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STATEMENT CF CIRCULATION.
State of Nebraska. Dougian County, t
George R. Tsschuck, treasurer of The
Bee Publishing Company, being duly
word, says thet tha actual number of
full and complete copies of The Dally.
Morning, Evening and Sunday Bo printed
during the month pi bepteniDcr, iu, waa
as follows:
1 41,370
1 43,300
t 41,710
4 41.B60
1 39,800
49,160
7 41,930
I... 43,000
t 41,800
10 43,300
11 41,790
12 40,000
II 43,140
14 43,870
10... 43,190
1 43,900
17 43,700
II 43,360
19 40,400
20 43,480
tl 43,860
J2 43,360
it 44,640
24 43,030
S6 48,310
28 40,300
27 4380
21 43,070
it 44,300
IU 43,340
Total
Returned copies ...
1,866,880
9.WJ5
Net total I ... .1,856,398
Dally average 41,879
OEOROE B. TZSCHUCK,
Treasurer.
Subscribed in my presence and sworn
to before me thla aoth day of Septem
ber, 1109. U. P. WALKER,
tSeal.) Notary Public
abscrlbera lea via the city tem
porarily ahoald have The Be
malle to theaa. Address will be
ehaaged as often as requested.
Omaha's next street cur strike will
be for bigger cars and more of them.
It looks as though Secretary Knox
would advise Mr. Crane to fly close to
the ground in China.
Jack Frost may make his appearance
now whenever he pleases without meet
ing any serious objection.
The carnival habit seems to have lost
none of its potency with amusement
loving people in this vicinity.
rvow mat neniucKy feudists are
fleeing Into Canada, Breathitt county
may once more breathe easier.
If a Missouri farmer with a shotgun
ran put a balloon out of business,
what chanco has it In real warfare?
Efforts to substitute the chocolate
fad for the tobacco habit among col
lege men may be expected to end In
smoke.
Five men bitten by a horse in Ohio
Immediately raced to Chicago. The
speed virus must have gotten to work
Instantly.
Dewey does not nave to argue
against detractors of the United States
navy. His pennant still floats where
all may sec.
1th the manholes in the streets
blowing up, New Yorkers must realize
how hard it Is to keep the lid on the
underworld.
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The Chicago tenant who has been
ricted because a baby had the au
daclty to be born In his flat feels very
properly put out.
If one has no better brief to submit than
accusations against the character of his
opponent lie had best keep alienee. Lin
coin Star.
Well, why don't you?
Don't worry about that extra weight
the president Is taking on. He will
lose it when 'he resumes his working
clothes in Washington this winter.
Congress Is pretty sure to grant the
request for more cadets at West Point
It will mean that many more appoint
ments at the disposal of the congress
men.
William Dean Howells, back from
Europe, says socialism is a good club
to use in the political game abroad
Yet, as in golf, the player must know
how.
Governor Shallenberger has issued
his election proclamation fixing the
date for Tuesday, November 2, so that
no one who falls to vote may rightfully
blame anyone but himself.
Dr. Cook has gotten as close to us
as Kansas City, but evidently Omaha Is
not on his present Itinerary. Com
mander Peary will take due notice
when he starts Out on his lecture tour
When the National museum gets
through giving away specimens of the
Roosevelt hunt trophies to museums
throughout the country, the Roose
velt trophy will be about as common
a the Carnegie library.
Now that the acquittul of the Amer
ican missionary proves the charges of
rongo horrors In the rubber gather
ing Industry to be true, what are the
1'nlted States and Great Britain going
to do about it? Have they not huld
off on Belgium's promises long
enough?
Expediting Justice.
Popular demand for reform In the
Judicial system ha been strengthened
by the attitude of President Taft, who
has put himself on record as favoring
measures that shall put an end to the
law's delays and to miscarriages of
Justice. In the meantime there are
frequent individual cases which go to
show that Justice can be fleet-footed
when desired. It is no uncommon
thing to read now and then of an ex
ceptional case where a notorious of
fender Is railroaded at lightning speed
Into prison to serve a long sentence,
and to such cases the state effecting
the punishment always points with
pride. But the truth exists that in the
main the courts are subject to influ
ences that cause scandalous delays
where the Interests Involved so desire.
Chicago has JUBt furnished two
glowing examples of the adjustability
of the courts to the demands of pow
erful litigants. The John R. Walsh
tase already has dragged two years; It
Is likely to be three more before final
udgraent Is rendered In his personal
case, and In addition the banka are in
volved In a battle over his assets,
which seems Interminable. It Is a
familiar type of the experiences of
American courts. On the other hand,
that the bench can be extremely ex
peditious la illustrated by the Jarvls
Hunt divorce case In Chicago, where
by previous arrangement to avoid pub
licity, the filing of Mrs. Hunt's peti
tion, the court hearing and the grant
ing of the decree all were accom
plished In less than six minutes.
With such cases as these constantly
arising, of the acceleration or retarda
tion of Justice to suit individual pow
erful needs, It is no wonder that the
courts come into adverse criticism
from the public. Massachusetts
Jurists Just home from abroad report
having been Impressed with the rapid
ity with which the English courts
transact business. Stern Justice meted
to all, without favor, the elimination
of all technical and extraneous mat
ters, a thorough but Immediate mas
tery of each case by the Judges are the
elements making quick work In the
English courts. In the hope of per
fecting our Judiciary system, we might
well study the expedition practiced by
our British cousins.
More Durable Than Brats.
The good that,' men do lives after
them when the men are practical
enough to distribute that good ere it
la too late to prevent Its being Interred
with their bones. One of the men
who had the sound sense to spread
broadcast the benefits of his gifts
while his faculties were still alert,
sufficiently alert to direct the manage
ment of affairs, was Thomas Hunton
Swope, who gave to the people of Kan
sas City as a public playground a
magnificent park of nearly 1,500
acres. Colonel Swope lived to see the
people In full enjoyment of his gift,
and the public splrft which prompted
It was augmented by the pleasure
which he obtained In contemplation of
the publlo good thus promoted. How
much he realized the worth of this
park to his city Is shown by the epi
taph which he wrote for himself some
time previous to his recent death:
"He has erected a monument more
durable than brass."
Mr. Swope's will shows bequests to
educational and other public causes,
but Swope park will stand as his great
monument. Any man who devotes his
wealth and energies to the upbuilding
of a community through the establish
ment of healthful pleasure parks is
doing more real good In the world and
rearing for himself a more enduring
monument than he who simply stores
his golden Ingots for heirs to squabble
over or who rears a princely palace
or costly mausoleum In the hope that
after he Is gone men will pause and
marvel. Every bit of turf kept green
in Swope park has a message for the
generations of Kansas City more
durable than brass and more precious
to the inhabitants than gold.
Amalgamating the Babies.
Southern California, with all Its
queer fads and strange cults, has ex
celled Itself In the latest enterprise
for the amalgamation of babies Into
a new and perfect race. Here have
been gathered Americans, Russians,
Koreans, Indians, Mexicans, Scandina
vians and other types as a foundation
for what the promoters fondly hope
will be the most superior bloom of
mankind. Under a golden rule admin
istration these babes of all nations
are to be cultivated into faultless
adults, and then by Intermarriage they
are to found an Ideal brotherhood of
man.
The magnitude of the task becomes
at once apparent to any father or
mother who has brought up one un
mixed brood. If the cry of the chil
dren in an American household as
they fell down the stairs and along
the halls at the first peep of day for
that Indescribable and indispensable
boy's garment known as "My pants,"
which a fond mother has been patch
ing over night, can start bedlam Into
bawling through another twelve hours
of daylight, as Is the case In many
households over this broad land, what
must tho clamor be when this mixture
of the races begins to make known its
Insistent dally needs? And If one
loving American brother and one fond
American sister can generate a pitched
battle, which only mother can umpire
successfully, over a lost marble or a
chunk of mud thrown against a clean
dress, what a prodigious battle is In
store when the Indgfn and the Russian
and the American all get to teasing
the white-haired Scandinavian family
Pt. . , .
Of course, the golden rule is to pre
vail. But It prevails in the average
American home as far as the golden
rule Is adjustable to vigorous and
rlghtmlnded children. "That's mine,"
"I want that," "Give me my hat"
these are familiar types of the cries
of the children In family life In all
races where the struggle for posses
sion begins from Infancy. And while
the Los Angeles international baby
farm is cultivating the graces of its
wards it will find them cultivating "also
all the native meannesses that In them
lie. Cultured people could not make
a success of co-operative life in the
Brook farm experiment, and this at
tempt at co-operative baby farming
will go the way of all flesh. In its In
fancy, however, a close observer could
doubtless obtain abundant material
for new series of remarkable child
studies for the Sunday comics.
The Mixup in New York.
The selection by Tammany of Judge
Gaynor as democratlo candidate for
mayor In New York City, coupled with
tha probable candidacy of William R.
Hearst on an Independent ticket, indi
cates a democratic mlxup that may be
embarrassing to a distinguished demo
crat who lives not far away.
Judge Oaynor was talked of as a
possibility for vice president on the
ticket with Mr. Bryan last year, and
Mr. Bryan will doubtless find some
way to say something during the mu
nicipal campaign to show hla prefer
ence for Judge Gaynor. In this case,
unless he seals his lips together, Mr.
Bryan Is up against the unpleasant pre
dicament of approving the candidate of
Tammany, which repeatedly sold him
out, or favoring a candidate who twice
supported him, but openly opposed him
last time. It Is out of the question, of
course, that Mr. Bryan should have
any sympathy with the republican can
didate, who has fusion endorsements,
because he, as a republican, never sup
ported Mr. Bryan.
In this connection it Is worth while
noting that if New York City were In
Nebraska, and Nebraska still had the
fake nonpartisan Judiciary law put on
our statute books by Mr. Bryan's late
democratic legislature, Judge Oaynor
could not be running for mayor. Judge
Gaynor has been on the bench continu
ously for fifteen years and Is now a
Judge of the supreme court. Our de
funct nonpartisan Judiciary law con
tained this provision:
AW persons now holding or who may
hereafter be elected to the offices (Judi
cial or educational herein mentioned) are
declared to be Ineligible to nomination or
election to ftny office upon any party ticket
during the respective terms for which they
may have been or may be elected to the
office aforesaid.
If that is good democratic doctrine
in Nebraska, of course the democrats
of New York City ought to repudiate
Judge Gaynor for dragging the Judl'
clary Into politics.
Praise as is Praise.
When praise comes from a Bource
which is predisposed to fault-finding
it Is praise Indeed, and this, from the
news columns of the Lincoln Journal
is therefore deserving of reproduction
for Omaha perusal:
Five heavily laden trains arriving in Lin
coln from Omaha last night carried home
the pleasure seekers from this city who had
gone to the metropolis to witness the elec
trtoal parade an4 the sights of festival
week. Those who returned declared the
parade a thing of marvelous beauty well
worth the trip. Great crowds lined the
streets along the marching route and the
earn'.val spirit ran high. Some complaint
was made about wretched street car serv
ice, because the cars ran the wrong way
when the visitors desired to get to the
depots and because there was not half cars
enough to carry the people who wanted to
ride In any direction. It was a festival
crowd that swamped the facilities of the
Omaha Street Railway company.
Trainmen said very few drunken passen
gers were to be found on the trains, and
these few were kept pretty well under con
trol. A few of the returning passengers
carried suit cases of suspicious weight.
General pleasure was expressed at the
decoration and Illumination of the Omaha
downtown district.
We have only this to say: That peo
ple who did not take In the Ak-Sar-Ben
festivities In Omaha this year be
cause of any prejudice Incited by mis
representations in outside newspapers
that have been running down Omaha
and Ak-Sar-Een are themselves the
greatest losers. When Omaha can put
up an entertainment for Its visiting
guests that commends enthusiastic ap
preclatlon in Lincoln It may be voted
an unqualified success.
A fine lesson in the unconquerable
power of science and Industry is af
forded In the victory of a PennBylva
nla coal president over a mine fire
that had burned for fifty years, con
suming 10,000,000 tons. In order to
save 400,000,000 other tons a wall
twelve feet thick, 1,050 feet long and
175 feet deep In the earth was con
structedr effectually shutting off and
smothering the fire. This in its way
is a greater wonder and, to all prac
tlcal purposes, a greater achievement
than the great wall of China. For
overcoming obstacles seemingly In
superable American Ingenuity Is Irre
sistible. 1
One place where Omaha can yet
make quite an advance Is In keeping
streets clear for the line of march of a
duly authorized parade. With 100-
foot streets and twenty-foot sidewalks
on each side there ought to be room
for all the spectators without encroach
ing on the roadway. This applies also
to the Intrusion of vehicles against
whom the line of march streets ought
to be absolutely closed between speci
fied hours announced In advance.
Chicago's mayor and department
heads are said to have consented to a
10 per cent salary cut for next year
because of shortage of available funds
In the city treasury to carry the pay
rolls. Still, that is nothing unique.
Because, of the limited police fund
every membpr of Omaha's police de
partment has foregone a salary In
crease to which he would have been en
titled this year under the revised char
ter. Perhaps Chicago is merely fol
lowing the Omaha example.
Boston is making a great pother
over the claim that former Governor
Pownall of Massachusetts wrote the
famous Junius letters. The people di
rectly concerned in discovering the au
thor have been dead so long that It
does not much matter now who wrote
them, although in its day the Junius
controversy waxed warmer than the
Cook-Peary argument.
A Judge loved and favored by the corpo
rations should be feared by the people. A
Judge hated and feared by the corporations
Is a good thing for the people to get behind
and push. Edgar Howard's Columbus Trib
une.
What about the nonpartisan demo
crat who, over his own signature, con
fesses to "corporate affiliations," even
while running for supreme Judge on
the democratic ticket?
Now that Japan Indicates the possi
bility of reaching after the world's
trade with paper made of bamboo
waste on an inexpensive basis, it Is in
order to ask again what has become
of America's plan for revolutionizing
the Industry with paper made of corn
stalks?
And now the Baptists of Nebraska
enter protest against the appointment
by Governor Shallenberger of a Mor
mon elder to be penitentiary chaplain
at the state prison. No one has ever
intimated, however, that the new chap
lain is not a dyed-in-the-wool democrat,
which is the qualification that counts.
floands Monotonous Not.
Sioux City Tribune.
It will have to be admitted that
Sioux City continued the talk about tho
pennant long after the winning last year,
the same as Des Moines Is doing now.
but somehow it did not sound so mo
notonous. ,
o Cause for m Kick.
St. Paul Dispatch.
Senator Warren of Wyoming considers
the repeal of the duty on hides "the one
Indefensible feature of the new tariff law."
Oh, well, he shouldn't kick. He gut that
wool duty which Bhould help him some,
as he Is the biggest sheep owner In the
country.
Where the For Will Fly.
Springfield Republican.
In his earlier days Mr. Bryan delighted
in Joint debates, but now he avoids them
because they emphasize Individuals rather
than principles. Possibly Senator Batlcy
believes that this Is buncombe and that Mr.
Bryan is at heart afraid of him at close
quarters. If the Nebraskan should ever
reach the senate, however, before the
Texan retires, we would see the fur fly.
Why They Dislike Plnchot.
Kansas City Times.
Here la an Instance of the sort of thing
Gifford Plnchot is fighting to stop:
The title for the site on which is lo
cated the dam for tho reservoir that sup
plied the city of Denver with water was
obtained by entering the site as a, build
ing site claim. This claim was sold by the
government to the patentee for a few
hundred dollars. Its value is enormous.
All through the country big corporations
are trying to acquire sites for dams with
out paying for them. Plnchot has blocked
the game for the present. That's why the
big corporate Interests would like to get
rid of the chief of the forestry bureau.
Uniformity In Smallnesa.
Philadelphia Ledger.
The effort of tha Deoartment nf Agri
culture, through Its board of food and
drug Inspection, to establish regulations
that shall Insure to the purchaser th
weight and volume of druirs and fnnd h.
pays for. Is commendable. No one look
lor or expects great exactitude In such a
matter, but the variation from I'niri.v
should be a reasonable one and not unl
lormly to the disadvantage of tha mn.
sumer. Of course, bottles cannot alwayt
be blown of uniform capacity, but the
publlo has the right to ask that with them,
as with boxes, and othe'r containers, they
shall not be made uniformly too small for
tne size tney are supposed to represent.
Spread-eagleism Mocked.
Philadelphia Record.
Frenchmen are fond of dramatics and
attitudinizing, but the banal spread
eagleisms with which America resounded
recently, when two men came out of the
Icy north, seem to have shocked even the
undeveloplng French sense of propriety.
The telegram from Battle Harbor In which
the gift of the North pole was offered to
President Taft has elicited from the
duke of Orleans, himself a traveler of
scientific note, this question: "What would
you think of a French explorer If you were
to see him, his brow dripping with per
spiration, telegraphing to the president of
the French republic: 'Monsieur. I have the
honor to place at your disposal tha
equator?" " Our spread-eagleisms are not
dramatic; they partake of the character
of opera bouffo. (
POLITICAL DRIFT.
The grafting mayor of Burkevllle, pa., ev
idently a very coarse worker, has been
convicted and sentenced to the peniten
tiary. Twenty towns tn Illinois are reported
ready to adopt the commission form of
government as soon as legislative author
ity is secured.
"Age does not wither or custom stale"
the variety of picturesque figures of
speech which Uncle Joe Cannon turns loose
when in the right mood.
Congressman W. S. Hammond, the only
democratic congressman from Minntsotu,
may become a candidate to succeed the late
Governor John A. Johnson.
Down In Alabama so warm Is the cam
paign that a Mobile paper refused to print
a political letter, from a minister, couched
In language warranting the exclusion of the
paper from the mails.
One critic of the party nojnlnees for
mayor of New York says the republican
candidate Is " too good to be elected." and
the democratic candidate Is "too eccentric
to be tolerated." Jt is up to Hearst to
save the city.
Congressmaa Holllngsworth of Ohio heads
a movement to make former Senator For
aker the republican nominee for governor.
Mr. Foraker Is not saying a word. Ha Is
too busy with the Job of attacking the cor
poration tax law In the courts.
The meager number of voters registered
In Omaha reflects the carelessness or in
difference shown In other cities. Philadel
phia Is the only city where the voters have
been aroused sufficiently to equal the regis
tration of the last municipal election. There
are three weeks left for an awakening.
In Other Lands
Bide Lights ea Wfcat Is Trans,
plring Among the Wear and
Tat Matloas of the Carta.
The tact and diplomacy shown by King
Edward of England In his dealings with
neighboring powers, will be put to the
severest test In the pending negotiations
designed to harmonize the differences be
tween the House of Commons and the
House of Lords over the taxing provisions
of the Lloyd-George budget. The situa
tion at home Is much more difficult to
handle than dealing with another nation.
It involves the fierce antagonism of party
politics, the scheming for party advantage,
the appetite for spoils, and the all but
endless ramifications of wealth and priv
ilege opposed to Increased taxation. AU
the dexterous moves possible In a party
contest will be made by the opposing divis
ions, and these must be met by the royal
conciliator In such manner as will lead
both sides to believe they are vlotors. The
adjournment of final action of the budget
by the House of Commons defers the prom
ised crisis for at least six weeks. Mean
while speculation on the outcome of the
royal negotiations will be tense. If reports
are to be relied on, both sides are eager
for an appeal to the country, each ex
pressing confidence of winning. Above the
tumult of clashing party interests there
are possible conditions which the peers are
not likely to invite. Outright rejection of
tha budget seems Improbable. Such dras
tic action would Invalidate the annual taxes
which went Into effect on the Introduction
of the bill, producing chaos in the Treas
ury department and grave disturbance to
business. The more probable plan of the
opposition Is to hang up the bill by delay
ing action. The latter course Involves less
embarrassment to the nation's finances,
but It Is one so destitute of courage that
tho electorate would rebuke It at the first
opportunity. The situation as it stands is
not a cheerful one fpr the lordlings. Possi
bly their embarrassment had much to do
with the anxiety of the king to Boften their
fall.
France has a revenue deficit almost as
robust and perplexing as the deficits Of
England and Germany. It amounts to
$40,000,000, a huge sum for a country where
taxing has reached a fine art. Finance
Minister Cochery, has drafted a budget
Increasing present tax rates and Impos
ing taxes on person, and things which
have heretofore escaped the tax gatherer.
Increased death duties are proposod. There
Is now a graduated scale of duties, rang
ing from 1 per cent on estates of pot more
than $400 to 5 per cent an those of more
than $10,000,000, which go to the nearest
possible heirs. Beneficiaries not in the
direct line of succession or not related to
the decedent pay more. In an increasing
scale, until legates removed six degrees
In relationship or unrelated must pay IS
per cent on the smallest bequests and
20.6 per cent on the largest, bo that on
an estate of $12,000,000, .which was left to
remote relatives or non-relatives the state
would collect $2,4GO,000. Mr. Cochery pro
poses to Increase all these rates, raising
the lowest from 1 to 16 per cent and the
others at an Increasing ratio until the
highest Is raised from 20.6 to 26 per cent,
and he would make the highest rates
apply not only to the sixth degree of
relationship, but to the four-ill degree
and all beyond. It is estimated that from
Increased death duties $8,000,000 additional
revenue will be secured. Other Items will
be $13,000,000 from tobacco, $5,000,000 from
alcohol, $7,0(10.000 from absinthe and blt
teis, $2,000,000 from stamp duties and
$200,000 from publicans' licenses. There will
also be a tax on automobiles, and the
tax on advertising signs which are lighted
at night will be doubled. In thla way it
Is hoped to make the budget balance.
King Victor of Italy Intends to have a
heart-to-heart talk with the German chan
cellor on war taxes during the latter's visit
to Rome this month. Italy has as large a
variety of burdensome taxes as any na
tion In Europe and Is less able to ksep tho
pace In naval and military expansion, and
naturally is anxious to reuU.ce the fctraln.
As a partner In the triple alllanco, It is
Italy's privilege to take the senior robust
partner aside and whisper a few hot words
In his ear. Something must be done to
check naval rivalry, or the second class
powers must retreat before bankruptcy
begins. The seven great marltlne nations
are spending on their armaments at pres
ent nearly $611,000,000 annually: England,
tlS5.713.E-O0; United States, 1 143, 303. V 6- Ger
many, $37.O0 S40; France, $';6,7H9.176: Russia.
$;O,144.055; Japan, $1G.O00,116; Italy, $.;3.778.455.
Statistics as compiled by T. St. John
Gaffney, the American consul general at
Dresden, show that Germany owes Its
present commanding position among the
nations of Europe by Its high blith rate,
and. as well, to a surprising decrease,
within recent years of Its volume of emi
gration. Of the twelve countries of Eu
rope, Germany now has the lowest emi
gration, which. In 1'XiS, was 19S0. This
was a falling off. as compared with 1!07
of 11,716; the first time rlnce the founding
of the German empire In H71 that the emi
gration had fallen below 20.000. After the
Franco-Prussian war there was an eco
nomic crisis and the people emigrated In
great numbers, leaching 202 900 for the vear
ISsl. Then began a gradusl decrease till
193, when an aveisge of 100.000 a year was
reached. With that year, however, Ger
man industries began to develop, and In
l&H the emigration suddenly droprwd to
40.&64. Since then It has continued to de
crease to the low mark of last year. llu-
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The only Baking Powder
Made from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar
Hence Finer, More Wholesome Food
etr, rlnce 1S71 theOerman nation only
lost 2,750,000 people by emigration, or, as
stated by the consul general, "as many
people as can be made good In four years
by an excess of births over deaths."
A very Interesting manifestation took
place last month when deputation of the
Czechs of Bohemia visited tho capital of
the extinct kingdom of Poland, Warsaw.
There they were received by the Poles as
by an Independent power, and the speeches
which celebrated the occasion alluded
frankly to "vast combinations" looming on
the horizon of European politics. It was
indocd the first occasion in 100 years of tho
Poles being permitted to speak as a self
possessed people, and for this reason the
ceremonies have attracted wide notlco.
"We have been duly Impressed with the
Idea of dying nations," comments the New
York Sun, "and the theme has often been
set forth that nations like Individuals pass
Irrevocably through a set round of seasons,
spring, summer and fall, from which there
Is no return: but the truth of this theme
Is becoming doubtful. The latest born indi
vidual Is in himself eternally young, and
after all nations are made up of Individuals.
'Finis Polonla may yet prove, so far as
Poland is the heart of the Slavonic peo
ples, to have been but the empty flourish
of a weak-kneed rhetorician. Undeniably
the pretensions of the Slavs to an inde
pendent racial expression are brighter to
day than they have been for half a century
at least, If only because of tho Increasing
tension between the Teutonio and the Sla
vonic elements upon the world's stage."
THE DREAMER.
Chicago Post.
We scoff at him who sits and dreams.
And will not Join us In the strife,
Who will not run the race that seems
The chief and only thing In life.
We scoff nt him; but there are whUg
He gives ub pity in his smiles.
He sees our endless round and round,
Our ceaseless seeking for the goal,
And knows that goal Is never found
Though we may scarify the soul.
We sigh that he is left behind,
But does he grieve that we are blind?
For him are ways we may not fare.
For him are all the worlds that be,
For him the breezes softly bear
The perfume of the distant sea.
And In his dreams he often stands
Within the wondrous flowered lands.
If we mdrht know the songs he hears
Then we could hush the songs we sing
That fall all harshly on the ears,
For his beat In as birds awing
From somewhere In the paling sky,
Serene and sweet and fair and high.
Our gain we clutch with eager hands
And from our neighbor hold apart,
But he somehow he understands
The craving of the human heart;
His pathway holds no stumbling stones
Because of these the dreams he owns.
O. dreamer, let us fold our hands
That grasp the substance; let us wait
As you, until from alien strands
The shlDS of fancv bring their frelaht.
Let us know how the world should seem,
u, dreamer, teacn us now to dreaml
SUNNY GEMS.
"Did your boss call you down?"
"New he said I was a peach."
"And then?"
"He canned me." Cleveland Leader.
"That man Is Indeed a failure," remarked
the cigar store philosopher, "who can't
nana out valuable advice of some kind."
Atlanta Constitution.
Truth Seeker Whs t are the Issues In
the coming campaign?
Ward Heeler W ell. we haven't issued
anything yet but a loud call for -money.
Chicago Tribune.
"I'll give ye two a week," said the coun
try merchant.
.u"1 ca"'t,"ve n less than four," declared
the ambitious boy.
"Ye don't know what ye can do 'til ye
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try, John. Try it on two fer awhile. It
will make better reading fer your biog
raphy when ye get rich." Louisville Courier-Journal.
'At least, the scenery at the pole from
Dr. Cook's description, must be consistent,
If not picturesque."
vvnat an you meanr
"Didn't you remark that he said all yeu
could see with the naked eye was a bare
expanse." Baltimore American.
"Well," asked the agent, "how do you
like this flat?"
"I must say," replied the lady who waa
examining It, "that there's little room for
improvement." Chicago Record-Herald.
"If you had as much money that
great captain of Industry, what would you
do?"
"I'd probably hand It over to him as
soon as he got ready to organize business
and freete me out.' Washington Star.
"Don't chide me for carrying a re
volver. Thle little gtin saved my i;to once."
"How exciting! Tell me about it?'
"I was starving; and I pawned It."
Cleveland Leader.
NOT LIKE THE
"ANNIE LAURIE" DAYS
Sonjjs Are Dorn, Lit and Die
In a Few Short Months
Now
Singers didn't set such a swift pace
in the days when "Annie Laurie" was
written.
In those days it took years to popu
larise a aong now a song "hit" is made
"over night" and the public demands
copies of It "next day," so that tha ditty
may be warbled In the homes at once.
Omaha waa prone to be a bit slow In
this respect, until tha A. Hospe Co., of
161$ Douglas St., made arrangements
with America's leading publishers and
Omaha's theatrical managers, to offer
the latest, catchiest "hits" over the
counters tha very day they are sung In
the theaters here.
In consequence one has all of this
week's songs right before him at this
moment, as follows:
The songs offered at Boyd's theatre
by Richard Carle In "Mary's Lamb," are:
'I Idolize Ida;" "When Number One
Meets Number Two;" '"Betsy's The Belle
of The Bathers;" "Love Is Elusive;" and
"My Madagascar Maid."
Tha ditties that are tickling Orpheum
audiences are: "Oh What I Know About
You;" "Abraham Lincoln Jones;" "Down
Among the Sugar Cane;" and "I Am
Going to Do as I Please."
The clever songs offered at the Bur
wood theater by Lew Dockstader will also
be In evidence here tomorrow morning,
while all of the best things In Bert Wil
liams' "Mr, Lode of Kole" have been
reordered and include such titles as: "The
Christening;" "The Harbor of Lost
Dreams;" "By-gone Days of Dixie;" and
"Chink Chink Chinaman." .
Any of the above songs exptlng
operatic numbers at 19o per copy to
morrowthe operatic are to sell at too
per copy.
A. HOSPE CO.,
1513 Douglas Street
Men's. Overcoats
We are making a special
display of Men's Fine
Overcoats for Fall, in
light, dark and medium
Grays, Oxfords and Black.
$15.00 to $35.00
Our Suits for men of all
ages, whether for School
and College wear or for
business, are of a charac
ter that dis tinguishes
them among the best.
The fabrics are strictly nil
wool and worsted cloths,
and the garments are
manufactured in our own
workshops by tho best
tailors.
Never before have we shown
such a beautiful lino of
high grade Suits.
$15.00 to $35.00
BrQwmn&Kirig
WW& Company f
Fif teiK aod Douglas Sta. '
V OMAHA