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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JANUARY 31. 1909. Tiie Omaiia Sunday Be& FOUNDED BT EDWARD ROSE WATER- VICTOR ROSE WATER, EDITOR. Entered at Omaha postofflce aa second claea matter. TERM8 OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daiiy Bee (without Sunday), one year. .$4 o uany Hee and Sunday, one year w , DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Dally Bee (Including Sunday), per week..ljc Ially Bee (wlihout Sunday), per week..luc Kvenlng Bee (without Sunday), per week 6c Evening Bee (with Sunday), per week.. 10c Sunday Bee, one year W Saturday Bee, one year LM Addreaa all complaints of lrresularlllea in delivery to City Circulation department. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Butimng. South Omaha Twei.ty-rourth and N. Council Bluffs 15 Soott Street. Lincoln 18 Little Building. Chicago 1MH Marquette Building. New York-Rooma 1101-11U2 No. U Wet Thirty-third Street. . Waahington 725 Fourteenth Street. N. Vf. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi torial matter ahould be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by Craft, express or postsl order payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only Z-eent stamps received In payment of mall account. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. STATEMENT OW CTTtCULATION. , State of Nebraska, Douglas County, as.: George B. Tsschiick. treaaurer of The Bee Publishing company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and com plete copies of The Dally, Morning, . Even ing and Sunday Bee printed during the month ot December, 1908. was as .follows: 1., I. , 4., 87.7M .37,910 , . .37,370 ,..3.aoo i.r..... 37,370 .. 37,090 It 3e,70 10 37,350 tl 83,860 12.. 37,010 21. 37,030 14 87,000 26 38,400 2 38,830 27 37.100 21 38,830 29 40,730 SO 43,800 II 43.880 S 37,830 ..". 37,350 7...' 37,340 1 37,040 t 3S.S10 10...' 3S.7M 11 43,330 12 30,860 la 37,100 14 38,710 14 B7.4CO Is 37,170 Total ........... 1,171,470 Leas unsold and returned copies., SJI43 Net total.., ..l.isaaa Daily average 37,491 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Treaaurer. ' Subscribed In1 my presence and sworn to before me this tlat day of December, 1101. ROBERT HUNTER, . Notary Public. WHEN OCT OB TO WW.. , , Subscribers ImtIsc tkai city tem porarily aaonla - hare The) Be saalle4 to tkesn.. Addreaa evIU chanced aa often aa reaaeatea. Anyway, the weather man has set back the spTing poem crop. The thick goosebone weather proph ets may consider themselves vindi cated. .. .. The sword of Washington has been purchased., by J. Pierpont Morgan. Who has the hatchet? Beach Hargts, the Kentucky desper ado, haa shot himself in the foot. He Bhould learn to aim higher. An apology la now due from those who a few years ago ridiculed Mr. Marconi as a visionary and a dreamer. The senatorial deadlock in the Illi nois legislature has started a whole army of aspiring statesmen to Barkis lng. President Oomea of Cuba has se lected his cabinet. You may find the names on the bands of the Havana cigars. i Speaking of names Just once more, Messrs. Drlnkwater and Swim are members of the water board at Atlan tic City., Arizona's oldest pioneer la dead at the age of 106'. He. must have had a fine trigger-finger to have lived that long in Arizona. A consular report, says there Is "a good opening for dentists" in Holland. Dentists are usually prompt to fill cav ities ot that kind. I The Californlana would appear to better advantage if they took some lessons in politeness from their ene mies, ( the Japanese. Senator Chamberlain of Oregon will present credentials Showing that he came from the minority of the leglsla- ture and waa elected by the majority. Along about the middle of July the ice man will be trying to convince you that an .exceedingly mild and open winter is blamable for causing a short Ice crop. The president and vice president ot Cuba are having a row over the dis tribution ot federal patronage. The American' troop ships must be out of sight of Havana. It is proposed to have congress ap propriate' f 80,000 for the investiga tion of Liberia, Reports indicate that the Liberlana are more In need ot bread and clothes ttian of investiga tion. Senator Bailey Is making a fight against the automobile. The sena tor's Kentucky farm la used for breed ing thoroughbred horses and not an automobile factory In a hundred miles of it. ' The Japanese prim minister insists that his country is seeking peace with the United States. Might as well let them have It, now that the naval ap propriation bill is practically out of the way. Defending a Rough Rider charged ' with murder, an Oklahoma lawyer pulled an American flag from his pocket and waved It before the Jury while he described the charge up San Juan hill. That was. the next best move to having Governor Haskell ar rest the prosecution on a charge of "conspiracy." ROOT OS DUAL OOVtRSMEST. The address of Elihu Root to the members of the New York legislature, making acknowledgment for his elec tion as United States senator, reiter ates and expatiates his views on our dual government, which attracted epe- cai attention when similarly ex- pressed at the Natural Resources con- a year ago. Mr. Root has no fears whatever of too great centralization resulting from the exerclne of power by the federal government In the field given to the federal government by the constitution, except from the failure of the states to do their full duty in performing the functions properly devolving on them. The danger, as he sees !t, Is not that the federal government may reach out and usurp powers belonging to states and thus weaken and de stroy 6tfte autonomy, but that the states, ill be constantly seeking to have the federal government do things which they, themselves, should pro vide. His way to eradicate the "twi light none" between state and' federal Jurisdiction Is for the states and the federal government both to occupy all of the ground and exercise all of the powers each within its line of demarca tion as originally contemplated by the founders of the republic when they framed the federal constitution. To many it will seem strange to have this defense of the states' rights doctrine made by such an uncom promising champion of a strong cen tral government. Everything de pends, really, upon the point of view. The old states' rights advocates would destroy the national authority by making the states paramount, while the extreme centrallzatlonlsts would make the states mere administrative districts. Mr. Root and those who be lieve with him, and who we have no doubt constitute the vast majority of our people, would maintain the dual government of our fathers, making the national government voice and represent the national spirit and keep tho states as active agencies in the performance of state functions without subordination or conflict of authority. RE8POX81BILITY OF THE PRESS. The transfer of the proceedings against the New York World growing out of the alleged Panama canal libels from tho federal courts at Washington to the state courts ot New York is unquestionably the right and proper thing if the subject matter requires judicial probing. This transfer is en tirely in line with the answer given by the editor of The Bee to the World's request for his opinion printed in the World, as follows: I do not believe the law of criminal libel should be used by tha government to In terfere with the freedom of the press, but that the press ahould be held re sponsible only for abuse of such free dom. I believe It la a vicious . precedent to. force. the publishers of a. newspaper, Issued in New York to defend a libel suit either in the district of, Columbia or in Nebraska. Whatever proceedings may be Justified ahould be Instituted at the place where the newspaper is published and un der .the laws governing there. Responsibility of the press should apply alike to newspaper publishers, big and little and wherever located. When the publisher of a small weekly printed at Gretna, Neb., was dragged to Omaha for trial on a far-fetched libel charge, The Bee protested vigor ously against it as a judicial outrage and laid down the same proposition that a newspaper editor should have the same .right of trial' by Jury at the place of the alleged offense that is ac corded others .charged with law. vio lation. If Editor Pulitzej is to be prosecuted for, criminal libel, or Edi tor Hearst to be sued for civil libel because of offensive or damaging pub lications in their New York papers, the suit should be brought In New York courts. WAXDERIXGS OF TUB DALAI LAMA. Apparently therels no longer any place In the world where civilization halts, where a relic of bygone times In the form of a nation or people may be allowed to live, the . life of a re cluse. Even the Dalai Lama ot Tibet has been inoculated with the virus of progress and It promises to arouse him from a lethargy which has held-4 htm and his people there on the roof of the world since the gray dawn of history. The causes for this last awakening are by no means on the surface. Four years ago Colonel Younghusband marched into Lhasa, the capital ot Tibet and the center of Buddhism, and made himself somewhat at home In a city that had always been barred against the world. Until that time white men had never been permitted in Tibet. The Dalai Lama considered that the sacred city had been profaned by the visit ot the British and he promptly organized a' pilgrimage to Peking to protest to the Chlhese gov eminent against the Invasion. Con sidering himself something nearly godlike, the Dalai Lama expected to be heralded as such in his progress across the country toward the court at Peking. With a caravan composed of 714 persons, 490 horses and 700 camels, be wandered from monastery to v -monastery and from city to city across the Mongolian' wastes and on to Peking, being received everywhere .with more or lees exaggerated respect But China has been catching step with advancing civilization In late years and the Dalai Lama somehow did not impress the government at Peking In any awe-inspiring manner. He. was entertained at first, then tolerated and finally given a delicate hint that it waa about time for him to take hla anti quated parody on royalty and go home with It. Of course the Chinese au thorities did not put it In those words, but, on the contrary, they bestowed upon him, with all the ceremony characteristic of the imperial court at Peking, the title of "Sincere and Loyal Spreader of Clvllliatlon," intimating to him that it was his sacred duty to hike back to Tibet and get busy on the Job of spreading civilization. So the Dalal Lama started back with his small army, greatly to the relief of the Chinese Imperial authorities, who were finding the grocers' and butch ers' bills becoming unbearable, to say nothing about the feed for the horses and camels. Possibly great good may come from the imperial snub. On his way back to Tibet the Dalai Lama will feel that he must open his lands to the hated foreigner and submit to One foreign er's ways. With this concession Tibet will be opened to the world and civ ilization will have established another outpost. STOCKMEX SEE A LIGHT. The resolutions adopted by the Na tional Live Stock association in an- ! mini pnnvonttnn At I.ns Anffelpn con tain a striking Illustration ot the change of sentiment that has taken place In the.. west within the last two years on some of the "Roosevelt poli cies." From being the most bitter critics of the forestry policy adopted by the administration, the stockmen have become its most enthusiastic champions. At the conventions of the associa tion in 1907 and 1908 practically the entire membership was arrayed against President Roosevelt, Secretary Wilson and Chief Forester PInchot. At the Denver meeting last year reso lutions were adopted denouncing the whole forestry policy, particularly as it affected the grazing rights In forest reserves. Delegates who sought to defend Mr. PInchot and his forces were-hooted from-the floor and con siderable sentiment was worked up against President Roosevelt, Secretary Wilson and the entire . republican ad ministration. The rapid development of the forest preservation plan has, however, had an Impressive effect upon the stockmen. In proof thereof the Ixs Angeles con vention has adopted resolutions thank ing President Roosevelt for all his ef forts in behalf of the live stock indus try, endorsing Secretary Wilson and asking his retention in Mr. Taft's cab inet, and heartily approving "the ad ministration of the forestry service under Mr. PInchot as having been con ducted along practical and business like lines with a view to obtaining the greatest use of the forests conaUtent with their preservation." The stockmen have been directly af fected - by the forestry preservation policy more than any other class ex cept the timber barons and their re sentment against the administration was intense and vociferous at the out set, when the forest reservations were closed for grazing purposes except un der the noat stringent regulations and restrictions. Yet the brief time that has elapsed "since the adoption of the policy has been sufficient to convince the stockmen that their best interests will be subserved by the proper care of the forest, with its ranges, the re sult being' to increase the grazing fa cilities from year to year instead of having the ranges within the forest reservations destroyed by overgrazing as have been the public ranges gener ally, The action of the convention is most significant, assuring . the co operation of the stockmen in the gov ernment forest policy instead of their opposition, which has heretofore been one of its roost serious obstacles. SHOCK ISO THE FOO. Sir Oliver Lodge, the eminent Brit ish scientist, has been granted permis sion and full authority to test an in vention which, if successful, will be fully as valuable as that of wireless telegraphy In aiding victims ot fogs. In fact it will make such uses of the wirelss telegraphy as that employed In rescuing the passengers of the ill-fated Republic unnecessary by re moving the natural element that causes such disaster. Sir Oliver's purpose Is to dlBpel fogs and his first experiments will be conducted in Lon don, the storm center of the fog in dustry. The invention of Sir Oliver Lodge la designed to discharge into the fog laden atmosphere a strong current of high voltage electricity which is ex pected to act directly upon those in finitesimal particles of matter that en ter into the composition of a fog and jar them from their atmospheric moorings. The electricity will be dis charged from poles which carry a se ries of disks, the distance between the poles to be determined by experi ments. The Inventor believes that these particlea of matter will be shaken up by his device until they tall into the street in the form ot "black snow." For a preliminary test of the invention, made In Liverpool, it is claimed that a discharge from a single pole cleared the atmosphere for a radius of sixty feet. On the strength of this test the London authorities have granted Sir Oliver permission to conduct a series of tests in London, with the assurance that if his inven tion proves successful It will be adopted for general use. The fog has come to be looked upon aa an integral part of London and has defied all attempts at displacement. Statisticians have figured the loss to tradesmen, shipping and other inter ests from London fogs at hundreds of millions ot dollars annually, and if Sir Oliver Lodge's idea proves prac tical and practicable it will be the greatest invention In the world's his tory, so far as London is concerned. Sir Oliver is confident that hla Inven tion may be adapted to steamships and used to dissipate the very gravest danger that confronts the navigator and menaces ocean travelers. Hopeful as we "may "feel about the success of the fog shocker and the electric cleanser of a dirty atmosphere, It will not be difficult to restrain en thusiasm until some actual results have been scored to the credit of the Invention. The residents of this neck of the woods still remember the dreams and promises of the sky bombarding rainmakers. LIBERIA'S APVEAL FUR HELP. President Roosevelt's message ask ing congress for an appropriation of $20,000 to send a commission to Liberia to study the conditions in the colony and report upon the best way to give it perpetuity and progress is not meeting with much encouragement from congress. It is doubtful, too, whether it w-yi arouse much enthusi asm among the people generally for the proposition, however much the Llberlans may be In need of our kindly offices. The LIberlan colony stands as a monument to the mistakes of the very honest but wholly misguided persons who Induced our government to aid In establishing a colony of civilized ne groes in the midst of the savages of Africa. Some 50,000 American ne groes have been planted In the midst ot at least 2,000,000 African savages who have refused all overtures toward civilization,-have hampered the work of the colony end have even refused to permit the colonists to work. out their own salvation. Friends of the negro have lavished millions on Li beria; they have given the country a government, a flag, educational facili ties and religious Instruction, but the result has been dismal failure. A re cent minister to Liberia makes this re port on conditions prevailing when he was there: They have no money or currency of any kind. They have no boats of any charac ter, not even a ennoe. The two gunboats England gave them lie rotting on tha beach. They have no guns or swords In working condition, nor even a cannon to fire a salute, though they purchased at one ttmo $47,000 worth of guns from the United States. There are only four postoffices In the country, one for each of the four counties. The govern ment ha no harbor, wharf or break waters for steamers to land at. Inquired for a hotel. They told me there was none. Look from morning to night and you will never see a horse, a mule, a donkey or oxen. They have none. There Is not a buggy, a wagon, a cart of any kind, or a wheelbarrow In the four counties. The natives carry everything on their heads. There are 100 nude persons to every one wearing clothes, The government contains no public schools of any kind. The Colonization society claims to have added 22,000 civilized negroes to Liberia since it took hold and the peo pie of the United States and Great Britain have contributed more than $7,000,000 for educational purposes, but the. country is today practically without schools, except those con ducted by missionary organizations, and It is estimated that there are leas than 12,000 civilized persons in Li beria, which has a population far in excess of 1,000,000. ; President Roosevelt and , Secretary Root are urging congress to open the way for an investigation in the hope that it will result in having Great Britain, the United States and the powers having Interests on the west coast of Africa to reach some agree ment as to the best means of dealing with a situation admittedly desperate. Whatever moral obligation our coun try may feel in the matter, it is diffi cult, to see how we can be expected alone ttrguaranty the lntegrlty of the little republic, which in the sixty seven years of its existence has done nothing to advance its own interests. The legislatures of many Btates con tributed to the colonization scheme for years and there is no objection to a renewal or a continuance of such help to the Llberlans, but for our gov ernment to become Involved in African politics with Germany, France, Italy and England by attempting a guard ianship over Liberia would appear to be more than questionable. - THE L1XCOLX MEMORIAL MIXVP. Plans for a Lincoln memorial at the national capital are facing a dead lock, with some promising Indication of a nasty fight over a proposition that should be considered with the spirit of fairness, charity and common sense that characterized the man whom the nation deslrea to honor. That the na tlon should do something fitting in Lincoln's memory in this, the cen tenary ot his birth, is generally ac cepted, but there will be keen regret If the plan for a lasting monument can not be agreed uffon without an other unseemly wrangle between the president and congress. The president favors the erectton of a memorial to Lincoln, directly across from the mansion house at Arlington and in line with the Washington mon ument and the improved mall which extends past the stately department buildings to the base of the capltol. This proposition haa been endorsed by the American Institute of 'Architects and by the commission appointed In 1901 to prepare plans for the perma nent park system ot Washington. The style of Ahe proposed memorial has not been fully decided upon, but It is recommended that it take the form of a great portico of dorlc columns, rising from an unbroken stylobate. The columns would be forty feet high and the entire portico 250 feet in length and 220 feet wide, surmounted by groups of sculpture and crowned with a statue ot Lincoln. Surround ing the memorial and framing it would be linden trees, planted four rows deep, to form a peristyle ot green, from which to radiate various avenues centering upon the memorial Itself. Opposed to this highly attractive plan is the Cannon plan, ao-called be cause endorsed by the speaker, who Is using every Influence to have It adopted at the present session otcon rroi This nlan la to have corJrreas buy the ground between the cfcpltol building and the new Union Station, a Stretch of some six or seven blocks In length and two blocks wide, for a colonnade, ot great pillars ot stone, roofed over and forming a covered walk from the capltol to the Union depot, with a monument to Lincoln In the center of the roadway, park way or ralnshed, whichever the con gressman may decide to call It. Speaker Cannon favors an appropria tion of $3,000,000, to be rushed through congress before February 12, Lincoln's birthday, for carrying out the project. The objection to the congress plan s that It would put the memorial in space inadequate to hold it, where It would be dwarfed by the capltol building and the Union station. The president has urged that the entire proposition be referred to a commit tee of architects and landscape artists for their report. Whatever plan be adopted, -the memorial should be con structed in accordance with the gen eral plan for beautifying Washington, even if to do so requires further re tarding a project already too long de layed. About the last official act of Elihu Root aa secretary ot state was the placing of a capstone on his great work in the Interests of international peace by signing the arbitration treaty with Braall. He has succeeded In making similar treaties with twenty four different governments, bringing the United States Into friendly agree ment wlth all the powers for the set tlement of ordinary disputes. Blessed Is the peacemaker. We learn from a, Mobile, Ala., paper that the lynching of a negro early Sat urday morning "but slightly disturbed the usual serenity of Mobile past the midnight hour." The same authority reports that the man was killed "by parties unknown , to the coroner's Jury." Those AlabamianB take their pleasures quietly and do not allow them to Interfere with business. Prof. Fererro declares that Julius Caesar was a piker and a political ac cident. We may stand for that, but will resent the attempt by Fererro or anyone else to prove that Caesar's wife was not above suspicion. Mr. Taft says he went fishing in Georgia and enjoyed it, although he caught no fish. That's the only true fish story told since the Apostle Thomas reported, "We tolled all night and caught nothing." Sicily and Calabria produce about S, 000,000, 000 lemonB a year, or five for every inhabitant of the earth. The extra consumption by democrats makes the average for people who do not use them at all. France la recognized as the banker for the rest of Europe and credit for this condition Is given to the French system of postal savings banks. , Con gress might do well to take the lecson to heart. It Is charged that Gertrude Atherton did not state her age correctly while on the witness stand. It should be remembered that Gertrude makes her living out of fiction. ' Forecasting? tteltsr, -"'"'. Chicago Tribune. Great Is wireless telegraphy. It need not surprise anybody if some flustered operator at sea one of . these, days flashes a hurry call for the patrol wagon when a riot breaks on shipboard. I'p Against It. . Washington Post. The United State supreme court Is a time honored and universally respected Institu tion, and all patriotic Americana will wish It success In Its forthcoming struggle with the great question, "What l whisky?" I'neheered aad Cheerless. Pittsburg Despatch. W. J. Bryan and Roger Sullivan hastened to congratulate 8enator-elect Bhrlvely of Indiana. But a gentleman named John W. Kern, who had something of a speaking part In the . representations of last fall is left entirely cutslde the congratulations, as well as the bret-ttworks. Where the Dake Would Shine. Charleston News and Courier. The report comes from Paris that the duke of Abruxzl will abandon his ducal and naval honors to marry hla sweetheart. Considering that he may, if he wish be promoted to an American citizen, the sacri fice Is not great. As one of the plain people the duke would shino. A Sarprlse Comtnar. . Boston Olobe. Senator Rayner doesn't believe there is such a thing as a white rhinoceros nor any ourang-outang with a nose three Inches long. Wont he be the surprised man if the African expedition only has the luck to bring home to the Smithsonian a side winder, or a plitlliloo, or even a common wlulck? Galvanised 'for the Occasion. Boston Transcript. Speaker Cannon's . story, reported this morning, of the man awakenened In the night by the feminine cry, "There are rob bera In the couee," only to reply: "You are mistaken, they are all In the senate," Is of about the same age and much to the same point aa the Joke now repeated In one of the local theaters that congressmen have become so sensatlve that In answering the rollcall they now say, "Not guilty." Expressing Popnlar Will. Boston Transcript (rep.). The Nebraska legislature, the press re ports declare, will soon vote to adopt "the Oregon plan" of electing aenatora. Cham berlain's success was sure to give it Im petus. So lung ns tts obvious purpose is to get Into the senate the ernan whom tht largest nun.ber of voters desire to have there, it is hard to criticise any state fot j adopting It to the displacement of plana which In only a le-sser degree accomplish this. Massachusetts has found no diffi culty In expressing the popular will thiough the method provided by the con stitution, but states which have a different experience are utterly Justified la adopting the Oregon device for jnaktof the people' will effective. EBMOS BOILED DOW.V. True friendship Is always richest In days of greatest l.eed. It's no use sighing for a chance to lead If you dare not go alone.' Out of deep sorrows come high powers td comfort and strengthen. You get much Instead of men when you offer thorn only soft places. It's no use wasting blow on the man who 1s nfrald of being hurt. Idleness tnskes the hours wearily long and the days woefully short. , The mark cf a heavenly blessing Is that It Ignores our earthly boundaries. The mnn who Is liberal In his faith Is not always the same In Ms finances. ftomet lines we need tides of grief to carry us over the bars of our dull content. lie can never know any deep Joy who can laugh at the sorrows of another. The only wsy to get all the hnpplness In life Is to give for the happiness of alt. The man who bangs his head against hard facts feels his bumps and rails them faith. If you would make sure of your sins being fruitful bury them tinder a pretense of piety. The devil Is worried by the people who work for the good, not by these who worry over him. There is always a greater benefit in on- during my own pain thnn In envying an other's pleasure. Some religious enelnes are run with all the steam on the brakes and all the air In the cylinders. Chicago Tribune. ECILAR SHOTS AT THR PILP1T i Cleveland Leader: President-elect Taft says that without such moral forces as the Young Men's Christian association there would he's'o much dcmrrallsatlon on the Isthmus that the canal would never be built. Who fun even guess the Industrial value of the churches? Cleveland Pinln Denier: A keen sighted clergyman has discovered that there were two. men of the name of Ananias men tioned In the nible. and that one was a person of1 excellent character and.' conse quently free from the habit that caused his namesake's downfall. This Is further proof of the fact that one bad egg will draw far more attention than eleven good ones: New York Tost: Cardinal Gibbons has rendered another valuable service to Mary land and the country at large by coming out squarely against the disfranchising of the negro by means of the amendment to be submitted to the voters next fall. "I have no hesitancy." declares the cardinal, "In saying that I believe It to be both un just and Impolitic." Unjust he finds It be cause It is designed to deprivo a certain class of his fellow citizens of rights duly conferred upon them by the highest law In the land, and Impolitic because It Is In the end certain to Injure tho democratic party, which ' favors It. Boston Herald: Edward Kverett Hale, the Boston pioneer In the use of Sunday for the discussion of civic problems, must be satisfied with present conditions In orthodox and heterodox circles. Ford hall, In the Baptist denominational headquarters, la overrun on Sunday evenings with people who clamor to hear bocIhI problems dis cussed. Tomorrow the Central Congrega tional church opens a similar noon course, and at Parker Memorial In the evening an elaborate course of lectures and confer ences will begin, to last eight weeks, and planned especially for the training of young voters. From-the modern standpoint It Is the church adjusting Itself to the rthlcal leadership Of men to whom religion In Its more conventional forms-does not appeal. PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE, There are several large holes In Medicine Hat. Maybe the lid Is off. "A distinct slesmlc disturbance'" Is loafing around Central Asia, too modest to make Its presence known to the natives. One automobile factory reports orders for new machines worth 122,000,000, which proves that prosperity Is going some. The favorite motto of food canners, "Heaven preserve us." Is turned to the wall. Bensoate of soda.wlYl do. the bis. The report of the discovery of 301 ways of eating corn .from . the cpb has. only, a melancholy Interest for the owner of store teeth. The Simplified Spelling board, in its third round with the dictionary, paralysed a whole raft of words. The dead letters would stock a new cemetery. If there Is anything In the brand of weather now on tap Justifying an advance In the chief weatherman's salary the oldest Inhabitant and others would appreciate a peep at It. Persons disposed to criticize the federal supreme court should pass up Irritating re marks for the present. The August Judicial body has troubles enough In solving the problem, "What Is whisky?" 'A new version of the soul mate business cropped out in a Philadelphia divorce case. The soul mate In the case was one of the astral variety, beyond the reach of human chaatlsement, but sufficiently attractive to woo the wife from her poetic husband. The The Apollo I Player For these long winter evenings When you can't go to the theater or visit yonr friends on these) wintery nights, nothing makes home so cheerful aa a llano, on which every member of the) household ran ren der the popular and classic. The easy action, the light treading, the simple devises, the beautiful arrangement of the Apollo music enables the I O-year-old as wellas the older ones to perform with little or no exertion and pro duce muwtcy equal to the master. The Melville ("lark, Apollo Player Piano, Is made In mahogany, oak and wal nut, prices from VOfiO up. Next best U the $150 Mans field Player, which plays the same music and gives equal satisfaction from mechanical oiterallng staodM)int. 92.1 down; 910 to 919 per month pays for It. Music Itolls BO rents and u;. Piano Players for Rent A good way to find ont how you wl I like the Player Piano is to rent one and let the rent apply on the purchase price. TRV THIS. A. Hospe Co. 1513 Douslas St. Representatives for the celebrated Kranlch & Itach, Kim ball, llallet, Davis, Krakauer, Itubh it Imhc, t'able-NeUon, Iturton, Cramer and Hospe llanos. IniiiliPtlttliliHiUMIililiJltUtillitittJAittLiiiUltJttU: 97 PER CENT Purina: December newly 07 per rent. (06.9) of the poUcie paid aa death claims by tho Kquitable In tho Vnited Slates and Canada were paid within one day after proofs of death were received. t. Neaaser aateast Policies Paid 356 $1,186,866.09 Paid Within 1 Dif 345 1,159,166.21 There were only seven pollcle remaining unpaid at tho end of the second day. When policies aro not paid lm mediately it is usually duo to delay on tho part of the beneficiary In submitting-complete- papers. 97.7 of e TOTAL AMOUNT I1I WITHIN A JAY. Equitable Life Assurance Society Strongcrt in the World. rAUIi MORTON, President. If. D. NEELY, Mgr. Merchants National Bank, ' Ilulldlng, Omaha, Neb. latter hung hla blooming lute on a willow and hiked for -the divorce mill. An amateurish .desolple Of the TCmanuel movement, challenged by doubters to try It on a nick mule In Cleveland, was given s unique sign of thought transference when the mule's heel caressed tho solar plexus of the falth-healer. " Taint manufacturers in Indiana object t-i a bill making It unlawful to sell jialnt that Is not up to the standard. ' All their product is standard, of course; whnt they dislike 1.1 tho Implied doubt of the purity of their canned Intentions. Old Boreas knows his business. With an excess of 4M degrees of heat In this section since last March, It Is apparent he must work overtime to bring the record to the mean level. From mean to meanest lun't much of a blast for O. B. DOMESTIC - PLEAS ANTR1 E. Irving Washington- (wiping his lips) That was really the sweetest kiss I have ever had." Louise Harkls I thought you would think so. Irving; my face powdor gave out and I used confectioners' sugar. "Jinx has got a new typewriter; It wll! go in your pocket." iso, it won t! ll may. gn in Jinx i. pocket,- but I'm married.' ." Houst ston Post. She Women have cleaner minds than men, anyhow. L He Naturally. 'Look-how much oftenei they change .them. Philadelphia Record. Happy Bride (on wedding tour) You sav we are coming to a tunnel, 'Harry? Is it a long one? . . . , Bridegroom (momentarily depressed Yes, entirely too long. The conductor telh me they light up the curs before enter lng It. Chicago Tribune. Said He Young Smythe and Miss Browns are evidently In love with each other. Said She Judging by the way they look at each other? Said He No, Judging by the way they don't look at anybody elBe. Washington Herald. "What possessed you to engage yourself to such a very timid and shrinking man?" "Thats' it." "What's It?" "He did shrink so every time one looked at him I thought I could get him at a reduction.' Baltimore American. Mr. Meek Did you trump my acet Mrs. M. Yes. What of It? Mr. M. N-othlng, my dear. I'm glad It was you. If one of our opponents Mad done it we'd have lost the trick Cleveland Leader. Nan Where did Kit ever find him and whv did she mairy him? What a withered, insignificant lltt'e specimen he Is! Kan That may be, hut she picked him from a magnificent family tree. Chicago Tribune. . SOG OF THE PM'HRGir. Detroit Free Press. Helgho for the chilling winds that blow'. Heigiio for the frosty niRlitsI Helgho for the wi-atlier "two helnw and the wind that nips end bites! Helgho for the days I'll shortly know, when the plumber gets his rights! Then here's to the plumber. Come drink a dron, And here's to the tools I leave at the shop. And here's to the pipes That hurst for me. And the time when the plumber Will huppy be! Helgho for the hurry calls I'll get! Helghc for tile task that's mine! Helgho for the bath room soaking wet, a plight that I count divine! Helgho tor the tools that I will forget! Helgho for the busy sign! Tin n here's to the plumber, The plumber bold, Here's to his solder. And here s to his gold; And here's to the pipes That will burst some day. ' Helgho for the plumber, That all must pay! Piano