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eays that the actual number of lull and
complete copies of The Dally, Morning,
Evening and Sunday Bee printed during
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lows: 1 36,800 IT 36,300
i) ae,iao n 3,xbo
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6.,,'. 36,340 22 36,140
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8 36J90 24 36,460
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11 38,330 2T 36,140
12 35,150 , 31 37,130
IS 36,430 21 36,060
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chaugceel aa often ae requested.
Chile has demonstrated, by Its re
ception of the American battleships,
that there is nothing In a name.
It might help some If the Kentucky
feudists, instead of killing each other,
would unite against the night riders.
It should encourage republicans to
learn that the party is large enough
in Florida to be divided Into factions.
The English have paid $100,000 for
the ransom , of Sir . Harry MacLean.
His photographs contain no hint that
he is worth it.
One of the new submarine boats
has been named "The Viper." The
next two should be, named "Malefac
. tor" and "Undesirable Citizen."
If the "Jims" and the "Jacks" have
done nothing else, they have certainly
added a bit of interest to what would
have been a very dull period. of the
year.
The Kansas populists admit that
they do not expect to carry that state
this year. The Kansas populist has
gained wisdom as he has lost whis
kers. The fire losses in January reached
the record-breaking mark of $30,000
000. It is Idle to talk about panics
when we have that much money to
burn.
Fielder Jones baa signed with the
Chicago team and Ty Cobb has about
come to terms with the Detroit man
agement, so who cares when the tariff
is revised, '
: Another change has been made In
the management of the government
printing office. The president Is giv
ing a number of them a chance at the
pie counter.
It may come yet to that pass where
Individual morality will be the test In
business as well. A double code of
ethics or morals is not likely to lead
to permanent success.
Notwithstanding the apparent re
publican interest aroused In Florida,
there is slight prospect that the etate
will cast its electoral vote for the
republican candidate.
It is asserted that Chauncey Depew
will not make any speech at the Chi
cago convention. It will hardly seem
like a republican convention without a
verbal cloudburst by Depew.
Speaker Cannon says that Sereno E.
Payne, chairman of the ways and
means committee, knows all there Is
to be known on the tariff question. It
is evident that the speaker has been
talking unreservedly to Mr. Payne.
With Nebraska republicans arrant
Jug for expressions of presidential pre
' ference at the primaries and Nebraska
democrats dodging them, the war cry
of the double-ender, "Give the voters
a chance," loses much of Its pqtency.
Somebody In Wisconsin has subscribed
11.000 to the La Fullette campaign fund.
Smaller contributions are said to be coming
In to an encouraging extent and there
seems to be at least local enthusiasm be
hind the movement. Springfield (Mass.)
Republican.
That may also explain some of the
"local enthusiasm" behind the La
Follette movement la Nebraska.
QVABAXTKEINO BASK DEPOSITS.
The Oklahoma law providingfor a
levy upon state and private banks to
create a fund for the guaranty of de
positors against' loss through bank
failures seems to have outrun the pop
ularity which greeted its promulga
tion. Mr. Dryan endorsed the Idea
and has been enthusiastically advo
cating the adoption of the law by other
states. Efforts 'along this line have
been made, but It appears now that
the law is practically quarantined
within the .limits of Oklahoma and,
there is apparently little danger of It
spreading. The Kansas legislature,
called In special session to adopt a
law patterned after the Oklahoma
model, killed the bill and adopted a
substitute creating Insurance compan
ies in which banks may Insure their de
posits If they wish, just as many banks
Insure the honesty of their employes
through bonding companies. It ap
pears, however, that the law is not
meeting with general approval in Okla
homa. The morning after Mr. Bryan
made his speech in Wall street, placing
special stress upon the desirability of
the Oklahoma deposit guaranty law,
the First State Bank of Beaver City,
Oklahoma, posted this notice on its
doors:
The First State Bank of Beaver Clly
has quit business, and notice has been
given to all doposltlors to withdraw, their
money. The officers state that their bank
Is both safe and conservative, but tha.
they do not care to operate under the
new statute compelling them to pay their
money Into a "guarantee fund to pay
losses of others."
The Beaver City bankers have
voiced the'chlef, if not the fatal, objec
tion to the law. Bankers who need no
insurance themselves, to guarantee
honesty and conservative banking
methods, are compelled to bear the
burden for those to whom such a guar
anty would simply act as a stimulus
to bad banking. John Forgan, one of
the leading Chicago bankers, declares
that the gambling banker, certain that
his depositors would not lose by the
failure of his bank, would have, under
the operation of the Oklahoma law,
the greatest, temptation to use the
funds of his depositors in. risky loans
and speculative enterprises. The need
of mpre rigid inspection of state and
private banks and trust companies Is
generally admitted. The guaranty of
bank deposits, however, seems to be
carrying the principle of state or gov
ernment responsibility a little too far.
PUOAfOTIOJt FOB GENERAL BOW A RD.
The criticism that usually follows
action by congress in advancing offi
cers of the civil war to higher rank
and placing them on the retired list
will not, it is believed, be directed
against , the action, of the senate In
placing Major General O. O. Howard
on the retired list, to the rank of
lieutenant general. . Students of his
tory will rather look upon the act as a
long-delayed recognition of the services
of one of the most distinguished of
American army officers.
General Howard Is the' sole surviving
army commander of the Civil war.
When that conflict was ended, con
gress, as it now appears, was very
chary in bestowing lilgh honors upon
the men who had fought and directed
the nation's successful battles. The
rank of lieutenant general was created
to provide promotion and recognition
for General William T. Sherman, who
was succeeded by Sheridan, Schofleld
and Miles, the last two named having
been but division commanders during
the war. Meade and Thomas, great
army commanders, failed to receive
the promotion their services warranted.
Only three corps commanders of the
union army survive. They are Dodge
of Iowa, Sickles of New York and Wil
son of Delaware. General Howard's
services, In war and peace entitle him
to the proposed promotion and recog
nition. TYPICAL OF THE SYSTEM.
Wall street financiers, the govern
ment officials and the public generally
are apparently deriving deep satisfac
tion In heaping criticism and abuse
upon Charles W. Morse, one of the
late Napoleons of finance, who Is now
resting in Paris and making terms by
cable upon which he may effect an ad
justment of bis financial affairs. The
interesting part of the situation Is that
while Morse Is drawing the fire of a
whole army of critics, he simply rep
resents the perfection of the system of
getting something for nothing, which
has been reduced to an exact science
by the frenzied finance contingent In
Wall street. A romance might be writ
ten arotind Morse. A summary of his
career will suffice.
Morse is 52 years of age. His
first job was as clerk at $1,600 a year
In his father's office in the towing
business in Maine. He hired a poor
lad to perform tie service for $500 a
year and he used the other $1,000 to
pay his way through college. He
went Into the ice business and finally
broke into the ice monopoly in New
York. He formed the ice trust in 1897
and made some millions by advancing
tha price from SO to 60 cents a hun
dred to New Yor': consumers in the
middle of July. Ice trust stock was
at $20 a share. Morse let five emi
nent financiers In "on the ground
floor" and boosted the stock to $40.
Ha borrowed $500,000. still unpaid,
from one of the banks and sent each
of these five a check for $100,000. La
ter he passed word that ice stock was
going to par and be "reluctantly"
agreed to let his friends have 20,000
shares. , They fought for it and Ice
Trust stock went to $129. Morse got
out. The dupes held on. Ice trust
stock Is now quoted at $14 and still
going down. Out of this wreck Morse
organized a chain of banks, established
steamship companies and played the
whole list of organising companies,
Inflating the capital stock and un
loading on the gullible public. A year
ago he was rated at $30,000,000, but
he wanted more. He spread out his
Investments, drained his banks to float
and support rainbow schemes and
when the pinch came the whole fabric
went to pieces and Morse Is now prac
tically a fugitive from justice.
When all is said and done, Morse
did no more than other manipulators
of Inflated stock companies have done.
He started on a false basis, used false
means to accomplish a false end and
failed. He played the system and lost
by over-reaching, whether through
avarice or the mere joy of the game,
matters not. He and those who went
down in the same boat with him have
done one service. They have fur
nished a potent argument in favor of
the adoption of the national incorpor
ation law and the establishment of a
check upon inflated stock issues and
stock watering.
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WHO'S WHO AtiD WHAT'S WHAT.
The democratic, fracas, which now
seems billed for good in' Douglas
county unless one side or the other
gets cold feet and backs down, should
disclose who's who and what's what
in Douglas county democracy. With
both sides professing to be the only
loyal partisans of Mr. Bryan and ac
cusing the other side of masquerading
under the Bryan banner, it will be up
to the rank and file, if the rank and
file can be stirred up .sufficiently to
take an interest, to say which are the
real leaders entitled to a vote of con
fidence. It goes without saying that the
Dahlmanites, headed by the redoubt
able Mayor "Jim," have the whip hand
so far. Mayor "Jim" is the only demo
cratic candidate for mayor able to win
out In this city in sixteen years and he
is no slouch in the game of politics.
He has been Bryan's right-hand man
ever since free silver days and has
continued to draw cards through thick
and thin, whether he was winning or
losing the pot.
On the other side, the Jscksonlans
have an ancient and honorable, though
mold-encrusted lineage to defend.
Mayor "Jim" calls them "high-collared
renegades," which means that they
are regular patrons of the laundries
and which sends them below par with
the common herd. Before the feud
is over someone is likely also to accuse
the Jacksonians of wearing imported
silk hosiery and putting on kid gloves
before stooping to promiscuous hand
shaking. With this sort of a lineup and high
stacks of political chips on both sides
of the table, the play ought to be fast
and furious and spectators' seats ought
to command a good, stiff premium.
AIMED AT THE BILLBOARD.
By a vote of 34 to 7, the city council
of Milwaukee has passed an ordinance
providing most drastic regulations for
the construction and maintenance of
billboards in that city. The new ordi
nance provides that billboards must be
set back at least twelve feet from lot
lines; that they must not exceed ten
feet in height nor twenty feet in
length: that they must be raised at
least two feet from the ground and
that no billboard shall be erected with
in 100 feet of any boulevard. Discus
sing the ordinance and the reasons for
Its adoption, the Milwaukee Evening
Wisconsin says: ,
The blllboarders are themselves to blame
for the development of public sentiment.
Had they by mutual agreement kept their
sign boards within reasonable bounds and
nlaced them In every Instance with regard
for the feelings of taxpayers who have
the Interest of the neighborhoods at
heart, they would not now be compelled
to pull down their boards, reduce them in
size ,and remove them back from side
walks. The crusade against city disfigure
ment by the billboard nuisance la ex
tending to almost every city In the
country. In the meantime, Omaha has
an ordinance quite as drastic aa that
ust passed by the Milwaukee council.
That the city has miles of hideous bill
board displays, In violation of every
letter of the ordinances on the subject
is due entirely to insist upon law en
forcement.
Senator Stone fixes 1913 as the
year for Philippine independence.
Secretary Taft would postpone it for
a generation. . Senator Stone spent a
month In the islands, while Secretary
Taft has given Philippine affairs much
of his best thought for seven years
and lived there for three years. It is
not difficult to predict whose advice
in this matter the American people
will follow.
If the state or the government is to
guarantee bank deposits, why should
it not go further and guarantee the
bankers against losses occasioned by
failure of borrowers to pay their
loans? If it is possible to enforce hon
esty by legislation' why not have more
of it?
The annual report of the oil in
spector to the governor shows that
that office paid over to the state treas
urer more than $1,000 a month In
excess fees for inspection during 1907.
Yet this office is one of the favorite
points of attack of the popocratlo edi
tors of the state.
President Roosevelt's epistolary
style has lost nothing of Its pungency,
as will likely be admitted by the gen
tleman who has been working over
time crltlcUlng the executive.
The preseut congressman from the
Second Nebraska dUtrict would be
mightily relieved if somebody would
a mu re him that th& "Jims" and the
"Jacks" had gotten together on a basis
on which he could stand with both
feet. It Is having to take sides that
worries him now.
An Omaha pastor suggests in his
sermon that worry is incipient insanity
and advises peace of mind as a cure.
Now, if he will only convince some of
his fellow citizens that they can make
good with the coal dealer and the ice
man and other necessary features of
modern civilisation and retain their
peace of mind he will have done real
service.
Governor Folk and Senator Stone
are having a hot war in Missouri over
the United States senatorshlp, now
held by Stone. At this distance Folk
seems to have the advantage. He is
running on his record. Stone Is try
ing to run away from his record.
President Roosevelt has usually ac
complished everything he has under
taken, but it is a safe wager that he
will not find time to answer all the
campaign lies that will be started be
tween now and convention day.
George Ade is going to the repub
lican national convention as a Fair
banks delegate. It is now up to other
aspirants now to get places on their
delegations for Clyde Fitch. George
M. Cohan and Lew Docks tad eh
According to Kentucky dispatches,
no complaint has yet been made
against young Hargls, who shot his
father, the king of the feudists. No
reason for complaint exists. Every
body seems to be satisfied.
Douglas county democrats are doing
the factional fighting this time, while
Douglas county republicans are sail
ing along smoothly altogether. The
political spy-glass men at Lincoln will
please take notice.
A bill has been Introduced in the
Kentucky legislature forbidding bet
ting on horse races. That state is
gradually moving to the point where
it will pass a law against murder.
Hashes' Handicap.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Governor Hughes of New York has
Welsh, Irish, Bcotch, English and Dutch
blood In his veins. How does he propose
to get the German voteT
Am Attractive Opening.
Philadelphia Press.
It ought not to bother the so-called re
actionary democrats If Bryan Is sure of the
nomination; they can vote against him In
the electldn as they have done before. .
The Secret Is Oat.
' Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Somebody asserts that the late panlo was
started by the gossip of two women. This
should be a great, Teltef to those persons
who have had an tdea that the cause of
the trouble was either Wall street or
Roosevelt
I Hotfooted Retribution.
1 Baltimore American.
The former Ice King of New York is said
to be a fugitive and his vast fortune Is
believed to be practically wiped out. Those
who remember the arbitrary raising of the
price of Ice In a very hot summer under
his rule will remember also the old adage
that while "the mills of the gods grind
slowly, they grind exceedingly small."
Another Dash to the role.
Boston TranscTlpt.
The starting gun for Captain Peary's next
dash for the pole Is advertised to go off on
July 1. next. It Is to be a two-year dash,
as usual; one year to get started and one
year to dash. Hope springs eternal In the
human breast. It Is especially Inextin
guishable In the bosom of the Arctic ex
plorer. Now what remains Is that Wellman
should announce his plana and name his
press agent for the coming summer. The
contrasted methods of these two explorers
Inclines to the favor of the two-year dash
over the two-month overhead route. With
Arctlo exploration, as with the humble
sleighing parties of the temperate cone, it
Is the longest way round that Is the short
est .way home.
GOVERNMENT GUARANTEES.
Room for Indefinite Extension of the
Proposed System.
(Wall Street Journal.)
If the government Is to guarantee bank
deposits, why should not this principle be
carried further? Is It wise to stop there?
If the government Is to guarantee a
bank's creditors against the bank, why not
guarantee the bank against the bank's
debtors; in other words, guarantee loans
as well as deposits.
But Is It fair to put the government's
guarantee behind banks and withhold It
from other lines of business? Why not
guarantee newspapers the payment of sub
scriptions, and advertisers the sale of their
wares, merchants against delinquent debt
ors, and buyers against being cheated In
the merchandise they purchaser
Why not guarantee the stocks and bonds
of corporations and the transactions In the
exchanges?
Then the farmer must be safeguarded.
Why nut guarantee his crops T Surely
something should be done for the women.
Should not there be a compulsory Insurance
backed by the government's guarantee,
protecting wives against Improvident or un
faithful husbands, and securing them
adequate alimony In case of divorcer
Why not guarantee parents against de
ficient children, and children against cruel
parents?
There ought to be no "privileged'' classes
In this guaranteeing business; so Indeed,
there Is nothing that Is more dangerous to
a democracy than special privilege. Let
us therefore be careful to apply this great
principle of government guarantee so that
there stiall , be absolute equality. The
laborer should have his wages guaranteed
by the government. Could anything be
more Important than thua to protect the
tolling masses? Travelers should have a
government guarantee against railroad ac
cidents. The actor should be guaranteed
a full house, and the preacher his salary.
Surely, having done so much for all these
people, we might give a little slice of pro
tection even to the promoter. Why not
government guarantee of health, govern
ment guarantee against old age, govern
ment guarantee for sinners against eternal
punishment r
In other words, why should anybody be
troubled or worried about anything? Why
not dump all personal responsibilities upon
the government and let It guarantee every
thing for everybody, at every time and
for all time, and then when war or disaster
or panlo comes we can all go down to
gether in one colossal smash.
BOl'Jin ADOt'T JIEW YOTtK.
nipples oh the torrent of Life In
the Metropolis.
The quarterly bulletin of the New York
Department of Labor shows that 22,J7 men,
members 'of 93 representative labor organ
isations of New York City, were Idle at the
end of December. The percentage of Idle
ness was 34. a against 12.8 per cent In 1W0,
6.7 In 10)6 and 17.S In 1904, In the same set
of unions. Slack trade, decreased building
operations and financial depression are
given as the cause. Throughout the state
the report shows wages remained sta
tionary In the building trades, and em
ployes of printing trades, clothing and tex
tiles, transportation and metal trades, so.
eureg slight Increases during the year.
There are 2.4!W trade and labor unions In
the state, with a membership of 437,092, an
Increase of 22,0OO since last March, and
38.000 more than the record for September,
1906. The record of accidents to workmen
shows a total of 6.264 for the months of
July, August and September, of which
nlnty-seven were fatal.
Charles W. Morse, who once was pro
claimed the Ice king, marine king and real
estate king, Isn't king of anything any
more. Today, says a New New York let
ter, he Is a fugitive from public opinion,
While deputy sheriffs prowl the city, levy
ing on every Inch of his property and
every cent of his deposits they can- find.
The romance of Morse's winged millions
Is without a parallel, either In the old or
the new world's history of frenzied
finance. Less than a year ago Morse stood
one night In a Broadway cafe and boasted
that ho had $10,000,000 and eyery dollar
of It earning Interest. Morse was at the
top of his wonderful career In high and
fast finance. He had gone up like the tra
ditional rocket; and the rocket had reached
that dazzling eminence where Its sputter
ing, sparkling brilliance cut fiery gashes
across the financial skies. At that time he
was commonly credited .with the control
of corporations that had an agggregate
capitalisation of $126,000,000. Among these
were twelve banks, three Insurance com
panies and seventeen steamboat, fealty and
other corporations. The total resources of
the corporations controlled by him were es
timated at more than $300,000,000. Big
figures these are, but Morse was a big
man and used to big figures. The rocket
soared pretty high. But It began to fall.
Today a federal grand Jury Is Inquiring Into
his methods of transacting national bank
affairs. A receiver's report openly charges
him with having fled to Europe with the
intontion of defrauding his creditors. Three
of his banks have closed their doors. He
has been thrown out of control of the big
steamship merger which he built up at
much pains. He has been practically
ousted from every large Institution with
which ho was connected. His forty millions
have shrunk to a shadowy ghost of their
old proportions. Ha Isn't king of any
thing any more. That rocket came down a
stick. ;
Speaking of the action of a German steam,
ship captain who compelled three gamblers
to return to fellow passengers the money
which they had won on a trip to this port,
a merchant who makes the ocean trip fre
quently said to a Tribune reporter: "There
are other ways than crying to the captain
In such cases. Two years ago I was a pas
senger on the Kronprlns and sat In a game
with some people who at first appeared to
be all right. I lost and discovered that
I was fcolng 'done.' I knew that a word to
the captain would bring my money back,
but I preferred to be my on ohamplon.
I wrote a note to the man who had made
the largest winning from me and gave it
to the smoking-room steward to deliver.
This was in the note: 'I am on! You will
neyer be off unless you make good. Hand
the bearer (here I filled In the amount of
my loss) and we'll be even.' The crook
knew I . meant business and turned the
amount over to the steward for me. No
one was the wiser for my experience, and
the polite bow with which, the card man
saluted me when we - went ashore at
Hoboken would have made any one think
we were the best of friends."
ThurloW Weed Barnes was awarded
$381,666 by a Jury In the New York su
preme court last week. This Is the larg
est verdict ever rendered In the supreme
court In a proceeding of this kind. Barnes
brought suit against the American-China
Development company to recover $300,000
. V-1 V. 1, - Jiuilara ra rillA him fOF Oh-
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talnlng valuable concessions from the
Chinese government in 1898, He alleges
that theBe concessions were subsequently
repurchased by the Chinese government
for $6,600,000. The value of the con
cession of oDentng up the coal lands along
a railway from Hankow to Pekln Mr.
Barne estimates at $760,000. Other con
Included banking privileges and
the operation of railway ferries, docks,
telephones and telegraphs, it was on me
coal concessions that the big verdict was
based.
Th "bp" was sadly routed last Fri
day -when a Jury decided that It had no
right to demand to be served In a public
restaurant or roof garden wnen not ac
companied by a male escort The decision
was rendered in the famous rase of a
woman suffragette and a Broadway hotel.
The court was Jammed with suffragettes
and sex emancipators, who had lined up
in battle front. When the Jury rendered
their decision the suffragette frowned and
oiivererf a vollev of lothal glances. The
Jury turned pale, and, shaking at the
knees, fled out of the courtroom, me
women, were amazed when they heard
the verdict, and the complainant declared
that she would take the case nigner up
to find out If It was necessary, when
she wanted to eat, that she must be ac
companied by a mere man.
Many queer letters are received by Dis
trict Attorney Jerome and many strange
requests made of him. The other day a
native of Providence, R. I., wrote to him
saying that he had noticed In the news
papers that Police Commissioner Bingham
had dumped In the bay or some of tha
nearby waters a lot of pistols which had
been taken from criminals. He requested
that as these pistols were being disposed
of In that way wouldn't Mr. Jerome be
good enough to send him one or two, as he
wanted to use them to celebrate the
Fourth of July. He specified that they
abould be from .82 to .44 calibre. The let.
ter amused Mr. Jerome, but he sent it
to his friend General Bingham for con
sideration. Oh, That Doesn't Connt.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Mr. Bryan said at an address at Phila
delphia last Sunday that In the refusal of
Churches to accept pertain contributions
he sees "a significant evidence of ethical
awakening." The alarm clock failed to
work at Denver when It was proposed to
accept only as much of the $100,0U) from
corporations and others as would suffice
for the actual expenses of the democratic
national convention.
The Need of the Heir.
Wall Street Journal.
A need of the hour Is a business con
science which will be comprehensive enough
In Its scope to take In all the transactions
of Individual life, and yet be Intense enough
to differentiate clearly between what Is
right and what is wrong, either In (he
minutest details of business conduct or In
the weightiest relations of corporations and
government.
WORE FOR RURAL CARRIERS
Bill for Parceli p0t for Article!
Mailed on Routes.
BIO AID TO LOCAL MERCHANTS
Affords Opportunity for nellTery,ot
Orders In Country I'nder Cer
tain Restriction Fav
ored by President.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.-8enator Uurn
ham of New Hampshire, today Introduced
in congress a measure of distinct Import
ance to rural Interests throughout the
United Btates It Is a bill to provide a rural
delivery parcel post for merchandise and
other articles actually mailed on rural de
livery routes. The rural free delivery routes
now number more than 3ft, 000 and on thoro
In excess of 15,000,000 people receive a dally
postal service.
The measure Introduced by Senator Uurn
ham has the endorsement of the president
and Postmaster Oeneral Meyer. It pro
vides. In brief for the establishment of a
domestic rural parcel post at special rates
of postage, for the delivery of food stuffs,
dry goods, drugs, books and other merchan
dise. The rate of postage shall be 6 cents
for the first pound and 1 cints for each
additional pound or fraction thereof, and on
parcels weighing less than one pound as
follows:
Two ounces or less, 1 cent; over two and
under four ounces, 2 cents; over four and
not exceeding eight ounces, i cent's; over
eight and not exceeding twelve ounces, 4
cents; and over twelve ounces and under
one pound, 6 cents.
Restrictions I'pon Service.
Two restrictions are placed on the list
of the proposed parcel post by the follow
ing provisions:
That nothing herein contained shall be
taken as authorizing the acceptance of de
livery at the special rates of postage herein
provided of any paroel offered by any per
son acting as agent or representative, upon
commission or otherwise, for any person
or company not resident on such rural de
livery route.
That only such parcels shall be received
for delivery at the special rates of postage
herein provided as are offered by bona fldo
merchants or dealers whose regular places
of business are on rural delivery routes
covered by this act. In the ordinary and
regular course of their business, and by
residents on such routes In their individual
capacity.
The bill provides that the parcels carried
shall not weigh more than eleven pounds
or be more than three feet six Inches In
length. Perishable articles will be sent
at the sender's risk and will not be accepted
at any poetofflce more than three hours
before the departure of the mall from the
oflce.
DISCOURAGING DEVILTRY.
Three Illustrious Cnban Patriots Con
signed to n Dungeon.
New York Tribune.
Governor Magoon Is In Washington, but
his policy remains active and triumphant
In Cuba. Some time ago, as we announced
In these columns, he grew very weary of
the , sporadic d eviltry of self-styled
"patriots"' who promiscuously plotted
d v.ln.t thA a-overnment of the island.
organized strikes and plundered pig-pens
and henroosts, and gave warning mat ne
would use all necessary means for captur
ing such fellows, and that when they were
caught they would be dealt with In a
thoroughly serious manner. It may be
that some of the poultry pilferers Imagined
that he was Jeklng. If so, and If that was
why they persisted In their little ways,
they must by this time be sorely disap
pointed. For It Is reported that three of these
distinguished "patriots," to wit, the most
Illustrious Masso Parra. Jose Vila and
Gabriel Guerra, have been convicted of an
attempt to subvert the Cuban government,
and have been sentenced by the Audlencla
court to something more than three years'
Imprisonment apiece. Just like any ordi
nary, vulgar criminals. What a discourage
ment! And what a disillusionment It must
be to ardent and distinguished "patriots,"
especially those with an appetite for
ohlcken or roast pork, to find that the
government of Cuba Is really In earnest
and that the governor means what he
sayst
As for the plea made by the learned
advooate of the Illustrious but martyred
Masso, that Cuban sovereignty Is non
existent and that therefore no crime could
have been committed against It, we are In
clined to think It is scarcely well taken.
The trouble for these "patriotic" gentry
Is not that Cuban sovereignty Is non
existent, but that It Is now, If never be
fore, most positively, actively and effic
iently existent. It Is a sovereignty with a
big S, and It Is making Itself felt In
thorough earnest and to most profitable
effect,
Do They Get It?
Washington Post.
Since the discovery that congress Is cost
ing the country $160 a minute the visitors
to the house galleries have a right to ex
pect a performance that will look a little
more like their money's worth.
Valor la Valor Wherever Found.
Boston Transcript.
Valor Is valor on whichever side of the
fence It Is exhibited. That Is doubtless the
reason why the president approves the
erection of a monument to the confederate
dead at Arlington.
Death Rat Among Blacks High.
CHICAGO, Feb. 10. An organised move
ment to check tuberculosis among the
colored people of Chicago was begun last
evening at a publlo gathering or colered
people In Fullerton hall. City Health Com
missioner Evans told the audience the
death rate from tuberculosis Is four times
as great among colored people as among
whites.
V
"corn syrup for Vread
Morel Morel Morel comes the call for
Kara Children love and thrive upon it;
everybody delictus in its wholesome good- ..
nets. Nothing half so good for all sorts of
sweetening) from griddle cakes to candy.
10c. 250 and joe in air-tight tins.
PRODUCTS
tiTB. CO.
rKRKOVAI. KOTK).
Ex-Srcretary Shaw pulls down $111,000 f(V
one year's association with a trust com
pany. Every person whose birthday comes on
the 3th of February has permission to
make the most of It this year.
Buffalo, the beautiful In spots, tilled up
Hamburg canal aa a step toward securing
a union depot. Hut Hie people worked
and voted for a larg canal. The canal
was won, the depot lost. Rochester fought
tho tanal and won It. As a reward of
merit Rochester gets a tl.60t.O'O union depot.
Emperor William has personally ex
pressed his thanks to tliu Carnegie Insti
tute trustees for a book sent him entitled
"Memorial," devoted to the details of IhS
celebration of the dedication a year ago.
The volume Is elaborately prepared and
there are but few copies.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer, emerges from
the fire a trifle warm, but still ringing true
to its policies. The destruction of the
mechanical department of Its home caused
temporary Inconvenience, but as the busi
ness and editorial departments and Dana
hey's cartoons mere saved, the loss of ma
chinery is a rrere matter of dollars.
Prof. W. B. Elkln of the University k
Missouri believes that America will be a
veritable heaven on earth within lot)
years, and he goes on to tell why In an
article which he has written for the
American Journal of Sociology. Among
other things which will be a feature of
the millennium lie pictures Is a reformed
piess. Newspapers, he says, will . be
printed and edited by the colleges.
At the Invitation of Governor Magoon
General Clarence Edwards, chief of the
Insular Bureau of the War department,
and Mrs. Edwards, will accompany the
governor to Havana when he returns to
that city upon the conclusion of his mission
to- Washington In the course of a week or
ten days. General Edwards' visit will be
a purely social function and without refer
ence to pending questions In Cuba.'
One of the greatest bequests to a public
Institution made recently Is the girt of
$1,000,000 by the late Morris K. Jesup to
the American Museum of Natural History
In New York. As the city provides tho
building, the money Is to be used for pur
chasing specimens. Mr. Jesup had long
been a patron of the Institution, and his
wishes and example In scientific matters
are thoroughly understood, and will be
followed as far as possible. In his life he
paid the expenses of expeditions doing
research work, and the museum is now
largely filled with the results of these
trips.
SMILING REMARKS.
Mrs. Kawler I hope you arc all well.
Mrs. Naybur O, yes, we're well enough
now particularly my husband. Thai's
what provokes me. All the rest of us have
had the grip, but he won't even take a
slight cold. Cleveland Tribune.
"Why Is it that modern statesmen seem
to be held in less esteem than those of
previous generations?"
"Well," answered Senator Sorghum, "one
reason Is that the cigars they name after
great men aren't as good as they used to
be." Washington Star.
"You say I lied. Well, I'll Just sue you
for slander."
"But, then, you did He."
"Of course. That's why I'm sore." Phila
delphia Ledger.
F-dltor I'll pay you good money for the
right kind of a story.
Author But when will you publish It?
Editor I shan't publish It at all; I want
It to tell my wife when I go honfe late from
the club. Chicago News.
"It's a slippery mornln. me boy. Be-
gorra, I fell down three tolmes mesltf
wiaout gettm' up wanee." Chicago Record-
Dyer What do you call your machlt
an automoDtie or a motor car?
Hartley I call It either when It rtir
When It doesn't I call It other thlnn
Somervllle Journal.
"I tell you," began the first clubman!
"there never was a cat like my wife 't
"Oh! come now," protested the other,
"that's a pretty rough thing to say"
on! you misunderstand me. I mean to
say It doesn't matter how dark It Is when
I get home, she can always see what my
condition is." Philadelphia Press.
''Sawyer!" bawled the conductor, as his
train approached the town of that name.
"Don't care If you did," said the youmr
swain who hud just klxRed his girl; "we
sre going to be married next month!"
Harper's Weekly.
"Don't you think the standard of mor
ality Is a good deal lower than it used to
be?'1
"No, I can't say that I do. People have
merely got to doing openly what they
lined to secretly want to do." Chicago
Record-Herald.
"What la your son Josh doing In the
city?"
"I dunno yet," answered Farmer Corn
tossel. "His letters are mighty cheerful
and confident. I'm Jes' waltln' to find out
whether his buyln' gold bricks or sellln'
'om."
W -W MM
TOPOGRAPHICAL HUMOR.
New York Mall.
There Is something very witty
In the name of "Jersey l lty ;
There's the broadest kind or smile in
"Kankakee:"
While the man who has a comic
Sense no greater than atomic
Simply hollers out at -iiagcrsiown, ma.
i
When the Tambo. Mlsteh Johnsln,
Merely says: "Ouhkosh, Wloconsln," '
It'a the cue for everybody to guffaw:
Just the thought of New Kochellelng
Beta the audience a-ye img,
And "Nashotah" is me signal ror a
"Haw!"
Simply hint of smaller cities
In the Broadway comic ditties.
'Water Junction, -Biiver eiaing, ana
thA rent
Of the towns that Rand McNally
Keep a-standlng on the galley
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OI tneir 1 naDnugeu lumiJenuium 91
the Wert."
Oh, by-heelilng and b'goshlng.
And your badgering and Joshing
Smaller villages Is humorous, no doubt.
But, O ye that write librettos,
Why not sharpen your sineiies
And begin to cut the rural kidding out?
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