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    THE OMAHA DAILY REE: FRIDAY, APRIL 17. 100?.
The Omaha Daily Bee.
FOUNDED 8T EDWARD ROSEWATER.
VICTOR nCSKWATER, EDITOR.
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STATEMKNT OF CIRCULATION.
State of Nehrnska, Dougla County, as.:
OeorRn R. Tsuchuck. treasurer of Tha
Bee Publishing company., being du'T
worn, says that the actual number of
full and complete copies of Tha Dally.
Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed
during tha month of March, 1908, waa aa
follow:
1 38,550 17 37,580
t 30,040 II. 30,030
t v 36,360 1 304100
4 30,430 20 30,080
( 30,870 21 30,580
30,680 23 30,400
1 30,190 23.. 30,OO
35,500 24...; 30,730
I , . 38,480 26...., 36,580
10 36.300 . 29...' 89,840
' '.. 36,670 27... 36,700
'3 36,600 28...,. 30.570
. 36,180 29 36,350
T4 35,970 80 30,550
It 30,360 81 80,930
It .38,669
Totala ..1,133,360
Leas unsold and returned coDles., t,16a
Net total.... ,1B3,0
Dally average 36.8M
GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK.
Treaaurer.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn
to befora ma thla 1st day of April, 1908.
I8ea,l) ROBERT HUNTER,
Notary Public
WHKH OCT Or TOWS,
f abacrlbers leaving; the) city feaa
g-orarllr shoal kare The Bea
Mailed ta thena. Address will be'
changed aa oftea aa reqaeated.
New York Is still "the enemy's
country" to Mr. Bryan. ,
Mrs. Howard Gould may return to
the stage. In a tank drama?
It is authoritatively announced for
the 'steenth time that the power canal
has once more been fully financed.
The antl-tirywn democrats have
made a late start In their campaign,
and are not going very fast at that.
Wonder if anyone Is afraid some
arlletlc plagiarist might be tempted to
copy that copyrighted statue of Lin
coln? "Rich American girls are a danger,"
says a Rome paper. Perhaps, but Eu
rope Is full of brave men ready to
court danger.
The populists insist that Mr. Bryan
is a democrat and the eastern demo-
Sciats insist that he is a populist. What
Ms a democrat?
Senator- Knox says he will take no
; vara tit. u"' this summer. He needs
none, as he has been at sea with his
boom all winter.
( Cftunel Bryan Is willing to let the
rank and file of tho party speak, but
ilf they do not call for him ho Insists
that It is not their voice.
6 "Thore is no place in the country
that needs a union depot any worse
'than Dallas does," says the Dallas
;News. Except Kansas GHty.
"The backbone of the opposition to
Tft Is broken," writes a Washington
correspondent. The opposition to
T&f t never had much backbone.
Several teams la the American
. leaguo are tied with Washington for
, Iset place, but they will be rooted out
long beforo the season Is over.
A convicted bigamist in New York
has been sentenced to support both
.his families. The courts occasionally
get a proper notion of punishment.
If that power canal is bound to
come to Omaha without waiting for
our aid or consent, It is hard to see
why anyone here should get excited
about It.
Senators Depew and Piatt will both
go to the Chicago convention as dis
trict delegates. They go as the little
two instead of with the "Big Four." as
in the old days.
The Omaha Grain exchange has a
iew weather, map installed by the
Department of Agriculture at a cost of
1 , 0 0 0 . Weather sometimes comes
high, but we must have it. v
"How would Harrlman and Day bit
the country as a presidential ticket?"
asks the Philadelphia Press. Ho
'.would the country hit Harrlman and
Day as a presidential ticket?
Judge'Alton B. Parker will head tho
j New York delegation to tho national
convention at Denver. Mr. Bryan will
be as glad to see htm there as he was
to see Mr. Bryan at St Louis,
about.
Just
I Again all records for excavation in
the Panama canal work have been
broken, J, 480, 170 cubic yands having
I been removed In March. The only re-
"gret of the Washington officials now
'is that the army . engineers were not
(ln charge of the work from the first.
"THE OLD rAHKKR OAlHO.
In displuming the movement in New
York In favor of the candidacy" of
Governor Johnson of Minnesota for
the presidential nomination, on the
democratic ticket the local Bryanlte
organ, the World-Herald, on April 10,
said:
These meetings are bring engineered hy
the satellite! of Jim Hill. ThomastF. Ryan
and by the 'Flngy" C'onners, VJlfurphys.
Sheehans and Ouffeys, who helped betray
the party four years ago. Governor' John
son's candidacy la In the hands of the old
Parker gang. .
"The old Parker gang" will be at
the Denver convention, selected by. an
overwhelming vote of the democratic
state convention In New York. A
resolution offered instructing the dele
gates to the Denver convention to sup
port Mr. Bryan was voted down with
a whoop and the convention named
Judge Alton B. Parker, Charles F.
Murphy, Lewis Nixon and Charles
Froeh as the "Big Four" to the. Den
ver convention.
The men who, according to Mr.
Bryan's organ, "helped betray the
party four years ago" will, therefore,
be in evidence at Denver. Parker and
Murphy will be there on the state del
egation "Flngy" Conners will go as a
delegate from the Buffalo district and
Colonel Guffey will head an unln
structed delegation from Pennsylvania.
The Kyans, the Sheehans and others
who appear on Mr. Bryan's list of
party traitors will probably be found
among the visitors, as they were at
St. Louis In 1904.
The representatives of "the old
Parker gang," however, will not all
come from New York. The same
World-Herald of yesterday, In refer
ring to the efforts that are being rftade
in other states to secure unpledged
delegations to Denver, said:
Eastern money Is to be used, In states
concededly for Bryan, to procure, by hook
or crook la the state conventions delegates
who will betray him at Denver and turn
traitor to their constituents. It Is hoped
to accomplish this end through tha "ma
chine" bosses like Roger Sullivan, who,
profeaslng a Up service to the Nebraakan,
are known to be opposed to him at heart.
This comes as something of a shock,
In view -of the peace protocol signed
by Sullivan and Bryan at Lincoln a
few weeks ago by the terms of which
they were to forget all the nasty
things they had said of each other in
former fights. Sullivan was to be al
lowed to remain as national commit
teeman for Illinois and, In return, was
to give Mr. Bryan the Illinois delega
tion. On the surface, at least, Sulli
van appears to be living up to his
agreement, even if Mr Bryan's friends
are torn by suspicions.
The plan of action of the New York
delegation has not been announced,
but Judge Parker has a distinguished
precedent for a course that would at
least Inject the element of excitement
Into the Denver meeting. In 1904
Mr. Bryan went to Chicago, hired a
hall and delivered an elaborate ad
dress in which he explained why Judge
Parker should not be nominated and
could not bo elected. Jie repeated this
address at New York and made it im
possible for Judge Parker, after he
had been nominated, to expect the sup
port or the Bryan followers. Should
Judge Parker decide to follow the
Bryan example and make a few
speeches on his way to Denver" he
would do no more than even the score
and confirm Mr. Bryan's suspicions as
to the real sentiments of "the old
Parker gang." .
a coloxel's tempeh.
One of the most peculiar cases in the
annals of the War department Is about
to be disposed of by the assignment of
Colonel W. F. Stewart of the coast
artillery to some Atlantic port, with
out duty, where he will be allowed to
remain until he reaches the retirement
age. 'The colonel has'been on duty at
Fort Grant, Ariz., where his entire
command consisted of a caretaker and
a cook.
The whole trouble arises over
Colonel Stewart's willingness to retire
and the War department's failure to
find cause for removing him by a
court-martial proceeding. It is most
difficult to define and explain the
demoralization which It is charged has
followed the colonel to every garrison
at which he has been stationed. He has
only two colonels in the coast artillery
service who are senior to him and
the department has found It impossible
to detail him to serve under any offi
cer and will not assign him to an
Independent command. Officials of the
War department simply assert that
Colonel Stewart is "temperamentally
Impossible." When this report was
made, President Roosevelt -offered
Colonel Stewart an opportunity to ap
ply for retirement. The colonel re
plied that it appointed brigadier gen
eral . he would retire, otherwise he
would remain on duty. Then followed
the assignment to Fort Grant.
No explanation Is made of the de
partment's decision to allow the hot-
tempered colonel to change his post
from the Arizona desert to an Atlantic
coast town. Perhaps the cook and the
caretaker at Fort Grant threatened a
strike if the colonel remained as tbelr
superior officer and perhaps the action
of the War department In assigning
him to Fort Grant smacked too much
of exile. At any rate, be is to be
allowed to serve his time on the active
list as a resident, without duty, at
some coast artillery post. It is un
fortunate, perhaps, that a temper like
the colonel's should be allowed to go
to waste In times of peace. He would
probably be a warm number in a real
fight.
Congress does not know what' the
bankers and business men of the coun
try want In the way of currency legis
lation and the conflicting petitions and
arguments being sent to Washington
Indicate that the bankers and business
men do not know what they want,
either.
A JOLRXAUSTlC LIAR
Under the caption "A Journalist in
the Confessional," the New York Even
ing Post devotes a column of valuable
editorial space to a worthless book re
cently published by William A. Salis
bury, purporting to narrate "The Ca
reer of a Journalist." We have not
seen the book, but from the Post's
comment upon It we do not hesitate to
pronounce It a work of fiction by a
Journalistic liar.
The Post thinks it sees in this book
"an appearance of entire frankness"
that is "in certain large essentials
veracious." Among other things It
quotes from this book are alleged ex
periences of the author when employed
as a reporter on Omaha newspapers
designed to support the broad asser
tion that newspapers as a whole are
flagrantly subservient to 'dangerous
"spoclal Interests." The Post says:
On Tho Omaha Bee Mr. Salisbury "had
always to be careful to avoid the street
car, gas, telephone and other corporations
which Mr. Rosewater didn't dislike."
It is surprising that a newspaper of
the reputation of the New York Even
ing Post should gulp down -w ithout in
vestigation such stuff with such pal
pable earmarks of untruth.
According to the records of The Bee
William A. Salisbury was employed on
this paper from November 12, 1899,
to June 5, 1900, in the capacity of a
copy-reader on the night telegraph
desk. He was never employed as a
reporter on The Bee and never had any
chance to have any directions from Mr.
Rosewater about what local news
should or should not be printed.
We have in our files two communi
cations in the handwriting of Mr. Salis
bury which speak for themselves. One
of them reads:
Wednesday Night, May 29, 1900. My Dear
Dr. Rosewater: I am not unwilling to be
relieved at any time while the present
salary Is paid. I think that perhapa since
I hava shown ability to hold the night
telegraph desk up to the present time and
In consideration of the amount of work It
now calls for, the office may deem my
aervlces worth somewhat more than at
first. However, If not. I shall not feel re
sentful, remembering the consideration al
ready shown me, but will be ready to step
aside whenever a successor is ready. Sin
cerely. W. A. SALISBURY.
After his departure from The Bee
upon refusal to raise his salary nothing
was heard from him except that he had
gone to Chicago until a postal card was
received, addressed to the managing
editor of The Bee and postmarked Chi
cago, September 14, 1900, reading as
follows:
If you are circulating a story that I was
pushed off the Tribune through your In
fluence, you are a deliberate liar. I left
there because I Imbibed too much at a
banquet. I now have a better position
(copy-reading) on another paper. That you
attempted to do such a thing I have no
doubt because you are an Israelite.
W. A: SALISBURY.
Of course no attention was paid o
this communication, nor would any at
tention be flaid now to anything writ
ten by Mr.Nallsbury were it not for
the fact that his falsehoods are given
countenance and color by seemingly
approving quotation in the New York
Evening Post.
CHINA'S BOYCOTT OF J A FAX.
The boycott against Japanese goods.
which started at Canton a few days
ago, has surprised the diplomats of the
world by the rapidity with which it
has spread to all parts of the empire.
Chinese spasms of patriotic demon
stration are usually short lived, but
in this case the national resentment
against Japan has become so intense
and widespread that It would not be
surprising If the two countries become
diplomatically involved.
It is estimated that the boycott will
cost Japan the loss of $200,000,000 In
trade, if it lasts for another six months.
The Chinese resentment apparently
grew out of the Tatsu Maru Incident,
by which the Chinese were compelled
to surrender a Japanese vessel which
had been -caught In Chinese waters,
loaded with arms and ammunition for
Chinese rebels. This traffic had been
going on for some time and the resent
ment of it has not been lessened by
the fact that China has been humbled
for trying to put a stop to it. Back
of that, however, is the fact that China
has awakened to the extent of Japan
ese aggression in Manchuria and ap
parently feels the necessity of radical
action to save a large portion of
Chinese territory from coming under
the domination of the Japanese.
One of the disturbing features of the'
situation is that Japan is, according
to reports, continuing to make shin-
menta of firearms Into China. This Is
in express violation of an agreement
between Japan and China by which
Japan promised to prevent the expor
tation to China of firearms, which are
necessarily ultimately destined to find
their way into the hands of Chinese
rebels, boxers and pirates. Persistence
in this course, In the present temper
of the Chinese, is certain to lead to
complications that will need more than
diplomacy to untangle. j
If we are to have a succession of
grand Juries every six weeks here in
Douglas county we might as well save
some of the money we are spending
uselessly in the county attorney's
office. The only plausible ground for
such frequent grand Juries la that the
prosecuting officers are either, unable
or unwilling to do the business.
Omaha is after some-- big conven
tions. In the matter of going after
big conventions, however, a wise dis
crimination should be exercised. It is
no use to go after conventions unless
there is a chance to get them, nor go
after conventions whose cost of enter
tainment would more than offset pos
sible advantages. There are plenty
of desirable conventions that can be
secured which we should go after and
keep after.
According to the local democratic
organ the great conspiracy of the
money power to buy the presidential
nomination away from Mr. Bryan is
making progress. It must be humil
iating for It to confess that any demo
crats exist who might be tempted by
the corrupting Influence of Wall street
boodle.
Omaha ranks near the top of the
list as a live stock market, stands first
as a butter market and is rapidly forg
ing to the front as a grain market.
There is no good reason why it should
not at no distant day likewise be one
of the great wool markets of the
country.
Senator Hopkins of Illinois says
"Speaker Cajinon is much in favor of
a bill to remove the tariff on wood
pulp." The announcement will come
as a surprise to the rest of the coun
try and perhaps to Speaker Cannon.
John Sharp Williams and Congress
man De Armond are going to speak
from the same Chautauqua platforms
this summer, but they will speak at
different dates Instead of traveling to
gether as sparring partners.
Oklahoma has passed an act mak
ing it unlawful for any person to play
poker or any other game with a mem
ber of the legislature. The members
of the legislature evidently felt the
nepd of self-protection.
Congress has agreed to Increase
from $8 to $12 a month the pensions
for soldiers' widows. It Is estimated
that it will cost $12,000,000 to make
this addition to the "Merry Widow"
group.
The Real Trouble.
Chicago Inter Ocean. ' .
It does not make so much difference
how all those anarchists got into 'the
United States. Our present concern la to
get them out, and with as little ceremony
as possible.
A 8 a (narrated Thriller.
St. Paul Pioneer Press.
It Is announced that President Roosevelt
Is planning to spend a year In foreign
travel after he leavea the White House.
Let us hope that he will go to Venesuela
first thing and have a heart-to-heart talk
with Castro.
Fluorine; on the Rainbow.
Bt. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Democratic arithmetic men are figuring
that the next house will be democratic.
Their simple method is to claim all the
close districts. On election day the close
districts sometimes surprise both aides, and
seldom disappoint one aide. only.
, Move to Better ThlnaV.
Kansas City Times.
Last year the railroada killed 10,000 per
sons, 6.000 perished In fires and 3,500 In
mines. President Rooseyelt has called a
conference to discuss- means of correcting
this shocking condttlort. -ffhe only ones who
will resent such an endeavor are a. num
ber of 'smug and well groomed persons
Usually depicted with white side whiskers.
Marvelous Forecasting;.
New York Sun.
The weather bureau starts Its week head
fcrecast with the boldness and dash of a
Juno thunderstorm. "During the week,"
It says, casting aside every appearance
of doubt, reserve or caution, slipping every
anchor to windward, "typical April con
ditions will prevail." Thus tha progress
of science gives comfort and aid to the
once bewildered housewife, who may now
In serene confidence repair the roof, air
the rugs, prepare for lawn teas, let tho
furnace go out and relight It and resur
rect ler husband's straw hat.
Checking- Japanese mmlarratlon.
San Francisco Chronicle.
Japanese at the rate of 600 monthly Jiave
been proceeding to Hawaii, being granted
passports on the ground that they were re
lated to emlgranta who had already gone
to the Islands. It. appears, however, that
this waa the last ditch of the transporta
tion companies engaged In the promotion
of emigration, for they , have been panic
stricken by an announcement from the
Department of Foreign Affairs to tho ef
fect that all emigration would be forbid
den, including that of relatives. It la dally
growing more evident that the question of
admitting Japanese laborers to thla coun
try will be adjusted without resorting to
measures calculated to give offense.
WAR DEPARTMENT SECRETS.
Plana (or Thrashing Other People Oc
cupy Officials' Time.
Chicago Post.
People have the haxlcst sort of an Idea,
apparently, of the duties of tha 'officers
who serve on the military and naval board
In Washington. They do many things be
sldea planning stratagems. Invasions and
the like, but ona of their main labors Is
the making of preparations to thrash some
country which at tha same time la making
preparatlona to thrash us.
Germany knows all about the American
seaboard and tm Philippines seaboard and
all about Samoa and Hawaii and Guam and
Alaska. It knowa how many ships we
have, how many guns they carry, what
their target records are and In fact all the
other things that it la to the advantage
of a country to know prior to entering
upon hostilities with another country.
What is true of Germany's knowledge la
true of the knowledge of England or
Japan, France, Italy and the reat.
Moreover, if one could get into the in
ner chambers of the War and Navy depart
ments of- the countries mentioned and
were not denied access to the secret
drawers of the steel-lined vaults, he-would
find there neatly drawn plana for offensive
opera'.lona against the I'nlted States of
America. These plans would show our
weaknesses and our atrengtha, with partic
ular attention paid to tha weaknesses.
Now, tha reverse of this matter Is true.
Let a German or r.n Englishman or a
Japanese or a Frenchman or a man of any
other great power go hla way. If ha can,
to the inner places In our fighting de
partments and there he will find the best
laid plana of army officers and naval of
ficers for the thrashing of his country.
It Is needless to say that the officials of
all the war departments of earth plan to
thrash the other fellow, taking no thought
of the possibility of being thrashed them
selves. That Is left for the developments
of individual battles, when the admiral or
the general figures out when defeat looma
how he can best maka his getaway with
least loss of ships or men.
TAFT BV ACCLAMATION.
f-rrat Opportunity for Leaders ef Re
pahllraa Party.
Chicago Evening Post (rep.).
The logic of events now proffers to the
leaders of the republican - party an Inesti
mable opportunity to seoure beyond the
shadow of doubt the election of a repub
lican president and the supremary of re
publican policies during tha next four years
of our national life.
Insofar as anything may be humanly pre
dicted the nomination of William Howard
Taft at the coliseum In June is a certainty.
Insofar as It is possible to Judge the
future by the past, our national well being
requires that our next chief executive shall
be a republican. -N
Why, then, should not the "favorite sons"
who are being put forward for the repub
lican presidential nomination recognise
these facts? Why should they not with
draw their candidacy now and permit their
party to go Into convention with the In
spiring conviction that William H. Taft Is
to be nominated by acclamation?'
This suggestion Is not made by the Even
ing Post lightly or from a standpoint of
mere sentlmentalism. On the contrary. It
Is our -profound conviction that each day
brings forth its own logical convincing rea
son for giving the country as soon as
possible the news that Mr. Taft is to he
made tho nominee of his party unanimously
on the first ballot.
Take first the race for the nomination.
One year ago. In the judgment of the coun
try, the prixe lay between Charles Evans
Hughes of New Tork. Charles Warren Fair
banks of Indiana, Joseph G. Cannon of
Illinois. Philander C. Knox of Pennsyl
vania. Robert M. La Follette of Wlseon
sin, George B. Cortelyou of New York,
Leslie M. Shaw of Iowa and William
Howard Taft of Ohio.
His most friendly political critics mtiRt
admit that Mr. Hughes' golden opportunity
finally passed with the half-hearted In
dorsement given him In the New York
convention. The movement toward Fair
banks Jost Its substance some months since
arxl has vanished Into thin air. Speaker
Cannon, held up aa a powerful possibility
because of his close congressional acquaint
ance throughout the entire union, has se
cured simply a complimentary vote in the
stato of Illinois, and only four delegates
elsewhere. Mr. Knox has Pennsylvania,
but ever Congressman Dalxell, his noml-nator-to-be,
has Inadvertently admitted
that there Is neither heart nor hope In his
candidacy. The absolute Isolation of Sen
ator La Follette in his own party makes
his nomination an Impossibility. Secretary
Cortelyou has not been considered seriously
since the brief cabinet crlBls of the winter.
Aa for Mr. Shaw, he, has himself confessed
that ho has reached oblivion.
What of the secretary of war on the
other hand? One year ago we were told
that he could not carry his own atate; In
answer he has swept Ohio from border to
border and the Foraker regime la but a
memory. We were told that the Taft cam
paign was only a blind for a Roosevelt
third term; the president s uncompromis
ing refusal to rum again has convinced even
Wall street that he means It. They said
that Mr. Taft's fight would be made
through the government office holders;
state after state has demonstrated that It
Is the people, not the office holders, who
are instructing delegates.
The great and final objection was that
Mr. Taft was but an "echo" of Mr. Roose
velt, and that It was dangerous to the last
degree to allow a president to "name his
own successor." On this Issue ebove all
others the people have spoken with un
mistakable clearness. Their growing knowl
edge of their great "pro-conaul" has made
them almost universally understand that he
Is of too large a caliber to be any man's
man. Furthermore, they have used every
electoral opportunity to declare that they
want In the White House a president who
will perpetuate the Roosevelt policies with
earnest sympathy for them.
It Is an astonishing achievement for Mr.
Taft. We doubt whether the history of the
country has ever recorded a more remark
able feat by a presidential candidate than
this utter routing of each and every ante
convention 'attack upon him. Aa its su
premely Important teault Secretary Taft
now stands before the rank and file of the
republican party aa the only "national"
candidate for the nomination. He now has
delegates from twenty-two states. Speaker
Cannon Is the only .competitor who has
votes from more than one state, and he
only from three. No "favorite son" save
Fairbanks and Knox has been able to get
even a solid delegation from his own com
monwealth. Turn next to the need of the country for
a republican president during the coming
four years. In the eyes of those moat
keenly interested In our national progress
this need Is more pressing than it has been
alnce the civil war, thte McKinley-Bryan
campaign presenting the sole possible ex
ception. Such observers must disagree ut
terly with President Robert Mather of the
Rock Island company and the few men
who have joined him In declaring that It
does not matter whether the republicans or
democrats win, because the two great na
tional parties differ only In the degree of
their eagerness to see which can formulate
"the more radical platform."
The republican policies stand clearly be
fore the voters today. The people know
Just how far a republican president 'will go
In the positive, progressive upbuilding of
the nation which has always been the
party's chlefest glory; they have but tha
vaguest idea of what a democratic presi
dent could do or seek to do. They know
that the republican party stands for a re
vision of the tariff and not for the revolu
tionary experiment of free trade. They
know, finally, that a republican president
like Mr. Taft will give the moat thorough
and honest test of the policy of corpora
tion regulation, the greatest issue of the
present generation; they have no wish to
plunge Into the .unknown fields of gov
ernment ownership.
In other words, the republican party Is
now a fixed definite formula of progress.
We are not a radical people. We wish to
advance, hut we wish to do so In an or
dered and a conservative manner. We
turn to the republican party aa a well tried
instrument to accomplish this wish. We
would Jeopardise our physical and moral
prosperity for years to coma If we per
mitted an untried and hostile party to as
sume control of the government Just as our
newly . forged ideals are undergoing the
essential test of actual experiment.
Men who stand so high in the affairs
of the republic as Governor Hughes, Vice
President Fairbanks, Speaker Cannon, Sen
ator Knox and the other rivals of Mr, Taft
muat appreciate more earnestly than the
great majority of their fellow tit liens how
necessary It is for the nation's welfare
that' tho republican party be kept In of
fice. And their political sense must tell
them the tremendous Inspiration that
would be given the republican campaign
this fall should they sacrifice their per
sonal interests, withdraw their candidacies
and preaent a unlud party front to the
democracy by proclaiming the nomination
of William Howard Taft by acclamation.
245 Degrees
That's always the heat of our ovens
That's why our beans are digestible
Home-cooked beans are heavy and hard to digest, simply
for lack of sufficient heat. ' N c
It requires a fierce heat to break down the fibre of bearis,
and you cannot apply It. , ' ;
That is why bean's must be factory cooked. That is .why
Van Camp's beans are better for you than yours;
Beans are the choicest of Nature's
foods when they are rightly cooked
They are 23 nitrogenous 84 nutriment. , They are
even more nutritious than wheat. . - . .. ... j,,
Beans and wheat have about the same toofl value. ' But
note what a difference in cost.
Instead of once a week, you will serve beans every day '
when you learn how delicious they can be.
Van Camp's pork and beans
baked with tomato sauce
We use only the choicest of Michigan beans. Tha ,
whitest, the plumpest, the fullest-grown all selected by hand.
We use only vine-ripened tomatoes, and our sauce costs
us' five times what some sauce is sold for.
We use seven spices to season it.
That is why our beans are so mealy and nutty. All oar
6auce has that sparkling test. ; ; V '
The beans, the tomato sauce and the
pork are baked 90 minutes together
It is thus that we get the delicious blend.
Our beans come to you just as fresh and a savory as -when
they came out of our ovens. Put the can in hot water
and a steaming meal is ready to serve in ten minutes.
And such a meall You don't know how good baked
beans can be until you once try Van Camp's.
10, IS and 20 per can.
Van Camp Packing Company, Indianapolis, lna
PORTA L SAVING BANKS.
Congress Responding; to Demands for
Their Kstabliabmeat.
Washington Post.
In the matter of the postal savings
banks, .there Is hopes among the harried
legislators that relief la in eight. A postal
savings bank system has been demanded
and urged by thousands of letters and
communications from all over the country.
It has been bitterly opposed by equally
vehement missives from bankers, public
men, and business enterprises of undoubted
character. The recent bill Introduced in
the senate by Senator Carter is expected to
meet with the approval of all pasties and
bring peace upon the subject.
Senator Carter's bill provides for the legal
exemption of all the deposits and an in
Interest rate of of t per cent per annum. It
limits each depositor to $1,000 and accepts
sums aa low aa 10 cents. Such a measure
is bound to encourage the thrift and sav
ing propensities of persona with small
means. But Instead of Injuring the bunks
by authorising these deposits, Senator
Carter's bill really benefits the banks. It
provides that the government shall pUce
all the funds thus collected in the national
banks nearest the places of deposit at a
rate not to exceed 2V per cent, and so the
banks receive the use of this money for a
smaller charge than la customary with
other savings deposits. Besides this, it
Is obvious that any man who has saved
11,000. a few pennies at a time, will imme
diately thereupon either Invest it or put
It In a bank, Instead, of squandering It aa
he would have dona but for the encourage
ment of the postal savings system.
There will be doubtless many to object
to the bill even in its present forn, but
upon a cursory examination of It one
must get a very favorable Impression of
Its provisions. It seems capable of filling
a long felt and loudly demanded want.
PERSONAL NOTES.
F. Augustus Helnse has gone west to try
to make another fortune.
Another New York diamond firm has
gona Into bankruptcy. The explanation Is
that marjy persons who formerly wore dia
monds are now wearing automobiles.
Cardinal Michael Legue, Roman Catholic
primate of all Ireland, la to leave Dublin
Easter Sunday for New York, where he
will attend the centennial celebration of the
New York diocese.
A physician says the man who ataggera
from overindulgence in Intoxicants Is In a
state of temporary partial paralysis of the
motor system. But men who have come
home in that condition have often had
worse thlnga said of them.
W. H. Gerty, a Massachusetts, veteran
of the civil war. who hauled the first north
ern troops into Washington at the 'outbreak
of the war, has been visiting the national
capital, and called on t,he president. Gerty
was a member of the Eighth Massachu
setts regiment, and when Annapolis waa
reached It waa found that all the locomo
tive engines had been dismantled by con
federates. Being a locomotive engineer,
Gerty put one of the engines together and
brought the troops into Washington.
PHYSICIANS NOTE
COOPER ON
A recent article In the New Orleans
Item gives an account of the effect upon
the medical profession of that city with
regard to L. T. Cooper's theory that the
human stomach Is responsible for most 111
health. The article is s follows:
"The astonishing sale of Cooper's prepa
ration In thla city has now reached such
Immense figures that the medical faternlty
have been forced into open discussion of
the man's theories and medicines,
"The physicians seem to be divided with
regard to the young man's success In
New Orleans aome being willing to credit
him for what, he has accomplished, while
others assert thst the Interest he has
aroused is but a passing fad that will die
out as quickly as it haa sprung up.
"In a atatemtnt recently obtained from
a well-known physician of this city, the
position of those In favor of Cooper la well
voiced. The doctor said: 'I am not a be
liever in proprietary medicine, but I must
admit that soma of tha facta recently
MERRY JINGLES.
"We must have purity In politics," ex
claimed the speaker, earnestly.
"But then we wouldn't have ' any
polltlca," remarked an old campaigner.
sriHKing his head dlsapprovlqgly. Philadel
phia ledger.
"That orator says he feels that he ran
never repay his constituents for the honor
they have conferred on him."
"Yes," answered the voter, '-"that's hla
polite way of telling us we needn't expect
much from him In the way of actual
work." Washington Star.
"Tell me," said the young woman with
literary aspirations, "how you contrived to
get your ftrat story accepted by a maga-
J The emLnent author smiled. "I owned tha
Dealer.
Mrs. Qulmby Archibald, do you know
anything about these people who are mov-
Mr. Qulmby All I know about them is
that they are people of aome consequence.
Two men have just carried In the madam's
bprlng hat. Chicago Tribune.
Farmer Barnea I've bought a barometer,
Hannah, ter tell when it's gotn' ter rain, yo
know.
Mra. Barnes To tell when It's goln ter
rsln! Why, I never heerd o' sech extrav
agance. What do ye a'poae th' good Lord
hev give ye th' rheumatic ferl i'uek.
He was a bit of a wag, and he was pilot.
'.p.g some members of a church conference
about Washington to see the sights of the
capital, Among other exhibits, he took
-them to the houses of congress.
"I fear," said one of the reverend dele
gation, after they had been In the house
aome time, "that our national Ingislatura
Is not governed by religious Influences."
"I don't know about that." answered tha
guide. "The house here ia ruled entirely;
by Cannon law." Baltimore American.
NEW LIKE.
O have you an ear, O have you an ear'
For the genial sounds of the spring of tha,
year?
O have you an eye, O have you an eye
For the springtime colors of earth and sltyl'
.. j -
O have you a heart, O have you a heart
That Is quick to respond and quick tcf
Impart, " :
When nature la dressing ' the earth anew
In the verdent hues and tha sparkling dewji
Come, come where the warm winds blow
And the wild birds sing and the fresh,
flowers grow,
Where 'mid the old leaves In the sun
warmed nooks -Are
the new-born blooms by the laughing
brooks.
Come see the flash of the bluebird's wing,
And the busy robins with twigs and string;
Feel the green turf ao aoft to your tread,
Like a rug on the rolling ground outspread.
Hear the meadow lark piping from post
or rail, ; .
And the whistling and whir of tha skltttalt
quail.
The far. soft notea of the mourning dove.
While the woodpecker drums on the 4ea4
limb above. '
There's lov-i In the south wind's tender
caress,
Touching so gently the glad. ruddy face,
Aa pure and familiar it kisses and lingers,
And plays with the hair like a baby's soft
fingers.
O have you a heart, O have you a heart ?
That la quick to respond and quick ta Ira
part.,
When Nature ia dressing the earth anew
in the verdant hues and the sparkling dew?
Omaha, -BJiRIAH F. CCXHBAN.
VIEWS OF
smvsaasaisaw r rWl t ftl ft sTif
HUMAN Muniaui.
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brought to my attention concerning this
Cooper medicine have gone far toward re
moving the prejudice 1 had formed against
them when I first heard of Cooper's aef
Ideas and medicines.
' 'Numbers of my patients whom I have
treated for chronic liver, kidney and stom
ach troubles have met me and stated that
Cooper's medicines has accomplished won
ticulsrly in caaes of stomach trouble that
the man haa relieved several rases that
were of years standing and proved' vary
obstinate to treatment. -
" '1 do not wish to aland la the way of
something that may 1 for tha public goodj .
simply through professional prejudice
and I am' Inclined to give Cooper end. hla
preperatlons credit aa - deserving to some
extent the popular demonstration that baa
been accorded theni In thla city.' "
We sell the Cooper medicines. They are
proving remaTkable surcesaful throughout
the entire 1'nlted Wtes. Beato'a) Drug xu
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