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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,
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before me this 1st day of November, 1909.
(Seal.) M. P. WALKER,
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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 ;
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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
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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. You must have been married very
y'W?iat a nice man that Mr. Wedgewood
Is," she said to her husband after the vis
itor had departed. Chicago Record-Herald.
INDIAN SUMMER.
W. D. Nesblt, In Chicago Post.
It hushed the sound of winter's hosts, of
winter's trumpet shrill, .
The drums that thrummed in wlnter'iA
van all suddenly grew still.
For from the south the breezes ran and
shook the flaming leaves.
And crooned a chord of dulcetness below
the vlne-olad eaves;
They brought a thousand mingled scents
of pungent mink and musk.
And springtime echoed through tha day
from crystal dawn to dusk.
A drowsy haze across tho west that gleams
with shifting hues.
A Jeweled sky that glimmers with the
rarest turquoise blues,
And woods that are a fairyland of scarlet
and of gold,
And vagrant bees that drain the last bravo
blooms of what they hold,
And marching stars that swing, as lamps
aa twilight Idles on.
While moonlight silvers all the world from
dreaming duBk to dawn.
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-
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