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State of Nebraska, Douglas County, as.:
George B. Tcachuck. treasurer of The
Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn,
says that the actual number of full and
complete copies of The Dally. Morning,
Kvenlng and Bunds v He printed during
the month of December, 1W7, wii aa fol
lows :
1 30,400 17 .'. 80.M0
I 37,180 IS 16,600
1 37,370 19 36,640
4 3790 20 38,680
1 37,330 tl 38,360
S6,e0 12 30,300
7 37,090 23. 38,400
38,900 24 36,890
t 38,930 25 38,800
It 87,080 24 38.880
11 37,000 27...'. 38,890
12 38,740 22 36,360
11 37,630 29 88,800
14 36,810 20 88,110
15 36,960 II 38,610
II 38,960
Totals 1,133,580
Less unspld and returned copies. 9,304
Net total 1,199,77
Dally average 36,444
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nailed te them. - Address will be
, changed aa often aa requested.
Opponent! of the president are still
finding the big stick a knotty problem.
It appears that Count Oonl has been
treating his coualn about as he did his
wife. i
English politicians are making; as
much fuss over tariff reform as though
England bad a tariff to reform.
Four big diamond firms in New
York have failed, but there is no bar
gain sales on In the sparkler line.
Judge Parker says he Is out of
politics. The judge Is nearly four
years behind In discovering that fact.
It will be noticed that no one is
grumbling at the weather man 'over
the fact that winter Is behind the
schedule.
. Having made a public address In
New York, Secretary Taft may now re
gard his presidential boom as finally
launched.
It has teen shown in court that a
Pullman car pays for Itself in three
years. The Pullman car does not have
to pay the porter.
Bourke Cockran la now supporting
Colonel Bryan. Mr. Cockran still
holds the belt as the champion polit
ical contortionist.
Under the practice in New York a
juror In a murder case is considered
guilty and treated as a criminal until
he proves his Innocence.
Now, if Mayor "Jim"' will only make
good on his promise of clean streets
and good pavements for the coming
year, much will be forgiven him.
Of course Caleb Powers would ap
preciate a pardon, but It would doubt
less be awkward for him to acquire the
habit of paying bis own living ex
penses. "At a coming banquet in New York
one ot the speakers is to reply to the
toast, "Why Is the Democratic Party
Divided T" Well, one answer Is that
there are two members of it.
' Editor Hearst is shrieking for a
larger. navy. Otherwise there seems
to be but few obstacles in the way of
the president's plan for enlarging the
nation's sea-fighting equipment.
James Hamilton Lewis told a Chi
cago law class that woman has no re
gard for the sanctity of an oath.
Women will have their opinion of
Lewis' regard for the sanctity of the
truth.
Young Mr. Rockefeller has arrived
at the astonishing conclusion that
money is not good for the poor. Cer
tainly not The poor would not be
poor It they bad all the money they
want
According to a financial expert,
27,000,000 disappeared from circu
lation during the closing months of
1907. The money U now re-appear-log
and wondering what It was, scared
about
It la an Insult to ahe Intelligence of the
aemocratlo party to say that any man or
coterie of men oould for selfish or clique
reasons dictate the course of the party In
t&ut. Tlie Commoner.
Will anyone dispute that this very
thing was done In II 04 T If It can be
done once, why can It not be done a
eooni time
'TKVm and isconnvrnHLB"
According to the World-Herald re
port of the Jaoksonian club dinner last
week, at which Williams Jennings
Bryan was the principal speaker,
Referring to Congressman Hitchcock. Mr.
Bryan said: "Like you, I have long been
grateful that be haa given his splendid
ability to the cause of the common people.
The paper In Which he has Invested his
money has been true to us and Incorrupt!
ble at all times.
It was certainly very generous in
Mr. Bryan to take occasion to toBS a
bouquet in the direction of our demo
cratic congressman-editor, but truth
is mighty and will prevail. Even
though Mr. -Bryan were willing to keep
the curtain drawn, there are too many
people in this community, some of
them at that very banquet table, whose
memories are not so conveniently
short-lived.
Had Mr. Bryan wanted to do exact
Justice to his subject, he would have
recalled certain Incidents of the cam
paign of 1894, in which he himself
was running for United States senator.
and as nominal editor of Mr. Hitch
cock's paper had additional reason to
expect it to be "true to us and Incor
ruptible at all times," but when. In
stead. It sold out to the political
enemy for a price bargained for and
stipulated In a written agreement.
To b9 more exact, ten days before
the election of 1894 democrats were
surprised and Incensed to find two col
umns of the editorial page of the
World-Herald given over to damaging
attacks upon the democratic nominee
for governor, with the explanation that
"this space has been engaged by the
republican state committee." After four
days of thus bombarding its own party
candidates in the rear the backfire was
temporarily suspended, with an edi
torial explanation that "self-respect
compels the World-Herald to discon
tinue the arrangement with the repub
lican state central committee," because
instead of using the space to present
the issues of the campaign, "the com
mittee has used it merely to abuse per
sonally the , candidates whom the
World-Herald la editorially support
ing."
What had really, occurred, however,
was quickly developed by a suit filed
In court for an order for specific per
formance, In which was set 6ut in full
the shameless contract by which the
"Incorruptible" paper was to get $750
for two . columns of editorial . page
space for ten days. The vital para
graph of the sword petition declares:
That almost immediately after the pub
lication of such materials commenced in
the World-Herald newspaper, the defend
ant, O. M. Hitchcock, sought to have said
contract rescinded by mutual consent and
represented that owing to the pressure of
one William J. Bryan and other politicians
opposed to the republican party It was be
coming uncomfortable and embarrassing for
said Hitchcock to continue such contract.
and he asked to be released therefrom, but
the plaintiffs refused to agree to a reces
sion of said contract and Insisted upon its
performance. v-
The plaintiff In the action goes on
to say that no objection was ever made
by Mr. Hitchcock to the matter offered
and that "such pretense now 1b a mere
subterfuge." The allegations, are,
moreover, supported by affidavit, of
which the following extract Is directly
In point:
The affiant today (October 29) called upon
Hitchcock and had another conversation
with him in regard to the published notice
that they had decided to break the contract.
Mr. Hitchcock told the affiant that It had
come to the point that he waa obliged
either to suppress this matter and break
the contract or Mr. Bryan would withdraw
from his paper as its editor and he had de
cided to break the contract rather than to
lose Mr. Bryan's association with the paper.
There being no serious attempt at
defense, the court ordered Mr. Hitch
cock to turn over hla paper aa agreed
to the republican committee for use
against the democratic ticket. Inci
dentally It was whlspeied among those
on the inside that the court order was
not at all unwelcome to the "incor
ruptible" democratic paper as offering
the only way to appease Mr. Bryan and
at the same time to take the republican
money.
Of course all this is ancient political
history for. which Mr. Bryan, as one of
the victims of the sell-out, has a right
to Issue a full pardon, but nothing he
may say can expunge the record which
can still be. read through hla latest
coat of whitewash.
RAILROADS OBtTINQ THE LAW.
Unquestionably the most significant
and satisfactory feature of the Inter
state Commerce commission's report,
just published, Is the statement that the
railroads are very generally obeying the
law, that "offensive practices of every
sort" have materially diminished and
that railway managers are co-operating
with the authorities to promote the
harmonious observance of its require
ments. On that point, the report says:
By railway managers almost without ex
ception the amended law haa been accepted
In good faith, and they exhibit for the
most part a sincere and earnest disposition
to conform their methods to Its require
ments. It waa not to be expected that
needed reforms could be brought about
without more or leas difficulty and delay,
but It ta unquestionably the fact that great
progress has been made and that further
Improvement is clearly assured. To a
gratifying extent there has been readjust
ment of rates and correction of abuses by
the carriers themselves. Methods and
uaages of one sort and another which op
erated to individual advantage have been
voluntarily changed, and It is not toe muoh
to say that there la now a freedom from
forbidden discriminations which is actual
and general to a degree never before ap
proached. As this progress goes on. aa spe
cial privileges disappear and favoritism
ceases to be even suspected, the Indirect
but not ese certain benefits of the law will
become more and more apparent.
This Is aa unexpectedly good show
ing, In via of the fact that the law has
been In force less than fifteen months
and Its enactment most bitterly op
posed by all the great railway interests
ot U.e nation. It U evidence that the
railroads have accepted the situation
with reasonsbly good grace. Had
they evaded compliance with the pro
visions ot the. law or sought to delay
Its enforcement no such report could
have been made by the commission,
aa much time would have been required
to make Investigations and conduct
prosecutions of offenders. The fact
that there has been but few prosecu
tions, few cases of rebating and. but
little difficulty In securing adjustment
of differences between railways and
patrons submitted to the commission
Is creditable to the railway managers
who abandoned the old practices that
have worked harm on the public. That
much recognition of their part in the
new deal is due to them.
IMSlVKlir roR the jvoiciAiir.
Eunnlng through the papers and
discussions of the Nebraska Bar asso
ciation at its recent meeting at (re
quest intervals were to be heard care
fully guarded expressions from several
souroes of a desire for some means to
save the courts from adverse criticism
of their decisions especially in the
press. The idea was advanced, al
though perhaps not In concrete form,
that it would be better If a court de
cision, no matter how grotesque and no
matter how much at variance with
every concept of right and Justice, were
to be accepted as finality without de
bate or. if there must be criticism of
judicial action, the judges should re
solve to Invite unpopularity and fortify
themselves against it. It is admitted, of
course, that criticism by those fitted by
education and legal experience to dis
cuss such subjects intelligently should
be welcomed, but unsympathetic analy
sis of judicial edicts under the light
of cold common sense by some layman
with access to a newspaper Is the
height of absurdity that must ' be
squelched by permanent Injunction or
superciliously Ignored.
But there are two Bides to this ques
tion, much as some lawyers might like
to see only one. Freedom of speech
and of the press is even more essential
to our form of free government than is
an Independent and fearless judiciary.
Let the bench become corrupt or arbi
trary and the power of the press voic
ing public opinion will soon cleanse it
Let freedom of speech be throttled by
judicial despotism and nothing Is left
to lift the yoke of servitude from the
people but revolution.
Because judges sometimes make
mistakes, we are told, all judges are
not to be denounced as incompetent.
Then, although those who criticise
Judicial decisions may occasionally
make mistakes, that is no reason why
all criticism should be prohibited and
all critics reviled.' In point of fact,
the criticism under which the Judiciary
chafes most Is the criticism of higher
courts reversing inferior tribunals and
of the lawyer for the defeated litigant
At bottom of every proposal to clip the
wings of Judicial power is some lawyer
in good or bad standing who has re
cently lost a case which he thought he
ought te have won; yet his does not
necessarily discredit the measure
whose merit may entitle it to favorable
consideration.
It is not necessary for the Judiciary
to be made immune against public
criticism. Unjust criticism will not
hurt It and just criticism cannot be
out of place. The Judiciary need not
be unpopular except as It makes Itself
unpopular, because the great mass of
the people are as deeply Imbued with
the sense of right and wrong as are the
Judges who sit upon the bench or the
lawyers who practice before them.
PROBtg-M OT lyDTAN tbUCATTOIT.
Well-meaning, If misguided, friends
ot the Indian are making the expected
protest against the proposition of the
uthorities to abandon the Carlisle In
dian school in Pennsylvania and to
withdraw federal support from all non
reservation Indian schools. These en
thusiasts Insist that it la the wisest
plan for the government to continue
the Carlisle school and to offer every
Inducement to get the Indian away
from his environment by bringing him
into contact with the civilization and
advantages of the white man.
On the other side, long experience
has shown such schools as that at Car
lisle apt to do the Indian as much
harm as good. Young Indians, men
and women, returning from Carlisle,
find themselves out of touch with their
tribal environment. They soon be
come dissatisfied with conditions and
their dissatisfaction spreads among
the members of -the tribe. Too often
the college educated Indfan, thrown
back among the old associations and
qustoms, relapBes into a worse state
than the first and his Influence upon
the tribe is the exact opposite of what
was expected of him. The theory that
these returned students act as a leaven
to raise the whole mass of the tribe
sounds well, but it has not worked out
In practice.
Many friendly observers now believe
It to be a mistake to try to give the In
dian students too much Instruction in
the arts and crafts as setting too rapid
a pace In the work oMlftlng a people
from tribal relations, bordering, on
savagery, to a stage of Individualism
and Independent citizenship. The
drilling of a few Indians to this pace
produces no lasting effect upon the en
tire tribe. The better plan, it would
appear, la that adopted by the govern
ment, gradually to abolish the non
reservation schools and to devote the
government's educational effort to
reservation schools, with a course of
practical Instruction designed to fit the
Indians for self-support. This plan
haa worked most satisfactorily in
Oklahoma and the Indian Terltory,
where the Indiana have been advanced
to the point of assuming the duties of
citizenship and making their own way
In the world.
L1AB1L1TT Or KMPLUTKBS.
The . promlneuce given locally to a
statement that the Union Pacific had
lOBt 110,000 by confessing judgment
in a damage suit the day before the
United States supreme court declared
the federal employer's liability law in
valid serves to Illustrate the general
mtsupprehenslon as to the scope and
elfoct of this decision. The tindlna of
the supreme court in ao way relieves
the Union Pacific in the case at hand,
or any other railroad, of Its responsi
bility for damages to an employe, but
it simply nullifies the procedure pro
vided by congress In the employers'
liability law for the recovery of Buch
damages. The decision of the supreme
court is that railroads deallnz with
employes as In the matter of accident
liability have not such a relation as
to bring them under the congressional
power of Interstate commerce regula
tion. While the decision may cause disap
pointment among those who have
worked for years to secure the erTact
ment of a federal employers' liability
law, they may find consolation in the
reflection that what congress cannot
do is wen within the ability of state
legislatures to accomplish and that
most of the states already have such
laws. The last Nebraska legislature
not only removed the $5000 limit on
death claims, but also enacted a fellow
servant law modifying the effect of the
defense of. contributory negligence. By
the decision Just rendered accidents on
interstate railways come as clearly
within state Jurisdiction as accidents
in factories.
Senator Knox, as one of the recognized
constitutional lawyers of the senate, is
already engaged In the preparation of
a federa law on the subject of em
ployer's liability which he believes will
remove the objections which the su
preme court has found to the original
law. Regardless of his success or fail
ure publio demand for adequate pro
tection to employes must be satisfied,
In the main, by local statutes and the
Beveral states may be relied upon to
adjust their employers' liability laws
and practice to accord with modern
Industrial changes. It Is In drawing
the lines on federal control of rail
roads in other aspects of their business
that the employers' liability decision is
really tar reaching.
TBS ORE AT WKSTSRH RECEIVERS HIP.
.The fact that the country refuses to
look upon the receivership for the Chi
cago Oreat Western railroad as either
A commercial or financial calamity Is
perhaps the best proof that its embar
rassment ,a due more to a natural re
adjustment ts meet changed conditions
rather than to the depression in busi
ness. The Oreat Western occupies a
peculiar position In the railway world.
Organized and operated as a sort of
transportation free lance, it has in
curred the enmity and opposition ot
the other railroads and, In its time of
financial need, haa been forced to make
a fight without support from other rail
way corporations.
President Stlckney insists that the
receivership is designed for the con
servation of the property and that it
will be needed only until certain finan
cial arrangements may be made for the
Improvement and betterment of the
system. While the road has no mort
gage Indebtedness, it Is heavily capital
ized and has been placed in financial
stress because it undertook large de
velopment work with insufficient capi
tal, raising money on short-time notes
which began falling due at a time
when financial conditions made it im
possible to secure desired extensions. '
The west will hope to see Mr. Stlck
ney Justified in his expectation that the
road will soon be able to weather the
financial storm. The Oreat Western,
by Its extension to Omaha and other
Missouri river points, has been an im
portant factor in developing the grain
market of Omaha, and other Interests
of the west. The road taps a rich and
growing territory and must, under
wise management, eventually prove an
important and profitable part ot the
country's transportation system.
The Interstate Commerce commis
sion reports that the wreck at Wash
ington a year ago, in which fifty per
sons were killed, "was caused by dis
regard of rules and signals upon the
part ot the men in charge of the extra
train." In face of such facts the trav
eling public will want to know why no
steps have been taken, to punish any
of the parties responsible for the
slaughter.
Colonel Bryan's Commoner prints
In full the speech delivered at Boston
by Secretary Taft. That is pretty good
evidence that Colonel Bryan expects
Mr. Taft to be his opponent In the cam
paign ot 1908, irrespective of the pre
dictions he Is making that the republi
can nomination will go to "Uncle Joe"
Cannon.
"We ""wTfl never turn back, having
put our bands to thealow," says Sena
tor Beverldge. The senator has seen
enough farmers at work to know that
It Is not proper form to put your hands
to the plow and then turn back.
"The mills ot the state have cut
enough lumber to make a twelve-foot
board walk around the world," says
a Seattle newspaper. Well, what of
it? Who wants a board walk around
the world t
The census reports show that Cuba
haa 190,103 male citizens of voting
age, of whom 117,821 are wholly Illit
erate, 4,116 can read bat cannot write
and only 8,861 whose education is
more than elementary. The fate of
premature attempts at self-government
Is not difficult to predict.
Lincoln politicians need not feel so
badly at 'the republican state conven
tion coming to Omaha. Nothing in
the law or In the constitution says
that all the political gatherings of the
state must be held at the capital.
Fnerar of llladalaht.
Ba''more American.
Rigid Inquiry into banks and financial In
stitutions and methods is now the prevail
ing fashion. All over the land Is heard
the clicking of the loud locks on the stable
of the stolen herse. ,
Propheta Working; Overtime.
Buffalo Express.
Seventeen prophets have predicted tltat
the world will come to an end during the
present year. Inasmuch, however, as
twenty-six prophets declared that doom
would crack last year we decline to be
frightened.
The Army Bldlnar Test.
Indianapolis News.
The president's victory Is as complete as
photographs can make It in the matter of
the army riding test. No fat major can
contemplate the pictures of Italian officers
riding straight down 20-foot precipices with
out seeing that the Jig Is up.
Friendship and Perseaslon.
Philadelphia Record.
According to all accounts the relations
between the United States and Japan could
not possibly be more friendly. But, by
way of precaution It is proposed to expend
Immense sums of moneyln fortifying Puget
Bound against the remote dangers of Japa
nese Invasion.
Can Yds Match It
Chicago Tribune.
Observe the cautloua, yet characteristic
ally luminous manner In which Mr. Cleve
land leads up to the proposition: "This
suggests without argument a reciprocal
connection between the curtailment of op
portunities of livelihood on one side and a
reasonable obligation of indemnification on
the other."
Temperance that Me una Sratnethlngr.
Philadelphia Record.
Twenty-five thousand ot the employes of
the Northwestern railroad have signed a
pledge to abstain from Intoxicating drinks.
As a matter of business prudence the man
agement of the railway adopted a policy
of discrimination favoring sobriety on the
part of employes. As a matter of self-protection
the employes made a mutual com
pact of abstention. This Is the kind of
prohibition that prohibits. When every
man Is his own prohibitionist things are
as they ought to be.
The Itlch Man's Panic.
Philadelphia Record.
Early In the autumnal financial disturb
ances a concern that makes automobiles
went Into Insolvency, and now one of the
largest diamond Importing houses In New
Tork has-asked an extension of time from
Its creditors. The sudden decline in thi
Importation of diamonds has already been
noted, and the buying of diamonds by
wearers probably stopped before the deal
ers could stop their importations. This haa
doubtless been a rich man's panic, but un
fortunately a good many thousand working
men are out of employment in consequence
of it.
Ceng. neat of the Pennies.
Leslie's Weekly. ,
Whether the . currency stringency Is re
sponsible for It or not, it Is certain that
the looaf existing prejudice of the west
against the use of the cent is being broken
down. In Oregon and Washington mer
chants are yielding to the demands of their
patrons, many of them people of eastern
birth who have settled In the northwest,
to Introduce the copper coin In business
transactions. Formerly no coin smaller
than the 5-cent piece waa In circulation,
and in cases where purchases came to
sums which were not multiples of five It
was the custom to make transactions In
"even money." The principal objection to
the reform In this method Is that It means
additional work for accountants and an
entire change in cash registers.
HAS TUB POOR BOY A CHAlVCKt
Affirmative Answer.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
A routine news Item of the day records
the appointment of Thomas EL McDonnell
to succeed the late Alonzo Wygant aa gen
eral superintendent of the fifth division
of the United States Express company.
That is, Mr. McDonnell will have charge
of the company's large business in and
about Chicago and on all the lines of the
Chicago, Milwaukee A St. Paul railway.
The fact is also noted that the man who
reaches this Important and responsible post
at the age of S entered the same service
twenty years ago as a wagon boy who was
paid a few dollars a week to carry parcels
in and out of houses and stores and run
other little errands. lie haa been promoted
gradually to his present place simply be
cause he did his work faithfully and well
in every position.
The case of Mr. McDonnell Is cited simply
as an 'illustration of the folly of the as
sumption somewhat generally of late In
"sociological" treatises, that the conditions
ef. American life have somehow so changed
that the boy who must begin life at the
bottom of the ladder has not the "chance"
he once had of material success. ,
There never waa a sillier assumption than
this or one so contrary to the visible facts.
There la not a business house of any size
in Chicago where there are not men in
the highest and most responsible positions,
or plainly progressing toward them, who
began at the very bottom and have riaen
by their lnduatry and fidelity to economic
independence and conspicuous success. The
Inter Ocean can point to several young
men on its own business staff of whom
this is literally true.
The "chance" of the poor boy is so large
and numerous and frequent that he does
not need to look for It as a "chance" at all.
In every line of endeavor the "chance" is
looking for him. There is not a head ef a
business house In this or any other com
munity who is not compelled to spend a
large share of his time In looking tor as
sistants, and whose days are not a constant
effort to find or make helpers who can be
relied on to do their work with intelligence
and fidelity.
If thla were not so the conduct of any
business would be a mere pastime, a happy
dream. Instead of the hard and continuous
work that It ta
lnduatry, frugality, fidelity, seal to under
stand what la to be done, readiness to do
it, patience to wait the call to the larger
task, cultivation of knowledge how to dial
rightly with emergencies, and courage in
dealing with them when they arise these
are the qualities that give the poor boy
his "chance" today as in the peat these
are the qualities that win material success.
And because the tasks are larger and the
wealth to be wen or lost in them greater
than ever before, the poor boy's chance was
never bigger than it is today. All he haa
to do U to be worthy of it and take it
whoa tt oomM
StCHMO.NS BOII.Kl) DOWN.
'
love never knows how much it gives nor
what it costs.
It s folly trying to hide a false life be
hind a fight for truth.
A lot of neglect of men hides behind en
thusiasm for the manses.
This world Is none the brighter for those
who have money to bum.
Folks who pride themselves on being
smooth are far from being polished.
Carrying a ruble under the arm does not
prevent carrying potRon under the tongue.
People who have no love to spare always
have plenty of surplus sorrow to distribute.
It's hard for a man to tto honest with
his neighbor who Is not honest with him
self. There's a lot of difference between having
faith In your works and working your
faith.
Many a man busy driving others to
heaven Is walking backward on the road
himself.
It will take more than faith In the mira
cles of the past to heal the miseries of the
present.
Borne folks think they havs the house of
character because they possess the plans
of virtue.
If you have large reserves of religion
you will not be without the small change
of kindness.
It is folly to talk of being guided by the
light of your conscience when you take
pains to keep It In the dark.
Tou might as well try to get to Europe
on a treatise on navigation as to get to
heaven on a system of theology.
It makes all the difference whether you
are acting like a good man because you
want to seem to be one or because yoij
are. Chicago Tribune.
PERSON A Is AMD OTHERWISE.
Poor Lady Yarmouth. 8he paid a million
American dollars for the title and trim
mings. Bvon though leap year Is in full blast
there Is no diminution In the number of
bachelor wall flowers.
The Thaw ' family " fortune acquired an
earl and a girl and a bunch of trouble at
both ends of the line.
The rent riots In New Tork together with
furious mouthlngs against landlords are
sufficiently Interesting to make all Ireland
sit up and take notice. "Megorra, It's the
rale thing."
People are so disposed to believe what
ever raw story comes out of Pittsburg
that a denial rarely catches on. Pittsburg
does not need to "get a reputation" as a
warm member.
Borne residents of New Jersey are grow
ing so disloyal to the trust Industry of the
state as to insist on getting a seat before
paying .fares on street cars. This Is peri
lously close to the limit.
Four American heiresses out of scores
are actually living with their titled hus
bands abroad. Buch heroic self sacrifice
and endurance deserves the attention of
Carnegie's hero commission.
Edward Morris, eldest son of the late
Nelson Morris of Chicago, Is said to
have cornered all the stock of his father's
packing house and thus becomes masteA of
a fortune of from $36,000,000 to 140,000,000.
Although prohibition Is twelve days old
In Georgia the natives are still "seeing
things." One m&n reports that "an alligator-shaped
creature, striped with many
colors, fell from the clouds last Thursday."
Boll the water.
A New Tork girl proposed to a man Just
as the clock finished striking 12 on New
Year's eve, was immediately accepted and
the wedding took place an hour later.
Tills should give timid girls courage to do
some pointed asking.
Word comes out of Chicago that James
Hamilton Lewis told a class of law stu
dents that "women do not appreciate the
sanctity of an oath." The fact that I J.
Ham still sports his. famous pink whiskers
flatly contradlots the story.
Eight and a half million dollars were
disbursed by the Red Cross for the relief
of Sun Francisco's earthquake sufferers.
Nearly half a million remains to settle ob
ligations Incurred and bring to a fitting
clone a mighty tusk worthily performed. .
F. Augustus Helnse, as he rattles his
legal fetters In New York, may be for
given for the sobs he sobs for the good old
days of Butte when a mere touch of the
button brought him Judicial orders, Injuno
tlons and decisions, putting his enemies in
a hole.
WHAT AMERICA NEEDS.
Prayer, Piety and Corresponding;
Individual Deeds.
Wall Street Journal.
What America needs more than -railway
extension, and western irrigation, and low
tariff, aid bigger wheat crop, and a mer
chant marine, and a new navy. Is a revival
of piety, the kind mother and father used
to have piety that counted It good busi
ness to Stop for dally family prayer before
breakfast, right In the middle of harvest;
that quit field work a half hour early
Thursday night, so ss to get the chores
done and go to prayer meeting; that bor
rowed money to pay the preacher's salory
and prayed fervently In secret for the sal
vation of the rich man who looked with
scorn on such unbusinesslike behavior.
That's what we need now to clean this
country of the filth of graft, and of greed,
petty and big; of worship of fine houses
and big lands and high office and grand
social functions. What la this thing we
are worshiping but a vain repetition of
what decayed nations fell down and wor
shiped Just before their light went out?
Read the history of Rome In decay and you
will find luxury there that could lay a big
dollar over our little doughnut that looks
so large, to us. Oreat wealth nevor made
a nation substantial nor honorable. There
Is nothing on earth that looks good that Is
so dangerous for a man or nation to handle
as quick, easy, big money. If you do re
sist Its deadly Influences, the chances are
that it will get your son. It takes greater
and finer heroism to dare to be poor in
America than to capture a battery in Man
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PBtTLAH SHOTS AT ,THU PTI.PIt
Brooklyn Eagle: When a preacher says
that this sort of thing or that Is a failure,
find out how old he is. If he Is aged, dis
count his depreciation.
Louisville Courier Journal: A Western
minister has eloped with his cook. Thers
should be a written law exonerating anyone
who Is so favored of the gods as to bl
taken In tow by the departing rook.
Boston Transcript: Decrying the multi
plicity of churches, rr. Myers says: "Wi
are running peanut stands when we out.lv
to be running great department stores.
Thua pungent and snappy Is sacred rhe
torlo.
Baltimore American: A sensational AtlsnW'
preacher was forced to substitute th
smashing of an empty whisky bottle on tht
floor of his church to mark the advent of
prohibition rather than a mil one because
of a law against carrying intoxicants to s
place of worship. He came out ahead ol
the gnme, however; he saved the price o
the whisky and got the advertising Jvist the
same.
Baltimore News: Bishop rnddork ol
Oregon says th ability to make money It
"God-given." Bo Is the ability for muflc,
oratory, invention and other capabilities of
the human mind. But the possession of a
talent to make money does not justify th
possessor to use It for the oppression ol
other people. It Is the abuses of morey,
and not Its uses, of which Just compla'nl
Is made.
Cincinnati Enquirer: A Baptist clergyman
says that George Washington did nit wrl'.e
the "Farewell Address." It Would be Just
as well, after this long lapse of time, to
allow the Father of His Country to have
the credit for it. There Is no evidence that
anybody else wrote It. There Is not posi
tive proof that Thomas Jeff en .on wrote
the Declaration of Independence, . and any
body may make guesses as to' who c m
posed "Sink- or swim, live or de. survive
or perish." We know that mnny of the
speeches which are embalmed In the Con
gressional Record were written by private
secretaries or newspaper men who were
making a little "on the side."
DOMESTIC PLE ASAlVTnlES.
Mrs. Ferguson-George, what do you havs
to do when you wont to draw some money
out of a bank?
Mr. Ferguson You have to put some
money In the bank beforehand. That's al
ways been my experience. Cliifugo Tilbiin .'
"Pardon me," said Ascum, "but It must
be pretty tough to be married to a strong
minded wdman."
"O!" replied Henpeck, "It haa its ad
vantages. When my wife thinks she hears
burglars downstairs ahe won't trust me to
go down and investigate. "--Philadelphia
Press.
"What in the deuce mudo you ever pro
pose to that woman?"
"Well, we talked about books till we were
tired, and then we got to the weather, and
then there dkln'e seem to be anything ulsu
to keep up the conversation." Philadelphia
Ledger. '
"He says lie has never suld an unkind
word te his wife."
"And you believe It?"
"I certainly do."
"You must have lots of faith in hla truth
fulness?" "None nt all, but I know his Wife.''
Houston Post.
The angel was making the list.
"No," admitted the man, "I lay no e uhr
to great virtues, but write me down as "tie
of the Ananias club."
And lo! Ben Adhem's name lad all tlie
rest. New York Sun.
"What shall we do with our ex-presl
dents?" asked the thoughtful patriot.
"That's easy," answered the breery cap!
tallst. "We can start more magazines.'
Washington Herald.
Nan I waa astonished to learn that Lll
Bllllwlnk had gone and married that Sprig
ging - boy. Why, she's a good ten year
omer man ne is.
Vivn I know It. but tt had narrowed dowr
to a choice .between Mm and his . father,
and she bad to decide quick. Chlcatt
Tribune.
''See here, Bess," said Ned to his man
Dish sister, "I don't mind you wearing my
things, but you might at least give me a
testimonial letter."
"How Ui) you meun?" sho demanded.
"Well, you might say something like
this: 'Dear Ned: Sinoe using your shlrtn
and collars I'm a new woman.' " Philudel
plila Press.
"The pen," remarked the studout, "i
mightier thun the sword."
"ies." answered tlio man who likes the
pomp and trappings; "but It doesn't miilio
near tho showing in a reception or a pa
rade." Washington Btar.
A SHADOW OF THE NIGHT.
Thomas Bailey Aldiich.
Close on the edgu of a midsummer dawn
In troubled dreams I went from land to
land,
Each seven-colored like the rainbow's arc,
Regions where never fancy's loot had trod
Till tiien; yet all the strangeness seemed
not strange,
Whereon I wondered, reasoning in my
dream.
At last 1 came to this, our cloud-hung
earth.
And somewhere by the seashore was a
grave,
A woman's grave, new made, and heaped
with flowers;
And near it stood an ancient holy man
That fain would comfort me, who sor
rowed not
For tiiis unknown dead woman at my
feet.
But I, because his sacred office held
My revereuue, listened; and 'twas thus he
spoke:
"When next thou comest thou shalt find
her still
In all the rare perfection that she wa
Thou shalt have gentle greeting of thy
love!
Her eyelids will have turned to violets,
Her bosom to white lilies, and her bieulh
To roses. What is lovely never dies,
Hut passes into other loveliness.
Star-dust, or seafoam, flower, or winged
air.
If this befalls our poor unworthy flesh,
Think thee what destiny awaits the soul!
What glorious vesture It shall wear at
last!"
While yet he spoke, seashore and grave
and priest
Vanished, and faintly from a neighborly
spire
Fell five slow, solemn strokes upon ni)
ear.
Then I awoke with a keen pain at heart,
A sense Of swift unutterable loss. -
And through the darkness reached my
hand to touch
Her cheek, soft-pillowed on one restfu
palm
To be quite sure.
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