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THE IJKK: OMAHA. FRIDAY. NOVEMUKR 20, 1P0D. The omaha Daily Beej KOl'MitD BT EDWARD HOSE WATER. VICTOR ROSE WATER. EDITOR. Fntered at Omtht pcwtofflco aa econd rlas matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Fally Nee (without Sunday), one year. 14 no I'ally Bee and Sunday, ore year DELIVERED T CARRIER. Pally He (Including Sunday). per wekk.1V I'ally Hee (without Sundav). per week..lV Evening Hee (without Sunday), per week c Evening He (with Sunday), per week. 10c Sunday He, one year 12 50 Saturday He, on year.- LM Andreas all complaint of Irregularities in delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Bultdrng. South Omaha Twent v-fmirth and N. Cnunrll Bluffs It "rott Street. I.lnroln SI' IJttle Building. Chicago .-,! Marquette Building. New York-Boom 1101-1102 No. 3 Wert Thirty-third Street. Washington 125 Fourteenth Street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communication relating to new and edi torial matter should he addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order payahle to The Pee Publishing Company. Only J-cont stamps received In payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not acoepted. STATEMENT OFjetRrTULATlON. State of Nebraska, Jjougla County, aa.: Oeorr B. Tischuck, treasurer of The Bee PubllKhlng Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete coplca of Th Dally. Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed durlni? th month of October. 1900, was aa follows: 1 49,350 12 49,340 II 41,790 f 48,080 It 49,160 IS ...49,490 I. . . .40,600 14. ...43,940 14. ...40,330 4.... 49,640 It.... 49.390 71.... 41,990 6. . . .43,610 It.... 43,660 It 41,990 .... 43,480 IT.... 40,300 17.... 43,350 7.... 49,670 II.... 49,480 It.... 49,910 (....43,610 19.... 49,050 29.... 49,000 ....43,880 20. .. .49,950 10 43,070 10. ...40,300 21. ...49,050 II. ...40,500 11 49.7HS . Total l,3O3,040 Returned copia 9,670 Net total .1,393,370 Dally average 41,731 QEOKUB B. TZSCHUCK. Treasurer. Subscribed, la my presence and sworn to before ma tola 1st day of November, 1WS. (Seal.) M. P. WALKER, Notary Publlo. Rabaerlber leavlna; the alts' teas pararlly sboald sirs The B4 walled to then. Ad 4 res will b vbanged aa, of tea aa reqaeatad. Cold turkey the day after and tur key haeh the day after that. The reclamation act appears to have convinced Its export Investigators that It does not need reclaiming. Wonder If Mayor "Jim" will take hla lasso along with him when he goes Into the same corral with "Uncle Joe." From the point of view of Young imerica the Thanksgiving feast is only the curtain raiser q the Christmas prospect. The old story of orders disregarded appears In. tho explanation of another fatal train wreck. - The human factor must bo mad to heed the lesson of "man's first disobedience and Its fruits." -..,.... . t: It Is humiliating to acknowledge that Omaha Is Incapable of self-government, but such Is the fact. Nebraska Issue. What a terrible arraignment from the anti-Saloon league organ. It is too bad that Omaha does not realize it. Speculation as to what it cost the government to convict the Union Pa cific train robbers should find an offset in speculation as to what it would have cost not to have apprehended them and convicted them. If the written consent of all the owners of property in the same block were required before a permit to erect a billboard could.be issued the bill board nuisance would soon be held fairly within reasonable limits. Tho theft of the vice president's soft pedal gavel suggests that there are those who would agree that If the van dal should only substitute it for that of the speaker no questions would be asked and all would be forgiven. It is to be hoped that the city may replace the burned automobile police patrols without undue delay, as the passengers who have become accus tomed to riding in these vehicles will surely object to going back to old and discarded methods of Jailward locomo tion. Reports of tourists that the old Spanish missions are fast falling Into complete decay would seem to prompt California to realize that here is an asset she is Inexcusably permitting to deteriorate. One of thct state's new missions surely is to restore and pre serve its old missions. Ueauty again proves to be only skln depp in the case of the wonderful Spanish moss of the south, which has been convicted of gross Iniquity in har boring the boll-weevil during that pest's hibernation. In demanding the destruction of this graceful drapery of the southland's trees science is sweep ing a ruthless hand over the landscape. The ability of the Gould spirit to cling to Its own is manifested by the fact that the Gould homestead still stands the sole survivor of the old landmarks of that residential section of Fifth avenue. Tradesmen hem it In, but this appeal for possession of the quiet old mansion is one commer cial voice that thus far has fallen on deaf ears. The wllllnguetss of the Standard OH heads to fondle that government med icine and the air of braggadocio with which they say tt'6 absolutely harm less may arouse suspicion in some quarter. Tom Sawyer used to talk that way to his aunt about the pain killer she prescribed, but after he had won her confidence he used to give it to the cat or pour It down a crack In the floor. A Broader Commerce Law. From the study and consuMatlon at Washington over the projected amend ments of the interstate comrorrre law It Is evident that, this is to be one of the most engrossing subjects to be brought by the president to the atten tion of congress at the coming ses sion. The announcement that the at torney general Is to draft a bill em bodying the president's views may be taken as significant of the thorough ness with which Mr. Taft has gone into this question with public men met on his recent Journeying. With the proposal of the establish ment of a special Interstate commerce court to dispose speedily of rate and similar oases the public for some time has been familiar, and there is visible no serious opposition to that feature of the measure; but the latest Item of suggested reform is apt to arouse discussion In railroad and financial cir cles, namely, the purpose to prevent one interstate road from owning stock In a competing line. Dut hostility of the Interests Involved is also sure to follow the proposal to restrict the issu ance of stocky or bonds except through the approval of the Interstate com mission. The public will be thoroughly with the president to prevent the over Issuing or watering of securities ana the railroads are not likely to yield without a contest over this point. These important details will be definitely outlined by the president in his message and in the text of the bill to be submitted, and will be threshed out in committee and on the floor of the house. In the meantime it will be seen from the constant deliberations at Washington that the regulation of Interstate commerce is going to claim a lion's share of attention this winter. The need of a broader law for the com mission is conceded and the Taft ad ministration is In a fair way to obtain for the commission the wider powers which the Roosevelt administration had set out to get. The Question of Buttons. . Years have passed since the sage re flected that life consisted of contin ually buttoning and unbuttoning, and yet in spite of that philosophical re flection woman has gone steadfastly on sewing on all the buttons. But it transpires that the sisterhood has come to rebel at her burden of but tons, if one is to credit the voice of that feminine physician who presents to her sex for adoption the motto, "I won't sew on buttons." Under the new order of things hus bands are to find their wives joining In this refusal, even if it Involve the alternative of divorce. Mere man can but wonder whether the new fancy is a passing one or something which the sex is to take seriously. Woman has abandoned so ' many 'fields Of service to man that it is natural to speculate on what is coming next. Not so very many years ago tho good housewife made the bread, now left at the door by the baker's boy ere the wife gets up. She used to make not only the son's shirts, but also the son's father's, while now she watches the bargain sales instead. She used to mend tho socks, but when he shows her the holes she calmly points to the guaran tee ticket warranting no holes for six months. Having abandoned so many of her good offices, what will the housewife have to engago her atten tion when she eliminates the buttons. Can this be another step in a deep- laid scheme to drive man to domesticity while the partner of his sorrows and cause of his joys goes out Into the world? Truly, the problem of "But ton, button, who sews the button?" may well be contemplated by the blushing bridegroom with atrabllarl ous hesitation ere he says yea to his determined anti-button brldo. The Shop Window's Lure. - In one democratic trait all mankind is kin that of lingering over the in spiring Joys offorded by the shop win dow. Everyone must remember how, when as a child he had a penny to spend, the actual spending of the coin yielded nowhere near so much of happiness as the speculation over the contents of the show window while the coin grew hot and moist in the middle of a fat fist. And, even having no penny, one could prolong the delight ful anticipation indefinitely. In the matter of the shop window the elder Is, as so often in other things, a child of a larger growth for the grown-up with eyes to Bee has never wholly abandoned this early field of contemplative pleasure; he has only moved on to other windows dis playing his later fancies. Jerome has well described the passion one de velops for some particular article on view In his case a pipe dally plan ning to buy that particular article when he can afford it, until at last the shopkeeper changes the display, re moves the favorite, and one rushes madly In to find out whether it has gone utterly out of his life. Similarly the lover of books or pictures or other elevating articles will come from a store where it would seem that he had had bis fill and yet will pause again at the windows outside and gaze and long and forget all about the pressing duties to attend to which forthwith he had emerged from the barter within. Women engaged in professions whose exactions crowd their hours so that they have no time for the leisurely comforts of life confess, in the midst of the hurlyburly, that an occasional glimpse of the dainty al lurements of the show window is a bit of Idleness they have never been able to forego. That is why the story comes as a unifying touch which tells of the president of the -United States, Ha the eve of the great American home holiday, dropping the cares of state and slipping informally away to linger before the shop windows of the capital for the simple and genuine relish of the merry holiday show. Prevention or Cure. While the government Is still pur suing its difficult task of dissolving combinations charged with exercising monopolies in restraint of trade, other giant Interests are seeking to entrench themselves, and the fact that in one such case the minority Is striving to demonstrate its usefulness may be re garded as a helping hand. A minority usually Is hopeless, but in the pro posed telephone-telegraph merger it promises to be something of a factor. Having disclosed a condition precedent to merging that calls for the consent of 90 per cent of the stockholders, the opposing interests are rather confident of accomplishing their object, al though this feature of the old voting trust agreement must have been in vestigated by the mergers before they embarked on the enterprise. However, If combination is a bad thing for public policy, as has been demonstrated in some notable cases, then the opponents are taking the right course In seeking to prevent now, rather than wait till the combine has been consummated, when even more serious difficulty would doubtless be found in attempting a cure. The In dependent telephone companies were established because of the popular de mand for competition, and the con tinued operation In all probability will not be abandoned without a thorough test of the legal precautions originally undertaken to prevent Just such a merger as that now threatened. Up to Old Tricks. Our democratic friends are already up to their old tricks in prelude to the Nebraska campaign for next year. With extraordinary solicitude for the welfare of the republicans the local democratic organ is volunteering its services to enter a large and varied assortment of candidates for nomina tion for various offices on the repub lican ticket. What seems on the surface to be for It merely an entertaining pastime has, however, a deeper and well calculated purpose. The democrats figure that If they can get a large number of re publicans fighting one another acri moniously In the primaries, no matter who may win out, the bad blood stirred up and the lingering soreness of the defeated will open wounds that cannot be healed in time for the election, and the democrats who carry the banner, "Let the People Rule," while taking their own tickets ready-made from the bosses, will reap , the benefits at the polls. ' : From the democratic standpoint it is always good polities' to foment dissen sion 'among their opponents so that the minority office-seekers may have a chanco to slide in under cover. Re publicans of Nebraska have seen this game played before and they ought to be able to see through the trick this time. Nebraska went republican at the last election and it will go repub lican again at the next election if re publicans refuse to swallow the bait held out by democratic bunco steerers. The democrats who have been eating out of Bryan's hand. are facing trou bles of their own which ought to keep them busy on their own side of the political fence. The hearty interest with which American mothers and fathers receive the news that another heir to the throne is expected In Holland should convince the race suicide alarmists that our people are still loyal to sa cred motherhood and to the ruling In stinct for the propagation of species. As one exponent of eugenics has said, the chief concern of man should be what he is to leave above ground when he himself is moldering below, and the American family is developing, gener ation by generation, in the direction of race Improvement. Three good reasons are said to have guided New York's $10,000,000 widow In the selection of her new husband: He was an American, had twice her fortune and, unlike her other suitors, had no title to be lived up to. If there was a fourth reason, in none of the published interviews does the happy bride mention It. However, It Is barely possible that the experienced society reporters consider love a tabooed topic In the light of New York matrimonial experiences among the vastly rich. With that great river of drinking water flowing under Its rock founda tion, Manhattan will be almost a float ing Island. And if Rip Van Winkle were to float down the $50,000,000 aqueduct from its source in the Cats kills and emerge at an outlet in the top of a skyscraper, with what re newed amazement he would exclaim at the wonders of this village of rising wVer. The startling announcement comes from Lincoln that the first copies of the house Journal recording the pro ceedings of the more popular branch of the last Nebraska legislature have at last come from the press only eight months after adjournment. There used to be complaint when these vol umes were delayed four or five months, but now we may see the fruits of re form. As too often happens, when Omaha pulls off any big event attracting state wide attention some of the interior newspapers are undertaking to back cap the Corn show. Over in Iowa Des Moines Is to have a Corn show almost coincident with the one here, but the other Iowa towns are not seriously dis tressed. Chicago has Just been hold ing a big Land exposition, against which Oraaba would have the same grounds to protest that are put forth as objections to our Corn show. All these enterprises are for the general good, although with incidental benefit to the places where they are located, and there Is no good reason why they should not enlist the support of all who share In the benefit. Of course, the dlsovery of a typo graphical error In the Indictment of the sugar ring Is seized as ground for dismissal of the case. It would never do to convict a rascal whose lawyer had been cute enough to discover a misplaced comma. A famous preacher has been telling us about the ghosts of past ages to which we are still slaves, but thought lessly overlooks the ghosts that stalk In the pulpit. When hunting for ghosts no one need go far from his own workbench. That Spurned Bribe. Pt. Louis Qlobe-Iemocrat. A million-dollar bride In the shape of a tendered contribution to a campaign fund by corporation managers was rejected by the Roosevelt administration. After the re jection the corporation managers threat ened to support Bryan. And perhaps thoy did. No Hef loot Ion Intended. Boston Globe. Those automatic electric scales to be In stalled In the Boston and New York cus toms houses next week are, of course, not Intended as any reflection upon the hon esty of the officials. They are merely a oonvunlence, like the cash register or the bell punch. And they are quite as in fallible and Incorruptible. Sorely the World "Io More." Chicago Record-Herald. The British lords are finding It neces sary to Burround themselves with guards because the people are exasperated over the action of the peers with regard to the budget. When Englishmen begin to think of laying violent hands on the sacred per sons of the lords, we may well conclude that the world has been moving. I'.manclpu teit, tint Not Free, . Boston Herald. The Iowa supreme court rules that mer chants In that stato may decline to do business with negroes. It Is this and similar Indications of change In northern senti ment that cause the negro to smile some what cynically as he reads of Booker T, Washington's efforts to organize a race Jubilee In 1913, celebrating tho emanci pation by Lincoln. It lias always been contended by Mr. Washington that what ever else the white man might do In the way of discrimination against the negro, he never would refuse his dollar proffered for goods. Will C'oiiKresa Wake I'nf Pt. Louis Globe Democrat. One of the leading express companies has Just trebled Its stock and declared a stock dividend of $300 a share. At the same time the United States collect 84 cents postage on a four-pound parcel In the malls, though , 40,000 rural delivery carriers make a dally round with light loads. A four-pound parcel can be mailed to London for 49 cents postage, yet be tween any two domestlo offices, no matter how near to each other, the postage re quired Is 64 cents. Does congress ever Intend to take notice of these parcels post absurdities? rKDAl'NTGD SPlll ITS. Heroism that Makes I s Think Better of Human Nature. Baltimore Sun. When men look death in the face it brings out the brave, undaunted spirit In them, the Bpliit that death cannot con quer. In the blackest darkness the spark of manhood burns the brightest. The thrilling rescue of some of the miners at Cherry, III., after they hod been Imprisoned for a week In the caverns hun dreds of feet below daylight, has brought out stories of terrible suffering, but It has also brought to light Instances of sub lime heroism. It is Inspiring to read how William Cleland, the sturdy Scotchman, twice a day conducted religious services and delivered a little sermon to the men around him. bidding them be of good cheer, whether life or death was to re sult. "The Lord Is with us even here, and great is His mercy!" he would ex c'.alm. "Keep up your hearts, lads! God la with us; don't despair. Others have been shut off from the light of day as we have, and In God's good time have come out alive." He was a better prophet than he knew. In what seemed to be the last extremity, when their strength was failing and they had almost lost hope of ever escaping alive, George Eddy wrote thU letter on a page In his notebook. November 14. Dear Wife and Children: I write these few lines to you and I think It will be for the last time. I have tried to get out twice, but was drove back. There seems to be no hope for us. I cams down this shaft yesterday to help to save the men's lives. 1 hope the men I got out were suved. Well, Lizzie. If I am found dead, take me to bury me In Ptreator and move back. Keep Esther and Clarence and Jlnimle together as much as you can. I hope they will not forget their father, so I will bid you all goodhy and Ood b'ess you all. GEORGE EDDY. Hardly a thought of himself or of his own fate, he grelved most for the wife and children that he thought he had left behind. His thoughts were for them and for the men he hod rlHked his own life to save. On the other side of this leaf WVter Walte wrote this note, hoping that some day It would be found: November 14. We. the undersigned, dn not blame anyone for the accident that happened to pen us In here, and we believe that everybody has done all In their power to relieve us. With bext wishes to all concerned, The nineteen men penned In together In this group all sinned this notice to the world that they were dying without blam lni? anyone for their fate and with no hard or bitter feelings against anyone In the world. All who appreciate bravery will rejoice to know that these men who knew how to die were saved to live. They are the kind of men the world needs, and they will make ashamed those who worry over ptty troubles, who fret at the failure to secure everything they desire and who are plunged Into despair when troubles descend upon them. Out of the darkness of that mine, where these simple miners were face to face with death, streams the light of a heroUm that reveals to us the grandeur of human nature at Its best and which In its striking contrast to the sordldness and selfishness of everyday life, serves to strengthen our faith In man and God. Such tragedies as this mine disaster are pathetic and terrible beyound expression, but when accompalnled by the courage and se'f abnegalton recorded in this case, the traKedy 1 converted Into a moral triumph aud an Inspiration to all mankind. New Paramount Interest Centering- On the Quaint Spectacle of the Demooraoy Mounting th Water Wag-on. The holiday ralm nervnlln n.iiin...i ..i cles has been knocked Into smithereens by me announcement of W. J iirvo' templatrd adoption of prohibition as a me issue ror future demnrmtie bDin. Among eastern republicans f ,,.,. i Itryan's change of base Is welcomed aa uurci prooi or tho charge made on the trusting last year that the i...i.. .... Is not a sincere crusader fighting for what ne oenevea to be r cht. hm t,r,imi .... portunlst, as shifty with Issues as he Is snaRjr in convlceions. Between the In terest of republl of democrats. Is a multitude of Innocent spectators eagerly watching the fate of wir man w no attempts to hitch the demo tion.; near-muie to the water wagon. In Washington, where ahifHnr r,..llilni minds are guaged bv nrofes,.i.,n,.L 1'l.lladelphla Ledger correspondent notes a iiveiy interest In the projected Inland waterway route to the White house. The correspondant says: "Senator Ilalley said he did not want to Jump on Bryan for saying a thing until no was suie ne was going to say It, and therefore he did not care to he inter viewed on the matter now. It was appar ent nowever, rrom the manner In which he declined to talk that he neither thono-hr Bryan could make a national issue out oi pronioiuon, or that he could place him self again at the head of the party on that or any other question. "Representative John N. rinm.r Harrr. crat of Texas, In whose district Bryan owns a iarm," said: "Bryan has 'para mounted' three times for the democratic Party already, and I don't think he will be allowed to do it again. I think he is a very noble man, but as a statesman he has not made good, and three chances ought to be enough. That part of the American people known as the democratic party will not, in my opinion, let him dictate any such 'naramnimr tc,,. it a prohibition. Local option in the several states is all right, and Is in line with democratic principles: but to let rtrv.n make a national issue of It will be equiv alent to the party's going into the receiver ship with him as the receiver with no responsibility to court or public. "Bryan will never again head In the party. In his Dallas SDeech he main tained with great fervor that the 'para mount' thing for democrats in Ar no. get raw materials on the free list, and he ueciarea that democratic congressmen should be instructed aceordinirl v. Mnur if the dispatch is true, he is going to tome ,oui with something else more Im portant than finances, the tariff or the trust question. The people do not know what he la going to do nnt an h. lost faith in him as a leader. Prohibi tion is a matter for the states to decide for themselves." Representative Cordell Hull of Tennes see and L. P. Padgett of the same state do not care to talk until the Tlrvnn arti cles referred to In the dispatch from Lin coln come out. Tennessee being In some what of an 'alf and 'alt condition liquor, their position is ticklish. Representative Jack Beall nf T.... curred with Representative Garner In th. opinion that prohibition would not be made a national Issue by the democratic party ana uryan cannot make it such. We have local option In Texas." h. said, "and three-quarters of the state la ary. But I don t see how Bryan cau make It the leading national Issue with the party, not only because such a plan Is not feas ible, out because he has reached th. of hla tether. The great question Is the tariff. It has been for seventy-five years and will continue to be for some time longer. Democratic sentiment In Phlls.d.inhi aa expressed to the Ledger's reporters was! In substance, that no slnirLe man i.r.wo,,.. Important in democratic councils, could de- nne tne policies of the party. "These men," says the Ledger, "pointed out that Bryan wouia sever his friends, those who still believed In him, like Mayor Dahim.n Omaha, and Instead of making himself a lactor politically would aaoeur In 10m without the support of his followers of the west, the only element h him ni,,0n commanded In the last few years. One democrat gave it as his opinion that Bryan was merely a 'box office candidate president," meaning that he was advo cating prohibition as a means of keeping himself before the publlo and ad vertlnlno his lecture courses. Congressman A. Mitchell Palmer Stroudsburg said: "I do not believe tht Mr. Bryan will seriously attempt to force the question of prohibition on tha A. cratlo party as a national issue whatever his personal view on the subject may be. He has been too close a student of the history of the democratic party not to realise that its principles are aa old as popular government itself and the re lation of those principles to questions of government arc the result of evolution and development in the mlnda of the people ineniseives. 'Mr. Bryan's personal views do not na. sarily constitute democracy's platform of principles, and If the time ever comes when any one man can name the position of the party on any given Issue It will no longer be a democratic party. The attitude of the people under changing condition, hr nir about new Issues, but the principles under lying the party's position upon those Issues uever change." Commenting on the Linooun dispatch quoted in The Bee last Wednesday, the New York Times says, editorially: "Mr Bryan's reported belief that he has owed his series of brilliant defeats to the ilquor Interests' la new and Ingenious. It is charactorltidc for Mr. Bryan to attrib ute his defeats to others than himself. His plan to take up prohibition aa a 'living Issue' for a new campaign, reported in a dispatch from Lincoln, is, however, worth knowing about. It must be confessed that It is not necessarily 'bad politics' three years before a national election. It will cause trouble In the democratlo party, but Mrj Bryan Is a Bryan man, not a demo crat. "Prohibition is. In a sense, a 'living Issue' in tho south, and In many northern states as well. Mr. Bryan's espousal of the cause will serve to keep his name fresh In the public mind. He needs new Issues, and ho cannot be expected at this late day to adopt wise ones of great national moment. Already Mr. Bryan's new policy Is maklrnt enemies for him In Nebraska. But ha is used to enemies, and he knows it will bring new followers to tils standard. That he will promulgate views on the liquor ques tion sounder and more rational than his views on the larger public ques;lons la not to be expected. But he will keep hlmsulf In the limelight, which Is the gnat end of his being." Sonic Kuo He la M Philadelphia Record. When that mighty hunter who la dis porting himself among the .hippopotami hears the big bang of the Standard Oil gun on the Missouri circuit won't he wish himself home, though, aud right on Uie vaiuiiul s tildel $g&m Cocoa Deans contain all that is needed for the perfect development of the human body. The daily use of the Cocoa Bean in some form is therefore highly recommended to Old and Young. WHY NOT GET TOE BEST? Without FOR EATING, DRINKING AND COOKING. irV8TnTACCirr f rvrt PURITY AND DELICIOUSNESS OF FLAVOR. SOLD BT SHOPKEEPERS EVERYWHERE. PERSONAL NOTES. Fashion writers say that llsnomencsa la a necessity this winter. In the springtime, gentle Annie, llmoBlnes will catch the smart set. The engineer of the United States geologl cal survey estimates the annual loss from smoke In this country at ISOO.000,000. With the outdoor season closed, rock sharps de light In figures Just for the exerclso. San Francisco's Partola celebration wound up with a deficit of 110,000. The committee In charge of the affair has been banqueted and surfeited with applause, but the shouting subsided as soon aa "the hat" appeared. The New York Sun printed a three-line editorial announcement of the death of Its famous editor, Charles Anderson 'bana, nine years ago. The death of William M. Laffon, publisher . and editor, was an nounced In nineteen line last Saturday. The Sun "do move." Jamea A. Story of Baltimore, almost 90 years old, has blossomed forth as the oldnst chauffeur in the United States. He took out three other men, over 80, for a ride In hla automobile. The combined age of thesj men is $47 years, the average being about 88 years and 9 months. This select com pany toured the town In fine style and the lads seemed to enjoy It. Prof. Charles Zueblln, formerly of the University of Chicago, was the lecturer before the League of Political Education, New York. After telling the audience which was composed mainly of women, how the recent tariff bill was passed. Prof. Zueblln said that the old idea of the eighteenth century under which the con stitution was framed, "the greatest good for tha greatest number," had passed lt day. EXPRESSLY MADE LEECHES. Feed and Fatten on Both Carriers and Shippers. Philadelphia Record. Many cogent arguments have been made showing the necessity alike In the Inter est of tha publlo and of railway stock holdersfor the absorption of the various express companies by the railroad com panies. The express companies are an unnecessary excrescence which feed upon both carriers and shippers. The strongest argument yet adduced, however, is pre sented In the recent division of accumulated spoil made by the Wells-Fargo Express company, which has been recently earning 68 per cent upon Its capital stock of $8 000,000. It has now Increased It capital stock to 124,000,000, and Is paying lta stock holders 100 per cent In cash and 200 per cent In new stock. Its $24,000,000 surplus may be regarded as the measure of extor tion in excess of fair profit for service rendered. Short lies eh for Salvation. Pittsburg IMspatch. Between the Standard Oil decision, the Sugar trust exposures and Attorney Gen eral Wtckersham'a speech we do not see any other salvation for the "Interests" short of another meeting of the Railway Business Men' association. On a Few of the One-Fourth Off! APMJ 1910 model "Apollos" will soon be here we wteh to prepare for a new year with only new models therefore this "FOURTH OFF" on present stocks. What a GRAND opportunity on a regal Christmas gift to someone the FIRST 88-note player the cap sheaf among ALL Bolf play ing instruments. The very "noblesf make of all REDUCED a clean one-fourth for holiday selling. As a further Inducement we will include FREE a library of Apollo music (The Apollo, by the way, plays any kind or size music) and we will afford you as many demonstrations as you desire. The "Apollo" Is the HIGHEST GRADED player made we KNOW It YOU'LL admit It! If at all Interested, see the Instrument hear H! enthuse over It and remember you may have one at one-fourth off. $562 $600 $615 For an Apollo worth $750 For an worth 1513 DOUGLAS STHICfciT. OMAHA, NED. Regarding' Cocoa Beans Cocoa Beans are classed among the most highly nourishing Product of the riant Kingdom. Cocoa and LAUGHING GAS. , "There is a lot of talk nowaday about the sanitation of osculation." "Naturally. Osculation Is one of tha most pressing Issues of the day." Balti more American. Hubblte (showing visitors around.) You mustn't mind our streets; they wera laid out by cows, you know. Britisher My word! But, I say, what had the cows been drinking T Boston Transcript. "Brooks," said Rivera, "can you give ma a synonym for 'utility'? I've used that word twice already." "I suppose I ran," growled Brooks, "but what's the useT" "Use? Use? Thanks; that'll do." Thereupon the rattle of the typewriter began again. Chicago Tribune. Klljah had Just been fed by tha ravens. "Plain food and no speeches," he ejac ulated thankfully. Herewith he wotted of certain modern who would envy him. New York Bun. "Wealth has Its annoyances." sold th ready-made philosopher. yes. answered Mr. Dustln Htflz. "Peo ple don't realize the risks I run In the management of my extensive affairs. I very nearly cut my finger while clipping coupon this morning." Washington Star. 'Do you believe." she asked, "thut mnr. rlages are arranged In heaven?" 1 naven t any well-grounded conviction on the subject," he replied, "but I will say tins: ir mey are, it s about ud to heaven to get a new marriage arranger. Chicago ivecoi u-ner&ia. "Do you think it's possible for one tr learn anything by taking a course In that correspondence school he's conducting?" "Oh! yes; one Is likely to learn what a fool one was to bother with It." Catholic Standard and Times. "What's the matter with young Blngley?" "His throat wa badly Injured at a foot ball game." "I didn't know he was a plaver." "He isn't. He' a roob?r."-Clovalanil Plain Dealer. AS THE SEASON CLOSES. 8. B. Klser in , tho Record-Herald. Tha foot ball season soon will end; wa still hope for the best; Our William Is quarter back; he play with snap and seat; They broke his collar bone and knocked his knee cap out of place; He wears his left ear In a sling and has an awful face; W fear he lias a floating rib, ha limp aa If In pain, But we are praying he may have the strength to stand the strain. His right arm Is discolored from tha ahoul- It! UPI IU 1 1 IV? VV 111 , His nose, once high. Is flat, because immpea against a rlst: HI eyes are bloodshot and his lip are ,m umcu kiiu cur. ana raw, He has no skin on either shin; they also cracked his Jaw, But eagei y we look ahead, the season's nearly run, And with tha help of prayer we hope to save, our precious eon. He' limping out to practice now; he I In heaven', care; We can but pray that he may stand the awful wear and tear; How tenderly we cared for him when chlld- hood's Ills assailed; 'Twould be a shame to lose him now If all our planning failed; How fair the world will seom again when he comes home to rest; The foot ball season' nearly run; we're hoping for the beet. 1909 Models in Player Pianos Apollo For aa Apollo $800 worth $850
