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Tiie Omaha Daily He, FOUNDED BT EDWARD ROPEWATER. VICTOR R08E3WATER, KDITOK. Bvtrl at Otnthi poatofflca as cond claaa matter. TERMS OF Sl.nSCRIPTION. Dally Pi (without flundar). n yoar.$4.W Dally h ana Kuniky, ono year lOO DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Dally Dm (Including Bunda.y). per wek..1Re Dally tie (without Sunday). pr wek..le Evenlnn Hee (without Sunday), per week ft-i Evening lira (wUh Sunday), pr week. .1 Sunday Be. one year iJ Saturday Ree, on year I-50 Addreaa all complaints of Irremilarltlea In delivery to City Circulation department. OFFICES. Oman The B-i Bulldlna-. South Omaha-Twcnty-foiirth and N. Council H!uff15 Boott Street. Lincoln 618 Little Bulldlna-. rhleaaro 1M Marquette Hullfltng. New Vork-Rooma 1101-1102 No. 34 Went Thirty-third Street. Washington 728 Fourteenth Street. N. w. CORRESPONDENCE. r'ommunlcatlona relating; to nawa and edi torial matter ahould be addressed: Omaha Ree, EdUotial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, expreaa or postal order pavabla to The Be Publishing Company. Only 2-oent atampa received In payment of mall account. Personal checka. except on Omaha or eaatern exchangea, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, aa.: fteorire B. Ttschurk, treaaurer of The Ree Publishing company, being duly aworn, aaya that the actual number of full and complete copies of Tha Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of November, 1908, waa aa follows: 1 . 44,000 16 37,980 17 37,190 t 36,870 19 39,890 20.. 37,310 21 37,000 22 37,060 23 37,010 24 37,090 25 37.07P 26 38,940 27 37,140 28 36,890 29 36,700 30 37,1110 2 38,100 3 40,850 4 64,860 f, 48,880 6 39,830 7 38,380 8 37,400 37,940 10 '..37.810 11 37,780 12 37,880 U 37,890 14 37,880 15 38,600 Total 1,161,870 I.eas unsold and returned copies. 11.187 Net total 1,180,103 Dally average 38,339 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK, Treasurer. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before ma this 1st day of December, 1808. (Seal) M. P. WALKER. Notary Public. WHE7T OCT Or TOWJT. Sobacrlkera leaving; tho -cltr tern, porarlly abomld have The Boo mailed to than. Addrcoa will ha changed mm often na reqneated. It will soon be too late to do your Christmas shopping early. Now it is charged that there Is a Sardine trust. It ought to be canned. Mr. Taft will find it easier to get someone to take Mr. Root's place than to fill it. Uncle Sam is showing no disposi tion to pull any Haytlen chestnut! out of the fire. "The Perfect Man" is the title of Mrs. Elinor Glyn's latest book. She la still writing fiction. The shoe manufacturers have asked for the removal of the tariff on hides. It is their sole request. l.o may be a poor Indian, but he can give the white man pointers on the game of foot ball. "Bryanism Is a political disease," says the Charleston News and Courier. A sort of locomotor ataxia? ' England's fears of war are Pick wickian," says a New York paper Thought they were Teutonic. Shoemakers have a notion that the country would be better heeled if the tariff on hides were removed. "Great is Tammany hall and Croker is its prophet," said Mr. Bryan in 1900. He thinks differently now. In the matter of Christmas shop ping, as In many other things, it is a good plan to go while the going Is good. Colonel Goethals reports that he has deposited 368. 300 cubic feet of rock on the "south toe" of the Gatun dam. Ouch! Mr. Carnegie probably feels that If the country had had free trade he would not now be worrying over the disgrace of dying rtch. Reports have It that Speaker Can non has decided that it is better to stand well with Mr. Taft than to stand pat on the tariff. Let It be hoped that Mr. Hobson will not upset that agreement between the United States and Japan for the preservation of peace on the Pacific. Mr. Archbold also has a poor mem ory when on the witness stand. Mr. Hearst should be called to coach hlu: with quotations from the stolen letter file. The new Oklahoma legislature la eald to be much more conservative than the last one. Even that Is not saying very much for the new legls lature. The South Omaha charter builders 8 re very busy fixing up a document, but are studiously overlooking the possibility of union between the two Omahas. The inaugural parade at Washing ton on March 4 next will be led by a plain business man of the city , Instead of by a major general with enough gold braid on him to load a moving n. Times and fashions change. The printers' endorsement seems to carry considerable weight with the governor, the present and incoming deputy labor commissioner having been backed by the Omaha Typo graphical union against all comers. THE QUESTION OF REVEXLE, Congressman Tawnpy, chairman of the house committee on appropria tions, will hardly arouse much enthu siasm In the country by his proposi tion to restore some of the war taxes as a means of providing additional revenue for the government. Mr. Tawney explains that the receipts from customs and Internal revenue collections are not sufficient to main tain the government and that there la apparently no way to limit tho ap propriations to bring them within the existing receipts. The American people havrf never taken kindly to war taxes In times of war, much less In times of peace. The greatest statesmanship was exercised from 1864 to 1879 to remove the war taxes and place the country on a sound financial basis, with a credit above all other nations. A restora tion of the war taxes at this time would be a confession of governmen tal weakness. Mr. Tawney explains that nearly 70 per cent of the expen ditures of the government are either for paBt wars or In preparation for possible wars of the future. Even that does not Justify the levy of war taxes. This expense, it is reasonable to assume, has reached its maximum. The pension appropriations will natu rally become rapidly less each year and the expenditures for the army nd navy, now that both have been rmly established and organized, can be materially cut down with entire safety to the nation. Heretofore the appropriations for river and harbor improvements have been paid from the general fund of the government. With a systematic plan of improvements adopted, the money for carrying on the work should be raised by the sale of bonds, Just aa the Panama canal work If being carried on. After that receipts and disbursements should ' be so ad justed as to make no further drain on the volume of money still left in the federal treasury. The need of addi tional sources of revenue is generally apparent, but the public will hardly look upon the war tax scheme aa the proper solution of the problem. THE SHAME OF A CITY. Springfield, the capital of Illinois and the home of Lincoln, the emanci pator, has failed to redeem itself from the disgrace it harvested last August, when a score of negroes lost their lives in a race riot. At the time of the riots the detectives and tho news papers secured and, published the names of 117 persons' who were charged with having played star or minor parts In the saturnalia of mur der, arson and malicious destruction of property that characterized the conflict between the races. The grand ury, which has been in session for weeks, has adjourned without return ing an indictment against any of the leaders in the race riots. The men who led the riots and boasted of their part in It have not been indicted, and it is admitted that those indicted played but little part In the real disturbance and can not, in any event, be severely punished. The failure of the grand Jury to do Its duty and of the prosecutors to see that justice was done is as discredit ing to Springfield as was the rioting. The citizens by mocking the law sim ply Invite new assaults upon it. Springfield has apparently placed itself on the plane with some of the Tennessee and Kentucky towns thai have become prominent by their de fiance of the law and all authority. THE AGREEMENT WITH JAPAX. The full text of the new diplomatic agreement between the United States and Japan, which has been announced from Washington, must put an end to the talk of HobBon and other Amer lean jingoes about the probability or possibility of a war between the two nations and, which is more important, marks a distinctive triumph for Mr. Root in carrying out the trade policy in China which was Inaugurated by his predecessor, the late John Hay. When the original "open door policy was declared by Mr. Hay Rus sia was the chief party to the agree- ment with the United States, as Rus sia was then the dominant factor in Manchuria. After the Russ-Jap war the Japanese, in the treaty of Ports mouth, reaffirmed the open door pol icy for Manchuria, but have not been very active in carrying the policy into effect. Secretary Root rocently re quested, in a diplomatic way, a state ment of Japan's policy and intentions in China and on the Pacific. As a re suit the agreement has been reached and signed by. the proper authorities. In brief, it provides that the United States and Japan will together under take the task of preserving peace on the Pacific in maintaining "the integ rity of China and the principle of equal opportunity for commerce and Industry of all nations in that em pire." Nothing could be more satisfactory to the United States. It has secured all It has ever sought in China and has gained an ally in Japan against the oft-threatened dismemberment of China by other European powers. One section of the agreement, following the declaration respecting the integ rity of China, is very significant. It reads: Should any event occur threatening- the atatua quo aa above described or the prin ctplo of equal opportunity aa above de fined it remains for tha government! to communicate with each othur to arrive at an understanding- aa to what measure they may consider It useful to take. This smacks very much of an all I ance, which might become of the "en tangling" variety against which the nation has been traditionally pledged At the same time the agreement will not, it Is understood, be sent to the senate fur ratification, and Is there TIIE OMAHA DAILY BEF,: FRIDAY. DECEMBER 4, 1008. fore not a recorded policy of the ad ministration, but simply a memoranda between two powers indicating a plan of harmonious action in case of cer tain emergencies. The significance of the agreement note that It is not referred to as a "treaty" is that it gives tangible form to the professlont of friendship between Japan and this nation and the basis for co-operation of the two nations in the protection of the open door trade policy in China. Incidentally It paves the way for easier- agreement with Japan on the Immigration question and a new reaty of commerce In place of the old Oresham treaty, which has outlived the conditions that obtained when it was negotiated. ELECTIVE Cri OFFICES. Among other recommendations of the charter revision committee, which has been holding sessions on the Omaha charter, is one that the list of leetive municipal offices shall include the mayor, the city clerk, the city at torney, the city engineer, the building Inspector, boiler Inspector and the health commissioner. If this recom mendation were adopted It would add to the number of elective city offices those of city engineer, boiler inspector nd health commissioner. We do not believe this would be 8 step in the direction of better mu nicipal government, but, on the con- rary, that it would be a step back ward from the most approved rrincl- ples of modern city government. The tendency everywhere is to concentrate authority in municipal administration rather than to scatter It, and to hold the mayor and council, or the commis sioners where the commission form has been adopted, responsible for. the proper working of all the administra tive machinery. Many positions In the city government require technical knowledge and skill in addition to ex ecutive ability and making them elec tive involves an unnecessary risk of poor or incompetent material, to say nothing of impairing the confidential relations that should exist between the executive and his subordinates. The Bee protested against the change that made the city attorney and the building Inspector elective officers and Its objections in these cases have been fully sustained as shown by the subsequent course of events. For the same reason it be lieves it would be a mistake to make, as is now proposed, elective offices for the city engineer, boiler inspector and health commissioner. It would, In our Judgment, be far preferable to restore the city attorneyship and the building Inspectorship to the former status, which made them appointive by the mayor. THE TYPE WRITTEN SIGNATURE. Tho Board of Appraisers at New York has made an extreme decision to tho effect that tho signature to a check may be written in typewriter and still be good and acceptable, so long as the expenditure for which the check is drawn is authorized and made by the proper parties. The de cision came up on a protest against the acceptance of a check, because the aw requires that the check shall be n "writing." The board promptly ruled that it made no difference how the "writing" was made, whether with ink, pencil, stencil, typewriter or any other old way, so long as the party receiving the check had evi dence that it was properly drawn. Old-fashioned folks will be disposed to protest against the decision of the customs appraisers. The typewriter has already done enough to make hand writing a lost art and there should be some provision against al lowing the signature, the last vestige of courtesy and individuality in cor respondence and official documents from being done by machinery. THE FLIGHT OF CASTRO. All Venezuela and most of the diplomatic world is taking keen in terest in the report that Clpriano Castro, the dictator of Venezuela, in tends to make his permanent home in Paris. It is known that Castro is a very sick man. He must have been, or he would not have left Venezuela at a time when conditions are critical and his strong personality is needed to maintain his hold on power. Now Caracas has the story that Castro does not Intend to return to Venezuela but, having amassed a great fortune, proposes to follow the example of for mer Venezuelan presidents and enjoy the rest of his days in Europe. Conditions In Venezuela are com plicated by the fact that CaBtro has left the relus In the hands of Vice President Gomez, an unknown quan tity. If Gomez were a strong charac ter, he would follow the custom of Venezuela and entrench himself in power during Castro's absence. To that extent, his lack of force is an element In Castro's favor. On the other hand, Gomez' Inexperience and inability are rirtalr. to be taken ad vantage of by Castro'B enemies, who have been trying for years to foment revolutions against him. They will now have an opportunity tc strengthen their forces and may suc ceed in the overthrow of the Castro government. Whatever the result most of the world will view with com placency any development that will eliminate Castro as a ruling and tur bulent factor in Venezuelan affairs. "How can Mr. Roosevelt be an ed itor, run for the senate and kill Hons in Africa all at the same time?" asks the Atlanta Journal, which thus ad mits that it does not know Mr. Roose velt and his rapacity for doing things. The State Board of Health 1b enter ing thoroughly into the anti-tubercu losis crusade and makes rtcuuiuienda- J Itions to the doctor and to the legisla ture which both will do well to heed. The stamping out of tuberculosis can best be accomplished by Individual effort along the right lines, and theso lines are so simple and so easy to fol low that It seems absurd that people should need to be urged to follow them. The fees collected by the state offi cers during the last two years amount to more than $300,000, and as the fee laws were passed by a republican leg islature and these collections were made and accounted for by republican officials, it is probably not asking too much to suggest that credit be given the republican party for this, at least. If Governor Shallenberger is the good and great man his friends allege he is he will not disturb the heads of the state Institutions, even to satisfy the democratic appetite for pie. The necessity of permanence in control of the hospitals for mental and physical deficient citizens of the state is too apparent to require argument. Omaha's attractions as a conven tion city are bringing the great gath erings of the country this way, the Young Men's Christian association workers being the latest to fall In line. Omaha can take care of con ventions as well as any other city in the country, and better than most. The sensational correspondents have already commenced killing off the range cattle with the cold and soon the humane societies of the east will begin adopting resolutions denounc ing the cattle raisers of the west. This comedy is repeated annually and the actual Industry still thrives. There Is an argument now as to whether Mr. Roosevelt or Mr. Taft de serves the more credit for breaking the solid south. It should not be for gotten that Mr. Bryan had something to do with that work, too. Tom Flynn is scheduled to lead the grand march at the inaugural ball. Now, If Tom will only take, time to clean up the Omaha Btreets between now and Christmas he may dance with a clear conscience. Governor-elect Harmon of Ohio Is said to be planning for the democratic presidential nomination in 1912. Gov ernor Harmon should remember that Ohio is the mother of republican presidents only. The World-Herald continues to find much fault with the appointments made by Governor Sheldon. This It an excellent Indication that the ap pointments were; well made. The Literary-Digest declares that the French people no longer care for fiction. Some iof their real scandals, like that noty being aired, are stranger than aay fiction. "Mr. Bryan is quite sure," says the Commoner, "that his life work is the study of the science of government." There are some indications that he needs to study it. Delays Are Daugrrooi. Baltimore American. These who cannot now see signs of pros perity on every hand should have their eyes examined by some good oculist. Alnrmlats Pat Oat of Business. Chicago News. If Japan and the United States decide that there shall be peace In the Pacific, peace is what the natives along the shores will get. Kebates I nder New Xante. Pittsburg Dispatch. The trunk line railroads admit the grant ing of discriminations under tha guise of "accessorial allowances" to shippers at New York, but they defend themselves with the plea that It is nobody's business save the shippers and the carriers. An other case of a decided difference of opinion between the railroads and tho law. ' Idle Indnatrlea Starting; l"p. Philadelphia Press. Within the last few days several of the great textile mills of this city have In creased their activities. An Idle mill In Darby lias started up. The Amercan Bridge company reports orders In Novem ber for 9),000 tons of finished material. wh,ch l" about tne majlmu'" capacity of us plants, and tne largest new business In any month this year. The country wel- copies every Indication of returning pros perity. Material Combines I.oae Oat. Philadelphia Record. Necessity la the mother of Invention. The appropriations made by congress for the construction of quarters' for officers and soldiers at military posts having been found Insufficient because of the advanced prices of ordinary structural material, re course naa been had to the use of rein forced concrete aa a substitute for brick, stone and lumber. Contracts for army buildings have been made at prices 0 per cent less than the estimates for material other than cement. The durability no less than the cheapness of concrete construc tion makes certain Its Increasing use. DELICIOUS PEPSIN GUM we era hint rat usmo mmnnsi rum lCPALlkUNVN MKE3. 0 ITALIAN PEPPERMINTS FOR THE BREATH. CLEAR THE TWtQVE WASHINGTON TAFFY tt & 10 Tl'BES, SOLD BY DSXGGJ5T3 DTBYWHTBJE. K NOT MMLXO If YOlitSi HKT WC HaiPT Of rWtl ft 603 CWWMAY. M1TV0EX. a i' -iir nnvjin aboit skw youk. niaplea on the arrent of Life In the Metropolis. On the nla-M or March 29 last a Mrs. Falmer, a truest In a Pan Francisco hotel, waa awakened by a nianked man, who struck het with the butt of hlu revolver, leaving her for dead. Sunday last O. B. Standlffo, the burg-lnr, wan captured In New York. A physical wreck from the effects of opium used to deaden remorse, he nsked, "Is she dead?-' When told that Mrs. Palmer was living-. Stancllffe ex claimed, "Thank God!" The Incident prompts the New York World to ask and discuss the question, "Can a man cscHpe his conscience?" saying: "Greek myth ology personified the Eumenldcs, 'Avenging Furies.' forever pursuing the sliedder of blood until he gave up his guilty secret. Every age. has Its writer, who repeats the story. KuHpldes relates the tragedy of Orestes. Bhakespe-rro has portrayed the ag ony of Macbeth, Poo has told of the 'Imp of the Perverse' and 'The Pluck Cat.' Hul wer of 'Eligene Aram.'. John II. PrentU In 'The Case of Dr. Horace' put the question squarely: Is It possible for a murderer to remain silent? Even though the guilty secret may never be confessed in words, the Impulse,, to revisit the scene of crime can rarely bo resisted. "True, there, may be exceptions. I.om broso speaks of 'moral Imbeciles' who lack entirely a sense of right and wrong. The Sicilian bandit and the Kentucky feudist of today, who to all Intents are 'throw backs.' may escape the vision of their crimes. But a conclusion cannot be drawn from abnormal types. The ordinary mur derer cannot elude his sens of Isolation, and with maddenlriK Iteration the blood of the victim crleth from the ground.' " "One of the most Interesting things to me In connection with this Job," said the veteran keeper of the Bronx Park Zoo, quoted by the New York Press. "Is the peculiar fascination women have for cer tain animals and their utter lack of In tereat In others. Of course, as a rule, men are more Interested than women, generally speaking, In wild beasts. But the mascu line Interest lies In an admiration or phys ical qualities or a curjoslty to find out at close range how the creature lives. The woman's feeling, on the other hand, nine times out of ten, Is one of rapt fascina tion. Impossible to overcome when she la close to certain creatures of the woods. "This emotion never manifests Itself for the enters of grass. For the elephant or deer the average woman feels no real In terest whatever. It Is toward the devour ers of flesh, particularly the felines, that your wife or sister or cousin feels drawn in that Inexplicable way. You must spend days In the Hon house In order to appre ciate fully the way In which women stand spellbound before those cages. But great, est of all Is tho fascination of the reptiles. I have seen women become absolutely un conscious of the outer world In their con templation of motionless snakes. A few days ego a woman stood for more than two hours before tho king cobras. She looked like the wife of a worklngman who made fair pay. I'll bet if you gave her a book on snakes she wouldn't read 100 words of It." r- Sbme of the means resorted to by those New York corporations which still remain inimical to the public service commission, and by newspapers In sympathy with them, to discredit the commission are anything but righteous. For Instance, It was noised abroad a few days ago that the Erie rail road had been compelled tot withdraw the commutation rates heretofore given children attending actiois Jn oltles on Its line, lea son: An alleged ruling by the commission that the said rates gave an Illegal prefer ence to some passengers over others. The fact turns out to be that the commis sion never made any such ruling. On the contrary. It notified the company that the continued use of tho tickets referred to waa "extremely desirable," and that their proposed discontinuance waa "not de manded under any construction of law.' The result Is as in almost every Instance where It Is attacked added popularity for the commission, Instead of the ' odium sought to be thrust upon U. It has been discovered that the large cantilever bridge which Is officially named the Queensboro bridge and Is popularly known as the Blackwell'a Island bridge Is a strong electromagnet just now, though of fluctuating strength. The discovery was made by U. Crlchton Huggins, one of the engineers retained by the Queensboro Bridge Celebration committee to Investigate the security of the steel structure. Mr. Huggins says that when the concrete floor la laid down the magnetism will be less notlceuble, and that It will never do the bridge any injury. Mr. Huggins, who wears metal plates on the bottom of his shoe heels, noticed that his feet clung to the bridge when he walked over It. That led to a de tailed examination. Now the workmen amuse themselves on the day the magnet ism is most powerful by hanging bolts from the steel beams of the bridge. Mr. Huggins thinks that the steel structure gathers Its electricity from the generating plants near both ends of the bridge and from tho plant on Blackwell'a Island. He says that all big steel bridges that are near such plants gather electricity In this way, and that the phenomenon Is noticed on both the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges, though the former has been painted so many times that It is now more or less Insulated, and gathers less electricity than formerly. Two girls of about 15 were exchanging confidences In an elevated train, and men were trying to read their newspapers with little success, owing to the cluck of tongues. Said one girl: "Did you go to that Egyptian lecture last night? I had to. It was dcad-fy dull, but Miss Blank said we had to go. Marlon and Jacqueline and I got to giggling and talk ing and could not stop. There was a couple in front of us, I think they were man and wife, and tiny said "hrish" several times, and then they glared at us. What do you think of that?" Then she opened fire again. "Do you know the other day Marlon and I could not stop laughing In chapel. Some, thing etruc-k us funny, and we could not stop talking and laughing about It. Miss Blank was watching ua and told us to go up stairs Hfter school, but she did not do anything but talk. I should think that she would remember she was a girl herself once. She Is horrid." Then the man beside said: "It's a pity sho did not whale you. You need It wome than any youngster I ever saw." There was no more giggling. I.onibrr and Labor. Minneapolis Journal. Really, the only vital ciuestlon In this matter of reducing or wiping out the lum ber tariff Is the question of how It will af fect American labor. That is, or should he, the paramount question In all tariff discussion. The proponents of free lumber seem to have established beyond cavil that Canadian labor Is aa well paid as Ameri can In the lumber Industry. That would seem to establish the asserttnn that the competition of Canadian lumber, while In creasing our supplb-s, now becoming so badly depleted, and possibly lowering the price . slifflitly, would not unfavorably af fect wage on this side uf llrf It's in the Packing Soak m juicy sirloin In ice water a week then cook and serve it. Would il taM as it ahould? Neither do oysters treated that way. "SealshipF Oy m taste right have all the peculiar delicmcv of oysters you get at the short because no ice or water touches thern no preservative is used or needed. The ice is packed atvund the sealed galvanized steel cans. "SeaUhipt" Oysters are clean fresh, thoroughly palatable, aways. Ne ' wit! of preparing ovsters In "Seslthipt Sense" ail int ers are Iven ereit- ini book stxnit oysters. Aa any "seal shlpt" clrsler for a copy and try a pint of slhlpt" ovstrrt are r rtlpt" oysters today. "Srslnhipt" . ovstrrt are dinlrlbuted by tne following wholesalers: Bntta Si PatUrson, 3S60 rarnam Bt. Kosanblom ft Co., 8al Cuming St. Trad Jtslson, 3860 Hamilton Bt. Central Market, 810 North 16th Bt. Jacob Bobmldt k Boa, BIS Horth letb Bt. Courtney It Co., 17th and Pouglas Bta. Bunasll Bs Bon, 1808 Cass Bt. Jos. Honska, 8883 Shern.au At. M. Btchmu, 84th and Xavnworth Bt. Chas. Akofar, 84th and X, Bo. Omaha. Orcan Cash Oroosry, 84th and BT, Bo. Omaha. Bee Hive Oroeary and Meat Markat 330 North 84th Bt., Bo. Omaha. John Basnlcktk, 8707 X,eavenworth Bt. TALMAGE-McCOY CO.. 1205 Howard St., Omaha, IMot- JOBH1NG DISiTRIDUTORS The Renuine 'Sealshlpt" Oysters sre always sold from m White Porcelain Display Case bearinfcthe 'Sealshipt, trade mark In blue. This is for your protection look for it. The ,Sealshipt,, Carrier System is patented. Infringe ments will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. NATIONAL OYSTER CARRIER COMPANY South Norwslk. Connecticut. pkhAosai, xotks. Senator Hemenway of Indiana once dug ditches In Boonvlllo, the vlllago he Bt 111 lives In, and Senator .Beveridge, from tho samo state, was a book agent. Balfour Browne, K. C, for the last .fif teen years has. It Is said, had the best In come of any man at the English bar. He Is credited with earning nearly J25O.00O a year. Manlcy Iawton, a son of the late Major General Henry V. Uvwton, who was killed at Bun Matel, Philippine islands. In 1900. has been appointed second lieutenant of the Philippine scouts. Objection Is raised In New York to the price of 11 charged for a marriage license. However, the groom unable to pay this would be a poor sort of a chap to look to for rent and sundries. When Governor Hanly of Indiana re tires from office In January It will be to become a member of a new law firm to be established In Indianapolis. The other members Will be Judge Samuel Art man of Lebanon, lnd., and Charles G. McAdams, until recently a member of the State Railroad commission. Prof, and Mrs. Hadley were on a train bound for New York, where Yale's presi dent. was'-tO-.speak before a national con vention. Ho made use of the hour and twenty minutes. be,apept. In tha train ,by rehearaintrbls afteeMi tfi a hW vofce, Using' his, hands o emphasise certain passages. A kindly rhalron who waa sitting directly behind Mr. and Mrs. Hadley, and who had been watching and listening, leaned forward, and, tapping Mrs. Hadley on the shoulder, said, feelingly, "You have my sincere sympatrty; I have one Just like him at home." "SHOP EARLY." Brooklyn Eagle. Unless you've a heart that Is knotty and knurly. You'll try to seo Christmas before It la here; Impressed by the motto: "Go out and shop early," That strikes, like a fire-gong, each listening ear. The saleswoman, paling, the little cash Klrlle. Half tired to death, In a season of cheer, You'vo seen. Take this motto: "Go out and shop early," That strikes, like a fire-gong, each llstt-nlng ear. Get busy before all the wild hurly-burly That brings to each buyer excitement and fear; Give heed to the motto: "Go out and shop early," That strikes, like a flre-gong, each listening ear. Aye, go before floor walkers start to bo surly; Ere brains have got whlrly, for reasons quite clear. There s sense in the motto: "Go out and shop early," That strikes, like a fire-gong, each listening ear. Hair curly, eyes pearly, not one' of 'em chuily. The salesgirls will greet you with wel come sincere. Ignore not the motto: "Go out and shop early." That strikes, like a fire-gong, each listening ear. IIKKKZV Till I. US. "That man needs but one point to muke him a perfect host." What Is that?" "If his wine were only as old as his Jckes." Baltimore American. "Io yo li-lieve in the literal Ideas of future punishment?" "Not for myself," answered Mr. Plrlus Barker. But 1 favor It for a lot of people I know." Washington Star. 'Tk vou know that we are on the verge Of a riiilk famine?" "I should say I do. Our baby Is fussing chnnt it all the time." "What dues your baby know about "He Is being weaned.' Houston I'oi 117 08t. "I wouldn' objeck to de man dat keeps talkln" all de time," said l ucle Kben, "If he didn' lnsis'.on th'owln' In u question New Florida Line t Beginning with Sanday, Itrcrmbrr Oth, the PesmsylvanU Smart Liu will UasfmraU and ran daily thtraaftcr an OkMerratlon Bleeping Car Lin throngh from Chicago to J.ckcunvllU, Florida, vcr the mw Bccnlo lima of tha Lonl vtlla v HashTlIUConipany, via LoaksvllL, Knoxrllle, Atlanta ana Macon. For Particular Information concern ing this naw and attract! Una, or concerning the Incomparable Ptttabnrgh and New York - Pmaacngcr Service of tho Pennsylvania Short Line from Chicago, call npou or addrcsa W. M. Rowland. Agent, Boom SIS Board of Trad Bldf., Omaha. ZftMsMPSjj H. D. Cons. 8990 Isavenworth Bt. R. DUts, 329 North 9Bth Bt. W. J. Mag-la, 808 No. 84th SH.i, Bo. Omaha. Paul Hannl. 714 Itorth S4th St., Bo. Omaha. Hsymann Bt Barry, lata North B4th Bt. O. K. CamplinlGaa Bouth. loth Bt. Hayden Broth, leth and Oodga Sts. Tnniaon at Barlow, 1813 North 84th Bt. Tha Pnbllo Markat, 1610 BTannay Bt. Wiiltehousa Ma,rat, 313 South 14th St. Austin U Glasgow, 40th and Pratt Bta. WUka and MltJhall, 40th vnd rarnam Bta. Jnllua Sralfnsa, 80th mna Farrtam Bta. Chaa. Blind, 8804 X,.-n worth Bt. Johnson doodle Co., 8002-04 takl Bt. every ten minutes or so dat you's got to answer to show you's keepln' awake." Washington Star. j "How do you managn your writing , tliroURh the year? "I always try t, write seasonably.' "In whut way?" ' "Well, In spring I look for an easy plant. In the fall I generally havo -a hunt for topics: in the winter I stick to cold facts, and the rest of tho year, I deil with light anl Blry subjects In a sum- . mary lasnion. iiaiumore American. "Ehenezer," called out Mrs. Jasrway from the floor above, "have you been drinking again?" "No, m' dear," answered Mr. 'Jagway, In the hallway below. "Not agan. Still." Chicago Tribune. The talesman was trying to evada Jury duty. "Conscientious scruples, I suppose?" sala the court, wearily. "Yes, your honor." ! "Wouldn't you, If the law demanded, send a man to tho g-allows?" "I'd hate to at the rate of pay a Juror pets." replied the talesman. Philadelphia Ledger. $139 PIANOS AT LOOK GOOD TO THE BUYERS The Alteration Piano Sale Forced This Price Down From $250.00. This lis the talk of the town and the country. A 1 r e a d y many Pia nos, Organs and Player Pianos have found homes, others are put aside for Christmas presents. There la no wonder at t bis when good, new dependable Planoa worth $250, $300, $400, etc., sell at HoHpe's sale for $130, f 150, $17H, $11)8, t2n, ip2H6, $200, etc. Elegant cases In oak, mahogany, walnut, French walnut, . ajptlstlc colonial and art cases, the latest patterns on the market, The world's beat Kranlch , & Bach, Kimball. Halle. & Davis, Krakauer, Buah fc.Ijanfi, Cable Nelson, Cramer, Victor, Hospe, Conway, Hinze, Whitney, etc. Dn easy payments. . . . , Player Pianos seldom offered at kss than $650, now sold at this sale from $290 up. Organs, 15, 920, '2. $80, $.13, 40, 60. Manufactured by the greatest organ builders such as Kimball, Story & Clark, Farra'nd & Votey, Great Western, Hospe, etc., Belling elsewhere for $50, $60' $70 and up to $100. It Is easy to buy of A, Hospe Co., for the prleos are. cut la two on Bonn1 Instruments, one-third off on others and on monthly ' pay ments of $5. $8, $8 to $10- on pianos, and only 50 cents 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, tho price, the terms and the treatment you get at Hospe's. Pick out your Christmas PUuos and save money, j A. HOSPE CO. I 1513 Douglas St. OMAHA, NEB. HOSPE'S