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12 TTTE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY. .TAXUAHY SO, ifW. Tim' Omaha Daily. Bel FOUNDED BT EDWARD ROSEWATER- VICTOR ROBEWATER, EDITOR. Entered at Omaha postofflca rla matter. sec on d- TERMfl OK SUBSCRIPTION, nuiv Ra (without Sunday), ens year. .14 on , 00 Daily Bea and Munday. ona year DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Dally Bee (Including Sunday), per weeK.-'"- Dally Boa without Sunday). per wet-. Kvenina- Bn (without Sunday). per weea c F.venlng Bea (with Sunday), per weeK.iwj Bunday Bee, ona year., tn Saturday Bee, ona year y'V.llJ f. Address all complaint! of Irregularities In delivery to City Circulation department. OFF1CEB. Omaha-Trie- Bee Buimrng. South Omaha Twenty -rourth and N. Council Bluff-15 Scott Street. Lincoln-! Little Building. Chlcag-v-1548 Marquette Building. New York-Rooms 1101-1102 No- We" Thlrtythlrd Street. ' w Washlngton-725 Fourteenth Street. K. v. CORRESPONDENCE. Commurflratlnni relating to news and edi torial matter ehould b addressed: Oman Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by Maft. express or P" J8,' payable to Tha Bea Publishing Company. Only 2-cent atampa received In Pvmnt J mail accounts. Personal checks axoept on Omaha or eastern exchangee, not accepted. STATEMENT OT CTRCITLATIOM. Plate of Nebraska, Douglaa County, aa.: Ueorra B. Tiachuck. treaaurer of Tha Bee Publishing company, being duly sworn, says that tha actual number of full and com plete copies of The Dally, Morning. Even ing and Bunday Bee printed irng tha month ot December. 190. wae aa follows. 1 37,780 2 37,110 3 37,370 4 37,00 6 37,830 37,360 7 37,940 I. . r 37,040 ...: 36.S10 10 30,790 11 43,830 12 36,660 1,1 37,100 14 36,710 li 37.460 1 . tt W I. ::.... ...moo If M0 jo. . , y,vj 21 3660 t2 37,010 j 37,030 l 37,000 ;j , 33,460 it. 36,630 27.. 87,160 2J 36,630 2". 40,730 SO 49,600 Jl 48.860 'iotai . : : wtm Leas unsold and returned copies.. af Net total 1,169,386 Dally average 37,491 GEORGE B. TZSOHUCK, ( Traaaurar. Subacrlbed in my presence and aworn to before ma this 31at day of December. 1102. ROBERT HUNTER. Notary Public. WHEN OUT OF TOWN. Subscribers leaving; tha city tem porarily ahouU Th. Be. mailed to them. Address will changed mm ofteu aa restd. Who encored Medicine Hat? The billboards that succumbed to tha norther will not be seriously missed. - r San Francisco Is apparently recover ing from its recent attack of ingrow ing war scare. Dr. Wiley Insists that certain manu facturers want a poor food law instead of a pure food law. Governor Magoon has delivered his farewell toMbe Cubans without even promising to call again. Marconi will be the hero of the sea until Sir Oliver Lodge completes his device for dispelling fogs. Mr. Groundhog may congratulate himself that the time for sticking his nose out has not yet arrived. The report that the backbone winter had been broken appears have been grossly exaggerated. of to The wireloBa distress Blgnal is "C Q. D," instead of "P. D. Q," but they both mean about the same thing. Speaking of names once more, Mr. Selzer has been elected president of the Nebraska Bottlers' association. And it will be only a little wJtile until the newspapers will be reporting cases of prostration from the heat. A chair ot aeronautics has been established in a Paris university. Just another step toward a higher educa tlon. Oscar Hamme'steln may be up on music, but he showed mighty poor Judgment in trying to" whip two men bearing the name of Henncssy and Doyle. Lobbyists at Lincoln williot be re quired to wear badges. The ordinary law-maker la supposed to know enough to know a lobbyist when he is ap proached. Hume rule meana rule by the people. World-Herald. . Excellent! Then, why elective po lice commissioners and appointive park commissioners? Uncle Sam has withdrawn - about everything from Cuba now except the wreck of the battleship Maine, which btill serves as a menace to shipping In Havana harbor. President Roosevelt aaya that when he returns from Africa he expects to pass most of his time In the west. We hereby invite him to make hia head quarters In Omaha. The New York Herald learns that former Congressman James E. Watson of Indiana "may get into Mr. laft's ' cabinet." , Mr. Taft will doubtless be grateful for the warning, The commission plan ot city govern ment for Omaha has duly made Its ap pearance at Lincoln. A single glance at the personnel of the Douglas dele gation will be enough to tell how far that bill will go. -1 Prejudice, perjury and drunkenness have been responsible for the rejection of several hundred talesmen In the trial ot the men charged with the kill ing of ex-Senator Carmack at Nash ville. Polltlca should be added to the pauses for peremptory challenge. DEMOCRATS AD THE TA It IV V. As the newly elected kader of the minority In the houst of congress, Champ Clark announces that the demo crats of the ways and means commit tee will conduct an investigation on their own account with the Intention of presenting to the special session a list of Schedules to succeed the Ding ey tariff rates. Mr. Clark has ap portioned the subjects to members of the committee and their report will be discussed by the entire minority mem bership In the new congress. The pur pose of thi6 discussion will be to ob tain, if possible, an agreement among the democrats as to the limit they will go in maintaining duties. The minority leader is undertaking a mighty task in attempting to get the members of his party in congress com mitted to a tariff bill that may be offered to the people as embodying democratic doctrine. Dissensions have already developed among the demo crats in the preliminary discussion ot the measure and there are grave doubts of Mr. Clark's ability to get a bill that will enlist enough men in its support to insure a unanimous minority report. Failing to secure such a minority report, Mr. Clark will have to content himself with having the democrats offer amendments to the re publican measure and to support their amendments with arguments that will pass as defining the democratic atti tude on the question. While the democrats may be able to agree upon some general features of their tariff measure, there is open con flict upon the schedules most generally discussed. The Louisiana and Missis sippi democrats are bitterly opposed to reduction on sugar and sugar products. The Texas democrats are ready to fight any proposition for lowerlngthe hide and wool schedules and some ot the democrats of Alabama and Georgia are openly declaring their intention to work for retention of the duties on ron, steel, lumber, cotton and cotton manufactures, all of which industries are being rapidly developed and en couraged in the southern states. In the Benate the situation is even more complicated. There the demo crats have not thus far paid the least attention to the tariff measure. There are about as many views of the tariff among the senate democrats as there are members of the party in that body and nothing has been done to reconcile them. No plan of action has even been discussed, so far as the revision of the tariff is concerned and all in dications are that the senate demo crats will work along Individual lines, without any attempt to make the issue a party one when the new bill cotucs up for discussion. The democratic party has not been able to offer anything constructive on any Important question before con gress in a dozen years and its stand'lng will not be improved by its taking a purely negative position on the tariff question which will be the chief, if not the only, subject for consideration at the coming special session of congress. GOAG FORWARD BACKWARDS. There will be deep regret in military circles as well as among, civilians in terested in aviation that the military affairs committee of the house at Washington has refused to make a a adequate appropriation for the ad vancement of the science of military aeronautics. The committee's action muBt be looked upon as a backward step at this time when ail of the nations of the earth are deeply inter ested in the progress of aviation and la tests showing to what extent the airship, in some form, may become a potent Instrument In future wars. The dirigible balloon has passed the first experimental stage. The work of the Wright brothers, Leon Delagrange, Henri Farman, Santos-Dumont and others have demonstrated beyond ques tion that the principle of aviation has been discovered and that only de velopment and further experiment are needed to make the balloon a real and essential factor in future military and naval operations. The French, Ger- mnn and Italian governments are de voting large sums of money and are making strong efforts to secure con trol of all of the more important in ventions and discoveries connected with the science of aviation. The United States has kept pace with progress in this direction, the balloon stations at Fort Omaha and Fort Myer having been particularly active in experiments In that line. The refusal of the appropriation will simply call a halt in the work at a time when a halt may result in definite loss to the service. It la hoped that the senate will have a keener appreciation of the needs of this branch of the military service and restore the appropriation which has been rejected by the house. WHY THE SL'LTAS QllTS. Constantinople advices are that Abdul llamld has completely sur rendered himself and his government to the Young Turks and expressed a willingness to refrain from further at tempt to dictate the destinies of the great Ottoman empire if only allowed to live iu peace. He has approved all the reform plana of the parliamentar ians and is opposing no obstruction to the changes demanded in the internal management of the government af fairs. No explanation Is vouchsafed in of ficial circles for this change of heart on the part ot the hardened old sultan, but one la suggested in a consular re port showing that the Young Turks are enthusiastically taking up the game of foot ball. This appears to have been the last straw. The sultan made a termendoua protest some time ago when the typewriter waa Introduced Into his kingdom, but he was cont polled sullenly to submit. Then the Turkish women threw aside thHr veils and bep,an chewing gum and the sultan reluctantly admitted tint lie liked the metamorphosis and would not object to it. If they would not go in for dlrectolre gowns or Merry Widow hats. The men took a notion next that they would like a constitu tion and a Parliament and the etiUan granted those demands expressing the wish at the time that there would be no more fads introducd from the barbaric Christian countries. But the spirit of progress once started could not be checked and when the sultan awoke one morning to find two teams of Young Turks battling for the foot ball supremacy under tho very shadows of his pnlece, he realU3l4hat he had reached the station where he was scheduled to get off, bo he tipped the porter and ordered his trunks sent up to the American house and asked for commercial rates. That is the real secret of the sultan's surrender, no matter how earnestly the diplomats may try to prove otherwise. SCHOOL FVXD IXVESTMEXT. The recently adopted constitutional amendment, enlarging the scope of in vestment for the permanent school fund, adds to the list of authorized purchases "registered school district bonds of this state and such other se curities as the legislature may from time to time direct." Following out the Intention of this amendment, a bill has been introduced at Lincoln desig nating municipal bonds issued by Ne braska incorporated cities and school districts as proper securities for school fund investments and providing for their registration. This bill, or one to the same purpose, Bhould pass. How much the school fund has lost in the past because of narrow limita tions on the scope of its investments will never be known. Because Ne braska had no Btate debt and the avail able county bonds were entirely inad equate, money belonging to the school fund was for years loaned to distant states at rates much lower than our own citiea and school districts were paying for money they were borrow ing. In this way the school fund has been loaded down' with bonds from Massachusetts, Tennessee, Mississippi and Montana with, in some cases, a re turn of but little over 3 per cent. In other W'ords, we have been loaning our money to the east, south and west and borrowing It back again at higher rates. By making our city and school dis trict bonds available for school fund investments, even though the fund may not be sufficient at all tlmcB to take all offerings, we will be steadying the market for such bonds and in the same degree stimulating the erection of substantial school buildings and needed improvement of our cities without in any way impairing the se curity of the school fund or diminish ing its income. An Omaha minister lays down this proposition with reference to rigid en forcement of "blue laws": There should be no law upon our statute books upon any subject which cannot or will not be enforced by the officers of the law. That Bounds very well, but the fact remains that there always have been, and always will be, laws on the statute books which will be either dead letters or will be enforced only spasmodically or half way in comparison with other laws which will be enforced vigorously all the time. In the very nature of things the law against dropping ban ana peelings on the sidewalk will not be enforced as strictly as the law against burglary, nor will the law against playing base ball on Decora tion day be enforced as strictly as the law against playing kidnaper on week days. For more than a third of a century the constitution of Nebraska has per mitted candidates for United States senator to submit their claims to pop ular vote. .The democrats made use of this privilege for the first time in 1894, when Mr. Bryan was a candi date, but In spite of their devotion to the principle of "Let the people rule," they refused to make senatorial nonii- nations.in 1898 and 1900, and in 1904. In the last named year Mr. Bryan was again a candidate without putting his name on the ticket, although his brother-in-law admits to getting $15,000 of Wall Btreet boodle to help out the good cause. The loud an nouncement at this stage of the game, therefore, of democratic devotion to popular election of senators should be swallowed with several grains of salt. our amiable democratic contempor ary has Just discovered that "Governor Sheldon is not the only state officer who spent the state's money with lav ish prodigality." How all this could have escaped its lynx-eyed sleuths during the campaign is not explained. The managers of the big express companies have testified before the Interstate Commerce commission that they do not believe their charges are too high. Unbiased testimony of that kind is always valuable. Seuator-elect Root of New York has endorsed the parcels post. His pref- decessor, Senator Piatt, always American, United States, Pacific Wells-Fargo express reasons for posing the aume plan. hat? and op- It Is gratifying to note that our only democratic congressman from Ne braska does not hesitate on paying tel egraph tolls on the word "applause" when sending his own speeches to his own newspaper. Senator Frown Is making a brave effort In behalf of his bill to prevent the railroads from appealing to the federal courts for injunctions against future state tax levies. The bill might help some, but the railroad got tbclr Pngers burned so badly the last time they played with this fire that thy are not likely to try it again very soon In Nebraska. Congress has granted the use nf the pension building for the inaugural ball on March 4. Congress always refuses the use of the building and then changes its mind, when it is almost too late for the committees to get the place in shape for the ball. The night riders of Kentucky have sold their tobacco crop to a London syndicate. What a relief it would be to Kentucky if they would deliver the goods In person and fall to buy return tickets. Los Angeles reports nine Inches of "precipitation" in four hours. A Los Angeles "precipitation" would be classed as a cloudburat in any country that does not count climate as its chief asset. The Christian Chinese of Hankow have been raising funds for a mis sionary campaign in Arkansas. Ameri cana can lose nothing by the adoption of a reciprocity policy in evangeliza tion. The Oklahoma legislature has passed a law requiring hotel keepers to disinfect their bedding every three months. Does Governor Haskell Btop at all the hotels in Oklahoma? Russia has decided to annex two more provinces of Finland. Russia is accomplishing by "benevolent -as similation" what it has failed for de cades to secure by force. Obedience In Fare of Danger. Washington Post. "Everbody did as lie was told." Tin; women, children, and men gave. Hiiro cheers for the captain. That's how Americans behave on a sinking ship or anywhere else where real danger Is. Pat It an the Label. New York World. Bonzoate of soda may be quite harmless Dr. Wiley may be wrong, as the govern ment's consulting chemists say but people who prefer It as a health tonic ought at least to have a chance to know what they are getting. Cat eh lllm lloth Warn, rittsburg Dispatch. ' Whether Judge Landis rules for or against the Standard Oil compuny the circuit court reverses him. This looks like a sort of vindication for the latter tribunal In tho suggestion that its $29,000,000 decision was not due to the fact that It loved the Standard more, but that It loved I.andls less. Heroic Sense of Dnty. Philadelphia Record. Captain Sealby would have done his full duty had he left the Republic before she actually went under water. But as he and Second Officer Williams would not leave the ship while there was enough of her left above water to stand on, we may be thankful that two audi brava men, with their noble sense ot their duty to their passengers and to their owners, were picked up. The splendid discipline and self-possession of every officer and man of the crews t the steamers Is an honor to the human race. New tCns; land's Cosily Peat. Philadelphia Record. The gypsy moth has now practically accomplished the conquest of the New England states, with perhaps the excep tion of Vermont. The costly fight made by tho state of Massachusetts for the extermination of the brown-tailed ver min has ended in defeat. It is now pro posed to make a more energetic fight against the pestiferous moth with the Big Stick. The house committee on agrl culture has practically agreed to Increase the appropriation to a total of $300,000 for the coming year. Thus far no sys tem of warfare has' been devised that gives promise of more than partial re lief. Heroea at the Telegraph Key. New York World. The news stories of telegraph operators remaining two days at their keys without sleep following the Republic collision have a familiar ring. They are related of all great disasters, the telegraph service haV' Ing a roll of honor for devotion to duty in time of emergency peculiarly Its own The fact for note Is that tho operators In this case were servants ot a new science, trained employes of an industry which baa been created, developed and systematized all within a decade. The evolution of the telegraph and the telephone presents no such marvel of Inventional progress as that shown by wireless telegraphy while yet in Its infancy. rOI,I.KGK MAX l Bt'SI.R9. Qualities Which Make for Success life. New York Times. Mr. llarrlman's opinion as to the con dition!! under which a college man will gt ou in railroading la very much the same as that of most successful men re gal ding college men in their special call ings. The great railroad administrator and organizer Inevitably lays great atrens on tho moral rather than the Intellectual qualities of the man under discussion. It i-t "the attck-to-lt spirit" that carries one through. But also it Is to be re membered that it la this spirit that car ries a boy through college with the best results. The ona whe is endowed with It ii not necessarily or generally a fair representative of college training, for that training does a lot more for hint than it does for his chum who may lack In perseverance. The truth Is that there is such a va riety In boys at college, and such a va riety In the colleges, that any generaliza tion is defective. One thing, however, la ii.dlcated In Mr. llarrlman's shrewd commentary. It ia that the boy In col lege who lias to work and work hard In order to get on has, In tha very limit ations of his career, a real and valuable advantage over tAose In "easier" circum stances. Whether he be poor, or only a llttla dull. If he is forced to put his a hole strength into his efforts, they gradually and almost unconsciously build up in him a capacity for work that is more precious than any other quality in aftr life. And this fact again auggests that in public provision for the so-called higher education It ia quite possible to make it too cheap and too facile. Be yond tha sound elementary schooling to which every child Is in a sense entitled for tho protection of the community, It is a sound doctrine that education will be more Justly valued by Mm who gets it if It costs something of effort and ell-denial Absolutely The only Baldng Powder made from Royal Grapo Cream of Tartar fife alirhV O III Kit LANDS I'll Ol IIS. Astonishing results, often changing the course of history, have their origin In ap parently slight cause. When Emperor William consented to the publication of his views on public affairs in a Ixindon news paper ho had rn Intention of placing a bomb under tha "divine right of kings" and light th fus?. But the unexpected hap pened. The scmi-divlnlty with which the emperor cloaked himself was rent asunder by the indignant storm of criticism which swept over tho empire, revealing the em peror as an ordinary mortal. Public wrath generated by years of censorship and prose cution poured out such a flood that "lese majrste" was swept from Its moorings and stranded. Not a single prosecution has been undertaken since the emperor con sented to talk less, think more and muzzle his publicity bureau. Freedom of public expression has succeeded the reign of ter ror which successful prosecution engen dered in years post. Having broken away from the tradition of centuries, the Ger man people seem determined to maintain the advantage. Realizing that liberty Is not license, they show admirable restraint, and are not abusing the right regained. Equally impressive is the effect on the em peror, lie is no longer the critical monarch of other days, interviewers are turned away at the palace gates, the dally court circular has been suspended and only a brief memorandum of the emperor's activi ties are now published semi-weekly. The result Is silent revolution In the palace springing from a revolutionary outburst in the country. Discussing the economic features of the suffragette movement In Great Britain, Sydney Brooks, the London correspondent, In a paper in Harper's Bazar, points out that the discontent manifested has its basis In the disparity of wages paid men and women for like work. Mr. Brooks shows there arc 6,0(10.000 women earning a living In the kingdom. "In some trade unions they outnumber the men. The cotton unions alone have 96.000 women members. It Is among this great body of industrial workers that the suffrage movement finds most of its most determined advocates. Tills is especially the case in the northern counties, where women have organized trade unions and co-operative societies, fasten eagerly upon social and economic problems, largely helped to found the labor party and at the last general election sub scribed enough from their collective funds to pay the expenses of one of the labor representatives. The agitation for the franchise has at least done this much good it has directed the attention of the coun try toward the problems of women's work and wages. People are beginning to realize that while sweating Is at all times and under all circumstances an abomination, it Is ten times more abominable when women are its victims. - They are beginning to ask themselves why women who do the same work as men, and do It as well, should be paid much less. The average of women's wages In the cotton trade is 13.D0 a week a sum that even an unskilled male laborer would scorn to accept; and the cotton trade, on the whole, is a well paid one. The suffragists are undoubtedly right when they urge that one very important reason why the wages of men have risen by from 50 to 100 per cent In the last sixty years Is that they hove had the vote and that one very Importunt reason why women's wages have either remained stationary or have grown less Is that they have no votes." In seeking ways and means of meeting the expected large deficit in the revenues of Great Britain the Westminster Review seriously urges a tax on bachelors, and pre sents instructive facta In support of the proposition. It Is shown that the bachelor fraternity has greatly Increased In numbers and is not contributing Its due proportion to the maintenance and perpetuity of the empire. Statistics show that in London In 1871 the proportion of bachelors In 1,000 males aged IS and upward" was 3&i. In 1901 the proportion had risen to 43. The figures for spinsters are In each case a little higher, and says the ofriolal reports, "the proportion for both bachelora and spinsters increased at all ages." In the whole I'nlted Kingdom the proportion of bachelors of twenty years and upward in creased twenty in the thousand between 1S1 and 1901. It Is contended that bachelor hood does not promote the strengtli and security of the stale and should be sub jected to penalties drsignej to discourage it. How are the bachelors to be reached by special taxation? The Review suggests a special tax on those bachelors possessed of a certain Income, beginning at the age of 25 or 30 and remaining in force till 70 or W. The OLtldeiit might with profit put in practice some ideas from the orient In ex change for those urged upon the so-called "backward nations." Among those that will bear transplanting Is the principle em bodied in the new laws of Japan, that "punishment expiates a crime." The laws provide for the protection of a released con vict from social ostracism and for assist ance to him after hia restoration to liberty. When a man has forged a note, so the Jap anese contend, and lias served a term in prison, his offense stands cancelled and the Japanese statutes are framed so that this cancellation shall be actually as well as nominally effective. Thus the refusal of employment to a former convict Is pun Makes the finest, most deKcious bis cuit, cake and pastry; conveys to food the most healthful of fruit properties. ishable by law unless the person refusing It can show that the refusal was based upon some other and better ground1 than the. man's record of conviction and Impris onment. Underlying this policy is the Idea that the law that punishes for an offense against society Is not intended to destroy a man's usefulness and that a social system that permits a man to become a pariah Is barbarous. The opposite principle, "once a convict, always a convict." too often obtains In countries boasting ot a higher civiliza tion. The obstacle which goes furthest in China to paralyze every act of life and every function of government Is the "squeeze pidgin, " a method of getting something for nothing, commonly called graft in the United States. A correspondent of the New York Sun says It pervades every private and every official act of every Chinaman. It Is everywhere and In all walks of life, the uppermost ques tion. What Is there In it for me? How much am I to have? "Every body, whether of high or low degree, every servant, every agent stands for a squeeze and expects his share of every tijee of money going through his bands as a matter of right. There Is no law against it, no principles of morals violated by It, and no wrong conceivable In connection with It. It Is a part of Chinese civilization which may have had Its origin In the system of low salaries paid In official life. Ic may be condemned by edicts from tho throne In the past, but It is openely claimed and centended for by every Chinaman." The International conference proposed by the United States for the purpose of secur ing concerted action in the suppression of the opium trade Is scheduled to begin its sessions at Shanghai, February 1. At least a dozen nations will be represented at the conference. China has already began an official crusade against the evil forced upon her people half a century ago. The conference will encourage and strengthen that crusade and strike an effective blow at the deadly traffic by restricting exports from Asia. The traffic la a crime against civilization. nrtAwixG the i.oi now. Mr. Taft'a Jolly for School Girls Seriously Dlsrnaaed. New York Times. When Charles Francis Adams, then United States minister to the court of St. James, submitted to Earl Russell the proof that the Alabama was being fitted out In a British port to ravage American com merce, he closed his comunicatlon with the remark: "I need not remind your lord ship that this Is war." When Mr. Roose velt read In hia Sunday Times the report of Mr. Taft's speech to the young women of the State Normal school at Athens, Oa.;; he may well have quoted to himself these words. "The single state Is a very good one!" This was Mr. Taft's audacious language, and worse followed: "I congratulate you. on beginning your life fn that way, and I hope that you will continue it through life and not regard matrimony aa necessary." And then he went on to portray "the sweet, self-sacrLflclng. disinterested, and lovely character" not of a mother with a dozen children, but of "some aunt of yours who never married." Ha challenged tho young woman to say "if she would have been better off if she had been married," and declared, "I don't believe It." Of course with tha soundness or unsoundness of these Ideas we have at present no concern. It is obvious that their universal appli cation would lead to serious economic and social results. We shall not discuss them. We simply call attention to the fact that Mr. Taft'a public announcement of such doctrine must greatly attain, if it dors not disrupt, bis relations with the president. It waa bad enough for him to take a pre mature and conspicuous part In the dis cussion of the tariff, which the president had dodged for seven years. But openly to scoff at Mr. Roosevelt's personal gos pel as to the duty and beauty of matri mony and maternity Is I.ttle short of con structive blasphemy. PROSPERITY FACTOIIS. Reasoa for Gratitude "for the Things that Have Brea Given Is." Wall Street JournaL The I'nlwJ States Department ' of Agri culture placeir the value of farm .animals enumerated on January 1, 1909, at 14,525, 2j9,0O0. Tills represents an increase of 194,CCS,0O0 or 4.5 per cent in ona year. An increase in value of this ratio Is only another form in which tha wealth of the 6,000,000 farms of the country expresses Its gains. To this should be added approxi mately 5,000,000,000 more, nearly all of which represents the value of tha crops grown by farmers in 1308. Tha two main items would bring the farm wealth of the year to a total of 512.525,259,(100. Wben one is looking for the reason why commodity prices in general have been maintained during this period, it is not necessary to show the wholo burden on the increased supply of gold. The unceasing stream of wealth from tha field and farm yard in tha form ot cereals and, live stock, may aerve aa a fairly substantial factor and also afford occasion for gratitude for tha thing that have been given us. II POLITIC A I, DRIFT. President Roosevelt and Senator Foraket go out together on March 4, but by differ ent doois. One of the democratic congressmen from Virginia Is loudly protesting against any reduction in tho tariff on peanuts. Two hundred and fifty citizens of Ixis Angeles have asked the mayor to resign. Of course, he won't, but the Invitation must interest blm. Senator-elect Shively of Indiana is nearly six and A half feet tall, which explains his success in reaching the plum over Johnny Kern's shoulder. Colonel Jim Guffey, the Pennsylvania!! who was thrown over the transom at the Denver convention, has been re-eleiled to his former position ns member of the demo cratic national committee. Threatened with tax on their liberty, the bachelors of the Oregon legislature have retaliated on their tormentors by proposing a law limiting women's hat pins to leu inches. After a good fight, possibly the scrappers will get together. The Bughouse Hose company of Freoport, Id. I., has asked for a place in the line of march at the Taft inaugural. Tha Bug house bunch are real firemen, wiser than their title indicates. They know when to get Into the right "procession. Kansas proposes to vindicate the memory of the late Edmund U. Rosa, the exiled senator whose vote saved President An drew Johnson from Impeachment, by ap propriating $250 to place a bronze bust of him In the State Historical society. Governor Harmon of Ohio is holding a state and federal Job, and since the United States court refuses -to accept hia resigna tion as receiver of the Cincinnati, Hamil ton & Dayton railroad, he will continue to hold the two positions until the receiver ship Is lifted. The commissioners of Cook county, 111., wherein Chicago resls, could not find means to finance tho prosecution of ballot box frauds, but there Is no difficulty in finding the wherewith to boost their own salaries from U.floo a year to $5,000. Know ing where the money will go makes a great difference in public acts. WHITTLED TO A POI.VT. Excited Caller-Sir, In the Thunderbolt this morning you said iny speech at tlm banquet last night was "about 2,n0 yardJ long." I want to know what Reporter (with a gasp) Colonel; so hel, me, I wrote it "2,ouo words:" Chicago Tribune. "I notice a man with a cold In his heart has committed suicide." "Poor fellow! Now, what fool friend would have advised blm to try that rem edy ?" Philadelphia Ledger. Landlady Mr. Star, now that we ait seated about tho board to partake of out turkey, does It not occir to you that ther were only two turkeys on the ark wits Noah? Mr. Star Indeed. I sincerely hope thai this one is the last of the two. CircK Magazine. "Yes, ma'am." said the tattered tramp, I have helped carry out a great many benevolent enterprises." "You!" cried the lady. "Oh, Impossible In what way?" "By cheerfully acceptor wotever whs given me, ma'am." Cleveland I'lain Dealer. "Do you think you can absolutely prova your theory?" asked the admiring friend. "1 don't wish to," answered the eminent astronomer; "as soon as It Is absolutely proved there will be a falling off In the demand for magazine articles on tho sub ject." Washington Btar. "Don't you think. Mr. Spiv." said tie boss, "you might as well take off your hat?" "What's the use?" asked the new man. who was filling a temporary vacancy In the clerical departmenl.'Tin only going to hold this Job two weeks." Chicago Tribune. Mr. Scrapplnglon (mualngly)-As Lincoln eald. a man may fool some of the peopl.i all the time und all the people aome of the time Mrs. Scrapplngton (Ir skly) Bi t yoi (ti t fool mo any of the time: Chicago News. THK SAMDJAK OF JVOV1 BAZAR. Cincinnati Times-Slur. (It lias been suggested that, as a solution or the Balkan problem, Auakria-Huiigurv di vide the Kandjak of Novl Baxur between Bervla and Montenegro. Newa itein. As a casual newspaper reader: As a person Juet wanting to know": As one seeking the iKht In the darkness (Not to bo too inuiHliive. though) Oil this one point I d like information. ' you're sure I don't treHpaoH too far nat Is It won't some one please tell me?-w lhe Hundjak of Novl Bazar? With many strange terms I'm fsmlllar, .Terms smacking of peace and of war. Which the versatile press correspondents Delight to lu in by the score. kopjo nd ve-ldt-Ylldis Kiosk; I he Duma dissolved by tho Czar. But I do not know yet wlme they mean bv The Hamljak e.f Novl Bazar. I can prate of the I'unjah; the Melllas, And I know when a Jehad's proclaimed, Mashruteh is likewise familiar, And I think I have Selamik tamed; I can understand, too, iuubh belli, Benl Hnasse-n, and tribal duar, But I'm blessed if I see any sense In The Uaneljak of Novl Busur. Why should this, of all things, ha conceded? Is it flesh, fish, or foul, anvway1 Can it sit up and beg. and take notice? Does it live with His Highness, tha Bey! Now, I dun t want to make any trouble. And I know what so many thlnga are. 8V-uWOJ't I? l,1,ea kindly ciplain ll- Tbt Bandjak ef Novl Bazar.