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SekaerlWr lewvlag- tke trtty tera
ovarii? ' show Id have Tae Bea
Mailed ta tm. Addrea will If
ehanaed aa ofteei reaaested.
Aviation, a a, umpired problem al
ways up In .the) air. V
Napoleon's secretary has Just died
Not to alow for Fftncav
Cheer up and think, of the other
fellow who la not aa well off as you are.
Every language has Its day. This Is
the time when people are talking
turkey'.- v ,
Stilly there la nothing to stop the
brewers backing Mayor "Jim" for gov
ernor two years hence.
Fort Collins, Colo., ' haa elected a
man named B aimer aa coroner. Talk
about your eternal fitness of things.
Mr. Hearst should be taken at his
word when he declare le Aid not help
the republican ticket in New York.
t
"Mr. Bryan la at last eliminated,"
says tba Chicago Tribune. Is that so?
And who eliminated Vs,r favorite son?
English papers would comment more
freely on ouf elections' were it not that
they are busy with their own troubles.
. Mr. Roosevelt says ha never shirks
a hard task. No, ha seems to pass up
the easy ones in order to get the hard
ones. 1
If the school board ticket had been
on the voting machine without doubt
the democrats would have cleaned that
up. tod.
Now, perhaps Judge Parker will get
in an amiable humor for the first time
since ha was beguiled off that bench
In 1908.
Now that Secretary of War Dickin
son has made a tour of the world he
ought to know the most vulnerable
spots tor an' attack.
"Rebellion In Rhode Island," shouts
the Charleston News and Courier.
What's the matter, women kicking
against the hobble skirt?
A Richmond ,i already -In the field
for the Job of chief clerk in the house
when the Nebraska legislature organ
izes. Sometimes the early bird gets
the worm.
The way some ot those Missouri
democrats are tearing for the tall
timber would Indicate that the baefc-to-the-farm
movement had gained
great momentum.
The day before election a Buffalo
paper bad an editorial headed "Dlx
Shot to Pieces." Tbe natural Inference
Is that Mr.. Dix has remarkable re
cuperative powers.
Governor Stubbs of Kansas should
find no trouble getting a steady Job
If he could make good on hla claim of
being able to build all the railroads
needed at 125,000 a bile.
Dr. David Starr Jordan, remember,
told us high prices were due to war.
So Mr. Armour's predict Ion of a slid
ing scale confirms the reports that
the cause of world peace Is progress
ing.
rTvery state Institution and every!
department or state government will
be asking the legislature for largely
Increased appropriations. That Is
quite the esuftl thing,, and the legisla
tive pruulng actfe will have to be
again called into requisition.
Meat Fricei.
Tbo bead of tbe Armour parking
Industry la quoted aa Baying- tbat the
general level oC food prices will be
lower. Sometime- ago one ct tba big
packers predicted a steady rise In
meat prleea and tbey roaa. These men
are In position of vantage and their
word Is worth aometblng. therefore, so
the consumer may take comfort In this
Cheerful prediction.
It la rather disappointing that Mr.
Armour wtthholda hla reasons for pre
dicting a fall In prleea. He must have
Very definite reasons, and If they were
disclosed tbey would not only be of
much public Interest, but might help
In guarding against mistakes In the
future which may have been partially
responsible for high prices In the past.
He says tbat the packers as well as
the public will welcome cheaper prices,
and no doubt this Is true, for the
packer can probably maintain a satis
factory margin of profit on lower
levels and avoid the annoyance and
expense of Investigations, prosecution
and rigid regulations which have come
In the wake of the general enormoua
rise In prices. A better state of public
feeling would also be possible.
Mr. Armour, we believe, offers good
advice to the farmers when he urges
them to devote more attention to rais
ing a better grade of hogs. He says
that If an average of two pounda addi
tional weight were put on hogs It
would help vastly to solve the problem
of pork prices. It would make a
healthier hog In the first place, and
this would do away with so much
waste now resulting from condemna
tion by meat Inspectors.
It is quite probable that this reign
pf high meat prices has taught its
lessons in economy and scientific pro
duction and ' consumption. This pre
diction of a drop In prices ought also
to suggest something as to the utter
Insanity pt blaming the whole system
of high prices on the tariff. Mr.
Armour knows that the tariff, against
which these charges are laid, is un
changed, and yet prices, he says, are
going to fall.
We Lead in Manufactories.
The United States has long held
first rank aa an agricultural country,
but now It Is rather amazing to the
foreign nations to consider it as the
greatest manufacturing country In the
world. Yet when we export $800,000,-
000 .worth of finished producta in one
year that Is the consideration which
must be given. 'This nation stands to
day first in . agriculture and first in
manufacture. It has leaped to the front
In the latter respect within the last
year or two, and those natlona of Eu
rope that are bewildered at such things
as a 3, 000,000, 000-bushel corn crop are
astonished at our export trade.
The United States has gone forward
in manufactorlea largely for the same i
reason that we went to the front in
agriculture simply the natural result
of expansion and development of our
resources. But back of this has been
the prodding consciousness that we
needed to make greater advance aa an
export country. We had lost some
ground and It was beginning to be felt
both at home and abroad The Ameri
can people are steadily becoming stu
dents of themselves and their own situ
ation, and this spirit of self-inquiry
and self-aggrandizement la . yielding
good fruit. It does us no harm to take
tbe leading places in commerce abroad.
It does not detract from our diplomatic
stronghold.
When we have ' regarded the im
mensity and the advantage of agricul
tural and manufacturing supremacy
it will be well to inquire into some of
the factors -that have brought it about.
We will have to give much credit for
our advance in exporting to the perfec-
tion of gigantic Industrial organlza-lcrat!C
tlons. Whatever may be said of their1
methoda of business, their objection
able political activities, we have to
admit that their skillful management,
their scientific economies, are largely
responsible for our manufacturing
greatness. Felix Schuster, one ot Lon
don's great financiers, aaya be learned
when in the United States that the
"fundamental philosophy of the great
Industrial combinations was this: The
greatest production of the best prod
ucts at the smallest cost of manufac
ture, including also highest wages for
skilled labor."
Just now the tone of Wall street
and other business centers aa to the
Industrial conditions is high and the
optimism, may be traced in good part
to this substantial fact of our recent
ascendancy in manufactorlea.
Take Tour Choice.
For illumination on the outcome of
the county option battle, which will
be the real fight in the coming Ne
braska legislature, we have two very
reassuring pronouncements from
equally authoritative sources.
A proclamation Just issued by Su
perintendent rouison of the Anti-
Salooa league gives us this perspicu
ous Information:
la spite of the fact that the brewers sient
thousands of dollars to defeat us, we have
elected a sufficient number of senators and
represontatlvas pledged to county option, or
to their party platform declaration, to ln
aura the passage of the propocO county
option legislation.
As If this were not enough, we have
also tne fallowing announcement In
the Protector, published aa the oriclal
organ of tbe retail liquor trade, and
aot disclaiming pokesmannbip for the
i)rew(.rs-
The eleetlua of Cheettr II. Al.lrt. h to suc
ceed A. ( KhallenherKer In tlie guberna
torial chair do not crry with it the as
surance that a euunty option law will be
placed upon our statute books. While it la
true that Wr. Aldrlch la bound by a plank
In the republican plaUurm to slyn a county
ortlon bill should one come to his den, he
not ba placed In that embarraaalno
position nt winter. The opponents of
county option will have a fwd working
majority In both houees.
No one, therefore, need longer re
main In doubt.
Take your choice, according as you
feel predisposed.
In the meanwhile we shall see what
we shall see.
Tatk Confronting Dix.
John A. Dlx, democratic governor
elect of New York, says he realizes
the task confronting him, and tbat he
proposes to give the state "an honest
administration, untouched by any in
fluence but his duty to the whole peo
ple," adding:
"Our party has taken upon Itself a
great responsibility, and If we are to
bear well that responsibility and per
form well the duties of state adminis
tration It can only be by tbe devotion,
counsel and co-operation of all good
citizens."
Mr. Dlx lays upon "all good citizens"
part of this responsibility. The point
of chief interest Just now, however, Is
how Governor Dlx Is going to be able
to satisfy the demands of the whole
people and Tammany Hall, with Its
train of special Interests back of it,
at one and the same . time. He will
have a hard time serving these two
masters. The newspapers that sup
ported him for office said his nomina
tion, was dictated and the state con
vention was dominated by Tammany
Hall and the "sinister corporate In
fluences." One of these papers de
clared that never In the history of
New York politics did Tammany hold
the democratic party so mercilessly in
its grasp aa at this convention which
gave to John A. Dlx hla franchise to
run for governor. That and other
papers which supported Mr. Dix de
clared that the lobbyists of the cor
porations reached the convention be
fore the delegates and were more
numerous. They also asserted that
when delegates wanted to present a
favorite candidate for nomination they
went to "room 212," where Mr. Mur
phy was stopping, and "waited hat In
hand," with an humble request that
the boss of corrupt politics In New
York permit them to suggest their
man.
Any reasonable person would regard
this as fairly good evidence that Governor-Elect
Dix was satisfactory to
Tammany, and what It represents. If
he was as the nominee, will he con
tinue to be as governor? That is the
question ahead. Here is where the
responsibility of which he speaks
looms very large in the public's eye.
If he meets the test and satisfies the
conflicting demands he will do what
no other man in debt to Tammany
Hall has ever been able to do in the
city or state of New York.
That Seniority Eule.
ir tne power to appoint committees
Is removed from the speaker to the
house at the coming session of con
gress, aa Is believed it may be, it would
upset the seniority rule and probably
lead to an Interesting scramble for
plums by the democrats when they
come into control with the Sixty-second
congress. The democrats Joined
the Insurgents in their fight In the last
session against tne power of the
speaker, and now. it is reported that
Speaker Cannon and his friends may
neip complete this Job this winter.
The seniority rule determines com
mitteeships arid chairmanships, and,
while It has not always been strictly
applied, if followed in the Sixty-second
congress it would give a few incon
spicuous representatives from three or
four southern states a monopoly on
tne choice places. This, of course,
would threaten the Integrity of demo
hari"on'r at th tset, for the
uunuern aemocrats would scarcely
want to sit by and see these chairman
ships distributed to men with no bet
ter claim than tenure of office. . But
the southerners would be the bourbons
In control of that congress and, even
if the coming session should upset this
rule by shearing the speakership of
power, since each house may make its
own rules, there would be nothing to
prevent the democrats from returning
to the old order. In this event the
seniority rule would be restored and
4 . V ,v . . .
ii me Bouioerners insisted upon its
strict application trouble would surely
ensue.
U'MI .k.
ui iuio serves a good pur
pose in giving reasonable precedence
to experience, it serves a very bad nur
pose where it magnifies consideration
of experience to the exclusion or even
detriment of ability, it might, there
fore, be modified without doing Injus
tice to any party or Interest and by In
creasing its serviceability.
Hotels for Women.
. Americans sometimes get queer
views of themselves from their British
cousins, who have the faculty of pre
Undiug to know America better than
Americans themselves. In the London
Express recently a writer takea Ameri
can men aeverely to task for inconsis
tency in their treatment of women. He
says:
Wa all know that An.erka Is the land
oi gooa camaraderie between men and
women or rather. Is It not well known
that, according to the hackneyed formula.
It la '"the country where woman Is queen
and man her humble subject?"
Then our solicitous friend proceeds
to relate how in the United Statea it
la the next thing to an impossibility
ior noDie, oui aeienaeless woman
who may be traveling without an es
cort, to obtain lodging at the best
hotels. He tella In a doleful tone how
good women are turned awav frmu
,
hotela simply and solel, because they
apply unattended for accommodaHia
nd how In England they are cordially
admitted and given extra care for the
very same reason that they are alone
and unattended.
What a shame to American man
hood this would be it there was a
kernel of truth In it, but what a
commentary on the Brlton'a inclination
to prejudge everything American In a
cynical vein, since there Is not. No
doubt there must be a hotel or two
In this country that observes such silly
regulations, or our British cousin
would never have made the charge.
but these places are in the minority. 1
The fact that American women are ex
tensive travelers and many of them
travel alone and stop at any hotel they
choose in any state or city In the land
Is all the proof necessary to ease the
troubled mind of our solicitous friend.
His criticism does not quite comport
with that other pro-British cyuiclsm
about the American's propensity for
money-making under any and all cir
cumstances. And his appeal for hotels
tbat will not discriminate between man
and woman is really ludicrous. It
only goes to show how little one may
learn from a country by reading dis
torted reports, or flitting through it
and getting his deep-down impressions
from a car window.
Congressman Hitchcock's World
Herald has already discovered that
Colonel Roosevelt is no proper leader
for the insurgent republicans. It has
also put Senator Cummins and Con'
gressman Norris out of tbe running
and left in the entry list only Senator
LaFoIlette, Senator Brlstow and Sena
tor Dolllver, who is dead. When the
Insurgents want to pick a leader they
should delegate that duty to the
World-Herald.
According to "Would-be" Senator
Sorenson, our old friend, Edgar How
ard, is as dead politically as a salt
mackerel. These periodical political
Interments, though, too often only
precede the resurrection. If Edgar
isn't as good a democrat as any of
them by the time the 1912 preslden
tlal contest Is on, we misa our guess.
The voting machines certainly did their
duty for the democrats. When the demo
cratic leaders strenuously opposed the
dumping of them on the junk pile they
knew what they were about. Examiner.
Of course, they did. And so did
Judge Troup when he surprised the
democrats with a decision in favor of
using the machines after he had twice
before decided against them.
Congressman Hltohoock Is in receipt of
hundreds of telegrams and letters congratu
lating him on hla victory, many of them
coming from progressiva republicans.
World-Herald.
Who are the - republicans besides
Judge England, C O. Whedon af?d D.
E. Thompson Letus have the names
so we can tell whether they are pro
gressives or stand-matters. ' ' '
Governor-elect .Aldrlch 's letter of
thanks does not read aa if there would
be any special latch-string out for the
brewers or their paid representatives
at the door to the executive office in
the state house during the next two
years.
Mr. Bryan reprints In his Com
moner, issued next after election, an
address he made two years ago on the
subject, "Thou Shalt Not Steal." Well,
what has that to do with it?
At the Km ef the Ralabw.
Bloux City Journal.
If the Nebraska cities keep Increasing in
population at the expense of the country,
Mayor Dahlman may be elected governor
twenty or thirty years hence.
Ism't It. Awful f
Kanaaa City Star.
Republicans, aa a rule, have nothing
against the democrats personally, but this
year they can't help disproving of the
democracy's almost Inordinate greed for
office.
Walt U4 Watch.
Bt. Louis Globe-Democrat. -But
will the demooratle victory reduce
the coat of living?. Not unleaa It shuts
down mills, throws man out of employment
and deprives them of the ability to buy.
And this very thing resulted from many
democratic victories.
Pleasmr Drepa a Tear.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The man who Introduced moving pictures
Into this country Is dead. It may be a long
time before his name reaches the Hall of
Fame, but when you consider the millions
ot persons who have been entertained by
his Innovation tt must be admitted that
he deaerves well of posterity.
I.tvlac (lost and Ilaalc Deposits.
Indianapolis Star.
In spite of the much-talked-of high cost
of living, Boston savings bank depoHits for
the year ending October 11 are tha largest
ever known In any ona year, and It Is
thought that the returns from tha banks
throughout the state, now ooming in end
not yet tabulated, will show a similar In
crease. What Is true of savings banks In
Massachusetts Is probably Juut as true In
New York and Indiana and every other
state. The cost of living la h?tfh, though
not as high aa haa been known before, but
prosperity seema to have kept pace with It
and even a little In advance.
HORR COIl, HORN COMFORT.
Abandaat Caws tor (ieaeral Thaaka
alvlasr. Philadelphia Record.
The later estimates of the corn crop of
1)10 In the United Htatea put the total at
over 1.1O0.O00.OU0 bushels. What is to be
dona with It T A great deal of it will be
I fed to cattle and hugs. A part of It will
be exported. Wa could eatilly spare 500.
OuCOuO buehel to turn the balance of trade
in our favor. Cheap corn spells cheaper
heef and bacon. It may prove the begin
ning of the end of the upward turn In the
ct.Kt of living.
With our corn and cotton making busi
ness for our railroads, bringing gold Into
the country from abroad and swelling the
volume of Interior traffic of the country
through a concurrent enlargement of buy
ing ability and with a lowering of abnormal
prlies, we may look hopefully forward to a
i return or more prosierous commiona.
Lurely ,h(. u grMlar reon ,ur ,..,
thanksgiving.
Edgar Howard's
Columbus Telegram.
In the Nebraska contest for the office of
governor tlie Insurgent and stand-pat 1
euen did not rlv any part. It was a fight
between Aldilch. friendly to prohibition,
and Imhlman. openly opposed to prohibi
tion and county option. There were many
complications In tb.li contact. One of the
complications was a very evident under
standing between the friends of Aldrlch, re
publican candidate for governor, and
Hitchcock, democratic cnndldate for rena-
tor. and the result was the grinding of
Dahlman between the Aldrlch and Hitch
cock stones. Look at the Boone county
vote TOO majority for Aldrlch, and almost
600 majority for Hitchcock. That Is a fair
sample of the manner In which the combi
nation between the Aldrlch and Hitchcock
forces worked In the locmlltlcs where the
machinery waa properly oiled. Pahlman
la defeated by a large majority,, but
he made a good fight agaJnst great
odds. Ills friends were suspicious
of the Aldrlch-Hltchcock , combination
but they were powerless to break
It. In the speech-making part of the
campaign Dahlman waa almost alone
among the men of prominence on hla side.
Practically all the democrats of promi
nence who usually take part In state cam
paigns either were silent as to Pahlman,
or openly opposed to him. Dahlman was
branded as the brewery candidate, and
was denounced, In the language of Tom
Ochiltree, "from hell to breakfast" aa the
agent of the devil himself In this cam
paign. Every prohibitionist and every
county optlonlst was lined . up against
Dahlman. And right here comes the
strangest picture ever seen in -politics.
While all the people who do not like the
mixing of the liquor Interest In politics
were doing their best to defeat Dahlman,
these same people were fighting valiantly
for Hitchcock, who was publicly endorsed
INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM
Indianapolis News.
"The ballot to be used by the South Da
kota voters at the coming election Is said
to be seven feet long and fourteen inches
wide. It will be packed full of reading
matter called for by the voter In the shape
of proposed laws submitted under the
referendum policy of the state one ot the
proposed laws alone filling some two feet
of the ballot. This may all seem to be
absurd, but It will have Its educational
affects, and the people, even though they
will make mistakes, as do also regular or
official lawmakers, will, In time, find a
satisfaction with the government in which
they are such close participants unknown
to communities where political power Is
more remotely delegated." Springfield Re
publican. To us It certainly does seem absurd and
w cannot see the educational effect. We
should say that It would be rather con
fusing than educational, and a waste of
time. If a man employs a lawyer, shall he
read and pass on the brief In his case?
If so, why have a lawyer at all? If we
can wisely legislate at the polls why have
representative government at all? We are
not of those that believe In caste or priest
hood. There is no mystery In legislation
or religion. Laws, like religious precepts,
must "come to men's business and bosoms"
to be of use. They are for men, not for a
caste. But there are things that cannot
be done at large. Executive power, for
example, cannot be so wielded. Nor can
wlae law making be done so.
The underlying question can run further
back, if you please to the primal division
of labor. Manifestly we, could not get on
at all without It, and as little can we get
on, we think, If we attempt to overturn
the system and make legislators out of
everybody. As well might we try to make
lawyers or tailors or bookkeepers out of
everybody. There is a limit even to the size
of legislative bodies If they are to retain
their usefulness. To transfer the function
to the polls for every citizen to exercise,
wi.lch Is pretty nearly what is done in the
can given, ought, on Ita face, to argue Im
practicability. We feel that the event will
show this. The Denver Republican recently
In arguing against the Introduction of the
Initiative and referendum in Colorado held
tt manifest that it "would discredit Colo
rado In Its own eyes and In the eyes of
Intelligent people in the rest of the coun
try," adding!
"It will require spaoe equal to 100
pages of an ordinary newspaper to pub
lish and lay before the people of Oregon
all the laws they will hav to vole on
this year under their Initiative and refer
endum; and one can imagine what every
ballot will be if made big enough to
contain, all these proposed laws."
Under such circumstances what Intel
ligence of Judgment can there be, and
judgment, too, nuked at the hands of
people who have not been trained In law
making, but have been busy in the vari
ous forma ot Industry? Not only la there
this handicap, but government suffers
and expert advice in a moat Important
relation Is lost The whole proposition
seems to us to be of the crudest quality
and most inefficient. It were to de
spair of good government were not the
reflection tempered with the thought
that It la all no more than an Indica
tion of the swing of tha pendulum. The
people, conscious of having been cheated
and beaten In many cases by representa
tive government, under which special In
terests have thriven at the expense of
tbe common interests, have bean engaged
In an attempt to get out of their gov
ernment. Naturally, they have gone to
the extremes that we are seeing. The
pendulum will swing back not merely
because of Inherent confusion, but be
cause the remedy will be worse than
the disease. If our morality U at such
a stage that we cannot find true repro-
aanlatlv men, wa aurely cannot find
that truth by making every man a legls
lator. It Is tone, not method, that haa
bean lacking.
We are a republic, not a democracy: a
representative government under a writ
ten constitution. And for ourselves we
are not prepared to say that It is a fail
ure. And for whatever failure there may
have been, who shall say that the re
sponsibility does nut He In tha people thetn
solves in their tendency to do nothing and
to allow representatives to do everything;
to fall in furnishing moral support for
laws; to acquiesce In lawlessness? Tills
Is the root of the matter and not repre
sentative government. Here lies the fault,
and here any remedy that Is to be ef
fective, and not an aggravation, must ba
applied. We do not want direct govern
ment, but representative government. We
do not want new nationalism, but o'd na
tlonallsm. And under all we do want and
must have a quickening of tha common
conscience, an aroused sense of obedience
to laws as the only safeguard. Wo shall
not make a wreck of the Institutions that
have been handed down to us, either In
the aggrandisement of an executlvs who
shall be the genera) steward of tha coun
try, nor yet In enthroning tha paasing
whim and unthinking caprice of the mass
as a rule of action.
llrrf'a Hl
Des Moines Capital.
Nevertheless and notwithstanding, we be
lieve that turkey rather than crow will
be the favorite Thanksgiving dish.
Explanation.
by the Oerman Terminal Rights league.
He also had the support of the national
brewers and distillers, who for the last
eight months have had agents In Ne
braska, working to organise the state for
Hitchcock. It was Indeed a strange pic
tureshowing the Aldrlch forces Just aa
enthusiastic for Hitchcock, the choice of
the national brewers, as they were enthus
iastic In opposition to Dahlman. who was
pictured as the choice of the Nebraska
brewers. Strange plcturea are often
thrown upon the political canvas, but
never one more strange than this picture
of the alliance between the Aldrlch and
Hitchcock forces In Nebraska.
It la the part of manliness among men
to recognise the merits of one who opposes
you In the political game, and to give
due credit to a political opponent who wins
a victory over you. In that spirit The
Telegram recognises the merit of the man
who managed the Hltchoock campaign.
We believe the Infection of the Insurgent
republican vote waa large enough to have
defeated Burkett and elect Hitchcock, un
der any circumstances, and yet we can
distinctly discover many places where
votea were added to Mr. Hitchcock by the
genlua and strength of Mr. C. M. Omenther,
who had exclusive charge of the Hitchcock
end of the campaign. Ha took no part In
the state contest, devoting all his energies
to Hitchcock, and leaving the Dahlman
management to other members of the
state committee. He played a clean,
strong part, and played it better than any
other could have done. He la the greatest
power In the politics of Nebraska today.
He could have any office he might ask,
but he asks none. Ha plays politics for
the love of the game, and not for hope of
reward. He la a queer character on the
field of politics. Nebraska haa not fur
nished his counterpart And he Is not
more queer than strong.
PEOrLE TALKED ABOUT.
In Delaware Senator Du Pont has suo
ceeded In keeping his powder dry.
Connecticut expects to see unveiled in
the capltol sometime In the coming winter
a memorial to United Statea Senator Orvllle
H. Piatt. It Is an oval bas-relief in bronze
representing the senator seated at his desk.
John Kendrlck Bangs, Jr., son ot the
writer, Is In Detroit taking a course in
railroad operating, Toung Bangs, accord
ing to his tutors, is making good in every
department he tackles. He is in the em
ploy of the Pere Marquette.
Members of the Atlantic City (N. J.)
common council greatly enjoyed a 12,957
Junket. The supreme court has decided
that they must pay the bill themselves, a
circumstance greatly detracting from the
pleaBurablenees of a heretofore fond
memory.
Thomas Cannell, who led a band at the
coronation of Queen Victoria, died in
Seattle, Wash., in his ninety-sixth year,
leaving eighty-nine descendants, including
seven great-great-grandchildren. Cannell
was born on the isle of Man in 1814. He
crossed the plains on foot and settled in
Utah in 1868.
Franklin MacVeagh, secretary ot the
treasury, will find in his stocking on next
Christmas morning one ot the coetlieat
presents ever made, namely, a 11,000,090
palace- on fashionable Sixteenth street
northwest, Washington's moat famous
bculevard. The house will be the gift of
Mrs. MacVeagh.
Prominent aa tba oldest members of the
fine old Ross family of Buena Vista, along
tha Susquehanna river, a suburb ot Harrts
burg, is Ellen Ross, who, although in her
seventieth year, carries on the unique bus
iness among woman of this section that
of digging or pumptns; sand and coal from
the bed of the Susquehanna river and dis
posing of it as fuel and building material.
M'.U( far the Geaeral Welfare.
St. Louis Times.
Great ohangea are doubtless in store, but
it la a sure prophecy that in the end they
will make for the general welfare. In de
manding honeaty In publlo life and in busi
ness In legislating for the general public
rather than for the special Interests we
are laying broad and deep the foundation
of a general uplift in public happiness and
well being and the beginning In the net
far distant future of such an era of pros
perity as will ecllpae all experiences of the
past.
On Bpeaklas Terms Aejaia.
Chicago News.
Even that peaceful time when the lion
shall lie down with the lamb can bava
nothing on the present day when the Inter
ests are allied with the democracy for tbe
sake of mutual advancement.
Worta, WatehlBK.
Indianapolis News.
There Is no more Interesting personality
now before the people than Woodrow Wil
son. A man who can carry the doubtful
state of New Jersey by a plurality of 44,000
is to be reckoned with.
Hope far the Consaate.
Cleveland Leader
Thia year's com crop amounted to three
billion bushels the largest on record. If
pork doesn't continue to climb down off
lha perch now somebody will have to be
arrested and fined.
Oat with the Flaw res.
Bt. Louis Republic
Pending the reassembling of congress the
publicity statements of campaign expenses
prescribed by state and federal statutes
will no doubt have details that will keep
us Interested.
Our Birthday Book
Woreaabet 14, 1S10.
Charles Denby, American consul general
st Vienna, waa born November 14, IWil, at
Kvanfcville. lie was for many years con
sul general at Shanghai and Is thoroughly
versed In oriental International politics.
Henry Clay Barnabee, the ever-young
operatic comedian. Is 77 years old today,
lie was born at Portsmouth, N. H., and In
his youth was a dry goods clerk In the
same store with Thomas Kitpatrlck of this
city.
Jenkin Lloyd Jones, the noted Chicago
Unitarian pastor, was born November 14.
IMa. He Is a native of South Wales and Is
tbe author of a number of books on re
ligious topics.
Frederick J. Turner, professor of Ameri
can hlHlory In the I'nlveretty of Wtaoonsln
and president of the American Historical
association, Is 49. He waa born at Portage,
Wis., and la a nephew of Charles Turner
of this city, whom he haa frequently
visited. .
Thomas J. Fitsmorrls, of the editorial
staff of The Bee, waa bom November 14,
1863. Ha came to thia country from Ire
land when he waa M years old and Is a
printer by trade. Ha haa been with The
Bee, with a slight iRtermlsslon, since
April. 1V7I.
Ir. W. 11. Mick, physician, specializing
In X-ray and electrical treatment, waa
born November 14, 1877, at Schuyler, Neb.
He la a graduate of Crelghton Medical col
lege and practiced awhile In Denver before
locating In Omaha.
rOLTTICAL PEN TOINTS.
St. Paul Pioneer Trees: Now watch t'ol
unel Roonevelt give an exhibition of a man
who Is able to come berk.
Washington Star: Events continue . to
shape themselves In a manner that pre
vents W. J. Bryan from being held re
sponsible for anything In particular.
New York World: One connoting rtrrhm
stance In an election Is that at least bait
the candidate are saved the neceaattv vl
making great personal sacrifices In enler
to serve the people In office. -
Kansas City Ptar: The country at torn
will laugh at the forced exultation of the
New Tork papers ever the "fate" of Koew.
velt. For the country knows that neither
his future nor hla policies suffered by ,t h
reverses of Tuesday. ,
St. Paul Dispatch: Eugene N. Ko,
democrat, has been' elected governors ot
rock-ribbed republican Massachusetts. , Mis
brother, George Kdmund Fttss. republican,
has been defeated after sixteen years of
service In congress. In rock-ribbed republi
can Illinois. i
Kmporia Oasette: K annas Is the -only
state In the union that elected a republican
governor and a full republican delegation
In the lower house and haa two republican
United Statea senators. In the wreoft of
matter and the crash of world, Kansas Is
the banner republican slate.
Sioux City Tribune: Oh, Norris, N orris!
Why did you not open the dor to oppor
tunity and bid her welcome? If Hitchcock
oould get away with Burkett In a general
election, how much more eaelly could you
have beaten htm in tha primaries. And you
deserved promotion to the senate.
Indianapolis News: "Htlence," said the
Chairman, poising his gavel In midair.
"There will now be a quartet by the
famous red face artists, Albert Shaw, Nor
man Hapgood, Clifford Plnchot and Dudley
Foulke, entitled. 'How It Happened That
tha People All Went Wrong,' with bassoon
obligato by Lyman Abbott. The' ushers
will close and lock the doors."
LAUGHEVQ GAS.
Jane Tes, the patter of the rain always
makes me so nervoue I can scarcely stand
It. Papa laughs at in a
George Papa Is a standpatter, Isn't he?
Cleveland Plain-Dealer.
"Tou're sure you can spare this fiver.
ara you, Shadbolt?"
"Dlnguss, It 1 had not been perrecuy sure
that 1 can get along without It I never
would have lent It to you," Chicago Tri
bune. "I thoueht von said that man was a far.
sighted politician."
He was. But his constltutleacy grot nesr
sighted and couldn't sea him." Washington
Star.
"I wonder why the crar did not visit
Finland In his Journey," said tha loyal
Russian to his friend.
"1 guess." replied the othei1, "becauee he's
pretty much like other men."
"What has that to do with it?"
"Naturally, he didn't care to see his fin
ish." Baltimore American. - -
"Mercy Bakes alive!" cried fcve. ' "
"What's the matter, love?" a.sked Adam.
"It'o Just struck me," she replied, "that
some fresh guy in the future will be calling
me a slattern because I happen to be made
out of ona ot your slats." Boston Tran
script. "I had grand fun last night," j-emarked
Little Jennie, "when Ulster Kthe) and Mr.
Jenkins was In the drawing room together.
Kthel said we should play blind man's buff,
and Mr. Jenkins tied a handkerchief around
my eyes, and" they let me be blind man
the whole time." Every Woman's Maga
zine, i ' ,
'We didn't know what to do with Piute
Pete," said the Crimson Oulch citizen. "He
waa a real good feller, but be would bn
care I ens about shoot In' Up the populace."
"Did you straighten out'the'- matter? ' :
"To soma extent We elected him sheriff,
thereby makln' tt look a little more legal."
Washington Star.
"It's always dangerous to try to gel
something tor nothing," remarked the Wtne
Ouy.
"Yes, you might get what you deserve,"
added the Simple Mug. Philadelphia Rec
ord. J
"Marriage," said the serious man, "Is an
education In itself."
"Yes," commented old Grouoh, 'It teaches
you what not to do after you've dona It."
Boston Transcript.
"Why are you constantly whtBtllnt
'Home, Sweet Homer is that where your
thoughts are?"
"Yes," replied Mr. Croeslota. "When 1
left there tills morning tlkj ronf leaked, tha
furnace wouldn't draw and the hired girl
had quit. I simply can't get my mind off
it." Washington Star.
A Fall Pastel.
The wind Is chill
Across the fen.
The vaudeville
Resumes again.
The moving van
la on the spot,
The chestnut man
Has got 'em hot.
The flrat froat nips:
The bare boughs flap.
The rosebud Hps
Begin to chap;
The graphophone
Inside now goes;
Which doth atone
For many woes.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
THE BLESSED PAIR.
J. W. Foley in New York Times. .
There was a young woman without any
mother
Or father or sister or aunty or brother.
Who met a young man In her own walk
and station,
Wbd had, 1 am told, not a single relation.
This motherless maid and this fatherless
fellow
Went courting each other, and life seemed
all mellow
And sweet, for they had to please on
each other,
And not any aunty or father or mother.
"I love you," he said, and he never 01
luted
His love with the hope that his father was
suited;
"I love you," she said, and she added nu
other
RemarK about hoping he'd pleaee her dear
mother. .
And love seemed to fcmlle on the whole of
their wooing.
For they pa.eu no stand of relations re
viewing. They wanted each other and not some odd
dozens
Of uncles and aunties and parenu and
cousins.
And these kinless youngsters, pray note ye
the moral.
Were married without having had a real
quarrel,
They were not distinguished or wealthy or
clever,
But, oh, they were happy for ever and
ever!
WEDLOCK IN NOVEMBER. '
T. A. Daly In Catholic Times.
June Is sweet, for then l (ouud thue;
But November, gray and cold,
Weaveth memories aiuuuu llite
Spun of gold.
June a rose-time we remember,
tie tbe boy became the man.
But In earnest, with November
Life began.
Btllt I see thee, as we threaded
Uray woods under grayer skies;
Strange new hopes and fuara were Wedded
la mine eyes.
And when these had been translated
Into awed and reverent speech,
Stronglter then our souls were insied.
kfcch with each.
Deep with vernal promise laden,
As with buds the leafless wood.
Here was blossoming of the ninhtrii
Womanhood. Rich the memories now tlint lio i
Hound that day when life, bi-ki.li
And the light-heart boy, thy lover,
I Was a Diao-