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STATEMENT OT" fjRCUUATION. . .
etate of Nebraska, Douglas Coutny, ss.t
Oeorge B. Tsechuck. treasurer of The
Bee Publishing comoany. being duly sworn,
ays that the actual number of tull and
complete copies of The Dally, Morning.
Evening and Sunday Bee printed during
the month of. February. liOJ, was as rol-
lowai
1 99,790
t SB.300
I...... 38,180
4... ........ 88,820
sejiio
.... se,030
1 8,MO
84V.03O
M,000
10.... 80,900
11 M.10O
II M.80O
IS 86,900
1 , 8,10O
It 88,100
IT SftVBOO
is ss.ao
19., 30,730
JO 8800
I 86,340
38,630
18... 86,800
4. 38,300
ft 38,070
it 38,430
17 36,800
IS 88,380
II 38,850
II 30.110
Totals 1,048,660
Less unsold and returned copies.. 8,437
' Nst total 1,038,113
Dally averaga 80,831
QCORQB B, TZ9CHVCK,
Treasurer.
Subscribed in my presence and eworn
to before ma this td day of March, ItOS.
ROBERT HUNTER.
Notary Public.
WHSIf OCT OF TOWS,
gabserleera leaving; tat otty teas
porarlly shewld kave . Tike Be
nalle ta tfceaa. Adaren will be
ebaageal oftew sus reaaested.
The revolutionists at Haytl and Ann
Arbor have subsided.
Mr. Bryan hag some handicaps that
he cannot throw off. Tom Taggart Is
still for hlin.
I. Robatill is the name1 of a pitcher
ba the Birmingham ball team. The
police should watch his curves.
March-wlU soon have to make up
Its mind definitely whether It will
make Its exit fa a lamblike or Hon like
mood.
Our good Bohemian 1 friends of
Omaha will probably learn before they
are through that Secretary Root never
sald-H.
1
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Senator Elkins intimates that while
be has no particular objection to a
Bon-ln-law, he does not feel like buy
ing one.
Von ').. tae-"weauTer mUe 94
wj.Ke""up to the fact that the spring
millinery openings are already
progress?
in
Forestry experts have discovered a
new disease which is causing t'St
damage to chestnattrees. It is yrob
ably vaudeviljitis.
SpJCker IcwabU "wanta congreslto.
adjourn early in May. Evidently he
agrees with Mr. Cleveland that the
country needs a rest
While boards of education through
out the country are debating the ques
tion, the only way to make school
houses safe Is to make them sate.
A man named Brown wants to be
governor of Georgia, but the chances
are against him, as the brown men are
pot allowed to vote undeKthe Georgia
laws,!
Tom Taggart insists Bryan Is cer
tain to wtn. It will ba remembered
that Mr. Taggart is . the man who
elected Judge Parker ' president in
1904.
The robber who looted the mall car
on the train near Spokane worked six
hours to get $2.40. He could have
done better at almost any honest
trade.
Mr. Justice Moody has been elected
an honorary lite member of the New
England Base Ball league. He has
also a life membership on another
bench.
Rapid progress is being made on the
new union depot at Kansas City. The
promoters held their 478th meeting
yesterday and discussed plans, ways
and means.
Democrats are demanding to know
by what authority the president is gov
erning the Panama canal. The demo
crats should road the Spooner act pro
viding for the construction' of the
canal.
The Louisville Courier-Journal ad
mits that "some of our best citizens"
are numbered among the night riders
who are burning tobacco barns in
Kentucky. The rest of the country
will pray to be spared from Kentucky's
worst citizen!,
A New York hat merchant has
asked the assessor to tax him on $50,
000 of personal property Instead of
$15,000, as they have been) doing. Per
haps ha felt he couli afford to do
something to prove that he is different
from oilier New Yorkers.
POLITICAL "DARK HOPStS." ,t
Apparently convinced that none of
the other aspirants for the republican
presidential nomination will be able to
defeat Mr. Taft at the Chicago con
vention, the New York Sun and cer
tain other antl-admlnlstratlon papers
In the east are giving marked promi
nence to reports that a "dark horse"
may be entered in the running, with
a chance of victory. The articles in
question review American political his
tory and point to the nomination of
Zachary Taylor, William Henry' Har
rison, Rutherford B. Hayes and James
A. Garfield as instarces in which "dark
horse" candidates have won the prize
In national conventions.
The story Is much more Interesting
as a reminiscence than for any bearing
it may possibly have on present poli
tical conditions. There is always a
sort of fascination about "dark horse"
candidates. In theory it implies that
the country is overflowing with men
who measure up to the full high stand
ard of presidential eliglbles and that if
the convention finds Itself unable to
choose between the avowed aspirants
for the nomination it has but to pick
out some unknown, against whom
there has been no fight, and to place
the nomination label upon him. The
facts, however, are almost all against
such presumption. No man has ever
been nominated for- the presidency
who was not well known, with some
record of public life and experience.
National conventions have grown
In size in the last score of years until
they have become almost unwieldy.
This has forced preliminary canvasses
by the candidates and practical agree
ment on the nominee before the meet
ing of the convention. Added to this
Is the popular tendency In the states
toward primaries and the expression
of preferences as to presidential candi
dates months before the time for hold
ing the national conventions. At
least thirty days before the Chicago
convention every state in the union
will have selected Its delegates and
most of them will be instructed. These
instructions, accompanied by the con
sideration of the candidates before the
people, make it practically impossible
to contemplate the pictured spon
taneous uprising of the delegates that
would be necessary to nominate a
dark horse candidate.
"COUNT' ELKINS.
Evidently the king of Italy does not
know much about Senator "Steve"
Elkins of West Virginia, if it be true,
that he proposes to remove parental
objections to the marriage of his
daughter to an Italian duke by confer
ring on the senatorial father a title of
nobility. The story is that the king
first opposed the marriage of the duke
of the Abruzzi to Miss Elkins and then,
after he had become reconciled to it,
proposed to raise the duke's prospec
tive father-in-law to the nobility, to
avoid the appearance of an unequal
matrimonlr-ti1Hace according to the
stanajwfs of royalty.
-Ahe sugcestlon will cause intense
amusement to those who know Senator
Elkins. Perhaps no man in me nation
cares less about " what European
royalty thinks of him and his mode of
life than does the West Virginia
senator. He has ,layAd life's game on
a very checU'rai ooara ana nas on on
his "nieitts and ability. A native of
Ohio, he spent his boyhood days In old
Missouri, was saved from death by
Cole Younger, the bandit, represented
New Mexico In congress, served as
secretary of war In President Harri
son's cabinet, made a big fortune in
West Virginia railroads and coal lands
and is serving his1 third term in the
United States senate. It Is doubtful
if he would trade official positions
with the king of Italy, much less agree
to accept the title of Italian count or
marchese. If he does not prefer to be
known to the general public as ."Sen
ator" and to his friends as "Steve,"
be has been sailing under faj3e colors
all this time.
THAT RVSSUS DUEL.
The duel between General Fock and
General Smirnoff of the Russian army
illustrates features of Russian society
and of the Russian army, each of
which may serve to throw some light
on the weakness of the czar's nation
before the world. The duel was fought
with the full knowledge of the Rus
sian authorities before a crowd com
posed of army officers, a score or more
of ladles ot high rank and i bunch of
favored friends. That the meeting
should be treated like a spectacular
athletic event Is not creditable to the
civilization of the czar's people. That
It should have been so Ineffective from
the standpoint of marksmanship is not
complimentary to Russian officers en
gaged In it.
General Smirnoff had made a charge
of cowardice against General Fock, the
commander who was driven from the
Llaotung peninsula by the Japanese
forces and who had been lieutenant of
General Stoessel in the defense of Port
Arthur. General Smirnoff declared
that Fock should have been sentenced
to death In Stoessel's place. . Per con
sequence the duel resulted. Reports of
the duel show that seven shots were
fired, four by Smirnoff and three by
Fock, only one taking effect, as Smir
noff claims to have a bullet concealed
In his person. The distance was about
seventeen yards.
An American cavalryman or artil
leryman who would not do better than
that blindfolded would be laughed out
of the service, In the pistol practice
in the American army, the rules call
for a target with an eight-inch bull's
eye and the distance shots are fifteen,
twenty-five and fifty yards. The
records show that few oEcers or men
fall to hit the bull'seye at least three
times out ot five at either distance.
The Russian pistol practice seems to
be on a par with the other elements ot
service in the Russian army, which
lost the war with Japan through col
ossal blundering.
QormnMKXT ownership in japan.
' Japan is seeking to transfer the
responsibility of ownership and oper
ation of Its railroads to private shoul
ders. The mikado and his advisers
at one time believed that government
ownership of railroads was the panacea
for transportation ills and they under
took the task. Japan has something
less than 4,000 miles of railroads. ' Its
government is in position to employ
the most autocratic methods in their
operation and yet It has made a dismal
failure of Its railroad venture and is
openly bidding In the world's market
for the sale or transfer of Its railroads
to private parties or corporations.
If Japan could not make the op
eration of 4,000 miles of railway a
successful part of its government
function, it has at least furnished a
vague hint of the difficulties that
would attend the adoption of Mr.
Bryan's cherished, if temporarily
abandoned, plan of having the United
States undertake the ownership and
operation of 230,000 miles of railways.
Japan's experiment has been bo costly
that the nation has found it impossible
to continue the operation ot the rail
ways without raising more money and
increasing the debt of the empire,
which, because of war and other bur
dens, Is four and a half times as great
as it was eight years ago, and is larger
than the net debt of the United States.
DOas.
About this time a year ago Omaha
was In the throes of an acrimonious
discussion of the dog question. The
Bee has no disposition to revive all
that barking and yelping, nor to de
mand canine ornamentation with new
spring muzzles. We do not believe
there Is any serious danger of hydro
phobia epidemic, nor any reason for
an annual dog scare, but we are con
vinced that the dog nuisance in
Omaha has reached large and un
necessary proportions.
There are altogether too many mon
grel curs and vicious doga running
around loose in our streets, annoying
children,' frightening horses and dis
turbing the peace generally. Just
how this nuisance should be most ef
fectively suppressed is a difficult
problem, but the requirement of a
dog tag for which a nominal one-dollar
fee Is charged evidently does not
do the business. ' The dog tax ought
to be big enough to eliminate the
worthless animals and the owner of a
dog worth having should be com
pelled to keep it confined on his oy
premises, except when under hla im
mediate watch and cs"? .Otter cities
of our size are 85. overrun with dogs
as is Omaha, nd there Is no good
reason why1 'the dog nuisance here
should b" Absolutely unrestricted.
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ANOTHER JOB FOR BRYAN.
IVhile Mr. Bryan is squaring up
iwungs n Illinois oy coming to r
with Roger Sullivan, whose expulsion
tilings In Illinois by coming to terms
from the democratic party he de
manded only a year ago, Mr. Bryan's
principal organ in his home state Is
laying out another job of the same
sort for him to tackle.
The World-Herald, over whose edi
torial page Mr. Bryan once presided,
and which essays to speak for him on
any and every occasion, throws a
bunch of bouquets at some of the
democratic powers-that-be down in
New York. Here is one of them:
Would it be unkind to ask who in all
probability will be at the head of the New
York delegation to Denver? Would it be
Irrelevant to suggest the likelihood that
Included in the delegation will be Boss
Murphy of Tammany, Pat McCarren of
Standard Oil, "Flngy" Connors of the ma
chine and the other eminent and active
leaders who have somehow failed 'to make
the democracy of New York powerful, in
fluential and respected?
And this Is another:
Murphy, McCarren and Connors and their
like are not the democratic party; they arc
merely the excrescences which disfigure
it, the barnaclea which impede Its progress,
the leeches which suck its blood.
These are almost as bad as the
names Mr. Bryan hurled at Roger
Sullivan. It will be up to Mr. Bryan
later to take It all back by disclaim
ing that the World-Herald had any
right to speak for him.
Mayor McClellan of New York has
removed a tax commissioner for refus
ing to pay the taxes assessed against
himself. It this good example ehould
be taken VP generally, and more par
ticularly right here In -Omaha, a lot
of delinquent public dues would be
quickly paid into the treasury, or there
would be quite a few vacant places
on the payroll.
Our only democratic congressman
from Nebraska will help prepare the
democratic campaign book that is to
be gotten out by the democratic na
tional congressional committee. Won
der if he will say in it anything about
the sole function of a minority con
gressman being to distribute a few
free garden seeds.
The city attorney will try to arbl
tiate the differences between the city
council and the city engineer as to
sidewalk specifications. The city at
torney will have to do some smooth
work to make them travel on the
same walk without jostling one an
other. According to the local democratic
organ, "a torpedo has been exploded
In the South Omaha municipal cam
paign." It must have been one of
those toy torpedoes with a tissue
paper wrapper warranted to be I
harmless Fourth of July noise-maker
even In the hands of an Inexperienced
child.
The police board wants the chief ot
police to Investigate whether any con
cern in Omaha is doing a wholesale
and retail business under one liquor
license. The first thing necessary Is
to define what Is wholesale business
and what Is retail business and where
the line between the two Is to be
drawn.
Iowa socialists have put a state
ticket In the field by convention nomi
nation, in complete disregard of the
direct primary law. which Is intended
to provide a meana tor choosing can
didates by popular vote. The social
ists are all for the direct primary
tor the other fellow.
It is reported that the Due de
Chaulnes, who married the daughter of
Theodore Shouts, Is to return to Amer
ica and engage In business in Wall
street. It is not announced whether
he will act as lamb or shearer.
Editor Watterson of the Louisville
Courier-Journal says that 6,000 of the
26,000 school trustees In Kentucky can
neither read nor write. They can,
however, teach the young Kentucklan
how to shoot.
"What Is really wrong with For
aker?" asks a New York paper. Noth
ing much except, as the base ball re
porter would have it, his record ap
pears principally in the error column.
President Woodrow Wilson ot
Princeton is now mentioned as a run
ning mate for Mr. Bryan. The sug
gestion has been favorably received by
nearly everyone except Mr. Wilson. ,
Mme. Anna Gould declares that she
has had enough of married life. There
is a suspicion that she had very little
of it, owing to her unfortunate choice
of a husband.
. The battleship Nebraska will Join
the big fleet for the home run. That
Is Bomethlng like putting a fresh
pitcher In the box at the end of the
sixth Inning.
Present Company Excepted.
Boston Transcript.
Bryan aald Thursday: "There are larger
things in this life than the holding of of
fice, and there are greater Questions for
men to decide than thoaa treated by the
government." Then why does he not give
them hla attention?
Steady Vpltft In Business.
St,' ".Louis Republic.
The adva.jlng decline In the number of
idle frels'.'i cars la something more than a
points for a general improvement In busl-
piVei. It looks not a lltUo like another car
shortage when the bumper crops which the
season promises begin to roll to market
A Lobster Dream.
Washington. Herald.
That Iowa man who dreamed he saw
Mr. Roosevelt and Mx. Bryan running on
the same ticket for president and vice
president, reepectlvely. may, we think, be
depended upon not to mix lpbster salad
and milk toast for supper again at any
thing like an early date.
Deficient In Backbone.
Brooklyn Bagle.
Mr. Bryan saya the .weakness of the
democratic party Is not due to a want of
principle. That's a fact. It Is due to the
want of a backbone, wanting which It will
never want for the incumbrance and tutel
age of a gentleman from Nebraska whom
we could, but will not name,
"Signs of Human Intelligence."
Now York . World.
In spite of Its reputation and record,
mere are limes wncn tne democratic or
ganisation of New York shows ' signs ot
human intelligence. There waa a case in
point yesterday when the state committee
adopted a resolution in favor of sending
an uninstructed delegation to the national
convention.
New York's seventy-elaht delegates should
go to Denver as free men, bound to no
candidate, and prepared to act for the best
interests of the democratic party. So ahould
the delegatea of every other atate. The
Denver convention ought to ba an open
council of democracy not the perfunctory
meeting of a board of Bryan dummy di
rectors. THE SENATE'S OLD MEN.
Death I'nnanally Basy In the I'pper
Chamber.
Philadelphia Press.
Death has been unusually busy in the
senate. Six deaths within nine months,
three of them within a month, la a large
mortality In a body of ninety-two mem
bers. A year ago Morgan and Pettus, of
Alabama; Latimer, of South Carolina;
Proctor, of Vermont, and Whyte, of Mary
land, were In active participation In the
work of the aenate, but their place are
now occupied by their successors or are
vacant. The average age of senators haa
shifted downward considerably by the death
or dropping out of older senators and the
number of senators who were members so
lata as twenty yeara ago Is only seven.
. Senator Whyte's record was unique. He
was first a member ot the senate In 1868,
a colleague of Sumner, Trumbull, Morton,
Conkllng, Sherman and the other strong
men whom the,, civil war brought to the
front He returned In 1875, when most of
the war senators Were still there, and
Blaine, Allison, Thurman, Carpenter,
Bayard and Edmunds were members of the
senate, either the leaders, or destined to be
leaders. His third appearance In the sen
ate. during the administration of Theodore
Roosevelt waa In the nature of a survival
and revival which connected the present
with what aeems the somewhat remote
past. He was a man of ability, who occu
pled many poaltlona in his long public ca
reer and filled them all creditably. His
death, at the age of 83, leaves William B.
Allison, at 79. the senior senator, both in
actual service and in length of service.
The other senators of more than twenty
yeara- service are Hale and Fry; of Maine
Aldrlch, of Rhode Island; Cullom, of lilt
nols; Teller, of Colorado, and Daniel, of
Virginia, all ot whom In the senate have
rendered the country 'valuable service and
continue to do ao. Fairly good health seems
to be the portion of all theae aenatora and
nothing challenges their tenure of seats
In the aeriata for an Indefinite period ex
cept I". the caae of Mr. Teller, and perhaps
Mr. Allison, whose seats the exigenclea of
politics tend to mafca antnewhat Insecure.
ECHOES OP STATE COVETIO.
Pawnee Republican: Governor Sheldon,
Senator Brown, A. W. Field and Victor
Rnsewater will represent Nebraska as dele-gates-at-large
to the national republican
convention. They are a mighty fine
quartet and will make great muslo for
Taft at Chicago.
North Nebraska Eagle: Governor Qorge
Xj. Sheldon, Senator Norrla Brown, Editor
Victor Rorewater and Judge Allen Field
were selected by the republicans In state
convention at Omaha last week as dele
gates-at-large from the state ot Nebraska
to the republican national convention a
very strong quartet of able men, In ths
opinion of the Eagle.
Battle Creek Enterprise: The republican
state convention held In Omaha proved to
be a most harmonious gathering of re
publicans. The delegate to the national
convention at Chicago were elected by ac
clamation. The delegates so selected were
Governor Sheldon, Victor Rosewater, Sen
ator Norrls Brown and Judge Field. It
was a Taft convention and the delegates
are Instructed to vote for him in the na
tional convention until he is nominated.
Editor Victor Rosewater of vthe Omaha
Bee was the most conspicuous personage
In the convention and did much to bring
about harmony.
Albion News: The state convention last
week was dominated from start to finish
toy the progressive element of the repub
lican party. Dan Nettleton, sneaker of the
last house of representatives, was the tem
porary chairman, and Regent Anderson, of
Crete, was the permanent chairman. Re
gent Coupland, of Elgin, was chairman of
the .committee on resolutions. While there
was a considerable number of the old
"war horses" in the convention, they were
powerless to do anything. With- the amend
ment ot the law providing for the election
of the county and state committees, the
boss In politics will be a thing of the past
Tekamah Herald: The republican state
convention at Omaha last week was all
that could be desired. The progressive
element In the party were In such a largo
majority that the old machine outfit did
not make a test of strength. Burt county
commanded considerable recognition, H. D.
Byram was made member of committee on
credentials. Judge Basler was on resolu
tions and Judge Hopewell was honored by
being selected as alternate' delegate at
large. The rumored turning down of Sena
tor Brown would have been a political
blunder that would have produced bad re
sults. The selection ' of Brown, Sheldon,
Field and Rosewater was the proper thing.
Fremont Tribune: The expression of pri
mary preference for presidential condldates
was very small In Nebraska. The plan
proposed by the republican state committee
was acted upon by but thirty-one of the
ninety-one counties of the state and the
number of votes cast was but 7,405. On the
face of this showing It might be claimed
that the law is a failure, but this Is not
a reasonable deduction. The reason that
such small expression was given was the
one-sided nature of the contest In this
state. From the very beginning of aroused
interest upon the subject of a presidential
candidate It was plain that the republicans
of Nebraska were strongly in favor of
Secretary Taft.
Aurora Republican: The republican con
vention in -Omaha last week was marked
by two distinct characteristics. First, It
was decidedly a Taft convention. And It
was a Taft convention solely because of the
faith of the peoplo in both the disposition
and ability of the big secretary to continue
the policies of President Roosevelt. The
second characteristic of the convention was
Uncle Dan Nettleton, the temporary pre
siding officer. Uncle Dan was cheered to
the echo. And this was so beoause the peo
ple know that Uncle' Dan was the guiding
hand ot the most progressive and best
legislature Nebraska ever had and because
the masses of the people are as enthusias
tic over the ideals tha'. dominated that
legislature as they aic or the policies
of Roosevelt himself. T..e harmony that
marked the convention is prophetic ot a
splendid Taft victory in Nebraska next fall.
The hatchet of party factionalism Is burled
and the coming campaign will .be a contest
among republicans of all factions to see
which can render the most valiant service
to Secretary Taft and the doctrine of ap
plied equality for which, he as President
Roosevelt's successor, will stand.
PERSONAL NOTES.
A German legislator termed the reporters
"swine." They're not rooting for him, any
how. "
Porto Rico Is doing pretty well. It Is
new in the legislative business, but it is
learning the trick. For the final adjourn
ment the clock waa turned back forty
eight hours. .
It i not generally known- that Senator
Julius C. Burrows, of Michigan, was born
In Pennsylvania, served with a Pennsyl
vania regiment during the civil war, and
received his academlo and law education
In that state. Though over 70 years of
age, Senator Burrow la still a man of
commanding appearance and forceful as
a speaker.
Charles H. Keep of Buffalo, former
assistant secretary of the treasury, and
a member of the utilities commission, will
be selected. It is said; a the new president
of the Knickerbocker Trust company of
New York, by the voting trustees and com
mittee ot directors. Mr. Keep has given
an Informal assent to the request to accept
the place.
The earl of Dudley haa been appointed
governor general of the Commonwealth ot
Australia In succession to Sir Henry Staf
ford Northcote, whoae term la about to
expire, i The earl waa Immensely popular in
Ireland, where he waa lord lieutenant from
1902 to 1906. During his term of office he
became' practically converted to home rule
and on several occasion since he has
shown that he has ideas in sympathy with
the present government.
Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans may live
in Banta Barbara, Cal., when he retires
from the active service In the navy next
Auguat Mra. Evans, wife of the admiral,
will go direct to Santa Barbara from Wash
ington to meet hef husband when the
fleet arrives there about April 28. A colony
of retired naval and army men, including
Rear Admiral Bowman H. McCalla, Gen
eral James Biddle and Captain James H.
Bull, live in Santa Barbara now.
Letting OST Steam.
Philadelphia Preas.
A Mexican editor is having a little war
care of his own. He avers that Uncle
Bam will take Lower California by force
of a: ma if he cannot purchase that salu
brious territory. Over the northern border
Canadian editors are continually fulminat
ing against phantasme4 agitations In the
I'nlted States to annex the dominion.
Meanwhile your Uncle Samuel pursue his
way In peace and smile at the unfounded
apprehension of hi over-susplclous
neighbor.
Nobody la to Blame.
Baltimore American.
'The Colllnwood disaster ia the repetition
of history In the case of the General Blo
cum horror. Nobody I declared responsi
ble for the conditions . which caused the
holocaust and nobody Is to be punished.
No wonder the bereaved parents in their
exasperation have applied for federal lit.
terventleo.
In Fm
and strictly prohibits
the sale ot ahim
baking powder
So docs France
So does Germany
Tha sata of alum foods
has been mc3e illegal in WmsMngton and the Distrkt of Colum
bia, and alum baking powder are everywbere recognized as
injurious. jQ proicct y0unef against alum,
whea ordering bating powder,
and be.rery sure you get RoyaL
Royal is Ute only a3siarjo Powder madc from Royal Grape
Cream of Tartar. It addstothedigstilnliry and whole
Anuineu r that twtrl
GIVES CREDIT TO THE WEST.
Cantloa and Prudence Ieaere a. A'ast
. Forward Movement.
Chicago iRecord-Herald.
Thoroughly optimistic In his views and
confident that the late financial depression
had left the'eountry In excellent condition,
Alexander D. Noyes financial editor of the
New York Evening Post, brought a message
to the city club Saturday afternoon which
waa highly pleasing to western financiers.
'Conditions have been radically different
when the punlc ot 19t7 as compared with
the panics of 1873 and of 1893," said Mr.
Noyes.
"The west has demonstrated It sound
ness. To the west Is due practically all
of the credit for the successful navigation
of the shoals of the past few months. Ths
crisis has been passed and the west ha
save the day. f
'Instead of bank suspending payment
and slipping Into insolvency all through the
Mississippi valley, as the most astute of
the New York financiers predicted and ex
pected, wo find that the west Is tho cred
itor of the cast. The west is the banker
for the rest of the nation. Diametrically
different from what happened atcr the pan
ics ot 1873 and of 18P3, the western banks
have stood fast, and the banks that have
left a trail of failures in the path of the
cyclone are all east of .the Appalachian
mountains."
Mr, Noyes discussed thoroughly the
causes which led up to the financial storm
of last fall and commented upon the re
sult to one of the largest audience which
has ever gathered at a cliy club luncheon.
In part he said: '
"Judged by the violence of the phenomena
itself, neither 1883 nor 1873 can rank for se
verity with tho panlo ot 1907. The period
during which the banka of the country sus
pended payments to depositors was longer
than In any of the three great panics since
the middle of the last century; this sus
pension covered a wider area than In any
panic since 1S57; Issue of loan certificates
within the clearing houses, and of emer
gency currency 'outside of them, were far
more extensively practiced than in any pre
vious episode of our history ; the deficit In
New York bank reserves was three times
a large a in 1893, and 1893 had surpassed
alt former records.
'We shall find that in all of our previous
great panics the three points of weakness
on which the incidents of the ensuing period
of hard times converged were the demoral
isation of the currency, the weakness of the
national treasury, and the 'half-Insolvent
condition of the west. None ot these in
fluences exist today. Whatever may be
said of Its incidental defects, tho currency
la sound. Nobody doubts It; nobody sells It
at a discount; nobody objects to receiving
it
"Unless we have before us a period of
business caution, prudent living, corporate
and individual retrenchment, national sav.
ing, then all the precedent of the past will
have gone for nothing and all the warning
of tha past winter will have been wanted.
"The United States did not get its first
great start In the world's commerce in the
'80s as the result of an American boom.
The great forward movements In finance
and Industry earn J when circumstances had
forced upon us the practice of economy,
invention, business prudence and energetic
struggle to meet competitor on equal
terms, to sell to the world at large better
goods at lower price than the consumer
can get in other markets."
SMILIU KEMARKS.
"No, I haven't anything for you," said
the hard featured woman of the housa.
"Instead of spending your time In loafing
around the saloons and begging, why don't
you try to follow some useful occupation?"
"Madame," said Wareham Lrfng, tilting
his Jaded remnant of a hat forward and
eying her with a frown, "do I look like one
o' the idle rich." Chicago Tribune.
Raynor Spunjall talks of going into busi
ness. Has he any working capital?
Bhyne Working capital? Yea; hla "work
ing" capital la hla magnificent power of
touch. Baltimore American.
"If men really would "vote as they
pray,' " remarked Goodley, "thla would
tru!v be a happy world."
"Yes," replied Wise, "but in that case
you wouldn't get some men to the polls
once in ten years." Philadelphia Press.
Uncle Hardacre I believe In government
ownership of all monopolies, especially the
railroads.
Uncle Backache I dunno 'bout that. Ever
stop ter think what the conductors 'd be
like if they had the hull army and navy
backln' "em up?" Puck.
"So you have abandoned your idea of a
currency composed merely of paper?"
"I have," answered the statesman. "There
la no use ot putting the entire financial
system of the country at the disposal of
the Paper trust, Washington Star.
' "Sir," began Lord Brokelclgh, pomp
ously, "I've called to request your daugh
ter's hand in marriage."
"That's out ot the question, my man,"
USE ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE,
A powder to be shaken Into the ahoea.
Your feet feel swollen, nervous and damp,
and get tired eaally. If you have aching
feet, try Allen's Koot-Ease. It rests the
feet and mattes new or tight shoes easy.
Cures aching, swollen, sweating fret,
blister and callous sputa. H. Ilexes C'lill
blaina, corns and bunions of all pain and
gives rent and comfort. Trv It todxy.
Hold by all DruirgUis and Knoc HI ores, 2&c.
tion't accept uny ntMtltute. Trial pvckaua
free. Addiea Alle I t'.olmsUd, L iloy.N. V.
replied old Roxley. "HoWever. t don't
want to seem altogether uncharitable, so
here' $5 for you." Philadelphia Press.
"I am afraid I will have to gt a tonlo
for my genernl health." sold Miss Passee,
who has a fad for Invalidism. "I find my
hiilr Is beginning to fall out."
With brutal candor her best friend sum
marised the situation. "Pin it on tighter,"
she advised. Baltimore American.
"Hiram, you seem to be getting fleshier.
How much do you weigh?"
"One hundred and sixty-eight, kuclnrta.
I weighed 1118 yesterday."
"Do you think you've gained two pound
In one day?"
"I know I have, dear. I have eaten two
slices of that angel cake of youva." Chi
cago Tribune.
A SU-NU OK REALTY,
P. A. McCarthy In New York Bun.
Oh, sing me a song of beauty! I'm tired of
the stressful song.
I'm weary of all the preaching, the arguing
right and wrong, .
I'm tain to forget tliu adder that under llm
leaf Ilea curled.
And dreaui of the light and beauty that
gladdens the gruy old world!
Oh, sing of the emerald meadows that
smile all day In the sun!
The ripple and gleam of thu rivers that on
through the meadows run!
Oh, sing of the sighing branches of tres
In the leafy woods, ,
And the balm for the heart that's hiddu.i
afar in the solitudes!
The birds let them sing In your singing
and flash through the lines you write.
The lark with his lilt in the inninint', t.m
nightingale charming the night.
The butterfly over the flowers that hovers
on painted wing
All these, let them brighten and lighten
the beautiful song you sing!
And let thpre be faces of lovers, and let
there be eyes that glow,
And let there be tears of gladnes Instead
of the tears of woe.
And let there be clinging kisses of lips fur
a time that part.
But never a trimful shadow to darken a
trustful heart!
Ay, sing me a song of beauty away with
songs of strife!
Away with the specter of sorrow that sad
dens the most of life!
Thounh under the leaf the adder of death
and of doom lies curled.
Oh, sing, for a space, of the heauty that
gladdena the gray old world'.
C. When Lynden opened the door
and saw Doctor Westbrock sland
ing over the body of Alberto da
Sanchez with the knife that killed
him ia his hand, what could ha
think what would anyone have
thought f This is tho situation at
tha beginning; of
The Silver
Blade '
and lovers of a good detective story
are offered one that ia diff treat
on in which the mystery really
remains a mystery till the end.
By CHA RLES B. WALK ; ,
Plctu-rf in Color y A. B. Wmtit -
A. C. McClurg & Co., Publishers
Ask Your Bookseller
Watch this space fyr a" sorios, ot
talks to investors. Talk: No. .-- '
IDLE MONEY BENEFITS KO CXE
not even its possesors. Money that it
not invested earns nothing. It can
not make you rich.
The money you put in a bank makes
greater profits for tho banker than It
does for you. Besides you have noth
ing to say about its management.
If you put your money into a safe
and sound company, and become part
of that company, you help to manage
your money, and get all tho profit.
your money earns.
All the profit, if the company has a
fine future, means great profit. It tha
company Is managed by able and hon
est directors, it means sure, grat
profit. , f
If the company is already successful,
money Invested in It means, betides,
quick, sure, great profits.
If you wish to make a moderate in
vestment under the above conditions,
do not delay to grasp your oi'portuu
Ity, but address W-259. I