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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
State of Nebraska. Douglaa County, is..
George M. Trschurk, treasurer of ine
Bee Publlalilng Company, being duly wrn'
says that the actual number of fun ana
complete copier of The Dally, Morning
Evening and Bunday Bee printed lur'"
the month of December. 1W7. waa aa fol
lows:
I M.4O0
38,840
36,830
34.S40
36.5B0
36,500
36,300
2 37,160
I :. 37,370
4 3740
( 37.S30
3,80
T 37,00
I..... M.S00
t 36,30
it . 37,080
1 37,000 '
II-.... 36,740
11 37,690
14 3,610
if r..' 3,t60'
It 0,a9
. Totala i . ,
21 36,400
j4' 36,890
it" 36,600
xl' 86,680
17 1 39,890
j 36,360
38,800
SO. 86,110
IK.. ....... 36,610
, . .1,133,980
Lata unsold and returned coplea. 9,804
Net total 1,139,776
Dally average., 36,444
GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK,
Treasurer.
SubHtribed In my presence and sworn to
beoia ro this 2d flay of January, 1908.
ROBERT HUNTER,
Notary Public
WHB.f OUT OF TOWN.
Sabscrlber Iravlaar the city tem
porarily should have The Bee
mailed to them. Address will be
, changed aa oftea, aa requested.
i
Congressman HobBon is going to
lecture to the farmerB. The congress
man la an expert on planting mines.
Mrs. Eddy is getting a lot of pub
licity because she moved In the middle
of January Instead of waiting until
Slay 1. '
It is just possible that the president
called Governor Ma goon home from
Cuba to send htm to pacify Hayti or
Nevada.
"A mustard bath puts new life into
one," says a local physician. The For
aker presidential boom Is in sad need
of a mustard bath.
Governor Sheldon has addressed the
Kansas legislature. Colonel Bryan is
not the only eminent Nebraskan who
can play at that game.
The United States supreme court has
decided that whisky is an elastic term
which may include a great many ingre
dients and cover a multitude of sins.
Several street railway extensions
are promised for the coming year, but
the suburban trolley lines will proba
bly remain on paper for some little
time.
South Omaha merchants are organ
ising to protect themselves against
professional dead beats. Wonder if
this is a combination in restraint of
trader
Congressman Tawney has issued his
note of warning against extravagance
in appropriations, but most of his col
leagues appear to be a little hard o'
hearln'.
"The democratic party will accept
Bryan with resignation," says the
Cleveland Leader. Mistaken. The
party will have to accept Bryan with
out any resignation's
Governor Fort of New Jersey favors
making voting compulsory. The mau
compelled to vote would be about as
valuable a citizen as Is the soldier who
is forced to fight.
Several corporations have an
nounced their Intention to leave Log
Angeles on account of the high taxes.
The corporations object, it appears, to
being treated like tourists.
St. Louis brewers are said to be tak
ing a straw vote among their custo
mers. This Is not the time of year to
take a straw vote, with tbe mint crop
still an uncertain quantity.
David B. Hill announces that he( is
out of politics for good. It requires
nerve for a man to try to infuse inter
est In a fade of that kind which the
public haa known for years.
Tbe richness of Nebraska's soil Is
again exemplified by its yield of gold
bricks, although the number of gold
bricks dug up seems to be the same as
the number originally planted.
The American Bar association has
started a crusade for "fewer and bet
ter laws." Second the motion, with
the amendment that the erusade also
be for "fewer and better lawyers."
Senator "Gum Shoe Bill" Stone of
Missouri is confident that Governor
Folk would make an ideal candidate
for the presidency and ran not see
b Folk should desire first to serve
a term la the United States senate.
A HKU HOT UESSAOK. . .
The special message which Freuldnet
Roosevelt has Just tent to congress Is,
If anything, more vigorous in its lan
guage tbau any similar message that
has before emanated from the White
House.
The occasion for the message arises
out of recent court decisions and cases
before the Interstate Commerce com
mission taken In connection with the
late panic bearing upon the relations
of the government to corporate capital
and organized labor. Insofar as his
recommendation, go, the president
confines himself to reiterating with
added emphasis suggestions already
made in his last annual message.
It Is in drawing new reasons out of
current events in support of his posi
tion, and particularly in replying to
the Intimation that he and his policies
are responsible for- the financial col
lapse that he goes after the wrong
doers in high places arid the wealthy
law-deflers without gloves. life does
not hesitate to declare that there is no
moral difference between gambling at
cards or In the race track and gam
bling in the stock market. In his
opinion the federal government should
bar Btock market gambling from the
use of the malls, telegraph and tele
phone wires Just as it does lottery
gambling. He shows that the plea on
behalf of the Innocent stockholder
caught in the watered stock game is
only an attempt to use the dupes to
shield the tricksters and, without
mincing words, gays that "the business
which is hurt by the movement for
rloupsty is the kind of business which
in the long run It pays the country to
have hurt."
The significance of the message,
which will surely draw forth all kinds
of fire, is that it constitutes notice
again that the president is not backing
down on his distinctive policies for
prosecuting lawless combinations and
repressing corporation abuses. Whether
It will spur congress to action along
the lines of the president's recommen
dations remains to be seen.
ASH' 1XDUSTR1AL BAROMETER.
While most students of financial
and industrial conditions have been
watching the bank reports for indica
tions of the restoration of normal con
ditions in the trades and industries,
a real significant sign of the times is
furnished by reports from Italy to the
effect that the homeward movement of
Italians who have been living and
working in the United States has al
most ceased and Italian emigration to
America renewed. These reports state
that the migration of Italian laborers
to the United States this year promises
to be fully as great as last year and
that the movement will set in earlier
than usual.
At first flush It would appear that
this America-bound movement of for
eign workmen was ill-advised. From
New York, Chicago and ' 'Other large
cities reports are coming of the dis
tress among the unemployed, although
such reports are occasionally relieved
by announcement of the resumption
of work In mills and factories closed
down or working on short shift since
the panic days in the last weeks of
last year. It must be remembered,
however, that the Italian laborers do
not move blindly. They get reports
from their fellow workmen In this
country, from employment agencies
and other organizations that deal with
the demand for labor, and they .evi
dently knpw, perhaps, better than the
general public of plans that, will cre
ate a demand for labor during the
year. It may be accepted a certain
that these workmen will not' return to
America without the assurances that
their services will be in demand. That
they are beginning to return is an en
couraging Blgn that the end to the
period of industrial depression is not
bo far off.
JS "JEFF" DAVli SVLKiXGl
Mr. Bryan and his enthusiastic
friends had best get busy until they
ascertain what is the matter with Sen
ator "Jeff" Davis of Arkansas. His
silence threatens to be significant for
more reasons, than that it la markedly
unusual. It Is Idle to speculate upon
the causes, although the awful fear is
felt in certain quarters that the Arkan
sas statesman has begun to grow luke
warm toward tbe candidacy of the
peerless leader.
Senator Davis, It will be remem
bered, took a half day off and demol
ished the trusts in a speech in con
gress. Then, after a brief rest in tbe
wilds of his native state, he went on
to New York and made a' hurrah
speech for Bryan. He was to have fol
lowed this up with another address at
a Bryan banquet at Chicago, but the
record shows that he reached Chicago,
remained in the seclusion of his apart
ments at a hotel, with a trusty sentinel
on guard and refused to deliver tbe
speech which he is known to hive had
In hli system at the time and which
was touted as being fraught with
greatest Importance and significance
to tbe veters of the nation.
Various explanations for his failure
to appear at the banquet were offered
and the anxious public waB finally left
with the Impression that he was suf
fering from an attack of dahlmanitls,
a strange disease that is wont to
pounce upon orators who go away
from homti without their aidearms.
Just as the! public had decided to ac
cept this solution of the mystery with
a tolerant smile, the Chicago Inter
Ocean comes along with some facts
which serve but to deepen the mys
tery. According to the Inter Ocean,
during the twenty-four hours that Sen
ator Davis sxent in tbe Chicago hotel
he drank eigbtctn pitchers of ice
water, six ice cream sodas with choco
late flavor, one pineapple sundae, n
bottle of cough syrup and a large
quantity of coffee. He also ate three
meals and a bag of lemon drops, ab
staining from all liquor and left Chi
cago "on the water wagon."
The public will not be concerned
with the trouble that Senator Davis
will have In explaining to the hill
billies of Arkansas why he preferred
chocolate sundaes to tarantula Juice.
That Is a personal matter between the
senator and his admiring constituents,
but the political world will not rest
eontent until it gets some more satis
factory reason for the senator's re
fusal to whoop it up for Mr. Bryan
when the occasion was so auspicious.
ALCOHOL OK .THM FARM.
Dr. Wiley, chief of the bureau of
chemlBtry of the Department of Agri
culture, expresses disappointment' at
the failure of the farmers of the coun
try to take advantage of the oppor
tunity offered by a law of the last con
gress to manufacture denatured alco
hol. When the law was under discus
sion It was predicted that it would
prove a great boon to the farmers and
that vast quantities of the denatured
product would' be manufactured
throughout the country and employed
in the industries, furnishing light,
power and heat on the farms and prov
ing its usefulness in many ways. Dr.
Wiley is now convinced that the rea
son the farmers have failed to be ben
efited by the law is that they do "not
know how to build a still or run one."
The extent to which the distillation
of denatured alcohol upon the farm
can become a source of profit can not
be estimated until the farmer turns
his attention to it, and the authorities
of the Department of Agriculture pro
pose to inaugurate a series of schools
of Instruction at experiment stations
and agricultural colleges throughout
the country to give the farmers inter
ested some practical instruction. The
first experiments will be conducted at
the department at Washington, and
each agricultural college will be in
vited to send representatives to Wash
ington to observe the Will and master
the process of distillation. After that
the work will be taken up at the dif
ferent agricultural colleges.
Dr. Wiley contends that a vast
amount of alcohol can be made from
the material constantly going to waste
on the farms. Damaged fruits, vege
tables in the process of decay and all
sorts of odds and ends usually thrown
away on the farm can be turned Into
denatured alcohol, which, as Dr. Wiley
says, "la an excellent fuel, makes a
fine light and can be utilized in many
way to the comfort and profit of the
farmer."
Two batteries of field artillery from
For A. D. Russell and two from Fort
Riley have been ordered to the Philip
pines, in accordance with the regular
army program for rotation in service.
Out of the order a saffron sheet has dis
covered a plan for resisting the com
ing attack of the Japanese on the Pa
cific coast and a general mobilization
of troops In the west. The War de
partment is deliberately and ma
liciously discriminating against Omaha
by neglecting the fortifications at Dun
dee and Florence. If Omaha is wiped
out of existence gome night by the
Japanese, we shall know where to
place the blame.
Secretary Taft endorses the Burkett
bill for the enlargement of the signal
service corps which would make the
Blgnal station at Fort Omaha of much
greater importance. The endorsement
of this measure by President Taft
would be worth more even than the
endorsement by Secretary of War Taft.
Judge Broady wants the democrats
to take their issue 'forN the next cam
paign out of Hawthorne's story of
"The Great Stone Face." Inasmuch
as the democrats have already tried
about everything else, they could not
fare any worse by harking back to
Hawthorne.
Colonel W at terson says the election
of Beckham to the United States sen
ate would make Kentucky certainly
republican in the presidential election.
Strange how the republican members
of the legislature continue to vote
against Beckham after an assurance of
that kind.
Omaha gets another convention In
conjunction with the republican state
meeting in the Sixth district conven
tion, which has Just been called. This
will bring at least two district conven
tions and one state convention to
Omaha on the same day.
Senator Tillman admitted in a con
versation with John D. Rockefeller,
that white ignorance is responsible for
most of the race prejudice in the
south. Unless the senator Is careful
he will take all the thrills out of his
Chautauqua lectures.
According to Treasurer Brian, it is
within the range of possibilities that
Nebraska will have wiped out Its state
debt by July, 1909. Perhaps. It de
pends Bomewhat, however, on how
much money the next legislature un
dertakes to spend.
The net earnings of the United
States Steel corporation for the last
three months of 1907 were $32,553,
999. The panic was not strong enough
to stay the march of business alto
gether. Colonel Duffy, former leader of tbe
democratic party in Pennsylvania, de
clined an invitation to a Bryan dinner,
malting it plain that he wag ill, had
no appetite and also had another en
gagement for that date.
The South Manchutlan railway was
operated by the Russians at a loss of
15,000,000 rubles yearly. The Japs
are making a profit of 30 per cent on
it. Some American railroads ought to
hire Jap managers.
The disclosures of Inefficiency and
corruption In the management of af
fairs in New York City forces the im
pression that the Tammany organiza
tion conceals a "Public Futilities com
mission." All Over hat tha Shontln.
Chicago Record-Herald.
The matter Is practically settled, and all
that remalna foe the delegates to the na
tional convention la to go through the
motions. The campaign button makers
have decided that Taft and Bryan will
probably bo the nominees.
"uaarlng; KITele Korope.
Baltimore American. v
Another fortune of millions lias gone out
of the country to a foreign title. At this
rate It will not be long before the aris
tocracy of Kurope will be supported on
American dollars, which will cause effete
Kurope, being under the obligation of a
burden upon us, to look .down upon us with
more haughty contempt than ever.
Old i anderMlt'a Prudence.
Portland Oregonlan.
One great outrage comes to light upon
the marriage of the Vanderbllt girl with
the Impecunious Hungarian count. One
mlllon dollara In New York Central bonds,
left to her by her father's will, producing
at least $40,000 a year, can't be sold or
touched, and the bridegroom will not be
able to draw on this fund to pay his gam
bling debts and support his mistresses.
But then there Is a countervailing advan
tage to the bride In this, that the count
can't reduce her to absolute poverty, and
after sho shall have got done with lilm
she will still have means of support. Her
father was a man of prudence and fore
sight. FILTH V FAPKR MOM E Y.
Qnlte a Harsh Hoar Against I n clean
Currency.
Technical World Magazine.
The perfume of soiled notes Is some
thing quite unlike that of anything else
In the world. If It were merely a matter
of smell, nobody need care very much.
but It signifies unhealthfulness as well. InL
the handing ef dirty bills some of the
microbes are pretty sure to bo transferred
to the fingers and the latter are constantly
being brought Into contact with the
tongue and lips. Thus germs of typhoid
may easily find their way into the sys
tem. An "mad study of this subject has
recently been made by the director of
the research laboratory of New York,
who, summing up his. conclusions in a
report, states that. aa. shown by mlsero-
scopic examination,, an average piece of
paper money, moderately clean, carries
22.BO0 bacteria. On an average dirty bill
there will be about 73,000 bacteria. Most
bacteria, It should be understood, are
harmless, but many species are the germs
of dangerous diseases.
In an effort to keep the paper money
of the country fairly clean, the United
States government redeems every year
about $fl00,000,000 worth of It, replacing
the old bills with new ones. But even
thus the average dollar bill is obliged to
do duty for about twenty months, while
15 notes remain In circulation for nearly
three years, and those of higher denomi
nations considerably longer. It Is urged
that the stream of new money ought to
be made to flow out of the treasury more
rapidly; and thai, with this end In view.
section 3DS2 of the revised statutes ought
to be amended so as to permit holders
ot worn and defaced currency to forward
It by registered mall, without charge, to
Washington for redemption. The paper
money Is kept too long In circulation. As
for coins, they ought to be thoroughly
cleaned and sterilized after reaching the
treasury, before being thrown out again
Into the arteries of commerce.
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FflOTS
oTiu;rt I.A1IH TH4 OCRS.
The session of the British Parliament
whlrh opened last Wednesday presrnta an
unusual number of perplexing questions of
national ami parly policies to the liberal
ministry and Us parliamentary majority.
Internal polirles dominating at former ses
sions are aggravated by successive vetoes
of the House of lyords. Labor party de
mands have multiplied and turned Into
socialistic channels. The nonconformists
Insists on the educational reforms em
bodied In the bill which the House of
Lords amended lo death. More determined
and aggressive tliHn ever for home rule
is the reunited Irish national party. Should
the ministry accede to the radical demands
of the laborltles It Is likely to allenlate the
support of moderate members of the party.
Similarly, nonconformist measures an
togonlze parly supporters In the established
church. Irish home rule faces the ever
lasting unionist enemy, intensified by ex
aggerated reports of agrarian crimes. Kach
party division must be mollified to some
extent, though there Is little prospect of
any distinctive party measure receiving
the approval of the House of Lords. Larger
questions affecting the empire may force
the minor party policies to the rear. Most
important of these Is the growing discon
tent In India, aggravated by the exclusion
of Indian subjects from the Transvaal and
Australia and their Ill-treatment In British
Columbia. Both the Transvaal and Aus
tralia have put In force drastic policies
against. Asiatics, making no distinction
Important of these Is the growing discon
nect ween subjects of other powers and the
subjects of the British king. Indians de
ported from both colonies on returning to
their homes, Intensified the prevailing dis
content among the natives, which now is
dangerously near the breaking point. It
will be seen that the British ministry is
brought face to face with a serious
situation, viewed front-.a party or an Im
perial standpoint, and the Ill-health of the
premier. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.
materially Increased the perplexities of the
party. .
To Illustrate the gravity of the race
problem confronting the British ministry
the comment of Australian newspapers
may be quoted. The Sydney Morning
Herald says that Asiatic exclusion is an
embarrassing Imperial problem. But It
adds that "It might as wetf be plainly and
definitely understood in England, onco for
all, that, at whatever cost, the common
wealth Will determinedly adhere to the white
Ideal. If the mother country's protection
were withdrawn, Australia might or might
not be able to assert herself, but we should
make the attempt; there Is no possibility
of compromise. Asiatic exclusion Is a life-and-death
matter for a small white com
munity within Jumplng-of( distance of the
teaming Orient. In declaring for a whit,,
Australia, we have at staVe western civil
ization, our breed, and our Institutions.
A white Australia keeps one of the finest
stretches of the world's surface for the
British race, which Is the greatest service
to the British connection of which we can
conceive ourselves capable." The Dallv
Telegraph of Sydney declares that It is the
duty or Australians to secure the exclusion
of Asiatics by means devised so as not to
hurt racial feelings. The lesson of the
Transvaal troubles, the Telegraph says;
Is that Australians should do all they can
to prevent an Influx of colored people, and
should bring Australia under white occu
pation. Representative cltlsens agree that
the British fleet is at present the sole main
stay of Australian policy, and regard the
controversy as enforcing the urgent need
of a sound system of self-defense In order
that the commonwealth may be able to
assume responsibility for Its own policy,
should the British rulers, mlsundrestanding
colonftil motives, decline to support a white
Australia,
Mme. Stoessel, wfe of the commanding
general, haa been brought into the Port
Arthur controversy. Before the St. Peters
burg court-martial. It. has been charged
that the wife of the commandant of Port
Arthur must have kaown of the contem
plated surrender of the fortress, when she
attempted to dispose of a. large stock of
cattle and poultry from which she was de
riving a very satisfactory Income. "War
may lyjve been what General Pnerman said
it was," says the New York Evening
Post, v"but In Port Arthur It had its al
leviations. Like another Guna;a Din to
souls In torment, we see Mine. StorffseJ
doling out eggs to starving soldiers at a
dollar apiece, while officers' messes might
procure a entire cow for MOO, and a succu
lent pig for $5fi0. The eye fondly rests on
the figure of this modern vlvanditre with
a laugh and a 'Courage, mes enfants!'
on her lips, an egg basket In one hand and
a cash register In the other. As for Gen
eral Stoessel, no other name but that of
Cinclnnatus links itself to the vision of
the hero returning from the shell-ridden
heights of 203-Meter Hill to the pleasant
sight of cackling poultry and lowing klne
in the Stoessel backyurd. No wonder Gen
eral Nogl's soldiers threw their lives away
by thousands In their fury to get at that
thriving monopoly."
Consul Gracey writes from Tslngtau that1
it Is reported that, according t6 the wishes
of Viceroy Chang Chitung. a college of
medicine is about to be opened at the
Chinese capital. Preliminary pUns Include,
the following measures' "As the school Is
to afford the highest medical training for
tho young men of the entlro empire. It
shall not employ men on Us faculty who
do noj come with the highest possible
recommendations. In accordance with
Chinese Ideas the course Is to be divided
Into three years of old Chinese medical
practice and six years of modern western
training. At the end ot these nine years
there is to be a thorough examination, and
then tjiree more years of study arid trial
practice shall be demanded before the
students shall be oualified doctors. This
examination must also be passed by people
who are now practicing on certificates
from existing medical schools. No one
who does not hold a literary rank of a
fixed grade (Chu yen) shall be allowed to
take these examinations, regardless of
where he studied."
According to a German publication a firm
In Munich has succeedi-rl In artificially ren
d'rlns asbestos waterproof, and lias put
upon the market this new kind of esbestos
under the tlte of asbi ytos slut"S, which are
the described: "Tliese asryatos slateB. it
is claimed, ure as hard and as strong as
the natural slates, and can therefore be
laid on wall or roof constructions without
any wooden laths being necessary. They
are very easily worked, and can be bored,
nailed and cut Just like wood without any
danger of splitting. They form a fireproof
covering for Inside ajid outside wooden
walls, are vuluuble for ilftulation work of
all kinds, even for electrical purposes;
are of great use In building railway car
riages as Insulating material under the
seats; fovK use in postal telegraphic work
for insulating the switches and for cov
ering Iron and wood' n Conntructlona; for
use as fireproof doon for cloning off single
rooms In stores, warehouses, etc.; for lin
ing wooilen doors, and for covering walls
and ceilings of all kinds so as to protect
them frain fire, heat, cold, dampness, dis
ease, germs and vermin."
Iiupoalaar Modesty.
Minneapolis Journal.
Judaon Harmon professes to be unworthy
of the office of vice president of the I'nited
Slates. A remark like that may well sUrile
tho country.
Confifloenice
when eating, that your food is of
highest wholesomeness that it has"
nothing in it that can injure or
distress you makes the repast
doubly comfortable and satisfactory.
This supreme confidence you
have when the food is. raised with
The only baking powder made
with Royal Grape Cream of Tartar
There can be no comforting confi
dence when eating alum baking pow
der food. Chemists say that more or
less of the alum powder in unchanged
alum or alum salts remains in the food
POLITICAL DRIFT.
Straw votes are multiplying, hut the al
falfa vote la what counts.
The Philadelphia Preps Insists that Penn-
miylvanla has "the best favorite son now on
purade."
Henry Oassaway Davis, running; mate
of Parker, is too engrossed with his wed
ding plans to give the country the benefit
of his advice on favorite sons.
Dexter Marshall, in a late syndicate let
ter, classes Senator Norrls Brown of Ne
braska aa "the only senator wild does not
hold a deed to a home of his own."
Governor Cummins begs leavo to stiKgcHt
to Hon. Leslie Shaw that any time lowa
feels the need of a "favorite son" it will
not have to send to Wall street for one.
The Brooklyn Eagle, In a ratieous
scream, declares that it "will not abide by
the action of the Denver convention It
that body has any Bryanlsm . left In It.
Bryan Is not a democrat, and Bryanlsm Is
not democracy."
Washington clairvoyants have picked
William Jennings Bryan as the democratic
party candidate. The foresight of the sev
enth granddaughter of a last century
grandmother oft makes a weary world
pause In wonder.
Mr. Cleveland had warrant for his state
ment that he was not In need of an ex
presldent pension. The New York state
Insurance reports shows that he drew
$16,666.74 from the Equitably Life for serv
ices as trustee and referee.
, THE NATION'S TOKHHOlK.
Vast Quantities of American nan Ma
terial tiolnc Abroad.
Wall Street Journal.
What would happen If the United Slates
were to consume practically all of the
enormous quantity of crude materials now
exported for use in manufacturing1? Tills
feature of ourtrade is steadily Increasing.
The total for the single Item In the twelve
months ending December 31, 1!", was
$586,6a2,000, an Increase of tt1.719,00 over
1900, or 31 per cent of the total domestic
exports of 1 ,803,000, 000. Yet this does not
Include food stuffs in their natural state
and food animals, together amounting to
1193.379,000.
One result of the utilization of these
materials at home would bo to throw upon
the foreign countries which consume them
the burden of finding other sources of
supply. To supply the 8,onO,Ott bales of
cotton which America exports annually
would probably be more difficult than to
get the quantity of lumber and other raw
materials which enter into the needs of the
Inside Industrial world. One effect, how
ever, of such a change would bo to enhance
the value of natural resources, of mineral
and vegetable varieties, in almost every
part of the world now directly Interested.
Another effect would be seen In the In
creased surplus of manufactured products
turned out by the I'nited States, making
necessary a much larger volume of manu
factured exports. Either the I'nited States
would have to find new markets for such
a surplus or enter Into competition with
other exporting nations In older markets.
At any rate, the effect would be to In
tensify the competitive activities of foreign
trade. This would naturally lead to the
development of merchant fleets and to a
comprehensive re-arrangement of the trade
treaties with the entire world.
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Ohio and Colorado Smokeleaa Coala, together with Cherokee, Walnut
Block, etc., down to $5.00 per ton. OUR HARD COAL la the D. L. & W.
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WHITTLED TO A POINT.
"Is our new congressman homely? Wall
I should nay! Did you over see a photo
graph of him?"
"Why, no, but I've seen caricatures ol
him."
"Oh, they flatter him: you should see one
of hia photographs."-Philadelphia Press.
"Do you believe in telepathy?"
"I don't Know what it means," replied
the ward worker.
"Do you believe that iy thinking liaril
about anything you can Impress yoiu"
Ideas on the minds of oiher people?"
"Pure I do; If li s the Iiosm of thia ward
that docs thu thinking. " Washington Btar.
"Do you believe that men and women
should have eciual rights?"
''Well I used to, but since I've been mar
ried I don't dare to say ho." Cleveland
Leader.
"What are you children talking about?"
demanded the old cat-flali.
"Nothing much, ma." replied the llttl
kitten-fish; "we heard somebody nay that
Iron whs good for the blood, and wo wero
wondering If It really was."
"Not if It comes to you in the shape of
a honk, my child." Catholic Standard and
Times.
The professor was complimenting the vio
lin virtuoso on the excellence of his play
ing. "By the way." he mi id. "do you plav the
'Doctor of Divinity? " .
"That is a piece' I have never heard of."
answered the. violinist.
"Never heard of It!" exclaimed the pro
fessor, "riddle D. D.r-Chlcago Tribune.
"Why don't you go to work?'
Work:" rejoined Meandering Mike. Look
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at
. ... , , - i.-tiin inai is
wM .". i."r 1WOrk nn' fr',i"' mlsorabjo
.. nr n i n i necessary to
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.... -,.v nn- ni' jiiki- or liavlu'
so mo
iii.iiH i orag anout. Wnshlns
tion Star.
A l.l I.LAU V,
Grace Soienson In tho World-Herald.
Go to sleep, my baby,
Shut your little eyes.
Let your papa aoolli you
With his weary hIkIis.
l.oae yourself In (dumber
Here on daddy's breast,
Let this poor old fellow
Have a litllo rest.
Mamma is away, dear.
So you mustn't fluht
She Is playing bridgu now
i Every other night.
Chorus f
Hush a bye, my bain-.
Chase away that scowl;
For It is a prelude
To another howl,
There's no use in crying,
Though few things are worse
Than a bridge-fiend mother
And a whiskered nuise.
But when you are married
Then real woe begins,
Hush a bye. my baby,
I'm glad you're not twins.
Winn you grow to manhood.
If you ever do.
Then you'll understand, pet,
How 1 feel toward you. ..,
I should like to stuff you
Full of cotton so
You would keep those bellows
To yourself, you know.
Fur you sound Just like a
Youna- deserted cair,
I believe you've swallowed
A cheap phonograph.
Hurry up lo sleep now.
Shut those hluhli'riiig eye.
Marnn.a soon will he hero
Gushing o'er her prigc.
Then you'll wuke up wider,
And I'll get atiuxc.
She will crossly tell me
That 1 urn no use.
If you do not faalen
'Thone Hinull lips real tight,
I'll Insert a capsule
Filled with dynamite.
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