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TIIE OMAIIA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY,- SEPTEMBER 20, 1907. The. Omaha Daily Bee FOUNDED 8V EDWARD R08KWATEA vicron ttbste water, editor. Entered at Omaha Fostofuce as second class matter. i TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. felly Hee (without 8un0ay, on ysar-14 l4ljr He and Bunds y, on year J.OT Sunday He, one year J Saturday h, one year VW DELIVERED BV CARRIER. rajly lie (Including Sunday), per eeK..15e Illy Hee (without Sunday), per week. 10c Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week Jc Evening Bee (with Sunday), per week... Wo Addreaa all complaints of Irregularities In dullvrry te City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Hee Building. Bouth Omaha rity Hall Building. Council Bluff a IS Brott Street. Chicago 1640 Unity Building. ?w Tork-iyw Home Mfe Insurance Bdg. Washington Ml PVmrteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. V Communications relating to news and edi torial matter should be addressed. Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit bj( draft. express or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Onlr 2-oent stamps received In pay""""1 or mall account. Peraonal checka. except tin Omaha, -or easfrn exchange, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCUTATION. ' State of Nebraska, Douglas county, . George B. Tsschurk. treaeurer of rne Bee Publishing Company, being duly morn, says that the actual number or full and complete coplet of The paT Morning;, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during tha month of August, 1107, wm as ro i loirs 1. 8S.7SO 17 86.840 t ae.t40 il 30300 I.'. 87,040 1 87 i30 3S,0O SO 7,000 , 17,440 11 30,640 C t 38,830 22 30,390 T .; '36,700 - SI 88,980 I ' 86,800 24 36,950 I J.. : 36.4MO ' 28 33,600 10 88,839 it 38,790 11 35,660 27. 86,880 12 37,340 21. 86 480 II 37,110 21 86,800 14 86,700 10 36,640 II 36,770' II. 86,140 15 36,860 Total 1,138,320 Less unsold and returned coplea. 11,348 Net total... tally a stage 1,136,374 36,384 GEO. B. TZSCHUCK, Treasurer. Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before ma this 81st day of August, 1107. (Baal) M. B. HUNGATE, '.. Notary Public. WBBJT OUT OS TOWN. Babeerlbers leaving the elty t aerarlly shoal, ksrs The Bra aaalleal t then. Addreaa will ls change, aa oft aa reeaestea. , It Is too bad Robert Fulton Is not in position to tell us what he thinks, of the Lusitanla. "Americans eat too much - meat," says Dr.vYlleys That fault will be remedied as prices go higher. Minneapolis has also voted down a new charter proposition, following In the wake of Chicago. It must be catching. ... , , " , ' Senator Beverldge declares be would rather talk to his wife than to all the world, and the world Is offering no re monstrance. '..'The automobile owners of Pitts burg have gun6 fepe'ea crazy," eays the Washington Star. Trying to get out of Pittsburg t The president, of Franco has bought an oval billiard table. A man in his position ought to be satisfied to play the game on the square'. ' Fashion may have outlawed straw hats on 8ptember-l, but the weather Bttn has reversed the decision and sent the hat back for a new trial. Mrs. , Annie Besant, theosophlst leader, Bays she hopes-the American people understand her. They do, but they have no idea what she means. Word from Lincoln says they are seriously considering the question of erecting a brewery there under the shadow of the university. Wo don't believe it. SenatoV Eailey complains that he has been misquoted by the press. Naturally, the newspapers would not dare print all the things Bailey has been saying. ' . . , The story of a pretty girl at Cleve land being arrested for stealing rings does not Bound right. . A pretty girl ought to be able to get r'.ags without stealing them. The only change in the styles of men's clothing this year will be a little more room in the chest measurements for the coats designed for the Ne braska farmers. Vancouver wants to send 800 Hin doos to the Canadian capital as a liv ing petition for an exclusion law for Asiatics. There's a job for General Jacob 8. Coxey. In distributing commissions for his military staff Governor Sheldon seems to have evinced a peculiar leaning to ward dry goods men. Yet it is not to be inferred that the staff has any chronic aversion to wet goods. The democratic party In Nebraska and the nation has been distinguished for many years by lta foresight. World-Herald. Substitute for the word "foresight" the' word "hindsight" and the sen tence will more closely accord with the truth. Rev Mr. Parkhurst declares that Roosevelt is "too autocratic," Taft Is "a 'trimmer," Bryan "a failure" and Hearst "a frost." He wants a "good, strong, new man" elected to the presl dency. it- is possible that he is com mitted to Colonel Watterson'a dark horse. Representative Leader has Just been gold-watched in recognition of his suc cessful efforts In securing the enact ment of the double-shift firemen's law and is said to have been so deeply af fected that bo con Id scarcely reply. He never was affected that way down at 79 THIS MR. LOOMIHt Well, this editor Is for Judge Reese for the, supreme bench and la agulnst Loomls; In fact, would have been against Loomls under any conditions, for he la the rankest kind of a railroad tool. Tha writer served in the legislature with Loomls and knows whereof he Speaks. These are bad times for men of Loomls' sort to run for office In Nebraska. Schuyler Free Lance. This extract from the Schuyler Free Lance Is written by Hon. ' John C. Spreckcr, who was the floor leader of the populists in the session of 1901, and the records show that he is for rect In saying that he served In the legislature with Mr. Loomls, thus en joying the best possible opportunity to size him up. No one ever im pugned Sprecker's Integrity of purpose or accused him of being subservient to the railroads, so that his character ization of Loomls as "the rankest kind of a railroad tool" cannot be Ignored or lightly brushed aside. II Judge Loomls Is to be the fusion candidate for supreme judge his public record will be legitimately before the people. It i a safe assertion that the people of Nebraska do not want by their votes knowingly to put "a railroad tool" on the supreme bench this year. HOW TO HAKDLf LFNCHERS. Governor Glenn of North Carolina has taken the lead in a movement that if followed by other officials In the south promises to go very far toward settling one of the most disturbing features of the negro problem. North Carolina has a law, recently sustained by the supreme court of the state, providing for the trial of lynchers in the county adjoining that in which the crime Is committed. Under that law, the governor has transferred prosecut- tiona for the lynching of a man ac cused of killing his brother-in-law, and conviction has been secured, followed by the sentence of six members of the mob to long terms in prison. Their conviction, it is conceded by all con cerned, could not have been secured had they been tried in the county in which the lynching occurred. In dis cussing the case, Governor Glenn de clares that, so far as In his power lies, white and black will be treated alike and punished alike when they do wrong, and encouraged alike when they do well. If other states would follow this example lynchlngs would become rare, or disappear altogether. The. license of the law has made crimes frequent in the south and there Is no denying that the negroes have suffered dis crimination in .the administration of the law. The ultimate outcome of the policy adopted by the North Carolina governor must be" to establish upon a safer, stronger and surer basis the pro tection of society and the welfare; of "the people. Though the negro prob lem is difficult enough -In thesouth, It wllf'be made less hopeless by the Glenn policy of administering, the law. I THE' NATAL' rBCWB-AJf. 1 Congressman Weeks of Massachus etts, a member of the' House committee on naval affairs, 1b out in5 a somewhat vicious attack upon the plan of the administration to send a fleet of battle ships on a practice cruise to: the Pa cific. He is confident that there is no danger of war with Japan' and is op posing the naval program solely on account of the expense Involved in the proposed transfer. He has com piled a. lot of data about the cost of repairs, dockage and coaling, and in sists that there is no warrant in exist ing conditions for incurring the pro posed expense. The Massachusetts member is mak ing the same excuse other opponents of the administration plan have made, and is borrowing trouble at distress ingly long range. These battleships have to be coaled, docked and repaired at frequent Intervals, no matter where they are located. They do not He idle in port at any time. The pay of the officers and men goes on in any event, and the increase in cost of the proposed cruise will not amount to much. The purpose of the propose-! cruise ts to make certain tests and give the officers and men aa opportunity to gain certain experiences highly valua ble In time of need and impossible of attainment while . the warships are dawdling around from port to port The desirability of getting the navy out of a rut has been felt tor a long time and the opportunity to accom plish that end is found In the presi dent's plan for a practice cruise to the Pacific. AN KXPRKS3 COMFASTS TFfiVBlES The Wells-Fargo company Is the lat est corporation to add a voice of pro test against the administration's policy of dealing with concerns engaged In interstate commerce. Prior to the pas sage of the federal rate law of 1906, which placed express companies under the Sams Inspection and regulation of the Interstate Commerce commission, as other common carriers, the big com panies had things pretty much their own way. Annual dividends of 10 to SO per cent were declared with peri odical lemon-cutting .bringing the stockholders extra dividends as high sometimes as 100 per cent Deploring the change, the president of the Wells Fargo Express company, in his annual report, offers this lament: We are now under tha Jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce commission,, and a compliance with Its many rulings and re quirements subjects ua to continued addi tional labor and expense. The sympathy, that would naturally go out to the poor stockholders and "Innocent Investors" in Wells-Fargo securities Is checked a little by a further reading of the statement that, on account of the extra labor and ex pense entailed by compliance with the new rata law, the company's net earn-' Ings for the year ending July SI were 53.92 per cent of the capital stock, as compared with 18. SI In 1906. In other words the company's net earn ings for the year were only S4.S1S.000, on a capital stock of $8,000,000. What the earnings would have been without "hostile" legislation no one- can guess. It might help If a popular subscription were started for the relief of the ex press companies that have been so badly handicapped by the operation of the federal rate law. LIOHT OH JAIL TStDlNO QBATTS. The National Prison congress In session In Chicago la bringing more light to bear on jail feeding grafts, which apparently have been practiced all over the country, but whose aboli tion an aroused public sentiment is now demanding. One of the most suggestive papers before the congress, read by Prof. Charles R. Henderson of the University of Chicago, contains, among other things, this passage: The anclont fee sys'em of paying the sheriff dies hard because the people do not know lta evils and a selfish interest keeps It alive. The publio has not been Instructed by the politicians that when a sheriff Is paid 40 cents a day for feeding prisoners he Is tempted to give 9 cents worth of food and put 11 centa In his savings ac count, or In tha party corruption fund. One would almost imagine that Prof. Henderson had gotten his data right here in the Douglas county jail, the only correction required to make it fit exactly arising from the fact that Douglas county pays 39 cents per day per prisoner Instead of 40 cents per day per prisoner. If, however, Prof. Henderson had made a study of our local jail situation he would give us credit for having applied the remedy because with the end of this year, un der authority of a new law, the whole system is to be changed. After Jan uary next the county board will specify what food Is to be furnished jail pris oners and let the contract to the best bidder. Under the new system the prisoners should get what the county board orders for them and the tax payers should pay no more for it than would a sheriff figuring to put the profits in his pocket Omaha Is entertaining the State Bankers' association, and Is doing it in a way to maintain the city's reputation for cordial hospitality. The standard of banking and bankers in Nebraska has noticeably Improved in recent years with the increasing prosperity of the state, which they share in a high degree, and Omaha is the natural focal point of the banking business in Nebraska. The meeting of the bank ers here cannot fail to impress them with the progressiveness and enter prise of the Omaha banks, steadied at the .same time with strength and soundness. The Great Northern insists that , it has 'ceased its discrimination against Omaha, arising out of refusal to fur nish cars to haul grain to this mar ket, but It is not losing any chance to direct grain shipments to Minneapolis and Duluth rather than to Omaha in order to make sure of the long haul. Omaha people remember the promises made at the time the Ashland cut-oft was projected, that the entrance of the Great Northern would In no way be used to the detriment of Omaha. It is plain enough now that these prom ises wore made simply to allay the ris ing objections at that time and were never intended tp be kept . in good faith. The arrest of fourteen men charged with grafting In the building of the Pennsylvania state capltol will come as something of a surprise to Pennsyl vania. t It has been proven that the contractors actually used 14,000,000 of the $13,000,000 in constructing the building, and that was an unusually large per cent for the state ring con tractors to use In a legitimate way. Democrats are denouncing Chair man Knapp of tlje Interstate Com merce commission for recommending a repeal of the Sherman anti-trust law. The law was on the statute books while the democrats bad com plete control of both branches of con gress, but they never made any effort to enforce It. Nebraska's pure food law does not require the food commissioner to re spond to all requests for public ad dresses, but there is nothing to pre vent him from throwing in a course of lectures for full measure. Food Com missioner Johnson must be practicing for a chautauqua circuit too. Mayor "Jim" has postponed his re turn for a couple of days longer. Act ing Mayor Johnson, who draws may oralty pay while he is away, will doubtless be glad to give him an in definite extension of leave. The country will be glad to learn that Mr. Cleveland is rapidly recover ing from his recent severe illness. The country Is glad to have "Four Years more of G rover" as an ex-presldent, and then some. New York refers to that portion of the United States west of the Jersey river as "the Utnterland." The sore ness is caused by the refusal of the hinterland to become annexed to Wall street Colonel Bryan saya he does not know what the president's next mes sage will contain. This will not pre vent him from claiming credit for everything the president may recomr mend. Judge Reese has now been ap pointed to a place on the supreme court commission as preliminary to his elevation to the regular beach at the coming election. Every one of the three Judges of our present supreme court stepped from the commission to the full judgeship and Judge Horse will strictly follow precedent. The president announces that he will not go on the stump against Tom Johnson in the Cleveland mayoralty campaign. . The president has never had any passion for- hunting small game. Activity of Yeaaar Booms. Philadelphia Press. Since Secretary Taft sailed away we are not getting so much noise from the several presidential booms; but everybody ought to Improve tha chance to rest up aa much as possible. . Marvels of Navlaatlea. St. Louie Globe-Democrat Crossing the Atlantio In five days, and at 'the aame time keeping up communica tion with the ahore, Is one of the things not foreseen by the moat daring prophet. This achievement at the end Of the first century of steam navigation makes It use less to guess at what will ba going on 100 yeara hence. ftafearnardina' Ken-ests. Bt. Louis Globe-Democrat. The foreat reserve Just ereated by the president In southeastern Alaska embraces 2,004,000 acres, or almost enough to make two states aa large aa Delaware or Rhode Island. This Tongaas National foreat, as It Is called, la composed of rough land, hut Its Islands and mainland are well covered with trees. Aa Occasion for Sympathy. Kansas City Star. The statement that the Standard Oil re ceives only 1100,000,000 a year profit from lta business was made by an official of that company. The showing of such a de pressed financial condition may be part of the attempt of the Oil trust to create a publio sympathy which will enable it to eacape that (29,000,000 fine. Foreat Hnmi la Alaska. New York World. The president's proclamation creating a national forest of 2,000,000 acres In Alaska has both sentiment and prudent foresight to commend It To preserve this tract from the aze Is merely to take in time precau tionary measures against forest spoliation, the neglect of which has been a reproach In the older states of the union. Opportunities for Skill. Portland Oregon Ian. Notwithstanding the great advances that have been made in th Industrial world in the last half century as the result of In ventions, the Held for the man of Inventive genlba la still unlimited. From a 18.000.000 turbine steamer to the most ordinary house hold utensils, tha subjects for improve ments are numberless The mechanic arts offer an Inviting field for the young man who is perplexed over the course of study he should pursue. GETTING AM EARLY START. First Foot Ball A evident Provokes a Caatlea, New York Tribune. The foot ball season or 1907 has not yet started, but already one accident has been reported. In the first, practice of a small Massachusetts college team one of the backs had his ctHlerr-bprt broken before he had played ioriiy stoonds. The new rules are confidently expected to keep down tna number or sertbur'tccicTents," but foot ball authoritlea'lnalst tftalVh'e game Itself should not be blamftf or many of the ac oldents that occur tng-ftmes between the small colleges and high Schools. "It is a fact," said Dr. Lambeth, athletic di rector at the University tof Virginia, "that the majority of serious accidents occur In the ranks of the small colleges. This Is easily explained on the ground that they permit players to go on ,the field In poor phyalcal condition, and very often mem bers of two contesting teams are phys ically Incapable of playing each other. Se rious accidents are therefore the natural consequence." . . ,.1 . SWOLLEN FORTUNES. Aaaitag Slae of the Standard Oil Grab. Kansas City Star. Speaking of "swollen fortunes," what think you of Standard Oil . profits aggre gating nearly 1100,000,000 annually? Is It possible for one trustv 90 per cent of the stock of which Is held by fifteen men, to make profits averaging about $273,000 per day, or more than lUJOOO per hour, by fair meana? Is it safe for a government to tolerate conditions, of- combination, mono poly, extortion and coercion under which such aggrandizement. is possible? One of the big sources of profit has been the exac tion of rebates, yet when the government proposed to prevent , rebating and other abuses Standard Oil,, which has hitherto enjoyed Immunity In, Its system of com mercial pillage, cries out that it Is being persecuted. "Persecution!" The mockery of this protest is that the government has not only tolerated the abuses of this monop oly, but has .actually . sheltered the pre datory operattona by giving Standard Oil the protection of a high tariff the highest enjoyed by any trust In the country. Re bates may be absolutely abolished, but extortion will continue, approximately the same enormous profits will be gathered, un less the protection of the tariff Is with drawn from the Oil Jrust. VALl'E OF YEAR'S GRAIN CROP. Somewhat Short la Quaatltr, bat Sla in Dollars. ( Chicago. Inter Ocean. According to the latest returns tha agre gate grain cropa of the United States this year will be 743,000,000 bushels short of last year's yield. Under ordinal y circumstances this would be a misfortune little short of disaster. Yet, though still a misfortune for certain localities, for the nation at large the situa tion Is very gratifying. Throughout the world, with the possible exception of Argentina, the condition of whose wheat harvest is still mere con jecture, there Is a shortage of grain. None of the countrlea of Kurope has better than an average crop. There Is little surplus wheat visible In any of the great producing countries exoopt the United States. As a result a season of greater jt'.'vlly for the grain export trad than any since 138 seems assured. With 74S,Ou.X'0 bushels less to use and aell than last year It Is figured that American farmers will receive 1300,000.000 more for the surplus, and that the money received by the American pro ducers of grain will this year aggregate $7,000,000,000. This matter of r.oOO.OOO.OrO Is commm-led to tha attention of those persons, including a number of uneasy statesmen, who Keep on talking about the alleged neces.-y of doing something ebout "the problem of distribution" In order that "the plain peo ple" may not have to "pay for prosperity" of the country at large. Thla I7.0C0, 000.000, compared with which the wealth of "the richest man In the world" In real hard cash looks like SO cenU. will ba distributed directly to those who are universally accepted as "the plsln people." And It Is a commercial truism that when the farmer prospers so do all the rest of ua In due time and in comfort able degree. THE RRrnClTKD 'I NION PACIFIC I Great Achievement Marred by Da bloaa Methods. Boston Transcript. - The development of the Union Paclflo from the bankruptcy and partial dissolu tion of 1S93-1S08 to the present commanding position of the road In the transportation and finance of America is a complex and remarkable story, and Its main facts as set forth In the Quarterly Journal of Rcohoailca by Mr. Thomas Warner Mitchell are cal culated to enhance the current estimate of the Intellectual resource and the end-justlfles-the-mcans philosophy of Mr. E5. M. Harrlman. No question of late years has so perplexed Investors as how the Union Pa cific, fresh from the stress of a long re ceivership, contrived to finance the ac-qi-ilsltlon of great properties like the South ern Pacific and the Alton, and the pur chase of large Interests In other Important roads not directly' connected with the Harrl man system. Clearly, concisely, almost without comment, In the main permitting the facts to speak for themselves, this paper Jn the Quarterly Journal of Econ omics unfolds a devious, though keenly In teresting and significant chapter cf mod ern railroad financiering. The facts of the expansion of the Union Pacific systpm are little short of marvel lous. When the company emerged from Its receivership, on January 31, 1898, It found Itself stripped of all of Its subsldary prop erties, and possessing only Its main lines and one or two email branches 4n all, 1849 miles of railway out of the 7681 controlled by the old company In 1893. The Union Pa cific had not only lost lta best feeding branches It had lost its outlet on the Pa clflo ocean. It was now virtually a local mid-western railroad, beginning nowhere and ending nowhere, and the problem con fronting the new management of the prop erty was the actual recreation of a genu ine railroad system. By June SO, 1900, tha Union Pacific had regained enough of Its subnldory lines to give It a total mileage of 3.033, and on June 30, 1901, the total mileage was 6,628. The recapture of tha Oregon Short Line and the acquisition of the Southern Pacific owning the Central Pacific from Ogden to the coast, gave the Harrlman system access to the greatest of oceans at both Portland and San Franci sco. The Union Paclflo now came into sub stantial control of mora than 9,500 miles of railway, the gross earnlnga on 7,546 miles of which In 1900 were I64.4O0.000, ex ceeding the gross earnings of any one rail road system In America except the old and powerful Pennsylvania. One point to be set down unquestionably to the credit of the Harrlman management Is the steadily Improving' physical condi tion of both the Southern Pacific and the Union Pacific main lines In recent years. Thus, so liberally has equipment been de veloped that tha average stated oost per mile run of maintaining locomotives dur ing the last six years has been 1.17 cents on the Southern and 9.13 cents on the Union Pacific, as compared - with six and seven cents on other roads similarly situated. This means that the Southern and Union Paclflo have been sending their older loco motives to the scrap heap, buying naw and more efficient motive power and charging it to operating expenses instead of to '"cost of railroad and equipment.'' Moreover, the coat of maintaining freight cara has been 8.99 mills per mile run on the- Southern Paclflo as agalnat a maximum of six mills on other systems, and the stated cost per mile run of passenger cars has been 1.028 cents as compared with 9.1 mills elsewhere. Summing up, the author of the paper in the ' Quarterly Journal of Economics is frank to declare of the Union Paclflo sys tem that "Mr. Harrlman has enforced for this company the highest "standard of main tenance for roadway and equipment of any railroad system west of the Mississippi river." The Union Paclflo during the past five years has been expending an average of 11,256 per mile every year to maintain its roadway, while other western com panies have been expending from 1800 to 900. But strong as Is the status of the Union Pacific aa a railroad per se, Its po sition as a financial institution Is stronger still, through its great investments In the stocks of other railway systems. Indeed, ss this writer strikingly declares, "the Union Paclflo could completely abandon tha operation of Its railway lines and still re ceive, as tribute from the Alton, tha Atchi son, the Baltimore & Ohio, the Northwest ern, the St. Paul, the Illinois Central nod the other great railway systems whose stocks' it owns, enough Income to pay Its fixed charges and the customary 4 per cent dividends dn Its preferred stock." It is a pity that over such an achieve ment as thla should hang the cloud of du bious methods. And the present position of the Union Paclflo raises in an acute form the question, how far railroads or ganized for the primary purpose of fur nishing transportation, can justifiably go toward becoming financial institutions, holding conspicuously among other assets investments in other railroad companies, even when the motive la not a desire for combination and lessening of competition. PERSONAL NOTES. Better watch Sir Thomas. He may equip Shamrock IV with some sort of new fan gled turbine arrangement and win back the mug. President Flnley of the Southern railroad urgea railroad presidents to talk more In public. It would be better advice to them to do more In private. Leon A. Bereznatk, a native of Odessa, Is now living In Indianapolis. He Is a law yer, a scholar, author and translator of "Trilby" In the Russian language. The historical hall of the knights in the castle of Kronsburgh, named as the resi dence of Hamlet, has been further decor sted with another statue of Shakespeare, the work of the famous Danish sculptor Hasscrly. The Concatenated Order of Hoo Hoos will not hold its next convention In Atlanta be cause Oeorgla hae.enacted Its prohibitory law. There may be'a dispute as to whether prohibition prohibits; but there does not seem to be any doubt as to what the Con catenated Order of Hoo Hoos holds its meetings for. The American painter, John S. Rargent, clings fast to his American citizenship, not withstanding the fact that his name oc casionally gets on to the voters' lists In the English community where he lives. It Is understood that Mr. Sargent would have buen knighted some time ago had he con sented to expatriate himself. Mr. Nathan Straus of New York has acr.Vvrd a signal victory In having the In ternm.lonal Pure Milk congress, now In s. Rsii 11 In Brussels, officially declare against the ud f raw milk. It advises mothers to give tneir Infanta milk brought to the boil ing jKiln , pasteurized or sterilised. Mr. Biraui' pasteurizing plant waa exhibited to the delegates and won unqualified ap proval.) Two Blows for Hosao Halo. Minneapolia Journal. Minneapolis and Chicago are two great cltlea which yesterday put themselves on record agalnat home rule. In neither city Is it clear what caused tha slump away from their own best Interests, but one gen eral cause. Indifference, la evident In both. Chicago, with a registration of 360.000 made for this election, cast about half that num ber, and atxjut one-third of the total pos sible vote of the city. Minneapolis, with a vote of 42.000. a year ago, turned out enly 15,0v0 electors yesterday, Maybe Somebody Has Fooled You! People don't get wealthy by paying the highest price, but by getting the most for their money. That is why more rich people drink Arbuckles' Ari osa than any other coffee.1 p ARIOSA is the cheapest good coffee in the world. AOLBXXXlX BEOsVt Mow Tor, QO AUTOS NEEDED FOR PARADES More Machine! Are Wanted for Ak-'Sar-Ben Street Festivities. KING'S HIGHWAY BUSY PLACE Parker Shows aa. Others Are 'Work Preparing for the Great est of All Carnival Ex hibitions. at There Is sore need ef volunteers for the automobile parade which ts to be on Tues day of the Ak-8ar-Ben week. W. I. Tet ter says he needs more cars for tha indus trial division, Paul Gallagher Is clamoring for more cars for the comic division and Mrs. Harry WIlMns says ahe muat have a lot more for the artistic division. Bo far these are the only ones Mrs. Wll- klns has secured for her division: Miss Lucille Hayden, Frank Colpetser, P. P. Klrkendall and J. H. McBhana. In the comic division the list so far la as follows, though there are some uncertain ties: Barton Millard, Harry Cummlngs, E. I. Cudahy, O. A. Cudahy, jr., Arthur Eng lish, Roma Miller, Millard Hosford, Pax- ton at Vlerllag Iron works, Fred Hamilton, O. E. Sprague and H. B. Peters. Those who have entered cars for the in dustrial divialon are: Tha Orchard c Wll helm Carpet company, M. E. Smith Co., the Btors brewery, Balduff, the Omaha 4k Benson express, J. 1 Brandols St Sons and tha Beaton Drug company. Activity oa Klnsr's Highway. Activity lg everywhere " apparent on King's Highway in preparation for the great fall festival. An army of carpenters and other skilled laborers are turning the grounds Into an amusement city and no ohance Is being token on the weather, but everything possible is being put in shape ahead of time. H. R. Raver, manager of the Parker shows, which wer on the carnival grounds last year, has arrived in Omaha, and will assist Doc Breed In handling the numerous concessions, especially the shows. Mr. Raver showed his marked ability In this line last year and Doc Breed haa been striving for some time to secure his ser vices in handling the shows. Mr. Raver la nd longer a "trooper," but owns a large manufacturing plant In lowsi, where me chanical shows We turned out for carnival companies, andlt was hard for him to get away from its business, but in response to the urgent demands of Doo Breed he has consented to run over and look after the amusement features. J. A. Darnaby alao haa his hands full In superintending the construction of the larg est outdoor theater ever built in the west, which will be used for the production of "Beautiful Bagdag." His company is at present rehearsing for this in the Audito rium under a competent stage manager and will soon be ready for the dress re hearsal. Although numerous responses have been received from the Invitations sent to the maids of honor and the special maids of honor for the ball, many have not been heard from and the board of governors Is anxious that all names be sent in im mediately that none will be left from the printed program, which muat soon be In the hands of tha printers. RINE MODIFIES HIS OPINION Caaaa-ea Deeleloa Which . Indicates Aarreemeat Betweea City Engi neer anal Cosaatroller. Prnsnects for an agreement between the city . engineering department and the enmntroller's office over the fund appor tioned for payment of salaries of Inspectors of street cuts are much brighter since jonn A. Rlne, assistant city attorney, "modified" his opinion regarding the fund. Mr. Rlne now aays the money set aside by the coun cil in February can be used to pay the In spectors, and If this la done It will relieve tha publio worka fund to that extent, aa tne imnvinn have heretofore been paid out of the public worka fund. Comptroller lo- beck declares that he will have noming 10 Hn with aav law suit: that If one Is started he will confess willingness to do anything the court may order and let it go at mat. . Llaeasaa tins Ba. Pall. BOONE, la., Sept. 19. (Special Telegram.) Harry Wilson, an employe of the elec trical department of tha Northwestern Con struction company, while putting up a trolley wire for the Fort Dodge lnterurDan 11 ...i.piv fell from a twenty-five-foot tower backward and was severely Injured. No bones were broken, but internal in juries are feared. The world be stows its big prizes, both In money and honors for but ONE thing, and that is In itiative. S o says El b e rt Hubbard, the eccentric phil osopher. The well known distinction aud We sell a New Kimball for $260 SIO CaIi . ST Monthly Individuality which places the Kimball In a commanding position among pianos of the world is due to Kimball Initiative. For scores of years the makers of the Kimball have been originators. Never satisfied with what Is done to day, they are constantly accomplish ing; better things for tomorrow. Vari ous innovations, various inventions and a constant endeavor to use only the A. Hospe Co., IS" ' s- Wa Do Export Piano t uning and Repairing BRIGHT AND BREEZY. "Gracious!" exclaimed Miss Passay, "t know 1 must look, a perfect fright. I can't do anything with my hair at all." 1 "No, replied Mlsa Pepiery. "Surely you ' can take It back and get It exchanged, . can t you?" Philadelphia Press. j "They are constantly cntchtng more graft- 1 era," said the hopeful cltlxen. I "Not regular grafters." answered Mr. Dustln Stax. "Those who get caught are only amateurs." Washington Btar, "Many a man." said Uncle Allen Sparks, "who goes hustling and bustling through this world has nothing to show for It but a lot of barked placea on hts shins." Chi cago Tribune. "Are your neighbors obliging?" "I should say so. They always let US use our telephone whenever X want to." Mil waukee Sentinel. 'Ta," said Tommy, "I smoked your pipe toilav. .. "What!" exclaimed his Pa. "You said It would make me alck, but It didn't." "You misunderstood trie, my son. t said I'd mnke you sick. Hand me that strap." Philadelphia Press. . . "Youngling is going to marry the Widow Henpeck." "Why. she's twice as old as he is." "Oh, well, he'll age fast enough after the wedding." Town and Country. "Jones' new house is fitted up very pret tily. I hear." "YeS, Indeed; you just ought to see the lovely antiquarian with all the gold fishes he has In his study." Baltimore American. "There's one great trouble about this un paralleled prosperity." "Whafe that?" ' "Keepa everybody broke living up to.H. Washington Herald. "My dear," said the head of the house, looking over his morning paper at his bet ter half, "there Is a crisis coming In China." "I knew. It!" ahe moaned. "Susan hai left only hair a doxen pieces whole out ol our new dinner set." Chicago Record Herald. "I was up' to the city and Henry's bees fool enough to buy an automobllly ana build a grodge." "What's a grodgeT" "It's a atable for folks that haven't got any horse sense to put Into It." Baltimore. American. "Bllggins aays that his boy is wonderfullj smart." v "Yes," answered the elderly man, "but Bllggins ought to know better than to build any expectatlona on that. ' I can re member when Bllggins' father said the same thing about lilm."-rWasbJngton ,ETtr. "Hitch your wagon to a Btar.""'' aVv "If you like rocky going," added a theaf trlcal manager who knew. Philadelphia! Bulletin. "Did yes notice about th' Joke me brother Tim played on wan av thlm chauffeura?" "I heard a' turrlble thing happened to him, poor Tim!" " 'Poor Tim' th dlwlll He had a shtlck av dlnnamlte In his pocket whin he wor run over." drudge. REMORSE. George Ade in Sultan of Sulu. The cocktail Is a pleasant drink, It'a mild and harmless, I don't thtnkt When you've had one you call for two. And then you don't care what you do. Lost night I lifted twenty-three of thesv, decoctions Into me ) My Wealth increased, I felt first rate, I felt so good I stayed up late. R-e-m-o-r-s-s The water wagon ts the place for me; At twelve o'clock I felt Immense, Today I favor total abstinence; My eyes are bleared and red and hot, I ought to eat, but I can not. It Is no time for mirth and laughter. The cold gray dawn of the morning after. If ever I want to sign the pledge It's the morning after I've had an edge, When I've been full of the oil of joy And fancied I was a sporty boy; The world was one kaleidoscope of purple joy, transcendent hope, 'Twas undiluted, perfect bliss 1 I didn't feel a bit ilka this. Pure Flavorings Flavoring Extracts vanma Lemon OranT. Rosa, have been given the preference and arc now used and appreciated by millions of housewives who have used them for half a century. best material in every piano have caused the name Kimball to stand for high achievement In piano building. No piano for home use U so univer sally popular. That is conceded. It is essentially a home instrument, com bining beauty of. design with beauty of tone, and having as one of lta strongest recommendations durability that stands the test of years.' Kimball tone is Justly famous. The Kimball family have striven with par ticular diligence to perfect it it T music in its highest form.. And the Kimball (sold under the Hospe plan) Is not expensive. Posi tively no instrument as good can be bought for the same money. As sole factory distributers In the uvest, we are giving you the best price and serv ice. Come, lets show you. , If you cannot come, write for catv logues and prices.