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4 TITE OMAHA DAILY flEE, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14. 1903. Tim Omaha Daily Bee FOUNDED BT EDWARD ROSEWATKR. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. Entered at Omaha Fostofflc as second elm matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally fl (without Sunday), on year..MW Dally Be and Sunday, on, year f.0Q Sunday Bee, on yar t.& Saturday Km, on year LW DELIVERED BT CARRIER: Pally Pea (including Sunday), per wek.,15! Dally Be (without Sunday), per wk..lOo Evening Boa (without Sunday), per week So Evening Bee (with Sunday), per week..IOo Addros all complaint of irregularities In delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha Tha Bro Bulldln. South Omaii! City Hall Building. Council luffs-?6 Scott Street: Chicago 1640 University Bulldlhg. New York-l&J lioma Ufa Insurance Building. Washington 726 Fourteenth Street N. w. CORRESPONDENCE. Communication relating to news and edi torial matter ahould be addreaeed, Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. , REMITTANCES. ' Remit by draft, express or postal order ' payable to The Be Publishing Company. I Only S-cent stamps received In payment of man accounts, personal cnecaa, ei;y. Omaha or eastern exchange, not acoepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Stat of Nebraska, Douglaa County, .: OeoraTS B. Tssctaick, treasurer of Tha Be Publishing Company, being duly sworn, saya that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally. Morning, Evening and Sunday Be printed during the month of January, X0. waa as fol lows; 1 38.800 IT S6.300 . SS.lfiO II M.150 I 1 38,390 II 36,400 .... M.4O0 10 3,550 , I..., 35,300 11 38,410 1 36,340 22 88,140 7 .' 38,500 23 38,350 1 3890 24 38,460 1 36,380 25 36,540 10 86,410 21 38,100 11 38,330 27 38,140 '11 33,150 . 31 37430 : II 36,430 21 36,060 14 36,360 10 36,330 II 86,350 II 36,960 II 36,100 Totals 1,133,390 Less unsold and returned copies. 8,450 Net total 1,114340 Dally average.....!.. 35,863 OEORGB B. TZSCHUCK. Treasurer. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to veiur on iais isi aay or February, laus. ROBERT HUNTER. Notary Public WHE5 OUT OF TOWN. ahserlbers leaving; th city ttra. porarlly shoald have Th Be walled t tkem. Address will b ckauged as often as rcastd. Democratic sympathy for Senator Foraker will soon reach a fever heat. The congressional Investigation is showing pretty clearly that Public Printer Stilling! 1b a wrong font. New York and Chicago balloon clubs have a row on. Those towns are al ways up In the air over something. Senator Foraker discovers that when he thought he was running for the presidency he -"waa merely ' marking time. -. -" - 1 is. said that C. W, Morse never allows financial matters to worry him. Certainly not. His creditors are do ing the worrying. Senator Knox Is going to take his presidential boom into Michigan this week. He will not have to pay for any excess baggage. That vaccination order may be harmless for the children, but it seems to carry with It serious complications for some of the parents. Senator Foraker now claims that he was defeated by political sharp prac tice. Even in defeat the senator re tains his sense of humor. "Japanese Diet increases the taxes," says a Tokio cable. The Japanese ought to eat more modestly until they recover from the effects of the war. Those Pennsylvania coptractors who paid such fancy prices for furnishings for the state capltol are now ready to pay fancy prices for a little whitewash. Speaker Cannon says that he never swore in his life and he Is probably ready to declare that any man who says be has is a blankety blanked liar. The Pullman company proposes to give Its porters a tip once every year. The traveling public, in the meantime, will be expected to tip them every day. Omaha is after conventions for next year. Omaha has all the facilities for taking care of big conventions and It can get them if it will only go after them right. Tremendous protest is made be cause the president appoints political friends to office. Would hs be ex pected to keep federal places for his political enemies? A man in a Michigan prison is said to have eaten three electric light bulbs In an effort to commit suicide. Shows the folly of trying to kill yourself by a light meal. Mr. Bryan has already put on steam enough to deliver seven speeches in one day. At this rate he will have to ba In continuous eruption as soon as he is nominated at Denver. Leslie M. Shaw is said to have made $111,000 In his one year In Wall street. It is not surprising that he made? it, but there will be wonder that Wall street allowed him to get away with it. The temporary truce 'declared be tween the Pahlmanltes and the Jack ontans makes our only democratic congressman breathe easier at this welcome relief from Imminent danger of being caught between the two firing lines. DEMOCRATS ALL AT SKA. It the democrats succeed In their convention at Denver and through the campaign platforms and textbooks in framing a declaration of principles that may be offered to the voters of the nation, with room for dispute be tween them and the "Roosevelt poli cies," the credit will have to go to John Sharp Williams, minority leader In the house. Mr. Bryan and other eminent democrats have been so busy approving Mr. Roosevelt's acts and recommendations that there was a growing danger that the convention at Denver would have to endorse prac tically a republican platform, modeled after lines indicated by the president. This sentiment has become so pro nounced among democrats that Con gressman Henry of Texas, one of the ablest members of the house minority, said in a speech the other day: The president has sent to. congress cer tain principles for which the democrats have always contended and still contend. I believe the democrats Bhould get together and Indorse those recommendations by cau cus action and then tender them to the re publicans. "Here," we would say to the republicans, "are the things that we have long atood for, and for which some of you stand. Your president sftys they ought to be enacted and we offer you the united democratic vote." We will move to sus pend the rules and they can be passed in thirty minutes. It Is not only good politics, but It Is right. Mr. Henry's suggestion was met with applause among the democrats, but John Sharp Williams, realizing the political danger to his party, rushed to the rescue and protested against the acceptance of Theodore Roosevelt's latest message as a democratic docu ment. He declared that it "contained things sensationally federalists and dangerous to the public," and that many of Mr. Roosevelt's utterances violated the cardinal principles of democracy. He criticised the presi dent's position on the punishment of men connected with law-violating cor porations. He charged the president with insincerity on the labor question and censured him for failing to rec ommend tariff revision. He opposed the financial legislation urged by re publican leaders. He insisted that democrats were pledged to tariff re vision, election of United States sena tors by popular vote, to an income and Inheritance tax and to many policies directly antagonistic to views held by Mr. Roosevelt. Perhaps the most significant feature of the incident is the fact that the democrats who had applauded Con gressman Henry's suggestion that the party in congress should meet in cau cus and Indorse the president's mes sage were loudest and most emphatic In 'their huwahB when Mr. Williams pointed out to them why It would, bo impossible for the democrats to take Mr, RooaeveK Into their fold. It served, to illustrate the woeful absence of, a" fixed program and' lacit 'of a o es tablished code -of principles affecting the democratic party . In playing its part in the national politics of the day. sample or petty a baft. The decision of the secretaries to members of congress to form . an or ganization for the purpose of protect ing themselves from their employers calls attention to a system of petty grafting in effect in Washington for years. Under the law each member of the house is allowed $125 a month to pay for the services of a secretary. The salary does not go to the secretary di rect, but is drawn by the member, who signs a voucher in which he testifies that ha has paid out that amount for clerical help. The secretaries com plain that in many instances they are compelled to work for $75 a month or less, while the money intended for them goes to the members. In other cases members either keep the entire allowance themselves or give it to members of their family. The secre taries take the apparently logical posi tion that congress intends to furnish its members with clerks or secretaries and that the money should be paid di rectly to the clerks instead of passing through the hands of the members. The Justice of the claims of the sec retaries is self-evident. Every mem ber who Is at all In touch with his con stituents has work enough to keep a secretary reasonably busy and the money for the service should go to the person who renders it. Congress lib erally supplies each member with an office, with unlimited stationery, free postage and incidental supplies and a salary of $7,500 a year, with mileage sufficient to enable him to travel In luxury and still effect a saving. The attempt to supplement these generous perquisites by intercepting any part of the money allowed for clerical service is contemptibly petty. ANEBICAN AKD tVBOI'EAX F)E.. The fire losses In the United States for January- of the present year amounted to $3,000,000, or nearly as much as the I083 by fire in the entire United Kingdom for the year 1907. The American consul general at Ber lin reports that the annual fire loss of that city, with a population of nearly 3,000,000, Is about $1,000,000, or, as the consul puts it, "le6s than that en tailed by one moderately large fire in the United States." The fire at Port land, Ma, a few days ago, for Instance, entailed a greater loss than all the fires in Berlin for a year, and the re cent fire in the Parker block in New York caused more damage than all the fires of consequence In Great Brit ain in the last twelve months. Causes for this great difference in fire losses as between the United States and foreign countries form a subject for dispute. Collier's Weekly apparently takes !t for granted that most of the trouble Is due to the fail ure of Americans to employ Improved methods of fireproof construction. On this point Collier's says: Americans boast that their fire depart ments are the finest In the world, hut there la lens to boast of In the fact that e"ueh fine departments are needed, and that with all their skill and all their perfection of appliances (not meaning New Tork's rotten hose), they are (Un able to prevent losses In slngie catas trophes that balance the entire destruc tion In a great foreign country In a year. If a fraction of our annual fire Ions, not to Speak of our payments for protection that does not protect, were devoted to the construction of really fireproof build ings, a great conflagration might event ually be as rare a spectacle here as It Is abroad and most of our Insurance pre miums could be. devoted to other uses. No one will contend that the smaller fire loss In foreign countries is due to superiority of fire fighting equipment, for all admit that our own is much better, the American fire fighting ap pliances being in use in nearly all of the larger cities of the world. Much of the difference is undoubtedly due to greater care exercised by foreigners in the construction of their buildings. They build for permanency, as a rule, take more time for construction and use more fireproof material. Then, too, foreigners are more careful about their buildings after they are con structed. They enforce most stringent regulations for the use of matches and combustibles of all kinds and employ every precaution Imaginable. The re sult is shown in an annual fire loss in all France, for Instance, that is less than the average monthly loss In this country. The fire lesson is an ex pensive one and Americans have been too slow to learn it. WHEBE THK STATE CVMES IN. A definite ruling has been made by the auditor's department that under the new law governing Jail feeding in Douglas county the state is entitled to the benefit of the same price for feed ing penitentiary prisoners after con viction that the county pays for feed ing them before conviction. There never was any question as to this being the intent of the new law. In, fact, it was discussed when the bill changing the method of county Jail feeding was pending before the legis lature and the saving which the state would make was one, among others, of the Inducements that brought about its enactment. It was figured out that the state would come out ahead by from $500 to $1,000 a year, to say nothing of the removal at the same time of the incentive for detaining penitentiary convicts In the county Jail after sentence up to the full thirty-day limit, as had previously been the prac tice.' ' ' ' But when the state begins paying Jall-feeding bills for Douglas . county at the rate of 19 cents a day, which up to this time have been rendered at the rate, of 75. cents a . day and only lately reduced to 50 cents a day, the extent of the leak that used to be left open must be impressed on the tax payers. And when the bills for Jail feeding from Douglas county come in at the rate of 19 cents a day, while all the other counties in Nebraska , are charging 50 cents a day, the disparity must be so marked as to convince the next legislature that only one step has been taken in the reform of Jail feed ing and that what has been accom plished in Douglas county In this di rection can be accomplished likewise in large measure in every other county in the state in which the Jail has steady boarders, whose meal tickets are paid for either by the county or the state. The sheriffs throughout Nebraska have now been put on a salary basis the same as the sheriff of Douglas county, and the continuance of the Jail-feeding graft as a perquisite of the sheriff in these other counties is as inexcusable as it would be in Douglas county. It Is a dead give-away on the so called La Follette movement in Ne braska for the Iy Follette manager to advise people, as he is now doing, to vote for Roosevelt wherever a presi dential preference vote is to be had. This is an open confession that La Fol lette has no sufficient following in Ne braska to warrant him in expecting support from our national convention delegation, but would like to smuggle in a delegate or two by hitching on to the popularity of President Roosevelt. We do not believe any number of sin cere Roosevelt republicans in Nebraska or elsewhere are likely to be fooled by any such transparent trick. 1 Governor Sheldon has been duly launched into the arena as a candidate for vice president by the speech deliv ered at the Lincoln day banquet of the Marquette club at Chicago by State Superintendent McBrien. The gov ernor, himself, has made no official an nouncement, but it the Chicago con vention should find itself at a loss for vice presidential timber, Nebraska could easily supply the demand. The Otoe county delegates to the democratic "state convention have just been appointed by the democratic com mittee without inviting the aid or con sent of the democratic rank and file by either caucus, primary or mass con vention. This undemocratic action seems, however, to be entirely over looked by our amiable democratic con temporary. A Nebraska postoffice that pays not to exceed b!x dollars a month Is going a-begging for someone to take It. This U one of the contingencies the rules of the pie counter recently adopted by the Nebraska delegation in congress failed to provide for. J. Pierpont Morgan denies with every emphasis that he gave that French editor the Interview in which he was quoted as denouncing labor unions and declaring that the working men must accept lower wages or starve. While the public does not par ticularly love Mr. Morgan, it will ac cept his denial. Mr. Morgan is a man of Intelligence. The French editor has made him appear In the role, of a fool. The president of the American Re ciprocal Tariff league says that the first effect of reciprocity treaties with France and Germany would be to put $76,000,000 in gold into the middle west for farm products. The western farmer already is able to Bell all he can raise, but will undertake to supply a few new customers It they have the price. Mr. Bryan told his audience at Mon treal that the democrats are united for tariff revision. The quickest way to start a riot in the democratic councils Is to propose a reduction of the tariff on sugar. On that proposition the democrats from the cane-growlng states are all high protectionists. Mr. Bryan says that his greatest ob jection to Governor Johnson of Minne sota as a presidential candidate is that he has been endorsed by the New York World. It is difficult to predict what the effect would be It the World should endorse Mr. Bryan. Passing; the Loving: Cap. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Instead of being a warlike demonstration the Cruise of the big fleet has developed Into a social function. Admiral Evans carries a loving cup In his arm rather than a chip on his shoulder. Just Like Finding; the Money. Washington Herald. Mr. Thomas W. Lawsnn says he Is'wlll Ing to bet 1100,000 that Theodore Roosevelt Is his own successor. In spite of his min isterial robes, we can't help thinking Chan cellor Day wishes the president would take that bet himself. Ilangrary far the Heiresses. Baltimore American. With one Hungarian count marrying Miss Vahderbllt and her millions, another re ported to be on the point of marrying her mother, and a third coming over to try his luck In catching an heiress. Hungary ! setting a .merry paco In the European seiz ing of good matrimonial business chances A Discordant Leake. New York Tribune. One democratic member of congress has plucked up enough courage to say publicly that he does not indorse Mr. Bryan or his political methods. As the orator's name is Leake, this outward expression of dis sent and disapproval may have been more or less accidental Working; Overtime. Cincinnati Enquirer. William J. Bryan Is reported to have been dormant four hours lately. Mr. Bryan hns so many things to watch these days that he has scarcely time to sleep. If Mr. Bryan keeps awake till the election he will be so victimized by Insomnia that he will not be able to sleep again. He has been awake for about four yrs. : . Holding Klaa-ara Kails. Philadelphia Record. Men who are making the Amerloan Niagara falls grind out electricity for them ought to be satisfied with the bounties of nature, but they are not; they demand also bounties from' the government. They complain that electricity produced by the Canadian falls Is coming into the United States and competing with theirs, and wo presume they are ready to show that the Canadian falls work for lower wages than our own. Results of the Maine Disaster. Baltimore American. Ten years since the Maine was blown up, and whaf years of progress and notable events they have been for this country. 6paln, too, has made advances, and under Its Intelligent young King Alfonso Is not liable to go backward, In spite of the fact that some of Its richest possessions were taken from It. Cuba has profited, too, and will soon be forced to show that It Is capable of self-government. Has It learned the lesson the United States has tried so hard to teach UT A Wrecked Promoter. Springfield Republican. Charles W.. Morse's attempt to create a steamship monopoly In the North Atlantic coastwise trade was only a little more of a failure than J. P. Morgan's transatlantic effort of the kind. Morse, however, plunged Into his scheme after the futility of the Morgan effort had been demonstrated. He sought to clinch the matter by buying up docking facilities, but even this did not avail, and now his consolidated concern, or the fragments thereof, Is In the hands of receivers, while his bonds are selling at less than 10 per cent of the par value. The ocean still remains broad and free enough to defy attempts at transportation monop oly there, and It Is well that this Is so. ROOSEVELT AXD THE PEOPLE. Reasons for the Former's Strength with the Masses. Portland Oregonlan. Mr. Roosevelt Is a consummate politician. That Is one reason why his enemies hate him. Were he stupid they could outwit him. Were his ambitions alien to the popular will, they could ruin him by cal umny. Were he less than a master of masters In the sword play of politics, they would have given him the death stab long ago, and. seating "some compliant tool In the presidential chair, would have com pleted their schemes to establish a pluto cratic oligarchy and make the American people forever slaves to the evil hierarchy of Mammon. As a politician Mr. Roosevelt Is Incom parably superior to his enemies, but that Is the smallest of his advantages over them. To them the common man Is but a clod to ba trodden under foot, a sheep to be shorn, a beast of burden to be worked out and cast upon the dunghill. But Roose velt, like Lincoln, sympathizes with the common man. He knows the heart of the people, he hears the cry of their wrongs and burns with Indignation against their oppressors. It Is a low phrase to say that a man lives with his ear to the ground, and of Roosevelt it Is not true. The mere politician must watch and listen and spy to learn what the people desire and form his servile opinion whether or not thny desire it earnestly enough to make It ad vantageous for hint to take their side. But Roosevelt knows That the people want without practice jf these unworthy arts. They want Justice and be wants Justice. What more is needed to put him In har mony with the feeling and thought of the nation? It Is a noble trait of the president that he knows human nature well enough to trust It. He makes his appeal to the deep of the popular mind and heart. He sneaks without evasion or subterfuge. tl calls a spade a spade. He gives crime Its rlaht nun. BOlSD AflOUT NEW YORK. Rlaples on the Carrent of Life la the Metropolis. An amazing amount of petty cheating among New York merchants Is revealed by the report of the chief of the bureau of weights and measures. Out of 44,27 In vestigations made by the bureau 2.0S1 cases, or over 6 per cent of the whole num ber, were found to be cheats by weights or measure. "There are now 6.000 dealers," says the report, "using correct scales who formerly used fraudulent ones." Short weight loads of coal, sometimes as much as 25 per cent off, Is a regular practice. The customer must take the dealer's fig ures and the penalty of only $10 for fraud Is so trivial as to be almost no deterrent. The bureau Is almost swamped with the task of preventing short weight In prepared foods, such as cereals, meats and liquids, put up In boxes, wrappers, glass and tin, the ".labeled weight Including both cover and contents, whereas the law requires the weight or measure of the contents only. A poorly dressed man past middle age, who had papers to prove that he was Count Eugene St. Clair, forimrly of France, walked into the Bedford avenue police st tlon, Williamsburg, last Saturday night and asked for a night's shelter. After ques tioning the man Lieutenant Lyons told the man that a night's rest would mean an arraignment In the morning for vag rancy, and that he was' apparently a man of too much refinement and education to court such a situation. "I cannot beg," said the man, "and so I have come here rather than die of cold on the streets." An ambulance was sent for from the Williamsburg hospital and Dr. Dangler found the count was suffering from ex posure and starvation. The count then con fessed that ho had not eaten anything for two days and that he had spent the days and nights In the open air. Count St. Clair told a part of his story of misfortune and his papers Impressed the police with the belief that he was telling the truth. He said that he was of a good French family and camo to this country years ago. For more than thirty years he had been a teacher of languages here. He speaks twelve languages, he said. Three years ago he had to give up work because of 111 health and about that time his wife died, leaving him alone In the world. He declared that he had been In many parts of the country and that he had done work whenever he could get It. He had acted as court Interpreter In some cities. If theaters, hotels and lobster palaces are the financial barometer to prosperity then prosperity has rrturned to town. When the panic first hit the town these places were the first to feel Its effects. Luxuries were cut off and restaurants where tables were impossible to obtain on practically any night were as desolate as a cathedral on a week day. The theaters were great sufferers, and beyond one or two of the big successes the audiences con sisted of a corporal's guard. This condition has largely passed away. This Is strik ingly shown at the theaters, where "stand ing room" signs are seen again. At the leading hotels prosperity is evident on every side. Along the great White Way the lobster palaces laBt night and tonight were obliged to turn away hundreds. In the palmiest Hays they have, known no greater rush.' Prosperity has certainly ' re turned. During the panto It waa Inexpen sive foods and the cheapest drinks. ' Now the wine crowd has returned. The Boyertown theater fire has drawn the attention of New York officials to the great multiplication of the moving picture shows, especially on the East side. There are 800 of these registered with the bureau of buildings, which comply with the regu lations and have each two exits, but often one of these Is merely called so, and as a matter of fact cannot be so used unless a partition shall be torn down In case of an accident. It Is plain that In such case the delay required to destroy even a thin par tition would result in v fatalities. Chief Croker of the fire department does not agree with the building superintendent as to the safety of these places; he regards them as a menace. The "fircprooflng" Is not fireproof, he says; tho partitions around the film machine are nothing more than a curtained shield with a sheet of tin nailed to the celling. As the pictures are thrown on a sheet In front of the audience, the machine Is so placed that It Is directly In the way of the only exit. In places where two exits are provided they are so close that they would be of no use In an emergency. Tills Is the case ' with the "store" shows, made hastily and slightly In old buildings not designed for such uses. The sleek ones are having something new for the come-ons. It Is the fake fur game. It is worked in a simple manner. A little "ad" appears In the papers reading -me-thing like this; "A widow, recently be reaved, will sell her late lamented's hand- some fur coat at a great sacrifice." If you want a good bargain you are requested to write her at a certain address. If you do you are Invited to call at a certain house or office, and there you are shown what looks like the real article In fur coats or sets. The "widow" or her "agent" Is on hand and tells you in order to exchange cold New York for warmer climes the "widow" will let you have the furs at Just one-fifth their reul value. They look good, If you are not an expert. It only takes about a day or two before you discover that the furs are nothing but catskin fixed up and dyed to resemble the real article. It is no use to look for the "widow" or her "agent." PF.HSO.NAI. AMI OTHERWISE. If you are favored with a comic valentine, don't follow tho St. Louis method of shoot the sender. "Laugh and the world laughs with you." Frederick Wheeler, a capitalist of Los Angeles, Cal., Is being talked of for nom ination for the presidency by the Prohibi tion National convention, at Columbus, O., next July. Gathering sponges on the west coast of Florida has progressed from the "lone fisherman" to an organized business em ploying experts. On the east coast spong ing is away up In the realms of fine art. Chicago railroad officials lopped off a slice of Kansas City's rainbow by reducing the cost of the proposed union depot from $:T.0W.Ci0 to 15,(X0,000. Now, If the Kaw vlllains show proper appreciation for small favors the revised figures may remain on the blackboard for a day or two. Miss Adlna Dezarala of San Antonio, Tex., president of a chapter of the Daughters of the .Republic bearing her father's name, gave a modern version of the heroic "de fense of tho Alamo" by "holding the fort" In that historic building, Monday and Tues day last, defying the sheriff, a court In junction, hunger and thirst, rather than yield possession to a rival faction of the daughters. The state took possession uid saved the day and the heroine. The editor of the Paris Temps declared to a Chicago reporter thai Chicago reminded hlra of some ways of I'urls. What Is one's astonishment, then, to see Prof. Faul Shon-y of Chicago university appearing In prh.l with the statement that "there Is Infinitely more ugliness and soul-destroying vulgarity In the wM today than ever before. Nothing In tie simpler world of Plato could be so ugly hi Cottage Urovu avuiuc." Archer svenuu has reformed. is. 1 . jK 9 These meals are always ready; and what do you know that's so good? You will never bake beans at home again when you once learn the difference between yours and Van Camp's. Note how nutty our beans are how mealy. None are. browned, none are broken ; all are baked alike. And note what a delicious blend we get. It comes from baking the beans, the tomato sauce and the pork all together. It isn't your fault, but you cannot be gin to bake beans as we bake them You lack the facilities. Beans must be baked in a very fierce heat, else they are not digestible. We bake ours 90 minutes at 245 degrees. Then we bake in live steam. That's why our beans don't brown, don't burst. That is why they are all baked alike, and baked well. That's why they are mealy, yet nutty. , Van Camp's pork and beans baked with Then you can't get the beans that we get, for ours ara selected by hand from the choicest beans grown. We pay for them seven times what some beans would cost. Then our tomatoes are ripened on the vine,i not in shipment. They are picked when the juice fairly sparkles. That gives to our sauce the zest which'you don't get in other sauce. The millions of people who know Van Camp's never want home-baked beans (We have spent 47 years In learning how to best prepare this dish. Is it any wonder we know ? Don't judge Van Camp's by some other brands that are cheapened at every point. It pays to get the best in beans, because your people will eat them more frequently; eat them in place of meat. And beans are Nature's choicest food 84 per cent nutriment. - 10, 15 and 20 per can. Van Camp Packing Company, Indianapolis, In J. SMOOTH AND EXTERTAIXIW O. rolntcd Shafts Cleverly Edged by the President. Philadelphia Record (dem.). Mr. Roosevelt's letter to Mr. Foulke con tains several clever things. As a writer of campaign documents and a maker of stump speeches he has few equals and no superiors. The selection of delegates by non-officeholders' conventions, he says, "means only, so far as It means anything, that they are held under the lead of per sons who wish to be put In office, but whose character and capacity are such that they have not been regarded as fit to be appointed under this administration." Their failure to get office is not the result of political action, he says, but "their political action is due to their failure to secure of fice." That Is a neat disposition of all antl-Taft delegates In the south or else where. So he says also: "My Interference with patronage matters in Ohio has been limited to Insisting, as I should Insist any where else, that oppression to the pur poses, policies and friends of the adminis tration shall not be considered as a neces sary prerequisite to holding the commis sion of the president." That is delicious. He is a very entertaining writer, Is Mr. Theodore Roosevelt. TART TRIFLES. "What kept you In town so late?" "Some very Important business, m'dear." "Could you not have left part of It until tomorrow?" "Nope, It gets flat." Houston Post. "How did you come out with your case In police court?" "Fine." Cleveland Plain Dealer. "You think he loves your daughter de votedly?" "Sure of It." "How can you be so sure? "He had heard her sing before he asked me for her hand." Houston Post. Whispering Customer (producing watch) v. ... KA.n. T have been told that you are an honest pawnbroker. J . u,i,h iwiili a dcDrecatorv AVUlluuinr . t.ii .Hi. ....... ii,.m tiA MMiyiebodv has been try ing to have fun with you.-Chlcago Tribune. "Do you know," asked the spinster aunt, severely, "why they call pur pres.-n Con dition a state of single b'""7",'".1,.11. "I know one reason," replied the rebellious Be Careful in Following every period of financial stress, fakers and unscrupulous mer chants try the harder to reap their usual harvest. "Low prices" they cry, "lower than ever." "We need money and must sacrifice our stock." They attempt to play on your sym pathy and touch your sense of econ omy; In a word they try to make you believe that they will give you some thlng for nothing. But be not deceived. Do not be de luded Into the belief that these deal ers are sacrificing profit their sub terfuge is merely their usual means of obtaining greater gain. As you built a home so should you select a piano once for all. It l something from 'hlch you have a right to expect exquisite delight as long as you live and which should be a legacy to your family. The best musical qualities and the beat con struction eo together one Is the re sult of the other. A. HOSPE CO., Branch llouaesi Council Bluffs, We do Expert Piano "TTTTi tomato sauce niece, defiantly. "Because I'm blessed I stay In It." Philadelphia Press. "I'm gunning for railroads," announced the trust-buster. "Then come with me," whispered the near-humorist. "I can show you some of their tracks." Louisville Courier-Journal. "Pa," asked Willie, "what does 'food for the gods' mean?" "Probably," replied the old first-nighter, "It means peanuts, plug tobacco and ths like." Baltimore American. The Dally Thunderbolt Reporter who sometimes dropped Into verse Invaded the lair of the real poet of tho staff. "Rondelle," he said, "I'm lost for a word. Let me look at your rhyming dictionary a moment." , "Rhyming dictionary" exclaimed th real poet. "Sir!" Chicago Tribune. CHARGE OF THE SPELLING HQl'AD Detroit Free Press. Half a leag, half a leag. Half a leag onward, Gitllnpt the spelling board. With its three hundred; Knockt out one "g" from eg, I .tin Is the word for leg, Hear Hrander Mathews beg: "Lern the three hundred." Forward the spelling board. Teach 'em to spell it "sord;" blashlng words llm from Urn, How we have blundered; We'll never yield the gost, What tho scoffers rost, Spred them from cost to cost; All the three hundred. Dettors to right of them, f Colums to left of them, Hedxteds to slumber them, Changed In the making; Fonografs squeklng loud, Rravelv they spelt and rowed What tho their heads were now Wofully aktng! Clone were the extra '"p's," Dum the silent "b's," Difthongs were routed; Crazed by fonetlc schemes. Quire singers rote by reams 8uch words as solem, Canifor and colem, llurang and Ilium and lam, Pamflet and diafram, Tho the world douted. Bravelv they bllt and well. Teaching us how to spell Campuln and boro; F.ven that Ured dlseze, Tlals, they spell with ese. Honor such words as these, Rebilt as thoro. Buying a Piano The Hoeye store has been In the piano business a lifetime. It has been successful, and it has been able to ob tain the aeency for' the best pianos In the world. It pays spot cash for every piano It receives from the manufac turers, and that means economy for you. These are reasons why there are none but good pianos here. But economy is much sought after by the piano buyer as quality. We have strlved to produce economy and have succeeded bo well that our prices are now positively the lowest in the United States. The Hospe One Price, No Commission Plan is in Itself an as- L. surance of lowest prices. We are fac- f tory distributers for Krantch & Bach, Krakauer, Kimball, Bush & Lane. Hallet & Davis, Melvill-Clark, Cable Nelson, Conway, H. P. Nelson, Cramer and many other famous makes. We guarantee the lowest prices In the United States. Pay monthly t& and up. If you cannot call, write for Cata logue B and prices. 1513 Douglas St. la.; Lincoln, Neb.5 Kearney, Neb. Tuning and Itepairlng. i