TIIE BEE: OMAJIA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1909.
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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
State of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.:
George B. Tsachuck. treasurer of The Bee
Publishing Company, being duly sworn,
says that the actual number of fMll and
complete copies of The Dairy, Morning,
Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the
month of November. ISOt, was aa follows:
1... 43,070 II. 41,930
1... 43,050 17 43,160
t 42,700 IS 41.U00
4 43,190' 1 41,390
I 43,400 ' 20 41,950
48,170 11 40,340
7 40,040 22 41,6M
8 41,930 . 33 41,790
43,140 24 41,7
10 41, M0 24 41,700
11 41,730 .'ill 43,840
12 43,580 21 41,810
13 41,730 23 40,400
14 40,100 2 41,890
16.... 41,800 30 41,930
Total 1,363,900
Returned Copies 9,4a.
Net Total 1,943,005
Dally Average 41,7
QUO. B. TZSCHUCK. Treasurer.
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before me this 1st day of December, VM.
(Seal) M. P. WALKER,
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abscrlkera leaving the city tem
porarily shoald bare The Be
mailed to them. Address will be
chastajed aa often aa requested.
Strange, how the natural gas failed
Just as congress opened up!
Thaw now wants his release because
he has no piano. Won't Santa Claus
bring him one and keep him quiet?
And , now the price of hogs is
mounting at a rate that makes 'one
dlxsy. It surely is the farmer's year.
Omaha girls who helped destroy a
tradition at Wellesley are not the first
of their kind. Omaha girls
progressive.
are
I
In teadlng of the death of the
famous chemist who reduced the cost
of gas, remember that It was the cost,
not the price.
Now that the Prairie has been re
floated, let it remember that the way
to Nicaragua Is not across lots, even
on dewy nights. v
Ouf boy orators will be pained to ob
serve that a Chinaman has carried off
the Ten Eyck prize of $2,600 for pub
lic speaking at Yale.
The courts having labeled the com
bines "fragile," the window glass In
terests may consider themselves log
ical In going into one.
The woman who gave a bridge party
on the eve of her fatal operation may
be said to have made her ruling pas
sion strong in the face of death.
With corn selling at the rate of
$2,300 a bushel, the Corn exposition
t Is putting up prices at a rate that
ought to ult the most enthusiastic.
Invention of a torpedo which "picks
up the sound of a warship's propeller
and rushes to it" should bestir the
geniuses to devise a noiseless warship.
It is safe to assume that Mr. Crane
of Chicago is having a whole lot better
time as a private tourist In Turkey
than he would have had as minister in
China.
The vOaynor enthusiasts who are
boosting him for the next democratic
candidate for president might wait a
few weeks and watch him on tha may
or's Job.
The Nebraska debaters who lost both
the affirmative and negative sides of
the same question have established a
record that ought to be permanently
preserved at the university.
Scores of abandoned lc houses in
Maine and along the Hudson are ready
for harvests If New York, state Is to
follow up Its conviction of the ice com
bine with practical results.
If these frequent disgraces of the
battleship Nebraska are really due to
Incompetent officers and mutinous
men, It Is time Secretary Meyer per
sonally took a hand In cleaning ship
While the ice combine appeals from
the verdict of guilt in New York state,
itougpt to be gracious enough In the
meantime to consider Itself on Its good
behavior In Its attitude toward the
consumer.
Oqe advantage of the Nobel prises
is that they serve to call the whole
world's attention to scholars who
hitherto have enjoyed only a restricted
fame. For Instance, Selma Lagerlof,
Swedish authoress, has been little read
In this country, but her receipt of the
.Nobel prise f or literature will Insure
her a' world-wide audience worthy of
her pen '
Need of New Legislation.
Popular confidence in the ability of
the United States to have Us own way
In the courts suffers a rude shock In
contemplation of the annual report
of Attorney General Wlckersham,
wherein are set forth many of the
limitations which confront the Depart
ment of Justice, with suggestions for
remedial legislation. Many proposals
have to do with technical matters of
judicatory procedure, wherein it is
shown that the government Is ham
pered, and of these one of the most.
Important is the plan to expedite the
removal of a prisoner indicted for
crime in one district from the one in
which lie may be apprehended. Mr.
Wlckersham objects to the practice of
substantially requiring the whole case
of the United States to be tried out
before a commissioner or judge on
habeas corpus tn a district remote
from that in which the indictment is
found, on application for a warrant of
removal. But against his claim that
this process often results In a complete
failure of Justice will be raised the
right of the prisoner to habeas corpus
proceedings, a right which must not,
Indeed, cannot, be Invaded, and it Is
difficult to see how thex government
can avoid a full preliminary hearing
in such a case without enlarging Its
risk of surrendering Its prisoner again
to liberty.
One matter that has been per
sistently demanded and Is now re
newed Is the broadening of the right
of appeal of he government in crim
inal cases. It would seem to be a mat
ter of equity that the United States
have the same right which the de
fendant possesses, wherever the con
stltutlon permits.
Another cause hampering the crim
inal procedure by the government is
the statute which prevents the United
States from using against any prisoner
testimony given by him In previous
judicial proceedings. It Is an apparent
injustice against the government to
permit a prisoner to tell unchallenged
a story entirely different from one al
ready on other records, and there ap
pears no good reason for letting the
prohibitive statute stand, since the
constitution guarantees any prisoner
against self-crimination, .which was
the original intent of the statute that
has been used as a shield by criminals.
The attorney general makes a
strong plea for an Immunity statute to
meet the conditions which arise In the
efforts of the government to procure
vital testimony. He argues that the
same reasons that called for the en
actment . of the special Immunity
statute as to proceedings under the in
terstate commerce laws apply with
equal force to criminal prosecutions
generally. "The United States," he
urges, "should have the power to com
pel incriminating disclosures by giving
a compensatory Immunity In all cases
where Individuals stand between crime
and its detection and punishment."
Citing the beneficial results, of the
developments of the science of pen
ology in various states, Mr. wick
ersham pleads for a natlonaj. la,w for
Indeterminate sentences-parole ;and
suspension of sentences!1 In actilal
working, he holds that such a law: en
courages and assists those who are not
habitual offenders to become good and
useful citizens, and he sees no reason
why the United States should be be
hind the Individual states in a move
ment of this character.
Union of the Cities.
The matter of union between the
two Omahas is now squarely presented,
the director of the census having fixed
a date beyond which consolidation will
be useless for census purposes. Four
months remain in which to determine
If the two cities are to continue to
stand before the world In their present
remarkable attitude. Every Interest of
commerce, of Industry, and of social
and political economy, requires that
the two cities be united under one gov
ernment. The arguments on this
point are so many and have been
presented so often that repetition is
needless. There is but one way to get
together, and that Is to get together
The commercial clubs of the two cities
should act in the matter without fur
ther dalliance.
Keeping1 Eyes on Japan.
Dispatches from European capitals
Indicate that St. Petersburg Is greatly
perturbed over the alleged renewal of
Japan's intention to annex Korea in
direct opposition to the treaty of
Portsmouth. Such an act could not
but be construed as a grievous offense
to Russia and might occasion a new
cause for war. Toklo, no doubt, will
be ready with a disclaimer, but the cir
cumstantial detail, of the reports from
Seoul and elsewhere make It apparent
that the csar has need to be alert if
he is not to be checkmated in the in
ternatlonal diplomacies which are be
ing renewed after having been halted
by the assassination ofPrlnce Ito.
The United States has a peculiar
reason for looking askance at the po
litical maneuvers of Japan In extend
ing its sphere of influence In the far
east, for this government's existing
treaty with the mikado's empire has
little more than another year to run
and in the revision of it we must not
be so magnanimous toward our friend
overseas as to refrain from keeping
an eye upon his movements. It was
only last year that we had to arrange
a temporary agreement with Nippon
concerning the co-operative control of
laborers coming to this country,
feature which may prove to be a
stumbling block In the preparation of
a new treaty,
A nation which so sorely taxes the
Ingenuity of the trained diplomats of
Europe - may tie counted on as using
Its utmost astuteness In efforts to be
guile our diplomacy, which under mod
ern conditions has every need to be
unusually wideawake in all Its Inter
national dealings.
The March of Surgrery.
Medical men of Ohio have just Cele
brated the centennial of Dr. Ephrlam
McDowell, "father of ovariotomy,"
whose marvelous operation of a hun
dred years ago brought fame to his
state and country. Inasmuch as in
those days anaesthetics and antiseptics
were alike unknown, the daring and
hazard of the McDowell operation,
that of removing an internal tumor
from a woman, may be appreciated.
At the time Dr. McDowell was vigor
ously attacked, one critic denouncing
his operation as "outrageous and mur
derous." But his patient recovered
and lived to bless him .for forty years
thereafter, ajid operational based on
the McDowell method became common.
Today Prof. Jonnesco Is enlighten
ing the surgeons of America, home of
anaesthesia, on the merits of stovalne,
which he Injects Into the spinal col'
umn, thereby rendering the patient in
sensible to pain, yet enabling him to
retain consciousness. The value of the
discovery has been accepted by dis
tinguished members of the profession
In New York, who see in It possibili
ties for safe surgery among those
whose constitutional affections make
them liable to collapse from the use
of ordinary anaesthetics.
It is evident that science has
achieved one of Its greatest miracles
for humanity in removing from surgi
cal operations the barbarous suffering
of the early days, when even the most
practiced skill was powerless to elim
inate, or even to alleviate, the element
of suffering and shock.
Meat from Other Markets.
The growing shortage In the world's
meat supply Is turning the attention
of the beef eaters to other than Ameri
can markets. Argentina has. for some
time been making headway with its
shipments to European countries, and
packers from the United States are
even now preparing to manipulate the
stock yards there in addition to their
owri. This fact has caused apprehen
sion in Oreat Britain, which seeks a
source of supply that it may control
without interference.
Judging from the official reports of
the success of the experiment of ship
ping Australian chilled beef into Eng
land, the meat problem Is In a fair
way to be solved for Londoners. The
beef was two month? Jn transit, but
was landed in excellent condition and
held Its own against Argentina com
petition. Large Importers have ar
ranged for the construction of packing
plants in Australia especially for ex
ports to England, and Australians are
jubilant in expectation of a great im
petus to cattle farming in that coun
try. The proprietors of London re
taurants testify that the Australians
have demonstrated that their chilling
process Is superior to the freezing
method - of other countries, and
prophesy a great future In England
for Australian chilled beef. It is even
suggested that the importers will now
be willing to go farther afield and that
New Zealand will eventually come Into
the scope of operations.
Get at the Facts,.
Since the county commissioners ren
dered a Scotch verdict in the county
hospital case, the county attorney may
not feel called upon to act in the mat
ter.
This evasion of responsibility is not
in line with the duties of his office
He should push this matter vigorously
to the end that the truth will be
reached. If a crime was committed
there it should be punished, and If no
crime was committed the persons ac
cused should be exonerated. The path
for Mr. English seems plain enough,
but will he take It?
After a trial lasting eleven weeks
the thirty-three steel firms and agents
under indictment at Boston on charges
of collusion in city bidding have been
acquitted. This case was made nota
ble throughout the nation by being
quoted by President Roosevelt in a
message to congress la April of last
year. It resulted from investigations
of the Boston Finance commission,
whose members were unquestionably
sincere In their report that the de
fendants had combined to maintain
prices. But under the technicalities
of the courts of law the evidence was
subjected to a different test than that
applied by the commission; the court
found that the defendants had a right
to combine to advance their own In
terests so long as they did not create
a monopoly, and the jury took the
view that no monopoly had resulted
Thus Is again Illustrated the fact that
there is a line of demarcation be
tween natural commercial agreements
and collusion In restraint of trade.
The esteemed Lincoln Journal
couldn't even avoid distorting the facta
In connection with the consolidation.
of Bellevue and Hastings colleges.
There Is much regret In Omaha at the
departure of Bellevue college, but
there la no serious opposition to Its
going. In fact, Omaha men who took
part in tha conference, that led up to
the combination of the two schools, all
voted without restraint for the action
taken by the synod at Kearney, and
the Hastings school will find nowhere
more earnest supporters than among
the cltlcens of Omaha.
The passing of Hod Cloud is not the
matter of moment to Nebraskans it
might have been twenty-five years ago.
The notice of his death, merely serves
to recall to the minds of early settlers
episodes of frontier days that have
been forgotten under the accumulated
experience of the busy life that has
developed Nebraska within the span
of a lifetime from the condition of
an Indlad hunting ground to that of
one of the most prolific agricultural
wealth producers the world knows.
Charlie Town wants to butt Into
the Nebraska guaranty law case, ask
ing to be made special counsel for the
state in the final hearing at Washing
ton. Before determining this point
the attorney general might look up the
history of the railroad rate case, when
an attorney general Of Nebraska
stepped aside and allowed an eminent
political colleague of Mr. Towne to
address the court. The case was hope
lessly lost.
A life Insurance president reports
that while we are combatting other
diseases we are letting heart, kidney
and brain troubles make tremendous
strides. He concludes that we are liv
ing too fast and advises a less strenu
ous life, with simpler eating, drinking,
working and playing. Whereupon the
fast liver will doubtless have recourse
to his familiar plea of being allowed
to burn out Instead of rusting.
A woman Who had already served
ten. months Of her sentence for per
jury In a New York divorce scandal
has at last succeeded in having her
case dismissed on appeal. She has no
redress for her durance, but, while
technically innocent, has suffered the
penalty of guilt. Her case affords re
flection on the inadvisability of get
ting mixed up in the doings of the
swift set.
' The work of establishing the physi
cal valuation of the Nebraska railroads
under the law passed by the last legis
lature Is going to be sufficiently costly.
If it should be valuable in proportion
to the state, it will be the greatest
achievement the democrats have to
their score.
A Safe Venture.
Charleston News and Courier.
The Sugar trust la still in business, al
though we venture to Say that a private
cltlxen who had so robbed the government
would hav been making shoes In the pen
itentiary. '
Cp To The Cosisraer,
St. Paul Pioneer Press.
The government proposes to stop the
Sugar trust from stealing $10,000,000 a year
by its system of short weights at the cus
toms house. Doubtless the Sugar trust will
get even by advancing the price to the con
sumer. Utah Road to Popularity.
" . St. Paul Pioneer Press.
President Taft la said to be giving con
siderable thought to a reform In the system
of taxation. H can cinch his renomlna
tlon and re-election If he can devise some
plan that wilt compel the other fellow to
pay the taxes, .1, ...
An Example ol Enterprise.
Boston Transcript.
, Two hundred thousand farmers are Inter
ested tavthe National Corn exposition now
In progress at Omaha, where 350,000 In prises
will bCTWrtrlbuted. This ought to give edge
to the exhibit that New England proposes
to make-hext year.
wr f-j Duty and Destiny.
. . New York Press.
President Taft's drastic action toward
the little Napole.cn of Central Amerlou
smacks more of.. tho breaking up of a
drunken brawl on our national doorstop
than of any Imperialism. It Is merely
another case of fulfilling American "duty
and destiny."
Htarhway to The Heart.
Chicago Record-Herald.
In Omaha recently a young woman who
worked as a waitress In a restaurant became
the bride of a man whom she had seen for
the first time when she waited on him an
hour before the wedding.. He must have
noticed that she didn't have her thumb tn
the soup or else that she wiped his plate
with a clean napkin.
Promise of Wlsards.
Philadelphia Press.
W are getting disposed to be chary of
accepting the promises of the. Imaginative
genius. Edison Was to give us years ago
a cheap electrlo motor. He hasn't done it.
Now that other "wizard," Nikola Tesla.
announoea that he is planning to build a
huge electrlo power plant which will en
bale him to operate all the telephone, tele
graph, lighting, traction and Industrial sys
tems of th earth by "wireless currents."
If he does it, all right; It he doesn't, It will
be about what we expected.
OFFICE HOLDERS MULTIPLY.
Increased N anther Dae to Government
Expansion.,
Chicago News.
A recent government publication shows
the number of federal officeholders and
employes to be 370.0G6. The Increase In
tha roll during the last two years Is 64,000.
showing that tha number not only Is large
but is growing at a rapid rate.
Presentation of these figures has given
rise to fresh criticism of governmental
methods. The suggestion is thrown out
that the number of names on the federal
payroll Is unnecessarily large. Its rapid
growth Is supposed to Indicate waste of
publlo funds. (
Still, the fact Is that the people of the
country continually are asking their gov
ernments to do more for them than has
been done In the past. More work for the
people on the part of the government
means more government officeholders and
employes. This Is true not alone of the
national government but of state and
municipal governments.
The mercantile or manufacturing concern
which enlarges the field of its activities
must take on a large number of employes.
The same Is true of governments. One
dlfferenoa Is that the mercantile or manu
facturing concern can measure more easily
than can a government the value of the
enlarged force, because the output and the
profits of the former should grow In pro
portion to the Inorease in the slse of the
payroll. A governmental agency has no
such useful measuring rod by which to
judge results.
This condition of affairs constitutes a
strong reason why from time to time sys
tematic and thorough Inquiries should be
made to determine as nearly aa possible
the relative value to tha people of different
branches of tha publlo service and to as
certain If some of them should not be
lopped off or If separate agenclea should
not be merged. Tha waste In expenditures
on behalf of government necessarily la
large unless the best possible methods are
employed In carrying oa tha government.
Around New York
KlppUs on the Current of life
as Seen la the Oreat American
Metropolis from Bay ta Say.
The Innovation In criminal practice In
augurated by Justice Malooe In assign
ing eminent lawyers to defend poor per
sons accused of crime, had Its first test
In New York a few days ago. Augusta
Crlstantl, an Italian woman charged with
the murder of her husband, was defended
by Sam Untermyer. and acquitted. SeHf
defense was the plea of the accused, and
It was established to the satisfaction of
the Jury. In fact, the Jury was so pleased
with the showing of Lawyer Untermyer
that the members subscribed to a fund
for the benefit of the accused, but Mr.
Untermyer would not accept It for his
client, stating that the sum of two allowed
him by the court would be given her and
was sufficient for her needs. One of the
many features of the trial was a showing
of the handicap of poverty In securing Jus
tice. Out of his own funds Mr. Unter
myer spent 11.000 in securing evidence for
his client, being obliged to meet and over
come police opposition on all sides. In
his summing up he spoke of the confine
ment of witnesses In the House of In
tention. August Branchl, a witness, had
told how he had gone to see Alfred Crls
tantl In the House of Detention and been
thrown out by a police officer. Mr. Un
termyer said: "American people ore
criticising French methods of administer
ing justice. We had better look at our
own methods. I can conceive of nothing
more shameful than the situation dis
covered by that correspondence offered by
me here earlier In the trial. If that Is the
way Justice Is administered here we had
better wait a while before criticising
France and its methods."
There Is going to be a chance for more
lawyers of note to defend poor prisoners
In murder cases. Judge Malone has as
signed William B. Homblower to defend
a penniless man named Washington. This
case will be tried on February L De
Lancey Nlcoll has been appolntd counsel
In a murder case soon to come on.
Existing conditions In the garment trndes
In New York City Is one of the Industrial
and social topics discussed in the current
Issue of the National Civic Federation Re
view. It Is disclosed that GO per cent of
thearments are made in tenements
hygientcally unfit to be used as work
rooms. This Is a revelation of importance
to both the producers and consumers In
this Industry. -But there appears also the
Cheering Information that many employers
have planned Improvements, In response to
the offer "to acquaint all manufacturers
In the trade with the best that Is being
done In welfare work for employes, that
all may be stimulated to adopt' It when
possible In their own concerns, and to In
form them of the worst conditions existing
In the manufacture of garments, hoping
that they may co-operate In the effort to
Improve -them." These employers, who are
leading manufacturers In the country, were
deeply Impressed, and there Is promised a
rapid extension of welfare work In this
line of Industry.
The Co-Operatlve Service league of New
York has varied the strident and scattered
cry of "Vote for women!" by a demand
of "Hotels for women!" Tne members
have gone further than that They have
directed the architect husband of one of
the members to draw pUns for "a Hotel
home for women. Not - a hotel Home
for women." The structure Is to treat
women guests aa other hotels treat
their male guests. ' It Is not to be a Home,
tiut a semi-charitable, emphasis on the
H, bur a real home where respectable and
self-respeotltig women are to be housed in
ireedom and comfort.
Quests will be permitted to come in at
night at any hour they choose. They can
He In bed all day If they wish to. There
will be a cafe In addition to the usual
dining room,' but the list of bottle names
on the menu has not been yet arranged.
The barber shop will be supplanted by a
hairdresslng and manicuring parlor, with
women bootblacks.
Said one of the sponsors tor the move
ment: "There will be nothing charitable
about It. The managers will not attempt
moral guardianship over the' women guests.
To get In, of course,- a woman must be
known as properly vouched for, but after
Uiat she will be allowed to live her home
life as she chooses, provided she pays her
bills, respects the rights of her neighbors
and does not smoke cigarettes.'
The Oilsey house, onoe a hotel of such
magnificence that It Was regarded one of
the sights of tho city, but which long has
been eclipsed by many modern hostelrles,
has been sold to Rube R. Kogel of 177
Broadway. It is rumored the price paid
was $1,600,000. What Fogel will do with
It si a question which is interesting the
old tlmera and horsemen who have made
It their headquarters since it was built
In H70. There has been rumors that It
will be torn down and a twenty-story
building put up on the f ln site at the
northeast corner of -Twenty-ninth street
and Broadway.
Combination of leading bread baking
establishments located in Manhattan,
Brooklyn, and on tho west of the Hudson
Into a giant baking trust that will control
the output Of upward of 6,000,000 loaves
of bread a' week Is .he object of negotia
tions and conferences which are now go
ing forward. ' Representatives of con
cerns which have three-quarters of the
entire "factory" capacity of this profitable
territory have already taken part tn these
conferences, and It Is now declared by
prominent bakers that a combination Is
Inevitable.
FIXED FOR TROUBLE:.
Unci Sam's Armories Stocked with
Vsefnl Supplies.
Boston Transcript.
If there are those who have taken alarm
ist literature so seriously as to be appre
hensive of the Invasion of the TTnlttd
States, such may derive comfjrt from the
knowledge that the Invader will not find
us unarmed or compelled to fall back on
fowling pieces. The Springfield armoc is
turning out the new service rifles it the
rate of 800 a day. We must hav- now
available, In the hands of the army and
militia and stored against possible emw
genclts. well on towards 600,000 rifles of the
best pattern. Our condition of "prepared
ness" Is very different from what It wiu
Just before the Spanish war. We then had
only enough magazine rifles to supply our
small regular army. We did not have
80,000 of these weapons until the fighting
with Spain was over. The defialenoy wrts
not chargeable to this one official or that,
but to the failure of congress to provide
In peace against the possibility of war.
. t'met Pokes at tho Peers.
Springfield Republican.
Is England getting the shivers over the
budget campaign T At the Trafalgar square
meeting on Saturday some of the demon
stranta bore turnips on the ends of pole
as an emblem of the general Intelligence of
the peera. The London Sunday Times In
discussing the meeting said: "The turnip
emblem was tossed about by tha mob and
torn to pieces, and It looked ilk a bead on
a pike In the twills r '
BOOSTS FOR THE CORN SHOW.
Plattamouth News: The National Corn
show Is on st Omaha this week, and while
the dates mav not have been pleasing lo
those outside of that city, the fact remains
thai It Is there, that It Is a great thing
for Nebraska to have the show, and all
who can should attend. There are a whole
lot of things to be learned at that tt
and the person who stays away will miss
a treat, for If he goes he will get his eyes
open to many things If he lid not see he
would hardly believe. By all means take
advantage of the chance and go up and
take In the great, show.
Kearney Hub: The Corn show at Omaha
Is a great success, according to the news
paper and other reports. Aside from the
demonstrations In producing the best cereal
types, the comparisons and Interchange of
thought awakens a dreper Interest through
out the country even an erg those who do
not attend, the result being that the two
corn shows that have been hi'ld have sot
seteral million people to thinking about
the breeding of cereals, the preparation of
soil and the conservation of moisture-the
put pose of course being an Increased yield
per acre who wera previously plodding
along In "the same old way." The benefits
that will bo der!ed from tho "corn show"
moverrent will be far greater than the
first stretch of the Imagination can reach.
Fremont Tribune: The National Corn
show at Omaha must have a salutary ef
fect upon the production In Nebraska of
the state's principal farm crop. Such ex
hibitions Impress themselves most dis
tinctly upon their Immediate environment
and for that reason the National Corn
show Is of peculiar benefit to Nebraska.
The award of prizes has dlstlngulsh'Sd
the men who received them for their care
and study In corn culture. It Is worthy
of note that the winners of tho highest
awards are Indiana men and that Indiana
growers scored the same signal triumph
last year. Indiana Is not one of the chief
corn states In the total quantity produced,
but Its scientific growers are doing much
to direct attention to its possibilities. It
is no small honor to achieve such notable
distinction. It is worth observing, too, that
a neighbor of the winner of the best ten
ears-of corn In the world this year Is a
neighbor Of the winner of the same high
honor last year. This emphasises the value
of example and shows how the scientific
spirit Is contagious. The value of the
National Corn show arises from the
stimulus It 1 gives to more Intelligent
corn growing. As yet, even In the best
corn states, the average yield and average
quality are pitiably small. It did not Just
happen that Mr. Clove la year or Mr.
Overstreet this year produced suoh perfect
specimens of corn. It was the intelligent
application of scientific principles that did
It. It is Impossible for the farmer to ac
complish what success Is attainable by a
disregard of natural laws that he may
know If he would and that he may apply
with exoeedlngly profitable results. Send
breeding, seed selection and cultivation all
afford ample scope for study. It Is a
science, not an avocation. Not until the
farmer comes to fully appreciate this will
his prosperity and the possibilities of the
corn belt reach their maximum. Such
enterprises as tho National Corn show ara
calculated to do much toward hastening
that day.
HEADED Foil SAME TERMINAL
Secretary Halllnger and Forester Pln
chot Jfot Far Apart.
Washington Herald.
Says The Omaha Bee: , .
"By addressing a personal' 'correspondent,
Mr. Plnchot has given the public anothei
statement of his views on conservation.
Ctmlng so close upon the annual report
of Secretary Balllnger and containing al
most Identical suggestions as those of the
head of the Interior department. Mr. Pin
chot'a letter adds little to what has gone
before, but shows that both officials still
claim to be striving to accomplish the same
general results, and that they can pull
together It they only will. Out of all the
weary disputation, It Is to be hoped that
congress will find a speedy way of evolving
the necessarry legislation that shall silence
further dispute along these lines."
The point made by the Bee Is significant
and well worthy of attention. It la en
tirely probable that Mr. Balllnger and Mr.
Plnchot can pull together tor the public
welfare In the matter of forest conser
vation along rational lines, if they them
selves try real hard and their Injudicious
partisan friends keep hands off until the
principals can get, well under way. There
may not be such a tremendous difference
of opinion between these two as some
people would have us think or as some
people may actually think. . Mr. Taft has
devoted considerable attention to the mat
ter, and he has concluded that both men
an patriotic and seeking to do the square
thing. He has warmly praised each. If
left to Itself, and freed of all outside In
terference and meddling, the Balllnger
I'lnchot controversy, so called, might Bl ai
mer down to a real harmony of endeavor,
as the Omaha Bee suggests.
If both men are striving for the same
general results, and the only vital dif
ference betweeen them Is a question ot
method and procedure, surely the publla
at large can trust to the patriotism and
common sense of the Taft administration
to see to It that nothing goes harmfully
awry. Congress doubtless will be calltid
on to provide definite legislation of such
a character that the carrying forward ot
the conservation Idea may be divested ol
embarrassment to either official.
Above all things, we thlnlc, the country
desires an end to an unseemly and un
necessary dispute.
Beneficent Wealth.
Boston Herald.
To the Rockefeller million for the cam
paign against the hookworm and the Car
negie million for fighting pellagra, Is to
be added the Crocker million for attack on
cancer. These are benefactions for all man
kind, investments In good that are entitled
to front runk In the beneflcenoe of a gen
erous age. To these gifts and to others,
suoh as the endowment of tha Harvard
Medical school, with Its magnificent plant,
the fund for medical research In New York
and other notable lnstanoes in which the
sciences of. medicine and surgery have at
tracted the . interest of philanthropists,
mankind owes muoh of Its Increased chance
bf life and opportunity for work and
achievement.
Sera pine '!' Treasury Bottom,
Philadelphia Record.
According to official figures, the sea
power of the Uilited States is second only
to that of Great Britain, In spite of the
stupendous v activity of Germany In con
structing warships. It will go hard with
our Jlfigocs, who are always for the flag
and the largest appropriations as wall as
with the armor-plate and ship lobbies, If
the sea power of the United States shall
not soorf exceed that of Great Britain. The
only drawback Is In the faot that the bot
tom of the treasury at Washington hat
been well-nigh reached.
1
; Heal Yankee Invasion.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
It Is stated that American luvealors hav
scoured control of most of the roller skat
ing business In England and that Amerloan
roller Skates are admitted to ba Infinitely
superior to the British article. Perhaps
some daring Yankee will later on offer to
lease (be house ot loda for a skating rink.
PERSONAL NOTES.
It seems that one bribe paid by the sii-nr
trust wss :7 p-r week, and that the dlrvt
returns from thin amounted ta, IH.W.TflO.
It la now discovered that there are m-r
Smiths than Mad'onnlrt In Scotland, but
probably "Sandy" mil keeps abend of John.
The king tf Sweil. n seems to be a very
pood kin, but a to N ability as a steve
dore the foreman tf the gimg ha not ytty
reported.
Mr. Rockefeller has so often explained
that he has ho Retire oonncctlon with
Standard Oil that his Interest In preventing;
the concern from, being dissolved may ba
ONcrlbed to friendliness. ,
Mir. Pavld K. Lucas and Mrn Mary R.
Ide are the leaders In a movement to put
married convicts at work on fauns ami t.
apply their earning to the support of their
famlllea. Mrs. I.ucas has offered a tract
of 1,000 acres of land in Colorado for the
UFe of convicts for five years.
Abraham Rressman. who died Inst week
at his home In Newark, lived to bo mora
than 102 years old. Until ho was taken
111 recently his eyoslght was almost perfect
and lie could read newspapers without
alai sea. A few days before his death Mr.
Pressman went Into the cellar of his homa
end chopped soma firewood.
Pitrre Loll, the celebrated author, whose
real name Is V'iaud, and who has mado his
whole career ,ln the French navy, ' being
stationed first .as lieutenant and then a
captain In foreign and colonial ports, wherj
his talent of observation furnished him
with material for ti la striking novels, la
about to be placed on the retired list, owing
to his age.
"Uncle Jake" Wlldonef of Newark, N. J.,
w ho ia said to be the oldest locomotive
engineer In the United States still In active
service, has admitted that he Is not aa
young as he used to be. His former dls
daln of the Osier theory received a setback
a few days ago when, while tn a hurry,
he leaped from a moving locomotive and.
suffered a sprained leg.
THE 7.KLAVA OK NEW STATE.
Capers and Caprices of Bosa Haskell
of Oklahoma,
Kansas City Star.
For the second time Governor Haskell
has Interposed to defeat the plans of the
Oklahoma attorney general In his efforts
to enforce the laws of the new state. Tha
first Interference of the governor was In
the prosecution of the Standard Oil, and
the supreme court of the state uphold tha
contention that the governor had the power
to order the prosecution stopped. Now the
governor has taken an advanced step even
over the first case, and has stopped a grand,
Jury Investigation which the attorney gen
eral was conducting to ascertain if there
had been fraud In connection with a bank
failure. : ' .
It Is difficult to distinguish the line be
tween petty politics and a bn-id publlo
policy In stateB where almost every lssuo
raised is subject to political Interpretation.
In Oklahoma, bet-ause ot the , conflicting
political interests and faotions now attempt
ing to secure control of the new state's gov
errment, there may be reasons for the con
flict between the governor and the attorney
general that are not apparent to the public.
But generally speaking, the Oklahoma
governor has raised a question that will
cteate national interest. If the governor of
state has the power to annul the action
of an attorney general; to dictate the policy
of that official as a part of state adminis
tration, its importance will not be limited
to Oklahoma state affairs. Whatever mo
tive may have Influencod Governor Haskell,
hj has created what the Kansas vernacular
terms a "real situation'."'" " '""'
Tha people of Oklahoma elected an at
torney general Just as they elected Gov
ernor Haskell. The people In other states
elect attorney generals In the same way.
It Is obvious that If the governor has the
power to override the legal department, U
order the attorney general not to pursue
certain Investigations, and to dlHinlss any
suit ho might start in the name of th
8 tote, then that officer Is a useless factor
In the state government, and of no more
Importance than a mere law clerk to thf
governor.
If the "governor's power Is supreme. It
will, of course. Increase his responsibility
to the people. The governor and not tho
attorney general would bo accountable for
any failure of law enforcement, and tha
chief executive could not hide behind the
Indifference of the state's legal department,
as In excuse for the neglect ot the people's
IriUrtst against law-defying corporations
or any violation of state statutes. For not
even Governor Haskell would contend that
his authority was limited merely to pre
venting the enforcement of law.
Therefore the whole country will watch
end wait while Oklahoma solves the prob
lem: Why an attorney generalT
POINTED PLEASANTRIES.
"Whatever Blnks wears, he always looks
well-drensed."
"Ain't It so? Why that man would look
swell if he wore ear muffs." Cleveland
Leader.
"A man never knows how many friends
he has until he gets Into politics."
"True," answered Senator Sorghum, "nor
how few he has until he gets out of of
flc" Washington Star.
"I should think fiction writers would be
the men to call on for Juries."
"Why so?"
"Because they are natural born tales
men." Baltimore Amtrlcan.
"Ruggles, I hear you are a happy father,
I congrat "
"atop right there, Ramage. It's trip
lets." Chicago Trlbuno.
He Look yar, .Miss Booker, I' so a bona
ter pick wlf you.
tf.he VV'ha's matter, RastusT
Ho Wha' for when a gem'lan salutes
you on de street, you no return, his solu
tion hey. BoHton Transscrlpt.
"I wonder what the Inventions of tha
next ten years will be?"
"I'robably devices lo protect us from the
Inventions of the past ten." Cleveland
plain Dealer.
"That fellow made money, but he cer
tainly Ih a faker."
"Indeed, he Is. Why, the habit was so
strong, that's why ho built his new house
on a bluff." Baltfmore American.
Mrs. Pyne Mrs. Ulank certainly pos--gi'KRes
"tact."
Mrs. Hyne What Is your definition of
tact?
Mrs. Pyne Tact is a woman's ability to
make her husband believe he Is having his
own way. Llpplncott's Magaxlne.
'Twaa In the gloaming, and the young
man had Just Btolen a kins.
"Sir." exclaim d ih fair maid, with an
outward show of Indignation. "You are a
heartless thief. v .
"That's rlKht," rejoined the bold young
man, "but you -are to blame for It."
"How am I to blame?" she queried.
"You stole my heart." he auswered.-
Boston Herald.
MUTATNE OMNIA TEMPUS.
MV
Iast year she was a butterfly
Merged deep In lift's frivolity,
Shx fluttered thru' the niystic maze,
And held her own with quality;
She prided herself upon her wit,
Her voice held much of promise,
Her sphere was a moxt exulted one,
'Till she murmured "Yes," to Thomas.
This year her bearing Is sedate,
Subdutd her aspirations;
The mysilo musts has lo.it Its charm.
She loves not Its gyrations;
She has left tha realm ef higher art.
To more exalted souls
You'll find her at the Corn Show,
Conoocttn' bread and rolls.
BAYOLU KB TREHk