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STATEMENT OF" C1RCCLATION.
Btata of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss. :
Oeorge B Tsachuck. treasurer of The
Bee Publishing Company, being duly
worn, aaya that the actual number ot
f'HI and complete copies of The Dally.
Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed
during the; month of September. 130S, was
as rollows:
1 30,000
t 97,630
t 3.06O
4 8S.SS0
36.140
38,700
7 38,630
I 3,6I0
t 38440
16 38,810
II 38.880
1 8S,BO0
II 38,800
14 . 38,388 '
II..' 38,380
36,190
17 38.300
II 36,340
It 36,370
JO 36,000
1 38,830
22 36,830
IS 36,490
24 38,880
2 36,460
2...'. 36,490
IT 37,700
18 38.440
21...: 36,490
10 36,700
Total 1,098,390
Less unsold and returned copies. . 8,437
Net total,
Dally average
GEOttOB B.
1,086,983
36,9.38
TZ.SCHUCK,
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Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before me this 1st day of October, 1906.
(Seal.) ROBERT HUNTER.
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WHKX OCT OP TOWJT.
abacrfbera leaving; the city tem
porarily Id ' have The Beet
mailed to thean. Address will 1e
changed as oflra as requested.
The base ball fans are learning to
talk English again.
"Old gas metera must go," says the
New York Times. They do.
Wyoming and Colorado are sending
messages of cheer to the coal man.
Morse, the "ice king," Is on trial in
New York and the lawyers are making
it hot for him.
The man who falls to register will
have no more voice in the elections
than a suffragette. ' "
" "Wo are fond of all sorts of pie,"
bays the Ohio State Journal. That's
an Ohio weakness.
Mr. Hearst is still pursuing his fad
of collecting autograph letters from
senators and oil magnates.
The mint at Philadelphia. Is working
overtime. It Is a cheering sign when
Uncle Sam Is making money.
The $20,000 Jackpot of 1104 la be
ing duplicated in Nebraska, but with
out getting In such big chunks.
The progress of the campaign In Ne
braska gives less and less comfort to
the democrats as the days go by.
Montenegro declares it Is not pre
pared for war. Its standing army
is probably taking its annual vacation
The list of promlneut democrats
who have not contributed to the cam
paign fund is too long for publication.
Has anyone discovered any marked
hostility on the part of any of the
trusts to Mr. Bryan In this campaign
Tho Pullman company has issued an
order -prohibiting tippling among its
employes. Why not prohibit tipping
too?
"wntter and eggs are up again
says a market report. The housewife
would like to know when they were
down.
Speaker Cannon Is studying French
The speaker may have a desire to ex
press some of his feelings iu a foreign
tongue.
John Worth Kern declares that he
is an optimist. The man who has a
railroad pass these days naturally feels
that way.
Th discovery of Borne fossil eggs Is
reported from Wyoming. The cold
storage houses have had that kind for
a long time.
A base ball pitcher has been nomi
nated for the legislature In Maryland.
As an orator he is said to have a very
effective delivery.
Why is It that the local democrats
are so anxious to return the Howell
Ransom combination to the state ben
ate? Is it possible that there is any
thing In sight?
Mrs.' Grace Suell-Cofflu - Coflln-Walker-Laynian-Love
is seeking a di
vorce for the purpose of marrying Mr.
Layman again. Why doesn't she
marry Nat Goodwin?
Ther seems to be no trace of the
panic anywhere except in the Gould
family, where Howard has beeu com
pelled to rut his living expenses from
1J5O.C0O to $300,000 a ear.
7ERM1XAL TAX.
Whilo tho pootile ot Omaha and
South 0maha mere itally Interested
I In all the reform mcssurps put on the
sistntc- book! bv Governor Sheldon
anj the republican legislature, they
wrrp more gppcially concerned an J had
Terminal taxation was won only
pfter a five-year campaign incessantly
waged against discouraging obstacles.
The terminal tax law enacted by the
republican legislature and signed by
Governor Sheldon ended an abuse of
the rankest sort by which the most
valuable railroad property In Omaha,
South Omaha and other cities escaped
municipal taxation entirely and the tax
burden belonging on the railroads was
piled onto the shoulders of Individual
axpayers. The lowest estimate of the
axes thus evaded by the railroads in
Omaha alone was $100,000 a year, or
the equivalent ot an added 1 mill on
the city tax rate Imposed upon every
private property owner.
When the fight for terminal taxa
tion was on the astounding spectacle
was presented of an open alliance be-
ween the democrats and the railroads,
negotiated by Mr. Bryan's brother-in-
law, as chairman of the democratic
state committee, by which the tax
shirking railroads were given the help
of all the fusion members of the legls-
ature who could be influenced by
Brother-ln-Law Tom." In spite of
this democratic treachery to the peo
ple, the terminal tax law was passed
and put into effect, and we are just
about to reap the benefit of the first
tax levied under its provisions.
What are the taxpayers of Omaha
and South Omaha going to do about it?
Are they going to reward the demo
cratic sell-outs and punish the repub
licans who stayed on the firing line for
them? It is the irony of fate that the
democrats are presenting for election
to the legislature in this county the
two men who, in the legislature of
1897, were most directly responsible
for inserting in the Omaha city charter
the clause exempting railway terminals
from taxation, which proved to be
worth at least a million dollars to the
railroads.
Do the taxpayers of Omaha, South
Omaha and Douglas county want to
put themselves in a position where the
rest of the state will assume that the
mighty battle for terminal taxation
has been so soon forgotten? Is it not
fair to say that the republicans who
fought the battle and won are more to
be trusted to hold the prize than the
democrats who tried to scuttle the
ship?
PAPER FROM CO? A' STALKS.
Government chemists, after a series
of experiments and investigations, de
clare that a good quality of print paper
can be manufactured from cornstalks,
and at a cost much below tnat now in
curred in manufacturing it from wood
pulp.
The paper supply has been a source
of justified worry for a number of
years. The destruction ot the forest
areas has caused an almost complete
elimination of the sources , of wood
pulp in this country, and the supply
has been drawn largely from Canada
for a number of years. As a result the
prices have increased to the point
where tho entire paper consuming
trade has been seriously affected. If
'he results of the experiments by the
government experts are shown to be
practical, the discovery will be of
marked value to one of the largest in
dustries in the country. It will add.
incidentally, a new value to the farms
of the great corn belt, and also pro
vide a way for putting one of the big
truBts out of business. It is as well,
perhaps, not to become too sanguine
over the cornstalk discovery. Chem
ists have been working for years in a
search for a satisfactory substitute for
wood pulp. From time to time the
canebrakes of the south lands have
been looked upon as available for this
Lurpose, and the meek and lowly cac
tus of the western plains has been
heralded as a pulp producer, but the
results have never Justified either the
hopes or predictions of the scientists
It Is to be hoped that better success
will come from the experiments with
the cornstalks.
THE MISSISSIPPI PLAX.
A band of Mississippi citizens arose
in their might the other night, near
the city of Jackson, ami hanged two
negroes who were charged with hav
ing shot a white railroad conductor.
Then they burned the horue of the
negroes and those of other negro resi
dents in the vicinity. The bodies of
the two negroes were left hanging
from a limb near the railroad tracks
bo that Booker T. Washington, who
was to pass the station the next day
on. his way to Memphis, could see
them. The day before the lynching
occurred, the Jackson Issue, the paper
owned and edited by J. K. Vardaman,
former governor of the state, printed
the following editorial:
If Booker T. "Washington makes a half
dosen more speeches In tho slate of Mis.
slsalppl, mark the prediction: It will be
the cause of a few Insolent negroes being
hung and a source of infinite worry lo the
housekeeper who is dally confronted mm,
the aervant problem. Kor all of which we
will be Indebted to a few pale-faced negro
philists who encourage Dr. Washington In
his nefarious work.
Booker T. Washington's only of
fense is that he conducts a great
school for negroes in Alabama and has
become a factor in the educational
movement of the south. He is con
tinually urging the negroes to learn
trades, to make themstlve skilled
workmen and to take their part in the
industrial life of the south. In doing
this he has awubed the hatred of the
politicians of the south of the Varda-
man type, who resent any effort to
raise the negro from a condition of
practical serfdom. Negroes of the
north will do well to remember the
Jackson ruse when they are urged to
vote for Mr. Bryan. Wherever demo
crats are In power, the negro Is dis
franchised and denied his rights lie
fore the la-.
THE SALARY OF A BISHOP.
Rev. Alexander Mann of Boston hae
declined to accept the position of
bishop of Washington, because he
states that he has no private income
nd cannot afford to live in Washing
ton and meet the demands made upon
a bishop on a salary of $5,000 a year.
Bishop Brent, now in the Philippines,
recently declined the Washington post.
explaining that he considered it bis
duty to remain in the Philippines, and
further that he could not afford, from
a financial standpoint, to make tne
change.
The late Bishop Satterlee had a pri
vate income of $50,000 a year and is
credited with having used practically
all of it. Some of the Washington
papers are urging that the salary of
the bishop of that diocese be increased
to at least $10,000 a year, and the
suggestion has caused much discussion
in Episcopal church circles. It Is
urged that the clergy is underpaid at
best and that it is Impossible to se
cure men of high ability to fill such
posts as that at Washington unless
they have means of their own. That
the possession of a private fortune
should be admitted as a qualification
for a bishop .of the church In Wash
ington or elsewhere is a jar to the
sensibilities of churchmen, and it is a
source of regret that consecrated
clergymen should hesitate to under
take a great work through fear of
failure due to poverty.
BUYING THE ELECTION.
As soon as the results of the election
in 1S96 was definitely known William
J. Bryan issued an address to the bi
metalllsts of the nation, in which he
charged that the republican victory
had been won by the corrupt use of
money, by coercion and the work of
syndicates and trusts. He has reit
erated thin statement from time to
time, until perhaps he believes It.
Now he announces that the repub
licans are going to buy the election
again this year. In speeches at Alton
and Chicago on Monday Mr. Bryan de
clared that the republicans were at
tempting to raise a fund of $1,000,000
for the purpose ot lining up the trusts,
the money loaners, the banks and syn
dicates and for using the mosey "as
they have used It year after year."
Ike Hill, a famous New Jersey dem
ocrat who figured prominently in poli
tics at Washington for many years,
once replied, when asked just before
election what the outlook in New Jersey
was, "We've got 'em whipped if they
don't buy us." Mr. Bryan practically
declares a similar situation to exist
today. He believes the democrats will
win if they are not bought before elec
tion. It seems impossible for Mr. Bryan
to avoid indulgence In such buncombe,
which in this case is an Insult to the
intelligence and integrity of the Ameri
can voters. The men who decide elec
tions in this country are not bought
and sold like cigars. The farmers and
worklngmen to whom Mr. Bryan has
been making his most eloquent appeals
for support will not be slow to resent
his charge that they may be bribed to
vote for or against him.
The death of Alfred Darlow will
come with a keen sense of personal
loss to many newspaper men and other
writers throughout the world. Mr.
Darlow was widely known and greatly
admired for other qualifications than
those of a successful advertising man.
He had the peculiar personal charm of
a man of great literary attainments
and warm personality. His work al
ways bore the evidence of discrimi
nating taste and was effective because
it was carefully done.
The campaign in Nebraska is warm
ing up fast enough and the democratic
barrel is spouting in every direction.
The extravagant claims made by the
Bryanite shouters are now being bol
stered by pipe line streams from the
national committee in their desperg
tlon to make good.
While talking about political pros
poets, remember that no democrat can
pobsibly be elected to office in Nebraska
without republican votes, and there is
no reason why a republican should
vote for a democrat this year.
Don't forget that Saturday of this
week is the last day for registration,
and that you must register if you want
to vote, either at the election this fall
or the city primaries next spring. No
former registration la good.
Aeronaut Holland's balloon had an
accident because, as reports say, "its
appendix was too long." Aviation is
going to be an expensive luxury If the
balloons contract that fashionable
disease.
An omcenoiuer in rvew York was
discovered to have taken out his citi
zenship papers only two days before
hU appointrueut. Tammany may have
promised him the Job before he came
over.
Former Senator Clark of Montana
is to make several speeches for Bryan.
The committee doubtless would like it
better if Mr. Clark would let his elo
quent check book talk for hlni.
The Omaha Board of Education has
very naturally disappointed the local
yellow journals by suppressing a re
port from the chief of the fire depart
ment ou the condition of the public
Taft or Bryan Which?
Philadelphia Public
The American voter must soon reach a
decision. If he alts down quietly to
think It over, he will be eurprleed at the
simplicity of the propofltion that con
fronts him. and amaied at the mas of
Irrelevant stuff that has crept into the
campaign.
For example, one might imagine that
the publicity of campaign contributors
was a matter of vital Import, but when it
Is apparent that admittedly neither
party has or can get any money worth
mentioning, even for legitimate expenses,
the source from whence It comes seems
hardly worth bothering about. Nobody
doubts that both sides In the past took
all the money they could get and asked
no questions, but this Is ancient history
there is no money now to wrangle
over.
So, as corruption by the Standard
Oil. Senators and representatives of both
parties have been included In Its assets.
It Is not alleged or suspected that either
Mr. Taft or Mr. Bryan Is among those
assets hence that subject is but an in
teresting reminiscence. So with the moral
pbus the moral standards of the nomi
nees are unassailable.
The question In its last analysis nar
rows down to which of these men Is likely
to give the country the better administra
tion. To that there can and will be but
one answer. Mr. Taft has occupied Im
portant public positions for a score of
years, and nss always and uniformly made
good. His judicial decisions have been
assailed chiefly by those who have not
read them, but nobody has yet charged
him with falling to administer the law
as he found it, which Is all a judge can
do. His distinguished career In the orient
and subsequently In the cabinet, has re
flected credit upon himself and his
country. If the simple question, Has Taft
made good? could be submitted to the
electorate, the vote in the affirmative
would be well nigh unanimous.
schools until such time as the com
plaints may be thoroughly investigated
and remedied. The people need no
assurance that the Board of Education
will do all that It reasonably can to
make the Omaha schoolB thoroughly
safe in every particular.
Senator Lodge Inquires what demo
crat there is In the country who is
qualified to be secretary of state. Sen
ator Lodge does not know Mayor Jim.
The democrats themselves are be
ginning to get onto Tom Allen's curves
and the Tammany contributions are
not helping his work in Nebraska.
Oregon Is boasting of a peach that
weighs seventeen and a half ounces.
Omaha boasts of hundreds of them
that weigh from 110 pounds up.
Carrie Nation declares that tobacco
causes tuberculosis. Carrie has evi
dently been reading about the tobacco
consumption of the country.
After the Scare the Mo nip.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
It Is remarked that after a Bryan scare
comes a Bryan slump. From the first, it
has been noticed .that the Bryan noise Is
in Inverse proportion to his gain In .sqlid
support.
Practice Work at Home.
Chicago News.
Before President Roosevelt is made peace
maker for the habitable globe he might
show his qualifications by putting a stop
to certain barbarous features of class
rushes and basing at our own universities.
Polling In Hill.
Wall Street Journal.
Client- up! Hope need not be entirely
abandoned. Today's treasury statistics
record the fact that our International trade
for the first nine months of the calendar
year amounts to $2,028,000, and for the last
twelve months to 12.M6.OOO.O0O. An Interna
tional balance of $433,000,000 In nine months
in our favor is one of the fundamentally
sound facts of the situation.
Nebraska Meeds No Medicine.
Washington Star (indj.
Nebraska gave Mr. Bryan Its vote in his
first race, but then changed Its mind and
leadership, and has aince gone republican.
It needs no medicine, and is distrustful of
new remedies for keeping Its health. Can
Mr. Bryan win it back thla year? He is
paying it marked attention and seems hope
ful of making an impression. Personal re
spect for him is high. But often that is far
from political support.
Itrran'a Partisan Emptyings.
Springfield, (Mass.) Republican.
About this time in a presidential contest
partisan speakers run emptyings. As a t
melancholy Instance of this behold Mr.
Bryan denouncing Governor Hughes aa the
backer of trusts! No man in American
public life Is more clearly entitled to
credit as the defender of tho rights of the
people than the governor of the empire
state. He is a reformer who has achieved
results without talking everybody to death.
AN OtTHAUEOlS ACT.
Sample of Oklahoma Methods Prac
ticed In Nebraska.
Washington Post.
The assault upon Mr. and Mrs. William
R. Hearst by a Nebraska deputy sheriff,
at the Instance of Governor Haskell of
Oklahoma, was the act of a desperado,
which ahould meet with prompt punish
ment. Mr. and Mrs. Hearst were In a sleep
ing compartment In a sleeping car, prepar
ing to retire, when a deputy sheriff knocked
and demanded admittance. Mrs. Hearst re
fused to admit him, whereupon he broke
through the door, brushing past Mrs.
Hearst, who apparently was on the verge
of hysteria.
This was a piece of brutal ruffianism,
entirely unwarranted except as a device
to advertise the Insufferable Haskell. It was
aa much an outrage as if the officer had
broken into Mr. Hearst's own house. The
editor had no means of knowing that an
officer was trying to find him, and if he
had known, there was no occasion on his
part to dodge the service. In a statement
concerning the affair, Mr. Hearst says
he offered to donate to Governor Haakell
enough money to prosecute his libel suit
In order that it might be tried speedily.
But Haskell did not avail himself of this
offer, and now It appears that he has
had the trial postponed until after election
Mr. Ileaist says he does not believe the
case will ever come to trial, and Haskell's
actions seive to confirm this view.
But whatever the merits of the contro
versy, between Hearst and Haskell may be,
the lawless and violent act of the N.-braWi
deputy sheriff deserves rebuke. There was
no excuse for It .even If It were lawful,
since Mr. Hearst had given notice that
he would accept service through the iiinil.".
The outrage ia a good Illustration
of the character of Haskell himself, and
serves lo explain why he fails to hull
the rj-t o fdecent iucov
Ledger (Ind ).
On the other hand, we have Mr. Bryan.
As a preacher he Is a success: as a stump
speaker, he has no equal In this country;
as a destructive critic he has no superior.
He is admittedly lacking In executive
experience. So far as constructive ability
la concerned, he has with great frequency
suggested various panaceas for the coun
try's ills, which have always heretofore
been repudiated at the polls. One day It Is
16 to 1; another, abandonment of tho
Philippines; a third, government owner
ship of railroads, and now, limiting the
output of trusts and guaranteeing bank
deposits perfectly impractical and vision
ary schemes, all of them.
The Haakell Incident cast an important
sidelight upon Mr. Bryan's Judgment of
men. Taken at his best, Haskell was evi
dently a soldier of fortune, a Wall streot
promoter and execution-proof. Yet Mr.
Bryan made him chairman of his platform
committee and national chairman. One
shudders to think of the possibilities of tho
men with whom Mr. Bryan might surround
himself, in the administration of the gov
ernment. If one were looking for a man to manage
a large private enterprise, and the two
nominees were seeking the rositlon, no one
would hesitate sn Instant in making the
choice. The doer would be preferred to the
talker; the practical man to the theorist;
the man of experience to the experimenter.
When important Judicial appointments are
to be made, who can best be trusted to
make them, the Judge, or the popular
orator and public lecturer
If Mr. Taft be chosen we shall have the
country in the hands of a sane, experienced,
well-poised man. Should Mr. Bryan be
elected, we shall be In the hands of a man
of good intentions, no doubt, of exceeding
volubility of speech, a manufacturer of
panaceas, and a coiner of phrases. We
think the American people will enter upon
no such haiardous experiment.
BITS OF WASHINGTON LIFE,
Minor Scenes and Incidents Skelechcd
on the Xaot.
The waves of political strife, the sheut
irg and Jostling of marshaled partisans,
apparently do not disturb the serenity of
the social side of life in the White House.
Tlans are being perfected for a series of
functions for the winter season designed
to bring the social side of the Koosevclt
administration to a brilliant close. One
of the chief events in the estimation of
the younger set Is the coming out dance
of Miss Itoosevelt, the president's second
daughter, announced for December 28.
While this will mark her debut Into thn
social life of the younger set, as baa been
announced before, the first state dinner
she attends wllf really mean her formal
debut. This dinner will be the first cabi
net dinner of the season and will be given
shortly before Christmas.
Though the announcement sent out from
the White House describes the entertain
ment as a "small" dance, the number of
Invitations will not fall far short of 1,000.
The dance will be held In the East room of
the White House and, according to present
Intentions, will follow the plan adopted
when Miss Allco Roosevelt came out, that
of dispensing with the cotillion.
Commissioner of Pensions Warner re
ports a remarkablo case of stricken con
science. Some time ago the commissioner
got a letter from a pensioner of the civil
war surrendering his certificate and on
closing two $500 coupon bonds of the United
State and n draft for JI72, thereby making
full restitution to the government of all
money- he had received on account of the
certificate of pension.
Commissioner Warner refused to give
the name of tho soldier and declared he
'had not disclosed it to the treasurer of the
United States, to whom were turn'd over
tho bonds and conscience money. When
the conscience contribution first arrived
the commissioner caused an examination to
be made of thn records In the case. On
the showing the veteran was entitled to
his pension beyond a question. A special
examiner was sent out to make an In
vestigation in thn theory that the soldier
might be mentally Irresponsible.
The conscience-stricken man was found
to be In excellent health Hnd of sound
mind. Thereupon the account with con
science was declared closed and the bonds
and money were converted Into the mlscel
Isnrous receipts of the Treasury depart
ment. Designs have been completed for new
postage stamps of the following denomina
tions: One cent, 2 cents, 3 cents, 4 cents,
6 cents, 6 cents, 8 cents, 10 cents, 15 cents,
50 cents and SI. The t- and 15 denomina
tions now in use will not be reprinted.
It will be somo weeks before all the de
nominations will be put on the market.
The 2-cent stamp will be the first dis
tributed and It Is expected that shipments
to postmasters will begin some time in
November. The new issue has been de
signed with the object of obtaining the
greatest simplicity commensurate Willi ar
tistic results. The profile has been taken
In each Instance instead of a full view,
giving a bas relief effect. All the stamps
are of a similar design, containing a head
In an ellipse, the only decoration being
laurel leaves on either aide of the ellipse
The lettering Is In straight lines, t the
top being "U. 8. Postage" and at the bot
tom the words "Two Cents."
The 1-cent stamp contains the head of
Franklin, while all the others will bear
that of Washington, taken from busts by
Houdon. The most notable differences In
the new Issue will be the minimum of
lettering. The colors are the reds and
blues of the early stamps. Director Ralph
of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing
regards the new stamps as the most ar
tlstio ever Issued by the government.
"The national capital continues to grow
in wealth and population In spite of the
hard times," reports a Washington corres
jpondiwt. "The annual assessment Just
completed, gives the real estate valuation
as S3J5,324,8;U, an Increase of $8.000,0i0 over
the previous year. There are .found to be
65.619 buildings in the District, 1.377 having
been erected in the year reviewed. The
growth of Washington Is of national in
terest. It has long passed the critical
stage of Us existence, when men still
doubled if it would be ever anything more
than a straggling town. Today It has
passed the Ai't.UJO mark, and its aspect Is
n r ben without being obtrusively so. It
Is a great residential city, and though on
a giet trade route between the nurth
and south obstinately, perhaps wisely, re
fuses to become a mart or emporium. An
artificial cupilal It is. precisely like St.
Petersburg, which waa also built with the
set purpose or becoming the seat of
national government. The two cities have
grown r.nd flourished around the offices
of administrative activity, thus proving
that a location eascntlally commercial Is
not a condition prerequisite lo the develop,
nient of capitals.''
Mrs. A. K. Brown. I'.i tent y-five year
sn eirpert In the L'nltcl Ftatcs treasury
has finished a task that calk. I f ir exceed
ing putlenee ami deftness. A rdl cf bmiU
notes which had been hidden in a tin ca
"Baking
Powder
Absolutely
Jf URE
Insures delicious, health
ful food for every home, every day.
The only baking powder made
from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar
made from grapes.
Safeguards your food against alum and
phosphateof lime harsh mineral adds which
are used in cheaply made powders.
and burled In the earth for two years was
given to Mrs. Brown to examine. The
money had rotted and was little better
than green-tinted pulp. She was so suc
cessful In separating the decayed paper,
piecing the bits and deciphering the letters
and figures, that practically tho entire
amount was redeemed and made good to
the distressed owner.
PERSONAL. ROTES.
A real daughter of the revolution died
In New York state, lately, at the age of
110. Her wonderful longevity is ascribed
to her liking for bargain rushes as a
means of exercise.
Debs' meeting In Baltimore Friday night
made the whole town stare, lie drew an
audience of 5.0JK) people and every one of
thejn paid 25 cents at the door for the
socialist campaign fund.
It is easy to understand now why the
Balkan war cloud turned out to bo a fake.
The famous Bashl-Bazouks could not break
Into the game, owing to prior engagements
as railroad section hands.
Morse's office boy was permitted to
borrow $100,000 a week, and had the neces
sary security as collateral. Most office
boys think they are. lucky on an occasional
timely funeral on base ball days.
A Pennsylvanlan, who earned a living by
placing his head in a canvas hole for ball
tossers to throw at, will not accept en
gagement for the winter season. Doctors
are trying to solder the cracks in his
skull.
A bull in Massachusetts stopped a fox
hunt. IrrUated by the red coats of the
hunters, lie chased the master of the
hounds up a tree and when ho fell down
caught and tossed him. The hunt was
great sport, but It was all the bull's.
The New Tork Times finds the pains
and penalties of metropolitan llfo greatly
Increased by the hats the women are
wearing and asks why supposedly "self
respecting women so disfigure themselves,
offend the artistic eye and make nuisances
of themselves In publlo places." Why.
Indeed?
The esteemed charmer, who was Lennle
C. Chaplin forty years ago. sought regis
tration In New York as Dady Cook. She
was not as successful In securing electoral
rights as she was In annexing a handle
to har name, which served as a veil for
a frazzled bacneiornooa.
Dr. J. F. C. Iupan, who at 78 is return
ing to his native land after years of service
aa Austro-Hungarlan consul tit San Fran
cisco, wax the guest of honrr at a dinner
in New York's bohennan colony recently.
He went to California In 1M!, making the
U.rg Journey across the plains and moun
tains In an ox cart.
The public schools of New York will be
asked to co-operate in the celebration of
the Lincoln centenary on February 12 next.
It has beun suggested by Charles R. Skin
ner that Lincoln's Gettypburg address be
read in every school house In the United
States at noon in tho anniversary. Secre
tary Root, who has been asked to deliver
the oration on Lincoln day, lias been ob
liged to decline, and it is probable that the
orator will be Justice Brewer of the United
States supreme court.
Sitae
Ml
. y ?TTaiaraC Q I
dgJasmV W II l JT J P A"1 V ei Ml I
i.Arr.iriAG i.-a.
"Ale you golnv to attempt In itnnw i ,i;l
the charges maic nKiiinst you?"
"Certally," replied rVnatnr Soi(;lniiii.
"answering timiWH these ihixs i cusv,
All you've got to dv is to say 'ynii'iv a;,
other.' " usliingtoii Star.
"Now. John. I thought on said you lui.l
been duck shooting','"
"Yes dear been duck shoot li.g."
"But tlx'po jyu'yo .hi uuJii. . Juuic
taina ducks.'' - -
"Yen. I (amcd "cm fl t' I iwl 'i 111."
Chicago Roconi-H.-rnlcl. ' -,
Terrified Paapcngcr ton no in l;n r 'nn
tain, why is tile Hteiinier point; so t-iuwiy
and using its searchlight?
Captain Don't b Hlarmol. iii.hIiiih; tin
ship Is in tio dungi-4. But m a. I jh lik.- IhW
we are always likely t.i inn i . - - a..m-loiy
blooming old hall.inn ami ni.iki na.tty
mess of It. Chicago Tr.luj.ie.
"I am afraid Miss Flip Is iiiiimvi il in',
me, nnd that she won't K" with us on thv
climbing expedition vver that, litic hill. '
"Don't you believe ft. It doesn't take n
woman long- to get over a little u a k.' V -Baltimore
American. . .
Member of the Woman's Christian T- in
pcrancc Union Did you write titts notice
of my lecture on tho l.ruou Ruin?
Killtoi Yes, madam.
Member of the Woman's Chris'laii Till.
pesance Union Then I would -like hi know
what you mean by'suying: '"Viv lo-um r
was evidently full or lici subjuTt .'" .In
"What right hsvo you to the nr. mis
you occupy?' said the bahl-hcadid man in
the fly.
"There being no hair apparent." r-i.u ml
tho busy buzzer, "f have 'uslirpe I Hi?
crown." Boston Courier. - .
Madge J low , is. Htoji; .(.jjiji !(. ,ik in
Edith any more'.'
rtnllv KhA won tht-po- ,,f n- riii"ii.ninni
rings from me playing- bridge -I'm k.
The Doctor Bryan Is golnj; to he elected
that's a dead rertalnty.
The Professor You arc right : u s a oi -tainty
that no kinger exists..-! idea;"
Tribune..
w ii kv vot; iiavk diim: it hunt
S. K. Kler In the lb-t -nnl-l lei -aid.
When you'vo done your best, ImvIi.x
ihoped and planned.
And, in splto of all, you have f.i'lcd to
land;
When you've done the thing that for in.inv
days
You have banked upon, and no word of
praise
Brings the flush of Joy to your i-an-woin
cheeks
When you've done your best, and In u
no ono speaks
The cheering word ou have huig d to
hear,
And nobody seems to know or iniv
When you've done your best ami .too,,
rivals hiieer
And tho hopes are shattered thai win- so
fair; . -
When Hie dreams aro ended that wieVj
sweet.
And the victory that had seeuu-d so near
Has heen turned somehow, iniei sore defeat-When
you've done your best uflii pl.tiniiir.-,
long,
When you've had your cluini e is in) bave
fallod to score.
When you shrink from the gaze of t,,
passing throng
And wonder why ou had hopes hei .p -Then
then, when your best has i u i1 ,
and all
The airy castles around you fall,
Be a victor yet with a Coiiciuei-or's will
Fling your tiiallciise forth and do ii-;i-i
still.
has been made
in St. Paul since
1855 and worn
by millions of
men, women and
children.
CJIf it were not a
good shoe think
how many ene
mies it would
have.