THK BKK: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1910.
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roUNDBU BT EDWARD ROSEWATEU.
VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR.
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STe-T WME.XT Of CIRCULATION.
State of Nebraska. Dougla County. as.:
Oeorge B. Tx.chuck. treasurer of
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Sabacrlbera lesvlsta; tke elty teaa
porarlly ahaald kare The Be
uialied to ttiem. Addresa will be
kaaed aa ofteai aa reeted.
"The Japanese are good waiters,"
ays the Boston Post. How about
tbt-lr batting averages?
"We are making immense strides,"
sa s "a British suffragette. Then she
Is not wearing the bobble skirt.
. tj AS the world's series probably will
' je over before November, election may
be able to attract some attention.
Those West Point cadets are show
ing the force of concerted action,
which Is one of the points In an army's
fflelency.
It Is sometime difficult to see
advantage of Justice being blind,
for iMtancc; in the case of Mr.
O'Nell Browne. '
the
Aa,
Lee
Teas refuses: to admit that its mag
nificent growth. In population is due
to the well-known fact mat Mr. Bryan
owns' a farm there.
Y -A " ,L!
JL cat. Jit. on an lowa woman s
chantecjer hat,, but with a chicken on
top and a rat or two beneath, could
you blame the cat? -
"My notion about progress," says
Uncle Joe, "Is that It should be a for
ward movement." Even
gents can endorse that.
the insur
Talk, about prosperity and the hired
girl problem, A hotel at Chadron had
to close Its dining room because it
could not get waitresses.
A season' or two more and aviation
should' be so fa advanced that some
of its champions could find profitable
engagements In vaudeville.
- Somebody - has ' neglected to an
nounce, that' the heavy Increase- in
population is due to the Influence of
Mr. Hearst and his newspapers. '
The Boston Herald claims that the
"rear'"' Boston has 1,500.000 popula
tion. Than this they are panning off
on us ia'just a bogus city, is It?
. It Is. all very ;well to try to dodge
the I8lii4e by talking about the "shadow
of Ulli" bvit what Is before us Just
uow Is something more tangible than
a shadow.-
T- Jl Tibbies has elaborately ex
plained who Mr. Hitchcock is. Now
If Mr,. Jlltchcock will only tell the
waiting world all he knows about Tib
bies tlis rase may be considered as
mad MP- '. '
The United States court of customs
is wrestling with the problem, "Is a
hen a -.bird?'- If th court wants ex
pert 'testimony It should consult the
farm wives oT Nebraska, who realize
teat .a' properly Constituted hen Is a
gold mlye.. . t ...
a: .
South' Omaha annexationists are
totuing through with their petitions in
rood shape and', will have plenty ot
signers In time for the county commia-
n?s: to. act. ;The move for the'
union of the two cities is in better
abape than ever,
Ton) Watson has bolted again and
la adylslng Georgia democrats to vote
agaliUt' Hoke Smith. Wherefore the
Houston ' I'ost remarks that It kept
Torn toi the party for seven weeks.
oywlJV It probably took Tom that
long to "tad out that he had no show
Si the pis counter,
Enemy's Advice to Tsft.
- Seme leading democratic papers
bare suddenly become very aollcltous
In behalf of fair play toward President
Taft, so much ao that (her are appre
hensive leat hi old friend and asso
ciate, former President Rooaerelt, Im
pose oa him. So the are advising the
president to "swat the colonel."
- Of course, this disguised counsel Is
too palpable to deceive anybody. In,
this campaign, aa In inanr past, thei
hope of the democracy lies In republl-i
can dissension, duv 11 tne aemocrats
do cot see by now that their subtle
scheme Is futile they must be obtuse.
Taft and Roosevelt, the progressives,
not only typify, the dominant element
in the republican party of today, but
the dominant element of all Its his
tory. The reactionaries have never
controlled this party, and It Is useless
for the enemy to presume upon the
theory that It will do so in the present
campaign. It must be apparent to
1 J k U n.Ana.l..
auuuuy uy iiuw iu-i iuc inunrw-n 1.
are in control and are going to rental
in control, and that Tfft and Roose
velt stand shoulder to shoulder as the
leaders and embodiment of this whole
progressive movement, despite what a
few aggrieved politicians may do or
say.
No amount of Interested misrepre
sentation can blind the eyes of the ma
jority of the people to this fact and
the opposition Is but wasting time and
energy In making such an attempC It
has itself chosen to set up at different
stages its own bogey men, and every
time they have fallen flat and with
nothing but a reflex action upon those
responsible for them. What could be
more expressive of this than the re
sult in the New York state convention,
where these two progressives have
been found squarely together, belying
every effort, and trick to make it ap
pear otherwise? '
Government Quietly at Work.
It is the habit of the Taft adminis
tration to work quietly, but work.
Therefore it must not be surprising to
most people to learn tliat the govern
ment Is engaged In more ."trust-busting"
today than it has ever been. Not
content with the various large suc
cesses it has achieved in repressing
illegal conspiracies, the administra
tion has its Department of Justice at
work upon more cases Just now' than
ever and some very Important results
are within reach.
This must be gratifying v to those
who believe in the serious determina
tion of the government to outlaw
predatory combines, and It must be a
severe rebuke to those who have been
peddling the reports, that no more
trust-busting" would be undertaken
until the Standard Oil case was eff
hand. Apparently the president and
his Department of Justice have- not
been able to understand, why the
pending of thla case in court should
stop or retard their progress In other
directions. It would naturally seem
that it should have precisely the oppo-j
site effect. Results achieved in this
pivotal 'case should only serve to stim
ulate further effort.
' Jt is probably true that the vigilance
of the government has finally con
vinced trust barons that It will not do
for them to adhere to the old methods
of conspiring to restrain trade, and
now the government Is starting out to
teach them a similar lesson about
their so-called "gentlemen's agree
ments." The purport of all this Is, or
should be. to impress the fact that
Uncle Sam Is in deadly earnest and
that, no matter by what name It goes.
combination in restraint of trade Is
no longer fashionable in this country
and, under republican rule, may not
be practiced with Impunity.
'Utilizing- Waste Land."
' Under this caption a Boston paper
has a very Interesting editorial treat
ing of western land, wnat has been
done and what may be done to in
crease its .productivity and .value
Our eastern friends are taking a deep
Interest 1 in the welfare and develop
ment of the west and some of them
have gone to the pains of really get
ting first-hand information about
what we are doing with our soil and
crops, while others apparently are not
so well informed as to understand
that the greatest results In this line
being achieved today are in the west;
that the west Is setting the example
In Intensified farming, as well' as land
reclamation. Of course, the west be
ing newer and so much more ex
pansive has. and for years to come
must have, a vast amount of "waste
land." but as rapidly as science and
energy and financial resources may be
employed that waste land la being
transformed into a land flowing with
milk and honey and it is supplying a
large percentage of the country's pro
duce. A writer In the current number of
the Outlook presents some very inter
esting and. Indeed, surprising statis-j
tics as to the agricultural output of
Massachusetts and the work of soil
and tnrmiil r v rntiaa.L'.tlnn t- 1
f " k ' " ,u
stance, he says near Boston one-half
acre of strawberries produces 5,000'
Quarts, which bring a sum of 62o.
This would be I1.2S0 per acre; cer
i8lnly a paying crop. But he tells
.mat wuniu nny miles or Boston
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MvatMi vr aiilrahlA ftw r.vmU 1
feed the entire population of 3,000.000
or so within the same radius snd yet
have a surplus for export And such
laud sells as low as $50 per acre."
This being true, then we of the weit
may be pardoned for Inviting more of
a co-operation from our eastern
friends la this work of reclaiming the
soil.
Boston JNO years old. Manifestly
lit has not, or the people of the state
bare not, made the progress they
should In scientific farming, or this
waste land would not lie at the very
door of the Hub. The Outlook writer,
In reply to the boasts of the "Golden
West." declares that they hare a
"Golden New England;" that one crop
alone In a single 8eas4n amounts to
$60,000.000 the crop of tourists or
sightseers. This Is an unstable re
source. One year of hard times might
cut It squarely in two. The west has
such resources, but they are side is
sues. It depends more on the natural
stability of the soil.
And Boston and Massachusetts had
better look out for thla uncultivated
waste land surrounding the city if it
would meet the demands of a steadily
Increasing congestion of urban popu
lation. Land on the threshold of Bos
ton selling for 150 an acre! The
. . ,. 1 ,a tun
miles west of Omaha out here In the
wild, weird prairie of Mie west sells
for far more than that.
War on Tuberculosis.
Last year twenty-eloit states gave
14, 000,000 toward the campaign
against tuberculosis. This year al
ready $8,000,000 has been appropri
ated from all sources for the same
purpose. Last year in seven states
new sanatoria were bulit and in six
old ones repaired, while today sana
toria are maintained in twenty-seven
states and the national government
has one each in New Mexico and
Arizona. These facts are taken from
a report compiled in the Medical
Record. They show up very well for
state governments, too, Ty the way,
The states In this ease seem to be lead
ing in the work of conservation con
servation of human life.
Thus this war on the white plague
has not only taken tangible form, but
Is producing vast results. - Its greatest
achievement, doubtless, Is in the line
of education. It has already taught
the people how to deal with the dis
ease, that it is curable and how to aid
in preventing it and how to combat
it after contracted. It. has taught
them that practical sanitation ob
serving the ordinary rules of good
health, taking plenty of fresh air,
wholesome food and rest Is the surest
remedy they can adopt. ,
But with all our progress we must
keep up this fight if we ever hope to
get the upper hand of a malady which
scientists say has had hold of the hu
man race since the early stages of
mankind. Such aq Insidious foe to
health can not bo vanquished in a day,
nor in a generation. It may be seri
ously crippled in that time, but noth
ing short of eternal vigilance will ever
Stamp' It out 'completely. It is in
fectious and may be spread from a
thousand causes and by the least care
lessness, such as it Is difficult for a
people of any country to avoid. But
if we have made such commendable
progress tn so short a time, surely the
American people will not be content
to relax their energies now.
The Bankers', Meeting;.
Omaha bids welcome to the bankers
of the state, who are just now assem
bled here for their annual convention.
It also congratulates the men who
make up that meeting on the very ex
cellent showing they have been able
to make of their buslnes. The last
statement furnished by the comptrol
ler of the treasury has established that
there never was a time In the history
of the state when the national banks
were in a stronger and more satlsfac
tory condition
The deposits held, athei
loans snd discounts carried, the re
serve in store and every other Item in
the report afford substantial proof of
the excellent service that Is being ren
dered and the solid footing on which
the business Is transacted. And now
comes the report of Secretary Royse
of the State Banking board and. shows
that the state banks are tn a condition
quite as satisfactory as the national
banks. ' ,
The 'bankers may well plume them
selves on these facts, for they are war
rantable excuse for pride. , Moreover,
they are the very best possible answer
to the allegations made two years ago
by the guaranty law. Instead of
money being frightened into hiding by
the failure of banks to provide safety
for its use, it Is busily' engaged In its
normal function ot carrying op the
business of the state and earning rev
enue for its owners. The situation as
regards the banks could hardly be bet
ter and the men who are responsible
for this condition deserve all credit
for it.
South Omaha's prominence as a live
stock market Is showing most brightly
these days. A yard that can care for!
65,000 sheep In a single day, In add!
tlon to the regular run of other live
stock, is an Institution of Importance,
and a country that can absorb such
offerings has resources that are not to
be overlooked. The showing tells
most eloquently of the greatness or
I .
Nebraska.
Doubtless the people of tne r irsl
- ! Minnesota district ascertained before
t.s'h.iid that young Mr. Andrrtna would
gUard the treasury as safely and se-
- curely as did Mr. Tawney. wno oe-
came known as the "watchdog of the
treasury."
The admission Of a prominent
Omaha attorney to practice in the su
pre nie court brings to light the fact)
that tha records of the court are ln-
j complete and suggests that Investiga
tlon might disclose further discrepan
cies In Its 'record. All of which em
phasizes tjhe need of having a better
home for the supreme court of Ne
braskaa place where Its records may
be housed properly.
James A. Tawney, whom the repub
licans of the First Minnesota district
defeated for renomlnatlon as their
candidate for congress, was one of five
candidates for the senate In 1901,
when Moses E. .Clapp was chosen.
The other three were Robert Evans of
Minneapolis, now dead; Thomas Low
re y of Minneapolis, now dead, and
Tarns Bixby. then of Red Wing." Clapp
of St. Paul, who had been running nip.
and tuck with Evans, won on the four
teenth ballot. Tawney. Lowrey and
Bixby were only pacemakers in the
race. The seat In the senate was then
held by Charles A. Towne, who, upon
the death In the previous November
of Bushman K. Davis, had been ap
pointed by Governor John Llnd.
Towne's tenure was only a few
months, as Clapp was elected In Janu
ary and took his seat March 4. -
The Irrigation congress at Pueblo 1
has run against the state's rights
snag. It Is very well to talk about a
state controlling Its own waters, but
where other states are Interested In
the same waters the decision Is not so
easily reached, and here Is where na
tional control serves the user better
than state recognition possibly could.
The growth in population In Cherry
county Is a fairly safe indication of
Nebraska's Increase during the decade.
While it is hot tremendously large. It
is permanent, and that Is the sort of
growth Nebraska desires.
The settlement of the Miles will case
closes another chapter In a very Inter
esting suit. But the Interest of the
public in the affair has been very
slight in comparison with that of the
attorneys. .
Heardlesa to the) Kre.
Boston Transcript.
Whatever else may happen, the next con
gress Is likely to show more beardless men
than any previous one within a half cen
tury. Crime f Carelessness.
Washington Post.
Carelessneas which causes railroad
wrecks that malm and kill will be teas fre
quent when the punishment fits the
crime.
Over the Alps and a Tumble.
New York World.
The height of Irony Is reached when an
aviator files over the Alps and then tn
alighting falls thirty feet with his machine,
breaks both lerfa and ruins his aeroplane.
KaoTCledfcr from the Stamp.
liOuisvtlle Courier-Journal.
If the Kngllnh scientist who admits freely
that he does not know how the world be
gan, wilt llBlSin American politician will
tell lilm hpwr, jit rwlll end, if it doea not
heed his advice, and Imitate his virtue.
. i'- V. JAyff ,
Oteratepplna the Mounds.
Washington Post.
New England might stand for the weat'a
tariff sneers, but when It comes to a
western doctor hurling a lot of con
tempt at mince pie and baked beans. New
England Is likely to get sarcastically sec
tional. Lost by the Wayside.
New York Tribune.
What has become of that standby of old-
fashioned meterorology the equinoctial
storm? In these days when the ground
hog finds few to do him reverence It Is a
breach of professional comity for the
equinoctial tempest to fall to come to time.
Pretty soon all the old oracles of weather
wisdom will be as dead and disregarded as
the deities of Valhalla or Olympus.
Money for "Moral I pllft."
Philadelphia Record.
Acccrding to bis own testimony before
the legislative Investigating committee In
New York, Q. Tracy Roberts, lobbyist,
spent In three years $S2,47& of the Street
Railway association's money '' to elect rood.
suuare honest men that couldn't be
bribed." And this philanthropic and pa
triotic association pursued its noble pur
pone of buying good men who could not be
bribed in absolute secrecy, Instead of
proclaiming ft' from the housetops. The
modesty of the association and Its
agent exceeds even their patriotism.
paid
A Oettrsbara;
A nolveraary.
Springfeld Republican
Dean.
Because the men who took part in the
battle of Oettysburg are so rapidly passing
away, it' haa ' been decided to hold the
commemoration of that crucial conflict of
the civil war tiext year, two years In ad
vance of the fiftieth year. General Sickles
is the most prominent and almost the only
civil 'war major general still surviving and
it la hoped that ha will live to take part
In next year'a Gettysburg reunion on the
field where forty-eght years before he lost
a leg In consequence of a wound received
In the second day's fighting. Not only will
this anniversary be of uncommon Interest
because of the gxeat heroism II commemo
rates, but the "presence of 'many who fought
there Is greatly to be desired.
Our Birthday Book
spUmbar 88, 1S10.
France L. Willard, founder of the Wo
111 an a " Cbiiatiaii Tempera nee union. ' w at
biM n September. 28. near Rochester. N.
Y. he was president' of Bvanston college
and active in various movements for the
- ! self -advancement of women.
Henry MacPrSckrn, chancellor of New
York university, was born September ts.
MS4C. at Oxford, O. He was ordained in the
Presbyterian. ministry In IMS, but has Ue- Mexico by our own civil war. but which had
voud. most of bis life to educational work. finally forced the ending of French Inter
John A. Ht-nipster, the i;fe Insurance man, ference and had given Juares his victory.
ia celebrating bis 70th birthday today. H
was born tn Dundee. 111., and served Ih the, tng which Maxmlllan was de facto emperor,
union aini almost from the beginning to Mexico has been at least a nominal rcpub
tlieVand of the war. He moved to Nr- lie for 100 years. Juares. a real atateamun.
' traaua In, lTl anil nas oeen superintendent
- i of sents for the Banker.' Reserve Life of
i Omaha store 1K98. He Is running for the
legislature- on the republican ticket,
Charlca O. Hunt of Hunt Elliott. Mall
paper and painting. Is Just SO. He was born
In Cincinnati and has been in Omaha sine
17. ..
Frank II. kkoeaters, la the superin
tendent's office of the I'nlon Pacific shops.
' aa born' September ts. 1W, In Omiha. He
- ! or vr lne '"rl'n8lun
'hen he-v,a employed by the street rail-
te, y company, resigning In 1907 to work;
for the i'nlon Pacific. He la aecretury of I
the Vettrao Flreiuaa association of Omaha.
Around New York
UvpUe aa the Owneat el Xlfa
aa Seea la the area Asaerioaa
Metre pells treat y m Vevy.
Although meeting dlsooui agementa at
every turn. illRimted by the petty trtck of
trade cheats. Clem" lrtcoll drrlvps oc
casional amusement from his mar on false
weight and measures In the metropolis.
Just for a change of scenery he led his
raiding staff to the "farmers' maikct
place" In Brooklyn. expecting to find
honesty theie tn all Its glory. At the clo.e
of the Inspection 0O short-weight baskets
and barrels had been confiscated. The 5U0
bushel baskets taken from farmers' wagons
weighed but forty pounds Instead of sixty,
the barrels held 130 pounds Instead of 171
pounds, as required by law. The farmers
blamed the wicked basket and barrel mak
ers for their short measures. The activity
of the bureau In another direction Is caus
ing much uneaclnexa among makers of
barrel scales. Mr. Drlocoll des not like
the machine that weighs and tells the price
of the goods at the same time. Some ot
the scale charts In the comlssloner'a posses
sion allow that a man who goes Into a
store and asks for 20 cents' worth of meat
may get anything from one pound and
fourteen ounces to two pounds and one
ounce. The commercial value for all the
1 Intermediate welshts Is 20 renin. This Wide
rar,e of cnoce does not conform to the
commissioner's Idea, of honesty In weigh
ing. The defense put forward by the scale
makers is that It Is Impossible to weigh
meats to the exactness of a small fraction
of a pound. One of the chief points of con
tention concerns the locking of the adjust
ment screw. Drlscoll contends that It
should be kept locked, so that inspectors
rtvty know that the scale la not tampered
with after they have passed upon It. The
scale-makers argue that It should be kept
unlocked, because scalea used dally fre
quently need readjusting.
Aside from the tona of false weights and
"measures confiscated and destroyed, the
crusade has accomplished a vast amount of
good as an educator. It has shown New
York housewives that they have been
cheated right and left, and tens of thou
sands of sharp eyes have been trained upon
the dealer. If one of them gives short
count In these days, he la discovered and
disciplined. No mors do five shops pass the
kitchen muster, when six have been paid
for. The butcher is told to keep his hands
oft the scales. -
From a Broadway ear, at Seventy-second
street, the other day a lover of horses who
finds himself continually fretted by the mis
treatment of them he sees on the part of
stupid drivers noticed a man trying to back
a heavily loaded coal truck Into the curb.
The horses were splendid animals and were
doing their beat to understand what was
wanted, but the driver had,. worked them
into a frenxy, and they had reached the
stage where they were Jumping forward al
ternately In the collars. The driver was
lashing them with the whip and both
horses were In a lather.
The horse lover jumped off the car to
stop the brutality, but a mounted police
man was befote him. The policeman Jumped
from his mount and ran to the coal wagon.
"Get off that seat." he called to the
driver.
The truckman, evidently expecting to be
arrested, climbed down, muttering Impre
cations. To the surprise of the onlookers,
the policeman, taking off his gloves.
climbed up In the driver's place and gath
ered up the reins. He waited a minute to
let the horses calm, down and then clucked
to them, pulling evenly and steadily on the
ruins at the same time.
Steady, boys; both together now," he
called to the horses In a soothing voice.
The team went into the collars and the
work was soon done.
"There, you fool," tho policeman ' re
marked to the driver as he climbed down
from the seat "Do It that way next time.
me tan, atnietlo young man sprang to
nis reet and caught the rosea that drifted
toward hint. He crossed the narrow pas
sage and placed them with a low bow
in the hands of the beauteous maiden op-
pobite, who received them with a blush and
whispered thanks.
But the scene was not a summer gar
den. It was the first passenger car of a
subway train rushing through the Brooklyn
tunnel and swept by a wind that carried
hats, newspapers, feathers and flowers
alike from the persons of their owners,
And the girl remarked to her companion
"Uee, Ethel, but I'll have to sew those
things tighter on my lid."
The result of the government census In
Brooklyn will cost the saloonkeepers of
that borough about I750.0O0 a year. The
census returns show that the population of
Brooklyn has reached 1.634.851. Vnder the
state law saloonkeepers in a city or bor
ough with a population of over 1.600.0U0 must
pay a license fee of 11.200. Instead of the
S97S charge which Is collected lu cities of
the next lower class. There are about 3,500
saloonkeepers In Brooklyn who must now
pay the increased tax. According to the
secretary, of the Liquor Dealers' association,
the Increase will drive nearly a third of the
saloonkeepers out of business.
STRANUH COI!M 1DKM B.
Km press Carlatta Uylnar aa Meslea
Celebrates.
: Brooklyn Eagle.
Mexico,' celebrating the centenary of Ita
Independence, unveiled yesterday a hand
some monument of Benito Pablo Juares In
Culdad Juares, opposite El Paao. And news
paper readers who were present at that
celebration had In their hands papers con
taining the newa that the former empress,
Carlotta, waa dying at Brussels, after forty
three years of hopeless Insanity. The co
Incidence la striking' It was Juarez who
kept up the long campaign against odds
that resulted In the complete evacuation of
Mexico In March, 1M7, by the French troo
lent to Carlotta'a husband, tha Austrian
Archduke Ferdinand Joaeph Maximilian,
whom Napoleon III. had made emperor of
Mexico, and the execution of Maxmlllan on
June 19 of the aame year.
Charlotta waa the daughter of King lu
poid of Belgium. Her personal charm, her
misfortunes, her dlaapoliitinent In requests
of Napoleon the Lltlla for further support,
her unavailing appeal' to the pope, the exe
cution of her husband, and the unsettling
of her reason, aroused sympathy for her
the world over, even among the people of
the I'nited Htates, which had been ham-
pered when Maximilian
first landed In
With tha exception of the brief time dur-
belongs to the heroic period of Its history
Carlotta belongs to the same period. And
as for Maximilian, hla dtath was perhaps
a needless tragedy. His fault had been one
springing from his pUnt of view. He had
refused to do what Napoleon tha Little
wanted done unless arrangements should
be made for Mexico to vota on ratifying
hla aelectlon for emperor. Ha waa not a
tyrant, not a bad man. But, atandlng for
tha European domlnat'on of the life and
tlie trade of Mexico, he deserved to full.
The United Xtates could have taken no
other pjsltlop limn it did lu the face of
auch an attack oil Ita hegemony 011 the
American continent.
PERSONAL NOTES.
Mrs. M. A. tlaldwln whs recently elected
school trustee st Uroton. Y., She is
the president of the Political KiUMlltV
league and more tlmn half the men present
at the school meeting are s.ild to lio voted
for her. AltlimiKh the only woman on the
board she whs made a member of its execu
tive committee. v
Among the marriages of persons of fully
niHture yi-urs recently reported is tint of
a New York man of 4 who is the pioud
groom of a blushing bride of . t lio were
engaged sixty years ago. These deliberate
lovers did not marry In In no. ,md conse
quently did not leave t!ienielves a litine
iimonnt of leisure to repent In.
Mrs. Mary Powell of Philadelphia. 70
years old. marched up Pikes Peak, tlunj
marched down iiguiu. Not In twenty yenis
luis a woman anywhere near her age pei
formed the feat. Mrs. Powell has tried six
years to accomplish the feat. Km-h pre
vious time after she hud gone three miles
she allowed herself to be dissuaded.
One of the most active deputy game
wardens in Minnesota Is Mrs. C 11. Parker,
hose appointment recently whs announced.
Mrs. Parker for the last three years has
been rapidly winning a reputation through
out the northwest on the traps. Tills year
she made a tour with her husbHiid, who Is
one of the leading shots of the iiortlnveHi.
shooting at Portal, Kenmare, Itemliljl and
Minneapolis. '
Mrs. VVolHtenholme Klmy of Manchester,
England, I to receive a testimonial from
the suftSnglsts of her country In recogni
tion of her fifty years' work In the Inte'est
of the women of Great Britain. One of the
first acts of Mrs. Klmy was the founding
of the ManrheKter Suffrage society and
the collecting of !00 signatures to the origi
nal suffrage petition which was presented
to Parliament by John Stuait Mill.
The "cornfield poet" of Oeorgla. John W.
Groucher of Crow Valley, has died at the
age of "7. Mnd tine of the last of the Homeric
hards is gone. He was Independent of the
debilitating pen or typewriter, and com
posed Ilia works as he recited them, often
chanting them to Improvised musical
themes. For hours he would hold his
auditors agape, never repeating himself or
hesitating for a word, but unluckily, not a
line has been reduced to writing.
COST OK HA ll.HO All.
An Kahlblt from (ove-rniurnt Knl-
sftri at Panama.
Pittsburg Dippatch.
A very Interesting sidelight on the ques
tion of bona fide capitalization of our rail
road system Is furnished by Information
concerning a railroad being built by the
government of Panama to form a link of
the expected Pan-American railroad. The
authorized statement concerning this rail
road Is that It Is to be 274 miles long, from
Panama to David, and Its estimated cost
Is 4.857,m
Estimates of cost are often exceeded In
the actual construction. But are the en
gineers of Panama so deluded as to esti
mate that they can build a railroad through
the difficult country of Panama at a cost
of less than S20.000 per mile, while in the
United States the average cost as expressed
in capitalization Is three times as great?
There Is certainly a wide discrepancy here,
and on which side it lies is Indicated by the
semi-official statements made on behalf of
the Pennsylvania railroad In contrast to Its
vast expenditure on the New York terminals
that the average cost of constructing a
mile of railroad in the I'nited states is
$25,000.
Such signs as these are what cause the
popular demand for a physical valuation of
railroads by Impartial authority. That de
mand Is certainly accentuated by the pres
ent thesis of the railroads Jhat after the
period of the' greatest net earnings and
dividends In their history they must be per
mitted to advance their rates to save them
selves from disaster.
1 N TOUCH WITH FRIENDS and RELATIVES
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The Bell Telephone is always used by Omaha
people to invite their country friends and relatives
the visit them during the Ak-Sar-Ben festivities.
Tha Bell Telephone System in Nebraska
unites 600,000 people by means of 120
000 Local and Long Distance Telephones
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MIRTHFUL REMARKS.
Atla- suddenly began to .ho ) mis ot
enrlee!.
I have lust haiaed." lie said hittlng
the burden 'to the other shoulder, "that th'jj
globe I am holding v: w ighs 7 ,(M.on ..i.o.Hcd
tons!" ,
Thus we wee. despite tlie old maxim that
knowledge Is not alwnvs po el . t'hh ago
Tribune.
The fltianger Is
netshboi hood .'" .
The Native Y011
bin a death here
nndei taker an he
tills a pretty healthy
bet It Ik. Thar ain't
In years, "eeptln" the
lUed o' slai vatlon.' -y
llaiprt s Weekly.
Kreddle- What Is phltaathrnpi . Mad? (
t'nhwiHKrr rompi-onnsing on vour con
sclenee for a few cents on the dollar, niyl
son Puck. f
"fan you tell me what Is the matter
witU tny machine. ' disks' the man lu the,
stalled auto.
Certainly.'' answer the other. "Your
raihui eloi is out of order, your pat king
pltiK is broken, the tea Is stiipix-d and one
of the ihes is blown out."
"And how shall 1 fix it?"
"I don 1 know how to fix it. I ant only
a critic." Chlcagu Post.
"Ha.-e you heard t lint l ong Jim has run
awav with Jack Hammond's wife?"
' Confound it. Long owed me five
pound!" r
"Poor old Jaek Hammond whs so upset
he ha eoinmttted suicide."
"Then I come o.H squure: I owed Jaek
Hammond five pounds." ,M. A. P.
"Come on and go to the tlientcr with nie
this afternoon."
"Anything secial ?"
"A professional elocutionist is going to
try to recite 'Curfew Shall Nn King To
night.' with her hands tied.' Houston
Post.
"This." explained the cigar salesman,
"will make an excellent pipe for your hus
band. It s a iiieeisrtiHUm."
"How dare you. sir." the lady demanded
indignantly, 'attempt to sell me a fiMu.lu
lent article! 1 want the genuine or noth
ing." J mine.
"Wrong Ideas of life, lias he'."1
"Yes. Me thinks a IS bill was made t-
be changed." Harper's Kar.ar.
0JI DEATH.
Where Is the prnmethian heat,
That left the titleless much too soon.
Thy lingered smile.
To memories exiled
And' all is stilled.
In time all things must .change;
Since life began; It too must end.
Grief, sighs and tears,
Through all Intervening years,
Till we are stilled
By death, .
But one life to live.
Would it were life Indeed!
One lieai t to love
Where hoi dwells ever.
Footstep vlowly follow- thee;
While life must last.
Only onn death' to die
For It must be;
Life, Love and Death are we. '
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