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THfi BKH: OMAHA. THUKSIUY, XOVKMHKU 10. 1010. The OMAHA Daily Btfc FOUND!:!) I:Y KDWARI) rjOSttWATKK. VICTOR ROSEWATKK, TDITOK. Fnterd nt Omaha postoffice second ers mutter. TMRM3 OF smsCRIPTlOS. iu.day H. on year a !tiir(i;i y lire, on ar i l 1'aiiy lice (without Sunday), one year.. .( la. ly liee and Sunday, one year....' tti.Ot) LEUVEREU BY CARRIER; Kvrnlng Roe (without Sunday), per w(eek. Co Fvrnlng Heetwlth Sunday), per week l"o T'aily He.e (Including .Sunday I. per week..lic liallv Uoe (without H inday). per week... .10o Address all comptalntH of trremilaritlc In delivery to City Circulation Liepartment. OFFICES. Omaha The Pee Tlu'ldlng. Smith Omaha (,.'6 North Twenty-fourth t!-t. Council Bluff 15 Protl Street. Lincoln OIH IJttle liullding. , Chlrado 1..IS Marquette Imlkllng. New York Room Hol-1102 No. M West Thirty-third Strt. ' Washington Fourteenth Street N. W. CORRICSFONL'ENCK. . . 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Tzschuck, trasurer of The Bee Publishing company, being duly sworn, ays that the actual numluT of full and cimplote copies of The I'ally, Morning, Kven'nit and Sunday He printed during the month of October, W10, woi as followa: J 43.30 17 43,370 t 44.700 !..... 43,380 1.. ..,,.....43,300 4 43,380 t 43,440 43.640 T... 43,760 1 43,690 43,700 0 43.S50 11 43,070 12 43,300 11 .43,340 14 .....43,670 II ......43,350 16 44,080 Total Returned Coplaa.... j 43,330 30 43,810 21 43,430 Si 43,170 23 .43,450 24 44.030 26 43,380 21 43,370 27 43,390 28 43,400 29 43,050 10.. 43.603 11 46,680 .1,390,740 . 11,343 Net Total ...1,338.398 Ijally Average .,, 43,174 GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. Treasurer, . Subscribed In my preaenca and sworn to before me thla Slat day of October, WlO. M. P. WALKER, (Seal,) Notary Publio. ' Subscriber leariaa; the pity tem porarily ahoald karo The !) mailed to them. Address will he rtianged a oftew aa reqaeated. Win or loseT Hats off to "Johnny" Lynch. Mr. Foraker Is doubtless happy once ' more. Will he, even nowT thinfc? What do you Mr. Bryan, no doubt, feels fairly cheerful. The man who did not bet at least did not lose anything. The autouiobile age in politics is faster, but it la also more expensive. Well, Tuesday, November 8, was a nice day, meteorologically speaking. Those voting machines worked like a charm for the democratic machine. Ou, about those mules, Mr. Champ Clark, do you prefer any special color? Come on, you fellow who lost, and be as good a loser as you havo been a winner. , As usual, The Bee's election returns proved to be the most prompt and the most reliable. Well, "Jim," it seems they Jarred looae and put their chips In the middle of the table, eh? The candidates will now have a chance to get acquainted again with the folks at home. No yelling about election frauds and the use of boodle from the local democratic organ this time. "I love my dear France, " exclaims Divine Sarah. And she might add, "but oh, you American dollar'." It appears that most of those places that declined to permit Bryan to speak for the democrats went democratic. Some very anxious folks are strain ing their eyes to see whether the neit Nebraska legitl-iture is wet or dry. Well, at ahy rate, the promised fight to determine who should succeed to that mayoralty vacancy has been called off. And "Jim" Boyd once weut out of Douglas county with 12,000 to the good, which makes "Jim's" 8,500 look Uka 60 cents. Once more and Theodore A. Bell, the silver-tongued of California, will be la the Bryan class. He has lost twice for governor. From the way the people of New York did not vote for the Heartt Iude pendeure lefyue they tare nothing about independence. The Washington Vont calls politics he vermiform appendix of business. but it sometimes looks more like the hobble skirt of business. Thus far the census taker has not j discovered that railroads have padded their earnli.gs. Such conspicuous hoututy on the part of our esteemed corporations In highly gratifying. It beeina that while Premier Iirland formally rrslgued, he did so only to lure the re&t of the cabinet out of tCke aud then himself slipped back lu by way of a hidn door and too it hold! U rvoitauU th luibintry, The General Eesults. V.liat was for soma time poroeivfu to he a dlr.tinrt popular trend through out the country away from the. repub lican party and toward the democracy may now he measured by the results f)f the election. As foreshadowed by the upheaval In Maine, the swing of the pendulum has been further In the east than In the middle or far west, al though the democratic drift la plainly apparent everywhere and modified or checked only by local conditions or by the personalities of the candidates. As a consequence we are to have a house In the next congress under good work ing control of the democrats, a senate with largely reduced republican ma jority and democratic governors In a half dozen states in the union that have, as a rule, preferred republican rule. This outcome will, of course, be dif ferently Interpreted from different viewpoints. The conservatives who are responsible for the change In the east will Insist that it Is a repudiation of the so-called Roosevelt policies whether championed by Roosevelt or executed by Taft. In the west It will be characterized as a popular protest to Taft against domination by the re actionaries, and the smaller losses In curred In the west will be held up as proof that the people endorse the atti tude and program of the insurgents. Both of these explanations In our opinion are In point because they dis close the conflicting motives Inspiring those who have contributed to democratic success and will eventually have their reaction. The democrats will no more bo able to satisfy the eastern reactionaries and the western insurgents at one and the same time than the republicans, as heretofore di vided, have been able to do. If that be the case the people will quickly realize thai they have made a mistake, or at least have accomplished no good, by drawing away from republicans just as they were belted in for a sanely progressive movement and toward the democrats Just as they are again Under sway of their bourbon element. Champ Clark's Hales. Champ Clark has said! that if elected speaker of the house he would drive a span of mules down Pennsylvania avenue in Washington. It looks as if the Mlssourlan would have the oppor tunlty of making good on his freak promise. He is re-elected, his party has gained control of the house and he will probably be Its choice for speaker. But it is not distinction of this sort that Mr. Clar and his party will most need. On the contrary; they will need to resist such tendencies. They have already been driving mules too much. They have been handicapped by mulish caprice too long. That is one reason they aVe" not been entrusted with power more often. The country has feared their lack Of dignity and their lack of stability. It has not in this temporary turn Of the tide expressed ahy special confidence in the democ racy. The conditions by which Mr. Clark and his party gain the ascen dancy in the lower branch of congress cannot be construed into popular es teem of the democracy and the things it has stood for. The) result is rather negative In character so far as the democrats are concerned. They will do well, therefore, not to mistake this fact and conduct them selves accordingly. At best they are only installed on probation. What is done in 1912 depends no doubt very largely on how they deport themselves between this and that. There will be enough mule-drlvlng and braying which Mr. Clark would like to prevent, so that It would ill become him to go out of his way to do any of it himself. Nobody takes seriously his Joke about driving his mules down the main capi tal thoroughfare, but neither is the country in the mood to listen to such talk from the speaker of Its house of representatives. . As speaker. Champ Clark does not promise a display of those qualities that have distinguished such men as Randall, Carlisle, Reed, Crisp or even Cannon. He does not loom with forbidding Invulnerability to republicans as the leader of the democracy. He will need all the strength he can get byavoiding mule talk. Demand for Parcels. Post. I If the country had a parcels post law now the express company strike in the east would not be such a serious draw back to business, would not be tylug up traffic as it Is. The head of the Postal league, Frederick C. Beach, finds in the conditions arlsiug fronting yet t0 ,j0 this strike a strong argument for par cel post. It Is apparent to anyone who has given the least thought to the subject. It parcels that are kept out of the channels of commerce because of this strike could be sent through the government malls It would materially J reduce the effect of the strike. i Several postmasters-general have! urged congress to enact a parcels postl,he o"11"18 wheelbarrow election bet law. but thus far without i-ffwt. Tlwt have shown that a rate of 12 ten's a pound for all matter would be remun erative, although Mr. Beach goes even further and argues that this matter could be profitably carried for 8 cents a pound. Postmaster General Meyer showed that on rural routes a 12 cents! rate would pay even if th?ie routes rarrled on an average no more than three parcels a day, that Is three of the iusimum weight. Thla being true as to rural routes, of course the pi of it would be greater on urban routes. Hut congress has been slow to heed J these lUhlstt Lt demands, popular as they nro. In time, however, it must heed them. Nor need it base its ac tion on the mere ground of remun erative results. The rostofflco de partment w as not organized fcnd is not maintained primarily to make money for the government, but rather for the accommodation of the people. And yet under the fcblo administration of Postmaster General Hitchcock, it Is fast being brought to a self-snstalning basis. Parcels post could not help but promote this end. It would, accord ing to experts, even pay for Itself and probably turn over an annual balance to the credit side of the ledger in the department. At any rate it should be introduced without delay. Why should such facilities as the government pos sesses for Its operation not be em ployed? This of itself 1b a wasto of resources. Good business manage ment requires a parcels post in this country. -v - i The Slump la Douglas. When the republican state conven tion put a county option plank in the platform over the protests of the dele gation from this county it served notice that it did not expect, and did not need, any majorities for the state ticket from Douglas county. In view of this action, the results here, while disappointing, are not sur prising. Earlier in the campaign the democrats were vociferously proclaim ing Douglas county for Dahlmari by from 12,000 to IS, 000 majority. They afterward revised these figures down ward to 10,000 majority, which they insisted was sure for "Jim." The re publicans in their estimates figured the Dahlman majority at from 6,000 to 8,000. The official canvass will show for Dahlman a majority of ap proximately 8,500 as the sum total of what could be rolled up by a combi nation of all the liberal elements with the democrats backed up by unlimited brewers' boodle. So far as the rest of the ticket is concerned, all the democrats running for local offices were in the position of small boys who had hitched on be hind for a ride in the. Dahlman cart, and, with the exception of a single one who fell off, all the deadhead passen gers Seem to have reached their desti nation by varying majorities, but con slderably behind the leader. Two years ago Governor Shallen berger, heading the democratic ticket, carried Douglas county by 2,663, so the steam put up for "Jim" has pushed him ahead about 6,000 votes. What the local results establish conclusively is that on a wet and dry issue Omaha and Douglas county would be three to one wet, and that the republicans caught in the slump in this county are the victims of the dry plank in the state platform. France and Its Bailroads. The slender threads on which French ministries hang and the frequency with which they are broken and min lstries resign, suggests instability. It suggests a basic defect in the system and scope of a government, which sometimes appears to be republic chiefly in name. The resignation of the Briand cabl net is the culmination of the railroad strike. Here in one instance is a fail ure of the' strike and official author ity. Neither, came to a successful is sue. The present crisis can but em phasize the one conclusion, that France must either develop an ability to manage her railroads or turn them over to private operation. The former contingency would seem to be out of the question under existing conditions; the latter recourse appears to be In evitable if the railroads are to be properly and profitably managed. They are now burdened with debt and mis managed. They have to charge oppres sive rates for poor service and pay low wages. The people are the sufferers in both instances. Nor is it any adequate recompense to the government that it. receives the services of its railroad em ployes for industrial soldiery. That service is about as worthless as the roads are at present. It lacks the sol dier spirit. These employes are as in different to their military duties as the people on the whole appear to be to the successful operation of the rail roads. The man who can either reorganize the government railroads on a basis that promises a business management, or can arrange for successful private operation, will be the man that France i. it rij .v. i uiuni urcua. niinuu, wuu lias1 shown some strength of leadership, may be retained to stem the tide that Is now so turbulent, but what he has doue is but a suggestion of what he If his country Is to continue as a republic it must undergo! ... , ... , . some material reforms without delay. France's experience w ith railroad j management ought to be an interesting subject of study for those Americans! advocating governnieut ownership of railroads in this country. ... Someone wants to know where Is , fellow. Well, he retired With the'li. rof,sslou lie was uimn cum "good old deiUOcratio days." and now' io luuniiiiij ui9 itiuurj luntrau Oil beiii wheeled up Front" street tee loser. me wheelbarrow wager was used only because money was too scarce to bet. In Douglas county Aldrlch for gov eruor ran only about 1,200 behind tbe average on the republican ticket, which is not so bad under '.he circum stances. The limit seems to have been reached In au epidemic of s a-slck liens that has Lioktu cut auioug 1 lUej younger naval Officers, many of whonl have resigned because of their Inabil ity to Inure themselves to the sea. Are we producing mollycoddles in this younger generation? That insane asylum Inmate w ho won a prize in a poetry writing contest re calls the Minnesota convict w ho gained his freedom on some verses he wrote and suggests the question- well, it suggests several questions involving the good name of poetry. Moses, the Scriptures say, was slow of tongue, but every modern Moses seems to be especially swift of tongue, but the difference may lie In the fact that these latter-day leaders are self-appointed. It's a cinch that with the paper bal lot instead of the voting machine two thirds of the republican ticket would have been elected in Douglas county Instead of only one Ion winner. The word "frazzle" went down in the storm, but it promises to bob up and take its place permanently in the political vocabulary of the day. If It should turn out that the brew ers traded a governor for a senator, they would have to admit, that, they got the small end of the trade. If the housewife going out to catch the Thanksgiving turkey should wear a hobble skirt, wouldn't the turkey have the gobble on her? "Jim" said he would come down to Douglass county wlttf 15,000 majority, but It seems he must have meant Mr. Aldrlch would. taming Off the. Flying Machine. Chicago News. Corn and wheat are coming down to where even modest people will feci worthy to as- 1 sociate with them. A . Sharp Reminder. Indianapolis News. Once more the Crlppen case shows that the technicality in a much less effective device In England than It is In this country. Cain He Draw the UnaT Boston Herald. Postmaster General Hitchcock is not quite happy In his use of terms for the class of reading matter that he wishes to exempt from the proposed increase In postage rates. "Legitimate reading matter" Id a unsatisfactory as the 6ld term "pure reading matter." And "Interesting read ing" would be no better because ao many thus regard the advertisements. RAILROAD rilOFlTS AND RATES. Leaaona Drawn from Union Pacific Annual Report. St Paul Pioneer-Press. The annual report of the Union raclflo railroad for the year ending iurie 30, 1910, apparently offers' an argument against the contentions .being made by the railroad managers of that anf other lines' that an Increase In freight rates is Imperative In order to enable the toads to keep up their dividend obligations and meet operation demands. The Unlen Pacific made a trifle more than 19 per cent on its common stock. . The Union Pacific had at the close of the fiscal year $116,537,700 of common etock out standing, on which It made a net earning Of $41,475,594, or more than 19 per ceht Of this 10 per cent as paid in dividends on common etock, leaving $19,fl9,SZ4, or about 9 per cent, to be used for betterments. This splendid showing was made lh the face of a large increase In Operating ex penses, amounting to about 24 per cent over the outlay of the preceding year. The Union Pacific has about $130,000,000 Invested In other railroads and railroad securities which lias added materially to the company's Income. It also carries a cash surplus of some $1S,000,000 in the form of demand loans. The showing of earnings Is all the more satisfactory when It is re mombered . that Mr. Harrtman waa never accused of undercapitalizing the- stock of the road which he bought at bankrupt sale thirteen years ago and consolidated and built into a highly efficient system. The report would Indicate that what the rail roads of the country need Is not higher freight rates so much as more efficient management Our IVirthday liook November 10, 1910. v Martin Luther, leader of the Protestant reformation in Ucrmaiiy, was born Novem ber 10, 14S3, at Eisjeben, and died there in 146. He made his famous protest in ninety five propositions lh 1517. His translation of the Bible into German Is still standard. Oliver Goldsmith, British author and poet was born November 10, 1788, at Pallas. Ireland. Among his many works, his comedy, "She Stoops to Conquer," aud hi poem, "The Deserted Village," are the best known. Johann Christoph Fiiedrkh Von Schiller, the great national poet of Germany, wan born November 10. 17i9, at Marbach, and died at Weimar In 1806. He has been said to rank for German literature in the same pos ition ks .Shukeap ai e for Kng 0 h litera ture. Dr. Samuel G. Howe, eminent American w,., in 1v.u and died in ISTti. His wife, Julia Ward Howe, was aoooiuted with him in his philanthropic work, and died Just a fuw weeks ago at the age of Winston Churchill, author, is 39 year old today. He was born in t Louis, which is the scene of his most popular work of flltlon- "Tl!e Crisis." He now lives in New Hampshire, here he Is something fclso of a Ppolull.al refornit.r. Martin Dunham, one of Omaha's pioneers. lle wa He was bora in Trumbull county, "'' ,,d was for ta,s a niein,'er or lie cuy council aim mimo Stale Hoard of Agriculture. ' George A. Ia Judjja of court, was born November 10, lsiii. lis Is a. native of Iowa and graduated In law from the Iowa ftate university In IS"-'!. ft. initio tr, f llllulia. I til Illil i a tl f t.i lira.it to . . - - commissioner before going on tiie district bench. Minn, I. Kill, mi- a rnpv lth the ' ' Cc innierci tl Adjustment company lu the on.aha Nation Hank building, was born November 10, ISM, at Tekamah, Neb. His legal t ducat I, in was gotten lu the Unl et isity of Nebraska law school, and he hu been piactklng here since IK'S. COUTAUT COAL Oar Carbon Tba genuine Scraaton Hard Coal has eaablsd os to hold ens. tomers for tu past twsuty-sevsa years. It has Uas olinksra, ta l.utt.r aad lasts loctsr than any otasr bard coal. Our Carbon, Soft Coat at f .00 psr taiss the pines ef tit-r prlcsd coal Culo, Hock Murine's, Curc, Walaut ' Ohio, S.ock Murine's, Curc, Walaut tval. orriCEi SIO WutU 17ta St. TaWpaauesi Douglas S40i IuiUpeaasat, A-3930. Washington Life oat tntartlag ITbaaa an4 OoBaJMoaa Oaaae-raa at the Satlaa-v Oapltaa. Regular observers of life at the White Houae calculate that sootier or later nearly everybody who shakes hand with the presi dent writes him a letter. When a, national campaign Is on hundreds of worthy Peo ple take their pons In hand to drop Mr. Taft a few lines telling him all about It. Most of them throw local sidelights on the situation, and .they are all, read and answered rejrnrdlnss , of the value of the contents. Sometimes the White House mail reaches as high as one thousand letters In a day. A fair average, according to the New Tbrk post correspondent, would be two hundred a day. Mondays and Tues days are the lightest days, of the week. Of these hundreds of tetters, an unusually large number. Is brought. In a pretty direct way. to the personal attention of the presi dent. . .. A perusal of the dally mall offers a lib eral education In Itself. Senators and pin ners, editors and ethnologists, t ministers and, marketnicn, diplomats and dipsoman iacs, officeholders and offlceseekcrs, ath letes and atheists all sorts and conditions of individuals, find It necessary to address themselves personally to the chief execu tive of the nation. No scrap of correspond ence Is ever entirely neglected. If It doesn't call for anything else It calls for an ac knowledgment from some White House functionary; whether, it ha the President In person or merely one of lils Clerks. Three times a day a special tnessenRer brinija the White House hiall to the execu tive offices. It is received In the basement, spread out on a table, and. Immediately sorted. Most of the. letters fall naturally Into two pllee, one for the president, the other for his secretary. But, then, also, there 1b the large mass Of personal corre spondence, that of Mrs. Taft, for instance, which is sent t) her secretary, and that of the attaches of the Office. Occasionally there is mail for some one hot at the White House. With the request that It be for warded. There was a letter, for example, not long ago, from a man in a n6rthwest- ern State who wanted to Sell the president some calves. Not satisfied with making a bid for White House Patronage, the en terprising; westerner enclosed a note for ex-President Iloosevelt, with the request that it he forwarded. The first distribution of the White House mall is completed by 8 o'olock. The Second mall arrives at noon; the third, which is usually small, at 2 p. hi. The first step to be taken after sorting Is the opening of the mall. The clerk who is put at this task has been at It for more thai! ten years, and he carries more confidential correspondence In the back of his head than any other man in the country. If the letters contain enclosures, such as stamps, pins, photo graphs, souvenirs, etc., these are properly listed. Each letter Is stamped, "The White House Receiver," together with a date. If the letter Is on a purely departmental matter, the receiving clerk marks It for the department to which It should be re ferred, tossing it into the ho with the other papers that are to go forward t the departments that day. But If there Is any thing personal In the letter, or anything In which the president might be expected to take a personal Interest, different disposi tion is made of it. It la handed over to,ati other clerk, who reads it carefully, and then prepares a summary of its Contents. Of - these stirnmarles he makes three car bon copies, which are sent one to the president, one , to his secretary, the third to Assistant Secretary Latta. A fourth remains on the desk of the clerk for pur poses of record. On It Is marked the dlB' position of each letter, so that at aiy mo ment of the day It may be promptly pro duced if desired. Perh'aps a half-dozen letters of each mall will be sent In with summaries. These are the letters of purely personal charac ter, or family letters, or letters Requiring Immediate attention which can be given them by no one except the president or his secretary. Marked with a yellow taj, the are easily distinguished from the others. This kind of mall, to which the president gives his Personal attention, is more bulky than it was under any of his predecessors. Mr. Taft take up many of the matters in person which those who preceded him thought they could well afford to leave to others. Under Mr. Roosevelt, to Illustrate, all mall dealing with recommendations for places on the federal bench went direct to the attorney general. Mr. Taft wants first look at ill Of these. While the president and his secretary are wrestling with that part of the daily mall which most concerns and Interests them, the "correspondents" In the staff rooms are busying themselves with the remainder of the dally grist. Each correspondent that's what they call the men who frame replies Which the president or secretary la called upon to sign Is preparing the answers that are to bo sent out before the day is over. It is worth his while to get things .lust right for, unless he Is ac curate, painstaking, and neat, his letter will be returned or "edited," either by the president or the secretary. From 10 o'clock on until 1:30, the disposal of the morning's mail keeps all these correspond ents at It at top speed. The mall which the president is required to handly personally receives a reply dictated by him. Such Is the very ouuplcte and painstak ing machinery for the handling of the president's mail. Every letter Is accounted for. Every letter is acknowledged. It is more than a day's work at times for the clerks in the executive offices. There fore It is that the lights burn late on Ex ecutive avenue. Troubles of Ulseu Soldiers. New Tork Sun. Several of the officers' of the National Guard of Texas have resigned their coin missions and the disbanding of a company of the Third Heglment has been suggested because a member of the company who bayonetted a citizen at the time of Presi dent Tuft's visit to Dallas last year has ctiyg in the been sentenced to imprisonment for as I sault. The guaidsmun In carrying out the district i his orders to keep spectators away from a certain space believed It necesary to use j force. The difficulties encountered In protecting the president are great, and ! aw,. ,r..,-Auua K .. 4u;H..n....i..n t I l,,. i ,.....i- - ............ ..... n ... ... j ins ' uiun I that comes from another in temporary authority. The Impossibility of maintain ing discipline In the National Guard and of using it effectively for police purposes If each private must Interpret his officers commands In terms of civil and personal ie.Jponsibillty Is obvious, and Illustrates strikingly the difficulties that beset a clti scn soldier. SQUIRES ton, is elisa, bot and nlck to start. It tc4 b block. is luit pis yuu. ws aiso sail t block, Coks, Wood, HUdiing and Statin rERSoxAi And otherwise. Many a man Is now fully convinced of the folly of betting on hobbled cand;lats Cheer .up! .There Is no partisan lines In Thanksgiving festivities. If you can t reach the turkey, try the hen coop. ! .The open season fur deer, closed In tlx;; Adirondack a week ago with, a record of five men dead and six seriously wounded. all of them mistaken for quadrupeds. Ien , hunting la a dead game sport , Senator Joseph W. fcnlley an Id tct an I admiring crowd at Timpeon, Tex., the oilier day: "1 have been senator ten years ami have nver made a mistake or sinned against the principles of democracy." Daroness Aletta, Korff. an American girl and a Bryn Mawr , graduate, who la the wife of an official In Finland, Is reported as saying that one 6f the first things the women of Norway did with their ballots was to get the government to start schools of domestic training for tills. tr. Alfred Mercer of Syracuse, N. T.. who has been following his profession there for fifty-seven years, and is the oldest act he physician In Central .Newv Tork, Is to be tendered a dinner by the local Academy of Medicine on his ninetieth birthday, No vember 11. He baa served tut health otfl cr, a member of the i-ity and state boards of health, and from 175 to 18?9 was a mem ber of the faculty of the College of Medi cine. The monument to Qeneial James Shields, for which congress appropriated. $i,w0. will be unveited at Carrolton, Mo., November 13. This native of County Tyrone, Ireland, came to this country when 1; years old, and has , the unique distinction of having served in the .Mexican and civil wars, and as United States senator from three slAtes of, the union Illinois, Ilnnesoti aiil Mis souri besides having been territorial gov ernor Of Oregon. &MTLLNQ KEMAEKS. 'How do aou know when your hut band forgets to mail the letters you give him?'" "I always put a card addressed to my self among 'em. If I don't get.it, the next day 1 know. And it only costs a cent." Cleveland Leader. Tounr Lady Please show ma your ex- tremest style of hobble skirt falesKlrl I or yourseir. young Lady No: for my chsperone. Judge. When a than On the home team strikes out he strikes out It can be stated in plain . English." "wen, - , . "But when he makes a base hit he wafts daisy blngle over left garden for an Initial sacker." Louisville Courler-Jqurnal. "Mrs. Perkins tells me her hdsbaAd'l eyei are falling him." , 4 , .."Wen,, .well., tn&t accounts , tor , me iaci that I saw him in the front row at the burlesque thaw last night" Cleveland Plain Dealer. 'Oh'. Joy. She. has written a letter, sif- Ihg she wiii marry me.',' .- ..ongrauiiauons. ..wnenr h .. Well er you. see her .father, has tq endorse this promissory k note before It's good." Philadelphia Ledger. 'How'd that candidate come to get get bei beat after he hired the best brass bahd In tl is county?" . , r "The other lej tar. got closer ta tn, people. He'd come right. Into tlie. parlor an', play uh a tune on our own melodeon." Ulitcago Post. ."Tou were, trying to. evade the law by operating an automobile without being qualified,", . . "Trying to evade the law, nothing! Didn't I run into aJi officer?" Kansas City Jour nal. T autmose VOU cheered hiv. sneech he. cause my arguments convinced you?", said Berator fiorghum. 'No, answered Farmer Comtossel; "I Stomiich Blood arid Liver Troubles Moch trckneM jtarts with weak stomach', hA consequent pr. Impoverished bieod. Nervous and pale-people luck food,, rieh, red bleod, , Their stomach need Invigorating for. tiff all, a soaa eaa be no stronger than his stomach. Arcnieiy that make,s the stomach strong and the liver active make rich red blood Ja . overcomes and drivet pnt aieaac-producmi bacteria Sud cures a whole multi tude ( disease. Cer rid it tone StbmitB frtdkpesa. fui Wrtr iMilntik tatlhQ. m course of tr. Pleib'i Coldea Mteiett Vltcortry -tfti great StbmMtn Rvttotatlve, Llvtr lkwlirir mmd Blood Cleinier. ta2;f t2o?J W le&fif ini medicine hf ittfa mmiittt is i tUitute for "Golden Medical Disco, ryj" whiott M i tdedlelrti ofr Mown coMrOKITfON; having 6tjtlere list f t Jreuieiits in plain English OO it bot-tle-wrppl,' beiei attested as correct under oath. , , j ie'i. jWoisf PtllcZi.nttili You'd like 1 tvetyTfodf Would use WavwUtxJc, everybody would have teiutifol, ciexn. fceft, fiufiy hair, ind plenty of it. "WsvanJock" U not rcMy, doe pot dye. Prevents dandruff And itchicg scalp. Try it At druggists barbers naitdrtSMrs o ' re , . ini ,i .mm r i ii ii V FIHli AND BURGLAR PR-.CF VAULTS Have you a afe deposit box? s A safe deposit box at the rentals we charge surely low-priced security. We invite you to call and have the superintend ent show you the vaults, as well as the various sized rooms for Directors' and CommitUk Meeting These rooms are for the free use of our customers Kntrano to Vaults. iul tSouth ISUl Citieet. i;l 1 1 ly. .7 Vu'i i HI r. ,lv ' : L DUubliu Absolutely Pure Tho only baktnig powder tnatia front Royal Crspo , Croam of Tartar. nol!ur.lif.dLlr.i8 Fhssphai cheered because you showed your by syln' tlie tlilnus I had already thinkln'," Washington Ptar. nse eeu A II Itch. 1 hitched in y wagon to a star, Also niv limousine: My friends, who Knew the stellar llfs Suld I wan pretty fireon. I promptly scorned their good advice Ami starwaxd long did look, f hitched my waRou to a star. Also my pocket book. AIss! The star was not affixed, Hut led a planet race; I found my wagon and my 11m' Could not keep up the pace . And whmi my. pocketbook was flat, I got the sweet "Ha, ha!" She round another one who wished To hitch behind a star. A WOMAN'S THANKS. . Tiiudosla Garrison In Harper's Bazar. There is so much strong men are thankful for , ... A nation's progress, or a slow strifes t end; , . . , , , ., , ... And though t join my praise with theirs today ....... . . .. . ,. Grave things are these I scaroe can com prehend. , , , So vait are they; , , . , , , , Ail so apart, dear God. I pray Thee takf My thanHs for these Thy little blessings sake. The, little common JoyS of every ds.v, My garden blowing in art April wind. A linnet s greeting aud the morning fall Of .happy sunshine through the opened blind. The poplars tall That guard my threshold, and the peaoe that falls Like Kahbath stillness from my humble walls. , The little., simple Joys that we forgot Until we lose them; for the lamp that lights . , , h ., i. , , , . , The pags of the books I lov best. The hearth's red welcoming) on winter nlghU, Tl.e kindly . Jest , . , , , , , That moves within Un circle,, and the near Companionship of those the heart holds dear. The dear accustomed Joys we ilghtly lake. Too much for granted sometimes, as a .child. . ... . Ilia father's feltls; and, so remembering, for these my thanks, for these my treas ures piled, . Each simple thing Those wiser mny forget, dem Kuthei. taka My thanks for these Thy little blessings' sake. at lavlforat Statute, Liver i'ai bowtilM. WaV m . m . Is ( 0VTl'-ll 5W1 Hi ipi ) 1 -'.r..-:.--:r---i--S .) ; r ;.-!.. ?! ;, .; "rr:i-;'-;'!:;:l:--'"- if ii j;