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Charles C. Rose water, general manager
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duly sworn, says that the actual number
of full and complete copkaa of The Dally
Morning, Evening and Sonday Bea printed
during tha month of Jaly, 107, was aa
fallows: -
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I M,lt0 II M.4S0
I M.1SO II 3e610
t SS.500 10 3,M0
I IMW ft S0.5M
I a,4S0 II 87,870
f SBrBOO II 34,670
a,00 24 38,530
I M.S10 21 36,430
II ,140 II 96,400
It 36,430 27.. 96,700
13 36,380 .. 24 36,400
U 3640 II 41,370
4 S6.B00 10 3680
96,760 II 9660
86,660 ,
Total ; 1,136,610
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whkx out or towh.
Snhacrtboro laavlaa; tha City tern
porarily shoal , hava Tha Bea
uta I lad t thorn. Aadreaa will ba
changed aa often aa roo,aoatea.
Tha Ak-8ar-Ben membership la 999,
marked up, not down. :
The democratic World-Herald bhowa
signs of bucking tbe democratic judi
cial slate. Is this a boltt
How does It happen that no one i
urging Judge Keneeaw Mountain Lau
dls for the presidential nomination?
Senator Foraker says be would not
look well on the Taft band wagon. He
does not look any too well under It.
Henry C. Frlck advises the captains
of Industry to get over being nervous.
Evidently Mr. .Tick does not hold
much oil stock.
"Bryan Is sound on - some ques
tions," says the Louisville Courier
Journal. Yes, and on some question.
Bryan Is sound.
An' Atlanta parson ' declares that
New York 16 less wicked than either
Tarts or France, but that does not
help New York any.
The first withdrawal from the list
of entries for republican nominations
has been recorded. Several more
would not be missed.
This talk about pouring oil on the
troubled waters needs revision. The
need is for something that can be
poured on the troubled oil.
General Grosvenor.of Ohio says be
will not object If tba people nominate
Mr. Roosevelt again. He may not ob
ject, but the president may.
The Navy department has been ex
perimenting with Japanese shells.
What reply will be made should Japan
ask where the Navy department got
hold of the Japanese shells?
A few yellow dogs still remain on
the republican filing list In the county.
It they do not get out voluntarily It
will become the duty of the voters to
put them but without waiting for their
aid or consent.
The Department of Agriculture has
put an absolute ban on the use of
borax, sulphur, parts green and Prus
sia arid In preserving and coloring
canned fruits. This canned stuff will
cot taste natural for a time.
The marked down galea of summer
underwear and the admonition to buy
your Christmas presents . early come
as reminders that . vacations cost
- money and that it ts hard to lay any
thing by In the summer time.
The local real estate dealers In dis
cussing the ethics of the business disa
gree as to whether their commission
should be collected from the buyer or
the seller, and so to play safe many
of them collect from both whenever
they can. '
"The government does not need
that 129,000,000 assessed by Judge
Land Is as a line against the Standard
Oil," says the Journal of Commerce.
All right. Let the government give
It to tbe poor., That's where the
Standard got It.
Thanks to the democratic mayor
and council, Omaha taxpayers will
next year have to pay in 1 per cent
of the full value of their property aa
their contribution toward the expenses
of state, city, county and school gov
ernment. Thai te piling It on pretty
tUa,
PltOTKCTlUG THE ro.Mlt.VKB.
The protest of the fruit packers of
California against certain provisions
of the national pure food law has
served to furnish an interesting side
light on a source of handsome profit to
tbe packers, at tbe expense of tbe con
sumer. The packers contend that as
they have some $15,000,000 invested
In their business they should not be
subjected to such stringent regula
tions and have asked for a modification
of the ruling which prohibits the use
of sulphur In preserving dried fruit.
Tbe Investigation shows that the
fruit packers have been using sulphur
In the process of drying their fruits.
No particular complaint, has been
made of that, aa the sulphur aided in
the drying process, fastened the orig
inal color of the fruit and did not
Injure the food value of the fruit. It
waa discovered, however, that the
packers had adopted tbe custom of
resulphurlng the fruit before packing
It. This process consisted In placing
the fruit In a warm water bath and
submitting It to the strong fumes of
sulphur for the purpose, It ts claimed,
of better preservation, before packing.
Incidentally the process added about
10 per cent to the weight of the pack
age and enough dioxide of sulphur to
make the fruit positively Injurious to
health. The pure food law will pat
an end to the practice.
It will cost the packers something to
hereafter prepare their fruit In ac
cordance with the law, but It will not,
In the long run, Injure their business.
Confidence In the purity and wbole
someness of food products will be
necessary to their sale, as the people
become Informed of the Impositions
from which they have suffered In the
past. The fruit packers will gain
nothing, but may lose much, by ob
jecting to reasonable regulations In
enforcing the pure food laws.
CASUALTIES on RAILROADS.
Representatives of the labor organi
sations who are pressing the Inter
state Commerce commission for more
prompt enforcement of the law re
quiring railroads to adopt and Install
safety appliances have an eloquent
argument In support of their claims in
the report just Issued by the commis
sion covering the casualties to passen
gers and employes of the railroads of
the country for the first three months
of the present year. The compilation
makes an appalling showing, although
It Is less damaging than the record for
the last three months of 1906;
The commission's report places the
number of deaths In the three months
as a result of railroad accidents at
421 and the injured at 20,663. There
were 2,991 collisions or derailments,
in which 229 passenger trains were af
fected and the property lbss to the rail
roads, t In." cars, engines and, other
equipment was $3,536,110. r. J,
The' Pennsylvania railroad has un
dertaken an educational campaign for
the practical Instruction of its em
ployes In first aid to the Injured.
Under direction of the., medical staff
the train employes are to be drilled In
tbe elementary hospital work,, exam
inations will be held from, time to
time and promotion based upon the
efficiency of employes. Each passenger
train will be equipped with a stock of
bandages, dressings, stretchers and
other equipment essential to the
prompt care of injured persons. This
provision for effective emergency work
Is commendable on the part of the tall
ways, but It would be more assuring
to the public It the railroads were to
pay more attention to the safety de
vices and precautions designed to pre
vent accidents.
Tilt PERILS or A 8VRPLCS.
Ellis H. Roberts, the veteran treas
urer of the United States, contributes
a striking article to the North Amer
ican Review, In which he boldly ac
cuses the government of the United
States of working a grievous wrong on
the taxpayers by collecting annually
millions of revenue which it does not
need or expend. He contends . that
the taxpayers should be allowed to
use In their own way, for their own
purposes, the money represented by
the excess of government receipts over
government expenditures. In brief, Mr.
Roberts charges the government with
ignorance of the art of equalizing In
coming and outgo and thus avoiding
unnecessary taxation. He suggests a
horizontal Bcallng down of all tax
rates, both customs and Internal rev
enue, calculated to cut down the gov
ernment's Income by the amount of
last year's excess of revenue, which
would mean a scaling of all rates by
about IS per cent.
The surplus for the last fiscal year
was nearly f90.000.000, or about 13
per cent of the total Income. This,
added to the surpluses that have ac
cumulated since 1897, makes a total
of about 1271,000,000, either In the
treasury vaults or on deposit with na
tional banks. Mr. Roberts estimates
that the surplus for the fiscal year
that will end with June 1908. will
approximate t ISO, 000, 000, which must
be added to the vast amount already
accumulated.
The remedy suggested by Mr. Rob
erts Is the one followed In state and
municipal affairs. When a state or a
city finds a vast volume of money pil
ing up In Its treasury, the first action ts
a reduction of the tax levies. That a
demand for tax reduction has not been
made upon the national administration
Is due to the fact that the burden of
taxation rests lightly upon the pros
perous people of the United States and
that the federal taxea are paid un
consciously through, the remote Inci
dent of indirect taxation.. The prin
ciple, however, Is tbe same la national
6s In state or local affairs whether
taxation be for revenue only or for
protection, It should not exceed the
needs of the government.
The report of the secretary cf the
treasury shows that on June SO, the
government had $182,412,808 on de
posit with 1,2 60 national banks of
the country. This money draws no
Interest, though the people are com
pelled to pay the banks for the use
of money which Is really their own.
The government's excuse Is that If
the money Is not put Into tbe banks,
and thus kept In circulation, acute
business distress might result. Mr.
Roberts' answer Is that the money
should have been left In circulation In
the first place.
In addition to being a menace to
financial conditions, a treasury surplus
Is a constant Invitation to congressional
extravagance In appropriations. The
disposition of the surplus ts a question
that will be forced upon congress soon,
whether tbe standpatters like It or not.
CONTEMPLATED BOXD FROPOflllOXS.
It is said that bond propositions of
various dimensions and for various
purposes are being contemplated by
nearly all the different authorities that
have a right to submit propositions to
the voters of Omaha and Douglas
county at the coming election. So far
as the taxpayers are concerned, they
want the city and county to keep
abreast of the times In the matter ot
public Improvements and to make
steady progress. At the same time
they are not particularly disposed to
vote bonds for experimental purposes.
or merely as an Incentive to spend
public money needlessly In any direc
tion. The school board 1b figuring on the
amount of bonds which the people
shall authorize It to Issue. There are
certain new school buildings abso
lutely needed for which authority will
be freely granted. The completion
of another wing of the high school
building might possibly be authorized.
but to ask bonds now for buildings
that will not be required for two or
three years would be unwarranted.
Future school boards will have ample
time to ask again for additional bonds
when the occasion presents.
Tbe city council will have to sub
mit sewer bonds and Intersection pav
ing bonds as a matter of course In or
der to continue the development of
public Improvements already laid out.
It has already turned down a proposal
for work house bonds because of dan
ger of exceeding the limit of bonded
Indebtedness and the scheme to vote
$2,000,000 of bonds to toe used as a
club over the gas company has lost
most of Its attractiveness on closer In
spection. If the city wants to deal
with the gas company there should be
a way to do it without building a du
plicate gas, plant. .It is also an open
question whether there is a demand
for additional park bonds right now.
The same is true with relation to
the rumored-hints of a request from
the water board for several millions
of bonds to build a new water plant.
The. courts have yet to decide whether
the proceedings already had to , buy
the existing water works are binding
on the city, and even If the city wins
tbe chances are that It will get simply
an ordor to Institute a new appraise
ment Omaha will not be so foolish
as to build a new water plant before
It knows whether It will have to buy
the present one and take the risk of
having two water works systems on
Its hands at onca ' '
The county board Is also expected
to submit the question of erecting a
new court house through a bond prop
osition. All agree that the old court
house is no. longer adequate to present
needs and the only question at issue
ts whether tbe time is ripo to start a
new building.
The voters of Omaha and Douglas
county, and especially those who pay
taxes, are going to be discriminating
in passing on bond propositions and
those who formulate these propositions
will do well to keep this In mind.
The startling discovery has been
made down at Lincoln that the elec
tion officers who served last November
will preside over the coming primary
elections. That Is what they have
been doing here In Omaha for several
years. hen an election officer la ap
pointed in November be gets a com
mission giving him official authority
for a term of one year, and this coven
all city elections, special electlcys and
primary elections that may be held
during that period.
The railroads are "going to the
front for the farmers" tn their efforts
to raise the cream rates, It the rail
road spokesmen are to be believed.
Tbe railroads were "going to the front
for the farmers" tn opposing terminal
taxation, according to the same au
thorities. The railroads always "go
to the front for the farmers" when
they want to disguise the game which
they are playing solely for their own
benefit.
Mayor "Jim" now wants to Impose
a few penalties on street paving con
tractors for delsyed work. A still
more effective plan of touching up the
delinquents would be to establish a
municipal black list and rule out ot
future competitions all contractors
who do not coma up to the mark, or
who try to take undue advantage of
the city.
Prof. Homer B. Hulbert, for many
years editor of the Corea Review, Is
making a determined teffort to enlist
American sympathy for the Coreans.
Americana sympathise with all coun
tries that are more or less oppressed
by their rulers, but they cannot con
cern themselves to the extent of giv
ing Japan any advloe In- the matter.
The cost of municipal government
In South Omaha has increased nearly
160 per cent since the year 1900. The
good people of South Omaha will come
to the conclusion some day that It is
the part of wisdom as well as economy
to effect a merger with Omaha and
have the municipal expenses spread
over he whole combined territory.
The proposed opening of Twenty
fourth street as an unobstructed thor
oughfare from the north boundary of
the city to the south boundary of
South Omaha is now In a fair way to
materialize. In later years people
will wonder why this street was per
mitted to be closed at the center all
this time.
An honest election has not been
held In Mississippi since the recon
struction period. No , one should be
surprised, then, by the charges of dis
honesty and fraud In the primary elec
tion held by Mississippi democrats to
make a choice for United States sena
tor. Peter Breen, a Butte lawyer, says
Harry Orchard will be sentenced to be
hanged, have the sentence commuted
to life imprisonment, escape and have
money furnished to pay his way to
some foreign country. Breen's Imag
ination Is almost as good as Orchard's.
Sam Small, - Charlea Schwab and
Mrs. Stuyvesant FIbo. are engaged In
a three-cornered argument as to what
woman should do. In tbe meantime
woman will continue to do as she
pleases, or as nearly that as circum
stances and conditions will permit.
A man who claims to have watched
168 women alight from street cars
says that only six of them got off fac
ing the direction the car was going.
This proves nothing except that tbe
man had lots of time that he might
have employed more profitably.
Cubans are protesting against the
use of their treasury's surplus In pub
lic improvements. They do not ob
ject to either the Improvements or the
use of the surplus, but to the amount
of work -necessary to build roads and
needed public buildings.
Mr. Hearst is very much displeased
with the election of John Sharp Wil
liams as United States . senator from
Mississippi. Another1 proof that Mis
sissippi did the right thing.
A university professor says Walter
Scott could not have written a theme
for the freshman year. Possibly not,
and the freshman cannot write a Scott
novel solionorB "are ;asy.
Smoke "Dm Oat.
Indianapolis News.
Well, If the Standard does own the To
bacco trust it ' may have- another oppor
tunity to appeal to the higher courts from
tha Imposition of another one of those
magnificent fines.
, , No Visible Improvement. .
Chicago News.
Senator du Pont of Delaware Is the head
of the Powder trust. .'Yet the people of
Delaware have been tolling us what a
wonderful advance they made when they
turned down Addlcka. . .
. Practical Optimism.
Boston Herald.
Mr. Harrlman not only preaches optim
ism, but he practices If likewise. Wltne.is
the advancing of tha ..dividend rate of
another of his big railroad properties.
Faith without works sufflceth not.
A Tims for Sympathy.
Kansas City Star.
Mr. Archibald says Standard Oil Is be
ing persecuted. Of course, this plea will
make a very strong appeal to public sen
timent, for 6tandard OH has been such a
good and faithful servant of the people,
such a fine example of organised altruism,
that there must, perforoe, be a spontaneous
and widespread sympathy for it when It Is
made a "martyr."
Prospective Nebraska Dynasty.
New York Tribune.
Blnce tha recent announcement that Bryan
Is willing to enter the - lists again there
have been murmurs here and there that It
Is a pity the third term precedent docs not
apply to candidacies. Its failure to do so
may result in establishing a Nebraska
dynasty of presidency seekers and bringing
the day when a William III will belebrate
the one hundredth candidacy of tha pater
nal line.
Tha Dahlmnn Program.
Baltimore News.
Mayor Dahlman of Omaha Is out as
a candidate for governor of Nebraska, and
he claims that he has William Jennings
Bryan aa a backer. The main plank of his
platform )s that the governor's salary shall
ba raised from 12.500 to 110,000, "In order
that tha governor may get enough money
to keep him from being a grafter." The
Implication as to tha ti,500 governors Ne
braska has been having Is sufficiently ob
vious. LAST OP ITS Kim
Overthrow of tha Rebate Lines Up
with Proareaa.
Wall Street Journal.
The rebate was at one time regarded as
simply the wholesaling of transportation. It
was thought to be right morally and
economically that tha large shippers should
get a lower rate for transportation than
the small shippers. Even when doubts
began to accumulate as to the soundness
of this contention, the rebate was still held
to be right, at least In certain Instances
and under given conditions.
But now the rebates have become crimi
nal, and our great oil company has been
fined (29.400,00 for accepting them.
The overthrow of tha rebate Is un
doubtedly In the Una of progress. What
ever advantages It may have In Individual
Instances, In tha aggregate it works for
Injustice and wrong.
In tha last analysis, tha rebate Is tha
advance agent of socialism. It destroys
competition by giving tha favored com
petitor such advantages as to drive those
discriminated aa(nst out of buslnoaa.
With tha destruction of competition, tha re
cornea monopoly, and private monopoly
Inevitably lead te pubUe ewuarshlp,
which Is socialism.
Ttl.Ki Ot T IX MEKT1SG.
Colonel Waltrnos A6dresra a Pew
Remarks to Colonel Bryaa.
In the Louisville Cpurler-JoiimnI of the
6th Inst. Colonel Henry Watterson ad
dresses a few remarks to Colonel Bryan,
with particular reference to the standing
candidate's volubility of utteranre and his
"defense of his parts of speech." Colonel
Watterson concedi-s that Colonel Bryan
Is entertaining and charming as a lav
preacher, and In that role h's contlnuo-is
vocal efforts need no defense; but It doe
not become a presidential candidate.
Colonel Watterson continues:
"Moral cowardice," says Mr. Bryan, "i
the greatest weakness a man can have,"
and for antidote he prescribes eternal
spchniak1ng, which, aa a cure-all, might
rank with excessive bloodletting.
"A man whose position Is sound and
whose sympathies are with the peopl'."
ays Mr. Bryan, "is not apt to render him
self less available by championing the
lights and Interest of the masses." Thst's
a question; to a certain point It may bo
true; but he Is apt to grow garrulous, to
cheapen both his weight and authority,
and to over-expose himself to misrepre
sentation. "Do not La Follette and Dolliver and
Landls lecture?" says Mr. Bryan. "Must 1
the doors be closed to them?" and then to '
clinch his examples, he adds. "Folk and
Tlllmen and Champ Clark lecture also,
and they have Increased rather than di
minished their poularlty by so doing."
Not one of these gentlemen Is a candidate
for president, or a party chieftain of the
foremost rank. They are Invested with
none of the responsibility of national
leadership. They are more or less brilliant,
eloquent and" Instructive men; they possess
drawing power; they Insure gate money.
They are upon the field of action aa light
artillerists, or dashing cavalrymen to bo
sent hither and yon to rally the troops and
to charge the enemy, not as a general tn
combat, whose business It Is to occupy a
post of vantage away from the firing line,
to bear tha brunt of the battle, to think
and to give orders keeping for the army's
sake ana victory's sake out of the ranne
of risk and danger.
The most Inspiring oratory, the ableet
and most sclntlllant writing done, mor
or less haphasard from day to day must
needs lack that fullness of Information and
view, and that Intellectual repose of bear
ing, which at stated Intervals, official or
ceremonial, command the public confidence.
The newspaper and the platform are for
mative. They are kaleidoscopic. Neither
lecturing, nor editorializing, la statesman
ship; It Is merely tho precursor, the avant
courier, of statesmanship.
Has not Mr. Bryan said enough to put
to flight the accusation of "moral cow
ardice?" Doea anybody doubt that his
sympathies "are with tha people?" Must
he go on making speeches for money to
signalize his "courage" and his "availa
bility T" We cannot think so; and we might
cite many other examples than that of
Clay, cheated of the presidency by a letter,
and that of Blaine, defrauded of his elec
tion by a sentence, In proof of the wis
dom, at least, of occasional silence and re
serve and the some time virtue of a pru
dent regard for appearance and usage. ,
What good did the wonderful speeches
of Horace Greeley do? The record was
made up and the poor old man only lost
votes by swinging around the circle. It was
a shrewd conclusion of McKlnley not to
leave his own vine and fig tree, nor to
listen to any addresses which had not been
read and revised beforehand.
Mr. Bryan, however, cannot deny that
he Is himself a victim and a recent Vic
tim," c-f hia own argument. - Scarcely a
year ago to ba exact, August 80, 1903
Mr. Bryan on his return from a tour
around the world made a notable speech
at Madison Square Garden, In New york
City. In that speech he elaborated a plan
for the governmental ownership of the
railways. Thoughtful democrats, who
had hoped to behold once more a united
party and to hail a leader risen at last
to the majesty of his opportunity, stood
aghast. Can Mr. Bryan now think that
breaking of ground so new and strane?,
tn point of fact so revolutionary and
startling a wise thing for him to have
done? Can he believe that It lncroasad
his popularity and added to his avail
ability? Else why, after ten months of
consideration and reflection, must ha qual
ify the declaration made with such elab
oration and defiance by telling us that
"there Is no desire anywhere to make
government ownership an issue in 190V'
when neither bo nor tha party can escape
that fatal speech of 1906?
Mr. Bryan relies too much upon the
argumentum ad homlnem, but since ha
personalizes the editor of the Courier
Journal In this connection, let us say
that Mr. Watterson entertains for Mr.
Bryan sentiments of very great kindness
and respect; that some of his former
opinions of Mr. Bryan have had a' com
plete reversal; that ha has no fear that,
If Mr. Bryan were president, ha would,
or could, carry out any of the drastic
measures of his lectures and addresses;
ha Is even optlmlstlo enough to believe
that Mr. Bryan would not quite bar the
doors of tha White House against htm,
goldbug that he was, and Is, In case he
called to pay hia homage. But when Mr.
Bryan intimates that, if Mr. Watterson
ahould be a candidate for president, he
would get additional votes on account cf
his rather luminous and voluminous
record, we take leave to think tha con
trary, and, In expressing that opinion, wa
only repeat what has been often said In
these columns, that In tha very nature
of the ease the most attractive writers
and speakers make the weakest candidates
for office, and that on account of the very
arts which give them their attraction.
They become too familiar to the public.
They ara loaded down by their ante
cedents. Agitators they must ba If they
make themselvea felt, and, all the way
from Benjamin Lundy to Horace Greeley,
no agitator ever came In for much more
than praise and blame, a hero to hts
friends, but to his enemies a red rag,
to the public at large a gladiator rather
than a safe and aane agent; and tha tula
Mr. Watterson has always applied to him
self he thinks Is equally applicable to Mr.
Bryan.
He does not, in short, regard Mr. Bryan
as the most available democratic nominee
for president in tha next campaign. Why,
ha has said over and over again. But
he does think Mr. Bryan in a position to
make a president and ho appeals to him,
as a friend and not as an enemy, to listen
rather to the counsels of prudence than
to tha language of blandishment and (lat
tery. talon Pact So Motor Cars.
Philadelphia Reoord.
There are prospects of ultimate ririlrf for
suburbanites In experiments that the I'nlon
Pacino railroad la making with gasollno
motor car a It has ordered a hundred of
these, and where they are put on steam
trains will ba discontinued. Frequent sin
gle cars will accomtnodata the suburbs bat
ter than trains of three or four cars with
a looomotlva, but tbe trolleys stop too
often. On tha track of a atuam railroad
they would not have to atop at every
street, and could niska fast time. Still,
trolley cars coud be run faster than tncy
art en many vX eur suburban Uua
The principal difference be
tween Mocha and Java and
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NOVEL ADVERTISING TRICK
Tukeys Announce Property ai Worst
Instead of Beit
GET RESULTS WITHOUT DELAY
Sell Lota for Two Thousand and
Bayer Readily Gets Nearly
ttoable that Amoiot for
Them.
Something out of the ordinary attracts
In advertising and it sometimes pays to
advertise things as the "worst" Instead of
the "best" A. P. Tnkey ft Son had four
acres at Eighth and Dorcas streets, which
they long proclaimed as a "fine piece of
ground," hut without results. Finally, In
desperation, they advertised It as "the
worst lying four acres In town." The next
morning John M. Flxa saw the ad in The
Bee and bought the property.
Mr. Flxa was wiser than he knew. Ha
bought the property for 12,000 on time,
and has not had more than 0Q Invested
In It. He has had no taxes to pay and
there have been no expensoa. Thursday
he sold the lot to J. P. Connolly for $3.W)
cash.
Frank Crawford and John Haskell have
bought from Mrs. William Soharnweber,
through Harrison A Morton, two lots on
the north side of Capitol avenue Just west
of the railroad tracks and adjoining them.
The price paid was 9S.600. Tha property
has been in the Scharnweber family for
thlrty-nve years. Mr. Crawford and Mr.
Haskell have also acquired an Irregular
pleco of land adjoining these two lots, and
the whole makes them a fine pleca of
trackage property. They will hold It for
an advance.
George Palmer, son of Captain II. E.
Pojmer, has bought ninety feet of ground
on the west side of Fortieth street be
tween Harney street and Dewey avenue,
at a price of (06 a front foot. He will
build a residence on It next spring. Gould
Diets owned the south fifty feet of the
piece and E. O. Lewis the north forty feet.
Deeds have ' gone on record for the
transfer of the old plant of the On Time
Teast company, at the northeast corner
of Twenty-eighth and Boyd streets, to II.
C. Peters of Louisville, Neb. The property,
which Includes four lots and a two-story
brick building, sold for 17.000. It Is to be
converted Into a stock food factory.
Mrs. Martha Iah has bought the Egbert
residence on Twenty-fifth avenue between
Harney street and St. Mary's avenue. She
paid 3,600.
M. O. Headley of the W. Farnam Smith
compngiy Is having plans drawn for a two
story residence which he will build for him
self at Twentieth and Elm streets.
L. B. Clough has bought for $5,600 a new
residence recently built by F. M. Weeks
In Bemls park, at Thirty-eighth street and
Lincoln avenue.
MILEAGE MERCHANT CAUGHT
Fellow Dealing In Railroad Trans
portation Falls Into Hands
of tha Law..
Charged with duping people of Omaha
and other cities of the state by selling
them worthless railroad transportation
books, J. E. Norton, alias W. H. Mentor,
alias Jack Edmundson, was arrested Thurs
day by Detectives D rummy and Maloney
and Is being held at the police station.
Norton la believed to be the man who
has been operating for several days among
local real estate men. He offers for sale
what purports to be a t.OOO-mllo mileage
book gocd over all railroads for $60. He
has also been working a number of small
towns In the state. It Is known he sold
three of tha books at Tekamah and was
also at Norfolk and York. Ha Is said to
be a well known confidence man and hts
capture la considered an Important one.
LOUD CRY FOR MEN TO WORK
Plenty of Employment at Good
Waves on Farms of tho
West.
Tha cry for men Is still heard all over
the west, especially tn many of the farming
sections, where good wages are paid. Many
of the Omaha high school boys who sttond
the business colleges In winter are In tha
fields earning good money, which will coma
In bandy during tha winter. The harvett
and haying season Is now on In Box Butts
county and tha farmers there are vory
short of help, soma of the larger farmers
needing aa high as ten men each. Tho
question of help In Box Butte county and
vicinity la becoming a most serious problom
and some of the farmers will not be able
to aava their crops unless they get help.
Tha cropa ara fins and farm hands ara
well paid.
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PKR0At. NOTES.
New Tork now has a marriage law which
prevents the Impromptu wedding Inspired
of a cocktail and a small bottle.
The pitiless exposure of Raraeaea II as a
fakrr finds the old follow In an embarras
sing position, as there Is not enough ot him
left to turn In his grave.
Investigation of the status of Mrs. Eddy
has developed the fact that counsel for
one side thinks counsel for the other a
liar, which somehow doesn't seem rele
vant. Cartaln Spe'tcrtnl, the Swiss aeronaut,
has Just finished a wonderful achievement,
namely, the crossing of the Alps tn a bal
loon. Tills was his one hundred and
thirty-ninth ascent and hi notebook does
not record a single accident In any of them.
George B. Lockwood, editor of the Marion
(Ind.) Chronicle, has been appointed pri
vate secretary to Vice President Fairbanks.
The salary was Increased by the last con
gress from $2,200 to H.OuO a year. Mr.
Iockwood was formerly private secretary
to Governor Durbln of Indiana.
Secretary Taft has Invited General Clar
ence R. Edwards, chief of the Insular
bureau of the War department, to accom
pany him and Mrs. Taft on their trip to
the Philippines, where the secretary goes
on September 10 to attend the opening of
tho Philippine assembly. Tho secretary and
Mrs. Taft will return by way of the Siberian
railway and Europe. It Is probnblo that
General Edwarda will accept the Invitation.
Lord Kelvin, who has the distinction ot
having occupied a chair In a university
longer than any professor living and who
won great fame before being elevated to
the peerage as Sir William Thomson, has
had Innumerable Honors conferred on him,
In England, France, Germany, Belgium
and the United States. He la now In his
eighty-third year, but shows no signs of
diminishing activity or lack of Intellectual
power.
LAl'GHINU GAB.
Mrs. Kronsway's next door neighbor had
paused away.
"Well, I'll say this for her," said Mrs.
Krnssway, with a sigh. "She was a good
borrower." Chicago Record-Herald.
Reporter What do you think of tho ac
tion of tho CMcugo Judge in ilxing the oil
trust's penalty at so many millions!
Prominent Cltlsen I think 1 may safely
suy without committing myself, that it la
a line thing. Baltimore American.
Nero fiddled while Rome burned.
"Followed Coney Island's example," he
explained briefly.
Herewith history was disposed to take a
kinder view of the mntter. New lorn tsun.
I
"You have myopia, haven't you7" aske
the eyedoctor, who had called at the pub
Ho library to look for a reference nook.
"I don't know, sir," said the near-slphtd
attendant, blinking at him; "but If wp havj
you'll find It In tha catalogue." Chicago
Tribune. .... - ,
"Even the courageous know fear," said
the policeman who had a record for brav
ery. "Ever scared?"
"Sure. My politics was wrong, and I was
afraid I'd lose 'me Job." Philadelphia
Ledger.
"Have you ever tried to convlnre the
public that your unselfish patriotism has
cost you many pecuniary sacrifices?"
"No," answered Senator Sorghum; "you
see, some of my most Influential constitu
ents are cool financiers who would have no
faith In a man with such unbusinesslike
methods." Washington Star.
"I tell you for a modern business man.
Black Is white."
"That's because he's green yet."
"I don't agree with either of you. I
found him rather blue this morning."
"Oh, that waa on account of a personal
reason. He is sensitive about turning gray
so soon." Philadelphia Press.
A-LIVIJN' ALONG.
Atlanta Constitution.
Some folks they keep huntln' for sorrow;
-xney sign it mey re ngnt or they rs
wrong;
But this day's as good as tomorrow
Bo I Jest keep a-llvln' along.
I Jest keen a-llvln' alone.
I Jest keep a-singln' a song.
There's no use to sigh
While the sun's In the sk;
Bo I Jest keep a-llvln' along.
When tha Lord made the world, was I In
It
To give Him directions? He knowed
1 wouldn't know how to begin it,
Beln' nothln' but dust by the road.
So I Jest keep a-llvln' along.
And I can't say the Lord's work Is wroavg
I never will sigh
While He's runnln' tha sky(
I Jest keep a-llvln' along.
I'm thankful for sun and for showers;
The Lord makes the winter an' May;
An' he'd hide all tho graves with his
flowers
If folks didn't weed 'em away!
So I lest keep a-llvln' along,
Still thankful for sunlight and Song;
I know, when It's snowln',
God's roses are growln'.
So I Jest keep a-llvln' along!
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