T1IE HEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1900.
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STATEMENT OP ClRCTTLATTOT
State of Nebraska, Douglas County, aa. :
Genres R. Tfsahuck. treasurer of The
PublMilna; Company, being du'y rwarn.
ayi that the actual number of full and
complete copies of The Dally. Morning,
Evening and Sunday flee printed during the
montn or November, im waa aa follow.
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41,070
43,000
43,700
41,180
43,400
48, 170
40,040
41.S30
42.1S0
1,830
41,780
48,960
41.730
40,100
' 41,800
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42,100
41,800
41.SS0
41,850
40,340
41,60
41,790
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41,700
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GEO. B- TZ8CHUC1C Treasurer,
buoscribed in niy presence and .warn to
iefoie um this lal day of December, lu.
' M. P. WALKi-H.
Notary r uOnc.
Subscribers leaving the city tem
porarily should hare The Bee
mailed ( then. Alra will he
vliaba4 - aa ef tea aa reejaeated.
Cupid Is almost as busy as Santa
Claus.
Next we shall be hearing of the
stovaine habit.
The Blueflelds battlefield proves to
have been red enough. '
The latest mode for the dressmakers
Is customs house trimmings.
v Shortest days of the year? Well,
It's the season for going short.
The reorganization of the starch in
terest will probably stlfleu things up
a bit.
A Happy New Year's , t .ut would
be the settlement of U. ..a i airmen's
strike.
If you don't do it right away you will
never have, a chance. Christmas is at
hand.
That. ought to be a very tasty dish
of Bacon that we are about to serve
Franco.
Close after the Jingling of Santa's
bells may be heard the rumble of the
annual water wagon parade.
From the sugar refineries to the
finery of women, the trail of the smug
gling crookworm is over all.
Having figured up the batting aver
ages of the aurora borealis players, let
Us consider the Polar season closed.
The Iconoclasts may dispute who in
vented the reaper, but there can be no
Question concerning the reaping of Its
rewards. ( .:-
While the University of Chicago ex
pects no holiday, gift from Rockefeller
this season, still it may be disap
pointed,.,: Old habits are hard to break.
The Chicago Board of Trade has
drooped its Argentina playmate for
bad behavior," Just before Christmas
some people are as good as they can be.
The revival of an old suit in the su
preme court reminds the public that
Ig Dunn la no longer permitted to prac
tice law In Nebraska courts. This had
almost been forgotten.
Napoleon Hicks proves himself
worthy of the name, but It la doubtful
if any of hta "medical examiners" will
ever paVariie very prominently their
"esculaplan" certificates.
In the meantime, the question as to
what might be developed if the records
of the Interior department were
searched far enough back has not been
answered by the World-Herald.
"Uncle Joe" Cannon will be more
than ever bad man now since his land
has been taken by condemnation to aid
a Douglas county drainage project. It
cems like he never could get in right.
Ever since Worcester, Mass., ceased
being the largest dry town In the world
ltrange reports of wondrous sights
have been coming from there. Is It
over-indulgence or the quality that
produces this condition?
The distribution of the reward
Offered for the convicted train robbers
promises to take up as much time In
the courts as the trial of the principals.
This matter should be submitted to
arbitration and not be permitted to run
up a big "bill of expense for the public
to settle. ..,.,.
The consolidation, of the Omaha and
Winnebago reservations Is Intended to
expedite, rather than hamper, the ad
ministration of business affairs. In a
very short time the Oniahas will be re
leased entirely from the close guardl
anship of the federal government, and
their agency will expire naturally.
Pending that date It will be Just as
well If the two tribes are brought Into
a little closer contact.
When Fanning Goes to Egypt.
The forty centuries that looked down
from Egypt's pyramids on Napoleon's
army of invasion taw a wondrous sight
but nothing to compare with that
which is promised the forty-one cea
turles that will look down from the
pyramids on Colonel Fanning when he
invades the sacred sol) of Ahmen
Hoteb and Ptah. Full panoplied in
all the gorgeous splendor of his dress
parade glory, Colonel Fanning proposes
to mount to the highest pinnacle of the
loftiest pyramid and thereon plant the
gonfalon of Dahlman Democracy trl
umphant. This will be either the be
ginning or the closing of another epoch
for Egypt. ' In the days of old Rameses
we can picture Colonel Fanning being
received at the gates of Thebes or
Memphis by the mighty monarch's
most valiant and noble warriors. Not
one of the shepherd kings but would
have stripped himself for the purpose
of doing honor to this ambassador
from the dual courts of Ashton I and
James the Only. Fancy dwells lov
Ingly on the thought of Cleopatra, her
sensuous beauty unadorned amid the
luxury of her splendid barge, all gilt
and Ivory, lying In wait near the
Pharos of Alexandria, that she might
greet the distinguished guest from far
away Nebraska. And so on through
all the ages one may conjure up with
little Btretch of the Imagination the
welcome that would have been ex
tended to Colonel Fanning by any of
that long line of rulers who brought
Egypt down from the darkness that
preceded civilisation's dawn through
all Us lost magnificence to the present
day. But, alas! The only king of
Egypt Colonel Fanning ever met was
Pharaoh.
Animosity Expoied.
The disposition on the part of the
scandalmongers to predetermine the
results of the Investigation of the Bal-
linger-Pinchot episode, 1b simply an
other exposure of the animosity ani
mating this disreputable propaganda.
Such vindication of a court of law
about to undertake hearing of a case
would lodge the offenders in jail, but
under our freedom of political discus
sion there is no holding the hounds in
leash unless they transgress the libel
laws, and long experience enables them
to dodge such responsibility.
In the meantime, the administration
is continuing calmly toward a full,
free and frank exhibition of all the evi
dence in the case, and the discrimina
ting public ie able to see for itself that
there Is to be no suppression of any
feature of the controversy. Decency on
the part of the muckrakers is not to fee
expected, and the howl that they now
are putting up la due entirely to their
chagrin over the administration's hon
est attitude toward both Pinchot and
Balllnger and toward the public.
. 5 Effrontery of Guilt.
The audaolous demand of the sugar
ring for reimbursement from the federal-
government must be viewed as a
part of the villainy of a hardened old
sinner, and if there ever was any In
tention of showing any mercy to the
effender, now Is the time to aban
don It.
Such a preposterous plea as that for
two years the confessed crooks have
been over-paying the customs, is a last
desperate attempt to justify themselves
before the nation, and to throw dust in
the eyes of the people.
It ought to have but one effect.
There may. have been a disposition on
the part of the federal treasury not to
be unduly harsh in the matter of re
funds. But now exact Justice must be
meted out to the ring whose effrontery
is more brazen than its guilt, and in
its final accounting the government
must see that the combine pay to the
uttermost penny what is due the public
coffers. Such monumental cheek should
not be without its reward, which In
this case ought to be the limit of the
law.
Obedience to Law.
What shall be said of a man who has
been elected by his fellow citizens to
the highest law-making body of thel
land, when he breaks out in advice to
business men of the country to refuse
to obey the law which the nation has
enacted? Is not thafa display of the
most sinister form of anarchy?
Joseph Benson Foraker, former sen
ator, has sat on the bench, but since
his return to private practice be seems
to have abandoned his Judicial temper
ament, for we now behold him not only
"vehemently denouncing" the corpor
ation tax, in the language of the news
chronicles, but also advising his hear-
ers not to file reports or pay assess
ments as the law directs.
This would be an astonishing flaunt
ing of deliberate disobedience of the
law, If it came from any but a paid pro
fessional pleader of special interests.
Mr. Foraker today is a corporation at
torney, whatever high honors may have
been his in times past, and the voice
of rebellion Is that of the chronfc of
fenders against whomthls very cor
poration tax is aimed. Not the one
time Judge, nor the one-time senator,
here Is heard, but the hireling of the
Interest which the federal government
In justice to tbe public Is seeking to
regulate.
The corporation tax was enacted by
the congDBs of the whole people, after
mature deliberation and the most pen
discussion. It la on the statute books.
If it is a good law, or a bad law, re
sults will determine. If it Is bad, It
Is bound to be repealed. If It la un
constitutional, the courts will decide.
But so long as it is the law of the
land, so long It must be enforced and
obeyed. This open defiance of the
federal government on the part of a
corporation mouthpiece proves . bow
timely is the effort of the administra
tion to enfore the people's enactment
of thU particular enactment with its
publicity feature. Obedience the
law is the fundamental principle of our
nation, and such a flagrant attempt to
decide that the law shall be nullified,
as though he were the spokesman in
advance of the supreme bench, is, on
the part of Joseph Benson Foraker, as
It would be on the part of any other
person, the most unlimited arrogance
and Insufferable invasion of the rights
of our government and the duties of
loyal citizenship.
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Checki on the Railroads.
The annual report of the Interstate
Commerce commission Is valuable as
pointing out the limitations of that
body which should be removed if the
commission Is to be made the effectual
safeguard against discrimination and
abuse which it was designed to be.
In its vigorous recommendations for
more power, nothing radical is at
tempted, but it is apparent that a re
adjustment and in some cases an exten
sion of authority is essential. The ship
per is shown to be still at the mercy
of the railroads in some arbitrary rate
matters, and while the commission
does not desire to interfere with any
legitimate rights of the roads it does
seek to check any excess of greed which
would dictate alterations of rates to
the manifest Injustice of the public.
These proposed extensions of the in
terstate commerce law are in line with
the suggestions already made by Presi
dent Taft, from whom a special mes
sage on the subject is expected. The
necessary checks upon the railroads are
to be fully presented to congress, and
that body will be held responsible for
any laxity in providing such legisla
tion as may be necessary to protect
those rights of the people over which
the commission ought to have full Ini
tial jurisdiction.
Judge Lurton's elevation to the su
preme court bench is a demonstration
of the possibilities of evolution for the
American boy. In his youth he was
a confederate soldier, and but for his
mother's personal plea to Lincoln
which secured his release from a fed
eral prison he might have been di
verted to a vastly different career, for
it was Lincoln's interest that enabled
him to take up the study of law.
Still another count has been discov
ered by the rich American widow who
married him to be ,of no account. In
the meantime he has been squandering
the fortune her first husband built up
by strict attention to American indus
try. An Indiana bride oomplalns that the
climate of her Nebraskan husband is
too cold. Such lukewarm reality does
not tally with the temperament of the
heroines of Indiana fiction. Do the
natives read Tarklngton to no purpose?
Stripped of Polar degrees and uni
versity degree, Cook will soon be naked
of honors, and will have nothing left
of his Arctic fruits but tbe $100,000
from his lectures. No wonder he made
a dash with the gate receipts!
Reading the story of the decayed
condition of wardrobe and furnishings
of a New York social leader whose
estate was up for settlement, makes
the ordinary thrifty householder real
proud of his possessions.
For a nation whose immediate doom
was predicted if the lords rejected the
budget the English appear to be pre
paring their plum pudding with an air
of cheerful Indifference to the bow
wows. Judging from the universal execra
tions in the newspapers of all cities,
the American population is divided Into
two classes, human beings and chauf
feurs. A Necessary of Life.
Washington Post.
Mr. Morgan gives us another lustration
of business sagacity by buying telephone
Companies as a permanent Investment. Peo
ple will always want to talk.
Suspending; Rale. ,
Cleveland deader.
The newspapers of the world refusa to
limit their discussion of King Leopold to
the good which might be said of him with
out doing violence to the truth.
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I'p Awalnat It.
Brooklyn Eagle,.
"Navy may bar trust goods," Is a catchy
headline. But without steal trust armor,
and coal trust coal, to say nothing of other
dotal:, a navy would not be worth having.
Stlmalna for Civic Pride.
Kansaa City Star.
The outcome of the franchise election is
not a victory for Kansas City alone. Every
city, big or small, that Is fighting for nn
vanced and enlightened conditions Is en
titled to take freah strength and courage.
Exceeded the Wyoming; Limit.
Washington Herald.
A Wyoming oourt has decided that a
certain young man had a perfect right to
break his promise of marriage to a girl
who changed the color of her hair three
times within a week. Wise and upright
Jvdge! Even love cannot be presumed to
bo so blind that It mill fall to make note
of that ..
Going- Some.
St. Loula Globe-Democrat.
While serving as an assistant army sur
geon Qeneral Leonard Wcod, In V region
Infested with hostile Indiana, voluntarily
covered 100 mtlea on foot In twenty-four
hours as a carrier of dispatches, later
he distinguished himself as a Rough
Rider. He will shortly become the army
chief of ataff. which Is also going some.
Skating; on Thin lee.
New York Tribune.
The seaaon when skaters drown because
the Ice la too thin has again opened.
Neither common aenae nor parental au
thority entirely prevents fatal accident
from this cause where sport Is sought on
ponds, lakea or rlvera. Wbcre access can
be had to rink a, a modest admission fee la
really a low rate of Insurance whloh a
person who Is fond of skating might be
glad to pay.
Some Things You Want to Know
The Holy Land The Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
In the center of the marble pavement of
the Oreek portion of the Church of the
Holy Sepulcher In Jerusalem Is a short
marbla Column which Is declared to be, by
the Orthodox.- the exact center of the
world. The Jews and the Mohammedans
assert that the exact center of the earth
Is the tip of rock at the ton of Mount
Morlah. where Abraham offered up Isaac,
where Solomon's Temple -stood, from which
Mohammed ascended Into heaven, and
which Is now sheltered by the magnificent
Dome of the Rock, usually known as the
Mos-iue of Omar. None of these theories
takes Into account the belief of the scion-
tisia ih.r .h. ,,M I. . .nh.r.,1,1 Th
a spheroid.
really Important thing Is belief that the
oenter of the world is In Jerusalem and
the duly authenticated center of the Chris-
tlan world Is the marble column In the
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Church of the Holy Eepulcher
A visit to the Church of the Holy Sepul
Cher, that edifice whloh shelter the tomb
of the Lord and whloh has been for cen-
turles the most venerated spot In Chris-
tendom, Is an experience productive of
curiously conflicting emotions. In the first
Instance, there Is no good reason to be-
lieve that the Sepulcher Is really that In
which the body of the Savior was laid. In
fact, every logical and reasonable argd-
ment eoea tn nrnv tht ih. tw,i ann i.
somewhere else. But even If one accept
the site as authentic. It Is Impossible for
any reasonable creature who has grown to
manhood under modern Influence, to be-
li-. - , .
w..v .viiui v. ,111, ICKCIKlfl 1IU II1C
cred nonsense with which he is deluged
upon entering this great church. He re-
fusee to believe that a block of stone cut
moaern stone saws is the very block
upon wmcn the body of the crucified Lord
was iaia. jj,ven the Armenian priests will pilgrims from every quarter of the Chrls
admlt that the true stone of unction lies tlan world. Russian peasants In compa
underneath, and that the block which nie of several hundreds, at the expense
thousands of Christian pilgrims kiss every
day has been In place only for a few
year. One is given a stick which he
shoves through a brass bound hole In the
wall to touch, In the darkness, the socket
In the rock In which the Cross wa set relIKlous fervor and seal which must lrft
He Is expected to kins the end of th .Hob Press the American onlooker with the fact
and thereby acquire holy merit. No one
is apparently concerned with the fact that
the socket In the solid rock wherein the
crosa I set Is at least 100 yards away
from th. place whloh one Is grave" a--
ured Is th .,, ., ,, 8 BV'"' "
"rucfflid In fart th , h T" W"
"I tJ, : thS ,chur?h,imakes "
- - iv viae b aiiit.ict:i or retv
son. It Is a great hou sheltering: an en-
ormous collection of absurdities whloh In
lue.ime.ve. are so contradictory as to
make faith in their authenticity Impossible,
. But if one can forget the hordes of beg-
gars; If one can forget the Mohammedan
soldiers stationed there to prevent the varl-
ous sects of Christians from murdering
each other; If one can forget the foul air,
the filthy floors, the noisome odor and
the all but visible presence of counties
millions of germs, then he will find the
Church of the Holy Sepulchre an appeal to
his higher emotional facultlea which will
compel hi reverence.
How long ago men came to believe that
this apot marked the place of scpulure of
Jesus Christ Is not known. In the third
century It la recorded that a Temple of
Venus stood at thh. apot and the Christians
then complained OT the desecration When
the great Constantlne. emperor of Rome "'""""" l" lJ'"lBU D""B lno P"-
embraced the Christian religion he built a "t f he woman . university who here
group of edifice's'1 at this place and ur- fmId thla inoongruoua convention of all
rounded the tomfi'Vlth a row of column yPe" ' ;hr,"t,"8i KKlVTO thank,( un 0
tv,i h- v,. i . ... -u,u",ns- her Risen Lord for her own country In
D Sm ? Th 'Si ! h" A- whlch th9 teachings of Jesus Christ have
Sntrma. . t Z deStr0ye1 by resulted in the emancipation of her .ex.
!.?.-. . !. .. seventh century, but 0na wi8hes that the church was clean,
were Immediately rebuilt. In the tenth one 8hudderS to think that Moslem swords
century the churfch was burned and In the mu8t preserve the peace between the blck
eleventh century It was ruined by the Mos- erlng faction of those who follow the
'em'- Jhe Present churfh was built by the iowly Nazarene, one Is depressed by the
Crusaders early In the twelfth century, al- squalor and the superstitions; but one Is
though, of course, many addition and ie- forced to remember that the religion of
pair have been made from time to time. Jesus Christ is for all men of every shade
The church Is the Joint property of the of opinion, of every race and color, of
Oreek orthodox church, which has the every age and century. No armor of ma
largest share; the Roman Catholic church, terlalism, no defense of rationalism, no
the Armenian church, the Syrian church, argument of -eason Is potent to with
the Abyssinia church and the Coptic or stand the powerful emotional influence of
Egyptian church. The Church of England the spot which Is after all, to Christians,
la the only Protestant church having any the center of the world,
peculiar privileges, it being permitted BV ritXDEBIO J. KASKTIT.
twice a month to celebrate the holy com- Tomorrow THE HOLT JtJUSO Bethel
munlon In one of the chapels of the church. hem of Judea.
BANK GUARANTY IN ACTION.
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Situation Created by Two More Rank
Failures,
New York Tribune.
It will be Interesting to see how the Ok
lahoma officials meet the situation caused
by the suspen ;'o.i of two mora of t ie state's
guaranteed banks. Tlie two new suspen
sions occurred in a chain of bank run by
the president of the Oklahoma Bank and
Trust company -of Oklahoma City, which
closed Its doors on September 20. That bank
was the largest In Oklahoma, having 13,000,
000 In deposits. Its growth appear to have
been mushroom-like, for a year before Its
deposits were only $356,000. Such an Increase
was an Instance of the beneflclent results
of the guarantee systom," If we are to be
lieve various statements that emanated
from Oklahoma before the troub'e came.
And certainly the state appears to have re
garded the flourishing Columbia bank with
much favor, since at the time of Its fail
ure It held I1M.U0O of state deposits, besides
I75.O00 of the guarantee fund.
The failure of the Columbia exhausted
the fund,( which, of courae, fell far short
of paying the linbl'ltlos. Bank Commis
sioner Toung of, Oklahoma Issued a state
ment on October SO showing that he had
paid 1503,647 to depositors from the guar
antee fund and $l,Si8&,6tf.27 from the assets
ot the bank. About $:0000 was still due to
the depositors. Thus theuarantee fund did
not result In the prompt paymetit In full
of depositors, and, indeed, It la understood
that some ot the bank's liabilities remain
unpaid even now. All that la now claimed
for the Oklahoma system of handling a
fal'ed bank Is remarkable speed In liquida
tion. But a dispatch to The Omaha Bee,
to which we are Indebted for these facts,
showa the method by which the assets were
quickly turned over imd claims settled. The
quick work. It says, has been due not
only to collection, and to .ale cf collaterals,
but In "settling with depositors by turning
over to them bIKs receivable." That la, the
depositors accepted the paper In the bank's
portfolio tn payment of their claims. A
very good showing In liquidation can be
made if depositors of a bankrupt Institu
tion accept Its paper at face value and
take their chances with it Instead ot
taking their chances through waiting for
the receiver to collect upon It. As a mere
matter of bookkeeping a large and quick
realisation upon assets Is posslb'.e In that
way.
Another novelty exhibited In the settle
ment 1. also described In the same dis
patch to The Bee. "Tbe only difference
from the procedure tn unguaranteed
banks," It says, "Is that, instead of apply
ing the money secured on asseut pro rata
to all depositors of the Institution, Bank
Commissioner Young Is paying certain
depositors, first, while others are waiting
willing' y, or otherwise." Tbls means, we
suppose, that the depositors who were will
There is almost an endless succession of
processions winding In and about the halls
and corridors of the great church, wor-
shipping at the various sacred shrines,
But each spct Ignores a sacred place pe-
cullar to another and denies strenuously
th authenticity of the traditions of the
otner sects.
The HoI' Sepulchre stands In the center
of the "reat rotunda, which Is the principal
feft,ur of the edifice. This rotunda Is the
c"mmon Property of all Christians, orlentsl
snd occidental, orthodox and hetrodox; It
18 ' ,ne place the Christian world
"f,ctarlnfsm ' forgotten and the
. . is iree o come ana wor
ship according to the dictates of his own
conscience.
Whatever may be one s own religious be
lief OP linhallaf , I. k.l. .. , ,n
turles nf ohn.ii'- . ..
xuries or christian civilization cannot look
upon that Sepulchre without emotion. Its
dirty marble, Its soiled tinsel, lis forty-
three twinkling lamps, stand not In the
way of the imagination. For here Is the
Place which faith has long accepted aa
the spot where was laid the body of the
Crucified Jesus, the spot where He arose
'rom the dead and where He made unto
tha wor'd His supreme revelation. This Is
the spot for the possession of which Chris-
tlan KurP for two long centuries battled
,n valn- Th Is the spot which waa the
lngn'raitlon ot that most remarkable of all
...l Th. .1,"K-movemen' lne
' ," " "vm " no,y ln"
"" " .r: " . """""P a"a
u, hi mo i nrixuan cnurcn, tor even
when the CrusaJers sought to deliver the
e-nulchre frm hZI'V '
cens, although unknown to Europe, this
church waa safely In the hands of the
Oriental Christian,
Here come annually tens of thousand, of
f every bodily comfort, make the great
sacrifice necessary to bring them to the
Hly land. And here, at the tomb of the
Lord. one sees them prostrate themselves
and klBS the holy stones In a passion of
that t0 th miserable Russian moujlk the
"","0"ll,0" M nnstian religion la a
V6ry r?l a"? PUnt thln- Here covV
t C? J T from the mountal" of
2" b S,Pal Wh hM ,bBged L ?,B way
along the long Journey with a faith that
riva19 the Pa-lon of Peter the Hermit
himself. Her. comes a prelate of the
Church of Rome, who has been laboring
for th A rat UK nf fVir-iar In t r- a -a xr
America, who thank his God at the alter
of Constantlne that wherever Christ waa
burled He live everywhere today in the
heart of man. Here comes an Ethiopian
wlth skin black as night, from the heart
f Africa, a priest In the Church of Abye
,lnla against which all the powers of
Islam and of paganism have not prevailed,
Htr comes a Nestorian pilgrim from
Chinese East Turkestan, a representative
of the tiny remnant of that once great
'-nrlstian church which held sway over
ftl1 Asla' even unto China and Japan. Hei;e
cornea, In the uniform of a Twentieth cen-
tury Crusader, a Salvation army captain
from the aat end of L0000"' whose seal
equa1' and WhoBe moral8 ar9 far above
th0Be of the od En8h soldier ot the
C08,, Wh followe1 Richard of the Lion
Heart lnt0 batUe aKalnst Salodln. Here
ing to take the bills receivable from the
portfolio at or near face value got them,
while those who wanted money had to
wait.
At this distance it looks as If there had
been a scramble to make a record In set
tling up the affairs of the bank promptly,
so as to show as good a case as possib'e
for the guarantee law. The method
adopted gave ivery opportunity for favorit
ism and Irregularity to enter lrto the liqui
dation, and it Is not surprising that there
Was much dlssatisfaxtton. The grand Jury
went Into the matter of the liquidation, but
Governor Haskell took It out of its hands,
on the grounds that the proceedings before
It were an attack upon the guarantee law,
not an ujtompt to administer Justice.
With the guarantee fund exhausted, it will
be Interesting to see what will be accom
plished in the way of "rapid liquidation"
of the banks now in trouble and how it will
be accomplished.
PUBLICITY FOR ACCIDENTS.
Sovereign Itemed for Many Railroad
Ulondei .
St. Louis Itepubilc. '
Without entering into the details of the
Esch bill, which the house of representa
tive, passed the other day, It will hardly
be denied that full reports of all railroad
accidents which It requires to be made to
the Interstate Commerce commission would
give publicity to Information that might
help greatly in reducing the number of
such accidents.
In remedying an evil the first step Is to
ascertain its principal producing causes.
If a train going over a certain road at a
certain speod Is wrecked by a broken rail
full knowledge of all the clrcumstaaces
will lulp the manugers of other roads sim
ilarly equipped In estimating the momen
tum of moving trains which their own
roads will bear. If, In any Instance, over
fatigue of train hands or station hands la
a contributing cause of the acldent pub
licity of the fact will help others to avoid
this source of disaster.
When President Samuel Spencer of the
Southern railway waa killed on one of his
own Hues a few years ago ho probably
did not know that his life was In the hand,
ot a sleepy train dispatcher. If Mr. George
Gould had known of the dofectlve rati In
the Carolina road which cost the lives ot
a number of his fellow-travelers the other
day, and came near coating hi. own, he
surely would have avoided that road or In
sisted upon slow and cautious travel
over it.
Publicity Is the sovereign remedy for all
evils of obscure origin. There are hun
dreds ot englneera, and probably of other,
who are not engineers, who might give
railroad managers valuable hint. In the
prevention of accidents If full publicity
were given to the cause, of 11 those which
happe
Afraid of Ghosts
Many people are afraid of ghosts. Pew people
are afraid of germs. Yet the ghost it a fanoy and
the germ ie a faot. Ii the germ oould be magnified
to a sire equal to its terrors it would appear more
terrible tlan any fire-breathing dragon. Germs
can't be avoided. They are in the air we breathe,
the water we drink.
The germ can only prosper when the condition
of the system gives it free scope to establish it
self and develop. When there is a deficiency of
vital force, languor, restlessness, a sallow nheek,
a hollow eye, when the appetite is poor and the
, sleep is broken, it is time to guard against the germ. You enn
fortify the body against all germs by the use of Dr. Pierce' Cold
en Medical Discovery. It increases the vitel power, cleensee the
system ol clogging impurities, enriches the blood, puis the stom
ach and organs of digestion end nutrition In working condition, so
that the germ finds no weak or tainted spot in which to breed.
"Golden Medical Discovery" contains no alcohol, whisky or
habit-forming drugs. All its ingredients printed on its outside
wrapper. It is not a secret nostrum but a medicine or known
composition and with a record of 40 ytart ram. Accept no
substitutethere is nothing " just as good." Ask your neighbors.
Around New York
Ripples on the Current of X,lfe
aa Seen In the Oreat American
Metropolis from Say to Say.
Between $60,000,000 and $00,000,000 cover
the range of estimates placed on the value
of the Christmas remittance, sent from
this oountry to the old world this sesson.
One steamship sailing from New York laM
Friday carried tClO.OOO In money orders
alone- $62,000 of them being for $10 or less.
A Saturday steamer carried $371,000 In
money orders. Other outgoing steamships
nave carried money orders amounting to
$7,524,963 an lnorvase of $2,298,125 over the
urn sent last year. Nearly $2,000,000 wont
to Great Britain alone, while Italy's peo
ple were remembered with $1,732,131 In
gifts, large and small. In the number of
money orders there wa a gain of 140.619
over 1908.
Bank and the express companies have
been garnering a harvest from last-minute
givers, and the St. Louis alone, it la es
timated, will dump $1,500,000 of Uncle Sam's
Christmas cash into Europe' stocking,
pot to mention the hundreds of bagsful
of other presents.
Bank have for a long time regarded
their small foreign drart business at
Christmas time as a good barometer of
the general condition of the country and
the business of the bank this, year Bhows
a great Increase over that of last, In some
cases al much as GO per cent.
William J. Burns, the former secret serv
ice man whom the Investigation of the
Oregon and Washington land fraud and
the San Francisco graft prosecution have
made one of the best known detectives In
the country, ha made his permanent head
quarters In New York, and has established
the William J. Burns National Detective
Agency, with Its main office in the Park
Row building. Already he has been re
tained In place of the PInkertons by the
American Banker' association, which rep
resents 11,000 banking Institutions, to do
their protective work.
The American Bankers' association I the
largest single client employing detective
agency work in this country. The Pinker
tons have done the association's protective
work since 1895 and In this service had
made an extensive, collection of the pic
tures of bank crook and data concerning
them. Fred E. Farnsworth, general secre
tary of the association, Issued the following
statement:
' "The relation between the . protective
committee of the American Bankers' asso
ciation and the Plrtkerton National Detec
tive Agency having been terminated, the
protective work for 'he association will
hereafter be carried on by William J.
Burns' National Detective agency in New
York City, with branches in other cities
and correspondents throughout the United
States and elsewhere."
James Stlllman, president of the National
City bank, the "Standard Oil bank," as It
la popularly called, has been pounded not
little by the "muck-rakers," but now and
then he does something showing that he
knows how to make good use of his money.
Mr. Stlllman sailed for Europe the other
day, but before he left he called on the
Rev. Dr. Braun, and handed him a check
for $20,000. ' One-half was to be used for
buying Christmas presents for those who
otherwise would have gone without and
the balance to be used to aid cases of
suffering as Dr. Braun thought best. Dr.
Braun is one of the oldest and largest
hearted of the Catholic clergy In New
York and i always at work among the
many poor of his populous parish.
Mr. Stlllman Is the sort of a man who
will get more Christmas enjoymenf out of
the $20,000 than from what he stends on
himself.
Hartwell Stafford of Jiackensack has a
large sized grouch; he Just does not care
who knows It, and, In fact, publishes It to
the world in the form of high priced ad
vertising. Probably Stafford has good
cause for resentment, but of that let the
reader be the judge.
Stafford caught a burglar In his house
recently, and was promptly Informed by
Mr. Burglar that unless let go he would
'do him up." But Stafford ignored the
threat and had the prowler arrested, feel
ing secure In the thought that a long term
tn prison would maks the culprit take a
kindlier view cf the matter.
Judge Milton .Domarest sentenced the
Intruder to only one year In prison, and
now Stafofrd sees trouble ahead for him
self. He decided that Hackonsack would
not be a peaceful residence town for him
a year hence, for the thought that you
are going to have some one"do you up"
cannot be agreeable to a man ot simple
habits. Hence the following ad:
I bought this house for a home. It Is
Ideal In location, arrangement, convenience,
and I hate to sell it.
'Four weeks ago I captured a burglai
In the house and he threatened to do me
up If I did not let him go. I calculated
that It would be many years before ht
would get the chance, but Judge Demarest
sentenced him to Just one year. In a short
time, therefore, he will be among us again.
- "If I take a gun and protect myself 1
will probably get about twenty years, and
if he sticks a knife In my back some dark
night he will probably get about six
month.
"I do not think the odds are fair, conse
quently I get out, and so here Is a big bar
gain for somebody. It doesn't need much
cash; Just enough to make it sure that
the property won't be thrown back on my
hands and I won't have to go back there
to live."
Edward J. Nally, president of the New
England Telegraph company and vice pres
ident of the Postal Telegraph and Cable
company, last Saturday told the Juiit leg
islative committee which 1 Investigating
the telephone and telegraph companies that
the keenest rivalry exists between the
Postal and the Western Union Telegraph
companies. Ephralm J. Page, counsel to
the committee, had asked Mr. Nally If
there was not a "community of Interest"
a working agreement between the two
big companies.
"There positively Is not," replied Mr.
Nally. "There has been the hottest kind
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of competition between the two eompanlea,
It ha. been one long, persistent strife.
Here Is the whole situation: The publlo
will patronise whichever company give
the beat service. It Is not Interested to
know that the Postal la fighting the West
ern Union. It Is up to both companies to
offer the best they can. Thl. make, con
stant rivalry. To say there 1. any working
agreement between the two Is far short of
the fact. '
The committee's counsel asked If there
was not an agreement between the West
ern Union and the Postal when rates were
raised on April 1 1907.
"There was an understanding about U,M
replied Mr. Nally.
"The traffic superintendents of the two '
ssytems met, I believe, and th. raise was
decided upon."
PERSONAL NOTES. '
Cher up, mere men! Only a few day
more, and you can poke around In the
closets and drawers looking for things,)
and not be afraid the children will get!
wire to state secrets.
Mrs. Sallle McKlnney, who, tradition
say., led Quantrell end hi band Into l,aw
rcrce, Kan., on the memorable occasion of
the sacking of that town on August' 21, ls3,
died In Emporia After a long illness.
Victor F. Lawsun, the Chicago ntfr..
paper publisher, It w announced hy offl
ciala of the Young Men's Christian asso-
' elation, will contribute $100,000 to a $1,000,010
fund being raised by that organisation tl
a Chrlstmaa gift.
A Chleago Judge rules that lnndlord
may not exclude from tenements families
that have children, at least not bv reason
of such possession. Landlords naturally
feel outraged nt the Intimation that there
arc rights other than their own.
Don Herring, a son of former State Sen
ator Oram Herring, now of Sunbury, Pa.,
who Is a student at Oxford university,
England, was one of the winning team in
the Oxford-Rugby match. This Is the
first time an American has ever played In
the lntervarslty match. Don was well
known In athletic circles at Princeton,
where he graduated with honor In 1907.
Colonel William 'II. Cross, secretary ot
state for Oklahoma, probably is Jhe only
public official in the United State, who
signs his nickname to state documents,
"Bill Cross, Secretary of State," Is the
unaffected signature he has affixed to rec
ords and correspondence ever since he
began his tenure of office, November 16,
1907. He does this on the authority of a
spi clnl opinion handed dow n by the at
torney general of his state.
i BREEZY CHAFF. , ' ;( .
"Do Christmas tree," said Untie Eben,
"reminds me of a man s everyday life.
It aln' gwlnter 'mount to much 'ce.ppln
foh what you hustles to pervldo it wif."-
Washington star.
Little Willie Say, pa, what is a forget-me-not?
Pa It is the knot In the string a woman
ties around her husband's finger, ray son.
Chicago News.
She There Is really an art in putting
on one's gloves, you know.
He True; you have to get your hand In
before you can do it properly. Boston
Transcript.
"Mrs. Nagg treats her husband as she
might a schoolboy.'
"Yes. Did you hear how she punished
him for some minor fault the other day?
Khe made him stay In the house after sup
per and button her shirtwaist down the
back eleven times." Kansas City Times.
"Did you hear what" that manager said
about his new play?"
"No, what was It?"
"That there would be the devil to pay
If he ouldn't get an angel." Baltimore
American.
"That speech of your', will echo down the
corridors of time."
"That Isn't what I want," answered
Senator Sorghum. "What I'm after la a
speech that will echo aroand the stove at
the crosa-roada grocery store." Washing
ton Star.
"Now," said the chairman of the investi
gating committee, "I wish you would tell
us where the $17,000 called for by thla
voucher went."
"I don't know where it went."
"You don't know?"
"No, sir. I am an honest man. I kpt
my eyes closed while the money i
being disposed of." Chicago Record
Herald. SHOPPING EARLY.
Chicago News.
I am a worn and broken man,
I'm sick and lame and blind;
Search from lleersheba clear to Dan,
No wreck like me you'll find.
And yet hut one short year ago
A giant whole and hale
I was but then I did not know
That awful Christmas sale!
We went downtown, the wife and I,
We went into a store;
I don't know what she wished to buy,
I don't care any more;
I sav her drawn and bloodies Hp,
I know my face went pale
When, like a speeding battleship,
We charged the Christmas sale!
One fading mudam knew no fear,
She took my none a prize;
Six dozen hat brims slit my ear.
And hatpin gouged my eye..
One dnmsel butted like a goat,
And when I ra'sed a wall
Siin crammed a bundle down my tbroaa
fcuch was the Christmas sale!
Oh. shopper, bait a .polar bear, 1
Pay rattlers social Calls,
Go pull a Turkish wrestler's hair,
xOr shoot Niagara Falls;
Go beard the Hon In his den,
Oo twist his tnsseled tail
But, shopper, dear. 1 suy again,
Shun shun the Christmas sale!
Hot J!, Ftlilk Trust
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Th Food-drink (or Ail gu.
At restaurants, hotels and fountain.
Delicious, invigorating and sustaining.
Keep it on your sideboard at home.
Don't travel without it.
A quick lunch prepared in a minute.
Take no substitute. Ask for HORUCK'S.
Other are imitation-
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