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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 8, 1909)
J 10 ..IMMXili -I- MS 'Hie umaha Daily Bee. FOfNDED BY EDWARD ROPE WATER- VICTOR ROSBWATIR, EDITOR. Entered at Omaha postofflce at second, class matter TERMS OF KI BRCRIPTION. Dally Bee (without 'inday. one year..!! JDatiy lie and Hundar. one year DKLIVKitRI) )1T CARRIE. Dally He (Including Sunday), per week..lC I 'ally Me iwl't.out Punday), per week..lOc Evening bee (wuheut Bundey), per week tc K enliiK Bee (with Sunday), per week.. .10c furday B, ont year ' l?n Saturday Bee. on year 160 Addrees all complaints of Irregularities In delivery to City Circulation Department. ; OFKICE8. ' Omaha The flea Building. 1 Kouth Omalia Twe ntv-fnurth and N. Counrll Bluf f IS Frott Htreet. Llnroln f.H Little Building. Chlrago--ir,48 Marquette Building. New York-Rnom. 1101-1102 No. M West Thirty-third Ktret. ,,r Washington lift Fourteenth Street. N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communlratlor.s relating to news and edi torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Iep8rtment. - . REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The Pea Publishing Company. (July 2-rent stamps received In payment ot mall accounts. Personal checke, except on Omaha or eaatern exchanges, not accepted- STATEMENT OF CIKCtTl.ATION. mate of Nebrsslca, Douglas County, s.: George B. Tieehurk. treasurer of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, ssys that tha actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, klver.ng and Sunday Pea printed during the month of November, 160, waa aa followa: 1 4t,T 1 41,930 I , 43,064 17 43.180 I M,TH IS 41.B00 4 4B,1 1.J 41,390 5 43,4 20. 41.M0 43,l?a M 40,340 t 40,040 2t 41.00 I 41,tS 2.... 41,790 1 4,1M 14 41,780 19 41,820 ii. 41,700 II ,.-41,TM It 40,140 11 '.. 48,640 27 41,810 II 4l,T 21 40,400 14 40,100 31 41,830 It 41,800 30 41,930 Total Returned Copies 984S -. Nat Total..,....,,, 1,843,005 Daily Average 41,793 GEO. B. TZ6CHUCK, Treasurer. Subscribed In my piesence and iwurn tg before me thla lat day ef December, 190. ' ' (beal) M. P. WALKHR, Notary Public, " Sabscrlber leaving; the etty tem porarily afcoald katt The Baa untied to thesa. A dares, will bi (kHItt 'u eftea reauesled. The. open season for the skater on thin Ice haa begun. Will a spread eagle on the new post age stamps give wings to the postal service? . The question arises whether the cen tral bank is not already here in the person of J. P. M. The northwest switchmen struck Just In time to avoid having to dig the frogs out of the snowdrift. V In the annual review of the best self-advertisers or 1909, let us not Overlook Mr. Stubbs of Kansas. Is it not time to hear the cry of the antl-lmperlallsts against our looking after our interests in Central America? With the enthusiastic commendation of President Diaz and Secretary Wil son, old King Corn doesn't need to worry. The reappearance at Washington of the problem, what is straight and what is blend, indicates that whisky will not down. And now the congressman-editor has abandoned the bank guaranty law ana returned to his first love. Poor old paramour! Ig Dunn hasn't had . enough of It. He proposes now to go through to a fare-you-well with the court. But he will apologize yet. ' Disclosure ot 1100,000,000 in per sonal property In Chicago that has hitherto escaped taxation ought to make It easy to tax It now. It is proving to be a hard winter for frenzied financiers who had prison sen tences held up. on appeal. The frost for them seems to be general. .' The esteemed Lincoln Star is still having conniption fits over Omaha's wlckedntrts. It's too bad, but somehow or other we'll have to bear 1U a. To Mr. Gage's remark that real love cannot come to a man till he is past three score, every youthful lover In the land is apt to, respond, "Oh, you Ly man!" ' Brazil's efforts to lure our canal workmen to the service of its railroads give Uncle Earn that tired feeling that a housewife feels when her neighbor coaxes her cook away. The proposed abolition of the elective system In the big universities may be taken to Indicate that the time is at hand for Intensive cultivation in educa tion as in agriculture. If the immigration officials want to earn the gratitude of the American pi oi 1, let them bead off those sixty toafecsed black-handers who are headed this way from Europe. Iccnoclasis have attacked the gene alogy of Boston's famous old elm. Shades of Oliver Wendell Holmes! Is none of our ancient Institutions any longer safe from ruthless attack? Foreign creditors are quarreling over the dowry brought to a prince by bis American bride, yet millionaire's foolish daughters will persist in send ing good dollars after bad ecrouoi. ' New Tork'a new district attorney Is tald to be planning to appoint a woman assistant.'. Will he turn over to net department the prosecution of cases against the too-militant suffragettes? The President's Menage. The Judicial temperament of the president is apparent throoghout the text of his message to congress. Calm and dispassionate, it Is nevertheless clear and convincing, and his recom mendations lose nothing of vigor In being expressed with a quiet and statesmanlike dignity. It is a fine test of a man's command of his in tellectual ferces to be firm for his own ideas yet tolerant of the views of others and the members of congress no doubt will be ready to acknowledge that Mr. Taft in manifesting a concili atory attitude toward that body, has done so without departing from any square stand for his own principle, thereby accomplishing a difficult feat graciously and effectively. The mes sage, and its favorable reception In both houses, Indicate a complete under standing betwepn the executive func tions and the working legislative body, which may be expected to cultivate a co-operation of serious effort and pro ductivity throughout the session. Three-matters of vital lnportance, re ferred to in the message, are reminis cent of Mr. Taft'a Inaugural address of last March. Therein he referred to his Intention to bring before congress at its December session "definite sug gestions in respect to the needed amendments to the anti-trust and the interstate commerce law, and the changes required In the executive de partments concerned in their enforce ment." Somewhat changed conditions since then, and the fact that crucial cases under those laws are pending be fore the supreme court, impelled the president- to defer these suggestions, which are to be made the subject of a separate message In due season. The matter of Injunctions likewise wag specifically treated in his Inaug ural, particularly as Concerning labor unions, a feature which he Is careful to avoid mentioning in the present in stance because the celebrated Oompers-Morrlson-Mltchell appeal is about to be given final consideration. But on the topic of injunctions at large he is as firm as ever in urging legislation that shall modify Injunction procedure to accord with modern equity, a policy which, as he points out, was a ptank in the republican platform on which he waa elected. 1 Another pledge of the party to which he calls attention Is the matter of pos tal savings banks. He is unwavering in his faith that the people desire such banks, that they will in no wise con flict with established Interests, and that they should be considered as a dis tinct proposition entirely apart from the general subject of currency reform. Aa an additional inducement to thrift amongY the wage-earners, he is very earnest In recommending speedy enact ment of legislation that will enable the Postofflce department to undertake their institution. His mention. In this connection, of governmental guar anty of deposits is a reiteration of his inauguralstand, when he said that the postal savings banks would "furnish the absolute security which makes the proposed scheme of government guar anty of deposits so alluring without Its pernicious results." The review ot the tariff conditions effectually set at rest all wild rumors of international warfare under the "maximum and minimum" clause, and the announcement that the special commission will be busy for possibly three years compiling Us expert in formation on tariff matters serves to reassure the timid that no disturbing element is likely to obtrude itself into the business world; it must be mani fest to every merchant that finances and commerce have a clear field for prosperous operations without con gressional interference. Nothing could be more satisfactory than the condition of our foreign re lations as indicated in the statement that no serious problems are engaging attention and that the State depart ment already is at work on revivals of the best features of expiring treaties, such as that .with Japan, with whom we continue on the most cordial dip lomatic terms. Underlying the refer ence to the Monroe doctrine may be discerned the notification to the world that though conditions have not war ranted any recent re-assertion of that doctrine, It still lives, and will be ef fectively maintained against foreign aggression in the Western hemisphere, although it may not be used by any de linquent to shield itself from financial responsibility. The Contral American situation is ao largely a local affair that it was not to be expected that any extended reference would be made to it, and it is evident that the admin istration has it well, in band. One matter on which the president dwells forcefully Is that of reform in Judicial procedure. This is distinctly a Taft policy, and one very near to his heart. He has stated veryconvincingly the needs of the case, and his presen tation ot the facts is likely to result promptly In the proposed measures for the expedition of justice. In reviewing and sustaining the re modeling of various bureau operations In the several ...departments, and in recommending adjustments in army and navy matters with a view to im proving the united service, the presi dent shows how compact Is the rela tionship .of cabinet with executive. He again endorses the Roosevelt policies without equivocation, especially that concerning the conservation of re sources, which is one of the best heri tages of the previous administration, and which Mr. Taft promises to treat In detail Jn a special message later In the seeslon. - According to the reports from the land commissioner's office, the rtate In stitutions are eating up appropriations made for their support at a rate which promises bountiful deficiencies for the next legislature to take care of. This will not astonish anybody who remem bers the career of the state Institutions under the last demo-pop administration. Benefit of State Supervision. Lack of any form of governmental inspection seems to have been respon sible for the conditions which led to gross Irregularities In the conduct of an Important fire Insurance company In the east, now disclosed. As Is usual In such causes, the directors are sud denly plunged Into great activity, but no evidence Is at hand to show that when their vigilance would have counted they exercised the supervision that would have prevented the fraud. State supervision seems to be the most suitable safeguard against this sort of thing. The public mind rested content in the matter of Insurance after the disclosures of a few years ago, satisfied that New York state, where the largest insurance Interests of policyholders centered, had taken effective steps ,to protect the public from any moro Juggling with assets. But it appears that too much was taken for granted. In enacting strin gent rules against life companies, the fire interests seem to have been over looked ,( and now we have the amazing disclosure that the New York Insur ance department has made no exam ination of fire companies in years. Any form of Insurance Is not a matter of private enterprise, but is a public concern. The insured has the right to a reasonable guarantee of the stability and safe conduct of his com pany. State supervision Of all insur ance interests is as fundamentally essential to the general welfare as Is similar espionage over banks. The in surance company is the depository of funds upon which man expects to draw in the day of misfortune; and if there has been laxity in administering the affairs of any one company, the pres ent is a good time for governmental regulation of some adequate form to be inaugurated. Barbarity of Bed Tape. To what unjust uses governmental red tape may be put Js well Illustrated in the case of Paul Rugglero, now de tained by the commissioner of immi gration at Ellis Island. Rugglero Came to this country at the age of 17. For six years he has been married, and his wife and children have their home in New York. A few months ago he caught, a severe cold, and his physician recommended a sea voyage. He sailed to Italy, stayed in that country one week, and returned here, where an order for his deportation was promptly Issued because it was found that he had developed tuberculosis. ' i Had he taken out naturalization papers in this country, he would have been permitted to land without question. Instincts of humanity dictate that he ought to be permltted to proceed with out delay to his home in New York, both for his own sake and for that of his family, but the rule of the red tape system is inexorable, and the commis sioner held that he had no alternative but to follow the strict interpretation of the immigration code. Fortunately, the victim of the law's injustice has active friends, and these have made an appeal to Washington, with what ef fect remains to be seen. The Street Lighting; Contract. Several points have turned up within the last few days which reflect no great amount of credit on the ' city councl. It had been known for months that the contract between the city and the electric lighting company for street lights would expire very soon. It had also been known that there is a controversy between the city and the electric lighting company as to the rights of the latter on . the streets and other public property. It had been known, too, that some mod ifications in the street lighting system are very essential In order that the service may be Improved to something like a modern standard. With all this knowledge at hand the city finds itself at the expiration of the lighting company's contract con fronted with a proposition from the lighting company which embodies nothing in the way of improvement In service. This contract has been re jected on the advice of the city at torney, and the matter has been re ferred again to the council committee without definite Instructions. Whether this committee has a comprehensive plan for improvement in street light ing service, or whether it has no plan at all, It should make early report to the council In order that the rights of the citizens will be fully protected. The desirability of renewing tha contract or entering into a new con tract covering a long period of years, while the suit to test the rights of the company Is pending in the courts, may well be questioned. It would not be unwise if the, council were to limit the time of the contract's duration to the life of the council, at least. It might even be well to let the contract tor no longer than a year, especially In view of the fact that the suggested changes in the street lighting system can hardly now be Installed within a year. This course will give the coun cil time to take measures for securing the Improvements needed,' and would obviate the neceuslty of hasty action another time. The reports of tbe violations of tbel child labor law in Omaha are doubt less exaggerated, but it would be Im possible to exaggerate the Incompe tency of a truant o.Hcer who a Units hnowleCge of Ui vMaUou ot the law THE I1KE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY,' DECEMBER 8, 190). aaawMwgMHMMaawaaaaaea? " if J mi and neglects to report the same as re quired by the duties of hts office, be cause to make such a report necessi tated the writing of a letter. The sooner the service Is ridded of a eerv ant of thla kind the better lr will be for all. If George W. Holdrege should re tire from the management of the B. ft M., which he has so long efficiently directed, It will mark the closing of an epoch most notable in Nebraska history. Whatever else may be said of Mr. Holdrege, he has proven most effi cient In the direction of the great or ganization of which he is the active and responsible head. His public ut terance, several years ago, that he was managing his road tor the stockhold ers, may - have been the central thought of his policy, but Nebraska is grldlroned with tracks that were built under his control for the pur pose of giving outlet to the people of the state. Mr. Holdrege, if he does go, will be best remembered for the railroad work he has done In Ne braska. The wild west must have a persist ent virility when It can overcome the traditions of Berlin opera and get Itself set to music under royal auspices. As a lyrle legend, the red man is reported as tickling the kaiser's fancy. Ger many ought to be able to stand for one American opera after all that we have stood for from that side. The University of Budapest has offered an Important Chair to an Amer ican whose lectures woke up Us stu dents. The more Europe investigates American scholarship, the more it realizes that the old world no longer holds the patent rights on learning. West Point reports that each cadet graduated represents a cash Investment of 110,000 on the part of the govern ment. Proper education of the Ameri can young man for a commanding position in ha, as In any other walk of life, is worth all it costs. Bishop Goodsell, who has Just died, was ordained to the ministry at the age of 18, which recalls the fact that in those early days of the nineteenth cen tury a youth who was ready for life's work in his late teens was not con sidered an Infant prodigy. On the- Toboaik. Brooklyn Eagle. By Judicial polarincope teat the Sugrar Trust Is way below 1 Dutch standard. Tbe Happy Afterthought. Washington Post The official statement that the Hock Island ayalem was divided In order to avoid a government' suit comes So late that It suggests the happy afterthought. - - Vindication ( Graft. . Cleveland Plain Dealer. . ! The people of Ban Francisco apparently have more consideration for Abe Ruefa health than they hava confidence In Ills honesty. They have leC him out of Jail because confinement behind Immovable bars threatened to give him mollygruba or something of that sort A Fntore Probability. Buffalo Express. The withdrawal from entry by the presi dent of 3,000,000 aefes of petroleum lands In California, Wyoming, Utah and Oregon does not look aa If there would be any re laxation by' this administration of the pol icy of conserving natural resources. One reason for the withdrawal Is the need for assuring a fuel supply for the oil-burning ships of the navy. Possibly the' tima will come when the government will ba pump ing oil from Its own wells and doing Its own refining. Dreama of' Speed Manlaca. Philadelphia Record. Ona enthusiastic motor fland propone tha building of a motor highway from the Atlantic to the Paclflo coast, with road houses and garages established, five miles apart, for the convenience of travelera. Aa a matter of precaution there should be no trees or ' telegraph poles on either side of the proposed motor course. Such obstacles to miseellaneoua locomotion, aa the dally newspaper reporta show, offer Invincible temptation to tha average chauffeur. The road housea should also be heavily Insured. - AUTOS IN THB ARM V. lKntorlo Male MUaly to Be Separated from tao Service. Collier's Weekly. Shall we alng a rejulem for the army mulcT He received his death sentence as burden bearer of the army when thoae short-coupled, high-powered automobile trucks uaed In tha Invasion of Boston last summer began toting commissaries at twenty five miles an hour out to cavalry outposts which It would hava been Im possible to feed In mule atyle. We have reflected aa followa: 1. The mule can hold hla own only aa a pack animal for mountain trails and boggy country,. t. Aa a wagon-pulling animal on a road he loses to the auto-car because equal efficiency la gained for 36 per cent of the cost; the mule is always aa tired aa the soldier when a day's march Is over, and Ills load-hauling speed la about the same. The auto-car, with a diink of gasoline, la reHdy to carry provlalons on out from the main camp to the outposts and cavalry scouting camrs brsnches of field service thnt have always gone hungry In actual warfare, through Isolation from the wagon train. 3. To rrplaee the wagon train of an army brigade on the move, an auto car train of from thirty to forty cars would be needed, one of the cars to be fitted up aa a traveling repair ahop. Each car would haul a load equal to a elx-mule tcaai. 4. The auto-car for thla service la st!U undeveloped. There are suitable engines and underparts, but the bodies lack adaptability for the army'a needs. They must be suitable for sleeping quar ters, built to withstand the roughest kind of usage, and capable of rapid repair when injured by underbrush or . other cause. Tbey must solve the problem the old-faehloned wagon bow .solved for, the prairie freighter. I. The most practicable would be to appoint a commission of three army officer., mglnra who are thor- oughly familiar with euloniobllee, and aet them at the task of de"!cring a model army err, whii-h mode In ,tUne of emer gency could bo furnished to bul'dera along with apeclflcatluns that wbuld guarantee the greatest Utility in the field- . .There, is no reason why tha negt time art army takes the . field U should not go almost mulrlew. with It. base of auppliea tucked away with Ita reer guard, and aa mobile as Us cavalry scout, ahsad. u it i Around New York Klsvles ea the Current ef Life aa 9)eem ia the 9Jrat Amerleaa MetreyeUs frees Say to Say- Heart whole and fancy free for half a century, Miss Lou I in Ewen of New Tork, one of three bachelor daughters ef Gen eral John Ewen, eloped with and married a bngus German baron, Boto von Koanlts, last week. Boto, aa he Is called for short. Is a fine, gentlemanly crook, with a Jail record and some escapades that would not look well In print In hi teal for money to maintain himself In a life of eaee he commissioned matohmakera to secure him an American heiress, and dili gently searched tbe country from the At lantle te the Lakes. New Tork proved to he the best market for a matrimonial swindling game, and Boto stuck to It until he landed the prise. One of the sisters of the victim Is convinced the bogus baron hypnotised Louisa. Two days after the elopement she Issued a statement from the honeymoon retreat at Lakewood, N. J., Indicating only a partial return to consciousness. She tald: "My husband has told me of his past and 1 am sure that whatever the mistakes he may have made, he will not err again. I don't care what they may say about him. I believe In him and love him, and will stay hy his side." I A few days before the elopement the bride-to-be executed a mortgage for tM.OOO on her home at 23 West Elghty-elxth street When the reporters cornered Boto after the marilage he flashed a wad of bills at the bunch, exclaiming, "I am no fortune hunter." This laat summer 7.000.000 to 8 000.000 people made 20,000 trips to Coney Island. They spent there $40,00000, mostly In nickels and dimes, and the total sum Was three times whRt this nation p1'' to Napoleon for Louisiana, or six times what we paid Russia for Alaska. There are in Coney Island peanut stands the size of a broad top desk which rent for 11.B00 a season. The men who sell frankfurters pay enormous sums for the right to stand where they do, and get their money back In. ' the nickels of the W.WUtJW. On week days the attendance la large. but on Sundays and holidays It rises to a point where each visitor has room only to be happy standing still. On the Fourth of July 400,000 people crowded Into the little Island, bathed, shot the chutes, were photographed and ate "red-hots." It was believed that Coney would not hold a single additional visitor, but on August 15 a new 100,000 came, making 500.000 in one day. It la a wonderful business thla Coney Island but a very rlaky one. The 900,000, 000 nickels depend upon the weather. When the mercury drops, profita fall to nothing, If a plague should break out and the island be quarantined, boats would stop running and the people would stay In their city homes. The Coney Island farmer must harvest hla crop of nickels while the sun shines. New York's largest skyscraper' will cast its shadow over the Battery. Towering thirty-one stories above the ground, It will contain 1,000.000 oubie feet with a rentable area of 659,000 square feet In it will be ten miles of plumbing, twenty mile of steam pipe, sixty-five miles of conduits and wiring, and 2,000 electric fixtures. From curb to roof It will measure 419 feet In building It will be used 14,009 tons of structural steel, 7,500,090 common bricks, 900,900 faoe bricks, 4o,M barrels of cement 635,000 square feet of floor arches, 206.0J0 oublo feet of cinder fill, 125,000 square feet of girder covering, 400,000 square feet of partition tile, 130,009 square feet of column Covering, 210,000 square feet of wall furring, 5,000 cublo yajds of caissons, 17,000 cubic yards of earth excavation, 2,150 cub o fwt of granite, 20.000 cubic feet of Indiana limestone, 3,000 tons of ornamental terra cotta, 65,000 square feet of wire lath, 85,000 square yards of plaster, 400,000 lineal feel of spruce sleepers, 800,000 feet of comb grain yellow pine flooring. 2.SP0 windows, 69,(0) square feet of glass, 3,000 doors, 280,000 pounds of window weights, 30,000 . feet of copper chain, 459,000 feet of ground, !0,CO0 feet ot picture mold, and 80,000 feet of base. . Cinders required for floor arches and be tween sleepers of the floors will fill 500 000 cublo feet, approximately jt.OOO.Wie pounds. It represents the consumption of 125,900 tons ot coal, ai't'flelent to develop 55,000,000 horse power hours of energy. There will be 2,100 horse power boilers, 2.IKM horse pener In engines, 1,200 kilowatts In generator capacity, 95,000 square feet of radlalvr surface, IDO.Ottt candle power In electric lights. Old buildings on the site are being torn down. The structute will be an addition to the twenty-five story Whitehall build ing. The completed skycraptr will front feet on Washington street and 100.8 on Battery place, covering 51,815 aquare feet or twenty-one city lots. It will cost IS,OOC,000. Out of the Grand Central alatton the other day came a couple the Bight of whom caused cltlaens who saw them to admit to themselves that there might be, after all, some' basis of truth in the "Uncle Josh" Jokes of the allegedly funny papers. Thi old man grasped hla carpal bag and bulg ing green umbrella firmly, and looked up and down the atreet, hla mouth agape. "There's a heap o' sights in New York, I gueaa, Maria." he said. "I mledoubt if we see thtm all." The old lady's mouth set grimly "Well, Silas," she replied, and her man ner waa more than significant, "bln' aa I'm with you, there's some, I expect, that you ain't gain' to see!" They are still wondering uc a hotel near the park over the extraordinary requeat made the other nlKht by a young English man who is on his fret visit t) New York. Just about 7 o'clock he ent up to the office disk In evening dress. "I am going downtown for dinner," he said, "and it may be lather late before I get In. I aiia.ll take my key with me, and will you please let me have a key to the front door?" At the same hotel a woman from out of town approached the desk a night or two ago and asked: "At what time do you lock the front doorT" It AIL. ROAD F.YHASSIOIV, Some Coiupurlsona Calculated to Ei cite Wonder. Letlle'a Weekly. In 1909 tha railways of the United fUatea have a capital of f 15,000,000.000, which Is almost equal to the value of the conn try's entire property of all kinds at the time of I Lincoln a elect on Its gross earning. for j a single year. $3. 900, 000 000. are nearly three tm rt tn whole uf th Interest- , Deal ing arm ui in. n.u,,,,.. government. I ne i,k, persons on ine payrolls or tha railways of the United Ptates repreaent a larger force than were under Grant, Lee and the real of tha union and confederate commanders at Appomattox. They are a bigger army than Japan and Russia com bined had in Manchuria when, In 1903, President Roosevelt brought the peace if Portsmouth. Ahkoluioly, Pure" Improves da and odds to tha hoalChfuInoss of tha 3 ' w ! t'i PERSONAL NOTES. The recent death of Richard Watson Glider makes the volume of essay, entitled "Lincoln, the Leader," hla last book, a. it Is also his first and only book of prose. John Masterson Burke, who In 1902 gave 84.000.000 for the Institution and mainte nance of a home for convalescents, died of bronchial pneumonia in New Tork In Ms 8th year. Lord Btratheona, the veteran high com mUsloner of Canada, haa returned home from London. He Is 99 years old and holds the record as a transatlantic passenger, having crossed and recroased more than 1F9 times. The fact that the estate of the gentleman who was host to the president last sum mer amounts to $10,000,000 may be ne sur prise to the heirs, but the figures surprise the assessor about nine and a half million dollars' worth. Final accounting In the estate ot Blood good II. Cutter, the "farmer-poet," who ditd at his country home at Little Neck on September 29, 1906, was filed at Mlneola, L. I., by Richard W. Smith, as exeoutor. It shows that the estate of the dead poet amounted to 8676,977. When the cruel war Is over and the smoke of battle cleared away, It la to be hoped that whoever caused the Prairie to butt Into Delaware mud will come forward with something In the nature of explana tion and apology. Even a landsman knows that the ship of the present Is Imperfectly equipped for cutting across lots. John Hays Hammond la chairman of the National Civic federation's committee on prevention of mining accidents. Other members of this committee are John Mitch ell, Dr. J. A. Holmes, mlnlrTg expert of the United States geological survey, and D. W. Brunton, president ol the American Insti tute of Mining Engineers. PROSPERITY OK THE FAttMEHS. Calculations and Comment Inspired by Rich Fields. Philadelphia Record. We are eating more than we used to, and that la the reason or one reason why our food costs more. Secretary Wilson says that beet costs rrcre because farmers are feeding high priced corn to their slock. But why Is corn night Fourteen or fifteen years ago there was a big crop of wheat and the demand for It waa so poor that the prioe was low, and in one year the farmers were estimated to have fed 75,000, 000 bushels of win at to their stock. But that did not make tho stock high. The bureau of statistics calculates that In the last twelve or thirteen years the per capita consumption of wheat has In creased more than a bushel and a half. That Is an Increase of nearly one-ttjlrd. We know of no attempt to show how much meat we eat, but the figures of the Cin cinnati Price Current show that the total number of cattle killed at the four great western centers of the beet Industry and the total hog killing In the west lncroasod close to 30 per cent in the last ten years. The total consumption of meat may not have Increased as muoh a. that. The eastern hog killing showed practically nc growth. But while theae figures are suffi cient proof, they suggest a larger consump tion of meat per pernon. During the ten yiars covered by the comparison we hav made the exports of hog products fell off more than one-fourth, and the Department of Agriculture reports that the number of cattle In the Country has increased almost M per cent In ten years. Yet the price goes up, presumably because more people are eating meat freely. This Is the best year the farmers ever had, and they have had thirteen years of unbroken prosperity. They have had only two short crops In that time, and in both cases the high priori more than made Up to them the decline In quantity. The pros perity of the farmers makes the country prosperous, becauae the farmer, buy so muoh when they have plenty of momsy. But how can the farmer, have high pros perity unless there is a keen competition for their produotsT We despair of Identify ing the point at which thla circle of pros perity may be said to begin. The con sumers of food buy freely, and that gives the farmers money enough to buy freely of manufactured goods, and the Industrial population Is well employed, and being well employed It buys more wheat bread and beefsteak, whii-h means prosperity for the farmer, and so It goes around and around. LINES TO A LAUGH. Mr. MvlPH Who ! thmt vnun Ihrnaln. that kiss toT Mrs. Styles It must be you, dear. He wouldn't be throwing me a kiss. 'Why not?" "B e tune It'a mv himhnnrl " Tonkers Statesman. "I give you my 'word, the next person who Interrupts the proceedlnss." said the Judge sternly, "will be expelle1 from the court room and ordered home." "Hoorsy!" cried the prleoner. Then the Judge pondered. Judge. "Where does Lculla get her beautiful brown eyes?" "From her mother. She hr. eye. Just like them." '"And where does she get her ruddy comnlexlon?" 'From her father . drug store." Cleve land l'laln Dealer. Warden He waa to. coolest and moat polite convict that ever eacaped from prison. . 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