THE OMAHA DAILY BEE; THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 21, 1907.
The Omaha Daily Bli
VOUNDED BY KDWAKD KOSEWATfcU.
VICTOR ROSKWATER, EDITOR,
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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
Slate of Nebraska. Douglaa County, st:
Charlea C. Rosewater, general manager
of The Bee Publishing company, being
duly sworn, saya that the actual number
of full and complete copies of The Dally
Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed
during the month of October, 1W7. was aa
followa:
1 36,970 IT 38,700
a 38.690 II 38,690
1 36,600 It 36,340
4 30,360 20 40,500
S 36,660 21 36,650
36,600 21 36.940
T 36,440 21 37,3V
1 36,(190 24 36,80
. 30,700 :'t... 36,750
10 36,850 . 7J-. 36,700
II 36,400 27 36,580
III 36,630 21 37,0i0
11 36,300 it 36.8U0
14 36,630 80 38,90
11 38,630 II 37,333
1 , 36,9fl0
Total 1,139,480
Lena unsold and returned copies. 9,985
Net total 1,139,565
Dally average 36,437
CHARLES C. ROSEWATER,
General Manager.
Subscribed in my presence and aworn to
before me this 1st day of November. 1907.
ROBERT HUNTER,
Notary Publio.
WHE. OUT OF TOWN,
ftabarj-lbera leaving; the city tem
porarily should have The Bee
mailed to tbeia. Address will be
changed aa often aa requested.
The wise turkey Is doubtle-RS begin
ning to feel like a "rich malefactor."
As a matter of fact, the average cit
izen has no proof that the motto has
been left off the new gold coins.
Eggs are scarce at 60 cents a dozen
In San Francisco. Secretary Wilson
should speak to the California hen
about her duty.
Real relief may be expected when
the people let loose of the money they
have been hoarding with which to buy
Thanksgiving turkeys.
Alaska republicans have endorsed
Taft for' president This looks as if
Mr. Fairbanks were being thrown in
the house of his friends.
A party of Chicago financiers have
decided to go to New York to relieve
the financial stringency. New York
has been warned properly.
The rush for tickets to the Dahlmau
Democracy dinner threatens to put the
box office out of business. Loyal Jack
sonls ns will please stand aside.
The way will be cleared for Mr.
Bryan's nomination as soon as the
Stuyvesant Chanler boom can be lo
cated and run on the sidetrack.
Senator Tillman says Bryan will be
the democratic numinee next year
"without a 1 doubt' And the result
will be the same, "without a doubt."
Horace Fletcher has been telling
New Yorker they, should take more
time to digest their food. New York
ers are even learning not to gulp their
securities.
The bomb throwers will have to lay
In a new supply of political dynamite
inasmuch as their material In hand has
proven to be utterly lacking In explo
itive Qualities.
William Stuyvesant Chanler of New
York has declined an invitation to the
Bryan dinner at Washington. These
financiers know the value of $3 since
the pinch set in.
"Financiers are placing the greatest
trust in J. Pierpout Morgan," says a
Now York paper. Perhaps that ex
plains why the motto was removed
from the new coins.
The Mauretanla Is breaking all
speed records on its way to this coun
try with $12,500,000 of European
gold. That is one way of giving the
country a run for ltd money.
Tom Taggart has called the demo
cratic national committee to meet at
French Lick Springs. Taggart Is a
democrat for revenue only. lie owns
'.he hotel at French Lick Springs.
Mr. Bryan's friends are denying the
charge that h knifed Parker at the
last presidential' election. The re
turns show that such action on Mr.
Brian's part was entirely unnecessary.
Architects are discussing plans fur
making the White House more attrac
tive. Some Wall street financiers
doubtless think that the first step (n
that direction should be a change of
tenants.
Black bears are said to have become
;o numerous la Pennsylvania that they
are a menace to the! farmers. It must
be trying; to the president to have to
remain la Washington with game at
traction like that only a few miles
IOir LOStf lriiL IT LABTl
The one question that- comes first
with the millions of people who carry
on the bulk of the nation's business
relates to the probabln duration of the
existing "panic." This "panic" is
unique in the extreme tn that it has
beset a country rlli beyond compare,
prosperous beyond precedcut, with the
demands of the consumers In excess
of the facilities of supply nnd with the
people contented and hopeful. Gov
ernment officials, the big financiers
and the students and experts on politi
cal economy may offer explanations
and suggest experiments to check de
pression, but the majority of the peo
ple, who know little or nothing of the
theory .of finance, do not understand
why the depression should exist at all
and are anxious to know when it may
be expected to end.
The experts agree pretty thoroughly
that the Immediate cause of this
unique condition Is the want of ready
money and credit capital to conduct
the tremendous business of the nation.
Back ofthls is the other fact that
confidence has been impaired and trust
relationships destroyed, lu no other
way could the lack of currency be felt,
as the record shows that about 90 per
cent of the business Is done through
the medium of drafts, checks and bills
of exchange, while the actual transac
tions in cash are but an Incident to
trade. Accepting conditions as they
are, the elements that promise to re
lieve the depression may be consid
ered, together with thoBe which must
work for the prolongation of the crisis.
The first helpful factor Is the agri
cultural wealth of the country. The
present "panic" was not due to a
shortage of crops. The value of the
products of the American farnu for
the present year is placed at $7,000,
000,000. Much of this must add to
the total of new wealth created, as
the farmers are generally out of debt
and need not use a share of the year's
harvest to pay old mortgai;s. The
farm products aro being moved to mar
ket, with a liberal share going to for
eign ports. The resultant reunite, will
be the larsest on record and will go
far toward mitigating a ilnancial ex
pression in whose creation the agricul
tural Interests had no part.
The second encouraging factor is the
condition of the manufacturing .indus
tries of the country. In former panics
overproduction has been a fruitful
Bource of trouble. Today tha manu
facturing establishments of the natio
ifs,
while some of them are trimming sai
have litttle surplus stocks on hand.
Manufacturers and Jobbers have en
joyed several uars of increasing trade
and profits and have Just passed
through the record year of transac
tions and earnings. Labor, skilled and
unskilled, has had steady employment
and have saved money and the con
sumers have' not ' yet eurtailed tlteir
buying to any great extent. J
The railroad situation, from a traffic
point of view, is another satisfactory
feature. In former "hard times" pe
riods the trouble came more than once
from over-extension of railroads. In
stead of being over-built, the railroads
are In need of hundreds of millions of
dollars for extensions and equipments
and enlargement of facilities to trans
port the undreamed-of vastness of the
country's commerce.
Neither can the "panic" be charged
to any distrust of the national cur
rency system as In. some previous
panics. The country Is on a gold
basis, with the greatest stock of , gold
owned by any one nation In the world
and to which $100,000,000 la being
added annually in new gold product.
The per capita circulation is larger
than ever before. The savlpca banks,
moreover, hold deposits of $3,4 S 2,
137,198. an average of $433.79 for
more than 8,000,000 depoKitorj.
The counter influences tending to
prolong the period -t depression are
more largely speculative. Thav busi
ness of all kinds has received a severe
shock by the suspension t.f specie pay
ments by the banks and the extra
ordinary measures resorted to by the
government to replenish the currency
supply goes without saying. There is
no question but that this, shock has
stopped much construction work and
many new enterprises that depend
upon the enlistment of borrowed capi
tal. A contraction of the volume of
butlness to a greater or lesser degree
as a consequence of this Is Inevitable.
Prices of manufactured products,
which were leaping . skyward, are
bound to stand still, Jf not to fall
down, and the demand for laltor be
reduced so that the man will more
often seek the job rather than the Job
seek the man.
The consensus of opinion is that
while the banks found it easy to shut
the doors against cash withdrawals,
they are likely to find It more difficult
to open them with safety for bpecie
resumption and that they will have to
feel their way carefully so as to uiake
sure that, when once open, the doors
shall stay open without risk of -i re
lapse of the financial malady. The
"panic" has now lasted four '.teeks,
so far as bank suspension Is concerned,
and while substantial progress has
been made toward restoration tf
normal conditions, it is not safe to set
a date when the bank embargo will
be lifted.
This may not be a very satisfactory
answer to the question, "How long will
it last?" but It suggests certain salient
facta which should be considered by
every Intelligent business man in
forming his own conclusions and gov
erning his own course of action.
Omaha means more to the Burling
ton system than does Kansas City, but
"Jim" Hill bus neer favored Omaha
with one of his fatherly advice tayvs.
It is fair to assume that with a suffi
ciently urgerit Invitation Mr. Hill
might be induced to become the star
orator at n dinner to be given by one
of our local business organizations.
A FLASH IX T11F. TAX.
Every one who was present at the
police hoard meeting when the widely
advertised bomb was exploded under
Chief of Police Donahue realized at
once that it was a flash in the pan.
Not a single unprejudiced person who
hoard all the statements made and
witnessed the breakdown of the star
performer under cross-examination
could reach any conclusion but that
the effort to lay the foundation for
charges against the chief accusing
him of protecting; malefactors against
the law had failed utterly and that
not a scintilla of credible evidence had
been produced to warrant any further
proceedings.
Notwithstanding all this, however,
the spokesmen of those who have been
waging war against Chief Donahue
aro clamoring for n further investiga
tion. Their Illy-concealed purpose Is
simply to keep things stirred up and
raise the dust to cover their other un
derground operations. Chief of Po
lice Donahue has been through two
searching investigations one of them
under a hostile police board and the
gossip about graft in tho police depart
ment has also been laid at rest by a
grand Jury. There Is no more reason
why the chief should be compelled
again to go to the trouble and expense
of defending himself against a repeti
tion of baseless street corner tales,
fabricated for selflnh ends, than that
any other thrice buried dead issue
should be resurrected.
The ex-plosion of the much adver
tised bomb has turned out Just as The
Bee foreshadowed. Further investi
gation would only put to still greater
embarrassment some of the well
meaning persons who have been In
veigled Into the meshes of the con
spirators, but who have now had their
eyes opened.
CAVPAIOX AUAIKST BILLlidARDS.
The regulation or abolition of the
billboard will be one of the leading
topics at the annual convention of the
National Civic association this week
at Providence. Members of the asso
ciation have been conducting a crusade
in a number of cities in the last year
and reports received furnish warrant,
according to the officials, for a more
active and concerted campaign In the
future.
Reports to the association show
that many plans have been tried In
different cities, with varying results.
Perhaps the most marked success in
the crusade against the billboard
nuisance is that achieved by tho City
Improvement society of Cincinnati, in
co-operation with tho Committee on
Municipal Art of the Business Men'B
club. These organizations secured
photographs of tho most objectionable
billboards and by personal appeal se
cured the ugreement of 300 billboard
advertisers of the city to discontinue
this form of advertising and to co
operate to rid, the city of these un
sightly objects.
In Loh Angeles the city council has
passed an ordinance, which has boen
sustained iu tho courts, imposing a
license tax of 1 cent a square foot on
all billboards. Indeed, the courts
went further and held that a billboard
could bo suppressed as a nuisance
offensive to the aesthetic sense. The
Municipal league of Los Angeles
offered prizes for photographs of the
most unsightly places in the city.
Most of the competing pictures por
trayed billboard 6ceneB and the result
has been an aroused public sentiment
on that question.
The returns from the different cities
are interesting as bhowing that the
revolt against the objectionable bill
boards is spreading day by day and
that the law-making and taxing pow
ers are being resorted to In the effort
to control and, if possible, eliminate
them. Progress is being made, al
though often slow, where the billboard
promoters are strong and well organ
ized. In some cities, including
Omaha, the progress made toward re
stricting the construction and opera
tion of billboards has been discounted,
to a large degree, by the failure of the
municipal authorities to enforce the
regulations adopted. The ordinance
calls for a limitation as to size, pro
hibiting the unsightly three-story
structures that now disfigure vacant
lots In the business district, and re
quires the boards to be set back a
reasonable distance from the sidewalk
line.
All this goes to prove that to be
successful the campaign against bill
board nuisances in any city must not
6top with the enactment of an ordi
nance, but must go on to follow up Its
enforcement.
The agricultural Implement dealers
of two states are meeting In Omaha to
discuss subjects of mutual interest in
relation to the trade. The suggestion
has been made that the farm ma
chinery business be brought closer to
a cash basis, a suggestion full of merit
if it can be carried out. It is related
that in the early days more farm mort
gage foreclosures grew out of reckless
purchases of agricultural Implements
on time than from any other one
cause. It was doubtless necessary at
the start for the Implement men to
take the farmers' notes and count on a
large percentage of loss, but condi
tions have been steadily improving
ear by year until today the farmer
who Is justified In making such an in
vestment can s readily borrow from
his local bank and pay cash as to force
the 1 r; i '" house to take his notes
and carry the credit. If the Install
ment feature of the implement, busi
ness can be reduced the benefits will
be shared by both the seller and the
buyer.
The plurality of Judge Reese as the
republican candidate for supremo
judge Is disclosed by the official re
turns to be lu round figures 25,000,
which Is the biggest republican ma
jority scored in Nebraska since the
populist wave of the early '90s, with
the single exception of the phenomenal
outburst for Theodore Roosevelt In
1904. Judge Reese's plurality is over
1,500 more than Judge Letton's of two
years ago, notwithstanding the fact
that his opponent, Judge Loomis, Is a
by far stronger man than was Judge
Hastings, who opposed Judge Letton.
The Omaha Grain exchange has evi
dently been run to tho satisfaction of
all concerned. A year ago there was
a hurrying and a scurrying for proxies
to control the election of the new di
rectors, while this year the outgoing
directors have been returned without
opposition and the: officers all re
elected. If the Grain exchange will
continue to pull together the possibili
ties of Omaha as a grain market will
be unlimited.
Governor Sheldon has no difficulty
in finding plenty of reasons why every
man, woman and child living In Ne
braska should be especially thankful
on the day really set aside for Thanks
giving in this year 1907. Among
other things for which they should be
thankful, and which the governor mod
estly falls to enumerate, is the occu
pancy of the executive chair by Gov
ernor George L. Sheldon.
The local organ of the bomb throw
ers headed Its account of the police
board meeting in its first edition "Ac
cusations Against Donahue Come to
Naught," but quickly corrected it for
Its later edition to read, "Charges
Against Chief are Heard." This
throws a fine sidelight on the eminent
fairness of the band of unscrupulous
conspirators who are trying so hard to
"get" the chief.
It should not require a special con
ference with anybody to convince the
mayor and city council that present
arrangements for removing garbage,
refuse and ashes in Omaha are execra
ble and that almost any change would
be an Improvement. There Is not a
city In the country of Omaha's preten
sions that has to put up with such
wretched arrangements for garbage
collection.
Sanitary officers report that there
are only twenty bath tubs In one Chi
cago ward which has a population of
66,000. Chances are1 that some resi
dents of that ward do not take a bath
every Saturday night.
Count Bonl Castellane is working
hard as a newspaper reporter In Paris.
It would serve Bonl right to have him
assigned to report the wedding of
Mme. Gould to Count tie Sasa if it
takes place.
Governor Gillette of California says
that extravagant living is one of the
causes of the present financial compli
cations. Extravagant living has not
been confined to California.
"I called at the White House to pay
my respects to the president," declares
Senator Foraker. This dispels the im
pression that Senator Foraker has no
respect for the president."
The Lodge llooni.
Washington Herald.
"Who started the Lodge boom?" asks the
Now York World. "That is not the ques
tion now. What Iihs become of It?" adds
the Omaha Bee. But does It really matter.
Opportunities for All.
Washington Pont.
People who enjoy the fame acquired by
predicting who will be nominated by both
great parties next year may as well get
busy, for at this stage of the game one
prophet looks just as good as another.
Oh, Forget It.
Springfield Republican.
Omaha discovered the money famine
Saturday in a way to remind the western
ers that they are somewhat remotely re
lated even to accursed Wall street. The
Omaha street railway company had to
pay ita employes In 5-cent pieces, and Just
fiiO.oOO of the nickel coins thus started on
their rounds.
The Pull of Debatable Mates.
Cincinnati Inquirer.
Nearly all of the democratic and repub
lican nominees for president who have
hailed from New York have been nomi
nated to travail and have had much trouble
with their immediate constituency. Were it
not for the common conviction that neither
party can win the presldcnry without car
rying New York the nomination of a man
from the state would be impossible.
Baby Laugh
It belong to health for
a baby to eat and sleep,
to laugh and grow fat.
But fat comet first;
don't ask a scrawny
baby to laugh; why,
even his smile is pitiful !
Fat comes first.
The way to be fat is the
way to be healthy.
Scott's Emulsion
is the proper food,
but only a little at first.
All DrnccuU: SOc. 1 1 .00.
WOOD ABOVT EW YORK.
Ripples on the Current of Life in the
Metropolis.
A Wall street broker with time to burn
became reminiscent on reading the presi
dent's proclamation rioclurlng Oklahoma a
sovereign state on Saturday hist. Bulling
notion to the, mood, he dug up from his
llles an old letter and showed It to a New
York Trlhunu reporter as an examplo of
opportunities passed tip. It was written by
a young man who had squandered his
money and had become a burden on his
relatives. The broker had given hint
money enough to so to that part of In
dian Territory which was about to he
thrown open, told him to try his luck, and
If he "made good" ho could count on help
from the New York end. The young man
was on tlie land when the rush was made,
and shortly after the "opening" be wroto
the letter which the broker exhibited. In
it ho says: "This may tie a good place to
settln down for some, hut I ant not In that
class. As I see It, a man can grow whis
kers here and see, them grow white, but
that's all. When this part of the world
gets fit to live in 1 11 be too old to enjoy
It, even if my Journey goes past the 70
post." The broker said: "That man was
23 years old when he wrote the letter.
You know what Oklahoma is and what
some of the pioneers did for themselves In
tho few years."
"And tho young man?"
"He's my nephew, and I prefer not to
tell."
The wealthy folks of New York are the
first to feel the effects of the financial
crash, and already th domestic help prob
lem has ceased to trouble as It did. Io
mand has fallen off quickly and sharply,
and the supply Increases dally through tho
cutting down of domestic labor forces. In
teresting stories are being gathered by the
newspaper reporters at tho employment
bureaus. One tells of a wealthy woman
who kept eight servants and was planning
to go abroad. Eho has discharged six of
tho eight and will stay at home, having
closed a part of the house. She may soon
conclude to closo It all and go ubroad
alone. Ono of the most prominent families
in the city Is mentioned as hunting after
a. $;!5-a-month cook to replace ona who
bad been paid JtW. There Is now no de
mand at all for housekeepers, or that class
of help which assumes the active manage
ment of household affairs. Another em
ployment bureau reports that its rooms are
now crowded with girls seeking places,
where before it was crowded with places,
as it were, seeking girls. Tills bureau
mentions the cas of one family which, on
the day the Knickerbocker Trust company
closed, discharged the ten servants em
ployed and Bhut up the house. It Is added
that those Becking places as servants havo
as yet no Idea of what has happened or Its
meaning to them and are still making tho
former extreme demands as to wages and
conditions.
For some time the, saloon keepers of
Harlem have been anioyed by the preda
tory peculiarities of someone with a
penchant for purloining highballs and pur
veying poetry. Night nfter night someone
has slipped mysteriously into the thlrst
quenchlng emporiums, opened a bottle of
old Scotch and mixed several highballs.
Always there was left behind a scrap of
verse, attesting the thirsty one's apprecia
tion of the goods ho sampled. In one
saloon tho other morning the following
effusion was discovered behind the remains
of n half-finished bottlo of the red Btuff:
" 'Via not for gold or woman's lovo
That I Impose upon you'se;
I flit about like Noah's dove.
A sapping up the boozel"
In another imbibing place, was found tho
following, pinned to the mahogany:
"Oh young Billy the Kid came out of the
west.
For old New York whisky he loved It the
best ;
All ho could find he tucked It. wav.
And he worked all night as well as th
day."
Henry I'hipps, steel millionaire, who In
1M5 gave Sl.oeo.coo for the erection of model
tenements in New York City, is greatly
Interested ill tho possibilities of concrete
houses designed by Thomas A. Edison,
which. It is declared, can be built within
twelve hours at a cost of Jl.CiO to tl.'jm.
Mr. .Phipps recently examined Mr. Edison's
models at Kast Orange. Mr. Edison will
have a mold for a full-sized doublo resi
dence cast this winter. As soon as the
frost is out of the ground next spring he
will build one of the houses near his labor
atory. If It proves satisfactory Mr.
Phipps probably will co-operate with other
wealthy men In erecting a large number
of these houses near New York City; In
fact, they will create a city of concrete.
A dealer In second-hand books advertised
the other day for old Bibles belonging, to
three families that have lately come Into
prominence. I
"Do not want them us heirlooms?"
asked a customer who had read the adver- '
tlsemcnt.
"Not a bit of it." said the dealer. "They
want tha Bibles because they contain a
tecord of births, consequently they reveal
ages woman's ages, presumably. Very
often dealers In old boo a a are asked to look
up Inconvenient documentary evidence of
that kind. Before days of affluence tho
family Bibles got lost In the shuttle of
moving around. Nobody thought much
about ti e loss then, but with the advent of
prosperity the books could easily become
a source of mortification to many women
if tliey happened to fail into the hands of
malicious persons. Hence the frantic at
tempts to gatl er all such records into the
family."
It Is apparent that nothing can preserve
the natural beauty of tho Hudson river ex
cept statutory enactments to prevent the
activities of the quarrymen. The Palisade s
have been saved, but above them tho trap
rock dealers are hard at work doing their
seltikh best to obliterate some of the noblest
natural scenery in the world. Now It Is
proposed to form an organization, wltn
members In all the river counties, the ob
ject of which will bo to obtain the legis
lation necessary to put an e nd to this van
dalism. One of the most extraouiinai j Incident
of the present financial condition In New
York was witnessed when a private bank
ing house unnounced its willingness to al
low intercut at the late of li per cent per
annum on deposits placed Willi It for sixty
days and to pay 1 per cut for currency.
Tlie office was soon filled with an tautr
irowd. beianililing and Jostling to get In
their money. There hail been runs on
banks to get out money, but perhaps non
of these had t ' n so violent us this runli
to ih osit rash. It looked almost llhe a
grotesque ending if the inunlu fur hoard
ing money.
, 'I he Main Kssentlal.
Il j 1 1 1 ii i in o American.
Now mid then some American ciltn luiuei
forward and complali.a that Americans
are lacking lu artistic stiislbillty. but
even persons of this class aru nut fooli.ili
enough to say the Americana are lacking
In good common hotse sense.
There Will lie kourlhini lining.
Chicago Tribune.
Mr. Tall iji luming home on "important
b'jxii.ess," but this furnishes lio leisoll
',y Mi. Ui (an should wink at himself and
lH'l, cui.fi iuus.
(
TJ1 A
a hot griddle
on a cold morning with
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CORN SYRUP
The health-giving essence of
In air -
v'-arehw
rEnso.xAi. OTEl.
George McManus. pii Industrious and
painstaking American comic illustrator,
has received merited recognition from the
crown princess of Oennnny. who writes
him an autograph letter expressing pless
nre at the humor In his sketches.
When Hamlin Garland has finished a
novel he like to strike out Into tho real
country and rough It for a while. When
the last proof of "Money Magic'' hud
been turned over to the publishers, he
made a trail for the wilds of Voniin
where' he is now enjoying life on a ranch.
AVI Hi only a home made telescope. J. K.
M'ellsh of Cottage drove, AVIs., a farmer's
boy, scarcely out of his t-ens, and having
only a country school education, has dis
covered two comets and attracted the no
tice of the astronomical world. Prominent
scientists have beconio Interested In him
and opportunity has been made whereby
he can pursue more effectively the study
of his favorite science.
Kir Richard Solomon, who presented the
JTnO.iW Culllnan diamond to King Edward
VII. on the occasion of the lalter's birth
day, is attorney general of the Transvaal.
He was born at Cape Town In 1K50 and
was educated at tie Cape and at Cam
bridge. He tnss attorney general of tho
Schre.lner Ministry, 1N88 to 1!0, and was
mado legal adviser to tho Transvaal ad
ministration and to Iord Kitchener In
1901.
Judtto Josiali A. A'an Orsdel, who was
appointed to fill the vacancy in tha Dis
trict of Coumbia court of appeala, caused
by the death of Justice McComns, Is k'lown
In AA'yomtng and other northwestern states
as a politician as well as an eminent Jurist.
Although born In Lawrence county, Penn
sylvania, In 18G0, most of his life has hcn
spent In the west. He was educated at
Pine Grove college and AVestmlnster col
lege, from which Institution he graduated
In 1SS5. He studied law at Newcastle, Pa.,
and first located In Nebraska In 14SS.
Dr. Leopold Jaches of the Cornell Medi
cal college, who has been abroad for three
months studying the methods of the use
of the Roentgen and other rays, has re
turned home. He saya he has learned
much from German scientists and surgeons
abroad, but the work of Prof. Albers
Slelnberg of Hamburg In observing the
size of the heart through the use of tho
Roentgen ray was a great revelation to
medical science. The professor, he says,
has perfected instruments whereby tho
ray could be applied and actual measure
ments takun of the heart.
A GAMBLE WITH lJF.VI II.
What Life lusurauce Compnnles lime
Done to Attract Uualnesa.
Springfield Republican.
One of the practice! resorted to by a large
New York life Insurance company to at
tract patronage was to sell policies under
tho terms of which, If the policy-holder
should die within a period of twenty years
his beneficiary would he paid not only the
face of the policy, but all the premiums
paid upon it. The late Charles T. Barney
of the Knickerbocker Trust company held
such a policy in the sum of $l0.OW, taken
out lu ISM, and it will bring ubout UM.OOa
to the widow. This Introduces one to a
gamble with death somewhat the reverse
of that Involved In the. scheme of holding
back all surpluses accumulated in a tontine
group and letting them go to those surviv
ing tho twenty-year, or whatever period Is
chosen. In the one case the beneficiaries
of sliort-livtd policyholders profit at the
expense of tint long-lived, and In the other
case the long-lived profit at the expense of
the short-lived. The reform laws adopted
as a result of the recent exposures make
the writing of either of these two kinds of
policies illegal, as ought to be the case, r
Ordinary, straight-forward life Insurance
offera enough opportunity to play over the
chancea of death without bringing In such
special appeals to take chances for profit
or losa on the misfortunes of other" as the
policies In question embody.
i3 EUjTHEl
of the guffering and danger in store for her, robs the expectant mother
of all pleasant anticipations of the coming event, and casts over her a
shadow of gloom Avhich cannot be shaken off. Thousands of women
have found that the ute of Mother's Friend during pregnancy rob
confinement of all pain and danger, and insures safety to life of mother
and child. This scientific liniment is a god-send to all women at th
time of their most critical trial. Not only does Mother's Friend
carry women safely through the perils of child-birth, but it? us
gently prepares the system for the coming event, prevents "morninj
sickness," and other di-
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EVER HAVE HEADACHE? SURE!
i:yrs ever water? Kver ache? Wli'-n yuu. read doos the ptlni
M.n together? Tilings look dould. or do tiiev seeoi to swim? Kvel
ir.llsrned or i t Hied afi.-t- r.-udiiig a t it? Hrlght light pain 'i in'
:'irr: Pett'T r -t ' in treated. eie- me
B. T. WCKV. 11 Years with H. J. Vanfold ai Ontlclan.
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Clean is Hard Coal, Ho! and Lasting, $7.50. Just Try It Onci
VICTOR WHITE COAL CO., 1214 Farnam. Tel. Douj. 12.
cake v
tight ting, 10c, 25c, 50c.
rami ronnnrrc
HAWI AITLRLNG CO.
FAHMKRa OPrORTt MTIPt,
Wood from Mashed Potntoe.. Knbbei
from klin Milk.
'nlller AVerkly.
German Ingenuity not long ago created
a flourishing Industry based on the stil
stitutlon of mashed potatoes for wood In
the mnnufarture of leadpenclls. Consul
I Kohl, ut Stettin, now reports even more
j remarkable transformations of skim milk.
l lie milk Is dried, vulcanized anil pressed,
when It resembles vulcanized rubber or
celluloid. Fifteen gallons of skim milk will
produce eighteen ounces of ttie new sub
stance, which can lw? made to imltut
Ivory, tortoise shell, amber, marble or
coral. It can be pressed into miv Hlro,l
slinpe, can be sawed, cut and polished lik"
natural horn, and Is not af(ccted by oils,
j Riease. ether or benzine. It sells at from
4.", to !l cents a pound. These are rosy das
for the farmer. AVhen Ills milk falls t.)
pass Inspection he can transfer U into side
, combs or billiard balls. When his potatoes
are not fit to eat lie" can take his rholre
between turning them into alcohol to rim
ms autoniobilo and leadpenclls to Hk
out his profits.
AIKHHY ,IINGI.l;s.
Shiiipson 1 haven't much acquaintance
wuh Bpun.iall, hut I'm not favorably im
pressed with him. How does he strlk.
yen ?
Phlatz Kor a V generally. Chi. am
1 ilbunc.
"What Is vour husband doing In the
way of literary work?"
"He Is arranging u collection of proverbs
he has in alphabetical order."
"I see. Filing ,ld saws."-jJallimoi .
American.
"Home people seem to think t lie new $J0
gold piece is much prettier then the JIO
piece. Hut I can't see it."
"Can't you? 1 like It twice as well."
t levcland Plain Dealer.
George AVashlngton had lost the battle of
Brandy wine.
"The prohibitionists are enrrving every
thing before them in Kentucky and
Georgia, too!" he groaned.
Climbing hartlly on the nearest water
wagon, he gave the order for retreat.
Chicago Tribune.
"Some people seem to think that knowl
edge h a sort of garment."
"Wlmt do you mean?"
""Seem to think unless Uitv flit It v fre
quently if will got moth calm." Louis
ville Courier-Journal.
" 'E Pliiilbus Vnuin' means one mil of
many,' doesn't 117" laid tin- man with a
headache.
"Yes."
"Well, I'm glad they let tiIHt motto
stand. As I inspect mv last dollar, it
looks mighty appropriate." Washington
star.
"Get many ducks?"
"Naw tills gun's no good. AVhenever I'd
shoot at a bird, the repot i was so loud tlist
It scared him away." Clcvelulal Leader.
"At any lute 1 am a liv-producl of vour
boasted civ ilization.'' said a man convict, il
of selling his vole.
"You mean bought product. correal. d
the court, and sent him up fur three vent--Philadelphia
ledger.
Tin; Ti;i,i.T i,i; hat.
The AVMow Petite Ms minim a lial
A new fall hat Willi the brim turned
down.
AVIth fen i hers nil imitlled or buff or blown
Minus n hat and a made-ovi r gown. '
Good Neighbor Nibbs Is minus a fowl
A Plymouth Rock fowl with a rubv comb;
Tis said all chickens, to roost, come home,
lhit this fowl, strange to suv. continues
to roam.
Tne Widow Polite displays n new hat
See how I he beautiful feathers droop:
Notice that nobby up-to-date scoop.
Dig mottled leathers all limping the loop.
f
Uut pood Neighbor Nlbbs Is si III minus the
fowl;
He has lidgeted, fretted and fumed and
He has advertised, threatened and offend
rcwai d :
Still that Plymouth Hock fowl i-ontinu a
mui unu,
The Widow- Petite still flaunts her new list.
And Neighbor Nilibs' bens, when it
passis, they say.
Eye that up-to-date bat hi n horrified nsv.
And remain ro dlstuthed tlml thev cm kle
all day. -UAYOLL NE Tit EMS.
Is an ordeal which all
Awomen approach with
indescribable tear, for
nothing compare Avith
the pain and horror of
child-birth. The thought
CO., 1C01 Farnam SI., Omahj
Better at Double tho Price
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