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TIIE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1909. The umaiia Daily Bee. FOUNDED BT EDWARD ROME WATER. VICTOR ROfEWATEH, EDITOR. F.ntered at Omihi postofflrs as second class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Bee (without Sunday), one year. W 00 Dally Bee and Sunday, one year 00 DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Dally Bee (Including; Sunday), per wekk.lSe Dally Bee (without Sunday), pr week. .10c Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week 6c Evening Hee (with Sunday), per week.. 10c Sunday Bee, one year $IW Saturday Bee, one year... IW Address alt complaint of Irregularities In delivery to City Circulation Department, OFFICES. Omaha The Bee BullCtng. South Omaha Twenty-fourth nd N. Council Bluff 1 Scott Street. Lincoln MS Little Building. Chicago IMS Marquette Building. New York Rooms 1101-1102 No. 31 Weet Thlrtv-thlrd Street. Washington 726 Fourteenth Street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to new and edi torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order payable Jo The Be Publishing Company. Only I-eent stamp received In payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted, STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.: Oeorg B. Txschuck, treasurer of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, saya that the actual number of ful! and complete copies of The Dally. Morning Evening and Bundav Bee printed during the month of October.' 190. wa aa foilow: 1 44,300 2 4fl,080 j. . .o,eoo 4.... 43,640 11... II... 14... 15. . . 17... 18. . . II..: 20. . . 21... .43J40 .43,180 .43,340 .43,330 .t.no .40,800 .43.450 .43,000 .43,350 .43,050 22.. 2S. , 24., 25. . 27., 28. , 29. . SO. . 31. . . .41,790 . .43,490 ..40,330 . .41,390 . .41,110 . .43,350 . .43,810 . .43,000 . .43,070 . .40,600 t. . .. T. . .. 9. . JO. . 11.. . .4l,Bl . .48,460 . .48,670 . .43,810 . .49,880 , .40,300 . .49,710 Total Returned copies , .1,303,040 f ,070 Net total 1,893.370 Dally average ' 41,781 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Treasurer. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 1st day of November, 1K0I. (Seal.) M. P. WALKER, Notary Public. Subscribers leaving the elty tern orarlly shoold have The Be nailed to ikes. Addresa will be (kaagei aa often aa requested. The rear admiral seem all to the fore in denying Cook. Wonder if Judge Dean realizes now bow the democratic bunch used hint to pull their chestnuts out of the fire. Anyway, If he is defeated Judge Sul livan can point to the fact that he said In advance he didn't want it very badly. Charleston Is advertising "the Garden of Eden" as "Just opened." There is, of course, some snake in the announcement. The frequency of surgical operations on modern liners makes It timely to re vise the title of the old song to "A Knife on the Ocean Wave." Strange, isn't it, that all this trouble In the management of our Nebraska insane asylums should wait for a dem ocratic governor before breaking out? Omaha's bank clearings for ' the week show up an Increase of 44 per cent over the corresponding week of last year. That looks like real busi ness.. It's dollars to doughnuts that the answer Ig Dunn puts in for himself In his contempt case will be mildness itself compared to the brief that started the rumpus. The Maine woods, ringing with the usual autumnal reports, are providing their accustomed deer for man and man for deer. The count of carcasses thus far appears about evenly divided. With Rockefeller fighting the hook worm. Carnegie combatting pellagra, and Mrs. Sage contributing to the anti tuberculosis campaign, It threatens to be a bard winter for the germ family. If the Delawarean experiment of growing potatoes In barrels continues to result In such prolific production, it soon will be possible for any family to drop a tuber in a keg and raise a full meal. A dispute over a horse trade Is re sponsible for a riot call responded to by a whole squad of police. In early Omaha daya a dispute over a horse trade was simply s call for an under taker. In the present state of the drama, It Is safe to assume that "The Lily," about to ,be Imported from Paris for the American stage, is one of the species that tolls not, but does spin gossamer webs. ' One of the eastern roads having demonstrated in a full-speed collision that Its new steel coaches are life savers for the passengers. It would eem to be the part of good finance as well as Of humanity for other lines to Install them in use without delay. ; We have to thank the striking pastry makers of New York for a Thanks giving novelty at the White House. Tbey are going to present to Mr. Taft gigantic mince pie that promises to be such a bird of a pie as to put Mr. Yo8e's annual Rhode Island turkey in the background. ' So close Is the vote on the bonds to (be two-thirds line,, which must be passed to carry them, that It will take terlflcatlou to make sure. Bond bay' era are proverbially exacting about all the preliminaries to a bond Issue so that the city authorities will do well ta have no loophole if Ike bonds are to be Issued. Wanted, a New Bepiitration Law. The light vote in Omaha and South Omaha la the recent Hection la un doubtedly to be charged In large part to the unduly burdensome registration law which Nebraska baa on its statute books. The Nebraska law requires personal appearance each year before a board of registrar,, sitting in the various election districts, respectively, on specified days, four in number. A man may reside continuously In one place all his life and vote at every pri mary and at every election, and still remain under the necessity of register ing anew every year. This requirement of registration in the cities is for the very proper pur pose of making sure that no one Is per mitted to vote who is not legally enti tled to do so and to Insure the ballot against fraud. But we should be able to accomplish this laudable object without making the exercise of the suf frage bo inconvenient or so harassing as to make the alternative of shirking this highest duty of citizenship more attractive than Its performance. There Is no good reason why,. In a city like Omaha, there shpuld not be a permanent registration board holdtng forth at the city hall once every week or two throughout the year for correc tion of registration, supplemented with a single day for registration revision through boards sitting in the various voting districts. This permanent board should record changes of resi dence as reported to it, erase the names of people who may have died or moved away and add those of new comers or voters Just coming of age. In addition to advertising the names erased, it should be enough to have the registration lists submitted to the vari ous political organizations for check ing and to require personal appearance only of those whose qualifications are challenged for good and substantial causes. " Nebraska needs a new registration law, . not another amendment to the present patchwork. Such a law ought to be carefully prepared with a view to making it really workable, and when so prepared it ought to be enacted by the next legislature without any oppo sition. Holding; Our Foreign Trade. While our government Is devoting a large share of its energies to maintain an open door in the far east, It appears that our commercial Interests are in a considerable measure neglecting the opportunities which that open door is intended to provide. Consular reports reveal an astonishing lack of enter prise on the part of our manufacturers In this direction, and it is evident that Americans must give this market more attentloa if they would not see It dom inated by other nations. In cotton goods, for instance, Man churia had been buying chiefly from the United States, but of late English and Japanese houses have been making Inroads upon that trade. This appears to be due only in part to the'ifha'ptf of the Japanese goods, for theyaie.,a4s mittedly Inferior In quality, but chfeefljc because of the fact that Amerkas UtUl supplies the Manchurian market through Chinese dealers In MancturjU, who draw upon stocks held In Shang hai. The obvious remedy for this Is the establishment of an American Job bing center in Manchuria with direct shipments. Such a close relationship could not fall to develop vast trade throughout Manchuria, which not only favors American cotton goods if it can eliminate the Shanghai commission and storage charges, but Is also re ported as eager for American stoves, lamps, plows, harrows and cultivators. In these and In many other lines, all that seems to be needed Is close culti vation of the field and ..direct trade connections. With the one bar to progress so clearly pointed out, the remedy ought to be Bpeedlly applied, and. the Man churian commerce of the Unlfed States made the envy of all other manufac turing nations. Lesions of Co-education. In this day of violent agitation by the suffragists, when militant activi ties of the one-time gentler sex are apt to give the impression that mod ern thought and 'higher education are making woman more of an opponent than a co-worker of man, it is worth while to look Into the records of ad vanced womanhood in some center where the experiment has been long established. Such a fountain-head la the University of Wisconsin, where co education has been practised for nearly forty years, and where In the beginning It was prophesied that woman, given equal opportunities with man, would proceed to dominate his established field. An advanced woman, summarizing the results both In the Wisconsin uni versity and among the graduates, finds that the man has continuously main tained his chosen domination as of old. For Instance, woman has steadily diverged from political economy. though at first attracted by the Idea that therein might lie her emancipa tion from thraldom, but after a little Investigation, she concludes that the prerogatives of ber own sex yield her something better than she discovers in the prerogatives of masculinity, and she declines to trade. Therefore we behold, In college, and in after life, the man maintaining bis leadership In practical and hard-headed affairs, nu merically and vitally at the fore in the serious business of life, and virtually alone In the pursuit of politics and Its ramifications. - Womafl, however, as from the begin ning, Is steadfast to the., more orna mental or aesthetic occupations and Interest, leaving the political and eco nomic, problems for the men. Where man ebons belles-lettres and other ele gant studies or pursuits, woman neg lects the very matters Into which the militant suffragists would drive them. This demonstration from the field of thorough experiment and long ex perience will encourage the country's multitude of old-fashioned housewives and mothers in the faith that their daughters will continue to be the com plement of th nation's sons, rather than arrayed against them. One More Kecruit. Colonel Bryan's army of tariff re form has this week enlisted one more recruit. It will be remembered that the color bearer Is Congressman Sulzer of Tam many hall, who rushed to the front at the first notice and accepted service under Colonel Bryan's own conditions. The Tammany congressman was fol lowed by three others, each, however, Insisting on adopting his own style of uniform. 1 The democratic congressman from Massachusetts wants to go before the country with a promise to remove the duties from the necessaries of life and fight It out afterward as to what con stitutes life's necessities. The flre-eatlng member from Arkan sas Invokes Divine Will to commission the democratic party to abolish all ob stacles to absolute free trade between any two spots on God's footstool. The democratic congressman from Missouri is willing to shut bis eyes and swallow anything Dr. Bryan may pre scribe. And now comes the fifth recruit In the person of Congressman Morris Sheppard of Texas. Young Mr. Shep pard has most agreeable and winning ways. He inherited his seat In con gress on the death of his father, who bad it before him, and he has no fear that anyone will get it away from him. Mr. Sheppard must have misunder stood Colonel Bryan's position, because he says: I am opposed to protection In any' sense and from any standpoint, whether on raw materials or finished products. Colonel Bryan should repeat to him that his program contemplates retain ing the duties on finished products irre spective of any incidental protection they may confer. Mr. Sheppard says he would go further than Mr. Bryan. He ought to know that no good dem ocrat has any right to go further than Mr. Bryan. But, as he says he believes in the binding force of platforms, all he has to do is to add that be believes in letting Colonel Bryan write the plat forms, and then he will be entitled to be admitted to the Bryan regiment as a member in good standing. Let the good work of getting the democratic party together on a prac tical tariff program go on. Attorney General Thompson In bis answer to a petition of the railroads to have the 2-cent fare law set aside as serts that the reduced fares have not l&flalreifl Railway revenues, but In creased them. If he can only convince the' railroads of that fact they will dis miss their -suit. Renewal of the contest over the es-. i$f$,Yef, by Count Creighton warrants reiteration ' of a remark made at the time the threatened will contest was projected, that If the count had only had an inkling of what was to come he would have made hi bequests to all those lawyers direct. It is said that during the state teach ers' convention at Lincoln as many as eight teachers were compelled to bunk together In one room. Must have been almost aa overcrowded as some of the school rooms. Changeable habits of employment are Inevitable in a country where the presidential term is limited to four years and where men of energy are likely to advise their boys not to stay too long in any one place, regardless of the adage about the rolling stone. It la unusual, therefore, and somewhat refreshing, to contemplate the distinc tion of a man who has filled one office with great personal happiness and with much good to the world at large for half a centurj. The circumstance Inspiring this reflection la the retire ment from the faculty of Columbia university of Dean Van Amrlnge at the close of fifty years of service, dur ing which he has be.n a personal blessing to hosts of young men start ing on their triumphant way. A man's real standing In a community Js es tablished by his nickname the dean is affectionately known as "Van Am," and that sobriquet is equivalent to a college cheer among Columbia men all over the world. Kansaa has lost one of its most aggressive good citizens, and western newspaperdom one of Its most fear lessly outspoken editors. In the death of Thomas B. Murdock of Eldorado. He was one of the unique group that has kept the state of Kansas before the American people, and that has earnestly striven to eradicate some of the things that have been the matter with it. His personal faith was well expressed when he advised the young men of his state: "Live the life that gives you the courage to .look the world squarely in the face and say, 'I am everything a man ought to be, and nothing a man ought not to be.' Live the life that promises you an up holstered seat in the amen corner of that happier and more glorious world beyond the grave." In the appointment of Cameron Forbes to the post of governor general of the Philippines, President Taft has not only satisfied his own Judgment concerning the fitness of the Incumb ent, but he has also placated that par ticular form of New England opposi tion to the .administration of the is lands which has centered In Massachu setts, for Mr., Forbea Is a Bay Stater by birth, a Harvard graduate, and a grandson of Emerson, a trinity which ought to satisfy the most orthodox Puritan. In addition, he haa for years been identified with the progressive doings in the Philippines, and has per sonally conducted some of the most arduous of their reforms. nark to the Jaslt rile. Washington Post. All chips have been removed from po litical 'shoulder throughout the country, and the fighting- language stored for the next time. . neat 11 Ira to It. -'t. Louts Q lobe-Democrat. Commander Peary is about to begin his series of North pole lectures. It can not be denied that Dr. Cook beat him to the lecture platform. Nebraska Bark In Line. Philadelphia Press. Nebraska, too, abandons Bryan, and re verses the majority of a year ago. This will not Interfere with a "national figure." What Is the loss of a state more or less to a man Ilka Bryan, who has been losing states for thirteen years. Political Salvation. Philadelphia Ledger. San Francisco went Into the campaign with the cry "Have San Francisco." each faction having In mind Its salvation from the other fellow. It haa been saved, of course. There was no alternative. Knowledge aa Prise Winner. Boston Transcript. Amid the scoff and Jeer of the natives, the Long Island railroad established two experimental farms several year ago. Thl year It has taken twenty-four first prises and twenty-three second and third prise at the county fairs, and the local attitude has now changed to a desire to know how It I done, Simplifying City Government. . Philadelphia Pre. Boston has decided to concentrate ctvlo power In a mayor, elected once In four years, and a city 'council of nine. This I the tendency of the day, and the course of city elections over the country show from San Francisco eastward the grave difficulty of securing good city adminis tration with frequent elections for many offloera. Valae of Publicity. Chicago Tribune. "Why all thl fuss about one'a private affair?" asked John Jacob Astor when he was appealed to for Information con cerning his wife's application for a di vorce. There are many people who will agree with Mr. Astor In the opinion that it Is none of the public' business. Never theless, it Is the fear of publiolty that keeps many men from going the way which Mr. Astor la alleged to have chosen. Discarding Ills Old Love. Springfield Republican. Norman K. Mack of Buffalo, N. T., long a friend of the Nebraskan, says: "I do not believe that 1 Bryan will b the next demooratla candidate for the presidency." Mr. Mack Is chairman of the democratic national committee because Mr. Bryan did not object to hla holding that place. Now this radical demoorat seems to be turn ing with hope to1 Governor Judson Har mon of Ohio, though as yet he la uncom mitted to any candidate. Mr. Harmon' party regularity : is 'unchallenged, and all wings of the party might ba able to unite on him. This, at least, is a fair Inference from Mr. Mack' utterance. MEASURING THE COST. , Disbursements for Pensions for Serv ice In American Wars. Philadelphia Record. "War is hell," said General Sherman whilst we were in the heat and stress of our great civil conflict. But not he. nor any other of the participants in that fright ful struggle, fully measured the cost. The civil war ha, indeed, coat more alnce it was ended than all the direct expenses in curred in carrying it on. The current an nual report of the pension commissioner gives the following statement of disburse ments for pensions from the beginning of the government: War of the revolution (esti mate) , I TO.WW.UUO War of 1811 (service pension).... 48,767, Indian wars (service pension).... ,896,609 War with Mexico (service pen sion) k.. 41,492.784 Civil war J,6Sti.4(il.MQ War with Spain and Philippine insurrection JS.SSS.MR Regular establishment IS 5U7,028 Unclassified lb.4M.0tf Total : 3.811.082,501 Tha above total does not Include the pension payment for the present fiscal year, whidh will increase the amount to over U. 000, 000,000. Since the war wa ended there has been no reason to modify the terse opinion of General Sherman. Ha knew what he was talking about. WATER POWER DEVELOPMENT. A Clear Exposition of Government Policies. Minneapolis Journal. Mr. Olfford Plnchot the government's chief forester, is out In a letter on the conservation of water power that may serve to clear the atmosphere somewhat Mr. Plnchot denies that he is In favor of delaying tha exploitation of new watar powers in any way, but, on the contrary, favor rapid development by private en terprise and private capital. He Is insis tent only that any grants mad by ihe government be for a limited period, such as fifty year, so that these powers shall not be given away In perpetuity. The experience of the government with reclamation of irrigable lands haa demon strated, if demonstration were needed, that public work of that kind are far more economically and effectively carried on by private enterprise under government regu lation than when undertaken by the gov ernment Itself. Its every movement de layed and impeded by red tape, the gov ernment moves In such matters with in credible slowness, and when it does move, the expenaea are multiplied many times by official extravagance and waste. While Mr. Plnchot doe not contend that a great water power trust is actually in process of formation, he point out that the natural tendency of the time I in that direction, and that, moreover, there Is already community of Interest among large power companies extending over wide areaa In central California the movement has reached the stage of a single cor porate Interest controlling the water rights of a vast region. The great point, the vital point. Is that the government shall retain ownership of these vast natural benefits, for posterity. It Is useless to cry, let posterity take car of Itself. The American mind totally re jects that cold doctrine. It will not have It. Present greed may a well abandon the idea of gtttlng absolute possession of what belongs to all the people for all time. The use of the water powers It can have on fair term. Their absolute unregulated ownership it can never Washington Life sort Sketches of Incidents Bad Spl odes that Mark tha rrogresa of aveat at the national Capital. The "600 deep waterway booster" au thorised by the New Orleans convention to camp in Washington until congress sup plies the wherewith to "dig her deep thiough Pixie," can hardly fall to make an Impression. But number do not count In results as effectively a the backfire methids of modern lobbying. The Phlla delphla Press gives editorial prominence to the lobbying system that impresses Wash Ington, and how radically It differs from the ways of bygone days. Money was the motive power then. It Is equally neces sary today, but It works In less dangerous ways. It Is clean money and la spent legitimately. "Hundreds of thousands of dollars," says the Press, "have been spent In securing laws that are now on the statute books. This money waa used for educstlonal purposes, and It was not used in Washington. It waa spread out over the whole broad land. It was used In educating the voter in congressional die trlct as to be the necealty of such law. "It haa been estimated that the reclama tlon act cost Its original advocates no less than $150,000 For years systematic and valuable work was carried on to Impress the people of the country with the Justice and necessity of government aid for irriga tion. The lecture platform, pamphlets and periodicals were all used. A popular senti ment was aroused and congress responded "This Is up-to-date lobbying. It is the method used by the advocates of every Im portant general piece of legislation. It Is also used by the opponent of such legist tlon. Its purpose Is not to work directly upon the congressmen In Washington, but to work upon their constituents and con vince the latter that It 1 to their Interest to have certain laws passed. If the con stituents are convinced they will do the rest. Few congressmen refuse to listen to the voice of the people of their districts." Most persons in the big cities have seen, usually on top of federal buildings, a little Instrument which In some respects re sembles a "horizontal windmill" disks or balls revolving rapidly around a spindle. When the wind Is blowing sufficiently hard to make one pull his hat on tight these little disks or balls revolve so rapidly that they appear to be a circular streak. The Instrument Is called an anemometer. It 1 used to record the velocity of the wind, and up to last week It has performed Its Usk faithfully, with never a hitch. -A few daya ago, however, when a typhoon swept over the Philippines, one of the in struments was called upon to register such an enormous velocity that it balked. It waa blown off Its feet, so to speak. The machine recorded a wind velocity up to 134 miles an hour and then it stopped. That wa the limit. No provision has been mad to register the speed of a flash of lightning. A a result Prof. Willi Moore, weather bureau chief, haa turned his attention to the construction of a machine on a new principle designed to withstand any storm. The death rate among the retired general officers of the army during the last few weeks exceeds that of any other period of equal length, and Is spoken of as "start ling" by the elder officers. No leas than even general offloera have died within aa many weeks. These were Lieutenant Gen eral Henry C. Corbln, 67 years of age; Major General Elwell S. Otis, 71; Major General Alfred JS. Bates, 87; Major General O. O. Howard. 7; Major General Robert P. Hughes, 70; Brigadier General R. C. Drum, 84, and Brigadier General Alfred S. Kimball, Although some of these officers were long past middle life. In less than half of the case can their deaths be attributed to cause Incident to advanced age. Alto gether forty-nine retired officers have died o far this year. The United Stales register or "Blue Book," which haa been published blen nally since 1817, waa of over four thou sand pages in two large volumes In 1905. Before 1817 the germ of the publication had been appearing for over twenty years In the shape of simple lists of govern ment clerks transmitted to congress by the secretaries, but in that year provision was made for Issuing regularly a com plete register. There was a time when the blue book was a convenient else for the pocket, though containing a full ros ter. During Washington's administration the secretaries of State, Treasury and War, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton and Henry Knox, transmitted .the names of their clerks to congress, and in 1793 Secretary Hamilton forwarded to congress a general list of clerks, agents and em ployes on the government rolls. This lat ter, being printed, was the first blue book or register. The government was then In Philadelphia, and In the three departments there were less than 160 names, two thirds being in the treasury. The tide of official travel is setting Washing tonward this week for the first time In three month. The city 1 still practically deserted by high place holders an almost unprecedented condition thl late In the autumn but the algns of a general return begin to appear. This is due to the prospective arrival of Presi dent Taft November 10. Since congress adjourned, August 7, the nine members of the oabbiet have been taking vacations or dell g their work at home moat of the time. Assistant sec retaries and bureau chiefs have followed suit to an unusual degree. The president in the course of his long Journey haa kept up with more Important work, but a big grist will be awaiting him when he walk into the brand-new offices. now as good a completed. It la taken for granted In Washington that he will post pone the contemplated trip to Panama be cause of the brief time before the assem bling of congress and the great amount of work he should dispose of before early December. There will be but three and a half weeks in which to prepare hla an nual message and hold the numerous po litical conferences that generally ; ,-eceds a session of congress. There are ttt varletiea of chrysanthe mum on exhibition at the Department of Agriculture's annual show this year, eighty-five of which have never been dis played before. Lovers of flowers come from all over the country to view and study this exhibit One of the interesting varieties Is the President Taft. a large white ball-shaped bloom, similar to tha Fidelity. The William Jennings Bryan Is also white and similar to the President Taft, except the bloom la not so round and the plant grows higher. The Edith Root Is a beautiful pink. The President Roose velt, a last year's variety, la a pale pink. The Colonel Ducroslet Is one of the best of the yellows. The qutll-shapad petala are tha distinguishing characteristics of the Rayonnante. One of the most beauti ful of all the specimens is the Fidelity, a large white bloom. ' Bark to the Simple Life. Sioux City Tribune. When a man ean raise a family and get rich on at acres of land, ilka that ohap In southern Nebraska Is doing, it la time to quit the strenuous life and resort to tha Intensive methods of farming, and atop talking about the scarcity of land for farming purposes. IS IT WOBTH IT? Traaedlea on Foot Pall Field Force Qneetlon te the Front. Washington Post. Two picked young men chosen from among many competitors for their u peiior mentality and excellent physique. one at Annapolia, and one at West Point are lying, the on bruised, broken, and probably dying, the other dead, from In Jurie received In recent foot bsll game Who can measure the grief to their fam tile and friends to see such splendid young fellows, full of vigor and promise, the pride and Joy of those who loved them truck down In an Instant, and the open Ing careers replete with hope to them and coming benefit and credit to the country they had elected to serve, forever closed And for what? We are told the game develops manliness courage, alertness, endurance, and physl cal strength, and furnishes one of the best forms of outdoor exercise. There have never been lacking, long before foot ball became the leading subject In the cur ricula of the time, plenty of men In the army and navy and in civil life possessing an abundance of all these qualities to carry them and the country through any emergency they have been called on to meet. Admitting that foot ball does to some extent foster manly traits, It must not be forgotten that it also develops very brutal and unmanly ones, that even the most rigid rule and penalties have not been sufficient to wholly suppress slug glng, unfairness, and a determination to win by foul mean If necessary. That It haa tended and does still tend to unduly magnify and exalt mere physical prowess, setting up a misleading and harmful stand ard among young men whose primary ob ject should be proficiency In their studies, there can be no question, and there la no question that an adequate amount of phy steal training ean be secured without foot. ball. None of the other game Is subject to the objections which apply to it. Every year numbers of young fellows are slaughtered and maimed "to make an American holiday." Is it worth HT If wo must hsva such spectacles, why not turn to the bull fight, which we are so ready to criticise, but which, as a rule. kills only bulls? Is it not time that the government, at least, should say that young men It takes In charge to educate, and on which It must rely on In the future. shall not be subject to such risks? If for no higher or better reason these ac cidents involve an economlo loss to th government from which it should protect itself. AMERICA. BLESSED THE WORLD. What Opportunity In the New Has Done for the Old. Chicago Inter-Ocean. The annual report of the auditor of the Postofftce department Its financial report contains the usual statistics of the money order business. One tabulation Is made which we do not remember to have seen before. It Is stated that during the last twenty years more than 1640.000,000 has been trans mitted by money orders to foreign coun tries.' It Is remarked that most or all of this money Is evidently the surplus earn Ings of Immigrants employed In th United States. The inference is plainly correct Ordi nary mercantile transactions are not con ducted through the postofflce. whose money order business Is limited to small sums. And when w consider the other means of sending money, and th amounts that are carried personally. It la easy to see that a most conservative estimate of the amount sent by Immigrant to their former homes abroad would be 11.000,000,000 In the twenty years In question. And thus we see how America and the opportunity of prosperity that American Institutions give to the ordinary man lighten th woes of the world. For thl money practically all of it went to th families of the sender. It made easy th old age of fathers and mothers worn with toll. It brought wive and children to re join the husbands and fathers. It kept thousands of sisters from desperation or wore in th harder condition of other land. It waa charity that was not him the loving kindness of the family. And the glfta that th American oppor tunity ha enabled million of its workers in' th ranks to send back to their old home have done more to lift th burden from weary (boulders, to bring peace to anxious minds and to comfort sore hearts than all the "agitations" and "movements" have don in the asm period or in any other period. Those are but words that trouble th ear and die upon the air. ' Her are those fruits of human klndnoaa their garnering posslbl In Uils blessed land of our by humble hand a In no other that make life worth living. OKI MAKING A NKWSPAPEH. The Simplest of Task In th Opinion of Those Who Don't Know. Washington Star. Men who make newspapers sometimes be lieve that their profession is an exacting one. They are wrong. It is the simplest calling. Making a newspaper l an easy trlok. Anybody ean do it. A lawyer with only a 'diploma and a brass sign, who would lose a suit even if th other side wa ready to confess Judg ment, will tell you how to run a newspa per. A physician who would send his pa tient to the morgue before th prescrip tion has been fUled will know all th fine point of making a newspaper. An actor who never earned any other plaudit than a oft tomato will give Instruction In hand ling th world' new. Any old lady who know enough to get off a street car back ward ha positive opinion on the press. Even a society person who never paid any thing but a call or made anything but a visit or did anything but a tailor know how stupid those men are who write stories," edit "copy," wrestle with heads" that won't fit and get the paper out on time. One reason for the universality of perfec tion In this trade, among those who do not work at It, la that everybody has been em ployed In It. It I a most unusual thing to meet a man who, when the occasion seems ripe, will not say "I used to be a newspa per man myself." Every time a man works his country editor for a puff on the strength of a big pumpkin he graduate In Journalism. When be write a "piece" for the Squash County Clarion about "a moat enjoyable entertainment" he com plete his post-graduat course in newspa per work, and when he writes a communi cation on both sides of th paper to the editor he becomes a thirty-third degree member of the Tribe of Kcrlba. That ao many men have abandoned liter ature for the law, medicine and other easy walks of life simply shows that many men would rather fall in one thing than another. Cannon Coloasa. New York Tribune. Speaker Cannon denied In New Orleans th other evening that h wa "a colossus bestriding 400 members of con gress and 80, 008,000 of people." Mr, Cannon may not have been designed by nature to serve as a colossus, but it eannot be de nied that In th house rule as h applies them he ha a wonderfully stalwart and spreading pair of legaf PERSONAL R0TE3. js Mrs. Pankhurst Vants to know If the wo men of this country could not march on Washington. Certainly they could, but why? New York editors generally do not srrirl to appreciate the self-sacrificing spirit n which on of their number exposed to th axe and already scarified neck. William Lane Carson, whs died at Ram sey, III., was si grandson of Samuel Carson, who came to America from Ireland at the age of 1. and fought with Braddock's army throughout Its disastrous campaign. Deaoon Stillrnan haa Just celebrated hla fortieth year of service on the New York Sun staff, but still sit up with the young est cub after the paper haa gone to press and talks about the wonderful days of old. For the first time In yeare the Turkish legation In Washington Is real busy. The assumption that Turks. Syrians and Ar menians were not "white men" In the meaning of the naturalisation law Induced the embassy sit up and take notice. Mrs. Indiana Hogan, 104 year old, and her son' Levi Howard, 71 year old, whom she characterise as "my baby," passed through Kansas City the other day enrouta for Anabel, Mo., to the Osark regions. where they are going for the son' health. They are discovering at Washington that Prof. A. P. Andrew, of. Harvard, lately ap pointed director of the United Stales mint, wrote once upon a time In sharp criticism of tlie paternalistic conduct of the T'nlteil States Treasury department under Secre taire! Shaw and Gage. Mis Ethel Wharton Is the nurse hero ine of Wales, and the first British woman to receive the Carnegie medal for hero Ism. All Great Britain know of the valor of her deed, but In Wales she is enshrined in the heart of every mother (or she risked her life and became a cripple to save a baby. IMtll E LEGAL CONTEST. Attempt to Show Oklahoma Constitu tion I Unconstitutional. Kansas City Star. The Oklahoma railroads are attempt ing to annul the 2-cent fare law of that state In the United States court at Guthrie, and in heir fight against low fares they i are confronted by a unique situation. They must prove that the constitution of Okla homa la unconstitutional. In other states the roads have been able to attack the 2-cent laws as antagonistic to the constitutional rights of th corpor atlons. In Oklahoma th constitution pro vide that the railroad may charge only two cants per mile for carrying passenger. So that Instead of the usual plea that the reduoed fare are unwarranted by the oi- ganlo law of th state, the railroads must show that the demand of th organic law Is unwarranted by conditions. Th contest Is certain to attract atten tion because the result of the suit filed by th railroad may have a potent Influence In the solution of the rate problem. It pro sent, also, the Interesting feature of In volving the sovereign power of a state to adopt Its own method of regulating cor poration. Th evident intent of the constitution maker of Oklahoma was to reverse the legal condition surrounding the question of rate regulation; to remove the obstacle of "constitutional rights" so frequently I i Jected Into such lawsuits to delay and often defeat the state In putting Into erf tot statutes enacted by the legislstitn-s In re sponse to public demand for lower rates. Therefore they 'made the l-oent fare the standard passenger charges, and placed all the responsibility for ehowlng that this standard was unfair Upon' th;fpntlty-tneh) selves. The corporation commission Is made the court of arbitration. The constitution gives it the power to suspend the 2-cent tare when the showing convinces the com mission that the rat Is unjust or confis catory. But the railroads niUBt produce all books and accounts of the corporations, establish the physical .value of the prop erty, and the aotual Investment Involved in tha operation of the road, to make thai showing. TheOklahoma railroads have appealed to the United States court to declare thl provision of th Oklahoma constitution antagonistic to th federal constltion. If the Oklahoma document is upheld it will point the "way for other states to the solu tion of a vexatious problem by constitu tional amendments rather than statutory enactments. 1 A BUNCH 07 SMILES. Knlcker What is a foot ball? Hooker A pUoe of leather entirely sur rounded by twenty-two nieu. Judge. . Imogen Why Is It that so many wed dings happen on Wednesday 7 txmeralua well, on Sunday everybody wants to sleep, you know: Monday Is wash day, and Tuesday is Ironing day. Wednes day Is the first day In the week when there a really any time for marrying. Cul- ago xriDuue. "Marry me," pleaded the mere man, "and your slightest wish shall be granted." "But, queried the wise woman, "how bout the large ones? Detroit New. Does your heart ever reach out for the unattainable?" "No. but my hands do when my husband is not at home: there are three buttons In the back of my gown that I Just cannot rvacn, nvuHiun rosi. "What a beautiful head of hair you have. my dear." . "i)o you like itT" "Ye. Indeed. Where did J-ou buv It?" Detroit Free Press. 'Miss Prua ha a theory for reforming the world." What is It?" 1 That mother ought to exchange chll- ren because they always have such strict Ideas how other women's children should be brought up." St. Louis Times. "Gladys," reprimanded her stern father, I am shocked! I actually saw you klxa that tall young man with the long hair." "Well, papa, he an Minor, spoke up Miss Gladys with a pout. - "And what has that to do Wltn It 7 "Whir, nana, didn't -you say with vour own Hps that young author should be en couraged." Chicago News, . "Clarence." she said, "what a splendid minister to China you would make!'1 . 'Wh-wny, miss Dorar- ne laiterea. "Because, while you may be thinking eeply, you don't say anything." Do you imagine tnat Clarence lost any time In speaking out and telling the lovely lrl what was in hla mind? tie did not dear children. Chicago Record-Herald. THE EETUKN. John D. Well In Buffalo News. When Johnnie went away to school He rigidly conformed to rule. At first he Joined a college frat, And lost an arm arid leg in that. - And then he mads the Delta Phis,' tt no gougea out one or Jonnnle eyes. A "rush" that launched th colleara vear Deprived blm of a useful ear. He wa so good, and glad to please, rfuniiuie pum we team witn ease. i He left a hand at Cleveland, O. A kneecap at St Louis, Mo.; His strnum cracked at Baltimore Interred hla dom at Portland, Ore.; At every contest win or yield. He left a portion on the field. Thus gradually he waa bereft , Till little of th boy was left. " W got hi baggage noma by rail Th rest of Joliuui cam by nuUl.