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THE BKK. OMAHA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1010. TIE UMJffN "UILY RLE. rouKifoa by ic!)vr.: kosewatkr VICTOK ROSKWATF.R. EDITOR, t Entered at Omaha fKietofflc econd 'rlaa matter. ' TftRMn or subscription. 'Daily Bee (IrwltidlnS Sunday), pw weefc.l&O Pally Ilea (without Hunriar), per wees.. 10" Ixilly Ba (without Sunday), on year..MX Iolly H and Hunday. on r 100 DELIVKRED BT CARRIER. ' Evening Bee (without Sunday), pec week. n Frenlns; Hee (with Sunday), per we...Wi HiindMr Bee, one ysar ...11 W Saturrlsy Bee, on yrr l.M AAAmu all complain of Irreinilarltles In delivery to CKy Circulation Department. orricKS. : Omaha The Be Building. ... South Omaha Twenty-fourth and N. Council Bluff 15 Scott Street. Llncoln-fils Little Biillrlln. Chlcacn IMS Marquette Building. New Tors-Booms 1101 1101 No. U Wert Thlrty-thlM Ftwt. Washington 726 Fourteenth Street, N. W. CORREKPONDKNCB. Communications relating; to news and editorial .matter should be addressed! Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft. express or portal order p.yahle to The Bee I'uhllshlns; Company. Only J-rrnt stamps received In paymnt of mall amount. Personal check, except-en Omaha or eastern exchanges, not arrepted. STATEMENT Of CIRCULATION. Stste of Nhraoka. Tonl Countr. s.: Oeorf e B. Tsuchurk. treasurer of The Bee Publishing Company,' belna duly sworn, say that the actual number of full and complete rnplee of The Ially. Morhtna;, Kvdiilna: and Sunday Bee printed during the month of January. 1910, was aa follows: 1 4M40 "IT 40,890 ii.i,,,.M,'vttiuu is ,,,,, n,iw 1 ."44,430 II,.., 43,000 4 41,360 SO 43,650 8 V.43.4O0V. 11 43.690 43,400 12....; 43,50 7.......'... 43,490 it ....... 41,360 43,470 24. 43.600 41,700 ' 26. 43,040 10 43,390 26 ... 43,090 11 43,430 27 43,030 1 43,000 !( 43,850 11. ..,,'.;, 43,400 , 2 48,650 14........... 43,460. .. 10,.., 41,400 15. ......... 4a,C70 II 43,970 It....;...., 41,770 . T"tl , 1,314,330 Returned ooplf a. ... . , ,6, Net total.,.. .....'t........ ... 1,304,965 Dally average 43,373 "--"CijjROB 13. TZSCHITCK, " ,'" . ;,-'! ' Treasurer.. .Subscribed In my presence and aworn to before me this Jlst day of January, 1910. ' ; ' ROUERT HUNTER, '"'" ' Notary Public. . blsMra Uvm th city tec. poeartlr akavld ' have Tk be Mile e tkea. Address will few efcasuredf as oft mm re . It's, up to the weather man now to vindicate Mr. Groundhog. Who wants to' writ fire policies on the city hall r Don't all speak at once. Anyone who wants to hire a poet will hereafter! make requisition on the University of Missouri. Lincoln is agitating a public market house. Come up to Omaha first tin d get A few pointers on what not to do. Someone who wants to make or break a fortune should start out writ ing life fnpuranca policies on amateur aviators If Omaha starts out beating all prosperity records in January, what will we do before the rest of the year rolls round! It's only a $50 throw to get Into the senatorial race at the primary. Even Would-be Senator Sorenson says the publicity is cheap at half the price. Edgar Howard is for Governor Har mon In .1912, ' .'provided always" Bryan , don't want it. Under the cir cumstances Harmon won't count much on Howard. 1 A Charter has been Issued authoris ing, the, Iiop Bottom National bank to beglng business. As long as It Is not a sieve bottom bank It should be able to hold water. ' Theory worst, February can do in . the way of weather in its short twenty eight days, it cannot do as much as did ; December or .January, each of . wblch' gotsin three days overtime. The. only wonder is how Alaska, with natural resources rated at thou sands of billions of dollars, could have been influx possession for forty years without having been gobbled up long -. New paving in Omaha for the com lng scnson'wlll be limited only by th slxe oMhe available intersection fund.' The early bird will get in where the tardy toty. wllj have to sit outside on the doorstep. '- . - . i : , , Newi Yok now asserts its claim to being . tha- world' largest shipping point, -wHh -Antwerp second and Lon don third. Although Britannia may rule th wave.; this American 'metrop olis lakvV the tonnage. Several Ohio minlatem of the gospel havo rtwoluted to put the title "Rev." on , the ; blacUllBt. .We don't like 'Rev.'V?ither, It- (ooks altogether out of piuce on a lot of people who in sist on misappropriating It. Iraiieach Governor Haskell of Okla homa!; What fort , Didn't Mr. Bryan give hhri a .clean bill of health during the last presidential campaign, and what h'gtr authority can there be for anyone who rails htiupelf a democrat? Opposition to the - corporation in roai a" 'focused asalnat the feature which requires publicity of the returns, , But, incidentally, none of the corporations -would object to be ing absolved from tail payment of the tax,. In his wllJevt dreams could Mr. Bryan ever hv , liu!nd himself traveling through tkiu'h America and receiving golj mcdu!'o a reward of merit? Chl rajto TrlUnne. Oh, ,vw .dou't' know. Our distin guished fellow cltlsen has been dream ing vlld Ajreanis all hla 11 . . Locating the . Hitch. By taking an Inventory of the prog ress of the movement for the election of United States senators by direct vote of the people, th Chicago Ex atnlner has done something to locate the hitch. .The constitution of the United Htates makes It obligatory on congress, when petitioned by the leg islatures ,0f two thirds o(f the states to, call constitutional convention to submit the proposod amendment, and already nearly two thirds of the states have by formal legislative action re corded their demand, for submission. The legislatures of twenty-fire states have ' pasned resolutions de signed to comply with the constitu tional requirements to force the call ing of a constitutional convention, and two other states, California and Wyo ming, have- by legislative resolution asked congress to submit the amend ment without calling a convention. The twenty-seven states that have thus already taken action are the fol- lowing: Arkansas, California, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, . Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, . Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, . ': Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, f Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennesses, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wlaconaln, . Wyoming, Missouri, . - If the two states of California and Wyoming were to change their reso lutions. to conform to the others, only four more legislatures would have to vote to make the necessary two-thirds and compel congress ta act. Going over thU.llst of states, however, the significance lies in the omissions. New York and New England arevnot represented, and would hardly be ex pected to be represented In this move ment, but the great west Is in with but few laggards, while the south Is only about half represented. Notwithstanding the loud noise with which the democrats have re peatedly demanded the popular elec tion of United States senators, the real hitch is in the solid south, where the states are overwhelmingly democratic. The democratic national platform hag called for this change every four years, but where are Alabama, Flor ida,. Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, South Carolina and ' Virginia? Here are seven southern states wlth demo cratic legislatures ' which have It within. their power io start, t ho ball a-rolllng, bxxi which show no signs of doing so. Whenever - the inquiry , Is made why the demand for the elec tion of United States senators' is not met, let the answer" "be"lhe true one. A Qaeition and an Answer. BRADSHAW, Neb., Jan. 31. To the Edi tor of The Bee: "Inasmuch as . you are printing numerous clippings from- country newspapers commenting , upon the Lincoln Insurgent meeting In a rather : uncompli mentary way, how would It be to print In parallel column what Is said by the coun try press, complimentary a.s well as that uncomplimentary. That would be fair, would It not? Now, we do not know that any of th republican newspaper of the state are saying anything, complimentary, but It would be rather, strange If there were not a few. There ar none In York eounty, however, but should there be. In the state The Bee would not In any way commit Itself by printing clippings on both side. There ar a good many Tork county re publicans who are In sympathy with the In surgents In congress and ar anxious to se them win out for th principles for which they are lined, up, but we do not know of any who are, )n sympathy with the Insurgent movement down at Lincoln. They- look upon th move down there as emanating from a lot of fellow having sore spots, and hronlo office seeker. The republican of Tork county have not lost their faith In Senator Burhett yet, and In saying this we do not In any way place anything disparaging against Mr. Whedon. Now, Mr. Editor, Inasmuch as this is a small family matter of difference In opin ions, do you not think It would be fair for Th Bee, th great metropolitan exponent of Nebraska republicanism, to treat all repub lican newspapers of th state with equal courtesy? ,Wliut do you say? Yours for fair play, JOHN B. DEY. So far as we c3n Judge from the tone of the country newspapers which might be expected to encourage the in surgents, what Is true of Yerk county Is true throughout the state, with the possible exception of Lincoln and Lan caster county. The great body of Ne braska republicans, as .'voiced by their newspapers, are progressive but not Insurrectionary, and they decline to let any small group of men' actuated by questionable, motives put them In a position of antagonism ' to President Taft and his administration. The re publican papers in Nebraska, with few Lexceptlons, have repudiated the Lin coln crowd and declined to follow. Our correspondent. who,' himself used to edit a paper that would be classed with the antla, wants to hear from both sides. The best we can do la to give him an extract or two from pa pers that would probably be disposed to lnsurge under more' favorable con ditions. Here Is what the Albion News says after dealing as gently as possible with the Lincoln meeting: The dangor of reform movenjenta alwavs I too big a hurry to aehlev results. Re forms cannot be manufactured, they mtiet grow. The only way, to help them. along la, flirt to - that th seed was the right kind, and 'hen cultivate and fertilise, and irrigate, and prune, and train them Into th best posalbl shape. Th so-called Insurgent cr proget sive ymllny In th re publican party must prevail, or els th party will decline and beeom Ilk the democratic party of today. But It will take some time to achieve th desired result, and radicalism must h held in check. A batter and stronger republican party 1 th df aired end to be achieved by progressives or Insurgents. . Like all Mforma, It ha at tracted many who have only persona) ends to be attained, and those having no stand ing In th party who hop to get - front Beat tlirouyh mere enthusiasm. - , The refusal to Join, In a movement Instigated by men "with only personal cud to b9 attained" la voiced by an other paper of the ssme class, the Cen tral City Nonpareil, which again la ments the lark of a leader measuring up to La Follrtte or Cummins, as fol lows: What Is needed lust now Is a leader of unquestioned" Intearlty who em commind tl confidence of the people In all ,'Ctlons of the state. Whedon won't do, because his record s a machine man Is sure id dis credit him before he gets Talrly started; Sheldon has temporised And hesitated so long that he Is not available, and Norrls" location is not In ntn favor, although that Is by no means a vital objection. Success at the polls with an honest, aggrossiv can didate would b a fnregona conclusion, but In the present chaotic condition of affairs the future Is not very reassuring. A" con ference of republicans representing all sec tions of th state might accomplish some thing, but It must be free from the sus picion of manipulation and It must be gov erned with the Idea of constructing rather than with the one Idea of critlollng and complaining. From what tho republican newspa pers In Nebraska are saying, excepting again one or two published at Lincoln, The Bee can see no reason why the re publicans of this state cannot Again in 1910 present a united front against the democratic enemy and get behind President Taft and his legislative pro gram Just as they did in 1906 behind President Roosevelt and his policies, and score an equally decisive victory. The Virtue of Patience. "Some grumble because they have children and others because they have none." So runs the old song, and much philosophy Is therein contained. Some labor unions are boycotting the so-called meat trust to be in their own turn boycotted by- others. One sec tion of the country Is entirely content while in, another the world seems oh the eve of a social cataclysm. But the world is not about to be destroyed be cause some blue-goggled faultfinder has a weak digestion. Pessimism ought not to be catching if folk keep themselves well disinfected. The children of Israel were not a particu larly happy people while In the wilder ness. But, none the . less, Moses turned a deaf ear to the calamity howl ers and when the promised land was In sight many were the exclamations, "I told you so." An intelligent peo ple will not Imitate the antics of a French Jacquerie. Rather will they wait, like the English In 1688, with calmness and patience and try to help social forces bring about an adequate readjustment. This is a true test of patriotic citizenship. Loyalty to a na tion's Ideal spells fealty to the de veloping of these ideals. Patriotism is needed in a time of stress. The ship of state will never be wrecked while the sailors remain at their posts unterrifled by creaking timbers and the noise of surface, waves. ( j A demand for 250,000 damages la to be made on the New York Central railroad for th killing- ,ot Spencer Traak, the capitalist and banker, i who met death In a collision on that, road the closing week of last year. Of course, the claim may be settled for less money, but it reflects the tendency to figure a death loss on the basis of the earning capacity of the victim for the years remaining to him on a nor mal expectation of life. And It is only a few years since that we had laws on our statute books limiting the amount that could be recovered In such cases to $5,000. Darius Miller, the new president of the Burlington, is a seasoned railway man, who will without question fill the place with energy and efficiency, but he will not seem quite so close to Nebraska as his retiring predecessor, George B. Harris, who was really a Nebraskan, so far as long residence and permanent interests in the state could make him. What we all hope Is that President" Miller In the future management of the road will exert himself as much as did President Har ris to keep Nebraska in big letters on the Burlington map. ' Our old friend of 16 to 1 free silver days, Charles A. Towne, has been re sponding down east to a toast on "The Effect of the Automobile On the Con science, Pockets and Morals of the People." Next thing we know "Char ley" Towne will be making a campaign .denouncing the awful crime of the de monetization of the horse and the mule and demanding the free coinage of automobiles as the only way to re deem the morals of tne nation. - Our amiable democratic contem porary Justifies itself for bringing In a verdict of gulH on Balllhger before even the flrrt witness has completed his testimony by calling attention to a republican newspaper that has printed a resume of the charges. Printing a resume of charges is not asserting that they have been proved. The New York Journal of Com merce refers to the Inflation of rail way capltalitatlon by stock watering as "a modern and skillful form of robbery." When the people are thoroughly convinced, as they are coining to be, of the extent to which the robbery is practiced,, they will put a stop to It, Governor Folk of Missouri is said to be hesitating about accepting an in vitation to alt at the head table at the forthcoming gathering of the demo cratic clans at Lincoln. The distin guished Missouri democrat la now on the lecture circuit with a maximum and minimum tariff of gate receipts. Senator "Jeff" Davla thinks the postal savings bank bill a scheme be gotten by the national bankers, while the bankers almost unanimously In sist they want none of it. In view of tho so urea, of opposition, the postal savings bank must be a good thing for the common people. Orover Cleveland's former secretary of the Interior, "Dave" Francis, has accepted the position of vice president of the Southern Commercial congress, which Is moving up some on the polit ical checkerboard toward the White House, 'where Governor Shallenberger would place him. The news of the Indictment of the participants in that (28,000 touch holds out some assurance to a tremu lous public' that if It isn't settled by giving back some part of the swag we may yet gel light on this remarkable midnight exploit In Gotham financier ing. The' Miles will case is up again In the . Nebraska supreme court, having been in litigation - already for more than ten years. : Needless to say, It in volves about $1,000,000, which Is enough to kpep' , the lawyers going awhile longer. "peealatla; av Drean. Pittsburg Dispatch. It Is proposed to carve a new State of Siskiyou out of adjoining part of Oreeron and California. So tar aa th rest of the country I concerned It would prefer a new state with a name that sounds less like vaudeville. But, a under the con stitution, th new state cannot be formed without the consent of both California and Oregon, It Is hardly worth whll to worry much over the nam. I ' i Political Roorbacks. Nw York. World. Fourteen years ago the populist of the west were shrieking that British, gold had been poured into this Oountry to defeat the free silver cause. ; Now. excited torles In London are circulating the report that 16, 000,000 of American gold was offered the liberal In their fight against protectionism. Perhaps French gold. I back of th fight against Cannonism, and a ayndlcate of Berlin bankers are manufacturing senti ment against the conservation of natural resource. , . , i . ' ' I Karat Speculator Pinched. . Philadelphia Record.. It Is a pleasure to know that the speculators in cold storage eggs are this year likely to lose money on their ven ture. They kept th price of eggs at such . a high figure during last spring and summer, the season of large supply, that, after paving storage charge, break age, Insurance and interest on outlay, they can't get their money back. Serves them right. If. only tho hen will now do their duty and . keep up the "strictly fresh" output .we' ca-n look forward to the Lenten season without undue appre hension. v . Good Effect of Moderation. "... Indianapolis News, ,' . Whether the meat ' boycott can bo ef fective In reducing price permanently, at least, may ; be " dotibted. But; abstention from a meat diet for a tlm may prove to many families . that, tbey have been using much more meet 'than Is necessary, or even wholesome, ..in their dietary. So they may hereafter regularly use less meat and morCaCther foods than here tofore. , ; And;,, thgtyjifUl. bo 'rto. their own advantage,, and alsp by lessening de mand 'may 'a&eetPniiWt prices. The fact Is that Americans generally speaking',, eat too , much meat .for , good health and strength. , . ' '. VETEHAS IlIVKR. . JPILOT AT REST Landed Flrat I'lturngrr on .the Site of Omaha. St. Louis' Republic. In 1804, when Lewis and Clark went up the Missouri river, they passed In sight of a settler's cabin -on the bank of. the stream, In what is now Franklin county. Missouri, and the settler and his wife looked out with eager curiosity as they went by. The Bet tier was the father of Captain William R. Massl. dean of western river pilots, who died . at St. Luke's hospital on Satur day. So short Is the history; of the great et. The captain was born In 1829, Just ten years after the. first. steamboat went up the Missouri. . His father kept a "wood yard," and a a small boy he became expert in handling "wood-f lats'l- (barges which tied up to passing steamefs while the roust abouts unloaded tbi fuel they, carried) in the swift current. While still a mere lad he became a pilot, and his eightieth sum mer found him still at the wheel. He had follpwed tils , chosen calling for almost sixty-five years. To the last his memory was.' accurate and his Interest In wentern river and their history unabated. Captain Massie'a-service took him into all western waters; the Mississippi, the Tennessee, the. Red, - the Ouachita, tho Atchafalaya. But th Missouri was his first and last love. The first bust to Fort Benton. Morit 2.2S6 mile from j St. Louis, In . 185S; Captain Masule made ' his first trip thither In 1S81. He afterwards mad many trips. It is probable that there are still In St. Louis survivors of the party, of 435 passenger who went with him to the head of navigation on the steamer Twi light.. All th meat that was eaten on that trip the captain kMledbuffalo, caught, while swimming th river, with the noose, and hauled on board by means of the derrick-fall., In 1867 the captain brought seventeen live buffaloes to St. Louis, which were captured In the same way. Captain Mausle took the Mormons from Nauvoo, IU., to Council Bluff on their way to Great Salt Lake. "I knew 'em all," he was viont to say, "Brlgham Young, Orson Pratt. Hsber Kimball. I've danced with, their wivt many a time on the grass;" He landed th first passengers ever-, put ashor from, a steamboat where Omaha now stands. ' ' Thirty-eight thousand dollaru was the sum "cleaned tip" by him In one season In the golden days of the Montana trade. Our Birthday Book rtbruary 3, 1910. Hudson Maxim, the big Inventor, cele brate his birthday 4odar. He was born at Ornevllle, Me., February t, m and ha been helping to preaerve the peaca by de vising engines of war. 1 Porter J. McCumber, senator from North Duiiula, tui torn February X i Crete, III. II Is known mostly for the association of his nam with pur food legislation. Bamuel M. Pelton, the well known rail way man, la 67. H ha a Jong list of Im portant position In various railroad that he ha filled sine. Ii started out a rod man in 1WS. Dr. Herbert E. King, th rising young dentiat offlclng In th Be building, was born February t, 1X82,. at Sandy Lake, Pa. He want through th high school at Fremont and attended th University of Nebraska, graduating five year ago lu dentistry from th Omaha Dental college. Washington Life gom Interesting Fnase and Condition Observed at th nation's Capitol. A bouquet of half-tones In th Phila delphia Public Ledger groups the mort picturesque members of th "Inaurgent party" In the national capital, accom panled by breesy persons! notes by way of explanation. Senator Norrls Brown of Nebraska has a conspicuous picture in the bunch, posed at his desk In a studious attitude, evidently contemplating what th fates hav In store for his sixteenth amendment. The writer say of him: v Senator Norrls Brown of Nebraaka is one of the able and companionable Insurgent who Is capable of saying fiery things with tremendous vehemence. But for all the cutting things he believe It Is In th Hn of hi duty to say nt times, privately hs ha admitted that It I most distasteful to him to be compelled to hurt the feel ing of th other fellow. When the exasperating tariff session was nearlng Its close a friend of th Ne braskan said to him: "Senator Brown, - what sort of sTlon did you put inT Uld you enjoy it hugely T" Thl. of coufse, was a direct reference to many spirited tongu lashings that Broun as an Insurgent had dealt th reg ulars. "On th Contrary," repllad tho senator, In a confidential way and with a serious look that could not be denied, "It wa the lonesomest session of my life, and I'm heartily glad It's over." H. like Uoverldge and Nelson and his fellow Nebraskan, Senator Burkett and, in fact, a majority of tho Insurgents are self-made men. Burkett, who is only 42, and, therefore, to be numbered among the youngest senators from the beginning of that body, Is reminiscent In appearance of Buchanan, both In body and counte nance. A a member of the house he gained the reputation of being a sort of watchdog of the treasury, and that he Is conscientious aa a senator' hi bitterest rivals hav been heard to admit. Talk about th complication of life Uncle Sam has hi troubled. Interesting facts are gleaned from th blue book of 1S0S, which has Just been !snei by the Census department. Th number of fed eral worker on the government payroll la now rapidly approaching 400,000, which rep resents a JO per cent Increase In about two years. The Treasury department leads with an enrollment of almost 7,000 persons, and Secretary MacVeagh ha the largest pay roll of any cabinet official. Over 131.000,000 ar paid to 28,000 persons In Washington, averaging a little over $1,000 each. This will be increased during the coming year by the 3,000 people to be added to th Census department, which will soon evap orate the additional appropriation of S&, 000.000. All other states and territories take a back seat in th rear of the national capital when It come to th enjoyment of Unola Sam' payroll, when compared to th District of Columbia. Resident of this area receive over 27,000,000 of th budget; New York follows with a compensation for governmental service aggregating a little over 23,000,000. Arlsona la th most modest In the sisterhood of state In regard to the money received, aa her official only re ceive a total of 125,000. Strange to say, the executive department of the government does not stand high on the payroll or in regard to the number of persons employed; only forty-three person all told are en gaged in attending to the business and personal: affairs of the president of xthe United . States... and the executive depart--ment of the "greatest nation on earth," as Barnum would say it. The life of a senator is not always quiet and without excitement; especially Is it so of a new senator, and until he gets used to the many little kinks of a senator's everyday program, he is often Jarred and sometime positively frightened. In the room of the senate office building, among the many wrinkles that thos rooms con tain. Is a bell which rings for a call of the senator, and executive session, ad journment, etc. A new senator, who was spending his, first day In hi luxurious quarter writing to th' folk at home, was startled by three rings of the bell. The senator Jumped up, grabbed his hat and coat, and made a bee line for th door. "Hey, senator, what's the matter?" called out his clerk, who, by the way, has been there some time. "The building Is on fire. Didn't you hear the fire bell?" "Come back, senator, that Is th signal for executive session." The new solon wont back and resumed his writing, but very reluctantly. The most conspicuous opponent of Sen ator Aldrlch In the tariff struggle, re lutes the National Magazine, was Jona than P. Dolliver of Iowa, but despite that senator' wit, eloquence and undisputed talent he found himself outnumbered in the votes which carried the bill through to a brilliant finish. Senator Dolliver Is a born orator and seldom writes an ad dress, preferring to deliver It straight from the shoulder In massive periods. He more closely approaches the giant stature of Webster In this respect than any man now on the floor in th senate. The Iowa boys always remember Jonathan P. Dol liver as a popular speaker, though he in sists that his speeches "ar written out In the agony of toll, under the beat and glare of the gas Jet." The' son of a Methodist minister. Sen ator Dolliver entered early upon a politi cal career; he had th old-fashioned way of using anecdotes to Illustrate his points, which was then considered effective, though b may have changed his style with the times. He Is one of the orators who frankly admit that they "like to talk," a taste he thinks he may have Inherited from his father and grandfather the latter a Massachusetts seafaring man, whose cargo of cotton during the war of 1812 was confiscated by General Jackson. If he had hi grandson's eloquence It is probable that he mado some remarks 4hat would have been worthy of preservation. When preaohlng on a large circuit 1 Vir ginia, and often riding 200 mile In a week, Mr. Dolllver'a father met the woman who became hi wife, and that I the reason that the senator halls from West Virginia and was educated at the state university there, y After his graduation, at th age of 17, th young man decided to migrate to Illi nois. He tell tnus of thl first western visit: "Standing In the railway station of Co lumbus, O., a policeman tapped me on the shoulder and with a warning glance said: . , . " 'Kou have Just been talking, my boy, with on of the . most dangerous pick pocket In the United States.' " 'Ono of the mowt dangerous pickpock et In th United State has been talking to a country boy who has not a red cent to his name,' was my reply." Tho Congressional Directory contains autobiographic of all th member of Congress, reports th Washington Herald, some of them highly entertaining, but possibly there 1 non mors Interesting than that of th newly appointed sena tor from Mississippi, James Gordon. Sen ator Gordon unblushlngly admits that V'.rr- .- " -: ksz .... MDh Lttabhahed in 1837 rV1( NationahisJ i.n 1863, Charter No, 20? '7 TIlIS DANK IS 53d IN ITS . During , all this, time it has. commanded the confident of the people. This confidence Is still evidenced by : the, dalty opening of new accounts and the constantly increasing volume of business. ' ' : ", V '? ii Your account is Invited. wnn u I M i- -in, h Is the author of a book of poems. In cluding "The Old Plantation" and several others. The senate' has been without a self-confessed poet sine th expiration of th term of Senator Thurston, author of "Oh, Rose, Red Rose," and other effusions. Colonel Gordon served with J. E. B. Stuart in the Civil war and iKor raised a regi ment of cavalry, which he commanded. Having beejj sent to Europe on a diplo matic mission In 1SA4, he sailed Into Wil mington, N. C on his return, wholly un conscious that Fort Fisher had fallen, and was promptly taken prisoner. He escaped, fled to Canada, and while there was sus pected of complicity In th plot to assaa slnat President Lincoln, but he surren dered to General Dlx. proved his Inno cence to that commander and received from him a passport, enabling him to re turn to his horn. He waa disfranchised for ten years because of his service In the legislature of 1857. He later served . In the legislature from 1878 to 1S86 and In the state senate In 1894 and 1906. PERSONAL NOTES. It I noted as a remarkable feature of the Seine flood, that while water has In vaded cathedrals, , museums, place of bus iness, and so on, it has not touched the stock exchange. '' Clgarmaker strikers at Cincinnati are marrying so fast a to injure the pros pects of .their cause. Strange that young wumen out of Jobs should feel competent to undertake the support of husbands. The Brooklyn tenof who ha endowed his wife In order that she may get a divorce and set up housekeeping as the wife of another man; Is living up to the generous traditions of his profession. A Pittsburg prophet who had ventured the prediction that the end of the world would . oome last Friday, when he found the world refused to budge, made good as far as possible by blowing out his brains. , ...... ' . Prof. Starr of th , University of Chi cago Is delighted to know that ex-President Roosevelt ha maintained his good health through all his adventures in the Jungle, although the professor I thus de prived : of th opportunity of saying triumphantly, "I toJl -yoo-eol"--' j The Economy club 'of New York' man aged to dispose of a 25 a plate dinner last Friday night. ' In the '" afterglow bf the feast several of the talkative members expressed deep sympathy for the people whom' the Meat Trust has lured from porterhouse to ohuck steak. ' An Investigation Prophecy. Pittsburg Dispatch. A- prophecy . I heard from Washington that at the present rat, of progress the Baltlnger-Pinchot Investigation will last about nineteen years. By the end of that time the Investigators will have forgotton the first part of the evidence, the dispute ants Will be dead or out of office, and the people' will glady consent to forget the whole muss. Which may be satisfactory to some concerned, but is not calculated to evoke favorable Judgment from the public In the Interim. . .. . v , An Army Peril. Indianapolis' Is'en s. With the new.rules . which prohibit up per class .BWeijf. . Pointers- from bullying lower clansmen It is rather difficult to see how the whole bunch of them Is going to avoid- becoming mollycoddles. sr N O heed to worry about the cost of living when you catibuy vampucii 5 OUUJJ3. i y , During the past year the cost of all food products has been steadily rising to a tre mendous figure. But the price as well ast the quality of these rich' pure nourishing soups remains the same. 1 . : ; Nowhere can you buy so much, food value for the money as in You could not buy such fresh prime meats y and poultry and fresh selected vegetables as -these soups contain, for several times the -price. Even if you used only left-overs the soup would cost you more than Campbell's. Our exclusive condensing: process preserves all the natural flavor and nutritive properties of these choice , ingredients. And every can makes twice its volume, of the richest most satisfying soup you ever tasted. . If you don't think so, the grocer returns your money. 21 kinds O. T.lt IuWm lom.,0 Chlckn V.cul,l Houtilua AMMi.Kta LmmiiM rrtnuitl'f Mok Turtl Clua C !.,., rt et Ctea SoMlltas . MuIIijuw ViiukelU TomM Ch Ouaitw (Okra) Just add hot water, bring to a boil, and serve.' Shall we tend you Campbell's Menu Book? Free. Josiph Campbell Company Camden N J Tfcfc raws pi I smom, - to vH IMMMT, th m ft OMrMi'f Ad hm Hi slvfHM Look for tli ft rff1 " " t 7 ' ' -1 - at Kountze liros.' YEAR 9 - ' sm m I t-- -----r- 1 i I its CHEESY CHAD?. "Those' Two statesmen are so angry they won't speak." .. "Well,'' answered. Kctiator Sorghum, "that's better than "startm; a ountre verry," Washington Star. ! "Ht-'a an honeef" man; Isn't he "Scrupulously. - Het vegetarian by prin ciple, but he started eating meat this week for fear that the strike was- going to glv the poor retailer the Worst of IW-dev-lond Leader. , ,t Grocer Well, 1 Mr. Dorklns, ' how are you feeling over this Idea, of boycotting all meat products? Customer Perfectly reckless, Brtggs; per- fOtlt, PMiklna. 2 ( K-. ... . f A - .. . dried codfish. Chicago- Trlbune...y "I am shocked to lenrn that sotne of my ancestors wore wooden shoos," said the gilded youth. . r "And I am shocked." re-piled hi father, "to see some of their decndants revers ing tho order by being blockheads." Chi cago Record-Herald. . ... "One good thing about an' aviation part nership ! tbs.t t.h prrnr in h ascen sion could never quarrel." -n.- . "Why couldn't they , as well as other people?'' "Simply In the nature of thing they could not afford .to fall out." Baltimore American. .,, .... . Mis Elder The Idea of his pretending that my hair was gray., ,.-! Mis Peppery Kid Iculou! Miss Klder-Wasn't tt. thoughf Miss Peppery Yea, Just as if you'd buy gray hair. Catholic Standard and Time. "What sort of breakfast food do you find the best?" '.-.-. "Well," replied th well nourished cltl sen. "I haven't run across Anx-thlnf vat that bents bacon and eggs, though sausage and buckwheats afford a pleasant change OCCaAlnnnJIV Phltndplrthlu liimp . "Ever been locked up?" demanded' coun sel. . . "I have ben," admitted the wltnean, "Aha! And what had you been doing- to get yourself locked'up?" "I had been doing Jury duty." Pittsburg Post. THE NEW MOTHER GOOSE. Paul West In New York World. Hey diddle diddle! -To llv Is a riddle, . , For prices are high as the moon.. The Beef trust may laugh ' As It gives us the gaff, ' 1 But the meat strike -will settl It soon. My fat hen. my fat hen, .., , ... She lays fresh e'girs' Ventfeheri! H (i Ait But the price the gqnOemtxi have to pay Makes them crazier every day. Old Mother Hubbard, '- " - ' She went to the eupboard , To get her poor dog a bone; ( But It cost so much pelf 'S M That she ate it herslf. J And so the poor dog had none. Little Tommy Tucker ' Sang for his supper, ' '''- ' '" And though he sang to beat the Dutch, The price of meat was up so much That all the supper Tommy had Was crusts of bread, th poor young lad! There was en old woman who lived In a flat; She had so many children she didn't know where she was at; For food cost so much that they couldn't be fed. , : So she fed them on snowball and sent them to bed. ' - Twinkle, twinkle, little chop! Tell me when your price will drop: Like the stars up trt the sky, Just at present you're too high; : Old King Cole was a hungry old soul uh, a hungry old aoul wa hel He called for some steak and a bit of roast beef . . ," And he ordered -,lamb cutlets three; But, oh, when the butcher sent him th bill A -' Old King Cole became terribly 111! 10c a can Mi - nnrl - w hit liKel K f w I v 1 '; v; j -. J' Jit (