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14 THE REE: OMAHA, SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER, 11. 1909. The Omaha Daily Bel FOUNDKD BT EDWARD ROPE WATER VICTOR ft OS I WATER, EDITOR. Entered at Omaha postofflce as seoond clara matter. TKRM9 OF SCBSCIUPTION. Tally Be (without Sunday) on year.. 14 00 Dally Bp and Sunday, on year -W DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Dally Pee (Including Sunday), prr wa.k..l": I'ally Be (without Sunday), per wrek..loc Hvenlng Be (without Sunday), per week 'Mi Kvenlng Bra. (with Sunday), per wik. V- Sunday Bee, one year $-? Saturday IJee, on year 1 Address ail complaint ot Irregularities t.i delivery to City Circulation Department.. OFFICES Omaha Th Be Butldlnc. v - Bouth Omaha Tweniv-foiirth and N. Council Bluffs-Is Scott Street Lincoln ell Little Building. - Chicago IMS Marquette Building. New Vork-Hooins 1101-1102 No. M West Thirty-third Street. Washington 726 Fourteenth Street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Commnnlratlon relating to new and edi torial matter should b addressed; Omaha ttee, Editorial department. REMITTANCES. . Remit by draft, express or postal ordt peyabl to Th Be Publishing Company. Otily J-cent stamp received In payment or Diall account. personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Stat of Nebraska, Douglas County. : Oeorg B. Tsschuck, trcaaurer of The Be Publishing Company, being duly worn, aay that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally. Morning, Evening and Sunday Be printed during th month of Augutt, 190, wa a follow: ...41,780 . .43,30 . ,41,H0 . .41,610 ..41,030 . .40,000 . .43,850 . .41,770 . .43,630 . .41,700 ..41,730 . .43,170 . .40,000 ..41,810 .1,389,410 10,361 Net total 1,879.039 Pally average . 41,359 3EO. a TZSCHUCK. Traurer. Subscribed In my preesnce end worn to be for ai thla 1st day of September, not. M. P WALKER. Notary Public. Sabaerlbers leaving; tke clfv tem porarily should katt The Be nail) to them. Address relit bo changed aa often aa raqaested. Discoverers are Informed that the Riff coast la still causing Spain some anxiety. Secretary Ballinger must see that In the Alaska coal case Polar ethics are not violated. , m. Hag anybody thought of employing the Psychlt Research society in the North Pole mystery? vThere la practicability in the crow less rooster, but an eggless hen would not be worth the trouble. Next registering day la October 5. If you have not registered put a red croagmark on the calendar. Car shortage filled the air two months ago. The balance of demand and supply la nearer the normal. A suicide Is reported near Lincoln by hanging with a bed sheet. That nine-foot bed sheet law la no Joke. With a wind-up of good weather Nebraska's State fair ought to show characteristic recuperative powers. Speaking of Joint debates, how about matching Cook against Peary on the subject, "Who saw it first?" Sir Conan Doyle la reforming the Congo. Was he or Roosevelt first to discover the need of an uplift? Get out the best ears of corn In the Missouri valley. We must show them soon, and nothing but the best will do. Omaha does not withhold apprecia tion for Kansas City's union station and Its boat line for the Missouri river. Seattle la laboring with a rat cru sade. It la not much of a civilization that Is whipped by rats. Yet It aeems to be so. In these big days it is necessary to say once In a while that Orvllle Wright Is somewhere around Berlin making an occasional flight. If Roosevelt Is truly out for the job ot finishing the Panama canal, he la the man. There la nothing left to In terest him In the mystic north. It is thought that Walter Wellman will be first In the lecture field and best Informed on the facta. All of Carnegie's libraries are at Ma dis posal. At the reduced price of radium It ought to be ot some use In airship construction or Polar exploration. Otherwise we can store It till the price recovers. Land for the landless Is no longer Inspiring as a cry. A Nebraska farm improved is a better Investment than a houseless, fenceless and plowless quarter of wild land. Chicago Is renewing stories of the Illinois and Michigan canal. It sounds like reading about the Santa Fe trail and the bullwhackers. It was so long ago and did so little. Just because a cheap remedy for hook worm has been found It mutt not be supposed that laziness has dis appeared. The rest cure lg still 'pop ular In certain circles. Who would have thought that ao many men knew all about the Ice packs and the Greenland route? It Is strange that the North Pole was not discovered forty years ago. 1 39,900 17 1 41,600 18 I ....41,470 19 4 4130 20 I v.. 41,770 21....... 41,840 22 T .....41,790 J J I..... 3S.S00 24 ...., 41,30 If. 10 41,980 26 11 41,040 17 11 41,670 tl It 43,030 21 14....... ...41, 430 SO , It .....40,000 11 , II 41,600 Total - Returned copies Republicanism and the West. Without presuming to enter the controversy started by Governor John on and prolonged by Senator Gore on the thesis that the republican part hag misused political power to the det riment of the western peorle. It is worth while to repeat gome recent statements of fact. Out of the last forty-eight jears the republican party has been In power forty years. It haa nominated ten presidential candidates Fremont, Lincoln, Grant, Hayes, Garfleld. Har rison, McKlnley and Taft and eight out of the ten were western men. The other two, Blaine and Roosevelt, were not western men, but were strong fa vorites In the west and were chosen with the aid of warm western support. Since 1861 there have been seven re publican speakers of the house. Grow, Blaine and Reed were from the east and Schuyler Colfax, Kelfer, Hender son and Cannon from the west. In the monetary contest, which Is cited by the democratic leaders who have been in control for a dozen years, as dividing the west and east, the west ern states which have acted regularly with the republican party and without subterfuge or constraint, were Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iow.a, Minnesota, North Dakota, Ore gon and California. Are these states going about now with unhealed sores or old scores to settle? In the present cabinet there are Hitchcock, Mac Veagh, Balllnger, Npgel and Wilson, an overwhelming number of those who deal with subjects In which these sections might have special interest. Laying aside the present tariff, in which democrats played a part as con spicuous as any republican along the line where Gore and Johnson And trouble,- history credits the republican party with special friendliness to the west, not to mention what the party did in the creation of Nebraska, Kan sas and the later admissions. In fact, It Is obvious there would be no west none of that west of which Governor Johnson is thinking, but for the re publican party. Be Reconciled. Just because Douglas county pulled out first prize at the State fair, above all counties In Its class, the Lincoln Star emits this lugubrious lament of which The Bee feels ita readers should take cognizance: The climax of humiliation has been reached for Lancaster county in th awards at th Stat fair for county 'collec tive exhibits, In that Douglas county has been awarded the championship belt In ag riculture for the district We have stood up long under the knowledge that Douglas county, though smaller than Lancaster, has had more population and more wealth, it has also had more fun and mors cussed nss than this urban and orderly county has ever aspired to. It has a great deal more water and less use for it than we, who must content ourself with the placidi ties of Salt creek, as compared to tha tu multuous activities of th Rig Muddy. W have contented ourselves over the humiliation that It has a lot of railroad headquarters, some skyscraper Jobbing houses and factories, some magnificent re tail mporlums, some marvelous civic ac tivities, soma ruthless politicians, some breweries and a Mayor Jim. It was pos sible for us to contemplate all these and still be happy. Dut to have It flung In our teeth that it has also the best farmers end the best farm troducts Is tha aome of de gradation, which must leav us sore hearted for many a long day. Here, where are assembled the agriculture scien tists turned out by a university, the great state farm, where Is assembled each year at the State fair the samples of th bent In everything, where every citizen might be presumed to be an expert In th judg ing ot the merits of corn and oats and wheat and pumpkins, and competent to conduct night school for the enlightenment of the urban-tainted farmers of Douglas. It Is too bad! It is exasperating. In conclusion the Star seems to think that the heaviest blow Is yet to come from Omaha continuously boast ing the superiority of Its farmers over those of Lincoln. We trust the good people of Lincoln, and Lancaster county, will feel reconciled to their sad fate. They still have the penitentiary, the insane asylum and the Home for the Friendless, to say nothing of Fair view and a twenty-four-hour tight lid, all of which 6maha can only contem plate and envy. There is glory enough tor all. Currency Ups and Downs. This Is the time for reminders of the everlasting financial topic of na tional bank currency. . We are told that the Issue of bank notes, In tha face of 2 V4 per cent money and con tinuing gold exports, keeps on. To meet the needs of the panic the bank note circulation increased $88,000, 000. Under a fully elastic system there would have been immediate con traction after the crisis, but this con traction was so slow that only about $20,000,000 had been retired In July, 1908. The condition remained sta tionary until this year, when an ex pansion set in and the bank clrcula tlpn reached $143,000,000 more than the high point reached before the panic and $55,000,000 mora than the maximum of the panic period. It Is hard to find anything In ,the financial conditions to call for this In crease of circulation. The banks held Idle bonda which they could use to secure note issues. When the federal treasury adopted a policy of with drawing deposits, the banks trans ferred the amounts from deposit ac count to circulation account. Natu rally, Secretary MacVeagh announces that he will not sell any new 3 per cent bonda If he can avoid It. He does not wish to ruin the market status of 2 per cent bonds or to hasten a dan gerous Inflation of bank paper and risk an uncertainty of the gold reserve. It aeems almost Incredible that, after all our effort to put our currency on a sound and stable baaia, we should be facing thia uncomfortable situation. While there Is ao cause for apprehen- slon that the government bonda, whether 2 per cents or 3 per eentg, will not furnish complete security or that the bank note currency will ever fall below par, it may easily come, to pass that extraordinary measures will be taken under pressure to sustain absolute interconvertlblllty of all our forms of currency. Causet of Typhoid. Autumnal typhoid still has a way of appearing at customary seasons In well nigh every region of the country. The health authorities In New Yprk And It this year rather worse than usual. As usual, it appears In the dwellings of the well-to-do as freely aa In the shacks of the poor. Sanitation does not prevent It, fiat la, not what we generally call sanitation. It Is an Intestinal disease, conveyed by drink or food. The old theories of bad air, ewer gas and damp houses have not now much standing It Is feared that some of the later theories do not explain all the points about autumn typhoid. The housefly does not. The condition of the water supply, as being different In summer and winter, does not. A plausible ex planation is that the profuse perspira tion with which In summer the body eliminates a large amount of disease breeding matter Is reduced to a mini mum almost Instantly when the cool days begin. The kidneys and bowels, unaccustomed to the task, are bur dened with dangerous material and un able to perform the task of elimina tion. It is at least common knowledge that typhoid is most prevalent when the cool weather sets In. If that Is not the cause, the wise treatment, preventive and curative, la exactly gulted to deal with It. Typhoid ha not yielded as It should have done to the efforts of medical men. It has not been conquered, though unques tionably reduced in severity and dan ger. The one rule of popular science Is that in August and September elim- lnatlve processes be kept In a state of even more than normal activity. What is Omaha going to do about providing supplementary police pro tection while the town la filled with guests for the Eagles' convention, the president's visit, the Ak-Sar-Ben festi val and the Corn show? Owing to the bungling legislation of our late democratic legislature limiting the po lice fund while increasing the drafts upon It, Omaha's police force is right now smaller than it has been for sev eral years, with more people to watch and more work to do. What Is equally discomforting, there Is' no prospect of increased numbers In the police de partment for next year, because the additional police fund money will be practically all taken ud by the increase In police salaries. ur people ought to understand these things, so that should the police force prove inade quate the blame may be put where It belongs. - ' Mr. Bryan wants the democrats at the Saratoga conference to hammer for the income tax, tariff reduction and free raw materials as "the prin ciples and policies acceptable to the rank and file of the party throughout the land." What about the initiative and referendum incorporated Into their state platform by the democrats of Nebraska, Mr. Bryan's home state? Is the Initiative and referendum a democratic principle In Nebraska only. The democratic state chairman is proclaiming his confidence that a great democratic victory awaits In Nebraska at the coming election. Where? How? We thought this was to be a strictly nonpartisan campaign so far as the democrats are concerned. The bankers have, one and all, voted their Omaha meeting an unqual ified success. This satisfied feeling ought to bring the State Bankers' as sociation back again In a year or two when they want to repeat the per formance. The proposal to have a permanent western capital for the president is an Imprudent suggestion. The fight be tween Minneapolis and St. Paul is launched again. The great Polar feud would not be a whisper beside it. Attorney General Thompson gays the law against prize fighting in Ne braska is plain enough. There la no question about the .law. The real question la where "a boxing contest" ends and "a prize fight" begins. Crop Impairment in August was worse than it should have been. Yet there Is enough grain left to strala the car service of th railroads and the quality Is of the best. The corn country Is not yet whining. Is Governor Haskell a devotee of Muskogee's new charter and govern ment by commission? Centralised government was not considered the long suit of this able Jeffersonlan plat form builder. Never in their history have "the Union Pacific, Southern Pacific, the Pennsylvania and the New York Cen tral carried so much traffic. Honor the example of E. H. Harriman. At any rate. Mr. Harriman nut Omaha on bis map In such good, big letters that no one who succeeds him can fall to see it Better Match Oat. Chicago Tribune. Th North pol. It seems, was located on th shifting lee. Every explorer must watch his own pole. No responsibility for lout poles. Favorite Mysteries Overshadowed. St. Louis Republlo. Whll controversy rage around th Noith pol. b It remembered that th mystery of th man who struck William ratterann and the fat of th cherry In the bottom of Mr. Falrbank's glass re main unsolved. Th Kssierted Happened. Blou City Journal. lresldent Taft has refused th oppor tunity, so generously offered by Mr. Bryan, to fall behind the Nebraskan's leadership In a campaign for th popular election of United States senators. Mr. Bryan say he feared this would be th case, and the rest of us may as well admit w . pctd It. What rxblle Oplnlom Mill Do. St. Louis Olobe-Democrat. The high-handed treatment of striker at MrKec's Rocks appears to have re sulted, after all. In a complete victory for the strikers over th corporation. Th corporation seemed to hav th right of It In th beginning, but It outraged public opinion, and public opinion can settle a strike as easily as It can settle anything else It sets upon. W Seed It In Oar Boslneaa. Hartford Times. William II. Seward annexed Alaska to th United States In 187, and now Dr. Cook has annexed th North pol. if discovery Carrie with it the right of possession. It Is easy enough to aay we do not want to own the pole, but a good many people said the same thing about Alaska at first. There may be great advantages som day In having a title to the 3)0.000 square miles of "territory cut out from the terrestrial unknown," as the explorer strikingly says. For one thing, there Is probably a lot of coal up there and coal land Is good prop erty wherever you find It on thesurfac of the earth. Cheer for Path Breaker. Washington Post. In the midst of the general acclaim of Cook and Peary and tha glorification of the American spirit which Is so manifest In their splendid success, let us aot forget the Eskimos and the dogs. There cannot be too muoh praise for th leaders for their bold, brilliant efforts In th nam of their country. But It Is taking nothing from their victories over the element to recognise the heroism and fortitude of th Eskimos who assisted and the faithful service of the dogs, which hav again proved th best and truest animal friend of man. Here' to th men of th north and th dogs of the north that helped to lash tha Stars and Stripes to the pol. Food Adulteration Go Oh. Buffalo Express. Hundreds of people are to be prose cuted In Pennsylvania aa a result of In vestigations made by th dairy and food commission. Among th adulterations found were flour bleaohed with nitrites of nitrous acid; french peas highly colored by salts of copper; mushrooms bleached by sulphurous acid; pickles treated with alum; honey that is not honey at all, but a pur counterfeit; sardines' that are common minnow floating In pur olive oil, which Is nothing els but cottonseed oil; catsup filled with benioat of, soda; maraschino cherries colored by coal tar dyes; sausages stuffed with bleached flour and cheap starch. The commissioner should not cease his prosecutions until these practices have bean stopped. AIKY POSSIBILITIES. Senator Brown' Remarks "Entitled to Serious Consideration." Brooklyn Eagle. Soberly and distinctly the world Is in formed by United States Senator Norris Brown of Nebraska that "It la tha plan of tha War department to develop a great aerial navy of all sort of air oraft." Un like som pseudo-prophetic utterance from Nebraska, this statement la entitled to be taken seriously. Mr. Brown must be deep, or high, In th confidence of the adminis tration. The Eagle has a native ornitholo gical' interest In these navlea of th air. Within limits th scheme I to be approved. But there Is Just one thing w wlkh to say firmly, and without fear of giving offense: Go ahead with your flying squadron of mammoth balloons. Build as quick as you can an enormous fleet of mosquito aero planes. Make Wilbur Wright an admiral or a cloud marshal, or whatever you choose to nam the head of a branch of War department" work. But never fall to re member that there must be no firmament circling after the airy perils dot the skies. A truce to Rooseveltlsm Protection Is our national policy) Stick to It religiously I What a shame It would be, after the great American people had gladly met th expense of this stupendous Innovation if. Just as we needed the airy navy to defend our atmospherelc Integrity, wa should find that It waa busy exploring th seventh ring oi Etaiurn or lost n the recesses of the Milky Wayl The strongest temptation of the War department to get military point ers, at headquarters In Mara must ba re sisted. No plea of a Blrus purpose will b held to condone star-chasing. Orion and the Pleiades must be left alone. ' In other words, th precendent of the universal Junket must be throttled .r, Irishman would say, before It Is born. If w pay ror an airy navy we must hav It at hand for our defense, our consolation and our entertainment. No Rooseveltlsm, pleasel ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM. Moat l'rrnt Heed In All Branches of th Public Service. Leslie' Weekly. Administrative reform Is th great burn ing issu of today. President Taft realise it, Oovernor Hughe has demonstrated It, and th best men In publlo life realise Its pressing Importance. Only th political valetudinarians, too decrepit to keep up with th procession, fall to realise th sit uation. In his vigorous speech at Chicago th secretary of the treasury, the Hon. Franklin MacVagh, urged th leaders to aim at the party'a liberalisation and prog ress and to seek "to answer more perfectly th deliberate and wise demands of the nation." Thl is in lino with - th utter ances of Governor Hughe on direct nomi nations. Throughout th country th movement In favor of direct nominations haa received such an Impetus that it can not be stayed. It received a check In the legislature of New Tork at th reoent esslon, but that I not th end of It. The battle for this great reform ha only begun and Is to be carried on by well organised forces and able and eloquent speakers. Those who stand In Ita way may as well understand th situation. If they ar wis they will yield to the pressure of publlo opinion, for without Its support th republican party In th state will be In Jeopardy. Th earnestness with which President Taft and Oovernor Hughes hav both sought to- Impress upon th people that their first and highest consideration is th publlo welfare cannot escape atten tion. Tha appointment they hav made, electing the best men without regard to political backing; th sweeping changes by the most Important federal official in th tata. Collector Loeb, at the port of New York ar all Indicative of th strength ot th movement for administrative reform. Th tendency all along the line Is to abandon mere partisan considerations and to move forward on the line of Increasing th efficiency of th public service, putting It on a higher plan and making public otflc Indeed and in truth a publlo trust. In Other Lands Id Light on Witt U ran ptrtBg Asaonff h STear aa Fat STstloa of th Bart a. The extraordinary "war budget" of th liberal ministry atlll holds th right-of-way In th BrltUh House of, Commons, with Lloyd-George, the author. J.n charge 1 has been under consideration for three month and la llkly to consume Septem ber In going through th committee stace. Owing to th radical provisions or th bill. In many respect revolutionising th fiscal ystm and Increasing taxation tn all di rections, opposition ha been formtdablo and flaroo, and many concessions and com promises bar been mad to prevent se rious disruption ef th liberal force. Ths concession hav not materially altered th plan of th budget. They hav strength ened th tnenstir In party line, whll th debat hav vaaHy increased Ita popular ity with th electorate. No doubt of Ita passage by th Cemmona Is ontrt1ned. Th present delay In reaching a rote'ls due to parllameptary forma. What the House of Irfrds will do to the budget con tinue a atibleot for speculative discussion. Th peers, who have attacked the measure on th hustings and declared for rejection, hav not seoured a formidable following. Conservatives sj- not united and lack th aggressive spirit hown in rejecting other liberal party measures. Precedent tnds out against the peer amending or reject ing a ministerial, budget. Pear ef th charg of national gred produce hesita tion and prevent union. Th budget strikes Its heaviest blow at the landed gentry, twenty-seven of whom control t.OnO.OOO acres of land, valued for tax pur poses at ltO.000.000. notoriously an insignifi cant valuation. But it la a specimen of the way In whtoh land owners escape their rtghtfHl burden. The btidget provides for a revaluation of all land at public expense, and th valuations of a generation ago will be brought up to date and taxd accord ingly. Land owners and thlr allied In terests fuma and froth and threaten dire things. MeAnwhlle th taxing policies em bodied In the budget are growing In popu lar favor. Infusing the liberals with con fidence of winning In a general election, should th peer fore an appeal to tha country. Commander Vladimir Semenoff of th Rufstan navy, who fought at Port Arthur and later accompanied th Ill-fated fleet of Admiral Rojestvensky to It doom, has Issued In book form a review of the causes of th successive Russian disaster. It affirms and supplement what other com manders, particularly General Knropatkln. revealed of th Incompetence and unpre paredness of Russia, oondltlona which In vited national disaster and humiliation. Commander Semenoff pictures vividly the ominous feeling of many high Russian of ficers that dlssster hung over Russia and that Its authorities had blinded themselves to th Inevitable; th depressing Influence of Viceroy Alexleff on th Russian forces at Port Arthur and wherever hi sphere of control extended; th utter Ignorance of the Japanese plan on th part of the Rus sian Information bureau; th crushing ef fect of th sinking of Admiral Makaroff with his ship; th distrust batwecen the army and th navy, and th utter de moralisation of the Russian forces, with only th outward forma of discipline pre served. ' On cannot scan th work of this brave Russian paval officer without feeling that thei Russian force felt they had more to fear from their leaders than from th Japanese and that In thla war they were foreordained to th doom of aura defeat. "God wa against us," say Semenoff. It I a terrible portrayal of brave men drawn helplessly Into th vortex of a hopeless war by th criminal Incompetency of those higher up. ' In the August number of tha Contem porary Review a correspondent tells of a curious law recently passed by Turkey lit order to attract foreign capital. Realising that special Inducements are necessary to lead foreign Investors to pour out their dollars, pounds or mark beneath th Star and Crescent, tha Young Turkish Parlia ment has prohibited a criminal any strike of a labor union In enterprises carried on by th Stat or by foreigners exploiting a state concession or anjoylng a state guar antee. Thla I likely to b received with much . dissatisfaction tn Salonlki ' (The alonlca), whr th worktngmen, In the praotlo of St Paul's adjuration to the anolent Inhabitant of the city to "prov all things," hav already established flour ishing unions, with a record of geveral suc cessful strike. Th typically Turkish character of th expedient need no com ment. Dr. K. J. Pillon, th distinguished corre spondent of th London Telegraph at St Petersburg, In a recent review of militar ism In th old world, find every national treasury except Germany's strained to th utmost to provide the mean for military and naval dafens on a seal undreamed of by former generations. Japan anef Den mark, Sweden and her anolent foe, Rus sia; Austria-Hungary and England th tal I th same. In a time of peace na tion ar brought near th shelving edge of bankruptcy In preparing for th war that dee not com. Dr. Dillon make no bone of prophesying that th dissatisfac tion of th masse. In view of the great burden of "taxation, will produee revolu tionary changes In th direction of social ism if tha present policy be persisted In. A clever student of taxing method In Franc stumbled on th Idea that it would be a grand, good thing for th win maker ot th nation If their product bore the eal of th government a a guarantee of genuineness. Vast quantities of spurious win bearing French label ar hawked, sold and drank th world over. With an official seal on the real article, th wine Industry would prosper again. "Happy thought," exclaimed th win makers in unison. Thereupon th government began Issuing th necessary stamp at I cents each, on for each pint bottle. Thl hitherto unworked source of revenue will bring In from tlO.06Q.000 to $11,000 000 a year. Th author and promoter of th happy thought Is booked for a promotion com mensurate with hi ability as a money getUr. There I much anxiety in the aouthern part of Italy, and especially tn Sicily, over a widely circulated report that the Amer ican government Intend to expel a lark number of Italian Immigrants from th United State. It I feared that such a step would be ruinous financially to the dlstrlcta In southern Italy, whence most of th Immigrants come.. "The opinio i prevalent among uneducated peopl there, write a Chicago News correspondent, ' that th American government alms In this way to avenge th death of Petroslno, the New York detective, which I ' attributed to Sicilians associated with the Camorra. Meanwhile It la announced In the press that the Italian police are following a clew which Is expected to lead shortly to thel arrist of Petrosino's murdtrers." I 1 IS YOUR MONEY well invested or is it lying in some place perhaps not altogether too snfet If not needed for some time, why not put it to work EARNING MONEY Our 3 per cent Certificates of v Deposits are an absolutely safe form of investment, backed by $12,000,000 of assets. First National Bank of Omah a United States Depository. 13th and Farn&m Sts. POLITICAL DRIFT. Th Idea prevails In progressive quarters that Joseph Cannon and Kelson Aldrlch would mak an Ideal pair of ruler for the coming territory of th North Pol. Although overshadowed for th moment by other new thrill, a mental not should b mad of th resignation of an office holder In Oklahoma. All th wondera are not loe clad. A writer In Human Ltf apeak ot Sen ator William Lorimer of Illinois a "th grandest political Illusion In th middle west." Evidently the writer thinks th sunset of th middle west la at the Mis souri river. Tom Johnson and Herman C. Baehr wen out In th primaries a th demooratlo and republican candidates for mayor of Cleve land. Both asplranU advocate S-cnt fares on street railways, but fiaehr la for "peace with honor," Johnson for war to tha last ditch. . People who orltlcls tha snail pace of government commissions should look across th pond and gathsr comfort. Eleven years ago a royal commission on sewsge disposal was appointed In Great Britain. Ik has succeeded In disposing of t287,tOO In sal aries and etceteras, and la still disposing Ot the coin of th realm at th old stand. On of the latest political rumors In New York City Is to the ffct that the leaders of the republloan organisation and tha committee of on hundred have prac lcally decided to ask Otto T. Bannard to run for mayor. Mr. Bannard la president of the New York Trust company and has been treasurer of the republican county committee and a leader in organisation affair for many yeara. MR. BRYAN'S LlTTIib SCHEME. A Bit of Polltloal Strategy tkmi railed. Minneapolis Journal. Th more the correspondence between William J. Bryan and President Taft Is examined, the more does It appear that th democratic leader tried to ruah Mr. Taft Into a position upon th direct election of senator that would Inur to th benefit of the democracy. Front thl It becomes more clear that the president waa wis lo refusing to b rushed. The direct election of senators demands th passag of an amendment to th con stitution. An amendment to th constitu tion requires th Initiative of two-third of th states, or of th oongress of the United State. Because congress took th Initiative by proposing the incom tag amendment, Mr. Bryan appeared to assume that It would. If Taft asked It, take the same kind Initiative upon the direct elec tion of senators. This did not follow. The incom tax w hav had enacted once, and th congress of th TJnIUd State was urged by both parties to make It law again. It did not do ao, beoaus In th meantime the supreme court had declared that It was unconstitutional. Therefor. If we ever have It ' again, w must have a new phras In th constitution. Congress put It up to th state whether they would have the constitution Changed. But in th matter of direct aelectloa of senator it was manifestly impossible to spring it upon opngress, beoaus th sen ate has never shown a disposition to tales the initiative for a change in th method of th election of It own members. .Th president could hardly with propriety foroe thl upon th senate. The direct election of aenatora Is being experimented with In several of the states. Th result ar th same, even if the method la exUa-constltutional. Th peopl ar examining thoa results and they ar doubtless content to give them careful sorutiny before going Into the business wholesale. It la not a if a "great reform" was being battered from our doors by bad men. We are latlng aenatora by direct vot every year. If they are ao much bet ter senators, elected by so much better a method, two-thirds ot th states will dis cover It and thr-f ourths of th state will adopt It. STONY GEMS. Teseher Johnnie, how many pole are there? Jonhnle Two. Th Bouth pole and the new American flag pol. Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Klmley, you drink entirely too much" '"Why, doctor, I haven't-taken one sin since" "Too much coffee, I was going to lay. But what was it you were going to say?" Chicago Tribune. Knlcker What I th worst thing that could happen? Bocker If women dressed to pleas men and cooked to please themselves. Nw York Sun. Hub Well, and how's the new glrlT Wife She Is dreadfully slow. Hub Good! It will take her longer to leave. St. Louis Times. -"Did you return to Its owner the 1 10 bill you found last night?" "t couldn't It waa ao late." "Well, did you do It the first thing this morning?" "Gee. no! It wa all spent by that time." Cleveland Leader. "Do you think a four-leaf clover 1 a sign of luck?" "Yep," answered Farmer Corntossel. "There ain't no doubt In my mind but what anybody with time to fool away lookln' fur four-leaf clovers is purty lucky." Washington 8tar. "I often spend the entire night In my HDrary. "i dMn't know reader." you were such a great I m not. But one of my bookcases Is a folding bed." Cleveland Leader. "Are y hurted?" asked the policeman, bending over him, "I think my collarbone Is broken." feebly answered the prostrste automoblllst, whose mschlne had collided with a telegraph pole. "Be Jarge, vers In gr-reat luck!" growled th officer. " 'Twas breakneck speed y was goln" at." Chicago Trlbun. "What makes you so sure that man Is naturally cautions anil dlnlomatle?" "The fact that whenever I offer him a cigar he put it lu hi pocket and ays UaXAdWAIJMU'llifs Mm he will smoke It after dinner." Washlns ton Star. "Why do you insist on regarding your self as only half educated?" "Because, answered the. mod at man. "I have read only two-and-a-half feet of my five-foot book helf." -Chicago Record Herald. "My lasy son has at last decided on a profession that he thinks he'll like." "Oood. What ha he chosen?'' II wants to be a lineman for a wireless telegraph company. Boston Transcript. "So you think you'll go to th mountain next year?" "Ye; too much brsese at the seashnie. Always blowing the cards off the bridge tables." Louisville Courier-Journal. Reporter Professor, what language do you suppose the people nearest the North pole speak T The Professor What a question! Polish, of course. Chicago Tribune. Tea, my son Was troubled with rheuma tism and the doctor recommended foot ball." ' ild he playT" "Ye." "Old It break up th rheumatism T" "No, It broke up two ribs, but never reached the rheumatism." Cleveland Plain Dealer. AT HER WEDDING. (Boston Glob.) t danced at her wadding last night. And none oould hav guessed my emotion, ' A I saw her a bride, her on whom I had lavished a lifetime's devotion. I danced at her wedding. Why not, Having lived through the scone at the altar? When the knot was tied fast for all time. Do you think that my courage would falter? I danced with as lightsome a step, With a face as unmoved a the next one; He must be a fatuous fool Who In crisis like thl could expect one, Though a tumult wa raging within, To betray to onlookera hla passion. I don't wear my heart on my sleeve; That sort of thing Isn't my fashion. I danced; o did ah. Though I'll swear For a fact that I hardly know whether I stood on my heels or my head When w wnt wildly whirling together. When her breath waa aa sweet on my cheek , . As th blossom of orange ah carried. We danced till folks said Ttwa bad taste, Sine I was th fallow h married. SELLS SONG HITS "HOT (iFF THE REEt" A. Hospe Co. Introduce lorries Jast When They r Sung t Local Playhouses. Why wait until the song booms old? Why not hav It Just when th leading vmudorilllans and light opra peopl are singing it In your midst. Th A, Hop Co.. of mi Douglaa St., take this view of It and from now on wUl hav "th song of th moment" the instant It come off th press In many oases before the theatrical iyrlsts sing thrn hare. JttsVnow, for Instance, on may pur chase all of this week's Orpheum hits: "Roll On Thou Deep and Dark Blue Ocean," a beautiful bass solo, sung In "Th Dsaf and Dumb Manager," "Lone some," and "Tlttl Tattle," a aung by Adelaide and Girls, and "Come Take a Dip In th Oosan," and "Do You Think Tou Could." and "Twaa th Only Thing to Do,Vh song hits of Abbot & Worth ley. Then, too, "The Hammock Love Song." as sung in 'The Beauty Spot" at the Burwood, Is here. . All of these songs Will be placed on sale br tomorrow at th usual Saturday prlc. lto par copy whll operatic num bers will b offered at "half Hat price." B timely. Remember the theatrical season is tn full bloom and you wilt want th. various popular song hits Just when they are sung and Ilosp' is the only Omaha concern abl to. give them to you that quick. A. HOSPE CO., I 1(11 Douglaa St. SHIRTS Saturday is the las day of our shirt sale. Wc are cleaning up all our broken lines left from $1.50, $2.00, $2.50, $3.00 and $3.50 shirls for Wc have all sizes from 14 to 18 BrQvnine1(in8 Company Fstoeath end" Dougl- S'- OMAHA 9'c