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UKORGK B. TZSCHUCK,
Treasurer.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before, ma thla lat day of Novomber, 190.
(Seal.) M. P. WALKER,
Notary publlo.
labacrlbera leavta tke city tern,
rarity abeuld kart Tho lie
mailed to them. Addreea will be
- chaagti aa often aa requested.
One more week before
pounds at Washington.
the gavel
Tennesueeang are only asking the
oil of executive clemency to save their
Shipp.
When the sugar trust gets what Is
coming to It, It will , not be sugar
coated. Newest Polar Puzzle Locate the
man who claims to have first located
the pole.
Mr. Taft Is a ponderous man and
may be expected to produce a ponder
ous message.
From the player's viewpoint, to cut
the ham out of foot ball might also
eliminate the charm. ,
Never mine, the coal man and the
weather man' will be close chums be
fore the winter is over.
Now approaches the year when
Oberammergau grows long hair to
draw the tourists' long green.
Speaker Cannon refuses to realize
, the possibility that a Cannonade may
do most of Its damage at the breach.
Now that Mr. Taft has forsaken golf
for equestrianism, congress will have
to reckon with a president In the sad
dle. The government's warning of a
skate pest that preys on lobsters Is, of
course, a specific recognition of a gen
eral condition.
Those pay-as-you-enter cars are
likely to be most unpopular with pas
sengers who have a habit of getting off
without paying.
The Alabama voter, casting his bal
lot on the question of permanent pro
hibition, will doubtless reflect that
never is a long time.
Garden county, tho newest addition
to the circle of Nebraska county sub
divisions, is to have a special election.
And now its trouble begins.
It is to be observed that by dint of
great struggle Ig Dunn has so far re
strained his Irresistible Impulse to
square himself by apologizing.
When the coming Corn show at
Omaha appeals to the railroads strong
enough to Induce them to put on a
special excursion rate everyone may
know that It Is a good thing.
San Francisco will find the nation
still nervous whenever It relapses Into
rllence. Unlike a good child, San
Francisco should maintain public as
surance by being heard if not seen.
Dr. Parkhum's warning to the mil
itant suffragette that woman cannot
get more than half what she wants If
she fights for It as though she were a
man, may be Interpreted to mean that
if she Is real womanly she can have
anything she sets her heart on.
In a little bit of autobiography Mr.
Bryan confesses that he expected to
win out when he was running for
United States senator from Nebraska
In 1894. Our political history does
not reveal anyone chronically more
hopeful In the face of certain defeat
.than Mr. Bryan.
The Japanese Imitation of the Amer
ican sugar scandal must be a great ad
vance over the original, so far as ras
cality ran be considered an advance.
Some of the accused Nippon ringlead
ers held cabinet positions, which goes
to show that the lower down a fraud
Is the higher up It can reach,
Mexico Its Assailants and Defender
Simultaneous attacks on Mexico in
books and magasins are bringing Out,
as was naturally to have been ex
pected, various rejoinders defending
the government and people of Mexico
flfialnst charges of being Inhuman and
barbarous. The numerous stories
about Mexican peonage and slavery,
resort to abuse and violence upon help
lens unfortunates and rigid suppres
sion of political opposition go Into such
details as to give the Impression that
they are based upon some foundation
of truth, although doubtless either
highly colorej and exaggerated or em
phasising the exceptional rather than
the customary practices.
No doubt some Mexican could, If he
wished, devote a few months to visit
ing different parts of this country and
by picking up here and there examples
of lawlessness, cruelty and outrage,
make an equally heart-rending show
ing about "barbarous United States,"
but that still would not be a correct
picture of the life and habits of our
people. Much depends, therefore,
upon the attitude and the purpose of
a critic, whether aiming to remedy
evils and redress grievances or seeking
merely to attract attention by sensa
tional statements.
Mexico without question appears
barbarous to us In many of Its aspects
and has a long way yet to travel to
reach the level of the most advanced
and civilized countries. Gross Iniqui
ties are frequently perpetrated there
and the common people stand for
much oppression which would not be
tamely tolerated here. But Mexico
has also made tremendous progress in
the last twenty-five or thirty years and,
despotio as the Diaz government may
be denounced, it Is universally ad
mitted to be a great improvement over
what went before.'
Mexloo is Just now enlisting the
activities of American energy and
American capital in the development
of its natural resources and In many
branches of industry, and this leaven
will surely In a short time exert a
potent Influence against the barbarous
customs that still linger.
Defining State Lines.
The proposal to enact legislation In
congress this winter to define the
limits of state from national authority
Is apt to prove one of the most diffi
cult as well as most interesting efforts
of the session. So frequent have the
discussions been of late concerning the
overlapping of state rights by federal
authority that some such movement Is
not to be regarded as unusual.
Although the broad safeguarding of
state powers Is provided . for in the
constitution, some specific subjects
ieem to call for illumination. The
question Of the extent of the obligation
of governmental treaties with foreign
nations is still a possible source of con
flict, as witness the recent case .when
the national administration had to
seek an adjustment of local legislation
with San Francisco governing" the
Japanese in the schools. In this con
nection it Is suggested that' rmt or
municipal authorities Bhoultitt-. iield
to account as offenders against 5 the
United States if they enact regulations
Infringing upon treaty rights or obliga
tions. With the existence of such wide lo
cal variations of sentiment. It would
be well to have it finally understood
how far school or other laws may go
affecting racial feeling, for lit would
be unfortunate to have another such
dilemma arise as that In California.
The treaty powers of the nation are
well defined, and no state need have
any real fear that Its commonwealth,
rights will be infringed, yet any pro
posed law to punish city or state au
thorities for violating treaty obliga
tions will surely be combatted by those
fearing a restriction of commonwealth
authority.
Certain state prerogatives will be
vigorously asserted, such as water
power rights, whose conservation each
statt will continue to regard as largely
local, and the very thought of
federal encroachment on states rights
will elicit hostility from many quar
ters. The fact, however, that Senator
Root, who is supposed to be fathering
the proposed legislation, has already
recorded himself firmly for no sur
render of state rights, should have a
reassuring effect. Probably all that
will be sought In this attempt to define
a line of cleavage between states and
federal government will be a mutually .
satisfactory understanding which shall
serve to prevent unnecessary friction
from overlapping state and federal- In
terests. A Man of Mystery.
The mysterious vanishing of Dr.
Cook, quondam explorer of peaks and
poles, affords a theatrical revival of
Interest In a personality that of late
had become , somewhat submerged.
There would be nothing strange In the
fact that the Peary controversialist
had sought sanctuary with the knowl
edge of his intimates, but when those
who have been bis most loyal sustaln
ers show that they are nettled by his
conduct, the doctor can hardly blame
the still skeptical public from making
cynical comment.
After the campaign he had under
gone Dr. Cook was undoubtedly en
titled to quiet and rest, and even his
doubters would haveleft him undis
turbed if he had calmly confided his
plans to his Intimates and gone Into
seclusion. His strange manner of dis
appearance, however, must be regarded
as unfortunate, even though charge
able to the fact that he Is unstrung by
his harrassments or else to the etcen-J
trickles of genius.
In thla latest episode Dr. Cook, has
reminded the public how much of a
man of mystery be Is. Ills Mount Mc
Klnley and North pole claims followed
disappearances which continue to
strike many as decidedly queer, and
the dubious ones will be ready to hall
his new departure as putting not only
himself, but also bis endorsers, In an
equivocal position, since his proofs are
still under official Investigation and as
the chief witness In his own cause he
ought not to remove himself from the
jurisdiction of his court.
Where Improvement is Possible.
Strangers can sometimes see things
more clearly than folks who are con
etantly on the ground, and well
directed criticism from abroad may
open our eyes to faults that can be
cured. The following from the Lin
coln Journal contains some suggestions
that could be, useful to us In Omaha If
we would only act upon them:
Many Lincoln people visited Omaha on
Thanksgiving day in the neighborly ex
change of dinner civilities between the
state's capital and metropolis, and ionic of
these bring back appalling tales of the con
dltlon of Omaha streets. Paid a lady:
"The streets of Lincoln have been muddy
but they are Ilk palace floors com
pared with those of Omaha. I had been
walking; about the streets at home without
rubbers and It never occurred to me to pro
vide a protection for my shoes. In conse
quence we were obliged to hunt up a boot
block before going to the friend's home
where we were to dine, as It was imposBl
ble to keep out of the thick gravy-like
mud which covered all the crossings. The
Omaha cara, too, made me less grouchy
about those furnished to our own city. We
may have happened to get seats In the
oldest ones, but however that may be, we
rode In thosu of the old-fashioned stylo
with seats along the sides and a stove In
the middle, which Lincoln began to discard
ten or mors years ngo."
There Is no question but that we In
Omaha are often too careless about
the things which are first seen by a
stranger and make the Impression
which the visitor carries away with
him. Omaha invariably strikes the
stranger forcibly as a live, bustling,
growing city, and this favorable opin
ion should not be marred by petty an
noyances and drawbacks vthat could
and should be remedied.
Those Dimples on Fair Luna.
Entertaining, If not convincing, is
the latest official theory emanating
from the naval observatory at Mare
Island regarding the shadows on the
face of the moon. Prof. See, the as
tronomer In charge, has been appar
ently living up to his name, and what
his eyes have discovered he makes
known to the public with that careless
disregard for old-established theories
characteristic of the true American
spirit.
It appears that that prosy old per
son, Galileo, Is out of date, so far as
the dimples of fair Luna are con
cerned, for Galileo was unkind enough
to style earth's luminary a pimply,
faded beauty, and was ungallant
enough to ascribe those dark spots to
the scarrings of eruptions. Not so, as
serts Prof. See, politely, but firmly.
And he relates how the fair goddess
of the night Is the victim of misplaced
energy on the part of her celestial ad
mirers. Every so-called crater, he in
sists. Is the mark left by a huge bou
quet thrown at her from the florist's
shop somewhere among the great
white lights of the milky way, and man
on this footstool is hereafter to con
sider the shadows not as defects, but
as beauty spots.
A local pastor appeals to his friends
to contribute a brick apiece to build a
new church. Some people In this
vicinity remember the campaign for
bricks at a dollar a throw once con
ducted by the Auditorium promoters,
and still others have recollections of
gold bricks and of brickbats. Of
course, these various kinds of bricks
have no necessary relationship.
Although he was elected as a repub
lican and would have been beaten had
the democrats had their way, County
Commissioner Bruning last year tied
up with the democrats and handed
over to them the principal patronage
of the county board. It's up to Mr.
Bruning to discover where he la at.
What a relief to know that the cur
tain was wrung down on that Knife
and Fork club banquet at Kansas City
without a personal collision between
Mayor "Jim" and "Uncle Joe."
Rejoice and Fill Ip.
Baltimore American.
Who has not cause fur thanksgiving
hen he reflects that the American turkey
and pumpkin pie supplanted the roast beef
and plum pudding of effete England?
Iteurvtlnar the lserclse.
Baltimore American
The trust magnates may have to do some
dodging again. Formerly they grew quite
agile from thla exercise, and now that they
sre comparatively out of training tt seems
hard they have to begin all over again.
Is Chivalry Memory T
San Francisco Chronicle.
Tho president has annulled the appoint
ment of the poor widow of a lighthouse
keeper on the Potomac, who waa to have
had the vacancy, becauas she la too fat to
squeeze through the manhole to reach tha
lens. And this from Taft! It probably
hasn't yet occurred to a beneficent goven
nirnt that It might have enlarged the man
hole. Pallia 1 Storm Shatters.
Sioux Cltv Tribune.
The big corporations are anticipating a
federal Incorporation act that may baaa
capital on value of properties. Just aa tha
two local corporations are doing. Tha
Adams Expresa company "cut a melon" a
while ago and now Wells Fargo convert
surplus earnings Into a 300 per cent stock
dividend. Their weather bureau predicts
an area of low barometer cora'.ng their way
and they prepare for It aa beat they can.
The Ureal torn Show.
Charleston Newa and Courier.
The National Corn exposition is to be
held at Omaha. Neb., nest month, Decem
ber 4-18. It will be a grand affair. At the
exposition last year fifty thousand ears of
corn were on exhibit, on thousand special
displays of tha smaller graina and five
hundred exhibits of farm Implements.
Twenty-nine states were represented In the
show. The exposition this year promises
to be equally as large. The Union Pacific
railroad Is promoting the success of the
enterprise.
Walt Till the End Comm.
Washington Herald.
Those all-too-eager enthusiasts In the
matter of giving proper credit fur the
dissolution of the oil octopus will do well
to go slow, we think. It Is not altogether
Impossible that the octopus may not dls
solute.
Deserves the Limit.
Ft. Louis Qlob-Iemocrat.
The cishler of a plut icratlc Chicago
club, arrested for embezzling, says "auto
mobiles and women" wrought his downfall.
Th public declines to abolish either
temptntion. The only practical nv.-thnd of
discouraging theft Is to give the limit to
the thief who tries to fix the blar.ie where
It does not belong.
" Thompson and Ills Hallrnnils.
Springfield Republican.
Now that David E. Thompson, United
States ambassador to Mexico, has been
elected president of the Pan-American
railroad, his retirement from his diplo
matic position Is to be promptly expected
It will be remembered that Mr. Thompson
recently secured a controlling Interest In
the Pan-American road, which is now in
operation from Gamboa, Mot., on the
Tehuantcpeq National, southeast to Ma
riscal, on the Mexican-Guatemala borjer,
2M miles, and It Is planned to use the
road ok a link In the proposed all-rail
route between the United States and South
America. The propriety of combining our
ambassadorship with so much outside busi
ness is open to challenge.
Ao Interesting- Doctrine.
New York Tribune.
Mr. Gompers promulgates an interesting
doctrine of test cases when he says: "We
protest against the lonceptlon that a law
is broken until it is finally and fully de
elded what Is the law." That reminds us
of an eminent Judge who once said: "Of
course, every man has a right to his own
guess as to what the low la, but If he
guesses wrong he goes to Jail." Any other
aoctrlnce would leave every statute nrae
tically suspended till the objection of every
pettifogger had been passed unon. The nh
Jector's gueR might be mere nonsense put
rorward for the purpose of delav. hut Mr
Gompers wouldn't let him be punished for
disobeying the law pending the disposl
tlon of his absurdities. That would make
the law an ass Indeed!
TART AMD JUDICIAL REFORM.
v 1 ,i
Measure Which Reflects Credit on Ills
Admlalstratlon.
New York Tribune.
we are glad to see that Mr. Taft lives
a prominent place on his program to the
reiorm or Judicial procedure. He will seek
to have a commission appointed to remodel
the processes of the federal courts In the
hop that an example may be set In them
which will ba followed by the states. There
Is no reform more needed, and If Mr. Taft
should accomplish that and nothing else In
tho course of his term of office he would
deserve to rank among the greatest nrel
dents because of the frultfulness of his
administration.
President Taft himself once said that In
respect -to the enforcement of public and
private rights In ths courts this country
had fallen further short of Ideal conditions
of government than In any other respect
further short even, than in municipal ad
ministration That is a grave Indictment
to bring against f,he Judicial system of the
nation, but It Is .brought by a Judge of
wide experience ahd great ability, and we
are disposed to believe that It Is in no degree-exaggerated.
Justice Is slow and far
frcmUr The Importance of technicalities
has -.tawn emphasized at the expense of
common sense. Appeals that are not neces
Barjtiixo! accomplish Justice are easy and
frequent;. Retrials are ordered when to the
mind f an Intelligent layman no retrial Is
needed.': Courts of ths first Instance have
been -subordinated and need relnvigoratlon.
procedure has "been complicated until it is
aln.ost impossible either for pleaders or
Judges to avoid making mistakes In It.
Three or four years ago a case was de
elded finally In the court of appeals in this
state which had been before the New York
courts twenty-two years. It had been tried
before seven Juries and had been in the
appellate courts ten times. The first time
it reached the court of appeals the learned
court said that even on the testimony of
the plaintiff himself he had no case, but
Instead of throwing it out of court It or
dered a new trial. That, of course, waa a
rare example of the law's delays, but ex
cesslva and unnecessary appeals are the
order of the day. And their effect Is, as
Mr. Taft has pointed out, to give the man
with the longest purse the advantage. He
can wear out his poorer adversary's pa
tlfnce or exhaust his substance by dilatory
practices and through expensive resorts to
the higher courts.
ACKNOWLKDU1.1G THE CORN.
Some Old Ideas Banished from Rail,
road World.
Cleveland Leader.
Let no man say that the crusade against
the railroads which have been using their
power arrogantly and selfishly has failed
to bring results. Read what E. P. Ripley
president of the Atchison, Topcka & Santa
Fe railroad, said at the first annual ban
quest of the Railway Business association
in New York.
'The eld Idea of 'the public be d .'
said Mr. Ripley, "has passed out. In this
country the people rule and In the long
run that system, that method, or that
personality which does not meet the appro
bation of the publlo cannot succeed. We
must realise, as I think we all do (after
a series of very hard knocks), that the
railroads are strictly private property, but
subject to regulation by the publlo through
Its regularly constituted authorities that
the government may reduce our earnings
and Increase our expenses has been suf
ficiently proved.
'To meet this situation we must endeavor
to get in touch with public opinion. We
must avoid action seriously counter to pub
llo opinion except for compelling reasons.
We must have the deposition to explain
those reasons through officers and em
ployes of all gtades. We must Improve
service In many cases without hope of re
ward and for the deliberate purpose of win
ning publlo approval, such as better sta
tions. Improved heating and lighting de
vices, better equipment, better terminal
facilities, separation of grades, etc. all
with due regard to the rights of those
whose money we are spending."
There Is the lesson which Is being forced
home on the railroads. Not all great rail
road operators have yet recognised the de
termination of the people aa clearly as
Mr. Itipley and some who do have not
accepted tt In the cordial spirit he mani
fests. But Mr. Ripley's statement of the
situation la absolutely correct. He was not
merely "throwing bouquets" to the publlo
to disarm resentment and leave the way
clear for the old order of thlnga. He was
talking to other railroad men and he and
they know that "the government may re
duce their earnings and Increase their
expenses.
The day when the railways will, in return
for the privileges the , people give them,
act In accordance with the rights of the
people seeing to be at band
Around New York
tipples oa the Current of Life
as Bean la the Great American
Metropolis from Bay to Day.
The Judicial llklnr for the technicalities
of the law is strikingly shown In an Issue
pending before the Board of Estimate of
Greater New York. A constitutional amend
ment Increasing the salaries of Judges of
the slate supreme courts by $4,000 a year
was approved by the voters at the last
election. The Increase Is from fl.000 to
$10. COO a year, and goes Into effect on the
first of the year. The amendment Is not
ns specific as It might be In limiting the
Increase to the low-salaried upstate Judges,
but prohibits Increases in salaries "now"
greater than HO.opo a year. The Judges of
the supreme court of Grester New York.
whose salaries amount to $17,MK a year,
fori sadly In need of a raise, and are espe
cially anxious to get It before the constitu
tional amendment goea Into effect. The
Beard of Estimate provides the difference
between the upstate salaries and the $17,-
C00, To reach the prise, therefore, the Judges
petitioned the board to increase their
salaries $4,000, stating their belief that they
were entitled to It. and that provision for
it must be made "now" or before the 1st
of January. The quoted word Is taken to
m r 1 before the time when the amendment
goes Into effect. The board was willing,
but the action of the Judges has raised
such criticism that the board will meet
again today to reconsider Its action.
Prompted by a desire to be "aceommo-
datln an" obllgln' to a fallow beln' In
distress," Arthur Edwards, a farmer of
Water Mill, L. I., got out of bed about mid-
nlpht and. golr g cut Into the highway.
helped a thief to steal his own favorite
mare and his own family carriage.
It was the noise made by a horse prano
lng outside his window that aroused
Farmer Edwards, and as he peered out he
saw a stranger struggling with a horse
that had apparently kicked Itself out of
the harness.
Slipping on his trousers, he quietly slid
downstairs and out Into the highway to
help the surprised intruder, who was on
the point of taking to the woods. He was
reassured by Edwards, who said he could
manage the horse, which suddenly be
came quiet at the sound of the farmer's
voice. When the harness waa adjusted the
intruder got into the rig and drove away,
without as much as a thank you. Edwards
did not discover until In the morning that It
was his own horse and rig that he atdd
the thief In stealing.
While he was getting together a posse
of farmers to run down the thief his horse
was spied coming down the road, bent for
home, with the remnants of the rig drag
ging behind. It was evident that the ani
mal had got away from the thief.
"Well," ejaculated Farmer Edwards, as
he saw the horse coming toward him, '1
always did say that that critter knew more
than I do."
The death of an old comrade, with whom
he had been associated In the State Volun
teer Firemen's association for twenty years,
so affected William McCabe, 65 years old,
that he fell dead from apoplexy in St.
Bartholomew's church in Elmhurst, L. L,
as the pallbearers were entering the church
with his friend's coffin. McCabe, who
lived at 143 Ludlow avenue, Elmhurst, was
dazed by grief when he learned of tha
death of Edward F. Kelly, his closest
friend, on Friday morning lasL Kelly waa
superintendent of public buildings In
Queens, and for several term president of
the Firemen's association, of which Mc
Cabe had been a member.
Tears coursing down his ' cheeks, Mc
Cabe arrived at the church. For about an
hour he knelt In a pew, praying continually.
At the sound of the arrival of the funeral
cortege he gave a cry, half rose to his feat,
and fell In the center aisle senseless. Sev
eral men carried him outside the church
and attempted to revive him. Just as the
pallbearers passed him with the coffin
containing Kelly's body on their shoulders,
McCabe opened his eyes, sighed deeply,
and quietly passed away. A minute before
prlpst summoned from the church had
administered the last rites for the dying.
The leader of a gang of youni cut
throats in Brooklyn waa convicted of
manslaughter. The Judge before whom
he was tried waa threatened in several
anonymous letters that unless he was
lenient In bis sentence, he would be
killed by the remaining members of the
gang. A Bcore of them had been in con
stant attendance on the trial, and a more
villainous appearing collection of young
toughs could never be found outside of
New York.
For answer the Judge went Into court
and gave the prisoner nineteen years at
hard labor.
He gasped and tottered as he heard it.
The listening "gang" were paralysed.
"This Is the limit of the law," said the
Judge sternly. "I only regret that I can
not make It for life."
The Judge has no fear of harm. The
threats made against him will never be
carried out. The thugs who made them
will not run the risk of the chair or a
like sentence in behalf of a leader who
Is lost to them forever.
In the supreme court In Brooklyn Mrs.
Jennie Caulfleld was .trying to convince
Justice Marean that she ought to have
a separation from her husband, John, be
cause he was a drunkard and sometimes
drank as much aa a pint of whisky be
fore breakfast.
Justice Marean looked searchlngly at a
florid, full faced man sitting at the right
of the defendant's counsel. Having com
pleted the scrutiny he turned to the law
yer and said sharply:
It seems reasonable. It looks as though
he waa capable of It"
A queer expression crossed the law
yers race ana prose into arm.
"That isn't my client," he said. '"He Isn't
In court. We understood that this case
would be tried In the afternoon."
I hope your honor Is not referring to
me, said tne man wno nia Deen luiten
for a horrible example and ta a member
of the bar.
Explanations were lost In a burst of
laughter, in which the Justice and the
victim of mistaken Identity Joined. Mrs.
Caulfleld got her decree.
' Tread of Court Deelsloaa.
Philadelphia Press.
The present trend of the decisions of the
United States courts is clearly against the
trusts. The apparent failure of some of the
earlier decisions to secure any Immediate
and Important benefit to the public does
not doter the Judges from frowning on the
different forms of combinations In restraint
of ' trade. Congress has given them the
legislation and the courts are not employ
ing thlr ingenuity to defeat that legisla
tion, but are in a most commendable spirit
giving effect to It whenever they can.
Wonders ot the Tlsae.
Cincinnati Leader,
hen the wireless operator at Tampa,
was trvlntf to ffft nem-s of Colonel
W
Fla
Aitnr'i vacht his calls, flunr out Into
space, with especial reference to San Juan,
1'orto ruco, weie picsra up aisnnciiy in
the
vicinity ot rvew torn, oniy an age or
iders could acct-pt such facts so lightly.
won
PASI1 lF THE lliWRDY,
I'lctnrrsqee Flan re .4 1 most Poshed
Off the Map.
Clevelsnd leader.
Si-lonce Is like poverty. When It steps
In, romance peps out, though there are a
lot of writers trying to do the Impossible
and make us glow, symbolically speaking,
over the love of the germ for the microbe
or the thrilling adventures of the pro
fessor seeking the buttermilk fountain of
eternal youth.
Here we have been walling over the de
parture of the cowboy and, while deep
sighs shook our sturdy frames, decrying
the civilization which takes so much of
the picturesque out of life. And all the
time It was plain matter-of-fact, exceed
ingly materialistic science that was on the
Job.
The cowboy has been one of the big
pictorial figures In American life. He has
been the one who has brought the pioneer
spirit, untrammeled, romantic snd color
ful. Into the drab days of the present.
He has made "chaps" as symbolical as
the coonskln cap and he will go down to
history pedestaled with the trapper.
Remington has pictured him: Wlster has
set him, alive and kicking and lovable, In
the preservative amber of fiction; and,
best of all. Buffalo Bill and all his fol
lowers In buckskin and flowing hair have
brought him right to our doors In all his
dash and deviltry and boyishness. So w
cannot lose him altogether, for which we
should be accordingly grateful.
But It Isn't the march of civilization, the
onrush of people, the swinging of popula
tion from one coast to the other that has
conspired to wipe him from the national
map, except Indirectly. It has come about
because science has whispered In the ranch
er's ear and he has listened and acted.
The old-time long-horned Texas steer was
In the picture with the cowboy. He lent
his savagery to the spirit of the composi
tion; he stampeded to give It vigor; his
widespread horns furnished curves of
beauty and tested the skill of the lassolst.
But there was too much bravura about him
and too little beef. He pleased the eye,
but he didn't fill the stomach. He was an
expensive luxury. So science was called In
and It has bred a new animal; squat, fat,
short of horn, placid, almost Inert. With it
has gone the life and the hues of cowooy
life. No longer do we hear of mad. Insane
rushes, of the frenzy of the stampede, of
the dramatic and dare-devil roundups, and
of the cowboys riding their circles about
the herds and singing lullabies to them.
The new brand of cattle Is docile and bo
vine. It la ruminant rather than riotous.
Romance has vanished. There Is little
need for the cowboy and he will vanish,
too.
MAIMED WORKMEN.
Needed Reforms In Law of Compen
sation for lnjnrles.
New York World.
John Mitchell is probably right In tell
ing the Civic Federation conference that
not one man In 10.000,000 would cut off his
hand to collect damages. He Is right as
to many factories In saying that a man
must run risks or lose his Job.
Yet for years humane Judges have been
obliged to rule that a man's own careless
ness Is at fault if he Is maimed by dan
gerous machinery when he knew of the
danger, since he waa free to leave if the
work was not safe. They have been ob
liged to rule that even the carelessness
of a fe'.low-workman was a valid defense
against the damage suit of an injured
employe.
In reforming the law of compensation
for injuries, carelessness, whether that of
the injured man or of another, may be
left out of consideration. The carelessness
of employers who fall to provide proper
safeguards for dangerous machinery re
quires more attention. Lawsuits in dam
age cases should be unnecessary. It Is
outrageous that a maimed workman should
wait for years while his damage case Is
fought from court to court, and that he
should then perhaps have it sent back
for retrial because of error. The costly
time of courts and Juries should not be
so wasted.
A maimed workman Is as much entitled
to assistance from the community he
has served as a maimed soldier. Hhe should
need no lawyer to secure It for him. He
should get it without delay. In proportion
to the gravity of his Injury. There would
be fewer accidents if Industrial damage
awards were certain and prompt
PUBLICITY FOR TRUSTS.
Standard Oil's Mistaken Policy of
Secrecy.
Philadelphia Press.
Apart from all legal phases of the ques
tion, one rock upon which Standard Oil
has broken is Its long policy of persistent
secrecy. Here is a monstrously big cor
poration doing a business all over the
world and yet It never makes public any
statement of Its earnings whatsoever.
Standard Oil has been earning net $80,
000,000 or more every year, but no one, not
even Its own stockholders except a few
high officials, knows how. A defiance of
public sentiment for many years brought
around the Standard antagonisms such as
other and even larger concerns, like the
United States steel, do not suffer.
meet s managers saw the vital mistake
made by oil's manager in their policy of
extreme secrocy and went the limit the
other way. Publicity has been a charac
teristic feature of United States steel, and
Its quarterly reports go into the fullest
details.
The people like to see and know what is
going on. They may not read annual re
ports, but they want the opportunity to
do so. Standard Oil would never let even
Wall street look into its books sufficiently
to have the nhares listed on the stock ex
change. We believe that trust managers will some
day learn, what others know already, that
publicity Is their safety and uot a peril.
SIUGKSTIONS FHOM DISASTER.
0
One Means of Saving; Life In
Mines.
New York Post.
The Cherry mine disaster has suggested
to many people the question whether food
supplies should not be carried In every
mine for Just such emergencies. Canned
meats and vegetables stored away In cer
tain places, together with drinking water,
and renewed from time to time, might save
a life here or there. The Idea is surelv
worth considering, even though the chances
or reaching the supplies in a moment of
disaster might be slight. It might often
happen that the place of refuge was pre
cisely where no supplies could be kept.
But there have been so many cases In the
last few yeara In which men have ben
rescued after hope was absndoned and
after horrible Buffering for lack of food
and water, that it seema as if the experi
ment were worth trying. When the rail
roads In this state mere first compelled
to carry tools on each car the companies
submitted reluctantly, saying that In every
serious wreck the tools would be broken
up, and tha passengers would be unable
to use Uiem. But they have saved many a
life since then, and we believe If the law
were now repealed, the eompanles would
Ulll continue to equip their cars with
them.
rEKSONAL NOTES.
Senator Aldrlch's tictful ecnfirmatlnr) (
the deth of Andy Jaclisou Is -yenffod si
In the back counties.
What dues Mr. tt.x kefeller cnie a'.-i ,t
dissolution? tie his never ben partlcr
larly dissolute, and ln t B.lnK to hci.l i
now.
The governor of Kentucky ha- declrc.l
an open season frr jilght rlii-v. TM
ought to attract hunters who like .-i !
v 1th a spice of danger In It.
The Philadelphia girl now In a Lond-n
Jail for smashing windows Is said to pr ..
test audibly, greatly to the distress , f
the sympathetic, against taking fond fr .-n
a machine operated by pneumatic p-.
sure. However, It Is Impossible to f-.nt.t
that she does not have to take It tM
way.
In Missouri this year more thnn : vr
the counties tare without licensed sal.. .
but, according to a report Just filed vn,
Governor Hadley by the state beer I -spector,
the collections under the h- t
stamp law are nearly $1.000 prenter '-.
year than last, when the area of "wet '
territory was much 'srger.
An aeroplane embracing In its cunstn
tlon some Ideas different from those in
any other that has yet been built in und.-r
construction at Fort Barrancas, near Pen-
sacola. Fin., Lieutenant A. L. Rhodes an 1
t)r. Grossman being the Inventor at.d con
structors. One of tho distinguishing f. 11
tures will bo certain appendaiies nt tho
end of each plHne or wing similar in
action to the tips of the buzznid's wing.
The antl-suffraglsta of New York are
going to study the condition of women In
all parts of the globe. Mrs .1tln1r M.
Dodge, chairman of the executive com
mittee, has started on a two years' trip
around the world to awumul.tte material
for their enlightenment. Miss Id;: N. Tar-
belV Mrs. Richard Watson Gilder nn.l
Mrs. Helen I-'.llhu Root are conspicuous
among the workers of the association.
AX IDF. WOlt'l ll WHII.r.
Why Not Western tlmiigrmrit for
Western Railrondftt
Denver Republican.
Unquestionably It would be a good tiling
for the railroads and especially for tin?
public if the control nf western railroads
were divorced from Wall street and placed
In the hands of western men. But so long
s the roads are owned In the east, their
rontrol will be eastern, whatever device
for concealing that fact may be adopted.
It would be an easy matter to fill the
official places of nominal responsibility
with western men and even to elect as
directors men who make their homes In
western states. But there would bo no
assurance that the policies of the manage
ment would be western. The eastern own
ers would still Bland behind the board of
directors, and neither the latter nor the
officials they might choose would be inde
pendent. Tho stigma of Wall street attached to
the railroads has hurt them, and probably
It has had something to do with the ad
verse sentiment which has found expression
In western legislation. On this account
the eastern owners may think It prud-nt
to keep themselves and their designs as
far in the background as possible. But
that they will surrender ultimate control
Is not to be believed for a moment.
SMILING LINES.
'Talking of continual prudence, I know
of at least one place where men arc alwavs
guarded In their conduct."
"What place Is that?"
"The penitentiary." Baltimore American.
"Hello. Tholty-nlne!" Kald the first me,
senger boy to the ott..r. who was just
starting out with a message, "how tur
have yer got ter go?"
"Oh, replied "Thoity-n'ne," pulliiu; out
his book, "on'y about six chapters. I'm
Just where Handsome Harrv gits on tho
villain's trail." Catholic Stan. lard and
Times.
He (facetiously) Ah, thin, Honoiia, 'tis a
long Journey for wan little drop to go to
me fut!
Honoria Sure, an' It is! But, Judgln'
from your dlHgrashful condition lant
evenln' it's not lonesome It'll be. Harper s
Weekly.
Patience They say she got all lier fur
niture on the Installment plan?
Patrice She did. tjho haa had four hus
bands, and she got a little furniture v. 1 111
each one. Yonkers Statesman.
Young Donal Here, MacGregor guld
ness, here's a Chinaman!
The Chinaman Hoots awa', ye young
deevlls, or I'll be clootin the heeds off
o' ye! Bystander.
"She said I was good enough to eat; don't
you think that whs a compliment?''
"Oh, 1 don't know; lots of people al
lobsters." Houston Post,
"Did you have any assistance when you
made your appearance as a singer?'1
"Yes," answered the amateur soloist.
"There was. a policeman keeping order In
the gallery.' Washington Star.
"I have two proposals of marriage," said
the practical New York woman. "I don't
know which to accept."
"I should beuln," ivplled Mrs. Worldli
wlse. "by marrying the one who can afford
to pay the larger allmoiiv." Chicago Rec
ord-Herald.
Doctor Did you give the patient the med
icine I ordered for insomnia?
Amateur Nurse Yes, sir; I was vary par
ticular about It. I woke him up every hour
to take It. Baltimore American.
"Did her father kick when you asked for
her hand?"
"He did."
I'You must have felt all broken up."
'Rather. He was the champion punter of'
his day
-leveland Plain Dealer.
Helen The friends of the bride-elect are
going to give her a linen shower.
Harold What's a linen shower?
Helen It's a shower In which the ran
comes down In sheets. Chicago Newn.
"Well, you have heard my voice." said
the aspiring cantatrine. "Can you recom
mend It as good security for a' loan to he
repaid In a year or two?"
"For the most part, yes, madnniV an
swered the cautious manager; "but I reallv
could not endorse your high notes." Chi
cago Tribune.
Mrs. Pyne Mrs. Blank certainly posses
ses "tact."
Mrs. Hyne What Is your definition of
tact?
Mrs. Pyne Tact Is a woman's ability to
make her hushnnd believe he is having his
own way. Llpplncott's Magazine.
TO THE EABLY SHOPPES.
Los Angeles Express. v
Do your Chrlstmss shopping early; do It '
early, mother dear.
Do it ere the crowds are rushing and the
bargalna dlsapier.
Just at present clerks sre gracious, and
will gladly wait on you;
In a month you'll find stores crowded so
you tan naroiy get through.
I would rise ere dawn Is breaking, and I'd
snatch a hasty bite.
Then I d seek the shone and stay there
till they'd all closed for the nlirht.
And I wouldn't say, No. thank you, I'm
Just looking for a friend."
But I'd "blow myaelf" as long aa there
was something left to spend.
Do not wait three weeks or longer; do your
ahopplng right away;
You'll be saved a lot of worry if you'll
start right In today.
There are baits Ins simply waiting for
, your cash to pick them up.
All the way from gloves and s ippers to a
dainty poodle pup.
So, arise while It Is early, while 'tis early,
mother dear;
Snatch a bite and then start storewsrd
ere the hararalns disappear.
Io your shopping with a fervor that Is h
something oulte, intense. I
Until pane's roll Is melted till It looks
like thirty cents!
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