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TITE BEE: OMXhA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1912.
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Don't let your' children play cn
the car tracks.
" ?Mlr pay your bills promptly or
the new retailers' credit bureau will
get you.
Now watch . lor a flood of
hypocritical gush from rcen , who
tabbed "Jack" Donahue in
back while living.
the
Why didn't the Water board find
out in advance about the route for
the big main?. It has had several
years to consider the matter.-
. Those "constitutional" democrats
ought to admire Taft.' if for no other
reason than, that he has shown the
true Orover Cleveland brand of back
bone.';;"..' ' . ,Y . : '
After lta experience of June and
August, Chicago should not be very
much disturbed by having an ordi
nary circus elephant tunning amuck
through its streets. -
Senator Dixon says he sent f 700
to Nebraska In addition to paying
the expenses of .the colonel's special
train tour. Who got the money!
Don't, all speak at' one." ?'' '
Jane Addams. lady bull moose, is
to help push the new party into, the
troubled waters of Nebraska politics
next month, but she doesn't promise
to stay and see if i swims. , t
Walt till you hear what Hearst
did to bring about the telling of the
story of the Btandard Oil's contribu
tion to T. ft. 's second term election
We mean wait till you hear Hearst
tell It;. S ,
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This Day ;ln Omaha
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AUGUST 24.
Chief of Police Donahue.
While not unexpected, the death
of Chief of Police Donahue after a
brave battle for life, has aroused a
profound sense of loss In the whole
community. As member of the
Omaha police department for more
than twenty years, and its head for
nearly fourteen years, he has been
a prominent figure on every public
occasion, and commanded a personal
acquaintance which few ever enjoy.
And despite the trying positions
the chief has had to occupy, and the
unpleasant tasks he has had to per
form to maintain order and enforce
law at ticklish times, admiration for
the man and respect for his integrity
and conscientious devotion to duty
has steadily grown and deepened.
The reason for this is plain. It is
because his most striking traits of
character were strictest honesty, ab
solute fidelity, unwavering courage,
deathless loyalty to friends, generous
solicitude for his men, a deep sense
of Justice and an innate faculty for
ferreting out and dealing with crim
inals. Rarely are these elements
combined in one man.
On the other side, there is a trag
edy in the chief's premature taking
off at the early age of 54 when he
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SnoUIQ DO SUU m YiguruuB wauuwu. nv Y.
Almost from the moment he assumed, ; The official board of First Methodist
charge of the department he has I
been relentlessly pursued by vin
dictive enemies, fanatically posing as
"reformers," following him with one
attack after another, really because
he took orders from his superiors
instead of from them. .In this war
fare they resorted to jail Borts of
poisoned shafts through reckless
charges of misconduct and corrup
tion, which as regularly fell to the
ground when put to proof. , The wear
and tear and worry," however, of
these successive ' investigations and
impeachments could not fall to un
dermine, the .strongest constitution,
With the 'help icf an insidious dis
ease these' pitiless persecutors, who
hate for years been trying to "get"
the chief, have finally bounded him
to his grave.
Thirtv Yearn Air
The famous Mendelssohn Quintette ciuu
held forth at Boyd's to Omaha' music
lovers. The Vocalist was Miss Cora
Miller. At the conclusion of the concert
the artists were entertained by Mr. Julius
Meyer. "
By special Invitation a large company
of Omaha people visited the new elevator
of the Omaha Elevator company at Coun
cil Blus, They were personally con
ducted by Major D. S. Barriger, assisted
by J. A. Murphy. ' , '
Dr. V. T. McGUllcuddy. Indian agent at
Pine Ridge, arrived In Omaha to consult
General Crook In regnrd to conditions at
the agency.
The Omaha Cricket club is getting ujr
some fine uniforms.
Mrs. J. M. Petty Is reported seriously
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The speakers for the banquet to General
Crook will be Mayor Boyd, Colonel J. J.
Dickey, Hon. A. J. Poppleton, Hon. John
C. Cowln. Judge E. Wakeley, Colonel C.
S. Chase and the guest of the evening. '
Cadet Midshipman Ed Sutphen left for
San Francisco to take passage on the
Adam to Alaska, there to be transferred
to his own vessel. .
It may be well to remember right
now that Grover, Cleveland called the
last tariff bill passed by the demo
crats "a piece of party perfidy," and
let it become a law without his sig
nature. ' 1
A Chicago divine has found a use
for .gnosticism: Now, If ho will
only discover a substitute tor beef
steak, he will be listed among ho
benefactors.
, Oscar Underwood neglects to point
out in his speech that the American
vorkingman has the money to buy
All those taxed articles he enumer
ates, something he didn't have dur
lng the good old democratic days.
Aeaia, the Assessment Roll.
Totals for the several items that
enter into the grand assessment roll
of the stat6 are athand, and pro-
ride interest for a moment spent in
perusing them. AH .the farm lands
in Nebraska are valued at a little
over $1,200,000,000, while all the
city and town lots are put down at
about $360,000,000.
These values will not seem exces
sive when compared with other items
listed.
In live stock , the returns show
comforting figures for the state,
Horses are listed as worth over $6 5,-
000.000. and mules show up at
$5,006,000, while the automobiles,
that were to displace these beasts of
burden are listed at only $7,500,000,
showing that the machine has quite
a way to go yet in" the performance
of its mission.
! Nebraska is musical to the extent
of paying, taxes on 15,000,000 worth
of pianos and $60t),000 worth ot
organs, and has a little to offer in
the way of precious gems and other
luxuries, turning in for diamonds
$600,000 and for dogs $670,000.
This makes the average value ot the
Nebraska dog a little more than $5
showing that he is too well thought
of to be kicked around. "
Forty-five million dollars' worth
of cattle, $900,000 worth, of sheep
nnd $15,000,000 worth ot nogs an
swered; the roll call, and wheat and
corn to the tune of $16,000,000 was
on hand when the tax man made his
rounds, to say nothing ot merchan
dise of the value ot over $47,000,
000 all showing that Nebraska citi
zens are doing tolerably well In
spite of the high cost of living.
Church, It was learned, had extended a
call to the Rev. Dr. Crane, a young
preacher of some oratorical flourish, who
occupied the pulpit, on the previous Sab
bath. ,
Former Mayor R. C. Cushlng returned
from California, where he had bnen In the
Interest of his big Irrigation scheme.
Bird C. Wakeley returned from his
summer outing in the west much im
proved In health.
Hon. A. E. Cady, chairman of the re
publican state central committee, spent
the day In Omaha,
B. Rosenthal, president of the People's
mammoth Installment company, returned
from a trip west
Members of the city council committee
on viaducts and railways, officials of
the Union Depot company and of rail
roads were to have held another meeting
to put the Union lepot plan on Its feet
but the absence of G. W. Holdrege of
the Burlington prevented. ' '
A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs.
James Poster. 1 ' f . T ,
News from Indianapolis related the
sad story of the mental collapse of Johi
M. Ray, an old-time Omaha newspaper
man. who had struck this town m 1ST!
and did Ms first work on the old Repub
lican under the editorial direction of St.
A. D. Balcombe.
IN 0THEK LANDS THAN 0UES
Some Old World Events and What They Portend..
Crisis ia Chinese Republic
The young republic of China apparently
has reached a crisis In Its life. Reports
of the condition of affairs are conflicting
"and contradictory, a fact in itself suf
ficient cause for the alarm felt in circles,
friendly to the new government. Contra
dictory reports are a characteristic Chi
nese method of soothing public alarm
when foul deeds are under way or ac
complished It was a common practice in
the Manchu era and its most , accom
plished exemplar Is the president of the
republic, Tuan Shi Kal, despotic favorite
of the overthrown Imperial family. Assas
sination of two republican army generals
and the imperilled lives of other leaders
of the rebellion may well be credited to
the machinations of Yuan. In that line
of work he has shown uncommon talent
While ambassador to Korea In his
younger days, Yuan double-crossed the
native government and fled the country
to escape the consequence of a row wit)
Japan. Professing high esteem for the
reigning emperor on another occasion.
Yuan carried Imperial secrets to Dow
ager An, and assisted the latter In exil
ing the emperor and usurping the throne.
During the Boxer rebellion, when leaders
of the row believed themselves invinci
ble, Yuan patted them on the back, In
vited them to a feast and so arranged
the festivities that the guests became tar
gets for guns "accidentally fired" by the
host's marksmen. On all occasions Yuan
has suceeded In keeping on the sunny
side of the ruling power. His shrewdness
and skill In working both sides of the
road were manifested in a high- degree
when he played the throne against the
rebels. Inducing the Imperial family to
retire when he found the republican army
invincible. But at all times Yuan held
onto power. Despite his unscrupulous rec
ord, his unreliability and his betrayals.
at every step of the republic's march he
exercised hypnotic power oyer the new
leadership, maintaining the seat of power
at Peking, though Nanking was deaig-. treaty. The report pronounceb tii land
Goto on the one side and MM. Kokofft-
seff and Sasonoff on the other side
merely confirmed them in their conclu
sions. The Japanese leaders are In grim
earnest. What they say they mean, and
what they promise the empire of which
they are the spokesmen will surely per
form. This statement sounds as though
they had been dispatched by their govern
ment on a mission. But it would be a
mistake to draw this inference. They
havo come on their own initiative previous
to taking office in Toklo. At the same
time the results of their conversations
will be accepted by their countrymen and
will serve as a solid basis for the policy
of Japan."
Love Pay and No Ambition.
A writer In an English journal aevoiea
to the interests of working women draws
gloomy picture of their condition. Iess
than 12.80, it appears, is the average wae
for a full weeks work ior more man
one-fifth of the adult women in twenty
trades, the writer sees two fundamental
causes underlying the low standard, hut
makes one the primary cause. "The low
estimate In which women's work is, al
most universally held" Is closely related
to the second cause assigned, that "the
majority of the girls at work are from
14 to 20 years of age and they consider
the work period as a mere marking of
time preliminary to matrimony. As a
result of this mental attitude, the writer
of the article says, "they do not believe
In becoming highly trained workwomen,
as It Is not worth while to strive for the
highest pay for a merely transitory
episode of life. The employers will not
pay them higher wages, as their services
are Inferior and never indispensable."
Germany's African Land Deal.
According to a report made public by the
German colonial office, Franca handed
over to Germany a line specimen of the
"gold brick" In the Congo real estate deal
which clinched the French-Moroccn
CHEESY CEATF.
She (for the 'steen-hundredth. more or
loss, time) Oh, darling do- you really
and truly, love me?
He (a trifle grimly)-New, look-a-here,
Gladys! Do you want me to put up a
cash bond? Judge.
"These are the first biscuits I ever
made.", wailed the young bride. 'and If
you wont eat them they will all be
vasted
"Not at all," answered the young hus
band, cheerfully. "You can give them to
the small boys In the neighborhood for
base balls." Baltimore American.
The two women were seated on the
sand at the seashore. T.:e elder one said;
"That's my caughter with the red bath
ing suit just going Into the water."
."Oh, Indeed! " said the other one.
"Yes; she's just eighteen. I'm going to
bring her out next fall."
"Gracious! You don't mean ' to say
you're going to a low her to stay In the
water that long? " Yonkers Statesman.
"I hear' you have a most Interesting
family."
"Yes, a wife and two grown daughters."
"Fine! Fine! Just the right number for
bridge." Louisville Courier-Journal.
Elijah welcomed the ravens.
"They bring me my meat exactly on
time," he exclaimed.
Furthermore, they never hung around
for a tip. Chicago Tribune.
Old Roxlelgh Consent to your marrying
my daughter, no sir! You have no pros
pects, have you? 1
Impecunious Suitor-Well, sir. If that's
the way you feel about it. 1 can't say that
1 have.-Boston Transcript.
"How did your suffragette club get
on?" asked Mr. Meekton.
"Very. nicely," replied bis wire, up to
i a certain point' Everything was quiet
and friendlv until the Dresident took it
on herself to say. 'The meeting will coma
to order,' and then we proceeded to ahow
her that the meeting wasn't going to do
any such thing." Washington Star.
Ten Years Afro
Paul Blackburn, a naval cadet at An
napolis, . arrived In Omaha to spend a
month with his father, T. W. Blackburn.
He had recently made a cruise, 'which
took up the coast as far as Halifax.
Miner Brown pitched another remark
able double-header for Omaha, the third
in a very short tiro, against Colorado
Springs. He held the visitors to three
hits In the first game and shut them out.
Omaha winning I to 0. Brown allowed
but five hits In the second game, but
Omaha lost It 1 to 0. Not only did Brown
pitch wonderful! tall, but lie was the
fielding' feature of the day. '
General Bates, commanding the Depart
ment of the Missouri, returned from Chi
cago, where he attended the rifle com
petition of the United States.
Rev. H. C. Crocker, who preached at
Hillside Congregational church, accepted
a call to be pastor of that church. He
came from New York, where he had been
associated with Dr. HUUs Of the Ply
mouth church of Brooklyn, made famous
by Henry Ward Beecher.,
John C.Cosgrove, driver for Dr. J. P.
Lord, was hurled from his vehicle In a
runaway at Twenty-fifth , and Dodge
Streets, sustaining, a dangerous fracture
of the skull. ,
nated the republic's capital. Similar in
explicable influence persuaded Dr. Sun
Yat Sen to yield the presidency to Yuan.
With supreme power In his hands it Is
highly probable President Yuan has con
verted most of the army to his standard
and is In position to smile at threats of
Impeachment and pursue as opportunity
offers the task of decapitating offensive
opponents to a dictatorship.
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Russia and Japan.
Japan and Russia are joining hands
and pooling interests in the faf east Re
ports current In diplomatic circles and
in the press tor months past are given
substantial foundation by a correspond
ent u. me Jew ' Vdi k' Sun at St. Peters
burg. The writer, who "claims to know
the facts thoroughly, affirms that a com
plete understanding, offensive and defen
sive, has been reached, though it will
not take the form of a hard and fast
treaty for the present. "The basic fact
of . Russia's political relations with Ja
pan," says the , correspondent,- "is that
the Interests of the two nations in the
far east run parallel and can be furthered
only if their action, diplomatic and mili
tary, be harmonised and combined. Their
motto is "United we stand, divided we
fall." What Germany and Austria are to
each other in Europe, that Russia and
Japan will be henceforth in the far east.
Such is the. outcome of the two govern
ments. The, conversations which took,
place between Prince Katsura and Baron
, One thing the referendumites
.overlooked, and that la the cost of
.special elections; and it turns out
Omaha has no money to pay for such
fun. ' Thus again is the -ause of
progress blocked by a beggarly de
tail . '". ..;
, That litUe $400,000 bonus to the
.bondholders' committee for favored
.creditors on a confidential preferred
list, surely entitles the receiver who
.liquidated the Independent telephone
.to a place among the Napoleons of
finance. , . . t :
After running for vice president
on the Roosevelt ticket, our old
.friend. Colonel John O. Yeiser, has
finally landed as member ot the ex
ecutive committee for the bull moose
end of the republican party in Ne
braska. Hurray tor Yeiser!
The same identical gentlemen who
Insisted on sitting In and running
the. republican state convention three
weeks ago- are now engaged in ar
ranging another convention to form
themselves into a sew third party
whose foundation stone Is to be
"honesty" In politics. It Is to laugh.
Vagaries of the Nebraska assess
ment roll are commented upon each
time the state board passes upon the
work of the local assessors, but tbej
discrepancies never entirely disap
pear. Maybe this was the reason the
democrats insisted so strenuously in
the campaign of four years ago on
reviving thu precinct assessor system.
Senator Kenyon'i Stand.
The announcement ' by Senator
Kenyon of his intention to support
President Tait is causing the bull
moosers much pain. No one need
have been surprised at the stand
taken by the Iowa senator. He has
shown in other directions that he is
possessed of reason and good judg
ment, and why he should have been
expected to act differently now ia
not clear.
' Senator Kenyon frankly says he
does not like all ' that' has, been
done in the name of 'the republican
party; no more do many republicans
supporting Senator Kenyon like all
that he has done; but they believe ia
the republican party and its future
usefulness. These men hold that the
republican party is a great force in
the social and political life of the
nation, that it haa not outlived Its
mission, and that it till is powerful
to accomplish good for mankind.
They can not convince themselves
that personal disappointment and
thwarted ambition provide the stable
basis necessary for the building up
of an organization that is to have a
permanent place among the institu
tions of government. ,
Senator Kenyon haa the courage to
say that he would rather be right
and out ot the senate than wrong
and in the senate. He also has the
fcourage to Invite the hostility ot
those who threaten with destruction
all republicans who refuse to bow
when the bull moose calls. He pre
fers his party to his office. Iowa
republicans will not allow this course
to militate against Mm at the polls,
About the worst that can be said
of Senator Penrose's speech la that
it is Boiseterons, 5
People Talked About
Nat C Goodwin was, at any rate, not
the fool who rocked the boat It Is an
unlooked-for experience to have your row-
boat heave you upon a rocky shore and
jump upon you like a vindictive motorcycle.
The' calculation of a savant that each
able-bodied man Is equivalent to 1.6&4 feet
of gas is based on normal conditions of
off years. In presidential years the
quantity rises threefold without Improv
ing the quality. " -
Pierre Lotl. the French novelist and
playwright whose real name, us most
readers know, U Vlaud, and whose real
vocation is that of a French naval cap
tain, Is to visit America next month to
supervise the production of his play,
;The Daughter of Heaven." ,
After a parade of half an hour In front
of the mayor'! office, challenging bis
honor to come out and be converted Into
a sieve, an East St. Louis editor con
eluded that the pen was mightier than
the gun and voluntarily agreed to dis
armament. The Mississippi flows by un
flecked by sporting blood.
Chicago's new Union station ia figured
to cost 135,000,000. It will bo a model of
beatty and convenience, as la the case
with all depots on paper. The venerable
ruin on Canal street was something more
than a landmark. It has been for years
an exponent of the Chicago atmosphere,
second only to Montgomery Ward's lake
front ' ' '
Charley W. . Morse, the Incurable nr
valid released from the federal prison at
Atlanta a few months ago, has sum
clently recovered to launch a coastwise
steamship company. If the waiting crowd
of Investor absorb Charley's certificates
of stock, friends of the incurable antici
pate complete recovery. He is working
for bis health, ;x
Meat Is so high that the farmers In
some sections of western Pennsylvania
hava speared all the suckers in the
brooks to furnish proteld for the home
bill of fare. The sucker tastes flat, but
when fried ia salt pork and tempered
with sweet corn on the cob It takes the
sting out of the beef trust's assault on
the family pocketbook. s
, The sole topic or parlor and kitchen
argument In Carrollto'n, Hi., is a social
circus parade from the depot to the
court house of a married woman and her
affinity. Tha pair, captured after a
week's chase, were fashionably garbed,
and their most conspicuous jewels were
gun metal bracelets which linked their
wrists together. The line of march was
lined with cheerless speotatora
ceded t Germany a jungle and super
jungle; a place where the air is always
heavy with hot moisture, and where the
steaming rains seldom cease; a land in
fested with venomous snakes and deadly
insects, covered always with dense
swarms of mosquitoes and other buzzing,
stinging things, but forsaken by. worthier
animals and almost abandoned by man.
A land, in fact, in which no white man
can live, a land in which even the brief
est sojourn Is likely to prove fatal. A land
of which the few miserable ape-like in
habitants are victims of beri-berl, leprosy,
smallpox and the sleeping sickness. ; A
land of endless and bottomless swamp,
possessing, perhaps, some wealth of
natural resource, but utterly valueless be
cause whatever resources it may hide can
never be uncovered by the band and brain
tit the European.
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Wlrelena Around the World.
One of the most important link In the
great wireless system which within a
year will bind together the greater part
of the British empire is to be a high
power station at Pretoria fcr which the
South African government has Just prom
ised to provide $400,000. This station, by
way of Egypt to the north and India to
the east will be in simultaneous com
munication with England and Australia,
and will thu occupy a central placa in
the long chain of communications which
Is to make imperial defense independent
of the cables. . ., I, . . . i
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THOSE GRAND EXCEPTIONS.'
It's funny when you go to see ,
A friend to dine or sun;
She's very much concerned to see
Her Willie actln' up;
He really is a blessed child
And disobedient never;
He never sulks, he never pouts
Well, that is, hardly ever.
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And then sometime you visit a school
And the pupils act like fury;
You condole with the teacher and slu
straightway
Thinks you must be from Missouri;, ;
Tho' she'll admit that teaching's not
Exactly a life of bliss;
She gives you to understand that 'they
Hardly ever act like this.
Ill
And then some day you're Invited out
With an old time friend to dine;
Your hostess is troubled because her cak
, I not quite up to the line;
She makes a lot of excuses
'And declare you came at the wrong
time;
For she prides herself on her biscuit and
- She "ain't had such luck" in a long
' time.
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And then It sometimes happens when
You're away on a short vacation,
To a "boosted" town and the rains come
down
" Every day without cessation; f
And when the weather is actin' up
The boosters voices chime,
"It's very unusual out here
This rain in the sumer time."
Cmaha BAYOLL NE TRELE..
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. Get tho ' Original -Genutoo
Pore full-cream milk and the ex-
tract of selected malted grain,
; reduced to powder torra.
Delicious, Invigorating 1
nourishing
Best Food-drink for all ages
rT" Sussrlof to tea, ooffso, cocoa
fcrf Ask for Horllck's at all Fountains.
A quick lunch digested by the weakest
stomach; prepared in a moment by
briskly stirring the powder in hot or cold
water. Keep at home or when traveling.
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THE
THE BELGIUM REVOLUTION
By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory.
the Belgium revolution, which began
eighty-two years ago-August 24, 1830-
was as natural as it was inevitable and
thorough. .
When in ISIS, the Vienna congress de
creed that, the south or old Spanisn
Netherlands were to be Joined to Holland,
to form the Kingdom of the uniteo
Netherlands under the sovereign rule of
the house of Orange Nassau, it Violated a
law that Is as rigid and .uncompromising
as that which rolls the worlds, and U
was not strange that tho decree failed
to work. ; ' ; '
For fifteen years they managed to
keep the sham kingdom a-golng, when,
on the day given above, it went all to
pieces like the "wonderful one-horse
shay." . -
Everywhere ''blood Is ttucKer man
wster," and the Dutchmen and the Flem
ing could not hitch except in tne tug 01
war. '
The Belgians claimed that the uutcn
king failed to treat them lairiy, ana
whether the claim was true or false, the
fact of the radical difference in blood
and belief would not down, and after
worrying along with the mock arrange
ment for fifteen years the Belgians got Up
on the morning of August 24 in the frame
ot mind that boded no good to Dutch
William's government
The spark fell and tho next day the
explosion came. On the atn tne mu
etto de Portlci" was played In the The
ater de la Monnae at Brussels, and was
received with a paroxysm of Joy. Thous
ands outsida the theater caught up the
air, and translating their feeling into
aotion, rushed awty to tho houses of tho
chief Orange ministers, which they sacked
amidst the wildest enthusiasm.
The revolution was In full swing. After
four days' fighting the Dutch troops left
Brussels. .' v
The Belgians rose in a body,, and In
six , weeks' time were in , possession ot
pretty nearly the whole country. The
national congress of November Inaugur
ated the Belgian constitution, modeled
largely on that of Oreat Britain, and In
June, ; 1831, elected Leopold ot Saxe-Co-burg
king. . i
A meat interesting little country In
many ways la Belgium, especially in the
great matter of economics.. The problem
of problems, that of the encroachment of
the population upon the means of sub
sistence, Is forging to the front in Bel
gium as nowhere else on earth.
Belgium's area Is 11,373 square miles;
the area of Texas is 265,000 square miles.
In other words, It would be possible to
lay twenty-five Belglums down upon the
soil of Texas. And yet there are twice
as many people in the little European
kingdom as there are in the great Lone
Star state-,800.000 as against 3,400,000.
It is no wonder that economics is the
one great question with - the Belgians.
They are face to face with the greatest
of all problems "How shall we live?"
This little country Is a human beehive,
and the question of subsistence is a vital
one, overshadowing all others.
It Is said by those who are best ac
quainted with the situation in Belgium
that the little country is liable at any
moment to show the rest of tho world
am v.rv tSTtilns' developments In so-
ni.l thmn nnd nmctlce.
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A TOUCHTJffQ UECITAL,
Baltimore Sun: Mr. Roosevelt's de
scription ot the noble and patriotio man
ner in which the Innocent and engaging
Mr. Perkins and tho self-sacrificing Mr.
Fllnn forsook all their former evil asso
ciates in order to follow the pure banner
of reform Is one of the most beautiful
contributions ever made to tho poetry of
practical polltlca " 1 "
St. Louis Times: Probably Mr. Perkins
and Mr. Fllnn did provide tho colonel with
that excellent card lor gallery effect
They areU reputed men of good polit
ical stagecWt and the colonel is en
titled to as full credence in declaring their
explanation as when he proclaimed that
ho would never again stand for election
to the presidency. There la however, an
other motive that would be equally cred
itable to Mr. Perkins, but which might be
lacking in efficacy, that of placing before
his children an example of gratitude to
one who virtually completed the rounding
out ot the steel trust and ordered his
law' department officials to keep off the
law defying harvester trust , , V.
St Louis Republic: Mr. Perkins' chil
dren are the children ot a multi-millionaire.
The sources of that multl-inlUlbn-aire's
fortune , ire Indicated with 'suffi
cient clearness by certain details ot W
hirtory. He became a member of J, P.
Morgan A Co. in 1S01. tho year Mr. Mor
gan formed the United States Steel cor
poration. As an offlcet of tho New fork
Life Insurance company before the reor
ganisation ha made certain famous con
tributions of 150,000 of policy-holders'
money to a republican campaign fund. Ho
is a director of tho United States Steel
corporation. He to chairman of tho
finance committee, of tho harvester trust
(the International Harvciter company)
and a director in It also.
Kansas City Journal: Perkins sudden
solicitude for Ms children is Indeed touch
ing. But he has not failed to provide
magnificently for them by his Wall street
operations and as a partner of J. Pler
pont Morgan. Perkins is not on record
as wanting to do anything for the Amer
ican laborer. It was necessary to make
some sort of explanation why this repre
sentative of the trusts who la financing
the Roosevelt campaign got in without
besmirching tho causa be Joined. And
"curiously enough," the notorious Boss
Fllnn of Pittsburgh tho public contractor
who has amassed 115,000.000 out of his
deals, made the same excuse! It ought to
bring tears to the eyes of the honest
workingmefl of the nation to see this
precious pair of smooth workers turned
to lily whiteness simply by tho magic
process of being tor Me. : '
. IrrHntinst Doubter.
Indianapolis News.
The secretary of agriculture may be
correct In his theory that th s year's
bumper corn crop will lower tfce price
of beef, but even so It ia extremely doubt
ful if the reduced rates w. eve.- get a
far along as the ultimate consumer.
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