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10 Tin: m:n: omaha. Tuesday, .taxuart x iru. The omaha Daily 1yy. Kui.NLir.D nv Kiw,rtD nusHWATKic . VICTOR lUiHKWATER, LIMTOR. Kntered Hi Omaha poetoftlc a second class miltrr. TERMS OF HUHSCHIITION. Humlav llw, one year II .Bo rnlui limy Hee. one yesr l .o" I My Hee (Without hnndnyi. nnn year. 4.'l I 'ally ) and Sunday, one year W.'O DKMVKKF.D HV CAKKIKR. Keening 1W (without H'inday. per week v I. veiling He (wtfh Hundavi, per week. ..!' I'u'.ly Kee (in. lulling Hunriayi, per week..l. lr.ly Hrf i Ithout Hundayi. T week.. Pi Address all complaints of Irregularities In dellveiy to City circulation I ifpan ment. OFFICFS Otiialia-Tlir Hee Huil.llnir. South Omala-tSJS N. Twnty-fotit th St. Conn. I Kluf.' -13 f 1.11 ctrwt. Min uln-Hi Little Hull. line hlrago I.VW Mnrrpiette HulUling. Kan sun Cu -kellanre Hiiildira. New Ycirk-H West Thirty-third street YA aslilngton -;2.i I oiirtecnth fllrect. N. V. COURKSIHINOKNCK I ommiinlcat Inn relating t.. news ami ilit.nl(J niattii should It sdilrcsse.1 Omaha Bee. Kdltorlal lepartmrm. llKMITTANCK.fi. remit by draft, express it ixiilal oirter payable tn The ltc rubllelilni; Company, only 2-ccnt stamp received in payment of nail Si'coiint. rer"iial chirk except on Omaha and eastern exchange tiol accepted. STATKMENT OF CI RCI'I.ATION. .State of Nebraska,' Potiglas County. a. Iwlght Wllllama. circulation manager of The JVee Publishing Cmnpanv, li.'InK dnlv ewom. says that the actual nin-.itirr of fuil and complete copies of The Iiiilly, Morning. Kvenlng anil Sunday Iters printed during the month of 1'ecemlicr. 1K, was a fol lows: X 4,570 IT 49,610 2 44,000 IS. 44.CS0 S 43,30 1..., ;. 43,020 4... 48.600 tO 43,820 t 43,070 : 1 43,640 43,430 22 .44,300 7 44,380 23 44,830 1 43.330 24 44,690 9 43,650 2". 44,350 10 43,400 "A 44,400 II 44,380 27 44,350 II 43, 80 2ft 45,350 13 41,400 24 43,990 14 ,330 30 43,580 IS 43,970 31 43,640 It 43,650 Total 1,355,750 Returned Copies 11,463 . Net Total 1,344,387 Dully Average 43,364 mvimiT WILLIAMS. Circulation Mnnnitir. Puheorlbed In my presence and sworn to before ma this 31st day of December. 1510. IIOMISRT 1 1I7NTKR, Notary Public. Subscriber leavln the city tern porarlly ehonlrt hate The nee Hailed to them. Address . will be chanced na often requested. Chilly? Well, a little. Medicine Hat Is still on the map. Don't you wish you were the coal man? Bet the fresh air fiends got all they wanted thla time. It remains to be seen whether 1911 will prove to be as much of a high flier aa was It 10. The Bee's Junior Birthday book will be found on the Home Magazine page. It will be well worth watching for every day. The weather man seems to have caught the spirit of the democratic councils at Lincoln. Sq "calm" and "hlnmnnlntli " One democratic governor in eighteen years Is New York's record. Nebraska had two in twenty years, and that was quite enough. Among other heroes of the day is the carrier boy who delivers the news paper on your doorstep while tiie storm is raging. Archie Hoxsey, the aviator, pro fessed to be a fatalist. Not a bad frame of mind for a man daring death every day of hla life. If Governor DU will make as cour ageous a stand for high duty as did his grandfather, maybe the people will forget he Is a democrat. Reviews of the business year that has closed are a good deal safer and tuore reliable than forecasts of what the coming year is to bring to the bus iness world. No. Anxious Inquirer, It is unthinka ble that Governor Aldrtch will fail to deliver auy of the appointments which Governor-elect Aldrich announced as forthcoming In due time. South Omaha's firemen have proven themselves of the right stuff. Four hours of battle with the combined forces of a bllzxard and a big fire Is test enough for any man's quality. The Nebraska legislature will soon officially canvass the vote cast at the late November election, and then those who were candidates at that time will know for certain who was elected. Old Boreas has lost none of his vir ility, but man has learned to look for a visit from the North Wind about this season of the year, ao no serious sur prise came along with the blizzard. What the governor of North Caro lina said to the governor, of South Carolina Is not likely to be repeated in what the outgoing governor of Ne braska says to the incoming governor of Nebraska. Nebraska towns are reporting public improvements and private Investments at a rate that shows the growth of the htato still exceeds the census enumer ation Old King Corn's realm Is do ing right well. X A wet legislature compelled to meet in a dry town must be ripe for almost anything in the nature of "treasons, stiategems and spoils." If capital removal is not popular at Lincoln thee days. It never will be. Shoe on the Other Foot. It would he pathetic, were it not rather amusing, to hear all these tear ful exhortations to democratic mem bers of the new Nebraska legislature to remember their paramount duty to their party and their supreme obliga tion to submit to the decree of the party caucus. Tbey may disagree, they are told, on numerous questions of more or less Importance, but they must remember that they are demo crats and that responsibility for their action rests upon the democratic party that has gone good for them. It would not make so much difference, perhaps, tn an ordinary legislative peg slon, they are further admonished, whether or not democrats worked to gether solidly as a unit, but at this particular time party harmony Is the Important matter to consider, because the democratic "bosses" at Washing ton are exerting every effort to put the party In shape for the great struggle two years from now and upon the threshold of the presidential cam paign, with the usual "splendid pros pects of democratic success," it Is ab solutely neccEBary to avoid the evils that come from fighting each other because of differences on "minor ques tions." We admit that this line of argument sounds fine and that were the legisla tive majority reversed and the repub licans In control we might be tempted to make use of It ourselves. But were this the case we know perfectly well what kind of counter talk from dem ocratic organs and orators we would have to meet. All the changes would be rung upon the blind and narrow partisanship of the republican law makers. The spine-less republicans would be pictured as cattle driven by the party whip-wlelder. If any should for any reason, selfish, corrupt or oth erwise, show signs of breaking over the party traces they would be hailed as noble patriots, and men of iron and independence whom no party machine could enslave. They would be en couraged to "Insurge" and show their manhood and assured that duty to public dwarfs duty to party. "The need of "harmony" on the eve of a presidential election would not count against higher moral obligation to re pudiate and dethrone "bossiRm" and the hope of the party would He in the success of the "Insurgents" In upset ting the legislative program of their own party and playing into the bands of the democrats. But this time the shoe is on the other foot and the beauties of insur gency within their own ranks do not appeal to the democratic leaders with anything like the force that republican insurgency in congress at the last ses sion did. Tle proper place for Insur gency Is always In the other party party harmony is the thing to preach when your party Is in the saddle. Postal Savings at Last. With the inauguration today of ex perimental savings banks in one post office In each state In the union, tangi ble results are scored for a movement whose agitation has continued for more than a third of a century. The Bee la happy to be able to note that it was one of the pioneers In the advo cacy of postal savings, which was made a plank In every personal platform and editorial program of its founder, Ed ward Rosewater, and which has been steadfastly and consistently urged as a popular and proper field of activity for the postal department of our gov ernment to occupy. We feel we have a right to believe that to the campaign of education carried on by The Bee, and a few other newspapers, foremost among them the Chicago Daily News, is to be credited In good part the final achievement of the much desired ob ject which In its beneflcicent workings and helpful encouragement of thrift Is bound to be of most far-reaching influence through generations yet to come. The present Inauguration of postal savings Is, of course, only a start. Nor Is It likely to have a perpetually smooth path, much less may all the obstacles besetting Its establishment be regarded as already overcome. Krlends of postal savings must not take it for granted that the opponents of the system have yielded completely, or will tbey fall to attempt to take ad vantage of every opening that may present to discredit it before the public and block its successful opera tion. Before postal savings can vindi cate its usefulness, it must be ex tended and permitted to build up by a gradual and healthy growth, but this extension will be fought and the slow ness of accumulating deposits will be cited as a reason for starving it out. Fortunately postal savings, though new with us, is not a novelty In other countries. It is a regular part of the postofflce administration tn most of the countries of continental Europe, Great Britain and the British colonies in Canada, in Australia, and In Africa and In parts of the Orient. In all these countries the postal savings system has shown that it has a mission and proved its worth. It has invariably started from small beginnings and exhibited reasonably steady growth. Of the thirty-nine countries which have es tablished postal savings banks, only two, Hawaii and Victoria, have discon tinued them. In Hawaii they were in operation ten yeara and had 7,49 4 de positors, when annexation by the Cnlted States put a stop to them and in Victoria tbey had run over thirty years and were in a prosperous condi tion when merged into a system of trustee savings banks in 1897. The I'nlted States la Itself conducting postal savings banks In the Philippines, grown in four years from 2,676. depositors, with a total of f!o5.f50 deposits, to 12,717 depositors, with a total of 1X24.011 deposits. The I'nlted States ought to do. as well. In course of time, with postal savings as have other coun tries, and surely ought to make them as great a success here at home as it has in the Philippines. With confidence It may be said, then, that our postal savings banks are here to stay. The people for whose benefit they are provided must be Im pressed with their Importance to them ; and also be spurred on to make use of them. Cold Weather Conflagrations, .('old weather conflagrations work Untold iniery and suffering. They present the hardest conditions for the fire-fighters to cope with. When once the flames are under headway, with the thermometer below zero, It Is al most ImpuBstble to stay them, and the loss of home or business place Is then the hardest to bear. Yet cold weather conflagrations are natural and inevitable unless extraor dinary precautions are taken. The frigid tempersture called for hot fires In stove and furnace overtaxing facili ties usually sufficing and exposing In flammables to Ignition. The cold wave produces a partially dry at mosphere, which makes buildings al ready dried by artificial heat burn fast and furious. So the wise ones will leave no stone unturned to make sure against fires at this season. A conflagration that could have been prevented means blame attaching somewhere. Con stant vigilance will save an unwelcome call from the Are department. Carelessness and Conservation. Chief Forester Graces says forest fires, which have destroyed millions of dollars' worth of timber In the last year, may be entirely, or nearly, pre vented by simple precautionary meas ures which the government could eas ily employ. He says, further, that In a forest "fully organized with ade quate means of transportation and communication and a sufficient force of rangers and guards the risk from fire Is very small. In foreign coun tries in which forests are so organized the risk Is so small that the forests are insurable at a moderate rate." Then the question resolves itself down to mere protection. Four per cent of the fires of 1909 were from in cendiarism and a large per cent were from sparks of passing locomotives. In either case, under proper regula tion, these causes might have been prevented or defeated. And this Is just the view of most people who have paid any attention to the whole sub ject of conserving our forests. There is less technicality in the system than some proponents are willing to admit. It is not so much a matter of which school of conservation we tie to so much as it Is simple common sense in avoiding carelessness and employing rational means of combatting natural obstacles. President Taft has himself emphasized -this point. Forests could be protected by an adequate ranger service under any system of control, state or federal, and railroads could be compelled to use spark arresters or oil for fuel under one as well as the other. This is a matter that should not be magnified Into a great political bone of contention. There la one duty too plain to be misunderstood protect the forests. The next thing is to cut out the red tape and useless talk about the proper system of conservation and to keep to practical propositions. Stock raisers In the west hava just been forcibly reminded again that Uncle Sam actually does control the public domain. The public has been led at times to think that the stock-, men themselves are the ones In charge, but the courts have not supported this theory. If you intend to use public land for private purposes, It Is just as well to secure permission from head quarters first. The Iowa legislature is not going to lack for candidates to contest "Lafe" Young's retention of the seat In the senate made vacant by the death of Senator Dolllver. The legislature may have so many dear charmera that In sheer desperation it will adopt the plan for a special primary to deter mine who is really the popular prefer ence. A democratic country exchange de clares that the republicans in the leg islature will throw the burden of re sponsibility on the democrats for any laws enacted the coming session and adds, "Tbey want something to cam paign on net year." Perhaps, but the chances are that they will get It whether they want it or not. j ' Our democratic congressman from this district la going to absent himself from his post of duty to come home and see himself elected senator. Of course, the deed could be done with out his personal presence, but hardly so well. The possible slip 'twlxt cup and Up must be disturbing someone's dreams. Railroad magnates persist in gloomy forebodings as to the business for 1911. This baa become habitual with them, and probably will be discounted as auch. Railroad gross earnings for the first three weeks of lecember per versely showed an Increase of 'more than $23,000,000, or 7 per cent. The particular police commissioner who Died cbargea for ouster of the chief of police for failing to enforce the liquor laws to the hilt Is the one most fsger to grant new licenses to j the very plares specified In his own j complaint as being the notorious law-! breakers. Oh, how funny. ! Renewal of the "trust" prosecutions hufura t h t riinrftma rnnrt nf the I'nitoit 1 States will not give any comfort to the opponents of President Taft. The ad ministration is moving steadily and In due order to the working out of Its great problems, no matter what critics may say. Bishop Scannell's conclusions that worse evils than war menace the race, and that better defense than the qual ity of citizenship cannot be had. will meet with thoughtful approval. Ameri ca's chief dsnger just as present is in the heedlessness of the people. January wMll see a new high record In dividend payment, the total being estimated at almost (227,000,000, an increase of $26,000,000 over January of last year. This affords a reason able fair basis for calculating the pros perity of 1910. An Omaha preacher declares from his pulpit that Christian Science reaches the beginning of Us end with the death of its founder. Not so fast. The democratic party was killed off three times by Mr. Bryan, and still It vegetates. Nicaragua having been given recog nition by the government of the United States, the business of 1911 may now proceed. But just think what might happen if Nicaragua refused to recog nize the United States! A Coat I y Demonstration. Chicago News. Most of this country's I.OOO.OOO fire loss may be needless, but, as the man said coming down on the train, it demonstrate that the people, have money to burn. They Did the Trick. Wall Street Journal. Western trainmen are engaged In the delicate operation of balancing the last straw on the railroad back so lightly that the ultimate consumer will not feel It. tracer Conscience, Thla. New York Tribune. Tha eagerness of the Indicted Ohio vote sellers to get to court, confess and pay their fines without suffering the disgrace of bclngserved with warrants reveals ten derness of conscience in an unsuspected place. Singular animal, man, tn what ha regards aa shameful. Colorado's Wonder. " Boston Transcript. Governor Shafroth of Colorado will turn back, at the end of the biennial term, be tween 160,000 and 1100,000 of unexpended ap propriations, something unprecedented In the state'a history. lie la tha man who refused a re-election to oongrasa when he had reason to believe It was secured by corrupt voting. Soma of his admirers have been suggesting him for tha presidential nomination, but ha declares It would be foolishness for tba democratic party to think of nominating a western man. A Perilous Innovation. New York Bub. The Hon. Murray Vandlver, treasurer of tha committee which la preparing that Baltimore Hellogaballan democratic agape, gives this among much other kindly In formation for the benefit of the faithful: 'Evening dress will ba permitted, but it will not be obligatory." With submission. It shouldn't ba per mitted. It smacks of oligarchy, preda tory interests, the money power. What, ruined Thebes, Nineveh, Babylon, Chossus, Tre, Persepolls, Palmyra, Athens, Carthaga and RomeT Sl'QAR THIST DISGORGIXG9. Chaaka of the Plander Hetnrned tn tha National Trruarr. Cleveland Leader. Whether tha ultimate limit of the "re funding" of stolen money by tha sugar trust proves to be $1,000,000 or 13,600,000 is of comparatively small Importance. Tha trust is too rich to feel the difference seri ously, and the government does business on so vast a scale that ine treasury will net b much affected one way or the other. The main thing to be kept In mind la the evidence which every dollar of plunder thus disgorged affords that the American Sugar Refining company confesses wide reaching and shameless thieving. It Is not a case of "dlffloulty in adapting established business customs to new standards of pub lic ethecs" or of "artificial criminality, created to meet the demand) of ' popular clamor." There is no room for question as to the nature of the transaction from any point of view, ethical of legal. The whole case is plain, vulgar stealing. There Is no fraud older than cheating In weights and measures. There are few forms ut thieving as means and contemptible. The sugar trust has bean caught doing exactly that kind of stealing, en a vaat scale and for many years In suceeaalon. The eoun try will not forget this revelation of a criminal trust's methods. Maxims for Millions Harper's Weekly. If the aura things were always a certainty the chances In the game of life would be more favorable to the consumer. It Is a poor paradox that won't work both ways. It Is Just as well not to bit a man when he is dowa, because it la quite pos sible that he is In a position to trip you up. Some men who have ma--rted a thing of beauty have not found that she is in variably a Joy forever. Tha trouble with the milk of human klnduesa Is that In a selfish world It too often cornea condensed. It is next to Impossible to convince a woman, whose husband snores while he sleeps, that it la difficult for a man to do two things at once. The optimist Is the man who Is utterly unable to aea the hole even when he la in It up to his big ears. Gossip wouldn't be so bad If It went In one ear and out the other inatead of out of our mouths. It is all right to play a rubber at bridge, but It is bad form to rubber at your neigh bor' a hand. A man may have the key to a situation, and yet be unable to find the key-hole. Money talks, but. unlike some men. It can hardly be said ever to glow exactly what you might call garrulous. Some politicians seem to think that a caiuUdate can run belter for office If his legs are pulled regularly every day. Army Gossip Mature of InUrast ea and Back of tba Firing. X.tn Olaanad from tha Army and Kavy Kaglatar. The hoard of officer, appointed some time alto, mlth Major Oeorce V. Mclver. Ninth Infantry at Its head, for the purpose of considering and making recommenda tions concerning ;he supply of small arm ammunition to the fir.na line. Is still .it work at the school of musketry at the , J"tlce la under the charge of the profes l'residlo of Monterey. Cnl. It has been de- ' i-lonal rubber and wrestler who la trying; to elded that any special type of ammunition keep president Taft a weight Uon to 32i vehicle that may be adopted aa a result i pound. mt- T-iMiiiiifiiiig.iii.im .ti iiir siije.ru eiin.ii be supplied by the ordnance drptirtmcnt. While this department ha, of course, been co-operat.ng with the board. It will give particular attention to Its work. In view of the fact that It will be directly con cerned in Ihc supply of the vehicle. The army at present ha no vehicle pnmIhIIv adapted to the transportation of smnll anna ammunition In the field, and It has been using for this purpose the ordlnarv wsgon supplied by the nuarterrhnster's de partment. Major General Leonard Wood has taken up the question of abolishing the "Meyer code," which has become next to uselesa as a means of communication In the fleht In these days of wireless telegraphy and telephony. For fifteen yeara the army signal officers huvo been seeking to have the Meyer code abolished and the Morse code, used for telegraphic work, sub stituted. If this is done. It will represent the passing of an antiquated code which long ago has become obsolete. General Wood has tnl:en tip the subject with the general staff and will probably bring It before the Joint army and navy board for final disposition. Incidentally, the aboli tion of tha Meyer code will permit a slight reduction of the top hamper on board war ships In connection with the Ardols signal ing lights, which are now required, by the use of dlfe:nt ci.lors. In transmitting mes sages by the Meyer code, while with the Morse code .nly one light will be needed. It Is autv.-tsitK that t'-.e Mtyer code has survived so much of the criticism be stowed ly the cpern, hae Judgment, It would sMn, mlg-l't sn'tly prevail In a matter of ths Itlnd The chief of staff of the army has not completed the schedule for the assignment to duty of the officers recently designated as brigadier and major generals. Two of these officers have been "placed. " Colonel Schuyler will be In command at Fort Riley and Colonel Evans will have charge of the militia division, where he will succeed Col onel Weaver when the latter becomes chief of coast artillery. General Murray will probably be assigned to the command ol the. Department of the Lakes, which billet will be v-Wcated upon the retirement of General Hodges. It hss not been decided to what commands will be assigned Gen eral Tuncan and Colonel Anderson, when Hie latter becomes brigadier general. There will be three commands to be filled the command of the Department of the Colo rado, upon the retirement of General Thomas next week; the command of the Department of Dakota, upon the retire ment of General Howe today, and the command of the brigade post at Fort D. A. Russell, Wyo., which has been without a general officer at Its head since General R. W. Hoyt was detached to take com mand of the Department of Texas. The army retiring board, of which the inspector general is the president, has been in session at the War department during the past week, and has passed upon the coses of Major George T. Holloway, pay department; Captain C. D. V. Hunt, of the quartermaster's department, who was rep resented before the board by his brother, an attorney of New York city, and Cap tain E. . J. Huebscher of the Porto Ico regiment, who has been under treatment at Hot Springs and who Is likely to be re tired for physical disability. The board will resume Its sessions on January S, when it will take up the case of Lieu tenant W. C. Tremalne, Fifteenth cavalry, to be followed by the oase of Major John H. Stone of the army Medical depart ment, and later by that of Major J. M. T. Partello, Fourth Infantry. The last named officers Major Stone, from Fort Mcintosh, Tex., "and Major Partello, from Fort Law ton, Wash. are now In the city awaiting the hearings of the board. Two more officers have been designated to ap pear before this board, one being jMaJor cogar w. jiowe, Twenty-seventh infantry, on duty at Fort Sheridan, III., who has been reported for deafness, and the other being Lieutenant James P. Wayland, Ninth cavalry, on duty at Fort D. A. Russell, Wyo. The War department has received reports from department commanders and chiefs of bureaus concerning other of ticers who are considered eligible for re tlrement. roinqiESTi of disbakk. Proa-res of the Medical Profession la the Last Decade. Chicago Record-Herald. The first decade of the twentieth century la over. It has been a decade of progress In science, mechanics, Industry, art, politics and morals. One of its salient features has been the successful campaign against dreaded diseases and "plagues." New measures have been adopted In the Interest of public and private health. Medicine and surgery have almost been "revolution ised," and an active propaganda In the press and In the school has "peoplelsed" sound Ideas of prevention and protection to a remarkable extent. In an article In th current World'a Work Dr. Wooda Hutchlnaon briefly describes the decade's progress toward health and Increased life. The national death rate haa been reduced 10 per cent, tha nam rate of gain has been achieved in the case of tuberculosis, Infant mortality Is declining, and 20.000 bablea are saved annually and ao on. The war on bugs, bacilli and other car riers of disease has been energetic and ef fective. The notorious hook-worm haa been discovered and the simple means of getting rid of the parasite demonstrated to the rural south. We have effacloua remedies against spotted fever, and "pellagra la yielding to research. Typhoid Is going tha way of yellow fever now that, in addition to care and Intelligence In handling water and milk, the houso fly la being ruthlessly exterminated. Faith in the magic power of druga has waned. Kven leading physicians apeak of the "extraordinary delusion" that pills and mixtures ran undo the mischief of foul air, bad habits. Intemperance. The gospel of sane, moderate living; of exer cise and recreation, of plenty of fresh air, has been embraced by thousands. Insti tutes have been established to grapple with cancer and other baffling maladies, and further advance la a certainty. The next decade is sura to better the excellent In structions of the one now closing. A l.lsnltless Uonsr. Indianapolis News. The further the Investigations go Into the sugar frauds the more is appears that no sum the sugar trust could pay the govern ment In the way of compromise would come i anywhere near satisfying the demand of Justice. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Horace Mitchell. repreentatlve-eleet to the Maine legislature f'oni Kittery, hold more than MO offices. They are not public office, but clerkships bestowed by cor poration. Returns from the offlca of tha city clerk In Jersey oty Mmw that William Jennings Hryan. aged KT, nan married yesterday to Mls Martha Washington. Roth ara negroes from New Jersey suburban towna. Chief Justice White la one of the big men of Washington who have to work strenu ously to keep down their weight. The chief From a luxurious home in Colorado Springs to a ranch house forty miles from a railroad In the west end of Montrose county, I the change msde by Mr. George Powyer Young, who formerly was Mlsa Lucy White Mayes, granddaughter of Jefferson Davis. A dangerous maniac since the civil war, Cornelius 8. Dayton haa lived for forty. five years In a csge like a wild beast In Winsted. Conn. Ills prison Is In a tiny building on the Andrus farm, and his condi tion Is said to be due to a sunstroke lie received while on a battlefield. O. W. 11. Judkins of Norway, Me., lives In a hours built by his grandfather, Daniel Tonne, I0i years ago. In this house were born Mr. Townc's nine children, also Mr. Judkins and his three brothers and Mrs. Judkins children, but no one haa ever died there. Mr. Judkins has occupied the house for the last fifty years. Kdward W. Home, for thirty-three years the "Sunflower Philosopher" of Atchison (Kan.) Globe, retired from the paper on the 1st, selling half Interest to local capitalists and giving the other half to his son, Eugene Howe. During the last six years the Globe netted the owner 120.000 a year. Mr. Howe promises to keep ' his hand and mind In moderate activity by Issuing a quarterly from his summer bungalow, perched on the river bluffs near Atchison. George W. Roberts and his wife quar reled at the outbreak of the clval war, he Joining the I'nlon army, she enlisting her sympathy with the Confederate cause and becoming a nurse. They lost ell track of each other from that time. Not along ago a patient nf Mrs. Roberts In the south recognised a picture of Mr. Roberts that the nurse was wearing In a locket as that of a man she had seen in St. Paul. Inves tigation proved that the man was Mr. Roberts, and the couple were reunited. (KTE1AHIES OF ltl. Notables of Last Ccntnrr Whos An niversaries Occur Thla Tear. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Nobody has called mil a year of great babies, as 1809 was. No Llncolns, Tenny sons, Darwlns or other great world per sonages were born in 1811. A few persons made their advent in that year, however, who had a hand In shaping history. Among them were Charles Sumner, Horace Greeley and Wendell Phillips. The cen tenaries of these and of other great char acters are to be celebrated thla year. Some of them will be observed not only at the birthplace and the residence of those persons, but at many other places. Earliest on the list of these celebrations for 1911 Is that ofumner, which takes place on January 6. Preparation have been made in Boston, New York, Phila delphia, Chicago and other cities to ob serve the birth anniversary of that anti slavery leader. In the lapse of time Sum ner's name has faded from the popular recollection, to a lare degree, as also has that of Phillips. With the passing of the Issue which brought both of them to the front their names have receded farther and farther Into the shadow. Sumner has been dead nearly thirty-seven years, and nearly twenty-nine roars have elapsed since the departure of I'lillllps. Both were reformers and idealists, who did a great work In assisting to arcttse the publio conscience against ttie vice and the folly of slavery. But the thirteenth amendment to the con stitution liss been on tho books for forty five years, and with rrs enactment the Stars and Stripes ceased to ba th "flaunting Home cooking, when successful, is most delicious, healthful and economical. No fear of failure for the Rumford housewife. Her cake never falls, her crust is never tough, her biscuits never heavy. The baking is of fine texture and flavor and will retain its freshness much longer when she uses UN BAKING POWDER Start Your Bank Account It is not necessary to wait until you can make a large, deposit. Make a' beginning with ANY AMOUNT Once started you will want to make it grow. Equal care and attention is given to every account, whether large or small. Come in and let us talk it over. laying by Check Is th ft-af Way t nettle All BlUs. Ttilrlrth and Kearney Military Academy KUltary TralBiag combined with Academic and Busluecs courses develops the bodies and minds of boys Into manly, successful men. We build up a sound body, develop character and ereat the habits that make the boy the Manly Man. Our academlo standards are high. . Our clas sic and scientific courses preps re for all tolleirea. Our commercial courses prepare for business life. Writ for tllustr4iil catalogue. ABIT ST. mussELX mo mats .... . a lie" which liillllps railed It. Sumner figured vlth some pu-mlnenre In the re cmistrui tion cf the eleven ex Confederal states, but that eHrode. too. Is so far back tn time that mlllcna of men who went te the poll two months age were born sine then, and know of it only as they hav read of it or heard of it. Greeley"s centenary, which comes on February 3. will attract more attention than those of either Sumner or Phillips. At hi birthplace In New Hampshire. In New York, the vn-v of his activity. In th Colorado city which Is named for him, and in many other placea the natal anni versary rf that eminent Journalist will b observed. Kve.ry big newspaper In th I'nlted States, on February S, will hav editorial mention of Greeley. As th founder of one of the leading whig and republican newspapers, which Is still on of the most conspicuous of American jour nals, and as Its editor for a third of a century. Greeley was a large factor in shaping public sentiment from 1S4i to his death In 1X71 In an era of personal Jour nalism, much of It of a high type In ability, courage and usefulness to th country, Horace Greeley was a fine ex emplar of that order of editor In his best estate. CHEERY CHAFF. "Rogers, they ssy you've found a rich vein o gold on your plantation in th tropics. Are you developing ii?" "I should say not! Do you suppose I want a gang of splay footed miner tramp ling down my young rubber tree?" Chi cago Tribune. "How did you come to say 'yes' when the Baron Fucash proposed for your daugh ter's hand?" "1 don't understand these foreigners very well," answered Mr. Cumrox. "I didn't know he was proposing marriage. 1 thought he was asking me out to lunch. "Wash ington Star. Traveler The Chinese make It an In. variable rule to settle all their debts on New Year's day. Htay-at-Home Yes. but the Chinese don't have a Christmas the week before Boston Transcript. The stranger laid down four aces and scooped In the pot. "This game ain't on the level," protested Sagebrush 8am. at the same time produc ing a gun to lend force to his accusation. "That ain't the hand I dealt ye." Llppin cott a Magaslne. When the young man called, pursuant te appointment, he noticed that ah wort a hobble skirt "Well," he said. " I don't think much of roller skating, anyway. Shall we go to th theater Instead T" Chicago Tribune. "I hear an amateur detective haa bee, working on that elopement Has he dis covered anythlngT' "Yes, he haa already found out how they went away." "How did he find It outT" "He smelled gasolene, he heard a honk ing sound and he saw a red light dis appearing In the distance. Ho analysed these facts and concluded ther bad been an automobile on the spot" B.ltimor American. EVEN AS YOU AND L John K. millard In Judre, Ten good resolutions standing tn a line; Our hero stepped upon a tack, then thare were nine. Nine pood resolutions; eur here stayed out late "A poor sick friend," was bis excuse the ther were eight. . Eight rood resolutions, with a ltffl leaven ' A poker party with the "boys." then ther were seven. Seven good resolutions, barely half altv. "Oh what's the use?" our hero asked; then there were five. Five good resolutions, battered, bruised and sore: Our hero had t go te "lodge," then there . were lour. . k. ; i Four good resolutions as nervous as could be: Our hero lighted a cigar, then there were three. Thre good resolutions wearing eras and rue; Our hero shook th "bones" for beers, then ther were two. Two good resolutions 1 When the 'play was done, A lobster supper served for two, then there was one. On good resolution out for air and sun The Water Wagon ran away, then ther was none. Contains No Alum Farnam Uresis ksakstet, El 1