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I would therefore suggest that in the next edition of this poem the erroneous calculation to which I refer should be corrected as follows: 'Every moment dies a man, and one and a sixteenth is born.' I may add that the exact fig ures are 1.1G7, but something must, of course, be conceded to the laws of rhythm." That's the Way They All Do." Au enthusiastic citizen about to visit Europe was rejoicing over the fact and the pleasure to come. "How delightful It will be," he said to his wife, "to tread the bounding bil lows and inhale the invigorating oxy gen of the sea, the sea, the boundless sea! I long to see It to breathe in great drafts of life giving air. I shall want to stand every moment on the prow of the steamer with my mouth open" "You probably will, dear," Interrupt ed his wife encouragingly. "That's the way all the ocean travelers do." Detroit News-Tribune. The Wizard. "It's a remarkable thing, said old Brightboy at tea time, "but I can push my saucer through the handle of my cup." The others glanced at the small han dle and gave the speaker a withering look. "I can," persisted Brightboy. "Do It, then," they challenged. Calmly taking up his spoon, Bright boy passed It through the handle of the cup and then pushed the saucer with It. ignorance. Elsie They're twins, aren't they? Bob (scornfully) Twins, you duffer Can't you see one's a boy and one is a girl? London Opinion. Do not put off under false pretexts Homer. BOYS' STOCKINGS AND GIRLS TOO for that matter arc a problem. T "IRON CLAD"! kind solve It weH. They are made in a variety of weights and qualities for or girls and for winter well as simmer I We keep the GENUINE stamped on the foot "ST. JOE KNIT" Every box bears trade mark shown below. Ask for LYOI For sale by J. H. 505 Eleventh Street No Mystery Abeut It The other night after Harker was safe In bed there came a mysterious tapping below his window. Harker slipped out of his covers and cautious ly raised the sash. "What's wanted?' he demanded, his teeth chattering. "I Just wanted to tell you," came a muffled voice, "that there's a hand moving arouud just Inside your cellar window." With visions of burglars Harker picked up his revolver and slipped through the halls in his pajamas. Cautiously he searched the cellar with a lighted candle, but It was empty. Outside on the sidewalk stood the stranger. "I don't see any burglars down here," called Harker nervously. "Who said anything about burglars?" laughed the stranger. "Why, didn't you call me out of bed to tell me that there was a hand mov ing around near the cellar window?" "Sure, It's the dial on the gas meter. It works while you sleep." Philadel phia Times. A Tragedy of Instinct. The proccsslonarles are rather strange caterpillars. A single string of them five or six yards long has just climbed down from my parasol pines and is at this moment Infolding Itself In the walls of my garden, carpeUng the ground traversed with transparent silk, according to the custom of the race. To say nothing of the meteorolgical apparatus of unparalleled deUcacy which they carry on their spine, these caterpillars, as everybody knows, have this remarkable quality that they travel only In a troop, one after the other, like the blind of Breughel or those in the parable, each of them ob stinately, lndissolubly following her leader; so much so that our author having one morning disposed the file on the edge of a large stone vase, thus closing the circuit, for seven whole days, during an atrocious week, through cold, hunger and unspeakable weariness, the unhappy troop on its tragic round without rest, respite or mercy, pursued the pitiless circle un til death arrived. Forum. Called For Glory Divine. Among the customers in a drug store one day last week was a little girl who is known to her playmates In that vi cinity as "Peggy." As she stood wait ing for her turn it could be noticed that she was repeating something under her breath in her effort to remember what her mother had sent her to buy. "Mother wants flvo cents' worth of glory divine." "Of what?" said the young clerk, who was standing there as If stunned by a hard blow of a baseball bat. "Glory divine, glory divine," came the reply in a louder voice than when she had made the original request. "You had better go home and have your mother write it down on paper, little girl," said the clerk, feeling that the girl was too sure to argue with him. Soon she returned, and, handing the note to the clerk, he read, "Five cents' worth of chlorate of lime." Philadel phia Times. A Bit of 8icily. "There is no Italian town more pic turesque than the Sicilian capital, Pa lermo," writes a traveler. "In its port lie crowded the queerest coasting craft I have ever set eyes on. Sailing ships of ail rigs, their hulls painted all the colors of the rainbow, nose up against the quay, where mule carts, whose drivers are shouting at the top of their voices, wait to take away the merchan dise. The narrow street where the custom house officers examine the goods brought ashore is a place of terrific noise. When a driver, two clerks and two custom house officers are discussing the contents of a bale or a cask it seems as though murder must be committed within the next few seconds. Itut somebody signs something, the cart moves on, and ev erybody laughs." Murdering Shakespeare. "I never hesitate to cut and slash and change any play until it suits me," said Stuart Uobson to his legal adviser on one occasion. "I suppose you edit Shakespeare with a blue pencil?" replied the lawyer. "You can just bet I do." "Then, I imagine, you' would plead guilty to an Indictment for murdering the Bard of Avon?" "No; I would not, but I would admit dissecting his corpse." His Question. Edgar, aged six. was recently sent t school for the first time, and upon Mi return home he asked. "Papa, whi taught Adam the alphabet?" bays wear. the GAL-LEY COLUMBUS, NEB. NO BID ON BONDS OF NEW ORLEANS City (table to OMiiiFMds For Proposed topforeajett MUCH DtSAPPOIHTMENT FELT Municipal Betterments to Coat Sevan Million Do I la re Likely to Be Held Up Indefinitely Looks as Though the Crescent City Waa Hardly In Position to Finance a World'e Exposition. New Orleans has no blldera for her $7,000,000 of sewerage bonds and water bonds and it looks aa though her greatest project for municipal im provement would be held up Indefi nitely through lack of funds to pros ecute the work. It would seem aa though New Orleans was hardly In a position to finance a World's expo sitlon. even with the aid of the stats of Louisiana, when her local tankers refuse to purchase her bonds on their own terms. Tht financial predicament of Sea. Francisco's rival for exposition hon ors Is toll in the following press dis patch from the Crescent City: "New Orleans, La. Oct 4. Ds aplte several months of n3jotlatlon through the Hlbernla Bank and Trust company, and In spHe of special act of the last legislature to facili tate the financial negotiations, when the city board of liquidation met at noon today there waa no bid for too $7,000,000 Improvement bonds by which the great sewerage and water project of this city waa to have been been completed. "Much disappointment Is felt at the falltfe of the bonds to sell, as this grett municipal project may be seriously delayed. Mayor T'ehrman and City Attorney I. D. Moore both Issued statements tonight explaining the reasons. "About a year ago, the Interstate Bank and Trust company agreed to finance the $7,000,000 bond Issue pro vided it was given the benefit of be ing the depository of the funda col lected at 2 per cent interpst. The contention was raised that 'he bond taker could not be the depository. Then a legislative enactment was se cured to make It legal for the buyer to become the fiscal agent of the funds, but still the bonds are unsold." BOND INTEREST EQUALS TAX Louisiana Exposition Securities Will Be Unpaid at End of Ten Years. The following press dispatch, pub lished In the New Orleans Times Democrat, Is self-explanatory: "Crowley. La.. Sept. 23. A petition to the voters of Acadia parish la be ing circulated, calling upon the voters to register, in order to be i a a, posi tion to vote against the Panama ex position tax. Nov. 8. The petition recites that, according to the state ment, the country parishes are as sessed at $204,373,626 and the city or parish of New Orleans at $231,045,-. 937, and that as per the present as sessment the country will pay $108. 639.80 per year, or $1,066,398 In 10 years, and New Orleans ?13,284.45 per year, or In 10 years $1,7.1?,844.60. It states further that the Interest om these bonds will be $280,000 per year, or Just about equal to the amount of tax paid in each year, so that at the end of 10 years the state will still owe the six and one-half million dol lars at 4 per cent interest bonds, which by the act the parish of Or leans proposes to pay. Th" senti ment Is divided on this question of taxation, and the promoters of this petition declare that they will push It through." Give California Fair Deal. There seems to be a controversy on between New Orleans and San Francisco for the World's Panama Exposition, which will be held In 1915. Both cities are claiming that they are each the most logical point for the great exposition and then they clamor about the money possi bilities. While we are not Inclined to mix up In this fight and Injure ths possibilities of either place by set tling the question aa to where the exposition shall be held, yet we think the west is entitled to soma of the good things, and we suggest that the Sunset state be given at least a fair deal In this matter. Gallup (N. M.) Republican. Will Benefit The Whole Coast The Napa Register says the master of the State Grange expresses ths sentiments of the people l'vlng In that section when he says of the pro posed Panama-Pacific exposition: "As exposition of this nature, if properly managed, can not fail to be of vast benefit, not only to California, but to the whole Pacific coast. I be lieve the Grange will do well to favor and encourage the movement."' Will Pay Its Own Bit's. San Francisco boosters are going about in the most practical way to secure support for their proposed exposition. They have raised a large sum of money, more than waa ever Invested In an exposition la America, and propose to pay their owa hills without tapping the government tin. This will commend San Francisco to the public Omaha Specialization. Doctor What can I do for you? Patient I have cut my index finger. Doctor Very sorry, but I am a spe cialist on the middle finger. Fllegende Blatter. Auricular Evidence. "My daughter, Gladys Mae, has be come quite an elocutionist" "Yes," peevishly replied the next door neighbor, "so I hear." Puck. The Largest "What is a largesse, papa?" "A $, my boy." Harvard Lampoon. Camels That riles. The Bedouins decorate their baggage camels In the most fantastic manner. A huge pack saddle Is surmounted by a still larger pannier. Above this again Is a sort of chair in which the rider sits. The long strips of leather hanging down the sides are simply for decorative purposes. I have seen camels when too young to go on long treks being carried in these panniers, and they are always used for the Be douin children. This tribe has many quaint and curl ous customs. Perhaps the most curi ous of these is the manner In which they show their esteem for certain strangers. One evening when a young camel had been killed for the meal I noticed the women collecting the blood In a bowl. Then, to my aston ishment, they started painting my camels on the necks and flanks with the blood. Unknowingly I was the recipient of the greatest honor that can be paid a stranger. The blood dried on and remained for a long time, actlng'as a talisman among all the Sherarat tribe. Douglas Carro thera In Wide World Magazine. Smoking That Maddens. Marihuana Is a weed used by people of the lower class and sometimes by soldiers, but those who make larger use of It are prisoners sentenced to long terms. The use of the weed and Its sale, especially In barracks and prisons, are very severely punished; yet It has many adepts, and Indian women cultivate It because they sell It at rather high prices. The dry leaves of marihuana alone or mixed with to bacco make the smoker wilder than a wild beast It Is said that immediately after the first three or four drafts of smoke smokers begin to feel a slight headache; then they sec everything moving, and finally they lose all con trol of their mental faculties. Every thing, the smokers say, takes the shape of a monster, and men look like devils. They begin to fight, and. of course, everything smashed Is a mon ster "killed." But there arc Imaginary beings whom the wild man cannot kill, and these Inspire fear until the man Is panic stricken and runs. Mexican Herald. The Curse ef Cowdray. Cowdray, once the estate of the earls of Egmont and now In the possession of Lord Cowdray, better known as Sir Weetman Pearson, Is the subject of a very Interesting superstition. Shortly after the dissolution of the monasteries Cowdray was conferred upon Sir An thony Browne, the father of the first Lord Montague, who had already been given Battle Abbey as a reward for his services to Henry VIIL The story goes that Sir Anthony, who had de stroyed the church and the cloisters in Battle Abbey, was visited in the great hall as be was holding his first feast by one of the dispossessed monks, who after solemnly cursing him, prophesied that his family should perish by fire and water. Two centuries and a half later the prophecy was tragically ful filled. In 1793 the house was destroy ed by fire and within a week of that disaster the last Lord Montague lost his life in Germany in an unsuccessful attempt to shoot the falls of the Rhine. London News. Belts by the Pound. A western senator of ample physical proportions was endeavoring to obtain a belt at a Washington haberdashery. He was having a difficult time In se lecting a belt whose design struck his fancy as well as of proper require ments for his girth. "How much Is that one?' he de manded of the clerk, who was entirely unaware of the distinguished charac ter of the patron. "That Is $4," said the salesman. "Four dollars!" exclaimed the sena tor. "Isn't that an awful price for a belt? "Yes, sir," admitted the man behind the counter; "but, yon see, sir, after they get Into the regular surcingle size we charge for 'em by the pound." Chicago Record-Herald. Vfy Brief. A record of brevity In a holiday cor respondence was established by a Frenchman In the eighteenth century. Voltaire and Piton, the epigrammatist exchanged challenges to wrlto the shortest possible letter. So, when Vol taire was starting on a Journey, he wrote to Piton, "Eo rus," which Is the complete Latin for "I am going to the country." Plton's answer was Just "I"-complete Latin far "Go!" In business correspondence the rec ord is divided between Victor Hugo, who, anxious to know bow his "Lcs Miserable" was going, wrote to tho publisher, "?' and the publisher, who triumphantly replied. "!" A Servile House of Lords. When King Henry VIII.'s name was spoken in his presence in the house of lords every peer prostrated himself with Asiatic servility. An entry in the records of the bouse gives the sub stance of a speech delivered by the chancellor on Jan. 1C, 1541, in which the king's goodness and wisdom are extolled, and it tells us that whenever his majesty was mentioned, "which happened often," all the lords prostrat ed themselves, bowing to the ground as one man. The Important Personage. "Are you the owner of this place?" asked the book agent "I am," replied Farmer CorntasseL "Anything I can do for you?" "No. The chances are that you are too hard worked to have time to read anything and that you haven't any spare change anyhow. Let me talk to the hired man." Washington Star. Peer Simile. "I never saw any one so timid as Henpeck is." remarked Wlgger. "Why, he's like a mouse In his own bouse." "Nonsense!" exclaimed Wagger. "Bis wife Isn't the least bit afraid of him.' And War Continued. Miss Goodley Bess saya she's ready to make up If you are. Miss Cutting Tell her I'd be ready to make up, too. If I had a complexion as muddy aa hers. Phlladelohla Ledger. CALIFORNIA Far Asttd of ixatslin Frea a Ftaieiol StinpoHL COMPARISON OF TWO STATES Bank Statistics Show That ths Pa cific Coast Commonwealth Out classes Her Southern Rlvnl Some Items That Ought to Tell Heavily as Arguments For ths City of San Francisco. "With no design to lay bare a ri val's hard circumstances, but to as certain definitely the relaVve and comparative ability of California and Louisiana, and of San Francfcco and New Orleans, to finance and handle a world's fair, the Calif o rati Exposl committee has been looking into the banking figures of the two states and two cities," says the San Francisco Call. "The showing is tremendously against Louisiana and New Orleans. "Herewith are some items that ought to tell heavily as financial arguments for San Francisco They are taken from the report of the na tional monetary commission and re late almost wholly to conditions on April 28. 1909. That they a- exact and authentic there can be no ques tion. "The results of the comparison are striking. For example, with compar atively equal populations, California has four dollars of banking resources to Louisiana's one. The savings de posits of the states are 13 to 1 In California's favor, ranking California fourth in the Union in this respect and Louisiana twenty-fourth. "San Francisco's 200,000 savings depositors have $154,000,000 tucked away; New Orleans shows 55.000 such depositors with only $17,000,000 laid up against that rainy day. San Francisco's savings banks paid their passbook holders in interest In the year covered by the report upward of $5,000,000; New Orleans savings depositors in th same period were credited with a little more than a quarter of a million. "According to the report of the comptroller of tho currency, the na tional banks of San Francisco In creased their total resources $103. 000.000 In the year 1909-1910; New Orleans national banks Increased a little more than $2,000,000. "Below are the precise figures: Comparltlve Banking Statistics Relative to California and Louisiana. California. Population June 1. 1909 1.732.000 Capital of all banks $ 99.9G7.il69.S2 Average per capita 57.72 Individual deposits 567.1S5.799.00 Avenure Dcr capita 327.47 Total resources of 812.969.SS0. 00 Average per capita 488.70 Total aa vines deposits 281.228.437. 28 Number of savings depos itors 525.488 Total depositors 890.149 Average amount of savings deposit 635.00 Amount paid savings de positors In interest 1903-9 8,122,906.79 Ranks fourth among states of the Union In amount of savings deposits. Ranks seventh among states In num ber of savings depositors. Louisiana. Population June 1. 1909... 1.042.009 Capital of all banks S 21.955.800.90 Average per capita 13.S7 Individual deposits 90.504.530.00 Averago per capita 55. IS Total resources of 158.042.502.00 Average per capita 96.61 TSUI savings deposits 21.356.283.90 Ktuaber of savings depos itors 80.733 Vital depositors 163.814 Average amount of savings sepoatts 264.00 Amount paid savings de positors ta interest 1903-9 S01.527.T3 Ranks twenty-fourth among states of the Union In amount of savings deposits. Ranks twenty-seventh among states in number of savings depositors. San Francisco. Total savings deposits $153,792,136.08 Total Individual deposits . 243.927.437.47 Number of savings depos itors 208.250 Total number of depositors 252.539 Average savings deposit .. 740.09 Amount paid savings de positors in Interest 6.S23.827.65 Increase In total resources Of national banks 1909-10 103.620.828.96 New Orleans. Total savings deposits $ 16.856.783.49 Total Individual deposits.. 42.979.077.1S Number of savings depos itors 55.576 Total number of depositors 74.019 Average savings deposit .. 300.00 Amount paid savings de positors In Interest 285.157.10 Increase In total resources of national banks 1909-10 2.370.226.71 Note. The figures above given are taken from the report of the national monetary commission, and except as noted relate to April 23. 1909. The last comparison is taken from the reports of the comptroller of the cur rency." Hint to Louisiana. Louisiana will have to be up and doing If It Is to capture the Panama International Exposition of 1915. A special session of the California leg islature has proposed two amend ments to the state constitution which will allow an additional 910.000.000 for the financing of the exposition, and over $7,000,000 has already bees provided by private subscription. Cincinnati Southwest. Deeclares For San Francises. Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans, re tired, has declared himself In favor sf San Francisco aa the place for holding the international exposition to celebrate the opening of the Pan ama canal in 1915. He bases his preference on San Francisco's pres ent prominence and future as a great rt Oswego (N. T.) Tn Patience. Her Mother You must be patient with him. The Bride Ob. I am. I know It will take- time for him to see that he can't have bis own way. National Traits. It takes one hour to know a French man, one month to know a German and almost a lifetime to know an Eng lishman well. Rome Corriere. It is ever true that he who does nothing for others does nothing for himself. Goethe. H. F. Qniccrics sud Supk Dry Comer Eleventh and Olive Streets Our goods are of the best 9 quality, second to none, and will be sold only for cash. Notice our prices in Groceries and see what a dollar will buy. 18 pounds of Sugar for $.00 48 lb Sack Peter Schmitt's . nr Best Flour SI.35 20 lbs Navy Beans $1,00 5 lbs of First Class Coffee $1.00 12 Cans of Sweet Corn $100 12 Cans Peas $1.00 28 bars of Lenox Soap $1.00 100 lbs of Cabbage $1.25 1 25c pkg of Star Naptha washing 0fu powder W 5 lbs good rice. . -. 2SC 3 pks Egg-o-see Corn Flakes 25C These prices are good from Nov. 10 to 17. DRY GOODS Come in and examine our stock of Dry Goods. It is now complete and well selected UNDERWEAR We have it for ladies, children and men in single garments or union suits. CALICOS American prints of all descriptions, first Cn class goods will be sold at, per yard. - Ju OUTING FLANNELS Now is the season, they will be sold at 200 yards at 5c Fancy Outing, worth 15c 10c Dress Outing worth 15c 12 l-2c A good line of Cotton and Woolen Blan kets from 48c to $3.50. Men's dress and working shirts, wont ing pants, overlls and sweaters, also boys' knee pants. A fine selection of Sofa Pillows and Jap anese drawn work. Have curtain and roller shades will be sold at reduced prices. In Hosiery we have the Armor Plate, the best made. Try a pair. The Tyrant In the Field. There have been few commanders so tyrannous as Lopez, the dictator of Paraguay, when, in the war of 1SG3-70, It fought single banded the neighbor ing countries of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. Lopez, says Sir. W. II. Koe bel in bis "Argentina, was wont to carry the theory of victory or death to an uncomfortable point. "Officers were executed for mere remarks whose tone fell beneath the standard of confidence that Lopez had set up for himself. One. for instance, was shot for having announced In the course of his duty that tlw iiiiiiy was strongly Intrenched! Another met his end ou account of uu unguarded speech to the effect that t'n Para guayan army was actiistu.:i ?! to mint the enemv's Ioss-s and finder it- vi." 191 lit POESCH'S 10c Candy Counter Nothing Over 10c per Pound. Post Cards, le each; 10c per dozen GREINER 1 We, the Peeple. The phrase "We. the people of the United States." In the preamble of the constitution read In the first draft of the constitution as follows: "We. the people of New Hampshire, Massachu setts. Itbode Island, Connecticut, New York. New Jersey, Pennsylvania. Del aware, Maryland. Virginia. North Car olina, South Carolina and Georgia. d ordain, declare and establish." etc. Though unanimously adopted by the convention, the wording had to be changed to "We, the people," simply because the constitution, which had not as yet leen ratified, was to go Into effect when ratified by nine states, and, not knowing which states were to ratify, the naming of the states was, of course, out of the question. New York American. 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