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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
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printing. The best work depends upon the
good taste and capability of your printer
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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.
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