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8TATEMENT OK CIRCULATION.
tUate of Nebraska, Douglas County, as.:
George B. Txschuck, treasurer ,of The
Bee Publishing Company, being duly aworn,
says that the actual number of full and
complete copies of The Dally, Morning,
Kvenlng and Sunday Bee printed during
the month of January, 1908, was as fol
lows: , ,
1 36,800 17 38,300
2 38,130 It 30,160
3 30,330 19 38,400
4 30,400 20 36,660
f 36,300 21 38,410
36,340 22 38,140
1 '38,600 23 38,350
I 3890 24 38,480
8 36,383 25 36,640
10 38.410 ' 2 35,100
11 38,330 27 .36,140
12 38,160. 28! 37,130
13 38,430 29 36,080
14 36,800 30 38,330
16., 36,360 31 38,980
16.. 36,100
Totals 1,133,390
Less unsold and returned copies.
8,460
Net total 1,114,840
Dally average 35,963
GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK.
Treasurer.
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before me this 1st day of February, 1D0S.
ROBERT HUNTER,
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WHEN OUT OP TOWN,
subscribers leaTlns the city tem
porarily should have The Dee
walled to them. Address will be
changed aa often as reaested.
Congress has about decided that.it
does not know what to do when finan
cial doctors disagree.
Mr. Bryan concedes that Bourke
Cockran Is a democrat. Bryan and
Cockran have both changed since 1896.
"J. Ham Lewis talks first and thinks
afterward," says the Chicago Tribune.
That sentence : should end with , the
word "talks." ' . " " - ' '
A California "professor predicts that
wlthjn the text docade the house cat
will have disappeared. Perhaps, but
she'l! come back. .
It develops that. a cousin of Count
Szechenyl is a checker at a New York
hotel. The count is also in position to
handle a few checks.
If Mayor "Jim" wants to follow
good advice, he will turn over the page
of his Sioux City performance and say
nothing mors about It.
Colonel Bryan insists the only way
to win is to run on a Roosevelt plat
form.'. That would seem to make it
almost unanimous for Mr. Taft.
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If Governor Magoon should go Into
the cabinet there would be no occasion
for removing the chair that was built
to accommodate Mr. Taft's generous
proportions.
A weather bureau forecaster at
Washington has issued a warning to
"look out for violent disturbances."
Senator "Jeff" Davis must be billed
for another speech.
The Jacksonlans charge that the
candidate for delegate-at-large put for
ward by the Dahlmanltes is not even
registered as a democrat. What has
that to do with the case?
"Routes to the North Pole" is the
title of a new book by Commander
Peary. He knows all about them be
cause he has demonstrated that the
pole cannot be reached by any of them.
A fund of $1,000,000 is to be raised
to chase the rats out of San Francisco.
It will go had with the rats unless they
can get their case before that court of
appeals which decided the Scbmits
cane.
It is announced that the anti-Bryan
delegates will have a conference in
Denver before the convention. That
conference will be about as cheerful as
the conversation in a dentist's waiting
room.
If the Fourth Nebraska district
should send State Senator Aldrlch to
congress, the Aldrlch of the senate and
the Aldrlch of the house would be two
utterly different and usually divergent
personages.
San Francisco Is asking for designs
for a poster to express the city's wel
come to the men of Admiral Evans'
Beet appropriately. Some one la sure
to suggest that old picture of a
schooner crossing the bar.
With s deadlock on between mem
bers of the Nebraska'delegatlon over
tho distribution of tho federal patron
ge. It Is In order for some one to de
mand the direct primary vote on ap
plicant for presidential appointments
from Nebraska.'
RAILROAD MAIL HAT IK
The second assistant postmaster gen
eral has alarmed and shocked some of
the railroad managers by a declaration
that hereafter the government will In
sist on something like the same privi
leges and advantages offered to other
shippers and railroad patrons. He has
decided that pay to the railroad com
panies for carrying the government
mall, in cases where there are two
lines between the points, shall be based
upon the mileage of the shorter route.
This is a radical departure from the
old system, under which railroads were
paid rqileage rates and under which the
roads seem to have had something like
an agreement to send the mall by the
longer route.
The wisdom of the decision of the
Postofflce department cannot be ques
tioned. When a shipper has merchan
dise to send from one point to another
he selects the shorter route, or If he
does not, the railroad that has the
longer route makes a rate equal to
that of the shorter. In some cases, a
lower rate even Is quoted to offset the
longer time consumed by the ship
ment. Under the new posfofflce ruling,
the railroads "will be required to per
form service for the government on
precisely the same terms that they
perform It for individual shippers. It
is estimated that compliance with this
new order will result in a marked
saving in the expense of tho postal
service and will appreciably reduce the
annual deficit.
The deficit might be wiped out
entirely if the postofflce authorities
should insist that the government, as
the largest patron of the railroad com
panies, be granted rates offered to
other shippers. It Is a matter of record
that the railroad companies give the
express companies a rate approximately
BO per cent less than the rate charged
for carrying the mails. No argument
has ever been offered to show why the
government should pay more for trans
porting mail than express companies
pay for transporting their shipments.
The decision of the Postofflce depart
ment, basing the compensation for this
service on the mileage of the shorter
routes between two points. Is only a
step in the direction of economy and
the correction of existing abuses. The
adjustment Qf the rates in such man
ner as to place the government on an
equality with private shippers will
come some day.
PS KB ION ROLL STILL INCREASING.
When congress enacted the service
pension law in 1907, granting a pen
sion to every civil war veteran at
taining the age of 60 years, experts
estimated that the increase would
amount to but a few millions dollars
-$5,000,000 at most and that the
decrease In the list of pensioners by
death would soon offset the increase
and mark a reduction in the amount
necessary for pension purposes. De
velopments show that these experts
were mistaken and that the pension
appropriation for the next year will be
the largest in the nation's history.
Representative Kelfer of Ohio, chair
man of the house committee on pen
sions, has made a preliminary report
in which he estimates the appropria
tion for pensions for the coming fiscal
year at $150,000,000, or about $11,
000,000 in excess of the largest pen
sion appropriation.
Pension disbursements have grown
from $1,026,139 in 1863 to $139,000,-
000 in 1907, or to about $500,000 a
day for every working day of the com
ing year. While records show that
the ranks of survivors of the civil war
are being thinned dally by death, yet
the pension roll has up to this time
Increased with each year. No dis
position exists anywhere to begrudge
the money paid to reward the men
who fought for their country In it3
time of peril. That the pension roll
should continue to increase in face of
conditions that should tend naturally
to diminish it contradict all prevision.
The special pension laws passed by
the thousand at ever session of con
gress, the maintenance of pension
agencies throughout the country, with
clerks, physicians and examiners, Long
after the need of their services has
passed and the cumbersome red-tape
pervading pension affairs may and
probably does account for this unex
pected situation.
HKROIS AND MEDALS.
Two young men who collaborated in
saving a young woman from drowning
in a boating accident near Philadel
phia have gone into the courts and the
newspapers in a llvelf controversy over
the Carnegie hero medal awarded for
the accomplishment. The young man
who received the medal Insists that he
Is entitled to it and modestly takes
most of the credit for the rescue. The
other party to the controversy declared
in a warmly worded affidavit that the
proud wearer of the hero medal Is a
false alarm, or words to that effect.
He declares that he saw the girl first
and, without thought of danger or
medals, dared his companion, as Cas
elus did with Caesar, to
Leap with me Into thla angry flood
And swim to yonder point.
Upon the word, accoutred as he was,
he plunged in without removing his
shoes and saved the girl. His partner,
so the affidavit says, waited on bank
and finally relieved him of the fair
burden and carried the girl into the
nearby hotel, where he was hailed as
a hero, while the really truly hero of
the exploit was getting a bracer and
hunting up some dry togs.
On the evidence offered, conflicting
at every point. It is difficult to deter
mine which is the hero and which only
the near-hero. But general sentiment
.will favor the man who has the medal.
The other fellow may havu saved the
girl, all right, but even at that the
public has little patience for the man
who has to produce affidavits to sup
port his claims of heroism. Self-sacrifice
Is the real hallmark of heroism
tnd the Carnegie Hero commission will
be pretty safe if It adopts the policy of
refusing hero medals to men who ask
'or them.
A LITTLK PLAIN TALK.
The resumption by certain brass
band reformers of their crusade
against a particular landlord In the
burnt district, who seems to bftve dls
appointej them somewhere, has been
seized as an occasion for a lot of hot
air In their newspaper organ about the
social evil. Without regard to whether
this particular resort Is any worse or
any better than a dozen other unmo
lested places of the same sort, the fact
remains that it has been doing busi
ness at the same old stand for years
and during that period was no different
at any one time than at any other. The
buddenness of the awakening to the
enormities of the alleged indecencies
of this place would In itself indicate
so.no hidden motive.
The punishment of any particular
landlord In the burnt district, however,
assuming that It is deserved, ought to
be brought about without inflicting
barbaric cruelty on the poor unfortu
nates who have been consigned to a
life of degradation. A house of 111
reputo may easily be closed without
waiting until 11 o'clock at night to
order the arrest of the inmates so that
they must be thrown into Jail and kept
there for offending no differently than
others allowed to go scot free. To
close such a disreputable resort does
not require tne fining of the women in
unusual sums nor the exaction of ex
cessive ball which it is known they
cannot furnish. The same object
could have been accomplished with
some manifestation of Christian char
ity and some regard for real humanity
by arresting the women in the day
time, if necessary, and their release on
nominal bonds to give them a chance
to seek other quarters.
But the women need not have been
arrested at all, inasmuch as there is
no intention or desire to reform them.
The owners and landlords of the prop
erty are the ones who should be held
responsible and who could easily be
forced to abolish any abuses which the
authorities do not want to tolerate.
No one objects to a bunch of cheap,
mountebanks getting all the free ad
vertising they can by constituting
themselves a - smelling committee
around the burnt district, but there is
no reason why these wretched fallen
women should be kicked and cuffed
from pillar to post and dumped into
jail in the darkness of night simply to
gratify some selfish purpose which has
nothing to do with, bettering their con
dition.
NEVADA'S REDEMPTION.
By passing a bill creating a state
police, an organization that is to be
a sort of a compromise between the
Texas Rangers and a state militia, the
Nevada legislature has at last done
something to rescue the state from
the humiliating position in which It
was placed by Governor Sparks call
ing in federal troops without apparent
excuse or need at the time. The new
law enacted by the legislature is a
notice that the state of Nevada is to
be prepared hereafter to maintain
peace at home and to guaranty the
rights of both labor and capital In
disputes that may arise between them.
That no such guaranty has been
possible in the past is not to the state's
credit. The mere passage of the law
will make it unlikely that there will
be any demand for the machinery of
law enforcement that it makes pos
sible. The creation of the state police
force will have a powerful deterrent
effect upon the hotheads and furnish
new courage to the conservatives who
believe in the law and order and are
anxious to have it upheld and main
tained. The house at Washington broke into
cheers at the conclusion of the chap
lain's prayer the other morning. The
chaplain is reported to have prayed as
follows:
Oh, Lord, deliver us, we beseech Theo,
from the jingo, the demagogue and bigot
and all other undesirable clttsens and give
us Instead the patriot and statesman, the
broad-minded, generous-hearted manly
man', that Thy kingdom may come and Thy
will may be done on earth aa It Is In
heaven, for Christ's sake. Amen.
As a resident of the District of Co
lumbia Chaplain Couden does not have
a vote, but it is evident that he is a
Taft man.
Omaha Is to be congratulated upon
the opening of a new modern fireproof
hospital and again to be congratulated
that it has two or three more first-
class hospitals in the building.
Omaha's superb hospital facilities, to
gether with the high standing and skill
of its physicians and surgeons, are sure
to make it known far and wide and to
become an all-Important feature of the
city.
The theory that the direct primary
bars good men out of office because
they will not go after 'such jobs is not
borne out by the filings for the mu
nicipal nominations at South Omaha.
A lot of good men have filed there for
various city offices and it will be up to
the voters of the respective parties to
see to It that the good men have the
preference over the bad men at the pri
mary election.
The Dahlmanltes want to do battle
against the Jacksonlans, claiming the
exclusive right to flaunt the Bryan
banner and calling upon all true
friends "of Bryan to : rally1, -' to their
standard. After they win out they
will proclaim another glorious victory
In vindication of Mayor "Jim," In
whose name their club has been christened.
The Omaha Public library statistics
for the past year show a steadily In
creasing use of this Institution by the
public. While we are emphasizing
Omaha's advancement along material
lines, it is gratifying to know that
progress also is being made In the di
rection of popular culture and Intelli
gence, as this clearly proves.
Although he registered last year as
a democrat, George W. Berge wants It
known far and wide that he Is specially
pleased with and endorses President
Roosevelt's latest message. Mr. Berge
must be a really truly candidate for
the democratic nomination for gov
ernor and there is no use longer trying
to disguise the fact.
A New York man advertises for a
wife who "must be handsome, young,
rich, sweet-tempered, companionable,
not given to Indisposition, willing to
stay home nights and must not drink,
smoke or gamble." A woman with
those qualifications does not have to
look for a huBband.
President Butler of Columbia uni
versity sayB New York is not rep
resented in either branch of congress.
New York may not be represented in
the house, but the express companies
know about the representation In the
senate.
Roger Sullivan has sent word to Mr.
Bryan that all democrats are now for
him. Mr. Bryan wllf be wise if he
searches some of these recruits for
concealed weapons before allowing
them to climb Into his bandwagon.
Chancellor Day of Syracuse Is bitter
in his denunciation of the president's
latest message. Chancellor Day re
members that good old German adage,
"Whose bread I eat, his song I'll sing."
"Legislative problems are beyond
the average legislator," says Ambas
sador Bryce. The ambassador forgets
that every legislator, as he admits
himself, is above the average.
"Temperamental Serenity.
Boston Transcript.
"The farther south one goes, the less
nervous are the people," says Dr. Worces
ter. Hence lynching. Bryanlsm, prohibi
tion, and other manifestations of tempera
mental serenity.
A Possible Awakening-.
Indlariapolis News.(
The Interesting belief of British scientists
that messages from the dead are possible
has Its alarming features. We may hear
from 'some of our statesmen that labor
under the delusion that they are still alive.
A Discredited Theory.
New York Tribune.
The marked decline In the output and
sale of tobacco in the last three months
effectually discredits the theory of the
philosopher who said that give a man the
luxuries he cared for and he could easily
dispense with the necessaries.
Patronage Versus Kconomy.
Chicago Tribune.
Congress Is more concerned about patron
age than It Is about currency legislation.
The thirteenth decennial census Is to be
taken two years hence and preliminary
arrangements have to be made. The serv
ices of 4,000 extra clerks will be required,
and congressmen hail with delight an op
portunity to get places for many constitu
ents. That will help them In their dis
tricts. American Money Bays Famens Relies.
Buffalo Express.
An American paid $4,250 for the flag of
the Chesapeake and the English allowed
the Balaklava bugle to be sold to come to
this country for $1,600, which Is said to be
$2,260 less than Its late owner paid for the
bugle that sounded the "Charge of the
Light Brigade." If Kngllshmen will hang
on to their shillings and their guineas liko
that a few further. British diatribes on the
American love of money would be particu
larly rich.
Apostrophe to the Weather.
Springfield Republican.
Here is the greater part of the winter
gone, and though It has been chill enough
to prevent undue swelling of leaf and
fruit buds, yet we have had no severity,
no forbidding days or crushing nights of
cold. We may have a bitter February, but
what of that? It cannot in the least de
tract from the exquisite beneficence, the
gracious tenderness of this long transition
season. That we have enjoyed; let us be
grateful, let us rejoice and cry aloud for
the love and glory of God In His world!
A HOPEFlt 8IGN.
Responsibility (or the Boyertawa
Holocaust Fixed.
Indianapolis News.
The verdict of the coroner's Jury, which
has been investigating the Boyertown
theater disaster, shows that the jury was
not afraid to do its duty. It charges two
persons with criminal negligence; one, the
woman who gave the entertainment, be
cause she employed an Inexperienced op
erator for the caloium light, and the other,
the deputy factory Inspector, in not seeing
that the opera house had .the proper fire
escapes. Now, If indictment and trial fol
low we may have a sensible precedent es
tablished in such cases; one that may holp
to change the prevailing habit of mind
which holds no one to blame. Why, people
say or think, no one would be guilty of
doing anything that would contribute to a
great calamity; It Is Inhuman to suggest
It. That la the ordinary complaisant men
tal attitude toward lack of foresight and
precaution that has resulted In loss of lives
and grievous injury to others. It substi
tutes sentiment for sense; It Ignores the
basic difference between feeling and ac
tion. To give an entertainment Is a beau
trful thing, but to give it without proper
precautions may well become what the
coroner's Jury has called it here criminal
negligence. And certalaly for an inspector,
whose duty it Is to see to the safety of
public halls, to permit a place to be uaed
by a throng of people without having
proper means of safety as the law requires,
shows grave neglect of duty.
But we shrink always from the applica
tion. We may even go so far as to admit
everything In theory, but we have yet to
create the kind of public sentiment that
will demand the punishment of those who
are really, though perhaps thoughtlessly,
guilty, by omission or commission, In con
tributing to the result. And yet It Is cer
tain that we shall never have the right
ordering of life until we-are willing to
face the consequences.
AltMr iOIP IX WASHIXGTOX.
I
torrent Etmlt (.'leaned from the
Army and ary Register.
The Increase of pay, so far as that project
relates to the army. Is destined to be ef
fected by the Incorporation In the army ap
propriation bill, when It shall emerge from
the house military committee, of n pnvl
slon, separate and distinct from any of the
several propositions Introduced In the house
and senate, relating to the Increase of serv
Ice pay. This would ordinarily bo subject
to a point of order as new legislation In
thrt house and so thrown out, but, by an
arrangement between the rhnlrman of the
house military committee and the speaker
of the house this obstacle will be removed
by bringing In a special rule from the
committee on rules permitting the con.W
eration of tho provision. The claupe has
not been framed, but, according to tho
present plnns, it will provide an Increase of
10 per cent In the pay of major generals
10 per cent In that of brigadier generals,
15 and perhaps even 25 per cent In the
pay of field officers and 25 per cent st least
In t! case of other commissioned officers
Tho sentiment of the house military com
mittee Is decidedly In opposition to permit
ting tho president to prescribe the pay of
the enlisted force, either In fixing or In
Increasing the soldier's pay. The clauso
will, therefore, specify the pay which
should be given for succeeding- enlistments
in the various classes of enlisted men
This will probably be $13 for the first en
listment In the case of privates of the line,
wun graduated Increases up to $23. The
highest pay will be that of regimental ser
geants, etc., who will get $:I6 on first en
listments, up tb $60 on the seventh and sub
sequent enlistments. It Is possible that
provision will be made for the appointment
of noncommissioned officers of certain
grades as warrant officers after fifteen
years' service, with pay at $1,000 per year
and 10 per cent Increase fur each five years
service to include twenty yoars.
An unusual case Involving the discharge
of an enlisted man by purchase has en
gaged tho attention of the War department
this week. A soldier denoslterl the i,,v. r
$175 with his troop commander Ith a view
to tne purchase of discharge, which was
authorized In department orders. TWn
tho latter were Issued, however, the troop
commander died and the deposit made by
the enlisted man should have nassert to M,
mie aeceased officer's successor tn com
mand of the troop. It seems, however, that
mo deposit did not appear as a sesreirntA
account among the effects of the deceased
ana nis successor In office could not tn.lco
over tho fund or Issue the discharge i i.
neid that If there Is hay due hv the
ernment to the estate of the deceased it
should be stopped to meet the dent dim tho
United States, and If there Is no pay due
ino aeceased the administrator or v.i.iitn..
or tne estate should be called unnn tn mi,
good for the estate the amount due the
United States. It is also held that fh
soldier should receive his discharge un,lo-
the circumstances. ,
The war department has roii!v,i o i.
number of letters upon tho invitation f ,
secretary of war from army officers, as well
ceriain enlisted men. In an effort to find
out directly at first hand the causes of dis
content and unrest In the military estab
lishment. Among the reasons n-,ih ,.,
expressed as contributing to this disturbing
t-uuumun are tne practice marches, the
compulsory exercises In the gymnasium
held in some cases regardless of the fact
that they follow the regular drills, the In
adequacy of the ration and the cutting of
of the extra work which soldiers are called
upon to do. The War department has al
ready taken steps to reduce the amount of
these practice marches and has placed re
strictions on gymnastics so that they will
not occur after drill and will not
take more than thirty minutes. The
ration lias been increased. It is
deemed Impossible to arrange for
the employment of civilian labor
to do the extra and non-military work now
required of soldiers, as the estimated cost
of such employment is fully $1,500,000. In
stead congress is asked to pass a bill to
create a service corps the cost of which
would be only $400,000.
The army medical department bill passed
the senate on Wednesday, followed on
Thursday by the passage In the senate of
the Bulkeley bill providing for a corps of
dental surgeons, Mr. Bulkeley having
abandoned the Idea of attempting an
amendment of the army medical bill to that
end and Introducing an independent meas
ure with the favorable effect noted. Fur
ther action In congress on the medical
department bill depends upon the attitude of
Speaked Cannon, who Is understood to be
favorable to the measure. There is no In
dication when the bill, which has been re
ported from the house military committee
with amendment, will be taken up. It If
pass the house In the form reported from
committee, the difference gotween It and
the senate bill passed on Wednesday will
have to be adjusted In conference.
The War department has Issued a new
volumne publishing the regulations for the
government of the ordnance department
of the army. These regulations supersede
the ordnance regulations of 1877, which have
volume there was omitted all matter which
Is availlable In existing regulations and
orders for the use t ordnance officers and
It contains only such matter as relates pe
culiarly to ordnance officers by reason of
their special duties and that Is not else
where available in convenient form. The
preparation of this volume has been under
way since September of 1808 and its publi
cation was authorized in June of last year.
Midshipman A. J. Chantry, of Iowa, a
member of the final graduating class of the
naval academy, who has beun found dis
qualified for duty lit the line of the navy on
account of defective eyesight, will probably
be appointed an assistant naval construc
tor. Midshipman Chantry has made an ex
cellent record at the Naval academy and Is
regarded aa qualified in all respects for ap
pointment to the corps of naval construc
tors. Senator Borkett'a Uraslaar BUI.
Portland Oregonlan.
Senator Burkctt of Nebraska has formu
lated a bill to provide for regulation and
control of grazing on the public lands of
the United States, and for leasing the same
for terms of years. The Idea may have
merit, but It provides for leases for forms
of ten years, and may tie up large bodies
of lands that homestead settlers might oc
cupy. It Is said the lands are mostly in
arid districts. But experience shows that
there are few localities where water can
be said to be unobtainable. It Is far bet
ter to have the lands occupied by home
makers thna, to be leased for great cattle
ranges.
Novelist's Melancholy Kad.
Philadelphia Record.
"Oulda's" fata la a sad one, but appar
ently tho result of extreme Improvidence.
She did not make a permanent place for
herself In the wold's literature, but she
wrote aovoral "best sellers." She was
enormously popular from the start, wrote
a great many novels, and they were greed
ily taken by a public that demands high
seasoned and not very substantial mental
food. It Is estimated that she made $o.t0
or $300.0i0, but used It up In living. In enter
taining her friends snd In Indiscriminate
and unnecessary giving, and died almost
destitute. I
TIIK ROOKVF.I.T HIIKRlTArK.
Mr. Bryan's Reiterated C laim to tinn
ers h I n.
New York Times tlnd. dom.).
The R.tosvvelt policies were mine, are
his. and shall be mine again, bhUI Mr.
Bryan to the democratic senators who dined
with lilm at the house of Senator New
lands. This is probubly the first time in
political history that a chieftain of the
opposition has sought tn establish his title
to eligibility by planting himself firmly
(upon the principles of the party In power,
in fairness, of course, It must be ad
mitted that this singular situation Is some-,
what modified by Mr. Bryan's claim to a
prior uso of the principles In question.
That claim Is so well established In fart,
so thoroughly buttressed by historical cir
cumstance, and so generally admitted that
If Mr. Bryan had had the forethought to
copyright his policies he could establish
his rights to them as Intellectual property
In any fedi ral court where Infringement
suits are prosecuted. Indeed, a moralist
so austere as Mr. Roosevelt ought to ad
mit that the policies called his sre not of
his orlginsttng. and their transfer to their
lawful owner would be effected, not by re
capture but by voluntary reconveyance on
the expiration of the terminable Interest.
If Mr. Taft has In his makeup a shred of
respect for property rights he will, of
course, take himself out of the way tn
order that Mr. Bryan may come Into his
own, and, aa Mr. Curtis said of President
Hayes, "pass unchallenged to his chair."
This ingenious and subtle plea of Mr.
Bryan quite eliminates from the campaign
the Issue of principle. The fight now be
comes altogether a matter of men, re
versing the old axiom. And there's the
rub. If tho voters all thought alike we
should probably have Mr. Bryan unani
mously, but they won't think alike. In
evitably, the platforms being Identical,
there will be a measuring and comparison
of men. If the comparison were between
Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Bryan, we should
be alarmed for the Nehrasksn. The Ameri
can people admire ability, and follow after
It. Now Mr. Roosevelt Is so Immeasurably
the superior of Mr. Bryan In that respect
that he would enter the race already so
far In the lead of his adversary that the
gap between them would never be closed.
M. Bryan's personal disadvantages In com
parison with Secretary Taft Is not less
evident. This Is a moral people. The peo
ple believe William H.- Taft to be an ab
solutely sincere man, and a very large
part of the people distrust the sincerity of
Mr. Bryan. He is too facile. He has too
many principles. He lays aside the old and
takes up tho new with such readiness as
to beget and continually confirm the belief
that expediency, not conviction, Is the
motive of his action. The people, more
over, know Mr. Taft to be an efficient
man. Tho efficiency of Mr. Bryan Is alto
gether untested. In the two great en
deavors of his life he has disastrously
failed, and appears to have succeeded In
nothing save in accumulating a fortune
while pursuing his profession of perpetual
candidate. Put against his barren record
the achievements of Mr. Taft in the Philip
pines, in Cuba, in Panama, and in his
dally tasks of administration. The com
parison makes Mr. Bryan look small In
deed, and on election day we are entirely
confident he would disappear from view.
Again, the Yepubllcan candidate will
have laboring in his interest that effective
and coherent organization, the republican
party, while Mr. Bryan must look for sup
port to a once great, but now demoralized
force. The democracy has come to such
pitiful state, indeed, that It appears in
all its membership no man with spunk
enough to bell the Bryan cat. Mr. Bryan
goes on droning out his wearisome plati
tudes in the Intervals between campaigns.
and now when1- he makes his Impudent
demand for the nomination no democrat
shows courage enough to stand up and
dispute it. When he talks they all run,
they cower, they hide, and he prepares
to take by default an honor that, in the
hands of worthy candidate, might ripen
into a trust, but in his own will shrivel
to nothingness.
Fortunes Dropped in Holes.
Philadelphia Record.
Few of the holes bored Into the earth
have gold or oil or other valuable com-
modiilies at the bottom. Ex-Senator
Warner Miller made a fortune out of the
wood pulp business, put it Into what he
supposed was a gold mine, but proved
otherwise, and he has made an assignment.
'Jack" Haverly of Chicago made a for
tune In minstrelsy, and put his wealth In
mines, where It remained. The other day
there was announced the death of Alfred
W. Dennett, who made a fortune out of
cheap lunch counters, over which hung
scriptural mottoes, and who lost all his
money in mining enterprises.
More Zeal Than Jndarraent.
Philadelphia Record.
The false loyalty that recklessly seeks
to make William J. Bryan a presidential
candidate for a third time after two over
whelming defeats can be compared only
with the fanatic zeal of the highland clans
of Scotland for the house of Stuart. The
clans rushed down, naked claymores in
their hands, with impetuous fury, and dis
appeared next morning like the msts of
the mountains. After Killiecrankle came
Culloden, and then all was over. In tho
election reports the enthusiastic followers
of Bryan's campaign banner always turn
up among the missing.
N Account of the
cided to run our
time longer.
When you can
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IKR0AI. KOTK. ,
Notwithstanding the California decision
that the pedestrian bred not dodge an
automobile, the wise pedestrian will con
tinue to dodge.
One of the distinct advantages of a rlty
owning an asphalt patching plant 4a deftly
mentioned by the lmllanapollp Neas "It
lightens the labors of the grand Jury."
The congressman who hns severely con
demned the marriage of American for
tunes with foreign titles b a bachelor, and
the quicker cupId gets busy with .mm tne
better.
Governor Swcttcnham, who was aa
prominent In tho eye or the world at the
time of tho Kingston d'suster, and wM
was latcf removed, is now running a stock
tarm In Jamaica.
Captain Julaa Ballly, the osteologist of
McGUl university, who has died at the
age of "7, Was born In France, and his
grand uncle, Hlmon Hullly. was one of
the committee who signed the order to be
head Ixntis XIV. He started his career
as apprentice to a "pastry cook. For a
time he resided In Philadelphia.
Fred W. Wolf, tho oldest active letter
carrier In the United States, died In Troy,
N. Y., yesterday. Ho was 72 years old and
hail been a letter carrier fifty-four years.
On his sleeve Mr. Wolf woro three gold
stars, two being emblematic of fifty years'
service and the other being a special honor
conferred by the president of the United
States upon the peer of veteran carriers.
Rudolph Sprecklcs, the Han Francisco re
former. Is well known In Philadelphia. Ho
admits, with something not unlike pride,
that he never has cast a vote in his life
and entertains an unaffected contempt for
politics and political methods, lie was one
of the most active figures In the eradicat
ing of "graft" In San Francisco and be
lieves that the application of business
methods to the running of American
municipalities is the only solution of the
problems presented.
"MIMu HtS.MAHK.Si
Enthusiastic Auditor (a t the opera)
Didn't she do that aria divinely? .
Boarding House Miss Huh! You ou&ht
to hear that on our graphophone. Balti
more American.
"My husband has given me the greatest
surprise my lite."
"Broken his New Year swear off, I pre
sume?" "No, he has kept It." Houston Tost.
The public has been Informed that the
usual tut in the price of coal was not to b
made this year.
"In Justification of our course." ex
plained the dealers by circular, "we call
attention to the fact that If we don't get
your money somebody else will." Phila
delphia Ledger.
' You say you worship me," pouted the
young wife, but I notice your worship is
put out of the way as soon as business
comes in."
"But consider, my love," returned the
husband, "my worship of you is properlv
in my Idol momeutB." Baltimore Ameri
cun. "Well," remarked Uncle Jerry Peebles,
laying aside the newspaper In whose
columns he had been reading the dispatches
from New York. "I, s'pose this Is the last
we'll hear about that fashionable weddin'
until the divorce proceedln'a begin." Chi
cago Tribune.
"Are you going to send any valentines
this year?"
"Yes." answered the youth who versi
fies. "I'm not going to let the opportunity
pass. Valentine poetry Is the only kind
you can send one with any confidence that
It won t be returned with thanks." Wash
ington Star.
"From seme of the articles you resd
nowadays you would think that the Ideal
place for existence was In a feeble-minded
Institution."
- "Why so?"
"Because there everybody leads the simple
life." Philadelphia Press. ,
"Thought I'd drop In an give ye a bit
o' news," said the visitor, " 'bout one o'
yer subscribers."
"Do tell?" replied the country editor.
"Yep. Why Uncle HI Medders passed In
his checks today."
"Huh! if he passed any In this direction
it hasn't reached us yet, although It was
due years ago." Philadelphia Press.
"I don't like the title of your latest
novel."
"Sorry because In that book I studied
the Interest of my readers." t
"In what way?"
"Killed my hero In the middle of the
story !" Atlanta Constitution.
"Goliath wielded a big stick, all right.
quoth Uncle Allen Sparks, during an In
terval In the conversation. ."What put
the everlasting kibosh on him was that he
didn't know how to speak softly." Chi
cago Tribune.
FORGIVEN.
S. E. Kiser in the Record-Herald.
No. let's not kiss goodnight tonight
The way we used to do before
You went and hurt me so for spite,
I'm not your little boy no more!
And when I say my prayers I'll pray
That God'll take me back agen.
Up with the angels, right away.
And mebby you'll be sorry then,
You needn't come to stroke my head
Or hold mv hand, because I know
That you'd be glad If I was dead,
But when I am, you'll miss me, thought
I don't see why God sent me where
Nobody wants me. but you wait ! .
Some time you'll find It hard to bear '
When l am gone, and Its too la lei
r 11 go up In the dark, alone.
And mebby tn the night I'll die.
And then you'll say If you had known
You never would have made me cry.
And If yoU want to come you ran
I-et's play that you're my horse, and I'll
Get on your back and be the man
That gallops pat In splendid style.
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