THE BKK: OMAHA. FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1010.
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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
Btate of .Neuraska, Douglas County, ss. !
Ueorfe 11. XxacliucK. ueaaurer of Tbe
Bee Puolisnlng Company, ueuig duly sworn,
says that the actual number of full and
complete cupiea of The Dally, Morning,
Evening and Sunday line printed during tut)
Uionth of April, lslu, was as follows:
1 49,800 1 42,730
1 42,910 17 43,200
8 42,100 II 43,3(10
4 44,400 1 42,680
42,770 XU 43.660
43,840 XI 42.M0
1 44,680 li 42,620
1 42820 21 43,100
v 43,080 14; 41,400
44,600 16 42,640
11.... 42,640 St 42,830
12 42,660 17 42,600
1 42,600 as 42,60
14 .......... 42,660 XI 42,760
li 43,700 BO 42,170
Total , 1164,640
Returned copies 10,421
Net total M?4,ll
Daily average 42,470
UUUHUiu B. TZSCHUCK.
Treasurer.
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before ma this 2d day of May, 1B10.
li. P. WALKER,
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Now come on, Old Sol, and keep
smiling.
Uncle Joe is 74 years old, but you
cannot make tbe insurgents realize it.
Speaking of names, Dr. Barber
heada the Nebraska dentists for tbe
coming year.
Here's where tbe ball player has a
ready made' answer for the comet
"Never touched me."
It's good advertising for Creigbton
university and every other university
that has an observatory.
Somebody has suggested that Pitts
burg send its grafters to jail in re
lays. Or build more Jails.
It has been discovered that spurious
champagne is being panned oft on the
public. De on your guard.
Sweeping the comet's tall looks like
altogether undue familiarity that is
likely to breed dangerous contempt.
The prosecuting attorney of Cook
county has seen to it that Representa
tive Link of Illinois is not a missing
Link. . .
Confidential Stenographer Kerby
was not short-sighted, it seems, for he
admits he saw his finish before he
started.
An expert tells us that the Panama
canal is not a canal at all, but a big
lake. There now, see how somebody
has messed up the job.
The man who pines for "the good
old days" forgets that they, like every
thing else, served their time and would
be useless in another age.
Why talk about making Omaha a
"city beautiful" while giving free rein
to the hideous billboard nuisance?
The two are Irreconcilable.
Pennsylvania democrats want a man
who can reorganize their party in that
state. They do not want much, do
they? Even Jim Jeffries would hesi
tate to taokle that Job.
"Uncle Joe's" trouble Is that he
talks as it he were the whole repub
llcan party very niucn like another
distinguished gentleman, who talks as
if ho were the whole democratic party.
A New York paper says there are
two reasons why it is futile to discuss
the senate's action on the long and
short haul clause in the railroad bill
and then proceeds to discuss it for
nearly a column:
Much is being made of the fact that
Dr. Hyde plays cards with the "ordl
nary" prisoners to pass the time. If
guilty, why should a man who takes
human life consider himself above one
who steals a chicken?
Why has Mr. Bryan waited until
now to berate and denounce tbe
Omaha brewers In public? Is it be
cause every , time he has run for of
flee he has been the beneficiary of
their money and votes?
The thralldom of superstition still
exists in this age of unsurpassed en
llghtenment when people in New York
and Texas will flee for refuge from tbe
supposed calamity of the cosoet. But
it is significant that the human soul
when it feela that death is near In
stinctively turns to religion.
Oregon's Experience.
In the discussion of the initiative
and referendum five states out of the
whole forty-six have Ixen cited as
states which have taken up with
this scheme of direct legislation.
Fortunately, we have in a recent
sppech delivered by Senator Jona
than Bourne of that state a resume of
the experience of Oregon with the in
itiative and referendum which may
throw some light on its actual work
ings, Oregon being the particular
state most widely advertised aa the
acme of direct popular government.
Tho initiative and referendum was
first utilized in Oregon in 1904, when
two propositions were submitted to
popular vote. In 1906 eleven more
propositions were submitted and in
1908 nineteen more, making a total
of thirty-two distinct propositions
submitted at three elections.
What are the propositions for
which in Oregon it was deemed neces
sary to take a popular vote? The
compilation presented by Senator
Bourne, slightly condensed, with the
vote on each proportion, Is as fol
lows:
StTlMITTED 1904.
. Yes. No.
Direct primary law 5G.2D5 ir,.r,
local option liquor law 43,310 40.19S
SUBMITTED 1"0G. .
Omnibus appropriations for
state Institutions 43,913 2C.7rS
Women suffrage 30,902 47.07S
Modified local option liquor
law &.fc7 43.144
Purchase of Barlow toll road.' 31,525 44,!27
Requiring referendum on cull
ing constitutional convention 47,061 1S.7V.
Cities to make own charters.. 62,567 1!.ST,2
Legislature to fix state print
er s pay 63,749 9.571
Municipal initiative and refer
endum 47,678 16,735
Prohibiting free railroad
passes . . ; 67, 2S1 16,779
Earnings tax on car comp'les. 63,633 6,441
Same on express, telephone
and telegraph 70,82 CHtO
SUBMITTED 1908.
Increasing legislators' pay.... 19.631 68,892
Permitting location of state In
stitutions outside of state
capital 41.971 40.868
Increasing supremo judges
three to five 30,243 60,591
Changing election, June to
November 66,728 18,59)
Giving sheriffs control of
prisoners tniu an mi
Free passes for jhibllc officials 28,856 69,406
Appropriating $100,000 for ar
mories 33,507 61. S18
Increasing university approp
riation from $47,600 to $123,000
annually 44,113 40,335
Woman suffrage amendment. 36,858 68,670
Fish wheel operators' fishery
bill 4,5R2 40.720
QUI net operators fishery bill. 66,130 30,280
diving cities control of liquor
selling, pool rooms, theaters,
to 89,442 62.MC I
Single tax 82.0G6- ; 60.871
Recall on publlo officials 68,381 31,002
Oregon plan choosing senators 69,GT8 21,162
Proportional representation.... 48.868 34,128
Corrupt practices act 54,042 31,301
Requiring indictment by grand
Jury 52,211 28.4S7
Creating Hood River county.. 43,948 26,778
This list at any Tate will afford some
idea of what may be expected from the
Initiative and referendum. Presuma
bly no scheme is too hair-brained or
too preposterous to fail of the neces
sary number of petition signers in
Oregon to put it on the ballot, and it
is reasonable to suppose that the num
ber of measures submitted for popular
vote will increase from yean-to year
rather than decrease.
Comparing the twQ states it is not
out of place to ask what really desira
ble legislation Oregon has secured
through the initiative and referendum
that Nebraska has not secured without
It. Nebraska has had direct primaries
as long as has Oregon, and has now
also the Oregon system of choosing
United States senators. Nebraska has
had a local option law for thirty years,
and it has worked fairly well. Ne
braska has stringent anti-pass laws; it
taxes common carriers at good, stiff
rates; it has increased the number of
supreme Judges to accommodate grow
ing litigation, where Oregon has failed
to do so. Nebraska had a corrupt
practices act long before Oregon, and
its State university, Instead of having
to go to the referendum to get 1125,
000 a year, enjoys an Income of nearly
500,000 a year.
Of course, it might be desirable to
have an initiative and referendum on
moving the state capitol or relocating
the university, but publlo sentiment
in Nebraska has never fully
crystallized behind any measure and
kept after it persistently without real
izing on it, without waiting for an in
ltiative or referendum. In other
words, Nebraska has so far maintained
representative government, which,
while it has gone wrong occasionally,
has on the whole responded well to
popular demands whenever enforced
by real majorities. And the people
will continue to rule in Nebraska
whether they do so by initiative and
referendum or by electing their law
makers as heretofore on the current
Issues of the day.
Improving Railroad Business.
Railroad gross earnings reports for
April show a continuation of com
parative increases, reflecting the gen
eral stability of business throughout
the country. While net earnings fall
to sustain the same high level, they
still leave margin enough for generous
gains in incomes. But gross. earnings
form the most accurate index to bus
iness activity. Net earnings are influ
enced from within, as In the present
case, by such factors as wage increases
and expenditures for betterments
whose advantages are permanent and
are of beaeflt to tbe public only as
indicating the relative income and cost
of operation.
Railroads comprising a mileage of
8S.023 miles, more than one-third the
total in the United States, for the
month of April reported gross earn
ings as $60,761,753, which was a gain
over the same month in 1909 of nearly
16 per cent. The greater. significance
of this appears when we consider that
while theso reports include the big
coal carrying roads, most of the min
ers In the bituminous coal districts
were Idle during April, thus cutting
down the traffic extensively and also
that during April the cotton transpor
tation in the south, whose railways arc
embraced in this tabulation, was seri
ously crippled. Other traffic, there
fore, was so large that it was able to
produce a 16 per cent gain in gross
earnings.
The fact is, as shown by complete
statistics, that railroad earnings thus
far in 1910 are larger than they have
ever been in the United States. It will
be difficult to evade the force of these
figures when shippers are asked to
submit to the demands of the railways
for a general raise in the level of
freight rates In addition to the con
tinuous edging up under cover of re
classification. '
A Practical Explorer.
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, the
British explorer who haft, come nearer
than any other man to reaching the
South pole, proposes to turn his ad
venture to practical account by going
In search for coal in the antarctic
regions of the south where he saw
evidences of deposits on his recent ex
pedition. The world will at once be seriously
impressed by this announcement be
cause Sir Ernest has gained the right
to a hearing by his conduct with ref
erence to his polar excursions, making
no improbable claims that had
to be subjected to the test of
scientific demonstration for proof, nor
has he sought to use his experience
purely for commercial purposes, but
rather to promote scientific research
and material progress in navigation.
But with all the interest in polar
discoveries, the world will manifest a
keener concern in finding new sources
of fuel and if Sir Ernest can accom
plish this mission he will be entitled
to almost as much gratltudo as if he
had discovered both poles. The
world's supply of coal is limited, that
is those sources that are known to
exist and can be reached. Lieutenant
Shackleton believes a tract of 4,000,000
square miles within the far south
regions contains rich deposits of coal,
for on his way south he perceived its
outcroppings. He is now determined
on an expedition within a year to
verify his supposition.
The world may some day find other
kinds of fuel to supplant coal, but until
it does it will hare to conserve its min
eral resources and develop new ones
as rapidly as possible. The next prob
lem after discovery would naturally
be that of transportation, but that,
difficult as It may at first seem, would
be solved In due course.
: A Few Acres Still Left
Before going prematurely into sack
cloth and ashes over the belief that all
the farming land In the United States
has been occupied, the people of the
overcrowded sections should cast their
vision westward and take courage.
Here is ono writer enlightening his
readers with the lugubrious statement
that no more wheat land can be found
in this country, when as a matter of
fact in the Panhandle of Texas alone
there are fully 7,000,000 acres that
only need the touch of the plow and
the seed of the sower to produce mil
lions of bushels of good grain. Esti
mating that tnls land would yield no
more than ten bushels to the acre,
we would have 70,000,000 bushels,
enough to keep the wolf from the
door a little while longer.
But it is not necessary to confine at
tention ,to Texas; other states in the
west, Nebraska, for one, have still
vast areas of available wheat land,
which it will require years of coloni
zation to exhaust in settlement and
occupation. Some of the sweeping
ranges of Nebraska and adjacen states
never used for other than pasturing
purposes will some day be turned into
wheat and corn fields, probably as
soon as their need for such becomes
apparent.
It is Idle for uninformed people to
indulge in pessimistic prognostications
about agricultural conditions so long
as they do not take the time to famil
iarize themselves more thoroughly with
all the facts and this is not the easiest
thing for them to do. It is exceed
ingly difficult for the easterner to
appreciate the immensity of the west,
to understand that there are single
counties out here larger than several
of their 6tates. Some of them do not
even realize that it is the west to
which they have to look for their food
supplies. v
After all, the greatest tribute yet
paid to Britain's late monarch is that
offered in the visit of a hundred thou
sand of his faithful subjects from
every walk of life to his bier to cast
one fleeting glance upon tbe face of
Edward. , This stream of humanity
that poured through Westminster hall
past tbe catafalque from early morn
ing until late at night is the testi
monial that counts.
The initiative and referendum is
now Mr. Bryan's paramount issue,
transcending all others, including free
sliver, free trade, Emperor McKinley,
deposit guaranty, trust extinction, in
come tax and government by injunc
tion. Fortunately, he still has woman
suffrage and the Henry George single
tax to fall back on when he needs an
other paramount.
Mr. Bryan says he wrote the initia
tive and referendum into the state
platform adopted by Nebraska demo
crats in 1896. Correct, but he has
studiously kept it out of numerous
democratic platforms written since for
fear, it was not as popular as he now
thinks it li.
The work of taking the census Is
now complete so far as the counting
goes, but the tabulation Is yet to be
made. In the meantime the situation
most resembles the period that elapses
after an election between the closing
of the polls and the announcement of
the result.
Another $50,000 of park bonds will
be floated to enable the Park board
to develop Omaha's park and boule
vard system. Fifty thousand dollars
a year in addition to more than that
in regular revenue from taxes and
road fund ought to mnke a tangible
showing. .
The Union Pacific will spend in im
provements in Omaha within the next
two years at least $2,000,000. The
men vested with the management of
this great property evidently have no
lack of faith in Omaha's future.
Of course, it should be explulned
that many men have seen strange
things In the sky before this comet
came. Some folks have seen two
moons where there is but one.
If the Balllnger-Pinchot Investiga
tion could have been conducted with
less display of mallco and personal
spleen the outcome might be antici
pated with more satisfaction.
A fterrsxnry Appendix.
Boston HeraM.
Colonel Bryan's statement that he will
never again bo a presidential candidate
Bhould be accompanied by an affidavit.
Blaklnn- a Good Start.
Cleveland Leader.
So far. King George Is saying In public
only what Is sensible and well expressed,
lie may bo advised rather carefully, but if
he uses suggestions he certainly gives heed
to good ones.
Superfluous Iteaaous.
New York Tribune.
Colonel Bryan takes needless trouble In
giving various reasons why Mr. Roosevelt
could not be the democratic candidate for
the presidency. The one perennial and suf
ficient reason Is that the party cannot well
have two candidates.
What's the t set
Baltimore American.
The chaplain of the house of representa
tives. In praying that muckrakers may be
gin their rpfnrm lnhnra at hAnu tn-trni
that If all reformers begin with their own
auairs, iney would have too little time left
to attend to their neighbors.
Don't Worry.
San Francisco Chronicle.
Conservationists are asking the question,
How will mankind get along when timber
becomes so scarce that the supply of
matches cannot be kept up? Probably they
will do as the ancients did, unless In the
meantime someone Invents a substitute
that will dispense with the use of wood,
which is not at all improbable.
Ilaaeless 'Assertions.
Baltimore1 American.
The charge is made that the girls of the
country smoke 'Cigarettes in Becret and
are more addicted to the practice than are
boys. This Is on c par with similar
charges which break out eVery now and
then from some irresponsible' source about
the general practice by women of smoking
and drinking which proves to be without
foundation save In the ever active imagin
ations of the accusers, generating In sweep
ing fashion from a few individual instances
brought to their notice.
BllYAN AND THE HOME FOLKS.
How
the Democratic Shindy
Is
Viewed st-liong Range.
Pittsburg, Dispatch.
If reports from Nebraska are correct, Mr.
Bryan no longer needs to come east to in
vado "the enemy's country." He can land
right in it by stepping out of his own yard.
Front all accounts, his neighbors In hU
homo state aro rapidly getting over the
habit of letting him do their thinking.
His pronounpement on prohibition six
months ago seems to have caused the
trouble. His subsequent explanation that
he had no intention of considering prohi
bition as a national Issue, but merely re
ferred to the propriety of the principle of
local option did not mend matters. What
ever the Nebraskans may think of local
option enough of them object to its being
made a Bryan Issue' to cause a halt. Where
upon Mr. Bryan discovered another Issue
and immediately began -a campaign for a
special session of the legislature to pass an
initiative and referendum bill. Instead of
rallying to this call many of the demo
cratic leaders replied that not only had
they failed to observe any urgent necessity
for a special session to pass such an act,
but that they were equally unable to see
why they should vote for such a bill at any
Session.
All this following a disastrous attempt to
secure a dollar each from fifty democrats
to file the nomination of Mr. Bryan for
United States senator before he returned
home seems to denote that the Bryan star
Is rapidly declining In its home bailiwick.
The prospect that Mr. Bryan will wage war
upon the recalcitrant Nebraska democrats
who refuse to follow his leadership is hailed
with delight by the republicans, who assert
that the row In the democratic ranks will
lend to the election of a republican legis
lature and a republican senator.
Our Birthday Book
May 80. mo.
Marion Butler, once populist United
States senator from North Carolina, was
born May 20, 1863, in Sampson county of,
that state. He was chairman of the popu
list national committee for three cam
paigns. Clark E. Carr, lawyer, author, diplomat
and friend of Abraham Lincoln, lg cele
brating his seventy-fourth birthday. He
was born In Boston Corners, New York,
and has been prominent In Illinois poll
tics. He was minister to Denmark under
Harrison's administration; and was presi
dent of the Illinois commission for the
Omaha exposition.
George A. Hoagland, lumberman, capi
talist and one of Omaha's pioneers, was
born May 30. 1843. In Boonevllie, Mo. Tht
Hoagland block stand on the site of the
residence he and his family occupied for
many years. Mr. Hoagland Is also a great
devotee of hunting and outdoor sports.
Court B. Carrier, city ticket aent of
the Chicago. Milwaukee & St Paul rail
way, Is celebrating his fifty-ninth birth
day. He is a native of Pennsylvania, and
was ticket seller at the Union Pacific de
pot In Omaha from 1873 to 183, when b
assumed his present position.
Washington Life
Soma Interesting lnas
and Conditions Obssrrtd
at toe nation's Capital.
The quietest representative In congrrvs
halls from Brooklyn and answers to the
name uf Richard Young. He rarely
makes a speech. Ills efficiency is In quite
work before the committee and hustling
for votes for measures In which hs Is
Interested. This silent statesman has to
his credit an achelveinent capable of ex
toliing his fame In a babel of languages
every hour of the six sunny months of the
year. He was Instrumental in giving Coney
Inland a place on the map.
Coney was a barren Btrctch of sand
when Richards' prophetic eyes sited it up,
many years axo. lie was park commis
sioner, with considerable "power to act."
During his term, he admits In his auto
biography, he "transformed this Island Into
a beautiful seaside park, built the sea-
walk and concourse at that resort
and macadamised tli boulevard to the
sea." Tho tremenduous vocal powers of
Corny deplored since then mokes ample
amends for the founder's Impressive sl
lence tlieso later days.
"Undo Joe" Cannon cannot be called
"lamo duck" by any means, says the
Washington Times, but lis cannot help
wondering how he will get along wlion
he decides to quit public life. The
speaker has Just passed liia seventy
fourth birthday.
"It doesn't feel any different to be eev-enty-four
years old than it did seventy
three," he said. "I feel as well and strong
now as I did when years younger. My
blood has no lime Jn it, so far aa I konw,
and my veins are not hardening. My heart
action Is good.
"Triors Is only ono thing that worries
me sometimes. I don't know what I will
do with myself when 1 retire from public
life. Some day I probably will havo to
glvo up this work In which I have been
Interested so long. 1 have been in It now,
you see, for thirty-six years. It has grown
to be rather a habit.
"I suppose I'll find something else to do,
but I can't figure out now Just what It
will be."
The speaker hasn't expressed his views
as yet on the suggestion made by Champ
Clark recently, that "ITncle Joe" owed the
public a book of reminiscences.
To have been bortt, reared and llvsd 65
years In Alexandria, Va., only six miles
from the national capitol, and never hav
ing entered one of the many magnificent
public buildings in Washington, never hav
ing seenhe White House until last wecK,
never hflvtnr looked unon a president of
the United States until she saw President
Tat in the afternoon, never having seen a
oireim or nlav. and never having used a
telephone until prevailed upon te try the
great convenience yesterday, is tne unique
history of Mrs. Eliza Simpson, Hi ooiun
Henrv street. Alexandria. Va., who Is In
Washington visiting a nephew.
Pnixlnff the White House, which Mrs.
simnunn for the first time looked upon,
President and Mrs. Taft came out of the
grounds in an automobile. It was the rirsi
time she had ever seen a president. When
she was born, In 1845, Tyler was president.
Since that time eighteen presidents nave
been In the White House.
Senator Robert L. Taylor of Tennessee
says he has found the fountain of eternal
youth. He says that he has discovered how
he may live 100 years. '
"t am absolutely certain that with tne
aid and consent of my constituents in Ten
nessee I can live to be 100 years old," said
the senator.
"It Is lust this wav. Time flies so fast
here In Washington that the century mark
Is reached, or could be reached, I should
say, without a fellow knowing It. I have
been here three years and it does not
seem like three weeks.
"Campaigns for re-election come with the
most astoundlnir rapidity. They say the
term of a senator Is six years, but I think
It Is all a mistake. I think the terms lasi
from about October until May and then
another campaign.
"If my constituents Just keep on sending
me back here to Washington I shall never
die. Old Ponce de Leon came along too
soon with his quest. Ha should have been
elected to the senate and re-elected con
tinuously as lona- as he wanted to keep on
coming to Washlngtan, and be would have
located the fountain of youth."
They are telling a story in Washington
of a conversation said to have taken
plaoe not long ago between Rfaresentatlve
Burleson of Txes and former Representa
tive J. Adam Bede of Minnesota. Judge
Burleson Is a member of the committee
of appropriations, and Is, therefore, closely
associated with Chairman James Tawncy
of that committee.
The Texan is exceptionally fond of Mr.
Tawney, and he was asking Mr. Bede's
opinion as to the effect of President Taft's
Winona epewch upon tho prospects of Taw
noy's re-election. Redo was eomewhat in
doubt, and Burleson explained.
"I like Jim Tawney; he is all right. He
Is for the reduction of the tariff In the
Interest of the people; he Is for economy
In public expenditures, and he Is an honest
man."
"ace." remarked Mr. Bede, "he Is almost
a democrat."
Women are still interested spectators at
the Balllnger-Pinchot Investigation. They
go there from curiosity and sit throughout
the hearings. One of the regulars was
heard to say to her companion the other
day, "What Is all this about anyway?"
"Why," said the other regular, "Mr.
Bellinger wants to sell all the government
land, and Mr. Plnchot doesn't want to."
"Balllnger Is right," said the first regular;
"If tho government sold oil the land, we
wouldn't have to pay any taxes."
REGULATIONS HELP RAILIIOADS,
Significance of Foreign Demand for
Sronrlt lr.
Philadelphia Record.
Financial organs continue to admonish
us that we must not legislate regarding
railroads and other corporations, or make
any critical remarks about them, because
It would dry up the streams of capital.
But we have recently had occasion to no
tice that the railroads were getting nearly
tha amount of capital annually that James J.
Hill told us some time ago they needed, am!
the Paris correspondent of the New York
Journal of Commerce says of the pend
ing sales of something like a hundred mil
lions of American securities: "All the large
French bunking interests are without ex
ception cordially co-operating to make the
new movement a success. Tha list of
American loans ready to ba launched shows
a total of nearly W0.0u0.000 francs, which
are to be publicly offered before the end
of the month." The Chicago, Milwaukee
& St. Paul will Issue a loan of fso.000.00)
and other large loans will be put out by
the Cleveland, Cincinnati ft St. Louis, the
St, Louis & San Francisco, the -New York
Central and the Baltimore & Ohio. The
truth Is that a good deal of ratlrond man
agement has been such that governmental
regulation U welcomed by investors.
i&ft Edison
AMBEROLA
Offers you more than a piano or even a player
piano for, at best, these instruments give you
piano music only, while the Amberola plays all
of the best of all kinds of music.
The Amberola plays both Edison Standard
and Amberol Records, and you can change from
one to the other at will. Has drawers for hold
ing 100 Records.
Any Edison Phonograph equipped withthc Amberol
Attachment will play the
n.e Amberola, $200 New Records bv Slezak
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THE EDISON
PONOGRAPH
Nebraska Cycle Co.
15th and Harney Sts., Geo. E. Mickel, 334 Broadway,
Omaha., Neb. Manager. Council Bluffs, la,
PERSONAL NOTES.
New York has a woman who saw the
French in retreat from the Russians at
Mobcow.
Frank Stanton does not deny the soft
impeachment that he Is the Atlanta poet
who has become a bank president.
Florence Nightingale on , her ninetieth
birthday, though In Infirm health, Is "free
from suffering." One who has done so
much to relieve others should herself be
immune.
Numerous warnings have . been Issued
based upon the fact that Mark , Twain and
the late King Edward used tobacco. Some
how these do not seem deeply impressive,
so many men are free from the habit and
die earlier. .
SUll active and In good health, Charles
H. Cramp head of the famous Philadelphia
shipbuilding company founded by his
father, celebrated the eighty-second anni
versary of his birth at his homo In the
Quaker City.
The movement to obtain a safe and sans
Fourth will do a great deal toward saving
the country if It will encourage as a sub
stitute for firecrackers and the toy pistol
the old-fashioned oratorical fireworks
which used to accompany the reading of
the declaration of independence.
Prof. Henry C. Emery of Yale, chair
man of the United States Tariff commis
sion, and absent on leave from the uni
versity sailed from New York for the pur
pose of investigating the tariff commls.
slons of Germany and Austria. He goes
alone, and expeots to be absent until July 1.
Mrs. Johanna Downing of East Boston,
together wtih her daughter, Mary Ellen,
and her son, John, will soon be reunited
to her husband, Patrick J. Downey of
Caldwell, Idaho, formerly of Portmouth, N.
H., from whom she parted after a quurrcl
forty-two years ago, and from whom, until
recently, she had not heard since their
separation.
It AII.HOAD HOI. I, OF II OX OR.
Unique llecord of Safety In Passen
eer Transportation. ,
New York World.
With the fiscal year ending Juno SO, 1909,
according to tho annual report of the
bureau of railway now and statistics,
sevonteen railroad companies of the
United States completed a six-year term
without a passenger killed, nlnety-fivo
companies a five-year term, 177 companies
a four-year period, 228 companies three
years, 2K7 companies two years, and 847
companies, out of 3G.8 reporting, one year
of immunity.
This gain In safety was accomplished
along with tremendous Increases of track
mileage and with u multiplication of rlakg
through additions to train schedules. The
mileage of the death-Immune American
roads of 1903-9 was 159,657. Only twice In
half a century has the no-fatallty record
been made on the railways of Great Brit
ain, which have now, according to the
bureau report, a mileage of 23,000.
These figured facts of safety on the rail
are tn gratifying disagreement with u
popular Idea. As explaining contrary Im
pressions, we have to remember that
whereas most train wrecks get Into the
news, nothing Is said of day-to-day trips
without event. The bureau statistics seem
to demonstrate that railroad managers and
employes are taking Increased euro and
thut the mission of th block signal Is be
ing perfected.
Talks for people
The problem of making an unln
creased income meet an increased cotst
of living la acute. The public la ask
ing more and more for quality, value
and (air prices.
There baa never been a time in re
tall merchandising when a merchant
can ao thoroughly establish himself as
to quality and prices as at present.
Mr. Merchant, you know that your
goods are of the highest quality, that
your prices are based on values and
service, and are therefore fair. Are
you telling tbe public about it, the
the world's crett Grand Opera Ter
besides the other great stars who sine for
the Edison: RiccardoMartin, Constantino,
Blanche Arral.Sylva, Mclis and Huberdcau
Other types of Jtdlsoe PhonocTaphs, 12.5rt to f!2S On
Kdisoa Grand Opera Records . , . . ?5o to K HJ
Kdlioa Standard Kef-orris v . . . Vc
Ktliton Amberol Record! (play twice arlong) . 50c
Does your Phonograph play
Amberol Records? If not, ask your
dealer about our money-saving combina
tion offer on Amberol Records and the
attachment to play them.
NATIONAL PHONOGRAPH COMPANY
TS LskssM Avenue, Oranc, N. J.
Nebraska Cycle Co. represents tho
National Phonograph Co. in Nebraska
and carries over 100,000 records in stock,
among which are all of the Edison records
mentioned in the National Phonograph
Co.'s announcement on this page today.
TAPS ON THE RJNNYBONE.
' Extract from a young woman's letter
from Venice:
"Last night t lay In a gondola In tho
Grand canal, drinking it all in, and life
never seemed so full before." Llppincott'a
Magaiine.
' "A little while ii no 1 taw a man torturing
a live lobster while an agent of the Boclety
for the Prevention of cruelty to Animals
was watching him."
"What happened then?" ''
"Well, then he go pinched." Chicago
Tribune.
"When Adam delved and Eve span, who
van then tho suf tragette?"
"Eve, of course didn't she rulse Cain?"
Harvard Lampoon. i
' ."I see where that airship Inventor Is to
deliver an illustrated lecture on aviation."
"1 suppose the IlluHtratlon will be by k
lights.' baltimore American.
New Customer I see you have Van Falu
tin for a customer. Art you aware that
his ancestors came ucrocs on the May
flower? Tailor So? It's too bad he doesn t try
to emulate their noble deed.
What do you mean? ,
I made hliri two suits, and 'ha hasn t
come across yet.-yPuck.
"Aw! come on!" the little boy was heard
to remark. "Be a sport. I'll bet yer any
amount of money up to 5 cents." Harper's
Magasine.
"I have to face the fact," inuned th
fashionable photographer, as he looked over
some recent pictures, "that there are soma
very ugly features In tills buslness."--Bal.
timore Amsrlcan.
"I don't s'pose th' comet serves nny use
ful purpose cavortin' 'round up yonder?"
"Nopo. Dr. Hank Burdock says It's th'
vermliorm appendix of the solar system."
Cleveland Pluln Dealer,
"She's the most popular member of our
card club."
"What's the matter, hasn t she been able
to win a prise yet?' Detroit Free Press.
Hamm Do you recognise the profession?
Ticket Man Yes. But If you'll stand out
of the line quietly I won't give you .away.
Cleveland Leader.
Mark Twuln tells how he once patronl.cd
tho mother of u family In Humubut, Mo.
" '.So this la a little girl, eh?' 1 said to
her as she displayed her children to n i
'And this sturdy little urchin In the- M
bolonss. I suppose, to the contrary sx?' "
" 'Yastiah,' the woman replied. 'Yuwhali,
dat's a girl, too.' "
JOYS OF GARDENING. '
Chicago Post.
My neighbor has a garden; four weeks ago
he plowed
And harrowed, cro ho planted with expec
tations proud.
Ho put in his potatoes, his lettuce and his
corn
Since then he's watched the garden by noun
end night and morn.
Today I lward lilm calling, with quick and
joyful shout: .
"Say, bring tho Ico pick, mother; tho beans
aro gutting out!"
Footwarmcrs on tho cornhllls oro making
them feci fine.
Hot water bags are coaxlnff tho water
melon vino, , . ,
A ple runs from his furnace through his
tomato rows
IIj sprays it with hot water from an
asbestos hose. , , , . .
'Today his voice showed plainly tho shat
tering of doubt:
A), bring the ico pick, mother, tho beans
are getting out!"
I watch him In Jils ulster, his earmuffs and
Ills furx, ,
At work within his garden; contentedly ho
PurlB . . t
O'er Ins coM-storac eggplants. I hear Ills
anxious hum. .
When he discovers something that lan-
gullies quite numb.
Out what delight was thrilling each ao
cent of thut shout;
"Say, bring the ice pick, mother; the beam
ore getting out!'
who sell things , L
public that wants to know, that Is aijL
lng and looking for Just this sort of ei
store?
Through tbe advertising columns of
Tbe Dee you can tell over 150,000 In
terested readers about . your store,
your methods, values, qualities and M
prices. You can talk to them tbreo ,
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Our-help and advice Is at your e7'-,
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Using Service written' and lliurniotlL .
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