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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, A1MUL 2, 1003. 7 TRUE CITY CAMPAIGN ISSUE Wlethcr People or Oorporttiom 8he.ll Con trol Omaia'i Affain. ADDRESS OF L RQSEWATLR TO VOTEPS Pall Test of Speech Delivered to the Fifth Ward Republican, at i the flatly Tne.day mailt. MrKrnna's hall, at the corner of Sherman I venue ai.d Locum street, u filled to Hi capacity Tuesday night to hear an address by Edward Rosowater on municipal question. Mr. Rosewater apoke for over an hour and wn frequently Interrupted by applause. Trior to the address by Mr. Rose water, Ed Evana, eoun Umanlc ran dldate In the Blxth ward, and Bryce Crawford, who la after the eouncllirianlc nomination for the Fifth ward, mad brief remarks. W. B. Cbrtatle presided at the meeting. Mr. Rnsewater apoke as follows: "Under our system of government public ity Is the moat essentia', safeguard of free dom and free Institutions. The founders of our republic discussed all the problems of self-government In town meetings. Every measure of reform for the betterment of the conditio! of the people was freely and fully debated In the often. Whenever any body proposes to save the people from some real or Imaginary ill or abuse by secret po litical organization you may reat assured that the movers have something to cover up or some aelftsh scheme up their sleeve. "About thirty years ago a lot of broken down politicises, who had lost their grip In the republican and democratic parties, banded themselves together for the oaten rlble purpose of purifying politics and re deeming Omaha from perdition. The co operators, or ko-ops, of 1873 were then commonly known as the "Gopher Klan." They met In the hours when graveyards yawn and spooks make merry, and held In tercourse by alga, grip and password. They flourished for a time, but Just as soon as their " lesders ere uncovered and their scheme, for dtstrlbutlug political spoils made public, they went to pieces and dis appeared as spooks usually do at sunrise. There Is nothing w under the sun. Tho dark lantern movement which has recently been Inaugurated In this city differs in no respect from that of the defunct 'ko-ops' or Gopher Klan. Political Tina; Line; Feoi. "The leading (spirits of 1903 are Imbued with the same patriotic desire to save Omaha and get themselves Into office as the political spirit mediums of tilrty years ago. Like tho professional sleight-of-hand performer, they want to shroud their move ments In mystery. Now you see It and now you don't. You doubtless remember the uiqcbo juggler, i lag liiug ruo, woo mys. tided and puzzled so many people at the Chinese Tillage lu the Transmlsslsslppl ex position. Ha brought In a rabbit lnbls sleeve and presently had a whole flock of geese on tba stage. That Is the way Ting Lliig Poo Broatch and Jung Ling John Vestberg, ar.d Blng Ling Burban't are try lng to make geese of you all. Many -of you, doubtless, have been handed a type written circular with the Injunction to keep it dark.' Here Is one of the Gopher pledges for the-Sixth ward. The closing sentence reads as follows: 'Whether or ' not I am accepted to membership In this committee, I hereby pledge myself to keep the Identity, work and membership In said committee "a profound secret" and will at 11 times be governed by the action of majority of said committee. I further pledge '- myself to do all, In. roy power honestly and .falrlv tn mtit an inlLmtptilna nlAoallnn to the next . city convention to be held April 11, 190S." Now. why this profound secrecy T Is there sny reason why the problems of municipal government cannot be discussed In the open? Why should any a . iu v; a ivii a, v.ivi'1 uiuu MS movi a V W aV governed at all times by the action of a dark-lantern committee whose Identity he does not even know? Why should any ' self-respecting republican sign away his sacred right to exercise his privilege as citizen according to his own best judgment nd conscience T Why should he allow himself to be blindfolded by a gang of masked political bunco-steerers who do not dsre to show their faces In tire open? Something; . About Machines. "They say they want to down the ma K ciltne. What machine? Is It the old or the fvnewT Let us be frank about these mat ters. The machine that has figured so con spicuously In Gaha politics was known as the Moores-Rosewater-Dennlson machine. Hoores stood for the city hall gang, the police commission, with 100 policemen winging their clubs over the heads of brewers and saloon keepers, and a dosen sleuths forretlng out and running down anything and anybody that did not toe the mark, all the while collecting forced con ( trlbutlons from gamblers, prostitutes and iv outlawa for political purposes and personal ' gain. That was precisely the way It was pictured by the sham reformers who cir culated those 'well defined rumors' two years ago. Rosewater stood for the political part of the machine. He controlled the county committee, with -an Iron hand and be manipulated the city committee and packed primaries and conventions with machine tienchmen.- And Dennlson, the policy king, s he is called, was presumed to line up the burglars, footpads and vagabonds of $1.00- nc Dollar Humour Cure- I i kill I SOAP.OINTMENT AND PILLS Complete External and Internal Treatment of Every Humour from Pimples to Scrofula, from Infancy to Age, Price One Dollar. Complete local and " constitutional treatment for every humour or the kin, scalp and blood, with loss of balr, may now be had for one dollar. Bathe with hot water and t'utlnura Soap to cleanse the surface of crusts and scales, and soften the thickened cuticle. 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This tnphot photograph of the old machine fits the descriptions that have been for several years and are still being Industriously circulated by the political Pharisees who sre trying to climb ln.o political power by the profound secrecy movement. ok In the City Hall and See. "If there ever wsa such a dreadful ma chine as above described. It certainly has no eilttene now. Take a look Into the city hall and what do you find? With the exception of a couple of elevator boys and two or three clerks the entire ground floor of the city hall has worn out Its shoes In kicking the old machine. Every occupant on the ground floor Is fornlnst the machine. City Clerk Elbourn, who wan nominated by the machine and elected by the machine s with the new machine orgsnlzed by the Gophers. John N. Westberg. the comptrol ler, who had the support of the machine for bla third term election, Is afflicted with Rosewaterophobla, and has been foaming at the mouth between drinks for more than two years. Gus Hennlngs never dreamed of the city treasurershlp until he was pro jected Into the city hall by the Moores-Rosewater-Dennlson machine, but he has been dancing an antl-machlne hornpipe twelve hours out of twenty-four these many months. "The top floor of the city hall, which was so conspicuous In circulating these 'well defined' and never discovered ugly rumors, Is bitterly opposed to the machine. What ever there is left of the Moores part of the machine Is therefore confined to the middle two stories of the building, with the ex ception of the apartments occupied by the Broatch police reform commission. "What la there left In the city hall of that terrible machine?, Just the third floot and a portion of the fourth, but on that one floor right opposite to the head of the machine Is the head of the other machine Mr. Broatch with his police commission. I do not see any terrible machine left there In the city hall. Breatch's Private Investigation. "Now let us look at the police depart ment, of which Mr. Moores was presumed to have full control for one purpose only, and that Is to bulldoze and blackmail. Bulldoze those who did not want to give him their Involuntary support and to hold up people who were subject to police sur veillance. This Is the story they told and thousands of good, respectable people In the city of Omaha believed and hundreds of them still believe. You remember the gentlemen who started the well-defined rumors called upon the Judges to convene special grand Jury. The grand Jury was called and continued In session about two months. It Investigated these stories, but failed to find any tangible proof of hold up or blackmail or collection of forced contributions from the vicious classes. But the men who are now leaders In the Gopher camp Insisted that the grand Jury was packed and, moreover, that the men and women who were subpoenaed before the grand Jury did not dare tell what they knew, for the police were sllll In the hands of Mr. Moores, and as Jong ss ho had the police they would not tell what they knew and would not disclose anything detri mental to him for fear of retaliation. "You all know that the police have been under the control of the Broatch commis sion since the early part of August, some thing like eight months. I am credibly In formed that women who piled their voca tions In Chicago were brought to Omaha and planted In various houses of Ill-fame, In order to Investigate these rumors and And out whether the keepers or Inmates of these disreputable resorts had been held up or had paid for protection, hut so far as I oan learn they failed to discover any thing to confirm the rumors. An expert detective was also brought to Omaha at the Instance of the Broatch commission to ferret among the sporting fraternity. He professed to be a gambler who wanted to negotiate with Omaha gamblers to go into business and sought to ascertain what he would have to pay for protection In Omaha, and when he was told that no protection money was being paid, he said: 'That can't be possible. We are paying for pro tection In Chicago. We know those things.' But when be found no gambler who had been! held up or paid for pro tec'lon the expert gave It up as a bad Job. In addition to these Imported male and female detectives Omaha aleuths, known to be hostile to Mayor Moores, have been scouring the city night and day tor nearly eight months, but up to date the well defined rumors of 1901 have failed to ma terialize. Samples of Gopher Reform. "In the meantime the reform police com mission, to whom the good people of Omaha have looked for a municipal clean up, have been swinging the police clubs In the wrong direction. The . leaders of the Oopher antl-machlne aay their main ob ject is to get the elty purified so that de cency can prevail in Omaha. If it Is true that indecency flaunts Its brazen face In Omaha, who, I pray. Is responsible? It there is tolerated vice In any part of the city, where Is the blame? Who controls the police? It not this hue and cry of antl machlne hypocritical? In 1901 when the county committee was captured by the faction ot self-styled purifiers gentle man was put at tts head who stands high In ths Young Men's Christian association, and wherever good men walk, eat and sleep. Within a very few days after he had been elected chairman that gentleman called on me and earnestly urged me to assist him in raising money for the cam paign. And In order to show that I had -$1.00 The agonizing Itching and burning of the skin, as In ecxeraat the frightful scaling, ss la psoriasis i the loss of halt and crusting of the scalp, la scalled bead the facial disfigurement, as la pimples and ringworm; the awful suf fering of Infanta, and anxiety of worn out parents, as la milk crust, tetter and alt rheum, all demand a remedy of almost superhuman virtues to success folly cope with them. That Cutlcura Soap, Ointment and Resolvent are such , atauds proven beyond all doubt. No statement is made regarding them that is not Justified by the strongest evi dence. The purity snd sweetness, the power to afford Immediate relief, the certainty of speedy and permanent cure, the absolute safety and great economy have, made them the standard skin core of the clvUUed world. Cut'r.r. ReMln.t, We. Da form of Ckoeolat. !. A CkML ImI. BvU PrOUMWr.. I 1 f S s I I 1 I 1 I I W I I 1 11115 lUIll ml no disposition to sulk I consented. He ssked me particularly to go down to the breweries and I Introduced hrra to the brewers sod helped him collect 1250. Yet st that very time the sham purifiers tried to make political capital by de nouncing the Moores machine for subsist ing on contributions from the brewers snd liquor dealers. Ia that very campaign, as I am informed, the sstl-mschloe committee with the knowledge and consent of Its pious chairman solicited a campaign contribu tion from Tom Dennlson, the policy king, aa I am Informed, although he was being clubbed night and day by the parties for whom that committee stood ss purifiers and machine crushers. Dennlson honored the draft and gave them $100 of gambler's money snd they took It. I presume that if Dennlson or any other man of the sport ing fraternity should drop a hundred-dollar bill Into the slot machine of the Oophers they would use It without any qualms of conscience. (Applause.) They would not hesitate to accept s.ich stained money. Not at all. At the same time they would thank the Lord that he has not made them as all these others are. Attested Ho.ewater Machine. "Now as to the Rosewater machine. When the county committee and city com mittee was by decisive majority made up of my political friends there was always some representation In the committee for the minority. The committee was or ganized for the republican party and not merely for one faction. The Rosewater machine recognized the right of the mi nority to participate with the majority. When a ward or precinct was carried by the opposing faction the antl-machlne del egates were always allowed to name the members of the committee for that ward or precinct. They were always given their due proportion of campaign ammunitions whether In the shape of carrtagss or workers, snd were permitted to share the fortunes of the party and march hand In hand with the majority. At no time In the history of Omaha and the county, at least for the last twenty-five years, has any precinct or ward preaented the names of committeemen selected by the delegates presen without having them duly rec ognized and enrolled In the central com mittee. Methods of the Reformer.. "Mark the contrast between the old and the new machine. When the county con vention last fall was captured by imported repeaters from Iowa and hundreds of affi davit men who had no right to vote and by corporation bcodle, the anti-machine faction set up the most arbitrary and tyrannical machine that we have ever seen In the city or In this atate. When South Omaha came up with a delegation opposed to the majority of the convention they were chastised and denied any representa tion on the legislative ticket. Not only that, when the delegation from South Omaha, In accordance with old-time usage, named the six committeemen to which thst city surely was entitled under the call, those committeemen were Insultingly re jected and six men who had been over whelmingly defeated at the South Omaha primary were put upon tho committee. Is It any wonder that the ticket met with disaster in that town by reason of the resentment of the republicans of South Omaha at such treatment? The same treatment was meted out to the Second and Third wards In Omaha and precincts In the county that had elected anti-Mercer delegates. Thus the county committee was made not a representative of the whole party, but simply a club representing one faction of the party, and what I believe to be a minority of the party and not a ma jority. (Applause.) "The same tactics, only more so, were rursued In the city convention last fall. There wae really no great struggle. There were "bo candidates for cRy offices and only one-third of the school board, but In their anxiety to crush and destroy all onnositlon by main force the convention dominated by the sham purifiers deliberately went to work and named a city commit tee, regardless of the wishes of the mi nority delegatea. The committeemen were 11 selected In advance, their names read off from a paper and put through under whip and spur. Not a single member was of the minority faction. The republican city committee no longer represents the party. It simply voices the will of a faction. If this policy Is to be pursued in the future sny rational man who is famil iar with human nature can see nothing but disaster in the city campaign and in all succeeding campaigns so long as such a policy Is pursued. No political party can hope to succeed unless It can broadly recognize the rights of every faction and every element of the party and give It fair representation, not only upon the ticket, but upon the managing committee. Flat form ot The Bee. "Manifestly the outcry against the Rose water part of the machine Is senseless and misleading. The only thing that may re main, and does remain, is The Omsha Bee, and that stands purely upon the broad platform of popular confidence. Nobody is obliged to take the paper If it does not suit him. Nobody is obliged to support its policies unless he sgrees with the senti ments expressed, and its Influence depends upon the good will of the public. If It exerts any political Influence it is because it champions principles and policies that are popular. (Applause.) If It Is a power In politics It is because It has always stood for Omaha and Nebraska and has always advocated what It believes to be for the welfare of the masses. Tom Dennl.on's Machine. "Now we come to the last part of the ma chine, and that Is perhaps the most odious part, and I am going to speak without re serve. There Is no doubt that Tom Den nlson, Juat ths same as dozens of other men ot the sporting fraternity, has exer cised a certain amount of Influence politi cally and I will describe It by recalling an incident In Omaha polities. If memory serves me right, it happened about two yeara ago, when Thompson of the Ninth ward was a candidate for sheriff. In the middle of that campaign Thompson called on me with his bosom friend. City Treasurer Hennlngs. 'What do you think of my candidacy for sheriff?' said he, 'and where do you stand on that? I said: 'So far as I am concerned, I want to help nominate a man that we can elect. I do not think you are a good mixer. I think you are talking too much on the street corners and do not circulate enough among the work in graen. It I was In your place I would change my tactics and endeavor to get In with the people.' 'Well,' said he, 'where does Frank Moores stand on sheriff?' I said: 'I do not know exactly, but I under stand that the mayor wants a man thst csn be elected, and In the main I believe he thinks the same ss I do, that you do not mix enough and that you do not have the strength you ought to have among the common people.' 'Well, how does Tom Den nlson stand?' said Thompson. 'Do you think I am a mind reader?' said I. 'Den nlson is a rambler, and gamblers are al ways with the powers that be, and the powers that be is John Power, over In the court house. Naturally Dennlson Is with Power. Hs Is Just Ilk. all ot his clsss. They always try to stand In alth the sheriff and the mayor and tbey always drop on their feet lias a est when the political policy wheel takes a turn.' (Laughter.) Bo tar as I can ascertain, Tom Dennlson has no calling In the city of Omaha. now that can be eonaldered illegitimate. He has not bean In business, as they say, for more than sis months, except as a sport on the race tracks and In side speculation. As a matter of fact, Dennlson Is a vary reticent nan. lis does not take anybody luto his confidence. Tor all I know, he may have an Interest In gambling houses or In policy shops In Cincinnati, Denver, San Francisco or South Omaha. I am not hla keeper and he is not mine. I have candidly given you an outline of the situation of the so-called Moores-Rosewater-Dennlson machine that baa given way to the new machine en gineered by the Gopher Klan. Why Its tsmpilan Failed. "The new machine Is the most despotic machine that anybody has ever seen In this or any other state In the union. Never has anybody seen such high-handed snd stupid mschlnlng. The disaster that overtook the new machine last fall waa due almost alto gether to Its unrepubllcan policy. They did not want to fraternize with anybody that did not belong to their faction. Mer cer himself repelled the proffered assist ance of Senator Millard. When he was asked by Senator Millard whether he could do anything for him, he said, 'No, I am ee good as elected now. I do not need your help.' The Impending city campaign Is not national. It does not Involve great state Issues, but It msy bear on the future ot the party, and on the future ot the state. The paramount Issue In this campaign Is Omaha, and the republicans of Omaha must stand by Omaha, against corporate tax shirkers and corporate misrule, and against the election of anybody that stand with those people. (Applause). Stand of the Corporations. "There Is no doubt that the parties that have been operating at Lincoln this winter will now enter into this campaign and at tempt to give us the kind of representation In the city ball for the next three years that they have given us tn the legislature for the last three months. It remains for every republican to decide for himself whether he can afford to be represented In the city government by anybody who la chained to the corporatlona. We want to give the corporations fair and equitable treatment and If they are satisfied with fair treatment they should stop tampering with our city council and city officers. If they want to rule this city with an Iron hand, if they want to own our public serv ants, our councllmen, mayor, treasurer, clerk and comptroller, then, for one, I am willing to go anywhere to break that power down. (Applause.) And I will say that no party ties are strong enough to chain me down to that class of candidates. I realize that we have a great future before us. I believe that If Omaha would make a con certed effort to develop the resources at tts command the oldest man In this room may see a city here of 200,000 population, but If we continue simply as the hewers of wood and carriers of water for these corpora tions and allow them to control our public men, we cannot hope for progress. The people of Omaha In the earliest days stood up for Omaha and fought Its battles and they ought to fight them again, and what I want to see Is the republicans of Omaha take up the banner and carry It to victory at the coming election. (Applause.) Aa to Frank E. Moores. "I am not committed to Frank E. Moores for mayor of Omaha. I do not believe that any man is absolutely essential to the growth and prosperity of Omaha. I do not think that any single man must occupy any office In order that the city should prosper. (Applause.) When they present to us a re publican candidate who has greater ele ments of strength than Frank E. Moores, when they present a man who has a better chance of winning tn the coming battle, and who will have the courage to stand up for Omaha against corporate greed, I am will ing to support him.' It don't matter what his name may be, hut no candidate who Is not tn touch with the Working men can hope to be elected. While these people are howling machine and'talktng about purify ing our polltlci, and trying to make the peopia believe 'the;4oVn'.t swarming with thieves and thugs, 'iney' .are preparing a raid upon the city halt.. ' Look .it Their Records, "When we come to elect our city officers the whole question will be, Have they been tried and found wanting? Those who have been tried and proved true or fairly repre sentative ot the city, of Omaha should be endorsed. (Applause.) We cannot expect angels anywhere. We must expect men to make mistakes. All men have some faults, but when a man does the best he can do, when he exerts all the powers ot his mind and usee all of the power vested In him to carry out, as far aa he knows to protect the interests of the city, he is entitled to your confidence and support.4 It he fails so to do, he should be retired. That Is the rea son we have men in office for fixed terms, and when they present themselves tor re election, tf their conduct has not been such ss meets tho popular approval they are re tired, but I do not approve of the vindictive, mean, contemptible warfare that has been waged for years against one particular man. (Applause.) I do not care who the man Is, every rational, law-abiding citizen will agree to this principle that when a man has been elected to office by a majority of the voters of the community, he should be allowed to serve his term and should be given an opportunity to carry out the wishes of the people who elected him, and it Is simply reprehensible and despicable for any man who has not been voted for to try to rob the people of their choice under any pretext. (Applause.) Boyd Incident an Illustration. "Years ago. In the year 1890, the people of Nebraska elected James E. Boyd governor, and the man that occupied the seat, Gen eral Thaysr, was my best friend. He called on me and told me that he had been ad vised by lawyers that James E. Boyd was not eligible to the office. He ssld he was an aHen and had not taken out his natu ralization papers. His father had not taken them out. 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Mrs. Stowe's letter shows every woman how a home is saddened by female weakness and how completely Wine of Cardui cures that weakness. She let four years fo by when she could have lived them in health. She sutfered the terrible agonies of ovarian troubles when Wine of Cardui would have cured her just as completely four years ago as now. Do not go on suffering. There is nothing: to gain by putting- off treatment. Go to your druggist to-day and secure a $1.00 bottle of Wine of Cardui and the health Mrs. Stowe secured will soon be yours- In esses requiring special directions, address, giving symptoms, "The Ladles' Advisory Depart ment. Ths Chattanooga Medicine Co.. Chattanooga, Tnn. I a 4 e4 You are pale You act nervous You seem debilitated Your The only Sarsaparilla in the world with a record of sixty years. Ask your own doctor about its power to help you. drop a pocketbook and you picked It up, would you say "I gueae I'll keep this pocketbook becsuse he Is sn alien." (Laughter.) I said: 'That is exactly what these people advise you to do.' When Governor Thayer attempted to hold over I said it was the sentiment of many prominent republicans in this state that James E. Boyd should take his seat, and not that the place should be occupied by a man that had not been voted for.' And some men of consid erable eminence have agreed with me. One of those was Benjamin Harrlaon. When Harrison csme to Omaha, as president, on his way to the stats of California, he was terribly embarrassed. Two men wanted to sit with him In his carriage, one was James E. Boyd and the other John M. Thayer. Both claimed to be governor ot Nebraska, so the -president requested that neither ride with him and rode with the mayor and left the two governors to' travel by them selves, but confidentially end privately be expressed his abhorrence of the whole busi ness, and said It was a great mistake, the greatest mistake the republicans could make, to undertake to take from ,'imei E. Boyd the place that he had been elected to by the people of Nebraska, no matter what the pretext. And the supreme court of the United States finally confirmed the I right of Boyd end seated him. The at tempt of W. J. Broatch to oust Moores from his office was utterly indefensible. The principle that the man elected by the people should serve the people Is sacred and should be protected by all means. (Ap plause.) What ibe Inane Is. "The persecution that followed from that day to this has been of the same char acter. As I said before, I do not believe that Mr. Moores has any special right or title to the office be holds. Tho people ot Omaha have the right to choose whoever they please and the republicans have the right to nominate the best man they can get, and when the man is presented who possesses these qualities to a higher de- i gree, who can get more of the common people to rally around him and make sure of his success, Moores will hsve to give way. But until then It seems senseless to Join in this hue and cry against him and endeavor to make Moores alons the paramount issue of tho campaign. In my Judgment the paramount Issue this spring Is the right of Omaha to govern Itself. Shall corporations rule Omaha or Omaha rule the corporations, which? That is the question that has got to be fought out in the coming primaries. "Fellow citizens, I have given you some glimpsea of the old machine and the new machine. The old macblno has ceased to exist. It has passed out, except ss it stands by the suffrage of the people. Whatever the republican majority In Omaha wants i It can have and It ahould have. It should ' not allow Itself to be dominated or dom ineered over by corporations, by police v.rv ranlH Orstor This -Spring Blood Is Impure Make your blood pure Make your nerves steady. Make your digestion strong Ayr 9 $LOO. AJI drogglsto. J. C Ajar Co., Lowell, commissions or by irresponsible dark lantern organizations. Let us fight the battle squarely In the open for Omaha and the republican party." (Applause.) DEMOCRATIC. CALL IS OUT Fixes the Polling; Places for Primaries In the Various Wards. The revised call for the democratic city primaries and convention has been posted. The convention Is to be held In Germanta hall at T o'clock Saturday evening, April 11, and the primaries are to occur between 12 and 7 o'clock the preceding Thursday. Delegate tickets muat be tiled at Chairman Gilbert's office not later than 12 o'clock, coon, next Tuesday. The representation of the, various warda In ths convention will be aa follows: . First, 12; Second, 20; Third, 15; Fourth, 12; Fifth, 11; Sixth, 15; Seventh, 8; Eighth, 12; Ninth, 9. The polling places tor the primaries are: First Wsrd170 South Tenth street. Second Ward Fourteenth and William streets. Third Ward 1024 Dodge atreet. Fourth Ward 218 South Seventeenth street. Fifth Ward 235 Sherman avenue. Sixth Ward Twenty-fourth and Grant streets. Seventh Ward 2S14 Dorcas street. Eighth Ward 2210 Cuming etreet. Ninth Ward Fortieth and Cuming streets. FALLING HAin STOPPED. Baldne.a Cored by Destroying the Parasite Germ thnt Onuses It. Baldness follows falling hair, falling hair follows dandruff; and dandruff la the result of a germ digging its way Into the scalp to the root of the hair, where It saps the vitality of the hair. To destroy that germ Is to prevent as well as cure dandruff, falling hair, and lastly, baldneas. There Is only one preparation known to do that, Newbro's Herplclde, an entirely new, scientific discovery. Wherever it has been tried it hss proved wonderfully success ful. It can't be otherwise, because It ut terly destroys the dandruff germ. "You de stroy the cause, you remove the effect." Bold by all druggists. Send 10 cents In stamps for sample to the Herplclde Co., Detroit, Mich. CLOSES A SUCCESSFUL YEAR Omaha's Younsr Women's Christian Association Gains Largely In Membership. The Young Woman's Christian association of Omaha closed its fiscal year yesterday with 1,743 paid up members, this being next to Minneapolis, the largest woman's asso ciation In the west. During the last two months the women have been working fames Entrs-Nous Club. 0 i' o n Mass. strenuously In a membership contest, ten teams of ten members esch being In the field to get the most members. The win ning team. Captain Julia Weinlahder, signed 245 new members, and the next team. Cap tain Josephine Bensen, getting 239. The winning team will be banqueted in the rooms Monday night by the others. Mrs. Goorge Tllden, chairman of the membership committee, will be toastraistress and Mes damea Johnson, Byers and Hanford will speak. MODERN WOODMEN TO MEET Dong-la. County Members Select Dele gate, to State Meeting In Mr ... The county convention of the; Modern Woodmen of America was In session at Myrtle hall : yea tar day for. the election of delegatea to . the state convention at South Omaha the first Wednesday tn May. Charles Unttt was elected chairman and P. J. Dermody clerk. The following delegatea and alternates to the state convention were chosen: Delegates E. W. Crevleton, P. Olson. J. E. VsnGilder, N. C. Pratt. G. W. Reynolds, J. J. Breen, P. I. Dcvol, G. A. 'Bowyer, E. B. Knight. Alternates C. F. Dennis, 8. B. Lake, W. C. Trice, H. M. Waring. O. A. Magney. T. F. Conley, Charles Grau, W. L. Crabtree, E. O. Hills. A resolution was Introduced endorsing the candidacy of N. C. Pratt as a delegate to the head camp, but upon the request of Mr. Pratt It was withdrawn. If you desire a valuable Champagne, send to your dealer for a case of Cook's Im perial Extra Dry. Jndge f'oolcy Gives a pinner. Julius S. Cooley, the lawyer, gave a bnchelor'a dinner to several of hla ranch men clients and friends at the Iellone hotel Tuesday night, the occasion being hla birth day. Mr. Cooley made a humorous speech, In which he told of the trials and tribula tions of a bachelor. He la now permanently located at the Dellone. For FORTY YEARS the FIRST i r 1 1 j it z as b r, 7i ... a . j s - j r jm a i. tv.-j" a mmm nfslri I III I "V,