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mi-: m-;i;: omaha. ntiDAY. KEmttmKit vmm. The Omaha Daily Bee FOUNDED BT'EUWARD KOPEWATKK VICTOH ROSKWATKR. BDITOK r".ntred at Omaha postotfic as eecor.d elass matter. terms or spbwhiptiox fally Bee (tr.tho.it Pundav) on year. It 'i Dally fie and Kundey. one year t 11,'t.r V E-r c-1 Dr l I UUIL'l) '" Dally P., (inrhirting Punrtav). per week 1. I'atiy Be (nnhoiu tundvi. pi w fK ..u hvonlng Bee (without Sti.day). per week Kvenlng Hee. (with Sunday), per week. Pc Hunday Hee, one year I- """ Saturday Bee. one year J O Address ell complaints of lrrgi;lanties l.i delivery to City Circulation 1 epartraent. OFFiCl meha-The Bee Hullding r:PS,:r;nroy,;f?;,r;5,,,dN- IJriroin-tn Uttle Building, t hlrago IMS Marquette Hullding New Tork-P.noms 1101-110;! No. St W-Ii Thirty-third Street. W ashlngton 723 Fourteenth Street. N. vv. . CORRESPONDENCE. , "hall clinch the advances In the stand- Cftromunlcattona relating to news and edi- , , . business and In tbp manage torfal matter ahould be addressed: Omah.t I Bru" 01 Business ana in tue manage , Editorial Department. 1 ment of railroads and Industrial cor- Remit by dVaf" "spree or poatal order Pavahla to The Ree lnhllhln CoinoanV Only 2-cent stamps received m payment ot mall account a. Personal checka. except "j Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. STATEMENT Or CIRCULATION Stat of Nebraska. Iougtaa ( oiinty. aa.: (ieorya B. Ttaclinck. treaaurer of Tha I'ubllahln Compint. ing duly orn. aaya that tha actual number of toll and complete eoplee of The Dally, Morning. Evening and Runday Bee printed during the month of August, 1909. waa at followa: JS.tCO IT i,aoa 11 ,7t i ....41,N 10 41,77a 1 21 41,640 22 T 41,T :i I ,i,..N,HO 24 4MS0 2S 10 ....41.S90 :t...... ll........:.41,S40 21 It ,.. 41,870 , .'21 II 4J.O30 29 14 4U430 10 II 40,000 II 14 4MM Tatal Returned r.oplas Nat tot1 , .4X.7S0 , .43,530 . .41.WS0 , .41,010 4i,tio . ...4a.io , .1.B8S.410 10,381 14r7,oa 414S0 Daily average. GEO. E. TZSCltUCK. Treaaurer. Subsnrtbed in my preeanca and sworn lo before ma tnia 1st day of (September, 19I. M. P. WALKER. Notary Public. tajkaerlbcra laTlai t tem po rsrlly akoald fco Tho Boo aaallo4 to ikeaa. Address will bo End the strike! So cay we. For us, we would much have preferred to Lave had It ended before it was begun. One lesson of the streetcar strike Is to teach ua how much worse the service could be when it Is at Its best. The conviction of a police inspector cbarged . with graft must be a signal for Lincoln Steffens to hotfoot to Chi cago. - . . The Joint debate between Cook and Peary 'seems to be lagging, but will doubtless grow warmer as it gets colder. , , , That West Virginia wholesale mur der of a' family "of alx" would indicate that Bluefteld had something like a Bluebeard. .' ' Another thing which tbe street car strike is doing effectually la to em phasize the value of that handy little mechanism known as the telephone. If both, Balllnger and Pinchot stay on their ' Jobs, which now seems as sured, a lot of democratic, organs, and orators will suffer another severe dis appointment. , Wonder if tho army officers who are objecting to the riding tears insti tuted by( President Roosevelt would prefer to havo a round on the golf links substituted? Fuller reports of thehurricane on the gulf tend to ma'ke us all the more satisfied that we live in a country whose worst affliction of the elements is an occasional dwarf tornado. Just to" show that there is no Jeal ousy, Kansas City put Omaha on the route of its automobile endurance run. It will be up to Omaha to reciprocate r retaliate at the firs opportunity. A headline in a Lincoln paper reads. Committer on Pole Proposition Kinds bo Oppoaltion.il. We. don't believe it. There la no point that can be made in the polo debate that will not elicit a dissent Really now, nothing that Mr. Taft bas said, or Is foing to say, Is calcu lated to ploaso our amiable democratic contemporary. Possibly Mr. Taft should have let tbe World-Herald man writ bis speeches for him. The page of every other issue of tho Commoner which Mr. Bryan has been devoting to a discussion of Governor jounaong o,eged repudiation of his platform pledges will now be available for back-talk at Senator Bailey. It is announced that Mrs. Rutsell Sago gave a present of $50,000 tq Syracuse university on her birthday. Hero's a Up. for some of our Omaha in stitutions to stand around within eye sight of Mrs. Sage on ber next birthday The subscription csrd used in ttae,uut ih ueed or nBCal Program for building fund campaign for (be Young Men's Christian association at Lincoln , . i -. . . V 1 1 1 . . 1 . ia l ira Duuuciir in mo local nflTwn 1 but nowhere Hoes It say that money caK for complete overhauling of the contributed by Rockefeller, Carnegie ! financial operations of the city govern or tho brewara wfll be returned to the nent. douors. Muat be some mistake here. Tbo Real Estate exchauge commit tee to Inspect tbe construction of the new court botfse as It progresses baa been duly appointed. 'That does not, however, prevent any t il lien or tax payer of tho county from appointing olinselt a committee, of one on con ttruction inspection and going on tbo 4 a .lea aa bo bas ti'ite.- Clinching the Roosetelt Policies. During the campaign last year Mr. Taft talked a (treat deal about "clinch- ;in the Roosevelt policies'' and went Ion to explain that by this exprosslon , lie meant that the main work for the ! succeeding administration w already o laid out and that its enter business would hp tc enforce and strengthen ,n 'aw PPn enacted to , , ., pgh reforms and to remedy , , , ; BbtlSPS alonfi lines rPcommcndPd by i President Roosevelt remf,n' KOOSeveit. , The sppprb made bv President Taft i , . ' Colorado Springs reasserts his de- termination to clinch tliP Roosevelt 'P0'"""' "This administration." hP declares, "la pledged, with the aid of , , . . . . ; thp pPoplP, to put Upon the BtatUte .r.h .Jllllnnal lovUlatlnn as I poratlons which -were set up by my predecessor in hla talks to the people and In his messages to congress." While expressing satisfaction over what has been accomplished under the Roosevelt influence, Mr. Taft de clares that we must not stop, but must go on pushing forward the outposts and holding fast to the gains that have been made. The entire series of speeches which the president is making on his present tour of the country Is to take up, one . .41,0.-30 , Rt a tjm( the subjects of legislation . .40,000 1 4aiS0lsnd administration which were fore . .41,770 j most objects of Mr. Roosevelt's activ ..aa.saojuy and to outline what, in Mr. Taft's 41 780 J,ld8ment- remains to be done to carry 48,170 ' them forward and secure for the peo ..40,000 j pie the fullest benefits that can be obtained from them. Those who undertake to contrast the Taft administration wftb the Roosevelt administration too often overlook the fact that Mr. Taft was an integral part of the Roosevelt regime, and that as secretary of war he had as much, if not more, to do with the making of the Roosevelt pol icies than any other person excepting Mr. Roosevelt himself. And those who know Mr. Taft at all know that he would not have continued in the cab inet of President Roosevelt unless he was thoroughly in sympathy with, and committed to, the broad policies for which his chief's adminTstratlon stood. This fact alone should be sufficient as surance that the Taft policies will be the Roosevelt policies, adapted from time to time to new conditions as pre sented, i It goes without saying that the dis cussion of the different public ques tions which the president is now un dertaking is but a prelude to the mes sage which he will send to congress in December embodying his recom mendations for legislation. When, therefore, he says that bis administra tion is under pledge to clinch the Roosevelt policies It may be taken for granted that no law put upon the statute books at the Instance of Mr. Roosevelt will be repealed with the consent of Mr. Taft, but that, on tho contrary, he will exert every effort, where these laws have been found In adequate, to. have them corrected and made equal to their purpose. Booms and Frauds. NewspHpers in the large eastern towns, where people, unable-to invest money safely at high returns, are susceptible to the persuasions of wild cat promoters, are warning their con- stituenctes that the revival of busi ness is sure to awaken the "gei-rlch-qulck fraternity to the re-cropped field recently opened to .hem. These enter prises may so far be only faintly tinged with doubt and legitimate enough to Justly omplain if the papers refused advertisements. But the sign of tbe promoter's hunt for the harvest of good times are unmis takable. . H is one of the best leatures of the postofDce service that It protects the people from a great many of the gross frauds. In spite of the inspections and prosecutions of the department it can touch only a ftw of the many swindles. The professional promoter ,nBy OP1"-1 in a dozen cities, under his own name or borrowed ones, be fore an inspector can expose him. The case may be a fraud In fact without being within the authority of the government at all. People who trust tbe government to protect them against making foolt of themselves will multiply in the next year or so. j The promoters who "worked" Boston 1 in 1900 may rise up in Chicago this j winter. Whatever is profitable Is a I fruitful inspiration for the speculative I promoters. Water power, mines, irri gation lands, rubber plantations, town lots, patents and shetp ranches are as 1 good as they ever were. The retired ; preachers, widows and spinsters who are appealed to are the most suspicious and tho most gullible persons on earth and are as "easy" as they ever were. There is st hand a more or less de fined boom period, but good advice Is too often wasted until one or two explosions occur. Municipal Economy. What The Bee has just been saying! Omaha should be supplemented by a suggestion which is about to be car- rtal InlA 11 r ' F I. I niiAPottftn In f 1. i I " " ii.v v.nwv.. v ..- A commission baa Just been ap pointed by the mayor of Chicago, headed by Prof. Merrlatn of tbe de partment of economics In Chicago uni versity and also a member of the Chi cago city council, charged with tbo duty of Investigating all municipal ex penditures and bringing findings as may, in Its judgment, be warranted for such reorganisation and reforms of method aa will tend to mako tbo city and at the tamp time more efficient. The declaration la made at the out set that the Inquiry la not specially di rected toward thp uncoveriug of fraud or graft, but rathrT toward the loca tion of waste, duplications and misfits, and the recommendation of remedies to cure them. Speaking; of the worX jcut out for the commission, the Tribune Bays: It la hoped that eveiy depai liiient head I nr other official In the city hall will regard ! the Inquiry not as an Intrusion to br re j arnted or obstructed, btit aa a helpful, val uable work worthy of co-operation. Too j often Inquiries of this nature meet hoatlllty In the offices to be Investigated not be- cauae there is anything to conceal, but be - cauae the mete fart that the Investigation la undertaken might aeem to Imply that something la wrong. Such an attitude In this cas would be whollv unreasonable, No charge la made or Imnllod asalnat anv- one. The commission merely wants the facta-aii the fa-ta about the expenditure tTvrlhVh it lo nnvt tnpm. hfn It rma tnMt the business men In its membership will know at oiicp whether any changes In methoda ought to be made. If Chicago accomplishes tangible re- suits through such an Investigation and report on municipal exppndltures, other cities will surely find it to their advantage to follow the example. It might even be well for Omaha to start In without waiting to find out what may be discovered in Chicago, because some changes to be recommended would certainly require enabling leg islation, and if we must go to the leg islature for help to put our local gov ernment on a more businesslike basts we cannot know too early what may be wanted. The Closing Bate Ball Season. Only a few days more and we will be permitted to hall again the cham pion base ball team. So far as that goes, it is practically determined now which of the teams have proven the ablest in the great struggle for the honor that has been going on since early in tbe spring, but the interest in the closing games has not waned, even though they are little more thau, scheduled formalities. The victor will be hailed as champion, the losers will give Buch excuses as may fit their sev eral cases and tbe "magnates" of the game will begin to plan for another year. Base ball is peculiar in that it is ro far the only form of sport that has been reduced to a business without destroying the public's faith in its honesty. It is this quality of the sport that led more thai 117,000 citizens of Philadelphia to pay for the privilege of seeing four games between tbe Philadelphia Athletics and tbe Detroit Tigers in a series that was to deter mine the supremacy in the American league race. That number stands as a record for paid attendance at a series ot games and shows the public interest. If each man among that great throng were not fully convinced that the games were being fought out on their merits he would not have been present to watch the struggle. This attendance is the highest possi ble testimonial to the confidence the public has in the integrity of players and managers alike. The season Just closing Is notable in many ways, but more than in any other for the high quality of conduct by the players both on and off the field. In tbe bigger and more re sponsible leagues very few cases of disturbance of any kind have occurred. Even during the most exciting mo ments, when opposing players were bending every energy of mind and muscle to win, the game has been fought fairly and the controversies have been such as could be easily set tled by the umpire. The ball player has learned to manage bis temper as well as his muscles. Here's a cheer for the victor, who has won after a most thorough test of his skill and endurance, and a cheer for the losers, who have 'contended gamely against superior skill and the odds of fortune. May tbe close of tbe base ball season of 1909 be the pre cursor of even a brighter and better season for 1910. Five great railroads are pointing with pride to the fact that they have run a whole year without a single fatality to a passenger, and the num-1 ber of passengers carried has mounted I Into tbe millions. These four roads are the Pennsylvania, the Northwest ern, the Santa Fe, the Rock Island and the Burlington. It is gratifying to note that three of them run into Omaha and that four of them are western roads and only one of them an eastern road. By way of San Francisco comes the I information that a returned Arctic ex- i nlrar I... Hi.. vrH tribe of Esquimaux living In Prince Albert Land. The meager description is very unsatisfactory. it does not state whether tbe members of this Fsqulmaux tribe like to eat gumdrops nor what is their reputation at home for truth and veracity. The Vanderbilts contribute to the social amenities tbe latest family sep aration in high life. It must have been a satisfaction to Mr. Harriman to enjoy the rare distinction of a rail road magnate permitted to die with out, leaving any divorces among bis household effects. The new postage stamps In com memoration Of the Hudaon-Kullon centennial are In much demand. We may now know what the Cook-Peary conflict is sbout. A huudred years bene we will have a North Dole post age stamp bearing tbe portrait of tbe winner. Chairman Yoakum of the Rock Island system is boosting for good roada. It bas taken tbo railroad poo- aovernment more economical ple a lona, time to .discover that good I roada are feeders to rail transporta tion and not competitors, but they have at last come to real lie, it. The banquet 'tendered to President Taft In Minneapolis likpwlse cost the participants $20 plate, so that Omaha constitutes no exclusive class In this respect. Minneapolis, how ever, had ftt0 around the board ' 8lnt Omaha's 150 i .". . j because he waa born of poor foreign par Mr. Taft urges that the corporation intage and thua repreaented, in hla devrl- tax feature Of the new tariff law ig calculated to produce a substantial revenue without undue Incentive to 1 perjury or tax shirking. Perhaps that I la the real objection to it in some 1 0uartpr8 i j The reclamation of 200,000 acres j of waste land by changing the course ; 0f a river should convince the most 8P,C tnf thr I something more to irrigation than j merely spending public money to dig I ditches. 1 Klsln Hla tata. Louisville Courier-Journal. luitever may eventuate aa a result of the aiibmlaMon of pi oof. Commander Peary is st least the greatest exploder. I.onka I.Ike' Real Work. Chicago New. President Taft ia discovering that It la a good deal like work to shake hands with moat of the people In the United States in the space of a few weeks. 1 hefting (lose to tke People. Cleveland Leader. So far. the prealdont's tour la a great aifc cesa In every way. which ought not to sur prise anyone who knows Mr. Taft's ability to win tbe good opinions of even his stout est opponents, when h has a personal hearing, face to face. A Belated Discovery. Kanvas City Journal. General Meyer declarea officially that the phyaical tests to which army officers are subjected are useless and often In jurious. Of course, they are, but It would have boen very rash for General Meyer to have aaid as much twelve months ago. A .lodlrlal Stayer. Washington Star. Mr. Justice Harlan has Just entered on tha newspaper docket his twentieth denial of the twentieth newspaper report that he Is on tho exe of retiring from the bench. Ilia seventy-odd years seem to explain the life of the yarn. Being In good health, Judge Harlan has no thought, and ahould have none, of the shelf. He likes his work, and to a man of hla equipment and tem perament work is essential to happiness. And his work on the bench baa been so satisfactory to the country he should con tinue It aa long aa his strength abides. Sootklng Tourk of Lacre, Leslie's Weekly. It la said that Commander Peary, while In the pay of the government, has for the last dozen years done little else than ex ploit himself as a polar explorer, and that on his recant trip the government had as signed him to report, tidal observations in the Arctic regions. No one Wishes to detract from any of tho credit that belongs to Peary, and we all hope that he has discovered the pole, either as first or sec ond finder; yet we oannot escape the con clusion that a good deal of tho courage we attribute to pqjar discoverers has be hind It a decided hankering after what tho Good Book calls "filthy lucre." REASOXS FOR HIGH PR ICRS), Ooe It tkat "Prices Are Hlgk" Be cause They Are Hlatk. Indianapolis News. When the Chicago packers raised the price of No. 1 beef lolna from 19 to 11 cents a pound they gave the shortage of cattle recelpta as a reason, and showed that there had been a falling Off of about 200.000 head of cattle In the stock yard receipts during tho laat year. An investigation of tho market records showed that tha price of tho grade of cattle used for such cuts waa from 25 to 35 cents a hundred pounds higher than It was on the same day a year ago, while No. 1 loins were 24 cents lower a year age than the new price fixed by the packers. - Thus it will be seen that, whtle the price of such cattle Inoreased from 26 to 86 cents a hundred during tha year, the price of No. 1 loins Increased S2.50 a hundred in the same Interval, so it doesn't aeern that tho packers' theory that their Increased prices are due to a decrease In the cattle receipts Is fully substantiated. About all the Investigations made Into the subject tend to the conclusion that in these days prlcea are high because they are high. This merely means that we are living In an era of high prlcea. and, while It Is, doubtless true that some of theae prices are tha effect of demand and supply, a good many of them are high purely aa a result of sympathetic Influences. Holders I. o.. controllers of commodltlea-'have found that by judiciously but persistently raising their prices and holding them firm they can get Just about what they want to ask. RIVALS 1 C'OHV Producer la Other loantrtes (Cater ing World's Markets. ' New York Tribune. Whatever foothold American corn has by this time gained In tha European mar ket Is henceforth to be subjected to ear nest and formidable rivalry. For .other countries In the Southern Hemisphere are learning the value of the crop and are Producln 11 l,h areat aucceas. Foremost among them Is Argentina, which has 7.000.. 000 acres In corn and ships to Rurope 1,0, 000 metric (tons of the grain in a year. In a latitude corresponding with that of the southern part of tho United Slates, Ar gentina seems destined to be and to re main one of the great corn growing lands of the earth. This year, too, British South Africa, including all four colonies, but perhaps chiefly Natal and the Transvaal, has entered the European market. Tho latitude of theae colonies la about the me as that of Argentina, and their sol) and climate seem to be well suited to corn culiuia. This year they are shipping to Europe more than 10.000,000 bushels, with a promise of vastly greater product hero after. Tho corn growers of tho United States will havo to meet this rivalry In the mar kets of Europe, but they ought to bo able to do so succeaefully If for no other rea son than thut they are' much nearer to those markets than any of their competit or. It is nut possible that corn will ever S'kpplant wheat as a food atapla. but it may and should supplement It much mure fully than it does, both because of Its de sirable qualities for tho human dietary and because of ita greater profits to tho farmer who raises It. It will pay our own nation to adopt more freely Into lis diet the grain which la now too often regarded as chiefly moant for live stock and poultry and It win pay to strive harder to put it on the fuvd markets ot tuiopo. An JnspiringCarccr Trlkutaa of Admlratloa and Af fection to the If amory of Minna . aota'a Itamantet . Dtatlnetlrely Aaaerleaa. Kanaaa City Star. The life and the aticceaa of Governor Johnson were Intensely democratic', dla tltctlvely American the more American '". "ie wonaernu proceaaes of hi opment. the wonderful t i r, 1 h"v work''d 0,,, ,h ,,c,al liooit Works I. Ire tin. Emporia (Kan.) Oar.ette The people of tha middle weat the pralile west believed In him and If he had lived. i the party he worked with might have had a new leaae of life. Hut hla work la not I dead. Hla Influence In this nation will go on. Men will see how the world reveres a strong, clean, sincere spirit. And s his work will live after him. Inspiration for Voang America. Chicago Record-Herald. For young Americans there Is much that Is Inspiring In Johnson's career. The achievement was sufficient when tho ca reer dosed to set an excellent example bo fore them. What the political effect of the governor's death may be is another ques tion, and It Is not likely to lead to much profitable discussion. The most that can be said is that a man who was so deserv edly popular seemed to have-a future that was full of promise; he might have been elected to the United States senate If he had lived; he might have been a candidate for the presidency. Me tkowed tke Way. Indianapolis News. Governor Johnson made his own way In the world. The romancers In dealing with such characters are much given to ex aggerating the youthful hardships of such men as Governor Johnson. We shall not dwell on them further than to say that trom his earliest youth Johnson was the main support of his family, that be had llttlr schooling and no college training, and that no man In our history not even Lincoln seemed to have a smaller chanee for prominence and fame. We say there fore that lie reflected honor on our Insti tutions because he afialn showed what a brave, true man can make of himself under thorn. ' ' Good Man, Richly Gifted. Archbishop John Ireland. Seldom has there arisen among her people a nobler and more fascinating type of American citizenship. The good man he was. and. no less, the richly gifted. In private life, he was the man without re proach: In public life, he was the earnest, the conscientious servant of the public w-elfare. In his whole career he was the honor of American democracy a striking example. In the upward strides of personal merit, of what democracy permits, of what It has the power to create, the sincere will to foater. It Is a pathetic story, that ef his going away,, when success, the reward of past doings, was beckoning him onward to yet higher auccess on wider fields of action. BUt we bow to the mysterious counsels of Providence, whom In the measure of his lights he obeyed, to whose merciful decrees we lovingly remit him. Good Will of the Heart. St. Paul Dispatch. Rut. after all. It Is not John A. Johnaon the public official, the chief executive of the state, leaving behind him an admirable record, a leader of a great political party, a possibility for higher honors and yet more distinguished public service, that we as a people mourn today, so much as the kindly, lovable, warm-hearted man, demo cratic In hla tastes, whose face reflected the good will o all that dwelt In his heart. whose genial smile disarmed alike the re serve of the stranger and tho hostility of hla flerceat political rivals, whoae cordial greeting was hla natural attitude toward everyone, whose clean life and wholeaome conversation were proverbial, whose mag netic personality and facility in graceful utterance captivated all with whom he came In contact. The state which he aerved was proud of him and enjoyed the com fortable assurance that he would reflect credit upon Its name In every place on every occasion. The Poor Boy's (ha ace. Chicago Inter Ocean. Tho career of Governor Johnson waa a fine uiuatratlon of "tho poor boy s chance'' In this republic. If tho boy has the wit and will to rise and win. He waa born not only to poverty, but to family miafortune. Hla only Inheritance waa hia head and handa and his love for a devoted mother. From the age of 12 yeara he made hla own way and helped othnrs. , Printer's apprentice, printer, editor, legis lator for hia stute, its chief magistrate at the age of 42 years, elected and twice re elected despite hla unbending attachment to political principles not approved by the majority of Ita votera thua trusted by his people on his quality aa a man and his merit as a public officer dying in his third term as governor and when Just entering on his 4th year such was the career of John A. Johnson. Inspiration for Kvery Boy. Minneapolis Journal. That the boy. born and living his first years on the edge of the poor house, rose without formal education, rescued himself from the depths of poverty by his own exertlona. made himself first the chief I debater of a local aoclety. than the uaeful editor of a country weekly, then the peer or any leader of the legislature, and laatly tha most powerful and productive public ' man of hie atate; that he climbed In ten years from tho doubtful compliment of a 1 minority. nomination to the point where he' waa hailed aa tho coming national leader ' of his part these things ahould be to every boy an inspiration to make better uaa of the opportunity that more favorable fortune has given him for learning and growing. Sectionalism In Artlon. New York Tribune. In condemning sectionalism In the first, speech of hia long trip President Taft evi-; dertly hoped to rebuke that jealousy of the' aaat which some western demagogues are seeking to arouse. Tho chief argument against th Payne bill has been that it favored tha east aa against the west. DIs-' cussing that meaaure, however, the presl-; dent asserts that Ita most serious defect' la the wool schedule, and he takea occa-1 fcion to call attention to the fact that it was only because of a combination of : forcea between western wool growers and ! the eastern manufacturers thut he was ' unable to aecure ita revisions Hrynn'o Plain Untf. New York Tribune. ' Having converted his followers lo the doctrine of free raw materials. It will he- 1 come Mr. Bryan's plain duty to define raw materials not an easy task, for the raw 'materials of the manufacturer is usu- ally tne flnli-hed product of ths fanner, j the miliar and U.e lumbt I f ERSONAL NOTIS. I M v I prac Taft and ihr Japanee are talkltit moat amicably, th eiletenr of t:on- B' nian Itnbsnn eoemlnelv r.n gotten bv ... ! both. . Flmlra. N. r . the hour of Prof. Roes n. Marvin, who lost hla life while in the Arc tic regions with Peary, la talking of a itn mnrlal to him. John Salmon, a Yankee In Ceylon, has got rich by detecting pearls In oystets by X-ray. The best part Is It detects seed pearls, and such oysters are put into spe cial plants to develop. Mayo W. Haseltlne, the veietan book re viewer Snd editorial writer of the Ne York Sun. died at Atlantic Cny. He was a lawyer by profession. He was the author of many articles dealing with questions of International law. a subject upon which he was regarded as an authority. Mayor Tom Johnson of Cleveland Is re ported to be working out from under the ruin which overtook his financial fortune a year or so ago. The forbearance of cred itors and the rapid appreciation of prop erty values In the country's recovery from business depression will leave him strongly footed. General George H. Harris, commander-. In-chief of the mllltla of the District of Co lumbia, la the busiest centurion in the land. In addition to being a soldier, he runs an electrlo light company and manages a trac tion company that Is the wonder of those who know what good car service mean.' in addition he la a member of all commit tees of civic organisations. The governor of Indiana has declined to be a member of the governors' party lo New Orleans of the Deep Waterways as sociation. His reason is thst he cannot take hla wife with n;m and he will not go without her. As sue shared all the hardships of his campaign to be near him, ha will not enjoy tne pleasures of hia position which she cannot share. From tha fact that Mm frictula did not learn that he had again become a father on September 4, It may be inferred that J. H. Thlery, aged 87, of Long Island City, Is not a boastful man. Rut he Is proud, nevertheless. Kleven years ago, when 7. he was married. About a year after the marriage a young Thlery was born, and four others have come along since. CITIES A.VU OTIIKH VICTIMS. Tlr Limit on Notifications In Per sonal Injury t'aars. Chicago Record-Herald. A certain citizen of South Omaha, owing to a rigid law, finds himself in an unfor tunate position toward, the city, against which he seems to have a good caue of aetlnn Ua Bllnn.J i j i , Which snow- and .ce had accumulated and uituiy nun, ne remained unconscious I for a long time, and finally brought suit for damages. But In the meantime the period had expired during which It was technically necessary for him to notify the city of his Intended suit. The city charter allows only twenty days for that notiflca ttlon. When the man began suit his law yers urged that the period of unconscious ness ought not to be counted against him, and that the twenty days should be reck oned from the time he regained capacity to sue. The case went to the supreme court, where this argument was vigor ously supported by one of the Judges, but rejected by all the others, and the Injured man Is left without a remedy. one can sympathise with the victim In this case and feel that, as a matter of equity, he ought to have a remedy, but one should recognize that It Is very rare Indeed that Injustice is worked by the courts against the victims of such acci dents, and exceedingly common for the In justice to be done to the city governments. Where tha Injured persons are unjustly treated In court procedure It ia nearly al ways because they are at the mercy of un scrupulous lawyers, to whom they Intrust themselves. Compare the situation in Chicago with that In South Omaha. Instead of twenty days for notification we have here six months. Indeed, this six months was only obtained as a reduction from a much longer period after a most energetic and extended fight In tho legislature. So rav enous were the lawyers and promoters, who wish plenty of time to work up abus ive suits, that they almost Induced the legislature last spring by a trick to restore tho former atate of affairs. TR4CT10V PRICK I CHICAGO. Boalneaallke Negotiation Commended to Omaha. Chicago Tribune. The agreements entered Into between the traction companlea and their . em ployea are an assurance of peaceful and unobstructed local transportation during the next three years. That means a great deal to a community which has a vivid memory of street car strikes their fright ful inconvenience and their rioting. Tho fact that a settlement waa reached In the way it was. through weeks of businesslike negotiations, offers the hope that there will not In tho future be any violent disagreements between tho com panies and their employes. Tho com panlea are less dictatorial than they were In the old daya. not so given to the "stand pat" attitude. The employes are more conservative, the Influence of tho younger men, who have not so much at stake as tho older ones, is not so great as It wag. The Chicago method of settling con troversies between traction companies and their employea safeguards the rights of the public, which In the paat have been , .... II.,!.. .1 J 1 . ,w null, tuimiuntu oy companlea 01 employes. J-.very community threatened by such a controversy should demand the i adoption of that method. Omaha, for ex- ample, where the atreet car men are out I on a strike, should have copied It. j t Extravagance is not necessary to good printing. The best work depends upon the good taste and capability of your printer A. L Reel. Ucarporatod. 1210-1213 Howard Street We Aim And to that end we endeavor always to give the very beat of quality for the lowest price. c HKKK IS A KAMPI K., - Spring Chickens, per lb 18o Spring l-ainb, per lb 16o Pot Roast. P" lb so 1 k THK HOMK OK R. E. WELCH TWEXTV.FOritTH AMI FAR NAM BTRKETH. Pbeix-s: Bell, Douglas 1511; Indetkenrl.nt A-ymt SUNNY GEMS. "Some iIhv." shrieked the militant aw' fragelte, ' the Women of this cnuntty wli rise In a hotly and seise the reins of poei ' Keep your eyes and eais opeu'" '"Kte's 'pl'! heat illy exclaimed a slightly Inebriated man In the audience Chicago Tribune. "Uoeh. I wlslit I mas like China." "in what lexp'-ct?- "When I want to negotiate a loan 1,1 have people scrapping for a rliam-e to suh-Mctihe."-I Aiulsvllle Courier-Journal "I'm Just one of tho plain people. , said the demagogue to the gifted otatm The latter looked him over. "It strikes tne." he said, "that vou at plain enough to he in a little class all by yourself." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Nell-That was a frightfully long sermon the minister preached this moinina Relle Why. 1 didn't notice It a iim Uauslly long. -cu cir course not, you hnd on a ne a n;ii. t-iiiiaaeipnia iieeot ,, "What do you think? 1 Jaasbv and Smith meet in a saloon lust now ' sml Kmith gave Jagshy a punch in the f. , which Jagsby took lik- a lamb " "What? Never resented It?" "Resent no'hin! It waa a milk punch ' -Baltimore American Noah disembarked "I am first 0,1 Atarat boasted. Herewith he d-cluied to the pule. New York Sun. iitiyliow ." tne a lis Ire for She Beware of that bottle r t amnat.e our unprincipled hostess would tfe, vou' Hunry. There is madness In Us content' lie freaaaurlnalvi-oh rtrc. ..... .!, ..... . ' . "'"1 1 ni M.ni. jwi I'f-CHUFe VOil iUHV lug at the mouth.- Haltlmuie See j fnam A inci tes ti "Father." said litt!.. Roll, ai rora borealts?" v lint 1 don't know exactly. ni Mlt 1 suspect It's some son of an electric and atmospheric disturbance that aiifs w lie 1 two explorers gel within megaphone ri. tance. Washington Mar. Jaffeiv-Rut don't you believe tlon is the life of trade" unpen Pugway-Sure. Sooner or larer it l,.Hds to the formation of a trust and that a tlie way to make monev.- t 'hiciigo Tribune. Her Father taternlyl tirnevlcve. ou at engaged to mitue young man lleraelf-Oh. father, ui.l you h. cover my secret? Her l-'jiMer-The gits hill for last ouirter Is msplcioiuly niell. .1'nlge A SOLDIER S BRIDE. - William F. Kirk. The sun was setting in the west, m day in June, ..v aoiuier and his sweetheart walk neath the harvest innon d I,. He drew her to his yearning at ma and tol.l 1 lie old. old story. Said he, "I hear the bugle and I must fight Before 1 go. my darling, will yu many me, I prayT" ... ,!d7hdesenLhkwords"didnsa?:,! ! CHORt'S 'Id love to be a soldier's bride. If very- iiiuig waa cneap, But soldiers do not earn enough a girl like me to keep. I've always lived with father, anil he deaily loves to buy I'd love to he a sonnet s bride, hut llvinu Is too high." II. The gallant soldier sliuildeted at hla sweet heart's mean remark. And with loud ahiieKs of agonv he flei into the dark. He went and joined his regiment, and la ri on that Fall He had bis wishbone shattetrd by a hi league cannon ball. He tell that day without a moan, and nc he passed away He whispered to a comrade thcin harali words she once did say; CHORl'S. "I'd love to be a soldier's bride." etc. Omaha Has an Original Guerin Picture Now On Kxhlblt at the A. Hospe Co.'s Htore, Together With Admir. able Fac-Similes. Through tha kindness of Mr. l.auris Wallace, Omaha's wall known artist, tha A. Hospe Co. la enabled to exhibit tem porarily In ita show window, a genuine painting by ''Julea Guerin," tho French painter whoao work has created a world wide stir. This original was personally presented to Mr. Wallace by Guerin and has Guerln s Inscription attached. Tho painting In question Is not for sale, hut the admirable fac-slmlles of Guerin' work turned out by The t nlversity Art Shop of Kvanston. III., are exhibited and sold at Hospe'a and will go far towards satlafylng that craving for an original by this talented man. Aa announced last week, tha A. Hospe Co. has secured exclusive Omaha rights on the sellllng of theae famed bits of art. and tho salea made alncs announcing the fact havo been brisk Indeed. "Guerin," as Is well known, makes a specialty of painting cathedral., paiauea and the like, and his subtle hanoilng of outline and his bizurre co!oi ctree.s com bine to produce a style nf an xi.upiy im possible of Imitation. A "Guerin" print In your lio'ue lguifv 1 culture, and the prices. 17 to $14 pv pr nt. while reasonable enough for the Min-rh ,rt 8lven In return, are sufficiently large to prevent the "Guerin" art from bom I"" common. A. HOSPK CO., 1611 Douglas Si. to Please Rolling Beef per lb Mlrloln Steak, per lb'!! . . to . ISO $1.40 1 flour, per aack.. Vl'ALITV. y s. f