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State of Nebraska, Douiila County. a..
Ueorg H. Tzsohiick, treasurer o( The Bee
Publishing company, toeing duly sworn,
aaya that the actual nuinher of full and
complete rnple of The Dally. Morning,
JOvenlng and Sunday Ree printed during
the month of October. 110, as -follows;
t 43.360 17 43,870
t 44.700 IS 43.380
43.080 1 49,380
4 43,880 ! 43,110
t 43,440 II 43,430
43.440 tl 43,170
7 43,760 tJ 43,460
43.M0 4 44.030
43,700 IS 43.380
10 43.660 X6 43,370
11 43,370 11 43,390
12 43,300 tl 43,400
II 43,340 21 43.060
14 43,470 10 43.400
16 43,360 II 45,680
1 44,030
Total , ..1,360,740
Rf turned Coplca 11,344
Nat Total 1,338.308
Dally Average 43,174
OEO. B. TZSOHUCK.
Treasurer.
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before m tb.lt Slat day of October, ISIS.
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Boost for Omaha.
Salute Folic Captain Dempsey.
The weather maa la certainly food
lo us.
Get the aeroplane tilt by looking at
the eclipse of the moon.
The Test of the Triumph.
Some of the more liberal democratic
papers sdtnlt there is little hope of
tariff reform from the Sixty-second
congress. The Uonton Herald points
out that the democrats' attitude on
the Fayne-Aldrlch bill discredit
them. They violently attacked this
bill In speeches In congress and then
voted for its "iniquitous duties'
wherever they would fit Into flopular
Ity of a district at home.
It Is now being generally admitted
that the democrats of the last session
were dominated, so far ss this tariff
measure Is concerned, by the southern
protectionists, and that these protec
tionists from the south with the tra
ditional stamp of democracy upon them
arranged several deals and combina
tions In order to secure protection for
home Industries: that they agreed with
Massachusetts for free hides there If
Lodge and his friends would favor a
tariff on southern lumber.
It is business, not politics, that Is
guiding the actions of these southern
democrats today. They are free trad
ers in name and tradition only, but try
taking the duty off one of their home
Industries that requires protection and
see how deep down the soil of their
free trade goes. Champ Clark makes
bold promises of a tariff for revenue
only, but he knows only too well how
hard It will be to push such a measure
through the next house, controlled as
It will be by the bourbons of the south
and that he probably could not If the
senate as well as the house were demo
cratic. The south has Just entered
upon a new era of Industrial develop
ment and It would be retarding Its own
progress to supplant protection with
free trade now.
The test of this democratic triumph
Is to come In the party's attempt to
make good on Its promises of a revenue
tariff In the next congress. It will be
compelled to change Its whole plan of
battle, shift from the defensive to the
aggressive, from the negative to the
positive. It will find that building up
a tariff policy of Ita own is much more
difficult than trying to tear down one
of ita opponent's; that the work of
construction Is harder than the work
of destruction. Let Champ Clark and
his followers frame a tariff bill on
democratic principles and submit It to
congress and then will they find the
real test of "what they are pleased to
call their splendid triumph of 1910.
AH that this election has done has
been to give them a chance to make
good.
ular parlance, that they are going to!
be pood. This concession Is satisfying!
even if based upon selfish aspirations,'
even If these interests are actuated by .
a reeling or ease that with a conflict
of power In the house nnd senate leg
islation has been fairly well scotched
in the Sixty-second congress.
Hack of all this prospect of peace
and plenty one must see the cumula
tive efTect of beneficent republican rule
in this country. Kven Rood crops can
not guarantee good times unless there
is a steady hand at Washington
Trend of Political Parties
FEOFLE TALKED ABOUT.
o
A. MainUe Low In HriUsli
I-ate never pU.wd a more Ironic Juggle
than when It. threw Ilr. Rryan n cork on
the t-ea. of politic. A man of high Ideal,
of unflinching honesty, who has always
sought after tlit right and striven to lead
men upward, It has been his fate uncon
sciously and unwillingly almost always to
he wrong, and hy being; wrong- to make It
possible for dishonesty to flourish and in
calculable harm to be done. The sham re-
1'hls . forms and the self-advertising reformers of
National Review.
fart is likely to sink into the popular
mind very deeply in these Intervening
two years and bear its own fruit In the
national election in 191?.
Did you bear that awful noise? That
was the price of meat falling.
Mr. Hearst has come out for John
R. McLean for senator in Ohio. Poor
Mr. McLean, yt.nj
England will probably wonder, after
It loses its lords, why It ever clung so
tenaciously to them.
And in addition to other things,
Colonel Lafayette Young of Iowa looks
like a United States senator.
It seems that some of the implement
men also brought the implements of
war to the meeting with them.
One might observe, however, that
with all .the progress these aviators
have made, none has yet gone to the
top.
Don t worry about Diaz, ", urges
Ihe St. Paul Dispatch. We are not
We were Just thinking of that last coal
The St. Louis Times makes the omi
nous display to presidential aspirants
that 1911 totals Just 13. But who's
frald of signs
Why should a Kansas City jobbing
house be permitted to string a canvas
streamer across Farnam street?
What's the answer?
No more Tafta and Roosevelts will go
with the masses. Lincoln Star. .
What will It be? D. E. Thompsons
and C. E. Whedons?
Not that R Is particularly Imporcaur, but
baa anybody heard much about WVism
J. Bryan lately? Htn Francisco Chronicle.
Yes, they have him going south. He
will spend the winter in Texas.
A man was arrested down in Mis
souri the other day for springing that
ancient one that the reason money Is
called dough is because everyone
kneads it.
The Sting: of Icgratiude.
It may be consolation tor Mayor
"Jim" to find here and there a sym
pathetic note uttered for him from
democratic sources. The Houston
Post, which is a good democratic pa
per, discusses the recent election, with
reference to two democrats who failed
the first being "Bob" Taylor of Ten-
nessee, who fell down before a polit
ical revulsion In that state, and the
second being our own "Jim." The Post
proceeds:
The other democrat was Jim Dahlman,
the democratic candidate for governor of
Nebraska. He submitted his claims to a
party primary and became the nominee
of the party. He won the nomination
fairly and squarely and was entitled to
the vote of every democrat who partlcl
pated In the primary and assumed
thereby an obligation to support the
nominee.
He, too, made a gallant fight, and he
too, wan a victim of unspeakable treach
try. Ona who owes everything to the
democratic party, who baa enjoyed its
honors and Its confidence as few men
have. In whose behalf Jim Dahlman'
money and support have been freely ac
corded on many occasions, who of all
men was under the highest obligation o
support the nominee, whose word would
have assured complete democratic vic
tory In Nebraska, deUberately raised his
arm snd struck the blow that laid the
Nebraska democracy low.
If the blood of the martyrs Is the seed
of the church, perhaps the time may yet
come when the defeat of Dahlman and
the manner of Its accomplishment will
inspire the party to a realisation of the
perils of discord and treachery and teach
It to deal firmly wltU tht emergencies
precipitated by them.
Democrats everywhere will grieve over
the fate of Dahlman, but they will
scarcely- fall to remember the stab in
the back that felled hint ?n the moment
that democratic victory was well nigh
universal.
In this connection it may be worth
mentioning that the Houston Post is
edited by R. M. Johnston, who, as
democratic national committeeman for
Texas, served with Mayor "Jim" in
that body and helped manage two of
Mr. Bryan's lost presidential cam
paigns.
Just Building; the Canal.
Two rumors of n rather sinister
nature followed President Taft on his
trip to the Panama canal. One was
that annexation of the little republic
wag the chief object of the trim the
other, that It was to lay the basis for
asking an additional appropriation of
$100,000,000 from congress for the
completion of the work. Both are
emphatically denied in official circles,
as, of course, they would be If any at
tention were paid to them.
The president's visit at this time is
to get into closer touch with the
progress and details of the work, so
that he may be thoroughly prepared to
enlighten congress on the subject in
his forthcoming message. The matter
of toll rates has to be attended to with'
out delay, for it will take the trans
portation companies eighteen months,
Colonel Goethals aays, to adjust their
schedules to them and these rates ran
be fixed only by congress. Hence the
necessity for immediate action is ap
parent.
As to annexing the republic of Pan
ama, the united States would have
nothing to gain by it and much to lose.
It would mean another complication
In its already complex government, the
borrowing of trouble for nothing. This
country will continue to protect
Panama from foreign aggression, and
that duty will be vastly magnified
In the future owing to the In
timacy ot our relations as a
result of the canal, but there is
nothing in the situation that seems to
call for annexation and much that
tends to discourage such a move. So
long as Panama displays an ability for
self government it is perfectly safe in
Its independence and certainly the
United States, as the greatest of repub
lics, would have no concern in effacing
such an autonomy. Its interests all
lie on the side of perpetuating it.
Then as to the additional appropria
tion. Colonel Goethals, In charge of
the canal's' construction, assures the
president that the work will be com
pleted with the $375,000,000 allowed
for it, and that, too, a year ahead of
time. Colonel Goethals la giving this
country the worth of its money and
more In the building of this great wa
terway, and he is sotting a fine ex
ample in patriotism and fidelity to
duty in the way his men are inspired to
push the work, the humblest employe
feeling a personal pride in the great
enterprise and its early completion.
which the public now s heartily sick
would have found no opportunity had not
Mr. Bryan In hi pumult after the Ideal pre
pared the pround. Hysteria could have
been checked, progress could have been
made soberly, real reform could have been
i accomplished had it not been for Mr.
Hryan. It I one of the mrt extraordinary
cases on record of a good man doing evil
because lie la an idealist living In a practi
cal world.
Mr. Mryn need no longer be considered
aa a determining factor In the affairs of
the democratic party and his iibshIiik and
the coming to the front of WIIon, Harmon
and Oaynor la a movement as Important
among the democrats a Insurgency is to
tbe republicans. Insurgency Is the republi
can drift toward radicalism; the retirement
of Mr. Bryan marks tht return of the
democratic party toward conservatism. It
Is Inevitable thnt this should be so. At a
time when there I more thtn an even
chance of the radicals controlling the re
publican party, the democrats show a dis
position to abnndon the unscientific radical
ism of which they have been the victim
for some years, to forsake the radical
leader and to put their trut In men who
while conservative are not reactionary. Ity
this time the democrats onaht to be to
thoroughly radical that they should be able
to swallow the radical republicans, but bv
ieoite W. INlson of Slow. M.i..
write verse. cnndtictHl hi eampuinn for a
seat in the legislature in rhyme, lie vn
elected. It I the first time rlnce tve ch 11
war that a democrat was rlroted i" tl'
legislature from Stow.
Mrs. Annie Wukiiunn Ijithrop I making
a tour of thl country lo study 11"' condi
tion of American women for n uroitp nf
London newspapers, she Is now In Cali
fornia, and after finishing, her observation'
in the west the will go south and then
come east.
Congratulations tioin a dilraii1 amll
date in the victor may b wi fum tor . but
the mesoasro of Vivian T.rwis to (lovcrnor
elect Wilson of New Jersey ta of a l I f -
tradition the democratic party is a con- ferent sort. It Is known thai a gentleman
was elected f the guliernatorlal chair,
but it Is certain also that another gntle-
servatlve party, and although the mass of
democrat were swept off their feet and
for a time followed a rndlcal lender, con
servatism has once more reasserted Itself,
and It may be that the country will liH e
to look to the democrats to act ns the
balance wheel. America Is large and In all
things a law unto Itself, but even thl
country Is not large enough to support
two radical parties: and the republican In
surgents are so much more radical than
ever the democrats dared to be that It I
hopless for the democrats to try to com
pete with them. As the party of conserva
tism and construction rather 1han that of
radicalism and destruction the democrat
must make their appeal.
jury service. In this case it might
behoove father to take a few lessons
In cooking and other departments of
housework, for mother is liable at any
time to be detained over night on a
jury.
If Champ Clark has not yet bought
that span of mules, we know where he
can get a bargain in one. He is a
trustworthy animal; that is, he ought
to be, for he was raised a pet. His
name is Majormlnnemascot and his
address can be reached by- writing to
W. J. Bryan, Falrvlew.
In teBtlng heavy explosives on a bat
tleship at Fort Monroe , the officers
placed a cat where the gunners and
slghter would be in battle and the ex
plosion that nearly wrecked the ship
failed to kill the cat But what does
that prove? A sailor has but one life.
Those papers that before the elec
tion said Roosevelt was betraying Taft
and after election declared that re
publican defeat in states where Roose
velt was most active was a rebuke to
Taft ought to get together with themselves.
Mr. Hlgh-Cost-of-Llving is showing
himself decidedly inconsiderate ot the
democratic politicians if he comes
down off his perch without waiting to
give them a chance first to try their
hand at tariff tinkering.
What is the use trying to berate the
republicans in the late election? Ala
bama's democratic, governor was
elected by only 60,000, whereas his
predecessor at the' last election went
In by 62,769 majdfUy.'
Students at the Omaha High school
are now regaled In a lunch room scien
tifically, conducted. Another proof of
tbe great strides made in modern edu
cational methods.
That democratic landslide cannot be
charged to Chancellor Day, but since
the returns came in he has recovered
his voice enough to say a word or two
aa to what he thought did it.
"Judge Harmon's future bangs in
the balance," wisely observes the
Washington Herald, In which case
the judge la like tbe rest of his fellow
creatures so far as the future goes.
One of our readers falls to see any
humor in our nory- about the million
aire golfers playing firemen at a Sun
day blaze. ' iom of the millionaire
golfers also failed to see the humor
In It '
A profcMted enthusiast for mu
nicipal civil service reform who has
been in the city council lo these uany
years without a thing to show for It,
would do. better to let someone else
blow the .ti ump'U
JBusinest Ought to Be Good.
The next two years preceding the
national election ought to be prosper
ous In this country, and doubtless will
be. The nation has crossed over the
summit of anxiety incident to polit
ical disturbances that usually attend
even an off-year campaign and is fac
ing natural conditions which could
scarcely be improved upon. Not onl
has this couutry, but the two hemi
spheres have produced exceedingly
good crops this year, and the money
market is sound. Industries are run
ning at tbe high water mark and labor
Is well paid and fairly content. Prices
have stsrted toward a more equitable
level and the people are feeling better
over this.
In fact, all the elements that influ
ence prosperity seem to be working
conjointly to secure it, and with the
basic features of large crops and good
markets the law ot supply and de
mand in good working order we have
little or nothing to fear from artificial
sources of unrett. But aa to that, the
interests suspected of unduly Influenc
ing conditions have given their word
for It that aa far as they are concerned
times are going to be good for at least
two years. That Is to say, In the pop-
The Kind of City Government
Public sentiment is again being
focused for an effort to provide
Omaha, or rather Greater Omaha, with
the machinery of government that will
enable us to make more rapid forward
strides to command the position
among progressive cities of the coun
try to which we are entitled. The
desire is crystallizing along lines ad
vocated for years by The Bee for i
greater measure of local self-govern
ment and less dependence upon long
distance rule by the legislature at
Lincoln. Tbe Idea is growing that a
city charter framed here at home by
our own people for the government of
the whole community, including
Omaha, South Omaha, Dundee, Ben
son and Florence, should be submitted
for popular approval and take effect
upon ratification by a majority of
those immediately concerned. If this
can be brought about it Is a consum
mation greatly to be hoped, even
though the actual consolidation and
taking effect of tbe new charter may
be deferred a year or two.
The particular kind of government
to be provided for Greater Omaha
wnetner tnrougu commissioners or
through a mayor and council, does not
strike us as vital. Our experience
has proved that it is not the title or
pay that makea a public officer effec
tive, but rather the ability of the man
and his freedom from persoaal and
corporate entanglements. The thought
that politics can be wholly eliminated
from municipal government Is a will
o'-the-whiau. We may have political
parties formed for each city tie. lion
separate and distinct from existing
political parties, but there will be
more or less partisanship, juBt tbe
same.
The character of the men put into
municipal office, as into any public
office, depends on the electorate. The
way to get a higher grade of men
the city hall is for our business men
and property owners not only to man
ifest an interest in their election, but
first to prevail upon men of tried ra
pacity and integrity to stand for these
positions instead of backing misfits,
bankrupts, poor relations or good fel
lows looking for jobs.
Around New York
Klpples ta tht Currsat of t a
as Seen in the Ortat AmaHoan
Metropolis from Say to Pay.
Champ Clark must almost wish he
would not be elected speaker when he
thinks of what he will be up against
in trying to make good on all the
promises he has made in the last ten
years.
tomlnnr l'a to the Scratch.
Cleveland Leader.
Now we are told that buckwheat cakes
contain a large percentage of alcohol.
When you see people scratching their
backs In the dry districts this winter you'll
find diagnosis easy.
Stiffening of the Spite.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
With Mr. Bryan still plugging for It In
the west. Wall street exerting its pull
for It in the east, and the south keeping
along Just by force of habit, tht demo
cratic party Is beginning to have some
confidence In its future outbids of Pennsylvania.
rtnohlnar Trtat Profits.
Philadelphia Ledger.
After boosting the price of window glass
about 70 per cent the glass trust has
been fined a total of $10,000. Fears are
felt that this makes slight. Inroads on
the profits, but otherwise It Is satisfac
tory enough. It la refreshing, also, to Bee
a demonstration of tht fact that not every
advanca in prices can ba ascribed to the
tariff.
An impressive phase of present day
dvllistatlon in New York Is the trans
formation of Fifth avenue from a residence
to a business thorouhgfare. The change,
according to the World, la directly due to
the Increasing activity of women in busi
ness. From Twentieth to Fifty-second
street the change is marked. It Is no
longer a man's avenue. Of the 700 firms
doing business there fully !M) art com
posed entirely of women and sell to women.
Two hundred others have both men and
women members and deal In goods for
women exclusively. One hundred more tre
of men trading in women's wearing ap-;
parel. The largest hotel in tht vicinity,
the Waldorf-Astoria, makes a feature ot
catering to women, and every day Ita sump
tuous lounging rooms are crowded with
shoppers.
A few days after the election a tall,
husky man walked into the Jefferson
market court and said to the magistrate:
"Tour honor, I have a bet on the election
with my friend Rellly. I bet six months
In the work house against 3 that timson
would be elected. Friend Rellly bet on
Dix.
Ax won, so I am here to make good.
Friend Rellly. I notice, la not present.
Nevertheless I'm a man and If you will
kir.dly ship me to the Island at once I'll
be delighted. I wouldn't want Rellly to
think I wasn't a man."
"Well, well," said the magistrate, "1
don't know what to think of this. I can't
do anything for you today, but If you
come around on Monday morning with
your friend, Rellly, perhaps we can adjust
the matter."
On leaving court the man was asked by
the clerk for his name. It was refused.
"I'll put It down as 'John Doe,' " said
tht clerk. ,
"Begorra an' you won't," said the man.
"If you put it down anythln' at all you'll
put it down 'Mike Doe!' "
Barney O'Nell of Wallace, Idaho, direc
tor In the Carnegie Trust company and
member of the executive committee of the
American Bankers' association, forgot the
other night that he was one of the elect,
left his wife at the Holland house and
went down to the Newsboys' Home club
at 74 Kast Fourth street. He ljked the
society of the little fellows so much, and
got so Interested in a bout with the gloves
which "Bowery Jack" Brown and "Battery
Kid" Hermann "pulled off" for his spe
clal entertainment that he said he never
wanted to go back noma again and he
slept all night at the club.
When O'Nell arrived he found about 2U0
boys thronging the gymnasium and the
reading room and swarming up and down
tht stairs waiting to greet him. The last
tdlUons had been closed out early and all
'do kids" were on deck, anxious to see
the newsboy who had risen. He came in
with his face glowing with pleasure.
"They look Just tht same as they did
thirty years ago," he said.
Superintendent R. S. Crummy took him
through the rooms while the boys were
getting pnto their athleUo clothes. When
all were gathered, O'Nell said to them:
"When I was selling papers here Horace
Greeley came out with his slogan, 'Go
west, young man.' I took that advice and
went. I worked with my head and my
hands. Always try to use your bead and
you will rise. Always be cheerful and
hopeful."
man failed. to reach It.
Mrs. Grace R. Gunn of New 'i oik has
begun a course of instruction that i de
signed to make public speakers of the
most diffident of women; orators of women
who stammer, and in general to prepare
for the political platform of the next cnin
paiun a list of feminine worker who will
pull voles.
Four women ill sit ti iln- Kighteentli
general assembly of Colorado as n result
of last Tuesday's election. They are Alma
Lafferty, Loitlae V. Jones and Louine M.
Kerwln, all elected to the liouse of repre
sentatives from Denver districts on the
democratic ticket, and Aajnes Riddle, re
publican representative for Adams. Arapit
hoe and Flbert counties.
Mrs. Phoele M. Palmeter, 80 years old,
of Brookfield. N. V., pensioned by a spe
cial act of congress as the daughter of
Jonathan Wooley, who served In a New
Hampshire company, Is the only pensioner
on account of the Revolutionary war re
maining on the roll, according to a state
ment made in the annual report of the
commission rs of pensions, Just made public.
What Oat Socialist Mill Do,
Chicago Tribune.
victor Berger, the only socialist ever
elected to congress, bears his honors mod
estly and does not expect to overturn tht
house which of late was Joseph's. But some
of his kind art not so modest. A socialist
plumber of Reading, Pa., has been elected
to the legislature and ha announces tliat he
intends to "raise tht devil." He will ilnd
when he reaches JlarrUburg that there
Is not much In the line left to do. The last
two or three legislatures of Pennsylvania
did about as fine a Job of that sort as
ever was done outside of Illinois. However,
being a plumber helps some in that par'
tlcular task.
TOO M I t'll OF A I.OUD TlllXti.
itrlkiua; Illustration of Publicity
Overworked.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Publicity Is a pood thing, but tt is not
desirable in all human enterprises. Some
year ago a minister In southeastern Penn
sylvania broke down under the strain of
his clerical duties and decided to go to
farming. He bought a run-down farm of
fifteen acres and started a dairy business.
He was so successful that the agricultural
papers began to print articles about his
'model dairy farm." The United States
Department of Agriculture heard about it
and Bent a man to Pennsylvania to look It
over. Then the department wrote up a
history of tht minister's enterprise and
published it as a bulletin.
All this was highly gratifying, no doubt'
to the minister, but the papers kept on
discussing his farm until hundreds of
people became possessed of a desire to see
It Visitors came in such numbers that it
took up all the preacher's time In showing
them over the place. They trampled down
his shrubbery, broke down his gates,
damaged his vegetable crops and kept the
cows in such a continual state of excite
ment that the dairy products fell off to a
remarkable degree. The preacher simply
could not stand It. so he old the model
farm and bought a larger one in a more
remote locality.
The new farm Is being conducted on the
same lines as the old one, but tts owner
does not want any more publicity. In his
case publicity hurts business. If he were
selling a patent churn or a remedy for
rheumatism he would welcome the "mad
ding crowd." As he happens to be en
gaged In growing vegetables and coaxing
timorous cows to do their lacteal duty, he
objects to addressing mass meetings in the
barn lot and to answering foolish ques
tions on tht front porch. Besides, "there
are moments when ont wants to be alone,"
and milking tlmt comes around pretty
regularly on a dairy farm.
LINES TO A LAUGH.
The professor did not like the looks of
any of the fish, and the prices were ab
surdly high.
"I can't even get a squared eel here '
he said passing on to the next place. Chi
cago Tribune.
"Even in finance. Prim always prides
himself on doing the proper thing."
"Well?"
"So he told his brokers he was going to
take a flyer in aviation stock." Baltimore
American.
"What went Wrong with your auto while
your wire was away 7 we ask of our ac
qualntance.
"I did." ha replied aadly. Life.
Miss wellon Yes, our family is short
lived. I never expect to see 40.
Miss Tartun Why, ye, dear; you can see
It retrospectively, can't you? Chicago
iribune.
"What make you keep giving me fish
ior ainner uay arter nay ; tie inquired.
"Are you particularly fond of It?"
"No. she replied, "I was wholly unself
ish. I read a lovely recipe about how
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your throat, and I wanted to try It."
Washington Btar.
"Why did you think the democrats should
have gone on being defeated for ever''
"They don't mind (t eo much.'" replied
the gloomy statesman. "They're used to
It." Puck.
Mrs. Gnaggs Von know well you were
perfectly crazy to marry me.
Mr. GnagKH I admit It. my dear, but It
whs merely a case of temporary Insanity.
Philadelphia Record.
"Why Is she so popular?"
"She takes off her hat In a crowded car."
Cleveland Leader.
"I thought this was a prohibition county '
"Ho It is."
"Well, look at the man yonder with that
lot of cattle."
"What's that got to do with it?"
"Can't you see he's driving them lo
drink?" Baltimore American.
Our Birthday Book
One hundred and thirty thousand
new voters w ill ba added to tht voting
strength of the state of Washington
by tbe adoption at the recent election
of the woman suffrage amendment to
the constitution. Women who are
taxpayers are also, under the pro
visions of this atueuduiat, eligible tv
xrovamfetr 17, 1S10.
Samuel Cunard, whu established tbe
Cunaid steamship line, was born Novem
ber 17, 17OT, in Halifax. Nova Scotia, and
died in llx5. He was knighted for what he
did for transoceanic travel and tht Cunard
line is still one of tht headliners.
Thomas Taggart, the democraUo boss ct
Indiana, was born November 17, lK."i. He
la a native of Ireland and got Ids start In
politic as mayor of Indianapolis. He was
the national chairman who managed the
dUmal defeat of Judge Parker In lwM.
Herbert Knox Smith, commissioner of
corporations. Is 41 years old today. He
was boru In Chester, Mass., and was
practicing law lit Connecticut before going
"jlnto government service. He married tbe
daughter of former Senator jjieincn or
Nebrasl.a.
Frank A. Vanderlip, now a big New
York banker, a as burn November 17, lwH.
In Aurora. 111. Ht used to bt financial
editor of tht Chicago Tribune, going wltb
Secretary Gaga as assistant secretary of
the treasury and then Into the National
City bank.
Otto U. Kicbhorst. resident agent for
tht ."cliUts Brewing company in Omaha,
was born November 17, 172. In Milwaukee,
which bus ben made famous by the beer
he soils. He has bn manager for Kchlltx
at Nashville. Tenn : Ixulsvin. K.. aod
Oiuah.
The jlncrease of motor vehicles for the
carrying of goods has been so continuous
In the streets of New York that it begins
to look as though the day of freedom tor
tht horse wss not far off. Lach motor
takes the place of two animals, and possi
bly more, as one of them can do as much
work In a day as a couple of team. It It
were not for the horses, tht street clean
ing force could be reduced by one-half.
Three things will have to be done for
ths motor vehicles, as well as for pleasure
oars, before their service becomes Ideal.
Tht nolst of operation must be reduced, the
dripping of oil on the streets stopped, and
an end put to the vile smoke so many of
them puff Into the face of an Indignant
publto.
In 19ot there were not to exceed K chauf
feurs in New York stati. Today there are
registered almost 2S.000. There were then
fourteen different makes of cars on sale.
Today there are eighty-five.
In 1M. the average price of cars wss
$1,100. By 1907 it had run up to S,VJ1. It
has now come down to ,Mf, due to the
Increase In the number of moderate priced
machines.
Hsld tht new waiter:
"There's a woman at tne 'pliuue trying
to tell how old ah is. Thlrty-flvt, I think
she said."
"Wants to come here to dinner, I guess,"
said the proprietor. "Tell ber it Is all
right, phe can come."
Then he went on to say that over the
telephone some women are not afraid to
tell their age.
"Confidences of that kind ar imparted
to us every day," he said. "They art
telephoned in by women who have heard
that women without an escort art not
permitted to dint here. Even if they do
play a lone hand they Ukt to eat out once
In a whiit where there la something going
on, but rather than take chance of a pub
lic rebuff they telephone da to find out
If they will be admitted. rjrt thing ti.
tell la their age. The figure n.cntlonia
run all the way from 30 to M. Apparent lj
they hope to convince us that at tl.at bi?
women have become pretty J; auJ are
A "Classy" Table for
Thanksgiving
It Isn't much of a "shopper's trick" lo find the riht sort of
accessories for a Thanksgiving table; the idea is to buy the
KiGHT sort PItlCED IUC3HT.
You WILL find the IUG1IT sort here; dainty silver mounted
carving sett, for instance, at as low as fo.UU; exquisite silver
plated fern dishes at as low as $5.00; and sterling silver tea
spoons in novel, new patterns at as little as $3.50 per set of six.
Cut glass, too, Is sold on a moderate percentage here. One may
buy deftly cut and ornately designed celery trays for as little as
$4.95; and the regulation Cut liluxs Howls for as little as 3.u.
Your table, of course, WILL be properly grtu'ed on Thanks
giving day; yon WILL find "claHsy" pieces In plenty; but again
we say: "They're priced KIGHT here."
That Watch Sale Continues
"Half Price" still goes on several special lines of Gentle
men's Watchfcs; $20.00 kinds at only $10.00. A similar reduc
tion applies to Ladies' Watches valued regularly at $20 00
some are selling at $12.50.
"MANDELBERG"
1522 Farnam Street