THE BEE: OMAIIA. WEDNESDAY, JUNE P. 1010.
The umaha Daily Bee
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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
State of Nebraska, Douglas County, si :
George B. Tsschuck. treasurer of The
Pee Publishing Company, being duly worn,
ays that the actual number ot full ana
complete copies of The Dally, kiurnii.r.
Evening and Sunday Bee printed during tha
month ot May, ll10, was aa follows:
1 41,300 17 .43,880
1 49.450 II
1 43,880 It .60
4 48,10 20 43,000
43,680 SI 43,000
,.4B,40 S3 .
1 43,090 . J3 .43,740
f 41.370 24 3830
t. .43,180 ' 15.... S.OSO
10 49,e0 24 43,370
II 43,870 it 43,400
XI 43,600 2S 43,860
It 43,030 29... 41,300
14.... 43,880 0 43,370
18.... 41,600 II.... 44.130
1 43,110 '
Total .....1,336,810
Returned co; les MBS
Net total ,. 1,316,888
Dally Average..... 43.388
OEOROB3 B. TZSCHUCK,
Treasurer.
Subscribed In my presence, and sworn to
before me this Slat day of May. 1810.
M. P. WALKbll,
.. Notary Public
. Babscribere leaving? the eltr temporarily-
should"' have The Bee
walled, to them. Addressee will he
chanced a often aa relocated.
At any rate, the colonel bearded one
Hon in his den.
Give the New York democrats credit
at least for dethroning "Fingy" Con
uors. ,
So far there has been no charge that
the ice trust wad seizing all the avalla
ble product In Alaska.
The initiation mills of Ak-Sar-Ben
are again' grinding, and they beat the
mills of the gods all hollow.
If names count Senator Burrows
ought always to be placed at the head
of the Investigating committee.
..- The suspicion is gradually growing
that the Sphinx talked to the colonel,
Imparting certain Egyptian secrets.
Any argument Mr. Bryan may make
by calling a man a self-advertiser must
be at once Impressive and conclusive.
It is to be hoped, at least, that war
with Japan will not break out while
the 'mikado's cousin Is visiting in the
United States.
Now we have a doctor who predicts
that everybody will be insane within
26S years. Hoopla, wV will sure have
the time of our Uvea then.
Ia not the Boston Traveler putting
It a little strong in saying that "most
women" 'will wear Panama shoes this
Bummer that cost from $10 to 920?
Here Is an Ohio man who fasts six
days and gains two pounds and an In
dlana man who fasts ninety days and
dies. How do they work this thing?
The finest question Mr. Roosevelt
raised by his Guild hall speech was
that respecting the ethics ot criticism,
But Mayor Gaynor started that contro
versy.
The filing of that anti-rate Injunc
tlon suit served to bring Hannibal be
fore the public for the first time since
Mark Twain first introduced it to tho
outside world.
Not a man in the whole list ot ad
dittoes to the teachers' roll for the
coming year in Omaha's public schools
Would "votes for women" make their
hold upon the school room any more
secure?
Unfortunate that that uplift maga
tine camo out with Its panegyric on the
golden rule police chief at the very
time of hlB being accused at several
naughty tricks. ' But Ida Tarbell says
the muckratter is here to stay.
, Of three Nebraska postofflces on the
salary decrease list one of them Is at
the home town ot Governor Shallen
berger. No one would have thought
that the governor's transfer to the
State capital wouIcK, affect postofflce
receipts bo seriously.
And what will Congressman Latta
do when the postal savings bank bill I
up on roll call? Will he take back
his public Interview denouncing the
whole postal savings bank scheme
Or will he vote his convictions and re
pudiate the Denver platform?
The old town ot Salem, Mass.", ad
ministers a rebuke to its mayor for
lowering the dignity of his office by
calling a man a name. The mayor
.was a citizen of Salem Just one year
when elected, bo that there may be
soma ground to rebuke someone else
Where the Railroads Erred.
Those twenty-five rallroadi that
nlted In an attempt to false freight
rates, If they had any Justification ca
their side, which Is doubtful, plainly
erred In not proceeding through the
ordinary channels of law providing for
ubmlsslon of proposed tariff changes
to the Interstate Commerce commls-
lon. By their arbitrary action In
Ignoring this provision as well as the
Sherman antl trust law, they find them
selves In a most humiliating dilemma.
Their complete backdown before the
president- places them and their cause
at a serious disadvantage for the fu
ture.
The government's firm stand against
precipitate action by the railroads not
only has popular sentiment back of It,
but ample warrant In conditions. Here
on the same day when the news ot the
withdrawal of advanced rates comes
ut, Is announced the fact that the
Great Northern, which has completed
annual report, finds a snug Increase
net earnings, and as the Great
Northern Is one ot Mr. Hill's roads,
this Is of special significance, because
Mr. Hill was a pioneer in this move
rnent for larger freight rates. This is
only one of many circumstances tend
ing to discredit the railroad plea for
higher rates and to embarrass the
railroads themselves.
But so far as President Taft la con
cerned bis action, while positive, is de
signed not to hinder railroad develop
ment, but to bring them to see their
wn error and the virtue of the govern
ment's course, as well as the justice of
the shippers' demands. Technically
the agreement he made with the rail
road presidents Is but a truce, but In
fact it Is probably the ultimatum, for
there. is little or no likelihood of the
roads being able to establish their
claims later any more than now.
, Canada Makes Conditions.
Canada's positive refusal to receive
Immigrants from England merely as a
means of relieving the, congestion in
London's army of unemployed presents
a most interesting situation.' 'London
hit upon the plan of using the
Dominion as its social dumping
ground, but Canada has balked and re
fused to admit any man unless deemed
fit for farm labor. It has great need
for men to help develop its agricultural
resources, but none for those unable to
do this kind of work.
While much is to be said for
Canada's position, it nevertheless is
subject to some criticism. The in
dustrial centers of the mother country
are overrun with the army of unem
ployed, which is being swelled largely
for lack of work, bo that poverty has
become a national menace. England
has no room for contiguous territorial
expansion and these thousands must
seek employment, if at all, among its
provinces or dependencies, to reach
which they must have aid. But what
ever sentimental duty may seem to Im
pose itself on Canada in this connec
tion is lost sight of by that sturdy peo
ple who are Just now fixing their gaze
upon the practical point of view and
are busily developing a wonderfully
rich empire.
Canada is not half as hospitable to
ward England as the United States is
toward all European countries, 135,000
of whose Immigrants it admitted to its
portals during the month of April
alone. And it Is of particular Interest
to note that most of these came from
northern Europe, 16,604 from the Brit
ish Isles alone.
Canada's action must impress on all
the fact that Canada enjoys a much
larger scope of independence than is
comprehended in the definition of pro
visional government and that it is to
practical purposes distinct and separate
in its authority from England. It even
owes a very small financial obligation
to the crown, taxes for the army and
navy constituting about its whole share
ot the burden of maintaining the gov
ernment at home.
For Harmon as Against Bryan.
Ohio democrats are unwilling to fol
low the leadership of Mr. Bryan this
year and the Buckeye democracy has
taken great pains to impress this on
the Peerless Leader, to show him be
yond the possibility of doubt that they
will stand by Governor Harmon and
not by him.
Mr. Bryan invited this revolt In Ohio
when he threw down the. gauntlet to
Harmon In the letter commanding him
to adopt the views of the Nebraskan or
"prepare to stand aside." The gov
ernor did neither. He spurned the
defy. In the parlance of a more specu
lative game, he "called the bluff," and
It now appears he reckoned not with
out his host, for the democrats of Ohio
seem to be with him as against the at
tempted dictation of Bryan. Leaders
of the party have come out boldly In
declaring that they will not have any
senatorial nominations as ordered from
Falrvlew, but will proceed with their
plans Just as If the Falrvlew mandate
had never arrived. In fact it seems
that they are even more set in this
conviction than they were before Mr.
Bryan spoke.
It matters little to republicans
whether the Ohio democrats follow
Harmon, Bryan or Tom Johnson as the
latter's lieutenant, but It is Interesting
to the people In .general to view the
steadily receding Bryan tide ot senti
ment in Ohio and elsewhere. Once it
engulfed the party, sweeping away
every vestige ot opposition, to Bryan,
and on the crest of its top wave carried
Its Idol to the highest gift within a
party's power. The second time It bore
him there, but with less resistless
force, and the third time it was simply
a case of a bold mariner daring a
tempestuous sea, while today this tide
ot party sentiment is lashing the shores
In angry restlveness under the Bryan
leadership.
Ak-Sar-Ben'i Open Season.
Ak Sar-Ben's open season is now
on, and there will be something doing
in the realm of Qulvera right along
until the culminating event of rrown
lDg the new king and queen amidst
surroundings of pageantry In October.
Ak-Sar-Ben is an established Insti
tution known far and wide the world
over. when Colonel Roosevelt
emerged from the Jungle and encoun
tered travelers from Nebraska In the
valley of the Nile, be returned their
greeting by recalling the triumphs of
Ak-Sar-Ben.
Ak-Sar-Ben is a monarch at whose
court all loyal citizens of Omaha and
Nebraska are welcome, and he lets his
subjects share his glory. He is the
one ruler who never dies and whose
reign has no ending.
Ak-Sar-Ben starts out this year
under most promising auspices.
Here's hoping that the year 1910 will
again write Ak-Sar-Ben down on the
calendar, "Bigger, better and grander
than ever."
Not So Bad, After All.
In order to make a showing of work
accomplished, the organ of the Anti
Saloon league makes public a specially
compiled exhibit of the results ot the
recent spring elections through Ne
braska so far as they have affected
wet and dry territory, as follows:
In the first place, more towne went from
"wet" to "dry" than from "dry" to "wet."
and by an aggregate majority that wipes
out the majority of the "dry" to "wet"
towns. In most of the thirteen towns
where the "dry" policy was discontinued
the Issue was not clearly defined and we
did not poll our full vote; overconfldence
and even eriminal negligence paved the
way for the temporary setback.
In the second place, out of G55 towns, 427
are "dry" and only 228 "wet." In other
words, we have 187 per cent morp "dry"
towns than "wet" towns.
Again, the population of all these towns
la about 603,000. Deducting this number
from the total population of a little over
1,066,000, leaves about 663.000 who live In
rural sections of the slate. Of this num
ber fully 85 per cent live In territory
where a saloon Is unknown. This divides
the population of the state Into the 4O9,0fiS
living In "wet" territory and the 657.237
living in "dry" territory. In other words,
we have 160 per cent more people living In
"dry" than in "wet" territory. If we leave
Omaha out of tho calculation, we have over
264 per cent more living In "dry" than In
"wet" districts.
Assuming that these figures and
computations are correct, what better
proof could be presented' that the local
option feature of the Slocumb law, by
which Nebraska has regulated and
controlled the liquor traffic for nearly
thirty years, is serving its purpose in
every respect and vindicating that law
as aa effective piece of legislative ma
chinery? Our present Slocumb law
gives every Incorporated city, town
and village the right to say whether
the sale of liquor shall be licensed or
not, and this right Is being exercised
continuously and intelligently. If the
Slocumb law has produced the condl
tion ot which the anti-saloon people
are boasting, and has produced it
without denying any community the
right of deciding for itself to suit the
majority, it cannot be so bad after all
The Bee's exposure of the demo
cratic forgery of last year as more fia
grant than the forgery of little boys'
names, which he bo strenuously de
nounced, does not seem to have af
fected Edgar Howard In the same
way.' In Edgar's eyes forgery com
mitted in the Interest of nonpartisan
democratic candidates for office and
paid for out of the democratic cam
paign fund, is excusable and Justifia
ble.
If we are overrun with too many
poorly prepared doctors it must be the
fault of the doctors who prepare them.
The people to reform the medical
schools are the medical men them
selves. It should be noted in passing.
however, that both the medical schools
at Omaha have passed muster with
the exacting inspection of the rep
resentatives of the Carnegie founda
tion.
What an awkward dilemma for our
democratic congressman from this dls
trict in having the postal savings bank
bill come in with three committee re-
ports, two of them presented by demo
cratic minority members opposing the
bill. Will he insurge by voting for a
republican administration measure?
Or will he stay regular by lining up
with the democratic opposition?
The ultimatum of the, state unlver
sity authorities ;to the Omaha school
board that our high school students
will not be accredited for the course
In agriculture unless it installs
laboratory department for teaching
agriculture does not need a diagram
Who is it the university people want
to recommend for the Job?
That democratic love feast at
Broken Bow had no cablegram from
the Peerless. At the last democratic
love feast held at Red Cloud Mr.
Bryan's greetings were tossed In the
waste basket unread, and he evidently
has come to the conclusion that the
only sure way to get a bearing Is to
hire his own hall.
, The charge of the Illinois Central
that it has been defrauded by its own
officials ot more than $1,000,000 in
four years on padded repair work bills
may point the way for our railroads
to catch up on the high cost of living
without taking it out on the shippers
by increasing freight rates.
Our local democratic contemporary,
whose principal stock-in-trade, In
season and out, Is calamity howling,
cartoons the railroads as calling the
calamity howlers out to assist them in
strengthening their greedy grasp upon
the throat of commerce. The point
Is self-explanatory.
Cheer t, f. c.t
Washington Star.
Cheer up, ultimate consumer! The high
pi-Ice of opera stars Is to be reduced.
On the Deadt"
Baltimore American.
Blaming the sugar frauds on a dead
man will not convince the people that there
are no guilty men among the live ones.
neward of Merit.
Washington Herald.
A year or so ago, Emperor William got
pretty straight tip from the Uerman
people not to talk so much. He grace
fully governed himself accordingly; and
now his salary has been boosted 20 per
cent. Common sense generally pays.
What le ComlnK to Is."
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
It is to be hoped that Colonel Roosevelt
will be just as frank and open with this
country aa he was In Egypt and England.
The only difference la that we are used
to It here and will promise not to get up
and howl. Besides, we rather feel that
we deserve to be Jumped on.
A Sob (or More.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
A congressman, Inspired by the discussion
of the president's traveling expenses, thinks
that the members of the legislative branch
should have their expenses paid while trav
eling about to see the country. As they
are now paid, about six times the cost of
railroad fare for coming to congress and
going back home It looks as If the margin
would support considerable diversions from
the direct line.
Smnagllne; C'omea Jllgh.
Philadelphia Bulletin.
Another man ot wealth and prominence
In his home state has been fined for
attempting to smuggle dutiable goods past
the custom Inspectors. The defendant
this time la a banker frpm Minnesota, and
he was caught with two undeclared pearl
necklaces In his back pocket. The duty
amounted to 32,500 and 'It was thought that
the Federal judge before whom he was
convicted would assess that amount as the
fine. Instead, the Judge doubled It, so that
the banker had to pay $5,000 for his "fun."
It Is evident that the customs authorities
are sharply on the job this year, and the
courts have sustained them on each, occa
sion when they have caught one of this
class of rich smugglers.
IDEAL AMERICAN SOLDIER.
General Cuter, His Career and His
Monument.
New York Sun.
The statue of General George A. Cueter
unveiled at Monroe, Mich., represents him
reining up his horse on the brow of a hill
while reoonnolterlng during the civil war,
the target of the enemy's line, which from
admiration of his gallantry withheld Its
fire. There waa not a more soldierly and
attractive figure on cither Side In the great
war. From West Point Custer went
straight to the battlefield, and aa a Major
General of Volunteers at twenty-five he
could say In a farewell order to the Third
Division:
During the last six months, though In
most Instances confronted by superior num
bers, you have captured from the enemy
in open battle ill pieces or artillery, sixty
five battle flags, and upward of 10. 000 pris
oners of war. Including seven general offi
cers. You have never lost a gun, never lost
a color, and never been defeated.
Eleven horses were shot tinder Custer In
battle. Fourteen bf his thirty-seven years
were spent In active warfare. Of simple
tastes, temperate ay habit, fqnd of children
and animals, revefenolng religion, he might
have stood fot- the Ideal American soldier.
A WORD FOR THE RAILROADS.
Proposed Tax Levy of Two Hnndred
Million Dollars on the People.
Indianapolis News.
There Is both a comical and a serious
side to the threat or hint of the railroads
that If they are not allowed to raise their
rates, "at least $200,000,000, which they had
tentatively arranged to spend In replace
ments, must now be used to stave off
ruin." and that hard times will be the
total result. Whose money would this be?
The answer to that constitutes the com
ical side of the proposition. Is It the
money that , the roads are now making?
Are they going to reduce some of their
swollen salaries or reduce some of their
dividends? Oh, dear, no! This J2O0.O0O.0O0
is a fresh levy of the people's money. It
Is the amount that the roads expected to
force shippers to pay In addition to the
amounts that they now pay, and which,
of course, In the end in collected off all
the people. So the proposition It: "It
you do not hand over a lot of money we
shall punish you by making hard times.''
That points to the serious side of the
statement. The Idea that the railroads
or any other concerns in the country
shall have what they want In a tax on
the people or else threaten them with
"hard times" indicates that our Caesar has
been feeding on too rich meat. Until the
first questioning of rates and rebates
few years ago, the railroads of this coun
try exercised autocratic sway. Twelve
men meeting In secret In Liberty street.
New York, decreed what the American
people should pay for common carriage;
and if they did not like it they could
lump It. Now, those days have passod.
TJie railroads may not perhaps think so,
but they are mistaken. The Illinois Man
ufacturer!' association, for example, con
tradicts simultaneously this last throat of
the roads. But the main point Is simply
this: The people of this country are going
to run It. They will have to travel a Ionjr
way to do It, but they are headed In the
right direction.
Another thing that tha roads could
gracefully realise, and that la that the
people do not mean to hurt them. Both
fct. Paul and Aesop long ago told the
world ot the foullshneas of the various
members of the body quarreling with one
another the hand because It was not the
head, and the foot because It waa not tho
hand. Railroads are, indeed indispens
able to prosperity and civilization. But tho
day has gone when they alone can say
what share they shall have and punish
the country it they do not get it.
Our Birthday Book
June 8. 1910.
John Everett Mlllais, the famous English
painter, was born June 8, 181S, at South
ampton. He, with several associates,
inaugurated the pre-Raphaellte school ot
art.
George C. Cockrell, justice of the peace,
waa born June I, 1834, In New Jersey. H
Is veteran of the civil war and also
prominent lu a number of fraternal or
ganizations. Frederick H. Millener, electric engineer
for the Union Pacific, is just U years old
today. He was born In Tonawanda, N. Y..
and ia a graduate first of De Veaux col
lege, of Magara college In electrical en
gineering and of Jefferson Medical college-
He has bten doing some wonderful
things In experimental engineering since
he assumed his position with the Union
pacific four years as
Around New York
jUpplea aa the Cnrrenr ef Life
as Been la the Oreat Aaaertoaa
Metropolis from Bay to Day.
The most extensive campaign jet under
taken by the New York Board of Health
for saving the lives of babies during the
hot summer months Is now under way.
Sixty different private agencies and chari
table organizations will co-operate with 161
doctors and 141 nurses employed by the
city, and the leaders of the compalgn con
fidently expect to surpass the twenty per
cent reduction In the Infant mortality rec
ord scored during July and August last,
year.
Tha campaign Is In charge of the Divis
ion of Child Hygiene, whose heed is Dr.
S. J. Baker, and the office looks like the
tnff l.nt n n n .
1 rtiBDl flacced to renresen everv death taat
summer, maps by districts for the nurses.
and ward maps. Charts of all kinds are
ready, on which each move Is planned.
There are dally reports and weekly esti
mates, -which the doctors In charge follow
as closely as a broker does the fluctuations
of the stock market.
Besides the house-visiting there will be
Instructional work In nearly 100 centers.
These are recreation piers, centers, play
grounds, and In many cases charitable or
ganizations equip their officers with the
necessary apparatus for the baby-cllnlc.
and offer their use. In these various cen
ters, at stated times, a doctor and nurse
hold mothers' meetings, bathing, feeding
and weighing the children brought there,
to Illustrate the methods taught. Accord
ing to Dr. Baker, it Is not the immigrant
mother who needs Instructions half as fre
quently as the American tenement-born
daughter, who has left school at fourteen
to become an office girl, and, who, when
she marries, knows nothing of home-keeping.
To meet this situation lectures are being
given to girls In the last two years, and
little mothers' leagues" are being formed
rapidly. There will be not less than twenty
in Manhattan alone, formed this summer,
according to the returns now coming In.
In the Bronx, a 15 prize has been offered
to the girl who writes the best essay on
the lecture to be given there. The boys
then protested that they didn't want to
be left out, so another doctor is to talk
to tliem and they will compete for a prlxe
on that subject
A circus feat by Oscar Moll, a machinist
employed by a motor car company, with a
garage at Broad and Green streets, stopped
a runaway and averted possible Injury to
children playing on the streets and to Fred
Lister, the eon of a caterer, on Longshore
street, who was In the wagon.
Moll was driving an automobile out Tor-
resdale avenue In demonstrating it to a
prospective customer, when young Lister
sped by In the wagon, calling for aid.
Speeding his machine ahead of the runa
way, Moll fearlessly swung himself upon
It, climbed over the top and down to the
seat, and recovered the tangled lines by
reacning down among the flying hoofs.
The boy was badly frightened, Moll who
is 21 years old, and lives on Arch street
near Sixteenth, received an ovation from
passersby who witnessed his act of daring.
A strange looking man did all kinds of
stunts In the footpath of the Williamsburg
bridge on the Brooklyn side. He ascended
girders, crawled along the Iron pillars, and
wnen policemen went after him he played
hide-and-seek and managed to get inr
Nothing was seen of him for a couple of
hours. Then he showed up at the Eastern
uistnci nospital, where the violent rine.
ing of the electric bell brought the night
attendants. When the door was opened a
man rushed In and begged to be protected
from the devil, who, he said, had pursued
him relentlessly and was determined to get
mm in nis clutches.
The man, who proved to be Joseph Elgle
a cooper, 235 Kent avenue, became very
violent, and it took several men to hold
him down while medical treatment was ad
ministered.
Louis Kalz, 144 Forsyth street, a 14-
year-old boy, who was arrested with an
older boy for attempting to pick pockets.
as in niiarena court charged with be
ing wayward. He told Judge Hoyt that
hta father had driven him from home and
mat wnen ne met the other boy and was
told how he could get a meal easily, he
went out picking pockets.
"Do you know how?" asked Justice
Hoyt." '
"Sure I do."
Justice Hoyt, who had some friends sif
ting with him, asked the boy to step back
of the bench.
How do you work fob pockets, vest
pockets and upper coat pockets?" asked
the justice.
The boy folded his arms, edged im
against one of the Justice's friends and
smoothly plucked out a violet handkerchief.
Ana now aa you w ork a hip Docket or
side coat pocket?"
"Like this," aald Louis, and he lifted
the pocket flap of a reporter, aturk iw
fingers in and drew forth two nickels and
a dime.
T find you guilty," said Justice Hoyt,
"and 1 11 remand you to the Gerry society.
The Night and Day bank on Fifth ave
nue, which announced that its doors would
always be open, Sundays and holidays ex-
cepiea, nas now decided to close
from midnight until 8 a. m. There waa
practically no business offered durinir tl
mall hours of night, and those who did
come for money then were usually better
off without It. ,
The bank has run nearly two years, and
has made considerable money in that time.
The Rollins case was not known, per
haps, to the Kenosha (Wis.) women who
reached New York Friday on the Lusl
tanla, for one of them thought she could
fool Collector Loeb's inspectors by con
cealing 13,000 worth of Jewelry In a chamois
bag carried under her skirt. The woman
turns out to be one of the most prominent
and wealthy in Wisconsin, her husband be
ing a director of the leather trust and
the head of the biggest tannery in the
world.
Openings for Yonnsr Collegians.
Philadelphia Ledger.
The president, in his commencement ad
dress In Ohio, gave a comprehensive and
wise survey of the professions, as tliey
open before the young college graduate.
He had most of criticism for his own pro
fession, and most lawyers probably will
agree with such reflections as he made
upon abuses of modern practice. Ilia view
of Journalism Is appreciative ar.d emi
nently sound and Just, though not of start
ling novelty. Perhapa some particular
significance may be attached upon sensa
tional, muck-raking newspapers and mag
azines, but most right-minded readers will
feel In hearty accord with him. We agree
altogether with the president that "th'a
epliode will pats" and that the muck-
rakers are already sinking to their proper
level.
Improving;.
Puck.
We think the v orld la grow ing better.
There seem to be an Increasing determina
tion to make the other fellow do what is
right.
Talks for people
Newspaper or Maaraalara.
If a man sent his children to school
for twelve hours one day In the month,
everybody, including bis wife, would
call him a fool. Everyone would be
surprised If they learned' anything at
all.
To a teacher this is so simple a
statement that It probably sounds fool
ish. Yet the same teacher or school
president may advertise his school
once a month in a magazine and im
agine that people will know all about
his school. The same principle un
derlies both teaching and advertising.
The clTild learns to spell by seeing the
combinations of letters day after day.
The public learns the merits of goods
and becomes familiar with It by fre
quent repetition of argument. Repe
tition is the foundation of both ped
agogy and advertising.
If you see an advertisement In the
newspaper, day after day, uncon
sciously the facts stated in the adver
tisement become a part of your knowl
edge, just as children come to know
the spelling of a word, apparently by
Instinct.
Let me Illustrate by a familiar ex
ample. Most every one likes coffee.
People not only like it, but habit has
made it the world's breakfast beverage. A
NEBRASKA PRESS COMMENT.
Kearney Hub: Governor S-hillenberger,
banker, favoring restrictions on the num
ber ot banks, is a very good imitation of an
anti-monopoly monopolist.
Falrbury News: Governor Harmon is
now the subject of Mr. Bryan's vlrtuipera
tlon In the Commoner, all because he has
been suggested as a possible democratic
candidate for president. A statesman who
would maintain Mr. Aryan's respect must
cast ambition to the winds.
York Time: Personally ex-Governor
Mickey was clean, and in business upright,
and his example was wholesome In the com
munity in which he spent nearly all ot his
adult life. He leaves a considerable fortune
to his family, but his richest legacy Is a
good name, the result of an honorable car
reer. Kushvllle Standard: Alliance has lost out
in lis foolish and Inconsistent attempt to
prevent the normal school from being lo
cated at Chadron. The action tai-en by
the Alliance people was really contempt
ible, to say the least, and will not have a
tendency to elevate them in the estimation
of very many peope. '
Havell's Journal (Dem.); It dally be
come more and more apparent that W.
J. Bryan should enter the race for United
States senatorshlp. With Bryan leading
there would I be snap and ginger In the
campaign ana victory at the end. With
Hitchcock It would be a drag from the
start with the result In doubt.
Oakland Independent: Ex-Governor John
H. Mickey passed away at his home In
Osceola. During his Incumbency of the gov
ernor's office he had many difficult prob
lems to handle, and there has been much
criticism of some of his acts, but In the
main we believe he acted In good faith and
that the most of these criticisms came from
those who were friendly to the liquor in
terests and their allies.
Hastings Republican (Dem.): The antlr
saloon league must be pretty rotten when
Frank Harrison, secretary of the Ne
braska County Option league, hands it a
red hot roast In his Nebraska State Capi
tal. He denounces anti-saloon league as
a grafting, money-collecting machine
When Frank lnsurges against Messrs
Poulson, Lufldcn, Darnell, et al, the situ
ation must be very, very bad.
Kearney Times: The State Press asso
ciation did a very commendable thing in
appointing a committee to assist the Com
mercial clubs' association committee In ad
vertising Nebraska. This state Is very
little exploited in the east and Its re
sources a is such as to make it worthy
of the best advertising. If these two com
mittees will get busy thousands of peo
ple will be attracted to this state.
Alma Record: The campaign thunder
used by the present state administration
to secure votes was for ecdnomy and re
duced taxes. However, Furnas county paid
3,000 more for state purposes than under
Sheldon's administration and In the same
year Harlan county paid $2,000 more. If all
the counties throughout the state paid the
same Increased amount for state purposes
It will be difficult to explain Just where
the reduction came In.
PERSONAL NOTES.
The "Kiss-Me-Not" buttons affected by
sedate Indiana girls bear on the reverse
side an emergency motto; "Just One for
Old Time's Sake." The outward sign de
pends on the occasion.
Just 110 human lives were snuffed out
by street ears In Chicago during the
eleven months ending with May. Four
teen of these fatalities occurred last
month. The Injured numbered hundreds.
A young married woman In New Tork
died after years of suffering and several
operations, caused by the rice thrown at
her wedding, a grain of which lodged In
her ear and could not be removed, finally
resulting in a fatal brain fever.
Charles R. Helke, the sugar trust treas
urer on trial In New York, proved such
a rapid-fire talker on the witness stand
that court stenographers had the task of
a lifetime to keep up with him. A German
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who sell things
n. an had an article tf sell as a fi stitnta
for coffee. Before ho could c it. lie
bad to create a prejudice against coffiv.
The average person In thlx tuuinrv knout
without translation, that l'ostum'- mean
a substitute for coffee. The aver tire pet
son in this country not only know, but
thousands have. In ppite of the fact timt
they Ilk It, conquered a life habit ami
given up coffee, and why? llecaue 11ip
were ronqueied by the almost Irtvistttiin
force ef persistent und i.aref itlly pUntuM
newspape advertising, by the daily Repeti
tion of facts unit argument, until thev
know. It ia Indelibly wtltliii In the aver
age brain, as firmly ax the multiplication
table, because It has been established them
In the same way.
Any kind of an announcement, a cir
cular, a hnnd t ill, or a t.-U phono rmvsaKft
will give information. That, hnwever, Is
not essentially advertising, jf you want
to make your name or jour good
or jour line of goods a houcluM
word, if you want everybody to think of
you whenever goods of your kind Is mun
lioned. If you want the public to frel
that vour goods are standard, whether or
no, they have ever seen them, you must
do It by the same method that tho teacher
uses frequent repetition.
A dally newspaper does this and is the
only advertising medium with which you
can reach the same man, woman und
child day In and day out, the same people
and all of the people, each and every d.iy.
Advertising Is really a kind of teachm
and there la no Icon certainty In Its making
the public learn about your goods than
In your succeeding in making the student
learn what the professor has to teach.
dialect increased the perplexities of tie
quallttackers. Heike is 65 years of agi
and draws a salary of $J0,OPO a year.
After living to the ripe old age of M
years without having taken a rallwuy
Journey of any distance," Mrs. Thomas
Uickell, who resides with nor dausliter In
Toronto, has started to visit relative In
New Westminster and San Francisco.
Miss Clara Barton was complimented
by the Social Economic club of Illinois
with a luncheon a few days ago, the niuut
Interesting feature ot which was the an
nouncement by Mrs. Catherine WaugU
McCulIough that an effort wouM be made
during the summer to convert Illinois Inta
an equal suffrage state.
LAUGHING GAS.
Acquaintance Hello, Hickoy! You at de
ball game?
Office Boy Yep, moan' de bosa Is paired.
He had to go to de country dls af noon.
Baltimore American.
"We are a very old family."
"I presume you have some treasured her
looms?" "Papa has the gout."Houston Post.
Wife The landlord was here todsv and
I gave him the rent and showed him the
baby.
Husband Next time he comes round Jim
show him the rent and give him tho liabj.
Puck. . "', very much disappointed in that
!i nschlcke" you olrt '""" mid voung
Mrs, Torkins. "It didn't seem at ail lil,
the genuine article."
'.Madam," replied the affable Ki-oirr
you must remember Unit this war's ispi ing
was one of the most deceptive on record."
Washington Star.
"Gentlemen." said the trumpet-loncue-1
orator. "I send my plea abroad to the four
winds of heaven."
"Well," answered one of his hearers
after a second tf atfA,iirA 1 1., ... .
, ......... !(. .TO, lip, MO, IK
2h r i."Hr to b" d,,ff uny blomg
" ,i. uauimuiB mei lean. ,
The young man had talked for ten or
V!.,een. m!nulP.". itr,""t a break., when tho
glil at the other end of the wire Inter
rupted. ".Hint a moment, Guv:" she said
"What la It, Fleda'.'"
"I want to change the receiver In the
other car. This one's tired." Chicago Trib
une. "George, what did Mr. Roosevelt say In
his speech that made those fussy Kngllsh
papers so mad?"
"Why, he said something about KgVDt."
"What did he say?" v
"Eh? He said the sphinx was a hebitud
Inous nondescript, and Cleopatra a pie
faced suffragette!"
"What a shame to get mad over a little
thing like thatl" Cleveland Tlaln Dealer.
SOLILOQUY.
New York Sun. iV
To be killed, or scared to death: that Is
the question.
Whether 'tis better to grow fat than thin,
tea" ' yUr bread nd drn your
Unmindful nf t h a .prm ,h.i t i. . i
Ur to take armH jurninu h.
horde,
To sterilize, to pastuerize, to boll to chew.
To. chew and by much chewing end
fewmaCh aChe n(1 ail acne8' not
Thattlon"h 13 be'r '' 'Tls conaumtna
Deyoutly to be wished. Chewing is good,
rub l Chew? Ay' ther'
We must not chew adulterated food.
And what Is pure? The vegetarian
"foreman"1 W'th y"" proper fo0(1
Alas, for all the habits of the race!
Meat and potatoes fall beneath this ban(
Protelds are poison." says A. B and C1
The conquering races eat 'em," answers '..
Bays A, "You quite forget the Japanese."
1 hus everlastingly thev disagree.
Argue, assert, question and criticise,
rill naught ! left to eat that's really nice.
Except for those who like It, buttermilk.
And lor a treat, occasionally, rice.
Ah, who would stand eternally on guard
Against the germ that lurks In every kiss.
rovei.y cup ,n very breath of air.
When he might easily escape from this
W ith a bare bodkin, duly Kterlllzed,
But for the paralysing, awful far
Of meeting after death the souls of germs
That he has slaughtered In cold bleed down
here?
Perchance I err, but oft it seems to me
In certain reckless, atavistic moods
That I would gladly give up my nnir-tert.
Near-coffee, and the latest breakfast foods
ro live as all my ancestors have lived
On pork and pickles, apple pie and chtete;
To die as all my ancestors have died
Of some old-fashioned orthodox disease,
Ar,d, If the Idea atrlkes my aved head,
I may die on a nice fat feather bed.
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