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STATEMENT OIT CIKCULA'HON.
Btate of Nesraaka, Douglas County, sa.t
Ueorge B. Tsschuck. treasurer of The
Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn,
says that the actual number of full and
complete copies of The Pally, Morning.
Evening and Hunday Be printed during the
woaia 01 April, mu, was as ioiiows;
1 43,800 1 42,730
S a,10 IT 43,300
$ 42,100 II 43,380
4 44,400 19 43,680
,,.43,770 10. 43,680
411,840 : (1 43,860
1 4J.6H0 '. la 43,630
1 43 680 it 43,100
,43,060 It.. 41,400
10 44.6C0 It 43,840
11 48,840 l( 43,830
II 43,680 '' 17 43,600
II 43,800 IS 43,80
14 43,680 ' Z 43,760
II 43,700 10 43,970
Total 1.884,640
Returned copies ...... 10,431
Net total M74.119
Ually average 43,40
OjlOKUH B. TZ8CHUCK.
Treasurer.
Subscribed in my presence and swora to
before ma tola Id day of May, 1S10.
ii, y. w'ALKEn,
Notary PuDtio.
Iibserlkers leaving? the city tens
orartlr ' should have). The Be
anallea to the a. Addressee will be
ehaaarea aa oftea aa reqeeated.
About time to build that Platte river
power canal once more.
All we hope now la that It will not
occur to Juno to try to out-April, May.
Oh, now, Mr.. Astronomer, you have
had a fair chance. Do not talk comet
to ua now.
A Chicago paper has raised the ques
tion, "What to do with the Chicago
river?" Can It be filled upT
Those pujbllo achool ..contests at .any
rate, are highly successful in making,
the younsters expert lungatera.
A Chattanooga paper wants jto know
how they can harmonize the" demo
cracy of Tennessee. Give It up.
Kick on the weather all you will,
rou must admit It has been a good
season for catching grafters, eh Pitts
burg?
It s to be noted, also, that Mayor
"Jim" la not missing any chance to get
off his welcome-to-our-clty speech
these days.
Of course, If the Commoner were
the only newspaper there would be no
need of keeping the art of oratory and
public speaking 'alive.
Oklahoma is prompt in announcing
tho annual advent of the tornado. We
will have ours in this end of the tor
nado belt In about a month.
The news reports say John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., has assumed the task
of purifying New York. If so, he has
t least tackled a man's Job.
Still, Stenographer Kerby will
scarcely offer aa one recommendation
when he soots another job, the reason
why he was fired from the last.
New Jersey papers are advertising
the fact that there Is health In Jersey's
pine lands. Perhaps, but some people
will decline to go there even for that
consideration.
San Francisco's mayor seems to
have advertised his city as lldlesa not
In vain. Ten national and one Inter
national conventions are scheduled for
that town this year.
Congress appropriated 125,000 for
the expenses of the Dalllnger-Pinchot
Investigation and It cost so far only
$15,000. Who says the economy
streak has not struck Washington?
Somehow we cannot help feeling
about this question, "Can Jeffries
come back," that be has not a great
waya to come, though he had gone a
long distance In the other direction.
Jacques de LeBseps duplicates the
feat of Louis Blerlot In crossing the
British channel in an aeroplane. Soon
the channel will begin to think It Is
not such a terrible thing to cross after
all.
Nebraska farmers will appreclat
the report of Colonel Goethala that op
erations on the canal at Panama are
proceeding as well aa could be ex
pected In view of the unprecedented
wet weather.
What's this? An Injunction against
the strikers at Havelock under the
shadow of Falrvlew? Still, what has
government by Injunction got to do
with the initiative and re; ereuduni
and anunty option
Neutrality on the Canal.
Tho rPKolutlon looking toward neu
trality of the canal Introduced In the
ouse by Representative Kelfer of
Ohio seems to have every prospect of
doption as it should have. It swms
to ruoet the favor of the minority
leader, Champ Clark and that of Mr.
Tawney, a stalwart republican chair
man of the appropriation committee
nd of the president, bo that Its suc
cess should be assured.
Such a resolution ia essentially a
measure in the interest of peace ana
commerce. It would be a sheer waste
of money and denial of our boasted
policy for International peace to avoid
treaty arrangements with other coun
tries that would make it necessary for
s to fortify the Panama with forts
nd battlebhlps. We might thus have
spend more money to make the
canal safe from attack without the
resonce of men-cf-war.
At present only the United States
nd Great Britain are obligated to
bserve neutrality on the canal, Just
s they are on the Great Lakes, but
nder the terms of this resolution
treaties would be negotiated with the
other powers by which they too would
subscribe to similar pledges. The pur
pose. Is to establish a system of reg-
lation such as governs the Suez canal,
toward which all the nations are
eutral. Such an arrangement will
make it Incumbent on the United
States tc do no more than provide
adequate police patrol for the canal
nd the American property rights on
ach side of the canal will not be
eopardized, either.
No Banking Monopoly.
In an address to a group meeting of
bankers at Hastings Governor Shallen
berger is reported to have advocated
limiting the number of banks that
may be chartered to do business in Ne
braska, his professed purpose being to
prevent mushroom growth. An abso
lute limit on the number of banks to
be chartered would, of course, be giv
ing those banks already chartered a
leital monopoly which would be a
practical monopoly If the state were
the only authority that could issue
bank charters. It happens that the
state is not the only authority with
power to charter banks, so that the
monopoly could not be effective unless
a limit were also placed on the num
ber of national banka to be chartered
in each state by consent of the comp
troller of the currency. But If the
policy of monopoly were the right one
for each state it would be equally de
sirable for the national banks, and
would lead eventually to a complete
banking monopoly.
It la hardly necessary to Intimate
that the people will not take kindly to
Governor Shallenberger'a new scheme
li this Is what H means. Applications
for bank charters in Nebraska are now
passed on by the State Banking board.
and this board should have, and
doubtless has, authority, to refuse a
charter for any good reason support
ing a presumption that the bank would
be dangerous to the community, ' But
there can be, and should be, no arbi
trary discrimination or personal pref
erence, but rather absolute equality
before the law. for all who comply in
good faith with its provisions.
Nebraska is not ready for a bank
monopoly, and tUd wonder is that the
Idea should have had to wait to be
fostered by a governor elected as a
democrat on a platform fulminating
against all special privilege."
Pugilism in Politics and Beligion.
Business, politics and religion are
now involved In the Jeffries-Johnson
fight to say nothing of sport and are
bound to be important elements, no
matter which man wins. The pugi
listic aspect has long been over
shadowed by the commercial and now
the other two forces combine to crowd
it still further Into the background.
To begin with a fortune is put up
In the stakes and many fortunes are
comprehended in tho revenue expected
from the moving picture show, which
Is by far the biggest feature in the
whole extravaganza. These moving
pictures are counted on to draw lm
mensely at the box office and institute
the commercial asset of the fight.
Even the religious forces which are at
tempting to prevent the fight recognize
this fact and are centering their op
position on It, more really, than . on
the fact that a prize fight is to be held
in California. And In their disgust
they have struck a responsive chord
among most people.
If the governor of California and
other law officers think they are going
to escape, the day of reckoning aa the
penalty for refusing to Interfere with
the big fight they are probably reckon
lng without tneir nost. iney are
threatened with opposition from the
chuich forces when they come up next
time for election, for taking the posl
tion that they are powerless to inter
fere. So we need not be surprised to
have the Jeffries-Johnson prize fight
moving picture show-enterprise figure
as tho paramount issue In California
politics state election.
Remember the Fly,
At last there is indication that
spring means business, and after spring
comes summer, but the first approach
of warm weather notes the arrival ot
the housefly. People should regard it
as no joke to join In a crusade against
this dangerous little Insect Now that
they know his propensities for dls
trlbutlng disease germs they should
not hesitate to curb them by killing
the fly.
Files breed best about garbage and
refuse. This should be a reminder to
all householders to see that their gar
bage and refuse are properly disposed
of and kept as far as possible from the
house, even while they must bo kept
at all.
Flies, of course, should be kept out
of tho house, and especially out of a
sick room. They wlil bring disease
Into the house on their feet and also
carry it out if they get Into a room
where a person lies ill. One way to
keep flies out of the house is to keep
food and milk and everything else that
may attract them covered. But if tho
fly gets In the house he may be suc
cessfully combattcd In his course of
mischief. If you cannot hit him with
sufficient force and accuracy every
time to cause death, try a 6 to 8 per
cent solution of formaldehyde with
a little sugur and place It where you
think the fly will be most likely to
light.
The Municipal Tear.
In Its ruling on a license case that
there Is nothing in the law to prevent
the city authorities from making the
munclpal year with reference to the
term of licenses to sell liquor corre
spond with the municipal year for
other fiscal purposes the supreme
court makes possible the standardiz
ing of certain features of our city gov
ernment and suggests other changes to
simplify still further our adminis
trating machinery. While the point
at issue in this case was whether
license holders should pay an extra
f 1,000 for four months' license be
cause of the change In the law making
our Omaha Police board elective in
stead of appointive, it la of wider
scope than that in its ultimate effects.
The city and county now have their
municipal years corresponding with
the calendar year, but the school
board still holds to an obsolete fiscal
year running from June to June. It
1b this overlapping of the school
board's year with the calendar year
and fiscal year of the city and county
that has made our school board
finances Inexplicable. It would be
highly advantageous to have the fiscal
year the same for alt our agencies of
local government.
This brings up another annoying
discrepancy which should be remedied,
namely, the diversity of the tax years
which we must now submit to. Our
city taxes are payable and delinquent
at one time, our county personal taxes
at a different time and our county real
estate taxes at still another time, pro
ducing utmost confusion to the taxpay
ers and entailing unnecessary expense
on city and county and also on the in
dividual taxpayer. Tbore is no good
reason why our various tax levies
should not be consolidated so that one
tax bill may be rendered for the whole
amount due each year, even though
they may be payable In semi-annual
Installments. Here is an opportunity
for some constructive work by our
financiers. .
Man Necessary Part of Family.
'The National Conference of Chari
ties and Corrections haa made the
significant discovery' that "man is a
necessary part of the family." It
reached this goal through its pursuit
of the problem of the widow's com
fort. So it has Intimated that mar
riage Is the remedy for dependent
women and that therefore widows
should wed.
In his presumption mere man has
flattered himself that he was not
only a necessary part, but the head
of the household, so that he may .not
go into ecstacles at once over this
magnanimous ' concession, though he
should accept it on the scriptural
theory that we come up to our Just
reward by degrees, "First the blade,
then the ear, then the full grain in the
ear." Certainly it is most appropriate
and must be conclusive that this con
cession should come from those good
women who have never yet had the
advantages of a husband, and must
admit the lack of at least one essential
to their complete happiness.
The advocates of .this theory left the
Intimation that man's necessity in the
family rested on a financial basis. Of
course this would be the natural In
ference, since it is declared that mar
riage is the remedy for the dependent
woman. Necessity, of course, Implies
sense of indlspensabillty and does
not stop at comprehending - privilege
or even option, so that the flat is quite
restrictive in Its limitations, conceding
no more to man than he may be able
o find or develop in the contingency
of his future conduct.
For which let man be duly thankful
and hope, persevering the while.
Contrasting Mr. Bryan In that
measly little old Washington hall
meeting and in that magnificent New
York assemblage buried under a
bower of such fulsome eulogies as
uncontaminated soul," and "peerless
philosopher," certainly makes it seem
that a "prophet is not without honor
save in his own country."
Emperor William s good taste and
decorum displayed at the funeral of
Edward VII has been taken as cement
ing the bond of friendly relations be
tween the British and Germans. In
more than one way, the affliction ot
the "king's death' hai been turned to
good account for the substantial wel
fare of his own country.
Now, they have discovered after
these dozen years that Colonel Roose
velt waa wounded In his trigger hand
as he charged up San Juan hill and
that Is why he could not shoot any
Detter in Ainca. wnat aid they ex
pect him to do devastate the jungles?
And now Des Moines la undergoing
an investigation of its water supply
with reference to its. sufficiency for
fire-fighting purposes. If Des Moines
needs outside experts Omaha might
furnish a few water-logged statesmen
who aro practiced at spouting.
The receiver of the Independent
Telephone company returns Its fran
chise In Omaha for taxation valued at
20,000. Judging from circumstan
tial evidence it cost the promoters all
of that.
The Toledo Blade takes a whack at
one of its esteemed compositors by re
marking that a typographical error In
the poet laureate's recent ode to King
Edward made It worse than It really
was.
Modern Phenomena
Washington Star.
One of tho renialkahle things revealed
by Mr. Roosevelt's tour is the amiunt of
enthusiasm that can exist when ther? la
no base ball game. '
An MntayriMvlh of Fieedom.
Brooklyn Eagle.
Representative Walter I. Smith of Iowa
wants to prohibit any printing by news
papers of stories about prise fights. In
a free country freak contraioty la to bo
expected. .
(lonlnur Out Siilea,
St. Louis QIobe-Domocrat.
Another large tract of government land
s soon to be thrown open to settlement.
The day Is fast approaching, however,
when Uncle Sam will be obliged to retire
from the real estate business.
eel Look I n w Into,
New York Sun.
There must be something radically
wrong with tho examination system at
Annapolis when a clans of young meui
who have already passed the test at their
graduation go to sea for two yean only
to find on their return that practically
half of them are rejected and presumably
retired to private life.
I'nblic Criticism.
Baltimore American.
The governor of New Jersey ears he
would not' seek an elective office agiin
on account of the severity and annoyance
of public criticism. This criticism may
be sever and sometimes unjust, but it
Is necessary, as tho check of all others
In this country, on official conduct. The
people are the rulers and they have the
same right as have other employers to
express dissatisfaction with the publlo
work not done according to their wishes.
Their employes may, like others, com
plain of It, but they cannot avoid It; In
deed the brave among them rather court
it. The best course to pursue is to de
serve as little as possible of severity
in It.
The Fnblfo Should Be Shown.
Philadelphia Ledger.
If the increase of railroad passenger
and freight rates has really been mado
necessary by the Increased cost of rail
road operation the advances In the cost
of supplies and in the rate of wages
paid the changes will doubtless be made.
But the. public may reasonably ask that
the necessity shall he demonstrated to
the satisfaction of impartial and disin
terested experts, If any such : can be
found. It was upon' the same principle
that sane-minded people objected to the
indiscriminate attempt not many months
ago to Impose arbitrary limits upon rail
way passenger fare especially In view
of the faot that 'no?a)teps were taken to
ascertain the actual 'conditions governing
the service performed or Its cost to the
carriers. In all fairness the publlo la
entitled to a reciprocal consideration.
preventable: loss.
An Industrial Problem of Natlon-
, Wide Importance.
' ' Boston Herald.
Haf a million persons in the United
States are Injured .in accident each year.
The estimated economic, loss by reason, of
these accidents Is a. quarter of a billion.
The buildings consumed by fire In tho
United States each! year if . placed on lots
of sixty-five feet frontage would line a
street reaching from New York to Chi
cago. A person journeying along that
street would meet an Injured person every
1,000 feet, and at every three-quarters of a
mile he would see the charred remains of
human being. We are paying a tax
for the preventable loss of $3(36,000,000, or
enough to build the1. Panama canal.
These startling figures are presented by
Mr. Ferd C. Schwedtman, chairman ot tho
committee on Industrial Insurance of tho
National Manufacturers' association. They
are backed by official figures from United
States statistical authorities. They are the
summons which calls the American public
to prompt consideration of the problem of
conserving resources of the nation. Next
week when the National Manufacturers'
association meets In New York, it will de
vote almost Its entire session to the dis
cussion of industrial 'accidents, and means
for their prevention.
This Is an industrial problem of no mean
Importance, for directly or indirectly In
dustry must bear the burden ot this need
less waste. Employers' liability laws, com
pensation acts and statutory regulation of
factory appliances and laws compelling
tho proper protection of the life and health
of workers, are generally associated in
the public mind with so-called "labor"
legislation, suggested and promoted by
labor organizations and forced an unwill
ing employers. It 3 significant that the
National Association of Manufacturers, a
body of employers, has undertaken an ex
tensive campaign to 'educate employers to
the importance of equipping their plants
with labor-saving devices, to devise means
of preventing accents, 'to offer Its aid
In every way toward advanced legislation
Insuring to tho workingman more imme
diate and just compensation for aocldental
Injury, enforcing on the employer a larger
degree ot responsibility than Is defined
under existing liability laws.
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Our Birthday Book
Kay 83, 1910.
Henry M. Teller, formerly United States
senator from Colorado, was born May 21,
1S30, at Granger, N. Y., and ia there-
fore 80 years old today. Mr. Teller led
the free silver bolt of the St. Louis conven
tion, and was even mentioned In connec
tion with the presidency as a sixteen to
one candidate.
W. T. Thompson, attorney general of Ne
braska, Is 49 today. He was born at Fen
nlmore. Wis., and practiced law at
Central City until he became deputy in
the attorney general's office, and later was
elected two terms as attorney general.
Weldon S. Hcyburn, United States sena
tor from Idaho, was bora May 23, VI2, In
Delaware county, Pennsylvania. Ho Is a
lawyer by profession, and has been in
the senate since 1903.
William II. Clark, secretary and treas
urer of the Nonpareil Laundry company.
Is just 40 Ho was born In VIneland, N
J., and came to Omaha in lts9 from
Indiana to take a position with tho Cudahy
Parklng company, which he retained for
fifteen years until going Into his present
busU t.;
Where Kings Rest
Westminster Abbey Jlrst of Eng
land's Royal Tombs, with Wind
sor the Second la ITnmber.
Of the thirty-six reigning kings and
queens of England sines the Norman con
quest only fifteen have been burled In
Westminister abbey, while ten have been
Interred at Windsor, Including the Ir.te
Kirg Edward and Queen Victoria at Frog
rrore. The two later burials clearly Indi
cate that royalty regards Windsor as the
present and future burial place of Eng
land's kings and queens. Olher royal
graves are widely scattered. A writer In
the New York Sun, In Calling the roll of
former monarchs, points out their restltm
plHeee and some of their characteristics as
noted In history. William the Conqueror
waa burled at Caen, France, thus showing
that in those days England was but a
colony of France. His son, King William
Rufus, wan buried at Winchester, the
Bhrlne of the great Saxon King Alfred the
Great, a fitting sepulchre for kings. Henry
1, the youngest son of the Conqueror, died
In France, but his remains were taken to
England and placed In the magnificent
abbey which he had built at Reading, now
in ruins.
Sttphem, after a turbulent reign, found a
resting place In what was then known as
"the king's little town of Fervesham."
Henry Plantagenet, who died at Chlnon,
found a grave among the pious monks at
Fontevraud, and so did tho lion-hearted
King Richard. The hand of King John,
who signed the Great Charter, rests in
Worcester cathedral.
Although the hallowed dust of King Ed
ward the Confessor was placed In his "New
Church" at Wcstmlustor it was afterward
taken to the palace nearby, where It re
mained until the reign of King Henry III,
who removed the Confessor's coffin to Its
present place In the abbey. Henry III was
the first of the Norman kings to ho burled
there, although his heart was sent to the
abbey at Fontevraud. His son, Edward I,
erected the tomb over his father's remains,
which is still one of the sights of the
abbey. Edward I, "Longshanks," was
burled at Westminster, and as late as 1774
his tomb was opened. He was dressed In
his royal robes, with a sceptre In his right
hand. The body measured ( feet I inches.
The tomb was fastened securely In the
presence of the Dean and Chapter. Ills
unfortunate son, Edward II, was burled at
Gloucester, but his grandson. King Edward
III, was Interred in Westminster.
Richard II and his "Good Queen Anne"
of Bohemia were buried In Westminster,
but his successor, Henry IV, expressed a
wish to be buried In Canterbury cathedral
near the grave of his distinguished uncle,
Edward the Black Prince.
Henry V, probably the most popular king
of England, for "England ne'er lost a king
of so much worth," rests In Westminster
abbey, and his tomb is an object ot inter
est. The first king burled in the Chapel
Royal of St George's, Windsor, was Henry
VI, surnamed "Henry of Windsor," for he
had been born In the castlo, and It Is re
markable that his rival and successor, King
Edward IV, waa buried In the same chapel,
and thus the two roses of York and Lan
caster rested together In the same temple,
and it is here that after the lapfe of more
than five centuries "Edward .the Peace
maker" will be burled, whose ancestry can
be traced step by step to those first two
kings who found a sepulchre at Windsor.
The remains of the young King uawara
V when they were found In the Tower
were carefully Interred in the abbey by
order of King Charles II.
Ths body of Richard, who had "mado
poor England weep in streams of blood."
was flung into a grave at Leicester. The
erection of the chapel at Westminster by
Hnnrv VII and his burial there are matters
of history, but It Is a curious circumstance
that his son, Henry VIII, was Interred at
Windsor, while his three children. Edward,
Mary and Elisabeth, were burled In West
minster, the remains of the two sisters
being placed in the same tomb. ..
Jame I was burled in Westminster, but
his grave had been entirely lost sight ot
until at last Pean Stanley brought to light
the huge coffin which had been placed In
the vault of Henry VII. The Dean In
vited Dr. Talt, the archbishop ot Canter
bury, to be nresent at tho opening of the
coffin. As tho Ud was raised the dean
said:. "Let us stand aside so that the first
Rnoteh arohblshoD may be the first to look
on the remains of the first Scotch king ot
England." King Charles I, alter nis exe
cution at Whitehall, was burled In St.
George's, Windsor, and as there was no
name on the coffin it was opened in the
presence ot the prince regent (George IV)
and then carefully sealed.
James II was burled at Et Germain,
irrnce. where he died expressing a wish
that eventually his body may be taken to
wtmlnster. William III and Queen Mary
II were entombed In Westminster, and also
Queen Anne and her nineteen children, not
far from the grave of Charles II and sev
ri of his illerltlmate children.
Oliver Cromwell, although he had sent
ko hndv of "Charles Stewart" to Windsor,
left careful instructions that he should
have a royal grave for himself In the ab
bey. Visitors to the abbey are still shown
niiver'a vault." but the body was, at the
restoration of Charles, taken from the
vault and treated, as Dean Stanley saia,
"with every dishonor whloh a poor revenge
could suggest"
Of the four Georges, George I was burled
at Hanover, George II. in Westminster,
George III and George IV at Windsor, and
Queen Victoria at Frogmore, near Wind
sor. There have been no kings Interred la Bt
Paul's cathedral, and only one royal prince,
John 'of Gaunt, the "time honored Lan
caster" ot Shakespeare, whoeo descendants
occupy nearly all the thrones of Europe ex
cept tbat of Turkey.
Kenaall Green has one royal tomb. It Is
that of George, duke of Cambridge, the
uncle of Queen Mary III, who requested
that ho should be placed beside the noay
hi. morsanatlo wife, Miss Fairbanks.
The late kin attended the funeral.
A Constructive Party.
Cleveland Leader.
t tv, administration program or this
part of the work the president has hoped
that congress would llnisn auring me pres
ent session-can be gotten out of the way
before final adjournment, tho republican
party will be able to go before the country
once more as the great constructive force
In national affairs. It can again ask tho
support of tho people of the United States
with a strong appeal to the practical com
mon senso of tho masses who realize In
the final test, that nothing Is of much
value in publlo business which cannot bo
brought to tangible results.
There Aro Others to Come.
Washington Herald.
A democratic optimist has discovered
that the coming of a comet may fore
shadow possible democratlo victory. If
Halley's comet falls to turn the trick,
this gentleman may console himself with
the reflection that. another one sailed
away into space In the t-Jirly 10's that will
return in too years.
When the Rccipo
Calls for Spice
Then be careful. Make sure of your spices.
Don 1 take chances wiili spices that have lost
their freshness and strength or your cookinir
will be fc-it-tastino- and Inmnlil whn er.
sue laucu iui, ii aiways dcsi to use ,
T0IEPltt$
famous for years for freshness, for slrenglh, for
uniformity of flavor and best cooking results. Every
particle oi Iheif fine seasoning properties is puarded
carefully in milling. Then, as soon as ground, they
are sealed In air-tight boxes no chance for air or
moisture to weaken or cause deterioration. Tone's
Spices are dependable alwavs
SPI).DI.a 1'OOK LO'9 MONEY.
Hovr Flnchot'a rturena Ilnar Into a
Tribal Fund.
New York Evening Tost
'Grossly unbusinesslike conduct" Is the
charge made against one of Clifford Pln
chot's subordinates In the bureau of for
estry by the Indian commissioner, and If
tho facts are as stated most people will
wish that some dramatlo punishment could
overtake him, even though not the slightest
criminality attaches to his actions. For
eighteen years the Menominee Indians
worked hard at lumbering on their reser
vation, making a profit of $3,800,000, which,
with other revenue gave them a tribal
fund of $3,000,000. Then came a decision to
place these lumber-making Indians under
the control of the bureau of forestry. Ed
ward A. Dranlff, a recent graduate of the
Yale forestry school, soon made tho money
fly. An Injurious act passed by congress
cost the Indians about $700,000 ot their
profits and then Mr. Braniff helped on the
good work. For unnecessary roads $40,000
was expended; for improving a stream
$50,000. The stream waa to have floated
logs down to the saw mill erected by Mr.
Dranlff, but after the $50,000 was expended
65 per cent of the logs carelessly declined
to float or lost a large part of their value
while in the water such are the advan
tages of science when given to Lo!. Mr.
Branlff's lumber mill cost $254,700, with a
capacity of 48,000,000 feet of lumber, when
the law permitted the cutting of only
20,000,000 feet; unnecessary expense here,
$129,000. The saw mill being carefully
erected alongside ot a marsh, $C6,000 was
spent in piling to make It a good lumber
yard and $32,000 worth of lumber used In
piling will soon have to be replaced.
Altogether a wlso congress and the for
estry bureau seem to have done away with
at least $1,000,000 of the Indians' savings J
ana me lorestry Dureffu incidentally has
shown itself totally unfit, in the Indian
commissioner's opinion, to conduct a simple
lumbering enterprise upon a business basis.
Now It would be unfair to the forestry bu
reau to condemn It generally for one such
ghastly mistake particularly scandalous
because the government abused a sacred
trust when it forced such a loss upon its
own wards-but It Is Just this sort of blun
dering that Is, we believe, responsible for
niuoh of tho feeling In the west against
tho forestry bureau. With all due regard
for Mr. Plnchot's eminent service, which
we have always fully appreciated, we be
lieve, that abler executives can be found
for his office.
PERSONAL NOTES.
Chicago people are taking the pledge not
to kiss anybody, and, If the other person
sees them first, will have no difficulty In
keeping It.
Mrs. Taft haa become a member of the
Washington Humane society. She sent In
her application a few days ago. Mrs.
Taft has always taken a great interest in
the work dons by the humane society in
Cincinnati.
A farmer in North Dakota, who has re
sided In that state seven years, admitted
under oath that he did not know the name
of the president of the United States. It
Is scarcely necessary to add that he waa
accepted as a Juror.
Miss Blanche Stuart Scott has started
from New York for her cross-country au
tomobile tour to San Francisco, running
her own machine without a chauffeur. Miss
Stewart lives in Rochester, N. Y., and says
that tho distinguishing feature of her tour
will be that It will be an entirely "manless"
affair.
The list ot aspirants for the republican
nomination for governor of Wisconsin now
Includes: Lieutenant Governor John
Strange, Captain William M. Lewis of
Racine, Francis E. McGovern, a loading
lawyer of Milwaukee; Senator H. W.
Barker of Sparta and Senator E. T. Fair
child of Milwaukee.
One can hardly imagine Sir Hiram
Maxim, who celebrated his seventieth birth
day recently, in the prize ring, and yet he
Talks for people
Not bo very tar from Tha "Bea office
ia a merchant whq baa been la busi
ness for twenty-five or thirty years,
and he has never advertised. He will
tell you so himself; In fact, he la proud
of It, and when you eome to think ot
It it Is quite a feat to stay in business
thirty years without advertising.
To all questions as to why, his an
swer 1b: "I am doing very well with
out It." And so he is, doing very
well nothing more.
He has a fine store, excellent goods,
charges fair prices, knows merchan
dising, but he has never told the peo
ple, never taken the general public
into his confidence. Year after year
he has been content to "do very well."
If all men were content with "very
well" this might answer, but they aro
not; abler men have entered the field,
men who are never content, men who
make the success of today the stopping
stone to a bigger success for tomor
row. Men who have seen the possi
bilities of advertising their store, tholr
goods, their prices, their knowledge to
the people.
Stores have grown up all around
this contented man, big stores with
big men at the heal of tbem; they are
crowding him; he Is not doing so well;
he ts losing ground every day.
The surface of advertising possibili
ties in Omaha hasn't been scratched.
This Is a big community, and It Is
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name anrf JO. We mill nnd rr
alar rttail parAase an our caea.
two. " Tone's Spicy Tallk: "
There ore two kinds ol pice
TONE BROS, and "ctfirrj."
TONE ROS., Des Moines, Iowa.
Rltnders rf the eeltbrated
OLD GOLDEN COFFER.
confessed that in his young days he though
ot adopting a pugilistic career. 15 ut when
be was 14 years old his Inventive faculty
made Itself mrifest. As a lud of 14 h
Invented a whe-l hub and a clichwoik
mousetrap; then he evolved the first In
candescent electric lamp; In 1.SS4 a kicking
gun gave him the Idea which ultimately
resulted In the deadly Maxim.
PASSING PLEASANTRIES. ,
"I'll tell the public that everybody ought
to see this play," said the prr?s aprent.
"Don't do that," replied thiV manager.
"The plays people flock to see arc those
they oughtn't to." Washington fetar.
Optimist He has an honest face.
l'CHslinlHt You can't always go on that.
Optimist What makis you apply that
axiom In this cue?
l'esMml&t He borrowed my favorite hovel
and my umbrella, Baltimore American.
'What relation," added the Instructor,
"did Plato sustain to Socrates?"
"Socrates." answered the young man with
the bad eye. "was tho end man. He got
off the gags. Plato was the interlocutor,"
Chicago Tribune.
"Did you see that vaudeville perfdrmer
who puis on a suit of clothes while en
cased In a tight-fitting metal cylinder?"
"Where'd he learn It, In a sleeper?"
Houston Poet. - .
Husband Say, Lottie, what have' you
been copying Blankem's catalogue for,? .
Wife 1 haven't been copying Blankem's
catalogue at all that's Just my shopping
list Harper's Bazar.
"Do you believe in fate?" ho asked, as
he snuggled closer.
"Well," answered tho girl, "I believe that
what's going to happen will happen.'
Cornell Widow. -
"Why, even her smile Is artificial." ' '
"Good heavens! Do you suppose shn
bought that at a drug store, too?"
"Maybe she did. Men have been known
to buy smiles at drug stores." Bingham-
ton Age-Herald.
Church I feel some concern about my
son.
Gotham You mean the one In college?
Church Yes; you see they are talking of
abolishing foot ball.
Gotham Oh, Is he a fpot ball player?
Church No, but he's studying to be a
surgeon! Yonkers Statesman.
"I see where Jorklns was so badly In
jured In the street that he had to be taken'
to a hospital. Do you know what waa tho
matter?' .
"Yes; knockout drop"
"Knockout drops on . the publlo street I
Impossible!"
"Not at all. Two bricks dropped on hlii
head from the new building he was pass
ing." Yonkers Statesman.
THE FOLLOW-UP-EE.
Douglas Mallooh In fuck.
Oh, I am the Follow-up-ee
The fellow who gets ev'ry letter
From folks who have something that's
better
They're anxious to sell unto me.
'Twere useless to fly or to flee
I know that the letters would find me;
Wherever I Journey I see
Processions of letters behind me.
I've moved, but the letters were there
(I'm sure there Is some one who tattles)-.
While the van waa unloading my chattels
The carrier stood on the stair
Piled high with my regular share
Of purple and blue Imitations
Describing soma wonderful ware,
With suitable recommendations.
John Jones, who has autos to sell,
A letter a week would allot me.
He wrote me, and wrote me and got nve.
He writes so exceedingly well
He got me at last, 'neath the spell.
I struggled ai 4A struggled and fell;
I read what lie said and I bought it.
But the sure-enousrh "follow-uo" man
Who's labored the hardest to reaob mo
Is the one who Is willing to teach me
To master a "follow-up" plan.
Ha tells me Just how he began,
And says, If I only will try It,
He'll prove how an article can
Be boosted so millions will buy It.
Let me say, aa a Follow-up-ee,
The Up that I really am needing
Is not any scheme of succeeding
With form letters 1, t and $.
The thing that's attractive to me
la not any 'follow-up" system;
The plan that I'm seeking, you aeo,
Is some kind ot way to resist 'em!
who sell things
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growing. Let's get together and grow
with It
Advertise In The Bee and toil 150,
000 people about your store every day.
Team work Is a big factor in th
success of any retail business pro
prietor, manager, heads of depart
ment and salespeople, especially sales
people, all working toward a common
end.
We lay strews on "Salespeople," be
cause to our way of thinking a trained
and efficient corps of salenpeoplo (
most important
You may have the best goods manu
factured, but without trained sales
force your goods will remain on your
shelves.
Tho man behind your counter la
your personal representative, your cus
tomers Judge you by Mm, you aro held
responsible for him to the same extent
that you aro held responsible, for tu
goods you offer for sale.
A pleased customer Is a good adver
tisement, and good treatment will
u go
far toward pleasing your customers.
Gentlemen, the right sort of good
advertised with the right sort of ropy
to 150,000 people every day will
pel
the customers into your store, but it
up to you to hold tbem.
The Bee will furnish the ad
matter ana the readers, but voti must
do your part by furnishing triiicd
saleab "
