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THE OMAIIA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1909. The Omaha Daily Bee FOUNDED BT EDWARD ROSE WATER VICTOR ROB0WATER. EDITOR. Enured at Omaha postofflce aa second (lui matter. TERMS OF UBCRIFT10K. Dally Bh (without Sunday), ona ya..M W Daily Be and Bnnday. ona year DELIVERED RT CARRIER Dally Bee (Including Sunday), par week..le Dally Ba (without Sundsyt. per week. ..10c Evening Pee (without Sunday), par ," Rvenlng Baa (with Sunday), pa' week...J0e Sunday Baa, ona yaar '"-J? Urday Baa, nna yaar .LT . Address all complaints of Irregularities 1B delivery to City Circulation Department OFTTCM. Omaha The Bea Bundine". South Omaha Twenty-fourth and N. Counell Bluffs IS Sentt Street. IJnroln-SU Mttla Building. Chlcago154 Marquette FnJIdlr.. . New Tork-Rooms 1101-l)0t No. WM, Thirty-Third Street. 1 Washington 726 Fourteenth Street, N. w. CORRE8PONDBNCB. Communication! relating to newe ana n lorlal matter shnuld ba addraaaad: Omana Bea. Editorial Department REMITTANCES. . . . 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WALKER, Notary Publio, WHEN OCT OF TOW. abserlbera leaving the ctfy tesa Borarlly ah on 14 have Tata Ban mailed ta them. AaAraaa will bo South Omaha VI 11 discover later that a Greek Is a better asset than a mob. v With a mass of business on hand, congress must regret the time It wasted In December. V Still, the country may be disap pointed with Mr. Taft If he falls to quarrel with congress. Wonder how President Roosevelt will put In the time between daylight and noon next Thursday? r Strange how some of the grocers were, so slow, In learning about the big drop in the price of eggs. It was perhaps natural that Mr. Taft should go to Nashville, the scene of hostilities, to geta secretary of war. - . "Lying Is a monumental vice," says a Philadelphia minister, who must have been reading the proceedings in congress. It begins to look rt though Senator Hopkins would learn how it feels to be lying just outside the breastworks on March 4. 4 There Is still time for congress to appoint a commission to inquire into the plans for raising the Maine. Con gressmen enjoy Junkets. "We admire Washington for Ms sticking quality." says Editor Hearst, who refuses to admire Mr. Roosevelt tor his blgstlcking quality. The legislature ought to adopt a rule by which members Introducing bills "by request" would be required to state by whose request. Democrats will be frightfully disap pointed if those seven lawyers In Mr. Taft's cabinet, break precedents by agreeing on important questions. A Philadelphia citizen was robbed of $200 while visiting the city hall. Those folks around the Philadelphia city ball do not work' for their health. The London suffragettes are. now writing A flood of letters to the mem bers of Parliament. They realize that thoy can not get suffrage without mall aid. - With . Council Bluffs and South Omaha getting so much free advertis ing In the dispatches. It behooves Omaha to do something to get on the map again. Now If they will follow up the Ore gon plan with a formal demand for the election of president by direct vote of the people there will be some con sistency In it. "Street ear straps are loaded with microbes." says a Columbia university professor. A college professor should be more careful about calling people names like that. Mr. Bryaa is now for the Initiative and referendum, bat be forgot to put It itt the Denver platform. We thought be was bound by the Denver platform both as to what it contained and what It omitted. ' ' ' The World-Herald announces thaA tt la ready to pronounce an eulogy at the adjournment of the present session or the legislature on "the best legisla tes In the history of Nebraska." Never write obituaries until the sub ject U dead. The Postal Saving! Juggle. The postal savings bank Mil as mended by the senate committee on postofflces and post roads fortunately bss no chance of being passed at the present session of congress, and should not be passed at any time. The amended measure has been framed to meet the wishes of the big banks of New York and the east, and is in di rect conflict with all of the original plans and Ideas embodied In the meas ure. The new bill makes It possible to take all the deposits from postal sav ing banks throughout the country and place them In the United States treas ury at Washington, and from that point either redeposit them in such banks as may be selected or invest them In a wide range of corporation securities. The bill creates a Board of Control to be composed of the sec retary of the treasury, the attorney general, the postmaster general and two members to be appointed by the president. This board Is to have dis cretionary power over the Investment by the government of the funds in postal savings banks. The amended bill Is said to have the endorsement of Senator Aldrich and the approval of the financial Interests in New York. The original bill provided that the government should pay 2 per cent In terest to depositors In postal banks and authorized the postmaster general to redeposit the money at 24 per cent Interest In the national banks nearest the postofflce where it was taken In. If no national bank was willing to pay the interest required. the postal authorities were authorized to invest the deposits In municipal, county or state bonds. The purpose of this provision was to keep the money in the districts in which it was deposited and in circulation through the regular banking channels, the gov ernment credit being pledged to the payment of the deposits as called for by the owners. The amended measure is one of the most dangerous financial propositions that has been offered. The country has seen Wall street drain the money from all sections through the national banks, and the Aldrtch scheme would operate as an additional drain to take the savings of the small property own ers and wage earners and convey them to the coffers of the Wall street man ipulators. It Is unfortunate that the controversy over the disposition of the funds should delay the establish ment of the sorely-needed postal de pository system, but It were better to have the legislation killed than to pass It In the plan proposed in the new sen ate substitute. Beally Funny. It is really funny to see how the twin organs of the Water board are squirming over the recent water works developments brought about by the popular demand for legislation vesting authority somewhere to formulate a compromise proposition for submission to the people and by the resolution of the Water board asking that $6,500, 000 of bonds be voted to enable it to complete the purchase at the apprais ers' price of $6,263,295.49. On one side there is a boost for the bonds and on the other a howl of protest against giving the Water board the tremen dous power to negotiate a settlement of differences. If the Water board is not to be trusted to deal with the own ers of the water works subject to pop ular veto, how can It be trusted to handle $6,500,000 of real money and manage a water plant with an annual Income and outgo of several hundred thousand dollars? It Is also really funny that anyone should assume that the owners of the water works would object to -the vot ing of the $6,500,000 of bonds. It the present owners should hesitate to turn over the water plant to the city in exchange for $6,263,295.41 in cur rent coin, the unanimous verdict would be that they were crasy and no one has accused them of being anything but shrewd and calculating business men. We have no doubt that the owners of the water works would con tribute liberally to a pot to carry the $6,600,000 bonds, if It Insured them getting $6,2.61,295.49 of it, much more gladly than they are now paylng'out big lawyers' fees to try to force the city to take the property at that price by court judgment. It is true that "somebody, some in terest," is behind the movement to get the water works litigation adjusted on some reasonable basis. The "some body, some interest" is the great body of Omaha's tax-paying citizens, who are tired beyond patience of the bun gle of "Immediate compulsory" pur chase, the waste of over $200,000 of their money by the Water board, with nothing to show for It, and the obsta cle to Omaha's growth from Inability to get needed extensions and Improve ments pending the water works litiga tion. Making Ssilors by Law. The revived ship subsidy bill, which Its promoters Insist has a splendid chance of passing before the end of the present session of congress, Is in some respects about as pretty a piece of humor as has been committed to writing in many a day. It places all kinds of restrictions upon the manner la which ships shall be built, what tbey may carry and how they shall be operated, in violation of all laws of trade and competition, and then makes rules for the composition of the crews that are nothing short of ridiculous. The bill provides that one-half of the crews shall be Americans and that one American boy must be carried as en apprentice for each 1,000 tons of the ship's register. This is a proposi tion to revolutionize the shipping business and the habits and tastes of Americans by legislation. The crews of the merchant marine of the world are not Americans, and It would be decidedly interesting to see how con gress could enforce its provision in that respect if the American boys should decide that they did not want to go to sea. Men ran not be forced to follow occupations that they do not want U follow and a home-loving peo ple can not be changed to a sea-taring nation by ship subsidy laws. Far Over the Billion.. Apparently the billion-dollar con gress has become a fixture. The ap propriations for 1908 amounted to over $t, 008, 000. 000 and the money carrying bills that have been passed or shaped for passage before congress adjourns next Thursday will bring the total appropriations for next year up to about $1,040,000,000, or about $32,000,000 in excess of those of last year. This action has been taken by congress in face of the knowledge of a deficit so large that it has eliminated the issue of protection from tariff re vision and has rendered the Dingley bill a revenue bill instead of a protection-measure, and in face of the further fact that the country is ap parently faced with the necessity of resorting to bond issues to maintain the government in times of peace. The army appropriations for the next year will exceed those of 1908 by about $7,000,000, the navy by $14,000,000, the rivers and harbors bill by $10,000,000 and the sundry civil bill of about $16,000,000, and these increases have been offset by de creases in only a few of the depart ments. None of these Increases have been fought, and there has been prac tically no charge that the government has ben extravagant. The congress has been going on the theory that the expenditures are necessary for the conduct of the government's business and the development of federal enter prise in various directions, and so long as the country has failed to protest the members of congress have not deemed it necessary to take the Initia tive In paring down appropriations. The result of this liberality by con gress but serves to emphasize the se riousness of the problem with which the Taft administration will have to deal in raising revenues to meet the great and growing expenses of gov ernment. The treasury surplus, now about $100,000,000, will be nearly. If not entirely wiped out at the end of the present fiscal year in June, and there Is little prospect that the In crease in customs and internal reve nues will be sufficient to produce reve nue to meet the obligations already contracted by congress for the next fiscal year. It will be necessary to create new sources of income, either by levying stamp taxes or making some provision for taking care of fixed expenses by bond issues. The real big task he new administration will be to evolve workable plans of fiscal leglr'tlon and put them Into law aB promptly as possible. Seeking New Forage Planti. Prof. Niels Ebbesen Hansen of the South Dakota College of Agriculture has Just returned from a remarkable Journey which he took under the di rection of the Department of Agricul ture at Washington in search for plants, grains and grasses suitable for transplanting in the colder and in some of the semi-arid regions of this country. Prof, Hansen spent nearly a year In northern Russia and pene trated beyond the Arctic circle In his search for wild grains, grasses and plants suitable for domestication In civilized lands and he returns with 250 different kinds of foreign seeds that may be adapted to our varying soils and climates. One of the professor's finds was the seed of aa alfalfa clover which he found growing beyond the Arctic cir cle. The plant will withstand tem peratures which freeze the mercury and will grow luxuriantly on the farms In the northwestern states. Its hardy character. It Is believed, may be transmitted to the strains of wild and cultivated species of alfalfa from four continents now growing In this coun try, out of which it Is hoped that a variety comprising the best character istics of each may be evolved In an ideal forage plant. It has long been the dream of Sec retary Wilson of the Department of Agriculture to discover or develop a forage plant that will grow on the arid soil of the west where Irrigation Is im possible. The development of such a plant would do much to solve the range problem and would add millions to the agricultural wealth of the na tion each year. Prof. Hansen has al ready done much in this direction, and bis new plants may go further toward meeting a long-standing need. A Texas legislator has introduced a bill requiring all lobbyists to carry whistles, which they must blow to announce their coming in hotels, the corridors of the capitol and other places where lawmakers most do con gregate. Evidently the lawmakers want to know it when the lobbyists are around shedding arguments and coin. The Houston Post Is talking about the "balmy Jonqulllscent atmosphere" of Texas. Sounds good, but we are preparing for a little dandelionlsed at mosphere of our own. "What is the most wholesome diet?" asks a writer on the woman's page. The question should be re ferred to Mr. Taft and Dr. Wiley, who have tried them all. The loud-voiced state senator who asks, "Aren't yon willing to trust the people?" sidesteps quickly at the sug gestion of trusting the people with any legislation affecting the Pullman com pany or the stock yards. "Where are the houses of yester day?" asks the Chicago Tribune. Can't answer for the Chicago houses, but the Omaba houses of yesterday are being torn down or removed to make room for larger ones. Mr. Roosevelt's license to hunt in Africa authorizes him to shoot every thing In sight. Reactionary congress men and malefactors of great wealth will do well to keep out of Africa for a year or so. District Attorney Jerome has made his peace with Tammany and will be a candidate for re-election on the dem ocratic ticket. It will then be dis covered If he has made his peace with the people. Why should men who lay claim to standing and respectability grace with their presence a free feed gotten up by a bunch of notorious political grafters for revenue purposes only? Andrew Carnegie's fatal mistake seems to have been In giving $10,000 to the republican national campaign fund Instead of to the democratic na tional campaign fund. Greatest War Preventive. , Wall Street Journal. National bankruptcy Is now the great weapon In the hands of peace, and tends to become an Increasingly powerful Instru ment. State I.lnea on the Map. New York Herald. The supreme court upheld the power of Louisiana to regulate telephone charges and of Arkansas to fine corporations that break Its trust law. Tha atate Unea are not yet erased from the map. Distorting Easiness. New York World. While the New York Central fine of 108, 000 for rebating to the Sugar trust stands, the Sugar trust Itself must pay 1160,000 for cheating In weight In paying duty. This "annoying of honest business men" Is get ting very bad very bad. l.lnroln'e Head for m Oat. Boston Herald. The head of Lincoln on the new cant piece which la to be minted by the gov ernment la the result of loving atudy of Lincoln's life and features by a gifted New Tork artist whoaa designs of thla kind, for medals and coins, have given him an International reputation. Not many years ago he was a Russian, long ing for life In the free republic. Some of the finest studies of Lincoln, poetical and plastic, that have recently been made have been the product of men from the newer races now settling In this country. Hooeier Hide Nailed I p. ioulsvllle Courier-Journal. Poor Hemenway of Indiana not only must leave the I'nited States senate, but he must have his akin securely nailed to the door of the White House. The presi dent most dexterously and thoroughly per formed that job In his letter to Senator Hale attacking the report made, by Senator Hemenway in ep'portv of tha limitation of the secret service,' against tha president's recommendation. And In taking the pelt of the Indianhvn our Mighty Hunter at the same time took that of many another of the Indlanian'a colleagues In both branches of congress. PERSONAL NOTES. Another of New York's crooked lawyers has been caught with the goods on and sent over the road for a year. One estimate of the total cost of the fleet's cruise around the world comes from the Boston Transcript, which says 0.000,000. A Milwaukee Judge holds that fourteen Inches behind and nine Inches In front Is too high for a woman to hold her skirts on a wet creasing. What the correct height la the court declined to aay. John V. B. Hatfield, thirty years ago known from the Atlantic to tha Pacific aa one of the greatest base ball players of the day, died of heart failure In Long Island City. He played ball In the days of the old EckfordS and the Mutuala, but enthusiasts of the present generation know Mm chiefly as the man with the record for long-distance throwing. He waa U years old. The London postofflce accepted two suf fragettes addressed to tha premier's resi dence, prepaid, and promptly dispatched tha two women In the care of a telegraph messenger. Mr. Aaqulth's servants refused to accept delivery of two women aa mall matter, and the police quickly cleared the women out of Downing street. Now the question between the postofflce and the police is In regard to the liability for two packegea lost In the malls JOBS FOR LAME DICKS. C'omm leal Ana to Provide I'laree for Defeated Member. Washington Letter In New York Tribune. The leaders of the two houses of congress are making energetic efforts to care for the "lame ducks." the term given those members who failed of re-election. The most effective means of accomplishing this end will be the creation of commissions on which those members who fell outside the breastworks can serve. The monetary commission will be used to care for Senator Teller and Representative Overstreet. Mr. Teller has done excellent work on thla commission, axd the members are anxious to retain his services. Mr. Overstreet will be retained on the ground that he is an expert on poatal affairs, and that therefore his services will be valuable In connection with such phasea of the work as may have to do with postal savings banks, funds, etc. Senator Hemenway will be made, the head of a commission to Investigate further the secret service and to report to congress such changes aa It may be advisable to make In the statute to provide for an ade quate government detective force. This haa been the purpose of the senate leaders all along, and the reporta that Mr. Hemenway waa considered for the Taft cabinet and rejected at the behest of President Roose velt are wholly without foundation. The proposition to add two members to the Interstate Commerce commission provides places for 'Representative "Pete" Hepburn, author of the railway rate law, and for some other member of the house. A prohibition commission which It la pro posed to create will probably provide places for Senator Hanabrough, and a number of representatives who failed of re-election. It la propoaed to confide to thla commission a thorough Investigation of tha extent of the power of congreaa to control the traffic in liquor through the Interstate commerce clause of the constitution, an Investigation of the affects of tbe aaie of liquors aa re lated to crime, financial prosperity, etc. Washington Life Tbe Inaugural Crowd, What It Will Ooet, Tears of Betlred Preat Seats, and a Buddlmf Btatesaaaa. All roads lead 11 Washington these days, and every train headed that way during the next sixty hours will carry loads thit will tickle the passenger departments. In flate Pullman dividends and stretch por ters' smiles from ear to ear. It la ex pected there will be a crowd of 100,000 visitors In the city by Thursday noon. Two-thirds of the number come from nearby cities visitors who may come and Si on the same day the balance from dis tances requiring a day or more to make the round trip. The city Is now ready for the crowd. The court of honor In front of the White House Is practically com pleted; the presidential stand, where Mr. Taft will take his place to review the parade, the great public stands opposite, the stand at the cnpttol where the Inaugu ral ceremony will take pltwe, and the hun dreds of stands lining Pennsylvania ave nue and adjacrnt streets, are In various stages of completion. With the exception of S5.00O worth of fireworks to be shot off. the following figure, computed by the New York Tlmea, comprise the bill the participants will pay for viewing the Inauguration show: Railroad fare $t,COO,tvin Pullman fares jm'ow Bxtra trains l.Oinoon Board sno.003 Lodging IW.Ofn Reserved seats Wrtnno Windows M.foo Pension office loaa loo.nno Ten thousand bull tickets IW.Onj Blind concert tickets av Illumination and decoration 40,nor Building wests 40 00 K-xtra pollofl protection Sfi.tVO Street faktrs lOO.ono Flrewirks 5,yt Capitol seats f, w West Point cadets g mo Total 15,007,000 Mr. Roosevelt looks forward to a life of characteristic strenuoslty after his re tirement from the White House. He ha mapped out a program of activity which will keep him busy for several years.-'Snd he says that he expects to maintain his Interest In public affairs for a lone; time to come. Theodore Roosevelt will be one of the youngest presidents to quit the White House. The average period of life of his predecessors aYter their retirement was twelve years and ten months. The follow ing list la Interestlrg as showing the subse qutnt history of the men who have occu pied the. exalted office of president: George Washltgton lived two years and nine months after tetlrement. John Adams lived twenty-five years and three months. Thomaa Jefferson lived seventeen yeara and three months. James Madlaon lived nineteen yeara and three months. James Monroe lived six years and four months. John Qulncy Adama lived nineteen years and served in the house of represents t'ves. Andrew Jackson lived eight years and thrte months. Martin Van Ruren lived twenty-ona years and four months. William Henry Harrison died precisely one month after his Inauguration, April 4, 1641. John Tyler lived seventeen years after his retirement. James K. Polk lived three months. Zachary Taylor died In office, sixteen months after hla inauguration. Millard Fillmore lived twenty-one years after hla retirement. Franklin Pierce, twelve yeara and seven months. James Buchanan, six years and eleven months. Abraham Lincoln dlrd In office. Andrew Johnson lived six yeara and four montha after retirement, and aerved a portion of a term In the United States senate. LT. S. Grant lived eight years snd four months after retirement. Rutherford B. Hayes, eleven years and eleven months. James" A. Garfield died four months after hla Inauguration. Chester A. Arthur survived one year and eight months after retirement. Qrover Cleveland, ten yeara and aeven months. Benjamin Harrison, eight years. William McKlnley died Irt office. Representative Macon of Arkansas, a small, but concentrated personality con cealed In the house of representatives, has been distinguishing himself these laat few weeks Mr. Macon evidently haa long been nourishing an ambition which only recently reached the blossoming stage, re lates the Washington Star. Without warn ing, without official Intimation, without in fact, anything at all that might serve to lessen the shock, he suddenly emerged from the profound gloom of Arkansas ob scurity which had enveloped him like a I,ondon fog up to that time and began to object to things. With the example before him of the sudden rise to fajne of Repre sentative Mann of Illinois, who now weara a leather medal as the greatest objector of them all. Mr. Macon undoubtedly, after mature deliberation, picked out that broad and easy way to the pleasant heights. Drawing himself up to his commanding height of 4 feet inches, Mr. Macon got on the Job, and he la still on tt. Ha showa no algna of wcarlnesa. "Mlktah Spoakah." he aaya, in the hon eyed accents of Arkansaw, "Ah have no In fohmatlon on the subject of what the mis guided gent on niiih left la trying to put over the plate on thla distinguished If somewhat unlntellectual body, but, on principle, I am constrained to object." Or perhapa he rises and remarks: "Mis tah Speakah, I am about to make a p int of ohdah against the gent from Maine. Hla proposition cannot have merit because he is a Yank." The papers are beginning to discuaa Mr. Macon, and Itle face shines mora like the morning sun each passing day. Mr. Macon la destined to rise. 1 pllf t of Ona Marphy. Philadelphia Record. Ex-Governor Murphy of New Jersey wishes that a tax of ll'O a head were levied upon every foreigner aeeklng to earn a liv ing In this country. He would also pro hibit the Immigration of all people who are Incapable of apeaklng and reading the Eng lish language. It la barely possible that had this head tax been Impoaed upon the Immigrants In a former generation the honest and Industrious ancestors of tha ex governor would have been prevented from landing on theae ahores. Then the country would have been deprived of a native Mur phy. Oat paelaaaa of Hoaae Rale. Boston Herald, avth Omaha being an Interior town and the Missouri being unnavlgabla there Is no danger of bombardment by the Greek navy, and a war scare la unlikely. But the riot ing around the packing houeea serves ones more to direct attention to the logical work-lug-out of the theory of "home rule." ri.OATIM PAI.At Rt Or SB A. ferfeetlea of Laaary of Oresa Travel Temptlas; to Laadlabbera. The luxury of oceun travel haa reached such a stats of perfection that land-bred and timid passenger may almost delude themselves into thinking that they are still on shore, when they are In the middle of the ocean. When the luncheon bugle sounds you gn In to tidy your hair. The sun Is shlnlnir In through your window, or, at least, on of the windows, for there are two In your drawing room, one In the bath room, and one In the bedroom beyond. Your draw ing room which might be In the Ponce de Leon, St. Augustine, or lh Winter Pulace, Nice, for all the resemblance It boars to a ship's cabin is furnished In old gold and white. A soft carpet of old gold, a sofa piled luxuriantly with curhlons. sevornl chairs, a table, a wonderfully equipped desk, on which rvsts a drop light, are nt your disposal. Tou atop a moment to ad mire the hangings, which are embroidered with drooping wistaria In faint green. An oil portrait of the kaiser hangs in one end, and several exquisite little etchings break the apace between the windows snd door. An electric grate fire, with a genuine mantel, lends an air cf spnclousncsa to the room. You notice that your gowns have been hung In one closet and your blousea In another, and that shoes, slippers, um brella, etc., have been carefully stowed away in places provided for them. The third day out, If the weather la fine. Is the soolal height of the trip. The ship's types are by this time all fully developed. Tha bridge fiends have become known to each other, and they never leave their game except for meals. There Is the usual contingent that each morning comva around to tell you how early they were cn deck. You have stood at the prow and watched the schools of dolphins lumping straight for the ship, you have rushed excitedly to the rail to watch a passing steamer with which the Amerika exchanges salutes by running up Innumerable little flags, and you have marveled at the land birds that always follow the ship serosa, and perhaps you ark the steward to set out somo fresh water and a plate of crumbs for them. If you rnjoy spontaneous vaudeville, the hour In the ship's gymnasium will be your regular - rendezvous every morning, and, aside from the fun which you will have In watching the others perform unaccus tomed stunts on the frisky camel, the spir ited horse, or with the vibrators, you will receive direct benefit from the exercises, which are the best thing to be recom mended for the maintenance of aea legs. Leslie's Weekly. HERO OF A Bt.lK FAIL IRK. Mlaaoarlaa Revoapa Depositors for Louei Dae to Hla eglet. There Is an enormous amount of heroism In this world which Is never heard of. The captain who went down with his ship the other day waa In everybody's mind. Many other captalna do brave things that are not noticed. Something has occurred recently In private life In Missouri which shows real heroism and ought to be so rec ognised. The National Exchange bank of Spring field; Mo., was wrecked by mismanage ment. It waa closed by the comptroller. Its president waa L. 8. Meyer, a Spring field miller, who did not give personal at tention to the bank. As soon aa the fail ure occurred Mr. Meyer did give attention to the bank and. after only a short delay, came forth with the money to pay all de positors and open a new bank in the place of the old one.' The loas to be sustained by him and his Immediate associates who fur nished the new money will probably be not lees than $300,000. It ta safe to aa.y that Mr. Meyer wUI give the new bank which he haa established, the Merchants National, the closest possi ble scrutiny, snd It Is safe to say that the depositors of the old bank who have been so splendidly protected by Mr. Meyer, will take pains to make a practical demonstra tion of their confidence In him hereafter. It is understood that Mr. John F. Meyer of St. Louts stood with Mr. L. 8. Meyer In producing the new money. We congratu late these gentlemen and the banking pro fession generally, and Springfield In par ticular on the happy outcome of this affair. Kanaaa City Journal. Right of Trasta. Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. The Impression that, under the recent ruling of the federal supreme court, debts due to a trust are not collectable, Is cor rected In a supplementary statement by the oourt, which seta forth that tha debts to which its ruling referred are simply surh as are Incurred ss part of an Illegal con tract. This explanation disposes of an Illusion which reflected by no means fa vorably upon the judiciary. While the trusts are unpopular. It is manifest that aa long as they are tolerated by law any rul ing that would divest them of the normal rights enjoyed by corporations would In flict gross injustice. The present state ment from the supreme court is, therefore, a necessary vindication. Warship Without Funnels. Boston Transcript. The warship without funnels has come In the British Indefatigable, which will be propelled by Internal combustion engines. The warship without guna will come with the mtllenlum. Meanwhile those who be lieve that a great navy la the surest guar antee of pence, will feel encouruged by Ad miral Goodrich's prediction that men now living will aee a 40,000-ton battleship under the American flag. A Refreshing Change. Baltimore American. The picture of a hearty and healthy Uiinded young American, rich, but not disdaining or afraid of work, wooing and winning an aristocratic English bride While In his factory overalls la quite a refreshing contrast to the degenerate and Impecunious titled fortune hunter, look ing on working for his living aa a dis grace, and peddling hla cornet to any American heiress foolish enough to buy It. Silver aa tae T.bog.an. New York Presa. Poor old silver dollar! With the price of the metal very close down to the low eat price It hai ever sold, the Intrinsic value ef the silver coin Is aa low or lower than ever. before In Its history, being now just over 40 cents. Meanwhile the out put of the gold mines continues to In crease, the latest record being at the top. New Method of "Dry Farming. Minneapolis Journal. John a. WoolU-y, who has left the prohi bition party, la said to have been disgusted because of the peculiar hietlioda of the prn fesslunal prohibitionists who have fastenid on the party for purposes of revenue only. This must be Hie "dry farming-' we are now heating) about. Whera tha Coloaels Fell Daw a. New York Hun. H may be judged from the experience of the three Cuban colonels who s Havana newapaper office for the pur- pose or chastising an editor and were put to such shameful fllabt tv him urn the status of colonels Is not yet satisfac tory ia LUD. KXPAloa OF POSTAL UrSISES Development Reflected la tbe Aaaaal Appropriations. Washington Post. There Is nothing that better discloses tha marvelous growth of tha country than the act that has lust been oassed anpronrlst lr 1 "ii ft Ml ftO tnr Ih, tmm nt lh lrttrf I, MVlNirillieill. llllfl BWIIi t-tUHin HIV BT1L1I. iwnr tf Hi anvernmptiL fi-a all rttirnoft,. during the first thirty years of the nation's life. Including the cost of suppressing th whisky Insurrection, several wars with the Indians, the flurry wllh Kre.nce. and the war with Great Britain In 1MH'. In th year 1M. the laat of the administration of John Adtims. the receipts of the Postofflce department were but 10,H04. Jt In eMinsled that this year they will reach nearly jxo, OOO.OnO. It la necessary to go back only fifty yeara to show the rapidity with which the business of the country haa Increased, as Indicated by the postal receipts. The receipts ate glvon by decades: iko : $ n.&n.m: 1.S70 IS.iT'2.2.1 10 M.!t1M7' IHS SO.W2.6 lt lOJ.HM.OK! i m.47s.a The increase In eighteen years haa beett more than 300 per cent. The expenditures for the service has mora than kept para with the receipts, there being an annual deficit. We are now expending for rural freo delivery alone about aa much aa the total receipts were In lxpo. The changes lilt the number of postofflces In tha coun try ahow equally remarkable evldencea of growth. In 1H0O there were but 90S post offices In the country, and now they num ber more than 61.000. There haa been a steady dec-erase, however, lr the number of postofflces for several years, High water mark was readied In 19ii0, wtan the num ber waa 76.8SS. The extension of rural free delivery has had much to do with decreas ing the number of offices and It la possible the decrease will continue for some years, as the free delivery does away with the necessity tor small rural oflfces. Ill I I VIMi OF W!TRF,S. A Reform In t'srrtnt Practice Scoated aa Absord. Washington Post. A witness should be mad to understand at once upon taking the stand what is ex pected of him, and to submit graciously and patiently to any klnn of examination short of physical attack which lawyers may make. Suppose an attorney snarls, snaps, nd growls at the witness, or sneerlngly smiles a suspicion. What of It? A witness Is only an unprotected, defenseless citlxen doing his duty; to be terrified or cajoled Into revealing his Innermost thoughts ac cording to the way the lawyers Intends him to vpea"k them. To Impugn the verac ity of a witness by Insinuation or veiled threats I a legitimate device for rolling him to the point of saying something which may be used to advantage against him. What! A witness to be allowed to tell a simple tale of what ha had seen or heard, uninterrupted and undismayed? Never! Justice might bs precipitated, and wttneases might retain thetr self-respect. Witnesses may bo distressed, bullied, and cowed, but legal circumlocution must be preserved and the dignity of the advocate safeguarded. SUNNY GEMS. "You act as your wlfe'a leading man. I believe," began the Interviewer. "Yes," replied the husband of tha star. "But," he added, "only on the stage." Philadelphia Ledger. The flowers that were horn to blush un seen became tired, all at once, of wasting their sweetness on the desert air. "We'll have to stop. it,", they slghfd "We are not conserving oUr natural re sources!" As for the desert air, 10, what did It care! Chicago Tribune. "You are going to marry a rich widow." said the fortune teller. "Here," replied the man whose hss,! was being held, "Is another dollar. MiiJ" her a young maiden and beautiful." Chi cago Record-Herald. The Lawyer's Wife What does the paper any about this season's suits? The lawyer (absently I 1-arge checks will be the correct thing In law suits this season. Life. "I have been taking some moving pic tures of life on your farm " "Did you catch the hired man lit motion?" "I think so." , i "Ah. science ran do anything these days!" Detroit Free Press. ' "Mom," said mischievous Tom, "I saw a big rat In your room this morning." "Good heavens!" cried the excited mother. "I must tell your father to get n trap right away." "A trap won't ketch this rat." announced Tom. "It's BlsTer Jane's." Baltimore American. "Do vou think the chlnr of a woman's hair haa anything to do with her temper?" "Not now. Ho very little of It ia her own." Cleveland Plain Ialer. "Do you love your enemies?" Inquired the man (f lofty principles. "No," answered Mr. Dutin Stax; "I don't exactly love 'em. Lut I appreciate m. My biggest profits have been derived from people who Ktarted . in to fight me." Washington Star. "When we take charge of the govern ment," saya the wise old auffragt-tte, "we ' will make soma changes In the naval bu reau." "I should hope sn!" agrees the enthusi astic young suffragette. "Why, bureaus are hopelessly out of style! We will have a combination wardrobe and chiffonPal Judge. ' Him (at the reception) That young man talking to the hoatens la quite cut-up. Her Why, he looks rather solemn and dignified. Him Ves. but he's a hospital surgeon. Chicago News. "It must be fine to work In the weather bureau." Think of all the criticism we have to undergo!" rejoined the climatic e.Xert. "Yes. Hut you're the only people before the public who can go wrong on your facts without being landed in the Ananiaa club.'' Waahlngton Star. "What do yju think of a woman who wants to give up a career tl darn her husband's socks?" ' "I think her ambition is hole-y domes tic." Ualtimore American. THE NEWSBOY. Henry M. Hoyt ia Applet oh s I'nmovod, among the motley of the market place lie stands. With the deeis of divers races In his little grimy hands: Round the prevs of thronging thousands, In the thick of straining strife, , He will cry for a copper all the traf ficking of lite. ; Though you hall from sunset islands girt by seas of Jeweled foam, He can cheer you on your Journey with a greeting from your home; Though your heart Is linked by memories to the countries of the morn. He ran barter you a message from the land where you were born. Through the strident stress of noontide. through the blazing bloom of night, Down the slow, slack hours of morning, ere the coming of the light, In the times of Joy and laughter, in the darkest days of dearth. He cun glva you brave adventures from int. ihiiiii'hi rnni or ,.,ri i t At the portala of the city, at the gat- ways or tne sea. Where the ringing wheels of commerc shout their sounding symuhonr. Where the flags of every ruUion are t. all the winds unfurled. He will sell you for a penny all tlis io- V uiance oi lue weri