10
inK II K I',: OMAHA. KATFWUY. SEITEMUKU 10, 1!M.
'hlE OMAHA EMILYJJEE.
XutNUF.D BY HOWARD ROSE W ATE ft.
VICTOK RoSEWATER. EDITOR.
Entered at Omiht postoffice aecond
clsss matter.
TERMS OF BUR8CR1PTION.
ta11y Bes (Inrluding Sunday), per week..lc
Iany lift t without Hunriay), pi-r week.. loo
lally Jiee (without Sunday), one year.MW
Dully Dee and Sunday, one year
DELIVERED BT CARRIER.
Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week.Sc
Evening H-e (with HundaV). rer W6P i
Sunday Bo, one year
rtviruay Hp, on year 1 w
Address all complaint" of Irregulartttos in
delivery U City Circulation Department.
OFFICES.
Oma'ha The Dm Building.
South Omaha Twenty-fourth and N.
Counril Bluffs 15 Scott street.
Lincoln-ilK Kittle Building.
Chicago-1548 Marquette Building.
N"vo Vork-Rooms 1101-110!. No. M vvest
Thirty-third street. ..,
Wafungtin-72o Fourteenth Htre't. N. v
CORRESPONDENCE.
Communications relating to news and ed
itorial matter should be addressed: Omaha
Bee, Editorial Department.
REMITTANCES.
Remit by draft, epress or po"' or1"
payable to The Bee Publishing Company.
Only SNnt stamps rwelved In paymsni oi
Ball accounts. J'ersonal checks except on
Omaha and eastern exchange not accepted.
STATEMENT OK CIRCULATION.
George B. Txsrhiir'k. tieaurer of The Bee
Publishing Company, being duly wrn'
aaya that the actual mimini t full '"
complete, coph-s of The Imllv. Morning,
Evening and Sunday Bee pi Inted during
ilia moiilh of Aucusi. lDlii. vaa as fo.io.
1 V
. .43.670
, .43,400
. .48,470
..43,610
, .43,800
, .43,840
. .40,000
. .43,800
. .48,330
17...
IS...
It...
10...
II...
XI...
ia...
14...
..48,700
, .43,480
, .43,350
. .43.600
. .40.100
. .43,640
. .43,380
. .43,460
10..... 48,730
It..., 43,730
II 43,640
II i 43,730
14..... 38,800
IS..... 43,300
IS....- 43,100 "
Total 1,339,730
BeturaeA eoplea 14,387
21 43,300
14 43,490
17 43,490
IV 40,100
II 43,880
10 43,440
II 43,990
:.et total 1,318,443
Dally average M33
O SO ROE B. TZSCHUCK,
Treasurer.
Subscribed In my presence ana sworn
to before me thla 1st day of gi-piember. 1910.
' M. B. WALKER. '
Notary I ui ,ir
Was it Conservation?
A Louisiana dWate to the St. Paul
rons-rvatlon congress dci-larrr. on the
floor of the convention thut It was
"much less a conservation congress
than a straight political meeting, the
tendency of which germed to be to ex
alt Theodore Roosevelt at 'the expense
of President Taft."
Strange as It may seem, this very
same thought has struck other people.
We may hope, for the Rood of various
Interests, that It la an erroneous Im
pression.' We may hope that the
studied effort of the promoters of the
congress, the systematic staging of the
program, that this Incident and that
circumstance, all pointing to this one
conclusion, were false signs and that
the one moving spirit and purpose of
the congress was conservation and the
expression of the best means of carry
ing out this great systemj We may
hope that the absence from the con
gress on the day the president ad
dressed U of the prime movers of the.
whole Institution and their attendance
on the next day when Colonel Roose
velt was there was the merest accident
or circumstance and we may hope that
the organized attempt to smother
every sentiment or proposition not in
complete consonance with the theories
of these dominant spirits, was likewise
simply the sincere position of un
prejudiced patriots.
But, of course, none of this is true.
The Louisiana man Is probably right
and Colonel Roosevelt, himself In his
address, in his pralBe of President
Taft. bis policies and those he con
verted Into law through the last con
gress, evidently was not Indifferent to
the sinister influences seeking to use
him for their own capitalization. It
was a mistake and suggests the ques
tion, Did the great cause of conserva
tion, In which every patriotic citizen
must believe, really gain or Iobo by
this congress?
enter upon his plana for ridding hu
reaus and departments of all needless
expenses, and he expect to make a
splendid showing. But this work of
economy cannot be completed at this
short session; much of It must await
the next regular session. Here Is an
other vital reason, therefore, why a
republican majority should be main
tained in congress, for certainly It Is
not to be expected that a democratic
majority is going to lend any aid or
comfort to a republican executive In
the performance of these pledges.
Democratic majorities, for that mat
ter, have never gone in much for
economy.
I 1 L .11. - 1 I (J .1 . . L- - - 11 - -
sent a request before reaching Omaha (
that he would appreciate an arrange-j
nient that would afford hlni a little i
time for rest, as he was tired out be-'
fore reaching thla city. When he left'
this city, after putting In the most'
strenuous day of all, despite his two
hours of rest, he said he had spent the
best day of his trip.
On the theory that crime la a dis
ease and criminals Invalids, what is
your gucsa of Dr. Crlppen's dose If he
In convicted of the murder of his wife
In London? .
Sabarrlbers leaTlngr the? city tem
porarily aboald have. The Bee
mailed to (hem. Address mill be
changed as often aa roe(.U.
Let's see, how many daya till Christ
mas shopping is over?
No, Vox Populi, hay fever does not
come from pitching bay, necessarily.
Some street corners suggest that the
curfew la not doing Its full duty these
nights.
King Menelik certainly presumes on
public credulity by coming back to die
once more
It did not' occur to one of those
patriotic conservationists to' be waving
of lung power.
These columns are not open to any
sane expression of opinion aa to the
inverted washtub hat.
Colonel Watterson says democracy
has a man to fit the presidency, but
refuses to give up his name or where.
abouts. '
If King Menelik should ever happen
to die they would have a hard time
getting mourners who could keep their
faces straight.
The New York Press says everything
seems to be lnsurgtng now except the
graveyards. Yet tombstones are go
ing up all the time.
With the Illinois and southwestern
coal strikes coming to a cloBe on the
eve of autumn, the ' common people
. may begin to cheer up.
Roosevelt Calls Hearst.
In the parlance of the game Colonel
Roosevelt has called Mr. Hearst's defy,
accepting his open challenge to come
back to New York and begin war on
certain political bosses within his own
party, which puts it up to Mr. Hearst
to make the next move, Blnce he has
promised all his support to Colonel
Roosevelt if he will do this.
Before losing too much time In ex
alting Mr. Hearst for his courage, it
might be well to remember that long
before he issued his challenge Colonel
Roosevelt had made plain his determi
nation to do what he is now dared to
do. He had his tilt with these poli
ticians and there and then declared
himself ready for a fight to the finish,
so that it really was not necessary for
the New York editor, who Issues his
defy from Paris, to quit his gay life
abroad temporarily for that purpose.
Tbe Roosevelt temperament is so well
known that nobody had Imagined he
would do anything else but go back to
New York and engage in this contest
All Mr. Hearst has done, therefore,
has been to place himself in a posltton
from which to recede would stamp hlra
unmistakably as insincere. Colonel
Roosevelt leaves no loophole through
which he; may, escape. He emphat
ically acoepts his proffered aympatby
and support. Mr. Hearst, therefore,
will either have to "put up or shut
up." '" "
Of course; if Mr! Hearst decides to
Join hands with Colonel Roosevelt,
whom he has so bitterly condemned In
the past. It' might be ;ust as well for
him to transfer his base of action from
Paris to New York. That would, at
least, give more of a semblance of sin
cerity to his movements.
"We swear too much," says the Des
Moines Register and Leader. An hon
est confession is good for the soul;
maybe they will quit it.
The people of Nebraska are not so
vitally intereated in the brand that Is
on the telephone as they are in the
quality of service furnished. This is
a point in publlo policy always in
order.
It Is hardly to be expected that that
Johnson county estate' would be al
lowed to pasa to the heir without ques
tion. This sort of litigation is too
tempting a feast for the lawyers to
willingly omit.
Omaha Leads in Business.
Taking bank clearings as an Index,
business for Augus't in the west was
strong, showing gains all along the
line. Kor the whole country bank
clearings for August show a decrease
of IS per cent, as compared with
those for August of last year, and a
loss of 13 per cent as compared with
the same month in 1906. The New
England states as a group sustained
an outright lops, but every other sec
tion orv group of states showed some
increase, the western and Pacific coast
states leading with 13 per cent gains,
respectively, over last year
The losses in New England and
small margins of gains in other east
ern sections are ascribed to the heavy
falling pff in exchanges at New York,
"where," as Dun's reports It, "the ex
treme dullness In financial and specu
lative markets has had a very pro
nounced effect on the month's clear
ings." This condition is in marked
contrast with that that ootains In the
west. Here the status of trade rests,
not upon speculation, but upon the
more solid ground of - actual supply
and demand, and it is the more sig
nificant, therefore, that the weBt
should be called on to tip the scales
toward , an Increase
Omaha, as usual, makes a forward
showing. One hundred and sixteen
cities are selected by Dun's for the
purpose of compiling the monthly
statement and of those given, only six
show as great or greater increases
than does Omaha, which comes In with
a gain over August or iu or lu per
cent,- and August of 1906 of 63 per
cent, its total clearings for the month
being $66,379,445.
. Ranking at the last census thirty
fifth in population, Omaha stands fif
teenth in bank clearings, surpassing,
therefore, every cltyof its' own size
and twenty larger than itself, some of
them three times as targe.
While some of our neighboring
cities are twitting Omaha for not
showing up better In the 1910 census,
it may not be out Of place to make
one or two comparisons. - Denver, for
instance, boasting of a population in
the neighborhood of 220,000, has
bank clearings of $37,793,317 for Au
gust, as against Omaha's $65,379,446,
and Denver has a gain over last year
of only 11 per cent as against Omaha's
15 per cent. St. Paul, with an offi
cial census of 214,000, has bank clear
ings for August of only $43,521,071,
as against Omaha's more than $65,-
000,000. and this Is a gain for St. Paul
of only 3 .1 per cent.
As compared with the population of
these Cities,. Omaha Is credited with
26,000, and yet It passes In bank
Perhaps the most encouraging sign
for the republican party Is the fact
that the Omaha Double-Ender can find
nothing In Its policies to commend.
In Other Lands
Bade Light ea What la Trans.
ptrtBff Among tbe Steer aad
Cat Stattona ef tbe Earth.
Where In He A If
Chicago News.
Mr. Bryan lias to read the papers care
fully every day. to pee whether he Is a
radical or a conservative.
t'lnrh ol Lawyer Legislator.
New York Tribune.
One advantage to a legislator being a
member of the bar Is that money accepted
from some special Interest seeking legisla
tion Is always a "retainer."
( Homrnhnt Shy mt.
Baltimore American.
By rutting; down the size of five-dollar
bills it Is estimated the government would
sav $1,000,000 annually. But the plain com
mon citizen Is Interested rot so much In
the size of the legal tender as In its pur
chasing power, lie would like to see that
Increased.
Kindergarten Wiir finnie.
Boston Transcript.
Admiral Ti van's last attack on the mili
tary value of the areoplane In naval war
fare hints atHl bitterer hostilities to come.
He declares that dropping a few oranges or
confetti bombs from a height of 100 or lfiO
feet upon a target representing a battle
ship may amuse "nursery maids and child
ren." but does not convince officers that
the aeroplane has yet soared beyond the
experimental stage.
Colonel llonarvrll mimI the Court.
Philadelphia Record.
According to Colonel Hoosevelt. the de
cision of the supreme court In the "Bake
nhop" case clipped the power of the ttntcs
to compel employers to provide hygienic
surroundings for their workmen. . In fact,
the court could find In the statute, which
It declared unconstitutional, nothing that
would "justify us In regarding It really
as a health law." It seemed to Justice
Peckham. who wrote the majority opinion,
"simply to regulate hours In a private busi
ness not dangerous in any degree to the
morals or In any substantial degree to the
health of the employes." The judicially
Invalidated statute has since been replaced
by a real law affecting bakeshops, and It
has occurred to nobody to contest this as
an unconstitutional exercise of police
power.
GET YOlin SIX BUSHELS.
... . ,w ty lt, . surplus of 4S0.0OO.00O bushels. Some predlc
Lltdl lUB, UUl Ulll lUCDt? VJIICB, jtlonS Of
You cannot convince us that Mis
sissippi has degenerated into the
mollycoddle class so long as honorable
state senators setttle their forensic
differences on the platform before
large assemblage in the plain, old
fashioned style of fist cuff s.
Just to show that Omaha is, after
all, the pioneer in this business of con
servation, this city furnished, as the
St. Paul Dispatch points out, the old'
est delegate to the congress in the per
son of Henry T. Clarke. So there,
Mr. Pinchot.
The selection of Mr. Aldrlch's pollt
leal manager to be secretary of the re
publican state committee will give hlra
an opportunity to show what he can
do In a real fight. If he 1b as success
ful In the election aa he was in the prl
roary contest his chief will have no oc
casion to complain. v
The Increase of 200 per cent in the
population of a single Nebraska county
will not be referred to aa typical of the
state'a growth. It is simply that the
original settlers who were driven out
by drouth back la the '90s have re
turned to practice better methods of
farming.
Saving the People's Money,
In his recent letter to Representa
tive McKlnley as chairman of the re
publican congressional committee
President Taft calls attention to the
fact that. at his suggestion congress
appropriated $100,000 to enable him
to investigate and make recommenda
tions aa to the methods by which the
cost of running. the government may
be reduced. And on this point he
says: v , '
I regard thla as one of the moat impor
tant parts of the administration's policy
I am confident that If full opportunity la
given, and a republican congress Is elected
to assist, the cutting down of national ex
pendrturea by the adoption of modern
economic methods In doing the business of
the government will roach to a point of
saving many millions. The problem
before the administration la to get the full
value for every dollar It disburses.
Thla aounda like business and com
mon sense as well as common honesty
and it must appeal .with considerable
force to the sensible people of this
country. But, in the language of
former President Roosevelt, "words
are good, and only so when backed by
deeds, and President Taft has the
deeds to back hla words. True to the
pledges he and his party made the
people In 1908, he baa already done
much to cut down tbe expenses in run
ning the government. The approprla
tions for the last year were more than
$20,000,000 less than the approprla
tlons of the year before and In the ac
tual execution of the law $11,000,000
were saved In the operation of th
Postofflce department alone, for which
appropriation had already been made.
The best proof that the republican
party proposes to carry out Its pledges
to the people Is the fact that It is do
ing It. On nothing is the public more
insistent than on this very matter of
retrenchment, of economy, and here
the public bas the best example of gov
ernruerxtal frugality ever made the
saving in a single year of the enor
mous sum of $20,000,000.
When tbe next session of congress
convenes this winter the president will
others twice their size. 'It simply goes
to show that the business is here and
that Omaha's wholesale trade is stead
ily pressing Into new territory, the real
empire of the country, and these con
ditions will very soon begin to turn a
tide of population Into Omaha which
will place this city as far ahead In
that particular of some other cities as
It now is in business.
Qaajitltr of Wheat Each Person Mar
Eat This Year.
Prof. M. A. Carleton In Science.
' The home consumption of wheat per
capita In this country. Including seed and
wheat flour (at four and one-half bushels
per barrel), has been as follows: 1870, S.2
bushels; 1S80, 6.62 bushels; 1890, 6.19 bushels,
and JWO. 6.11 bushels. The same Is esti
mated to have been about 6.39 bushels In
1906 and 6.34 bushels In 1908. There has been
much fluctuation, and the figures may set
tle at about six bushels In 1910, or perhaps
more. Anyway, there has been apparently
an increase of about one bushel In our per
capita consumption since 1870. We may
suppose an equal Increase In the equal
period of the ; next forty years, making
seven bushels for 1950, though it may be
considerably less, -
At the. rat of seven bushels per capita,
a population of 160,000,000 will require 1,130,
000,000 bushels of wheat. This amount taken
from the production of 1,800,000,000 bushels
above estimated for that year, and which
Is shown to be very conservative, leaves a
Forty years ago this week the triumph of
German arms at 8edan tore the props from
beneath the French monarchy. The em
peror was a prisoner; the empress, dis
guised. In flight, and Tsrls In possession of
a revolutionary mob. Out of the chaos of
the siege, and the period of convalescence
following peace, the republic arose, but was
not definitely established and chartered
until January 31, 1S7B. The collapse of the
monarchy Is the chief reason for observing
the first week In Septembei as the birth
week of the republic. It Is Instructive to
note how few now living were lesdlng par
ticipants In the disasters and tragedies of
that time. All the generals who fought
against the Herman Invasion are gone, so
are the leaders of the government oi uc-
fense. Kmlle Olllvler. minister of war, ami
Henri Uochefort. most radical of repub
licans, linger Idly amid the scenes of thnt
revolution. In the shadowy background Is
the pathetic figure of Empress KiiKetilc,
"a bent old woman," who occasionally visits
Paris to look at and linger beside the scenes
of her glories as reigning queen for twenty
odd years-. A correspondent who saw the
former empress In rails re.ently says the
"once glorious Eugenie la a timid shadowy
figure of her former self. She was S6 years
old last May.
...
The newsmonger at Addis Abeda, a tele
graph terminal In Abyssinia, Is striving
bravely to iJval the mental dexterity of
the famous war corresponaents of Mole
M. Nicholas and Cliofoo. He has resur
r ecU it King Menelik, the sturdy old giant
who traces his ancestry back to King Solo
mon and the queen of Sheba. The negus
was reported dead lat spring for the seo
ond or third time and was accorded royal
honors In the obituary ana editorial col
umns of the newspapers. His funeral
should havo followed in proper order, but
the undertaker must have missed the Job,
for word comes from Abeda that the negus
ia alive and kicking against anolher at
tack of apoplexy. If the veracious Abeda
reporter persists In giving the negus the
clammy hand semi-annually he may event
ually attract the attention of the Auanlus
club.
Royalty adheres to the formalities and
courtesies practiced with sublime courage
by the sovereigns of the United States.
Lord Roberts of Kandahar Is the bearer of
a message to Kaiser Wilhelm In which is
broken gently the news that Edward VII
la dead and George V reigns. Even though
the German emperor attended the funeral
of his uncle and probably subpected who
his successor would be, the whole truth
bearing the official seal breaks in upon
him with the solemn dignity observed In
notifying a nominee for governor or presi
dent weeks after the event. These cere
monies promote the gaiety of the spectators
and furnish Interesting Junkets for fa
vorites.
.
John Burns, representative of organized
labor In the British cabinet, will be obliged
hereafter to dig Into hla salary for cam
paign expenses. The labo rites of Uattersea
elected Mr. Burns to the House of Com
mons In 1892 and paid him a salary and all
election and registration expenses until 1906,
when he became president of the local
government board at a salary of $10,000 a
year. That salary baa since been Increased
to S2S.000, and Battersea thinks that Mr.
Burns should bear tbe expenses of regis
tration and the labor organisation, or at
least the greater part, which amounts. to
between $1,600 and $2,000 annually. ,
PERSONAL NOTES.
iMavor (Uvnor Is eltlti so strong In bis;
less that his political boomers feel assured ;
he will be able. In a few weeks, to go to
Albany In a walk.
Nan J. Aspluwall. a cowboy strl from
Flathead valley, Montana. Is to ride clear
cross the continent. 8he has heretofore
gained fame as the champion laaiat
thrower. 4
The new secretary of state of Oklahoma.
Just appointed by Governor Haskell, has
started his administration with an order
which defies an Injunction of the state
supreme court.
James E. Mnrtlne. known through New
Jersey as the "farmer orator." and a fol
lower of the political fortunes of William
J. Hryan. has formally declared himself a
democratic candidate for the United States
senate, to succeed John Kean. Ho expects
his name to go on the ballot In the state
primary this month.
The latest example of the literary man In
politic Is Henry Russell Miller. In the
la."l n form campaign In Allegheny he Was
the fireworks of the performance. Remi
niscences of this campaign appear In Mr.
Miller's novel, "The Man Higher Up." And
to show his broad-mindedness, he has made
his hero a practical politician.
Although King George Is almost a tee
totaler, he U the owner of a private dis
tillery, which produces excellent Scotch
whisky. The KIiik'h distillery Is on his
Scottish estute of llalmoral. Kor a long
time it was operated commercially by a
dealer, but when the lease lapse.il to thci
crown yueen Victoria continued Its operation.
SMILING REMARKS.
"Whul sort of n.ansrlne fiction ilo you
"-WelT' 1 think I prefer those stori. s
telling how good the next .number Is go
ing t.i be." . ouiier Journal.
The straw hat and the oyster bumped
toaether In the doorway.
"Going out? querieu ine vfmm.
Vonitn" I"?'' inquired the straw
Cleveland I'lsln Healer.
hat
Mv dear." ssld the wife of tbe profes
sional pettv poUHdwn. -l want yon to
give nit a little of your time tins m ril
ing. I've got to pack a trunk.
Too busy to stop, be answered. I i
got to pack a jury.'.-Haltlinoie Amen
can.
Mrs X-l despise that woman; she tiles
to make a cloak of religion.
Mrs Y Yes. and she hasn t enough of
It to make her a decent bstlilng sull.-t in
cago Tribune.
"If vou remember. 1 slept In tills botoi
Inst night on a pool Ml-le.
1 remember." said the clerk.
"Well, did oti tind a s.t ot fslse teeth
In the corner pocket -Chicago i out.
"What Is It. do you suppose, that keeps
the moon lu place and prevents It fioin
tailing?" asked Aramtnta. -
"I think It must be the beams" replied
Charlie, softly. Sherburne Fulls Messenger.
The man about to pav fa, ", ,'1
pav-as-you-enter car dropped a dol I. i .
which fell to the platform and rolled off
across the pavement Into an opeiilnR. h
it disappeared.
The loser waicuen un i-i,u
It wouldn't have gone, half ns Mi
I d spr-nt It. ' he sald.-Ruffalo Express.
if
INSURGENTS.
Mil. UrtYWS YICTOHIKS.
I'ecnllur Statement Out Without Ki
plituHlory Tun.
Brooklyn Eagle.
It is long since any thing more remarks
able than this has appeared lu print:
"Mr. Bryan Is not at liberty t. consider
tho matter from a purely personal stand
point. He owes conn-thing to the men who
liav.) thrice nominated him In spite of the
influencen that aic now at work trying to
emasculate our phuform at-.d substitute a
reactionary for a progressive program. Can
he afford to surrender these supporters
into the bands of the opposition, merely to
enjoy the plaudits of those who have no
symputhy with the platforms on which he
h.s won?"
Tho quotation Is from tho Commoner. Of
course, It Indicates that Mr. Hryan, aespue
hla announcement that he would not be a
candidate In 1SM2, may find It necessary to
run again, because of what ho owes to "the
men who have thrice nominated him," but
nobody took hla withdrawal as serious. It
might have been accompanied by an af
fidavit without carrying conviction.
This remarkable part of the quotation Is
the end of it the platforms on which he
has won. To wflat victories is thla an
allusion? To tho great triumph of 18. or
the overwhelming successes of 1900 and 1908?
Or does It refer to the county option plat
form of this year? A BUltor who was re
jected consoled himself, saying "the loser
wins." Perhape that's what Mr. Bryan
means.
Minna Irving
The Jam was all
Weekly.
put on the
In Harper'
labeled and
i,Air
The little" bov climbed on a chair
An-1 Tamp.fd each Jar with gastronomic ,oy,
I'luni. apricot, blackberry, pear. .
He had all he could eat, and was stu kj
Hut was hist' caching after some more,
When mamma appeared, and the Insurgent
got
A taste of the slipper she wore.
A flightv young miss who refused to obey
Her mother, or stay Into school
Run off and assumed the by menial yoke
In place of her parents' kind rule.
But alas! she discovered her sorry nut-tak
When too late to amend It, of course.
A penitent Insurgent home she returned.
And straightway applied for divorce.
A gallant who courted a beautiful girl,
And loved her. but hated to stop
His flirting with other young ladles, de
layed .t. i. ......... mnm.nlnllH to non.
But when he Implored her a day and a
date ,
To name to the parson s to go.
He met with a frigid and final rebuff, ,
For his Insurgent sweetheart said No.
A big politician who filled up for years
His bottomless pockets with gold
From the purse of the people, and in his
demands
Grew still more Insistent and ho.d
Was at last overthrown by the friends he
betiayed.
For an insurgent greedy was be.
And the public he plundered rejoiced In his
woe,
From his taxes and trickery free.
For none of us ever Is wholly content
With life and Us gifts a we are,
And whether we hanker for glory and gold.
Or peaches put In a Jar.
Though sure that punishment painful and
swift M
Upon us Is certain to fall,
We rebel, and at treasure forbidden we
grasp,
Because we are Insurgents all.
Talks for people who sell things
A Nebraska traveler JuBt returned
from Europe found The Bee on file In
all tbe cities he visited, and found It In
Berlin only nine days old, which Is
just about the time required by the
fast mail to carry the paper from
Omaha to the German capital. This
is referred to merely to show that The
Bee's Influence Is not confined to Doug
las county or to Nebraska. It is the
only Nebraska newspaper of general
circulation.
our future population have placed
it much higher . than 100,000,000 for 1950,
one making It aa high 200,000,000. Supposing
this last to be correct; at seven bushels
per capita, that population would require
1.400.000,000 bushels, leaving still a surplus
of 200,000,000 bushels. Again, If we consume
that there will be a greater Increase In per
capita consumption resulting in as much
as eight bushels by 19G0, the amount re
quired at home at this rate would be 1,280,-
000,000 bushels, leaving a surplus of 320,-
000,000 bushels. Supposing both contentions
of the larger Increases In population and
consumption should be true, which Is ex
tremely improbable, the demand would Just
equalthe supply.
Our Birthday Book
For the benefit of a number of peo
ple who are Just now energetically d
nounclng Omaha and Douglas county
for political purposes only The Bee
would like to call attention to the fact
that we do raise something In Douglas
besides "merry hades." For proof of
rihis we cite the award just made at the
State fair which gives to Omaha the
prise for tbe best collective exhibit,
and this in a dry year, too.
Automobile accidents on the road
may be unavoidable, but it will be
bard to believe that a little care would
not prevent running down of a slower
vehicle when both are proceeding in
the same direction. Stricter regard
for the rights of everybody on public
thoroughfares will do much to eliml
nate accidents and will add to the pop
ularity of the automobile.
a ricn rewara.
Mr. Advertiser, you who are not yet
in The Bee, had you not better come
In?
The Bee and its readers have helped
The Philadelphia Inquirer calls the
open primary of Nebraska, which per
mits a man to vote any ticket he
pleases regardless of past party affilia
tions, "absurd, undemocratic and un
just." We would amend It only by
striking out the word "undemocratic"
and refer the Inquirer to the last leg
islature of Nebraska as tbe author of
the law.
"Even Mr. Roosevelt's great vitality
gave out In Omaha and he was de
lighted to get a rest," says the Los
Angeles Herald. Which, of couree, Is
not correct The fact Is Mr. Roosevelt
September io, mo.
Frederick A. Dellano, president of the
Wabash, was born September 10, 186S, at
Hong Kong, China. He began railway
service with the Burlington with an engl
neerlng party In Colorado In 1855 and went
up tbe line until he became general man
ager of the Burlington at Chicago, from
which he Jumped to his present place.
Poultney Blgelow, author and newspaper
man, Is fit. He was born In New York,
studied law, traveled around the world,
and Incidentally got lnt6 trouble with
President Roosevelt for alleged misrepre
eentatlons of conditions at the Panama
canal.
John Brlsben Walker, former editor of
the Cosmopolitan Magaxlne, but now re-
tired, was born September 10, 1S4T, In
Pennsylvania. When a cadet at West Point
he resigned to enter the Chinese military
service. In which he remained two years,
going later Into journalism In this country
William A. Peffer, once United States
senator from Kansas and leading light of
the populist party, is 79 years old. He Is
a native of Pennsylvania. Hla last political
stunt was to run aa prohibition candidate
for governor In 1S08. since then he has
been doing literary work.
John F. Wallace, railway engineer, was
born September 10, 1852, at Fall River,
Mass. He was chief engineer of the
Illinois Central when he went to take
charge of the Panama canal work, but
did not last long there. He is now with
the Westinghouse people In New York.
W. D. Mciiugh, attorney at law In the
First National Bank building, Is celebrat
ing hia fifty-first birthday. He was born
at Galena, 111., and came within an ace of
being United States district Judge, being
appointed to that position by President
Cleveland, mho later wtlhdrew the ap
pointment at his request.
Cxra Millard, assistant cashier cf the
United States National bank, was born
September 10, 1877. He Is a native son of
Omaha and graduated at Harvard university.
Earl R. Stiles, chief auditor of the Wood
men of the World. Is 16. He was born In
Mlllerstown. Pa., and has been with the
Woodmen organisation In various capact
tins aiiics liwA
Although the population of Germany con
tinues to increase rapidly from year to
year there are indications that the rate of
growth will presently be checked. The de
cline of the birth rate In certain centers
and especially In' Berlin is giving some anx
iety. Statistics Just available show that
in that city since 1S99 there has been an
almost constant decrease In the annual
number of births. In that year there were
about twenty-eight births to every thou
sand of population. In 1909 there were
only twenty-four births to every thousand,
and th decline continued through 1909.
Paris Is about to receive a visit from the
chief of one of the leading Tuareg tribes,
the Ahaggar, who command tbe region of
the central Sahara between Tldlkelt and the
Soudan. This bandit chief, MousBaag Am-
astane, has rendered the French signal ser
vice In the last six years in Inducing his
followers to look with a more favorable eye
on the advance ot French domination and
to appreciate the commercial and agricul
tural advantages of the Pax Gallica. "It Is
triumph of French colonial expansion In
the desert," remarks the Parla correspond
ent of the London Times, "to have tamed
so troublesome and powerful a tribe aa that
of the Ahaggar and to have secured their
assistance In extending French rule among
the still recalcitrant tribes of the frontier
of Tripoli."
The British postofflce has discovered that
there are now two "IT. 8. A's" in the
world and Is troubled about It. Mall In
tended for the United States of America has
been sent to the region comprised within
the "Union of South Africa." America,
however, is not to be deprived of its prior
right to these Initials, for the British letter
writer' Is being Officially advised to direct
his missives to Natal, Capa of Good Hope,
the Transvaal or the Orange Frea State,
as the case may be, without any further
qualifying directions. Officially the new
federation Is designated the South African
Union S. A. U. for short.
The Bee circulation is built solely service they could render, have reaped
on ita merits its ability to give the
people what they want supplying in
teresting reading matter demanded
by Interested and intelligent readera.
The Bee goea dally in over 42,000 others to success and can help you.
homes and Is read by every member you can advertise In The Bee for
of the family who can read. 93 cents an Inch, and the rate is the
These people have many needs and game to you as to any other advertiser.
f,hey have the money to supply them Finally, The Bee offers you a Serv-
they live comfortably and spend liber- ice 0f Advertising Copy that will tell
ally they are the sort of people that your story In plain, simple words, that
it pays the merchant to have for cus- is forceful and Interesting and con-
tomers. vlnclng that will appeal to people
Merchants who have used the ad- of Intelligence people who read The
vertlsing columns of The Bee to reach, Bee.
these 120,000 possible buyers, who All you have to do to start The Bea
have told them plainly, simply, Intel- working for you Is to phone Tyler
llgently what they have to offer, what 1000.
Brussels Is to be the scene this month of a
great international congress on cremation,
at which one of the most notable delegates
will be the duke of Bedford, vice president
of the Cremation Society of England. Ger
many, France, the United States, Switzer
land, Italy, Austria, Canada and Australia
are all sending representatives, while the
congress will be opened and welcomed in
the name of King Albert by hla premier,
although Belgium Is one ot the countries
where Incineration of the human body Is
still forbidden by law. In fact. Bulgiana
who wish thulr dead to be cremated have to
dispatch the corpses either 10 Germany or
to France for the purpose.
A Ureat Public Need.
Springfield Republican.
President Tait showed strikingly the need
for forest conservation when he said at SL
Paul that three-quarters of the timber of
the country Is In private feands and that of
this three-quarters only 3 per cent la prop
erly looked after. A private owner haa no
more light to burn his wood lot than to
burn hia block on a city street. Conserva
tion In both casea ia simply a matter for
good pollcelng. Including the removal of the
conditions that make fires.
Drradaauahta to the Scrap Pile.
Philadelphia ledger.
German naval designers are aald to have
devised a vessel, a sort of a return to the
monitor type, which Is destined to relegate
the modern hattieshlpa to the scrap pile.
There have been many other vessels as to
which the same confident predictions were
made, and yet the naval pun era still count
their strength by the number and weight
of their battleship. It la unsafe to nuke
predictions either way.
Gives 52 Happy Weeks
Every Year
You can make home
happy with a
Boudoir Player Piano
A Piano That Plays Everything
and Everybody Can Play It.
S10.G0 Takes One Home
Two Dollars Per Week Pays Por It.
HAVE YOU SEEN IT?
A. HOSPE CO.
1513-ia Douglos St.
O
HAVE YOU READ THIS BOOK I JS
Ji Great Musfcrv
novel pu aramou3Jtumor
THE WINDOW
dtihe WHITE CAT
Jt IS t-W VUVCL BIT
MARY ROBERTS RINEHART
V Author of THE MAN IN LOWER TEN
.CIXCULAR STAISXASt. WHEM A MAN MARRIES ,tttt
t
FOR SALE a Wnv riwr tai v tijic
f AT ALL STORES "TEfls -iV s n-vJ iruu IU
rm som. m hmiij. ca
ar-i ' ma