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THE BEE: OMAHA. FKIDAV, OClOHKR 20, 1!W. Tile umaiia Daily Bee. FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROPE WATER. VICTOR RUSK WATER, EDITOR. Entered at Omaha postofftc a econd clara mattrr. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Pally Re (without Sunday), ' year. .140 Dally Bee and Sunday, one year .W DLLiVEHED BT CARRIER. Iaily Bee (including Sunday), per wk..l5c Ially lire (without Sunday;, per week lc Evening Hee (without rmida ). per week Sc Kvtninf Ke (with Himdivi. ter week...l'c Sunday Bee, one year... K-M Saturday Men, one year 1-W Address ail complaints of Irregularities in delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha Th Bee Building. South Omaha Twenty-fourth and N. Council Bluffs IS Pent Street. Lincoln filk little Building. Chicago IMS Marquette Building. Nw Tork Kooma 1101-llOJ No. M West Thirty-third 8treet. Washington 726 Fourteenth Street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to newi and edi torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department REMITTANCES. Remit by draft. exprens or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only -cent stamps receive! in payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.: Oeorge B. Tsschuck. treasure or The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally. Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of September, 1909, was a follows: 1 1.70 u a.oo t 4B.3CO IT 48.T00 t 41,719 It 41AM 4 4X.960 1 40,400 t 3,900 SO 43,480 49,1(0 tl 43,650 T 41,630 ?! 42,350 1 42.000 2 S 44,e40 41,S0 21 43,030 10 43,300 ti 43,310 11 41,790 ft 40,300 11 40.000 17 ,..43,880 II ..43,140 21 43,970 14 43,270 2 42,800 It 43.18 SO 43,340 Total ". 1,288,380 Returned copies t,885 Nat total 1,356,395 Daily average 41,87 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK, Treasurer. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this SOtb day of September, 1909. aeU . M. P. WALKER. Notary Public. v Salisrrlbers leaving the cltr tem porarily ahoald bar The Be nailed to them. Address will be cheated .a oftea .a requested. i With Mr. Hearst it seems to be get ting to be a case of former campaigns re-hearsed. At any rate, Nebraska still has one eligible ex-United States senator in the widower class. Among the recent heroes for a time among the best sellers, the name of Jack Binna already Bound like a hark from the tombs. . A Railroad magnate complains be cause he had to eat elk meat four days in the Montana wilds. Lots of people would covet the chance. " A Boston poet has been arrested for selling his verses without a peddler's license. Shades of Oliver Wendell Holmes, has'it come to this! With Dr, Eliot at the head of the National Conservation society's propa ganda, we may look for a five-foot library at every five-foot waterfall. And now Germany is reported as holding up that Chinese loan. By the time the pio is finally cut its under crust will have become pretty soggy. Here In Omaha we do not expect the streets to be kept clean all the time, but we would be willing to be sur prised by'seeing them clean once and awhile. Blow the siren whistle! The demo cratic World-Herald has shot one broadside at the republican ticket without making the editor of The Bee the target. If democracy and decency really joined bands at the time Governor Shallenberger said they did out at Kearney, they seem to be ashamed of it already." Inasmuch as none of those promised spirit messages from Lombroso have been forthcoming, we have a right to conclude that "central" is giving him the "busy" signal along the line. In drawing that cartoon the picture of the democratic treasurer hurdling over the campaign publicity law seernB to have been overlooked. But then the cartoonist doesn't even pretend to be a nonpartisan. New England towns, which are Buf fering from water famine, could make good use of the river surplus which is overflowing' Mexican settlements. Na ture has yet to adjust the unequal dis tribution of Its riches. If Yale students can afford to pay the bursar real money for being called in the morning, is it not time for the women at home who have to call their sons and husbands every morning without price to go on strike? The "dry" farmers have auccessfully resisted the advice of the land agents to adopt a name with more attractive frlllo.-Tue term "dry" farming has come to have a specific significance which, i generally known, and as a trademark it has established a good will that should bo worth maintaining. ' The supreme court ruling that the Marshall Field 18,000,000 public mu seum shall not go up in Chicago's lake front park U the outcome of one man's persistent interference and Illustrates the power of the Individual citizen. If each voter In Chicago were as efficient in boosting as thU lone man U In pur suing hisstugular policy, what a mar velous city If might be made. Agriculture Opportunity. . Just when the German imperial government is calling for the reports of the federated states as to the un earned Increment land tax, we are re ceiving consular reports showing that the German people are turning from the land. Figures for the last fifteen years indicate a steady exodus frorri agricultural pursuits in Germany, with a total loss of nearly 2,000,000 of Individuals thus employed. During the same period commerce, transporta tion and the industries have gained 14,000,000 of Individual?. In Other words, fifteen years ago the Germans engaged In agriculture nearly equalled those In other callings, while today those otherwise employed are double the number tilling the land. Another noteworthy change is found In the fact that Germany Is now importing nearly five hundred millions in excess of its exports, largely In foodstuffs, whereas fifteen years ago the balance of trade was thirty-two millions in favor of its exports. This Is a further gauge of the extent to which German crops are Inadequate to supply home demands. It Is evident from the figures at hand that the burden of the land has become oppressive in Germany, and there is grave doubt whether the Im position of the special land tax has helped the condition of agriculture, al though originally aimed at the real estate) speculators of the cities. When agriculture lags as it does in the Ger man states It is evident that the Eu ropean situation in this respect .Is un balanced. However, since agriculture Is the fundamental of life, the greater its backwardness abroad, the greater Is the opportunity of the United States, where increase of agricultural output Is the order of the day and where we have Just begun to exploit the full science of farming. Homeopathy in Detection. : Collector Loeb's retention of con fessed grafters who helped him catch other grafters in the customs house in face of the direct disapproval of the court raises again the familiar conflict between practice and theory. Not withstanding the apparent righteous ness of the judge's wrath against con tinuing crooks In the public service, Mr. Loeb considers himself justified in declining to deal with such cases ac cording to purely ethical standards. In business, as In medicine, like is sometimes found to be an effectual cure for like, and Mr. Loeb, who was given a particularly sick patient to cure when put In charge of the New York customs house, has thus far dem onstrated the practicability of . this principle of homeopathy as applied to the detection of crime. The location of (the crooked ring that had so long controlled the cus toms house is not only a matter of gain to the, government, revenues, but is also productive 6f direct improve ment for other ports. For years Bos ton, Philadelphia, Baltimore and other cities have had their legitimate im porting trade diverted to New York, because their collectors there insisted on exacting, the full revenues, while the service In New York ''was adr mlttedly corrupt. Mr. Loeb had first to find the rascals, and it is to his credit that he permitted no theoretical scruples to interfere with the legiti mate use of that unpleasant, but some times vitally necessary, individual, the culprit who turns state's evidence. Tar-Fetched. Tho democratic World-Herald's la bored effort to conjure up a "republican-prohibition fusion" is altogether too far-fetched. Because two candi dates on the prohibition ticket tried to withdraw It does not follow that the lepubllcan nominees are intended to be the beneficiaries, or will ' be the beneficiaries. If the republican cam paign managers had anything to do with pulling off these candidates they would have seen to it that the applica tions for withdrawal were filed in plenty of time to be entirely free from legal complications. The prohibition ists seem to have "forgot" to file within the specified time, which is so similar to the forgetfulness of the dem ocratic committee treasurer to file his campaign publicity statement in time as required by law, that the circum stantial evidence points to a democratic-prohibition fusion, particularly when we remember the prohibition affinity for the democratic ticket last year. In the desperate straits to which the democratic nonpartisan bunco game has fallen it is no wonder that the World-Herald reaches out for anything that looks to it like a saving straw. Congestion of Commerce. More business offered than can be handled Is the experience of the trans portation lines all over the country, and in the expenditure of millions for an extension of facilities the railroads are giving practical testimony to the permanency of prosperity. The New York Central's contracts for Immedi ate expenditure of $85,000,000 to meet traffic demands exemplifies but another of the tremendous efforts re quired by all lines to catch up with the commercial situation. Presldeut Brown's, statement that all of the rolling stock of his road Is in active service and that if he bad the equipment he could do at least 10 per cent more business may be ac cepted as a fair reflection of the rail road world Indeed, some lines report an even greater congestion in the field of general commerce, covering manu factures and current supplies. In the great crop movement centers the overtaxing of the transportation facilities is reported to be even worse, as witness Duluth. where the lake steamer are literally swamped with traffic and are compelled to defer con sideration of rich cargoes on which bonus rates are offered. Altogether, the congestion of commerce Is so ab normal that the railroads feel war ranted in enlarging their facilities In anticipation of the most prosperous era in their history, certain that the millions they are compelled to plant today, will be but so much seed for the Immediate future. When the cur rent congestion shall have been re lieved the lines will still be none too well equipped to handle what traffic is In prospect. Such an outlook ought to make everybody feel good except the chronic calamity howler, whose squeak has been effectually squelched by the hum of the wheels. The County Clerk. The republicans of Douglas county are presenting David M. Haverly as their candidate for county clerk. Mr. Haverly is now the incumbent of that office and Is, therefore, like most of his associates on the ticket, asking for re election as endorsement of faithful and efficient service. The work devolving on the office of county clerk, while mostly clerical. In cludes a number of important tasks calling for capability and reliability. The county clerk not only keeps the records of the county board, but also handles the delinquent tax list as a check between the county assessor and county treasurer, and in addition is charged with all the complicated de tails of preparing for elections and canvassing the returns. The county clerk is also a member of the Board of Review, "which annually revises and hears appeals from the assessments for taxation. No one contends that Mr. Haverly has not been performing the duties de volving on the county clerk in an ac ceptable and satisfactory manner, the only point which the opposition seeks 'to make being that he has bad the office long enough and should there fore be turned out. Inasmuch as his incumbency has not been consecutive, and the voters called him back after an unsatisfactory trial of a democrat. this would indicate that the argument will fall to find popular response in a cape such as his, involving an old sol dier who has always done his duty In war and in peace. Although there is to be centered at Buenos Ayres next year an interna tional exposition celebrating the cen tennial of the Argentine Republic, our commercial interests have not awak ened to the fact, and Europe will hold the center of the stage. This is characteristic of the too general indif ference in this country to the possi bilities of trade with South, America. For our ignorance concerning our con tinental neighbors the schools are partly to blame, It has been the cus tom for generations to . teach more about -the eastern-than the western hemisphere, and only of late years haB our own country received adequate at tention In the text books, whose con tents concerning the Dominion of Can ada and Central and South America are still meager. The Lincoln Journal calls on Judge Sullivan, running on the fake nonpar tisan democratic ticket, to explain or disavow the letter sent out for him soliciting corporations to Join in the suit to nullify the corporation tax law on a 10 per cent retainer and a 25 per cent contingent. This soliciting ap peal was sent out to hundreds of cor porations last June, and Judge Sulli van mad his explanation some time ago, when, In a letter to Edgar How ard, he declared that he was out for all the corporation retainers that could be made to come his way. Secretary Balllnger's statement con cerning those subjects of conservation which he has been investigating dur ing his tour of the public domain may be taken as an outline of the policy to be recommended in detail by his forthcoming annual report. It is in teresting to note that Mr. Ballinger reiterates that he is in absolute har mony with the views of the president, and his particular reference to the sub ject of waterpower sites manifests the same attitude against trust grabbing as that maintained by Mr. Plnchot. It Is to be hoped that our people will co-operate with the enumerators who are to take the church census of Omaha under the auspices of the par ish visitation committee. The pro posed census Is to ascertain what the present field is In Omaha for church work so that it may be intelligently directed and prosecuted without waste of time or duplication of effort, and there should be no hesitation any where to helping the workers get tfcolr data as nearly accurate as possible. The promised improvement! at the Union station will be decidedly wel come to Omaha folks who travel or who have friends who travel. Some day both of our twin passenger stations that face each other, separated by tracks and train sheds, will be merged into a real union station where the passenger traffic of all roads entering Oraaba will be concentrated. The Woman's Christian Temperance union haB concluded the sessions of its national convention with which Omaha was honored. Whatever else may be said, the women will not suffer by com parison in, numbers, or businesslike methods, with the Eagles, whose na tional convention was likewise held here. ' The Illinois insurance commissioner, in attacking the charter of a company that pays annuities to widows as long as they do not remarry, u but doing his duty in restoring the widow to the eligibility market. The founder of the anti-marriage policy must have been a disciple of Sam Wellr. Medical investigation which now sets aside the old-fashioned rules against eating before going to bed and drinking water copiously with meals simply sustains what most people have been finding, out by their own experi ence and permits them to do what they have been doing all the time. The reform in county jail feeding put into effect with the Incoming of the present republican sheriff is saving the taxpayers of Douglas county from $6,000 to $8,000 a year. Does anyone want to go back to the jall-feedlng graft as practiced by the last demo cratic sheriff? Down in Nw York Tammany tried to kidnap Mr. Hearst's Independence league in . exactly the same way that Mr. Bryan and his democrats kidnaped the populists In Nebraska, but ' the courts stepped in and eald they should not be allowed to get away with the stolen goods. TTZ People hereabouts are not so forget ful that the spectacle of Elmer Thomas and the other anti-saloon leaders, pounding the tocsin for Governor Shal lenberger and the democratic ticket last fall, has so quickly passed from memory. i If Mrs. Van Deman can convince the American husband that aero planes will cultivate In woman that elevation of spirits that prompts the little birds to aing, it will promptly become a case of discard for the auto mobile. Assurance is given that Ig Dunn's turn to occupy the center of the stage will come In due time. When that moment arrives Cook and Peary, Bryan and Bailey, Taft and Roosevelt will all have to retire behind the scenes. The World-Herald insists that the populists in Nebraska have been kid naped by the democrats with full knowledge and consent. Consent of whom? Consent of a few democratic ple-biters masquerading in populist garb? : This Should Settle It. ' Chicago Post. The International Pure Food congress defines whisky by saying that "It comes from the distillation of port prepared by the saccharlf Ication .of cereals by means of malt and then fermented." Whew! We never knew It "Was so bad as that. Can't Keep a Good Thins; Down. Bt. Lduls Globe-Democrat. An Increase' bf 'more than $30,000,000 in the bank clearings f the United States during the last' feW 'months shews that the busi ness of the' country has not been seriously menaced by etWer the upward or down ward features bf-the revised tariff schedule. "Wouldn't This Js Yost" ' BAstdrr Transcript. It' will not da to hold the foreign-born citizen' responsible for municipal mls-gov-ernmefit.' ' Seve'.nty-nlne per cent of Hol- yoke's' population is foreign born, and yet that city has one of the best administra tions 'liT the Country and has been so for decade. . " Will the spirit Speak T Baltimore American. Lombroso promised his associates ' that after his 'death he would communicate with them from the spirit world, and they are now watching for his ghost. And so the ghost stories of the Ignorant In one age have become the object of scientific research In the next. If the noted crimin ologist is able to' keep his promise, he might throw light on many present dis puted points. " Great Observers Disagree. (Philadelphia Record.) Profefsor Felix Adler says the Oerman Idea Is that we are incurable materialists. We have heard a good deal of that, but the Germans he has been talking with are in Germany; perhaps If they would come over here and look nround intelligently they would know better. Professor Fer- rero made us a visit, and has been telling Europe since he went home that we are idealists; that there Is no such materialism In American thought as has been attributed to us. The German idea brought back by Dr. Adler, that democracy makes for materialism, Is a little odd In view of the fact that all over Continental Europe the universities ae recognized hotbeds of de mocracy, occasionally going so mr as socialism or revolution; and the universities exist wholly far the cultivation of Idealism, PERSONAL NOTES. Bays Taft, '''the president Is a sort of figurehead for the nation." Said Bryan, by the mouth of Hashlinura, "the presi dency are only a bluff." When Lady ' Cook says she will spend 11,000,000 In the suffragette cause she In vites the respect that always attaches In some circles of citizenship to a large cam paign fund. Placing the statue of Senator Matthew Stanley Quay In "an upright position" In the Pennsylvania state capltol causes some pOi.'tlcal arllBts to doubt the naturalness of tht pose. An Irl.'h gentleman writing for an Amer ican uiagvzlne says a great deal of leisure Is essentia! to the higher life. But a great deal of hustling is essentia) nowadays to paying the higher cost of living. Mrs. Gilbert E. Jones la one of the most determined opponents of women's suffrage. She has arranged several lectures In dif ferent parts of New York state and ex perts that at one or more of them Gov ernor Hughes will hear her argument In favor of withholding the ballot from women. Countess Sxerhenyi, formerly a Vender bllt, must curtsey when she meets the duchess of Vicar, who ceased recently, at great expense, to be Anita Stewart, and must not sit down in the presence of the duchess without being motioned to do so. It is to be hoped the duchess will not withhold the necessary motion, for the situation is certain to make the countess very tired. William Woodward, a Lehigh Valley rail road conductor, with a run between Wilkes Harts and Havre, Pa., has what Is believed to be the most .remarkable rec ord of any conductor In the United Htates. He is now serving his forty-second year uit the road. All of that time he has been a conductor, and, what is more remarkable, he has had the same run Wilkes Barre to Sayre and. return continuously. Washington Life heart ketehsa of Incident aad pU sodas that Mark the rrogresa of Events at the national Capital. Congressman Victor Murdoch of Wichita, Kansas, editor, explorer and "insurgent," usually keeps his eyes peeled while In Washington, not through fear of being run over, but to observe and note the passing stiow. Addressing the Knife and Fork club of Kansas City reeently, he told the story of Anne, a statesman's wife, who nearly passed away with Joy when she was obliged to ca'neel Invitations to her dinner be cause she was Invited to the White House on the night specified for her own functton. the florist, the caterer, the guests all un derstood, she explained, that an Invitation to the White House was equivalent to a command. This was told by way of Illus trating the struggle Of certain Inhabitants to envelope the White House with the at mosphere of an oM world court. Some of the residents actually seem to enjoy that sort of thing. They will discuss, as If it were a question of International Import ance, Mrs. Blank's perplexity about giving the chief justice precedence over the am bassador from Mauretanla. "Do you know," they will say with every evidence ot awe, "that Senator Warren had to arrange the seating of his guests five times when he gave that last big dinner? Tea, and his sec retary had to make a new plat at 6 o'clock In the afternoon because ot a lata accept ance that simply overturned hi whole ar rangement of precedence," , fienator Frank Pulnam Flint of Califor nia, whose early retirement from the sen' ate Is announced, achieved distinction ai the best dressed man in the upper house. Senator Flint was highly successful at the law before he entered the senate. He will doubtless now be able to step back Into his law practice and accumulate plenty of fat fees. Ills terra will end a year from next March. His Intention to quit the senate in order to make some money for himself and family la the first avowed case of the kind since the retirement of John ' C Spooner. Spooner quit the senate poor, but since then has been so busy handling big law cases that he has already plied up a good sum for his support In hit old age. A Washington rental agent stirred up trouble for a lot of statesmen the other day. A prominent woman who owned a fine home in sj good location came to him and wanted to rent her house furnished at a great bargain until the middle of next April. It looked like a fine thing for ome senator or representative. The agent got out a circular, illustrated, and sent it out more or less broadcast to members of congress. It stirred up a commotion. Here was a house to rent, ordinarily worth $5,004 rental a year, which could be had at about twenty-five per cent of that. Telegrams began to come In to the office of the agent and at least one prominent member of con gress got on a train and hastened to Wash ington. About this time the owner of the house exercised the unfailing privilege of a woman and changed her mind. The agent is still busy answering Inquiries. A considerable number of ' notices of Judgment have lately been Issued by the Board of Food and Drug Inspection of the Agricultural department, and in a sub stantial number of instances these have related to Judgments obtained against pro ducers who erroneously marked their goods with respect to weight or eontents. ThU hs.,beei the case As regards, canned goods of various kinds. In such Instances the courts, so ' far as Wown,' have uniformly ruled against the producers, entering judg ments bf confiscation and then releasing In many cases the goods upon bond to the owner to rectify the labeling so as not to conflict with the pure food law. Thus, where peas have been marked as con taining a given quality of the article and on Inspection have been found short. It hoe been necessary to relabel, Indicating the true contents. Some of the shipments thus held up have been large and there are, It is asserted, many other cases of the same sort pending. The producers have, of course, found the publicity given to the method of labeling they employ decidedly annoying, and object to the Interference with their business methods that Is thus experienced. It Is probable, writes a corres pondent of the New York Journal of Com merce, that these condemnations will In crease In number, rather than diminish In the future as the pure food law has been pretty steadily developing into a labeling law rather than a law prescribing or regu lating composition of goods. In fact the view is taken by many officials that the question of labeling Is the Important factor In the matter and that consumers can be trusted to select their goods in the roost desirable way, provided that they are truthfully informed of the contents of packages. The protests of various pro ducers to the effect that they cannot easily regulate the content of the packages with exactness, and that on occasion there will be more or less in the packages than the specified measure, have received no atten tion because, It Is asserted, pone of tb cases thus far brought to the attention of the board have shown the existence of overweight or overmoasure. In the case of goods put up In packages or wrappers It Is complained that the pro cess of drying or evaporating the moisture of the article unavoidably leads to a change In weight which cannot be guarded against. This la the case with goods like butter, hams, etc. It has been suggested to the owners of such goods that they could either allow for the shrinkage In weight and include In the packages enough of the goods to cover the difference likely to oc cur during the average time that elapses before the consumption of the goods, but this has not been received with favor, al though the department has Indicated that It is willing to treat produoers with all pos sible consideration in cases where such a plan Is followed. Another suggestion that has been made Is that producers abandon the practice of marking the goods, as a. g. butter In "one-pound" packages, since the law as -now on the books makes no re quirement that weight or contents be stated. The reply has been that in certain lines trade conditions and customs call for a statement on the outside of the package and that it cannot be easily given up. To meet the situation, some producers have resorted to the plan of simply marking on the outside the number of units of weight, as for Instance "one" leaving the consumer to suppose If he chooses that the word "pounds" or "ounces" as the case may be Is to be supplied. The department, howv ever, s not willing to accept this scheme and proposes to treat such cases aa viola tion of the law Just as If the full label has been attached. Knock for Legal Trnet. Philadelphia Record. The effort to create a trust In the prac tice ot law has been checked by a decis ion ot the appellate division of the New York supreme court. The Associated Law yers' company tried to exempt luelf from a provision enacted by the last legislature making "It unlawful for a corporation to practice as an attorney-at-law for persons other than Itself, but the rourt held that It was reached by the statute, Have you tried the t ,- Quaker Oat in your family? - ' . 1 November is a good month to try it just 30 days. Eat Quaker Oats at least once a day for thirty days, cut out greasy foods in proportion and watch the results in the way you feel. You'll be astonished 1 Quaker Oats is the greatest of all building foods. It's a food for 365 days in the year. Costs almost nothing. , The Quaker Qa Qmpany CHICAGO ii,,... 1 111 11 a sua, 111 a mi.-jt NEBRASKA PRESS COMMENT. Beatrice Express; If the democrats were sale to eleot their candidates for supreme Judges on the gausy plea of non-partisan hip, what argument would they trump up In behalf of their Judicial ticket two years hence? They would still want to win. Bloomlngton Advocate: The superintend ent of the Hastings ti sane asylum has put In a requisition asklnr for 1306 worth Ot whisky -and high wines for tho use of the management of the asylum. It Is a pretty pass when the state Is being asked to buy whisky for Its employes; The temperance people who were hoodwinked into voting for that party last fall ought to feel mighty chagrined. , Pender Republic: It is said that Frank Ransom of South Omaha advised the' Pender Liberty club that they Were within the limits of the law and that they could rot be molested. Well, If Ransom's Judg ment la no better In the Pender club case than It was in framing law last winter at Lincoln we guess there will not be much doubt where they will land when the su preme court gets a whack at IL Bridgeport News: Why is It that the political slate makers In the eastern part of the state persist in dragging the back number office seekers Into the limelight? Why not try the experiment of going out Into the highways and byway and select ing new men for state offices men who stand well In their own communities and against whom the charge xt "chronlo office seeker" will not Met When man has been slaughtered at the tolls It is a strong hint to him that he is a '"dead one" politically, and he should have the grace to remain dead until the people see fit to resurrect him. Let us have a common sense campaign next year and a tloket that Is not dominated by political mountebanks. Aurora Republican! Alt this .democratic non-partisan talk that' la floating around the state Is rank enough to five one of average "hose" sense a severe pain at the belt line. How many democratic news papers, how many democratlo candidates for supreme Judge, how many democratlo spellbinders are supporting Messrs. Whtt more and Allen for regents of the . uni versity? These two men have made good and the welfare of the university demands their re-election. Why not talk non-partl-sanshlp here, you fellows? '"Yes," you say, but that's different." Sure it la. Whlt- more and Allen are republicans and so of course are not entitled to democratlo sup port. It'a only democratic candidates who are non-partisan. Nemaha Republican: Nebraska la a re publican state, a majority of Its voters are beyond question supporters of repub lican pollloles, which have made for peace, prosperity and plenty throughout the na tion, and yet a republican victory cannot be won in Nebraska this year unless the republican voters go to the polls and reg ister their wishes and desires in the only effective way to Impress their views on the result by casting a vote. Many things arise that seem to offer at least a shadow of excuse for falling to perform the first duty of a cltlxen. which Is to vote. Dis tance from the polling place; the demands of buslntss and In many country districts the seeming pressure of work that calls for completion before the closing in of win ter, but all these are shadow compared with the real substance of the faot that In every election the government of the people by the people is at stake. Nebraska Is a republican state, but tn the final re sult It will not be so unless republicans cast their votes. Let no though that "there will be plenty of others" satisfy a single republican and keep him from voting. It takes all to make that "plenty" assured and keep Nebraska in the republican col umn. Geneva Blgnal: It la of no consequence to the Signal whom the democratic gov ernor of this state has appointed chaplain of the state penitentiary at the meagir salary allowed that person If he Is a fit person, a man of broad Christianity, who can sympathize with the unfortunates who will como under his care and be aealous In doing all that he ran for them, but It does seem odd that the governor should light upon a preacher of the ohurch of Latter Pay Saints and appoint him to this somewhat conspicuous although not very paying position. The particular branch to which Rev. Mr. Huff belongs is said to have discarded polygamy, but tht branoh Is a very insignificant ons In else and so little Is known of these reformed Mormons that undesirable public comment has re sulted from the appointment of Mr. Huff. Nobody seems to know anything about blm and nobody vouches for blm but Qovernoi Shallenberger. Tbe chaplain of the state penitentiary Is a very dlffloult place for any man to fill, no matter how great his qualifications. Had we been governor we would not have selected an unknown preacher of a curious sect, without known qualifications, to be the spiritual adviser and confidential friend of the state's con victs. The governor made a risky guess at best. . , Collapse ol Ke.ble liose. Wall Street Journal. President Ryan of the American Packers' association says there is no prospect of cheap meat. Thus dies the last feeble hope of the poor man that he may taste a por terhouse steak without putttng a Hen n his next year's wages. H Cwlltlee the Mae. Kansas City Times. Judge Lovett, the new president of sfee Union Paoiftc, la a Texas democrat. It is expected tbat the roal. however, Vfll continue to be strictly bi-partisan. thirty day test of PASSIHO PLEAS AKT RIES. "I suppose you will sua the paper thai called you a rascal." The politician, grew thoughtful. "It depends," he answered. "Of 'course I must first find out if It has the proof." Philadelphla Ledger. "Doesn't your husband ever do an work?" r, "No, poor man he has a weak back." "What's the matter with It?" , "He strained It trying to lift the mort gage off the old homestead." Cleveland Leader, (-;. j "Elfleda, for six months 1 have been Jiit aching to tell you how much I love yoti!" "O, Guy, I've been aching longer than tbat to hear you aay it!" Chicago Tribune "Do you think we will gret onyg really pur out of this movement for pure air,, pure politics, pure food and a pure ballot?" . , ' "Oh, yes." - "What Is Itr "Pure rot." Baltimore American. , ... "She belongs to one of our best families." "Did her ancestors . come overv In the Mayflower?" "Oh, no. Bhe's much more exclusive than that, fine's a Daughter of Discoverers of the North Pole." Life. , TTMaiAklalHal Yea, . . I Wkal iL. w uur'iiitiiivicu tuuini- vt 11 nv otrr i lit distinctive feRtureu of the jrame of brldfro? Expert Obterver Too often pinched and haggard, espeoJally toward morntn,j.ChS uaU aliVUIIO. "Just think. of It-a full table d'hote din ner for 80 cents; oysters, soup, fish, roast duck, salad, ice cream, fruit, demi-tasse!" "Where? I t I" 1 don't know but Just think' of !" Harper's Weekly. "My eteady looks exactly like Apollo!" slphed the sentimental one. ' - "That ain't narthen," sniffed tbe ". lass of the glove counter. "My beau js the original for the Peerless Perfection dress shirt ad." Puck. .- 1 "A man who enters the diplomatic .serv ice must be prepared to travel In foreign lands, -and leave home and friends behind." "Not always. Sometimes he need ' no farther than the nearest telegraph office to get his recall." Washington Star. r "1 suppose youi home ton la very proud of you?" said the friend. "I don't know," answered Senator Bor ghum. "I sometimes fear I'm cot a glad dening Influence In my bom teww. Tou , see, the people who knew me when I we a boy can't understand how the govern ment can amount to much with me so prominent Iri it." Washington Star. DTOIAS-SUMMER.-' Chicago News. In the mellow Indian summer Lie the meadow calm and still.' Smiling as the peaceful plumber . When you settle up hi bill. ' f Just about the middle distance There' a mule devouring hsy; Doesn't seem to want assistance. So you'd better keep away. Far above with wing that quickens Floats a hawk of nlercln ev While he scans the ground for chlckena That the farmer want to fry.. In the thicket hide the rabbit, ' Shy as any startled fawn;. If you have the hunting habit ' You can gamble he Is on. In the woods are red and yellows 1 Biasing every way you turn. Soon, I think, these farmer fellows ' Will have autumn leave to burn. ... Rare and radiant Indian summer On the blue hills far away, ' Here or there, you are a hummer, So we wish that you would stay. OMAHA ADVANCES III 1 MIRROR BUILDING ART A. Hosps Co.'s 'tar's Craft Shop" Makes This a Featu fi Department Row. It's rather smart to have mirrors fitted Just as you want them,- but It hasn't been possible In Omaha until now. 1 But this plan 1 now In order because of the advent of h "Framer Craft Shop" operated by the A. Hospe Co. of XMJ Doug las stieet. Any shape, slse, oval, circle, pier or fancy shaped mirror design will b fur. nlshed and ritud here rush work top. If you must i.. . in lima for wedding gifts, eto. Mirror for dining room may be fitted in golds, gilts or brasses; mirrors for bou doirs may be fitted In oaks, walnut and other precious hard woods; mirror for halls may be effectively framed In mahog. any, rosewood, etc. even the bath room will have its special made hilrror of white enamel. Only the most perfect and flawless Im ported French and Belgium plate glass la used, and every mirror designed here will bear the trade marked "F. C. S." label. just as do the "Framer' Craft fhop" ple- lure irames. - - . Call at this store and have us submit ketone of mirror, flttlna to harmonize with your bom furnlshlugs. w. bring In your own decorater plana If you wUL Demand baud wrought "Framer' Craft Shop" fitting to your mirror Just as you would "Framer" craft shop work on picture frame. That little gold label bearing the trad market Initials. "F. C. 8." Is potent for prestige and you may as wail halve IL A- HOSP CO.. lal! Douglas It 1 V N
