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THE OMAHA DAILY BKE: FRIDAY. At'Ot'ST 28. 190?. The Omaha Daily DEt rouNDKij nv tow ..:.: F.osiiw.UEn. victor ;;u3iiV.AiF.;i. koi.-ur. Enteied it iT,h4 f jsi;rr:cu J sjcor.d class matter." tes.ms "of iLH3enirri').v. rlly Be'wihnut Sunday). nn year. .$4 w Dally Bee nd Sunday, oni year.- 0 DELIVERED BT VARR1LR. Dally Be tlnrludlr.g Sunday), per wck..U4 Iily Be (without Sunday), tei wek...Ko Evening Bee (without Suniayi. per wi-ek ' i Evening Rr (with Sunday, per week... l'V Sunday B. on year ! W Saturday Be, en yr I f Address all romplalnta of irregularities 'jl delivery to City circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha Ths Be Bunding. Aoum Omaha City Hall Building. Council Bluff It Scott 8treet. Chicago M Marquette Building. New York Room 1101-11(2, .Su. 31 Weal Thlrty-thlrd Street. Washington 725 Fourteenth Street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communotatlona relating to new and editorial matter ahould r addressed; Omaha Be, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Rmlt by draft, xpre or postal order payabi to The Be Publishing Company Only a-cnt stamps received In payment of mall account. Personal checka. except on Omaha, r eastern exchange, not accepted. STATEMENT OF ClflCULATION. Ptat of Nebraska, Douglaa County. : Oeorg B. Tiechuck, treasurer of The Be Publishing company, being duly iwern. 7 that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally. Morning, Evening and Sunday Be prlntad urlng th month of July, 1908, was a follows: 1. ......... SA.T80 II.TM i I M,710 4.......... BS400 ... SMOO ...irt..(... SB.MO .. S,030 M.MW . 10 400 ii.......... snot-. i c,ioo i M,oao 14.......... 3X30 i. ......... gg50 iti se,oo tl 3,50 it 3,ooo SO. 1S.4O0 II IS.S50 u sa,aoo II '. SB.7M SS.SOO S.SS4 SS.SSO 15,860 85,800 It SSAM SO tl 80,150 1 Total .1,118,0 Ls unsold and returned copies.. 8.048 Net 'total 1,108,418 latiy avr 88,788 GfCORQB D. TZSCHUCK. . . . ' Treasurer. Bubaorlbftd In m) presence and sworn to before, m this 1st day of August, 108. IS!.) .! ROBERT HUNTER. Notary PubUs. WHEW OCT OF TOWIT. akmrlnvrn leovtna; k elty turn tkararHw k-ald ba?s Tka Be snails kus. Address will k eka(i mm ftosi a rensted. Even llibtnlng was defeated when it attacked Mr. Bryan's windmill. Nebraska's public, domain It still lame enough to provide a great many farms. Australia ta on our aide of the world in everything except geographical lo- ation. Some parts of Georgia are wet enough now, no matter how dry th sttu went One of the greatest dangers of the age la a high-power automobile Id charge of a low-power Intellect. 'A. Berlin cable says that, "owing to the high price of meats, Germans are turning to flah." To German carp? i . r The Detroit Free Preaa has an edi torial on 'The Best Bill of the Season." The one best "Bill" of the season is "Bill" Taft. I - - Perhaps it was just a coincidence, but there was a heavy frost in Wiscon sin the night after J. Worth Kern spoke In Milwaukee." The Increase in property values around Cut-Off lake since it became possible to establish a public park there is something phenomenal. The New York-World is now sup porting Mr. Bryan, but has not yet given a satisfactory answer to its own question, "What is a democrat?" "There will be no bumper crop this year," says the Boston Transcript. Oh. yes. there will. The Taft vote crop will be of the bumper brand. St. Louis surgeons claim to have amputated a man's memory. If the man lives he will make an ideal wit ness in certain kinds of litigation. . Captain Halns, the murderer of W. E. Annls, complains of the photo graphs of him that are betu printed. He would look better in a striped suit, V Richard Harding Davis wants some thing done to keep the stroets from being littered up with waste paper. It might help some if Davis would quit writing. 1 """ , The Bryan ahouters have, so far, failed to startle anybody in Nebraska. People have gottea thoroughly accus tomed to the chorus and pay little at tentlon to it. A Chicago physician says that ths crowded street cars are full of ml cro.bes. A microbe that can live in i crowded street car in Chicago Is enU- tled to its life. Omaha 8 prestige as a convention city Is dally increasing and text turn mer will see a great many fine bodies entertained aa guests of the city. This Is as it should be. in his speech at Indianapolis Mr Bryan quoted from the New Yo World almanac, but he atill refuses to make any reference to the World s "Map of Bryanlsm." Mr. Bryan declares that Mr. Taft Is not the heir to the Roosevelt policies 6 till, Mr. Bryan has learnej from ex perience that he It not very successful who It rones to breaking wills Bryan says that if he Is elected he win govern with love Insteid of with the big stick. This will be cheerful news to Colonel Guffey, Roger Sullivan and the Uermoa democrats of Idaho. ,wr nnrjy ox will.. Trfre are certain things that com nat urally by deirent. snd reforms' com by descent. Ton rannot ronvey a reform by v 111. The president has tried to bo ciicatri certain reforms to th republican candidate, hut I am . the next rif blod In th reform business, and they come to me. In fsct. I' think I could make It st.-ons'r thsn that. If a man dlrs and l'te. no children the property goes hack to his parent, and. en far as reforms ar. loncerned. the republican rsrtr has died tvlthnut heirs, and th reforms go hack to the one from whom the republican party got the reform. From W. J. Bryan's Address at, Salem. III.. AAiguet 24. lent. Mr. Bryan's determination to make a fight for a share In the estate of a man who Is no kin to him naturally recalls a somewhat celebrated esse, tried some years ago. In which Mr. Bryan made a fight to share In the proceeds of an estate, although his name was not mentioned in'the will. n that case Mr. Bryan did not claim to be an heir, except on the ground that he had been promised something and he was expectant enough to carry his case Into courts, .where he. was Anally defeated. The record In the Bennett will case s complete. , The will was drawn by W. J. Bryan himself at Lincoln, Neb., where Mr. Bennett, a resident of Connecticut, was his guest. To Mrs. Bennett the will bequeathed $60,000 for "purposes set forth in a sealed let ter" which accompanied the will. The letter bore this address: Mra. P. 8. Bennett: Tl be "read only by Mrs. Bennett and by her alone, after my death. P. 6. Bennett. It was developed later in court that the sealed letter directed Mrs. Ben nett to give Mr." Bryan 150,000 after Mr. Bennett's death, and she was specifically enjoined to observe the strictest secrecy about the transaction. It has never been explained why Mr. Bryan, in drawing the will, should have omitted' his own name or sur rounded the deal with an air of melodramatic secrecy, particularly as he lias always avowedly favored pub licity in all money transactions. Per haps his native modesty led him to seek to evade the advertisement that would naturally follow his coming into such a liberal share of a mere friend's estate. However, when it came to the question of publicity or the loss of the 50,000, Mr. Bryan decided for pub licity and carr'ed the case into the courts. After a lengthy hearing, the court held "that neither said envelope, nor letter, nor said typewritten docu ment be approved or allowed as part of said will." With an amount equal to a year's salary of the president of the United States at stake, Mr. Bryan appealed the case to the higher courts, only to be beaten at every stage of the legal fight. Mr. Bryan is not easily dismayed by defeats, either in the courts or in poli tics, and so he is going to make an other fight to break the Roosevelt will for the purpose of sharing a political estate In the accumulation of which he has had no part, and feven though his name was not mentioned in the list of bequests. , The estate, however, Is an exceedingly large one and Mr. Bryan s socialistic enough to think he should have his share of any good things In sight. His claim will, .of course, be contested, and he may as well prepare to have it rejected by the court of public opinion which will pass on his case on Tuesday, November 3, 1908. THE HEAL AMERICA X FARMER. John M. Stahl, a Wisconsin farmer, who for fourteen years was secretary of the Farmers' National congress, has undertaken the enormous task of try ing to correct the ignorance and the silly notions entertained by most city folks and many high public officials as to the real character of the American farmer. Mr. Stahl wants to make It plain that whatever the farmer's limit ations may be, he has advanced far beyond the mental development that 'takes for fact and truthful represent ation the jokes and caricatures of our most excellent and enjoyable fun-making periodicals." To do this, Mr. Stahl has published a pamphlet on "The Real Farmer," and It Is cheerfully admitted here that he has made out a most con vincing case. The first chapter of Mr. Stahl's pamphlet is designed to show that the farmer has never stood for any of the "financial vagaries" that have been urged upon the American people. In the fight in 1868 the democrats de manded the Issue of greenbacks to pay the war debt. The republican party demanded the adoption of a sound currency system. The result showed that every agricultural state in the union gave a majority for the republi can ticket, and in every state the re publican vote was heaviest In the coun try and the democratic vote heaviest In the city districts. The farmers were right en the currency question. This result waa repeated in 1872. when the farmers put a final end to tho demo cratic clamor for flat money. In that election every agricultural state again voted for sound money. The fight in the Forty-third congress over the resumption of spazie pay ments developed the fact that the con gressmen who voted for "rsg baby" currency were elected from cities while nearly all of the members from the agricultural districts voted for the resumption of specie payments. It was a labor congress, held in -1870. a no not a farmers' body, that demanded the repeal of the national banking law, the withdrawal of national bank notes and the Issue of paper monoy, ' based on the faith and resources of the na Hon." While the general impression pre vails that the farmers were the originators of the populist demands Mr. Stahl shows that practically every principle championed. br '.tl)e populists In their national organisations and platforms was taken almost bodily from the platforms and gojicies of the unignts ox i-aoor auer vst orgauua Hon had been wrecked on the political shoals. In 181 the farmer vote In low, with an Iowan at the head of the populist ticket, was but 4 per cent of the' total vote. In 189 the populists had no ticket In the state and In 1900 the populist vote was less than 1 per cent of the total. In Illi nois. In 1892. the populists polled more votes In Chicago than In all the rest of the state. The populists took the lead In Kansas in 1896. and yet Mr. Stahl shows by records that the ma jority of the popullat votes In that state came from the cities and not from the farms. He finds the same state of affairs In the analysis of' the Nebraska vote and presents strong documentary evidence to show that the farmers were never the leaders in the populist movement. The conclusion Is that the farmer Is an educated, thinking man, who does not act hastily but, like the kingly soul, bides his time and refuses to worry over the vagaries of the man so unfortunate as to be compelled to live In the cities. REVISISQ THK CHARTER- The biennial debate as to the city's bill of rights is under headway again and the self-constituted revisionists are expending much time and thought in devising changes to be secured from the next legislature. The charter needs revision, probably, and some remedy for Its deficiencies will be worked out, but the great question is still left open. . Ever since Omaha has had a charter It has been the custom to go to the leg islature at each session and request that certain alterations be made In the document. The Nebraska legislators have shown, so far, a very courteous Inclination toward Omaha and have usually granted all that the Douglas county delegation has asked. The ob jection that may be laid against this Is that the changes are asked by Indi viduals who have little or no authority to represent the citizens. The out come is that Omaha is governed by a charter which its citizens have had little or no direct voice In making. The only way In which a charter can prop erly be revised is through the medium of a convention duly called, the mem bers of which shall be elected by the citizens and whose work shall be sub mitted to the citizens for rejection or approval. This Is possible without having ' recourse to constitutional amendment. The Incoming legislature should be asked to adopt a law giving the citi zens the right to call a charter conven tion, with the understanding that the result of that charter convention shall be enacted into law by the legislature, and 'that amendments thereto cen only be adopted when they have been passed upon by the people. In this way Omaha may be provided with a charter that will not be subject to the tinker ing, at any bod or everybody, wiio may be dissatisfied with some of . its pro visions. n'jRK OF THE NEXT COXORESS. Republican officials at Washington are already discussing the importance of the duties that will devolve upon the special session of the next con gress, to be railed immediately after the inauguration of the president on March 4, 1909. Those familiar with the situation and the plans already outlined appreciate the fact that the congress is likely to prove one of the most important in the nation's history. The session will be called for the ex press nnd specific purpose of revising the tarlBT. but that work will call for the exercise of the highest order of statesmanship, if the result is to prove satisfactory and beneficial to the peo ple. Linked with the tariff question Is the revenue problem, and these will have to be considered togetU-jr. The country demands a revision of the tariff, a lowering of many of the schedules and the republican party is pledged to see that this Is accom plished. The enactment of a law re ducing tariff . schedules would be easy enough in itself, but with this reduc tion must come provision for raising revenues for the maintenance of the government. It is certain that there will be a heavy deficit at the close of the present fiscal year, next June, and so vast Is the expansion of the activi ties of the government that It does not appear possible for any party to curtail, to any appreciable extent, the outlay for government purposes. This outlay seems likely to Increase rather than diminish and the revenue-raising problem becomes acute. Some eminent tariff experts contend that a lowering of the tariff schedules will mean more revenue Just as in creased travel comes from reduced rates, but the congress cannot afford to rely upon this theory until its truth shall have been demonstrated. Con gress will have to decide In what di rection It will reach out and de vise new ways of raising revenue. Some of the leading republicans art strongly In favor of adopting President Roosevelt's recommendation of levying a tax on inheritances, while others favor an increase of the internal reve nue taxes on tobacco, beer and alco holic beverages. The problem is one Dresentlnsr many difficulties, but one that muat be met and solved without delay. The democrats are offering very many objectlont to the work of the State Board of Assessment, but only George W. Berge comes forv.ard with a suggested remedy. Mr. Berge pro poses that a poll tax of f 8 be assessed against every male citizen of Nebraska f 5 to be rebated on production of evi dence that the citizen aforesaid had exercised his franchise privilege at the laat preceding election. This might Induce some negligent citizen to vote but it might also bring the state of Ne braska Into contact with the federal law aralnst the granting of -.ebates. Possibly Br'e'r Berge had not thought of this Utter phase of his proposition. Mayor Jim and the congressman from the Second Nebraska district have not, as yet, been able to effect a rap prochement or protocol. Mayor Jim is a pretty wlsn bird, himself, and does not propose to be caught in any trap that will bind hlnj to support Editor Hitchcock and leave Editor Hitchcock free to aupport whom he chooses. Mr. Taft declares that if he Is elected he will call an extra session of con gress to revise the tariff. He will have a republican congress back of him and thus be able to carry out revision plans. If Mr. Bryan Is elected he would be unable to get any tariff measure through the republican senate. According to Dun's report, "Trade and Industrial activity continue to ex pand, Improvement being of a con servative nature that promises perma nency." Trade and industrial activity may always be relied upon to do the right thing if they have a fair chance. The Nashville American refers to the federal rate law as "a senseless attack on the railroads." The Amer ican evidently believes with Mr. Bryan that the only remedy for the abuses growing out of railroad operation Is to be found In government ownership. A writer in the American magazine wants tb know who are the five great est men in America. Well, there's "Ty" Cobb, Hal Chase, Pat Ragan, "Doc" White and "Cy" Young, with some others close In the running. Governor Haskell of OkUhoma has written a campaign song in which he endeavors to make "Bryan" rhyme with "trying." . That Is historically correct, even If It Is not very good poetry. We refuse to sccept the physician's report that a New York woman was driven Insane by chewing tobacco. She must have been Insane when she began chewing. Stlrrlna Acw on Tap. Pittsburg Dispatch. Readers of newspapers who are always looking for more and more exciting things may be delighted by the Information that there are yet a few notification affairs to be tapped. ratlence Strained to the Limit. Baltimore American. No wonder the Englishmen tried to ttk very advantage of the Americans. Eng land Is now getting Into the hands of the American Meat 1 trust. We ought to for give bygone and Cable our sympathy. Now Wflt Yon Be flood f Washington Post. Mr. Chafln 'promises, if elected president. and congress fetuses to pass a national prohibition bll'C to call out the militia and the standing army and enforce prohibition iUk.wer)b,in4lMjut,errltory under the Amer ican flag. Now. will. you worry over the coming election? .' , A Famll Trait. Springfield Republican. The George Gould view la that the deci sion favoring the Standard Oil company 'again confirmed the American mottj of fair play." It certainly tenda to affirm the traditional Gould view of fair play, which Is thatthe corporation wins when it's head and the public loses when It's tall. - Plain Tratk In Short Word. New Tork World. Between the remarks out of court of At- tarney General Hadley of Missouri and the plain words of Attorney General Bonaparte in the petition filed with the court for a rehearing of the- Standard Oil case, Judge Grosscup may now be able to Imagine how Judge Lndl felt when th circuit court of appeals rapp'ed him. SOI RCE OK .NATION AL WEALTH. Agrrlcaltnr' Mtlmnln t AH ('last of Baalne. Wall Street Journal. Everybody seem to be looking to agricul ture to give alfcmulua to th low estate of business activity In commercial, industrial and financial fields. Nowhere Is this more justifiable than the United States.' where so large a proportion of th annual crop yields is exported. But a proper caution la alao to be observed In this respect, lest people unwittingly lead themselves into all sorts of fallacies.. Th principal crops now add from seven to eight billions of dollars to the gross In come of American farms. Not all of this is sold for cash. Probably lea than one third of the corn crop, for instance, ever lvavea th farrn. The jrtr bulk of it goes to the animal maintenance account of the farm. These million, however, rep resent th gross earning power of farming for a single year's accounting Over agalnat the earnings must be set the year's expenditures. In the form of labor employed, machinery purchased and ma terial required to grow the crop and keep up or improve th farm equipment. The balance of gross Income over expense and fixed charge la the net Income of farms. It is this surplus thst measures the real capital gaina of American agricul ture and create a new Increment of de mands for the products of other Indus tries. Expense generally represent wealth already consumed; only net income can b relied upon to Increase th volume of de mands for labor and commodities from year to year. The real aervlce of agriculture to re covery In commerce and maii'ifacturlng consists in the volume of wealth that It creates for transportation and In th de mand that this wealth In exchange creates for future product of manufacturing. Financial institutions supply th credit which Insures the movement to market of farm producta. This Interdependence make all Interested In the prosperity of agriculture. But the real measure of that prosperity from year to year Is shown in th ratio of the net Income to farm invest nient, which in the long run Is probably, In spit of Impressions to t list contrary that of average city bonds. At the actual Investment, valuation of farm property the average net farm dividend over a twenty ear-period would probably not exceed per cent a year. For the laat several years, however, many, If not most, American farmers have probably realised nearai twice this rate, thus making the net In come of th Ua.OCo.W.tX'O Invested In farm property amount to eomethlr. between one and two billion dollars a year. This Is an average rat which Includes much farm lug that is rtiUy nonprof itable and much farm capital outlay that la never produc live. IT OF WASHINGTON LIFE. Miner ea and Incidents hketrhed an tke Spot. Among the many fascinating charma of which the national capital rightly boast th moit coneplpiKiu Is the extensive and well-stocked pie counter of t'ncle Ssm. Though vastly superior to any slmlUr In stitution between the two oceans, attractive In variety of stock and boundless patronage. It doea not wholly satisfy local tastes and desires. Like promotes like. Federal pie, once tasted, grips Its victim like a poppy ptil and makea pie a dally three-time win rjer. This accounts for the prosperity of unofficial pie foundries .and explains why Washington puts In a claim for the blue ribbon aa a pie consumer. The digestive capacity of the resident I estimated at 25.000 pie a day, equal to 1S.600 cubic feet of pie a month. Of the 2S.nne pie used daily between 13,000 and 14,000 are smaM B-cent plea or button pies, between S.000 and 4.000 medium-slied pies snd between 8.000 and 9.000 large plea. The monthly estimate la 400,000 small or button pies, 100,000 mexMum-slsed pies and 86,000' large pies; all of which cost the consumers at least IW.ooo a month. There are fewer persons on the United States pension roll today than at any time for the last fifteen years, say a Washington dispatch to the Brooklyn Eagle. The army of beneficiaries from the gov ernment's bounty at last seem to be on the downward grad In point of numbers. There are now only 951,687 left, and at th rate at which death is cutting Into the ranks the total will have shrunk to 900,000 before another year. . The high-water mark in penalon was reached In 1904, when for a brief period there were more than 1.000,000 persons on the roll. The spectacle of thl enormous number of persons drawing monthly check from the government frightened the repub lican leader for a while. So long as th army was kept within six figure it was found comparatively easy to defend the liberal pension policy. No mention will b found In the report of th commissioner of pension of the fact that at one time more than 1, 000,000 pensioner were on the roll. The figure are given for fiscal years only and the high-water mark was touched in August. Before June SO came around again the figures had gone back Into the hundreds of thousands, so that so far as the official report go the highest point reached waa 999,448. The pension roll, prior to the present year, ha been growing larger and larger with a regularity that attested the eager ness for business of the pension attor ney. It assumed visible size after the civil war, for in 18W It numbered 126,000. From that time on its expansion was as steady and regular as J. Pierpont Morgan's in come. In 1880 there were 260,000 pensioners; in 1890 there were 350,000; in 1890 there were 993,000. Within a few year fropi now Washing ton's chief slums, in the triangular tract from tho capitol to the treasury, lying be tween Pennsylvania avenue and the Mall, will have given way to a chain of parks surrounding notable public buildings. The Postoftlce and the Municipal building have already risen in this section, and congress at Its last session appropriated $2,500,000 for acquiring another huge slice, upon which I to be erected a group of struct ures for the Departments of State, Justice and Commerce and Labor. The private owners of this property having failed to offer their holdings at reasonable prices, condemnation - proceedings have been promptly Instituted, and within another year it Is hoped one of the glaring eye- lore of the city. Only a few hundred yard from tha White House, will be obliterated. Washington's police department la tak ing a novel method of closing up the red light district. It lies south of the down town section of Pennsylvania avenue. where a magnificent municipal building that is the' pride of the city has been erected. The red light district come up against this dove white marble edifice In flank and rear, which Major Sylvester, superintendent of police, finds out of conso nance with the eternal fitness of things. Orders have been given the police to clear the streets of the red light district and keep them clear. Men are not permitted to pass through them st night. Any one at tempting to do so is driven off with a warning. Loiterers or roysterers in th dis trict are arrested promptly. Certain streets are a much closed as if they were guarded by fire Jlnes. Any one caught within the policed district confines after nightfall is liable to arrest, no matter how good his name appears upon a card. Neither sro the police supposed to worry about his destination or Intentions. The ground Is forbidden him, and that Is all there Is to it. O. TV Karl, an Arkansas mule trader. tackled the Treasury department the other day with a package of decayed paper money which gave the redemption bureau Job for a day. The package originally contained $10,000 and the money experts deciphered $9,975, giving the Arkansas traveler that amount In new bills. Four yesrs ago Earl burled the money in Ills garden. He got the habit. of pre serving his money this wsy, he ssld. be fore banks became common in his section. Recently he had occasion to uae some of the money and attempted to dig it up. H found the can rusted away and the money stuck togther in a large mud ball. The bills crumbled Into bits when he tried to get them apart. Although told by neighbor that he might a well throw It away, and that th gov ernment would not give him anything for It. Mr. Earl decided to go to Washington. He brought a letter from Charles C. Reld, member of congress from his district, testi fying to his character and standing in the community. He also brought Lloyd Rain water, cashier of th Bank of Morrillton. A soon th money wa placed in Treasurer's Treat' hands, he took it to Mr. A. B. Brown, who for twenty-five year ha been th expert of the Treasury department in deciphering the valu of mutilated currency. . After soaking apart some of th piece with alum water, examining each frag ment with a powerful lens, and putting to gether the tattering particles, It waa dis covered that it would be possible to pay Mr. Earl practically all th original amount. , Oa of tke Palvltaat Poet. New Tork Bun. Lincoln ta th site of a poet as well as of a prophet. For particulars see press des patches from that capital dated August 11. and beginning thua: "The ahrlnes of Mecca and the roads to Rom lost historic lustr todsy In th light of event at Lincoln and Falrvlew." Poor old Rome! Poor old Mecca! No wonder that, a the poet tell us. "the enormous vanguard la palpitant." "Pal pitant" la good, but how wild and quiver ing la that throb? Will th palpitant van guardsmen submit to be "shaken down" by Treasurer HaskU and Colonel Moss Wetmore, who are "out for" dimes snd dollars up to $10,000 and totally oblivious of throbs? ktissats in Kind. Pittsburg Dispatch. Judga Grosscup may think th languag of th Bonaparte petition for a rehearing of th Standard cas I rather vr. but If so h can solace himself with a re reading of hi own remarks about J u !"- Ktbtsaw Mountain Land Is. "What Beautiful Hair" How often have you heard this expression and wished the same remark could be made about your hair ? It will be if you give your hair a little care and attention. You really owe it to yourself anyway not merely from a point of enhancing your personal charms, but from a hygenic point as well. It is no longer necessary to visit the Wood bury Institute to receive the famous Woodbury Treatment. It is offered you in a far more convenient form for home use. llf . l I ne""V JVrrw- WOODBURYS nAIRlONIC is identically the same prepara tion that is used in the Wood bury Institute not only for combating hair and scaljr dis orders but for beautifying the hair. It is first of all a hair beautifier. Its use will restore the natural lustre and sheen invigorate and stimulate the hair follicles and pro mote a healthy growth' of soft, silky, beautiful hair. Its continued use will stop the hair from splitting and falling out; will remove dandruff and stop itch intr of the scalp. A trial will convince you this is the hair preparation you have long been looking for. It will acquaint you with new toilet delight. Two sists, 2$c and $f.OO. All druggists ; BXATOK BBTTO CO., local Agents, Cor. IStk and Taraam Bts Omaha, Vb. PROSPERITY OF THE FARMERS. Effert of Republican Legislation oa Aarrlcaltnral Development. Charles M. Harvey In Leslie Weekly. The repirbllcsn party, ever sine It at tained power nearly half a century ago, ha (been working in the interest of the farmers, a wall aa of all th rest of the workers. The farms and farm property of the country, which amounted to $7,980, 000,000 In 1860, th year Immediately preced ing tha republican' entrance Into office, reached $26,000,000,000 In 1907. The value of the farm animal of the country, which wa $1,000,000,009 In th former year, was $4,424,000,000 in th latter. Th cotton pro duction of U60, which at th time waa con sidered wonderfully large, was 4.ML000 bales, but It was 13,000,000 bales In 1907. And the prices which the planter obtains for his cotton now are much greater thsn they were then. In most of those Items the growth has been far greater than it has been in population. Half a century ago, when Hammond, Toombs, CUngman and other southern statesman were proclaiming that cotton wi kin, the average annual value of th cror was about $100,000,000. In 1907 It amounted to $671,000,000. When, In 19(0. the value of the corn crop wa about $260,000, 000, who would have dreamed that It would reach a aum mor than five time a gnat In forty-seven years? Tt th farm valu of the corn yield of 1907 wa $l.SS7,000,000. Th aggregate valu of the country's farm products, which wa $1,000,000,000 In the year of Lincoln's first election, will reach fully 18,000,000,000 in this Taft campaign year. More persons are engaged In farm ing than in any other occupation. A coin pared with a third or a half of a century ago, there are fewer mortage on Ameri can farms, and the farmer has mor money In the laving bank and in railway bond, he weara better clothes, eat better food, gives his sons and daughter better educa tion, Is housed better, ha mora book and newspapers In hi home, ha luxuries which were formerly beyond th reach of the agriculturists of the country, and has a mastery In fields which. In the old dsys, he never dreamed of entering. For this transformation , In th American farmer's condition he is largely Indebted to the wise legislation of the republican party. PERSONAL .NOTES. If that Yellowstone park highwayman who held up eleven coaches has a head for business he will Incorporate In New Jersey. The ambitions of Agulnaldo seem to be rising. A few yeara ago he desired to be merely a second George Washington. Now h aspire to become a Manila alder man. General William Booth, commander of the Balvation army, haa Issued a long mani festo, eloquently pleading for the equality of women with men and exhorting every member of hi army to embrace thl view and train til children to thl end. There's no accounting for tastes. In a sorap between two politicians at York, Pe., one sat on the face of the other. The Jaws of the latter closed Ilk a steel trap, disconnecting a chunk of cuticle. A court is trying to sooth th victim and th rup tured law of mayhem. Theodore L. Weed haa resigned as pri vate secretary to Secretary Straus of th Department bf Commerce and Labor to accept a similar position with Frank H. Hltchoock, chairman of the republican na tional committee. Mr. Weed will remain with Mr. Hitchcock until the end of the campaign, at which time it Is understood he will return to his former position with Secretary Straus. Kenyon Cox, painter and aculptor, has been unable for several weeks to do any work on account of an attack of neuritis, which has temporarily disabled his right arm. H I overwhelmed with commis sions, which h hoped' to execute at his summer studio at Windsor, Vt., but h haa been unable to accomplish anything. On peculiarity of hia malady la that It 1 most scut when he Is engaged In modelmg. MpiMlMlfljfr Observation proves that the firm which uses the best printed matter has the best reputation A. L Rant, lncrrat4. ItlO-ltU Howard Street. Omaha SVC JK - -r v 11 HOW TO GET A PARCELS POST. Pat It V to Candidate for rons;rrs and Nnte tke tteshlta. Kansas City Times, There I hut one logical teason to h advanced for denying the people a parcel post the railroad and express eompanh s oppose it. There are other excuses offerel by statesmen for their opposition to ili- measure, among them bolng the pita that a parcela post would injure the country merchants. it Is safe to say, however, that such a defective argument would noi stand in the way of a measure so benvfkitl to th masses. If there were no powerful influences behind the opposition to It. Th parcels posl would add'fo the con venience of th firmer abofe all oilier classes. The farmers do the greater share of the voting In America when It cimea to the election of congressmen. If the farmers will emphasise their desire fur a parcels poat with a ' demand that their representatives In congress supi-or. ths movement, the rural communities will sojn have , that convenience added rfj I npirv the conditions of life on the farm. UttiHI.NG i.i.rc. "What you4 reckon' mak' Br er WHiium all time slngln' dat aong 'bout de 'Ul-timc Religion?' " "Well, dey never took up etch big col lectlona In de day w'en de ol' time religion had de floor." Atlanta Conatltution. "Were you scared when you got Jb.ooo feet high?" "A little." acknowledge the intrepii woman who climbed mountains. "You know the glare of the anow 1 just turrible on the complexion. "Philadelphia Leader. ' "You know the woman on our street who alwaya .wear the automobile veil?'' "Yea." "Thompson, who lives next door, coaxed her to take a seat In his auto esterdav and she waa so frightened that he had to let her out at the first corner." Cleve land Plain Dealer. Tess Brookleigh proposed to her, dluii't he? Jess Yes, but she sized him up for a counterfeit. Tess How was that? Jess Why. he didn't have the proper ring about him. -Philadelphia Press. "What do you 1hlnk of the phonograph as a campaign device?" "I'm not sure about It," answered th political worker. "The average citizen Is liable to be terribly disappointed when he hears a lot of facts about the tariff and the constitution Instead of a brass band concert or a comic monologue." Washing ton Star. Dumlelgh It waa an awful trial tor me to make that apeech tor.lght. Mildmay Don't mention it. old hoy. Just think what the rest of us suf feri'd. -Ronton Transcript. Clsrence I have had this motor car six months, and In H that lime it naan i co me a tent for repairs. p.v.Thit onlv show thsf your crertl st the repair shops Is a good deal better than mlne.-Chlcago Tribune. IS THE LAND OF AK-SAH-BKN'. In the land of King Ak-6ar-Ben, Where the yellow rivers flow; Through the Vale of Peace and Plnty, Where the tallest cornstalks grow; In the land of King Ak-Sar-Hfn. Where the sun shines on the hill, And Its ozone is a barrier To every kind of ill; In tha land of King Ak-8ar-Ben Where the wheat crops never fai', And th walling of the demo-pop la no longer of avail; In the land of King Ak-8ar-Ben With Its autumn bright and ions. When the wind sings In the cornfield Its blithesome, tuneful song; In the land of King Ak-Sar-Bn, With Its elevators filled. Where they have their own grain markets. And Ita breadstuff there la milled; In the land of King Ak-8ar-Bn. Where the hog la utilized. To the fraction of a whistle. I It low squeal minimized: In th land of King Ak-kar-Ben. Wher th finest beeves are found. And canned up Into minced meat, That goes th world around. In thl empire of Nebraska. Thar will aurely be a fight With the Orand Old Party In It, It goln' to b all right. For this land of King Ak-Sar-Ben That so free from greed and graft. Ha aurely got It eyes "sol" On th leader, William Taft. CAL C. VALENTINE. A
