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. TILE EE: OMAHA, FRIDAY. rKMUIATtY 11. lOtn. The unUha Daily Bee. FOUNDED BY', EDWARD HOPEWATER. VICTOR ROAKWATF.fl. F.DITOR. Entered at Ofnaha poatitfflce second rlaas matter. V . .. ' , THTRMS OF" BtTPPCRIPTIOJ. Dally Bee (Including f iinday j; per werk.lnc Imtly Kee (without ftumiav), per week 10" filly Hee (without Hnndar). one yew. .MM Dally He, and Sunday, ona year DELIVERED HT CARRIER. Evening Hee (without Knnriev), per weak. Evening Hee (with Hundav), per week... 10c Sunday fcee. on year tioO Saturday Bee. one year l-M Addreea all romplalna of Irregularities In lellvery to City Circulation' Department. wrirR.1. Omaha The Ree Bulldftr. Fouth Omaha Twenty-fulh ana N. Council MuffalJ Rcott Strtet. Lincoln 6H Mule Building. Chicago 1M. Marquette lHldlng. New York Hwtms llM-lh'tf No. 34 Wt Thirty-third Street. Washington Fourteenth Street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and editorial matter ahould ' be addressed: Omaha Bee, Kdltorlal Department. ( RKMITTANCFJS. ' Remit by draft, express or poxtal crder pnyuble to The, Dee PiiblhihlnK Company Only I-cent etafnpn received In payment of mall accounts. Perannar rhecka. xept on Omaha or e-nh exchange, riot accepted. STATEMENT Or CIRCULATION. State of Nehraska, Dntiglai 'Cot; fit v. m. : Ueorge B. Tsaehuck. treasurer of Tha Bee Publishing Company, bv'ng duly sworn, saya that the actual lumincr of full and complete coplrai of Tho Dallv. M. m'na;. Evening and Hunflay Pee ritmtfd during the month cf JantiarV. 1910. was as follows: 1 43,440 17.,'.. 42,080 2 41,f00 II 43,700 I 4a,43Q 43,480 43,360 S 43,560 8 43,400 l 43.690 43,400 2).. 43,390 ' 43,430 21?. 41,950 S 43,470 14 43 600 41.T0O 25 43,340 10 43,890 S S -j 43,090 II 4.1,400 STtT. 48,690 ,a' 43.600 ft 43,850 1 43,400 2 43,eD0 14 43,460 80.....,... 41,403 15 43,470 81. ..;" 43.970 18 41.770 , , ,i Total .; 1.314.300 Returned copies W58 Net total..., 1,304,1 ally average. . . . . . 4a,: ,663 ,373 GliOJUJul 11. TZ8CHCCK. . . c.w . . l Treasurer, subscribed In hiy presence" And aworn to before me tlila lii day-of January, 131ft . ROUKRV MUNliSR, ,' Notary ir'ubtfv. naerleere -leavlug the city tesa porarlly should ' have The Bra walled to them. Addreea will he .. .. ol.e. a. ree.l.d. In these days of tho boycott, corned beef and scorned beef are one and the same thing. J Of course. Omaha wfiTliave clean streets, if the 'street commissioner; be comes a candidate for congress ; Three New Yorkers were . recently arrested for stealing a railroad bridge. They were sneak thieves, evidently. Night riders Jn Georgia must be run nlng out of something to do. They are now chasing negroes out of town for pastime. ' Mississippi legislators drew guns during a debajte in a, ; fecept.i Uflltedi States senatorial election. A disrup tion in the "Solid South?''. " Give the members of the Nebraska Schoolmasters' club credit for one thing standing staunchly by one an other whenever the Job. is imperiled. It might be .well for the yellows to keep the cuts of the Paris flood and use them in the spring when the Missis sippi and Ohio riyrs get, out of their banks. . ' i Stealing "fall teeth , U the latest Well, rata, padding, wigs, switches, paint and powder will be added to the list later if the,' prices of these necessi ties of life go skyrocketing. The chances yare that when .the se. ate committee , gets through with' its' Investigation o? the high cost of living the winter win -be over and the investi gation will be less necessary. After a long, and tedious investiga tion a wise easterner has reached the conclusion that! the number of times a man celebrates has no reference at all to the extent of his patriotism. Soon we are to have a court house cornerstone laying. Under modern methods of stiel-frame building con struction the cornerstone is set about the same time the roof is ready to be put on. I A constitutional convention will hardly be needed simply for a revision upward of the salary list of Nebraska's state omcers. Iwhen such a conven tion is finally Wdered it will have heavier work than that U .do. It Is a good, thing that,the man who shot up 'the little town.' of Adamg in this Btata u not elected sheriff when he made-" the race. He evidently has warped ideas of the cutfes and privi leges of both priyat .eitien and peace officer. ;f,Vf'V.ift'V ' If CongrfeSKHian. Ultchoock starts out on the senatorial race track with a 150,000 campaign "fund he ought to create at. least as. much fxcltement as did the 130.000 .reward hung up for the conviction of ' those Union Pacific train robbers:' 1 ' ' If Americans are a proud of their daughter, a thy say,, they .are, it might be Worth while- for them to see to it thai they require as much of for eign' suitors",' aa they do Of American suitors, in order that they may also be proud o their sons In-law. Rumor baa it that there la to be a change before long, (n the headship of the Iowa," State Agricultural college. The regeiKt-of the University of Ne braska wltr do well to take an inven tory of the meni'bVirs'of its faculty of agriculture and nail down any .loose planka. 'i - : : '' t Blaming it on the Farmer. In addition to the Investigation which is going on for the solution of the knotty problem of the present cost of living, a number of theorists are; busy with ,ugReMop o. ttie subject which deserve consideration. ..Perhaps the most ; unique .'-reason' advanced comes from no lets a person than Dr. Cyrus Townsend Brady, the author preacher of the Epfocopal church, who Insists that the farmer with his waste ful methods and waste land is to blame.' V . : Dr. Brady made the statement that the present, number cf farmers and the amount or. land farmed today are not sufficient readily to support the popu lation of the United States. Pointing to the people' of France, he remarks: "The reason why France has always een prosperous in spite of the terri ble calamities and horrible wars which have vlRtted that land Is' because every peasant is a farmer and a producer." When our nation became a republic over 90 per cent of the population tilled the soil. In 1861 barely 63 per cent followed the same occupation. In 1900 the percentage had fallen below 45 and at the present time It has less than 40. This means that 40 per cent of the population Is trying to do for the nation of today what 90 per cent did 125 years,ago. Tho apple crop for the year 1888 was 69,000,000 barrels and in 1998 23,000,000 barrels. This decrease of 48,000,000 barrels In twenty years is not a trifling matter. Add to this Item the great decrease In the production of maple sugar. . . pile of the main; hindrances to tho. rqforestrdUoh of the country, .accord ing to Qlffdrd Plachot, Is the fact that the farmers can not afford to plant treeg ,on their land when they can' get such, good prices fqr grains and..grin fatteheA beef and porki The farmer Is letting little land go to timber growth with wheat at $1 a bushel and corn above 60 cents moa! of the time. If the blame Is to be, laid, at tho door of the farmer, it can. only.be because he Is trying to do too much, f If the number of farmers '!s to b increased then more Intensified farming must be the rule, thus increasing the number of food producers proportioned 'to the number of those who have to be fed. This, from the standpoint of . Dr. Brady, is the only solution of the prop osition. But the farmer will answer, that he dees not sot the prices on his produce. The consumer, througn the commis sion man and the stock market,' does that. Whim the boycott was. declared the farmer war the first to feel it. The commission man stopped buying or lso cut prices and the farmer became the aggrieved Individual. Tho only way to solve the whole .problem, in the 'opinion of those who ought' to know, Is either tt. reinstate, the old equilib rium -hetweeh icost .of living .and Ju-J com e8 or readjust all conditions to the new and higher standard) of life. A Cane of Crocodile Tears. The action' of tlje State ' Normal board , In, votrng to dispense with the services of President Crab tree of the Peru Normal is. seized upon for a terrific- outcry- by ; the democratic World-Herald, which sheds great gobs of Inky tears over this great wrong for which the cruel1 partisanship of a republican board Is to be blamed. , We do not have' eafflclent knowledge of the merits of the case to pass judg ment on the question whether or not it Is for the good of the Peru Normal school to have a new head. But we are sufficiently familiar with the bablts of our amiable contemporary to' detect 'its' lamentations and tears to be of the crocodile variety. When it tries-to point an 'object lesson of the pernlclousness of inlltical manipu lation of educational fn'stltutlona, ,lt (s merely' using .good precepts with hich all agree, to cover up a con spiracy hatched in the late democratic legislature to -annx the- Normal schools to the democratic machine, which conspiracy happily failed, but for no fault of the democratic wire pullers. - ' .fc '' . '' Nebraska's Normal schools have for years been under control of a State Normal board, made up of seven mem bers, two, of tfiem elective state offi cers and Ave appointed ' by the gov ernor, so that one goes out each year. In the natural course of events through appointment - by the present democratic governor, the democrats would have secured adequate repre sentation on this board, and "if the democrats were continued In power In Nebraska long enough they would secure complete control of the board. But this slow process was not .fast enough, and so a bill was Introduced and passed legislating out of office altogether the 'existing Normal board and substituting-for It another board similarly constituted, but' with five of the seven members to be named anew by the present democratic governor. To get this bill and other partisan bills through, Governor Shallenbergor had to make a deal with a republican state senator, the. consideration being the appointment of the state senator to tte board In utter and open defiance of, the constitution, which expressly prohibits such appointment. i Only the Inability of the democrats to draw a law auid enact it In legal and valid form prevented the success ful consummation of this political as sault on the Normal schools. It. was whispered at Lincoln that if the demo crats succeeded In capturing the Nor mal board, President Crabtree of tho Peru Normal was to bo retained and the president of the Kearney Normal decapitated and bis place - and the places In the two "new Normal schools were to te g lv$a to "good democratic claimants. . The supreme court knocked out the new Normal board law, and the democrats "'who were counting on It to help them connect lth the pay roll found themselves holnt by their own petard hence these crocodllp tears. " Mine Tragedies. The Cherry mine disaster of a few months ago was followed by another horrible disaster at El Pnmero, Colo., still another at Drakesboro, Ky., and a fourth at Los Asparanxas. Then comes one Instance of a great disaster being prevented in King's Collier near Zanesvllle, O. Nearly three hundred lives lostbefore we have a single in stance of 'a disaster prevented. Are American people traveling so fast that the lives of men are cheaper than the cost of up-to-dato signaling apparatus, fire escapes and life-saving devices for workers below the surface? i In all of these four disasters the lack of signaling apparatus am well as means of escape have been woefully lacking. The more Is the pity. Sud denly to be cut off rrom life without even a knowledge of the approach of danger, without the possibility of es cape even if danger had been an nounced, is a condition horrible to con template. Something is wrong with our Industrial, world which no "ism, ology or politics" has remedied. Hu man life has the right of protection while in the pursuit of legitimate busi ness and profession. A humane atti tude on the part of corporation em ployers of men Is a hard thing to de velop. Labor unions Dave not suc ceeded in 'accomplishing, very much along that line and have also signally failed to develop such a spirit in their own ranks. If neither or them can be depended on to do much, an authority which can handle th situation must lake holdi . Object as we may to the increasing centralization of governmental affairs, we have no right to do so when we can not get the desired results otherwise. It is not a question how the lives of miners are protected so long as they are protected. If King s Collier can be equipped so as to prevent disaster and the loss of life by a simple system of electric signals and by escapes, other mines can also. Not a life lost In King's Collier and 150 men were in the mine at the time. It would be more sane and intelli gent to do a little less red tape investi gating and a little more preventing. While Congressman Hitchcock, sup posed to be representing this district at the national capital, was camping on borne base trying to mend his po litical fences, Senators Burkett and Brown by active intervention prevailed on the War department officials to ar range for the military tournament to be held, in Omaha next fall simultane ously '.with thei Ak-Sar-Ben festivities. In other words, while our democratic congressman had hiked for home on private business, our two republican senators performed a service for Omaha of unusual and vital importance and got for Omaha the favorable consider ation from the military authorities which it was asking. Moral: If Con gressman Hitchcock will only stay home long enough Omaha may get what it wants in Washington. It ia explained that the reason the petition to " resubmit the - question, "Wet or Dry?" in Lincoln was rejected by the city clerk on advice of the city attorney because each signer did not write after his street address the words, "Lincoln, Nebraska," was for fear the petitioners might live in Lin coln, Illinois, in Lincoln, Kansas, or In Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. The petition Itself starts out, "The under signed voters of Lincoln, Nebraska, do hereby request." - These stories about the refinements of legal technicalities must be' greatly exaggerated. Congressman Latta of the Third Ne braska district is telling it right out in meeting that he is a candidate for re election and will file for the primary at the proper time. We had a sort of a half-suspicion of this all along, not withstanding Edgar Howard's confi dent assertion that he had a definite promise from the check-book man that one' term would satisfy him. An objection' Is being raised in con gress to forest rangers attending west ern universities while on full pay. What Is the difference so long as their studies are being pursued during the winter months when there is nothing to do on the range? Better have them improvig their opportunities and in creasing their efficiency than to be loafing and doing nothing. The selling of Prince Miguel's fur niture at his palace in Vienna indi cates that his American father-in-law has been woefully neglecting his duty. Americans, who have never bowed the knee to foreign foe, will make obeis ance and pay war indemnity to some pin-headed foreign prince In these days of frenzied matrimony -and be proud of it. ' An Indiana professor has pointed out that even Indians usedalnt for facial decorations. This he gives as an excuse for the modern feminine cus tom along the same line. You haven't found the right excuse yet, professor. The only excuse for facial decorations In these daya may be found on the face of the individual, which Is usually suf ficient. ' Ex Senator William V. Allen says be is not yet a candidate for the sena torial place to be filled next winter, but he does not feel unkindly to the friends who are mentioning him among the eligible. Ex Seuator Al len Is a big enough man for political lightning to find him If It wants to strike a shining mark. Governor Shallenberger displaced the ' former superintendent ' of ,"the School for the Deaf for purely political reasons, but no flags were hung at half mast, nor did the local democratic organ go Into hysterical mourning. It merely shows the difference whether It Is a republican or a democratic ox that Is gored. ' ' Bishop Whitehead of Pittsburg is reported to have asked all Episcopa lians to refrain from leading the news papers during Lent. It Is Safe to say that this will be another case of a clergyman's advice being disregarded, especially If another divorce in Pitts burg high life should be forthcoming. Prraaure oa the Ham, Cleveland Leader. After all, there can be a fair cane made out for the old law of supply and demand In the pork market. . The number of hoga In the country decreased by about 6,000,000 lawt year, while, the number of people to be fed Increased nearly 1000,000. Stormy Petrel Headed Off. Washington Herald. -The t'nlted States eenate will have to wabble alqng- aa beat It may without Mr. James K. . Vardaman, It appears. With Mr. Tillman's pitchfork and Mr. Daves' redhot poker, however, there probably will be excitement enough for all ordinary oc uaclona and purposes. Mere Man Ontrlaeaed, Loulavflle Courier-Journal. Governor Folk 6f Mlsaourl is flattered because he- has been offered 140,000 to de liver a aeries of lectures, but art almost unknown Cincinnati woman received $840, 000 for not saying a word Bhd finally kicked out of 'the contract. ' Who says woman Is not making her way as a bread winner? ... Interne Tax Amendment. I t Philadelphia Trees. The Income tax amendment has been re ported favorably by the- house judiciary uiMiuiilllee in liiinola, and the genera! ex pectation Is that the legislature Will ratify it. Alabama and Kentucky have already ratified and probably Illinois will be the first northern state to approve of It. The Massachusetts legislature should have the amendment before it this week, but Its re jection of the amendment would occasion less surprise than Its ratification In that state. .. Beating Around tbe Bosh. New York Tribune, j The senate committee on public expendi tures, which was Intended to get to work this year to reduce extravagant appropria tions, , now wants to, have a . commlsHlon appointed to suggest economies for the future. It would be better to begjn at once with the reductions x Why not try a few simple expedients, .for Instance, like passing no private - pension laws at this session, consolidating the pension agencies, abolishing moribund, ports of entry . and outtlng down the number pf documents and other useless, government publications which have to be pujn. storage after print ing and eventually are burned or sold as junk? - :; anoM.- ' J ndtclal Conunou Sense. Sprlngfiedr,nepubUcan.-' - - A judge in .Mtssovrfc.Jiae shown the coun try a bit of sense. .regarding the qualifica tions of Jurors, ,. In, tho, -trial of a case one of the lawyers, wittiilho evident Intention of challenging, anked the familiar question whether the talesmam had read accounts of the case In the newspapers. "What's- the difference if he has read the newspapers?" demanded the Judge,-.' "He'll make the bet ter Juryman. To say that a man ought not to serve beoause he has read the news paper accounts is saytng in effect that a Jury of Intelligence Is objected to. That is not justice; neither Is It law' It Is a satisfaction to 'have so sensible a sugges tion clothed with the authority of a judge. rises in ukbat salt lake. Utah's Brlnx Pond Takes On More Water. New York World. An Interesting suid suggestive Item in the news is the rise In Great Salt lake, whlcM Is now higher than at any other time within the memory of white men, and which is threatening with Its flood the famous Luctn cutoff, built at such an enormous expense to a transcontinental railroad. Six years &go it waa announced positively that the lake was drying up and that our grandchildren would see the dis appearance of one of America's great natural features. . It would seem that the fears are groundless. The present swelling of the lake is not due to heavy rains, but la apparently a part of 1U habit. According to Indian tradition It has a regular rise and fall, each extending over a period of thirty or forty years. The lake has not been known long enough to civilisation for these state ments to be verified by scientific observers, but the legends of primitive and savage peoples are usually based on fact. The phenomenon of Great Salt lake finds Its parallel elsewhere. It has been shown that the Great Lakes themselves have a steady rise and fall, although In their case It Is slight Raah observers announce start ling discoveries and predict great disas ters, but the face of nature mnkee perma nent changes so slowly that man cannot tell any difference. an hundreds of years. Our Birthday Book Tebraary 11, ISIO. Chief Justloe Melville W. Fuller is 77 years old today. Justice Fuller was born In Augusta. Me.; and practiced law many years In Chicago. ' He waa appointed to the supreme bench by President Cleveland, succeeding Chi f Justice Morrl on R. Waits Rev. Washington Gladden is 74 yean old. He is a native of Pennsylvania and Is now living at Columbus, O. He Is one of the leading pastors of the Congregational church In this country and la widely known as an author aa well. Thomaa A. Edison, the great Inventor, was born February 11, 1M7, at Milan, O. Mr. Edison started out aa a newsboy on the Grand Trunk railway, later becoming a telegraph operator, which proved So be the path, to the field of Invention in which he has concernedbimself with the applica tion of electricity to practical life. He lives and has his , workshop at West Orange, N. J. General George 11. . Dandy is 80 years old today. Generay Dandy waa stationed Id Omaha In connection with the headquarters of the Department pf the Missouri beveral tlmea, and lived here after his retirement. He has a brilliant war record. Nathan E. Adams, the real estate man offioing in the Board of Trade bulldlnr;, was born February U, IMS, la West Brook field, Ma. . , Around New York aMpples oa the Cimil ef Ufa as Sees 1 the Oreat Aaerloaa Metropolis froa Bay te Day. The dptha of , domestic Jurisprudence were sounded by a New York court In a divorce case last week. The case turned upon the question whether a man found under a bed at or about the midnight hour was a burglar or a stray visitor. The wife,, as defendant in the cane, did her beat to convince the court that the fellow was a burglar, ' producing testi mony to show that when the husband pulled the Intruder from his hiding place she screamed, called In the police and ordered hla arrest. The court's chlvalrlc spirit waa touched and for a time the scales leaned toward the screamer. Just as things seemed to be all her way the heartless husband proved that the bur glar was clad only In hubby's nightgown and showed the garment, bearing hubby's Initials on the collar. Where did he get it? How? Why? The court did not answer. Simply decided the man was not a burglar. The Bnwery la going about in a condition approximating trance. It is dawning upon that region that the politicians who have been superior to mere laws and ordinances under recent city administrations are be ing forced to obey the rules that apply to the rest of the town. The other day a force of men armed with axes were demolishing the billboards which, In de fiance of the ordinance, have been occupy ing the pavement in front of the Sullivan theater. A crowd collected . In no time. Pretty soon a large man, with a cat-fur collar on his overcoat, bustled up. "What ye doing here?" he demanded of the boss of the crew. The boss told him. "But," he said, astounded, "don't ye know this is Ulg Tim Sullivan's theater?" The boss said no. Ho didn't know, and, what was more to the point, he didn't care. "If it. was Charley Murphy's the-ayter I'd tear thlm billboards down," said he. "Do ye get that 7" The large, oat-furred man hurried out to a telephone to call someone up and . remon strate. He called official after official and district leader, after dlslriot leader. No one could ease his sorrow. Finally he got the private secretary of the mayor himself on the telephone. He was heard explaining the horror of the case over the wire: "Mind ye," said he; "mind ye; It's Big Tim's the-ayter billboards they're tearing down; Big Tim's, mind ye." He paused for a reply. Gradually the look of triumphant Indignation on his face changed to one of disgust. He slammed the receiver on the hook. "And yet," he said to those who had gathered, "and yet they say this is a free country." It Is aald that fully 80 per cent of the In habitants of New York City live in flats. In fact, the burldlng of private residence In Manhattan has come to a standstill, we might say. " At the present time there are more than 100,000 flat houses. In that cltyr During the year of 1U08 there were only thirty-eight private houses "built there, while more than 200 were demolished to make room, usually, for more apartment houses. The ' even-increasing number of flat In the big city, however, Is not the moat distressing phase of the New York problem. Having to live in them Is the most pathetic feature. Just to think of It. a million human beings exist on Manhattan Island, from year to year, without experi encing the sensation of living in a real home. Huddled into diminutive apart ments, many of this million literally eat from their knees and bun on shelves wHh never a' breath of wholesome air and rarely a sight 'of tree or 1 flowerV A young physician In the Eaat Side, New York City, spends much time in charitable practice. In fact, he sometimes gives to a poor patient enough money to pay for pre scriptions. ."I'm not getting rich," he ex plains, "but I simply, can't see them suffer for medicines that may put them on their feet again." Not many daya afro the doctor had occa sion to visit a woman who occupied one small tenement room wHh her three chil dren. After making out a prescription he gave her (2, telling her to buy the medicine and to une the change tor needed food. On the followlng.day, as he waa about to enter the tenement for a second call, he met the 10-yee.r-old daughter of the patient. . "How 4a. your mother?" he Inquired of the ehlld. ". - "Oh, she's aU well,", waa the answer. "She took that $2 and got a real doctor." In Public School 21, In Mott street, at tended by 200 children, most of whom are Italian, an experiment Is being tried whloh may revolutionise the present luncheon system In the schools. About 200 children, ranging In years from 7 to 14,- are now being fed at noon. They pay S, 4 and 5 cents, according to whether they have an ordinary dinner or fruit and cocoa, as well. The meal Is hot and well cooked, and, ac cording to physicians on tho committee, contains more than enough nourishment for a child. The cooking is Italian, so the children find the things with which they are familiar. There are macaroni and spaghetti In abundance, and often there ia a thick bean or pea soup, with three slices of bread. Sometlnea Instead of soup rice and tomatoes are served. The gentlemen who believe that New York City should hold a world's fair In 1813, because the Dutch first landed here in 1613, have incorporated themselves under the name of the Dutch Advancement com pany, with a capital stock of $300,000. The Incorporators are evidently good men, but are not among those celebrated In large type In "who's who" Jn New York City. It wilt take, a large degree of enthus iasm, push and energy to talk New York City Into an exposition of this character. It waa proposed to make a fair of the Hudnon-Fulton celebration, but the con clusion was reached that America had had Its fill of events of that character. A HUMAN KXKCLTIV'B. ' President Taft'a Metheda ef Mlxlna; with the People. Boston Herald. The unconventionally of the president In his life as an official and as a man, becomes more evident as the days go by. He is walking about the streets, Inspecting the shops, dropping In te- call on friends at their hotela or apartments, and In a variety of ways Indicating his intention to avoid exclusion from -the sources of good fellowship, wllch he needs to keep alive If he Is to do his official tasks with the touch of sympathy and mellow judgment which, in - the past, have been hla ways and means of combining Justice and mercy, virility and clemency. Continuance In this policy of mixing with the people, of keep ing alive old friendships, of undergoing the give and take of post-prandlal debate where personal and national policies are discussed will strengthen him with the people who like their representatives in high office to retain "the' human touch. - HalnnofT i'hnalna. 1 Wall Street Journal. 1 John Brisbln Walkr says food will be cheaper only when a parrels post la In augurated to' compete with the express companies. What Would becynie of the senator who represent 'them in congress? PA.ln OF THK rf.AIMK. ... . An Impresatre Reminder of Ttme'a Renteraeleae (.haaaea. Chlotvgo Post. Lieutenant General Miles called on the president a few daya ago and on entering the executive ,offea found Mr. Taft en gaged In talking by meana of an Int. r preter with half a doten Indiana of the Sioux tribe. One of the vlaltora. an Indian nearly SO yeara old. cauirht aluht at the soldier and went forward Instantly to shake hla hand. He had lost Interest for the moment In the Great Fat dor in th r.r Interest of the presence of the man whom ne nan met more than once In battle. INelson A. Miles la over 70 Venn t a. and he has been retired from active service tor a decade He la one of the last officers of high lank who n a commander of troops saw long and active service against me rca people or the plains. The brave and the soldier talked together In a way that was marked by positive expressions of affection. The last time that the Rloux wore on tho path aalnat the o-hit,. m years In the past, and the tw met In the White House were active par ticipants In opposing ranks In the cam paign which probably marked the f frontier Indian warfare. The last time that General Mllea hmA seen the warrior whom he met In the president's room wa when the ghost dance erase took possession of the rakn tribes twenty years ago and led them by a blind faith In the promises of their medi cine men to take to the mar path. Mllae spoke of Red Cloud, and the old Sioux waved his hand forward and said "Ta" which Is the Sioux for "Dead." The soldier nodded and then one after another named Uttle Wound, - American Horse, Young - Man - Afraid - of - His - Horses and Standing Bear. The Sioux after each nnme made the forward movement of his hand and said "Ta." The old warriors, white and red, who met on the plains In battle as chieftains of the warring forces are nearly all dead. While the fighting was going on In plaree far removed from civilisation the Amerl oan people knew little of the Immensity of the struggle that was In progress In the west, and they knew leas, and appreciated not at all, the sacrifices: of the soldiers of the American army. The. records of the plains warfare have been all too Imper fectly kept. Before the last of the sold tors and the braves who had a part In the con flicts have "gone forward" an attempt should be made to Increase the nrenont store of knowledge and to give to the American people an adequate history of the wars of the western frontier. BOYCOTT IN TUB COURTS. tS eaaneawsn ila-Biflonne of Verdict In Danbnry Hat Case. St. Louis Republic. The ease of ' D. E. Loewe of Danbury, Conn., against the United Hatters of North America for damages on account of a boycott declared against his business has resulted In a, verdict in the United States court for damagea of 1222,000. It Is ! probable that the matter will ultimately reach the supreme court. This Is highly desirable. A boycott Is the sort of agreement to harm which. If entered Into elsewhere than the ranks of "labor," would be plain conspiracy. The lower courts have handled these matters with meticulous conservatism. A decision from the supreme tribunal of the land, enunciating principles that out all the way down. Is greatly to be wished. Decisions already rendered as to the right of striking employes to prevent other men from taking their places have pro hibited the use of "intimidation and force," but allowed "persuasion and argument." It Is obvious that' 'the Interpretation of the word "persuasion" In such a connec tion la a delicate matter, and In truth a "twilight sone". has been developed be tween "persuasion" and "Intimidation." In which strange things have sometimes come to pass, reminding the onlooker of Sam Weller's advice to his father concern ing the Reverend Mr. Stlgglns: "I'd drop "Im. Into the water-butt fust, and put the lid on; and then, If I found he wos Insen sible to kindness, I'd try the other per svaslon." It might be well to remark. In this con nection. It Is highly Important that In la bor troubles there should be responsibility on both sides. Workingmen should re ceive auch wagea as make responsibility possible. A union, strong and well organ ized, with ample funds in its treasury and responsibility before the law, ia a much better thing, viewed either from the laborers' or the employers' side, than an organization without funds, discipline or stability. Jwhat an 'hdisc T)u,4aU Slezak, Martin or 1 nOnQrapn Constantino; that lt J JL will play band music rVlII OO IOr .which will make you march, Nebraska Cycle Co. represents the National Phono graph Co. in Nebraska, and carries huge stocks pf Edison Phonographs, including the models mentioned in tho .National Phonograph Co's announcement on this page today, as well as a stock of over 100,000 records. , - Nebraska 15th and Harney Sts., Omaha.. Neb. ' . i Mrs. Rlrker, a 1 1 h lawyer of iMrer. I seeks to become governor if New llame- f shire. Any one mean enough tbet t)ft a sure thing now has the opportunity - ' A peculiarity of Governor H.utiof New ( York Is that when he says a thirst he means It. Therefore hla statement that lie will not run again "goes a It lavi",, Benson I .aim. the I?-year-ld .New, York , boy who lost the $10.0)0 gold rettlflcaio, did well to avt limiting more than dtxay. The psycopathic wards ate filled with grown men who have lost Jesa cents. . , . George II. Schulimann. president -of the 4 Louisville AnxelKer, company, and une of the oldest German-American newspaper men In the fnlted Slates, died In that city, aged 71 Mr. Schuhmann hn,d been at' the head of the Anzelger for half a century. , Jack Johnson Is toothing the IiIrU places, acquiring a fine knowledge , or ,Uio..varloua foreign and doin. .stle brand, of wine, and his friends are somewhat worried. They find some encouragement., however. In the fact that Jeffries Is smoking clxarettea whe.nmer he Isn't eating or sleeping. Edward Payson Weston will have to look out for his laurels as a walker. Mrs. Jere-, niluh McClelland, agud SI, ten years older than the vetejan Weston, Is back at her . home In Klttanlilng after a walk over, hilly roads to New Bethlehem and return. lio walked twenty-four miles, regarding It merely as a pleasant Jaunt. , . LINES TO A LAUGH. , . Lawyer Was this agreement you say you had with the defendant a tentative agreement? ' Witness Law, no, sir! It waa only what you might call a tryln' of it,, pir. Baltimore American. John What doctor attended your anitf In her last Illness? , ;. James None. She died a natural death, Harvard lampoon.,. "You didn't get an Invitation to Wllkina' party?" ' "No. But I'm going to get even with them for the slight." . , "How?" "I shan't go!"-Clcveland Plain Dealer. "Going up to hear that lecture on appen dicitis today?" "Naw. I'm tired of th'cW organ, re citals." Cornell Widow. Elderly Stranger (disposed to be sociable; I s'poee this Is one o' them new fashioned pay-as-you-enter cars. .. Conductor Yes, uncle, and It's also an enter-aa-you-pay car. Please step Inside. You're delaying the procession. Chicago Tribune. Uncle Henry Hack from Washington, Si? . Sea congress In action? , I'ncle Silas Naw; I only saw "em In session. Judge. . "That young married man In the neigh- . borhood seems very downcast, John; he looks so forlorn nowadays." ' "He is in a hard case." i, i "What la It?" .... "He belongs to a union which has joined the meat boycott, and all his wife knows how to cook Is steak. "HaHlmore 'Amert- can. . . . , "Husband, what shall we call the baby?" "Oh, I dunno," said the professor.' "Don't'' . le now, I'm trying to think up a'. ' name for a new microbe. "Kansas City .J Journal. ""7 A To-at to Peace. Here'B to the Dove of Peace! J tillV Eh tlA a mata a........ ... ' And may her tribe increase As fast aa she can lay! With cooing doves galore Then may the sky be durk Until the dogs of war . 1 Can't hear each other bark! ' , Collier's. Xeekliv. BUNQALOWMANIA. ;.. ' , Arthur Chapman in Denver Republican. Great grandfather llvod In a dwelling of . toga, It was squatty and dingy and plain, But 'twas, there. .at!;h-ft,.,(wi.M! hta kids and his dogs, Nor minded the snow and the rain; If ho lived there now he'd huve perked ud a bit. ' And pride would have set on his brow; He 'd have looked on his house us an artls- v tic hit . , , i For they call cabins bungalows now. 1 f The Smiths used to live In a house made, pf sud . ,i On the plains, where the Kansas winds ' sweep; They built it of nothing out clod upon clod. And Its lines would make architects weep; - But today It's refurbished, with Vines at its door, And a lantern upon Its pdrt bow.' ' It rents for slmoleons many a score For. "soddle8" are bungalows now. ' . ' So It's back to the cabins and Vsoddles" . If you'd follow the erase of the day; To the dwellings that seem to sprawl out on their backs, v For that is the bungalow way; Move out of the houses that have an up- -Stairs, And straight for the Jowly sort plow; Pick a hen-coop, a barrel, for nobody cares, - As all things are bungalows now. Think what it means to have an instrument that will play equally well fine of O Harry Lauder's rol licking songs or a beautiful aria': by flnrl rrtflt will nlav ivaltMS OVl . and two-steps in a way that will make you dance Think of an instrument which such a man as Victor Herbert selects from all others as the one to have his exclusive ' service and for which his own orchestra plays. That is the Edison Phonograph, , Then consider how small an amount of money will buy one $12.50 to $200.00 and you will see why no one need be without an Edison Phonograph,' just as no one would be who has ever really heard it. Ediaon Phonograph ... 112.50 to J200.00 Edison Standard Records .35 , Edlion Amberol Racords (play twice as long) JO Kdiaon Grand Opera Records 75c. and 11.00 There are Edison dealers everywhere. Go to th nearatt and hear the Bdlaoa Phonograph play both Bdlioa Standard and Ambsrul Records. Get complete catalogs iron) your dealer or from ut. Natioeal Ftumocraph Co., 75 LeWds Ave., Oraa(s, N. J. WITH THE EDISON BUSINESS PHONOGRAPH Tam dictate at yew aanreafcaca, aad Ike typewriting aUpartaMa! doe the rx. Cycle ?Co; Geo. E. Mickel, 334 Broadway, Manager. Council Bluffs, la.