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BTATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
Ktt of Nebraska. Douglas County. :
Charles C. Rosewater, general manager
f Tha Bee Fuhllhlnr crtnenny, bel'H
duly sworn, soys that tha actual number
f full end complete conies of Th Daily
Alorn n. Even nv and Onndav
nlng. Evening- and Punday Ra prlmel
luring the month of October, 17, was a
follows:
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13
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. 36,600
. ae.sno
. 36,650
, 38,500
. 36,440
. 84,630
. 36,700
. 36,850
. 36,480
. 36,030
. 35,300
. 36,630
. .36,30
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lja unsold and returned copies.
9,089
Nat total . ., 1,199,508
t'ally average 34,u7
CUARI.ES C. ROS E WATER,
General Manager.
SuimcribeJ In my prerience and sworn
before inc. this 1st day of November,
Notary J'ubllc
whb?( out" or TO WW.
Aabavrlbera leaving tfc city tem
porarily should hare The Da-
limited to them. Address will aw
changed aa oftea an reaaestea.
The commiSKloner of elections In
"ew York Is named Leary. Notice the
returns?
One thing must be said la Speaker
Cannon's favor. He la not taking his
presidential boom any more seriously
than the public does.
The fourth Caleb Power trial will
begin In Kentucky today. Trying
Caleb Power la the chief source of en
tertainment in Kentucky.
The reports. of steamships racing
toward New York with cargoes of gold
Is a class of yellow news that is not
In the least objectionable. ' " "
It is stated that the worda "In Cod
We Trust" have been omitted from
the new $10 gold pieces. Ocular proof
will have to be waived until the scare
Is over.
Washington has started another
campaign to make the city beautiful.
Congress should create a Public Beau
tilltJeg commission for the national
capital.
The LoulBville Courier-Journal bad
mighty interesting editorial leader
on the morning after election on the
necessity of preserving
eh Ian forests.
the Appala-
Some low-browed republican ia cer
tain to call attention to the fact that
Mr. Bryan made no speeches in behalf
of Tom Johnson la the Cleveland
mayoralty campaign.
George Gould threatens to close the
passenger stations on. bis roads In the
states where the t-cent fare law Is
being enforced. Oh. well, moat of the
farmers bars automobiles.
Secretary Taft U undecided whether
.,to call on the kings on bis way home
from Manila. He will aeed a good
band If he calla the four of them" now
on deck at Windsor castle.
Tba London Globe Insists that Mr.
Hearst Is a "blatant and dangeroug
demagogue." Over In tbta country they
have eliminated the word 'danger
ous." from the description.
Texas baa commenced suit against
the Standard Oil company for $78,
000,000. Instead of sending abroad
for needed gold Texas goes to tha
center of the home supply.
The Jamestown exposition manage
ment admits being $1,400,000 behind
with a first-class sewer system as the
:hlef asset Any creditor wanting a
ewer system should file his claim
sarly.
Fire has destroyed a warehouse at
Washington that was filled with free
need ready for distribution by the
congressmen. If there Is a crop failure
next year the cause can be located
easily.
The Times presents it compliment to
Mr. Roosevelt aad beg te respectfully rail
hie attention to the returns from New
Jersey. New Tork Times, November 9.
Revised returns the next day showed
that the republican candidate for gov
ernor bad been elected by 9,000.
Mr. Fairbanks' peas agent la mod
estly calling attention to the fact that
tbs vice president Is the only repub
lican of prominence who made cam
paign speerbea In Kentucky. Perhaps,
but It will be difficult, to rob Colonel
Bryan of bis sbsre of the credit for
the result la Kentucky. Hs also epoke.
rki lr.risu ihk crnnrxrr famine
There are strong Indications that
the currency famine from which the
country has been suffering will be re
lieved before congress can be organ
ized and ready to undertake a con
sideration of legislation which Is being
now urged upon It. The reports from
shipping ports on the Atlantic, the
Paclflo and the gulf show that Ameri
can products of field, farm and fac
tory are being loaded Into the holds
of foreign-bound vessels and that each
load represents a balance to America's
credit to offset foreign obligations or
draw on the gold supplies of other
countries.
It Is but natural that the financial
Institutions of Europe should en
deavor to resist the monetary flow
toward the United States. For the
first time since 1873 the Bank of Eng
land has advanced Its discount rate to
7 per cent, the purpose being to pre
vent, If possible, the shipment of geld
to the United States. The National
Bank. of Belgium, the Imperial Bank
of Germany and the Bank of France
beve all advanced their discount ratea
j to protect their gold holdings, but the
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yellow metal continues to move toward
this country.
The' inflow of foreign gold Is com
ing In greater volume than American
financiers expected. The Lusltanla'a
shipment, reported at tlO.000.000,
turns out in excess of $12,000,000,
and for the last week a total of over
$21,000,000 In gold was received from
Europe. An additional $27,000,000
has been engaged for, shipment to
reach the United 8tates durtnz the
present week, making a total of more
than $60,000,000 between November
4 and November 16. This, in the opin
ion of the best financial authorities,
will be sufficient to relieve the tem
porary strain, and it Is but a first
Installment of what will be paid In
the next ninety days to four months
for American cotton, corn, wheat and
tobacco already Fchednlod for export
muTJL s j visas a Kit roFFWKyrK.
Postmaster General Meyer is offer
ing a very timely argument In favor
of the establishment of a postal sav
ings bank system, by showing that
under its operation a money panic
would be practically Impossible. He
contends that the small savers, the
working classes, would have absolute
faith In the. security , and safety of
their deposits with the government
and that this fact would prevent a vast
amount of money, estimated at from
$1,000,000,000 to $1,259,000,000 from
being withdrawn by small depositors
and boarded or bidden . every time
there is a slight financial flurry. In
an address In Chicago last weekUJeu
eral Meyer, discussing the postal sav
ings proposition In connection with
the present financial situation, sald:
For a striking Illustration of the value
of a poHtal savings bank take the present
time. Many small aVcount have bun
withdrawn from national banks, trust com
panies and saving banks by timid deposi
tor and tha money has gona Into the
strong box pr into hiding. On Oceanians
lik these what people want la absolute
security. After they withdraw their money
they dread losa from theft or by fire, but
they do not lose confidence in the security
of the government or Its pledges. There
fore, the small accounts referred to would
flow into the postal ravings banks and
would be led back Into the channels of
trade by being duposited in the national
banks In those communities, to the great
advantage of labor and Industry. When a
crisis hud passed and confidence had been
restored the money would return to the
v,n" banks, because In the postal av
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the Interest paid by savings banks. The
United States being a preferred creditor,
there Is no risk of loss In a national bank
which has been made a government deposi
tory and lsunder the Inspection of the
controller of the currency. There la also
an additional security In the double liability
of the stockholder. As has been described,
the money of the postal savings banks will
I bytird Itself and will be brought Into use
through the agency of the national backs,
while the . depositor deals only with the
go. eminent and haa tha pledge and secur'ty
of the government for the amount of his
aavinga ae deposited.
Illustrating the extent of tbU dis
position of wage earners to withhold
their savings from banks, General
Meyer cited postofjflce records to show
that money orders aggregating more
than $100,000 were invalidated ia the
last fiscal year in the five western
states of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska,
Oregon and Washington. They were
made payable to the buyers of the
orders and evidently for savings pur
poses. Oeneral Meyer also explained
tbat of tbe $3,125,000,000 ot currency
of the United Statea only $1,010,700,
000 is In the banks and $333,655,053
la the federal treasury. This leaves
$1,778.(01,620 in the bands of Indi
viduals. Tbe adoption of the postal
savings bank, system would cause a
Urgs share of this latter sum to be
deposited In the postal banks and thus
brought Into tbe channels of active
circulation. If any liberal share of
such an amount were at once de
posited with tbe postal banks there
would be a prompt and final end to
the currency famine.
Another argument offered by the
postmaster general must appeal to the
business men la every locality. The
money thus drawn from hiding
through tbe postal savings system
would be redeposlted to the banks of
tbe same district, thus Increasing the
local circulation. Instead of being sent
to New York or other speculative
centers. It would give savings banks
everywhere, where there is a post
office easily accessible, where now mil
lions of people live at a considerable
distance from banking facilities. It
would encourage thrift in out of tbe
way corners sad would benefit the
entire country by restoring Idle money
to business .and Industrial purposes.
General Meyer la making an exceed
ingly strong case in support. of bla
postal aavlngs recommendation, one
TUB OMAHA
that congress can hardly afford to
Ignore or postpone.
illLAH t.VOD XA1VRE.
Iu the present banking crisis, with
Its attendant dislocation of facilities
(or doing business, the thing that
stands out most strikingly is the good
nature with which the people gener
ally are accommodating themselves to
conditions. While some ot the bank
ers now and then complain about the
unreasonableness of, demanda made
upon them and the transparent fllmsi
ness of pretext for attempted with
drawals, the fact remains that these
are the exceptions rather than the
rule, and that the great body ot busi
ness men and their patrons are co
operating to the fullest possible extent
to help relieve the stress of the money
stringency.
In this community checks and cash
iers' certificates are passing as freely
as bank notes and greenbacks, and
people who have the money do not
heBltate to use it to make purchases
and pay debts. The people have been
in no way stampeded, but have ad
justed themselves to the new order of
things, aa far aa possible, much more
rapidly than was to have been ex
pected. Neither ae they indulging
In Indiscriminate complaints or wast
ing time trying to find where to put
he blame.
In Baying this we are speaking par
ticularly for Omaha Its business men,
their employes and their patrons. We
doubt whether there Is a city in the
country doing anything like the same
amount of business where the same,
popular good nature has been exhib
ited under trying circumstances and it
speaks volumes for the Intelligence
and far-slghtedneBB of our people.
KVSP1XO WORK A 1 PA S AM A.
Engineers who predicted that it
would require from ten to twenty
years to complete the Panama canal
will have to revise their estimates if
no untoward event checks the rate
ot progress now being made on that
enterprise under the direction of the
army engineers. The report of Colonel
Goethala of the work done in 6ctober
encourages the belief that the com
pletion of the canal may be accom
plished within six or seven years.
In the month of October, with a
rainfall of 17.1 Inches, Colonel Goeth
ala took out 1,844,000 cubic yards of
earth from the canal prism, an in
crease of 2 3 per cent over the record
for September, despite an Increase of
45 per cent In the rainfall. The Im
portance of this work may be better
appreciated by comparing It with the
former records. Under the regime of
Engineer Wallace the largest amount
excavated in any one month was
93,000 cubic yards, and Chief Engi
neer Stevens' record wag but 850,000
cubic yards in a dry month. In twelve
years, under the French management,
but 70,600,000 cubic yard of earth
were removed, or less than half the
rate of progress shown under Colonel
Goethalg.
The result of last month's work is
annthpr demrtnatratlnn nf th nrucf.
. t. , ... , .
dent 8 wisdom In placing tbe work iu
the hands of the army engineers. The
country has cood reason to be eatla- 1
fled with the progress that is being
made.'
The World-Herald takes refuge in
the consoling fact tbat in those
three counties, "favored with five
speeches from Colonel Bryan," this
year the .democrats djld not logo all
they gained last year, but only fell
down from 961 majority to 804 ma
jority. Perhaps The Bee's original
question should be revised to read In
thia way. "Wonder what would have
happened it Colonel Bryau had made I
no Bpeeebe la Nebraska?"
Our amiable democratic content
porary lays It up to tbe "gum-shoe
leadership" of the democratic cam
paign. Who is the "gum-shoe
leader?" Is it Colonel Bryan, or bis
cbief-of-steff. Editor Metcalfe? Or Is
it Colonel Bryan's distinguished
brother-in-law. Chairman Allen of the
democratic state committee? Or can
It really be our own only democratic
congressman frprn Nebraska?
Chairman Taggart of the democratic
national committee 1 said to have
sent for Mayor "Jim" to advise with
him as to the details of tbe prelimi
naries for the next democratic na
tional campaign. It is needless to say
that the invitation was posted before
the results of the late unpleasantness
were made known.
One exhibit In piogreaa at the
Omaha Pure Food Show undertakes
to produce Ice cream, served for eat-
ing, within fifty-three seconds after
the milk comes from the cows. Inven
tive genius will never rest satisfied
until the breed of tbe cow is Improved
to the point where It will give ice
cream direct.
General Horace Porter and Jouepb
H. Choate say tbe American people
will be satisfied with Tbe Hague con
ference when they learn what ' waa
accomplished. They are satisfied with
out bothering about what waa accomplished.
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Tom Johnson says she would rather he mad his alliterative utterance. Re
be mayor of Cleveland than demo- , tlcence Is a very becoming quality In a
cratle nominee for president of tbe
United Statea. Tbe rest of the coun
try, with the possible exceytlon of
Cleveland, 1 also satlrfld.
Some people are trying to convey
tbe impression tbat tbe defeated park
bonds would have, been used to acquire
the proposed park around the old Cut
off lake. Tbe fact i. they were never
DAITiY HEE; MONDAY, XOVKMBEK 11, 1007.
Intended for that purpose and the I
Park board publicly disclaimed any
design to UBe the proceeds except for
improvement of existing parka and
boulevards. The Cut-off lake park
scheme, if It comes to fruition, will
rest upon Ita cwn merits without any
reference to an Issue of park bonds.
A dispatch from a Maine seaport
tells how the "Arthur Sewall came
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that raw November day in 1896, when
Arthur Sewall came limping Into port
lashed to the W. J. Bryan, also disa
bled. Theytnanlfest disposition of the rank
and file of Douglas county republicans
Is to raise the standard of qualifica
tions for elective office. Now, let us
have also a little raise In the standard
of qualifications for appointive office.
Local railroad men insist that the
car shortage problem is rapidly right
ing itself by subsidence of traffic.
Strange to say, however, they do not4c"mln tanAerd-bearer if he would
seem to be sure whether to rejotce or
be sad at relief from their trouble.
Tbe canvass of the vote cast at the
recent election in Douglaa county will
take a week. A machine that would
canvass the vote as fast as the voting
machine count It would be a time
saver and a money-saver as well.
Congratulations to that Washington
heiress whose engagement to a Span-
leh duke haa been broken by him be
cause her income ia only $250,000 a
year. Her poverty Is a blessing In dis
guise. The telegraphers' strike has been
formally resoluted off by the local
branch of the telegraphers' organiza
tion. The formality was entirely
needless.
Mints Working- Overtime.
St. Louia Globe-Democrat
The mint hat stopped work on Filipino
coins and will lose no time In turning out
170,000,000 In American gold. This amount,
benevolently assimilated, tnfether with the
foreign gold coming In, ought to dispose of
the last remnants pf the flurry.
(potllahtlnar the Dead Waaroa.
Indianapolis News.
Another evidence of the near approach
of congress are the announcement of
various members that they are not com
mitted to any particular plan of currency
reform, thu leaving them In a position to
climb readily on tha band wagon that
seems 'most popular.
Keen tha Money MoTlafj.'
Philadelphia Record.
People who desire to prolong- financial
und Industrial distress, blocking the wheels
of trade and throwing worklngmen out of
employ, can take no better way to ac
complish their end than by hoarding their
money and neglecting to pay their bill
Money la the common drudge of trade. It
1 of no use when It lie Idle. Keep It
moving. '
Let Well hnooah Alone.
Portland Oregonlan.
The Nebraska farmers who arc refusing
48 cent per bushel for corn, because they
expect to jscll It for 75 centa per bushel, ar
tempting fate. The corn crop of Nebraska
thl year I estimated at 180,000,000 bimheU,
which at present price would net a larger
sum than ha ever before been realized
for "! crop in that state. The re-
markable strength of the wheat market la
a pretty good guarantee against lower
iirlce tr but 48 cents per bushel is
so far above the average price that It may
not be improved on.
Good Lower aad Good Winners.
Kama City Star.
'The rtrst lesson ln self-government,"
eaid Secretary, Taft to tha Filipino. "!a to
be good losers, and when that I learned,
to be good winner, for self-government
Impose restraint on both sides." Thl les
son I being Impressed more than ever at
home, In thl the foremost of popular gov
ernments. The people, sometimes through
parties, sometime through independent
movement, are fighting for the right,
rather than for partiaan aucces; and men
who know they are right, are alway better
losers than those who are merely working
for office or party advantage. And they
are better winners, too.
f
Sqalntlaaj (ar Real Ballot Reform.
" Minneapolis Journal.
The president makes an elghtern-hour
trip by rail to use up four m'nute easting
his vote. Borne day we shall have It ar
ranged ao that a man won't have to expend
so much energy ta accomplish such a hort
Uk. Why, for example, should not the
president vote In Washington T Why
shouldn't a ballot be sent to him to mark,'
with a return envelope directed to the
Judge of . election In hi precinct? Why
should not every man, when we have
learned how to aiiiard against fraud, vote
at hi home Instead of taking a round
about route to some grocery store to
tand In line In the bleak November to
cast a ballot?
River ('mmrrft for the West.
New Tork Time.
When river commerce waa developed by
private capital the railway protected
their bus'nra by method wh'ch did not
commend themselves to all. They will be
at a disadvantage in competition with the
nation' Investment, and there- will be
born a new sectional , qivestlon In th
rivalry between the east and the middle
we,t- But ther" n P""ibiity of stand
ing still. Rivalry among ourselves should
not obscure the fact'that thl Improvement
I one mesne of keeping for ourselves the
trade within our "sphere" which other
wise is offered for competition to Europe
and even to J.ipan. The west, which long
hal been restless under improvement of
our harbors, may easily think It ha a
fair case for asking the development of
Ita rlverway.
Aa Indiscreet Admiral.
Boston Transcript.
Whether the Pacific fleet goe around the
Horn to a fight, a feast or a frolic, w have
no doubt that H commander. Admiral
Evan, will be distinguished as a partici
pant tn th resultant occasion; but he
missed .n annnrl.mltv f- .i
commander at all times, but esneclallv
after dinner. The obligation Is peculiarly
rtron when an admiral I about to sail on
a mission o puzsllng that th public doe
pot know whether to raU It a. Junket or a
menace, and I certain only that It w'll
be very expensive. Were a Jnnes ad
miral about to visit our shore In com
mand of a fleet to parallel Admiral Evans ,
how exultantly our Jnao would ctt bis
word a Justifying them ia descrying on
th brrlron a war cloud a big a a
donkey ear.
O PRICI!E.TIAI, FIRIttt UE.
The Taleat of Dranlni Crowds aad
Iteaetllna Vote.
Bt. Ixtu.s Olobe-Uemoci at (rep ).
It would be no surprise If Mr. Bryan
should now announce that he will not be a
candidate for the democratic nomination
next year. Ife tins deferred committing
himself on this point, and probably because
he wanted to Bee the pnrtenta of the elec
tions that have Just occurred. Their Indl
CHtlona are decidedly unfavorable for a
third Rryan hHtlle. Mr. Rryan'e greateat
-ffort In h- - . , i
; tucky. He drew Immense crowds wherever
n spoke. Many thousands, stood in the
rain to hear him. Vet there was a repub
lican landslide of i,ono votes In Kentucky,
and the state thus passes Into republican
control after a long period of democratic
government. Nebraska is the other state
in which Mr. Rryan took an active pnrt
In the recent campaign. Though ft is his
own atate. and an are tltat he is within
reach of another nomination. Nebraska
gave a heavy republican majority.
Mr. Bryan may'not have materially af
fected the result In Kentucky or Nebraska
but It does not appear that his speeches
tn either state were of the slightest benefit
to the party whose cause he advocated,
and for which he waa the acknowledged
but
give the word. Will the word be spoken
now? It is doubtful. The gme seems not
worth the candle. Multitudes flock to hear
Bryan, the orator. They want to see one
of the famous speachmakers of the time.
But handing him the reins of this great
government ia a different matter. That
proposition haa been tried twice before the
people, with an emphatic negative from
them. The electlona Just held show that
Mr. Bryan would be likely to lose one of
the limited number of states he carried ln
1900, and there is not the slightest sign that
he could gain any. Cnn Mr. Bryan face
his party and say that he la hopeful
It
nominee for 190S? If not, ho is without
hope, and . the party feeling must be the
same In regard to another Bryan campaign
Krraa aa4 Ills Home State.
Indianapolis News (ind. rep.).
or course. Nebraska is a republican
state, and, therefore, it would be most un
fair to expect Mr. Bryan to carry It for
anyone, even for himself, though he dd
this in 1896. But really the state need not
hsve given the largest republican plurality
In years, which Is what It did last Tues
day. It elected the republican candidate
Tor supreme Judge by a plurality of 20,000.
In 1M It gave the republican candidate
for governor a plurality of only 881, and
the best It could do even for MoKlnley In
that year waa a plurality og 7,823. In
10H2. 1903 (here again for supreme Judge)
i and In 19n the pluralities were, respect-
Ively, 5,3u5, 9,127 and 12,978. Ia view of
these figures It will have to be conceded
that the result this year la remarkable.
Bryan, as far aa we know, was not an
Issue. But still he has been In control of
the party in Nebraska for years, aa he ha
been the dominating figure In the national
organisation. At tha present moment It
la admitted by everyone that he will either
be. the candidate next year, or will name
him. There la nowhere any effective oppo
sition to his will. Other men who might
be candidates, and who ar In every way
qualified, are saying that they will not
come forward If Mr. Bryan wants the
nomination for himself. Bryan Is more
than the dominating figure he is the dic
tator. Therefore, his personality ia more or
less Involved In every election that la held.
' esPeclttlIv ' 't Involved In elections In hi
own state, If he I strong anywhere h
ought to be strong there. Aa we say,
no one ask that he carry it at every elec
tion, or indeed at any election, but it
doe not seem unfair to argue that at uch
a time as thl. with the national conven
tion only a few month away, Nebraska
ought not, if Bryan la really strong in the
state, to give one of tha largest plurali
ties in it history to a republican aandl-
date.
That surely Is rubbing It In.
Ramble of Coning Event
New York Sun irtp.).
Ominous rumblings In Washington ad
monish us that the faithful are preparing
to receive the Peerlesa One' surrender
to their passionate Importunities. Th pro
portions ot th Bryan dinner to be con
sumed at the capital some time In the
latter part of the eurrent month ar
steadily dilating. We ara told that no
less a personage than the Hon John Bharp
William I to preside. Ther ara prophe
cies of halcyon revelation. Great thought
ara booked for launching. Poignant lan
guage la to be released upon a waiting
world, and oracle masquerading thinly In
suggestion prepare u for the vlajon of
th Prophet of the Platte rising from a
sea of finger bowl and capitulating one
again to Pestlny. ,
We ar getting roseate tip from ptlier
part, from the hazel brush of Kansas,
from the pawpaw fastnesses pf Missouri,
from th muff belt of Tennessee, from th
chaparral of Texas, from th hill, th
prairie, th swampa and the headwater
everywhere. Of course Carmack and Bailey
are at work. If John Sharp William I.
That scintillating triumvirate will be a
harmonious for tha campaign of 108 it
wa at St. tout in 1904. Carmack and
Bailey have seen a great white light sine
the Sage of Yasoo rode Bryan to th senate
last July, and both are In sad need ef
Just such expedition. Along the political
road down south neither common ns
nor . patriotic -foresight block the, way.
Why should not th wise adventurer be.
(trlde the handy back and gallop on to
place and salary? Btnce th democratic
party will not help itself to the fatness
offered to It by circumstance, aurely It
Hungry Joe may snatch a morse from
the neglected board.
It look like Bryan, verily) like a third
experience of folly and disaster, The
democracy and opportunity do not even
bow a they pass by, It seems.
Streaath af the Taft Caadldaey.
Kansa City Time (ind ).
It should not be surprising to anyone
that the only presidential candidacy on
the republ'ran aide that is making prog
res I that of Secretary Taft. Every
nosnlbl plan that could be devised by th
opponents of the present administration
and' of Mr. Taft ha been adopted to dis
credit th War secretary and to make a
strong field agalnat him. Put ao far none
of the reactionary candidate haa made
the least headway outalde of the "favorite
con" states. And such help a haa been
given or promised these candidate in
their own states I largely complimentary.
In some of these statea the reactionary
organisation will not be able to control
the delegation when elimination ar
made from the "field." A the Impossible
reactionary candidate ar dropped, at
least some of the delegates will go to the
progressive aide, although there la not at
this time the leaat indication that their
vote will be needed to nominal Secre
tary Taft.
The republican situation ia simply this;
Th country must choose between man
who represents th Roosevelt administra
tion, with all it achievement and pro
jected pollrlei, and a man who I opposed
to these pjollclea. Tbe republican party
haa but two faction one In sympathy
with th regulation of corporation and
finance and th other opposed to auch
regulation and aveklng an opportunity to
undo the work of the Roosevelt adminis
tration. Can any sane mart doubt which
end of this alternative the party as a
Whole will taker
PERSONAL AMD OTHRRWlE.
An Increased flow of spring water Is noted
ta one of the many abnorinaltles of movlern
Kentucky life.
It can be announced without Qualification
that Santa Claus will ha around on llmu
this year aa heretofore.
Chicago reports l&O.ouO.OUO eggs In cold
stoiaae there. Ixical theater-goers think
the supply Is equal to the necessities of thu
eeaeoo.
It may lie true that Cincinnati onco be
longed to George Washington, but that was
- a. ...... .iDo.n.r oeorB ....
title, no
Formerly Mr. Bryan and hi friends were
content with dollar dinner. Now a three
dollar dlnher I on the card. The rise In
tho necessaries of campaign life Is truly
appalling.
Mlsa Qlndya Vanderbilt, who is booked
to wed a foreign title, controls a fortune
of tll'.OOO.WO, and can Issue cashier' check
without the advice or consvnl of any old
clearing house.
An advance Idea of what la coming to
Omaha next month may be gathered from
the mclanchrty fate of a New Yorker who
wa arreated at his own door for using a
corkscrew aa a nlghtkey.
Carrie Nation I shouting and iouting
and iwlnging her hatchet In the surround
ing hot air down In Indian. In one way
or another Hoosler poet and romancer
get wht I coming to them.
The Vnlon Pacific ha paid Charle
Cramer of Mitchell county, Kansss, ti.VO
for the los of three fingers and a portion
of another. Hi friend advise Mr. Cramer
to quit railing alfalfa and go to raising
finger.
A social not from Ohio mentions the
artistic beauties of an embroidered balloon
which a society matron will preoent to her
husband at Chrlslma. It ta a toy affair
The husband will be sent up In the air In
the usual way.
The coming banishment of the raffle and
the oyater of the church aociable s game
of chance In Omaha finds an early echo
in ing Island, where the manager of a
church fa r announce that purchasers will
get the good and the right change. The
square deal policy makes for wonderful
reforms.
Don't put the blame for Inferior milk on
the milkman. He ha trouble of hi own.
A government tet of breakfast food for
oow showed a compound of bran, plaster,
;rushed oats, 'hulls and line aawdust. To
extract the required amount of butterfat
from that feed la expecting too much of tha
animal.
There la no coff oomlng from th west
to that Big Four engineer who saw spooks
on the track, put on the emergency
brake and cauaed the explosion of a car
of powder. Other engineer "see thing"
at night. It ia written in Nebraska rail
road mtory that one of the class mistook
a rling full moon for a locomotive head
light, and wlaety pulled Into a sidetrack
to escape a head-on collision.
There are only two democratic Vnlted
State senator not representing southern
tatea, and one of these. Newlande of Ne
vada, wa southern born. The other,
Teller ef Colorado, wa a pronounced
republican and the enemy of everything
democratic until he tearfully left the St.
t-ouls convention that nominated McKin
ley In 19 because it declared for the gold
atandard. Colorado being th chief silver
producing state.
STANDING THE TESTS.
Foaadatloa of (he Coaatrr'i Bnalaesa
I'nshakaa.
Wall Street Journal.
The business of tho country ha been
ubjected thia year to the severest teat
In a generation. It Is a matter of con
gratulation that It ha stood these teat
with a showing pf remarkable strength.
After all. the moat notable development
of these time 1 not the panic, but the
wy that th panic ha been cheeked. It
Is not the lose, but th fact that these
louses have not struck deep down into the
wealth-producing power of the country. It
I not the fact that certain financier and
institution have gone to the wall, but
that the number of auch disasters has
been so clrrumecrtbed; and that those who
have conducted their hiislneMs unon saf
and sane line have ao generally weathered
tha storm.
Rarity Makes It Remarkable.
Boston Transcript.
Th arrest of a young woman stenogra
pher In Chicago upon th. charge ot having
atpien and sold Information of a confi
dential nature should not strengthen any
of the very few arguments standing
against the woman In business.. For thl
ease weighed in th balance with thousands
of womcs who a private secretaries and
clerka have been true to the trusts re
posed In them, guarding secret of their
employer fely and acrdly, make
barely a shadow en th wrong aide. With
fair-minded people reflection upon thl in
stance undoubtedly wlU turn upon th ex
ceptional character ot It.
Caa't Feaac Ulaa.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Wa da sot observe deduction that the
lection have killed th Bryan boom. A
boom that can aurvlv two square defeat
tn presidential lectlona 1 pot to be killed
off by the indirect result ot off-year con
teat. No Hope at Hone.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Mr. Bryan' own stat again admonishes
him that he ha nothing to expect from
the electoral vote of Nebraska.
LYDIA E. Plf IKHAM'S
VEGETABLE
g COMPOUND
la acknowledged to be the moat sue
eeaaful remedy in th country for
those painful allmeats peculiar to
women.
For mere than n year it has
been curing Female Complaints,
auch aa Inflammation, and Ulcera
tion.. Falling aad Die placement,
aad eoBSequent Spinal Weakness.
Backache, and ia peculiarly adapted
to the Change of Life.
Record show tiiet it baa cured
aoor eases f Female Ills than any ether en remedr known.
Lydla B. Pinkhanaa Vegetable Compound dlaaolyea and etrpela
Tumora at aa early atage of development. Dragging- ensations causer
pain, weight and headache are relieved aad permanently cured by Ite ns.
H eerreeU Irregularities r Painful Fnnctiona. Weakness of the
Stoinaeh Indigestion Bloating. Nervou Prostration. Headache. (Jena,
ral Debility aleo, Dissineaa Falntneas Extreme Laeaitud. "Don't care
and waattebaUftaloa ' feeling Irritability. Nrvooneea..lreplaeM
FlatuUaey, Melancholia or the "Blue." Tbee are aure indications of
femal weak nee or som organic derangement
For Kldaay Complaint of either aaa Lydla B. Pinkbana'a Vesretable
Composed u a moat excellent remedy.
Mr. PInkham's Standing Invitation to Women
Women Buffering from is? form of female weakness are Invited in
write Mra Plnkham. Lvna, Mas, for advice, fih la the Mrs. Plnkham
wno naa oen j rising aicic women Tree of charge for mora than twenty
years, aad before that aha assisted her mother in law Lydla E Plnkham
la edvialne. Tho h 1 well qualified to raid elck women back to
"ana. ner a4fiee ia rro aoa always alpfuL
FARMFR TO TUB REC1 B.
National Ibilssre,
Washington Fost.
The American farmer, with hla all too
f"ide methods of tillage. Is yet Uie depend
ence of the country In time of stress. Theto
la now on tho ocean steaming for this land,
a vast sum represented In gold foin, and
bullion, to bo applied to the payment of
the balances In our favor created by ex
portation of cotton and tobacco, grnln and
provisions).
Th Rlool tniat Ik. Oil tmnmi mnA Lln4jr...4
,omblMt,n, ,r. ot )n u wllh tn, farm.
jer of America when It comes to making
na lances m our ravor In International com
merce. They hnve a monopoly of tha horn
market, and refuse to compete In neutral
markets, except to dump their tirptu
to be sold for what It will fetch. Tt may
be said 1 that the farmer, too, send only
hi surplu abroad, and that 1 true; but
hi surplus is deliberately created, whllu
the surplus of the Steel trust is an aecldent.
For ten year the American rarmer ha
been a prosperous man. From 1STI until
ls?7 his cry was ralamity: but tho moment
tho coinage question was settled the farm
bne-an to flourish; the mortgage was lifted,
additional buildings were erected, machin
ery wa purchased, ltvo stock Improved,
and Inatead of being a debtor to tha money
changer th farmer Is become a depositor
In the banks.
Price pav been high too high du te
several cause, not th least to our rapid
Increase In population. While our birth
rate I greatly In excess of the death rate,
w get accession from abroad to our popu
lation of about l.OuO.OOO annually. It I
quite likely that th American farmer will
find 2n.ftno.ono more horrre mouth to feed in
1910 than he had on his hand In IPOrt, and
certainly that will be true, If th present
wave of Immigration holds without ceas
ing. If the American farmer practiced tha
economle and the thrift that maintain la
Belgium he could feed th world, but h
has drawn all too prodigally on field aa4
forest, and today h haa hi hnds almost
full feeding our own people, compared wtt
the Immense aurrlusse of food he sen'
abroad In the '70'.
But method of tillage are Improving and
tho farmer Is beginning to pay attention
to aeed selection, a matter wholly neglected
for centurlea. Heretofore the country hna
been blessed with cheap meat and bread,
and that, moro than all othex causes,
made our marvelous growth as a nation.
PASSIXi PI, IS A SAN TRIGS,
The Russ'an anarrhlat. harlna- killed an
official, was fifteen minute later entenood
to be hanged.
"Th court was considerate In not find
ing m guilty of suicide, too." he com
merigCd aa they led him away.-Philadelphla
"I'm Introducing an automatic machine"
a year " C"",''' ' wl" tav toT ,Uel' ,B
Jnu'J'.S m,,t w, do that," promptly
replied the manefactnrer.
"If It will pay for ItRelf In,-"
"No, If It w'll automatically ray for lUelf
In a year. "-Philadelphia Press. ' 1
Bacon I hear ome Ph'llpplna cigar ar
a root nd a half In length.
Efrhert Perhana that m nrri into fAa it.id
clamoring for more hosp'tal aceommofla-
........ uv .iiric-iuimrn oteiesman.
Ife You promlaed when ws were mar
ried, to love, honor and obey me, and It
was false pretenses.
She And you promised to endow ma with
all ypur worldly goods, and you haven't
got aby. Baltimore American.
"Your face eem familiar, M's Johnbv.
Po you come to thl church often?"
"Indeed I do. M's Brownson; I've boor
yea''" reguI,rl' for '" ,a1 thr" or foui
"Why. o have I. How does If hippen
that we have never met before f ' v
"I sing in the choir."-Chicgo Tribune.
The Vte brave had been Informed that h
must go to work.
"Tell th Great Father at Washington,"
work""1'0 "Injun heap ready, like
"What kind of work?" asked the agent
much encoursaed ' " '
"Chae urn buffalo," responded the war
rior, drawing hie government I blanket
around hlm.-Phlladelphla Ledger,
.i7Tjorut,le 'h'" Sreed for
g..'X', "", '! mournful nersm.
.i .V j """werea Mr. B'rius Barker.
It the greed for gold were not so general
you and I might have a chance to t
some. It a case of too many people reeog-
Ju'.. VKO1 U,,n "nrt "lng to get In
on lt."-Washlngton Star.
Ci:iSEPPBTb HIS DOG.
HnTrA,i.t)S,y ,n cthoIe Standard
c,.rI"' Jompa down from dere.
You lary dog! Com1, see.
Dees Jontleman would have dat chair
for sect an' talk weeth me.
AlWflt!.ou on rowl aa- bite?
Aha! I show you den
Don't go, Signore. Wai, alia right:
I hope you com' eyen.
. e
Ifaj! Carlo, w'at you theenka dat?
You drive da man away.
You lary, oaly lumpa fat,
You good-for-notheeng! Eh?
Seence time Wen I was kind to yeu
An peeck you from da street.
Ee not wan leeta throng yu do
Kor earn da food you eat,
Jf you would ven chase da rat
You might be worth to keep.
But, no. you ar so dumb, so fat.
You jus' ran eat an' deep
How dare you do sooch egly treeck
An" srowl so like dst?
Jus' wait onteetl I got my teck
Now. see w at you weell gall
Eh 7 Don't roll your eyes at m:
Keep steell your tail, too.
No leeck my handa! Don't you see
at I am cros weeth you?
Ha! top! You theenk dee mak' ma foal
ou love me like you should ?
Not mooch! Jus. keep dat tallla tcll
An I weell beat you good.
You theenk because I gnt ao few
Pa franc's dot lova me,
I am afraid for whlppin' you?
Jus' close your eyes an' see!
Aha! so now you run -away.
O! wai. (1ee ateeck weell keep:
I rona beat you good som' day
Corn' day w'en you afe aleep.
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