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naallaa ta theaa. Address will aa
kaiigeel aa oftea aa reejaeeted.
Walking Is admittedly good exercise,
but, like other good things, it can be
overdone.
In the Bryauite lexicon "embezsle
ment of power" is all wrong, but em
bezzlement of the populist party name
Is all right.
Another French army officer has
been killed as the result of an aero
plane test. The aviation death rate
keeps quite high.
The Lincoln Star refers to the Ak-Bar-Ben
board of governors as "that
callous Omaha committee." Now that
ovens up the score.
The worst thing against Dr. Cook's
claim to discovery of the North pole
is that he does not utilize fully all his
opportunities to boast about it.
Lincoln is still talking about a new
union station. The talking stage ot
depot construction, as we remember
it, lasted a long- time in Omaha.
No matter what he may say on
other subjects, his championship of
postal savings ank makes President
Taft solid with vhe Hearnt papers.
Boston is to have a school of flying.
Boston always did pride itself on be
ing the hub of literary accomplish
ment and classic learning in this coun
try. i , ,
No one cares whether they call it
arbitration, or mediation, or conces
sion, or merely reaching an under
standing If only it produces the re
sults. Get together.
Tho Associated Fraternities of
America must be thoroughly imbued
with the fraternal feeling if it can't
oven get up a Ught over the distribu
tion of the honors and offices.
As was to have been expected, tho
democratic organs which belabored
Governor Johnson most viciously when
be was alive are most profuse in ex
pressing sorrow, at bis death.
The Good Road a, convention is In
progress at Cleveland. Automobllists
are discovering that the next 'thing
needed after acquiring a motor car Is
a roadway good enough to permit its
transit.
Four surviving ex-governors are to
serve as honorary pallbearers at the
funeral of Minnesota's dead governor.
Nebrabka could conjure up four living,
ox-governors for a suitable occasion,
and then some.
Reports from Honolulu state that
one of the Hawaiian volcanoes Is man
testing extraordinary activity. We
were under the Impression that (the
lion. James Hamilton Lewis had re
turned from tho orient and was again
In Chicago, but perhaps there are two
of them. '
Senator Cummtus says that ho has
been read but of the party so often
that he is used to it and doesn't mind
it at all. It is barely possible that the
Iowa senator has been read out of
.the party so often that disproving it
bas became a habit necessary to his
happiness.
The West Nebraska Methodists pro
test against tho supplanting, by Gov
ernor Shallenberger, of a Methodist
chaplain, at the state penitentiary,
with a Mormon elder. This is ke
first instance we know of where Meth
od la ts have gone to the front to keep
Mormon Iran prison service.
Reception of Winona Speech.
The varied reception accorded Mr
Taft'i Winona speech, re-dflnlng the
reasons that Impelled him to sign the
tariff bill, Is what was naturally to
have been expected from such a pro
nouocement. The viewpoint of the
different newspapers throughout the
country on the speech is substantially
the same viewpoint taken by them on
the tariff bill In the making and on
the explanatory statement with which
the president accompanied his ap
proval of the measure. Yet even the
papers that take Issue with him on the
question of the propriety or expe
diency of his remarks applaud him for
displaying the courage of his convic
tions and for the frankness or the
boldness, as they may prefer to call It,
with which he has undertaken to de
fend the new tariff In the heart of the
Insurgents' country as the best we
have bad.
It goes without saying that the law
which found a place on the statute
by virtue of the president's signature
would be upheld and not assailed by
him and that he could not well Justify
his position without, in some degree,
manifesting disapproval of tho action
of the insurgent senators and repre
sentatives who voted against the bill.
The chief criticism of the Winona
speech has therefore to do with that
part in which the president deals with
the attitude of the Insurgents. Some
of the radicals on the republican side
and many of the democratic organs
profess to read the president's speech
as ejecting the Insurgents from tho
republic! n party, when that was
plainly far from his purpose, particu
larly as he congratulates them for an
nouncing their Intention to work for
further reductions within the republi
can party rather than Join the demo
crats outside of it.
What the president's language was
evidently intended to convey was that
he, as the bead of the republican
party, would work with the party as
whole and as represented by the
majority rather than the minority,
and that those who believe In the pro
tective tariff, even though drssatlBfled
with the new law, could expect still
less response to their wishes from a
democratic tariff bill framed In re
pudiation of the protective principle
and In complete disregard of our in
dustrial needs.
As a whole, public sentiment, as
voiced by tho press, appears to bo
largely with the president and the
stand he has taken may be expected
to solidify that sentiment.
A Fiscal Program.
Among other things that the city of
Omaha should have right now is a fis
cal program. Our city is just entering
upon a new period of growth and ex
pansion which will require, within the
next few years, a large expenditure of
public money for permanent improve
ments in the form of public works,
municipal buildings, streets, boule
vards and parks, to say nothing of the
Acquisition of the water works plant
and making it meet the enlarged dot
mands upon it. To finance these vari
ous projects will require a lot of figur
ing, and the issuing of bonds from
time to time as the money may be re
quired.
But a city's credit, like that of a
private corporation or individual, has
limits, and money spent for one thing
cannot be available for another. A
fiscal program which would start out
with an inventory of the financial
drafts which are liable to be made on
us In the present and near future, and
an estimate of their relative impor
tance and urgency so that they may be
taken up in their order without Inter
fering with, one another, and compli
cating the whole situation, is not only
desirable, but almost Imperative.
Unfortunately the Initiative and re
sponsibility for different elates of
public Improvements are lodged with
different municipal authorities who
have ordinarily worked entirely Inde
pendent of one another. It seems to
us, however, that the time has come
for some co-ordination and co-operation
between these bodies. Voting
bonds each year for this, or for that,
s like a hand-to-mouth policy, and
neither gives us an adequate idea of
what is yet to be done nor of the goal
to which we are working. The builder
wants the architect's plans and speci
fications before he borrows money to
pay subcontractors, and to the same
end Omaha need a fiscal program,
even though subject to modification as
changing circumstances may require.
The Government and the West.
In spite of occasional clamor to the
effect that the great Interests of the
west are being neglected by the. fed
eral government there comes now and
then a full note of approbation for the
authorities at Washington. One of
these will be heard from Colorado to
day, when President Taft will turn
on the water in the great Gunnison
tunnel and send a life-giving flood
down the Uncompahgre valley.
This enterprise, which consists ot
building a watercourse 36,000 feet
long, nearly all of which was tunneled
through the living granite of the cen
tral range of the Rocky mountains
and which will divert the waters of
the Gunnison river from the Black
canyon, where they are useless, to the
ubwatered valley around Montrose,
where they will be of service, could
only have been done by the general
government. It was too great an un
dertaking for private enterprise and
even too great for the state of Col
orado, which spent some thousands of
dollars in preliminary work and then
turned the matter over to tho United
States. It will open a considerable
area to agriculture and horticulture,
and the landowners along the canal
aro already counting the gains that
THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 23. lPOp.
are to be theirs when water sufficient
can be supplied to their orchards snd
their fields. By the expenditure of a
large sum of money from the public
coffers a comparatively few individ
uals will be greatly benefited, and the
Importance ot the west will be en
hanced to some degree because a con
siderable area of waste land will be
made productive.
This Is merely the latest, not the
only, instance of Invaluable aid given
by the federal government to the west
In recent years. It Is cited solely to
show that the material Interests of the
great region known as the "west" are
not being neglected. The Bee was
one of the earliest advocates of federal
aid and control in the Irrigation work
needed to restore to usefulness the
wide stretches of arU land In the
west. It met at the outset opposition
on the score that the proposal
amounted to the enrichment of one
section of the country at the expense
of another. This narrow view has
been dissipated by experience, which
has proven that, as expressed by Mr.
Taft in his speech at. Boston, the na
tion Is only prosperous when all the
sections prosper. The object lesson
of today Is that the government of the
United States Is for all sections of the
United States and for all its people
and not for any favored part of the
country. This applies as to tariff
laws and all other laws, to reclamation
work, to conservation plans 'and to
every activity and function of govern
ment. .
Celebrating' Emancipation.
That the war of the rebellion
brought about the abolition of slavery
in the United States is of general
knowledge, but the details of the
emancipation are so little known that
few understand the whys and where
fores of the emancipation celebration
that has Just been held.!
At the outbreak of the war Presi
dent Lincoln was deaf to all entreaties
to emancipate the slaves, convinced
that the time bad not come when that
step was necessary to preserve the
union. To preserve the union and
to restore peace was always his first
im and the abolition of slavery sec
ondary to it. Not until September 22,
1862, did President Lincoln reach a
definite conclusion that unconditional
emancipation would be In any way
feasible, and even then tho proclama
tion which he Issued was merely a
warning to the states in rebellion that
unless they ceased hostilities by the
end of the year all their slaves would
be declared heneeforward and forever
free. The proclamation of September
22, 1862, went on to recite:
That tha executive will on the first day
of January aforesaid, by proclamation,
designate the states and parts of states.
any. In which the people thereof, re
spectively, ahall then be In rebellion against
the United States; and the fact that any
state or the people thereof ahall on that
day bo 4n good faith represented In the
congress of the United States by members
chosen thereto at elections wherein a ma
jority of the qualified voters of such states
shall have 'participated shall, in tire ab
sence of atrtfng countervailing teatimony,
bj deemed .conclusive evidence that such
state and. tha' people thereof are not in
rebellion. against the United States.
This part of the proclamation was
repeated in the final proclamation
dated January 1, 1863, in which the
president proceeded, as he had indi
cated he would, to designate the terri
tory still in rebellion in which all
persons previously held in servitude
were to be free. It was only In this
proclamation or January 1, 1863, that
President Lincoln formally uttered the
words:
I do order and declare that all persons
held aa slaves within said designated states
and parts of states are and henceforward
ahall be free, and that the executive gov
ernment of the United States, Including the
military and naval authorities thereof, will
recognize and maintain tha freedom of said
persons.
It was much later that the emanci
pation was extended to the slaves In
states that had remained loyal to the
union, and -their freedom was not
clinched until the adoption ot 43
thirteenth amendment to the constitu
tion prohibiting slavery and involun
tary servitude, except as punishment
for crime, within the jurisdiction of
the United States. This amendment
and the accompanying legislation to
Insure the civil rights of the freedman
completed the work of emancipation
for which the first wheel was set In
motion by President Lincoln's pre
liminary proclamation of September
22, 1862.
It 4s again asserted that Mrs. Baker
G. Eddy has been dead for some time
and that her death has been concealed
by her former associates intent on re
taining control of the Christian Sci
ence church. In olden days It was not
uncommon to cover up the death of
a monarch until bis successor was
firmly In the saddle and had chopper!
off the heads of all possible competi-
tors. In these twentieth century
days, however, It li Incredible that
any one should resort to that dis
credited practice.
A Mexican convict announces the
invention of a mechanism by which
the telephone may be made to convey
the vision, as well as the voices, of
the conversationalists at both ends, j
That would be a great Invention, but !
whether It would ever become popular
as a household convenience. Is decid
edly open to question. Think of hav
ing to primp up before answering the
'phone every time It rings.
The State Board of Pharmacy has
made Representative KUlen of Gage
county a member ot the board of sec
retaries. Mr. Klllen's qualifications
will be conceded, but the propriety of
putting a member of tho legislature in
this official position before bis legisla
tive, term has expired may be open to
question. To a man up a tree it would
seem that there ought to be patrlotyJ
enough to fill all the offices without
doubling up.
Four teachers who have devoted
their llfework to the Omaha public
schools go on the retired list with
pension of $500 a year. Several
members of the teaching force of the
State university would be eligible to
retirement pensions from the Carnegie
foundation if Mr. .Bryan and his dem
ocratlc legislature had not Interposed
a veto.
Complaint is made that the heroes
of our American navy are to be con
spicuous by their absence from the
great Hudson-Fulton centennial cele
bration about to be pulled off In New
York. But who are our great naval
heroes? Why start another contro.
versy before the Cook-Peary talkfest
is determined?
Dr. Cook has almost finished his
first book narrating his polar expedi
tion experiences and has a few maga
zine articles, lectures and the official
record of his journey to prepare. If
he wants an assistant with a record
for quick bookmaklng Dr. Cook
ought to get Prof. Foster of the Uni
versity of Chicago to help him out.
Hudson and Fulton are celebrating
their achievements together, although
one of them occupied the center of
the stage a few hundred years after
the other. If they bad only operated
together in the first place what team
work they would have done.
I'
The new governor of Minnesota
will not be troubled with presidential
bees in his bonnet. He was born In
Sweden, which fact puts a constitu
tional barrier across any path he
might try to the White House.
Assroaralsg the Brla.lt.
Washington Post.
It looks as if the Bryan-Bailey talks
might develop a short and ugly phase at
any moment.
A Step Ahead.
Minneapolis Journal
President Taft asks the northwest to be
satisfied with the step ahead. After a bit,
we si. all gain more ground in the reforms
being sought. The doctrine la sound.
WorU Ahead for Congress.
Philadelphia Press.
Judging by the number of Important rec
ommendations President Taft says he will
make to congress next winter that "body
will have no chance to "loaf on the Job."
Dlacnaalon Avails tattle.
St. Paul Pioneer Press.
me American Bankers' association is
disousslng a number of propositions "look
ing to tha betterment of the financial situ
ation." .Still, they probably will not make
It any easier for the man who wants to
negotiate a loan without gild-edged collat
eral. ; '
Too Mirk of a Uood Thlagr.
Baltimore American.
An authority in a western university de
clares that too much prosperity allows stu
dents to buy motor cat and that their
studies suffer In consequence. He ap
parently holds that work and a taate of
hardship will keep in check . the natural
propensity of the average student to get
into mischief. No one" can deny that a
speeding car is a terrible incentive to the
fast life.
The Tariff Adrtaory Hoard.
Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
The new presidential tariff advisory board
will hold a first meeting thiB week. One
of the members, Mr. Reynolds, now as
sistant secretary of the treasury, says the
rirst question to be considered by It is thc
scope of ita authority under the law. That
matter has already been passed upon by
President Taft, who has also outlined the
work to be pursued by the board. He in
terprets the law far more broadly tnan
the senatorial standpatters Intended It
should be Interpreted; and what the presi
dent tells the board to do It will do, and It
will not do much else. On of the duties
of the board, as defined by the prealdent,
will be an inquiry Into differences of cost
of production, etc., and If the standpatters
would prevent it they must evidently seek
an injunction against the board and have
tnp matter or Its legal powers judicially de
termined. T FT AS HE UHUWS.
Conrageons aa Cleveland, as Taetfal
as McKlnlry.
'Minneapolis Journal.
President Taft Is a morally courageous
as Orover Cleveland, and, withal, as tact
ful as William MeKlnley.
His honesty, his regard for even the
letter of hla aledgea, la proved by his reit
eration In -Chicago, of his ante-election
promise to redeem the labor plank of the
republican platform. His courage Is shown
by his exoneration of Secretary Balttnger.
In the broad tho policies he has picked
era great and right. The sc we of his
design, as It is revealed, la not merely
comprehensive, but concrete and fairly cor
related. The man, whose political heir and dis
ciple President Taft la. was a belter phrase
maker, perhaps swifter to denounce wrongs
and defects and bolder in enunciating rem
edies; but the program of Taft Includes
and surpasses the program of Roosevelt.
Taft proposes to deal with the tariff, with
finance, with legal procedure, as well as
to undertake to formulate definitely the
Indefinite suggestions of his predecessor.
A man may be candid and yet untactful
Mr T'ft not ony perceives the needs of
tha time, What reforms and new construc
tions are Imperative, which Is a great
faculty, but tie also is in the habit of
attaining by tact his purpose. That is a
fu-ulty which differentiates and makes him
4 constructive atateama.1.
In order to get what he wants, the
president purposes to line up the whole
party at hla back if he can. He is helped
by his temperament; for It Is easy for him
to see what Is good. Senator Aldrich may
have his sinister aide. He may be mis
taken ooncemfng tariff schedules; but no
Intelligent man doubts the great ability of
the Rhode Islander or his Immense power.
President Taft will not quarrel with
Aldrich. Where he differs from the latter,
he will gain by coercion and persuasion
as much as can be gained. Where he
knows Aldrich to be right he will enaaire
the latter'a
manstilp.
Truth ia,
co-operation. This Is states-
I
the country over, has cause 1
to congratulate Itaelf that it took Roose-jit "is between U and r; a day. while
velfs advice to elect Taft. We have had its earnings are between 112 and J0 a day.
presidents of great moral energy and ; We are earning over 100 per cent dividends
small discretion. We have had them of I on our stock, and we charge only M cents
great Intelllgtace and little moral courage for the Initial half mile, and 10 cents for
This new man, trained for his hour by each subsequent quarter mile." Some corn
experience as perhaps no predecessor of 'panies charge ever more, but In the public
hla ever was trained, la rounded and well I inter, st It looks as though all should
VlX, Jchargd let.
Around New York
mipplee aa the Ovnit at Ufa
aa aWea ta tha Sntl Aaaerieaa
Mrtropella frvas Day Say.
Ray Raymond of Huntington, Long la
land, Is one of the appreciative mortals
who believes In rewarding Industry to tha
dlmlt. He Is a chicken fancier and has a
collection of birds that are real "birds
They average two eggs a day each and
eggs bring 4 centa a doien In Gotham. Mr.
Ralney Is not aelftsh. Ha appreciates their
Industry and propose to show It in a sub
stantial way. During the winter they will
lay eggs in a $20,000 house, built especially
for their comfort. Each hen Is to have
her separate boudoir. (Common hena call
them nests.) A record will be kept of the
eggs laid by each pullet and tha length of
her life will depend somewhat upon her
output and their hatching quality,
William Williams, commissioner of Im
migration, la puszlfd over the case of Jo
seph Casstm, 14 years old, who came to
New York September from his home In
Mount Lebanon, Palestine, to go to his
brother Hesaln. in rinevllle. Kv. Thu
brother is In business in Plneville with a
cousin, Henry Casslm, and Is sajd to be
The board of special inquiry In Ellis Is
Isnd decided that the boy'a mother In
Mount Lebanon was a better guardian
and ordered him deported.
The cousin came on from Plneville. Ha
offered to put up a bond of $2,000 that the
boy would not be a publlo charge, and ex
plained that If deported the lad would be
ent first to Rio Janlero, aa he had come
that way. Tha commissioner's attention
had been called to the boy because the
youngster wanted to beat a man who of
fered him a cigarette on' tha island. The
v explained that the Drue religion. In
which he was brought up, prohoblted the
use of tobacco in any form, a fact that
made all Kills Island wonder.
An operation which the attending th.l-
v.u ucciarea opened up a new field to
surgical science was performed at the
french hospital, In West Thirty-fourth
atreet, on a woman patient who had swal
lowed two tacks. The tacks, after an un
usual course, had settled, one In each lung.
The tacks were three-fourths of an Inch
long.
Dr. Jackson of the Plttsburn- Eve and
Ear hospital, who has made a nnedaltv
of bronchoscopy, was summoned by tele
graph and came, attended bv hi .!. t.nt
1 L'r- D- K- Sable. Ir. Jackson at once ar
ranged for the operation, and nas
ldel
by Dr. Schaeffer, house surgeon of iho
rrencn hospital, and also by Dr. Sable.
Dr. Jackson used a bronchoscope, a deli
cate instrument fitted with a series of tiny
mirrors. With this Instrument the bron
chial tube of the patient was penetrated.
,Z r'r"'.n8nt " tUbe nd through t"1"
r,,. item uperatea. uuiaea by th"
X-ray pictures, which showed the exact
location of each tftck and the bronohosone.
with on. f 7h .1 , . CO"'a0t
with one of the tacks, and fxr h.ii.0.1
manlDulatlon ho ,
r w Vl. iiiTjia i w a
gripped by one end and drawn safely up
The same success attended the removal ot
the second tack.
The operation itself was completely suc
cessful. The woman recovered aailsfac-'
torlly from the effects of the ether, and!
It was said there was every probability ot'
her complete restoration to health. I
To see a group of push-cart peddlars
scurry down the atreet, spurred on by -a
wirt-iootea policeman, Is common enougii
In the afreets of New York. But the same
eight, with the pursuing bluecoat nowhere
around, has puzzled more than one passer
by on Nassau street recently. It was as if
the push-cart venders had acquired tho In
stinct of the deer who took to their heels
long before the huntsman came within gun
shot. After viewing the performance at
regular intervals from Park Row to Wall
street, a pedestrian finally solved the mys
tery. Apparently the peddlars had got the
services of a street urchin whose sole duty
was to look around the corner and give
the alarm aa soon as the patrolman hove
In sight. Whenever the urchin appeared on
tne run, the push-cart fleet set sail.
Ways of earning a livelihood are various
in the big city. He was a very tall man
and thin. His figure was extremely erect
and his shoulders, such as there were,
were square, probably the result of army
or navy experience. His hand was tat
tooed In radiant blues and pinks. The,y
had him rigged out In a gorgeous uniform
of blue, with gold lace liberally added.
Hla job Is to walk up and down In front
of the theater. He walks fifty feet, as If
following a crack, and comes out, that is
to say, about faces, just as if the com
mand had been shouted by the command
ing officer. Then he walka the same fifty
feet the other way In such a manner that
you are aura hla feet find the precise plac-
Ins of hla outward Journey.
If a carriage rolls up, he does the oblique
or the right about or the left about, as
tha aituatlon may require. Never does
he foreaake his dignified pose. He opens
the vehicles door with the precision of the
other well-rehearsed features of his "aot."
He stands attention as the occupants get
out and enter the theater. Then he closes
the door with a bang, wavea the driver on
and resumes sentinel duty. He is well
paid for all of this. The theaters of the
town bid for his services.
Nearly all of the hello girls In Go'hira
are dreaming of future days of greatness
as footlight queens. The origin of the
err.ro lies In the streak of fortune that has
befallen Misa Florence Victoria Grant.
formerly good fairy ot Henry R. Harris'
telephone switchboard, but now with Miss
Rose Stahl In "The Chorus Lady."
One day Harris picked up his telephone
receiver, and while waiting for a number,
was struck by the sweetnesj of Miss
Giant's voice and unruffled manner In
which she corrected central's reading of
the line "Melrose 2J86" for the sixth time.
In another "moment Harry aiood In front
of Miss Grant.
'How'd you Ilka to play a part with
Miss Stahl?" he said.
Her heart thumping so loudly that It
awoke John, the office boy. Miss Grant
feebly murmured that she wanted a day
to think It over.
"No, you must decide this minute," said
the manager.
Then I accept," said Miss Grant, and a
few minutes afterward she left the switch
board to sign a contract.
The taxi-cab companies are'to some ex
tent experlmeme in city passenger trans
portation, but In New York, at least, they
seem to have been very profitable experi
ments. A confidential pamphlet which one
of these companies had prepared for In
vestors, has been made public, and states
that these ehlcles are making an annual
profit of 113 per cent. "The tola! expense
nf esrh cub which - nm m ,..
PERSONAL NOTES.
Walter VVellman is coming home. By
careful generalship he may be able to slip
in, unnoticed,' between polar aviations.
Former Premier Clemenceau of France
enjoys the distinction of having written a
play and suppressed It, in spite of the ap
peals of theatrical managers.
Mr. Ballcy of Texas has replied to Mr.
Bryan of Nebraska. There was fear thut
this would happen. Its realization Illus
trates the danger of addressing remarks to
Mr- Bailey. J
Scarely a religious journal In the coun
try omits Mr. llarrlman'a Injunction to
his "men residents" to go to church on j
Sunday. Wherefor much "high finance" is
forgiven him. i
continuous stream of words for
a cieveiana talker, tiavinc pulled off a
sit h.mni, i
eight minutes and forty-two seconds, tails
upon the holder to hand over a long dis-
tance belt. Tho champion up at Madison.
" are laugh coming
I Joh" Kymmes, who dud In
nioriiro i.i. iif that hn v -
I J V V M
Where he said the earth would b- I'oi.ii.l
hollow and habitable, the land w as "rich
and warm, stocked with venetalles and
animals, If not men." It is pret ty well
settled now tlint John was mistaken.
.
.Alexander i Pinpi ii i i .izer, eine .t 's pro-
fesror of ionic and mstuprysic ia In.
I'nlvei-sltv of i:dlnl.uv"l. huu Loo ...v
plcted his Stlth year. ai:d lias ieielved l'r ..it, I
a host of foimer stuient-. now eminent i .
all walks of life In Great lirltaln, i l. -iu ;
tit ill tribute ot uS factlonute l,il-e, ,:iuj
reverence.
A tnn!"ril fl'ineh.
Philadelphia Itecoid.
The production of petroleum in the
1'n.Kd '
States In 1!0S aniouiilf.d to 17:t.572.47S barrels,
valued at f l29.70li.25S. The Httthdaid Oil
.
company manages to handle about M) per
cent "of this product, at a net profit ap
approxlmating Jv!t.000,t,00. This requires a
dexterity of nianugement thut approaches
sublimity. There are causistH, howe.er,
who insist that the Standard is a benefi
cence, and that If the oil were handle.! by j
a mob Instead of a monopoly the c m- '
sumers would suffer as a consequence. The
fact that the overage price of crude oil
in 11W8 was 72 cents a barrel and that the
Standard managed to gather in a profit
of 58 cents a barrel upon the whole prod
uct, opens an enticing field of inquiry.
Sober Second ThODkht.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Senator Cummins of Iowa is finding that
the people of that state are thinking thulj
it would he better to give the new tarlm
law a trial before condemning It, on the
theosy, no douht, that tt number 0f meas-i
ures hitherto condemned by statesmen havoi
worked well, and others approved of hUiJ
wisdom have failed. J
1
Dd tnat's the GREAT MAJESTIC they are the
only rsases made exclusive.y oi Malleable and Cb
coal Iroa outbut three ordinary raasaa dou t break,
crack, or rust. Malleable Iron allows absolutely air-tigb
rivetea joints m a majii; inn these combined with
pure asbestos lining, aava half your fual bill and give you
dependable caakar, a aarfact baker every day.
The MAJESTIC is equipped with a 15-gallon, alt-copper
reservoir it Uuvhes the red hot lire and beats water in a pay.
The Grc3t and Grand
IV-AvJESTIC
Malleable snd Charcoal Iron
Range
aa 6Tn innr, which vhto dm riwd,
to
w.iim-uTf d nm.! nui tuiuDkuri.ijr, noiaing anjrtntnf. thai napp 1
onlt. scurj'. Other attrartlva WAJKbTIC faaturaa aretuaoDan mud a.l
van, acting aa aihoral aud Ilia a.h cop audar It.
Ko mutt or dangar of Bra from rod hot athfa with a MAJf.STIO.
Each exclusive MAJR8TIC feature makes this range mora practical
snore serviceable, more durable tha beat range your awnay can buyrr
gardiess ol price. JdaJF.KTIU Kangea ara aold In nearly ..rf r..umy In
rr atatna. If vonr daaUr dun I rarry MAJKHTIO Kant't, wrtta u for
tha naua of a dealer la your locality who duaa. and wa'll aeuU our boukleii
"Tha Story of Maltle Gtoiy"
Majeatic Manufacturing Company, Dent, tl St Loub, Mo.
wi.i. rc2v?:
w,
Jfete
frattU If
wanted for
pr nature
boil art
"The
Range
With A
Reputation"
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Ho Mum
No Lime Phosphates
LAUGHING GAS.
Editor Did you Interview the
thn suffraNettes?
Reporter 1 tried to, but she
leader of
wouldn't
talk.
Kdltor Wouldn't talk? Onoil heavens,
man, was she dead? Circle Magazine.
Poetic Crank If you but knew all a
sensitive organism like mine has to suf
fer! I frel nt times such an appalling sense
of emptiness.
Practical Old Lady Hump! I bet you feel
It In your head. Baltimore American.
"You f-ay the
more kind and
man you married seems
generous aince your dl-
voire than he did before?'
"Yes," answered Mrs. Flitnmson. "He
never says a word ahout economizing, but
sends around his alimony without a mur
mur." Washington h'tar.
"Don't you bilievi." queried the fair ad
vocate nf woman's riglus, "that men llv
faster than women'.'"
"I soie do." ri plied the more man. "I
I was Juxt ten inimtli
s older t'.i.'iu inv wito
inl: now I ninMi and
K."--Clik-UBo News.
".ne:l 'VP .,,VS"'
I
"Dirt
your hiis' sr.d e
tl'Hl
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Uri'hle rd
'n ?" asked
lS.'li. hart.l'o e uoi ' o.i: in i.i tl
, "ii" woman.
ai.sv ere
sunlil'ic. Th i '
Com k r-.i oui nul.
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me
a' ant
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s uenv . "call I v r :;'vp p.
a 1 iekel? I wait u. no coe. 1
Hi
iierv uu lire, riv p .,( 1 .,r
lienevi I nl o'd venili 'imi. i.,i
IIOH I
pose you v.hiu t v,, dou n In :i
ill !!
'"'v 1 t'"'"i
1 boss, 1 want to 1:0 1, :
; tronuiner on d,. i.,rn,i- hmiI tile
uiuis. v uioako
m .11. - -
STEAMEOAT DAYS.
Here lies the lazy .M 1.I1I .
Scarce 1 irpl ri l, a v hr,.
Of r.ngiiu, pul in: totimi.-i
The w ....( li-isl,:i.,( ,1 vie. I.
H.-r brinuo, t: 1 . w nv 1 1 1 . .
A sliiliiiiK tl- j. Ii ive I , ;.
Ki r such as 1: i.quei Kir ; l.un.s
And ruli; the 1. jalm or trao
The ancient trappi r Kiildfd
His batteau down tills couise.
He felt Its Inspiration.
The prospect In iis I'cree.
The old St. Louis x.ea'ne--Once
bore Its merciiaiidl.se
To Benton's frontier s; moll.
'.eath for Montonu'a siUs
Return ! ye churning paddles '
And smoke-emitting stink.-!
We miss the valiant rapl.V'ig
A nd the nimble, slnlmt 1a ' s,
e miss th stirring Mill:-.!".
The lights that softly hum.
The currents 'v. nit y. iv pmwing
In countless fleets r. turn!
WILL CHAMHLKLAIX.
L'.stervllle, 8. D.
forms a rigid analf strong anon
tear
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J Saver