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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
State of Nebraska. Douglas County, rn. :
(;eoige H. Tit-thuck. treasurer of The Itee
Publishing Compnny. being duly sworn,
aaya that the actual ti'jniner- of full and
complete copies of Th Dally. Mi.rnlng.
Evening and Stindiy Pee printed during the
month of January. 1910. waa ns follow:
1 4M40 JT 4fl,eao
2 41,700 II 43,-00
S. 43,430 1 .. 43,680
4 43,360 SO 43,860
1 48,400 21 43,590
t 43.400 tt 43,380
1 49,440 It 41,350
1 43,470 24 43,003
t 41,700 25 '. . 43,640
10 43.390 tt 43,090
11 43,430 27 43,430
II 43.600 tt 43,850
II.... 43,400 t 43,(150
M.7 43,460 0....o.l. 41,400
IS 43.670 II 43,970
18 41,770 .
Total 1,314,330
Returned copies e,33
Net total 1,304,665
3aily average 43,373'
ufaxutuu; is. tzsohuck.
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before ma this 31n day of January, 1910.
BOHKUT HUNTER,
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Subscribers tearing; ! oltr tera.
porarlly should liava The Be
mailed to tbem. Addreaa will be
ehaasea aa often aa rrqaealed.
If this keeps up the hog will soon bo
the aristocrat of the barnyard.
It will soon be time for the crop
klllef and the fruit freezer to get In
bis work.
A weekly bank clearings exhibit
which shows over 26 per cent Increase
for Omaha is not to be sneezed at.
' It is an awful come down for Johas
town, Pa., to be reduced from a great
flood disaster to a moving picture show
imashup.
If the city of Omaha la going to
maintain automobiles for Its city offi
cials It had better take out a good line
of liability Insurance at once.
Mrs. Hetty Green's big black cat
"Satan" turned out to be a good fire
man, but contrary to the spirit of his
namesake, wanted to put the fire out.
Some people run for office because
they want to, others because they are
dragged In, and still others because
they are willing to be forced by their
friends.
Missouri .is certainly having an ex
citing; time with the Swope mystery,
election frauds and the governor's new
farm. Can it be that Missouri "is
being shown" up!
The comfort to be derived from the
statement that ragtime music is a sure
euro for1, insanity 'is a good deal like
the assurance that rheumatism can be
cured by the sting of bees.
A pfty-as-you-enter hotel is promised
In New York In the next few months.
Except for the strangle hold it gives
the hovel men on their victims that
might not be a bad scheme.
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It U evident that the republican party Is
going1 to have a glorious old fight on Its
hands when the time for doflulng Us poal
tlon on thellquor problem arrlvea.-World-HeraJd.
,
Perhaps bo. But How about the
democratic party?
Governor Shallonberger publicly an
nounces that he wants to occupy the
executive mansion, rent free, for two
yean more. Some people have had a
sort of a half suspicion of this for a
considerable tlirie.
Because cotton has again gone down
(the New York stock market Is worry
ing itself .into fits and fever. 'Cotton
will b in demand In all fabric manu
facture and the stock market fit will
make so difference.
The worst thing to be laid up
igainst ex-Governor Sheldon's pronun
:lamento is tha two-column double
ihotted 'paroxysm that it Jarretf into
the editorial page of our amiable dem
ocratic contemporary.
Tha Mad Mullah has broken loose
again in northern Africa, Just as the
Roosevelt party Is reaching the Sou
dan. Wonder what might happen If
hesetwo should happen to meet and
Ilsrusg most any old sort of subject.
The-madder Mullah happened to be
at tlie time the more interesting the
Interview would be.
Another candidate who ran. for the,
!ast legislature In this district' has
picked up his belongings, packed his
satchel and transplanted himself to a
new' location in another state. That
will not, however, stop Irresponsible
or temporary sojourners among us
from offering themselves from time to
tin to make our lawi for us.
The Point of View',
The Washington Star editorializes
on the announcement by Beeretary
Hayward of the republican national
committee of his candidacy for con
gress by hailing him as "a Nebraska
insurgent." Out here In Nebraska the
democratic opposition has been trying
to make capital by labeling Mr. Hay
ward as a standpatter and a reaction
ary, which goes to show how different
an object may look when seen through
different glassed. The Washington Star
rests Its assertion that Mr. Hayward
is an insurgent on his declaration that
he will oppose retaining Mr. Cannon
In the speakership and will favor such
changes in the house rules as will
facilitate majority rule, and will favor
further changes in the tariff-wherever
the. present law may prove to be un
satisfactory. Whether the Insurgents in Nebraska
will take the tar's word for It and
receive Mr. 'Hayward as one of their
number, we do not know. But It
strikes v.s that his program Is' neither
Insurgency nor reaction, but straight
forward republicanism, In line with
the leadership of President Taft. A
man does not have to call himself an
Insurgent to prefer someone besides
Mr. Cannon for speaker, nor are the
house rules Invested with any sacred
cees cr sanctity; on the contrary, they
have been amended firm time to time
to suit the needB of the transaction
of' legislative business, and will be
amended again and again by future
congresses. ,
As to the tariff, no one has ever
contended that the new law could
never be Improved upon. ' President
Taft has Insisted that the new law is
a step forward on the old law which
la supplanted, and part of his tariff
program contemplates a report from
the boar,d of tariff experts that will
show Its weaknesses and where Im
provements may be made. The present
tariff may be accepted ns a substantial
compliance of the platform promise
of revision, and entitled to be Judged
on the results of a fair trial, without
foreclosing the desirability to amend
ment, later to readjust the schedules
still closer to existing industrial re
quirements. This may be standpatism
or Insurgency, according to point of
view, but it Is republicanism and not
insurrection. .
Alaika Ccal Fields.
The investigation of the Alaska coal
fields has brought to light some in
teresting facts from the standpoint of
the coal supply of the United States.
The immense quantities of Alaskan
coal, practically on the surface of the
ground, gives reason to believe that
the underground veins are also im
mense and proportionally of a better
quality. Coal everywhere lying in plain
view and ready almost ,to shovel into
cars for market sounds big even to the
average American. It also makes the
statement that the coal supply of the
world will run out in a ifew years
sound small and like a Wall street
panic report.
But in spite of the great ' quantity
of coal in sight it Is not of the value
now that it will be later. The means
of transportation are' small and make
the- cost of marketing the product so
great that at present there is little
danger of the field being exhausted.
It will be years before Alaskan coal
can be marketed In large quantities
In this country or even on the Pacific
coantK in competition with the coal
nearer home. It Is reasonable to be
lieve that the vast coal fields in Wyo
ming, Colorado and the Dakotas will
be worked first.
Few people realize the large
amounts of coal in the different parts
Of tfae United States from -which the
government is deriving a" royalty.
Nqrth Dakota Is said to contain fifty
! billion tons, Wyoming 424 billion tons,
Colorado 371 billion tons, Montana
303 billion tons, Illinois 240 billion
tons. West Virginia 231 billion tons,
Utah 198 billion tons and Pennsylvania
133 billion tons. This is the report
from the eight states having the
largest fields. Alaska now comes to
the front with a coal supply which
actually staggers fifty billion tons in
one 5,000-acre tract, and the land is
but partially explored,. Japan has mil
lions of tons of coal In Its mountains
and Asia seems underlayed with it in
great veins.
While there-. Is no excuse to waste
four coal resources, no coal shortage
can be very Imminent.
Peary Will Prove Up.
According to reliable advices from
Washington, Commander Peary has
concluded not" to rest bis claim to
North pole discovery exclusively on the
recognition accorded by the National'
Geographic society of this country, but
will also prove up before the Royal
Geographical society of England and
the Royal Italian Geographical society.
Commander Peary is to lecture 6hortly
by invitation In London and in Rome,
and he will at the same time submit
his records and observation data to
these foreign scientific associations,
whose decrees. If favorable to his
claims, will unquestionably remove
every vestige of doubt as to the actual
achievement of bis northward expedi
tion. The fiasco Into which the test ap
plied by the University of Copenhagen
to the documents presented by Dr.
Cook turned has undoubtedly operated
abroad to the detriment of Commander
Peary as well by making people skepti
cal and discrediting American polar
expeditions in general. We in thla
country are thoroughly satisfied with
ti verdict of our own Geographic
society, but under the peculiar condi
tions It may not carry the weight else
whera tbaUlt should, aud -Commander
Peary will simply demonstrate his con
fidence In his own Impregnable posi
tion by inviting European geographers
to verify his proofs.
Black Handen in Prison.
Eight of the famous seventeen
black hand artists arrested in a raid
on a dive in the eat "have been con
victed on the charge of floating spuri
ous money and obtaining money by
threats and other unlawful moans and
are now on their way to the federal
prison at Atlanta to serve terms at
hard labor, varying from fifteen to
thirty years in length. The result of
l h Is trial should prove an effective
damper on the work of "black hand
ers" and all others engaged in the
same outlawry. All the men convicted
are Italians, led by the famous Italian
bandit Lupo, "The Wolf," and the
other nine, who are also Italians, will
be tried soon.
( For a number of years the black
hand societies of this country 1iave
been a source of great annoyance and
anxiety. "Holdups" have been an all
too frequent occurrence in the larger
cities of the country, accompanied by
destruction of property and assassina
tion, at the hands of these bandits. It
seemed easy at first and the success
of the black handers called' other
Italian criminals here to exploit their
well-to-do compatriots through threats
and violence.
The tendency of the people of this
country is to find fault with our laws
because occasionally they have been
evaded. But there Is less and less
evasion In these days. We do not so
much need new laws to deal with
criminals who come from Europe, as
the laws we now have are proving
sufficient, this statement being based
on the fact that they are accom
plishing the work desired. A few con
victions with sentences toflfteen years
at hard labor should have a most
salutary effect In repressing this sort
of crime. Black hand methods in this
country will be below par when prisons
are held out as the ultimate reward
for such practices.
A Significant Sign.
In a city with uncertain future and
an unstable center of business grav
ity, building improvements always
tend to take the line of least re
sistance. It is only when a. city grows
older and becomes more firmly
founded, and its thoroughfares more
permanently fixed, that It enters a
period where better buildings take the
place of poorer. Not until that stage
is reached do property owners realize
that it pays to tear down antiquated
and out-of-date structures and put up
in their places new, modern struc
tures, more suitable to the purposes
desired and utilizing the ground space
to fuller capacity.
It is gratifying to note that Omaha
has already passed out of the merely
spreading' era and 4nto the improving
era. Our property owners here no
longer hesitate when occasion de
mands to discard the old to make way
for the new. Omaha has had some
examples of this procedure from time
to time heretofore, but they were no
table exceptions rather than the rule,
whereas today finds the-buslness- area
with so few vacant spots that nearly
every new building has to have a lo
cation cleared for it first.
We submit that this is a good sign
and not a bad symptom that it be
tokens growth of a more substantial
kind and Indicates the more settled,
status of the city.
New Yorkers laugh ,at what they
are pleased to call "western egotism,"
but It Is interesting to see them swell
up and pronounce the final Judgment
"If it were not for the Empire state,'
and we take it they refer to the In
habitants In particular the universe
and Halley'a comet would be as insig
nificant and useless as a Russian thistle
In western Nebraska.
t In his letter promulgating -anew a
perfect plan to settle the liquor ques
tion forever ex-Governor Sheldon
says:
I want it distinctly understood that thla
program waa prepared without aid, sug
gestion or consent of any man or set of
men.
It would seem that this was an un
necessary declaration.
Halley'a comet will soon be In plain
view even in the day time. A comet
is one of those peculiar 'phenomena
of the hot air variety of periodical ap
pearance which arouses' a great deal
of admiration when In view, but is
remembered only for its speed, fleshi
ness and endurance after it is gone.
The "sooner rush" of Oklahoma will
be re-enacted in California, and it
might be well to notice that on ac
count of the large number of college
men who are ready for the start the
odds are In favor of the young men
getting the land. A rush Is like oating
pie to college boys.
The reason the Wellington Kan.,
police Judge fined himself for fighting
may be explained that- he Is a r.quare
dealer and has been a newspaper man
by profession. He won In the fight
and evidently thought It was worth
the fine.
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A French hero f"nd has been form
ally launched to boost French chivalry
and heroism. Bit considering the
lightning speed with which Franco has
always turned on its heroes It might
also be a good plan to establish a hero
wrecking and salvage company.
Abdul Hamld is now refusing to eat.
Ordinarily a man's literary habits
would not affect bis appetite, but It
must be remembered that the former
sultan Is writing up the secrets of the
sultan' palace, and It may be that his
subject has turned his stomach.
Everyone agrees tnat nepotism in
public office ia bad business, but. it is
not confined to any one political party.
There Is one way to stop nepotism, and
that Is to prohibit It by law, and for
failure to pass such a law In this state
both parties are equally culpable.
Interstate commerce, postal savings,
injunction and Statehood bills, all ad
ministration measures, are said to be
reasonably sure of passing both houses
of congreB President Taft has a
faculty of keeping' everlastingly at
things until he gets them done.
If Mr. Uryan's home-coming Is
moved up to enable him to arrive In
time to write county option Into the
next state platform for Nebraska dem
ocrats It is safe to predict lively times
In the democratic ring of the political
circus.
If Chicago club women refuse to
pay their taxes until they get the
ballot, by way of prophesy, there will
be some good property sold at a tax
sale If this boycott of the county
treasurer Is continued long enough.
Keeps film Bosy.
Chicago News.
People who arc always picking out new
Jobs for him seem to forget that Just be
ing T. Roosevelt Is quite a vocation.
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Incrranln the Mtery.
Philadelphia Press.
Organized labor Is making acclaim
analnst the non-union sausage. But what
ara tho dlstlngulshlne" symptoms of such
sausage? And if the caning comes from
a pig fattened on ctrn cultivated by a non
union plow, how Is the Innocent purchaser
of the sausage to know It?
Willing- to Leave the Core. -
Philadelphia Ledger.
It seems that the magnates credited with
a desire to own Alaska have been cruelly
misrepresented. All they want Is the coal,
copper, precious metal, power rights, trans
portation facilities and the agricultural
area. Thla leaves to the government and
the casual settler all the snow and Ice,
and there Is more of each than could be
utilized.
Bound ta Be a Hammer.
Baltimore American.
It Is proposed that the welcome to Mr.
Roosevelt shall be made the greatest that
has ever been extended to an ex-presldont.
That will not be difficult, as the country
has grown Immensely since the last pre
vious ex-president came back from a for
eign tour. There are now 'more
states and a good many more people to
engage In a welcoming demonstration.
Looks 1 Like a Fact,
Philadelphia. Record.
There Is probably not much exaggeration
In Senator MoCumber's statement that a
steer worth $80 on the hoof In the farm
er's hands, yields from 12,000 to $3,000 when
served up in small portions under the skill
ful direction of the artlstio chef of a
luxurious Washington restaurant. like
wise we havei heard somewhere that a
pound of steel; , worth - a, cent and a half
becomes north, some hundreds of dollars
when worked , up Into watchsprlngs. Out
upon the grasping middleman!
Federal I.lcenae for Antotnts.
Boston Transcript.
Senator Depew is pushing a federal au
tomobile law, so that a license Issued by
the government shall free autoists from
paying fees to states in which they reside
or through which they travel. The Idea
la not new, and . heretofore congress has
not deemed it good. Several blUs for fed
eral regulation of autoa have been Intro
duced, but have been pigeon-holed in com
mittee rooms. Their proponents have
argued that the commerce clause of the
constitution can be stretched to cover
autoa, but committees have thought other
wise, and, besides, have heen influenced
by a desire 'to avoid running up against
the police powers of the states.
A NEBRASKA IXSl UGKIVT.
Harward'i Candidacy for Conscrrsa
Held to Pat Him In Tola Clnna.
Washington Star.
William Hayward of Nebraska, secre
tary of the republican national committee,
Is an Insurgent out of congress seeking
to enter congress on the Insurgent plat
form. He has the courage of his convic
tions, and his convictions are (1) that Mr.
Cannon should nut aain'be siaker, (2)
that the rules of the house should be
changed to give the house more and the
speaker less power in the order of busi
ness, and (S) that If the Payne law does
not prove satisfactory It should be
amended.
Sufficient unto the house Is the speaker
thereof. Mr. Cannon la the speaker of
the present house by an overwhelming
majority. He Is not an announced can
didate for Bpeaker of the next house. He
la reasonably certalnlf he Uvea to be a
member of that body, but he might -not
care for such a row aa his opponents
would raise if he asked for another term
in the chair. Mr. Hayward ia borrowing
of the future in the first plunk of his plat
form. The rules afford a better subject for
discussion. As Mr. Ilayward Is without
congressional experience, he Is Judging of
the rules of the present house from
hearsay. They are of republican origin,
nearly twenty years old, and were designed
to correct abuse growing out of a lack
of power In the chair. If revision Is neces
sary and sonio of Mr. Cannon's bea
friends think it is It should be mude so
as to prevent a return, to the old trouble.
A powerless chair would work more mil
than a powerful one has ever done, or
possibly could. So then Mr. Hayward's
seconds proposition, while interesting,
might' be Hafely postponed.
Mr. H&yward'' third plank Is more to
the point. Uot the subject is an easy one
for his contention. I'ndouhtedly If the
Payne law proves a disappointment It
will have to be HtnV-niled. The republicans
took that risk when they passed It. They
had two things in mind: Lowering duties
without weakening the general prlnc'ple
of protection, and raising revenue enough
for the liberal support of tha government.
If duties were not lowered,, where they
should have been, or not sufficiently
lowered where changed from the Dlngley
law, or Inadequate provision waa made
for revenue, the operations of the bill
will show the trouble. If. on the other
hand, business prospers under the law
and the government is provided with
money enough to pay Its way, a move
ment to change the law by the party of
protection may not be expected for several
yckrs at least.
Tha district in which Mr. Hayward of
fera himself la now represented by a
democrat, who in November, liioS, received
lees than l.OuO majority. What an Insur
gent republ'c.m RUT he able lo do there
I this year will be noted will) much Interest.
Around New York
mtpplea ea tha Owrraat of Ufa
aa sa la tha Oraat Amerloaa
Metropolis from Day . to Da.
A bunch of nervy New Yorkers constitu
ting the Fulton Monument commission,
confident of Its ability to "touch" Vnde
Sam. the s'ate of New York and New
York City and some Indlvlduala for $2.R00,
000, have Invited ten architects to com
pete In furnishing plana for the pro
jected monuments. The outlined plan of
the commission consists of a monumental
tomb with a historical museum on the left
facing the river and a reception wing on
the right. From these buildings enormous
flights of steps and Inclined walks lead
down to the river shore, 1,000 yards away.
Here will be broad platforms extending
before the harbor. On these landings from
60,000 to 75,000 peanons'can assemble to wel
come home-coming conquering heroes and
other notables, and official receptions will
be accorded them In the reception building
above.
Tho site la on Riverside drive from One
Hundred and Fourteenth to One Hundred
and Sixteenth streets. v
"Tom" Byrnes Inspector Byrnes he waa,
the world over once remarked that there
were more good detectives among the news
paper reporters of New York than In the
average police force. And Byrnes had the
reputation and has of being 'a great de
tective. His opinion would seem to be
borne out In a recent murder mystery In
New York. Although tie police were on
the case at least an hour before tho re
porters took the trail, two of them "cov
ered" half a dozen "leads" and "clews"
before a single plainclothes man scented
them and were able to point out later to
the officer in charge of the case many a
link In the chain of evidence that his men
had missed. Naturally, he was not pleased.
But he was still more grouchy the next
morning to read statements in several
newspapers from material witnesses that
1 la "sleuths" "could not find."
In a laree cltv. uv Cniiiew-a wui,i
forces have to be great In order to be felt,
and material things have to be Immense in
order to be seen. Men and objects of suf
ficient power and size to captivate the
imagination of a small town exist by the
thousand in a large city, and remain ob
scure. Tho village clock, which because of
Its elevation, size and isolation wmi t
the town a great thine, something hinn.
Ing to the whole community, something I
ior noys ana even men to wonder at.exlsts
Dy me nunarea In a metropolis, In church
pires ana Duuaings, most of them
Iwarfed by surroundlna-
monstrous size, and practically none of
them causing a thrill. The city of Ntw
York, however, now has a real town clock,
a clock that may be seen three miles
away, a clock that looms up day and night
In the Metropolitan tower and stirs the
busy worker as he hurries on his way.
Here are some of the facts about this
clock: Twenty-six feet across the face
and 346 feet from the aid
twelve and eight feet long. Fugurew, four
met nign. une hundred and ninety-eight
electric lights In each dial, to say nothing
of those In the hands. Above this clock
stretches a tower the tin of which
700 feet from the ground. In comparison
witn tnis timepiece hundreds of church
clocks In the siame city are practically lost.
'What do your foreigners over In n.o
East lde. read?" some one asktd a young
nurarian rrom tne slum district.
"Better books tha n VOUr AlTierlnnna An
was the prompt rerlv. "Wn Kv ei. ...
of Shakespeare, j but (it la hard to find n
single volume In. Ovir there no one cares
jini ucuicriy ior tne latest novel. Spencer or
Bim.e omer pruiosopner will do as well a
little better, In fact, ftven the rhIMven n
for arrowniiD books. I hnvo a r.ni.o.n )
frier.d who often stops on his heat to ex- i
cnange cooks and comment on them. Ho
reads all he can find on the trees of tho
different parks, and the subject of bees of
all, things fascinates him. I have given
him all we have on bees even Mater-
uncK'8 book and still he calls for more."
A New York clergyman who ha of
ficiated at many funerals declares that cre
mation Is slowly and steadily maklnr irnlna
.throughout the country.
He says that the one crematory estab
lished In New York fifteen vears nan huH
formerly but fifty incinerations in a year,
wnue now there are near 1 1,000. In addi
tion two sub-plants are In ODeratlnn In
Jersey City. Near one-seventh, of those
w ho die In this city are cremated.
The Idea, he adds, has but little hold An
the masses, while appealing to the cul
tured classes.
'It la now the rule." he
funeral shall be a slrtrple and dignified fare
well. The great funeral, on which the
family sometimes spent Its last cent, is al
most a thing of the past. So. too, the pride
in having acquaintances send In masses of
flcwers."-
"One thing that you can't find In New
York Is a profeKnlmal Chinese nurse," ald
doctor, quoted by the Sun. "The town
waa raked fore and aft for one the oilier
day. A sick American recently come home
from the Orient declared that a Chinese
purse was essential to rapid recovery and
the doctors on the case Instituted a their
ough search for such an attendant. Some
times 1 think there ought to be a few of
them Imported, In spite of labor laws.
"Every person I have met who has ever
been attended by a Chinese nurae cannot
be satisfied with any other. There are a
number of them In Chinese cities. They
have been trained by American and
European nurses and missionaries, but aj
aoon as they get the hang of the business
they go their Instructors one better in gen
tleness and soothing waya. It is common
for peraona who have known their minis
tratlona abroad to a.k for them here, but
they cannot be found."
There had been a dispute In the tene
ment house and one of the women princi
pals obtained a summons for her neighbor
to appear In the police court The princi
pals with their witnesses, none of whom
cculd speak English, filed Into the court
room, and the magistrate told the police
man on the bridge to find out what It was
all about.
"How many witnee.es have you?" asked
the policeman of the woman who had ob
tained the summon..
"Fix," she replied.
"And how many has she?"
"She his eight," said the woman.
"Go home." said the policeman In Vla-
dlsh, "you lose."
Forcible Hint to Specalatora.
Philadelphia Bulletin.
The arrival of nearly 1.000.000 eggs from
Europe the first considerable shipment of
thla sort recorded for some years may
furnish a forcible hint to the cold storage
manipulators gn the United Stales. Since
nobody has accused tho American hen of
shirking her duty, the Inference that alto
gether too much of her product has been
held up In the refrigerating warehouses ia
tolerably plain. When egg shlpmenta from
abroadlbegln to come In, it is a sign that
there are limits beyond which thla process
cannot be safely carried.
$ Hlako Good
Cooking Dottcr
You my be a splendid cook and yet
enra failu
specially witn toods
pices are used. Material not
are usually responsible. Weak,
pices will spoil the taste of any
On tht other hand
alwavt make eood cooking better.
.because Tone Spices arc full-flavored, full-
sirengtn, iresn.
Tone Bros. Spices are tha result of careful
election, ixprrl ttitmgtni Improved method
of milling. Sealed as soon as ground, Tone's
Spices com to you in an air-tight package,
with strength and flavor undiminished.
It mot ml yeargTwcar'f, msjoT 10 eft mn4
innr'iMiM. WmwillnirmmmlamtmUpttKtf
mf mnd omr coo sec. ' ' rM e 5SWC7 Tmlk. "
There are two kinds cf spices
TtK BROS, and "WArj."
TONE BROS., Decs Moines, Iowa.
Bltnitn tt ft Cltrslt 010 OOID C0FHI
C9I.D STOHAliK HKtJl I.ATIO.
Food Prodnrta to Be Tanged and
Dated.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
A Massachusetts legislator has intro
duced a bill reflecting the general Impres
sion against cold storage practices. It
forbids the retention of food in cold
storage for mora than three months and
requires that no articles be brought into
that state from cold storage warehouses
in other states unless the date when they
went into cold storage Is stamped upon
them.
The propriety of such an enactment de
pends on .scientific knowledge of the
length of time the various classes of
food can be kept in cold storage with
out becoming unhealthy. The legitimate
work of cold storage consists in taking
food articles superabundant at the crop
season and preserving them until thy
are scarce. This Work Is as useful as
that of grain elevators or Ice houses. It
certainly requires stronger testimony than
we have yet seen to convince reasonable
persons that three months Is the reasonable
limit. It Is well known that some food
articles can be kept in cold storage much
longer than that. There may be some
that cannot bo safely kept for that length
of time. Whatever limitation there la
should bo founded on scientific knowledge
of the conditions with regard- to each
staple... ,
Concerning the branding of the date
when the articles Ib stored, that" seems a
reasonable regulation. The buyer has th
rlght to know what he la buying, and
if prejudice leads him to discard articles
that are entirely sound he will be the
principal sufferer. The policy of corner
ing goods In storage should be dealt with
as an example of conspiracy to create
artificial scarcity, without Interfering with
the proper and beneficial I work of cold
storage warehouses.
Safety of Legitimate llaslneaa.
Philadelphia Record.
The buslne of the country will not be
hurt one particle by the prosecution of
monopolies and attempted monopolies, but
the business of stock speculators may be.
If the. financial sharps would refrain from
trying to absorb competing concerns and
to create monopolies, and If the speculators
would not try' to manipulate the market
either up or down, legitimate du siness
would be better than ever.
Our Birthday Book
rebruary 31, 1910.
Drander Matthews, author, essayist and
critic, was born February 21, 1SSS, at New
Orleans. Dr. Matthews Is now professor of
English literature In the faculty of Colum
bia university.
, Charles II. Pickens of the Paxton & Gal
lagher company was born In Detroit, Feb
ruary 21, IsOfi, and hua been In Omaha' from
boyhood. Mr. Pickens is president of the
Board of Governors of the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben
and prominent in all the local
business organizations and enterprises.
Thomas L. Davis, cashier of the Omaha
National bank, is an Omaha boy, born
February 21, 18S2. the son of F. H. Davis,
vice president of the same bank. Mr. Davis
was educated at Yale and began to climb
the ladder of banking six years ago.
Ernest A. Nordstrom of the E. A. Nord
strom Grain company was born February
11, 1S78, In Saunders county In this Blale.
Mr. Nordstrom was formerly In the grain
business with Merriam & Holmqulst, and
later with the Nebraska Hay and Grain
company.
H. H. Fifh, secretary and local manager
of the- Western Newspaper Union, is 40
years old today.' He was born at Oxford,
N. Y.'H and has been with the Western
Newspaper I'nion since 1S9S.
Dr. Thomas Z. Magarreil, whp practices
aa a drugleaa doctor and conducts the
Vltapathlc sanitorlum, was bern February
21, 1S62. Dr. Magarreil Is a Canadian by
birth and active In local fraternal societies.
William H. Oarratt. assistant genera.
freight agent of the Union Pacific, Is 63.
He was born In London, Canada, and be
gan railroading with what is now the
Grand Trunk railway when he waa only 16
years old.
Alva B. Cook, 'president of the Union Fuel
company, was -Jjorn February 21, 1Ri!3, at
Astoria, 111. Mr. Cook has been engaged
In his present business since 1S?8.
Rom Bailey Johnson, who works for the
Nebraska Telephone company, is celebrat
ing his natal anniversary today. He was
born In Omaha, February 21, 1887, and is a
grandson of one of Omaha's pioneers, J. T.
Allan. .
A Health'Guarantee to be
Because: -
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bottles; N
2 The ONLY Water Domestic or Foreign A
-which is NEVER put in a bottle that
has been used before.
The World's Best Table Water'
expert
in which
method
CIRIUMOS ROLL
For recipe see
"Tone s Spicy Talks."
flavories
cooking.
That'
tatoon cinnamon
MUSTARD
PENAMO CLOVtt
KLLSPICt
(HOT PCPPEM
JAMAICA OIIIOER
WHITE FlPrEB
BJUTMEO
arnica omocn
ETC., ETC.
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.
Senator Ilalley of Texns will deliver the
annual address before the Ohio Slate Par
association at Its annual convention next
July. - ,.
In reply to th charge that New York is
the grave of the clergy, a puper In that city
retorts that no live niinlsteia are burli1
there.
Just for the sake nf a rest tha nuh'ir will
be glad to concede that Mars 1 inhabited,
and that in the canal Industry the Mar
tians can give us cards and spades.
I'erhaps If some enterprising per;
rjjf."
would pipe and market the gas . 1rrln
Halley'a comet, one of the necessaries of
life would come off the high perch.
Mr. Carnegie is said to have turned pale
when shaken by a trifling collision. I:
must be remembered that his preparations"
for dying poor are not yet complete.
A check for KOOO.OOO, his share of the
Standard Oil quarterly dividend, will be,
handed to John V. Rockefeller on March 15.1
About that time look out for a Rockefeller
slam at the extravagance of the American
people.
In tha Missouri penitentiary ordinary
clothing has been . aubstltuted fur tho
stripes, and only those guilty of Infraction
of the rules will have to Vear the latter,
t'nusually good order has prevailed since
this change went Into effect.
The growing rarity of visits of the stork
to the homes of Lawrence, Kan., mani
fested In decrease of school children, Is
attributed to the Intellectual development
of the population. Lawrence Is a uplyrslty
town and babies are an Impediment ii In
tellectual life.
CHEERY CHAFF.
"Fiarures won't lie." said the accurate
"No." answered the friend, who waa
looking over bills with "please remit" on
them. "No one wants them to lie. But I
wish It weren't necewsary for them to be
so brutally frank.' Washington mar.
Old Friend So the children are all mar
ried? You must feel lonesome at times?
Father Oh, I don't know. The boys all
married suffragettes and the glrla married
trust officials. That makes the newopapers
mighty Interesting. Puck. ' ' ''.
' "See here," asked the cautious stranger,
"if 1 decide to stay here for a week how
much Is It going to cost me?" ,
"You can answer that best yourself, re
plied the clerk of the Florida hotel. "How
much have you got?" Catholic fiulard
and Times.
"I would die for you. my darling." he
whispered, with soul rapture thrilling In
hla tones.
"Do vou carry much of a life Insurance?"
j she asked, with a dreamy, faraway look
lean.
"Your wife Is quite hospitable." said the
friend.
"I don't know," answered Mr. Cumrox.
"Mother and the girls used to be glad to
see folks that dropped In off-hand. Now
they send out Invitations, and seem more,
tickled to get regrets than acceptances."-
wasningion mar.
Man with the Bulging Brow Who ia that
chap you were talking to Just now.
Man with the Bulbous Nose He's a glua
manufacturer but I've found out that w
can't stick him for the drinks. Chicago
Tribune.
MONEY MAKERS.
S. E. Klser In tho Reo-rd-HeraId.
If you wish to own an auto thkt will travel
fast and far,
Raise. a pig;
If you have a-dear desire for a splendid
private car. ,
Raise a pig; I
If vour daughter yeaiiis for Jewels tnt
will make a lurid blase.
Or your wife would be a leader where
some other matron sways;
If you wish to give up toiling and In Cum
- fort SDend your days.
There's a way don't overlook It ,
Ralso a pig. h-
If you're sick of serving others and are
longing for a change,
Raise a pig:
If you wish to gase at wonders that are far,,
away and strange, i
Raise a pig; r
If your son would like to squander money
on a chorus girl,
If you yearn to own a castle having walls
inlaid with pearl.
If your darling daughter wishes to be mar
ried to an earl.
There's a wav don't overlook It
Raise a pig. -
If within the senate chamber yau would
like to hold a scat.
Raise a pig;
If you wish to be untroubled by the rising
price of meat, x '
j Raise a pig;
If you wish to get from under the big bur
dens which you bear. ,
If you wish to go to Wall street and create
a furore there.
If, In short, you have a longing to become
a millionaire.
There's a way don't overlook It
Raise a pig.
Found in No Other Water,
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