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STATFME.VT OT CirtCUIATlON.
tHata of Nebraska, Louglaa County, ss.
Qeorge B. Txschuck. treasurer of Tha
Pee Iubllshliig company, being duly
worn, aaya that tha actual number of full
and enanplete onptea of The laily. Morn
ing. Kvmlng and Sunday Bee printed
during tha month of OcU.be. , 110, waa aa
follow ai
1 43JS0 17 4,87
, 44,700 ' II 43,360
40,884 II 43,380
4 .....43.389 i 43.110
43,440 SI.... 43,490
43,040 It 43,170
T 43,700 II 43,450
t 43,400 24 44,000
43,700 21 43,380
30 4J.SM tt 43,370
11 43,80 17 43,080
II 43.800 II 43,400
II 43,340 1 43,000
14...... .....43,070 '10.. 43,000
II 43,380 II 46,080
SI 44.080 ' -
Total 1.390,740
tUturned Cople ujm
Nat Total M38.308
tdly Arerage 43,174
GEO. B. TiWCHUCK.,
Treasurer.
riiibarrthed In my presence and iworn to
before via thia Hat day of October, 1H10.
M. Jf. WALKElt,
l9eal.) Notary public.
fahanrlbora ItaTltg the city tena
8ravrtly ahoalat hare The Be
Mailed ta tkena. Addreaa will be)
raangad urn nftaat mm reaeated.
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AU quiet in the city attorney'!
fcfflco.
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Yea, this Is tha Mm to begin preach
ng early Christmas shopping.
Thero ia atill room for a downward
revision of the foot ball rules.
Reports from London, speaking of
IT8 "roform of the lords," seem para
doxical. It may be feared that that "new
videnc" of Dr. Hyde's has been bid
loo long.
A man named Blaze ha.i entered
politics In Bouth Carolina. He ought
to be the big smoke.
The New York World asks: "Are
fWe a Free People!" Why. certainly.
Cheer up, cheer up.
Pessimism such as Tolstoi taught
la his later years could not thrive in
this age of optimism.
Having! duly given thanks, Mayor
"Jim" may be expected to reappear at
the city hall before long.
St. Louis police hare sworn to run
all the pickpockets out of town. Sen
tence them to East St. Louts.
It New York state has a census pop
ulation of 9,113,279, what ia the cen
sus population of Nebraska? Every
body guess.
A lecturer la Houston has salted:
"la hell good or bad?" But why do
people always think of that place when
they reach Texas?
Some kind friend of Francisco I.
Madero ought to take him to one side
before he enters Texai and narrate to
Lira the story of the Alamo.
Since Mr. Dryan bought his ranch
In Texas that part of the state is
rapidly turning republican. That man
simply cannot keep out of the enemy's
country.
It will be noted that Mr. Rockefel
ler's announcement that he would live
to be 100 years old came after the
court knocked that $30,000,000 fine in
the head.
Seeing the agitation for a safe and
eane Fourth of July has made fair
progress, the movement might be ex
panded to iuclude a safe and sans
ITbanksgivlug day.
Those British lords are the dandles
ftvhen it cornea to making terms. They
have not submitted a proposition yet
that does not give them more than
they are asked to give up.
The tactful woman who always ea
foya her husband's approval and ad
miration wtU overlook a. lack of can
dor in him, especially when ahe asks
for his opinion of her new hat.
Governor Shallenberger is Incu
tiatlr.g his final message to the legis
lature. In this he can well afford to
be free with' advice inasmuch aa It Is
not up to htin to deliver the goods.
Those "brokers" who fled from New
York on reading of the government's
determination to prosecute the gold
brick artUU, ehow by their action that
they are tunocent. "The w liked flee
when no man pursueth, but the right
to us are Dold as a Hob."
Immigrants Worth Keeping;,
The HunRarian-Amcriran bank of
New York has Increased its rnpital
from $200,000 to Sl.noo.ooo. Tt
has recently received deposits of
$1,." 00,000 from the Hungarian gov
ernment us a subsidy at a low rate
of Intpreot. This bank, which Is the
one most patronized In thia country by
Hungarians, thus shows the paving
propensities of thia race. There are
1,500,000 Hungarians in the United
States who on an average puts aside or
snds back to the native country every
year $.)0, making an aggregate of mil
lions. The Hungarians, like many
other Europeans who come to the
United States, are essentially farming
people. The record Bhows that In time
a large proportion of them, after
amassing; a small fortune In the United
States, go back to Hungary and buy
land OB. which they settle down for
life.
Why not make a special effort to In
duce auch people to buy land and keep
themselves and their Havings In this
country? Why is it ingenious Yankees
have bo long overlooked this splendid
opportunity? It need not be argued
for a moment that the Hungarians or
any other class of Europeans could not
be persuaded by proper influences to
stay in this country where they had
met such good fortune. They go back
home largely through habit and largely
through want of attention. If our peo
ple would take up this matter either
through public or private sources, it
seems to us the results would entirely
justify the effort. All the Immigrants
who are hardy and frugal and indus
trious Bhould become permanent in
habitants here.
A Champion Found.
A champion has at last been found
for the vicious open primary In the
Lincoln Star, which protests agalnBt
any modification of our primary law
"which will make it less open than it
now is." It declares that the recent
primary ariords no rair criterion as
to Its -merits and that it would be
Jumping at a conclusion hastily to say
that the results discredited the open
feature.
But a burned child shuns the fire,
and usually once is enough. The open
part of the Nebraska primary was en
acted by the last democratic legisla
ture for a specific partisan purpose.
Governor Shallenberger took it for
granted that he would be conceded an
unopposed renomtnatlon, and with the
open primary hla friends could cross
over Into the republican column and
select the weakest candidate for him
to run against. It turned out that the
gun exploded at the breecb instead of
at the barrel and put Governor Shal
lenberger out of business, demon
strating the viclousness of the open
primary to the complete satisfaction
of Us former friends.
If Nebraska were the only state
where the open primary had gotten in
its deadly work Its champions might
plead for another trial, hut it has been
tested In other states as well with
equally bad effects, and if It has any
friends anywhere besides the Star, and
a few extremists who want to destroy
party government altogether, they
hare not come to the front. The
strongest advocates of the direct pri
mary all lay particular emphasis upon
the closed feature as absolutely neces
sary to safeguard the Integrity of
party nominations, and if Nebraska is
to retain Its direct nominations the
sooner It discards the open primary
and goes back to the closed primary
the less will be the danger besetting
the whole plan.
The Engliih Language.
A Boston critic thinks the time has
come to call our language American
Instead of English, because the way we
Americans speak It is not the way the
Britons speak it. A difference in
speaking, to be sure, is apparent, but
it is a difference In accents, or at most,
in local expressions. The root remains
the same. Of course it might be
argued that the cockney style of call
ing day "dye" or say "sigh" or even
such general English terms as "ha'
penny" for halfpence, are not Ameri
can expressions, but neither Is our
Bowery lingo true to the mother
tongue. We cannot rent the abitra
ment, therefore, on these exceptions.
Here in our own country people of dif
ferent sections have their own collo
qulalibius and peculiar forms of ac
cent. For Instance the New Englander
may be distinguished by his speech and
jet the New Yorker, as a rule, is dif
ferent from the New Englander,
though nearly one himself. The south
erner with his soft "r's" may be recog
nized of all men.
But we Americans borrowed this
Anglo-Saxon tongue and we really have
no exclusive right to it, not even such
a right aa would warrant us In claim
ing title over England. It may be that
our way of speaking will in time be
come more nearly universal than the
way of the Britons, but still that la In
consequential. Thus far we know that
the Englishman's style has wider
sweep for the simple reason that his
possessions are more vast and more
general. The British Isles form but a
very Insignificant part of them. They
reach Into every portion of the globe:
India, Egypt, Africa, Australia, Canada,
right here at our very door and if any
one doubts that the Eugllsh accent
does not follow the British flag he has
but to listen attentively the next time
he comes in contact with a real Cana
dian. What la far more Important than the
name the language btaxa is whether
it U diatiiied to be the language or
laagnages, the Baiversal tongue that
shall conquer the world, for the race
that It typifies is and must li the
dominant race.
Clowry and Vail.
The ictitement of Colonel Hobrt
C. Clowry rrom the presidency of the
Western Union Telegraph company
and the succession of Theodore N.
Vail, which is the natural sequence of
th acquisition of the Western Union
by the American Telegraph and Tele
phone company, hns a local bearing In
addition to its country-wide Impor
tance because both men are personally
known In Omaha and have been fre
quent visitors hr. Colonel dowry's
property Interests and relationship
have made him regarded almost a? an
Omaha man. und as head of the West
ern Union he has always seen to it
that Omaha's interests received a
square deal. While regretting the
well earned retirement of Colonel
Clowry, we hope, and expect, that
President Vail will give us the same
friendly consideration In the manage
ment of that great public service cor
poration. Another Graft Expose.
The discovery in New York of spur
ious college diplomas Bold to medical
and dentistry students to enable them
to jpractice these professions reveals
anotner form of graft that ought to be
nipped in the bud. The possibilities of
such a menace are too far-reaching to
be tolerated and the grand Jury that
has the investigation In hand, it Is to
be hoped, will discover sufficient
ground on which to base the prospect
of conviction in every case of guilt.
At best this country has a multiplic
ity of young men turned loose every
year with the legal right of treating
human Ills. The supply already far
exceeds the demand and there is a
growing belief that restrictions could
be mi.de in the output of colleges with
out imposing any hardships on society.
If the legitimate supply is thus
abundant, certainly we should counte
nance no move toward increasing the
number by illegitimate means.
The New York authorities have dis
covered twenty fake diplomas marketed
for $80 apiece. It should not be an
impossible task to run down the guilty
parties and bring them to an account
ing. The penalty should be severe
enough, too, to stop future sales of
college degrees at such ridiculously
low prices.
Tito Omaha man hav distributed
badges bearing the war cry of the metrop
olla and have distributed poat cards bear
ing the message, "Arrived In Lincoln
O. K. Ifs a good city. Looks like we
would go to Omaha next year." These
carda were stacked high in the official
booth in the Auditorium until seme aeal
oue Llncolnltee gathered them up and
burled them' In a garbage can. Lincoln
Star.
For this neighborly act Lincoln
should have a vote of thanks, not only
from the Teachers' association, but
from the Omaha commercial bodies as
well.
On the face of the returns Moses P.
Kinkaid in the big Sixth has the big
gest majority of any republican
elected to congress in this state, and
James P. Latta in the Third has the
biggest majority of any sucessful dem
ocratic candidate for congress. These
two are entitled to be the pole horses
In Nebraska's congressional team.
The boasted nonpartisanship of Ne
braska's coming democratic legislature
Is not to be expected to manifest itself
in the organization of the two houses
and the distribution of legislative
patronage. Nebraska democrats are
"nonpartisan" only when they have
something to get and not when they
have something to give.
Governor Shallenberger has commis
sioned the redoubtable "Charley" Fan
ning as delegate to the good roads con
vention. If the Nebraska delegate
could frame the platform he would
define good roads to be roads paved
with vitrified brick, on which be gets a
commission for every square yard.
If that report of the St. Louis girl
or sweet 16 inheriting $30,000,000
gets to Europe,' watch for the most
awful hegira of hungry title-wearers
toward the Missouri metropolis ever
recorded in the annals of European
immigration.
If it be accepted that Eve banded
Adam a lemon Instead of aa apple,
where will that leave the Oregon or
chardlst who claims to have apples
Hhose ancestral lineage goes straight
back to the Garden of Eden fruit?
Champion "Jack" Johnson's collapse,
after exercising his mind to the extent
of making a speech or two, shows that
it ia not always safe for great physi
cal giants to risk too much in the
field of Intellectuality.
"Fncle Joe" boasts that be never
played a game of base ball in his life.
He may get a little practice in trying
to catch the speaker's eye in the next
congress, though.
trff Trade la Alike,
Philadelphia Ledger.
Mr. Bryan has been giving advice to llr.
Roosevelt, but the latter probably will be
found In no more receptive a mood than
the cixtntry at large.
Renew lasr Hta ( arar,
Washington Post.
After vialtlng the RtnithsoDlan and
glamiug oxer tba fruit of bis loierviewa
with bull elephants and rhinoa, the colonel
can turn with reoewed courage la hla tussle
with the rrookm.
Me4lree Raaelr Aaaavilen.
Baltimore American.
The altruistic motives of the t"lii.-ago
packers In reducing prices are fcaaely as
sailed. Why they have lost tha confidence
ef tha puLhe La Uiera aa la knuaiBaa merer
jf.r the philanthropy of it if rmhahlv pmt
their understanding.
Heroic Itefenae of Mere
Mm
Hflltlmoie A inert. 'an.
ATter all. buKinefa life in demoralizing
to the au eptibllltipg of the fall !v A
wonmn lawyer In New York, cojncel for
women's cluba and a anffraKiMt to hoot,
appeared In court to defend a man hareJ
with nonpayment of alimony, her defense
of him hrlng that when a woman marries
ahe must take the worse with the better,
hlih Is a highly i evolutionary doctrine
nil triaiheiy to the whole female tare.
The Toll of Pruareaa.
Baltimore American.
'our men killed t arun testina is an
other toll demanded by the big improx e-I
menta of the dny In urms. The up-to-dnle
lifn, with lis marvels chained to practhml
line, rivals, from the vtandiird of curlier
tlnva, tha fairy tales of thoae days: but
the slrnpla life certainly was less nerve
racking and a good ileal safer. The mar
vels we must have, but It Is the law of
compensation that their cost Is correspond
ingly heavy.
I fortunate lenient ).
Philadelphia Record.'
No wonder that Attorney th-neial Wlck-t'l-sham
Is IndiRnant when, after estab
lishing the criminal guilt of the window
tflass trust officials, the court lets them
off with a fine and they proceed to assess
the amount of the fine upon their em
ployes by making a heavy reduction in
wyes. It m ureal folly to go to the
expense of building jails to hold obdurate
convicted criminals If the mistaken clem
ency of the courts is to be Interposed to
A DEMOCRATIC H'HKiM.
Elimination of the t'eerlrsa One
Krnkea Btnat of Jof.
New York World (deni ).
For the first time since Andrew Jackson's
administration the democratic party Is
emancipated and master of its own destiny.
All the shackles have been struck off.
There is no load of sectional issues or dead
issues or economic fallacies for it to strug
gle under. As socctuBlon followed slavery to
the grave and silver followed secession, so
the Bryan socialism has followed sliver,
and the democratic, slate Is wiped clean.
The party is back to first principles again,
under leadership that Is fit to lead.
For fifty years the greatest service of the
democracy has been that of a party of op
position. At last the opportunity bus come,
under men like Wilson and Oaynor and
Baldwin and Dlx and Harmon and Foss
and PlaJatari, for it to be a party of con
structive and progressive statesmanship.
POOR "LAFE" YOOU.
Uobe of Regret for Kdltor Who Yields
to the Tempter.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
do Lafayette Young, owner and editor of
the Des Moines Capital and a regular re
publican, has been appointed to the senate
to fill the vacancy caused by Senator Col
li ver'a death I
Well, from Mr. Young's reputation, as
well as from the brief biographical sketch
that accompanies the notice of his appoint
ment, It would seem that the new senator
has heretofore led a sober and reputable
life in the community that he calls home.
There is no suggestion In any quarter,
so far aa we have heard, that he ever
robbed a neighbor's henooop or defrauded
uncounted wldowa and orphans, or commit
ted dlvera other high crimes and misde
meanors In tha course of his busy and suc
cessful career.
In brief, one might be tempted to say
that, on the face of things, Mr. Young is a
pretty good sort of man the sort of man
who has managed to do pretty well for
himself in a business way while attempt
ing at the same time to discharge his duties
and obligations In regard to public affairs.
But the fact that Mr. Young has Just
become a United States senator and a
"regular" senator at that, naturally pre
vents any reasonable man from yielding to
that temptation. That fact naturally stamps
him aa the subject of future painful revela
tions.
We suspect that It will not be long be
fore some 16-cent magazine discovers and
announces that the new "regular" senator
from Iowa Is In league with J. P. Morgan
and that his newbpaper, the Des Moines
Capital, la practically owned by the Steel
trust. ;
And there is good ground to predict that
In the dearth of other thrilling revelations,
aome uplift weekly will at no distant date
print an article shewing that 'way back in
the early '90s "Lafe" Young took a trip to
Alaska and staked out a claim adjoining
what is now known as tha "Cunningham"
tract.
And soma enterprising newspaper of the
reform-for-circulatlon-only type Is more
than likely to publish a scathing series of
diapatohea showing that the new Iowa
senator was seen at the Waldorf On two
separata occasions when John D. Arch-
bold was also stopping there, and, there
fore, mutt be regarded aa a tool of "the
Interests" and an agent of "special priv
ilege." And, If there Is anything In what we
sea and hear about us, he ia soon to learn
that he is suspected of too close Inti
macy with, say, the match trust, the cuff
and collar trust and the tobacco trust, to
say nothing of being Implicated In a scheme
to solze and appropriate all the water
power sites between the Mississippi river
and the Paolflc ocean to "malefactors of
great wealth."
i'oor Mr. Toung! Let him enjoy his in
nocent self-respect as long as he can!
Our Birthday Book.
November 85, 1810.
lAndrew Carnegie, the steel king, aa
born November 25, 18J7, at Dunfermline,
Scotland, lie waa a telegraph operator
during tha war and amaased his fortune in
the Iron Industry. The chief direction his
pliilantbropliy has taken has been to pro
vide free public libraries for every com
munity willing to support one.
John Bigrlow, author and diplomatist,
was born November 25, 1M7, at Maiden,
N. Y. He waa once editor of the New
York Kvening Post and is executor and
trustee for Samuel J. Tllden.
l'aul Uaupt, professor of Semitic lan
giages lit John Hopkins university, is &
yens old today, lie was born In Ger
many and is best known aa editor of the
Polychrome Bible, although he has pub
lished much on aichaeology and biblical
history.
Arthur I. Vorys, who had charge of the
preliminary campaign of President Taft,
was born November 25, Uiit. He was at
that time state Insurance commissioner for
Ohio and halls from La.nca.aier, O., where
Bandy Urlawold comes from.
William Ughtfoot Mascher, Journalist,
poet and lecturer, ia K. He is a native of
Krnutcky and was once city editor of the
old Omaha Herald.
Ir. Richard, C. aloure, practicing physi
cian, was bora November &, 1M1, at Qhlucy,
ILL He waa educated in Northwestern uni
versity and has been steadily practicing
his profession in Omaha aiiu lata.
Millard P. Sears, Just elected member of
the Umaiia School board, is (2 UnUy. He
waa born at Oswegatchie. N. Y. He waa
far trn years with the I'uton Pax-iflu land
department and later in tha ml eaiaut
bua.nraa fur bimaell
Army Gossip
Matters of Intareat oc. and Back
of tba rirlng Llna Qlaaned from
tha Army and Kavjr mag-latar.
Major lienors . Wood N desirous of rn
ronrsKing regular physical exunjsj on the
part of army officers on dmy'ln VVsnh
liiBton. sml 'f 1ms had under discussion
with the secre;aiy of war this week a
plan which would accomplish this eiul more
effectually than seems lr be possible umler
exls'jng conditions. The result has been
" "
of a circular letter to chief of
I bureaus in the War department tenew-
liitf the piovNioiis of the departmental let
ter of February i;, 1! which provided
that army officers on duty in the depart
ment should. If lMisslble, devote one hour
a day nr two afteinoorn a week t' exercise
In the oiMti air. The memorandum on the
subject follows:
"In view of War department orders re
(luirins officers to take systematic and
regular exercise, with a view of their beinii
always In condition for field service, the
secretary of war directs thst the attention
of all bureau iliicta be called to the letter
on this subject of February l.". 1W, and
tlmt office work on Sunduy be not requlied
of officer, except in cases of actual
emergency."
The difficulty will continue to be in the
cases of thoe officers who cannot find
the time to set away for the allotted
periods for the purpose indicated.
Some interesting all inloiis are likely to
be made by the secretary of war In his
forthcoming annual report concerning the
relations of the orf.auiaed militia to tho
general government. It la appreciated by
the conservative army officers, whose view
has impressed Secretary Dickinson, that
tho existing nillitiu law, for which Senator
Lick ia mainly responsible, is defective in
some important particulars. In the first
place. It con tains no assuiance that the
oiganisod militia will be readily availabiu
for service under the president upon the
cull of the chief executive without Inter
ference from the statu authorities. The
provisions which aim, in words, to furnish
such a guaranty are, In the end, merely
pretexts of phraseology, upon which It Is
not safe to depend. It Is understood that
Mr. Dickinson will point this out to con
gress aa one of tho things which should
be corrected In whatever is done during
the coming; session for the benefit of tho
militia. It Is likely, therefore, to come
up in connection with the bill, which aims
to increase the pay . of officers and en
listed men of the militia. It is probable
that the War department will not lend
Its approval to such a project, unless it is
possible to make such amendments of the
existing militia law as will insure the
availability of the militia for national de
fense without the hindrances which are
Likely to occur under the prevailing statute.
The surgeon' general of the army has
this weok renewed his previous l ecom
mendatlon for universal vaccination in the
army against typhoid fever. The sugges
tion to tills same effect hitherto made did
not receive departmental approval. It Is
now pointed out by Ueneral Torney that
the medical officers have accomplished all
that is practicable In the way of voluntary
vaccination against typhoid fever, and that
the lnnocuousness of this procedure has
been entirely demonstrated. Its protective
value Is now believed to be as perfectly
demonstrated aa any fact In medicine, and,
If It Is desired by the War department that
the arms have the benefit of this protec
tion, the time has come to require It aa a
routine proceduro throughout the army.
Although no age Is entirely exempt from
typhoid fever, It Is essentially a disease of
adolescence. Individuals who have reached
middle age have usually been exposed to
the Infection and are either Immune be
cause of a previous attack or because of
natural Immunity, it is believed to be rea
sonable to except from the universal vac
cination of the army all persons over 35
years of age and all who give a reliable
history of having had an attack of the dis
ease. Surgeons should also be authorized
to excuse any person for reasons of health,
provided the exception is approved by the
chief surgeon of the department. Recruits
should, of course, be vaccinated immedi
ately after enlistment, but re vaccinations
upon re-enllatment should not be required,
according to the proposition of Ueneral
Torney.
Brigadier General V. A. Smith, U. S. A
In oommand of the Department of the Mis
souri, has Informed the War department of
the enactment of state laws by the Iowa
and Nebraska legislatures in which it Is
provided "that all rewards in money that
may be paid or given to any police depart
ment or to any member thereof on account
of extraordinary service rendered by said
police department or any member thereof
shall be paid into the policemen's pension
fund." A reward recently paid to a police
officer in Iowa for the apprehension and
delivery of a deserter haa been made the
subject of an application to the attorney
general of Iowa for an opinion aa to
whether such reward may be exempted
from the operation of the act It Is appre
ciated by tiie military authorities that If
this Is done the effect will be to materially
lessen the seal of police officers in appre
hending deserters, if not wholly to remove
the Incentive therefor. It would seem. In
effect, to be a practical confiscation by
stale legislation of a reward provided by
cougreasional enactment to be paid to po
lice officers for the apprehension and -delivery
of deserters. The secretary of war
has approved the opinion of tha Judge ad
vocate general of the army as follows:
"it would seem that if the police officer
Is allowed to render the service at all he
would be regarded as doing so under a con
tract relation with the United States, and
that any act of legislation on the part of
the suite which would daprl.e him of he
full compensation wliich he is entitled to
reoeive under the laws of the United States
for suoh service would fall within the same
reason as has been applied by the United
States supreme court to the matter of the
taxation by a stute of the salary of officers
of the United States. It is clear that it
would, to a large extent, defeat the pur
pose for which the reward Is offered and
would deprive the person who renders the
service of the reward intended to be paid
therefor. It Is, therefor, held that the
statute in question should be construed as
not covering rewards paid by tha United
States for the apprehension and delivery
of deserters; that the words -on account
of extraordinary service rendered by said
police department, or any member thereof
refer to. services rendered by such depart
ment or member in matters within the con
trol of state legislation, and that If not so
construed the statute would be unconstitu
tional. Insofar as it covers rewards of
this character."
Peaalty of K4.Hr.
New York Tribune.
It Is not a harsh Judgment, tut tl.a
simple statement of a fact to aay that
Johnstone, the aviator, died aa the fool
dieth. Wben his machine fell he was
attempting to perform an extra hazardous
feat, partly in bravado. 110 doubt, and
partty for the gratin.;tion of spectators,
who a moment later were snatching at
seme bloody relic for a souvenir. Such
performances cout-thute absolutely nothing
to any desirable end. and are obnoxious to
til wham lhe 4 not brutaJlxe
PEOFLE TALKED ABOUT.
J President Diss seen.s to think the turn
hnnd operates more entifiu tot !! when
unencumbered bv a velvet gloe
Mr. Carnegie expresses sympathy for the
rich boy. The rich boy's euulpine.it iM now
complete. He already had eveithin e'.-r
Quern Wllhelmltia l part owner of if1
ncre of land In Alabama, nnd It Is h,.r
plan to raise cattle, plus and chickens on
the farm.
London's arrested suf f i a e tes .,.,ed ami
lil.-sefl the tribunal that dismissed them
without trial. When a woman Im h.il
herself measured for a martvr s crown,
and observes the bauble being snatched
sway, naturally she loses her temper
As a token of his love. William Miller
Orahani. a wealthy California oil operator.
ave a $-'.O.iiuo birthday nift to his wife re
cently. This munificent present Includes
a palatial home near Monteclto and n
riOKen other choice pieces of Santa llnihain
ral estate.
John Peatty died at l.atiohe. Westmore
land county November 11. in the same room
In which he was born eighty-four eurs
ago. He was a Kiandson of llenjuniin
Heatly, who crossed the Delaware with
Ueorge Washington to participate in the
! battlrt of Trenton during the revolutionary
war. I he family had lived on the lieatty
farm for more than I'oO yeuis.
An inmate of the poorhouse at Trieste.
Aualria, died the other day at the axe of
70. An Investigation of the effects of this
supposed pauper, n Albanian called Steno,
revealed the fact thut ho owned over
nno In Investments ami bank deposits, lie
had made a fortune in Kay pi before the
liritlsh occupation and added to it hy living
at public expense.
.M4HT1H OK TIIF. A III.
'Field In Which rVarlea.nraa Mlttht
Be Coined lull Mimev."
Chicago Tribune.
Polls fllej across the Kngllsh channel
In June and July, Is killed under his fallen
biplane. Chaves and I"ailletl fly across
the Alps and Chavez Is taken living, but
crushed from under his machine.
Lieutenant felf ridge. " the first American
victim, ascends with Orvllle Wright and
falls to his death, a sacrifice to military
necessity. Ferber, the French officer,
dead at Puulogne; Ena, the. Italian, anil
Fernandex, the Spaniard, amateurs and
experimenters, dead under their own Inven
tions. Popoff. Russian srmy Instructor,
killed at Oatsrhlna; Poillot, professional
teacher of aviation, dead of a broken bark
at the Chartres school.
Warhter, tha French aviator, goes up nt
Hhelms In a heavy rain safely, tries again
during a lull In tha, storm to please tho
curious crowds, and his body Is taken
with difficulty from the wreck of bis An
toinette monoplane.
Johnstone, a daring trick bicycle rider,
ascends to the record altitude of nearly
10.000 feet, and then at the aviation ex
hibition in Denver fslls to death before a
gaping, disorderly, even Inhuman, rrowd.
The Incentive which set these men at
their attempts, these men among the many
victims of the new Invasion, may be found
vaguely outlined In the few words given to
their fate. There are the military engineer,
the scientist, the Inventor, the adventurer,
the enthusiastic; amateur, the dsrlng pro
fessional performer who took to the ali
as to the newest field In which fearlessness
might be coined Into money.
With many of them there possibly was
no consciousness of service. The love of
excitement, of fame, of money; the desire
to step softly around a sleeping danger,
to place a hand on death and vault over
it, to tiptoe over destruction and have a
multitude watch tha act; the ambition to
go Into the unknown, to test sensations
which timid persons could never know
these were tha incentives mixed with
others governing quiet men of no spectac
ular accomplishments, seeking merely the
perfection of a new science, the full out
lines of a new discovery.
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seem to want 10 he.11 thing ahmit othei
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'1 iilnt ii'i'h'i sia nd Kli v.iii lutie l.ir
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'same ihuicli 1I1011 now." i'Iii,hk,i Itecom
I Herald.
I "What makes (Jillit so sad"'
"Me I us a subway In. ome und 1111 anim
I'm lie w 1 1 ' . 1 .1 1 rt.
What s nailor so. -in ll,m " vl....i 1,...
j "llavint! two callers at the same lime
and letting ea. h hold a hand." explained
1 Alii v belie - Louisville Courier-Jourua'.
THE TWO SPIRITS.
New York Sun.
It was ev.'iiinle in heaven, on an aucietc
stile of goid
Sat a p.itr!iucn all louelv, weary, feeoe,
liied and old.
And hla lioaiy head was pillowed in lua
weak iiiid trembling hands.
While the bitter tears were trickling hke
the running of the Funds.
Then approached another spirit, older.
feebler, grieving, too.
"Itrotlier." (.aid he. "cenje thv forrovv, tenrf
ale but of earthly brew.
Tell me, thai 1 uuii k may comfort, w ha'
bus bowed thy silvered head'.'"
Put the other kept 011 sobbing. 'Teddy
siole my fame." he enld.
Loud and griml.v laughed the spirit, lsugliad
until his breath grew faint.
"Hi other." said be, "i)it are Jesting yol
have cause for no complaint,
1 alone of till the l'alheis may heaall tlu
Teddy guile.
.Moses stands before v oil. brother; come,
look up, be eheeriiil; smile!
Surely If my Krlef 1 stifle, you a merry
guise mav don.
Look upon my taueied laurels." Hut tint
other still sobbed on.
"First be stole the Ten Comma iidmentH,"
Moses said with mirthless laugh,
"Then, because he said 'twas crooked,
Teddy took away my staff.
Next be sua l died my last poor glory as a
savior and a guide;
Cease thy walling. ated brother, what ate
thy Ills mine, beside?"
Then spoke up the sobbing spirit: , "Truth,
oh. Moses, truth you speak.
Hut bexi.le my Just resentment yours la
idle, fruitless, weak.
Though your laurels have been shattered.
though they dwindle, shrink and pine,
Hrother. you commune, with Jonah; think
w hat Teddy did to mine.'
THE JOURNEY.
T. A. Daly in Catholic Standard' '
Y ou are so brave, so loyal and so true!
You bring such sunshine to tho last fare
well When aome far duty calls mo forth from
you.
What fears consume your heart I cannot
tell;
Not mini) to know what players or tear
drop pour
From .voor pent heart, when you have
closed the door.
Hut Ibis I know: How long, how far 1
roam.
My honor and my babes are safe Willi
you
And light and sweetness shall illume our
home;
You are so"brive. so true',
You are so brave, so loyal and so true,
I si ion id be worse than craven did 1 fail
To make the last long kiss I had from vou
My knightly sword and shield and triple
mall.
Y'ou cannot see, through leagues of space
that part,
If passion or if peace te In mv heart.
Hut this believe: How long, how far 1
roam.
Whatever my brain may plan, or hands
may do,
I would be worthy to be welcomes home
Hy you, so brave, so true!
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