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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE; TUESDAY, OCTOHKK 1, 1 !!.
The Omaha Daily Be,
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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.
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The Mutual
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tleir loved ones. It invites investiga
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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.
Look away, look away, look away, Dixie
land;
In Dixie land whar b'ars am growlln'.
Pretty soon will he be prowlln',
Look away, look away, look away; Dlxl
landi ,
Oh, Teddy's gwlne to Dixie.
Hoorar! lioorav!
! In Dixie land With gun In hand,"
He'll ahoot them b'ar In Dixie.
Away, away, awy down outh In Dli
Dem nature fakers bes' be beedln'.
Soon we'll git some Juicy readln',
Look away, look away, look away, Dlxl
land:
In de canebrake he'll go sneakln'.
An' his gun will soon be speakin ,
Look away, look away, look away, Dixio
land;
Fo' Teddy's gwlne to Dixie,
Hoorav! Hooray!
An' fo' de youth, he ll git de truth
Of b ars an' things In Dixie,
Away, away, away down south In Dixie.
Through dat canebrake, when he's rldln".
P'raps he'll find a trust In hldln'.
Look away, look away, look away, Dixie
land;
He ain't gwlne down dar for nuffln',
F'um dat trust he'll beat de stuffln'.
Look away, look away, look away; Dlxl
tana;
Fo' Tejiy' gwlne to Pixie,
H(K
ui
Hooray
In Dixie land, big stick In hand'
lie it wnaie ae trusts in uixie.
Away, away, away down south In Dlxl.
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Will Democrats Heet the Wsrslsgt
Brooklyn Eagle.
On th authority of a friend. Mr. Bryan
is quoted a having aald that very few men
hav been defeated three time for the
preaidenry. True; and no man, having
been beaten twice, fver Invited defeat til
third time except Henry Clay. And bis
fute should convey Its wn warning;.
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