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THE OMAITA DAILY . BEEV MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22. 1909. ;... - K Titz Omaha Daily Bee FOUNDED BT EDWARD ROSEWATF.R VICTOR ROBI5WATER. EDITOR. Entered at Omaha poetofflce aa ncond class mattar. Trpua r r'tioratprrnv Dally Bee (without Sunday), (inn yeer..4) Dally lie and Sunday, one year 4(0 rurt.TVFmrn tn-r riRnlKH Dally Bee (Including Sunday), per week..l Dally Upt (without Sunday), par week...Wo Evening Bs (without Sunday), per week Sj Evening Rue (with Sundav). car week...!0e Sunday Be, one year ! SituMay Bee, ona yaar 1M Addreee all com pin In t of trrerulsritles In oenvary t city Clrnulatlna. Department orriCK Omaha- The Bra Bunding. South Omaha Twanty-fourth and N. Council Bluffs II Seott Street tJncoln Sit) I.fttle Building. Chicago IMS Marn..t. -Ri.lMlna Now Tork Roome 1101-1101 No. 14 Wait Thirty-Third S'met. Washington ?2S Fourteenth Street N. TV. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news anil edl torlal matter annul addressed! Omaha Baa, Editorial I Apartment REMITTANCES. Remit by draft. eapress or pacta! order payable to Tha fees Publishing Company. Only l-cant stamps received In payment of mall accounta. Peeaonal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. STATEMENT CT CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, as.! Geargo B. Tsachuck, treasurer of Tha Boa - Pabllshine; - eoitisany, being duly J worn, says that, tha actual number of all end complete copies of Tha Dally, loralng, Evening and Sunday Pee printed during Ui a month of January, ll9. u followa. savsoe SS.3O0 4 MLlM ,. M10 ." S7,0 T n.400 I 83,380 . n.400 11... ., 88,310 11 80,370 11... H,S90 14 88,870 IT M.104 II SSjJSO it ssaee so SS.OM it ss.iso tt.......... 80,030 It ... M.SM 14 87,800 It....'..... ssaio II.... 88,040 IT. ... 88.840 II 88.889 II Mao il... ss.eoo ..... 47.700 II 14 Total UHJ Lass unsold end returned copies. 1Q.4H Nat total 1484,714 Dally average. 88,848 00OJ B. TMCHITCK. ' . .. .w ' . '. Treasurer. Subscribed a my prassnoe and sworn ta before ma this id day of February, ltd. Sai) M. P. WALKER, ' Notary Public. WHElf OCT Of TOWIf. Saasorlbera UarUt the Ity porarlly saoald kara The Baa mailed ta tkesa. ' Address will lea rhamcoai as efts a rnMl.c. Hoard the hatchet story T March 1 has been named (or orange day and even tbo Hibernians may Join la It A smokeless Omaha would Indeed be a thing of beauty and a Joy forever. We live in hope. That Nebraska Central receivership la another object lesson for the get-rlcb-qulck zealots. .Thirteen Hew senators will begin their terms on March 4 and not one ot them is superstitious. " The admltsion'of Arizona and Nw Mexico to statehood will remove tha last chance for having twins born Into tho vaton..: ' ' Ip addition to being appointed by Mr. Taft, Mr. Knox, baa bn elected to a cabinet position by both branches of . congress. The Lincoln Commercial club will banquef the members of the legisla ture. If that doesn't fetch the appro priations, what will? ;Welir; Weill Well! What would the World-Herald do If there were no one by the name of Rosewater for It to throw fits about? . Senator Stephenson's primary elec tion etpesses . amounted to 92 for every voto ho received. Wlsconslnitea are' proverbially thrifty. If tt costs the taxpayers of DouKlaa county an average ot over 1200 a year for every child kept In the Detention home, it Is costing altogether too much. '.'S'. ' v Vice. President ni Tin. Fair banks will make a leisurely (our of tho world after tho adjournment of congress. Africa, however, is not on their Itin erary. ; , : t . ! v-v- A dispatch announces that the antl treatlng. hill In tho South Dakota legis lature is "'la deep water." It should be referred to tho committee, on lr rlgation. " "' .' Apparently--all1 tho trouble mlaht have been avoidetMf Daniel Frohman had Just JturaUhed his wife with a dally supply, ot sOcks that needed earning, Speaker Catincn- aaa just sold a Ne braska farm tor $85,000. He got it by pnrcaase tong .before Senator Till man' .plan 'of; gobbling quarter sec tions was devised.' Th report that a prominent Kea tucklan was tilled by drinking Imita tion whisky la surprising only as caus ing won4ar that a prominent . Ken tuckian could be fooled Into drinking an Imitation. - - - "Municipal Homo Rule" is always a popular slogan, but tho kind ot mu nicipal home rule Omaha really want Is tho. right for Us people to make their own charter and to decide for themselves what municipal officers they want and bow ' they shall be chosen. . I The omana Real Estate exchange should take the hint and prosecute a campaign against the billboards to a finish. Wo fear,-however, that any anti-billboard campaign would find some of tho real estate men lined up In defense of the billboard nulaanr because thoy derfvo a small reveni for contributing to this disfiguring o tho cltjr. , otonot w.Afnrsarox In these days of political hysteria, attendant oa tbe birth of new national ideas and marking a transition period when none but the stanchest patriots see new Ideals finally succeeding over reaction, public men may well draw Inspiration from the- calm, heroic figure that on tho battlefield And In the council chamber led the forces which made political liberty more than a philosopher's dream. It has been said that the great man of each age is the embodiment of the strivings of tho period, that he crystal lizes and harmonizes the various con flicting thoughts and by his. genius furnishes a solution which represents the desires of the majority. Many leaders there have been who, lacking tho stamina to withstand tho stress of tho times havs degenerated into dema gogues and the nation has suffered. He Is the rest builder of nations who not only hears the voices of his age but who Is not stampeded by Its vol ume, who critically and Impartially Judges which of these voices sounds the true note, who has the courage to follow the almost resistless murmur when It coincides with tho fruits of re flection In the closet, and who has the greatest courage to resist their impor tunities when passion and false senti ment furnish their well spring. Had Moses listened to the com plaints of tbe children Of Israel wan dering in tbe wilderness, there had been no Jewish nation, no conception of Jehovah, no ten commandments. Many contend that had Cromwell been a less absolute dictator there would have been no restoration. Had he looked less lovingly on the ,crown which, for political reasons,, he must perforce refuse, there " had been no monk to reopen negotiations with the tyrant Stuart family. History, in Its resistless "volution, might have accom plished tho same result, but It would have been long delayed. George Washington was offered a erown, but within him the fires of patriotism had burned away the dross of selfish advantage. He stood upon pinnacle from which be. beheld the puny glory attached to man-made honors and knew what few have yet learned, that the weKare of the' many spells the happiness of all. He an ticipated many of the lessons taught today. His thought was far In ad vance of his time and yet the spirit of - his own sge. His faults. Judged even by contemporary standards, were many and great. He was austere and cold and lacked the general open demeanor which characterizes the suc cessful politician.. He loved to hedge himself about with the dignity that doth stamp a king apd yet this very quality served to protect him and the nation from the demagognery which was as rampant In those, days as in these. Through all the pages of his tory a few names will 011 remain and among these, not the' least shah be that of George Washington, an in spiration to the future, as he Is to the past, as he, was to his own age. ' rSDIB4L OBADWO VF GRAIX. . The senate's amendment to the agri cultural bill for the appointment of expert graders 'of grain, when ' re quested by a fixed, number of jraln growers, to bo paid by tbo growers, is a short but wholly Inadequate step toward the remedy of an evil against which grain growers snd dealers, par ticularly In the west, have long com plained. These graders are to deter mine grades and condition of grain offered for sale and to fix satisfactory standards In tbe local markets. The proposition may be effective, In adjusting local differences and to that extent furnish relief to the growers who are too often at the mercy of the buyers, but it comes far from reaching the real source of complaint and discrimination. Wheat shipped from Nebraska and Dakota points un der a certain grading by local buyers and millers is often given an entirely different rating at Buffalo, Chicago, New York -and other rellljng and ex port centers and the record shows that the change is Invariably to the loss Of the shipper. The change of grad ing by these eastern dealers costs many thousands annually to the grow ers of the west and the real need la for a system of standards applied at the point of origin and good at the destination. Tbe plan proposed may result la strengthening the claimt, of growers and western shippers to more Just recognition In' the eastern, mar kets snd to that extent will : prove beneficial. WQHEB COMMSRdlAL, ED CCATlOlf'. The adoption by various business organizations 'throughout the country of resolutions endorsing the plan of the State department at Washington for giving Its consuls and consular agents a special course of training In commercial work directs attention to a growing demand everywhere for some , system of definite commercial education. Some effort Is being made to connect the new movement for commercial education with the univer sities and several American educa tional Institutions have taken steps la that' direction by the establishment of special commercial courses, Dart mouth and Harvard have already, es tablished such departments, although that at Dartmouth is more particularly devoted to' the training of teachers for future work la commercial schools. Oermany, which has long been the leader tn educating Its consuls and business representatives, has recently established commercial schools under the auspices of the Chambers of Com merce la Berlin. Zurich, Frankfort and other centers, with the results that tnese scuoois cave Become over crowded. Theeo schools are of high grades, some claiming even a'.anlver sity title, and their purpose is solely for the training of business men. The entire tendency In foreign universities is sway from the general courses snd toward limiting work to specific de partments. The graduate of a foreign university, having been trained for a specific profession, represents all that there Is there embraced In the con ceptlon of a university education, while in this country the college graduate is by no means a professional man The European college graduate is al most inevitably a professional man while the American college graduate Is more spt to be found in railroad work, at the head or foot of some industrial or commercial enterprise. This Is one of the handicaps to the movement in this country for a higher commercial education. The public has come to look upon the educated roan as pne who has had the advantages of the training found In a general college course and It has not yet learned to look kindly upon college study spe cially adapted to fitting young men for commercial life. One result of this condition is that too many young men who desire to enter business life are disposed to go direct to It from the high schools. Both tbe colleges and the students lose by this defect In the educational system. MVyiClPAL HOME. RUtE. i In his lecture here under the auspices of the Omaha Real Estate exchange, Clinton Rogers Woodruff, secretary of the National Municipal league, explained what municipal home rule really means. He said that it meant the largest possible scope for local self-government and that it meant leaving it to the community to provide for its own local "affairs, sub ject only to the paramount authority of the state in matters of law enforce ment, sanitation and, sometimes, of police administration. Municipal home rule, he explained' further, does not mean that any particular officer, or class of officers, should be elected or sppolnted, but rather that the people of each community should be author ised to decide for themselves upon the manner or method of filling offices without being compelled to go to the legislature for permission for every change. The definition of municipal homo rule given by, Mr. Woodruff unques tionably conforms with the Ideas that prevail generally among those who have given the best thought and study to the problem of city government. The idea that home rule means screens back in tho saloons, beer on Sunday, restoration ot slot machine gambling, a wide open town, . or elective police commissioners, or all of them, is pure fiction, manufactured for political capital and particular ap plication by the candidate who hap pens to be seeking office. . The kind ot municipal homo rule which gives us real local self-government will come. only when an end has been made to biennial charter tinker ing at1 Lincoln. , . FOR A SUMMER CAPITAL. We doubt If much enthusiasm in congress or out will be aroused over the bill offered by Mr. Landis of In diana for the construction of a "Coun try White House" at West Point for use as the summer home and business office of the president. The president will probably bo among tbe first to oppose such a prop osition. Washington is unbeatable In the summer, to those who can afford to get away during the heated term, but It would mean little to tbe presi dent simply to transfer the deadly grind of routine official business from the Potomac to the Hudson. It would mean that the offleeseekers snd others would go to West Point Instead of to Washington at a time when the presi dent, being entirely human, would be trying to get away from the. cares of office and to find a little recreation In the enjoyment of private life, or an approach to it. ' Of course, there is always a mass of official business that must have the president's atten tion, but he can better attend to this in a summer home of his own seeking, .where he can putvup the "No Tres passing" sign and meet only those whose buslnees with him is public and pressing. The Norfolk News has uncovered a rtep plot by prominent Nebraska dem ocrats, "including Governor Shallen berger and Congressman Hitchcock," to retire Bryan from leadership, "be lieving he should withdraw after everything has been sacrificed for him by Nebraska democrats after sixteen years." With Shallenberger in the governor's chair and Hitchcock draw ing congressman's pay, while Bryan is a high private. It is hard to tell who has been sacrificed. A St. Louis man seeks a divorce be cause he has been compelled to live up to rules framed by bis wife. He declares that he has been forced to go to bed when the gong rang at p. m. and has been allowed but one bath a week, while the household pup always got two. The fact that he has stood for that regime for a quarter of a century indicates that if there to any alimony la the case his wife will have to pay it. - The dense indifference with which the people of Omaha alt idly by while their charter Is being hacked to pieces for the sole benefit of the politicians, public service corporations and the paving contractors Is to be explained by tho same old aaw. "What's every body's business Is nobody's business." The high federal court of Venezuela has decided that Cipriano Castro Is no longer preldeut of Venezuela, having forfeited his office by engaging la a plot to assasslnsto the vice president. Castro's 'return to Venezuela would now be celebrated by another and dif ferent operation upon him. The Missouri legislature has abol ished the school of journalism In the state university because "It has simply toyed with the ethics of the newspaper profession." The Missouri method of toying with the ethics of the news paper profession should never be taught In colleges. Our amiable democratic contem porary would have Its readers believe that the editor of The Bee is attempt ing to manipulate the democratic leg islature and Is in Imminent danger of succeeding. While we deny the alle gation, we appreciate the compliment, just the same. Oyster Bay Is arranging for a mon ster reception to Private Citizen Roose velt on the evenlnx of March 4. In cidentally, tbe celebration will mark Oyster Bay's retirement from the tele graphic date lines until Mr. Roose velt returns from Africa. Walter Wellman has discovered that Mr. Knox may decline the appoint ment to be secretary of state in Mr. Taft's cabinet. Wellman is almost as successful In discovering facts that aren't so as.be Is In discovering tho north pole. - . . The statehood bill for Arizona and New Mexico has passed the bouse and tbe postal savings, bank bill will prob ably pass the senate. Then tho two measures may wait in tho corridor until thO next session. : Brazirpays a premium of $40 for every Jspanese immigrant over 12 years of age. California and Nevada act as though they would like to pay a bounty for every. Japanese emigrant, regardless of age.- Banker Morse is allowed to do bnal. ness on Wall street each dav. but mn.t spend his nights in Jail. The real re- iinement of punishment for a New xorker is to lock him up at night. "Liberia's Orestest Need" is the title of a magazine article. Liberia's greatest need Is more work snd less politics. With Soma Left Over. Houston Post. Wa feel authorised to atata th tha stock of Lincoln atories and nrtntr la sufficient, to laat tha country until the time comes to celebrate his bicentennial. The Good and the talck. Chlcagro Record-Herald. Geronlmo la dead and moat of tha nih.. Indians are ton buav training for then IMlf. pose ot winning honors on the foot ball field and the MarathOn course to ha vary bad. A Cotaklae that Vailed. Kaiuae,7tty Star. An agreement to1 meraa tha four i.r.Mt packing planta Int.tha country was dis closed In the eeuraeitr the trial In Chi cago of the case. of Frederick Jnaenh against Ferdinand Sulzberger. The . ar rangement railed becauae of the panto of 107, and vnot., remember, because It would Lave been In plain violation of tha law of the land. To the Beef trust the government continues to be very largely In the nature of an Incident. Child Bartered for Debt. Boston Herald, lit does not reoitre a Daniel com. to judgment to decide that a child cannot be bartered for debt, yet the decree of Justice Greenbaum of tho supreme court of New Tork to "that effect la worth noting by persona who may think of sup plying by adoption a want of their house hold circle. The child In question was boarded by the parents, who were unable to pay the board bill. ; It waa advertised for adODtlon by 'the creditor. . nH .... actually sold for f 54 to a charitable child less couple who acted In good faith and parted with tha little one with regret person ai. Notes. Senator J. W. Bailey of Texas, who la afraid the automobile la going to knock the foundations from Under this nation, is the proprietor ef a stock 'farm and a raiser of fine horses. ' The most brilliant feature of the open ing of Parliament was the great Culllnaa diamond worn on tha breast of Queen Alexandra. His majesty's opening speech didn't begin to sparkle like this. Approximately seventy men met a horrible death by fire or drowning In the Chicago water worka .crib and the coroner'a Jury modestly recommends that an Improved method of thawing dynamite be discovered. Nicholas Schneider, proprietor of a Bloorafield (N. J.) barber shop, . had the unusual experience of shaving hie brother. Joseph Schneider, without recognising him In the ohalr. The two had not met for thirty-two years. . Omaha's tax wagon schema has been put Into action m Chicago and Is doing a lively business among . ' derelicts. With great unanimity and mucfl Indignation tax shirk ers denounce the hurry-up as a reflection on their integrity. .., The "abort and ugly word," In sonorous native tones, passed between two member ef the Turkish Chamber of Deputies lately. Tha Young Turka party la absorbing all tha klnka of the trade of rulers from alder men to congresaloaej so Ion a As a rare tip on government ownership It Is worth noting that the Manitoba tele phone system, operated by the government, netted a surplus of tltt,O0o during the first year, justifying ah immediate reduction of one-third In the present rates. The sure sign of a long extra session for the revision of . the . tariff Is Senator Frye's action la notifying Maine friends that he will not go fishing next summer, on account of his anticipated attendance at tha coming aeaslon pf con greas. The Dill family, living near Pieroeton, Ind., Is remarkable la that fourteen brothers and slaters, all ot tha same parenta, are living and well, and stione waa bom later than June 14. Vffi, the combined ages being 1,010 years. Originally there were eighteen children, three dying when young. The legislature of Illinois Is called upon to settle a problem wbloh goes down deep into the very roots of society. The maidens of that state want a distinctive title, such as women have, to distinguish bachelors from married men, as "Miss" distinguishes ' the maid from "Mrs.," tha matron. When this distinction la made, a sympathetic senator proposes to Introduce a bill making It a felony for a married maa to paea blmaeif off as a htiehelor. Tha womaa have . bean complaining that from the standpoint of status, ait "Mr.'a" look alike to an unsuspecting and eou tiding maiden. Ilanoa, they want than tagged. ITS Or WASHIJGTO LITE. Thoachta ratrlaj tha Iaaa.as.ra Cereaaetale. Tf tha official weather ser, comfortably housed in Washington, could compound package of brlarht and warm weather for March 4. ha weuld rival tbe president-elect In local eateem, for one day at least. Good weather la tha chief Ingredient hi tha hap piness of tha national capital on Inaugura tion day, but ao confounded fickle la' Vlarch generally, and along tbe Potomac particu larly, that only a nervy sport wttl back Ita good behavior wltb a dime. Every time the data cornea round with nasty weather, and nasty weather la tha rule, all Washing ton boosta for a chance of date. This has been going on for years, but as yet con greas haa not given much attention to the lamentations of the local crowd. Tha most outraaeoualy mean Inauauratlon oay witnin the memory of tbe present gen eration was March 4L UTS. Whan OeneraJ Grant began his second term. The night before eld Boreas started cn a bender. The coldest of cold winds .; kv;t down upon the capital, kleKlne- uo bHndtn dust a every wnere ana rreeslng up everythlna fre Die. it was actually cold enough and, as Some DeoPla aald. mean nn,h . .win.. I Into solid loe tha Inauguration punch set aiae over night In unhealed apartments of many mansions. The stands erected alma- tha Savmntiaa 4n spectators were absolutely ludicrous In their empunesa. aucn a beggarly array of empty boxea on auch an occasion was never seen before. Here and there some hardy people, evidently acclimated, were located In knot. and scattered within tha long array of vwn they were few and far be tween. Many who had bourtit ticket, in vanee for enviable seata never thought of using tnem. But tha proeesalon moved on Schedule time, and a grand proeesalon It was; tha wina aept on blowlna- harder and tfc. t mosphere each moment grew colder. The paopie on me atreete-the sightseers-had a great advantage over tha men tn th. rade. They eould Jostle each other and neep warm, even If there were no other waye or warmmr ue at various ni. . so the procession escorted the president io in capitoi and back to tha White House ana aiaoanera. The program for tha Inauguration on i nursaay or next week Is divided Into five Important features ana some others of a teaser aegree of Interest. -irt th i Posing military division of the n...n which Is being arranged on a big scale by Major General J. Franklin run m, v,. been appointed grand marshal. Second, the civic organization divlalon nf th. n.... with' Major Thomas P. More-an. nhnlmun or tna committee, In charge as marshal. Third, the great display of fireworks on the White lot, Just In front of the White House. In combination with the Illumina tion or the streets of Washington through the . downtown section, tha dome nt the United Statea capltol and tha Washington monument, and a drill and diaplay of pyro- leonnics rnr the Republican Flambeau cluh of Minneapolis. Fourth., tho Inauaural bail In tha penalon buildlrg, tha biggest brick etruoture in tha world. Fifth, tbe forenoon parade ot tha , American veteran soldiers and sailors ef tbe brand Army of : the Republic, the United Soanlsh War vetarana and the Army and Navy union, which will rorm the escort of honor for President. Elect Taft . and Vice President-13 eot Sher man from the White Houae to the caoltnl. preceding the big parade and ether fea ture a. Tha details of the bis military naraite have been worked out by Bricadler Gen eral John A. Johnson, chief of General Bell's staff, asslated by Major Samuel D. gturgis, adjutant . general, both regular army officers on duty at the War depart ment Briefly, the arrangements provide for the n-cir.lng escort of the president from the White House to tha capltol at W o'clock by tha veteran grand division; the exercises at the capltol, en a stand accommodating 7.00c persona, concluding with tha adminis tration of the oath of office to the presi dent and his addreas; the assembly of tha military and grand division m the streets south and southeast of tha civic grand division In the streets west and northwest of the capltol; the afternoon esoort of the prealdent by the military and civic grand divisions from the capitoi to the White Houae at the conclusion of hla Inaugural address, at about 1:20 o'clock; review of tha military and clvio grand divisions by tho president from his stand In the court pf honor in front of tha White House, from about I to 4 In tha afternoon, and the dis missal of the parade! tha display of fire works from T:tO to o'clock. In the military division there will be about 1,600, sailors and marines from the battleship fleet, fresh from its cruise around tha world, the famous Philippine eon- stabularly band, tha midshipmen and cadets from the academies at Annapolis and West Point STEERS AS FIHISHED PRODUCT. Naw EaglataeV Seatlaaeat em tha Free Hide Preaaaltloa. Boston Transcript It Is amusing to find the western advo cates pf the retention of tha duty on hides voicing tba spirit of nationality and re buking New England for putting forts' a sectional" demand liable to dlaturb the sweet and holy harmony In which tariffs are concocted. Among those who stand forth as champions of tho western farmer, tha humble tiller of the aoil, the owner of a single cow, perhaps, against tna aggres sions of tha Naw England manufeclurera. are Senators Carter, Warren, Smoot. Nixon, Heyburn and Dick; and Representatives Campbell of Kansas, McLachlaa of Cali fornia,- Rodenberg of Illinois. Hull aad Smith of Iowa and Kennedy of Ohio. They are. or represent themselves to bo, solely concerned for the - safety of tbe western farmer. Soma of tbem Indeed are western faraaere themselves, Senator Warren being particularly noteworthy for his Interest In land, and we all know that land la -the basis of agriculture. Representative Campbell of Kansas, be sides maintaining that the soil Is a "raw material," Interjects a new definition into tha terminology of political economy by In sisting that a stoer is "a finished product" and therefore as much entitled to the pro tection our fiscal policy affords as the fin ished product "of any manufacturer In the country. Mr. Campbell does not develop bis reasoning so fully as Ita novelty makes desirable, but It may be Inferred that the soil being admitted' to be raw material. whatever drawa from it nutriment essential to existence Is a finished product srgo a steer is a finished product and Us hide partakea of tha quality. What applies to one animal applies to another, but will Mr. Campbell assert that a hen la a flnlabed product? ttegaUtlaa Sale ef A rasa. Washington Herald: Alabama has enacted a law declaring that no pistol less thaa twenty-four Inches la length a hall be sold la that state, while Oregon aays no hatpin more thaa ten Inohes long shall be eold In that stats. The disposition of these common wealths to regulaie the sale of their deadly weapons la ooouueadabla, j THE NATURAL, ROOSEVELT, sirnws asm aervatlea Pel ley. J. E. Chamberlain In N. T. Mall. v nen a man la multifold, like Roosevelt. there Is, nevertheless, a man Insidw of him who Is single. In the laat spiritual analy- als, a man can be but one; and out In the woria aomewhere there la a person who anowe that one man. that inside man, and ' "r mw in reality there la no other that all this manysldednesa.la mere ap- pwirsnce. I fancy that John Burroughs knows the real Inside ef Roosevelt as well aa anv other. But the president haa left the key of himself for us all. He exposed that In- ..u. ...... .o general view in his first annual ..-v. ne n. sept on revealing him ""- "" message. "" me one strong, big part ef Roosevelt's first message was me portion or it which bore upon the for ests. the flowing watera, and tha great piains ana oroaa valleys of the far west that look upward to the sun and ask mois ture. There may be uncertainty about rail road rates, and halfheartednesa about reci procity, but there la neither v,,.nn.. . -k... v... . .. - ..wot, .nm vi aaya 01 me feresta and Mia watera The first message . rings ieua and aiear with It and the sec - ond takes up tha subject eloquently where the first left off. and the advocacy gains in strength and force to the very last: n that, In spite of congressional contemn and Indifference, the whole country, tbe whole continent listens at last These forest utterances ot Roosevelt's, these appeals la behalf ef wasted natural resources, are a cry of the heart; In them stands the man himself. ' The administration of Theodore Roose - velt will stead for at least six great for - ward steps In the advance of the nation. But before I enumerate these steps let me make this assertionthat the dearest of all his own worka to him la the muutn. " V v. the general conscience In the matter of the conservation of tha natural resources, with Its attendant blessings of the Insurance of many thousands of acres of aacred wood- ana irom ina ax, ana the springing up of the green grass upon the vast desert ex panses. The man who keenly desires that so much Of the country as Is not forest shall be garden, so that the people shall have the powers of paradise all about them, can never be antl-patrlotlc, and can never be a bad politician. Theodore Roosevelt's ohlld- hood endowed hint with a passionate love Of tbe woods, and to his aneclal forest love was In that period added a tender respect for tbe plowed field and the husbandman. It Is noaalMa that tha aunramv nf thi. out-of-door sentiment In n.aevelt haa - stricted his subtlety aa a atateaman. Per haps tbe real lover of the forest can never become old enough to be a perfect man of State; Emerson, we know, says that "In the woods a maa casts off hla years, as a soaks hts slough, and is always a child; In the woods Is perpetual youth." I know that Roosevelt, In spite ot his occasional can- Blness as. a politician, laa man ot simple, youthful, forest mind. , But the people would rather have him that than any other kind of man, and I am convinced that tha reoord of his accomplishment In the affairs of the nation would be much shorter today If he were not tbe boyish outdoor fellow! that he Is BRYAN I If 11S. Sosne ReSectloaa aa tha Advance Notice at "a Personal Frlead." . . New Tork Sun. The latest-authenticated version of Mr. Bryan's ettluide Is that, he wttl not be a oandldate in 1811, At the south, owing ohlefly to hie own. announcements and or acular reservations In that section, they have their forebodings, to the contrary. In fact , Peacon Hemphill of the Charleston News and Courier haa copyrighted the pre-1 diction that he will be the democratic nom inee In 1912, 1914 and 1930, at least. This conclusion la reached after a prayerful study of his Perpetuity's studied utterances snd ostentatious retlcenses at various points and aocordlng to the circumstances of the case. It Is true that a certain southern newspaper of some obscurity and circum scribed authority has reproached Deacon Hemphill for his surrender to the preten sions of tbe Gifted One, but the protest has aroused only a languid and aeml-eon- temptuous attention. The fact remains that Mr. Bryan haa disclosed an Inability to read the signs of last November and a willing ness to come to tba rescue of the demoo raey once more, while en the other hand there la absolutely nothing to ahow that the south has any 'views whatever of Its own. It seems to us that the deacon's point I la well taken, and we feel disposed to sup port his caveat The "personal friend," however, stands firm on his somewhat adventurous posta- late. "During tha next four years," he I ays, "new men and Issues are expected to make their appearance, and aa entirely aew alignment may be expected within the democratic party." Wa can see 4he dee. eoa's acidulated smile. What new Issues can arise which Mr. Bryan Is not In a po- j sltlon to adopt and champion? From the I oeuuiar nypoineaia m tna rule o inume I he has In turn professed and advocated very theory, every dogma and every wild cat schism that was ever bred In the mind or tha disordered vagary of man. What deliberate assumption, what feverish night mare even, is possible within the next four or tbe next forty years which Mr. Bryan cannot 'consistently manlpulats and to which his astounding versatility will not I lend Itself? Mr. Bryan's Interpreter goes wide of the realities. There ia no queation of new men or new issues. It Is a question of the south's Intelligence and manhood. We are glad to know that Mr. Bryan Is going on with his lectures and his 'newspapers. It reassuring to be told that hla Income ranges from $60,000 to 180,000 from those sources, and that ha seldom charges a cent for sitting down to dinner. We delight In 1 Fairvlew and . the fatted heifers. These things are all as they should be. We still retain our respect for the philosophies and the aphorisms of the lamented Barnum. Some people do not know how to take care of their money anyhow, and;t la well that the surplus should pass to the keeping of the far-seeing and the provident. But Mr. Bryan's candidacy In 191 dependa entirely upon the courage and enlightenment of the south. Such leaders aa Senators Bacon, Johnston, Culberson and Daniel can Ilium- lne the chaparral, tbe "pennyrlle" and tbe piney woods If tbe went to. Deacon Hemp- hill evidently thinks they won't, and for atl I we know that may be tbe truth. I A Natlraal Libel Casa. SprinsHeld Republican. The Indictment for libel by the grand jury of the Plstrlct of Columbia agalnat the New York World and the Indlanapolla New., under the libel law. which the dla- trlct Inherited ever 100 years ago from elghteen-century Maryland, brlnga those I journal, face to faea wltb the same Issus of the freedom of the press which Charlss A. Dannase successfully met -a dosen or I fifteen years ago. Judas Brown of the nitsd States court decided that Mr. Dana of tbe New York Sun could not be baled to Washington and there tried for libel under the district llhal laws; and It Is to be hoped that the World and tba News wljl fight extradition today for the reason, which were expounded In ao mas terly a style by Ellhu Root In defending Mr. Dana oa the former occasle THF. NIK-FOOT BED SHEET. lisnna (.rawer aael Maitlvtiun " tor Keeraaka Measare. I Charleston Newa And Courier. our interesting contpmncrerr. the A"1 Wool and Cotton Reporter ol Boston. Hi taking a- mre rneerrwl view ol th situation and discerns a ray wf hope IB 01 rndrng n the Nebraska legle- lature requiring hotel proprieties to . fur. risn oca sneets nine feet irnt. "As tht textile and Its allied Industries, remarks i otir thrifty friend. "fnVnlsh iik. I of customers for hotel I standard 108-inrh sheet ine- wi.m .... ... more cotton, give more employment to mill workers, and benefit the growers of cotton, there la ne reason why me textile Industry should not heartily Indorse such a measure and artiste trt all alalia of tl.. union for such a bed coverlna.' The point of view of our contemporary Is heav ily laden with .sagaoloua reasoning and fragrant with suggestion besides. The community of Interest In the nine-foot bed aheet between tha South Carolina farm ers' union and the South Carolina , manu facturers' association Is toe cbvkws to r quire emphasis ef us and the fraternl . . on of th ,wo otd "hould beg I.- at I BSaba.eAek af AW. . I " " - mi imcni The manufacturers u xam '"rmpr" "noma move on Tna state in a ocay ana aemana tnat xne in- teresta of tha two leading Industries nt Bo"" Carolina be given their rights. Mean- I hlle It will not be disputed that the nlne- I tooi bed sheet proposition ' has merits of lu own, or It would not have had. the at- I Knllon of the lawmakers rf Oklahoma and I Texaa, aa well as ot these of the state of 1 tha Commoner. 1 If the . bill should bo introduced tn the I South Carolina general assembly, we give notice of general amendments, ixmong them the requirement , for four-foot hath.trwcls I m A tt.i.tvinnw .... , n . ...... ..... . j iii.i, kUHTin t, M 1 1 1 1 ' I t n r, , - on dory ablutions. The hotels also .shoul 7 be forbidden to allow tha roll towel that hangs behind the door In tha lare-Ury to remain on duty longer tl an a sixty-hour I meek I Revolatloalslsa Battles.. I New York Globe. I It will be necessray for the poets of tha I future to revise Imagery aa they describe h conflicts of arms. Furious. Prank and I flary Hun no longer struggle under a eul- I pburous csnopy. , Tho lines of Tennyson In I celebration ot the exploit of tbe Light Brigade will become archaic. Soldiers on Ith of battl w,n not continue to dance nntn tn ro" of alstant guns summon them "n xneir partners, ine oauicnem aunng iremenooua grapple may . oe as smiling as a plain of Prdvenee,' and the song of birds my h heard aa missiles weighing a ton are hurled through the air. Last sf Hla K' New Tork Trlhune. ' Geronlmo, tho Apaohe chief, will live In history as the last of the long lire of Indian warriors who devastated1 the fron. J tier as It slowly moved westward. No I ether American Indian will ever achieve an evil eminence of that sort, frr the conditions which' permitted Geronlmo t kill and burn In the aboriginal ' f islilon are now, happily,' out of date, 'even- In t.ie least settled portions of the far west, LAUGHING tlAS, . "Weren't there some rather old Ideas in your recent aoeech?" Inquired tho confi dential friend. " "Possibly," answered Senator Sorghum. "A atateaman la not known by the Idess he evolves, but by the ideas he .adopts." Washington niar, , , '.,. "Tea, they" are Immensely' westthv.''' " "Are they? I supposed they were In com fortable circumstances, but I never had any Idea that they were to be numbered among our millionaire families." I eggs 'even for their hired help.."-CblegbJ k Record-Herald. . , . - . "Sir, I pity your Ignorance." "Don't you charge me with lgnorarw, you Impudent fellow." - -t Oh. but I have the proof, ijo you deny that you served on a Jury In TennneeT" Philadelphia Ledger. Office Boy I want to go tofay grand mother's funeral. Employer I can t let you ho. and I don t think you will be missed, anyway, aa the last time she had s funeral there were 16,000 people there. Harper's Weekly. 'Don't you suppose, senator, that eventu- illy all kinds of machinery Will be run by a wireless system; "No, my boy; wa never could run a po litical machine without wlres."-Chlcago Tribune. 'I see the wireless 'phone Is a .failure," he said. i ,-, . I'm alad of it." .eDlled his wire. "Just think of the remarks you make when cen tral Irritates you; and these tiu&tlng around in spaoe for any amateur tu pick up." Philadelphia Ledger. ' "Good gracious, you don't mean to ssy you signed that petition for woman suf frage: Ana nuer ... ruur i.. .e.'f. Oh, go easy on maw uia you see mm woman who brought the paper InT ' "No." "Gee. but she was pretty!" Cleveland Plain Dealer. Tempted by the offer of a half dollar and a square meal, tbe hobo qulrkly shoveled ' th. lot "You work as If you liks to do It," said I the woman ot the house. "I s pose so, tna am, gloomily respowaea the hobo; "but it don't come nath ral tn m. It's an eoqutrea -taster- untcag IK Tribune. "Tour wife Insists that women are .al ways superior to men" J i ? jay Henrietta waa real affable and pa No." answered flir. sieeKion, "tna oiner tlent toward a man on the street csr, who stood up and took It -for granted that she wasn't as well able to hang onto a strap aa he was." Washington, titer.. . . The visitor looaea arouno, "Who ia heT" he askeo. That's Jim Petilgrew. ,Hs sin t done a stroke o' work for sixteen years just seti aroun' an' tells stories." . 'What's the matter wKtttiimT ' "Nothln". Only soma fool feller back in ' told him he looked like Lincoln." Cleveland Plain Dealer. PLAINT OF THE- FAMILY MAN. ... - Chicago Naws. . ' . No person with an ugly-loeklng gun Has ever pusnea me same roneem m; nAM And Impolitely robbed me-of my "mon. It a strange tnis never mppen. . ""im pose, ; . : . ' ' But I've a wife ana aaugawtra. u -ss nothing of my sons, And they often go right tnrougn me. , ara cleaned out mora completely 1 their scientific plan , Than any wretched victim of the1 vulgar ao nav c.rrj nom-up . v ...... vnka in a back alley yet In conaequenee i lumnuim tt, . f'J This fact I OO sin roenuon win regret, 1 have had sotna awful knockouta In my bills for coal and gas, , ' nd "J, jalualaa? T It u awful to encounter the monopolist lo ui ini - - - . clan. They hsve t.un to trassie any eom- men hold-up man. rve never had g itttle bag ef aana Descend with crushing force upon my near. The methods . now employed ' on 'me g re Diana. My bandits are exeeedlnkly well' bred. They will bring ma eass and butter and occasions uy hear. Which I find quite necessary, ao there's no tope of relief. " t1 There Is ao use of complaining; I must an the oeat 4 can, But some arw-er. ran Wa pdlhtere to the common noiq-up man.
