law as that proposed by Senator Aldrich been in force last year there probably would have been no panic. It would have furnished the relief desired by eastern bankers, whose embarrassment caused the financial flurry. By the same argument it is expected that the adoption of the measure would prevent a recurrence of such panics. The purely commercial bank has its assets in commercial pa per and will not be greatly benefited by the relief plans proposed in the Aldrich bill, except that relief would come to It indirectly through the light ening of burdens on the eastern banks by the operation of the proposed bond based circulation plan. The provision requiring nonreserve city national banks to hold 10 per cent of their deposit liabilities in lawful money at all times appears to be an unwarranted exaction, as it would limit the active resource of the banks to that extent, at times when no strin gency exists and no cause is manifest for the retention In idleness of such a large proportion of the bank funds. This provision, however, is a minor matter when considered in connection with the more important features of the bill. The fate of the Aldrich bill is prob lematical. The house is so radically divided on different currency proposi tions that It is doubtful If it will ac cept any measure, unless the force of the house rules is employed to get it through without amendment. Should the senate finally accept the Aldrich measure in its present or some modi fled form, the house leaders may com pel acceptance of it. The presentation of the matter from the senate end of the capltol offers the only encouraging prospect that any legislation may be had on the currency question at this session of congress. RKOPEtiltiQ OF THE MILLS. The New York Journal of Commerce and the New York Commercial, both of which give special attention to news relating to the industrial and commer cial conditions of the country, are filled these days with most encourag ing reports from the manufacturing districts in all sections' of the country. From Pittsburg, New 'York City, the New England mill district and from other manufacturing centers of the west, south and middle west are com ing announcements that factories which suspended operations during the late financial disturbance are resum ing operations, some of them, it is true, with reduced forces and some with announced provisions of curtail ing their output, but all of them re suming. The resumption of the factories is the most encouraging proof that over production, that prime cause of de pression, has not been carried to excess In auy direction. Cancellation of or ders in November caused' some over stocking by mills that wero up in the manufacture of their current orders, but this overstock has been taken by the renewed demand in most parts of the country and the factories are com pelled to resume operations, if only with sufficient forces to fill orders as they are received. It is the natural ef fort to adjust, at the beginning of the year, output to orders. The Steel trust's conditions fairly illustrate the situa tion. When the depression set in last November many blast furnaces of the trust were blown out to wait for the demand of future months, but the steel mills are still in full operation to catch up with the orders of former months. On top of this comes a re newal of most of the orders that were cancelled in November and these have been accompanied by inquiries indi cating an increased business for the year. This condition has become so pronounced that the management of the Steel trust are already planning to reVipen many of their branches which were closed or placed on reduced work ing forces in November. All indications are, therefore, that the Industrial interests have been ben efited by the temporary lull and have had opportunity to readjust their plans on a more stable and conservative basis. The resumption, while it may not be as rapid as those out of employ ment would wish, Is inevitable. HWIKQ TEST FOR OFFICE Ri. The flood of criticism and jesting comment that followed the order by President Roosevelt requiring officers of the army to submit to tests in horse manship has clearly served the pur pose for which it was designed, that of calling attention to a rather serious defect in the. American military serv ice, as compared with that of foreign countries. In reply' to the widespread criticism with which this order was re ceived, the president has sent to the War department considerable data showing the conditions in foreign armies and the necessity of similar rigid tests in the United States. The report contains statements from Ger man, French and other foreign mili tary authorities showing that horse manship of a high or2er is considered an essential equipment of the field officer in all branches of the army service. In this country but little at tention is paid to this feature of the officer's training. Incidentally, the president's letter calls attention to a subject in which the horse breeders of the . west should find particular interest. He declares that the greatest difficulty is experi enced in securing proper mounts for the cavalry and other branches of the Service and that the quality of our horses does not equal that of the mounts used in foreign armies. He recommends that congress take such action as may be necessary to furnish sufficient and suitable remounts for the army. The cavalry horse Is apparently be coming obsolete. Prior to the advent of the automobile, breeders paid par ticular attention to the rearing of roadsters, riding horses and horses specially designed for lighter work. This supply fell off with the lessened demand and the breeders have for some years been giving their attention to the Bupply of heavy draught horses de manded for farm work and the heavy hauling in large cities. The natural result is that there is a marked short age of the lithe-limbed, deep-lunged riding horses, essential for cavalry purposes and for which the govern ment is willing to pay from $150 to $200 per head. If the army is to be equipped as the president desires, the western horse breeder will have to play a prominent and profitable part in the work. BRYAN ON MORA L COURAGE. For his Jacksonlan club address Mr. Bryan appropriately selected as his subject "The Moral Courage of the American People" and paid a deserved tribute to the privates in the ranks of the political army who have had the moral courage to stand steadfast to principle and to remain loyal "when it meant loss of business, loss of friends, personal disaster." He illustrated his meaning by declaring, "My father taught me early in life that I could af ford to be in the minority, but that I could not afford to be wrong. Of course, Mr. Bryan has been both but that is not what Is here In point. If moral courage is to be so highly praised in the private in the ranks, it must be equally, if not more, desirable in the officers in command. When Mr. Bryan four years ago hired a hall In Chicago, paying for it out of his own pocket, on the eve of the demo cratic national convention, to denounce Alton B. Parker as a traitor to demo cratic principles, wearing a democratic mask only as a disguise, he led people to believe that he possessed a degree of moral courage rarely found in a pub lic man. When he followed this up by going into "the enemy's country" and repeating at New York his speech reading Parker out of the party, he al most convinced one and all that his moral courage was not to be ques tioned. But what became of this moral cour age at St. Louis? If Parker was clad In democratic livery which did not be long to him, if he was the very nega tion of democratic principles as Mr. Bryan had repeatedly asserted, was it not wrong for Mr. Bryan to surrender and to accept the pseudo-democrat as his leader? But Bryan remained in the convention hall at St. Louis and participated in its work to the end. When a handful of silver repub licans headed by Senator Teller of Col orado walked out of the republican convention in 1896 rather than yield to the gold platform, they showed moral courage. Had Mr. Bryan been as fearlessly devoted to the doctrines he had been preaching he would have walked out of the St. Louis convention as soon as the nomination was made, and Instead of apologizing for Parker on the stump, he would have openly espoused Theodore Roosevelt, whom he charges with appropriating democratic policies. The same moral courage that im pelled Mr. Bryan to denounce Parker should have impelled him to support Roosevelt. The moral courage which Mr. Bryan praises In the democratic rank and file proved to be more real thousands of them who placed princi ple above party voted for Roosevelt and helped to make him president by the largest vote ever polled by any candidate for that high office. It is semi-officially announced from KAlbany that Governor Hughes will not be a candidate for re-election or look for the presidential nomination, hav ing decided to return to the practice of law at the-close of his present term of office. Doubtless several eminent republican leaders will think more kindly of Hughes if the report is verified. The death of Rt. Rev. Worthlngton, D. D., LL.D., moved a conspicuous figure church work of the west. Georg has re in the Bishop Worthlngton had made a deep impres sion on the affairs of his church in the Transmlsaouri country before his fail ing health required him to remove to a more favorable climate. Even there his ability was recognized and he was given charge of the affairs of the church in continental Europe, a mis sion in which he was engaged at the time of his death. He will be remem bered in Nebraska as a man of much earnestness, excellent Judgment and conservative real. Congressman Madden of Illinois ad mits that he sent twelve tons of gov ernment publications to his Chicago constituents for Christmas presents. He sent something that cost him noth ing to people who had no use for the gifts. The only loser on the transac tion Is the government, which is out the $2,040 it might have earned if Madden had paid postage on his gifts instead of sending them under his con gressional frank. A Wall street publication protests against the statement going the rounds that "97 per cent of the deals on Stock exchange are gambling deals with marked cards." The protest is timely and serve" to illustrate the tendency to exaggeration. As a matter of fact, probably not more than 95 or 96 per cent of the stock deals on Wall street are conducted with marked cards. Sunday closing in Omaha has re ceived another boost at the hands of the court, the Judge telling an appli cant for habeas corpus to apply to the legislature for relief from a law he ad mits is burdensome and archaic. The condition is not improving, but the su preme court is still to be heard from. Part of the milk in the cocoanut, at least, appears to have been that the National Biscuit company did not con duct its business according to the wishes of the Retail Grocers' associa tion. Therefore, the pure food law was hurled against pasteboard and not against tin packages. Fifteen new stars will shine on the Omaha streets very agon, the result of an increase in the working police force. This is not an indication that disorder Is increasing in Omaha, but an admis sion that the police force was entirely too small for the work it has had to do. ' ' " Mayor Jim and "his city council have finally agreed on one thing that the streets of Omaha ought to be cleaned. Now, if they will "get to gether" long enough to remove the dirt they will have to some extent ful filled their function. Prof. Tower of the University of Chicago has been spending a lot of time evolving new varieties of potato bugs. The professor may learn some thing to his distinct disadvantage by visiting almost any farmer In the coun try. Forget It. Boston Herald. "The panic of 1907" Is a good name for It. It denotes that It Is among the things that were. Gives Himself Away. Kansas City Times. Mr. Bryan, to employ his own language, "feels the disease coming on him again." Mr. Bryan's use of words, on occasions, could not possibly be more pertinent and felicitous. This la Too Much. Washington Herald. People say that Englishmen have no wit, but one of them has referred to Admiral Evans aa "Rojestvensky II," and that strikes us aa a pretty good Joke. Think of the Russian being called "Fight ing Rojr Reaching; for the Gold Drlrka. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Many democrats are asking If any part of that $100,000 Is to be spent for railroad tickets to Denver for the benefit of the faithful who do the whooping. It will be a hardship even with free tickets to travel so far to witness a sure-thing performance. Joshing the Medical Marines. Baltimore American. After all the excited discussion about putting the Relief, the hospital ship, un der the charge of a medical commander, the government -has not the money to do it with. It Is said, and the medical com mander has failed In this first serious emergency, aa he cannot raise the funds even with a blister. And If he asks for It. the blistering may be done by congress. Grippe There is said to be 50,000 cases in New York. Scott's Emulsion will strengthen and fortify you against the Grippe, and if you have had it, it will build you up quicker than any other known remedy. All Drassuto HOrSD ABOI'T 'EW YORK. Hippies on the t'nrrent ( Life la the Metropolis. A remarkable case either of mistaken Identity or social Imposture was revealed by the suicide of Mrs. John Van Ness Roberts, as she was known at her apart ments on Riverside Drive. In the Social Register her name appeared as "Katherine Btuyvesant." Under one or the other of these names she became prominent In high social circles, and entertained many proml Inent guests at her home. After deth a New York attorney Identified the body as that of Louise Vermeule, whom he de fended in 1SB9 for forgery, and who later married Richard Roelefs of Cripple Creek. Colo. The Colorado husband accepted the Identification as correct and provided for the burial of the remains last Monday. Many of those who had known her as Mrs. Roberts attended the funeral, resolutely refusing to believe that the dead woman was Louise Vermeule. They declared it would have been Impossible for such an Impostor as she is now painted to be to have obtained an Invitation to Prince Louis of Battenberg's ball on board the flagship Drake, and to have been welcomed at various social functions of the highest magnitude. They do not, however, bring any facts forward, to shake the Identifica tion as made. Police Commissioner Bingham's aston ishing statement that 2,177 persons were reported to the New York police as "miss ing" during 1907, against l.M three years before, again emphasizes the fact that this city is the port of the missing. Although the commissioner's report shows that 764 cases were cleared up, which often nit-mil. mm mo aeaa ooay or me missing person was found, It also shows that OS cases still remain mysteries. New York's atfaptablllty as a hiding place was demonstrated during the world-wide search for Raymond Hitchcock two months ago, when the comedian disappeared after being Indicted on allegations by two young girls. Of the still unsolved disappearances that of Mrs. Clifford W. Hartrldge, wife of Harry K. Thaw's former counsel. Is probably the most noted. Wearing $4,000 worth of diamond and with plenty of money she disappeared October 11 The lives of Joseph Haywood and his wife Mary of Grant City, Staten Island, were probably saved by their house cat Sunday morning when they were awakened by its scratching at their bodroom door to find tho house In flames. They man aged to escape out the second story win dow Just aa the floor collapsed. The cat was burned to death. The Haywoods lived In a two-story and a half frame house on Washington avenue. Grant City. They occupied the front room on the second floor. No one else lived in the house. They went to bed as usual on Saturday night at 11:30 o'clock, after locking up the house. At 2 o'clock Mrs. Haywood was awakened by a loud scratch ing on the bed room door. After lying In bed for some minutes listening to It and hoping the cat would go away, she finally got up to let It in. When she opened the door the cat Jumped into the room with Us fur ablaze, and was followed by a cloud of smoke and flame. Without stopping to Investigate further. Mrs. Haywood awakened her husband and they climbed out the window on to the porch and down the supports to tho ground. Almost Immediately they heard the floor of their room fall In and the house was ablaze from top to bottom. The locality Is very thinly populated and the fire was able to get an enormous start before any one discovered it. After two years of upheaval of the streets and tho expenditure of 12,600,000 the city will soon enjoy the -llrst use of Its high pressure water service. Many of the mains have been laid and the electric pumping stations aro awaiting the word to turn hito the pipes water at a pressure of V. pounds to the square Inch that can bo turned on a fire the instance the hose Is connected, and can. If carelessly used. sweep frame and brick walls before It. The principal business sections will be pro tected from fire by a service that will be sufficient to raise great streams of water to a height of from 360 to 300 feet. The financial and dry goods district will be under this protection and the boundary will, when the service Is In full operation, Include Twenty-third street. Third avenue and the East and North rivers. Two high pressure pumping stations, to be run by electricity, will supply the power for the service. These aro on the lower Kast and West side. It had been Intended that snlt water should be used In the great mains, all of them new and laid especially for the service, but It is doubtful If this will be done, as there seems no necessity for It. One of the most Interesting parts of this new fire fighting service will be the fur nishing of the electricity for It by an elec tric company. Minutes are viewed as dollars in the great game of making money. Based on the annual earnings of the people of New York City, each minute of the working day Is worth $30,000. If New York can gain a minute by spend ing $J9,000 It is making $1,000 by the tranaac- action, and effort Is being constantly ex pended In that direction. The minutes spent In locomotion are looked on as an extravagance, and they must bo cut to a minimum, so as to leave full time to be devoted to work and play. Walking is too slow, therefore the horse cars: horse cars are too slow, therefore tho trolley cars. If trolley cars enough are run, congestion compels slowness; therefore the elevated and subway. Water makes boats neces sary, and they are slow, therefore the bridges and tunnels, and for these New York 1b spending $500,000,000. Great railways entering New York must save the minutes, for the days have not minutes enough in them In which to do the work demanded with present facilities; therefore the Pennsylvania system Is spend ing $130100,000 to get Its passengers and freight In and out of New York quicker than it can now. The New York Central and New Haven roads must save minutes on the time of their trains, so $70,000,000 Is being spent on the Grand Central station Improvements. This expenditure of money on the Grand Central terminal will mean the saving of six to eight minutes on each train, and that means tho dally creation of 1,440 min utes or a doubling of the day with the present number of trains. Then twice as much work can b done In each twenty four hours, and it will not take long to get back the $70,000,000 in valuable minutes. Tho clearing up of the mystery of the woman found murdered In tho Jersey swamps, near Harrison, was due to the clever detective work of a reporter on the World. The record of how the victim was Identified by means of the unmarked cloth ing she wore, how the manufacture, dis posal to retailers and final delivery In Brooklyn were traced at Infinite pains Is mora interesting than anything Conan Doyle ever caused his Intelligent detective to do. The case offered an onusua oppor tunity for Journalistic enterprise, because the police responsibility, divided between two states, was in a fair way to be shirked. But the Ironical feature of tiis whole thing Is that the reporter who traced and learned who the murdered victim was is In a fair way of winning the $1,000 reward offered by another morning newspaper for the Identity of the victim and arreat and. con viction of her murderer. Compiles with tho pure food laws every state RArrinn WIlltlllM lint TU Clet l made of the finest msterUN llk.ni. I II slble to select, and mskes light, eily dieeted mended by leading physicians and l-PriKflflY 'n osltig Cahimst yon are alwa XUUIIUMI a good baking; therefore, there e"""""""- material or time. Calumet Is pi: csna; It Making raising CALUMET thm balls SEARCHING FOR CANCF.R CI HE, Result of Experiments at the Vnl- vemlty of Edlnbnrg. Baltimore American. During the year Just closed the medical world became Interested in the work of Dr. John Beard of the University of Kdln burg for the production of a cancer cure. It Is now Informed of the full scope of the experiments of this scientist to eradicate one of the most mysterious of human mala dies through the published account by a fellow scientist. Dr. Saleeby, of his methods and results. The story of the invasion of cancer's stronghold and the plan of cam paign, the defeats and successes, the mar shalling of this, that and the other battal ion to the outer and then the Inner line of defense, with the final scaling of the works and the attacking of the tlrVad scourge In Its lair, Is as fascinating as any story of achievement In he world of science. It Is chiefly remarkable not solely be cause of the partial success attained and promise of ultimate triumph, but because of Its bearing upon the broad subject of molecular action. From the conclusions of Dr. Beard it would appear that the cancer growth creates an Independent or ganism In the human body. Taken from Its dress of technical terms and stated In the barest form, it would appear that can cer Involves the operation of the various ferments and the chemical principle of the asymetry "of the carbon atom that Is. one set of atoms rotates to the right and an other set to the left, creating different kinds of tissues. Since the promulgation of this theory by Pasteur In I860 and Its development by various scientists It has been held that "humanity Is composed of dextro men and dextro women" that is, the atomic arrangement in the human body Is that of rotation to the right. Dr. Beard has seemingly established as a fact that the opposite action of the atoms In the human body Is not only possible, but this effect lies at the base of cancer, the weakening of the pancreatic fluid and other favorable conditions of the body, causing the peculiar action In the tlssuei that develops the cancer substance. Tho discovery of a ferment that would eat the abnormal tissues without Impairment of the natural tissues would be destructive to cancer. The strongest of the digestive fluids, trypsin, has been seized upon by the Edlnburg experimenter as the base of his cancer remedy. The conditions re quire a ferment that will absolutely abForb the one class of tissue without detriment to the other. It would appear that all re maining for the complete success of tho line of Inquiry is to establish the amount of doses and proper methods of adminis tration of the remedy. Humanity will be unspeakably blessed If this moBt difficult of human Ills has Indeed been brought to the point of eradication through the em bryologic studies that, have been made by the expert. PERSONAL NOTES. A curious distinction in libel penalties Is reported from Montreal, where a local paper called the ministers and members of the provincial legislature fools and ignor amuses. The fines were $M In the case of each minister and $3 In the case of each member. James C. Courts, who has received a re appointment as clerk of the appropriations committee of the house of representatives, Is now serving his thirtieth year In the employ of the house, having first been ap pointed by Representative Atkins of Ten nessee, In 1077. Thre young sons of Prince Frederick Iopold of Prussia, nephews of tho kaiser, have gone to the manual labor training school at Gross-Llchterfelde to take a course In practical mechanics. This Is in accordance with an ancient tradition of th? Hohenzolleran house. Mr. A. Knechtel, forester for the New York Forest, Fish and Game commission, has been appointed Inspector of forest re serves for the Dominion of Canada. Mr. Knechtel Is a graduate of Cornell univer sity; and while with the United States gov ernment he superintended the planting of 600,000 trees In the Adlrondacks. Robert a McCornrick, to whom the em peror of Japan has sent the decoration of the Order of the Rising Sun, Is a well known Cbicagoan and former ambassador to Austria-Hungary.' Russia and France. He retired about a year ago from the dip lomatic service. He Is a son of William 8. McCormlck, member of the reaper firm, and was born In Virginia in 1849. Good On Hot Cakes i r Karo Corn Syruj) a better syrup than you ever tasted. 1 1 i CORN SYRUP is a find iweet and every purpose for which can be used. la 10c, 25c, 50c air VV COBN PRODUCTS MFC. CALUMET pniwn -v 05.0 leretore. It :i recom- - - chemists, will keep longer 1 Powder on the mark power. Is socarefolly an J scien tifically prepared that the neutralization el Ino - reillTit la absolutely perfect Therefore, lalumei leaves ne Korneu or Alum la itie toou. 11 is chsmlcsllf correct. $1,000.00 fftvt-n for 4tiT Rtihit Knee In lurii-tttfli tit no am 1 1 h fminil IK Calumet A MASSACHUSETTS BOiqiKT, State Railroad Commission Hands One to m. Corporation. Boston Transcript. Note how the Railroad Commission sprinkled red pepper on the bouquets which It handed to the Boston Albany. Con cealed in encomiums of a general nature Is an InHldlous suggestion which, if prop erly understood, annuls ull foregoing re marks. Tho Mary Ann standard of Judg ment Is applied to the Doomsday route: "It wasn't very good, but It was pretty good for Mary Ann.'' After applauding the efforts of the road to Improve, the commission adds that a time sihedulii which cannot bo maintain! l Is a fraud on the public, and recommends that if tho road cannot run trains according to th schedule, tho schedule should he arranged to conform to the trains. Could any sugges tion be more unkind? And, pray, does the railroad commission realize whut a Job It is to arrange one of tho schedules? Can it not understand tho worry and labor In volved in planning a new onu every day T It Is Impossible to predict delays. Soiqe trains are only an hour or two late. They would thus continually lo arriving ahead of time. Disregarding the shock of nerves which this would produce In sensitive and delicate persons, It miyht turn out to le u serious inconvenience. By the doctrine of chance, most patrons know ulnjut the margin of deluy to allow for In catching their trains. Conservatism has been brought to bay. At leant we have learned huw to live with the present schedule. TIIIKI.KS LIGHT AS A lit. "Sometimes," said t'nele Khen. "fanlt findln' gets to tie sech a fad dt folks dat wants to be contented clami't foh fear of beln' unfashionable." Washington StHr. "Yes, madam," said the puylng teller, "I know your husband lias un account here, but If ho had wanted you to have any money he should have given you a cheek." "Hut, my goodness!" exclaimed Mrs. Youngwlle, "if. he's got an account hero cun t you charge It ?" Philadelphia Pics. "Our pastor did a very thoughtless act." "What was that?" "After his temperance tnlk he broke a bottio of spirits In tho highway and punc tured two new tires on loucoii Kodwuv's automobile." Cleveland Plain Dealer. "But." said the beautiful girl, "you don't look the least bit like a poet." ' I realize that." said the hard, "but t can easily explain. 1 know a burlier w ho is willing to take my books In payment for professional services." Chicago Record ilcral.l. Hercules was poisoned by the shirt of Nesstis. "I should have been suspicious," ho mut tered, "the top button was on." Herewith he sought tin; pyre. New York Sun. "How did your husband get out of tho building alter lie had located the gHS leak?" asked the reporter. "As nearly as ho could remember It after ward," Bald the woman, "he went out through the roof." Chicago Tribune. "Do you believe In the theory of life on Mars?" "Yes." answered the convivial, but shal low person; "the redness of the plami would indicate that there Is considerable life on It." Wasjilngton Star. He, opened the missive the postman had Just dellv.-red and a look of positive horror crept into his face. ' vhui Is ii, dear?" cried the trembling wife. "Is it can it be a threat from the Black Hand?" "only too true," ho groaned. "The coal man takes ids jhmi In hand to say that we dun t get any more till 1 pay that labt coal bill." Kultimoro American, A su.u 01 The wind went singing In tho night, A message from the forests drear, A song of hope to greet I he light That ushers In the dawning yeur; Tho' forest wastes lay desolate And foliage sear and dry, Beneath grow fulrtsi buds that wait To open bye and bye, II. A bird went singing In tho night Amid the wintry lilast, A Joyous note, a song of cheer To eurth In thrulldom cast; From Ice-bound streams and thirke!S dense, Where dark the shadows lie, A hint of mirth to tell the earth Of rapture bye and bye. III. My heart went singing in tho ntglit And would not be repressed, A song from some mysterious realm My utmost soul possessed; And light from some fair hidden cliint Where sweetest fancies lie Merged all old griefs and care and fear In Joys of bye and bye. Omaha. -BAYOU, NK TRKLB. best fulfils a syrup - tight tins. CO. WRNSYRUPj