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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, . . ,
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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
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MilfJffi PttWDER
MAKES THCPOZrCGT
HOT BISCUIT
Also Rolls and Muffins
Crusts and Cakes
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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.
Visit Peacock's
When In Chicago
Peacock's is not a house devoted exclusively to expensive articles, as
gome who have never been inside our doors may imagine. We pride out
selves on the value we give, whether in a IS bracelet or a $5,000 neck
Lice. Our big showcases abound with many unique Christmas sugges
tions of genuine quality and merit at very nominal prices.
If you do your Christmas shopping here, we feel sutured you will not only jatiufy
yourself thoroughly but you will lave money. We can give you satisfaction within
your limit became we have the necessary experience and facilities.
Send for Peacock's Shopping Guide. It's free. It will enable you to make selec
tions from our store by mail if you do not come to the city. It Is published especially
for our out-of-towm customers. Vou will find It helpful full of many sujrijestions
and, the chances are, it will save you money. You can count the days to Christmas;
we suggest that you act p-omptly.
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.
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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
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