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The umaha Daily Itr.i:
FOVNDKD Bt EDWARD ROSKWATKR.
VICTOR ROPE WATER, EDITOR, ,
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GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK.
Treasurer.
Subscribed In my presence and worn to
before me thla 30th dav of November. 1910.
M. P. WALKER,
8eal.) . Notary Public
aberrlbere leaving; the city tem
porarily ahoala have Tbe Boo
mailed tn them. Addreea will be
i r heaved a often a ret aettel. ,
Why do you call your furnace such
names?
Already a discerning man may get a
vision of cheap ice next summer. '
Will it be necessary to place an age
limit on hunters to keep down the
death rate? '
One virtue about the aeroplane is
that it promises not to become popular
for many years V. . r
A New York woman advocates pen
sions for deserted wives. Why not
call it premiums?
If folks keep on getting so good
there will not be any muck for the
muckrakers to rake.
It was thoughtful of General Ma
dero to declare himself "provisional"
president of Mexico.
Of course there is no use for the
weather man to begin too early to
prepare for Santa Claus.
Strang as it may seem, water has
never had Its natural effect of disso
lution of the sugar trust.
One good way. for those duoka to
get their wounds healed is to produce
results at this short session.
British elections, like the national
game of cricket, are conducted on the
lis-day-go-as-you-please plan.
As soon as the congressional hot
air furnace gets to working good this
cold wave ought to be moderated. -
That soldier at 'Fort McKlnley who
stole twenty-seven . pounds of bacon
probably will be dealt with on the
basis of a capital offense.
. Vanity Fair of London thinks A.mer
leans are snobs. Why? Have they
been turning down those impecunious
counts too consistently? -
' St. Louis is now fighting the "smoke
evil." That Is another "evil" 'that
was not so general during those calm,
leisurely days of democratic rule.
Mr. Bryan' has decided to 'raise
oranges Instead of lemons on his
Texas ranch. Lemons, he has found.
are Indigenous to most of the states
in the union. '
Senator La Follette, however, must
not appeal for new administration on
the basis of his refusal to call at the
White House when invited to do so by
the president.
Brooklyn's old eat citixen is 106,
and he says the way to live long Is
never to buy anything at a drug store
except postage stamps. Yes, and you
better not lick them.
Editor Adam Breeds puts the mat
ter up pretty squarely to the sheriff
in . the land barons' ease. If It had
not been for prying reporters the
Adams county Jail might have been a
very happy home.
Tbe Washington Tost preaches a
whole sermon in these few words
' There isn't room In the country for
to republican parties." When the
le factions get that thoroughly Into
their heads we shall be able to ac-
Induitrial Advance Next Year.
Tb year 1910 was a much better
one than early rondiMona promised.
In the early aumrner we had (oim
good reason for fearing a corn failure
and failures In other crops, and there
fore a crippled Industry In many lines.
Instead of these adverse results we
had the largest corn crop In history
and the largest aggregate value of
farm products, reaching nearly
$9,000,000,000. Such a stupendous
harrest of prosperity Is almost beyond
comprehension. It is not beyond our
power to reallxe, however, that It will
furnish a mighty good basis for con
tinued prosperity in the year to come.
Large crops always make for enlarged
activities in commercial and indus
trial lines, and therefore we ahould
look for Industrial advance In 1111.
The country has had 'some difficulty
t late getting the scales of produc
tion and distribution properly ad
justed, but they are tilting fairly well
now. For that matter we cannot rea
sonably expect any serious impairment
of business with farms producing
ff, 00,0,000, 000 in crops a year. That
is all new wealth. It is wealth to be
added to what the country already
had. When that fact is realized we
ought to be able to even endure the
predictions of hard times Which the
pessimists have been making of late.
But other conditions besides last sea
son's crops are propitious. The area
of winter wheat this year Is. going to
be exceedingly large and that will
bare a contributory effect. The rail
roads, .while they have complained
much thla year, have actually main
tained consistent, though not heavy,
gains. over earnings Of last year and
the most significant feature of thia Is
that these gains are uniformly dls-'
trlbuted as to sections.
As a matter of fact, plans and prep
arations now on foot show great in
dustrial expansions coming, particu
larly in the south and west, in 1911.
We are very likely to have another
big building year and good times all
along the line to put the country in
excellent shape for the 1912 cam
paign. ;
Economy and Efficiency.
The dominant note In the presi
dent's message, as welt as the reports
of his cabinet oflcere. is ecdnomy
and efficiency in the conduct of the
government. It is sounded first In the
president's Insistent recommendation
for departmental reorganisation, cut
ting out every item of expense that
can be eliminated without impairing
the ' service. That was the rule laid
down by him to every cabinet member
in making his annual.. recommenda
tions, and it is notably true that some
of these statements had to be revised
several times before they came within
the executive prescriptions, t
President Taft is operating on the
principle of the greatest good for the
least amount of money. He is con
vinced that we are not getting that
under the present system. He is cer
tain that sinecures exist and la defi
nitely aiming at their elimination.
That is reflected in every; section of
his own message, as well aa In those of
his official family. That la why the sec
retary of the navy advocatea the aboli
tion of all navy yards except thane
actually needed; it is why the post
master general proceeds with his gen
eral movement of reducing the postal
deficit and simultaneously extending
the facilities and benefits of the sys
tem. (And he has done more in these
directions than any postmaster gen
eral eVer did.) That is why the sec
retary of the " treasury .proposes to
close up several of the mints over the
country that are not nbeded.
When one really comes to study,
with a fair and impartial scrutiny,
the achievements and recommenda
tions of the present administration
along these lines he must be atrucV
tlon of all navy yards except those
by their .' Immensity, both in num.
ber and importance. It Is a vast
step toward- an ideal system of
conducting the government. It ts
reducing everything , to a simple,
business basis of making all parts per
form their functions to the maximum
degree for the minimum 6utlay. It is
to be hoped the administration will
have the co-operation of. congress to
the ' end in this practical sort of
statesmanship.
' Chance for College Graduates
The government is affording excel
lent opportunities to college gradu
ates in its consular service. Young
men to a limited number who can pass
the required examinations are offered
positions aa. assistants to consular
agents or interpreters in foreign lands
at salaries much better than the gn
eral run of pay given to the young
man coming out of college. Of course,
for . those who elect to become inter
preters it means another course of
study in the language In which they
are to become adepts. But such
youag men are paid f 1,000 a year and
allowed $125 yearly for their tuition
It looks-like a wide field of useful
ness. It probably will encourage
many a young man not in college to
seek such a course and many who are
there to apply themselves frith special
diligence. But the largest effect will
be in the opportunity it affords those
whom the government accepts for ex
panding upon their college training
through travel and study of the ways
and languages and peoples of these
other countries. Back of all thia is
still another strong inducement. The
government is gradually fortifying
thoae who. engage in its conaular and
diplomatic service by the merit system
of promotion, and thia is to be made
more general if congress acts favora
bly upon a recommendation of the
president's made In his last message.
It brings these positions in foreign
lands within the scope of civil service,
guaranteeing their permanence and
stability. These provisions will go a
long way toward securing a better
grade of young men, and therefore a
higher degree, of s efficiency In the
service. It 1s another long move away
from tbe old spoils system.
"The Bee and Ballinger."
A correspondent of the World
Herald makes a tremendous fuss about
"The Bee and Ballinger." The trou
ble with this gentleman Is that he has
purposely misconstrued what The Bee
has said on the subject of "Balllnger
lam." He has also fallen into the
same blunder that characterised the
course of the minority of the investi
gating committee, which made its re
port to the so-called "conservation"
congress at St. Paul, apparently mis
taking that body for the one which
meets at Washington. At any rate,
the gentleman Is so unfair In his state
ment of the position of this paper,
and so wide of the truth in his con
clusions, that a categorical answer la
scarcely required. The Bee has never
undertaken a defense of Ballinger, but
it has tried to give publicity to the
salient facts in the case, and in its
flies will be found to be published in
extenso the statements of Pinchot,
Olavis and others who appeared for
the prosecution. It has also com
mented editorially from time to time
on the progress of the case, always
standing for simple justice. The
trouble with the World-Herald corre
spondent is that he has allowed his
prejudice to carry him away entirely.'
Protect the Hunter.
There ought to be some way of pro
tecting the hunter from himself, at
least hunters n Pennsylvania, Maine
and New Hampshire. They are the
only ones whose casualties have been
officially reported. Perhaps the need
may appear general when later returns
come In. The deaths in Pennsylvania
alone equal the number of foot ball
fatalities for the entire season and the
number- of deaths in the two New
England states surpasses tbe foot ball
list. Foot ball Is taken as a compar
ison because of the loud outcry annu
ally made against its ravages.
The concrete cause of the hunting
accidents and deaths is carelessness,
and It Is much more difficult to deal
with than the foot ball situation. Foot
ball is susceptible somewhat to rules,
but it would be hard to apply any
definite rule to hunters that would
make them more careful. The situa
tion is a aerious one. About all that
can be done is to inaugurate a cam
paign of education onf the, extreme
dangers. As the majority of victims
are youths under 21,. parents might
have some Influence. At least they
should try to have.
Some weeks ago we brought up this
very subject and called attention to
the "Increasingly large number of
deaths and accidents from gunshot
wounds resulting from youths or boys
thinking a gun was not loaded when
it was. Many of the accidents to hun
ters are of this character, but most of
them are due to falling or slipping
with firearms on the person. If
thoughtful persons wonld make it
their business to warn young people
against the danger of such accidents
the number could soon be reduced.
The law'would have extreme difficulty
In handling the matter. To be sure,
It regulates the season of hunting and
the kind and number of birds and ani
mals that. may be killed. That Is a
task, but it Is much easier than would
be the one of trying to make hunters
stop shooting themselves. .
Parties and the Primary.
The discussion of the state primary
election law at present turns on the
question of preserving party Integrity.
A few.' enthusiastic advocate of the
primary law are demanding that It be
so amended aa to obliterate all party
distinction. These so-called Inde
pendent, voters insist that they be
given recognition above all others, be
cause they protest that It is their pur
pose to choose the man rather than
what he -stands for. The fact that
they are In a minority doea not turn
them away from their desire.
Tbe late primary in Nebraska is
continually cited aa an example of the
evil t'ffect of the "wide-open" plan.
XCren If It be true that a large number
of. republicans voted for a democratic
candidate at the primary, and thus
secured his nomination, it must be
admitted that this is the naural result
of the Jaw as amended by a democratic
legislature. At the time the amend
ments were pending before the last
general assembly It was pointed out
that this condition would be brought
about. It was the logical result.
Political parties are a necessity un
der Our form of government. It is
natural for men of a common turn of
mind to associate themselves together
for the purpose of achieving a com
mon object. The mere designation of
such an association by one or another
of the party names is an immaterial
detail. It does not seriously matter
what the party ia called so long as it
generally stands for the principles ad
vocated by its members. Our form of
government is sufficiently elastic to
permit the formation of any number
of political parties, and provides easy
methods for their recognition. The
right of any member of one of these
political associations to express his
affiliation therewith, and his fealty
thereto, by his ballot is unquestioned.
The voter should at all times have the
right to freely express hfs choice of
men for office. If he has no political
convictions. If he does not care to
affiliate with any of the existing par
ties, he should not abrogate to him
self the privilege of destroying an
other man's opportunity to so affiliate.
Abolition of party ia hopeless. Polit
ical contests will always be decided on
differences of opinion that determine
the position of candidates and their
supporters. The so-called Indepen
dent voter Is perhaps entitled to recog
nition as such, but so long as he is In
the minority he should not be permit
ted to dictate to the majority. Tbe
primary law ought to be so amended
that It will preserve party integrity, in
order that political groupa may have
free opportunity to express their sup
port of principles sa well as of men.
The spectacle of transfer wagons
hauling barrels and bottles, and cases
and kegs, and other receptacles and
utensils filled with the forbidden bev
erage through the streets of saintly
Lincoln was a sight that must have
warmed the heart of the early-bird
legislator who happened to be there
present. It is also a sufficient com
mentary in itself on the quality of the
drouth that has prevailed in Lincoln
since Havelock went dry.
South Dakota voters are entitled to
credit for one thing. They defeated
all but one of tbe amendment laws
submitted to the referendum. This
warrants the assumption that the
South Dakotans are pretty well satisr
fled with the laws they have, and arc
not eager to try out a new lot. If the
people of other states could only get
Into this mood the advantage would
be inestimable
Having reduced the deficit in his
department by eleven and one-half
million dollars In a year, Postmaster
General Hitchcock is in a position to
say very distinctly what ought to be
done, and should have a respectful
hearing. A manager who could make
a showing as good as this for a private
corporation would be deemed of In
estimable value for his services.
And now eomes another eloquent
preacher and finally obliterates hell In
its entirety. This will deprive a lot
of people of the only reat pleasure
they have in life that of contem
plating the future of their neighbors.
Several of those eminent lawyers
and jurists who have been banging
around Washington may return to
their homes, now that the president
has made bis supreme court selections.
Alaska sends , over the Macedon
ian cry for "women," not stenograph
ers, but 'laundresses and storekeepers.
Why not come ut and admit that
they are looking or wives up there?
It is doubtful If any president's
message ever met with such general
approval as President Taft'a latest
one. As the New York Sun said, it is
a "Look-before-you-leap" message.
The Lincoln charter committee has
completed its work and is now ready
to submit tbe document to the legis
lature. This la an example of indus
try Omaha might well emulate.
Fireproof whiskers for Santa Claus
may be an innovation, but if gener
ally adopted will rob Christmas cele
bration of much of its terror.' It's a
plan worth trying, anyhow.
ProapaetlTc SqnareMeale.
Washington Poit.
Th democrat are going to llv on the
fat of th land so long a the Insurgents
and standpatter keep on trying to swallow
ach other.
What Akoot It f
Philadelphia Bulletin.
"Meat price go up" read dlapatohe
from the packing centers, but what, might
be asked, baa become of that rosy tale of
a plentiful corn crop and cheap corn-fed
cattle t
Caa Clark "Come Buck f
Philadelphia Ledger.
Ex-Senator Clark, once of Montana, has
just paid $100,000 for a dinner service for
hi New York mansion. This indication
of hit sturdy devotion to the simple life
will be a great appeal to the people .out In
Montana by whom th New Yorker hope
to be elected to the senate again.
Our Birthday Book.
Deoember IS, 110.
Rev. Phillip Brooks, one of the most
popular of Vmerlcan clergymen, wa bom
Ip P.gston, December 13, IKii. He was a
pulpit orator of the first magnitude and
nucdu teverul tecture tours of the country.
A. lAwrehce Lowell,- president of Har
vard university, wa born December U,
ISW. He ia a native of Boston, but of the
family which founded the textile Industry
at Lowell. He wa profesnor of civil gov
ernment In Harvard when elected and
ucceeded President Eliot a year ago.
Bishop Samuel Fallows 1 Just 75 years
old today. He waa born In England and
has a war record aa chaplain of the Thtrty
second Wisconsin volunteer. He was or
dained to the bishopric in Chicago. .
Church How, I'nlted States consul gen
eral at Manchester, Is celebrating his 71st
birthday today. He waa born et Prince
ton, Mas., and waa for many years
prominent In Nebiaska politic, being ap
pointed to th conaular aervlce by Presi
dent McKlnley.
P. A. Valentine, one of the big men .of
Armour A Co., was born December IS, lf-el.
In Scotland. He wa long aaoctated aa a
partner with the late Philip D. Armour,
whose widow he married.
Hamilton W. Mabie, literary editor et
th Outlook, la M year old today. He waa
bora in Cold Spring, N. Y. lis not only
criticise other people's books, but ha
written aom himself and lecture a well.
Daniel E. Jenklna, professor of didactic
end polemic theology In the Presbyterian
Theologh-al eemlnary in Omaha, was born
Deoember IS, 1K, at Flintshire. North
Wales. He waa educated for the ministry
to Melbourne untvereity and wae president
of Parsons oolleg at Fairfield. Ia., before
coming to Ouiali
Around New York
Blrple en the Current of X, fe
a Been ia tbe Great Amertoaa
Metropolis froa Day to Day.
The owner of a new million dollar
apartment house which la being built on
upper Broadway will be able to sty, with
out exaggeration, that their building pos
ses "all modern convenience." The
plans filed with the city Inspectors show
thai the conveniences to be Installed In
clude a perfectly equipped hospital, a
kindergarten, bowling alley. I'urklFh baths,
billiard rooms, electric grill, reading rooms,
gymnasium, swimming pool, roller skating
rink, tennla court (to be transferred Into
an Ice rink In th winter), an enclosed play
ground on the roof and a model dairy,
butcher shop and drug store. Each apart
ment will be equipped with electric dish
washers and electrlo ranges, electrlo wash
ing machines and electric Ironers and
clothes dryers, electrlo garbage Incinera
tor and an automatic refrigerator plant.
The American Museum of Natural His
tory In New York, announces that It has
Just come into possession of a prci" ally
complete skeleton of a trarhadon, a mon
ster which lived on the earth not less than
1.000.000 years ago. It was found In the
Hell Creek region of the bad lands of
Montana, where for eight years the museum
has been' carrying on extensive explora
tions. The museum's announcement of this
latest find says:
"Plant remains, leaves, fruit and wood
found with th fossilised bones show that
th climate of th t'nlted Plate aa far
north a Canada country was from tem
perate to aub-troplcal at the close of the
cretaceous period. It Is concluded that
Montana was sub-tropical. The trachadons
were aquatic dinosaurs and spent most of
their time In fresh water lagoons, which
were then numerous over the lowlands of
the Interior. Their remains hare been
fotind In sea deposit that were formed
near the shore.
"These animals, combined some anatomi
cal characters of both lisarda and croco
diles, hut have no living relatives or de
scendants. They were kangaroo shaped,
with long hind legs and reduced forelegs,
and long, powerful swimming tall. Th
peculiar expanded bill resembles a duck's
bill, and was covered with a horny mas,
denticulate In form, which was probably
used In gathering vegetable food."
For eighteen years James Mangan walked
his beat as a policeman of Uje greater city,
and In all that time nothing had happened
to him, says the New York correspondent
of the Cincinnati Times-Star. Hi name
never got In the reports for bravery. He
did his duty well, but it came to him In the
common and prosaic form it offer to th
greatest run of men. His hair had begun
to turn gra and the fire of youth had
abated. His fellows in the station began
to call him "Pop." In all those years he
had not so much as stopped a runaway.
No green grooer could have led a more
placid life. Even the men he arrested, won
by the good-natured policeman's smile, did
not resist.
And then, the other night, his chance
came to him. Ixjcked on the top floor of
burning building were two little children?
A weeping mother came and Mangan, with
eighteen years of kindly duty behind him,
became a hero. He struggled up to th
locked door through a swirling hell of
flam and smoke. Burned, half, strangled,
he burst in the door and gathered the
little ones In his arms, protected under
the heavy cloth of his uniform coat.
Down the totterjng alrway he felt his
way, blinded and gaspfng. Half way down
Its flame-rotted timber broke beneath him
and he fell. Even as unconsciousness came
upon him, he stilt drew over the little
children the skirts of his coat, and It waa
thus th firemen found him when they
fought through the curtain of flames that
barred their entrance; Mangan, they say,
will die.
"How are the kids?" he roused enough
to say. And when they told him that th
boy and girl were safe a faint mil cam
to his blackened Hps.
"Mangan'a luck," he whispered.
t According to Bill McLoughlln, Larry Mul
ligan brought back with him from Ireland
lot of blackthorns, says the New York
correspondent of the Cincinnati Times
Star. He has been adding to his popularity
among the Gaels here by distributing them
widely. "They're fine In a scrap, mark ye,"
said Mr. Mulligan, "beca'Se th thorn kape
the other felly from pullln' It out of your
hand. And a long a you oarry a black
thorn you'll never have the fear sickness,
at all."
Noah Loder, a Wall street lawyer, waa
a recipient of one of the famous shlllalahs.
He was very proud of it. He subscribed to
all the Irish literature he could hear of,
undertook to learn Gaelic and spent his
Sunday afternoon at the Metropolitan mu
seum looking over the Irish exhibit. It
got so that h very rarely forgot hi bit
of brogu when he talked. H wore a
green ribbon on his hat, carried a sham
rock In his billfold and wa letter perfect
In the Cronln case and the Clan Na Oa
litany. The other night he walked Into a
cafe, hat on the back of his head, trying
to look as though hi coat tail were long
and hi gaiter short, Just like the wild
Irishman you see In prints,
"Fwhot will yes hov, byes?" he asked.
And then apologised for the dialect.. 'It's
all the bit of a blackthorn, molnd y," be
said to James Connor Roche. "Ivor sine
I'v had the tashta of a sthlck I fale lolke
a rale Olrlshman."
James Connor Roche picked up the black
thorn. H Is by way of being a connois
seur in them. He called to Mr. Loder's at
tention a line stamped deeply, but Incon
spicuously on the wood. It was:
"Made In Germany."
Two New York youth saw a pretty girl
In a restaurant. Oris of them remarked
that her Hp were niade to kiss and asked
the girl: "Uow much for one klsaT" Sa
fixed a price of 6, and each of th young
rnn paid, and received a kiss. Everybody
thought It funny until the girl started to
go with the, money. Then the youths had
hei arrested. In court the Judge started to
lecture the girl, but she wouldn't have It
so. She demanded her $10, arguing that a
bargain was a bargain, whether In kisses
or merchandise. The court had to agree
with the girl, though he plaintively re
marked that the caa was nsw In law.
Reserving opinion as to th girl. It may
be said that the young men never deserve
another ki on any term.
The highest price ou record for beans
1:5.000 for thirty barrel ha Juat been paid
by a New )ork bunding company. 'They
were neither charity btan nor prim bean,
Just plain, ordinary beana of th favorlt
Boston variety.
The bonding company sent Its check for
the beuns to United ftate Commissioner
tihlelus of the federal Court, who applied
It in satisfaction of the forfeited bail of
J V. Eurgott. foimerly a bean dealer in
the wholesale dlstrk-t. in hrgott
was Indicted on the charge of hsvu.j
smuggled thirty barrels of bean Into tU
United dtales from Canada. The duty on
the smuggled beana whs SU2 80.
. ArialKiK-d In the United -States circuit
court, tin gull was held in tio.uCX) ball fur
trial. He put up 1:5,000 in cash with th
bund lug eoiiipany and then left the coun
try. He ha never oome bark and his bond
wee recently declared forfeited.
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.
A Pt. lxuls man won IV'rt by drinking
twenty bottles of beer dally for thirty
days.
Murray Allen Bracket. 11 year old. of
West llawley, claims the honor of being
the youngest person to shoot a deer In
Massachusetts during the open season. He
shot the deer, he say, with his grand
father rifle, at a distance of twenty
rod.
General Rlchart II. Tratt, for twenty-five
year superintendent of the t'arllsle Indian
school, was 70 years old recently, lie was
born In Rushford. Allegheney county, New
York, lie Is a veteran of the civil war and
was in the regular army many years. In
the Indian service he achieved phenomenal
success.
Henry Perry, his wife and five children
live In a house that Is partly In Wlnsted.
Conn., and partly In Barkhamsted. They
eat In Barkhamsted and sleep In W'lnsied.
When the boys get unruly, the mischief Is
generally done In Barkhamsted. btit they
get their spanking in Wlnsted.
Mrs. lAicy Hobbs Taylor of Lawrence,
Kan., who waa the first woman dentist In
the t'nlted States, died last week. In fact,
he claimed that she wa the first woman
In the world to graduate as a dentist, and
the clslm ha never been disputed. Hhe
graduated from a dental college at Cin
cinnati In 186. She had a large practice
In Lawrence, where she had lived for forty
three years.
I. E. Stewart of Knowlton. Ia., Is being
proclaimed by his friends the champion
corn busker in the United States, in nine
hour he shucked 231 bushels and M pound
of corn. Stewart was In th fields for
hours, 46 minutes, and took time out but
four time In the entire day. At one time,
a singletree was broken, and he apmt
thirty minute repairing It. Twice he
stopped for luncheon, losing fifteen min
ute In all. and once hi husking pin broke,
and he lost another ten minutes.
THIS DAKOTA TWINS.
Thrtvlae VtAr State Sfcow Their
tim. In Ce-naa.
Sloug City Journal.
South Dakota make a handaom ahowlng
In the census returna. The etate now ha
a population of 6KJ.S88. compared with 0l,&70
In 1900. Thl I a gain for the decade of
1B2,18, or s.4 per cant. The prevlou I
cade recorded an Increaae of only 72.76S, or
22.1 per cent.
Growth has been general throughout
South Dakota, every county but Buffalo
showing a gain over 100. The large town
have done very well, but furnlh a rela
tively amall proportion of the gain. The
figure on urban population hav not yt
been given out, but the county figure In
dicate what may be expected. Minnehaha
county, containing the metropolis, ttloux
Fall. Is given a total population of 19.611.
This represent a gain for the decade of
about 26 per cent. If Sioux Falls accounted
for the whole gain of the county, which I
probably not the fact, it population would
go only a little above 16,000. Brown county,
containing the growing town of Aberdeen,
ha made better speed than Sioux rail In
th population race. Th oounty" has made
a gain of 10,581, or 66 per cent, and has
jumped from third Into second plaoe, with
a total population of X.S6T. Aberdeen Is
sure to account for a considerable portion
of the gain, and may prove a likely bidder
against Sioux Fall for metropolitan hon
or. Lawrence oounty, containing th min
ing town of Deadwood, has dropped Into
third place, with a population of 1.6.
compared , with 17.867 in 1M0. Pennington
oounty, containing Rapid City, has Jumped
from 6,610 in 100 to 12,46. more than
doubling In the ten years.
The railway extension west of the Mis
souri river have removed the handicap pre.
venting development of the weetern part of
South Dakota. Th development thus
started find only limited reflection In th
present oensus In comparison to what may
be expected ten years hence. The opening
of some rich Indian reservations factor In
adding to the South Dakota rural popula
tion. North Dakota is now practically a twin
of South Dakota, having Increased 1U pop
ulation 267,610 during the decade, th tctal
now being 677,0M, let than 7,000 behind
South Dakota. Th percentage of gain in
North Dakota waa 76 per cent
Headlar Off the Speaders.
Philadelphia Record.
So many member i of eongre have a
rooted habit of making friends with the
Mammon of unrighteousness that Presi
dent Taft will find It hard to save at one
window a tithe of what is thrown out of
another.
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LAUGHING LINES.
"IO VOI1 know. has tS merit A 'T hatsa
been mirrsufni In rverjthln 1 vrf trri ?"
"How remit Mbl," he yiwnH. "! wipfc
s""io iii'if ii llj I ll I. IT I HV llir. eVf
trolt Fre Press.
"How'd you Ilk to Join our athletld
club?-'
"Wouldn't be worth while. T expect td
swear off the first of the year." Washing
ton Herald.
"Your daughter practice on the plnno)
faithfully. I notice. Now mine hsies It."
"Mine dons, too. Put she'd rather prso
ttce all day than help 'With the house
work.' Louisville Courier-Journal.
Time Jiad begun to hang heavy on people
hands.
"This is unendurable'.", they cried; "let'e
kill Mm!"
Ho they Invented those outdoor game th
are so deadly nowadays. Chicago Tribune,
"Any feuds In your neighborhood T"
"Not now. We uend lo have a soclebl
fight occasionally, hut some of our promi
nent cltlxens got too formal."
"Got too formal?"
"Yes, Imported machine gun." Toledo
Blade. T
"Darn these automobile!" said the Kan
sa farmer.
"Bother you much?" asked the tourist.
"I sh'd say so. Wen a feller see a fun
nel-shaped cloud comln' down the pike he
don't know whether to run fer a gun or M
cyclone cellar." Toledo Blade.
Madge Did you tell him you didn't b
lleve him when he told you that you weri
the first girl he'd ever loved T
MarJorle no, hut I came- right hack at
nun with another whoprwr. Bald he
the first man who had ever kissed me.
ENTER MAUD, SMILING.
W. D. Ktsblt in Chicago Post. 4
feud Muller ('tis a nam you know)
lood on th sidewalk shoveling snow.
(Thl parody, you see. "s a thing
We write each winter, fall and spring;.)
The Judge came walking down th street
All cautious whore be placed hi feet.
He aw fair Maud, and doffed hi hat
And thought he'd stop and have a chat.
But treacherous ion was hid below I
The velvet whiteness of the snow,
And while the Judge sedately bowed
With manner dignified and proud
Hi feet slipped on the hidden loe
He swayed and stumbled ones or twice,
He tried in vain to overoom
III lack of equilibrium.
He graaped and grappled at th air
And found no firm aupport Wa there,
And so with wild and sudden shout
He whirled and twirfed and spun anous
And waved hi arms, and wrenched hla
back.
And then came sprawling down, ker-smackf
The mow scooped up beneath his vest '
And plastered him by east and west,
The back breadth of hi coat were torn,
And for his language we should mourn.
He then aroae. deliberate, '
And atalked away with perfect gait
And never gave a backward glance.
To Maud, who waited for th .chance.
And when the Judge was far away
She laughed aa though she laughed foe
pay.
She shrieked, she squealed In girlish.
mirth v
At how the Judge had whaciked the earth.
And then, too much amused to talk,
She finished shoveling off the walk.
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tompllbh more good for tbe nation.
