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' THE BEE: OMAITA, MONDAY, AUflUftT 15, 1010. 'Hie Omaha Daily Bra Tof.nr.! i!T r:iWAr.n ioiicwatkr. VK-'TDll ll'.SK WATER. KDITOIt KnlfTifl nt Omaha ' poftof fee ai wrond cla niatlrr. tpiimi rii. rr.wRtiTtf)V. lni!y i in-iiniina h'unviii) . r' 'H'Vl-1;,' lally k-r (wltiioiit mirtayf. I"4 week..H'o 1 'any n-v (without siitniv), nn- j far.. um nally He,'- ml Similar, one year 6.W utfuvr.imn hy cauiiikk. Kvenlng I!-e (without Sunday), 1T tfk..f Evening Ilea (with duuliiv), per week V c fundny Hop, one year $2.50 atHKlay lie, one year 1M Addre all complaint of irregulai'ltie in lellvery to 1 1 y 'ii-rulntton 1 o;u tinent. OFFICE. Otriohm-Tlie Hi ItulMln. S.futh Omaha Twenty-fourth and N. (.'Mini il liltiffff 15 Scott Mred. I.lwoln-vt J .I'll,. Iliillrilng. Chicago VA-t Jlaiin-tte LoHding. JXert- 01 lcltoonm llnl-lK'J .i. 34 Weft iLii y-tlilrd street. Wellington 7:3 Fom toenth Street, N. V . CO rut ES 1'OXl iKNCK. CommunK .itieiiH i elm liin to hews and ed itorlul mtlur should t.f ndi-cssed: Omaha lite, ICUlloik'l J piirtnient. Hl'.M I'l'TA NO Kit. lU-mil by iljiift, rxpri' or postal order aullo to Tho l!-o PiiWlFhlng Company, only 2-ieiit Rtainps itielved In payment of mall octoontn. l ersoiml chocks, except on uniaim ana eiiRieiri pxi-iiutiku, imh. ih:hiu, .tati:mi;xt or circulation. State of Nebraska. Douglas County, bh: (ieoiKu 11. Txschuck, troiuwrer of The llee rubllBhing Company, bilnn duly KWorn, hayn that the ariual number of full and coinpktu copies of The laily. Morning, Evening and .Sunday Hoe printed during the month of Jl l'JIO, was as loiiows 1 44,970 17.. .40,350 2 48,480 IS.. 3 41,350 1'.).. 4 65,900 20.. 5 49,730 21.. 41360 .24.. 7 41,830 2$.. 8 41,640 24.. ... 41,840 25.. 10 40,400 .. 28. . 11 ....41,880 27.. 12 ....41,510 28.. 18 , ...4i,80 29.. 14 ..41.740 30.. 15 41,530 31.. IS 48,300 Total i Returned ooples KTst total. . .43,670 , .43,930 . .41,800 . .43,130 , .43,370 . .43,040 . .40,300 . .43,310 . .43,390 . .43,300 . .43,410 . .43,330 , .43,450 , .40,300 . .1,333,310 . . . 13,367 1,310,043 43,369 Daily average. OmIoROB B..TZSCIIUCK, Treasurer. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before ma this 1st day of August, 1910. r . : M, B. WALKER, Notary Public Subscribers leaving; the city tem purarllr should , hare Tbe Bee mailed ( Iheiu. Address will be changed as often as requested. It is still nothing to crow over, Mr. Weatherman. At last, at last! The rain proved that it could come back. i .. ) Do not make fun of bloodless wars. They are the kind wtf; all want. Egg plants are, now ripe. These nature fakers can do most anything. It would seem funny to hear Uncle Joe ask tor the speaker's attention. "Nebraska banks are strong." That headline is old enough to be a lullaby. Still, when they begin to count the votes in that Danville district It may be different , . ,. i The Philadelphia Press asks, "Is art a life?" Yes, a gay one for those who have the price. Just at present Merry del Val prob ably does not. feel the force of his name a great deal. ' ' Now that Joe Bailey has come out for the presidency Bill Bryan better try moving tp Texas. - .. -rrrz ) Mr. Balllnger says he has not con ferred with anyone about resigning. Is it to be a surprise to him then? Timothy Woodruff's vest is said to have made a big hit. with the presi dent. If it made any hit at all It made a big one. . All we have to say about Governor Uadley's plan to eradicate illiteracy In Missouri is that he has undertaken a man's Job. . J For an old man Mr. Rockefeller Is some speeder, ,but who would not be reckless of .$5 fines If he had nearly a billtonT l. Money has a convincing voice when It can tempt embezzling bankers to misappropriate a grand total of 28, 000,000 In five years. That Harvard, graduate who com mitted suicde would have been more excusable had he ' done It when he struck thosq Greek roots. . A great poet said, "Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors than his virtues." Especially when he refuses to show his virtues to us. Down in Florida some nature faker proposes a race between a horse and an ofctrich. yet we have been run ning donkeys against elephants in this country a long time. The Charleston News and Courier reminds its, readers that autoplagiar- ism is stealing one's own works, in which case,, wf should observe, it is not necessary vo toot me norn. Minnie Brown,the ' Indian maiden in Okiahomsjr-a prohibition state by the way wfco drank a quart of whisky and died, - must have been reading about Mr. Rockefeller bathing In whisky. ... . Mayor "Jim" expects . republican votes to make him the democratic nominee for governor, but he has not yet advanvced a single good reason why any republican should abandon his own party ticket to pull democratic chestnuts cut of the fire. Eeijublican Opportunity. Republicans of Nebraska liave an extraordinary opportunity presented iu thu toming primary. It Is a fore gone conclusion thai Governor Shai lonoerger will be renominated on the democratic ticket despite all the Dahl- I maulte bluff and bluster, ana mat w hoever heads the republican ticket will hare Governor Suallenberger to beat in the election. Assuming all other things to be equal, which they are not, the person ality of the republican candidate will determine whether or not the repub licans will reap full advantage of the unpopularity of Governor , Shallen berger, which in some quarters has de veloped into actual hatred. To be more explicit, if the liberal voters who are not particularly attached to any polit ical party are narrowed down to a choice between Governor ShaUen bergor and a candidate in their minds typifying prohibition, they may forgive the governor's sins and vote for him again as ' the lesser of two evils. . If. however, they are permitted to vote for a re publican on whose word they may de pend, and in whom they have confi dence even though pledged to sign a county option bill, they will show the democratic governor that deliberate deception and coarse tlouble-dealing are not paying political investments. This is why we say that republicans are fortunate this year in having a man like A. E. Cady standing for the nomination for governor, and that they will lose a great opportunity if they do not go to the polls next Tues day and make sure by their votes that he is nominated. Two Kinds of Land Baying.' In the old New England states rich men are buying up old homesteads and in some cases entire villages and turning them Into private country homes or reserves of one kind and another. In' the west land is also being bought and sold, 'but In very different ways and for very different purposes. One man out here will buy a vast tract of country, land, not to occupy as a rural dwelling place, but rather to subdivide - and Bell out in small pieces as rapidly as he can. Perhaps it is not true, 'as eastern papers contend, that the people need more farming land, perhaps the New York Central railroad Is all wrong In Its mission of endeavoring" to settle people in the country where they may have the chance of earning a better living than . the restricted quarters which they are able to afford. In the city offers.' But it would 'seem that with all the comfort and luxury to be found in converting these New Eng land communities into estates of one family, Bociety would derive greater benefits if they could be devoted to homes for a greater number, if the land could be Improved by fertiliza tion and it and the villages be left to those who need them as means of live lihood. In some cases it Is said entire communities are obliged to pick up and move on to new settlements. It is contraction in one case and expansion in the other. The 4 west is charged with ,ihe work of finding homes for the many, while the east this portion of it Is being preempted by a few who can afford the pleasure. The tendency is not conducive to the best results. , : . I More About the Tail-Ender. In view of the question of veracity that has been raised over the tall ender resolution supposed to have been tacked onto the republican plat form in the confusion of the closing moments of the state convention, the following letter taken from the Lin coln Journal, signed by a well known delegate from Furnas county, which is in the Fifth district and geograph ically right close to Congressman Nor rls' home, may be of interest: OXFORD, Neb., Aug. .-To ths Editor of The State Journal: I noticed by Fri day's Journal that Mr. Van Citison give the He to the statement that the Norrls resolution la a ta'.l-ender passed after two thirds of the delegates had left' the hall. Now, I believe that people can differ In opinion and not lie, and, as a delegate to that convention, I honestly believe the nays on that resolution were the- stronger, and that our esteemed chairman rather Joecannonlzed the convention by deciding otherwise. I am glad to learn that my friend, Norris, was not the author' of the resolution. Cer tainly he should pray to be delivered from his fool friends, as he seems to have no trouble In whipping his political enemies. ; A. C. RANKIN. The tail-ender may be innocuous, but it should not be regarded as part of the platform, especially when Its contents protesting against Cannonism are in direct conflict with the way it was gaveled through. - Uncle Sam Liberia' Friend. ' Those countries that became excited when the United States offered to loan Liberia $1, 500, 000 with which to re fund its public debt are getting over their apprehension, but the strange thing is that they should' ever have felt the least concern In the matter. What was more natural than that Liberia should look to the United States for this assistance and that this nation should promptly give itt Liberia was given the nucleus of a nation by the United States, which sent negroes there a century ago to form a settlement of freemen, and for twenty-five years after exercised a sort of protectorate over them. Always this republic has been the friend and helper of Liberia, and the record of events is a splendid testimonial to the unselfish desire of a great Caucasian race to aid another people less for tunate in opportunity than itself. It is a singular evidence of American modesty and phllantbrophy- -that the I history of Liberia la so little known, comparatively, among the people of the earth. Here comes a day when this strug gling power finds itself engulfed in debt, and it cornea, of course, to the United States, the nation that has al ways been Its benefactor, for relief. Undo Sam does little more than en dorse Liberia's note for the compara tively small sum of $1,500,000, and more than one European power raises the cry of suspicion. It is natural for Europe to impute to such acts on the part of other governments motives of self-aggrandizement, either in political advantage or territorial aggression, but has the history of the United States in Cuba and Porto Rico been in vain? England and France, more over, must not begrudge any advant age little Liberia can obtain so long as its feeble condition is largely due to the unequal competition it faces in the civilization of these European nations. Interest in Francis Race. The race between former Mayor James A. Reed of Kansas City and former Governor David R. Francis of St. Louis for the democratic senatorial nomination in Missouri attracts more than statewide interest, for if Francis should win there and later In the legislature it would, in all probability, add one more to the list of democratic aspirants for presidential honors In 1912. Former Governor Francis has been flirting with this ambition for a long time, but conditions have never been propitious for actually launching his candidacy. The fact that he was a member of the old Cleveland cabinet at once discounted him for high honors so long as Mr. Bryan held unbroken sway over the party, though toward the last there has been some pretense at reconciliation with the Peerless. The fact that Missouri already has one democratic presidential candidate in the person of -Joseph W. Folk is not at all likely to deter the Francis aspirations, should he succeed as sena torial candidate, for he Is not a Folk man and cares nothing about any plans Mr. Folk may have made for his own future; . But some doubt surrounds Francis' ability to defeat Reed. Though never ranked in the Francis class, Reed is yet popular In the country districts, where he, like Folk, has cultivated the people's friendship by playing re former, although usually referred to as of the grandstand order: He was mayor of Kansas City, and though Francis when in his thirties served as mayor of St Louis and was elected governor of the state before he was forty, later serving as secretary of the interior, in Mr. Cleveland's cabinet, Reed has his following among the younger democrats of the state and may.be able to outrun his elder op ponent in the primaries. He naturally would nave the Folk support both for the reason that Folk and Francis are not political allies and because Francis defeat would eliminate him as a possible opponent of Folk. li Our . Abominable Primary Ballot Notwithstanding all the newspaper words of warning and all the efforts at Instruction, thousands of voters in Nebraska will in all probability be disfranchised at tomorrow's primary by the abominable ballot. This ballot is another of the reminders which we have of the incompetence and mis direction of the late democratic legis lature and it ought to be an object lesson to every voter of the necessity of rescuing the law making power from the hands of '.these democratic law butchers. Once more, however, before It is too late, let us tell what the voter must do, or rather must not do, to make sure he does not spoil his ballot. Each person entitled to vote will be given a ballot containing the names of the candidates for nomination on all party tickets arranged In parallel columns under the fitting party head ings. The ballot is to be marked with crosses opposite the preferred names, but the crosses must all be in but one party column.. Placing cross marks in more than one party column is con trary to the law and the whole ballot so marked must be thrown out and not counted. . Still another confusing feature Is presented by the fact that we hold separate although simultaneous pri maries for school district and for city offices with separate and distinct bal lots. Here in Omaha each voter will have three separate ballots to mark, and the option of choosing his party column and the prohibition against putting crosses in more than one column applies to each of the three ballots. We submit that if anything were calculated to disgust people with the direct primary and to discredit lti popularity this disfranchising ballot and odious open primary is in a fair way to succeed in that object. Among the lawyers at the Douglas county bar few stand higher and are at the same time more popular with their associates than James E. Rait, who is out for the republican nomina tion for county attorney. Every law yer in Omaha who would give an un prejudiced opinion would say that Mr. Rait would be a competent and trustworthy man in that office. Re publicans should vote at the primaries for James E. Rait for county attorney. I Foolish brewers! Short-sighted liquor dealers! Spending real money and wasting time and energy vainly trying to promote "Jim" from the mayor's office to the governor's chair. Even if It were in the cards for them to succeed, "Jim" la the state bouse would not be worth a penny to them hs compared with "Jim" iA the city hall, where he can occasionally grant favors. In the short time he has been a member of the County board, John Grant has made good and earned re tention in the place for the remainder of the unexpired term, which he was appointed to fill. He is an old resi dent of Omaha, an old soldier, a tax payer, and in business has always been square.' ; If you want . to reward a political sell-out vote to continue Fred Brun lng on the -County board. Although lecte6 as a republican, Bruning went jver bag and baggage to the democrats when they offered him a little pie. He ought to be running in the demo cratic primary, '. ' .' '. One local candidate for office finds necessary to circulate, a certificate of character, to which the first signa ture attached is that of Duncan M. Vlnsonhaler. Who would take the risk of giving a certificate of character to Vlnsonhaler? '. The Chicago Record-Herald testi fies editorially, that creosote block pavement is all right. But that would not count with J the man behind the veto pen. here as against "Charley" Fanning, who gets a commission on every brick laid In Omaha's streets. I Christmas is a word to conjure with in Nicaragua, and when a man says it is near, his neighbor shivers, for Christmas Is one of the most terrible revolutionary leaders, Still, in the United States, . too, Christmas some times makes people shiver. ' ' T I The strike of street car men In Columbus bag produced, also a strike of policemen. Omaha had all it wanted with Its street car strike without these additional refinements. Oregon has one law which we favor transplanting in Nebraska. It makes it a criminal offensei for any one to try to hold, up or shake down a can didate for office, Striking; Bflon the Presidency-. Phlladelpnla Record. The political assassins have seldom struck below the presidency1, , but Carter Harrison was assassinated, while mayor of Chicago, and the mayor of a small town in Virginia was recently destroyed by. a bomb. Threats Deserve' Attention. Baltimore 'jCmerlcan. -The man wan shot1 flown Mayor Gaynor of New York had been Writing -threaten ing letters, to which no attention had been paid. It may' be-' the part Of fearless ness to Ignore threats of this kind, but It is more prudent'' to put' the writers where they will be past thia" power of carrying the threats out. H ' ;- - - ' ' - :' Intoleranev of itef ornsers. - . SprlngXIeUt Republican. If Mrs. Alice Long worth, haa replied to the seaJoua reformers n the west, who have begged her to stop smoking clgarets, the fact haa not, been announced,, but the letter addresed to har. has been published, and is enough o Arjye. a spirited' woman to Pittsburg stogies. The passion for re forming other people is a craving that needs to be held sedulously In check; it easily develops intq a worse vice than smoking tobacco, which, at least does not breed self-righteousness, Intolerance, ' and the habit of meddling with other people's private affairs. - - SUGAR WORSE THAN RUM. f.' assnansnn I Dental Expert Boldly Challenges the Lightning;. Harper's Weekly. New sins are Invented dally, the latest being-the exhibition of prise-fight pic tures and Inspection of them. Also new causes of human depravity are dally brought to light -the. latest being sugar. At the state dental ' convention in New Jersey, last month, a doctor from Hobo ken told the dentists that the human race, la fast going to pot along of sugar. Its low price, he .declared, had caused degeneration among the people, and he said: , "The loss of energy through tne con sumption of sugar In me last century and the first decade of this century can never be made good. Alcohol has been consumed for thousands of years, but has not caused the degeneration of the whole human race." It la news that sugar raises such hob with us. Perhaps the painful things that happened to the sugar trust were a con sequence of human degeneration brought on by too Intimate an association with sugar. Will the Woman's Christian Tern perence union please look Into this new peril? Our Birthday Book August IS, 1910. Walter H. Page, -editor of the World's Work, was born August 15, 1855, at Carey, N. C. He used to be editor of the Forum and Atlantic Monttlly and is a member of the book publishing firm of Doubleday, Page & Co. Kdson P. Rich, general attorney of the Union Paoifio, la hi years old today. He was born at Qrlggsvllle, 111. He was edu cated at the University of Nebraska and at Johns Hopkins university. He was a member of the legislature In' 1839 and served one term as regent ef the University of Nebraska. He Is also a member of the law firm of Rich, O'Neill Gilbert H. C. Bostwlck, - president of the South Omaha National bank, was born August 15, 1S44, at Trenton, N. J. He has been in his present position since the bank started in 1W8. He is also Interested in a number of other banks. Moshter G. Colpetser, treasurer of the Chicago Lumber company, Is just 31 years old today. He Is an Omaha-born boy and a graduate of the Omaha High school and of Phillips Andover academy. He was manager for the Chicago Lumber com pany at Grand Island for seven years, taking the management at Omaha in 1901 Dr. Louis Swoboda, physician and sur geon, In the Paxtoa block, was born Au gust 15, 1S6S, In Moravia, and came to this country In 18M. He graduated In medicine from the Omaha Medical college and la now county physician. Joh-n B. Sheldon, superintendent of tel egraph for the Union Pacific, Is just 60. He was born In' Ottawa, Canada, and started tn as telegraph messenger for the Montreal Telegraph company in 1871. He u promoted to Jd present position in 1W7. Around New York ! Blpplea ea the Current ef X.lfe as Seen la the Oraat Amerloan Metropolis frost Hay te lay. 'ihe old boys of today, whose memor ies hark hack to their youthful sight seeing tours of New York, will recall the thrlls experienced In the u.me mus eums. Beside the door the figure of a policeman as' large, as life and as chesty a a live one. Ther gallory of wax fig ures of crowned heads togged In royal regalia. A succession of chambers of horrors depicting some notorious crime or tragedy or mystery. Occasionally some comic picture or amusing mechanism re lieved the somber strain and checked the rising desire of red blooded persons to take, a parting fall out of the oqp at the door. Twenty or more years ago, a visi tor to the big city rarely passed up Wood's or Buber's museums. The former disappeared several years' ago. Huber's went under the hammer last week. The extinction of the business, the New York Sun surmises, Is due to the passing of the Puritan spirit, which would not patron ize theaters, preferring the sedate and sombre atmosphere of wax figures. Public taste haa changed, old forms of amusement cease to amuse and finally vaudeville and moving pictures hastened the dime museum to the Umbo of ancient things. Following the revocation of railroad passes, which the Interstate Commerce law abolished several years ago, the tele graph companies announce that the tele graph franking privilege is soon to be withdrawn from many of those who for years have enjoyed it The amendment of the Interstate Com merce act eliminating the frank except for the exclusive use of telegraph com pany officials and their families was passed by the last session of congress and approved by the president on June 18, to take effect on August 18. Anticipating the, latter date the com panies have sent out printed notices to all their frank holders asking them to send tn their unconaumed supply for can cellation. The half rate franks are in cluded, and It Is expected that on and after August 18, the "complimentary business" will be discontinued. Police Lieutenant John W. Earley of the New Dorp, Staten Island, station, on his way home met a foe who was too much for him, and the police reserves rescued him from a ditch Into which ex-Alderman John Glllen's goat knocked him. The highways of that part of Staten Island differ from the field In that on the roads the grass grows only three or four feet tall. Earley at 1 a, ' m., strode along bravely until a white object leaped into the air and then landed solidly between the lieutenant's belt and his gold "badge. The Impact deprived the policeman of every thing but his breath, and that be expended in a yell for help that was distinctly heard In the New Dorp station and in Glllen's hotel. The ex-alderman and the men from the station found Earley almost unconscious In the ditch that runs along the road. The goat was munching thistles. r, ' amm . ' ' ' Ten-year-old Robert Quintan of East Newark had a bad attack of the fishing fever several days ago. He didn't have a pole of his own and decided to steal one, but a big cop nabtted him for botching the job of breaking into a fishing tackle store and Recorder Fitzgerald held Robert for; the Juvenile court County Judge Carey ,bis. timi la Bob alto) heard the boV's story when the case came up at the court house In Jersey City and he didn't scold at all, although he told the small prisoner that it was very wrong to steal. He said he would have to do some thinking -over the matter and the boy was directed to take his seat. Then the judge gave the court officer some money and later the constable walked into the court room as big as life with a regular rod. steel and bait box. The judge's eyes sparkled - as he made the presentation speeoh, and Robert Qulnlan trudged out of court' with the fishing tackle under his arm, firmly convinced that he would never again be' tempted to steal. Judge Carey has a 10-year-old boy, and his name is Bob, too. "Much has been written about man's in humanity to man, but it would stir one's Indignation to see the brutality of animal to animal in time of sickness," said a keeper of the Central Park menagerie, quoted by the New York Sun. "Take the case of the Four Old Maids In the Cape buffalo paddock. Those four buf falo cows have lived together there for years throughout sunshine and storm and without anything to make 'em jealous. Thsy ought to be friends and they are when all are in good health, but when one Is sick all the others kick and bite her cruelly. She's too feeble to resist and has to be taken away to save her life. It Is the same with all the other animals and with all the birds. As soon as one gets sick all the others attack the invalid In an effort to malm or kill." A New York court has refused a, certifi cate of Incorporation to "The Souse Club," a social organiaaiion oi weauny nw Yorkers. The would-be incorporators set forth that' the club was organised "for social, literary and athletlo purposes, and for mutual Improvement" But the court could not understand how a club, adopting for Its name the colloquial term "Souse," could operate Uor mutual Improvement and accordingly wrote on the petition the word "denied," on the ground that the use of such a name would be against pub Ho policy. CAarles Collman was a popular man In North Hempstead, Long Island, until he became a dog catcher on July 22 last and began to break all records at $1.60 a dog. He discovered in two days that while he had earned 427 he had lost 59 friends and that people called their children in as he passed, slammed the doors In his face and glared at him. He has resigned and hopes bis resignation will be accepted. Center of Popalatlon. Indianapolis Star. The center of population under the new census will not. It is thought be moved far from the preaent center. This Is not wecause the population of the United Ststes has not greatly Increased, but be cause the bulk of the Increase Is not, as usual, In the wsaL There has been a great addition to the number of Inhabi tants southwest, especially In Texas; but on the other hand, a large percentage of the Immigrants who arrived during the last few years scattered themselves over the eastern states. Rhode Island's Increase, for example. Is II per cent In every direction there Is still room for more. Shlftlasr af the "Wild West." Denver Republican. Evidently the wild and wooly west has moved eastward some 1,000 miles, On Monday there was a holdup Just outside of New York city, a street gang fight In which thlr.y shots were exchanged and two participants killed, and the next day the mayor ot vbs o. y was shot down FARM LAID VAl.tM. Kffect of atleaal Development and Malnfnl Prices. New York Journal of Commerce. It In reported that practically all the agricultural schedules of the census have been received at the bureau In Washington. Thi-y have not been fully tabulated, but the process Is said to be so far advanced thnt a general staterm-rrt of the salient features about the principal crops, areas cultivated and values of land can be made. Among other things It Is stated that the returns show "an enormous growth of land values' practically In every section thus far studied." and that Is some sections "the returned land values will Indicate an almost phenomenal Increase." In some states the figures are said to "show an In crease of two and one-half times or nearly that" since the previous census. This Is not "most marked" where new lands have been taken up and brought under cultlva tlon but "In the middle west." This. If verfled, must be considered an In teresting and significant fact end It pro vokes the inquiry what has caused such an advance In agricultural land values. It may be said that It Is due to Increasingly profitable crops, but what are they due to? The cause, where the advance has been greatest. Is not Increased quantity of land under cultivation, and according to all ac counts It Is not Improved cultivation and larger yield due to more Intelligent and skilfully directed Industry. It Is mainly high prices obtained for products, and these are due to Increased demand In proportion to the supply. In other words. It Is the growth of popula tion and the development of Industrial and commercial communities, the multiplication of markets and better means of access to them, and a consequent Increased demand for farm products out of proportion to the t.icreaae In supply, that has so greatly en hanced the value of lands In the middle west. The same forces Increase .the value of land In the Industrial and commercial communities themselves. If the census ascertained and reported the value of all lands , Independent of buildings and Im provements provided by capital and labor, we should have a measure of the vast heritage of wealth produced by the people as a whole rather than by individual ef fort. RKAL BIG BUSINESS. Vastaeas of the Transportation Indas trr of the United States. St Paul Pioneer Press. The extent to which the transportation Industry figures In the Interest of the country is strikingly illustrated by the report of the Interstate Commerce commis sion. On the 234,868 miles of road In the country are 1,602,823 employes. The par value of the railway property is $17,487,868, 93S, and during the last fiscal years there were carried 891,473,426 passengers and 1,666,559,741 tons of freight 'The gross earn ings of all the roads for the year ending June 30, 1909, were approximately $2,400, 000,000. Of . this . immense sum 41 per cent was paid out for labor. Fuel, oil, ma terials and supplies took up 17.3 per cent, while 4.26 per cent was used for betterments and Improvements. Dividends absorbed, 7.2S per cent, or less than one-fifth the amount that was paid for labor. It la: estimated that, counting the families ot the employes, more than 6,000, 000 persons are dependent directly upon the railroads, while hundreds of thousands ot others in the mines and mills and forests are Indirectly dependent upon the railroads, as their labor Is made profitable largely by reason of the transportation facilities offered for their product Immense as the railroad .expense are,, however, and .liberal as la the share that labor geta In the dis bursements, the dividend account shows that the Industry Is profitable to the ex tent of warranting the vast amount of money represented In the investment and In the cost ot operating them. The figures serve to show the Importance of proper laws and a proper adjustment of rates and other questions In order that the Industry may not be Injured nor allowed to work an Injury upon its dependents. IOWA'S CURIOUS PROPOSAL, gag vested Redaction of Width of Pnblv Roads. , . , Boston Transcript , Governor .Carroll of Iowa proposes to reduce the rural highways of the state, which now average sixty feet In width, to forty, turning the margin df ten feet on each side into use by the farmers In raising corn. He computes that this transfer would result In an! added yield ot 8.000,000 bushels a year. That! he should even propose such' a thing shows how completely cultivated the better. Mississippi valley states have be come. No one riding through rural New Hampshire, for example, even If Its high ways were needlessly wide, would propose the turning of any part of them back to private owners to enlarge their crops, since so much of the land they now have lies In disuse. A good solution for the Iowans might be for the publlo to retain title to the high ways at the fuH width, but to allow a strip of ten feet on each side to be utilised by the owner of the adjoining property until such time as the growth of population made It desirable in any place to employ the whole street surface. This Is the sys tem in the District of Columbia, and it works admirably.. It will be many years before rural Iowa will need highways mora than forty feet wide, and the present tendency of good road construction Is to ward an Improved road surface, but one rela tively narrow; to macadamise a space, wide enough for one vehicle, letting the turn outs take their chances with the road as nature left It, haa become an exceedingly practical method of road improvement at moderate cost Talks for people There Is a hatter In Chicago who believes In advertising be bag bad proof of Its power. This is the story: Hit location was good, bis hats were good, be charged fair prices and he never advertised. Perhaps be thought the bats would sell themselves, perhaps be didn't be lieve In advertising, or thought it un dignified. At any rate be did not advertise. He tried as bard as be could to make a success, but business was pretty bad after awhile it gpt worse and he waa on the verge of bank ruptcy. One day a newspaper man went to see him and talked advertising. Tbe hat man figured that things couldn't be worse, so he grasped at advertis ing as a way out of bis difficulties, as a drowning man grasps at a straw. As a starter be tried Panama bats. Tbe newspaper man got up some bully good copy and illustrations, and it seemed that every man in Chicago wanted a Panama be sold hundreds of them. By and by more copy ap PERSONAL NOTES. By the tnagle tvteh of eonecilflatlon tfi capital of two big drug concerns, $S,5V before the merger, was Instantly Inflate to $15,000,000. The poet who sings about "Whrn 1 Rains In the Country" mocks the mulcl temper of the season. "How Dry 1 Am la the seaonahle record for the machini and precious little of It goes a 1"S South Australia's new labor premier, John Verran, has placed himself and party In line with the forces that n u for social and moral reform. Having J nounred gambling, Mr. Verran preacr.,. a sermon at Port Tlrle to a Christian r.i deavor conference. , Edward Northan, a bright, qulck-w u boy of 12, the great-grandchild of the ii President Harrison, la tsllnglng hash Chubb's bosrding house In Ann Arbor, hi Ihe way Edward does It make t! Job much less of a come-down than m. t people would think It for a president prl geny. ;- Count Zeppelin says that the gem-i t use of airships will have a TastroJ effect on furred and feathered game. Al animals show fear at their approaolt Partridges, quail and other game bird cower and hide themselves, and domeitl cocks utter warning crows as If they pel cetved some gigantic bird of prey. Although King George is almost a te totaler, he is the owner of a private dit tlllery which produces excellent Bcoto whisky. The king's distillery Is on hi Scottish estate at Balmoral. For a Ion time It was operated commercially by dealer, but when the lease lapsed to th crown. Queen Victoria continued Its opera tion. v The claim of Frau Dutklewlts of Poses, born February 21, 1785, to be the olde( woman in the world. Is now contested b Mrs. Raba. Vaslka, who was born Majj 1784, In the little Bulgarian village a Bavelsko. The record of her birth Is pr served In a neighboring monastery. Mrl Vasllka for more than 100 years regular!' worked in the fields. Given up by his relatives as long dea. and almost forgotten by thsm, Edwl Clark, who In IMS went to the gold field of California, returned to Providence, K. 1 last week and went immediately to Joi, his only living brother at Oak Blutft For 67' years, none of the Clark family some of whose members live In this clii had heard a word from the western minei TAPS ON THE FUNNYBONE. "A friend of mine who visits that newl; married coupie saw tne husuaixl lue oiui oay tnrowlng stones at his wue." "Good heavens! Was sne nurt?" a3 "is 01 a Dit ot it. one was jui tickled t death, i'hey were Oiainonu Siomjjt. ' Balu more American. Suburb I tell you there Is nothing Ilk. a trip to the country! Avenue-Vee; it certainly makes one ap predate the city tne better. juuge. Church Usher I had a s.ngular experl snce at the service mis morning. Friend What was ttr C. U. A vtranger 1 was showing Into I Seat whispered tuat he wan tea to be wake at 11:30 snarp, aa he nad to wake a train Chicago irioune. "For a spring chicken, madam," sat Dawson, "1 must confess that 1 considej this a iret-ty tough bird." "Yes, Mr. Dawson," replied the landlady amiably, . " but you muwt . rememoer thai we had a pretty tough spring. .Harper Vveekly. "Mike." said Plodding Pete, "dere's farmer up de road dat says hell givf you si for a day a workl" j "What's ae use of temp-tin' me whet you know 1 ain't got ae tune. You orta understand dat out 0 .practice njee I an t-'ud take at lea ". sWoelu,, 10 : de day's work." Washington titar, "I suppose John Smith and Pocahonta lived happily ever after." "Of course. He was one man wh couldn t put up the shadow of an argu ment When her relatives said he owe) everything to his wife." Houston Post. He Women who Imitate men elmpl; make roois or themselves. She Yes, when the Imitation Is a gooi one. Koston . i ransenpLv Aunt Hepsy, who never bad attended hall flram h.nr. T1a,Ar,A nr iappa. , the language addressed by the spectator to tne umpire. "Welt, that settlea It in my mind." sh exclaimed. "They don t play this game il heaven I "Chicago Tribune. "Where did he get the srora-eous medal? "In one of those Central American revoi lutiona. "Did he do .any fighting?" . No. 1 think he loaned the insurgent commander enough cash to buy a pair oj shoes and a bunch of red feathers." Clave, land riain Dealer. TEE RAIN. W. D. Necbtt In Chicago Post The dusty road lay long and still To where It broke across the hill; The weary breese would come and lift A puff of dust and let It drift Against the haggard clover-bloom That gave but ahadows ot perfume, Ana on tne grass that was aa grsy As ever any dust that day. . The tree stood, thirsting, lank and lean with ramine-yeliow m their green, With leaves as shriveled as the hand Of some old man who scarce can stand Because of all the years he feels; The wagons moved with rattling wheels; The bees with angry hums sailed by, -The birds chirped to the empty sky. The twilight came without a breath Of wind, and waa aa still as death; And all the night the hot atara glowed. While crickets clacked a cracklv ode: The dawn woke white and brought a send ui uio oanara s neat, intense. And the tbln doss lay roundabout With their long, red tongues lolling oul Then suddenly a breese laughed by And tossed a hase across the sky. And running, raping down the hill Cajne rain drops with a subtle thrill. As when some rippling dance notes surge Across tire droning of a dirge. And brook, and liver, hill and plain -Leaped up and sang: 'The rain) The rain! who sell things peared advertising other bats an they were sold. Business was prett good and after a while it got bettei but be didn't stop advertising. He keeps bis advertising runnin as steadily as the ticking of a cloc and says he sells more hats than an other hatter in Chicago. At any rat he was saved from bankruptcy,' hal enlarged bJs store, and sells thou sands of bats every season in and ou of Chicago. j And nothing but advertising did it , Good advertising Is the greates business building force In tbe world j It will build up a run down busines and keep a good business from runJ nlng down and the time to advert tlse is all tbe Urn. Tbe Bee bas a Special Bervici Department, Mr. Merchant, tha win be worth your time to knod about, whether you accept our prop! osition or not. . They will add idea to yours. They will suggest improve! ment and stimulate exparslon. May we submit them? Phons Tyler 1000 for an appoint menu didi cam P Cltl 00 u Aim Si puk ON stre la mai A. div X fan clai Trs x E. Met In ( and eve 8k nel i tlon spec thrc Chl eov are J ma; whe tral llttl ln-1 Mis old A: has lng hus reft In I an , ask sua Ml tlon In t and of call con as con ami T" clai Jed tlon thel at : net met tlon and a blo lng Jua cast Bloi Th as tra x soli V blo( stoi RA i