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TIIE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1907.
Tim Omaha Daily hee.
FOUNDED BT EDWARD ROSEWATER.
VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR.
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STATEMENT Of CIRCULATION.
State of Nebraska, Douglas county, eat
Charlea C. Roaewater. ventral manager
of The Ree Publishing; Company, being
duly aworn. aaya that the actual number
f full and complete coplee of The Daily
Morning, Evening and Sunday Pee printed
during the month of July. 1907. was ai
ioiiows:
1.
9M49
38,10
SS.IB0
36.800
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it , 8S.480
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39,430
It M.400
IT S,700
91 .35,400
99 41,370
90 8380
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11 88,430
It 88,880
II.. 88340
It 88,900
II.; 88,780
II 88,80
Total ........1438.380
Less unsold and returned cop lea.. 10,33s
Net total..... ....14ai,85
Dally average.. 38,13
CHARLES C. ROSEWATER,
OeneraJ Manager.
Subacrlbed In my nreaence and aworn to
before me tola 1st day of August, 107.
tseai) , M. a. hunuaik,
Notary Public
WHEIf OUT OF TOWS.
Subscribers leaving tSe city tesa
perarlly efc14 aavet The Bee
mailed ta them. Addreaa will be
changed aa often aa reaaestea.
The speculator's panic may prove
the Investor's picald.
The cartoonists will never ' forgive
Speaker Cannon If he really quits
Ismoklng. , "T
Speaker Cannon has decided, to quit
Ismoklng, but has not yet agreed to
fault swearing.
Wall street Is learning that It 18 a
Hfflcult matter to keep both the law
lind the profits..
Omaha banks have plenty of money
o accommodate -f til customers who
lave the right kind of security.
A cable from St. Petersburg says
hat Russia Is Jn,fear of a mutiny,
itlll, that hardly cornea under the head
f news.
J'
Secretary Wilson forgot to Include
ye, bourbon and beer In his 'summary
f the value of the cereal products of
as year.
Railroads are beginning ' to admit
hat the 2-cent fare law is not unreaso
nable, though still hoping that it is
nconstltutlonal. , . .
Muldoon should, not charge Secre
iry Root anything for putting him in
ghtlng trim again. Think of all that
plendid advertising.
The surface at Newport's most fash
nable beach Is to be sprinkled with
Llogne. Newport's social record
pould also be perfumed.
Ak-Sar-Ben dates have been fixed
Jr the carnival to open September 26
id to close October 5. Mark that on
e calendar for red letter days.
George Bernard Shaw says he re
ived but ft. 90 for his first nine
ars' literary work. Publishers were
ore discriminating In those days.
The consumers . were the only suf
fers from the strike of the meat
Kon drivers a New York. But the
nsumers never count In cases of that
nd.
Of course, all these democratic plans
jr next year's campaign will be con
lered tentative until Charlie Towns
jt-urns from the. Philippines and ap
joves or rejects them.
A captain of a steamship reports
vlng sailed through a sea of oil In
) West Indies. The Standard Oil,
er gobbling the earth, may now be
lng to capture the oceans. ' '
peorge Fred WllUams Is to preside
mo wtHKuumu uemocrailC COD-
ltlon. Which is Interesting onlv in
nlshlng the good news that George
d is still alive and true to his old
Is.
Governor' Sheldon has issued hU
t comma tat Inn eit a lumlt.nil...
i - w f .vui.,.,
iioner's sentence,' The governor
jy be right In this particular case,
he should not forget the denuncla
showered upon the pardon rec-
of his two Immediate predeces-
P In the executive office. .
ivrpreaeuiauves oi me Kansas
ra or nanway commissioners are
ng stock of the J -cent fare sltua
In Nebraska with a view to re
lng the same concessions to tho
ellng pnblle by the railroads trav-
jls are lo&ing money because or the
Iced passenger fares, the dividends
Lot show u. v 1 " : ' ' -
HARMLESS CAKKOtr SHUTS.
Sitting on the aft deck of the yacht
Valcour, owned by Congressman Sib
ley, as the yacht rode at anchor In a
peaceful narbor on the placid waters
of Lake Charnplafn, Joseph O. Cannon,
speaker of the national house of rep
resentatives, has given out an Inter
view evidently Intended to "throw a
scare" Into the republican political
camp. After asserting that be was
not a candidate for the presidential
nomination, In the sense of being a
seeker for the honor, Speaker Cannon
said:
Now, I want to make thla point. If
congress dore not act wisely at the next
session; If It Is not actuated by calmneaa
and patriotism; If It makes great mlatakea
and falls to meet the approval of the
rensnnlng American public, there will not
be much need for the election of delegates
to the next national convention of the re
publican party.
It must be remembered that Speaker
Cannon has Just cut his cigar allow
ance, under the orders of his phy
sician, from twenty a day to three a
day and he Is probably suffering from
that brand of depression familiar to
all users of tobacco who have tried
to swear off or limit their Indulgence
in the weed. There Is no other plaus
ible explanation of his expressed fear
that th sixtieth congress will do some
thing that will wreck the republican
party. There Is nothing In sight, be
yond Mr. Cannon's nlcotlneless dreams,
to Indicate any legislative rocks that
threaten the safety of the republican
ship of state.
The work of the next congress is
pretty well cut out. Both sessions
of the congress will be held during
President Roosevelt's term of office
and there is no danger of any depar
ture from the policies he has pursued
during his Incumbency and absolutely
no prospect that congress will fail to
support the president, who Is only
leading where the American people
are eager to follow. WThIle there might
be some temptation for congress to
refuse to follow the president's lead,
every one of the republican senators
and representatives knows that It
would mean political suicide for him
to withhold Indorsement and support
from the president's recommendations
concerning further railway trust and
corporation legislation and other Issues
on which the president's position has
been clearly defined and approved by
the nation.- -
Speaker Cannon evidently Is amus
ing himself by' firing blank cartridges.
PASSlfiQ OF ! 4 GRKAT ACTOR,
The passing of Richard Mansfield
In the fifty-first year of his life has re
moved the most prominent figure from
the English-speaking stage. Mr. Mans
field was one of the- few modern actors
possessed of the genuine inspiration
of. his art, which he took seriously in
all its aspects. He had covered a wide
field in his activity on the stage, ran
ging from minor and low comedy parts
to the highest and most pretentious of
undertakings. No ' modern actor has
evoked more heated discussion. In -a
large measure he defied the traditions
of his art, and by violating what
seemed to be hard and fast notions he
brought on himself a storm of . criti
cism. His persistence along the lines
he conceived to be right brought to
him finally the general support of the
public and he was successful in estab
lishing a new regime for the stage. In
nothing was this departure more
noticeable than In his version of the
role of Brutus in "Julius CaeBar." He
departed from all that had been held
in reverence as being expressive of the
character of the thoughtful and studi
ous Roman, and the echoes of the up
roar he excited have hardly died away
yet. But Mansfield persisted, and the
Mansfteldlan Brutus will lire along
side of, if it does not dlsplant, that of
Booth.
The death of Mr. Mansfield is a loss
to the world of letters and art, as well
aa to the stage. Although not an
American by birth, he gave to his
adopted country the richest fruits of
his splendid talents, and he will be sin
cerely mourned by all who have tho
Interests of true enlightenment and
culture at heart.
THE ATHLETE COMING TO HIS OWX,
Assuredly, if almost Imperceptibly,
a change has come over the country
In the matter of athletic equipment as
an essential factor in social, Industrial
and political life. Only a few years
ago the boy with the bulging brow
who took class honors at college was
welcomed on his home-coming by the
plaaidits of his admiring fellow towns
men and a great future predicted for
him, while the brother who won the
100-yard dash In the collegiate athletic
tournament waa a source of regret, if
not humiliation, to his parents, who
could not help but feel that they had
wasted their money on the -lad who
should have remained on the farm
where muscle and brawn were visible
assets." All that has changed and the
call all along the line today is for men
with trained muscles, quick eyes and
experience in the hit-and-get-away
game.
The change is most pronounced and
noticeable in the statesman class. The
president of the United States has set
the example and is ready to meet a
pugilist or a United Statea senator on
the mat, best two out of three, Graeco
Roman, catch-as-catch-can, with a lit
tle something to eat after the bout and
a few mlnutea earnest conversation on
the subject that was the prime object
of the call at the executive mansion.
The vice-presidency, which used to be
a purely ornamental office, now calls
for a man who can rescue drowning
girls without a rehearsal, drink his
weight in buttermilk or discuss world
problems with the best of them with
out turning a hslr. The secretary of
war is required to have personal cour
age, ready to meet reception commit
tees from Bath, Me., to Hong Kong
and to slay with them until the last
man Is. under, the table. The secre
tary of state, as a preliminary to
round with the diplomatic corps of
the hated European nations, takes a
course of special training at Muldoon's
place. The secretary of agriculture
shows his fitness by riding a thousand
miles on horseback through the rough
sections of the Pacific coast, and the
secretary of the navy spends his vaca
tion in submarine boats and familiar
izlng himself with the Joys and dan
gers of torpedo boat destroyers. The
secretary of the interior, in a tour of
the country, stops long enough to win
the tennis championship at way sta
tions and the chief justice of the
supreme court celebrates his seventy
second birthday anniversary by beat
ing bogey on the Bar Harbor golf
links.
The rule holds, too, in industrial
affairs. In the old days, when a fight
web on for the control of a railroad,
the captains of high finance armed
themselves with proxies and the serv
ices of a man learned In the law and
Its technicalities. Today, the railroad
director before starting for a meeting
of the board has a little preliminary
exercise with, .the butler or a few mem
bers of his office force ami proceeds
to the meeting with the set purpose
of carrying his point or whipping the
chairman. It is this sort of training,
the grasping of the changed conditions,
that has made Stuyvesant Fish one of
the greatest railroad magnates of the
age.
The athlete Is coming into his own.
There is no place In the activities of
the age for mollycoddles.
VJtDKSJRABLE CANDIDATES.
President Roosevelt has said that
there are "undesirable citizens" who
may still have, stopped short of com
mitting any crime for which they may
be punished. There are also "unde
sirable candidates" against whom
nothing can be said seriously reflect
ing on their Integrity or good inten
tions.
The mere fact that a man has lived
in a community a certain number of
years, has never, been hauled into po
lice court, has made few enemies, has
usually voted the party ticket and has
never had anything in the form of
recognition or patronage which he
thinks commensurate ,with his con
tributions to the success V)f the perty,
does not necessarily make him a de
sirable candidate.
'' In choosing candidates to go on the
ticket the main point to be kept in
view by the leaders of the party Is
victory at the polls through the elec
tion of clean, competent officers and
the entrenchment of the party princi
ples and policies. What Is wanted Is
the strongest ticket so made up as to
appeal to the support of all elements
of the party and to independent voters
who do not regard party lines as para
mount. ' . The "undesirable candidate" is fre
quently the most persistent and the
most selfish, putting his personal In
terest above everything else. But
when he secures a nomination, acci
dentally or otherwise, he becomes a
drawback to the other candidates and
has to be carried along by their
strength.
Assuming that every mac seeking a
nomination figures himself a possibil
ity, it is to his interest to have every
other place on the ticket filled by the
very best timber that is available. It
Is to his interest to have a ticket no
part of which will draw fire a ticket
that can be elected as a whole with
the least expenditure of effort and
money. 1
If the republicans of Douglas county
at the coming primary will eliminate
all the "undesirable candidates" re
publican success in November will
come as a matter of course.
Why should the present sheriff and
his deputies be so interested In naming
his successor, and also opposing the
most competent man for comptroller?
Sheriff McDonald concluded that the
state of his political health did not
warrant him In asking for another
term and the same reasons that forced
this conclusion will put a stop to a
continuance of the graft practiced in
the sheriff's office irrespective of . Mc
Donald's preferred candidate. His
interest In the comptrollership is,
doubtless, traceable to the same In
spiration. The grafters In the sher
iff's office know that they cannot got
any padded expense bills past a comp
troller like Emmet G. Solomon and
for that reason they want some one
else.
The people of Omaha are ' to be
asked to vote gas bonds in the sum of
1-3,500,000 to be turned over to the
tender ' mercies of the democratic
mayor and city council. Would any
one who possessed $3,500,000 of his
own hand it over to the safe-keeping
of the present democratic mayor and
council?
Governor Sheldon appointed Henry
T. Clarke, jr., to the position he holds
as member of the Nebraska Rallway
commlsslon. The re-election of Mr.
Clarke will be a popular endorsement
of Governor Sheldon's action, while
the withholding of this endorsement
would be construed as a slap at the
fovernor.
The route of the battleships on their
journey to the Pacific is being kept
secret. It might be a good plan to
drop those sixteen fighting ships into
the harbor at Caracas for a few hours
just to show President Castro the re-
sources Uncle Sara has at his back It
he should decide to get determined
about collecting those claims against
Venezuela. .
The five Central American republics
are arranging to hold a peace confer
ence In Washington. ' It remains to be
seen whether a peace- treaty made In
Washington will last longer than one
made In Central American capitals.
In that neck-o'-woods a jpeace pact
holds good only until the treasury gets
a balance big enough to fight about.
a Lionaon tailor says that green
frock coats will be fashionable for
morning wear this fall. They may be
fashionable, all right, but out in the
a ... ...
west the man who attempts to set the
fashion will do well to have his ac
cldent Insurance premiums paid In ad
va-nce.
The tfemocratlc talk of nominating
Mr. Bryan for president and Mr.
Hearst for vice president Is not mak
ing much of a hit with either Mr.
Bryan or Mr. Hearst Each Is willing
to have the other eliminated from pol
itics, but they hesitate to go down to
gether.
A New York paper sserts that
2,000 New Yorkers .have, cancelled
their orders for automobiles on ac
count of President Roosevelt's policies;
Pedeetrians will become'' more than
ever enthusiastic over the Roosevelt
policies.
Speaker Cannon seems unduly wor
ried over what qongress may do at the
coming- session and is. fearful that
some mistake may be made. The rec
ord shows that congress always does
what the speaker wants it to do or al
lows it to do. -. i -(
Our amiable democratic contem
porary has not yet repeated its old
question once during the present pre
liminary campaign, "Are you a repub
lican, or are you a Fontanelle?" It
will probably start up as Boon as the
nominations are made.
The World-Herald seems to be do
ing its best on its front page to make
people believe tha lynching is Justi
fied, whlle on its editorial page It de
nounces mob violence as inexcusable.
The hyphenated sheet has been aptly
termed the "double-ender."
Secretary Shaw says that the farms
of America annually produce products
that are valued at more than $6,500,-
000,000. There must be some other
state, then, equally as productive as
Nebraska. - -.?'
Muldoon should hurry, up and get
Secretary Root out of the way so as
to give his attention to Stuyvesant
Fish and President Harahan of the
Illinois Central, who are scheduled for
the next bout.
Ftrly ta Presidential Class.
Chicago Tribune,
Not only waa Mr. Taft fearless and aelf-'
possessed In that railway wreck, but he
waa ready to rescue any helpless young
person who needed to be rescued.
Secret of the Flatter.
Washington Post.
"Uncle" Joe Cannon Is now amoklns: onlv
tljree cigars a day. Perhaps he feara he
la getting "tobacco heart," when In reality
that fluttering is due to the talk of nnm.
lnatlng him for the presidency.
Vnlque Hammer Garb.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Those Iowa women who tarred and
feathered six town -drunkards at Bayard
may have improved upon Carrie Nation's
prohibitive method. At any rate, the men
who have been treated by them will have
occupation enough to keep them away
from drink for a day or two.
M hy Not Read I'pf .
Kansas City Times.
It is announced from Tppeka that the
attorney for the Kansas Railroad board ex
pects to examine a number of Nebraska
railroad men as to the feasibility of 9-cent
fares In Kansaa. Don't the Kansas rail
road commissioners knovtCwhat the Ne
braska railroad men think ; of the 1-cetit
fare law without taking1 ihe trouble to
secure their depositions?
IaBoeaee of the lalted Statea.
Baltimore American.
If any genuine and lasting good comes
out of The Hague peace conference. It
will probably be owing to the stand taken
and the propositions made by the United
States. The country's desire for Interna
tional peace' la genuine; It haa no interna
tional jealousies to consult and no hostile
policy of any kind to push. This earnest
ness on the part of so powerful and Im
portant a conferee haa evidently had Its
ffect, though, of course, the other nations
are Influenced by the very coaslderatlons
from which this country is fortunately
free. -
TOO MICH Or A tiOOD THr..
Aa Overflow of Prosperity Reapoa-
Ible for tho Slaiap.
The shrinkage lu Wall street value. h
lready exceeded 13,000,000,(100. Thla !
largely due, not to Presldeut Roosevelt's
policy or his actions In connection with
corporations, for similar disturbances have
taken place In London and rlsewhere. En
llsh consols, for Instance, are lower to-day
than they have been In the history of the
nation. Aa a matter of fact, we have had
In this country too. much prosperity for
several yrars, causing an overdoing In all
channels of work, construction and apecu
latlon. In other words, there has been too
much business for capital, credit and trans
portation. Values had become Inflated, and
In the meantime there were many evi
dences of corporate dishonesty which
shocked confidence by the revelatlona that
cropped out from time to time.
Mr. iRoosevclt's policy haa been forced
upon hjm by these developments. While
the penalty now being paid may be bitter
for the excesses that have taken place, the
pituatlon. will be a sounder one In the end
and all Interests will be established on a
more conservative basis. Great prosperity
hua forced upon corporations a larger
amount of business than they had the abil
ity to handle; hence the flooding of the
market with securities to obtain the means
to meet the emergency and the excessive
Issues from that source. It is plain to be
seen, therefore, that those who blame Mr.
Roosevelt for all our troubles are In error.
Actual conditions have been mainly re
sponsible. We have been confronted with
conditions, not theories
OTHER LA!fD9 THAI OURS.
The session of the British Parliament
brought to a close last Wednesday I
chiefly notable for promises of legislation
unfulfilled. . Borne sixty measures, mostly
of a local character, received the approval
of both commons and lords Beginning
with the much heralded Irish home rule
bill, a measure which did not please friends
or foea, the abortive character of Its pro
visions revealed the Irreconcilable division
of the ministry on that vital question. Con
demned and spurned by the Irish nationalist
members, the Ignomlnous fate of with
drawal waa meted out to the most Im
portant ministerial measure of the session.
The bills for relief of small farmers and
"cropters"' In Scotland and the Irish evicted
tenants were amended to death In the
House of Lrtrds. One bill to which more
than national Interest attaches was passed.
It creates a criminal court of appeal, a
measure of Justice prompted largely by
the case of Mrs. Maybrlck. whose convic
tion was forced by the rulings of the trial
Judge, and provoked the condemnation of
two continents. Much reform legislation
was expected from the liberal party with
Its dominant majority of 150. Failure to
meet expectations will provoke criticism.
The ministry must be given credit ior good
Intentions, however. Blocked by the Tory
majority In the House of Lords, the min
istry centered Its efforts on measures of
nonpollttcal character. Hence the record
of the aession la of little general conse
quence. But It emphasises the fact that the
liberal party must "end or mend" the
House of Lords before It achieves distinc
tion as a constructive organisation.
' Orders have been Issued for the election
of members of the third Duma of Russia.
ine two preceding oodles were not as
tractable as the emperor desired and hopes
are entertained by the reigning house that
the new body will yield more readily to
royal treatment Conditions in the empire
are likely to confuse the Issues of the cam
paign and render difficult the selection of
safe and sane" candidates. Torchlight
processions, open-air meetings. Joint de
bates and other features of a warm contest
are not aa fashionable as they might be.
The chief political excitement la generated
by bombs carefully placed and by the
funeral of officials violently shuffled off.
Assassinations are so common that official
life Is a continuous round of alarm. Police
men will not permit anyone to approach
them, lest they feel the keen edge of a
knife. One million dollars Is being spent
In new Jails. Arrests continue at ah ap
palling rate. Jails are overcrowded and
the roads to Siberia are thronged. Thirty
persons are arrested tially In St. Petersburg
by the secret police. Eighty are sent into
exile from BL Petersburg every day. Tele
grams from Tlflis report that the authorities
there are working day and night at the
construction of a huge temporary prison.
So many Russians have friends in Jail, or
have been there themselves, or expect to
go there shortly, that the papers print spe
cial columns headed, "Jail News," Just as
the English and American papers devote
paos to the doings of fashionable resort.
The difficulty of working up a fair degree
of excitement for campaign purposes under
these circumstances can be appreciated even
at a distance. Candidates are at a dis
advantage. Their workers are liable to be
hiking for Siberia when they should be
hustling to get out the vote.
A turbulent empire of 10,000,000. without
roads or telegraphs, laws or Justice, yet
within gunshot of Europe, hi watching Its
ruler with fierce scorn. "We have no sul
tan!" they say. All know the French have
cast a net about their land, and that the
end may not .be far off. , Meanwhile a
strange figure alts listlessly amid the
orange groves of old Fes a big, heavy
featured young man, well meaning, but
bored and vacillating, dimly realizing that
perhaps with htm passes a dynasty of 2,000
years. For Moulal Abd-el-AsIs XtV Is
lineal descendant of those proud rallphs
who overran Spain long ages ago, and
planted their mosqud In Cordova, their
throne In the gorgeous Alhambra mich is
the vivid summary of conditions In Morocco
with which W. O. FltiGerald begtns a re
markable article in Harper's Weekly.
'Now," he continues, "the great Moorish
empire totters to its fall, seething with
anarchy and brigandage, and with hatred
of the Christians, while the sultan, bewil
dered by 'international conferences.' "pro
grams of reform.' foreign Intrigues, treach
erous advisers, and pretenders to the
throne, has retired to his Innermost pavil
ion to play with the toys that have' been
his ruin."
The Oerman emperor's Interest In every
thing that goes on In the world Is well
known, but few are aware of the trouble
he takes to keep In touch with current af
fairs. According to a Munich newspaper,
the kaiser reads at least three papers
every day, changing the list several times
a week in order to become fully acquainted
with the Ideas or all political parties in
the state. But this by no means exhausts
his appetite for information. Every day
the. ministry of foreign affairs, as well as
that of the interior, haa to provide news
paper cuttings, properly fiamed and dated,
and pasted on slips ready for the em
peror's perusal.. These he carefully reads,
making marginal notes as he goes along,
and they are then scrupulously classified
and put aside for Immediate reference.
Often, too, the emperor asks for cuttings
relating to the particular technical sub
jects In which for the time he Is specially
Interested.
Vance Thompson, writing In the Outing
Magaalne, draws this picture of the under
world of London: There Is a standing
army, as the phrase goes, of 80,000 unem
ployed: add, still, I0.0U0 women very badly
employed Indeed, and S0.000 homeless adults,
and 35,000 wandering children of the slums,
and 15,000 free criminals, and you hdve
before you a statistical summary of the
situation In the. greatest city In Christen
dom. Ninety per .cent o the producers of
the actual wealth of London have no homes
they can call their own beyond the week's,
end and no other possessions than the
few sttcka of old furniture that will go
Into a hand cart for trundling from lodging
to lodging. And (OC.ono people live in- one
room tencmenta In which decency Is Impos
sible. Every night 90,000 Londoners sleep tn
4-penny lodging houses the 4-penny "does"
and every night 11.000 sleep in the casual
wards. Where should they sleep, ' these
secondary millions? In London there are
1.2U2.737 workers who get less than X a
week per family! The week I write of
there were 99,820 persons In workhouses,
hospitals and prisons of the great town.
ew Jersey's Heach for Feea.
Boston Transcript.
New Jersey's reputation aa a state where
Incorporation can be secured on the moat
attractive terms is now so far-flung that
it is able to do business, not only for most
of Its sister statea, but also open Inter
national accounts in a few cases. It haa
completed a transaction In this latter claas
that is unique. It haa Incorporated a com
pany, organised by Frenchmen to develop
mining properties In Spain. Thla Is a three
cornered arrangement which" we should
suppose might Invite complications. Still,
that is not New Jersey's affair. It gets its
fee and perhaps Increases Its prestige by
advertising its special industry ia three
countries
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to the grocery
and ask for
POLITICAL URIFT.
Smoke from adjacent locomotives threat
ens to mar the garish beauty of Pennsyl
vania's new etatehouse, but the smudge Is
not thick enough to hide the spots of the
builders.
Toung Mr. Gorman of Maryland cheer
fully admits that his feet snugly fit his
father's senatorial shoes, and Is anxious
to wear them. Mr. Gorman lias some good
qualities, Including nerve.
Secretary Taft follows Vice President
Fairbanks and Colonel Bryan In the hero
class, and Uncle Joe Cannon Is training
with susplcloua seal. Cutting out four
stogies a day is somewhat heroic, but not
enough to win a medal.
St. Louis boasts of an official woodchop-
per. The duties of this functionary, as far
as known, consist of drawing his salary.
Senator Foraker continues prancing
around Ohio with a large chip on his shoul
der. The chip grows in slie as William H.
Taft recedes in the distance.
There Is a growing movement In South
Carolina to elect Major J. C. Hemphill' to
the United States senate to succeed A. C.
Latimer. Major Hemphill, as editor of
the Charleston News and Courier, has long
wielded a powerful Influence in the public
affairs of his state, but he has never sought'
or held any public office. He waa a moat
bitter opponent of Senator Tillman In the
factional feuds In the state.
Governor Folk finds the task of holding
down the lid In St. Louis more difficult than
prosecuting municipal grafters. But be
has routed race track gambling and the
bucket shops effectually, leaving only the
thirsty poundlpg the lid on Sunday. A
summer thirst in St. Louis on Sunday la
such a painful affliction that sticking a
straw through the crevice . of the ltd Is
considered Justifiable, provided the officer is
out of sight.
Stm?TY GEMS.
"Dont you believe balloon Inventors r
visionary people?"
-wen, l must say that as a rule they
ara usually up In the air." Baltimore
American.
"What makes you think Mr. HnndHrka
ta cultured T"
Oh, he has such a lovely wiv of eatlns-
corn on the cob." Detroit Free Press.
"It Is very good of you to consent tn
dance with so poor a dancer."
"It's a charity ball, you know." Houston
Post. ,.
"Charlie, tell me the old, old story."
"Well, It waa this way: Our team was
iood Ellenfal .fyod
The easy digestion, palalableness and nutrition of
re
WHEAT FLAKE CELERY
rail
makes it a good mental
less force to assimilate it and does not
produce fermentation to distress the stomach.
It is a food made from whole wheat containing
all the phosphates and proteids. It has all
the elements to sustain life. too
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T IS a good
ii
ting that boy of yours ready for
school and we are prepared to
help you- in first-class school
suits and fixings. Start your boy
off ihis season with a good suit
and you will not have to buy so often.
New Fall Hats are now ready for
men and boys.
Browning, Ming fk Co
R. S. WILCOX, Manager.
a package of
GINGER SNAPS
You'll hit the mark
every time.
NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY
doing fine until the seventh Inning and
then our pitcher went up n the air."
Louisville Courier-Journal.
"Seems to me' King Kdward Is doing a
lot of running about among European na
tions this summer."
"Yea. Wonder If he lon't the walking
delegate of the Monarch' union?"-Philadelphia
Ledger.
" 'TIs the rare that kills." said the sen
tentious philosopher.
"No, It Isn't," com-rted the amateur mo
torist, "it la KPttlns: mixed up with tha
machine." Philadelphia Press.
Yankee Jingo I'm afraid we're going ta
have trouble with you Japs.
Suave Jap h! no trouble at nil, my
friend. It will be a pleasure. Urooklyn
Life.
The stranded automobllist was working
over his car.
Up came a sarcastic follower of the plow.
"How many horsepower Is she?" he
mirthfully Inquired.
"Sixty," replied the automobllist.
"Then, by heck, why don't she go?"
"Because, my friend, thirty are pulling
each way." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
SCIENTIFIC MHSKHY RHYME.
St, Louis Republic.
Baby bye.
Here's a fly!
Let us watch him, you and L
Bee htm swoop
In a loop.
Almost tumbling In the soup.
There he goes
With his toes
Dancing on your grandma's nose;
Now, my dear,
See him veer
To your darling papa's ear.
See his feet
They are neat,
And his footsteps are so fleet!
His feet hold.
So we're told,
Microbes in each tiny fold.
You would winlrni
At. each term
That is given to each germ
One might speak
For a week
In rich Latin and tn Greek.
And not tell
Very well ..., .
No, nor even could he spell
All the things '
The fly brings
On his feet and head and wings.
Germs of grippe, " '
Pains that nip,
Pangs that hold each finger tip;
Dandruff mites.
Typhoid sprites,
And appendicitis bites
All of these.
With great ease.
Does he carry, if you please.
Spry and quick,
Ply and slick-
Wlth all them he's never sick!
food, because it takes
time now to be et-