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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
Flats of Nebraska, Douglae County. se.t
Ouorgo B. Tzaohuck, treasurer of TM
Bee Publishing: company, being- duly
aworn. ..aye that the actual number of
full ami complete copies of The Daily.
Morning-. Evening- and Sunday Bee printed
during the month of August, 10$. waa aa
followa:
i s.iao n aMo
1 38,(30 18 38,110
1 39.860 19 36,070
4 38,840 20 38,990
S 39,790 21 38,880
39.790 22 36,070
T 38,900 23 38,400
1 36,470 24 36,960
9 39,706 II 38,940
10 36,636 28 .16,140
11 36,410 27 36,010
12 36,010 tt 36,690
IS 36,990 29 36,490
14 36,070 10 39,900
IS 38,870 11 36,180
It 89,600
Totala 1.117,000
Leas u avoid and returned copies. . HAM
Net total 1,108,484
Dally average 39,609
GEO ROB B, TZ3CHUCK,
Treasurer.
Subscribed In my presence and aworn to
before ma thla 1st day of September, UOi.
(Seal.) - ROBERT HUNTER.
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WHEJf OUT Of TOWN.
Subscribers leavtaai the city teas
porarlly ahamld ! Tfe Be
walled tacaa. Address will b
chaaa-etf aa often aa reqoasted.
Naturally the foot ball season opens
with k rush.
Of Kohrs you know the Montana
man who got tbo president's letter.
"Who Is the author of 'The Follies
of 108?" asks a reader. W. J.
Bryan. '
Mr. Bryan should Inform the public
whether the swimming is still good up
at Esopus.
The phonograph has one advantage
over the amateur spellbinder. It can't
make gestures.
Main muste losing Its conservaJ
tilts. In Mhe'-' gubernatorial fight,
"Bert" defeated "Obadiah."
It would appear that the question of
veracity is the paramount issue with
Mr. Hearst and Mr. Haskell.
"Taft lets Bryan talk," says the
Sprlnsleld (Mass.) Republican. Not
even Mr. Taft could prevent that.
The sun is about to cross the line,
but this is no reason to expect that the
weather man will behave any different.
George W. Berge has a few hours
left before he will be compelled to de
clare whether he Is a man or a mouse.
"Will the aeroplane defy the skill of
our gunners?" asks the Baltimore Sun.
Ob, no. We'll get after 'em with air
guns.
Mr. Ounn is the democratic candi
date for governor of Connecticut. Mr.
Cannon should make some speeches in
that state.
Illinois holds the record for the
number of lockjaw cases. The record
was established In July, not during the
campaign.
A southern physician claims to have
discovered a eura for the "sleeping
sickness." He might try It on the
democratic party.
There are any number of "melan
choly Danes," now that their most
trusted statesman has embezzled some
$6,000,000 of the public funds.
Governor Haskell of Oklahoma has
written a campaign poem in which bo
makes Bryan rhyme with "tryin." It
rhymea Just as well with "fryln'."
Mr. Bryan Insists that he is "abso
lutely right on all the great issues of
today' even if he has been absolutely
wrong on all the great issues of the
past.
Arisoaa la Increasing Its copper out
put at the rate of 3,000,000 pounds a
month. It is refreshing to find Ari
zona producing something besides
quser politics.
It la unfair to charge Mr. Bryan
with having fooled the people. The
results In national elections when he
was a candidate show that the people
refuaed to be fooled.
Mr. Taft received wishes of many
happy returns of the day when he cele
brated his 61st birthday. Mr. Taft's
happiest returns will be received on
the nlgbt of November 3.
If tho Bryanli.es will only take their
y6 off Foraker for a moment they
will im Haskell and Bailey and a few
other amlneat followers of the "Peer
let6," whose records are none too
bright
THE rttUUFOF THE TtTDIAG.
It if an old adage that the proof of
the pudding is in the eating.
When the Junkln decision was ren
dered overruling the protest acslnst
accepting a populist flllnn for presi
dential elector from the Second con
gressional district on the ground that
the populists had not cast'l per cent
of the votes In this dlHtrlrt, The Bee
protested that the decision was unwar
ranted by the law and the facts.
The secretary of state had before
him evidence to show that no populist
candidate for county office had received
any votes whatever at the preceding
election In any one of the three coun
ties making up this district. He had
evidence before htm that in Omaha and
South Omaha together not a dozen
voters had on registering stated that
they affiliated with the populist party
so as to entitle them to vote the popu
list ticket at the primary. Nowhere
In the election returns of the preceJing
year was there anything to show that
any populist votes had been cast in any
one of these three counties for any
office unless It were assumed that the
difference in the votes polled by the
candidate for regent, who had both
democratic and populist nominations,
and that of the candidate for regent.
who had only the democratic nomina
tion, represented the votes of populists,
and even then no amount of scraping
could muster up the necessary 1 per
cent of the total vote. To find some
thing on which to turn down the pro
test It was necessary to go outside of
the record and to rely on a Action that
an unofficial poll of Washington county
several years old furnished the ratio
of populists in the whole district, and
thus to Invent a populist vote In the
other counties sufficient to constitute
the needed 1 per cent.
The official canvass of the primary,
recently completed, ought to be an eye-
opener for the public as well as for the
secretary of state. The fraud of put
ting the democratic presidential elector
for the Second district on the ticket
has been consummated by the casting
of exactly nine votes in three counties.
Taking the highest number of votes
polled by the populists in this district,
by adding together the two columns
representing the candidates for the gu
bernatorial nomination, we have this
magnificent showing of populist votes:
Douglas 12
Sarpy 0
Washington S
Total 17
The total maximum populist vote in
the Second Nebraska district, as dis
closed by the recent primary, Is exactly
17. No intelligent person will want
further proof of this great political
fraud perpetuated by Mr. Bryan and
his associates in order to purloin pop
ulist votes not Intended to be cast for
him.
"A SOUTHERN VAMPIRE."
Eminent physicians. In the, south
have become convinced that the "lazy
worm" Is not the product of supersti
tion or negro folklore, but is a 'real
"southern vampire," as the Atlanta
Constitution calls It, w hich is menacing
the health and very existence of from
150.000 to 200,000 Georgians. The
Georgia state board of, health has
taken up the warfare against the-hook
worm, or the "lazy worm," which they
assert causes more deaths in Georgia
each year than tuberculosis and pneu
monia combined.
The physicians state that the hook
worm is picked up in its embryo stage
by barefooted children aud reaches the
vital organs through the circulation.
The children grow into sickly, blood
less and Indolent adults. Physicians
Insist that the "lazy sickness' can be
cured by a few doses of thymol, but
the ignorance and superstition of the
negroes and Illiterate whites prevent
the general use of the remedy.
There Is one sure preventive of the
"lazy sickness" and that is the wear
ing of shoes. It may yet be necessary
for Georgia to protect the health of
its citizens by making the wearing of
shoes compulsory.
DEMOCRATS AM THE fiKGRO.
While Mr. Bryan, with more politi
cal acumen than he usually displays, Is
making a determined effort to side
track discussion of the negro question
In this campaign, some of his associ
ates on the national democratic com
mittee are apparently as equally deter
mined to force the. Issue into promi
nence and the result is certain to be
exceedingly embarrassing to Mr.
Bryan.
Democrats of West Virginia recently
declared In their state platform for
the disfranchisement of the negro vot
ers In that state "for the protection of
the purity of the ballot," although ne
groes cast less than 6 per cent of the
votes in the state. Now comes John
H. Atwood, member of the national
committee from Kansas and in charge
of the speakers' bureau for the west,
and In a signed letter demands the
disfranchisement of the negro voters
in Kansas. Mr. Atwood, In the course
of a brutal and vicious assault upon the
negro, declares that the colored voter
Is a menace to Kansas and that the
state must get rid of him.
Kansas democrats have even less ex
cuse than the West Virginia democrats
for attacking the negro. The negro
casts less than 3 per cent of the Kan
sas vote, and the record shows that a
majority of the Kansas negroes are
neither Illiterate or vtcluua. Mr. At
wood, however, Is a real democrat, and
shares the general democratic desire
to have the entire negro vote disfran
chised, In the north as well as In the
south.
Coloael Watlerson is also causing
trouble for Mr. Bryan. Dispatches
from Chicago state that Colonel Wat
terson has been urgiug Mr. Bryan "to
shape his speeches on his tour of the
close states so as to draw the negroes
from their alliance with the republican
party." We doubt If Mr. Bryan is
diplomat enough to accept the con
flitting advice that Is being offered to
him without making a muss of it.
What can Mr. Bryan say In Maryland,
Kansas or West Virginia, where the
democratic leaders are demanding the
disfranchisement of the negro, that
kill win any colored voter from the
republican ticket? It will be embar
rassing to him to ask them to vote the
democratic ticket in close states and
submit without protest to disfranchise
ment as soon as the democrats get into
power In those states. He can hardly
afford to ask the northern negro to
vote the democratic ticket after first
taking the precaution to see that the
south Is not looking.
THE AWAKEXiyO OF CHlSA.
Covetous and predatory neighbors
that have been keeping an eye on
China for the last century or more and
making predictions as to what would
happen when the sleeping yellow giant
was awakened, may find food for
thought, in the report just made by
the postal department of China. That
document shows that in 1907 the post
offices in China Increased 40 per cent
In number while the gain in the num
ber of letterl, post cards and newspa
pers handled was nearly BO per cent.
The significance of this gain In pos
tal business can not be underestimated.
It would not attract attention In a new
and progressive western country, but
when it occurs in a nation that has
practically a stationary population it
must indicate great development and
activity in other directions. It Indi
cates a quickening in the social and
business intercourse of the Chinese
people and a stirring of the vast bulk
of the most populous nation in the
world. The increase in the postal
business Is the most assuring sign of
the long-heralded, long-delayed "awak
ening of China."
FOOD AKD MEAT EX Tit ACTS.
The chemistry experts of the De
partment of Agriculture have been busy
again and this time have upset some of
the prevailing theories about the food
value of extracts and prepared meat
products. The theorists got .usy some
time ago and insisted that the coming
food would be served in capsule form
and that a man might carry enough
provender in his vest pocket to last
him on a trip around the world. The
chemists now epoil this pretty dream.
A recent bulletin of the department,
containing the results of analyses
made of the meat extracts of commerce.
asserts that the food value of meat ex
tracts is very limited, although they
are a source of energy to the body and
highly valuable as stimulants for the
111.
It Is explained that when prepared
under the best possible conditions a
commercial meat extract Is of neces
sity, in order, that It may not spoil,
deprived of the greater part of the
coagulablo protelds, which constitute
the chief nutritious elements of the
juice. Valuable as these preparations
may be and are in the sick room, their
nutritious value is often exaggerated
and it is on that account that the de
partment has deemed it wise to publish
the result of Its Investigations.
That consultation at Esopus on Sun
day must have reminded Alton B.
Parker of one afternoon at Denver In
July, when Chairman Clayton looked
steadily over the head of the late
candidate for president on the demo
cratic ticket and announced, "Ignatius
J. Dunn of Omaha has the floor." The
studied insult offered on that occasion
must now very greatly Incline Parker
and his friends to support the "Peer
less." The legislative record of the repub
lican party In Nebraska is good enough
to stand on. It is a record of prom
ises redeemed, platform pledges en
acted into law and reforms Instituted
that are of unquestioned benefit to all
the people of the state. It is a record
of which any party could be proud and
absolutely answers any charge the op
position may make.
A Chicago minister suggests that a
barrel stave properly applied is the
remedy needed in the high school frat
epidemic. This is probably a correct
prescription, and if it were generally
followed there would be less need for
Juvenile courts and a lot of other re
form fripperies that are now costing
the taxpayers large sums annually.
New Jersey sends that story about
the member of the threshing crew who,
in a fit of anger, thiew one of his
companions head first Into the thresh
ing machine. The story ordinarily
comes from Wichita several weeks
earlier in the season.
The wonderful array of democratic
war horses is coming up from the out
lying precincts to the confusion of
"Brother-ln-Law Tom" and the other
members of the esoteric circles of the
party. Harmony is a big thing some
times. The World-Herald gives considera
ble space to telling the good the pure
food law has done for Nebraska. It
might also add that this law was
passed by a republican legislature and
is being enforced by republican offi
cials. Mr. Bryan declares that ho will carry
every doubtful state west of the Mis
souri. That might be important and
gignificent if there were any doubtful
states west of the Missouri.
"In opposing the election of Mr.
Bryan," says the democratic Baltimore
Sun, "we are not opposing true demoe-
racy or true democratic principles." By
the may, what is a democrat?
Marconi's plan for running steam
ships with sunshine does not appear so
improbable when it is remembered how
long the democrats have been running
their party niarhlnery with moonshine.
The I'rople Do Hole.
New York Pun.
For an uncommonly striking Illustration
of the truth that the ' People do Rule" Mr.
Bryan might be referred to this case of
Charlts Evans MiikIkk.
Manlflcance of Two lis."
Boston Transcript.
If Bryun narrowly miosis an election, this
time it will moan hia nomination for years
hence. If Taft narrowly misses success It
will mean Roosevelt. Thua seven weeks
from today will to some extent fureshailow
1912.
A Supporting; Circumstance.
Boston Transcript.
If Mr. Taffs response to Bryan, that the
people do already rule, needed support, It
would find It In the number bosses who
have lately been "bounced" from their self
constituted places of political dictation by
the people.
Where I.Uhl Would Help ome.
Boston Herald.
There are at least 13.145,172 reasons,
ready at hnnd, In favor of Postmaster Gen
eral Meyers proposition for teaching the
pupils in the public schools how to address
letters properly, according to the latest
returns from the dead letter office.
Maker strives to I'leane.
Minneapolis Journal.
Sme man has Invented a new religion
and reduced the number of commandments
from ten to seven. He ought to make a
hit, for there are any number of people
who believe that they could Improve the
commandments by cutting out a few.
Down to Particulars.
Kansas City Journal.
Mr. Bryan's Ananias club is not large,
but It Is lively. The Hon. William Ran
dolph Hearst can talk In half a dozen
neWHpapers and on any number of stumps,
and from every one of them he declares
that Bryan Is another. And furthermore
ho gives very precise particulars to prove it.
Power of Public Opinion.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Governor Hughes has been renominated
by the people, and renominated on his rec
ord. He la Identified with sound and proper
policies and with dignified and clean
methods. He has stood for corporate hon
esty, for obedience to law, for legitimate
protection of the public Interests, for sane
regulation of the things needing direction
and supervision, and for official Integrity
and Independence.
The Real Thins In Bosses.
New York Hun.
This triumph of unorganized public sen
timent over the elements and factors usu
ally decisive In a political convention is
marvelous. The nomination is dictated by
a boss, but for once the boss dictating the
nomination Is the boss Intended and in
dicated by the spirit of our political in
stitutionsthe people. There never was
anything quite like It before. May there
be much that resembles It hereafter.
Tne Aeroplane Martyr.
Boston Transcript.
The late Lieutenant Selfridge, who was
killed in the wreck of the Wright aeroplant
at Fort Myer, was an army officer who had
distinguished. .biniself as an expert In
ordnance and aerostatics. Selfrtdge la a
name so intimately asaoclated with tho
navy, for almoat'a century, that some de
viation, in'the racial talent muet hava tent
the unfortunate lieutenant Into the army.
Instances of army officers with sons In the
navy, and of navy officers with sons In the
army are not uncommon, evidencing In
families a strong predllactlon for the "ser
vice" whether ashore or afloat. The mod
ern conditions of warfare are such that
hereditary precepts for the army are not
altogthcr valueless In the navy. Doubtless
to a contributory cause la the habit of
8ervlng the government, whence comes a
natural preference for those employments
which besides carrying aoclal prestige,
carry the advantage of Immunity from
political changes. A commission in either
service opens a career to many which If It
offers few cash prizes, holds forth the in
ducement of good pay regularly received.
SOT A FAIR COMPARISON.
Question of Fortune Between Mr.
Bryan and Speaker Cannon.
Brooklyn Eagl (Ind. dem.).
According to his own admission, Mr.
Bryan la worth about (150,000. He calls for
a schedule of Speaker Cannon's assets,
convinced that the Inventory would prove
I'ncle Joe to be the richer of the two.
Without a doubt It would. And without a
doubt it should. The Nebraskan Is the
speaker's Junior by many years. When Mr.
Bryun shall have had as long a past as
the. speaker now looks back upon, he will
have seven figures to his credit, assuming
his accumulations to keep up at their pres
ent rate. For his turn of mind Is unques
tionably thrifty, and a good start once, ef
fected, dollars multiply. Whatever he nry
be worth, I'ncle Joe neither patronizes
fashionable tailors nor smokes cigars of
Indisputable quality. Besides, he does not
make money out of politics, which state
ment will not be made of Mr. Hryan other
wise than by way of a Joke.
INJIHIOLS DRV fcPEI.L.
Damage Wrought Over Vaat Stretch
of Country,
Pittsburg Dispatch.
The long duration of dry though for the
greater part not excessively hot weather
is bearing heavily on the rural districts.
With the exception of a day's rain In early
August, and sporadic sliowera a week ago,
the northern section haa been unwatered
for nearly, if not quite, six weeks. The re
sulta are tragic In many sections.
Forest fires are raging along the north
shore of Lake Superior, In the timber
regions of Wisconsin and in upper Michi
gan. Towns and villages surrounded by
forests have been threatened with extinc
tion, and in one or two cases the threat
haa become stern reality. Even aa near as
along the line between northeastern Ohio
and northwestern Pennsylvania the proof
has been afforded that the forests have
reached a condition in which the sparks
from locomotives or the careless smoker
or camper may develop Into disaster. A
more universal burden is the exhaustion of
water on many farms. A locality is re
ported where the inhabitants have to send
twenty miles for drinking water; while
live stock Is compelled to seek the Impure
water of stagnant pools, with the Increasing
danger that even that poor supply may be
exhausted.
This drouth has come at a period when
It chief injury to the crops is the delay
in seeding the coming winter wheat crop.
It has. of courae. worked no evil on cropa
already harvested, and extensive Injury to
the ripening corn crop is not yet reported.
But all classes will earnestly hop for the
speedy advent of rains that will quench
the forest fires, fill the springs and streams
and restore the fertility oi tl-.e oarched
eai in.
ln( Kt E onroR ATWa,
Analyst of the !)rcllon on the "Com
modities Clanae."
The Outlook, New York.
Judge Gray, In the prim- pal opinion of
the court, declares that 1 1 if legislation by
which the people through congress at
tempted to divorce rtllroadmff from coal
mining Is drastic, haish. dangerous In Its
tendency, and unconstitutional:
'From every point of lew from which
we have been able to approach the quea
tlon. the unreasonableness and consequent
Invalidity of this so-ualled "commodities
clause" Is apparent. It Invades the rights
I of the stale by striking down the liberty
hitherto Innocently enjoyed by its cltlxens.
under the laws and usages of the common
wealth, to engage In Interstate commerce
to the fullest extent, as to nil harmless
articles, whether owned or not owned by
the carrier, and deprives of their property
these defendants, contrary to the letter
and spirit of the fifth amendment to the
constitution. If the enactment In question
be warranted by the commerce clause of
the constitution. It Is hard to see what
bounds may be set to the expenditure or
that power. H will. Indeed, be an open
door through which the forces of a cen
tralisation hitherto unknown may enter at
will, to the overthrow of that Just balance
between federal and atate power, for which
the makers of the constitution so wisely
provided, as an essential to the preserva
tion of our dual form of government."
We cannot see the force of Judge Gray's
argument that the defendants were "In
nocently and lawfully engaged In trans
porting coal which they own," and that
therefore it is drastic and unjust for con
gress to declare such transportation un
lawful. The same argument might be ap
plied, it appears to us, to any legislation
regulating or modifying the practices of
civilized society. Children less than 10 years
old were formerly permitted by some states
to work twelve hours a day In factories
and mines. So far as the government Is
concerned this was a lawful and Innocent
practice. "Vested rights of ownership." to
quote Judge Gray, were built up on the
practice. When some of these statea pro
hibited this practice, and thus to some ex
tent destroyed the profits gained from
"vested rights of ownership." was the leg
islation harsh and drastic? But even
further, tt appears to be clear that this
"vested right of ownership'' was exer
cised In Pennsylvania directly contrary to
the state constitution. We fall to see how,
under these circumstances, the railways
can plead Innocence.
Of course Judge Gray Is entitled to his
opinion that the Hepburn act registers a
tendency toward a dangerous centralisa
tion which endangers the preservation of
our government, but we do not understand
! It to be the function of the courts to de
termine whether legal enactments are ex
pedient or desirable, but simply whether
they accord with the principles of consti
tutional law. The social and commercial
evils which have grown out of the con
solidation of tho two distinct industries
of coal mining and railway transportation
have not been denied even by the railways
themselves. I'p to the time of the present
decision the opposition to the enforcement
of the "commodities clause" has been
chiefly, not that It Is unjustifiable, or even
outside the function of the government,
but simply that It would be too difficult
to enforce on account of the complication
of determnlng what proportion of the
stocks and bonds of the railways Involved
rests upon purely railway property and
what rests upon the mining property.
The Outlook does not minimize the enor
mous difficulty in tho way of enforcing
tho "commodities, clause," but, in view of
the constitutional provision of the stale of
Pennsylvania Itself, we shall be greatly
interested to see if Judge Gray's opinion Is
sustained by the supreme court. Judge
Gray's reputation la so high that no fair
minded man will for a moment Impute
political motives to the decision of a court
over which he presides, but It Is not al
together Improbable that Mr. Bryan may
seize upon this decision aa an Indication
that the present administration is not In
earnest in its desire to regulate and con
trol the great Interstate corporations. Lst
Mr. Bryan or his supporters may take this
ground, we venture to remind them that
Judge Gray and Judge Dallas, who are
opposed to the attempt to regulate the coal
Industry In behalf of the consumer, are
democrats, while Judge Bufflngton, who
dissents from their opinion. Is a republican.
VITAL QVESTION9 1XVOLVKD,-
I'olnts In Appeal In the Commodity
Clanae Cases.
Chicago Record-Herald.
There would be little profit in specula
tion concerning the outcome of the govern
ment's appeal, Just ordered by the attor
ney general, in the commodity clause
cases. It Is plain, however, that neither the
Department of Justice nor the commerce
commission is greatly oppressed or im
pressedby the adverse decision of a ma
jority of the federal circuit court for the
Pennsylvania district. A reversal seems to
be expected with considerable confidence.
This confidence is based, of course, on
the supreme court's past decisions In thor
oughly considered cases which Involved the
construction and application of the com
merce clause. It Is true that recent opin
ions of that tribunal have been full of
dicta In favor of the preservation of the
rights and powers of the states, but it Is
by no means clear that the commodities
clause Infringes upon any reserved state
right of power. How, for. example, can
the state of Pennsylvania authorize and
regulate the shipment of products Into
other states? The commodities clause
leaves Pennsylvania as free as It ever was
to regulate Intrastate commerce. The coal
owning roads are not prohibited by that
clause from retaining and operating their
mines and selling their product In Penn
sylvania itself. Nor does the clause
directly require them to give up or sell or
suspend work In the mines. All It sr.ys is
that audi carriers as own and operate
mines or conduc t other Industries shell not
be allowed to transport their products In
Interstate commerce.
Has not congress the constitutional
right to aay this? Haa It not the plenary
and exclusive power to regulate Interstate
commerce that la, to lay down terma and
conditions upon which, and upon which
only, citizens and corporations may engage
In such commerce? So far as the commerce
clause is concerned, the states as separate
sovereignities might as well be deemed
lnexlstent: they have absolutely nothing to
do with Interstate commerce and Inter
state transportation.
Thua the power to regulate Interstate
commerce Includes the power to prohibit
was settled by the famous lottery case.
8tatea may legalize lotteries and permit
them to flourish, but that does not pre
vent congress from saying that lottery
tickets shall not be transmitted by carriers
engaged In interstate commerce. Such
prohibition may destroy property rights
and vested Interests, but It Is constitu
tional, for It affects no right lawfully rec
ognized by the atatea. They remain su
preme within their sphere.
These are the considerations that Kill be
urged before the supreme court, for the
essential issue In the commodities case is
the extent and nature of Hie power of con
gress to regulate Interstste commerce and
prseribf conditions for ih ihin io
ensse In it
One oi the Government's
most noted scouts, Ben Sheffield, once said that though he had
travelled through the Rocky Mountains thousands of miles
alone, and often with no protection better than a good knife,
the only time that ho was ever afraid was In a large city after
dark, and then he wanted to have his watch and his money in
Places of Sately
such as the First National Bank of Omaha.
This bank Is a place of SAKKTi, not only because It bss
large fire and burglar proof vaults for the keeping of Its own
cash and the valuables of Its customers, but also because It has,
year after year, steadily increased the amount of its assets as
well as the quality of them.
Whenever you have surplus Junds, It would be wise to take
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PERSONAL KOTK.
That Pittsburg millionaire who Is giving
his money to the people whom he desires
to have It, without making them wait till
he dies, can hardly expect to be loudly ap
plauded by the lawyers.
The American ambassador, David Jayne
Hill, will officiate Ht the christening cere
monies at the launching of the North Ger
man Lloyd company's new steamship,
George Washington, October 81, nt Bre
men.
W. W. Hllditch of the Sheffield Scientific
school lias by laboratory tests ascertained
that the bacteria found on paper money,
while running up Into the thousands for
each bill, are not usually of an Infectious
or virulent type.
A mining promoter has been arpested in
Los Angeles for tempting tho nimble dollar
with an excess of promises. The trouble
seems to be that the, promoter didn't brace
the ground floor sufficiently to keep the
sucker family out of the cellar.
Dr. John A. Brasher of Pittsburg is a
nice, reassuring aatronomcr. "The sun
spots," he says, "presage nothing on the
earth except magnetic disturbances, and
the most harm that I expect from them
la that they may Interfere with wireless
telegraph."
Captain Seth Bullock has left Deadwnod
for Huron, 8. D., where he will meet Ker
mlt Roosevelt and go for a three weeks'
hunt on the Standing Rock and Cheyenne
River Indian reservations. This is the
third consecutive year Captain Bullock haa
accompanied Kermlt Roosevelt on hunts on
the reservation.
A RAILROAD ASSOCIATION.
Projected I'nlon of Managers, Inrn
tora and Employes.
Chicago Tribune.
The American Railroad Employes and
Investors' association which la now b?lng
formed will represent capital the owners
of railroad stocks and bonds and labor
lhat is, the men who work oil the roads.
The representation of capital Invested In
the manifold Industries served by the ron1
and of the labor employed In those Indus
tries Is not contemplated. But the asso
ciation speaks fair to these unrepresented
Interests, It says it I Wishes toienfoumge
a friendly feeling on the part of the pub
lic toward the railroads.
It promises, while woiklng to secure a
fair return to capital and labor engaged
In them, to conalder and promote the wel
fare of the public.
An association which lives up to vuch
a promise cannot be regarded with appre
hension. Indeed, the more close and
friendly the relations between railroad
capital and railroad labor the better will It
be In one Important particular for the
Industrial world. It will he in tiie nature
of a guarantee against railroad strikes.
The community dreads those strikes
above all others, so disastrous to business
are they. It would welcome an assurance
of future exemption from them.
Or of the professed objects of the as
sociation Is to prove to the people that a
general advance In rates will be Just and
reasonable. If It have facta, let It sub
mit them. The public, when not unduly
excited. Is Just and reasonable. It is de
sirous that there should be fair return on
real railroad capital and that railroad men
should get fair pay. It may be prepared
to admit that an advance In aonie ratea
will be needed to meet thoae evils As re
gards that matter. It will accept the con
clusions of the Interstate Commerce coin
mission. But to acquire and retain usefulness the
association must keep out of politics. So
long as It shall play the part of an educa
tor and a harmonizer no exception will
be taken to It. If it shall be found at
tempting to exert Illegitimate influence In
congress or In state legislatures then the
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public will begin to look on the association
aa Its enemy.
Railroad Investors and employes have a
right to work together for their own com
mon good, but they must use fair means
and must not trespass on the rights of t hi-,
public In their eagerness to help thcir-Selves.
A SMILE OR TWO.
"Does your husband belong to any secret
societies?" inquired Mrs. Kawner.
"No." answered Mrs. Mlddlehlok: "I hsve
found out the name of every one of them. '
Chicago Tribune.
"The young man who comes to see our
Bthel Is always making the most beautiful
plans."
"But you don't want a dreamer to ituuv
your daughter?"
"What are you talking about? Hs's no
dreamer; he's an architect." Baltimore
American.
Old Father Time looked "alt tn."
"Why Is It you always look so bsd In
the summer?" asked the friend.
Father Time sighed.
"It In because so many people kill me
during the Summer months," he responded
feebly. Chicago Newa.
"What we need to beat the corporations."
said tho reformer. "Is atrong, brainy men
who can be depended on In every emer
gency." ,
"Yea," answered Senator Sorghum; "hut
every time such a man Is1 discovered some
corporation Is sure to want him on Its pay
roll at a fabulous salary." Washington
Star.
Physician That boll of youra Is the result
of Inadequate circulation.
Political Campaigner Impossible, air. In
the last two weeks I have circulated
through twenty-seven different states, and
made an average of ten or twelve speeches
In every one of them.. Chicago Tribune.,
"I suppose." said the society baby ti
ita nurae, "that my Inclination at present
Is due to the Influence of heredity."
"In what way do your Inclinations tend?"
asked the nurse politely.
"I want." said the society baby, "to give
a bawl." Houston Post.
In fervid, passionate terms he told net
he loved her.
6he listened with haughty air.
"I muat have a man not of words, but
of deeds," she said.
So next day he brought her his deeds,
so her father's lawyer could examine their
titles. Baltimore American.
"Ever atudy auto-suggestion?"
"Well, I take the suggestion all right
when the auto honk but I never gave the
subject much , thought." Philadelphia
Ledger.
TUB CHAUFFEUR'S COMPLAINT.
New York Times.
I drove a large red touring car
That once was new and smart.
But now with constant wear its looks
Would break a chauffeur's heart.
Because they never grant me time
To clean the poor machine,
Kxcept to spray it with u hone
And give it gasoline.
I early rise and take the boss
To business in the town,
And back, and waiting at the door
When Madame marches down;
Then comes a long and weary round
Of shopping, calls, and rides,
And If 1 ask for leave to lunch
My appetite she chides. -
I've only time to fill the tank
And take a hasty bite,
Before tho son and heir requires
The auto for the night.
He lends It with his college chums
And keeps it on the go.
"Till I'm asleep behind the wheel,
And dawn begins to glow.
'TIs thus they work me every day
For twenty hours or more.
And run the suffering old 'mobile
For all the twenty-four,
I'ntll the motor Jingles like
A bunch of rusty wires
And mud Is caked upon the top,
Tho bonr.et, and the tires.
Sim day the whole machinery
Will go upon a atrlkv,
And leave ua for the coroner
In plecea on the pike;
And all hecauae some people think.
I'pnn thia craxy atar.
They get perpetual motion when
They buy an auto-car.
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