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STATEMENT OF" CIRCULATION.
Stele of Nebraska. Do iglas County, as.:
George B. Tsschuck, tressurer of The
Bee Publishing company, being duly sworn,
eayi that the actual number of full and
complete copies of Tha Daily. Morning,
Evening and Sunday Be printed during the
month of December, ira. was as follows:
1 JT.TBO IT 37,370
2 3T.S10 1$ ;...3,00
a 37,370 1 3,T0
.... 3T4W0 20 37,800
1 37,030 21 30,800
37,360 2 2 37,010
T 37,840 x 1'3 37,030
t 37,040 24 37,000
30,810 Id 88,450
1 38.780 2 38,830
11 48,880 27 37,160
12 38O0 21 30,030
if 37,100 I 40.730
it 38,710 30 48,800
;l ,. .87,400 11 48,860
It 37,170
Total 1,171,470
Lotas unsold and returned copies. . 8,846
Net total 1,108,888
Daily average 37,41
GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK,
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before ma Ibis list day of December, 1908.
ROBERT HUNTER.
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walled te them. Address will be
Tillman talked.
he made-In-Augusta cabinet is not
jet ready for public inspection.
Apparently Mr. Taft will refuse to
accept any ready-made cabinets.
The Broom trust has advanced
prices. To ra'se the dust, of course.
The legislatures of forty states are
at work. It promises to be a hard
w Inter.
Anyway, the; president is displaying
no partiality Vetweon the house and
the senate.
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The ways and means committee ad
mits that the coffee situation is very
ninth unsettled.
Mr. Carnegie gave away half his
Steel trust Income last year and all his
Steel trust secrets.
A St. Louis man wears a snake in
his hat. Probably he has no more
room for them In bis shoes.
St. Jackson, does not care much,
anyway, whether, or not his birthday
is celebrated on the right day,
Of course, Nebraska's democratic
legislature Is making; history. The
only question Is, what kind of history?
This is really mild weather, com
pared with some that the oldest in
habitant remembers and Is anxious to
tell about.
The most unkiodest cut of all was
given when the Roman conspirators at
Lincoln exclaimed, "Shoemaker stick
to thy last."
Congress evidently believes that It
will be easier to maintain its dignity
and self-respect after it once gets them
established.
Move to amend by changing the
name from "Square Deal Republican
club" to "Crooked Deal Democratic
club." Any dissent?
"Kansas baa an abundance of good
cabinet material," says William Allen
White. Too bad that It is being al
lowed to go to waste.
The I'nited States army ia being
withdrawn from Cuba. The army is
not a permanent tenant in Cuba, but
a very regular visitor.
"Hades is no worse than Chicago,"
savi Rev. "Billy" Sunday, who doubt
less understands that he is not saying
much for hade at that.
Burton of Ohio may be relied upon
to make a very different' record from
that of the last Burton of the senate
who hailed from Kansas.
John Sharp Williams says he likes
Mr. Taft better than any other repub
lican. John Sharp is always trying to
make Mr. Cannon jealous.
Abo Jliiaf still Insists tnat he has
not received justice in the California
sentence. Possibly ho wants a heavier
sentence than fourteen years.
"A boy's conscience Is never kliuiu
lated by spanking," saya a Chicago
professor. This spanking a boy'a con
science must bo a new method.
.- Georgia proposes a law requiring
very person who carries a concealed
weapon to wear a badge. Why not re
quire concealed weapons to be worn
la tlghlt
ma r take im:m awn t:.
The initial flareback among the
democratic law-makers at Lincoln over
the coming deposit guaranty measure
discloses the fsct that nowhere In the
Denver platform is there any demand
for "immediate" payment of deposi
tors of decrepit banks, but that the
word "Immediate" was after full dis
cussion rejected and the word
"prompt" used Instead with delibera
tion and malice aforethought.
This raises the question again as to
exactly what the people of Nebraska
were promised In the way of deposit
guaranty legislation. The first refer
ence to this subject Is to be found in
the platform adopted at Omaha last
March as a preliminary draft for the
national democratic platform, contain
ing the following:
We favor the postal savings hank and In
addition thereto Insist upon the passage
of law, state and national, for the better
regulation of banks and for the protection
of banK deposits. The government - de
mands security when It deposits public
money In a bank and we believe that the
security of the Individual depositor who
entrustn his earnings to a bank should be
as perfect as the government's security.
At Denver this declaration was re
modeled to apply only to national
banks In this language:
We pledge ourselves to legislation under
whlcii the national bunks ahall be required
to establish a guaranty fund for the
prompt payment of tire depositors of any
Insolvent national bank under an equitable
system, which shall be available to all
state banking Institutions wishing to use
it.
Not willing to put full faith and
confidence In the materializing of this
national bank deposit, guaranty fund,
still new declarations were made by
the platform conventions held at Lin
coln in September. In their Septem
ber state platform the Nebraska dem
ocrats paraphrased this clause as
follows:
We demand a law under which the state
banks shall he required to establish a
guaranty fund under state supervision and
control for the prompt payment of deposi
tors of any Insolvent state bank under an
equitable system, which shall also be
available to all national banking Institu
tions of thin state wishing to take advan
tage of It
The populists, not content with such
vague generalities, alone of all the
platform-makers, came out specifically
for something that can be identified.
The plank In the populist September
platform reads:
We demand the passage of a compulsory
bank guaranty law similar to he one now
In force In Oklahoma.
It ahould be remembered that all
the candidates on the democratic state
ticket and all the demo-pop legislative
candidates who went before the peo
ple of Nebraska last November were
running on all of these platforms. It
now devolves on the demo-pop law
makers zealous to fulfill their platform
pledges to take their choice and decide
which of these declarations is to be
put on the statute books. '
LAST M AllCH OF THE YETERAXS.
The annual report of the pension
commissioner shows that during the
year 54,366 names were dropped
from the nation's pension roll, 50,676
having died and the others having
been dropped for various causes. Of
those who died, 3 4,333 were soldier
and sailor pensioners of the civil war,
the other dead being widows or de
pendent beneficiaries. The number of
pensioners ia now 951,687, of whom
668,071 are soldiers or sailors, 393,106
are widows or orphans and 510 are
army nurses.
In spite of the death of 50,000 or
more pensioners each year, the pension
roll Is almost as large as it ever was
in the country's history, due to the
liberal pension policy of congress by
which service pensions have been
granted to practically every man who
bore arms in the service for the union
side of the civil war. The annual ap
propriation for pensions, by reason of
these additions and certain increases
is about 1145,000,000 annually, hav
ing been reduced but little In the last
twenty years.
The pension commissioner estimates
that the high tide of pension payments
has been reached and that there will
be a rapid reduction not only in the
number of pensioners, but In the
amount paid to them and that within
twenty years the payment for pensions
for civil war veterans will almost have
ceased. All told, the United States
had paid more than $3,000,000,000 in
pensions a patriotic recognition of
patriotic service unequalled in the
world's history.
THE SAVAL PROGRAM.
Secretary Newberry of the Navy de
partment bas frankly explained to the
committees of congress what his de
partment wants In the way of appro
priations for the next fiscal year. He
and his advisers in the department In
sist that the requests are modest, when
all the needs of the service are con
aidered, but protest has already been
aroused against the naval program on
the ground of 'excessive expense.
The navy program proposes the con
struction of four battleships' of the Del
aware type, four scout crufaers of In
creased displacement and superior
armament, ten destroyers of high
speed, three colliers, two mine line
layers and one ammunition boat and
one repair boat. This, with the cost
of maintenance, would call for a naval
appropriation of about S120.000.000.
or slightly more than the appropria
tion for 1908.
Those who object to the plan on the
score of cost are calling attention to
the great Increase in naval expendi
tures in the last few years. The ap
propriation of 1118.000.000 for naval
purposes in 1908 was equal to the cost
of the navy for the first three years
of the civil war and twice the cost of
the navy expenaes for the Spanish
American war. It is not argued that
this money has been wasted, expended
in an extravagant manner or unjustly
appropriated. The chief argument Is
that the country can not afford this
rate of expenditure without forcing
bond Issues for other legitimate ex
penses of the government.
The situation makes it certain that
there will be a warm fight over the
navy bill, with the probability that the
Navy department estimates may suf
fer. If the government Is to keep prog
ress with the naval expansion of other
nations with which we have more or
less close relations in trade and world
politics, the program proposed by Sec
retary Newberry does not appear to be
extravagant. The question resolves
Itself into one of advisability and pol
icy whether the country wants a
navy in a state of preparedness for any
emergency or is willing to take chances
on existing international peace, a risk
none of the other sowers seem ready
to assume.
A XATIOXAL LABOR BCREAU.
Much Interest is being attracted to
a plan proposed by Secretary Straus
for the establishment of a national la
bor bureau, with headquarters at
Washington, for the purpose of bring
ing workmen and employers in closer
touch and regulating the supply and
demand of labor. In furtherance of
his plan, Secretary Straus has called
a conference of representatives of or
ganized labor and employers to dis
cuss the best method of establishing
and maintaining tjhls proposed employ
ment agency.
It is proposed by the secretary to es
tablish a headquarters of his labor ex
change in Washington, with branches
In the large cities of the country, with
the purpose of equalizing the supply
and demand of labor in different Bee.
tions of the country, its services to be,
of course, furnished without charge.
The first and usually most difficult
problem in carrying out this plan Is the
question of transportation. Secretary
Straus believes that the railroads could
be Induced to grant special low rates
In such cases and that some plan may
be adopted by which the government
could advance the needed railroad fare,
deducting the amount from the first
wages of the person thus aided to a
position. The possible objection to
this, on the ground of paternalism, is
answered by the showing that the gov
ernment already bas a similar revolv
ing fund in the reclamation service,
where the money appropriated for the
building of irrigation dams and reser
voirs is returned in installments by
the purchasers of reclaimed lands.
Much good may be accomplished by
the proposed labor exchange, If a work
ing plan can be agreed upon. Fre
quently when thousands of men are
waiting in the bread line in New York
and other large cities of the east, the
demand for skilled workmen in the dif
ferent trades is keen in western cities
and most of the year there is a de
mand for workmen in the harvest and
fruit fields of the west and southwest
that is never fully supplied. Any plan
that will relieve this annually-recurring
labor congestion and form a sort
of labor clearing house would be wel
comed by laboring men and employers
alike.
. THE UROUXDS IS THE COFFEE TAX.
As the greatest coffee consuming na
tion in the world, the United States
gets about 90 per cent of Its supply
of that beverage from Brazil, and yet
the announcement is made that Brazil
will in no way object to the proposi
tion offered by the ways and means
committee at Washington to find a
new source of revenue by placing a
tax of 5 cents a pound on coffee, A
little history of the recent coffee sit
uation in Brazil throws an Interesting
light on the proposed tax and its ef
fect. Some six or seven years ago over
production of coffee in Brazil caused
such a demoralization of prices to the
growers that the government took a
hand and bought and stored all the
surplus crop. In order to maintain
prices. Today the Brazilian government
has a modest stock of 1,544,400,000
pounds of coffee In cold storage. The
government issued bonds to the tune
of 175,000,000 to carry this stock and
is being rather bard pressed finan
cially to keep that much money tied up
awaiting the sale of the surplus. If
the United States should Impose a duty
of 5 cents a pound on coffee, the Bra
zilian government would promptly ship
that stock to the American ware
houses, prior to the time when the
new tariff ahould become effective.
When the tariff schedule ahould go
into operation, Brazil would have in
the neighborhood of 1,500.000,000
pounds of coffee in this country free
of duty to be promptly advanced in
price by 5 cents a pound and placed
on the American market. The result
would be the pet profit of something
like $75,000,000 to the Brazilian gov
ernment out of the pockets of the
United Statea consumer. That ac
counts for the grounds In the coffee
tax plan.
Delegates from forty-two Kentucky
counties will hold a mass meeting to
consider plans for the redemption of
that feud-awept, night-riding, gun-toting
state. It Is hoped effective plans
may be adopted for restoration of
order and a respect for the law In a
state which bas had a reign of terror
for too many years.
If the first qualification for appoint
ment of republicans to the police
board vacancy is that they be Bryan
republicans Governor Shallenberger
will have considerable difficulty in fill
ing the placea of Commissioners Cow
ell and Kennedy with men of equal
standing in the community.
The proposition to have congress
meet March 4. immediately after the
Inauguration of the president. Instead
of the first Monday In December, over
a year after the election, Is being gen
erally approved. A congress fresh
from the ballot box will be more
keenly alive to public sentiment than
one that begins work Just about the
time It has forgotten the election.
It ia to be noted that our amiable
democratic contemporary, the World
Herald, Is singing quite a different
tune about County Commissioner
Bruning than It did when he was up
for re-election a year ago, and It un
dertook to tell Its readers why he
should be turned down.
That free trip to Washington as
messenger of the electoral college
seems to hsve been creating discord In
Mr. Bryan's political family. If Mr.
Bryan were truly grateful he would
send all his home state electors to
Washington at his expense to witness
the inauguration.
When Governor Sheldon's recom
mendation becomes law, requiring doc
tors' certificates of ability to produce
healthy children as conditions prece
dent to the issue of marriage licenses,
there will be no more May and Decem
ber weddings.
Governor Magoon has decreed that
members of the Cuban congress who
do not attend the sessions shall be de
prived of their pay. Still, there are
congressmen who render the country
their best service by "playing hookey."
All the democratic law-makers at
Lincoln insist upon their eagerness to
carry out all their platform pledges.
They reserve the right, however, to
decide for themselves by which plat
form they are to bo bound.
Secretary1 Root has succeeded in ad
justing the difference between our gov
ernment and Colombia. The country
may now rest easy, as there Is no im
mediate danger of being overrun by
Colombian hordes.
If we must elect nollce commission
ers, why not elect park commissioners,
public library directors, school teach
ers, policemen,' firemen and all the
rest of them? Let the people rule.
Those disappointed applicants for
judgeship appointments may still try
their luck at the autumn primary and
election with three places to draw to.
Let the people rule. ,
It will be noticed that the demo
cratic reformers are lending valuable
aid to the republican reactionaries in
the fight between congress and the
president.
flight Yen Are, Colonel.
Colonel Rust in Atlanta Constitution.
All' this talk about persimmon beer is rot,
anyway. If you want to get the real ac
companiment for 'possum and potatoes you
should wash them down with champagne.
Taetfnl Artist on the. Job.
Washington Post.
A petitioner from Bryan's state has
atarted'a campaign for the abolition of the
house of representatives. The senate can
be depended upon to do that painlessly and
tactfully at least once a session.
Neglected Notes.
. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The main keynote of Governor Hughes
In his message is the necessity of economy.
It ia a good time to remind nearly all
the state legislatures that they have been
careless on this subject in recent years.
Rivalry In Big; FlBhtlngT Ships.
Chicago Record-Herald.
The naval board of construction has pre
pared plans for three 36,000-ton battleships.
Ten years ago 12,000-ton battleships were
considered enormous. What nation will be
the first to launch the 60,000-ton floating
fortT
Men Consulate the State.
Ohio State Journal.
This thing of trusting to our constitution,
our form of government, our glory of the
republic, 'and all these forms of sentiment,
to establish liberty and promote Justice and
virtue is simply ridiculous. They are only
tba machinery for which Individual courage,
honor, sense of duty, and patriotic purpose
must furnish the motive power. What giv?s
the state any worth is men, "high-minded
men, who their duties know, and knowing,
dare maintain" them. The world has ad
vanced in the science of government, but In
the art of government, not a great deal;
but the public conscience la being aroused
to the shortcomings of the art.
DOW TO Bl SINKS MKT HODS.
Baals of the Sapremary of the Amer
ican Farmer.
Wall Street Journal.
Tills is the season of the year when, re
lieved of outdoor labors, the farmers of the
country are figuring over their accounts
and counting the costs of the products
which they have marketed or have yet to
market. The total return, most of which
is represented In sales to the general mar
ket, exceeds JB.OOO.OOO.UOO. and represents a
capitalization of probably tt5,OuO,O0O.OiH.
Although there Is much that Is Inefficient
in the use of capital and labor in American
farming, the industry lias in it the begin
ning of a great change. One respect in
which this is true is that of the farmer's
capacity to judge of the commercial value
of what farmers buy as well as of what
they grow. In fact the great gain which
American farming has made within the
past decade is that of a more perfect ad
justment to the market.
But not only arc our farmers better sell
ers and buyers than they formerly were.
They arti alao better equipped mentally
and scientifically for the puisuil of their
occupation. They know how to face adverse
conditions, the appearanee of pests or the
occurrence of drouths, and are learning the
methods of soil treatment Incident to cli
matic changes. They have moie fully
learned the secret of selecting fceetii, of
breeding plants and animals, and of dis
covering by experiment the kind of plant
and animal that does best under local con
ditions. These things all contribute to an assur
ance that American farming is definitely
Improving, and that the financial world
which relies on the provperlty of that
branch of enterprise need not be anxious
about the future of it in a country of such
enormous scope and unexhausted poxsibill
ties as the United Slates. In thus counting
the costs of production the American
farmer is putting hie business on a scien
tific bssis, and In due time the rest of the
world will besr still more favorably of liim
as this ssiein of management makes lis
a ay Intu our agriculiuiu
ARM! t.OSSIP I WASHINGTON.
I arrest treats I eased fraaa the
Army aval ay Register.
There are forty noncommissioned officers
of the army on duty as prison guards at
Koit Leavenworth and Alcatras Island
prisons. They receive 36 cents per day extra
duty pay. This year congress has been
asked to allow exita pay to privates of the
prison guard. This extra pay would go to
cooks, artificers, musicians and privates.
The privates aie required to perform duly
where the responsibility Is considered great
and they are haired from competing for
extra rav allowed for vcdiene i t.rs.t
I practice. The proposition has the approval
i of the commandant of both these nrlsnns
and an estimate has been made that It will
require lin.ooo to cover such expense.
The commissary; general of the army is
not yet ready to announce the list of those
candidates who have qualified for ultimate
appointment as post commissary sergesnt
In the army. The results of the examina
tions held at various posts In this country
and the Philippines were most gratifying.
Already, with the reports not all In, It is
shown thst twenty-seven of the candidates
made a general average of more han 90
per cent. It was Intended to appoint only
twenty-five to the eligible list from which
selections would be msde as vacancies oc
curred, but It Is barely possible that General
Sharpe will decide to Increase the list by
three or four names If there are not more
than that number who make more than fO
per cent. It Is desirable to keep tha list
within reasonable proportions, of course!
and with twenty-five names on the eligible
list 11 will require two years to exhaust the
qualified candidates.
The War department authorities are con
sidering the question of further contracts
for additional articles for the heavy fur
niture to be installed In the quarters of
officers at all army posts. There is avail
able for this purpose during the present
fiscal year the sum of 1300,000, and it will
not be known how far this fund will enable
the quartermaster general lo acquire the
furniture to complete the list of articles
until bids are opened. It Is proposed to
purchase bookcases, chests of drawers, par.
lor tables, hatracks and easy chairs. This
will complete the list, with the exception of
some unimportant artlcies.'such as curtain
poles and kitchen tables. The type of book
cases has been practically settled In favor
of a plain mahogany structure fitted with
leaded glass door. The chair will be a com
panion piece lo the furniture already chose.it
and will be of a size and style to fit it for
general use.
The War department Is receiving peti
tions from army officers in regard to the
bill (S. 2671) providing for 612 extra officers
of the army. It has been requested In
j these petitions that the bill be amended
so as to insert that the vacancies created
by It shall at all times bo apportioned to
each arm and corps and to each grade
thereto, us near as may be. In the exact
proportion that the numbers In these grades
bear to the numbers In the corresponding
grade of the several aims and corpe af
fected by the bill. The War department
authorities are not Inclined to approve peti
tions of this sort, largely for the reason
that it takes from the War department ad
ministrative discretion which It Is deemed
desirable should be entrusted to the de
partmental functions. The original prop
osition is to leave this matter to the de
partment with the assurance that every
thing will bo done with fairness lo the
various branches and grades.
An interesting and Important collection
has bpen made at West Point of some
seventy different models or different makes
of muskets, rifles and carbines, to partially
complete a series comprising all weapons
that have been used In the American mili
tary service. The collection now Includes
about 3o0 specimens and, as covering Amer
ican military arms. Is probably the most
complete In the United States. It Is of
great Interest and value to officers and
cadets as showing the history of our mili
tary weapon and evolution of the modern
imllltary rifle. The following articles of
the latest service types were issued by the
chief of ordnance to be displayed In the
museum when not In use In the section
rooms for purpose of instruction: Field
artillery plotting board, panoramic sight,
range quadrant, battery commander's tele
scope, battery commander's, ruler, drill
cartridge for 3-Inch field run, hand fuse
setter for 3-Inch, shrapnel; Weldon range
finder; shrapnel for 3-inch field gun, sec
tionaliied with sectlonaliied fuse In' po
sition; sectionalixed cartridge cases and
primers for 3-inoh, 3.8-inch, 4.7-inch, 6-Inch
field and siege guns; projectile and car
tridge cases for 6-pounder and 16-pounder
rapid fire guns, board showing various
stages of manufacture of small-arms car
tridges and bullets, small-arma barrels,
which had been fired 3.640 and 3.644 rounds,
respectively, sectlonalised to show the effect
of excessive erosion; small-arms bullets,
deformed by being fired from a badly
eroded barrel.
SENATORIAL COMBINE IN ACTION
uerinirn Instance of Smooth Work
for "the Interests."
Kansas City Star.
Here is an example of oligarchy rule, If
you need an example to show how the
oligarchy of the senate controls legisla
tion. One of the most important general prop
ositions before congress Is the enlarge
ment of the powers of the Interstate Com
merce commission so as to give that body
effective control over transportation facili
ties, lo the end that the shippers and the
public shall have a square deal at the hands
of the public service corporations doing
an interstate business.
Along this line It is urgently Important
that railroads should not be permitted to
change their rates without thirty days'
notice, except In Instances in whicli the
c.iinmlsslon authorizes briefer notice. A
bill to this effect was before the committee
on inlerstate commerce. The members of
this committee are Elkins, Aldrioh. For
aker. Cullom. Crane. Kesn. Tolliver, Fos
ter. Neniands. Taylor and Tillman.
Now anyone who is fairly familiar with
the sympathies, sfflliations. charartera and
records of thae men would know In ad
vance that such a bill would be reported
adversely by a smsll msjority, and he
would be able to pick out the members
who would vote for and against any propo
sition to control the corporations In the In
terests of the people. He would take It
for granted, for instance, thst the first
six would vote against such a measure.
Just as they did recently.
Now the senate committee on commit
tees, the body that makes the assignments
for all the olher committees, and which
has been under leaclionary control for a
long time, knows the members a good deal
better tlmn the ; verage spectstor of con
gressional proceedings. That committee
knew Just how to niae up the committee
on interstate commerce so that the cor
porations would not Le "unduly harassed''
by restrictive lams. See?
A Leader la Gaeresltr.
Minneapolis Journal.
More than 12 000.000 has been subscribed
In the I'nited Btstes for the relief of ths
prople of Italy. If other countries have
dune as well, the stricken nation will at
least reel that there Is world-wide hu
manity in liniej ot stress.
Safety
In Banking
i the essential feature desired by thf average depositor.
If a bank has a large capital and surplus account ;
If it confines its loans largely to business houses
handling large amounts of saleable merchandise;
If its bond investment account includes only those
of the very highest grade;
If this bank always keeps on hand an amount of cash
largely in excess of legal requirements;
And in all these matters uses the cumulative judg
ment of years of experience; this would seem to be a
good bank for YOU.
Investigate this bank along these lines.
FtfstNationalBankof Omaha
Thirteenth and Farnam Su.
F.ntranc t
Safety Deposit Taults
Is on 13ih street.
CONGRESS AND TUE PHBSII1K.NT
A New Crime.
New Tork Evening Post.
Now there Is a new crime lese congress.
Has the Iloaae a Better Plan f
New York Tribune.
Will the house be able to show that It
has a better plan In view for protecting
the government's Interest than the plan
so far followed Willi highly profitable re
sults? Thst is a point which really Inter
ests the public.
Uroteqae Attack.
Chicago News.
When Representative Tawney and a few
of his fellows Induced congress to limit the
activities of secret service men In ferret
ing out crime they did an Indefensible
thing. Thus they brought discredit upon
congress, upon the nation and particularly
upon themselves. For these men now to
talk of defending the honor of congress
from attack Is grotesque, in view of their
failure lo acknowledge their own wrong as
the first ttep toward restoring lost honor.
Bluster aad Flapdoodle.
Kansas City Times.
Representative Terklns of New York, ex
plaining the slap at President Roosevelt,
says: "It is dangerous that the people's
confidence should be Impaired in those who
enact the laws, and the duty devolves upon
the lawmakers not to allow the Integrity
of their motives to be lightly questioned."
It may be suggested to congress that the
way to inspire confidence Is to "come
clean." Bluster and flapdoodle won't do it.
Kilkenny Cats.
Brooklyn Eagle.
Meanwhile, the opinion of the president
as to the house, the opinion of the house as
to the president, the sentiment of the presi
dent toward Mr. Tillman, the sentiment of
Mr. Tillman toward the president, and the
fact that Senator Hale and the president
recognize one another only, officially unlto
to suggest that era of good feeling which
exists between wildcat tied by a common
string to the same stump, and so tightly
and so closely to one another that they
cannot get away.
PFIHSO.X A I, OTKs.
Claus Spreckels, the dead sugar king,
came to this country from Germany at 18
years of sge with la In his pocket.
The undertakers' war in Baltimore has
brought the price of funerals down to 117.
No general disposition appears to take un
usual advantage of these bargaln-counter
flgures.
Lawyer looking after the affairs of a
suspended firm In Chicago dragged down
fees amounting to t'.'.000. At this figure
only a really prosperous concern could af
ford to fail.
Mrs. Sarah B. Gilford recently served
as a Juror in Denver in the city court.
The case was that of a milkman accused
of striking a woman. Mrs. Gilford voted
with the male Jurors to acquit the man.
Tha New Tear thirst of New York City
wasn't so much, after all a beggarly
40,000 quarts of champagne, costing about
$2I,000, quite a falling off from former
records. Too many high wine appetites
with beer incomes.
The amount ot the sultan of Turkey's
private fortune has been made known by
the discovery of certain documents at the
Ylldiz Kiosk. Abdul Hamld's fortune, in
round figures, is $120,000,000, deposited in
the Bank of England.
One of the criminals turned looae by
tho Misrouri supreme court on the ground
of intcnlty blooms out as a lecturer. This
does not necessarily impeach the wis
dom ot the court, but constitutes a Jolt
for defenseless people.
A woman who died recently in Connecti
cut gained distinction In three ways. She
was 1 OS yeara of age, cheerfully re
sponded to the call of the alarm clock
every morning and Invariably had a pip
ing hot breakfast ready when hubby ap
peared. May her tribe Increase.
The Boston Ilerald.expresses its wonder
in several pages because the city's ss
sessment roll of personal property was
less In 1X than In 1S74. while realty
ascesnnents more than doubled in the
same time. Somebody will sell a gold
brick to ths Herald "if it don't watch
out."
The
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A pure, wholesome food.
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CORN PRODUCTS
REflNING COMPANY
New Yerk
II At UI.I.OR AMIIIEWS.
t'oinnllmente -y Words for rtetlrlna
j thief of ebrnak.n I'nlverslty.
i Boston Transcript.
IV. K. Renjamln Andrews, who on ho
lourit of Impaired health resigned the
chancellorship of the State I'nlverslty .f
Nebraska last October, started last week
with his wife t0 pass the winter In Florhl
and In the pprinK they will take a Kuropean
trip. According to a correspondent of the
Provklcnco Journal, his labors at the, Ne
braska institution have been brilliantly
successful. As his theories were not In
entire harmony with his environment iu
j eastern circles, he l, entitled to all the
creui ot ins achievement under different
and no doubt more sympathetic conditions.
His administration t the Nebraska uni
versity covered eight years, which nr.- '
pronounced the most notable In its history.
During that time the student body has
grown from 2,200 to 3,400 nnd t ho faculty
has Increase proportionately. The perma
nent Improvements, Including eight new
buildings, have Increased. In value $70o,Co,
and the legislative biennial appropriations
have been raised from half a million lo a
million dollars. When ho returns lie will
be chancellor emeritus. At the banquet
In his honor last Friday the keynote nf
the speeches was: "Preceding chancellors
j hut cleared the way for the coming of lin
king."
BKKK.V THIH.K.
Hykii Money Is a conundrum.
Pyker What's tho answer?
Hyker Kverybody has to give It up.
Chicago Nl'ws.
"If my memory," :,lowlv answerrd (lie re
luctant witness, "serves nie rightly"
"One moment," interrupted the cross
examining lawyer; "phase remember, Mr.
rllrk. that your meii.ory Is under oath."
Chicago Tribune.
"Tl ey toll me, Grimey, that your dauc'i- J
ter sings with great expression. ' J
"Greatest expression you ever saw Her
own mother can't rrccgi.lze her face whc.i
she's tinning." Home Herald.
"Hrw- cold does It get In Alaska?"
"No way nf tellin'," sihl thu returned
prrspctor. "Mercury freezes."
"Hilt you have spirit thermometers."
"No good. The natives drink the spirit
out of them. Philadelphia Ledger,
"I should regret very much to hear that
arjbody has ,-ver offered money for politi
cal Influence."
"Yes." answered Mr. Graft well "yr.ur
hearing of It would indicate very eruri
work on somebody's part. " nshinglo i
-tar.
Vacating Renter Before you sign the
lepse for these apartments I think I might
to tell you that there's a girl on the I lour
above who plays the piano frem inorniiK
till night.
Incoming Tenant That's all right. I
know her. lesold her the piano, and !. -fore
mv year is up 1 hope to be able lo
work off e piano on every floor In th
building. Chicago Tribune.
The Jury had brought In a vordlct of not
guilty.
"Now that you have done your offhiil
duty." remarked a friend to one of th
Jurymen. "I'd like to know what you think
about the case."
"Reallv. we got no Information alxmt II."
replied the Juryman. ' lKm't you kmw
are locked up without any newspupers?"--Philadelpliia
ledger.
Baltimore American.
"Ha! ha!" cried the House, "we have gn
our revenge.
Too long havo we been on the bias;
We have told the Big Chief who swats Willi
the big stick
To go to the Club Ananias.
We have proven likewise, to do strenuous
tilings,
We also are willing and able;
Wo have taken his messages with proud
resolve.
And laid them right down on tho table."
"Wow! wow!" cried the Senate, "we're out,
too, for gore.
We won't stand reply terse and tarty;
We deny It Is none of our businees to ask
What qtiestlone we like, Bonapart e.
The pitchfork is sharpened. Its bearer, h'
doubt.
Not gently calm as a. church verger;
But before he gels Into the ring we Insist
On knowing about that steel merger."
"Kl, yi!" cried the House and the Senate
as one,
"We're full of tho longing for battle!
Let us shout our "defl" in such truculent
Everypane In the White House will
rattle.
Let us charge on the foe, nor recoil from
the shock c
Of finding, perhaps, 'tis his inning;
But let us keep or. till we've laid him down
low,
Stark, staring and stiff, but still grin
ning!" Purity
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