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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION:
Etatu of Nebraska, Douglas County, as.:
lifurKf U Tsschuck, treasurer of The
lice publishing coiiipany, being duly sworn,
Bays that the actual number of full and
complete copies of The Dally, Morning.
Evening and Sunday Beo printed during
tho month of June, 13t. was as follows:
l.t 30,690 IS 38,490
2... 35,740 JO 38,40
3. 36,080 17 33,930
4. 35,800 18 39,110
S 36,760 1 30,460
6.. 35,830 80 35,890
7 35,900 81 36,750
8.; 35,960 88 36,480
39.910 83 36,09
10 35,970 84 38,340
11 36,360 85 36,600
18 36,080 88 36,070
13., 35,890 38 35,830
14 36,050 89 36,500
19.. 36,080 30 36,330
Totals 1,089,090
Less unsold and returned copies.. 9,677
Net total 1,079,813
DaUey average 35,877
' GEO ROE B. TZSCMUCK,
Treasurer.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before ma this 1st dav of July. 190R.
M. P. WALKER,
Notary l'ubllc.
WHEW OtTT OP TOWIf.
Subscribers lea Tin the) city torn
porarilr ekoald bar Tha On
walled la them. Address will ba
chanced aa often aa requested.
Irrigation projects In Nebraska are
to be classed this year with watered
stock.
Tho anti-injunction plank a,t Denver
Is being made of some very knotty ma
terial. Mrs. I. Begin of Tacoma has been
granted her fifth divorce and is ready
to begin again.
It will bo noticed that Mr. Bryan Is
not worrying so much Just now about
the republican platform.
With the Fourth In the past, It Is in
order to begin planning to do your
Christmas shopping early.
Joel Chandler Harris is dead, but
"Uncle Remus" will live as long as
children love good Btorles.
It does not matter much whether
Betsy Ross or someone else made the
flag. It is a ;rood one and still waves.
The crar und the Duma have agreed
to spend $64,000,000 for the Improve
ment of the Russian army. It needs it.
Prominent democrats will have only
another day or two to decline some
thing that has not been offered to
Ihem.
Champ Clark is in favor of the im
mediate annexation of Canada. Champ
ought to hurry to Denver and launch
lis new issue.
Japan has shown Its kindness again
by deciding to allow the Chinese to
build a railroad with Chinese money
on Chinese soil.
Commander Peary says he is "Just
is confident as ever" of his ability to
reach the north pole, but does not say
bow confident that Is.
July 28 has been fixed as the date
for breaking to Mr. Taft the news that
he was nominated for president In
Chicago last month.
There is one redeeming feature
about these sermons and speeches that
are being circulated by the phonograph
route. You can shut off a phono
graph.
Sir Thomas Lipton announces that
he is going to make another effort to
capture the America cup. Sir Thomaa
Is the regular W. J. Bryan of yacht
racers.
James J. Hill has given up his
Paris house, because his family does
not care to live in Europe. It Is sus
pec ted that Mr. HlU's money is also
homesick.
A Cleveland man offered to sell one
of his fingers for $300. Too much
when three fingers can be bought for
15 cents, except on Sunday and after
midnight.
Proceedings have been commenced
against au alleged Laundry trust In
St. Louis. The case should be heard
by the Judge who has the divorce
docket, aa he is familiar with tho
methods of airing dirty linen In court
According to Bradstreet'a. most of
the cities of the country are getting
back to the "Increase" column In the
report of weekly bank clearings
Oinaba la the one city In the country
that has been, in. that column right
alo&f,
OUR At IK PLEDGED STATESMAN.
If making two blades of grans grow
where but one grew before la to bo re
garded as a human benefaction, what
Is to be said of making two statesmen
stand where but one stood before?
The democracy of Nebraska used to
recognize but one overtowering leader,
but, lo and behold, a second new
fledged statesman has suddenly blos
somed forth to divide the effulgent
glory.
While Bryan may be the astral cen
ter of the democratic constellation at
Lincoln, at Denver tho sun, moon and
stars are rising and setting and pursu
ing their orbits at the beck and call of
Mayor Jim.
Would anyone know who should
preside over the deliberations of the
coming convention aa temporary chair
man or permanent chairman, it is
Mayor Jim who carries the message to
Garcia.
Does anyone inquire what kind of
an anti-injunction plank the platform
will contain, it is to Mayor Jim that he
Is referred as tho fountain head of in
formation and Inspiration.
If Judge Parker wants, to Introduce
his proposed resolution of tribute to
Grover Cleveland he will first have to
secure Mayor Jim's permission.
No one, as yet, knows who is to have
second placo as running mate with Mr.
Bryan, but the edict will be issued in
due time, as soon as Mayor Jim Is
ready to take the convention delegates
into his confidence.
Our own Mayor Jim is on the ground
as the specially appointed confidential
commissioner of Mr. Bryan. For the
coming democratic candidate he will
organize the convention, promulgate
the platform, ratify the nominations,
record the adjournment and stand
ready to receive all the $15,000 con
tributions to the campaign Jackpot
which the Wall street gang may be
willing to chip In.
Great is Bryan, and Mayor Jim is
his prophet. Let all good Nebraska
democrats fall down on their knees
and salaam.
THE OLYMPIAN GAME.
All nations which cultivate physical
courage, endurance, brawn and skill in
athletics are particularly interested
Just now in the Olympic games soon
to be held in London. American ath
letes have carried off most of the
honors In each of the Olymplaaa tjaua
far held, and the team we are sending
to England this year is expected again
to bring back the championship of
the world, although several of the
American representatives have been 111
and the team is not up to the desired
standard on that account.
The old world experienced some
thing of a shock when the Americans
captured the honors at the first
Olympian games. The British sports
men, and athletes particularly, held
the opinion that their contestants were
certain to make a clean sweep. They
figured that British blood would tell
and that the long years of training In
the British universities had developed
invlncibles in the athletic fields. They
did not believe It possible that a
money-chasing people like the Amerl
cans had ever found time to foster the
love of physical beauty, strength, cour
age and athletic skill that distin
guished the old Greeks and mode the
Olympian games In ancient times the
classic athletic contests of the world
The groundlessness of this mistaken
assumption was discovered when the
contests were held and American ath
letes took nearly every prUo in. sight.
Since then the American athlete has
had high standing in the respect of the
lovers of outdoor sports throughout
the world. If the Americans can not
capture the honors this year, the win
ners will know that they have beaten
world beaters.
COPPER AND CARTOONIST.
The police chiefs of the country,
through a resolution adopted at the
recent annual convention of their na
tional association, have made a merito
rious, If futile, protest against the lib
erties taken by actors and cartoonists
with the humble policeman. The reso
lution denounces the caricaturing of
policemen on the stage or in the pub
lic prints as calculated to work injury
In the public mind and to interfere
with the proper discharge of police du
ties.
While thinking people will cordially
Join in a demand for more tender
treatment of the policemen, 1t la doubt
ful If the fulmluation of the chiefs will
have the desired result. Tho custom
of poking fun at the copper Is of long
standing. Some of the alleged funny
papers would be dull and atule if they
failed to picture the policeman flirting
with the cook or getting a flue meal
passed to him at the kitchen window
while the burglars are carrying the
silver out the front door. The surest
sign of the heated season la the picture
of the fly copper taking a glass of
foaming lager at the side entrauco
while the sergeant's back is turned
Then there is the sketch of the 200-
pound officer in blue making glorious
capture of the small urchin who has
pinched an apple from the fruit stand
The companion piece to this is the
policeman sleeping soundly ' in
shaded corner of the park while high
waymen are holding up pedestrians
and relieving them of their valuables
All this, of course, is pictorial libel
because in real life the average police
o finer has a keen appreciation of his
obligations as the preserver of the
peace and as the foe of crooks and
criminals. To an exceptional degree
policemen are honest, hardworking
and efficient. It may be, as charged
by the chiefs, that the caricaturing of
the copper by vaudeville actora and
cartoonists tends to injure the pollee-
man'a standing and his wotk, but It
will probably go on. The policeman
Is the natural enemy of the small boy
In the boy's mind -and larger boys
enjoy his discomfiture and revel In his
undoing. This does not imply disre
spect for the law nor personal objec
tion to its agents, but simply manifests
one form of American humor. The hit
at the copper may be an stale as the
stage Irishman with the pink whiskers,
the German monologlst with double
bay windows, the mother-in-law Joke
and a score of others of the old
familiar brand over which our grand
fathers laughed, but it still hangs on
and it will take more than a resolution
by the police chiefs to produce a new
line of Jokes.
SINGLK-IIEADED CITY V O XE R Nil EN T.
Just as new experiments with the
commission form of municipal govern
ment are attracting attention a move
ment is on foot in Washington, where
he commission plam has been In effect
for many years, to get back to a single
headed city administration. The sug
gestion of a one-man executive for the
nation's capital city has the endorse
ment of President Roosevelt and
seems, likewise, to be growing in favor
with the people of Washington who
will be most directly affected.
The Washington Post has been gath
ering opinions from mayors of dif
ferent American cities, many of whom
have responded and none of whom, it
says, undertakes to defend the division
of responsibility system.
Mayor Brand Whitlock of Toledo,
elected as an Independent on a repub
lican platform, declares:
Certainly, I think It would be better for
the District of Columbia to be governed
by one executive head rather than by a
three-headed commission. t'nder the
board plan, or under any adaptation of It,
such as the commission plan, responsibil
ity is distributed and hence the people do
not know whom to blame for what goes
wrong. The board plan was got up by
politicians' and for politicians, and it can
be operated successfully only with a ma
chine and a boss. The bane of this sys
tem Is that the boss never holds office
himself, and the people cannot get at
him. Under the federal plan, If there la
a boss he la the people's boss, and they
can remove him when they get tired of
him.
Former Mayor Cutler of Rochester
takes this position:
My experience lends me to believe that
for any executive function a single head
much better than a board or a com
mission.
Mayor Speer of Denver expresses
himself tersely:
I believe In one executive head for city
government. Divided responsibility has
not) proved satisfactory to our people.
Mayor Malone of Memphis has a
similar response:
My experience as mayor leads me to
believe that a city government is no ex
ception to the rule that every large In
stitution should have one responsible
head.
These expressions, which are In the
nature of expert testimony, are at
least worth considering in connection
with the arguments advanced by the
advocates of commission government
for cities.
THE CONVENTION M10W.
One hundred thousand people trav
eled varying distances from all parts
of the United States to be present as
spectators at tho Chicago convention.
Nearly as many will make the Jouruey
to Denver to look in on the democratic
national convention at work building
its ticket and platform. Personal in
terest in the aspiring candidates, or
private concern in the questions at
Issue, or mere love of the political
game played on a large scale will ex
plain part of fhe drawing power of a
great nominating convention, but not
all of it. Another factor must bo reck
oned with, and not as the least, and
that is the perfection of the convention
as a spectacular show.
The making of a presidential ticket
brings together the leaders of the party
the men people read about who
command the public eye. On no other
occasion do they get together where
they are exposed to open view in such
numbers and with such contrasts. So
far as actual proceedings are concerned
a national convention Is simply a
gigantic enlargement of the Btate con
ventions, and district conventions, and
county conventions, with which most
people are fairly familiar, but by this
very enlargement a spectacularlsm is
added nowhere else to be found.
Twelve to fifteen thousani people in
one huge hall, changing from inert list
lessnegs to excited frenzy amidst un
quellablo uproar constitute a spectacle
peculiar to American politics. At
every big convention there is talk of
clearing the galleries and making the
meeting a tamely deliberative session,
restricted to the delegates and neces
sary attendants, yet the fact is that the
participation of the spectators is an
integral part of the convention insti
tution and without the onlookers It
would be hardly recognizable as a
convention.
The big national conventions of the
powerful political parties may undergo
further changes and may even give
way to an entirely different piece of
machinery, but in the present form the
show feature is all conspicuous and Its
Importance Is not to be underesti
mated. JJlfc PHYSICIAN IK POLITICS.
At the recent meeting of the Amer
ican Medical association one of the
leading physicians of the country made
an appeal to his fellow practitioners
to "get Into politics" for the special
purpose of securing better laws gov
erning the practice of medicine and for
various reforms in sanitation and dis
ease prevention. He urged that these
reforms would be slow of accomplish
ment If left to laymen, as most of the
legislation desired deals with technical
subjects and that the lay minds are
not easily convinced of their import
ance nor the public prepared for legis
lation which physicians may consider
absolutely essential to the public welfare.
The physician should be welcomed
Into active participation In politics, al
though not for the specific reasons
thus urged. That argument, carried
to its logical conclusion, would de
mand the presence of school teachers,
plumbers, architects, railroad men,
merchants and special representatives
of every calling In our legislatures In
order to procure proposed reforms on
which they claim to have expert knowl
edge. The need In politics and official
life Is not so much for experts In spe
cial lines as for men who possess
good Intelligence, firm Integrity and
sound Judgment and have a keen ap
preciation of public needs. Of the
professional men, the physician should
be well equipped for a study of the
actual, living needs of the people. He
is the daily visitor to the homes of all
classes of citizens. He is often their
confidant and has many opportunities
to learn public sentiment. The physi
cian may exert a great and wholesome
influence in politics and public life if
he uses the knowledge gained In his
practice, not merely in behalf of medi
cal and sanitary reforms, but in use
ful advocacy of reforms of all kinds.
What has become of all those state
forestry commissions which the gov
ernors attending the Natural Re
sources Conference at Washington
promised to appoint as soon as they
got home? Can it be that after they
returned they discovered that they
would first have to get legislative au
thority to redeem their promise?
Judge Prentiss of Illinois has Just
declared at a banquet at Lincoln that
Roger Sullivan and his delegates from
Illinois had been elected by fraud and
corruption. That is what Mr. Bryan
said about Roger Sullivan and his
delegates at St. Louis in 1904.
Some of the democratic papers In
the east are promising to bolt the
ticket to be named at Denver, but it Is
believed tho Commoner wtll give the
candidates its cordial support.
A western Judge has decided that
Adam and Eve were married by a
common law ceremony. perhaps.
Anyway, there is an absence of wit
nesses to prove the contrary
Mr. Hearst may as well understand
now that If his candidate for the presi
dency of the United States is defeated
in November he need not expect to get
a recount of the ballots.
Senator Stone of Missouri has de
clined to meet Governor Folk in a
Joint debate. Senator Stone has a
reputation for being light-footed, but
he is not light-headed.
Oklahoma's blind statesman, Sen
ator Gore, win have no opposition In
his own party to his re-election. . He
can read his title clear to another six
years in Washington.
"Mr. Cleveland had no military
record," says the Detroit Free Press,
which apparently forgets the long war
Mr. Cleveland conducted against his
own congress.
The National Educational associa
tion proposes to encourage spelling
contests between different cities.
They will do more good than spellbind
ing contests.
Caleb Powers Is apparently not as
anxious for his liberty as he was be
fore Governor Willson pardoned him.
He is going to be married.
Perish the Thought.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
It Is strongly rumored that Mr. Bryan's
nomination will be followed by an editorial
Indorsement In the Commoner.
Holiday Slauatater.
St. Louis Times.
More Americans nave been killed and in
jured up to date in celebrating Independ
ence day than were killed and Injured in
the actual task of achieving Independence.
Marvels of Burster?.
Chicago Post.
Another lacerated heart has had two
s'.ltches taken In It by the surgeon. These
scientific marvels are going to have an
effect on susceptible Juries at future
breach of promise trials.
I.r isons of Experience.
St. Louis Republic.
If there Isn't another car shortage this
year, after the big crops are ripe, it wll!
be because the traffic manugers have
learned from last year's experience soma
new tricks for keeping the loaded cars
moving.
Western Cheer for Kaatern Pessimists.
Boston Trunscrlpt.
The senior vice president of the New
York Central, who has been on a tour of
observation through the west, thinks "this
year's crops will mean more dollars to the
farmers and more tons of freight to tho
railroads" than ever before.
Gratefulness of Hepublles.
St. Louis Times.
The country will never object to the
pensioning of Its presidential widows. The
man who Is elected to the chief magistracy
of the land ahoud never feel it necessary
to give thought to the puerilities of mere
livelihood in ccntemplatlng his own future
or that of his dependent closo kinsmen.
A ovl Kinrrirnrt,
Boston Transcript.
The four hundredth annlversay of any
event on the soli of the United States will
be a novel experience for this country, but
that is what the Porto Illcans purpose to
give us on the twelfth of August In com
memoratlon of the launching of that Island
Into the world's history by Ponce de Le n.
The peaceful conquest of that attractive
possession nearly ten years ugn by General
Miles may also be Includrd in the memorial
exercises, as the United States will be
asked to send a de'i-gate to ti e ceremonies
It will bo a four days' program, observe!
not only In Ponce and Sail Juan, but
In all the towns of any size. The island
probably has now over a million of popu
lation. Business Is improving. education
Is becoming more general and if the Porto
Rlcans are not self-governing they are
nearer to It than they ever were before,
a fact which they, stem to acknowledge
and appreclal
Et I LAR SHOTS AT TUB rt LPIT.
Washington Tost: JTophrt Elijah Howies
estate, when settled up, was found to con
sist of only 11.3m That wit! hardly last till
the expiration of the 1.0 years to elapse
before he returns.
Chicago News: When the minister on go
ing away for the summer leaves a supply
of sermons on phonograph records the
members of the congregation may send tin
funnels to listen to them.
Cleveland Leader: That Boston clergy
man who says that the old-fashioned,
spooning courtship has gone out of style
ought to come out and ride some evening
on one of our dimly lighted suburban cars
before he says that again.
Philadelphia Ledger: A Trenton minister
who considered disgraceful the spectacle of
two girls In bloomers taking exercise under
the direction of their father has been tin
panned out of town by Indignant misses.
He was too disturbed In his good mind to
notice whether these wore bloomers or not.
New Tork Tribune: The Massachusetts
bishop who has ordered collections In a
Worcester church to be taken by the cash
register system evidently is not afraid that
this businesslike Innovation will lead to
others, such as trading stamps, bargain
days and "satisfaction guaranteed or money
refunded."
PEHSOSAl, AXD OTHERWISE.
Oood morning! Have you swabbed that
burn?
Johnny got his gun all right. Did the
gun get Johnny?
The Chicago woman who fasted for forty
days must have saved enough on her meat
bill alone to pay the undertaker.
Affairs will presently Luke Wright on
the RJo Grande. The new secretary of war
has ordered troops to that section.
The sixty-two-story building which Is
projected In New York wtll probably serve
as a hitching post for aerial navigators.
The proposed autobiography of John D.
Rockefeller will not contain aij Introduc
tory note from the ptn of Miss Ida Tar-
bell.
Although Caleb Powers has bepn out of
a Kentucky prison only a few weeks, he Is
reported to be on marriage bent. Oh,
Liberty, how fickle thy charms!
marriage to a young woman with a record
of five divorces. What becomes of the
constitutional provision guaranteeing "the
pursuit of happiness," with variations?
Anticipating a rush of campaign putriots
this fall, a Cincinnati councilman wants
tho city to establish a home where respect
able visitors might sleep off "that tired
feeling" without publicity.
Carping critics turned their barbs on the
Omaha Judge who enjoined a woman from
talking over the back fence. How insigni
ficant his dictum appears in contrast with
that of a Minnesota judge who forbids re-
To keep the muzzle on the mouth of the
convicted Cashier Montgomery of the col
lapsed political bank of Allegheny, Pa., the
assistant looters of the Institution are
skurrylng for about 12,000,000 with which to
pay tho depositors. The prlco of alienee
comes high, but the PennsylvarJa grafters
must liavo It.
Dr. James P. Rymer, an English sur
geon, who has practiced his profession In
England, the United States and Canada,
has set out from Edmonton for Fort Oood
Hope, 1,800 miles to tho north, with the
idea of permanently practicing his profes
sion among Eskimos and Indians. He does
not Intend to return to civilization for at
least three years, and then only for a
brief visit.
Editor Lummls of Out West heads a
crusade for reform In the pronunciation of
Los Angeles. "Every self-respecting per
son," he says, "with the fear of God and
love of California before his eyes," should
pronounce It Loce Ang-el-ess, as this local
Jingle explains:
The lady would remind you, please,
Her name Is not
Lost Angle Lees,
Nor Angle anything whatever.
She hopes her friends will be so clever
To share her fit historic pride
The "g" shall not be Jellified.
"O" long, "g" hard, and rhyme with "yes,"
And all about
Loce Ang-el-ess.
M1IAT IS A SAXE SUNDAY?
Judicial Interpretation of Sabbath
Observance.
New York World.
Justice Gaynor's decision in a Sunday ob
servance case brought up from special ses
sions was Important, not because It may
Set a moving picture manager free, but be
cause of its iinn declarations on the Issue
of "the still Sabbath."
The Justice, writing the majority opinion
of the appellate division In Brooklyn, con
sidered the idea of a legislative Intent so
to stop "what Is called desecration of the
Christimi Sabbath" as to prevent the courts
from spttlng bounds to the statute. Bald he:
When It Is considered that nowhere out
side of the British isles haa the Old Testa
ment notion of a still Sabbath ever existed
In the Christian world. It Is Impossible to
attribute to the aggregate Chrlstlon mind,
as rather fuirly represented In our legisla
ture, with such a vsrled national lineage
In Its membership, any such purpose.
Christians of no nation, church or sect
ever enlertained the Old Testament notion
of a still Sabbath, but favored and prac
ticed Innocent and healthy exercises and
amusements after church on Sunday. John
Knox visited John Calvin on a Sunday
afternoon St Geneva and found him out
back at a game of bowls on the green.
The principle approved by the court Is
that of a Sunday which, like all other days.
Is made for all men. It Is not for a part
of the community a minority, In fact to
enforce upon the whole community Its
strictest, narnwest conception of how far
the conduct orderly on six-sevenths of the
week shall bo considered disorderly on the
other seventh. There Is much need of a
legislative Intent to make this point per
fectly plain In law.
WHY IIIRE1 A I'HKACIIEBT
Canned Sermons FoIIott Canned Masle
In Churches.
Springfield (Mrfss.) Republican.
Canned sermons are to be the fashion In
Chicago this summer during the vacation
season. Among those who favor the use of
the phonograph Is Rev. Jenkln Lloyd
Jones, pastor of All Souls' church, who is
ready to furnish "records" of his sermons
to any church of any denomination which
wants them. He says: "A raster who
wishes to take a vacation during the ex
treme heated spell of July and August can
regale his congregation with these sermon.-,,
and I'll guarantee they will be Interest
ing." Certainly the innovation la interest
ing. The up-to-date twentieth crr.tury
church, equipped with canned sermons and
(nnned music, will only need to lay In
some praying machines fitted with electric
motors to reach a state of automatic per
fection. But have the preachers fullv con
sidered the consequences which might fol
low this innovation they have so light
heartedly taken up? It is all very well to
have an automatic substitute through the
hot months. But suipse the machine
proves more eloquent than the man? Why
should a church pay $3.0(0 a year for ex
cellent but wooden senuors when It can
listen to grea' pulpit orators for a trifling
sum? We may yet see the preaching for
the whole country done by a half-dozen
silver-tongued speakers, constituting the
canned sermon trust, and undertaking to
supply any brand of doctrine that may be
called tor. with a sideline In funeral and
wedding services. Any deacon can turn tha
handle, and the line of goods can b ex
changed It not satisfactory,
FREAK I.RTTRRS IN TAFT MAIL
Girls Ask for His Thin Lock, Babies
Earned After Illm.
Philadelphia North American.
Sjcretary Taft's mall has always been a
heavy one, and his assistants ara probably
the busiest men In Weshhlgton at all times,
but for the last month his correspondence
has multiplied erxirniously and Ihe type
writers In his private office In the War de
partment rattle like. an automatic gun In
action.
Women Inquire If he drinks or smokes,
and many suggest weight reducers. He
Is constantly petitioned for autographs,
and writes them till he Is In danger of
pen paralysis. Some letters are sollctous
as to his health, others ask appointments,
but all show that be Is recognized as a
big and sympathetic man.
Even tho baby naming has begun. His
first name, William, coupled with the
Howard, has already been used to dis
tinguish half a dozen children from their
less fortunate relatives. Several have
been named Wlllam Taft. and there
promises to be an unprecedented crop of
"Bills," In the next rising generation, but
a few years after the army of "Theo
dores" has grown up.
One mother, however, who has a soft
spot In her heart for the secretary, hesi
tated to name her boy after him. be
cause she fenrs the Taft part would be
vernaenlarlzed into "Taffy." and she
hates nicknames. In her uncertainty she
wrote the following letter:
"My baby Is Just 2 weeks old, and we
want to name him afier you. William
Taft , but we are Just a little bit afraid
to do It. If we do so, the boys might get
to calling him 'Taffy,' which Is a good
nickname as nicknames go; but we detest
them all. When you were a boy were you
railed "Taffy1? If not, we will have him
christened Immediately. We will call him
Wlillam Howard If they culled you
'Taffy.'
The secretary's reply la not recorded but
It Is safe to say that the little Maryland
boy will be called WIHlHm Tuft, for In
stead of being called "Taffy," the reere
tary was always called plain "Bill."
The prize proposition thus far, how
ever, comes from a young woman's semi
nary up in New York state, where a girls'
club Indites tho following request, prop
erly signed by the president and counter
signed by the secretary.
"Won't you do something for us? Wa
girls have formed a Taft club, and we are
going to work awfully hard for you. We
are not going to ask you for your auto
graph or your picture, but . Just a little
lock of yoor hair for us to treasure and
keep In our clubroom ns a memento."
If the hair went back by return mall
the secretary Is more generous than are
most men of his age, and, although he
still finds it unnecessary to attempt the
Fairbanks wave, he, nevertheless, realizes
that every lock counts.
He hears frequently from Yale men of
all descriptions, each pledging undying
support. One letter reads:
"I am of the class of '99, and nm a
Bryan democrat, as are my father and my
four brothers, but we are all going to vote
for you in November, and six votes in
Kentucky count."
NEBRASKA AS AN OBJECT LESSOR.
Thlnsra the Peerless One Flouted Have
Coma to Pass.
Cleveland Leader.
One of the most remarkable advances In
the general level of land values which
has been recorded In recent years has
taken place in oentral Nebraska, which Is
Bryan's country. The average rise In the
market price in the last seven or eight
years Is stated at about 100 per cent. In
many Instances It has been 200 per cent or
more. Farms not well located, and hence
at the bottom of the market, sell for fio
to 120 an acre, instead of t4 to M an acre
ten years ago. The best farm land has
brought 100 an acre. In exceptional In
stances. The noteworthy feature of this situation
Is the utter defiance of economic laws, as
laid down by Bryan. The things which
have happened are precisely those which
he said could never take place without
"the free and unlimited colnago of silver
at the ratio of sixteen to one, without
waltintf for the aid or consent of any other
nation," etc. Mr. Bryan has been mocked
by events and flouted by the development
of his own state. Everything has gone
wrong with him. as a prophet. Ho has
been stranded on the shore of a Dead Sea
of withered predictions and blighted
theories.
Such conditions are enough to put any
campaign in mourning at the outset. They
make the Bryan fight a dismal affair be
fore It begins.
Knocking on (he Wrsther,
Pittsburg Uazette.
The, citizen who comes around mopping
his face with a damp handkerchief and
between puffs that are painful telle you
how unmercifully hot It Is, ought to go to
Jail. The chances are that tho man to
whom he mentions the weather was ftlrly
comfortable a minute before the hot man
transmitted the suggestion of excessive
heat, but at once he feels like a wilted
cabbage leaf. Why don't people keep
their hot weather thoughts to themselves?
Possibly because misery loves company.
It is fine to ask and answer your own
questions one can't Quarrel with himself,
you know.
Best Brand of I.ibrrty.
St. Louis Republic.
Governor Magoon says there Isn't n s'ngl;
case of yellow fever in tho Island of Cubi.
That Is the kind of liberty that the natives
need the most.
The Great Teacher is the
Apollo Piano
Time was when the average family
was either virtually without the refining
influence of music or had to depend upon
the mediocre playing and limited repertory
of some member of the family who had
taken lessons. Thus it was that the appre
ciative delight of music was starved in
man) a potential musician.
Now all 1b changed. The Apollo
brlugs to the home the immeasurable
wealth of the world's treasure house of
mu&ic. No one need be dependant upon
others for musical treats.
The best part about the Apollo is that
those who do not know a note can play the
music of the masters. More than that, the musically untaught often excel edu
tated musicians In plnylng the Apollo, for the n'ui-.ou that quality in piano play
Ing depends altogether upon musical ftellng and apprclation, and not at all
upon the ability to read notes. For the children growing up, the Apollo fb
great teacher, as well as a means of amusement. It is a friend Indeed to tha
hostess, for it Is the king of entertainers. As a health giving meauB of recreus
tkm for the business man it is commended by noted doctors.
Kemember that no Piano Flayer gives such scope for musical expression
as the Apollo.
You will find it easy to play and easy to buy. Call today and see about
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SKFIMO BOlI.Bn DOWlf.
Publlme victories ar first won In com
monp'.ace days.
The worst thing about any evil J1 '
Its frullfulness.
Conscience Is tlie answer of my life to
the light I have.
The only way lo u.e a great opportunity
Is to serve It.
The life has left any truth when It needs
lsws to defend It.
The ruin of gold makes the golden rula
seem s;idly unreal.
Tho pessimist kills all hope because hap
piness Irritates him.
Living a double life is killing each half of
llf. with the other.
The cunl ulum cf character may often In
volve painful c'rcumstanccs.
He Is never worth thinking much about
who thinks most of himself.
Tho eye single to the main chance always
misses the great opportunity.
The best way to cure the fear ot man
is to lose the love of mammon.
There is only one way to the hearts ot
men, it Is the way ot your own heart.
He who expands his house needs to have
a enro not to contract his heart.
A resolution to go to heaven will not help
you much If you get on the wrong train.
It's a difficult thing to lift up the man
who is down while you're trying to win a
smile from the mnn who put him there.
Many a mnn who prides himself on being
a law abiding person would be surprised ta
ice himself In the light of tha law of love,-
Chicago Tribune.
DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES.
"I hear Mrs. Straltlace la opposed to al
sorts of society functions and entertain
She is-. She Is that narrow-minded that
she wouldn't even entertain an idea. ' 4
Baltimore American.
"But. George, dear, how can we pos.
slbly live? Your Income won't more than,
half support us."
"O. ves. it will. After we are married,
pet, I "won't have to bring you any mors,
hot house flowers, you know." Chlca
Tribune.
"A man lives and learns," remarked
the husband with some bltternesn.
"Well, the school of experience doesn't
bar co-eds," retorted his wife. LoulJvllle
Courier-Journal.
Mrs. KJones Did Mrs. Psmlth wear
her new ball gown?
Mr. KJones Really, I didn't notice what
she had on.
Mrs. KJones Ah, that was it. then. I
heard that It was hardly noticeable.
Cleveland Leader.
"Ethel, you should not monopolize all
the conversation."
"When will I be old enough to, mam
ma?" Y'onkers Statesman.
"What alls me, doctor, Is that I have
been burning too much midnight oil."
"Not at all, my young friend. It'a a
candle you are using, and you have been
burning It at both ends. Chicago Tribune,
"You haven't many pianos here In the
poorer quarter of the city, have you?"
"No, and you haven't many hlgn chairs
In tho social cenler, have you?" Houston
Post.
t
"Truth," sententlously remarked tha press
Sgent, who had just proffered a "true Story
Oat really happened," "lies at tha bottom
of a well."
"Yes," drearily remarked the dramatlo
editor, "and It Is one of the things which
hot air can't raise from there." Baltimore
American.
"I am so sorry you are not Interested
in these aerial flight problems, Mr. Simp
kins," sighed the Sweet Young Thing to
the Interminable Bore.
"Why?" asked the latter, a little mysti
fied. "Because I should so love to tea yoti
fly." Philadelphia Press.
"How do you manage to get so mucl
or your way in your ramtiy?
"Very simple, I assure you. When tn
wife and I differ, I find out beforelianl
what she wants and then order ner to dt
that way. - Naturally, alia doe tilne."-J
Baltimore American.
"Never marry a man to reform him, m
dear," counseled Aunt Hephzlbah. "If yo
do reform him he'll hate you for It, anc
If you don't you'll always be pitying yourj
self for having married a man who wasn't
good enough for you." Chicago Trlbun
Mrs. Avenue My good woman. It would
give us great pleasure to help to broad eg
your life. Do you believe In the club foi
women?
Mrs. Tenement Sure, mam, the old roll
Ing pl. i-i easier to handle and jet ai
good. Philadelphia Press.
TIIIS MORNING AFTRR.
W. P. Nesblt.
'TIs tho last red firecracker
Left lying alone;
All Its former companions
Are bursted and gone.
Not one of Its kindred
Nor loved one Is nigh
To observe Its last sputter
Or hoar Its last sigh.
It lies on the sidewalk
But none takes it up
Little Willie has wandered
Downtown with the pup
To Inquire of the doctor
If dogs prow new tails.
For a hunch of firecrackers
Filled puppy with walls.
Uncle Thomas Is resting
Upstnlr.i on a cot
He must Iny on his stomach,
HI'; hack Is so hot;
Pocr olsl grandpa Is moaning
lit grizzled d"spalr,
For a wayward skyrocket
Took his beard and hair.
Papa has his head bandaged
In coverings neat.
And a surgeon is fixing
Tho burns on his feet;
Mamma thinks she'll recover
The use of her arms.
Though the redflre that burned them
Caused eight fire alarms.
'TIs the last red firecracker
Where It was flung down
El" the mantle of silence
Fell over the town;
There's no one to explode It;
It lls where It fell
And must wait for Ignition
Till someone gets well.
1513 Dougla St.
York, Neb.;, Council Blutta, La.
