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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
Ftate of Nebraska. Douglas County, ss.
i. cornce H. Tzsthuok. treasurer of 'I he Be
l'ublikiiing Company. beinK du'y sworn
lays that the actual number of full and
complete cop es ni The Daily. Morning,
Evming and Sundy bee printed dunnn the
Month ef November. 110. was as follow:
1
S 43,600
t 43,004
4 43,67)
1 1 .43,830
1 44,roo
1 8,330
f 43.310
8 64,68
11... 4S.470
11 44.640
It .'. .43,380
It 44J00
14 43,359
i; 43,860
( 43,858
17 44.330
tS 44,080
II 43,780
(0 43,00
1 43,9X0
f 43,680
mm llfttll
X 4 13.630
16 43,740
43,150
IT 43,880
43,380
43,340
0 43,3)0
Total 1,330,880
Return1! copies 16,436
. ' Net Total i.306,464
Dally Average. 43,616
GEOROE B. TZSCHUCK.
Treasurer.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before me this 3oih dev of November. 1310.
M. V. WALKER,
(Seal.) Notary Public.
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porarily sboald have The Dee
tuaJleet t them. Address Trill be
rhaased mm nftea ae requested.
The early Christmas Bhopper is now
on toe home stretch.
The new battleship Texas ought to
be 8 good fighter, If there is anything
In 6 name.
It seems Mr. Carnegie takes no
stock n Patrick Henry's lamentations
about peace.
Perhaps Mr. Carnegie believes $500,
000 worth of peace a. year will be
better than none at all.
England Is considering the abolition
of plural voting. Inspired, no doubt,
by the example of Illinois.
George M. Pullman is building a
$3,000,000 residence In Washington.
That comes from an upper birth. .
President Taft drops 200 depart
mental clerks from the public pay
: roll. There go 200 more votes for the
opposition.
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Oregon has a parsnip that weighs
twenty pounds. Listen to that, you
states that have not yet accepted the
initiative and referendum.
The Balllnger-Pinchot committee re
port was referrred to the corn ml tee on
agriculture. The senate evidently re
gards It as a bucolic affair.
Arizona's governor says the consti
tution about to be adopted in that
new state Is the worst ever written.
Oklahoma is vindicated at last.
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The latest casus belli between
Texas and Mexico Is the rumor that a
; Mexican Insurrecto has kidnaped one
of Houston's red-headed widows.
James J. Hill believes Canada and
the United States should enjoy closer
commercial relations. It is a pleasure
to find Mr. Hill coming to our way of
thinking.
One wonders if the press report
meant to be humorous in stating that
"no objection" bad yet been raised to
the program to adjourn congress until
January S.
"Fair and warm," says the govern
ment weather prophet at Washington
Well, since the weather insists on it
that there is nothing like making the
forecasts to suit.
Strange how hard it is tq keep the
desire to make holiday remembrances
to friends within the limit of a pocket
book already overtaxed by the high
cost of high living.
According to the Courier-Journal,
Kentucky can proudly boast that none
of her tilliens has ever been shot for
a deer. No, those Kentucklans are far
better shots than that. "
Milwaukee has "shown up" Chi
cago's crude notions of grand opera
The city made famous by a certain
amber fluid declares Mary Garden in
"S&luine" to be the grandest thiug In
that line since the "Girl In Blue."
The railroads are not permitted to
change their rates without first secur
ing assent of the railroad commissions
representing the public. Railroads
should not be permitted to reduce
their train service and abandon trains
on which the public depend without
first tecuriug similar permission.
Tho-.i Ovrrwerked Clerks.
f la neural that the nres dnt
should be criticised fur addin one-
half hour to the workday of the d-ltt
partment clerks at Washington. He
was likewise critlzed by those 200
clerks dismissed from the service.
The clerks work from 9 a. m. to 4:30
p. m., except, of course, the "sun
downers." and they get thirty daysi
vacation earn vfr and their nav Is I
f.e t,o.,.it rn,hiin, n A i
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(omplnlnts one seldom hears of a gov
ernment clerk or eninloye in Washing-I
ton resigning, or leaving the service
voluntarily, despite all the pretended
hardships.
One of the Washington papers tak
ing the overworked clerks' side of the
case. argues that the president could
do much more for his plan of "ef
ficiency and economy" by cultivating
the good will of these clerks, because
they are the men who know where
money can be saved. That pays scant
tribute to the clerks' loyalty to the
public service and none at all to the
authority of the president, or the dig
nity of his office. If he had to secur
the co-operation of the clerks only by
concessions, ho could not expect much
from them beyond time serving per
formance of allotted tasks.
Th situation recalls the story of
President Grant's delayed voucher.
His claim, a personal one, had been
hung up in the auditor'! office an un
reasonably long time, when one day
the president chanced to meet the
auditor and aslted that his claim be
advanced
"Why, Mr. President," exclaimed
the indignant auditor, "don't you
knowthat even the president of the
United States cannot crowd an audi
tor?" "Yes, I suppose that is true," re
plied the president, reflecting, "but I
tell you what the president can do
he can get another auditor."
Oklahoma's New Capital
The Oklahoma legislature
has
passed the bill removing the state cap
ital from Guthrie to Oklahoma City
by a large majority with the emer
gency clause attached, but It is still
a question just how much of a victory
this is for Governor Haskell, since the
new site for which he was so ener
getically laboring was not the one se
lected. From a sentimental stand
point,, of. course, the removal means
much to Governor Haskell, for he has
a deep-seated hatred for Guthrie, but
from a practical standpoint it may be
different.
Governor Haskell did not accept the
compromise, either, until he was con
vinced by other powers that the whole
plan of removal would be defeated If
any attempt were made to change the
location as fixed in the bill, - The, land
the governor wanted selected for the
capitol site lay some six miles' from
the business heart of Oklahoma City,
while the accepted site is a mile and
a half away. Evidently Oklahoma City,
since It went Into the fight, meant
to be really the capital. It probably
la more to the credit of this city that
it won the contest thla way than it
would have been had the bill gone
through with the other site:
Guthrie undoubtedly sustains a se
vere blow In the loss of the capital.
For years it promised to become the
metropolis of Oklahoma, just as It was
the center of the great boom move
ment, but with the sudden growth of
Oklahoma City it soon began to take
a back seat, and now its hope of over
taking the larger city seems to have
gone glimmering in the wake of this
struggle. It means much for Guthrie,
therefore, just as it will mean much,
on the other hand, for Oklahoma
City, for, while state capitals are, aa
a rule, not very potent business cen
ters, in the case of a new state like
Oklahoma, it will be of great advan
tage to have the official headquarters
In the same town with the larger
business interests. And it is generally
understood that the larger business In
terests have brought this about.
Oil as Fuel.
Much la being said of the urgent
necessity for developing the Alaska
coal fields as a means of increasing
the fuel supply and reducing prices to
the consumer in the United States. In
a few years, some experts reckon, the
Alaska coal will be needed wholly
aside from any relation to prices.
But there is little likelihood of our
fuel supply running out any time
soon. The country still has vast quan
tities of coal and it has also untola
sources of wealth in petroleum oil,
whose production and consumption go
on Increasing enormously year by year.
This Is a new element In the fuel ques
tion, which, if the law of supply and
demand were left free to govern,
would work in favor of the user of
fuel for home or industrial purposes.
Coal has not gone to such high prices
because the supply was not equal to
the demand, nor even because of the
cost of production, but, as most peo
ple now are content to believe, be
cause the Interests controlling the coal
market have been strong enough to
hold It.
So In learning that railroads, steam
ships the navy, In fact and other
Industries are yearly increasing their
consumption of oil for fuel, displacing
coal, tb'e people need not go to the
trouble of rhapsodizing until they are
certain that identical Interests may
not control coal and oil, or, at least,
that a "gentlemen's agreement" could
not be arranged between separate
ownerships amounting to the same
thing as one. Of course, under
ordinary conditions, this steadily and
euoruiously iutrcasiuj consumption of
petroleum by fcr.ner co-il-usln roa-u,.;.
. . , r .1 1 rt to -1 in level ,'!! ili CP.
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" h""IJ s ould
la''linK ot the Alaska coal mines
and In time, certainly.
gome such
equalizing will be done.
The government still owns the coal
and oil fields In Alska and, while It Is
difficult to figure out a way for Uncle
8am to go into the coal business. It
should not be Impossible when ready
de velop t heso f iel d s t o m ake sure
against the output being monopolized
in the same manner as the other coal
iand " "Pp-
There Are Others.
In view of the glee with which some
of our rural contemporaries have per-
slstently held up Omaha as a hideous
object lesson of vicious deviltry and
reckless lawlessness, we are surprised
and almost shocked to read the fol
lowing in a newspaper pubMshed In a
nearby town:
nialr can and will stand for a nor? vip
erous enforcement of the law asalnst
a-ambl ng. not only with poker decks but
with the dice box. the selling of clmnces
on articles of merchandise etc. Th?se
things are being done In Hlalr 'openly
and notoriously." and no one knows It
better than our mayor, yet nothing Is
done.
Holy horrors: Is It possible that
tne goo(i town of Blair should tamely
submit to "open and notorious" out
lawry? Omaha has been the target
for some rather caustic comment
emanating from Blair, and some other
towns, where It is reasonable to sup
pose similar terrible conditions exist,
and the mote in Omaha's eye seems
to have obscured all vision of the beam
at home.
In a nutshell, human nature seems
to be pretty much the same every
where. If more difficulty Is encounr
tered in the strict enforcement of laws
against gambling and for the suppres
sion of vice and the regulation of the
liquor traffic in big cities than In small
towns, it is because population is there
concentrated and the temptations and
the opportunities for law-evasion in
creased by that very fact.
The Patient Postman.
Patience is a lesson the spirit of
Christmas ought to teach. Vet it
seems a hard one to learn, or learned,
to practice at this particular time of
the year. When Christmas morning
comes round and your postman falls to
bring you the gift you "Just know"
you are going to get you are not in
clined to be very sweet tempered and it
Is not highly Improbable that you let
the postman know it. Of course it is
not the fault of -the postman. He car
ried, probably, as big a load as his
physical frame could support. And
he has been doing the same thing for
several days. He is likely to be a
very tired man and not in the mood
to be Impatiently dealt with' for some
thing he coutd not possibly help.
The fault. In all probability, lies
With the. sender of the article at the
other end of the line. He or she, as
the case may be, had thoroughly good
Intentions about getting the present on
time, but just did not mail it until
Christmas eve or the day before, and,
of course, that was not soon enough
to Insure speedy delivery. Thousands
and thousands of other articles were
mailed just that way and, as a result,
the posto dices at the sending and re
ceiving ends of the line are congested
and every man inside and out is work
ing his hardest to deliver the goods.
So when you awake on the bright,
merry Christmas morning, save one lit
tle Bmlle for the postman. Surprise
him. Instead of meeting him with
the customary complaint at not bring
ing more, thank him for bringing sb
much as be did and see how much
that will take from his load.
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One member of the coming Ne
braska legislature has announced In
advance his opposition to loading down
the legislative pay-rolls with a horde
of supernumeraries listed as commit
tee clerks, doorkeepers, custodians,
etc. These good resolutions appear
every two years, but rarely last long,
and It remains to be seen whether the
coming democratic legislature will be
less generous to the camp followers
than have been preceding legislatures,
joke.
The heads of the state institutions
and departments in New York are ask
ing $50,000,000 for the year's budget.
As the state's estimated Income from
revenue will be $36,000,000, one can
see at a glance where the new gover
nor, Mr. Dix, is going to have a chance
to display some of his genius for
statesmanship at the very outset.
A compilation of the fees exacted
from students' in various colleges and
universities shows that the graduate
of the University of Nebraska gets
through at much less cash outlay than
those of other similarly ranking insti
tutions. Wonder if the students there
really appreciate the great advantages
they so freely enjoy? .
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Omaha must be developing quite a
muskal ear to put It on the map as a
desirable visiting point for the best
musical organizations of the country.
We believe this city has as many ap
preciative music lovers as any other
American city of its size, and this fact
must come to be recognized outside.
.
Tbe American Sugar Refining com -
pany, popularly known as the Sugar
Trust, Informs us .that it has four
stockholders in the state of Nebraska
holding shares at the par value of
$2s,200. Who are the sugared four?
We can prove an alibi.
If Nebraska is to be permitted to
supply the vacancy on the federal cir-
court of appeals for this circuit,
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entlal consideration, inasmuch as ail
our federal district judges have hailed
from up-state towns.
Champ Clark says that usless King
David was wrong when he said "all
men Hre liars." he will be elected
speaker, for he has the pledges. One
can easily imagine that David had
reference to democrats, too.
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A fifty-year-old church In a city like
Omaha, which Is only fifty-six years
old. puts it among the old-timers. Our
congratulations to the First Presby
terian church on rounding out the half
century.
Two hundred and fifty liquor
licenses In a city of 125,000 popula
tion, means one license to sell liquor to
every 500 Inhabitants, which is a ratio
certainly quite large enough.
How does It come that every time
the democrats elect a few men to of
fice it is a "regenerated democracy?"
Is the old democracy so. bad that It
has to be constantly apologized for?
Reminders of Other Days.
New York World.
The win west may be passing, but some
of Its old prestige remains In the. cowboy
who stood off a company of militia, and
the lono bandit who robbed a Kansaa bank
in broad daylight.
Fine fttroke at Dnalneaa.
Philadelphia Record.
Sometimes a major general of politics
can do a stroke of fine work outside of
the game. The success of Postmaster
Oeneral Hitchcock In actually cutting
down the anniml deficit In the sum of
tll.500.000 Is an economical exploit of the
first magnitude. With a little congressional
help In the way of suggested Improved
methods there Is no doubt he will wipe out
the deficit altogether without Impairing
the efficiency of the service.
Publicity rinreaa for Peare.
Baltimore American.
Ten millions ought to be a good start In
the ways and means of securing world
peace, but unfortunately there are some
things which money cannot buy, and among
them is the sense of. right and justice
which must become an actual as well as
Ideal condition before the Instinct of strife
Is eradicated from human nature. Nations,
as aggregations or Individuals, must de
velop a national conscience and be Just,
even at the expense of their own Interest,
before war Is eliminated from human re
lations. Rockefeller's Charity Fend.
Brooklyn Eagie.
Probably the safest place for the Rocke
feller fortune to be employed is In legiti
mate business where business methods
prevail. Organized Into a charity, a huge
sum like $100,000,000 will be expended with
far less wisdom. In business it Is never
necessary to think up rainbow schemes
for getting rid of money, and the managers
of an enormous fund who have to do thla
will be forever falling from the stars, and
In time they will renew the old supply by
covering the earth with grease spots.
'la the Name of Mars.
; New York World.
. General Fred Orant says that we need
1.000,000 men at once to defend our coasts
and borders and that In case of war the
enemy would be on ua with a jump. Let
us see. The Canadians might rush over
the border, but they don't want to; they
are too busy with other things. The Mexi
cans don't want to either, and If they did
the Texans wouldn't let them. The Jap
anese If left alone might get a sufficient
army across In three years, but then their
sollders would grow homesick. The Ger
mans wouldn't let the English, the English
wouldn't let the Germans and The Hague
tribunal wouldn't let the others. Merry
Christmas Is coming and Santa Claus has
no use for war scares.
SENATORS BV POPULAR VOTE.
Constitutional Amendment Proposed
In I'nlted States Senate.
Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
Resolutions have been presented to the
senate by Mr. Brlstow of Kansas and oth
ers submitting to the states a constitu
tional amendment providing for the elec
tion of United States senators by direct
vote of the people. These resolutions have
been referred to the Judiciary committee,
which in turn lias referred them to a sub
committee composed of Senators Borah
of Idaho, Dillingham of Vermont, and Ray
ner of Indiana. The subcommittee will no
doubt make a favorable report, as Messrs.
Borah and Rayner are favorable to the
step. It Is also thought probable that the
full committee will make a favorable re
port and that action one way or the other
will follow In the senate at this session.
A newspaper canvass of the senate in
dicates the possibility of favorable action.
Thirty-five senators twenty-two republi
cans and thirteen democrats have openly
declared themselves In support of such a
resolution. None of these Is from New Eng
land. Only twelve senators have so far
been found in opposition nlns republicans
and three democrats. This list Includes
Messrs. Lodge of Massachusetts, the two
Connecticut senators, Burnham of New
Hampshire, Frye of Maine, and Dillingham
of Vermont. Eleven republicans and five
democrats are noncommittal this list In
cluding Crane of MaasAchusetss. The re
maining twenty-nine senators who as yet
have not been Included In the canvass are
believed to contain a majority In favor of
submitting an amendment. It will take
sixty-three votes, or two-thirds, to carry
the resolution, and It Is quite possible that
with thirty-five openly favorable at the
start, enough will be found from the list
of thoee In noncommittal or undeclared at
titude to make up the required number,
gueh a resolution would go through the
house with something like a hurrah.
The senate will be wisely advised In tak
ing favorable action. It has stood In cold
and selfish obstruction to this movement
quite long enough. The question with the
senate Is not now whether such a change
as proposed should be made, but whether,
after long consideration throughout the
country, the states should be allowed
through the'.r legislatures to vote on the
subject. It Is one thing for congress or
the senate to refuse a resolution of amend
ment U)Kn an unconsidered matter gener
ally unasked for by the states: and quite
another thing to refuse when a great
majority of the states, aftor long consider-
iatlon. haze exprerd themselves in oa s way
and another as In favor of the change.
This last Is the stltuatlon In respect to
the popular election of I'nlted States sena
tors, and continued refusal by tri senate
to submit an amendment becomes action
or nonaction of a revolutionary character.
It amounts to a declaration by the senate
that the people of the I'nlted States shall
not he allowed to amend the nation's fun
damental Uw in the ordinary way. no
mailer buw generally they may want to.
Army Gossip
Matters of Interest oa sad Back
ef the nrlng- Line Oleaaed from
the Arm sad Hsry Begieter.
Captain K. O. I'avla. fnlted Ptates army,
retired, who Is on duty with the or
ganized militia of Idaho, has been elected
to the legl.xlattire of that slate and he en
teitalns considerable doubt whether he
' may serve In that body and at the same
time perform the duties with the mllltla.
to v iilch he has been assigned by the War
department. The ' question has been re
fetred to the department, with the result
that although Captain I'avls' Incumbency
of office In the legislature does not seem
to fall within the letter of section 222 of
the revised statutes, it Is believed to be
opposed to Its spirit to such an extent as
to make It highly Inexpedient that Captain
Pavls should hold legislative office In
addition to his present employment as a
retired officer of the army. Captain Davis
has. therefore, been Informed that the
military authorities In Washington do not
regard with favor his request for con
tinuance on duty with the militia.
The reports received from our military
attaches abroad on the subject of the care
and endurance of military equipment fur
nished the European armies have led to
some animated discussion In the War de
partment of the situation In that particu
lar at home. It has been alleged by one
observer that the equipment, small arms,
leather articles etc., of Kuropean armies
last two or three times as long as the
same material used by the t'nlted States
troops, and this making due allowance
for the Influence of climate when troops
are stationed In the tropics. One reason
given for the difference Is that the
European commanders are required to
make the allotted quantity last a specified
period. There Is no opportunity for early
condemnation of the equipment. In the
leather articles, with the American ma
terial greatly superior to the European.
It Is alleged that the economy shown In
the European artnlea In the lasting quali
ties of various artlolos la In striking con
trast to the frequency with which that
material must be renewed In our army.
In the past this has been due to the fact
that the rating of organizations Included
the appearance of equipment and the
theory that newness of material made for
the "smartness" of the soldier.
The War department will at once take
up the question of the duties which de
volve upon general officers and the as
signment to command by virtue of the
changes to take place In the personnel of
general officers. The retirement of Gen
eral Ward on Maroh It is preceded by the
present leave of absence which has been
granted to him, and It becomes necessary
to assign an officer to the command of the
post at Fort Riley and the Mounted Ser
vice school for which the duty Colonel
Walter S. Schuyler, Fifth cavalry, until I
lately on duty in the Hawaiian Islands and
recently assigned to duty with the beneral
staff at the headquarters of the depart
ment of California, has been selected, In
anticipation of his appointment as a briga
dier on January 4. Brigadier General M.
P. Maus, now In command of the depart
ment of Columbia, la des'tlned to take
command Of the Department of Vlsayas
in the Philippines. .The command at Fort
D. A. Russell has been vacant since No
vember 14 and the command of the Depart
ment of Dakota will be vacant on Decem
ber 31, while the command of the Depart
ment of Colorado will be vacant on January
4. Colonel Duncan is destlhed for one of
these. The command of the Department of
the Lakes will have to be filled In March
upon retirement of General Hodges and
It is possible that General Murray, who be
comes a major general at that time, will
be assigned to that billet. General Funs
ton succeeds General Potts in command of
the Department of Luzon, the latter taking
command of Fort Leavenworth.
A circular letter has been addressed to
chiefs cf bureaus, and others who are con
cerned with the subject, conveying the in
formation that the War department views
with marked disapproval any activity
which shall attach Itself to the promotion
of army personnel legislation save that
which has to do with the pending amended
bill providing for extra officers of the
army. There Is no mistaking the admoni
tory character of this communication, and
It is intended there shall be no doubt as
to the desire of the War department
In the matter. Every influence which Is
controlled by the administration will be
applied to the enactment of the extra
officers' bill, and there will be trouble
fur those responsible for any effort which
seeks to divert or' divide congressional at
tention, now that the personnel measure
Is' pronounced as the most important of
all projects pertaining to the military per
sonnel. It is realized by those who have
to do with the general scheme of reliving
the personnel situation that the extra offi
cers' bill is of greater moment than any ot
the other measures before congress or un
der contemplation. Were It not for this
prohibition some effort would be mude
again this year In behalf of the Increase
of the signal corps and of the quarter
master's department, but it is now out of
the question. There la some doubt whether
even this prohibition will save the day for
the extra officers' bill. Congress Is, gener
ally speaking, in an Indifferent mood,
which is sufficiently good sign, provided
there is not too much Indifference. At all
events, It Is Intended to Imperil the extra
officers' bill, which, If it must fail, shall
fall on Its own merits and not because
congress was confronted with too much In
the way of special legislation.
Our Birthday Book.
December 80, 1610,
Theodore E. Burton, I'nlted States sen
ator from Ohio, was born December 20,
ISM, at Jefferson In that stute. He was for
many years member of congress and Is
reported to be out best posted law maker
on the subject of waterway Improvements.
Harry Pratt Judson, president ot the
Cnfverslty of Chicago, is Just (1 years old.
He was born at Jamestown, N. Y., and
was a professor of history In the Univer
sity of Chicago before succeeding to the
headship after the death of President
Harper.
George M. Tunison of the law firm of
Jefferls, Howell & Tunlson, with offices In
the Bee building, was born December 20,
lhk2, at Parkersburg, la. He graduated in
law from the University of Nebraska and
became associated with Jefferls A Howell
two years ugo, being admitted to the firm
this year.
Erhardt C. Hoeg, manager of the Inter
state Lumber company. Is just 27 years
old. He was born in Denmark, coming to
this country In lsfi. He was employed
first with the National Lumber and Slilngle
company at Omaha, going with his present
firm In lHOT.
Dr. Solon R. Towne. practicing physician,
Is C4 years old. He was born In Stone.
Vt , and Is a graduate of Portinouth col
lege. He practiced first In New England,
locating In Omaha In MiM. He was for
five years assistant health Cummissioner
for the til .
'WAR ALARUMS."
rhllarieiphin ItuV.rt in : The report of our
nVfrn'sc It ronuitinri will not Is made
put lie. W hat is wanted Is rnough of u
scare to make congress "loosen up," and
not enough of a disclosure to Incite Japan
or China to destroy us before we have
time to get weapons and ammunition.
Washington Post: President Taft does
the senUle thing In pigeonholing the
secret document congress could not take
up. The president remark that connress
hail already been made fully acquainted
slth all the facts upon which legislation
could be based closes, the incident of
ficially. There need be no national council
of defense, no Increase of the standing
army, no war scare.
Philadelphia Record: The pacific coast s
terror lest China or Japan should send
o er an Invading army recalls some pro
scrlptlve legislation by California that U
not very old. .and some discourtesies to thu
Japanese navy which are very recent,
and a pretty constant stream of belliger
ent and often offensive talk. William
5hakepeare remarked that "Conscience
doth make cowards of us all."
Springfield (Mass.) Republican: We con
fess to a great deal of surprise that Mr.
Taft's secretary of war should have per
mltted to get by htm a report by the
general staff on this absurd Invasion ques
tion without exposing the fallacy of It all.
Secretary IMckinson Is performing a dis
seivlce In this business, and the president's
trouble In keeping him within prope.
bounds is no very excellent testimonial to
his fitness for his post.
Louisville Courier-Journal: We now
have a. navy second to that of Great
Urltain, according to recent estimates.
Colonel Roosevelt says a great navy Is a
great guarantee to peace. Great llrltaln
Is afraid hers isn't and must have a
larger one. Germany Is trying to move
up to first place. How much must we
spend to keep otit of a scrap and what
shall we have left wherewith to buy the
hog and hominy for our peaceful meals?
New York World: Mr. Dickinson seems
to contemplate a standing army almost as
large as that of Germany, fully equipped,
abundantly supplied with reserve material
and ready to the last button, as was
Moltke's machine, for slaughter. The
United States army which Mr. Dickinson
now decries Is costing about $100,000,000 a
year. How many other hundreds of mil
lions would be needed to maintain his pro
posed 600,000 men while they were rotting
In their barracks awaiting Imaginary In
vaders?
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.
Government clei ks in Washington have
had their working day lengthened by half
an hour. At that rate some administra
tion of the future may yet subject them to
the rigors of an eight hour day.
Leonard F. Blalsdell of Champaign, 111.,
after spending a lifetime and all his money,
aa well aa that of his relatives, In seek
ing to collect millions of dollars from the
government, is dead In the Soldiers' home
at Danville of that state, at the age of
3 years.
The Important correction is made that
the British suffragettes did not knock Mr.
Augustine Blrrell down and kick him. They
only knocked his hat off and kicked It
about the sidewalk. Thia establishes the
right of the suffragettes to be classed aa
perfect ladies.
Cash Cade is to succeed Jack Abcmathy
as United States marshal for the western
dlstrlot of Oklahoma. It Is a sounding
name, smacking both of the prosperous
present in Oklahoma and of English his
tory, made by men who could "catch 'em
alive" or dead.
Boston's largest individual taxpayer used
to be the late Qulncy A. Shaw. He has
been succeeded In that position by George
R. White, who is president of the Potter
drug and chemical corporation and' who Is
assessed for $3,S0.000. Governor-Elect Foss
stands ninth in the list with an assess
ment of 11.320,900.
Pullman porters have aaked for an In
crease of wages on the ground that tips
are growing less. The thought occurs In
this connection that the Pullman people
would have many precedents for paying
their own hired men. Such a rule, in fact,
prevails pretty generally among institu
tions having employes.
Harriet Kmella Fclsom, seventh and
favorite wife of Brigham Young, died of
paralysis, aged 72 years. In Salt Lake City.
Her birthplaoe was Buffalo. She crossed
the plains In lS'W, and became Young's wife
In 1863. She was queenly in appearance,
and for her Young built Kmella palace.
Up to her death she was firm in defense
of the Mormon principles.
WHAT DID THIS UUSIMUSS.
Significant Features of Election He
turns In New York.
New York Sun.
The votes received by the candidates for
governor of the two principal political
parties in this state In three successive
elections may now be compared:
Year. Republican. Democrat.
IStOb 749.0W! 73.2il8
1M08 m.m 7:ffi,lk
1910 ZU.ZW tW9,7O0
The fairest deduction from these figures
confirms the opinion that the overturn In
political control of New York on November
S of this year was far less a democratic
victory than a republican defeat. Mr. Dix
and his associates were elected to offloe
by the republicans who stayed at home on
election day, not by the voters who went
to the pells.
Appreciation of this fact should not be
without effect on the democrats in their
management of state affairs.
Consider What Would Happen.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Senator Young of Iowa wants congress
to take a rest of two years. There would
be danger In such a decision. In two years
most of the congressmen would be so com
pletely forgotten that they would not hope
to ever be able to regain public attention.
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large or small.
Come in and let us talk it over.
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CHEERY CHAFF.
Thomas Dad. when is the freedo-n of
ti e titv irneu to a ninn?
lioil-W if'i ills wife oes to the country
for the summer, -llai pt r s ItuiitA'".
"I hoi-e you won't think of calling Chi 1st.
ms" night."
"Whv not? Will vou be rnanged?"
"No.' but papa will have mistletoe hung
up under the chadeller, and one has 14
stand under the llht to read tme's Christ
rnsK Tit ettntts. know." Ialtimor
American.
"What s the woist vou can say atioul
him?"
He hasn't an honest hair in his head.'
"Well, that's lii,l i'Ii.mikIi."
"Oh. not so !,! ax on think. 1 mean,
he wears a v is. Uli iiilnghaiii Age-Herald.
"IH yon think the Panama canal ought
to te fortified?''
"Cei tulnl . " i t piled t ie artistic girl. "A
tew fortifications will n.alie the poet emd
pi tuns of It ever so much more quaint
and attractlv e." Chlcimo Tribune.
Eve hnd Just tied n aaiiand ot maple
leaves about her ankles.
"What on eaith are you up to. my love?"
asked Adam.
"1 am Irving on my new hobble skirt.
sweetheart." returned the partner of hs
Joys Willi a sweet smile - Harper s Weekly.
"Where did you get that medal you're
wearing ?"
"i hat s a medal for life saving."
" hat did y.oi do?"
"I never drove a motor car." Cleveland
Leader.
"Can you keep anything on your siom
ach .' " the ships doctor asked.
"No, sr." he retnrnett teddy, "nothing
but my hand. ' Indies' Homo Journal.
Mis. Smozer-llcnr.t, tne alarm clock has
Just i;i)ti off.
Snoozer i hank Koodness! 1 hope tht
thitiK II never come I U':k. - Boston Tran
script. WHEN CHRIST -.AS CALLS.
Gtsntland Rice In St. Ixiuis Times.
Christmas has called and 1 want to go
home:
Chrlstn.as has whl pevel-nnd out throuch
the night
There's somi-ih ng that beckons to ua who
must roam
Far from t.ie berries of scarlet and
white;
There's something that beckons and out
on the road
We follow tlie way of a dream that Is
old.
And weary the travel and heavy the load
Of those who may never turn back to
the fold.
Christmas has called and 1 want to go
through the years to a day that I
know
Over the trail of a dream-woven track
Into the heart of the long-time a;o.
Where scarlet and white from the gray
wall above
The hoily twined In with the mistletoe
bough.
And all of us met In a circle of love
1 went to go home and 1 want to go
now.
I want to go home to the day where njt
dawn
A tow-headed youngster rushed forth
with a whoop
At the clarion call of the little tin horn
And the roll of the drum as It sum
moned the troop
Of the tln-soldlered legion with muskets
agleam
Serried and straight In an unbroken row
I want to go back where a fellow can
dream
Of Christmas like that in the long-time
ago.
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For Five Years
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burn wood it is guaranteed for
twenty years. It will more than
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but we insure its life to prove
the integrity of the stove you
put your money in.
Charter Oak
Stoves and Kanrjes
for alxty-three years have been doing
more than their duty in the best portion
of our American homes.
Primarily Charter Oak Stoves and
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of fuel. Thia they do. But more than
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with graceful designs handsomely orna
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throughout.
Why put up with a stove thst is not
reliable heat producer, or that does not
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your money in something that eats up
tons of coal and gives you no return?
A Charter Oak in your home provides
you with all the heat you require, yet it
consumes a minimum amount of fuel.
You can regulate the volume of heat to
suit yourself. You can keep you; fire over
night and be sure to have it next morn
ing. It needs no attention.
It is made extra heavy and for over half
a century has proven its lasting strength.
Each etove is gas proof so that your room
or kitchen is not filled with unpleasant
odors. One in your house will improve
your home conditions and insure well
cooked meals.
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