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BTATKMENT OF OtllCt LATION.
Stat of Nebraska. Doiialaa County, a.
Cieoine H. Tsschuck. treasuri-r of Ths Bea
I'ubiiBhinK rompany, be ng iiuiy iiworn, I
says that the actual numher of full ana
complete copies of The Mali v. Morning.
KvenlnK and Sunday H.-e pr ni.l during tha
month of November, t'10. waa aa follows:
1 43,880
I -t3,0O
1 43,600
43,670
43,030
44.800
1 48,330
16...
17...
18...
19. . .
2U. . .
, .43,860
. .44,330
. .44,080
..43,700
. .43, 00
21 43,910
2 J 43,630
23 43,800
24 43,630
25 43,740
:t .43,160
7 43,860
..
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10. .
11. .
12. .
13. .
14.,
It..
...43,8X0
. . .64,000
...48,470
. t .44,840
... 43,630
. . .44,800
.. .43,380
.. .43,860
28. .
21. . .
,10...
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. .43,880
. .43,340
. .43,360
Total
Returned Coplan
.1,330,880
16,436
Nat Total ,
Dally Avaraga
OFORGB B.
. . . 1,308,464
... . 43,818
TZ3CIICCIC.
Treasurer.
Subscribed In my presence and aworn to
before me this 30th day of November, 1810.
M. F. WAI.KKR,
8e,l.) Notary J'ublle.
Babacrlbere leatTlag; tha eltr tern
porarllr ahonld hare Tke Ba
mailed to them. Address will he
rhaased m often ata reqoeated.
Postal savings banks are really com
ing and coming to stay.
Yes, if you were not an early shop
rer, do it even now. Uetter late than
never.
Aa the New Year approaches one
wondera what will be the 1911 Kan
sas fad.
I '
Labor Commissioner Nelll may have
to be called in to arbitrate the rate
controversy, too.
One Now York architect pronounced
the style bt Senator Clark's new palace
"ferocious." Yet it probably will not
bite.
Though Mrs. Eddy was not immor
tal, lawyers and heirs are likely to
make the contest over her estate with
out end.
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Even the calm and peaceful spirit
cf Christmas Is not sufficient, It ap
pears, to subdue those Los Angeles
dynamiters. -
For some yet unexplained reason
"Boss" Murphy did not give his O. K.
to Edward M. Shepard as a senatorial
candidate for a Christmas present.
"Darius Green and His Flying Ma
chine" has just started through a new
edition. Aviation has wonderful lift
ing powers when it can raise the dead.
Ths Ohio judge who baa undertaken
to punish all the people who hare
bought or sold votes in the last twenty
years Is at least to be commended for
his seal. . 1 '
William Allen White in hla Empo
ria Gaiette is waging a fierce warfare
against whiskers. lie will be pulling
them out by the roots the first thing
you know.
It baa been discovered that votes
have been sold to the highest bidder
in Ohio for twenty years. They will
be raffling them off at church falra
there next.
It took a lot of persuasion to get
Rev. Charlea M. Sheldon to listen to
the dramatisation of his book, "in His
Steps," but most .people lUien when
money talks.
i - - - .--
It wss surely a divine providence
that arranged the calendar with one
week from Christmas' to New Year's
and fifty-one weeks from New Year's
to Christmas. ,
The New York Evening Post has the
temerity to ask: . "Has the democratic
party in Ohio no real democratic sen
atorial timber?" Does it call Mi-Lean
a bogey man?
I I
A Kansas City youth of 107 finds
himself jobless, and admits that,, tem
porarily, be Is down and out. You
have to show those Missourians as
tong as there is life.
The one consoling thing about Uncle
Sara's total lack of military prepara
tion is that all the other nations have
known about it all along and are more
or leas In the same boat themselves.
In answer to Attorney Brandels. it
Is asserted that the percentage of rail-
nay efficiency, in this country is at
least as great as the-preceutage of
efficiency lu the legal profession. Some
railroads and some lawyers.
"... .... . ..
Chain p Clark's Big Six.
C'fiatrtn Clark has picked nuf six
democrat from among whom his
party is likely to pick Ha next presi
dential nominee. They are' Wilson.
Harmon. Marshall. Kos. hoik and
Shnfroth. representing, iepnrtlvcly,
New Jersey. Ohio, Indiana. Masaacbu-
pttg( Missouri and Colorado.
I la does
not (ntlude l)ix or Uaynor of New
York, Flalsted of Maine or Baldwin of
Connecticut. He serves warning now
by implication upon the eastern and
southern democrats that they must not
expect the west to give them the right-of-way
entirely In 1912.
Yet as conditions now stand neither
Folk of Missouri nor Shafroth of Colo
rado la considered seriously. Mr.
Bryan probably would prefer a man
like Folk to any of the others, but he
would also ee quicker than anyoue
else the futility of trying to force his
nomination. It does not now teem
probable that Mr. Bryan will dictate
the nomination. He Is scarcely In a
position to do that, granting him still
a considerable remnant of power. Yet
under the two-thirds nomination rule
in democratic conventions. Mr. Bryan
ma bave enough strength to defeat,
. ...
if not make, a candidate. Therefore,
when the fight reaolves Itself down to
Harmon and Wilson, as it doubtless
111 if things do not radically change.
Bryan may be expected to favor Wil
son in order to defeat the Ohio gov
ernor for refusing to "stand aside."
But in the meantime, since plat
forms are adopted by a simple major
ity vote, Mr. Bryan may be able to
foist upon the convention a revised
version of his Denver platform, possi
bly rewritten and embellished here
and there with a timely bait or two,
forcing the candidate of the rehabili
tated old-line democracy to run on a
disguised new-line set of promises.
This, of course, would not be to the
liking of the bourbons of the south or
the conservatives of the east, but if It
was the best they could get, it prob
ably would be accepted and the nom
inee and his friends would do as they
saw fit about redeeming or repudiating
the platform pledges later, If by
chance they should be rtctorlous In the
election.
Fire Losses on Increase.
Ten years ago the annual loss of
property by fire In the United States
was $200,000,000. Now it is one
fourth greater, despite the fact of bet
ter and more fire-proof buildings. Our
fire-fighting facilities are supposed also
to have undergone much improvement,
but evidently not enough. Berlin and
Chicago have nearly the same popula
tions. The German metropolis has an
annual loss by fire of 1170,000; Chi
cago's passes the $5,000,000 mark. Of
course the average for the last ten
years has been augmented by the San
Francisco conflagration, but fires like
the recent one ' In Chicago and also
Philadelphia convince us that there is
still too much laxity in our fortifica
tion against flames. The proposition
comes home as a personal one to
everyone owning or managing prop
erty. Individual care is necessary.
The fire chief In Chicago, who, with
several of his officers and men
twenty-four In all perished in the
packing house fire last week, feared
just such a calamity there some day,
aud a week before the tragedy ad
drebsed a letter to authorities in Pack
ingtown, asking them this:
Win you kindly Inform me If your com
pany would be Interested in Installing an
up-to-dute, hlgh-preaaure system In Taok
Ingtown? The fire marshal' in
terest In the matter lies In the fact that
every fire in the Packingtown district calls
out from twenty to thirty-five companies,
leaving the entire distriot on the aouth aide
from Twenty-aecond street to Sixty-third
street bare of companiea.
The president of the company to
which the letter was addressed now
says:
The time haa come for the p'ubllo to real
ize the dunger that threatens the dlatrlct
from the lack of water.
Chief Horan realized it before and
his men realized It during the progress
of the fire that cost them their lives,
for one cried out from the midst of
raging flames: "We can't do anything
here, for the water supp'ly is inade
quate." Many of the worst fires are due to
defective wiring and other negligence
entirely preventable. Equally inex
cusable is our tinder-box aud fire-trap
methods of building construction. The
fire loss can and should be greatly re
duced by preventive precautions, as
well as by ample water supply and flre
flghtlng facilities.
Canadian Farmers Seek Markets.
The farmers of western Csnada,
1.000 of whom went to Ottawa and
demanded) that the government hasten
negotiations with the United States
for better tariff relations, are at least
awake to the necessity of better mar
Iteta for their products as a means of
maintaining the present rate of devel
opment in their territory. They have
placed the premier In the position of
having to decide aa between the farm
ers of western and the manufacturers
of eastern Canada, and the premier is
feeling his way cautiously.
Reciprocity betweeu these two coun
tries ought to help both in the way of
western development, but it Is not as
a political principle that the Canadian
farmers hit upon reciprocity. They
are willing to call tt free trade or
downward revision of the tariff, If that
will help their case any. As a matter
of fact, they do demand free trade on
the implements they have to buy from
the United 8taus. Their sole object
Is new outlets for their raw material,
and that la necessary before the
dominion's western provinces are ade-
nuately developed. It is a consolation
to the peopie on this side of the line
who hnve previously advocated closer
tariff relations to find the dominion
farmers making these requests of their
government. Americans as well as
Canadians, therefore, will be Inter
ested to Rce whether Sir Wilfred
l.aurler ac '!' s to the wishes of the
eastern manufacturer or the western
farmer In determining upon his policy.
It 6hould not be understood that the
farmers are alone In their aggressive
ness. They are backed by strong pa
pers lu Winnipeg and other dominion
cities, as well as by other businesses
that would be benefited, of course, by
any movement conducing to the up
building of the primal Industry of the
colonies.
Kules Diffi3ulties.
To obviate the sharp practice by
which the new house rule permitting
a motion to recall any bill from a
committee failing to report it back
was practically nullified, by insisting
on the full reading of a voluminous
measure that had the right of way. it
is proposed to modify the rule so that
bills thus called for need be read by
title only. This change of the rule
would doubtless remedy to a degree
the defect aimed at, although it
would carry within Itself other dan
gers were there a disposition to abuse
the opportunities it would, offer a tem
porary majority to railroad a bill
through without even a chance for the
opposition to Inform themselves of Its
import. Some state constitutions ex
pressly require all bills, to be legally
enacted, to be read at large on three
different days as a safeguard against
snap lawmaking and hidden jokers,
and while it Is perhaps possible to put
a bill through congress without even
reading it, that would not necessarily
make it a desirable practice.
He gets back, therefore, for work
able rules to the willingness of the
various elements of the house mem
bership to work together with fairness
as between majority and minority and
as between ode another. Some one
must decide what bills shall have
precedence for consideration, and this
decision should be made Intelligently.
The speaker and his rules committee
used to make this decision, but now
the rule for motions to recall a bill
and discharge committee from its con
sideration Is in the nature of an ap
peal from the rules committee to the
whole house membership. On this
motion it is equally important that the
decision be made Intelligently and
with real knowledge of the question.
The rules can be made to facilitate
the transaction of business and to dis
courage factious or dilatory obstruc
tion, but the most perfect rules will
not give wholesome legislation except
through Intelligent and well-meaning
lawmakers.
Fording the Mississippi.
The Mississippi river Is so low in
places it can be forded on foot. It was
entirely too low for the smallest craft.
The Missouri and other streams are
also down to low tide, the lowest at
some points in history, so the weather
bureau gives out. They may never go
as low again, and yet they may. There
is no way of telling.
In this situation is a suggestion of
the enormous task entailed In the
deep waterway scheme. It should re
mind our most earnest advocates of
this enterprise that much patience will
be required before the work is really
done. It is not, therefore, a matter
about which we can afford to grow
peevish. Here is the Father of Rivers
so Bhallow In places that a person can
wade across it. That 1s a fairly good
hint of what Is to be performed before
our visions of a deep-waterway traffic
are realized. It need not necessarily
suggest that the plan Is chimerical,
but it certainly ought to convince us
of the unreasonableness in expecting
everybody to fall readily Into promot
ing the project on the theory that It
Is a simple piece of rip-rapping that
can be done In a short time.
Some of the pro-river men have
gone so far as to impute bad faith to
those who did not share their enthu
siasm over the possibility for Imme
diate navigation on the Mississippi.
Undoubtedly great good may be done
to the cause of transportation by mak
ing these streams navigable, but they
are much further away from naviga
bility today than they have been rep
resented as being.
Our amiable democratic contempo
rary, the World-Herald, Is rightly dis
tressed over the inexcusable extrava
gance of the United States senate,
whkh gets away with over $2,000,000
a year for salaries of its members,
their needlessly numerous clerks,
stenographers, valets, stationery, min
eral water, perfume, snuff and so
i forth. When the editor of the World-
Herald enters the senate all this will
of course be forthwith stopped. If he
can't put the brake on his colleagues'
extravagance. Senator Hitchcock can
at least refuse himself to have any
share in it. But will he? Walt and
see.
The. Boston Traveler exclaims: "Oh,
weep for Daniel Tarbox's black hen.
j She Is dead." Reminds one of the old
appeal in McGuffey's reader: "Good
i , ...... a i
people, ail oi oue kiwi u, lauici.v iui
Madam Blaze, who never slumbered in
her pew, but when she went to sleep."
Nebraska counts among its inhab
itants four stockholders of the AmerU
can Supar Refining company, more
I commonly known as the Sugar trust,
i while Kansas has only one. That
jshoe la cold figures how much
stronger the prejudite a r a in si the t
lawless trusts
Nebraska.
Is til Kansns than In
Governor - elect Aldrlrh cxpiais
that his refusal to permit drncmg nt
the Inaugural reception is out of def
erence to his wife's lshs. In social
affaiis of stBta the mistress of the ex-j
ecutive mansion Is rightfully the ret'-;
ognlr.ed oracle. '
The present rules In the senate may
'be bad, but Senator HrlBtow. who;
talked six days against the omnibus
claims bill, must at least admit they
give a man a chance to speak his mind
without hindrance.
If Jim Bledsoe could look down or
up from where he Is now and see peo
ple wading the old Mississippi,
wouldn't it make him feel foolish for
"Holding her nozzle 'gin the bank"
too long?
Mill Caroeale Uri the Medal
Cleveland Tlaln Dealer.
No chance of Carnegie's dying poor. They
will probably give him the Nobel peace
prlxe. and there'll be a lot more money to
get rid of.
The .New Jersey Model.
Cleveland I cader.
They have discovered what some believe
to be the bonea of a monster antediluvian
reptile In New Jersey, rerhape, after all.
It Is nothing but the model on which the
New Jersey trusts were built.
Who la Neatf
Philadelphia Ucoord.
The Carnegie gift of 810.000,000 to promote
International peace a followed by John D.
Rockefeller with the donation of a like sum
to the Chicago university. How other mul
timllilomilrea must envy these public bene
factors for a liberality which they are In
capable of Imitating.
4 Railroad Mint.
Springfield Republican.
There la certainly one railroad In the
country which should not be allowed to
raise lta rates. Tl.l is Iehlgh Valley,
whote dividend rate haa Juat been lifted to
10 per ci-nt. Railroads wl lch can afford to
pay 10 per cent on the stock can better be
asked to reduce their rater than ask for
publio Indulgence In an advance.
Rank Diaerlinlnatlon.
New York Tribune.
The Filipinos are aoon to enjoy the bene
fits of a parcels post to Hong Kong, In
which packages weighing aa much as eleven
pounds are to be carried at the rata of
12 cents a pound. We can send packages
abroad up to eleven pounds In weight, pay
ing poatage at the rate of 12 cent a pound,
but within the limits of the United States
we have to pay at the rate of IS cent a
pound for packages limited to four pounds
in weight. The discrlmlratinn seems to be
without Justification. '
POWER OP THE KPBAKEH,
Objection to Depriving; Him of A p
polntmrnt of I'oiumliteea.
Henry Watterson 1n Courier-Journal.
In time the speaker of the house of repre
sentatives may become, like the speaker
of the English house of commons, merely
a judicial officer. Just yet he Is a most
Important party leader. 1 Power enough he
must be given Td 'TOntrol a somtlme
obstreperous body.' Otherwise, we should
have not only party disruption, but legis
lative chaos.
It were well that in their desire to ful
fill their pledges to the people the demo
cratic members of congress newly elected
should be quite aure of their footing.
Their course will be closely watched and
mercilessly criticised. ' They can afford to
make no mistakes. The one rule to be
observed, where safe precedent Is wanting,
intentloned . fidelity taken for granted, Is
the rule of common sense stripped of
self-deception and make-believe. I'nder
atandlngly applied, this rule is clearly
against the reduction of the democratic
speaker to a figurehead, and the commit
ment of the selection, of the committees to
a committee on committees. The proposed
Innovation Is open to these objections:
That it Is a game of foot bail, a scheme
of dicker and barter among members,
each struggling for himself, the devil to
get the hindmost, the country in the end
to hold the bag, which will be found
empty. ,
That it eliminates Intelligent and fair
discrimination, baaed upon personal knowl
edge and experience, and submit the re
sult not simply to chance, but to the pos
sible Intrusion of corrupting Influence and
dlshoneat agreement.
That It abolishes all responsibility not
alone that of the speaker, but of indi
vidual membership as well and sends the
house to, sea In an open boat without
rudder or compass, or a pilot, manned by
God knows whom; unless. Indeed, the
speaker has a "slate-" that goea through.
In which event there will be more or less
of atench without any diminution of per
sonal dissension and chagrin.
Under auch a system the most capable
members of the house, who lack the talent
for self-seeking, may be ignored, whilst
unfit members, with turn for trade, may
be given plaoes of honor and trust.
I am told that, wllly-nllly, the plan Is
to be alopted. The pressure for It Is so
great, indeed, that Mr. Champ Clark hits
yielded It hla assent. I risk nothing In
surmising that this assent springs rather
from the Misaourlan's desire not to ap
pear grasping and dictatorial, or to set
himself against what aeeins a resistless
movement, than from his better Judgment
as an old and tried member of the house.
The plea that the democrats are com
mitted to such an innovation la largely
a pretext of those who think they will
come out better from a scramble than
they would fare at . the hands of the
speaker.
Deeemter Tt, 1S10.
Johann Kepler, the celebrated German
astronomer, was born December 27, 1571,
and died In 1630. He contributed to the
science the three great lawa of the mu
tton of the planets.
Colonel J. H. Pratt, retired capitalist who
died laat month, waa born December 27,
at Plalnfleld, Mass. He made his
mcney In cattle In the early daya. being
associated with the Leltera of Chicago In
some great range properties.
Walter T. Page, manager of the Omaha
plant for the American Smelting and Ke
flnlng company, Is t years old today. He
la a graduate of the Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and by profession Is a metallurg
ist. He haa been In charge of the smelter
hr since m.
C. V. Smith, attorney-at-law. was born
December 27, 1S05. at Qulncy. Mass. He
graduated at the University ol Nsbraska
law school. He la also interested In the
Alamlto dairy.
Oar Birthday Book.
Army Gossip
Matters of Inter oa ana Back
or tna rtrlnj Lint Olaaaad from
ths Army an 4 ay Bsgistsr.
The military auihn'MUea are making an
eft'oit to hae cnnarcn place a clause in
j the army appropriation act this year,
.which shall permit the sale to army of-
fleers on the active lint., not occupying
public uuartcrs, of articles of Uea y furnl
i lure, which hae been Installed In oTflcers'
' quarter by the quartermaster s depart
ment. Siiinf time ago transactions of this
kind were disapproved by the comptroller,
who held 'that there Is no authority In
the laws of congress for the purchase of
furniture from rubllc funds for sale to
army officers or other persons for their
private use or for the transportation of
such furniture at public expense." Many
requests have been received from officers.
especially those at staff departments, who
do not live In public building', for tl
privilege of buying this furniture. It is
proposed to have restrictions upon thj
ale and to muke no such transfers wln
they will In any way Interfere with the
Interests of the service.
The secretary of war has under consider
ation the appointment of a civilian to suc
ceed General T. J. Henderson, as a mem
ber of the army board of ordinance and
fortification. General Henderson has oc
cupied a place on that board since 1SW,
his predecessors being General B. M.
Cutcheon, formerly a representative from
Michigan, for whom the position was cre
ated, and General J. H. Uutwalte, for
merly a representative from Ohio. The logi
cal selection for tne povltlon would be
Representative J. A. T. Hull, who will
terminate his congressional career on
March 4, after long and faithful eervlce
as chairman of the house military com
mittee. He is admirably equipped In all
respects, by virtue of experience and a
knowledge of military matters, to serve
as a civilian member of this board. The
president Is said to. have under considera
tion for the place former Senator V. M.
Cockrell of Missouri, who entered the sen
ate as a democrat In 1875. and who haa
been In recent years a member of the
Interstate Commerce commission.
While the members of the house mili
tary committee have been duly Impressed
with the representationa made to them in
various forms during the present session
In the hearings of the secretary . of war,
chief of staff, and chief signal officer of
the army on the subject of army aero
nautics, there is little chance that con
gress will be induced to make a special
provision for this purpose. Representative
Hull, chairman of the house military com
mittee, believes that something should be
done, especially as mechanical flight has
reached a stage when It may be consid
ered as beyond the experimental and when
It gives some assurance of military utility.
The disposition of congress Is, however,
to do as little as possible, out of the or
dinary, and the provision tor an aeronautic
branch of the army slgnsl corps, properly
equipped with machines and the attendant
installation and necessary structures, will
doubtlesa be regarded In congresa as ex
traqrdinary. The army officers at Kort Slocum. X. V.,
have been In something of a quandary
regarding the disposition of a sum of money
amounting to nearly 1 1 SO, which has been
on deposit with the commanding officer of
the recruiting depot at that place. This
sum was recoverd from two soldiers, who
werv convicted of participation in the rob
bery of one K. I. Murphy, a civilian. In
New Rochelle, JJ. Y., on the night of Sep
tember 5. of the sum of about 12TH. An inves
tigation showed that Murphy was a fugitive
from Justice, he was charged with making
way with from 1500 to J700 belonging to
the Players' club of New York City. The
question arose at Fort 'Slocum as to the
disposition of the money, under the circum
stances. The War department has ad
vised the commanding officer at Fort Slo
cum that as It is clear that the money Is
not the property of the government, It
should be delivered to the owner on ai!s
factory proof of title. The officers at Fort
Slocum will, therefore, communicate with
the secretary or treasurer of the Players
club and that organization .will acquire a
part of the funds stolen from It by Its
former clerk, who In turn, was robbed by
the two soldiers. ,
It is barely possible that congress will
take up the question of the detail of line
officers of ths army to dut- with the
special staff corps. Nothing In that direc
tion may be accomplished or even at
tempted during the present session of con
gress, but there are signs that the svstem
is not regarded with favor at the capllol.
It has come In for more or less criticism
on several occasions, the latest being the
debate which was Invoked by the presenta
tion of the bill giving clerks to army pay
masters the privilege of retirement. Some
of the members of the house military
committee are quite convinced that
there should be a change In the existing
conditions, especially In view of the
recommendations which have been made by
nearly all of the heads of the staff corps.
If any change Is made. It Is likely that
the detail system will apply to the Junior
grades In the various staff departments
with permanency of personnel In the other
positions. There Is no Intimation that there
Is any likelihood of a change In the method
of detailing bureau chiefs as is the prevail
ing practice.
The indications are that the steady ad
vance In the average coat of the ration of
the army will find that rate U cents before
the end of the fiscal year. According to
the latest statistics obtainable, the cost Is
now 23.34 cents. This, however, does not
Include the cost of transportation, which
some of the members of the house military
committee believe should be added, and to
this end the quartermaster general was
called upon to furnish the amount expended
on account of transportation of subsistence
stores during the fiscal year 1910. which
amount was $'JS8.0:i. The administration
compelled the commissary general last
year to make a reduction in his estimates
for subsistence, with the result that there
will be a deficiencv this year of at least
I1.2T.0.COO, and possibly 11,500,000. The re
duction was made evidently with the Idea
of creating the Impression that economy
had been effected, whereas nothing of the
sort was accomplished or could have been
achieved. There are so many men to be
furnished with the ration, which Is of in
creasing cost. If the estimate Is cut,
there must necestarlly be a deficiency ap
propriation, and the economy, of which so
much Is made as a demonstration of ad
ministrative virtue, turns out to be a
vertlable sham.
Denmark's Champion . rafter.
Baltimore American.
There was something very much rotten In
the state of Denmark, according to the sen
tence imposed on lta giaftirvg late minister
of justice of eight years In prison and a
fine of $4.0uo.0"X The trusts are considered
Ug operators hi this country, but the graft
which culls for this punisl ment In a single
Individual revtal an Indi.fttry In the matter
that far " surpasses our own national resources.
FE0FLE TALKED ABOUT.
,1k :nes l.a nfei ,w illir of .M.-niltello. N
Y who wss bitten 1n the calf of the lea
by a woorirhiick twrnt-fia ear so
performed a surgical operation on his arm
reientlv ami removed a portion of the an
imals tooth.
William Howard Pheeks. whose boast
was that h had neer told a He or trial
reled with his wife and who had cele
brated more wedding anniversaries proba
bly than any other msn In northern Mis
souri, died In Klrksvllle. , Mo., recently,
aged (W
Charles T Markham. the new president
of the Illinois Central railroad, like his
predecessor, J. T llarahan. began life
as a laborer. The examples In this coun
try of rise to positions to which are at
tached both power and pelf are so com
mon that they scarcely occasion remark.
In Winnipeg, where there is a street car
strike, college men are acting as con
di.ctors. and are allowed to keep all the
fares they take In. They are making from
l-VJ to fii per dav. Had the companies al
lowed the regular employes such a snap,
there would have been no strike In the
first place.
It Is rather startling to read thaf
Gcorge Milma. a Japanese, of Stockton,
t'al-, is to net fully J200.000 this season
frcm his potatoes. Ills crop comes from
thousands of acres. The dry weather In
the east made too many of our potatoes
rot. but there Is no trouble of this kind
with the yield Mr. Shlma Is selling.
Frank Forbla Is the oldest mall carrier
in Kentucky. He la V0 years old and has
lost three teeth, and has worn false teetli
made out of seasoned hickory cut so they
fit around the outer teeth. They last for
several years, and when they wear out
he cuts out some more, and he claims
they beat the teeth the dentlats make.
John Dairy mple. the young man w ho has
succeeded to the management of the great
Oliver Dalrymple wheat farm In North
Dakota. Is college bred, and he spends
his winters In Kurope, but he Is the prac
tical manager of his J2.000 acre domain.
Hie men say he Is a better farmer than
his father was.
A tiROVP OF DISASTER.
addenlnsx Hecord of I.lfe Loss Among
11'e F IS liter.
Roston Transcript.
The tragedies of peace are usualy more
startling than those of war, because their
occurrence Is. as a rule, unexpected.
Within less than seventy-five houra fires
In three cities have taken the Uvea of more
than an eighth as many men aa were
killed In action during the four months
of the Spanish-American War. The series
opened In Cincinnati with a 12,000.000 con
flagration, in which two flremtn lost their
lives and others were injured. The Phila
delphia holocaust followed, the fatal ex
tent of which Is not yet definitely deter
mined, and the sensational events of to
day were opened by the fire In the Chi
cago stock yards, burying In burning
debris a score of fire fighters, Including
two of the highest officers of the depart
ment. Were the grewsome list to slop here It
would make the year now closing almost
unprecedented In the Hat of fatal fli cs,
so far as It affects the fire fighters. There
have been more terrible results to others,
as In the Iroquois theater fire and a num
ber of others of mournful memory. In,
which panic aided the flames In their
work of death, but fire 'fighter are sup
posed to be exempt from that and so far
as possible to have the way open to re
treat when danger becomes too Imminent.
Uut there are frequent occasions when
large risks hHve to be taken, and it is not
probable that those who have suffered In
three of our large cities were more ven
turesome than the conditions called for.
The annual reports of the linden fire de
partment make no mention of losses to
property, but only loses of life and Injury
to limb. On such a basis the year's ex
hibit would he more tragic than aimost
sny of Its predecessors.
WHAT IS LIFE ?
Sarah Urock (In Old School Reader).
"What is Life?" I allied of a wanton child.
Aa he chased a butterfly;
And his laugh gushed out all joyous and
wild.
As the Insect flitted bv.
"What is Life?" I asked; "oh. tell me, I
pray !"
Hla echoes rang merrily, "I.lfe Is Play!"
"What Is I.lfe?" I alrH rtf lh,. t,ii,i,l-n fuit-
And I watched her .'lowing cheek. '
As the blushes deepened and aoftened there.
And the dimples played "hide and seek."
"What Is I.lfe? Can you tell me its fullest
measure?"
She smilingly answered, "Life Is Pleasure!"
"What Is Life?" I asked of a soldier brave.
As he grasped the hilt of his sword.
He planted his foot on a foeman's grave
And looked "creation's lord."
"What is Life?" 1 queried; "oh, tell me Its
story!"
His brow grew bright as he answered
"Glory !"
"What Is Life?" I asked a mother proud,
Aa she bent o'er her babe asleep.
With a low hushed tone, lest a thought
aloud
Might waken Its slumber deep.
Her smile turned grave, though wondrous
in beauty.
As she made reply, "Life? Life is Duty!" .
1 turned to the father, who stood near by,
And gaztd on his wife with pride:
Then a tear of Joy shone bright In his cye"l
For the treasure that lay at her side;
( listener', well for the tale that should
come:
"My life?" he cried; "My life is Home!"
"What is Life?" I asked the statesman
grand.
The Idol of the hour;
The fate of a nation waa in his hand;
Ills sword was the breath of power.
He, sickening, turned from the worlds
caress. -,
"'Tin a bubble!" he cried " "Tla empti
ness!" I turned and asked my inner heart
What story it could unfold.
It bounded quick In lta pulse's start
Aa the record It unrolled.
I read on the page, "Ixive, Hope, Joy.
Strife
What the heart would make It such is
Life."
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In- do voti resd so tunn ; nviifi
and pi;.nsoplil' works?"
V inoilxr t purely pi adieu'
Mls Vavrnrc 'When I l c 'h i...n
csller I can mix so profoiiitdlx llisi !- i
nine to K 'l elei l and go home. " - ,-li .
inaloti S-'ur.
And how did the young pee-rde f,-,
"Kucellenttv The grooms mother il.i
n.iled H'.iiV trading siainpe, and the In I ie s
fstl 'r K.ixr 1h!m cuoukIi loluicco eoiii.te,
to furnish trrlr parlor. Kn. i t.
Journal.
Teacher- Vntl now. W illie. bn ho'd
eepion i word at the present time?
illie iinsiantlyi-K.li.lah.- Puck.
iMe
Itedd -They say whales cannot twrlnt
faster than ten rr twele nillf an hour.
Greene I doni blame Jonah for n't ling
out honkers Matesman.
The orcupant of the fourth floor flat was
looking through the pHiie of the dletloa
nrv the stent was Irving to sell luui.
"No." he said, rloslng the hook and
handed It back. "I don t w'Vnt It It I
twenty years behind the times. Jt defines
"Janitor" as the 'caretaker' of a building.
He's the caremsker! " Chicago Tribune.
I like wideawake men In the office and
Jaggsby seems so atupld."
"ih. Jaggshy is the most wideawake
man I know."
"I never thought he was enterprising"
'Tie Isn't. That Is not what make him
wideawake. He s got Insomnia" Haiti
more American.
Lives of fuel men all remind us..
iiiere is money In their bis.
When they bring their bills, thev find us
Suylng such things as Gee Whin:
. Judge.
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Prescription Known for mesolts
Bather than Large Quantity.
J
Go to your druggist and get "Two
ounces of Glycerine and half an , ounce
of Concentrated Pino comtound. Mix
these with half a pint of good whiskey.
Shake w-ell. Take one or two teaspoon
fills after each meal and at bed time.
Smaller doses to children acoordlrig t
age. Any one cai prepare this at home.
This la said to he the quickest cough and
cold cure known to the medical profes
sion. Bt sure to get only the genuine
(Globe) Concentrated Pine. Kach half
ounce bottle cornea in a tin screw-top
lealed case. If the druggist. Is out of
stock he will quickly get It from hla
wholesale house. Don't fool "with uncer
tain mixtures. It la risky.
Pine Is one of the oldest remedies
known to civilisation, but many of the
extracts contain roeslns and Impurities
that cause nausea and other bad after
effects. For safety get only-the above
mentioned. Adv. ,,, ,
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