ANNUAL OF EDIK thirty-n:ktm yearly session IS HELD IN OMAHA. FEASTS m m GALORE C'-itvr *r« Wi»t! C; /ri Hearty Wel t.rf and Treated to the Best in tne Metres I is. Kw Cfficwi of tr.e N. P. A. iHtai am errs ot the Ite fcravks iTi-ss Autdalioa are: John M. Taufr. prestdeut. South Omaha it G Tayiar. vi-e-preside:.'.. Central Citr. C. C. Johns, aerretary-treas urer. Grand Island. Mm Kan tee Haskins, corn coad tag » ■ tetsiy. Stella The thirty-ninth manual meeting of the Nebraska press association, held in Omaha. Jane W. 6 and 7 was largr !j at.ended. editors with their nitres and sweethearts tw.es present from all sec tions of the stale. Sane ot them tame 40m nrles and all of them troughI the results in ex;»er»ence of an* her rears nork s chronicling the itappe.** ;igs of every city, big and lit tle ta the state On the floor of the assembly ball the women »er- numerically stronger, lee -. while every married editor fcrosci.1 his family, there mere some worn- who coadui t newspapers lb a and with these present the : ±.r sex predominated. On 2 s newspaper interests wei etwr: J the visitors through Roger Cra ven «d the World-Herald. “It is not dixtjn - that lends enchantment to the utry editor.* tad Mr. Craven “sSe- -r c yon here convinces u* that you l.w»h the part yon are credited with tlsr r.g la leading the thought w( tie state. V.e welcome yon most heartily to the metropolis of the state sad hope to make your rUit one of ydeastm and yndt " A. K Wood of the Ger.ng Courier, prejidenl of the association. delivered hi* annual address and urged more *~al and enthusiasm in the work of the nsam intkaa. The welcome of Omaha to the vis it tag journalista w as extended on be half of the eity by Mayor Dahlman and few the Commercial Hub by G F. Havervtirk. chairman of the execu tive rxstatUe At noon Monday the men were er. terUuaed at Iwnrbeon at the llenshaw as (vests of the Omaha Daily News a ad the visiting women were similar ly feted at the loyal by the American Press association. M -r*day eveasar the Nebraska n‘-s s yaanermen. members of the Nebraska Pre-. ns-o-tstion. fittingly opened K n* Ak-9ar-tlen‘s seventeenth cere nvi! #esfc»n at the Den. Eight hun dr« i men a* ambled to enjoy the fes tivities as presented in the show. Colonel T W McCullough of The Bee *ook the gavel after the knights had ‘skew the oath of fealty before the Mgb •r bunsl Colonel McC tllovrh de viated that a bright gwpe-t was in s ew far Ak-**r-Kea and urged every h«’iT« to ret out and boos*. E^eh oditor who spoke showed his trsswlrg in listening to long speeches by r - • rr to talk more than three or f see min-tes. but ectch one had a briv*.» •liowl! at bi> toneue's end. E-'*.k D Reed, editor of the Sfcel tw Clipper, “the paper which pwt out as sen for the Omaha Boosters on their trip.” avowed kb belief in Ne braska and declared he had been preach a* the gospel of this state. C W Pool ex speaker of the Ne braska bowse of representative* and edi* «r of the Terumneh Journal-Trib une. tf-saked the Otsaba people for *V entertaiwmewt given the editors and vet vd that Omaha had store than fetfitted Hs promise* of a good time to the editors If they would come fcev *'ens*or J M Tamer of South Dotal a also spoke briefly to the me-**ws Hi behalf of both the editors <• Omaha and of Omaha to the *di E E Cornell of Hebron, voiced the general spirit of gladness that was w t«h the crowd of editor*. thanksng the AV Pa' Hen and Omaha business •new for the entertainment and con tadr-Timo given them and de-lsrlng the' *h» Nebraska Pres* aaanciation wo 4 he more tkaa glad to repeat its vb • *». Ootaha on the atreagth of the fir-* day's meeting here On Twesdsy fiow«h On: t a and the ■Mat in i—tat of the 1’nion Stor k yards wed successfully with the hospitable efi Vs of Omaha Hi the entertainment of the Prawt association. whir h held Ms a* ms4 day *<->sion Tuesday in the Use Work exchange at the Colon •tag yards Over |d« editors with the ladies of th«-ir families arrived from Omaha IB m-dlatrtv before noon in special cars. The rompany was immediately es mr vd to the t'nioe Stork yards. Rmx Miller Welcome* Editor*. Room- Millar btd the editors thrice »dwe to IrSdf of Omaha and ad vocated the ret tncethe'" spirit. ‘ 1 trtaaeoeoc* -nd po'.ttk-iaos have at tempted from flow to tiae to blacker, the fair name of Omaha I eta certain that m» etty ia the oako »ith the aue population has cleaner morals this our city, and men »ho know hare toM me that aomhere U the Standard at morality so hi*h amont the haisai ~t an as ta Omaha.** de rU'ed the hoW and aUrer due iwt of any rf. state ia the union dunce the rear {marine, if you can all of tolled isto one bin css. a bea bie esouab he the —Thm thereof. With one set,-:- ed her loot aha coold escarate dsn far a holldia* basement. where the visitors were taken in a tour of inspection through the differ* ent departments of the great plant. At 12:30 a dainty lunch was served in the dining hall of the Exchange budding, where about 400 of the visit ors partook of the company's hospi tality. / ter dinner "00 employes of the Un.vjn Stovk yards deployed before the visitors. A photograph of the as sembly was then taken, after which the ladies of the party were taken for a trip to Fort Crook and the de-e cates retired to the Exchange dining room for a business session. Officers were elected as above given. At the lunch. Senator J. M. Tanner, of South Omaha, acted as toastmaster and Introduced the speakers. Sena tor Tanner, in behalf of the men en gaged in the live stock industry, the local newspaper men, the South Oma ha Commercial club, the bankers, mer chants and citizens in general extend ed the visiting editors a most cordial welcome to South Omaha. Bruce McCulloch, editor of the Jour nal-Stockman. paid a high tribute to tb" womanhood of the state, whom, he sa:d. had done their full part in mak :ng Nebraska what it is today. James H. Van Dusen, in a neat spee.-b paid a tribute to the honorable profession of the press, of which, he said, he had one time betn a member. When the business session conven ed Charles C. Rosewater, general manager of the Omaha Bee. took up the subject of "Advertising." Mr. Rosewater w nt into practical details of the business, and his address was !ot*-r.»d to with dose attention. The sprai-er said tisr.* while the associa-! tion bad a so. ial side it was certain : !y not the main cbje< ' of the dele-j j gates He declared that newspapersj live by »hdr advertising, no matter bow high their editorial ideals may J be. Advertising was a matter_ipf par- j amount importance and the possible! source for a large amount of revenue to any publisher. Will M Maupin. of Lincoln, read a paper entitled "Nebraska as it should j be Known'' The paper was replete! with information on the state and' < losed with a poem Be vcral motions in favor of the puls ! ' ■ i i!l w ere voted down because j ci the rule of the association forbid d.r>v interference in questions of a politi-al nature. Will Maupin put; the association on record as favoring . a bureau of publicity and reform. Through gatherings like the editors’ on vent ton. Mr. Hammond averred, the people of the state and the me 'r j-oli- are brought to a better un derstanding. Mr Hammond decried what he •ertned was an attitude of fear for the ; o.r.t of view of the press toward < apital *bat was implied in Mr. Wat tles' address. Af the press become* acquisitive, Hive. What I !*;• _n *-• that the prosperous press ot • will -r»at property rights with a!: in respect.’* Mr. Hammond said: F'-v’.vit.es a? 'h< Field club broke t p at a late ho.:r and the editors were i. tomol ic ! b: k to the city ' • mat rvpu ttory to tbe work of ’ •• ,j which will bring adjourn* ■ ■ h annual meet re of *!.♦ .V-bra.-su Press association. On Wednesday t he system or organ ii ti n pn • I ;n the morning by F. 0 Kdtr-■ . - ; e f< - the Nebraska Press associat r-r, was provisionally adopted a- the „fi moon tession. The plan providefor a permanent secretary, who • •■e "he present incumbent, C C Johns, of Grand Island. The ■aemtership is to be divided into two • la* - - Ail i.i'-nibers who want the !> r.< : • of tiic work of the paid secre tary shall sutir rite to a fund tc •o'!* in til- office In towns under 1 f(lfl pc ople they shall pay $>; a year; \ ,n towns uii 'o t.'icm. $12. and in larg » r 'owns trail 4.«0o. 513. The ms mortal committee reported f* !i> r.s of sorrow for the death “ •’ <’ Welle, of Crete, Rosa Hud-1 speth. of St ii.rt. Mrs. D H. Cronin, i at O S’- ill. ,nd Mrs. C. C Johns, of Grand Island. ■> •’ C lohr.r. who has begun his ’ fourth terra a* secretary, was given a ' hami*c ^0:d watch as a token of ! • t’otj A resolution was adopt- j »J again t the printing of envelopes! by the government in competition brt-al uSi <■>-, and resolutions of; than: - v. ere passed for all the people w r> 1 r e contributed to the entertain in'at of the convention. Cc.’or.c-i T \V McCullough, of the I On ■ Fee. delivered the farewell ad- 1 11 • - which he said was no farewell, b ;T a passing greeting until the next occasion. At the morning and after r.'- n session* a number of addresses were made and papers read. A. W. 1-j'dci. of the Alb’on News, conducted a round table. A luncheon was given at noon at j the Rome hotel, and in the early eve-1 nine at the same place the editors were regaled with song and joke as the c-lc-ing festivity of what was con side-red by the visitors as the most sue ■ essful convention in the history of the meetings of the Nebraska Press *sso» :alion. The three days’ session wound up with a luncheon given by 'he Otnr.ha Ad club in the summer j garden of the Rome hotel. Distinguished Newspaper Woman. The attendance of women at the Xebm.-Pa Press <-oavention in Omaha ery farce. but the proud distinc tion <: ov.nir.p and ronduating a news-pa per ail by herself belongs to • but » r.e of the feminine visitors. Mias rt-aftie Cob-man. of Stromsburg. Xeb., ■•s the sole owner, proprietor, editor m-chief. business manager and adver tises teanacer of the Stromsburg Hcadi:rbt- and she confesses that she has cleared rollers, set up ads and | ab'-ut everything else that is to be dene cn a newspaper. Lunch for Newspaper Women. A most delightful luncheon was • given the newspaper women at the Hotel Loyal. This was given by the Amer’can Press association. Among local women who met the guests at the hotel and had luncheon with them, were: Mrs. M. D. Cameron, president of the Omaha Woman's club; Mrs. F. H. Cole, former presi dent of the State Federation of Wom an's clubs: Mrs. Frank Haller and Mrs. Harriett MacMurphy. In the evening the women were the guests i of the World-Herald at • theatre. NEBRASKA AS IT SHOULD BE KNOWN [This paper was read before th« Ne braska Press association «t its meeting in Omaha. Jane 5-6-7. by Will M. ^laupin. of Lincoln. Nebr.] We of Nebraska should know, and knowing tell the world, what Nebras ka is and is to be; what Nebraska offers to the homeseeker, the invest ment seeker and the health seeker; what hidden potentialities for human happiness lie dormant in her fertile soil, and what she is annually con tributing to the sum total of the world's created wealth. In the beginning of this necessari ly brief paper I want to say, and say emphatically, that the last session of the Nebraska legislature, which per formed many good deeds, neglected the ripest opportunity ever offered a legislature to confer a lasting benefit upon the state. I refer to its failure and neglect to make the initial ap propriation for a Bureau of Publicity and Immigration. There was no reasonable ground for opposition to the measure; no reasonable objection in economy. In fact there was no opposiuon 10 me om. isui. unior tunately, it did not offer opportuni ties for log-rolling and trading. It had behind it the solid backing of every enterprising organization in the state, of every wide-awake man who is anxious to see Nebraska take her rightful place among the states of the republic. But because legisla tion today has become largely a mat ter of “You tickle me and I'll tickle you;" so largely a matter of trade and barter, this splendid measure calculated to give us a start in the great work of making the truth about Nebraska known to the world, was allowed to die of inanition, of mal nutrition, of sheer neglect. And in doing so the legislature worked a grave injury to the commonwealth. States, like corporations and part nership and firms must advertise in these strenuous days or fall to the rear. Constant, persistent, insistent, intelligent advertising is the keynote of success in any business, and there is no greater or more important busi ness than the building of a state. But there is a condition precedent to intelligent advertising. The con structor of the advertising must know what he is advertising. No man engaged in advertisement build ing can hope ever to know too much about the business or the goods he is exploiting. It is all well enough for the newspaper men of Nebraska to claim that they are constantly ad vertising Nebraska, but the plain, unvarnished truth is that they are not doing it as it should be done, and for the very simple reason that they do not know all they should know about Nebraska. I have lived in this state for a quarter of a century— longer by several years than the average Nebraska editor. I have tried in my weak way to advertise Nebraska to the world, and I thought for years I knew Nebraska pretty thoroughly. Something like six years ago I began studying Nebraska from a different angle. Formerly I had studied it from a car window or in political conventions or by converse with friends in my office. Now, af ter studying Nebraska for six years as any merchant studies his stock— any successful merchant, I mean— I have just begun to realize that what I knew of Nebraska up until six years ago was as nothing, and that if I keep on acquiring knowledge for the next six or eight years as I have during the past six or eight, at the end of that time my knowledge of this great state may qualify me to emerge from the kindergarten class and enter the first primary. The longest span of human life in this age would not suffice to enable one to graduate from the great school wherein knowledge of Nebraska is iui|Jcii ieu. Merely as a basis upon which to work intelligently while you study, I purpose giving you some concrete facts about our beloved state. I will not waste your time in detailing bald statistics. The average human mind can not think in millions. Statistical tables appeal only to statisticians. Columns of figures frighten and repel the average man. Because of this I undertook, while serving as chief of the statistical bureau of the state, to present the statistics about Nebras ka in a more attractive form than the usual table of figures. I hope I may be pardoned if I lay claim to having achieved some measure of success in advertising Nebraska abroad. I am of the opinion that the crop statis tics of Nebraska, and all other statis tics, received a wider range of pub licity under the plan I adopted than they had achieved before. One bul letin of comparative statistics reached a circulation of 70,000 with requests for upwards of 250,000 more. And such great journals as Collier’s, Leslie’s Weekly, Munsey's Magazine and the Cosmopolitan, to say nothing of the great daily newspapers, gave, free to Nebraska a measure of pub licity that could not have been pur chased with money. Now, here are some facts al^ut Ne braska, tersely told, that will serve as the basis of many a good adver tisement of Nebraska: Nebraska was admitted to the union in March, 1867, and is there fore forty-four years old—six years less than half a century. All this progress, all this wonderful develop ment, has been wrought in less than fifty years. Civilization's history records nothing like it. Seventy-seven thousand square miles of territory, 415 miles east and west and 205 miles north and south. Forty-nine million acres, eighteen million acres cultivated. Upon these eighteen million cultivated acres Ne braska in 1910 raised upwards of $400,000,000 worth of grains and grasses. Of the thirty million uncul tivated acres more than one-half are just as good for corn, wheat, oats, rye, barley, alfalfa, potatoes, broom corn, etc., as the eighteen million cul tivated acres, and one-half of the re maining acreage will in time, under Intelligent cultivation and proper knowledge of the conditions to be met, be added to the wealth produc ing area. It took Nebraskans more than a quarter of a century to learn that they could not adapt Nebraska soil to the Nebraska man. Then came the most wonderful discovery of the age—the discovery that by adapt ing the man to the soil, Nebraska could be made the greatest agricul tural wealth producer in the world. Since that discovery every year has seen hundreds of thousands of acres of soil, heretofore considered worth less, brought into cultivation and | yielding returns that are so astonish ing that it is hard to make people be lieve the truth. There is room in Ne braska for a half million more till ers of the soil who will till intelli ( gently. Landseer, when asked what ' he mixed his paints wlthv replied. “With brains!*’ And there is no bet ter fertiliser than brains'? Nebraska is the fourth largest corn producing state, and tfce young | est of the three, raising more corn to the acre than any other state. Nebraska is the fourth largest wheat producing state, and the youngest of the three raising more ; wheat to the acre than any other I state. Nebraska is the fourth largest pro ducer of oats, and the youngest of the four, only one state excelling her in production per acre. Nebraska is the third largest pro ducer of sugar beets. Nebraska manufactures more but ter per capita than any other state, and her dairy industry is in its in fancy. Nor is Nebrasita alone an agricul tural and live stock state. Twenty five years ago we shipped in prac tically every manufactured article we consumed. Last year our total manu factured products were approximate ly worth $250,000,000. or almost one half as much as our total of agricul tural products and live stock. Start ling as it may sound, there is na state making such rapid strides in manufacturing lines as Nebraska. There is a reason. A dollar invested in Nebraska manufacturing establish ments brings a greater return than a dollar invested in any other state. But. as 1 said early in this paper, the human mind can not think in terms of millions. If I say that in 1910 Nebraska produced 3C,M4,000 pounds of butter we merely smile and say, “that's some butter.” But you'll probably sit up and take no tice when I tell you that if all that butter were packed in pound cartons, and the cartons stacked up end on end. it would make a column of but ter two and one-half inchs square and 255 miles high; or if loaded into standard freight cars it would make a train over thirty miles long! In 1010 Nebraska hens produced 102,000.000 dozen eggs—one billion, two hundred million eggs. Placed end to end they would reach once and a half times around the world, and they were worth more money than all the gold and silver dug out of any one state in this Union during the same year. Imagine, if you can, all those eggs rolled into one big egg. and then imagine a hen big enough to be the author thereof. With one scratch of her foot she j could excavate enough dirt to make a hasement for a City National Bank building, and throw the dirt across the Missouri river. Ever hear of “King Cotton?" Texas is the greatest cotton producing state, vet her 1910 crop of cotton was not worth as much as Nebraska's corn and wheat crop by $30,000,000. The 'total tobacco production of the Na tion last year wasn't worth as much as last year's crop of Nebraska corn, and it wasn't our best corn year, either. Pennsylvania is the greatest coal producing state, but her coal output last year was not worth as much at the mine mouth as the grain, hay and live stock of Nebraska on the farmsteads. All the gold dug from Uncle Sam's soil in 1910 wouldn't pay for Nebraska corn and wheat in 1910. And mind you. this with less than one-half her fertile soil under cultiva tion. and that less than half not yet intensely farmed so as to produce the maximum results. Let us load upon freight cars all the grain, grasses, live stock, butter, eggs, poultry, potatoes and sugar beets produced in Nebraska in 1910. Would they make a train long enough to reach from Omaha to Sidney? Yes, and then some. From Omaha to Salt Lake? Yes, and a bit further. From Omaha to San Francisco? Yes. and a little further. Well, how long? In order to get a main line track long enough to hold that train it would be necessary to bridge the Atlantic ocean, the English channel and the Baltic sea. With the caboose of that strain in St. Petersburg, the conductor who carried orders to the engineer in the cab would have to walk and walk and walk until he reached an engine that projected out into the Pacific ocean fourteen hundred miles west of San Francisco, for that train would be ten thousand and four miles long. In 1910 Nebraska, with a population of less than a million and a half of people, produced more from her soil than Japan, with forty million people, produced and purchased from other nations. The per capita of agricultur al wealth production of Nebraska in 1910 was greater than that of any other state. Her two main cereals, corn and wheat, were worth more than the nation's output of copper; her four main cereals, corn, wheat, oats and rye. were worth more than the nation's output of iron ore; her butter, eggs and poultry were worth practically as much as the nation's output of crude petroleum; her hay output was worth more than Alaska’s output of precious metals, and her baby crop worth more than the baby crop of all the other states combined. You think you know Nebraska? 1 doubt if there is an editor here who is familiar with the history, the pro ductivity and the resources of his own county. Nebraska a desert! What j other state has as many miles of riv ers within her borders? Nebraska has over 800 miles of Platte river wholly within her confines. And with the Blue, the Nemahas, the Loups, Pine, Stinking Wat*r. Republican, Salt, and creeks too numerous to men tion, she possesses an undeveloped water power that would rival Niagara. She ought to be manufacturing from Nebraska grown raw material every finished product that humanity eats and wears, and pretty near everything that humanity uses, using Nebraska power and paying wages to Nebraska workers. I claim that Nebraska, with more to advertise than any other state, is the least known state—at home or abroad—of any state in the Union. Kansas spends >30.000 a year in pub licity and immigration work; Missouri spends $40,000 a year Colorado spend* >15.000 a year; Washington and Ore gon spend >25.000 a year each; Cali fornia spends a quarter of a million —Nebraska doesn’t spend a dollar. Any wonder thousands pass us by to invest in the higher priced and less productive lands of the northwest? Any wonder that Canada is getting some of Nebraska’s best? Any won der that the Nebraskan in New York who undertakes to tell some of the real facts about Nebraska is laughed at and set down as a chronic prevari cator? Time that we made Nebraska known to all the world? High time that we acquaint the world with the marvelous improvement that has been wrought within her borders in less than a generation! High time that we let the world know that right here in the heart of the once “Great American Desert’’ we have builded in less than a generation a state that stands at the front in education, that stands at the front in wealth produc tion per capita, that stands at the front in development of manufactur ing. that leads all other states in civic reforms and accomplishes them with out revolution and wholly by thought ful study and intelligent progress. But before we can adequately tell the world we must first know Ne braska. So this is the message I bring you. fellow newspaper men: Let us study Nebraska, study her history, her resources and her possibilities, to the end that we may be fitted to ad vertise our beloved state to all the world for what she is—the most pro ductive. progressive and pushing; the most enterprising, energetic and en thusiastic; the most intelligent, in dustrious and inspiring—in short, the greatest area of productivity peopled by the most progressive people In all the world. inis xoasi i give 10 you: “Nebraska, the producer of the best of all things; of bad things the pos sessor of least; a state without a ‘bread line* or a child sent breakfast- j less to school; with a future unlimited i and a past to be proud of; a state of | homes and schools and churches—her ' greater development our duty, her bounty our sufficient reward.” O, the glories of Nebraska! With her j fields of waving grain: With their promises of plenty ‘neath the summer sun and rain Rippling wheat fast turning yellow for the harvest soon to be. Rustling cornblades In the breezes mak ing sweetest melody: Billowed fields of scented clover curing ‘neath the skies of blue: Sunny slopes, and shaded valleys with the clear streams rippling through— ; Over all Is peace : nd comfort, not a trace of sorrow's pall. And to live in old Nebraska is the great- j est joy of all! O. the glories of Nebraska! Far abroad her stores are spread: From the measure of her harvests are the distant nations fed. Here within her wide dominions, wrought from stretch of desert lands. Is the greatest work of progress ever ! wrought by human hands. Here, within a generation, we have : builded. strong and great. On a deep and sure foundation, a pro gressive. happy state. And at even, resting, list’ning to the children’s laughing call— Say. just living in Nebraska, is the great est joy of all! O, the glories of Nebraska! Eike an Kden Garden spread: Filled with nature's fruits and flowers. and a blue sky overhead, lake that “T.ar *. of Stilk and Honey" that the 1st-., lit:si: spies Said spread on; a mM Jordan to de light their wond’ring eyes: Like old Caanan seen by Moses as he viewed the landscape o'er. With that country’s richest treaures laid before him—and some more. O. there’s lots of joy in living where the streams of plenty flow. And to live in old Nebraska is the great est man may know! O, the glories of Nebraska! Sing her | praises full and free! Wonderous past that's but the promise of the greatness yet to be; Pouring forth her wealth of products as from Plenty’s Golden Horn. Filling all the world’s storehouses with her crops of wheat and corn. Spread between the mighty river and the ; mountains of the west, Fiiirest land in all creation, by the God of Bounty blest. And from rose of early dawning Till the long, gray shadows fall Just to live In Old Nebraska is the great est joy of all. Honorary Degrees Conferred. St. Paul, Minn.—The honorary de gree of doctor of laws was conferred hv McAlister college on George L. Robinson, now of McCormick Theo logical seminary. Chicago, formerly i instructor in Beirut. Persia, and a Palestine explorer, and on Rev. Al- I bert B. aMrshall. D. D.. president of the Presbyterian Theological semi- ; nary in Omaha. Unitarians Condemn Lorimer. Boston, Mass.—National politics, as voiced in the action of the United States senate on the Lorimer resolu tion, figured in the principal meet ing on Monday of the anniversary week observance here by the Unitar- j ians and affiliated societies. A reso- j lution opposing the re-election of United States Senator Duncan U. Fletcher of Florida as vice president of the American Unitarian association because of his vote on the Lorimer case received the indorsement of members of the ministerial union. Population of England. London.—Provisional figures return ed by the census officers give the population of England and Wales this year as 36.075.269, compared with 32,527.843 in 1901. While most of the cities and counties show an in crease there are many cases, particu larly in Wales, where there has been an actual decrease. Greater London’s : population has increased to 7,252.263 ; from 6.581.402 in 1901. The county of London including the city of Lon don and the boroughs immediately about it, shows a decrease. Rate Advances Scored. Washington—Proposed advances in the freight rates on grain and grain products from North Dakota and South Dakota producing points to such primary grain centers as Minne apolis, Duluth, Milwaukee and Chi cago are held by the Interstate Com merce commission, in a decision, to be unreasonable. The commission held, however, that the former established rates from points of origin to these destinations should be restored, ex cept in instances of bona, fide error m tariffs. M HK young women of today are to bo the builders of the homos of the future: the corner stones upon which shall rest their beauty and str ngth. “The men of the earth build houses. halls and chambers, roof and domes. But the women of the world. God knows, the women build the homes.” WAYS OF SERVING CRABMEAT. For those of us who live far from the natural source of crabs, we find the canned variety most satisfactory. After visiting one of the canning factories all scruples as to their cleanly preparation are set at rest. They are brought alive to the can nery, aEd unless they are in prime condition, that is very much alive, they are rejected. They are washed Immediately and steamed. Then they are taken to the picking rooms where women in white take out the meat with metal picks. They are then canned, sealed and packed without a touch of the hand to the food. The amount of canned crabs that are crowded into a small can is as tonishing. Crabs in Peppers.—Add to a can of crab meat mayonnaise dressing and finely shredded cabbage; garnish with strips of red pepper and serve it in green pepper cups. Crab Meat Terrapin Style.—Cook two tablespoonfuls of butter with half a small onion sliced. When the onion is yellow remove it. and add a cup of crab meat and two tablespoonfuls of orange juice. Cook three minutes, add a third of a cup of heavy cream and the yolks of two eggs. Season with salt and cayenne. Crabs With Cheese.—Add to a cup of rich cream sauce one can of crab meat. Put it in a buttered baking dish with a layer of grated cheese, a layer of breadcrumbs and another layer of cheese. Bake in a moderate oven. Crabs With Mushrooms.—Mush rooms are now In season, and they, with crab meat, make a royal entree for a luncheon or a chafing dish sup per. Make a rich white sauce and add a can of crab meat and a pint of fresh mushrooms shredded and sauted in a tabiespoonful of butter before adding to the crab meat. Sea son with mushroom catsup and serve in ramekins. AKE no complaint what’er thy pain: Others have borne far worse than thine. Brave smugglers only victory gain. And know the rest which is divine. In heaven and on earth is peace: In thine heart, too. let trouble cease. WHEN ONE IS ENTERTAINING. A dainty, inexpensive company salad is made by cutting cold boiled potatoes with a French scoop into bails, marinate with olive oil and vinegar, salt and pepper for an hour; then heap on head lettuce; sprinkle with chopped parsley and serve it with a boiled dressing or a mayon naise. Lettuce Salad With Cheese Balls.— Here is a salad which is so unusual that it will be welcome to the enter tainer. Take a cream cheese and work into it sufficient cream to make it easy to mold into balls. Divide into four portions; color one green with chopped chives or parsley, another may be colored red by using the sweet red pepper pounded, a third may be colored yellow with the yolks of hard cooked eggs, and a fourth may be made brown by adding chopped nuts. Mold into small balls and arrange in lettuce leaves. Two or more colors may be served together. Strawberry Sponge.—Soak a box of gelatine In three tablespoonftfls of water until soft. Add an equal amount of hot water, is added to a cup of sugar and cooked until the sugar is di^olved. when the gelatine is added, the mixture is strained and a table spoonful of lemonjuice and a cupful of strawberry juice Is addded. As It thickens the whites of three eggs are beaten until stiff and one and a half cupfuls of thick cream are added. Mix lightly, not to lose the lightness of the eggs and cream. Turn into a mold, decorated with whole straw berries. and set away to chill. GREAT part of the happiness — - of life consists not In fight ing battles, but In avoiding them. A masterly retreat is itself a victory. —Longfellow. COLD DESSERTS. Anything that is called cold sounds refreshing during the hot summer days. The following are Inexpensive and easily made, two qualifications in these days of high prices and scarcity of help. Coffee Custard.—Scald two cupfuls of milk with two tablespoopfuls of ground coffee, or use cold coffee left from breakfast. Strain It and add three eggs beaten slightly, a quartet of a cup of sugar, two cups of milk, a pinch of salt and a teaspoonful ol vanilla. Strain into individual molds that have been rinsed with cold water, and set in a pan of hot water in the oven to bake. Test them with a knife. When it comes out clean the custard is done. Set away to chill. Serve cold. Snow Balls.—Sift together several times a half cup of flour, two teaspoon fuls of baking powder, and an eighth of a teaspoonful of salt. Beat the yolks of two eggs, add a half cup of powdered sugar, one and a half table spoonfuls of water. Add to the flour, and when well mixed cut and fold in the whites, beaten stiff. Steam in buttered cups for twenty minutes Roll in powdered sugar. Serve with fruit sauce or whipped cream. Rebecca Pudding.—Mix half a cup of cornstarch, a fourth of a cup of sugar, a fourth of a teaspoonful or salt and a half cup of cold milk. Add to three and a half cupfuls of scald ing milk and cook fifteen minutes. Add flavoring and the whites of three eggs beaten to a stiff froth. Mold and chill. Serve with a sauce made of the three yolks, a cup of powdered sugar and a teaspoonful of vanilla. Orange sauce is very nice served with this pudding. Use the whites of three eggs, the juice and rind of two oranges, the juice of a lemon and a cup of sugar. If blood oranges are obtainable, the sauce is unusually pretty. if T IS not so much what a man has that makes him happy, as it is what he does not want.” You must remember it Isn't only laying hold of a rope—you must go on pulling. —George Eliott. WAYS OF SERVING VEGETABLES. The following are several German methods of serving the common vege tables. which are both simple and appetizing: Sour Pickled Beans.—Put two ta blespoonfuls of nice sweet lard into a saucepan, stir into it a small onion, cut fine, and a large tablespoonful of flour; let it brown and add enough water to make a thickened gravy. Take the pickled beans, well drained, cut them once and add to the brown gravy or sauce. Season with salt and pepper, and if not sour enough add a little of the pickle vinegar. Cook fifteen minutes. String beans are very nice cooked for a long while with a small piece of salt pork. Salt and pepper are added just before serving, and a tablespoonful of vinegar. Seasoned Beets.—Slice six cold boiled beets, add one cup of vinegar, one cup of water, two tablespoonfuls ■of butter, one half bay leaf, four cloves, four allspice, an onion chopped and one tablespoonful of sugar. Let simmer and add a teaspoonful of flour to thicken. Try serving lima beans after they have been cooked until tender, and then fried a golden brown in butter. Hot Slaw.—Cut fine two or three apples and a firm head of cabbage; cook a small onion In a tablespoonful of butter, but do not brown. Add the cabbage and apple and salt to taste. About twenty minutes before serving, add one cup of vinegar, a little sugar, sprinkle with white pepper and sim mer without a cover. Chopped green peppers cooked In the gravy after beefsteak has been pan broiled, is a change to serve with the beefsteak. Cook carrots unTfi tender, then mash and season with butter, pepper and salt. Escalloped Parsnip*.—Mash a pint of boiled parsnips, season with butter, pepper, salt and two taBlespoonfuls of i milk. Mix the ingredients and turn into a buttered dish to bake. Junket With Puree of Bananas.— Pare and slice two bananas, put through a ricer, add a tablespoonful of lemon juice, two of sugar and one of orange juice. Dissolve a teaspoonful of gelatin in a tablespoonful of cold water; stir until dissolved, and pour the mixture into sherbet cups. When the fruit has hardened fill the cups with junket and set away to harden. Serve with whipped cream. The Real Mystery. A Fox was once seen to take a bunch of moss in his mouth and swim out into the river, where, after sink ing himself to the very point of his nose in the water, he let go of the moss and came ashore. “No doubt." remarked a well-read bystander, “you did that to rid your self of fleas, which were driven by the water to seek refuge in the moss." The Fox glanced furtively and slinkingly about and around. "Hist!" he whispered, with a sly wink. "1 did it to make some people think that was what 1 did it for!” Moral; There is no greater mystery than motive, take it .up one side and down the other.—Puck. Russian Oats Superior. Oats constitute three-fourths of the food upon which the Russian horse must exist during the 12 months of the year. Russian oats, however, are far superior in sustaining power to the American cereal. It is also claimed that animals do not become tired of their steady diet as they do of the hay and corn products In the United States. Stereotyped Answer. The Professor—And to what Is the cause of the fire which destroyed an cient Rome attributed? The Student (promptly)—To the careless handling of a cigarette. The Professor—Eh! Why, there were no cigarettes at that time! The Student (hopelessly)— Well. I never heard of a fire starting from any other cause.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Reasonably Safa. The man who'is true to himself la rot likely to he injured mnch by those v ho would deal falsely with him.