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Stat of Nebraska, Douglas Cotitny, as.:
George B. Tsechuck, treasurer of The
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aaya thai the actual number of full and
eompleta copies of The Daily, Morning,
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low: 1 86,780 II 36,100
88,300 IT.." 38,800
M,10 18., , M.80
4 88,430 18 38,730
88,810 SO. 8300
88,030 1 88,340
T 88,840 18.4 38,630
9 86,030 II. 3S.BOO
88,000 14 88,800
1 8M00 IS 88,870
It 88.100 it. 88,480
II 86,800 IT.... 3660
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14 86,100 .11 86J80
16 84M
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When artists disagree, who shall
decide?
Mark it down that the German auto
car reached Omaha on St Patrick's
day.
With sassafras bark piled up In the
drug store windows., the approach of
spring can not be long delayed.
The city council and the city en
gineer have now gotten out on the
sidewalk with their differences.
Mr. Wadd is a candidate for office
In Massachusetts. 'Still, a Wadd tna
not go as; farria politics as In olden
days.
Billy Sunday says he would rather
start a revival In hades than at Har
vard. No objection to the choice will
be offered by Harvard.
The special election to vote on the
court house bond proposition is set for
Tuesday, May 6. Put a cross on your
calendar for that date.
' Those city councllmen are an in
qulsitive lot. Most of the time, how
ever, they are asking questions to
which they already know the answers.
Judge Landls. who fined the Stand-
ara yu company izv, 240,000, has
also fined a man 1 cent without costs.
The ' government has collected the
cent.
, The weather bureau at Washington
promises great improvements In the
service. It might direct its first ef
forts to the production of rainless hol
idays Congressman John Dalsell says the
tariff has saved the country. This
seems like an attempt to rob J. Pler
pont Morgan of credit recently given
to him.
A Washington druggist has nleariei
guilty to labeling a headache remedy
improperly. He Is not up. to date or
he would have blamed the proof reade
for thf mistake.
A few more wrestling bouts ought
to put the permanent roof on th
Auditorium without necessitating the
sale of second mortgage bonds or the
resort to another lottery.
"The ring around the moon Is not
followed by rain," says .an official of
the weather bureau. That won't go
A ring hung 'around the moon one
day last summer and It has rained
several times since then.
According to decision of the Ne
braska State Railway commission
owners of stock in the telephone com
pany must pay the same rentals and
tolls tor their telephone as other tele
phone users. What's the use of being
a stockholder?
Nebraska has been furnishing a lot
of cases tor the V&tted States supreme
court of late. That only means that
Nebraska is doing its full share to
ward working out the big problems o
constitutional law that are confront
lng all the states in the union.
Demanding that the democrats
should get together and "beat the
bloated bunch of bullion boodlers.
Thomas E. Darkworth of Michigan
has made a bid for the vice preslden
tlal nomination on the ticket with
Bryan. Bryan and Bark worth would
be alliterative at lent.
AN OBJKCT WESSON.
Bffore wa get awar too far from
tba r-nt repnbllcan stats convention
nd the presidential preference
-r!?a h!cb l4 p to attention
should be called to the object lesson
furnished by one county, showing how
first and second choice primary
orka. Dlsregardias; the plan and
form of ballot prescribed by the state
committee, the republicans of Hail
county Impiovlsed a ballot of their
own, adding; the name of President
Roosevelt to the list of candidates, and
further Incorporating the La Follette
plan for an expression of first and
second choice. The official returns of
this primary, so far as available, cov
ering a little less than 4 50 votes cast
In all precincts but one. are as fol
lows:
Flrat Second
Candidate. Choice. Choice.
Total.
337
280
5
45
12
25
Roosevelt 298 38
Taft , 10 1V2
A Follette 11 3
Hughes 34
Cannon 4 8
Fairbanks I
Knox
Foraker
433
328
A little analysis of this table dis
closes several facts:
First. More than one-fifth of the
voters who expressed themselves on
first choice refused to state a second
choice.
Second. Of the 299 first choice
Roosevelt votes Taft received 172 for
second choice, being four times as
many as the next highest and half
again more than all the rest put to
gether. Third. The total first and second
choice votes for Taft are nearly two
thirds of the total nnmber of ballots,
meaning that two-thirds of the repub
licans voting In the Hall county pri
mary favor him as the successor to
President Roosevelt.
Fourth. Notwithstanding the fact
that two or three newspapers had been
exploiting the claims of La Follette as
gainst Taft, ho was favored by only
5 voters altogether oat of nearly 450
and only ran 10 ahead of Hughes.
Finally, it is safe to say that on a
similar test ih any other county in
the state the Taft strength would
have shown up even better than this.
A CURSOR orJOKSS.
Mayor Fred Busse of Chicago, who
has established something of a reputa
tion for a bappy disposition to laugh
away all his own troubles and many
of those of his friends, has made the
mistake of taking himself too seri
ously. . The excitement over tha an
archistic aisault upon Chief of Police
Shippy of Chicago has apparently gone
to the mayor's head. In order to strike
at what he considers the real root of
the evil he has solemnly ordered that
all Jokes reflecting on John D. Rocke
feller, E.ih; Harriman. Andrew Xar-
negle and other prominent men of
great wealth be prohibited in tha thea
ters and vaudeville houses, "lest they
have a tendency to inflame the minds
of ignorant people who believe they
are getting the worst of everything."
The police department has taken the
mayor's order with enough seriousness
to notify managers of the vaudeville
houses that It would be well to stop
th rinaa of vaudeville acts which
come under the mayor's ban.
The Chicago mayor does not go far
enough. He should broaden his order
to Include prohibition of the stage
Irishman with pink whiskers and the
slap-stick artists who Intersperse their
knock-about acrobatics with those ven
erable chestnuts about "Why does a
hen cross the road?" and "What Is the
difference between Buffalo Bill and
Bill Bryan?" and others of that type
hlch are calculated to Inflame the
minda of theater Datrons to believe
they are getting the worst of every
thine" and are not often mistaken.
If the iokes of the people are to be
censored. It Is a mistake to limit ef
forts at reform to the vaudeville stage,
BOVRKK C0CKR4N AKD TASIMASY.
Tammany baa not changed much
since. Boss" Croker's time, accora-
lng to the reports of the recent row
between the Tammany organisation
and William Bourke Cockran. In
the old days Croker ruled the demo-
ocratlc politics of New York City with
an iron hand and those who would
not agree to his terms paid the pen
alty by being consigned to political
oblivion. The Croker precedent Is
still belnjr followed and Bourke Cock-
ran, ' the most versatile orator and
spellbinder of the organization, has
been deprived of his Tammany orders
and notified that he will not be al
lowed to rtl'jrn to congress all be
cause he has balked the Tammany
boss in the matter of the appointment
of a receiver for the Knickerbocker
Trust company.
When the truet company closed Its
doors last October, It held $73,000,
000 In deposits, for which a receiver
was necessary. The records In New
York City show t,hat a receivership
has come to be looked upon" as fat
picking tor political favorites and
Boss Murphy of Tammany Hall
eagerly demanded the perquisite for
beloved pal. Then Cockran Inter
fered and succeeded in securing the
plum for his father-in-law. That was
enough to drive Murphy to the war
path, but Cockran rubbed salt in the
sore by having his own law firm ap
pointed counsel to the receivers. That
was the final straw that broke the
back of Tammany patience and Cock
ran was dethroned. Just as Judge
Daly was'once removed from the bench
because he refused to make an ap
pointment desired by "Boss" Croker,
Mr. Cockran may not be greatly de
pressed- by his ' removal from a sea
In the Tammany councils. He has
played many parts in the political
game. He has supported republi
cans, democrats, independence leag
uers, tho2h St dlf'er'? tlma-a, of
course. However, he will be missed
from Tammany Hall. He was utility
orator of the organization, ready with
a speech either upholding or opposing
whatever or whomsoever Tammany
was favoring or fighting. tH has
been for Bryan and against him and
the way he could slide backward po
litically when Tammany wanted him
to always won the admiration of both
friends and enemies. In congress he
has driven the democrats to frenzies
of enthusiasm by his support of Bry
anlsm and has forced the republicans
to their feet with cheers as he landed
President Roosevelt and his policies.
He has been perhaps the most typical
representative in national politics of
the real spirit of the Tammany school.
taft and bcohks.
A striking tribute to the personal
ity and character of two men, rival
aspirants for the presidential nomina
tion, both keenly alive to the issues
before the people, and both typifying
highest standards of citizenship and
official integrity, was paid to William
Howard Taft and Charles Evans
Hughes when they met as honor
guests at the annual dinner of the
Friendly Sons of St. Patrick in New
York City. Governor Hughes, hav
ing previously attended a reception in
his honor, arrived at the dinner a lit
tle late. As the governor, amid the
cheers of the assemblage, neared his
seat at the left of the toastmaster,
Secretary Taft, seated at the toast
master's right, arose and the secretary
and the governor clasped hands. They
stood so for a moment and then both
laughed, the wholesome, good-natured
laugh of ffiiu.. In a moment the
banquet h il wak In an uproar with
laughter and mingled cheers for Taft
and Hughes.
The incident illustrates the lofty
character of the two men and the
spirit of fair play which has marked
their rivalry in the present contest.
This was first shown by Mr. Taft's re
fusal to enter into a fight for dele
gates from New York, or ' from
any favorite son state, as soon as It
was ascertained that Mr. Hughes
would seek the presidential nomina
tion. Since that overture on the part
of Secretary Taft, acrimony between
him and Governor Hughes In the ante-
convention canvass has been made
Impossible. While their rivalry, par
ticularly in the New England states,
has been keen, it has been open, hon
est and good-natured, as it should
be. Ia fact, there is little room
for quarrel between the secretary and
the governor because, they are In
practical accord on the great issues
confronting the country and their
policies are not dissimilar. In the
contest tor convention delegates,
Secretary Taft has the advantage by
reason of his larger experience In
executive capacities, hlB more ex
tended acquaintance and more fa
miliar, personal knowledge of the
Issues and problems that are to be
vitalized Into legislation by the next
administration.
The meeting of the two candidates
at the New York dinner will serve to
strengthen the growing sentiment of
the country that Taft and Hughes
would make an ideal ticket to lead the
republican party to victory in Novem
ber. i WHY NOT1
Representation by City Treasurer
Furay to the Board of Education that
number of teachers on the public
school payroll are on the personal tax
delinquent list, has brought forth
from the board's attorney an elabo
rate opinion to the effect that the
board can legally exercise no com
pulsion upon Its employes to make
them pay their taxes. This may bo
the law, hut It does not alter the case.
If there Is any good reason why
anyone drawing money out oi the
public treasury, whether as school
teacher or in some other capacity,
should not pay up on his or her share
of taxes for the support of state aud
local government, we would like to
hear It. Of all of tha public officers
and employes, It seems to us, that the
school teacher would have a special
Incentive to give an object lesson of
prompt and cheerful payment of taxes,
especially Inasmuch as In no case can
the taxes be very great or burdensome
Members of the police department
and of the fire department and of
several other departments of the city
government must abide by rules re
quiring them to pay their honest debts
and any chronic deadbeat takes I
chance of beparatlon from the pay
roll. The school board can no more
afford to encourage nonpayment of
legitimate debts by Its employes than
can the police board, and delinquent
personal taxes surely come within the
classification of legitimate debts. If
there are any teachers living off the
school fund able to pay their taxes
but refusing to do so. their names
should be reported to the board and
put on record. Why not?
Thei house at Washington has
passed a pension appropriation bill
with the amount fixed at $151,000,-
000, the largest on record. The senate
always adds a few million for good
measure. Congress is determined to
refute the old adage about republics
being ungrateful.
Some Wall street experts profess to
b.e unable to understand why stocks
advance and then fall to hold the
1 1 gain. Tha answer is found in many
illustrations such as appeared last
week. Railroad stocks advanced sev
eral dollars a share on a fake report
that the president was going to favor
an advance of 10 per cent in freight
rates.
Rear Admiral Thomas, who is to
succeed Fighting "Bob" Evans in
command of the fleet now in the Pa
cific, is recommended as a most com
petent com'dsnder, thoroughly skilled
seamanship. ' It only remains to
be determined how his vocabulary
compares with that of the present
commander.
Europe wants the fjnlted States to
return that $100,000,000 in gold
which was sent to this country last
fall. The difficulty In the transaction
is that the balance of trade Is in fjur
favor and that Europe will have to
sell us more than we sell abroad to
get the yellow tide turned the other
way.
Former Governor Vardaman of Mis
sissippi takes his editorial pen in hand
to describe Colonel Bryan as "the sun-
kissed, heaven-piercing mountain ris
ing above the foothills of humanity."
The governor must have made his
observations from a specially favored
seat.
The municipal primaries at Des
Moines are said to have brought out
over 13,000 votes. That is a remark
able exhibit for a primary, but shows
what can be done when the people
are really worked up to a Bense of
personal Interast in their government.
It Is announced that the city of
Omaha is to take the lead In making
the doors of the city hall swing out;
ward. . We were under the Impression
that the scramble was always to get
Into the city hall and never to get out
of it.
'Governor Johnson's candidacy Is
not hopeless to Intelligent democrats,"
says the New York World. That Is
Just another way of saying that In
telligent democrats are In the minor
ity. Pickpockets are more active in New
York than they have been before in
years. That is an encouraging sign
of returning prosperity. Pickpockets
work when other people have money.
Owing to Improved mlnlnsr machin
ery, the cost of producing gold has
been reduced to $666,666 a ton. That
price, of course, goes to only those
who buy In ton lots.
Max I mam aad Minimum.
Springfield Republican. .
The judge who fined the Standard Oil
company I29.000.OCO has Just fined a day
laborer 1 cent, and thus he becomes fairly
entitled to the democratic nomination.
Paddlaa the "Bis Stick."
New York World.
Representatives1' of railway labor unions
are about to tieg Mr. Roosevelt not to
whack the railroads too hard with his big
stick. Herein the administration perceives
Its thankless task to be like that of the
fellow who Interferes In a fair fight be
tween husband and wife.
Seeking; Light la Right Place.
New York Tribune.
The Chinese government Is sending Its
financial experts to the JTnlted States for
the purpose of studying our currency sys
tem. Considering the fame of Chinese pus
sies, we may reasonably hope that the
learned Dr. Chin Tao Chen will discover
the solution of our greatest one.
What's th leet
Washington Post.
Everybody knows that as the head of
the democratic ticket Governor Johnson
can get every vote In the electoral college
Mr. Bryan can get. Everybody knows that
ha can get votes In that college Mr. Bryan
cannot get. Then the question obtrudes
is the democratic party mentally responsible
enough to be at large?
Tha Denver convention will tell.
Contempt of Coart.
Minneapolis Journal.
Judge Day's court In Omaha ruled that
Ernest Rumery was dead and ordered his
life Insurance paid to his widow. Rumery
showed considerable contempt of court by
appearing In the chamber of Justice and
denying that what the court said was true
People are often much deader than they are
willing to admit, and when the court rules
that a man Is dead, it Is perhaps better to
let It go at that and try to live it down
While the Masale Waa Off.
Boston Transcript.
Congressman Dalsell of Pennsylvania has
learned to his sorrow the danger of saying
polite things at a banquet. At a recent
Tale alumni gathering he paid a compliment
to hla fellow alumnus. Secretary Taft, but
now finds the politicians denouncing him
as a renegade from the Knox cause. Dalsell
promptly corrects the error. He Is strong
for Knox, against all comers. Mr. Mann of
Illinois, In the House of Representatives
the other day, ' under the shadow of the
speaker, made a similar blunder when he
told a democratic antagonist that In twelve
months they would all be referring to Mr.
Taft as the president of the United States,
Politicians of favorite son states should be
more discreet In concealing their real views!
Weak Little Boys
- may become Tine strong men.
Some of the throng men of to
day were sickly boyt years
sf3. Many of them received
Scott's Emulsion
at their mother's knee. This
had a power In It that changed
them from weak, delicate
boy Into strong, robin J boy.
It hu the time power to-day.
Boy and girU who are' pale
and weak get food and energy
out of SCOTTS EMULSION.
It nuke children grow. i
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ROtrjtD AROl'T IEW YORK.
Rip
lea aa the Carreat af Life la tha
Metro aalls.
One baby waa born every three and a
hal
r rmnutea in New Tors. City during the
yea
r JM, and tieat:. occurred at the rata
of
one In every five and one-third minutes.
St
atlstica for the year show 1J0.72J births
against 79.!f deaths, a favorable excess nf
41.617.' Accidents resulted In t.&19 deaths;
there were 284 murders and Til suicides.
There was a marriage every eight and one-
imra minutes.
The largest single cause of death was
consumption, which had 8.9 victims. Or
ganic heart diseases caused 7,237 deaths.
it this ratio of births over death ahnnM
be maintained for ten years. New Tork
would have by natural Increase, exclusive
of Immigration, a population of 4.4t.0fi.
an Increase of about 12 nr rent
I
Engine 141 was on Its wav tn a Nw Tn,v
fire last Trlday when the driver, Patrick
MUllin, Vas suddenly eonfmntail Tith
frightful ullemma. With tense muscles and
alert eye the strons: armed fireman waa
guiding the galloping team down the
thoroughfare when directly ahead of him
he saw a crowd of children wiah nt h
highway. It was the closing time at one
of the nig public schools and the pupils
most of them of tender age, swarmed
across the sidewalk and Into the street
In a flash the driver realised that he could
not continue his course without killing and
aiming many of the little ones Th.
waa but one alternative and he tok it With
mighty pull he turned the nhertiont team
across the curb and over tha aMowaiv
and against an Iron fence. The horses
went down In a SDrawllna- hean anil tha
driver waa flung on the stone flagging and
knocked unconscious. Both
killed, but the plucky driver was finally
revivea ana sent to his home. It Was a
frlghful price to pay, but the children were
saved.
When the annual roll of fire nprnea la
made out and the medals are handed round,
the name of Patrick Mullln should stand
among the first.
With the lower cart of her hnrtv mm.
lyaed from excessive dancing. Miss Mary
iwier, Z6 years old. of 1027 Bushwlck avenue.
Williamsburg. Is a nntlpnt In tha r.a.n
District hospital.
On Saturday night March 7 aha
an entertainment followed by a dance, and
ior inree nours sne whirled around the
floor. When the band struck up another
waits Miss Osier tried to rise from her
seat. She was unable to move and become
hysterical.
A call for an ambulance waa sent to tha
Eastern District hosDltal. and when Ttr
Oglns, the surgeon, examined the young
woman he found her legs were paralysed. 1
Her condition caused a lot of excitement
in the hall. Several girls fainted and were
treated by the ambulance surgeon.
The hospital physicians were mizzled over
the young woman's condition. An exami
nation convinced them that It waa brought
on through an Injury to her spine, due to
excessive danclna-. She la in aurh Mh
voua statu the doctors fear she may not
recover.
To build the most Imnnslns- ha nlr alriin.
ture In the world on the slta nf tha M
custom house Is the ambition of the Na
tional C.ty bank's president. James Still
man. He has completed all plans, and
wreckers have begun to tear down th
grim federal landmark.
President Stlllman wanta his Standard on
Institution to remind people of the Bank
of England. The sreat colnnnadra of tha
old custom house look much like those of
the Threadneedle street structure, and they
win be preserved In the new home of the
National City bank. . ....
Although the plans call for a
story structure, only the lower part, that
lr eludes the double rows of colnnnariea.
one above the other, and which Is to form
tne base or the structure, will be built at
present. This base will contain iht
stories.
The effect, while nreservlna- tha nM
custom house style, will suggest the Bank
of England, and It will Impress the Wall
street throngs with the fact that the Na
tional City bank's home Is far more mag
nificent, elaborate and rnmntpfa than
either of those old structures.
The new building will t mnn than
tl.500,000. The land Is worth $7,500,000. The
bank paid for It to Uncle Sam a little over
j.ow,wu, nut got more than that back In
rent and Interest. The Bite covers the en
ure block bounded hv P!xrhana nlnoa
Wall, William and Hanover streets.
"Some men are aulte martvra tn nrfira
drowsiness," said a physician quoted by
me tribune. "Any monotonous sound noar
them, the hum of traffic milnlrl nr
the scratching of a clerk's pen Is sufficient
10 inauce a reeling of sleepiness which It
is almost Impossible to resist. Tha wrct
of it la that this symptom seldom Is re
garded as anything serious, though I have
known It to be the beginning of critical
mental trouble. Far more often, hnwavor
It la merely the effect of constitutional
eccentricity, though In either case a few
simple remedies might be tried with ad
vantage.
"For example. I alwavs advlaa tha nM
Indlft-estion cure a plana nf hAt
when the feeling comes on. To keep the
eyes tlghtlr closed for two or three min
utes and then bathe them in very warm
water orten gives relief at once. And an
other good idea la to lower the head for a
few seconds to the level of the knees.
Above all, one should never erive In tn tha
feeling of drowsiness by taking a short
nap in tne hope of waking up brighter
after It. At the same time the condition of
the office might be looked to. The slightest
defect In ventilation will often cause one
men to be affected by -office drowsiness,
even if other persons In the same room
feci nothing of It whatever."
It is estimated that the publlo play
grounds, the open places that are not only
in bodies of many acres, but . In small pints
of green that are lungs for the great con
gested districts of the metropolis, are worth
aa vacant real estate tl. 200.000,000. This
enormous amount In value Is tied up in
land for the health and pleasure of more
than 4,000,000 of Inhabitants of tha five bor
oughs and frienda who may visit them and
strangers who come within the city's bor
ders. It is shown that the original cost of
these parks, which number 118, waa about
$i6,4S6,000, and they are worth now nearly
twenty times as much as at the dates of
their purchase.
THR TAFT BANDWAGON.
Grawlaar -Teadeaelea af Delegatea ta
Jaaas Aboard.
Baltimore American (rep ).
In the progressive contest for delegates
to the republican national eonventlon the
combined opposition to Secretary Taft has
demonstrated thus far a strength that falls
far short of being Impressive. Barring the
fact that four states that will each cast
a large vote in tha selection of the presi
dential candidate are either actually or
eoncededly committed to tha support of a
"favorite eon," tha entire opposition vote
to tha Ohio candidal Is not only scatter
ing, but of Insignificant volume. And the
signs of the weakness and Insincerity of
the favorite son program are constantly
multiplying and magnifying. For Instance,
Illinois la eoncededly for Speaker Cannon
and will vend a delea-ation for Cannon to
tha convention. But it will be secondarily,
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A pure, cream of tartar powder
Its fame is world wide
No alum; no phosphate of lime
The poisonous nature of alum is .
so well ktunm that the sale of
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taining H is proMMted by lav.
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label and take only a brand shown
to be made with cream of tartar.
at least, a Taft delegation. The Peoria
county convention, which met last week,
passed a Cannon resolution, which In the
windup is emphatically a Taft resolution.
As It Is In Illinois, so it is tn New York,
Pennsylvania and even Indiana. The del
egation from each of those states wl'.l be
solid for the home candklate-lhe favorite
son as a courtesy. ' The logic of the ex
isting situation is just as accurately
gauged, however, In New Tork, Pennsyl
vania, Indiana and Illinois as It Is tn other
states that are depended upon to supply
republican majorities In presidential elec
tions and which are not being at the outset
embarrassed by any "favorite son" candi
date. -When New York breaks and the
break may come before the result of the
first ballot Is announced there will be a
rush from the Empire State representation
to Taft. It Is even now a pretty safe
prophecy that there will be a strenuous
race on riie part of delegations from the
favorite son states to get Into the Taft
columns as early and as gracefully as the
decencies of the situation will permit.
The Taft column at the end of last week
still maintained the ratio of two votes to
every one of the opposition. And the tab
ulating of 120 votes for Taft to B4 for the
opposition is upon- a counting that concedes
to the opposition all the contested votes.
Ths is, of course, too liberal by half. There
may bo a contesting delegation from every
one of the southern slates that, in fact,
seems to be the predetermined plan of the
forces that are opposing the Taft candl-dacy-rbut
even If there should be and if
such opposing delegations should be ad
mitted to the Convention, which latter Is
not at all llkelyil the nominating result will
not be controlled thereby. Tha- republican
presidential candidate will he made by
those states which usually 'turn In repub
lican majorities at national elections and
by the combined vote of these states Mr.
Taft will be nominated.
PERSONAL NOTES.
A man In New Orleans bet 137.500 on a
"fake" wrestling match. He needed the
lesson, but the price was rather high.
The rector who eloped from Hempstead
with a girl of his flock sends word that he
la an outcast, but this Is hardly to be re
garded as news.
Brigadier General Royal Thaxter Frank,
V. B. A., retired, died at his home in
Washington Saturday in his 76th year. He
was graduated from the miliary academy
In the class of '58 and fought throughout
the civil war. General Frank was born In
Gray, Me.
The 218 surviving members of the Kaw
Indian tribe of Oklahoma want United
States Senator Curtla of Kansas to be their
chief to succeed Wa-Shun-Gah, who died
recently; but Mr. Curtis, who Is an eighth
blood Kaw, has notified the Indian commis
sion that the Job should go to one of the
twelve full-bloods of the tribe.
Lawrence O. Murray of New York, as
sistant secretary of commerce and labor,
will probably succeed William B. Rldgely
of Illinois aa comptroller of the currenoy.
Mr. Rldgely will retire to accept a place
in a large business institution. Mr. Mur
ray is a close personal friend of Secretary
of the Treasury Cortelyou, as well aa Pres
ident Roosevelt
Lord Cromer, Vhose book on "Modern
Egypt" rounds out his life work In the In
terest of better government In that country,
Is 67 years old. Ha retired from active
work last May. His name la Evelyn Bar
ing and he began life as an rord nance offi
cer, but waa made commissioner of the
Egyptian publlo debt In 1877 and In 1882 he
became the virtual ruler of Egypt under
the title of British agent
Ask Him
Ask your doctor about taking
Ayer's non-alcoholic Sarsaparilla.
Trust him. Do exactly as he satj.
AyersSi
NON-ALCOHOLIC
Lips white? Cheeks pale? Blood tjiin?
Consult your doctor.
Bad skin? Weak nerves? Losing flesh?
Consult your doctor.
No appetite? Poor digestion? Discouraged?
Consult your doctor . ' .
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a a a
TASSIMO TUB I.KMO.N,
"What do you think of the proposition t
do away with all tho, poles in the streets'.''"
"1 think there will be some wlto pulling
about it." Baltimore American.
The victim of ptomaine puteonlng, towing
on his couch, asked fur a minister.
"It's this way,'' lie explained upon the
arrival of the functionary: ;'lf 1 die I
want credit for one good deed. Don't for
get thut church fair chli-Jtrn waln.l brought
me to this." 1'hlludelphlu Ledger.
"What's tho matter?" Sskud'the Japa
nese diplomat. "I thought you were re
signed to the idea of the open door la tha
eHIT" ..V
"80 we are," ropllrd the Chinese states
man, "hut we object to being Used as tha
mut." I'hlladelphla .Press....... .. -
"It aln' alius fair to blame- a. man d.it
done let an opportunity pawt," anld Uncle
feben. 'Uraspln' Hn opportunity is v ry
often like plekln' de genuine metal nut n
a bunch o' gold bricks." Washington Star.
Absent-mindedly, the? young woman
yawned. .
'i2,rd.0Jl .mp'" "lle Bald- "I didn't mean
to do that."
in1 S'" """Ponded Mr. ",lns rl-ni.
Opened by mlstakc.'.'-Cliicago Tribune.
-.Trf;!1".!, fo""'rly Rusty " Rafus)-Wcll,
what do you want?", , .
Tufrold Knutt-l'ou wux hl.,,1 'm.iig'i
rE81, l8.,Cr' .t0 lvtr a '"''" n a
r.. i . r .the two 80 'ther,. sir. I'm
ready fur em again," Chicago Tribune.
"I notice," sal.l the liushanj, scanning
hla morning paper, "that another ral!r a I
nHS gone to smash. " ,
ail'.h iwlfu loi,kt'l tip 'with renilni.went
wrath In her eyes.
Baltimore American.
hSli10!-1 yml chickens. Whit
breed do you consider the best? -.
. Buburbanlte-lt s hard to toll. I notice
dott?.0,0' Tny W," WWn':
Chicago" Tribune" thtt" ""y 0lh, r kid-
T1IB LAST I.HAK.
Oliver Wendell Holmor.
They say that In his prime
Kro tho pruning knife of time
t.ut him ''own.
Not a better map wus. found
JBy the crier on his round
Through the town.
But now he walks the streets,
And he looks at all ho meets
Hud and wan.
And he Shakes his fee'hlo heud
T 111 It seems as If he said,
"They are gone!"
The mossy marbles rest
On the lips that he hus pressed
In their bloom.
And the names he lovod to hear
Have been -arved for many a year
On the tomb. .
My old grandmother has said,'
(Pjor old lady, she la dead
Long ago)
That he had a Roman nose
And his cheek was Uk a rose
In the snow.
But flow he's old and thin.
And hla nose hanga on his chlu
Like a staff.
And a crook is In his back
And a melancholy crack
In hla laugh.
I know It la a sin
For ma to ait and grin
At him here,
But the old three-cornered hat
And the breeches and all that
Are so queer.
And If I should live to he
The last leaf on the tree
In the spring.
Let them laugh as I do now
At the old forsaken bough
Where 1 cling. .
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ranTil b em.aly "un" ""S' exUngu she 1."
remarked tile astronomer "which r ap
parently shlnmg- brightly?' ' P
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Ions t"a?. Ulg, U,at ",I,,U' w ' l
sons, tao. Washliigtun Blur.
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