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6 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1908. Tire Omaha Daily Dee. VOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROEEWATKIU EDITOR. Entered at Omaha postofflca a second claas matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Fee (without ftunday). on Jer'r!m lally Bee and Bunday, one year -w DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Tally B (Inciadlng Bunday). pr week. .15o Dally Bee (without Bunday). per wk '. Evening Bee (without Bunday). per wf Evening Bee- (with Sunday)., par week-.-i5 Sunday Bea. one; year tui Saturday Bee, one year ."lily , Addreaa all complaints of irregularities in delivery to City Circulation department. OFFICE. Omaha The. Bee Bulldlnc. Bouth Omaha Twenty-fonrth and N. Council Blurfe II Scott Street. Lincoln 618 Llfle Building. Chicago IMS' Marquette Building. New Tork-Rooma 1101-110J No. M Weil Thirty-third Street. . m Washlngton-TH Fourteeinth Street. N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relattnit to new; and torlal matter should be addreaaed: Oman 6ee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. . . Remit hy draft, express or no' rrt,r pavable to Tha Be Publishing Company. Only t-oant stamps received In payment or mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not acceptea. STATEMENT OF CTRCUTjATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County. i Oeora-e. B. Tsschnck. treasurer of The Bee Publishing company, being duly fworn. aaya that the actual number of full nd complete copies of Tha Dally, Morning, Evening; and Bunday Bee printed during the wonth of November. 1908. was aa follows: I 44,000 J ...jrr.too 1 38.100 IT ...87.180 I.. 48,850 It 88370 4 84,660 1 90 6.. 48,880 M 8710 38,800 1 87300 1 88,380 II 87360 87,400 tl 87310 8 87.840 14 37,090 10 87310 II 37,070 II 87.T80 14 38-M0 11 ..37380 t 87,140 If 87.880 11... ...... 38,880 It 87,680 $. 88.700 16 88300 It 37310 Total 1,181,870 Less unsold and returned coplea. 11.187 Net total.......... 1,160,103 Dally average 88,338 GEORGE a TZSCHUCK. Treasurer. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before ma Uila 1st day of December, 1H0S. (Seal) M. P. WALKER. ' Notary lubflo. WHEN OCT Ok TOW1I. Sabecrlbera leaving tfce city fam porarlly abo-14 .; fcave Tha Baa snallael ta than. Addreaa will ha chanced aa sftesi a reqaeate. Only two days more visit the Corn show. In which to Merchants report that the prospects are fine for a long green Christmas. Congress is also contributing a number of damns ' to the . Panama canal. "We need an interval of silence," Bays' Rev. Dr. Cadmaa of New York He may start it. The late Christmas shopper will re quire no dictionary to understand the meaning of "frazzle." After Christmas shall have arrived, only seven days more to frame your New Year's resolutions. Congress is apparently .looking for the nerve tonlo before carrying out its plan to rebuke the president. French physicians have advised Cas tro to take the water cure. Holland Is also asking him to take water. There's a possibility that the pro gram for the next corn exposition may be printed on paper made from corn stalks. Speaking of names, Mr. Gmellch skryzski and Mr. Smejkalos are rival candidates for the city council in a Chicago ward. Congratulations are due to the newspapers and the advertisers for nobly refraining this year from writ ing it "Xmas." Delaware farmers threaten to plow up their peach orchards. There seems to be no other way to kill the Delaware peach crop. N The members of the Chicago Board of Trade who have been visiting the Corn show will now know the real thing when they see it ' Each sailor in the; American fleet was given a pound of Ceylon tea at Colombo. Most of tne sailors are fond of tea that is, of cold tea. Mrs. Langtry is going to write nov els. She could find bigger sales for her books if she would write only the truth about her own experiences. "Haytlens noia a juDiiation, an nounces a cable. That is better than holding a lynching, which is the usual form of demonstration of Joy in Hayti.. It will be remembered that Abe Kuef expressed fear that he would not get Justice In San Francisco. It ap pears that his fears were not well founded. The supreme court of Russia has decided against the Standard Oil com pany in a 1500,000 damage claim Judge Landls will be pardoned for ex claiming "Fine!" A famous local murder trial that fizzled is said to have cost the taxpay ers of Douglas county some 91,300 almost as much as it costs our taxpay era for one of those numerous grand Juries, for which they get about the same for their money. Mr. Bryan la unduly alarmed over the president's onslaught on the New York World. There is no serious danger that the press will be muzzled or terrorized into subservient silence It Is a mighty good advertisement for the World nonetheless. AN ASXVAL CORX SHOW. The vote of the National Com as sociation expressing its sense that the next national corn show shall be held in Omaha, if our people so desire, makes It possible for Omaha to fix the corn show aa an annual event, at least, for the next several years. As an exposition of the progress made of the corn belt states, the ad vance in corn breeding and the manu facture of corn products the corn show has been a proved Buccess from the time the doors opened. It has at tracted to Omaha more widespread at tention than anything of its kind since the great Transmlsslssippl exposition, and its beneficial effects are bound to be felt for a long-continued period. Nothing succeeds like success and there is no question but that with the confidence established among all the organisations and interests concerned in the corn propaganda another corn show at Omaha would anllst still greater co-operation, while imposing comparatively less burden. This year's experience will always be a val uable asset In future undertakings. Although the definite decision need not be made at once, it will soon be up to the business men and public spirited citizens of Omaha to decide whether or not they want an annual corn show, and If the decision Is favor able, as it doubtless will be, it goes without saying that the show next year will be still bigger, better and more successful in every way. PRESWEXT AXO PRESS. The original cause of the contro versy between President Roosevelt and the New York World is to "be found in certain articles in the World and reproduced by the Indianapolis News, charging scandal and corrup tion in the negotiations for the pur chase by the United States of the Panama canal rights from the French Panama company. This, however, has been entirely overshadowed by the developments of the controversy into a personal fight between the pres ident and the two editors, in which prosecutions for criminal libel are promised and the comparative ver acity of the parties to the war of words brought into prominence. The president's charge that the World makes a specialty of distorting the truth for sensational purposes and Is altogether untrustworthy will scarcely be accepted by those who know of the great newsgatherlng fa cilities of the New York World and its record of past accomplishments in the field of Journalism. Nor will the charge of the World that the presi dent has misrepresented official docu ments be believed or accepted by the American people who know the presi dent's record. It Is possible that the president may have been inexact as to the manner of the payment of the $40,000,000 to the French Panama company, but the record is public and his. statement as to the final disposi tion of the funds is unquestionably correct. Aside from the merits of the con troversy over the Panama case, It will be generally regretted that the presi dent has engaged in a personal con troversy with two editors who have nothing to lose by it. The status of the press in this country is very clearly defined and well understood No official denunciation of a newspa per or its editor will deter the. press from throwing the searchlight on the conduct of public officials and com menting upon the results, just as no criticism of the president by the press would prevent him from carrying out policies to which he is committed and which he believes are right. t THE PAY OF THE JUDICIARY. President Roosevelt's recommenda tion that congress respond to the 'duty of increasing the totally inade quate salaries now given to our Judges" brings forward prominently a subject agitated by the bar associa tions throughout the country for a number of years. The president's recommendations are applied only to federal judges, but the complaint against an underpaid judiciary is gen eral in nearly all of the states. Ne braska has recently recognized this need by increasing materially the sal aries of its supreme and district Judges and taking this state out of the poverty class. In the federal courts the salaries are far below the scale allowed abroad and in some American states. The chief Justice of the supreme court of the United States, for example, is al lowed $13,000 a year and the associ ate justices $12,500, while the lord high chancellor of England receives $50,000 and the lord chancellor of Ireland $40,000. The justices of the king's bench in England and most of the Justices corresponding to our fed eral district Judges receive from $10,- 000 to $25,000 a year. The United States district judges receive $6,000 a year and the circuit Judges $7,000. The salary scale In our state courts Is even lower than in the federal courts. The chief Justice of New York receives $17,500, the chief jus tice in New Jersey and Illinois $10, 000 and then the salary drops to $8,000 paid in Pennsylvania, Califor nia, Massachusetts and Michigan. Montana and Indiana pay $6,000 and nine states pay $5,000, while twenty nine states pay less than $5,000, the average being but little in excess of $2,500. The chief argument in support of the movement for a better paid judiciary ia that the more capable lawyers are engaged with subjects growing out of the greater business development of the country and are commanding Incomes many times larger than those of the judges before whom they appear, In most cases a I place on the bench means, to the trained and skilled lawyer, a financial sacrifice which he Is usually loth to make. As a result the leaders at the bar are frequently compelled to re fuse elevation to the bench, thus leav ing the judgeships to younger and less experienced men who, if not satisfied with the Judicial salaries, are anxious to have the prestige which service on the bench brings to them for future practice. The work of the courts is becoming more and more Important every year, and It is becoming evident that If a higher degree of ability is to be se cured for the bench the first essential step to that end must be the increased" compensation urged by the president. EXGlXEERIXd PROBLEM AT PAXAMA. M. Bunau-Varilla, the French en gineer who figured prominently In the creation of the Panama republic and In the earlier dealings between this nation and France in connection with the Panama canal transfer, has ca bled from Paris a dire prediction con cerning the canal. He is convinced, and feels it his' duty to warn us, that the construction of the canal along the plans decided upon "will almost Infallibly end in the greatest disaster in the history of great public works ever recorded." The question of the type of the canal has been a subject of discussion and controversy for half a century and engineers are no nearer an agree ment now than when the dispute started. Many of the most expert en gineers In the world have declared that a lock canal could not be built, equally as many have been as positive that a lock canal Is not only feasible, but the only kind that would be prac ticable. The United States authori ties have decided on a lock canal and are building it. Bunau-Varilla is an advocate of the sea-level type and is certain that any other kind will col lapse. M. Bunau-Varllla's prediction of disaster Is based on his belief that the great Gatun dam' cannot be con structed on the foundation found in that vicinity. He contends that if built it will, if it does not fall of its own weight, certainly collapse when called upon to hold back an 85-foot depth of water with the weight and force of the resounding sea behind It. The dam will be over a mile long and there will be 80 or 85 feet of water behind It, the whole lake covering sev eral square miles of water basin. At the point where the greatest strain will come on the foundations of the dam there will be a pressure of 14,000 pounds to the square foot and M Bunau-Varilla contends that the foundations are not such as to support a dam which would resist such pres sure. Opposed to this view Is the opinion of Colonel Ooethals of the United States engineering corps in charge of the work. In his report made to con gress a few days ago,' he recognized the blue clay character of the soil, re ferred to by M. Bunau-Varilla, but explained-that below that was a per fectly Impervious bed of boulders and rock to which the foundation walls would be extended. The question. therefore, is a technical one for tech nical experts to debate, but the aver age American layman will pin his faith to the army engineers who are on the job, rather than to become alarmed over the direful predictions of an engineer who has always been committed to another type of canal The question where to put the new supreme court Judges without build ing an addition to the capitol is said to be troubling some of the authori ties at Lincoln. There are four new supreme court judges to take the place of six supreme court commis sioners, and by ordinary rules of mathematics a substitution ought to be made and leave some room over. While Omaha's hotel facilities have been greatly enlarged during the last two years, our experience this year with Ak-Sar-Ben and Corn show vis itors proves that we have not yet any over-supply of such accommodations. Another year should see our present hotels materially enlarged, or at least one first-class addition to the list. As reported in his own paper, the congressman from this Second Ne braska district did not vote at all on the resolution offered In the house looking toward revision of the rules to curtail the speaker's power. That ante-eiectlon advertisement, "A , vote j tor me is a vote against Cannon," I must have been a bunco game. The constitutional amendment re cently adopted in Nebraska requires all members of the supreme bench to have a permanent residence at the state capital, but no penalty is fixed for refusing to change residence. If some of the new judges insisted on maintaining their old homes, what would happen? Neither Mr. Roosevelt nor Mr. Bryan will accept the presidency of the University of Minnesota. It be gins to look as though the University of Minnesota would be compelled to look to a professional educator and get its adtertlsing in some other way. Mr. Bryan insists that the coming democratic legislature must redeem j all the pledges In all the platforms on which its members were elected. Where platforms disagree, who shall decide? If our aboriginal Indians had only known that a single ear of corn grown on this weBteruy soil would one day sell for $75 they might not have been dispossessed of their land so easily. In a few weeks we will have the annual addresses of the governors urg- Ing the legislatures to practice econ omy. The legislatures will then pro ceed to spend every cent in sight. "Every English family has at least one weak-minded member," says a London medloal ' magazine. That must be the one that comes to Amer ica and wears a monocle. The Dancer Polai. Washington Poet. It would he sowing the seeds of political revolution should congress have the audac ity to Increase tha cost of women's hats by putting a higher tariff on trimmings. ladastry'a Bloody Tall. Chicago News. Mora than 80,000 workers were killed In American Industries last year. Civilisation may come high, but the price ahould be much less when reckoned tn human blood. Cornerstone of Prosperity. New York World. Tha silver lining of the cloud which shadowed business this year la tha report of tha secretary of agriculture of a gain of $290,000,000 In thla year over last year's corps. The record-breaking total value la $1. 778,000.000 a solid foundation for renewed prosperity. War Wlthoat Shooting-. Chicago Record-Herald. The Dutch 'navy has captured a Vene- cuelan scout ship without firing a shot. We are almost confirmed In our belief that war between Holland and Veneiuela would not be anywhere near as deadly as an ordi nary foot ball contest. Where Patriotism Blooms. Boston Olobe. Instead of descending to the cellar these wintry mornings, growling between his chattering teeth, every householder should approach his furnace as the altar fire of civilization. The hand that shakes the ba nana tree for breakfast la an enfeebled member of an enervated race, but the hand that shakes the furnace Is the hand that rules the world. Wives Eqnal to I'nerfeacln, Philadelphia Record. The governor of Nebraska having been detained by a slow train, and unable to make an address at the corn exhibition, Mrs. Sheldon, who happened to be present, was Invited to fill his place on the plat form and did so. Her address Is spoken of In high terms. There are two or three pastors whose wives preach for them oc casionally, and If Illness should prevent a president of the United States from preparing a message to congress we shall hereafter expect the wife of the president to wrlto the document. Tralta of President McKinley. Boston Transcript. Mr. Taft'a tribute at the dedication of a McKlnley memorial organ In New Tork brought out clearly some excellent traits of the late president Mr. Root went to Wash ington to decline going Into the cabinet and returned as secretary of war. Taft himself went to Washington with the declaration on his Hps that he was sorry we had the Philippines, and returned home having ac cepted an assignment to go to the archipel ago. He regarded It as appropriate that an organ should be dedicated to a president whose life had done so much to make har mony. McKlnley's intuition In picking out good men, although Mr. Taft did not say thla, emphatically deserve commendation. Shoot or Gve Up the Gaa." Louisville Courier-Journal. Cromwell has shot his gun. It ought to do more execution at the breach than at the muzzle. Where.axe you, Mr. Pulitzer? Step right to the, front and the Courier Journal will stand directly behind you. even If It stood directly behind Senator Mor gan. But, these few precepts, Joseph: Skin your eys and your eye-teeth, old man; don't let them ever catch a weasel asleep; and don't send any boys to mill. To run down a red fox, like Cromwell, to circumvent a flea In a skillet like Roosevelt, Is a man's work, not child's play; and, If you are not resolved to strip to It. you had best call off the dogs and go gallumphlng home! CORK AND APPLES. Two Exhibits from Which Much Good Will Plow. Cleveland Plain Dealer. There la now In progress at Omah.-s a National Corn exposition; at Spokane last week was held a national apple show. Two of the great products of the country are thus placed on exhibition and their Im portance emphasized. Live stock and dairy shows are regular features In several cities and the more ornamental horse show Is an established institution. Both at Omaha and Spokane large prizes were awarded for ex cellent products, and there can be no ques tion that much good was accomplished. In aplte of the popular belief that we m a people have been prodigal of the gifts of nature and that much of the virgin richness of. the country has been forever destroyed. It is certain that agriculture and its allied Industries are still in their Infancy. Americans have learned much, but have much yet to learn. These exhibitions of the products of the farm and the orchard are agencies In tha education of the great producing class to accomplish even larger and better things. IlOOSEVELT'l AFRICAN WAY. Remarkable Country Throngh Which He Will Travel. Peter MacQueen In Leslie's Weekly. Thus a rlda on the Uganda railway Is unique and one of the most Interesting In all the world. For we pass, through a country where the animal and human life Is much the same as It was In Europe 200,000 years ago. And here we sea primi tive savagery walking hand in hand with modern civilization retaining nearly all of Ha plcturesquesness, but divorced from Its lust and cruelty. I took this trip twice during the summer of 1908. The fare Is cents per mile first class. I cents second class and 1 cent third class. White men cannot so In third class and blacks cannot go In first or second. Settled comfortably In tha train, we draw out from tha tropical station of Mombasa, and crossing from the Salisbury Bridge, 1,700 feet long from the Island to tha main land, we plunge Into the heart of Africa, The engines are Baldwin locomotives from Philadelphia, and twenty-seven of the bridges and viaducts are of American manufacture. When we stop at the first station of Changamwe, we note the natives clothed in light cottons and ginghams. which they call "Amerlcanl." Thla was formerly all brought from America, hence Its name. f Our Journey on the railway divides Itself Into three sections. First, the unhealthy scrubby coast land and Interior plateau, extending to the Klu station, 207 miles and 4,860 feet in elevation. Natives and Indians can live In this part, but the white man withers and die. At Vol, 103 miles, eleva tion, 1.830 feet, there Is an excellent dak bungalow, with a restaurant as fine as any on the New Turk Central lines. Also at Vol parties of hunters leave tha train for a trip to the Kilimanjaro district In Ger man territory, 100 miles away. All this first 267 miles is covered with short, scrubby jungles and Is full 'of malaria. One begins to see wild sebras and an occasional ante lop until Taavo Is reached, at 123 miles trow Mombasa, ROlTJf D ABOUT NEW TORK. Ripples on the Carrrnt of Life la tho Metropolis. Senator Thomas Collier Piatt of New Tork promises to contribute one of the "Ix beet sellers" to the literature of 13o9 a book of reminiscences of a long and varied political Ufa, which some friends say will bear the appropriate title, "Leaves from the Diary of an Easy Boss." The New York Bun declares tho senator In formed a clone friend that he will buckto down to tha work aa soon aa he can throw off the senatorial toga. He has not been an observer of the passing political show for the laat half of a century for nothing. Notes on men and events that passed In review have been made by him and pre served. The senator has a vast storehouse of Information in the New York offlcca of his express company. It is asserted that he will deal very frankly with the Conkllng-Platt Incident of the Garfield administration and bring to bear correspondence ' and unassailable testimony to show that the author waa far from being a "me too" In that affair. The senator Is now disposed to take the public Into his confidence on some of the spicy personal phases of his career, be lieving that the facts will show that he has been more of a victim than an of fender. Senator Piatt talks about his prospective literary venture with keenest relish. He realises that the output Is likely to take rank among the season's best sellers and will not conceal anything that Is likely to make the book readable. In his candor Senator Piatt Is not serving an advertising purpose or pandering to a morbid literary taste, but believes he will polish up his own memory in many spots where It now appears bedimmed by telling the whole (truth. Everett J. Edwards, a druggist at Bast Hampton, Long Island, Is by no means the only person In this village who has causa to worry over his coming trial for tho al leged sale of liquors over his counter In a "dry" town. If some of the deacons and society members who are said to have winked" at Edwards are not called as witnesses to explain those alleged winks, there will be rejoicing. Edwards Is to ba tried next week be fore County Judge Grlfllng, In Rlvprhead. When an indictment waa found against him many of his fellow townsmen said, "Too bad." When, however. It became known he expected to call many of his customers to explain to the court just what had taken place In his store, there was an epithet added to the "too bad." The list of possible witnesses Includes not enly prominent churchn.en and men lead ing In temperance work, but women as well. District Attorney Furman has a list of witnesses he may call. 'I stumbled across something new tha other day," said a trained nurse, quoted by the Sun. "My patient Is one of New York's rich women with a long Christmas list, on which are the names of many chil dren. She kept worrying about an ap pointment she had the next day and which she couldn't possibly break. Finally I made her tell me what It was and she said It was with a special clerk In a large toy store who always went with her from one department to another advising, suggesting and selecting suitable children's gifts. I finally insisted on telephoning to the toy shop and was amazed to have 'the answer that every hour of this clerk's time was engaged until Christmas day and that It would be impossible for them to assign my patient a clerk of thla kind if the present appointment were broken. In talk ing with my patient afterward about this she said that valuable clerks of this kind were sometimes engaged long In advance and It was Impossible to get an hour of their time in any other way. The result waa that my patient kept her appointment at the toy shop, though she was hardly able to leave her bed." Rudyard KlpMng, In his story, "The Bridge Builders," wrote that whenever birds In large numbers alight on a bridge either in course of construction or com pleted, It Is a sure sign that It is sate. Whether that be true or merely a saying of the far east, It Is a fact that the new Queensboro -ridge over the East river and Blackwclls island has become a favorite rendezvous of all sorts of birds pigeons. sparrows and even wild ducks. They come with the dusk by thousands and are there until the workmen turn to In the morning. Edward E. Sinclair, engineer of the bridge construction corps, has never known a bridge that birds have trusted to fall in his twenty years' experience. He wrote a letter to the bridge celebration committee in which he directed the at tention of the members to the way birds were patronising the structure. "It is an indication," said Mr, Sinclair, that the structure Is perfoctly strung and will stand all tests. I was employed in bridge building in Iowa several years ago and before the bridge was completed the birds strangely mado their home on it. This bridge was also criticised, but it is standing today and has done twice the work ever contemplated. Another bridge whose stability was ques tioned and to which the birds flocked was built across the Missouri river by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad, and this bridge Is doing great work today. Many of my associates In bridge building have noticed this same true instinct of birds and ornithologists say that birds in large flocks will not settle on a weak structure." The bridge workers are glad the birds have come to the bridge, for they are prone to believe In omens, aa most of them have been sailors in their time. An artist's model out of work answered an advertisement mai iook ner into Worth street oifice building. There she found that It was a manufacturer of wax show figures that had advertised for a model. 'I dldn t Know," gasped tne ypung woman, "thai models were required for those wax women you see in store win dows." They were not needed formerly," said the manufacturer. "We used to slap those same wax women together any old way. That was the reaaon tney looked so ghastly. Perhaps you have noticed that there has been a great Improvement In wax show women in the lost two or three years. They look positively human. Home of them are very pretty. That Is because the wise inunutacturer has abandoned the slap dash method. He now patterns his wax women after good looking models." There Will Be Sosacthlas; Doing. Baltimore American. When congress delivers that rebuke la the president, wllkhe bow his head and tak the reprimand In silent meekness? Tha mere suggestion of a meek and humb'.tt Roosevelt la calculated to make a graven Image smile. The hot words which he will probably give back to that committee ot five will almost burn spots in the paper on which they will be written. Whera Celerity la Jastlftad. Philadelphia Record. A good woman in the west has brought suit for divorce on tha righteous ground that her husband haa not taken a bath sine their marriage. She should have a divorce without delay, aa well as liberal alimony If her husband ba able to pay It. REDUCED TO d 11 510 1MCHEA9IG FREIGHT RATES. Strangling: the CSooae that I.aya the Goldra Kmm- ' Philadelphia Record. A general increase of freight rates over tha greater part of the country on the first of the year is now assured unless the In terstate Commerce commission shall Inter pose objections. The Trunk Line associa tion and the Transcontinental Freight bureau have filed with tha commission notices of Increases averaging about 10 par cent westward and IS per cent eastward. Whether this advance is justified cannot be said offhand. The railroads are entitled like other business concerns to participate in the returning prosperity. But the public would like to know whether reductions of similar extent were made by the railroads during the depression which la now passing away, though it can hardly be said to have wholly disappeared. Up to midsummer, or the early fall, of 1907 the railroads were doing an enormous business and were do ing it at fair rates of profit. Their net earnings increased and many roads in creased their dividends, besides applying liberal portions of their earnings to im provements which would ad to their facili ties or reduce their expenses. In tha first half of 1907, for example, the Increase of net earnings over the first half of 1906 by railroads reporting to the Commercial and Financial Chronicle was over 119,000,000; the first half of 1906 Bhowed an Increase of more than $45,000,000 over the same part of 1905, and the first half of 1905 showed an Increase of close to 119,000,000. The first six months of 1904 was the only first half year in eleven years that did not show an Increase, and generally a large increase, over the first six months of the previous year. During thi last year the earnings of the roads have fallen off heavily because the business of everybody fell off. All business Is improving, and with the restoration of the trade of 1907 the railroads will get back to their large earnings then without an In crease of rates unless there has been In the last year a much more general reduction than the public is Informed of. Of rourso tha business of the country la far better able to stand the Increase now than it waa last spring when It waa first .proposed, but the roads have little right to do more than restore reductions made in .the last twelve months. PERSONAL NOTES, Baron Schlippenbach declares there is no such thing as a Russian secret service In this country. At leant It isn't as secret aa It once was. Vice Admiral Cervera, who commanded the Spanish fleet in tho battle of Santiago, was retired from the active list of tho Spanish navy Monday at his own request on account of falling health. Francis J. Heney, tha Ban Francisco "graft" prosecutor, will be able to come east In January and keep engagements to make speeches before reform clubs in a large number of cities between San Fran cisco and New York. King Charles of Roumanla, who has been 111 lately, ia extremely popular with his subjects. Like the late king of Den maik, he is a king without pretensions, and nothing delights him more than to mix frevly with his people. 1 Mrs. Nation has been shocked to find tea drinking so common in Scotland. She classes tea drinking with the morphine habit and has added it to her crusading repertory. Mrs. Nation's circle of activi ties is rapidly widening. She has now banned tobacco, clgarets, liquor, tea, man and dog fights. A Michigan judge has struck a blow at the summer resort engagement. In a case before his court he has held that when a girl breaks her engagement she must re turn the ring and presents by which the troth was plighted. Should this be recog nised as good law In other parts of the union It Is clear that the fascinating sum mer girl will find her occupation gone and her vacation stripped of Us charm. If tha law bars the loot won by soft, sighs and tender glances, what is the use? BREEZY TRIFLES. Miss Gushing Why, how do you do, dear? I didn't thins, you would remember me. It'11 a whole year since we met. Miss Cutter I didn't recall your face at first, but I remembered your dress. Now York Herald. Editor (of Dally Tunderbolt) Yooper, vou have fallen down on two or three as signments lately. You used to have the best nose for news there was In the of- tin Reporter I think I had, but its been pulled once or twice lately, and I'm getting cautious about using It. Chicago Tribune. A young woman entered a crowded street cur with a pair of skates on her arm. An elderly gentleman at once arose and of-f--A Vi 1 his seat. "Thank you very much," she said, sweetly, "but I don't care about sitting down; I've been skating all afternoon." Harpers Weekly. Judge You have not yet established the prisoner's insanity. Attorney But, your honor, we mean to Introduce witnessea to show that the pris oner habitually argues politics with women Puck. "Why are you so disheartened, Mrs. Mul lions? I should think you'd be the happiest woman in the world. Isn't your daughter engaged to a baron?" "Yes, but we've just heard of a lovely count that we could have got for the same price." Chicago Record-Herald. Terrible Child-Will you please play something for me on the violin, Mr. Jones? , . Jones But I don't know how. Bobby. T. C Oh, yes, you do, Mr. Junes. I heard mamma say you played second fiddle to Mrs. Jones. New York Herald. Doctors have discovered a new disease and given It the nama "chauffeur's leg." "Due to preasura on the brake," . "But the chauffeur never presses the A BOX Of 6 Pairs., FOR Salfrfli brake," added another, mor observing. "I would ascribe It -tr tho gulling of tlio limbs by country Justices."' Here, Indeed, was a problem for science, Philadelphia Ledgen . f "I was reading today," remarked the lin gering young man, "that there are' ninety eight ways of serving a lobster." "Didn't It give you a awnse, of, personal danger?" she asked. . ' , Then he left her. "' "I guess I found the ninety-ninth way." she murmured, with a contented yawn."-r Philadelphia Ledger. THR NEW -METHOD. Qruntland Rice iaNahvJle., T?nnesean. ("It was him Chat" Mr. Ttrtbsevelt Wrote his memorable letter denylnr-that he whs using the federal patronage to aid Mr. Taft's candidacy a- letter Whloh at onco took Its place amon the rnfytt -valued ln runabula of veracity." Editor ""Lftffan of the Sun, In reply to- Mr. Roosevelt.) I wilt not say that thou bt -Hod, Slde-stenned tha. truth or .e'on veracity: Nor charge that thbu Tiasf falsified Through utter and complete 'mertdaouy; No falsehood charge I, whirl at thre -, That thou art known prevarlcatc-r-r. But varlet this I hurl a t1' thee- Thou art an incunabulatort -,; : ' When Thomas Jones got In last night At 3 a. 111., witn neartneats quickened, And whispered to hie spousely right That h? had beeD' with friend: quiet sick ened; , Jones did not lie. atlhough. to walk He was quite Incapacitated In handing out thla line of talk.. ' He merely Incunabulatcd. - When one thou Invest whispers low That she has never-loved another; That she has nevefl held' a beau Have as a gentle friend or brother; And If perchance, she too denies A run of former osculations ' She Is not stringing-thee-with lies, But simple lncunabulutlona. . , . If one who seeks to ' borrow "ten" Should lead thee from the hurlyburly With promises to come again And fetch it In the'rhorrimg early; And If for months thou hast not spied His face, while growing eulogistic, Say not that he has foully Med He's only incunabullstlc. Alack no more da irieople lie. Adopting methods unveracious; No more now do they falsify By springing data, quite mendacious; All falsehoods, now have passed, forsooth. Such barbarisms out of date, For now, aa they side-step the truth. They merely lncunabulate. ospe s CHRISTMAS ART and MUSIC ALTERATION PIANO SALE Tha Christmas Shopper Is taking ad vantage of tha Xospa Piano sale. The great stock of fins pianos, play er pianos, grand pianos, parlor organs, chapel organs and player organs Is thrown on the market at prloaa which forces the buying. Just ' a little money down, a small amount every month and your new mahogany, oak or walnut piano Is paid When yon can bay a $380, $375, $300, or $385 piano for .7 $139 $159 $198 $187 On $8.00 monthly payments, It looks easy, is easy and you can't resist it. Do you know the world's best? They are the Kranlrh & Bach. Krak auer. Kimball, Bush-Lane, Hallett Davls. fable-Nelson, Hurton, Cramer & Weser pianos.' Player Pianos from $29.00 up. Parlor Organs, $30.00 up. KRANICH & BACH Supreme in that class of highest grade.. 1 . .,:.-... The Kranlch & Bach costs more to manufacture than any piano maie In the world, on account of Its highest quality of selected materials and high est grade of scientific and artistic workmanship. We have a fine assort ment of Grands and Uprights. KIMBALL The product of the Kimball factories Is more than double in volume, that of any similar Institution- In the world. Kvery year more than -thirty thousand homes rejoice. In tha acquisition of Kimball Instruments. Tho Kimball Pianos and Organ were equally honored at the Trans-Mlssls-alppl Exposition at Omaha, receiving the only gold medal awarded any piano. There are six vital and distinctive points of superiority in the , Apollo Player Pjano that give it command Inn' position In the trade and in the- esteem of the musical people. Dally demonstrations at our store. " , - Piano Players from $375 up to 51,000 J EA8Y PAYMENTS OLD PIANOS TAKEN IN TRADE PIANO SCARFS, chiV. Tlnest and most oemtilsts line la tha city. " . ; . TSx'f. ;..S2.00 to.O0 Silk 4 Ktl CD flrt Scarfs U Flush C nit ) n Scarfs , aiww v il.iu Damask . 55.00 ta 515.UC Boarfs Musical Instruments Ylctor Talking Machines, Outran, Violins, Mandolins, staajoa. Brass In struments, Maals BoUa, Ktrlnga, art goodq a Art Oooas, Matures, Vrames. .faint ing Materials, IyrograpUy, i SUiMt auu, nulla uui. i A.HOSPE CO. l.lS'BiWjIas.Si: .-
