TITFi BEE: OMAITA, MON'DAY. NOVEMBER 21. 1010.
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STATEMENT Or CIRCULATION.
Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County. sb..
CeorKC B. Tzschtick. treasurer ol The Bet
Publishing company, beinx duly sworn.
ea.s thai the actual number of full and
rcmpUii; copies of The. Daily. Morn.nH,
iAeniriK and Sunday Ho printed during
Ilia month of October, lDIO, was aa follows;
1 43,300 IT 43.370
t 44,700 II 13,360
I .43.3U0 19 43,380
4 43,380 20 43,210
6 ..43,440 21 43,420
C 43.C40 22 43,170
7 43,760 21 43.450
I 43.630 24 44.030
t 43,700 26 43.380
10 43.5S0 28 43,370
II 43,30 27 43,280
12 43,300 28.... 43,400
12 43,340 2D 43,060
14 43,670 10.... 43,600
IS 43,350 tl 46,880
1 44.030
Total 1,350,740
Returned Copies 11,343
Net Total 1,338.308
Dally Average 43,174
GEO. B. TZSCHUCK,
Treasurer.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before me this Slut day of October. 1H10.
M. P. WALKER,
(Seal.) Notary Public.
Subscriber leaving (be city tem
porarily should have The Bee
Dialled to them. Address will be
changed aa often aa requested.
Last call for the discovery of lielle
Elmore.
China claims to have the cheapest
coal la the world. Quit your kidding,
John.
Still, even as ex-senator, Mr. Depew
ehould be able to continue hla story
telling.
Trust the mayor and council to find
a way to fill that city attorneyship
vacancy. t '
If this rumor of cheaper meat prices
continues, detectives may have to be
sent out to find the meat,
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Indiana may have voted against its
Deverldge, but old Missouri stood pat
and ordered another round.
Mayor "Jim" is passing up a great
chance in not "Jarring loose" a
Thanksgiving proclamation.
The Scotch whisky Industry is said
to be in the dumps. Why, have the
Scots, too, gone back on it?
We will scarcely get the turkey's
gobble choked off till along will come
the Jingle of old Kris Kringle.
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If we could understand what Is the
joke in this "cut of meat prices" we
could better appreciate the humor.
speaking or wny prices snouia go
down, has auybody ever found the real
reason why they should have gone up?
Now democratic papers are pleading
with the democratic party to be care-.
ful. This is not the day of miracles
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The coming Nebraska legislature
promises to make everything nonpar
tisan except what Is wholly withlu the
grasp of the democrats.
Who says Greater Omaha is not
progressive? With all these new
cemeteries Omaha offers unequaled
attractions as a place to die in.
Queen Wllhelmlna of Holland is go
ing to start a goat farm. What a fine
herd she could have collected over
here in this country November 9.
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Mr. Bryan is not in favor of that
Baltimore conference. Not buti. t.
ing, since it Is called for the purpose
of renouncing the remnants of Bryan
Ism. Every bullet that goes Into a Chi
cago policeman's pistol now is being
marked. The poor, dowutrodden foot
lad must be protected. Shoot, if you
dare.
If the competition gets much keener
Governor-t-Uct Aldrlch may be led to
believe that the positiou of deputy oil
inspector Is the wont important place
he has to fill.
The colonel repeats that "Every dog
has his day, but the nights belong to
the cats." - A fact which these
ecreened-out sleeping rooms bave
htliied much to impress on many
minds.
Having selected one United States
senator for us, the Washington Times
kindly consents to relieve Nebraska,
also, from the responsibility of select
ing the other. As long as the Wath
lnKton Times is willing to do the bul
ne;s for us might as well save the
tlpeUoe of huldlug tolcclluUa.
Tolstoi.
Count Leo Tolstoi was not the lirt
prophet who withdrew to th wilder
Bom to mert his (Jod face to face, but
not since ancient times have men of
Infltir-nce done this. Tolstoi's stranire
behavior strikes the world as so re
markable because he was a man of
world-power. He influenced the lives
of others who could never think of
doing what he did. William Dean
Howells once said: "As much as one
merely human being can help another
I believe that he (Tolstoi) has
helped nie."
Hut for the man who taught that
"The longer man lives, the more
plainly do-s he see that weariness,
satiety, toils and sufferings become
ever greater and greater and enjoy
ments evei less and less," such a
tragic death seems but the logical
sequence of his life. Kx-eonimunl-cated
by his church, renounced In a
measure by his country, loved, but
not followed In the vagaries of his
philosophy by his devoted wife and
children, this strange old man must
have felt himself ostracized already.
And, for that matter, he furnished us
In some of hla later writings due
warning of his purpose to close his
life In monastics seclusion. He gave
himself over to asceticism and then
to the doctrine of celibacy, both of
which are monastic Ideals.
Perforce, the question Is raised as
to Tolstoi's sanity In the last weeks
and months of his life. If he were In
sane when he left the faithful wife of
his youth and the devoted daughter
and chose a career of rigorous soli
tude, then he must have been Insane
for years before, for his end Is but
the consummation of his life and
teachings. . And of these we cannot
Judge by ordinary standards or com
parisons. His form of socialism and
universal humanity, his Ideals of the
Christian religion are alike the prod
ucts of a remarkable mind, influenced
by the semi-oriental temperament that
forbids common judgment. The world
may have Its own ideas as to the ulti
mate value of such a life and philoso
phy as consumes Itself in disappointed
hopes and the melancholy real of its
own dogmas, but can it ever rightly
estimate the practical worth of such
an Influence? For proof that the man
in his later years was anomalous to
this age, one has but to read the story
of oriental customs, when by "lonely
contemplation led" philosophers of old
did just what Tolstoi did at the last.
So that we see his type of teaching
fit better Into the groove of the past
than the present. The trend of mod
ern thought could not give much more
than patronizing pity to such imprac
ticable dogmatism.
Another Haskell Exhibition.
In the court's decision that Outhrie
shall continue as the capital of Okla
homa the people of that state are
again humiliated by the exhibition of
their governor, Charles N. Haskell.
He made this his fight and soon after
firing the first gun seized bis coat and
bat and hastened to Oklahoma City,
setting up executive headquarters in
a hotel in that city and declaring it to
be the state capital.
Thoughtful citizens of the state
were chagrined at his precipitate
action, but he banked his all on win
ning the fight. Then the case went to
the courts and the result Is, as was
expected by everyone who had taken
a rational view of the situation, Guth
rie is held to be the state capital.
Under the law all the other state
officers who followed Haskell to Okla
homa City are obliged to return to
Guthrie and stay there until the peo
ple, acting upon legislative initiative,
decide to remove their capital. But
as for Haskell, he may stay In Okla
homa City or go out to his ranch or
anywhere he pleases. Strangely
enough, the law, no more than the
people, seems to care what be does.
He will be In office only a little more
than a month longer, and Oklahoma,
apparently, has resigned Itself to tol
erate him for that short time. It
could get used to him, perhaps, if It
had to, but his term will expire In
January and it will not be called on
to do that.
He has been a source of embarrass
ment to the state throughout bis offi
cial career and, but for a fortunate
combination of circumstances, in
which that celebrated "statute of lim
itations" played a kindly part for him,
he might not now tie involved one
way or the other in this state capital
controversy. The young state of
Oklahom deserves to succeed because
of the gigantic obstacle thrown across
Its path at the very outset in the per
son of its first governor.
After Lost Oil Land.
The president has directed the at
torney general to institute an investi
gation to determine whether 6,000
acres of valuable oil land In California
was known to contsin oil when pat
ented to the Southern Pacific. The
order Is the result of several confer
ences by the president, attorney gen
eral and secretary of the Interior. If
it is found that the land was known
to contain the oil at that time, suit
will be begun by the government to
recover it. If this suit should be won
by the government undoubtedly it
would be followed by similar action
relating to oWier valuable phosphate,
mineral and oil lands throughout the
west.
This particular oil land lies chiefly
In Kern and Fresno counties, where
the greatest production of petroleum
oil la In progress and It is where the
great gushers are now pouring forth
their amazlug wealth. Most of this
laud, particularly iu Keru county.
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looked like a barren waste before the
oil wells were sunk and whole com
munities sprang Into existence. Men
wondered what nature intended it for
and It was sold at the cheapest pos
sible figure, where sold at all, but
when oil was discovered in such
abundance the tracts ceased to have
a land value and when the railroad
sought to rebuy much of what it had
sold, holders laughed at it. Million
aires have been made out of this land
in a decade and the taxable wealth of
California has Increased by many mil
lions. Whether It can be determined that
this land, patented many years ago,
was then knof.n to contain these hid
den treasures is a serious question,
but If so it will more effectually than
ever establish the wisdom and worth
of the Taft system of conservation.
Putting the principle Into effect, the
government certainly will proceed to
other land similarly situated and bring
back to the public domain resources
of inestimable value. The disposition
of the oil and mining industries that
would follow as a consequence of such
a revolution would be another matter
of serious importance, but if this land
was fraudulently or even erroneously
patented, certainly the , government
would have a right to its possession.
More High Finance.
The tangled skein of the water
work's mix-up into which Omaha has'
been precipitated by the costly com
pulsory purchase law and the-mlsman-agement
of the Water board seems to
be almost unending and new knots
come to light every little while.
It is now disclosed that the water
company has been paying, and is con
tinuing to pay, taxes amounting to
about $75,000 a year on its assessed
valuation, which money under the
ruling of the United States court Is to
be reimbursed by the city and added
to the purchase price. .
On a rough division at least one
third of these taxes go to the state,
county , and school district and two
thirds to the city's general fund. Four
years have elapsed since the apprais
er's award, which is to be the date of
the purchase, and in that time the
water company will have paid $300,
000 in taxes, of which at least $100,
000 has gone to state, county and
school governments and $200,000 to
current city expenses. s
If this amount is to be added to the
purchase price and paid back out of
the proceeds of a bond sale we will
have the beautiful spectacle of the
city of Omaha donating $100,000 to
the state, county and school treasuries,
which it would tfe under no compul
sion to pay on a city-owned plant, and
converting this into bonds, together
with $200,000 of, its own outlay for
orTJlnary running expenses.
So far as we know the highest of
high finance does not present anything
that is quite a counterpart to this.
It is consoling to . find that Mr.
Bryan's native modesty has not con
sumed him. He has at last admitted
that the recent democratic victory was
due to "fourteen years of education"
carried on by the democracy under his
guidance. From 189$ to 1910 Is Just
fourteen years; that Is from the Chi
cago to the Orand Island conventions.
Our enterprising contemporary
prints a portrait of "Fiddling Bob"
Taylor as the governor-elect of Ten
nessee. This is on a par wltb the ex
plolt of the Chicago Examiner printing
portraits of Mayor "Jim" and Claude
Porter as the governors-elect of Ne
braska and Iowa, respectively. Guess
sgaln.
We have not heard anything lately
from the Omaha Real Estate exchange
about "the city beautiful." Let us
take down the canvas streamers, tele
graph pole posters, street curb signs
and other disfiguring nuisances that
we do not bave to tolerate.
This tale of the $100,000 bribe
offered to a New York law-maker Is
decidedly Inopportune on the eve of
convening legislatures In Nebraska and
other states. Its tendency most In
evitably be to raise the cost of living
for legislative lobbyists.
A St. Louis reformer proposes to
pension every man over the age limit
whoso wages were $600 or less at the
rate of $300 a year and says the gov-
ernment should do it, though It cost
$5,000,000,000. Sure, why be a tight
wad?
Candidates in the late election are
6tlll telling how much they spent to
win out or to be beaten. Wonder If
the treasurer of the Oerman-Amerlcan
alliance is going to file a truthful
statement as required by law?
Mr. Roger C. 8ullivsn and Mr,
Charles F. Murphy and Mr. Tom Tag
gart have been at French Lick Springs
long enough to bave a whole new dem
ocratlc party completed.
Governor Haskell of Oklahoma has
successfully pleaded the statute of Urn
ltations In his land fraud cases. The
statute of limitations seems to be be
coming quite a favorite.
Grulseu la Betlreaaeat.
Waahinston Herald.
When Gladstone was defeated at the
poll he retired to Hawarden and chopped
down trees. The Sage of Oyster Bay con
finea himself to "sawing wood."
tonfnalnsr
Denver Republican.
Into one ear cornea the cry of hard tiuiea
and the complaint that the cost of living
has Increased until the Working man can
nut earn enough to support hla family;
Into tne other kleala a whisper to the ef
fect that U.e aotiuuulaUoua la toe awvlugs
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banks of the country have Increased t)
$4.ron,non.O( roei that mean that figures
Is a qualified candidate fr the Ansnlns
club.
Omit (he Hot Air.
Chirngo News.
Now that prices are going down attain
perhaps the people who manufacture the
package food will feel that they can return
to the honcster custom of giving as much
for our money as they pretend to Rive.
"Johns?, t.et Tour ion."
Cleveland l'laln Dealer.
A forelfrn foe at last prepares to Invade
our fatherland! 'S'death! Shall we endure
It? Let ua prepare for the worst and aend
down a corporal and half a doren regulars
to guard our menaced frontier.
Perllors Aaananiilloii
Denver Republican.
Possibly those Mexican! who are threat
ening to Invade the United States have
concluded that alnce the country went
democratic It doesn't care what happen
to It.
Premature Classification.
Collier's Weekly.
Those who bunch Jim Jeffrlee, the Chi
cago Cubs, and Theodore Koosevelt omit
Important differences. Jeffrlea will never
acaln coma back, the Cubs may, and the
Colonel, thank you, la at present, feeling
very fit.
Thrills for r.ratefal Hearts.
Philadelphia Record.
The out-turn of the farms this year, ac
cording to the figures of the Agricultural
department, is 4 per cent above the av
erage of the five last prosperous years.
This la a showing that should make the
whole country cheerful and make every
body ready to celebrate Thanksgiving duy
with grateful hearts.
A Oemoerat to Peril.
HoiiBton Post.
A New Jersey democrat was so aatounded
at his election that he became deranged
and killed himself. We were so over
whelmed by the glory of our triumph that
for awhile we thought we would drop dead
ourself. Our patriots must never again re
main out of power so long as to make their
deserved success perilous to life.
Dolnst Qnlte Well, Thank Yea I
Philadelphia Press.
According to official reports there has
been sn Increase In the average of indi
vidual deposits of savings banks In the
country within the last year of 124.77. This
means a large sum In the aggregate, run
ning up to many millions, and Indicates a
pretty good degree of prosperity among
those who are thrifty enough to Improve
their opportunities and save their money.
Pelte or Pipe.
Springfield Republican.
The relations between Senator Cummins
and the stand-pat successor of Mr. Dolllver
will be closely watched. Senator-elect
Toung, who has spent years fighting Mr.
Cummins, announoes his purpose to work
harmoniously with his colleague. Mr. Toung
calls for the reunion of the republican
party. What does Mr. Cummins call for?
Pelts? Or the pipe of peace?
Maine lilts the Pace.
Boston Herald.
Maine, the laat frontier state of New
England, has Just short of three-quarters
a million Inhabitants and has made
about the average of gain shown by several
states of the Mississippi valley. During Its
true frontier days of seventy-five to ninety
years ago. It drew largely from the 'other
New England states, and grew fast, while
some of them moved but little. For soma
decades past, however. It has been toeing
to the west and to the great cities of the
east, and has kept up Its slow growth
mainly by reason of immigration.
Radicalism Called Down.
Philadelphia Bulletin.
New that Champ Clark realises that he
has something more than a mere chance to
become speaker, he has cooled down some
In hla public declarations. For one thing,
he now denies evsr having said that he
would drive a team of Missouri mules down
Pennsylvania avenue at the capital, and
a also wishes It to be understood that he
does not intend to assume a strong or dic
tatorial stand as leader of the majority.
at the same time reading hla party a solemn
and lengthy lecture on Its responsibilities
and opportunities. Sometimes a big victory
sobers up a politician, and the vociferous
Champ, who used to be a good deal of a
radical, now teems to have grown very
much Into a conservative.
THK MEXICAN SIDE.
Prompt Sopnreaalon af Antl-Aaaertcan
Disorder.
Boston Transcript.
Suppose that an American cltlsen In 1
foreign country who had been arrested!
charged with a heinous crime, were taken
from Jail by a mob and burned to death at
the stake; what would our government doT
The answer I that it would call the atten
tion of the government In whose Jurisdic
tion he had suffered to the gross violation
of treaty obligations, and would particu
larly emphasis tba circumstance that when
ths lynching occurred the courts having
eegniianc of tba crime were accessible. It
would sharply remind ths government
which by negligence has permitted the
lynching that common humanity, wsr
there so treaty protection for foreigners,
should be sufficient to prevent ens accused.
but not eonvloted of crime, being put
to an agonising death. Ail ths remon-
itranoe which our government would make
In such a case ths Mexican government
could with equal propriety have addressed
to Washington. It might bave done so
bad not a Mexican mob, Inflamed to fury
by ths story of the lynching of tba
wretched Rodrlgues in Texas, raged
through the streets of the capital booting
Americans and trampling on our flag. Ths
government of President Diss has acted
with commendable vigor. It has suppressed
ths disorder and will make ths reparation
required by our anbasaador for affronts
offered to our flag. Probably in a few
months the rioting in the capital and In
minor cities and the provocation to rioting
will both be forgotten.
Ws have come off second best, morally
speaking, from many controversies with
other nations arising from Just such In
stances of mob lawleasnees as that wit
nessed in Texas. A foreigner Is lynched
by an Americas mob. His government ad
dresses ours on ths subject. Tb federal
secretary of state WTltes to the governor
of the slat la which the lynching occurred.
urging the punishment of the perpetrators.
The governor replies, slther womUlna
prosecution of the offenders or deploring
Ids Inability! to secure their identification.
uovernor Campbell of Texas has acted
promptly. He has set the machinery of the
state In motion to bring the lynchers to
trial, lie can do no more, and there la
no reason to question his good faith. His
conduct la In honorable contrast to that of
some ether state executives In the past, for
ths synopsis of many a bulky correspond
ence docketed In the State department runs
along linea Indicated above. The upshot
usually Is that our government pays a con
siderable sum of money to the heirs of the
sufferers In reparation for an outrage it Is
aUke powerlesa to prevent or punish. This
Inability of our government to enforce the
treat)' rights of aliens can be cured by an
a't of congress giving the federal courts
the authority to try offeuee lu vloiaUoa
of llioae rlgbta
Very Latest Thing in Oregon
, St. Louis Republic (dem.V .
Senator Jonathan Bourne, Jr., will have choice of the state, as legislators In direct
Incentive at the next session to deliver sn
upwardly revised version of his interesting
speech of last session on devices promotive
of popular rule as known to and practiced
by the enlightened Oregonlans.
Oregon, as we learned from that former
speech. Is a state which not only limits to
a moderate maximum the amount of
money a candidate may legally devote for
campaign expenses, but decreea a sort of
public ownership and operation of cam
paign funds. The state. In fact, under
takes to spend the candidate's money for
him, or at least a part of It. Oregon also
has public ownership and operation of
campaign literature and other curious
things.
Further devices of the sort were In
cluded among the thirty-two referendum
measures on which the state voted last
week. One of these new devices which
was approved by a goodly majority Is es-
peclally Interesting. It extends the prln-
clple of the direct nomination system to
the choice of party delegates to national
conventions.
In the future Oregonians of all sorts will
nme me privilege or expressing in a direct
vote their choice of a presidential candl-
date In advance of the nomination. They
wlll also have the privilege of electing their
delegates to national conventions in the
same way. Such dele-ates will, of course,
be obligated to vote In convention for the
Washington Life
Boms Interesting Phases
and Conditions Observed
at the nation's Capital.
Congressional reapportionment promises
to be one of the liveliest political Issues .
coming up for settlement during the short
session of congress. The result of the elec
tion makes reapportionment a ticklish
proposition. Republicans are In a dilemma.
If the Issue goes over to the next con
gress the democratic majority will do the
Job to its own taste. Should the present
congress put it through several new demo
cratic state legislatures might undertake
state apportionment, and having very lim
ited experience In that line, would uhame
the naUves with an inartistic Job of dis
tricting. To escape the peril of the first
and the shame of the other the plan of
partial escape is to defer action as late
as possible In the session. The Wauhlng
ton correspondent of the Boston Tran
script, discussing the subject at large,
says: The constitution provides that repre
sentatives shall be apportioned among the
several states "according to their respec
tive numbers," and the only restrictions
are that the number shall not exceed one
for every 80,000, and that each state shall
have at least one representative. The
ratio of inhabitants to representatives, with
the membership of the house, has prog
ressed as shown In the following table. In
cluded in the membership totals are the
representatives allotted to new states ad
mitted after the various apportionments
had been made, as, for example, five mem
bers from the new state of Oklahoma:
Members. Ratio.
Constitution f
First census, 1790 142 83,000
Second census, 1300 142 33.000
Third census. 1810 m . 86.O0O
Fourth oensus, 1S20 213 40.0i0
Fifth census. 1U0 242 '.70O
Sixth census, 40 232 7O.tW0
Seventh eeneus, 18fi0 ....237 93,423
Eighth census, 1860 24.1 127.3X1
Ninth census, 1X70 2H3 131,425
Tenth censua, 1X80 332 1M,BU
Kleventh census, 1890 367 173.901
Twelfth census, 1WJ0 3il 1H4.182
It will be seen that although the house
has been enlarged from 196 members In
1810 to 391 members in 1910, the number of
Inhabitants represented by each legislator
has Increased enormously from 3&.0U0 to
194,182. The house now la too large for
effective debate, yet It Is Improbable that
proposition for reducing iu size would
meet favor. Even if the house is kept at
the 400 mark, the number of Inhabitants
represented by each legislator will reach
EO.000.
Borne seven years ago congress swarded
to U Amatols, the artist, a prize of I10.C00
for the design declared by a distinguished
board of Judges to be the most meritorious
for ths western doors of the capltol. The
doors have now been completed and cast
In bronse and are to be placed on public
view In the Corcoran gallery of art
It is seventy-two years since the first
bronze doors were placed at ths eastern
portal of the capltol. They were by Rogers
and are known as the Columbus doors.
Afterward the Crawford bronse doors, on
which were designs depicting scenes In
the history of the republic, were placed at
the senate and house entrances. The doors
dealgned by Amatols, a citizen of Washing
ton, V. C, represent the apotheosis of
America and contain designs which bring
the history of the nation down to the pres
ent time.
The panel representing the transom of
the doors shows an allegorical figure rep
resenting America seated In a chariot and
drawn by Hons, typifying strength, led by
a child, Sjynoolixing tne uperiurny ui ma
Intellect over brute force. Following the
cbarlot are figures representing a scholar,
architecture, literature, painting, muslo,
sculpture, mining, commerce and Industry.
On ons slds of the transom Is a sta-
uette representing Tbomss Jefferson, and
on ths other side another representing
Benjamin Franklin. There is a medallion
at each corner, and thos represent t ea-
body, the educator-philanthropist; Emer
son, the saga, philosopher and thinker;
Horace Mann, the educator, and Johns
Hopkins, ths merchant philanthropist.
Below the transoms are eight splendid
panels In relief, four on each slds. On
these panel are depicted allegorical rep
resentations of Jurisprudence, science, art.
mining, agriculture, electricity, engineer
ing, naval architecture and commerce. On
the other side are statuettes of famous
Americans, and others are depicted on the
corner medallions.
Typical scenes are chosen for the panels
representing Iron and Electricity. Here are
found the well-known Peter Cooper and
H. A. Rowland, one on either side of the
panel. There are medallions of Baldwin,
the locomotive builder, and Edison, the
wlsard" Investigator Iu the realm of elec
tricity.
The laying of railroad tracks, with a
great bridge In the background, forms the
subject of the panel devoted to Engineer
ing. Among the great engineers chosen as
typical among thoe who have accom
plished the engineering marvels of the past
century are James B. Eadd, General
Thomas L. Casey, the army engineer;
Koebllng, builder of the Brooklyn bridge,
and Stevens of transcontinental railroad
fame.
Washington la wondering whether the
new dignities of th speakership, which
now seem certain to fall to Representative
Champ Clark of Missouri, will be suffi
ciently burdensome to keep that statesman
from riding down Pennsylvania avenue be
hind a team of mules, a lu? promised the
house he would do some day.
During the debate In the house last
spring over the appropriation of 12. DUO for
the maintenance of an automobile for
Koeaker Cannon, Mr. Clark announced a
wll 11ns ues te make use of this truly dem-
nomlnatlnn states are obligated to support
the candidate who receives a majority of
bis party In an advisory vote for senator.
This inn't all, however. Oregon Is located
a long way from the cities In which na
tional conventions normally discharge their
functions. Denver was the nearest a na
tional convention ever got to Oregon, and
even to go to Denver Involved extended
and expensive travel. Accordingly. Oregon
provides in Its latest device for safeguard
ing popular rule that the heavy traveling
expenses of Oregon delegates to national
conventions shall be paid from the public
treasury.
Oregon Is now entitled to but eight vote
In national conventions. If, however, It
should Increase rapidly In population and
political parties should multiply and per
sist In a preference for holding their nom
inating bodiea adjacent to the Atlantic sea
board It is easy to see that this new burden
on the treasury may complicate the prob-
lem of bU(,gf,t making by 1930,
Pretty soon Oregon may be voting on
something or other every ninety days or
oftener. The continual practice will. It 1
to be hoped, give Its election officials a
more perfect technique than that of Ht.
l,ouls election officials, who Interpreted
the Intent of the voter In the late aen-
atorial primary with such success aa to
return In divers Instances many more votes
for senatorial candidates than there were
voters In their precincts.
ocratlc method of transportation. He ap
posed motor cars and all such plutocratic
fripperies for the representatives of the
plain people.
AVasliington wants to know if he la still
of the seme mind.
PHKMATI HK POLITICAL Bl RIAL
Amusing" Ranch of "Mourners" Arnonif
Sfw York Rdltnre.
Hartford (Conn) Courant (rep.).
Exulting New York editors and other
editors, democratic editors and mugwump
editors, strurk the loud timbrel In celebra
tion of the (alleged) fact that It's all u-p
up with Theodore Roosevelt. Some ef
them were for reading the burial service
and consigning th remains to the silent
tomb right away.
They'd be wiser to go slower. Tuesday.
the 8th, was not one of the colonel's luckvl
days; he Is not going to remember It with
pleasure. The defeat of Harry Stlmson In
New York, was, no doubt, a great personal
disappointment and chagrin to him; and
the day brought others. It isn't needful to
catalogue them. But the silent tomb can
wait as Tom Reed said empire could and
It will have to. AV do not at this moment
think of another American of Colonel
Roosevelt's years who has a better "ex
pectancy," or Is less likely to submit to
premature Interment. All the present prob
abilities are that he will be ,,allv and kick
ing" In poll tics very much alive and very
energetically kicking for long years to
come. The democratic and ' mugwump
brethren may as well take their vlzamenta
In that now as later.
The debt of gratitude which the people
of this country owe him for fairly compell
ing them to stop, look and listen Is Incom
putable. That th whole atmosphere of
American business life and public life Is
appreciably cleaner and more wholesome In
1910 than It was In 1900 Is, very largely,
his doing. Gifted by nature with extraor
dinary powers of Initiative and persuasion,
he has It In him to Increase this Indebted
ness by new services as thankworthy as
the old-and we hope he will. If he would
only drop the "new nationalism" vagary
once for all, acquire a befitting reverence
for the constitution of the fathers, cultivate
a respect for the courts, tutor a tongue at
times too Impulsive, and once more in
loyal . comradeship touch elbows and
shoulders with his former true yokefellow
who Is now president of the United States,
he would be on the direct road to a splendid
usefulness. There is no proof nothing but
unfriendly Inference, assumption and volu
ble assertion back of all this recent Current
talk pf a "third term." As to the new sug
gestion about his having it In mind to try
to do something in ths Caesar and Na
poleon line, that's sheer nonsense a rush
of Teddyphobia to the head.
Our Birthday Book
November L ltlo.
Charles A. Towns, former United States
senator and sixteen to one free silver
orator, was born November tl, 135, in
Michigan. He vepresented the Duluth,
Minn., district In congress and was a
member of the senate for a few weeks by
apiiolntment to fill vacanoy. Ha also has
ths distinction of having been nominated
for vice president on th same ticket with
William J. Bryan.
John R. Webster, general manager of ths
Omaha Bridge and Terminal company, was
born November 21, 1851, at Detroit He Is
a lawyer by profession,' and has lived in
Omaha sinoa ls&i.
J. E. Buckingham, assistant general pas
senger agent of th Burlington lines west
of the Missouri river, is celebrating his
thirty-ninth birthday. He started la the
railway business In 1887, sine which time
he has been steadily with the Burlington
In various positions In the passenger de
partment.
PENNSYLVANIA
1L LINES
Eommua
NOVEMBER 27, 1010
New York Trains
RUN THROUGH TO
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In Newark CitylS Busiest Spot
Sventb Ave. at Thlrty-second St. On) Block from Broadway
ON AND AFTER NOV. Tl. NKW YORK TRAINS LBAVB CHICAGO
DAILY A3 yOLLOWil
"Th New York Special" g 15 am "Tb Atlantic EipreM" 1J (
"Tb beaboaid hiproiie" 10 05 an "Tb Pennsylvania Limited" i pa
"The Uaahattaa LlalUd, 10 30 a m "Ttii KiuMrs Kipran" iia
lb Huuuylvaoia bpecial" t tS pin "Th Kw York Eiiuiu" UM
Consult Agents lor particulars, or adlrM
W. II. ROWLAND, Traveling Passenger Agent
51 City NnHo.nl Wank Bulldlny. OMAHA. NPB. a
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.
The stale cf 'Washing-ten. having s
milled women tft the suffrage. Is likely,
for the sake of the women, to prohibit ths
smoking of tobacco In polling places.
John U. Mclean, sfter living In Wsfh
Ington for nine years, has Just meved bark
to Ohio. The Ohio legislature is ee-on te
elect a t'nlted ptates senator ef Mr. Ms
Lean's political persuasion.
Miss Jennie Wade, who was killed while
baking bread for the union soldiers en th
battlefield of Gettysburg, has had s men
ument erected to her on the spot by the
Woman's Relief corps of lews.
According to th experience ef a dol'.sr
bill which has been wandering around un
der grave suspicion In New Tork and
Washington, money that has been waahed
and Ironed Is liable to be regarded as coun
terfeit from Its abnormally clean appear
ance. Mlxa Dorothy Whitney has taken a great
Interest In the poor children of New York
and Is surprised that so many of them
have bad teeth. She and a representative
of th Children's league hav offered te
equip a dental room In certain school II
dentists can be found who will give then
servlcea
Five persons are under th car of sur
geons In Bloomfleld, N. J., as the result
of a single puff of clgaret smoke from the
lips of a careless youth. The smoker,
standing on a boulevard curb, blew the
smoke Into th face of a spirited hurte.
which bolted with Its wagon. The five
cupants were spilled out and all badly
hurt.
PASSING PLEASANTRIES.
"Those game hunters ought not to ex
pert any success."
"Why not?"
"Aren't they on a wild goose chae?"
Baltimore American.
"What shall we say of Senator Smuggf"
"Just say he was always faithful tut
trust."
"And shall we mention th nam of his
trust 7" Louisville Courier-Journal.
Maud I'm very fond of Jack, but papa
will never hear of my marrying him.
Kate No, he never will dear. Jaok has
proposed to me. Boston Transcript.
"I never saw a man madder than Kug
glns." "What waa the matter with him?"
"W hy, ha went to a church, sociable Sat
urday night and a he waa going up tn
step he fell off into a deep pool ef elusta
and then got into the assembly room Juat
in time to hear Pussy Plnkleton recite ' i'ne
lieautliul snow," Cleveland Plain Ueaier.
"Edison announces that we shall soeu
have storage batteries that will supply neat
lut our houses."
TJh, he's probably trying to keep this
from being a merry Christmas for some
ccal man against wnom he has a gruge. "
-Chicago Record-Herald.
"Well," said the optlmlstle boarder,
there's one thing about our boarding
house; you can eat aa much as you ilk
tr.ere."
Of course; same ss ours, replied tne
pessimistic one, "you can eat as mum
you like, but there's never anything you
could possibly like." Catholic Standard
and Times.
"You're the waiter, aren't you?"
"Yes, sir."
"Well, you'll lose your Job If yeu don't
take care. I've been waiting her longer
than you have." New York Times.
'Why are you so sure' there Is ns suelt
thing aa a fourth dimension?"
'Because? ' replied tn discourages tat
man, "if there was I d have iu uaaie
Horn Journal. .
'Mrs. De Smrthe does net seem sble t
get in th fashionable set at all this season.
1 wonder why notT'
"1 heard sne was aoroaa last year ana
never got caught smuggling a thing."
Bsltlmor 'American.
PERHAPS.
Whan I see a youth with his pants turned
ub and his beautiful socks on view,
And over one eye perched a Utile rund hat,
wita a ribbon 01 mauv or oiue,
And fourteen rings and the seven pins that
he got at his dear prep, sonooi.
Why, It strikes a chord, and I say: "Oh,
Lord! waa I ever that big a foIT"
New York Times.
PA'S FAILING FACULTIES.
S. B. Klser In the Reeord-Herald.
Pa paid six dollars for a bat; ma thinks
he's lost his mind;
It's lined with silk and ene ef th brown.
sottish, woolly kind;
He brought It home th other night and
kept It on a while;
Before she found out what It cost ma kind
of liked Its style.
But when pa told her what h paid she
sank down In a chair.
And said: "Pa, every day you get mr
foolish. I declare!
"I shouldn't think," sh said, "that yeu
would waste your cash like that!
Nobody but a fool would pay sis dollars
for a hat!
Th children need new overcoats; their
shoes are shabby, too;
Sometimes you make It bard for me to
keeD respectln' you;
Think of the many ways I try to savs
day after day;
And her you go and wast th cash In
such a foolish way!
"If we had millions, I should be th laat
on to complain.
But here we live from hand to mouth
it's Just a constant strain!
I must deny myself the things I often wish
I had.
And then you buy a hat like that it sim
ply is too bad)
81 x dollars merely thrown ewert It fills
me with the blue
Six dollars for a hat? Eneurh t buy tw
pair of shoes!"
Pa aat and listened for a while as though
he felt ashamed.
And pretty soon he says: "Well, Til a li
mit I should be blamed;
Six dollars for a hat's too much; I'll take
It back, but, (ay.
How much did that en eest that ysa
brought home the other day?"
Ma left th room and w could see s t en
roll down her oheek;
She's worried over pa and thinks his mtn
is gettln' weak.
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