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Tim BEK: OMAHA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1910.
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STATEMENT OI CIRCULATION.
Stat of Nebraska. Douglaa County, an.:
Oeonc B, Tsachuck, ireaenrer of The
Be publishing Company, being d"'
sworn, says that the actual number of full
and complete conies of Th Dally, Morn
ing, Evening and Bunday Be printed dur
ing th month of Deoembcr, 1909, was aa
follows!
i 41,890 IT 4i.30
1,TM 1 a.f30
S. . . 'J 41,660 ..It.'. 41,630
... 4UM 80 42,770
.... 40,340 81 40,480
.......... 4a,3V S3 43,660
T 41.070 83 48,450
48,880 84 48,880
t , 48,880 85 48,000
10 a,e0 . M.. ....... 44,880
11 48,060 87 48,610
18 "41.860 88 48,830
13 r. 44,880 88 43,370
14 i 48,470" -SO....'..... 48.410
18, 42,800 81 48,490
18 ' 8.480 ' ' i.
Total ...itaa.810
Returned copUs. ......... . 10,130
Net Total.,..,...
1,818,380
Dally Averag...
44334
GKOROE B. TZSCHUCK. Treasurer.
. Bubacrlbd In my presence and rworn to
before mm this list day of December, 10.
W. P. WALKKK,
Notary Public
aabaerlber leavl-ar th city tem
porarily huld kave Th Be-'
mall to them. A dares will h
cha-4 .a often a r-at4.
Watch for striking effects when
those college girls, come home wearing
strikers' shirtwaists.
The desire of tha consumers in some
cities seems to be to compel the meat
packers to eat crow.
Still, Reno is mighty far away to go
for a divorce which can be bought Just
as cheaply nearer borne.
Sam Small having been discovered,
there is still prospect that Dr. Cook
and Upton Sinclair will be located.
The Baltimore Sun, condemning
kissing,, pronounces It both ridiculous
and unsatisfying. Oh, Maryland, my
Maryland!
The audacity of wolves in devouring
a European nobleman is accounted for
when It la explained that they were
Hungary wolves.
Take note that Mayor "Jim" makes
his entry on the gubernatorial race
track as a democrat. No populist mas
querade for him.
Continental Europe is also having a
taste of unusually severe winter
weather. But for the real thing, Ne
braska still leads. . '
The Pittsburg presbytery appears to
have been brought face to face with
a personal application of the dictum,
"Consider the Lllley."
Oh, well, if we should have to wait
another year for the two new start in
the flag, we still have Halley's comet
to make 1910 distinguished.
Congregationallsts are talking of
blending New England and Chicago
spirits. Let us hope the resultant
brand will not need presidential Inter
pretation. .
If the reports of loss in the sheep
country, are not exaggerted, Mr. Beef
steak may prepare' to have his com
manding position contested by Mr.
Rlutlonchop, ,;' t ...
The, Elkhorn Valley Medical society
has resoluted to do away with free
medical service to ministers of the gos
pel. Ther is a. way for the ministers
to get even.
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Two. hundred thousand are said. to
have Joined the Anti-Food-Trust
league. The league directory Is likely
to be popular as a mailing list for the
near-food manufacturers.
It begins to look as though that
$20,000,000 bond project for the Illi
nois share In the lakesto-tb.e-.ulf
waterway were doomed to defeat. The
springs seem to be dry at Springfield.
The 'wholesale way in which Great
Britain is , embarking In old age and
unemployment pensions may compel
her to turn her warships loose In an
International hold-up game to get the
money.. '
If the new, merger of Independent
telephones 1n Nebraska puU the crip
pled Independent system in Omaha on
Us feet H Will have one credit mark.
But Omaha people will have to be
shown, ,'
W are all of us at time pron to Im
pugn and auapect f-ach other's motive and
wrongfully i to deny th other fellow's sin
cerity and rood faith. World-Herald.
Is anyone more prone to this fault
than the' World-Herald? Why not
practice as" well as preach once In
a whilst. 1 ' '" :' -
Honesty in Pnblio Service,
Official announcement that Governor
Hughes of New York positively will
not accept a rpnomlnatlon, but has de
cided to return to private life and bis
law practice to recoup his personal for
tunes, affords a striking reminder of
the fact that under the American sys
tem of government honesty and fear
lessness In public service are bften
their own and sole reward. It trans
pires that Mr. Hughes has spent each
year not only his official salary, but
also as much from his private funds
in addition, in maintaining the execu
tive mansion along lines commensurate
with the dignity of his position. Not
being a wealthy man, he naturally de
sires to make provision for his family
during the short remaining term when
his earning capacity Is at its height.
Personal necessities, therefore, take
from the public service a man in whom
the people have such confidence that
without regard to political faith they
desire to see him continue in office.
Such cases as that of Mr. Hughes
illuminate the, administration of af
fairs In this country against the oc
casional charge that public office is a
private graft. Governor Hughes has
been In the east what Governor john-
son was in the west, a type of sterling,
though rugged, honesty,- whose per
sonal example in sacrificing some of
the best of his years and energies to
the people's canse cannot but stimu
late the faith of the older generations
and the ambition of the younger in
the progress and permanency of the
republican form of government in this
union of states.
The Mother Country.
Commercial development of our
country has had much to do with the
lessening, if not the elimination,, of old
hostilities. A generation or two back
every American schoolboy studying
history felt ltja part of his nature to
voice a violent dislike' against Great
Britain, an attitude in which his elders
rather encouraged - him. . But of late
years so general has become the un
derstanding of international trade re
lations that a more liberal national
spirit toward our mother ofountry -has
been defined, and without developing
any entangling political alliance we
have cemented relations along interde
pendent business lines that have en
abled us to strengthen our position be
fore the world.
This is manifested In a' timely way
by President Taft in his interpretation
of his latest tariff order. The United
Kingdom is shown to be by far our
best market, and continuation of such
satisfactory conditions is to be com
mended on both sides of the water,
from Belflshly economic motives.
Britain needs our products, and we are
glad of her custom. This commercial
prestige gives us a peculiarly ad
vantageous leverage in treating with
France, Canada and Germany, but
even without considering them we
have In the case of the mother coun
try a substantial basis for additional
prosperity through the strengthening
of the ties of kinship across the sea.
Aviators in Wall Street.
Recent events among some of the
high-flying experimenters in the stock
exchange, resulting, as' In the case of
the aviators at large. In some breakage
through defects in the motive power
or weaknesses of construction, suggest
that the board of governors has not
been thorough enough in its Investiga
tions or firm enough in Its punish
ments to instill among Its less re
sponsible members proper respect for
the rights of the general investors in
securities.
Immediately after the suspension of
offenders in the case of the Rock
Island flurry they were reported as
continuing their activities through
reputable brokers, and then came the
Columbus and Hocking break. Both of
these instances were due to profes
sional manipulation, based on no sub
stantial foundation, and they certainly
added nothing to public confidence In
Wall street methods. Such unwar
ranted Juggling calls for stricter action
than the governors have thus far
taken, or they may be confronted by
federal Investigation such as recently
resulted in strong denunciation from
Washington concerning the methods of
dealing in cotton futures. Manifesta
tion of a desire thoroughly to purge
itself from undesirables would not be
amis on the part of the New York
Stock exchange. . ' .-.
South American Possibilities. ;
While the revolution in Uruguay
may turn out to be purely a local af
fair, still the peculiar situation of this,
the smallest of the South American re
publics, makes plausible , the report
that Argentina is fostering the Insur
rection. Uruguay has given the south
ern continent aa much trouble as some
of the lesser countries .of Central
America have given the United States
and Mexico, and she has been for
nearly three centuries a shuttlecock
between the Interests now. represented
under the respective governments of
Brasll and ' Argentina. With Argen
tina's rapidly growing Importance in
the international .commercial world,
she Is naturally covetous of her little
neighbor's territory across the bay,
with its vast grating area for the herds
she desires to seW to European mar
kets and with her shipping front along
the Rio de la Plata.
Brasll, a country which territorially
rivals the United States in size, will
hardly rest under any attempt to
strengthen the vigor of Argentina, Jier
progressive rival for the domination of
South America, but it Is certain that
if Argentina can utilize the present re
bellion to add Uruguay to her domin
ion she will do It. For Argentina ' to
possess the port of Montevideo as well
as' Buenos Ayrea would give her abso
lute command of a harbor that would
rival that of Rio de Janeiro, and for
Brasll to step In and control Monte
video would place Buenos Ayres at a
tremendous disadvantage. It will be
singular if the Uruguay situation does
not develop a warfare of wits between
the upper and the nether republics, and
between the two Uruguay's Inde
pendence may be ground to extinction.
What It's All About.
During the last year of the Roosevelt
administration a terrific outcry was
raised by the democrats in congress,
assisted by some republicans, over the
alleged lawless usurpation of the pres
ident In the Brownsville affair. Reso
lutions galore assailing Mr. Roosevelt
and denouncing his action were intro
duced and a congressional committee
of inquiry set in motion to, ascertain
and report upon the facts. The pur
pose of his enemies in forcing congres
sional participation in the Brownsville
rumpus was to discredit President
Roosevelt and to put an obstacle in the
way of his renomlnatlon, which they
then feared might be Imminent. But
when the president effaced himself as
a presidential possibility Brownsville
very quickly became a dim memory.
' Whether or not there ia any fire be
hind the smoke, the animus of the at
tacks aimed at President Taft, al
though hitting at Secretary Ballinger,
la plainly of the Btme character. The
purpose of the democrats Is to discredit
the republican president and, if possi
ble, to cripple his administration by
loading it down with a democratic
house during the second half of his
term. The democrats are naturally
hot to get something on Mr. Ballinger
and nu8 indirectly besmirch tile presi
dent, and in this effort they have, the
conscious or unconscious assistance of
a few republicans. s
What the democrats would like is to
get an investigating committee on
which they would have, at least, one
or two members who could be de
pended on to bring in a minority report
Irrespective of the evidence. Demo
crats want to keep . this controversy
open for campaign purpose only, and
no matter what the findings may be,
will try to exaggerate them so far as
they are adverse to Secretary Ballinger
and will cry "whitewash" bo far as
they exonorate him.
It will be a good idea for the un
prejudiced spectator to get the layout
of the ground clearly In view while the
preliminaries are in progress
Talking down at Washington, Gov
ernor Shallenberger declares -that he
will call the legislature in extra session
whenever a petition signed by a ma
jority of the members' of the legisla
ture, embodying a pledge to enact an
Initiative and referendum bill, reaches
him. The govefnorLl'.ould; like.'5 to
throw the responsibility , for. convening
the legislature upon. the law-makers,
yet that is not where the responsibility
la placed by the constitution. It is up
to the governor every time to decide
whether an emergency exists demand
ing a special session, and a petition
signed by a majority, or even by all, of
the members of the legislature does
not make the contemplated emergency.
The readiness of the American to
seize on transitory phases for conspicu
ous recognition of a man Is exemplified
in the case .of John Farson, who has
just died in Chicago. Most people ac
quainted with him through the news
papers knew him only as the good
natured wearer of brilliant garments,
and his red neckties were famous
across the continent.- Yet he was one
of the most influential of' western
bankers, an enthusiast In, the develop
ment of great industrial enterprises
and his deeds as a philanthropist bad
made thousands happy. Sometimes a
man uses these personal Idiosyncrasies
to hide his real nature and qualities.
Does not Dr. Spltzka, medical col
lege brain specialist, announcing
his belief in "justifiable suicide," fear
he will have laid at his door such a
chain of events as followed Rev. Mr.
Talmage's discussion, "Is suicide a
sin?" Dr. Spltzka even goes further
and urges that there are occasions
where "tactful murder" Is to be con
doned. Such opinions may be a sign
of advanced thought, but there is grave
danger in turning them loose upon the
public, whose, thought Is not so far ad
vanced. '
Zeppelin's promise of a monster
airship to carry 300 passengers reads
as though the eta of intercity aviation
were at last in sight.. But who will
be the flrst 300 to sail? The disas
trous collapse of a similar unwieldy
balloon Is still fresh in memory. It Is
prudent and pleasant to watch these
experiments still from terra flrma, de
spite the marvelous progress in flight
made by the experts.
i If "Fingy" Connors got $2,000,000
in. stock for floating an Independent
telephone franchise In Rochester, for
which he paid nothing but his "influ
ence,'.' how much did the "influence"
of the World-Herald bunch bring when
the Independent franchise j;ame was
played In Omaha?
The story of a newspaper man's re
ceiving a medal for his heroism in sav
ing a girl from drowning adds that "be
does not need money, which raises
the suspicion that he Is not a really
truly newspaper man.
Our distinguished fellow citizen, the
Hon John L. Webster, took advantage
of the. occasion of the .meetlng o( No
bras! a's State Historical society at Lin
coln to tell the Lincolnites that we
ought to have a new $5,000,000 state
house and a new $1,000,000 repository
for our historical archives. Mr. Web
ster's generosity would be magnificent
If the good people of Lincoln would
only reciprocate.
Results of the Parllmentary election
In England are coming in slowly be
cause of delays due to collection of the
returns from widely scattered districts.
Here is a small measure of consolation
for Us who usually have to wait three
and four days to make sure who won
out In Nebraska whenever the contest
is close.
It was away back In Bn Franklin's
day that the cry, "Back to the farm,'
originated, as his pamphlet on "The
Internal State of America" testifies.
And the common-sense philosopher
used fewer words in nis argument tnan
either James J. Hill or Secretary Wil
son.
If the Kansas City packers think
that the worklngmen of their town
cannot subsist, as they threaten, on
a vegetarian diet, let them reflect on
the case attested by Holy Writ of
Nebuchadnezzar, who for seven years
ate grass like a cow.
After digesting the testimony of
Colonel Clowry, the man who sends a
telegram costing him $1 must feel like
a stroke of pity to realise that the poor
telegraph company makes only 3V4
cents on the message.
Still deadlocked - on United States
senator down In Mississippi. By the
way, Mississippi is overwhelmingly
democratic, so this variety of deadlock
cannot be Indigenous only in repub
llcan Btates. .
New Englanders will note with re
lief the coroner's finding that the man
who died after eating pte for breakfast
showed the casualty to have been be
cause of his deterioration, not the
pie's. : .
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Both Bad and the Middle.
Washington Post.
Shoo are going up. Literally, It Is now
a case of higher prloes from the crown
of your head to th soles of your feet.
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Almost "Oat of Sight."
St. Louts Times.
America jib . have been pronounced the
tallest people In the world; and yet thay
cannot look the present cost of living In
the face.
"Alas, Poor Yorlck,"
. . Boston Globe.
Mr. Bryan has arrived In . Ecuador, in
splendid health,, and Is going to. visit th
ruins of the Incaa In Peru. Ha will, of
course, be particularly Interested In th
silver mines.
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jnoTing an ainfnii.
Chicago Post.
The Omaha Bee makes a great fuss about
announcing that Mr. Bryan will be a presi
dential candidate In 1911. If a careless
printer had only1 inserted the word "not"
after the Word""wlll" The Be Would have
seemed' to haV"a bit of real news.
More le4 Called for.
. Indtanapolts News.
Whatever valuable Information concern
ing tha hitch cost of living may be ob
tained by the census takers, perhaps It
would be Just as well to take some other
action in the meantime, as the census
returns are sometimes a bit slow about
coming In. ';t
Puhllrfty of Campaign Bill.
. Philadelphia Bulletin.
Mr. Taft's recommendation that th ex
penditure of congressional committees
should be made publlo in th same way
that those of national party committees
are published after each quadrennial cam
paign, ought to result In a law that will
mak this practice compulsory. If the
country is entitled to know how much
money is spent to elect presidents, and
how it Is disbursed, th same need clearly
exists with respect to the congress con
tests which come twice as often.
AN HISTORIC PACT.
General
Sherman and the
Sonth
Thirty Year Ago.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
A writer In the New York Evening Post,
who algna himself ."Northern Unionist,"
offers this to the groups of camp-followers
and coffee-coolers, who have lately heard
of the war of sections and are beginning
to get mad enough almost to' fight: "It
strikes my commonplace Imagination that
an effectual test of the propriety of a
statue to General Lee at th capltol Is to
be found In the question: 'What would
Grant and Sherman have thought of It?
and adds, "Could any modern Grand Army
of the Republic commander answer that
frankly and honestly and leave himself
enough ammunition to damage th plan?"
In 1877, when the Hayes-Tilden contest
was decided In' favor of Hayes, General
W. T. Sherman "was so insistent that Gen
eral Joseph E. Johnston should be secretary
of war In the new cabinet, that Mr. Hayes
consented. It was proposed to the nearest
friends of General Johnston, who stated
that if the offer TVere made, General John
ston would decline It. General Sherman
expressed himself- aa greatly dfciappolnted.
Subsequently, Judfre Key, a confederate
soldier and 'on original secessionist, was
mads postmaster general.
To Grant and Sherman the war ended
In IStio; to camp-followers and coffee
coolers. It would never end.
Our Birthday Book
January 81, 1810.
Theodore Starrett, a member of the build
ing firm of Starrett & Thompson Co., which
Is putting up the new Brandeli theater
building, was born at Lawrence, Kan.,
Jan. 21, 1865. He haa been 'building sky
scrapers since 18.S8 In nearly every big e'ty
In th country,
Conrad H. Young, who la a real estate
man more widely known as Omaha's
champion tennla player, is 38 yeara old
today. "Con" Young was born in London,
but cam her when he was lz years old,
and finished his education at tha Omaha
High school. He manages th real cstat
In this country belonging to Sir Horace
Plunkett
Selwyn Doherty, who by strange coin
cidence is associated In partnerahlp with
"Coif' Young, celebrates his birthday on
the aame day. Mr. Doherty, Is th son of
Rey. Robert Doherty, formerly In charge
of Brownell Uall. He was born In Omaha
January 21,- TS?3 and worked a short Mm
In the Burlington headquarters previous to
taking to real estate and Insurance
Around New York
WpTlaa M th Current f TUf
as B la th 8ret Amerioaa
KrpU from Day to Day.
A Wall street "killing" rivaling the
shakedowar of Helns, the copper plunger
from Butt, two years ago. Is the bear
squees of Eugen P. Boales, the Texas
eotton bull. Gen boosted cotton to the
limit and was smothered In his product
for about 16,000,000. Mr. Brewster's pace as
a spender bears as much resemblance to
Scales' speed as that of a cripple to
Marathon winner. Last Christmas ha
stuffed, the socks of his kinsfolk with a
total of 11.500,000 f real money pulled out
Of the hides of th bears. A trifle of ft.
000.000 went to a sister. To a brother he
cam down the chimney with liOO.OOO. Rel
atives lees favored all received vlBlts and
h added $300,000 of gifts before the time
for new resolutions cam around. The
$4,000,000 exacted by th bears last week
doubtless Includes Interest on their pre
vious donation i '
During the two weeks of his administra
tion Mayor Gaynor has distributed nearly
$200,000 worth of patronage and issued
orders that will affect the distribution of
hundreds of thousands more without glv
Ing Tammany so much as a "look-In.'
Out of thlrty-flv Tammany district lead
ers just on has got. a Job. Out of th
long list of new commissioners appointed
at salaries ranging from $5,000 to $7,600,
Just one Is a Tammany man Rhlnelander
Waldo, th Campflre commissioner. And
tha first thing Waldo did was to abolish
th prlvat stabl th city has been main
taining for th commissioner. So elscwhor.
Comptroller Prndergast announced on
his first day of office that the subway
was good enough for him. Tha mayor
walks. If th olty automobiles do not
demonstrate their usefulness they and their
chauffeurs and th chauffeurs' "Joy rides"
are all to go. Park Commissioner Hlgglns
of th Bronx laid off 160 men in th first
week. Water Commissioner Thompson has
don away with overtlm and Bunday pay
It looks very lean for the small fry. There
Is no sign, however, that th mayor will
attempt to build up a rival political ma
chine. Ther remain two positions to
fill, which in th publlo eye bulk larger
than any of the others the commissioner
of police and th commissioner of street
cleaning. Both are now held by MoClellan
appointees.
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It was reserved for th mothers and
wives of Mount Vernon to discover the pos
sibilities of tha telephone as an elec
tioneering Implement.
' Ther was an election on Tuesday last
affecting th location and control of an
additional high school. Like other New
York towns, Mount Vernon permits its
women to vote on questions affecting the
public schools.
The heads of various woman's clubs held
a caucus conference on Monday. One
bright president brought with her an Idea.
"I suggest," she said, ''that each one of
us go horn, get a list of th member of
her organisation, and call each up by tele
phone, making her pledge herself to go to
the polls and vote tomorrow."
"And also call up every woman she
knows, whether a member of not," sug
gested another sister.
"We should glv our cooks and servant
girls an afternoon off,' came from an
other, "provided they pledge themselves to
go to th polls and vote for the school."
Th telephone girls of Mount Vernon re
tired on Monday at midnight .on the verge
of nervous, prostration. .,, . ., ,
'' "The millinery lines," as the men called
them, formed at th ' polls at an early
hour, and flying detachments cam all
day. The women carried the day by a big
majority; 60 per cent of th vote cast was
theirs. And the telephone did HI
Times do change, and women reformers
change with . them. Mrs. Carrie Nation Is
evidently learning moderation In the days
of seml-obacurity into whloh she la enter
ing. When a New York theatrical manager
refused to pay her for a series of lectures,
or, rather, offered her less than she
claimed, she surveyed him with that sus
picious smile that used to envelop her face
Just before she produced her hatchet and
walked out of th room.
She did not return with an axe, as he ex
pected, but sent a prosaic civil marshal In
her stead. In other words, times and tha
prosalo east have so subdued her that she
did Just as a New England woman might
do under the same circumstance sued for
her salary. 1
Two men who are well known "n New
York as the proprietors of an old-fashioned
hotel, set a new fashion in progressive din
ners the other night. They entertained a
party of guests at a different hotel for
each course of the dinner. Beginning at
their own hotel, tha hosts provided th
oysters, the party sitting down at a fully
laid table. As soon as the bivalves were
disposed of the party took two taxlcabs
and went to th next hotel on th list for
Soup. A waiter telephoned to the next
stopping plaoe, ao that there was no delay.
8o It went, through all the courses to cof
fee and liqueurs.
The proud parents of two little New York
boys and their 4-year-old sister are anx
ious that the children should have means
of knowing when they have grown up how
smart they were In their nursery days, and
with this In view the children have sung,
'spoke pieces" and held conversations be
fore a talking machine. The records have
been placed where they will not be In
jured, and the parents think that some day
the children will value them highly. With
th records there are descriptions of the
children as they appeared to the father and
a photograph of each. '
The bllssard mad New York a deal of
trouble, but it was not without its good
points. People who suffer from Insomnia
have been asking if it Is not possible to
keep the elevated and surface lines blank
eted with snow the year round in order to
muffle th noise. In Berlin, by the way.
th racket of tha elevated has been reduced
to a minimum by scientific construction.
Soger mui Cheap Labor.
San Francisco Chronicle.
Th Hawaiian Sugar Planters' associa
tion, by investing in Philippine sugar
lands, or proposing to, means to take ad
vantage of the .cheap labor of the Asiatic
Islands, thua enhancing Its profits. Hawaii
haa had two sugar years In which 200,000
aorea of land have yielded over $35,000,0)0.
In view of the rising sugar price, a crop
worth upward of 810,000,000 Is expected In
1910. Money Is a drug In th jnarket In
Honolulu and ther Is plenty to spar for
Philippine ventures.
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Colo Comfort f or Coosnaaer.
Minneapolis Journal.
' People wonder at the price of eggs when
so many people keep hena and when tha
hens put In such a long, busy summer.
Th reason Is simple. According to the
president of th- American Warehouse
Men's association there wer 1.500,000,000
eggs In cold storage In th United States
on th first of last September, where they
wore held to fore higher prloes. Not the
simple and useful ben, but the monopolist
is to blama,
Left Handers
Anything for an intense.
Iioup City Northwester: We do not know
of any newspaper with seemingly a greater
grouch than the Llneoln Dally Slaf. A
shadow of Penator Burkett sends th Ptar
off on a tangent, while th name of Vie
Rosewater arts like the, view of water to a
hydrophobic ranlne. Tlte Star should seek
to abstain from such quemlousnrss.
Nothing Personal.
Kearney Hub: The World-Herald has
turned Its attention to the demolition of
the Kosewater-Hayward republican ma
chine. It Is not a matter person"! with the
W.-H. Its attitude would be just the same
if Jones and Smith were national commit
teeman and national secretary In the re
publican organization. The machine would
grow out of the pipe dream Just as readily
In either event.
Alo't It th Tmtht
Hastings Republican: In an Interview In
Washington Victor Rosewater, editor of
The Omaha Bee, said that Nebraska was
not an Insurgent state In th same sense
that Kansas, Iowa and Wisconsin are. He
was nearer the truth when he said that
h did not bellove any Cannon congress
men could be elected In Nebraska. H did
not think, however, that the Isurgent move
ment, would be strong enough to com
pletely wipe out repunhllran control. Prob
ably Mr. Rosewater, like some other re
publicans, Is banking on Roosevelt coming
home In time to whip the Insurgents under,
the standpat banner.
Handicap of a Popular Father.
Lyons Mirror: "I told you so." Yea, The
Mirror said Vic Rosewater was the boss of
the republican party In Nebraska. Of
course, we don't blame the young man
for his ambitious quest for power and
fame. We only blame the fool suckers who
will ba led around by the nose without
even a protest and see the leadership of
a great party handed down to a little
squirt the son of bis father. Vlo has lots
of ability and la a smart lad, but why
should old men who have 'grown gray In
the service of the republican party be
brushed aside Just because he happened to
have a popular father. Is this American
In principle or monarchical?
Why Shonld Ther "Hollerf"
Tekamah Journal: 'This "holler" that
some of the country press are making, rela
tive to Vic Rosewater being termed the
boss of the republican party In Nebraaka
Is Just a whole lot silly. Rosewater la th
representative of the party upon the na
tional republican committee and a better
one we.-don't think could be selected. He
Is one of the forces In Nebraska politics,
but that Is far from being "Boss." He la
at the head of the most powerful expon
ent of republicanism In the state. We don't
think, as he does, along some lines;
neither do hundreds of other republicans
In the state. He may have ambitions, too,
politically, but that Is no discredit to a
man. It Is his right to be treated fairly
and the way some of the small country
papers yap at him savors; very much of
the rat terrier's disposition, ready to at
tack anything.
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J-OSOHAL UOTES.
The promised raise In the price of foot
wear Is chargeable to the Increasing pull of
straphangers on leather. '
Owing to the elevated condition of neces
saries, the' New York chapter of the Amer
ican Institute of Architects has decided to
advance minimum rates from 8 to 6 per
cent'
The mother' of eighteen children has ap
plied for the position of "spanker" at the
Trenton (N. J.) Horn for Girls. The posi
tion is competitive, but competition fades
away before such a string of achieve
ments. A society of American hunters has In
vited Mr. Roosevelt to be Its guest at a
dinner upon his return. He Is also In
vited to furnish a pickled specimen of
every kind of game he has slain to help
out the menu.
Frits ' Augustus Helnse, famous copper
plunger and conqueror of the Amalgamated,
is up against the same grade of Judicial
machinery In) New York that sent Banker
Morse to prison, and there is no hope of
getting a change of venue to a Butte court.
Boasting that he had not taken a bath In
fifteen years nor tasted food In nine weeks,
J. P. Peterson, for threo years a lodger In
tha Big Island house in Spokane, with
A new EcEson
no less remarkable for its beauty of design and finish
than for its perfect sound reproducing qualities.
Amberola at your dealer 8 today. iVnce, $200. 00.
StGZak- And when you go to hear the Amberola,
be sure to ask to hear the new Grand Opera" records by
Leo Slezak, the famous new lyric tenor of the Metro
politan Opera House, New York. Slezak has made
ten new records for the Edison, from the most promi
nent operas in which he sings Amberol Records.
Remember that only Amberol Records render Grand
Opera as it should be played.
Rdlaos Phonographs $12-50 to $200.00 Edison Amberol Reordi(p1ay twice as loeg) I .SO
Kdison Standard Kecordi .35 KdUon Grand Opera Records .73 and 1.08
There are Edlioa dealers everywhere. Go to th nearest and hear the Bdltos Phonograph
play both KdUon Standard aad Amberol Records, Get complete catalog- irom roar
dealer er Ixoa us. Natkwal PIMrp C.. 78 I iWi.Ui Aram, Onon, N. A
Nebraska Cyd Co. represents the National Phono
graph Co. in Nebraska, and carries huge stocks of Edison
Phonographs, including the models mentioned in tho
National Phonbgraph Co's announcement on this page
today, as well as a stock of over 100,000 records. 1
Nebraska Cycle Co,
15th and Harney Sts., Geo. E. Mickel, 334 Broadway,
Omaha., Neb. Manager. Council Bluffs, la,
$4,W0 In hnk eerttfleiies and In g"ld
securely strapped undr his left arm, WS
arrested by order of the "pokane. Wash...
city health department and bathed In a
tank at the eotinty Jail.
A fortune f $t.000 In good securities
awaits the heirs of Jeremiah Moynlhan,
sn aged fnlser ragman, who du-d In St,
Louis. Apparently In destitute circum
stances, Moynlhan waa to have been burled
In th potter's field, but the puhllo ad
mlnl.itrator found a key to a safety de
posit vault In his effects. The safety box
contained bonda worth $00,000.
With the enrollment of John R. Walsh
of Chicago the bankers' colony In th fed
eral tirlson at Leavenworth numbers an
I even thirty. Their sentences range from
three to ten year earh. Just half of tha
number blew In during 1909. Indiana fur
nlxhed eight, Ohio, four; Illinois, three;
South Dakota, two; Wisconsin, four, the
rest from scattered localities. Nebraska
and Kanras are without representation In
the colony.
CHEERY CHAFF.
"Doctor I want to be fitted with glasses."
"Quite o."
"Something that will glv m an Intel
lect u.i I appearance."
"I don't think 1 have anything that pow
erful." Kansas City Journal.
"What are the thr known dimension?"
askwl the teacher at the nljrht school.
"The world, th flesh, and th devil!"
gasped the shagcy haired pupil, takn by
surprise and unable at the moment to get
his mental bearings. Chicago Tribune.
"I acknowledge, your honor," said the
prisoner, "that I punched this man in a
moment of Indignation."
"I wouldn't have minded th moment cf
Indignation so much," put In th com
plainant, "had he not also punched me in
the face." Bui tlmor American.
Blllicus Do you believe ther Is honor
among thieves?
Cynlcun-No; they are Just as bad as
other people. Philadelphia Record.
Mistress IXd you hav company last
nUht, Mary?
Mary Only my Aunt Maria, mum.
Mlstre When you see her again, will
you tell her she left her tobacco pouoh on
the piano? Illistrated Bits.
"Well, how trtie It la," sighs th visitor,
"that one-half of the world doesn't know
how the other half lives."
"That may he true of th world in gen
eral," replied th native. "But It doesn't
apply to this town." Chicago Evening Post.
Scott See that man who Just went by?
He landed in this city with bar feot and
now he's goi a niiiiion."
Mott Great Jupiter! That beat the
centipede to a fraxale. Chicago Tribune.
"Why do you persist In oalllng th ell
mate 'beastly'?" asked the man with the
grip.
"It's merely a form of speech.
"Welt, you ought to drop It. Moat beasts
can he tamed more or less. "Baltimore
American.
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ONLY A DREAM.
Wilbur D. Nesblt In Chicago Poet
That morn I passed a hair store, wher
were shown '
Innumerable masses. Col hi and Duffs.
And, braids, and curls, and such-Ilk things
wen Known
To be the very latest hirsute bluffs.
And In some hidden recess of my brain
The quick impression lingered, . still and
deep,
Until that night It brought In eorle train,
Tha dream that gamboled through my
fevered sleep.
I dreamed the women-rolk were not eon
tent With wearing artificial hair In pride
Until their necks with weariness were
bent
By all the weght that on thalr heads
mUHt ride.
I dreamed that some went to th dummy-
snop
And purchased other heads and wore
them. too. .
Some on their shoulois, aom In Ura
Bound on with" ribbons . and . stuck on
with glue. '. . :
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Oh, more I dreamed; ana more I dreamed
and more!
I (Whisper this; I know it could not
be!)
I dreamed they ransacked every sort Of
store
And purchased all the cork legs they
could see. .
And social standing fitly came to her
Wno had more legs than anyon could
need,
And when she walked produced a sudden
stir
As though she wer a mighty centipede.
So then I woke and feared to sleep again,
Not knowing what more awful dreams
might come
And now, at hush of night, I hold my pen
And write my dream with fingers oold
and numb.
I tell myself 'tis foolish thus to dread
That some wild gift of prophecy I've
got-
But if they thus enlarge and , deck the
head
I' ask an to the rest:' "Ah, well, . why
not?"
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Thonotfraph
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An opera singer s voice may Ieav
nothing to be desired, while the per
sonality of the artist may lack much.
For instance, it is more pleasing to
listen to Blanche Arral than many of
the other prima donnas, because she
is a beautiful woman. So it is with
the Amberola. The beauty of its
exterior is in perfect keeping with its
incomparable tonal qualities, Tho
Amberola is a delight to the eye as
well as to the ear. See and hear the
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