Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, November 03, 1909, Page 6, Image 6
TIIK BEE: OMAHA. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 3. 1009. 6 -' s? OMAHA DAILY BEE, KOtNDF-D IW EDWAIUJ ROSE WATER- V1CTOII ROHEWATER. EDITOR. Entered at Omaha postofflce as aecond clss matter. TERMS OF SL BHCRIPTION. lsilr Be (without Sunday), one year .14 W Daily Be and Kunday, one year IELIVEREI BT CARRIER. Dally Bea (Including Sunday), per wekk 15c lally Be (without Sunday), per W9--Vf K.venlng Be (without Sunday), per weak o Evening He twlth Sunday), per week.ioc hunJtiv Bee, ona year ? eaturdav He, one year -6B Address all complaints of Irregularities In delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICER. Oinaha The Bee Building. South Omaha Twenty-fourth and N. Council bWirfs-lf. Scott Street, L1ncoln-6l Utile Building. Chicago H.1 Marquette Building. v. vm-kltor.ms 1101-1102 No. 84 Went Thirty-third Street. . w Washington-? Fourteenth Street. N. V COHHRSHONDENCK. rommunlcAtlona relating to news and edl toiinl matter should he addressed: Omaha i'ee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order pavaMe to The Bee Publishing Company. Only J-cent stamps received In payment or mall accounts. Personal checks, ezeept on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accoptea. STATEMENT OF CI RCVI.ATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.r fleofge B. Tifchuck, treasurer of The Bee Tuhllslilng Company, being duly, "worn: as that the actual number of full ana complete copies of The Dally. Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of October. . as follow: I 42,360 17 40,200 2 43.080 18 ,460 4-0,800 19 42,060 4 42,640 20 42,280 D.i 42,510 21 42,050 42,450 22 41.TS0 7 42,70 23 42,480 ft 43.810 2 40,330 8..., 42,880 25 41,0 10 40,300 2 41,880 11 42,710 27 42,230 12 42,240 28 42,210 II ..42,180 28 42,000 14 ...42,240 80 42,070 15 ..42,230 31 40,600 1 ..43,580 Total 1,303,040 Returned copies , 0,870 Net total 1,293,370 Dally average , 41,721 . OEOROE B. TZSCHUCK, Treasurer. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 1st day of November, 1909. (Seal.) M. P. WALKER, Notary Public. laliK-rttera leavlas; the city tent-' porarllr should have The Bee mailed to them. Add res will ke channel as eften aa reqaeaterf. Foot ball has fallen below par In West Point and Annapolis. How could Earl Bullock expect to escape the Texas roundup? It will soon bo up to the court crier to clear the way for Ig Dunn. Those democratic campaign manag ers are cheerful ilara it any rate. After that race across the continent, watch the fashion for fast silk trains. It is up to- tba -forestry squads to conquer th flrebn Pike's peak or bint. Oklahoma still carries the "guar anty" mark in the salvage, but has run out Of goods. Omaba has just, been furnished with another forcible argument in favor of a law to stop pistol toting. President Taft will aoon round Into the home stretch, where his speedo meter will attract his eye most. Cardinal Gibbons will never get the gold headed cane for the most popular churchman voted at a suffragette fair. When Breathitt county gets over Its election ruction some Kentuckians will breath freer and some others not at all The Chicago elevatad has abandoned the smoking car, but the smoking pas sengers are just aa abandoned as ever Andrew Carnegie is back from Scot land and atlll threatened with the pos sibility of being disappointed by not dying poor. In going into court with a scanda loua slander suit the Du Ponts show they are not afraid, to face powder aa well aa make It. While-masquerading aa populists and nonpartisans, why should not the democrats masquerade also as "pro gressiva" repubilcara? For some strange reason. Sir Thomas Li pro n does not appear dis posed to try soma other game in which he haa an even chance. It must have been very hard on Mr Bryan to let one Nebraska campaign (o by without making a single polit ical rpeech In his home state. Those complaining of the advance In prices may take cqpafort In contem plating radium, which haa gone up to $2,600,000 an ounce, or forty times its original cost Omaha la about to hear a selection of celebrities on the lecture platform or at the banquet board. Cook and Peary may yet have to put Omaha on their Itinerary. Money put up by the Bryan volun teers is paying for distributing those bogus republican circulars which con tain nine parts of Bryanlsra to one part of republicanism. And very soon , we will hear some thing from that Rhode Island turkey that has been faUened specially for the privilege of gracing the Whit House dinner table. When the army boya get to shooting cannon balls at balloons look for mar velous stories In the New York papers about the size of hailstone falling auouad Sandy H : ImproTed Waterway!. Culmination of all the recent agita tion for Improved waterways seems to show the United States virtually committed to the project, for which, under the unanimous pressure that will be brought to bear, congress will be ready enough to vote the funds, even In the face of the declaration of the president that "pork barrel" job bery Is to be (illmlnated. But having derided to prosecute the work, con gress should turn all the details of de velopment over to a commission com petent to master the engineering and commercial problems involved. Various sectional claims -will nat urally offer themselves for first con sideration, each locality regarding Its needs as the most Immediate. The project, however, should be approached aa a unit; Mr. Taft Is unquestionably sound in his argument against piece meal apportionment. The plan for a great waterway highway from the lakes to the gulf Is as much a single enterprise, regardless of Immediate local ambitions In any part of the val ley, as Is the Panama canal. The mighty river's waywardness will be found difficult of control, and its com plications must be handled solely with an eye to the permanent establishment of the future whole. Every step taken ought to be with due consideration for each succeeding step, every stage of the work a bulwark of the complete design. Individual and community in terests will best be served If the com mission in charge of the work be abso lutely unhampered by local restric tions, so that from its inception the undertaking may be a national and not a sectional affair, accomplishing aa it grows the greatest good to the greatest number within the range of the tribu taries developed., Omaha in the Census. Preliminary preparations will soon be under way for the counting of the people a a foundation of the census of 1910. What the census will show up for Omaha is necessarily at this time only within the realm of specula tion, although with the data available from various sources more or less ac curate estimates may be made. This much, however, is certain, that If the census Is taken without any chang In the city boundaries now existing, and South Omaha, Dundee, Benson and Florence all enumerated separately, Omaha will not be credited with the full population of the entire commu nlty, which is really one. and '.t will tuffer materially in the comparison with other cities of its class which are not burdened with such a handicap. The question which our people, and by this we mean not only the people of Omaha, but of South Omaha and the suburban towns as well, must consider seriously Is whether they want to let the census year of 1910 go by, which will fix the relative ranks of rival cities for ton years to come, without first seizing the opportunity to consolidate under one municipal government and leap the advantages which that con solldatlon would give, but which would be lost for ten years If delayed more than a few months longer. This subject presents a problem the most far-reaching that is before us. Its solution, or failure of solution, will have a direct bearing on the Immediate future of the community. It is a prob lem which must be grappled with soon or not at all. Consolidation in time for the 1910 census is by no means an Impossibility, but it will not come of itself. The Gompers Case. The cas of Samuel Gompers and his associates has been advanced another stage by the decision of the supreme court of the District of Columbia that the labor leaders had been properly ad judged guilty of contempt In violat lng an Injunction directed to them. It will be noted that the supreme justice of the court dissents from the conclusions of hla associates, "or con stitutlonal grounds," which will give Mr. Oompera and his friends additional courage to appeal the case to the su preme court of the United States. The offense being criminal one, the quea tlon whether an appeal may be taken has yet to be determined, but If a con stitutlonal point ia Involved It will be surely granted. The argument of the District of Columbia court, that a citizen must pursue the orderly course of appeal rather than decide for himself when he shall or shall not obey the man date of a court. Is fundamentally sound, but Mr. Gompers haa contended that It does not apply to the facts in his case. If he can maintain his posi tion that the Injunction waa Illegally Issued and that hla right of free speech wag at stake In his disobedience, the supremo court will certainly take juris diction of an appeal of this particular case, and determine finally the limits of the constitutional rights Invoked by the defendants. Under the Increased tax on drink the people of Great Britain seem to re gard it as their duty not to drink. Chancellor Lloyd-George reports a falling off in the consumption of 20 per cent In England, 50 per cent la Ireland and TO per cent In Scotland, which convicts the canny Scot again of being a leader In thrift. On the whole, Great Britain's effort to Increase Its revenues from liquor has resulted In an extraordinary reduction. It Is aim ply another case of the people, con fronted with high prices, ceasing to buy. The projection by Governor Shallen berger of G rover Cleveland's former secretary of the Interior for the domo catlo presidential nomination In 2 912 gives ground for the suspicion that closing law In New Orleans. Consular Waste. If a business house had an agent at foreign port who cost the firm 6,000 a year and brought In only $5, there would be immediate abolition f that agency or an effort to bring Its revenue approximately up to the ex pense. But Uncle Sam Is not like the commercial house; he knows that he has a considerable number of such agencies, as In the consular service, yet he calmly goes on footing the bills. It In order for the practical man of affairs, confronted with such a ahow- ng as that made by the auditor of the State department, to ask if It is nec essary for this N waste to continue in such a marked degree. The consular agents reply whenever that question arises, that their presence at remote points Is essential for reasons other than commercial. It has been common practice among the nations to merge the interests of friendly powers at remote and un profitable points, and to have one con sular agent look after the occasional business that offers. Why. could not this system be operated at every port where the commercial Interests are bo slight, and where no International matter of Importance Is likely to arise? The United States ia rich enough to af ford to be extravagant In supporting embassies at the capitals of the world, but when it comes to consular agents at points which cannot be found on or dinary maps, and which the experi enced student of geography has trou ble to l,)cate, it would seem to be time to apply the hard-headed rule of the merchant who Is not In business for hla health. To the layman the naval contest among the nations cannot but appear a matter of much futility. France has just demonstrated that no armor re sists the modern projectile and Britain is finding Dreadnaughts so costly that she Is investigating the construction of a new semi-submarine type designed to supplant all warships looming above the water. The United States has just approved two of the most powerful vessels of the Dreadnaught class, with the mental reservation among naval officers that in a few years these, the swiftest and most marvelous of fight ing ships, will be obsolete. There seems to be no limit to the develop ment of the navies, except the limit on ability to foot the bills. The weather man is keeping the season open to give our paving con tractors a chance to finish up their work. Those who do not take the chance ought to be shut out of the next competition. Never mind, whichever way it goes in New York or Nebraska, the Com moner will read It as pointing to demo cratlc success In 1912 providing only the democrats put up the right candl date. The woman suffrage movement can not be very strong here. Witness the lack of Interest of the women In the school board election in which they are privileged to participate. t'nvrelconie Title. Boston Herald. Those who think to praise the late Gen eral Howard by calling him "the Christian soldier" may be Interested to know that he didn't like the term because It Involved reflection on other soldiers. Blaaed Assertion. Chicago Post. It was a prejudiced correspondent who cabled the story that Mr. Roosevelt jumped behind a tree to escape a charging elephant. Everybody knows Mr. Roosevelt would have made the elephant climb the tree. Courage of Modern Men. Baltimore American. The dean of a woman's college says that college women not only make the best wives, but also that they get the beste-pald husbands. But It showa, too, the reckless nesa of the age that desirable men, who oan pick and choose, are not afraid to adventure their Uvea and careers on scien tific cookery. Oer. Hashes for Supreme Bench Boston Herald. It Is not surprising that Governor Hughes Is mentioned as a possible successor to the late Justice Peckham on the supreme bench, New Tork will argue strongly for representation In ffie supreme court, which has, been its honor with the exception of but few years since the beginning of the government. And Governor Hughes, If not the greatest lawyer of the state, stands high In his profession as he does In his citizenship and publlo service. "Era of Peaceful Progress." Boston Tranacrlpt. While our battleship North Dakota was undergoing preliminary trials two note worthy fighting vessels were launched In Europe, the British Indefatigable and the French! Mlrabeau. The Indefatigable which ia a battleship In all but name, Is expected to make twenty-seven knots, and is of equal power and speed. The Mlrabeau Is the fifth French dreadnaught. Scarcely a day passes that does Dot witness either the launch or the test of a tremendous warship somewhere, and yet thla Is an "era of peaceful progress." Assailing Ancient Institutions. Washington Star. The president Is attacking an andent and honorable institution when he declares for a revision of the method of approprla ting for rivers and harbors, more popularly known as the pork barrel procesa. Those familiar with congressional proceedings know well the process by whloh the bien nlal allotments of publlo funds for the waterways of the country are voted. It Is the old 'Tag-rolling" devloe of oo-opera- tion. The representative of the district through which rolls that noble stream Squash creek gives his vote for the projects to' deepen Snake river. Podunk harbor, Qooae bay and the mighty SI wash, whil the representatives of the districts In which thoao classlo waters have been bestowed by an all-wise providence lend him thel help In turn and help one another In true spirit of brotherly love. Indeed, th filling and heading of the pork barrel calls for the exercise of the most benevolent spirit ever' manifested In public affairs. here is no 8 o'clock Around New York Btpplse ob the Correal f Ufe aa Veen la the Great American Metropolis from xtay te Bay. Bee that book? Pure! But who can tell by the picture the working value of the device? "Experience leaves the most en during Impression," as the sage of Saddle Creek remarked when he recovered from rear-end collision with a mule's heel. The tame la true of the hook. Much de pends where you get It. A New Tork man 'got the hook" a few days ago In a way both thrilling and gratifying While paint ing a bridge 150 feet above ground the lad der scaffold gave way at his end and he started on a dive for the street below. Then the hook got busy, caught a section of the painter's trousers and held him, head downward, until rescued. "Boys," re marked the victim when breathing became normal, "the hook Is all right In Its place. It didn't get a very dignified grip on me, but Its hold beats a graveyard by a mile." "In ancient days," remarks the Sun, "a dead chieftain was followed to his grave by his unrldden horse, upon which was fixed his armor. For the last century or two a dead general's charger, riderless, has Invariably preceded the gun caisson bearing the casket. At Senator McCarren's funeral the black plumed horses and heavily draped hearse were preceded by the Senator's automobile, vacant except for the chauffeur. This automobile was run at funeral pace. It was not draped, ror were there flowers In It. In that automo bile Senator MeCarren had visited every nook and corner of Kings county to dis cern the ceaseless problems which con fronted his leadership. He used It for pre liminary battles and for the great battles on election day. In other words, It was his war chariot, and to many Its appear ance at the funeral was just as expressive as the riderless charger of other days." The tailors of New York are the most continuous and persistent advertisers in the world. Once your name Is on the books of one of them, and you never lose him. lta keps a line of circulars out perpetu ally. At least four times each year one of them hits the former customer, no matter how often he may change his address. A friend of mine happened Into a Ful ton street shop one morning, and ordered an overcoat. As he was being measured. the salesman said. "You are the first cus tomer we have had. The shop only opened thla morning." Well," said the man, "I suppose you will do the usual thing?" What's that?" The first customer always gets a pair of trousers free." "Come over and nick out your nattern." tfie tailor said. "It's a go," ThoBe trousers were worn out ten years ago. And yet every little while the cus tomer gets a letter from this house, thank ing him for his early trade, and remind ing him of his unique position as the first customer. The ingenuity of the street Arab has found a use for tobacco coupons never con templated by the corporation which Issues them. They form admirable stakes for ex citing games of craps. In secluded corners near cigar stores groups of small urchins may be seen kneeling on the pavement deeply absorbed In shpotlng the pennies. In each grubby flst Is grasped a . few coupons, and their, look and feel, to the youthful Imagination not so very far re moved from real bills, seem to add a zest to the game. Then the supply can be so easily replenished by any boy. All he has to do is to hang around the door of the nearest cigar store once more, and wtth piteous face and whining voice beg, "Gimme your coupon, please," and he Is sure. to replenish his store again. It's not every cigar smoker who is saving up for a magnificent cut glass punch bowl, and the lads find plenty of people as ready to hand them a coupon as throw them In the street. In a New York newspaper the president of the Waldorf-Astoria tells about what the twentieth century American requires In the way of a hotel. In the list are mentioned: Rooms refrigerated in summer, steam- heated In winter; private suites costing 160,000 to furnish; music by the masters; art work costing millions, statuary "The Flight From Pompeii," as an instance- costing $38,000. Or a "Cleopatra," by Story, and tapestries, the latter In the trifling sum of 8400.000. ' The modern hotel must have for the de' lectation of its patrons' varied tastes, fish from the deepest seas, caviar from the polar sone, fruit from, the tropics and wines from the rarest vineyards. The American must have a banquet tonight at hla favorite hotel, and in that very same room tomorrow night a theatrical perform, ance by society amateurs. " He has his telephone for his local needs, the telegraph and cable for his more dis tant affairs, and the wireless to link htm with the ships on the Beas and other conti nenta. He demands his weather report every few hours. If It so pleases Mm, and tho latest quotation of the atocka in which he Is Interested. He wants hand-painted seats on his chairs, costly laces for bedspread and the chef d'oeuvres of china and glass for his table, aa well as the deftest flnger-workod laces for his napery. He wants his chiropodist and masseuse and manicure within a half minute's call, and when he sleeps he want", amidst the tolling monotony of an Empire city scal ing the apex of human endea-mp, quiet. Your modern hotel In America sets the pace, because the American sets tho pace for the world, and he pays the price of It no matter what the cost. The president of an uptown bank that carries a big line of heavy deposits con fesses that he added another experimental lesson to his experience the other day. "We do not encourage small deposits," ha explains, "and while we treat everybody with courtesy, we are not strenuous In our endeavor to add to the list those who do not keep a good balance. "Tli-re are many boarding houses In our neighborhood, and usually they keep their accounts running close to the ground. "A plalit-looktng woman of middle age came In, and said that she would like to open an Account. I said. 'Yes. madam. If you wish. I suppose you will carry pretty good balance the most of the time? 'I shall begin with only 15,000,' she said 'but expect to largely increase It soon.' "Then she began to rain stocks and bonds on me, some, of which she wanted sold, and others put away for safe krep lng. Before she left, we had over tMI.OOe of her gilt-edged property In our hands. "That ends me. I shall never judge b; appearances again. Every woman who oornes here in the future will be treated aa though she were a disguised million aire." PERSONAL NOTES. Kxplorer llMison was coldly received when he went to Philadelphia to lecture. Luckily he had his fur suit and his rein deer sleeping bsg with Mm. Jack Bryant. IS years old. secretary of the Mascot Athletic club of Milwaukee, Is seeking by "beating" his way around for a few years to get material for a novel, which he plans later to write Illus trative of tramp life. Herbert Gladstone, it Is reported from London, Is to accept a barony, and, of course, everyone will remember that Ms father consistently refused a peerage. But then no title could have added an inch to Gladstone's stature. Mrs. Harriet Johnston Wood, of the leg islative committee of the New York City Federation of Women's clubs proposes that applicants for marriage shall get physi cians' certificates. While some of the mem bers were opposed, the federation voted In favor of asking for such legislation that will prevent the marriage of the physically unfit. According to Farmer Bennett of West Cheshire, Conn., the hog milt, or spleen. Indicates an open winter; a November! warmer than October, no Ice until after January and an early spring. Thla Is un unusual optimism to tower from a splen etic base, but all buyers of fuel will be glad If local coal piles respond to these rosy views which emanate from under the bottom of the hog's heart. The Holy Svnod of Russia has made It easy for a Jew to sever his matrimonial bonds. It was decreed by that body re cently that If a Jew become a member of the Russian church he may marry again without divorce from his Jewish wife, aa the baptism will render him dead to Ms family. "Should the life Insurance compan ies accept this holy view," says "The He brew Standard." "there would be a large Increase in the number of merry widows." GRR ATEST VHAK FK FARMERS. Another Salate to Producers of Real Wealth. Cincinnati Enquirer. This country has had a series of farmers' years Indeed, since the beginning of the twentieth century every year has been on of profit to the agriculturist but this pres ent year bids fair to be the greatest of all In the wealth which It brings to the farmer. Nearly every article produced Is In great demand and brings extraordinarily high prices. Wheat seems to be in quantities well up to our largest yields and la bring ing a price for above the average. Corn is said by some parties who estimate crops to have broken all records In production, yet the values per bushel are keeping far above the prloes prevailing In even years of average crop In the past. Cotton Is piling surplus cash Into the pockets of the planters In a surprising manner and bringing cash or the equivalents of cash from foreign lands to our own In most gratifying amounts. And the farmers are selling freely their holdings, and this rapid transformation of commodities Into cash that is going on In every portion of this nation at this time Is bound to produce commercial and manu facturing results that will eclipse every thing known In such affairs. All the prod ucts of the field anad the farm are today the equivalents of cash wherever offered. The outside world la taking the largest portions of our productions that It ever absorbed. California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana are shipping to the orient, to Europe and to New Zealand and Australia many millions of dollars' worth of their fruits and fruit products, In addi tion to the great stores of grain. The Atlantlo ports from Baltimore south and clean around the gulf coast to Mexi co's border all are showing great Increases in the values of their exports, and from that section these exports are those of the field, the farm and the plantation. Every cultivated area, large or small, east, west. north and south is today producing more value to the acre than ever In the history of the country. The cash that pays for that production was never so widely nor so plentifully dis tributed aa It Is this year. The prosperity of the farmer creates and maintains the prosperity of the republic PRESIDENTIAL TOURS. Past Experiences Foreshadow Pres ent Results. Leslie's Weekly. What lasting consequences will President Taft's trip bring for the country? This Is an Interesting question, but the answer to It can be given with more confidence after congress meets than I possible now. Some fit the presidential tours have had Impor tant results. When, In 1817, shortly after his first Inauguration, Monroe started on the Journey which took him through the middle states. New England and the west, the Boston Sentinel Invented the phraso, the "era of good feeling," which haa been arsoctated with his eight years In office. Undoubtedly his trip aided In breaking down the barriers of sectional prejudice against the perils of which Washington, in his farewell address a score of years ear lier, had warned the country. Jackson s tour through the eastern states, early In his second term. In IMS, diminished a little of the distrust which New England had held for htm, and gained for him the degree of doctor of laws from Harvard university. In his "swing round the circle," a phrase which he Invented, In 1886, accompanied by Seward, Grant, Far- ragut and other notables, President John son sold some of the things which were used against htm when he was Impeached by the house and tried by the senate In 1868. Garfield, when starting on a trip In 1881. and McKlnley, when near the close of a tour In 1901, had their careers cut short by assassins, and thus, for the mo ment, at least, altered the current of his tory. By their trips, Arthur, Cleveland and Harrison made friends for themselves and their respective parlies. Restricting- a Luxury, Washington Herald. Automoblllng causes appendicitis, so the Intent surgical promulgation has It. This will tend to confine the malady more closely than ever to the smart set. mxSXAI, WATII PKIOS X.IIT. We sell over luo kind Imported and American Mlnerul Waters, and, as we ob tain direct from springs ur importer, can guarantee frebhnetss and genuineness. Horo I.lthla Wuter, bot., 50c ; case, $5.00. Boro hithla Water, pints., dozen, 11.60; case 100, 110 00 We are distributing agents In Omaha for the celebrated waters from Kzcelsior springs, Mo., and sell at following prices: Kegent, quart bottle, i6c; don 11, 12.25; case, SO liottlea, 18.00. Hulpho-Haltne, buart bottle, 25c; dosen, $2.25; case. 60 bottlea, $S 00. fciulpho-clallne, quart bot vie, 25c; dosen, $1.50. Sot i lan, quart bottle, 0c; dozen, $2 00. Soterlan, pint bottle, 16c; dozen, $1 KO. rioterlan Ginger Ale, pint bottle, 15c; Jo sen. II 50 tioterlan Ginger Ale, quart bottle, 25c; dozen, $2.26. LHamond I.ltha, half-gallon bottle, 40c; case. 1 doaen, $4.00. Cryatal L.lthla, five-gallon Jugs, each, $2.00. Halt Sulphur, five gallon Jugs, each, 12 25. lielivery free to any part of Omaha, Council Bluffs or Bouth Omaha. BaUBKAM afeCOJITEX.Ij DBLUO CO, lata an. Dodge. OWX, DIVa CO, let aa4 Kara?. tf . V " -The only Baling-Powder VZ' made from Royal Grape , i SsT Cream of Tartar ; M( 1IK)) t.-L.X Absolutely CALLS IT A 1IOPEFIL Al'Ot'RY, Chairman Mark Looking; Away from the Peerless On. Brooklyn Eagle. When Norman E. Mack says," "I do not believe that Bryan will be the nexa demo cratic candidate for the presidency," he may be expressing a feeling common to most democrats; yet his words have a peculiar significance for his fellow party men In Erie county. Mr. Mack Is chair man of the democratic national committee. He holds that place because In the last campaign he was persona grata to Mr. Bryan. He has been tho leader of what may be called radical democracy In his county for many years. With more schooling and less calm than Mr. Conners, he has been Just r.s unsatisfactory to the old-time Cleveland democrats of Buffalo, whose Ideals have been much higher than their hope of controlling primaries. Therefore, It la a hopeful augury for democracy that Mr. Mack, though, of course, uncommitted to any one candidate, seems to be turning with hope to Judson Harmon, the democratic, governor of Ohio, whom Mr. Cleveland trusted, and on whom all wings of the party might be able to unite. Mr. Mack's utterance Is a straw which shows which way the wind Is blow ing. FLASHES OF FUN. "You're always kicking about the high price of things. I suppose you are one of the ultimate consumers we hear so much about?" 'No. sir. I'm one of the ultimate cough- uppers!" Chicago Post. "If you'll gIVe me full swing," observed the pendulum, "you will never have any trouble with your hands." I don t know, replied the clock: If It wasn't for you going back and forth In my works I never would have any strikes." Boston Transcript. 'How do you and your wife get along so well?" "I've a system." "Tell It to me." "Every time she notices that I've shaved myself, I notice that she's baked her own bread." Cleveland Leader. New Employer Your character, as far as I can understand, is rather a black one. New Maid (indignantly) Indeed, ma am. my character Is spotless. rwew employer wo, it isn i. lxkk wnere your former mistress has split the Ink all over It. Baltimore American. "Your country owes you a debt of grati tude," said the admiring constituent. 'Thanks," replied Senator Sorghum; "the only objection to a debt of gratitude is that it la never secured by tangible assets on LOIN MINUTES ELGIN watches go where pre cision is vital. Under the keen eye of the scientist they main tain the reputation that has made a synonym for accuracy of the word C. M. WHEELER Modal IS Siia Pendant Winding and Setting. Seventeea Jewels. Ruby and sapphire balance and center jewels. Compensating balance. Breguet hair spring, with nucrometric regulator. Adjusted to leniperature, isochroniim, three petitions. Patent recoiling click and sell-locking setting device. Dust ring. Plates damaskeened. En graving inlaid with gold. Open lace and hunt lug cases. In rilled Gold Cases. SID mni up. ( Ia Solid Gold Cases, 60 and up. Other Elgin models at other prices according to grade ol movement and case. All Elgin models are sold by jewelers every where, and are fully guaranteed. ELGIN NATIONAL WATCH COUPANT, Elgin. Illinois. i EM which a man can realise In an emergency." Washington Star. "What do you think of a man with a rip In his coat and only three button on his vest?" "He should either get married or di vorced." Boston Transcript. Ethel What makes you think that An na's In love with her husband? Pel la I saw her laughing at ona Of his Jokes the other night. -kludge. "Jones made an awful hit at the banquet the other night." Is that so?'' "Yes; he was called on for a Speech and refused." Detroit Free Press. "My goodnessl I would never hava sup posed you could be the nrother of such a big girl. 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The songs of Indian summertime they murmur In the heart. Attuned to leaves and hills avnd sky, of which they are a part The half -heard minor melodies that bint of throbbing tones. And yet elude the eager graap the songs which no one owns, . But which the wind and sun and all the woods and meadows weave Of all the charm and softneas from tha silent dawn to eve. It hushed the sound of winter's hosts, and winter's thrumming drums, Fell silent when the word went forth! "Now Indian summer comes" And then she came, a dusky maid, a god- dess tinted bronze, Her arms A-heap with marvel-dusks, a heap with marvel-dawns; And eo her spell Is on cur hearts and holds us overlong. With every dawn a miracle autd every; dusk a song. We are spent for the CT.X.'B- BI1TEO TVLOi.1T OAS ItA-NOS, the only range U at can be guar anteed to save yoiir gas bill one- JMBBBBBSsVeW third The burners or inese ranges are so constructed that they give more heat than any other burner made ut lest cost to operate. 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