THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1908,
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ft ate of Nebraska, Douglas Coutny, a.t
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aaya that the actual number of full and
complete copiea of The Dally, Morning.
Kvenlng and Sunday Bee printed during
the month of February. 1908. waa aa fol
lows: 1 36,780 1 3M0O
3 ,. 85,300 17 3,B00
8 36,180 IS 36,930
4 . 30.330- IB 36,730
S 86,310. 20... 36,300
I.. 86,030 Jl 86,340
7 , 88,340 It 86,630
8 86,030 II 35,000
9... 88,000 24 36,300
10 36,300 2S 30,670
11 80,100 26 36,430
12 , 36,300
IS 36,300
14.... 86,100
27 36,560
IS. , B6.380
23 36,380
II..., 36,110
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.1,046,660
Xjoss unsold and. returned copies.
8,437
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pally average 38,831
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ROBERT HUNTER,
... Notay public.
WHEPT OUT OF TOWN,
gabacrlbera leaving tne elty tea
porarlly ahaald km Tk Be
snallee t tka. ASS rasa will b
k as often aa rtewitta.
' i
Castro la apparently bidding for a
place In the "short and ugly word"
clasa.
Uncle Bam has received Minister
Wu without question and he promises
to reciprocate.
The financial doctors In the senate
etlll have the Aldrlch bill on the
operating table.
The Buffalo Times la comparing
Bryan to Gladstone. The difference Is
more noticeable than the similarity.
"Some congressmen talk too much,"
says the Atlanta Constitution. Move
to amend by striking out the word
"Borne."
Omaha ought to resolve now and
forever not to erect another school
house eicept of strictly fireproof con
struction. ,
Rear Admiral Cowles says there Is
no safe place In battle. Still, the Jingo
member In his seat In congress Is not
In great danger.
One hundred and sixty pearls have
been found In one oyster In Connecti
cut Evidently the trust Idea has been
planted In the oyster beds.
To be logical, Mr. Bryan should de
nounce those Minnesota democrats
who have declared for Governor John
son aa "embezzlers of power."
Senator. Foraker says be will make
no further statement on the political
situation In Ohio. There seems to be
nothing left tor the senator to say.
Senator Depew has spoken In sup
port of the Aldrlch bill, hus strength
ening the impression that there is lit
tle prospect of passing the measure.
The New York Herald has an edl
" torlal on "The Simple Facts About the
Aldrlch Bill." Didn't know there
were any simple facts about the meas
ure. Governor Magoon is back again In
Cuba. "With the heavyweight Ne
braskan sitting on the lid, affairs there
may be relied on to run along
smoothly.
"Liberty"' bonda of the United
States of Russia" are being offered for
sale In New York and are In about as
much demand as any other form of
Russian bonds.
Colonel Bryan declares he will never
surrender to the railroads. The rail
roads have nothing against Mr. Bryan,
whom, they look uron as one of their
beat customers.
We regret to annouuee that Prof.
Kammerlln Onnes of the University of
Leyden has succeeded In liquefying
helium Just when most of the south
has gone for prohibition.
The renewed attaoka on Mr. Taft by
the local Bryanlte newspaper and by
the professional oratorical reformer
Imported here from Chicago by Mr.
Bryan, himself, would Indicate that
Taft stock is going up.
The supreme .court of the United
States has decided that copyright lawa
can not prevent music from being
"canned" for phonographs. Appar
ently nothing can prevent music can
Ding after the supreme court and Ire
of neighbor have loth, failed.
Tin qvkstioh or platform.
It is perfectly proper, and to be ex
pected, that states presenting favorite
sons for presidential nomination will
promulgate platform declarations de
fining the position of their preferred
candidate on national Issues.
The platform adopted by Nebraska
democrats In the state convention waa
really written by Mr. Bryan and re
flecta his well known views on every
subject with which it deals. It Is a
platform built for Bryan by Bryan and
will In all probability be the ground
work for the platform upon which he
will be nominated at Denver.
The platform adopted by the Ohio
republicans embodies in succinct form
the public expressions of Mr. Taft on
tho most vital issues confronting the
American people. It Is by no means
as extensive or comprehensive as the
Bryan platform, but if Mr. Taft Is
nominated at Chicago, as in all proba
bility he will be, the Ohio platform
will provide an Index for the national
platform makers.
So far as Nebraska republicans are
concerned, having no favorite son can
didate, It does not devolve on them to
write the national platform in advance.
With the republican sentiment in this
state manifested so overwhelmingly
for Mr. Taft, the declarations of the
coming republican state convention
should, In our Judgment, so far as they
go beyond endorsing his candidacy
and approving the policies of Presi
dent Roosevelt and of our own state
administration, follow closely the lines
of the Ohio platform.
This seems more particularly fitting
for Nebraska this year because of the
peculiar conditions of our Nebraska
primary law which provides for an
other state convention to meet in Sep
tember for the sole purpose of promul
gating a platform upon which the state
candidates are to run. There Is no
call for the impending convention to
usurp the duties and functions of the
September platform convention. The
September platform convention will
enjoy the advantage of having the na
tional platforms of all parties before it
and also of having the state issues
more fully developed and focused.
Should tho early convention undertake
to cover all state and national issues
subject only to revision by the latter
convention, it might involve the party
in more or less embarrassment
SENATOR STE WAHT't STtRT.
William M. Stewart, for many years
United States senator from Nevada,
Is back ' In Washington enjoying life
and entertaining his friends. At the
age of 77 Mr. Stewart left Washington
practically penniless, having lost his
third or fourth fortune in poor invest
ments. Rugged and as full of courage
aa when he crossed the plains with
the '4 Sera, he went back to Nevada.
got into the gold game at Goldfielda
and Bullfrog and now, at 81, has an
other fortune and Is spending a neces
sary portion of it with his old asso
ciates. Stewart is one of the best
story tellers at Washington and,
through the Saturday Evening Post, is
serving up some real warm ones about
the affairs of earlier days at the na
tional capital.
The latest Stewart story has to do
with a plan for the conquest of
Canada, hatched in the spring of 1865
and designed to remove at once the
sectional lines between the north and
the south. According to Senator
Stewart, Senator "Zach" Chandler of
Michigan conceived the Idea of taking
100,000 of Grant's seasoned veterans,
Joining them with 100,000 of Lee's
fighters and capturing Canada as com
pensation for damages sustained by
the American government through
England's operations on the high seas
during the civil war. The Ironclads
were to guard the American harbors
while the army of invasion went over
and captured Canada before England
could realize what was taking place.
Thirty senators were in the secret and
Mr. Lincoln was to be induced to call
an extra session, declare war on Eng
land, Bottle the Alabama claims and all
other accounts by the seizure of the
country north of the St. Lawrence and,
Incidentally, wipe out all bitterness
between the two sections of this coun
try by making a war on "the ancient
enemy." Just as the plans were ripe,
the fuse laid and the men in the plot
waiting for the signal to action. Presi
dent Lincoln waa assassinated and the
project was abandoned.
One charming feature of Senator
Stewart's stories la that they are' al
ways consistent and well-guarded. He
furnishes no namea of the other thirty
senators In the eousylracy, but rug rut
fully announces that they are all dead.
He Is the only man living who knowa
the details which he could easily cor
roborate If only one of the other con
spirators were still alive.' '
AH lXTERUSTlNQ RECEIVERSBIP.
The appointment of a receiver for
the Western Maryland railroad, one of
the Gould properties, haa a general
significance in view of one of the ques
tions involved, the disposition of the
coal lands of the company, which will
have to be made by a receiver acting
under appointment from the federal
government The determination of
the policy to be pursued by the re
ceiver In dealing with this problem
will be of vast importance to some of
the big railroads which are faced with
the name necessity of complying with
the law, effective on May 1. which pro
hibits them from engaging In the pro
duction or sale of commodities in com
petition with private enterprise.
No serious complications exist rela
tive to the other fiscal affairs of the
Western Maryland railroad. The
property was bought by the Gould la
terests for the purpose of giving the
Wabash system a tidewater outlet It
has an outstanding Indebtedness of
about $60,000,000 and some notea
falling due which It haa not been able
to pay. This has furnished the direct
ground for a receiver, but the appli
cants laid special stress upon the fact
that the coal properties of the road
furnished the chief baBls of security
for the bonded and funded Indebted
ness and that the owners wanted the
receiver appointed to prevent the sac
rifice that would be caused by an at
tempt to dUpose of Its coal lands pre
maturely In accordance with the re
quirements of the new rate law.
Under such conditions the receiver
ship places the matter squarely up to
the federal authorities to outline a
plan of action. It makes the case In
the nature of a test as the federal
government, under the direction of the
federal court, Is, in effect In control
of the road and charged with the duty
of complying with the federal law as
to operation of coal mines. Managers
of the railways which own coal and
Iron mines have claimed to be at loss
what they should do. Various courses
which have been proposed contemplate
an evasion of the law rather than a
compliance with it, and no general
policy has been agreed upon. They
will, therefore, watch eagerly to see
what course the federal government
will pursue In solving this transporta
tion problem of Its own making.
HEARST TO OO IT ALONE.
William Randolph Hearst has at
least relieved anxiety and put an end
to speculation as to the course he and
his independence party are to pursue
in the coming campaign. Since the
recent conference of Hearstltes at
which it was decided to enlarge the
Independence league and give It a na
tional scope political speculators have
been busy. One story was to the ef
fect that, Hearst would endorse Bryan
probably in return for a cabinet posi
tion, In case of Bryan's election; an
other that the Independence party was
going to nominate Roosevelt and a
third that the party was going to nom
inate Governor Johnson of Minnesota.
In a formal editorial announcement
in his papers Mr. Hearst sets all these
rumors at rest by declaring:
The Independence party la not going to
support Theodore Roosevelt.
The Independence party la not going to
support William J. Bryan.
The independence party Is not going to
support John A. Johnson.
The Independence party is going to nomi
nate Its own candidate and la going to vote
for him with a strength and a heartlnesa
of numbers that la likely to be a revelation
to the older and sadder political organiza
tions. If It does not elect thla candidate
of Its own In this particular election it Is
going to lay the solid foundation for doing
so In the next.
The effect of the Hearst program,' If
carried out, on the political prospects
of the democratic party should not be
underestimated. Hearst came within
4,000 votes of being elected mayor of
New York, In 1906, on the Independ
ence league ticket, even though the
counting was in the handa of the Tam
many organization. Under Its own
emblem Hearst secured 140,000 votes
for governor of New York in 1906 and
accomplished the election of the entire
democratic state ticket, with which it
was fused with the exception of gov
ernor. The Independence party polled
26,000 votes In New York in 1907 for
its candidates for Judges and in the
same year polled 76,000 votes for its
candidate for governor of Massachu
setts, putting the democratic party In
third place in that state. It polled 45,
000 votes in the California state elec
tion and has developed a considerable
strength in municipal affairs in Chi
cago.
These political fights have been
waged chiefly on local issues. How
much of the following Mr. Hearst
would be able to carry Into a national
fight is problematical. The record,
however, shows that his strength has
been secured chiefly at the expense of
the democratic party and his candi
dacy on a third party ticket would
make It impossible for Bryan to cher
ish the least hope of success in New
York or in several pivotal eastern
states.
The smuggling of cocaine and other
dope Into the state penitentiary is not
a new thing, but has gone on there for
years under demo-pop administrations
and under republican administrations
In spite of efforts to stop It The Bee
has exposed the trade In contraband
drugs repeatedly, but this is an abuse
where eternal vigilance is the only
effective preventive. The menace of
smuggled dope confronts the officers
of all prisons and reformatories at all
times not only in Nebraska, but every
where. That is no reason, however,
why strict precautionary measures
should not be taken and constant ef
fort made to detect the culprits and
stamp out the dope habit in these In
stitutions. In a sermon Bishop Scannell de
clares:
Men must follow leaders. If their leadera
are good and wise the people will be bene
fited, but It they are bad the reault will be
Injurious.
This truth does not apply to any
particular church or creed, but to peo
ple of all churches and of all creeds
and of no church whatever. But It
the people have a choice of leadera
they will prefer to follow the good
leaders rather than bad ones, provided
they are In position to form unbiased
and Intelligent judgment
The South Dakota primary law, al
though It retains the county and state
conventions to choose delegates to n
tlonal conventions, reaulres them to
be held on the same day for all polit
ical parties. In other words, there
are no early counties nor straggling
counties, but all come In together. In
asmuch as all republican elements in
South Dakota are for Taft and all
democratic elements for Bryan, South
Dakota's places at both Chicago and
Denver are pretty well determined in
advance. ,
The decision of our supreme court
In favor of the state In the preliminary
round of litigation over the law re
ducing express rates between Nebraska
points la a feather In the cap of State
Senator Sibley, aa well as of the attor
ney general's office. The law In ques
tion waa Introduced Into the legisla
ture by Mr. Sibley and would never
have gone on the statute books but for
hla indefatigable work.
The whole British nation is up In
arms because Emperor William wrote
a letter to Lord Tweedmouth of the
Admiralty board. No one pretends to
know what the letter contains, but
British blood is up and the dogs of
war are chafing against the leashes.
It may be a little embarrassing it it
develops that the kaiser was Just ask
ing Tweedmouth for the address of his
barber.
Lieutenant Colonel Goethals re
ports that there are 96,000,000 yards
of earth to be removed at Panama
and that the present force is removing
It' at the rate of 3,000,000 yards a
month. The clasa In simple division
can make Its own estimate of how
long at this rate It will take to com
plete the canal.
Mrs. Georgle Law of New York has
engaged a press agent to keep her
name out of the papers. It is working
fine, every paper in the country giving
the story in from ten lines to four
columns. Georgia isn't an actress,
either.
If the proposed "boy republic" ma
terializes and turns out successfully
here in Omaha, the next thing will be
a vigorous demand for our grown-up
city government to abdicate In favor
of the youngsters.
"Nebraska endorses Bryan" ia a
headline In most of the eastern papers.
That's a mistake. The Nebraska dem
ocrats have endorsed Bryan. Nebraska
is in the republican column.
The democratic World-Herald
would be dreadfully disappointed if
the coming republican state conven
tion should transact all its business in
reasonable harmony and good feeling.
One of the czar's ministers is
charged with revealing Russian naval
secrets to a foreign power. It might
help the czar If other nations would
build their navies on the Russian plan.
Truth. Boiled Dowa,
Boston Transcript.
Thursday Nebraska waa Bryan's. Next
November It will be "another's."
Much Pun la Prospect.
Washington Herald.
There Is apt to be a great deal more
campaign fun than campaign funds In the
national elections thla year.
Denatnrlalnsr War.
Chicago Post.
Young Maxim has invented a "silent re
arm." First they took away the smoke of
battle, then the gay uniforms and now the
noise. War Itself will have to go next.
Discrediting; Joalona Prophets.
Ban Francisco Chronicle.
Kansas republicans have declared for
Taft. It waa urged some time ago that
Taft' a chief strength was In the south In
states whose electoral votes are never
counted for a republican candidate, but tf
he adds a few mora republican states like
Ohio and Kansas to Ms delegations he will
be all richt
Dhwtth to Stick.
Baltimore American.
It is pleasant to welcome a new light and
frolicsome phrase, and yesterday a con
gressman performed a publio service by
saying: "Theodore Roosevelt has the back
ing and support of every man who believes
that the best way to get pure water Is not
to paint the pump, but to clean out tho
well." It thla is original, It deserves to
stick.
End of Franchise Grabbing;.
Kansas City Star.
The proposed constitution of Michigan
provides that no franchise can be granted
by any city without a three-fifths vote on
referendum. Under the charters em
bodying the commission form of govern
ment recently adopted In aeveral cltlea a
referendum vote in franchise grants Is pro
vided. Eventually It will dawn on the gen
tlemen In charge of publio service corpora
tions that the day of franchise grabbing is
past.
AurcaUm m BaJHIaar Problem.
Philadelphia Record.
It is quite as Impossible to keep anarch
ists out of the country as It Is to keep
bacilli out of milk. The anarchist does
not bring his anarchy hither In his hand
bag or wear It anywhere on the outside of
his anatomy. He has It secretly bestowed
Inside of him In his disordered mind. The
professional mouthlug anarchists who make
the preaching of anarchism an occupation
and a means of livelihood tan be dealt with:
but the wretches who strike first and talk
afterward. It they talk at all. furnish ona
of the most baffling problems with which
civilised society has to deal.
Union Veterans In tho Senate.
Boston Transcript.
The death of Senator Proctor reduces the
number of union veterans In the senate to
eight, unless wa consider Mr, Alllson'a
servloe on the staff of the governor of Iowa
in the early days of the civil war entitles
him to a place In that category. The eight
senators who saw actual service in the field
for the union are Bulkeley, Dupont, Bur
rows, Nelson, Warner, Foraker, Scott and
Warren. There are ten ex-confederatea in
the aenate, Messrs. Bankhead, Johnston,
Taliaferro, Bacon, McCreary, McEnery,
Money. McLauiip. Daniel and Martin
Senator Brigga of New Jersey waa an offt
cer in the regular army, graduating frun
West Point in 1W?. He and Mr. Dupont
constltjte the West Point contingent In the
senate.' - Senator Dirk waa an offioer la
the vcluattera in the Spanish war.
ROCXD ABOUT NEW YORK.
Rtpplro on the rarreat of I.lfe la tho
metropolis.
Shoe shining in New York has become
a business of considerable magnitude, rail
ing to lta aid managerial ability, entprrria
and capital, and Is tending sharply toward
concentration and combination. The boy
who carried Ms kit and did business on the
sidewalk haa disappear!, and In his la -a
are the "shining parlors" under roof, many
lavishly fitted up, and paying rentals equal
to a store. An Idea of the extent of the
business may be gained from the fact thit
the privilege of shoe shining In the new
Hudson Terminal building waa bought for
$124,000 for a period of twelve years, or
$10,400 a year. The apace allotted Is 4 0
square feet In the main corridor. The basis
on which the value of the privilege was
estimated afords a suggestion of the heavy
returns from bootblacklng. First of all,
the company realised that the terminal
buildings wore the largest office structure
In the world, and would have a permanent
population of 11,000. Its officers also con
cluded that each tenant would have an
average of at least one visitor every day.
The visitors, however, were not taken intt
consideration in the scheme f first profits,
for the company estimated that it could
pay a dividend if it succeeded In shining
the shoes of 9 per cent of the tenants of
the building. Patronage of visitors to the
tenants and the hundreds of transients
passing through the building every hour
would, of course, make a handsome addi
tion to the profits.
Not less than 10 per cent of the popula
tion of such buildings as the Empire,
Equitable, Schermerhorn, Broad Exchange,
and Produce Exchange patronise the boot
black chairs in them. Heavy rentals are
paid In each of these structures and there
Is much competition among the boaa boot
blacks when they hear that one of the
buildings has space to offer In the corri
dor.
In the Equitable the bootblack stall rents
for a yearly sum which ranges tetween
$2,000 and $3,000, while in the Empire the
rental Is said to approach nearly (7.0X).
The population of the latter is large, and,
moreover, the building has an arcade
leading to the elevated. Through this
passage way walk thousands of persons,
many of whom stop for a shine or to have
their hats cleaned. An arcade Is, of courts,
a much more valuable stand than a place
which has no continuous flow of people.
Privileges In office buildings are not the
only ones of value. Take, for instance, the
ferryboats and ferry houses and railroad
terminals. The Italian firm which has the
exclusive right to shine shoes on the muni
cipal ferry boats running to Btaten Island
pays $G0O a month to the city, or $7,2lO a
year. Proportionate' sums are paid for
similar privileges on the Erie, Lackawanna
and other boats. On the municipal ferry
to South Brooklyn the privilege costs $J00
a year, although the volume of trafflo la
comparatively small when compared with
other lines. ,
A venrtv chart has lust been completed.
covering 6,357 fires in Manhattan and tho
Bronx and calling attention to soma In-tprf-.tlnn-
facts. It la estimated that fires
started by carelessly dropped matches and
clgarcttea cause New York City a losa or
about $2,000,000 each year. The city haa
an average of twenty-three fires every
day, and fire losses In twelve months from
all causes aggregate something like $10,-
000,000. Every time an alarm cornea In,
whether false or not, the cost to the city
Is $50 for wear and tear of the lire appar
atus.
The rltv. also bays out something like
$500,000 for damage done to asphalt pave
ments by children's bonfires In the streets.
nf the 8.357 fires started In Mannatian
and the Bronx for the year, 989 happened
on Tuesdays. Thia Is ironing day. The
chart shows that the busiest hour of the
i:iv fnr th fire deoartment Is between 6
and 7 o'clook In the evening. This Is ac
counted for by tho fact that factories ana
nffinora have lust been dosed end sir
origins of blazes, accidentally left around,
have time In the hour to nure up ana ao
their work. It Is shown that the hours
M,...n it unrt 12 o'clock at night the
most fruitful for fires. The chart gives
!,3uG to that period, while the early morn-
inn hours have only 8C6 ana tne snopping
and matinee hours have only 1,997.
inmiini ii the worst month. November,
with Its ante and post election celebra
d. Auirust has the few
est fires marked agalnBt It of any of tha
twelve.
raaned with being common scolds and
Indicted aa such, John Pfelfer and his
lauehter Margaret, of Jersey City, are
under arrest on bench warrents. Pfeiffer
Is the first man ever Indicted for an of
fense of this kind In tha history of New
Jersey. At common law the penalty ror
fnr conviction is ducking, but tne atatuie
now provldea for imprisonment up to three
years or fines not to exoeea si.uw. in
Pfelffera were Indicted on evidence pro
nnted hv neighbors, who complained that
the father and daughter sat at the window
of their home and constanlty made cauatlo
about every one in the vicinity
or who happened to paaa the house.
The Indictments charged tha If eirrers
rith belnir "common scolds, continually
scolding and disturbing the peace of the
neighborhood and of all good and quiet peo
ple to the nuisance, of all the people tneru
Inhabiting, residing and passing."
r.mim-nnt, returning from the United
States to Europe within the year took
with them $110,000,000, or almost enough to
build the Panama CanaU This computa
tion is made by the North German Lloyd
Steamship company, based on their fig
ures showing the number of returning
emigrants to have been B0.045, and tha
average amount of money carried home
k ih emigrant to have been $300. Aa
offsets to the $110,000,000 taken out of the
country must be. figured $16,000,000 spent
here for railway and steamship trans
portation, and the $27,293,7fi0 brought Into
tne country by tho 1.304,fc8 emigrants wno
arrived last year.
"The annual pilgrimage Is a benefit" said
Oustav H. Schwab, representative of the
iir.a in AiMMiiuilnar the matter. "In that It
releases and puts In circulation a large
sum of money which nas Deen eavea ana
hi,.y ha traveler la obllned to cay out in
railroad and steamship fares. During the
ivc t eotlmate that not less tnan lioe.-
000,000 was paid by all classes for steamship
fares. Of this amount $.000,000 was con
tributed by firat cabin $lT,0O.V00 by th
aeeond cabin and $G4,OiO,000 by the third,
or ateerage paasengera."
'How high la Itr This question at once
directs thought to the Singer building, In
lower Broadway. The question la asked
by thousands of persons crossing from tho
Jersey shore. It was aakea or a tan.
acholarly looking man atandlng on the upper
dock of one of the Pennaylvanla ferryhoata.
relatea the .Tribune, "I do not know ita
exact height," aald the man addressed.
"but this I give aa an opinion, that during
a heavy thunder ahower the height of that
building would make it entirely possible
for the aun to ahlne on the roof while tha
lower atorlea are being deluged by rain.
The heavily laden rain clouda aro only
about 600 feet above the earth, while tha
lantern of the now Singer building will ba
almost n0 feet high. Tho building will
tower high above the fog banks, I venture
to say, thus affording New Yorkers one of
the features of 8wltserland light at their
own doors.'
(CORN SYRUP for Vread
Morel More! More! comes the call for
Kara Children love and thrive upon it;
everybody delight in its wholesome good-
nets. Nothing half so food for all sorts of
weetening, from griddle cakes to candy.
ioe, 256 and 500 in air-tight tins.
CORN PRODUCTS
Mrs. co.
NEBRASKA'S DRYAX PLATFORM
Try tho Medicine at Home.
Baltimore American (rep.).
The Nebraska atate democratic conven
tion has como out flat-footed against pred
atory wealth. Now let Nebraska make
good and blaze the trail by sending some
of Its own predatory rich to jnll. It would
be such a good and effective Illustration
of Its theory.
Depressing; Influences.
Springfield Republican (Ind.).
It Is very noticeable that In relation to
all public ownership questions Mr. Hearst's
recent Chicago platform throws Mr. Bry
an'a Omaha deliverance Into the cool, gray
shades. The Nebraskan's caution and re
pression, at thla point, would be ascribed
by Hearst to the paralysing Influence of
the Jim Crow car upon a democratic candi
date. Sngra-oatlona Turned Down,
New York Tribune (rep.).
To judge from the care given by Mr.
Bryan to the preparation of this year's Ne
braska' democratic platform, he does not
take kindly to the suggeatlon of Hon. John
Sharp Wllllama that the Denver conven
tion ought to ' nominate Bryan and then
adopt a de-Bryanlzed party program.
The Master 'a Voice.
Philadelphia Press (rep.).
The Nebraska democratic convention
gives the national democratic party both a
candidate and a platform. The nomination
of William J. Bryan at Denver la aa well
assured as anything political can be, and
the platform adopted at Omaha may be
assumed to be of the candidate's own de
vising and tha one on which he desires to
make his appeal to the country.
Do Wo Want Itt
Chicago Inter Ocean (rep.).
In brief, the Bryan platform invites us by
our votes to put upon our necks tha yoke
of mob rulo and upon our bodies the strait
jacket of state socialism. It offers aa a
balm for our wounda the hair of the dog
that haa bitten us. i, .
It promises to keep on doing to us only
harder and more continuously exactly
what has been done to us for the last three
or four years, and what has brought us to
our present reverses.
Do wo want more of the dose we have
had for the last six months? For sane and
free Americans there can be but oni an
swer. Wo do not.
Three Pertinent Qoeatlona.
New York World (dem.).
The Nebraska democratic convention
having adopted Mr. Brian's platform and
Indorsed Mr. Bryan for president, tho
World repeats the three questions which
Mr. Bryan haa not yet answered:
What states did you lose In 1896 which
you could carry In 1908?
What electoral votea did you loae in 1900
which you could win In 1908?
What elements of dissatisfaction and dis
content did you fall to arouse then which
you could successfully appeal to now?
Attltndea and Platltndea.
Philadelphia Record (dem.).
Aa might have been expected, the Om9i
declaration la in the main made up of atti
tudes and platitudes to which the country
Is accustomed. There la, however, one
strong, unequivocal and meritorious pro
nouncement in favor of Immediate tariff
revision with a view to put the tariff on a
revenue basis. This la worth all the rest
If this could be accomplished It would at
one blow sever the tap root of evil upon
which nearly all the lesser abuses of the
federal administration dopend for their
nourishment.
PERSONAL NOTES.
Tho Boston genius who has devised an
improved street car strap haa not met any
popular need. People do not want tha
strap made better. They want It made ex
lnct. Senator Elkina of West Virginia says
"that many of the men listed In the sen
ate aa worth all the way from $1,000,000 to
$1X1,000,000 each would be willing to take 19
per cent of these estimates In cash today."
Herbert Gladstone, the well-known mem
ber of the English parliament, delights hla
friends, and enemloa alike with hla voice.
Hla singing has made him many friends,
even among those who oppose him politic
ally.
Aaro Benjamin Franklin Hlldreth of
Charles City, la., Is aald to be tho Neotor
of American edltora. He celebrated the
nmety-socond anniversary of hla birth a
few daya ago. Ha brought hla print shop
outfit by ox team to Charlea City In I860.
'do away! Stop ringing my bull or I'll
call for the police!" waa the way Mra.
Hetty Green, the richest woman in Amer
The critical ordeal through
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naaa. Uowsrer. IS SO iraazni wiin
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that the very thought of it fills her with apprehension and horror.
There is no necessity for the reproduction of life to be either painful
mur A.nmron. The dm of Mother's Friend so prepares tha system lot
the coming event that
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great and wooden!
remedy is always
appliecfeitornUy,aod
Las carried thousands
f wesneo through
the trying crisis without suffering.
ftaad lot rrt took eoatninlag tatomalloa
Of nwM vaJoa to all ! I main.
The Braslsltf RsfsUUr Cs, Atlaata, fis,
Tie
Vest
Spread
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FtAVOO
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n j
ica, welcomed a caller the other day wh
found her living under an assumed ntmt
In a $19-a-month flat one block from the
ferry In Hoboken, N. J.
Mr. J. C. Pearaon, magnetic observer of
the Carnegie institution of Washington,
formerly on tho magnetic aurvey yacht
Galilee, haa gone abroad to make magnetic
observations In the regions of Asiatic Tur
key and of Persia, where but little data
has hitherto been obtained.
Tho marble status of "Hiawatha," by
Augustus St. Gaudans, tha first figure exe
cuted by the soulptor, which disappeared
fifteen years ago, haa boon found. It Is
at present ornamenting the grounds of a
man at Saratoga, who bought It from the
estate of ex-Governor E. D. Morgan.
A man In St. Louis recently was made to
pay a woman $o00 because . he called a
woman an "old hen." This Is getting off a
little cheaper than the fellow who haa to
settle the damages and oosta In a breach-of-promlse
suit because of testimony In
letters sent to her ha loved to call her hla
"little birdie."
Mrs. George Law, the young and
wealthy widow who has the unique dis
tinction of being accounted a beauty ac
cording to London. New York and Parts
standards, has started a crusade against
newspaper publicity for society women,
and haa hired an agent at $2,$00 per an
num to accomplish the work for her.
Ambassador Tower haa reoelved a letter
from Andrew Carnogte confirming the re
port that Mr. Carnegio would give $100,
OuO to complete tha proposed fund fop the
continuation of Dr. Koch's researches Into
the euro of consumption. Mr. Carneg'e
writes that his gift is tho result of a con
versation at Kiel last summer with Dr. von
Ilberg, the Kaiser's body physlc'an, who
Interested him In the subject.
SMIMVO II KM A It KS.
"Am I the only girl you have tve
kissed?" . .
"Darling, would you deny mo the rs j
factlon of knowing how far superior yours
are by comparison?" Baltimore American.
The leadera of tho Democracy have ten-1
dered the nomination to the gentlemen frim
Nebraska.
"This Is so sudden!" he exolnime 1. Plil'a
delphla Ledger.
"Mercy!" exclaimed Cholly Kallow, "I'vi
got such a cold In my head."
, "Why, so you have." said Pepprey; "I'!
have to call Knox down, the next time 1
see him for libelling you. ile said vpu had
noting In It." Cathollo Standard tnd Times.
"It's very strange," sold P pley, 'that
when people get rich they either nave ni
children or they don't seem to care for
them."
"That's not stranire." said Wife. "When
people get rich they can't think nliO'it any
thing but their Hnceslry; posterity doesn't
bother them." Philadelphia Press.
"I hear you had a damage suit against
the railroad company."
"Yes; I was hurt in a wreck."
"How did you come out?''
"Aa well as could be expected. I sot al
most enough out of tliem to ,ay my law
yer." Nashville American.
"Here's some fool writer tnlklng about
the silent sounds of nature! Now how can
any sounds In nature be silent?"
"I don't know about that. There's tha
tree's bark, you know." Chicago liecord
Herald.
"Well," grumbled Mrs. Nagget, Inspect
ing the now house her husband had taken,
"there are disagreeable features about this
place that you didn't mention before."
"They weren't here before," retorted Nag-
"What featuree are you referring to?
Youra." Catholic Standard and Times.
TUB DIMVCH 1IOVR.
Owen Meredith.
O hour of all hours, tho most blest upon
earth,
Blest hour of our dinners! The land of
his birth;
Tha face of his first love; the bills that
he owes;
The twaddle of friends, tho vernom of
foes;
The sermon he heard when to church he
last went;
The money he borrowed, tho money he
spent;
All of these things a man, I believe, may
forget.
And not be the worst for forgetting; but
yet
Never, never, oh, never! earth's luckiest
sinner
Hath unpunished forgotten the hour of his
dinner!
Indigestion, that conscience of every bad
stomach.
Shall reluntlHssly gnaw and pursue him
with some ache
Or some pain; and trouble, remorseless.
ins oest caae,
Aa the Furlea once troubled the sleep of
Orestes.
We may live without poetry, music and art;
We may live without conscience, and live
without heart; -We
may llvi without friend; w, rimjr
live without books;
But civilised man cannot live without
cooks.
He may live without books what la knowl
dire but grieving?
He may live without hop what Is hop
but aecemngr
He may live without love what la pasalo
Din pining i
But where Is the man who can live without
dining?
No woman's happL
nest can be complete
without children ; it
is her nature to love
and want them
as much so aa
it it to love the
beautiful and
which the expectant mother mutt
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