THE I1EE: OMAHA. TUESDAY,
OCTODER 4, 1910.
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STATEMENT OF VlRCUUATION.
Stat of Nebraska pouglas county, aa.;
Oaorg B. Teschuek, treasurer of The
Bee . Publishing company, being duly
worn, say that the actual number of
lull and complete oopioa of The Dally.
Morning, Evening and Hunday Bee printed
during the month of September, lIil. was
a follows:
1 4a,ftso " DJ 43,300
I... 43,870 17 43,370
1 43,130 It 48,400
4.t 40,000 19 4330
' 6.4 44,130 . SO 43,430
43,430 . 11 43,450
7 . . . 43,500 , ' i2 43,400
I. .4. .... .43,624 j lH 49,640
.. 43460 ' 24 43,830
10 43,370 25 43,800
11..; 41,000 2 46370
It 43,630 27 44,160
11... 43300 28 43,660
14......... 43,300 It.... 43,860
li ." .43,360- 10. . . . . , 43,690
Total . . . ... .
Returned Copies
.1,803,370
8,843
Net Total l,M3,esa
Iaiiy Average ., 43,117
QEO. B. TiiaCHUCK.
s . Treasurer.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn
to be lore nt this thirtieth day of Sep
tember, It to.
M. B. WALKER,
Notary Public
Subscribers leaving the city tem
porarily should ' have Vfce Be
mailed t 'theiuv Atturess 'trlU ' h
ehanard as cfton aa recreated.
At least, Mr. Hearst is not for Bobs
Murphy's nian.'V' " K . ,
That sultan' of. Sulu U a little fellow
to make such a big noise over.
Have you registered lor the coming
election? " If hotregister today.
"Dear Maria'' did not sit in on that
New, York game long enough to get to
deal.
There if no Joy in Mudvllle, with
Johnny fivers' ankle broken, on, the
eve oi me wona series.
"Shall one city dictate?" asks the
St. Iaul Dispatch. Not if that city's
namb begins with ".il."
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"I will yet prove I discovered the
North Pole," says Dr. Cook. 8ounds
like la voice from the tomb!
weather man should be assured
that King ,Ak-Sar-Ben never intention
ally ut any slight upon him.
It; is back to the Philippine Jungles
for General Funston. But he will not
be ekpocted to swim the rivers.
Italyrcliims the distinction of the
first; head-on aeroplane collision. Then
talk of Italy not .being progressive.
kjof Jtt
Btn.hf:
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Stjtll, if Clara, Morris had net Daid
as rAuca s $6,000 for her home it
would hot now be so hard to save it
'l-i
; Among those congressmen who will
not be back in the peat regular session
is the Hon, Mr. Mudd. So that really is
It
j is to, be observed, however, that
yourlg Mr; WlllIe.K. Vanderbllt has
not offered to drive any cars In that
inter,
laUoual race. '.:
Gdvernor Haskell must have seen
the handwriting pot the wall when he
declined, to attend a banquet to be
gives to Colonel Roosevelt at Little
Rochj.
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The sudden death of Senator-elect
Broward; of Florida recalls the recent
death u( Senator W." J. Bryan of that
state, who had " held the office, hut a
shor( time;
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Oitaha will have 'a lot of interests
to lobk 4fter in the next Nebraska leg
tslatare (besides the liquor interests,
and bannot afford to sacrifice all of
themj Just for one.
Mr. Wu need not explain Jo Amer
leans his reasons for petitioning the
throse of China to cut off the queue.
The fact, that he petitioned it ought to
uiaaa i ruuu&u nil over uere.
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W ere is this criminal carelessness
that ha1 resulted in the loss of so
man itinera" lives in the last 'few
daysf It la high time some more
effeclvfT measures tor its correction
were, taken.
Tub treat military parade of the
Mexlj-anT Centennial celebration in
Mexlt-o City aaw' 10,000 officers and
men la line. The military parade in
Omala UiU week will see 6,000 officers
and tietV, it) line.. e ..
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8U Iouis may not have the biggest
popujat&n In the worlds but It still
has he; biggest brewery, biggest to
bacco werks, biggest shoe factories
ind the biggest rrver. What more
ceulJ one city aixT
The Tariff and Prices.
If the average person were asked to
explain exactly bow the tariff affects
prices of commodities he probably
would hesitate or fall In his answer, yet
the same person has no hesitancy in as
serting that-the tariff - does affect
pricey if, Indeed, it does not entirely
control them. For the last year and
more an incessant attack . has , been
made upon the.Urlff on the ground
that it alone is chargeable with the in
creased oost of living. This has been
kept up by men who ought to know
better and by- many who do know
better but for selfish interests do not
tell the people better. It has been
done in spite of the fact that the cost
of living in all other countries has
gone up and has been steadily going
np for year; in spite of the fact that
on the whole the cost of living is no
higher, if as high, today as a year ago.
Here is a short list of articles and
their New York prices at the begin
ning of 1909 and the close of August,
1910, which were on the free list
under the Dlngley tariff law and were
left there by the Payne, tariff law:
Beginning End of
Of liT. AUg. l'.IKI.
..t t -Ot't
.; .22H-.BH
.. .OS ' .06
. .09 .1
.. .28 ,
.. .14V .12
Coffee ,
Tea
Manila hemp
Middling cotton
Tin ,
Copper
All of these things except copper
and hemp are higher today than they
were twenty months agd and all of
them were wholly untouched by the
tariff, so that so far as they are con
cerned the tariff could not have any
effect. . - ;
Here is another set of articles which
were on the dutiable list In the .Dlng
ley tariff and were, left there without
any change by the Payne law:
Beginning End of
of 19u. Aug. 1910.
Rice . .04
Washed weal . -4bls. . .
XX) .N: 84 .30
Unwashed wool (Ohio
fine) 24 .n
Crude Pennsylvania on .178 - ' .13
Refined petroleum .... .109 .10
No. 1 red winter wheat J.0 1.06
No. t corn, mixed.......' .(17 .72
No. 1 oats .............. .U . & .
Hess pork 17.00 ' 25.00
Mess beef 1T.O0 18.80
Raw sugar ,.; ,037 - . .045,
Native steers' ." .075 .085
Texas steers .085 ' " "'.077
The price bave risen on six of these
articles and fallen on seven, but as all
were unchanged by the tariff, , the
tariff cannot be held responsible for
the changes in prices. . '
The price of lard has gone up gen
erally about cent a pound in twenty
months, yet the tariff on lard was eut
by the Payne law from J to y cents
a pound. Cattle hides were placed on
the free list and leather has gone down
in price, but leather-mad goods have
not Shoes, boots, harness and other
articles are as high now as before and
in some cases higher.
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Eailroadi aid' th Jaw.
" Mr. Arthur E. Stilwell, having got
ten his Kansas City, Mexico V Orient
railroad so far along that it very
nearly reaches from the mouth of the
Kaw to tide water on the Pacific coast,
finds time for and diversion in liter
ary 'pursuits, and it la not perhaps to
be woadered at that his output takes
the form of defense of the railroads.
However, If Mr.' Stilwell builds rail
roads with no greater adroitness and
perspicuity than he. exhibits in his
special pleading for them, his success
is not likely to be listed a epoch
making. i ' -
In his latest plea, which is headed
'Put It In the Specifications," he says:
'I am in favor of controlling railroads
by a fixed policy, making the require
ments everywhere the same, and as
simple as can be framed in order to
execute the laws and create public
safety. We. have standard fire insur
ance policies which embody fair con
ditions. Why cannot the United States
and the railroads agree on a fair con
tract between the railroads and the
states and govern all by the same re
quirements?" Mr. .Stilwell has read
history to very little purpose if it, has
not taught him the difficulty that lies
In the way of his program. The ex
perience of the United States in un
dertaking to deal with railroad cor
porations by law has not been so in
spiriting as leads to the conclusion
that any contract, no matter what its
terms, could be made and enforced
against the railroad companies with
out the continual support of the
authority of the United States.
In, the simple matter, of requiring
the companies to equip their cars with
safety appliances, a delay of many
years resulted before the law could
be enacted by congress. Other delays
followed on the course of the law In
the courts, where it was taken by the
railroad companies,' and still other de
lays were occasioned by the failure of
the companies to properly equip their
cars within the time fixed by law. So,
that nearly fifteen years elapsed before
the railroad companies could be com
pelled by the United States to do. thai
which common decency should have
prompted them to bring about for the
safety of their patrons and their em
ployes and even today some railroads
are relying on the decision of the
United States court of appeals, which
held that while the companies might
be compelled by law to properly equip
their cars, they wer not required by
that law to maintain that equipment at
an efficient standard. What is true in
regard to the safety appliances law
has been repeated In other phases of
th relations between the railroads
and the public.
Mr. Stilwell complains bitterly of
the "forty-seven varieties" of railroad
regulation tLat exist' la the United
Bute If he would tur his elo-
quence to the purpose of convincing
his fellow magnates of the transporta
tion world that the better way to
serve their shareholders would be to
serve the public with such fairness
that "forty-seven varieties" regulation
would not be needed he would. Indeed,
be fulfilling the mission of a great
railroad builder. But until railroad
corporations show more inclination to
deal reasonably and Justly by their
patrons at all times they may look for
contlnnation of regulation that will
hold them in a very straight line.
Deadly Auto Eacei.
From W. K. Vanderbilt, lr.f comes
assurance that the outright death of
four persons and the mortal Injury of
many others in his automobile cup
race will in no Way lpterfere with the
international race be is promoting for
October K. But the law should see
that something does interfere. The
law should see that if this larger race
Is run, it be rnn In accordance with
common sense and a due regard for
human life. And apparently - from
statements made by some of the au
thorities in New York, they propose to
do this. Beside that, some of. those
who were to have participated In this
International race are ready to with'
draw because of the awful slaughter of
life in the race Saturday.
At best these maniacal demonstra
tions of speed serve no useful end and,
disguised In the shroud of death, they
cannot be classed as sport. So unless
they are properly regulated and re
stricted, they; should be prohibited
entirely. To allow them, to continue
as at present, is a criminal encourage
ment of indifference to human safety
which can find no Justification, '
Public sentiment has done much to
curb the mania of less perilous sports
and it will rise against this one and
if its promoters and sponsors fall to
respond to sane demands will do away
with it entirely as it is about to do
with the prize fight. .
The reports of this fatal race say
the winning car "thundered" across
the line without a hand raised to clap
or a voice to cheer. Indeed! Nor did
this winning car slack its speed as t
left the dead and dying in its wake.
Such exhibitions of carnage are too
appalling to be complacently endured.
Ho ward, and Hitchcock.
Although he has been forced to
etomach many nauseous doses out of
the democratic medicine chest, Edgar
Howard in - his Columbus Telegram
grits his teeth and refuses absolutely,
to open his mouth to the malodorous
pill that has been mixed for him In the
shape of the nomination .of O. M.
Hitchcock for United States senator
on the democratic ticket. After all
that Judge Howard has stood for In
the name of democracy it goes without;
saying that he must be thoroughly
convinced of the utter unworthiness
and faithlessness of Hitchcock or he
would not take this step at this time.
When Edgar Howard ""Bays, "We
dare not support O. M. Hitchcock, the
democratic nominee for United States
senate," it must mean that he has the
goods on him. And when' he says,
"We shall oppose his election because
of his bad record in dealing with a
public matter a record so bad that it
will prevent him from receiving the
vote of any Nebraskan who knows the
record," kit must mean that 'Judge
Howard is prepared to face a show
down whenever his ' statement is1
called.
Those who have even faint famil
iarity with the record of the demo-;
cratlc candidate for United States sen
ate may have some suspicion as to
what Judge Howard refers to, but as
that record contains so many things
that should prevent Hitchcock from
receiving the vote of any conscientious
Nebraskan, it will devolve upon Judge
Howard to point out specifically what
he regards as the blackest spot and
the most unpardonable sin.
Judge Howard calls upon Candidate
Hitchcock to withdraw from the ticket
and thus 'make It unnecessary for him
to publish "the shameful story." This
appeal is, of course, foredoomed to dis
appointment, because Mr. Hitchcock Is
not of the withdrawing kind. Hitch
cock thinks this is his chance to be
elected to the .United States senate
with the help of the brewers and
liquor dealers'. boodle, so Judge How
ard may as well put his copy in type
and spring it without further delay.
Our local democratic contemporary
is greatly distressed over a rumor that
President Taft is considering the ques
tion of bringing second and third class
postmasters into the classified list and
tries to make out that It would decap
itate every present postmaster -unless
he knows "where Afghanistan . is or
can name the kings of England." That,
however, la not what is distressing the
W.-H. so much, rather the fear that
such an order would give permanent
tenure to present postmasters and
Ahut the door forever to democratic
spollsmongers. The W.-H. Is for civil
service reform only when the offices
are filled with democrats.
A Lincoln paper endeavors to tickle
its, local readers with the assertion
that no other city of its size over put
up business blocks and office buildings
such as are now being erected there.
We congratulate Lincoln on the sub
stantial evidence of its material pros
perity manifested by its new construc
tion, but beg to recall the fact that the
Bee building was begun here in
Omaha in I8IT, when this city had
only 60,000 population, and that al
though more than twenty years have
elapsed since th completion, It con
tinues to compar favorably with
buildings Just erected, utilizing all the
advances In the art of building.
Democrats are finding fault because
republican candidates for congress are
taking advantage of the facilities sup
plied by the republican congressional
committee to distribute campaign lit
erature. Evidently they have no
other way of controverting th facts
and arguments embodied in the docu
ments thus distributed.
Score one more for the University
of Chicago, sine a feminine member
of Itsfaculty advocates polygamy as a
means Of equalizing the social obliga
tions of man and woman. It will
make some of the sterner members of
this famous faculty scratch their heads
hard to think of a wilder hobby than
this.
The bomb outrage at Los Angeles
shows on a large scale what might
have been the possibilities of the re
cently attempted bomb outrage in
Omaha, which was fortunately nipped
in the hud before , It 'found innocent
victims of a whole residence neighbor
hood. Down in San Antonio when the city
authorities undertook to purchase an
automobile wagon for the chief of the
fire department the chauffeur was ar
rested for exceeding the speed limit
while demonstrating the car. This Is
cited merely to show that all the
fanatics do not live In Omaha.
Omaha has secured another na
tional convention the American
Prison association, for next year. The
penologists will find an exceptionally
law-abiding people, ready with a warm
welcome to all visitors who believe in
real prison Teform. -
. It remains to be. seen whether the
Saturday Evening Post of Philadelphia
has more influence on the election in
Nebraska than had Collier's Weekly
of New York In the result of the late
Nebraska. primary. ;
No registration of preceding years
holds good tor the coming election.
Be sure that your name is properly en
rolled on th registration books if you
do not want to risk LJ forfeiting your
vote.'
' Stripping; tbe Me foamier.
Washington-Herald.
Right on the heels of his announcement
that he would Issue pie to- the Insurgents
the president Puts S.000 postofflcea ou the
classified list. .
- . Oettlmar the Habit. -
Chicago. Record-Herald.
Mr. Bryan like bolting more and more.
He will now understand arid forgive those
who who bolted bis own candidacy on cer
tain occasions. ,
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Strides ot Demoeraey.
. Baltimore American.
Derhbcracy ir"6rtalnly Working fearful
haroe- wtth the-dHrine right of kings. - The
brother of the queen of Spain and cousin
of King George was lately fined In London
for speeding, his automobile. In former
times the common people Would have con
sidered themselves honored by being run
down by a royal prince.
Way Qod Cltlseus Hejoloe.
Chicago News.
It Is difficult to see why any good cltl
en of New Tori should not welcome the
transformation wrought at Saratoga Id the
management of the republican party of
the state. Clean, honest men are put in
charge. Progress lies ahead. Whoever
laments the overthrow of the old crowd
should take serlojis thought for his reason
or hi moral sense,
Hlb Tide ot Iramlvratlon.
Springfield Republican.
If there Is great business depression the
Immigration, movement seems not to have
heard of it. 'steerage arrivals In the United
States up to September S3 number 621,907,
against 712,207 for the same time last year,
and still they coma, promising to number
over 1,060,000 for the full year.- These people
seem to be having no trouble la getting
work and the outward ateeraga movement
reflects- no particular decline In employ
ment for immigrants who were already
here.
Gibraltar of the Iaelflc.
Boston Transcript. .
In the process of converting the Hawaiian
Islands into. Sg, many Qlbraltars of th
Paolflo ' our government seem to have
found use for regiment of cavalry In the
garrison- This seems rather a 'strange dis
position' to make' of the mounted, arms,, un
less Its purpose -Is to cut down Invaders
as soo as they land. When the two
schemes, military and naval, for the de
fence pf the island are completed they will
constitute something more than a base.
In fact,' they will be a great bastion of the
Paolflo lefence,; two thousand mile from
tb California shore.
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Our.Birthday Book
ootobsr 4, 1810.
Rutherford B. Hayes, nineteenth presi
dent of the United States, was born October
4, 1821, at Delaware, O. H was a union
veteran and governor of Ohio for three
term, being the one president who upon
taking office announced in advance he
would not again be a candidate.
X. Ross Hill, president of Missouri State
university, was born October 4, 1864, In
Nova Scotia. He was professor of philoso
phy In the University of Nebraska for a
number of years and, went from there
to Cfrul), being later called to tb head
ship ef the Missouri Institution.
Michael I. Pupin, the famous electrician,
is 12. He Is a native of Hungary and now
a professor ot electric mechanics in Colum
bia university.
Joseph T. Craig, landscape gardner, is
71. He was born In Kerrlemlr, Forfarshire,
Scotland, and came to this country in IS
as supertntend:-ut of Forest Lawn ceme-
tery, 'which position he continues to hold.
I He was a member of the Park board for
eight years,
J. 11. lioonstra, proprietor-of the clean
ing and dyelnt; works, was born' October 4,
I 11. la Holland. He ivas In the early
eighties thief clerk to the car acoountant
of the Union Pacific railway and later
connected with various other commercial
InstituUons ' here, cstahllsning his present
business about two years ago.
Andrew li. Clark, with the Cudahy Pack
ing company, la SO years old today. He was
born In Bialr and educated In the Uni
versity ef Nebraska, and has already had
! a varied career; Including railroading and
vaudevlll
Army Gossip
Matters ef Interest On sag Seek
of the rirlaf X.lae OleaaeS from
tie army and wavy Hefleter,
The tract of land embracing the Ander
sonvllle prison, In Georgia, has finally
been transferred to the government by the
Women's Relief xorpe and congress will
hereafter appropriate money for the main
tenance of the Instlutlon as a landmark of
the civil war. The tit acquired includes
the hlstorlo burrows made by the unfor
tunate prisoners kept at that place. It Is
believed that no change will be made and
It will be continued, as It has been, under
private ownership. The tract contain
about eighty -three acres of land.
A recommendation will be made this year
by the paymaster generat of the army that
to much of section It of the art of March
t, 1898, as permits enlisted men to make
allotment of pay "for their own savings,
or for other purposes," be repealed,
thereby restricting the allotment privilege
to support of families or relatives. This
restriction would not operate detrimentally
upon the soldier, as he Is afforded every
facility for saving through deposit with an
army paymaster under the provisions of
section 1306, revised statute.
For five year the military anthorltle
have been at work upon experiment con
nected with the transmission of visible sig
nals by electricity or otherwise. These ex
periment have been conducted, for the most
part at Fort Monroe, but considerable diffi
culty continues to be encountered by the
experts In acquiring an apparatus which Is
as accurate as desired. The most promising
device has been a typewriter-telegraph, but
its development was interrupted for a time
by the death of tb Inventor. Finally, ar
rangements were mad for the construction
of a set of Instruments, which have been
undergoing tests in order to perfect their
operation. So far the government has ex
pended about t3,S00 out of th funds of the
at-my board of ordnance and fortification
in this work. The latest development in
dicate a preference for mechanical. In
stead of electrical, device.
The Assistant comptroller of the trsasury
ha overruled the auditor for th War de
partment in disallowing bills covering the
expenses of Major General J. Franklin
Bell, United States army, while at the
John Hopkins hospital at Baltimore, Md.,
and for the professional services, of Dr.
W. S. Thayer of Baltimore. General Ball
Informed the aalstant comptroller that he
had been under the oar of army surgeon
In this city, without satisfactory results.
The ailment from which he suffered re-i
quired th services of specialist, and It
was considered that there was no medical
offioer of th army stationed la this city
at the time who could properly b deemed
such a specialist On the verbal order of
the surgeon general of th army he seoured
the services of Dr. Thayer and was also
treated at John Hopkins for thirteen
days In January of this year. The assist,
ant comptroller has decided that th olalms
should be paid by the government, a Oen.
eral Bell compiled with the regulations In
every ' respect'
Colonel Joseph W. Duncan, Sixth In
Infantry, and captain William S. Graves,
20th infantry, who, as member of the gen
eral staff, are engaged in a revision of th
Infantry drill regulat'ons, which were last
revised In 1804, are at work in revising old
paragraphs and Inserting new paragraph
relating to machine-gun organisation and
to certain enlisted personnel mentioned in
the field ' servic - regulation of 1910, -' and
which, ax not taken car of In .the old edi
tion. Regulations for the drill of maehlne
gun organisations as individual units are
already la use, having been prepared by
officers stationed at the school of musketry
at the presldo of Monterey, Cel., but the in
fantry drill regulations are being altered
to take care of them In the regimental or
ganisation. Th field servic regulations
provide that th regimental sergeant major
and quartermaster sergeant shall be
mounted, and that the regimental organisa
tion shall Include two horseshoers, one far
rier, one saddler,, and twenty-one mounted
scouts, no mention of which 1 made In the
old regulation. Consequently, provision for
them la being made In the revision.
' Order are soon to be Issued making sev
eral changes lu military department com
manders. It i understood that Colonel
Montgomery M. Macomb, Sixth field artil
lery, who become a brigadier general on
retirement of Brigadier General Albert L.
Myer on November 4. will be ordered to
duty In command of th newly created dis
trict of Hawaii, which will remain a part
of tb department of California. Brigadier
General Frederick Funston will probably
be relieved from duty as commandant of
the army servic school at Fort Leaven
worth and ordered to command the depart
ment of Luson at Manila.. This charge
will take effect after January 1 unless It Is
necessary before that time to relieve from
command of the Department of Luson Brig
adier General Ramsay D. pott, who I
In 111 health. In that event the change will
b made sooner. The plans also contem
plate the transfer after th flrt of th
year of Brigadier General Louis M. Ma us
from command of th Department of the
Columbia to command of tha Department
of th Visuyas.
PERSONAL NOTES.
If tb sultan ot Sulu wants to earn his
traveling expenses, let blm syndicate an
article telling how be was able to indue
fourteen wives to stay at home.
Miss Delia Chapin Torry of Mlllbury.
well known a President Taffs Aunt Delia,
will be 85 year old on Friday. She Is in
excellent health. No special . plans have
bees made for the celebration of her birth
day. Samuel Lockwood. probably the biggest
man in New Jersey physically, died sud
denly from heart disease In Paterson, while
on bis way to his office. Mr. Lockwood
weighed 3S0 pounds and was six feet four
Inches tall.
For his unfailing courtesy to elderly peo
ple Clarence Hoblitselle of New fork,
formerly social arbiter among the young
bachelors of St. Louis, 1 made a bene
ficiary In the will of Mr. A. L. R, Bailey,
a wealthy widow of that city.
Forty-two mile In nine hour was the
pedestrian record established by Miss Mil
dred Belknap, a 14-year-old Dorchester
school girl, who walked from her home to
Providence with her father, averaging four
and two-thirds miles an hour for the trip.
Queen Victoria or Spain spends the
grester part of each day with her chil
dren, and when they are at the "Mahor
aits on the beach with them, wi.-'j her
two boy.s when they are In the .ier and
nursing her baby daughter with as much
concern as if she were a poor mother who
could not afford a retinue of nurses.
Amos Mumma, a Harrlsburg, Pa., tele
graph operator, has a relic of telegraphy
which, Is worth while. It Is a fragment of
telegraph wire used In the cunstction of
the first telegraph line between Washing
ton and Pittsburg, away back in 1M7
This particular piece of wire cam from
near McConnelllurg and Is really a cable
of fin wire. It la old and rusty, but la
Its day It transmitted big news the sur
render of Lee at Appomattox and the
assassination ef President Lincoln.
PASSING FLEAS ANTRIES. "
Tesko.her (of clam In- history) Who was
Ms reus AurrlitisT
Shaggy Hrtlred Pupil Marquis O'Rellltis
was a noble Irishmsn of the fifteenth cen
tury. Chicago Tribune.
"He saved th live of half a dosen girls
this season." '
"Then he Is a hero."
"Oh. he wasn't In any dstiirer, he was
already married." Houston Poet.
Guest I'll tak some o'that
Walter Some o' which, boss?
Guest Bom o that there. Can't you
read?
.. BUT.) CUUt'l IIITI, CMIII, A f4lll T1MU 140
education, either. Cleveland Plain Dealer.
"I sea where science has arrayed itself
against great crtniinal modern evil."
What Is thatr '
"Kidnaping." ' "
"How Hot"
"It forbid rocking th baby." Baltimore
American.
"You took partieurarly happy today,"
aid Cltlman.
"I am," replied Subbuba; "I've Just suc
ceeded in getting our leading woman to
sign for another season."
I didn't know you were In .the the
atrical business." '
"I'm not. I refer to our cook." Catholic
Standard and Times.
Mr. Murray, Irritable from long confine
ment to a sick bed, cooked up his ears and
listened.
"Phafs alt that' ptano-bangtn' In th'
parlor?" he demanded, glaring at his wife.
" 'T is our daughtnr, Mary, takln' her
first steps in piano-tuning," rejoined his
wife.
"Her first steps! That's she doln' walkln'
on the kay board?" Lippincott' Magaslne.
.
Mrs. Knlcker Has your daughter got
ueed to home since she graduated?
Mr. Booker-No, she behaves like an ex
presldent home from Kurope. Harper's
Bazar.
"Do you forgive your enemies?"
"I fy to," replied Senator Sorghum. "I
can't exactly forgive them, but I do my
beet to put them in a position where I can
sympathise with them. Washington Star.
'Tiki told me Hyjams was bnsv. hut
would be at liberty In a few minutes," said
the caller. "I've waited nearly a quarter of
an hour. Will you kindly tell me what is
detaining him?"
"Hes buttonln' of Mrs. Hyjams' new
gown ud the back, if vou must know 1"
snapped th domestic Chicago Tribune.
"Jane Is worrying terribly over that com
ing airship trip."
"Is she afraid?"
' "Noi not at nil. She's worrying because
he haen't a thing that's fit to land in."
Cleveland Plain Dealer. -
"You oan't see my husband, he 1 not at
home."
"But madam, I want to see him the
worst way."
"Well, if that' the way you want to see
him you'd better sit right there on the steps
until he oomes from the club.'1 Houston
Post
It is all very well not to run after a
car that you have caught but it's
quite a different story if you refuse to
hold on.
The florists in .Philadelphia were
doing business along the old lines, had
a certain . number of customers
enough to keep things going and did
not see any use In trying to get more.
On fine morning these complacent
gentlemen woke up and found that a
hew man had "arrived" a man with
ideas, who believed that the great
population of Philadelphia could be
made to yield more sales If they were
approached in the rigjit way, . ,. ,
He believed in flowers,, and believed
be knew what they meant to people if
they were once set to thinking about
them. , Where the other florists were
satisfied to Bit still and wait for cus
tomers he went out after them and
brought them in.
George L. Dyer, one of the best ad-t
vertlslng men and copy writers in the
country, handled the advertising. And
between the two Fox, the florist, and
Dyer, the advertising man, they
made tilings hum in the florist busi
ness in old Philadelphia.
' Mr, Fox held -flower shows of bis
own got up an exhibition of orchids
and sent Invitations io the wealthiest
people in town and they came. This,
and a thousand and one other things
Dr. Pierce's Favorite
U has of aH maJloiaea for th
Talks to People Who Sell Things
disorder aod weaknesses peculiar to woman. It U tk
only preparation of its kind devised by a regularly grade
a tod physician an experienced and skilled specialist ja
tb due of
It is a safe aaWioia in any eondlHon of tb syetswa.
THE ONH REMEDY which sontanms no alcohol
and a lojarions habk-formiag drug and which
a- shy craving for such stimulants.
THE ONE REMEDY so good that its maker
or not aircin t print its svery ingredient on
caoh oatsid Vottl-wrapper and attest fo th
tmlhnlnee of th snm undr oath.
It Is sold by snedicin dealer everywhere, sod ny dealer who hasn't It earn
get it. Don't tak a suhctitut of unknown composition lor tin piedielt or
known composition. No counterfeit is as good a tb genuine and th dru.ist
who say something els is "just a god a Dr. Pierce'" i either mistake
Pt is trying to deceive you for hi own selfish benefit. Such a man is not to be
trusted. He is triling with yeur noil priocle possession your heslth
aaay be your lil itself. A that yon gtt what jw j fr. . - k
tt ' ir r e t jk m j
t$ if IS t K5 i li 'Ji: f
-frrtll
Paeonies Should Be Planted This Fall
Prompt deliveries will be made any time before October loth to your reai
dence, if In Omaha or Council bluffs. ,
Oar Special rail Catalogue la Worth Asking Tor oontalns planting Instruction -snd
dei ni-ilr-ns vf all it our Leautlful I'eeonies. Ut It now snd order early. Xs
ct asad postage. . .
F. W. MENERAY CRESCENT NURSERY COMPANY,"
Vboaeai bU 8781 tao. SIS. ' Slat BV aa Ave. a Council Blaffa, lew
Absolutely Puro
Tha only baking powder
mado from Royal Crapo
Cream of Tartar
Ho Alum, Mo Lime Phosphate
ENV0I.
Collier Weekly.
Back from all the trails we biased, back
to town agnln, ,
Hearts full wsrm against the cold ot th
autumn rain;
We who scorned the marigold found our
love anew.
Stooped to lift the buttercup brimming with
dew.
We, once free of goldenrod, drowsy with
the bloom
Of the scarlet popples, turn cabined In a
room.
How the days were kind to us, how the
world vai good.
When we left the canon streets eager for
the . mood . ': ,
That the ar.-at wise mother breathes Into
new desire., J. v .
Ah, but there came warmth' to hs from the
sunset fire;'
Naught we cared when underfoot straw
berries winked red.
And we paused near rock and fern eager
to be fed.
Yesterday we saw the dawn, rosy-fingered,'
rise, . i. ' . ,
Sigh, and lift herself to gaze into our
slcepv eyes.
Turn to gold the russet leaves, light anew
the green,
Gleaming from the dewy lawns In their
velvet sheen
We, the newly rich In mind, rich In eye
and brain, .
Front the desperate-.days and"1 nights of
the town-afeaia I- ,
he did to focus public - attention on
flowers in general, and bis -powers in
particular. ' v .,1' f
All the tlm sir. Dyer waa publish
ing Fox flower news in the newspapers
In such a way as to make people un
derstand that flowers were not a lux
ury but a necessity in every .day life.
That -copy made thera - think- about
flowers and want them-riind Fox was
the only florist in own who could sup
ply them with what they; wanted at
the prices they could afford to pay.
Just the other day I paw a page ad
vertisement in a national magazine
. Fox has outgrp wQ Philadelphia h is
eelllng flowers clear across the coun
try. " ' "
Does it pay to advertise? '
-...-'. .v v.- i.-4 ir:.
Advertising Cannot Be "Too Specific.
Sometimes an absurdly simple omission
will cripple the effectiveness of an ad
vertisement. .4i
As the proprietor Of" certain famous
household article said the other day, "all
advertisements should be foolproof."
This explosive remark was caused by a
telephone call at hi off ice, 'asking "where
one could buy" lil article, In the face of
the fact that the company Is Just finishing
the third month of a publicity campaign 111
New .York, which Is said to be costing
from $,000 to $7,000 a month.
FVom now ort"ai ads will say "at drug
and grocery stores," though such a line Is
usually 'considered a waste of space , by
many advertisement writers. Mahln Messenger.
Prescription f
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GOTHAM
A Hotel ofrefinefJ el
. egance, located in
Nevorks social centre
Easily accessible to
tneatre and slppinA
districts
Single Docnt with BtW22 to 59
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Rfih Av. F.ftf?f?h St.
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