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THK HKE: OMAHA. MONDAY. MAHHT 6. 1911. The omaiia. Daily ijee FOUNDED BI EDWARD R Oh' K WATER. VICTOR HOPKWATKR. EDITOR Entered at Omaha postofflce as second ers mailer. TKIlMi OF SUBSCRIPTION; Vnndsy Bee, on year.'. 12 50 Saturday Bee, on year IW Dally ! (without Sunday). on year..M"" Dally Mee and Hunriav. one year 16. 00 DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Evening tin ithout Sunday), per mo.. 2Gc : Kenlng He, (with Sunday), per month. 4.e ti.n.. . . . ru J 'ally Hee (Including Sunday), per month. (wu Dally Bee (without Sunday), per month.." Anaress an complaint or irregularities lo delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha-The Be Building. South Omaha-.". . i weuty-fourth BU Council Bluffs 15 Scott St. Llncnln-M Little Building. Chicago IM Marquette Building. Kansas City Reliance Building. New York-24 Uol Thirty-third St. Washington 72ft Fourteenth St., N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and ed itorial matter should be addressed Omaha Bee. Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by droit, express or postal order, payable, to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stamps received In payment of mall accounts. Perton.il checks except on Omaha and eastern exchange not accepted. FEBRUARY CIRCULATION. , 47,621 Stste of Nebraska,' County of Douglas, set Dwlght Williams, circulation manager of The. Bee publishing company, being duly sworn, says that tlia average daily cir culation, less spoiled, unused and returned eoplva for ths month of February, mil, waa 47,(121. DWIUHT WILLIAMS, Circulation Manager. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 1st day of March, 1H1I. tBeal.) ROBERT HUNTER. Notary Public. Subscribers leaving the city tem porarily should have The Bee sailed to the an. A 4 trees will be changed as odea aa reqnested. Come, all you'' Jame ducks, limp along home. V . - - And Mr. Lorlmer stood pat through out the Bailey fiasco. Never mind, Ibe legislature will stay with u a little Jonger. Cartel1 : Harrison . ia ; the latest e champion to try to "come back." Extra Sessions of congress are get ting to be regalar; things With" Presi dent Tafw ; K, Somebody always appears In , the alck of iime with oil to smooth Joe Bailey's, troubled waters.'. Champ CJarg. will have time in this month, before congres reconvenes, to allck those muJea up'a bit. "Why do girls go to college?" is the uppermost question In the east. Our guess: "To get an education." If the next democratic national con vention is held in "Baltimore mint probably will be 4 be favorite flower. -, It ia a month before congress gets back in action; which ought to give those Mexican warriors a good chance. Easter Lata! Heavens, yea. In our rhapsody over the. beautiful weather we had all but forgotten the inevit able. "Why Hogs Are. Thinner" is the subject of much market, page discus sion. -Probably worrying over their 'price. Postmaster Thomas has "come across' pretty thin ice, but he seems now to be sh'attng On the thinnest ever. i v ; In other words, Nevada dois not propose to give up its divorce, mills until some other home industry has been developed. It might be noted that the candi date for mayor in Chicago, who prom ised as a campaign slogan, "I'll rob no one," lost out. That special bond election In Dun dee brought out about 300 votes. It Is pretty bard to interest all the peo ple In a special election. In spite of their "Jim Crow" fluke, ttre democrata vlll ha . around again before loi)g telling the negro voter tow much' they love him. "I'll take my doll rags and go home If you don't let me play boss," says . Joe Bailey. It must have been a ter rible shock for the moment to the "Interests." Having failed in Wyoming, the prlte fight promoters are trylug to slip a bill through the Missouri legis lature. There Is where they will have to show them. Governor Dlx finally conies out with an appeal to Sheehan to withdraw from the New York senatorial r.-ne. Better address your remark to Charles V, Murphy, care of Tammany Hall. "Not next month, tir next year, but NOW," haa been the rallying cry of the Water board for eight years, and we are still In the midst of "immedi ate" purchase, aud paying the same rates for water as before. The Chicago Dally Socialist Is now being sold on the streets of Omaha with some of the Identical contents put out locally by our Junior Yellow. These socialists should not compete with one another in such a way. If Senator Brown has deluded him - .. . . elf with the Idea that the appointment of Cadet Taylor to a fat federal Job carrying $20,000 in salary during the four-year term will be popular with the poor people whose money all dis appeared in Taylor bank, he has an other guess coming. Reciprocity and Extra Session. Reciprocity, which failed In the Sixty-first roueress and for which the president has called the extra sestioi (the names of democratic undesirables, or the Sixty-second, should, on the I and that the name of Governor Mar face of returns, be approved by thojnion of Ohio heads the list. If there Incoming senate. Fourteen of the new are any Harmon democrats In Nf- senators are for this ranadlan reci procity plan, according to a poll mt.de by the New York Herald. That, it Is figured, will in the senate give .i two- thirds majority for the proposition anil (h. hina. nmh.M tf mill vnti r v U ' Tl and the house prob.ibly will vot? nga'.n for it. Had there been a single ardent friend of the measure capable and de sirous of leadership in the last senate, It might have been put through that body, for on preference reclproclt Is supposed to have had a majority of at least twenty-two senators. But many of these did not care enough about it to get behind the plan the president waa so anxious to push through. Of the most ardent opponent of reciprocity. Senator Hale will be suc ceeded by Johnson, who favors it, and according to this poll makea a net gain of two votes. Hitchcock of Ne braska voted for it In the house and will displace Burkett, marked on the poll as opposed; another net gain of two. Townsend takes the place of Burrows from Michigan, adding two more. Atlee Tomerene displaces Dick of Ohio, two more. John D. Works comes from California to succeed Flint, opposed; two more. The same gain is made In Polndexter'B succes sion of Piles from Washington. Of the eight other new senators, each suc ceeds a man who waa hi favor of reci procity. Montana's new senator, Meyers, has not made ' hla attitude known as yet. New York, Iowa and Colorado are to elect senators. But reciprocity is figured to have enough now to win. But if the democrata play politics with the reciprocity agreement, the extra session may continue far into the summer and undoubtedly a reopen ing of several schedules of the tariff will ensue. Should reciprocity be thus held back, such a thing ia possible as a deadlock on party lines, with reci procity and tariff revision confused and used to block one another. rNor may we suppose that congress will be content to rest with only tariff mat ters; it la likely to Include in its ope ratlona a large variety of measures. For the first time since the Cleveland regime, the country will have a senate republican by a alight majority and a house democratic by a big margin. Results under such conditions must be problematical at every turn. Croker Discredits Murphy. Richard Croker, whose claim to fame depend upon hla years of serv ice as boss of Tammany ball and New York democracy, Is out fUU a direct criticism of hla successor, Boea Mur phy. Croker thlnka Murphy has made a grave mistake in persisting with his determination to elect Sheehan sena tor from New York, when It haa been made plain to everybody else that he could not succeed. Croker thinks a wise boss would have stepped aside when Shepard retired from the race and allowed the legislature to elect the Benator. Croker's publicly expressed opinion Is not likely to have any weight with Murphy, but if resulta may be taken as a criterion, we may conclude that Croker made a much more effective dictator than his present successor Murphy's reign is really not prolific of big results. When the smoke of this senatorial battle clears away and If Tammany falls to land Its man, things-are likely to look serious for Murphy. Even Tammany has no use for a boss who does not boss, or can not win a fight. Murphy still has the chance left of withdrawing Sheehan and aiding in the election of some other less objec tlonable democrat. By that course he might do much to redeem himself. But he probably will not do that. He will probably fight blindly on to the end. He really is another of the relics that will be swept away with the rising tide of new methods in politics very soon. He and his ring at Albany have done much this winter to advance the cause of the popular election of senators. This negative service is perhaps the only real serv ice he has ever rendered the people. Mr. Bryan's Blacklist. If anvone has entertained doubts that Mr. Brvan expects to be a factor in the next democratic national con ventlon he should be convinced by the declaration of Intentiou In the curren Issue of the Commoner. In this he de clares that newspapers friendly to dif ferent candidates seem disposed to misconstrue his comments upon the different democrats whose names have been suggested for the nomination and continues: Knme weeks ao four names were men tinne.1 and auaarlona which have been asked concerning them have been ni-serd. Some of the eastern papers at once re ported that Mr. Brvan had declared th fmip a-entlemen named to be avallabl' candidates. Mure recently the O.tnmom- has referred to .'Ifferent public men In con neetlmi wtfi their official work. Tt mlch be as well understood row as later thirt commendailon of particular acts does not nereas.ir'lv nienn that t'ie parties pre nvall aM- a rr "it'sl candldMei" or that the. nomination would be desirable. Mr. Brya Is not prepared to enres an opinion vet as to which one of th many gn!lrmen named would b I' e n-osi nailaMe but that the Commoner may be free to coin- ! """a ,utn cr '"""V ' ' iiii-(i t uti v lift i imii ."' ! -e , datlon Matei tmw flir u.e , nnt of the radrs that the Commoner does not consider Governor Harmon v an ;i.;itlable man for the d. m.icrai nomination for rcaon that w ill b alv, n wh n the .liscus tion of the subject seems proper. From this pronouncemeut it must be clear that whether or not Mr. Bryau picks a favorite for the democratic i the habit of legislating a democrat out nomination In 1912, he has h blacklist of office, although they have occasion already prepared on whiJti are ritenally thrown a scare for reasons best brnska who want to ira;ani'.e to give the Ohio man the vote of the Nebraska delegation In the next democratic na tional convention, here Is a chance for them to get busy and navy a real Issue to fight over. v Cannon and Bailey. Two figures loom large In the shad wg of the Sity-first congress those f Joseph W. Bailey, senator from Texas, and Joseph O. Cannon, repre sentative from Illinois and speaker of the house. In their farewell moods they represent opposing types of man hood and - statesmanship. Bailey, peeved and angered at bis party's re- udiation of his attempted leadership, resigns, playing the quitter, represent- ng weakness. Cannon in his farewell speech, as he retires from the speaker- hip, playa the game to the end, with power In every utterance, with malice toward none of those who in the last congress so bitterly assailed and all but unseated him. For nearly forty years Mr. Cannon has been in the house and for eight be has been speaker. Whatever his critics may say of him, and The Bee has been one of them, they have not and can not charge him with being a quitter. Always he could be found on any issue and always he could define and defend hla position, which not al ways happened to be popular. But for Bailey in hla latest role not much can be said creditably. . Proud, vainglo rious and sensitive, he sought to dic tate his party's policy In the senate and when he could not he hid behind a subterfuge and tendered his resig nation. The country could have suf fered no 111 had it been accepted. Now remains to be seen whether the democrats In the next senate will sub mit to the Texan's leadership, or call his bluff. He is not the man to lead any party In congress today. Hla day Is in the past and we do not care to turn backward now In order to follow him. Crop Prospects. Agricultural and horticultural ex perts say it la too early to turn In the alarm about perished winter wheat or premature buda; that the weather con ditions will not warrant it as yet. The ground went Into the fall very dry and there haa been a deficiency of pre cipitation during the winter, but the last snow and rain Nebraska had did immense good. After the mixed snow and sleet disappeared a brief period of warm weather followed and then when the rain came It waa able to sink deeper Into the soil owing to the shallowness of the frost, thua ac complishing great good. While In 'some parts of the state there la still need of more moisture and more could be received with advantage in all parts. the situation la not yet regarded as dis tressing anywhere. Nor ia It time to get uneasy about premature, bursting of buda aa a result of the warmth. Though the weather has been mild, It has had enough of freezing In it to hold back the buds. In fact, there la expert au thority for the statement that with normal conditions from now on, winter wheat and fruit should come into the spring season most promisingly. Cer tainly the outlook ia much better than it was a year ago thle time, when farm- era were losing hope and arranging thus early to plow up fleldB sown to wheat, which later they , did, some of them to their own regret and loss Accepting this view aa correct, that what moisture we have had thug far leaves wheat in a safe condition, with what we may fairly count on from now, there is certainly no reason to become discouraged, for our springs generally bring ua all the rain we need. The Bee has always favored legtsla tion designed to safeguard lnaurance enterprises that take people's money on agreement to pay it back to their heirs or on other contingencies, but we also believe that lnaurance regula tions should have reasonable regard to the established methods of doing business without Imposing hardships on Nebraska insurance companies that will handicap them as against outside companies doing business here. The nome companies should not be specially privileged, but neither should they be discriminated against. Opponents Of Canadlau reClpi'UL'ity are bringing up the specter of other nations demanding similar concessions in case we go into this pact with the Dominion. No other nation is In like position to make such a demand, for the reason that no other nation bears the relation to the commercial, social and industrial conditions of the United States that Canada does. John Temple Craves pronounced Joseph W. Bailey "the greatest foren sic orator congress has ever pro duced," not excepting Clay, Calhoun and Webster. Having beard all these gentlemen, Mr. Graves, of course able to form an expert opinion. Is If you had employed an agent to buy some property for you on bis as surance that he could get it for not over $3,1)00.000, and when ybu came to foot the bill you found that you were In for $$,250,000, would you use the recall on him? City Comptroller Cosgrove need not lose any sleep. No democratic legis lature in Nebraska has ever acquired known to themselves. Kverv successive legislature is al-j ways filled at about this stage of Its i career with incipient governors, con gressmen and supreme Judgea galore, but the voice of the lobby is not al ways the voice of the people. The public is advised by the modistes that either a very large or a very mall hat will be the style this cpring for women. Thanks. That la what we wanted to know. The Houston Poet recently stated 'Senator Bailey haa aaved the country 50,000,000." What he haa cost the country is another thing. In Ilia Proper Place. Washington Herald. President Taft has proved distinctly that he Is not only progressive, but also that ho means to be at the head of the pro cession. Foreign Trest la Dnd tdtng. fprtngfleld Republican. Australia has declared war against our beef trust, and now Canada has started out after our shoe machinery trust. Those countries seem' to be fortunate In not hav- ng trusts enough of their own to keep them busy. Platforms to ftet la On. Louisville Courier-Journal. With representatives of both the demo cratic and republican parties voting against popular election of senators, It seems more than ever that political, like railroad, platforms are to get In on not to stand on. No Trouble on the Score. Pittsburg Mspatch. Despite the alleged scarcity of that clans, we venture to predict that the Missouri Pacific railroad's advertisement for a $100,- 000 man for Its president will elicit a flood of answers from a horde of men, all of whom are confident that they can draw the money. Where the Penalty le Si reded. St. Paul Dispatch. Congressman Hobson haa secured the passage of a law by congress for the pun ishment of Japanese and other spies. There should also be a law providing for the punishment of congressmen who insist upon getting up war scares every few days. Key to Trne S access. Henry L. Hlgglnson in the Atlantic. The question of true success la of world wide Interest, yet it remains unanswered. Socialism can give no reply, because it cripples and destroys Individual effort, and Individuals make the world. Govern ment can do little, for tt accomplishes far leas than Individuals. Education, which strengthens each unit and binds all to gether, can alone bring us In sight of our goal, and education may be Immeasurably widened in extent and raised In value by our able men. who, have won their spurs. and who are ready now to work for the common weal. Ia not this the key to true success? ... ,,. PLENTY OP'WOHK AHEAD. TS Incrraslag Popolatloa of the World and the Food Saaply. Wall 'Street Jourcal. The following table roughly exhibits the European population of the world in the last-named year: Europe, proper, nearly.., 476,009,000 North America 100,000,000 Mexico, Central America and the West India islanoa , Sfi.OOO.OOO 4o.00O.0l HI 10.OUO.000 10,000,000 South America, about Africa, about Asia and Uceanlca, about , Grand total 686,000,000 Facta of this magnitude and character admonish ua to recast our views concerning the consumption and supplies of food, the course of manufacture ana traae, tne demands for railway and steamship trans portation, the requirement for International banking facilities, and many other matters of the highest commercial Importance. The pressure of population Is making America, North and South, the granary of the world. We shall have to double-track our rail ways, organize an adequate ocean steam marine, cultivate our foreign connections, and provide an International basis of banking and credit. There Is plenty of work ahead for us, and It is time we laid plans for doing It In a proper manner. The old order of affairs la passing; the old prejudice and parochial politics must be cast aside, or we shall have to make room for more progressive nations. People Talked About It appears to be settled that the retiring secretary to President Taft. Charles D. Nortlon, will take the position of vice pres Ident of the First National bank of New York, one uf the prize banking Jobs In the metropolis. Captain Hiram Smith of Brooklyn, who ia 70 years old, bowled In a friendly match recently what Is believed to be the second highest single string and three-string total at bottle pins ever rolled In that city. Ills total for the three consecutive strings was 724, the single strings being 224, 211 and 289. Bill Everly, postmaster at Island, Mo Lean county, Kentucky, ia not only the smallest pustmaater In the United States, but he Is the smallest Master Mason, Odd Fellow and Knight Templar In Kentucky, It Is said. He Is four feet tall and weighs less than 100 pounds. He Is 13 yesrs old and hss held the position for a number of years. Miss Daisy Odin, who was recently ap pointed trl-clty passenger agent at Daven port, Ia., for the Chicago, Burlington & Qulncy road, says that all that Is neces sary to make a good railroad woman, as well as a railroad man, la "close application and determination to win." She began as a telegraph operator and has won her way up to her present position, being the only woman In the 1'nlted States who holds such a poHltlon. After having squandered several fortunes John Applegate, originator and builder of what Ik now known aa Young's million dollar pier, In Atlantic City, Is serving a sentence for vagrancy In the Ios Angeles county Jail. California. The old man la now tt7 years old. and unless some of hlN relatives or the friends he knew In his palmy day roiue to his assistance be will probably end a somewhat spectacular career behind the prison bars. Twenty-five thousand pemons, compris ing i.OH) employes of the Anhruser-Buat-h Brewing ansoclatlon and their families, will take part In a monster celebration at the ColUeum In St. I-oula Tuesday evening In honor of the golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Adolphua Husch. At the same time the Busch family will be celebrating the event at the multimillionaire brewer's estate at Paadena. t'al The coat of the Ht. Iuls end of the celebration will be about r'.Ouu. Washington Lifo otn Interesting Phase and Conditions Obeervea t the station's Capital. lJLrt October moral Washington professed to be awfully shocked by the appearance of a statue of an un.l raped woman In the lawn of the residence of Mrs. Alice P. Bar ney. Prudes screamed and sent a multi tude of people to view the landscape deco ration. The statue waa too large for the doors or windows of the mansion and was placed outside until a suitable opening could be made. Meanwhile the figure waa draped with emergency trouserettes and a mantilla, and waa finally removed from the rude gase of an Inarttstlo world. The Inci dent occasioned unwelcome notoriety, spoil ing the social activities planned by Mrs. Barney and she hurried off to Parts to es cape the scoffers. Now the merry widow hands Washington a supplementary shock, announcing her engagement to Ronald Herrlck, former consul at Geneva. Mr. Herrlck Is 26, about thirty-five years younger than hla bride-to-be. Mrs. Barney, who waa Miss Alice Pike, was born in Cincinnati. Her father was the proprietor of Pike's theater there, and a whiskey manufacturer. As a girl Miss Pike wrote several plays for charity, and then went abroad and studied art under Whistler. When she returned to America she married Alfred Clifford Barney, an Ohio banker. When he died, about seven years ago, It was said he had left 18,000.000 to his widow and $2,500,000 to each of his daughters. Mrs. Barney has bad several of her paintings hung In the Paris salon. She built the Neighborhood Ho ise In Washington. She designed the Studio House," which she and her daughter 4 occu py In Washington, making It comb.ne the features of a home, a studio and a gar age. Buffalo Bill will have two near-doubles In the new Vnlted States senate. One la Senator Brlggs of New Jersey and the other Is Senator James E. Martins of New Jersey. Brlggs and Martina both wear goatees that are astonishingly alike and also of the same pattern as Colonel Cody's. Moreover, they wear their hair much after the manner of the famous acout, dead shot. and wild west hero. When Mr. Martina appeared on tha aen- ti floor the other day and sat down alongside of Senator Brlggs, and their re spective goatees waved and wagged in urn son. It was cause for much comment. All that waa lacking to complete the scene waa the presence of Colonel Cody and of Asso ciate Justice Hughes. While congress was wrestling with the hlirh cost of living, the United States gov ernment advised people to eat cheese and save some of the money that now goes Into the Dockets of the beef trust. Eperts or the Agricultural department have demon strated that American, or Cheddar, cheese, both in Its green and ripe state, Is highly digestible and exceedingly nourishing. Skimmed milk cheese Is given a gooa name by the government experts and cottage cheese gets a fine send-orr. DOtn as a nourishing product and as a cheap one. It la declared that fresh beef, weight for weight, possesses little more than half the food value. of an equal amount of cheese and that the aame Is true of practically all other fresh meats, with the exception of bacon or fat pork. In other words a pound of cheese Is as good as two pounds of fresh meat. Is equal to a pound of ham and also equal to two pounds of eggs or fhree pounds of fish. So far as prices go, of course, there is no comparison. Inasmuch as Americans eat from 19 to 185 pounds of meat per capita each year, not counting fish and poultry, it can be seen what a lot of money they could save If they would eat more cheese and less of the products of the beef trust. Chief Justice White, who Is one of the most amiable men In the world off the bench, says the Washington Times, la a terror to the lawyers that appear before the supreme court to argue cases. He can argue a case himself In French, Bpanlsh or English, and perhaps In some otner lan rutM. He Is a student of philology and when a lawyer Is threshing about as to the meaning of some word the chief Justice is apt to break out with something line xnis: "Give the Greek derivative of It. A common expression of the chief Jus tice Is: "Illustrate It: Illustrate It.' To have the chief Justice lean over the bench and explode a question at a green lawyer Is apt to make the latter loss his feet completely. Some daya ago, when the attorney general was arguing In the Stand ard Oil case, the chief Justice snot out! "Give an illustration of It." But It didn't scare Lawyer Wlckersham He haa been In court before and is hard ened. He proceeded to Illustrate what he was trying to tell and seemed to satiety the court with It. . RAtlrlno- Senator Depew enlivened his swan song with this story. "President Hayes once said to me: " 'We have been fortunate In our presl dents In their abilities, their characters and their high appreciation and fulfillment of the duties of the chief magistracy of this country, but no American takes pride In the conditions which most of them have to meet after their retirement from ornce, " 'There is no place In the United States for an ex-presldent. if I could go Into anv of the great business enterprises of the country I would be hardly fit and the country would not think It proper, so I am devoting my life to delivering lectures before schools, academies and colleges. "As he passed me one day In New York, carrying bis own grip, I called the atten tlon of a street vender of fruits to the fact that he was Rutherford B. Hayes, ex president of the United States and tha opportunity was rare to see a man who h.i (wruDled such a high place. " 'Oh.' he answered. I don't care to el him. He is down and out and of no ae count.' " Joy la Divorce foloay. Philadelphia Ledger. The divorce colony at Reno Is wearing a Joyous air this week because the Nevada senate Indefinitely postponed the divorce bill extending the required residence In the state to one year where the applicant alleges that the cause of action occurred outside the state. Under the rules the bill Is killed for the present session. Publlo opinion was ranged on the side of the pro- Mjsed measure, aa the scandal of easy an nulment of the marriage tie had become glaring, but the hotel and associated in terests proved more powerful, it is an other Instance of commercialism defeating sentiment. Have M r Too Many Doctors f Pittsburg Dispatch. The fact that there are more doctors proportionately In this country than In Eng land or France Is not remarkable. The territory Is larger, while Americans, being more prosperous, are more ready to sum nion the physician. Also being, as a na tlon. better Informed upon the necessity for the prevention of disease and of prompt precautionary treatment they require larger prortlon of doctors than the peo ple of Europe, many of whom call upon tihvsli Ian only In the most urgeut ex trtinlty. The Bee's Letter Box Contributions on Timely objects Vot Xaeeedlag Two Xangreel Worts Are Invited from One kteaders. Which t oastltateary T WYMORE, Neh., March 4-To the Editor of The Bee: I see that our Senator Teter Janeen la the one to Introduce and advocate the resolution In the legislature for Cana dian reciprocity. Peter Jansen is only nomi nally senator from Gage county. He Is really senator from Manitoba and Saskat chewan, where ha Invested In Canadian lands by the tens of thousands of acres and got rich from them. Aa senator from Manitoba Peter Jansen should' be for reciprocity, but aa senator from Gage county In Nebraska he should be against It as his farmer constituents are. J. W. 8. Method of Deaf lostltatloa. SEATTLE, Wash., Feb. 28,-To the Editor of The Bee: A bill Is before the legisla ture of Nebraska to change the method of Instructing the deaf at tha state school in Omaha to the oral method and abolish the sign language an manual spelling. This bill would do far more barm than good to the deaf of Nebraska. The method now used at the Omaha school la the combined system. Under this method all who can learn It are taught to speak. They alto have the privilege of learning the sign language. This la as It should be. The deaf need both. The combined system Is used In the Instruction of 80 per cent of the deaf In this country. It Is approved by 96 per cent of the deaf themselves and by a very large majority of the teachers engaged In Instructing them. Many deaf who have been instructed by the oral method severely condemn those who would exclude the sign language. We do not object to oral instruction. It Is all right with those who can profit by It. But we object to the exclusion of the sign anguage. We want both speech and slams. That Is what the combined system gives ua and therefore we favor the combined system. Without the sign language a deaf person can never understand a sermon; can never enjoy a lecture; can never take part In a debate. With the sign language we can enjoy and profit by such things as well as our hearing friends. Abolish the sign language: .Never! The question of methods should be left to experts. Nebraska haa good ones at the school In Omaha. Leave It to them. It would be Just aa sensible for tha egtslature to enact that all alck Deraona must have osteopathic treatment and no other. OLOli KiNaou President National Association of the Deaf. Ballghteasaeat. MOOSOMIN, Province of Lusk. F.h 17.-To the Editor of The Bee: Under separate cover I send you copy of the Free ress xor your enlightenment on thin. Canadian. You give us the greatest rubbish on Canadian Independence I ever aaw In print. Why. my dear sir, It Is only In the "fertile brain" of The Bee wherein such a question haa taken root. But the wlah la- father to the thought, and you never once ahow the advantages arising ii um separation irom the mother country. . you wisn to write on something Canadian, and which would be of Interest and profit to us and our nelahbora month of the forty-ninth parallel, give ua an article on closer trade relations, and not be knifing everything Canadian and British which is only "baby talk." and iaii-tu,ii being a thing of the past BRITISHER. HANDOUTS FOE OMAHA. Grand Island Free Press: A Grand Island hide company advertises In an Omaha paper for 1,000,000 skunks.' Good piace to locate them. ' Plattsmouth Journal (dem.): To treat John O. Yeiser right the should refuse to pay him a cent for the trouble he has put Omaha to, and If he Is worth bothering with City Clerk Butler should bring ault against him for damages. Beatrice Sun: A woman wearing the new trouser skirt was mobbed on the streets of Paris. But the trouser skirt goes In Omaha. This should suggest to the governor another opportunity to ap point a commission to regulate the metrop olis of Nebraska. Kearney Hub: An Omaha syndicate has started a Louisiana boom and will in- peal to the gentlemen with "easy money" with a special car, luxurious accommoda tions en route, and a glittering prospectus of the advantages of Investment In that locality. Of course Nebraska money Is needed for these Investments and It Is safe to say that moat of It will stay where it ia "put," whether It be in rice swamp or cotton plateau. Kearney Hub: The investigation of the alleged Omaha registration and election frauds did not sustain the governors' al legation as a whole, but sufficient wss shown to warrant the holding of the In vestigation. " Procuring proof, or rather sworn evidence, was of course difficult, so It waa found that the governor had In part been "misinformed," and the In tegrity of the city clerk waa also vouched for. Well, that Is all right, but the peo ple of the state are hoping that It will not happen again. "JACKPOT REFLECTIONS. New York World: Direct election of sen ators by the people has Its foes. Nat urally. Would the people of Illinois have elected LorlmorT Kansas City Times: Of the twenty-four republicans who feared th rule of the people, twenty-one appropriately aided with Lorlmer. There Is a tie that binds. New York Tribune: The publlo will never hav much faith In th value of titles pro cured under circumstances as suspicious as those which attended the choice of Mr. I xi rimer. It would have a far greater re spect for him If lie should now resign and ask Illinois to re-elect him. Louisville Courier-Journal: Of course, nearly all th senators who voted against senatorial elections by th people voted agalngt the vacation of Loiimer's sat. What are the people among the Loiimers, who know the advantages of leglHlatures over th mob In the senatorial buslnesa? Boston Transcript: The best thing for Senator Lorlmer to do, now that he has beeu confirmed in his seat by a narrow majority, is to resign that seat and appear before the -legislature which I now In ses sion In Illinois and ak for a re-election. It would be still better for him if some way could be devised by which the matter might be fought out In a popular primary. Wtraiis to the Ueef Traat. Indianapolis News. Profiting, no doubt, by the horrible ex ample w have aet, Australia clearly hopes to prevent Itself from being af flicted by similar conditions. It 1 no small task It haa sot for Itself, for It Is exceed ingly difficult to keep th trusts out of a rich field; but as Australia Is young, con fident and strong It should at least make a good Industrial fight for th maintenance of freedom. This country will watch th fight with great Interest. PNOIIIIIMl THK lOFFKK THlT. ongrraamaa orris on the Trail of Octopna. Philadelphia Ro-ord. 'onKrcssmsn Norrls Is on the warpsth after a combine that la big enough to be really worth the efforts of a Nebraska reformer. What are such puny combina tions as the Standard Oil. the tobacco trust and the Steel corporatalon compared with a conspiracy of Brazil, the Rothschild banking houses and the coffee Importers of the world to enhance the cost of the cup of coffee with which Mr. Norrls washes down his breakfast roll? Some of Mr. Norrls' figure look as though be were barking tip the wrong tree. What haa particularly excited him Is that a certain grade of coffee, at the beginning of Its present rorket-like move ment, "sold at T rents; that grade baa gone up as high aa It cents. Prices at re tall have advanced 40 to so per rent In a few months." We find that the regular grade of coffee la selling on the New Tork exchange at between 10 and ll rents. If retail prices of J0 to JO cents have been advanced from 40 to do per cent, or from I to IS rents, th nefarloua conspiracy of the Republic of Brssll, th greatest bank ers in in won a ana in impuniii aoep noij go very far toward explaining It, Aa V matter of fact, Mr. Norrls" statement of; the advance of retail prices Is a great exaggeration. Why the retail grocer should sell sugar at cost and coffee at a cent per cent profit we do not understand. Probably no one outside of the grocery trade doe under stand It. But, as Mr. Norrls points out, th difference between th wholesale price of th common grade of Braslt coffe and th retail price of coffee which Is strongly suspected of being an Immigrant from Bra slt, but purport to com from Java, Mocha, Venezuela, Porto Rico and Mexico, Is wide nough to attract attention and arouse curiosity. It Is so wide a to Indicate very little relation between the wholesale and retail prices, and therefor th pric Mr. Norrls has to pay for hla domestic supply p can b charged only In a ubordlnate de- jN gree to the reprehensible conduct of Brasll i and th Rothschilds. j f I ALMOST A Si H W WORLD, f Pass in a: of Mn and Uveal la a daart ter of a Ceatary. Th Forum Magaxlne. In ISM Orover Cleveland was president of the United States; Queen Victoria hat not yet seen the pageant of her first JJubtlee; William I was German emperor, Franoola Paul Jules Orevy the head of t) 4 French republic, Humbert I king of Itah . They have gone. Four other preslder;i have entered the White House, two klr a have sat on Queen Victoria' throne, two kaiser have held the scepter of the first war lord. And of all the myraida of human beings who were then living, men. women and children, more than two-thirds have passed away. In lfflt there were 54.000.900 of people In the United States: 31,000.000 of them are left, In th lt.0O0.00A of th present population, 21.000,000 have died the ban est of a quarter of a century. i The Boer war has been fought and our war with Spain and In the Philippines. Tha air has been conquered. The Panama) canal has been brought into being. The genius of Edison and the great Inventors haa made the miraculous commonplace;. motor oars, th phonograph, wireless tele graphy, aeroplanes, are among the pro-1 ducts of these twenty-five years. Science! haa moved forward magnlflolently ; thel arts have followed perhaps a little less conspicuously. New York haa more than doubled Ita population; San ?ri ttwe -has risen from ruins. There are sight more states In th union, SS.0Oc.uc, mora people, tM.000,000.000 more wealth Th time change indeed, and the clnldrm of time and circumstance change with them. 1'er hapa It were unkind U. a. ingest that while our Imports and exports have doubled, and our population will norn have the same numerical distinction, the cost of living has Increased In a corresponding ratio. PASSING PLSASANTBIES. "That man Is a tna;lc." "I don't aee how you ran say that of him. He Is always discarding some old belief and taking up a ne-v one." "Yes, but he never takes up any of the beliefs that I hold." Chicago Record Herald. The bad man leveled a big revolver through the window of the country post office. "This Is a maaaslne gun." he hoarsely said. "It means sixteen dead men at every loading." The spectacled clerk looked at the weapon doubtfully. "A magailne gun?" he repeated. "Well. If It contains any advertising It comes under the 4-cents a-pound rate." Cleveland Plain-Dealer. "Bad luck Is sometimes good luck." "Ridiculous.'' "Not at all. Did you ever get a club to fill a heart flush and afterward discover soma on else had a full house 7" Detroit Fie Press. "What do you think of the idea of an extra session of congress?" "Well." replied Farmer Corntossel, ' some extra sessions Is Ilk some extra news papers. They ain't enough In 'em to Justify the hollertn'." Washington Star. "Can vou give my constituent here a Job on your railroad?'' asked Ihe state sen ator. "Hut he can't talk English. "Well give him a Job calling trains." Washington Herald. Doctor You must put a porous plaster on the small of your back. Lady That'a Impossible, doctor. I'm going to the opera tonight; how would I 1nl..lA 1.1..!. "No. deary." he said, "I don't mlcs the delayed spring. How can I when I hav my little robin, my little peach blossom here with me all the time?" "That's quite enough of that, George," said the peach blossom. "Why don't you speak up like a man and say you want to stay out all night ?" Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Now this car," said tha agent, calling Blllups' attention to a handsome limousine In the corner, "Is a dandy. It runs so smoothly you wouldn't know you were In it. hides Just like u roi kln-iiiii ." "What do you think 1 am, an escaped Inmate of an old lady's home?" demanded Htllups. "I want a car that I'll know 1 in in when I'm In It, and when I go out look ing tor a rocking chair I'll go to a fur niture store and not to a garage." Harper Weekly. . KEEPING LENT. Robert Herrlck lf,lj. Is this a fast to keepe The larder leans And cleane From tat of veales and sheapf la It to quit Ihe dish Of fleshe, yet still To fill The platter high with fish? Is It to fast an houre, Or ragged goe, Or show A downcast look and Sow re? No' 'tis a fast to dole Thy aheafe of wheat. And meats, I nto the hungry sowle' It Is fast from strife. From old debate And hate. To circumcise "thy Life " To show a heart grief-rent. To etarv thy in, Not bin. And that to keep thy 1-ent!