ITE BEK: OMAHA, TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1910.
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Bl 't of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss:
Ueoige B. Taschuck, treasurer of The
Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn,
ay that the actual number of full and
complete copies of The Dally, Morning,
Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the
1 41,300 . 17.. 43,880
2 42,450 IS. 43,030
t 42,880 . II 40,660
4 43,810 20 43,000
8., 42,880 ( 21 43,000
6 42,840 22 41,450
7 42,690 23 43,740
1 41,370 24 43,230
43,160 25 43,090
10... 42,860 26 43,370
11.,... 42.670 27 43,400
II 42,600 28 43,560
It 43,030 29 41,300
14 43,90). 30 43,370
15 41,500 . 31 44,120
14 43,ta0
Total ....1,326,210
Returned coplea 8,685
NtgUl 1,316,229
Pally Average 42,338
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Now, let ub also cheer for the crack
ing of the corn.
High cost of living or not, we must
have that vacation.
Mayor "Jim" Bent a telegram, any
way, which will doubtless do Just as
well.
Wonder if Governor Haskell will
not lower his temperature until the
hot wave passes.
Combination forecast for this week:
Continued hot weather and the ad
journment of congress. V
The reference to D. E., Thompson's
Lincoln newspaper as an "insurgent
organ" .is the funniest of all.
Kermlt says he can beat his dad
shooting. Yes, but we have yet to
hear from dad on that subject.
Chins, la clamoring for a parliament.
Perhaps England will ,be willing to
give it one house to start with.
Constructive democracy was men
tloned by a democatic senator in de
bate the other day. What is that?
It's the Irony of fate for a conven
tion of coal men to come down upon
us with the thermometer in the 90s.
A North Pole expedition has just
left Boston, gum drops and all except
Dr. Cook. These fellows are in earnest.
What is the Water board waiting
for, now that the supreme court has
affirmed that judgment of $6,263,'
295.49?
The two Important points on the
map are Beverly, Mass., and Oyster
Bay, N. Y. Not such big places, but
oh, my!
When you see a cloud of dust it is
only the street railway sprinkling car
whizzing by to make sure that it
wastes no water.
Champ Clark brings the discourag
ing assurance that he proposes to stay
in public life until be Is 75. But has
he showu his people?
The problem of the hour for th
bare-footed boy with cheek of tan is
the knot in his clothes, but what does
be care so long as the water is fine?
A Texas speaker declares that pro
hibition threatens to destroy the dem
ocratlc party, in which event Mr
Bryan Is, after all, the Peerless Leader
Reading those vitriolic cablegrams
from Mr. Hearst' In his own papers
ne is forced to recall Mr, Root's
speech during the Hearst-Hughes cam
patgn.
It seems that after all the careful
staging, the Abernathy boya were left
out of the play. Certainly an over
sight on the part of some thoughtless
manager,
Those Bt. . Joseph automoblllst
ought to hare known better than to
schedule Omaha for a visit just at the
time when the lid is down for a thirty
six-hour stretch.
Edgar Howard is still pleading with
Governor Shallenherger to call tha
extra session of the legislature, but th
governor appears to be a trifle deaf.
Gtt a megaphone, Edgar. .
The Magic of the West.
The reception to former President
Roosevelt has been pronounced the
most Imposing demonstration of the
kind ever witnessed In historic New
York. It was a brilliant spectacle,
dramatic in every detail; staged
against a background of striking
scenic effect. From first to last It was
deep-laid with human interest,
abounding in features that fascinate
and captivate and allure. From the
moment the returning hero-traveler
was espied on the Androscoggin by the
thousands of waiting home folks on
land until he boarded the train for the
sequestered quietude of Sagamore
Hill the ceremonies thrilled with in
terest. But in it all one incident stood out
above the rest. When those Rough Rid
ers from the plains of Arizona, Texas,
New Mexico and other western states
dashed by their old commander on
their ponies the glamor reached its
zenith. The dramatic effect was en
hanced because the colonel knew noth
ing of the cowboys' presence until he
beheld them columns deep in their
khaki uniforms, upturned hats, just as
he knew thenx at San Juan, and then
be rose In his carriage, forgot every
thing and everybody elset seized his
silk tile and waved It in the air, call
ing his old comradea by name.
And nobody who knows the west
and these interesting fellows who
made up Colonel Roosevelt's Rough
Rider regiment will fall to be struck
by the power of this incident. These
men, whom the former president
called by names, were cowboys, labor
ers of various kinds, but they came
out of the west and they brought with
them that mysterious power of fasci
nation on which the west holds.for the
lover of simple nature. It Is a magic
that never loses its force and It la re
freshing, invigorating, and the ex
ample of Theodore Roosevelt, who un
doubtedly has profited so much by the
spell it has cast over him, -ought to be
lesson to other men who do not know
It and will not recognize It. The old
west, we say, has passed on and with
it its traditions, but there Is one as
pect of the old west that will never
pass on so long as Its prairies and
plains last; that will never grow old,
but be ever young and that Is this in
domitable, dashing spirit of do-or-dle
that brought Theodore Roosevelt from
his seat in that carriage to cheer the
wild, yelling cowboys In staid old New
York upon his return from effete Eu;
rope with the plaudits of royalty still
ringing in his ears.
Trade Extension.
Such conservative cities as Cin
cinnati and Milwaukee have adopted
the trade extension idea and-Milwau
kee already has sent an excursion into
much the same territory covered by
Omaha's last expedition. When Omaha
and Kansas City, the pioneers in this
metnoa oi commercial conquest, intro
duced the system some of the larger
cities poked fun, but the project soon
passed the experimental stage and has
brought its own reward and vindica
tion.
Cincinnati papers are now warning
the merchants and manufacturers of
that city against further delay in bid'
ding fr part of the Increment of pros
perity in Texas and other southwestern
states. They realize the necessity of
more aggressive methods If Clucln
nati's commercial and industrial status
Is to be maintained. No city, no mat
ter what its prowess may be, can af
ford to Ignore the importance of this
missionary work. Not even New York
would amount to much without the
'provinces," as they call the outlying
states and cities, and the competition
is becoming keener every day. It is a
race only for the strong. Nor1 Is it as
easy now as it was berore the great in
dustrial awakening In the west for
eastern cities to obtain strong foot
holds commercially out here. They
have to fight for it today, for western
cities have themselves developed Into
manufacturing and supply centers and
are net as greatly dependent on their
more populous sister cities of the east
as they used to be.
We lmaglue that with Kansas City
and St. Louis keeping ceaseless vigil
on the threshold of this southwest, Just
as Omaha sits at the gateway to the
northwest and commands the field, Cin
cinnatl will meet with some very re
spectable competition in claiming this
new land in the name of the southern
Ohio metropolis.'
Why Should Farmers Want a Change
Comparing prices of farm products
in March, 1910, with those of March
1896,' or thereabouts, it is found that
corn nas advanced in price 118 per
cent; wheat, 88.1; cotton, 92; oats.
132; rye, 117; barley, 126; hay, 49.5
hops, 840; potatoes, 73; fat cattle, 92
fat hogs, 127; dairy butter, 57; eggs
107. Furthermore, In 1896 ten bush
els of corn would buy twenty-ono
pounds of coffee of a certain high
grade, while today It will buy seventy
pounds; it will today buy 131 pound
of sugar, while In 1896 it bought fifty
nine pounds; today It buys eighty
yards of brown sheeting, in 1896 It
bought fifty-one yards. And similar
comparisons might bo cited indefl
nitely.
The fact is, the farmer is today get
ting the highest prices that be ever
got for his products and he has more
money and a better living than he ever
had. It takes a lot of faith in a lost
or losing cause to convince one or even
one's self that the farmers of this
country are going to vote for a change
in the powers of the government, are
going to oust the party that gave them
this unprecedented prosperity and put
In a party which left them buried un
der mortgage and debt the last time
it went out of office. The farmer,
above everybody else, will refuse to
swap horses while crossing the stream
this time.
But, on the other side of the ledger,
while we are paying more for our liv
ing, to be true, we are gettlDg the best
living we ever got, the wage earner Is
getting the highest pay he ever got and
the country is better off than It ever
was. And as soon as we all learn how
to handle the prodigal wealth of the
nation we shall cease to complain of
the exactions of the markets. We have
to learn economy and to quit wasting.
Those are things over which prices and
the cost-of-living have no direct con
trol. '
Conclusive.
Our democratic congressman from
this district made a speech on postal
savings in the house, during the con
sideration of the measure, in which ho
explained his position in the following
language:
I wish to state thnt I shall vote first for
the postal savings bank bill as proposed by
the democratic minority of the committee,
and If that Is beaten I shall then vote for
the postal savings bank bill aa proposed
by the republican caucus, not because I
think It la the best bill that can be
drawn, but because It will then be evident
that it Is the only postal savings bank bill
hlch we. can secure at the present time.
A very logical statement indeed, and
equally applicable, by a change of only
few words, to another situation that
presented during the special session of
congress. Would this statement not
have been just as forceful if it read as
follows:
wish to state that I should tike to vote
first, for a tariff bill proposed by the demo
cratic minority of the committee, and re
gret only that the democrats have boon
unable to agree upon any plan of tariff
revision which can command the full dem
ocratic vote; in the absence of a demo
cratic tariff bill I shall vote for the tariff
bill as proposed by the republican caucus,
not because I think it is the best bill that
can be drawn, but because it Is evident that
it is not only better than that whloh we
row have, but also IS the only tariff bill
which we can secure at the present time.
A statement like this would have
u stifled any democrat in congress in
voting for the tariff bill that was en
acted during the special session.
Omaha's Business Growth.
No matter -what the census may
show, it is certain that Omaha's busi
ness growth has steadily surpassed its
increase in population. This may be
true of other western cities; it Is con
spicuously true of Omaha
The census of 1900 showed Omaha
the thirty-fifth city in point of size in
the United States. Since then it has
had a steady, substantial growth which
the census of 1910 will disclose,
and even If the other thirty-five cities
have maintained their places, Omaha
will still make all the better showing
from a business standpoint, taking
bnk clearings as the index to commer
cial and industrial prosperity.
While Omaha ranked thirty-fifth
ten years ago in population, it ranks
fifteenth today In bank clearings. For
years it has never been surpassed by a
city Its size, but, on the contrary, has
always gone ahead of every city of its
class and, as the records show, ahead
of many of those beyond its population
class. Kansas City is the smallest city
that surpasses Omaha in bank clear
ings from week to week, month to
month and year to year, and Kansas
City claims 300,000 population. But
Omaha stands ahead in bank clearings
and .therefore in volume of business
of St. Paul, Los Angeles, Denver, Seat
tle cities that are parading their
prosperity and growth Louisville,
Milwaukee, Buffalo, the Great Lakes
shipping point; Indianapolis, Washing
ton and many others far ahead in pop
ulation.
Some of the, cities mentioned have
increased in population without a cor
responding development in business.
Omaha's population growth has been
substantial, but Its business has ex
panded until, comm-erclally, it is a city
of the first class. New industries have
been planted and its wholesale trade
extended clear to the Pacific north
west, and its progress of the last de'
cade is certain to be continued in the
next ten.
Position of Mr. Knox.
Secretary Knox's decision to remain
at the head of the State department
and not run for governor of Pennsyl
vanla disappoints his friends in the
Keystone state, who were counting, on
him to head the republican ticket this
fall, but will be gratifying to the coun
try at large, -no doubt, which has
watched his course as secretary of
state with, impartial interest
Mr. Knox has had some delicate and
stern problems to meet and has met
them with credit to himself and
honor to his country, while retaining
the good will of other nations. But he
has some work yet unfinished which
seems to demand his presence in the
cabinet. Chief of these is the plan for
the court of arbitral justice, which he
formulated and is working out. Pres
ident Taft, in urging him to remain in
the cabinet, points to this as his chief
argument. Undoubtedly the cause of
world peace, while it might not per
manently suffer, would be retarded tf
Mr. Knox, dropped bis present position
and left to others the perfection of this
project. It la one of the large enter
prises in constructive statesmanship
which should be carried to a speedy
completion.
Pennsylvania republicans cannot be
blamed for wanting Secretary Knox to
bead their ticket for governor, for i
the last nine years of his official life
he has displayed distinguished cour
age and ability, first as attorney gen
eral when he brought to a successful
finish the Northern Securities prosecu
tion; then as senator and now as
secretary ot atale. Ilia election as
Railroad Stock Watering
COVNCJIi BLUFFS, la., June 16, 1910.
To the Editor of The Bee: 1 called
you today over the phone, but you
were out. I spoke to one of the men In
your office, calling his attention to my
letter In the Register and Leader of June
16 on the over-capltallsatlon of railroads.
My letter Is, ns you tee. In answer to a
speech made In congress by Senator Dolll-
ver, which was taken up by tha Register
and which 1 answered In a former com
munication. I notice statements In your
paier rome times In relation to the over
capitalization of railroads, which no doubt
comes from the general talk, but I think
hen you read my letter based abso
lutely on the statistics of the Interstate
Commerce commission, It will change your
views. At any rate, it Is a matter now of
so much Interest to railroads and others
that I would be glad to have you print the
letter as news. Thanking you, I remain,
truly, Q. M. DOIXJE.
OMAHA, June 20. Hon. Q. M. Dodge,
Council Bluffs, la. My dear general: I
have your note of the 16th Inst, but only
now have secured copy of the letter In the
Register and Leader. We will give space
to this statement at an early Issue, al
though I think the Railroad Press bureau,
which Slason Thompson Is running In Chi
cago, has been doing pretty well along this
line.
Let me suggest just one thing that you
seem to have overlooked, and that Is tha
tremendous subsidy that waa given these
railroads In lands and bonds, which In
many cases actually paid for construction
and made the securities nothing but water.
It Is possible the property by Us Increment
In value with the growth of the country
is now worth mora nearly the face value
of the securities resting on It. But even
If so, that does not, In my Judgment, pre
clude the necessity of safeguards against
repetition of the ancient stock watering
Jobs. VICTOR ROSBWATER,
Editor of The Boe.
To the Editor: In your recent Issue In
commenting upon my answer to the state
ment that $3,500,000,000 of the capitalisation
of the railroads of this country waa water,
which you Inferred from the statement of
enator Dolliver, you Invite me to further
discuss this question of the capitalisation
of our railroads.
After reading carefully what Senator Dol
liver states, I am satisfied that you are
mistaken In the interpretation of his lan
guage. He does not state that this Issue of
$3,600,000,000 of bonds and stocks Is watered,
or overcapitalized, but he says:
"I repeat the statement I made on a
former occasion that, without congrjes
even knowing, without congress even tak
ing Interest enough in the subject to give
credenoe to a statement In respect to It,
since 1900 this process of Issuing securi
ties by corporations to buy the stocks of
other corporations, with other influences
that have been at work, has Increased the
gross liabilities of the railways of the
United States until we and our children
are bound to pay an everlasting interest
upon a sum more than the national debt
at the end of the civil war in dividends
and In returns upon bonds for which we
governor of Pennsylvania would be a
continuation ot the advance in the
state's standing begun when Edwin S.
Stuart was elected chief executive.
Mr. Knox'a appreciation of the high
honor of a governorship and of the. su
preme importance of dignifying state
government with, the best powers and
consciences ought to quicken in all
men a realization that no state can af
for to call mediocre material to
serve it.
The official anti-Saloon league
spokesman is sure of Convict Erdman's
innocence on the dynamite charge be
cause "the witnesses are nearly all sa
loon men, or closely related to them."
And these same anti-Saloon league re
formers have been trying to send peo
ple to the penitentiary on the evidence
of witnesses like Erdman, Shercliffe,
Burrler and other notorious peniten
tiary birds who for money would swear
to anything.
Our amiable democratic contem
porary prints a long letter designed to
convince Mr. Bryan that the petitions
asking him to consent to stand as a
candidate for United States senator
contain no duty-call to which he is un
der any obligation to respond. Is it
possible that the World-Herald man is
getting shaky as to how much tellance
may be put on that alleged promise of
Mr. Bryan not to run?
Now. some public-spirited person
ought to take up a collection for Rich
ard Parr, who was given the beggarly
sum of only $100,000 for locating the
Suear trust frauds.' Yet some of us
would regard even that a a rather
sweet morsel.
An American woman who married a
Russian official writes back that
"Russia is truly a wonderful country."
Many former residents of Russia, now
living in the United States, could have
told her that long ago.
I'nanrtnred Conceit,
Wall Street Journal.
Man who thinks he knows it all Is never
th father of a boy old enough to ask
questions.
'TwenU Sooll the ran.
Buffalo Express.
Perhaps It would save a lot of trouble
if Arizona and New Mexico were required
beforehand to settle definitely on their
capitals and then stick to them.
Salute of Friendship.
Sioux City Journal.
Th colonel's first conspicuous achieve
ment within sight ot land waa saving the
press boat from Impending collision with
a warship. Chorus from the press boys:
"Oh. you Roosevelt! You always were a
life saver!"
Bnckltaar Dtsi to Business.
Washington Herald.
Th self-confident and impressive young
graduate is going to find, of course, that
th world 1, after all, a pretty tough
old oyster to open. H may, nevertheless,
consols himself with on reflection: Every
body wishes him welL
Pall for Pre Advertising.
Philadelphia Ledger.
It I not surprising that an enterprising
man should hav offered Mr. Roosevelt
$100,000 a year. Such an offer cost nothing,
and th enterprising man In question be
lieve o strongly In advertising that he
often spends real money for It
hare no tangible addition to the facili
ties of Interstate Commerce In the United
States."
As I Interpret this, he means that the
buying ot the securities of ronds already
built that become a part of the operating
property of the roads purchasing does
not add to the miles of road which the
public have the us of. and the fact is,
as I will show, It does not add to the
capitalization of these railroads and re
quires no additional earnings to meet their
obligations.
President Roosevelt, members of the In
terstate Commerce commission and railroad
expert all hold that the railroad of our
country are not overcapitalised, and to
prove this I submit these statistics, taken
from the reports ot the Interstate Com
merce commission:
In 1900 the total mileage of single
track railroads In our country,
not Including mileage of yards,
terminals and sidings was,
miles 1&3.S45.7J
The total capitalisation waa....S10,7tt,20,416
Securities owned by the com
panies Making the total capital out
standing Olvlng per mile of road
On June 30. 1908, the total mile
age, single track railroads, not
Including yards, terminals and
sidetracks waa miles
Increase since 1900, miles
Total miles of yards, terminals
and sidetracks
s,S03,im.k7
4,0W
233.677.Tt
40,331.88
9.S68.16
Total capitalisation 1,767,M4,827
After deducting miscellaneous
accounts, such aa bills, equip
ment, notes which are paid
out of earnings and not
capitalized 613,336,740
Leaves a balance of U,lM,20tS.Ob7
Deduct from this amount the
securities owned by the rail
roads f. 4.561.329,117
Making a total capitalization
outstanding June 30, 1908, of.... U.792,W8,K7
Olvlng per mile of railroad 60,400
This shows an Increase of capi
tal since 1900 to June 30, 1908
of 1.969,702,806
To represent this sum we have built
40,331.98 miles of single track road, have
added to our terminals, yards and sidings
at least $1,000,000,000 of value and virtually
reconstructed our entire mileage putting
down from 00 to 100-pound rails per yard,
Instead of 62 and 80-pound rails per yard,
doubled tha weight and capacity of our
power, equipment, and rebuilt our bridges,
stations, etc.
If you take the total mileage of all
tracks Including terminals, yards, sidings,
which is 333,646.46 miles and divide It Into
the total capitalization, it only shows a
cost and capital per mil of railroad in
the United tSates on June 30, 1908, of
135,020.
I think this statement should Induce the
press of the country and the people who
so often talk of the over-capitalization ot
th roads and great burden upon com
merce and the amount of money they art
forced to provide to pay dividends and in
terest on watered stock and bpnds, to
cease. The fact Is, about 40 per cent of
the mileage of the roads of this country
pay no dividends and I ask the Register
and Leader to start the movement to give
the railroads of this country and the able
men who are administering them a truth
ful and square deal. Truly,
G RENVILLE M. 1KDDGE.
PERSONAL NOTES.
Business men of Buffalo, N. Y., have
subscribed $100,000 to spread abroad th
fame of their city, and a fund of $80,000
has been secured for the same purpose at
Poughkeepsle.
Representative Champ Clark of Mis
souri, minority leader of the house, will
make the principal speech at the Tam
many Halt Fourth of July celebration in
New York City.
Tha Wright Brothers have discovered
that aviators may lengthen their days by
leaving the earth and mounting skyward
so as to keep the sun in view as it sinks
In th west before th gaze of th earth
dingers.
Progressive Missourtans are moving to
recast the state seal, substituting a mule
for the present ancient figures. The mula
Js esteemed the most Impressive song
bird in the state, a thirty-second degree
"Showme" when properly tickled.
This country isn't what it used to be.
With the governor of New York signing
bills to prevent even oral betting at race
tracks, and the governor of California
putting down th heavyweight all in
one day what other conclusion can on
reach?
While ex-Senator T. M. Patterson ha
sold the Denver Times, his evening
paper, he keeps th Denver News, which
he calls hi first lev in th newspaper
world. The Times ha been bought by
Jared Newell HuaUd, a man of means,
for his son-in-law, Hugh O'Neill, a local
newspaper man.
There died at Norwalk, O., last week,
Mr. Amelia Southard, whose father waa
a soldier who fought through th war of
American independence. Mrs. .Southard
waa 88 years old, and at th tlm of her
birth her father waa 64. Their combined
age of 162 years mor than cover th
history of th United Bute of America.
"Persuading;" Colonel Bryan,
Boston Transcript
It seem unaccountable that Nebraska
democrat should find It necessary to
"persuad" Mr. Bryan to accept any can
didacy, as th report assert, and that on
for th United State senate. With th
Oregon system of popular election, which
Nebraska has, he would in this be quite
likely to succeed. How queer it would
seem If both Bryan and Kern should be
In th senate after March 4. Both men
hav been so repeatedly defeated that to
hav thera com at last Into place of high
rank and dignity would seem surprising.
Fobs' experience should give thm encour
agement The political gam carries re
wards to th patient waiter.
Our Birthday Book
Jam SI, 1810.
Henry Guy Carleton, playwright and
author, was born June 21, 1852, at Fort
Union, N. M. He Is on of th military
graduate of th United State army, hav
ing served with General Miles in the Indian
war, and resigned to shine by his pen
rather than hi sword.
Jss Macy, professor of history In Iowa
college, and recognised authority on sub
jects of political science, is celebrating his
sixty-eighth birthday. He was born In In'
dlana, but ha been In educational work In
Iowa nearly all of hi life.
Morris K. Jesup, writer, banker and phll
anthroplst, is 80 years old today. He was
born at West Port Conn., and wu one of
the founders of the Young Men's Christian
ksoclatlon.
John Baumer, the Jeweler, Is celebrating
hi seventieth birthday today. He waa born
In Germany, coming to this country In 1
and locating In Omaha next year, where he
wa in buslnesa continually until h re
tired in U04.
"rather" John William, pastor of St
Bargaba Episcopal church, is celebrating
hi seventy-fifth birthday today. He was
born In Ireland and cam to this country
when a young man. He ha teen with his
present parish for thirty-thrs years, com
in t Omaba from Hasting. Ulna.
NEBRASKA PRESS COMMENT.
Nebraska City Press: After looking over
soma com fed specimens of college girls.
we ad vine our bashful bachelors to abate
their timorous fears of erudition, and go
In to win some delicious chunks of fem
ininity. Columbus TeleKram: Who Is this man
Clark who announces himself a democratic
candidate for lieutenant governor? Is h
the same Clark who was Lee llerdman's
andldat for speaker ot th house at the
last legislative session?
Walthlll Times: Uovernor Shallenherger
announce that democracy and decency
have joined hands In Nebraska. We hav
nervous suspicion of such coalitions.
Two year ago the brewers and temperance
People Joined hands in this state, and
h 1 was to pay.
Beaver City Tlm-Trlbun: Another
of Bryan' letters to democratlo love feasts
has been suppressed, this tlm at Kearney,
n Buffalo county they lack a Chairman
Mooney and an Arapahoe Pioneer to ex
plain that "th letter waa not intended to
be read" and "was inadvertently forgot
ten." Kearney Hub: Senator Patrick of Sarpy
county has been engaged to draft a county
option s bill endorsed by tho Antt-Saloon
league When the bill Is drafted It will
be submitted to Judge Sullivan of Omaha,
Judge Qood ot Lincoln and Hon. E. L.
King of Osceola to tee whether It will
bold water."
Auburn Granger; Anticipating th hot
weather that It is supposed will coma be
fore many weeks, quit a number of preach
ers who hav been kept pretty busy draw
ing and expending fair salaries are pre
paring to take a vacation, and ther Is on
thing about this vacation busineaa worthy
of commendation: it gives th membership
an occasional rest
Lyon Mirror: Just fifty years age today,
June 18, I860, th Republican convention
met at Chicago, In which th father f the
editor of th Mirror, Colonel J. F. Warner,
seconded th nomination of Abraham Lin
coln for president, aa a delegate from Ne
braska; and we hav th credentials that
admitted him to tha convention and he
did not ride on a free railroad pass, either.
Columbus Telegram: Nine out of ten
democrats eleoted to th last session of
th Nebraska legislature owed success to
the fact that Bryan' nam brought out a
larger tdemocratle vote than Nebraska had
seen befor. Say, boys you who are spit
ting on th nam of Bryan today, by re
quest of th corporations where will you
get your legislative majorities in the com
ing campaign without the Influence of
Bryan's name In th fight?
Beatrice Sun: The sight of a farmer
driving horn yesterday, with two sacks of
alfalfa ed In the tonneau of his auto
mobile was enough to bring out soma
reminiscences from some of th old boys
who used to farm in this country before
the auto waa ever dreamed of and alfalfa
was unknown. On reason the farmer
could own an auto was probably the fact
that he had been successful in raising
alfalfa. The eJafalfa seed would pay Its
passage If It had to be brought In sliver
cask from the ends of th earth.
Papillion Republican: The Bryan senti
ment I growing and it Is likely that Hitch
cock will meet his Waterloo. Many believe
that Hitchcock favors th corporations
more than th interests of th people. He
can change his spots Ilk a leper. In th
presence pf a prohibitionist, he I for pro
hibition and with the saloon man, h be
lieve In personal liberty. He is, In fact
too much of a politician to stand pat on
any principle either in congress or out of
It Nebraska is too great a Stat to be
represented by weak men and the people
too well educated to send such a rep.
resentatlve to the senate.
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(Continued from Yesterday.)
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CHEERY CHAFF.
"Yes," said Mrs. Impaling. "I bellve In
life Insurance. I'm trying to get my htia.
bund to tske out a policy In the Provi
dential company.' Chicago Tribune.
Knlrkrr Ill your ancestors come over
In the MavflowerT
Hocker No; they ram over with Roos
vclt New York Sun.
"Kufus, you old loafer, do you think
It's rliiht to loavo your wife at th wash
tub while you rays your time fishing?'
"Yssnah. jertge; It's all rtcrnt, Mah wife
don' need any wati'hlng. She ll sholy wuk
J""' hard as If I was dah." Boston
Transcript.
"Have you heard th new medical chool
li) mn!"
"Ni, what la It?"
"Fifteen men on a dead man's ehest."
Yale Kecord.
"Pld you hear what happened at Blf
ley todsv?"
"No; what W'as ltT"
"He took down an old pistol h had had
about the house for years, and plavftilly
snapped the tripper at his wife, thinking
It wasn t loaded.
"Hood Heavens!"
"Well, It wasn't." Baltimore American.
"Were you at th Hlggsworthy-Brown.
low wedding?
"Yes."
"Kverythlng pass off nicely?"
"Yes, except that the hrtdeernom got a
little confused, ami said, 'With all mv
goodly worlds I thoe endow.' "Chicago
Journal.
"Say," asked the first messenger boy,
"got any novels ter swop?"
"I got 'Hlg Foot BUI'S Revenge, " re
plied the other.
"is It a long story?"
"Naw! Ye kin flnlh It easy In two mes
sages." Catholic Standard and Times.
"When I nm done with this life,' says
th men with the overshot eyebrows, "I
want to be oremated."
"But believers In the resurrection disap
prove of cremation," urges th roan with
th wobbly chin.
"I know It. 1 want my ashes placed In
a lmklng-powder ran.'
"What an odd wish!"
"Maybe, but I'll be pretty sur to rlss
again. "Chicago Post.
VACATION DAYS.
Marie Grov In Delineator.
When Jnhnnl come to grandma's house
old Towner run away,
The kitten climbs the apple tree and stays
up there all day;
The chicken In th barnyard are aa flua-
tered as can b
They don't approve of little boys, a any
on van see.
And many a night befor he comes poor
Nora lies awake
Devising hiding places for the thing that
he might break.
Th Jam and Jelly' sure to be up on the
highest shelf.
But grandma gu them down, sometimes,
and bids him help himself.
When Johnnie comes to grandma's house
there' mud upon th floor,
And thumb-print on th banisters and
grease on every door.
Th house is always upsld down th whole
time ho is there;
Poor Nora sighs and wonder why dear
grandma doesn't care.
But when at last that boy's In bed and
everything Is still.
Old Towser leaves the barn and Tabby
ventures forth at will
'TIs then the much-abused arm chair holds
conclave in th dark
With the old clock In the corner, standing
there so stiff and stark.
"I'm quite worn out," she limply sighs;
"sine that young scapegrac. John,
Came out from town I've been at times
most rudely sat upon."
"It beats my time," the clock replied,
"how modern young folks do;
It wasn't so In my day, What s the world
a-comlng to?"
And the cause ot all th troubleWlo you
think the rascal cares?
Is miles away in Hlumber Land In his
small bed upstairs.
But grandma says when she goss in to
iuck the blankets down,
"Dear, dear, we will be lonesome when
that boy goes baok to- town."
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tation, and then curiosity leads the
reader to read the advertisement.
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ance of an advertisement should b pleas
ing. Symmetry and balance are usually,
but not always, desirable. It should be re
membered that symmetry and strength are
not th same. An advertisement Is often
striking and forceful, that defies all ot the
usual laws laid down by th printer. As
a matter of fact,' nine printer out of ten
will follow th same style, that has been
used by printer since th day of Benjamin
Franklin. He will invariably bring out your
strong line in capital letters, capitalize
every word, that I set in lower ease, which
ha more than on syllabi and try to mak
th advertisement look as pretty as possi
ble, with a total deeregard of the value
of type faces or th fact that th adver
tlsement is printed to be read.
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remembered with regard to th way an ad
Yrtl8rant Is set; if It is intended to b
read, make It If easy a possible for tha
reader to read it, Ther are other consid
eration of Importance. It Is desirable to
attract attention to your advertisement by
what you say In your head line, or "catch
line;" by the amount of space that you use;
by illustrations, or any of tho thousand
and one original methods, which make ad
vertising attractive and Interesting. When
you hav secured this attention, put a few
obstacle a possible In the way ot reading
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