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THE OMAIIA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 2, 190?. The Omaha Daily Bel FOUNDED BT EDWARD RoeHWATER. VICTOR ROBEWATER, EDITOR. Entered at Omaha postofflce seoona cltu malt mt. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily Be (without Runday), one year.M Dally Bate and Sunday, on year 00 DEUVBREO BT CARRIER. Dally Bee (Including- Sunday), per wek..1Sc Dally B-e (without Sunday), per week, .loe Evening Bm (without Sunday), par week tc Evening Bee (with Sunday), par week.lrto Sunday H, ona year 110 Saturday Hn, ona yaar 1M Adrtreos all complaints ef Jmvrularltles In delivery to City Circulation department. omcfs. Omaha The Bea Bulldlnsj. South Omaha Twenty-fourth and N. Council Bluffs 16 Scott Street. Unroln 61S tittle Bulldlnir. Chtrago IMS Marquette Building. New Tirk-Rooma 1101-1102 No. 34 West Thirty-third Street. Washlngton-728 fourteenth Street, N. w. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to newt and edi torial matter iihould be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, expreea or postal order parable to The Bea Publishing Company. Only 2-rent stamps rerelved In payment of mall accounts. Trraonal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. STATEMENT OP CIRCfLATION. Siste of Nebraska, Douglaa County, ss. : lleorge B. Tsschuck, treasurer of The Bee Publishing company, being duly sworn, ehv that the actual number of full and complete copied of The Dally, Morning, Evening ami Sunday Boe printed during the month' of November, IMS. was ai followi: 1 44,000 2 38,100. 3. .". 40,860 4 , S4,S0 5. 49,380 6 39,ao 7 33.380 8 37,400 37,940 10 37.E10 11 37,730 12. i 37480 U 37,380 14 37,630 15 33,800 1 37.960 17 37.180 1ft 38,870 19 38,890 20 37,310 21 37,000 22 37.060 23. 37,010 24 37,090 25 37,07.0 2 ft 38,940 27 37,140 28 38,890 29 38,700 30 37,310 Total 1,181,870 Lens unsold and returned copies. 11,187 Net total 1,150,103 Dally average 38,338 GEORGE B. TZSCHCCK. Treasurer. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 1st day of December, 1908. (Seal) M. P. WALKER, Notary Public. WHEW OUT) OF TOWK. abarrlbera leaving; the city teaa porarlly shoal have The Bea nailed to them. Addreaa will ha chaanea as often aa requested. Becoming familiar with storm door etiquette by this time? Mr. Rockefeller appears to act as the censor of his own memory. Tennessee and Kentucky should fa vor a prohibitive duty on firearms. . The Gatun dam falls almost as regularly as the Delaware peach crop Moved that somebody start a fight with Tom Flynn, In hopes that we get the streets cleaned, too. This coblens corn proposition Is not new to Kentucky. They have been drinking It down there for years. Lillian Russell ran over a man with her automobile. Men who cross Lil lian's path usually get Into trouble. Many editors i.re now writing learned editorials on the abuse of mis placed charity. Charity can afford to make mintages. "Mr. Bryan ran ahead of his former voto," Bays a democratic paper. Yes, but. it profited him nothing, as Mr. Taft ran ahead of him.' Arkansas has suffered from a re cent cyclone, but has the consolation of knowing that Senator Jeff Davis is still in & state of repose. Pennsylvania reports a record: breaking rye crop. It will be needed, as the south - reports a marked de crease in the'bourbon crop. Richard Croker wants to make Lewis Nixon . the next mayor of New York. The voters will probably take the "on" off Mr. Nixon's name. Those who have pleaded for an In crease of the tariff might feel better If hey had been able to offer any reasonable testimony to support their plea. Castro ts going to Europe for sur gical treatment. Some eminent polit ical surgeons In Holland would be delighted with the chance to operate on him. Torn .Watson has. printed another book on Napoleon. Watson feels like writing a new Napoleon book every four years, just after he has met his Waterloo. With more than 18,000,000 of trust funds well Invested, Nebraska schools are liberally endowed. This 'is an other of the reasons for Nebraska's greatness. Auditor-elect Barton has settled a lot of uncertainty by naming his new staff, and the present office, force knows where it will be after the first ot the. year. Prof. fW. , I. 'Thoma of the Chicago university . sys he" has made woman his life study. Ill that event he should be almost as wise about woman as the average high school boy. Nw York restanranta report In creasing orders for hot birds and cold bottles. It la believed that too much of that had something to do with the recent,- unlamntd panic Omaha national banks make a splendid showlag of business In re sponse to the call from the comptrol ler of the currency. Fat increase in every line over business a year ago proves how genuine is the prosperity enjoyed in this section of the country. THE StW SVPRKME COVHI. The voters of Nebraska ha? au thorized an Increase in numbers of the membership of the supreme court of the state, and have also allowed a very liberal Increase in the salaries psld to the Judges. The necessity for this has existed tor a long time. In fact, for many years the work of the supreme court ha been accomplished by means of a commission which was merely a makeshift, temporary in ite nature and more or less uncertain in its function. The new arrangement ought to result in more expeditious and satisfactory handling of the mat ters that are taken before the higher tribunal. In making selections for the places he had to give out In the new tribunal Governor Sheldon has exercised com mendable care and wisdom. The dem ocrats of the state certainly cannot, and the republicans will not, criticise the restoration of Judge Sullivan to the bench. Judge Sullivan had the distinction of being the first democrat In Nebraska to sit on the supreme bench and he left a record that en tirely warrants his appointment at1 this time by Governor Sheldon. Judge Fawcett, too, has a record as a Judge In the district court, and as a supreme court commissioner which thoroughly Justifies his selection. Judge Root is not so well known generally as either of these, hut he has shown on the dis trict bench and in the state senate that he is a man of uncommon ability on whose legal knowledge and dis criminating Judgment reliance may be placed. Judge Rose is, in a measure, well known to the people of Nebraska, but has yet to win his spurs as a jurist. He haa shown much capacity as an organizer and as an attorney. Hit services to the state in the railroad cases that have been so bitterly fought, and especially tho tax cases, which were carried to the supreme court of tho United States and there won for the people, have been pre eminent. In this way Mr. Rcse has thoroughly established his legal acu men. His qualifications as a man are well known and It will be readily ac cepted that Governor Sheldon has maae no mistake in naming mm as one of the new members of the Ne braska supreme court. As at present constituted the su preme court of the state of Nebraska should be a working body of uncom mon efficiency and the business that properly comes before the tribunal will probably be dispatched with proper celerity, so that until Nebraska haa attained many times Its present population there should be no great occasion for complaint as to the law's delay, so far as the state courts are concerned. THE H)TAT0 CRVP. The Department of Agriculture places the potato crop, of 1 90S at 874,660,000 buehels, a decrease of 220,000 bushels from the production of 1907, and the Information is added that the quality of the crop this year Is far below the average. This re sult is charged directly, in the opinion of the government - officials, to the carelessness or indifference of the American farmers in the selection of their seed potatoes. The crop has been growing smaller and the quality poorer for several years and this country, the most productive on the face of the globe, has been compelled to import large quantities of potatoes each year from Belgium and Germany. The reports show that the yield of potatoes In this country for the last season averaged only a little more than eighty bushels to the acre, while the German growers are accustomed to securing from 200 to 250 bushels per acre, on a soil that is not nearly so fertile or well adapted to potato culture as most of the farming sec tion of the United States. With the assurance of the government experts that the yield of the potato could be easily increased in this country to an J average of 200 bushels to the acre, It would appear that the farmers are overlooking a fine source of profit at the Investment of a little more care and considerably more hard work. PURE FOOD AUD THE IMLDRES. The annual report of the Depart ment of Health of the city of New York contains some very Illuminating information concerning the manner in which the pure food laws of the na tlon and state are not enforced. It appears that complaint was recently made that an unusually large number of pupils were found to have blue mouths, both inside and out, and the charge was made that this condition had been caused by Impure soap fur nished by some favored contractor The case was fully Investigated and the chemist of the department has formally certified that the soap in question "did not cause blue color In the children's mouths." Rejoicing in this alibi for the soap, there are other features of the report that are some what disturbing. Samples of meat used by the res tauranta which supply lunches to the school children were examined by the cnemut, witn mis resultant report: Chopped meat, one-half ounce contain 0.469 grains strychnine. Chopped meat, one-half ounce contain 0.579 (rains strychnine. Bausags, two ounces contain 0.150 grain strychnine. The chemist's report is one of those cold, formal documents that doea not go into details and It la left to th imagination to determine whether the strychnine was included in the meat for the purpose of killing off the children or training them to im munity against the poisons of life In Greater New York. The chemist also offers the information that he was unable to find a trace of ginger in any of the ginger ale and the sarsa- I parllla was not on speaking terms with the sassafras, and that the lemon drop candy had no taste of lemon. The "chocolate-colored coffee drops" were made without reducing the vlsl blo supply of either chocolate or cof fee and logwood was one of the dif ferent samples of "licorice." if there is truth in the old adage that a per son may be judged by what he eats, It would be interesting to know what the future holds for those who are ow attending the New York schools nd indulging their tastes for the sup plies offered by the restaurant keep- rs and the confectioners. THE DEMASO FOR HOSDS. One of the beneficial after effects of the recent panic is found in the readiness with which bonds, bearing moderate Interest rates, are being taken as rapidly as they are Issued by big industrial and commercial corpor- tlons. Prior to the financial crash n October, 1907, bonds were a drug n the market. The speculative spirit was rife in the east and Investors were looking for big returns, refusing to consider the old staple bonds that were on the market without either uyers or bidders. When the specula tive bubble burst, Investors turned their attention to safe debentures, even to thoso bearing very low inter est rates, with the result that there Is now an exceptionally strong de mand for bonds of all kinds. Sales of bonds on the New York Stock exchange, from , January 1 to November 25, have aggregated 960,000,000, or more than double the entire bond sales for the year 907. The floating supply ot the lghcst grado bonds has been entirely exhausted, and the Investing force oi the entire country Is asking for bonds, instead of following the usual course- f offering Its money for use In stock and speculative operations. As a re- ult of this demand for bonds, rather than stocks, there has been an in creased demand for trustworthy bonds of municipalities, smaller railroads, ubllc Bervice corporations and sound industrial companies. Investment In these securities lessens the amount available for speculative purposes. and to that extent serves to lessen the 111 effects, or the possibilities of such effects upon the financial situation by overspeculation In Wall street stocks. It is encouraging to note that the increased demands for bond securities come from both individuals and lnstl- utions throughout the country. Many ndividuals and concerns are selling their short term notes and investing the proceeds In long time bonds, as suring a marked degree of perma nency to the present strong tone of the bond market. This abundant supply of money promises an easy absorption from tim to time of the large Issues of refunding bonds of the big rail roads, to take up-and cancel the float- n g debts. The entire outlook is en couraging for easy money for all le gitimate enterprises, even if the speculative element In Wall street is kept on short financial rations for an indefinite period. ! ixvestioatixo bask deposits. Comptroller of the Currency Mur ray haa undertaken a decidedly diffi cult and complicated task in asking the bankers of the country to furnish him with detailed data concerning the character and composition of their de posits. Ho has prepared a circular let ter In which the national bankers will be asked to furnish the department with information concerning the com position of the deposits in banks and the extent to which these deposits are simply sales of the bank's own credit, how far they are deposits of checks and claims on other banks, and how far they are deposits of funds consisting of gold and silver currency or other forms of current funds which result in adding to the banks' reserves Instead of being a strain upon them. n order to get at these data the banks will be asknd to analyze their receipts on a given day. In addition to this, however, they will have to be asked to supply similar information either in a detailed or estimated form as to the credits already existing on their books. That is to say, they will have to arrive at some estimate of tho way in which, or the source from which the credits on the books originated. They will then be ablo to render a more or less correct account to the comptroller concerning the nature of their "deposits." In this effort the comptroller ap parently shares the general miscon ception of the straight duty of' com mercial banks, and the real meaning of deposits. In the strictly literal sense, and In compliance with the banking law, a national bank becomes possessor and owner ot deposits as soon as they are made with it. The bank does not stand as trustee or guardian or custodian of the money as such, but agrees to sell its credit to the depositor, to the amount of the deposit. . The bank is simply a dealer In credits. It has for sale the credit based on Its capital stock, Its holdings In real estate and buildings, the prop erty of the bank, and its surplus and earnings. The depositor simply uses the bank's credit, which his deposit gives him, In the transaction ot hi own business, a credit which the bank is bound to make good. The deposit may be in the form of currency, checks on other banks, drafts, or other forms of negotiable paper, but It does not become cash when deposited It becomes simply a credit, which the depositor may transfer or exchange or may use to get money from the bank when he wants it. No bank couldremaln in business if It were re quired to keep on band the money de posited with It to meet all demands for payment. On account of Jhis complication ue to the very nature of the bank ing business. It Is difficult to see how the comptroller is going to be able to get the data he desires about the com position of toe deposits in the na tional banks and it is equally difficult to estlmatewhat value such informa tion would be to uiui or the country if he could obtain it. The comptroller nd all officials of the Treasury de partment will be applauded In their ffort looking to the strict enforce ment of the banking laws and the doptlon of regulations designed tc check and stop reckless banking, but it is doubtful if any good results can come fjom the amassing of such data as he is now seeking. The county corn shows being held throughout the state are Increasing Interest In the main event which opens next week in Omaha. The increasing mportance of this great exposition la ust becoming apparent to Omaha people. It will be the biggest thing the city ever had, excepting only the Transmlssissippl exposition. The debate between the two schools of medicine in the city council has reached a point where it is dangerous for bystanders. Councilman Bridges, no doubt, appreciates the respective attitudes of Drs. Davis and Connell, but he certainly objects to having large volumes of legal lore bounced on his nose. Iowa and Nebraska agricultural ludents took everything In sight at the Chicago Fat Stock show, which is merely a habit Iowa and Nebraska ave acquired of late years in matters of agriculture and live stock. If the argument between Council man Davlrt and Commissioner Connell will only result In giving Omaha bet ter sanitary control the people will feel that Lee Bridges' nose was not damaged in vain. Mr. Till Relss of Pennsylvania tes tifies that he spent only 10 cents In his campaign for congress. He must not bo deluded by the notion that he Is the only 10-cent congressman in the country. Senator Koraker has a letter of recommendation from the officials of the Standard Oil. That should get him a Job with any concern needing his kind of a corporation lawyer. The year's potato crop la far below the average. The Rural Uplift com mission could make a hit by telling the farmers how to make two potatoes grow where one grew this year. 'What does It mean when Mr. Archbold stops and speaks to report ers?" asks the New York Telegram. For one thing, it means the reporters are growing less particular. A man named Die la trying to get Into the senate from Oregon. With Root In the senate and Hogg in the house, Die should have a place some where around the capital. t Not la a Resigning; Mood. Boston Herald. Mr. Justloo Il&rlan says he Isn't con templating retirement, and he haa no reason to think that any of his venerable associates on the . bench arc. This de liverance may be considered decisive. Renolutlna; iu Wrong; Direction. Washington Herald. The legislature of Tennessee Is to be asked to pa3 resolutions favoring .the disarmament of nations. It might pass one favoring tho disarmament of some of Us citizens, while it is about the business. Need of National Divorce Law. Baltimore American. Tho divorce statistics just published em phasize again the need ot a uniform na tional divorce law as the only means by which the evil can be kept In check. As a chain Is no stronger than Its weakest link, neither Is divorce in the union more difficult than in the state with the most lax laws. There 'is no use in passing a restrictive law In one stato which can be nullified at Individual pleasure In another. The Great Corn Show. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. A notable event In the west will be tho national corn exposition to be held at Omaha, Neb., December 9 to 19. It will be In' a sense the great county fair of tho western grain-growing states, for the term 'corn" as used by tho National Corn asso ciation follows tho continental Interpre tation and includes all the grains, while attention is ale.) given to grasses. The object of the corn association Is, In general, to Improve the methods of raising grain. In which there have recently been shown to be large possibilities, and Its purposes therefore lie close to the foundations of our material prosperity. It Is promised that tho exposition will provide the great est exhibition of grains and grasses and kindred industries that the world has ever seen. There Is probably no essential ex aggeration In the statement. PERSONAL NOTES. While an ex-prestdent hunts mastodons In Africa, an ex-vice president will hunt briefs In the darksome wilds of Indianap olis. Jane Addams. Dr. Cornelia De Bey and Mrs. Emmons Blaine, whose terms on the Chicago school board have just expired, have not been reappointed. Several of Mrs. Louise Kaup's eight children made long Journeys to Chicago last week to be with her on her 90th birthday. Thirty-eight grandchildren were on hand and forty great grandchil dren. "Oh, I am so happy to see all my babies again," she said. Mlsa Annie Peck, the American moun tain climber, who, last August, suc ceeded In reaching the summit of Mount Huascaran, wan presented with a medal by the Peruvian government. The pre sentation was made when Miss Peck lec tured at Lima before the Oeogravhlcal society. II. L. Boutwell is city solicitor of the town of Maiden, Mass., and when his wife presented her nomination papers as a candidate for school board he ruled them out. She went to the polls as an Inde pendent, however, and there Is no hard feelings between her and her husband on account of the trouble, as he acted according to the law that cut down .he number ot candidates. Local elections are held en the first Monday in December, ROt M ABOI T SEW YORK. Ripples on the Correal of Life In the Metropolis. An Instructive insight. Into the calnry loan business in New Tork City Is given In a booklet of ino pages, compiled by l"r. Clarence W. Wassam and published by the charities publication committee on the Ilusscll Page foundation. The exact number of loaning agencies are unknown, as only thirty are op.-n and public, the great majority doing buRlnrss secretly. It Is estimated that at .tat 30.000 employes on the average are In debt to these concerns on assignment of wages, and the probabilities are that the number Is much greater. How little is known of the extent of the business Is Illustrated by the writer, who was told by the head of a large publishing houi.e that none of his employes had such debts and would be discharged if they had; but confidential interviews with the em ployes brought out many cases of serious Involvement with the salary loan com panies. Notwithstanding much legisla tion for the restriction of charges for loans on salary assignments, plenty of ways seem to have been found to evade the legal restraints and plunder the vic tims mercilessly, particularly in the case of the more secret and Irresponsible con cerns. Very alluring methods are em ployed to cultivate Indebednes.s, and many are the married men who fall Into the tolls from a pressure of home expenses on account of sickness or other cause; while the dissipated single man on salary Is a large patron of these establishments, which advertise plenty of money to help all out of their troubles. At a lecture delivered before a church organisation one evening last week, relates the Tribune, the lecturer digressed from his subject In order to show on the screen what he called "two great multitudes of men." 6ne of these pictures showed a throng listening to an address by Mr. Taft, and the other, Victor Grayson, addressing the unemployed, at Tower Hill. London. The remarkable feature of the two pictures was that only the backs and the heads of the people composing the two audiences could be seen. "Now," said the lecturer, "anyone can tell which Is the American crowd, because we see Mr. Taft. But, even If the two speakers had their backs turned to us, how could we tell which was the American?" No response came from the darkoned room and the lecturer repeated the question. Then a small voice piped out, "Our people have hats." Right," said the lecturer, and added: "Note that nearly every head of tho Kngllsh crowd Isovered by a cap. That's the reason I called these two slides "American hats and English caps," Bob, a cab horse belonging to Bert Brotherton, a hackman of Burlington, N. J., has been fed on grain mash mixed with beer to keep him In fine appearance and has developed an almost human craving for beer. When returning from a long carry of passengers Tuesday the cab passed a brew ery wagon at High and Federal streets. Bob got a few whiffs from the kegs and Immediately became unmanageable. Broth erton says the horse had blind staggers, but . spectators believe Bob tried to jump Into the beer wagon In his frantic desire to accumulate a real jag. The horse refused to be urged past the brewery wagon and finally made a leap that demolished the cab against the heavy wheels of the wagon and spilled the passen gers and driver Into the road. Then Bob dashed down High street, bumping other carriages until Patrolman Fltspatrlck caught him. Brotherton took Bob home and ordered him on a strict prohibition diet. "Don't talk to me about foot ball," aatd a New York florist, Quoted by the Evening Post. "If Harvard and Yale played more than one game a year, I think I should look for another job something easy and refined like stoking an ocean liner or build ing a dam across Niagara Palls. I never wish to go through' last Saturday's experi ence again. Of course, we always have plenty of violets on hand to supply Old EJI, but when the game was over and people began coming home, the demand for red flowers was simply beyond belief. We were deluged with orders. First the Amerloan Beauties gave out; then we began to draw on our stock of red carnations, and when they were gone, red chrysanthemums had to come to the rescue. And, would you be lieve It, when we had run out of every red shade In the place, one Harvard man called up and asked If there was such a flower as the crimson violet to be had!" 8tandlng by the porter's window in an uptown hotel the other day, two western ers watched the luggage taken off a van from an incoming steamship. There was the usual assortment of steamer trunks, big and little, Saratogas, the round-caged yellow Continentals, hat boxes of high and low degree, and a varied line of port manteaus. Among all this leather and brass were two ordinary canvas bags, re sembling in size those used on the rail-! roads for the United States mall, only smarter In cut and color. A jointed brass collar, with a padlock, secured the puck ering string end and held the name of the owner. One of the bags came from South Africa and the other was stamped Penang. "Something new In the luggage Hue?" asked one of the strangers? "The latest fad," volunteered a neigh borly watcher. "Another piece to add to one's long list of necessities enroute a bag for boots and soiled clothes. It origi nate! among the English officers in tho Boer war, and with the veteran travelers today the dunnage bag Is just aa impor tant as the hat box, suit case, trunk, or blanket roll. Outside of army stores It is difficult to find them. If a seasoned trav eler sees one, he usually goes to a har ness or trunk maker and has a dunnage bag built to order." Perched on the side of the Palisades in a cranny of the rocks Is a little hut In which dwells a mysterious old man with a flowing white beard. The hut Is partly ot logs, and one side of it consists ot solid rock. It Is off the path that skirts the Palisades and few who pass within a hundred yards of It have ever seen It. The Rip Van Wln-kle-llke householder Is almost as infre quently seen as Is his house. He dresses In a garb that might have been worn in the time of the revolution. No one knows whence tie came, and there Is even dispute aa to how long he haa lived In his present habitation. He baa never been known to climb the cliff. Periodically, generally at night, he enters a flat-bottomed boat, which is moored-a quarter of a mile below him, and rows away In the dark, apparently to lay in a store of provisions. Not far from his hut there is a great crag that thrusts its head sharply out of the surrounding shrub bery. On this rock the old man may bt seen on any fair day, standing, with arms folded, for hours at a time. Immovable as a statue, gazing off at the river and the busy city beyond. One who saw him there recently gave him a name that perhaps characterizes him as well as anything could. He called hint the "The Spirit of the Past." IBakirv? BSI Powder M$. -Absolutely fURE 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 acids which are used in cheaply made powders.'..- SJiiVti WHERE CORN' IS KINO. Importance of tho Approaching Expo sition p.t Omaha. Washington Post. Omaha is preparing to make tho National Corn exposition an era-marking event In tho history of American agriculture. The governors of fifteen states are Interested In the exposition, which Is being warmly supported by agricultural societies, rail roads, business men, and scientists. It Is the result of four great movements which have been doing Incalculable good among farmers during the last few years. These Include the "seed corn special" trains, the "short course In dairying and stock judg ing started by agricultural colleges, and now adopted by every western state; the local agricultural experiment farms, and the system of "short courses" In agricul ture now generally held In many western states In connection with the farmers' county Institutes. It Is logical that these four Important movements should culmi nate In what Is practically a world's agri cultural fair. At the big corn show more than 100,000 ears of corn will compete for the gen erous premiums offered for the "thor oughbreds," and at tho auction following the winning seed corn la expected to bring from $50 to $100 an ear. The Department of Agriculture has taken a keen Interest In the exposition and the president's rural life commission will hold some of Its most Important sessions there. In addition to this, experts In agricultural science from all the great powers will be present, an International recognition of the Importance of the exposition. The Mexican govern ment has offered a trophy, costing J1.600, as a prize for the students' corn judging team. England will make a large exhibit of grains, the result of many years of ex periment. While corn will be king at the Omaha exposition it will not have the limelight all to Itself. Wheat and alfklfa and other grains and grasses will be exhibited In close competition and the new wheat test, which promises to do for the bread crop what selection has done for corn, will be given a demonstration. As tho years pass agrloulture is becoming more and more an exact science. The average farmer is recognizing the fact, which he once hooted with contempt, that the higher education means that he can coax out Of the soil more dollars and cents than by the old. careless, hlt-or-mlss methods pf reading the signs of the moon. LAtUHlXU GAS. Mrs. Hlx I don't take any stock In these faith cures brought about by the luying on of hands. Mrs. Dlx Well. I do; I cured my littlo boy of the cigarette habit that way.- Brooklyn Life. Gerald Drank something last night that went to my head. Oeraldlne Must have been a soft drink. Louisville Courier-Journal. "Tbere Is rather u mixup In the outlook before Christmas times." "How so?" "Because the principal thought of the future la the present. 'Baltimore Ameri can. "Please, suh," atiked little Kphr'm of his Sunday school teacher, "please, suh, hue. i Dentin Pdjta .l.il, .... ' VW1IIVT . UIUIUD 1 1 1. . V, Q W . .11.1 1 v. VU . V ' H -J name?" "Paunchlus Pilate, ma bny," Mr. Balck tiuin n plied with profound dignity, "was so called because he wuz a man ob gener ous propo'lions." Harper's Weekly. . "And what did you do with the money vnn a u rtia1 hv tl). ,u ! A .if Vfitiff. fliMr . " - - j - j .. romance?" they asked the eminently suc cessful author. ) "I spent It," he answered. j 'tiV.f Bum nlli'iinli n r HniiKf tVint urnulrl I long remina you or me important epocn In your profesninnal line," they suggested. "No," he curtly answered. "I spent it for food." Cleveland l'luln Dealer.' Fred I had a fall last night which ren dered me unconscious for several hours. Charles Really ! Where did you fall? Fred 1 fell asleep. Philadelphia Inquirer. "A great many men talk about things they don't understand." "Yes," answered Miss Cayenne; "but I don't criticise them for that. So many men I know would have to keep up an em barrassing silence unless they did." Wash ington Star. City Editor Why do you say that this man "passed away." Instead of died? Reporter He owed mo money and I don't like to feel that he Is really dead. Harper s We e"kly. The little traveling man looked admirlmrlv i at the big traveling man. "Gee! he said, "iou sell Corliss engines, don't you?" "No," answered the big man. "I'm an1 agent for a needle factory. Whata your i line? Complexion powders?" "Not exactly," said tho little man. "I ' Hanson's Cafe Beautiful Xs fast becoming the teadq.narters tor busta.ss m.a. zf yoa take TOUT lannH at Hium'i tha al.,.,.. M. VH nlll BftOTI Ul USB you do business, with, out of business hoars, and thus beeoxoe better ac aaatatea. The secret U Alaa at Sanson's. III to build .suspension bridges." Chicago Trib une. A TV PH." , Klser In the Record-Herall I. S. K She would not do n sinful thing for oil the gold that glisters; She hopes that there may he a hell for all her erring sinters; She would not stray from righteous wi.ys for any price whatever; But does she ever full tu read tho latest scandal? Never! II. t Austere In her self-rlglitcousness, aha hopes they may be Jumblerl At last In awful, flnming pits who fool ishly have stumbled; She sees the alnful ones go by and haiiKhtlly she Hpurns them. But never does she fall to read an Item that concerns them. ITT. She cannot understand how they who sink In depredation Could ever have benn lured astray, what ever the temptation; Free from all sin herself there Is mi single cause to doubt It She sits within her safe retreat and loves to read about It. PIANOS GOING FAST. 4 Hosp6s Alteration Iiano Sale is the talk ot the town and the country. Already many I'lanos, Organs and Player Pianos have found homes, others are put aside tor Christmas presents. There 1s no wduder at this, when good, flew, dependable pianos worth $250, $300, $400, etc., sell ing at Ilospe's Salo for $139, $1C9, $17S, $198, $225, $256, $20, etc. Elegant cases In oak, mahogany, walnut, French walnut, artistic col onial and art cases, tho latest pat terns on the market.. The world's best Kranlch & Bach, Kimball, Hallet & Davis, Krakauer, Bush & Lane, Cable Nelson, Cramer, Victor,. Hospe, Conway, Hinze, Whitney, etc. On easy payments. Player Pianos seldom offered at less than $050 now sold at this sale from $290 up. Organs $U, $20, $20, $35. $40 and $50, manufactured by the greatest Organ builders, such as Kimball, Story & Clark, Farrand & Votey, Great Western, Hospe, etc., selling elsewhere for $50, $60, $70 and up to $100. It is easy to buy of A. Hospe Co. for the prices are cut in two on some Instruments, one-third off on others and on monthly payments of $5. $6, $8 to $10 on pianos and only 50c per week on Organs. The best guarantee goes with every sale, money back If not as represented. Bargains that defy competition, nothing like the quality, the price, the terms and the treatment you get at Hos'.ie's. Pick out your Christmas Pianos and save money. A. Hospe Go. 1513 Douglas St. Omaha, Neb. a.'?- ."' '! V