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TIIK HKK: OMAHA. Tl'KSDAr. XoHlMnKR 22. Ifllrt. The omaha Daily JUii Ol NIEIJ BY EDWAMD nOSKWATKll. VICTOR HOKKWATIlII. KPITOll. Untered at Umiiii postorflra a second iss matter. TEUMS OP BCBSCRirTIO.N. frurrtsy Bee, one year..... I? "ft hat urn's y W, pn year l..'n I 'ally He (Without Sunday), one !r...ftl Lily Mm and Mumlay, one ye ar 1 W DEUVEREI) BY CARR1K11. Kvenlng ! (without Hundav), per weeU. 'a Evening Heetwlth Sunday), per wee. 10c I'ally Hen (Including Sunday), per week. .IF: lially Hi ithout Hunday). per week .. lc Address all complaints f Irregularities la delivery to City Circulation Department orricBs. Omaha The Bee lluildlng. fouth Omaha Norm Twenty-fourth tteet. t'ounrll Muffs IS Pmtt Street. Lincoln o.ii Little Ruildln. Chicago l.s iVisruuette ituildlng New York Rooma UU1-1VU No. 34 West Thirty-third Street. Washington 7IS Fourteenth Street. N. W. COR RESPONDENCK. f'ommun.'iatlona relating lo newa and editorial matter should be addressed. Omaha Bee. Editorial Department REMITTANCES. Remit by draft. express ok postal order p)shle (o The Bee Publishing Company. Only s-cent stamp received In payment of mull accounta. personal check except on Omaha and eaatem exchange not accepted. STATEMENT OF- C1RCTT.AT10N. Btate of Nebraaka, Douglas County. George B. Tsschuek, treaeurer of The Bea Publishing company, being duly aworn. ya that the actual number of full and romplete copies of The Dirliy. Morning, Evening and Sunday He printed during the month of October, 1110. was as follow; 43.300 44.700 4S,aso 43,880 43,440 43.440 43JS0 43,090 43,700 4S.50O 43.070 43 .8O0, 43.340 17 43.370 II 43,380 11 43.380 tt 43,810 It.... 43,480 ta 43.170 tt 43,450 Z4...1 44.000 tt 43,380 Zl 43,370 tl 43.890 II 43,400 II 43.040 10 43,000 1 48,000 .43,070 IS 43,300 1 .44.080 Total.. .1,360,740 . X1.840 Returned Coplaa, . . , i Net Total ...103400 lally AVenlee.... 43,174 OEO. B, TZ8CHTJCK. Treaeurer. ubscrlbed In my preeence and aworn to before ma tola Skit day of October, 1910. U. P. WALKER, (Seal.) Notary Public abecrtbere leavtaar turn cliy Sorarll abeald aav Thai aualled them. Addreee wU bo chaaareal aftea aa reajaeataal. Where in the world la that "Starred eyed Goddess of Reform?" Wai there anyone f talking about building; another theater in Omaha? Political timber cut at an Indiana watering resort -ought to bo well seasoned. , , . 1 Two Omaha banks are occupying beautiful new quarter!. More signs of prosperity. Can it be that Colonel Watterson is going to eat all those rooster or Thanksgiving? Of course, if Champ Clark Just takea the place, be will not bo expected to "fill" the speaker's chair. Postoffice fight hostilities that were temporarily suspended before election may now be safely, resumed. Is this the mlllenium? H Alleged negro murderers saved by technicali ties New Trial." Atlanta news paper. A St. Loula school girl of 1.6 has in herited $30,000,000. We trust that will not divert her attention from her books. The Apple show is over, but wo will have another round of horticulture when the Land-Producta exposition arrives. Score on for Caruso. Ho thinks stage art and married life are incom patible. So do we for artiats like Caruso. ' Mr. MacVeagh wants to shorten the dollar bill. As if soma of us had not been short-changed about enough already. It seems that the reform foot ball rules have failed to bring that game into the class of small hazard with aviation. - - , ' A New York paper, with no attempt to be funny, auggesta that cold storage of food producta be limited to one year. Time! "Five o'clock in the morning is the coldest hour In the day," remarks the Houston Post. Who found that out, the night police reporter? The lateat from over In Iowa is that Senator Cummlna baa revised the list of eliglbles to the senatorial vacancy down to four. Let the people rule. A St. Louts woman admits telling a ne 10 retain ner motner-in-iaw s ra sped. You could not tempt the aver age man into perverting the truth that way. Why not pull down those past-due telegraph pole posters in the interest ef "the city beautiful," at least until another political campalgu rolls around. Dr. Crlppen Indited a note, three columns loug, to an English newspaper on the subject of his innocence. He at least cannot say ha did not get a hearing. Admirable aa was Tolstoi's attempt to live what he taught, the overshad owing fact of al! the panegyrics paid him is that Lis admirers atop with their tribute, never trjlsg to put Uicm luio effect. The Puzzle of Food Prices. Pj good an. authority as Secretary Wllnon of tb9 Department of Agricul tural hesitates to venture Into the field of dogmatism with reference to the action of food price". He thinks they nill fall, but rice again and rise not quite as high as the point from which they began to drop. Ho Is willing to admit that e are an extravagant people, an expensive people. But any one will admit the same thing who has thought at all on the subject. And Mr. Wilson offers some sound advice j aa to the correction of these faults, but j he avoids more than a general state-; nient of what he thinks prices may do. The fact is people generally seem to be at sea on this subject of food prices. The man who argues that we are going to have sweeping reduc tion in them does not follow up his assertion with satisfactory reasons. He docs not tell you why the powers that sent prices up, arbitrarily in a meas ure, as has been contended, would voluntarily send them down. And until ho tells you that you have a right to question his wisdom. Secretary Wilson's theory seems to imply an automatio readjustment of the general level of prices, a point to which many sensible men have all along contended natural conditions would lead us. But even that view does not entirely clarify the situation. The trusts and the tariff have been blamed for high prices. If they were responsible what change has occurred? The tariff, which has had less Influence than imputed to it, has not been altered, and the trusts have been under fire all the time. It seems to us there is a lot of bun combe In this lowering of prices talk. Price movement must be alow to be of a permanent character. Certain ac tion in isolated markets may for a time push prices down, but conditions of production have to change to pro duce material changes In the general have given it. Champ Clark's Opportunity. Champ Clark's friends have already begun to manifest a little misgiving as to his conduct as speaker, since it now seems fairly certain he will suc ceed to that influential office. The Kansas City Star, which has all along stoutly supported him, takes occasion now to Bound a timely warning. It cites two incidents In his career . as floor leader of his party to show him the possibility of fatal error lying in his path as speaker. One of these incidents pictures Mr. Clark In the role of chief filibuster, resorting to extreme measures to gain & partisan fight at the expense of needed results." The other shows him In exactly the opposite position, that of sacrificing partisanship for the com mon good. It holds up these two at titude! as a warning to the Mlssourian when he takes the gavel, which I Speaker Cannon will lay down at the end of the sixty-first congress. The next speaker will make a fatal mistake, both for himself and his party, if he uses the great power of the speakership to promote party in terests at the expense of public busi ness. It matters not that other speakera before him may have done that; he comes Into this power at a time when the country is taking a dif ferent view of such things than it formerly took. It is demanding more of its representatives today than it did and It is keeping closer and more dis criminating account of their official recorda. Orant, merely for the sake of argument, that the democratic party has a fair chance to elect Its ticket in 1913 that is all the more reason why Champ Clark, as the leader of that party in the house, should heed the warning his more sober friends are trying to give him. And the fact that they are giving it la evidence that he needs It Democracy's task is a big one and if it avoids the pit into which General Grant said it was always sure to fall at the "wrong time," it will be only because it has followed better advice than the Champ Clarka of the past level of living cost. The Game of Politics. The British, we are told, take more interest In their politics than we do in ours. They piay u aa mey ao tneir cricket, make it a great national game. They do not ceaae their Interest with the close of a single campaign, but go in for a steady diet of politics and. therefore, get more of It than Amerl cans do. That thesis has never seemed wholly sound. Certainly It does not now in the light of recent American activity, If the people of this country have ever been aroused on any one subject, they are aroused today on the subject of politics. Nor has their Interest been in the least abated by the recent elec tion, but rather, if anything, enhanced They, too, have begun to play politics like a great national game. The re- aults of the November contests fairly burned their way into the popular mind and enkindled it to renewed seal in the effect of this election on the national campaign two years hence. And it is a fairly safe guess that the animation win not cue down com pletely at any stage during the Interim. We doubt if this criticism may truly be made of the American people today, and we doubt if it ever was m belly cor rect. Of course we have been too busy with other matters to allow politics to consume all of our time, but when it comes to a live, intelligent interest in the affalra of sovernmeut, it may well be questioned if even England outdova us. There Is aouie Inherent element about politics that makes jtkoee who eagage actively la it abject slsvps to Its demand. Many men would be better off to tahe a less active concern In It, or at least to find a way of resisting Us tenacious hold upon them. Hut as for the general study and interest in it. that cannot fail to make for better conditions In jany nation and It is doing that in this country. If. then, ss our British cousins would make out, we have only awaked on this subject, just think of the great possibility of development and good that stretches out before us! The Ballot Form. The coming legislature will be urged to change once more the form Vjf ballot used in elections throughout Nebraska with a view to eliminating the party circle and compelling each voter to make a cross-mark opposite the name of every candidate for whom he wishes to express a preference. Presumably the present ballot would be retained unchanged In other re spects except, perhaps, to provide for alphabetical or rotated arrangement of the names under the respective office hesdings. The proposal is represented to be one for the adoption of the so-called .Massachusetts ballot, although, in fact, this form is no more the Massa chusetts ballot than it is the Nebraska ballot, because it is the form that was embodied In the Australian ballot law which prevailed here in Nebraska for six years, prior to 1S97. when the em blem ballot was Inflicted upon us. The real essence of the ballot form is not whether the cross-mark square is be fore or after the name, but whether the elector may tote it straight with one cross-mark or whether he must pick out for himself the names of the candidates for whom he wishes to vote. Everyone will concede that the bal lot should be so constructed as to fa cilitate the voter in registering his free and untrammeled choice of candi dates seeking his suffrage. The party circle is unquestionably the short .cut to straight tickets. But if this is ob jectionable, neither should the ballot be so complicated ahd confusing as to prevent the voter of average intelli gence from marking it as he desires. The justification of the party circle, if there is any justification, is the mul tiplicity of offices to be filled, making it an almost physical impossibility for the ordinary voter to exercise his right of suffrage on every office. The Bee would bo inclined to favor the elimination of the party circle if the movement were accompanied with a material diminution In the number of offices to be filled by election. If we can have a short ballot, with not over twelve or fifteen places to be filled at one time, the old Australian ballot would be feasible and desirable. The reason our experience with it here in Nebraska before was not satisfactory was because the voters often; had to make from thirty to forty cross-marks at one election, and it was nothing but popular disgust with this cumbersome and disfranchising ballot that made our people welcome as relief the odious emblem ballot which has been discredited everywhere. If we are to have intelligent de cision at the polls as between aspirants for office and questions of public pol icy the machinery for voting must be simplified and not made more complex. Is the Corn Belt Going1 South T What Is this trick they are trying to play on the demure Miss Malse? Are they pretending that she Is as fickle as Dame Fashion and cannot decide where her waist line ought to be? Here comes the Washington Post with the prediction "that "the corn belt will move south" when they reclaim their swamp land down there and that it will be located In North Carolina, Mississippi and even Louisiana before very long. We refuse to believe in the caprice of Miss Malse. We refuse to impute any such worldly vanity to her. For these years she has worn her belt in the same place, and we do not believe she is going to shift it now. To drop it to Louisiana would put theJ young lady squarely In the hobble skirt class and nobody must think of hobbling her, for her progress cannot be Impeded, nor even her strides short ened. The south will and must grow more and better corn, but simply because a boy in North Carolina teases a single acre of ground, which probably has been a garden patch for ages, into yielding 228 bushels of corn is no rea son to believe that the corn belt is going to be ahifted from around the waist of Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kan sas and Nebraska to that of these southern states. Every step forward the south makes in the culture of corn or anything else gratifies her sister states up this way and they are pleased to learn that the land of Dixie haa caught the spirit and is going ahead in every branch of industry ao fast and steadily. But while she is reclaiming her swamp land and mak- ing it fit to grow corn, these states, where the corn scientist make their headquarters, are going right along quietly with the business of "making two blades of grass grow where but one grew before." practicing the principles of Intensive farming, so what is to prevent them from keep ing the corn belt In place? They have the soil, the climate and the experience and they ought in all reason to be able to keep up in results from now on with their neighbors down south, who have to adapt their soil to get most of their experience and whose climate is not as good for corn as that further north. Far. b but whsa it from us to be Colllar's Weekly captious, lualee a palpable mistake less infallible organs of public opinion may find consolation. Collier's quotes a lelter written by President Taft tinder dale of March 4. 1910. and refers to It as being writ ten "on the very osy that Mr. Taft took office." Collier's man must either have dropped a whole jear out of his calendar or let. the proofreader put one across on him. j The New York World prints a map j I of Roosevelt ism on the order of itsi j famous map of Hryanism with the ittates marked off in black and white, ! representing republican and demo cratic ascendency according to the last election. Nebraska la put down on I the World's map as a democratic Mflle. Bui bow It figure this out. Is not dis closed. Nebraska republicans recov ered the governorship from the demo crats and reduced the democratic leg islative majority, while holding their own in the congressional delegation and retaining all the stste executive officers. Against the gain of the gov ernor the democrats nave a miteii States senator In prospect for offset. It seems to us up to the World to re vise Its map. The fates seem to be agaiust the men who lnsistea upon making me office of city attorney elective instead of appointive. Since they got in their work through the legislature we w'.ll have had as many Incumbents of that office by appointment as by election, and the quality so far is not noticeably varied with the difference In the source of official authority. The verification of the voting ma chines on returns on congressman and county commissioner csn hardly be taken as encouragement for a contest on secretary or state oasea on me Douglas county vote. If there is any discrepancy sufficient to change the result it will have. to be found in soma other county. The greatest victory for virtue and reform was that achieved by the plain people in Montana, where that ster ling champion of popular rights, Wil liam A. Clark, has apparently suc ceeded in slipping the political dirk knife under Senator Carters seventh rib. Henry Gassaway Davis' coming out for tho senate from West Virginia shows that all men past 80 do not re nounce the gay life and steal awny to the wilderness to weep in sackcloth and ashes. - n Mr. Carnegie baa just given another million and a half to his Pittsburg technical school. . It should be added that this is not the school that turns out the 'Great , r American Tech- nlcality." lf Governor-electtMAldrlch la as suc cessful in his rabbit hunt in Ohio as he was in chasing his democratic oppo nent to his hole In Nebraska there will not be many rabbits left. There seems to be a bit of subtle humor in extolling Tolstoi as "one of the greatest of modern prophets," and then hooking htm up with Carne gie and Rockefeller. A State of IJmprepnrodneKH. Chicago Reoord-llerald. The threatened war -with Mexico is all off. The moving- picture people were not ready. Awfnl Teat of Priy.'f. Houston (Tex.) Poat. "Pray without ceaalng;," was St. Paul's admonition to the Thesaalonlana. St Paul waa a great democrat and In the spirit of hla lofty teaching- we ask the Lord (to re member the falllnga of the party which atanda for the Integrity of the kingdom and see that It doesn't make a fool of It self. No Monarchical Blbo, Dr. layman Abbott In the Outlook. Nor do I think that the jack-o'-lantern bugaboo of Mr. Rooaevelt'a Imagined mon archical ambltlona cut any oonalderable figure In tha election. Tha fact that tho greateat falling off in the republican vote waa in tha atata of Pennsylvania, where hla voice iraa not onca heard In tha cam paign. Is algnifloimt. If not conclusive, upon that point. Buelnf to the loe vlf Alile. Springfield Republicau. After the long years of ineffectual grum bling on tha part Of tha traveling public, the Pullman company la ready to have the upper bertha In ita Bleeping cara coat kaa than the lower. In thla the Interstate Commerce commiaalon led the way, but the company haa done well to follow without a fight. Submission to the Inevitable la worth while, even when there ia no virtue of leadership In it. It la reported that the rate upon upper bertha will be made three fourth the charge for lower onea. and at that the preference will alwaya be for the little ground floor bedroom over the loft in which disrobing la ao difficult a feat. Our Birthday Book Vovsaaber S3, 1S10. Shelby M. Cullom, United Mutes aenator from Illinois, was born November 2J, ltsJS, at Montieello, Ky. He Is one of the old timers in congress, his nam being as sociated with the Cullom Interstate com merce law of 1147. ilia fam lias also been enhanced by the fact that h ia aid to look something Ilka Abraham Dlncoln. L. W. Busbey, secretary to Speaker Cannon, Is "S years old today. Ha was born at Vienna. C, arid used to be a news paper man representing th Chicago Inter Ocean as its Washington correspondent. W, B. Cheek, live slock agent of the Bullngtuii at South Omaha, waa born No vember tX U'S. at Indianapolis. He n teied railroad service with the Milwaukee in lvsl, and haa held hla present Job with the Burlington without interruption since b7, when tha Uouth Omaha stock, yards were opened. Carl Henry Uerber, civil engineer, with offices In the Be building, la M years old. He waa In engineering and construction work for the Northwestern and Vnlon Pa cific and la th flrt assistant engineer em ployed by the Nvbiasks 8Ute Hallway commission for th physical valuation of Nebraska railrvad sow under way. NEBRASKA PRESS COMMENT. I'ei'illlon Republican: We shall anxiously nuit lo me whether llitcliiock accom plixhr an.Mhlna In the senate. Fremont Tribune: Una- wilt i'ongiea mun 1-atta's check book stubs balance up with his official csinpniKH staieinont ? Fulls City Journal. Might it not be pos sible that Pshlman carried enough repub lican votes to elect Hitchcock? He cer tainly defeated lleywaid In thai way. lllue Sprlnss Sentinel; Hitchcock, regrets that Jim Dalilnisn nan defeated. Tliia will be doubtless pleasing to the '.Vim who voted sgainst Pshlman and for Hitchcock In pieference to llurkett. Blair Pilot: The Itee will now continue to knock the Initiative and referendum, even after the party lias declared for It and a majority of the legislature, Jui elected. I pledned to yubmlt an amend ment iq the people. Well, that M one kind of courage, at least. falls Clly Journal: The old soldier on the republican ticket, Addlcon Walt, seems to have received the least number of votes of any man on the ticket. "Was this be cause he m running against the tx SDral.er of the home, who, next to lahl tnan. was the special representative of tin liquor interests'. Bridgeport New Blade: Now thai the election is over, will ouibody tell us where county option got off? Will a dem ocratic legislature repudiate its state plat form and send Uovertior Aldrich a county option bill to sign? It does look as though the despised brewers had stolen a march on the optionlst by centering the fight on I'uhlmaii while tney stole tha legislature. Syracuse Journal; Mr. Hitchcock has Is sued a card thanking everybody but Urj an for Ida election. He states that his only regret Is that his friend, I'ahlman, and some others failed of success. Mr. Hitch cock would not have pulled through him self had it not been for the endorsement Mr. Bryan gave him, and his association with "my friend, Dahlman," ought to have defeated 1dm, anyway, Kearney Democrat: It matters not who the republican candidate for Senator Brown's successor may be, we are now going to place In nomination a man who will be Invincible in the 1911 senatorial con test. Ilia name is Ashton C. Shallenberger, the present democratic governor of Ne braaka. Tet every true democrat and in aurgent republican blase the slogan, "Shal lenberger for senator'' upon the outer and Inner walla. Beatrice Express: Chairman Husenneter of the state republican committee ia feel ing pretty good, and he haa a right to feel that way. Ha and his helpers have not only conducted tha campaign ao success fully as to elect a governor In a doubtful state, but they have pulled through the entire statu tloket. To have accomplished this In Nebraska In a year when the voters were paying little attention to party lines Is a feat of no mean proportions. Red Cloud Argus: Tha primary law is often responsible for the failure of parti sans to become enthuslastlo over their ticket. There are often candldatea on the ticket who would not have been nominated at the hands of conventions where their merits and demerits could have been can vassed. The trouble with the primaries Is that almost anybody may secure the nom ination for a state office that enters the field. Tha majority of the votera have no means of determining his fitness. St. Paul Republl-an: We are really glad that the democrata have the legislature this year, rather than tha republicans. It will give W, J. Bryan a chance to exert hla Influence in behalf of a oounty option bill, wlille if the republicans had held a majority his influence would have been practically nil. If they refuse to paaa auch a bill the burden of It will be on them, and If Bryan la a true political prophet it will mean their death. If they do pasa it, then tt will be just as well as though the re publicans controlled the legislature. It la a bad plight. Indeed, when we can't gat some satisfaction out of It. Kearney Hub: Governor-Elect Aldrich usea pretty blunt speech In apeaking of the brewery trust In his open letter thanking his supporters throughout Nebraska. For instance: "Tha people have decided that the debauching of its electorate must cease. The criminal effrontery of the brewery combination has been emphatically halted and they will not ba given any peace until they get out of politics. Thla polluted trust Is an enemy of common decency. It defiles and contaminates citizenship and In thla Is an arch enemy to tha very principle Of representative government." Some peo ple call a spade a spade and others do not know the difference between a spade and a pruning hook. Aldrich Is evidently not one of the latter, and Inasmuch aa every word of this arraignment is truth he will be commended by most people for his plain speaking. TKMHE OF CATHOLIC PASTORS. Featarea of the New Hale Geveraln Chaaaee. St. Loula Republic. Th distinction heretofore between the status of removable rectors of Catholla parishes, or rectors subject to assignment by the bishop at will, and irremovable rec tors haa been pretty generally understood. Dispatches from Rome outline a moat In teresting change In th rulea governing th church which practically seems to give all rectors In America, when once settled over a parish, tha status of irremovable rectors. As interpreted, a late decree of the oon- aistoral congregation makes the transfer of a pastor from his old parish a much mora formal matter than tt haa been heretofore. After being assigned to a charge, a cler gyman can only be removed for certain causes which are specifically enumerated In the decree and after trial before a tri bunal of three, of which the bishop is the head. In th event that th decision of th first tribunal la adverse, an appeal can be taken to a new second tribunal, of which, however, the bishop ia again a member. Of course, proceedings of thla formality are enjoined only In cases where removal la attempted against the deal re of the cler gyman. Up to this time only Irremovable rectors have had a tenure that could not be terminated except on charges duly ad judicated, and this decree constitutes an Important restriction on the episebpal power, though the conjecture that it Is one most hlahops will welcome la undoubtedly well founded. The new procedure will at least enable the one whose removal Is sought to know th ground for th action and will confine the possibility of removal to certain well defined causes having a manifest relation to pastoral usefulness. Th decree, which is mad applicable to all countries, is said to be a part of the work of a commission to which the pope has entrusted the codifying of the Intricate canon law. Uk the common law that governs tha decisions of the secular courts in Engliau-speaktng countries, th canon law that haa grown up through th centu ries for tha government of tha church has coin to need revision and simplification. Th commission's task Is laborious, but will reault In many benefits. - What Jail .en: . ! Miaht iu. Chicago Nswa. Attorney General Wickersham ia now talking about Jails Instead of fines for of ficials of law-breaking truu. Would not tills tend to put an Important branch of th law-breaking Industry out ut the iul iieiitly rrspectahl clsn-T i MilfJffi PttWDER MAKES THCPOZrCGT HOT BISCUIT Also Rolls and Muffins Crusts and Cakes . a A ,M Jt for Key al PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Emperor William of Germany, like his father and grandfather, Is a skilled work man, and has all his sons equally well trained. Patrick McBrlde was awarded the first prise for fancy needlework display at the county fair of Zanesvllle, O., defeating several women competitors. Colonel John II. Mosby, the famous con federate cavalry leader, now living In Washington at To years of age, proposes to capture New England this winter by delivering twelve lectures there relating to his civil war experience. With the hearty approval of the judges of the Juvenile court arid the police com missioner, the Newsboys' court was opened In Boston with three schoolboy judges, who will have absolute Jurisdiction over viola tions of newsboys' licensee and other petty offenses. Robert T. Lincoln of Chicago, son of Abraham Lincon and president ' of the Pullman Car company, has leased a house In Washington for the winter. Since Ids term aa secretary of war expired. In 1SK5, Mr. Lincoln lias made only occasional visits to the national capital. Rev. B. F. Eraser of Atlanta was on his way to Marietta to preach the funeral sermon of United Klalea Senator A. 8. Clay when the train was halted by a burn ing trestle. The clergyman crawled over tha blazliuj timbers and rods to hla desti nation on tha fireman's aeat of a locomo tive aent to the other end of the trestle to tneet him. Dr. Christopher Kooh of Philadelphia, vice president ot the Pennsylvania phar maceutical board, who recently directed a crusade agwlnst cocaine and opium sell ers In Philadelphia, aaya that 48 per cent of all criminals are addicted to a drug habit of soma sort. lis favora life im prisonment for criminals known to be drug users. Responsibility for Deadly Thrill. Baltimore American. To what extent la the republic responsible for tha deaths that accompany sports such as aviation and automobile racing, to say nothing of the death-defying feats that are presented In clrcuaea and on the Stage? Tha people demand a newer and a greater thrill every day. That which startled yesterday la a tain affair today and to give tha Insatiable public the pleasurable nerve reaction It demands men, apurred on by applause and the fi nancial reward the people are eager to pay, dare death and frequently lose life. 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FmmcK's Sarsl SUrer toliik Is for ssU is year dry at lie JOc sa4 75c s tackus C. D. laapartera. Disss1 Merebaals, Jewelers, S 11 tt at 1 1 k Stat at Adams St, Chicago FIRE AND BURGLAR PROOF VAULTS Have you a safe deposit box? A safe deposit box at tha rentals w c.liarg la surely low-priced security We invite you to call and have the superintend ent show you the vaults, ss well ss tba various sized rooms for Directors and Committee Meetings , These rooms are for the free use of our customers 1. 1. nance to Vaults. fx. .Jill I..... of IX I ... . ; t i . m PS 135 William St. AL .'. V ) New York '-ft sumrr gems. Jack When w-e quarreled ah asked mm to return her letters. ' Tom And of course you did? Jack Sure and I accidentally droppe three or four from other girls In anion a) them Chicago News. "I see where there Is uneasiness In Oraeoa) at present." "yes, and even more In the domains of turkey." Baltimore American. Knicker Has Jones recovered his heellJi?' Bocker Well. If he were a prominent man he would be on the seventh, page,- Harper's Bazar. ... "1 always tell the plain truth," said the severe woman. "You do more, my dear," replied Mls Cayenne. "You are not atlnfed to hare tt plain. You make it as ugly as posslbla." Washington Star. "Your dmighter'e brain,' inadiim, appear to be normal." "Iear, dear, we've never had anything of that kind In the family before, I'm sure!" Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Senator, to what do you aUrtbule the latn political upheaval?'' ? "Young man. vera afflict nie with a Sen sation of wearineos.1' Can t you' tell the difference between an upheaval and , ;iu avalanche?" Chicago Tribune. THOUGHTS OF A BACHELOR. London Truth,. Senson of fading leaves and w i.iiv Me. Thine is the rlxhtful rminm, 1 I: not. Eor men of middle ago to moralize A lot? When 1 myself look back on dam tone l.v And muse upon the liahlts of my jniuie. I'm bound to own 1 had a downright h cli Old time. 1 was not then a wicked fellow; no' 0 cr nie no moody parent niournod oi" raved ; It was not wine that made foil; call nie so Depraved. A fell disease had laid It hold on m.': 1 was a veritable turtle ilmv. Destined, by hook or crook, nlwan to he In love. The fatal thine about I'. o lei iwN. Wax the bald fact one ilrl would never do; I ucd to love n different omc M' li week Or two. Beneath a hundred girlish smiley I d hatk, Sunning myself in t 'lipid's honveuly pa; But none of them could ever make tuc nk Papa. Time passed without my meeting with my "Fate," And love soon dwindled to A settled sham. Leaving me here the s mple celibate. I am. No: don't lmolne 1 am sick of lire. Although I may be crusty, glum and quaint: Nor that I'm hoping now to win a wife; I ain't! Peacock -... - - j ' .J i i