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STATEMENT CF CIRCULATION.
State of Nebraska. Douslaa County, aa .:
Ueorge B. Tischuck. treasurer of
Bee 1'ubllahlnK Company. being "'
.rn. mvs that the acfml number or ni
ard complete copies ot The Daily.
In, Evening and Sunday Bee printed uur
tag the month of Auguat. WW. was
lows:
- 48,700
,.' 43.480
42.tr-
t 41,490
t 48.470
4 48,510
1 40,300
48,40
I .; 40.000
1 43.800
.45.830
It .....48,730
U... ..' 48,780
It 48,040
It 48,730
14 30.900
li 43,8c
H 43,388
la 4J.600
i 40,100
i 43,540
ti 43,880
4' 43,480
2j' 43,300
j" 43,490
III 43,490
II 40,100
4380
0 43,440
H 48,990
U 43.100
Total
Returned Co ea
X.3CV...0
14,887
Net VoUI 1,515,443
Daily A vara re 48,433
GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK.
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to before ma thia Is day of September. 1918.
U. B. WALKER,
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Don't forget to register Tuesday.
The colonel's batting average Is still
above .300.
Vice President Sherman Is still
smiling, you will observe.
Governor Haskell of Oklahoma is
vindicated again by the statute of
limitations.
If "Billy" Lorimer didn't know it
before, be is certainly finding out some
of Uie details now.
As near as we can learn, the Tower
of Pisa IB still leaning: But that is
not on the square.
Mr. Rockefeller recently remarked
that ho liked the earth. Most people
like what is theirs.
"Rochester Is tho opportunity," said
the New York World. And Boss
Murphy embraced it.
Old Miss Democracy sits alone in
her corner sighing, "And has It come
to this, that Mr. Bryan bolts?"
Campaigning by auto is very attrac
tive, and yet it baa Its drawbacks, as
Candidate Hayward has proven.
"Can Tawney come back? ' asks a
St. Paul paper. Probably not under
the present Minnesota primary law.
Another incident that ought now be
regarded as closed, since that Sara
toga convention. Is the "Dear Maria"
afftilr.
me sultan ot buiu now says one
wife. Is a plenty. Yes, but "Words are
good, and only so when backed by
detils." .
The flight of an aviator from Chi
rago to Springfield is not a startling
novelty. The trip has often been
made before.
As the seat of conservatism, what Is
the matter with Galveston, the city
that actually lost 808 in population
from l00 to 1910?
Of all the scalps he has dangled at
bis side, Hunter Roosevelt prides those
he brought from the Jungles of Sara
toga most highly.
Mr. Schwab has no sentimental no
tions of patriotism when it comes to
building $48,000,000 worth or battle
hlis for another country.
"Guilt is personal," asserts Dr.
Woodrow Wilson. Yes, sir, as the
Taft administration bus impressed on
several gentlemen of comfortable cir
cumstances. ,
Some brutally frank testimony Is
being given in that Illinois Central
graft case at Chicago. It really Is
difficult to see how everybody is going
to come out on top.
Thomas Edison says he is not both
ered by the New Jersey mosquitoes.
A man who can make machines talk
ought to be able to devise a method
to offset mosquito bites.
The mistake of the Commercial club
in endorsing New Orleans may still be
reclined. Omaha's interests are with
the west, and not with the south, and
this should be kept In mind con-Uau'r.f
Tammany's Power Absolute.
There mere report early In the I'Hj even
that the New York Ieadrs (Tammany) had
made up th'ir mind that one or tli?:r own
01 sanitation men would make an Huong a
run an any of the outMde canitrta'ea and
that the confidence of a dii-ciK victory
thia fall waa so st'oi.g they w.'tnd con
clude to nominate fi-f-ni then tailiwuk
Mr. Murpny d l he weighing
Bhrpard's avaiab.nr w .la inerevs'ng dubt.
One might easily net the Idea that
the Associated Pres was going off
into the field of humor it he did not'
so well know that this staid old news
service never does such a thing. This
Is an extract from the report of the
events leading up to the New York
democratic state convention, which'
and whose doings, Boas Murphy of
Tammany Hall held as firmly and
completely in his grasp as If they had
been so much small change that he
had JuHt drawn from his pocket.
And yet the democrats of New York
will go before the people this fall and
ask t lit in to elect a set of candidates
presented by lJoss Murphy of Tammany
and endorse a platform written by one
of lloss Murphy s most skillful amanu
enses. And such staid and dignified
old warhorses as Judge Alton B.
i'arker, an ex-presidcntlal nominee,
will take the stump to tell the people
that this Is the people's fight. The
people's fight, Indeed, but Doss Mur
phy's trophy!
During the progress of the conven
tion, or during the time that Boss
Murphy spent in deciding whom he
would allow to run for governor, the
Tammany chief permitted some news
paper correspondents to enter his
private room in the Rochester hotel
and he told them he was considering
fifteen men for the place at the head
of the ticket, but that up to that
moment he, or as he laughingly ob
served, "we," had not decided which
one to run.
feuch proceedings would make a
serious discussion of the candidate and
platform grotesque. There Is Just one
point to be emphasiied and that la that
Tammany never held a more merciless
grasp on the democratic party of New
York state than it holds today.
"Mr. Murphy was said to be weigh
ing Shepard's availability with increas
ing doubt."
What did it matter what Mr. Shep
ard or his friends, or the majority of
the delegates wanted, so long as "Mr.
Murphy" wanted something and some
body else?
Birmingham's Growth.
Birmingham, A (a., has a population
of 94,270; in 1900 it had 38,415. Its
growth In ten years Is 245.4 per cent,
the largest of any American city as
thus far disclosed by the census. It
stands out as the typical representa
tive of the New South, the product of
awakened industry. Its Increase is a
little too great to be taken as fairly
representative of the entire south,
though there are Atlanta, Dallas, San
Antonio, Houston, Fort Worth, Chat
tanooga, Memphis and other southern
cities showing immense strides, both
rn industry and population, as Indica
tive of the prodigious advancement In
that section.
But Birmingham had the natural
resources immediately at its door to
afford it opportunity to become the
Pittsburg of the Bouth in the steel and
Iron trade. Northern science and cap
ital soon discovered mis ana took a
hand in developing these resources.
Yet the credit belongs to Birmingham.
As a town it was only laid out In 1871
and incorporated a year later with
less than 1,000 population. Its growth
was slow until in 18S0 its people be
gan to discover its ore beds. In 1890
it had 26,178 and in 1900 38,415, a
gain in those ten years of only It, 237
These figures, therefore, give us some
idea of what has been going on In Blr
mingham, and not only there, but
throughout the south, since 1900, to
bring the population of that city up to
94,270.
When one considers that this New
South, of which Henry W. Grady
spoke in 1887, is but in its Infancy he
can poorly estimate what will be the
growth of Birmingham and a few
other southern cities la the next ten
years. Along with the awakening in
industrialism goes a new era in agrl
cultural pursuits, and vast tracts of
land are steadily being thrown open to
new settlers from other sections and
countries.
Supreme Court Vacancies.
President Taft has one more vacancy
on the supreme court bench to fill hid
a chief Justice to name before the now
term opens October 4, and apparently
the matter is giving him some serious
difficulty to decide. Thus far nothing
like a definite idea has Come to light
regarding whom the president will
select for tho last place vacated on the
bench, but as to the chief Justiceship
It has been believed by many that
Governor Hughes will be named. Now
a report comes from the east that Gov
ernor Hughes, while he will take his
place upon the bench as an associate
Justice, may not become the successor
of Chief Justice Fuller.
But how near this report comes to
reflecting the facts in the case can
only be conjectured, with nothing
more tangible on which to base con
clusions than the rumor that the pres
ident regards the governor as a little
too radical temperamentally to serve
well as chief Justice. The very fact
that the president has appointed the
New York man to the bench ought to
dispose of this report. It would seem
that If he regarded him as too radical
for chief Justice, he might also re
gard him too radical for an associate
Justiceship, since neither law nor tra
dition gives the chief Justice any fixed
degree of authority over his colleagues
In the arbitrament of the important
cages that come brforo them.
Chief Justice Swayie of the supreme
court of New Jersey Is mentioned in
this same connection with reference to
a place In the highest tribunal. He Is
said to stand very high in the presi
dent's estimation and doubtless would
be an available man for any place the
oresldent decided to offer him. There
seems to be certain reasons to doubt.
However, mi ut uum mno fimc
dence in the president's mind over
Governor Hughes for the chief Justice
ship, though he holds that position In
the court of his own state and is an
eminent Jurist.
It is quite probable that the presi
dent, If he has not already made up
his mind as to his appointees, will do
so In a very few days, as the docket,
to be taken up October 4, is heavy
with important cases.
California'! Natural Gas.
California is a great state, the great
eat, In the estimation of its own people,
who are the most zealous in their
local admiration of any people In the
country. But great as it is, California
lacks industrialism and its best cltl
sens are awake to the fact. Agricul
tural and horticultural and climatic re
sources, added to Its mineral wealth,
are not enough; it must havo more
industries; not enough, chiefly because
they are not all the natural resources
the state possesses and certainly It
cannot be argued that it has attained
Ita maximum greatness so long as there
Is one such resource undeveloped.
In the last decade California has
come into new wealth and fame
through its marvelous oil wells and
no man can even guess that they have
been more than tapped. But oil as a
fuel for manufacturing purposes has
thus far not become staple. It is of
the heavy petroleum grade that Is dif
ficult to pipe great distances. One
Dining venture from Bakersfleld to
San Francisco, or Point Richmond, al
ready has failed. But now comes the
resource of natural gas. It will pipe
most any distance and it will also
serve as fuel for any sort of purpose,
as it has done in Pennsylvania, Indi
ana and Kansas.
This gas comes from the same lo
cality as the oil wells, being moBt
abundant in Kern county, of which
Bakersfleld la the metropolis, and that
is something over 330 miles south of
San Francisco. Already a movement
is projected to pipe this gas to San
Francisco. But according to the
Chronicle, strange to say, a feeling has
sprung up that this gas should be con
served and not exploited now. This,
as the Chronicle says, Is "conservation
gone mad." - - Those wells, It asserts,
may be depended on to produce 40,
000,000 cubic feet of gas a day. No
one can tell how long such, production
will hold- out,' tut In Pennsylvania It
has fteld out long enough to build
great cities and immense industries
and contribute vastly to the wealth of
the nation. In Indiana it has held out
for more than twenty-five years with
no sign of diminution as yet, and there
too, It has revolutionized industry and
In Kansas great results have been ac
complished.
Since everything else is so much
vaster in California than elsewhere,
why not gas too? At any rate, the
state and the nation need the gas, Just
as they needed California's gold, and
it will be a shortsighted business
policy that decides to let It remain in
the earth when it could be doing won
ders toward building up new in
dustries, new towns and creating new
fields of employment for capital and
labor.
This is not a local question. People
from all parts of the country are look
ing toward California and many of
them are going there.
Interurban Railroads.
That new life is being put into the
project for the line of electric railway
known as' the Omaha, Lincoln &
Beatrice Interurban is gratifying. The
Importance of this project to the cities
concerned Cannot be overestimated
People not thoroughly conversant with
the inside facta have wondered why
the completed grade has been allowed
to stand for several years without the
rails. Some influence beyond the pub
lic ken has been sufficiently potent to
retard the development of the enter
prise, but it now appears likely to be
pushed to completion.
One of the most effective factors in
city building is facility of communica
tion with residents of the territory
served. The railroads coming Into
Omaha have furnished a reasonably
satisfactory suburban service, but trol
ley lines running to the nearby towns
providing means for farmers to reach
the city at convenience are needed.
The proposition requires no argument.
Omaha has lagged In this phase of
urban progress and it Is high time that
the matter of trolley lines was being
given proper consideration. The work
should receive all encouragement, for
the sooner the city Is connected with
the surrounding country by electric
lines the sooner It will enter on that
stage ot its growth where it will be
come the center of life it should be.
The democratic insurgent from Polk
county came very nar proving too
much in his fight on the railroads for
lower oil rates. But this is not the
first time that his zeal hag led him be
yond the bounds of discretion.
Democrats are still busily engaged
ia their desperate effort to break down
party lines In Nebraska, for they-know ,
la order to succeed they must seduce
republicans Into voting their ticket.
No reason exists why a republicaa
should vote for a democrat In Ne
braska this fall.
The Omaha Bee la Inquiring. "Where la
Jim Ham Lewis?" Jim w-ent o far Into
the etorm cellar that he haun t heard about
It yet, but he will be out forty odd daya
henre when we. Jerk the pillar from under
the main portico of the republican temple.
Houston Tost
But won't you need J. Ham's
mighty beard to push those pillars
over?
Perhaps it would not be a bad Idea
to appoint an arbitration committee to
adjust the differences between the con
servers, the lrrlgatlonlsta and the
miners. At present It seems conser
vation la still very much of a local
issue.
Uncle Sam la going to have a town
lot auction In the Black Hills. This is
mentioned only to Show that the gov
ernment Is interested in other things
than forest reserves and Irrigation
projects.
Bill Allen White proposes a statue
of "pure gold" to Colonel Roosevelt
and Governor Stubbs urges a monu
ment to Glfford Plnchot. Tut, tut.
Control your feelings, gel tlemen.
Seems too bad that it requires an
executive edict to prevent pistol
"toting" in New York. We shall not
be surprised to hear that Boston has
had to issue such an order.
Moderating- the Worrlea.
Washington Herald.
People who are worried about the high
coat ot 11 vint; might recall, aa some com
pensation, that at leaat we do not con
stantly hear the "Merry Widow" walti
nowadays.
Tkrilla Loatna; Their Thrill.
New York Tribune.
Between men taklnf up anew the sport
of shooting- Niagara Fails and young
women threatening to dive oft Brooklyn
bridge, aviation will lose some of the thrills
of its dangers. The more senseless and un
necessary the risk the greater the public
interest and the reward Of the daredevil.
Firet Duly of Cltlaeu.
Baltimore American.
The man who wants to be a good citisen
and to discharge his duty to the state as
well as to his family, will not neglect the
important duty of registering. The popular
will foroed an Immense improvement these
latter days, but the improveenta would be
still more marked and more rapid if the
popular will found expression in every
honest, Intelligent vote which could be cast
Alpine Dau-lnar anal Death.
New York World.
The death of Chavez, the airman con
queror of the Alps, ought to give Impetus
to the movement for a monument com
memorating his famous exploit. The Alps
will often be crossed hereafter by aviators,
but Chaves by his daring la worthy to have
his name enrolled with those ot Hannibal
and Napoleon as the conqueror of those
snowy summits in the interest of peace
and progress. .
The Presidency and Happlaeaa.
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'"There are pi aces that give more happi
ness to men than the office of president of
the United Slates," says President Taft.
A man. who finds he has lost by winning
the presidency needs lo be a good loser.
however, if only-to sustain the Ideals of
school boys. The criticism which Mr.
Roosevelt courted gives pain to President
Taft. "If I wanted an acknowledgment
of my Importance I had to hammer it out
myself," he tells the scholars at Woodward
school. As president ho finds he must do
the same thing; there Is hd Jay except In
hammering, and those who hammer mum
bo hammered. Thel . can be no other pro
gram to insure "a perfectly corking time
as president."
COLONEL, Bit VAN'S CLOTHES.
Recent Hemarke lu Kansas on Their
-VhereafeoaUa.
Emporia (Kan.) Gazette.
Our esteemed friend, W. J. Bryan, orator
and statesman, came to Emporia yeaterday
to say that the republicans had stolen his
clothes. All of which Is Interesting, but
lacks the element of strict accuracy. As a
matter of tact, Mr. Bryan has no clothes.
He was garbed in somo habiliments which
he received as residuary legatee of the
pops; and the pops got the vestments from
the greenbackcrs. who had them ot the
consolous whlgs, who got them Indirectly
from one Most-s who led the children of
Israel out of Egypt and was defeated by a
farmer a reaper to be exact, whose name
la Death, so that even Moses who first
made the garments and wrote thou shalt
not steal, never really got to enjoy them.
, Mr. Bryan's IntenUons are good, but his
title is bad. He came ty Ms clothes by
larceny, and he should not complain if he
loses them by right of eminent domain.
October I, 1810.
Michael PeYoung, editor of the Ban
Francisco Chronicle, was born October 1,
1618, at Bt. Louis. He was the promotor
and ' director general of the California
midwinter exposition and was also com
missioner general from California to our
TrammiiMlsslppl exposition here at Omaha.
Pavld R. Francis, former governor of
Missouri and secretary of the Interior
under President Cleveland, la Just 60. He
was born at Richmond, Ky., and is right
now running for the democratic nomi
nation for United States senator. He was
president of the Louisiana Purchase ex
position at St. Louis, where he lives.
Francis M. Cockrell. interestata com-
J merce commissioner, waa born October
1 1. 1K4. In Johnson county, Missouri, lie
was United States senator from M.isouri
for several terms and received the vote
of the Nebraska delegation for president
in the St. Louis convention thut nominated
Alton B. Parker.
S. S. Reman, lending Chicago architect,
Is 67 years old. He was born In Brooklyn,
and designed The Bee building, lie also
designed the mine and mining building at
the Transmlasitsippl expostlon hh well as
many ether notable buildings In nearly
every large western city.
A. F. btryker. secretary of the Bouth
Omaha Livestock exchange, was born
October 1, IKS, ia Galena, 111. He was for
ten years with the Stock Yards company
and five years with the Illinois Central,
holding hl.s present position since IMS.
David Sherman, bookkeeper, la Jt years
old today. He was born In Russia and
was brought to this country when only
a year old. He waa educated In the
schools of Grand Forks, N. D.
Hans Larson, salesman for Milton Rogers
l & Fens company, Is 1. He was born In
Denmark, and has been In the hardware
business fur nearly fifteen years.
I Our Birthday Book I
1
In Other Lands
111 XUffkta em What le Trans,
pi ring Ajaoag the Wear and
Fa aTaUaa ef the Berth.
The rainbow pictures of conditions In
Ireland drawn by correspondents and re
turning tourists Is accompanied by a
shadow visible about once a year. The
shadow is compressed In the annual statis
tics of emigration. While there were more
births than deaths In the country during
119, the emigration of S.T persons e
ceeded the fmln and made a pet loss of
population for the year. The net loss was
but a few hundred, which would not be
worth attention were It a rarity. Hut the
persistent annual loss, despite equally per
sistent efforts to check It. is a source of
discouragement to the most hopeful. Con
ditions of life have greatly improved In
Ireland and will undoubtedly continue to
Improve as land ownership by actual til
lers increases. In other directions condi
tions are bettering Steadily. The uplift
on all side Is most encouraging, and
hould be a source of contentment as well
as a spur to enterprise. But the lure of the
tilted States permeates the island and
overshadows all efforts to check emigra
tion. The "home coming" excursions from
the Vnlted States to Ireland during the
last summer, though well lntentlonrd and
doubtless financially beneficial to the old
country, served to Intensify the desire for
home In the land ef liberty. To argue
that the men and women of Ireland are
better off at home and have greater op
portunities for advancement Is a waste
of breath, while hundreds Of prosperous
visitors more or less boastful ot their suc
cess, are touting the country. There Is
hardly a home in all Ireland without a
member or relative In the United States
Every one of them who is even reason
ably successful unconsciously perhaps,
fires the ambition of those at home to seek
the new world. Much more progress must
be made and a greater variety of oppor
tunities provided before the lure of the
United States ceases to Impress Itself on
the emigration statlsUcs of Ireland.
The question of race preservation com
mands Increasing attention in Europe. Ef
forts are being made In several countries
to encourage married couples to have large
families. France la considering a bill for
paying cash bonuses to government em
ployee with children, and the German bor
ough of Schoneberg, which comprises a
large part of south and southwest Berlin,
pays premiums to municipal employes Who
have more than two children. The In
creased cost of living has produced a
marked tendency towrard the two-child
standard In German towns. Schoneberg
will henceforth pay $3.60 a month to every
employe, married or widower, who has
three children, $2 a month for four children,
$3.76 for five. $4.26 for six, and $5 tor fami
lies of more than six.
Offlcal regulation of the large and small
affairs of life is carried to amazing ex
tremes In Germany. Two recent Instances
of official red tape are typical. A business
man In Berlin found a key on the sidewalk.
He Informed the firet policeman he met
and was instructed to deliver It to the
city department of "lost and found" arti
cles, five miles distant and opposite the
direction in which the business man was
going. Instead ot obeying orders the
Citizen returned the key to the place he
found tt and was about to duck responsl
blllty when another officer appeared and
gave him the alternative of delivering the
key to the lost department or suffer arrest
and fine. He chose the former course.
the widow of a man killed in a railroad
accident has received from tht provincial
authorities a demand for $1 for time and
labor expended in removing the blood
stains from the railroad premises. Unless
the widow pays the bill prosecution will
follow.
There are some interesting episodes In
the life of Sir Charles Euan-Smith, who
died In England recently. Once in the
market place of an Afghanistan town, he
w as fired at by a native. He lodged a
complaint with the ameer, who appeared
to take no notice ot the incident, merely
remarking, That's all right." Sir Charles j
complained again, and met with the same
reply. He still thought that the ameer
was treating a serious matter with less
consideration than It deserved, but thought
It advisable to say no more on the sub
ject. About a week afterwards he was
Invited by the ameer to ride with him.
They rode for some distance outside the
town, and they paed gibbet after gibbet.
At length Sir Charles said, "Tour highness
has been busy of late." "Oh, no," replied
the ameer, "they are your little lot." He
had seised all the members of the would
be assassin's family and hanged every
one of them.
Heligoland has undergone a wonderful
transformation since Ureat Britain handed
It over to Germany, twenty years ago.
Vast sums have beca spent In protecting
It from the destructive assaults of the
sea. Massive - ramparts of granite, con
structed at a cost of $3,000,000, confront the
waves on the southwest. Three other
great seawalls have been built, and In
time, practically the whole Island will be
Incased In granite. In places where the
porous red rock has been eaten away by
the sea, the corrosion has been arrested
by the wholesale use of cement. The
waves have been robbed ef their prey, and
Heligoland, instead of disappearing alto
gether, as once seemed probable, has be
oome a fortress which is comparable to
Gibraltar. It Is armed with the most
powerful guns, contains huge stores of
munitions of war, and is provisioned
against a long siege. Its garrison la com
plete, and, should an enemy succeed in
Silencing its batteries, the difficulty of seal
lng the rock would be almost insuperable.
A recent traveler through the orient ex
presses the belief that China, now awak
enlng, will rise superior to Japan, already
awake. He bases this view upon the rela
tive honesty and morals ot the two peo
ples. To the Chinese he accords high
praise, but from the Japanese withholds
all that savors of commendation. He may
speak with the voice of prejudice, but if
so, the prejudice is shared by many per
sons whose chances of observation have
been equal to his own.
Paris Is taking elaborate precautions
against another flood. Four bridges are
to be reconstructed, the Seine la to be
dredged and a cut-off built from Annet to
Kplnay, and the channel of the tributary
I.a Mounale ia to be enlarged. The cost.
estimated at nearly .O00.0iX, Is to be I
siiared between the government and th
communities that will benerit by the In
surance.
A Heal Money Maker.
hoaton Tranncrlpt. j
The government makes money In a double
sense In coining the smallest pieces lu uae.
A pound of copper, It la declared, costing
about thirteen eenta, will make II in cuin.i
of that denomination. If this ia the fact
somehow It seems aa If the new nation
alism Aught to take cognisance of It.
1.1st to lb Uuoaler Sob.
Indiaaapolls News.
Omaha broke the record for sheep re
ceipts yesterday, but Omaha la ao far away
that It probably won't affect the thlcknaas
or, should we say the thinness of our
mutton chops.
political Darn.
Tom Watson Is abroad In Georgia exer
cising his hammer on the expansive frame
of Hoke Smith, fellow democrat and farmer
chum.
The unsophisticated mayor ot Trenton,
N. J., Is fuming and threatening dire thlnK
to the campaign committee which touched
the pay envelopes of dty employes for
each. Meanwhile the committee has the
money.
ravid R. Francis, who governed Mis
souri, and ran a World s fair and a broker s
office at the same time. Is making a hard
fight for the senate. He la wearing a
turn-down collar and slouch hat and mix
ing In with the farmer legislators.
Look out for the man who want to
wager that he can name the next gov
ernor ot New York. The "one beat bet" Is
Horace White, how lieutenant governor,
who will presently take the place when
Governor Hughes moves on to the supreme
court.
According to the beauty crltie of the
New York Pun, the Hon. Vivian M. Lewis.
republican candidate for governor ot New
Jersey, Is the handsomest man ever pro
posed for public office In America. This
Judgment is subject to revision and modifi
cation when photographs of Nebraska's
rival candidate reach the Fun office.
A bunch of the old guard silently chew
ing the rag on the porch of a Saratoga
hotel was approached by a little miss who
enquired, diffidently, "Is Teddy Roosevelt
here?" The name stirred the bunch like an
explosion. "Oh, h ! What's the use?"
queried one "old guardsman." "Even the
babies cry for Reosevelt. He Is the whole
three rings, ringmaster and elephant. May
be he will let us Into the show if we carry
water for the elephant."
sAmiVAnnnti tiir banks.
Proposed Cheek on Operations
Of
Letrste Borrowers.
Kansas City Star.
A long recognized menace to the banks
of the United States Is the ease with which
large borrowers can get more money than
they aa entitled to, through the sale ot
"commectal paper" by brokers. Bankers
have discussed various methods ot protec
tion, but have not devised any satisfactory
plan, except where eeaie cities have adopted
the system of employing a clearing house
auditor, whose watchfullness oan prevent
unsafe extension ot credits within his lim
ited felld.
The energetic comptroller of the currency
t Washington, Lawrence O. Murray, who
hat done more tr strengthen the national
banking system than any of his predeces
sors in office, proposes to solve this prob
lem by eetabllsliing a national credit bu
reau In the comptroller's office, and keep
ing a record of all the loans made by banks
to borrowers whose obligations extend to
more than one bank. Tills can readily be
done, because national bank examiners can
report the information to the central office.
Doubtless some large borrowers will ob
ject to this procedure on the ground that It
is meddling with their private affairs. But
a bank loan IS not merely a private trans
action between the banker and the bor
rower. It becomes a thread In the intricate
credit fabrio with which the country's busi
ness Is transacted. Individual and bank
clerks constitute M per cent ef the country's
currency, and the security back Of this cur
rency is made up of the notes, bonds and
obligations of borrowers. Therefore it ba
ccmes a matter of vast public importance
that the batiks should be safeguarded
against inflated or insecure loans.
Are Yen lr
Indianapolis News.
That $170,000,000 which is to be distributed
In dividends the first of next month
amounts to almost $2 each, of course; but
It la to be remembered that ill one respect
it is strikingly similar to the per capita
circulation.
Talks to People
The first thins; a woman asks about
butter Is. "Is it pure?"
She very naturally wants to know
something about the butter she places
.
on her table for her family to use.
A few cents a pound more or less
is a small matter to a woman where
purity is concerned.
There are few foods which have the
advertising possibilities of butter yet
about all that is ever said is, that it's
creamery," and is "28," "30" or "35
cents" a pound, as the case may be.
Nothing about purity, cleanness, sweet-
ness, where it's made, or bow shipped,
Mr. Butter Man, why don't you
spread the truth about your pure
butter?
Here is the situation in Omaha:
There are 26,000 families In Omaha
J bills
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ABSOLUTELY FIREPROOF
BROADWAY, CORNER OF TWENTY-NINTH STREET
Most convenient hotel to all Subways and Depots.
Rooms $1.50 per day and upwards with use of baths.
Rooms $2.50 per day and upwards with private bath.
Best Restaurant in New York City with
Club Breakfast and the world famous
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The greatest paper of the year
Ak-Sar-Ben Edition
The Omaha Sunday Bee
October 2
Send copies to your friends.
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Absolutely Pure
Tha only baMnff powtfer
ma dm from Royal Gropo
Croant of Tartar
Ho Alum, No Lime Phosphate
SAID in FUN.
Thorough Father .My son. I have en
Mfod a tutor to co.ien you in your tudi.
rilppant Sun Better get me a good motor
car, dad. Male cnumes are behind the
times Baltimore Ameilcan,
"That rich old fallow who married a
young wif' inny llvp lung enough to dla
appolnt her expectations."
Oh. she took no sucn chances. She's a
trained nurse." Chicago l'osl.
"Will ye loan me yer bike, Jlmmle?"
"I daskent loan it to ye, 'cos It ain't
mine; but I guess maybe lt'd be all right
to rent It to ye." Lite.
"I knew that fellow when he didn't have
a dollar," exolaitned the envious man.
"That may explain why he is nut more
genial toward you now. You evidently
dldn t lend him one. ' Washington tUar.
Interviewer I'm told, sir, tnat you began
life as A poor bricklayer. What waa your
tlrst step rorwardt
Ureat Contractor- became a good brick
layer. Boston Transcript.
"10 you think we have hoard the worst
of the discords of our party?"
"Not yet," replied the muslral man. "Just
wait till our ie club gets to practicing."
Courier-Journal.
A RHYME OF THE ROAD. . .
Catherine Lyman in The Hjiectator.
I bless that man whoso kindness set
These avenues of shade,
And may his place in Heaven be yet
Uy many a green arcade!
The trees of Heaven are dark and wide;
Sweet shade have they and full;
Our God Himself at eventide
Walks there In shadow cool.
Now may He pause mid heavenly folk;
Beckon that man ami say:
"Friend, they are gnnrl, the beech and oak
You planted on a day."
And by his palm tree nnd his well
May angel faces lean;
And may he hear Heaven's sacrlng-bell
From out a leafy screen.
Now for th aoorn smooth and round,
And the beech-mast so small.
Hie bed be made on the holy ground.
Whore dews of Heaven will fall I
O may the River of Life flow soft
Over Its Jeweled stones,
And may the blrda In boughs aloft
Sing well their Lauds and Nonea.
Yet, be he keeper of those trees.
And may he rest below.
Who gives to weary folk such ease,
This man of long ago.
And may he shelter golden blrda,
And white iambs on the grass,
Who tempers still for flocks and herds
This sky of molten brass.
Who Sell Things
who use butter. How many use your
butterr
HoW mM would u, yur l)utter
It kAf Whab mnra ahjMit ItV
" " t t.
It costs money to spread tha truth,
... Knt . Poaf ,OB
tH,n yo wouii think.
You can talk pure butter to two-
thirds of these women every day
through the advertising columns of
The Bee at the cost of $60 to $75 a
month, three times a week. That la
less than a quarter of a cent a person.
Even if you look upon advertising
as a risk isn't that a very small risk
for a big possible gain?
We can furnish the advertising
copy and illustrations to the butter
man who can see the big possibilities
in a pure butter campaign.
Phone Tyler 1000.
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