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Sanaa rib ere leaving; the etty teas ' perarHy , ahealS Rave The utalle te the. Addreaa will changed a efte aa renanateS. Remeniber , where .you stored ths lawn mower? Women propose to handle the glove tariff without glovea, , "Where is Senator Dick?" asks the New York Sun. Why? We will learn later whether there are any mollycoddles In Mombasa. Congratulations to- South Omaha No city election there this spring. A. prohibitive tax on kidnaping would also help ths infant industries. .... . v, mm i i iu There might be less complaint If the tariff os stockings were aimed only at the open-work vartety. . There is nothing In ths proposed tariff, on gloves that appears calcu lated to make smuggling unprofitable "What is a Joke? " asks Mr. Car negle. : Well, the democratic attltudS on the tariff bill furnishes a good deft nltlon. ' ' Emperor William aaya that SO.OOO, 000 Germans possess 70,000,000 opln ions. " The average is not a eause (or boasting. Many women who are moat ener- grtlc in darning the stocking schedules refute to perforin s similar service for the real article. Nebraska's demo-pop legislature has selected a particularly propitious time for adjournment in deciding to quit on April Fool's day. l If Mr. Roosevelt Is looking Tor a real man'a-sized Job he might take ths Washington base ball team and fash ion It into a winner. All the city candidates wers not born in log houses, but It appears that every mother's son of them was ones s newspaper carrier. The bee sting curs for rheumatism i betnr touted acain. The man suf ferlog irom bee stings is spt to forget all about bis rheumatism. Governor Shallenberger has found a few holes in the Omaha charter amendments. The people of Omaha will find more holes later. Mr. Roosevelt might make a hit by Introducing simplified spelling in re porting the names of some of those wild animals from Africa. "Don't try to demagogue." said lr. Tayne to Champ Clark in the course of the tariff debate. ' Champ can dem agogue without halt trying. Mr. Harrlman Is going back to New York to take a rest In order to get over the effects of ths vacation he spent tn Texas and California. The president of ths Jacksontan rlub denies that bs is a rooster. He will not deny, however, that ha would 11 ks to have a chance to crow. Speaking of names. Miss Hood an Mr. Wink of Baltimore havs been 11 censed to wed. preliminary to usual matrimonial hoodwinking. the Just imagine what the impending city primary la Omaha would be it the law provided for as open primary In itead of a closed primary, permitting the republicans to ots tor candidates tor democratic nominations and vice terra, Keipontibility of Trainmen. In sentencing the members of train crew to prison for having caused railroad wreck, the judge of a Can- adlan court has laid down a rule of Joint responsibility of trainmen that might, It generally enforced, help re duce railroad accidents. Because of the failure of an en gineer to signal for a awltch at a unction point, the result being that the train continued for two miles on a track on which another train had the right-of-way, a head-on collision oc curred in which several persons were killed. The englneeer admitted that he had not given the proper signal and bad not noticed his error even after e Jiad got on the wrong track. The conductor and brakeman testified that they were In the caboose and had re lied on the engineer to attend to bis duty. They argued that it was not their business to see that the train waa on the right track, that being the task they trusted the engineer to perform. To that Mr. Justice Riddell replied: That Is the cardinal mistake you and your mates have made you are not to rely upon the other doing his duty; you are to fear tHat he may not do his duty. would be Idle aolemn farce to trust the management of a train to the care of a number of men Jointly ana then allow each to say: "I thought the others would do their duty and I neg lected mine." In thia country the fact of co-opera-ve responsibility Is not always recog nized la full. The Joint responsibility asserted by the Canadian court could be equally applied to many lines of In dustry and no doubt eventually will be. Starting Bank Rumors. Congressman Dalzell of Pennsylva nia has again Introduced his bill mak ing it a felony for any person to cir culate or help to circulate false rumors concerning the financial condition of any national bank. The measure has been offered several times at the open ing of congress and has always been allowed to aleep peacefully in the com mittee room during the sessions, and it Is not probable that It will receive any different treatment at . the hands of the present congress. The bin gOes into some detail and with many whereases explains that many banking institutions have been forced to the wall all because' some scared or thoughtless person started a report that the bank was in hard lines and might be forced to suspend at any time. Mr. Dalxell would make it a felony for any person to originate Much a report or to repeat It after having heard it. Bank "runs" have been started many times by such rumors and banks hare been driven out of business by demands of depositors when made at an Inopportune time, yet grocery stores have also been closed up by similar reports and business men often suffer on account of the wagging of Dame Rumor's tongue. It is one of the risks of business which bank must take along with other classes of enterprises. Every state has its laws punishing libel and slander; and the banks and bankers have the same redress under these laws that Is afforded men in other pursuits. Vardaman's Latest Yawp. Former Governor James K. Varda man of Mleslstlppl and ever-present guard on the nation's watch tower is opposed to any plan for changing the data of the president's inauguration from March 4. Some other people, of course, likewise oppose a change, but it la doubtful if congress and the legis latures of the states will be largely Influenced by the reasons he presents In a recent number of the Issue, the weekly paper through which Varda man personally conducts his grouch he says: The preaident should take the oath or office, deliver Ms addreaa In the senate chamber, get In his carriage and drive to the White House and go to work. 1 do not like theae royal airs that are put on on such occaslona. If Is un-American, undemocratic, ab SQrd. It Is estimated that there will be prob bly HO deaths as a result from cold caused by exposure. It does not make much difference about that I do not know of a better way to get rid of the fools. A man who Is ao much of a flunky aa to expose himself and imperil his health In order to see a lot of people make buffoons and Idiots of themselvea doe not rob the country of much' when he dies. Stop the foollshneaa, and the pres ent day la as good as any. Argument ia waated In a case of this kind. Vardaman's elevation to the highest office ia the state of Mississippi and his enforced mingling with public men of the nation instead of broaden ing his vision, appeara to have made him narrower, if that were possible. His case is clearly incurable. A Tax on Dividends. Washington correspondenta have discovered that the aenate proposes to amend the tariff bill by providing that a tax of I per cent be levied on divi dends paid by corporations, exclusive of banks, insurance companies and building associations, and the assur ance is given that President Taft looks upon ths proposition with favor. It Is doubtful whether the proposed tax would produce the amount of rev enue that would generally be ex pected, experts figuring the total in come from such a source at less than 116,000.000. According to reports of ths Interstate Commerce commission, ths railroads of the country dis tributed dividenda for the year ending June 10, 1107, to ths amount of S3 08, 117,114. on which a 3 per cent tax would yield a revenue of 16,162,758. The Invested manufacturing capital of the country It estimated at about f 18, 000,000,000. If this capital should earn an average of B per cent in divi dends, the tax on the earninga would amount to 118.000,000. Such an esti mate Is doubtless much too high, as many of the factories are satisfied with THE 0MA11A DALLY BEE: MONDAY. MARCH 29. 1900.' smaller earnings and many others would be exempt under any bill that might be framed for the purposes of federel taxation. On the Steel trust, which distributes about $2. 000. 000 annually in dividends, the government tax would be $7J0,00O. The effect of the tax would be to cause a general recasting of the book keeping methods of the corporations. Railroad companies and big concerns generally would hesitate to reduce their dividend rates and would natu rally seek other sources for raising the government tax without interfering with fixed payments. The tax fund might be gained at the expense of the surplus by reducing operating ex penses or in various other ways. The most natural method would be to add it to the cost of goods, just as freight, Insurance, rents and like items are now figured, so that, in the end, the burden would fall upon the consumers and be borne by the entire community. Incidentally it would be a tax on the states rich In manufacturing and cor porate Industries and would be most highly popular in states having few such concerns. . Pushing Forward. Several large real estate transac tions made recently with a view to im mediate improvement make aure that Omaha will continue to push rapidly forward in the way of substantial building expansion. No city of its class in the whole United States can show greater prog ress in transforming the appearance of business and residence districts by new and modern construction than can Omaha. This city Is fast enlarging its estab lished business and residence district and acquiring a distinctive sky-line. People who visit us only at Intervals marvel every time they return at the noticeable changes for the better in the city's external appearance and with the prospects already assured they will witness still greater changes In the same direction during the next year or two. These prospective improvements are gratifying not only in themselves, but as evidence of the confidence which men of foresight and Judgment place In Omaha's future. The new state bank commissioner will draw a bigger aalary than any of the elective officers in the state house, except the supreme judges, who get more, and. the railway commissioners, who get the same. In other words, the bank commissioner will be a higher paid official than the state treasurer or any member of the bank ing board. Nebraska's new deposit guaranty law forbids state bank examiners from examining any bank in which they are personally interested. Why ( should state bank examiners be' allowed to be interested In any bank? One of the qualifications for state bank examiner ought to be that he divest himself of all pecuniary interest in any bank. Our amiable democratic ' contem porary Is going to a great deal of trouble in connection with thS physical valuation bill to point out the differ ence between a railroad and the atock yards. The chief difference, which it carefully conceals, is- that one may have a larger percentage of water in its capitalisation than the other. "Mr. Bryan has now adopted as his motto, 'Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty,' " says the Rochester Dem ocrat. His working motto, however, remains, "Eternal eloquence is the price of prosperity." Two congressmen almost came to blows on the floor of ths house. If those congressmen are not careful they will get into the same class with the members of our Nebraska legislature. The federal government has bought an orchard and is going to raise apples on a scientific scale. Let It be hoped that the government confines Its exper lmenets to Ben Davlsless apples. Still, no federal court has auggeated that the government make any finan cial compensation to Mr. Rockefeller for the worry caused him by those prosecutions of the Oil trust. "What has become of the old-fash ioned folks who alept with closed win dows because thtey were afraid of the nlgbt air?" asks the Houston Post. They all died of tuberculosis. On the ingratitude proposition there ought to be a bond of sympathy be tween Mayor Jim and Editor Hitch cock. Remember "the sting of In gratitude" fulminatlon. The manufacturers of . Egyptian cigarettes who do buslneaa In Pitts burg snd Paterson are nst worried over the Increase In tax on the im ported kind. A Philadelphia dog went mad at the tight of a new spring hat and bit the woman who wore it. Still, some folkt are always clamoring that the dogs be muzzled. Tbe new &uu-Duttoa gown comes along just In time to tpoll any prog ress that may have been made by the Society for the Suppression of Pro fanlty. Jest Watch Kaa. Chicago Tribune. Will tha women of this country lamely submit to a tax of 9 eenta on every dol lara worth of Imported stocking? 'Sdeth never! When Silence Is Geldea. Indianapolis News. On the o'hM hand, aa far aa reported the Krupp peoe have rcgiaUred no 10- test against the ever Increaaing armsment of nations. I relieved the Raeler Way. Philadelphia Record. It Is a pity ihat G rover Cleveland a great qualifications as a publle official have found many more admirer than Imitator In public life. Am Overripe Combination. Washington Herald. An Increaaed tariff on both grease paint and hams suggest the possibility of of the Theatrical trust having grown to be quite a large and healthy tentacle of the octopus. Wfclrh Wayf Washington Post. There seems to be no legitimate doubt that tariff revision la In progress, but the upward or downward tendencies of the animal make a nice problem for higher mathematics. A Jeltlaar Eye-Opeaer. Chicago Record-Herald. Thoae statesmen who thought they had clipped "Uncle Joe s" wtnga are believed to have come to the conclusion that there must have been something the matter with the shears they uaed. He) Hot Finish Possible. Boston Herald. With the ITnlon Jack planted within ill mile of the South Pole, and the Star and Stripes within 174 mile of the North Pole, tha British ensign Is several mile ahead of ours in the race toward the two goals of polar exploration. There's no occaa Ion for International unpleasantness, how ever. The race will finally be won on the home etretch. Sleeplaar ea Their Right. Charleston News and Courier. The presence of the representative of steel, of drug, - of sugar, of leather, of lumber, of ahoea and of a thouaand other commodities In Washington, where they clamorously petition th ways and meana committee of the house to save them from diminished protective dudes or ti give them more la the most conspicuous feature of the special session of congress except the absence of the consumers for whose benefit the special ae anion has been callod. Where are the consumer? Why are they not thereT Worklsg for the Pebllc. Philadelphia Press, the time of person employed by the public belong to their employer just as much If they were In ome private busl nesa. When there are too many men for the work necessary to be don th work I never aa well done aa when there I no time for loafing and dispersion of effort There Is hardly any large city that would not be able tc save hundreds of thousand of dollars a year if It were managed with sr.ything like the bualnesa care that char acterises the management of big private enterprises. Saved Again. Baltimore Bun. Several year ago congress pasd a law to conserve the beauty of Niagara Falls by prescribing the quantity of water that might be taken out of the river above the faJls for power plants. The law wa to ex pire by limitation June SO next, the idea being that by that tlm a pending treaty with Canada, dealing with the matter, would be ratified, But tha treaty has not been ratified, and in the laat days of the congress preceding the present one a reso lution havirtg a like object In view the con servation of the falls wa rushed through both-house of congress. The period within which an arrangement may be made with Canada, Is extended for two years. For two years longer! accordingly, bridal cou ples en ' their , honeymoon may cuddle up to the falls., assured that their murmur of undying love and labial smacks will not be heard. ' DIV1DBO DEMOCRACY. Inanrgent Democrats Come la for a Reat. New Tork evening Post, (ind.). Mr. Bryan's back la broad. But when the two dosen Cannon democrats In congress ould sanctify their purposes by calling their mutiny a revolt against Bryan, they saddle Nebraska's peerless eon with an unjuat burden. Very little principle entered Into the bargain between the Inaurgent democrats and the republican machine. The noble little band, under McCarren leadership struck not against Bryan, but for office and power. The fear of losing fat committee jobs led Georgia; the prom- of fat committee jobs led New Tork I Xing torn apart by difference In principle. the democratic party has now shown that It can be split apart by sordid Interests. However poor a showing the party may make. If taken state by state, its united representatives In congress still make aji impressive showing. A party that Is In a minority of forty-seven In a body of 391 cannot be called a moribund party. But when that minority stand ready to fall apart on small iaauea wall as big, on any Issue at all, if only it doe fall apart right In the face of opportunity, Ita future Is dark Indeed. How long will the democ racy continue to emulate the lowsst forms of animal life which multiply by splitting. TIMH TO MAKE MOSEY. Mr. Bryaa's RlM te the Crest ( Golden WAres. Washington Poat. Last fall, when it was ascertained that Nebraaka had gone democratic and that both house of th tat legislature were of that political complexion, Mr. William J. Bryan expressed a willingness to be a candidate for senator In congress for the term beginning 1M1. Not long thereafter ha qualified this declaration with the statement that hi candidacy wa entirely receptive and conditioned upon the conclu sion of th party that no other democrat could win. But Mr. Bryan now comes with the positive affirmation that he la entirely out of all calculations touching the senatorshlp, or word of that Import. 'Ti forty yeara since, when aome very successful and very wealth)' capitalist waited on that great naturalist. Prof. Ag assis, and proposed to him a commercial or financial scheme through which he would become an Independently rich man If he would venture his scant mean In the enterprise. To them the grand old Switser, reminder of that splendid ere- allon of Walter Scott, Arnold Bledermann, made answer: "I have no time to make money!" And so they left htm. It seems that Mr. Bryan is so busy mak ing money that he ha no tlm for chopping th logie of statescrsft In th United State enat at a beggarly 17,640 a year. When he wa nominated for preaident. In UW6. that grim pld southern democrat. Isham a. Harris of Tenneaaee, wa on a ranch In Taxa. and after he had recovered from his aatonlahment at the tidings, he exclaimed: "What! That S2.6O0 man!" If Mr. Bryan ahall be nominated In 11 1, old democracy can throw it cap In th air and boast, "We present to you a 171,006 man." No anaa In our hlatory ever made half a much money out of politic aa Williara J. Bryaa, unless h reenrtad to graft methods. The Commoner yield enormously on Its Investment, and he make ten of thousands yearly on the lecture platform. Verily, the Peerless Cms has plenty of time to make muney and -n time fur mak ing la. Around New York Klpplea ea U Oarreat of Uf as Beea U the Ores Asaertoaa Btetrepella from Say Bay. Dr. Edward T. Devlne, professor of social economy at Columbian university and gen eral secretary of the New Tork Charity Organisation society, discussed In a recent lecture the Increase in the number of suicide In the city and the cause of such distressing mortality. The rate of eulclde ha Increaaed tenfold In the last fifty years, while the mortality rate from natural causes has decreased. The city at preaent ha 1.009 suicide a year: last year's record waa seventy-seven in excess o! that for any previous season. Forty-three cases of attempted suicide were carefully Investi gated. Two were directly due to poverty and four to unemployment. The remaining thirty-seven were laid to a variety of rea son a. which led the Inveatigatora to the conclusion that poverty Is not the greatest cause of suicide. Statistics also show that the g at which the greatest number of case occur is from 64 to to. Three men to one woman kill themselves. There are more suicides among Protestants than Catholics, more among Roman than Greek Catholics, mora among Greek Catholics than Jew. There are more kinds of misery iri New Tork, Dr. Devlne declared, than Milton Imagined in hi "hell." Contrary to the Idea that misery I a retribution for a man' or parent' misdeeds. Dr. Devlne stated that it depended largely on condi tion which society could control. Dr. Devlne discussed at length the state ment of a probation officer that nine tenths of the misery In New York could be traced to the social ,evll. He pointed out the fact that since the framing of the model law In 1903 by William Baldwin and the committee of fifteen to protect the children In the tenemenla. there had not been a single conviction. Of 1.004 complaints, 811 were dismissed by the tenement, house department, 274 were dismissed by the corporation counsel, only nine were brought to trial and they were acquitted. "The complete unlnforcement I a most unfortunate breakdown of mu nicipal government," Dr. Devlne declared, and he said that the part of the police court In It wa "a miserable fiasco." Taller snd heavier than when he entered Bellevue a month ago, Henry Niedelman, 26 years old, of 117 East One Hundred and Thirteenth street, waa discharged from the hospital. Hi growth I the result of a new treatment for the development of mid gets Into normal proportion. Drs. Wall, Lackey and Burke of Bellevue hospital had been experimenting with an extract made from the thyroid glanda of a sheep as a substitute for the thyroid glands which are usually missing from the throats of midgets. It is the thyroid gland that con trols physical and mental development, say the Bellevue hospital physician. On Feb ruary 2S Neldelman wa taken to Harlem hospital suffering from a cut on his right knee snd a lacerated scalp wound, and after two days at that Institution he was trsnsferred to the Bellevue hospital. When he entered the hospital he weighed only seventy pounds, and wa three feet six Inches In height. At Bellevue he waa treated with several Injection of the thy roid each day, and hi condition wa so much Improved yesterday that he was dis charged a happier and bigger man. When he left the hospital he had gained ten pounds and Inches In height, according to Dr. Tracy, who had him in charge. Dr. Tracy said that when Neldelman entered the hospital his mind was like that of a child, but he I more of a man In every way now. even after ,less than a month under treatment. Neldelman received thy roid tablet to take three time a day at home. "The treatment," said Dr. Tracy, "has-been tried with general success In Germany, but never before with uch marked success here." Not many of ua were prepared for the really stupendous figure of the paasenger traffic of New York City, which ars mad public in th report for 1908 of that most admirable and efficient body known as the Public Service commission, say th Scientific American. It appears that tha surface, elevated and aubway companies In New York carry annually over l.SOO.OOO.OOe passenger. What the figure mean will be better understood when it is stated that they are over S6 per cent greater than the total number of passenger carried In th same year on all the steam railroad of the country combined. The total capitali sation of theaa transportation companies la over 1633,000,000. and they derive annu ally from the passengers carried ever tel, 000,000. Incidentally, It may be mentioned that the capitalisation of New York's gas and electric companies Is over 1386,000,000 and that they sell, annually, S3,000,000.JO cubio feet of gas: which amount Is more than per cent of the entire gaa produc tion in the United States. Moreover, the Income from the sale of electricity alone In the city exceed 130.000.000. By the close of 190t the city has ev pended over 160.000,000 In the construction of subways, and an additional tlOO.OOO.OOO will be neceary to build th Broadway- Lexington avenue line, the loop line con necting the Williamsburg and Manhattan brldgea, the linea aerobe Manhattan below Canal street In Manhattan, and the Fourth avenue lhie in Brooklyn. A Hoboken Inventor has constructed a street sweeping machine which, If we may trusted the printed accounts of Ita operation In the streets of New York, is destined to satisfy a long-felt want. It la an auto mobile with a sweeper in the rear. Brushes catch up th dirt, which I raised by a series of receptacles operating somewhat on the principle of a moving stairway, and the refuse I thrown Into th box-like body of the vehicle. Guided by a chauffeur In front and a helper behind, the machine picked up the accumulated litter of the streets with great ease and celerity, Thia must be esteemed a great aanitary achieve ment, especially If the cost of xavengering shall be thereby reduced. A total of tZ.flS men and women made their living behind the stands In New York's public marketa during 1901. They rented, or leased, 16.131 stall, representing an Investment to them of nearly 13.000,000. Fulton market alone did an average daily business of 600.000 pounds of fish. Th 6.000 pushcart peddler did a daily business of 25.000 selling all klnda of fooda and mer chandise In their market under the Wil liamsburg bridge. I Me Vacancies In Sight. Minneapolis Journal. Th suggestion haa been mad that Presi dent Tsft might select Luke & Wright, a southern anti-Bryan democrat, for Chief Jostle Fuller' a place. There has also been goaaip regarding the no01 retirement of Justice Harlan. Justice Harlan was asked about th matter. "Fuller and I have de cided," replied th-j venerable Justice, "to let them take ua out feet first." These two distinguished jurist are In prime mental and physical condition and do not purpose to give up their life work aa long as they are able to perform It. Not tha least valu able of th republic's sons sr th strong and sturdy old mn who ar stiU able to do men's work .'-JUE!iJtlJ! quill ronrrs on omaha. Stanton Register Idem. I: The legislature would have done far better work If th member from Omaha had been repub licans. Nor fa Ik Press: The Omaha Bee make th startling statement that every demo etatlo official In the city hall la a candi date for re-election. Waa It ever any other way with the republican officeholders T Paplllion Time: The Omaha Bee la mak ing a great wail because a large number of the city employe have been decapitated by the operation of the new city charter. Perhapa Omaha had too many men on the payroll anyway. Cedar Rapid Outlook: Tha legislature last week passed the charter bill giving Omaha "home rule." If Omaha can now be content to manage Its own affairs and give th balance of th state the same privilege, all will be well. But Omahs has a big task before It to rule Itself. Exeter Enterprise: The Omaha Bee ssys that Edgar Howard want to make the test of what constitute a democrat some thing more than lip loyalty to Bryan. We hope the statement I true, although It appearance In The Bee I somewhat against it. We have too many democrats who want to reach office under Brj-an's coattall only to repudiate hla Ideas after election. Albion Argus: In keeping with the cus tom of most every preceding legislature, this one has spent a lot of Its lime paaalng charters for th cities, Omaha In partic ular. We never could understand what It waa to the rest of the state what kind of a charter a city should hsve. It alwaya looked to us like a city should have the right to pass on everything pertaining tn Ita own welfare, so long aa It did not con flict with Mate law. If thia charter bui nea wss cut out s week or more time would be saved to every legislature. SEEKING NEW LEADERSHIP. Democracy's Plight P revoke Seme Pointed Remarks. Cleveland Plain Dealer (Ind. dem.1. The address delivered at Buffalo by Hoke Smith of Georgia the other day deaerve wider attention that It has so far received. The occasion was a celebration of the birth day of Grover Cleveland, which furnished a satisfactory setting for some sound demo cratic oratory. Th former secretary of the Interior In the cabinet of the only demo cratic president since the war, made Wil liam J. Bryan the subject of hi remark. Mr. Bryan, he said, must surrender his position as national leader of the party Another candidate la absolutely necessary for the contest of 1911 and the sooner both the Nebrtska man and the party come to a full appreciation of the situation the bet ter for democrats and the country alike. The Georgian professed the utmost loyalty to ths throe-time candidate, but believe the time has come for a change. The former governor of Georgia put Into word and gives the formality of pub lic utterance to a thought that la firmly lodged tn the mind of a large majority of the thinking men of the democratic party. Mr. Bryan apparently proposes to hold himself in readiness to answer the call for a fourth trial for the presidency. At least this Is a reasonable Interpretation of his attitude as expressed st divers limes since his lateat popular rout. Of course the Georgian disposes of one problem only to raise a new one. If Bryan is to be eliminated, who shall be chosen to lead In his stead? It la too early to answer, but three yeara are to elapse before the party needs frame Ita reply. In that period the right man ahould be found. There are several In various parts of the country doing ths work the people have assigned them. One of the several may In the three years develop ths qualities of a national leader, and at the least any one of them could scarcely do worse than the man who is to be deposed. Ther I to be a senatorial vacancy from Nebraaka in two yeara. Tha popular leader of the thrice defeated hosts might try his strength In that contest. Indeed, the state might go further and fare worse than to end Mr. Bryan to the upper house of congress. Hoke Smith trumpet a warning which ha three year to (ink Into the mind of the party and ahould prevent the repetition of the historic error of the Platte. DEMOCRATIC "PfRItTt.' Rejection af Carnegie Pensions for Edneators. Minneapolis Journal. By a vote of tl to 47 the lower house of the Nebraaka legislature has rejected a bill to permit the professors in the State university to accept Carnegie pensions. The opposition to the bill la said to have been actively backed by Mr. Bryan, who was determined to have th Carnegie pen sion turned down. ' Presumably, the purists In Nebraaka ob ject to taking Mr. Csrnegle's money on the ground that It Is tsinted, and will taint anyone who handle It. The tainted money argument has had its day. It Is not now so violently upheld as It was s few yeara ago, that ther Is sny moral quality In money itself. It may also havs been objected Ihat Mr. Carnegie, through his pension system, would acquire a commanding Influence over th faculty of the university. There might be danger that a professor approaching the retiring age might think to Ingratiate him self with th dispenser of largess. But It must be quite apparent that the professor who tried this would stsnd a great chance of exposing himself at home, without the compensating advantage of making himself known to Mr. Carnegie. The Ironmaster would likely never hear pf him. As te the alleged malign Influence of the tension system on education, there does uot seem to be any danger. The founda tion has been put In the hand of edu cator. It I for all time, while th donor f th fund and th first trustee are mortal. They anust pass sway, and the fund finally be appropriated according to general rule which exclude personal con sideration. In other word, the professor eligible to a Carnegie pension will get It by rule and not by favor. The professors' side of It, which the Ne braska legislature appeara to have mag nificently neglected, Is real. The pension system already haa given a bright tinge to the old age prospects of college profes sor. It is eapable of great extension. It Is doing much more good than harm, and any legislature that thinks beat to reject this sld to teaching, must do so on the ground that It haa a better plan. What is Nebraska's better plan? DeSane at Carnaratlea Prejudice. Springfield Republican. President Taft's studied preference for the ablest corporation lawyer find fur ther expression In his selection of Lawyer Bowers of Chicago as the next solicitor general of the t'nltad Ststei. Lawyer Bow ers corns from th itgal department of th Chicago A Northwestern end probably the former general counsel of tbe Illinula Cen tral, who I now secrets ry of war recom mended bins highly. Mr. Taft must com mand admiration for his defiance ef the eerporatloa prejudice ef th country. He la evidently hunting for the beat lawyers I and knows wber to find them. rERSONAL KPTIS: ' Colorado has psed a bill killing l forma of gambling. This ought to jr the wildcat mining Industry. A movement to raise a fund for the pur chase of a bronie atatuie of the late Rl-h-ard Mansfield, to be placed In the foyer of the New theater, at New Tork la under way. Indian folks say' they: used to r the tall, ascetic DavH Grsham .rp"r. '" la writing some of the most pop''' novels of todsy. "Jumbo" rhllllp. because he was so fat. .,.' Daniel Davis, of West Royltrn, Maaa., celebrated the one hundredth snnlvereary of hla birthday February t ' He Is still vig orous, physically and mentally, and contrH bute regularly to the columna of the vll lage paper. - - . A long and Interesting ' neapper cm reer was cloaed with the sudden death e Joseph Swan, for nearly 40 years connected with the Aoolated Preaa as marine rs porter In New Tork. Mr. Swan, active to th end, dropped dead In his chair in the hip news office at Battery'. ' Amos Moore, the oldest newspaper' man engaged In active work In Ohio, Is dead st his home In Cincinnati. He Was 96 years old snd In newspaper work tat Tl Vearav At the time or hi death be was editor and) proprietor of the Suburban New.. Just to give a little variety to the gm and give our heiresses a breathing spell, a full-blooded American cltlseq has been buncoed by London confidence men. It may; be necessary to send tha distinguished Mr. Maybray across the. .water to restore the) balance of trade. The Protestant Episcopal ,, bishop of Arkanaa recently received a draft of 120 drawn on London, .and given by Chinees Christians In Hankow for use In reiievlns the physical need of Arkansas, and con verting them to Christianity.. Rumors re garding Senator Jeff Davis have undoubt edly penetrated the far east. Prof. Simon Newcomb. the noted astron omer, who has been decorated ,by many foreign governments for his scientific! achievements, celebrated hla 74th birthday anniversary at his home in Waahlogton last Saturday. Despite hla advanced yeara Prof. Newcomb labor hard dally on as tronomical subjects and, with. the assist ance of several expert astronomical com puters, he is directing his attention par ticularly to the comptetalon of his work oil the motion of the moon. " INSPIRING STATESMANSHIP. Mlssoarlan Project a Splendid Name) in the Limelight. New York gyn. ' " We make honorable obeisance to the Hon. Matt Corhan of New Madrid,' Mo. In tha sudden making of splendid names, his is of the greatest and sudd-nest. Hla Is the bill introduced Into that hall of sages, ths Mis souri general assembly, and classified by the thoughtless 'as a "freak." It is not a 'freak." It embodlea the ripest thought of no occasional thinker. It graves sallently the form and figure of this sge. It is tha work of a deep student of legislation and proposed legislation. It la ' a saUrSt. pro found and penetrating. The Hon. Matt Conran would establish board of control for poker player, the board to consist of four members, appointed by the governor, not more than one to come from any political party, their fee to be a certain percentage of all Jackpots opened. Whercaa large sums ar squan dered every year by person who think they know how to ply poker, therefor henceforth nobody In the elate of Missouri shall be allowed to play poker unless ha baa passed. -an. examination. J)itha,. hoard and been dutly licensed and registered; and It shall be a misdemeanor, punishable by fine and imprisonment, to attempt to play poker without such examination, license and registration. r i " New Madrid, long reasonably famous as the site of the earthquake 'lake of 1811, will be forever glorious as tha site of Matt Conran. SAID IN FUfl- "Do you think Hangs will succeed in the work he lis taken up?" "He hasn't the ghost of a chance." "Why not?" "Because he hasn't the spirit." Balti more American. 'They tell me New, England is full of old maids." said th .Philadelphia, girl. "Now, suppose yog Boston girl don't often marry?" "No. only once as a rule." replied the Boaton girl. Philadelphia Record. Generous-Hearted Dam You haven't either of you (aid a word In acknowledg ment of the food I am giving you. Saymold Storey (with his mouth' full) Lady, m pardner here. Mr. Wareham Long, will hev somethln' to ey wen we're done eatln'. He alius make the arfter dinner speeches, mum. Chlcaxu Tribune. "She aeem so sure that marriage la a success." "Yes." "She must have married a young fellow with money who lias made her happy?" "No. elm married -an old fellow with money who has made her a Widow." Houston Post. . . ,. , , . , "That man Biffin lacks courage and en ergy." K Vee, confound him!" "Why do you aay that?" "Because he was courting my wife long before I met her. If he had had a little nor courage and energy but what s the uKe of talking about It now?1' Cleveland Plain Dealer. The office boy looked at the typewriter girl. She waa quite pale. "What's the matter?".. he aaktrt. "I've, I've juat had a bad spell," aha anawered. "You ought to go to ulght achool : for that," said the horrid boy. Cleveland Plain Dealer. f "After all." said the senator, "the .ten commandments constitute th greatest and most intelligent set ef law vr laid down." - "Ts." anawered th representative; 'thafa because they were given direct to the people without being amended by th senate." Washington Stat , j SYMPTOMS. When the aunhlne falls to lure you With It rar and radiant shimmer, When the clear linea of yer lundacapeg Just keep on a gcltln' dimmer, Whn yer nulglibor aeema to rile yea tip And to cub criss-cross yer hltte, You may bet yer bottom dollar That thtre'a somethln' wrong .inside. When the robin's chirp sr.noys you, When the weather'a not yer kind. Wten the esut wind starts the shivers. When the suiing is far behind, . When you fall to hear her bugles or to heed them if you do. Then there'a somethln' wrong. I reken- Somethln' wrong inside of oo. When ver ntighhor la a grafter. An' yer friend a mean old snitch; When yer troubles come aa frequent That you can't tell which from which. When yer worries are torn plenty An' yer Joys ar far too few. Better look then, fer the reason Better lock inalde of you. Yes. you'd belter pull (he curiam An' barricade the door. An' let Truth turn her X-ray- t'pon the apot that's sore. Just step up to th mirror . An' you'll see a loukin' thro Th source of all yer troubles ' Fer the source of them la ou. Then try kind thoughts fer a tonic An' a good deed ev'ry day An' a few good miles of trampin' Out some wild and woodsy way, An' the bird-song an' tha aunshio That ahall thrill you thro aa' taft) Will but be a Joyful echo Of the Joy Inside of you. rw"-- JBAYctjuu MJJB TJUCU-