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sworn, says that the actual number of
full and complete copies of The Dally,
Morning. Evening and Sunday Be printed
during the month of July, 1908, was as
follows;
1 35,750 IT 38,400
2 38,740 18... 30,M
3 . . . 35,710 19 3,000
4... 86,100 20 30,400
35,500 21..' 36,950
6 30,400 22 35,800
1 36,830 23 30,780
f 38,030 24 35,800
9 35,980 26 35,930
10 38,400 2( 35,050
11 36,100 27 35,880
12..:.:...;. 38,100 28 35,350
13 38,090 29 38,380
14 38,330 SO 36,730
15 38,350 tl 30,160
1 36,180
Totals 1,118,460
Lws unsold and returned copies.. 8,043
Net total.., 1,109,413
Dally average 35,788
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WHEW OUT OF TOWS,
subscribers leaving; tk city tern
orartlr skvald Tk Be
ballad to them. Address will b
rsaagtd aa oftea as reqaested.
The author of "Paid In Full," by
suing for royalties, intimates that he
wasn't.
Harry Thaw haa declared 'for Bryan.
Gue88 those alienists were right about
his mental condition.
The canvass for the democratic nom
ination for congress in the Third dis
trict seems to have gotten down on a
cash basis.
Chicago Is now telling of a dog that
committed suicide. Folks may not
believeltu1 but lt' a dog gone good
story, anyway,
v'. Tuiii' im
J-
A southern paper states that im
provement is noticeable even in the
razorback hogs. Making safety razor-
backs of them?
"The United States is the ally of
England the world over," says tho
London Times. Except, of course, at
the Olympic games.
Omaha has tho advantage in one
thing of the summer resorts in the
east it gets the hot wave sooner and
gets rid of it sooner, also.
Those who want to call Mr. Taft
"Bill" should do so at once. After
March 4 next he will have to be ad
dressed as , "Mr.' President."
It Is now charged that Mr. Taft
writes poetry. While the story may
hurt him in soma sections, it ought
to cinch the Indiana vote for him.
A detailed description of the steel
garments worn by the sultan of Tur
key leads to the inference that his
valet must be an expert machinist.
"The people wrote the platform at
Denver and named the ticket," says
the Houston Post. Just another wa
of saying that Mr. Bryan is the people
Barbers in convention in New York
are quarreling about the proper styles
in whiskers. Move the question be
referred to J. Ham Lewis and J. Worth
Kern.
The Saturday Evening Post tells of
a new variety of wheat that yields 200
bushels to. the acre. That is the kind
they grow on the Chicago Board of
Trade.
The Methodists defeated the Bap
tists in a base ball game in Boston
The Baptists will now probably chal
lenge the Methodists to a game of
water polo.
A Missouri man says he dreams
very night that Mr. Bryan will land
in the White House this time. That's
been Mr. Bryan's favorite dream for a
dozen years.
"A big navy does not necessarily
make for a spirit of aggression," says
the Chicago Evening Post. No, but
It makes against a spirit of aggression
In other nations.
Our old friend, Edgar Howard, who
has been a hewer of wood and a
drawer of water for Mr. Bryan for so
many years, is likewise experiencing
a little, touch of the sting of Ingrati
tude. "A platform la binding as to what it
oniita as well aa to what it contains,"
says Mr. Bryan. Tho Denver platform
omits all reference to government
ownership of railways and the disfran
chisement of negroes, and Mr. Bryan
la apparently mighty glad of It.
t tit rorsKreir ivLiciFt.
Under the signal given by Chair
man Clayton at Denver, the democratic
spellbinders of the country are mak
ing a determined effort to convince
the public that the election of Mr .Taft
to the presidency would mean an
abandonment of the Roosevelt policies.
Mr. Clayton and his able assistants
have been insisting that the Chicago
platform was not a Roosevelt platform
and that the republicans, If they win
at the November election, will be in
position to declare that they are abid
ing by the Chicago platform and not
by the Roosevelt policies.
This democratic pretense Is on a par
with the other claims of Mr. Bryan
and his associates touching the accept
ance of money from corporations, pub
licity of campaign contributions and
other issues on which they have de
liberately, or Ignorantly, misrepre
sented the facts. The Chicago plat
form Is most clear and emphatic In
Its endorsement of the Roosevelt poli
cies. It declares that "In this, the
greatest era of American advancement,
the republican party has reached its
highest service under the leadership of
Theodore Roosevelt." The platform
specifically enumerates the Roosevelt
policies the prosecution of Illegal
trusts and monopolies, the passage of
the railway rate bill, the complete
overthrow of rebates , and discrimina
tions, the arbitration of labor disputes,
the conservation of national resources
and the entire list of achievements
which have given the Roosevelt, admin
istration a ranking place In political
history. After thus enumerating the
party's achievements under the Roose
velt administration, the platform says:
These are the achievements that will
make for Theodore Roosevelt his place In
history, but more than all elHe. the great
things he has done will be an Inspiration
for those who have yet greater things to
do. We declare our unfaltering adher
ence to the policies thus Inaugurated and
pledge thnlr continuance under a repub
lican . administration of tho government.
This platform of itself would make
It impossible for Mr. Taft, when
elected, to get away from continuance
of the Roosevelt policies, even if he
wished to do so. But Mr. Taft has
clinched the matter, in his speech of
acceptance, by declaring his unalter
able purpose of pursuing the policies
of President Roosevelt to their logical
conclusion. On this proposition there
is no ,room for dispute and democratic
misrepresentation cannot avail.
THE J UbKl!f VEClStUjSS.
A number of interior state papers
are discussing the Junkln decisions
overruling the protests against demo-
pop fusion on presidential electors
without knowing wha,t they are talk
ing about. These protests Involve
two questions of fact which, under the
Nebraska primary law, it devolved
upon the secretary of state to deter
mine. .
The first was' whether a candidate
for presidential elector, openly pledged
to the democratic nominee," could
rightfully claim to be affiliated at one
and the same time with the democratic
party and also with the people's inde
pendent party. The; objection was
that the test of party affiliation lies
not In any man's assertion for himself
or for someone else, but in his accept
ance of party principles 'enunciated by
his party's national convention and his
support of his party's national ticket.
The democrats had promulgated th3
Denver platform and nominated .Wil
liam J. Bryan for president, while the
populists had promulgated the St.
Louis platform and nominated Thomas
E. Watson for president. The only
way the Bryanites found to reconcile
this contradictory situation was by
submitting sworn testimony that the
people's independent party In Ne
braska was separate and distinct from
the national party organization and
was not bound by the action of the
party's national convention. Secre
tary of State Junkln decided that a
democrat pledged to Bryan could
legally label himself a populist In Ne
braska notwithstanding the refusal of
the populist national convention to
fuse with the democrats on their na
tional ticket.
The second Junkln decision turned
on the question whether the populists
had polled 1 per cent of the total vote
cast at the last election in the Second
congressional district. If they had
not polled 1 per cent of the vote they
were not entitled to place any candi
date on the ticket under the party
name in that district. Here the law
puts the burden of proof upon the
candidate seeking to get on the popu
list ticket, yet no evidence whatever
was offered to prove that the people's
independent party had east the requis
ite 1 per cent of the vote. On the
contrary, the Bryanites rested their
case on the assertion that there was no
way of telling whether those who
voted for the fusion candidates last
year were democrats or populists, and
that, therefore, both parties naa a
right to claim all the votes cast. 1
Mr. Junkln seems to have gone out
of his way for evidence to sustain the
Brvanltes by assuming that voters re
turned aa populists in the republican
poll of Washington county really voted
as populists and applying the same
ratio to the other counties in the dis
trict. He had sworn evidence before
him that In the cities of Omaha and
South Omaha, embracing four-fifths of
the vote of the district, only eight
voters had registered themselves as
populists. If he bad applied thU ratio
to the whole district he would have
given the populists not over a dozen
votes, and he had just as much right
to apply the ratio disclosed by the
oath-declared registration to tho whole
dlbtrkt as he had to apply the guess
work poll of Washington county to
Douglas county and to Sarpy county.
The Junkln decisions are simply ex
amples frequently found where offi
cers, in excessive zeal to make their
friends believe that they are standing
up straight, lean over backwards and
fall Into the enemy's arme. Turning
as they do upon questions of fact on
which the secretary's findings are con
clusive, they leave no opportunity for
appeal for reversal. As to their effect
upon the political statu! of Nebraska
these decisions simply give official
sanction to the fraudulent fusion of
democrats and populists and force the
republicans to beat the same political
combination again this year that they
have successfully overcome each year
for the last eight years.
THE BALTIMORE SCXS BOLT.
The swing of the Baltimore Sun, one
of the ablest democratic newspapers in
the country, to the support of Mr. Taft
for the presidency, carries a political
significance greater than the men In
dication of choice between two candi
dates for the hjghest office In the gift
of the people. It is a sure sign of
the existence among the democrats of
Maryland, a close state and one claimed
by both parties, of an anti-Bryan sen
timent that spells defeat for the Ne
braskan. It means that the Sun, which
has always been robustly democratic,
repudiates Bryan and Bryanlsm and
will use its influence for the election
of the republican national ticket.
The Baltimore Sun, nearly a century
old, has always been democratic. In
the 1896 campaign. It rejected the free
silver fallacy of the democratic plat
form and gave its support, In the early
part of the campaign, to Palmer and
Buckner, the candidates of the gold
democrats. Before the close of the
campaign, when It became apparent
that Palmer and Buckner would cut
a sorry figure In the running, the Sun
accepted Bryan, without enthusiasm, in
order to keep its record straight.
Four years later, In the 1900 cam
paign, the Sun accepted Bryan, because
the soft pedal had been put on the sil
ver plank in the democratic national
convention. In 1904, the Sun sup
ported Mr. Parker loyally. This year
It opposed the nomination of Bryan
at Denver and its influence was shown
by the fact that Maryland had one of
the few delegations in the Denver con
vention that refused to Join in the
stampede to Bryan. Since the conven
tion the Sun has been almost mute on
national affairs, but has finally yielded
to Its sense of public duty and declares
its intention to support Mr. Taft. With
deliberate judgment, evidently after
mature consideration, the Sun declares
Its belief that the "material interests
of this country would be safer for the
next four years with Mr. Taft at the
head of the government than with Mr.
Bryan."
The defection of the Sun leaves Mr.
Bryan without the support of a Balti
more dally newspaper. It is a signifi
cant and convincing indication of th'e
lack Of interest of the democratic lead
ers 6f Maryland In the fate of Mr.
Bryan., It Is known that the Sun re
flects the sentiments of thoie leaders
and the democratic congressional can
didates in Maryland, whose fate is
naturally bound up with that of Mr.
Bryan, must feel that, so far as their
party Is concerned, they have been
thrnwn nverhoard with Mr. Brvan.
Maryland has three republican and
three democratic congressman. Two
of the democratic members were
elected by pluralities of less than 1,000
and the third had a plurality, in 1906,
of 8,000. Two of the republican mem
bers had pluralities of more than 2,000
each and the third had nearly 5,000.
The Sun's opposition to Bryan should
give Maryland a solid republican dele
gation In the house.
AFTtK TUB JMBRICA CVP.
'Sympathy of the American sport
lover will lie with Sir Thomas Llpton
in his expressed desire and anxiety to
make another try for the America cup,
the symbol of international champion
ship In yachting and one of the most
coveted prizes In any range of sports
manship which has been held In this
country for many years. Sir Thomas,
game sportsman that he is, has made
three futile efforts to lift that prize
and wants to try again, if the rules of
the New York Yacht club can be modi
fied to make his entry for the contest
possible.
Sir Thomas is willing and anxious
to challenge for a race, to be held in
August of next year, bnt complains
that he is unable for love or money
to find a designer willing to build a
yacht to comply with the rules laid
down by the New York Yacht club,
which, under its possession of the
trophy, retains the right to define the
rules governing the next contest. Sir
Thomas asserts that the yachta of the
Shamrock type are mere freaks and he
does not want to build any more of
them. He asks that the rules be modi
fied to allow him to build a boat which
will sail itself across the Atlantic and
be of some service after the yacht
races are over. His request appears
to the landlubber to be entirely reason
able. The New York Yacht club should
not require the sporty Irishman to
comply with a special rule, but should
allow him every leeway in the con
struction of a yacht, under the general
rules governing yachting in America,
to the end that the result may have
its effect toward Increasing the speed
of commercial sailing vessels, one of
the objects of yachting and one that
could never be served by the use of
freak yachts.
No objection should bo raised and
no obstacle placed in the way of an
other try for the America cup. It
smacks a little of unsportsmanshlp to
find the holders of the cup making
embarrLsalng rulea. If the New York
Yacht club cannot defend the cup, in
a fair field and no favors, then the
sport-loving American will wish that
Sir Thomas, a clean sportsman and a
cheerful loser, may get It and hold It
until we can build a yacht good enough
take it away from him. Americans
nerally will have no nride in the pos
session of the cup unless It can be held
fair contest against all claimants.
Democratic demagogues will not be
ble to make any political capital out
of the increased assessment of farm
lands in Nebraska registered In the
quadrennial revaluation. Agricultural
land values In this state began coming
up immediately after the assessment
four years ago and continued upward
steadfastly. Farmers have had the
benefit of no valuations for taxation
for three years and are Just that much
to the good.
For once It looks as if our Nebraska
lawyers are agreed and that the con
stitutional amendment enlarging the
supreme court should be ratified. The
failure of this amendment the last time
it was submitted was charged up to
the lawyers who at that time wanted
to save the supreme court commission
from being put out of business.
Governor Sheldon takes the lid off
the latest paramount issue when he
says that what Bryan means is not
"Shall the people rule?" but "Shall
the democratic party rule?" Accord
ing to Mr. Bryan, only those who call
themselves democrats come within his
definition of the word "people."
Governor Haskell of Oklahoma,
treasurer of the democratic campaign
committee, has issued a bulletin ' In
which he makes it plain that Bryan
has already a certainty of carrying
more states than he will need to secure
his election. No need of any more
contributions.
Wonder which order of the Water
board Is to be paramount the order
to the water company to remove its
pipes from the streets and cease doing
business in Omaha after September 4,
or the order to continue to supply
water to its patrons, but at reduced
rates.
"My only political asset is the con
fidence the people have In my sin
cerity," said Mr. Bryan to the Chicago
Jefferson club on September 4, 1906.
Then the people must believe that he
is sincere in his advocacy of 16 to 1
and of government ownership of rail
ways. The St. Louis Republic is trying to
make political capital of the fact that
only 159,000 votes were polled for the
republican candidates in the primary
elections. As the candidates were not
opposed, the figures Indicate unusual
republican enthusiasm and interest.
The World-Herald has not yet re
tracted its charge that Secretary of
State Junkln was "a prejudiced
judge." Perhaps it meant that he
was prejudlbed In favor of the Bry
anites -'
The reserve banks have more money
than ever before and the crops are
practically up to the ten-year average.
These are the two mightiest forces
that are working lor the business up
lift. The fame of Omaha's coming Corn
show is spreading all over the country.
When Omaha took hold of this project
it had not .the faintest realization of
what a big enterprise it was acquiring.
Uncle Adlal Stevenson is a charter
member of the Illinois Old Settlers'
association, but somehow that does not
appear to be helping him much In his
race for governor.
Nw Farm of Pass.
New York Work.
The political hat passers pass the hat,
but the people pass by.
Looks that War.
St. Louis Republic.
"Shall the people rule?" is a fine query,
but is the people's rule one of those that
can bo worked both ways?
Mayor Jlm'a" Laurels.
Washington Post.
The cowboy mayor of Omaha got the bet
ter of his lady opponent in the debate on
liquor. The Judges quickly saw that he
understood what he was talking about.
Fatefal Cold Water Pace.
Pittsburg Dispatch. .
Nearly drowned at Lincoln and hit with
a brick at Springfield the prohibition can
didate must feel that misfortune comes so
swift that one treads upon another" heels.
Watch h Bt Teat.
Chicago Tribune.
Mr. Bryan was careful to inform the
notification committee that he would have
more to say at a later period. Bear In
mind, ladlea and gentlemen, that the per
formance in the main tent is not half
over.
Casting on Reatralata.
Cleveland Leader.
The country is as impatient under busi
ness depression as a patient whose restive
ness under the restraints of convalescence
show his reserve strength and great vi
tality. And In thla case the will to be
well means the power
Tap Koota of Prosperity.
Boston Transcript.
The army of harvesters Is now out in the
fields of the northwest. They begin at the
south and gradually move northward with
the ripening crops, ending the season in
the high latitudes of Canada. They bring
not only picturesqueness to western rural
scenes, but the most tangible of all evi
dences of reviving prosperity.
So Freight Advance.
Philadelphia Record.
The letter addressed by Mr. McCrea or
the Pennsylvania railroad to the Cleve
land Chamber of Commerce will afford
th business community welcome assur
ance that no, general advance !n freight
rates will be made and that no advances
at all In th immediate future are likely,
except In a few Instances where It Is be
lieved that present rates are unreason
ably low In proportion to others. In fact,
Mr. McCrea, aas that no advance In com
modity" rates has been contemplated ;
only in "class" rates have advances been
proposed, and th railway officials con
ferring on the subject have decided that
until prosperity la mors fully eatabllshed
It would bit unwise to make any advance.
fX rHCJIDEXTMl, FIR1KS I.I.MS.
Some llnmoro Kea tare of the Cam
nnlsrn tprlna Into lew.
Philadelphia Ledger rtnd.V
Americans generally understand that Mr.
Bryan has or voices great dMesta'lon fir'
the use of too much money In elect!' nt,
for millionaires and plutocrats In general
and for all those undesirable tltlzens w"io
are unfitted to come close to the people.
They will lesrn, therefore, with ;nt rs
that Chairman Norman E. Mark, In
charge of Mr. Bryan's campVgn, his
named a wholly unsympathetic f.nsnc?
committee, which Is to undertake to raise
money. The chairman Is Moses C. Wot
more of St. Louts, many times a million
aire and good sport. Colonel Wetmore Is
something of a trust himself when he
cannot sell out to advantage to an octopus.
Another member is former Senator V. A.
Clark of Montana. Ex-Senator V. E
Chandler's senatorial committee wh'ch In
vestigated the use of money In the Mon
tana legislature reported some terfeMly
shocking things about a corruption , ctm
palgn In Montana and Clark resigned from
his seat until he could secure a vindication.
The great and magnificent Tom Johnron
of Cleveland Is another Tlir.-e-Cent-Fare
Tom. owner of tractions and skilled dema
gogue. Senator Newland. rich man und
owner of the rotten pocket borough of
sage brush and alkali, Nevada, where gen
uine popular rule Is so well organized that
any man lacking from $3.MO,000 to IIO.OOO.OW)
would be foolish to attempt now t fnte.
the campaign for the senatorshlp in th?
Nevada legislature. Cam pa u of Mich gan,
another member, is rich, and Lewis Nixon
Is a little brother to capital.
Mr. Bryan Is himself a rich man, and
men entitled to be called goldbugs have
been set to work for him. Thus does time
soften the old asperities and dissipate
much of the humbug of life.
What Mack Told Bryan.
Baltimore American (rep.).
A a cheerful adviser and oitinnst.o
forecaster not even the floridly hopeful
'i in Taggart can holt', a candle to Nor
man E. Mack, who is running the Bryan
campaign committee this lime. Mr. Mack,
as a matter of plain duty, traveled out
to Lincoln, Neb., to be present at the
Bryan notification, and, very naturally,
he marie a report of the political situa
tion as he sees it to the democratic
presidential nominee. He assured Mr.
Bryan that, "Conditions as I have found
trem all point to your election to the
presidency." Getting down to details lvj
told the candidate that "Ohio, Indiana
and New York will go democratic" and
"I told Mr. bryon that I held Wisconsin
to be debatable ground." He ought to
have addej that Pennsylvania and Mas
sachusetts are in tho doubtful column
and the electoral votes of Illinois, Iowa,
Michigan and Minnesota are already Just
aa good as counted for Bryan.
The democratic chairman has undoubtedly
absorbed that ancient democratic maxim,
"When In doubt claim everything." And
the earlier in the campaign the clalmli.g
everything game Is started, tho moid
chipper and happy-minded tho candidates
and the ccmpaign captain. win be rendered
thereby. Ordinary observers who may not
be able to see the slgr.a in the air which
Mack has focused with his prophetic eye
will only have to take the seer's word for
it that the signs are tlure. Or. if they
are unwilling to do this, they will have
to wait until the returns of November
S pre all tabulated and the result an
nounced in cold flgurea. If, when fie
November ballots shall have been counted,
It shall be demonstrated that New York,
Indiuna and Ohio have not gono Oemav
cratlc, In accord with the Mack prophecy
made In the early stage of the preceding
campaign, why It will only be another
caae of history repeating itielf. In the
Bryan funereal days following the No
vember election It will doubtless be re
called that demofrat!a prophets before
Mack s day have been afflicted with pro
phetic strabismus.
Taft' Qualities.
Review of Reviews (ind.).
Not only has Taft had the training that
fl's him to be president; he has the tem
perament. It would be difficult to Imagine
a temperament better adapted than his
to this difficult task. He Is a happy half
way between McKlnley and Roosevelt,
with most of the strength and few of the
weaknesses of both. He has the training
of the lawyer, of the judge, of the ad
ministrator, of the diplomat, rfe knows
the American people, ke knows the govern
ment, he knows the affairs of the world.
He has an almost unprecedented power of
handling affaira and men. Serenity abide
with him, and patience, and Justice, and
strength, and firmness. He may never
fire the hearts of the people as Roosevelt
has; he may never be looked upon by all as
a paragon of unplcturesque goodness aa
was McKlnley. But If Taft become presi
dent, ho will get results. He will be mas
ter without tarrying a whip. He will al
ways strive, as we see he haa always
striven, to use infinite pains to get at all
the facts, to clarify them, to form slow
but sure Judgments, and then to atand by
them. At the White House, If Taft pre
sides there, will be a great calm, great
patience of listening and Investigation,
great energy of work, great good humor,
great peace.
Studied Fairness.
St. Louis Times (Ind.).
The Baltimore Sun, conservatively demo
cratic for many years, Is out for Taft.
The Sun's attitude la one of studied fair
ness. It has no serious objection to Mr.
Bryan. It makes no charges; It hints no
dark hints. Looking over the two leading
candidates it reaches the deliberate con
clusion that, all things considered, Mr.
Taft la the man of the hour. The Balti
more Sun's attitude may be taken as pos
sessing deep significance. Mr. Bryan is
popular, and he atands accused of no mis
demeanor, but at thla time, the drift Is
not his way.
( for t'ona-ratalatloa.
Kansas City Star (Ind.).
The country has reason to be well satis
fied with the presidential prospect the pro
spect that the reform pollcles.now uncjer
way will bo continued under Mr. Taft. As
for the elimination of congressional unde
sirables, that is essential no matter who
the president msy be, and that, too, is
something that the people must do for
themselves n separate states and districts
and regardless of the party attachments of
the undesirables.
Record of Achievement.
Brooklyn Kagle (Ind. dem ).
Taft U splendidly equipped for ths
presidency. His record 1 one of achieve
ment and ha will surely do no discredit
to It. If the services he has already
rendered are any criterion of what he will
do as president, h will create the con
viction that one good term deserves an
other. .
Wouldn't that Jar ea I
Kansas City Star.
Mr. Bryan seems to have a misconcep
tion of th functions of the "big atlek."
In replying to the presentation of a "big
stick" gourd. Mr. Bryan aald that if
elected president ha would never use thla
Instrument, "believing that it waa easier
to lead people through the'r lovu than tq
control them through their fears." But
the "big stick" was not Invented for the
people, but for the enemies of the people.
Fancy leading Standard Oil by lov! Tut.
tut! Mr. Bryan
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JUST OUT!
Here are the eight biggest hits
. of the New York and Chicago
Roof Gardens this summer, on
Columbia Records
I'M STARVING FOR ONE
SIGHT OF YOU
Baritone and tenor duet by Chas. K
Harris, sung by Messrs. Stanley and
Burr, aecompanieil hy orchestra.
"XP" Cylinder Record (2Bc No. S32SO
10-lnch Disc Record (HOC) No. 3S!U
I'VE TAKEN QUITE A FANCY
TU YOU
(Thso. Mors)
Baritone and soprano duet by Miss
Stevenson and Mr. Stanlev. accom
panied by orchestra. You "will take
quite a fancy" to it.
10-Inch Diac Record oc) No. 3K0J
ARE YOU SINCERE?
(Albert Qtuabls)
Duet by Mlsa Marsh and Mr. Burr
with orchestra accompaniment. A
beautiful song, .exquisitely rendered.
"BC" Cylinder Record (60c) No. 851
10-Inch Disc Record (60c) No. S'Jl'.'
MEDLEY OF POPULAR
CHORUSES
Introducing: "When It's Moonlight.
Mary Darling, 'neath the old Grape
Arbor Shade", "I'm Afraid to Cnrne
Home1 In the Dark," "There Never was.
a Girl Like You," "Monkey Land" and
"Sweetheart Days." By the Columbia
quartette.
"BC" Cylinder Record (oOel No. 51f!
12-inch Disc Record ($1.00) No. 30161)
At your dealers, or
COLUMBIA
PHONOGRAPH CO. -1621
Farnam Street.
PERSONAL NOTES.
The wl'.l of a New York man containing
only thirty words pussies the lawyers.
They can't find space for a loophole.
New York sharpers are said to have taken
1250,000 from Plttsbury cltizena by means
of cards. They might have got even more
by posing as alienists.
There are not a few people who hat Ivor
the Idea that after the Wrights, Zeppelin
and Baldwin get through, Thomas A. Edi
son will probably come forward with a real
flying machine.
Curb brokers In New York pelted som;
suffragettes with fruit peel, soap end cigar
stumps, dispelling the illusion that when
not performing their financial antics tiiesi
monkeys of the mart were civilised.
Beloved by her people is Queen Leonora
of Bulgaria, whose greatest bntvolfncs
Is In aiding the blind. 8he Intends to open
a school for the sightless, something cn
the plan of that at Bucharest, under th
direction of Queen Elisabeth.
Dr. Mary Isham of Cincinnati has been
appointed house physician to the Ohio State
Hospital for the Insane at Columbus, O.,
and Dr. Caroline A- Loomls has been ap
pointed assistant physician to the state
lunatic asylum at Austin, Tex.
Mrs. Carllne Manning was appointed
tenement house Inspector in Philadelphia
with the understanding that she was to
take the civil service examination. She
stood first of fourteen who were examined
and clinched her own appointment In this
way.
Mrs. Booker T. Washington, speaking to
the women of her race at Baltimore re
cently, told of the negro reformatory, the
result of the work of women of the Ala
bama Federated clubs. She said that If it
Is necessary for Whito women to organize
to accomplish good work It la all the more
necessary that colored women should.
l RESISTING OAnMEm
Osteons of Test I'ondocted by Mill
tatr I'hUftalu.
New York Times.
The sun's Invisible actinic rays are caus
ing a lot of trouble nowadays In the form
of "heat prostration," aay the medical au
thorities. Th heat and light rays are really
beneficial, but the short actinic ray causes
demonstrable chemical changes in the tis
sues of white persons; and to them are as
cribed th peculiar nervous affections that
afflict Caucasians In the tropics. Msjor
Woodruff of th United State army med
ical corps has written a book abou It. He
has shown that the black pigment of the
African shields him from the dangerous
rays, and that black, red and orange col
ored garments have practically the same
power to absorb their energy.
Accordingly, the military authorities at
Washington hsve decreed orange khaki unt
foima for our soldiers In the Philippines.
Thu examining board of the British Insti
tute of Hygiene and the British Colonial
office have followed suit by approving a
new fabric which, externally, may Im of
any desired color or fashion ble check, but
within which are concealed threads of non
actlnlc material. Thla fabric haa the dis
tinctive advantage of permitting the use
of white or "near-white" colors that will
shed the heat rays as well, thus making
completely for hot weather comfort. Black,
as everybody knows, is a heat conductor,
while red and orange, excepting for mili
tary uniforms, would be rather bizarre for
general use; nor Is crimson In summer un
derwear at all favored. It need not be if
the new Engliah fabric la indeed proof
against tha shaft of the Far-Darter.
Strange that persons will use worthless flavoring
extracts when natural flavors like '
1
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are to be had.
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LOVE ME JUST RECAUSE
(Jo Howard)
Mr. Tally's splendid tenor oloe
specially adapted for thli melodious
number. Orchestra accompaniment.
"XP" Cylinder Record (25c J No. a:L'S:
10-Inch Disc Record iSOe) No. S!U
TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL
GAME
(A. Yon Tllier)
Sung by Harvey Hiiidernieyer, Tenor:
with excellent and flnlnhed ertect.
Orchestra nccnmpunlmcnt.
"XP" Cylinder Record i :r.r) No. o3"!'
10-lnch Disc. R.-cord (60c) No. 3917
I'VE LOST MY HEART. HUT I
DON'T CARE
(Jo Howard)
From the Chicago success "A Stub
born Cinderella." sung: bv .la F
Harrison. Baritone. Orchestra u,-.
companlment.
"XP" Cylinder Record i2Sc) Ni. 33204
10-lnch Disc Record (60c No. 301s
I LOVE, YOU HO, FROM "THE
MEK1U WIDOW"
(Trans Lchar)
The famous waltvi song. Hung nlth
exquisite charm by Mlsj Stephenson
and Mr. Stanley accompanied Jiy the
entire Columbia Orchestra, Soprano
and Baritone Duet.
"BC" Cyllder Record (50c) No. 55164
SMILIVU LINKS.
"Shadbolt. I left my money in my other
clothes this morning, and ." V
"Otherise you would have brought It
along and paid a small part of what yju .'
owe me. Don't let that happen again.
Dingus. Good day." Chicago Tribune.
Kind Lady Look here, you are an ab
bo'dled man. Why don't you go to work?
The Hobo An' take the bread out of th
mouth of some honest woikln' man that
can't sit his livin' no other uav? Vo mm.
i in iuo
Leader.
tender hearted. Clevelan 1
"How did Jones, who Is generally uc
a truthful man. come to assert that yester
day the thermometer in bis room record d
Urn degrees in the shade?"
"1 suppose he Just fald it In thi hi'at cj
the moment." Baltimore American.
"Was his auto going tso very fart'.'"
"Your honor. It was golnt. to fat tlv.il
the bulldog on tin- ent beside him lcoked
like a dachshund." Houston Post.
Love laughed at the locksmith.
"You can't keep me out." chortled Live.
"I know every one of your compila
tions." Stung by tills taunt, they organized a
new one, and thus the first locksmith' truii
sprang Into existence. Chicago Tr.bune.
"What we need." sa,d the nianug nj
tor, "Is a good snappy book reviewer."
"Well," leplied Hie applicant's cli'ini
plon, "If you want a good, sharp, exac.lng
critic, my it lend Is Just the m.in for you. 1
He's an unrur cessful autln r." Catho.i i
Standard and Times. '
Student What would yon take to hi: th'
flower of gallantry In animals'.'
Idler I should say the dandy-lion. -Baltimore
American.
WE'LL LIFT OIR HATS TO IIRVAN,
BUT WK'LI, CAST Olll OTKS
FOR TAFT.
Once more the "foremost cltUon"
Of this, our mighty nation.
Accepts in formal state
The democratic nomination
To perpetuate his statue
On a presidential shaft
We'll lift our hats to Bryan.
But we'll cast our votes for Taft.
We're proud of our Nebraska n,
i'iv, il, f orr-fn I silver tonfiue:
May he ever dwell anions u. k
May his memory, ever young.
Go down in lust'ry's pages,
The first great man wo iniet.
That three tlmeH ran for president.
And three times met defeat.
If Brvan should be president.
He'd have, no time to make
Those speeches at chautauquas
That make officeholders quake;
We need lilin for a critic
Of administration graft.
Bo we'll lift our hais to Brvan.
And we'll cast our votes for TU.
When It comes to making speeches,
Why. we'ie all for Mr. Bran:
He's a hummer, lie s u crackerjack,
The Jungle s bigseat lion.
But when we want a president,
To pole our nation's raft.
We'll lift our hats to Bryan,
But we'll cast our votes for Taft.
For Taft lias had experience
That broadened out his vision;
lie s the ablest federal Ji,dge
That ever rendered a decision;
He ruled the Filipinos
With sueli eminent statecraft.
Tlial they lilt their hats to Bryan.
While they love the nutin; of Taft.
When he took the W ar appointment t
Tho canal at Panama
Was a doubtful speculation
With an end lliut no one saw.
He started the steam slmvele-rS
To working (lav and night.
There's no doubt ot It completion
When Taft commands the fight.
Then here's to Mr. Br) an:
l.ong mav lie hi e to b
"ri... mosi famous private citizen"
Of Ibis land of Hie free!
And here's to Taft for president,
To tiUr our nation's craft!
We ll lift our hals to Bryan,
Hut we'll cast our votes for Tsfl. t
Kh'HARD V. MARWuOD,
Clearwater. Neb.
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