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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1D03. Tito Omaha Daily Bee, FOUNDED BT EDWARD ROSEWATER VICTOR ROSEWATER. EpJTOR. Entered at Omtbi Postoffice Second rlikM matter. TERMS OF SUBHCRIPTtON. Pally Bee (without Sunday), one fear. .14 00 Dally Bee and Sunday, one year 6 00 Sunday one year 2.50 Saturday Bee. on year 1-60 DELIVERED BT CARRIER: Tally Bee (including Hunday), per week. .10 Tally Hce (without Hunday), per week. .10c Frenlng B (without Hunday), per week c Evening lies (with Sunday), per week.. 10c Address all complaints of Irregularities In delivery to City Circulation Department OFFICES. Omaha The B- Bulldln;. South Omihii-Cltr Hall Building. Council Bluff 16 Scott Street. Chlrafo-1840 Unlveralty Building. New Yerk-15'is Home Ufa lnauranca Building. Washington 725 Fourteenth Street N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. , Communlratluna relating to newa and edi torial matter should ba addreaaed, Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by drafe, express or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only JT-cent atamp received In payment of mrfll accounts. Personal checka. except on Omaha, or eaatern exchange, not accepted. STATEMENT Of CIRCULATION. Slate of Nebraska, Douglaa County, George II. TxstLuck. treasurer of The ' Bee Publishing Company, being duly aworn. aaya that the actual number of lull and complete coplea of The Dally. Morning, Evening and ciunilay Bee printed during tha month of January, 10. wae aa fol- jqwi; .1 36,800 2 30,180 1. , 86,330 4., 30,400 6., 35,300 6 3,340 7 , 36,500 t '. .,. 36,890 9 86,300 10.......... 36,410 11 ... 36,320 12.... 36,150 12 36,430 14 '. 36,809 15 30,350 1(. ..... . 36,100 Total , !7 36,300 II 36.150 U, 35,400 20..... 36,030 31 38,410 22 36,140 '23 364150 24... 38,460 26.,.. 36,540 26 35,100 27 36,140 28 37,130 2 36,000 SO.. 38,330 11 36,980 ...1,133,190 Lesa unsold and returned copies. 8,450 Net total 1,114340 Dally average.. v.; '35,868 GEORGE B. TZSCHCCK, . Treasurer. ' Hubscrlbed in my presence and aworn to Wore ma this 1st day of February, 1110. ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Public WHEN OUT OF TOWN. , , Subscriber a tear In a? the pity ten porarlly ahoald . bare Tha Be nailed to them. Address will b changed aa often na rcqaeated. It la almost time to declare an open icason (or vice presidential booms. A national anti-rat society has been formed In England. The pompadour must go. Scientists have classified - 20,000 kinds of butterflies, not counting the society varieties. Eddie Foy has had his voice Insured for 150,000. Bryan' voice has been worth more than that to htm. The Lincoln Star has come to the defense of Mayor "Jim." Wonder if that will set the World-Herald against himT - A Foraker club at Cleveland has de clared for Taft. Nothing short of to tal paralysis can keep an Ohio man out of the bandwagon. The water shortage at Kansas City must be more serious than at first re ported. Two big dairy' companies in that city have Just failed. An eminent English scholar declares that American men make ideal hus bands. Let him go on until he con vinces Amerlcp.n wives , of that fact. The Treasury department is said; to be.llOQ.OOO.OOO'behlnoV In cah. It one good . turn deserves another, the banks should help Secretary Cortelyou out ' . -. Those democrats who "planned to tell Mr. Bryan that he should with draw from the presidential race appear to have become tongue-tied and lock jawed. A lot qt Nebraska people are going Into promotion companies to exploit holdings in Old Mexico. Nebraska is a pretty good place for profitable in vestment. The Kentucky legislature ia still deadlocked ovej the election of United States senator. Nebraska used to have senatorial deadlocks, but seems to have outgrown them. The war between , Japan and the United States will be stopped long enough to allow the Paris editors and the New York Sun to settle that con t.roversy between Russia and -Turkey. "The stock market is worse than an honestly conducted gambling resort," lays Colonel Bryan. In the meantime, will Colonel Bryan furnish a list of the honestly conducted gambling resorts? Without regard to the personnel of the incumbent, the member from the Third Nebraska district seems to have a prior lien on Nebraska's place In .he national congressional campaign committee. - ' The Earl of Yarmouth says he has preserved the traditions of his family Incidentally, be has compelled the woman who paid him to marry her to pay for a divorce and to allow him generous alimony. . - A new submarine is equipped with a device by which. If the boat sinks, the men can walk out "and rise to the surface In safety." .The perils of ocean travel will be greatly reduced whon they fix U ao.that a passenger who is seasick or tired of riding can get out and walk. Tilt MAP OF BRYASISM. The New York World, as completely democratic as any of the larger news papers of the east ran be tinder the conditions existing in the democratic party, is dally presenting a series of arguments to show the folly of demo cratic hopes of victory In 108 under the Bryan leadership. The World has prepared, and publishes with a fre quency that muni be embarassing to democratic leaders, what it calls "The Map of Bryanlsm," showing the states that were carried by the democratic candidate for president In 1896. 1900 and 1904. The map shows that the democratic party Is In control of but thirteen of the forty-six states and these are all in the south. ' The World contends that the coming campaign in volves the question of democratic life or death, and argues that there is no hope of prolonging the life Oi the party if Mr. Bryan is the nominee at Denver. In presenting this argument, the World propounds these three questions to Mr. Bryan and his ardent and enthusiastic champlons: . , .' , . 1. What states did you loss In 1896 that you could carry in 1908? 2. What electoral votes did you lofce In 1KIA that vml mlilri win In 19TW? ' S. What elements of dissatisfaction and discontent did you fall to arouse then which you could successfully appeal to now? Colonel Bryan has offered no answer to these questions and no comment ex cept to express his displeasure at this method of carrying on a campaign be fore the nominations have been made. Regardless of the question of campaign ethics, Mr. Bryan and his champions will be compelled to face some annoy ing facts that operate to dampen pre dictions of a sweeping democratic vic tory at the polls next November. It Is a stubborn fact tnat tne democratic party Is today more of a sectional party than it was during the civil war. There are fewer democrats in the house of representatives at Washington than at any time since 1875 and the republican majority in the senate is the largest sinoe 1872. There are only two antl republlcan senators from states north of - Mason and Dixon's line, and eighteen northern, states do'not have, a single democratic ; representative in congrens. Outside of the state of New York there are only thirty-eight demo crats in both houses of congress from all of the western and northwestern states. To justify any claim of a democratic victory in November, Mr. Bryan must show that his party has some chance of making large gains in the western and middle western states which have been against hiai party In the last two campaigns', as well as In some of the eastern states, that have always, been against him. ' Getting down; figures, Mr, Bryan might tarry the solid south. Including Kentucky and Missouri, and Oklahoma, .Nevada). .Wyoming, .Colo rado, Idaho, Montana. Nebraska, 8outh Dakota and Indiana, and still have but 207 votes iq the electoral college. Add Kansas,' California and Michigan and he would still be short of, votes enough : to accomplish his1 felectlon. Even with this political revolution, of which there ia not an Indication in sight. It would be" necessary lor, Mr. , Bryan to carry some of the eastern states that have become fixed In their habit it voting pgalnst him and his policies. Most of the middle west is Incorrigible, and the east, politically, persists in remaining in the "enemy's country." Under the circumstances, there 13 not a vestige of real basis for the hopes expressed by the Bryan champions of his success in his third bajtle. 1 WHAT FORESTRY HAS DSE.'. It Is not complimentary' t6 Aroeri" cans to learn from official Bources that the United States and China are the only countries t!la.t have persistently destroyed their forest resources with out attempts at perservation. All of the other nations, some of which we are disposed to look .upon as semi civilized, have well established forest preservation policies that have demon strated their value In many ways. For estry Is in its infancy in this country although, under the direction of Presi dent Roosevelt, a creditable start has been made and It his plans are fol A lowed out progress may be shown that will prevent an absolute timber famine with which the nation is now threat ened. , An interesting pamphlet on "What Forestry Has Done" has just been Is sued by the government. It contains much valuable Information of what other countries have done in this di rection, and much data that may prove of vast benefit in promoting the work of.forest preservation in- this country. Germany, for Instance, has been work ing on forest preservation plans for ISO years. The empire now has 35,000,000 acres fit forest of which SI. 9 per cent belongs to the state, 1.8 per cent to the crown, 16.1 per cent to communities,. 46.6 per cent to individ uals, 1.6 per cent to corporations and the remainder to institutions and asso ciations. Germany secures five-sixths of its vast timber supply from Its own forests without depleting. them. The rigidly .enforced regulations make it Impossible that the timber supply of the empire shall ever be less than it is now. Switzerland has 2,000,000 acres of forests. Norway has 20,000,000 acres and Sweden has 50,000,600 acres. Russia has 575,000,000 acres of forest and has a forest preservation law that guarantees an almost Inex haustible and never-diminishing supply of timber not only for home consump tion, but for export Japan has a for est policy that is as old as the Chris tian era.' , ','.' The United States is only awakening to the importance of forestry. The awakening has been so long delayed that the richest forest resources the world has known have been well-nigh consumed aa a tribute to greed. The conditions make determined and ag gressive work imperative to stay this wanton destruction of one of the na tion's greatest resources and to insti tute the work of reforestation aa a precaution against future need. THE FIRST DELEGATION. When the first delegation to the republican state convention was an nounced our amiable democratic con temporary, the World-Herald, suffered a paroxysm of virtuous Indignation because the republican delegates had not been chosen by direct primary election and subjected to instructions through a preferential vote of the republican rank and file of that par ticular county. 1 The announcement la just made of the selection of the first delegation to the coming democratic state conven tion, being chosen without any pri mary election or even caucus, but merely at an alleged mass convention, held In Blair without participation by many of the outside precincts. Paraphrasing the language used by the World-Herald In connection with the first delegation to the republican" state convention: "It is Interesting to note that Washington county refused to avail itself of the primary option permitted by the democratic state com mittee. That is the county comriyttee refused to allow a primary. It re fused even to permit a county con vention chosen by the old caucus plan, which convention - should elect the delegates." ' " . ' The appointment of delegates by a county committee, although not per haps as satisfactory as by direct vote or by caucus aDd convention, at least givesall the voting districts of the county representation, because each precinct has a member of the commit tee, whereas a mass convention means simply the ringing of a bell at the county seat and the endorsement of a slate prepared in advance without giv ing the voters 1 outside any chance whatever to say a word, unless they see fit to travel on an average of fif teen to twenty miles to attend a mass convention which -they know is al ready packed. When the democratic state commit tee Issued Its call, declaring that the delegates must be chosen by primary in any county in which fifty democrats should petition for a primary election, The Bee pointed out the impracticabil ity of the plan, 'which ' proved con clusively the Insincerity of the demo cratic professions .of devotion to the primary idea. The democratic news paper organs that have been howling about a primary should gq way back and sit down. OUR TRADE BVTH CANADA. . Completed trade returns of the Do minion of Canada for the fiscal year ending with September, just published ftoin Ottawa, furnish some interesting facts Concerning the development of commerce between the United States and Its neighbor on the north. ' Prior to 1905 Canada bought most of Its manufactured importations in, Eng land, giving the mother country an ap parent preference In every line In which i rices were anything like equal. The imports of the Dominion for the fiscal yeaf 1907 amounted to $192, 000,000. Of these more than $112, 000,000 or nearly 59 per cent, were from the United States, an increase of more than $20,000,000 In one year. The purchases from England, which had constituted something like 75 per cent of Canada's total imports in 1905, amounted last year to a little less than 42 per cent of the total, the United States making practically all the gain. Of the articles Imported into Can ada the United States sent nearly all the drugs, chemicals and fruits and about 90 per cent of the Dominion's purchases of iron and steel products. England still has a practical monopoly in supplying both woollen and cotton goods to the Canadians, thepurchases from the United States In these lines amounting last year to but $360,000, compared with $10,000,000 from Great Britain. The figures are en couraging e showing that our near ness to Canada and our closer knowl edge of its markets and its needs give this country a distinct advantage over England. How far this advantage could be pushed, with proper and In telligent readjustment of tariff sched ules, can hardly be estimated. PARISO FIGHT1SO APPROPRIATIONS- The first tangible result of the warn ing Issued by Congressman Tawney, chairman of the house committee on appropriations, against extravagance by the present congress, appears in the announcement that the house commit tees have been liberally paring the es timates of the secretary of war and the secretary of the navy for appropri ations for the coming fiscal year. The combined appropriations asked by these secretaries for the equipment and maintenance of the two fighting arms of the government was $427,000, 000 or more than half of the estimated revenues of the government for the fiscal year. While public sentiment Is usually favorable to rather liberal provision by congress for the support of the army and navy.even casual considera tion of conditions would indicate the desirability of keeping these appropri ations down to the minimum consist ent with proper provision for protec tion on land and sea and a reasonable Improvement in the fighting equipment of the nation. The country is at peace with the world and there seems to be little or no? demand for any unusual ex pansion of the army or navy. Revenues from Imports are falling off and there are some Indications that there will be no marked revival in Industrial con ditions for some months. Improve ment It is true, Is being shown along most lines, but the restoratiorr'bf the hlgh-tensloned times of 1906 does not promise to be speedy. Under such con ditions ordinary business prudence would suggest the advisability, it not the actual necessity, of keeping all ap propriations of the government down to actual needs. If there is to be any liberality, It should be In the direction of Improving waterways and the devel' opment of the "peace side" of the na tion's affairs. The old question of compulBory con nection of competing telephone com panies has been raised again with respect to what are known as private branch exchanges. Ifcompulsory con nection, of all systems with private branch exchanges is a good thing, every argument, for it applies equally for x compulsory connection of gen eral exchanges. If we had had a com pulsory exchange of telephone busi ness we would never have had to du plicate telephone systems In Omaha. Now. If some of these Omaha law yers who are . getting such handsome fees out of dead men's estates will show a little public spirit and enter prise by investing their money so that it will do Omaha some good, they may disarm much criticism. As a class the lawyers in. Omaha, and probably elsewhere as well, pay less propor tionately toward the support of gov ernment and contribute less to public welfare movements than any other element of 'the business community. The tragedy of the Thaw case has been relieved by the addition of the comedy element. After having spent many thousands in convincing a jury that- Thaw is hopelessly insane, the members of the family are now seek ing to get him ou.t of the asylum for fear he will go crazy . If he is kept there. ' ' The receivers have found $500,000 in the Knickerbocker Trust company, but cannot find the owner for It. That is interesting, of 'course, but the more important question is, how did the of ficers of the wrecked concern come to overlook such easy money? ' "No public man is greater than his office," says the Baltimore American. The author of that statement ought to run over to Washington some day and see a chief clerk of one of the depart ments while the head of the depart ment is away on his vacation. ; ' The complaint filed before the State Railway commission,' demanding a dis tance tariff on all freight transported between Nebraska, points, would Indi cate that former Ktate itepresenwuve Caldwell Is preparing to run for rail way commissioner again. - - , Foxy Jacksonlans! They have snatched a place, for Constantino J. Smyth for district delegate without pitting him against Joseph Hayden, who wants to be delegate-at-large which might make trouble between lawyer and client. The Charleston News and Courier says Mr. Bryan could not hold his tongue if he tried. Wrong again. Mr. Bryan gives an exhibition of tongue holding every time he is asked about government ownership of railways. . According to the weather bureau re port, we are long on excess of tem perature above normal and short on moisture precipitation below normal. The weather man is hereby requested to 'strike a better, balance for us. Leaking at Every Poro. Indianapolis News. Tha suspension of Public Printer Sail ings pending an investigation of his office recalls the old saying about that establish ment, that It "not only leaked from every pore, but poured from every leak." Not Hla Strong: Bolt. Washington Post. Somebody ought to admonish W. J. Bryan that finance Is not his strong suit, lie ought to confine himself to hla original discovery, that it la not right to do wrong, and that in order to bo happy we must be virtuous, and kindred platitudes to which we agree, for Mr. Bryan can beat all contemporaneous orators saying an undis puted thing with an eloquent voice and a solemn air. Strength of Roosevelt rollclra. Kanaaa City Btar. The Roosevelt policies were never before so strong aa they are right now. Never before since the succession to the Roose velt administration has been under con aldcratlon have the people been so deter mined as now to cboose the man best cal culated to carry out those policies. And there is no other man so admirably and so obviously fitted for this responsibility aa Secretary Taft. MORIS MONEY THAN EVEB. Philadelphia Press. What becomes of the actual money in circulation? It might be supposed that, since Americana row have more dollars per capita than theever before possessed, that "money stringencies" would not recur. For every person in the United Statea there la 13S.I1 of real cash. That la just 13 more than the average four years ago. To add a alxth to the circulating medium In ao short a time is an Immense addition to tha money supply. There .has been a steady increase In the amount for years, and yet tha fact that only a few months ago money sold at premium show that even thla Urger volume of currency could opt avert a panic. The only remedy la to have, not a large Increase, to be kept all year round, but a large sum which ctn ba created when there la a deraandV and which Just aa auto matically can be retired when that demand ceaaea to exist. ON PRRMDF.NTItl, FIRING LINK. F.mntiatle Roost for the. Policies of the aqaarc Deal. Washington Dispatch. Chicago Post (rep.). President Roosevelt's message haa won Senator c Aldrtoh. Admittedly this sounds like the statement of a traeler from the world turned tipsldo down, but It cornea to me from a senator whoae position In poli tics and legislation la such that there Is no doubt that he knows and spesks the truth. Iti must not be supposed for a moment that Mr. Aldrlch has become a convert to the creed preached by the president In the amaslngly vigorous document which went to the nation late last week. The message won Mr. Aldrlch bersuse of Its effect on others and not because of Its direct effect on himself. He Is not even In a atate of heart or mind to paraphrase and to say to Mr. Roosevelt: "Almost thou persuadest me to be a progressive." Mr. Aldrlch, so his senatorial colleague affirms, has read the written signs and heard the spoken words and la convinced that If. republican auccesa, which even In this day of republicanism Is preferred by Mr. Aldrlch to the democracy of Bryan the Inevitable, is to be achieved the party, must nominate a man who can say with out mental reservation that he belleVes in the gospel of the Roosevelt message of last Friday. Republican leaders In the house, and the foremost leader. In fact. It is said, have coma to the conclusion that they must go Roosevelt's way or aa an alternative go Bryan's way. Something of the same' feeling seems to have taken possession of certain republi can house leaders, though most of them. It Is true, do not agree that It must be Taft In order to avoid Roosevelt. It is not at all likely that Mr. Cannon,.- Mr. Payne, Mr. Dalxell, Mr. Sherman. Mr. Hepburn or others of prominence In re publican ranks who might be mentioned think that Mr. Tsft Is an essential to suc cess; but It Is entirely Improbable, in the light of the disclosures of the last few days, that ny one of these leaders be lieves for a minute that any man can be elected unless he is put before the people with a declaration of progressive princi ples in his hand, reading and ringing like the declaration of progressive principles put forth last week from the office of Mr. Roosevelt. Telegraph wires were overworked carry ing congratulation i to the White House, and the letter carriers were far from bur denless. The White House mall, though It was addressed to the man responsible for the document that brought the .re sponse, was as nothing In Bulk to tha mall that haa found Ita way to tha capltol. Let ters from the people hava their effect, and aa one member put It, "this word seems to hava been heard in all corners." . Editorial Blindness In New York. St. Paul Pioneer-Press (rep.). The Inability of a New York editor to see beyond the confines of the Empire State Is a matter of common knowledge, but here la one of many evidences of the fact Just a few lines from the Sun, which claims It shines for all, but doesn't: "We would .per suade William Howard Taft that it Is easier for one of the criminal rich to enter the kingdom of heaven than it Is that he himself should pass through the eye of a needle. There Is no use In his trying. The thing is impossible. Mr: Roosevelt can no longer cram himself down the onca yawn ing gullet of the sovereign, people.' How much less shall he cram down his Taft? Day by day the futility grows apace, while the fatuity peralsts and peralsta." Now there is a wound of finality about these oracular words which Would lie quite lm-' pressive upon the provincial mind it there were any foundation upon whloh to base them. In the light of the facts known to all outside of the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn this sage deliverance Is rather amusing. It goes to prove that very im portant events may come to pasa through out the country without the knowledge or consent of tha political seers of Gotham. Colonel Henry Watteraon furnishes more testimony on that point, in a recent let ter to the Sun, 'to-wlt: "Yet if I had six months ago in timely cd-operatlon half the seal now displayed by the eastern end of it. We could have carried our point, uniting the party on some other than Mr. Bryan; but it could not be because you eastern people, who think' you know It all. In real ity rarely learn anything of the country at large until It is too late." Political Moves in New York. Boston Transcript-Dispatch (rep.). The first thing that strikes the political observer arriving In New York ia the sharp cleaveage drawn between the Roosevelt and the antl-Roosevelt forces. The former are quietly at work arrang ing to place Secretary Root or some equally prominent and friendly statesman at the head of the republican delegation to the Chicago convention. In a word, they propose to see that when the break away ocours at tha convention tha New York delegation shall ba thrown to TafL The antl-Roosevelt faction, principally directed by K. H. Harrlman, the raiiroad financier, propoaes to back Hughes aa long aa possible, keeping the delegation away from the administration. Their cry is to beat the president no matter by what means or through what man, but to b-at him. They care nothing for HuShea. In deed, to Harrlman and hla clique Hughes would become in a short time aa dis tasteful as Roosevelt Is. This fact makes their support of the New York governor less earnest and sincere thari appears in their representatlona to him. It does not follow, however, that Harlman in hla campaign against the administration haa tha support of all the great financial In terests in Wall street Even the house of Morgan Is not so antagonistic as It was only a few weeks ago, whea it was dis posed to place the entire blame for the October panic upon the shoulders of the president. ... . Cheerless for Reactionaries. New. York Globe (rep.). Tha plan to run Governor Hughes as a distinctively conservative candidate la dead. It died laat night about three min utes after Governor Hughea began to speak. Tha plan was killed under such . ircuniBtances and with such deliberation aa to preclude resurrection. Governor Hughes haa definitely mounted the Roose velt band wagon, with this important difference between him and Secretary Taft: Secretary Taft, through hla cabi . uiembershlp. Is ex-offlclo on the band icon, and with difficulty could get off, while Governor Hughe4 with liberty of choice, has sought the vehicle after care ful cogitation. The so-called reactionary elements thus confront a cold prospoct. Tbey discover Mr. Bryan tha only avbwed democratic candidate, and Secretary Taft and Governor Hughea, the two principal republican candldatea, engaged in a hot foot rivalry aa to which shall seise and put on the Roosevelt- garments. Poller ( tha Sqaare Deal. Baltimore American. The ex-lord lieutenant of Ireland, Lord Dudley, atartled Parliament by declaring that the policy of coercion at tha root of all true union between Ireland and Eng land, and that the only real solution of the problem la tha consistent remedying of admitted grievances. This is but a para phrase of President Roosevelt's terse the ory, "A square deal to every man." It cer tainly is. In tha long run, tha only policy which commends itself to Justice and com mon sense. EFFECT OF ASSASSINATIONS. Ancient and Madera Crimea Have Chanced the World's History. New York Herald. Step by step throughout the world's his tory assassination has been a factor In determining the Fours of events am) In molding the life of nattone. Frequently the assassin's weapon which sent a ruler to death haa sent upon the world's stage a successor whose career Sat irrevocable milestones upon the pathway of tha peo ples of the world. Especially was this true in thtise days when conquest waa the guiding atar of the rulers of the world. Probably one of the most Important and early assassinations was that of Philip of Macedon, which occurred In the year 838 B. C. Not only did It terminate the career ofone of the most remarkable men of hla times, but it led to the accession of Alex ander the Great, an event which very likely would not have taken placa at all had Philip continued to rule and had himself selected the successor to his throne. Philip of Macedon then w.aa at the height of his power, and the battle of Chaeronea had made him the undisputed master of Greece. When leaving the theater In which hla sister had been united In marriage to Alexander, king of Kplrus, a man sprang toward tha ruler and thrust a sharp, short word into hla side. As the aaaaasin ran to ward a swift horse his s&ndal caught In a vlneatock and hla pursuers killed him with their spears and tore him to pieces. Olymplas, his former wife, waa said to hava aided in the conspiracy. This assass ination, one of the earliest In point of time, bore a strong resemblance In ita surround ings to that which claimed Proaldent Abra ham Lincoln's life. In both caaes there was an individual murdered, the scene was a theater, the act waa done with Incredible auiaclty in the presence of a largo con course of people, and the murderer was crippled by a mlaatep after the fatal blow. In the history of ancient Rome there stands out one political assassination which marks the firat occasion on record in which the conflicting economical In terests of different classea In a republic were settled by resoTt to the weapon of the aaaaasin. This was the murder of Tiberius Gracchus, which Boon waa fol lowed by tha enforced suicide of his brother, Caius Gracchus. This deed was the direct result of the former's attempt to enforce an agrarian law passed aa an act of Justice to ,the poorer classes . of Roman citlsens.i . . In tha turmoil that attended the' voting of the tribes Tiberius was struck down to death by one of his own colleagues, a tri bune of the people. This chapter of death was written In 133 B C. Hiatory haa dealt at length with the assassination of Julius Caesar on the ides of, Mareh-the -fifteenth qf the month In ..the year 44 B. C. and of the. Import, of thla event: In the history of ancient Rome. v . . At tha time of the assassination of Julius Caesar the Roman people had reached a degree of perversity and degeneracy almost Impossible of modern comprehension. His death had a most demoralising effect upon the people. The hand of the master who might have controlled the unruly masses and restrained the degenerate nobility lay palsied In death. Later eventa had their mainspring from this source, and the years from 87 to 68 A. D. were marked by the assassinations of 'Tiberius, Caligula, Claud ius, and Nero. ' 1 THE WORLD'S BREAD Sl'rPLY. Probable EaTeet of" Reduced Crop of 'r'i i.it Lh'' Year;'' ' .M 1.. Philadelphia Press.' ' : The world' 'Wheat prop grown irt 1907 waa Smaller than the harvest In any of the preceding five years. I Taking all Eu rope together', there waa a very large de crease, compared wfth ' any of the years specified", and while th crqp lnf,he rest of the world exceeded that "in three of the five years, It was not sufficient to make tip' for' Europe's deficiency'.,, Argentln'4 has relatively 'advanced faster as a wheat producer than anyother coun try. But 'the United States I ,stlu. . far In the lead . with ts total j crop, Russia being , second, France third, India fourth and Argentina fifth. . Argentina has made immense and consistent gains as a wheat grower, the yield In 1907 being SO per cent greater than that five yeara before. The United States raises a fifth of. all the world's wheat. England buys more wheat than any other country and Germany comes second as an Importer of tha "staff of life." Can anyone doubt that the deficiency In tha supply of bread for the earth's popu lation, accompanied aa it was by a higher average price than : ruled , for five, years, waa one qf the tar-flung misfortunes, of 1907?, . , , . .(. , ' .,. '4 : '..'- ' TWO-CENT FARE PROFITABLE. Another Railroad Company Admits Increased Bnslaess. ' ' ' ' Philadelphia Record. Still another railroad haa found profit In the establishment of a two-cent a mile rate for the transportation of passengers. The Naw Haven company introduced tha rate on Uarch 1, 1906, and In six months had extended it to its entire system. The stimu lating effect of the reduction on passenger traffioseems to hava been Immediate, for in tha year ended November 1, 190U, during only a part of which the rate was general, tha New Haven company's receipts were 121,660,483, as compared with t20.Kt.634 in the preceding year. In the year ended November 1, 1907, tha receipts from passen gers rose to 822.771.877, a gain of $2,487,248. or 12 per cent over tha receipts of 1904-06. A longer and fair trial of the rafe in this state might hava demonstrated not alone that It was not confiscatory, but also that It was not as unjust as a bare majority ol the supreme court was Induced to believe. Wasting; Uaerarr. Springfield Republican. Railroads in those western states which enacted 2-cent fare lawa last year are plan ning to take advantage of tha bualneaa de pression to force their, repeal. It sems that up to the time of the panic they were faring ao well In a revenue way from the lower rates a'nd larger traffic resulting, as to be unable to make out a caae of confis cation. Now they think they can, although of course tha decline In revenue ariaea alto gether from other causes, if there had been no decline previously because of tha lower rates. Apparently, then, the roads would gain little or nothing by going back to the higher ratea under a repeal of tha 2-cent laws. It would reault In further loss of traffic as certainly as the reduction resulted in an increase. Tha Draaaatlo la Tragedy. New York Tribune. Jn all tha tragic annals of regicide there are no touches mora dramatic than those afforded at Lisbon. The spectacle of a queen, amid a hall of bullets Intended for her heart, beating an assaastn In tha face with a bunch of roses to prevent him from Injuring further her murdered husband, and that of two princes, murderously assailed, drawing pistols and returning the aasasslns' fire, will scarcely be forgotten as long as men have sympathies and red blood. jsmlsf on the Band Waajaa. Kanaaa City Tlmea. A Cleveland Foraker club haa endorsed tha candidacy of Secretary Taft. Aa Speaker Cannon would aay, "boys wilt be boys," especially when the band wagon comes along. COST OF Ct RAN OCCVPTION. Tcachlna Rahcs l.eaaoaa of Liberty rilea l a a Rill. Ruffalii Express. Governor Ms coon ssva the direct Cost of that little Cuban Insurrection of lf to the Cuban national treasury haa been 8.(0. 000. It rr.ay be a few cents over, or under, but that ia what It amounts to In round numbers. Indirectly, of course, tha Insur rection haa cost Cuba quite a bit mot a. Just how much no one can accurately esti mate. The check to the Investment of cap ital, the loss of credit, lessened production and all that must run Into a pretty penny, but that does not make the grand total of what the Insurrection ought to cost Cuba. There are also the expenses which the t'nited Statea haa Incurred In pacifying tha Island. ' '- In the urgent deficiency bill, which Is now before the house of rcpreaentatlvea, there Is an Item of 84.O0O.Oi1O to defray tha expenses of our present occupation of Cuba. A motion to cot 1t out on the ground that Cuba ought to pay tha expenses of Its little political Jollification has been de feated. But It will be difficult to convince many of us that It Is not a legitimate charge against the Cuban government. We have already spent a itood deal of money on Cuba's account. V went to war for It and after the war was over we stepped In and organised Its government and put It on a solid working basis. When we withdrew we had spent a good many mil lions. We had no desire to step In again, but the Cubans made it necessary; they asked us to come In and straighten out their affairs for them, Then why shouldn they make good our outlay? If they ara made to pay that bill now they may not be so ready to Incur another like liability. A MODERN WONDEn. Transformation Wrought by ' Rebate Larr on Rallroao Officials. Wall Street Journal. Vice President Brown of the New York Crntral has said In a public address that the Hepburn law has released the railroads from a helpless condition with regard to rebates and preferential fates and that Ita value can hardly be overestimated. Another railroad official of' equal rank with Mr. Brown puts the case in even more strenuous language, for, referring to the abolition of rebates, he said the other day: "It is now possible for a railroad man to be a trafflo manager and a gentleman at the same time." If kuAi Is the fact, how unfortunate It la that , so many of the railroad men of the country combined to oppose the passage of the rate law. It would have been much better If they had co-operated in Its pas sage. 1 PERSONAL NOTES. ' J cl ' . Japan Is now making "Scotch" whisky and occasionally shows sypmtoms of hav ing sampled it. The supreme .court of Illinois orders law yers to appear In Prince Alberta. Fortu nately few lawyers object to long suits. Ex-Senator Chandler of New Hampshire, who has been In public life for almost fifty years, has kept a series of diaries that entire period. I 'Representative Nehemlah D. Sperry of Connecticut Is the, oldest man In the house of representatives. Ho will be 81 yeara old In July. This ia his seventh term, .He was postmaster In New, Haven under Llncolu, and helped to make the Monitor possible. Prof. I John Basset Moore, formerly assistant secretary of state, has been com pelled to give up his duties as professor of International lawat Columbia university owing to falling eyesight. His place Is be ing filled temporarily by George Wlnflcld Scott of Washington; formerly of the Uni versity -of 'Pennsylvania.. - Cardinal -Gibbons haa arrived in New Or leans from Baltimore. Hla visit Is in con formity with his custom of spending sev eral weeks each year In the city where ha lived for some time aa a boy and where a brother, Colonel John T. Gibbons, now resides. ' The cardinal was accompanied by Rev. W. A. Fletcher, rector of the cathed ral at Baltimore.: PASSING PLEASANTRIES. "Do actresses aa a rule favor any par ticular kind of small pet dog?" "I suppose they have their Individual fancies, but It seems to me that the proper pet for a atar Is a Skye terrier." Baltimore American. "Father," aald the lawyer's pretty daugh ter, "I Just won't listen when old Judge Prosy makes love to me." . ."My dear child, don't do that," cried her horrified father. "That's contempt of courti" Indianapolis Newa. , "It's disgusting to think," grumhled tha struggling author, "that no publishers will accept my novel, and after all the pains 1 took with It, too." "ut," replied the wise critic' "If It wera published think of all tha pains you'd give." Philadelphia Press. "Yes," ha aald, "I ve had a couple or drinks." "The idea!" exolalmed his wife; "why do you tell me that?" "Why, it s the truth." "I know that's why I can't understand your telling me." Catholic Standard and Times. The young man was admiring her beauti ful and abundant hair. "What a wealth of It there ,1s!" he ex claimed. "When you loosen it I suppose It dropa to the floor." '. ' "Huh!" broke in tha little sister of tha young woman. "It drops on the floor."- Chlcago;Trlbune. "What difference ona letter In a word can sometimes make." "Exactly; that 'Oh!' our cook gave which frightened the cat and made H Jump into her dough, turned her batch of bread Into a botch' Baltimore American. "He's making an effort to reduce ex penses, is he not?" "Yes, but isn't sura if ha will be able to accomplish it." "Why not?" "Doesn't know but what the alimony will amount to mora than houaekeeplng ex- ' penaea." Houston, Post. "So you expect to convince 'your con stituents that you are a great, good and wise man," aald the aneertna: friend. "No. 1 don't," answered Senator Sorghum. "All I am trying to do Is to show that tha other fellow Is worse than I am. . The aver age political triumph doesn't get much be yond being accented as the leaser of two evils." Waahlngton Star. LEAP YEAR DELUSION. Nashville American. If you are auch a bashful boy, You hide away when she Is near, . Or If she gives you half a chance Cut for the timber tall in fear. If that describes you to a T. . , Pray, how do you, my las. suppose The leap-year lad over weM " Get near enough, sir, to propose? She cannot stand across the street . And shout It as you saunter rst, Or rush madly from the house And say, "I've captured you at last." Blie cannot from an upper floor Call to you through a megaphone Or clear across a candy store Propose to you In strident ton. Of course. If she has mind to write. The mall la there at her command. With 2 cents and an envelope She may. her feelings, warm, expand. Or she could use a telephone And call to you In accenta sweet, Or In response to your "Hello" Might say, "Well, how about It, Peter1 She might do these, but she wjll not, For if you get her to propose You'll have to take he 5, by tha hand And all your Inner heart disclose In fact, It is a better plan And one that always tnakea a hit. To beat her to It, if you can.