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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
Btate of Nebraska, Douglaa County, ss.:
Oeorge B. Tsschuck. treasurer of The Bee
Publishing Company, being duly sworn,
says that the actual numner of full and
complete copies of The Dallv, Morning.
Evening and Sunday Be printed during the
month of January, 1910, wn as follows:
1 41,440 17 49.U0
t 41,700
1 43,430
49,330
S 43,400
43,400
7 43,430
43,470
t 41,700
10 43,830
U 43,480
13 43,600
1 43,400
H 43,440
18 43,870
0 41,770
Total ....'
18 43,700
It 48,480
20 43,050
21 43,690
22 43,530
22 41,350
24 43,000
26 43,040
2S 43,090
27 43,630
21 43,350
20 43,650
20 41,400
tl 43,370
...1,314,330
t,55
Returned copies.
Net total 1,304,665
Oally average 43,973
aEOROU B. TZSCHITCK,
Treasurer.
subscribed In my presence and awoin to
belore roe thla 31st day of January. 1910.
KUUUHl HUrtlbtl,
Notary public.
Sabaerlbers leavluar the elty ten
porartly shoe 14 have The Be
taalled them. Address will he
'red as often as reqacstea.
It there is a theater scalper's trust
la New York It should by all means
bo scalped.
I
It looks as If it might soon be neces
sary to establish a speed limit for aero
plane artists and a penalty for atmos
pheric scorching.
Translated into the vernacular, ad
vices from Great Britain are to the
effect that the lords are now tame
enough to feed out of the hand. '
The Mardl Qras is on at New Or
leans, but we will bet dollars to dough
nuts that In point of artistic pageantry
It has no edge on our own Ak-Sar-Ben.
Sir Horace Plunkett is writing
magazine articles about "The Neg
lected Farmer." Wonder If any of
the farmers hereabouts really feel
that they are neglected?
Paris loses no opportunity to ex
press gratitude for assistance in its
distress given from the United States.
Whenever there is real need, no appeal
for help goes unanswered.
Kansas City has a sensation grow
ing out of the death of a millionaire
philanthropist which overshadows even
its Union depot question. No other
comparison could adequately do It
Justice.
Commander Peary's plan for an Ant
arctic expedition contemplates reach
ing the South pole about December 31,
1911. Why not move it up a little
and take along a Christmas plum pud
ding? Everybody In New York is saying
that Mayor Qaynor has made a much
better start than was expected. That
means that they will expect a much
better finish than would otherwise
have sufficed.
The so-called Insurgents in congress
insist that they are more loyal to the
republican platform pledges than are
the regulars. The country at large
will willingly put them all up to the
"Show Me" test.
Over in Chicago, the Auto show is
to have for a background a stage set
ting representing a forest. With this
realistic surrounding it will be easier
for the spectators to imagine a break
down out on a lonely road.
Speaker Cannon has been asked to
set aside a room in the house office
building as a gymnasium for the use
of the members of the house of rep
resentatives. Thought they gt all the
gymnastic exercise they needed lam
basting "Uncle Joe."
It is to be hoped that the threatened
expulsion of Iowa State university stu
dents for cribbing may not set a gen
eral precedent unless It is considered
desirable to pull down the attendance
figures for most of our institutions
for higher education.
That New York World libel suit
was thrown out of court on a question
of Jurisdiction It the World really
wants to set off all the ammunition it
has gathered, it ought to be able to
find some competent tribunal willing
to see that It Is properly indicted.
I -
That reminds us again, that a dis
tinguished fellow citizen once went
up and down the country assuring us
that prices of farm products would
never rise sgaln until we opened our
mints to the free coinage of sliver at
the sacred ratio of II to 1 without
waiting for the aid or consent of any
other nation on earl'
A Court of Warei.
DiscuJwlng the president's proposal
for an Interstate commerce court for
more effective railway regulation, Paul
Morton ruts In a plea for "a court of
wages" as well as "a court of com
merce," or rather for the two in one
Mr. Morton, who, although now
1 a
me insurance president, came up
through the railway world, insists
that the question of wages paid to
railroad employes is in fact part of
the question of railroad rates, and that
both should be arbitrated or adjusted
by the same tribunal. The railroad
rates of the United States, he pro
nounces the lowest in the world In
spite of the psyment of the highest
wages in the world to railway em
ployes. Over CO per cent of the
cost of transportation is for labor, and
if a court is to decide what is a rea
sonable rate, why should It not, asks
Mr. Morton, also be the best tribunal
in case of disputes to say what a rea
sonable wsge is for the employe?
Can the reasonableness of the whole
be determined without the reasonable'
ness of a part being considered? Mr
Morton suggests, of course, that It
railway wages and costs of material
are going to continue to advance, rail
way rates must keep pace with them,
although even admitting the premise
there is room to take issue with him
as to Increased rates being a necessary
corollary.
Mr. Morton, however, renders good
service in emphasizing the Importance
of the wage side of the larger rail
road question. At the recent meeting
of the American Economic association
in New York City, the editor of The
Bee ventured to raise the point in a
debate on the subject of physical valu
ation, that the employes might have
an interest in determining on what
capitalization rates should properly
be gauged in order to offer a fair
return to the owners, tc?.u on that
same capitalization must be based the
equitable division ofj the earnings be
tween the owners and the employes,
In other words, there are, at least,
four parties concerned with every
question of rate-making the producer
or shipper and the consumer, the rail
way owner and the railway employe,
It would not be a great leap, there
fore, for an Interstate commerce court
with powers of rate-making to take
jurisdiction of wage controversies and
render decisions in both founded on
Justice, equity and fair-dealing.
Whether such a court of wages for
disputes between railroads and their
employes would stop there or would
eventually extend Its authority over
wages disputes for all' corporations en
gaged In Interstate commerce, or for
wage disputes for all corporations en
lng question which points to possl
bllitles. The court of commerce will
probably have to come first and let us
deal with the after-developments as
they arise.
Oreat Britain's Foreign Trade.
Statistics covering the foreign trade
of the United Kingdom for 1909, com
piled from British' sources, have Just
been given out by the Department of
Commerce and i Labor. The tables
show some very Interesting facts, es
pecially those concerning the United
States. For 1909 the total merchan
dise trade of the United Kingdom was:
Imports, 13,040,299,726; exports,
$1,841,383,564. As compared with
1908, the Increases were: Imports,
$154,691,582; exports, $6,207,814.
Imported merchandise to the value of
$444,630,035 was re-exported, In
1909, as against $387,488,721 in 1908,
leaving the net imports for consump
tion at $2,695,699,691 in 1909 and
$2,498,119,423 In 1908, an increase
of only $97,550,268 in 1909, instead
of the increase of $154,691,682 shown
by the general Imports. v
How far the United Kingdom falls
short of producing enough to supply
its inhabitants with meat and drink is
shown by the fact that the imports of
grain and flour, meats, other food' and
drink and tobacco for 1908 were
$1,188,078,544, and for 1909 they
were $1,237.714, boo. The exports
for these years of these articles were
$106,769,678 and $114,983,024, leav
ing a balance against Great Britain on
the food bill for the two years of more
than $2,200,000,000. This sum is
only about $300,000,000 less than the
entire imports of the United States for
the years mentioned. It shows how
utterly dependent the United King
dom la on the world outside for sup
port. England cannot afford to enter
into a war of any kind that will en
danger its food supply, and as this
comes from all over the world it prac
tically means that England must keep
at peace with all the world, or starve.
Another important tact is that
Argentina is now supplying the meat
trade of Great Britain with beef. The
total value of fresh beer and live cattle
sent to England from the United
States in 1909 was but $27,022,228,
of which $9,490,298 was for dressed
meat and the balance tor cattle on the
hoot. Argentina furnished fresh beef
to England during the year to the
amount of $82,769,832. Australia's
contribution to England's meat supply
was but $7,837,684. The value of
cattle and meat shipments from the
United States to Great Britain in 1908
was $37,803,373, showing a falling off
for the year 1909 in this trade with
the United States of almost $10,800,
000.' Other sales of food products by
the United States to Great Britain
how the following:
1908. 1900.
Wheat
Flour
Indian corn..
Bacon
llama .,
tba.ftl.7ta 133,ttl.&.
, ..T 1,40S,887
, l.t2.M3 10.SW.fi20
. ii 7 3.41 lM?8.Kt3
. UKUll 14.tM.31f
During the year 1909 the total im
ports Into the United Kingdom of
these articles amounted to: Wheat,
$220,394,453; flour, $31,001,979; In
dlan corn, $68,993,036; bacon, $67,
165.792; hams, $15,148,908. Only
in hams did the United States come
anywhere near feeding the British all
they wanted.
In the total trade of the two na
tlons the balance stands decidedly In
favor of the United States. In 1909
the United States imported from Great
Britain merchandise to the amount of
$247,474,104, and sold to that country
$521,281,999. Of this latter sum
more than $200,000,000 was for raw
cotton, of which the United States still
furnishes the bulk of all used by the
British mills.
The same bulletin of the depart
ment furnishes the information that
the imports of the United States in
creased last year, while the exports
fell off. The figures are
Imports.
190$ $1,116,374,087
1900 1,475,113.680
Exports.
$1.762,835, 41
1.72S.208.Z71
All of which we submit is of vital
concern to those who look ahead to
the future of our country.
Woman'i Sense of Humor.
Here's another man hunting for
trouble. John Kendrick Bangs in a
new lecture says woman has no orig
inal humor; that Adam was the Jester
in the Garden of Eden and that
neither Eve nor any of her daughters
possessed that element which makes
for original fun. One wonders what
sort of women Mr. Bangs has asso
elated with all his life to reach such
a conclusion'. He cites us to a list of
women who have achieved something
of a name in the literary world, the
essence of whose work Is the quaint
and happy vein of lightness that
laughs all through it, and then tells
us that woman has no humor. She
may be unconsciously funny, says Mr.
Bangs, but be avers he has never met
a woman who is consciously
humorist.
In this latter clause woman is paid
a really deserved compliment. Her
humor is the spontaneous sort that
doesn't weary nor disappoint the taste
with a bitter quality. She does not
strain her wit to crack a joke, nor af
front intelligence In her effort to be
consciously humorous. In this she
but modestly lives up to the high state
in which man has placed her. The
conscious humorist Is so often a tire
some buffoon that most folks wish him
well gone before he gets well started.
And no woman of good intelligence
would willingly weary those around
her with "conscious" attempts at Jest
and merriment.
But maybe Mr. Bangs was merely
"consciously" funny when he made his
sweeping assertion. At all events he
has something to learn about woman
It he thinks she has no sense of humor,
original and deeply planted. Any
time you doubt it - ask your lodge
brother what he told his wife when he
got home from the last convocation
and how she received the tale. He
knows whether she has a sense of
humor. At any rate, It is unfair to
deprive poor woman of everything.
Having stripped her of the right to
vote, to bear arms and to do other
things she wants to, isn't it rubbing it
In to tell her she can neither make or
take a joke?
Parent and Teacher.
If asked to name the Important
factors In the final evolution of the
American citizen, most people would
Include the public school and the pub
lic press. And most people would also
have to confess that their knowledge
of the former is far less than acquaint
ance with the latter. So fully is the
average man's time occupied with bus
iness or profession, that the most
pressing thing in life, the training
of the rising generation to a successful
citizenship, is relegated to the other
half of the household. Nor is there
any particular complaint in the work
done by the good American mother,
though social and domestic duties pre
clude very close familiarity with the
schools.
That many an otherwise loyal
parent does not send his children to
the public schools Is no sufficient ex
cuse. It may be that a man has no
children of his own and consequently
persuades himself that he is not inter
ested In the making of the future
rulers of his country. Sometimes loud
and forcible fault-finding is heard
concerning the practical work of the
schools, especially it some prod
uct of the institution does not meet
with Industrial requirements. It does
not matter if the furnished specimen
be a third-rate product expected to do
first-class work. If a particular ex
ample of public school training falls
in spelling or penmanship, it is taken
as indicative of general defects and
the busy man resolves to take a day
oft some time and find out what is
the matter with our schools. While
sometimes this 1 actually done, In
many the teacher is an unknown quan
tity credited with some talent for
church affairs and possibly with a
little importance in social matters,
but no practical ideas. There may.
perhaps, have been reason for this
wrong impression, but even so, con
ditions have changed and today the
teacher is as much a product of up
ward evolution as the modern bus
iness man himself. If this be not true
the people have a right to know why,
and no effort should be spared to dis
cover the sauses and apply the remedy,
It the teacher has to live in an Isola
tion due to the average parent's fancied
superiority and lack of appreciation, it
does not conduce to mutual helpful-
. . i . .
ness. Tne teacuer enjoys ueiug pat
ronized and tolerated as little as would
folks differently situated. A recip
rocal acquaintance is to be heartily
desired if the common aim of parent
and teacher la to be realised. Teach'
era need to touch ground occasionally,
to know human frailties, the better
to understand human nature and the
practical objects of their work. The
parent raising children to future use
fulness likewise often needs the uplift
engendered by occasionally breathing
an atmosphere not entirely filled with
the dust and smoke of dollars and
cents.
Progress Against the White Plague.
Statistics compiled by the National
Association tor the Study and Preven
tion of Tuberculosis serve to give an
Idea of the wonderful progress that is
being made under systematic leader
ship in the fight against the white
plague. During the year 1909, Just
closed, 163 new anti tuberculosis as
sociatlons were formed, 133 tubercu
losis sanatoria and hospitals were es
tablished and ninety-one tuberculosis
dispensaries were opened, and this
year is far in excess of any previous
year in the table. Totals for the
whole country up to date are 894 antl
tuberculosis associations, 386 tubercu
losis sanatoria and hospitals and 265
tuberculosis dispensaries. In these
hospitals 81,000 patients were treated
and in the dispensaries over 60,000
patients.
The work of prevention, however, la
even more important for accomplish'
lng the end of stamping out the white
plague than the work ot treating those
seriously afflicted. The problem re-
solves itself into one of proper nous
ing, light and air and proper sanita
tion in living rooms and workshops.
All the various agencies that are co
operating in these directions are really
enlisted in the fight against the white
plague. To the extent that this dread
disease la preventable by the righting
of unsanitary conditions, the respon
sibility rests with the community, and
It is gratifying to know how substan
tial are the gains already made and
how promising the prospect of still
further progress.
The Real Simple Life.
How easy it is to live and enjoy
yourself when you know how to do it!
No more weariness of either flesh or
spirit, no more hunger, no more dis
turbance of the soul because of
strange environment. All is fair and
bright before us now, and we may defy
the meat man, the doctor and even the
person who wants to tell us a funny
story when we are trying to work.
How do we do it? Listen to the lady
who has evolved the emancipation of
the race. Mrs. Mildred Manley Eas
ton euphemistic, eh? talking to a
room full of women at a fashionable
New York hotel, says: .
When you go to. your room tonight, first
remove whatever clothing in any way Im
pedes the freedom of your movement. Thert
rest the tips of your fingers lightly on the
crown of your head. Fix In your mind the
thought that the touch you feel la one end,
of a cord and that an angel Is holding the
other end and swinging you gently through
space. '
Isn't that delightful? Swinging
through space, dangling at the end of
cord held by an angel; and, it the
angel be a good-natured one, mayhap
you'll get a closer glimpse. Beats
aviating in the prospect, at any rate.
Do you get hungry? Then you are
coarse of fiber. Mrs. Easton says that
only coarse-flbered persons get hun
gry; the finely attuned Individuals
know of nothing so gross as a stomach
or its foolish craving for food. Eigh
teen hours' work on end is easy for
these properly-set-up individuals.
That's why poets, for example, seldom
eat, and the steady working mechanic
always does. Hitherto it has been
fatuously held that the price had
something to do with this fact, but
now we know that It is the difference
in the fiber. We'll never again be
sorry tor a poet who looks hungry.
Tired? How silly.- Don't throw
back your shoulders; It will give you
rheumatism, but if you really must
rest, Just lean back against your me
dulla oblongata. You may not know
where to find it, but lean against it.
ust the same. Only, you must simply
imagine that it rests against some
thing. This is easy enough after a
little practice and does away entirely
with the sensation of weariness. And,
above all, you musn't be regular in
your Habits. nauii is tne Dugoear oi
timid souls and does more than any
thing else to destroy ' individuality.
And, finally, to keep from growing old,
don't grow old. Just keep mind and
heart for new impressions and do not
let your muscles or your affections be
come atrophied, and you'll never get
old.
The lecturer with the musical name
will probably be hailed as the priestess
of a new cult; but she hasn't discov
ered much that la new. Most of her
recommendations have been tried by
individuals for ages, and the net result
has generally been denominated lazi
ness by the coarse-flbered persons who
struggle for beefsteaks and the like
and go to bed when they feel sleepy.
When Governor Bhallenberger stood
up to be photographed along with his
colleagues in attendance on the con
ference of the governors at Washing
ton laBt month he picked out a place
Just behind Governor Hadley of Mis
souri and in front of Postmaster Gen
eral Hitchcock. We felicitate Ne
braska's governor on getting into such
good republican company.
Along with the retirement pensions
for superannuated employes which va
rious big corporationa are establishing
comes a tightening of the dead line
against employment of men In ad
vanced years.' The Rock Island rail
road, tor example, accompanies jits
new pension system with the rule that
no inexperienced person over 35 years
of age nor any experienced person
over 45 shall hereafter be taken into
the company's service. The pension
system Is going to make the employ
ment problem a much harder one for
the older man who may be displaced.
President Taft has said he would
recommend to congress the enactment
of a model insurance law for the Dis
trict of Columbia for the various states
to copy. It is up to the insurance com
panies to submit, subject to modifi
cation, what they would consider a
model Insurance law and if they cannot
get together, as in all probability they
cannot, it will be Incumbent on some
one on the outside familiar with the
subject to draft the measure and let
the Insurance companies accommodate
themselves to it.
Governor Noel of Mississippi has
prolonged the legislative session in
order to give more time to break the
senatorial deadlock. In the meantime,
Mississippi is one of the southern
states loudly proclaiming the demo
cratic slogan, "Let the People Rule,"
which has taken no action to join in
the demand on congress for a consti
tutional amendment for the election
of senators by direct popular vote.
Ca't Beat tne Came.
Washington Herald.
If we do not slaughter the cattle for
meat, the cattle will eat up all the grass,
and then the price of breakfast foods will
advance again. Say, how are we to beet
this game, anyway?
v uimrr IHf V I S OlOWf,
"Chicago Record-Herald.
The farmer doesn't wear his hayseed in
his hair any longer. He sells It and buys an
automobile. And when 'doctor, lawyer,
merchant, chief" point their fingers at him
and say, "You're H," he merely throws In
the speed clutch and smiles back along the
wind.
Fitted far the J!
Minneapolis Journal,
The new king ot the Bolgiums was once
a newapaper reporter, so when the ear.
respondents call to see him, he will know
enough to hand out a fresh cigar and a
straight talk. Instead of retiring behind his
privilege as a king, and throwing the boys
the "bunk.
!
Sam Bread of Hot Air.
Chicago Record-Herald.
The breakfast food manufacturers. Just
as the people have begun to find that they
vn jivw wimoui meat, are lorming a
combination. It Is promised by them that
their combination Is intended, for the pur
pose of enabling them to reduce prices to
tne consumer, but only very optimistic con
sumers are likely to base much hope upon
the statement.
Two Ways of Flghtlag.
Boston Herald.
The boycott Is the battle of mlrht. ArrnwU
to the law is the battle for right. The meat
ooycon is a test of endurance between the
consumer and the meat trusts, and what
ever may be the temporary advantage, the.
endurance of the trust is Mkely to be the
greater. In the appeal to the law and to
the law-making power the people and the
trusts stand on equal terms, and although
the battle may be longer, right rather than
might finally will prevail.
PERSONAL AND 0 THEE WISE.
Old-fashioned winters, like old-fashinn-i
rations, are good enough to die young.
sojourners In winter resort hotels d)
that high living provokes emnhatlo thinir.
lrg on the conservation of the currency.
Some of the oysters taken into our
systems, according to Dr. Wiley, haven't
the slightest respect for the pure food law.
Advocates of the cheaper grades of meat
as a means of eoonomy neglect to mention
what dental shop carries the right grade
of teeth.
Walt Wellman has arrived at the con
versation stage of a balloon voyage across
the Atlantic It is a feasible way of getting
into the swim.
Speculators in cold storage eggs stand to
lose over ttOOO.OOO, according to New York
advices. The losers are In ths "strictly
frash" class.
Having located Noah's grave, there Is
peculiar fitness In the proposal to mark
wltl) a Carnegie medal the resting place
of the champion Ufa saver.
Wllllamsport, Pa., persists In its claim
to be the -liveliest town of Its sise on the
map. It acts up like a hustling western
town where live ones are on the Jump and
"dead ones" boxed. It Is "a elty that does
things." Push and pull are the town's
slogan. If the push Is not strong enough
the pull gets In front and the wheels go
'round. In the last five years citizens
pledged a fund of SM1.000, paid In annual
Installments, with which the wheels of
progress were greasod and kept going, and
ths fact megaphoned to other communities.
Wllllamsport's plan is worth while, and is
not patented.
' Tebrnary S, ltlO.
George J. Gould, head of the Gould
family and manager of the numerous Gould
railway properties, waa born February 6,
1SG4, In New York. The Gould railroads
that oome into Omaha are the Missouri
Paciflo and the Wabash. At one tune ths
Goulds dominated the Union Pacific.
Jesse R. Grant, one ot the sons of Pres
ident Grant, was born February I, 1868,
and Is now practicing law In New York
John W. Batten, whose law offices are
In the New York Life building, is 42 years
old today. "Jack" Batten was one of the
popular men at Cornell university, where
he graduated, and has also figured some
what Id local politics here.
John H. Bex ton, an expert accountant.
In the First National Bank building, waa
born February (, I860, In Qulncy, 111. Mr.
Bexton Is a prominent member of the
Knights of Pythias, in which he has had
high official honors.
Samuel H. Smyth, editor of the Sover
eign Visitor of ths Woodmen of the World,
Is 68. He Is an Englishman by birth and
was a letter carrier for thirteen years at
Davenport, la., before he took up bis pres
ent work.
Major General 6amuel 8. Sumner, United
States Army, waa born In Pennsylvania
February (, 1M2. General Sumner com
manded the dlvlalon In the Cuban cam
paign during the Spanish-American war
in which Colonel Roosevelt's regiment was
brigaded and was for a short while in
command of the Department of the Mis
souri. He was retired in 1308.
William HaXke, the real estate man, la
29. Us was born in Germany, but came to
this country whan only I years old, and
u eduoaxed in the schools here an Omaha.
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"Sight
Drafts
at
Maturity"
An Advertisement by Elbert Hubbard.
Business Ballast
WHEN Henry Selfrldge, of Chicago, was starting that great American
store In London, he found that he was flying a trifle light, and needed
a little business bstlast in other words a little financial accommoda
tion was required. On applying to his bankers they asked to see Mr. Bolf
rldge's life Insurance policies. When , he sent his secretary over with the
documents, aggregating an even million dollars, the monled men winked,
blinked and gasped for breath. One of the policies was in the Kqultable for
an even three hundred thousand dollars. Now, be It known that the Equitable
never writes a policy like that without not only examining the man physically,
but looking up his moral record with a fine tooth comb. The dope fiend, the
booser, the rounder, the bounder, and the gent who follows the ponies, cannot
.pass. Tour record must be clean and you must be engaged In a business
that serves society. You must be benefitting your fellow men, not exploit
ing them. The safe man Is the useful man. So when our Threadneedle
Street friends saw those Selfrldge policies, they suddenly awoke to the fact
that they were dealing with a man who knew exactly what he was doing.
The life Insurance policies were his certificates of character. The bankers
sent back the policies, with word that Mr. Selfrldge could have anything be
wanted, on his own terms. But In the two days' delay the wind had veered;
the buyers were mobbing the store with s. d., and Selfrldge found himself
In funds; and then he had the Joy of thanking the money-bags and informing
them that he wanted nothing. All wise men who can get life Insurance now
adays, do. It stiffens the vertebrae, sweetens the love of wife ana ktddyeens,
commands the confidence of your colleagues and enables you to look trouble
squarely In the eye and cause It to beat It for the bush. Life Insurance Is a
privilege. If It Is within your reach today, secure it today. Tomorrow may
be too late.
The Equitable Life Assurance Society
OF THE UNITED STATES
"Strongest in the World"
The Company whleh pays Its death claims on the day it raoeives thsla,
PAUL MORTON, President 120 BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY
H. D. NEELY, Manager.
Merchants National Bank Building, Omaha
ASSOCIATE AGENTS
J. O. PHILUPPI, K. H. PICKAHD, CHARLES VULTEE, Cashier,
GEO. M. COOPER, H. FAT NEELY. W. Q. ROMJG,
ANTON LUNDSTROM.
SEBJtONS BOILED DOWN.
People who are rich in heart never put
their money there.
Often ths clock that strikes loudest la
farthest off the time.
A chilly manner im not the best prepara
tion for a warmer climate.
The pleasures of folly never come up
to the promise of the pictures.
Religion is a poor thing if you never
enjoy it until you are In trouble.
The habit of prayer can get to mean as
little as the habit of profanity.
It is always easier to straighten out the
truth than It Is to line up with it.
Some men believe you cannot enjoy life's
berries unless you eat the briers.
One trouble with the gravestone ticket
to glory Is that It is printed too late.
Borne men think they are lifting up the
church by holding their faults under it.
When you bury your sorrows, don't
water thero; forget wnere you pianiea
them.
You do not learn the way to Heaven
by inquiry as to the waywardness of your
friends.
The fact that you are fighting for the
truth does not excuse you from practicing
it once in a While.
When a man's heart Is drying up in tne
desert of conceit he tries to comfort him
self by looking at the slse of his neaa.
Chicago Tribune.
SECUIAE SHOTS AT FULfii'.
Bt Louis Times: An Arkansas preacher
In the course of a sermon "
his atate "held the ace." and his audience
was pleased to see that he could dee nis
speech with such a pretty figure.
v. -r,ir World: A Pennsylvania pas
tor refuses to marry couples unless i the
bridegroom has an income -year
What's the use? A young couple
In love will take chances with only the
fee necessary for tne ceremuu, ...
can't stop them.
Boston Transcript: Should an the min ls
ter. adop the rule of Wrlghl
son of McKees Rocks. F irfu9d
maVry a couple unless the bridegroom
wuld prove that he had an Income of at
least $2,000 dollars a year most of the
.1 of the country would be obliged
to remain single.
nord-Herald: Rev.
Hugh
Bhed. rector of the church of which
j Plerpont Morgan Is a member in New
York, said t the beginning of a recent
Jermon '"There should be no poor. My
"lend, when the eye of God is upon you
vou will be glad to throw your money
you w" "'".., scared and
away." Mr. ' -- . ,
decide to buy another import..
collection or two.
DOMESTIC PLEAS ANTEIES.
.R,.t Aunt Blla, I simply cant marry
that odious y,"A' hi- Prcum
at odious uipi' t;"".;;:r ,
. . , ir in.ib.iATir
..o..7an5 hi. position In society. Besides.
ini'L.. Hnf nsar z i,viioiui
'Why not, aearr ;
j. - m . .Bl.a villi Will DSJ IUBI
ou will be Just
UcrthVdifference.-Chlc.go Tribune.
Avnt 8plnsterly-I hope that ywr opln-Vh'toreve-ry-should
1 hay. a vote. tnat
..,! I don't BO Quite
..7i.. hut I believe that every
woman
should have a voterl-Human Life.
Bcott-I aiwaya thought it was rough on
Adam to rob him of hla rib.
Moit-V..; but on the other hand. It was
the making of Ev..-Boton Tranacrlpt.
Tms It's funny that handkerchief, al
wiy. M.m to bi so popular as birthday
gift.
TMS-Ye". I've got more than three
down that were givn .h,
jess Ah! one on each birthday, en!
Cathollo Standard and Timea.
"T devotedly lova a married woman."
Now don't spring that old Jolts about It.
being your wife."
Not a bit of it."
"Who is she, then?"
"My mother." Baltimore American.
Officiating Clergyman At the fading
till, evening. Mr. glmpkln., do you Intend
to tlve your daughter sway",
M 8linpklns-&ure! I don't .Xpert any
remuneration; besides that, I'm only too
glad to get her oft my handa!
"Paw, wasn't that horrible dinner?"
"It was. Tommy.'
"But you handed the waiter a dime when
we went away. What did you do that
f0"l" wanted to eoovey the idea to him,
5?
-A)
Tommy, as delicately as possible, that If
he'd brought us a good feed it would have
been a half dollar." Chicago Tribune.
"My only daughter eloped. And I'll never
forgive her!"
"Now, look here, old roan, remember"
"Remember? Yes. I'd be decent about
It If she'd let well enough alone. But she
not only eloped she came back homo!".
Cleveland Leader.
A PLAINSMAN'S PHILOSOPHY.
- J. W. Foley in Now York Times.
When It gits to comln' easy; when It's
framed up all your way,
When you've got "em oil a-comdn with th j
dollars out to pay;
It j 1st seems as though you couldn't git in
badwlse if you tried, .
An' th' ain't no gams a-goln' but you're ,
right on th inside;
When it gits f comln' easy, everybody sort ,
& seems
T be anxious for t' help you keep on
dream In' pretty dreams, ' 1
It's when things (tit colmn' easy that y' '
travel right along.
But, say I Ain't it h t' stop 'em 'when
thing, git f gotn' wrong! !
I been punchln' lonx-horn cattle nigh on
morern twenty yeaxs.
I know all about their notions, an' I've
l'arned their likes an' fears;
An' they're Jlst like things that happen In
th' lives of you an' me.
When they got t' drlvln' gentle, they're as
gentle as kin be.
They jlst go as smooth as kin be, not f
swtBhlrV of si tail.
Not th' battln' of an eyebrow as they toi
ler on th' trail,
An' you hardly need f watch "on,, 'cause
they travel right along.
But, say! Ain't it b f stop 'em when
they git t' go in' wrong!
I know K Is, ol' feller j have been all
through th' mill,
I've enjoyed my share of trouble I'm en
joyln' trouble still;
I've seen sunny days an' cloudy, I've had
su menus fare an' plain,
I've had beans and bread for dinner an' I
may be thero again;
An' I've had things comln' easy, when it
seemed t' be a sin,
Jlst t' open up my tent flap an' t' let more
sunshine In;
When things git t' comln' easy, days an'
nights go by like song, ,
But, say! Ain't it h t' stop 'em when '
things git t' goin' wrong!
Via Soli I00 Kinds
moral Waters .
JWe will sell over 100 kind, imported and
American Mineral Waters, and,-as we ob
tain direct from springs or importer, can
guarantee freshness and genuineness.
Boro JUttnia water, uoi., ouc; case, o.w.
Boro Llthla Water, pints, dosen, 11.60;
use, 100, llO.Ot
We are distributing agents In Omaha for
the celebrated waters from Excelsior
Springs, Mo., and sell at following prices:
Regent, auart botUe, ttc; ' doxen, 2 X;
case, do boatitis, xs.uu.
Hulpho-Saline, quart botMo, 25c; dosen,
f2 2f,,; case, 60 bottles, M00.
Rulpho-Sallne, quart bottle, 2Cci dozen.
tl.M.
rtoterlan, quart Dome, zuo; aoxen, sz.ou,
Hoterlan, pint bottle, 15c; docen, 11.60.
Soterlan Ginger Ale, pint bottle, lUci
dozrn, $1.60.
Soterlan Ginger Ale, quart bottle, 2c;
dozen, (2.26.
Diamond Llthla, half-gallon bottle, 40o;
case, 1 Doxen, li.ou.
Crystal L.lthla, 6-gallon Jug., each, 12.00.
Salt Sulphur, 6-gallnn jugs, each, W 25. .
Delivery free to any part of Omaha.
Council Bluffa or South Omaha.
Sherman & McDonnell Drug Co
16th and Dodge fits.
Owl Drug Co.
16th and Harney St.. ,
"rmLoa or ohihi" novi
There are many kind, of flour;
Some do fairly well, v
But the flour of ell others,
Of whioh X wl.h to wil,
J. known a. "Pride of Omaha"
And it surely doe. esoel.
MHb. ROHK MILLER.
1727 South tilth St.
FREE! FREE!
An Order on Her Grocer for a
24 lb. Sack of Pride of Omsha
Flour to Every Woman
who will mall u. a veiwe of four to sis
lines (whli h we use for advertising) about
"i'rlde uf Omaha" i'iour.
Updiko nilling Hi
111 hermaa Are., Omaha, STeb, j
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