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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
State of Nebraska. Douglas County, aa ".
George B. Taschuck. treasure or The Bea
Publishing Company, being duly rworn, aays
that the actual number of full and complete
coplee of The Dally, Morning. Evening and
Rundav Bee printed during the month of
September, 190. was aa follows:
l ,t70 U a,oo
t 49.800 IT 42.700
t 4i,Tio ll 4a,aeo
4 41.M0 1 4O.4O0
I. ,0) SO 43,480
43, ISO tl ...4J.5B0
7 41.M0 fl 43,380
41,000 It 44.C40
41.M0 4 43,030
10 43,300 St 43,310
11 41.70 tt 40,300
;i 40.000 17 43380
11 43,140 St 43,670
14 43,370 II O.300
II 43400 10 43,740
Total ,l8.S80
Returned copies 9JM
Nat toUl 1,850,395
tally average 41,879
GEORGE B. TZSCIIUCK.
Treasurer.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before ana this Wth day of September, 1?00.
(Seal) M. P. WALKER.
Natary P'ibllc.
abacrlbera lea visa; tke eltr teaa
parartly should have The Be
mailed t theaa. Addreaa will b
carnage aa aftea aa o,weste.
Breathitt county la at Its old trick
of substituting bullets for ballots.
Queen Cotton 18 certainly getting
to be real velvet In the hands of Pat
ten et al.
It is bad enough to be shot for a
deer, but to be shot for a partridge la
pretty small game.
That gloomy yellow veil over Mars
may be only the smudge of the burn
ing autumn leaves.
Every American expects the Pacific
fleet to be able to smash targets as
readily as schedules.
The cry "Cut it deep through
Dixie" is meant for waterways, but it
sounds like watermelon.
What the scattered waters of the
Mississippi need is the application of
the modern solidarity idea.
Those airships seem to be as brittle
as gingerbread. It is always a toss-up
whether the aviator stays up.
One Weyler, formerly of Cuba, who
li.ia been sent to suppress all disaffec
tion in CataloDla, ought to find the
Job congenial to his name.
Presumably Judge Gaynor'i remark
that be is a babbling brook does not
necessarily mean that after election
day ho will rnn on forever.
It transpires that the cotton batting
costume proves to be as fatal when
used to help impersonate an Esquimau
as In its old Santa Claus days.
Growing discrepancy between births
and deaths in France shows that the
I' rench family has not yet made the
national alarm over depopulation a
pei-scnal affair.
It is the votes of "progressive" re
publicans for which the democrats are
angling this year. It was the votes of
"reactionary" republicans that they
were angling for two years ago.
The democrats nevei waged a
straight campaign in Nebraska in all
their lives. Look out for crooked
canards and campaign roorbacks set
in motion by oily democratic fakirs.
The husband who deposited a "Cu
pid's toll" as a guaranty that he would
make his wife happy might have
known that a bride demanding such a
forfeit would take means to collect it.
An American girl has secured a
divorce from her Japanese husband
because he used Jlu-jltsu methods to
break her of the piano habit. One
case where muslo failed to soothe the
savage breast.
In the New York municipal cam
paign the thoughtful voter is keeping
his eye on the quiet little man at the
hesd of the republican ticket against
whom ncne of the mudslingers has
fouiin a word to say.
The legal prohibition upon any in
dividual desirous of contributing more
than fl.000 to a campaign fund, writ
ten into the statutes of Nebraska by
the late democratic legislature, proves
to be entirely unnecessary.
Among the centennial anniversaries
of the year the centennial of the death
of Daniel Lambert should not be over
looked, for ho waa the biggest man of
Ms day, the whole iCngUsh-apeakuig
ceople msrvellng at his til pounds.
Three Mora Becmiti.
About a week ago The He thronl
cled the fact that the first recruit re
sponding to Colonel Iiryan's proclama
tion for enlistments under the banner
of his latent tariff reform ptrajnount
was Congressman Bulzer of New York,
reprebenting that great reform organ
ization known an Tammany ball.
With that democratic statesman as
color-bearer Colonel Bryan has now
three more recruits In his army of re
form whose applications for enlistment
are printed In the current Issue of his
Commoner. From their declarations
of Intention thus filed, the rapid prog
ress Colonel Bryan is making towards
solidifying the democratic party on
the tariff reform program may be
readily seen.
Congressman Joseph F. O'Connell of
Massachusetts modestly writes that he.
and he alone, framed the platform re
cently adopted in state convention by
the democratic party In Massachusetts
fully embodying his Idea of what the
democratic tariff program should be
In these words:
We demand an Immediate reduction of
the tariff duties on the necessaries of life.
Congressman R. B. Macon of Arkan
sas endorses the proposition embodied
by Mr. Bryan in his speech at Dallas,
but is not content to stop there, be
cause he declares:
I am an antl-protectlonist from head to
heels. 1 believe that If the great Creator
of All Things made man and placed him
upon earth. He Intended that he should
have a free race to the goal unhindered
by his fellows, and that for any one of
them to obstruct his course by digging
pitfalls or erecting barriers to Interfere
with his progress would be unbrotherly,
unmanly and contrary to every Christian
spirit Implanted In man by his Creator.
Congressman De Armond of Mis
souri, as the third guardsman, writes
to say:
I concur In the suggestion recently made
by the Hon. William J. Hiyan as express
ing the proper democratic doctrine upon
the tariff, and would like to see the demo
cratic party everywhere make It. by plat
form declaration, a cardinal tenet of party
faith.
Here is democratic harmony with a
vengeance.
The democratic congressman from
Massachusetts has committed his party
In bis state merely to a reduction of
the tariff duties on the necessaries of
life, which certainly does not neces
sarily include free raw materials, and
conveniently leaves to be demonstrated
later what constitutes the necessaries
of life.
The democratic congressman from
Arkansas is for free trade, pure and
simple, as the divine right inherited
by every man from his Creator, and
must therefore be for razing every
custom house and toll gate altogether.
The democratic congressman from
Missouri is for any prescription that
the good Dr. Bryan wants to write
out for the patient, which, in this case,
Is free raw materials and piecemeal
reduction of other duties down to the
uniform rate of 25 per cent.
Great is the democratic army follow
ing the banner of tariff reform.
Sural Mail Delivery.
To most of us the rural letter car
rier is a personal unit, a modern con
venience who pauses at the gate once
or twice a day, establishes the house
hold's contact with the outside world
and passes out of view and out of
thought until the morrow. But at
large the rural letter carrier numbers
an army of 42,000, traveling more
than 1,000,000 miles of road each,
day and serving 4,000,000 families.
Only when we consider that the first
experimental route was served only
thirteen years ago and that it is less
than ten years since the first full
county service was attempted, can we
realize with what suddenness this
prodigious growth has been acquired.
Notwithstanding its suddenness, it
has been accompanied by the develop
ment of auxiliary businesses, the field
being full of houses that have sprung
up to fill the requirements of the car
riers for special clothing, vehicles,
wagon beaters, stamp and coin cabi
nets, mall boxes and all sorts of de
vices and appliances peculiarly for the
convenience, comfort and dispatch of
the rural carrier's business. That the
rural carrier does keep abreast of af
fairs is testified to by his flourishing
national association, at, whose recent
convention P. V. DeGraw, fourth as
sistant postmaster general, reviewed
some of the public benefits resulting
from the establishment of the service.
Looking at the gain from only the
financial point of view, Mr. DeGraw
calculates that the farmer annually
saves $468,000,000 by having his mall
brought to his door Instead of going
once a week to the postofflce. Since
the beginning of the service the gov
ernment has saved $20,000,000
through the abolition of fourth-class
offices and star routes. On the other
hand, the service costs the government
137,000,000 a year, which Is 115,000,
000 more than it directly yields in
revenue. It is to be noted, however,
that the'system is steadily developing
Increased patronage.
Good roads constitute another di
rect benefit attributed to rural deliv
ery, it being estimated that $75,000,
000 In road improvements may bo
credited to the advent of the rural
carrier. Furthermore, expert opinion
traces an Increase in country realty
values of $750,000,000 as due to ad
vantages accruing to farmers through
the agency of rural delivery.
Material gains have not been the
only attainment of the service, how
ever; it has been also a vitalizing
agent In social life. Conditions among
farmers, miners aad other dwellers in
the remoter districts have come under
a civilising influence which has in part
checked the drift to the cities, thereby
aiding in the solution of a Mrioua
sociological problem; the service has
been a decided stimulus to agriculture.
The next step proposed Is to extend
rural free delivery to Include a par
cels post. While this would materially
lessen the government's deficit. It
naturally meets with opposition from
certain sources, but the farmer is en
thusiastically for It. If the parcels
post project reaches congress it will
naturally be fought by the express
companies, but the rural carriers and
their patrons may be expected to be
a unit In Its favor.
A Setback for Simplified Spelling.
Instructive and interesting as are
Mr. Roosevelt's magazine articles on
his jungle experiences In Africa, one
feature has failed to elicit attention,
namely, the complete abandonment of
simplified spelling.
It Is only about three years ago
that, as president of the United States,
Mr. Roosevelt officially instructed the
public printer, to furnish the proof
readers with the simplified spelling
board's lists and to use them as style
card on all executive messages and
other documents emanating from the
White House. The president's order
raised a storm of protest, re-echoing
In congress, which brought out the
fact that a duly enacted law of the
United States designated a particular
dictionary as the official test of cor
rect spelling In the literary output of
the government printing office. So
obdurate did some of the back-number
members of congress prove to be
that the spelling reform, which had
gained admission to the White House
without knocking, found the doors of
the capitol slammed in Its face. As
private citizen, letter writer and au
thor Mr. Roosevelt might spell in any
way he pleased, but as president of
the United States he must conform to
the established usages of a long line
pf distinguished predecessors for
whom the old-fashioned spelling was
good enough.
But now after doffing the official
straitjacket and becoming again sole
master of his own pen, Mr. Roose
velt clings to his boyhood speller and
shocks the simplified spelling reform
ers by wasting three needless letters
on the word "through," and three
more needless letters on the word "al
though." In some cases of this kind
the author might put the lapse on the
printer, but it is hardly to be sup
posed that any printer would take the
responsibility of departing from
"copy" coming from such a source.
The only plausible explanation is that
the simplified spelling champions
have lost what once seemed to be a
promising and influential convert
Romance of Land Drawing.
. When the last allotment of public
land shall have been made, there will
pass out of American life one of Its
dramatic features. Homesteadlng
from the beginning has exercised a
fascination for the observer as well as
for the participant, and since the
scarcity of land has brought in the ele
ment of competition each allotment
has aroused all the interest of a na
tional prize package distribution.
The recent drawings in the Chey
enne River and Standing Rock reser
vations have afforded the usual fund
of human Interest episodes. Noth
ing could more aptly illustrate the
vicissitudes of life than the fact that
the man who won the grand prize for
feited ltby his greed, which prompted
him to file another claim Just before
the drawing. And there is every ele
ment of romance in the experience of
the widow who so surprisingly found
her name among the winners after all
hope seemed gone.
President Louis Hill of the Great
Northern is quoted as attacking the
method of land allotment, but his crit
icism is not echoed by the disappointed
participants. Instead, even the losers
have had a peculiar enjoyment which
no other form of holiday could afford,
and those who go back from the regis
tration with no land allotment seem
content to have shared in a phase of
life that they will talk about to the end
of their days.
Great Citiei of the World.
As a barometer of commercial ac
tivity the population of New York has
long afforded an interesting study and
the estimates, complied for 1909 are
peculiarly illuminating. Thomas W.
Hotchkiss offers the figures in detail
in an article in the Independent to sus
tain the argument of the Association
of New York, a recently organized
boosters' club, that the metropolis is
worthy of something better than the
indiscriminate abuse heaped upon it
because of municipal politics. But his
statistics are a subject for national ap
plause as well, manifesting as they do
a remarkable growth in comparison
with the metropolitan cities abroad.
Based on data from various con
servative sources, Mr. Hotchkiss esti
mates the present population of New
York at 4,564,792, against London's
T, 452,986. He credits Paris with
2,792,988 and Chicago with 2,224,
490, with Berlin and Vienna slightly
under Chicago. With this comparison
he is able to present the astonishing
showing that New York has actually
outstripped Its greatest rival la Itsrate
of increase. Year by year New York
is gaining 125,287 inhabitants, while
London's annual increase la only 109,
046. Paris is almost at a standstill,
with less than 10,000 annual gain in
population. Chicago, with a yearly in
crease of 68,435, is slightly leading
Vienna and almost doubling Berlin's
accretion. Chicago's growth is mar
velous, bat New York's has even vaster
national significance, for New York is
the whole United States. As the ct ti
ter of progress of the western world
New York's achievement la outpacing
every old world city, even London, Is
generally been considered an Index for
the natural gateway from Europe into
America and its development has quite
calculated to stir the exultant ambi
tion of all Americans.
Sprightly Old Age.
Coincident with the news that a sea
captain of 60 years has just begun a
law course in one of our universities
comes the announcement of a Wiscon
sin grandmother, aged 79, who has en
tered Ohio State university for the
the regular collegiate course, with. pe
clal attention to literature and psy
chology, coupled with the disclosure of
a planned course of study that shall
occupy her until her ninetieth birth'
day. These two cases demonstrate for
both sexes the fitness of the old say
ing newly applied that it Is never
too late to learn. '
All of us recall the regularity with
which men and women used to subside
to their chimney corners when they
became grandfathers and grandmoth
ers. This seems to be no longer the
rule, but instead the people have, en
tered upon an era of sprlghtllness ac
celerating with the advent of years
and the lessening of responsibilities.
At the age of 45 or 50 the woman of
the household was wont of old to
adopt the cap and assume the manners
of demure seclusion. Nowadays who
can tell by costume or manner the vl
vacious mother from the engaging
daughter?
Since Dr. Osier's theory of the early
termination of a man's usefulness
startled us for the moment, we have
recovered our poise and have come to
realize anew that a man's or a
woman's best years, if not of useful
ness, at least of enjoyment, may come
after age has mellowed and cares have
seared one's fibers. People look for
ward to maturer age now more as a
period of full service and golden rec
reation. With differing tastes this
may take varied forms, but whether it
means a return to studies from which
the duties of life had diverted atten
tion or the adventure of travel or the
Joy of sociability or activity in home
and neighborhood, it is evident that
modern old age has a sprlghtllness
that formerly did not obtain.
In a Nut-Shell.
Three months ago the republicans
of Nebraska by delegates duly chosen
throughout the various counties met
In state convention to promulgate their
platform as required by law. The
concluding portions of that platform
concisely describe the conditions that
confront the voters at the impending
election:
We point with pride to the records of
the judges who for many years have been
elevated to the bench In this atate as re
publicans, but who aa Judges have known
neither personal favoritism nor, political
partisanship, but have fearlessly and Im
partially declared the law and held the
scales of juatioe even between rich and
poor, high and low, republican, democrat,
populist, prohibitionist and aoclalist alike.
We denounce the eleventh hour pretense
of devotion to the Idea of non-partisanship
by the lata democratic lglslature after
running a riot of partisanship for three
months and ruthlessly legislating repub
licans out of office by the wholesale In
order to make room for democratic office
seekers. If the passage of their so-called
non-partisan Judiciary act was Intended to
charge by Innuendo that republican judges
are not to ba trusted to perform their
official duties without political bias accord
ing to their oatha of office, we resent the
imputation. It 111 becomes the democrats
to prate about a non-partisan Judiciary
when the record shows that, when they
had elected two of the supreme Judges
a few years ago, thy left no stone un
turned to elect the third and make the
court consist wholly of their own partisan
Judges.
What Is her ald with reference to the
administration of the courts applies like
wise to the administration of the state uni
versity. This noble Institution has grown
and prospered under the efficient manage
ment of regents elected as republicans, free
from the Intrusion of political partisan
ship or tha application of political tests
In sharp contrast with tha time when
under a fusion board it management was
notoriously partisan.
The reasons, therefore, are not hard to
find why, for mora than a third of a cen
tury, but for one brief trial period, tha
people of Nebraska have continuously pre
ferred to entrust their highest court of
Justice and their highest Institution of
learning to officers presented as candidates
by the republican party, and these reasons
hold good today. The nominees of the
republican party for these responsible posi
tions this year will ba competent and
trustworthy, and ahould command the sup
port and votes of all good cltlcens who be
lieve In honesty. Justice and fidelity and
hate hypocrisy, deceit and faithlessness.
The conscientious voter who will
study this statement and go to the
polls determined to do his full duty
as a citizen of Nebraska will record
himself for the candidates on the re
publican ticket.
Legislating Back an Industry.
The new law which the British Par
liament Is to put in force for the linen
weavers of the Belfast district ex
presses an effort to legislate back into
existence a vanished industry. "Real
Irish linen," once the proud bemt of
the thrifty housewife in this as in
other countries, no longer exists ex
cept as a name. The product that is
actually entitled to that hallmark
would never begin 'to fill the demand.
Power looms are pressed under mod
ern conditions to keep the markets
supplied, and so far as the consumer
has been able to discover the new man
ufacture has been as serviceable as the
old.
But the Belfast district persevered
with its hand looms in the face of ma
chine, competition, until in a despair
ing gasp it has called upon Parliament
for help, which is now to be accorded,
and after January 1 the words "Irish
woven linen damask" or "Irish hand
woven" appearing on any goods will
Indicate, if the trade conscientiously
lives up to the British law, that the
material is actually the product of an
Irish hand loom. Parliament has pro-
Ided penalties for the placing of such
arks upon power loom goods, and It
ay be that the "real Irish linen" in
ustry will enjojy marked Improve
ent within the scope of the British
aw, but there is nothing as yet to pre
vent unscrupulous dealers n other
countries from putting the "hand
made" trademark upon any piece of
goods they choose to offer for sale,
whatever Its origin.
Contrasts in Woman'i Suffrage.
It Is pleasant for both sexes to con
template the contrast afforded by the
methods of the suffragists in this coun
try against those of the suffragettes
broad. In spite of the presence of
one of the most notoriously violent
leaders from London, the women of
ew York demonstrated their ability
j conduct a convention of 1,000 dele
gates in exemplary parliamentary
fashion, and their temperate platform
and orderly procedure cannot but ad
vance their cause much further than
ould have been the case If threats of
violence had been indulged.
It should be noted, too, that the
more aggressive sisterhood in Iowa de
cided on the adoption of "obstructive"
rather than "militant" tactics, indl
catlve of a deep conviction that self
repression may be exercised with no
diminution of power. When the Hawk
eye women storm the legislature they
are likely at least to forego the un
womanly ways that have made the
cause offensive abroad. It remains to
be seen whether the movement in this
country will get further by good be
havlor than It will abroad where their
sisters are charged with all sorts of
misconduct.
Douglas county republicans never
presented to the voters a better bal
anced all-around local ticket than they
are presenting today. The democrats
never put up a weaker set of incom
petents and disreputables, with the
possible exception of the last time.
Every self-respecting voter in this
county will help swell the republican
majority.
The latest phase of Maryland's
negrophobia is Senator Money's
avowed intention of attacking the le
gality of the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments In the supreme court.
The senator's friends ought to warn
him against this waste of ready money.
According to reliable advices, the
fracas of the Greeks at Salamls was
as nothing compared to the raid of
the hungry congressmen upon the
Greek fruit stands at Greenville, Miss.
V
Where Brains Arc Taxed.
Louisville Courier-Journal,
Many a man who haa kept an automobl
tuned up all summer finds that It requires
a real mechanician to run the house fur
nace in tha fall.
Worth Tryln Hverywher.
St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Omaha newspapers are advising the labor
organisations of tha city to select "wise,
conservative, competent laadera." Why con
fine tha advloe to labor organizations?
The Beat Uoaranty.
Wall Street Journal.
A sound banking law that will prevent a
bank being run fur tha us of politicians is
stronger guaranty of safety than any de
posit guarantee law that could be dcvln-d.
"Pork Barrels" Discredited.
Philadelphia Press,
The "pork barrel" policy In water works
must go. The advice of trained engineers
must take the place of tha log-rolling of
pproprlatlon committees. If President
Taft, following tha policy of his St. Louis
speech, were to refuse his approval to
any rivers and harbor appropriation act,
xcept on a national and far-seeing plan, he
would command publlo approval.
Gracious Act of Homavo.
Boston Herald.
The pilgrimage to Commodore Perry's
rave In Newport by Japan's envoys, and
their act of homage to his memory, wer
haracterlsttc of one of the most reverent
nd courteous of people, from whom Amer
icans have much to learn In the fine art of
loyalty to tha great dead, and the part
that It can be made to play In the educa
tion of successive generations of citizens.
TnlBlTB OF ASSOCIATES.
Harrlman'a K acres "Not One Man,
but Half a Dosen."
Wall Street Journal.
Three vice presidents were added to the
organization of the Union Pacific at the
meeting at which Judge Lovett was made
president. That is three more of auch
officera than the Union Paciflo ever found
eccssary during Mr. Harrlman'a lifetime,
Perhaps the most real tribute that haa been
paid to tha dead railroader la th fact that
his successor is not on man, but half a
dozen.
All of tha new vice prealdents were chosen
from tha working staff and their duties
may not be greatly different hereafter from
what thay hare been for some years past,
but It would b a mistake to suppose that
their formal promotion was only formal.
As long as all authority, directorial, finan
cial and managerial, was vested in ona
man, who constantly exercised his full com
mand, it made little difference whether hla
ubordlnatea were ctlled vice presidents
or general managers or something else.
Titles were then little more than titles.
But with the one master replaced by sev
eral masters, titles assume a new mean
ing and undoubtedly carry far-reaching au
thority with them.
At Mr. Harrlman'a death th better in
formed, instead of speculating upon th
Identity of his successor, freely predicted
that he would have no successor. Events
are rapidly vindicating their judgment, and
It accords perfectly with Thursday's
hanges in the In Ion Pacific's personnel
that the annual report discloses the sal,
urlng the last fiscal year, of all the com
pany's holdings of St. Paul common stock.
It makes no difference whether this sale
was or was not wholly of Mr. Harrlman'a
doing. The London view that much of Mr.
Harrlman'a work would hav to be undone
Is now known to have been well grounded,
as Mr. Harrlman himself may have fore
seen.
Just how far this process of readjust
ment will go no man can say. But at least
it Is clear that the Hariiman lines, as they
will still ba called In a historical sense,
hav entered Into th class which th Penn
sylvania haa long typified and of which
th New York system ta fast becoming
one, where directors direct and wher nat
ural llfn.lt a.tom of epher axe recognized.
SUMMONS BOILED D0WH.
It Is slow work curing the world s Ills by
preaching our Isms.
Nothing la accomplished by those who are
sftnld of overwork.
Nm Imagine that a Juat life is one fr.i
In Judging other people.
The worker who watches the clock neve
acquires th right to set it.
No man comes to himself until he know
that be belongs to his world.
The man who puta his substuiicv down hi
throat Is soon taken at his face value.
No man lays up treasures In hfvet b
sending verbal promissory notes th'rj.
Lota of people are waiting for a res'.
heaven who never knew the heven
work.
Many a man flnda that all the p'ety h
got In meeting evaporates when he goes
milking.
Ton can measure tha bitterness of the ad
versary'a pill by the thickness of the sugn
coating.
On of he worst results of ciooked ilv
Ing la that a man ceases to be on th square
with himself.
The blggeat coward of all Is th- man
who la not afraid of doing that tvhirii !,e
knows to be wrong.
It's no use dreaming of your heavenly
home If your faith doe not make your
homo more heavenly. .
If a man wants to learn where the salnU
really are, let him take care of the chll
dren at home for a day. Chicago Trlhtuif
SECULAS SHOTS AT PULPIT.
Baltimore American: A church convention
In Pennsylvania has put Itself on record
against divorce In the most practical wixv
by adopting a resolution that no minister
of the church shall marry a divorced per
son. This step come colncldently with the
government report of 50,000 divorcee a yeir
for the last twenty year.
Charleston News and Courier: According
to the Rev. Dr. 'Aked, Rockefeller's new-
pastor, "an actor In a police court means
no more than a clergyman In a dlvcre
court." He might have added with truth
that some actora do not fit th stage any
better than some preachers fit the pulpit.
If all the bad actors could b taken from
the stage and all the poor preachers could
be expelled from the pulpit. It would be
better for both pulpit and stage.
San Francisco Chronicle: Th announced
Intention of the combined Protestant
churches of th United States to begin a
campaign of newspaper and magazine ad
vertlslng, calling the attention of tha Amer
ican publlo to th Importance of remedying
certain social, economic and religion! con
ditions, is a new Idea In ohurch propa
ganda. It I a good Idea, however, pro
vlded the remedies suggested are caref j'!r
thought out and will stand th test of sea
son. Tha value of publicity Is not to be
underestimated, even in the work of th
churches.
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.
If Dr. Cook's discretion was equal to his
courage, he would hav tapped the Barrlll
first.
One of th things fairly well rubbed into
the river excursionists is that talk won't
move a sandbar.
Premier Prendergast of Spain leans to
ward tha teachings of hla ancestor. He
favors home rule with Spanish trimmings.
Th latest ukase of health promoters is
that overeating Is specially dangerous in
winter time. Awfully debilitating to th
pocketbook, too. . ., , .
Th difficulties encountered by the presi
dential flotilla on the way to New Orleans
Indicates that th bosom of th Father of
Waters need considerable ironing.
It is now explained that th conclusion of
scientist, towlt: "Man in hla makeup is
gas bag," was drawn from close observa
tion of th municipal campaign In New
York City. Thus restricted, it goes.
A rarity In real estato deals la reported
In Chicago. A piece of property having a
frontage of twenty-four feet on Michigan
avenue near Twelfth street, was leased for
term of 198 year for an aggregate rental
of 16,423,300.
Memphlans boldly defied sartorial light
ning by banishing the tall hat and frock
coat from th presidential reception. Sine
the waterwagon became tha official ve
hicle of hospitality there, caprices that
ould be considered Strang In other days
are now commonplace.
Abraham O. Munn, retired manufacturer,
philanthropist and patriarch, of Louisville,
Ky., died recently, aged 81. He was active
ly Identified up to the time of his deatn
Ith several charitable Institutions. He at
tributed his long life and the full reten
tion of hi faculties to temperance In all
things.
Chicago ha a citizen of four score and
eleven years who prefers work to a pen
sion. In his application for a peddler's
license he says he Is a native of Vermont,
servd In thre different regiments In the
Civil war, fought at Bull Run, Harper's
Ferry and other places, and never drew
pension. "I don't wan't any," ha adds,
but I want a chance to work."
Those beautiful picture of "Chicago
ieauliful," which have adorned newspapers
and magaxlnes for months past, are booked
fcr the Junk pile. A decision of the Illi
nois supreme court excludes the great field
museum from tha proposed Orant park on
th lake front, leaving Montgomery Ward
view of tha lake unbroken save by the
curling smudges of locomotives. For the
present, Chicago beautiful, remains a pleas
ant dream.
FOR SALE
Pressed brick, slate roof residence.
1 0 large rooms, fine bath room,
etc, full basement and big attic
House well built and in good con
dition. Two east front lots on
high ground and good street, nice
trees and good lawn. IVcar car
line, in one of the best sections in
the West Farnam district.
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DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES.
"An explorer certainly oughtt a-.oqutr
iiohkIi material for a lecture.
Thin s im- wife s -m when sha x
plores my pocket."I'"'bl" K 1 oU
-Love la a gam-." said the flirtatious
"And In this mercenary era." replied
Miss ravenne. "1 suppose matrimony I"
reuanied aj m.tl. a to cash 111.' ""' .
ton tar.
"Whi- .1.. .nJ flT IIP DO
uiler and fix UP
fully when ym are itolng to spend the"
evening by yourself, daughter?"
"Pon t you think I ought to b fair to
myself, ma Vl louston post.
Fhe Thev do not live hsppilv together?
He Its the eternal struggle between
religion and society. He Is as straight
backed as she la alralght front. Louisville
Courier Journal.
"I that an Ohio woman advertise
that she will give $10 to the person who re
turns her missing husband.
"Kvldently the price of husbands hasn't
advanced with the other necessities."
Cleveland Plain Iealer.
Mr. Jlggs I'll make It warm for you.
Mrs. Jlggs.
Mrs. Jikks Tou brut. I'll go right horn
to mamma.
Mr. Jlggs (smlllngl I m going to buy you
a new aealskln coat Baltimore American.
"Plil you ever know a girl to die for
love?"
"Viw "
"Did she Just fade away and die because
some man deserted herT
No: she. lust took In washlnr and worked
herself to death because tha man so loved
married her." Houston Post.
THE HILL CLIMB.
Ralph II. Shaw In Boston Tranacrlpt.
Fancy, childish In her play,
Said to me the other day,
"If you climb yon hilltop high
You may touch the vry sky;
Come, and let me lead the w ayl"
Sane denial I deferred.
And took Fancy at her word;
Tp the hill I followed her.
Passed the spreading juniper
And the silent grsntng herd.
Half-way up I paused and said,'
uianiv, raneyj am I lert!
When I reach the hilltop high
I shall touch the very sky.
That seems now Just o'er my headf
Blue above and green belowl
What a rapture I did know! ,
Letting Fancy have her way.
Wholly with her In her play,
I aid upward, upward go,
Soon my feet had climbed so WgW
That I saw the azure sky
r
t.leam th very grasses through
That upon th long ridge grew.
And I felt that It was nigh.
Up I went three pace more, A ,
Three, and looked the hilltop o'en,Jr '
Saw the sky wail far away,
And heard Fancy, laughing, say,
"Ah I you should hav atopped before." V
So It Is we often do
Often we too far pursue
Fancy, for the greatest good;
There's a point whereat we should
Stop and stay how very true!
Yflien the
Old Gray Wolf
, comes sniffing at your
door in old age it is not
the time to take out En
dowment insurance.
The opportunity la
now, when you are in
your youth or middle
age, and can put by" a
' "little" or a "much"
each year for the im
mediate protection of
your family in the
event of your death
and for your own future
protection if you live.
PAUL MORTON, President
N. D. NEELY, Manager
Merchants National Bank Bl)g
Omaha, Nebraska,
MHTEB.AX WATBK niOl Z.IST.
We sell over loo kinds Imported and
American Mineral Waters, and, aa w oh
tain direct from springs or Importer, cad
guarantee freshness and genuineness.
Itoro Llthia Water, bot., too; case, $5 00,
Uoro Llthia Water, pints., dozen, f'lfeoji
case 100, $10.00.
We are distributing agents In Omaha JL
for the celebrated watera from Kacelslor 7
Bprlngs, Mo., and sell at following prlcesi
Regent, quart bottle, l6c; dosen, 2.1S
esse, 60 bottles, ' $8.00.
Hulplio-Hallne. buurt bottle, 26oj dosen,
$126; case, 50 bottles, fH. 00.
Bulpho-Hallne, quart bottle, 2Eo dozen,
1.60.
Hoterlan, quart bottle, 0c; dosen, I J 00.
Buterlan, pint bottle. lCr; dozen, $160.
Botertun Olngcr Ale, pint bottle, 16c
dozen, $1.60. I
buterlan Ginger Ale, quart bottle, 2fcc
dozen, $2.25.
Llainond Lltha, half-gallon bottle, 40o
cut, 1 dozen, $4.00.
Crystal Llthia, five-gallon Jugs, each,
$2 00.
Salt Sulphur, five gallon Jugs, each,
$::.:6.
Iielivery free to any part of Omaha,
Council Hluffs or South Omaha. .
BKIUUI fc McCOITfflLl BUO CO,
18th and Dodge.
OWL Dtvo CO., 16th and Xarnaj.
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