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THE OMAIIA DAILY BEE: : THURSDAY, FEPTEMrmR 12, 1D07.
The Omaha Daily IJee.
FOUNDED UX EDWARD ROSEWATEH.
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STATEMENT OP CIRCULATION,
ftate of Nebraska, Douglas county, hs:
George B. Txschnek, treasurer of rne
Heo Publishing Company, being duly
sworn, says that the actual number of
full and complete eople of The Dally
Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed
during the month of August, 107, tvai as
follows:
1... 38,750 17 36,640
2 38,940 it 38,800
3 37,040 1 37 130
4 36,900 20 37,000
6 37,440 21 36,640
6 l.. 36,830 2 36,390
7....;,.. 36,700 23. .1 36,980
t 38,680 94 36,950
9 36,600' IS.. 36,600
10 36,830 26 38,780
11 39,560 27 30,880
12 37,940 29 36 480
13 37,110 29 36.600
14 36,700 80 86,540
15 38,770 tl 36,140
1 36,850
Total 1,138,330
Leas unsold and returned copies. 11,348
Net total 1,188,374
Dally average 38,354
GEO. B. TZSCHUCK.
Treasurer.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before me this 31st day of August, 1907.
(Seal) M. B. HUNOATE,
Notary Public
WHEN OUT OF TO WW.
Subscribers learlng the city tea.
1-ornrlly should bare The Be
mulled to them. Address will b
i tinnifeit aa often as requested.
liven the hay fever crop Is reported
.ittlo short this year.
A fuel truBt has been discovered In
au Francisco. It's a burning shame.
The end seat hog Is dreaming of
.no day when he will move up next to
ho stove.
The more Colonel " Bryan thinks
uucut Secretary Taft's speeches the
-iou he likes them.
Somehow the country is bearing up
remarkably well under the reported
famine of Teddy bears. -
Kermlt Roosevelt complains that he
is being pestered to death by the girls.
Kermlt will outgrow that
Dramatic critics are already making
light of Mr. Hackett'a stage produc
tion of "The House of a Thousand
Candles,"
Physicians attending that Baltimore
man who swallowed a live frog ex
press fears that he is liable to croak at
uuy minute. ,-
"The tide of democracy Is setting
on strong," says Colonel Bryan. Too
early. It will be sure to ebb before
election day.
It is practically nettled that Chi
cago will have to worry along with
but one base ball championship for
the next year.
- J. Edward Addlcks is talking about
running for governor of Delaware.
The report that he was bankrupt was
evidently exaggerated.
"How can we get good official serv
ice?" asks the New York World. One
way, never tried in New York, is to
put better men in office.
Colonel Bryan calls Secretary Taft
"The Great Postponer." The secre
tary might retort that Colonel' Bryan
Is "The Great Postponed."
An Italian poet who won 110,000 in
a lottery promises to quit writing
verse. That's the best argument yet
'advanced in favor of the lottery!
! J. Edward Addlcks of Delaware is
booming Secretary Cortelyou for the
presidency. Mr. Cortelyou has done
eothing to merit that kind of luck.
, Tho chestnut crop ' is reported a
failure this year. Still the consoling
thought Is left that .when you don't
cat chestnut you don't eat worms.
American yachts are winning vic
tories in Spain. . American boats got
the habit of showing their superiority
over Spanish ships nearly ten years
ngo.
Ex-Governor Taylor Intimates that
if It is all, the same to Kentucky he
would rather use the long-distance
telephone in testifying In the Caleb
Powers case.
A poll of republican editors in Kan
sas shows 159 for . Taft, nineteen for
LaFollette, six for Cannon, four for
Fairbanks and two for Root. The
Knox boom has been delayed in tran
alt.
The resumption of prize fighting at
San Francisco will cast a suspicion on
the character of the reform achieved
la lu municipal government by the
susting of the grafters. If San Fran
cisco wants to keep a good name it will
iuv to cut prize fighting out.
COAL TRUST KXTORTIOX-
The Anthracite Coal trust has started
trouble in Pennsylvania by raising the
price to consumers in Philadelphia to
$7.25 a ton, which in former years has
usually ranged from $6.50 to $6. The
commercial bodies of the City of Broth
erly Love have taken a hand and the
courts are to be asked to grant relief,
the petitioners asserting that the in
crease is due to a combination of mine
operators, railroads and retail dealers
to rob the public. The coal operators
make little argument in support of the
Increased price, except that they own
the anthracite, the supply of which is
growing rapidly less each year and
that they are not anxious to dispose of
the product, even at the high price
asked.
The investigation of conditions in
Philadelphia has produced some In
formation interesting to western buy;
ers of anthracite. The price paid for
anthracite at the mines is fixed, as It
has been for some years, at $3 a ton,
and the difference between $3 and the
retail price Is the amount paid to the
railroads and the dealers. In Omaha,
Pennsylvania anthracite retails at
$10.60 a ton, a margin of $7.50 a ton
between the cost at the mines and the
cost to the consumer. It requires some
hardihood on the part of the railroads
to deny that this is Hot, an exorbitant
freight charge, but the companies have
been successful, up to, date. In main
taining whatever prices they have de
cided to establish.
The coal roads of Pennsylvania own
and operate the anthracite mines of
the state. This was established clearly
in the hearings before the commission
appointed by President Roosevelt to
settle the coal strike three years ago.
Under the federal rate law passed by
the last congress, such companies were
given until May, 1908, to dispose of
these holdings, after which date rail
roads must confine themselves to the
transportation business, carrying only
such commodities of their own as are
intended for their own use. This
means that the railroads shall not
hereafter engage In mining, lumbering
or any other business in competition
with other concerns. The hope for a
reduction of the price of anthracite
lies in the breaking up of the combina
tion by which the railroads which own
the mines maintain a monopoly of the
anthracite trade by controlling every
means of taking the coal to market.
speaker CAxyoy oy guard.
Some close friends of the president
are disposed to see a veiled threat in
Speaker Cannon's recent utterances
about what the course of congress
should be at the coming session. In a
number of interviews, apparently given
for a purpose, Speaker Cannon has in
sisted that congress must take no
action to "upset business conditions"
on the eve of a presidential campaign.
He has made It plain that he is in fa
vor of a "go slow" policy on new legis
lation and he has been quoted as de
claring that if he is re-elected speaker
he will see to it that no tariff bill is
enacted or provided for at the coming
session. ' ' , ' '
It Is well known that the president
will propose a mass of important legis
lation for congress next winter. His
recommendations' will go into the sub
ject of over-capitalization of railroads,
valuation of railway property, national
incorporation for concerns doing an
Interstate business , and other legisla
tion looking to the increase of the fed
eral power in corporation afTalrs, with j
more severe penalties for law violators.
The speaker, on the other hand, has
not hesitated to say that ha Is against
some of the more important features
of the president's anti-trust program
and that, so far as possible, he will en
deavor to confine congressional activ
ities to consideration of appropriation
bills and other routine matters, de
ferring action on the president's fur
ther railway and corporation legisla
tive propositions.
The secret of Mr. Cannon's attitude
probably lies in his desire to be pre
pared to meet the president, should the
latter make any tariff revision recom
mendations in bis message to congress.
It is well known that President Roose
velt and Speaker Cannon have never
been in real harmony on this issue. It
is generally understood that the presi
dent, who la admittedly-in favor of
tariff revision, has ' withheld recom
mendations to that end because he con
sidered railway, and trust legislation
as more important. He has had the
support of Speaker Cannon in all this
important legislation, it is believed, in
return for holding tariff revision in
abeyance. This strained harmony be
tween the president and thei speaker
has embraced a lot of important mat
ters, but an open rupture Is predicted
if the president takes any decisive
steps at the coming session looking to
a revision of the tariff. Speaker Can
non will hardly take action Until the
president's message has been submit
ted to congress, but if that document
demands the appointment of a tariff
commission, or an early consideration
of the tariff schedules, it is predicted
that the speaker will use his large
powers to block varlcus measures upon
which the president Is determined.
The new congress will be largely re
publican and composed of members
elected upon Mr. Roosevelt's platform,
so the speaker, if he decides to oppose
any of the important policies of the
president, will have a big job on his
hands Still, he is something of a
fighter himself and knows how far he
can go in opposing the president. The
speaker has an m inexorable machine
and few members care to get in
the way of It. Mr, tCannon has never
lost absolute control of the house. In
any fight, and never a control that
was fairly effective or lasting. Still,
he would find himself coudo .tei with
a new condition should he try to pre
vent legislation favored by the presi
dent, especially if the people generally
asserted themselves for the Roosevelt
program.
MORE XKW SECUMlTlES.
While some captains of Industry in
the east have been, complaining bit
terly about an alleged stringency in
the money market, the records show
an output of new securities from Jan
uary 1 to date aggregating about
$500,000,000 in excess of the same
period of last year. Tha total to Sep
tember 10 amounted to $1,667,168,600,
compared with $1,150,971,214 for last
year. Of course, all these securities
have not been placed, the record show
ing that $1,000,000,000 of the new
issues have been placed upon the mar
ket, thus constituting an enormous
demand against the available supply
of capital In the country. It is sig
nificant that the securities offered
amounted in face value to just about
what Secretary Wilson predicts will
be the gain in tho value of American
farm products over last year.
The railroads have been the great
est producers of new securities, the
total authorized by them to September
10 being $1,284,346,600, as compared
with $372,821,900 Issued by the In
dustrial organizations. The exhibit is
rather remarkable, refuting, as it does,
the claim that railroads are not able to
secure funds needed for betterments.
The fact that about 80 per cent of the
new Issues have been placed and that
the market is improving should tend
to relieve apprehension about the ex
tent of the financial reaction so loudly
proclaimed by the speculators.
1KVJTINO UORE TROUBLE.
The appeal of the allied railroads
of Nebraska to the federal courts for
an Injunction to prevent the State
Railway commission from issuing or
ders for reduced rates on grain trans
portation is in line with the well
known policy of the railroads to con
cede nothing to the public, except un
der compulsion.
The Nebraska law defining the pow
ers and duties of the State Railway
commission provides procedure by
which the railroads could have a hear
ing before the board and any action
at which they might be aggrieved
could be brought before the state
courts by way of appeal. The rail
road lawyers, however, figure the fed
eral courts to be more friendly to their
point of view and are determined not
to submit to state authority until after
trying every possible means of escape
from it
The railroad managers and their
lawyers may have convinced them
selves that this method of dealing with
the public is the correct one, but we
believe they will find themselves mis
taken before they are through. They
are simply Inviting more trouble and
Instead of trying to get together with
the representatives of the people they
are defying them and endeavoring to
precipitate a conflict between state and
federal governments. But there will
be no serious conflict, although the
solution of the problem may be de
layed because the federal government
can and will be made to respond to
the popular demand In these matters
just as It was mado to respond to the
popular demand for the federal rate
law a year ago.
same old qratt.
An editorial article in the Chicago
Tribune indicates that other places are
getting ready to follow the lead set
here by The Bee in stopping sheriff's
Jail-feeding graft worked as a perquis
ite of office. Over In Cook county the
game has evidently been played to the
limit. "It is the custom of sheriffs,"
we are told, "to insist that the county
board shall contract to pay them a
specified daily sum for each prisoner.
Whenever the county board suggests
that the sheriff should render Dills
giving the exact cost of food provided
he demurs. After the board has been
forced to allow him so many cents a
day for feeding each prisoner he sets
his mind to feeding his boarders as
cheaply as he can, so that there may
be the largest possible margin of profit.
When the sheriff buys groceries for
jail use from a firm In which he Is in
terested he makes an additional profit
out of his boarding house. Where
there are from 500 to 600 people to be
fed a small dally profit on each of
them amounts to a good deal at the
end of the year. A sheriff who Is not
satisfied with that can increase the
sum by farming out the privilege of
selling to prisoners tobacco and other
articles."
With a few minor corrections this
description would fit Douglas county
exactly, as the jail feeding was con
ducted previous to the enactment of a
new law by the last legislature. It is
gratifying to know that we have been
doing some pioneering in reform here
In Omaha. The solution reached here
Is to let the Jail feeding by contract,
thus giving the sheriff no advantage
over any other competitor, the specifi
cations for quantity and quality of
food furnished being made by the
county board and incorporated into
the contract. The Nebraska law put
ting an end to the jail-feeding graft is
the result of agitation and personal
effort on the part of The Bee and its
editor.
The appointment by Governor Shel
don of Charles B. Anderson to fill a
vacancy in the Board of University
Regents left by the resignation of
Judge Calkins in his transfer to the
unpAma rt Mmmlimlnn im nt i
create complications. The difficulty
j arises from the facl that the filling of
j this xucancy was included In the
! pio'.'luiuatlon enumerating the offices
for which nominations were to be
made at the direct primary and a so
cialist candidate filed and secured an
unopposed nomination, which nomina
tion would ordinarily be equivalent to
an election. Should anyone other
than Mr. Anderson poll a majority of
the votes for this office in November
he would be entitled to a certificate of
election Immediately after the canvass
of the returns, which would dispossess
the new appointee until the regular
term beginning in January.
Omaha entertained the big circus
with all its crowds and camp followers
with complete freedom from the
pocket-picking and petty thieving
which usually follows in the wake of
the big show. People are too apt to
take this as a matter of course when,
in fact, it is to be credited to the effi
cient police protection. The same cir
cus showing In Lincoln the preceding
Saturday was followed by a perfect
shower of complaints of . missing
pocketbooks and valuables.
A lot of county clerks scattered
throughout Nebraska must be decid
edly indifferent to their official duties
or flagrantly Incompetent. That is
the only explanation that can be given
for the unusual delay in completing
the canvass of the primary election
held a week ago. The secretary of
state should make a memorandum of
the delinquents and give them special
instructions between now and the No
vember election.
Members of political and social clubs
may expect to have their dues raised
when the police board edict requiring
liquor licenses for club buffets goes
into effect Clubs that take out li
censes will have to raise $1,000 and
clubs that do not take out licenses will
have to make good the loss of revenue
due to withdrawals of those who be
long simply for the sideboard privi
leges. An inferior court In Philadelphia
has given the Pennsylvania railroad a
decision to the effect that enforced 2
cent farea are confiscatory and uncon
stitutional. The decision will cut no
figure in any other state or Jurisdic
tion. It is notorious that the Penn
sylvania railroad has only to ask a
Philadelphia court for anything it
wants to get it delivered, charges pre
paid, Nebraska corn is sized up by the
statisticians of the Department of Ag
riculture at' Vashragtonks well above
the ten-year averag. for condition on
September 1, although, quite a .little
lower than that of last- year. With
prices at present' level, however, the
Nebraska farmer will cash in ahead
of his average,
The Panama ! -canal is about, one
tenth finished, at a cost of $130,000,
000. Nearly $1,000,000 of that amount,
however, was ' spent n sanitation,
buildings and , preliminary , work, but
there Is little hope that the enterprise
will be completed within the original
estimate of $250,000,000.
"We are now asking for the regula
tion of the railroads," said Mr. Bryan
in a speech at Cincinnati. Mr. Bryan
must have been too busy to read the
papers or he would not be asking for
something already in hand.
Although the identity of the fusion
candidate for supreme Judge has not
yet been definitely, disclosed, the local
democratic organ ihas started out to
play safe by pummeling the repub
lican nominee.
English clergymen refuse to marry
a man to his deceased wife's sl3ter, re
gardless of the act of Parliament
authorizing it. The deceased wife's
sister is still a live subject.
Governor Hughes is still making his
tour of the county fairs in New York
state, appearing between the judging
of the prize Herefords and the 2:16
trotting race.
Patter from the rot.
New York World.
Why should Mr. Bryan gibe at Secretary
Taft as the "Great Postponer." when after
playing tha itinerant teacher of government
ownership of railroads be tries to save his
face by explaining that It Is not an Im
mediate but an ultimate issue?
I'aworthy of -the Times.
Baltimore American.
The latest form of corporate Imposition
Is the proposal that has aroused sleepy
Philadelphia. The people are protesting
against a reduction In car farea on the
ground that It would necessitate carrying
pennies In these days of nickel-plated pros
perity. America's VamUhln Forests.
Springfield Republican.
Lumbermen from various parts of the
United States gather In Philadelphia. A
man from Georgia speaks. If he tells the
truth, a great national disaster Is Impend
ing. "At present there Is a shortage In the
supply of lumber," he says, "but the worst
Is to come. Unless some miracle happens
and forests spring up over night, the lum
ber supply of this country .will be ex
hausted within ten years."
Better Business Conditions.
Pittsburg Post.
It is becoming clearer every day that the
campaign against corporation dishonesty Is
having excellent effects. The efforts of the
Wall street speculators to create general
panicky conditions have failed. The people
know that the foundation of the country's
prosperity are solid. They also know that
the speculators had kooratd many corpor
ation stocks to points away above their
full value. These storks have now fallen
to nearly .what they are worth. The people
are only waiting to see whether the cor
poration magnates are really In future go
ing to obey the law, and when they are
convinced that they are doing ao they will
again be ready to Invest. Meanwhile tha
tide of wild speculation which would In the
end have carried business ruin has been
' chocked and all wise and honest financiers
, agree this Is a good thing and means
greater and more sul stantial proj.-erH In
1 U.e cot distant future
blib KinnoN of Tin: sea.
Importance of the Maiden Voyage of
th w Ocean Flyer.
Should the hopes of Its builders and the
predictions of admirers be realised, tho
new Cunard Lusltanla should pass Bandy
Hook, at the entrance of New York har
bor, early Friday morning. Five days
from Queenstown to Sandy Hook Is the
maximum time of the trip predicted by
the builders. The Lusltanla sailed from
Queenstown at 12:11 p. m. Sunday. Al
lowing for the difference In time between
Queenstown and New York, aa computed
by the Cunard line, the new ocean grey
hound' must pass Sandy Hook not later
than 7 a. m. Friday to fulfill the prophecy
of a five days' trip. Any gain over that
time means all the more credit for the
builders and owners, some of whom pre
dict a four days' voyage when the steam
ship machinery Is toned up by use.
The maiden trip of the latest triumph
of marine architecture excites keen Inter
national Interest. Longer, broader and
deeper than any ship yet built, and with
vastly greater power, the performance of
the Lusltanla Is of deep concern to Great
Britain, which has been overshadowed by
the product of German shipyards. Accom
panied by the Lucanla, of the same line,
considered a dozen years ago the limit In
size and speed of ocean-going steamships,
tho Lusltanla Is expected to distance Its
consort and make a new record of ocean
speed. To the engineering world the trial
trip Is of even greater Interest, Inasmuch
as It comprehends a test of the turbine
system of steam power, applied for the
first time on large steamers. The engines
and boilers are capable of producing 70,
000 horsepower , and have driven the
Lusltanla to a speed of twenty-fire and
one-half knots an hour during the build
ers' trial. To develop Its full power re
quires 1,(00 tons of coal per day. On the
present trip the Lusltanla carries nearly
2,000 passengers, a crew of 688 and several
thousand tons of supplies.
The Cunard company took a firm grip
on transatlantic supremacy In 1888. when It
brought out the famous Etrurla, which Is
still plying in the regular New York ser
vice of the line. It lowered the record
to 6 days, 4 hours, and 43 minutes, relates
the New York Post. But It held the
bluo ribbon only, two years, another Cun
arder, the Umbrla, coming along and mak
ing the record 6 days, 4 hours, and 42
minutes. The next year the Etrurla re
gained Its lost laurels amid great public
acclaim, putting the figures at 6 days, 1
hour, and 65 minutes.
It was an American lino that first brought
out the five-day boat, the City 'of Par's.
It is true It was built in a British ship
yard and sailed by British seamen under
the flag of Great Brltlan. But at lonat
American capital was responsible for its
production, and such being the c.-ise, there
Is satisfaction for patriots, sorry as the
source may be. In any event. In 1S89, the
City of Paris crossed the ocean In S days,
19 hours, and 18 minutes.
Again the Englishmen entered the Hl
this time launching thoss two riagntftu'iit
steamships. Judging even from tho stsnd
polnt of today, Lucanla and Campania.
It 1893, the Campania took the record away
from tho Ciyt of Paris, now the American
liner Philadelphia, with a passage of 5
days, 12- hours, 7 minutes. Its sister in
1894 established a record of fi days, 7 hours,
23 minutes.
In the meantime, over the Southampton
course, which la about 8,184 miles, whereas
the Llverpool-Queenstown course is con
siderably shorter, 2,800 miles, the Hamburg
American liner Furst Bismarck in 1S91 made
a record of 6 days, 14 hours, and
16 minutes. In 1S94, the pair of Ameri
can built, American designed steamships
St. Paul and St. Louis were placed in the
Southampton-Cherbourg service, and 1897
the St. Paul reduced the time to 8 days,
no hours, 31 minutes a record which
stood until the fleet Kaiser' Welhclm der
Grosse of the North German Lloyd line
later reduced tho time to 6 days 17 hours,
and 8 minutes. This vessel later made
the time to Southampton 6 days and 20
hours.
In 1300 the great Hamburg-American flyer
Deutschland uppeared. The product of the
Vulcan Iron Works of Stettin, carrying
with it all the hopes of German supremacy,
it started from Plymouth for New York
on Its maiden voyage In July, 1900, and
lowered the record to 5 days 14 hours 23
minutes. It made an average speed of 3
knots an hour over a course of 3,085 miles.
No merchant vessel had ever before at
tained an average speed of more than 22
and a fraction knots. In September, 1900,
the Deutschland went from New York to
Plymouth In 5 days 7 hours 38 minutes, a
record the North German Lloyd line ha
always disputed, maintaining that the
Kaiser Wllhelin II, over a longer course. In
June, 1904, made the Journey from New
York to Flymouth, 2,9fi2 miles, In 5 days
11 hours 58 minutes, averaging 23.58 knots
an hour. However, no one high In the
transatlantic councils has ever evinced any
desire to tear from the Deutschland Us
laurels.
But In their hearts the British, as well as
all the rest of the world, appreciated the
full value of speed, as a war asset, if not a
commercial necessity. And so, while the
German waged their battle fiercely, while
the shipbuilders of Stettin strained over
the problem of drawing a fraction of a knot
extra speed out of their reciprocating en
gines, the English turned their attention to
the turbine. Inspired by the success of
that little British warship Turblna, marina
engineers and designers of London, Liver
pool, the Clyde and elsewhere spent their
days In experiments, their nights In evolv
ing new ideas, until at last, under direct
governmental encouragement of tha most
substantial sort, and after trials with river
and channel vessels, and, later, with war
ships, the Cunard liners Carmanla and
Caronla were evolved.
They but led the way for the Lusltanla
and Mauretanla, upon which boats the tur
bine system will stand or fall. If It proves
a successful system of propulsive power, In
a large sense, which la to say, in a sense
adequate to meet the demand of a vessel of
the size of the Lusltanla, embodying, as It
does, all the aspirations and most modern
achievements of the British mechanical
mind, If its turbines prove a success, Brit
ish shipbuilders will be again in advance
of all the world.
Tha Difference.
Kansas City Times. '
Secretary Taft denounced republican
bosses and the republican machine in an
Ohio election, regardless of the Immediate
Interests of his party at the polls. When
the secretary went to Oklahoma he advised
the republicans to vote against the proposed
constitution of the new state even at the
risk of delaying statehood. Mr. Bryan Is
not that kind of a party man. He Is in
the habit of advising democrats to "vote
the ticket straight, from top to bottom."
In Oklahoma he urges the adoption of the
faulty constitution and the election of the
democratic nominee for governor.
What's the I set
Philadelphia Record.
Dr. Wiley Is predicting that, as a result
of avoiding all the foods he holds to be
deleterious, the age of 70 will become the
average Instead of the exceptionally long
Ufa. But what Is the use of living to be
70 if the president thinks a naval officer la
superannuated at 50 and the big corpora
tions are retiring their old men and taking
on only young ones, and even the ministers
of the gospel complain that after W they
can't gel congregations ? j
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A. Piano is
Fifty years ago pianos were luxuries.
They were considered as much of an
extravagance as a very expensive paint
ing or the valuable work of a famous
sculptor.
Those families who owned them
were looked upon as being able to af
ford lavish expenditures.
But now how different. Today the
homes which do not have pianos are
known to lack a necessity.
And what is it that has brought
about this change? One reason Is tho
decrease in the cost, of production; a
better piano may be bought today 101
$150 than could possibly be fifty years
ago for a thousand.
But the expense is not the chief
cause. There is a better reason, t,u
that has been made by the rapid ad
vance of civilization. And this Is it
the necessity for music in the home.
Day was when music had no part in
the education of a child. It was con
sidered superfluous, to be desired, of
course, but not required. Now young
men and especially young women who
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Postmaster Edward M. Morgan of New
York City affords an exceptional example
of promotion for merit. The head of
Uncle Sam's biggest postofftce entered the
service In 1873 as a carrier and has worked
his way up.
Lord Brampton, formerly the famous
criminal Judge, Sir Henry Hawkins, tho
man who presided over the famous Tlch
bourne case and later tried and sentenced
Mrs. Maybrlck, has just retired on a pen
sion at the age of 90 years.
Conrad Albertl Slttenfeld, editor of the
Berliner Morgenpost, Is writing Interesting
letters to his paper from German East
Africa. His latest communication was
written at Dar-es-8alaam, tho pretty capi
tal city on the Indian ocean, Mr. Albertl,
as the novelist and newspaper man Is
known In the German literary world, ac
companied Prince Henry on his visit to
this country and made many friends.
Edwin Walter Sims, upon whose motion
the rebate case against the Chicago &
Alton road was postponed for three weeks
In Judge Landls' court. Is United States
district attorney for the northern district of
Illinois. He also has been special attorney
for the bureau of corporations at Wash
ington and solicitor of the Department of
Commerce and Labor. In 190O-'02 he was
county attorney of Cook county. Mr. Sims
was born In Hamilton, Ont, In 1K70, and
waa educated in the public schools of
Detroit and Bay City, Mich. He received
his legal education In the University of
Michigan, and In 1894 he was admitted to
the bar. Previously he had served as re
porter, editor or special correspondent for
papers In Detroit and elsewhere.
BRYAN AS A TAFT CRITIC.
Difference Between the Outspoken
and the Straddle.
New York World (Ind. dem.)
Replying to Mr. Bryan's sneer that he Is
"the Great Poatponer," Secretary Taft dis
cussed the question of tariff revision with
the utmost frankness In his Tacoma speech:
"With respect to the tariff I was in favor
of revision last year, and I am still In favor
of revision; but I am a party man, and I
realize the lack of wisdom and the danger
both to the party and the country of at
tempting a revision of the tariff In a presi
dential campaign. I am convinced that the
republican party as a party will come to a
revision of the tariff Immediately after tho
next presidential election, and I am In
favor of practical results, not of theories
and platforms. If it cannot be done this
year I am In favor of doing It next year."
Whatever Inconsistency may appear In
Secretary Taft's attitude toward tariff re
vision, the William Jennings Bryan who
as a candidate for president suppressed
the tariff question in two campaigns In
order to conciliate the silver republican
vote Is hardly the person to taunt him
with It.
Furthermore, if the question of a re
vision of the tariff by William H. Taft or
a revision of the tariff by William J. Bryan
were submitted to the American peoplo,
can there be the slightest doubt as to how
they would decldef
OUR FALL STYLES FOR MEN
OR forty
KING & COMPANY have been
making Clothing for Men and
Boys each year improving on
every other year's product.
Nothing so wholly satisfactory
as this season's garments has ever been
offered before to the public a public
whose judgment in good clothes has de
veloped with the great advances in the
art of tailoring.
As to the Autumn styles, there are
these points to be noted: our Sack Coats
are not cut so low in front. The ex
tremes of the Summer styles were as
open as the evening dress waistcoat.
And the skirt of the Sack Coat is dis
tinctly shorter and with no vent.
This is new and a proof of newness.
When you buy a new suit, see that it looks it.
Our Fall and Winter Suits and Overcoats for lien,
Boys and Children are now ready for institution.
Browning, ICing & Co
E. S. WILCOX, Manager.
NOW'
a Necessity
are ignorant of the prcat art when
they Touch their majority are under a
handicap.
Therefore tho piano Is a necessity.
If you have children you should Insist
that they begin tc lenrn to play at
once. If you haven't a Piano, buy one.
Don't think you can't afford om for
you can. If you come to the A. Hospo
music store you will find this out.
Every instrument we sell Is markeu
with one price and because we do not
pny them we save you the profits of
tho commission takers.
Remember, you can buy a piano hero
either for cash or a little down and si
few dollars a month with Interest at '
per cent per annum.
In no other store is It possible to
buy so good a piano as low as the ones
we sell for $125.. $145. $165. $190
and $225. Pay as little as $6 monthly.
We are factory distributers for
Kranlch & Bach, Krakauer, Kimball.
Bush & Lane, Cable Nelson, Melville
Clark, Hallet & Davis, Cramer, etc.,
etc. Positively one price and always
the lowest.
BIEItHY JINC.LEi.
"In the course of time." said the motor
ist, "Urn automobile will have completely
superseded the home."
"Mavbe so," answered Farmer Corntosnel.
"But It s mv guess that there'll ulwuys bi
enouRh horses kep' around to tot folks
back heme when the marhlnery breaks or
the gusolino gives out." Washington Star.
The Man How old Is your parrot?
Thu Woman Tell tho gentleman how old
you are, Polly.
The Parrots-Shut upl
The Woman Oh, shame, Pollyl Tell the
gentleman how old you are.
The Parrot -hut up!
Tho Man A female parrot, I presume.
Yonkors Statesman.
"She never fpeoks unkindly of anybody,"
said one woman, "yet people dislike her."
"Yes," answered the other; "when they
go to her with unkind stories about other
people they resent her lack of sympathy."
Washington Star.
First Turtle Grandma Is nearly 400 years
old and has lost all her teeth.
Second Turtle Well, then, she has a soft
snap. Life.
"What do you think of this custom of
throwing rl e after newly married couples? '
"I don't think there lam grain of sense
In It." Baltimore American.
Charitable Visitor Is your husband any
help to you? -
Mrs. Pooi lv Yes, Indeed. He is fixing up
the stove for me, so 1 ran dry the washing
I take In this winter. Milwaukee Journal.
SCHOOL, DAYS.
W. J. Lampton, In New York World.
Hello, there, kids '
Ain't you rind
For tho good time you've had.
And don't you think
School is on thfl blink?
Of course you do; .
You wouldn't bo true
To youi selves If
You dlfln't want to hit It a biff,
And kick It in tho pants.
And knock Its chance
To get its hooks
Into you for the books.
That's your style
But hold Lp awhllo
And think;
Wouldn't you be silnk
. . If you had no sohools to teach .
You how to reach
For thn highest und best things?
To give you wines
To fly with above those who crawl
All over this terrestrial ball?
Do you want to dig
And live like a pig?
Or do you want totny
And live, on pie,
Anil pull tho plug
In a big red chug-chug?
Say.
Are you built that way
Or the other? Do yuu want
The crown of effort or Us croas?
Its gain or loss?
What?
You want the hot
8tuff?
That's enough!
Get after your books!
Slick to them all day,
And things, by and by,
Will bo coming your way.
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You don't need a special knit mop cloth,
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years BROWNING,