THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16. lyi:
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38,930
86,860
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85,790
17 36,460
It 36,110
19 86,070
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1. 85,850
22 36,070
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36,180
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116
I-ess unsold and returned ooplaa,
K.t total
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Dully average 35,669
OEORGH B. TZSCHUCK,
Treuunr.
Eubacrlbed In my presence and sworn to
before ma this 1st. day or September. 1J01.
tSeal.) ROBERT HUNTER,
' Notary Public
WHEN OVT Or TOWN.
Subscribers leaving; th city tem
porarily ahoald hT Tnn Ben
mailed to them. Address will !
c-kaaged aa often aa requested.
- President Roosevelt Is for Taft and
doesn't care who knows It.
First call for the straw hat, the ham
mock and the peek-a-boo waist.
At any rate, Chief of Police Dona
hue had nothing to do with fixing the
amount of the bail.
Senator Ankeny of Washington will
doubtless agree with Mr. Bryan that
the people do no, ruU
Why shouldn't Mark Twain leave
New York? There's no fun for a. man
of his years In that city.
Mayor Jim could have told those
base ball players to look out for trou
ble when they went to Sioux City,
The appointment of a receiver for a
dermatologinal Institute Is going to
cause an Inquiry Into one skin game.
Just to show how far Mr. Bryan has
retreated, his press agent no longer
refers to him as a silver-tongued ora
tor. 1 ''
Candidate Chafln says that Washing
ton is one of the worst cities in the
world.- Well, he won't have to live
there.
Mr. Bryan. pt his dates mxed for
some of hie eastern engagements. Is
it poeslble that he Is still using an 1896
calendar?
Magailne writers will create no spe
cial Interest -b'y discussing the scarcity
of skunks. The gasoline car is a very
fair substitute. J
A market report states that canned
peaches will be higher this year. That
may be, but canned speeches will be
cheaper, than ever, ,
"What We Need" is the title of Ella
Wheeler " Wilcox's latest poem. Well
the list Includes almost everything ex
cept canned speeches.
Mr. Bryan says he IS the onljr candl
date with a war record. True, but it
Is a record of resigning his commission
before smelling powder.
"Wa3 a woman ever known to blow
out the gas?", asks the ' kansas City
Star. Perhaps not, but she has been
known i,t blow him up.
Dressmakers announce that the Ideal
figure for. next season will be as slim
as a beanpole. A delicate compliment
to the Boston society leaders
Russia is. determined to prevent the
celebration of Tolstoi's birthday It ia
a little surprising that Russia allows
Tolstoi to have any more birthdays
An Omaha pastor has been devoting
a sermon to "Reasons for Nonattend
ance at Church." Those who do not
attend 'church will doubtless know th
real reasons.
. The Columbus Telegram asks
"Wouldn't that power canal make
nice Tuauk,iiug juooeut. for Culu Tu
bus?" Of course, it' would. But we
thought that power canal had already
been built at least three times.
Did ou notice that, notwithstand
ing that -warning, "Beware of Smith."
who wai running for presidential elec
tor on the democratic, ticket. Smith
got over 2,009 votes" right here' in
Douglas county in spite of being ad-
'ImJ fta opposed to Bryan?
STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION,
tate ot Nebraska, Douglas. County, s.!
George B. Tzechuck, treieuror of Trie
Publishing company, wma;
TFK COVS T R r tSCA PE.- ' .
Tn his address opening; the national
rampalgn In Ohio, Governor Hughes
delivered 'mme (piling blows t the
claims of Mr. Bryan and congratulated
the country anew upon It a escape from
Bryanism Jn 1896 and 1900. Gover
nor Hughes said:" .
If til that Mr. Pryan has favored during
the Inst twelve years had "bpen enacted
Into law. we should - have been over
whelmed with disaster and would regard
Is as our chief business In the future to
find a wsy of escape from the mpshes nf
ill-considered legislation In which we would
have been entangled.
While Mr. Bryan professes to be the
only genuine disciple of Jefferson and
his ' principles, Governor Hughes re
minds the country that Jefferson's con
tention that that country Is best gov
erned which Is least goverend his been
Lentlrely overlooked, by Mr. Bryan who
as been persistently active In recom
mending new legislative remedies for
all existing and prospective ills.
Governor Hughes' criticism concerns
in particular two governmental policies
which Mr. Bryan has a different times
advocated. In 1896 and in 1900, Mr.
Bryan contended In nearly every pub
lic speech he made that the govern
ment should coin all the silver bullion
that might be sent to the mints by any
person or from any source Into legal
tender silver money at the ratio of
6 to 1. It requires no argument
now to convince any person that the in-
ustrlcs of the nation would have been
paralyzed If Mr. Bryan's monetary
scheme has adopted in either of Tils
former campaigns for the presidency.
Two years ago and again about a
year ago Mr. Bryan declared his con-
Ictlon that fallroad regulation could
not succeed and that the only remedy
for railroad abuses is to be found in
government ownership of railroads. In
face of almost universal protest from
hlg own party, Mr. Bryan sidetracked
that Issue for the time being, con
vinced of the revolutionary and chaotic
consequences of any attempt to put
such a scheme to realization. He has
been equally as far . from the ' true
American policy in his advocacy of
the disposition of the Philippines, his
plan for the adoption of free trade
and on practically every issue he has
rged upon the attention of the Amer
ican voters.
THE LEAD 1T EDVCATlOy.
The old Bay state has been estimated the
most literate atate In the union.' How long
it may retain distinction remains to be
seen, but it has already lost its claim of
being the firat collegiate in the union.
Within Ita survey stand the proud and hon
ored ivy-grown walla of Harvard, Williams.
Amherst, Smith, Wellcaley, Tufts, Boston
university and others. While Nebraska has
no institution of higher learning of note.
except Its State university at Lincoln, yet
statistics of the United Statea bureau of
education show that Nebraska has one reg
ular collegian for each 409 ot Its population,
while Massachusetts, with all its colleges,
has but one in 600. Nor is Nebraska an ex
ception. These same statistics show us that
mora people are going to college in the west
today than are attending In tha east.
This comparison is made in a' care
fully prepared article upon collegiate
education east and west contributed to
one of the current periodicals, em
phasizing the tremendous growth of
the state universities in the west. It
is certainly gratifying that Nebraska
should be taken as the highest type of
state university development. -
Of course,' we in Nebraska have long
known that the assumption that "the
old Bay state is the most literate state
n the union" is without foundation
and that Nebraska has fox years thown
up with the smallest percentage of
Illiteracy in its population of any of its
sister states. That Nebraska outranks
Massachusetts for "regular collegians"
has not been previously established, so
far as we know, but it has been plainly
evident for some time that the people
of the west have been more alive to the
benefits of thorough - education, than
those of the east.' The western states
have not only continued to contribute
their share of students to the eastern
colleges and universities, ' but at the
same time have been building, up
largely attended universities of their
own at home and in this llstxif western
statea Nebraska occupies the forefront.
It intellectual training is to be. the
chief factor in our national progress,
Nebraska and surrounding states will
soon be recognized as heading the
proposition. '
KANSAS ClTra JEAN VALJSAS.
Students of prison reform will find
an interesting subject for study in the
case of Charles Anderson of Kansas
City, who won an immense amount of
sympathy when found about a year Ago
under an assumed name,-, running
Kansas City restaurant, after his es
cape from the penitentiary. It appears
that Anderson, when a youth, had be
come implicated in a postoffice rob
bery. He escaped from the penlten
tlary later and began a new . life In
Kansas City, having marred Q the
interval. His Identity was discovered
and the authorities had him returned
to the penitentiary. Petitions were cir
culated throughout the country and
Anderson was paroled. Everybody felt
pleased over the outcome and 'Ander
son and his family were doing well
operating a restaurant and caring for
the increased patronage that came as a
result of the publicity thus received
Reports show now that-Anderson 1
in Jail again, charged with running a
gambling house of the lowest type. His
Glsplsy of feformstios, before and
after his recent pardon, appears not to
have been genuine. He was started in
business and helped by friends and
sympathizers, . but seems quickly to
have drifted into the easier paths of
crookedness. It may be difficult to de
termine the cause of th man's latest
lapse. The claim that an ex-convlct al
ways finds difficulty in making an hon
est living after bis release from prison
tan not be urged in his case. He fur-
nlnhes another Illustration of the ac
cepted Ide that few men serve terms
in prison without losing something es
sential to proper conduct and right
living after they have "done time."
Ttir. AtnvsT riRK loss.
August Is usually considered as a
month of profit by the fire insurance
companies, but an exception is shown
this year, the losses for the month be
ing $23,123,000, one of the heaviest
on record, for' the midsummer months..
In the month there were 272 fires,
which causod a loss of $10,000 or more
In each instance, a total increase of
more than $3,000,000 over August of
last year.
The fire loss of the present year to
date Is in excess of $168,000,000, one
of the largest on record, with the ex
ception of 1906, when the San Fran
cisco fire and earthquake added about
$200,000,000 to the average loss. A re
cent compilation shows that since
1835, counting only the fires in which
a loss of $10,000,000 or more was en
tailed the destruction of property in
the United States has aggregated
$697,000,000. or an amount almost
equal to the national debt. The record
In no other country approaches that
total, the reports showing that France
and Germany each has an annual fire
loss leBs than that of the city of New
York alone. The record is eloquent
proof of the nation's failure to exercise
proper precautions in building con
struction -and enforcement of fire pre
ventive regulations.
THiC D1BT1 DOLLAR.
The dirty dollar may hpld its head
p again and demand restoration to
Its standing in the community, as it
as been granted a clean bill of health
from an unquestioned authority. Only
few years ago a veritable crusade
was started against soiled paper money
and enthusiastic sanitarians apparently
vied with each other to see which could
count the largest number of disease
bearing germs on one of Uncle Sam's
promises to pay. Timid people took the
matter very seriously and even in some
of the banking institutions the men who
handled and counted large amounts of
money ttok precautions against ty
phoid, tuberculosis, diphtheria and
smallpox, whose germs were supposed
to have a special fondness for bills qf
large Idenomlnatlon.
Buf, now comes Warren W. Hildltch
of the Sheffield laboratory of bacterl
olo'gy and hygiene in the Yale uni
versity, making public the results of
most elaborate experiments with chem
icals, inoculation and all other known
methods, proving that the soiled bill is
practically harmless. Taking twenty-
four of the most disreputable bills he
could find, Mr. Hildltch started out to
find the deadly germs. He found bac
teria in profusion, on the new bills as
well as on the old ones, but could get no
trace of disease-bearing germs by any
of the tests known to science.
In addition to the tests' in the lab
oratory, Mr. Hildltch went to the
Treasury "department at Washington,
where bales of foul-appearing bills are
handled dally. His investigations there
showed that no employe of the . Treas
ury department had ever contracted
any infectious disease from the han-'
dllng of paper money, thus supporting
the contention that the dirty dollar
should again command popular confi
dence. It would be preferable, of
course, to have clean, crisp, new bills,
but it Is some relief to know that the
unlaundered dollar need not be
shunned as a disease-conveyor.
It is really too bad that nothing the
Omaha police may do tn any case at
any time looks right to the fault
finding newspapers persistently back
capping Chief of Police Donahue for
personal or political reasons. The po
lice are expected to maintain order and
detect criminals, but they are not ex
pected to manufacture evidence to
railroad anyone to the penitentiary
They are supposed to get all .the facts
connected with the commission of
every crime and put them at the dis
posal of the prosecuting officers, but
the responsibility for conviction rests
upon the county attorney and the
courts. The police should not let any
real criminal get away, but neither
should they persecute anyone against
whom the evidence of guilt is wanting.
The prismatic political prophet of
our democratic contemporary has again
discovered that the editor of The Bee
was running for every contested place
on the ticket at the recent republican
primary and having been jolted by the
defeat of his political pets, the editor
of The Bee is to be further castigated
at the election by the defeat of those
who defeated him at the primary. Is
this the kind of stuff the Bryanites
want to make themselves believ?
Mr. Bryan publicly denounced
Colonel Guffey of Pennsylvania as
representative of predatory wealth and
a man whose membership in the dem
ocratic party was a reproach to the
party. Now Mr. Bryan has ordered
the fight on Colonel Guffey by Bryan
ites in Pennsylvania to be stopped
Who has changed, and why?
Representatives ot city and county
have about gotten together on the jail
proposition. Inasmuch as a lot of val
uable time has been needlessly lost by
dilatory negotiations, the jsll builders
ought to be made to get busy at once
so' that the. plan finally adopted may be
carried out without being stopped half
way by cold weather.
Kansas City's great Sunday closing
crusader, Judge Wallace, has quit the
fight and acknowledged the lmposslbll
ity of making a Sunday schob out of
city of several hundred thousand pop
ulation. At last accounts Omaha's
t
puritanical Sunday promoters were
still busily engaged at the hofioless
task. '
Mr. Bryan declares that state rights
must not be allowed to lapse. His
government ownership plan, however,
Is a long step In the other direction.
Likewise his bank guaranty scheme.
It Is proposed to prosecute the prin
ter who took "Billy" Sunday's sermons
and copyrighted them and then sold
the copyright to Sunday for $3,600.
That man' place is In Wall street.
It is stated that Mr. Bryan takes no
interest in aviation. That's little sur
prising in view of the fact that he Is
scheduled for his quadrlennlal balloon
ascension on November 3.
A Montana woman shot her husband
because he refused to apologize for
some of his remarks. These Montana
folks are great sticklers for etiquette
and the proprieties. 1
Note that the. independence party
succeeded in electing six members of
the legislature in Vermont, placing the
democrats third In numerical position
In that body.
Why This Indignation
Chicago Record-Herald.
Mr. Bryan Indignantly denies that he la
worth 11,000.000. There are people who
can't understand why he ahould do It In
dignantly. ,..'
Shaky Millionaires Oatclasaed.
Chicago News. - ,
Mr. Bryan Is worth but a beggarly. $150,
000, but aa it is in real money and other
desirable possessions It Is more than some
Now York mlllonalres can show.
-Coolest
of the Bunch.
Chicago Record-Herald.
It would be difficult. Indeed, to find any
one who views the political situation with
more calmness than Is exhibited by
Charles Warren Fairbanks of Indiana.
Political Gymnastics.
. Chicago Tribune.
Only one short year, ago Colonel Watter-
aon was looking . despairingly around for
some available candidate who , could free
tha party from the blight of Bryanlsm!
Lot it Go at That.
Washington Post
The Omaha Bee appears to be amazed
at the discovery that there are 40,000 dis
tinct species of files. Perhaps it now sees
the folly of claiming that there are no flies
oa Omaha.
Not Thla Year.
Washington Post.
That .Nebraska democrat named Shallcn-
berger should get all the satisfaction ho
can out of his victory over Cowboy Mayor
DaMman ' in the gubernatorial primaries,
for It is doubtful if the republicans will
ltt Mm have the office.
Prosperity in Republican Times.
Philadelphia Press.
Colonef Bryan explains that he has only
made $160,000 In the last twelve years, and
s not the $1,000.00 plutocrat that Speaker
Canncn declared. v Cclonel Bryan's wealth
s not an Issue -1ft this campaign. How
ever, In-view of the fact that the demo
cratic candidate ;ls petistently trying to
show that only , the rich have a chance
under a republican administration, the ac
cumulation pi, SliQOp h twelve, years,, be
sides Jiving rather comfortably Jn the
meantime, is aq argument, tnat knocks him
out oft his o,wn '.position.', Colonel Bryan
has done well updr tweive years of re
publican administration.
1
THE PRESIDENT'S "BOYISHNESS."
t ' .''. SBsManasans
Baoyancy of Yoath, Manifested In All
Hla Projects.
Baltimore Sun.
A dispatch from Oyster Bay states that
tha tent which the president will take to
Africa when he goes on his big game ex
pedition was aet up on the lawn of Mr.
Roosevelt's home. Sagamore Hill, last
Monday. That day the preaident, accord
ing to the dispatch, "played about It like
boy, tightening ropes here and there and
arranging the folds to the best advantage."
This description gives a glimpse of Mr.
Koosevelt in one of the most attractive
phases of his personality. He is an enthu
siast In all matters In which he is inter
ested, and he has all the buoyancy of
youth. The president is 60 years young.
It is a great thing for a man who has
rounded tlje half century mile post, to feel
that he has not outlived the enthusiasm
of his earlier years. The picture of the
president "playing about the tent I'.ks a
boy" is a thoroughly natural one. Some
men were born old. They were never boys
in spirit. Mr. Rdosevelt has never out
grown , his boyishness. We can easily Im
agine him at 70 'years of ae "playing
about a tent" or engaging in recreations
with an interest as esger and a spirit as
youthful as he displays now In hla various
diversions. Wc suspect the president will
never get as old as his years. Fortunate
is the man who never loses his interest In
life, never feels that Ufa is not worth liv
ing, who always keeps In touch with youth
and Is neither ashamed nor disinclined to
"play about his tent like a boy."
FIRST I'MTED STATES CEX81 S.
daalnt Features of tha First t'onat
of Families.
New York Times.
The heads ot families whose nsmes
adorn the pages of the first United Statea
onsus of 1790. now for the firt time pub
lished at Washington, were less than night
limes as numerr us as the army of 70,000
census takers that will . be required to
ccunt the population of 90,000,000 In JS10.
There were six persons In the average
family, ao that, exclusive of slaves, the
total population In 1790 is set at 1.231.533.
The schedules for ths states of Delaware,
Oeorgla. Kentucky, New Jersey, TeDnos
see and Virginia were destroyed when the
British burned the capltol at Washington
In tha war of 1812, but the records of the
rest of the colonial states are complete.
The cost of the first census was $44,377.
For the census ot 1910 it will be approxi
mately $14,000,000, and the country ti grow
Ing so tremendously - that Director North
predicts It may thereafter require a com
plete enumeration every five years, instead
of for each decennial period. The I'r.ited
Sthles marshals and their assistants, C&1
in all, acting under orders from President
George Washington, had greater dilficulty
it seems, in obtaining answers to their
simple questions about free persons and
slaves than do the Ister enumerators alth
their more complex requirements. Or see
tlon of tha colonial population foui.d Bible
wsrrant for opposing I he count, while
other forefathers were somehow fearful
that increased taxes would result from
their disclosures. - Tlw heads nf families
In this city and slat- did admit, however
the possession (4 il.U s'avea. besides many
persons bound in service, and '.hey frrely
gave their names. It 1s of passing interest
to those who are still Irv dcubt about th
pronunciation nf the name' "Roosevelt'
thjt it was apelled In the original census
sheets with a single 'W
IIOMK VIKtYS OF BRYAX.
Sentiments of Lincoln People oted
. tr at Correspondent.
A eisff correspondent ' of ' ths Baltimore
Sun, wh recently visited 4,lnroln to feci
the public pulse on Bryanlsm, notes tht
result as f,ilws: -
Mr. Bryan la nndotibtrdly pfvpular In tMs,
hts home town. Me Is probably Its most
popular cltlien persons)-, but still the town
may not cast a majority ot ita votes Tor
him.
H- Is regarded as a good fellow, always
willing to oblige. He will come Into town
at almost any time and make an address
in one of the churches for a minister, but,
after all Is said, he is not as popular as la
generally believed In the east. Hla picture
can be seen In windows all over town, but
from a rathet casual observance, not an
actual count, It seems that there are Just
as many Taft pictures as those of him.
The people of this town are not slow
by any means. They ara Just as wide
awake to the main chance as any Connectl-
cut Yankee, and they realise that Mr.
Bryan Is an asset to the town of considera
ble commercial Importance. And they are
playing this up for all it Is worth. As
a result there have been several very amus
ing occurrences, particularly Just after the
Denver convention, when large delegations
wera expected to come to Lincoln to con
gratulate Mr. Bryan on his nomination.
One of these grew out of the hanging of a
Taft banner across one of the main streets
leading from a railroad station.
Protests were made by some of Mr. Bry
an's followers. They said It was not seemly
in a city like Lincoln to compel visitors
to Mr. Bryan to march under the banner
of their political enemies. A number of
republicans agreed, and tha controversy
really grew heated, until finally a leading
republican paper came out in a hot edi
torial giving the whole snap away. It
frankly pointed out that these expected
delegations would be large and would bring
considerable money to , Lincoln and that It
would mean much mora to Lincoln to get
thla democratic money than to air any po
litical sentiments that might he repre
sented b;' a Taft banner. The banner
stayed up, however, but another one went
up with the words "Welcome to Bryan's
Town," Thus do the thrifty Nebraskans
make capital out of theft twice-defeated
fellow citizen.
SHU, the pilgrims have not been coming
in aa expected. ' Mr. Bryan's front porch
was strengthened, but up to this time there
has been no repetition of the Canton pil
grimages, when thousands and thousands
of enthusiastic republicans went to' visit
McKlnley In 1896. There have been some
delegations, of course; but, really, this
pilgrimage business lias been a frost.
Ore can hear almost anything here for
and against Mr. Bryan. There Is preju
dice on both sides. One man will tell you
Bryan la the finest fellow on God's green
earth. He's an enthusiastic democrat. An
other will say he's a mountebank and a
faker. He's a rampant republican. A third
will say, "Oh, yes; Mr. Bryon Is popular
here.' He's a good cltlien and w all like
him; but" And he may be either a demo
crat or a republican. The truth 1 the
people are doubting Mr. Brycn's sincerity.
Hero's another singular thing: One of
the arguments the democrats are using
in advocacy cf the election cf Mr. Bryan
Is tha same that the republicans are using
for opposing him. And that Is that ne'e
not the same Bryan he was In ISM and 1900.
Tha democrats will tell you that Mr.
Bryan Is a more coriervattve, a better
balanced, a more thoughtful Bryan than
tha Bryan who led the democrats to defest
In those two memorable campaigns Since
1$9 they say ' he has studied and has
traveled. He is not so swayed by his Im
pulses, but acta with a cnlmer Judgment.
He now realises what the people want and
knows better bow to go after It.
Yes, say tha republicans, Bryan is not
the same Bryan h& was In 1896 and 1900.
That is the trouble. Then he was a man
of Ideals. He was mistaken, we believe.
In the remedies he proposed, but he was
honest In his belief In them. He was young
and Impulsive, but he rang true. Now be
has become commercialized. Ha knows
better what he wants, and knows better
how to go after It. He Is wil'lng to sacri
fice principle for expediency, nnd he plays
the game of poU'lcs as a politician. Not
that we object to his playir.g the game that
way, but we do object to his putting on a
sanctimonious smirk while he Is doing it,
pretending to be a follower after high
Ideals, a Moses leading his party out of
the wilderness by divine guidance. In other
words, wa object to his building up n poli
tical machine under the cover ot the teach
ings of "The Prince of Peace."
Another man In Lincoln, a former ad
mirer of Mr. Bryan, a democrat who voted
for him. twice and will vote for him
again, expressed his opinion thus: "Mr.
Bryan'a a good fellow and I like him.
He haa always treated me all right. I
am a democrat and am going to vote for
him. But to tell you the honest truth
Bryan'a got a yellow streak In him. Ha
keeps It pretty well concealed -usually, but
every now and then It shows. Bryan Isn't
a thoroughbred."
Now that's a pretty mean thing to say
about a man.
Another man, one who has known Mr.
Bryan for yeans, a former supporter of
his and once a warm friend, says this:
- "Mr. Bryan haa gone backward tn every
thing but finances. He Is now a rich
man. When he was a young man, when
he went to congress, he was poor. He had
never had a thousand dollars all at one
time In his life. He went to the republl
can convention of 1894 to cover It for the
paper he was employed by in Omaha, and
went to the democratic convention to do
tha aame thing. He could not make his
living at his law practice, and he was
getting $26 a week from the newspaper.
That, of course, was nothing against him
Then he was a fine fellow, a man of
high, even if Impracticable, Ideals. When
he went to that convention he had nd
more Idea of being nominated than you or
I have of buying the Union Pacific rail
road. By the exercise of Ills silver tongue
he stampeded the convention, and we
all know what followed. For a long time,
even after he was nominated a second
time, we kert In touch with each other.
After hla second defeat he deliberately
aet hla ideals aside and has been out for
th 'dough.' He coined the tinkling of bis
silver tongue Into golden dollars, and he
is as keen after them as any cf the plu
toerat he so picturejquely denounced In
other days.
"I do not condemn him for making
money', and I'm glxd to see hiin prosper.
And his money, so far as I know, has
been made honestly. But Bryan has be
come sordid. He has lost his Ideals and
the dollar look bigger to him than the
principles he used tu cherish. Ha is now
a political adventurer. Irs expediency
now, and he'll do anything politically to
make a point. He will advance a prop
osition, feel the public pulse .and If It
doesn't go he'll, drop It, Government
ownership of railroads, for Instance. Now
he's angling for the negro vote.
"But the principal objection I have to
Bryan Is hla persistent effort to arouse
class against class, to stir up vtiifa and
enmity between the poor and ths rich. All
through history we can find examples of
gllb-tongued demagogues who have aought
tu rids Into power by audi methods, and
The Necessity of
Good Banking Facilities
Is becoming more apparent each year.
It" is the earnest desire and determination of the First National
. rank of Omaha to supply the best possible facllitlee obtainable
for safe and conservative banking. ,
Its officers and directors spsre no effort to make the service
of this institution prompt, efficient and obliging and those who
entrust them with their accounts will appreciate the results
of careful and conservative methods.
Th accounts of firms, corporations and individuals, subject to
check, sre invited. ?''''"
First National Bank ol Omaha
" iSlh and Farnam Sis.
With a capital of $500,000 and surplus and profits of $76,000,
what could be mors secure than one of their interest bearing (3)
Certificate of Deposits. Keep your surplus funds sttwork.
sometimes they have aucceeded. But they
have always brought sorrow and Buffer
ing and misery In their train. Mr. Bryan
knows this. He la not- a fool. And not
being a fool, there Is the only alterna
tive. He Is a demagogue, hungry for
power and willing to get It at no matter
what cost." i
And this la also a hard thing to say
against a man.
PERSONAL NOTES.
Naturally, any sea serpent who claimed
to be on the coast of Ireland was at once
set down as a liar.
Judge Parker's enthusiasm for Bryan
seems to be about a stand-off for the en
thusiasm ot the Nebraskan four years ago.
George Cooper, on English bookmaker.
leaves an estate of $2,500,000 won from
the fellows who think they know all about
"playing the pontes."
Pugilist Nelson, got only $7,568 for whip
ping another man. However, there really
are people who habitually do useful things
and don't get so much In a year.
Street car conductors who find plugged
nickels In their money bags may soothe
their feelings by remembering how Russell
Sage, expert, - was plugged with gold brick
securities and left $60,000,000 In real money.
Mrs. Fanny Wells Embre, whose death
occurred In New York City several .days
ago, at the age of 81, was national represen
tative of the state of New York on the
ranltary commission tn the war for the
union.
Word has been received at Washington
from Dr. Robert Koch, the German scien
tist, now at Vancouver, B. C. that he Is
on his way to Washington to attend as a
delegate tha International Tuberculosis
congress, which Is to ba held at Washing
ton beginning September 21 and to continue
for three weeks.
James J. Hill returned to New York from
8. Paul, where he had been for several
weeks. Asked about the remark made by
E. H. Harriman In Portland, Ore., that
complete harmony had been re-established
between the Harriman and Hill Interests
In the Pacific Northwestern territory, Mr.
Hill replied: "That's nothing new, is it?"
He said he knew nothing about Mr. Harrl
man's reported prediction of extensive rail
road building In that region.
Foxy Bill's Forajotten Thnnder.
.' 8t. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Not so much as 'a whisper comes from
Mr. Bryan charging that anybody has
stolen the free silver thunder of his flrct
campaign. And yet "the whole firmament
rocked and reverberated with his racket
about the necessity oi going into free sli
ver to save the courtry from eyorlasting
ruin. Foxy Mr. Bryan, to forget the big
end ot his thunder.
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"Did that girl make' goodf In the candy
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"No;" she maae .goodies Baltimnie
American.
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"I'm In a difficulty over1 my girl."
"What's wrong?"
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Poor lady! she seemad, to , be going down
hill rapidly." " '
"Has she aged ao TmichJ'V ' ',
"I don't know about her aging, but her
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got on ths grade." Philadelphia Tress.
"Object to my language, do. you? Well,
I believe in calling .things by their right
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"Oh, that's all right. But couldn't vmi
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land Leader,
Grandmother Why Is the baby so happy?
Nurse Oh, his mother --.and father are
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Nurse Nor I ma'am. But the child's
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ONCE UPON A TIME.
J. W. Foley tn Collier's Weekly.
Once upon a time rare flowers grew
On every shrub and bush we used to see,
Tha skies abova. our heads were always
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Of swart-cheeked "pirates from a far-off
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When outtases were fle-rce and-rovers bVd
Don't you remember? once upon a tlm.
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Once upon a time from- sua to Sun
The hours were full of Joy there was no
care.
And webs of gaudy dream" In air wer
spun '
Of deeds heroic and of fortunes fair;
The Jangling school house bell was all th
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Was all the sorrow of the long ago
Don't you remember? once upon a time.
Once upon a time the witches rode
In sinister snd ominous parade -Upon
their atlcks at Bight, and queer lights
glowed
With eery noises by the goblins made;
And many things mysterious thero were
For boyish. cliacHsufco Jal tStiUueugh the
grime
That held them brown; and shadows queer
would stir ,-
Don't you remember? once upon a tim.
Once upon a time our faith was vsst
To compass all tha things on sea and
land
That boys have trembled o'er for ages past.
Nor ever could explain or understand.
And in that faith found happiness too deep
For all the gifted tongues ot prose or
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