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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, JANUARY 15 1000. ,' I The Omaha Daily Beet J'OUNDED Bl EDWARD ROSEWATER. - VICTOR HOSEWATER, EDITOR. Entered at Omaha postnfflee es seeond-t-lass matter. TERMS or.BLJBSCRlFTION. Dully Bee (without Sunday), on year. .$4 AO Daily Bee and Sunday, on ytar 600 DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Pally Bee (Including Sunday), per week..1Sc Dally Bee (without Sunday), per week..l0c! Everting Bee (wlthoat BHinday). per week e Evening Bee (with Sunday), per week .10c Sunday Bee, on year .WW Saturday Bee, one year Address all complaints of Irregularities In delivery to City Circulation department. OFFICES. OmahaThe Bee Rulldlng. South Omaha Twenty-fourth and N. Council Bluffs IS Scott reeL Llncoln-618 LItUe Building. Chicago 164 Marquette Building. New York Rooms 1101-1102 No. 81 West Thirty-third Street. Washington 725 Fourteenth Street, N. w. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi torial matter should he addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remtt' by draft, express or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only Z-cent stamps received in payment or mail account. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Ptate of Nebraska, Douglas County, as.: Oeorge B. Tzsc-hiick. treasurer of The Bee Publishing company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and com pete copies of The Dally, Morning. Even ing and Sunday Bee printed during the month of December, 1908. was as follows: I.... 37,780 17.......a770 3710 18. ...... ....36,800 3. 4. ft. . 7. 37,370 37,090 37,630 37,380 ........37,640 19. ......... .,36,790 20. ...... .,..37,880 21. ...... -...36,860 "2. 37,010 2J .37,080 24.... ,37,000 25. ......... .38,450 I!....... .. 36,930 27 37,180 28 38,630 29...... 40,730 30 ...4a, 9O0 31 4380 8. ....... ...37,040 9 36,610 10. ...... ....36,760 11...... 43,660 1 J . '. .... . .36,660 13..... 37,100 14. ......... .36,710 15 ....37,460 1 ....37,170 Total 1,171.470 Less unsold and returned copies.. 9,248 Net total .....1,163,835 Dally average , .. 37,491 i ' A " ; GEORGE B. TZSCHdCK, Treasurer. RubeVrtned' Ift'roy presence and sworn to before lr this list day of December, 1908. , . . ROBERT HUNTER. " - Notay Public. f . 1 I - WHEN OVfjOV TOWN. Saoserlbers leaving the elty tern. er.rlly 4hoal4 hay The Bee mailed, to them. Address -will bey rhangrd often as requested. . Senator Piatt's next divorce will bo from the United States senate. Omaha's1 Celebration of the Lincoln centenary should be fitting to the oc casion. :"' . - r i 1 ,"; Anyway, the editor of the Congres sional Record has refrained from isau ' lng war extras. ', It's the scratched United States sen- ator who cpmplplns loudest auout his injured dlgWUVt ' V ' , ' , , ,,. . ,. , " "He's got lots to learn about golf," .savs Mr. Taft's caddie. No man is a herd to his caddie. It is said that Majorle Gould's com . Ins-out d innermost 1 100 a plate. 'They must have served eggs. The nJne-foot-bed-Bbeet bill may ex. cite. irlsjbllitleia but the clean-towel e very-day postscript is no Joke. A ' Fustian scientist asserts that wood is a valuable food. The break fast food manufacturers beat him to it That's what Tom Taggart gets for trading oft his old associates, and climbing into the Bryan band wagon. a,n,.tni Tlirman Inatata-that hn will wvruw. ... - - - - - - -- denc&ooo i President Roosevelt bo me" more Just as soon as he gets through defending Tillman. "Does the democratic Darty want the initiative and referendum?" aakB a Bryan organ. It certainly needs a little more initiative. As another sure sign of an early spring Thomas A. Edison announces that he has Just about completed his perfect storage battery. ' Base ,bll- managers are already ar ranging their , southern training trips whiCh beats the first robin all hollow M jg. ..harbinger., ol spring. . Milwaukee's street cars are to be Identified by differently colored lights. They will have to keep moving If they atvwnt to be mistaken for drug stores. If Dr. Wiley insists upon manufac turers placing truth-telling labels on the cans, what will the Maine folks do with their output of Imported sar dines? .'.. I Jackson's day was not celebrated at New Orleans this year. The Louis. Una democrats have not forgotten St Jackson, but they are trying to forget St. Bryan. V Tee .efort to Invoke the child labor law.veo, be sages at the state house is Jure, ,tq fall. The duties of the page! W not come under the designs tioq, fcf labor.'' A' Boston horticulturist has crossed a cucumber and an orange. Presuma bly It Pastes; like a denatured grape fruit and will be bandy for making cheese lemonade. The gnthor'.of "How to Be Happy Though. Married" has been sent to the work-house nKew York for beating hlgtwtfe, Perhaps his wife Is now ; happy,, though married. ; v S r' - - It looks as if another hanging were ihettl4lffo take place before long at the Nebraska 'penitentiary. If the eubjecVdoes not' die first or the gov-, vnbr' dovs not pardon him. aovEnyofts ix the tiMEUnnr. Four states have Just inaugurated four new governors who are scheduled to command an unusual share of pub lic attention during their terms of office. The governors are Stubbs of Kansas, .Jladley of Missouri, Harmon of Ohio and Marshall of Indiana. The first two are republicans and the last two are democrats. Governors Marshall- and Harmon have been elected in states which gave the republican ticket majorities in the national election. In Governor Mar shall's case, bis party controls the leg islature and the state offices. In Ohio the republicans control the legislature and most of the state offices. Gov ernor Hadley of Missouri will have to do his work with a democratic legisla ture, Just as his predecessor, Governor Folk, had to work with a republican legislature. In both Indiana and Ohio the liquor question is one of the most prominent subjects demanding legisla tion and perhaps, on that account, neither Governor Marshall nor Gov ernor Harmon will be able to do much service that will contribute to partisan advantage on national issues. More bearing on national politics may be expected from the administra tion of Governor Hadley of Missouri. As attorney general, Mr. Hadley handled in a masterful manner the fight of the state against the Standard Oil and the railroad combine and he goes into the executive chair as the first republican governor Missouri has had since reconstruction days. He is pledged to a clearly defined policy of reform in the state election laws, In police control and the impartial per formance of official duties. He has de clared his firm purpose to enforce the law against great commercial or in dustrial offenders as rigorously as against the least powerful of culprits. Upon the success of Governor Had ley's administration largely depends the political future of Missouri, whether the ''Mysterious Stranger" will become a fixture in the republican camp or only a visitor on occasions when the bourbon bill of fare is not to his taste. The message of Governor Stubbs to the Kansas legislature Is the best key to the character of the man and an index to his plans and purposes. It Is remarkably brief, devoid entirely of the rounded periods and pleasing platitudes. It is a crisp, business letter affair,' notifying the legislature that he expects it to get busy at once on a law for a public utilities com mission that will mean something, a good roads law and a practical, Com prehensive plan of legislation dealing with corporations and trusts. ;The adoption of his plan will mark the final divorce between Kansas and' the populism which was once rampant In the -state. I ' i ir V -j' PLAIN AND VN TECHNICAL."' The "plain and untechnlcal" stated ment of the law and the facts put out to Justify the democratic attack-on the supreme court certainly makes every thing as clear as mud. ' : ' " '' The ''untechnlcal" position' of the democrats hangs on the technical point that the authority of the state board to- canvass the vote on constitutional amendments is derived from a law passed by the demo-pop legislature of 1897, amending another law enacted In 1895. repealing a law of 1877- on which enactment of 1895 the repealing clause was added while the bill was In transit through the legislature. The demo-pops of 1909 are, therefore, try ing to convict the demo-pops of 1897 of going to the trouble of amending and repealing an unconstitutional law in a state of Ignorance from which they have only now been awakened. This very "plain and untechnlcal'? statement of the law and the facts must be all convincing. It proves conclusively that the democratic , at tack on thesupreme court, is an after thought of disappointed office seekers. It proves conclusively that the whole tempest In a teapot has been stirred up on the slenderest thread of a tech nicality and Just the kind of a tech nicality that has done so much to dis credit the legal profession in popular estimation and to make ordinary peo ple believe' that the practice of law is nothing but an exercise at. hair splitting. THE HOOSIER STATESMAX. The selection of Ben F. Shlvely for United: States senator -by the-'demo-cratlc majority of the Indiana legisla ture will doubtless come as a surprise, ff not a shock, to the Bryan democrats of the country who have been "Jed to believe that the toga was to , go to John Worth Kern as a consolation prize for" his defeat as Mr. Bryan's running mate in the late election. All of the pins had been set, ap parently, for the selection of Mr,. Kern Even before the close of the ..presi dential campaign, when Indications were pronounced that Indiana, would elect a democratic state' 'administra tion, political wiseacres everywhere agreed, that if the democratic, national ticket proved unsuccessful, the logical and proper reward for Mr, Kern, the vice presidential candidate, would be bis elevation to the. United States sen ate. It is known that this -proposition was pleasing to . Mi Bryan, , who is credited with having used "his influ ence to Induce Tom Taggart to with draw in favor of Kern. It was argued that Mr. Kern had Ifd 'hit party in several forlorn hope flgtni for gov ernor and was really entitled to any prise that might come irons a state victory. Same of the leading' demo crats, h6wever, refused to accept this proposition and the campaign for Mr Shlvely has been very, active. , All the candidates entered the caucus full of hope, ,but the balloting, afcowed that ibe Kern strength waned from the first and his defeat was accomplished on the twentieth ballot. The new senator from Indiana is a democrst of. the old school. He re ceived his political education under Voorhers and McDonald and 'lemo cratlc leaders of that type and, although he supoorted Mr. Bryan In 1896 and 1900, he has never been over-enthusiastic as & follower. He served four terms in congress, was the democratic nominee for governor la 1898 and re ceived the democratlo votes In the leg islature for United States senator In 1903 and 1905. His attitude toward the future of his party councils re mains to be determined, but it Is rea sonably certain that he will be found, so far as Indiana Is concerned, aligned with Governor Marshall and a faction of democrats who hsve little sympa thy with the Bryan-Taggert-Kern, brand for some years in control of the party organization In Hooslerdom. DRAINAGE or SWAMPLANDS. An effort Is being made to take ad vantage of the sentiment developed throughout the country in favor of conservation of national resources snd the Improvements of Inland water ways to Induce congress to make large appropriations for the drainage of swamp lands in different sections of the country. Bills providing appro priations for such purposes have been introduced, covering sections of Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois and sev eral southern Btates, and much, pres sure Is being brought to secure a fa vorable report on these measures by the committee on rivers and harbors. The advocates of these plans are furnishing some very attractive fig ures to show the material wealth to be added to the nation by the drainage of the swamp lands. One statistician as serts that 100,000,000 acres of swamp lands In the United States can be drained at an average cost of $10 an acre; that if drained they will become so productive as to yield a net income of $5 per acre, or BO per cent on the cost. By this table, the government by Investing $1,000,000,000 In drain age work can be assured of an income of $500,000,000 a year, thus making a tremendous addition to the national wealth. Alluring as theBe figures may be, there Is one fatal objection to the proposition. The swamp lands are generally local and, almost without ex ception, located In the confines of one state. The draining of a big: swanm would, as a rule, confer benefits only on the locality. A state that can add $100,000 to its tax totals by drain ing 5,000 acres of swamp lands should do the work of its own Initiative, with out calling upon the federal govern ment for aid. The swamp land prop osition should be dealt with by local agencies rather than by the federal government. - River Improvement Is a national proposition and a work that can not be well or Intelligently per formed by Independent action of the states bordering upon a river, but this condition does not apply to swamp land redemption. The agitation in favor of govern ment aid in swamp land drainage is only an illustration of the tendency to ask the government to do something for the states that they should do for themselves. OFFHMAL SALARIES. The demand for increased salaries for state and local officials as evi denced by the numerous salary-raising measures proposed in the legislature seems to have become epidemic There is no question but that the range of official salaries Jn Nebraska has here tofore been rather below than above the average and that with the .increase in population and wealth our people can afford to pay their public servants more commensurate with the services rendered. The salary-raising bills, however, for the most part undertake to fix the salaries at what the present incum bents of these places think they are worth rather than what the same grade of talent and work would com mand from private . employers. It should be remembered that every dol lar paid out in compensation to public officials comes out of the pockets of the taxpayers, no matter whether the office pretends to be self-supporting from its fees or other emoluments or not. The taxpayers of Nebraska, want to do the right thing, but at the same time they do not want to pay fancy salaries for the common run of public service. The lawyers who accept Governor SballenbergerB appointments to con test for the places of the supreme Judges appointed by Governor Sheldon will have a great stand-in with the supreme court. Of course, they will. Four of the present Judges are sure to constitute a majority of the court for at least three years. If Governor Shallenberger does no better in distributing the empty honors of thoso judgeship appointments than he haa so far with bis other appoint ments the democrats who had been led to believe that the move on the su preme court amendment would be a great stroke of political strategy are likely to be sadly disappointed. The new commissioner of street cleaning in New York' City, William II. Edwards, haa created a sensation by declining to use $130,000 asked for by his predecessor for new equipment. He declares that the money is not needed. Mr. Edwards will be lucky if other officials do not get, him before the lunacy commission. George Ada writes that he is very much pleased with Berlin. This will be the best kind of news to the kaiser and all Germany. Just think whit a setback It would have been for the German empire had Ade decided that he did not like Berlin. Murders hate become so common In France recently that there Is a demand to have the guillotine oiled up and started in operation. The record shows that a murderer who has busi ness with toe guillotine Is cured of the killing habit. . The city engineer indignantly denies e allegation that he has charge of street cleaning. Nobody wants be held responsible for the kind street cleaning Omaha has endured der the present democratic city ad ministration. Governor Stuart of Pennsylranla has asked the legislature to pass a law prohibiting the use of state funds lthout a specific appropriation. The united order of grafters will look unon this as direct class legislation aimed t their privileges. The Council Bluffs water works have Just been thrown into a receiv ership. Omaha Is still trying to avoid buying its water works, whose imme diate and compulsory purchase was decreed by law nearly six years ago. Servia and Montenegro have served notice that they do not want to fight. The Servians and Montenegrins have wholesome respect, or fear, for the Austrian army, which has Just been given a new rating In the Balkans. Senator Depew protests because he has not been consulted by President Roosevelt about federal appointments in New Yorki The senator likes to give his advice, even when he knows it will not be followed. The killing of a police officer and the wounding: of another hv 11 n nrmorl outlaw suggests that the Nebraska legislature now In session do tho hurry-up act and pass in one of those nti-pietoi toting bills. . It is to be noted that running for vice president did not land Mr. Kern In the United States senato. It is therefore, unnecessary to answer that hypothetical question. Junk! Chicago Record-Herald. Put the pitchfork on the scraD hean with the fire alarm gong. Prematare la flat Ion. Minneapolis Journal. fThe United Btates Is takina- on f governors these , days who trv tn mu. themselves, believe they are presidential sua. They will know more about it when tney have governed a while. : Owtolaaaed. Washington Herald. Poor Emperor William! They don't even want him to boas. his army any more. We suppose it woe hi. cost him his crown , to order his officers, to Indulge themselves in anything like a ninety-mile horseback test I Leaders ja Work of Rescue. Chicago Inter-Ocean. As the stories of eyewitnesses of the earthquake horrors bealn to come in. w note that everywhere Americans were lead ers m tne work or rescue, whether men or women, displaying the same individual in itiative that makes the American soldier the best In the world. No Cans for Worry. Boston Transcript. . The rebuke to the president was adminis tered on "Jackson day," and it Is recalled that President Jackson once received simi lar treatment from the senate; but If Roosevelt should continue to be voted for as long sfter his death as Jackson has been he need not worry over the coinci dence. "Pcopletslngr Corporatloms." Springfield Republican. Judge Peter a Qrosscup of the United State circuit court at Chicago, one of the three judges responsible for what Presi dent Roosevelt called a "gross miscarriage of justice, " in the Standard Oil case, is willing to credit the president with being "at the head of an outburst of publio opin ion that haa brought the ills of corpora tion life to the attention of the country." He urges the appointment of a national commission to evolve a refored corporation policy, Whose central featurs, in his opin ion, should be the national incorporation of Interstate business and national regular tlon to the end of making corporate secur ities safe and Inviting for the investment of small means. Bo, and only so. he thinks, may the corporation be "peopleized" and made popular. BAXK DEPOSIT GUARANTY. Trrlnsr the Oklahoma Idea on Ne braska. Chicago Record-Herald. Nebraska haa a heavily democratic leg islature and a democratic governor, both strongly pledged In favor of the guaranty under state supervision of all deposits In sfwt banks. That a law upon these lines will be enacted at the present session of the legislature is regarded aa a certainty. If Governor Shallenberger's message to the legislature forecasts rightly the law that will be enacted, there is little danger that under the act those alarming and disastrous conditions will arise which have been so freely predicted by opponents of such legislation. ' Two features are prominent. One, that bank capitalisation is to be so fixed that small wild-cat bsnks will be kept out of existence, the governor's suggestion being that the lowest capitalisation permitted in .the smallest village be $16,000. The other is that the rate of interest which banks pay to depositors should be limited and that thereby the main Inducement which a reckless banker could hold out to attract business would become impossible to blm. Along with these provisions are others re quiting experienced bankers on the bank ing board and la executive office, giving this board power, to exercUe a rigid cen sorships of charters issued, and requiring more frequent and much more rigid ex aminations of banks. The governor states that In eight years past a one-thirtieth of 1 per cent tax on deposits would have protected all deposi tors. Ha asks, however, for a fund amounting to 1 per cent of deposits to be raised In four Installments during the next two years, and Sfter that a tax of one tenth of 1 per cent pr.r annum, with the power in the board to make a special as sessment up to J aer cent it needed. He would have it made possible for national banks to avail themselves of the benefits the law a tb0 National law ever per mit iU BITS OP WAHIMiTO LITE. Minor treaea tail Inrldewta keced on the Spot. The distinctive feature of Speaker Can non's physiognomy, whloh cartoonists have made familiar to mankind, haa developed traita of the firebug, and menaces Inflam mable Junk In hla vicinity. The speaker's cigars are one of the sights of the na tional capital and are highly esteemed by the owner and those of his associates who seek atmosphere in a smoke house. As curiosities they are highly prlted. though not envied as smoke producers. But they have the rich, pungent vigor thst suits and tickles the palate of Vncle Joe, and that's commendation enough. The other day the epeaker tilted back his chair, put up hi feet st an altitude of fenders, stuck the favorite long black cigar at the usual rakish angle and started In for solid comfort. So free and soothing was the breath of Prince Nicotine that the speaker forgot the biasing match and let it fall in a waste basket. The comfortable smoke failed to materialize, for Serretary Bue-twy. with a loud cry of "fire," pounced on the biasing mass and upset the speaker's chair. He extinguished the flames with his naked hands, but "I'ncla Joe" let his cigar go out. When the excitement was over and Mr. Pun bey was having hta haiwrs dressed, the speaker relighted his cigar and care fully deposited the match on a metal ash tray. Hereater a relay of fireguards will be placed around Uncle Joe's smoke house. In the annals of either house of con gress, says the Washington Herald, there Is no more pitiable case at least than that of Senator Henry Clay Hansbrough of North Dakota. Last spring during the latter weeks of the session he waa for some time a patient in a local hospital, an acute sufferer from mastoiditis of the Inner ear. He recovered sufficiently to be brought Into the senate or as far as the door to vote on the financial bill, and some time after he returned to his home. About this time his mother die, and-ehortly after that Mrs. Hansbrough became permanently afflicted with a mental disease. Later all his little accumulation of property waa swept away through no fault of his own. and at the fall primaries of his state he was disastrously defeated In his attempt to succeed himself In the senate. This would senm to be enough, but the worst wss yet to conic He was in very poor health when he started from home to come here just previous to the convening of con gress early In December, and crew worse so rspldly that he was compelled to stop off at Minneapolis. Here he entered a hos pital and submitted to another operation for the old trouble in his head, after which he wa. at the point of death for a fort night He Is now said to be out of Imme diate danger, but as his term closes In March, it is probable that his public ca reer Is closed, ewt if he regains some measure of health. He was elected to the senato January 23, 1801, and has served con tinuously since. He Is now chairman of the senate committee on agriculture, suc ceeding Senator Proctor, and Is also a mem ber of other Important committees. Both In committee work and personally his loss will be seriously felt. The expenses attached to the White House have enormously increased during the last twenty years and perhaps the greatest increase haa been witnessed dur ing the Roosevelt administration. By this Is meant the expenses that congress pays. The appropriations for the executive man sionas the home of the president la still officially designated In congress, although Mr. Rossevelt changed the official name by order to "White House" have jumped from $19,000 In 1885 to $63,000 In 1909, exclus ive of an appropriation of $25,000 for trav eling expenses. The total expenses of the president's home and other expenses amount this year to $78,000 as compared with $19,000 In 18. This Is in addition to the $50,000 salary. Prior to 1873 the salary of the president was $25,000 a year. It was lncreaaed In that year. Andrew Johnson retired from the presidency with a comfortable estate, and there was never a suspicion that he made a dollar except legitimately. He saved from his salary, which was only half of what William H. Taft will receive. Practically every expense, except his board bill' and tailor Is borne by the gov ernment. For ordinary care, repair and furnishing at the White House and for the "purchase, maintainance and driving of horses and vehicles for official purposes," the sum of $3,500 was appropriated for the current fiscal year. This estimate is made for 1910. and in addition an estimate is made of $15,000 for Interior decorations, etc., which will be enjoyed by the Tafts. The government heats the White House at an annual cost of $6,000. - It provides greenhouses at a cost of $9,000 a year, in addition to annual repairs and improve ments amounting frequently to $3,000 or $4,000 additional. It pays $,000 for the traveling expenses of the president, his family and any persons he may choose to take with him when he travels about the country. It pays for the lighting of the White House and grounds at an annual coat of about $31,000. a part of this money being taken from the revenues of the Dis trict of Columbia. The government pays the salaries of the president's secretaries, all the clerks and White House officials. It pays the expenses of most of the house hold servants. The president of the United States oc cupies the White House practically as the guest of the nation. But not entirely so. He must pay from his own purse for his clothing, and for that of his family, and he must meet the weekly market bill, which in the case of a president with even a moderately large family Is a considerable item. But to offset this the president, as comander-ln-chlef of the army, is entitled to purchase a large portion of the provi sions consumed from the army commis sary department, and Is able to buy largely of what he requires for his table at cost price. A man 011 his first visit to Washington, a few days ago, boarded a trolley car In Pennsylvania avenue and asked the con ductor if he was going toward the White House. "What house?" asked the con ductor. "The White House the president's home." "Don't know I've only been on two days; ask him," pointing at his as sociate conductor in the trailer car. He also healtated before answering, but fin ally remembfred, Just as the csr neared the foot of Capitol Hill, that the White House was In the other direction. Having gone so far the stranger made the rest of the journey to the top of the hill, slipped off the car Into tho snow and asked a workman on the grounds to direct him to the library, and following the direction, would have gone to an unfinished build ing had another visitor not saved him. He wrote to his home In Loudon that ev ening: "There are beautiful places in Washington, but do not ask a realdent to tell you where they are, they do not know." hiaalScaare ( Hllenre, Boston Herald. Gentlemen who have reason to know that they have been aelected for cabinet port folio! are requested not to talk. It will thus be easy to distinguish between merely ambitious statesmen and these whose ambi tion is to receive substantial assurances of appreciation. The former will do all. the I talking benueforlh. THE CE OP TII.LMAX. Chicago Nws: Senator Tillman Is right In saying? that there are worse persona than he. Still, a senator Might to set the rest of us a good example, not an example of the other kind. Chicago Record-Herald: A good tnany people are bothered by tho painful con viction that there are other senators who would. If the president got after them, he even more feeble In defending themselves than Tillman was In clearing his record. Kansas City Times: Senator Tillman Is still denouncing President Roosevelt be cause, several years ago, he had Mrs. Minor Morris ejected from the White House. The president lias letters from Mrs. Morris' two grown sons saying the presi dent did right and expressing the hope that she will not bother htm any more. "And there you are." Take your choice. Springfield Republican: The American people. It Is probable, will not Judge Mr. Tillman In thla matter nearly so harshly as his enemy, Mr. Roosevelt, desires, yet they will doubtless feel thst he has been guilty of an Indiscretion that was Incon sistent with the highest standard of Ira in latlve conduct. But, having judged Mr. Tillman, they will yet turn toward the White House and ask if Mr. lUntman is entitled to those lands. Washington Herald: Unhappily for the senator's defense, he has set up a standard of official and publio morality to which assent cannot be given. Ho falls "to see any sense or reason" In the position that It Is "unlawful, Immoral or Improper for a senator to buy any land or to act fix this chamber on any question affecting his per sonal Interests." But It Is a fundamental proposition of publio morals that no gov ernment officer should act In matter af fecting his personal Interest. Senator Till man's Inability to see any sense In a princi ple) of action so well established Is a dan gertus ndmlKslon one that conies near de molishing tho whole fabric of his attempted vindication. TANHPATTKHS I, 1IKUI GLEE. Slgnlflranre of the "Demonstrations" in Both House of Congress. , Kansas City Times. It is not Ht all Improbable that the ag gressive resentment of certain members of the senato and house at this time is In tended as much for President-elect Taft as for President Roosevelt. Superficially, of course, It would seem that thcRe member, most of whom are closely allied with and representative of the special interests, and from whom Mr. Roosevelt, by ap pealing to public sentiment, has forced sub stantial concessions in his administration, are determined only to "get even" with the masterly statesman who has held them In check for nearly eight years. But there may be another motive. President Taft will come Into office ss successor of President Roosevelt not only aa an official, but as a party leader and as the exponent of certain great policies. He was nominated and elected on the rec ord of the Roosevelt Administration, which he espoused, and he stands pledged to con tinue the Roosevelt policies. Ho will con duct his administration according to his own methods, of course, but those methods will necessarily aim at substantially the same results for which the incumbent pres ident has striven. Perhaps the men who are making It hot for Mr. Rooeevelt in the laat days of his administration hope to Intimidate Mr.. Taft. If thla be the pur pose these men have not taken Mr. Taft's measure. Mr. Taft will have his own way of urging his policies and pressing them Into publio notice, but he will not lack courage. Ho has shown more than once that he is even beyond the reach of those who urge political expedience when such urging has conflicted with his personal convictions ot right and wrong. In the meantime the president Is accept ing the censuring of the house and the criticism of the senate with remarkable complacency the complacency of a states man who knows that his cause Is right and who is well satisfied with the publicity that those who are fighting him have given that cauae. .By tabling that part of the president's message relating to the secret service congress has imposed upon Itself tho Imperative obligation to take up espe cially this very subject. For the country will now find out for itself, by reading all that bears on this matter, Just how serious a mistake was made when the secret serv ice waa restricted. I lacing the Responsibility. Springfield Republican. A law Is to be urged in Colorado making parents responsible for the misconduct of their children. It Is not a new principle, for it goes back to ancient tribal customs. But It implies a degree ot parental au thority which is not the fashion nowadays. Tho home has turned the teaching of con duct over to the schools, and the schools find the burden too much for them. But has there ever been an age In which un ruly children did not offer a serious prob lem? kViUfii mm Emm wmm fV U UnjHU Ml'. Proven the Best for nurse: and MOUSEI 1 i " ? I?: ' eUUf JUprsssaUUvei W. T. JOmxSOsT. 611 eat 13U Bfc, Owafca, SfsB. PERSONAL .NOTES. Italian deputies who voted against rellof for the earthquake sufferers were lurkv not to have their courw resented hy any thing more material than howls of disap proval. Our secret Mri of stato, It haa henrv dis covered, have generally had names of a single syllable, es Pay, Root. llav. Smith. Cnss, Clay, Black, Fish, Plnlno ant now Knox. Mr. Thompson, Canadian member r Parliament for Yukon, declares that within five years the Klondike gold output win reach $:0,000.M0 a year as the result of the operations of the big dredging companies. The oldest nun In the world has Just died at the Cistercian convent of Snrneti. near Luzerne. She was known as Mother An drew, and was born on December H, Wi. Sho made her profession on June Jo, isn;, and from that time had charge of the estlary of the convent until 1807 about sixty years. Dr. William 8. Blgelow, who Is responsi ble for the cutting of the new United States gold coins In Intaglio instead of ln relief, a new departure In coinage. Is nelthr-r a scilptor nor a numismatist, hut tho author of the recent book on "Buddhism and Im mortality." He lias given yrars of study to the literature of the far east. Recently enrolled among the freshmen at the University of Pennsylvania Is a Bpan isli nobleman, the Marquis Carlos do Po testnd, a youth of 18. who speaks English like a native of Kngland, having attended school In that country for several years, and lias already received his A. B. degree there. Ills family Is one of the noblest ot Spain, nnd his father occupies a high gov ernment positU n. Ml 1.1 Mi LINKS. "It's astonishing how very thin that girl In the shenth gown Is!" "I don't think It's Hstonlshlng. Her nam Is Post ami her niolher was a IVle." Cleveland Plain Ioalcr. "What's the matter with those men'. Tin y used to belong to the. same political 1 lull, snd now they don't speak. What wiih tho cause of their quarrel?" "They went to a harmony dinner." Bal timore American. Rlrn Is your partner es forgetful as he used to lie? Hriggs More so. Would you belleva II, that man has actually to look up his ad dress In the directory evenings before he can go home. Boston Transcript. Lady I've been rxpectlng a packet of medicine by post for a week, and 1 huven't received it vet. 1". O. Clerk Yea. madam. Kindly fill In this form and mate the nature of your complaint. Lady Well. If you must know, lt'a biliousness! Puck. "Why do you want to own all the rail ways in the country? Are you so com pletely lt love with money?" "No," answered Mr. Dustin Stax. "I don't care for the monoy. I want to bo the only man who can always make a re quest for a free pass go through." Wash ington iitar. "What dooa the mob around the capital rrean?" "Those are all candidates for the secret service. They want jobs. The bill comes up today that gives each congreasman an allowance of three secret service men and a trained bloodhound." Houston Post. "So he haa ceased to be her Ideal?" "He has." "What disgraceful thing did he do?" "Married another girl." Louisville tfVnir-ier-Journal. "Human nature Is the same the world over." said the philosopher. "When a man discovers that the law interferes with his personal Interests, he wants It abolished." "Yes," answered Senator Sorghum, "I'm looking for some of these aviators to com up with a proposal to repeal the laws of gravitation." Washington Star, "There is one thing paradoxical about a doctor." "What Is that?" "He is one of the few men who -nn be excused for being most angry and Irritable when he realises that he must have pa tients." Baltimore American. I HEKll 1 1' I .When it's cold, It's good for icn When it's hot. It's good for corn-, What we get la alwaya nice. Just as (Hire as you arc born. There's no need of feeling blue. Happiness is In the air; You will find thst this Is true. If you search for It with care. Something good Is in the hand; . Something good Is In the bush; Something good Juat where you stand; Something good where'er you push. Very" often we ere blind: Do not seo the use of things: What looks cruel may bo kind: Burdens great may turn to wings. Grapes are crushed to get the wine; Wheat Is ground 1o get the flour; Melting metal makes it fine; Heating water genders power. So just wipe that tear away; Stop that sighing, sing a song; Night is good as well as day What God does cannot be wrong. When It's cold. It's good for Ice; When It's hot, It's good for corn; What we get is always nice Beat the drum and blow he horn! -GEORGE W, .CROFT. West Point, Neb. 1 1 ur titl!5c.f ' " f-.-'R ' '-T. ;t-Tm. Oil