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THE 0MA1IA DAILY DEE: FRIDAY. JANUARY 10. 1008. Tim Omaiia Daily Bee FOUNDED DT EDWARD ROSEWATEJi. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. Entered at Omaha rostofflce as second class matter. TERMS or SUBSCRIPTION: THr B"e (without Bundsy), one year..4.An pellir Bm and Bunday, one year Sunday Bee. one year 2. Saturday Bee. ore year DEIJVKKIuD BT CARRIER: Ial!y Bee (Including Bunday), per week.. 15c Dally Bee (without Hunday), per week.. 10c Evening Fee. (without Hunday). per week e Evening Bee. (with Bunday). per week...le Addresa all complaints of Irregularities la delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICIOS. Omaha Tha Bee Building. South Omaha Oty Hall Rulldlng. Ounr.lt Bluffs 15 Frott Street. Chicago 1640 rniverslty Building. New York IKS Home Ule Insurance Building. . . Washington T25 Fourteenth Street N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to re-wa and edi torial matter should he addressed, Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or poatal order payable to The Bee Publlahlng company. Only -cent stamps received In payment of mall account. Personal checka, except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not aocepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska. Douglaa County, : Oeorge B. Tischuck, treasurer of Tha Baa Publlahlng Company, being duly sworn, ays that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of December, 1S07, waa aa fol lawa: 1 3S.400 17 36,640 t t?,lBO II 8,ao t ST70 19 3,B40 4 VtA 10 MJ80 1 37fl0 1 3,80 se.seo 2i se.soo 1 '. nAa u moo I sajoo t4 3S,BIH SS.S30 16 Bo.aoo 10... 17,090 it 8S.S80 II 97,000 IT 860 11 ,740 21 36,380 II 87.M0 it 36300 14 SMI 10 84U10 II IMM II S8.B10 II M,t0 ToUla 1,132,880 Leas untold and returned coplea. Ml 04 Nat total 1,139,77 Dally average 3a,444 GEORGE B. TZBCTfUCK, Treaaurer. Subeortbed In my presence and aworn to before ma thll Id day of January, IS. ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Public. WHEW OUT OF TOWN, gabarrlbera leaving; the cMy tem porarily should have The Bee mailed to them. Address will be changed aa eftea aa requested. Count Bonl is continuing to Justify bis wife's insistence on a divorce. According, to the dispatches, the or iginal "Little Egypt" is dead again. It is proper that the Thaw trial should have been resumed on wash day. A Kansas City grocer sold lemon ex tract that contained no lemon, so the court banded him one. Not many of those indestructible toys given to the children on Christmas have survived the shock. "Why does a man He to his wife?" asks Winifred Black. Probably be cause there is no one else handy at the time. Prince de Bagan evidently shares that American estimate of Count Bonl. He has sued him for damages in the sum of 20 cents. "Meet the bill collector with a smile," says the New York World. Better still, meet him with something that will make him smile. There is only one objection to the court's order barring women specta tors from the Tbaw trial. It should Include morbid men as well. The financial stringency is surely over, if you believe all the reports printed about the prices being paid by base ball managers for jnew players. "Senator Knox has the nucleus of a presidential boom," says a Denver pa per. True, but It is drfflcult to nour ish a nucleus without outside assist ance. It U hoped that Wu Ting-fang has broken that habit he used to have of flaking "How much money have you gotr The Standard Oil company is going to build the biggest refining plant in the world in New Jersey. That state never asks corporations annoying questions. The millennium would be the next number on the program if state leglsla tures promptly enacted all the reforms urged by governors in their annual addresses. Bailey P. Wagner must have got hold of the 1906 calendar, or he would not have offered annual passes to the Nebraska state officer. There has been a change. 8enator "Jeff" Davis is bitterly op posed to a large appropriation tor the navy. This Is a little surprising, as the senator is something of a man-of- war on bis own account. "I have declined to be a candidate for the presidency fifteen times," says Speaker Cannon. He does not assert however, that be would decline to be a candidate the next time. Frank Vanderlip says that New York Is the nerve renter of .the United States At times, perhaps, but not when the house at Washington is in session with Speaker Cannon presiding. Mayor "Jim" had better hump taln self if he does not want to lose his place in the Bryan cabinet. De 'Aniond and VUUama are both being, urged for secretary of wag OMAHA AltD THE CONTENTION' The republican state convention to select delegates-atrlarge to represent Nebraska In the national convention at Chicago will be held in Omaha Thursday, March 12. According to the apportionment, the total number of accredited delegates in round num bers will be one thousand. Inasmuch s this is the only convention in which the republicans of the whole state will be called together In proportionate representation during the presidential year, it ought to attract an Interest and secure full participation that Its importance in its bearing on the elec tion that Is to follow would demand. The location of the convention in Omaha, the first to be held here In nine years, should also arouse local republicans to a sense of responsibility as hosts of this great gathering. Omaha and Douglas county have too often been at disadvantage in convention and legislature because misunderstood and because the party leaders through out the state were unacquainted with our people and the peculiar conditions prevailing in a big city. This conven tion will give Omaha an opportunity to get in personal touch with the prin cipal active republicans of other sec tions of Nebraska, an opportunity that hould not be let go by default. From this point of view, the holding of the coming state convention in Omaha can and should prove of mu tual benefit both to th republicans nd people generally of Omaha, and to the delegates who will be In attend ance from outside. roLiuca in nboro DISFRANCHISE MENT The southern plea that the negro question is a local and Boclal problem n the Bouth, not a political one, and that the north should keep hands off might be more effective if it were not so often contradicted by acts of south ern leaders showing that the race prejudice, which is a part of their stock in trade, rests almost entirely on political grounds. Maryland furnishes the latest illustration in point. In his message to the legislature Oovernor Warfleld declares that the "elimina tion of the ignorant, unreflecting, thriftless negro vote is imperatively demanded." The governor recom mends a "grandfather clause" amend ment to the Maryland constitution, such as has been adopted by other southern states, the net purpose of which is to disfranchise the negro. Less objection could be offered to Governor Warflold's demand, if he had eliminated the word "negro" from his recommendation of legislation to 'eliminate the Ignorant, unreflecting, thriftless negro vote." However much men may differ as to the advisability of placing an educational test on voters, there is no argument on the p'roposltlon that the vote of an Ignorant, unreflecting, thriftless white man is no more desirable than that of the negro similarly equipped. The governor of Maryland must under stand this fully, as the "eastern shore" is said to afford plenty of living proof that Ignorance, lack of reflection and thriftlessness are not monopolized by negroes in Maryland. Back of the recommendation is clearly the democratlo plan to use race preju dice as a political expedient tojre vent republicans from making further, in roads in Maryland. In 1904 One of Maryland's electoral votes went to President Roosevelt, and the republi cans have shown gains in more recent elections. It would appear that in Maryland, as In other southern states, there is more politics than color In the race question. THE NATIONAL DEBT. The treasury statement Just issued figures the interest-bearing debt of the United States, at the close of business on December 31 last, at $898,210,050, showing an increase for the year of about $60,000,000, due entirely to the sale of Panama canal bonds and the certificates of indebtedness issued by Secretary Cortelyou to relieve the money stringency In November. On the other side of the ledger Is a sur plus of $270,000,000 in the federal treasury, which, if it could be applied to the liquidation of the Indebtedness, would reduce the total to about $62S,- 000,000, or to an amount less than the funded debt of the city New York. Some interesting nnanciai promems are presented by an analysis of the na tional debt figures. The debt has, been reduced rapidly under republican ad ministration and could, by the use of the annual surplus accumulations, be wiped out entirely in a few years, were it not necessary, under the existing currency system, to keep a bond baBls for national bank notes. The basis for this national bank circulation is not large now, compared with demands for additional circulation. In August of this year $04,000,000 of the 3 per cent bonds issued during the Spanish- American war may be retired which will doubtless be done, uness such re tlrement would threaten an injurious effect upon the note circulation. The secretary of the treasury may decide to extend the time of their maturity, reducing the Interest rate to 2 per cent, or may replace them by Panama canal bonds. The Panama bonds are redeemable on and after 1916 and the Z per cent consols mill be payable In 1930v The situation simply serves notice that modification of our currency sys tem will soon become imperative. The necessity of keeping a national bond liability in order to furnish a basis for bank note circulation has been long a subject of dispute. Opinion is too markedly divided among financial ex perts and members of congress to ei Pct any thorough-going revision of the currency system at the present session, though some legislation may be enacted to afford temporary relief. A permanent solution of the currency problem ran not be eecured until we either change or enlarge the basis of national bank circulation or decide definitely upon a policy of a permanent bonded debt. SALE Or ' THE THUXDERBR." While the average American, who thinks of the London Time something as he does of the pyramids, the rocks of Gibraltar and other objects famed for masslveness and solidity, may not be moved by the announcement of the sale of that Journal, It almost marks an epoch in English history. For a cen tury and a quarter the Britisher has been taught to look upon the Times, not as a mere newspaper, equipped with editors and presses and the para phernalia essential to the printing business, but as a great and solemn Institution as much a distinctive Brit ish institution us the Bank of Eng land. Its transfer to other hands must come to British subjects everywhere like the uprooting of an imposing tra dition. The Times, according to authenti cated reports, has passed from the Walters family to the management of C. Arthur Pearson, whp already owns the London Express, the St. James Gazette, the Morning and Evening Standard, a magaxlne or two, several weeklies and who has played a master role In upsetting old-fashioned meth ods of newspaper work in London and forcing modern methods of public ity. The Walters family, which has controlled the Times for more than 100 years, will still be represented on the board of directors, but Mr. Pear son will bo the manager and will di rect the effort to re-establish the paper as a commercial and editorial success. While Britishers have been wont to swear by the Times, the record shows that they have not given It liberal or even necessary support The circula tion of the paper Is admitted to be less than 75.000, while its advertising patronage has gradually dwindled be low the profit-yielding point. The pa per has made blunders and mistakes, many of them costly. The severest blow to Its prestige came in the Par- nell libel suit, with the consequent ex DOBure of the Pigott forgeries. Since then Its troubles have been an open secret, and there Is little doubt that its owners have been glad to sell on advantageous terms. The old paper has been a very model of conservative, orthodox opinion, and it will be more than interesting to watch the effect upon the English public of the change sure to be made in the character or the paper under the new management. NEW ORIENTAL TRADE. American manufacturers have ap parently made a very considerable trade gain in a new field within the last year. The territory known as Japanese China never figured to any extent in the ledzers of American ex porters before the close of the Russo Jap war. The territory includes Port Arthur, Dalny and the territory ceded by Russia to Japan by the treaty of Portsmouth. For ten years prior to the execution of that treaty the terri tory had belonged to Russia, under cession by China, and Its wants had been supplied from Russian sources. This condition no longer prevails, Ja pan having opened the trade of the section to the United States, with a consequence that the bureau of statis tics reports exports to that territory for the year amounting to $5,690,868. The exports to this new territory consist of cars for steam railways, lo comotives, steel rails, structural Iron and steel, wheat flour, nails and spikes, metal-working machinery, boilers and engines, scales and balances, builders' hardware, electrical appliances, pumps and pumping machinery, sewing ma chines, varnish, traveling bags, safes. lamps and chandeliers. Some of the official students of trade statistics are disposed to look upon this new trade development as promising much for the future. It is hoped that they will not be disappointed, but the history of trade with Japan should not be forgot ten. The enterprising Japanese are liberal purchasers of first orders. They buy American machinery and other manufactured products In large quan tities and then their orders cease. In vestigation has shown that they use the American products as models and promptly begin the manufacture at home of every article they find adapted to their needs. Manufacturers of American sewing machines and agri cultural implements learned this some years ago, when, encouraged by large orders from Japan for their products, they sent agents there to follow them up. Within a year It was discovered that the Japanese were making sewing machines and farm implements, mod eled very closely after the American patterns, and supplying the domestic trade at prices American maker could not meet. At all events, American exporters will be on the safe side by taking full advantage of opportunities for extend ing Immediate trade, but they are bardly warranted In expecting the Japanese to become steady purchasers of anything they can make themselves. Douglas county has entered upon a new epoch, Its government being en tirely In the hands of men of repub lican political faith. It is not charged that these men were elected to office solely because they are republicans, but because their fellow citizens had con fidence in their integrity and ability and preferred them above their op ponents. That the republican party is .b!e to present tuch candidates to the people Is Its recommendation for en dorsement. The record made in re cent years under republican officials Is one that shines by comparison and af fords a good example for the incoming administration. As soon as the Omaha double-ender gets matters thoroughly fixed up for e Nebrsska republicans it may turn i attention, with soirte profit to its own party, to conditions prevailing in ew York. Public addresses by Orover Cleveland and Morgan J. Brien lead to the conclusion that the old-time democracy is awakening from the 6tupor into which it was plunged the Brjanites. The anaesthetic must be readminlstered or trouble will result, unless the O'Brien brand of moral courage is akin to that of Bryan. While we all endorte Mayor "Jim's" proposition that streets be kept clean and the city be made beautiful, we still remember that the street cleaning department has been under the direc tion of the mayor ever since "Jim" has been In office. Little responsibility for the deplorable condition of Omaha's streets attaches to the private citizen, but much must be laid at the door of the mayor. Omaha will surely make a good showing at the Sioux City Missouri River Navigation congress. Local in terest in the affairs of the river have not been so keen since pioneer days. The importance of the Missouri to Ne braska is becoming more and more apparent every day and the fact that Omaha must take a leading part in the general movement Is thoroughly un derstood. The president of the Nebraska Bar association deprecates the tendency of newspapers to discuss court decisions because the editors "ate not trained in the analysis of Judicial pronounce ments." This is not very complimen tary to the large number of former legal luminaries whose light now shines through the editorial transoms of the country. Increased movement In grain and live stock is needed. Receipts at the Omaha market show a decided im provement. This is an indication that the consumptive demand of the world has not been checked and means that the Nebraska farmer will continue to share the prosperity that has been his for so long. According to the leading Paris news papers the war between the United States and Japan is still In progress. Some strong nation should intervene before Japan and our own country are depopulated by the slaughter of war. After all is said and done, the presi dent does not appear lo be so very rad ical in demanding Uat an army officer should know as much about the man agement of a horse as he does about running an automobile. Omaha will extend a hearty wel come to the Nebraska republicans when they gather here In state conven tion, and will no less warmly greet the democrats, too, should they decide to come. The newly elected directors of the Commercial club will find many of the old problems still confronting them. That is one place where eternal vigi lance is the price of success. Rqnlnta la that Direction. Washington Herald. Nebraska preaenta William1 Jennings Bryan, Florida preaenta William Jamea Bryan and now cornea Texas with William John Bryan. Ia this thins to become epl demlcT An I'npopolar Machine. New York Post. Prof. Munaterberg disclaim! the Inven tion of truth telling machines. "These In struments," he aald, "were Invented years ago." It la pitiful to think how few there are In use while the telephones of the world have secured 8,000,000 subscribers. One Canae of Mlnlnar Accident. Ronton Transcript A Pennaylvanla coroner thinks one cause of the mine disasters la the fact that M per cent of the workera cannot read or apeak English, and therefore do not understand the ordinary instructions given them. There may be something In It. Bryan Booniere Batt la. Kansas City Times. One hundred Minnesota democrats have iaaued a statement declaring that "no man can be seriously considered In place of Mr. Bryan aa the democratic nom inee for president. To raise no question of the propriety of such a atatement as coming from Oovernor Johnson'a own state by the Bryan boomers, what reason have theae democrats to. auapect that Mr Bryan will ever again be "considered se riously" aa a prealdential candidate? An' Earhangre of Confldeaeea. Philadelphia Record. Ex-Secretay Hhaw and Oovernor Cum mlna have had a conference. It is a good while alnce they communed with each other, but each of them wants something that the other can help him to, and Unit makea for peace. Shaw Wknta the state to adopt him as its favorite aon, and it won't unless Cummins says so. Cumrahm wants Senator AlllHon'a seat. Probably he could not get It under any clrcum stancea until the senator Is through with It, but Shaw might help him a bit. Mr. Hooaevelt'a InHaenee. St. Paul Pioneer-Press. Were there not a alngle performance to back President Roosevelt's words, pro vided there were nothing to hello them, they must be held responsible for a rreat moral awakening and for the fixing uf a somewhat higher standard of business and political morale than has prevailed. Even if there ahall be no revolution in methods and even If mott of the evils that existed before persist, the vigorous assault on Ille gal and essentially dishonest methods has forced every man to think. There has been a more wholesome atmosphere in which to nourish young men Just entering on life, nd we venture to say that even if this generation does not reap the full benefit of the revival In buslnesa morals, another generation will BITS OK WAtllGTO LIFE. Minor Brenra end Incident Sketched on the Spot. Seth Bullock, . tbe peace promoter and press agent of ledwood. while In Wash ington as a guest cf president Rivisevelt, recently, was given an Impressive Illustra tion of the manner In which the president keeps up steam nnd conserves the vigorous health for which ho Is noted. Bullock Joined the president in one of his famous walks, a matter of ten milts or eo. "We hiked for the tall timber In the northwest part of the IlFtrlct," Reth related. "The farther we went tho faster the UIg Chief's lope. When we got lo the point at which we turned I saw some lights I thought must bo in Balitmore or Philadelphia, and asked If we hadn't better stop and see what they had In their chuck basket. Rut the Big Chief lopod straight hack to Washing ton, and when we reached the White House I was all In. I haven't felt right since." John W. Yerkeg of Kentucky, cx-commls-sloner of Internal revenue, was one of the guests at the little luncheon party and as stories of the profession were In order, he told this one concerning dentistry In the Rlun Grass state. A patient entered the dental parlors of one of Mr. Yerkea' friends In Ixmlsvllle. The man's eyes were bloodshot and he was bearing several other marks of a condition for which he could, not be blamed, considering he had a severe toothache. "It's awful doctor, and I want It fixed right away," he groaned. The dentist made an examination and then asked if cold water made It worse. "Cold water!" snorted the patient. In the deepest disgust. "Cold water! How In the h should I know?" A New York banker who happened to be In Washington over Sunday, when the Ud la bolted on, delivered himself of a few pertinent remarks In the Washington Her ald on Bunday restrictions which are appli cable to other communities. "Washington Is the deadest place on Sunday I ever struck," he said. "The capital of the na tion should receive its guests with wide open arms and make them feel welcome. The old puritanical towns could not have been conducted with greater severity than this, our own capital city of the nation. Just think of It can't get shaved on Bun day; might as well shut down tho water works and argue that the people should be able to do without taking their accus tomed morning bath. Shavlig la Just as necessary as taking one's hath. It all de pends upon the viewpoint one takes. There Is harm In everything. If one hunts for it. I think there should be a little more confi dence, a little more milk of human kind ness; a little more breadth of mind, and a great deal less suspicion and desire to criticise and find fault, In the hearta of those noble, self-sacrificing brothers and sisters who stand around the streets and preach that the world Is growing worse every day and find fault with the whole of humanity. "That's where the mistake 1s" made. It Is extremely tiresome to be told every day that one la bad and will surely go to the eternal bow-wows unless this or that be done. The very object which they seek to attain by their preachments that la, to bring the sinner and the frivolous Into line Is defeated by these everlasting tirades. Why not say a good word for humanity every now and then? It would really do my soul good to hear someone say the world Is not aa black as it la painted. "There is no harm In Innocent amusement on Bunday. Give the people an opportunity to spend their Sunday at placea which are properly conducted where they can listen to good music or see a good show and you will do "more for the moral uplift than by robbing them of every little pleasure, and thereby driving them Into questionable amusements. I think kind treatment brings about more satisfactory results than the everlasting rod." In the last fiscal year It cost the govern ment J163.3ff7.24 to pay for postage atampa and postal funds of various sorts that were stolen, burned, blown or washed away, eaten by rats or mice, or lost In other ways through which the postmasters were not at fault. Aa a rule the man with the dark lantern and the Jimmy wends his way to the post office when he strikes a village after night fall. Tho government's local manager Isn't aa particular about caring for the treasure In his posesalon as the local banker. A postofflce "haul" may not yield the returns of a bank robbery, but usually It Is an easier Job. In the last year the United States paid Its postmasters $141,134.24 to reimburse them for stamps and postal funds taken by un invited guests. Fire destroyed money and stumps worth I2O.O02.S1, and stamps aad funds to the value of $1,658.65 were lost In transit. From miscellaneous sources the loss was $506.08. At Casco, Va., the postmaster pre sented proof that rata chewed up stamps worth 7.S0. The postmaster at Bowen, Ark.; Extray, W. Va.; Fern, Ark.; Har worth. Miss., and Wolf Creek, Ky., were al lowed claims ranging from 90 cents to $15.69 for stamps eaten by mice. Rats and mlcs did not Invade the Texas postofflces, but at Arlola, In the Lone Star atate, a com pany of festive roaches had a banquet at the expense of I'ncle Sum's postmaster. The postmaster presented a bill for $9.03 to defray the cost of the dinner, but the de partment disallowed It on the ground that the loss waa due to the negligence of the postmaster or his employes. One of the best story-tellers In the house Is Francis W. Cushman, and the drollest ones he tells are on himself. A short time ago, while making an after dinner speech In his usual humorous style, Cushman said when he first came to Wash ington he had to answer a great many questions as to himself, his state, and other things. One of the many strangers he met said : "Mr. Cushman. didn't J.- Hamilton Lewis come from your Btate?" "He did," replied the new congressman. "Oreat scott! are all the people In Wash ington slate freaks?" Sometimes, however, Mr. Cushman tells a atory on some one else, occasionally hla wife. "When I was first married," said he, "I went homo to dinner one day, and my wife took great pride In telling me that she had baked a chicken. The chicken waa brought on and I never saw a prettier bird, but It had a peculiar smell. 'Francis, Isn't that pretty?" asked my wife. " "It la Indeed, but what gives it euch a strange odor?' " 'It docs smell funny,' said Mrs. CukIi man. 'I can't imagine the cause.' "On investigation we found that the chicken had been cooked without cleaning it Inside; in other words, "In the all-to-gethera." ". Basoomb Slemp. the new congressman from the Ninth Virginia district, who suc ceeded his father, the late Representative Campbell Elemp, and became In his turn the only republican member from the old dominion, la cf medium height and rather slender, with a thin face, which la made Interesting by large brown eyes that are unusually expressive. He aspires to build up In hla state what he calls a southern republican party, which shall follow tha traditional southern attitude on sectional questlona but atrlctly republican upon na tional Issues. Miller On of Gubernatorial Race. TOPE K A. Kan., Jan. 9-Senator II R Miller announced today that he had with drawn from the race for governor. PERSON 41. !OTK. William H. Smith, superintendent of the National Botanical garden, Washington, has SCO editions of Robert Burns, several of them very rare. . If the constable who came near putting the earl of Yarmouth In Jntl the day of the wedding had but carried out his In tentions much trouble would have been avoided. t'nlversal peaces seems to have arrived. According to arlous armor-piercing erltlca there isn't a navy In the world that could fight, and each performs a vrrltaMo mira cle by keeping afloat. P. N. Dasholoff. editor of the Vetch erna Pochta. of Sofia, Bulgaria, haa arrived In New York to study tho situation, having heard that Bulgarian Immigrants In this country are suffering from lack of employment and from other reasona. He will write a series of articles when he re turns home, and will try to give advice regarding Immigration to this country through his paper. Colonel Charles II. Whipple of the ITnlted States army on Thursday assumed the duties of paymaster general of the army, with the rank of brigadier general. He Is a son of Bishop Whipple of the Episcopal diocese of Minnesota, Who ws generally known as "the apostle of the Indians," and to the Indians themselves aa "Old Straight Tongue." General Whipple waa born 1n New York In 1K40 and entered the army as a major In 18X1. , Photographic facsimiles of documents which enabled Henry F. Waters, after years of search among probate records, to "get his flngera upon John Harvard." and establish beyond the shadow of a reasona ble doubt the birth and parentage of the young clergyman who founded the great American university, are now In the pos session of William, Coolidge Lane, libra rian of Harvard university, and president of the Harvard Memorial association. MYSTERY OF SAl'SAGE. Michigan Judge Thinks the Court Knoiva Wlist'n What. Philadelphia Record. Judge Wlest of Michigan has decided that bran and rommeal soaked with water, mixed with a larger or emailed proportion of chopped meat, reasoned and Muffed Into aausage casings do not constitute sausage. A firm of packers waa seeking an Injunc tion to restrain the dairy and food commis sioner of Michigan from Interfering with the sale of their sophisticated "frank furters," which admittedly were made after a receipt calling for an admixture of "cer eals" the commission calling It "adulter ants." Bald Judge Welat In refusing writ: "With tho general public of this genera tion largely reared on farms and In small villages, and remembering home-made sau sage, there Is no occasion to look at a dic tionary to define sausage.' The common definition la that It 14 composed of chopped meat seasoned." One can almost hear the learned Justice smack his Hps. It's an easy bet that he was raised on a farm. Cereals go with sausage very well; but we prefer to take them In tho form of flapjacks or hot cakes, on the aide, and not Inside of our nicely browned casings of "chopped meat sea soned." The whole nation thanks the Judge for hla homely and horse-sensible defini tion. When we desire "chopped meat sea soned" plus "cereals" we shall call for scrapple. WATCH THINGS GROW. i Rat Lend a Helping; Hand to the Im pressions of the Eye. Pittsburg Despatch. Mr. E. H. Harriman, asked by a New York newspaper to give a watchword for the new year, suggested "Watch things grow!" It Is a good idea and reaches further than Its 'proponent realised. We should not only watch things grow, but also watch how things grow that we may help some to grow and hinder others. The pro gressive farmer watches how his corn, wheat and alfalfa grow that he may aid their growth. He also watchea how his dodder, plantain and wild celery grow that he may prevent their growth. For 1908 we should watch the growth of production and prosperity. We ahould also watch the weed growth that tries to appropriate the whole field for Itself. Watching and aiding the growth of public Intelligence to deal with Issues that affect the earnings of the people may be a very edifying pursuit this year. Also watching the growth of practices that engross the returns of Industry and uprooting them where they are clearly manifested Is no less salutary. We congratulate Mr. Harriman on hav ing aald a wiser thing than he really thought. Watching things grow with the essential deduction of encouraging the healthy growth and weeding out the nox ious Is a first-class motto for 1908, drowning, Ming &. Co CLOTHING, FURNISHINGS and HATS What 20 X STAPLE CLOTHING, such as Browning, be nothing by comparison. t Because of the unusually mid season, this sale includes a rather larger stock of overcoats than usual at this time of the year. Included in this 20 per cent discount sale you will find our entire stock of men's and boys hats and caps except .Stetson's. Also all winter underwear flannel shirts, vests, smok ing jackets and bath robes. Big reductions in other lines of furnishing goods. We are closing out our line f trunks at cost. Don't miss the chance to replenish your wardrobe at such a saving. 15th and Douglas Streets t s I?:. S. WILCOX, Mor. FABILOI SLY RICH MJIIOT. Impost ear Mow of Ft a area Lined t'S the Nation's Aaeta. Philadelphia Telegraph. One billion and a half, a Bum almost be yond mortal conception, represents the national assets; the money In circulation year Is $.1.M.0r.O(i. It haa been pointed out eral treasury to $T45,24.6oT. The value of domes! In merchandise exporled Is $l,8n3,TlH.. 000. and that of all manufactures $14..V?. 147.000. The farm wealth of the country produced In 1M7 Is In round flgurea $7,413. (W.flOO; the added mineral wealth for the year Is $30,00,WO.OOO. It has been pointed out with truth during the (Vteber "panic" that the national prosperity Is not baaed on Wall slreei. and Its workings, but more deeply, on the country's vast agricultural production. If this Is the case and It surely In an Inventory of various crops reveals figures to comfort and cheer. That he who reads may learn, the values of tha various farming industries are presented herewith: Wheat. $S00.000.0iO; cotton, $75. 000,000; corn, $1,350,000,00: hay, $Hi,(V0,W; poultry and eggs, $i,00fi,000; dairy pro ducts. $!73.7.00O; live stock. $4.R75.O0O.O0O; This eum representing our commerce with foreign natlona In 1907 has more than trebled In the past, three decades, and this year Is the third running In which both exports and Imports have totaled more than $1,000,000,000. This statement of our national assets, this Inventory of the funda mental prosperity of our country and Its constltutlent states relieves all carping care, all need for financial worriment. It ia something more than encouraging It Is Inspiring. PASS1MU PLEASANTRIES. "Many a boy," said Unole Jerry Peebles, "gets a whipping for being merely sus pected of doing the things his father was too slick to get caught at when the old man waa a boy himself." Chicago Tribune. First American Heiress How about your title Investment? Becond Ditto Mine was cf no account. First American Heiress And mine waa a baron waste. Baltimore American. 'Your colleague haa a certain amount of vanity," aald one statesman. "Vanity!" echoed the other. "He thinks everybody ought to buy the city directory because his name la In It." Washington Star. "Why," asked the divorced count, "do you refuse meT" "I am afraid," replied the beautiful American girl, "that I might not be able to support you In the style to which you have been accustomed." Chicago Record Herald. "Why do you wear such a hideous rig?" the chauffeur waa asked. "Why does a highwayman wear a mask?',' responded the man behind the goggles. Philadelphia Ledger. Miss Tartun Mr. McRash, ' this being leap year, h-t me aak you Diffident Young Man (hastily interrupt ing) Oh, I beg of you Miss Miss Tartun If you think any self-respecting young woman would go out of her way to ask a dub like you to marry her. Chicago Tribune. Molly Cholly'a brains are all tn his feet Dolly Dear me! And how long ago did bo have hla feet amputated? Cleveland Leader. THE WINTER Wontn. Baltimore Sun. A barren land, a fro sen world. The banners of the greenwood furled; A wandering bird, alone and lost. Upon the eddying whirlwind tossed; A road e'erwhelmed with drifted snow But spring before me, where I go. From mundane mill and crowded mart, Lnto the heaven of her heart! A wall of sleet, a ruined field. The blooms of Joy In shadows sealed; A froaen stream, a windy hill, A vale with all blythe voices still But summer, with Ha old, aweet spell. And down the hyaclnthlne dell, A voice that lurea to lands where rise Tho Jasper gates of paradise! 1 A withering blast, a frosty rime, A gray world wrapped In shades of time; A hungry partridge In the lane, Tall bramblea. clad In frosen rain But June upon her lips who waits Beneath the eaves, within the gates; And April with Its bloomy hour Beneath the sunshine and the shower! A faded rose, a desert place, A white world with a pajlld face. A temple where the forest trees Stand with their pendant, snowy frlexe; A swinging step, a Jaunty air Of whistled nonchalance to care, Aa out of frost, and wind, and bllnht Love ateps into her warm heart-light! An Icebound brook, a ailent glen, Sans all the summer's merry men, All elfin shapes and fairy folk Not ev'n a lonely gnome to yoke The firefly chariots and away To light the blooms at break o' day Exoept, beneath love'a roof, where stir Rose gardens In the heart of herl A barren land, a frosen morn, A stiffened hand on hilt and horn; A white, old figure, wan of mood, Bringing few fagots from the wood But all the way for me from town. And all the rosy dream-way down, The aunshlne of her golden smile From rose to rose and mile to mile. Oil Means King & Co. manufacture, 20 per cent off is a big reduction in price. We make it now on all our sack suits and overcoats for causes that usually exist at the end of a season and for special reasons.. On'the ordinary "cat and dog" stock of the pretended "sale" even 50 per cent would 15th and Dugl Streets t t i