mE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1. 1903.
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plete copies of The Dally, Morning, ttven-1
in and Sunday Bee prmiea our n, in.
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month of December, 1908. waa as follows
, .87,780
, .S7J10
..17,370
..37.0SO
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U 37,000
21 38,450
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12 3e,eeo
11 37,100
14 34,710
1 37,480
II 37,170
It 31,930
J7 37,150
2 31,130
28 40,730
30 49,900
SI 43450
1,171,470
Less unsold and returned coplea.. 1,146
Net total 1.119.999
Daily average 37,491
GEORGE B. TZ3CHUCK.
Treaaurer.
Subscribed In my presence and aworn to
before we thla Slat day or iwoeraoer, is va.
ROBERT HUNTER,
Notary Public.
WHEN OUT OP TO WW.
afcaorlbera leaving; the city tern
porarlly shoal have Tfce Be
mailed tv them. Addreaa will be
rbaaged aa of tea aa re-aaeated.
Of course a Carnegie hero medal
will go to Jack "C. Q. D." Binns.
After March 4 Mr. Taft will have
to break himself of the globe-trotting
habit.
The advantage of having the wires
underground will now be better appre
ciated.
It Is about like the coal man to
hope that February and March will
do their worst.
Wireless Operator "Jack" Blnn
should be In demand by chautauqua
circuit booking agencies.
"The New York Central has bowed
to the Inevitable," says an exchange.
Thousht It was bowing to Mr. Harrl-
niao.
Davy Jones must feel that he was
cheated of his share of the results of
that Republic-Florida collision off
Nantucket.
We trust that Augusta, Ga., will
not think it necessary to pull off a
lynching in order to get Into the tele
graph date lines again.
Pneumatic pompadours are now to
take the place of the "rat." The
pneumatic should be very popular
with light-headed girls.
On the thirteenth, ballot in the
Illinois legislature. Senator Hopkins
lacked thirteen votes 0 being elected.
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WOO BSJ luirwreu i. uv uu.uvaj .
Anywa, a mountain norther sweep
Ins across the prairie is not to be
counted in the same class as earth
quakes, volcanic eruptions and tidal
waves.', ' ".:
Three years ago Mayor Jim crowded
all democratic competitors off the
-mayoralty racetrack by simply making
a noise like a cowboy. Can he do It
again?
Young Jay Oould has offered him
self as a probation officer to patch up
family quarrels in New York. Hi
might try his hand among his uncles
and aunts.
A Philadelphia man is suing for di
vorce. becauM his wife claims to have
a. soul affinity in anqther planet.
Possibly she is In love with "The Man
from Mars."
. The senate expresses a fear the
pure food -investigation would annoy
the president. Neither the present
president nor the Incoming one is
troubld with Indigestion.
"Nevada listened to the voice of the
people in selecting a senator," says
the Chicago News. The Southern Pa
cific has long been snaking a noise like
the voice of the people of Arlsona.
Bernard Shaw says that Poe and
Whitman ' are the only important
American fcien. of letten. Why should
Shaw slight John D. Archbold, W. R.
Hearst, Governor Haskell and Benja
min R- Tillman? .
It's dollars to doughnuts that the
present demo-pop legislature in Ne-
braska. with all its howl about econ -
oniy will authorial appropriations out
of the public treasury aggregating at
least twice as much as was appropn -
ated by the last demo-pop legislature,
twelve years ago. which was not able
l boast much sJuout economy, either.
VXBVSIXF.S9LIKE.
The Lincoln Btar calls attention
anew to the practice of Introducing
duplicate bills In both houses of the
legislature, which It declares "serves
a good purpose for no one excepting
the concern that prints the bills," by
duplicating the cost of printing each
proposed measure without facilitating
legislation.
This duplicate printing expense put
on the taxpayers Is only one Illustra
tion of the unbusinesslike methods
that prevail In the legislative ends of
the state house.
The whole system of
passing laws at Lincoln from start to
finish Is about the most costly, slip
shod and wide-open waste of people's
money to be found anywhere. Two
men on the pay roll to do one man's
work would be an actual improvement
on what exists, and the only wonder is
that the expense bills are not bigger
and the output of aws worse.
No one will contend that In this re
spect the present democratic leglsla-
ture is greatly. If any, different from
other Nebraska legislatures which
nave gone neiore it, irrespective ei po-
Htical control. It Is possible, too. that
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though many of them possess legtsia
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uve uiauuiuerj mucu ueuer nujusi.ru
d mur-h more businesslike In ODera
tlon, If not less costly
The point to be emphasized Is that
while In every other branch of our
state government notable progress has
been made In reforming abuses, sys
tematizing the work, eliminating the
Inecures and introducing up-to-date
business methods, our legislative ma
chlnery is practically the same old-
style, slack-belted, broken-cogged,
rough-rldlng machine that has been
jolting and bumping along for the last
thirty years
HOW TO SAVE THE SHIP.
Even the confirmed reactionary, If
cornered, will be compelled to admit
the session of congress just closing
has been something of a disappoint
ment, but at the eleventh hour a hope
signal has been flashed across the
murky horizon, a sort of a hurry call,
a "C. Q. D." imessage, as It were, In
dicating that as long as the light holds
out to burn, etc., the vilest sinner may
get his record on straight and be pre
pared to look his constituents in the
face and hear them exclaim, "Well
done, good and faithful servant,
you're hip for re-election and we're
wld you."
There's no mistake In the signal
and no cross wires or confusion about
the message which comes from a
trained expert who for twelve years
has sat in the world's signal tower,
wig-wagging messages to a befogged
nation, telling the captain of the Ship
of State how to steer clear of the
rocks and shoals and bring his vessel,
freighted with its precious cargo of
national hopes and aspirations, safe
into the harbor. The message comes
from William Jennings Bryan of Fair
view, Neb. As wireless operator of the
sloop Commoner, he has sighted the
rocks ahead and sent his message to
the congressional crew:
There is talk also of an increase of the
salary of federal judgea, but la there not
Iso another side of the question? The
judge, too, lives up to his aalary, and the
amount that he receivea largely decides
In what social circle tie will move. Qlve
him IS, 000 a year and Ills summer vaca
tions will be apent where he comes in
contact with those who, in taking a brief
respite from the routine of life, seek some
quiet and Inexpensive resort. Make the
judge's aalary $10,000 and he will aelect
new summer resort where ha will be
thrown Into association "with those who
spend a larger sum upon their summer
vacations. Raise the salary to $15,000
and lie will make another move and enter
a new class; and he la naturally mora or
less affected by the opinion of the class
with which he associates. Public opinion
Is a potent influence even with a judge.
Dooley says that whether .the constitution
follow the flag or net la a disputed ques
tlon, but that there is no doubt that the
"supreme court follows the election re
turns. Not only doea the reault of ar
election unconsciously influence the mind
of judges, but the conversation which he
Is In the habit of hearing and the opinions
that aro expressed In his presence lmper
ctptlblj mould his thought. If a judge's
salary is auch that hla aasociatlon Is with
those who enjoy large aalarlea, and he Is
shut off from contact with those who
struggle for existence, It Is imposslbl
that ha should not feel their influence.
That a maa la known by the company he
keeps Is an old saying: It la no leaa true
that his opinions ar materially affected
by the company he keeps.
Tnat simpunes in situation com
pletely. Let the first mate give his
orders: "Back there, you yaller
finned, scuipln-mouthed, bog-water
skateflsh, avast! ahoy! reef the top
sail and do whatever the sea school
of correspondence tells you to get
back into the channel."
With the fog thus lifted, it remains
only for congress to get straight 'on
this question of salaries of judges and
all other lapses will be condoned. Let
the judicial salaries be cut to fit the
popular needs. If the judge who gets
a salary of 15,000 a year shows signs
of feeling his oats and snubs bis for
mer playmates, cut his salary to
f 3,(00, just' to show him where he
gets off. If the wife of the federal
Judge who gets a salary of $7,000
fails to recognise her former next
door neighbor from whom she used to
borrow uncracked china when she had
company for dinner, pare the Judge'
salary down until he begins to smoke
stogies again and does bis own mar
keting. Go the whole limit and so
keep the fountain and head of justice
close to the ground, establish the rule
that the higher the court the smaller
the salary. .Let the chief Justice an
the rest of the silk-gowned supreme
judges be put on at about $2.50 a day,
with no allowance for overtime and
1 proper docking for rainy days, thus
I compelling them to move from Massa
chusetts avenue and Dupont circle
1 over to Ramcat alley or some equally
I desirable quarter in southeast Wash
I ingtoa where they win be free from
J the contaminating influence of dlplo-
matlc receptions, luncheons at the
Army and Navy club, dinners at the
Metropolitan, vice presidential recep
tions and the like. In that way, and
n no other, can the Judiciary be kept
close sympathetic touch with the
masses and learn to make their de
mons square with the way the plain
people would vote.
It Is up to congress to heed Mr.
Bryan's warning and meet the Issue
fairly and squarely. The salaries of
11 our judges must be cut or the
ship or state Is on the rocks, with a
demoralized crew and outside the help
zone.
THE ARMT OEXERAL STAFF.
When Ellhu Root was secretary of
war in Mr. McKinley's cabinet and in
the first months of Mr. Roosevelt's
first administration, he succeeded,
fter a long and hard-fought contest,
In inducing congress to create the gen
eral staff of the army, composed of
officers of high rank in different de
partments, of the service and charged
with the duty of considering war
propositions in a big way. The need
of such a staff organization had been
fully demonstrated and its value has
since been proved. In spite of this,
congress is now attempting to impair
the efficiency of the military branch
of the government by reducing the
general staff by half and sending many
of its members back to active servict
at posts and barracks. The excuse
offered is that there is a marked
shortage of line officers in the army
and that the vacancies can not be
properly filled without ordering back
to the service some of the men who
have been asslgnd to general staff
duty. The general staff now consists
of forty-five officers and it is proposed
to cut the number to twenty-five, by
cutting off all captains and majors
and returning them to their regi
ment's.
Congress clearly fails to appreciate
the fact that the success of a war de
pends fully as much on preparedness
as on numerical strength of the army
that may be placed in the field. The
general staff, for instance, in the per
formance of its duties, has secured ac
curate topographical maps of China,
Japan and every other nation with
which the United States has any rela
tions whatever. It has learned just
what we would have to do in case of
a war with a foreign power, just how
many troops of the different branches
of the service would be required.
where they should be sent, how they
could be concentrated most readily,
where supplies could be forwarded,
how the march inland should be con
ducted, the condition of the roads and
the facilities for transportation, in
short all the points that study and
foresight could have ascertained. This
preparedness would save the country
tremendous initial loasea at the out
break of war. The information is
gained only after tiresome and pains
taking work and Is, without doubt,
worth more to the government than
any extra number of recruits who
claim they can lick their weight in
wildcats every day in the week with a
double allowance on Sundays.
The plea of economy does not carry
much weight, as the officers of the
general staff would be drawing their
salaries whether stationed at head
quarters in Washington or at Fort
Abe Lincoln or Fort Sam Houston.
The point is tha.t the general staff can
be of more real service by attending
to Its duties in Washington than if
half its members were ordered back
to army poets.
CHRONOLOGY.
Here is a bit of chronology that
should be filed away for future refer
ence in the archives of Nebraska po
litical history:
November 30, 1908 Judge Sullivan appointed
to supreme court vacancy by Gov
ernor Sheldon. 1
December 1, IMS Judge Sullivan announces
that he will accept.
December 1, 19fl8 Judge Sullivan takea oath
aa judge and alia on the bench.
December , 1908 Judge Bulllvan resigns for
' personal reasons."
January 1. 1909 Judge Sullivan forms part
nership, buys a horns and opens a law
office In Omaha.
January 18, 1909 Judge Sullivan appointed
to supreme court vacancy by Oovernor
Bhallenberger.
January 18, 1909-Judge Bul.llvan announcea
ne win accept only when right of
Governor Bhallenberger to appoint has
been judicially established.
January , 1909-Judge Sullivan offera to
let Governor Bhallenberger appoint
someone in his place to make the test.
January 27. 1909-Judge Sullivan formally
accepts appointment by Governor Bhal
lenberger. Answering a question about the in
come tax plank in the Chicago plat
form, Mr. Bryan once exclaimed, "How
can we tell when a judge Is going to
change his mind?"
A CAREER WITH A MORAL.
The brief paragraph in the New
York papers a few days ago record
ing the death from starvation and ex
posure of a man named James M. Mc
Knlght, found at the entrance to the
servants' quarters in a New York ho
tel, was all that was made public at
the time of the career of a man whose
record reads like a chapter of fiction.
In 1893 McKnlght, who was then a
federal bank examiner was sent to
Louisville to investigate several banks
Upon his report rour or them were
closed. Soon after he left the gov
ernment service to enter the employ
ment of the German National bank at
Louisville, of which in a few years
he. became president. Then hi got
Into politics and made a desperate if
fort to be elected mayor of Louisville,
Intending it as a stepping-stone to the
governorship, to which hi aspired
His liberal use of money in his cam
paign caused an Investigation of his
bank, disclosing that tb entire capi
tal stock and surplus had been dissi
pated. McKnlght was arrested and,
after seven trials, was sent to the pen
itentiary for six years.
McKnlght was a natural plunger
and prison walla could not confine his
mental activities. While In prison he
studied ont a scheme to save the To
bacco trust large sums In shipments
and was handsomely paid for his plan.
While acting as coachman for the
warden's wife he used his Tobacco
trust earnings in speculation and quit
prison at the end of four years with
$850,000 In cash. He went direct
from prison to Wall street, became a
plunger, made his million and lost it
and died hungry and cold in the arms
of a servant he had befriended. That.
In brief, Is "Jim" McKnight's life
story and it carries a wholesome
moral.
Mr. Taft Is to be treated to an all
gator dinner In New Orleans. With
baked beans and two kinds of pie for
dessert in Boston, fried scrapple In
Philadelphia, drop dumplings and pot
Ilcker in Virginia, 'possum In Georgia
and different varieties of chili con
came and tobasco in the Latin-American
reserves, Mr. Taft ought to be in
training for a digestion contest with
the goat and the ostrich.
It is proposed to make members of
the Omaha School board elective from
wards instead of at large. What is to
be gained by this change? We thought
we had made a great improvement
when the School board was divorced
from the ward system of politics and
Its membership intentionally and de
liberately made to cut across ward
lines and free itself from strictly
neighborhood Influences.
Secretary Wilson reporta that there
are nearly 20,000,000 horses in the
country and they are valued at nearly
$2,000,000,000. Those who pre
dicted that the automobile would put
the horse out of business may, by lis
tening intently, hear the horse laugh.
The Independent steel manufactur
ers are protesting against Mr. Car
negie's plan to have the steel duties
cut In two. Possibly that Scotchman is
as canny as any of them. The Steel
trust may want the tariff reduced to
put the independents in bad.
Governor Shallenberger has pro
claimed a general celebration of the
centenary of Lincoln's birthday, sug
gesting the display of the flag on that
day and commemorative exercises by
all patriotic societies. Unanimously
approved.
"The democratic party was beaten
last year because it still contains too
many Parkers and Guffeys and Bai
leys," says a southern paper. The
democratic party was beaten because
it contained too , few voters of any
kind. .,-
When figuring up the cost of city
government don't forget the $500,000
of unpaid hydrant rentals and the
$100,000 'of outstanding gas lighting
bills, to say nothing of the Water
board's lawyers' fees yet to be settled
for. t
Mr. Bryan's Commoner has changed
the heading from "Solving the Mys
tery of 1908" to "What of Democ
racy's Future?' The contributors to
the symposium, however, continue to
discuss chiefly democracy's past.
The electoral votes of all the states
have finally been handed into the vice
president at Washington and an im
patient public will soon know who
were elected as president and vice
president on November 3.
A Russian admiral has been dis
missed from the service for accept
ing bribes. It is but a short time
since the acceptance of bribes was
considered the essential part of a Rus
sian official's education.
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A member of the Wisconsin legis
lature walked from his home to the
state capitol, p. distance of seventy
eight miles, because he needed the
exercise. Who gets the mileage In a
rase of that kind?
Too Mark of a Good Thlag.
Louisville Courier Journal.
The Pullman company's surplus Is
$30,000,000. As nobody believes that this
comes from a "rake-off on the porters'
tips It looks as if the concern could afford
to reduce the price of berths.
Any Old Btatioa Will D
Chicago News.
On beauty about a wireless message is
ttiat it can be sent out to anybody whom it
may concern and does not depend on one
wire or the chances thst the operator at
the other end has gone to get a bite of
lunch.
A Tlai for Actlaa.
New York Tribune.
l he president s message approving the
recommendation of Oovernor Magoon
noma insure speeay action ror the re
moval of the wreck of the Maine from the
harbor of Havana, and incidentally the re
moval of a reproach which has too long
rested upon this nation.
' , vavri ss lasa.
New York Evening Post.
Doea learning pay? Fourteen holders of
honorary degreea from Oxford among them
I'realdent Butler, Charles EJlot Norton,
William Dean Howella. Bishop Doane,
Mark Twain and Profa. Baldwin. Goodwin
and Clldersleeve wishing to make a ' gift
to the English university, could only scrape
up a thousand dollars.
A Radical Uoctrla.
Baltimore American.
M. Taft haa raised a new and highly
important isaue in advising young
women net to marry men who are not
good enough for them. Now, mea 'la
the proud humility of their sag have ad
tnltted that the beat of them la not good
enough for lovely woman. Bealdea the
proud humility of this admission, there
is much convenience lurking In It which
the blunt advice ef the prealdent-elect
will rutbleaaly expose. The majority
will agree that sucb a doctrine la radical,
not t say revolutionary, and that of the
twe evila equal suffrage U to be pre
ferred to equal dent
A PIVOT Or CIVILISATION.
lallaeare ( Advertlalaat la lb
let-
ferment f the World.
Collier's Weekly.
The thought that advertising Is lh es
sential pivot upon which Civilisation turns
may be new to many; but the' further In
quiry Is made Into the facts the more ob
vious does it become that this Is true. When
one considers the educational effect of the
23.O00 newspapers and magaslnrs In this
country, and rocslls what Is obvious on re
flection, that scarcely one of them could be
profitably published without advertising. It
becomes clear that more than we caa esti
mate of the Intellectual statua of the people
dependa directly and unmistakably upon ad
vertising. Again, when one considers the
wide distribution of manufactured products,
upon which the comforts of civilisation so
largely depend, and recalls how here, too,
advertising haa been the Indispensable
factor, It becomes most evident that Its
importance is fundaments!. It Is hsrdly
surprising, therefore, that the advertising
in ten representative magazines last year
smountrd to nearly $8,000,000. If statistics
were possible showing the smount spent in
23.000 newspapers and periodicals, in the
street rsrs, on the billboards snd In the
hundred and one miscellaneous forms of
advertising, it would perhsps exceed the
figures of almost any other Industry. The
number of men employed In preparing ad
vertising matter, tn printing and publishing,
making Illustrations, designs, and engrav
ings, and doing other work contributing di
rectly to advertising, would If possible to
compute it, show publicity to rank easily
among the foremost Industries of the world.
While no one denies the right of an indi
vidual to make and market any unpatented
article, even when It is designed to "bust
the trust" by a lower price. It is hard to
make one's sympathy clastic, enough to
cover Imitations which have evidently been
designed to gather In from a none-too-careful
public a portion of the business devel
oped by the advertising and merit of a suc
cessful article. The courts are often called
upon to protect well known names from in
fringement by resemblance. Following the
introduction of "Uneeda Bf cult," the mar
ket was Infected, until the courts Inter
vened, with similarly appearing packages
of "Uwanta Biscuit," "Ullka Biscuit."
"Iwanta Biscuit," and others. Even If
such packages were made to contain a bet
ter product than the original. It would be
a poor policy for either dealer or consumer
to encourage the marketing of them In a
manner so obviously calculated to deceive
the public. It is, however, seldom custo
mary for that type of mind to knowingly
produce a superior article and offer It for
sale under such a dress. Censure csn not
be properly attached, however, to competi
tive articles which attempt honestly to give
product of equal value under an entirely
different name. The public have paid for
their education in learning to use well ad
vertised but unpatented commodities, snd
the lover of fair play will grant them the
right to purchase them at lower prices un
der new names if they so elect. Public sen
timent will hardly respond to antl-substltu-tion
claims which do not recognise this In
herent public right.
It Is quite probable that advertising will
play even a larger part In the drama of
civilization In years to come. Children
nowadays are familiar with advertising.
from the infant pointing to the picture of
the cow In the condensed milk advertise
ment, to the bay who knows from the tech
nlcal description just what kind of air rifle
he wants. It is not difficult to foresee the
probable effect this familiarity with ad
vertiaing from Infancy up .will have en the
buainess of the future. It will unquestion
ably make the next generation of grown
ups mora responsive to advertising. With
the assurance of a wide attention to his
announcements, the advertiser will be able
to diapense with many of the extraneous
efforts to secure It, and can devote his
space more largely to giving desired In
formation about hla wares. When the ad
vertlaements become a more generally
recognised source of useful Information,
the story-writers and poete may be hard
put to it to aecure their ahare of attention,
and the best literary features msy, as a
special favor, be run "next to advertising
matter.
In many Instances whst is needed Is not
that there ahould be more good things, but
that we should know about the good things
that are already available. A noted lec
turer on art recently delivered a masterful
exposition of his subject, and the $00 people
in his audience doubtless felt that they
were being entertained In a rare manner.
It is safe to ssy, however, that there were
10,000 people In the city who would have
gladly paid the admission price It they
could have been adequately Informed as to
the character of the lecture. There Is a
foolish notion In certain artistic and pre
fcsslonat circles that advertising tends to
mske a thing "too commercial." Sueli
position will not bear analysis. If the pur
pose of an art lecture la to spread useful
knowledge, then any reasonable effort to
get a larger audience might properly be
considered a vital part of the main purpose.
To prepare the flneat lecture in the world
and then neglect to take adequate steps to
connect the message with the people who
can profit by it. Is, te say the leaat, neither
good buainess nor good ethics. But it would
be eminently and orthodox ly "professional."
Tarollaa'a Salted Boaets.
Charleston News and Courier.
During the exposition In Charleston, one
of the many colonels In North Carolina
came here with Oovernor Aycock. He waa
very fond of ice cream, and at one of the
most brilliant receptions of that period asked
for pepper and salt, with which he declared
It had alwaya been hla habit to eat his
cream. That waa something new under
the sun In these parts, but as the Eraklne
college man ssys, Da guatibua non dts
putandura. It muat be said, however, that
the tar-heel colonel Is not the only person
or distinction who likes salt. A brilliant
young lawyer ahocked all his associates
at the Taft dinner In Summcrvllle Sunday
might be drinking his champsgne with
salt. It is said that salt glv-'s almost ss fine
a bouquet aa vinegar.
No lavasloa of Stales' Rights.
Philadelphia Rec-.trd.
The decision of the supreme court of the
United States In the case of u adjunct of
the Standard Oil company affords the evi
dence that atate governments In the rea
sonable exercise of their police power over
corporation! can accomplish more than haa
been effected thus fsr by the federal gov
ernment. which poaatsses no auch power.
Thla decision, In strict accordance with the
democratto principle of aelf-government by
the people of the states in all that relates
to their domestic affaira. demonatrates that
there is no need of centralisation of power
In the federal government In order te pro
tect the people from the oppressions snd
extortions of corporations and monopolies.
A Bird of a Critic.
Kansas City Star.
Representative James Back Perkins of
Syracuse, N. T., who beaded the con.
greasional scolding committee which pomp
ously "rebuked" the president's message
Is found to be the attorney for a patent
medicine- concern which Is being fought
by the government under the pure food
and drugs act The public kind of sus
pected something like that.
otmr ricRSisTS i nvio.
Peaasrlvaala's toleael Forsake s
Rryaa's roll Ore I Merger.
New York Tribune.
If the red slsver think he slays.
Or If the slain think he Is slain.
They know not well the subtle ways
I keep, and pass, and turn again.
Kverybody felt that red slaughter had
been committed at Denver last July wjien
the democratic national committee put
Colonel "Jim" Guffey'a head on a charger
nd presented It to Mr. William J. Bryan.
The strident snd multifarious Charles N.
Haskell read the decree of execution and
the delegatea ratified It. though most of
them realised that Colonel Ouffey was be
ing convicted not on speclficstions, but cn
general principles." The Pittsburg t tea
man had failed to read the handwriting on
the wall and had Imprudently worked to
ehoke off enthusiasm for Mr. Brysn In
Pennsylvania. He waa held to have suf
fered capitally for a crime unpardonable In
any genuine democrat.
Now It appeara that the slaughter wss
not as final and authoritative as it pur
ported to be. Colonel Ouffey, though
crushed, like Truth, to esrth, hss got on
his feet sgaln. Though displaced from the
democratic national committee as a rene
gade and an outlaw, he has bobbed up
once more with S certificate of member
ship In that honorable body. Dispatches
from Harrlsburg inform us that ha was
unanimously chosen by the democratlo
state committee of Pennsylvania to repre
sent that stste on the national committee
In place of the Hon. James Kerr, who died
last fall. Thus are the edicts of fate re
versed snd the judgments of party dictators
and conventicles set at naught. Colonel
Guffey has been officially adjudged "no
democrat" and a dead democrat; yet e
knocks again at the door of the party's
highest council with a certificate to the
effect that he Is as great and good a demo
crat as he ever was. Is he slain or Isn't
he slain? A puzzled world awaits an ex
planation from Messrs. William J. Bryan
and Charles N. Haskell.
Ml SIC AS A MEDICAL, AGEMT.
Doses of Artistic Haraaoay for Jaded
Kervee.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Ever since Apollo twanged his Moomin'
lyre it Is probable that the soothing effect
of music has been recommended to ner
vous sufferers with morn or less fre
quency. The music cure is being tested
sgsln and the music cured are quite en
thusiastic regarding Its virtues. For jan
gled nerves and overwraught minds it is
highly recommended and the most stub
born cases of Insomnia have yielded to
Its harmonious appeals. It is quite possi
ble that the blended effects have been
tried st times upon those persons who are
only fit for treasons and strategems and
spoils and other unpleasant things, having
no music in their souls, and for them the
harmonic dose must be decidedly unpleas
ant.
The curative music can be looked upon
from any form of Instrument that pro
duces tuneful effects. It msy be drawn
from the grand organ with Its forest of
pipes and Its thrilling ground swell of
sound, or it may come from the modest
concertina, or the equall modest guitar.
There are times, of course, when the boom
ing kettle drum and the insistent cymbals
and tho complaining' bagptpes serve the
same exalted purpose. But for the most
part the melodies are pitched In a minor
key in the hope that they will soothe
rather than arouse. It Isn't known that
any special composer Is composing music
suitable to the composing requirements ol
the new school of treatment, but the
field would seem to be an alluring one.
PUBLIC . AND THtCFTS.
Evil Calls for Proaapt AetUa by
Caagcreea.
Minneapolis Journal.
It seems almost Incredible that, after all
that has been done in the way of pursuing
and punishing thefts of the public lands,
lands worth $110,000,000 have been filched
from the government within the last two
years. But this is whst Secretary Garfield
reports In a request to congress for $500,000
additional to ferret out thefts and restore
the stolen property to the public domain.
If the facts are as stated, congress should
not hesitate to allow the amount asked,
nor should It stop there. It should Institute
an Investigation on its own account to
determine how far the las land laws of the
United States have encouraged the wrong
ful appropriation of public lands. The pub
lic domain is going fast.' We are talking
conservation, but while wo conserve or
converse, aa the case may be the lands are
disappearing. We are nationally In danger
of locking the stable after the horse haa
gone. .
Projected "Mneola Way."
Springfield Republican.
"The Lincoln Way," from Washington to
Gettysburg hattlefled. makes a start In the
senate appropriation of $60,000 for a survey
of the proposed route. The senate was
ready to declare that the appropriation
was made with a view to having the me
morial constructed, and. If the house con
curs, ths uadertaklng would seem to be
fairly launched. No othnr project has taken
a stronger holf upon p-ibllo opinion, evi
dently. A memorial in the city of Wash
ington in honor of the civil war president
has numerous advocates, but the originsllty
pf the proposed "Lincoln way" makes an
appeal all Its own.
What Will trme Dot
Indianapolis News.
Dr. Wiley Is knocked out completely by
President Roosevelt's special commission
of experts, which has decided that bensoate
of soda as a preservative of foods Is not
harmful, even in largo quantities. Indeed,
the food preservers are so "unanimous" at
this new decision thst they are asserting
that one had better take a little bensoate
for the stomach's sake, as food treated
therewith will be free of ptomaines. Well,
when doctors disagree, or eminent chemists,
what la the layman to do? At any rate no
one need eat stuff thst hss been bensoated
unlet i he chooses.
"A Local leaae."
Kansaa City Times.
Years sgo. when General Hancock, the
democratic candidate tor president, said
that the tariff was a "local Issue," every
body laughed. Now It is commonly ac
cepted that so long as the arrangement of
the tariff Is left to politicians, just so long
It will be, in a very large measure, a local
lasue; or, to be more explicit, a combina
tion of local issues, each politician trying
to get something for his constituents at
the expense of the country at large.
Characteristic of the Left.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Somebody says that the German people
are treating the kaiser "just as if he were
a defeated candidate." The comparison
does not seem apt. A shut month is not
usually a characteristic of a defeated can
didate. Paalshlaa; Naaa-htr lhlldrs
Baltimore American.
A financier in New Jersey who wrecked
a trust company has been refused a re
hearing by the court of sppeals and will
have te go te prison. Justice Is not only
moving lie Isaden feet just now, but . Is
actually doing seme prancing.
PF.R0AL. ROTES.
Coquelln in dead, but Sarah Bernhardt
seems to have been drinking from the
fountain of perpetual youth.
Dr. Elisabeth Osrrelt Anderson, ,mynr
of . AKleburgh, Kngland, gave a dinner
recently to forty councilors and. other
gueals. She wait the only woman rrefcent
and she wore a Mack drcfs. with a Widow's
cap ant diamonds.
I.idl(r Jorgetmcn, drum major of ''the
Engineer Corps band, who ha been a
conspicuous figure for thirty years. lead
ing the Grant fiiQcrat parade, In KWS, and
the Dewey parade, in New TerV, after
the Spanish war, has been retired at his
own request by the Wsr department.
King Alfonso of Spsln haa signed a
decree conferring upon Queen Helena of
Italy the Grand Cross of the Order of
Beneficence, in recognition of her labors
in behalf of the survivors of the Italian
earthquake. A similar honor wss re
cently conferred upon the queen by the
emperor of Austria. ' " ; 1
Mrs. Charles J. Hughes, Jr, . wife , of
the newly elected United States senator
from Colorado. Is a Missouri girl, having
lived lit Richmond, Mo., where she was
married. Her family name was Mcnefee.
and she Is descended from the Jdenefers
of Culpepcr county, Virginia, Mr. Hughes
is also a Mlssourlan by birth, having .been
born at Kingston, In Ray county. - ' .
The next centenary of a president after
the coming I,incoln observances will fsll
on April Z!, 1922, the 100th anniversary of
Grant's birth. Lincoln and Johnson were
bcrn within a few months of each other.
So were Grant and Hayes. Garfield and
Arthur differed but a year In age. ' Roose
velt and Taft were born within a year of
each other. In date of birth the presidents
have thus come In pairs.
PASSING PLEASANTRIES.
Officious 8ilemn-Wouldn't you like to
look at some of our overcoatings or suit
ings? Dyspeptic Iinking Customer No,' but If
you will bo kind emrugh to tell me where
the drug department is I'll take a look
at your pilllngs and porus plasterlngs.
Chicago Tribune.
"The lady who does tho diving and swim
ming act in the tank appeara to be quite
a favorite with the gentlemen."
"Yes, she is one of thoso new inventions."
"A new Invention?"
"Yes; she is a submarine belle." Balti
more Amet lean. .
"Goodness, Johnny, how you're growing!
If you don't look out you'll be bigger
than your father, soon."
"Gee. Wouldn't that be swell!"
"Why?"
"Why, then they'd have to out my old
trousers down to fit him." Cleveland
Leader.
"But. Dorothy, dear, don't you' care for
this lovely sunset?"
'Why, you know very well, mamma, that
I've got lots of pletute postcards that are
much lovelier." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
"The public will atand by a man who
proves he is upright and fearless." .
"Yes," answered Farmer CorntoSsel.
"You kin situs git people to stand by and
watch a man that's tryin' to do resl work.
The thing is to git 'em to turn in sj' help."
Washington Star.
8illleus I never send a man on a fool's
errand.
Cynlous No; It's s better plan to go your
self. Philadelphia Record.
"Bo he wasn't willing - to head the
ticket?"
"Oh, yes, he was willing to hesd the
ticket, but he wssn't willing to foot the
bills." Pittsburg Post.
"Gentlemen," said the tosstmaster at the
banquet, "we have listened to some excel
lent orators this evening and 1 am sure
we have enjoyed their efforts very much.
I hsve purposely kept one of our beat
speakers for the laat, and after you have
heard him f know you will bo glad to gn
home. Gentlemen, I have the honor to
present Mr. Ketchum A. Cumin, who will
now address you." Chicago Tribune.
THK IRISH BIRD CHARMER.
T. A. Daly in Cathnlio Standard and
Times.
Wid more or less o' tuneful grace.
As fits a Celtic singer.
I've praised the "great bird of our race."
Tho stork, the blessln'-brlnger.
When first to my poor roof he csme,
How sweetly he was sung to!
I called him every dacint name
That I could lay nie tongue to.
But, glory be! that praise from me
So pleased the simple crsyture.
His visits here have come to be
A sort o' second nature.
I'm glad to see him now an" then,
But. glory be to heaven! '
If hero he Isn't back again.
An' this Is number seven!
Och! though this gift o" song may be
In m-.inny ways a blessin'.
It brings soma popularity
That gets to be disthresHin'.
Now, mind. I love this Irish bird
Wo couldn't live wldout Mm
An' shure. I'll not take back a word
I ever said about him.
But now when all tfieae mouths to feed
Ate up our little -savin's,
The birds whose visits most we need
Are ould Klisha'a ravens.
Beor'! If they were 'round these days
An" I could make them hear me,
I'd sing them a song o' praise
'Twould keep them always near me.
HER
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