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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
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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
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her crust is never tough, her biscuits never heavy.
The baking is of fine texture and flavor and will
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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. ;
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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.
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