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TIIK OMAHA SUNDAY JJKK: FEBRUARY 19, 1011. I Tnu Omaha Sunday IIfj;. J roc.vnrrr.i iv Edward HosrwATf.n virion iius-'EWATt'ii, editor. T"r,!rrd ill Orr.sha posmffire (i Feconel CaMi ini.l;r. terms Hi,- ernricr.irTioN: Kun-'.pv Ii fin ymr Kaitiirfnv llr. one jenr I f Ivily Jt'ii tw.thnut SmtlHV. on rr..4 " Dnlfy iei nnd Sunday, one ymr '.) I'KMVKHKI) I:T CARRIER. Tnn Fte (without tfimday. ter week Kvenlm Hoe (with Pnnrai I. p-r week... It" Daily n (inrlihlinr Hundnyt, r w?ek..j",e rally Hee (without Sund.irt. per week... We Art!re-s nil complaint of Irregularities In d.-livcry to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The He T1iill1i!f . 8outh Omaha '.2 N. Tiv ntv-fourth St. Council B. lifts IS Frott direst. Lincoln 3:1 Little RnlMlng. , 'hii ago 1."4 Marquette Building. linnFS Cf y Relianc rhilhllnrr. New York ?4 West Thirty-third Htrect. Washington 72"i Fourteenth Street. N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating in news end ed itorial matter should tut addressed Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCE.". Remit by draft, express or poptnl nrrW, fVhl to The Bee publishing Company. Only 2-cent stamps received in payment of mull accounts. Personal checks except on Omaha and eastern exchange not accepted. JANUARY CIRCULATION. 45,826 fliata of Nebraska. County etf Douglas, ss: Dwlfcht Williams, elrculatlon mnnaRcr i-f Tho Bee Publishing compitnv. being duly aworn, says that tha average daily cir culation, loss spoiled, unused and rerirncd rop'es, for tha month of Jnnrnry, lull, wus UIVIUHT WILLIAMS. Circulation Manager I Subscribed In my presence nnd sworn to before me this 1st dv of rlirnarv, li.ll. (Seal.) ROBERT HUNTER. Notary Public. Subscribers leaving tha city tem porarily shonld hay The lire mailed to them. Address trill be chanced as often as requested. That yellow streak In tha Tammany tiger Is bo misleading. Seattle need not be surprised if it ia overrun with suffragettes from abroad oon. Mr. Bryan wanta It distinctly under stood he is not for Sheehan; also not against him. , Of course, Henry James' play, "The Saloon," will be barred in Omaha after 8 p. m. It is often impossible to identify pre-election pledges by post-election performances. Imagination Is a good thing, but it gets a man into a lot of trouble be never really has. About the only change in the Iowa senatorial deadlock is that it is locked tighter than ever. Weather news: It became so hot )n Kansas City the other day that the dog catchers started out. . The way to do itf Oo through bankruptcy and draw a f 5,000-a-yeaf federal appointment aa a prize. Still, If those Seattle womeu get into official power they should not pad the pay rolls merely out of habit. Senator Brown says the surveyor Bhip mire in which he Is floundering Is "deplorable. We think so, too. And now Nellie Bly cays her hus band has run away with her money. Wonder if he is a globe trotter, too. It would be all right to charge mag azines more postage by the weight if Jack London wrote all their matter. Senator "Joe" Lalley may be "oil" right, but still he is no slicker than his friend across the hall, Champ Clark. Jn the meantime, Governor Aldricb is doing business at the old stand and peace and prosperity reign throughout Nebraska. American millionaires with avalla- iJa it a ii li I ora u Ar) mnn luYtorl i r watch for King George's appointment!! i of ntw lords. Discussion of table manners In kanBas turns on the point whether It Is correct to pick the teeth with your fork or finger. Texas will stand for anything. A leading paper In that state says Joe Dalley may have six terms more In the senate If he wants them. Kev. "Billy" Sunday would not have half the trouble to make the decision between a big salary and smaller city that is perplexing the Rev. Mr. Aked, Senator Lorlmer's supporters have a peculiar way of showing they are not afraid of risking a vote on the "Question" by continually staving it 'oK. Our congressmen and senators will have to do some fast work the next two week to bt able to go borne and look their constituents in the face after March 4. The real reciprocity that is destra ble bten this country and Canada is not leud so much on dollars and cents as on mutual advantage and labtlug friendship. Former Presideut Eliot of Harvard thinks six or eUht children about right for the average family. Per haps to. for the family that lives in the tropics, whers they go bare-footed and need few clothes. It has been asked why the president named John Hays Hammond to rep resent the United States at the corona tion of King Edward. Probably be cause Mr. Hammond not only wanted it, but :ould afford the honor. Washington and Lincoln. flnre Washington and Lincoln have birthdays In tho tamo month, this idea of observing their anniversaries Jointly has been taken up In some public schools. But another consid eration more strongly commends the plan that It tho striking similarity in the Influences exerted by the two men. Schools may do well to draw the attention of their pupils to thla fact. It Is well for posterity to know how much alike were the conditions and circumstances that governed these two great lives,- of Washington, the father of the country, and of Lincoln, its preserver.' Naturally, we .think of Washington as the Virginia gentleman, of Lincoln as the Illinois backwoodsman; of one as the product and heir of affluence and comfort, of the other as the child and man of poverty and hardship. In a measure the conception Is true, but still the currents of their lives ran to gether at many points. Doth bore the burden of their country's peril; both reached the climax of their achieve ments through the crucible of war; both suffered the same peculiar pain that comes from the apostacism of friends, unable or unwilling to appre ciate the tremendous responsibilities that these men had to meet. Doth were cruelly misjudged and con demned by many of their countrymen at the very times when they were rnoat freely, giving their life-blood for .them and their posterity. Washington's conquest of the British during tho rev olution and Lincoln's triumph for the union were alike fraught with the ob stacles of disorganization and discon tent in the army and congress. They met their problems with the same faith in the Justice of their cause that was sublime; with calm but resolute deliberation; with resourceful energy in pleading with congress and subor dinates In the army and with a com mon .reliance upon One Unseen Power. They were men of great minds, plus great souls. ' To some degree the line of compari son extends even to their physical ap pearances. Both men were large ahd powerfully built, endowed by nature with physiques fit for heavy- burdens. The one essential difference between them, that of their ancestry and early environment, showed Itself plainly enough in their countenances. Lin coln's original poverty and hard life was traceable in every line, Just as Washington's easy circumstances were reflected in the calm composure of his stern, strong features. Much good, It seems to us, can come from a com parative study by children of these two greatest Americans. Conserving Enthusiasm. The ebullition of the laymen's movement a year ago led some sober minds to suggest the wisdom of con serving the enthusiasm before & , re ceding tide set In. They saw peril as well as encouragement In the vast 'as semblages of men In various cities. Tbey seem to have been true in their vision. At least leaders of the church most conspicuous in the movement are now going over the country seek ing to conserve this enthusiasm. Able men have been sent out to dam up weak banks that have been overflowed and store the waters for permanent use. ( V This is the day of lay activity la tha church. The preacher no longer does It all himself. He has learned that he cannot: that the pulpit Is but a small part of the church and that the pew is a very large part. The com bined activities of the two go to make what is called the militant church.. It is necessary, though, for the laymen to be coached a good deal to get them to do their share, and that ia thor oughly appreciated in this effort to conserve the enthusiasm that followed the advent of this great movement. Eloquent, impassioned speechea were taken for what they were worth, but evidently the leaders are not capitalis ing them above par. They have come to the Roosevelt Idea that "Words are gocd. and only sa when backed by deeds." Even church banquets are exhilarating. But results cannot al ways be measured by, the volume' of post-prandial oratory that flows from such sources. For the sake of the good that might come from the concerted action of thousands of plain' men under such an organization it Is to be hoped that this conservation cf resources will meet with entire success. But there Is evi dence enough to suggest the need of the effort now being made. The world was aroused to a pretty high pitch of admiration by the advent of this movement. It would be too bad to let the work die down, ' or even lapse Into a comatose state. Of courae. those at the front do not Intend that it shall, but it will take the co-operation of the privates in the line to in sure the victory. Boom ia Bibhi. Bible publishing houses must be booming with business these days as a result of the campaign recently In augurated by the Gideons of Install ing Bibles in all the hotels throughout the country. One order reached head quarters in Chicago recently from Los Angeles and adjacent towns for 25.000 Bibles. The movement Is spreading all over the country, so that other orders must be pouring in.. The Gideons Is a band of religious traveling men who patronize hotels themselves. They came to the con clusion that a Bible In every hotel room in the country would be a pow erful means of spreading the gospel, so their secretary took up tb, task of supplying the Bibles. He baa a plan of apportioning tho hotels cf each city among the churches and securing the aid of the churches In paying for the books. 'It is a rather novel scheme and yet a thoroughly business-like one. It shows what a good thing It is for the church and religion to have the active aid of keen men, as most traveling salesmen are. They have been called "commercial evangelists." The terra seems to be no misnomer, for thelr's is certainly a work of evangelization When it comes to putting before thou sands of people every day, away from home and home influences, the book of books. Many men might be at tracted to the Bible in this way who would not otherwise, and for the habitual reader It becomes a matter of accommodation. Men will read the Flble, because it ptlll stands as "the book," and still wields an Influence none other can claim. It has not de fied Jntolerent enemies and risen as a Phoenix In the ages gone from the Ashes of destruction for naught. It carries Its message today to all people in all lands and exerts a more wide spread influence than ever it did before. The Acrobatic Champ. Having flopped twice on the tariff board proposition. Champ Clark now has flopped twice on Canadian reci procity. His. repudiation of the en dorsement he and his party gave- to the president's reciprocity plan, there fore, need occasion no surprise. It Is only the Champ Clark idea of able leadership. His party probably will wake up some day to the fact that it Is a very peculiar Idea. When the democrats caucused on the Canadian reciprocity agreement tbey were divided, but a majority favored It. Champ Clark, himself, moved, and the nation carried, to make their support unanimous. He therefore committed himself and his party to reciprocity. Nor did he stop there He gave the president bis word that be would stand by. him in his effort to pass the resolution at this session of congress. Then he comes out In thehouse with that carefully prepared ridicule of the whole plan and pretends that reciprocity la to be but the opening wedge to annexation, knowing that such agitation at this time Is calculated to do more harm In Canada to the cause of reciprocity than most any other thing. ' It may be good democratic politics from Champ Clark's viewpoint, but what the people of. the country way think of it is an entirely different mat ter. Only if they prefer buncombe, sophistry, transparent trickery to out-and-out sincerity, will they Jump to the support of the Champ Clark crowd. It Is thoroughly unworthy for anyone to pretend to believe In the imminence of annexation, for Canada simply would not tolerate such a sug gestion, and Champ Clark's knowledge of that fact Is what makes his per formance appear so reprehensible. If his party has reached the place where It must resort to such, expedients, then It can Indulge no substantial hops for victory, for it has yet to run the gauntlet of Champ Clark's first term as' speaker, where be will have so much opportunity for similar blunders. In practical results it makes no dif ference whether Champ Clark's Out burst on annexation was merely a bad break or an intention to spike the guhi such exhibitions of political acro batics fall far short of statesmanship. Latin-American Distrust. A Chicago man who served several years as Judge on the bench In the Panama canal tone, Is back In this eountry with a severe criticism of the United States' conduct toward Latin American, republics. He says It has been of such a character as to destroy or Impair trust of those people In our good intentions. As a matter of fact, he asserts that this feeling of distrust toward the United States Is so strong that In Colombia It takes the form of open and pronounced condemnation, Colombia, he says, has exerted its in fluence against us with other nations, misrepresenting, no doubt, where ii ran short of facts, in order to dis credit us. The Judge thinks this country has not maintained a consis tent policy down there and that It Should establish and stand by one. He says we have interfered with their elections and their "revolutions" when we bad no right to, impressing the people with the belief that we are wholly, sinister In our manifestations of friendship. While there may be some ground for criticism, t Is doubtful if the sit uation Is quite as bad as this Judge pictures it. It has never been easy tor the Anglo-fiaxon race to Ingratiate Itafjf In the confidence or esteem of the Lttlns. and the best of motives and intentions have been misunder stood when the least warrant existed. The United States bas. doubtless, done rome interfering In the affairs of tho Latin-American republics, but It has generally been with the purpose of aiding In the solution of national problems and the fact of the proxim ity of location and community of ln toreet between us. eeemed to Justify our concern. At least, there is noth ing to show that we have gone about trying to meddle mischievously In the affairs of those countries. Perhaps our friendship was manifested, theo retically at least, when an American secretary of state took the trouble to visit all these republics with assur ances of frlendthip from the United States upon bis lips. Our policy may need a more definite shaping up possibly we have ap peared too friendly on occasions with a people who did not care for our friendship. Certainly this government should not leave a stone untamed in doing Its duty toward the weaker re publics to the south, but It has done nothing as yet to Justify any of those countries in seeking to prejudice our interests abroad. TSa Vacancies Under Direct Vote. Senatorial deadlocks continue in four state legislatures, and while It is quite possible one or all of them may be broken within the next two weeks, these states are confronted with the prospect of being In part unrep resented in the senate If no choice Is reached before the term of the new congress commences. That contin gency of an unfilled scat In the United States senate has occurred more than once in several states and Nebraska among them. The rule Is definitely established that where a legislature falls to elect, no commission by ap pointment will be entertained, but the state must suffer the self-inflicted penalty of forfeiting its senatorial representation. The election of United States sen ators by direct vote of the people would make such an hiatus In the'rep resentatlon of any state impossible. True, contests over disputed claims to seats would not be obviated nor would the necefsity of filling vacancies caused by death or resignation be re moved, but the vacancy caused " by failure of a legislature to agree could not possibly recur. The guaranty of the constitution that each state shall at all times have equal representation and vote in the upper branch df con gress, now too often in default, would become a reality, for It Is Inconceivable that tho people of any state would fail to elect a senator at the proper time. It seems to us that this Is a strong argument In favor of the direct pop ular election of senators, but one that has not been made the most of by Its champions. It is an argument none the less that must appeal powerfully to the people of every state which has at one time or another been left un represented in the Senate because of deadlocked legislatures. The Habit of Exaggeration, Exaggeration is a common fault. It is a grave fault. . It leads often to serious results, not infrequently to confirmed untruthfulness. Beginning with a Jest in childhood, it may grow to habitual prevarications in maturity. In, fact, it generally does unless some thoughtful Influence interposes Itself. But people come to Justify a certain sort of misrepresentation and that deepens the fangs of the fault. Exaggeration amounts to interoper ance in speech, which we may all, young and old, well guard against. In nearly every realm of life this ten dency Is found. Regrettable as H 4s, it Is found in those whose business U ia to preach temperance In other things sobriety of conduct and tha appetite. Yet nothing can be more es sential to the sound upbuilding of a people than sane, sober action, which must be preceded by sanity of thought. The over-indulgence of speech, this over-weening way of reaching out for the superlative degree of expression, this publicity-agent habit of exploiting everything wo talk about it is all bad- It not only tends to undermine our purity of speech, but it likewise tends to destroy the highest regard for exact truth. It ia quite important that we con cern ourselves with tho importance of stating a thing as it Is. Liberty of speech was never meant to become license of language. Where people are scrupulous in their use of words, they are likely to become eo In their han dling of the truth. One somehow seems to bear a close relation to the other, without, perhaps, being invari ably correlated. Incorrect use of words is, of itself, not necessarily a moral wrong, but it Is offensive, Just the same, and sometimes far from being a correct statement of fact, as when one aays, "Oh, it is Just awfully nice." Incongruity, inconsistency Btep- by etep we get away from the facts without intending or realizing it. Race Prejudice 'North and South. A new phase of the "Jim Crow" discrimination practiced upon the ne gro in the south is presented by the case in which a verdict for heavy damages was secured against a rail way in Mississippi by a young woman whose complaint was that three negro bishops had been permitted to ride in the Fame sleeping car with her. She claimed damages In the sum of $25,000 and was awarded 115,000, while the defense of the railway company was that the bishops had traveled from Washing ton to Vlcksburg in g tleeping car and were entitled to the same accom modations on the return trip. The "Jim Crow" laws require railroads Jn southern states to provide separate waiting rooms and separate coaches j for whites and blacks, but as the de mand for sleeping car accommodations Is there, as elsewhere, strictly limited, the reads have felt under no obliga tion to duplicate sleeping car equip ment on lines that scarcely, Justify the hauling of such cars at all. The Incident ia not referred to here for the purpose of arguing against the verdict for damages, although how the damage could be greater from having a negro bishop in tha same car than from being waited on by the negro porter Is not clear, but rather as an illustration of the difference in the degree of race prejudice north and south. We are frequently told that thl prejudice is as strong or stronger in the northern states than In the black belt, but clearly such state ments are unfounded. The negro in the north may labor under certain disadvantages, but be enjoys privileges that his southern brothers would not dare hope for. He has opportunities to work him self up In any legitimate occupation, to educate his children, to move about freely from place to place, to share the benefits of public Institutions and to comniRnd decent treatment on all oc casions If only he behaves himself. His immunity from the Indignity of "Jim Crow" laws alone would be sig nificant of the difference in the race prejudice north and south. The Automobile. The automobile has served its ap prenticeship and now has steady em ployment. It has passed the stage of experiment and Is with us to stay. That is because it has proved to be a private and public utility, as well as a vehicle of pleasure. It is folly to think that its manufacture and sale constitute a mushroom industry that sprung up in a night of Baturnallan prosperity and will die out in a dny of soberer reckoning. The automobile has come to nil a real want. It is a natural product of an advanced age and the industry created by it Is Just as substantial and enduring ns any other commercial pursuit, and a great deal more so than many. It will con tinue to be a thing of pleasure by thousands, yes millions, but it will also continue to be utilitarian. Every year it finds new fields of employment. Rapidly It is supplanting Blower and less profitable means of transportation within cities and in some parts of the country it is being used for such pur poses between towns. Thousands of men and women have been given lu crative employment as a result of the auto industry. It Is folly to think of it only as a thing with which tho rich have to do. It means even more In the end to the poor man, who has to work for his living. Of all our latter day inventions and creations none has had a more rapid development than the automobile, and yet we may well believe that It has only begun to make progress. From now on it will bo come one of the lndlspensables of modern life. The Outlook, of which Colonel Roosevelt Is contributing editor, says the recall is desirable for administra tive and municipal offices, but not for judicial or legislative positions, and It also excepts the office of governor from its application. The advocates of unlimited recall for every elective office will have to realize the necessity of modifying their demand to meet the exigencies of practical government. With Russia preparing to slap crip pled China in the faoe and St. Louia seeking te wrest the Missouri capital from afflicted Jefferson City, world peace would seem to be making slow headway, . E. H. Harrlman once described. Ed win Hawley as the coming railroad man of the country. It appears Mr. Hawley is coming into a big place In the Harrlman triumph over the Gould crowd. Postmaster Thomas cautiously de nies that he collected money, directly or Indirectly, from postoffice employes for political purposes. What was it for, then? Charity t Wisdom of Silence. Chicago Tribune. Opportunity has been doing some loud knocking at the door of tha early robin. Still the Wheel Oo' Konnd. Chicago Post (rep.). The republican party may be "utterly ruined" and the policy of a protective tariff "forever destroyed," as some of those house patriot would have us believe. Neverthe less, the sun seems to line as usual and reciprocity goes cheerfully on to the senate. Marvelous Intellectual. Philadelphia Record. Mr. Bacon of Georgia asked Mr. Root of New York a question a sentence of nearly 110 words, and the New York senator re plied instantly. Then the Georgian asked another question In a trifle over 200 word, and Mr. Root anawered without having the stenographer read It to him, or even hesitating a moment. Ellhu Root' marvel ous Intellectual capacity ha not been ex aggerated. ' l.la I'p with Past Leader. New York World. In heartily endorsing Champ .Clark's plea for reciprocal trade relation with all na tion, especially those of the American con tinent, President Taft did not go beyond James G. Blaine. He did not go beyond republican national platforms In the rather recent past. He did not go beyond Mc Klnley's solemn political farewell. To aid reciprocity I good republicanism because It la good business and good politic. The ( omlna "llent Seller." Springfield Republican. Senator Heyburn of Idaho 1 urging upon congres a reduction In the price of the Congressional Record from 4 to H per session. He thinks this would give It a circulation larger than that of any other periodical. Perhaps o. Ordinarily speak ing the lower the price of a newspaper or periodical the larger the sales, but there are some publication whose circulation could not be Increased by any amount of price reduction. A KK(OIII) WORTH WHILE. Harrlman lines Marked l on tha Roll of Honor. Chicago Record-Herald. The Harrlman line carried 10 per cent cf the country' estlmatvd passenger traf fic for 1'JiO. Not a single fatal acoldent occurred to a passengtr anywhere on the system. Thla achievement Is described a un paralleled In railroading, and it I at tributud to the Installation of afety de vice chiwfly. If not wholly. If a smalt line get through a year with out a fatal accident the result may Itself be considered accidental. A vast system carrying millions of passenger owe safety to Improvement, care and efficiency. What the Harrlman line are doing other line can do are dolntf. Let us have an other roll of honor fur 1311. Let the line which have reduced or eliminated accidents by safety duvioe and Improved dlkclplln compete for huiioiabl miction. People and Events A telephone manager In Ollfornla ad vertises for homely Rlrls to manipulate the BWltrhca. I'allfntnla Is about the only state able to supply the article called r.r. A plrl who mtirrlod as a Jike has ap plied t a Naw York court for a divorce. It took her only three months to dis cover that marriage Is not a Joke. Dr. Cook la doing a "turn" In vaudeville. It will help aoina as an emergency Job. He cannot hope to strike his proper gait until he becomes mnnnglnK spieler for a moving picture of the tomb of Ananias. Out of Ma salary of 150.(1P0 a year John Hays llamt.iunil in auppoxed to have saved enouKh dough to shine with bccomlnn splendor aa Uncle Hani's repreacmtatlve at the coronation of King CleorRe. There Is where dough la transmuted Into cake. Authorities of HudnpeHt, Hungary, un able to find Jail accommodations for women who spurned tha long hatpin regulation, now pass up the law breakers and con fixcate the pins. The trophies of one dny's chaso number l.TOO, which were stuck In the police museum. John Oonder of Jersey City en.loys the rare distinction of dropping In on his own wake and breaking up the funeral. From grave to gay was but a step in that fam ily consisting of wife and six children. Even the undertaker smiled aa he re moved the mistaken corpse. A. J. Newton, an 80-year-old elevator man In Walla Wa'la, Wash., bought a pair of new shoes, but they pinched his feet so he bad to throw them alde. He tried on several stylet of shoes at a shoe store, but not finding any that he could wear comfortably he went home and dug out an old pair he had passed into his garret nearly forty years ago. He oiled and polished them and when he had put them on he 'said he felt like dancing a Jig. Mr. Newton bought the shoes In Elko, Nev., In 1870, and paid $18 for them. A writer Jn Harper's Weekly furnishes enough ammunition to shatter an Idol of the Civil war. Captain Erlcssdn wat not the iuventor of the Monitor tpye of war ship. The famous "cheosebos on a raft" wat designed and patented by Theodore R. Tlmley, a New Yorker, who received a royalty of So.000 for the use of hi de sign by the firm which employed Ericsson in building the Monitor. Tlmley died In poverty last December and his body nar rowly escaped the potter's field. The re main of Ericsson was conveyed to hi na tive land In an American warship. CORN HKl.T MOViVO WORTH. M Innf rt and North Dakota Flirting; with thn t'errnl Kino;. Minneapolis Journal. The corn belt Is moving north, or rather It upper boundary I moving north. The success of various recent experiments has been auch a to show that corn may be profitably raised almost anywhere In Min nesota or North Dakota. The corn show just held at Grand Forks gave ocular end convincing evidence that the old Idea that corn couldn't be raised o far north wa a mistake. While the growing season la naturally shorter In these latitudes, the summer day are so much longer that the plant reaches maturity more quickly. Doubtless, as experiment with seed go on, special strain will be discovered or de veloped that will produce larger crops and prove more hardy. The development ef porn ralslnir Jn. Mln nesota Wllr Undoubtedly, ' as Prof. P. O. Holden, tha Iowa corn expert, declares result here aa elsewhere In Increased land value. Corn ' is the most proilflo and valuable of all ' grain crops, especially when It I turned into beef and pork on the farm where It I raised. The corn-fed steer and the corn-fattened hog are at the top of the market, and will always stay there. The development of Minnesota and North Dakota as corn raising and meat produc ing state will have a vital relation to the effects of reciprocity with Canada. If that agreement Is ratified, we shall gradually on this side of the line retreat from the raising of wheat Into corn, beef and pork. The Canadian west will more and more raise our wheat, while we chall furnish them corn for feed and meat for human consumption. It will be a change of great Importance, involving greater prosperity on both Bides of the line. Already the ex portation of corn from the United States Into Canada Is a very large Item, because of the faet that there Is no Canadian tariff en corn to restrict It. But the American northwest Is not yet a factor in thl trade, as It surely will be when our farmer learn how rich a mine la Teady for development. HOOSKVta.T I'M ACTION. Spring; Tour of the Southern and I'n rlfle Coast State. , Cleveland Leader. The newspaper of tho country have been having a lot of fun with Colonel Roose velt. They have been Initiating him in the "down-and-out-club," asking him whether the price cf his literary , output ha not declined from a dollar a word to tthlrty sent and congratulating the Oyster Day mail carrier on the lightening of hi work. And the colonel ha anaWered nothing. But It I apparent that he doe not Intend to continue saying nothing much longer. The country will hear from him plenteously next spring, If not sooner. Then he will start on a tour fully a extensive a the famous one mad y President Taft last year, and it goes without laying that It will be a speeoh-inaklng Journey. He will leave New York on March 8, Just after the new democratic congress comes Into existence. Hi first atop will be at Atlanta, Oa., where he will address the Southern Commercial congres. Then he goes to the child labor convention at Birmingham, Ala, He will speak aX Jack, sun, Mln., and New Orleans. At Han An tonio, Tex., he will talk again, and at Albuquerque, N. M , he will foregather with some of hi rough riders. At Grand Canyon, Arit., he wtll dedicate the great Roosevelt Irrigation dam. He will deliver an address at Phoenix, Arlx., and others at Los Angeles, Berkeley and Dan Fran cisco, Cal. He will then go through Oregon and Nevada and visit Brattle and Spokane. Idaho and Montana are his next objective point, and beyond that his Itinerary has not been fixed. Hoostlav the I plift. . Ban Francisco Chronicle. The appropriation by the Harrlman sys tem of Sl.iiiO.OOO to be spent for advertis ing purposes during the year, following the decision of the director to double-track tiie line from the Missouri river to the Pacific at a cost of ITi.0uo.WX). give an Idea of the magnitude of modern railway opera tions. The present prosperity of the eoun try and the confidence In the future which la Implied are also Indicated. COUTAfJT COAL The genuine Scrsnton tomer for tiie pl twesty-sevea year. It ha Isss clinkers, 1 hotter and last longer thaa any ttar hard cost Onr Carbon Sort Coal, at S7.00 yt ton, i clean, hot and quick te start. It take tk place of iiigber priced coal and I sure to plts you. We also tU Onio, Hock Borings, Cherokee, Walt-ut Siock, Co, Wood, KUaling aaA, Bteans CeaL OrriCXl S10 loiU ITU Tlbootsi Xoagla 30( Zadpadat, A.-3li4 SECULAR BH0TS AT PULriT. St. Louis Times; A St. Louis minister dednres religion la an Inheritance. A Bond many piople appear to have been left out of the will. Houston Tost: A Urooklyn preacher says good aiiviji is wuitli nune than gold. If Hint Is true. Carnegie and Rockefeller are philanthropic pikcts compared llh ua. , Raltlmore American: A I hlcano clergy man says churches should advei te In tin newspapers Just as business men do. A the latter have found It profitable, so, too, should the cliurchis If done in the right way. Washington Herald: A New York pnacher says men ought to cook, s?w, wash dishes and get their own brcakfHHt and let their wives rest. V lint office Unea he expect when the suffragetto era r ilv? Ft. Louis Republic: The Alton Minis terial alliance will discontinue its publicity campaign, complaining that the newt-paper reporters do not get the clerical view point correctly. If tho rcportci can't get it, how about tho rest of the congregation'.' Boston Horald: Vollva. Alexander Iowle's successor as autocrat of Zlon City, ousted last year by the Independents, If le lected to the post will horsewhip any Zionist whom ho catchee using tobacoo. It is difficult to see bow any man calling himself an independent could live under such a regime, and with the Independents eliminated Voliva ought to find it dead easy to rule his meek flock. A HOPELESS CASK. American Cannot lie Civilised, Think Chinese Visitor. New York Hun. If you were to travel through Asia you would find that we are regarded oa the peculiar persona. Have you heard of tho Chinese gentleman who traveled through out the United State and wrote a letter back to hi fiends describing uT He said; "You cannot civilize thea American. They are beyond redemption. They will go week and month without touching a mouthful pf rice, but they eat flesh of bullocks and sheep in enormous qUantltlvs. Nor do they eat their meat cooked In mall pieces. It 1 carried into the room In. large chunk, often half raw, and then they cut and slash and tear It apart. They eat with knives and prongs; It makes a civilised being perfectly nervous. Cno fanclea himself in the presence of sword wallower. "They have no senao of dignity, for they may be found walking with women. They even sit down at the same table with women, and the lat'er are served first. Yet the women are to be pitied, too. Ou festive occasions, which Americans call bails, they are dragged around a room to the accompaniment of the most hellish music." DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. "Your husband look very happy this evening. , "1 guiss It In because of what he Just tald to me." "And what wa that?" "He said 1 wa driving hint to drink," Houston Post. "Are you In favor of granting suffrage to women?" "No, sir' replied the man who wa chewing tobacco. "If women were allowed to go to the poll the election Judge would have to go outside to suit." Chicago Record-Herald. "My daughter, I don't like young Stay late shortcoming." "My father, what I object to- are his long going." Baltimore American. "Ye, Jim' eay. He sent It to s New York concern for their infallible method of getting rid of cockroaches and they adi ylsvd him to burn down the house." "Ha. ha, ha. Didn't try it, did he?" "Sure. He wasn't going to waste the $5.' Cleveland Plain Dealer, "Now, dearie, come and wash your faoe and hands," "Shan't. Don't want to." "When I wa small I used to like wash ing my face." "Yes; and look at It now." Sketch. Hlobbs The widow always get her third, doesn't she? rilobh 1 believe she has to get her eo ond first. Philadelphia Record. "Bo you have to quit laughing at your wife' hats?" "Yes," replied Mr. Orowcher. "The fun nier they eem to me the more convinced the Is that they must be correct In style." Chicago Post. "Young man, are you quite sure mv daughter care enough for you to marry you?" "I'm not as positive of that as t wish t were, Mr. Urtggins. Sometimes when she kisses me good night she does It In such an absent minded, Impersonal way that I don't think she fully realise what he 1 doing or who I am.'1 Chicago Tribune. WHEN MY SHIPS COME HOME. Stephen Gwynn In Pall Mall Magatine. If all of my ships come home, my dear. Deep laden from bottom to deck, I'll buy you bright diamonds to hang on your ear And rubles to twine around your neck: No queen fiiall be fine as this lady of mine If all of my ships come home. If half my ship come home, my dear, Weil travel to look for the rent: The rear shall be the far and the far shall si, an be the near, And we'll roam from the east to the wast. You Jliall Journey in state, love, with me mr your mate. If half of my snips come home. If one of my ship come home, my dear, We'll build u a houxe on a hill. With a garden to work In all through the sweet year, And roses to pluck at your will. You shall taste the good life of a cottager's wire, If one of my ships come home. But if none of my ships come horn, my dear, If all of them sink In the wave- Then, bankrupt, with nothing to forfeit or fear, I'll bind me to service, your slave. And proudly I'll take what you give for love cake, If none of my hl come home. THIS WILL QUICKLY MAKC A ROUM PIMPLY SKIN SMOOTH AND VELVETY How You Can Make a Pint of Fine Face Cream at Very Little Cost. Boauty expert say rough, pimply akin quickly yield to massaging with eerol, be coming clear and velvety, and as this cost little and 1 easily prepared, It annum tlnd a place cm every woman s dresser. lo niaks, get Z ounce of ceroi rrom ins druggist and dissolve in a scant pint of boiling water, stirring until smootn. vt nii massaged In ths ln it remove all Impuri ties, preventing and dlxpalllng wrin kle and giving the complexion an exiiui- all bloom and refinement iinpoaslhle with artificial aid Men frequently use rerol cream after ahaving, a it soothe mail ing, itching skins.-AO v. a SQUIRES Hard Coal ha enabled nt to hold en.