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ifj BEE: (ttfAIIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1909, The : Omaha Daily Bel FOUNDED BT EDWA RX ROiC WATER. VICTOR ROSE WATER. EDITOR. Entered at Omaha postoffioe ae aeoond dese matter. Terms of subscription. Tally r (without Sunday) one year.. 14 W lally Bee and Sunday, ona year too DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Tally Bee (Including Sunday), per week.. 15; tally Bee (without Sunday). per week. .10c Evening Ba (without Sunday), per week 'it; Kvening bee, (with Sunday. pr week..llc Htinday Um, on year I- -M Baturday Bee, cm Vear 15 . Ad drees all complaint of Irregularltlee t.i delivery te City Clrrulatlon Department. omcM i Omaha Tha Bra Building. ' South Omaha Twenty-fourth and N. Council Bluffs It rVott Htreet ' Lincoln 611 Little Building. Chicago 1S4 Marquette Building. Naw York Hooma 1101-1102 No. 14 Wat Thirty-third Street. ' Washington 726 fourteenth Street. N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Commiink atlona relating to news and edi torial matter ahotild be addreaaedi Omaha bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or poatal order peyable to Tha Bee Publlahlng Company. )nly 1-cent atampa received In payment of majl aecounte. Peraonal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Itouglas County, as.: George B. Tsschuck, treaaurer of Tha Bee Publishing Company, .etng duly worn, aay that tha actual number of full and complete coplee of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of August, llOt. was as fullowa: 1.... 2.... I..., 4.... I.., , .as.too , ,41,00 ..41,470 . ,41,30 ,.41,770 It 41,700 IS 43,530 It 414190 19 41,010 Sit .41,030 41,040 : f .41.790 V 1 39.900 I 41,930 10. '..41,990 11 4130 12 41470 IS 48,009 14 41,430 IS 40,000 St 21 S4 IS. 2 ST .40,000 .48,880 .41,770 .48,690 .41,700 .41,730 21 42,170 SB 40,000 (0 41,910 SI 43.190 14 ....41,600 Total '.....' 1,989,410 Returned copies 10,381 Net total 1,879,089 Dally average., 41,959 GEO. E. TZ8CHUCK. Treasurer. Subscribed In- my Breesnce and sworn to before ma thla 1st day of September, 1109. M. P. WALKF.H. Notary Public abeerlbera leevlnc tke cite tem porarily abenld ksvt Tha Be mailed tm thesa. Addresa mill ha ehaaa-ed ata aftea mm reawested. No moving pictures are out yet on the first sight of tho North polo. David B. Hill la physically living, but not so aa to be leading any polit ical party. Judge Sullivan ia a nonpartisan, all right, when it cornea to taking corpor ation retainers. If somebody can syndicate the North pole jokes it ought to be the beBt sell ing book for the Christmas trade. Callforna boasts of the largest tgrape crop in history. Don't let it lose power in the last quarter as the corn did. In the Hapsburg family they are careful to see that the husband la no better than the wife. In America they let it go aa it may. - Amundsen approves Cook.' Amund sen never saw the pole, but he has talked aa much aa either of the others. Count one for Cook. . . A rumor la that a battle of financial kings la on over Harrlman proper ties. To take a modest part, , what does It cost for a look? What about "repudlators and nulll flers" Inside, the democratic fold, and even running aa nominees on the non partisan democratic ticket? They aay that Harrlman'i personal fortune was between 150,000,000 and $100,000,000. That la close enough for the use moat of ua will make of it. i The star policy for both factions of democrats ia to abandon the Phlllpvl pines. How do you cut loose? It's like getting a divorce In South Carolina- I The Andyk and ita cholera material- Iced nothing but a good old ship and a clean bill of health. Another lesson on not getting nervoua till it really happens.. American gunnery is, the wonder of European naval experts. When the Arkansas and Wyoming roam the deep and dark blue every big gun will be counted as two. . , If ever a combine was meritorious the one that held the Harrlman stocks up against. the t raiders is entitled to praise. Destruction Of values Is not a patriotic performance.' The; "angel, of the west." whom we assume to be a lady, has greatly pleased Massachusetts with the re mark that Oklahoma City and Boston tre so very much alike. Harrlman was daring, tenacious, in defatigable, thorough, self-confident tnd able to inspire loyalty in others. That ia one gem from one discourse. To be continued In our next. BMBaaaB(JSBaaaBBBBaaBBBBB9WBaaBBBa Custer county is again torn up by a county division fight, Life will be so tame in Custer county that it won't be worth living after the county division queatlon is settled for all time. Water vapor on Mara la proof of nothing, but it adda liveliness to the talk, like the oft-told tall with the up ward curl with which Peary added ttutnaa interest to his Polar atory. Seven minute between the Maure tanta and Lualunla la 1.800 mile la nearer a race than we get from dirig ible balloons. When Persona said that the turbine had reached Ita limit for big ships he must have known. The Harriman Roads. Durlog Mr. Harrlman's Illness, and still more after his death, the ques tion has been propounded on all sides. What of the Harrlman roada? We here In Nebraska and other states served by the Union Pacific system are naturally more Interested In the future of that great property than In the lines which Mr. Harrlman con trolled cast of the Missouri river. And whatever may be in store, we be lieve the people of the west are largely of one mind In hoping for a continued unified management and operation of the Union Pacific system, and In that term Include the Union Pacific proper, the Oregon Short Line, the Central Pa cific and the Southern Pacific. If Mr. Harrlman's fame for constructive work rents upon anything, it rests upon his succesnful lifting of these properties out of chaos and in weld ing them together in one of the most perfect pieces of transportation ma chinery ever known. It is reported from Washington that, wlrti the elimination of Mr. Har rlman, there may be a deposition manifested on the part of the Depart ment of Justice not to press the pros ecution of the suits Instituted to dis solve the merRer of Mr. Harrlman's roads. The whole system has been, and Is now, operated practically un der a single management ithout de veloping any serious abuses that were not previously there, and with the fed eral government exercising full power and authority over rates and service, It Is difficult to see how the dissolu tion of the merger roiTld be now ef fected without producing more harm than good. From Its very inception the purpose of the government in subsidizing the Pacific roads was to secure the build ing and operation of a transconti nental highway to take care of the overland traffic. To cut the Union Pa cific system up again into pieces, if it meant restoring the chaotic conditions which characterized the service dur ing the receivership, would be a dis tinct step backward instead of for ward. Mr. Harrlman's methods of uniting ttyese railroads under one con trol may not always have been praise worthy, and the menace or Mr. Harrl man's personality with his admitted ambition of reaching out for the entire railroad mileage of the country may have been regarded as a source of dan ger, but what he accomplished In the way of consolidation of what is known as the Union Pacific system has, un questionably, been beneficial to the territory served by Improving the transportation facilities, developing population and natural resources and Immensely increasing trade and com merce. The theory of the suit to dis solve the merger Is to restore compe tition, whereas everyone knows that with government regulation and rate fixing there would be no more compe tition than now. As the headquarters city of the Union Pacific, Omaha has still a fur ther, and perhaps a selfish, interest in preferring to have the whole system kept intact rather than to have the importance of the offices, shops and supply depots here impaired by segre gation. In fact, such segregation would be just as objectionable to us aa would be the abolition of the gen eral headquarters here by the transfer of the active management to Chicago or New York. Localizing Currency Reform. This week the convention of the American Bankers' association Is the most important event in financial cir cles. It may be the point at which the final adjustment of the currency will take shape for the winter session of congress. More than one utterance, evidently designed for discussion at Chicago, suggest that. In its bare form of a copy of the Bank of France, the cen tral bank plan will not be accepted without demur. There la a feeling in many banking centera that the United States must in any currency or reserve system provide for tn varied needs, habits and Ideas of different parts of a great territory. Men who dwell on this point of local differences have been making inquiries about the working of the existing banking sys tem of Mexico1. When Llmantour, undonbtedly an able man, reorganized the finances of that republic after the gold standard was adopted, one of his admitted ob jects was to make It adaptable to the extremely varied conditions of the dif ferent parts of the country. His con viction was .that local bankera were far better judgea of credlta than a cen tral institution would be. The sys tem preserved the central bank, but allowed local banks of issue, averaging one in each state Redemption of the notes of these local' banks Is forbid den in the City of Mexico, but an In stitution has grown up, apparently by the movements of business rather than under the law, called the Banco Cen tral, which is not a bank of issue, but acts as a clearing house and exchange agent for the state banfcs. . Each state bank keeps a deposit in the Banco Central, which is used for the) Clearing of chechs aa well aa for the redemp tion of bank notea. , The result of inquiries is reported favorable to Minister Llmantour' compromise between central banking and a certain-local liberty which Is considered free from the objections urged against loose banking. At least the system worka well so far In Mex ico, although Mexican. .experience can not be conclusive on the United States. The monetary eomiaiaalon and American financiers have, been giving careful attention to . the . practical operation of the Llmantour teystem One point not clear In Jt a Application to the United Statea la the danger of Inflation. In Mexico a large amount of metallic money has always been used. The fact has teoded to restrict the volume of bank notes. The free use of paper in the United Statea and the Insistent demand for uniformity of appearance would make undue In flation more likely to occur here. The New York Times, treating the recent address of Congressman Vree land, cites the Suffolk system In Massachusetts. The special point In that system was that no bank was permitted to pay out other bills than its own. Thus all other bills were sent in for redemption and Idle bank ing was impossible. Bank notes con stantly passed from hand to hand and remained In circulation only as long as they were actually needed. The Times thinks that the Suffolk Idea could be engrafted on our national bank system. The currency committee of the bankers' association has just held a preliminary meeting in Chicago and Its meetings will be continued during the convention. The country will see, aa It did in 1908, what Is the general opinion of the national banks. Com paring the "bankers' plan" with other suggestions which would preserve lo cal Interests with a consolidated method of Issue and redemption, ought to bring out a practicable and accept able system of currency reform. A Word to Liquor Dealers. The Bee takes It upon Itself, with out solicitation from anyone, to sug gest to liquor dealers that they will be taking a long chance If they proceed on the theory that legal restrictions on liquor tralQlc are temporarily sus pended because Omaha is full of out-of-town visitors. It is doubtless true that, at such seasons, the police, with added duties of handling crowds, directing traffic and protecting strangers, are kept reasonably busy without watching sa loons over closely, and that the possi bilities of turning sharp corners with out police interference are greatly In creased. But there is, in addition to the police, an alert body of spotters organized for the particular purpose of putting the saloon out of business, and any liquor dealer who brings trou ble on himself will be In bad position to unload the blame on someone else if he bumps up against obstacles when trying to renew his license at the end of the year. A word to the wise should be suffi cient. Who Gave the Order. Senator Burkett, with his tall between his discreet legs, has run yelping away from the auggeation made by five repub lican editors of Lincoln that he debate tho tariff question with Charles O. Whedon. There ia only one excuse possible, perhaps. It la that the republican senators and congressmen from Nebraska were or dered, by the state .republican convention, to delegate their responsibility to President Taft, to let Taft do their thinking for them and to support any tariff bill that was aatlsfactory ' to Taft. But - Senator Burkett and his colleagues could not help but know from what kind of a republican convention that order came. It came from a convention that was under the thumb of Victor Rosewater. It came from a con vention whose watchword was, "Put none but atand-patters on guard." World Herald. Senator Burkett, and the other re publican senator and congressmen from Nebraska, ought to know from what kind of a republican convention the platform order came, and so ought the World-Herald to know. If any of them do not know they can easily as certain by going back to the record of that convention. The convention waa presided over by Charlea O. Whedon, aa both tem porary and permanent chairman. Chairman Whedon appointed, without let or hindrance, every member of the resolutions committee. The platform was not only the unanimous report of the committee, but It was adopted by the convention by unanimous vote without a single dissent. In that convention Chairman Whe don was a delegate and had aa much voice and vote aa any other delegate. In that convention two of the five re publican edltora referred to were like wise delegates, and likewise voted "Yes" on the platform, or, at least, did not vote "No." If the republican sen ators and congressmen from Nebraska took orders from the republican state convention, they took orders from Mr. Whedon, and two of the five repub lican edltora, who are now trying to make a disturbance, along with the rank and file of the entire republican party in Nebraska by their delegates duly chosen. When people give or ders, and have them carried out, they do not usually find fault with those who execute the orders. . English Elections. When responsible papers begin to talk about a new election In England within seven months America turns its vision across the water, for, allow ing that the relative prestige of Great Britain Is not what it was fifty years ago, that nation baa become more, rather than less, Interesting. If the unionists should win in next year's election the old-time England of settled habits and known quantities would aeem to have returned, though the stalwart free trade of the period from Peel to Salisbury would be tinged with a doubt not quite understood by the most rigid protectionist In this country. England would look like j itself and yet with a new garment or two. The House of Peers will. It Is said, take Issue on the land tax. The cen tral tactical point will be that a new principle has been Introduced into the constitution with no direct authority from the voters. It has the appear ance of good politics, the sort of poll- ! ties which would appeal to English men A unionist victory would eud j the land tax proposition, perhaps for ever. The present Parliament has not been picturesque. It has made more dull talk than the dullest of American congresses. At least It seems dull to ns, and Englishmen speak of the vast and limitless ocean of : gush. We ought by the spirit of our Institutions always hope for radical success In England. But present-day radicals are so destitute of brilliance that they have little charm. Even Balfour, not a startling genius, ia a better spectacle than Asqulth and Kelr-Hardle. Our amiable democratic contempor ary, the World-Herald, thinks the con fesslon of corporate affiliations, made by Its preferred nonpartisan demo cratlc candidate for supreme judge, ought to help him Instead of hurt him. That is a quite natural assumption for a newspaper that Bold editorial page space to be used against its own party nominees, and sold out again for the silver bulllonarles money, to switch from an honest coinage ratio to the dishonest 18 to 1. Complaint is jnade because the county clerks throughout Nebraska do not respond promptly and accurately to the demands for variegated Informa tion made on them by the state labor bureau. It Is said that the former county clerks used to be more accom modating. Perhaps It Is a case of wearing the welcome out. Lincoln papers ought to try to get together on the amount of the State fair shortage. 'One of them says edi torially that the fair la shy $5,000 to 6,000, and on the front page of the same paper puts the figure at $15,000 to $20,000, while an other one insists that it is $2,000 to the good. Get together. An Interesting side light, may be gleaned from the annual report of the Young Men's Chrlstan association Just issued, which shows that of the 1,543 senior members 717, or almost exactly half, are members of no church. Here's a chance for Omaha preachers to send out another batch of question cir culars. Governor Shallenberger's idea of an extra session is only to patch up holes in legislation carelessly enacted by the last session. The extra session de manded by the democratic state plat form is for the sole purpose of ratify ing the income tax amendment to the federal constitution. Is a platform binding? Speaking of joint debates, why not pit side-partner editors of the Fremont Herald and the Columbus Telegram against each other on the subject, "Do corporate affiliations disqualify a non partisan democrat from sitting on the supreme bench?.'.',. The State fair, management Is not complaining half -m much as the mer chants and tradesmen of Lincoln. The State fair management started out with a surplus, and feels also that it can make a case before the next legis lature. 1 American old stockings fetch more than those from any other country. American women do not overdarn the original stock. The news la given out for the benefit of the women and the dry goods stores. As far as the authorized accounts go, Peary saw everything that Cook saw and vice versa. And yet there is a dispute. Suppose we agree that they read up on the cns and neither saw anything? ' Biff critics never like . Jack John son's style, but the colored craftsman batters all these coming champions In much the same fashion. It would seem a mistake for him to change his style. In the medical; advice column of a Washington paper it is said that all the germ diseases are communicable from the hand or the hankerchlef. What Is the final word on handling the nose? A sharp competition has developed to supply the auto In which the presi dent is to ride around Omaha. Let them score for points, but, presumably, endurance will count for more than speed. Dashes Acroae the Chicago Record-Herald. f)r. Cook expects to make 1500.000 lectur ing on hla dash to the pole. Peary probably expecta to make twice that sum telling how Cook didn't dash. Libraries for aiebraaka Schools. Boston Transcript Nebraska dues not propose to wait for the philanthropsla to supply her libraries. By a new law each district must annually set aside for that purpose 10 cents for every child of school age. y A Klmed Habit. Washington Herald. Mr. Eugene V. Dabs says: "It remains fur the American people to say whether I shall ever be president." They seem to have fallen hopelessly Into the habit of answering that proposition one lonesome way. moreover. Moe H rations for Peace. Louisville Courier-Journal. F.tght American warships are go'ng out and alretch their muscles In the vtclnliy of llenolulu, Yokohama, Hong Kong an I Manila. Let I us hasten to add positively that there will not be war with Japan for nine reasons, the first of which la that the Japanese are not lunallca. Aa taaaaerlcau fcpirlt. Philadelphia Record. The contention that' he who doea not apeak is therefore a liar is rather diffi cult to sustain. The principal tritica of Dr. Ccok brand him aa a falsifier not be- cause of what he haa said, but b cause I possible by reason of the powers granted of what he has not faid. There Ih no placj , to corporations by the several states of the like America for tha exhibit on of aa un- Ameriran I'nlnn limited liability of sharo Amerlcan spirit. jhuidera. great liberty in the Usulng of ae- Harriman reatarea of the Career ef the Ballroad Magnet Reviewed r tha ..Trees ef the Country Typical Amej-lran. Flttsburg Dispatch. H la life waa typically American In the fact that starting as a poor boy he ended with position tht made him the ex-. ponent and genius of vent corporate wealth. Perhaps the quality that contributed most to his achievements waa the art of making men, especially the possessore of large capital, believe In him and entrust their millions to his generalship. Climbed twe Helahle. Chicago Inter-Ocean. In a sense, of course, Mr. Harrlman's life was unique. The life of any man, no matter whether he succeeds or falla, Is generally that. But. broadly viewed, he simply made tha asoent which many poor American boys had made before and which many poor American boys are no doubt destined to make until the breed Is extinct. Elements of nrreaa. Cleveland Leader. ' Harrlman could never have done what he did or won what he gained If he had lacked a far-ranging and eminently sane Imagination, backed by tlrelea energy. great powers of concentration and effort, and altogether extraordinary Intelligence. To forget or Ignore these facta ia to be as unjust -to the American people as to Mr. Harrlman himself. Domination of elf. . Baltimore News. "Harrlman lived to clutch the gulden keys as few men of any age or nation have lived. But with all his genius, he never represented the Ideals or hopes or yearn ings of a class or nation; he never forgot himself In the Interests of others; he never fought directly and purposefully the fight of the people. And ihiiH, with all his gifts, he could never attain the highest measure of greatness. Not a Wrecker. Chicago Tribune. Whatever may be aald against the blend ing of railroad operations and operations In Wall street, he was not, like Jay Gould, railroad wrecker. Rather was he an ' unbuilder. When he got hold of a road his aim was to heighten its efficiency for traffic purposes. The Union Pacific, aa It now Is, la his best monument. Us stock holders have seldom had occasion to com plain of his stewardship. The gocd that he did will live after him and outweigh the evil.' Far-Reach lus Power. Cincinnati Inquirer. it la doubtful If ever any man In any age exercised power so absolute and far reaching in Its effect. He was at one and the same time the Hercules that cleansed the Augean railroad world and the Atlas that shouldered the burden of carrying It, That he should have attained to this im perial station Is all the more remarkable when It ia remembered that it was achieved after he had passed the meridian of life as measured by years. In Private Life. Brooklyn Eagle. Of hla private life little wes known to the public. He waa not of a social nature, and did not exhibit his private life to pub' lie gase. But those who- knew it well bear testimony that It was without blame, sim ple and refined. He made no ostentatloua display of bis Wealth, and strove to ren der Inconspicuous the 'benefactions he made. He will go Into history as a great man, and the judgment will be based on the great industrial empire which he ere. ated. Gen Ids for Traffic Connections. Boston Transcript. Harriman had an extraordlanry genius by linking up traffic connections, for mak lng the roads which he had Improved in this Tltanlo way, pay alluring dividends The changed earnings of the Alton, after his liberal expenditures, are cited by hla friends In pallatlon of the 30 per cent com mission exacted on the transaction, and of his sale of Ita bonds to the life insurance companies at a handsome markup, and si miliar Irregularities which made that episode more than any other a blot upon hla repuatlon. Other Magnate Dwarfed. 8t . Louis Globe-Democrat. Carlyle, the hero worshiper, would have placed Harrlman on the roll with Caesar, Cromwell and Napoleon. In his own field his career waa aa daxzllng and dramatlo aa that of any of those conquerors. With the New York Central in his hands, with 85,000 miles miles of railway under his con trol, and with Hill, Morgan and all his earlier rlvala dwarfed Into Ineferlorlty, he was, In his last daya. In danger of that pre-eminence and isolation which, was coming to Alexander, after pursuing hla conquering way Into the heart of In dia. There would be no more conquests worth making. Then the end came to him as suddenly as it did to Alexander. Effect of a Critical Age. New York Tribune. If Mr. Harrlman had lived a generation earlier and pureued the aame methods he would have been universally applauded. But he lived In a critical age. The at tention of men has been directed aa never before to the power of wealth and the use of that power as It affecta the public. Mr. Harrlman has therefore been severely crit icised for the way In which he obtained control of some of the resources which he employed In his vast projects and for the way In which he uaed those resources, as, for example. In his multiplication of the Alton securltlta. Laws already tend to re strict similar operations, and it is not probable that the public conscience will ever again approve them. Did It Part ' Kansas City Star. The queatlon which naturally suggests Itself in connection with Mr. Harrlman's work and Its sudden end yesterday at Ar den ia. Did It pay? That ia, did it pay the man who performed it? Waa the vast power which B. H. Harrlman gained In the business world a power so great as o cause each respiration that came and went as he lay upon hla dying bed, to be noted In the nation's great financial citadel worth what It cost? At an age when life, under normal conditions, should Inolude the blesslnga of health and the tranquil reward of diligence and a wise improvement of op portunities rJ. h. Harrlman lies dead, car rled down to the grave. It la believed, by the fever of his own intense ambition, and the heat of the teal with which he followed his purposes Why His Power Was Posslnla. St. Louis Republic. It must be remembered that the power wielded by thl man, who controlled the policy of IS.1 ml! as of railroad, with se curities amounting to V.SuO.OOO.OuO, was only IS YOUR MONEY well invested or is it lying in soino place perhnps not altogether, too safet If not needed for some time, why not put it to work EARNING MONEY Our 3 per cent Certificates of Deposits nre an absolutely snfo form of investment, backed by $12,000,000 of assets. ' First National Bank of Omaha United States Depository. 13th and Farnam Sts. curltles, the absence of limitation as to sise. It would be unreasonable, therefore, to award him honors over the masters of wealth who have gone before without tak ing Into account the unique opportunity of the man with acquisitive genius In America today unique itt the history of the world and among the nations of the earth. Tlie home of financial, empire Is America. Boaftht to Holld l'p, New York Financial Chronicle. Indeed, It may be truthfully said with respect to Mr. Harrlman that In his whole life work in all the various undertaking and enterprises with which .he was con nectedhe waa never a wrecker. Ha al ways sought to build up, never to destroy. He devoted himself chiefly to restoring moribund properties to life and maklnff them fulfill their functions. In this way he was able to acquire much money for himself, but he also made money for others. It has been declared that no one ever lost anything by Investing in Mr. Harrlman's undertakings. Mont Important of all, through his reconstructive processes he helped the welfare of the whole commun ity, i PERSONAL NOTES. Thirty out of the forty-seven governors of the states have accepted Invitations to accompany President Taft on his river trip from St. Louis to New Orleans. About 100 members of the original BAan family of Exeter, N. H., held a reunion in Boston last week. Local papers fea tured the Beans on the Inside pages. St. Louis will pull off Its centennial celebration next month. The town by the two bridges is so well beyond the fluffy stage of life .that It doesn't -care who knows It. Mrs. Elizabeth F. Noble of Mansfield. Mass., whose will ' has Just been made public, left 110.000 to the Midnight Mission of New York, and the aame amount to build drinking fountains for horses and dogs In the streets of New York. ' A San Francisco man who committed a capital crime in 1898, and convicted In 1901, has Just been invited to come into court and show cause why the date of execution should not be fixed. The criminal had al most forgotten the little affair of eleven yeara ago. t, Mme. Schumann-Helnk, the" American singer, appeared before a most distin guished small audience the other day in Berlin, where, at the imperial palace, ahe sang for the emperor and empress of Ger many and King Edward and Queen Alex andra of England and a few other notable people. Although he says he has made more than $1,000,000 In the prlxe ring, "Jejn" Mace, the old-time English pugilistic champion, has applied for a pension under the new British old age annuity act. Mace, who la now 77 years old, has a record of 500 appearances in the ring, and only two defeats. LINER AND LOCOMOTIVE. Ocean Greyhounds Crowding; Land Speed . Supremacy. New Turk World. The great Cunard turbine steamers con tinue to give evidence of a capacity for speed which has not aa yet been fully demonstrated. The Mauretanla In reduc ing the time between Daunts Rock and tho Ambrose channel lightship to 4 days 11 hours and 36 minutes haa cut nearly seven h,ours from her time for the trip of May 11, more than five hours from her record of May JL and nearly three hours from her voyage of August M. What may not be expected from a con tinuous performance In tlme-cllpplng which glvee the great liner a new speed record for nearly every tripT A four-day voyage la well within the possibilities when the fast alster greyhounds are fully unleashed. In effect they have already brought London almost aa near to New York In postal time aa are the cities of, the Pa cific coaat. A letter mailed in Kew Yck requires four daya and nine hours to reach San Francisco; 'it requlrea less than a day longer to reach London. Taking for oom parlaon the distance by rail between Buf falo and Los Angelea, which approxi mately represents In mileage the route from Ambrose channel to Daunt'a Rock, a passenger leaving the former city by a morning train on Saturday and catching the Overland Limited at Omaha on Sun day would not reach hla destination until Wednesday morning a Journey of four daya. That any time comparison between tranacontinental railway and ocean Jour neys should be possible illustrates the ex tent to which the liner has encroached on the locomotive's province in the matter of apeed. Given a four-day boat It will be neceasary for railroad managera to reduce their schedules of long-distance runs If the locomotive la to retain Jta ' prestige. Tke New World Moves On. Boston Herald. "The king is dead. Long live the king." A railroad king passes, but. his monarchy continuea. Business has not been disturbed by the death of Mr. Harriman. Even spec ulation ahowed but little effect. Mr. Har rlman's ldeaa atlll live. They were his real. power. Others will put them Into execution. After all. how little of Im portance in a man ia mortal. When he passe tie leaves the world the legacy of hla accomplishments. Even hla person ality remains behind In the lives which have been wrought out by contact with him. Say It! Heidachei. BiUouiocis. Constipation. Ayer'g Pillg. Sugar-coated. Easy to take. Don't forget. Ifyoar doctor toy Ihlt It oil tigil then My It ecsr anq J O 4er Co.. Tow-'I h' mm over again. lliig a:-'-''aT1l SAID IN FUN. "Her husbnnd Is very good to her "Is that so?" "Yes. He dos everything to please her even to lnlklnK bai k wlim sbe s looking for an argifment." Potrolt Tito I'resa. "Maria. I'd like to know where vou have put my pipe." "John. I haven't touched your old pipe. If It Isn't where you Iniil It down It s be cause It Junt got up and walked out." ChlcaKO Tribune. Motorist (r-ntorlng country stnre I don't suppose you keep eparkllng'-plusrs in stock" Stortkeeper You s'pose kerrert. mister If any uv the boys 'round these pnrts ever wore plugs when they went sparkin' they'd be Joshed clear criiry, I'll wager. Judge. Knlcker Time brlnns ntrange changes. Hockcr Yes; the boy whose mother can't make him wash his neck crows up to be a rich man who goes uhrnad for hatha. Harper's Ilazar. "M v dear." "What Is It. hubbv?" 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