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1 1 i I j! THE OMAHA DAILY BEE; TUESDAY, OCTOHKK 1, 1 !!. The Omaha Daily Be, FOUNDED Br EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR RQfiBWATBR, EDITOR. Bntered at Omaha Postoffice aa second class matter. TERMS OF 8UBHCRIPTION. pally Bn (without Fundav), one yrtr. K m , lally Bee and Sunday, on year .m)' Sunday Bee. one your 8.50 Saturday Bee, on year 1.60 DELIVERED BT CARRIER Dally Fee (including Sunday), per week..1Ro pally Be (without Sumlav). jwr week.lOe, Kvenlng Br. (without Sunday), per week he Kvenlng Be (with Bitmlav), per week...lc Address all complaint of Jrregularltles In delivery to City Circulatioa Department. i ' OFFICES. .Omaha The Be Rulldlng. South Omaha Cltv Ilnll Building. Council Bluffs IK genu Street. Chicago IMO I'nlty Building. New York IMS Home Life Insurance Bid. Washington 5nl Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi torial matter should be addressed, Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company. . Only 2-eent stamps received In payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or ealtern exchange, not accepted. STATEMENT OF C1UCVUATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas county. : Charlra C. Rosewater. general manager of Thn Bee Publishing Company, being duly aworn, says that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed 1 during the month of September, 107, was aa lollowa: 1 35,700 : . 36,040 S ....86,300 4 "... 38,980 6 36,350 ' 36,840 7 36,840 8 36,600 9 36,140 30. ........ .,38,690 11 36,470 13.......... 36,870 13 36,080 14 36,610 IS 36,400 Total : . 1,093,470 Less unsold and returned copies. 9,887 Net total '. 1,083,683 uauy average 38,119 CHARLES C. ROSEWATER, Oeneral Manager, eunscriDea in my presence and sworn to before me thla 30th day of Septem ber, 1VUI. (Seal) M. B. HUNOATE, Notary Public IS 36,650 17 36,690 ,18., 36,680 IS 36,300 L' 36,390 21... 36,670 23 35,320 23 37,360 24 36,830 '25..' 36,380 16.. 36,930 27 36,600 28 36,600 29 36,650 80 36,890 WHEN OUT OP TOWJf. Subscribe leaving; tae city tem porarily should have The Bee -mailed to them. Address will be changed, aa often aa reqnested. - Rainy days on the Midway merely mean that the crowd la postponed. , A scientist has discovered germs In tears. Wonder what germs have to cry about? "She crushed his horny hand within her slender fingers," sings a Detroit poet The cruel thing!. An Ohio Judge has been called upon to decide .whether elder is an intoxl cant. It's a hard question. "Good hands wanted for Saturday a.Sht" t'e VojkTdvertlsemeht: The poker party season Is open. Senator Borah says he will resign his senatorshtp. If convicted. What else would there be left for him to do? Missouri railroads are not doing very well In their' efforts to show the court that the 2-cent fare law is confiscatory, The country likes the Illinois Central directors better when they are fighting than when they are displaying their dirty linen. Now comes the report about snakes being seen at the White House. The Alvestigatlon of that cocktail incident should proceed. Herman Bilk Is a. candidate for al derman in Chicago, where the people have had. large experience with the aldermanlc bilk. The defeat In 1904 may have de prived Judge Parker of his political prestige, but It left him with his grouch, all right. "Pittsburg women starve to be styl ish," says a headline. Ordinarily, It Is the husband that starves that his wife may be stylish. Ak-Sar-Ben Is a good enough king to stand a. soaking rainstorm now and then; besides, this rain means more winter wheat next year. Uncle Sam has Just let the contract for five new torpedo boats, thus em phasizing his opinion of the results of The Hsgue peace conference. "The country needs a democratic congress' says the Atlanta Constitu tion. The country is highly prosper ous, but hardly prosperous enough for that. The New York Tribune says The Hague conference was not ft failure. The Tribune must be sharing the view point of the hotel keepers at the Dutch town. A Chicago Board of Trade operator rescued ft man who was sinking for the v third time in Lake Michigan. Saved him by a narrow margin, as It were. Senator Knox's presidential boom has been endorsed by the Pennsylvania State Republican clubs, but It Is not yet subject to Interstate commerce regulations. Omaha's champions are Instructing Wichita's champions In the finer points of the game just now. It Is & good thing to sprrtd the knowledge even In Kansas. In his fight against Tammany, Mayor McClellan carried all but thirty-three out of the thirty-six districts in the New York primaries. He runs almost as well ss Judge Parkers ' Hit PEXALTT OF WASTE. The statistician of the Boston Globo has figured that if a floor of wood an even Inch thick should be laid over Massachusetts, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhodo Island and Delaware?, an area of 25,000 square miles, It would require no more than the amount of umber that has been cut from f he forests of the principal states since 1880, a per iod of a little more than twenty-six years. In that time 700,000,000,000 feet, board measure, have been cut, the three states of Pennsylvania, Min nesota and Wisconsin, furnishing 36 per cent of the vast output. The re turns for 1906 show the cutting of 37, 600,000,000 feet, In round numbers, with thousands of small mills not fig uring in tTle returns. It Is upon these figures that tho for estry jrrvlce bases the prediction that another generation will, st the present rate of consumption, see the end of the virgin forests of the nation. The fig ures are a potent argument for the necessity of drastic action for the pres ervation of the remaining forest re sources of the country, and the neces sity for a systematic reforestation of the regions that have been laid waste by the greed- of the lumber baron., Tho census bureau figures out an- annual per capita consumption of 450 feet of lumber, with a total visible supply, in cluding Alaska, of 2,000,000,000,000 feet, which, at the present rate of con sumption, would last about fifty years But the population is increasing and it is estimated that thirty or thirty-five years will mark the depletion of the lumber supply unless radical action is taken to stop the present forest waste The lesson of the statistics Is that the present annual consumption of wood for all purposes, is about three or four times as great as the production It requires no skilled mathematician to figure out how long that can be kept up without reaching an end of the wood resources. The necessity is for the proper management of the timber resources, proper encouragement of re forestation and rigid prosecution of those who are planning to carry on the work of denuding the American for ests to meet immediate commercial de mands. If rightly managed, the forest area of the United States is sufficiently large to produce eventually timber enough to supply every legitimate need. This can be accomplished only by protection and reforestration. Ger many showed how this can be done. A little more than 100 years ago, the Ger man government discovered that its forests were about like the American forests today, despoiled and denuded by the greed of lumber syndicates and the demands of trade. By vigorous organization of expensive forest re serves and the adoption of a settled policy of reforestation and forest management. the.German mplre today produces . all the lumbei,and timber required for domestic ueeds. America is in position to achieve even more as tonishing results, having the advan tage of vaster resources and the benefit of all experiments that have been made In' that direction In other countries. America has learned the lesson and should put it Into practice before It is everlastingly too late. western states called for their money that had been loaned to New York, they would receive these "credit currency" notes, while their good gold, silver and legal tender would be retained In the New York banks for the conven ience of the Stock exchange gamblers and the speculative Interests. Chair man Fowler, the New Jersey congress man whose credit currency schemes have been turned down at several ses sions, asserted that the new notes would be good because they would be Issued on "presumably .good assets." Money is like eggs In that there are no half-way stations. It Is cither good or bad. The average customer would not accept eggs offered by his grocer as "presumably good," and no Amerl can wants to he served with "presum ably good" dollars. More Particulars for Judge Loomis A LAME CL'RRS-YCT PLAN. The American Bankers' association, in convention at Atlantic City, has en dorsed a "credit currency" scheme that has all of the weaknesses of plans re jected by congress, together with some new possibilities for evil. The only credit that goes to the bankers for the action Is the statement that the report of the currency committee was adopted only after ft long fight and met with the entire approval of but a small per centage of the members. In the ab sence of a better proposition, the one presented by the committee was adopted, but without any enthusiasm and without the cordial backing that would be necessary to secure for it favorable consideration by congress. The plan proposed by the association Is, in substance, as follows: Every national bank of one year's stand- In- and with 20 per cont surplus may Is sue two klnda of credit money, under reg ulations to be approved by the comptrol ler of the currency. First, an ""amount equal to 40 per cent of Its bond-set-ured circulation, subject to a tax of 2Va per cent per annum upon the average amount outstanding. 6econd. a further Issue, equal to 12 H per cent of Its capital, subject to a tax of 6 per cent per annum upon tha average amount outstanding- In excess of the amount first mentioned. It Is significant that nearly all of the argument made by the supporters of the proposition . was In an effort to show that It would not work to the benefit of the Wall street bankers and the speculative interests. Their argu ments do not appeal, as the entire logic of the situation Is against their conten tion. Stripped of smooth phrases, the proposition la to secure the sanction of congress to the possible Issue of $200,- 000,000 of fiat money, under the alias of "credit currency." With such a fund available the speculative inter ests could never be seriously cramped for funds. The argument that the pro posed tax on the "credit currency" Is heavy enough to prevent the abuse of Its privileges is nonsense. In situations such as Wall street has experienced In the last year, with call money at fancy rates, the temptation to bankers to Is sue "credit currency" would be irre sistible and the tax a bagatelle, com pared with the possible profits In a speculative boom. One of the specious arguments of fered In support of the scheme la that It will not affect Wall street, as only gold, silver or legal tender notes are accepted by the New York clearing house, while the new notes would be for "currency shipments to other local ities." The effect of that would be that when Nebraska, Kansas and other RKG1STRA TIUX. I nder provisions of the amended law governing registration, enacted by the last legislature, the next registrar tion day in Omaha and South Omaha Is scheduled for Tuesday, October 1. The new law has made the primary election day the first day, of registra tion and has moved up the other two days, cutting off the final opportunity to register previously enjoyed on the Saturday immediately preceding the November election. Voters in Omaha and South Omaha should be made to understand these chunges. Otherwise, many of them will find themselves face to face with election day without having had their names properly registered to entitle them to a ballot. This year being the first In which the new order of things is effective seems already to have produced some confusion. At the primary the total number of republican ballots cast in Douglas county, for example, was 7,049, cf which approximately 5,500 were in Omaha proper. The regis trars recorded only a little over 4,000 republican voters, Indicating that up ward of 1,600 voted at the primary without being registered. On the democratic side the proportion of non registered voters Is even greater. This Indicates that fully a fourth of those who participated In the primary election have yet to be registered In order to vote at the November elec tion, though, no doubt, many of them are laboring under the impression that in taking part in the primary they were registered automatically. The new law is defective at this point, the intention of the law-makers being, without doubt, to accomplish this very thing and give a premium to those vot ing at the primary In the form of Im munity from further appearance be fore registration boards. It is a condition, however, and not a theory, that confronts the voters of Omaha and South Omaha. They must make sure , that they are duly ' regis tered to vote at the coming election. Tuesday, : October 1, Is the next day for registration. The voter who is not sure he Is registered, as well as the voter who knows be Is not regis tered, should make it a point to call at the registration booth and take no chances. ' . . John C. The Alitor of tho Free luflR-e Reese for supreme Judge and against George L. Loomis for several different reasons and all are good ones for such opposition. In tho first place Reese Is much more fit for the position. He hss been a dis trict Judge, was on the supreme bench before, wss dean of the sate university law department and Is recognized aa a man of legal ability, both by education and practice. Mr. Loomis has been a local attorney of Fremont, with no lienrh ex perience, and we believe that the supremo Judges should he selected from the rli.. trlct bench. Judge Reese Is right on the corporation question an! his one term on the bench proved that. At the close of his term the corporation interests parked the republi can state convention and turned him down. The people now are running political mattera In Nebraska and will put him back. On the other hand Loomis Is a corporation mnn and his legislative record shows It. He opposed the freight rate bill In the session of 1301. which his psrty stood for. and voted to Indefinitely post Pone It and opposed even placing It on general file for conalderatlon. He and five others of the forty-seven fusloniats of the house that session stood for the cor porations. But aside from his luck of experience In bench work and his not being In Judge Reese's class as to ability as an attorney, we are opposed to him for that Judicial position because ho has shown himself to be not proper timber, his legislation record showing that. He la a small-bore, party politician and not a man who will stand up for right. One particular In cident In legislative matters will show It. seems that ever since Nebraska has state and had a suDremn court It been Hrirecher tn Schuyler Free Lance. Lance Is for' officer or set of officers to receive any suin compensation. The commission will increase tne salary expenses of the court about S0m for the next two years and It would afford relief to taxpayers and be a measure of Justice to so legislate that the supreme court docket may be brought up tu date and relieved of Its congested condi tion without additional tax burdens. The custom or permitting the clerk to appropriate to Ills own Use the fees of th court is botn extravagant and perniclou It lias for eais so tt-sulteU that he ha received emoluments grcster that the coin timed salary of the three Judges. It I (liieMlon whether euro disposition of th lees Is not unlawful and with that point in view i snau reouire tne attorney ten cral to Institute nn examination and In vestigntinn along that line and If sustained In this view Institute proceedings, not alone 10 put a stop to the practice, but to recover In a commenstirste amount from the pres t-m cierK ami nis preoecessors. At the time, 1eo Ilerdman. a democratic politician of Omaha, was tlerk of the su preme court, appointed by Judges Sulllva and Holcomb as the majority of the court As soon as the bill was Introduced Herd man naturally became vory active In his efforts lo defeat It. He saw a chance to .secure a small fortune In those fees and he did not propose losing out. He and hi lieutenants used all sorts of argument with members to have the bill defeated To republicans he said that the clerks of the supereme court had always been re publican - and had always ' drawn the fees and It was not fulr to deprive th flr.t democrat who held that position; also stated that the next and future clerk would lie republicans, so It would be worse for thrlr party Incumbents and would lead to a legal procedure to recover from past clerkh and stir up a bad mess. To demo crats and populists he appealed to their party loyalty and also said he expected to make liberal contributions to the campaign funds uud could afford to do so If he waa permitted to get the fees. To the ambt tlous members ho snld to not be ever kicking on party leaders else they would there has been what might well be termed never get to the front. And a lot of more a graft practiced upon the people as to Bucn 8tuff was talked and possibly other ciiuris niaac wc uu nui miuw oi or uiu nut personally hear There was only one course for an honest iu me cierK In that court for various filings and services of h clerk. Owing to the tart n, t been no especial provision of ennti,..i of statue relative to those fees, the su preme court clerk has simply pocketed same, although he had no legal right to do so. It setms that the nnn. i provided for the clerk of the sum-em ,f supreme court clerk waa not satisfied with nd fixed his annual salary at 11 5oo at hl" ,1,60 ,alary he 001,1(1 re,1'n and tnere tne same time that It fixed the ,lri0. wouiu oe no irouoie in iiiuna umv yoi- of the Judaea at i Ron ti, r -. .. tlon with competent nren, for the duties belong to him any more than do tho fees re(ulred no rcial qualifications and paid into any state or county officer, but offlce 'elp dld aW tho real work' "0 th snouia be turned over to the state treas- aud honorable member of that legislature to follow and that was to support the bill and have those feea paid Into th treasury where they belonged and to vole against that was to endorse official graft. If the urer, but such had never been done; sim ply because there was no especial act so providing. The fees of that offlce would pay not alone the clerk and all necessary assistants, but the Judges of the court he- sides, but under the old system In Ne braska was never done, but was a sort of graft by the clerk who pocketed same. uunng the legislative session of in when the Free Lance editor was a mem. ber, the supreme court was enlarged by appointing nine commlasloners whose duties and powers , were as associate members of the court. . The creation of that commission was not strictly consti tutional, but it seemed to be a necessity owing to the' fact that the work of the court was so many, years behind, and It had the aprcval also of the court members. Making the court consist of twelve mom. bers Instead of three would mean tlmt those fees of the. elerk would be very large S125 per month was good enough, espe cially when a supreme Judge received but $2,500 per year. In fact, there was no argument that fitted the case to Induce any member to oppose that bill. Those feea belonged to the state ,and not to the clerk and precedent doea not make graft right nor does an alleged Inadequate salary. And If there was a legislative member who should by all means support that bill It was a fusionist who claimed to be "reformer" and It would be more creditable to reform his own officials than those of the opposition, although It usually Is not done and It la the party out of power that always talks reform, but forgets about It as soon as he Is In. That sort of fake reform In Nebraska Is what brought the fuslonlsts to grief and made the term reform simply ridiculous. This Free Lance editor was for the bill. A bill Introduced earlier In the ses sion by Representative Evans had been nd certainly tiecearttated' Drovi.lon hv ih. reported back unamimously by the Judi- leglslature to fores tb.turnlng of same Into c,aTy' commltt,e for Indefinite postpone- As the forty da& th ..t. .7.. realising what was being done, but Pired , which a member could Introduce XJne t'Zllt ", a bill, the While the big contractors and public service corporations are condemning with their utter disregard the public rights in the way of maltreating the pavement, do not forget that the little contractor walks away and leaves the hole in the ground with the same non chalant indifference that marks his larger prototype. WThenever the city authorities determine to enforce the ordinance in regard to this matter there will be less complaint of dam aged pavements and dirty streets In Omaha. President Roosevelt has again as sumed his ubiquitous character and will run the gamut from the laying of a cathedral cornerstone in Washington to the opening of a deep waterway con vention at Memphis. With a set speech and a formal visit for every day in the week, he is certainly making a record that will try even so vigorous and en ergetic ft successor as William H. Tft. Stuyvesant Fish admits that be bor rowed $1,000,000 from the Chicago & Alton, but says Mr. Harrlman bor rowed larger sums from the same source. Of course. What Is a rail road good for, It if cannot furnish speculative funds for its officials? Senator Borah is charged with hav ing conspired to defraud the govern ment of only 17,280 acres of public lands In Idaho. He must be looked upon as a piker by some of those syn dicates that scorned to look at any thing less than ft million acres. The Missouri railroad that reports a loss of $1,600,000 due to the 2-cent fare law must mean that If It had not been for the cheaper rate and the same number of people bad traveled It would have collected that much more money than It took In. In Its practical workings the child labor law is proving much more diffi cult than It did in theory. The school authorities are Just beginning to dis cover that The Bee was right when It called attention to some of the defects in the bill. The Chinese laundries throughout the country are forming ft combina tion to advance prices. That's the real significance of "The Awakening of China" about which so much Is be ing written. Congressman Hepburn says It Is ft mistake to wast a effort In making the Missouri and the Mississippi navigable, as the trend of traffic Is east and west mailer was taken . r k.. Governor Dletrlob, who had Speaker Sears r'PubllcanB nd 'uslon forces united to Introduce It as house roll No. 48& ' ' kl" lhe bin an1 DOC"U8 ,l ncted Lee Along with the bill Governor Dietrich t "eman oemocrai, most oi tne ruston the following . message, which in- Itself for forgot their alleged reform Ideas explained tlie necessity fof Introduction of and Voted ' kl" 0ft the ma8ure- the bill and proper Reasons for oasainir it- n March 23 the committee on Judiciary, i . i nerewith transmit' to itf lan a inn j . .- 'ur-an aci to Keguiate and you a hill en- to whom was referred the bill, reported It for indefinite postponement. Represen tative Evans moved to not concur in tha report, but place' the bill on general file and a warm debate followed, In which this writer took a lively part, until Rep resentative Tanner shut off further dls- lawl.latl... l" ciwTiine vi 1 1 1 H " "j .. ... . i n v. it iic,iuu, urauuii, crease that amount. vernment to In- which prevailed. The writer took his seat Tha contemplated creation of the supreme ln a ,e"n' of d'a&ust and anger and amlrtnln?'"8lon f nlne members means collapsed and had to be carried out the tainrni The .unrrm-' ..T 8e.?r,maJn: oua. lying Insensible for i,u - A, " ' -v mm iv is UUl oFf,hteh;Su8par,:r7e &uST SUrti dXonfered""1 bl" b J"tIOdUC"d "d i.Ti?5.2aUr of ""Pter. clerk and librarian is nxed and prescribed by the constitution 2'. n5t..t0 ceed Being so deter. ClfT. 1 not w,tl,ln the Province of the Justice to the taxpayera that the feea mhKM kP0" th MPemion of proceedlnga 11 " ueimy mis extra ex t.. .. "J 'r more equitable jum uiu inese largely increased niiBii u iiuo me state treasury lief of taxpayers than that, th so did not get to vote a couple days. on the bill after and Mr. Loomis and fees for the re- . , . ' i . " omcer oi me state. I am reliably Informed that as a result of the creation of a commission the feea JSrnAhei.next Vyo.ye will approximate M.00O. It would be a manlfeat injustice1 and outrage upon the public to permit any It - was defeated helped to defeat It. Any member of the legislature who would vote to kill that bill and permit trie supreme court clerk to continue to pocket those fees which do not belong to blm. Is not suitable timber for tha supreme bench and ao w are opposed to Mr. Loomis on this further ground. and not north and south. Mr. Hep burn's Ideas seem to run along railway lines. Samuel J. Small, .president of the Commercial Telegraphers' union, now on ft strike, says the leased wire oper ators will not be called out, but that all contracts must be respected. This Is sound sense, as well as common honesty. Great Britain has agreed to give Raisull $100,000 for the release of Sir Harry McLean and to guarantee the liberation of Raisuli's followers now In Morocco prisons. Morocco must be a lovely sort of a place in which to live. Prof. Munsterberg of Harvard has invented ft machine which he claims will compel men to tell the truth. He might place it to the final test by try ing it on Harry Orchard. The South Omaha Park board is having much trouble ln getting names for Its parks as it had In getting the appropriation. It is hard to suit everybody. Pittsburg has been Invaded by an army of Chinese snails. The snails evidently got off at the wrong station. They must have ben ticketed to Phil adelphia. Sfet 3fer Discovery. Chicago Record-Herald. That Omaha expert who hss discovered poor asphalt paving In Chicago will hardly surprise the old Inhabitant with his discovery. Twentieth teatary Harvest Sl. Portland Oregonlan. Harvest will soon be over and American farmers will be fullhaoded. Many of them have already marketed their crops and are St work on garages so that the new auto mobile when they come, mar have suitable quarters. Tha piano Is no longer the em blem of prosperity, "The Instrument" hss been supplanted by "the machine" as the visible token of good prices and a plen teous yea NEBRASKA PRESS COMMENT. Kearney Hub: The Wood River Bun beam asks: "When will the railroads learn that enough is enough?" Easily an swered: Not until they get enough. Stanton Ticket: These are the days when Omaha is going some. Five years ago tha town was not on the map as a grain mar ket. Now It stands fourth in the grain markets of the world. Central City Nonpareil: The Grand Island Independent never made a statement more true than thla: "Given a square deal from Omaha, the rest of the state will fight for a square deal for Omaha every time." Exeter Enterprise: More than all th "booming" that a newapaper can do for a town la the advertisement of the local merchant, which speak for Itself. Th advertising columns of a newspaper apeak In louder tone than any editorial can. McCook Tribune: While the matter of graft Is everywhere receiving needed atten tion, Nebraska should not overlook longer that supreme court clerkship -graft. Th pay ln that offlce In common decency ahould not exceed that of the Judge on th su preme bench it la now four or five times as much, according to common report, beside being a rotten spot on the body politic. Central City Record: For Km time past the Burlington has been paying a quarterly dividend of 1 per cent. The other .day Its directors announced an additional dlvl dent of 6 per cent. This 6 per cent divi dend Is supposed to extend back over th last three years, thus really putting the road on an 8 per cent baela. It doesn't look as if the agitation against the rail roads and the 2-cent fare lawa had hurt the Burlington to any extent so far. Wefplng Water Herald: Th anti-treat sensation that was sprung at Plattsmouth Has got many of the boys on the run. Re cently, about ten prominent gentlemen came out of the court house. One man said: "Come on boys and have some thing." Did they go.? Not much. On after another had business in another direc tion and their excuses were a varied as their throats were dry, yet the bridge con tractor said he would stand responsible. Siooo.oo Per Year for Life If you are In geod health, approximately this amount, or a larger or smaller sum can be assured to you by a contract giving you and your wife a life Income, beginning at the end of stipulated period and continuing as long as either shall live, or giving your wife a life Income beginning immediately If you die. The Mutual Life Insurance Company invites investication from those who would like to make sure the welfare of tleir loved ones. It invites investiga tion of its assets, of its policies, of its rates, ard just now especially of the savings made and being made by its new management. How would you like $1,000 Der vesr for life ? Send for folder showing who have tried this method and how they like it. The Time to Act is NOW. For the new forms of policies writ lo The Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York. N. Y. Or STANHOl'K FLEMING, Manager, KIrst National flank Blda.. vumtrr loui ana rurnam oireeis, umaha, iveb. V rERSO-VAL NOTES. Henry 8. Geret editor of the Hamn. shire Gasette of Northampton, Mass., has been In actlv newspaper work for sixty years, and the paper h now edit Is 121 years old. Whll Andrew Carnegie has distributed his charity over all parts of this country and Europe, he has not neglected his native town of Dunfermline. Ha has bought a beautiful glen adjacent to the town and made Of It a summer resort so attractive that hundred spend their outings there. Bheboygan, Wis., Is not conspicuous on the map, but a great idea has been evolved there. The local association nf business men has decided to confine ad vertising to regular newspapers, cutting out programs, race cards, theater curtains nd similar catch-penny affair. Bheboy gan has a fine bunch of level-headed busi ness men. Rev. Horace Hovey of Newburypoi-t, Mass., whose explorations of Mammoth cave, Kentucky, hav brought him world wide fame, has recently prepared a new map showing all of the passages. iurnn ma last visit a rew months ago he found a new room sixty feet In diameter and from ISO to 200 feet In height. New England has furnished nearly as many of our present navsi officer of nag rank aa all of the rest of the t'nlted tstates combined. The highest officer of tho navy. Admiral Dewey, l a native of Vermont, a state without a seaport. Of the twenty-two rear-admirals on th list, eight are New Englanders. This Is a re markable showing for so small a section of the country. ' . An entire rearrangement of the penal Institution of th District of Columbia. so as to make Washington stand In the an of the cltlea with respect to her treat ment of criminals and those accused of crime, Is to be the object of serious en- eavor on the part of the Washington chamber of commorce. If the present plans of President Robert N. Harper are Carried out. PAS8IQ PLEASANTRIES. What do you thing an Ideal uuick lunch Is?" "I can suggeat nothing more like It than hasty pudding on a fast day." Baltimore American. Cook Dinks suffers from hav fever doesn't he? Hook I should say he does. He can't even pass a grass widow without sneealng. Harper's Weekly. "Men ar so queer. Tell them after the honeymoon thst your love la growing cold and they never glance up from th paper?' "No; but tell them the aoup Is getting cold and they Jump about ten feet. De troit News. "Do you expect to reform your city?" "No," answered Mr. Ward Heeler, "I don't expect to do that. But I hope to put some of those opposition graftera to a lot of trouble before I quit." Washington Star. Enthusiastic Agent In addition tn li other perfections, there Is hot air In this house. Prospective Buyer Tou needn't tell me that, mister. I guess I know It when I hear it. Baltimore American. "The trouble with all of ua," Mr. Pneer was saying, "Is that we don't live close enough to nature." "I do." snapped his wife. "I haven't had a new dress for six years!" Chicago Trib une. Cassidy I see some wise scholar Is claim In' that Adam and Eve wus Chinese. Casey What a fool he Is! fihure he might know they was Irish, bekas they was evicted. Philadelphia Press. "Do you think they will ever discover th north pole?" "Surely. But not until there ceases to be good money In lecturing about It." St. Louis Republic. DIXIE IT TO DAT. (Detroit Free Press.) Now Teddy' gwlne to de land o cotton, Whar old times am not fo'gotten. 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