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G THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1008. The Omaha Daily Be FOUNDED BT EDWARD ROBE WATER. VICTOR ROSKWATER. EDITOR. Entered at Omaha poatofflca M BOend- rises matter. I 1 ! TERMS Or tU'BBCRIJTIOT. Dally Hf without Bunday). ona year Dally Bm and Sstulsv, en yr...... , 1M DELrVERKD BT CARRIER. Dally Bh (Including Hunday). per wk..l5c Dally lle (without Sunday. r Wsk...lOe Evening Bee wlthout Sunday), per wS So Evening He (with Sunday). Pr weoH.100 Sunday Boe. ,tno year J" Saturday Bml ona yenr. . l.s Address all complalete of Irregularities la delivery to City Circulation Department. omCEfl. Omaha Toe Bee Building. . 1 Booth Omaha Twenty-fourth and N. Council BIwffe 16 Scott Street. Uhkago 1S4 Marqwtto Building. New York Room 1101-llOz No. M wm Thlrtv-thlrd Btrwt. ... , Washington 7a FVurteenth Street N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications rcl.ttmg 10 M and dl orlal matter should be addrcaaed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. RKMITTANCE& Remit by draft, sxpress or portal order Snysble to The Bee Publishing Company. Bly 2-eont at am pit received In payment or mall account. Peraonal oheclta. except on Oh aha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. ' STATEMENT "-Or CIRCULATION. Etate of Nebraska. Douglas County. ss.: Georrs B. Tsschuck, treasurer of Tha Bee Publishing Company. being duly sworn. iDvi that th actual number of full ana romplete coplce of The Dally. Mornlr, Evening and Sunday ee- primed ounng u month of October, 1908! waa aa follow 1 17400 3S.SS0 1 3,eo 4 36,304 t 37.8M ( . .37,600 7: V.SS.SOO 1 37.S30 38,10 10 ,.38,390 U. .37,1 00 II 87,330 14 3710 1 ,.37,730 17 37.TS0 II 3300 J 87,800 JO 37 ,500 21 87,S0 it 37,80 37.T80 ......87,40 37400 47,730 37,840 33,830 ...... 3730 ......37,840 37 .tog 23.. 4.. .25.. it.. St.; it.. it.. 10.. l.. 11 37,730 Total.. 1... 1 ,T4,T70 Less unsold and returned copies., 8,873 Net total l,l6,aa Dally average 87303 GEORGE B. TZSCHI'CK, Treasurer. Subscribed In my presence &nd aworn to oefore me this Slat day of October, 1WS. M. r. WALKER, Notary Public. WHElf OUT Or TOWN. libMrlktrt larla the) city tew porartly saoeld have The Bee mailed to thesa. Address will be changed as ftea u reaaested. Sometimes a tall ptsll doa ths Job. Evidently Missouri loves company. Still, a mule Is more mule than as a mascot. useful as a ' Is Nat Goodwin trying to break Lil lian Russell's marriage record? ; Who wHl care for Oyster Bay until th,e president returns from Africa? It is about tirne to organize a society for the discovery of Thomas I Htsgen. Jt wlliejLQticed. Jhat.the kaiser backed dvtn a noon as France got its jack up. Returns indicate that Standard Oil had les to do with the results in Ne braska than fusel oil.. , "ShHl the democratic part.v live or die?" aelcs tho Chicago Tribune. Is the democratic party alive? I nofficial advices from Danville in dicate that Mr. Cannon is wearing his cigar at the same old angle. :' At. ,t,he proper time Mr. Taft will construct his own cabinet without calling for volunteered assistance. "Tammtfay knifed Bryan," says a s'ew York 'paper. On the contrary, York knifed Tam- lh,e voter cf many. New The kaiser mal es' it plain that he Iops not want to fight France and its 1 allies at least not until he Is better prepared. It appears that Nat Goodwin is never so busy with his mines and his theatri cal engagements but that he can take time to get married. "Senator Piatt should resign now," says the New York World. He will not, however, as he Is la the senate for an express purpose. Chairman Mack says the business men of the country defeated the demo cratic ticket. The business men are showing no symptoms of regret. .lames J. Hill is pessimistic at times, but he has managed to cut another Northern Pacific melon to the tune of an extra dividend of $12 a share. The New Orleans Picayune an nounces that Mr. Loeb will be secre tary or the navy tn Mr. Taft's cabinet. That's a gosd story , to . tell to the ma rines, i" , . . Tom Watson carried seven Georgia counties and Mr. Taft er.rried twenty six. Georgia , shows symptoms of breaking ita habit of voting the demo cratic ticket. ' Now, it Mayor ,'lm had not been called off from his threatened round-up of New York wit i bis trusty lariat and his cowboy quartet tMngs might have been different. Colonel Watterson sa.s he knows "how far political coward'ee aid off! rial crookedness have been responsible for night riding In Kentucky." Tbeu he ought to tell. A New Orleans man announces thtt he was one whipped by Mr. Tar. an2 ts proud of it. Mr. Bryan wsj also once whipped by Mr. Taft, but is not exhibiting any pride over it As tha lata candidate of tk.e prohibi tion party Eugene W. Chafin has Issued a proclamation announcing that the battle of 1908 was a great victory for prohibition. ThstUurely tettli-s it. TBS UNIVERSITY SUCCESSION. The resignation of Chancellor An drews as head of the University of Ne braska devolves upon the Board of Re gents the duty of selecting his succes sor. That this is the most Important and delicate task thstt tho regeuts will have to perform goes without saying. While oar 8tate university ia too big and too well established to suffar any serious setback from a change In head ship, its progress may be accelerated or retarded by wise or unwise choice. The people will not disagree widely aa to the qualifications desired In the new chancellor. The difficulty will be to get a man combining all the desired qualifications. Without disparaging Dr. Andrews' high character as an educator, nor be littling the executive ability which he possessed in his prime, the opinion is general that it was a mistake to call him in at the time he was made chan cellor. Dr. Andrews had then reached and passed the pinnacle of his service and was on the setting sun side of his life. This mistake should not be repeated In the selection of Dr. Andrews' suc cessor. The new chancellor should be a man not much over 40. of thor ough educational training and culture and with same executive experience. He should be a man who can grow with the university and make the uni versity grow with him. In these days of specialization he cannot in the na ture of tilings be personally expert In every branch of knowledge to be taught, but he can and should have good educational antecedents, a broad viewpoint and tested ability to choose and handle subordinates. It will be worth while for the re gents to make sure,, even if they have to go slow, In solving the problem pre sented by the Impending chancellor ship vacancy. TIIK SOCIALIST VOTE. Among the other surprises of the presidential election Is the small fig ure cut by Eugene V. Debs and the socialists. Early In the campaign Debs predicted that he would receive 1,000,000 votes, and this estimate was Increased later to 2,000,000. Leaders of the old parties, basing their opin ions upon reports received from dif ferent sections of the country, were inclined to believe that the returns would show a largely increased so cialist vote over the 400,000 which Debs polled when he ran, for president in 1904. The returns show that the 1904 vote will stand as a party record. Mr. Debs explains the matter read ily by saying , that many democrats who voted the socialist ticket in 1904; because they did not : like Judge Parker, returned to the democratic. party this year because Bryan was rad-. leal enough for them. New York this year gave the party 679 f more votes than In 1904. In Chicago, the vote Of 47,743 in 904 was reduced to 18, 886, a loss of 60 per cent. The so cialists made ante-election claims of big gains in Cincinnati and Milwau kee, but the returns showed a falling off in both cities from the socialist vote of four years ago. While Mr. Debs has sent a message to his followers Insisting that he loves them for their "revolutionary spirit," the party can not find 'any encourage ment In the November returns. The Americans, however much they may be dissatisfied with political " conditions from time to time, are still convinced that the competitive system is best adapted to their purposes and they show no disposition to change it for the enervating plan of government proposed by the socialists. A fitPUBLICAN PARTY IN THE SOUTH The south, even more than the re publican party, Is to be congratulated upon the birth of a real republican or oganlzatlon In many southern states. The extent to which this new party spirit has gone will not be demon strated for some time, but it is already established that in South Carolina, Vir ginia, Georgia and Alabama the repub licans made gains in the recent elec tions which could have been seeir.ed only by the active work of men of high character not heretofore Iden tified with the republican skeleton organizations In the different states. Virginia went democratic this year by less than half Its usual majority and Alabama made a similar record. Mr. Taft carried twenty-six counties in Georgia. He polled 41,268 votes, an Increase of 17,266 over Mr. Roose velt's vote in 1904 and reducing Mr Bryan's plurality in the state to 13,- 491. Much of tha credit for this change must go to President Roosevelt, who began several years ago ah effort to break up the old federal patronage ma chines In the southern states. These machines were composed of republl cans who made It their business to maintain, a show of organization for the sole purpose of distributing patronage, attending conventions and dictating federal appointments. . Pres ident Roosevelt adopted the policy of refusing to recognise these so-called leaders unless they organized the party In every county and district in their states and placed ticket in the field at every election. He went so far as to take tha federal patronage out of their hands and in some states in which the republicans had no real or ganlzatlon he called in representative democrats for consultation and advice when appointments were to be made Tha result was an encouragement to many men of standing In the aouth who believe In republican policies to Ufce part la the work of the republl can organisation. As a result, the prospect of the birth and growth of a healthy republican party aouth of Ma son and Dixon s Uaa is real for the "rt time since the civil war. , The Charluu ,'es and Cturlr. admittedly the most representative pa per of the south, in discussing the growth of the republican party In that section, says: Republicanism, wa repeat, la stronger In the south than It has ever been. But It Isrnot strong enough to take root and grow without cultivation from beyond the south. It I not lusty enough to choke out the weeds. Thfc northern re publicans, we think, will ba content to leave the field to the weeds for lorai years to come. After all, one republican candidate has aa good a chance as an other In ths "rounding up" of the aouth ern delegates. Meantime, the News and Courier views the subject with equa.nlm.ity with an ab stract Interest, so to say. The arguments for and against the advent of republican ism In the aouth are pretty evenly bal anced. It is Interesting to note, In this con nection, that Debs did not poll a vote In the state of Georgia and but very few in any southern state. Hlsgen, the Hearst candidate, with a Georgia man with him on the ticket for vice president, polled only elgthy-three votes in Georgia and less In other southern states. While many states of the south have voted "dry" In the last few years, Chafin, the prohibition can didate, received fewer votes than Tom Watson. The political contests in the south in the future will be between the republican and democratic parties, with the new republicanism growing in popularity. A WORD TO THE WISE. If the brewers and liquor dealers of Omaha are as wise as they are given credit with being they will withdraw from circulation one C. E. Fields, who constantly projects himself to the front at the wrong moment iu the name of the Retail Liquor Dealers' association, which he uses as its secretary. This man Fields is a stench in the nostrils of decent people and it Is time to suppress him. He does not seem to know when to keep his place. He thinks it is up to him to run for office at every election and advertise hlruaelf as the preferred candidate of the sa loon element. It is such performances as Fields' which bring the liquor traffic into dis repute. The brewers and liquor deal ers who want to observe the law and want their business protected as a legitimate industry must depend upon the good will and good offices of the business community to see to It that they get a square deal. How they can ask the business men of Omaha to go tq the front for them when thetV let a fellow like Fields represent them and speak for them passes comprehension. It will not do for them, either, to deny that they are responsible for Fields. He Is their creature abso lutely and lives off them, and they cannot escape responsibility for him. MR. TAFT8 BUSINESS POLICY. ' Coincident' with the reported re sumption of activity In many industrial lines and with the sentencing of Charles W. Morse of New York to fif teen years in prison for violation of the national banking' laws comes the significant words of Mr. Taft, in a speech at a banquet of the Cincinnati Commercial club. Addressing his friends and neighbors Mr. Taft said: Every business man who Is obeying the law may go ahead With all the en ergy In his possession; every enterprise which is within the statutes may proceed without fear of interference from the ad ministration when acting legally; but all Interests within the Jurisdiction of the federal government may expect a rigid enforcement of the laws against dishonest methods. n The country needs just the assur ance offered by Mr. Taft. There are doubtless promoters and reckless financiers who have hoped that the vig orous policy of the Roosevelt adminis tration in dealing with offenders against the anti-trust and other laws regulative of commercial and indus trial operations might be modified un der the next administration. Mr. Taft serves notice that there shall be no cessation of the administration war fare against violators of the laws, while at the same time offering every encouragement and protection to en terprlses operated legally. It' might appear superfluous to reassure the business men who are acting within the law, were It not for the fact that heedless reports and. rumors have been circulated wnicn nave tended to gen erally disturb the business mind. The country haa been suffering from a case of "nerves" which Mr. Taft's state ment will go far towards curing. Mr. Taft's statement is that between the people and the corporations there shall be square dealing. Any Impres slon that, as Mr. Roosevelt's successor, Mr. Taft would be less strenuous, if not indifferent, to the continuance of the Roosevelt policies has been dlssl pated. The people can ask no more than Mr. Taft has promised and the corporations should not expect more. Only the speculative manipulator of stocks and the Jobber in Industrial and commercial enterprises will be able to find fault with Mr. Taft's program. Important problems must yet be solved in the matter of dealing with railroads and other corporations engaged in in terstate commerce affairs, but no hon est corporation need fear the new ad ministration, just aa dishonest corpora tions need expect no favors. Of course, the republican executive committeeman from Nebraska is to be blamed for the loss of presidential elec tors In Nebraska, Colorado and Nevada and the loss of the governors In Minnesota, Indiana and Ohio, but la entitled to no credit whatever for holding the states of Kansas. South Dakota, Wisconsin. Illinois, Indiana and Missouri in the republican column. It all depends. Chairman Hitchcock has assured Mr. Taft that tha campaign waa waged and won without incurring any obliga tions whatever in the nature of prom ises of appointments or other favors Mr. Taft will go into the White House absolutely free from campaign embar rassments. Wonder If Chairman Mack could truthfully have told Mr. Bryan the same thing? Our amiable democratic contempor ary, the World-Herlld, thinks It Is springing a revelation by discovering that $22,600 was put into the Ne braska campaign by the republican na tional committee. Tho World-Herald Is mistaken. The total was $26,000, as will be shown by the official report, and every cent of It went through the state committee treasury. Even at that, it is safe to say that the repub licans had much less to spend than the democrats, although the latter may not list all the contributions they had from brewers, corporations and other specially Interested Interests. President Roosevelt will have to try again. After . formally Introducing "frazzle" to the effete east, some New Yorker has come along with "pang- wangle," stating that he "went pang wangling home In the rain." It Is ex plained that a pang-wangler Is an op timist who is cheerful under depress ing conditions. And now we are told by a political wiseacre that 20,000 republicans In Nebraska voted the democratic ticket simply to register a protest against "sumptuary legislation." ' If that is so, then it is a republican victory and our democratic friends are throwing bou quets at themselves without cause. "Now look here," said Mr. Taft. "I am a good friend of Mr. Roosevelt and I think a lot of him, but I don't hunt, walk or play tennis with the president. It is too strenuous for a man of my architecture." That ought to silence those who persist in looking upon Mr. Taft as a Roosevelt replica. If Uncle Joe Cannon is continued as speaker of the next congress, as seems quite probable, . the democratic con gressman from this district, who ad vertised that a vote for him was a vote against Cannon, will be in a beautiful position to accomplish wonders for his constituents. The editor of a woman's paper scores society girls for "spending their time at matinees eating chocolate drops with young men in swallowtail coats." That's right. . No society girl should waste her time with a young man who wears a swallow-tail coat at a matinee. . . x Between that pledge to reduce the expenses of state government and the demands of a hungry horde of demo cratic ple-blters we; can see a large area of low barometer in front of Governor-elect Shallenberger. A Boston ethnologist says that in 600 generations man's pose will be as fiat as the nose ot the gorilla. At any rate, It will be more difficult then for a man to get his cbse into other peo ple's business. More votes were; polled by repub lican candidates In Nebraska in 1908 than ever before, with the single ex ception of the candidacy of Theodore Roosevelt for president in 1904. Make a note of it. That cousin of "Bunny Jim" Sher man, who Is on the vaudeville stage, will have to get some other means of advertising now instead of announc ing his support of 'the democratic ticket. Jio Dream About It. Pittsburg Dispatch. While the dishonest bankers go to prison very slowly, they seem to be getting there with both feet. A Spectacle Worth the Kflorl. Washington Star. There are aeveral members of congress who would travel a long way to see Mr. Roosevelt sitting around a magazine of fice In a merely advisory capacity. Sometfalnar of a Bank Uaarantee. New York Tribune. A f if teen-yeara' prison sentence for mis appropriation of fundw ought to "encour age the othere" for the safeguarding of bank deposits more effectively than any Bryan-pklahoma scheme of Insurance. (ttlasr n Mav On. Ban Francisco Chronicle. If prosperity Is begotten by confidence, tho United States has a bright future n store, fur every one. in this country and plenty of people In Europe feel cocksure that the wheels of Industry will soon bo revolving as briskly as they ever did. Aaarrtloa and Answer. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Chairman Mack declares that "The party was made the victim of misrepresentation a misrepresentation that democratic success would retard the business Interests ot the country." The best nnswer to Mr. Mack Is I the news ot the day since the election. It I relates largely to business activltlea that were held up for fear of democratic success. There was no mistjepresentatlon. The busi ness suspended was far In excess of the reports. Descent f Shooting Stars. Chicago Record Herald. C. W. Morse. New York's latest Napo lean of finance, has been sentenced to fifteen years In prison; Colonel Greene, the former copper king. Is supposed to be working for his board and clothes in Mexico; Bully, the man who ruled the cotton market a few years ago, recently advertised for a Job In a broker's office and P. Augustus Helnse Is, wa believe, sawing wood aomewhere. One peculiarity of shooting stars is that they will not keep from going out. Gaardlns the I'rralden t-EIrr t. Brooklyn Eugle. There will b no disposition among aane and decent people to do or to wlah Mr. Taft 111. Two blamelest Ohl ans. after reaching the presidency, one of them the second time, were slain by two cranks In whom . frustrated hun ger for spoils wrought murderous malice. The Eagle hopes that the president-elect will be surrounded by f.leud. of sense and vlallance at every point. Mr. Taft la a trustful and unsuspicious man and because ha la both h should ba protected from mWrrmnts and lunatics aa effeo 'lively as I'ieslJnt Rcosevtlt hlms--lf U. ROI SI A BO IT NEW YORK. ! Hippies on the t'arreat of Life la the Metropolis. j In the current Issue of Harper's Weekly a member of the medical staff describes old Heilevuo hospital, a famous Institution which Is to be pulled down shortly and a modern building reajed In Its place. Many legends cluster around this sombre eld pile, especially the tradition of the "Black Bottle," which the writer snys Is a fic tion as firmly believed as the doctrine of a religion. The black bottle la the enthanasla of the useless, the Incurable, or the trouble some. It is in the custody of some mys terious person, who sits as the Judge of life and death, Ita contents are quietly dropped In the victim's food or drink and he passes on to cumber the earth no longer. There is no appeal from the black bottle. Its existence Is denied - by all In authority. It does Its work silently and surely. Horror of horrors, the bottle some times falls Into the hands of some spiteful nurs or attendant, and then let the tronhe makcr beware! Or perhaps the medical schools need new material for their dis secting rooms; again the black bottle, and a plethora of subjects results. A great many years ago the nursing In the institution was done by convicts from the penitentiary and by women from the workhouse and the Jails; tradition says that in those days It was dangerous to be helpless in the wards with even the wealth of a tew dollars; a little opium in the food, a pillow pressed down over the face or a knee squeezed into the throat, and It was all over. The legend of the black bottla may have been the result of those days. Another tradition of Bellevue Is to consider every man alcoholic until he Js proved In nocent This tradition dates from 1735, when the hospital was "raised" where the city hall now stands, at the expense of fifty gallons of rum, paid for by the cor poration. There Is a feeling of uneasiness among men of a staid and conservative nature, to whom golf means physical exercise and mental relaxation, over the very marked tendency to make it a vehicle for gambling; a mild sort of a gamble, of course, but none the less disturbing. A New York man of middle age, who has played for years purely for the two ob jects above mentioned physical and mental tone expressed the feeling of many of his class when he said: "It has come to a point where on many of the links It is next to Impossible to engage a partner to go the rounds unless there is some sort of a hazard connected with the gam. "The players who crowd the courses seem to be animated altogether by a desire to make something on the play. Thera Is otherwise no Incentive for them. The re sult is inevitable. The game will develop into a gamble, as did bicycle racing, and as automobile racing has become. In the club houses one hears of little except how much A won on this game or B lost on the other, or C played so as to pull someone out of a financial hole. It Is a bad ten dency, and If It Is not checked golf will soon be doomed as a decent gentlemen's game." , "Do the club officials encourage it?" "Not openly, but in each election the sporting element In the club comes more and more to the front. The result Is that any remedial effort, any attempt to stop It, would find strong opposition from the very first." Borne one who is apt at figures has shown that New York City today Is larger in population than sixteen different states and. territories, and, further, that within a radius of twenty ' miles are living over 10.000,000. The improved methods of transportation, which are fast widening the limits of New York's business energy, will soon embrace a radius of fifty miles, within which are located 2,3t4 different towns and cities whose total population, with that of Greater New York, Is equal to fully one fifth of the population of the United States. When It is realised that the permanent Increase in population of New York last year was about 400,000, a city of the size of Cleveland, O., some Idea of the tre mendous growth of the city can be ap preciated. One of the assurances of a continued and permanent growth is to be found in the 60,000 marriages that take place every year. Besides this permanent increase. New York is entertaining an average of over 150,000 transient visitors every day, and at some seasons, when the hotel accommoda tions are taxed to their utmost, fully 300,000 peoplo are chronicled In their home papers as "spending 'a few days In New York on pleasure and business." After expending $7,000.or In the erection of his magnificent mansion on Riverside .Drive, Charles M. Schwab, the steel mag nate. Is said to hava come to the con clusion that the palace is too expensive a luxury. It now har, the appearance of a deserted castle. Tho servants have been discharged, the windows and doors boarded up. and burglar alarms Installed. The abandonment by Mr. Bohwab of his ambitious deeisn of maintaining the finest town house in America Is said to be one of tho' aftermaths of the financial panic. The grounds on which the edifice is lo cated comprise the block bounded by Riv erside Drive. West End avenue and Bev-enty-thlrd and Seventy-fourth streets. The stables are at 309 West Seventy-sixth street. A string of blooded horses and fashionable turnouts was installed there, but -they '.i.ive been sold. "We were prepared to hear that Tam many had so!d out' the national ticket," says a Tammany official, quoted by the New York Kveninj Post. "We had it hurled at us In Denver and everywhere we went In tho wet. You remember, somi of ns went through Yellowstone park afterward. On the platform of a railway station out In Montana a group of us gath ered and gave three cheers for Bryan, with a Tammany 'tiger' on the end of it. " 'Be on the level with us this time, Tammnny, the crowd shouted. ' "'We'll do our best,' we replied. " 'Well, we'll elect him without your help this time.' they said. "Now Montana's gone for Taft and those felh.'ws haven't any kick coming." Undismayed by their pastor's frequent rebukes and his caustic invitations to them to remove their hats in church, at least M per cent of the women at Bunday morning's servlee in the Baptist temple, Brooklyn, declined to remove their headgear. Whether or not this show of defiance frightened Dr. Myers, the pastor, he made mhat is comnv nly accepted as a com promise for the time being. Following the announcement of a hymn Dr. Myers stood for several minutes surveying the congre gation In slletue. Then he said slowly: "There is communion service this morn ing and It differs from the usual s.ivicc. The need for removing the millinery ob structions Is not so great. Those who de sire to retain theih. therefore, may do so." Not a hst came off. Philosophy of tha Sqarese. Chicago. Record-Herald. Mr. Baer of the Coal trust casually an- nounces that tl.sre Is 110 reason why the Price of coal should be reduced as long as the peopla can pay the rates ha demands Mr. Baer's philosophy, summed up In a few words. Is: "While there blood to be : sucked suck U.' Keep Your Money at work. Db not let a large amount lie Idle. If you think yoii do not need it for some months, it Is much better to put it to work, earning something. A 8 Certificate of Deposit is an ideal investment. ' It Is safe; It brings a good Income, and Is available under ordinary, conditions at any time, as collateral security. If you har valuable papers, Jewels, etc., these should be kept In a Safe Place rather than about the house or office. $3.00 a yeat for a Safety Box Is certainly very low insurance and a form that you cannot afford to neglect. ... , First National Bank ot Omaha Kntrance to Safety Deposit Taolts Is on ISth bt. PERSONAL NOTES. "Millionaires who laugh are rare," re marks Carnegie. Sounds so Impressive that a thoughtless person might almost bellevs it. Miss Clara M. Howard has been appointed to tha International fellowship founded by the Society of American Women in London. 9he Is Instructor In rhetoric and composi tion at Wellesley -eollege. Mr. Carl Hauptman, a noted German author and dramatlBt, arrived In New York, Saturday, to deliver a aeries of lectures and recitations in New York and other cities under the auspices of the Oer- nianlstic Society of America. The duke of Atholl, now 6S years old, owner of 200,000 acres of land and deer forests, is the only individual In Great Britain who has the right to maintain an army of soldiers. He keeps up almost regal state at Blair castle, In Perthshire, and he has an army of 800 men kilted, armed, regularly drilled and ready for war at any moment. The latest American woman to "Invade," to conquer Paris and to win universal ad miration for her courage and learning Is Miss Florence Haywood of Indianapolis. She has Installed herself as a guide to the Ixmvre; she conducts through the galleries and museum parties which vary In number from slxtcn to sixty, and which usually are made up of her compatriots. In a recent esse In Ohio when, for the first time In that state, two women law yers were the opponents. It might almost be said that "both won." Miss Anna Quin by, for the prosecution, mads out such a fine cose, that the prisoner wus pronounced guilty, and Miss Jane PurceU, for the de fense, made such an eloquent plea for mercy, that the minimum fine was Im posed. The charge was larceny. BULLYING OP -WITNESSES. Aa Unfair Practice Tolerated by the Coarta. (Philadelphia Press.) Ths American Bar association at Its last svjmmer .session adopted, a code .of ethlcj. wfyleh contains with others this excellent rule of professional conduct: "A lawyer should always treat witnesses and suitors with fairness and due consid eration and should never minister to the malevolence or prejudices of a client in the trial or conduct of a Case." There are some lawyers who do not ap pear to hava heard of this rule. They need to bo shown. In the Standard. Oil hearing now being conducted in Chicago counsel for tho corporation begged tho Judge to direct the government's counsel to stand: farther away from a witness and to "atop shaking his fist In the face of the witness." Tho government's counsel protested that he had not shaken his fist at the witness, but only his eyeglasses. Objection was then made to the shaking of the eyeglasses, but the court was loath to Interfere with the ancient privilege of counsel to Intimidate and browbeat wit nesses In this limited way, so nothing was done. We are glad, however, that counsel registered hia protest and protected the witness as far as he could. Probably he did not have at hand a copy of the new code of ethics requiring that witnesses be trested with "consideration." If the court had been backed by an authority It might have ruled in his favor and required coun sel to stand farther away from the witness he was questioning and be less menacing in his gestures. The bullying of adverse witnesses Is an old device of lawyers and It Is not pura malevolence, but has a professional pur pose. It often frightens, angers or con fuses a witness and makes him destroy the value of his previous testimony by contra dictory and Ill-considered statements. It is sharp practice rather than good practice, ts against the ethics of the profession as authoritatively promulgated, and so far as It Is successful usually makes the worse appear the better cause. The Judges are the proper ones to enforce tho canon of legal ethics that forbids the bullying or mistreatment of witnesses. Doubtless that Is what they aim to do now when convinced that the hullylng has gono far enough to warrant their Interference, but such wide latitude has been given to lawyers In the past in the cross-examination of witnesses thai, for an examining counsel to shake his eyeglasses In .angry fashion under the nose of a witness would not be construed by many Judges as lack ing in due consideration. The canon of ethics awaits Judicial or other authoritative construction In order to make It really ef fective. I WRNSYPUPJ Ncanc'Tlavoi Thirteenth and Farnami Sts. , A LARGE If Ay 'IN MINNESOTA. Remarkable Record of a LoaNomo Democrat. Cleveland Plain Dealer (dem.) The national election past, the excitement subsided, political gossip runs far ahead to 1912 and takes up the rather unprofitable topic of possible candidates. This is an Inevitable aftermath of each election. Es pecially does the vanquished . party f look forward with hope to better, things. And this year democrats In every state In the union are observing Intently Governor John A. Johnson of Minnesota. It would be ludicrous to pick a candidate at this time,, but It must appear to all students of politics that Mr. Johnson looms as large as any democrat Just at present. Thrice elected governor ' of a rock-ribbed . republican ' state the Minnesota ' ex ecutive stands a unique figure.' Two of his' victories were In "presidential years," when Minnesota gave overwhelming majorities to the republican national candidate. Gov ernor Johnson wears well. The people of Minnesota would not have gofio to such pains to elect him three ttmen; did they not foel well acquainted' with him and assured of his ability. , Governor Johnson may not be the demo- cratlc nominee four years hence, but It It no rash assertion to state that If. a demo-'' cratlc national convention were to be held -this week the Minnesota man would bt eptccjily selected. - f . , j;i LINES TO A LAUGH. """ . "Mr. Secretary.", said a shrewd suboa. dlnata of the War' department, "I under- y stand that you are planning to bring the troops from Cuba. I hava a plan, to save money for the government,' , . 1,;.. , "Explain It." "Provide the men With round-trip tick eta." 1 The matter Is understood to be under ad visement. Philadelphia Ledger. "Why is it considered necessary' for can didates to go around and Bieot the publiu personally?" "Bo that people can be ctonvincd that they do not really look like tha pictures on the campaign bnnera."f Washington Star. "I make the prophecy that" '"' ' "Aw, .quit it. Any chump can make a prophecy. But oaa. you,.jnae .a, salary"- Philadelphia Ledger. Mrs. Gaswell Wlho Is that man who looked at you as If he knew you? Mrs. Hlgheome He Is a man who haa done some professional Work for me once Or twice. He's a chiropodist. Mrs. Oaswell Chiropodist? O, yes; Vv heard of them. They don't believe In fore ordination, do they? Chicago Tribune. Curious Friend Mr. Uenpeck, has your wife made her will? Meek Spouse No, madarh; she was born with It ready made.-Baltimore- American. "John, John, there's a burglar In the house. I hear him downstairs In the cup board." , "Where you put that pie?" "Yes. Oh! John, where.are you going?" "I'm going down to savfo his life." Boa ton Transcript. "I hear you solemnized a marrfags Yes terday." . "Solemnized Is hardly the word for It." responded the J. P. cautiously. "I simply spliced a doubtful title to a million dollars' Louisville Courier-Journal, "Occastonaly," remarked . the observing girl, "you meet a man who thinks It clever to pose as a person with a past."' "Yes," answered Miss Cayenne, "but-as a rule that sort of man Isn't old enough to have any past worth mentioning. Washington Star. Nell He doesn't Know anything about' the littlo niceties of paying attention to a girl. Belle Why. I saw him yesterday tying your shoestring. Nell-Yes; but he tied It In a doublifknot, so that it couldn't come untied again.' Judge. - A WORD FROM l .NCLK JOB. 8. E. Klser In the Record-Herald. If you'll notice, I am tlltln my cigar At the customary angle, gentlemen. And I guesa that I will take the speaker' chair The minute I get ready to ssy when; Am I standln' pat? Don't make me laugh my lips Is kind ef sore If I'm doln' anything I'm stundln' patter than before. ' " I hear snme folks Intend to mako a fight, With the idee they can put me on the shelf; Well, let 'em git together, that's all right; But ynur uncle's quite a bully boy him self; Am I standln' pat? You make ma laugh. When I meet 'em on tht floor, I will show that I am standln' a m)lo , patter than before. . . ; They tell me Taft Is promlsln' to try Td hrlng about revision In the soring; Excuse me while I Utter o the sly I get amused at every little thing. Am 1 standln' pat? Down Danville wa there ain't no doubt no more. 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