TTTE BEE: OMAHA', TUESDAY, MAY 24. 3010.
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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
State of Nebraska. Douglas County, ee :
George B. Tzschuck. treasurer of Tha
bee Publishing Company, Oaing duly sworn,
saya that tha actual number of full and
complete copies of Tha Dally, Morning,
Evening and bunday Ilea printed durlug tha
uionin 01 April, .Mia; waa aa lonowai
1 MOO
1 42,910
1 42,100
a ,..44,404
40,770
48,040
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t .....42 8S0
44,000
D 44.0C0
U 42,840
1 42,600
I...., 42,000
l 42,680
42.700
II 48.T30
1J 42,200
II 43,300
IB 42,660
to 48,600
... 42,000
15 42.0UO
43,100
14.. ,.41,400
16 42,80
II 4JMM0
7 42,000
it a,o
42,700
0 42,070
ToUI M .
Returned cuplaa 10,421
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total M74.ua
Dally average 42,40
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Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
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M. . VYAUKKR.
Notary fuoila,
akaerlhwra Waring; the city teas
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walled to haa. Addressee will be
cUanged aa oltest aa reqaeated.
. Now, we may safely class Mr.
ley as a nature fakir.
Hal-
This is house-cleaning and town
cleaning season at Oyster Bay.
It transpires ' that aero . exhibitions
come high, but we must have them.
Has anyone in Omaha been buncoed
on C. O. D. express packages from
Chicago? ;
But what are they going to give us
in the place of the daily story on the
Ballinger-Pinchot investigation?
Mr. Rockefeller's assertion that we
eat too much sounds like sour grapes,
coming from a man with dyspepsia.
Those democratic senators are be
ing absent at too many critical June
lures, can tney explain that away,
too?
It will be hard, anyway, for Okla
noma to go below its standard in se
lecting a successor to its present gov
ernor.
King ueorge v nas long been an
ardent stamp collector. Probably was
early impressed by the Boston harbor
stamp episode.
Sir Alfred AuBtin says he does not
read what the papers say of his poetry.
Which shows the poet laureate more
wise than poetic.
The -new King George begins his
reign by pardoning prisoners; very
different from the way the last George
ended his regime.
With the comparative records of
March, April and May before it, no
wonder congress refused to change the
date of Inauguration day.
If this contest for the Panama ex
position drags out much longer war
will be inevitable between New Or
leans and San Francisco.
It the people can't rule in Nebraska
through a democratic governor and
democratic legislature, the thing to do
is to go back to a republican governor
and a republican legislature
South Omaha is about to put ou the
market the biggest bond issue it has
ever attempted to float. Must be hur
rying to get in ahead of the time when
Omaha must sell the $6,500,000 water
bonds voted last year.
According to Uncle Joe Cannon no
one individual could be of special im
portance among 90,000,000 people.
But somo Individuals have made the
90,000,000 believe they were of a
great deal of Importance.
Governor Shailenberger must be
trying to square himself with the
bankers by advocating a law limlUng
the number of state banks to be char
tered for the purpose of guaranteeing
them against competition.
Guess Governor Shailenberger haj
better call time on that special legisla
tive session 'proposition. But perhaps
the governor was only playing foxy in
stipulating a condition which he knew
could not be complied .with.
Mayor Gaynor U consistent, to say
the least. He turns from slapping
yellow journalism In the face to deal
the yellow theater as effective a blow.
These two public perils' go hand In
hand; appealing auk to the worst
there Is In man-
Juit a Quibble.
In his Washington ball speech Mr.
Bryan tried to divert attention from
his inconsistency in hiring a small sa
loon hall for a prohibition speech when
plenty of other halls equally capacious
were available, by trying to pick a
quarrel with The Bee because it had
referred to "county option" as "county
prohibition." "The editor of The Bee
has not senso enough," thundered Mr.
Bryan in his rage, "to say county op
tion, for he does not know the differ
ence between option and prohibition."
As a lawyer by training, although
not by practice, Mr. Bryan baa a pre
disposition to pettifogging and quib
bling. But It Is the substance and not
the form that count. There may be
a difference between county option and
county prohibition, but the particular
kind of one-sided county option which
the antl-saloonists in Nebraska are de
manding, and which Mr. Bryan is ad
vocating, would work prohibition for
the county just the same as a prohibi
tion amendment . to the constitution
would work state-wide prohibition.
Mr. Bryan would have it that county
option simply gives the people of the
county a chance to vote, and that It
takes an affirmative vote to produce
county prohibition. It goes without
saying, however, that the antl-saloonists
would not want county option if
they did not believe it would give them
county prohibition.
That the editor of The Bee did not
lack so much in common sense is
proved by the statement given out by
Superintendent Paulson, the paid
spokesman of the Nebraska Anti-Saloon
league, with reference to their
proposed county option bill:
This Is a measure intended to provide
for the creation by popular vote of anti
saloon territory; it provides for voting the
saloons out and not for voting them In.
Under tha operation of this bill tha county
that has Within its limits "dry" territory
can vote upon the question of becoming
anti-saloon territory In order to avail Itself
of the law-enforcement provisions of this
measure without endangering the present
"dry" regime.
Nebraska has had for nearly thirty
years local option with the incorpor
ated city, town and village as the unit.
The people of each community now
say whether they want to license
liquor selling or not, and their verdict
is final. The proposition to make the
county the unit is admittedly one to
enable the people outside of the city
or town to reverse the verdict inside
of the city or town on this question
- if that verdict favors license. If
there is any difference between county
option and county prohibition in re
sults, it is a difference in name only.
Ohio Primaries and Harmon.
Observers close at hand agree that
the recent Ohio primary election was
a severe jolt to the Harmon presi
dential boom. The governor lost some
ground he could ill afford to spare and
his loss was the gain of his old party
foe, Tom Johnson. In Cleveland,
where Johnson served three times as
fmayor and was defeated on the fourth
time around, Johnson's defeat of the
Harmon crowd was the most crush
ing. In Cincinnati the primary de
throned Lewis G. Bernard, who for
more than twenty years had been the
titular head of his party in that city
and the inspiration of Harmon's po
litical aspirations.
These democrats wh6, opposing
Bryan and his more radltfaT wing of
the party, have been hailing Harmon
as the Moses to ieaa tne democracy
back to power along the path of old-
line Issues, must find little to comfort
them In these primary results. There
can be no mistaking or discounting of
the issue squarely drawn. Tom John
son had only Just returned from Eu
rope and plunged headlong Into the
fight to whip the governor and his
forces. If anyone doubts Johnson's at
titude toward Harmon let him turn to
what the Cleveland man said of Har
mon's nomination for governor' two
years ago when he declared it to be a
trap set by Bryan's enemies to catch
Bryan's friends, i
These little inside facts from the
family circle of Ohio democrats, taken
together with the results of the pri
maries, are Interesting in connection
with Harmon's candidacy and chances
of ' nomination for the presidency.
With the tenacious Johnson out to
"get him" and another state election
Intervening before tne national cam
paign, Governor Harmon's chances of
restoring bis party to power in Wash
ington are' still purely speculative.
Improving the Census.
Many cities are expressing fear that
their full population wll not be shown
in the 1910 census and there is quite
a strong demand for improvement in
the system of counting noses. Of
course It is a little early to get scared,
but It may be that our methods of
taking the census can be bettered, al
though they are this year an advance
of previous census years. On the
other hand, it is. quite possible that
some of these cities making so much
fuss now are beginning to realise that
no census could bring their population
up to the fictitious figures they had
been claiming. This, and not the
knowledge that the count has been
radically tfeflclent, probably is what.
alarms them.
The tendency in most cities, partic
ularly In the west, whore the adver
Using agent is getting In his best
work, is to overshoot , the mark.
Omaha has the most painful reallza
tlon of this fact in its recollection of
1890 and some of these cities though
Omaha is not one this time ar now
paving the way for their "I-told-you-
soM protest by premature complaints.
No tangible plan for Improving the
system seems ' to have been offered,
beyond the suggestion made that .the
mall carriers be employed for this
work as best knowing the residences
and places of business of the people.
Complaint has also been lodged
against the short period of time al
lotted to the census, but that, In the
light of what some European coun
tries do, seems to be a poorly founded
criticism. In Germany, for instance, the
census is taken In one day, Instead of
two weeks, and England devotes very
little more time to it and those coun
tries obtain accurate inventories of
their population!.
The advantage of this one-day sys
tem, which, of course, calls for a
larger army of enumerators and
smaller districts, Is that it avoids du
plications which the long period in
vitees. The tendency must be toward
shortening and not lengthening the
time in the United States When the
work of improvement is undertaken.
A correct census depends wholly on
a thoroughly systematized organiza
tion and it is not strange that this has
not been had in this country where we
take the count only once In ten years.
Jt should be remembered, however,
that we have never had a census that
gave complete satisfaction or whose
accuracy was not uestloned in some
particulars.
Touring Europe.
Seven ocean liners left New Tork
the other day with 2,695 persons
aboard for Europe, most . of them
pleasure-seekers, who will spend the
summer across the Atlantic. Steam
ship officers say the tide of tourists to
the old world is larger this year than
ever and it has been steadily rising for
many years.
This spectacle, of course, reflects a
condition of general prosperity in the
United States, but It also denotes a
growing interest on the part of Amer
icans for Europe and Europeans.
Every year hundreds of thousands of
people from various countries in Eu
rope come to the United States to make
their homes and in time as they pros
per they return to visit their native
lands and they, in fact, form a large
proportion sometimes in these num
bers of pleasure-seekers, which is ti
good omen for the future of interna
tional comity. As the American tour
ists bring back from the old world ac
curate knowledge of it and its people
and the conditions surrounding them,
so these American-Europeans take to
their native countries American knowl
edge, ways and Ideas and this inter
course is mutually profitable.
In 1907, when the financial strin
gency fell upon the country, 2,000,000
foreigners who had established homes
in the United States, or were estab
lishing them, went back to their Eu
ropean homes, where they could make
their American earnings go further.
One million of . them returned, but
think of the leavening influence, of the
1,000,000 that remained abroad. ', They
became practical missionaries for the
United States, spreading the gospel of
American methods at home, in mart
and state among their own people,
thus sowing seed that must spring up
into wholesome harvests of better
thought, of a more advanced system
of living.
There is nothing that can take the
place of this Interchange and inter
course between the old and new world
and nothing that will tend to draw the
peoples of each side of the , sea into
more Intelligent and substantial
friendship. This is one factor work
lng toward that goal of world peace,
about which we hear so much today.
A Chance for Autoiits.
Over in Chicago a call is being made
for volunteers to loan automobiles to
carry the veterans of the civil war to
the cemetery on their memorial mis'
slon on Decoration day. The marking
of the graves of the soldier dead is the
significant feature of the Impending
holiday, and while it has become per
manently established, participation by
the fast aging veterans cannot coa
tinue much longer. The youngest old
soldier is now in his 60s and the
physical fatigue of a march has forced
them to dispense with the old-time
parade. The veterans are entitled to
every consideration gratitude and
every assistance in keeping the mem'
ory of their comrades fresh and fra
grant. If the autoists of Omaha would
put their machines at the disposal of
the Decoration day committee for a
few hours next Monday they would
have a lot of big credit marks chalked
up opposite their names.
By a coup of graceful political con
tortion the Brooklyn Eagle Is able to
twist the recent Ohio primaries into
victory for the insurgents, with which
element it has the hardihood to class
Representative Longworth. In the
meantime the Chicago Tribune Is try
ing to find the answer to the question,
What is an insurgent?
Mrs. Hyde, wife of the convicted
doctor, has filed partition su'.ts in
court seeking to land her slice of that
$1,500,000, the residuary estate of the
late Thomas H. Swope, showing that
tears hav6 not entirely blinded her
eyes to the main chance. The murder
trial Is only the prelude to the real
fight.
The semi-annual state school appor
tionment figures out substantially $1
for every child of school age In No
braska. The endowment of our pub
Ho school system at the time Nebraska
was admitted as a state was brought
about by men who bullded better than
they knew.
The Bee prints a letter written by
an Omaha inmate of the Lincoln In
sane asylum, which contains charges
against the management of the instl-
tution that do not read very crazy.
The strange thing is that all of these
numerous complaints have come up
only since the democratic governor un
dertook to make state institutions the
spoils of politics, and that prior to that
time they seemed to be running with
reasonable efficiency and without
serious internal disturbance.
The New York Evening Poet de
clares negroes are "excluded from pub
lic buildings, railroad stations, thea
ters and ostracised socially and are
free in theory only, Where, in New
York? Certainly not out here.
Those London physicians who assert
that physical exercise 1b injurious to
men of sedentary occupation had bet
ter not come to America during base
ball season with that sort of talk.
Never mind the next time Mr. Hal
ley's comet comes around to visit us
wo will Bend a reporter up by airship
to Interview him and get his auto
biography at first band.
Those Omaha trade boosters are be
ing showered with bouquets all along
the line. It Is the business of the
boosters to make a good Impression,
and they know how.
Bat "Will They Reflect t
. Pittsburg Dispatch.
Both the railroads and tha trusts might
wisely reflect that tha best way to revive
business Is not to take the last cent the
buyer has, and then a little.
. V
A Heyai nun.-
Cleveland Pleain Dealer.
Threa Danish kings George of Greece,
Haakon of Norway and Frederick of Den
markattended King Edwaid's funeral.
About all that Is required for a quorum
of the kings of Europe Is to call together
the Danes.
Propheta Who Should Know.
Philadelphia Record.
Prophets have always had the sacred
privilege of making announcement of evils
to come. Somewhat like them, railroad
presidents, who are able to make good
their own predictions, prophesy that there
will soon be further Increases In rates of
transportation.
Fortune In the Makings.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
It Is explained that even If Jack Johnson
hammers him Into a state of Innocuous
desuetude In the first round Mr. Jeffries
will get about $168,000. And It Mr. Jeffries
renders his black antagonist hors du com
bat handsome fortune will recompense
the gladiator for the humiliation of taking
the count. As compared with speculating
at power, Investing In futures at tha races
or gambling In atocks, prise fighting offers
indisputable advantages.
DEMOCRACY WITH FRILLS.
Analysts of Bryan's Plan of Smother-
Ins "Smaller Vnlts."
New York World.
Mr, Bryan may not be an advocate of
national prohibition, but It Is difficult to
draw a. different conclusion from his ad
dress before the Catholic Total Abstinence
union at Chicago, In. which he said:
l .would not rayor. legislation forbidding
uBe oi liquor at any time or under any
circumstances. I. , would consider this an
unnecessary limitation upon the liberty of
the Individual, but I am In favor of such
restriction as may seem necessary for the
protection of society.
"There Is a great deal of discussion at
this time over the unit. That Is.-as to
whether the power' to regulate the liquor
trafflo shall be vested in the town, In tha
precinct, In .the county, in the state or in
the nation. !. !
"I hold that ovary unit ought to have
authority to act on this subject, except as
It Is restrained by a larger unit That is,
that the block, the ward, the city, the pre
cinct, tha county, the state and tha nation
should have the undisputed right . to ex
clude the sale of liquor within ita limits,
or fix such restrictions upon the. sale of
liquor aa tha people of tha unit may deem
necessary for their protection and welfare.
I believe also that the larger unit has a
right to control the smaller one on this as
on other subjects, f
This may be popular doctrine aa apply
ing to the manufacture and sale of liquor,
but It does not represent the theory of
government upon which this nation Is
founded.
If "the larger unit has a right to con
trol the smaller .' unit," the states ought
to be abolished, for the nation Is a larger
unit than the - state. If "the larger unit
has a right to control the smaller unit,"
the courts should stop upholding the right
of the people to local self-government, for
the state is a larger unit than the town
ship, the city or the county.
Mr. Bryan la reversing democratic Instl
tutlons. He Is pleading for the right of
the nation to rule the state and for the
right of the state to rule the county and
the city In matters which belong prl
marlly to the 'individual.
If this doctrine is to be applied to the
sale of liquor It might as consistently be
applied to everything.
Our birthday Book
May 84, 1810.
Queen Victoria was bom May 34, 113.
She succeeded to the throne In 1837, and
celebrated her jubilee in 1887, continuing
her reign until 1901, when she was suceeded
by her son, the late Edward VII.
Colonel Michael V. Sheridan, United
States army, Is celebrating his seventieth
birthday. He la the youngest brother of
General Phil Sheridan, and la well known
In Omaha, where he was stationed as ad
jutant general of this military department.
Oould Diets, Ak-8ar-Ben governor, head
of the t)iets Lumber company and a lot
of other concerns, la celebrating Ma birth
day today in bis happy family of llamas,
monkeys, parrots, dogs and cats, which he
has collected on his various globe-girdling
journeys. '
Dr. A. B. Somers, practicing physician,
was born May 24. 1847. He graduated In
medicine from Columbia, and has been ac
tive In tha various state and local medical
societies, which he has served as officer,
and has also been city health commissioner.
Charles C. Roeewater, in charge of the
business department of Tha Bee, waa born
May K 1874, in Omaha. Ha received his
education at Cornell university and Colum
bia university. He has been actively with
The Bee In various capacities since 1896.
J. L. Adams, saJus manager for Llnlnger
Implement company, Is forty-nine today.
He Is a native of Indiana, and has been in
the carriage and Implement business all his
life, and In his present position since IMS.
William O. Shrlver, county assessor and
real estate dealer, la U years old today.
Ha waa born In Jollytown, Pa., and has
been engaged exclusively In real estate,
loan and Insurance busineas la Omaha
since 188L
National Policies
President Taft Discusses Various
roUolss of tka Administration
and tha Xeonomies Inaugurated.
An extended review and discussion of the
policies of tha national administration Is
made by President Taft In an article In the
June number of McClare's Magiislne. It Is
In the form of an unbroken Interview or
series of conversations had with the writer,
Oeorge Klblle Turner, who explains in a
foreword that "This statement Is neces
sarily not a verbatim reproduction, but
It gives substantially what he said."
With characteristic frankness the presi
dent discusses the Payne-Aldrich tariff law
along the lines familiar to readers of the
president's speeches, emplssitlng his con
viction that the schedules were not all that
he wished for in the line of reduction, but
the best he could get from congress. "I did
not secure all the reductions that I be
lieved should be made," the president is
quoted as saying. "The woolen schedule
should have been lowered; it was not, be
cause a combination of representatives from
the manufacturing and wool-growing sec
tions of the east and west thad am ajorlty
In congress which was overwhelming. Not
only would It have been useless to try to
beat It, but a reopening of the old fight
between the growers and tha manufactur
ers settled by tha present schedule would
have unfastened a Pandora's box that
might have defeated tha whole bill.
The democratlo south, with the northern
lumbering states, prevented free lumber;
another combination of the same section
trade Impossible the lowering of the much
criticized cotton schedules. As haa alwaya
been tha case in making tariffs in this
country, certain combinations of sectional
interests in congress formed irrespective
of parties, upon purely Industrial lines
had majorities, which were a matter of
fact and must be recognized as such.
The clause in the tariff law authorizing
the appointment of persons "to secure In
formation to assist the president in the
Ctecharge of the duties imposed on him"
by the maximum and minimum sections, is
regarded as a long step In the direction of
a scientific tariff. "When I signed the
bill," he says, "I ' announced that I held
this paragraph to give' the president the
right to secure the statistics covering the
prices and costs of production of goods at
home and abroad, upon which scientific
tariffs must be built. In September I ap
pointed a tariff board, headed by Prof. H.
C. Emery, the Tale economist, to take up
this work. At my Instruction, they pre
pared an estimate of ths cost of a com
prehensive investigation of the kind I
wanted. I have now asked congress for an
appropriation of $250,000 for this investiga
tion. I certainly hope it will grant it.
"A thorough investigation of this kind
will take between two and three years. It
is not unlikely that. In the light of accur
ate statistics, we-may find that certain
schedules In our tariff aro too high. If
tie do, I shall at that time not hesitate Im
mediately to recommend their revision."
Supervision of corporations, the railroad
regulation policies embraced in the Wick
ersham bill, conservation of national re
sources, postal savings banks, reform of
land laws and the Balllnger-Plnchot con
troversy are discussed with marked candor.
These policies are now being whipped Into
forms of law by congress and naturally
command more attention than the
measures of administrative economy which
department officers are gradually putting
Into effect. These measures do not attract
the press megaphones at Washington be
cause they are not topics of congressional
debate, yet they are of first Importance
in view of the great Increase in national
expenses. Regarding the plans for Insti
tuting business methods in the executive
departments, the results achieved and an
ticipated, the president Is quoted:
During the last ten years the ordinary
disbursements for running the federal gov
ernment have Increased $200,000,000, an aver
age of $30,000,000 a year. The appropriations
for the year ending June 80, 1910, were al
ready made when I took office. My cabi
net, however. Immediately began making
their estimates, at my request, for tho
year ending June 30, 1811. By concentrat
lng their attention on this, and beginning
six months earlier than had been custom
ary, they presented to congress this winter
estimates that were $94,000,000 lower than
those for the year before. With the ex
penditures on the Panama canal excluded
as they should be to make any comparison
of value these estimates showed a $06,000,-
000 decrease below the appropriation of
the year before.
To make cuts of this kind, it was nec
essary to make a thorough study of the
government's whole system of doing busi
ness. It was found to be a very singular
one, full of antiquated survivals, reaching
back, in some cases, as far aa tha eigh
teenth century. Government business is
conducted by bureaus; It has grown, when
ever new work has been taken up, by add
ing one bureau to another; and there
has been no thorough attempt as there
must be to take up this aggregation and
examine it as a whole. But, during the
past year, two or three of the department
heads have made cross-sections of their
own systems that are Illuminating.
The overhauling of the, variouj bureaus
of tha Navy department, relics of 1840, anil
the abolttlan and consolidation of divisions
of the Treasury department are instanced
to show what may bo done to increase ef
ficiency and decrease expenses. In the lat
ter department a cut u $2,000,000 In annual
expenses has been effected. In conclusion
tha president says: "There has been loss
to tha government by dishonesty, as was
shown last year in exposing the spectacu
lar customs frauds at .New York; there
has been loss by Incapacity of public em
ployes; but tha greatest loss has come from
tha laek of proper rrodern business organ
isation and methods so far as they can be
applied to government work. To show how
Httle of this there has been. It Is only
necessary to say that In all the Industrial
operations of the government Involving the
expenditure- of let s of millions of dollars
ivery year there was found not one mod
ern system of cost-accounting that would
give tho cost of the articles produced.
"The United States now has an expendi
ture, all told, of over $1000,000,009 a year.
The savings that have been reported as
possible by the different departments In
various branches of the work run from
6 to 40 per cent. Men who have been
active In the administration's efforts for
economy in the departments estimate that,
If congress will co-operate In the employ
ment of elKrta, probably $100,000,400 a year
can be exit' off from public expenditures,
sin ply by doing the same amount of work
that we now accomplish by better busi
ness methods. This means that the cost
of government can be reduced by more
than the entire cost of the federal govern
ment In any year before the civil war. As
an annual saving this is an Immense prlzo,
and Is worthy of the concentrated efforts
of tha entire administration.
"In order to make permanent reforms of
busineaa methoda and savings In expendi
tures, I have requested, congress to co
operate with me by establishing a con
gressional committee, which will employ
experts to investigate the general bureau
system of tha government, point out whe:e
it Is wrong and present modern and eco
nomical systems to take their plaoe."
The report made to tha comptroller
ander date of March 29, 1910, shows
that this bask haa
Time Certificates of
Deposit $2,034,278.61
3Va Interest
paid on certificates running for twelve
months.
in
PERSONAL NOTES.
Pittsburg proposes to erect a monument
to Carnegie differing In architectural style
from those erected to him by himself.
Mr. Roosevelt la spending whatever
leisure time ha can get preparing the book
he is to write for the Scrlbners on his
African travels.
Dr. William 'Colby Rucker of the United
States Publlo Health and Marine Hospital
service has received leave of absence for
a year to accept the post of health com
missioner of Milwaukee.
When Afghan husbands become jealous
of their wives they cut off their noses.
Some of the better class of wives who
have become well-to-do widows are ini the
market for artificial noses.
James H. Eckles' country home on Lake
La Belle, Illinois, valued at $K0,OQO. was
sold at an administrator's sale to the Re-
demptorlst Fathers of St Louis for $33.-
000. The property comprises twenty-nine
acres of land and a handsome residence.
It will be used for a Catholic theological
seminary.
Work has begun at Columbia university
on a tablet in memory of the late Charles
Follett McKlm. The tablet will be placed
In South Court, directly in front of the
Alma Mater statue in front of the library.
It is expected that the work will be far
enough advanced by commencement day
for tha unveiling.
Randolph county. North Carolina, boasts
of a family which for length of life is said
to surpass any other family in the coun
try. To W. M. Lowdermllk and Youthy
Cole, who were married In the early part
of the nineteenth century, were born "Six
teen children. One died In Infancy, t,wo in
young manhood and thirteen reached ages
of from 67 to 90 years, as follows: Stephen,
78; Allle, 80; Annie, 79; Adeline, 70; Reuben,
72; Israel, 72; Wtncy, 81. Emsley, 90; Klsey,
88; Alfred, 86; Ransom, 84; Z. H., 72, and
Malvlna, 67.
POLITICS IX Al Ell BASIC A.
Critical Obaervatlons of Lone Star
Seer.
Houston (Texas). Post (dem.).
The Omaha Bee says that at the repub
lican hanquet held last week in Omaha
participated in by representatives from all
sections of the state, the sentiment ex
pressed was to the effect that Nebraska
republicans will settle any differences they
may havs within party lines, and when the
time comes present a solid front to the
democratic opposition.
In support of what it claims to be the
loyal attitude of republicans of that state
toward the party, It says: "The democratic
leadership and program In Nebraska holds
out absolutely nothing to republicans."
While as a partisan newspaper. The Bee
In its seal for the cause it supports pos
sibly misjudges the measure of unity pre
vailing among republicans of that state,
still It can hardly be contended that the
course of democratic politics In the state
has been such as to atrongly attract re
cruits from the opposition party, even
though dissatisfaction should exist In the
ranks of the latter. The emocratlo party of
Nebraska all along has shown too ready a
disposition to fuse with any element that
offered fusion In order to share tha spoils
of office, to attract that character of sup
port which stays with parties In defeat as
well as in viotory.
The democratic party has in the ultimate
in both state and national politics under
mined ita own strength whenever It has
turned aside from its true mission and
pushed into tha background the fundamen
tal principles of government it was founded
to uphold, that it might gain favor tem
porarily with elements in nowise in sym
pathy with its great alms.
Let the party uphold the banner of pure
democracy, turning neither to the right
nor to the left, and there Is always In this
country an intelligent independent vote
which will come to Its support in sufficient
numbers to insure it a victory.
A Past, Not' Mows.
Washington Herald.
The Pullman company will fight the ef
fort to force a reduction of Its upper berth
rates. We tender the information merely
as a matter of fact, and not aa something
in the nature of news, of course.
Talks for people
Sometimes even bad advertisements
pay, which shows what a force adver
tising is. The better the copy, the
better the results, of course. Oood
copy for one class of trade might be
very poor copy for another. But theie
are a few broad general principles
which are always true.
Your advertising should be attrac
tive enough to catch the eye. Size
doesn't do this. A two-inch single
column card may be made to attract
more notice than an announcement as
big as a sheet of note paper. If your
advertisement isn't seen it isn't read
and it it isn't read no matter If It
has 10,000,000 circulation It isn't
worth a postage stamp. You are not
investing in circulation, but in readers
of advertisements.
The next point is to make your ad
vertisement readable. As a rule the
copy easiest to read is printed in fairly
large type; one kind of type with a
display heading or two and the read
ing matter divided into easy para
graphs. Most advertisers think that
by crowding the space to its utmost
I they are getting bigger value for their
SMTTJNQ REMARKS.
A man in a mellow condition went into
a barber shop and seated himself In one
of the chairs:
"What's your pleasure sir?", asked .the
polite barber.
"Oh, er give me a hair cut and have
one yourself." Everybody's Magazine.
"I have a canary bird that will eat out
of my hand." said the caller.
"That's nothing," replied the woman
who will not be outdone. "I-Ast summer
we had any number of mosquitoes that
would eat off our necks." Washington
Star.
Dlnguss I did a foolish thing the other
day. .
Jigger What was ltT
Dlnguss I didn't know just what might
happen when we wen through the tall of
a comet, and 1 K went around and
squared up all my debts.
"Wliat makes the trust magnate look
so worried?"
"He has just read that the American
farmer Is very prosperous and he feels
that he must have overlooked something."
Houston l"ost.
"Does that volatile and flirtatious young
man really prefer blondes or brunettes?"
"Well, Jim," said BlngltHon, as he proudly r
showed off his first-born, "what do you t,
think of that for a khl?" W
"lie's some kid, all right, all right," re- V
turned Jim, unemotionally. Harper's
Weekly.
"There's one good thing about a comet
scare," said Uncle Allen Parks. "It's the
only scare that will start some people to
trying to square tnelr accounts on tha
books of the recording angel," Chicago
Tribune. , ..
Uncle Hiram fat the theater) Well, Ml
rardy, I guess we'll be goin' now.
Mirandy But there's another act.
Uncle Hiram I know ttvere be, but It
says on the program act IV same as act II.
and I vum I don't keer to see It twice over.
Boston Transcript. "'
"That Is hard to tell; he Is so illogical
about It." , ,
"How Is that?"'
"If he prefers a blonde, he keeps It a
dark secret, and when he Is accused of
flirting with a brunette he makes light
of It," Baltimore American, .
"Your country calls you!" said the 1
earnest citizen.
"1 hope," replied Senator Sorghum, "that 1
my country isn't really calling me some '
of the names 1 hear mentioned in opposi
tion speeches." Washington Star,
"You, ,ve tha JJght,,pf ,my ,lle,::1,.ne rid
wildly. '
Convinced of what she had heard of hla
remarks about her the night before that
he had reference to the moth and the
flame, she went out. St. Louis Star.
"Some rich men," moralized Uncle Allen
Sparks, "remind me of a boy fishing for
German carp. The more of 'em he lands
the worse oft ha Is." Chicago Tribune.
THE COMET'S COMMENTS.
W. J. Lampton in New York World.
Gee whyzygy!
Asa high old skzygy,
Didn't I throw a scare
Into everybody everywhere?
And didn't I
Make more people look toward the sky
Than anything that has come their way
In many a day? . . ,
Well, 1 should say . '
I did?
And didn't I kid
The bunch ' ' ' .
On tha punch - ' "
I promised to hand the earth
All round its girth?
By gum!
They got to thinking eome
And they had the scare.
But they couldn't go anywhere
For relief, and so I had
The bunch In bad.
They had to stay; -
They simply couldn't get away.
And then
When
They were getting ready to pray,
And turning pale
At thought of my fatal tall,
I swished by
With never a mark on the sky J
Or a visible sign 1
Along the whole starry line'
Not even a smell
Of gas to tell
That I
Was anywhere In the sky.
By gosh!
I handed them the josh
All right
Wednesday night,
And when
i I come again
Thin bunch will all be gone
And I can roll on
And In as before
And scare the whole world some more.
Oh, say,
When a comet can play
A joke like that und get It arrnim
It shows that man Isn't the big bosn
He is bluffing to be.
Take It from me,
See?
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who sell things
money. Within reasonable Iimitsvthe
very opposite Is true. Ten words read
are worth more than 10,000 words
passed by.
But the secret of copy is personal
ity; red hot bustling life. Like breeds
like. If your shop Is a hustling go
ahead concern and this spirit "is re
flected in your advertising, the con
tagion will spread. The first hundred
customers are the hardest to get; the ,
second hundred come in about half fjo
time; the third hundred are attract
by the crowd. '
The full page announcements of tbj
department stores overshadow tTe
small dealer; but there Is opening up
a great field in Omaha for the attrac
tive advertising of the smaller shop.
This advertising must be done In a
new way; Ujnust be pleasing, sincere,
convincing; it must appeal to the in- ',
dividual who loves truth rather than
noise; the very antithesis of the broad
side bargain advertising so common in
every newspaper. Don't do merely ,
what the other fellow Is doing; 1
your own story that you woui(l ttUlia
customer when you are selling KiJ,
face to face
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