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TTTE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 27. 1900. The Omaha Daily Bel rOCKDED BT EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSE WATER, EDITOR. i ' Entered at )mtlii poatoffie mm second rlss malUr. TERMS Or SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Be (without: Sunday). on yar..M0 Dally Bee and Sunday, an -year .00 DELIVEREb. ST, CARRIER. Dally Be (Including Sunday), per week. .lie lally Bee (without Sunday). per wek..lOc Evening Bee (without Sunday). pr tk e Evening Hr (with Sunday). per week.. 10c Sunday Bh, one year J-J Saturday. Bee, one year Address all complaints ot Irregular! tie In delivery to City Circulation department. ' " OFFICE8. Omaha Th. Boa Bunomg. 1 South Omaha Tweiity-rourth and N. . Council lilutfe It Soott Street. Lincoln 61 Little Building. Chicago IMS Marquette Building. New York-Rooms 1101-110 No. U Wast Thirty-third Street. Washington 72 Fourteenth Street. N. W. . CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi torial matter should ba addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by raft, express or postal Order payable to The Be Publishing Company. OnW 1-cent stampal received in payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except oil Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. STATEMENT Of CIRCULATION. ate of Nebraska, Douglaa County, ea.: Ueorg B. Taschiick. treasurer ot The Bea Publishing company, being duV sworn, says that lh. ai-fnll nnmlwr of full and Com- r, 3leta copies of The Dally, Morning, n-ven-ng and Sunday Bee printed during ths month ot December, ism. was as ionow; , rr.Tm rrjio 87,370 S7.0SO 17 T,TW IS SeO0 It S7,aS0 1 3,0 ......ST.tao 37,360 37,840 37,040 3S.S10 ...... 30,790 4830 3S, SM 37,100 30,710 37.40 i: 37.010 37,000 37,000 30,460 30330 37AM 30330 40,70 48300 4B3M si. 24. 26. :. 17. 21. :. to. ti. to. 11 i: u 14 , it.. 37,170 Total :i .1,171470 Less unsold and returned copies.. 34 .Nat total. i.X4oa3 Dally average 37,491 '. OEOROE B. TZSCHUCK. Treasurer. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me thta list day of December, ROBERT HUNTER Notay Public , WHEN OUT Or TOWN, (abaerlbers leavlaar ty -orarlly shld t The Bea mailed to thesa. AsirtM will Ve changed mm mttmu mm reaese. It is just possible, too, that fraud! may be practiced In the registration of lobbyists. ' Speaker Cannon's salary has been Increased, subject, of course, to a veto ly Collier's Weekly. . Jug jnaouretufers are looking for a big- increase in-orders from their Tennessee customers. , Cheer u). ... .It will bo but a short time until .you will bo ' having your lawn mower sharpened. Harry Thaw is to be given another trial. It is astonishing how the Thaw bank account hdlds out. United States senators whose terms do not expire this year seem to be In order for congratulations. In planning his vacation for the coming summer the wise congressman will keep away from Africa. ' "Who would take advice from a plnhead?" asks a New York paper. PInheads do not give advice they take it. According to the verdict of the cor oner's Jury, the outlaw who killed an Omaha policeman is not only dead, but good riddance. It la possible, of course, that Mr. Bryan is planning a place in his col lege of politico for Prof. J. Worth Kern of Indiana. Senator Tillman says he proposes to keep right after the president. Still, a pitchfork is not a proper weapon for the African Jungles. ' A theatrical paper says "The Devil" Is now being played by thirty-seven companies. This does not count th congressional troupe. Former Ambassador Charlemagne Tower says he wishes "to live quietly In Philadelphia.". How could he live otherwise in Philadelphia? ' In the plethora ot centenary annl versartes It remains for Omaha to pro pose th celebration of one that has reached 1,900 years of age. What are alleged, to be footprints ot the devil have been found in New Jer sey. It is natural that his footprints should be found near his home. Omaha's superintendent of schools does not favor boxing exercises for the school children. If any boxing is to be done the school teachers want to do It. The effete east Is asking Omaha for advice In the natter ot saving street car patrons from Injury. Omaha is obtaining ' a Missouri reputation for showing folks. More than 26,000 private pension bills bavo been introduced at the pres ent session ot congress. That's on explanation ot why t is called th "short" session. ' If a democratic legislature passes a bill for civil service In the state Instl tutlons. bo sure It will not bo effective 'until after every state Institution Job Is filled by a desoocrat From later developments It would teem tHat th talk of Mr. Bryan's 'friends In favor ot Mr. Bryan tor chan Icellor of th University ot Nebraska was entirely without objections from THE CHILD AP' 7JB IWMK. The most comforting feature of the conference at Washington on the care of dependent children is the keynote running through all the addresses in favor of preserving the home life of the child, wherever possible and, when such preservation is not possible, to furnish conditions as nearly like those hich a child would have in a home. This proposition is the prerequisite to any success which may come from the efforts of those working for the betterment of juvenile unfortunates of the country and at the same time Is a call to halt to overiealous reform ers carrying Juvenile work to such an extreme as to Interfere with the home life of children to an unnecessary de gree. The danger that threatens the Juvenile reform work of the day, as it is being generally conducted, lies In the blind enthusiasm of well-intentioned but misled workers attempting to take children from home surround ings to the detriment, if not to the de struction, of the moral and physical welfare ot the child. Disrupting the home In the name ot saving the chil dren should be the last resort. In stead first efforts should be to better the conditions of the home and bring the parents to a realization of their duties. If unchecked by wise direc tion, some of the juvenile reformers would entirely relieve parents of their responsibilities. As President Roose velt well says in his address to the conference: ' Here we must provide for the exercise of the greatest wisdom . obtainable in knowing Just where to draw the line; so as to know Just when It becomes neces sary to say that even the undoubted ad vantages of keeping the children in a pretty poor home, If that , home is its own, are counterbalanced by the fact that the home has become not a source of benefit, but a source of menace and dan ger to the child. You will have to con sider a dosen such problems. No one questions the need of tak ing the child from the home where it ta clear that the parents are either criminal or deliberately vicious and where the keeping of a child in such environment is practically certain to result in Its physical, Intellectual and moral hurt. Children so taken be come the wards of the state and should be given every opportunity for education and improvement, either In state Institutions or In well-selected homes. The number of cases demand ing such radical action must, however, be small compared with the instances in which better and more lasting good can be accomplished by bringing the reformatory Influences to bear upon the parents. yo refvoe wr criminals. The negotiation of an extradition treaty between the United States and Honduras Is significant chiefly in that it closes the last refuge for fugitives from Justice from this country. We now have a treaty with every civilized country on the globe, and with some that are hardly classed as civilized, by which murderers, defaulters, embez zlers, counterfeiters and those who commit other felonies that are usually extraditable, may be reached by the long arm of the law. For many years Honduras has been a refuge for many offenders, although the government of that country has usually been very courteous In respecting extradition re quests. . By the terms of the new treaty the Honduras government en gages to honor all such requests as a matter of treaty obligation in certain specified offenses. Only a few years ago Canada was the popular hiding place for offenders against the law In this country, but the extradition treaty with Great Britain was so modified that the doors of all the British colonies are now closed against fugitives. When the famous St. Louis bribery cases were brought to light in 1902, Joseph W, Folk, then prosecuting attorney for the city, secured the negotiation of extradition treaties with Mexico, Guatemala and several South Ameri can countries. Later an extradition treaty was negotiated with Morocco, just in time to secure the return of Stensland, the defaulting Chicago banker. The Honduras treaty makes the civilized world too small to cover a fugitive irom justice lor wnom me officers of the United States are search ing. , A WIRELESS TRIUMPH. One ot the greatest demonstrations ot man's triumph over nature is fur nished In the thrilling story of the res cue of the 641 passengers ot the steamship Republic, which collided In a dense fog with the steamship Flor ida off the New England coast. The Republic was wholly disabled and all Indications pointed to another addi tion to the long list ot sea horrors in which countless lives have been lost and the details of which have been wrapped In eternal mystery. Immediately after the collision the operator of the wireless telegraphy plant on the Republic was sending the distress signal. "C. Q. D," the ambu lance call of th sea which, translated from th code, means. "All ships. Danger." Instantly the call was caught by other ships and by wireless stations on shore, and two liners, two revenue cutters and a coastwise vessel were hurrying to the rescue. The rev enue cutter and the disabled steamer, Florida, reached th scene first and, after most hazardous work, succeeded In transferring every passenger from the Republic and In conveying them to shore and safety It is needless to speculate upon the number of lives that might have been saved had th wireless telegraphy been In practical operation for the last quarter of a century Instead of being a recent triumph of Inventive genius. It Is sufficient cause for gratification that its use has made possible such a riarvel as the call for succor from the disabled Republic and Florida off Nan tucket and the prompt and effectual answer to their appeal. Every first class steamship. is now equipped' with wireless apparatus capable of sending Its etherlc vibrations pulsing over the ocean waste for hundreds of miles. In an Instant these sparks are caught by other ships or at stations that dot the shores of all countries, and if the mes sage be a call for help ships are soon speeding from every direction to the relief of the stricken vessel. "Those who go down to the sea in ships, who do business in great waters" have found in the wireless a wonderful al'y and an Invaluable help in time of trouble. . A BACKWARD STEP. The democratic delegation from this county In the legislature seems deter mined to undo what the last legisla ture did for the consolidation of the auditing departments of Omaha and Douglas county. The inspiring mo tive is, of course, the fact that the present Incumbent of the office of county comptroller happens to be a re publican, while the present incumbent of the office of city comptroller, which was to be absorbed into the county comptrollershlp, happens to be a dem ocrat. Had the situation been re versed so " that the merger when brought about would extinguish the republican officeholder and enlarge the powers of the democratic officeholder, our democratic law-makers would not be so much concerned. 1 Aside from the question of political patronage, the retention of the dual comptrollerships will be a distinct step backward, and even more so the aboli tion of the present office " of county comptroller and the resumption of the old system of audit by appointees of the county board. The county of Douglas Is paying out a half million dollars every year in current expenses and in the next two or three1 years will pay out an additional million dollars in the construction of the new court house, and it is decidedly unbusiness like to put the only check and audit of these bills in the hands of those who make the contracts and spend the money. It Is Just as imperative for the taxpayers ot the county to have an Independent control of the county money as it Is for the taxpayers of the city to have an independent control of the city money. If the legislative delegation would look ahead and above personal poll tics. Instead of turning back on the consolidation of city and county offices. it would carry that movement still further forward. We have now ef fected the merger of the city and county treasuries with excellent re sults and a merger of the city and county auditing departments is under way The next step really should be the merger of the clerical and record departments of the city and county by making the county clerk ex-offlcio city clerk, to be followed by still other consolidations. The move should be to abolish more and more the present multiplicity and duplications of costly Lpfflces of city and county supported but of the. pockets of the same tax payers. J HE WRECK OT THE MAINE. Governor Magoon's appeal to con gress to take immediate steps to ac complish the removal ot the wreck of the battleship Maine from the harbor of Havana will doubtless be approved by a majority of the American people. His declaration that the leaving of the wreck there has become "a national reproach and an International scan dal" may be an exaggeration, based on the feeling on the subject in Hav ana, but be is eminently right in hold ing that no Just reason can be as signed for further refusal to act. , It will be eleven years, on Feburary 15, since the Maine was blown up in Havana harbor, precipitating the war with Spain that was already inevita ble. The cause ot the explosion has never been fully determined, the Americans contending that it was due to an outside attack by the Spaniards, while the Spaniards contend that it was due to Internal accident. What ever the cause, the hull of the wrecked battleship has been allowed to remain occupying a portion of the best an chorage in the harbor and becoming more and more of an impediment and menace to shipping. The wreck also contains the bodies of sixty-three American sailors, or what is left of them, and it Is not creditable that the United States should neglect its dead. Some opposition to the 'removal of the wreck has been offered because of the impression that the United StateB government would place the wreck, if raised, In one of the navy yards or upon some government property and keep it as a memorial ot the war. While the government would have a clear right to make such disposition of the hull of the Maine, there Is no general sentiment In favor of it. It would be better by far to have the wreck raised and sent to the scrap heap or sunk In deep water where It would not menace navigation. It would satisfy curiosity, too, to ascer tain definitely the caiffee of the explo sion, if it Is possible at this late day to do so. The postmaater general recommends that railway "mail clerks be allowed traveling expenses while away from home and in the discharge of their duties. There are 14,000 of these em ployes, with average salaries of $1,160 a year, of which about 1160 goes for traveling expenses. As they are the only employes of the government who do not receive traveling expenses, the postmaster general s recommendation would appear to no well timed. A bill has been Introduced into the Nebraska legislature to prevent the manufacture or sale of Improperly labeled or mlsbranded paint, turpen tine or linseed oil. Move to amend by adding whitewash. Just to prove his contention that the oil business Is hazardous, Mr. Rockefeller has given the University of Chicago another $1,000,000. mak ing a total of $26,000,000 donated to that institution. Cuba propones to pay back the $5,000,000 which Uncle Sam spent in pacifying the Island for the second time. That may account for the na tional lottery and the restoration of the cock pit. Secretary Garfield asserts that 10, 000,000 acres of public land have been taken up in the west by fraudulent entries, not counting the nine quarter sections which Senator Tillman failed to get. The agricultural appropriation bill carries an Item of $272,000 for the distribution of garden seeds that no body wants, and that would be no good to anyone that wanted them. It isestimated that from 16,000 to 20,000 Eagles will attend the national convention to be held In Omaha next summer. Omaha will have to get busy building Eagles' nests. Inasmuch as Mrs. Ruth Bryan Leav ltt's artist husband will not contest the divorce suit, the public will have no opportunity to learn If he is as bad as he paints or Is painted. Tennessee may as well understand that Mr. Taft will cut that state out of his Itinerary if the legislature car ries out its threat to pass a law pro hibiting golf playing. The president will have the oppor tunity for the last word, as congress will have no chance to reply to any message he may send it Just before noon on March 4. Mag-oon Should Know. Brooklyn Eagle. Governor Magoon finds that trte people of Cuba are "capable of admirable self-res traint." He ought to know. He has tested their patience thoroughly. Reciprocal Goo Will. Washington Post. If our honorable Japanese friends will keep the muszle on their honorable yellow press for a while we will appeal to our an cestors for strength to throw a net over the California legislature. Paring; for Its Own Fwneral. Baltimore American. Texas Is certainly hard on the oil com pany. It puts it out of business in the state and adds Insult to injury by making It pay the expenses or Us own funersl, in the shape of a bg fine. Is there no sym pathy, no feeling, , left for the poor old trusts? Efficacy of 'Tact and Sense. Baltimore' American. Witness what a strong and lovahla sonality, governed 'by tact and common -? m.: i ense. can ao. iwr. Taft has completely captured the sduth-a thing which It would take 1 argument and oratory years to accomplish. When he entera the White House he will be the nresldent nf all h people, and among his stauncheat friends win De inose wno voted against him. BRYAW AND THE ORBGOX PLAN. Proposed Leglslatlou Having In View th Senatorshlp. New York Tribune (rep.). The Nebraska legislature la preparing to pass a bill providing for a populsr election of senators somewhat after the Oregon plan. Mr. Bryan is to be the beneficiary ot this legislation. His friends think that he can repeat Governor Chamberlain's ex perience, carrying the state in 1M0 and re- I celving an election from a republican legis lature. I A Dash of Glager. Washington Btsr (rep.). Mr. Bryan Is accredited with an ambition I to be elected to the senate, and his friends In the Nebraska legislature are moving for a law enabling a popular choice. He Is well entitled to that chance for the office. For some years he had not been popular at home, but last fall a new spirit was mani fested toward him. His home people In dorsed him as against Judge Taft, though by no great majority. It is not easy to conceive him satisfied with the duties of a senator, but that is his affair. He would undoubtedly add ginger to the, senate. Experimental Practitioner. Brooklyn Eagle (dem.). William Jennings Bryan Is an eclectic practitioner In the field of statesmanship. Allopathlo phlebotomy, homeopathic bread pills, tiydropathlc cold compresses, mental suggestion, soul control, all enter Into his experience. He has taken up, now, the Oregon idea of a popular vote on the se lection of a United States senator, to "beat the constitution." A bill to establish that Idea in Nebraska has been introduced, has been made a party measure, and Is almost certain to be put on the statute books. His critics will hint that Mr. Bryan Is not altogether unselfish in his latest scheme. There is one popular Nebrnskan In whose political future he lias the very deepest Interest. That popular Nebraskan might easily win at an election for senator. To be fair, however, it must be owned that Mr. Bryan has no doubt that the election of his favorite candidate would benefit th United States of America more than it ould benefit the candidate himself. Uolag th Mrit Best Thing. Springfield (Mass.) Republican (Ind). The eclipse of Mr. Bran is lust now so complete that even the proceedings of the Nebraska legislature with reference to his political future attract little attention. The legislature is democratic as Well as the governor, and if there were only a va cancy in the United Btatea senate at this session Mr. Bryan would be chosen to fill It. The legislature is to do th next bet thing In his Interest, however. A bill hat been Introduced providing for the estab lishment in Nebraska of the Oregon sys tem cf popular election of aenstors. and tl ere aeems to be no doubt that the bill will speedily become a law. Thus Mr. Bryan will be able two years hence to contest for Senator Burkett's seat before the people. His Nebraska friends have great hopes pf finally providing for him a place in public life, but the man's political luck Is usually ao miserable, whenever he runs for an office, that Nebraska may turn against him again in 1910, notwith standing that Mr. Bryan carried the aut as a presidential candidate In WSi and TRll MTM Of THE W1RRI.R9. Its Value as n I. lie Haver at Sea trlklaalr Shown. To those who sell the fresh or sslt water sees for rlessure or profit no Im provement or Invention applicable to navi gation, perfected In our generation, equals wireless telegraphy as a life saver. This fsct was strikingly shown In the readiness with which relief wss brought to the Re public and Florida In collision off Nan tucket shoals Isat Saturday morning, and two shiploads of people rescued from Immi nent peril. The manner In which the Marconi wireless service worked on that thrilling occasion Is thus detailed by the New York Times: The steamships Baltic and Republic of the White Star line, Pennsylvania of the Hamburg-American line. Incoming from Hamburg; the Furneesla ot Anchor line, from Glssgow; the French liner La Lor raine, from Havre; the Cunardcr, Lucanla, from Liverpool, and the Atlantic Trans port liner Minneapolis from London were all within the wireless cone of the shore stations along the coast. The Lorraine and the Lucanla were furthest In. and. with the Republic, were holding communication with the station at Slasconsett; the Baltic some ninety miles in toward New York, was just passing Into the sone covered by the station at Saga- ponack. Each ship has an individual call letter K. C. for the Republic, B. C. for the Bal tic, L. I. for the Lorraine, and L. A. for the Lucanla. The land stations tak mes sages In order of priority. To avoid a babel of messagea the land ststlon in communication with the vessels calls the particular vessel it wishes to receive from or send a message to and this call gives that rarticular vessel the "right-of-way." The others all tuned alike, keep silent and listen to the messages, or when needed. pass them along to others farther out at sea. The Republic wes In commercial com munication at the time ot the accident. It had been "talking to the station," and A. H. Glnman, the operator, wss clicking off a message to the vessel. He was well under way, and everything was in working order, in spit of the fog, when suddenly ths operator on the Republic broke in sharply, and there began to come Into the station the letters "C Q." This Is the signal of the wireless code meaning that something Important has happened and that all other shore stations and vessels In the wireless sone must Instantly stop sending and give attention. Instantly the operator on shore stopped his message and waited with 'soma anx iety for the next flash. On each ship th operators were watching, for something ot moment had plainly happened to cause th operator on the Republic to violate eti quette of wireless and break In thus on the sending man ashore. There were Just a few seconds of wait ing and then the Republic began to send In haste repeating over and over again the letters "C. Q. V." Ths added "D" meant danger, and the three letters together are a cry for help a general ambulance call of the deep sea. "C Q I-C Q D." called the wireless out of the fog, and then the Republic's Iden tification letter and next the wireless in strument ashore and on the other steamers began to deliver this, the first message telling of the accident: ":40 a. m. Rammed by unknown ship twenty-six miles south of Nantucket. Latitude 40.17, longitude 70." Immediately the shore operator sent out another C. Q. D. call, and then repeated the message, letting' all other veasels within the sone, 300 to 300 miles from the Station, know what had happened and th steamship Republic's need for help. Th shor instrument Is capable, ot covering; a greater sone than the Republic and could reach other vessels which might not have heard the call of distress from th Repub lic. It wss an Indirect appeal to every steamer within reach to, make for th scene of the collision without delay. At this moment the Baltic was In com munication with the Bagaponack station on Long Island, some hundred mile west of Sionconsett. It was from the Baltic that the first answering message came. It sent word that It had picked up the call, and began to sound off a meaaage telling both shores and ships that it was turning back on Ita course, and would make all speed to find the Republic In the fog. Then from all the other vessels In range the Lorraine, the Lucanla. the St. Louis came wireless notice to the shore that they had heard the message and were also turning toward Nantucket to help. Then came other responses. The reve nue cutter service has just made Wood's Hole a cutter station. As soon as Gln man received hla warning of trouble he forwarded it to the cutter Acuahnet there. It at once got out and steamed away In tbe fog-. The revenue cutter Mohawk wss off the coast on a derelict search. It, too. caught the message and hastened away. And so it went. From time to time came to the wireless stations ashore messages from the rescuing ships; from the revenue cutler Acushnet, which got first to th dis abled liner, and mora faintly aa th hours went on and the batteries on th Republic began to fall from' the ship herself, telling that ths psssengers were safe aboard the Florida, Itself partly disabled, and that there waa a rescuing fleet around doing all that could be don. Late In the evenini, when the wireless messages from th Republic seemed to hav failed, th White Star line received a wire less from Captain Ransom of th Baltic telling that the Lucanla and the Baltic were within reach of the Republic and It waa directing their movements by Its own wireless, which was found to be of use only within a limited a:ea. "The complete success of these efforts," says the New York Tribune, "will be hailed as the sign of a great deliverance from the terrora of the past by the thousands who travel the Atlantic. It will help to eliminate a dread only too well founded In harrowing experiences and to Increasa man's confidence in his ultimate ability to overcome the destructive elements In th world about him. On th fog laden sea, where he long seemed so utterly helpless and isolated, he lias now the grateful as surance ot neighborly communication and assistance. "The remarkable contrast between th happy rescue of all tbe passengArs and crew cf the Republic and the fate of the ship's company of the Bnurgogne, In 198, gives a striking measure of progress In ten years." , The following steamship disaster In which thousands perished occurred In re cent yaar: French steamship Bourgogne, rammed and sunk by th steamship Cromartyshire off Sabl Island; MO lives lost; July i, 18!. Steamship Norgc, sunk at sea; 750 lives lost; July 4. 1898. Steamship Bt. Paul rammed British cruiser Gladiator off Isle of Wight; many sailors drowned; April 12, 19ut. Steamship Ying King, foundered off Hong Are You Satisfid? " IS ' --' " . ,V." . . with the manner In which the house you live In Is repaired and earod tor? ' ' If you own your pwn home and a room requires reflnlshlng, It Is done as you wish it. It you want to plant a tree or bush and make a garden-) ou do so and It Is yours. . Such things cannot bo done with rented property without the consent of the landlord and then are done as he directs. We have the plan whereby you may own your home and have it cared for as you wish. It Is as simple as paying rent. Our officers will be pleased to explain it to you. , Omaha Loan & Building Ass'n... 1 S. E. Cor. 16th and Dodge Street. ... - GEO. W. LOOHIS, O. M. NATTINOER, H. it ADAIR, rruidtnt. Sec'y and Trtat. . 41. Stc'y. Assets ll.M7.000.00 1 w k-n' am rVlneao drowned; July 28, 190. Steamship Prudentla, lost on voyage to Argentina; August . M- Norweglan steamship Folgefouden, sunk; many lives lost; August . 1908. Steamship, total wreck, in Carrlbean sea; September 14. 1908. Steamship sunk near Amoy; 200 drowned; November 6. 1908. Steamer Archlmides. lost In Baltic sea; 10 drowned; November 5, 1908. Steamship Finance, unk by steamhlp Georglo off Sandy Hook; four lives losti November i. 1908. Steamship Ban Pablo, sunk off Phillip pines; 100 drowned; November S7, 190. Steamship Glnsel Maru, wrecked off Wei Hal Wei, and crew and passengers crowned; December 18, 1908. Steamship Boo City, foundered off New Foundland; crew lost; December 4, 108. NINES FOOT SHEETS. Weeping Water RepubUcan: The bill to move the state capital to Kearney will be come a law when the one regulating the length of hotel sheet to nine feet, and no more than twenty-five bedbugs to one bed, is safely passed. Hastings Tribune: That the Nebraska traveling men are going to be heard In the lerllature this session Is evidenced by the bill for th regulation of hotels. This bill will undoubtedly become a law, and when It does then the weary traveler can look for all the cleanliness and comforts ot home at any hotel In Nebraska. Falrbury Gaeette: A member of the leg islature named Sink has Introduced a bill providing for the length of sheets on hotel beds and for a system of Inspection as to the ssnltsry condition of hotels. While on the surface It has the appearance of freak legislation, no one who has traveled In this state can deny the necessity of such a measure. Some people will not be decent until, forced to be. Blue Springs Sentinel: From the number of bill Introduced on the subject, It looks as though hotels Vere coming in for their full share ot attention at tbe hands of the present legislature. The Bryan Traveling Men's club wants sheets to be nine feet In length and they must never be put on the bed crosswise or the chambermaid Will have to suffer a fine, Each guest must have a separate towel and bedbugs must hike to Colorado. If all the reforms asked for are accomplished. It will b finer travel ing than staying at home. Beatrice Sun: The traveling men are lob bying for some needed legislation. They want the upper sheet upon the hotel bed to be three feet longer than the lower sheet. They want aheeta to be olean, and they also demand clean towels. Flushed with success on their hotel law, they have se cured th Introduction of a bill to widen the scops of the pure food, drug and dairy laws. This will give the food commissioner power to examine Into the condition of the kitchens of hotels and restauranta and 'to proaecute proprietors of such places who do not come up to th standard of cleanli ness. The traveling men are getting par ticular, and are reaching out to get the laws they want. York Times: So far aome very Important measures have been brought before the present legislature. There Is a bill requir ing sheets to be nine feet long. It seems a good many of the members of the present legislature do not know much about sheets, their experience with them having been confined to the Infrequent visits to their wives' folks. There Is talk of a law requir ing shirts to be made longer, but the exact length has not been fully decided. It is said that half an inch added to the shirts of all Chinamen would greatly enhance the price of cotton, and there is a strong sus picion that theae measures are propoaed by Mr. Bryan, in the Interest of the cotton states, which aeem to be slipping away from him. Lincoln News: The traveling men of the state are asking for the passage of two measures. One of these provides a stan dard ot accommodations at - hotels, for clean sheets and towels. The other seeks to make effective the law requiring fire escapes on hotels. The Omaha papers hav undertaken to laugh the first one out of the legislature by denominating it as freak legUlatlon. Yet It la nothing of the kind. Fate has ordained that the traveling man must spend at least five-sevenths of his life on the road. In those cities and town wher there Is competition it is possible to get good accommodations at hotels, but In many pieces h Is given scant accommo dations. If any considerable portion of th legislators has had experience In journey ing from town to town, end taking hotels aa they come, there will be no doubt about the passage of this bill. ORANGES 5,000 California When you eat oranges for health, you the best. When you eat them for taste, you want the best. ' When youask for "SuDklst" you "Sunklst" (seedless) Oranges are hand-picked, full-flavored, dmUeioum fruit the pick of 5,000 orange groves. The nam "Sunklst" on the box is the public's guarantee that these are the best to be had. Ask Your Dealer for "Sunkist" 4 Oranges are a hmlth fruit. Their action on the digestive organs and rind! flv lemons ' sugar to powder, water and simmer Mostly SsscTUm sWV'7ffw Reserve $57, 000.00 -I , ... ' !. . PERSONA I. NOTF.S. - - A. O. Calhoun, of Virtor, Is Missouri's honey king. He has 8,000 pound of honey from the summer flow and as much more will bo collected this Tall. . . , New Jersey Justice is peculiar In that It seeks to ascertain .whether an accused man Is guilty or innocent, rather than y devise ways of getting him out of a scrape. One of the grievances of Mrs.- Clark Black of Chicago, who sued for 'divorce, was that she was compelled early every morning to curl her husbands long allky mustache. . r - , - Among projected army Improvements was one for the elimination of the faithful mule, but the feeling prevailed that with out the mule the army -would not be quite a real army and the" mule stays.;,r'' Ex-Governor John C. Shoppard has been telling the Bar association of South. Caro lina that In his opinion the effective, sat isfactory administration of ' justice would be greatly promoted by permitting trial judges to deal with the facts as well as th law In their charges to the jurors, and by doing away with th requirement that a Jury's verdict must bo unanimous. Mrs. M. E. M. Davis, affectionately known throughout the south , aa "Mollis Moon Davis, who died recently at her horn In New Orleans... was pot . only a popular aouthern woman, but a social leader ot New Orleans. Her latest book, "The Moons of Bulbanra.'" was published in September. Her othor books include ,"Tho Prlc of Silence," VTho Llttl Chevalier," "The Queen Garden," and "Th Wr Cutters." . SMII.IJVU REMARKS. "Does your husband play poker?" "I don't know,'' answered young Mru Torkins. "From what I hear he simply sits up to the table and enjoys scolng other people contend for what h puts up." Washington Star. Hla Legal Adviser That distant rclatlvn of jours is an old nuisance, you, aay, anil yet you think you ought to do somethlnK for him, do you 7 Well, why not settle an annuity on him. Millionaire Great Caesar, no. Peopl who draw annuities never die." Chicago Tri bune. "Who Is that unreasonable man who wants the Inauguration ceremonies held the first of. February r'1''' uu-j "Why, that'a one of those New York congressmen who don't like Roosevelt." Cleveland Plain-Dealer. Mr. Pools Has yo" had de pleasure of seeln' Brudder Bump's new wlteT What does yo' think of her, sah? Mr. Spradley Um-wcll, sah, I doesn't want to be cricketal, nor nutin' dat-uh-way; but It do 'pear to me like he must-uli done won the lady at a ahootln' match. Puck. Daughter Harry is going to be a good son-in-law to you, pa. Kven now be Is making plans to help you bear the loss of your child. Father Humph. I do believe he la mak ing plana for me to help support my loss. Baltimore American. "So you are encouraging your wife to become a euffragette?" "Yes," answered Mr. Meekton. ' "But I thought you disapproved of tha movement?" - , "Well, it occurred to me that if any thing could discoursge suffragettes in general it would be Henrietta turned loose, giving them a piece of her mind." Wash ington Star. NOVELIST OF CACTI'S CENTER. Arthur Chapman In Denver Republican. We waa visited In Cactus by a classic fea tured gent Who said he was a writer and Informed ua he was bent On securln' local color for a novel or real life. Where rhe picturesque cowpuncher wins the Schoolma'am for a wife. So we took him to the Bar where we' told the wrltln' yep That he'd find real western color ever ready and on tap. And the foreman, Six Gun Roberts, made him slave the. live-long day Flxin' Irrlgatln" ditches and a-feedin stock with hay. He hustled wood for fires till, his arms was most broke off, And ho hollered at the milch oows till he nesrly got a cough. And when he saya, "Beg pardon but trot out your western bis," Old Six Gun says, "Keeu workin' this is all the west there is. . . "Fer It's time to teach you writers," goes on Six Gun. speakin' stern, "That the lane of western fiction Is most due to take a turn; There ain't no hullsale shootin's alius goln' on out here, . . 'Cause the bsd men up and vanished when we loat the old frontier. "So," aald Six Gun. ''jest keep workin" am a-workln', nail and tooth. Till you're sure that when you're wrltln' you can tell the world the truth"; But that night the writer vanished, and the Bar X was forsook, And we're wonderln' In Cactus If he'll ever write his book. from Groves should have gf the best. tree-ripened For Health on tho liver make them a household necessity, Ctsw thm childrmn oranges. Atk for "Sun kUt." Your dealer has a fresh shipment today. California "Sunkist" Lamons ar juicy and mostly diets. , Trv this recln for Lemon Sherbet: Rub th vellnw with H oouod of loaf suzar. .Crush the) pot it into a sane pan with a oiot of gently until sugar is dissolved. When cold, add th strained Juic of tbe lemons. -Take out tb riadaadscrv in sherbet glasses. ( Will serv seven persons.) ' ' i " r i hi' is IW