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THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY. OCTOBER 7. 1010.
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full and complete copies of The Dally,
morning, evening ana sunany ree pnniwi
during th month of September, mo, was
a follows;
1 43,380
I......... .43,370
43,180
4 40,000
t 44,130
...... ...43,630
7 43,500
1 43.630
43,460
10 43,370
11 41,000
11 43,630
II 43,800
14 43,300
U 43,360
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43 370 I
if 43,400
i 43,880
1. 43.4I0
11 40,400
1 4S.640
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16. .43,800 I
k 48,sto
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, Adonis Is our Idea of a mollycoddle,
eh, YenusT
If those pesky Chautauqua would
cease their tempting Mr. Bryan might
succeed In retiring. '
Ak-Sar-Ben XVI scintillates even
more brightly than any of his prede-
rnn a rt si In Via inval 11ia
That new flag In Portugal, with Its
green against the red, looks a little
like; a. bid for the Irish vote. 4
A California man has worn one pair
oi saoes to cnurcn ror mirty years,
eaing soies is a great thing. .
"Dlx will do," says the Charleston
News and Courier. Will "Boss"
. . .
Murphy and Tammany do. too?
The name of Dr, .Woodrow Wilson's
home is "Prospect." It may have to
be rechrlstened after Novemher.
Another victory for the anti-saloon-
ists. A Nebraska man has been made
rice president of the pry Farming con-
gress.
It is up to Mr. Bryan to beat it to
Portugal with his ready-made pre-
scrlptlons for correct popular govern-
ment." ' .
According to me census, Missouri is
tubbornly, increasing the number of
us muies in .spue or tne auto s ad
vance
At least the Stork refuses to take
up with the newer fads of the day and
he is one booster who is not in It for
' the m,oney.
We observe that the manager of
that traction road on which so many
Ilves wero lost is Mr. Handshy. Some-
body oueht to be atav a Inh
- - - .
Governor Shallenberger is making
nonpollticaf speeches at county fairs,
That enables him to charge his travel- after all these years of successive do
ing expenses up to the contingent feats? Perhaps Mr. Bryan Is just
fund.'
London novelists Insist that a novel
should contain at least 100,000 words,
W hlch is another proof that novels
many times are books containing only
words.
The democrats of New York pretend
to be delighted with their nominee for
governor. But the fact remains that
he was, named only because Mayor
, Qaynor refused to run.
Mr. Tillman notifies the country
that he is coming back with his four-
tine pitchfork. If he does he will
probably learn that they are lifting
hay with harpoons nowadays.
There Is no announcement up to dat
that th New Mexico constitutional con -
vwntlon has sent for
copy of Oklahoma's
famous , document. World-Herald,
Well, .-hardly. New Mexico's con
stltution-makers are republicans.
If Dr. Woodrow Wilson Is the
scholar he is reputed to be, and if he
should be elected governor of New
Jersey, certainly he ougbt to do some-
thing to those New Jersey mosquitoes,
The Real Estate exchange has de-
clared f gainst any issu of bonds this
year for new school buildings. Can it
be that the school board made a mis-
take in not Including the purchase of
a few tuore school sites la their bond
proposition?
Portugal na Trla!.
The first act it the Portuguese pro
visional government after the desposl-
tion of the king la to proclaim to the
people that the "long fight for civil
r r ,
liberty la over. Taken literally, thla
whnllr wrotic. The fight for clTtl
I , . k
DBr" u v """
nattirr I for the first flush of Victory to
, -,a ht
uriug rumjiu o-.w, wv
no such Iridescent gleam flashing sud-
frnm monarchy to popular govern-
ment.
Republics are not made out over
night. Popular rule la not extracted
from lmnerial power In a day. Revo
- ...
lutlona against proscribed privileges
are but the first step in the long, la-
borioua process of achieving civil lib-
iti h rontihllrAna nf Pnrtuffn.1
nave tnua far aone is to reauce to a
concrete expression their desire for
,v -
poptlla - government, but they are a
, tmm thnnn larn-r Hhertlna.
. .
Tney are on me rigni traca, to oe
8ure - ana if they pursue their way
, . . . i,. u
with wisdom and virtue under the
leadership of sane thought and judg
" ...
ment in the light of history best ex
. . . v- .-
ample they may reach the goal they
are nook Ins- without the loss Of time
i. . A. . ...
uu win. viib ui
Portugal Is in the same position
Lnat many other countries striving to
De ,ree have occupied. It has first the
inherent obstacles of traditional mon-
rrhv tr surmount. It has next to ad
1..., .Annt IfaAlf lha fiifirtlAna
JUBl miu nuffi m .uuvmvuu
of free government, to understand and
LMmi,. th- nrinrlnlp of a rermbllc.
.'!!!! !!!.! 43,880 and it has next to practice the pre
so 43,690 cepts It has thus acquired. But alt of
this will take time and patience and
patrotic real. It will cost dearly, as
It has cost otner nations in me posi
tion of this ambitious power today
iuv Ronacoiuu nun v v
and the crown Prince ft year ago fore'
shadowed something of the present
crisis, and yet the conditions provok
ing the outcome seem to be peculiarly
paradoxical. Carlos, it is now ad
mitted, aroused the Ire of government
grafters by his relentless pursuit of
their machinations and finally paid the
penalty of his life for his zeal. But it
would nrobably be unjust to Impute
t0 tne revolutionists no higher motives
than those that actuated these polit
ical parasites. That crisis simply
hastened, it did not create, the move
ment toward republicanism.
What Will Bryan Dot
What part is Mr. Bryan to play in
the national drama this fall? His
peculiar snlfts and changes of front,
his recent selections of paramount is
sues, new alignments here and there,
are conditions which make his posl
tion lust now a matter of Interest. In
his own state, where he ha sett up
county option as the chief questlom be
toTtt the eoole. he repudiates the
nominee of his party for governor and
va Biinnnrla It enimllv nritnnB nnml
. 1 -1 .. Z "
nee ror ine teusie, wuu is m iuiu ouy
.K (.,Kt K.r
JJUI lU3j W WJV-VVffcVJ WW
lal canQlaaie- la low no vvorim
lne pariy nommee Ior K"vernDr.
wn8e Position on tne uquor question,
while not so conspicuous, is nevertne-
lew practically the same as that of
Dahlman in Nebraska.
"But in Ohio, in New York, in Penn
sylvanla, in New jersey, in connect!
cut, In Massachusetts, what will Mr
Bryan do? We know what he will
not do in Ohio, for Governor Harmon's
refusal to "prepare to stand aside"
for the Bryan dictum has answered
that Question in advance. But will he
ruBh to the aid of Boss Murphy and
Tammany's man Dlx. in New York, or
does he still remember Murphy's snub
of him at Denver and in Lincoln?
Will he help Dr.- Woodrow Wilson, the
intimate friend of the late Grover
Cleveland, for governor in New Jersey?
Will the democratic reactionaries in
Connecticut and Massachusetts be
given his assistance? V
Tne Question remains, is tnis avai-
ttncne r aemocratic votes, about
which we hear so much, to tumble
down upon us without so much as a
tiny shove by Mr. Bryan? Is he not
going to get in on thhe ground floor,
wise enough to know that there is
more talk than truth in this demo-
Cratlc landslide idea to remember that
his experience has proved that noise
B not necessarily votes.
False Weie-hts and Prices
It is Quite probable that false
welehta and measures have Dlaved a
mucn Urger part in this problem of
the hlgh-cost-of-llvlng than the people
generally have understood. A sys
tem of scientific cheating has been lm-
posed on the purchaser In divers lines
of trade and been done so skillfully as
to defy detection, but at last it has
fallen under, the eye of the public
through alert officials here and there
and must now fight for Its existence.
This subtle acneme to swindle peo
1 pie has had numerous ramifications.
i uum vrv hard in deal with
False bottoms, false sides in buckets
and measures, scale weights plugged
with cork and covered over with black
ax, fixed scales these are only a few
ot tne i' ,n wnicn tnl nefarious
business has been carried on. In
BOni caBe employes have been in on
the conspiracy and have been well
paid in commissions. The high prices
of commodities have been burdensome
enough, but if people were getting
what they really bought and paid for
it would not be so bad. The trouble
has been they were paying exorbitant
I prices and often receiving under
I weights and measures, not in all cases
of course, but in too many. So long
as the records are extant It will not. do
for anybody to become supersensitive
of criticism of these methods. The
people have stood them rather pa
tiently. Do not blame them now if
they revolt.
The city of New York has led the
fight apalnst this outrage and has done
a splendid work. Other cities have
taken it up and they are doing good
work. But the fight must continue.
Much remains to be done. The law
must stand back of the crusaders and
see that where plots are uncovered
conspirators are punished.
An Revoir, but Not Goodbye.
RANDOLPH. Neb., Oct. 4-To the Edi
tor of The Bee: 1 write today to the
management to discontinue The Bee to my
address,
I have been acquainted with your paper
since boyhood and consider It a strong
dally paper.
I cannot accept your doctrine .on the
liquor question, and some other things,
and prefer to patronise a dally that op
poses the boose business.
I cannot say I am Just In sympathy with
the disposition manifested In some parts
of , our slate to boycott Omaha because' she
la trying to run the state, although there
Is good ground for the action.
J. P. TOST,
Chairman Board of Examiners, North Ne
braska Methodist Episcopal Church.
We regret to lose the Rev. Yost
from among our circle of readers, even
if only temporarily, just as we would
to lose anyone else who considers The
Bee a strong paper. But we shall try
our best to appear regularly every day
as usual; in other words, to para
phrase, an expreesioa of Horace Gree
ley's, the Rev. Yost may stop read
ing The Boe, but he-cannot stop The
Bee from belli,-; lead.
The reason given by our corre
spondent simply indicates the extent
to which the canker of bigotry , may
consume a one-idea preacher when he
imagines he can change centuries-old,
world-wide customs with one dose of
a single nostrum without changing
human nature. The sudden conclu
sion of Rev. Yost that The Bee
might lead htm astray by Its doctrine
on the liquor question must, more'
over, be an eleventh-hour awakening,
because The Bee has been preaching
the same doctrine year in and year out
for a third of a century. In that time
The Bee has been threatened with boy
cotts by liquor dealers as well as by
preachers, by labor agitators and by
corporation magnates, by A. P. A
fanatics and by Roman Catholic zeal
ots, but it has gone straight ahead
fearlessly advocating the right as It
saw it, proclaiming truth and demand
lng justice for all, publishing a strong
paper and a clean paper, and, above
all, giving the news promptly and ac
curately.
We trust that when the Rev,
Yost emerges from the heat of the
campaign and becomes again his
rational self he will renew his sub
scription to The Bee with the assur
ance that he will get his money's
worth.
Overshooting the Mark.
Our good friends down at Lincoln
are unable to repress' their keen dlsap
pointment at the census figures, which
give Nebraska's capital 43,973 inhab
itants, when some of them had been
fondly deceiving themselves with the
notion that they had 75,000 popula
tion. Our, Lincoln friends 'are, there
fore, conjuring up fifty-seven varieties
of explanations for the failure of the
census enumerators to discover and
identify more live, human exhibits
within the confines of their city and
blaming t upon almost everything
from the dryness of the town to the
blindness of the census-takers, and the
perverseuesa of folks who, like the
great Bryan, have seen fit to remove
themselves to the suburbs immediately
outside of the city limits.
We allude to these facts, not to
make Lincoln feel worse, for Omaha is
destined likewise to stop considerably
short of expectations on the census
ladder and will doubtless adTSTlce sim
ilar explanations to mitigate the dis
crepancies. The point we wish to
make Is that we are habitually and
chronically a nation of boasters and
braggarts; that we are accustomed to
put undue stress on bigness and rapid
growth; that in order to make other
people believe we are prodigies we In
dulge In exaggerations until we con
vince ourselves they are founded on
fact, and then move the peg a little
further forward. ,
No one has yet found out just what
make one city grow faster than an
other, why a great city should rise in
one place apparently no better favored
than another spot that remains mere
farm land. It must be the combina
tion of various circumstances, physical
conditions fitting in with enterprisa,
public spirit and concerted action on
the part of the Inhabitants, that does
It. All our western cities are marvels,
entitled to rank among the wonders
of the world, when we take into con
sideration their newness, the meager
resources of the pioneers and the al
most Insurmountable obstacles over
come. We have enough to boast
about without resorting to fiction.
The strain of politics as exemplified
by the breakdown of Senator La Fol
lette furnishes a topic for some sage
observations. It is to be noted, how
ever, that fear of the strain of politics
is not operating very effectively to re
press the ambitions of other would-be
statesmen eager to break Into the
United States senate.
In defense of its "corner philos
ophy" that crime is only a disease and
criminals must not be punished,' the
Chicago Evening Post cites the fact
that generations ago England hanged
men for 2 0 6 different crimes, whereas
today It hangs them only for treason
and murder. Which must show, of
course, that England, like the rest of
the world. Is progressing in its Idea of
justice. But it still hangs men for
murder and treason and imprisons
them for lesser offenses.
'The democratic nominee for United
States senator promises, If, elected, to
serve the state as efficiently in the up
per branch of congress as he has
served this district In the lower house.
It is not so long ago that he frankly
confessed over his own signature that
theff(TTh and substance of his official
career in Washington was epitomized
In the distribution of free garden
seeds.
Our amiable democratic contem
porary gives large head lines and front
page space to an obscure republican
weekly telling why It opposes Senator
Burkett. It's dollars to doughnuts
that it will not be so liberal toward
Edgar Howard's democratic Columbus
Telegram when It tells why It opposes
Mr. Hitchcock.
Mayor "Jim's" speech delivering
the keys of the city to King Ak-Sar-
Ben did not sound like a farewell ad
dress in fact, the mayor talked as if
he expected to repeat the performance
at the old stand next year rather than
be a mere spectator heading an excur
sion from Lincoln.
Now comes a proposal for a law in
Connecticut to. prevent dogs from
barking. Coop up the corwing roos
ters, choke the birds and prohibit
grand operas and we will have an
ideal state of quietude. Yes, and
muzzle the auto horns.
"I forgot my orders," says the
motorman of a trolley car whose
wreck caused some thirty deaths. And
the company "forgot" to add the
equipment of safety appliances. This
absent-mindedness becomes a tragedy
sometimes.
The Capital Removal association Is
very busy and will soon issue a
pamphlet giving the history of the. re
moval of capitals in other states as
well as Nebraska. It is high time for
Lincoln to wake up. - '
A Melancholy Tenth,
Philadelphia Bulletin.
The American navy lost more men Satur
day night In New York harbor than In
the whole of the Spanish war.
Pa 1 p the Honn.net.
Washington Post.
Let ua give credit where credit is due.
Everything considered, the weather man
has done fairly . well by the corn crop.
1 Large Fact In Fire Lines.
' Baltimore American.
The. wise and dignified course pursued
by President Taft throughout his admln
iHtratlon Is one that wins universal ad
miration. ' He Is, not a politician, but a
careful and conservative executive.
Working; Vr o Salary Standard.
. New-'York World.
A railroad statistician now explains that
lower rates do not benefit consumers, be
cause he knew of a case once In Oklahoma
where a railroad rate op coal was reduced
and then the price raised to the consumer.
An expert of that sort can prove anything
that his salary demands.
Military Plana for Hawaii.
Springfield Republican.
There is military meaning In the cabi
net's agreement to Indorse the suggestion
of the chief of staff that a concentration
of forces shall be effeoted In Hawaii under
the command of a brigadier-general, and
that Hawaii shall accordingly be made a
military district of the department of Cali
fornia. The Hawaiian Islands, it thus ap
pears, are to become something more than
the chief American naval base In the Pa
cific. Our Birthday Book
October 7, 1910.
Theodore Rooseelt was born October 7,
1W.8. in New York City. He graduated at
Harvard, but because of delicate health
spent a few years roughing it as a ranch
man In the west. He Is unquestionably
the most widely known and universally
discussed public personage In the world.
He visited Omaha as the guest of its
citizens only lust month, receiving plaudits
attesting to his popularity, as never be
fore. . .
Bronson Howard, the playright, was
born October 7, 1842, In Detroit. He Is one
of the most eminent American writers of
popular drama, and many of his plays have
been shown in Omaha.
Joseph E: RansUell, president of the
Natural Resources and Harbor congress,
Is 62 years old. He was born In Alexan
dria, Da., and represents his district In
congress.
Frederick N. Judson, tiie big St. Louis
lawyer, was born October 7, 1846, at SK
Mary's, Ua. He bas written law books and
figured in big law suits.
George W. Ochs, pubuxher of the Phila
delphia Times, waa born October 7, 1W1,
at Cincinnati. He la one of three brothers,
all In the newspaper business, one at
Cliateanooga and the other In New York
City.
Dr. Millard Dangfeld, physician officlng
In tlTe McCague building, was born Octo
ber 7. 1872, at Glasgow, Mo. He graduated
In medicine at Johns Hopkins university
and has been practicing litre In Omaha
since 1868. He holds the position of bac
terlologlst to the city of Omaha, and U
also professor ot medicine In Crelghton
Medical college.
Albert Kothery, the portrait artist, is &
Ktie was born In Matteavtan, N. Y., and
sti'dled art with some of the great painters
of both this country and Europe. He Ua
been In Omaiia since 1N-
Leon James Millard, president and treas
urer of IheMndependent Lumber company,
Is t. He was born In West Union, la.,
and worked his way up In the lumber
business from a start as clerk In Free
port, III., to the position of salesman,
sales manager and manager. I
Dr. H. C. Parker, dentist In the Neville
block, was born October 7, lhxt. at talem.
Mass. He graduated with the degree of
D. D. 8. from the Omaha Dental college
In IMG.
Anthony F, Leermakera, better known as
"Tony," with Remington A Kesalei,
tailors, waa born October 7, 171, at Cin
cinnati, O. Ha began work as a tailor in
1&A4, coming to Omaha eight years later
and holding his present pom tion as cutter
sloe llM. He la also secretary of the
Custom Cutters' associaUou of Omaha.
In Middle West
Tbe Business Mltnatioa as
lw4 by Wasters Bankers
and BnalneM Mea at Omaha,
Writing from Omaha under date of Sep
tember 27, a special correspondent of the
New York Evening Post presents this
composite view of the business situation
gathered from western bankers and busi
ness men: ,
Omaha Is one of the business centers of
the west where an eastern man might
profitably study conditions snd sentiment,
with a view to clearing up his own views
of the financial situation. He would find
some things which he expected, but many
which to Jilm would possibly appear
anomalous. For Instance, he will not
encounter a suggestion of the be
lief which has taken root In so
many markets east of the Mississippi,
that politics nre the cause of all midsum
mer financial reaction and the present In
dustrial halt. Politics interest the western
banker or business man, but he takes
them differently from his colleague In the
east. Politics are politics, and business Is
business, and the west does not spprar to
be very deeply Impressed, In this matter.
with the eastern po'nt of view. Engage
the Nebraska business man In conversa
tion and you will find a general feeling
that party lines are breaking up In the
pending congressional campaign, a very
nonchalant view of that Impressive fact,
but the keenest possible Interest In whether
Bherman or Roosevelt Is to win at Sara
toga. The Interest Is personal, not parti
san, and least of all financial or economic.
Perhapa one reason for thla particular
attitude Is that the average business man
"(for the moment, let us except the bank
ers) will entertain no discouragement.
There has been a halt to the boom; that
he admits. But the halt was due to these
three things a midsummer fright over the
threatened destruction of crops by drought,
a scare on Wall street, and a policy of
curtailing credits, Initiated some months
ago by the western bankers. He will, how
ever, proceed In most cases to explain that
the drought was checked In time, that Wall
street Is always getting Into unnecessary
fright, and that the bankers need not have
prsssed the borrower quite as severely as
they did. That the pause In activity Is
anything more than momentary' does not
seem to occur to the mind of the trans
missouri merchant.
The position was illustrated, this very
w-eek, when the news was published that
deliveries of sheep atouth Omaha on
Monday broke all records of any single
day In the history of any market of the
world. It was received, apparently, with
wholly unalloyed gratification. Now and
then. In discussing the Incident, one would
hear the suggestion that poor pasture on
the one hand, a result of the long ml .
summer drought, and restriction of bank
accommodation on the other were forcing
the sheep and cattle raising contingent to
turn their assets Into cash. There Is no
denial of either fact, but neither seems to
Impress the community as such arguments
would surely Impress an eastern market.
Perhaps Wall street would describe these
enormous deliveries of live stock, under
such conditions, as forced liquidation; It
would certainly use that expression for a
similar rushing of securities to market
under similar circumstances. But the west
Is less ready to draw the Inference. Knowl
edge that the crops, taken as a whole, have
come through the season well; that bank
clearings In this city. In the face of the
decreaso at Chicago and New York, are
running V per cent beyond September, 19o,
and that trade and production seem to be
going forward actively, Is the basis for
popular judgment of the situation.
It Is when one sounds the banker's opin
ion not only here, but elsewhere in the
state that he begins to see things from a
somewhat different angle. The real Judg
ment of this sort Is not scattered broad
cast; when it is voiced at all. It Is do,ne
quietly, and with an effort to avoid- rather
than to seek publicity. The purse-strings
of credit have not been loosened, and the
process of liquidation begun several months
ago, when Chicago warned interior banks
to look for little help from It this autumn
Is In an unobstructlve way continuing.
Talk or reaction Is never., popular in this
section, and bankers are themselves by no
means agreed in forecasting the future.
But opinion that a definite halt has been
call In the recent aggressive forward
movement la unquestionably general among
them; there are some predictions of a
rather prolonged postponement of genuine
revlvak. of a "boom." No one predicts a
serious condition of business or a spectacu
lar reaction, and every banker, as well as
every merchant and producer. Is a staunch
believer In the future of the country's In
dustrial history. It is not at all difficult
to elicit the Judgment that, but for the
prompt and vigorous measures taken these
last few months to put the credit situation
In order, an awkward strain might have
been in evidence at the present moment.
It is admitted pretty generally in banking
circles, now, that extension of credit had
been pursued In the west, during the twelve
month ending this last midsummer, with
a free-handed liberality which might have
been well enough as a policy at some par
ticular points or In some particular Indus
tries, but which tightened the cord rather
strenuously when applied at almost every
leading center and in almost every trade.
What has been going on, during August
and September, has been the applying, of
quiet pressure to bring about the conver
sion of some of these long outstanding
credits Into cash.
It Is an encouraging sign that the borrow
ing community, , however much It may
grumble, Is undergoing the process with so
little Berlous discomfort. After all, it Is a
wholesome and very far from u. ruinous
liquidation which takes the form of an
army of sheep and cattle transported Into
Omuha or Kansas City, and of a guod-alxed
avalanche of gialn sent over the railways
to Chicago ull of them sold, moreover,
even If the sales are made unwill:ngly, at
prices which would have been regarded as
abnormally high, a very few years ago.
A.tOTIIKU HI.OW AT SPOILS.
Assistant Postmasters Placed
Classified List.
Cleveland Plain-Dealer.
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President Tuft's order placing some 7,000
or 8,(M) asslstunt postmasters In money
order offices on the civil service list is
distinctly a step forward In the conduct ot
government buiilness. The day of the spoils
system in politics recedes. There are still
abuses In purtixan control of the people's
affairs, but they are gradually being ellml
nated.
Credit for this latest advance belongs not
only to the president, but to the postmas
ter general. Mr. Hitchcock is giving the de
partment a reform administration and not
making very much noise about it. He has
cut down the annual deficit and given the
country hope that this unnecessary drain
upon the public resources may soon be
entirely prevented.
, Thousands of assistant postmasters, many
of them In the larger cities might be very
useful to a president Who desired to build
up a political machine. If the present ex
ecutive order baa any relation to Mr. Taft'a
attitude toward the contest of 19U. It Is
wholly to bis credit.
PERSONAL NOTES.
The new child labor laws of New York
prohibit the employment of boys under 1
years of age after 7 o'clock at night. This
! rlnxs the curfew on many a printer's devil.
Prof. Garner's twenty-word lexicon of
the monkey language contains no word for
flea, because the monkey finds that there
are times when actions spak louder than
w.ords. J
IT. Pauline Nusbaumer has been ap
pointed city bftcterlologlsat Onkland, Cal.,
and Miss Jessie Berry has-been made city
chemist. Miss Berry Is a graduate of Ice
land Stanford university.
Obadlah Gardner of Rockland. Me., dem
ocratic nominee for governor two years
ago and who waa defeated for a second
nomination thla year by Governor-elect
Plnlsted, has announced himself as a can
didate for Vnlted States senator.
Bequeathed S1.BUO.O00 on condition that he
earn $75 a month until he Is 26, Horace
Keeler. now a hospital apprentice In the
naVy at I2Z a month, has petitioned Vncle
Sam to allow him to purchase his dis
charge so that he can win his fortune.
T, P. O'Connor, member of, parliament.
Irish envoy, lecturer and Journalist, Is
about to add a monthly to his list of
publications. "T. P.'s Magaxlne." as It
Is to be called. Is to give the British public
a survey of the world s progress In every
sphere and reflect the lively Irish wit
and good nature of the owner and editor.
"Tay Pay" has an Immense following
among the reading public of the kingdom.
Bayonne, N. J., reports a miracle sur
passing any on record In the ancient or
modern world. Over 00 high school girls
In that Interesting New Jersey community
have joined In "giving the alienee" to an
unpopular teacher. Still, It requires a
large equipment of "the will to believe"
to accept a story that a couple of hundred
girls could possibly keep silent under any
circumstances.
A FOH.GOTTF.X PROPHET.
Passing; of n Srlf-Styled Modern
Messiah."
, Louisville Courier-Journal.
Twenty years ago or more there was a
good deal of Interest In the remarkable
doings of one George Jacob Schwelnfurth,
a self-styled "Messliih," who established
himself a "heaven" at Rockford, III. It
has just been discovered that Schwelnfurth
died In Chicago on July 20 last. He quit
tho "heaven" business In IRIS and subse
quently engaged In stock brokerage, his
original calling, under the name of George
J. Furth. Having thus obscured hla Iden
tity he waa more than two months dead
before anybody round out that the stock
broker and the former notorious cult healer
were one and the same.
Schweinfurth's first activities as a prophet
of the "Church Triumphant" began In Chi
cago after he had allied himself with a free
love sect known as "Beekmanltea." His
first "heaven" was set up In Chicago, but
It did not last long because of the opposi
tion of those who lived In Its Immediate
vicinity. Schwelnfurth then secured no"
senslon of a tract of land near Rockford
where for some years he successfully de
fied all efforts to dislodge him. Surrounded
with a score or so of deluded women,
Whom he designated as angels, and a simi
lar number of male followers, Schwelnfurth
ruled with a high hand.
Perhaps the most remarkable thing about
Schweinfurth's career Is t,he thoroughness
with which he effaced himself from public
notice after so long a period of nauseous
notoriety. That also seems to be one of
the few things that may be said to his
credit. His colony at Rockford furnished
a striking example of the fact that any
sort of a cult thHt Is put forth In the grulse
off -religion dot-s not fall to attract some
sort of a following, and that conditions
ordinarily abominable and Intolerable may
be maintained Indefinitely In a civilized
community if the prophet of the cult be
an individual of assumed piety and of
actual shrewdness. '
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LAUGHING GAS.
"Your lines to H hobble skirt are truly
suitable."
As to how in psrtlcularT Inqultcd lit
gratified poet.
I liey unip naoiy. v ourier-journsi.
"There -was sn awfully fwrwiy scene la
the gltis' college the other day."
hat wss It?
Thev had a grievance against tne of
their teachers and they were trying dee.
perstely to give the silence treatment.
Hallimore American.
"That cheerful statesman has declared
to his constituents that he Is not a Jera-
nilBh." , ......
'Thai s not the question, replied tne
campaign manager. hat we wsnt to
know Is whether he Is a Jonah." Wash
ington Star.
Mav I see my father's record?" asked
the new student. He was In the claas
of '77." . . ..........
"Certainly, my boy. wnat torT
"He told me when 1 left home not to
disgrace him. sir, and I wish to see Just
how far 1 can go." Buffalo Express.
Alexander bad cut the Gordlan knot.
"That was the only thing to do." he said
"It was tied by a salesgirl In the grocery
depai tment."
Hut the historians of the day had no dlf
ricultv In utringlna' the people with thalr
version of the story. Chicago Tribune.
"A good many people get on this earth
who aren't worth the room they take up,"
snld the rvnlcal sociologist.
"Yes." replied the eminent astronomer,
"It's a good thing for many of us that
we are not obliged to get aboard this
whirling planet (in w pay-asyoii-enter
basis." Washington Star.
Samson was carrying away the gates of
Gar.a.
"If you fellows have any curiosity to
know what a wide-open town looks like,"
he said to the gaxera on the outside, "here
your chance."
Hut they took Samson for a strong-arm
man and fled for their lives. Chicago Tri
bune, . .
"Show me one of these old robber castle
of the Rhine." commanded the tourist.
"Robber castles?" echoed the puxaled
guide. "Does the gentleman niuan a
garage?" Washington Herald.
Mrs. Lapsltng was exhibiting ber , new
hair brush to the, caller.
"It's the best one I ever saw," she said.
"I bought It from a woman peddler the
other day. The bristles are long and firm,
you see. and they go right down to the
frolics at the root of the hair." Chicago
Tribune.
"Two men were In court today, acn
making a directly opposite charge against
his wife."
"What were they?"
"One wanted a divorce because Us wife
was so cold to him and the other because
his wife waa too hot for him." Baltimore
American. '
SKEPTICS..!,,:
. -i, .
Burgess Johnson In Harper's Monthly.
When your old dud was aa little as you
Was he likely to do . - ,
What they wanted him toT
Why. cettalnly sol And as quick as a wink
He did as they bid him before you eould
think. ,
Hey! Hey?
What do you say?
What makes you keep winking and grin
ning that way?
Your uncle's been "tellln you sumthln'T"
Dear, dear! "
You mufii't believe all the stories you hear.
When dad and his playmates were nice
little boys ' '
The first of their Joy
Was giving their toya
To poor little children who needed them
more;
Your dad waa so good he gave all of his
store.
Hey! Hey? '
What do you say?
Your mother has some of 'em now, put
away ?
Such nerve was unknown In my day! I'll
be bound
You Imps have been snooping and prying
around.
When daddy was young he was deaf,
dumb and blind :
To pranks unrefined;. .
He'd a serious mind.
He psld no attention to girls and their'
looks,
But gave all his time to his tasks and his
i books. -' ' :. i.i. '(!
Hey! Hey?
What do you say?
Yes, mother wss raised In the very same
way.
You found an old letter and read It? My
Scat!
We used to spank children for mischief
lilt that.
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