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    TIIE OMAIIA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY,- SEPTEMBER 20, 1907.
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STATEMENT OF CIRCUTATION. '
State of Nebraska, Douglas county, .
George B. Tsschurk. treaeurer of rne
Bee Publishing Company, being duly
morn, says that the actual number or
full and complete coplet of The paT
Morning;, Evening and Sunday Bee printed
during tha month of August, 1107, wm as
ro i loirs
1. 8S.7SO 17 86.840
t ae.t40 il 30300
I.'. 87,040 1 87 i30
3S,0O SO 7,000
, 17,440 11 30,640
C t 38,830 22 30,390
T .; '36,700 - SI 88,980
I ' 86,800 24 36,950
I J.. : 36.4MO ' 28 33,600
10 88,839 it 38,790
11 35,660 27. 86,880
12 37,340 21. 86 480
II 37,110 21 86,800
14 86,700 10 36,640
II 36,770' II. 86,140
15 36,860
Total 1,138,320
Less unsold and returned coplea. 11,348
Net total...
tally a stage
1,136,374
36,384
GEO. B. TZSCHUCK,
Treasurer.
Subscribed in my presence and sworn to
before ma this 81st day of August, 1107.
(Baal) M. B. HUNGATE,
'.. Notary Public.
WBBJT OUT OS TOWN.
Babeerlbers leaving the elty t
aerarlly shoal, ksrs The Bra
aaalleal t then. Addreaa will ls
change, aa oft aa reeaestea. ,
It Is too bad Robert Fulton Is not in
position to tell us what he thinks, of
the Lusitanla.
"Americans eat too much - meat,"
says Dr.vYlleys That fault will be
remedied as prices go higher.
Minneapolis has also voted down a
new charter proposition, following In
the wake of Chicago. It must be
catching. ... , , " , '
Senator Beverldge declares be would
rather talk to his wife than to all the
world, and the world Is offering no re
monstrance. '..'The automobile owners of Pitts
burg have gun6 fepe'ea crazy," eays the
Washington Star. Trying to get out
of Pittsburg t
The president, of Franco has bought
an oval billiard table. A man in his
position ought to be satisfied to play
the game on the square'. '
Fashion may have outlawed straw
hats on 8ptember-l, but the weather
Bttn has reversed the decision and sent
the hat back for a new trial.
Mrs. , Annie Besant, theosophlst
leader, Bays she hopes-the American
people understand her. They do, but
they have no idea what she means.
Word from Lincoln says they are
seriously considering the question of
erecting a brewery there under the
shadow of the university. Wo don't
believe it.
SenatoV Eailey complains that he
has been misquoted by the press.
Naturally, the newspapers would not
dare print all the things Bailey has
been saying. ' . . ,
The story of a pretty girl at Cleve
land being arrested for stealing rings
does not Bound right. . A pretty girl
ought to be able to get r'.ags without
stealing them.
The only change in the styles of
men's clothing this year will be a little
more room in the chest measurements
for the coats designed for the Ne
braska farmers.
Vancouver wants to send 800 Hin
doos to the Canadian capital as a liv
ing petition for an exclusion law for
Asiatics. There's a job for General
Jacob 8. Coxey.
In distributing commissions for his
military staff Governor Sheldon seems
to have evinced a peculiar leaning to
ward dry goods men. Yet it is not to
be inferred that the staff has any
chronic aversion to wet goods.
The democratic party In Nebraska and the
nation has been distinguished for many
years by lta foresight. World-Herald.
Substitute for the word "foresight"
the' word "hindsight" and the sen
tence will more closely accord with the
truth.
Rev Mr. Parkhurst declares that
Roosevelt is "too autocratic," Taft Is
"a 'trimmer," Bryan "a failure" and
Hearst "a frost." He wants a "good,
strong, new man" elected to the presl
dency. it- is possible that he is com
mitted to Colonel Watterson'a dark
horse.
Representative Leader has Just been
gold-watched in recognition of his suc
cessful efforts In securing the enact
ment of the double-shift firemen's law
and is said to have been so deeply af
fected that bo con Id scarcely reply. He
never was affected that way down at
79 THIS MR. LOOMIHt
Well, this editor Is for Judge Reese for
the, supreme bench and la agulnst Loomls;
In fact, would have been against Loomls
under any conditions, for he la the rankest
kind of a railroad tool. Tha writer served
in the legislature with Loomls and knows
whereof he Speaks. These are bad times
for men of Loomls' sort to run for office In
Nebraska. Schuyler Free Lance.
This extract from the Schuyler Free
Lance Is written by Hon. ' John C.
Spreckcr, who was the floor leader of
the populists in the session of 1901,
and the records show that he is for
rect In saying that he served In the
legislature with Mr. Loomls, thus en
joying the best possible opportunity
to size him up. No one ever im
pugned Sprecker's Integrity of purpose
or accused him of being subservient
to the railroads, so that his character
ization of Loomls as "the rankest kind
of a railroad tool" cannot be Ignored
or lightly brushed aside. II Judge
Loomls Is to be the fusion candidate
for supreme judge his public record
will be legitimately before the people.
It i a safe assertion that the people
of Nebraska do not want by their
votes knowingly to put "a railroad
tool" on the supreme bench this year.
HOW TO HAKDLf LFNCHERS.
Governor Glenn of North Carolina
has taken the lead in a movement that
if followed by other officials In the
south promises to go very far toward
settling one of the most disturbing
features of the negro problem. North
Carolina has a law, recently sustained
by the supreme court of the state,
providing for the trial of lynchers in
the county adjoining that in which the
crime Is committed. Under that law,
the governor has transferred prosecut-
tiona for the lynching of a man ac
cused of killing his brother-in-law, and
conviction has been secured, followed
by the sentence of six members of the
mob to long terms in prison. Their
conviction, it is conceded by all con
cerned, could not have been secured
had they been tried in the county in
which the lynching occurred. In dis
cussing the case, Governor Glenn de
clares that, so far as In his power lies,
white and black will be treated alike
and punished alike when they do
wrong, and encouraged alike when
they do well.
If other states would follow this
example lynchlngs would become rare,
or disappear altogether. The. license
of the law has made crimes frequent
in the south and there Is no denying
that the negroes have suffered dis
crimination in .the administration of
the law. The ultimate outcome of the
policy adopted by the North Carolina
governor must be" to establish upon a
safer, stronger and surer basis the pro
tection of society and the welfare; of
"the people. Though the negro prob
lem is difficult enough -In thesouth,
It wllf'be made less hopeless by the
Glenn policy of administering, the law. I
THE' NATAL' rBCWB-AJf. 1
Congressman Weeks of Massachus
etts, a member of the' House committee
on naval affairs, 1b out in5 a somewhat
vicious attack upon the plan of the
administration to send a fleet of battle
ships on a practice cruise to: the Pa
cific. He is confident that there is no
danger of war with Japan' and is op
posing the naval program solely on
account of the expense Involved in
the proposed transfer. He has com
piled a. lot of data about the cost of
repairs, dockage and coaling, and in
sists that there is no warrant in exist
ing conditions for incurring the pro
posed expense.
The Massachusetts member is mak
ing the same excuse other opponents
of the administration plan have made,
and is borrowing trouble at distress
ingly long range. These battleships
have to be coaled, docked and repaired
at frequent Intervals, no matter where
they are located. They do not He
idle in port at any time. The pay of
the officers and men goes on in any
event, and the increase in cost of the
proposed cruise will not amount to
much.
The purpose of the propose-! cruise
ts to make certain tests and give the
officers and men aa opportunity to
gain certain experiences highly valua
ble In time of need and impossible of
attainment while . the warships are
dawdling around from port to port
The desirability of getting the navy
out of a rut has been felt tor a long
time and the opportunity to accom
plish that end is found In the presi
dent's plan for a practice cruise to the
Pacific.
AN KXPRKS3 COMFASTS TFfiVBlES
The Wells-Fargo company Is the lat
est corporation to add a voice of pro
test against the administration's policy
of dealing with concerns engaged In
interstate commerce. Prior to the pas
sage of the federal rate law of 1906,
which placed express companies under
the Sams Inspection and regulation of
the Interstate Commerce commission,
as other common carriers, the big com
panies had things pretty much their
own way. Annual dividends of 10 to
SO per cent were declared with peri
odical lemon-cutting .bringing the
stockholders extra dividends as high
sometimes as 100 per cent Deploring
the change, the president of the Wells
Fargo Express company, in his annual
report, offers this lament:
We are now under tha Jurisdiction of the
Interstate Commerce commission,, and a
compliance with Its many rulings and re
quirements subjects ua to continued addi
tional labor and expense.
The sympathy, that would naturally
go out to the poor stockholders and
"Innocent Investors" in Wells-Fargo
securities Is checked a little by a
further reading of the statement that,
on account of the extra labor and ex
pense entailed by compliance with the
new rata law, the company's net earn-'
Ings for the year ending July SI were
53.92 per cent of the capital stock, as
compared with 18. SI In 1906. In
other words the company's net earn
ings for the year were only S4.S1S.000,
on a capital stock of $8,000,000. What
the earnings would have been without
"hostile" legislation no one- can guess.
It might help If a popular subscription
were started for the relief of the ex
press companies that have been so
badly handicapped by the operation of
the federal rate law.
LIOHT OH JAIL TStDlNO QBATTS.
The National Prison congress In
session In Chicago la bringing more
light to bear on jail feeding grafts,
which apparently have been practiced
all over the country, but whose aboli
tion an aroused public sentiment is
now demanding. One of the most
suggestive papers before the congress,
read by Prof. Charles R. Henderson
of the University of Chicago, contains,
among other things, this passage:
The anclont fee sys'em of paying the
sheriff dies hard because the people do not
know lta evils and a selfish interest keeps It
alive. The publio has not been Instructed
by the politicians that when a sheriff Is
paid 40 cents a day for feeding prisoners
he Is tempted to give 9 cents worth of
food and put 11 centa In his savings ac
count, or In tha party corruption fund.
One would almost imagine that
Prof. Henderson had gotten his data
right here in the Douglas county jail,
the only correction required to make
it fit exactly arising from the fact that
Douglas county pays 39 cents per day
per prisoner Instead of 40 cents per
day per prisoner. If, however, Prof.
Henderson had made a study of our
local jail situation he would give us
credit for having applied the remedy
because with the end of this year, un
der authority of a new law, the whole
system is to be changed. After Jan
uary next the county board will specify
what food Is to be furnished jail pris
oners and let the contract to the best
bidder. Under the new system the
prisoners should get what the county
board orders for them and the tax
payers should pay no more for it than
would a sheriff figuring to put the
profits in his pocket
Omaha Is entertaining the State
Bankers' association, and Is doing it in
a way to maintain the city's reputation
for cordial hospitality. The standard
of banking and bankers in Nebraska
has noticeably Improved in recent
years with the increasing prosperity
of the state, which they share in a high
degree, and Omaha is the natural
focal point of the banking business in
Nebraska. The meeting of the bank
ers here cannot fail to impress them
with the progressiveness and enter
prise of the Omaha banks, steadied at
the .same time with strength and
soundness.
The Great Northern insists that , it
has 'ceased its discrimination against
Omaha, arising out of refusal to fur
nish cars to haul grain to this mar
ket, but It is not losing any chance to
direct grain shipments to Minneapolis
and Duluth rather than to Omaha in
order to make sure of the long haul.
Omaha people remember the promises
made at the time the Ashland cut-oft
was projected, that the entrance of the
Great Northern would In no way be
used to the detriment of Omaha. It
is plain enough now that these prom
ises wore made simply to allay the ris
ing objections at that time and were
never intended tp be kept . in good
faith.
The arrest of fourteen men charged
with grafting In the building of the
Pennsylvania state capltol will come
as something of a surprise to Pennsyl
vania. t It has been proven that the
contractors actually used 14,000,000
of the $13,000,000 in constructing the
building, and that was an unusually
large per cent for the state ring con
tractors to use In a legitimate way.
Democrats are denouncing Chair
man Knapp of tlje Interstate Com
merce commission for recommending
a repeal of the Sherman anti-trust
law. The law was on the statute
books while the democrats bad com
plete control of both branches of con
gress, but they never made any effort
to enforce It.
Nebraska's pure food law does not
require the food commissioner to re
spond to all requests for public ad
dresses, but there is nothing to pre
vent him from throwing in a course of
lectures for full measure. Food Com
missioner Johnson must be practicing
for a chautauqua circuit too.
Mayor "Jim" has postponed his re
turn for a couple of days longer. Act
ing Mayor Johnson, who draws may
oralty pay while he is away, will
doubtless be glad to give him an in
definite extension of leave.
The country will be glad to learn
that Mr. Cleveland is rapidly recover
ing from his recent severe illness. The
country Is glad to have "Four Years
more of G rover" as an ex-presldent,
and then some.
New York refers to that portion of
the United States west of the Jersey
river as "the Utnterland." The sore
ness is caused by the refusal of the
hinterland to become annexed to Wall
street
Colonel Bryan saya he does not
know what the president's next mes
sage will contain. This will not pre
vent him from claiming credit for
everything the president may recomr
mend.
Judge Reese has now been ap
pointed to a place on the supreme
court commission as preliminary to his
elevation to the regular beach at the
coming election. Every one of the
three Judges of our present supreme
court stepped from the commission to
the full judgeship and Judge Horse
will strictly follow precedent.
The president announces that he
will not go on the stump against Tom
Johnson in the Cleveland mayoralty
campaign. . The president has never
had any passion for- hunting small
game.
Activity of Yeaaar Booms.
Philadelphia Press.
Since Secretary Taft sailed away we are
not getting so much noise from the several
presidential booms; but everybody ought to
Improve tha chance to rest up aa much as
possible. .
Marvels of Navlaatlea.
St. Louie Globe-Democrat
Crossing the Atlantio In five days, and
at 'the aame time keeping up communica
tion with the ahore, Is one of the things
not foreseen by the moat daring prophet.
This achievement at the end Of the first
century of steam navigation makes It use
less to guess at what will ba going on 100
yeara hence.
ftafearnardina' Ken-ests.
Bt. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The foreat reserve Just ereated by the
president In southeastern Alaska embraces
2,004,000 acres, or almost enough to make
two states aa large aa Delaware or Rhode
Island. This Tongaas National foreat, as
It Is called, la composed of rough land, hut
Its Islands and mainland are well covered
with trees.
Aa Occasion for Sympathy.
Kansas City Star.
The statement that the Standard Oil re
ceives only 1100,000,000 a year profit from
lta business was made by an official of
that company. The showing of such a de
pressed financial condition may be part of
the attempt of the Oil trust to create a
publio sympathy which will enable it to
eacape that (29,000,000 fine.
Foreat Hnmi la Alaska.
New York World.
The president's proclamation creating a
national forest of 2,000,000 acres In Alaska
has both sentiment and prudent foresight
to commend It To preserve this tract from
the aze Is merely to take in time precau
tionary measures against forest spoliation,
the neglect of which has been a reproach
In the older states of the union.
Opportunities for Skill.
Portland Oregon Ian.
Notwithstanding the great advances that
have been made in th Industrial world in
the last half century as the result of In
ventions, the Held for the man of Inventive
genlba la still unlimited. From a 18.000.000
turbine steamer to the most ordinary house
hold utensils, tha subjects for improve
ments are numberless The mechanic arts
offer an Inviting field for the young man
who is perplexed over the course of study
he should pursue.
GETTING AM EARLY START.
First Foot Ball A evident Provokes a
Caatlea,
New York Tribune.
The foot ball season or 1907 has not yet
started, but already one accident has been
reported. In the first, practice of a small
Massachusetts college team one of the
backs had his ctHlerr-bprt broken before
he had played ioriiy stoonds. The new
rules are confidently expected to keep down
tna number or sertbur'tccicTents," but foot
ball authoritlea'lnalst tftalVh'e game Itself
should not be blamftf or many of the ac
oldents that occur tng-ftmes between the
small colleges and high Schools. "It is
a fact," said Dr. Lambeth, athletic di
rector at the University tof Virginia, "that
the majority of serious accidents occur In
the ranks of the small colleges. This Is
easily explained on the ground that they
permit players to go on ,the field In poor
phyalcal condition, and very often mem
bers of two contesting teams are phys
ically Incapable of playing each other. Se
rious accidents are therefore the natural
consequence." . . ,.1 .
SWOLLEN FORTUNES.
Aaaitag Slae of the Standard Oil
Grab.
Kansas City Star.
Speaking of "swollen fortunes," what
think you of Standard Oil . profits aggre
gating nearly 1100,000,000 annually? Is It
possible for one trustv 90 per cent of the
stock of which Is held by fifteen men, to
make profits averaging about $273,000 per
day, or more than lUJOOO per hour, by fair
meana? Is it safe for a government to
tolerate conditions, of- combination, mono
poly, extortion and coercion under which
such aggrandizement. is possible? One of
the big sources of profit has been the exac
tion of rebates, yet when the government
proposed to prevent , rebating and other
abuses Standard Oil,, which has hitherto
enjoyed Immunity In, Its system of com
mercial pillage, cries out that it Is being
persecuted. "Persecution!" The mockery
of this protest is that the government has
not only tolerated the abuses of this monop
oly, but has .actually . sheltered the pre
datory operattona by giving Standard Oil
the protection of a high tariff the highest
enjoyed by any trust In the country. Re
bates may be absolutely abolished, but
extortion will continue, approximately the
same enormous profits will be gathered, un
less the protection of the tariff Is with
drawn from the Oil Jrust.
VALl'E OF YEAR'S GRAIN CROP.
Somewhat Short la Quaatltr, bat Sla
in Dollars.
( Chicago. Inter Ocean.
According to the latest returns tha agre
gate grain cropa of the United States this
year will be 743,000,000 bushels short of last
year's yield.
Under ordinal y circumstances this would
be a misfortune little short of disaster.
Yet, though still a misfortune for certain
localities, for the nation at large the situa
tion Is very gratifying.
Throughout the world, with the possible
exception of Argentina, the condition of
whose wheat harvest is still mere con
jecture, there Is a shortage of grain. None
of the countrlea of Kurope has better than
an average crop. There Is little surplus
wheat visible In any of the great producing
countries exoopt the United States.
As a result a season of greater jt'.'vlly
for the grain export trad than any since
138 seems assured. With 74S,Ou.X'0 bushels
less to use and aell than last year It Is
figured that American farmers will receive
1300,000.000 more for the surplus, and that
the money received by the American pro
ducers of grain will this year aggregate
$7,000,000,000.
This matter of r.oOO.OOO.OrO Is commm-led
to tha attention of those persons, including
a number of uneasy statesmen, who Keep
on talking about the alleged neces.-y of
doing something ebout "the problem of
distribution" In order that "the plain peo
ple" may not have to "pay for prosperity"
of the country at large.
Thla I7.0C0, 000.000, compared with which
the wealth of "the richest man In the
world" In real hard cash looks like SO
cenU. will ba distributed directly to those
who are universally accepted as "the plsln
people." And It Is a commercial truism
that when the farmer prospers so do all
the rest of ua In due time and in comfort
able degree.
THE RRrnClTKD 'I NION PACIFIC I
Great Achievement Marred by Da
bloaa Methods.
Boston Transcript. -
The development of the Union Paclflo
from the bankruptcy and partial dissolu
tion of 1S93-1S08 to the present commanding
position of the road In the transportation
and finance of America is a complex and
remarkable story, and Its main facts as set
forth In the Quarterly Journal of Rcohoailca
by Mr. Thomas Warner Mitchell are cal
culated to enhance the current estimate
of the Intellectual resource and the end-justlfles-the-mcans
philosophy of Mr. E5. M.
Harrlman. No question of late years has so
perplexed Investors as how the Union Pa
cific, fresh from the stress of a long re
ceivership, contrived to finance the ac-qi-ilsltlon
of great properties like the South
ern Pacific and the Alton, and the pur
chase of large Interests In other Important
roads not directly' connected with the Harrl
man system. Clearly, concisely, almost
without comment, In the main permitting
the facts to speak for themselves, this
paper Jn the Quarterly Journal of Econ
omics unfolds a devious, though keenly In
teresting and significant chapter cf mod
ern railroad financiering.
The facts of the expansion of the Union
Pacific systpm are little short of marvel
lous. When the company emerged from Its
receivership, on January 31, 1898, It found
Itself stripped of all of Its subsldary prop
erties, and possessing only Its main lines
and one or two email branches 4n all, 1849
miles of railway out of the 7681 controlled
by the old company In 1893. The Union Pa
cific had not only lost lta best feeding
branches It had lost its outlet on the Pa
clflo ocean. It was now virtually a local
mid-western railroad, beginning nowhere
and ending nowhere, and the problem con
fronting the new management of the prop
erty was the actual recreation of a genu
ine railroad system. By June SO, 1900, tha
Union Pacific had regained enough of Its
subnldory lines to give It a total mileage
of 3.033, and on June 30, 1901, the total
mileage was 6,628. The recapture of tha
Oregon Short Line and the acquisition of
the Southern Pacific owning the Central
Pacific from Ogden to the coast, gave the
Harrlman system access to the greatest
of oceans at both Portland and San Franci
sco. The Union Paclflo now came into sub
stantial control of mora than 9,500 miles
of railway, the gross earnlnga on 7,546
miles of which In 1900 were I64.4O0.000, ex
ceeding the gross earnings of any one rail
road system In America except the old and
powerful Pennsylvania.
One point to be set down unquestionably
to the credit of the Harrlman management
Is the steadily Improving' physical condi
tion of both the Southern Pacific and the
Union Pacific main lines In recent years.
Thus, so liberally has equipment been de
veloped that tha average stated oost per
mile run of maintaining locomotives dur
ing the last six years has been 1.17 cents
on the Southern and 9.13 cents on the Union
Pacific, as compared - with six and seven
cents on other roads similarly situated.
This means that the Southern and Union
Paclflo have been sending their older loco
motives to the scrap heap, buying naw and
more efficient motive power and charging
it to operating expenses instead of to '"cost
of railroad and equipment.'' Moreover, the
coat of maintaining freight cara has been
8.99 mills per mile run on the- Southern
Paclflo as agalnat a maximum of six mills
on other systems, and the stated cost per
mile run of passenger cars has been 1.028
cents as compared with 9.1 mills elsewhere.
Summing up, the author of the paper in
the ' Quarterly Journal of Economics is
frank to declare of the Union Paclflo sys
tem that "Mr. Harrlman has enforced for
this company the highest "standard of main
tenance for roadway and equipment of any
railroad system west of the Mississippi
river." The Union Paclflo during the past
five years has been expending an average
of 11,256 per mile every year to maintain
its roadway, while other western com
panies have been expending from 1800 to
900. But strong as Is the status of the
Union Pacific aa a railroad per se, Its po
sition as a financial institution Is stronger
still, through its great investments In the
stocks of other railway systems. Indeed,
ss this writer strikingly declares, "the
Union Paclflo could completely abandon tha
operation of Its railway lines and still re
ceive, as tribute from the Alton, tha Atchi
son, the Baltimore & Ohio, the Northwest
ern, the St. Paul, the Illinois Central nod
the other great railway systems whose
stocks' it owns, enough Income to pay Its
fixed charges and the customary 4 per cent
dividends dn Its preferred stock."
It is a pity that over such an achieve
ment as thla should hang the cloud of du
bious methods. And the present position
of the Union Paclflo raises in an acute
form the question, how far railroads or
ganized for the primary purpose of fur
nishing transportation, can justifiably go
toward becoming financial institutions,
holding conspicuously among other assets
investments in other railroad companies,
even when the motive la not a desire for
combination and lessening of competition.
PERSONAL NOTES.
Better watch Sir Thomas. He may equip
Shamrock IV with some sort of new fan
gled turbine arrangement and win back
the mug.
President Flnley of the Southern railroad
urgea railroad presidents to talk more In
public. It would be better advice to them
to do more In private.
Leon A. Bereznatk, a native of Odessa, Is
now living In Indianapolis. He Is a law
yer, a scholar, author and translator of
"Trilby" In the Russian language.
The historical hall of the knights in the
castle of Kronsburgh, named as the resi
dence of Hamlet, has been further decor
sted with another statue of Shakespeare,
the work of the famous Danish sculptor
Hasscrly.
The Concatenated Order of Hoo Hoos will
not hold its next convention In Atlanta be
cause Oeorgla hae.enacted Its prohibitory
law. There may be'a dispute as to whether
prohibition prohibits; but there does not
seem to be any doubt as to what the Con
catenated Order of Hoo Hoos holds its
meetings for.
The American painter, John S. Rargent,
clings fast to his American citizenship, not
withstanding the fact that his name oc
casionally gets on to the voters' lists In
the English community where he lives. It
Is understood that Mr. Sargent would have
buen knighted some time ago had he con
sented to expatriate himself.
Mr. Nathan Straus of New York has
acr.Vvrd a signal victory In having the In
ternm.lonal Pure Milk congress, now In
s. Rsii 11 In Brussels, officially declare against
the ud f raw milk. It advises mothers to
give tneir Infanta milk brought to the boil
ing jKiln , pasteurized or sterilised. Mr.
Biraui' pasteurizing plant waa exhibited to
the delegates and won unqualified ap
proval.) Two Blows for Hosao Halo.
Minneapolia Journal.
Minneapolis and Chicago are two great
cltlea which yesterday put themselves on
record agalnat home rule. In neither city
Is it clear what caused tha slump away
from their own best Interests, but one gen
eral cause. Indifference, la evident In both.
Chicago, with a registration of 360.000 made
for this election, cast about half that num
ber, and atxjut one-third of the total pos
sible vote of the city. Minneapolis, with
a vote of 42.000. a year ago, turned out enly
15,0v0 electors yesterday,
Maybe Somebody Has
Fooled You!
People don't get wealthy by
paying the highest price, but
by getting the most for their
money. That is why more rich
people drink Arbuckles' Ari
osa than any other coffee.1 p
ARIOSA is the cheapest good
coffee in the world.
AOLBXXXlX BEOsVt Mow Tor, QO
AUTOS NEEDED FOR PARADES
More Machine! Are Wanted for Ak-'Sar-Ben
Street Festivities.
KING'S HIGHWAY BUSY PLACE
Parker Shows aa. Others Are
'Work Preparing for the Great
est of All Carnival Ex
hibitions. at
There Is sore need ef volunteers for the
automobile parade which ts to be on Tues
day of the Ak-8ar-Ben week. W. I. Tet
ter says he needs more cars for tha indus
trial division, Paul Gallagher Is clamoring
for more cars for the comic division and
Mrs. Harry WIlMns says ahe muat have a
lot more for the artistic division.
Bo far these are the only ones Mrs. Wll-
klns has secured for her division: Miss
Lucille Hayden, Frank Colpetser, P. P.
Klrkendall and J. H. McBhana.
In the comic division the list so far la as
follows, though there are some uncertain
ties: Barton Millard, Harry Cummlngs, E.
I. Cudahy, O. A. Cudahy, jr., Arthur Eng
lish, Roma Miller, Millard Hosford, Pax-
ton at Vlerllag Iron works, Fred Hamilton,
O. E. Sprague and H. B. Peters.
Those who have entered cars for the in
dustrial divialon are: Tha Orchard c Wll
helm Carpet company, M. E. Smith Co.,
the Btors brewery, Balduff, the Omaha 4k
Benson express, J. 1 Brandols St Sons and
tha Beaton Drug company.
Activity oa Klnsr's Highway.
Activity lg everywhere " apparent on
King's Highway in preparation for the
great fall festival. An army of carpenters
and other skilled laborers are turning the
grounds Into an amusement city and no
ohance Is being token on the weather, but
everything possible is being put in shape
ahead of time.
H. R. Raver, manager of the Parker
shows, which wer on the carnival grounds
last year, has arrived in Omaha, and will
assist Doc Breed In handling the numerous
concessions, especially the shows. Mr.
Raver showed his marked ability In this
line last year and Doc Breed haa been
striving for some time to secure his ser
vices in handling the shows. Mr. Raver
la nd longer a "trooper," but owns a large
manufacturing plant In lowsi, where me
chanical shows We turned out for carnival
companies, andlt was hard for him to
get away from its business, but in response
to the urgent demands of Doo Breed he
has consented to run over and look after
the amusement features.
J. A. Darnaby alao haa his hands full In
superintending the construction of the larg
est outdoor theater ever built in the west,
which will be used for the production of
"Beautiful Bagdag." His company is at
present rehearsing for this in the Audito
rium under a competent stage manager
and will soon be ready for the dress re
hearsal. Although numerous responses have been
received from the Invitations sent to the
maids of honor and the special maids of
honor for the ball, many have not been
heard from and the board of governors
Is anxious that all names be sent in im
mediately that none will be left from the
printed program, which muat soon be In
the hands of tha printers.
RINE MODIFIES HIS OPINION
Caaaa-ea Deeleloa Which . Indicates
Aarreemeat Betweea City Engi
neer anal Cosaatroller.
Prnsnects for an agreement between the
city . engineering department and the
enmntroller's office over the fund appor
tioned for payment of salaries of Inspectors
of street cuts are much brighter since jonn
A. Rlne, assistant city attorney, "modified"
his opinion regarding the fund. Mr. Rlne
now aays the money set aside by the coun
cil in February can be used to pay the In
spectors, and If this la done It will relieve
tha publio worka fund to that extent, aa tne
imnvinn have heretofore been paid out of
the public worka fund. Comptroller lo-
beck declares that he will have noming 10
Hn with aav law suit: that If one Is started
he will confess willingness to do anything
the court may order and let it go at mat.
. Llaeasaa tins Ba. Pall.
BOONE, la., Sept. 19. (Special Telegram.)
Harry Wilson, an employe of the elec
trical department of tha Northwestern Con
struction company, while putting up a
trolley wire for the Fort Dodge lnterurDan
11 ...i.piv fell from a twenty-five-foot
tower backward and was severely Injured.
No bones were broken, but internal in
juries are feared.
The world be
stows its big
prizes, both In
money and
honors for but
ONE thing,
and that is In
itiative. S o
says El b e rt
Hubbard, the
eccentric phil
osopher. The
well known
distinction aud
We sell a
New
Kimball
for
$260
SIO CaIi
. ST Monthly
Individuality which places the Kimball
In a commanding position among
pianos of the world is due to Kimball
Initiative.
For scores of years the makers of
the Kimball have been originators.
Never satisfied with what Is done to
day, they are constantly accomplish
ing; better things for tomorrow. Vari
ous innovations, various inventions and
a constant endeavor to use only the
A. Hospe Co., IS" ' s-
Wa Do Export Piano t uning and Repairing
BRIGHT AND BREEZY.
"Gracious!" exclaimed Miss Passay, "t
know 1 must look, a perfect fright. I can't
do anything with my hair at all." 1
"No, replied Mlsa Pepiery. "Surely you '
can take It back and get It exchanged, .
can t you?" Philadelphia Press. j
"They are constantly cntchtng more graft- 1
era," said the hopeful cltlxen. I
"Not regular grafters." answered Mr.
Dustln Stax. "Those who get caught are
only amateurs." Washington Btar,
"Many a man." said Uncle Allen Sparks,
"who goes hustling and bustling through
this world has nothing to show for It but
a lot of barked placea on hts shins." Chi
cago Tribune.
"Are your neighbors obliging?"
"I should say so. They always let US use
our telephone whenever X want to." Mil
waukee Sentinel.
'Ta," said Tommy, "I smoked your pipe
toilav. ..
"What!" exclaimed his Pa.
"You said It would make me alck, but
It didn't."
"You misunderstood trie, my son. t said
I'd mnke you sick. Hand me that strap."
Philadelphia Press. . .
"Youngling is going to marry the Widow
Henpeck."
"Why. she's twice as old as he is."
"Oh, well, he'll age fast enough after the
wedding." Town and Country.
"Jones' new house is fitted up very pret
tily. I hear."
"YeS, Indeed; you just ought to see the
lovely antiquarian with all the gold fishes
he has In his study." Baltimore American.
"There's one great trouble about this un
paralleled prosperity."
"Whafe that?" '
"Keepa everybody broke living up to.H.
Washington Herald.
"My dear," said the head of the house,
looking over his morning paper at his bet
ter half, "there Is a crisis coming In
China."
"I knew. It!" ahe moaned. "Susan hai
left only hair a doxen pieces whole out ol
our new dinner set." Chicago Record
Herald. "I was up' to the city and Henry's bees
fool enough to buy an automobllly ana
build a grodge."
"What's a grodgeT"
"It's a atable for folks that haven't got
any horse sense to put Into It." Baltimore.
American.
"Bllggins aays that his boy is wonderfullj
smart." v
"Yes," answered the elderly man, "but
Bllggins ought to know better than to
build any expectatlona on that. ' I can re
member when Bllggins' father said the
same thing about lilm."-rWasbJngton ,ETtr.
"Hitch your wagon to a Btar.""'' aVv
"If you like rocky going," added a theaf
trlcal manager who knew. Philadelphia!
Bulletin.
"Did yes notice about th' Joke me brother
Tim played on wan av thlm chauffeura?"
"I heard a' turrlble thing happened to
him, poor Tim!"
" 'Poor Tim' th dlwlll He had a shtlck
av dlnnamlte In his pocket whin he wor
run over." drudge.
REMORSE.
George Ade in Sultan of Sulu.
The cocktail Is a pleasant drink,
It'a mild and harmless, I don't thtnkt
When you've had one you call for two.
And then you don't care what you do.
Lost night I lifted twenty-three of thesv,
decoctions Into me )
My Wealth increased, I felt first rate,
I felt so good I stayed up late.
R-e-m-o-r-s-s
The water wagon ts the place for me;
At twelve o'clock I felt Immense,
Today I favor total abstinence;
My eyes are bleared and red and hot,
I ought to eat, but I can not.
It Is no time for mirth and laughter.
The cold gray dawn of the morning after.
If ever I want to sign the pledge
It's the morning after I've had an edge,
When I've been full of the oil of joy
And fancied I was a sporty boy;
The world was one kaleidoscope of purple
joy, transcendent hope,
'Twas undiluted, perfect bliss 1
I didn't feel a bit ilka this.
Pure Flavorings
Flavoring
Extracts
vanma
Lemon
OranT.
Rosa,
have been given the
preference and arc now
used and appreciated by
millions of housewives
who have used them for
half a century.
best material in every piano have
caused the name Kimball to stand for
high achievement In piano building.
No piano for home use U so univer
sally popular. That is conceded. It
is essentially a home instrument, com
bining beauty of. design with beauty
of tone, and having as one of lta
strongest recommendations durability
that stands the test of years.'
Kimball tone is Justly famous. The
Kimball family have striven with par
ticular diligence to perfect it it T
music in its highest form..
And the Kimball (sold under the
Hospe plan) Is not expensive. Posi
tively no instrument as good can be
bought for the same money. As sole
factory distributers In the uvest, we
are giving you the best price and serv
ice. Come, lets show you. ,
If you cannot come, write for catv
logues and prices.