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TIIK BKK: OMAHA, TUWNHAY. KUmtUAlti t l'JlU. t 'Hie umaiia Daily Bee fOL'NDED BY EDWARD ROJEWATER victoH ROBBWATr.n. editor. F.ntered at Omaha puetotrice as seoond ;! matter. TTRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Pallr Bm (Including Sunosy), per week.IKe r)ly (without Pimny), Pr week lor Imlly Bee (without Sunday), on yeer..$ Dally Bm and dun?, on year DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Evening Be (without Sunday), per weak. Sc Framing Htm (with Sunday), per week., inn Ritna Rm am vv - ..II 60 Satarsy Bee, on year 1-W Address all romplatn of Irr gulatltiee in delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICE. Omena The Be Building. outh Omaha Twenty-fourth and N. Council Bluff 18 vtt Street. Lincoln 611 Little Building. Chicago IMS Marquette Building. Kew York Rooma 1181-1103 No. 84 Weat Thirty-third Street. Washington 724 Fourteenth Street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Common Ice Hop relating to new and editorial matter ihould be addressed; Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, ex preen or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only t-ewnt stamps received la payment of mall account. Personal check, except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. TATEMKNT OF CIRCULATION. Rtate of Nebraska. Daniel Cotinty. George B. Turhuck. treasurer of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly eworn, ay that the actual numter of full and romelate eootoa of Th Dally. Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of January. U10. waa aa follow: l M.449 it 48,eao J.......... 41,700 II 40,700 48,430 II 48,880 48,850 SO 42,860 1 48,400 it. 42,890 49,400 II 48,50 t 48,430 it 41,880 I .... 48,478 . t 48,800 41.TOO 25 43,440 1 48,880 If . . 48,080 11... , 48,480 . 17 48,890 It 48,800 21 43,850 It 43,400 It 48,880 14 48.480 19 41,400 II...... 48.ST0 II 48,870 J8. 41,77 Total 1.314.330 Rtturned conies,..., , 8,888 ' Net total Dally average. . ,. . , . ,l,S04,eU 43.873 Treasurer. Bubecribed in my presence and aworn to before me thla Slat day of January. 1S10. ROBERT HUNTER, " " Notary Public. . maeerlker leavta- the elty teav. overtly saoele have The Be aalled t tkea. A will be eaaa-4 aa often aa ratd. If every knock is a-boost, Mayor "Jim's" gubernatorial candidacy must bo going soma. Down easterners are experiencing another cold snap, while we are enjoy ing a balmy mid-winter atmosphere. The weather man usually arerages up. Rumor has It that Castro Is to re turn to Venezuela to stir up trouble. Castro ought to know enough not to sets the hot end of a poker the second time. The filings for places on the official primary ballot ( In Nebraska this year do not close' until next July. The po litical kaleidoscope can turn more than one before that time. The shirtwaist makers are said to be ready to go back to work Now it will be in order for mere man to in quire whether they are to be peek-a-boo or decollete this season. Local hotel keepers bare Joined a mutual organisation to protect them selves against bad-check artists. Won der why the men with phony paper always think the hotel men easy pick ing? The Ancient Order of Mikes, with former headquarters at Council Bluffs, seems to be having a turn of luck. The same , old game will be played over again Successfully somewhere as soon as another crop of suckers Is corralled. A painting by Millet called "Going to Work" has Just brought 153,000 at aactlon. If the great artist had only bethought himself to paint one on the theme "No Need to Work," it would doubtless sell at a record-breaker price. ' New York Is stirred up by another breach of promise suit In which $25, 000 Is demanded to balm the wounds. Our American Jurisprudence seems to be weak in not permitting a plea of contributory negligence In a case like this. Rural - mail carriers are officially notified to leave guns and game-bags at home while attending to their duties of mail delivery along tbelr routes. The rights of poetofflce patrons to exclu sive use of their own game preserves must be protected. ' Japan does not take kindly to the proposed neutralization of Manchuria. As viewed by the Japanese this would be altogether too much like fighting for a red apple only after getting it to have it taken away by some big boy who wsi looking on.' Mr, Roosevelt and his party has started out on a hard ten-day march over 108 miles of bad roads. At the conclusion .the ex president will prob ably feel more kindly toward the fat majors compelled by bis order to ride ninety miles In three days. Senator Raynor now says that there is no constitutional authority for con gress to establish postal savings banks. If anyone want to test the law in court the democratic senator from Maryland would doubtless be ready to find a lawyer to accept a retainer. While, about enlarging and improv ing Omaha' Union station, why can not something be doae to facilitate transit between the two passenger sta tions that are separated only by a apace devoted to trackage! A subway between Jbese two stettons Is no more then what the traveling public is enti tled to, The Kext Senate. The Wsshlngton correspondent ot the Dcston Transcript reviews In his paper the Impending contests for sena torial seats in a way that throws light on both the personality and geography likely to be factors In the result. . He calls attention to the fact that the United States senate is so organized that at no time can a majority; of Its members, or more than one-third, In fact, go out of office, which method of renewal makes it a continuing body In more senses than one. Regular sena torial terms expire on the 4th of March, which ends the short term of every congress, and next March when congress suspends its session until the following December, thirty senators would ordinarily retire to private life, If not In the meantime re-elected. This time, unless the Mississippi legislature ends its deadlock, there will be two additional seats to fill by reason ot vacancies created by death, making thirty-two In all, of which seven be long to the democratic side and twenty five to the republican side. The states which will send representatives to the next senate with new commissions to succeed republicans last elected are; California. New York, Connecticut, Nevada, Delaware, North Dakota (2), Indiana. Ohio, Maine, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts. Rhode Island, Michigan, Utah. Minnesota, Vermont, Missouri, 'Washington, Montana, Weet Virginia, Nebraska, Wisconsin, New Jersey, Wyoming. The last political balance sheet for the senate showed up sixty republicans and thirty-two democrats, with a re publican majority of twenty-eight, so that to wrest control from the repub licans the democrats would have to gain fifteen out of these twenty-five seats. While the Transcript man does not indulge in figures or forecasts, his analysis of the situation in the various states which are to choose senators indicates that the democrats will be highly fortunate if they succeed in getting away from the republicans five or six of the places to be filled. The democrats have one advantage in this, that those states now represented by democrats which will choose United States senators are of the solid south, and the republicans stand no chance to make Inroads on the democrats except on the cne appointive senatorshlp from North Dakota. It may be put down, therefore, .hat nothing short of a political cataclysm will change the, political complexion of the next United States senate to the extent of converting the present demo cratic minority into a working ma jority. - Two Severe Indictment. Two severe indictments of demo cratic control in Nebraska have Just come from two different sources, both of which profess to be democratic, al though discrediting one another. In his Columbus . Telegram Edgar Howard denounces the repudiation by Governor Shallenberger of the pledge in the last democratic state platform to convene the legislature in extra' ses sion. "The editor ot the Telegram," he declares, "was a member of the platform committee of the last state convention," and continues: Certain Influencea Induced the commit tee to write a platform embodying the re quest to Governor Shallenberger to call a pedal aeaalon of tha legislature. The ed itor of the Omaha World-Herald waa also a member of that platform committee. When tha proper time arrived for the car rying out of the platform strangely enough some of the men who helped write the doc ument began efforts looking to Its repudia tion. The World-Herald waa tha prime leader of the work of repudiation Gov ernor Shallengerger has listened to the voice of the repudlators. Judge Howard insists that he may be, perhaps, a little old-fashloried, but his old-fashioned democracy still holds that an individual or a political party Is bound by every dictate ot honor to make good every promise. The other Indictment oomea from our amiable democratic contemporary, the World-Herald, which shows up in true colors tha viciousness of the open primary and the blanket primary bal lot saddled on Nebraska by the late democratic legislature. The open pri mary, it assures us, is a great help to machine bosses and professional spoilsmen in politics by giving them an opportunity to mass their forces in either party as they deem it necessary. It also gives the members of one party an opportunity to foist weak candidates upon the ticket ot the opposing party. "And the two objections, taken to gether, combine into this overwhelm ing one that in a government by par ties it leads to the breaking down ot party lines and go to the destruction of party responsibility." . This is Just what the democratic governor and leg islature ot Nebraska did when they emasculated the salutary provisions of the closed primary law which bad been put on the statute books by the repub licans. , Tet the democratic repudlators will have the hardihood to ask to be con tinued in power in Nebraska as an en dorsement of their record. An interior Nebraska paper com plains of the Inadequate , distribution of the members of the supreme court, declaring that, "under present condi tions the largest area of tha stste, con taining 40 per cent of the population, Is unrepresented on the supreme bench." That Is nothing when It is remembered that until ; this year Omaha and Douglas county, which pay about one-eighth of the state revenues and furnishes a still larger proportion of the Utlgstlon, has bad ao one on the supreme bench for nearly thirty years. There has never !:' any rule of geo- 1 graphical dUtributiuu lu Nebraska for members of the supreme court, and It Is doubtful whether a forced geograph ical distribution would Improve the character or standing of the court. Workmen' Compensation. The Sabath bill to change the fed eral employers' liability law by abolish ing the defenses of contributory negli gence, comparative negligence, fellow servant's responsibility and assumption of risk, which is now pending before the house Judiciary committee, Is in response to a growing Uemand for the lellef of workmen from the conse quences of dangerous vocations. In its operation, it it should become a law, It can apply only to Interstate common carriers, over whom a lone congress has power of regulation. This limita tion merely emphasizes the difficulties In the way of such reform under our dual form of government. The matter must ultimately come to the several states for settlement, and uniformity of legislation on the point is well nigh despaired of by those who have given it most consideration. At the conference called at Atlantic City last summer by the Minnesota Commission on Workmen's Compensa tion, a number of interested employers, Insurance agents, philanthropists and economists discussed the general topic broadly and in detail. No one avoided the fact that at present the methods of compensating workmen for injuries or their heirs in event of fatal accident, pursued under laws of the United States and the separate states, are most unscientific, and that both em ployer and employe suffer from the injustice. Cases wherein a Jury has returned a verdict for an exorbitant sum for injury or an equally ridiculous moiety or nothing for death, wherein courts have given the law what seems to be an uneven twist, wherein techni calities have served to prevent re covery, and similar instances can be multiplied in telling to support the general conclusion. But the net re sult of the conference at Atlantlo City was that until more uniform legisla tion can be had in the states little will be accomplished to relieve the situa tion. But the case Is not altogether hope less. In many of the states earnest effort Is being made to secure more equitable laws for tne protection of workmen. "Employers' liability" has been abandoned for the newer term of "workmen's compensation," thus ad mitting the right of the workman to remuneration for accident Nebraska has already done away with the $6,000 limit of damages in case of death, and has abolished the fellow servant and contributory negligence doctrines as absolute defenses to recovery so tar as common carriers are concerned. These and similar causes may' now be pleaded only in mitigation and not in extenua tion in personal injury, suite in Ne braska. In Illinois, Wisconsin, Minne sota and other states workmen's com pensation laws that will work Justice to both, employer and employe are being urged. Haste will not help in achiev ing the desired result, but the move ment towards the remedy Is steady and in many ways satisfactory. The desire to do justice Is so strong that the rem edy is sure to be found in season. Working for World Peace. There are more forces today work ing for world peace than at any pre vious time since the dawn of history. Not all of these forces are enlisted with that particular purpose in view, for many of them have other prime ob jects, whose accomplishment, however, will Inevitably create new ties that bind and raise new obstacles to the furies that would break asunder. The letters written by President Taft, Secretary of State Knox and former Secretary of State Root to the newly organised American Society for the Judicial Settlement of International Disputes all go to show the trend of sentiment among those who occupy responsible positions in favor of the substitution of peaceful arbitration for the gage ot battle. It goes without saying that the Judi cial settlement' of international dis putes will only come when the people of all the great nations insist upon arbitrament by some tribunal as The Hague court. In other words, the movement must be a peaceful one and the outcome of a development of pub lic opinion that will make war a last resort after all means of Judicial deter mination shall have been exhausted. The crux of the whole question is to be found in the enforcement of a Judi cial decree upon the nation that loses, which, if not backed by a big army and navy, .must represent an irresistible public opinion. The total abolition of war may yet be far removed, but such adjudication as Is proposed and the creation of International courts of arbitration must make resort to war tor trivial causes of rare occurrence, and may eventually prove a complete preventive. . Omaha could take care of a national aero meet so far as the physical re quirements of starting grounds and gas supply go as well as any other ctty in the country. If Omaha's claim proves to be too late for consideration this year the foundation should be laid tor renewing it another time. Marconi, the Inventor ot the wire less, is in Canada supervising the com pletion of a wireless station at Cape Breton to replace the one burned down. It la to be hoped he will not get his matrimonial wires crossed again as be did on a previous visit to this side ot the Atlantic. The so-called can trust has taken over a new plant Ktjrh last year turuei out 7,uUO.u00 ctu and will continue Its operations with Increased capacity. Some enterprising hustler should undertake at once to Increase the supply of billy goats If we are to be saved from a surfeit of accumu lated cans. According to Edgar Howard, the real thing in the insurgent line Is Tay lor of Custer, only he Is a democratic Insurgent instead of a -republican in surgent. The democratic papers, how ever, that are whooping It up for re publican insurgents have no words of encouragement for this democratic In surgent. Omaha has a bright outlook for building operations for the coming year which should not be marred by labor troubles at this early stage. If labor disputes do not frighten off some of the projected improvements there will be work enough for all When the buildings already planned are started And now Senator Flint of California makes public bis decision to quit the United States senate and go home to make money. If this becomes con tagious the senate will, before long, become a refuge and retreat for folks who cannot earn as much as a sena torlal salary In any other way. So Soon, Wall Street Journal. Manila Is breasting the foremot barrier of civilisation. A. recent election there ha been followed by disclosure of widespread fraud and bribery. Diligence for No. 1. New fork Sun. It must add to the stern joy with which everybody pays hi bills nowadays to see that our patriot heroes In congress are pondering the cause of high prices with an eye single to "campaign material" and party advantage. -I- What Neatf Philadelphia Pre Ho there Is a breakfast food combine also. That scoops us In -on ell three meal. With vigilance we may be able to prevent the formation of a bed trust, but we doubt it. Tooth brushes may come next. Then keep an eye on your socks. I Jnat Drop la. Boston Transcript. President Taft'a invitation to the mem bers of the Washington Presa club to drop In to see him, although ha might not re member the names of all of them, recalls the alleged remark of, a former president to one of his persistent visitors: "I re member you, but I cannot place you!" 1 A Melancholy Ben-Inning. Philadelphia Record. The year Is starting out with an alarm Ing number of mining, catastrophes, which Indicate little progress In applying the known meana of prevention. The causes of explosions are pretty well understood, but the miners are careless, and the owners and the state official, are often negligent in enforcing the regulations. It la not ad ditional knowledge ' that Is needed In the United States so, much as It Is Increased falthfulnesa and persistence In the applica tion of what is" perfectly well known to all persons familiar' '(wl.h mines, , . . . .. i. '', ' ' ' ' i ' s JIM mvt? WISE TIP. " ' Kaock oa the Telephoae aa a Marketing: Agent. I Indianapolis News. The belief expressed by Mr. James J. Hill that people would'save money by going to the grocery and making a careful selection of their 'purchases' instead of ordering by telephone) Is- entirely reasonable. And not only would' they save money, but they would live bettor. 'At the home end of the telephone line there Is nothing to suggest the possibilities that the grocery offers. It Is difficult to think of things to eat except the things that the family has been in the habit of eating. The result la that the ' diet of the people who regularly do their grocery ' ordering by telephone is likely to become pretty monotonous. But a personal vlBlt to tha grooery In duces a very different state of mind. There Is a wealth of Variety from which to choose, all temptingly displayed. Then the difficulty is not to think of something different, but to make a choice among the many different things that are desirable. Furthermore, there Is possible the selec tion of particular article out of many of the same variety, and so getting a better quality. ( There is also the bargain chance. Prices, especially of fresh vegetables, fluctuate more or lesa. What was entirely too dear yesterday may be within reach of the family purse today. The result is that the family larder is often enriched by something that may really be considered an unusual delicacy because it chance to be quoted 'lower than usual at the time the marketing is done. There Is also the element of keeping the,. grocers up to the standard of quality and Cleanliness by personal Inspection of their places. One cannot help but suspect realising that grocers are human that grooerles would be sorry looking places If everybody did the marketing by tele phone and nobody ever saw the grocery except the grocer and his clerk. Our Birthday Book rebruary 8. 110. Will J. Davis, the theatrical manager. was born February S. 1847. He Is a native of Michigan, but a fixture In Chlaago, where he received a lot of notoriety In connection with the Iroquois theater fire. Albert C. Kugel, the member of the Omaha city council from the Tenth ward, s 33. He ts a plumber by trade, and was once city plumbing inspector, to aay noth ing of filling all the high offices of the local Plumbers' union at different times. Rev. W. 8. Dyett, pastor of St. John's African Methodist church in Omaha, Is ceUbratlng his 48th birthday. He was born In the West Indies. Bcn.iamln S. Baker, lawyer, was born February (, 1865, at Sabula, la., and gradu eted at the University of Iowa. Judge Uuktr practiced law first at Webster City, la., then at Falrbury, Neb., before locating in Omaha. He has been United Rtates at torney, judge of our district bench and Judge ot the supreme court of New Mcxloo. Harry O. Steel, now the general agent for the Northwestern Mutual L4fe Insur ance company, to which position he has Jit succeeded hi father, la an Omaha boy. He Is 14 year old today, Frederick K. ghlnrock, manager of the Qlencoe mills, was born at Bandusky, O., February 8. i860. He has been with the Olencoe mills since 1881 and represents their membership on the Grain exchange. Milton H. Glbba, manager for the Hoover ft Allison company, was born at Rlpon, Wis.. Kebrue ry l'l. He hus breu In the M-rt'nf; twine business fur a number of VcMI'S. Army Gossip Matter of Interest Oa and Back of the Firing Zdae Oleaned from the Army aad Wavy Register. The commissioner general of the army has Instructed the officers In charge of schools for cooks and bakers to prepare a course of Instruction and serlee of lec tures for the benefit of the militiamen who attend the Joint army and militia maneu vers at the various camps next summer. Last year this work proved of great value not only on account of the Instruction and the lectures, but by renaon of the demon stration under practical conditions of the value of army cooking end baking. A question before the War dp part met it last week was whether a retired army offi cer who Is assigned, with full pay and al lowances, to duty With the governor of a state, has the right to demand any addi tional pay from the state except for ex pense. The derision haa been made that an officer on duty with the militia Is In no position to demand anything from the state, except tha reimbursement of ex penses Incurred In the performance of his duties. It ts, of course, within the author lty of a state to make any allowance that is deemed Just and suitable, but an officer Is not In a position to demand anything In the way of pay of the state with the or ganised militia of which he Is assigned to duty. The vacancies In cadetshlps at West Point are becoming something of a prob lem for the military authorities. The house military committee, which will shortly take up the bill for the Increase of the corps of cadets, which has been reported from the senate military commit tee, will look Into the question. There are rooms for 7I cadets at Went Point and mess facilities for 744, and there are now SH3 cadets besides five foreigners at the institution. The vacancies are due to fail ure of nominees tq report for examina tion. For Instance, in the examination I which was held on January 11, thirty-six principals and stxty-nlne alternates, a total of 106, failed to report. Lant year lis men failed to report for examination. Colonel H. L. Scott, ths superintendent of the Military academy, haa Just made a recommendation to the War department for examinations on February 23 to fill 160 vacancies whloh exist after the examination of January 11. Some consideration Is given to the plan of allowing the president to flit vacancies to which appointments are not made by rep resentative and senators. , A clause in the army appropriation bill as It passed the senate will. If It la adopted by the house, have the effect of retiring aa major generals five brigadier generals when they are, by operation of law, trans ferred from the active list. This clause is an amplification of a bill originally intro duced in behalf of Brigadier General Wil liam L. Marshall, chief of engineers of the army. It was so worded as to extend the proviso in the army act of March 3, 1907, to Include "any officer or veteran of the civil war now serving as a brigadier gen eral on the active list of the army, who has been a brigadier general for a period of not leaa than one year, and who has rendered to the government distinguished service of a civil character." The clause In the army bill, now to be submitted to conference, extends this provision "so as to Include any .officer who served credit ably, either a an offjeer pr enlisted man, in the regular bt'y volunteer 'forces of the United States during the civil war, and who la now and has been for a period of not less than one year serving as a brigadier general on the active list of the army and who, at data of retirement, will have served In the army more than forty years." This applies, of course, to General Marshall and, as well, to Brigadier Generals Earl D. Thomas, Charles Morton, Charles L. Hodges and Daniel H. Brush. The urgent necessity of recalling officers of the army .from detached duty continues to be the subjeot of special consideration on the part of the secretary of war. As has already been t.ed In these col umns, General Bell has made a report con cerning the possibility of relief In the direction of the military colleges where are on duty some 100 officers of the active list whom It is proposed to detach from that duty at the close of the present ochool year and order them back to their respec tive commands. Thla will be the mora necessary In view of the prospect that there win be no remedial legislation adding to the number of commissioned officers of the army. There is no encouraging sign of the enactment of the extra officers' meas ure. In addition to withdrawing officers from college duty some Inquiry has been Instituted at West Point to see whether officers there on duty might be relieved. For this purpose the War department sent Brigadier General J. G. D. Knight to the Military academy and that officer has re ported to the War department that every officer there is absolutely needed. There Is work to do for every one of the eighty nine officers, either as Instructors or In military duties. This list of eighty-nine officers does not Include the eight pro fessors and one acting professor. The sub ject of the employment of these officers at West Point cam up In the hearing of the superintendent of the Military academy before the house military committee, where there was evidently the impression that some of the officers on duty at West Point might be spared. General Knight's report, however, settles that question so far as the military authorities are concerned. PERSONAL NOTES. It seems that A. Conan Royle has been robbed of a large amount by a dramatic agent. Where , was Sherlock Holmes all tha time this was going on? John H. Jones of Pittsburg, head of the Pittsburg-Buffalo company, ha been In sured for 11.000,000, payable to the company, which has Insured the lives of all Its of ficers. A Harlem woman, who has just died, left a sum for the support of her dogs, but not to be adjudged partial, she It ft an equal sum for the support of her hus band. John G. Carlisle, secretary of the treas ury under the late President Cleveland, who has been III in St. Vincent's hospital, In New York, Is so much Improved, it was said at the hospital, that he Is able to be us and to take short exercise In the cor ridors. Daniel l. Whitney, ex-mayor of Brook lyn, celebrated til ninety-first birthday Monday by putting In as hard a day work aa the average business man consid ers necessary. Dee pit the excitement of an active Ufa In business and pontics, Mr. Whitney has never known even a rheu matic pain. Living for eighty-six year In the house In which ho'was born. In New York, where he died after a three-day Illness, Mr. Richard Lee assisted In erecting the court house In City Hall park, which waa built during the regime of "Boss" Tweed, was proud of the dlntlnrtlon of not having missed mass in the old St. Patikk's ca thedral. . 'V v Established in 1837 aa Kountxt Bros. Nationalized in 1863, Charter No. 209 A bank which gives to every cus tomer and to every department that careful and thorough service which is the result of over 52 years of growth and experience. Our aa-FBTT DEPOSIT YAOXTS are fire and burglar proof. Boxes of various slses, from 83.00 per year up. FLOODS AND FORESTS. Wken Kxuert Dlsasrreo Who Shall Deride. Springfield Republican. The recent report of the head of the United Htates weather bureau ot the re lation bet reen- forest a and rainfall and seasons of flood was not based evidently on much study of French condition. Mr. Moore certainly minimized the evil effect of deforestation on the run-off of water sheds, saying In substance: "Floods are caused by excessive pre cipitation. At times spring floods occur from the rapid melting of unusually large quantities of accumulated winter snows, and, as Chittenden ha pointed out, such floods come oftener from the forest than from the open. "The run-off of our rivers Is not mate rially affected by any other faotor than the precipitation, except that the forest, by facilitating evaporation and entirely restraining small or moderate rainfall dur ing dry weather, may slightly intensify low-water conditions." How Inadequate such a treatment of the subject may be now appears from the floods in the River Seine. The explana tion of the calamitous run-off In the Seine watershed given by a leading French scl entlat should be studied In close connec tion with Mr. Moore's views: "EUenne Stanislaus Meunler, the emi nent geologint, considers the phenomenon to be more of a geological than a meteoro logical nature. After explaining the action and reaction of the water in the strata below the surface, he declares that the soil of the entire basin of the Seine and the other big rivers of France had become imperceptibly filled to the point of com plete saturation during the preceding three months of gentle rains with moderate tem peratures, which . retarded evaporation. When the heavy rains came last week the ground was absolutely impermeable, and the water ran off aa if from a cement floor, M. Meunler's conclusion Is that the power given to an area of country to take cafe of the water, outside of considerations as to natural soil. Is measured by the evaporation energy per acre. As the trees draw the moisture from the soil, permit ting evaporation," this ' energy-Ms ''proper' tlonal "to' the number of leaves. Conse quently reforestation Is the only natural remedy." In Mr. Moore's opinion, reforestation could but "slightly" reduce flood condi tions; in M. Meunler's, reforestation is the only natural remedy. Of course, floods are Inevitable anywnere under certain con ditions, whether the watershed be timbered or bare of trees, but there Is a vital dif ference In floods. The floods to be pre ferred are those which do not lay waste lands and cities worse than an Invading army. , AN UNEXPECTED CHANGE. North Dakota Glvea Senate and Coun try a Sorprlse. New York Tribune. Perhaps no one "drops In" at the White House, but that ts not true of the senate. The advent of the new senator from North Dakota was certainly the most casual In many years. The senate waa surprised when a total stranger came in with some informal writing from the governor of his state and demanded a seat. No one was aware that the seat was vacant up to the moment when the new senator arrived to claim It. The chief wonder is that the senator came from the west, whence new members are wont to arrive with the sound of many voices, the roar of multitudinous press agents and the thunder of applauding chau tauquaa. Before one of them haa crossed the boundary of his own state on the way to the capltol his features are as familiar to the country as. those of a patent medi cine "example," and "views" upon every thing under the sun have covered acres of white paper. His name la a household word. Though nine persons out of every ten In the street could not for their lives tell the namea of ten senators actually in the sen ate, every one In, tthe country knows the name of the new senator from the com mon wealth" west of the Mississippi which ever one It is the maiden name of his Most Women Prefer Yellow Soap THEY FREFEK t boll tKalr clothes. . THEY PKEFEH to d a lot of things -which eomo manufacturers of laundry soap aay ar '"old-fashiona-d". ' PERHAPS thoy aro. BUT AS THE YELLOW-SOAF. boll-thclotho. way sooras to suit. It la Just as wall to lot tt alone. MEANWHILE, It will do no harm to aay that there- aro "yellow" soaps and yellow "soaps". Price considered, the beet km Lenox. IT-DOES AS GOOD WO Bit as soaps that cost very much merei and very much better worh than eoape that sell for very little less. Lenox Soap-Just fits the hand i8! wife, the names and age of all their chil dren, together with, the pedigree of the new statesman's bull pup.' If he Is discreet his hand' Is not visible In the beating of the tomtoms. ' If he Is not, he makea the noise and manipulates the spot light openly himself. - . Perhaps, like the Hon. Jeff Davis, he even Invites the attention of the country by promising his constituents to, enter the senate cham ber " in his stocking feet, shaking bis boots In the face of the old guy on the rostrum." In this age of publicity it la a pleasant surprise to have a western, senator "drop in" unannounced. We hope more will do It. CHEERY CHATF. "Yee, the professor says we can all rive for 39 cents a .day by confining ourselves to some form of oernmeal." j "Has the professor tried it?" "Mercy, no! His stomach I too delicate to digest hearty food." Cleveland Plain Deal or. A physician, upon opening the door of his consultation room, asked: "Who has been waiting longest?" "I have," spoke up the tailor) "I deliv ered your clothes threti weeks ago.'.' Argo- . nauc He I think your cousin has. ths most beautiful natural complexion in the world. he Uealous) How do you knowT You ve never seen It. Boston Transcript, f "Has the new automobile or the old-fashioned buirgy the best chance in courtship?" "Well, the automobile has 4 sparking plug." Baltimore American. T v. "Can you support my daughter In the style to which she has been accustomed?" "I could, but I'd hate to. You see I reaM love her." Cleveland Leader. Short I say, old man, can you. lend ma $10 for a few days? Long No; but J'll let you borrow all the) trouble I have. Short What do you. mean? . .- Long Well, that Is something I won't expect you to pay back. Chicago News. "I'm a little rusty on my Shapeaneare. What waa the trouble between the Mon tagues and the Capulets?" "Same old row. There was a love affair and each family thought Its offspring was marrying low." Louisville Courier-Journal. "My sister received shocking treatment at the hospital which waa o highly rec ommended to us." " v "Indeed. How did that happen?". ''She hHd, tQ have SPrUlcUon.,ot an, elec frlcarbattery.'BaJttmore' American. "So you and your husband are always quarreling?" said the family lawyer. Yes, answered the young woman. "What ao you quarrel about? " "I forget the sublect of the first qua?- h' Ing ever slncef rel. But we have been quarreling i over who was to blame for It." Washing-' ton Star. First Artist Well, old chap, how Is busi ness? Second ArtlBt Oh, splendid! Got a oora mlHHlon this morning from a millionaire. Wants his wife and children painted very badly. First Artlst'-W ell, you're the very man to do that. Life. Raynor Have you got to the point of do ing without beef yet? . Sliyne Not quite, but we're training down to It. Weok before last we' lived on chuck steak. Last week Wo bought nothing but beef hearts and kidneys. This week we are eating pickled tripe. Nex week, we'll be ready to tackle anything. Chicago Tribune. I HAVE ANOTHER. He's very apt -' ''' To hit the floor Who keeps on saying: i"Just one more." Birmingham Age-Herald. The sweetest words Of tongue or. pen: . , "Barkeeper, set 'Bm up again."' Philadelphia Telegraph. But In our town The saddest shock -Is this: "Get out. It's one o'clock." St.. Louis Star. If here 'twera .one Hub would be heaven. But Boston bar Close at eleven. Boston Traveler. What's this to Us? ' ' We have a wife And, therefore, Wad A blameless life. Chicago Record-Herald. A model, sure! Their like have we Who, after eight, Smile with cold tea. '