TIIF, BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER If?, IfffiW.
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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
Btate of Nebrasha. Douglas County, as ;
Oeorge B. Tsachurk, treaaurer of in
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sworn. Bnyi that me actual number or
full sn.l complete r.plea of The Dal'T,
Mornlnic. Evening and Sunday Bee printed
during the month of August. 1909, '
as follows:
I 39,300 IT 1-rao
1 4I,O0 IS .B30
I 1,470 1 41.B90
4 ....41,830 10 41.S1S
6 ..41,770 21 41.S10
C .41,840 i2 40,000
7. ........ .41.790 21 43,880
I...'. 3S.S00 H 41,770
41.830 il 43,690
10 4X,0 I 41,700
11 41,940 27. .41,730
11 ...41,870 . XII 48,170
13 ...43,080 29 4 .",000
14 41,430 SO 41.J10
IS 40,000 SI 42.190
It 41,490 .
Total ,..,...,....1.289,410
Returned coplea 10,3al
Net total 179.089
Daily average 41JI89
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ntatlea to tkeaa. , Address will bo
tbsagti m often aa requested.
It's the beet kind ot free advertising
for Mclure'B Magazine.
A Russian steel trust had to go out
of business. You hare to understand
these little things.
Standing rule In the World;Hearld
ottlce: If anything goes amiss, blaine
It on the editor ot The Bee.
. If the Eaglufl do not make the local
weather man nn honorary life member
they Will"' be showing the proverbial
Ipgratitude of republics.
Uncle Joe Cannon is not ready to re
tire. To tl! the truth, nobody rallj
eJePt8.h? jtojly'old gentleman, to ro
tii wlule his health la good.
The only wonder la how Mayor Jim
succeeds go well In keeping his pro
hibition debates and addresses of wel
come from getting worse mixed up.
Of course, Judge Sullivan's confes
sion of "corporate al&ltatlona" is all
that is needed to verify the oath he
took that he "affiliates" with the pop
ulist party.
Our overworked congressman from
t'.ila district will probably get around
to It soon to tell us how he recorded
bid vote on the tariff bill while he wag
In Europe.
- We have no hesitation in aaying
that wc would rather see a new sky
bcraper building in Omaba than gaze
upon he North Polo in latitude 90,
longitude 360,
It's the middle or September and
the Intellectual drama predictions have
not been verified. The chorus ladles
in red 'stockings and the comedians
with wax fronts on their faces still
crowd the bill boards.
These letter of consuls urging cour
tesy in ; dealing with Spanish-Americans
will bear fruit. If It Is (food with
tho Latin countries, it Is good every
where The consular reports should
be read to the children.
Peary's lone Eskimo must put twice
as much strain on his veracity as Cook's
two. According to Mrs. Peary, all thre
would swear for a gum drop that the
pole was BO feet high and painted red,
white and hive.
It 13 to brt noted that one of the non
partisan democratic candidates for su
rroiae Judgu is being very appropri
ately Introduced around Omaha by
Hon. Conaitntine J. Smyth, the last
nonpartisan democratic attorney gen
eral. Seeing Holland Incognito was a re
lief to the Kaiser. An American presi
dent cannot walk across the street
without a hundred boys and twenty
reporter. The first president who gets
an Incognito rule at work will be the
first to enjoy life.
Following the departure of a mon
arch of finance; our secret longing for
a king may be gratified with a trium
virate. Rockefeller, Morgan and tho
biggest of - the Harrlman men, who
ever he is, are cuddling down or acting
like It. .Whither are we drifting.
In Cincinnati public officials appeal
to women not to slosh water In bath
tubs over the floor. It wastes the
water supply and spoils tho buildings.
The women regard the appeal with
contempt aa officious ignorance. What
is water la a bath tub for; to be
drunk?
Taft'i Tint 8peech.
Most men In high position would
make more noise oyer a perfunctory
greeting than the president of the
United States makes In the first ut
terance of his tour, though the simple,
unaffected, seml-confldenttal manner,
so plain that the address might be
taken by the careless as an Incident of
the evening, accompanied a rerles
of commandingly Important state
ments. It Is a masterpiece of tactful
and comprehensive communication
from a chief executive to public opin
ion. The quiet, boldness with which he
eulogizes the abl'.itiea and purposes of
Senator Aldrlch Is even magnetic. The
unpretentious Introduction of the sub
ject places himself In the attitude of
one of open mind who tells of the
great legislators who are preparing to
deal with a momentous subject. "I
am told," he said, "that Mr. Aldrlch
will swing around the circle. In the
present fall, and will lecture In' many
of the cities of the middle west on the
defects and needs of our monetary sys
tem." Then follows an estimate of the
fitness and good faith which should
smooth the path of the senator and
help in all quarters toward a fair
study of the currency question. In Its
mode of presentation thla announce
ment Is In some respects the nost
Etrlklng passage of his first adddress.
Anybody Mho takes exception must be
seeking for selfish reasons to make
trouble.
If there Is a touch of acerbity la
his direct reference to a state executive
it was Justified by his impatient feel
ing toward Governor Johnson's effort
to array the west against the east "We
are all In the same business boat." In
that homely, but searching phrase the
president centers the fact. As he says,
the prosperity of one flection adds to
the prosperity of the other and busi
ness disaster in one section is but the
forerunner of business depression and
disaster in another. It is the greatest
and truest policy a president could
declare for th whole nation over
which he presides. A political attempt
to make a cleavage between New Eng
land and the east on one side and the
west on the other will be found so ut
terly hopeless as to confound those
who attempt it. On this subject It
Is well that Mr. Taft should apeak with
rugged honesty at the outset. He will
find, though he knows it already, that
every section of the west is ready to
applaud this policy. He can rest as
sured that If any faction of any party
raises an Issue of sectionalism and
stirs a feeling of sectional hatfed the
people will sustain him with a storm of
approval. We are, to quote him once
more, on tho eve of another great bus
iness expansion. Nothing revolutionary,
nothing disturbing to legitimate busi
ness is needed, but we must set the
marks clear in the statutes by which
the lines may be drawn and the pro
per, leglMmnte paths laid down and
lntint liBve It understood that tfcis law
U tor all and is to bo enforced even
against tho uiobt powerful.
If that Is the Taft policy, and It is,
this administration will be appreciated
and approved by the people throughout
the length and breadth of the land.
A Futile Compromise.
It has not yet appeared that the
declaration of principles by the Sara
toga conference has only followers be
yond the small band who made it. The
Brooklyn Eagle, whose steadfast policy
is to declare itself a democrat and
repularly oppose Bryan, is "agin" the
formulation and tu.H put it on th
level of the traditional claptrap ot con
vention platforms.
The Eaglo insists that it Is the or
gan of tho unerased democracy and la
in common t'onasty compelled to dis
sent from the two Saratoga declara
tions for an Income tax and the elec
tion of United States senators ty the
people. It credits them to the Ne
braska school of politics and therefore
vinegar to tho teeth of the Eagle. The
platform is not radically conservative.
More plausibly it might be classed as
conservatively radical, and the radical
meat of the broth Is too highly sea
soned to be palatable. The Bryanlte
planks would be acceptable to William
n. Hearst. They have no place la the
platform of Empire State conserva
tives. . v.
For a week now this Saratoga dec
laration has been exhibited around the
country. As a barter among democrats
It might be a last resort at the end of
& fight. As the prospectus of a new
lijht dispensation it is a total failure.
Nobody will have it. When a jonfer
ence of Tilden and Cleveland demo
crats gets from the Brooklyn Eagle
no reward, but laughter, it reasea to
struggle for breath. The truth about
It Is that it professed to be a rejuve
nation of tho democratic spirit and
turned out to be obviously a compro
mise among the Insincerities of weary
politicians.
End of Grain Exports.
Though in substance the address ot
James J. Hill has been delivered be
fore, none of the formal addresses will
strike the bankers at Chicago more
forcibly than Mr. Hill's prediction that
this country has about reached the
end of its grain-exporting period and
will find an Increasing difficulty in
feeding, its own population.
This idea, in theory. Is not new,
but Mr. Hill is the first great, cap
tain of industry to give It oountenance.
Coming from him it auggests with
startling force a picture In which the
broader lines of American commercial
organisation aro transposed. Grain
will bo consumed here, prices will be
higher,, manufactured goods will not
be exported, because Europe cannot
afford to pay for them. Wo ahall buy
goods from Europe, it is to be sup
posed, yet how is tho process of ox-
change to be analyzed? Mr. Hill's
prophecy seems to go counter to poli
tical economy. Perhaps the comple
tion of the picture la that the m.a
of Europe will bodily remove to the
United States and Canada and leave
the old countries to thin out their
population as an American farmer
thins corn, until a totally new balance
Is struck.
Practically only a few months He
between a universal cessation of pro
duction and the destruction of the
human race by starvation. It is not
fully clear what Mr. Hill means at this
point. The phrase ts true, beyond
doubt, but It Is always true. It Is as
if he should ay that if a man should
not eat he would starve. If people
will not work they will die. They do
work, do eat and do live. But, stick
ing to the point of an impending
mighty transformation of agriculture
and manufacture, if Mr. Hill sees
clearly through the whole proposition,
there Is going to be, first, a series of
unusual alterations In prices and,
second, a series of remarkable reloca
tions in population. Nothing would
be more interesting than Mr. Hill's
views on the effects of these changes
on the industry and sociology of the
world.
Already. on the Defensive.
Notwithstanding the brave front put
up over the knockout decision on their
so-called nonpartisan judiciary law,
and the forced glorification of the two
dissenting opinions, the democrats are
already on the defensive. The dis
senting opinion of the democratic
Judge, seeking re-election as a pre
tended nonpartisan, does not strike a
truly responsive chord either with the
partisan democrats or with true non
partisans. A characteristic sample of
the comment is this from the Schuyler
Quill, which shows signs of supporting
the other two democratic nominees:
Judge Dean filed a dissenting opinion In
the nonpartisan act when the supreme
court declared It not good. It strike us
that Dean did that to sort of fix up hla
standing; with the democrats of the state,
whloh Is not the beat, even if ha waa per
mitted to get tho nomination without any
contest. But Dean cannot' poll the demo
crats vote of his party and should not for
more than ona good reason, the best of
which la that ha Is not supreme court tim
ber. The answer, so far as there is any
answer, is to be found in the Kearney
Democrat, which is staunchly nonpar
tisan democratic and which comes to
the defense in this strictly partisan
fashion:
Now, we find many of these same edi
tors -and their newspapers teeming with
advice to the voters to support anybody
and everybody except Judge Dean. This
attitude toward the only member of the
court who defended the law these men de
manded the legislature to enact displays
the rankest and most disgusting brand of
hypocrisy and Insincerity to be found -n
the present political market On man
charges that Judge Dean did It for polIN
leal effeoL Then, la that why you favored
the iam thing Dean defend' with hi ju
dicial opinion? Why not Dean as honest an
youT
The real difficulty of the democrats
Is to preach nonpartUanship and still
persuade the people to vote for all
three of the democratic nominees, be
cause the disposition Is already mani
fest, if any one of them is to be sacri
ficed, to sacrifice the only one who has
fronted for the fake nonpartlsanshlp
by filing his dissenting opinion In the
case. With thla explanation, the
sagely nonpartisan conclusion of the
Kearney Democrat ia quite as interest
ing It I3 amusing:
Say, you fellows you champion of a
tionpanlpan Judiciary enactment; you fel
lows who are rtoln more to discredit a
noi.partli.an Judiciary than evc-ry other
agency, get out your firemen and put out
the fire r.i atop the eTioke. Olv Judge
Dean your loyal support, or stop yawping
about a nonparttnan supreme court
In olher words,, accord I djt to unim
peachable democratic authority, the
only. way to prove up as a nonpartisan
ts to swallow the whole democratic
dose.
Here are two extracts from our ami
able democratic contemporary:
"It all amounta to Just this," said one of
the governors, "Vic Bosewau-r hns a bunch
of political friend that he want to force
on the Invitation list against the good
aense of the board of governors. l!ut I for
one will never stand for extending Invita
tion to anyone not a member of Ak-fiar-Fen.
and f anticipate that Mr. Victor Rose-
water will find 11. ai he is not running the
knights of Ak-Sar-Ben for political pur
poses." World-Herald, September 8.
The fact that Governor Shallenberaar
wa not Invited to tak part In the recep
tion (the banquet to 'President Taft) ha
occasioned some local comment and the
question has been posed frequently as to
whether politic controlled the Ak-Bar-Ben
committee, and If that political color ha'l
anything to do with the brush and iui.it.
of Victor Rosewater. World-Herald, Sep-
Get together.
Man's natural range of thought be
gins with the law that any given in
dividual wants something to eat. The
country will feed Mr. Taft with pos
sum In Georgia, quail in Texas, fried
chicken In Virginia, frljolea on the
Rio Grande, onion soup in New Or
leans, venison in West Virginia, reed
birds in the Carolinas, grapes In Cali
fornia and corned blue fish around the
Chesapeake. How few know that the
presidont lb dieting and needs all the
rest he can obtain. Jev-maklng should
be tempsred with Inside Information
Prince Bonaparte thinks a board of
arbitration on the North pole ts dc
blrable for all interests. It should in
elude the Inquiry, "How often does
an arctic explorer take a bath." In
all the adventures of daring there Is no
mention of a bath tub. At 80 degrees
below, the question may possibly be
dismissed as Irrelevant.
Ono of the French casual watchers
on tho ramparts recommends an inves
tigation of Cook and Peary on the
calculation that under the conditions
at tho North polo tho chances aro 100
to 1 that any man would be wrong.
But the point Is, who was the man
who was first when he thought he
was?
Now here is a brand new question.
Why do not the dramas of Stephen
Phillips draw as well as those of
George Cohan? It takes thought to
answer, but a surmise is that the
teason somewhat resembles the cause
which lurks behind a cup-shaped hat
and a walstless frock.
Naval officials show that sailors are
saving their money. Good habits
among sailors, like scientific training,
undermine the romance of our Imagi
nation. It Is as disappointing as the
Courler-Jonrnal's recent dissertation
on the marvelous results from a quart
of buttermilk a day.
Idaho is to have 80,000 more acres
opened under the Carey act. The
northwest mountain states were a long
time getting heavy enough for their
senatorial representation, but they
are now in turn throwing suspicious
glances at Rhode Island, Delaware and
West Virginia.
While there is some anxiety over the
currency, the cloud that Is thickening
most darkly over the waters is the
report of 60 cent butter. And the In
soluble problem Is to combine that re
port with the fact that buttermilk is
two-glasses-for-flve and three if you
ask for it.
Some patriotlo citizen can, without
tact, hurt the interests of great com
monwealths. A Texas traveler is
spreading a report that anybody can
get rich in Texas if be will work. The
Intimation is not popular in Mexico or
Arkansas, neighboring and friendly
territory.
Poker is . all right in a club, but
wrong down a cellar. Nobody knows
why, but It is the law as interpreted
by certain courts. Are wo again in the
hands of the privileged classes?
If Senator Aldrlch Is going to
"swing around tho circle," by all
means let us have him come to Omaha
so we can see what he looks Ilka and
hear that siren voice.
Working; the Favorite Game,
Washington Post
By its reception of the death of E. H.
Harrlman. Wall street again show that
the fooling of most of the people all the
time la In It repretolre.
Activity of Press Agent.
8t. Louis Globe-Democrat ' 1
Tt was Inevitable that Mr. Morgan should
get the credit for holding the country up
by the tall again. Either Mr. Morgan Is
a man we can't afford to lose or ha ha a
number of excellent pre agents.
ComtuK to the Front.
Chicago Reoord-Herald.
The Halley camel, after being Invisible
for seventy-four year, ha been sighted
by a Heidelberg professor, but people who
do not jvsos tlestopes will not bo able
to see it next aprlng. It la Bud to think of
the many famous ones who will have been
forgotten before the plain people get a
look at the cornet
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Delated Tribute to Seward.
Boston Herald.
A statue of William H. Seward now
adorne-Jie city of Seattle. Soma day there
will be on In Sitka. Seward had only
a slight foregleam of what he was getting
for this country from Russia when he
bought Alaska, but even that wa a a ray
of light compared with the Ignorance and
Indifference of most Americana.
Tlpa for Nouth Pole t'naawra.
P.altltnore American.
Now It appeal f thnt Peary also hnd no
white muu with. hii.i In iAa final dash,
and tliat the controversy between the two
o.-.ploi tji is a iiueaiion of individual
voracity. The discoverer of the South pole
ought to provide himself with a corps of
comi t tont wltnease and a notary public
so affidavit can be taken on the spot.
A SHIM M O K.HMI'LE,
Nebraska's Plan for Free Clrcalatlna;
Libra rlea.
Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
Nebraska Is wide awake In the matter of
providing Its people with book. Free
circulating libraries In every school district
will soon be In order, because of a law
which compels each district to cet aaide
annually the sum of 10 cents per pupil of
school age for tha upbuilding of a library.
Thl will yield from $3 a year to an
amount several times as large In the vil
lages, and In the smaller cities of the state,
up to tha point where there are 6,000 or
more pupils when the compulsory feature
fMl to operate. In addition to the small
libraries that will thus be built up In the
rural district and small town, the state
traveling library commission is working
In co-operation with the school authorities
and will aend collection of book around
the circuits of schools desiring them to
supplement tha home library. In order that
the state and county school authorities
may get a right start In library building,
both In the choice of desirable book and
In Instruction to the pupil a to how to
uee them, the county school Institute ar
devoting attention to expert Instruction
concerning libraries.
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DIRECT IH DIARY POINTERS.
Klsmere News: Exchanges generally are
srakina ra'tiT dlmmpectiully uf the pre
ent primary system, CMperlally as regards
the expense to taxpayer. Aside from this
feature, we are still of the opinion that It
ia an Improvement over the convention
plan. Of courn our remarks don't amount
to much. It the great I am', doinicratlc
dailies and blp repi bllcan weeklies, they
know. We fail, howver, to discern the
opportunity for com ptlon, which la claimed
now exists, and would like to have an
explanation a to how It Is accomplished
Tork Times: Tho "open primary" Is a
hotch-potch notion, without sense, rhyme
or reason. If a primary la to b held at
all It I to nominate party candidates.
What possible sens can there b In allow
ing the men of on party to nominate an
d Mutes for the other partyT That I In
reality all that Is to be gained by the open
Drlmary. The result of all this monkey
work is liable to be the abolition of the
primary altogether by the next legislature.
The Times was In hopes a reasonable and
sensible primary system could b Inaugu
rated and given a fair trial and w tiu
hava hope this may occur ome time, but
the experience of Nebraska ha not been
uch a to encourage further efforts In
that direction.
Aurora Republican: Much Is appearing In
the country press concerning the good and
bad features of th direct primary. Some
editor are condemning the primary In
trong term and branding it a a failure.
While ther I cause for om disappoint
ment that tha voter are not making full
use of the privilege of nominating their
official direct, afforded them by the direct
primary, there Is no cause for discourage
ment. The great number of vote cast in
the reoent primary la ample evidence of the
fact that a far greater number of people
are participating in tha primary than ever
had a hand in making norhlnatlona under
the old convention ytem. And ulnoe the
purpose of paaslng the primary bill was to
Increase tha number of participants In the
making of candidates, the mark has not
been missed. The Republican did not b
llev at th first that the primary would
prove an Immediate success, but It ha al
ways had faith in the final success of th
best plan over devised for taking the nom
inating power out of the hand of a few
and placing it In the hands of many. The
time for paaslng judgment has not yet
arrived.
Grand Island Independent: Sine In on
or two remote and thinly settled precinct
of the state the cost of a primary ballot
ha been aa high as IS per -voter, oppo
nent of the primary system of making
nomination point to the expense. It 1
more expensive than the caucus system In
flret cost; there can be no doubt about It
An electric washing machine costs con
siderably more than the old fashioned tub
and washboard. What will the result be?
Will It be worth the cost, will It save more
than it cost in the long run and thus, In
the end, be the more economical? These,
It peons to us, are tha questions. The
primary system ha not, so far, worked
out as satisfactorily a some of those
most earnest In It advocacy had hoped,
but that has bon partly due to defects In
the original law, and, more recently, to
defects added to It with the Improvement
made by the recent legislative assembly.
The law ought to be given a further trial,
a It no doubt will ba. In this county,
by the way, the primary election cot
about $000 or about 00 cents th vote. In
many counties, a greater per centage of
voters took advantage of th privilege of
assisting In making nominations, the cost
was muoh less. The local oost wa not
materially more per vote than that for
voting tho paving bond. and yet It wa
a rood thing to have the special election
for that purao.. '
Central City Nonpareil: Ther are some
feature about the primary of nomination
that are not exactly satisfactory and the
voters hava yet to be encouraged to take
a deeper Interest In public affairs befor
the system will secure th best results.
But any method that secured tho partici
pation of 90,000 voter In an unimportant
election like th one just held In Nebraska
Is worthy of retention. Under the con
vention system It ts safe to say not one
tenth that number would have participated
and out of that one-tentu a little
coterie of perhaps a dosen leaders would
htt'-e dictated thft nominations. The chief
fault Svlth tho primary In Nebraska
In th fact tl'.it the vo'ora lwck the Infor
mation necessary to the selection ot the
best candidates, particularly when th
nominations ar for places on the supreme
court or for subordinate state officers.
The primary, however. Is a great edu
cator. It may result In a poorer grade of
candidates for a time but after tho votars
have been called upon to exercise their
own Judgment a few times, when they dis
cover that the responsibility for the
election of good officials rests upon them
and not upon some party leader they will
begin to Inform themselves and Intelligent
voting will follow. The great fear, so
sedulously fostered by former beneficiaries
of th old machine, that the primary will
destroy party organisations Is riot aa seri
ous as they would have us think. A Utile
los party organization and a little mnr
Independent thinking and votlr? will be
betUr for politic and better for govern
ment. We can sacrifice a great deal In the
matter of party organliatlon If we can
romedy the evil of party manipulation by
self-seeking politician and corporate In
terest. There are a number of Improve
ment to be mad in th present law,
among which I the eradication 'of the per
nicious 'wide-open" feature, but th prin
ciple of. the system Is all right and Is
here to stay.
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CHANGING TONS OK CRITICS.
A Hammer for Peary, a Doaqact for
Cook.
Dee Molnea Register and Leader.
Whatever may be the final Judgment as
"to Cook, ther 1 less disposition dally
to glory in the achievement of Peary. Not
only was the commander altogether too
hasty to discredit his rival, but the subse
quent development are disquieting to hla
friends?
While th exploration of ' Cook have
been a purely private enterprise, Peary
has been rending his time in the arc
t!o region on leave of absence from 'hi
naval duties, and other men who were
entitled to promotion hav been held back
while called upon to do hi work. Ills
last leave of abseno wa everely crit
elsud when It wta granted.
Instead cf giving out hi new a would
bo expected of a naval officer acting In
au official capacity, leery ho at
tempted to make a fortune out of infor
mation gHnd us a representative of ti,j
rovnnment, and It la now announced that
he will end In a belated resignation from
the navy because he can make much more
money on the lecture platform.
There I a growing hope everywhere
that Cook WM be able to fully estab
lish hi claim. He ha not held to a pub
lic salary rind he ha acted as a grntlcman
and a scholar sine his return.
Joba Hunting; the Man.
Cleveland Leader.
The great fact of the f.ill of 1(09. for mll
llona of worVcrs, Is that th Job once morj
seeks the man more than the man bunt
for th Job.
I A-4 i r-i i V i it I r- r- I imrr X
weakmit orn. If there i wenknens of stomach, liver or lungs, there Is a
weak link in the chain ol liie which may snap at any time. Often thi so-called
" wetknest" it caused by lack ot nutrition, th result ol weaknex or diteste
ef th ttomsch and other organs of digestion and nutrition. Diieos and
wekjee of th ttomsoh and it allied organ are cured hy th use ol Dr.
Pieroa' Golden Medical Disoovery. When the weak or diseased ttomach it
cured, disease of other organ which tttm remote from th ttomach but which
havu their origin In t diseased condition of the ttomach and
ther organ of digestion and nutrition; ar cured also,
fae mtmni mmm hat tt mtroni mtotnmeh.
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ARCTIC BLUBBER.
Washington Post: Tho course from the
pole to the lecture platform Is well charted,
anyhow.
Philadelphia Record: There wa an over
flow of blubber In Cook' rhetoric, and
Peary' fairly oosea with It.
Minneapolis Journal: Dr. Cook I attend
ing banquet, but Commander Peary aeems
to be furnishing his own blubber.
St. Paul Pioneer-Press: It 1 explained
how Cook and Peary kept from freeslng to
death in the North pole country. They
were thinking of each other.
St. Louis Republic: We will stand for
this discussion up to the time they begin
putting an Eskimo quartet on the vaude
ville stage singing the "Luscious Gumdrop"
song.
Sioux City Journal: On the face of the
returns two white men and three Eskimos
hav seen tha place where the pole ought
to be. Why not give first honor to the
Eskimos?
Chicago Tribune: Everything still Indi
cates that when Dr. Cook returns to the
United States he will b welcomed with all
the honor due to an explorer who found
what he went after.
Cleveland Leader: On certainty about
th polar controversy Is that the Eskimos,
who were well paid by both explorers and
suffered no very terrible hardship with
lther, will be glad to aee more American
parties come their way.
PERSONAL NOTES.
Ex-Governor Odell of New Tork has
Just carried his home town, which I going
some for Odell.
Charles Francis Barker of Boston has
held tha title of American champion at
checker for about thirty years.
Five councilman of Wllkesbarr are under
arrest. While that city ts not very large,
It Is ambitious and growing and shows a
tendency to put on metropolitan airs.
Th nam of Governor Shallenberger of
Nebraska Is not on the St. Louis printed
list ot state executives who have accepted
Invitations to accompany President Taft
on Ms river trip to New Orleans.
No open minded admirer of herolo en
deavor can determine the attitude of tha
pedestal until he has sampled the S-cent
olgars named in lienor of the heroes. One
pull may be enough to demolish a tall
stack of Invincible arguments.
Colonel Peter J. McAvoy, who died a few
days ago In Brooklyn, deserves a word of
remembrance. He headed the marine that
made an assault on th barrier fort on
th Canton rlvejg.ln 1S5&, in tha. suppression
of the Taiplng rebellion, and was th last
survivor of th crew.
Geprg Gould's motoring trip through
several European countries yields th ob
servation that a "real boom" has started
In Italy, and that that country Is to be
grouped with Germany a th moat pro
gressive In Europe. England seems' to be
lagging a little possibly as a result of
giving to much time to watching Ger
many's war preparations.
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