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TIFE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1910.
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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
fctaU of Nebraska. Douglas County, as:
Oeorge H. Txschurk, treasurer of The Bee
I'uhiishlns Company, being duly sworn,
says that the actual number cf full and
complete coplea of The Dally, Morning,
Evening and Sunday . Be printed during
me monta of July, 1910, waa aa tonows:
1 44.S70
17 40,330
II 48,870
19 43,380
tO 41,800
1 48,180
J J 48,370
la 43,00
H 40,300
it 43,310
t 40,380
1J 43,300
II 43,410
19 43,330
10 48,450
II 40,300
48,00
1 41,300
4 65,00
i j... 49,780
41.S60
1 41,830
41.M0
41,840
10 4O.4O0
II 4130
It 41,810
1 41,630
1 41,740
II 1. 41,880
1. ....... t. 48,88
Total
etoraer testes. .,
1,333,310
t 13,867
Hei total 1,310,043
Dally avarara.. 48,886
J ; OEOROE B. TZSCHUCK.
Treaaurer.
Buhsi.-lbed In my presence and sworn to
before ma thia 1st day f August, 1910.
M R. WALKER.
Notary Public.
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mailed to them. Address will be
chanced aa eftea reqaeated.
Boost for Omaha all the time.
The future historian of Nebraska
will recount about the recount.
And then, too, this recounting busi
ness is not always what it seems to be.
Note that the effect of the paving
block controversy Is to block the pav
ing. Our weather man evidently believes
In playing the limit when he plays at
8ll.. aii j . il4 i-wn,i
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The colonel merely passes through
Omaha today. He will stop with us
on his return.
Under the circumstances Dr. Madrla
might find real enjoyment ' in that
comic opera, "King for a Day."
Vice President Sherman has noth
ing to say. He seems to realize that
there are times when silence Is golden.
The first item on the political pro
gram for : conservation of natural re-
sources must be to y extinguish the
forest fires.
The Fraternal Order of Eagles is
airing a small sized graft scandal of
Its own. Nothing like keeping in
style.
King Ak-Sar-Ben will soon entertain
the first private citizen of the world.
Have you, joined this year? If not, now
18 the time.
Governor Brown , of Georgia and
Governor Shallenberger of Nebraska
would feel better If they held a mu
tual consolation party.
It will be warm enough In Cheyenne
when the colonel gets there, no mat
ter what kind of a package the
weather man hands out.
Colonel Roosevelt started out talk-
'ng conservation from the start. The
subject evidently would not keep for
the conservation congress.
Another New York young woman la
to marry a French count. It must be
oversight that the dispatches fail to
state how much money her father la
worth.
Now that the protocol tor the settle
ment of the boundary dispute between
Costa Rica and Panama has been offi
cially approved, we may all breathe
easier.
Kentucky farmers are still digging
up pots of gold and currency burled In
'.he fields during the civil war. Dig
glng In the Nebraska fields, however
's just as profitable.
President Taft will keep the sum
mer capital at Beverly a month longer
than originally Intended. The offlce-
seekers will hunt him down there just
aa well as at Washington.
Lincoln need not make faces at
Omaha because Its census is scheduled
to fall short of expectations. Lincoln
census population will be officially an
nounced In due time with a dull sick
eolng thud.
If present crop prospects make good
the Nebraska farmer will be quite able
to throw his old auto In the scrap heap
and blossom out In a tww 1911 model
without bothering about putting
mortgage on the farm.
Those Cannon Democrats.
Because two Alabama cdnKressnirn
who belonged to the group of twenty
three demon at voting against the
other members of their own pnrty
when the so-called Cannon rules were
at "take, have failed of renomtnatlon,
an effort Is being made In democratic
circles to hold up their defeat as
discipline and repudiation by their
own party. If the democrats were
themselves to spew out their own
traitors and traders, It would be at
W'fist an arnument with which to lm-
press the people that they could safely
. . ....
trust the democrats to assume control
In the next congress.
but the chances are that In the
downfall of these two Alabama demo
crats, their votes with the famous or
Infamous twenty-three were but one
of several factors if not altogether
negligible and if it were left to their
party associates in congress, they
would have been triumphantly en
dorsed. This is by no means mere
inference unsupported by evidence of
record. The democratic defection to
the rescue of the so-called Cannon
was led, it will be remembered, by
Congressman Fitzgerald of Brooklyn,
who was forthwith rewarded, accord
ing to the terms of the deal, by being
appointed by Speaker Cannon to a
minority membership of the rules
committee. But did Mr. Fitzgerald
last caste or prestige with his demo
cratic colleagues as a result of this
notorious sell-out? Quito the con
trary, for when the rules were later
amended so that the minority rep
resentatives on that committee were to
be chosen by the democratic caucus,
this arch-Cannon democrat was given
complete vindication as the choice of
the democrats for the very place he
had acquired by bolting his caucus.
If Congressman Fitzgerald, who led
the Cannon relief part, was later ac
corded an endorsement by those who
speak for the democratic party in con
press and is reasonably contain of re
nomination and re-election in his own
district, how can the loss of two insig
nlficient congressmen from Alabama,
who merely followed where Mr. Fitz
gerald led, pass as purification for
the self-convicted democrats? The
exoneration and glorification of Fitz
gerald by the caucus after he had
saved the Cannon rules, convicts the
democratic party and the. guilt is not
expiated by shoving the two Ala
bamans overboard.
The Hales of the Game.
I make no charge of fraud against any
one and am only aBklng to have a recount
of enough of the ballots to satisfy the
thousands of loyal democrats who now feel
disappointment, because of fear of my de
feat, that If I shall finally . b counted a
loser I will have at least been fairly
whipped under the rules of the game as
laid down by the laws of the state. Gov
ernor Shallenberger, . , ,
' When a man takes a hand at the
gentleman's game he 1b supposed to
pay up If he loses Just as cheerfully as
he would expect his opponent to liqui
date If he, himself, had the winning
cards. But there are certain rules of
the game which are designed to make
sure that the play is on the square. It
Is not permissible, for example, to
carry a fifth ace up the sleeve. It Is
not polite to hold the cards below the
table where the other player cannot see
them all the time. The discovery of
marked cards would also justify de
claring all beta off.
The game of politics, of course, has
Its own rules developed by the exigen
cies of the case, but they are supposed
to be grounded on the same code of
sportsmanlike morals which govern
other gentlemen's games. So In the
game of politics It Is not credited fair
to vote the same man more than once,
nor to vote under some one else's
name, nor to vote on faked-up free
holders' certificates. Such vicious and
unsportsmanlike practices have been
occasionally Indulged, but they do not
show on the count, because the players
are skillful in marking the ballots cor
rectly and fairly accurate in the tally.
In other words, a recount offers a
defeated candidate and hts friends
about the same assurance that he has
been fairly whipped under the rules
of the game as would an inventory of
the chips after the table has been up
set In Wisconsin.
The center of political interest
focuses next on Wisconsin, where the
preliminary canvass will soon cul
minate In the Impending direct prim
ary. Wisconsin, like Nebraska, has
that style of direct nomination known
as the open primary, but the sltua
tlon there developed has left the
democrats practically without contest
and free to take a hand in the sharp
factional fight which is waging among
republicans.
In Wisconsin, probably more than
any other state, except possibly Kan
sas, the lines are being drawn between
regulars and Insurgents, particularly
with reference to the republican noml
nations for congress and for United
States senator. The majority of the
Wisconsin delegation In congress have
been classed as Insurgents, so that It
strikes strangely upon the outsider
to see opposition manifested to several
of the most widely known Insurgents
because they have not been suffl
clently radical. The most competent
and experienced political observers
who have been sizing up conditions In
Wisconsin expect mixed results in the
congressional nominations the turn
ing down of regulars and Insurgents
alike according as sentiment varies
from one congressional district to
another.
On the senatorial nomination, Wis
consln Is witnessing a supreme f-
fort on the part of La Follette for
re-election, In which, however, he will
have the benefit of democratic votts
In the prlmiry which will probably be
withdrawn from hin: in the election.
Democrats who vote the republican
primary ticket will, for the most part,
add to La Foilette's strength, not with
the Idea of returning blm to the son
ate, but In the hope that he may be
later beaten and made to make way
for a democrat. It will be remem
bered that Senator Stephenson secured
the primary nomination In Wisconsin
two years ago, but had much trouble
in getting the requisite vote in the
legislature, even though the republi.
cans were safely in the majority, be
cause the La Follette wing charged
fraud and refused to recognize the
force of the nomination. If the
Stephenson element retaliates, it will
cause no surprise.
The primary, therefore, promises
to be only the prelude to the battle
royal in Wisconsin, and party lines
are likely to be more thoroughly
broken down In the coming campaign
there than in any other state.
Linin? Up for 1912.
Our amiable democratic contempor
ary, the World-Herald, whose editor is
running for United States senator on
the democratic ticket, has already
started out to line the Nebraska demo
crats up for 1912. "It could not
fall," it says, "to be a serious blow, If
not, indeed, a disaster to the cause of
progressive democracy if democratic
victory and democratic gains this year
in states like New York, Connecticut,
Massachusetts and Ohio should be at
tended by democratic reversals and
losses in the west, where the new
democracy was born, and especially In
Nebraska, which bears the democratic
colors.
Here we see already preparations to
sing again the tune which the demo
cratic organs Bounded last year. Re
publicans are to be Impressed and
urged that the campaign in Nebraska
Is one of purely local Issues, and that
they should show their independence
of party by voting the democratic
ticket, ' while the democrats, on the
other side, are to be warned that this
is the preliminary skirmish for 1912,
and that they must all front together
now In order to push the outposts
further forward, from which the sortie
Is to be made two years hence for the
capture of the White House.
If, as our democratic contemporary
assures us, the outcome of the election
In the various states this year Is certain
to have an Important bearing on na
tional conditions and the presidential
election of 1912, It will, be just as in
cumbent on the republicans of Ne
braska, who constitute a majority of
Its voting strength, to stand shoulder
to shoulder, and by endorsing their
party's achievements and upholding Its
national leaders, keep their vantage
ground for the battle of 1912.
Frontier Day.
The Frontier day celebration at
Cheyenne is coming to be almost as
much of a fixed institution as the Ak
Sar-Ben festivities at Omaha. In its
program Cheyenne has retained the
characteristics of frontier life and
made them the center about which to
build a novel and unique entertain
ment. This year Cheyenne has the
added attraction and participation of
Colonel Roosevelt and his party which
Is sure to arouse more interest and
bripg forth a greater attendance than
ever before in its history.
Cheyenne Is to be congratulated on
making the most of its opportunities
in connection with the celebration of
Frontier day. Cheyenne is a live up-
to-date western capital of a young but
growing state full of possibilities, and
its Frontier day is doing more than
anything else to help It catch and hold
the eye of the country.
As was to have been expected, Gov
ernor Shallenberger's motion for ouster
proceedings against the Omaha police
authorities has started others, and ap
plication Is already in hand calling on
him to institute ouster proceedings
against a county attorney charged with
refusing to prosecute. If all the of
ficers against whom such complaints
are lodged wero to come under the
governor's discipline, our courts would
be busy hearing ouster suits and have
time for nothing else.
"The greatest ambition and highest
inspiration of all self-respecting col
ored men," declares one of ihelr lead
ers, "Is to be good American citizens
and to be judged by their conduct and
not their color." We commend this
to colored men and women every
where. They have themselves the
making of their conduct, although not
the making of their color.
Denial has been entered to the re
port that the Union Pacific is about
to rebuild Its Omaha bridge. The
bridge has been rebuilt twice and may
yet be equal to present requirements
but a tour-track railway bridge at this
point will be one of the necessities of
the not distant future, and the Union
Pacific will be the road to build It
The death of former Senator Wllk
Inson Call of Florida resurrects a name
that had been nearly forgotten. Sen
ator Call helped make laws twenty
years ago and succeeded In serving I
the senate without attaching his per
sonality to anything of lasting fame
Several of the Douglas delegation
that put Omaha In so bad In the late
legUlature have pulled out renomtna
tlons on the local democratic ticket.
Knowing what their misconduct cost
Omaha last time tliu voters will have
to ask themselves whether It is pafe
to take another chance on such a
bunch.
At last accounts "Bill" Frice was de
claring that he had got back only pnrt
of the money for which he was prom
ised reimbursement when he was
shoved off the senatorial race track.
If a relief train is not soon sent out
from the Commoner office, "Bill" may
become an insurgent.
The steadily Increasing number of
applications for postal savings banks
registered with the Fostofflce depart
ment from all parts of the country
1b the best answer that could be made
to the assertion during the debate of
the bill that "nobody wanted postal
savings banks, anyway."
liana 'Km on the (iilimn.
Wall Street Journal. i
Seems aa though In our statistics of hides
ami skins some note should be taken of
the large numbers of Indians skinned.
If
Vol llonlit, roast 'Era.
Kansas City Times.
Colonel Roosevelt's western trip will take
him 5.493 miles, and estimating three cheers
to every mile, there's a total of lfi,l"9
cheers, not counting the Rtopplng places.
Test tag- the Old Grip.
Baltimore American.
There is no doubt that Theodore Itoo-
elt has a strong hold on both the affec
tion and the imagination of the general
public. And both the imagination and feei
ng are powerful factors In politics, al
though theoretically it Is regarded as an
bstract science.
New Better Than Old Ways.
Washing-ton Herald.
The admission of the colonel that he
does, not know hoW to milk a oow has
caused some comment throughout the
country. It should be borne In mind, how
ever, that the colonel can go out any day
and discover an entirely new and better
way to milk a cow.
The Consumer Para.
Philadelphia Ledger.
Announcement is made that, owing to
the cloakmakers' strike In New York
many dealers will be short of stock for
fall trade. The Immediate result promises
to be such an advance In prices as will
bring in for the scant supply aa much aa
though this were of normal proportions.
Thus the public is to pay the manufac
turers' share of strike expenses. The share
of the strikers there appears to be no way
of liquidating.
Br Georae, Something- la This.
Baltimore American.
There is said to be a plan In New York
to put up a new statue of George III In
that city to replace the one destroyed in
the revolution and melted Into bullets. Why
George III. should have a monument In
this country Is a my.stery, unless It Is that.
In spite of himself, .his plgheadeaness ana
oppressive treatment of the colonies over
here led to the revolt . which meant the
foundation of the United States aa a nation.
And that Is rather a boomerangic kind of
claim. ., , . , ,
SPECIMEN OF
E REFERENDUM
One of the . ThJffyrTno Propositions
Submitted to
New 'York Times. '
The other day we took occasion to cite
an Instance of the Working of the extreme
referendum fad In '' South Dakota. Today
we take from The Oregonlan an example
of the way the blessed plan Is working out
In another state. Here Is one of the amend
ments to the constitution of Oregon, on
which, along with, thirty-one other proposi
tions, the voters are expected to express
their desires by a simple "Yes"- or "No."
"For an amendment to Article IV, Con
stitution of Oregon, Increasing initiative,
referendum, and recall powers of the peo
ple; restricting use of emergency clause
and veto power on state and municipal
legislation; requiring proportional election
of members of the legislative assembly
from the . state at large, annual sessions
and increasing members' salaries and
terms of office; providing for elections of
speaker of house and president of senate
outside of members; restricting corporate
franchises to twenty years; providing 110
penalty for unexoused absences from any
rollcall, and changing form of oath of of
fice to provide against so-called legislative
logrolling."
The mere reading of this list of matters
bunched in a single amendment Is enough
to make an ordinary man's head swim,
and the more he knows about the complex
subjects Involved the harder it would he
for him to embody his judgment In the af.
flrmative or the negative. He might con'
celvably approve of proportional represen
tation and disapprove of short terms for
corporation charters; he might wish to
have lonser terms for members of the
legislature and not care to cut down the
governor's veto power; he might think
well of higher salaries and find tha elec
tion of a speaker from outside the as
sembly absurd, and ao on through the be
wildering Hat And' especially with the
fruits of tha present reglmo of "Inltatlve,
referendum, and recall" In mind he might
well refuse to vote to "Increase" them.
If such mad experiments were made by a
community newly organised and utterly un
used to the methods and alms of popular
government. If they were the work, for
Instance, of the wild theories of the French
revolution Just released from a grinding
despotism, one would be able to unoer-
stand them. But that they should be put
forward by a community that haa actually
governed Itself for years Is amonlnir. for
they make actual popular government
physically and mentally Impossible.
Our Birthday Book
Aurnst ae. isio.
Thomas Jefferson Coolldge, former United
States minister to France, waa born August
2A, 1831. In Boston. He made his way to
the top as a cotton manufacturer and Im
porter. He' Is also a member of tha Joint
commission to adjust disputes between the
United 8tates and Canada.
John B. Barnes, Judge of the supreme
court of Nebraska, Is Junt M years old to
day. He was born In Ohio and practiced
law at Norfolk, Neb., before he was ele
vated to the bench.
Theophilus L. Norval, former supreme
court Judge In Nebraska, was born August
24, 1847. at London Mills, ill. lie Is now
living In retirement at Keward.. where he
haa a prlie poultry farm.
Byron O. Burbank. attorney-at-law. In the
New York Life building, Is just 60. He was
born at Northfield, Minn., and taught
school at Byron, 111., before he came to
Omaha, where he has been practicing law
alnce 18)3.
E. W. Ounther. banker and merchant,
was born Aurust 3t, 1K3. In Cologne, tier
many, coming to this country In IS9. He
was formerly In buslnesa at Albion, Neb.,
and at several other Nrbraxka put u is.
Clear the Decks
Colonel Watterson's Compliments
to Oolbnel Bryan, with Bom
marks oa Baal Democracy.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Noting In the Commoner some friendly
obnervations which had appeared In the
Courier-Journal, Mr. Bryan adopts the tone
and uses the language of superiority. He
writes as a law-giver. The purpose of our
prachmcnt concerned itself rather with Mr.
Bryan, aa an Individual, than the demo
cratic party as an organism. ' Though not
our brother's keeper, we wrote as an elder
and a well-wlslier; because the glimpse had
of the famous Nebr.iskan In 19"! revealed a
personality of so many virtues, of such real
simplicity and charm, as to obliterate by
gone misconceptions and antagonisms.
The editor of the Courier-Journal knows
what malice Is. Temperamentally Incapable
of hatred, even of anger and resentment
after the event, he believes with Talleyrand
and Blsn.aick that In public affaira revenge
should be an unknown quantity. States
manship would expunge the word from the
dictionary. Tho friends of yesterday bo
come the enemies of today, and vice verna,
nothing true or stable except the good of
the commonwealth ever with events chang
ing from time to time Its needs and Its
Instrumentalities.
Here Is the way Mr. Bryan translates our
well-intended honlly:
"Mr. Watterson assumes that there may
be a disposition on tho part of some demo
crats to nominate a man who did not vote
the ticket In li, and he urges Mr. Bryan
not to oppose It, giving as his reason that
loyalty to the party In this election ought
not to be made a teat. He assures Mr.
Bryan that he would win great applause if
he would bury tha past and Join with the
eastern democrats In winning a victory for
the party under the leadership of some one
who opposed the party In 189S.
"Mr. Bryan appreciates the kindly spirit
in which the editorial la written, and will
give It due consideration when the time
comes to select a candidate.
"It la not necessary to discuss the subject
at this time. There will be plenty of time
to speak when there is a serious attempt to
name a candidate who waa not loyal In '96.
In tha meantime Mr. Watterson might use
some of his energy In trying to persuade
those who have defeated the party to con
sider the wisdom of supporting a candidate
against whom the charge of disloyalty can
not be made. It ought to be possible to
find an available man among the 6.500,000
who supported the ticket in 18U6, 1900, 1904
and 1908.'
There seems a touch of the disingenuous
here. Most of the leading democrats who
were driven away from the party by the
free silver issue In 1896 voted the ticket In
1900. In the foregoing, Mr. Bryan Joins with
1S96 as coverlog the range of choice the
years 1900 and 1904 and 1908, as If Mr. Wat
terson's adjuration Implied otherwise. No
body would thing of nominating a demo
cratic candidate for president who had
voted for McKlnley Jn 1900, or for Roosevelt
In 1904. The Dolnt made relatpa tn im tv
8a"ld that a test of loyalty should no more
carry to 1896 than to 1860.
In both years there was a cataclasm. The
Courler-Jorurnal would have the party In
1912 name the most available man, no
matter where he lives, or how he voted In
1896, and we much mistake the prevailing
trend and temper If fhls be not the opinion
of nine-tenths of thinking democrats In
very part of tha country. If Mr. Watter
son could heartily support Mr. Bryan In
1909, Mr. Bryan ought to be able heartily to
support Mr. Watterson in 1912, and aa Mr.
Watterson has passed the age limit Mr.
Anybody Else who, with Mr. Watterson,
opposed the election of Mr. Bryan In 1896.
But It seems Impossible for Mr. Bryan
to get away from 1896. He says that we
think "No man fit to be a democratic pres
ident unless he helped to elect a republican
president in the critical campaign of four
teen years ago," and, as if to fasten this
mistaken conception upon us, and so to
make an Issue where none either does or
should exist, he adds: "Mr. Bryan is not
at nueriy u consider me matter from a
purely personal standpoint. Ha owes some
thing to the men who have thrice nominated
him In spite of the Influences that are now
at work to emasculate our platform and
substitute a reactionary for a progressive
program," closing with this strange, and
may we not say without offense, this nar
row perversion of the actual situation, "can
he afford to surrender these Supporters Into
the bands of the opposition merely to enjoy
the plaudits of those who have no sym
pathy with the platform on which he has
won?"
Ah, dear Mr. Bryan; that Is not the lan
guage of a statesman, or a man even of
every-day wisdom and common sense. The
men who stood across your path in 1896 are
all dead, except the editor of the Courier
Journal, and he has had a change of heart.
He doea not count and is not in Issue. His
modest aim la to point the way betimes
from strife-breeding factlonism to honor
able agreement upon the principle of wif
lng out and beginning over again, the only
sure, safe rule where there has been a
family quarrel. There exists in the dem
ocratic mind little, if any, thought of "pro
grams." Talk about "progresslvelsm" and
reactlonlsm" come mainly from the repub
licans. Old-fashioned democracy without
any trimmings, will be found good enough
for the boys tn the trenches.
Mr. Bryan should have a cars how the
notion gets abroad that he would force
upon the party, now fairly reunited, issues
where none exist; that claiming to be a
man with a mission, be doea not subject
himself with a grievance; that he does not
give color to the accusation, already made
by his enemies, that, having thrice failed
himself, he la unwilling that any nominee.
except some Impossible doctrinaire named
by himself ahall win. In short, dear Mr.
Bryan, take the advice of a friend who
has quite outlived the passions of mere
partylsm, your senior, and it not a stronger
an older hand at the bellows, and have
done with hair-splitting and phrase-making
which comes ao easy to you! Open wide
the windows and the doors to let out the
megrims and let In the sunshine!
Truly, as Mr. Bryan says, generosity
should not be one-sided. It has not been
Millions of democrats voted for him both
in 1900 and In 1908 perhaps even in 1SIj6
who did not wholly agree with him In all
polnta of gospel law. There Is need for
a change of parties If for nought else. It
will be time enough to consider the In
tricacies of doctrinal opinion after we have
obtained the power to apply doctrines to
government.
If tha democratic party loses another
presidential battle it will probably as an
historic entity pass from off tha scene.
The label may survive, but the leaders and
tha genesla will be altered. Radicalism
beyond where we are spells socialism.
Frogresalveism meana republicanism
turned socialist. Both may tume to pass
in the fullness of time, because universal
education and universal suffrage mean In
tha end universal revolution. But
as matters stand, it la likely to be In 1911,
the same old fight between the same old
parties, and If the democrats should lose
It becailr-a Mr. Bryan's Interposition with
nuld. lilies, or dlstuiblrg qulblihs. the Com
jmoner will have gone back fourteen years
j to sap places with Mr. Watterson, whom
lie doubtless still thinks whs a very lin
1 . t H-r person In IsM.
PERSONAL NOTES.
Gamblers arrested not long ngo at Nar
rBii'tt are likely to escspe punishment.
They wore caught at the games, so thrre
is no question of tielr guilt, but they are
fashionable women to whom nrialjinment
in court would not be agreeable.
Menellk's wife, the empress of Abyssynla,
who la reported to be a prisoner In the
hands of those favoring the Immediate suc
cession of tho heir apparent. Is a 1aly
who wJs once it great beauty and who had
had four previous husbanils before she
became tho wife of Menelik.
Joseph Bald of Ote:ii, Huntington county,
ra., is S4 years old, but last week he
threshed seventeen doten sheaves of rye
with an old-fashioned flujl. taking about
a day and a half at the Job. He says he
could keep light nt It with any of them If
his eyesight did not fail htm.
Mother Butler, tho name by which Mrs.
William Butler of Newton Center, Mass.,
Is known to .Methodists nil over the world
has Just celebrated her ninetieth birthday
anniversary. A cable message from Bar
oda, India, announced the formal opening
for a hospital for women and children In
honor of the missionary on that day. Mrs.
Butler was Instrumental In sending the
first woman physician to India In 1809.
A whlto-halred man walked Into the
kitchen of Mrs. John Bower of Krledens
burg. Pa., and asked her If she would not
furnish him lodging for the night. She
promptly refused, but the stranger Insisted
on getting quarters. Mrs. Bower took a
good look at him and suddenly recognized
the man thnt confronted her as her brother,
John Schlotman, whom she had not seen
for thlrty-threo years and who left Berka
county when 8 years of age.
BOOH IN GOLD BRICKS.
Ovrrworklm the Bualneaa Starts a
Warning; Cry.
New York Times.
Ready money above the dally needs and
overtrustfulnes and not that variety of dis
honesty which manifests Itself In a will
ingness to enter get-rlch-qulck schemes
where something for nothing Is expected,
seem, broadly speaking, to be the reason
why so many farmers throughout the coun
try are loaded yearly with all manner of
cheap stocks and other worthless paper.
When the farmer turns an eager ear to the
smooth tongued promoter v. no assures him
that mine or oil stock, the latter far leaa
oily than himself, will be worth In a few
months many times the price at which the
farmer Is adroitly Importuned to buy, he
Is chiefly a dupe. He needs no help In a
horse trade or in the sale or purchase of
farm land, but In this stock trading business
he is a babe In the woods. The various
Granges and other organizations of the
country owe it to him and to themselves
to protect him.
Mr. C. S. Stetson, master of the Maine
state Grange, recently sounaed this warn
ing to farmers;
"While our farmers have not bought all
the gold bricks sold In Main, still they have
more In stock than they are talking about.
Bogus mines, fake oil wells, snide quarries
and worthless bonds have been unloaded
on our farmers in amounts that would ap
pal us If the facts were known.
"The promoter has found our state a prof
itable field. The results of his labor are
seen In the bankruptcy of nearly every per
son of means in one of our most prosperous
villages and the pauperizing of hundreds of
our business men, mechanics, farmers,
widows, and orphans,
"These omnlverous sharks spare no one.
Trust funds are taken, and the confiding
are despoiled. Our mails are flooded with
tho advertising of so-called Industrial
schemes which are exploited for the single
purpose of selling stock."
The agricultural papers are also joining
In the campaign of education and exposure
and the work should be pushed by every
possible agency until the swindlers are
ousted from their nests, richly feathered by
honest and hard working if over credulous
men, to work for a living or starve. Neither
alternative would be altogether displeasing.
Talks for people
There are no halfway measures in
advertising If It Isn't exactly right,
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It 1b wrong. If it is strong and interest-
lng, suggestive and convincing, direct
and intelligent; if it is neither too
short nor too long; if it tells the truth
forcibly, convincingly, modestly; if it
bears the unmistakable Imprint of sin.
cerlty, It will Inspire confidence and
bring results "if not, not."
If your advertising looks cheap and
shoddy, who will believe your mer-
chandlse is good? '
If you believe that good advertis-
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Alma Record.
The Omaha Bee came out Wednesday In
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with rlclnre" of Omaha's streets, bullilingi
and public cltlsens. It wss the bitsest
newspaper ever Issued In the state and wi
a valuable advertising menmiti r ins
market town.
Great Mevrspanes
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Hartlngton Hetald.
The Omaha Hee came out Wednesday
with a handsome, ".100,000 Omaha" Issue,
containing many pages ot matter, concern
ing tho different features of that great
and growing metropolis. The fjmalm. Be
Is a great newspaper In a great town.
Conlutenauralo with the t'lty.
Teltamnh Journal. ,
The Omaha Bee for Wednesday came out
in an excellent Illustrated edition oom
inensurste with that city's desire to grow
Into a city of 300,000 people before l:f.
reaches us. We hope It may.
Pronuftanren It n Beauty.
Western Laborer.
The Bee's 300.000 edition on Wednesday
was a beauty, full of good mellow boosts,
beautiful half-tone pictures, and bubbling
over with handsome advertisements.
LIGHT AND LIVELY.
"Why do humorists usually look so sad?'
"They have to look that way." replied
Mr. Merrlman. "It wouldn't be modest or
becoming for a man to be constantly smil
ing at his own happy thoughts." Wash
ington Ktar.
"Pop. what a pity It was that the an
cient Unmans did not know anything about
base ball."
"Why ho. my son'."'
Just think of how they would have en
Joyed killing the umpire." Baltimore
American.
Mrs. Nupop Dear, the baby Is getting
to look more and more, like you every
day.
Mr. Nupop (absently)Well, punish him
yourself. I can't be bothered with tales
of his constant misdeeds w-hen I come home
tired and nervous. Cleveland Leader.
"I would like to go to one of . these
palmists who pretend to foretell the future
and fool him."
"Tou couldn't do it. He would soon find
out your game." . -v
"How could he?"
"Well, he could make' you show your
hand." Chicago Journal. '
"Do' these Englishmen understand Amer
ican slang?"
"Some of them do. Why?"
"My daughter is to be married In London
and the duke has cabled me to come
across." '
"Well?"
"Does he mean me or my wan?" I
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vllle Courier-Journal.
THE QUARK EL.
W. I. Nesblt tn Harper's Magazine.
Now, Willie Johnson yesterday,
He make a face at me, an' say.
He's glad he ain't a little, glii,!
'Cause he don't have no hair to curl
An' his face don't have to be clean
An' so I tell him 'at he's mean.
An' I make faces at him, too.
An' stick my tongue out! Yes, I do.
Nen me an' Willie Johnson fight,
I know 'at girla must be po-llte
An' never get In fights but he
Got in the fight; It wasn't me.
An' so I tored off Wlllle a hat
An' gave him Just a little pat
Up 'side his face, an' he Just cr: "
An' run home like he's trald be ll diet
Po pretty soon his mamma, she
Corned to our house an' looked at mel
Nen goed right In where mamma Is
She tooked 'at tored-up.hat o- his. .
An' Missus Johnson she Just told
My mamma lots o' things, an' scold '
About me, too 'cause I'm outside
An' hear th' door Is open wide
Nen Willie corned out wlf his pup
An' say "Hullo!" So we maked up,
Nen got to playln' an'mal show
His pup Is a wild ll'n, an' so,
W'y, he's tralnln' It, an' I'm
Th' aujence mos' near all th' tlme
An' nen our mammas bofn corned out.
His mamma she stilt scold about
Me slappln" him an" they bofe say:
'Hereafter keep your child away!
An' nen they see us playln' there
An' nen bofe say: "Well, I declare!"
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