T1IE BEE: OMAHA. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 20, 1010.
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State of Natu'iMi, Douglas county.
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GEORGE U. TZSOllUCK,
Treasurer.
subscribed lu my presence and sworn to
before ma UiU ;st day uf May, 1W0.
AL 1. WAUJi.R,
' Notary puuiio.
Sabecrlbere learta the Jolty tem
porarily -snonld autre Tata Be
tailed to theaa. Addressee will be
hanged of teat aa reo, tested
The safe and sane sorts or fireworks
save doctors' bills.
Almost time to put the lid on those
honorary degree factories.
This must be what the weather man
would call "mean temperature."
No need to fear that the new editor
of the Outlook will make a muck
raking paper out of it
The colonel is an influential man,
but his reformed speller has not made
any ponieroua hit aa yet.
. It may be neoessary to ask Nicara
gua to modify its military code of
"hoot all prisoners of war."
The GlidUen tourists have glided in
and glided out, and some people still
wondering what it is all about.
It dcea not seem to have occurred to
France, In its efforts to boost its popu
ation, to encourage German immigra
tion.
Never miud. Some of those brave
democrats will be talking differently
when Mr. Bryan is back on the home
ground.
The sultan of Sulu is on his way to
the United States. It Is up to George
Ade to organize himself as a reception
committee.
Wonder what Senator Elmer Jacob
Burkett will do to the Associated
Press for calling him "an out and out
Insurgent T"
A New England paper wanta to
know "What will we do with Roose
velt?" He will answer that question
In due time.
The St. Louis Greeks are to buy a
man-of-war for their fatherland. That's
all right, but South Omaha had better
guard the river front.
"Senator La Follette left Sagamore
Hill wearing his broadest smile, " say
the press reports. Not a man has
come away crying yet.
Perhaps if those six anti-Saloon
league backsliders would hire another
ex-convict detective they might
next to where the money is.
get
Here is a Boston young woman ex
pending money to give voice culture
lessons to street venders which shows
that the spirit of the town crier still
Uvea.
Of course, it the prohibition party
irants to borrow Mr. Bryan for its
candidate in 1812 the democrats might
be persuaded to release him Just that
once.
They are talking of increasing the
speed of passenger trains from Boston
to Washington. Why hurry anything
or anybody into Washington these
days?
It seems to us, also, that the county
attorney ought to be sole to prosecute
chauffeur charged with criminal cul
pabllity without calling in outside as
sistance.
Former Governor Black of fJew
York says in a recent magazine article
that "We are gaining slowly and I am
aure we are sobering down." That is
feet getting steady, while head still
whirls a little.
Harmon as a Candidate.
Sponsored by hi friends la Ohio, a
boom la already being Industriously
Inflated for Governor Harmon for the
next presidential nomination, but other
emocrate refuse to, get excited and
Um republicans are not the least dis
turbed. Nor is It t all likely that the
republicans will view with alarm, for
they realize that Harmon would stand
for nothing positive and would have a
fight in his own party to begin with,
the Tom Johnson element at home and
the Bryan wing abroad. His whole
candidacy up to this time rests upon
the contingency of re-election as gov
ernor of Ohio, but even In the event
of h(s success there his change for the
presidential nomination would still be
envelopod In doubt and his election de
cidedly dubious.
Between Mr. Bryan and Governor
Harmon "there Is a great gulf fixed,"
nd who that knows Mr. Bryan sup
poses for a minute that this chasm will
be bridged by any truce of peace? As
the self-constituted dictator of his
party, Mr. Bryan served notice on Gov
ernor Harmon that he must do certain
things In the nominating convention
or "prepare to stand aside,", and the
governor hurled the gauntlet back at
Bryan with aa much defiance as he
could command. Governor Harmon's
re-election would serve to intensify,
rather than mollify Bryan's feelings.
The old Bryanlte spirit again aroused
would attract some of the most radi
cal adherents, enough, we Imagine, to
impress Harmon and his crowd with
the fact that they could not have any
better assurance of bucccbs than did
Parker in 1904.
These facts, together with Harmon's
record-as a corporation lawyer, may
be expected to count very potently
gainst him as a presidential candi
date and will not be counterbalanced
by the fact of his being from the same
state as President Taft.
Who Makes the Mysteries?
A manager of a hotel In a large city
has a grievance against the newspa
pers because, he says, they are prone
to make mysteries of hotel suicides.
Hotel suicides have come to be com
mon things and the newspaper that
can succeed in making a mystery out
of one must be rather skillful at it,
but if this hotel manager were to in
quire into the facts of the situation
with an honest purpose we imagine he
would find that it is not the newspa
per, but the hotel management that
creates the mystery. The average ho
tel management is prone to throw the
air of mystery about such tragedies,
presumably because they occur at the
hotel and the management wants to
avoid publicity. But what a poor way
to do it! A better way would be for
the hotel to make a frank statement
of all the facts aa they exist and put
Itself in the position of covering up
nothing and assuming no responsibil
ity for what had occurred.
The decent newspapers are not look
ing for this sort of mysteries and they
would rather minimize than magnify
the reports of them, and what the
other kind of papers do is not a mat
ter of much consequence, anyway.
Too many people are like this hotel
manager, imbued with the false notion
that they have no responsibility in giv
ing publicity to facts the public is en
titled to know. They have a very de
cided responsibility and if they would
aid Instead of obstruct they would
have less cause for complaint after
publication.
Too Transparent
The Omaha Automobile association
has appointed a committee to wait on
the chief of police with the request
that motorcycle policemen be put in
uniform on the gauzy pretext that uni
forms on the polcemen detailed to stop
scorching will help prevent reckless
driving.
What do the auto autocrats take us
for? If they were disposed to observe
the law and keep within the legal lim
its of speed, what difference would it
make to them whether the motorcycle
policemen were in uniform or not? Of
course, it would be reassuring to reck
less drivers to have the policemen la
beled ao they could be distinguished
at long range as a warning to slow up
until again out of sight. It would be
a sure gamble that uniformed police
men would find it aa hard to catch
auto speeders as belled cats would to
catch mice.
No, the scheme is too transparent.
The thing for our auto autocrats to do
is to co-operate with the authorities
and put an end to reckless and danger
ous driving by requiring licenses of'all
persons who want to handle cars, with
forfeiture of the license for violation
of the speed and road rules.
Trying to Force Men to Vote.
In Missouri an amendment to the
constitution has been proposed that
would change the basis of representa
tton in the legislature from population
to the number of voters in each dls
trlct. The demand tor a new order
arises from the fact that no less than
sixteen of the senatorial districts have
shown a marked decline in their vote
and the cry is that something should
be done to compel men to go to the
polls.
While it is conceded that the non
voter, the man who willfully refuses
to exercise his elective franchise as a
citizen, the stay-at-home, should be
penalized if that be possible, how to
accomplish that without doing lnjus
tlce elsewhere is the problem. The
Missouri plan only substitutes one evil
for anotber. Jt is argued that the
population at best supplies a poor
basis for representation, since the cen
sua comes only oace in ten years, but
how much better would It be to shift
the basis of representation with each
recurring election showing, doubtless,
new number of voters In every dis
trict in the state. Such a contingency
would make necessary too frequent
changes in the representation and
where it reduces representation would
make those who do vole suffer for
those who do not. Furthermore, In
the south surf those states where pay
ment of a poll tax is enforced as a
voting qualification this would affect
the vote and tend to produce a rich
man's government.
' Whatever Missouri does, the basis
of representation In congress can not
be changed except by amendment of
the federal constitution, which is re
mote.
Be Sober in Speech, Too.
People have come to expect sobriety
f the clergy, of the church, above all
other social agencies, and are usually
not disappointed. But sobriety Is a
broad term and docs not end with a
man's eating and drinking; it couipre
henda his thought, his speech, his
action in fact, hl3 personal example
as the concrete of all his attributes.
Above all it is essential for the clergy,
if it would lead, to avoid Intemperance
in speech, for it is largely by word ol
mouth that this agency Influences so-
iety.
' What sort of a leader of thought is
he who preaches from his pulpit that
divorce laws should be made so free
to become automatic in their
operation? This is the declaration of
one of New York's foremost preach
ers. It is radical ground it goes to
the very extreme, on one side, of this
question. The other extreme is
reached by another minister in St.
Louis, who advocates social ostracism
of all divorcees, not a new idea, but
qually as radical. We may dismiss
both these propositions as unworthy of
serious attention and go to the main
point, the injury to the clergy and the
mission of the church done by such in
temperate utterances. We naturally
expect the church and all its agencies
to stand for temperance in personal
habits, but how is anyone to follow
such .erratic leadership as these two
men voice?
What is most needed in any man or
mission of such commanding power
and influence as the ministry is a sane,
sound, sober thought that does not
take ex parte judgment of any question
and that carries the force of honest in
quiry and of convicting power with It.
Merit System in Diplomacy.
Secretary Knox has taken high
ground in declaring that the foreign
service is not to be a reservoir for the
payment of political debts and that its
offices are not "party places," but that
merit alone shall count in the selection
of the men for those positions abroad.
Recent changes in the diplomatic list
show that the secretary has been en
deavoring to put into practice the doc
trine he is preaching. He proposes to
make all appointments subject to the
most rigid rules as to qualifications
and positively to Ignore other consid
erations, i
This policy carried out will give the
United States a much better represen
tation in its consular and diplomatic
service and will tend to enhance its
Influence in the nations of the world
to which these men are sent as our
official representatives. This 1b one of
the ways in which Secretary Knox is
effecting marked improvement in the
affairs of his department and It should
be appreciated by the people of this
country without regard to political
affiliation.
Some southern senators recently
called on the secretary of state with
the complaint that the south did not
have a proportionate share in the gov
ernment service and urged that some
consular appointments be made from
their section. Mr. Knox in reply told
them of his determination to recognize
only merit in this service and that if
the southern representatives in con
gress would be careful to recommend
suitable candidates for these places
they would receive precisely the same
consideration as candidates from any
other part of the country. If the sen a
tors and representatives of the south
will do this they will not only enable
their section to increase its share of
government service, but will help the
government by giving it better men for
these foreign posts.
If the democrats could not get a full
attendance of dollar diners in Platte
county there is not another place In
Nebraska that would offer them more
encouragement. Last year Platte
county republicans had only one candi
date running on their county ticket
As The Bee has remarked more than
once before, if Platte county repub
licans would stop quarreling about
postofBces and put up a shoulder-to-
shoulder fight against the democrats
they would make things Interesting
even in that democratic stronghold.
The new garbage contracts are not
working aa well aa they should. Next
time the city charter la revised a pro
vision should be Incorporated under
which the city can organize a garbage
department and, if oecussary, take
over the garbage hauling and disposal
of refuse.
Just as a reminder to Mr. Bryan
our amiable democratlo contemporary
reproduces a big boost 'for Governor
Harmon of Ohio for the democratlo
presidential nomination in 1912. Evi
dently someone will have to "prepare
to stand aside."
Having failed to sell its 5 per cent
bonds. South Omaha Is talking about
Issuing securities bearing 6 per
cent, which looks like an extravagant
rate. It South Omaha were part of
Omaha it could borrow money at 4j
per cent and lower.
Wonder if Edgar Howard found out
what our democratic congressman
from thisf district was doing here in
Omaha when his colleagues in Wash
ington were voting on the railroad bill.
Our sympathy is with the superin
tendent of the anti-Saloon league. Ho
is evidently trying to earn his money
without doing anything to cancel his
meal ticket.
Mr. Roosevelt will have to be pa
tient If we are a little slow in learning
all his hew titles and degrees so that
we can recite them by heart.
Hoom for Improvement
Chicago Record-Herald.
An airship that goes only thirty-three
miles an hour will not make much of an
appeal to the Joy rider.
Wko Gets the laaajh f
New York Tribune.
Congress has Just passed a $20,000,000
publio buildings bill which does not author
ise a single cent of expenditure. Is the
Juke on the publiu or on the two houses?
Symptom of What's Coming;.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
When Theodore Roosevelt breaks his rule
of silence to denounce a certain report aa
"a scandalous infamy," It is a sign that
the vigorous spirit Is there and liable to
break out at any time.
Impressions of the Blsr Stick.
'Washington Herald.
It is evident that T. R.'s lecture in France
was taken to heart. Hia words about race
suicide are hardly spoken before France
passes a law to force bachelors to marry
and increasing the pay of government em
ployes who have children. Even In Gaul
the Big Stick Is not without honorr
"Eat Their Cake and Have It."
Wall Street Journal.
It looks as If the Wells-Fargo stockholders
have been able to "eat their cake and have
too." After Increasing the capital stock
2U0 per cent and declaring a 3U0 per cent
cash dividend some time ago, a quarterly
dividend has now been declared on the ln
creased amount of stock at the same rate
as prevailed before the increase took place,
This Is the real argument against a parcels
post, and yet the consumer remains un
grateful.
Timber Land of Alaska.
Philadelphia Record.
Alaska contains 1000,000,000, acres of
woodland, but only one-fifth thereof will
provide marketable saw timber. Aboute 75
per cent of the stand is hemlock, and 20
per cent is spruce; and the wood is dense,
averaging 26,000 feet per acre. The climate
of the coast region, where most of the
20,000,000 acres of saw timber stands, is as
mild as that of Scotland. The potential
wealth of these above-ground spruce and
hemlock "mines" is greater than that of
Transition from Freeklea to Tan.
Collier's Weekly.
We hymned the freckle a year ago. In
lyric periods we demonstrated that it is a
beauty spot upon the face of mankind,
What words are left to sing of tan? For
an Is to the freckle as an apple orchard
In bloom, i to a single blossom, as the
ocean la to one white caD. aa the firma
ment to a single star. Tan Is the freckle
expanded, sublimated, softened, raised to
the Nth degree. How mysterious is Us
creation "Beginning doubtfully and far
away First, guessed by faint au
roral blushes." Like all things beautiful,
tan springs from the travail of pain. It
blossoms from the "burn," the first re
sult of the sun's rays. It is as If the sun
first tested the temper of the individual
whom he is soon to lacquer with his unap
proachable pigment. Who would think that
first flush blazing face, crimson neck, scar
let ear-tips could ever lead to beauty?
IOMB QUESTIONS ANSWERED.
Ohio Democrats Send Hot Words to
Fairview.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Some months ago Mr. Bryan addressed
some highly flavored queriea to Governor
Judson Harmon of Ohio. The first was
Have you any influence with the demo.
cratlc state committee in Ohio?" Others
followed in natural sequence: "If you had,
why did you not urge the Inclusion of the
selection of a candidate for the United
States senate In the call for the state con
vention? If you were turned down why
don't you appeal to the convention as Gov
ernor Marshall did in Indiana? Do you
lack courage? Are you ready to have your
measure taken?" All concluding with the
warning: "If you falter, prepare to stand
aside. It Is up to you, governor."
Governor Harmon replied at the time, but
the most significant answers were returned
at the meeting of the Omaha democratlo
state convention yesterday. Harmon's In
fluence In the committee as against Bryan's
proved to be more than two to one, while
in the convention itself the vote rejecting
Mr. Bryan's interference was 840 to 254.
The convention, Indeed, seems to have
made a complete job of measurement, run
nlng the tape on both the governor and
bis Interlocutor, and the figures, revealing
the Ohio democracy's Idea of the relative
size of the two statesmen, are likely to
make an Impression beyond the state
boundaries. In fact, In view of the
endorsement of the Ohloan for the presi
dential nomination, presumably with the
qualification If he be re-elected In the fall,
the governor may be In position to suggest
to the Nebraskan that "It is up to you.
Mr. Bryan," to step aside and "let some
body run that can."
It is one of the most remarkable of the
political signs of the times In the demo
cratlo camp that Mr. Bryan has now but
to speak for the rank and file of the party
to Jump to the other side of the proposl
tlon.
Our Birthday Book
June 89, mo.
William E. Borah, United States senator
from Idaho, was born June 39, 1866,
Fairfield, III He Is also a lawyer by pro
fession, and figured prominently In the
Moyer-Haywood trials.
General George W. Goethsla, in charge
of the engineering works of the Panama
canal, is Just 62 year a old. He waa born
In Brooklyn going Into the engineer corps
from West Point, and has made a wonder
ful success in expediting the work
Panama.
John Bach McMaster, historian, was
born June , 1862, at Brooklyn. He
professor of American history In the Unl
verslty of Pennsylvania, and an author of
many standard books on American his
tory.
Rev. William Gorst, Methodist clergy
man, is Just 65 today. He was born at
Black Earth, Wis., and educated for the
ministry at Garrett Biblical Institute
Evanston, III. He started out as pastor
at St. Edward, Neb., In 1879, and has con
tlnuoualy occupied high church positions
In many. Nebraska districts.
Around New York
SUpples on the Current of X.lfe
as Keen In the Oreat Anterloaa
Metropolis from Day to Day.
NcWKpHper ycouta camping on the flrlna
line at Sagamore Hill were rounded up by
Theodore RooHevelt last Saturday, and es
corted Into his library. "What do you
think of that?" he asked, as a swe?pliiK
gesture of his hand Indicated the stacks
of mall In the room. Over In one corner I
was a pile of letters taller than the col
onel, and ever so much broader.- It must
have contained at least 10,000 communica
tions. Piled up along the opposite wall
were 2.0U0 or more books sent by friends,
authors and publishers who are looking
for indorsements. Only a few had been
unwrapped. In another part of the library
were heiipa of magazines and weeklies.
every sort of periodical with Information
ranging from Arctic exploration to the
cure of little goldfish.
'Just look at It!" aald the colonel. "Isn't
it awful?
"1 want you boys," he said, "to make
it clear that it'a utterly lmpoiiilo for one
man to cope with this mall. K every man,
woman and child in the United States
stopped writing to me toduy it would ,tuke
me six months, with the assistance of a
large clerical force, to answer their let
ters. There are probably many letters
from close personal friends, but It la Im
possible to separate the Important from
the unimportant. I'm getting the mall of
the White House, and I haven't the White
House staff to dispose of this great mass
of correspondence."
judge Joseph Fitch, sitting on the bunch
of a police court in one of the outlying dis
tricts of New York, a district neur enough
to Long Island to receive bibulous infec
tion, has defined the difference between
an "apivjtUer" and "the drinks." He waa
hearing a case against a hotel waiter who
had served cocktails to two men who had
seated themselves at a table In the main
dining room on Sunday. A policeman
saw the liquids poured down with gusto,
and took the servitor before the court.
A man is entitled to one drink before
a meal,' said his honor, "and to serve
that Is no infraction of the law. The
waiter evidently believed that the men In
tended to order a meal. It Is the habit
of many men to take un appetizer before
a meal, and a waiter has a right to serve
it. The case is dismissed."
Out Jamaica way, hereafter, no one will
ask for a whisky or beer on Sunday; he
will call for "an appetizer," and then pos
sibly wander on to another hotel and again
commit a liquid assault on his appetite.
A llttlo girl ran into the West 125th
street police station one morning last
week, handing Captain Farrell a note.
"Can my papa stay home?" she asked.
The note read:
Patrolman Frank Sherry, First platoon:
Just arrived a girl."
"He can stay homo," said the captain.
Half an hour later another girl hurried
in with another note. It read:
Patrolman Harry Berry, First platoon,
wants leave of absence for a day. A boy."
Captain Farrell had scarcely granted
leave to the second happy father when a
little boy came in with still another note
from Policeman Bernard Weinkelman, of
the First platoon. This time it was a girl
that had come to the home at One Hundred
Thirty-Eighth street and St. Ann's avenue.
Finally later In the day Policeman "Dia
mond Dick" Crossen further depleted the
First platoon by announcing the arrival of
a nineteen-pound baby boy at his home
at One Kindred Twenty-First street and
SyWan avenue. He added to his request
for leave of absence that the big little
fellow would surely be a "cop" some day.
All right," said Captain Farrell, resign
edly. "But remember, you men of the First
platoon, this is po'tlvely the last.
Hero's another little lesson in economics.
In New York City there are 46,000,000 eggs
In cold storage waiting for winter prices.
They cost 24 cents a dozen. The charges
for storage and Insurance will be 2 cents
a dozen. They will sell, probably for 46
cents a dozen, leaving a net profit of about
19 cents a dozen, or a total profit of some
1700,000. Now figure out who ought to
have that $700,000.
In the front window of a sporting goods
house Is a continuous performance that
hojds that portion of the street audience
which has cast a -wistful eye toward wood
land camps for the summer's outing. A
miniature fireplace has been constructed
with a flue that connects with some escape
pipe which the fire department apparently
approves of. With that fireplace and heaps
of clean white shavings and kindling a man
demonstrates all day long how a oampflre
should be built to make it draw properly.
First he drives Into the floor of the fire
place an upright stick about six Inches
high. All around that he plies the shavings,
over which he arranges pieces of kindling.
tent shape with one end resting on the
top of the upright stick. Then the match is
applied and up goes the shavings In a
blaze that looks cheerful, even on a hot
day, when you consider the purpose of
the creation. That arrangement of the
kindling creates a perfect draught that will
Bet fire to any amount of tougher kind'
ling and forest wood you may wish to
burn and saves the green camper a dis
heartening struggle with contrary fires.
No prettier sight can be found In Cen
tral park at night than the ducks and
swans which Inhabit the lake at Fifty
ninth street, sleeping or resting on the
lawn near the Sixth street entrance.
About 11 o'clock every night a dozen of
the little, brown ducks come out of the lake
and find resting places on the grass. For
soma reason they like to keep near the
lamp post at the edge of the lawn. Gradu
ally the big white swans also appear, but
they keep near the edge of the water,
making It an easy matter to flop right
back again In case of danger. Unless they
are disturbed the ducks and swans, with
their heads tucked under their wings, fall
asleep. Outside of the park half a block
away trolley cars, automobiles and other
traffic thunders by, but ' the noise never
disturbs the rest of the ducks and swans
on the lawn.
One of the most imposing blocks In
Fifth avenue of the old days was the
Rutgers Female college, which occupied
the block front on the east side of the
avenue from Forty-second to Forty-third
street. It was one of the best examples
of the period of the Victorian era, which
was responsible for a peculiar type of
Gothlo architecture. At Its tracerled win
dows and corner towers the old New
Yorker used to "point with pride." Piece
by piece the old building has disappeared
to make room for newer structures, but
one small bit had resisted until this week.
For many years this small bit of the
Gothlo front had remained unobtrusively
retired within a recess formed by more
modern buildings, but its time has come
and now Rutgers Female oollege la simply
one of the memories of old Fifth avenue.
Commercial Craft.
Brooklyn Eagle.
Commercial crookedness has taken few
queerer forms than the denting of tin cans
so that they hold thirty-nine quarts of milk
Instead of forty. The original dentist must
Jbavo bad a pull with somebody.
BEE USERS.
Holbrook Observer: The Omaha Bee
thinks it sees signs of harmony in the re
publican ranks. The astronomers thought
they knew something about comets' talis,
too, but up to date the signs have all been
too farfetched.
Hastings Tribune: Sunday was the thlrty
rlnth anniversary of The Omnha Her,
which was founded by the late Edward
Rosewatr on June 19. 1871. During It
caieer The Iiee has l ad many tips and
downs, but It haa alwaya been cont-lntlua
and alncere in Its fights, and as a renlt
it stands today the greatest political forte
In Nebraska.
Falls City Journal: The Omaha Bee can
see no difference between county option and
county piohlbltlon. There la practically
none. For should the county optlnnlM
win what they are asking for now the
move will be for state-wide prohibition as
soon as possible thereafter. Th'-ie la no
use to try to deceive anybody on aa plain
a proposition as that.
Blair Pilot: The Omaha Bee is so "stand
pat' as to even be opposed to direct legis
lation, such as the Initiative and refor-
endum gives. In an editorial the oilier day
it gave a lliit of the questions voted upon
In Oregon and added: "Presumably no
scheme ia too hair-brained or too prepos
terous to full of the necessary number of
petition signers In Oregon to put It on the
ballot The Bee has a nerfeet right to
Its opinion, of course, but the said Bee
would be awfully lonesome If the people of
Nebraska had a chance to vote directly on
the adoption of the Initiative and refer
endum. "Vox populi" la evidently not "vox
Bee."
Kearney Hub: The Omaha Bee alludes
modestly to the passing of its thlrty-ntnlh
birthday and alludes briefly to Its consist
ency In following a given line of policy
and holding to certain fixed Ideals. Judged
ty the only fair test, the test of time and
experience, The Bee has certainly measured
up well. It has been progressive, and
radical, but It ha always been discriminat
ing and rational, tlence It may be one
day radical, another conservative, and still
be consistent The personality of Edward
Rosewater Is, of course, absent from The
Bee. and many of Its readers still feel a
sense of bereavement, but the Rosewater
boys have kept It very much as he left It,
and it is perhaps the best political guide
and barometer there is today west of the
Mississippi river.
Falrbury Gazette: It was an open secret
at the late meeting of the republican state
central committee at Lincoln that Editor
Jones of the State Journal and Editor
Rosewater of Th Omaha Bee held a con
ference and got together. How they did
so we have not been able to understand.
It Is probably due to two things. It might
have been being unused to dry conditions
that Editor Rosewater was at a disadvant
age and did not have proper backing
against the arguments of Editor Jones.
Or It may be that Editor Rosewater brought
donn from Omaha something that Editor
Jones was not used to and the latter was
not In a condition to know what kind of
an argument the former put up. If the
Journal and The Bee can kiss and make
up there surely ought to be good prospects
for a republican victory in Nebraska this
fall.
A CHANGE ISf SNNT1MENT.
Energetic Leadership of Mr. Taft ia
Demonstrated hr Reanlts.
New York Sun.
People are observing a considerable
change during the last month or two In
the contemporary estimate of Mr. Taft's
personal efficiency as an exeoutive. This
change is no more to be- Ignored by any
candid citizen than the fact that lost
week was cold and rainy while this week
has been hot and dusty. Out of the tur
moil In congress, with the assistance of
noteworthy leadership In the senate and
an adequate support among the more force
ful and senslhlsz of representatives, the
president has brdHkht about a situation
for the repubttein" party in the political
sense and with reference to the coming
vote in November which could scarcely
have seemed possible to his most optlmlstlo
forethought a few weeks ago.
Talks for people
To Illustrate the wonderful possibil
ities of advertising a name take
"Regal ShoeB," "Ivory Soap" or "Huy
ler's Candles." How much would you
pay for the exclusive use of either one
of thoBe names, Mr. Merchant, suppos
ing they were for sale and you had an
unlimited bank account? One, two,
three as many million dollars as they
would ask?
This is a good time to answer the
question a good many people ask me:
"Why do you talk about national ad
vertisers so much?"
I talk about national advertising
successes because they depend upon
advertising to sell their goods, and
through advertising are selling their
goods In every section of the country.
They have won over against odds that
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TERS0NAL NOTES. '
Senator Gore, the sightless statesman,
doesn't eeem to have any bV.r.A sll tor
lobbyists to apprcch.
Ira Bennett, the Washington editor.
his hobby is to own a second-hand book
store and watch the old books come In and
never let 'em go out.
The heir to a Pittsburg fortune has been
found In a Chicago Jail. The prompt step
to secure his pardon Illustrates anew the
saving grace of ready coin.
As soon as the aviators are abl) to un
dertake the work they must begin target
practice. They must sail aloft and see how
near they can come to striking a battle
ship aaodshlps with a bean bag.
The retirement from active military duties
this month of Colonel E. G. Fechet re
culls to mind the fact he Is among the
last of a group of men who led wild
charges and forlorn hopes against the In
dians on the western prairies.
If the women of New York can accom
plish It Mrs. Klla Flagg Young of Chicago,
will be the first woman president of the
National Educational association. They
are working hard for her election at the
forty-etgrth annual convention to be held
soon in Boston.
G. A. Flagg, a British pensioner, who
haa bought a farm of 130 acres at Dry
Run, near Portsmouth, O., aaka the state
board of agriculture to certify as to Us
suitability for- farming so that he can
commute his pension to get money to
operate the farm. The British government
advances money In this way It proof Is
shown that It Is to be properly used. A
shilling for each day Is retained out of
the pension.
MIRTHFUL REMARKS.
"A Dlcture manufactory Is naturally a
suspicious kind of business."
"Why so"
"Because it deals In so many frame
ups." Baltimore American.
"Bill, let's go Into this aide show.
There's a man In here with a beard five
feet long."
Five feet long? O, ratst"
"No. it ain't. Bill; It's all his own beard."
Chicago' Tribune.
"It must be Irksome," said the visitor to
the penal Institution, "to remain hero and
be designated merely by a number."
"Yes," replied the once affluent Inmate.
"A number is an annoyance. But you
don't have to carry a horn and a lot of
lanterns." Washington Star.
"Paw, what Is the great continental di
vide?1 "
"It's the final division of the continent,
my son, between the Morgana and the Gug
genhelms." Chicago Record-Herald.
Mra. Gnagg I don't feel at alt like my
self tonight.
Gnagg Then we ought to have a pleas
ant evening. Boston Transcript.
"What has become of that actress who
said she would rather darn stockings than
be on the stage?"
"She's back before the footlights. If the
company strikes a seaaon that makes
walking imperative ahe can find more
stockings to darn on the road than at
home." Washington Star,
"Madam if you had a child to weep over."
suggested the lawyer, "the alimony might
be bigger."
"But I have none."
"At least you have a dog?"
"Alas, no."
"Then, there's nothing else to do. We'll
have to take the rubber plant into court."
Kansas City Journal.
THE WEATHER.
W. J. Lampton in New York Tribune.
Oh, say,
Uon't you love the weather this way?
The keen, crisp air of the bright, sharp
days,
The crinkling crack of the bedded snow.
The white, cold touch of the sun s short
rays,
The fresh, clean breath of the winds that
blow?
And hear the merry sleigh bells,
Jingling far and near.
Each its cheery story tells,
Hinging sweet and clear.
Ain't it all fine?
Ain't It the goods,
From the town's white streets
To the cold, brown woods?
Shiver and snake and blow on your fingers.
Bundle up warm and face the breeze,
Bright blue skies
And dancing eyes
Don't have much show in days like these
Do they 7
who sell things
no local advertiser has to consider.
The local mercLant can, and does,
meet and mingle with his customers
many of them are his personal friends.
His personality Is a part of his com
munity and he can reap greater re
turns proportionally from his adver
tising than can the man or firm adver
tising from a distance.
I cite national advertisers who made
their names worth a million or more
dollars through advertising, because I
want to show the merchants of Omaha
the wonderful possibilities of good ad
vertising and good name.
You can make your name your most
valuable asset you can make your
name so valuable through good adver
tising of good merchandise that you
wouldn't sell it at any price.
It's a
Waste
Of Time
and Money.
To try to make musicians
of dispositions not musically
inclined nor possessed of
temperament and patience
required to perfect the artist.
acquire the rudiments of music
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