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TIIK TIKE: "OMAHA, SATURDAY. AUCHTRT 13. 1010.
'Hie Omaha Daily Bee.
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STATEMENT Of CIRCULATION,
fitste of Nebraiika. Douclas County,
George B. Tzschuck, treasurer of The nee
Publishing Company, being duly sorn.
says that the actual numoet of full sna
complete- coplea of The Dally, Morning,
Evening and tiunday bee printed during lie
BlOntft 01 July. 1910. VII a ionona
1 44.970
. ..........43,400
.-. 41,330
4.... 68,900
49.730
S 41,860
r 41,830
8.... 41,540
41,640
10... 49,400
11..... 41,860
18.... .41,610
13...., 41,630
14.......... 41,740
15.... 41.530
11 40,350
18 48,670
jo 4a,aao
an 41.800
81 ... .
88....
S3 48,040
gt 40,300
BS 43.310
g 43,390
87 43.300
88 49,410
89 43,330
80 43,450
81 40,300
18 48,350
Total 1,393.310
Setornsd copies 13,987
al total ...1.S16.043
Daily average 48.859
GEORGE B. TZSCHtTCK.
Treaaurer.
Rubscrlbed In my preaeiiee and sworn to
before me this let day of Auirust, 1910.
M. B. WALKER.
Notary Public
gabaorthera leavlaa; tha city tern
aorarlly saoala have The Be
mailed them. Address will be
chaaged aa aftea aa reqaaated.
That rubber wrangle apparently
threatens a rebound.
The Oklahoma Indians could
scarcely be blamed for returning to
the warpath.
To our old friend, James Whltcomb
Riley, la his illness,' we all say, "Take
ke'er o yourself, Jim."
The next Knight Templar conclave
will be at Denver. ' Omaha should get
In line for the big meeting after that.
Unless thoBe Cubans behave them
selves we may have to send a police
man or two down to make them do so.
What crimes would a governor have
to commit in Oklahoma to keep the
democratic party from endorsing him?
The census population of Kansas
City la 248,381. . Kansas City is air
most twice as big as Omaha, but not
quite.
It those Oklahoma land grafters did
not take the papooses' rattles away
from them they may thank their lucky
stars.
Governor Patterson of Tennessee
Bhould go to Oklahoma and join the
Haskell party. Vindications are easy
there.
No wonder they downed Mayor
Gaynor's assassin. A former Yale
foot ball giant Interfered for the
officers.
The man who shot Mayor Gaynor
said he had carried a gun for ten
years. Seems pistol "toting" is not
confined to Dixie.
I
Sam Langford, the black pugilist
who refused at the eleventh hour to
fight, must also have a little yellow
streak In his color scheme-
Persons who shoot down public offl
cials are among those who believe that
the world owes them a living, which Is
a dangerous creed to preach:
Tha after-dinner speeches at the na.
tlonal gathering of deaf and dumb at
Colorado Springs cannot truthfully be
referred to as hot air talks, anyway.
Can It be that Senator Bristow did
not know what he was talking about
when be charged Senator Aldrich with
manipulating the tariff in the Interest
of "his" Rubber trust?
Doctor Crlppen -might at east have
paid for a new wig tor Ms young
woman companion. After such shabby
treatment of the lady we are prepared
to believe the worst about him.
We regret to report that the World
Herald's professional campaign liar Is
away on a vacation at Hot Springs,
Arkansas, for his health, but his sub
stitute Is doing tolerably weU.
As a candidate for governor A. E
Cady would quickly rally all the re
publican forces in the state, and as
governor afterward he would, be
chief executive In whom every citizen
of Nebraska would take pride.
It looks as if Mayor "Jim" would be
included In- those ouster proceedings,
after all. But the-preacher filing the
charges thinks it necessary for him to
explain that he has had no prior cou
ference with Governor Shallenberger
The governor is a foxy politician. '
Nebraska in Congress.
The primary next week will deter
mine the possible range of choice at
the election for the men who are to
represent Nebraska in the next con
gress. In the First district those who want
the district to be on the political map!
at Washington should see to it that
William Hayward gets the republican
nomination. In point of ability, avail
ability and personal influence Mr. Hay
ward is head and shoulders over his
competitor, Mr. Tobey, even though
the latter might be preferable to the
democratic nonentity, who is by acci
dent now serving as congressman from
the First district.
In the Second district the choice on
the republican side is between Charles
L. Saunders and Judge A. L. Sutton,
both of whom have made public rec
ords in official positions. Mr. Saun
ders served three terms as state sena
tor and Judge Sutton is occupying a
seat on the district bench; either
ought to be able to redeem the dis
trict. The democratic competition
presents a poor bunch to draw from,
with little choice, because not one of
them could, if elected, keep from get
ting lost in the halls of congress.
In the Third district the republicans
again have two aspirants in the per
sons of former Congressman Boyd and
present State Treasurer Brian. Mr.
Bovd was elected once bv a small
by nearly z.ooo. Mr. Brian ran botn
times on the same ticket for state
treasurer, and in each instance carried
his district by substantial majorities
over his opponent. It. is for the Third
district republicans to decide which
can make the stronger showing
against Congressman Latta, whose
formidableness as a candidate must
not be underestimated.
In the Fourth district Charles H.
Sloan has the republican nomination
for congress unopposed and Bhould be
a winner In the election no matter
which one of the aggregation put up
for the democratic nomination should
come out ahead In the primary. To
an outsider it looks as if the demo
cratic nominee would be either Food
Commissioner Mains or District Judge
Good, who masqueraded as a nonpar
tisan when running for supreme Judge
last year.
The Fifth district tickets are sub
stantially made up with the unopposed
renominatlon on the republican side
of George W. Norris against Congress
man Sutherland, his democratic oppo
nent, whom Mr. Norris defeated when
he was first elected to congress.
In the Sixth district the republicans
may be counted on to renominate Con.
gressman Klnkaid, who has carried
the district four times. He will prob
ably have to combat Judge Dean at the
election,. another nonpartisan judicial
aspirant of last year, although the lat
ter has' no walkaway for the nomina
tion over the fighting populist, W. J.
Taylor, and the persistent democratic
rainbow-chaser, G. L. Shumway.
All in all. if present Indications may
be taken as a guide, it looks as it the
Nebraska delegation, now divided
three and three as between republicans
and democrats, would in the next con
gress show up a preponderance of re
publicans. Illinois Central Dragnet.
The Illinois Central is to be com
mended for denying Immunity baths
to those officials charged with convert
ing large funds belonging to the com.
pany to their own use In the falsifying
of contracts. If their hands deserve
official cleaning they can get it better
by due process of court trials.
For a big railroad to permit any
covering up of charges as grave as
these would be a serious mistake,
especially since some of the accused,
restoring funds to the treasury, have
virtually admitted their guilt. A re
sponsibility rests on the company that
cannot be discharged by anything
short of a thorough probing, no mat
ter how high up the official scale It
may strike. The company could no
more afford to pass over such syste
matic fraud than it could afford to
allow a natural imputation to rest
upon other railroad officials with
similar opportunities aa confronted
these men who went wrong. It is
not to be supposed that this method
of getting rich quick is a sys
tem commonly practiced by railroad
officials, but not one of the men In
volved in the present trouble would
ever have been suspected of such crim
inality. It is only fair, therefore, to
scores of faithful men that a complete
exposition and disposition be made in
this case.
Bryan's leadership.
Anybody who imagines Mr. Bryan
has decided to relinquish what hold
be may have on the democratic party
and himself "prepare to stand aside",
for a new leader should read again
what Mr. Bryan said in that dramatic
speech at Grand Island, vainly plead
ing against repudiation by his old
time associates.
"I have been criticised by some be
cause I did not consult other demo
crats," he said. "Whom would I have
consulted? If being the party's nom
inee for the presidency three times did
not give me the right to be classed as
a statesman, it at least made me a
leader. So when you criticise me for
not consulting anybody, I ask you,
whom would I have consulted?"
Mr. Bryan' certainly considers him
self. leader in the democratic party
and there is every reason to believe,
both from this very modest utterance
and from his subsequent conduct, that
he proposes to be the same sort of
leader In the future that he has been
la the past, and U he fails in that de-
termination it lll have to be because
the opposition to him in the national
democracy musters more strength
than It has ever been able to command
since he made his famous "crown of
thorns and cross of gold" speech at
Chicago and became the party's nom
inee for president.
National Irrigation Congress.
The National Irrigation congress is
sending out appeals to members and
representative business men to attend
the eighteenth session at Pueblo Sep
tember 2C-30, but its appeal ought not
to be necessary. The interest In irri
gation ought to be so keen in this
western, country that the tendency
would be to overcrowd one of these
conventions. What is there in which
the people of the west have a more
practical interest than irrigation? It
is the leaven of their commercial and
industrial development, therefore at
this congress, where so many impor
tant every-day questions are to be
acted upon, the attendance should be
large and representative.
The wisdom of irrigation, drainage
and forestry as elements in the scheme
of reclamation is no longer questioned
by men who know what they are talk
ing about, but men do disagree as to
the best methods of promoting this
great work, which is, after all, noth
ing short of empire building. There
is a right way and a wrong, so far
as getting the best results .is con
cerned, about reclamation as well as
most everything else,' and these con
gresses ought to do much toward de
termining what is the right and wrong
of it. The solutions of these prob
lems ought not to be left to our law
makers in Washington, nor to our
various legislatures, entirely. The
National Irrigation congress comprises
men who are vitally interested in the
proper methods to be employed and
they are the ones on whom should de
volve very largely the task of working
out these schemes. There is no reason
why men whose private business inter
ests are affected by the varying results
of reclamation should not take an ac
tive part in enabling the government
to come to the best solution of these
problems by giving their time and
study to them before they go up to
Washington.
The high cost of living problem is
intimately related to that of irrigation
in this western country, and so is the
matter of exports and Imports. If the
law of supply and demand governs any
part of these questions', then the whole
thing rests entirely on the productiv
ity of the soil, both as to quality and
quantity, and much of the sell of the
west would be all but barren without
irrigation. It is the big problem in
this section today. . ..
Oklahoma Politics.
The Oklahoma democratic state con
vention denounces the republican na
tional administration for "deplorable
conditions" arising from "misgovern
ment" of land matters in that state,
and in the same platform endorses
Governor Haskell and Senator Gore,
author of all these charges of at
tempted bribery, 1b one of the conven
tion's mouthpieces. It seems that the
senator Is making it harder every day
for the public to comply with his de
mand that no false motive be Imputed
to him.
If it were possible to crowd more
sham and Inconsistency Into one plat
form It would be Interesting to know
how. Whatever wrongs have arisen
from the spoillatlon of Indian lands in
Oklahoma are to be righted if the na
tional " government has the 'power to
right them, for President Taft has al
ready Issued orders to that end. He
is not going to depend on Oklahoma,
or even on the democratie party as
represented by the Haskell administra
tion. He is depending on the mighty
arm. of justice as reached, out from
Washington, and the chances are that
the young and obstreperous state of
Oklahoma will be given a rather im
pressive object lesson in righting
wrongs.
But in the meantime Haskell, whom
Senator Gore and his democratic
brethren have praised and endorsed,
still stands under the burden of fed
eral grand jury indictments In connec
tion with shady land transactions and
must answer the charges before the
federal court It may be one of the
fatal blights of political misfortune
that at every turn of the proceedings
thus far Governor Haskell has seemed
to come out second best in these
charges, and bis status is so uncertain
that the government has failed to
yield to all importunities to dismiss
the suits. ,
One passage In the Oklahoma plat
form Invites special attention. It is
this:
We demand that the United States gov.
ernment immediately right Its wrongful
policy and place the administration of lawa
In tha hands of those unselfish enough
faithfully to administer that great trust.
Of course, the thing to do is to turn
it over to the hands of Haskell and
bis Ilk.
The efforts of The Omaha Bee are being
strenuously exerted to prevent If possible,
the nomination of Congresaman Hitchcock,
the editor of the World-Herald, for United
Status senator. World-Herald.
Oh, not at all. Quite the contrary.
The Bee Is in the position of an inter
ested spectator confidently looking for
the nomination of Congressman Hitch
cock to the coveted place on the dem
ocratic ticket, but not without an ac
companying public exhibition of at
least fifty-seven varieties of the sting
of ingratitude.
To make sure of entertaining the
next governor, Ak-Sar-Ben has invited
all the gubernatorial candidates to
present themselves for initiation at
As the Invitation, however,
calls for
fore the
attendance on the evening be-
priniary. In which each candl
btless desires to vote for him-
date dou
self, the
be there
the next
ran."
chances are that no one will
but the local candidate, who,
day, will be merely an "also
The Philadelphia 'Enquirer seems
to have hit the bull's-eye on the mat
ter of endowing young authors. "We
agree with Upton Sinclair," it ven
tures, "that they should be endowed.
Our disagreement with him, however,
lies in the fact that we believe they
ought to be endowed with brains."
Let us await the comment of Bernard
Shaw. "
Whatever Mr. Hitchcock has done In
"loyal support of us candidates' no one
knows just to what extent better then Mr.
Bryan or Mr. Metcalfe themselves. Kear
ney Democrat. ' - ' "
That's just it. No one knows better
thaq Mr. Bryan or Mr. Metcalfe how
much of that support has been "loyal,"
and they are apparently" paying him
back with the same kind of "loyalty."
It is a safo guess that had Governor
Shallenberger foreseen what would
happen by the change from the closed
primary to the open primary he would
have vetoed the bill with as little hesi
tation as he vetoed the Fort Crook
bill, notwithstanding all his pretended
scruples against overriding the will of
the legislature. .
The experienced army chaplain who
says soldiers, deprived of the canteen,
and driven to the saloon, can never
make f the prohibition cealots who de
nounce the army canteen believe that.
Not Worth the Worry.
St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Mr. Bryan is said to have lost control of
the democratic party In Nebraska. At that
he has not lost much.
Outlets Will Be Found.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Ten million dollars' worth of race track
In and about New York are to be aban
doned; but unfortunately there will be
plenty of other thing's left for foolish people
to bet on.
Silence Aoroaa the Divide.
San Francisco Chronicle. 1
Colonel Bryan denies the rumor that he
Intends to move to Texas, but no reverbera
tions of wild rejoicing In Nebraska have
reached the outside world since the denial.
Poea the Favored Tribe.
Indianapolis News.
Michael Angalo McQInrris of the Missouri
penitentiary can hardly hope to regain his
liberty by his display of mathematical
genius. Poetry is the only thing that ap
peals to the obdurate hearts of the pardon
ing authorities.
18- THE PACK TOO SWIFTf
Pessimistic Opinions Expressed
In
Soma Quarters.
''-f. Chicago'. News. ' '
Cardinal Gibbons deplores the extrava
gance of the present day. which seems to
him not -very unlike that 'bf Rome while
the empire was' toppling to Its fall. "After
several months In Europe," says Benjamin
Ide Wheeler, president of the University of
California, '.'I could scarcely fall to be Im
pressed with the difference in manner of
living in this country and abroad.. Our living-has
been forced to an artificial plane.
We are tremendoualy extravagant. We
have been pushed, under forced draft, upon
an. artificial staging. The whole structure
is of such abnormal character that the
country Is Imperiled."
Whatever may be the accepted explana
tion, the fact of extravagant expenditures
on the part of Americans cannot be Ques
tioned. The extravagance, moreover, is not
confined to private expenditures. The cost
of government-national, state and local
la Increasing . at a dangerously rapid rate.
Prodigal expenditures will be followed
sooner or later by the inevitable accounting.
POLITICAL DELFT.
Senator Aldrich seems to have found
substantial material for a doormat for bis
new summer residence.
Governor Patterson of Tennessee has dis
tributed nearly 1000 pardons to convicts,
including 152 murderers, during his term of
office, but there is little prospect that the
governor will pardon the voters who
knocked out bis favorites in the judicial
primaries, .
Cyrus Leland, one of the noted stal
warts of Kansas, for forty years a re
publican wheel-horse, was flattened by
tha Insurgent road roller in bis own pre
cinct in Doniphan county. No event since
Jerry Simpson shed his socks has caused
mora surprise In Kansas.
The primary battles in Iowa and Kan
sas are mere skirmishes compared with
the contest raging In Wisconsin Just now.
Insurgents and regulars are lining up for
and against the re-election of Senator La
Follette, and the ballots will tell tha re
sult on the evening of September 6.
John Mitchell is mentioned for governor
of New York on the republican ticket.
Merely mentioned. Two years ago at Den
ver he was seriously considered for vice
president on the m demooratlo ticket, but
the religious leanings of his wife caused
the Bryan patriots to drop him.
William H. Berry, independent candidate
for governor of Pennsylvania, la the same,
who, as state treasurer, lifted the lid of
the capital scandal, which sent to
premature graves, to prison or exile seven
participants in the huge frauds. Berry is
six feet, one inch In his stockings, has
snow-white hair, rather long, and a
sweeping gray mustache. He looks his
years when he Is in repose, but in action
he is like a man of Wi. Ha strides at a
tremendous pace wherever ha goes, dis
dains elevators for "short hauls," work
in his shops at Chester and preaches or
lectures nearly every Sunday, for be has
been a local Methodist minister for
twenty yeara, -
Our Birthday Book
August 13, 1S10.
Felix Adler, tha noted exponent of eth
ical culture, was born August IX, 1851, In
Germany, tie heads the Ethical Culture
society in New York City, which has bean
used as a modes for similar societies else
where. .
Sam T. Clover, newspaper man, la cele
brating bis f.lfty-flrst birthday today. He
was born In. London, and used U adit the
Chicago Evening Poet, but Is now on one
of the Los Angeles papers. . .
Leslie O. Hicks, civil engineer In ths
Board of Trade building, is 28 years old
today. He waa born in West Moreland, N.
Y. He la, also, secretary of Uia Hicks
Realty, company. . ..
one time
In Other Lands
Kids Llgaie on What Is Trans,
ptrlng Among the Wear and
JTar nations of tha Earth.
Europe's "Grand Old Man," tha patriarch
of rule, Francis Joseph of Austria and
Hunaary. will cr lebrate the SOth anniversary
of his birth next Thursday. When the nee
tor of emperors was born, August 18, 1S30,
none of the rulers of today had yet seen
tha lla;ht. With the exception of President
Dlas of Mexico, baroly six weeks his
Junior, tha president of France, the king
of Greece and the sultan of Turkey, none
of the present heads of great states was
alive even when Francis Joseph reached
the throne In 184S. His reign of sixty-two
yeara. In the record of modern monarchs,
is second only to that of Victoria, and if
he lives until July of 191! he will have sur
passed Victoria's record of sixty-three and
a half years. No less notable Is the
splendid rhysical condition of the emperor
on the threshold of his ninth decade. An
exponent of the strenuous life, he demon
strated for the youthful exemplar, Theo
dore Itoosevolt, what on eider could do
when occasion offered. The Vienna pro
gram arranged for the ex-prcsldents visit
included petting up at midnight and reach
ing the grouse hunting uround at sunrise,
and the aged emperor beat the strenuous
hunter from Africa to the post. More re- j
cently the emperor paid a royal visit to'
Servla and Herzegovina and Went through
the various receptions and social functions
arranged In his honor without apparent
fatigue. Long formed habits of early ris
ing, living in the open air as much as pos
sible and frugal eating are the sources of
his long life and are now accounted the
fountains of his youthful spirit.
Lord Curson, lately viceroy of India, in
his second and last . paper on "British
Rule in India," in the North American
Review, attributes the growing discontent
in that country to two' reasons. "The In
dian movement," he says, "Is a part of that
uprising of natural sentiment in favor of
self-governing Institutions which has run
like a tide throughout the east ever since
the victory of Japan over Russia, and has
been equally visible in China, India, Persia.
Turkey, Russia and Egypt. In India it
takes the form not merely of a demand for
a greater share in the government of the
country and for some approach to parlia
mentary institutions, but in its cruder and
more violent shapes appealing to ill-balanced
Intellect, fed upon the rhetoric of an
hitherto uncontrolled press, or attacks
upon the instruments of an alien rule
culminating In the assassination or at
tempted assassination of high officials of
the government often (such is the unreasoning-
fatuity of the perpetrators) of those
who have been most conspicuous for their
service to the native cause. A second rea
son has been the general belief that there
has been some lack of firmness and con
sistency in the policy of the government,
which has attempted the difficult and well-
nigh Impossible task of running conciliation
and repression, so to speak, In double har
ness, with the result that the coercion has
usually been too late to frighten and the
conciliation too fortified to appease."
Photographs forwarded by the American
consul at Jerusalem to Secretary of State
Knox, show In a striking rrfanner how the
advance of modern Invention has reduced
lowly occupations the Arabian thorough
bred horse and the once Sacred Camel.
One picture 'showed a stately camel yoked
up with 'a humble cow, engaged In the
prosaic pastime of plowing a rough field.
In an' explanatory ' note the consul says
camels are still the chief beasts in the
Holy Land, although the railroads are
slowly" replacing the caravan routes, nota
bly In the case of the Mecca railway, where '
heretofore thousands of camels werecm
ployed, In transporting the pilgrims. The
camels are the single-hump variety, and
are raised only by the Bedouins. There
are two breeds, the ordinary targe variety
for work purposes and the kind used for
riding, which are slender and agile. One
Of these can, wrth ease, out-Ustance a
horse. The Bedouins who ralst and use
this variety are as careful to keep the
breed pure as other tribes are In respect
to their horses The Bedouins eat the flesh
of the camel, and as a mark of distinction,
slaughter a camel where a noted guest visit
them. Camel fleeh also eaten by Moham
medan peasants and tha poorer classes in
Jaffa and Gaxa. The skins are used as
rawhide to sole shoes worn, by peasants.
Egypt is the best market for camels, and
many are purchased there by the govern
ment for mllftary purposes.
Modern progress continues shaking up
the dry bones of old Jerusalem. Railroads,
telephones and electrio lights have settled
there, and next comes waterworks, for
which contractors are bidding. "Abundant
waiter," comments the New York Post,
may mar the ploturesqueness of Jerusalem
for those who put the flavor of antiquity
before everything else, but It will make
for cleaner habits and better health. Mora
over, ft will sustain the theory that all
progress works along a Una ef averages,
and that every forward movement, In ex
change for the ills It overcomes, brings
enough others In Its train to furnish fta
beneficiaries with something still to worry
about Improved protective agencies long
ago dispelled the perils of the Jericho road
but pow come contractors to lay water
mains and Install piping, soon to be fol
lowed by a regiment of plumbers to keep
the prant In order."
Will ths Leaning Tower of Pisa follow the
Campanile of VenlceT That Is the question
which Is now engaging ths attention of an
architectural ' commission, says the Jour
nal of Rome. The tower is sinking, and
there can ba no doubt of the fact, and the
commission was appointed in order to avert
a catastrophe. The first step taken by the
architects was to remove the chlmos from
tha belfry, which weighed several tons.
They have also made ths statement that
contrary to popular belief the tower, now
nearly 1,000 years old, was not built to
lean, but acquired Its present position
through ths giving way of the earth under
part of its foundation.
Socialism in Europe has Just signalized
Itself by the election of Its candidate for
the Reichstag In a Wurtemburg district
by a majority of i,i!A votes over both op
position candidates. At the same time the
socialists in Budapest have mads a street
demonstration against high rents. On the
other hand, the socialist ministry of France
Is daily becoming more conservative. In
Europe, as well as In Milwaukee, respon
sibility chastens the moat radical socialist
The Bapoblla Needs Him.
Chicago Post
Mayor Gaynor must get well. It Is not
New York alone that needs him. It Is sll
tha rest of us who have drawn from him
new supplies of democracy, of American
ism, of humanity. The debt Is brought
home by the shock of this shameful as
sault Hlant Uff tha 11a t.
Washington Post -
A back-to-the-farm national convention Is
to ba held. Here's our non-partisan ticket
right off ths bat; Temporary chairman,
Jim Jeffries; permanent chairman, W. J.
Bryan: chairman committee on resolutions,
Jimmy OarfleloV . - .
LINES TO A SMILE.
"What makes you hope for freedom?
You know you're the guiltiest man In the
whole gang!"
"That's Just It," said the crooked person.
"I know so much more about tha brain's
action than Anybody cIsa that I ought to
stand a good show for Immunity If I con
fess." ashlngton Star.
"People talk about children who are
ana-els. I would like to know how they are
made so."
"In various ways. Some are born an
gelic according to their parents, and some,
according to the health authorities, are
made so by Ice cream cones." Baltimore
American.
"What form of summer amuserrfent
pleases you most?"
"Staying at h'me and writing to people
at sum nit r resorts about bow cool It la in
the city." Boston Transcript
"You had a rough time saving that young
woman.
"Yes," replied the hero of the Surf; "t
was obliged to make two trips. When I
plunged In after her I rm-nnt ti drs her In
by the hair. I landed the hair all right
and then had to go back after the girl."
Washington Star.
"DM thpv hrealr tha nawa if Hf
Fllrty's husband's death to her gently?"
"it couidn t nave been done better by
wny of consoling her for the shock."
"How was it done?"
"ThM frlnnfl arlporH t. KraaU- I. t. KAa
told her she looked ho stunning In black
that It was a good thing she was a
widow," .Baltimore American,
"Yes," said the man with tho retreatln
chin. "I smoku altogether too much. Mr
cigars cost me a dollar a dav.
"Smoking thirty or forty clgnrs a day,''
said the other man. movln to windward nf
him. "certainly does look like overdoing It."
vnicago iriDune.
Fond Papa My, how professional political
grafters would hate this baby of ours!
Ki nd Toung Mamma (Indignantly) Why
would they?
Fond Papa (with disgusted resignation)
Because lio s such a squealer. Baltimore
American.
' "Have you ever mada any sacrlflco for
yonr country?"
"Of uure I have," replied Senator
Sorghum. "Why 1 go out every year and
Talks for people
Let a live advertising man start out
to do something and he usually does
It in an unusual way and to the
queen's taste.
When the Merrimao Clothing com
pany of Lowell, Mass., opened Its
doors it had all the appearance of a
smart New York clothes shop.
Suits, overcoats and raincoats hung
on racks behind glass doors, the floor
space was large enough for the cus
tomers to move about in comfort, the
smaller articles of men's wear . at
tractively displayed, window trims ar
tistic and tempting everything about
the place was as It should be.
The usual way of making altera
tions didn't appeal to this company,
so they bought out the leading tailor
in Lowell and put him in charge of the
alteration department.
Then they started their advertising
campaign and made good from the
very beginning.
Their way of doing business and
their out-ln-the-open advertising ap
pealed to the men of Lowell.
The best was none too good for
their customers, and they proved it.
August Clearing Prices
Our 25 discount sale on light weight
clothing still continues. It is &n opportunity
to be well dressed at a small cost. , ,
Furnishing Specials
$1.50 and $2.00 Shirts are. now $1.25 .
$2.50 and $3.00 Shirts are now $1.85
AH 75c and $1.00 Knee Length Underwear
now 65c.
Broken lines pf $1.00 and $1.50 Neckwear
at 75c.
You will ficd many interesting price re
ductions in all other lines.
Children's Wash Suits at Half Price.
All Straw Hats at Half Price.
We are taking orders for High School '
Uniforms. .
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WsWVS
22, & WILCOX. Manager.
Tha Store Of The Town.
At Soda Fountains or Elsewhere
"Jssot Say"
It means tho Original and Genuine
.KJAB-TEE RSI H ILK
The Food-Drink
Rich milk, malted grain, in powder form.
FcinfanU.mva!idsandgrowmgchadren.
Purenuh-ition,upbu3dingtewholebody.
Invigorates nursing mothen sad the aged.
Take) no substitute. Ask for HORUCK'S.
fg&Com
make speeches free ef charge lustra, of
turning mv Intellectual prmlm-tlona or to
a lecture manager or a publisher." Wasii
Ington Star.
"Pa, what's public opinion?"
"It Is the greatest force we liave In
this country, except when It hnmps against
the United States senate" Judge.
"How did you like the cantata Inst
night?"
1 didn't try It. After the entertainment
we went out and had soma lobster, but
there was no canned-what-you-called-lt on
tha menu. Houston Post.
170 TIME LIKE THE OLD TDIE'
s
Oliver Wendell Holmes. '
Theie la no time like the old time, when
you and I were young;.
When the hitd of April Morsomed and thl
birds of spilnmlme suna!
The garden's brightest glories by sumntel
subs are nursed.
But oh, the sweet, sweet violets, tho flow.
era that opened first!
There IS no place like th old place, whort
you and 1 were born.
Where we lifted flrt our eyelids on thl
splendor the morn
us, from the ellnging arms that bora
Where the dear eyes ptltstened o'er us, fiat
will look en us no mors!
There Is no friend Ilka the old friend, who
ha shared our morning da,
No greeting like his welcome, no homage
like his praise;
Fame is the scentless sunflowers, with
KRUfly harp of gold,
But friendship Is the breathing rose, with
sweets In every fold.
There Is no love like the old love, that we
courted In our pi ide:
Though our leaves are falling, falling, and
we're fndlng side by side.
There are blossoms all around us with the
colors of the dawn.
And we live In borrowed sunshine when the
day-star is withdrawn.
There sre no times tike the old times;
they shall never be forgot!
There Is no place like the old place keep
green the dear old spot!
There are no friends like the old friends
may heaven prolong their lives;
There are no loves like tho oil loves-
God bless our loving wlvosl
who sell things
They advertised quality and price
and store service day in and day out.
Said they would back every statement
they made with the goods and did
it. It was "complete satisfaction or
your money back" all the ' way
through. If things weren't right', they
were made right in short order.
The style of advertising adopted toy
this company is In keeping wlthJjkVit
does.
It Is appealing and pleasing, Intelli
gent and forceful advertising and ap
pears regularly, day by day, week by
week, In the newspapers of Lowell.
It never overstates, never exagger
ates it's just the plain, unvarnished.
Interesting story of up-to-date mer
chandising but it placed the Merri
mac Clothing company in a class by
Itself.
The head of the company Is Mr.
Humphrey O'Sulllvan of rubber heel
fameand he had done things in tho
way of successful advertising before.
But there are other successful ad
vertising men. Would you like to give
our copy department a chance to place
your business In a class by Itself?'
J
fWieHINOS AN& MATfl,
ANB) 'DOUQLA6 STftEET&j
for all Aces.
More healthfal than tea or coffee.
Agrees with the weakest digestion.
Keep it on your sideboard at home.
A quick lunch prepared in a minute.
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