THE BEE: OMAHA,
WEDNESDAY. JULY 27, 1910.
'Hie oniaiia Daily Bee.
Kol'SUED BV EDWARD ROSEWATER.
VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR.
Entered at Orrahe poatoffic econd-
clam matter.
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Daily lice (without unUay), per wk...loo
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Dlly ltee ami Huodsy, one year
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Evening Doe (without Mundey). per week-c
Evrnlng Dee (with Nundy, per wk....wc
Sunday tee, one year ,'S2
tt.ituruay Bee, one year
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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
Ul.l. nf N.hrili tlnilKlaa COUntY.
George B. Tssr.huck, treasurer ot The Bee
Publishing Company, being duly wor"j
says that the actual number ot tun a no
,.e ti,. n.ilv. Morning.
Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the
month or June, Mil). wl a "'
.43,700
J.
4,iao
.44.&60
.41,730
.44,180
.41,660
4fl,B0 '
.43.700
.43,830
.44,000
.43,090
.44,480 .
.41,400
.44,400
. MO
.4,410
. .44,810
. ,44,BtO
. .41,000
. .44, tOO
. .44,80
..44,710
. .44,770
. .ca,ow
Zd .....
tV 4
10
. .4o,ltO
..4M00
. .45,410
..48,000
..44,340
. .44,S80
Total
Returnod
.1,881,600
Cop lee.
10,380
Nee Total 1,811AM
Dally Average 43,704
'GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK,
Treasurer,
Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before me this 30th day or June, isio.
M. P. WALKER,
' Notary Public
Babarlv-ra leaeiaaT in ltr tens
aorarlly ' ahonld hTC The Be
tailed to them. Addreee will he
clianfted as often as requested.
Even
a little.
a local thunder shower helps
Oh; by the way, have
that 'fly? ! '
you caught
' Well, Old Sol seems to be playing
no favorites, anyway.
"Two men electrocuted
Sing." It is an old song.
at Sing
Even the weather man hag proved
his come-back possibilities.
Let's pee, Is there a port, where Dr
Crippah has not yet landed
Speaking of the oost of Ivlng, do you
ever think of the Joy of living 7
This Is sot the first time Mr. Bryan
has stood Arm while the party drifted
away from him.
The Charleston News and Courier
announces "Figs are ripe.". Wake us
at persimmon time.
Dr. Stanley Hill says a girl of 16
has no religion. Does the doctor
know all the girls of 16T
omana get- ou tne aviation map
with a record for last starts. Come
on in, boys; the air la fine.
"Will the Insurgents destroy T. R.I
asks the Washington Post. Not be
yond recognition is our guess.
Air kings and finance kings look
alike to King Ak-Sar-Ben, and all bow
before him with the same deference.
"Waiswcrth, Nv., afire," said the
reports. It is only twenty-five miles
from Reno. Wonder it did not catch
long ago.
Beef, ice and light are scarce along
the line of the Canadian Grand Trunk!
as a . result of the strike. The air la
net yet affected.
Admiral Henry Walton Grlnnell,
marrying at the discretionary age of
74, probably means to get an early
start for the lite beyond.
Mr. Hearst, is said to have promised
his support to Congressman Bulzer for
governor, which ought to enhance the
value of the republican nomination.
It would have been safer, perhaps,
for Dr. Crlppea, the alleged wife
slayer, to have swam the ocean than
to have attempted to escape la a
steamship.
."But they are In a pitifully small
minority," says the World-Herald, re
ferring to the "immediate friends and
followers of William J. Bryan." Can
such things be?
. With so much oil In reach, it doea
seem )ike John P. Rockefeller might
have calmed the troubled waters be
tween him and his brother Frank in
less than thirty years.
Christian Eadaavorers of St Louis
want the kiss barred from the moving
picture curtains. That if one objec
tion tbey cannot urge against the Jef
fries-Johnson pictures.
Those insurgents are , making alow
lirftdway, it seems, contriving some-
ihtiiK that the colonel will "fall for.'
lie ouly laughs at their latest proposi
tlpn of an alliance between him and
Br van. So do the rest of us.
Bminesi Prosperity.
Stock market flurries come and go
durlng periods of great prosperity u
well as In times of severe depression,
and are Influenced by extraneous
dltlons, so that It Is scarcely fair to
accept them as an Index to business,
Minr causoa operate to change the
status of speculative trade in a twlnk-
ling and Wall street Is a barometer
rather
than a cause In the business
world.
Railroad gross earnings form a
sure index to actual conditions ma
this being true, we must conclude
that real business Is on tne upwara
grade, for railroad gross earnings are
inclined that way. Taking fifty-three
of the leading railroads the country
over, the Financial Chronicle, a weekly
publication decidedly friendly to the
railroads, shows an Increase In aggre-
gate gross earning of 18,856,824, or
16.14 per cent for the month of June
over tne corresponding momn iai
year and these receipts exceed any
for a June since 1907, when every
record was broken. But, we find
from still later compilation, that this
increase Is still going on and for the
first two weeks in July there was a
total railroad gross earning of 1 1 5.-
418.8T1, for all roads reporting, which
repreeenta a per cent gain.
The relation of the railroads to gen-
cral trade Is so close and sensitive as
to preclude the possibility of serious
discrepancies.
Wall street does not admit tnat
conditions are bright, but it could find
some evidence If it chose. Hammer- thorltles, indicating that it was his in
fng down of stocks and securities Is tentlon to make his primary campaign
too often done for private purposes to on the issue of the stats against
be accepted as sincere demonstra- Omaha. He realises that by his du
tion. People prefer more tangible evl- pUeity he has lost any right to expect
dence than that before tbey will be-
lleve they are In the midst of a panic.
jilting the Immigrants.
Uncle Sam stands at the ports of en-
try wth a great sieve Into which every his "sincerity" he will show to the peo
allen landing upon American shores pie outside of Douglas county that he,
falls and he shifts It to separate the
good from the bad, the desirable from law will allow him to go, and has de
the undesirable, getting the very' best manded that the republican members
sort of results. Last year, or for the
fiscal year Just closed, 1,041,670 for-1
eigners fell through this screen, while
16,04 stayed in It These .16,904
represented idiots, criminals, near-
criminals, paupers, beggars and dls-
eased persons, while the million were
apparently men and women of sound)
bodies and minds come for the serious
purpose of making a living and being
good citizens.
It is' a great system that separates
the desirable from the undesirable in I
this matter of immigration, and while
not infallible, It operates with aston-
lahing succew and is fortified by other
regulations . reetirymg its mistakes.
we necg tuese iorei-a-ior peopie in
the United States and could use more
than we are getting. As a matter of
fact, in spite of the common notion
that w are being overrun by them,
this number of 1,041,670 is 90,000
less than the number' of Immigrants
the year before, a tremendous falling
off. This undoubtedly will be a mat
ter of much surprise to the general
public "because a million foreigners a
year looks so large.. Those that are
coming are of the sturdy European na-
tiona.cmeny, tnat nave jno otner object
tnan lppusirjr oore na as raj)-
Idly as they come they are finding pm-
Ployment at mucn better -wages and
living unoer mucn newer conoitiops
than tbey ever found at home and ,of
course in time tney naturally undergo
corresponding improvement.
- The government's report shows that
the doleful predictions of some of our
political economists pf few year ago
are not being fulfilled as to the Fill-
pinos ana nawanans, ior in one year
only alxty-one Pacific islanders of all
Kinos nsve come to pur snores. Tnose
peopi, therefore, who predicted that
wun me annexation or Hawaii ana tne
acquisition oi tne rniuppmes we
would soon be overrun by the pauper
later cf these peoples have not quite
made good on their pessimism.
Crop rilarei Hare Value
Adversity generally brings its own
recompense and so crop failures, par-
tial or in whole, are of value as teach
ing people the lesson pf thrift and
economy. This year In certain sec-
tlons pf the country some crops will
not be up to normal, though we seem
to have got past sucn a thing as a
complete crop failure. Already there
is ample evidence to prove that not
only farmers, but others are going to
derive much profit from this partial
failure, profit, which may not be sub
ject to computation In dollars and
cents, but which, nevertheless, has an
Intrinsic money value.
Continuous bumper crop seasons
have enriched farmera and others, but
at the same time they have made them
a little less thoughtful of the tomor-
row. Money has been spent for many
things not altogether needed on the
farms, and banks nave been exceed-
Jngly generoua with their loans. Now
they art drawing in very decidedly
on that policy, while farmers are likely
to spend only wnat money tnis year
tbey need to spend. It should hot be
desirable to pursue tne lines or
frugality to the limit ot crippling any
form of legitimate business, but it Is
pot crippling business to discourage
waste or excessive expenditures.
Nothtng has done as much to bring
about scientific, intensified methods
pf farming aa crop failures. They
have driven farmers and scientists to
the necessity of devjslng means of in-
creasing outputs. . They have led to a
better system of treating the soil,
selecting the seed and harvesting the
product, as well as marketing it. The
old way of farming was to plow, sow
and depend oa the rain and sun to do
the rest. Today we are producing
many fold more per acre with com per a-
tire Indifference to toe sun and the
rain; we are going to the soil, with
con-hwhlch we hare become more or less
acquainted, and treating It In such
ways as to compel it to give us what
it has. And this never would hare
been brought about so speedily and
successfully without crop failures.
riayinr Politics.
Governor Shallenberger will deceive
no one but Himself in nis latest
maneuver. The evidences of bad
faith In his assault on the fire and
police commissioners and the chief of
police of Omaha is the most apparent
feature of the case. He has carefully
singled out the republicans on the
board, omitting any reference to
Mayor Dahlman, whose public pro-
nouncementg certainly entitle him to
be considered along with the others
M oeing oppose to me governor 8 pet.
theories of law enforcement. Messrs
Hoye, Hunter and Wappich have con
slstently and persistently stood for the
enforcement of the Slocumb law and
the daylight closing law, while Mayor
Dahlman has persistently and Insist
ently declared in favor of a wide-open
town
The animus of the present outburst
ia easily understood. It Is simply an
effort on part of Shallenberger to
strengthen himself against Dahlman In
the primary fight. Several weeks ago
the . governor delivered himself of a
spectacular "warning" to Omaha's au-
support at the primaries In Omaha and
Douglas county. It Is, therefore, his
plan to go before the state and parade
Omaha as an iniquitous center of law
breakers and law-deflers, and to prove
at least, has proceeded as far as the
of the Fire and police board, elected
by the citizens of Omaha, be removed
from office
Two years ago Governor Sballen
berger played both ends to the middle
and was elected to his present office by
a combination of the anti-Saloon
league and brewery support. Whether
he can succeed In his present effort to
dupe the people again cap only be told
when the votes are cast
A Signboard Suggestion
A community, no less than an Indi
vidual, shows Its up-to-dateness by be-
lD .jert t0 appreciate and adapt new
ldtM wherever It may And them. Here
j, 4 suggestion that comes to us by
wfty ot Topeka, where the Topeka
Motor league has undertaken to erect
n the nature of guide posts on
all the' roads around Topeka
It is explained that these signs will
be erected In a few weeks and placed
on poets along the roads leading into
the city to show travelers, whether In
fcutoB or not wnlch are the pest roads
iadlng int0 Topeka. The signs are
to b 12 Dv 18 inches and will be
erected, 200 In number, bearing, be
3,deg tn, words, "Tha Best Road to
ToDeka." the shield of the Topeka
otor league, which Is a circle in
Bjuari ftJul wilct jbleld is to be dls-l
pUysd llkewiM an the radiator of the
motor car of eacn member of the
jeagu
Wft ut not gdv!sd whether, there
any ..beBt roadM Into Omaha, but
there are many roads into Omaha
whlch ,tranger8 would more readUjr
reC0gnUe and follow if equipped with
gulae posts. If it is desirable to hate
gtreet algn on thoroughfares In the
city It woxxU t99m desirable. leo. to
nav, al0Ilg occasionally on the country
roadi leading to the city,
Who ii to Blame T
When the head of one of the large
Chicago banks broke the Institution
by hypothecating funds to his own
use, general surprise yas expressed
that such a thing could toe done, but
wpat about great defalcations com-
mltted by subordinate officers of
banks T Is not that a matter of far
more surprise?
In New York City a young cashier
geta away with 1(00,000 and a mere
bookkeeper of a trust company in
Louisville wipes out the company's
entire surplus of more than a million
doUarg by a series .of mlsapproprla-
tlons. In each case the defalcations
covered a long period of time
How can such thing he done? Is
the question that must force itself
upon the public. How is it possible
that a cashier, to say nutting of
bookkeeper, can rob a bank blind
without the responsible beads of the
bank finding it out? And 1n neither
0f these cases, no more than in many
othera, Is there any suggestion that of
fleers higher up -had any previous
knowledge of the peculations.
n is difficult to read of these
frauds without coming to the con
elusion that the system of business
that makes such things so easily poa
I ,ibie is wrong, rsdlcally wrong and
that higher authority than the man
wu0 commits the deed Is to blame for
not removing the possibility. Banking
should Jbe so fortified that no in-
dividual, subordinate or otherwise,
could carry on such a system of
peculations. It seems strsnge that
Wtn all the splendid science and klll
we put into the business of banking,
w have so long left this channel cf
temptation and potential crime open,
yjiere should be no delay In closing It.
rrrrr?Trrr
The efforts of the reformers to st
cure what they call a "clean city"
would appear much better in public If
the complaints had been taken to! the
police court and sworn to Instead of
being filed with the governor.
The reports in the recent conven
tions held in Omaha are most gratify
ing. Not only were the visitors hand
somely treated by the cltlsens, but the
committees In charge of the events
find that their cash balance Is on the
right side of the ledger. Omaha's
reputation as a convention city has al
ways been of the highest, and a few
more such successes as those recently
recorded will place the city in a class
by itself.
The frantic efforts made at .Grand
Island to agree on a straddle Is an in
dication ot the purpose of the Ne
braska democratic leaders. They
know full well that they cannot win if
they take a positive stand on either of
the great Issues, and hope to secure
success by again practicing deception
This is their stock-in-trade.
The government has ceased giving
out the amounts we spend annually In
Europe for "Old Masters." It now
announces how much the expenditures
for art have Increased this year over
laat. The last returns were '.'from
424.000,000 to ia.060,000." Have
to even estimate the Increase.
The agitation for regulation of au
tomobile trafflo should not he per
mitted to die out, because no one has
been killed within a day or two by
some reckless driver. The demand for
the control of auto speeding Is Just as
insistent now as it ever was.
t'o-Operatlre Booatla.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Eighty pf the Nebraska newspapers have
united la a scheme to advertise the act
that the state has ether resources -than
Colonel Bryan.
Popular lsmur Sport.
Indianapolis News.
Mora freight rates have been suspended
until November 1.. Indeed, tfcis Is getting
to be -one of the moat popular summer
sports among the affable and ever ac-
ponwrlodaUng railroads.
The Latest Com hi a.
New Tors: Tribune.
Some socialistic geniuses are organising
a co-operative go-as-you-please colony of
broken down artists and men who have
failed In everything which they have un
dertaken. The idea seems to be that col
lective inefficiency will be less inefficient
than individual inefficiency.
Rewards of Foresight.
Philadelphia Record.
Minnesota did not distribute its natural
endowments among speculators as fast as
it could. It held on ,to them and leased
them or otherwise made them serve the
public Interests., The result is that It does
not need to levy any more taxes, and it is
bothered to knpw what to do with its sur
plus. Weedlnsr oat the Bureaacrata.
Chiofgo Tribune.
No edfniiMstBBiUve reform of President
Taft is more -eweful and more neoeeaary
than his breaking, up of the bureauorades.
His latest aot ia 4o destroy the system by
which certain -effioer of the marine corps
held their desks for years. Practically all
officers are now to be subject to assign
ment by the commandant -
The type of bureaucrat who doesn't go
to aea but during yara of authority on the
staff grows a fine crop of theories and
prejudices and religious respect for red tape
Is being weeded out. He is the curse of a
navy In times of peace and a national peril
when war eomea. His brother in the army
ia departing also, and we should presently
have both 'Services administered by me a
who test theory with experlenoe. '
ICCKECY OP TUB CBMSVS.
Iaojalarlr Paople PaJl to
Get lafor-
matloa DoalroS.
Boston Transcript
The delusion that the census is a great
detective aajency and that the director
knows .everything about everybody in the
United States springs perennial in tho in
qulaitlve breast A. woman whose husband
ran away from her years ago thinks that
with the- particulars she supplies, that he
'went out west" and Is aald to have mar
ried there a "Swedish woman," Director
Durand ought to be able to bring him to
book. Of courae plenty of answers ero ob
vlous. The census is often the reeort of
poison who desire to fill a gap In their
genealogical table. One quest of this kind
In which the aid of the late Caroll V
M'rlirht was involved wrs pmiiieUu. Th
applioant, an elderly man, wished to ascer
tain the maiden name of his mother. He
had been orphaned of both parents at an
early age and brought up by strangers
He remembered his father but not his
mother. The search was Ineffectual, owing
to (he vagueness of the applicant's infor
mation, and the looseness of old-time reg-ts-
tratlon pf births, deaths and marriages,
These instanoes are illustrative of the
popular demand that everything which
the census-takers find out should be
made available to the general public,
The policy of the government Is entirely
different; it vlftualy promises secrecy
to the individual whom it approaches.
Results would be far less satisfactory If
all the Individual data went Into public
record, because so many people-for good
reasons or otherwise would seek to evade
giving the information desired. The an
thorltles have accordingly felt that they
had to choose between Information evasive
ly given, but open to the public, and real
fao'a secured under the virtual pledge of
secrecy.
Our Birthday Book
fair ST, 1810.
Ollle M. Jamee, oongreasman from Xen
tuky, and one of the democratic house
leader, we born July 37, 1ST1. He 1
native of Kentucky, of giant stature and
Is an ardent Bryanlte end haa performed
more than oaee for the democrat In Ne
braaka.
Oeorge Foster Peabcdy, banker and phll
anthroplst, 1 U years old. He is a native
of Colutntui, Oa.. and ha baen especially
active In connection with the southern
negro educational movement, being at th
ame time a Wall street banker.
Oeorge W. Harvey, one of th editor of
The Twentieth Century Farmer, wa born
July 17, KM, at Unlonnort, O. He 1 an
authority on agriculture and live stock
and a member of the Slate Board of agrl
culture.
Frank C. Best th real eatate man in
the New York Life building, 1 Just IT. He
wa bora in Blue Or. Ia., and na been
in business in Omaha since tat. He repr
sen ted this county la the legislature la W07
Around New York
SUpplee the Oarveat ot Idfe
aa See la the rel Aaeetea
MeevayoUs twaa Bay y.
The upward flight ot price of food arti
cles from the time they leave the producer
until they reach the "ultimate consumer,"
who patronises the lobster palace of New
York, Is a species of grand and lofty avia
tion rarely, If ever, affected by wind cur
rent. A writer in Collier's Weekly Illus
trates a few details. For a six-pound
planked steak served for $4 the retail dealer
reocVes $1.38, the wholesaler 99 cents, the
cattleman 4s cents. A portion ot two lamb
chops, worth T oenU at wholesale and 3
cents on the hoof, costs the guest W cents.
For a short pint of raspberries he pays
the shippers' price for five plnta. Ills fl.SO
portion of asparagus could have been ob
tained In the market for cents and form
the farmer for 19 cents. A cucumber worth
IVi cents Increases to SO cents by the time
It reaches the restaurant patron. Grapefruit
appreciate more than BOO per oent In transit,
WO if comparisons are made with prices at
the docks. If farmers were paid for their
potatoes at the rate charged on certain
hotel bills of fare they would receive 199
a bushel. The coat at a high-class reeteu
rant ot a single egg, transformed. It I
true, by all the chef's art, equal the cost
of a dosen in the market. It is estimated
that an entire beef carcass yields an aver
age return to a Fifth avenue restaurant of
fl.M a pound.
"I trust It will be many years before I
have to wear crape on my sleeve," said
the city salesman, quoted by the Sun, "but
when that sad time does come perhaps I
shall profit by a tip I picked up the other
day in a tailor shop. A customer gave an
order to sew crape n his sleeve while he
waited. '
" "Who is deadr the tailor asked.
" 'My wife,' said the man.
" 'First or second?' said the tailor.
" 'Second,' said the man.
"Without further remarks on either side
the tailor sewed on the crape. When the
man put his coat on he looked at the
mourning band doubtfully.
" "What did you put it away down there
forr he said. 'Why didn't you put It in
the usual place between the shoulder and
elbow r
" 'Because that Isn't the proper place
for mourning for a second wife,' said the
tailor. 'A second wife calls for the mourn
ing band between the elbow and the hand,
and any tailor who knows his business will
put It there.' "
When the Empire City Racing association
closes Its gate on August 3 it is considered
certain that New Tork will have seen the
last of thoroughbred racing for a long time
to come. True there will be the regular
thirty days, meeting at Saratoga and there
is also a chance that the futurity will be
run over the Sheepshead Bay race track
on August 30, but there will be little com
fort for the New York rgce-goer in this.
The big game Is at an end in this state
and the victory rests with Governor
Hughes. Horse racing. It is now admitted
by the owners of the tracks, cannot suo
ceed without betting and when the re
cently enacted laws go into effect on Sep
tember 1, it will be impossible for the bet
ting fraternity to continue to lay odds.
The new ' law makes "oral betting" as
much of a crime as "bookmaking" and
the track owners are held responsible for
violations. Heretofore the mere posting of
signs stating that gambling was not per
mitted has protected the owners, but un
der the new law the individual directors are
now held responsible for the enforcement
of the statute and none ia willing to take
chaooe, so the fall meeting Will 1 be de
clared off. This means the end of the rac
ing industry as a money making propo-4
aitlon.
City Sanitary Superintendent Bensel
point out that the statistics drawn up by
the health department of the Infant mor
tallty in New York city in the first part
of the summer furnish an unusually strik
ing uemonsiraiian or tne wisdom of a
mother's paring for her own child rather
than intrusting it to the ministrations of
others. Fully half of the deaths occurred
not In the every-day homes, but within
the scientific well pf institutions due.
according to Dr. Bensel, to the fact that
mere oaoiea muai De pottie-ied. it was
found, too, that all adverse condition to
the contrary notwithstanding, the death
rate la the crowded section of the east
side la camparatively low, for there the
mothers are forced by economic conditions
to nurse tneir own bablea, while in the
city's more luxurious homes the Infant
death rate was far higher.
A woman with a grouch walked into the
First precinct station, Hoboken, and drop-
pea a Dig paper-covered parcel on ' the
floor In front of the desk.
Here are my husband' clothes!" she
snapped. "He's left me, and J haveo't any
use for them."
"Neither have we," aald Sergeant Pat
rick SulUvan. "Better take them back
home."
"X won't-da anything of the kind!" she
shrieked. "My husband was a cltlsen of
this town, and now that he's skipped out
it's up to the polios to take car of bis
dud."
"Tbls Isn't a second hand clothing store,"
the sergeant said, "and you bad better do
a I auggeat Take 'em away, please."
Th woman said aha wouldn't touch th
thing, but she did. Hie tucked the big
bundle under her arm and walked out with
her head in th air.
Five minute later a small boy' found the
bundle in a city hall flower bad around
the comer tram the police station and
cop took It In for safekeeping.
"Gee," exclaimed Sullivan, as he ftowed
the parcel behind th desk- "You can't ge
ahead of a woman,"
Although th act providing for state
hood for Arlsona and New Mexico Is only
a few day old, a flag ha already mad
It appearance In New York, bearing the
tar, Which represented th baby state.
It wa displayed In a downtown office,
ana wa proudly pointed out by the owner
a th work ot his wife, who lived in
Arlsona Ions before it aspired to state
hood. Th largest flag concern In New
York, when asked. If It would place th
forty-eight-star flag on sal said that th
present stock having fort-six stars would
have to do. "We have really no right to
make the forty-eight-star flag," It was
aid, "until we receive word of the change
from th War department When this
reaches us th flag will stay unobanged
for some time probably, because, with
the exception of Alaska, there will be no
more territories to add. If precedent
followed the forty-elg ht-sur flag ordsr will
not ge into effect until July 4, 1U."
Peaea TalU aad War Activities.
Philadelphia Ledger.
Over th world 1 manifest th urgenoy
of th d eel re for peace. Instruction that
th beat way to avoid r 1 to be pre
pared for It has sunk deep Into th heart
of nations. Argentina. Braall and the!
leaser nalghbore are buying gutis, the de
mands of each power limited only by It
cash or eredlt On the other oontlnent, Tur
key, filled with a filial glow; Bervta and
Roumanla, yearning to dwell In unity In an
untroubled world, are cramming their arse
nate with rapid fire weapon. Th future
promises to be almost dully quiet.
PERSONAL NOTES.
The patent tffire has given a man the ex
clusive rlR-ht to manufacture an aquarium
which .shows canary bird and gold fiah
living together In the watrr aa a hsppy
family.
The callow chap who haa sued for breach
of promise a rich Connecticut widow of
year and experience explains that he In
not after money, but wants hi Injured
feeling caed.
A Nw York woman threatened to throw
a pearl and diamond necklace Into the sea
rather than pay duties ah deemed unjust.
Of course she did not throw It. fo violent
effort wa reqnlrtd to prevent her from
throwing it.
True courtesy still finds Its exemplifica
tion in the south. We Just learn from De
catur, Ala., that a prlaoner arrested on the
charge of using the mails to defraud was
permitted a day or two ago to attend a
social function.
Tb Pittsburg divorcee whose assailants
smeared news column for years back and
failed, ha married on of the reporter
ho defended her honor throughout the
contest. Having an income of 100.008 a
year in her own rlsh, the bridegroom wa
persuaded to take a few day off ana x-
Th mayor of Lawrence, Mass., having th
mischance to be In Jail waa much hampered
In the discharge of hi official duties. Ia
fact hi keeper enjoined htm, th keeper
having duties of his own .and th two
conflicting. At last th mayor expressed
a willingness to resign, and the keeper not
only relented, but brought pen and paper
and seemed delighted to blight
Prof. H. J. Bolley, after thirteen year of
experimental work at th Unlverelty or
North Dakota, announce that he ha dis
covered fiv distinct type of parasite
wbich cause wheat to languish. Crop rota
tion which out off the food supply of these
bug kill them off. The ultimate con
aumer may yet route away from hie para
site by turning into a whirling dervish.
Under th peculiar rule of Jutic In
vogue In Chicago, all parties concerned in
pinching the city treasury for 346,984 for
excavating bogu "shale rock in a sewer
trench have been released by th court
withput bothering a Jury. It wa shown
that ther wa no "shale rock" excavated
and that the contractor got th money,
but the court Insisted that th state should
prove that the contractor had personal
knowledge of the Xraudulency of the claim.
On this rock the prosecution wa wrecked.
Tb money ha not been returned..
A POPULAR POLICY.
Whoop of Joy lor Preateet Tair
Two Months Yacatloa Flan.
Philadelphia Ledger.
One of the Taft pollclea which will be
universally approved is that of two months'
vacation for everybody. The president
could not have chosen a better time than
the end of July to promulgate xni at
tractive proposition nor a better place than
Bar Harbor, where two months is counted
only a short vscatlon.
It is true that midsummer I th only
time when the" denizen of war Jtiamor
are called upon to exert themselves, but
that illustrates all the better the merit
of the general proposition. It i expected,
of course, that during the two months' sus
pension the Innkeepers, boatmen and gen
eral purveyors should continue te work;
but they can take thoir holiday at any
other time of year. If they can confine a
year's work to two or three month the rest
of u might get it into ten.
At the more leisurely pace of former
generations, the human machinery easily
ran fifty weeks In the year; now we run
so fast and run down so soon that w need
at least two month in the twelve to "tank
up." Since not all of u earn enough in
ten month to last us for twelve,' or can
easily be spared so long from our places
In the general organisation, the only truly
economical plan would be for us ail to
atop together. A few vwould have to keep
on working to provide for pur dally per
sonal needs, but that is a mere detail.
Think what a want of futile energy might
be spared if we all gave up the pretense
of working and carrying on business
through August.
The vacation must be simultaneous to
Talks for people
I leave It to the subscribers of The
Pee:
There are seven music stores,
twenty-four jewelry stores, twenty-
eight clothing stores, 282 grocery
stores, fifty-nine bakeries, thirty-six
laundries, twenty-eight furniture
houses, 15 9 markets, seventy-three
drug stores, 122 restaurants, twenty-
three shoe stores, twenty hardware
and paint dealers, four general stores,
twenty-six merchant tailors, sixty-nine
confectloners, seven National banks,
two savings banks, ten trust compan-
lee, 274 insurance companies, 234 real
estate dealers, twenty-two photog-
rsphcrg In business here in Omaha.
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t MARKETING y TELEPHONE
USE THE BELL TELEPHONE THESE HOT DAYS
rr T should fllwpys be at your elbow. It does a Bcore of
errands while a me&benger is doing one. You come to ac
cept telephone service as a matter of course, lika the air
you breathe or the water you drink
Your Bell Telephone perforais these daily services of
neighborhood communication, and it does more it is the
unit in the universal system and enables you to reach any
one any time within the rafige of the Long Distance Service.
ink it, efleoU., VC boul4 Jut put us
th shutters and enjoy ourselves. Nobody
would remain at work but the politicians,
hi
pitperi
Join
itlciam
theii
off, and the freedom from annoyance
would then b complete. The cessation,
It la plain, should be univeianl and compulsory-
I'nttl that can bo brouirht about. It must
b feared that very many ot u wilt hav
to be content with the old-fahlned allot
ment of two weeks. Some of ti are even
grateful for that. But this need not lessen
our enthusiasm for the president's propo
sition, and It would be quite Impertlent
to remind him tr.at he less than anybody
tire practice what he preaches.
LINES TO A LAUGH.
"Do you know. Adelaide' la foolish netith
to beitevo in fortune told in aea or coffe
cupx."
Well, are there grounds for It r' Balti
more American.
Pendleton Whst are the two greatest
wlnhea of a niouhal student?
Kefer Give it out. What are they?
Pendleton To put "fr." before his enn
arid "r." after th naines of other peonle.
-Chicago New.
"We've gnt to move."
"What th matter? Don't you like the
house? "
"Oh, the house Is all light, but the people
on each aid of use own an automobile and
my wife can't lt on the front porch with
out retting the headache." Detroit Free
Pre. ; .
"This Rostand barnyard eras ha gone
far enough," said Mr. "Irius Barker.
"What' the matterT"
"My wife want a atring of real gg In
stead of a rope of pearls." Washington
Star.
"What kind of cigar will you have'
asked th dealer. "Light, medium or
strong?"
"Strong ones, by all means." said the
blushing damael. "Strong enough not to
break in the young man's pocket, you
know." Washington Star.
"I don't approve of the srord obey In
the marriage ceremony," said the heiress.
"That' all right," replied the earl. "You
can give your own instruction to th min
ister If you will let my lawyer draw up the
papers." Washington Star.- , . .
McCarthy wa boasting c-f th proml
ence of hi family In bygone age. "But
there were no McCarthy in Noah' ark,"
aid O'Brien.
"No," said McCarthy, "our family wa
very exclusive In those day, and had
yachts of their own." National Monthly.
"Now," aald Mr. Bunker, who wa In
structing her In the myeterte ot golf, "you
kndw what a tee' I. Now than, th duties
of a caddie"
"Oh, of course," ah Interrupted, "th
caddy what you put th tea In. I know
what a tea caddi i." Cathollo Standard
and Time.
r
"Pet cost a deal to feed, don't they? I
have an Angora that drink a pint of cram
a day."
"I have a pet that takes several peeks of
food at one meal."
"Graolous! Is It an elephant?"
"No; a canary." Baltimore American.
WHAT'S Y0ITR HUBBY!
Newark Evening Kewa.
Where' re you going, friend, o fat?
What' your hurry?
Think of all the Joy you've passed
In your nurry;
Take It easy, spare a minute for a plaea
ant, friendly talk, -There
are blessings all about yoA It 7t
travel at a walk.
There ar amlle to cur your' worrlaa,
kindly word your oa res to balk.
What's your JburryJ j
Won't the prise you strive for fceept
Muet -you hurry t
It It won't tt' aurely cheap.
Cut the hurry!
Many year tb world haa waited for yeaxr'
message or your song .
If the world stilt waits a little. It Wffl
likely get along, ' ''
And the song win be the eweeter and
the messag Just a strong.
What's your hurryt
Life reward u day by day
What' your hurry?
Don't forget to take your pay . , .
In your hurry.
By and by. you say? Rut listen', by and
by you'll hav to rest
With a ton of earth and granite pressing
firmly on your chest
As e dellcet reminder that te travel low
Is bet it
What' your hurryt ' J
w
who sell things
How many of them can you name
off-hand?
Of how many can you say: "They
keep so and so good,, and charge such
ifb tinny seesnn It, K and the tie- 1
, thst nover stop, lr tne newspaper a
ud In tho grneral vacation, the pol- f
ins would probably have to Mop, tO"..r
r means of communlcatlrm being om
and such prices?" ' '' .
Mr. Business Man, there are 125,000 f
people in Omaha, 31,000 families,
How many of them are you custom-
ere?
How many of them know anything,
about your goods, your place of butVjr
ness, what goods you handle, the serv-
ice you offer, the prices you charge?
There is lust one way of getting in
touch with all the people in Omaha,
and that Is by advertising; la the sews-
papers everybody reads.
NEBRASKA TELEPHONE CO.
Every DV Telephone is the Center
of the Syetem
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