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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION
State of Nebraska, Douglas County, aa t
Ueorae B. Tsschuck, trraaurer of The
Be Publishing Company, blng duly
sworn, say .that the actual number of
full a ml complete coplea of The Dally.
Morning, Evening and Sunday Be printed
during tlie month of August, I0, wa
s follows:
39, tOO
4 MOO
1.4T
, . ...41.S30
4LT70
41,840
41.TM
3400
41.B30
,....4l,tO
....41,040
j 7 41,700
11 4M30
II...,, 41,090
to 41,010
11 41,00
It....
21....
14....
15....
14....
27....
, ,40,100
,.41.770
,.40,030
,.41,700
, .41,730
9 e e a
10
II
12 41,870
4,0S
14 41,430
IS 40,000
It 41,M
Total
Returned cop I as, .
SI 40,170
10 40,000
10 41,910
tl 40.190
.M09.410
10,301
Net total MT,0S
Dally average 41,05
GEO. a TZSCHUCK. Treaaurer.
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to before me tnla 1st day of September,
10. U. P. WALKER,
Notary Pubiia
Ssiawev-lbera laavlsisj to teas
pomrily aooaia ka Tfca Baa
asaUl4 km. A wires will b
hamarl avs aftea aa rasiaieateO.
Tbo way to arbitrate I to arbitrate.
At any rate, Harry Whitney I tak
ing the safe course.
If there Is nothing to arbitrate it li
certainly sliaLge how so much smoke
can rise from no fire.
District Attorney Jerome I op for
, another re-election in New York City.
They can't loii Jerome.
The prices of silver and wheat have
gotten too far apart to serve in a
resurrection of Ihe 16 to 1 free coin
age campaign.
Petting up straw men in order to
knock them down seems to be a favor
ite pabtltne for some people, both in
and out of politics.
Des Moines takes the pennant. If
Omaha could not have It, it ought to
be near enough in Dca Moines so that
It will not be far out of sight.
A French physician has a cure for
the sleeping sickness. Let him turn
his attention next to something that
will relieve the early waking habit.
New York gets a Palisades park as
a souvenir of the Hudson-Fulton cen
tennial. These permanent reminders
are the best part of such celebrations.
Kansas City Is trying to get Dr.
Cook as a Priests of Pallas attraction.
St. Louis evidently made a mistake Irt
not stipulating for state-wide terri
tory. Tho Irrlgationlsts scored first, with
a promised recommendation of a $10,
000,000 Issue of irrigation bonds. The
deep waterways boomers will have to
take what is left.
Speaking of Joint debates, will Mr.
Bryan demean himself by engaging In
a gabfest with Senator Bailey? He
will fall several notches In the public
estimation if he does.
Chicago now has a scheme on foot
to compel all railroads to electrify by
January 1. 1912. Here Is Kansas
City's cue to put Its union lepot
scheme in the same pot.
NO one will stick on any ; ilar
plan for arbitrating our strike 'rou
bles, providing it Is Immediately work
able and reasonably fair. It is not
the means, but the end.
While about It, the city council
might order a glass case to be set up
in the rotunda of the city hall to dis
play Mayor "Jim's" famous backbone
oil permanent exhibition.
The best located hotel rooms front
ing on the Hudson-Fulton parade are
said to have commanded 1 100 for
their use. Still, that Is not so very
much more than regular New York ho
tel rates.
The official name of that body of
water out off front the Missouri river
by tho shifting of the channel thirty
years ago U to be Carter lake. Mark
It dowa on th map with Indelible
Ink, because fore of habit growing out
of calling It Cut-Off lake all this lima
will bo hard to eradicate.
Missouri has a new statute which
make gun toting a penitentiary of
fense, and as a consequence the law
is being attacked as inflicting a pun
ishment which is cruel and unusual.
Why I It that In framing a salutary
law to abate a recogntxed evil the law
maker so often overshoot th mark?
Th CoBrTot1on Policy.
Pursuing his announced Intention
to take up the discussion of various
parts of the administrative program,
one at a time, President Taft has de
fined his position anew upon the ques
tion of the conservation of natural re
sources. The activity of the federal govern
ment along a fixed line of progressive
advancement for the preservation and
development of the natural wealth of
the country dates from the Roosevelt
regime, although much work had been
previously done under this heading by
different individuals, societies and
governmental agencies. It was to be
expected that the Inauguration of a
new policy would collide with private
interests and interfere with precon
ceived notions of the rights of the in
dividual to exploit these resources as
he might see fit and would force a test
In which the people took different
sides In different porta of the coun
try as they happened to be affected by
the movement. Those who are op
posed to the Conservation of natural
resources as a policy of the federal
government doubtless hoped for a
change with the changing administra
tion, but, if so, they are doomed to
disappointment. Mr. Taft's statement
Of his position and explanation of his
plan of working at It differs not at all
from the position of the Roosevelt ad
ministration and is clear and without
equivocation:
There has been a good deal of discussion
In the newspapers as to tha attitude of
the present administration toward the gen
eral policy of tha conservation of resources,
anil sums very unfair and altogether un
founded Inferences have been drawn. The
truth is my administration Is pledged to
follow out the policies of W. Roosevelt
In this regard and while that pledge does
not Involve me In any obligation to carry
them out unless I can get congress to give
me full authority to do ao, it does re
quire that I take every step and exert
every legitimate Influenoe upon congress
to enact legislation which shall best aub
snrve tha purposes Indicated. I hope noth
ing will prevent our taking the further step
needed when congress meetti.
Tho policy of the Taft administra
tion for the conservation of natural
resources, therefore, will be substan
tially the same as the policy of the
Roosevelt administration, except that
the provisional steps taken under di
rection of President Roosevelt will be
regarded as subject to approval of
congress, and every legitimate effort
made to prevail upon congress to in
corporate these orders into law and
thus make them the settled policy of
the government, reinforced by the
mandates of the law, rather than
merely by authority of an executive
order. Mr. Roosevelt made attempts
to secure such legislation, but did not
have time to follow them up, and that
would, in all probability, have been
his program as well if bis time in
office still continued.
On the subject of conservation of
natural resources the nation has made
notable progress, and Mr. Taft's as
surance makes certain that It will not,
with his consent, go backward during
his administration.
Shopkeepers Abroad.
The heads of two well-known mer
cantile establishments at Lincoln just
returned from extended tours through
Europe bring back some Interesting
Observations on shopReeplng abroad.
The merchants along the path Of
travel are said to be on the lookout
for American tourists, who give them
their most profit trado, and have got
ten everything down to a fine art that
would tend to attract and tempt this
sort of patronage. Oreat attention Is
therefore paid to the display of goods
and to cordial entertainment of cus
tomers. On the continent "every shop
keeper," we are told, "expects to take
but a fraction of the price he asks for
his wares, and as most tourists have
but little idea of the actual value of
what they buy, when tbey get a big
reduction on the quoted price, accom
panied by sorrowful exclamations Of
the salesman that he Is losing money
by the transaction, they take the goods
with the fixed tdea that they have se
cured tho best bargain of the season."
In the better class of stores the clerks
are extremely polite, many of them
speaking English, German and French,
more or less fluently, and seldom is
any discourtesy met with, even under
provocation of failure to make the
sale.
In Oreat Britain, and particularly In
London, an Innovation la In progress
through the attempted Introduction of
American department store methods.
Kngllsh shopkeepers are quite out of
sympathy with these enterprises and
predict nothing but disaster for them.
Such reports cannot fall to be In
structive, although of doubtful value
for our guidance, because they tend
to confirm the American merchant in
American ways of doing business. We
have evolved a shopkeeping system of
our own, and even foreigners who
come to this country quickly adapt
themselves to It. No one would claim
perfection for American merchandis
ing methods, and there Is much room
for improvement, yet neither Is there
any question that tbey are better
suited to conditions here than the
methods which prevail in shopkeeping
abroad.
Everyone sees through his own
spectacles. You can get a many dif
ferent viewpoints on the strike situa
tion In Omaha you can find people
differently situated in their business
Or occupation. The wholesaler whose
trade comes by mall from out of town
say ther Is nothing to It, while the
retailer who counts the people In his
stor knows better. Night hawk are
reaping a harvest from passengers
compelled to move around after dark,
while the theaters and places of
amusement are playing to almost
amply houses. It Is safe to say, how
ever, that 90 per cent of the 200,000
people who depend on the Interrupted
street railway service are for arbitra
tion, and the sooner tho better.
One Leison Learned.
One lesson has already been learned
from Omaha's street car strike, and
that lesson Is that we must have legis
lation to prevent Such disturbances
and interruption of public service util
ities In the future.
No one need be told now that a pub
lic service corporation occupies a dif
ferent position in the community from
a private business house or mercantile
concern.
If a department store, or an apothe
cary shop, or a restaurant, closes down
because employer and employes can
not work together tbelr patrons can
get what they want some other place.
But when a street car system runt
haphazard and shuts down at 7 o'clock
at night the people must either walk
or stay home.
What would be uncalled-for outside
Interference In a labor dispute Involv
ing a factory or a business Institution
becomes self-protection for the public
when a labor dispute seriously cripples
the operation of a public service cor
poration. If there Is no law now providing ma
chinery for arbitration, and making It
compulsory on all parties to submit
their grievances to such a board and
abide by Its findings and awards, a law
can, and will be, framed and passed at
the very next session of the legisla
ture. There Is no school like the school
of experience, and It Is only because
we had not before gone through the
costly experience that we have just
been having that we are still in Ne
braska without a law for compulsory
arbitration.
It may take another year before this
defect ran be remedied, but it may as
well be put down now as settled that
every political party presenting candi
dates for the legislature next year will
pledge them to provide for compulsory
arbitration between public service cor
porations and their employes.
Irrigation.
The promise of President Taft to
recommend that congress authorize a
$10,000,000 bond issue, the proceeds
to b used to complete the Irrigation
work now in progress and to supple
ment them with others called for by
the plans of the reclamation bureau
cannot fail to be a great stimulus to
the irrigation movement. The en
dorsement by the president of the
bond proposition Is not the last word,
nor does It follow as a matter of
course that congress w ill respond with
out additional pressure brought to
bear from those sections of the coun
try which are chiefly Interested. It
means, however, that the friends of
irrigation may count on help in high
quarters, without which It would be
difficult, if not impossible, to gain
their point in congress. , "
While the progress of the Irrigation
movement may not have been all its
most enthusiastic advocates pictured
at the outset, there Is no question that
it has vindicated . the Judgment of
thone who were responsible for It.
Some mistakes have doubtless been
made, and the original calculation of
the time required to bring tangible re
suits fell more or less short of the
mark. But In spite of this the iirlga
tion movement has been a success as
far aa it has gone. It was at first
thought, and the plan was embodied
In the law, that by using the proceeds
of the public land sales In the various
reclamation districts enough money
would be forthcoming to pay for the
construction work, and as each devel
opment was completed the revenue de
rived from use of the water and pay
ments for the land would reimburse
the government for the outlay and1 go
back into a revolving fund that would
in turn be used to build Successive
Irrigation works. But the projects
first taken up have in cost overrun the
estimates and likewise proved to be
slower than anticipated In bringing in
returns.
Additional money put at the dis
posal of the reclamation service ought
to be considered in the nature of an
advance or loan to be repaid or sunk
ultimately out of the returns from the
operation of the irrigation works and
the sale of the reclaimed lands. It
goes without saying, too, that the en
tire $10,000,000, If authorized, could
not be called for at once, but would
doubtless take care of all the pro
jected work for years to come. This
much, at least, is certain, that with
the president enlisted as an Irrigation
booster the cause will not lag at the
seat of government.
A protest has been lodged with the
War department against General Fred
Grant for riding at the head of a pro
hibition parade in the full military
uniform of a general of the United
States army, with the interrogatory
whether It is permissible for an army
officer to participate in such a demon
stration in his official uniform. The
question might have been directed to
find out whether General Grant has
any other riding clothes he might have
worn.
Av little order for 100, SCO tons of
steel rails, calling for an outlay of
$6,600,000, has been placed for 1910
by one of the big eastern railroads.
Just a few orders of this kind will be
enough to keep the mills busy for a
whole season.
Without waiting for the final word,
we congratulate the Lincoln Toung
Men's Christian association building
fund boosters on their success in rais
ing 1100,000 for a sew Young Men's
Christian association home at the state
capital. Success was foreordained.
We have yet to hear of a Young Men
Christian association building fund
campaign that failed.
Seldom does anything appear In
print anywhere reflecting upon Omaha
that it Is not pounced on and repro
duced in Lincoln newspapers, In whose
eyes nothing can be done in Omaha
except from questionable motives. The
people who run Lincoln newspapers
ought to read over again the sermon
preached by President Taft last Sun
day. What Mr. Taft said about Im
pugning the Integrity of public men on
mere suspicion Is equally true as to the
motives actuating communities.
The use of the telephone for train
dispatching Is spreading. If the two
telegraph companies have not yet
swallowed one another there may not
be enough for more than one bite when
they finally get ready to close In.
These Esquimaux never knew until
now how high they stood for honesty
and truth telling. It would be a
shame to have this reputation blasted
should It bo disclosed that no two of
them can tell the same story.
The danger of fire In the White
House will not, however, deter any
on from accepting a presidential
nomination If it 1 offered, so long as
fire Insurance policies may be had at
uch reasonable terms.
It Is to be hoped that the Nebraska
delegate to the Mining congress at
Goldfleld may be satred the humiliation
of being called upon for a report oh
the condition of Nebraska mine and
minerals.
Sob from Ariel District.
Baltimore Newa.
The president is a success at opening
irrigation systems In the west. If he can
Just open a couple In the arid south he
will be elected president for life.
All the Uae Gone.
New York Tribune.
Congratulations to Walter Wellman. His
gas bag burst Just In time to prevent his
having, like other explorers, to defend his
reputation for veracity.
Warn the Light Breaks la.
Washington Post
When the farmers realize that a good
road for an automobile means a good road
for all the farmers all the time they will
best the automobillsts In demanding the
good read.
.Vow for Southern Blabber.
Baltimore American.
The British Antarotlc expedition has
bought a big whaler to pursue polar dis
coveries southward. If he is wise, the dis
coverer will at once establish his Identity
and that of his prise by every means
known to the resources of up-to-data civ
ilization, lie should by ho means neglect
a moving picture machine, evert though it
involves the presence of another white
man at the Important point. The other
man needn't show in the pictures.
Little Jolts Help Soma.
New York Tribune.
President Taft had difficulty in con
vincing a member of a Colorado reception
committee that he was actually the presi
dent. The Incident recalls an occasion
when the president went to Fort Myer
to witness the Wright brothers' aeroplane
test. Approaching Miss Wright, who did
not see him, ha extended his hand, saying:
"I fear you have forgotten me, Miss
Wright. I am Mr. Taft." Mr. Taft says
these "little Jolts" are good for a man, as
they prevent his thinking that he "fills the
whole horlton."
The Courteous West.
Boston Herald.
There are Intimations that the west may
have something more to say after its du
ties as host of the president have ended.
There were a few thnughtlss ebullitions on
tha appearance of the tariff speech, but on
the whole the tone of the western press has
been mild and complacent There la no
evidence, ho ever, that the aentiment of
that section of tha country has undergone
any change. The president did not read
the "insurgents", out of the party. Ilia
sanction was given to their continued
effort for reform of various kinds. The
courtesies due tha president as guest of
the west wilt not constrain Its representa
tives in congress to change their course or
curb their Independence.
BUILDING I P FOHTIKGI.
Harrlsaaa, Goal, Glrard aad A stor
Millions.
Washington Post.
Some speculation la Indulged aa to
whether Edward H. Harrlman was a
greater "captain of Industry" than Jay
Would. Perhaps he gathered more ducats
than Gould, but there were many mora
to acquire; the field he reaped yielded a
manyfold more abundant harvest. Qould
acquired 180 000,000; Harrlman 1100,000.000. the
maximum estimate. But Harrlman had all
tha millions of Standard Oil, Kuhn, Loeb
at Co., and other capitalists with which to
operate, and tha victories of Wall street
Incline to the heaviest purse, Just aa the
victories of war go to the heaviest bat
talions. Aa for that, when we consider his op
portunities Stephen Girard had a greater
genius for acquisition than either Gould
or Harrlman. He was aa daring aa either
and his plana even more faultless. He had
more Irons In the fire than both the others
and all yielded a profit. The fortune he
left waa relatively greater than the accu
mulations of Gould and Harrlman com
bined, and It la more than likely that he
would have made a billion had he lived
in our time. He was the most practical of
men, and h id a genius that looked deeper
lnt0 financial or mercantile venture than
i any other capitalist of our hlatory
The Aslor fortune waa builded on the
simplest plan. All the money the old
Dutchman made he Invested In real estate
on Manhatttn Island, and his millions cams
from unearned increment. All rents and
profits wre reinvested In real estate that
dally Increased tn value above Interest,
taxes and Insurance. There waa no ven
ture In that, and a similar opportunity Is
afforded to thousands of Americans right
now If they have th money with which
to acquire real estate in any growing and
progressive city. Fifty years ago on could
have bought a square mil of land within
the present city limits of Chicago, then
worth a song, now worth millions.
Jay Oould testified before a congressional
committee that li had ceased to mak th
acquisition of money his chief end; that his
obj'-ct wns to mak tit transportation of
producta from producer to consumer
cheaper. Thst, torj. was Harrlman's chief
ambition. Both succeeded in that, and. Ilk
good cooks both licked their own fingers
j fur UHlHoi,.
Famous in a Night
Mow aa Unreported Btpessh
Stirred tha Biri and Oave Oot
ernor Jehasoa a VYaaidaatlal Boata
The late Governor Johnson of Minnesota
had the unusual experience of being the
possessor of a presidential boom started
by a speech that was never reported. What
Henry Watterson failed to accomplish by
persistent boosting was effected at te
Gridiron club dinner in Washington. The
unexpected happened. Press agents of tfie
east, hitherto lukewarm and scoffing. nt
tha governor face to face, took his meah
ure on the spot, and became his nthul
lastic boosters. But the start was too 1st.
Th democratic presidential prize was tIJ
ready as good as cinched and th boost
proved useless.
tn who heard th unreported speech of
Johnson writes about It In tha Washington
Post:
"When It became evident that only the
most strenuous exerilons could defeat the
nomination of Mr. Bryan for a third time,
a number of candidates were brought for
ward. There was no real enthusiasm back
of any of them, the anti-Bryan democrat
wer Simply casting about for a name.
They were floundering hi every direction,
hoping not for tn attractive, popular
leader, but for somebody, anybody, who
could ba put forward In such a way as
to shake the Brysn strength.
"Judge Ofay of Delaware. Judson Har
mon, now governor of Ohio, and other
names were proposed and considered, after
th fashion In which drowning men catch
at straws. Among tha rest. Governor John
son was brought forward for' the reason
that he had been twice elected governor of
a republican stats. Nobody knew anything
about Johnson; h seemed available as a
voto getter; that was all.
"His Minnesota boomers committed the
mistake of trying to suppress the gov
ernor's human characteristics and make
a tin god of him. Their procedure was
based on the theory that the opposition
cahdldate should be one who would make
a complete contrast to the character Of
Mi". Roosevelt. In all the press matter
they sent out they toned down the real
Johnson and tried to oreata a sort of
George Washington, severe, unsmiling,
austere and majestic. The very photo
graphs they circulated wer those of a
wooden-faced man, and everybody who
saw the somber face with Its prominent
Jaw and unemlllng ey. said: "Well, what
ever else h Is, h'S a Scandinavian, sure."
"It was all one to the eastern boomer,
Thf were not In hopes Of getting a Lin
coln or a Roosevelt out of the west. They
were Just grasping ftantically at a name,
any kind of a name, and all they hoped
was that by hook or by crook they could
land Some figurehead In the White House
and keep Bryan out.
"At this time, Whllether waa a lacka
daisical, apathetic, listless movement for
Gray or Johnson, or Harmon or anybody,
th Gridiron club of Washington Invited
Governor Johnson, Judge Gray and many
other national leaders to attend one of
its dinners. The governor and the Judge
were among thosa who accepted. There
was only a languid Interest In the governor
when he took hlB place, not at the bead of
th table, but at one of the side tables,
and attacked the Gridiron viands.
"There were 250 guests present, the presi
dent of th United States at their head,
aupreme court, senate, house, the money
kings of th country, generals, admirals,
authors, solentlsts, governors. Judges,
among those present.' In tha course of
the evenlng-rather far down the evening
the governor wa lntroluced.
The Gridiron always Introduces Its sneak
ers, not with a speech, but with a s6ng,
usually addressed to the prospective
speaker, and gently derisive of him. In
this case they sang a Sonr enuueo rour
John." the burden of which was that "poor
John" that Is, Johnson-wanted the nomi
nation, but couldn't have It, because Bryan
wouldn't let him.
The governor arose, and the first glimpse
of him in the great dining hall of th Wil
Inid somehow dissipated every tenaciously
held Idea of the atolld Scandinavian, the
new Alton B. Parker. Before he had said
a word, his merry, twinkling yeS and the
genial, friendly faca had belled every pho
tograph ever aent out about him, and the
deep, warm voice that rang out In his
first sentence with strange and happy In
flection that made everybody warm to
him made over John A. ojhnson. made
bltn over completely In a second of time,
to those who thought they knew what he
was.
"Poor John?" he said. "I appreciate the
honor; but don't you think, when you look
back at im, at 1900. and at 1W4. you ought
to say 'Poor Bllir "
The unexpectedness of It, the additional
element of unexpectedness that waa at
tached to Ita coming from "the atolld
Swede." set the crowd wild. The president,
th Speaker of the house, th Justices of
the supreme court, all united in on mighty
aliout that lasted a minute. Johnson looked
out over the shouting crowd with eyes
that danced.
He wa so utterly different from what
his ill-advised press agents hsd represented
him. Tu.ll. straight, with a sensitive, mo
bile face that changed In expression every
second, his was aa fine-looking and strik
ing appearance as ever was seen In a din
ner hall, despite the libelous photographs
of hts press agents. His mellow voire, run
of unexpected deps and shallows, and
always so calculated as to bring out
to the uttermost every meaning that lay
behind one of his sentences, may not have
been the voii-e of an orator, but no orator
could have made auch an Impression on
that crowd.
And. remember. It was not the ordinary
mass meeting audience. It was made up,
that crowd of 260. of men to whom era-
. . . a . ,u'Cfcun i luuin
IOry -u.. ..- un.. "
heard It daily In house and senate until
they wer sick of It. It was the most try
ing audience, the moat cynical and skep
tlral audience that a man could have ad
dressed. It Is wholly within bounds to say that
no such hit was ever made before thst
audience which la pretty much the aam
from year to year John A. Johnson male
that night.
His human enjoyment of the hit h as
making and the surprise he was neat ng
was perfectly obvious in hla face and msn
ner as he went on. He waa facing auch
an audience as. four years before, the ob
scure country editor In Minnesota could
never have expected to confront an au
dience that Is given to few men to con
front; an audience made up of the nation s
leaders in every walk of life, and a i
audience which takes no Interest in orator),
even good oratory and he waa conquering
it. establishing his dominion over It, and
raising that dominion higher with every
sentence.
The matter of that speech has escaped
from the mind of the writer. He recalls
on occasion when Johnson, In the midst
of a keen, clever eulogy of Minnesota,
enumerated the products In which she ex
celled ery ether slat, and concluded,
with a humorous glance at Vice President
Fairbanks:
"And her production of artificial Ice ex
ceed even that of Indiana"
A witticism which brought the Vice Pres
ident, chuckling, to his feet, while every
body roared and stamped.
But Jokes and sarcasms Inevitably linger
longer In the memory than the more ser
ious matter of a speech. To sum it up, It
was a fresh, vigorous, direct, typically
western, and yet broadly national review
of the political life of the time. The en
thusiasm of his auditors mounted every
minute. His delivery was appropriate to
the matter a slashing, easy-running de
livery, without a suspicion of domagogy
on the on hand or pomposity on the
other. It waa like a western breeze roll
ing over the Jaded east.
As the governor finished and sat down
there was a scene such as seldom had been
witnessed In the Olrdiron club. Speaker
Cannon began it. He leaped up from his
place and darted around to Johnson's table
to grasp his hand In both of his. Hardly
a second behind him came Senator Foraker
and then Secretary Root, and after thetu
there plied up a mass of statesmen, busi
ness men, newspaper men, lawyers and
Judges, all excited and delimited, all fall
ing over themselves to scramble for John
son's hand.
PERSONAL NOTES.
It now cofts $21,000 an hour to run New
York City. Well, Tammany must live.
William Hamilton Osborne, author of
"The Ked Mouse," Writes a atory at the
fat of forty words a minute J.4O0 words
an hour.
Several celebrating people have been
robbed and beaten In the streets of festal
New York. For the most part, however,
the robbers operate with a skill that ren
der the beating unnecessary.
A grouchy stoekholdnr of the Bank of
England wants all women clerks dis
charged from the Institution un the ground
that they cannot keep a secret. Of course,
It was wrong to tell on him. He should
have been mora cautious.
Glory waits In all sorts of places these
days. The mayor and council of Kearny,
N. J.. have adopted resolutions congratu
lating "one of our cltlxens who has at
tained national fame during th last year,"
meaning a crack second baseman on one of
th base ball teams.
Congressman Charles C. Held, who has
represented the Fifth district of Arkansas
for the last eight years, has declined to
become a candidate for the democratic
nomination fur governor of Arkansas. 1 1 1 h
present plan Is to retire from public life
at tha expiration of his term lu the hot'sa.
Charles L. Dickey of Canaan, Maine, ac
cording to th local paper of that place,
la rejoicing over the birth of the twenty
fifth baby presented to him by hi wife.
Any lingering suspicion that the nation is
committing race suicide must disappear
from that neighborhood In the face of
such evidence to the contrary.
SUNNY OEMS.
"Thuse people on Mara must he a very
stupirl lot."
What makes you think so?"
"Why. If Uiey haven't time to flash us a
signal or two, they might at least drop us
a pioture post card. Cleveland Plain
dealer. "Did you read my story," asked the
young author.
"I reail the fiist part of It." answered
the candid giii. "Hut after the first two
pages It trickled off among a lot of adver
tisements that were ao interesting that I
lost track of It." Washington (Star.
"We have a strike in our factory every
day, oft and on."
"Why, I thought you had no labor
troubles ther at all?"
"No more we have."
'Hut how. then, can all this striking
be going on?"
"The clocks do It." Baltimore American.
"Say. old man," began Burroughs, "lend
me your ear for a while, will you?"
"My friend, replied Wise, shrewdly biim-
1 1 gladly lend you both
n. tl,.m! then I wnulhn't he stil tn hear
you ask me to lend you anything else."
Catholic Standard and Times.
Hub Why In the world do you women
lace yourselves So tight'.'
Wife We can't lace ourselves as tight1
a you men van drink yourselves lloxton j
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"Why do you women wear such large !
hats?" i
'it Is nectsxary. If fashion says tliut !
hata"vnust be large, then hats must be j
large." j
Suppose fashion should decree that shoes
must be large?" Kansas City Joernal. ,
"W ar going to consult a specialist
about our boy," ssys the father.
"About your boy?" echoes the friend.
"Why. he seem to be a perfectly healthy
rugged lad."
"1 know, but we have asked him time
and again what he wants to be when lie
grows up and he never has said that lie
wants to be a railway engineer." Life.
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World's Fair
THE DUTCH.
New York Tribune. .
Tlie Hutch took Holland years ait"
Willi bold heroic bravery, '
And ever since have ruled It well
For freedom, not for slavery;
And later on they Hudson sent
To unknown lands exploring.
And soon he took Manhattan Isle
And found the place alluring.
Then up and down the Sliatemun
Un Half Moon sailed at leisure.
And found tlie land quite fair to see,
Which gave him Joy and pleasure.
And when at last he readied his horn
To toll his deeds of daring
They toasted him with Schiedam Schnapps
And then began the Rwearing.
They dammed the Maas and dammed th
Rhine
And dammed the Zuyrier Zee
Until the s.ir around was bine
As such damp air could be.
Thcv then began to dig cnnals
And dam them, too, with dikes.
And fish In them for eels and sprats
With trawling nets and fykes,
Then windmills built along their banks
Of every kind ami size
To pump up water which leaked out or
Rained down from the, eklcs.
Holsteln cattle then they bought
And marked them hlnck and white,
So they could see them lung way off
In dusky evening's light,
And milk the cows each night and morn
Beneath the shirty trees,
Then skim tlie milk and sell Ihe cream
And then make Kdain cheese.
They raise all kinds of ducks and gees
And from them pluck the feather
To make those soft einil downy beds
So warm In winter weather.
Thev pickle everything In sight
Of fish and flesh and fowl.
And of the meat of sheep and swine
They smoke both- knnl and Jowl.
They make ten thousand kinds of cak,
Of suKar, nuts mid spice,
An huriPHt. temperate frugal race
That can't he praised too much;
Fur, take the people, nil in all.
There's none can beat the liulch.
SPECIAL!
Extraordinary!
We have
Just received
load of
car-
Boudoir Size High
Grade Player
Pianos Will place them on sale for imme
diate delivery at
12 Standard Siiex Rolls of Music,
Scarf and Hench Free.
$10 Sends One Home
A beautiful Instrument with a
rich, full tone, Everybody can
play it. Our price is possible
because we placed a large order
and paid spot cash In advance for
the entire lot.
DURING THE CAR STRIKE
PIANO BUYERS
Call up Douglas 188, or
Independent, A-1168.
We 111 call for you In our au
touiobilo and take you back home.
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1513 Douglas
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We IKi Kiert Piano Tuning and
Mepalrlng.
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