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STATEMENT or CIRCULATION.
State of Nebraska, Douglaa County
Qeorge B. Tisohuck. treasurer of Tha Bee
I'ubllsljlng Company,' being duly sworn
eaya thnt the actual number of full ana
complete copies of The Dally. Morning.
Evening and Sunday Beerlnted during the
, month of November. 1W. wa aa follows:
1 43,070 1 41,810
t 43.080 1T.V 4B.H0
t 48,700 is 41,800
4 43,180 II 41,880
ft 48,480 20, 41,880
40,170 II 40,4O
7. 40,040 II 41.M0
f 41,830 21 41,780
8 48,180 14 41,73
10 41,880 II 41,700
11 41,780 48.840
12 48,880 2 7 41,810
II 41,780 II 40,400
14.. 40,100 21 41,890
1 41,800 0 41.880
Total.. 1,888,850
Returned CoplM.
8,848
-Nat Total 1,848,008
tally Average . 41,788
GEu. B. TZ8CHUCK. Treasurer.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before ma this 1st day of December, Vm.
(Heal) M. P. WALKKR,
Notary Public
Babecribera leaving; the city teat
aorarlly ahoald liars The Be
availed to them. Address will bat
And now Turkey hag a budget prob
lem. This thing la getting epidemic.
The average of railroad wrecks for
1909 li certainly being fattened tn
these closing weeks.
Now that Mr, Hobson has again
risen to view with alarm, the nation
may go calmly on preparing for Santa
Claus. i
Omaha Is proving its capacity as a
convention city again by entertaining
simultaneously three large conventions
and the National Corn exposition.
Carrie Nation's latest crusade Is to
force all men to love their mothers-in-law.
They will, when all mothers-in-
law love their daughters' husbands...
The good roads men are in session
In Kansas. They have gone to the right
place, for if there is state in the
union that needs good roads It Is
Kansas.
. The national highways advocates
evidently do. not desire that their
chariot be overlooked In the enthusi
asm for the parade of the waterways
bandwagon. ". ' "
Twenty per cent of the enlisted men
in the United States army have had
their pay raised for expert marksman
ship. Uncle Sam is apparently content
to have his till rifled by the riflemen.
The supreme court didn't agree with
one of its former members and his as
soclates on the corporation tax ques
tion, and the corporations will now
have the pleasure of settling with the
state as well as with their attorneys.
Governor Burke hit the nail on the
head when he said the Missouri river
navigation project has too many ora
tors and not enough engineers. t Hot
air will not run a steamboat. What
the Missouri river needs is action, not
resolutions.
Tho supreme court of Kansas having
rl.ioldarl that a wnmitn wlm Ixallai'Aa l !
race suicide cannot recover damages
for breach of promise, it may be con
cluded that, the Sunflower shines
serenely on one combine, that of Dan
Cupid and old Dr. Stork.
While the publlo library at Toledo
has drawn Its blade against a book of
the Rev. Cyrus Townaend Brady's, it
can hardly hope to make mincemeat of
all his writings, for Cyrus can turn out
a volume with one hand while parry
ing tho opposing sword with the other.
The might of the pen Is again Illus
trated in the ease of alent, whtoh baa
just elected as mayor a newspaper ed
itor who, although a citizen of the
town fo only a year, has turned things
upside down in that staid old munici
pality. This Is a reversal of witch
craft Into art and craft.
We may bo properly grateful to
Mexico for offering to join In our pro
gram against Nicaragua, but -with the
administration in the saddle and con
gress on the march we may be con
sidered as in a fairly comfortable posi
tion to work out the problem In our
own indepmlent way.
Another Oklahoma bank, with more
than 1100,000 of state funds oa de
posit, has closed Its doors. Is It possl
bio? And under the fosteriirg Influ
ence of Colonel Bryan's self-Incubated
deposit guaranty law And the citi
zens of the community wherein the
bank did business are clamoring for a
grand Jury investigation.
Leaks in the Postal Expense.
President Taft dwelt especially on
the cost of transporting publications,
In Ms message to congress, as being a
point worthy of consideration in any
attempt to reform the postal expenses.
Me has doubtless noted a ready re
sponse on the part of many of the in
fluential dally newspapers to co-operate
in all fair measures that shall
tond to reduce the annual, deficit.
But, lest there should be any mis
understanding on the part of the pub
lic concerning the share of the publish
ers In the responsibility for the fail
ure of the government to conduct its
postal department without loss, lot it
bo remembered that every newipaper
and other periodical pays 1 cent a
pound, or one dollar a hundred-weight,
on all its Issues. Railroad and express
companies transport many classos of
merchandise for a much lower rate, at
profit. Indeed, some newspapers
use the express service at a saving.
The chief troucle in the Postofflce
department as it suggests Itself to the
layman is that the government has too
long neglected the matter of estab
lishing rates with the railroads baaed
on the commercial experience of Indus
trial transportation. During thirty
years, It is pointed out, there has been
no substantial change in the weight
pay for carrying the malls, while dur
ing that period there has been a sub
stantial reduction in general carrying
charges. As far back as the regime of
Postmaster General Vilas it was shown
that the government each year was
paying more for the use of postal cars
than the original cost of the cars. The
government undoubtedly has a bone to
pick in the matter of postal rates, but
it Is with the railroads, not with the
publishers.
business-like readjustment of rates
paid to the railroads would be apt to
slice off a heavy percentage of the def
icit, and the remainder might easily be
avoided by a correction of the franking
abuses. Next to the excessive rates
paid to , the railroads, there Is no
heavier burden on the postal depart
ment than the dumping of tons of
congressional matter Into the mails on
which no postage whatever Is . paid.
Rigid inspection of all franked matter
and rejection of that which Is unbank
able might help the department to
solve its perennial, problem.
Relieving the Executive.
Within the past few days the presi
dent had occasion tn pardon another
bank official, which makes it timely to
call attenton to the pertinence of the
recent' suggestion of the attorney
general that the statutes be re
vised which ' fix a minimum penalty
of five years for all cases of misappli
cation of national banking funds. It
Is because of this hard-and-fast etlpu
latlon that the applications for execu
tlve clemency are so frequent.' Pardon
of commutation is sought In many
cases on grounds which should have
been considered by the trial judge in
determining the length of sentence
These applications often are accom
panied by statements froar the trial
judge that if he had been free to im
pose a less severe penalty he would
have done so.
The attorney general confesses him
self unable to discover a reason why
a trial judge should not be entrusted
with as much discretion in fixing the
sentences of offenders against the
banking laws as in the case of other
felonies. The precise measure of pun
ishment Is a matter which the court
ought to be eminently competent to de
termine, and a modification of the stat
ute such as the attorney general pro
poses would relieve, the president of
a great deal of work entailed In re
viewing such cases without, so far as
Is discernible, Interfering with the ad
ministering of justice to offenders.
The Occupation Tax.
Now that the public service corpora
tions have voluntarllyabandoned their
opposition to the occupation tax levied
by the city council, the money becomes
available toward immediate appropria
tlon. Thia raises the Question of Its
distribution. With a shortage in every
fund the money can easily be parceled
cut among the several departments of
the city government and be as Quickly
spent as wero the amounts originally
raised for these purposes.
The question, then, for decision is
the disposition of this money. The
funds coming Into the city treasury at
present from the occupation tax are
from a source that was not contem
plated at the time the tax levy was
made, and therefore are money in ex
cess of what was deemed necessary for
the carrying on of the city government.
Whether the charter limitations on the
several funds are wise is not at ques
tion. The charter, puts a limit on the
amount of money that may be ex
pend! by the city for each specific
purpose. Various subterfuges have
bet a resorted to from time to time la
order to avoid these restrictions. The
legality of some of the devices adopted
in the past has been seriously ques
tioned, but the policy of expediency
has been permitted to overwelgh any
scruples that might have hampered the
ignoring of the plain law. ,
The -time has come when the finan
cial affairs olj the city of Omaha should
ue piacea on some substantial basis
The evasion of charter provisions
should sease. It the charter does not
provide sufficiently for theproper
maintenance of the several depart
meats of the city It should be altered
but until it is altered It is the plain
duty of the mayor and council to see
that tbe law is followed. This comes
directly to the question of what dispo
sition to make of the money now be
lng paid into the city for the occupa
tion tax. Under .the charter provlslor
the unexpended balance in appropria
tions at the end of the year are cov
ered automatically Into the sinking
fund, the object being to reduce the
evy for sinking fund purposes. It
has been suggested that tbe occupa
tion tax money be appropriated by
resolution to the sinking fund, so that
tn this direction a lower tax levy will
be made possible for the ensuing year,
And thus direct benefit be given the
taxpayers. If the money Is divided by
piecemeal "nnroprlatlon among the
several funds . "Ill simply be dissi
pated without any apparent reduction
In taxes. These questions are vital
and should have immediate and careful
attention by the city government.
Vigilance for Economy.
If there was any skepticism in any
Quarteroncerning the sincerity of the
administration in sounding the key
note of ecosomy in national finances,
the dally development of the news
must have overwhelmed It. The pres
ident had only a brief moment for his
speech to his old alma mater, Yale,
but while he kept an eye on the train
time he packed into his sentences vig
orous renewals of the protests against
national extravagance which had
marked his message to congress. And
simultaneously that body was having
the cardinal cry of the message pressed
home by Chairman Payne of the ways
and means committee, in this lan
guage: "Fcf the first time In my Teeollec-
tlon, a president in . wise and well
chosen words has pointed out the
necessity of economy in expenditures
In the various government depart
ments." It is apparent that if the prudent
advice of Mr. Taft Is followed the na
tional treasury may reasonably be as
sured of a surplus at the end of an
other year, and the plain duty of con
gress is to co-operate vrtth all vigi
lance toward such a desirable consum
mation. Progress in the Philippines.
No one thing so marks the advance
made by the American occupation of
the Philippines as the annual report
of the bureau of Insular affairs, show
ing that the native constabulary has
maintained quiet and order through
out the islands without the active In
tervention of the United States troops.
General Edwards, chief of the bureau,
may well claim credit to the army for
this achievement, for the efficiency
and loyalty of the constabulary is the
result of the army s faithful super
vision of the organization.
Commenting on the public order of
the archipelago, General Edwards says
that the duties of regular troops in the
Philippines now approximate closely
the duties of the regulars in the United
States, and even the proportion of
American soldiers in the islands to the
Filipino population Is not much
greater than the proportion of troops
on home soil to the American popu
lation.. So far as public order and
tranquillity in the Philippines are con
ccrned, the bureau finds that the force
might very properly be reduced, and
General Edwards goes so far as to ex
press the belief that one-half of the
number of troops now In the islands
would be a sufficient guarantee against
any possible internal disorder.
This is convincing official testimony
of the marked progress for content
ment and prosperity among the na
tive population, who were so con
stantly at strife under the Spanish
misrule; but It is doubtful if It would
be wise at this time to reduce ma
terially our army in the Philippines,
for the reason that the maintenance
of a considerable force of troops there
will continue to be a necessary part
of our general military policy as bear
ing on the broad matter of national
and insular defense.
It was to be expected that so suc
cessful a tyrant as Zelaya would i ac
complish the feathering of his nest be
fore discovery, and the only amazing
thing about the latest Nicaraguan rev
elation is that in so small a country
the financial graft achieved so prodi
gious a scale. Not only has the dis
credited president out-Castroed Cas
tro, but also he appears to have Out
promoted the promoters of the United
States, for the long list of commodities
for which, In granting concessions to
himself and associates, he secured mo
nopolies, covers pretty much the whole
range of the republic's products, and
profits ranging as high as 205 per
cent are directly discoverable, Zelaya
as president may soon have his terra
absbrcvlated, but the country Is likely
to find Its real task when it attempts to
dislodge Zelaya the monopolist.
The new military law in Belgium
undoubtedly will have the result of
nationalizing the army, for It provides
against the purchase of substitutes
and compels each family to supply one
son to the ranks. . . Compulsory mili
tary service in time of peace is some
thing for which Americans have no
sympathy, bu the European state of
affairs requires rigorous measures to
maintain a standing force, and under
the bid system Belgium found that the
poor-were maintaining the army and
the rich were evading service. En
forcement of the new law may be re
garded as a distinct gain for the com
mon people.
The suggestion is made that life
saving stations be established In min
ing districts, to be In constant readi
ness against repetitions of such disas
ters as that at Cherry. The question
arises whether that would not tend to
make mine owners careless. A more
cfftctlve measure would seem to be to
'establish stringent laws based on the
)xperlouces at Cherry and elsewhere.
and then make the mining Interests
live up to them. Among the radical
Improvements that suggest themselves
are the flreprooflng of shafts and tb
provisioning ot tha levels with stores
of canned goods to serve aa rations to
those entrapped.
The failure of fbe Bhallenberger ad
ministration to properly manage the
affairs of the state Is evidenced by the
condition thai; prevails at the Lincoln
Hospital for the Insane, where the su
perintendent is writing to relatives of
patients being cared for, begging for
money and clothing for their malnts-
nance. Such a condition establishes
thoroughly either the Incompetence of
the management or the carelessness of
the legislature, and the governor can
take his choice.
The garbage contract Is before the
council again, and this time a suit
threatened to compel the contractor to
carry ouf his end of the bargain. In
the meantime thousands of household
ers throughout the city are suffering
Inconvenience by reason of the situa
tion. This la a most potent argument
In favor of the only proper method of
solution for the garbage question. The
city should handle it without the inter
ference of any private concern.
The city council shows very little
respect for its own committees. The
report of one special committee, which
came in after several weeks' Investiga
tion and incubation with recommenda
tions ot mofe'or less Importance to the
public, was filed without a dissenting
vote. Even the members who signed
the report allowed it to be ditched
without a single word of protest. Can
you beat ltt
What's in a nameT Sometimes
money. The gentleman from Missis
sippi gets the salary of a senator.NhU
son $2,4 00 a year as conference clerk,
his daughter-in-law $1,9 SO aa her hus
band's assistant and his daughter
$1,660 as messenger to the conference.
Being a leader has Its advantages, even
when what one leads is only the mi
nority. Now that an electric wizard has
transformed the ordinary iron bed into
an apparatus for "elective tuning," by
means of which the occupant of the
bed may draw thought waves from the
outside world by a system akin to wire
less, what safeguard has the belated
husband against discovery of the ex
cuses he frames on his homeward wayf
. . Peephole Plug-fed. .
. St Louis Times.
Red Cloud Is (load; and .another peep
hole In the wall dividing us from the plo
turesqua past la closed. -
Watt Farther Retarna.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
So far, the list of aviation fatalities looks
like only about one week of the foot' ball
season. But In common fairness It must
be said that players are many and flyers
few.. , .. -.'.
Gildings of tha Hero. ,
" ' Brooklyn Eagle.
l.
Congress la asked to make five mora vice
admirals, so i that our present rear ad
mirals may net be outranked when they
raoet officers of European navies. Sea
fighting depends on gold lace markings
more and mors with every year.
Inraah of Antique Affidavits,
Pittsburg Dispatch.
That artistic tariff reduction as construed
by the Treasury department Is working nut
Its benefit to trade, .flta 'department hav
ing held that tha section '. admits free of
duty tapestries 100 years ' old or more,
Europe Is turning Out tha antique tapes
tries with a rush Indicating the determina
tion to make hay while the sun shines.
Nine million dollars' worth of these hang
ings, each piece accompanied by an affi
davit as to Its centenarlanlsm. are on the
way over. No American home need after
this ba so poor as to go without Its antique
tapestries.
'Still Feeding? a Elephant."
Arlsona Silver Belt.
Speaking at a b.nquet given in his honor
at 31obe Arls., Mr. Bryan said:
"I , tell people I never expect to be or
mve'r hope to be a candidate for president
again.
"One reason tor not wanting to is that
Mr. Roosevelt took some ' of my pollolea
and Mr. Taft Is taking ethers. If I ran
again they would raise the .'third-term'
cry on me, saying I had served two terms
already.
.'And why should a mafe have all the
worry and . all the annoyance of being
president when ho can get men to do the
work for him, left , frra as I am to go
around to meet friends on occasions of
this kind and really enjoy lifer
MAN OF THIS HEROIC AGE.
Discovery la St. Loaia Provakes a
. Thrilling; Oatbarst.
3t.tx)uls Republic.
Those who desire to do homage to a rep
resentatlva of tha heroic age need not pore
over the roll of the knights of King Arthur
or the paladins of Charlemagne, or even
Invoke the spirits of conqulstadorea ha
sailed with Cortes or brave gentlemen who
bared swords In defense of Henri Quatre.
Hera In St. Louis, under flaming arcs which
shine upon wood-block pavements and light
the way of slx-cyllndered touring cars,
lives and moves. In the uniform ot a met
ropolitan policeman, a man whom the Three
Muskateers would have rejoiced to honor,
and Count Orloff, the strong man of Rus
sia, would have been pleased to present to
his queen., His nam Is Albert W. Sicking,
and ha received a life commission under
tha new law on Friday last..
Some years ago Patrolman Sicking set
out to arrest five desperate highwaymen.
He knocked them down with his bare flats,
marched them, seven blocks to the Pour
Courts' and delivered them Into custody
without drawing his rsvolver or taking his
club from Its sheath.
In these days minstrelsy la dead, find
"out qt life song's force Is vanishing."
Hers Is matter for poesy Indeed. In David's
time harps would have rung and Slcklng'f
exploits been preserved with those ot Inst
warrior who 'slew two Uon-llk men of
Moab, and him who slew a Hod in a pit on
a anowy day. In tha days wheoi Arthur
eame from ' Caerlon upon , I'sk mlnstrtl
would have hymned Ms prowess . and
Joined his name with those of Sirs Oawaln
and TTwalne and Sagamore la Desirous;
while Henry 'VIII would have made Mm
chief yeoman of tha guard, and ballad
would have recited his deeds to tha cars
of a nation.' Alas, the strings of the lyre
are broken; the-temple al Apollo Is dark
and lis shrine cold.
Washington Life
Sense Interesting Changes Ob
served U tha FamUy BUde of
safe la the White ose.
With every change of admlnhtratlon fam
ily ltfs In the White House develops some
charaoterlstlo different from Its predecessor.
As no two of tha "first ladles of ths land"
are exactly alike In domestic qualities, ao
the distinctive traits of each manifest them
selves and are noted by observers. Mrs.
Taft's distinctive quality Is shown "In mak
ing tha White House mora homelike." Whut
thia means and how It Is being accom
pllshed Is detailed by a correspondent of
tha Brooklyn Esgle. To start with, Mrs.
Taft found tha front door of the mansion
guarded night and day by polloemen, aa If
It were a publlo building. Dismissing them
she put in their place two fine-looking eol
ored men, in handsome, but unostentatious
liveries, whose duty It Is to receive visitors
and exclude the uninvited Just as In any
luxurious private establishment.
Various dstectlves, ocoupled under the
previous administrations In dodging about
the grounds, were told that their eervlces
would no longer be required. She reorgan
ised the surf of servants, twsnty-alx in
number, and, as a final stroke, she decided
that she did not want an efflclal steward
that pompous major domo,-who since time
Immemorial, In obedience to established
custom, has guarded the crockery, bought
the meals and wines, 'and superintended
In a general way all the Internal affairs
of the White House.
Instead of a steward, Mrs. Taft decided
that she would have a housekeeper a
woman, to do a womjji's work. And, to
fill the position, she chose a gentlewoman,
Mrs, Jaffray a clever nnd competent per
son, who does all the markotlng herself,
and controls all the ordinary domestlo ex
penditure, paying for everything, and sub
mitting her accounts for final audit to the
president's wife. -
Fortunately, Mrs. Taft Is relieved to a
great extent of domestlo cares by the
housekeeper, Mrs. Jaffray. All she has to
do In suoli matters Is to exercise a general
Supervision. In the morning, after break
fast, whloh Is at 8:30 o'clock) she has a
consultation with Mrs. Jaffray, and de
cides auoh questions as have to be sub
mitted to her. There may be certain things
In the way pf food supplies, for example,
which she specially wants.
The food problem at the White House Is
one of no small Importance, the quantities
of provisions and groceries required for so
large a household being very great with
out reckoning the extra supplies demanded
for entertaining. Under the present ad
ministration, however, comparatively little
entertaining of A gnneral oharacter Is dono.
No longer, as during the Roosevelt regime,
do cow punchers, rough riders, foreign dig
nitaries, clergymen, Journalists and people
of all sorts met - on an Indiscriminate
footing about thl White House lunch tabic
every .day. Instead, Mrs. Taft holds a
sort of Informal reception nearly every
afternoon, to which a limited number of
friends are Invited.
After finishing her business with the
housekeeper Mrs. Taft summons her secre
tary. MIhs Alloe Bloch, and attends to her
correspondence. ; Her letters, before she
receives them, however, have gone through
a certain weedlng-out process. Many hun
dreds of Cbrr.munlcatlons addressed to her
reach the White House every month, the
great majority being from total strangers.
All of tbem pass through the hands of a
clerk In the business office of the White
House, who himself opens . and answers
those Whlob Mrs. Taft would not care to
be bothered with.
When she Is through with her letters
Mrs. Taft la likely to go down town, either
on foot or In an automobile. Like ether
women, she likes to shop. If she stays at
home she will see some of her friends who
call. Lunch Is at 1:30 o'clock. In the early
afternoon she goes out In the automobile
for a spin over the country roads, return
ing In time to receive her friends, who ar
rive in considerable numbers to partake of
tea and oake. Theee little afternoon re
ceptlons are held either tn the library up
stairs or In the green room of the first
floor.
When ths mistress of the White House
wants anything new for housekeeping
purposes she Is no obliged tb speak to
her husband. She simply summons the
official master ot ceremonies an army
officer who Is charged with the business
of keeplhg the mansion and all its ap-
purtenancea In order and tells him to do
this or to buy tht Her word In such
matters Is the law absolute. (
Suppose, for Instance, that Mrs. Taft de
sires a new set of furniture for one of the
bedrooms. She sends for Colonel Cosby
and tells him what she requires or picks
It out herself and orders him to pay the
bill. There Is, always plenty of money for
such purposes, for congress gives 124,000
a year for the upkeep of the White House,
and tn addition, It appropriates $16,000
every three years for "extra repairs" this
sum being required for renewing hangings
and rugs and for recovering with blue silk
the sofas and chairs In the blue room.
No plated ware Is used In the White
House, save In the' kitchen. All spoons
forks and metal dishes that appear on the
presidential table are of pure sliver every
piece of It marked with the American eagle
and the words, "President's House." No
polace in the old world Is mulntalned on
so complete a scale of luxury, one of the
most remarkable features being the elec
trical equipment. There Is an electric ele
vator, which a child can menage. In the
pantry Is an electric dumbwaiter, and an
electric plate warmer, used when enter
tainments are given, heats 8,000 piotes In
five minutes. There Is, In, addition, a
machine for cleaning stiver by electricity.
In the basement of the White House are
two large kltohens adjoining which are the
bedrooms of the servants. These latter
were In the attic of the mansion up to the
time when, eight years ago, It was partly
rebuilt. Three cooks are required to pre
pare the meals, all of them women, and
three men serve In the Tllnlng room and
pantry. Every day Is wash-day In the
White House, owing to tho great amount
of clean linen demanded, and three women
are kept at work all the tlmo In the laun
dry. Thus It will be seen that the White
House, though a prlvnte residence, Is on
the scale of a small hotel. Its manage
ment Involves not a little care and re
sponsibility. But Mrs. Tsft, having ar
ranged the machinery properly, allows It
to run Itself. It Is safe to say that she
greatly enjoys the business of being the
first lady In the land. And why nott She
has the advantage it everything that privi
lege and plenty of money esn beatow. There
Is no luxury that Is not at her Instant
cammand even to the matter of flowers,
of which unlimited quantities are always at
her disposal. She can have a cartload of
roses every day, If she wants them. In the
basement of the mansion Is a "flower
room." aa It la called. In which flowers
and plants Sre prepared for the decoration
of the dinner table ana tbe rooms up
stair an Ice cheat being kept at all times
full of roses and other blossoms.
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Capital and Surplus, $1,000,000.00
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PERSONAL NOTES.
The son of the late Representative De
Armond of Mlxxourl may be nominated
by the democrats to succeed his father.
The nomination will be equivalent to elec
tion, as the district Is heavily democratic.
1' was to be taken for granted that In
England the Smiths were the most num
erous clan, but Scotchmen will grieve to
learn that even In Scotland they now out
number the MacDonalds, who have come
devtn to second place.
General J. Warren Keifer, who has been
the representative In congress from the
Seventh Ohio dlitrlct almost continuously
for the past thirty-two years. Is to have
a youthful opponent when the next con
vention meets. The opponent Is to be a
retired naval offloer. Lieutenant Robert
W. Kessler of Tippecanoe City, O.
Ot vice-presidents of the United States,
New Tork has furnished ten, five of whom
became presidents, two by election and
three by succession. Massachusetts hit
furnished three vice-presidents, Virginia
two, Indlaana three, Kentuoky two and
South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Alabama,
Maine. Tennessee, Illinois and New Jersey
one each.
The hottest special campaign pulled off
in Kansas City Mo., ends today with the
casting of the ballots on the question of
extending the franchise of the Metropoli
tan Street Railway company. The matter
of a new franchise for a long term of
years has been under consideration for
more than a year. The city has been
urging improved service, extension of lines
and building of needed viaducts, but the
company held back, using public neces
sities as a lever to obtain an extension of
the franchise. Last spring a commission
of citizens, drafted an ordinance extend
ing the company's franchise twenty-five
years, but safe-guarding the city's Inter
ests with restrictions and conditions that
were regarding as reasonable. This docu
ment had to pass Inspection of the city
council. The wise Solons gave It scant
consideration. The document finally ap
proved and to be voted on today was
drafted by the attorneys for the street
railway company, and Is regarded as a
geat plum for the company and a hold-up
for the city. It extends tho present fran
chise from 1816 to 1942. The Nelson papers
are hot against It, the Journal and Post
equally warm boosters. It Is a great con
test, and money has been flowing like a
flood In the Kaw.
MR. BRYAN IN A MUDDLE.
Superficial Reasoning- in Shadow of
the Water Waaron.
Sioux City Journal.
Mr. Bryan has taken up the liquor ques
tion as a means of stimulating politics.
"There Is no question," he says, "of the
activity of the liquor Interests In support
ing Cannonlsm," No one tarrying at the
half way house of Insurgency Is more In
tense In opposition to Cannonlsm than Mr.
Bryan. The democratic leader has long
entertained the notion that by some hocus
pocus he could put the republican party
under the table and yet maintain the dig
nity of the democratlo party.
It Is not the present purpose of Mr.
Bryan to turn prohibitionist. "Mr. Bryan
does not expect to see prohibition a para
mount Issue In national politics. If that
ever comes," he says, "It la not likely to
be In Mr. Bryan's day."
"Mr. Bryan may, . however," as he Is
authority, "bo truthfully credited with a
desire to assist In securing for the several
states absolute and exclusive control over
the liquor traffflc Including control over
all shipments of liquor as soon as the liquor
enters the state." This Involves, to be
sure, a large national question, closely af
filiated with prohibition to say the least,
with progressive prohibition.
"It will be Interesting to see," says Mr.
Bryan, "how some democratlo editors will
explain their opposition to the good old
Husbands, Bachelors and Friends
They all appreciate the very things you will find
here. You will hardly miss pleasing the man in ques
tion if you select "his" gift from our large assortment.
A List of Good
Neckwear, 50c to $3.50.
Dress Gloves, $1.25 to $2.50.
Fur Gloves, $2.50 to $22.50.
Mufflers, 50c to $5.00.
Shirts, $1.50 to $3.50.
Pyjamas, $1.00 to $8.50.
Night Robes, 50c to $3.50.
Handkerchiefs, 15c to $1.50.
Full Dress and Tuxedo Suits, Fur Lined Overcoats,
Business Suits, Silk and Opera Hats, Fancy Vestsymd
anything else that goes to make up a complete ward
robe of a gentleman.
Handsome Christmas boxes free with neckwear, etc
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democratic doctrine that the state ought
to be allowed to attend to Its own busi
ness." It Is to be regretted that Mr.
Bryan should permit himself to deal with
so large a question in such a superficial
manner.
Esther liquors are entitled to the privi
leges of Interstate commerce or they are
not. The power to regulate Interstate com
merce is vested under the Constitution In
the congress of tne United States. If tbe
regulation may be abrogated In the ease of
liquors, without first outlawing the liquor
traffic, then It Is neoessarily abandoned
aa a constitutional power aa to ether com
modules entering Into the eommerce
the United States. It la late in the day
set up the old doctrine of state rights,
though Mr. Bryan still clings to It as "the
good old democratic doctrine."
The general government exercises the
taxing power against the manufacturers
of liquors, and It wottld be necessary t
abandon that to carry out Mr. Bryan's
theory. He Is unwilling to declare himself
a national prohibitionists, but the logio of
his situation, whatever his words may be,
pushes him Into that relation.
SEASONABLE CHEEK.
Lady Bhopper I am looking for a suit
able Christmas present for a gentleman.
Clerk What Is your friend's occupation?
Ladv Bhopper He Is an undertaker.
Clerk An undertaker. Let me show you
a nloe berry set. Boston Transcript,
"I saw you In your automobile," said the
physician, "you'll have to take more ex
ercise." "Great Scott, dootorl When I get through
oranking that car I can't stand any more
exercise." Washington Star.
"Your honor." pleaded tle prisoner, "I
was so full of dope I didn't know what I
was doing."
"But of what were you full at first that
you didn't know better than to take the
dope, as you term It?" asked the court
coldly, naming the limit Phllade'phla
Ledger.
Patience It takes two to make a quarrel,
you know.
Patrloe And yet I have known quarrels
to occur when two persons have been made
one. Yonker'a Statesman.
Brown Green has wheels In his head.
Jones How do you know he has?
Browm-Well. I Judge so by the snokea
that come from his mouth. Chicago News.
She Don't you think it is silly In young
people to sit holding hands?
He (absently) Well, that depends alto
gether on whether they hold winning
oards. Baltimore American.
"Oh, dear!" sighed her husband's wife,
"I can't find a pin anywhere. I wonder
where all the pins go to, anyway."
"That'a a dlffioult question to answer,"
replied his wife's husband, "because they
are always pointed In one direction and
headed another." Leslie's Weekly.
A CBEED.
- D. D. Bismarck In Colller'a.
To be earnest; to be strong;
To make light tha way with song;
Slow to anger; quick to praise;
Walking steadfast through the days,
FTTm of purpose, sure of soul,
Pressing onward to the goal,
t'prlght, even, undismayed.
Sure, serene, and unafraid.
To be patient; to be kind:
To be purposeful, and find
Sweetness along the wavi
Loath to Judge, but firm to say
Truth with unrelenting tongue;
Byino cavil veered or swung
From the right; and to endure
Hopeful, helpful, clean, and pure.
To be gentle; to forgive;
True to life and glad to live:
To be watchful and to be '
Rich with boundless charity;
To be humble In success,
Strong of heart In bitterness.
Tender, gracious, thoughtful, good , .
In our man-and-womanhood.
To be smiling; to be glad
For the yesterday's we've had;
To be grateful all tho way
For tha beauties of today;
To ba hopeful and to see
In the days that are to be,
Bigger, better, broader things.
Robes of purple, orowns of Kings!
Thinfjs (or "llim"
Initial Handkerchiefs, $1.50
per box.
Holeproof Hosiery, $1.50 to
$3.00 per box.
Toilet Bets, $1.00 to $50.00.
Tie, Hose and Handkerchief
Sets, $1.00 to $4.0.0.
Silk nose, $1.50 to $3.50.
Umbrellas, $1.50 to $7.50.
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