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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: OCTOBER 20. lfK57. Tim Oniajia Sunday Ber FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROBEWATER VICTOR ROSBWATER. EDITOR. Entered at Omaha Potofflce econd clasa matter. TERMS Or BUB9CRIPTION. rilly Re (without Bunday), one year..MJ Daily fcm and Sunday, one yer Sunday Bee, one year j-gj Saturday Boo, on year DEUVERED Bl CARRIER. Pally Bee (Including Bunday), per week.. 16c Dally Bee (without Bunday). per week.. 10c Kvenlng Boa (without Bunday ). per week c Kvenlng bee (with Bunday). per week...lpo Address all complaint of Irregularities in delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building;. South Omsha City Hall Building. Council Bluff 15 Scott Street. Chicago 1640 Unity Building;. New Xork-IMS Home Ufa Insurance Bldg. Washington 601 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communication relating to new and edi torial matter ahould be addressed, Omaha Bee. Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, eipress or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-rent stamp received In payment of mall account. Personal check, except on Omaha or eaatern exchange, not accepted. STATEMENT OF" CIRCULATION. Stat of Nebraska, Douglas county, : Charle C. Rosewater. general manager cl The Bee Publishing Company, being duly worn, says that the actual number nf full and complete copies of The Dally Morning, Evening and Bunday Bee printed during the month of September. 1907, wu a ioiiows: 1 88,700 1 M,40 S 36,300 4 38,80 ' 38,350 36,340 7 36,840 1 88,000 t 36,140 10 30,690 11 36,470 II 36,370 II 36,030 14 36,810 II 38,400 If 36,680 17 36,690 II 35,880 19 38,800 20 36.B90 21 36,670 21 36,320 it 37,360 14 36,830 25 36,380 21 86,930 IT 36,600 21 36,660 2S 38,669 10 36,890 Total 1,093,470 Less mi so Id and returned coptc. 9,867 Net total 1,083,883 Dally average 36.119 CHARLES C. ROSEWATER, General Manager. Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before ma this SOth day of Septem ber, 1907. (Seal; M. B. HUNdATE, Notary PubUo, WHBN OUT OP TOWN. Sabscrlbrr lcavlaa? the) city tem porarily should have The Be walled t them. Address will he changed a oftea a requested. If milk keeps advancing In price It may really be cheaper to put more oysters im the stew. Well, at any rate, the Louisiana bears are not taking as many chances as the Wall street bulla. ' The Lusltanla carries almost as mafiy passengers as were brought over by the Mayflower on its first trip. Senator Piatt declares that he feels boyish again. " He has doubtless mis taken a childish feeling for the boyish feeling. Unless all signs fall. D. M. Haveily 1 good for another term in the county clerk's office, which he ! filling satis factorily to all concerned. Wall street is waking up to the fact that the time has passed when the public will have its pockets picked without regiHterlng a kick. "The Chicago police are to stop gambling," says the Inter Ocean That's right. It's setting a bad exam ple for the police to gamble. The president is quoted as Having aid he would rather live In San Fran cisco than in Boston. The president likes his pills without sugar-coating. People who want a strictly business administration of the sheriff's office something we have not had in many a year will vote for Brailey for sheriff. "The next republican nominee for the presidency must be a man of push," says the New York Presa. Still, the man of pull usually succeeds best In politics. Consolidation of Omaha and South Omaha during Mayor "Jim's" admin istration would give South Omaha the mayor at the start. That ought to be some Inducement. Perhaps there Is a significance In Secretary Taft's coupling of the asser tions that this country will always be friendly with the Japanese and that we will not sell them the Philippines. Congressman Gardner, son-in-law of Senator Lodge, insists that Presi dent Roosevelt shall be renominated. This deepens the mystery as to the author of the Lodge presidential boom. Dr. Aked Insists that Solomon did not write the songs credited 'to him. The authorship of those songs must remain a mystery, then, as George M. Cohan waa not writing at that time. The report that King Edward and William Waldorf Astor have reconciled their differences is good news, if true. If the quarrel had continued Mr. Astor might have returned to the United States. Governor Sheldon can now return to relieve Acting Governor Hopewell and find things around the state house substantially unchanged since te left the state. This feeling of confidence In his substitute may serve to stimulate other gubernatorial excursions. Mrs. AdJal Stevenson says It la the duty of wives to feed their husbands well. She has done her duty. A dial has been vice president once, a candi date several times and la ready to go Into the contest again If a democratic emergency arises, and a democratio emergency has a good deal of yeastllke liropwrUee In IU makeup. AT) KX POST TiCTO PLANK. The platform upon which the demo crats are appealing for support in the present campaign in Nebraska contains among other things this declaration: Undoubtedly the railway commission, which was created by an amendment to the constitution, ha no power to fix rates. Therefore, we demand that the governor shall cU an extra session of the legisla ture and that that body shall establish maximum rate upon grain, live stock, fruit, vegetable, building material, fuel and such kindred product aa enter Into the ne cessities of life. This is an ex. post facto plank. It was scarcely published to the world before the federal court for the district of Nebraska rendered a decision to the effect that the railway commission, created by amendment to the constitu tion of this state, has power to fix rates, and that the federal courts will not Interfere with the exercise of ,that power so long as it does not exceed the proper scope of the commission, nor overstep the limits of reasonable rates. The commission has fixed a new schedule of cream rates In Nebraska, which is In effect and operation, and It has taken up rates In a number of other cases for the relief of complain ants. More than this, however, the last legislature, by Us republican ma jority, enacted laws establishing max imum rates upon grain, live stock, building materials, fuel and such kindred products, reducing them 15 per cent from what had previously been charged, and railroad patrons shipping these products between Ne braska points are now enjoying the benefits of these reductions. The railroads, it is true, are still contesting the power and authority of the commission to fix or alter rates for the transportation of certain products, I on the ground that the charges for these Shipments between local points are Part Of a rate for interstate Ship- j ments and cannot be changed Without necessarily affecting Interstate Ship- I menta. whnne regulation halonra Moln- i .... . . . , , I slvely to congress. The contention of the railroad lawyers questions not only the power of the railway commission to fix these rates, but the power of the legislature aa well, and turns wholly upon the line of demarcation between federal and state powers. Until that question la finally settled the legisla ture would be in no better position to regulate these rates by direct enact ment than is the railway commission to regulate them by its order or decree. This ex poBt facto plank of the plat form adopted by Nebraska democrats might as well be cut off and relegated to the political scrap-heap. Palpably Inserted for buncombe, it proved to be a wrong guess at the decision of the court, based upon a hope father to the thought. As a. bid for votes for the democratic ticket, It Is likely, also, to prove to be a wrong guess. THE PASSING OF BIO GAME. President Roosevelt's 111-suocess In finding bear plentiful In the Louisiana cauebrakes furnishes an added proof of the fact,' distressing as it may be (o hunters, that the day of big game in America has almost passed. True, some grizzlies Btlll fatten in the fast nesses of the Rocky mountains, va grant moose are found In Maine and occasionally an antelope may be shot in Wyoming, Idaho or Montana, but the general proposition holds that the seeker for what the huntsman desig nates as "big game" will hereafter be compelled to go far afield. The buf falo has vanished from the western plains Incidentally, the plains have also vanished elk, bear, deer, the pugnacious cougar and the Intrepid Hon, the cowardly coyote and the big grey wolf have retreated before the march of the range man, the timber locater and the actual settler. The bones of the bison that once bleached and whitened along the line of the overland trail have turned to fertiliz ers for the wheat fields of the great west and northwest, and he who would harken to the call of the wild has a tedious search before him. Much haa been written by nature- loving students In an agitation for the preservation of the certain species of wild animals once common In the Transmlsaourl region. The passing of the buffalo has been lamented in printed pages and special ef fort haa been made for its preserva tion, but the results have been far from satisfactory. As a matter of fact, the American buffalo haa suc cumbed to the logic of events. While the animal, was valuable for Its hide and Its meat, the economy of an ad vancing civilisation has demanded Us extinction, or, at least, its supplanting by the more profitable and more trac table cow of commerce. The ranges that were once usurped by the buffalo, the wolves and other wild animals are now covered with cattle and sheep, a never-falling source of wealth for the settlers of the west and an Important factor in the commerce of the world. For every wild animal that has been destroyed or driven from the west per haps ten domesticated animals have come instead, performing their allotted function In the commercial and social economy of the time. In the very nature of things, efforts to preserve "big game" must prove disappointing. While deer, buffalo, moose, elk and other former monarch of the plains and ' forests may be granted Immunity from the hunter's gun and find refuge and safety In game preserves, they must lose the spirit of their kind when they lose their liberty and their tear of man. Hunting game in a preserve sur rounded by farms, factories and trolley lines no more approaches the real sport than catching bass in a seine. While it ia desirable that efforts be made to protect and preserve fur bearing animals, that play their Im portant part In modern commercial at fairs, the country must school itself to accept the fact that the day of big game is fast passing forever. OMAHA AS A HOME CITT. ' The growth and prosperity of the modern city depends upon, several fac tors, not the least of which is Us at tractiveness as a place to live In. That Omaha can rightfully claim to be a city of beautiful homes is amply borne out by the collection of photographic reproductions of Omaha residences accompanying this Issue of The Bee. Omaha may be fortunate or unfortu nate In counting among its inhabitants none of overshadowing wealth, revel ling In lavish extravagances, but It makes up for this lack by Its larger number of happlly-rfoused families en joying all the comforts of home. These handsome houses are to be found In nearly every residence section and measure the pride which the owners take in the city of their choice. A pictorial exhibit like this cannot fall to make an impression upon our own people who have not fully realized what advances Omaha has made In the last few years as a home city. It can not fall to Impress similarly visitors and outside acquaintances, to whose attention it may be brought by reveal ing to them architectural achievements and picturesque beauties appealing to their better natures. By sending copies of this edition of The Bee to people . in other towns you can show them the home side of Omaha in a way sure to prove effective in advertising one of the best features of Omaha and still further promoting its expansion and development. Modernize the portraits. Those who have seen the array of gov- "nor portraits hanging In the outer office iine governor 01 weorasaawm oe .nter- ested In an announcement to the effect that Governor Hoch of Kansaa has banished a similar collection from hi office In the state houe. The governor' action ha been Pronounced sacrilege by many loyal Kan- sans, and so would such action on the part n. th. . , n.v. ,,t of the executive of Nebraska. Yet it must be admitted that the criticism which applies to the Kansas group also applies to the Ne braska array, namely, that the portraits present such wild variety and motley art that the general public should not be forced to gase upon the pictures unless It is In search of such divertlsement. Lincoln Star. The banishment of the governors' portraits from the outer walls of the executive office would be sacrilege, In deed, but why should not this picture gallery be modernized and made more realistic for the edification of admiring art connoisseurs? Some of the existing specimens present life-like similitudes which could not be improved upon, yet there are others that could easily be made to tell a stirring story in them selves. King James I might be por trayed in the role and habiliments of hi illustrious namesake and Governor Furnas as the great farmer-showman standing between pumpkins on one side and apples on the other. A fine background for a new portrait of Gov ernor Holcomb could be made of the contents of that famous cigar box, and Oovernor Poynter might be set upon a pedestal of' Insurance policies. His accldency, Ezra I, would look most natural behind a pile of poker chips and a full hand, while his successor, Governor Mickey, should be posed as a Methodist elder, reaching out pardons to a row of hardened criminals. If the possibilities of that gubernatorial por trait gallery were fully exploited, the state could make much money by fixing hours for public inspection and charg ing an admission at the dopr. "TAINTED MONEY" NONSENSE. The agitation against the acceptance by educational and religious Institu tions of money donated by corporation magnates has broken out afresh, after a lull extending over a year or more. A gift by John D. Rockefeller, the king-pin of the Standard Oil company, of $600,000 to an educational institu tion the other day has started Rev. Washington Gladden and others to re newed protest on the ground that the money is "tainted" and should be used, If at all, toward paying that $29,000,- 000 fine. Several replies have been made to Rev. Claddeu'a protest, but the most eloquent and effective comes from a man who ought to be rated aa an expert authority on "tainted" money. This eminent authority is none other than John Lawrence Sulli van, a distinguished citizen of Boston, Mass., the home of culture, beans and some of the world's best prize fighters. Mr. Sullivan bac shown rare restraint, considering his impulsive nature, In discussing sterilized money, but he has finally broken out with this offering on the topic, In choicest Bostonese: These people who are roakln' all this bark about tainted money giva me cramp. No body ever made a squeal on takln' my money because it waa tainted, and I think the coin handed out by John D. 1 just a good aa that banded out by John L., and woujd buy a many meal ticket for th missionaries aa though It never knew the scent of kerosene. John D. ha got some of these tight wads beat to a frazxle, and It Isn't fair to keep him on the pan all the Sullivan is speaking by the card and drawing upon his own experience. He remembers the times when he used to beat the face off "Nifty Mike" for a purse of $5,000 and 70 per cent of the gate receipts, and then pass most of hla winnings around to charitable or ganizations, hospitals and the like. He never found any of them refusing because the money was "tainted." He has a notion that a man who Is hungry Is not going to ask for a certificate of good character for the money with which his meal Is paid for. He has an old-fashioned notion that a man may be kept from freezing by an over coat without inquiring into the pedi gree of the dollars that bought K. By the aame token a man or woman may be educated in a college or receive the comfort of a church without knowing or caring where the money came from for the support of the college or the church. Being without moral quality, money Is good or bad only as its use is good or bad, and any argument to the contrary will not go far In face of the solar plexus blow aimed by the old time heavyweight at the "tainted" money punching bag. EPISCOPALIANS AND DIVORCE. The extent to which the Episcopal clergy may go In their opposition to easy divorces and the refusal to per form the marriage ceremony for di vorced persona waa pretty clearly de fined by the general Episcopal conven tion recently ended at Richmond. The venerable Bishop Doane of Albany has for several years agitated the adoption by the Episcopal church of the Roman Catholic view of marriage as a sacra ment and opposing divorce or remar riage of either party to a divorce pro ceeding. The Albany bishop has had the support of a considerable faction of the church and the leaders of the movement against divorces among Episcopalians are also the leaders in the movement to secure uniform di vorce laws in the different states. The advocates of this reform have secured the adoption of the present rule which forbids an Episcopal clergyman to re marry any divorced person .for whose fault the divorce was granted. The movement, however, to place the ban on all divorces has failed of ratifica tion. The action of the convention plainly accords with the general opinion of the American people who are not op posed to the remarriage of any Inno cent party to a divorce, as strongly as they may favor laws making divorce colonies impossible. The work of the convention, while disappointing to Bishop Doane and his supporters, will doubtless do much to encourage the efforts that are being made by the ad vocates of uniform divorce laws in the various states. The efforts of these i advocates are now centered on one proposition a law in every state pro hibiting the granting of a divorce to any applicant from another state ex cept on grounds which would have been cause for a divorce in the state from which the petition came. Such a law would promptly break up the divorce colonies that have made some states Infamous and would do much to lessen the evils of cheap divorce and easy remarriage. DEATH OF MART J. HOLMES. The death of Mary J. Holmes will cause many a man and woman of mid dle age to pause in reverie over the dreams inspired by that woman in her novels, which were all the rage a generation ago. Mrs. Holmes belonged to a by-gone age in fiction, but with the older set, those who read her love stories as they came hot and smoking from her pen, there will remain a ques tion whether fiction has not suffered by the change. Mrs. Holmes never bothered herself or her readers about "problem" stories. She ignored psy chological studies and wasted no time or space on soul throbs and affinities. She was a builder of palaces of dreams, in which lovers "lived happily ever afterwards," no matter how many obstacles had to be overcome to reach the door. She may not have possessed the technique, now so essential by writers of up-to-date fiction, but she knew how to grasp and hold the atten tion of her readers from the opening sentence to the close of the last chapter. Perhaps the man or woman who would advocate Mary J. Holmes' novels for club reading In this "advanced" day would be quickly snubbed to si lence, but the fact remains that they possessed a merit that is not conspicu ous In the modern day novel. They were always wholesome, because the villain was always foiled. The reader closed the book with belief in goodness enlarged, faith in the ultimate triumph of truth and virtue strengthened and an inspiration to better things en couraged. Perhaps "Lena Rivers," "Tempest and Sunshine," and others of the scores of books written by Mrs. Holmes, are too simple and virtuous for this neurotic age, although some 2,000,000 of them have been sold and they are still In demand. Possibly her stories were crude, but they were human and solacing, and that cannot be said for the bulk of the fiction forced upon the reading public today. Senator Piatt's express company has declared a beml-annual dividend of $3 share, an Increase of 60 per cent over last year. Senator Piatt will be in his old seat In the senate this win ter armed with endless reasons against the parcels post system proposed by Postmaster General Meyer. Chicago saloon keepers propose to refuse to sell drinks to men who In dulge to excess, providing the wives of the luBhers will furnish photographs of the marked men. It is going to take more than vanity to induce a Chi cago nidu to have his photograph taken after that. Omaha has made its Horse Show a success, notwithstanding the abandon ment of the Horse Show at Kansas City and other points upon the circuit compelled us to go It alone. Give the promoters of the Omaha Horse Show a blue ribbon. -I think Secretary Root is the wis est man in the world today on matters relating to the afitrs of nations and statesmanship," says Congressman Watson of Indiana who plainly does not like Senator Beveridge very well. Chicago has dlscoveed that Us num ber of homicides, per capita, is lesa than that of either New York or Lon don. Chicago wlU doubtless proceed to make up the. deficiency now that its attention has been called to It. Even so careful an editor as Colonel Harvey will let a good Item slip into his publication occasionally. The cur rent number of Harper's Weekly con tains a very complimentary reference to President Roosevelt. Richard Canfleld, for years the boss gambler of New York, has retired. He admits that he was afraid that If he did not quit he might eventually be come mean enough to go into the Wall street game. Congressman Foster of Vermont says he ia for Speaker Cannon for president. Mr. Foster should state what committee chairmanship he would like to get at the opening of congress. Test of Man's Fidelity. Washington Post. A West Virginia man Is going to run for governor Just to please hi yrung wife, but would he go through every department tore In town to match a ribbon for her? There's the test that makes strong men quail. Cnttleflah Tartlca. Minneapolis Journal. The testimony of A. N. Brady that Thomas Fortune Ryan bought a paper street car line for $260,000 and Immediately sold it to the Metropolitan for $5,000, dividing the swag with Whitney, Wldener and Elkins, has caused another bear move ment in stocks. This country will never have peace till It gets rid of that man Roosevelt. Rising; From It Hnlus, Philadelphia Record. Terror does not leave lasting impression on the human mind. The most appalling event In history was the eruption of Mont Pelee and the obliteration of St. Pierre, with Its thirty or forty thousand Inhabi tants. And yet, "St Pierre I rising from Its ashes. Houses are going up rapidly. Ground is now being cleared for two more buildings, ona to be erected for a "wholesale provision store and the other for a hard ware stores." What I the ue of praising the courage that dare the cannon's mouth when men do not fear Mont Pelee? An Aitsns Apostrophe. Spring-field (Mas.) Republican. Pour, autumn, pour thy golden win I that 11 may drink thereof and be glad. Smile in proud bounty, russet-cheeked Po mona! with thy wicker basket brimming with grapes, scattering fragrance, and thy train of fortunate labor garnering apples, In these deep-breathing days of robust air. Repose awhile, O rustle Panl on the hill sides above the harvest fields, and where the great chestnuts cast their nut at thy feet as tribute! It 1 A season when "the fair humanities of old religion" are moat real; 'tis sure that dryads are disporting themselves beneath the reddening whit oaks, or amid the hemlock ahades; and on the sunny ledges of the mountain the fauns. and hers and there a harmless satyr grins kindly. Fancy revive to the Impersona tion of the elder faiths, when all was God, for all waa nature. PERSONAL, AND OTHERWISE. An early and solemn hint of what is coming: Turkeys are roosting high. 8inoa th appearance of a fleet of airships In the vicinity, the people of St. Louis are looking up. Luck play many favorite, but It great est favorite Is the Nw York man who gets t&0,000 a year on the sole condition that he must not work. Eastern paragrapher who are sighing for taste of Indian summer should give effect to Horace Oreeley's advice and enjoy a continuous banquet. For the benefit of coal dealers and other vendor of necessaries comes the cheering news from gooiebone prophet that we are to have a mild winter. A trifle over six million people attended this year's games of the two principal base ball leagues. The glint of the diamond Is brightest In the box office. To what extent the Manila cocktail dif fers from the Indiana confection 1 not known. But Secretary Taft profited by experience. He passed It up. Prince Wilhelm of Sweden consider Worcester, Mass., the finest American city. One-third of Worcester' population came from the land of the Vikings. If current picture of Mulal Hand, the Moroccan pretender, are true to life, his phis radiates sufficient fierceness to scuttle a ship or cut a throat. Possibly he ha hay fever. The discovery of the date of the flood by a Chicago professor make very little im pression. The date on which the Cub wallowed the Tiger monopolise local gray matter. A bunch of forty goats took possession of the aisle of a church on Long Island and gave the solemn service a screaming varia tion. Seeing the choir in action and the deacon preparing fur business, the animal turned and fled. SECILAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT. Brooklyn Kagls: The Methodists minis ters in Illinois have now decided not to marry divorced persons and to join the movement for uniform divorce laws. The area in which divorced persons have to con tent tliemst lve with a Justice of the peace when they remarry Is Increasing. Leslie Weekly: Formerly wtll known In the west as a prlibflghter. Kid Wedg now write "Rev." before hi name, and has been appointed pastor of a Presbyterian church at Barnston, Neb. In a published letter Mr. Wedge speak a good word for prizefighter, Intimating that they ar not the "human brutes" that most ministers and reformers are in the habit of repre senting them to be. Springfield Republican: The casii basis of the Protestant Episcopal chiuch Is highly impressive. Just for a "thank offering," In recognition of the planting of Hie Anglican church in the American colonies. $1,000,000 was subscribed within a short time at the general convention in Richmond the other day, and no one at the moment professed to know for what purpose th money would be used. The psychology of the perform ance was simply ecstacy over an event that took place two or three centuries ago, but there was a shrewd directing mind among the bishops that took care to have the ecstacy manifest Itself In dollar and cent. Baltimore American: The conviction In New Jersey of a couple of faith curlsts, who allowed their young child to die with out mrdlcal attendance, is exceptionally in teresting, as the feeling is strong on both sides. They pleaded that they have an un doubted right to their own belief In prayer. But. on the other hand, the fact that th belief ha sacrificed a life, and the llf of a human being unable to speak or decld for himself, put a different complexion en th matter. How far parents and other hav a right to tak risks for children and wards, a well aa for themselves. Is a matter for the law protecting life to determine. The results In such cases seem to take them out of the sphere ct Individual right to pe .uUf Uek An Unusual Opportunity To buy DIAMONDS at the old price. We were officially informed that otie month from date Diamonds Will Advance 10. Your credit is still god here. Diamonds are a safer investment than your bank. $18 $18 $75.00 - $2.50 $1 A WEEK A WEEK q Q 7 SERMONS BOILED DOWN. Folks who expect failure seldom are dis appointed. Patience with lesser lives Is born of the larger life. , Talking about the road to heaven is not the same as walking in it. Tou are free from any divinity o long aa you despise any humanity. Many think they repent the sowing when they only fear the reaping. It's hard to stay blue when you are brightening the lot of another. The Uvea of some of it friends hurt re ligion more thn the logic of It foe. There' a lot of difference between sav ing money and hoping to be saved by It. Tou never will have the privilege of sympathy without the price of suffering. Perfection Is a good deal more than the power of picking faults In other people. Tou may know by Its warmth and cheer whether a man's light comes from heaven. Some people never display their retiring dispositions except in the face of an en emy. If you go to the church for the sake of your coat you are likely to leave your heart at home. Lots of men can outline at brilliant na tional policy who make a failure of or dinary parentage. No wonder the hypocrite deceive himself when he Is foolish enough to think he Is deceiving the Almighty. It Is a good deal easier to say "brother" In a smooth way than to spend time smoothing your brother's way.HChlcago Tribune. DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. Puptl's Mother-My daughter has a good ear for music, hasn't she, professor? Piano Teacher-, yes; her ear seems to be all right. She ha alo an excellent nose and chin. But you are wasting your money trying to make anything of her Angers, madam. Chicago Tribune. "Does your on profit by your example? Doe he imitate your uccesse and avoid your mistakes?" . , . "Naw. He wants to get married. Cleveland Leader. "I understand ha married a cold mll- " "Yesf'Su"' he's complaining now because he hasn't been able to thaw out any of it." Philadelphia Prese. "Hello. Mame! I thought you got fif teen yard of that remnant ribbon?' "So I did. but the floorwalker penalised me ten yard for lugglng."-Uulsville Courier-Journal. "Speaking of myself." said the eligible bachelor, "I do not believe in early mar- rlNor do I." replied the fair maid. "High noon I the correct time." Chicago New. "How do vou know your husband love you? Doe he eat your cooking?" "Yes, but he refuse to let me eat It. Houston Post. "What a happy disposition your husband seems to have." . ,, "Yes; I always make him believe I NATIONAL FIDELITY The First Company of Nebraska orrxci Son. Ohaa. P. llaadarson, rrldnt. Joha . Bath, Treasurer. Xdwln T. Bwobe, Secretary and Manages HOMK OFFICK Merchant's National Dank Building OHAHA, NEB. What some of Omaha's representative men have to say of the "LIBERAL" accident policy issued by the National Fidelity &. Casuality Company: "I fall to see wherein you could . possibly Improve upon the LIBERAL 1 Accident roacy issued vy your com pany." Hon. J. H Millard, President Omaha National Hank. "lour accluVnt policy seems to com bine all of the best features contained In the policies of all the other acci dent companies. I do not ace how you could Improve on It." Cl. W. Wattle, Vice President U. K. National Bank. THE LIBERAL Accident Policy contains the largest measure of every day protection. It s the policy that Insures backed by the strongest Casualty Company of the weal. We solicit applications from all residents of Omaha through all local In surance Agencies or through the Home Office agency at Company' offlcea. Advise your friends In the Insurance business to apply for th agtncy of this Company. Bottom Price for Top Notch Shingles Drltlsh Columbia strlotly clear, thick Red Cedar Shingles, $3.75 per M. for CASH only. If any one asks you, that'll a cut of 75c. We have a big steck of dry lumber on which we will give you a discount ef 20 per cent for cash. Crit Tap Roofing, $1.90 a Square Complete C. !L D1ETZ LUMBER CO., 1214 Farnam., Tel. w wouldn't have the things I want, and what, he Insist on getting them I pretend tt let him have hi own way." Chicago lleo-ord-Herald. Mrs. Bunting There I on good thing about buying a really handsome and ex pensive dress. Mrs. Larkln-What I that? Mr. Bunting Why, you feel a tbougv you really ought to buy another not quit so good to aava your beat one. Loulnvtll Courrler Journal. "It look like some people are born to 111 luck," sighed the old woman. "Why do you think ao?'1 queried th chance caller. "Well, take myself, for Instance," said the old woman. "I have collected nearly 10,000 medical recipe and pasted them into a book during the last .fifty years and 1 have never been alck a day in my life, Chicago News. DEATH OF THE FLOWERS, William Cullen Bryant. The melancholy day have come, the ea. dest of th year, , , . . Of walling winds, and naked wooda, ana meadow brown and sear. Heaped in the hollow of tha grove, the withered leave lie dead; They rustle to the eddying gust and te. the rabbit's tread. The robin and the wren are flown, ana from the ahrub the Jay, And from the wood-top call th crow, through all the gloomy day. Where are th flowers, the fair ye flowers, that lately sprang and stood In brighter light and softer airs, a beau teous sisterhood? Alas! they are all In their graves, the can tie race of flower Ar lying In their lowly beds, with tn The rain Is falling where they lie. but th ooia novraiwr ro Calls not from out the gloomy earth, U i toveiy uuei The wind-flower and the violet, they per ished long ago, And th brUr-rose and the orchids died amid the summer glow; But on the hill the golden-rod, and tha aster in the wood. And the yellow eunflower by the brook in autumn beauty tood. Till fell the frost from the clear, colfl heaven, aa falls the plafua on men, And the brightnesa of their amlle waa goo from upland, glade and glen. And now, wrhen comes the calm, mild da a still such days will come. To call the squirrel and th bee from out their winter home; , , When the sound of dropping nuts I heard, though all the tree are still. And twinkle in the smoky light the waters of th rill. , The south wind searches for the nowera whose fra (franc late he bore, And sighs to find them In the wood and by the streams no more. And then I think of one who In her youth ful beauty died, M The fair, meek blossom that grew up ana faded by my aide; In the cold, moist earth we laid her, wnen the forest cast the leaf. And we wept that one o lovely hould have a life o brief. Yet not unmeet It waa that on, like that young friend of ours. So gentle and so beautiful, should perteH with the flowers. , & CASUALTY COMPANY Writing the Minor Lines of Insurance. SIKXOTOBB X. A. Ondahy S. r. XlrkendaU, O. If. Wilhelm, T A. Wash, X. K. Baldrtg, John B. Bnth, C. J. Bills, Trail k Vowler, E. gtwobe. "Kveryone should carry Accident In surance and the LIHKIUh Policy of your company 1 certainly 'the pol ity.'" L. Drake, President Merchants National Bank. "There la no reason why Nebraska cannot do its own Inuurlng In all lines. The Home companies should have the loyal aupport of Nebraskan. Tha millions we send Kast. should be kpt here." General John C. Cow in, Counselor-at-Law. 4