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    TIIE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1907
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Ti ie Omaha Daily Bee.
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STATEMENT OP- CIRCULATION.
State of Nebraska, Douglas county, ssl
Charles C. Knsewater, general manager
-of The Bee Publishing Company, being
duly sworn, says that the actual number
of full and complete cr-rles of The Dally
Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed
during the month of July, 107, u as
follows:
1 36,240 IT ,700
S 30,190 II 86,480
I 86,180 1 10
4 36,500 (0 86,680
85,840 tl 38,800
( 88,40 tl 87,870
7 88,600 23 36,670
36,900 24 86,630
36,910 St 36,430
10 36,340 21 88,400
11........ 86,430 17 86,700
11........ 36,330 28 88,400
U 86,340 2 41,370
14 86,600 SO 36,880
16. 86.780 II 86,890
1 36,660
Total 1,133,330
lyem unsold and returned copies.. 10,338
Net total 1,131,888
Dally average 86,13
CHARLES C. ROSEWATDH,
General Manager.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before ma this 1st day of August, 1907.
iS'-al; M. B. IlLNQATE,
' Notary Public.
'WHEN OUT OF TOWN.
Subscribers leaving the elty teas
pnrarlly should have Tha Bee
mailed to them. Address will be
chanced as often as request
Manufacturing 1 flourishing In all
lines, except, possibly, the manufac
ture of uanlcs.
Sympathy will be withheld from the
Chicago Joker who wa8 slugged for
asking "Wire they striking?"
Colonel Watterson declares that
party government Is a humbug. The
outs usually feel that way about It.
Mayor "Jim" has flunked In a
broncho-busting bout. That'8 not the
only place Mayor' "Jim" has flunked.
"Western farmers are ' not ' gam
blers," says a New York paper. ' 'But
they won their bet against the green
bug.
Tho telegraph companies and the
operators have adopted one political
tactic. Both sides are claiming every
thing. "Graft exists everywhere," says
Senator LaFollette. Graft, like every
other evil, exists only where It is tol
erated. General Corbln says he would not
refuse a nomination for congress. Cer
tainly not. General Corbln 18 a native
of Ohio.
Colouel Bryan has been asking Mr,
Taft a lot of questions, but probably
is no more satisfied now that he has
the answers.
No matter what may happen to the
telegraph operators, the comlo-opera-tors
will begin drawing salary with
the opening of the season in Septem
ber. Married men are not as enthusiastic
over this Invention of a shirt without
buttons as they would be over the In
vention of a shirtwaist without but
tons. The time is about up for the with
drawal of candidates filed for the com
ing primary. The voters, however,
will do some forcible elimination a lit
tle later.
It is pretty near time for the mem
bers of the do-nothing Water board to
hold another meeting and vote the law
yers and the engineering experts some
more money. .
Secretary Taft admits that he gained
weight while In Canada. There would
be nothing to this presidential race If
Mr, Taft could gain speed as easily as
be gains weight.
After a tour of the world, Colonel
Bryan made'a speech in favor of gov
ernment ownership. Secretary Taft
has made his address on the subject
before he started.
According to John Sharp Williams,
the 20,000 populists in Mississippi all
voted against him. It la a little unus
ual to And a democrat complaining
against the populists.
Four national banks are doing busi
ness in South Omaha and only five in
Omaha. Either South Omaha must
be above par or Omaha below par on
the bankers' bulletin board.
Secretary Taft is going ' to Yellow
stone park for a rest, but may, of
course, do a little work in tha Iff
saving line if any pretty waitress hap
pens to fall into the lake while be is
la Um vicluity.t
secret nr TArr$ pla ttorm. '
The address of Secretary Taft to the
Buckeye Republican club of Columbus
will be accepted, as it wai designed, as
a keynote utterance, outlining the plat
form upon which he will ask for the
republican nomination for the presi
dency. Easily the busiest roan in Presi
dent Roosevelt' official family, eliarged
with the administration of the War
department, the Panama canal con
struction, the development of the plan
of government of the Philippines,
sponsor for the administration's po
sition in Cuba and avowedly the
spokesman of the president on a num
ber of absorbing Issues, Secretary Taft
has refrained from confusing his per
sonal and political ambitions with af
fairs of the government. In his tour
of the country, in various capacities, he
has declined to discuss hla candidacy
for the presidential nomination, re
ferring all questioners to bis speech
scheduled for delivery at Columbus.
This address, therefore, gives us the
political views of William Howard
Taft as presidential aspirant, rather
than of Mr. Taft, a member of the
president's cabinet.
The distinguishing feature of Mr.
Taft's Columbus deliverance Is direct
ness. Ponderoue in speech, as In per
son, he Is more direct even than the
president In defining his attitude on
Usues demanding the attention and
thought of tho people. He unhesitat
ingly adopts the "Roosevelt policies"
of administration and makes very
clear, so that none may misunderstand
or misconstrue, what his policy will be
If commissioned to carry those policies
to consummation. From no other
source has the achievements of the
Roosevelt administration been so ad
mirably and forcibly reviewed and
emphasized. Mr. Taft has analyzed
every step taken by the present ad
ministration to ascertain the evils from
which the public has suffered and to
correct them, by congressional legis
lation and by legal proceedings in the
courts. He indorses every movement
made In these directions and urges
further legislation and legal action
looking to the final eradication of re
bates, discriminations, trust extortions
and unlawful methods by which com
binations have fattened at the expense
of the people.
Colonel Bryan has for some time
been nurllng Interrogations at Mr.
Taft relative to the latter's position on
public, questions. The answer Is direct
and specific. Mr. Taft exposes the
fallacy of Colonel Bryan's attitude on
government ownership, railway rate
regulation, trust suppression, Initiative
and referendum and other questions
which the democratic leader has put
forward as Important or paramount.
Neither Colonel Bryan, his democratlo
supporters nor the general public can
longer profess to doubt where Mr. Taft
stands on the Issues of the hour,
Mr. Taft is the one republican prom
inent in the public eye who has made
his position on the tariff plain and
clear. While declaring himself a sin
cere believer in the efficacy of the pro
tective system, he avows unequivocally
his belief that the time has come for
revising existing tariff schedules to the
point that the duty on imported arti
cles should not exceed materially the
difference of cost of production in this
country and abroad. He1 expressly de
clares that the next national conven
tion of the republican party ebould
Pledge revision of the tariff to be
undertaken as soon as possible after
the presidential election.
With Secretary Taft so squarely on
record on the vital points involved,
the other candidates for presidential
preferment will have to come ouj in
the open and be equally frank In tell
ing Just where they stand or suffer the
consequences of suspicion that always
attaches to reticence and evasion.
THB PUPS FULVRK.
Wall street is making a determined
effort to attribute the falluro of the
Pope Manufacturing company to tight
ness of , the money market, due to
alarm over the attitude of the federal
administration ' toward - corporations.
Investigation, however, shows the Pope
failure bears no relation whatever o
the "panic" on change. Cause for the
appointment of a receiver for the con
cern is found in the reports of the
officials on the assets and liabilities of
the corporation.
The .Pope people have simply paid
the penalty or overcapitalization. Their
company was capitalized for $22,500,
000. of which $2,390,976 was of first
preferred stock, with a guaranteed 6
per cent cumulative dividend, and
18,633,100 of second preferred stock
with a 5 per cent cumulative dividend,
and the balance in common stock. The
net earnings were 150,003 in 1904,
$23,859 in 1905 and $23,860 in 1906.
The remarkable Industrial develop
ment of the country in the last few
years has opened a field for capital
at highly profitable interest rates and
the result has been that overcapital
ized concerns like the Pope Manufac
turing company have been unable to
secure money, the margin of proilt not
bolng attractive. The company failed
to make adequate provision for work
ing capital, but had trusted to financ
ing a season's business through ban's:
loans. The vicious "cumulative divi
dend" proviso, which makes one year's
unpaid dividends a charge against the
future business of the company also
contributed toward embarrassment
when it was necessary to aak a new
loan.
If tha reports of the officials showing
assets about eight time as largo as
liabilities prove correct the financial
embarrassment which has caused the
appointment of a receiver need not be
more than temporary. The trouble
only exposes and emphasises another
error in the methods of Industrial man
agement employed by some of the
captains of high finance.
Jilt RAIL WAT COMMISSIOSKRSIUP.
Republicans of Nebraska will at the
coming state-wide primary nominate a
candidate for railway commissioner to
fill out the unexpired term to which
Robert Cowell was elected last year.
While three candidates have filed their
names as aspirants to this position, a
tacit obligation exists to renominate
Henry T. Clarke, Jr., who was ap
pointed ad interim to the place by
Governor Sheldon at the time Mr.
Cowell retired.
Mr. Clarke received this special con
sideration at the hands of the governor
In recognition of the record he had
made at two sessions of the legisla
ture, and particularly of hla energetic
efforts along with other party leaders
to make sure that every platform
pledge upon which the republicans had
been elected should be redeemed in
spirit as well as In letter.
Since his appointment by Governor
Sheldon Mr. Clarke has been laboring
faithfully as a member of the commis
sion, bearing his full share of the on
erous and responsible work devolving
upon him and his associates. This
work has been only begun, but the ex
perience he has already acquired au
not fall to be of advantage to the pub
lic as against any new man who would
have to start at tha beginning.
Under these circumstances, with no
objection being raised against Mr.
Clarke on the score of ability or fidel
ity, It would certainly not be compli
mentary to Governor Sheldon for re
publicans to refuse a nomination to
the man whom he had appointed.
Mr, Clarke ought to have had his
nomination without even competition,
but inaamueh as he must win out over
rival candidates he should have a
good, big vote as a mark of approval
by the people of Governor Sheldon's
selection and as an endorsement of the
redemption of last year's platform
pledges.
nwixa A FBKB WORSB.
The Bee has several times passed
comment on the unreasonable demands
for free advertising which are con
stantly being made on every newspa
per. The same Idea finds striking re
enforcement In the following expres
sion from the Beatrice Times:
People who are not familiar with news
paper offices can have no conception ot the
extent or this begging. The beggars rep
resent different enterprises some purely
business, as advertising agents asking for
the Insertion, free of charge, of complimen
tary notices of the schemes of their pa
tronsi some religious, as a request to boost
the work of some denomination In a cer
tain quarter; some educational, as asking
for a wrlteup of the contemplated location
or change In location of a college or uni
versity; some 'of quasl-publls Interest; some
of purely private concern. And there are
others. Some newspapermen bite at a lot
Of this begging. Otherwise, Its supply
would cease -or decline In volume. ' There
are certain things in the town and county
where a newspaper Is published that must
be noticed without pay, Within certain
bounds this is right. But this horde of
foreign beggars should be knocked out.
Newspapers must do the knocking If it Is
ever done. The worthy, newspaper, Instead
of being a free packhorse, Is a moulder of
public opinion, a monitor, a guide; and one
of Its very next acts should be to guide
the professional beggars to a realising sense
of the beggars' utter littleness.
What is true of the papers in the
small towns Is true In accentuated de
gree of the bigger papers in the larger
town's. But the expectation that this
abuse can be corrected by educating
the people up to a better conception of
the function of a. newspaper is hardly
Justified, The newspapers, big and
little, will have to protect themselves
only by turning down each unjustifia
ble demand for a free ride as it is
made.
It is figured that the encampment
of the Nebraska National Guard cost
something over $2,000 ar day, which
for the week will amount to more
than $12,000. This is the cost to the
Btate irrespective of what the guards
men and visiting friends may have
spent. As a business proposition the
location of the encampment ought to
be worth going after, yet Omaha let it
go by default this time when it could
have been had for the asking.
The St. Gaudens designs for the
new gold coins may not be accepted
because the projection upon the coin is
a bag relief which would prevent the
coins from being stacked in a pile.
The American people will not want to
be bothered with gold coins that can
not be stacked up as evenly and easily
as Joker chips.
The amlabie democratic World
Herald continues to sound the praises
of all the fusion candidates for the
supreme Judgeship nomination, bot
refuses point blank to say which
should have the preference. And the
democratic editor-congressman enjoy
ing himself In Paris 4,000 miles away.
Douglas county republicans seem to
have missed the chance of a lifetime
In not having a candidate for supreme
judge this year. There is no telling
when the state will be again in a mood
to concede this office to this county.
One ot the St, Louis boodlers, hav
ing served his term in the penitentiary,
la now on the vaudeville stage. He
ought to let bygones be bygones in
stead of seeking such means of re
venging himself on the public. '
According to the report of the In
ternational. Society of State and Mu
nicipal Building, commissioners, nine
tenths of the fires in the United States
are preventable. This means that the
fire loss in the nation would be about
$20,000,000 annually instead of $200,
000,000, f proper precautions were
observed In building methods and in
fire preventives. Such an addition to
the wealth of the nation would be
worth while, if the people were not
too busy to think of It and make it
possible.
The Department of Agriculture has
Just ordered printed another edition
of 2 60,000 copies of "Special Diseases
of the Horse." Who was it said the
automobile was going to put the horse
out of business?
The Department of Justice will not
proceed against the Coffin trust until
other trust cases have been disposed
of. The Coffin trust is naturally the
last thing a man should worry about.
Some strikers are entitled to sym
pathy and somt are not. It depends
entirely upon the merits of what they
are striking fpr and the methods em
ployed to enforce their dmands.
It is officially announced that the
railroads will fight the reduction on
grain rates proposed by the Nebraska
Railway commission. The announce
ment Is entirely superfluous.
Inquiring Reader: No, we can't
tell you why It should be necessary to
have Farnam street torn up for four
blocks before the contractor begins to
lay the new pavement.
Merely a Thought.
St. Louis Republic. . '
Mrs. Eddy seems to be demonstrating
enough "mortal mind" to put Increasing
difficulties In the way of those who are
trying to get her mortal money.
Seasonable SuKsreatlon.
Minneapolis Journal.
While the strike Is on and the telegraph
subject la under discussion we may be
pardoned for suggesting that telegraph
tolls In the United States are too high.
One Blmlis of Assimilation.
New Tork Tribune.
American administration has brought to
the Philippines one blessing whloh even
the most peevish crltlo will And It hard to
regret. Never before have the Inhabitants
been so free from eptdamlo diseases as they
are now.
Too Mil oh Luxury,
Wall Street Journal.
The first Important failure of the season
Is that of a conoern manufacturing the
most expensive luxury known to man.
Luxuries are largely responsible for the
lack of the present investment power. It
Is not surprising that they are the first to
feel the effect of the strain In tha money
market
Golden Anniversary of the Cable,
New York Tribune.
Just fifty years ago, August 5, 1S67, tho
laying of the first Atlantic cable was
started at Valentla, Ireland, The project
was conceived in 1853, but It was not until
four years later that the work was begun.
The original projectors Were Americans, In
cluding Prof. 8. P. B. Morse, Peter Cooper,
Cyrus W. Field. Moses Taylor and others.
The vessels employed to lay the cable were
the Niagara and the Susquehanna of the
United States navy and the British vessels
Leopr.rd and Agamemnon. After sailing
a few miles the cable snapped.' This was
soon repaired, but on August 11, after 600
miles of wire had been cut, It snapped
again, and the vessels returned to Ply
mouth. In June of the following year a
second attempt failed through a violent
storm. The third voyage was successful.
Junction of the continents was completed
by 2,050 miles of wire from Ireland to New
foundland on August 6, 1861.
PERSONAL NOTES.
Again the Irony of fate. A steeple Jack
who for many years has hazarded hla life
climbing steeples and flagpoles, fell a dis
tance of six feet the other day and died
from the effects of the fall.
General William Birney, who served with
honor during the civil war, has Just died
at Forest Glen, Md. lie was a native of
Alabama, and was a scholar, author, editor
and teacher, as well as a soldier,
Hon. Ezra Rust, a millionaire lumber
man and philanthropist, has offered to do
nate $60,000 to the city of Saginaw. Mich.,
for the boautlflcatlon of Rust Island park.
He presented the park , to the city two
years ago.
A delegation of French scientists and en
gineers, headed by Arthur Malllet, who
translated Into French the works of An
drew Carnegie, have arrived In America to
learn something of tha Workings of the
steel Industry.
Leslie M. Shaw, former secretary of the
treasury, Is busily engaged In Washing,
ton, with his son, Earl, and a corps of
stenographers, In preparing a literary
"something," of Just what character even
his closo friends are unable to say.
Edward M. Morgan, who has been ap
pointed postmaster of New York, started
thirty-four years ago as a temporary let
ter carrier In the postofflce. He Is the first
postmaster In the history of the New York
office who has worked his way up from
the bottom and filled successively every
place In the local service.
Cleveland points with pride to Its free
dom from "mad dog" scares this summer,
due to the fact, stated by a correspondent,
that Cleveland Is not bothered by pounds
or the dogs pestered by dogcatchers or
muzzles. A dog tax Is exacted, but there
is no d;ath penalty for non-payment. Lost
dogs are cared for by the Humane society
and homes secured for them. In case a
person, is bitten the Board of Health pro
vides serum and treatment free.
Kansas Is. perhaps the only state In the
unlun that can boast oft a cltlsen who
declined a seat In the United States senate
and thrust aside a nomination for governor
that would have been the equivalent of
election. This extraordinary man Is the
Hon. Foster Dwlglit Cobura. secretary of
the State Board of Agriculture. For years
his sole ambition has been the booming
of the sunflower state, and he did espe
cially guod work In this line during tue
World's fair at St. Louis.
The report that Bill Quantrlll, the no
torious guerrilla of the civil war, was still
In the land of the living, was taken
seriously by many war veterans and called
out emphatic contradictions. In a bock
entitled "Civil War Sketches." published
by the Nebraska Commandery of the Loyal
Legion In 1902, Captain H. E- Palmer of
Omaha asserts that Quantrlll died In Louis
ville. Ky., In February, U66. subsequently
continuing the statement of 8. H. Morrison
In his letter of the 12th Inst, published In
The Bee. Captain Palmar, as an officer
of the Eleventh Kansas Cavalry, put In
many a strenuous day chasing the Quan
trlll band, and had every reason for keep
ing flrmly in mlad the time and the olr
cumsuncee of U bioo&x raider's death.
ROUND ABOt'T NEW YORK.
Ripples on the Current of Life In the
Metropolis.
The laborers who have been building the
Bvlmont tunnel under East river at New
York, and who have been designated "sand
hogs" by flippant writers, were given a
banquet the other day In honor of the
complrtlon of the Job and the making of
world's record. The banquet was held In
the engineer's shack over a shaft at tha
New York end of the tunnel. The guests
did not wear "blled shirts," Just common
wmrklng shirts, and the speeches wcro
equally plain and sleeveless. Here Is
sample: "Gentlemen and sand hogs," said
the superintendent of shaft No. 2, "I nlvlr
made a speech In me life, but I have had
the bends. I nlver saw the Job or the man
I was afraid of. We stacked up agin a hard
Job In this tunnel. We got away with It.
We got the world's record what more do
ye wantT"
Apropos of the approaching demolition of
New York's Chinatown, It is Interesting to
know that the first Chinaman to take uv
his abode In New York, whose name Is
writ at all large In local annals, has ar
rived In a sailing ship from around the
Horn about fifteen years previous to the ad
vent of the tea store In Mott street, and
his Career had not been one to preposies
the citizens or the police In favor of his
fellow countrymen. "He wss Qulmbo
Appo," says Frank Marshall White, In
Harper's Weekly, "a man of exceptional
Intelligence, but a fiend when drunk which
waa most of the time that he was out of
prison. Hq married a white wife and killed
her, saving - hla neck by a plea of self
defense, but being sentenced to ten years'
Imprisonment. Being, as has been said, an
Intelligent man, Appo became a convert to
Christianity In the Tombs, and his con
verters secured his pardon after he hnd
served only a year or two of his sentence.
He married attain, another white woman:
attempted to kill her, and served a sentence
of one year. On his release he murdered a
Pole, and was sent to prison for five years;
and, completing his sentence, was convicted
of manslaughter for killing another white
woman and given a seven years' term, but
died Insane before It was completed. Appo
bequeathed to the state one son, a con
genital criminal, who spent most of his life
In prison, and finally died In an Insane
asylum, like his father."
The sight of several large cats rolling
around on the sidewalk In an ecstaoy of
Joy at Sixth avenue and Twenty-sixth
street the other night drew a crowd In a
few minutes. When there must have been
more than 600 persons trying to .patch a
look at tha cats a quiet looking old man
who had been standing unobserved in a
nearby doorway stepped out carrying a
bag, and, facing the crowd, began;
"Ladles and gentlemen, I have here for
sale a whole bag of catnip, and for 10 cents
will sell you enough to make your cat
happy for life. You see how these cuts
enjoy It. Well, yours ' will do the same.
These cats don't belong to me, but smelt
the catnip and are having the time of their
lives. You will have to hurry, as In fifteen
minutes more I will have all the cats In the
neighborhood around here." In a few
minutes he had sold his entire stock and
hurried out of the crowd and disappeared.
A remarkable engineering feat in under
way on Sixth avenue, between Twelfth and
Thirty-third streets, where the McAdoo
tunnel swings up town. In order to bore to
the avenue It was necessary to practically
suspend In the air the elevated railway, tha
surface railway, the street Itself and Its
many gas, sewer, water and other mains.
The elevated road, bereft of Its former
masonry props, has been lifted up bodily
by means of huge double steel girders
clamped to Its pillars, while the street, sur
face railways and mains have been shored
tip by wooden beams, erected simultaneously
with the progress of the bore. Also at the
same time a new sewerage system Is being
built and gas and water mains temporarily
displaced, awaiting the completion of the
tunnel.
"Make me up a package of tobaoeo ac
cording to the formula used by Edwin
Booth," said the man with the southern
accent.
"That is the third man who has asked
for that kind of tobacco today," said the
dealer, quoted by the Sun. "It Is strange
that people from remote parts of the coun
try as well as New Yorkers make a fad
ot buying the same brand of tobaooo that
Booth smoked. And It Isn't always the
Booth mixture that they want. I have
filed away formulas for mixing the fav
orite tobacco of many famous persons.
Smokers the country over have heard of
this collection of recipes and one feature
of every man's trip to New York Is to try
a pipeful of some big man's favorite to
bacco. In most cases the special mlxturo
Is so strong that the nerves of the average
smoker cannot stand It. He has to give
up after a few plpefuls and go back to a
popular mixture, but he has the satisfaction
of having had the experience."
A New York curio collector reports ad
unprecedented demand for false teeth.
"It Is the teeth of famous personages
deceased that are wanted," he said. "I
don't know for sure what started the boom
In artificial teeth. Ever since I have been
In this business I have had occasional re
quests from eccentric patrons for a set of
somebody's teeth, but In the last few
months Inquiries have simply poured In
concerning the teeth of" men prominent In
the last century. I am Inclined to think
that this craze for teeth has been stimu
lated by the report that Washington's
ftoJse teoth had been stolen out of a mu
seum In Baltimore." .
The outside pf a store In Broadway Just
below Twenty-third street has lately been
painted with what looks like dark tinted
gold paint; this front presents an appear
ance such as it would have If It had been
covered with gold leaf and then lacquered,
the effnet being striking and attractive, In
Broadway above Twenty-third street there
Is now a store front painted blue, and a
little further along on the great thorough
fare below Thirty-fourth street Is a hotel
well known In the city to which j alntrrs
are now applying a coat of green. It Is
easy to Imagine Broadway with all its
buildings painted in varied high colors a
cross section rainbow.
The matron of a New York home for Im
migrant girls discovered that one young
woman who had spent eight nights In the
Institution was not In reality a newcomer,
but had had several Jobs In New York.
"Why did you come here and try to pass
yourself off as an inexperienced girlT"
"So I'd get better treatment from my
next employer," said the maid. "Onsen
girls oi all nationalities are humored much
mure than girls who are supposed to be
used to New York ways. They don't have
to work so hard, because the mistress ef
the house. In breaking them In, does half
the work herself."
waii Stroet BlaCJs Failure.
Indianapolis News.
But It does seem as if Wall street ought
to have learned from the failure of thi
former made-to-order panics that It
couldn't make such bluffs go In this day of
skeptic lam.
Hit Leaks la the Tanks.
Cleveland Leader.
The market value of Standard Oil stock
has fallen nearly MOO.OOP. JOO below the high
est record ever made. That sounds terrific,
but there's over tun&fiJM Wf
An Increase of
over 25 in
To Policy Holders
Tk. Mutual Life Insurance Company
has paid more in dividends to policy holders
other company in the world. Since orCanizition
turned in dividend! over $ 118,000,000. As a rei
inr.rma.mA r-aminM snd decreased expenses t'
dividends to policy holders
1905, will be 25 to 30
The Mutual
Life Insurance
Company
r
feels sure its policy-holders will be pleased with this great re
duction in cost. The news may be doubly welcome now
when increased cost in other lines seems everywhere the
order of the day. If you have others for whose continued
care you are concerned, you should learn for yourself
how and how cheaply it
staunchest life insurance
The Time to
For the new forms
The Mutual Life
ef New
Or STANHOrE FLEMING, Manager, First National Bank Bldg.,
Corner 13th and Farnam Street, Omaha, yea.
FOR UNIVERSITY REGEXTS.
Nebraska Farmer: George Coupland an
nounces his candidacy for regent of the
Btate university under most auspicious cir
cumstances. Those who know him best
are his vouchers.
Loup City Northwestern: If Charles D.
Anderson Is elected regent, as he certainly
will be, he will be found to be broad
enough to reach over the entire state and
honest and brave enough to do right at
all times.
Dakota County Record: Charles B. An
derson of Crete Is a candidate for the re
publican nomination for regent ot the
State university, and it Is doubtful If a
better selection could be made In the
state for the office.
Lincoln News: When a man like C. B.
Anderson of Crete allows himself to be
drafted as a candidate for public office,
the voters, taxpayers and friends of educa
tion in Nebraska cannot afford to let the
opportunity for securing his services pass.
Crete Democrat: Our townsman, C. B.
Anderson, Is a candidate for nomination
for regent of the university. If elected
Mr. Anderson will bring to the board a
wide experience in business lines, an en
ergy which when applied to the manage
ment of the financial affairs of the uni
versity will have weight in the right di
rection. Nellgh Leader: The announcement that
George Coupland of this county will be
a candidate for the republican nomination
of regent of the State university has
been, graciously received by a very large
proportion of the strong and Influential
papers of the state and Is not confined to
this portion of 'Nebraska, but is pronounced
as' Well : in the more southern portions of
the state.
Grand Island Independent: Hon. Charles
B. Anderson of Crete, an ex-senator, one
of the first republicans of Nebraska to ad
vocate the present progressive policies of
the party and a closo associate of Governor
Sheldon, is a candidate for university re
gent. Every republican in the county, be
llevlnpr In the Roosevelt policies and the
Dollcles which have been In vogue during
the last State legislative assembly should
vote for Mr. Anderson at the primaries.
Ord Quiz: The consent f C. B. Anderson
of Crete to stand on the republican ticket
for the payless but very Important posi
tion of regent of the State university is
a thing that the public may congratulate
Itself over.
AMERICAN TRIALS.
Contrasts Between Criminal Pro
cedure Here and Abroad.)
, Portland Oregonlan.
A number of recent notable trials In Eng
land and Germany call attention to the
contrast between criminal procedure here
and in some foreign countries. For one
thing, they seem to, be able to get a Jury
with a good deal less expenditure of time
and trouble than it costs us. An English
Jury was secured In two minutes In a case
of the sort where our courts spend weeks
or months over the business. All parties
were satisfied and there is no complaint
that Justice was not done.
We have carried the privilege of chal
lenging Jurors to an absurd extreme. As
practiced. It benefits nobody, dt grades the
Jury system and perverts Justice. Ameri
can practice also belittles the Judge too
much. In some states he Is not permitted
to comment on the evidence or expound
the law to the Jury. He Is reduced to an
umpire, whose sole duty Is to settle dis
putes between the lawyers. In Englsnd
the Judge may examine the accused in
open court, asking any questions which he
Many newspapers copy matter from Everybody's
Magazine and give credit. This is as it should oe
and we like it
Many more copy our special articles, which we have
spent good time and money to obtain,' and modestly
credit them to "a certain" magazine that is, they use
our brains as a filler for their columns at no cost to
themselves, and when it comes to mentioning where
they got it, they suddenly become shy
ThU gives um a $harp pain '
To these one-sided admirers we wish to say that "a
certain" important article in the September Number,
by "a certain" important personage, has been pro
tected by every means known to us. Those whose
custom it is to give credit are invited to help them
selves, the others are anxiously warned to
LOOK OUT FOR THE ENGINE
Wfi EN Ttf E BElLR tfG
Dividends
New York
anjr
i re-
fly
ual
thu year, on policies issued
more thin in 1906,
in
can be guaranteed oy tna
company in the world.
Act is NOW.
of policies write to
Insurance Company
York. N. Y.
thinks will elicit the truth. Here there la
the same kind of an examination, but It Is
made by the police, sometimes with great
brutality, in a secret dungoon. Whloh Id
fairer to the prisoner?
The English prosecuting officer acknowl
edges a duty both to the state and the
prisoner. He Is as eager to free an inno
cent man as to convict the guilty. He id
esteemed for his fairness and love of Jua
tlce and the whole purpose of the trial la
to establish the truth. Here the prose
cuting officer cares only to convict and the
defense only to acquit, both equally re
gardless of Justice and the public welfare.
The trial degenerates into a duel between
the lawyers and the merit of the case re
calves but slight attention,
It In commonly said by our thoughtful
writers on Jurisprudence that we sacrlfloe
the public to the prisoner In our courts.
The fact seems rather to be that we sao
rlfle both the public and the prisoner to the
lawyers.
MEItHY JINGLES.
"Yea." said the fussy citizen.' "I have
Just ordered a patent coal bin. It looks to
me like a good thing. What do you put
your coal in?"
"The furnace," the other man sadly re
plied. Cleveland Plain Dealer,
"Gee, wllllklnst" exclaimed Farmer Kqrn
top, after listening to the story, "he must
be a regular dead beat."
"Huh!" snorted the victim, "he's a blame
sight worsu'n that. He's a live one,"-
I'iiiladelpUia Jfress.
Customer Have you any tartar emetic
Druggist's Boy (rummaging through the
shelves) No, sir, but we've got something
Just as bud. Chicago Tribune,
"He doesn't seem to have any business
sense." '
v'iNo, He'd try to sell safety razors at
negro dance." Chicago Record-Herald.
Mrs. Goodheart So you won't chop the
wood?
The Hobo No, lady. I'm a kleptomaniac
I'm afraid I might steal some of it. Har
per's Weekly.
"Mankind," moralized Unole Allen Sparks.
"Is made up of good men, fair to medium
men, plain sinners, desrate sl-ners, aban
doned criminals, and the man who sits op.
poslte you at a restaurant table iuid coughs
at you," Chicago Tribune.
"His wife writes from a summer resort
that she has seen the great sea serpent,
"That's nothing. Kver since she and her
mother left he has been seeing twenty
snakes to their one." Atlanta Constitution.
THE WAN WITH THE CHIP.
Baltimore American.
He always had something to grumble
about,
Had this man with a chip on hla about
dcr; . .
The world to the dogs was going, no dmrht.
To the mail with a chip on his shoulder.
Nobodv was honest, nobody was square.
He found traits to "do" hlra were laid
everywhere;
Nobodv he met with would deal with hint
fair,
Thought the man with the chip on W
shoulder.
He looked out for trouble as farmers) to
rain.
The man with the chip on his shoulder!
He searched every pleasure to find bidden
pain, :
The man with a chip on hla shoaMer.
The clouds were too dark or the sun was)
too bright,
No matter what happened, it never was
right; .
When peace was prevailing he spoiled farm
fight.
The man with a chin on his shoulden,
The deed might be right, but he thougtz
motive wrong.
The man with a chip on his shoulder;
He was sure right and honor were bought
for a song.
The man with a chip on his shoulder.
He thinks he's the champion mankind moat
needs.
That the world Is dependent on him an4
his deeds;
But he' ti") worst pest that sooietg
breds
Thu man with a chip on his shoulden
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