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STATEMENT or CIRCULATION.
Btate of Nebraska. Doug'" County. as.:
George B. Tsachuck. treasurer of n"
Ilea f ubllshlng Company, P'" au,
noni, says that the actual number or iihi
and coinpleta copies of The lHy. JTJ
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ing the month of August. W10. IH
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Daily Average...., 48,433
-,i GEOROB B. T28CHUCK.
v ' Treaaurer.
RubVcrlbed In my presence and
to before ma tola 1 f b walker,
V; -.y , Noun Public
Bosses nd Leaden. the I'nltPd States, 8 rotary syatem. nl ronventlon. Mr. Taft wlnely kept hli I
i,w...vi. . vr. rinu ifiidine them over the rounlry toni-et hands off the New York tight, and Mr. i
,iiunr,ri.... i.mo..n i hs noiitt..i rw.a.'and talk with the manufacturer and
and the political leader in his s ech
' - l. . . . . I . . kinf.pH . V. 1 1 m tiar.An.llv
Roosevelt's endorsement of the presl-;
dent Is so frank and unequivocal that 1
before the New York state tonnntlon thP simple tacts as to tne couaiiioiiai h nucui o aispei an mm uui arup-
at Saratoga, a distinction which must 'they have to meet abroad. This ex
periment has already proved Rood. It
u I l fa, I u tt ii-mrr iuub. 1 ii V w i , , ... .... . , . .
bold. hi. place by cooked and 'men all over the country that they ocr.t should bolt the party candidate
rhand manipulation.- the ,cader fully endorse the enterprise. They now or go against Its platform; that con-
be generally recognized from now on.,
It is a true definition. The boss Is he j already getting etcellent results,
who drives, the leader leads. -The i He has had assurances from business
boss
unde
"by firing the conscience
ing to the reason of his followers."
And we are In the .day and time of
the leader; we have left the boas back
yonder with the other relics of an ob-
ture between these two men.
Washington Life
lM tataraaUBff Pkaaee
aa Oeadltloma Oaeerr4
at tk aatloa'a OaplVeX.
Mr. Bryan has a right to do as he'
pleased, though he sas no other dem-
nd appeal- appreciate the need for such stimulat
ing influence upon American foreign
commerce and, while they have waited
for the government to point the way.
they are willing to follow and are
solete political period. Colonel Roose-, doing so. Convinced that no more
velt t personal triumph over certain figureheads or political beneficiaries
kacrlbfra Iel ta city tem
porarily ahoatia Th Be
Bled to tha;v ,adarBa will fc
rhiLttttedT a , oftcat aa raejaeated.
politicians in his own state 'was a
fairly forcible illustration of his point.
His speech ut acceptance after being
nominated for temporary cbairmau, as
contrasted with the' vituperative attack
made upon him by Colonel Gruber, was
an Important part or tnat illustration.
No effort of the opposition to hide be
hind President Taft in its attack upon
hia predecessor was sufficient to con
ceal the inward motive of this organ
ization, nor will It have any effect in
disguising the fact ihat the result of
that contest is entirely satisfactory to
the president. l Is own statement some
days ago, that'he hoped Colonel Roose
velt would succeed, Is answer enough
to this.
It is not within the nature of things
that the boss could bold his own today
against the clean political leader, for
the conditions that have made the one
have unmade the other. The boss has
simply consunied himself and paved
the way for his more reputable suc
cessor. It was Inevitable that in time
the people would tire of his domina
tion and decide to take matters in
their -own hands. They have not com
pletely, done this, as yet, but they are
doing it very rapidly and when they
shall have finished the job it probably
will be so well done that a return to
the old order will be out of the ques
tion. People when they begin tedo
their own thinking in politics are not
easily bossed and especially so when
they take pains enough to find out the
character of the bosses. ''
Enjoy yourself.
And tb 1om1 same,
iiuered.
saw and con
t Old Jaclc Frost;,. came
touch King Corn.
too late to
By all means, let us have no sensa
tional aeroplanlng.
; T '
Jack Frost . made, a good try, but
King Cbrn beat MnL ,
Perhaps Mr. Woodruff did not have
on the right .yest to charm the dele
gates.
Wlllla J. Abbott tells us the Bryan
lafluence It waning. How about
Willis'! 4, -
Omaha Osver looked better at the
beginning of a. carnival season than it
does today.'.
Charleston, 8. C; has an architect
named Newcomer. He ought always
be welcome. . ,
Possibly It Colonel Gruber had not
have spoken Colonel Roosevelt's ma
jority had not swelled as large.
Next Tuesday will be registration
day. If your name is not already on
the voters' list you should get it there
on that day. ,
Important laauaa are to be Bottled within
the next few weeka. But wa doa't aee how
the Cuba can ' lose. Do youT Chicago
Tribune.
no.
Aviation i still n the business class
and will scarcely reach the basis of
pure science until a few snug fortunes
are amassed: '
J. L.4
If the sultan of 9ulu comes to
Omaha during Ak-Sar-Ben v we will
take hlmjnver on Ring's Highway an
. do the best we can for him.
Nobody who knows him will think
it at al strange that Mr. Bryan bolts
the democratic party's antl-prohibltlon
nominee In Nebraska and supports the
one In Iowa. Jt Vaa ever thus.
"South Carolina may get some new
congressmen onco to a while, but they
all stand by the jackass," says the News
and Courier, Is 'that 'regarded as
something to brag about down there?
Going to New Orleans for an exposi
tion will not help Omaha. The Com
mercial club should always throw the
velght of Its Influence In favor of its
home town.
An Increase In bank deposits of
mora than 160 per cent in ten years
shows fairly well the prosperity that
has come to Nebraska . under repub
lican administration. Voters should
keep this In mind. '
.-. .i. . .
The Omaha Ad club Is proposing to
do things. This la a good indication,
but the club should temper its ambi
tion with more than a modicum of
prudence. Many excellent undertak
ings have eome to grief through trying
to do too much.
Extending; Efficiency.
Having cut down the postal deficit
$11,000,000 In a single year, the ad
ministration is now preparing for
greater efficiency throughout the Post
office, department. To this end the
president,- acting, upon the recommend
ation of Postmaster General Hitch
cock, has ordered that the civil service
law be extended so aa to include 7,62 2
assistant postmasters and he will
recommend to congress that the same
provision be made with reference to
7.198 second and third class postmas
ters.
This Is a remarkable Innovation, but
pne that will no doubt soon Justify it
self. :It Is a part of the postmaster
general's plan of placing his depart
ment upon a business and self-supporting
basis and ought to be of vast
service in accomplishing those highly
desired ends. It is folly to continue
agitating a business operation and a
self-supporting system for the Postof-
flce department if the old process of
changing all postmasters and assist
ants is to be kept up. No successful
private enterprise operates on such a
basis, and It is absurd to think that
the government can conduct so vast
an Institution as its Postoffice depart
ment that way. Applying the rules of
civil service to these 15,000 men will
work a revolutfon. The application
of the rules to subordinate positions
has proved" its wisdom long ago and if
it was wise in that case, why should
not similar results be achieved in this
case?
The new order meant the entire
elimination of politics from the sys
tem. It means putting every man on
his merits and applying the simple
rules of common sense and practical
business to governmental affairs.
Tenure of office will bring its rewards
in experience and skill. It is one of
the best moves the administration has
yet made.
can get Into the consular service, busi
ness is, generally aroused. Very large
results must soon begin to pile up.
Here Is another place where the Taft
administration is supplanting political
precedent with business practice.
Best System of Irrigation.
It appears from the National Irri
tation congress at Pueblo that men
who have devoted much time and
thought to the best methods of con
trolling irrigation still have some diffi
culty in agreeing. So long as this is
the case we may be sure that no sys
tem yet proposed is infallible. V The
problem is a big one, which time and
experience must work out. Cock-sure
acrimony will not do it. But so long
as the advocates of the' different, sys
tems are agreed on the one proposi
tion of irrigation and obtaining the
bst means of carrying it on, then
there Is hope that they will finally
come to the right basis.
National control seems to have the
upper hand thus far, and yet state au
thority has ita friends. Mr. Bryan
seems to have proposed something
worth considering in nig speech at
Pueblo, saying: "
The water power ought to be utilized and
the statea ought to be permitted to make
use of It. Hut there is no reanon why the
federal government ahould not fix a max
imum for perloda for lease of water power
and require the statea, In leasing, to de
mand proper compensation for the public.
Yet even private ownership, or man
agement, has Its champions, and they
have some facts to back' up their argu
ment. Former President George
Eames Barstow of the, congress cites
history to prove thaf In every land
where Irrigation has been employed it
was first conducted by private enter
prise in India, Syria, Babylon, Egypt,
Java, under the subjects and succes
sors of Montezuma; in Chili, Peru, Ar
gentine and even in the United States,
where the results have been wonder
ful so wonderful, in fact, as to furnish
the inspiration for this whole move
ment ef government coritnol. "Bhese
facts should not be peremptorily
brushed aside.
Certainly it would seem that in this
country some form of general over
charge by the central government must
be finally decided on, but in the mean
time it will be best to assimilate the
good features of other systems and
come lo the last solution certain that
we have the right one.
One of the eurprlsinit Itu-ideiit of a ant
paign of nurprtfte in the evlipse of the In
come tax amendment. A ymf ann the
question exhibited considerable vitality and
Rave promise of making a wlnnltiR race.
I Nowadays no nat-tv or Hiihiilvislon of nartv
w hat they do not advocate as Well as BVr- n passing recognition, standpatters and
for what they do advocate." But it ! Insurgents are absorbed in other and more
..,!. him n rnnnrllatp h: tiartv'a nont-1 "citing game The pie counter looms so
ventton platforms are binding for
inee In Nebraska and advocate the
election of the party's nominee In
the two men standing on siml-
latforms and also advocate the
election In Nebraska of the party's
candidate for senator, who In his pa
per boosts for the gubernatorial candi
date whom Colonel Bryan repudiates.
Iowa,
iar pi
large before democrat that they are blind
to the loneliness of an old friend, and pasa
it by with a cold storage stnre. Friends
of the amendment at Wasnington are sound
ing alarms, hoping to arouse the votfrs
and thereby secure pledges from candidates
for the various state legislatures, which
will be called to act on the question next
winter. Since the amendment was submit
ted a year ago, seven states, Ueorgin. Ala
bama. Maryland, Illinois, South Carolina.
For back-action double-decker versa- Oklahoma and Mississippi ratified 'the
tility we Should like to know Who can ' '""-'- Two states. Massachusetts and
' . i lrglnla, have rejected It, and several other
beat this. states have deferred final action.
" j The general expectation at the time lon-
Undoubtedly the "Oid Guard" weak- es voted to submit the amendment was
. ... . . . ., . , that it would be energetically advocated by
ened their case when they had tnatbolh the oW partl(lg moof the
belated second volley of the Storer-1 as a matter of fact, political conventions ao
Roosevelt affair fired off on the eve of j far held this year, have genera'ly Ignored
the subject. The friends of the proposed
amendment are greatly surprised at this
the New York state convention. In
stead of tending to discredit the
colonel and drive votes from him, if it
had any effect, it must have been in
the other direction.' It looked like
poor politics from the first.
The city health commissioner is be
fore the council again clamoring for
money to carry on the work of his
office. As this is an annual perform
ance, people will not be greatly dis
turbed by the outcry. They will con
tinue to look forward to the day when
there will be less politics and more
real business in the health commis
sioner's department.
The Chicago school authorities have
a rule for little boys, "Don't run to
school" which they promulgated at the
opening of the term. It might have
been more to the point to suggest that
they not run away from school.
The San Francisco Chronicle has
not put the New Orleans-San Francisco
fight on a sweet basis sugar canes
versus sugar beets. This ought to do
away with all bitterness.
Laying on Campaign I. ash.
Loulsvlle Courier-Journal
The politicians are now so busy flaying
one another that' an unflayed notable la
undlscoverable. but the gentlemen of the
raging atump are cutlcularly equipped to
stand all flaying hat" does not go deeper
than a bull tongue plow can dig.
Why all this furor over - Colonel
Bryan bolting the ticket in Nebraska?
lie la not the first democrat ever to
bolt. The records show that some
thing over 1.000,000 of kta partisans
bolted In 18S6, and again in l0o. and
again In 1908. Now, he Is showing,
them that tbey have nothing on him.
Kn6i Building Up Trade.
Secretary of State Knox is getting
great results from hia reform method
of picking his men for foreign consular
positions ana organizing tne in into a
skirmish line for trade for building up
American commerce abroad. in the
first pace he has reduced the matter
of selecting consuls to the most prac
tical and meritorious basis and no man
can possibly get one of these positions
on any consideration other than actual
fitness for the ' work. The day has
gone by when political pull or prestige
cuts the least figure. Careful examin
ations are made of applicants as to
their character and ability and those
who pasa the best x grades get the
places. To begin with this insures
picked men.
Then the next step in the system Is
to make each consul an agent for
American commerce at his respective
station, constituting the whole into a
body of foreign "drummers." Fur
thermore, every American consulate Is
the headquarters of the American busl
ness man abroad. He can have his
mall sent there, meet his customers
there and use the place as a general
base of operations. In ract, it is busi
ness today, not politics, that these con
suls are to look out for. The State de
partment will attend to diplomatic
matters.
Finally, in line "with his Insistent
urging of American manufacturers and
merchants to study the needs of for
eign customers and adapt their goods
to them. Secretary Knox has created a
system of bringing hi consult back to
Omaha and the Exposition.
It may be questioned if the action
of the Omaha Commercial club execu
tive committee In endorsing New Or
leans' aspirations to hold the Panama
exposition expresses the sentiment of
Omaha people. There Is little or no
community of interest between Omaha
and New Orleans, while, on the other
hand, Omaha and San Francisco have
been neighbors since the days of the
overland trail. Omaha has no com
mercial relation with the section of
the country that will be most directly
benefited by holding an exposition in
New Orleans, but all of Omaha's com
merce and Industry it bound up with
the fortunet of the great empire, An
one edge of which is located San Fran
cisco and on the other Omaha, while
between them stretches directly the
great artery of business, the Overland
route. Omaha is Inseparably con
nected ' with the development of the
west and northwest, and nothing can
affect this region without equally
affecting Omaha. Anything that tends
foward its growth, and development
will enable this city to grow, and if
lOmaha is to share in the full advan
tage of the prosperity of this great
country, it must take every opportunity
to assist in pushing forward that pros
perity. If the exposition is. held in
San Francisco, as it should be, the'
large majority of the travel to and
from the exposition will be directly
through Omaha and Omaha's imme
diate territory, while if It la held at
New Orleana all this advantage will be
lost. There is every conceivable
reason for Omaha joining with San
Francisco in the matter of the Panama!
celebration, while there is none ap
parent on the surface for our assisting j
New Orleans. The executive commit-1
Where Kra-nlntioa Would Help.
Boston Herald.
Poawlbly l'ncleSam Is powerless to In
tel fere with the threatened Increased cost
of smoking, rSjpt.fy full weight hams can
be insisted upon,why not the- same number
of cigarettes jii a package as before or an
equal numbei'Wtj'Stoaktngs" In the pouch?
Importing. Ammunition.
.firooKlyn Eagle.
People whr ar trying- to raise Hades
over a .possible" war with Japan are re
minded' that In,, WHO we bought 34.10,515
pounds of sulphur from that name Inland
empire. Hades ralHers would find their
occupation gone It, the sulphur supply were
cut off. '
I
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Ambition Ihe Great Spar.
New York World.
When President Taft told the Cincinnati
House of Refuge lads that there are places
that give more happiness than the preal
dency he spoke with feeling and earnest
ness. If strong and honorable men sought
In this world only happiness It would be
the worse for all of us; the Instinct of
service aids tne opur oi ambition.
"A MAD WORLD, MY MASTER."
Prophets of Woe Tell What Trouble
. la Coining.
Boston Transcript.
Some years ago the late Simon New
comb gave the reign of fancy to his pro
found astronomical knowledge and In a
popular magaxlne article described the ap
proach of a dead atar directly toward the
body of the Sun, and ita final effect upon
this planet. when It plunged Into the
great luminary It so intensified the heat
that everything perishable on our globe
was destroyed and It practically returned
to primeval chaos. Now Dr. Forbes Wins
low, a celebrated English alienist, has made
a still more dire prediction for the race
and, what is worse, he seems to be serious
about It. This la no less than that on the
basis ot statistics this will be an ultimately
Insane world. A wholly mad world would
be Infinitely more terrible than a dead one,
and, were we to accept this pessimistic ex
pert'a belief without counterbalancing testi
mony, the future- of the race would be
horrible to contemplate, even allowing for
the centuries that would paas before reason
ceased to find an abiding place upon the
planet- But when doctors disagree It la
our privilege to accept the opinion that ia
most hopeful. We also have alienists of
renown in this country, and one of them la
Dr. Charles K. Miles of Philadelphia, who,
in an Interview In the Public Ledger, calmly
refuses to entertain the melancholy con
clusions of his British brother.
very general lack of Interest. Apparently
the amendment Is nowhere a real issue in
this year's campaigns. The danger, as
friends of the amendment view the situa
tion Is that the amendment will fall, of
ratification through neglect.
"The real strength of the amendment,"
says the Washington correspondent of the
Boston Transcript, "will be demonstrated
next January when the legislatures ot
twenty-one atatea will meet. These states
nro Arkanha.H, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri,
Minnesota, Kansas, Louisiana. Nebraska.
Nevada, Michigan, North Carolina, North
Dakota, Tennessee, Texas. Washington,
Wisconsin- and Wyoming. The leglsiutures
of Marylund, Massachusetts. New Jersey,
New York. Ohio anU Khode Island will also
be In seHolon In January, but they arc re
gaided in a different light because they
have already had an opportunity to pass
on the amendment. With the exception of
Maryland the legislature of those states
deferred action, which probably means that
they will be In no huny to act when their
legislatures meet again. (
Senator Brown of Nebraska, the author
of the amendment, believes that eventually
It will be ratified. Plans are now being
made by men who are ureatlv interested
In seeing the amendment added to the con
stitution, to take up with governors of the
various states the question of urging rati
fication on legislatures. Every governor
whose legislature meets next January will
be aaked to discuss the subject In his mes
sage and to urge upon members of the
legislature the Importance of ratifying the
amendment. Senator Brown Is particularly
active In trying to organize a campaign In
favor of the amendment."
Almost a newMnterior greeted President
Taft on hia return to the Wliite House last
Saturday. All summer electricians, paint
ers, decorators, carpenters and various
other mechanics have been busy bright-,
ening up the old mansion. Each of the
twenty-odd rooms have been renovated.
Hangings have been cleaned, woodwork
painted and refinlshed and floora polished.
This, all in the White House proper,
Over in the executive offices the hand of
the mechanic has been Just as busy. Each
of" offices which less than a year ago
were newly built, have been gone over
again. Walla have been painted and some
of the rooms have even bean enlarged or
made smaller. '
Out In the grounds Improvements have
also been made. The old gravel walk and
roadway, over which many presidents and
their families have trod, have been macad
amized. This was done at the order of
Mrs. Taft and Mlsa Helen Taft. It will
be over thla southern driveway that the
women members of the president's family
will leave and enter the White House.
The northern or main driveway will be
used by the public exclusively.
The southern balcony, where President
Taft was wont to vpend the warm evenings
during the tariff debate last year and the
early part of this summer, and where
many plans for tlye furtherance of the
Taft policies were either started or aban
doned, has been repainted and made more
luxurious with new porch chairs.
PERSONAL NOTES.
Mr. Wilson of New Jersey believes that
when corporations deliberately so wrong
tne Individuals directing them are not en
titled to balos of Innocence.
W. H. Krey of Slug Oulch, ChI.. owns an
orchard that Is worth cultivating, whether
the fruit crep is good or bad. Frey has a
cigar-box full of gold nuggets and specimen
ore picked up wh.,e he waa plowing and
harrowing his orchard this season. These
specimens range In value from 1 to IllH
each.
Shareholders of the Standard Oil coin
sfiiny last week "benefited oy the distribu
tion of another of those popular swHUM'
dividends. The otal for the year will ag
gregate l4o.ot.(l. Aa Mr. Rockefeller
holds about 25 per cent of l..e stock his
share will be ll'umuxn).
Henry F. Cochems. who as an Insurgent
has won the republican nomination for
congressman In the Fifth Wisconsin dis
trict, defeating William H. Stafford, the
present representative, Is credited with
having been the best all-around athlete
that the I'nlverslty of Wisconsin ever pro
duced. Since leaving college he has prac
ticed law In Milwaukee.
Walter Uilnian. a cowboy on the Silver
Star ranch, in Pecos county, who was iar
doned three montns ago. after serving
about twelve years for the killing of Jack
Carroll, another cowboy, near Fort Lan
caster, ha.-: received title to about 21,000
acres of land valued at ILVi.flOO to $150,000 In
Crockett county by A. a. Flourney. who
admits having killed Carroll.
Colonel Edward Edgar Wood, for twenty-one
years Instructor ajid head of the
department of modem languages of the
Military academy, waa 64 years old the
other day. He ceased to be an officer of
the United States army on the active list
and became Brigadier General Wood, V. 8.
A., retired, by virtue of the act or con
gress which provided that colonels with
a civil war record should become brigadier
generals on retirement.
t n
Absolutely Pure
Tha only baking powtfor
made front Royal Gr&po
Cream of Tartar
Ho Alum. No Lima Phosphate
about to cay that
comln' to you. sir."-
thln hair Is very be--4'leveland
Plain lealer.
, TAPS ON THE FUNNYB0NE.
k "I helped to settle I'talt In the Pioneer
days."
"Wives were scarce then, eh?"
"Yes; but now and then aome old fellow
would leave twenty or thirty widows. That
used to help a lot." Washington Herald.
"Did he have any luck on his fishing
trip?
"Enough to keep him In conversation for
several weeks." Detroit Free Press.
"That woman Is constantly prying Into
the antecedents and personal history of
prominent people."
"Yes," replied Miss Cayenne. "She Isn't
content with knowing "who is who.' She
want to know 'why is who." "Washington
Star.
"I don't see any difference between vou
and a trained nurae, except the uniform,"
said her sick husband.
"And the salary," she added, thought
fully. Harpers Bazar.
Charitable Person I thuuglit you were
blind.
Bengar Well, Cap, times Is so hard Just
now and competition Is ao keen that even
u blind man has to keep his eyes open now
adays If he wants to do anything at all.
uuiiaio express.
i
"Your hair Is gettln' very thin on top,
sir."
"Then you've got some confounded tonic
to recommend, of course.' '
.o sir. .Notmn oi tne Kind, sir. 1 was
Yes." sa Id the drug clerk.- "I nm called
up occasionally to compound prescription!
at night."
"isn't a man likely to make ntlstaket
working In aeml-darkness?"
"You bet he is! 1 took a plugged quar
ter once. Wat hlngton Herald.
SKEPTICS.
Harper's Magaxlne.
When your old dad was as little as you
Was he likely to do
What thev wanted him to -1o?
Whv, certainly so! And a" nillck a a wink
He-Slid as they bid him before you could
think. ! .
Hey! Hev! , ,
Whnt do you ssyT
What make you keep winking and grinning
thHt way?
Your uncle's hern Vtellln' you sumthin 1
Dear, dear! -. ,
You rnuxtn t believe' all tli storle Veu hear.
When dad and his playmates were nice
little :nys
The nist of thel' Joys '
Was giving their toys '"
To pocr little children who needed them
more:
Your dad was good he gave all of his
tore.
Hey! Hey!
What lo you sav? - . i '
Your mother has some of, 'em now, put
awayf
Such nerve was unknown In my day! I'll
be bound - '
You Imps have been snooping and prying
around.
When uVdrty wns young he was deaf, dum
ami blind
To pranks unrefined;
He'd n wr'oiis mind.
He iid no a.tentlon to girls and thedr
looks.
But gavo all his time to his tasks and hia
books. ,
Hev! Hev!
What do you ay?
Yes, mother was raised in the very aam
i way.
You found an old letter and read itT My
8cat!
We tmed to spank children for . mischief
like that.
Our Birthday Book
September 89, 110.
Horatio Nelson, . British admiral whose
tee of the Commercial club should take ttme naval hero haa been approached
only by that or our own Dewey, waa bora
September 2S. 1750, at Burnham Thorp, Eng
land. He died Jn the battle of Trafalgar at
Immediate steps to rectify itt error by
rescinding itt resolution and thus tet
Omaha again in line with the western
country, to which it "'properly belongs.
George Ade writes a new play
called "U. S. Minister Jackson." and a
gentleman writes to him to protest
that the name be changed, as he is
United Statea Minister Jackson, rep
resenting this country in Cuba. He
has held other posts for many years.
Know him? Just why Minister Jack
son should past up this chance of ac
quiring fame among his fellow citlxens
teema ttrange.
The Irreconcilable! who hoped to
bring about a break between President
Taft and Colonel Roosevelt will get
very little consolation out of the
colonel's utterances at the New York
tha moment of victory after having given
his famous signal, "England expects every
man to do his duty'
E. C. Bishop, Nebraska's state su-rln-tendent
of public Instruction, la Just 40
yeara old today. He was bora In Peoria,
111., and was In school work In New York
before he became state superintendent. He
Is not standing for renomlnation, having
accepted a position In an eastern educa
tional Institution.
11. W. Kichardson, lawyer, who haa prac
ticed In pmaha for many yeara, was born
September . ltfl. at MlUeraburg, Ky. He
waa one of, the publicity agents for the
Omaha exposition and later had an official
position with Xhs " tuulonal good roads
movement.
George A. Magnay, attorney-at-law, la
Juat 53. He waa a native of Ohio, and after
studying law waa admitted to the bar In
1M, locating flrat at PaplUion and remov
ing to Omaha In lx7. He has beea deputy
county attorney several Umm.
"Senator Tillman never again will take
an active part in senate proceedings, and
he will not be re-elected when his term
expires."
De Veaux Porter of Horry county. South
Carolina, in the Washington Herald, thus
summarised the political future of one of
the most Interesting figures In the nu
tlonal capital for many years;
"It la common talk in South Carolina,"
said Mr. Porter, "that for physical reasons
alone there would be little likelihood of
Mr. Tillman ever again being able to take
up actively the wprk of a political leader.
Before this last attack he had an Illness
that sent him abroad for months In an
efrort to recover, and since his return,
though he seemed about normal, he has
dropped Into the background, i
"The truth la Tillman has lost his grip
on the state. Ever since he defeated
Hampton for the aenate his position had
been undisputed, but at his last election,
when there was no candidate who dared
oppose him, 16,000 men scratched his name
on the ballot, Just to show they dldn t
like him. That was a straw In the wind."
INCI.E BAM'S HOIAL A BOB,
Vlalt of Saltan of Mala to Sovereign
Neighbors.
Philadelphia Ledger.
The sultan ot Sulu, now In the United
States, haa been liberally advertised as the
only crowned head In the world who Is a
subject of the United afcttea. He It was
who offered heart and hand to Mias Alice I
Koosevelt on the occasion of her Invasion
of the orient In the company of Secretary
Tart. Now, It la said, he la coming to
this country to eke out hia paltry annual
pittance of 11. 500 from I'ncle Sam by the
sale or a string of pearls. He haa douht-
esa read the newspapers and will attempt
to Impose upon the customs officials by for
getting to declare them.
Jamalul Klram II, aultan of Sulu, rulei
over one Inconspicuous Filipino village.
But Ita Inhabitanta, at the very doors or
their thatched huts, are engaged In a pros
perous pearl fishery, and the proceeds of
the sale of some of the pearls the Julian
proposes to devote to the laudable object
of establishing schools.
The Sulu Islands themselves constitute
a valuable archipelago. They number 1SS
in all, the larger being of volcanic origin,
while the smaller are the results of coral
accretion. In the forests la teak wood and
other important timber, and there are ex
tensive plantations of rice, coffee, cotton
and coaconuta. Polygamy and alavery are
established Institutions. The United Statea
government has not abolished slavery, but
It aternly forbids further enslavement. It
was in December, 1SW, that American sov
ereignity . over the Inlands waa acknowl.
edged, the United Statea agreeing to con
firm the sultan In his somewhat vague and
loose authority over the "daioa," or local
cbleftaina.
Talks to People Who Sell Things
"Oh, yes," a man will say of an
other, "I grant you he is an advertis
ing success, but"
, Right here we shall shatter that lit
tle "but" to piecet. y
If advertising auccest means any
thing at all we speak only of real,
lasting success it means honesty.
Honesty of purpose, honesty of
goods, honesty of price, honesty of pre
sentation
deed.
confidence of the people of Omaha.
There are many business men In
Omaha, non-advertisers, who could
build a real, lasting .advertising suc
cess through the advertising columns
of The Boe.
If you want the faith and confidence
of your public, you must show enough
faith and confidence in your wares to
tell the public about them.
There are just four things that make
honesty of word and of advertising a success: Good goods, a
good advertising medium, persistence
The man who builds an advertising anrj good copy. If you have goods you
tuccess by living up to a singlo stand- are willing to back up with a persls-
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The success of The Bee rests upon which will be a big help in making
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