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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
State of Nebraska. Douiilaa County, .:
Oeorne II. Tcchuck. treasurer of The Bee.
Publishing Company. being dulv sworn,
ava that the actual numoer of frill and
complete ocipfea of The Dally. Morning,
Evening and Hunday Pee printed during the
month of January. 1910. waa aa follow":
i.. 4a,44o it a,eao
t-. 41,700 IS 43,700
42,430 42,480
43,390 X... ....... S,850
' 43,400 it 43,090
..,..... .. 43,400 tl 48,590
42,440 11 41.350
43.47P 54 48,600
41,700 21 42,640
'0.., 42,290 it 43,090
i.. 42,420 . 27 ,.... 48,630
42,803 ft ..... 49,850
13 42,400 SI 43,860
42,460 . 10........;. 41,400
11 42,370 tt 48,870
10t. 41.770
Total 1,314,380
Returned coplea.... 9,659
Net total .... .1,304,683
Daily. average...,............;,.., 43,373
QICOHOK U, TESCHUCK.
a,,. ,. . , ' Treasurer,
subscribed In mv nrtmenr and awnra n
Before roe thla ii.it day of January, isia
ROBKKT HUNTER,
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Subscribers leaving; tfcu lt ieaa.
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uall.4 to thoue. Adnreee will fee
ukaaarea aa vltu u reaeee4 ..'
It 'to nearing th time when "'youth
ful Omaha should 'p'lao ,fbr aa Insane
Fourth of July. , . :. ; , .
Th number of divorces granted to
actresses would indicate that the the
atrical season never closes.
King Edward is objecting to the
high, cost of living. ".. We never sus
pected he waa running for office.
Omaha's street cleaning department
is, having hard' luck. Old Sol to Tory
slow about doing the .work for it.
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A . hunting dog from Omaha has
cored first In the New Yofk Bench
show. Who says Omaha is 6t getting
to the front?" ' "
Walter Wellman is planning to fly
across the ocean. Why is he running
away? He Surely hasn't 1 discovered
the North pole.
It might encourage aviation some if
a prize were offered to the one who
succeeds in tlelng a tin can t,o the tall
of Haliey'e comet. . '
. Free 'government garden seed is be
ing again distributed. , And. it might
be added,' it is. Just as complimentary
and useless as ever. ' .
With over 8,500 automobiles regis
tered in Nebraska, ' an agricultural
state, It looks as if the farmers were
doing tolerably well.
The length of time required for an
English election Is easily explained.
Englishmen have to, stop once In
awhile and drink a cup ( tea.
. An English suffragette saya ' that
"Patience Is the best thing for - the
cause." But it doesn't look as though
she had been in charge over there.
It Is to be noted that the change of
incumbents in the office' of United
States district attorney has been made,
and the federal hulldlngr still stands.
Xn Ohio Judge says tnat a woman
has no right to open her husband's
mall. In this age of woman's rights,
too. "Proud and domineering man."
Perhaps it would have a wholesome
effect on American baggagemen If the
Mexican law on contributory negli
gence were In force in the United
States.
South Omaha Is going to spread
Itself In the celebration of ta mu
nicipal anniversary ; oh , South Omaha
day. South Omaha Is a lusty city for
tta age.'
- Congress is going to abolish all the
pension, I agencies in the country ex
cept one. to be located at Washington.
Inasmuch aa Omaha never waa made
a pension agency location, despite all
its efforts, no one here will become un
easy over it. .'.' N
The Lincoln Star, D. e. Thompson,
president, la losing no time in mani
festing It hostility to the candidacy
of William Hayward for congress. The
Star cannot forget that Mr. Hayward's
father was elected to the aenatorshlp
that D. E. Thompson wanted. '
A labor orator recently close. nn
Impassioned speech with the following
words: "Tho apple, of discord has
been cast lntour midst. It we do not
nip it in the hh4 It will explode and
dftjuge the world with a mighty con
flagration." , How to this for a mixed
metaphor -r ;
Abrahanr Iincotn.
This Is tbe one hundred and flmt an
nlversary of the birth of Abraham Lin
coln, and as ench year rolls by, en
abling us to get a truer perspective of
the man, his atature among those en
titled to be called great steadily grows.
When Lincoln was chosen president he
sent this memorandum to be printed
In the Dictionary of Congress:
Bore February 11. 1801, in Hardin
county, Kentucky.
Education DefectlvTf. '
Profeaalofl Lawyer.
Havs been captain of volunteers In
Blackhawk war, postmaster at a vary
small office.
Four times . a member of the Illinois
legislature and waa a member et the
lower house of congreiis.
This.' nut-shell autobiography is
characteristic of the man. One of the
most fitting tributes ever paid to the
memory of Lincoln waa pronounced by
the late Samuel 8. Cox, In which b
aptly said:
President' Lincoln was not without
faults, but his goodness and virtues far
overshadowed them. None more than he
ever , batter lllutratedythe maxim that
the a-pod alone are great. It wan almost
a peculiarity of Mr. Lincoln's, among the
treat men of hletory, that all his public
and private utterances bear the Imprea of
an honest, conscientious regard for what
ever he believed to be right and wise.
Congressmen and the Courts.
In a recent case of considerable Im
portance regarding a contract for pa
per for the federal printing office some
controversy has arisen over the right
of the Courts to summon senators and
congressmen to appear, either as wit
nesses or a8 defendants. The United
States senate has Instructed Senators
Smoot, Bourne and Fletcher not to ap
pear, while the. house has taken a dif
ferent attitude and Instructed Con
gressmen Cooper, Sturgls and Flnley
to answer the court's summons. The
house bases Its action on the fact that
the gentlemen have not been cited aa
zsersbsrs of congress, but rnrly a
Individuals while acting under the au
thority of a statute which had been
enacted by congress ltself
The paragraph In the constitution
which bears on this point is a portion
of Article 1, Section vt., which reads:
They shall in all eases, excepttreason,
felony and breach of peace, be privileged
from arrest during their attendance at
the seisions of their respective hoUaea
and in going to and returning from the
same.
It would seem from this, the only
passage bearing dlreotly on the point,
that congressmen and senators are, to
a certain extent, immune from arrest
and consequent punishment while In
attendance upon the sessions of con
gress. JBut the constitution does . not
provide immunity from court appear
ance while acting under special au
thority created by them In formal leg
islative action. The action of con
gressmen and senators has directly In
volved the government in legal con
troversy and the committee of three
from eacn house'whlch has been sum
moned before court, acted for the gov
ernment in the first place in the trans
action which is now being tried out
The question seems to involve sena
torial honor and supremacy, if we are
to Judge from the-action of. the sen
ate, rather than the continued re
sponsibility; of senators when through
a misunderstanding . of. . contracts the
government is made party to a suit
over the purchase of supplies. To a
casual observer tt looks as though
the members of the committee, which
through their own action and under
statutes enacted by congress brought
on the trouble, should bear some of
the responsibility of "seeing it
through.".'
The Swope Case.
The whole country has been aroused
recently over the Investigation into the
cause of the death of Colonel Swope,
the aged millionaire philanthropist of
Kansas City. That he waa poisoned
has been, affirmed by the ' coroner's
Jury, which has also added that the
poison was administered in a capsule
by Dr. Hyde,' the husband of a niece.
But whether or not H was given with
the. deliberate purpose of killing Is an
entirely different question and is for
the courts to decide.
In reading the testimony of the case
one Is taken by suggestion back into
dark Egypt, where poisoning of every
conceivable kind and description was
reduced to a fine art and where noble
men, and kings alike kept a coterie of
poisoners constantly in their employ.
The Inference to be drawn from tbe
verdict of the coroner'a Jury in the
Swope case reminds one of the. times
of Nero and ' other Infamous Roman
emperors.- But the testimony regard
ing the typhoid culture purchased by
Dr. Hyde and the number of typhoid
case which followed almost immedi
ately among the heirs to the Swope
estate, who were under the profes
sional care of Dr. Hyde, is almost
ghoulish In its suggestion,
j Poisoning -has played almost as
great a part In history as has war.
The ancients resorted to poison con
stantly as political measure for the de
feat of their rivals. In Greek and Ro
man times poisoning was one of the
necessary elements In political and so
cial affaire. During the middle ages
It was carried on as a profession on a
commission basis of remuneration. In
Italy and France It became a source
of . profit and families became im
mensely wealthy simply by the removal
of wealthy young husbands with dls
ngreeable dispositions. One couple In
France kept a diary which showed 00
victims to their discredit. Italy was
even worse than France and produced
a couple' who poisoned over 700 young
husbands and wives for profit.
- But recent years aad the advance
ment cf the Science of medicine anl
chemical analysts has made It hard for
rducnlng to .be carried on with any
degree of fiendish success. But with
the development of the horrible possi
bilities of poisoning through the me
dium of disease culture a more difficult
and terrible field opens. If this is
really such a case. It Is to be hoped
thst measures, of such severity and
efficiency as to check the evil, will be
enacted at once.
Missouri Eiver Improvement.
The first fruits of, the great move
ment for systematic waterway Im
provement promise to materialize in
the present congress, whose commit
tees have practlcallr decided on the
appropriations to be recommended,
and In the scheme thus outlined the
Missouri river comes In for recognition
only for the stretch between its mouth
and Kansaa City, la other words,
present prospeete are that whatever
work is authorised for the upper Mis
souri will be along the lines that have
heretofore been followed for fixing the
channel and incidentally protecting
the banks at the danger points rather
than with a view to Increasing Its nav
igation possibilities over what It now
offers.
Of course, there is no particular
reason why the deepening of the chan
nel should stop at Kansas City, except
that Kansas City is the first great
traffic point, and further, that Kansas
City has been active, energetic and
continuous in demanding that the Mis
souri be made a highway of naviga
tion. It is possible that congress and
the engineers In charge may decide to
extend the work of Improvement from
Kansas City to Omaha and Sioux City,
and that, of course, is sure to come
eventually If what Is done below Kan
sas City meets expectations. But It
will hot Come by Omaha simply sitting
still and, micawber-Uke, waiting for
something to turn up.'
Referring to the report that Mr.
Bryan's intimate friends in Nebraska
are keeping him In reserve to run for
the presidency again ' in 1912, Mr.
Bryan's Commoner reprints an article
from the Wheeling, W. Va Register,
which concludes as follows:
Mr. Bryan la a victim of more willful
falsehood and misrepresentation than any
other American citizen, and few other
American clUsens are less deserving of
such treatment. He Is one of the most dis
tinguished men In the private life of the
nation, and there Is nothing In his honora
ble and useful record to Justify the at
tempt to make him the laughing stock of
the country.
Now, we protest again and, call on
Edgar Howard to protest with us.
When Mr. Bryan's friends say they are
for some other candidate, "provided,
always," Mr. Bryan does not want the
nomination, are they trying to make
him "the laughing stock of the coun
try T" Why should the boosting of
Bryan for a fourth running make him
any more "the laughing stock" of the
country" than did the boosting of Mr.
Bryan for a third defeat? We ear
nestly remonstrate against such unfair
conclusions. We Insist that Mr. Bryan
can run every four years for the re
mainder of his natural life without be
coming "the laughing stock of the
country."
Cattle and Heat Shortage.
The report from the Department of
Commerce and Labor on the meat
shortage resolves itself into a consider
ation of the shrinkage In the number
of cattle, sheep and hogs marketed
during the last year. According to the
report there has been a greater ' de
crease in the receipts of live stock at
the big markets during the last year
than during any year since 1905. The
receipts of hogs alone in Chicago show
a decrease of 19 per cent; receipts In
Kansas City decreased 17 per cent; la
Omaha, 12 per cent; in St. Joseph,
Mo., 28 per cent; at St. Louis, 4 per
cent.
During the last summer there was
some talk among stock feeders that
the price of corn was making extensive
feeding impossible. Corn at 60 cents
a bushel could not be profitably used
as a fattener so long as the price of
marketable stock remained where it
was, and the same was true of hogs,
also. The result was that thousands
and thousands of grass-fed cattle were
sold on the market. According to the
farmers' Judgment this was the only
profitable way to sell.
Another element which accounts for
the decrease in the receipts of fattened
cattle Is that "feeders" have been hard
to get . at prices which could make
feeding profitable, with the result that
the great feeding pens of the middle
west have not turned out so much fat
tened stuff as formerly. On the other
hand, the pastures and range of , the
west and southwest are shipping di
rectly to the packing house centers.
It Is not the price of live stock, but
the profit in cattle raising and fatten
ing that determines tbe farmer- and
stock raiser to go in heavy or light
and governs the output that later
comes on the market.
The New Jersey man who haa taken
his eon out of Sunday school and
threatens to take him out of day school
also because the mayor of Indianapolis
has sentenced several delinquents to
attend church ia certainly getting
plenty of free advertising whether be
gets any satisfaction out of it or not.
' Missouri democrats are said to be
boosting Mayor Oaynor for the. 1912
nomination. Is this another case of
political leec roaieste? Did not ' Wil
liam Jennings Bryan second the nomi
nation of a Mlssourian for party
standard-bearer in the democratic na
tional convention of 1994?
Our amiable der.-.oratlc contem
porary, the World-Herald, says It took
four years to get the scalp of President
Crabtre of the Teru Normal school.
We don't know anything about that,
but we do know that It took only about
four months for Governor 8hallen
berger to get the scalps of the superin
tendent of the School for the Deaf and
the superintendent or the School for
(he Blind.
On seelnj her daughter happily
married a Missouri woman prayed,
"Lord, now let Thy servant depart In
peace." The wedding cake made her
sick and she Immediately sent for a
nurse and three doctors and canceled
the honeymoon for the happy couple.
A woman's prerogative to change her
mind.
A public school exposition as pro
posed by the students In the Omaha
High school might be all right, but if
undertaken should bo under direction
of the school authorities this with
out any disparagement of the ability
of the students- to carry It through
successfully.
A compilation of the Nebraska
school census shows 373,067 Inhabi
tants of school age. If the school cen
sus taken In other parts of the state is
no more accurate than that taken here
in Omaha allowance should be made
for a shortage of from 15 to 20 per
cent.
Because Duluth has Just gone demo
cratic In a city election Minnesota
democrats are taking courage. It Is
always noticed that results of this kind
make a greater difference In February
than they do in November.
It is predicted that Chicago will
have 20,000,000 inhabitants some day.
That may all be, but if there is no
change In Chicago's climate there will
still be plenty of atmosphere there for
all. '
' There does not seem to be anything
in Rostand's "Chanticleer" regarding
the price of eggs, the cost of living or
the profits of raising chickens. So
why make all this fuss about It?
Jnit Ko.
Indianapolis News.
The Investigation - Into the lumber busi
ness of the country seems to have con
firmed the suspicion that the price of lum
ber Is high because It Is high.
Who Will Object t
Baltimore American.
Talking about postal savings banks and
paternalism, there are plenty of people
who, seeing the way that savings are ab
sorbed by frenzied finance, would not at
all object to having Uncle Sam being a
father to them.
Man's Supremacy la Peril. '
Baltimore American.
Now men as a sex are threatened with
the loss even of their muacuiar superiority,
their last stand against the faminlne In
vasion. A scientist says that women are
growing as strong as men, This ts cheer
ful news for the,, government and parlia
mentary officials In London where the
fighting suffragettea come from. -
Hope Chased Away.
' Chicago Record-Herald.
According to the Judgment of' Governor
Hadley of Missouri the problem of the
high cost of living will never be - solved
until every married couple keeps a cow.
If Hadley ta right the case is hopeless.
Few of the glrla who are now growing up
are doing anything whatever to fit them
selves for the exertions they would be
compelled to 'put forth as milkers. . .
Well Worth Fostering;.
New York World.
President Taft's signature of a proclama
tion declaring Germany entitled to mini
mum tariff rates la an event of public Im
portance. Since we sell to every German
on an average (3 worth of goods, to every
Filipino less than $1, to every Japanese SO
cents and to each Chinaman S cents, Ger
man trade seems quite as well worth fos
tering as that of the far east. . And a
tariff war ought to be unthinkable.
The Line of Daty.
Philadelphia Bulletin.
Some of the Insurgents at Washington
seem unable or unwilling to realise that
the American people the far more Inter
ested in the enactment of President Taft's
progressive legislation program than they
are In the fight against Joseph G. Cannon.
Even if the speaker la as frreU a tyrant
as hfc rtrT -rf-- flp(h - . ..-Pi -
with the present congress. The effect of
the bills urged by tn-a prcsM.Mu .vt., ,
for many years If they shall be placed on
the statute books. , -
Anthorahip of Sherman Law.
Now Tork Tribune. , '
In discussing tha authornhip of the Sher
man anti-trust law lat Sunday we aald
that ex-Sonator George F. Edmunds of
Vermont, probably referred to himself
when he stated In a recant letter that not
Mr. Sherman, but "one of the" members of
the senate Jud!clnry committee," drew up
the anti-trust law. ' It may be, however,
that the reference waa to Senator George
r. Hoar of Masfachusetts, who says posi
tively In his. autobiography thst ha was
the reviser who whipped the original Sher
man anti-trust bill into Its present shape.
Mr. Edmunds nnd Mr. Hoar mi ere, both
members of the conference committee
which adjusted the points In dispute as to
the details of the measure between th
house and tha senate. But whether Mr.
Hoar or Mr. Edmunds did the lion's share
of the work on tha anti-trust law, Mr.
Sherman's name was the one finally and
unalterably .attached to It.
Our Birthday Book
February 12, 1910.
: Abraham Lincoln was born February JJ,
ISO?, and the ccntennary of hl birth was
celebrated, Just one year ago today. The
memory of Lincoln la kopt green each
year by various commemorative celebra
tions In many places In the land and ax
erclsee In the public schools throughout
the nation.
Judson C. Clements, member of the in
terstate commerce commission, was born
February 11, 1$43. Judge Clements Is a
Georgian - and served In the confederate
army. Ho was for many years a member
of congress from Georgia, being appointed
to the Interstate Commerce commission In
1WJ by President Cleveland.
H. O. Htrelght, the well known mer
chandise broker, waa born February 12,
12. at Poughkeorale, N. T. . Mr. Htreljiht
hns been In Omaha since ISf tt and in the
brokerage a ad commission, buslneaa moat
uf the time.
In Other Lands
Blrta Lights ea What is Trans,
pit-tug- Among the Wear and
re Vetlene ef the Berth.
For the first time since tha reform bill
of 1832, the British Parliament, which as
sembles Tuesday next, will present tha
tpertacle of the party In power without
a clear party majority. In the eighteen
general .elections In three-quarters of a
century, twelve won by the liberals and
six by the conservatives, the winning party
had a clear majority without the votes
of allies. In fact, there had been but two
distinct parties up to ItaC when the Irish
natlonallata became a united force In the
House of Commons. The following year
the espousal of home rule by Gladstone
drove a faction of the liberal party, led
by Joseph Chamberlain, into the conserva
tive party and made It the unionist party.
Blx ministries had votes, and on two oc
casions 1M7 and 1883 one figure expressed
the majority of the party in power. The
liberal coalition majority in the new Par
liament Is estimated at 122, but this esti
mate Is based on the assumption that all
the Irish nationalists and laborltes will
support the ministry. That la not at all
probable. The Healy-OBrlen faction of
the nationalists Is at war with all parties,
and some of the laborltes are equally un
reliable. If the ministry haa a reliable
majority of 100 votea it will be fortunate.
But that majority can be held together
only on the condltlen that the ministry
Pi ess to a conclusion modification or aboil
tlon of the veto power of the House of
Leeds. Stripping the peers of the veto
power In respect to finance bills will not
satisfy the allies. It must embrace all
ministerial measures, for without aoine
such modification, such measures as home
rule have not a ghost of a show In the
House of Lorda as at present constituted
The life of the present Parliament, there
fore, depends on the ability of the mlntBtry
to diminish or abolish the power with en
trenched privilege and BtandpatUm.
A writer In the Paris Monthly, Je Sala
Tont, draw's Impressive contracts botweon
the birthrate of France and Germany, to
Illustrate the shrinkage of the former.
During the last five years tor which
statistics are available, France's population
only liwreasiuj hy SSflnDO. whila Oermany's
rose 4,000,000. .The writer puts it thla way:
"As the average population of a Freooh
department Is 447,815. Oermany haa ul'Iid
in one quinquennium to her population a
number equalling that of nine Frencu !.
partrnents, while Franoe haa only nt.ed
the population of a moderate sized twn
According to the writer. Field Marshal
Von Moltke spoke the bitter truth when
he said that "the French lo&e a Lniile
every day." At the present rata uf detllne
Franoe will occupy in I'j-ZO the lowest place
among the greater powers. In 1870 l-'ianee's
military resources were about equal to those
of United Germany, but In 19U Germany
can put into the field twice as many men
as France. And yet the soil of France ts
rich aa anywhere In Europe. To give a few
examples, the births during the last sis
months In the smiling Cote d'Or depart
ment were 8,843 and the deaths 8,969. In
the Tonne department the figures were re
spectively, 2,882 and 3,627. These numbers
tell their own tale of depopulation. Blame
for tbis condition Is placed by the writer
on French parents whose chief anxiety Is
to leave their limited progeny well provided
for.
Unrest In India, little mention of which
filters through news channels, more dis
quieting , to the : government of Great
Britain than the perplexities pf a coalition
ministry. On the eve of the inauguration
of Lord Morley's reforms In India last
month,' reforms Insuring enlarged native
participation In provincial legislatures, a
native police Inspector, Shams-ul-Alam,
conspicuous in running down seditious sus
pects, was shot to death In a court room
in Calcutta by a Hindu youth. Just a
month before, In Bengal, Deputy Magis
trate Jackson was shot down by a Mar
hatta Brahmin, 18 or 20 years of age. These
tragedies, together with the assassination
of Sir William Wyllie in London last July,
are regarded by the London correspondent
of the New York Evening Post as evidence
of the spread of nihilistic doctrines In the
far east. "What really adds to the se
riousness of the situation," says the corre
spondent, "ia the temperament of the In
dian terrorist In each of the Instances
cited above, the assassin In question ex
claimed, as soon aa caught: 'Don't catch
me. I have done my dty. I am not run
ning away.' The Hlnu nihilist makes a
religion of anarchism, snd It la aa a relig
ious fanatic rather than aa a political ex
tremist that he engages himself In blow
ing up governmental officials. It la this
attitude of his that Is really dangerous,
since the East Indian by nature is a
religious enthusiast, a devotee before any
thing else, and the spark from the terrorist
campflre may aet the masses ablaze." The
correspondent further notes that "the re
pressive measures undertaken to blot out
anarchism In India have proved equally
Ineffective. The conviction of native news
paper men and the supresslon of their pub
lications has only resulted in agitation be
ing driven underground: whereas before
thbt the seditlonist did not dare to ex
press himself in the open as boldly aa he
might desire, now, in secret conolave, he
can be as acrimonious as ha may chooae."
Municipal politics continues to clash with
archeology at Rome. Commcndatore Bonl
has sent In his resignation from the com
mission for the Zuna Monutnentale, which
was appointed to guard the antiquarian In
terests of the district between the Porta
Capenaand tha Aureliaq Wall, in which are
Included the bath of Cdracalla. the tombs
of the Sclplos and Uie arch of Drusua. The
other members of the commission, accord
ing to him, are chiefly concerned with
building a new boulevard through the dis
trict with no regard for archeology. He
expresses his readiness, at the sume time,
to aid In such work within the sane as
haa to do with his provinoe.
Rural delivery of mails in Germ. -y Is
to be hastened, wherever the condition of
roads will permit, by the use of motor
blcya.is and automobiles. This is an in
novation In the public Interest which Is
likely to be adopted elsewhere, especially
where population is fairly dense and the
rapid transit of mall matter of consequently
greater Importance. Such a regulation
would give a great tir.peiuH to the. construc
tion of motors intended for service rather
than display.
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Charleston News and Courier.
It ia aald that the meteorites that were
brought from the Arctic by Commander
Peary have been sold to the American
Museum of Natural Hls.ory for the sum
of 140,000. The largtat ' is said to weigh
about forty tons and the other two about
five tons each. But how come? Wasn't
the commander engaged in the service of
the government at Washington when he
found these meteorites? How could ha
ell them or give them away without the
permission of the authorities? Think what
would have happened to old Dr. Cook, now
well on hla way to the H.iuth pule. If he
bad made any money In that way.
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fresh, good, wholesome,
economical Readily
Eisdc with
POLITICAL DELFT.
The expanding boom for Mayor Qaynor
started by the New Tork Horald. will
I. rove to the governor of Ohio a more In
teresting spectacle than Halley's comet
After searching Its coal bins and coa
bills. Chicago is disposed to believe that
Its treasury was soaked for t300,000 more
than the market value of the oeal dumped
Into the bins. Wh6 would think Chicago
was so easy?
Governor Stubbs of Kanxas Insurgna
boldly and defiantly, challenging the stand
patters to trot out their candidate and let
the people see. him. The governor promts m
to give him an abundance of exercise In tho
primary contest
Some six hundred employes of New Tork
City who had no visible occupation other
than drawing their salaries have been At
tached from the payroll. What they think
of reform government 1 too hot for New
Tork Taper to print.
Sixty-five thousand qualified voters of
Chicago, 15,000 more than the law required,
signed the petition requiring a referendum
vote at the April election on the question
of abolishing the saloons In the city. This
Issue insures a lively campaign and valua
ble political publicity for the anti-saloon
leaguers for distribution In other places.
The evidence tending to show the dis
tribution of boodle among New York legis
lators some years ago lends a measure of
gayety to tbe explanation of a retired
member. He was short on worldly good;
and long on "mixing" and was Impressed
Into- service as a party sacrifice. On re
timing frem the first sesaloo hla humble
home was demolished and a oostly resi
dence 'reared on Its she. ' Hla' nehrhbora
woi dered" where he got It Kven oite of
them became an Interrogation point In the
preaenee of the honorable mamber. "My
wife did her own housework and saved the
money," he explained.
IfEWSP-APEHS AND LENT.
A Layman's Response . to BUkop'a
. Saugareattan.
St. Louis Republic.
At Grace churoh, whose Gothic "llnaa" so
agreeably terminate one of New York's fa
miliar vistas, Bishop Whitehead of Pitts
burg suggested to his hearers en last Sun
day that during the coming Lenten season
they should "do without newspapers," re
placing "their scandals and their masses
of Ill-assorted Information with more edi
fying works."
Temporary mortification of the flesh may
be at times a good thing,- bnt a much bet
ter thing la permanent reform. - We re
member hearing of a little girl who al
ways made her good resolutions at night
"because it left the day to do what you
please In." Now we desire te suggeet te
the good bishop that if he has been read
ing newspapers intemperately it will avail
him little to spend forty days and forty
nights In ignoranoe of tha course of human
event and then return like the ahem! no I
Return to his wrong habits of newspaper
reading is what we are trying; to say.
The difference between a home table and
a hotel table Is that one supplies a meal,
the other a menu. The home gives you
one soup, (or none) one roast, two vege
tables, one dessert, etc. The . hotel offers
a dozen soups, twenty vegetables, half as j
many roasts, a score of entrees, etc. Now
It Is not intended that any ona person
should eat through the bill of fare; the
menu Is simply a wide domain from whose j
various products one may select a meal. I
The wise hotel patron is known by that
which he eats not.
The meal is prepared for one person; the
menu for many persons. Now the news
paper la not a meal; It Is a menu. It Is
not edited for one person, hut for many
persons. .'
Not for "the mass" or "the masses;' that
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Butterine
(is the Commercial Name)
Oleomargarine
(is the Technical Name)
This is the Carton
in which you buy this wholesome
Eccnornical Food Product
Made by Swift & Company, U. S. A.
r
ia a corroding superstition. There is no
"maas" to read a nwspaper only Indi
viduals. But Into the newspaper there ts
put a wide variety of things because there
is a wide variety of persons In the world
this year.
The man whe wants only a hunch of
frraceii and a little tea and toast for break
fast cannot understand the individual next
him who is of an husktnesa, who demands
buckwheat cakea, sausage and pie; yet the
hntnl nin.l lab. I n Kv.k O main 1.
paper. M
The art of newspaper reading 'may be
divided Into two parts elimination and as
similation. No one Individual not concerned
In the making of newspapers haa any busi
ness with the whole paper. , The reader
should select what concerns hint In the
day's news and pass by the rest on the
other side.
Failure to do that leads to the reading
if muoh more than can be read carefully.
Result: Misty Impressions and vague, pur
poseless thinking. The real news of the
day for any one human being Is contained
in not more than a dosen "stories;" choose
the dosen that concern you, and concen
trate en them. Don't try -to cover every
thing In the paper not even everything
on politics or sport There are twenty dif
ferent oyster dishes on a good menu; but
to get enough nitrogen to keep him from
starvation a man would have to eat four
teen dosen a day.
SUNNY GEMS.
"Are you fond of hockey?" she asked the
jaahful young man.
"No-o," he stammered. "I never honked
anything but my - overcoat." Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
"Everybody," thundered the orator, "Is
asking why the cost of living He so high!"
"That must be the reason, then." Inter,
rupted the fussy old person In the front row
of aeats, "why we don't gat any satis,
factory answera.'' Chleago Tribune.
"t suppose some of your public addresses
are matters of Inspiration."
"Not so rnuoli matters of Inspiration,"
replied Senator Sorghum, "as of respira
tion." Washington Star.
"Do you ever run across any ef your
via invnaa in your eucomoDiie iripeT
- "Not If they have the sense to get out
of toe way fira Baltimore American.
"Is he what you would call a first olaas
newspaper mant"
"1 should say so. When the 'end-of-th.
world' scare waa at its height, he jhJw
two editorials written-one to publish Jtt
It did come off, the other if it didn't''
Puok.
"What sort of a speech did he make
1st night?"
"Great Nothing reminded him of an -old
stony he once heard." Detroit Free Preaa,
"How can I tell," asked the customer,
whether I am get Ing tender meat or not? '
"There's only one sure way, ma'am," said
the butcher, "an' that's by eating it."
"But I have to buy it before I can do that."
Yes'm; that's the beauty of the pre.
cniion. cnicago Tribune.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Minna Irving In Leslie's.
His was the woodman's rugged frame.
A knightly spirit bold,
The simple ways and studious tastes '
Of AMuhorltes of old.
His hMrt was tender with a love
For all humanity;
He heard the wailing of the slaves
And yearned to set then) free. i
No honeet labor ever shamed
Ills spirit sound and true;
That which lay nearest to his hand
He never failed to do;
Through hardship, toll and bitter pain
He walked, serenely brave.
The narrow upward path that led
To glory and the grave. ,
Though many a year above Ms duet
Haa shed Its suns and rains,
A pattern still for all the world
His memory remains.
And laurel wreath and martyr's crown
t ArminH hla n a m Air K 1 n t -
And every black he freed is now
' His living monument