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fall and comnlete rop1e of The Dull''
Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed
drtrlng The month of September, 1W7, -was as
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M440 17 38.690
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4 18,980 II 30,500
5 38.350 20 36.290
36,340 tl .. 36.670
T 36,340 21 36,320
35,600 28 37,360
36,140 24 M.E20
10 86,630 2 5 36,380
11 36,470 2 30,030
13 36,370 37 MrSOO
12 36,020 21 36,600
14 36,610 2 35,653
'If 36,400 SO 36,800
Total 1,083,470
Less utiaold and returned copies. MOT
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CHABLE3 C. ROSE WATER,
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WHEJV OVT OF TOWN.
Awbacsrlbera loaiving (be city tem
porarily afcoald ksvt The Bee
sualled (a (hem. Address will be
chanced aa often requested.
A physician asserts that heivy gum
khoes are injurious to health. Don't
eat them.
.Investors who followed -Tom Law
son's advice on copper are figuring up
, their Joss on Lawgon.
The Wall street boars are making
good dcql more noise than those in
the Louisiana cancbrakes.
. . Summed ujj, the .conference -at The-
dague reports tnat, armed peace is
beut the best substitute for war.
"The republic is reeling' says Gov
ernor Vardaman. " Intoxication 'must
oe on the increase . In . , Vardaman'
wordery.
Dr. Piej-kowski of Berlin asserts
hat -virulent bacilli lurk in upcurling
jnostaches." Bounds suspiciously like
lese majeste.
The opening of the presidential cam
paign for next year cannot long be de
layed. Tom Watson is showing signs
of restlessness.
A man has been thrown Into jail in
Florida for writing poetry. Florida
is always trying new plans for eucour
aging immigration.
K Boston newspaper says the "Sen
ator Lodge presidential boom has been
launched Jn dead earnest." With the
accent on "dead?"
Hev. Dr. Aked says London jour
nalism i yellower than New York
journalism. Dr. Aked is an English
man who understands a joke.
Semi-official organs in Russia insist
that war between the United States
And Japan ia inevitable. Now is the
time for Captain llobton to subscribe.
For a. man who has made such -a
splendid reputation with his fists,
Stuyvesaut Kts;h is Jpwerine himself In
public esteem by doing his fighting by
proxies.
"The prejudice against gold is re
markable," says the is'ew Orleans
Picayune. It Is not so strong up this
way, as the prejudice against the ab
sence of K.
Wonder what has come between Ed
itor Metcalfe and Mayor "Jim" that
the former should feel It necessary to
take such a crimp in the JJahlnian
pemocraey?
The editor of a Denver yellow re
calls the day he "went to an Insane
asylum." He does not explain how
.they happened to let him out before
he was cured.
According to the official report of
the democratic gabfest at Fremont,
Judge LjQOiuls' speech was '"freighted
wfth convictions." That's the way Xor
a candidate for a judge's job to talk.
Seven republican judges of the dis
tiict court are up for re-election in
tills district and not a democrat run
ning against them. What better evi
dence is wanted of the democratic es
timate of the chances of democratic
eitccccs at the coming election?
The announcement that the battle
shipii 'Mv t".iug to tlie Pf.cific caused
a Jar;e lrHri;e In the number of new
eiilU ::. i: is, but thai i- a;t to be
clit-rked b: thr iiirther auuouncejneut
Hi:- ici'ii ;,ir jui-s of prunes have
b j. .1 Jt-d for feeding the sailors
lun4g tbe'.r slay In Pacific waters.
COPPER VLATCD 5E VRtTlES.
Former Senator Clark of Montana
has been quite busy alnce Lis return
from Europe telling where we have all
been making mistaken. He nays the
greatest commercial and Industrial evil
of Urn nation today is due to over
production and unless there is a let-up
in industrial affairs the country is cer
tain to come upon troublous times,
with a disastrous financial panic as
the climax. .
There Is no question that the last
year or two has witnessed an over
production of copper, together with
more marked overproduction of high
finance schemes to dispose of the prod
uct and deceive the public as to the
true condition of the supply and de
mand for it. As a. result," the public
acquired wisdom in the lone run and
the bottom dropped completely out of
the copper market. Copper stocks
have depreciated something more than
BO per cent and the price of the actual
metal has declined about 25 per cent.
Yel copper is being used In larger
quantities' than ever before, and as
soon as the overproduction has been
disposed of copper may bo expected to
regain its normal basis on the market.
How far the game played with cop
per plated securities has been played
in other fields is yet to be disclosed,
but signs of widespread contagion are
still wanting. Mr. Clark doubtless
feels that be has coppered his old
political nemies, who have gone down
with the slump which for him gives a
silver lining to a very copper-hued
cloud.
A QVEER BRA KD OF FX'SJOA.
The most striking illustration of
the adage that "politics makes strange
bedfellows" yet produced has been ac
complished by a fusion of the republi
cans of New York City with the Inde
pendence league, which Is just another
name tor William Randolph Hearst,
incorporated. The issue is the election
of eleven judges of the different courts
In New York county and city and the
fusion is tho result of a desire on the
part of the republicans and Hearst to
wrest control of tho city and county
judiciary from Tammany hall. In the
fusion" deal, the republicans name six
of the .candidates, giving .five to the
Hearst .faction.
Whila tha issue la purely local to
New York City aud the pew arrange
ment may be warranted by the com
mon desire to accomplish thedefeat
of Tammany and end the corrupt rule
of that organisation, It will be a little
Jarring to republicans generally to find
their party allied, even for a purely
local contest, with Hearst and his
league. Hearst has stood for years
as the representative of everything the i
republican party has opposed and he j
bf been the constant target of re
publican criticism.
Of coursei the result, of the fusion
deal cannot be foreseen. If all who
votfca the republican ticket or the
Hearst, ticket last (fall should rally to
the fusion -ticket this year, the over
throw of the Tammany forces would
be easy, but Tammany's resources are
many and varied and its .Ashtlng
powers are great. The exposure of
the recent tractipn scandals and the
growing public sentiment, against the
inordinate greed of those in control of
the public service corporations lu New
Y.ork, most of whom are Tammany
bopstjers, may cause a, landslide to the
fusion ticket. Biit the question will
still' remain whether the New York
republicans will, in such event, have
inado .a good .or a bad bargain by
political partnership with Hearst.
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1S0L,ATIX0 POWDKR 1'LJXTS.
An explosion like that in the Pupont
powder plant at Fontanet, Ind., re-
tulting in th,e loss of a hundred lives
and the wrecking of a prosperous
town, should move every state legis
lature to realize the need of better
laws for isolating a business so full
of peril as the) manufacture of ex
plosives. It is a source of constant
wonder that such' disasters as that at
Fontanet continue possible. The own
ers of the powder plants' know the
dangers. Tiiey figure upon losing
about ' no much every year by ex
pfoslons, just as a merchant figures
upon losses in breakage and deteriora
tion ot-,hJs goods.' Yet, it is not un
common to find villages built in close
proximity to powder plants that have
been removed to the country for the
express purpose of isolation. It is sur
prising that laws have not been passed
prohibiting the construction of dwell
ings within the danger zone of such
plants.
Workmen in powder plants appre
ciate the dangers from explosion, but
they become accustomed to it and
finally indifferent, even to the point
of exposing their families to the risk
of the explosion, certain to .come
sooner or later. it la uncertain
whether the Dupont company can be,
or -should be, held responsible for the
damage occasioned by the explosion
at Fontauet and the destruction of
property for fifty ' miles' around. No
business could exist under such re
sponsibilities, but that does not alter
the fact that the loas of life and the
destruction of property due to the ex
plosion In question Is unwarranted and
inexcusable.
Every state should have a law re
quiring factories for the manufacture
of such explosives to be located In the
center of some large area destitute of
population and prohibiting the con
struction of dwellings within the dan
ger tone. Persons not employed In
the mills should ba kept at a distance
uuder all circumstances. It might be
well, too, to prohibit the storage of
large quantities of powder or other
explosives in the factories. Testimony
shows that 40,000 kegs of powder
were stored tu the Fontanet plant and
that the explosioa ot this surplus
stock, aft'-r the mill had blown up
caused most of the loss.
The damage ha been done at Fon
tanel, but the affair should hasten
precautionary steps against recurrence
of such horrors in other states and
localities.
rirocr.r tare nest lis.
A notable change seems to have
come over the spirit of Collier's
Weekly, which a few months ago was
denouncing as "vindictive legislation"
all the 2-cent fare laws which i had
been enacted by different state legis
latures, with particular emphasis upon
Nebraska. The last number of Col
lier's, discussing "Two-Cent Prosper
ity," as evidenced by the report of the
Railroad commission of Ohio, is com
pelled ,to admit that the lesson of the
figures is that 2 cents a mile for carry
ing passengers is in general "a fair
rate.'" Of couvsc, it hedges by quali
fying its statement with a limitation
to "a well-settled state like Ohio," and
endeavors to make a further exception
that, "while most of the roads In Ohio
seenj to thrive on 2-cent fares, there
are some, and those precisely the
weakest and most obnoxious, which
suffer a serious hardship." Its idea is
that if all the lines were owned by a
single company It might be proper to
lump them all together under a single
rate, but that under existing conditions
the maximum passenger fare ought to
vary from one line to another in order
to afford them each the same percent
age of profit.
Collier's seems to be oblivious of the
fact that all these considerations were
taken under advisement by the law
makers before this "vindictive legis
lation" wag enacted. But they con
cluded that inasmuch as the railroads
themselves in selling interchangeable
mileage books made no such distinc
tion it would not be - practicable to
make any such distinction in law. It
should be known and reiterated that
what finally clinched the 2-cent fare
bill in , Nebraska was the voluntary
offer of the railroads to carry commer-
Clal travelers buylng-books on any mile
Of their lines at this rate, providing
.u , i m .. ,, , . .
they retained the privilege of Chargina
the farmers and. casual travelers
3 cents a mile. Having come around
thls far. to admit 2 cents to be "a fair
,rato" In "a well-settled state like
Ohio," Collier's may later, when all
the figures are at hand, come around
to the point of admittise that it is a
fair rate even in Nebraska, where the
percentage of increased travel afld the
elimination of free passes is unques- .the last "frightful wreck" which pre
tlonably serving to reimburse the rail- it in England and stopped comment
roads in tho same proportion.
'The resignations of John O. Yeiser
and Charles T. Dickinson from the
democratic judicial ticket have been
filed following that of W. A. Foster
and fulfilling the promise made before
the primary in the event thy failed 4.0
secure a majority of the republican
votes. As evidence of good faith in
politics, the voluntary retirement of
these candidates entitles them to a
credit mark.
The time to boost for 200,000 popu
lation for the Greater Omaha ot 1910
is right now when thp biggest step
toward that goal should be made by
consolidation of Omaha and South
Omaha. Those who preach a Greater
Omaha when nothing Is to be done and
hide behind the fence when work la aJM
hand should be recorded in the books
for future reference.
The city attorney declares that the
$3,500,000 of gas bonds demanded by
the mayor and council can be utilized
only to buy the existing gas plant at
the price which its owners may name
and it ia a safe proposition that the
owners of the gas plant will not sell
voluntarily at any price that would
make Its purchase profitable to the
city. What's the use?
Two years ago our democratic
friends tried to make an issue in the
campaign over the acceptance by the
Board of Regents of the Rockefeller
donation, but they seem to have for
gotten all about this terrible crime.
The democratic bunco game this year
Is called "nonpartlsanship on the
bench, "
Is it not trivial and futile to seek to
alienee the democratic editors? World
Ilerald. '
It certainly Is. If the democratic
editors were to be silenced they eould
not make those timely "breaks" which
are always so effective In helping out
the republicans.
Thomas F. Ryan refuses to discuss
the traction exposures in New York.
The clown in the old-fashioned circus
used to remark, "We've got your
money, and that's what we're here
for."
France is naming its battleships
after its playwrights. That would not
do In this country. It would be con
fusing to have all our battleships
named after David Belasco.
Lillian Russell declares that divorce
is a blessing land that nine out of ten
marriages are unhappy. The debate
will be closed as soon as Senator Piatt
files his brief on the subject.
The clergyman who Insists that Chi
cago is the modern Babylon should be
told that the world Is . getting a little
tired of hearing people knock on
Babylon.
There are some funny features in
the literary business. Kipling gets 5
a word for everything be writes and no
one pays the least attention to any
thing he says.
Ex-Candidate Berge has discovered
that the' republican party has been
playing horse with reform sentiments
In this state. Not anything, .however,
like the way the democratic party
played horse with ' th gubernatorial
expirations of Mr. Populist Berge when
he headed the fusion tlcRet three years
ago.
Detroit papers are printing a lot o
Stories about "Hughle" Jennings, but
the public Is not as deeply interested
in "Hughle" as it was a week ago.
Dodging) the gpotllght.
Cleveland leader.
Courtesy is becoming so rare that the
man who gives up hl aeat In a street oar
feels as II he were playing to the grand
stand. Dlttnalna; Good Keeling.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
When It cornea to a question of diffusing
that peace feeling Secretary Taft beats
the whole kit and bllln' of the signatory
Powere at The Hague.
A Good Job of Killing.
Indianapolis News.
English railroad accidents are not so nu
merous as our own, but It la once more
shown by the wreck at Shrewsbury that
when one does happen over there tt is a
pretty thorough job;
Mystery of Disaster.
New York World.
In the presence of such a calamity as
that caused, bv the nowrier ernlnalnn nAi
Braall, Ind.. humanity stands appalled. No
man will ever know how It occurred. What
everyone does know is that In every quar
ter where such mills are established tho
utmost care should be taken that a similar
accident shall not be possible.
A Courageous Opinion.
Wall Street Journal.
Robert Mather of the Rock Island Is to be
strongly commended for his courageous are pressing the work to completion as fast
expression of opinion In regard to the rail- ' as men and material can be had.
road question. It Is courageous because I A comprehensive view of the vast under
lie takes a position largely In opposition to ! taking has been given by M. E. Hutchln
tliat hold by many of the railroad officials son, former editor of the French South
of the country. He la In favor of , govern- African Review, In the Independent. He
mtnt regulation of tho railroads and be- estlmatos the entire length of the route
llevea that there Is no -surer remedy for the from Cairo to Cape Town at 6,873 miles,
evil of rebates than tho enforcement of the Of this distance 3.166 miles of railroad
act imposing flus.
Hoananee and rootle Jnstlee.
.Baltimore American.
A case in which romance and poetic jus- starting from Cnpe Town, the South Af
tlce were united In a marked degree was rlcan line runs through Bulawayo. past
that of the mayor of an Iowa town who Victoria Falls, to Broken Hill, near the
! J!,!,up'l an edict that ll the bachelors in
T" tOWn must many wJthln th" year or
Pay a tax on tho luxury of single blessed-
ress.. Upon the Issuing of thla edict one of
' the bnchelors promptly ran off with the
I mayor's daughter, that official's wrath prov-
Ing that there Is nothing so rtrky as taking
a man at hla word.
Perils of High Speed.
St. Louis Republic.
A cabled explanation of the frightful
wreck of the English Northwestern express
near Shrewsbury is that It was running
at high speed. This was the explanation or
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......w uni.i cAiiiaijainuii ill MUUIIHdiiiT,
but in Kngland also, when the nubile de
mands Increasing speed, the result will con
tinue to be . In operation of the laws of
momentum and gravity In Increasing mor
tality. 11 EG 1' LA TING CORPORATE FIXAJiCK
Necessity for Better Protection at the
' Public.
Kansas pity Times.
In view of recent exposures relating to
the financial manipulations iu rallroitd
properties, In traction corporations, in
Standard Oil and other big corporate con
cerns engaged in interstate busineaa, can
any pet son of intelligence blind himself or
hope to blind others to the absolute neces-
eity -for better protection for the general
public and for the army of stockholders
on whom the manipulators "unload?" And
can anyone question the wisdom and tbo
timeliness of President Roosevelt's advo-
cacy of laws to give the federal govern-
ment In some way authority to supervise
the capitalization, organization and opera-
lion of these great Interstate concerns?
The cry of those who have enjoyed and
abused their liberal license that such su-
pervlslon would bo either Impractical or
unsafe may be answered In a word by
saying that It has been both aafe an,d
practical in neany every European coun-
try; that In Great Britain all such cor-
porations are subject to complete govern-
mont supervision, even to tho exaction of
frequent and correct reports of financial
standing; that nowhere else Is there a
tolerance mi sucn license.
such looseness
and such demoralization of the rules of
ethics and Justice In the great business of
a country at nourish In the United States.
Tho professed fear of "centralization" is
a mere bugaboo, held up to frighten those
vtuu i-iieriBii ji-tiiuuaiy i uiivamriiu&i prin
ciples of democratic government. Democ-
racy must demonstrate Its capacity to meet
natural development,. The corporations
have become centralized; finance bus be -
. ,. . , . ,. , . j
come centralized; it Is Inevitable and es-
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sen a that control must be centraJWed In
order to cope with tho evils of centralised
wealth and business promotion. States
cannot effectively govern Interstate Institu
tions. The federal government must begin
where the capacity of the states ends.
The president -la right. He Is to be sup
ported for his timely agitqtion ot this great
Question. There can be neither security
nor Justice, neither adequate protection nor
economlc stability, until the evils of loose
capitalization, ' predatory manipulation,
fraudulent organization and financial graft
in these " Interstate corporations is checked
by the strong hand of the national govern-
ment. - After all this is a nation rather
than a union of states. '
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fir
Just amply the best fur sad furtiaed coats lor
tea ia Aawica. Ask the beat JcaUr you
kaow lot the coals loaded.
. McMbbin
Write a if yovt dealer will aoi show yea
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SAINT PAUL
OTIIKIt LAND TH Ot n.
If the "ptrit.of Oom Taul Kruser Is cug
nimnt ot events In his bclnved Transvaal,
It might rightly ask the shad" of trans
lated associates whether Splon Kop or Par
deburg shaped the dost In of the Boer re
public. Puoh has becnhe changes wrought
In ttjuth Africa alnco Uriton triumphed ortr
Boer that the reeulta present the paradox
of Hoer defeat turned Into victory. When
the British liberal ministry grunted the
Transvaal local self-government extremlsta
of the tory stripe In England and at the
Cap denounced the giant as treason to the
empire -and predicted an early resumption
of racial disorder. The results of the first
session of the Transvaal Farllament under
tha direction of a responsible ministry
proved clearly the wisdom of giving the
people control and management of their
local affairs. Vmler the leadership of
Premier Botha. Boer and Briton united
theli talents gnd energies In perfecting
laws to meet pressing conditions. Mnny
radical measures were proposed, dealing
particularly with the tory legacy of coolie
labor, but even on this vital question eon
servatlam prevailed. Caution whs the key
note of ministerial action. Extremists were
held in check so ' effectively that Boor
measures were toned down and shorn of
racial characteristics. An excellent edu
cation bill, excluding sectarianism, became
a law, and several financial measures de
signed to afford relief where the ravages
"v of war were most severely felt. On the
whole the cession was remarkaoa iree
from the heated contentions which usually
follow war, and the practical unanimity of
! the ,hree rsrty divisions on all essentials
a happy augury of the future of the
ootony.'
The dream of a Cape to Cairo railroad
which became tho life ambition of Cecil
Rhodes Is much nearer realization than Is
generally known. The famous empire
builder of South Africa lived to see the
project well advanced, and his successors
have already been built and 876 miles more
are projected, making the total length of
.. . .... .... .
railroad now provided for 4.MI miles, or
more than two-thirds of the entire distance.
center of Rhodesia, a distance of 2,000 m'les.
Fro, "roken Hill an extension Is projected
northward neurty 6 miles to the aouthorn
end of Lake Tanganyika. Starting from
Cairo, there Is a railroad already in onera-
tinn to Assouan, a distance of 583 miles;
and, passing over a RP of 200 miles south
of Assouan, there la another road extend
ing 60 miles from Wady Haifa, at the
northern edge of the Nubian desert, to
Khartum In the Egyptian Sudan. More
over, a further extension of 410 miles Is
said to be projected connecting Khartum
wllh raambara. Of the 1;WX miles remain
Ing there soon will be communication by
water the greater rart of the way, leaving
a gap "f only 450 miles between Lake,
Tanganyika and Lake Albert Nyanza.
The Wochenblatt in an article on Francis
Joseph of Austria describes the venerable
emperor as a "democratic aristocrat." and
In explanation of this strange title says:
"Although he is surrounded and restrained
by court usages and customs, and despite
the fact that he Is, in his speech and action
and even In the expression of his face,
always the master, the emperor, he is also
. , 7. J m .. ZZ ll
1 Priaca Wmelf on hi. familiarity with the
many languages which are spoken In his
realm, and his subjects who have heard
him speak them were always dulightod
wllh his 'real' accent. When the emperor
was at Prague recently he spnue iioiiemian
at one of the functions arranged in his
honor, and the next day at Budapest the
king's Hungarian was the subject of much
praise. A foreigner who was present on
bt,i occasions asked: 'Does t,ho emperor
spenk German as well as he does the
Csecb Jargons?' The patriotic Austrian an-
swerad: 'He speaks Hungarian like a
Szegediner, Bohemian like an old Proger,
and German, not like the people on the
Spree, but with the musical accent which
reminds one of the Danube and of tho
mirthful life of Vienna. Our emperor Is a
linguist, but he does not apeak German as
you know the language he speaks 'Wiener
rjeutsch.
I '
I An English journal directs attention to
tno unparalleled activity which prevails at
thft prfBnt time In the projection of plans
f0r railway tunnels In Swltterland and ad -
joining countries. Seven or eight schemes
are on foot, including those for the con
struction of a tunnel parallel to the Sim
plon, a similar work beneath the Jura
another through Mont Blanc, and a new
tunne, ftt a ,owt.r ,evt, n pIace of the
lutlng ILauenstein tunnel. The second
Ain.inn tunnel m-lll he Hllihtlv wider than
h flrrt ft l8 probftbe ,at the total cost
th,n 7 500 0W( The
;1" ol . , .
l jectod tunnel under Mont Blanc Is to be
J
rather more tha.i eleven miles long, and Its
ru,er " .,,.
'""Bl P"'nl ' v'7' , "
aea level. This scheme has been workod
out by a technical commission of the Turin
municipality, and, if conatructed. the tun
nel will give direct railway communication
between Aoata and Chamonix.
A gloomy view pf the future of his pro-
fesslon was presented oy an eminent n.ng-
lish physician. Pr. William Ewart, at a
recent medical gathering In London, but
there is nothing In his conclusion to dls-
tu'rb the public at large. The profession,
he aald, has seen Its best days, and a
crisis Is impending. The average earnings
I ,re something like ll.O') or fl.gv) a year.
1 a ad reasonable provision for old age Is
almost tmposttlhl. The causes are the In
crease In hygienic living, including modera
tion In the use of alcohol, the decline' of
Invalidism, and "free-thinking." by which
he iwiu to mean that the laity are grow
ing contemptuous of doctors, tu short, be
said, physicians Jiave seen their busiest
days In the treatment of disease, and hence
forth must devote more of their time to
the culture of health. He suggusted that
under the conditions the cost of research
ought to be borne by the state.
HtKItO ALCOHOL OX flKUi.
low PtognM la Developing the J
dastr. St. Louis alobe-Deruociat.
The Internal revenue commissioner has
prepared for public use a document giving
the regulations for manufacturing alcohol
frorp waste products on the farnj. and no
doubt the Department of Agriculture will
follow up the matter with bulWtlaa in
the popular educational form. Making
cheap alcohol for fuel, power and light Is
great Industry pn the German farms, and
takes a considerable part in the Herman
advance In manufacturing and commerce.
French farmers also have made prog, ess
Jn the businesb. Some own their own stills
and others depend on traveling distillers.
The waste of wine, fruit and fruit grow
ing U chiefly relied on, potato crops cost
ing more in France than lu Germany.
At the b ginning of the year the tax on
the manufacture of d -nalurtd alcohol was
removed, but the advautages predicted are
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Er use that beginners may work ES
EEEF" with it. successfully. ' It makes f
home baking easy, and gives you
bread, cake and biscuit nicer, better
E and less expensive than the baker's.
EE But to make your home baking
EE successful and perfect you must use EE
EE. Dr. Price's Baking Powder
not yet visible to any extent. Time :
required to grasp the practical derails ot
tho change. American farms raise more
marketablo crops than any other and have
a greater variety of waste and by-products.
Alcohol can be distilled from corn
cobs and like material and Is aald to be
superior to gasoline for fuel. 'The authori
ties at Washington are giving thought to
what can be accomplished In Hs mnnufac-
i . .. . . . . , . ,
farmers, and the Industry, when fairly set
In motion, will take the place antlclpaU-d
The uses of a cheap, efficient fuel arc not
in doubt. An active campaign by the de
partment of Agriculture will give de
natured alcohol the start needed.
POLITICAL DIIIFT.
t
The leglFlature of New Jersey has Juat
finished a session of nine months, mort of
the time consumed in dodging action on re
form measures.
In Connecticut a constitutional amend
ment to raise the salary of merqbers of the
legislature to 00 a year was, on submis
sion to the people, overwhelmingly de
feated. A contract has been awarded for a
hanging stairway in the Philadelphia city
hall. Thla is said to be the last-job of
that mighty city hall Job, which stretched
over thirty-seven years and cost $25,000,000.
Secretary Root's blistering speech on
Hearstism In New. York last fall Is doing
buty In the judicial campaign in New York
i CXiY- and ' v"y embarrassing to repub
llcan promoters of tho- coalition with the.
Indepeadence league.
The declaration of Senator Lodge that
the city government of Boston "has sunk
In the eyea of - men to a point of de
gradation utterly unknown in the annals
of the city," is considered conclusive evi
dence that the local campaign la aomb-
thing fierce.
1 Even Rhode Island has taught the fever
j of kicking political bosses. General Charles
j W. Drayton, manager In chief of the re-
i publican machine since the war, has been
i ousted from the state capitol building and
tho republican candidate for governor
pledges himself publicly that Brayton will
never come back, In hia day Brayton was
the political dictator of Little Rhody.
Walter C. Emerson of Portland, Me., who
has announced his' candidacy for the con
gressional nomination against Representa
tive Allen, who succeeded the late Speaker
Reed, ia well and favorably known, having
been a leading Washington correspondent
of a New York paper fdV a number of
years.. As a public speaker Mr. Emerson
enjoys a high reputation, and this Is ills
first candidacy for any office.
Criminal Peaaltlea Neded.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Industrial manslaughter still goes on
! and ia likely to
j penalties applied to
likely to continue until criminal
the men really respon
sible enforce the lesson that human, life
must be rated as of higher value -than
business profits.
Marks of
carriage, aud 'without excessive padding.
Suits SIS to S35
Browning, Ming r. Co
cxoTxiwe, rntanmxK9, amt cats
E. 8. WUXOA, manager.
chair
$3.75,
So perfect
In make, so simple in
POINTED HEMARK".
"Cholly has brain fever."
"How d he get It ?"
"He met a girl who- kept saying Must
hink:' and Cholly tried to." Houston 1'oct.
"Pop, what Is the under-world?"
"The people who try to run automobiles,
my son." ilajtlmore American.
"But." protested the . young wife, "I'm
sure the milk is watery."
"I II b honest with you, ma am, saiii
ihe foxy milkman, confidentially, "you
free, the cows got into the salt bin some
how last week, and It made em awful
thirsty. It won't occur again, though."
Philadelphia Press.
"I suppose you wljl have some great
speeches at your banquet."
"Speeches don't make any difference."
answered the statesman. "What voters
are Interested In now Is whether or not
there are any cocktails on the bill ot fare."
Washington Star.
Jinx Why do you eat at the lum h
counter around the corner? They give you
butterlne, and the bread tastes of kero
sene. Kptnx I know It, hut the girl that serves
them Is a peacherine. Chicago Tribune.
The Stoat Army .Calomel.
"You are fat. Colonel Boomer," the orderly
said ;
"Your weight must be near twenty stone;
And yet when I entered you stoed on y cat
head 'Twas cleverly done, you must own."
"My friend," said the colonel, "I know I km
SlOW, ;
I'm wheezy'and corpulent, too:
Tot I'm. In condition because I don't know
Whnt Teddy will next make ua do."
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
BROTHERHOOD.
J. W. Foley In New York Times.
"For old times' sake" Ho, Brother, com
Let s be -the closer friends, we two.
Be other tongue of pleading dumb.
Need I bring other plea to you?
If-we have been too -much apart,
If Time or Toll or Trouble lends
Its touch of coldness to the heart,
"For old times' sake" let's be good
frlepds.
"For old times' fuko" I've heard It oft.
So linpk honest, swnt and kind,
T .light It makes my heart grow soft,
Soft with a sweetness undefined;
It takes me elsewhere, far and far.
It bids me look above and aee
Where, the best glories of us are
For old times' sake be friends with me.
"For old times' sake," when In mv heart
Whs all the sweetness of Its youth,
That prayer nor cry nor rrewh nor art
Ciin give mo In Us simple truth;
And It was In thee, too, and by
The memory of It that ends
Not wllh Its essence, .let us try
For old times' sake to be good friends.
And who art thou? It matters not.
And who am I? What shall w care?
Or what the place of us or lot.
I know thou art a aoul somewhere,
Perhaps, like roe, worn hard and old,
Forgetful but the struggle ends
Some time, and .ere tbe clay grows cold.
Forbid times' sake, oome, let a be friends
Do not the wild birds to thee oall?
Do aot the akkeBgrow -deeper blue?
Does not the Summer blend With FH
In glory, aa It tised to do?
if I am near to (thee, or far.
Or In what lot or plaee I be.
In kindness see what glories are:
For old times' sake be friends with ma.
Right Style
HE most distinguishing feature of a coat
is the lapel.
Following the newest English model,
we cut ours with long, graceful. roll on.
hroad lines, no more "shoestring" lapels
itnd collars.
And no more sloping shoulders. The
extra broad concave shoulders on our
new coats give a correct and graceful
Special
for Saturday.
Quarter sawed oak Dining Chair, sim
ilar to cut, full box seat, mortised and
framed together, best of workman
ship, spat upholstered in genuine
hand-buffed leather. Thi-s
sells regular for
Saturday only for.
2.75
Miller, Stewart & Beaton
413-15.17 So. 16ih Srt.
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