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TTIK BEK: OMAnA. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 2. 1910. Tim omaha Daily iji KOtNDRP BT KDWARD ROBKWATBR. VICTOft IWSKWATEn, EDITOR. rntered at Omaha poetotrioe aa aecond- Ihs matter. TERMS OP BL'BSCRIPTION. Pi nciiy i:e, one ynar S3 50 Saturday Hee, one jree M W Dally Kee (without 8imday.one rear. 4 Daily Ue and Hunday, ona year $ W DKLIYEKKD BT CARRIER. Kvenlna Bee (without Sunday), per week Kvenlna Uee (with Bunday). per week . .. J 'aily Ilea Including tfunday), par wek..la Daily Hee (without Sunday, per week luc Addreaa all complaint, o( Irreauiaritiee in delivery to City Circulation lJeparlmenL OKrlCES. Omaha The Hee Building". bouth Omaha VI forth Twenty-fourth Street. Council bluffs 16 Pcott street. Lincoln M Little Bu.ldlnK. Chicago li4K Marquette Muildlng. Kansan t'tty Keltaae building. New Vork Huoim livl-llui ,u. 34 Weat Thirty-third Street. Waahinglon Fourteenth Street. N. W. COKKKSl'ONDKNCE. C'oDimunU atloiia rotating o new a and editorial mailer ahonid ba addreaaed: Omaha He, fc.dlional Department. REMITTANCE. Keni.t by' dra.li, express or poatal order paatle to The Bee fubllahlna Compuny. only 2-oent stampa received In payment of man account, i'ersonel checks except on Omaha and eastern exchange not accepted. STATKMENT OF CIRCULATION, fctate of Nebraska, Douglas County. as. Oeorge B. Txscbuck. trrknurer ol ih bee fublUhthg Company, being amy sworn says that the actual numbrf oi full and complete cop.oa of Tba Dally. Morning. Evening and sundy ru-e printed during the monin o( rteveiuber, Wlu, was aa iuuuw 1 3M 1 .3,.0 1 4S,0t 34TO M.SI 4,r.oo T MM I.... 3J10 8 H.G80 1 46,479 11 .0 II 4SVSBO IS... 44JI00 14 M4 0M 1 43,&a It 44,380 1 44.060 It 40,70 ( 43,000 . l 40,810 ii.... a,&ao it a,M t .ta.eso It .....43,740 It 43, ISO IT 40,180 it a,Ma ....., 4M40 t; a,M Tot at... wj Returned copia 1S.48S Net TvtaJ. M0S.4M Dally A vera e 4MII . QKOROB B. TZSCHUCK. ' Treasurer. Subscribed la my presence and sworn to before M this tutb day of November, WW. , - At. f. WALKER, (Seal.) ' Notary fubllo. porarlly , aaeald bbt The Baa aallew fa them. Addreaa will be chaaared aa u'tea aa reqaeated. Father la, th popular member of the family Juki before Christmas, 'J anyway. i 1 Would It be unfair to call the pro posala of those . lame ducks quack nostrums? The Tacoma woman's club deserves credit for denouncing padding of the census reports. -.; I i This Is usually also the busy season for the marriage lUense clerk.. Do your shopping early: Now that twins have come to Mr. Dooley's own home, 1U seems one of his pet jokes Is Ingrowing. , ) Count de Lesseps has decided to get married, having inured himself by aviation to tho uncertainties of lite. New York recently sent a carload of babies to Texas. It looks like taking a mean advantage of helpless infants. "Where Is the' Old spelling bee?" asks a contemporary. Oh, it Is buzzing around down there in Missouri or Ar kansas. When they renew this war talk Uncle Sam just doubles up his arm and feels of his muscle, and then leans back and smiles. It ' is now feared that Governor elect Foss of Massachusetts mav not get cooled down to business before the end of his one-year term. "The right to dwell in Moscow" is discussed by a correspondent to the New York Times. Mercy, does anyone over here Insist on the right? It Is a close race between Mr. Rocke feller and Mr. Carnegie for the Santa Claus prlie. Possibly Mr. Carnegie's whiskers give him a slight lead. MoBt men prefer to leave the shop ping to their wives all the year around and see no good reason for making an exception Just before Christmas. "We professional wrestlers are sup posed to stand together," says one of the heavyweight grapplera. That is what the public has been suspecting for some time. It Is interesting to learn that the coal dealers of Nebraska and other states have formed a new organiza tion. Its purpose, doubtless, is to re duce prices to the consumer. ; - Rats may become cheaper if the Chinese continue to whack off their queues, but tbat will not relieve the cat market any, In the interest of that Pennsylvania man who advertises for 1,01)0 tabbies. Mlvs Lillian KumM! lay she has xtocklnga to fill for ten poor children. Dtar Miss Itutowll. Ehe has a heart as big aa her storking. An elephant's heart Isn't Linger than hers. Houston l'lmt. The proofs, gentlemen, the proofs. We are from Missouri on this question. That Iowa cattleman who is suing Governor " Shallenberger because he got the worst of It in a cattle deal will receive little sympathy in Nebraska. !ia ought to have known enough to keep both eyes open when doing busi ness with our farmer executive, who surely would not squeal if conditions wers reversed. Rates and Securities. It Is not surprising that President l.ovott of the Harrlman lines should publicly express a preference for fed eral supervision of railroad rates to state supervision. Naturally the rail roads would rather have one system of control than forty-six, if tbey must have any. The same Is true as to public control of railroad securities. It would be fatally confusing to leave such regulation to the various states. One state might easily neutralise or entirely thwart the action of another, without accomplishing any good for the public. Kuch a conflict of author ity would entail unnecessary hardships for the railroads and in the end affect other interests. It might discourage Investors to the extent of precluding the possibility of selling a bond Issue, where such sale was highly desirable from every standpoint. Jt-rtqulres no stretch of the Imagination at all to foresee the evils of leaving hls super vision to the states. But it must not be understood thai President Lovett Is committing himself to federal control of securities. He admits the reasonableness of federal supervision of rates, but distinctly re jects the desirability of applying the principle to stock and bond Issues. That, of course, is as natural from the railroads' standpoint as is their prefer ence of federal authority to state authority, If there must be any. It Is not difficult to see that railroads might favor government direction of rate-making without the time to have come for the government to supervise security Issues. Rates, of course, are largely relative, depending, after all, in part on what the investment may be and if the securities represent in vestment, they must also be a factor In rate-making. Publicity and Empire Building. The western states have only begun to realize the value of judicious ad vertising and publicity as a factor in their development. The Idea is yet new, but If It h.ad been applied as ener getically In the first five years of the last decade as it was In the last five there might have been a different story to tell in the census figures. And yet the census shows enormous gains in several states, although In most cases the bulk of these . gains were made In the last half of the decade. The resources were always there, but they were not properly exploited. The outside world was not sufficiently in formed of the excellent opportunities they offered. Today this leaven of legitimate pub licity is working all over the west. It takes various forms, but it is to be found in almost every state. The re sult Is magical in some. The best part of It is that the hlg task has been per formed, that of getting the attention of the people east riveted on the west and getting them started in the habit of coming west to invest and share in the growth of the country. Of course this movement in itself is as old as the republic, but It has never been as notable, as It Is now and what it is likely to be for years to come. There is a spirit of healthful rivalry among many of these large western states sure to work good for all. For Instance, when California shows a population gain In the last ten years of 60 per cent, Oregon of 62 per cent, Olkahoma 109.7, Idaho 101, Washing ton 120, it Is going to make those states that did not Bhow up so well eager to get in the front rank too. It creates one vast wave of empire build ing that augurs well, not only for the west, but for the entire country, for where sparsely settled communities are built up, It means relief for the con gested centers of urban population. It is only when one scans the immensity of these, great western states that he can aptly appreciate the possibilities of their future. , Those Wasteful Farms. . Leave it to those Minnesotans to And the dark spots on our hopes and aspirations. James J. Hill has clearly established his title to a Paul Revere as a forerunner of hard times through waste and extravagance by the people. Now comes Governor Eberhardt with a warning that simply eclipses the king of northwest commerce. The governor, himself a frugal man, has figured out that our farmers, whom we have been lauding to the skies for their thrift and industry, are actually squandering at the lowest possible estimate 1500,000,000 a year. The governor presents his case In this way, that by the unskilled meth ods of our farming we waste $4 per We farm 600.000,000 1 acre a year acres. But the governor Is going to be generous, so he puts lt down to $1 an acre and roughly strikes the value of our farmers' prodigality at 1500, 000,000. Of course, that means bil lions In a short time. No wonder Mr. Hill has been dinning toe trumpet sound of depression in the nation's ears. But seriously. Governor Eberhardt's theory, while not at all new, to Impor tant, and to an extent true, , Many farmers, themselves, have lotos real ized their lack and need of more scien tific methods of agriculture, and they, with national, state and private co operation, hav ben trying to acquire to better methods. Gradually they are succeeding. If givu more time they undoubtedly wtU be l'e to cut off all this vast waste. Intensive farming Is going to te front. It is one of the very big enterprises the central government, states and unoffi cial organizations, theoretically and practically, are pushing. This waste (though it can scarcely be termed that as much ss lack of knowledge) touches the vital subject of the cost of living. Therefore, it enlists general Interest. When every acre of ground is made to yield up to the maximum, or nearer to it than it does now, land values will rise and food values fall, possibly, or at least they will come to a better level of proportion with other things. Here's the Bub. One member of the Incoming Ne braska legislature declares that he has been working Industriously on a legis lative redisricting bill and has almost reached the conclusion to give It up as a bad job. Legislative redisricting would be ft comparatively easy task if carried out on a strictly mathematical basis. Ne braska has, by the recent census, a lit tle less than 1,200,000 population, which would make each of our 100 law-makers in the house ' represent about 12,000 people, and each of our thirty-three senators represent 35,000 people. But the rub comes In formii latlng a bill that will pass muster by getting the necessary number of votes. The democrats are In control of both houses of the legislature, and wherever there is a doubt as to the political complexion of a legislative or sena torial district they will Insist on re solving It In their own favor. Redisricting also means that cer tain present districts will lose repre sentation In favor of others that are now Inadequately recognised. It Is a hard job to persuade a law-maker to vote himself out of a chance of re election. Legislative redisricting, however, has been pledged by all plat forms, and it remains to be seen whether an agreement can be reached on any definite plan. A Democratic Boss in Hiding. The Lincoln Journal has dug up the fact that the Invitations to the recent secret ' conference of democratic Btate senators opposed to county option were signed by Fred Volpp, one of the re-elected senators whom Mr. Bryan so violently denounced as a "mlsrep reBentatlve" of the people. That, however, does not answer the question whose summons these demo cratic patriots responded to, since It needs no diagram to prove that the signature at the bottom of the Invita tion was put there, not by the inspira tion of its writer, but by advice and direction of some more potent influ ence in democratic councils. The letter of invitation, goes Into minute detail of when, where and how, with caution not to register at the desk, but to ask the hotel clerk the number of the room. If a perfectly legitimate and properly called demo cratic conference, why go to all this trouble to Insure secrecy and cover up tracks7i..: , ' ' Plainly! tbe hidden boss of the Im pending democratic legislature does not want to show his hand so early in the game, but he wants, never theless, to make certain In advance that he has the goods to deliver and that orders when given will be filled per contract, promptly and uncondi tionally. Only two candidates qualified for the Rhodes scholarship allotted to Ne braska, although It provides the entire expense of attending Great Britain's most famous university and for travel abroad, which is an education In itself. The natural supposition would be that the entries would be numerous and the competition brisk. It would be interesting to know the reason why the Rhodes scholarship is not more in demand. Congressman Hitchcock's World Herald is giving space to reprints from other papers opposing parcels post. This should be reassuring to oppo nents of parcels post who are counting on our congressman voting against the measure when it comes up at Washington, and still It leaves him a loophole to crawl through If It comes to a roll call on which he has to vote. The Omaha Real Estate exchange will require for eligibility to member ship that the applicant shall have maintained a real estate office in this city for six months preceding. From now on no curbstone fiy-by-nlghters need apply. Still, It might not be a bad idea to require proof of a few other qualifications for membership as well. Another member of the Mabray gang has just been arrested down east. Either that Mabray gang must have had tentacles reaching to every corner of the country or every swindler caught In the tolls thinks he will achieve class by pretending to have had his training under the king-pin of the smooth gang. The city comptroller's office should not be In too much of a hurry with the "standardizing" of accounts for which the council has just voted an additional appropriation. That is the best bait yet found with which to get more money for extra clerk hire, and It may come In handy several times yet. The New York Herald quotes Ad miral Dewey and Admiral Evans to prove that a powerful navy la ample defense for this country, and that an enlarged army is not essential. But has It been able to aecure like expres sions from any two equally distin guished land officers? Telephone managers are asking the State Railway commission for author ity to cut the time limit on long dis tance conversations from five minutes to three minutes. If they would cut the rstes proportionately no one would object. In fact, with due notice, most of us could say in three minutes what has been spread over five minutes. If time is money, a lot of it is wasted in telephone talk. Nebraska's claim to the impending vacancy on ttve bench of the United States circuit court of appeals is said to be Imperiled by too many eligible candidates. That ought to be a tribute to the strength and character of the Nebraska bar. The way Collector Loeb persists In catching smugglers arid Postmaster General Hitchcock In getting after get-rlch-quick fakers is highly annoy ing to democrats peddling charges that republicans are just playing politics. ISO (a a a for lllame. Cleveland Leader. Pon t blame the Englishman who "did" this country lit thlrty-elaht hours. Borne of us have not yet given even that time to It. Cold StnrSaje Optlaalam. Chicago News. Pr. Wiley says that th earth Is eoollnf and that man will frees to death on the equator some day. From a man who Is contemplating' matrimony one would ex pect a brighter view. Good Will In Red aatd White. New York Tribune, There Is a petty bit of holiday sentiment, aa well as of the vanished romanoa of the old frontier, In Buffalo Bill's befriending of the Indian brave who onoe sought and nearly got his scalp. Tko nan of Eztravagranoo. New York World. According to tba president of the Attrit ion, Topeka A Santa Fe, the nation at large Is too extravagant and the govern ment most of all. But the railroads remain aa examples of economy, ss per their an swers to the charges of extravagant opera tlon made by the ' Cbunsel for eastern Khitpers. WKo Pat T'p the Moaeyt Philadelphia Record. The conclusion of ths subcommittee that Investigated ths charges that Lorlmers seat In the senate waa bought Is that the senator Is not convicted of doing the buy ing. In view of the fact that several mem bers of the Illinois legislature have con fessed to being bribed, and that seventeen democrats deserted their candidate and went over to Lorlmer, the evidence that some one did the buying is strong enough for all practical purposes. Base Imitation of Cheataata. Boston Tranncrlpt. Beware ths chestnut vendor! Thla v. he, or more than half of him, la selling .Spanish ohestnuts, which cost him less than at Quarter aa much aa the notiu nmA- uot, have' not a quarter .of tha American cnestnut'a sweetness and flavor, but com. mand from the average oltfssn the usual price. Innocent purchasers may Identify the Spanish chestnut, which aa frni,.n.tw comes from Italy as from Spain, by Its sice, which corresponds to that of the horse-chestnut. If such neranna vn become sophisticate they should take no body's word for It, but simply Invest a nickel or a dlmo'the Imported--mon-atroaltv. ' One arhj. Xnmtm . .... . .... .- fcv i anil enjoy it would probably extract aa much satisfaction from a, lump of blue clay or a Lackawanna cinder, NO BLOOD FROM TURNIPS. What Happens When Railroad Rates Are Pnshed I'p. New York World. Let those railroad managers who see no hope In life except in an Increase of rates consider the experience of th New York Central with the commuters, as related by General Passenger Agent Vosburgh. Its receipts In September this year, after an increase, fell off, aa compared with the same month a year ago, about 131,000. Av the loss was principally in the sale of family tickets. It Is 'plain that eoonomy was practiced by those Inhabitants of the suburbs whose presence In th city Is not obligatory. Two years ago when earnings were low the railroad people were Intent upon In creasing rates. Now that business ia good they find an excuse for the same thing. In both cases sound principles have been Ignored. Dull trade never waa helped by higher prices, and the growth of many a good enterprise has been cheoked by them. Of what value Is a fattened schedule of prices if traffic grows lean? In self-denial the people find a poor sort of remedy against extortion, - but it is effective. It would be much better for all conoerned If the railroad managers by sngncity and generosity should develop business on reasonable terms rather than stifle It by burdensome rates. Our Birthday Book. DeoeiaV S3, 1910. Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon church, was born December 2, 116, In Sharon, Vt. He located the first Mormon colony at Nauvoo, III., but opposition to his teachings brought him and his brother to Jail, from which he was taken and killed In 1844. Daniel M. Houser. chief proprietor of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, la 7 years old today. He Is a native of Maryland and of German descent, and has been In active newspaper work since 11. Oscar H. Straus, at present American ambassador at Constantinople. Is Just SO years old. He was secretary of the De partment of Commerce and Labor under Preaident Roosevelt, and previous to that had been minister to Constantinople under Preaident Cleveland. John A. Rlne, now city attorney, waa born December 23. 1&78. at Fremont. He Is a graduate in law of the I'nlverslty of Ne braska and waa assistant city attorney tinder tho late City Attorney Burnam. H. D. Neely. manager of the Kqultable Lifo Assurance company of New York for Nebraska, waa born December 23. 1ST4, at Plattvllle, Wla. He engaged with the Equitable tn 187S and has been with the company ever since. Jacob Marks, aalesman for the Eagle Lye works. Is 43 years old today. He waa born in Kiev. Ruaala. coming to thla country In lttsj, and was In the retail grocery business In thla city from 1SSS to 1MW. K. F. Denlaon, director of boys' work fur t he Young Men's Christian association, la S4 years old today. Ha waa born at Atlantic. Ia., and la a graduate of Orlnnell college. He has been a Young Men's Christian aat.tclatton worker since 1903, when he started out at Ottumwa. Dr. A. A. Holtman, physician and aur giKin, waa born lcemter 23. 1SS9. at Center City, Minn. He practiced medicine first In Kan Franctaeu, .locating la Omaha In Washington Life Inu latereetlaf Phases and Conditions Observed at th Station's Capital. American coin with Iron In Its blood ap pears to be a greater favorite In Wash ington than the wherewith reeking with oil. Burn 'I the Impression growing Into conviction among (he agent of John P. Rockefeller who are looking after the oil magnate's philanthropic plans st the na tional capital. These agents, according to the Washington Tost, are watching care fully every move that Is being made by the trustees of Andrew -Carnegie's HO.mv. 000 foundation for the propagation of peace throughout the civilised world. Mr. Rockefeller, It was stated, Is Inter ested In the fact that President Taft has given his official approval to th plana for the foundation and In the fact that Ellhu Root, Senator from New York, has been made Its active head. The oil king Is snid to be annoyed be cause he failed where the steel king suc ceeded. Mr. Rockefeller's agents tried to have congress give Its official approval to a Rockefeller foundation for the "ben efit of the entire race.' The purposes of the foundation were rather vague, hut It was SAld at the time that Mr. Rockefeller wanted to turn over the major portion of his vaat fortune to be used for tha good of humanity. The oil king's attention, however, has been. called to th manner In which Mr. Carnegie's gift has been received, and Is curious to know what congress Is going to do about It. He Is said to take the position that thei Is not the slightest difference between his project and Mr. Carnegie's, eaceptlng that his scheme waa of a general nature, while th steel king's Idea Is specific Mrs. Franklin MacVeagh, wife of the secretary of th treasury, will give a very handsomo Christmas present to her hus-band-a residence In this city, completely furnished In the good tasto for which she la noted. The fine, larga house stands on Hlxteenth street, between Columbia road and Boundary Castle, th latter the home of former Senator John B. Henderson and Mrs. Henderson. Mrs. MacVeagh had the house built according to her own Ideas of what a hospitable home should ba, so It Is admirably adftpted for the entertain ments which she delights to give. Mr. and Mrs. MacVeagh have a reel dene In Chicago and a summer home at Dublin, N. H. By an agreeable fiction the Washington house I a "surprise" gift to th secretary, it would be to most hus bands, for his wife paid for It. Mrs. Mac Veagh Is wealthy In her own right. She was Emily Games, daughter of Henry P. Kames of Chicago, founder and president of the Commercial National bank there. Mr. MacVeagh was a director of the bank until President Taft put him at the head of the treasury department; then he re signed from the bank's directorate. Mrs. MacVeagh Is not only Interested in society, but In philanthropic enterprises and women's club work. She has traveled much and has been presented at several European courts. She has a fine collec tion of Chinese and Japanese curios which she bought discriminatingly while traveling In the east. The men elected to th speakership of tha house, as a rule, are not noted as ex perts In the Intricacies of parliamentary law, and generally need at their elbow when presiding an expert parliamentarian clerk to guide them Aright When some an noying member on th floor raises a point which would almost pussla Omnlsclenoe to settle. Speakers Reed, Henderson and Cannon have had as their expert Asher C. Hinds of Maine, who was elected a member of the house last month and there for would not be available to Bpaaker-to-be Clark, even if ha were not a republi can. Bpeaker-to-be Clark, nervously wonder ing where he would find a successor to Hinds, now thinks he has found the par liamentary sharp, by th help, by the way, of Asher Hinds. Th latter has told Clark and other democratic members that the beet-posted man of his acquaintance of the democratic persuasion la Charlea R. Crisp of Georgia, son of the late Charlea V. Crisp, whd waa speaker of the house during the' democratic Fifty-second and Fifty-third congresses. Young Crisp mad a study of parlia mentary law whll his father waa In the speaker's chair and It Is probable that he will be requested to glva up th municipal judgeship he now holds in Atlanta and come to Washington to atand at Speaker Clark's elbow during tha next and probably several succeeding congreasea. Representatives Campbell of Kansas and Mann of Illinois, whoa dialogue on the subject of baths or no baths for members of the lower house of congress was widely discussed, will receive from a Wall street man. If he does not change hla mind about parting with what he calls an "art treas ure," a picture of two long bearded men, who are supposed to have this conversa tion: "And you rented that house T" "Yes why not?" "It hasn't got a bathroom In It." "I know, but I'm only going Jo stay a year. Th hardest worked man In Washington, outside of newspaper circles, of course. Is Charles Dana Norton, secretary to the president. Folks used to commisserat "the faithful Loeb," but Loeb'a troubles weren't In It with Norton's. In addition to per forming the dutlea of the secretary to the president proper, he has dipped Into politics and tried to lead the administra tion Into the paths of progressivism. This has stirred the wrath of the old-time regu lars In congress, and they lambast him at every opportunity. Th eight-hour rule doea not apply to Norton, and he puts in seventeen to eighteen, hours dally of the hardest and most nerve-wracking kind of work. Senator Depew, arriving at th White house a little late, had to wait. He wan dered around the executive offices, talked to a few associates, shook hands with all comers, and finally passed Into the presi dent's private office. When he came out there waa a rush of newspaper men toward him. "What wan the news?" was the Inquiry from all. "What can you tell us?" "Say thla for me." replied the senator. "Say that I came to aee the preaident. paid my highest respects to him and that, Incidentally, I walked Into 'Lame Duck alley.' "Being a defeated candidate, I felt at home there, and being of a serene state of mind and fully reconciled to my political fate, I beg to announce that I liked the position In which I found my humble self." With this the New Yorker smiled broadly and stepped Into hla carriage. loalaK la oi Rival. HL Paul Dispatch. Aa an absorber the Weatern I'nlon Is Kolng some. It will have to make aeed, however, to absorb every means of com munication before acienre and Invention have turned out aointfhlni; that will relegate wire tonnectiona to the Junk heap aa haa-bema PERSONAL AJvD OTHERWISE. A few tons of clean hard coal slipped Ir.to the Mn "Just 'afore Christmas." Is warranted to be aa acceptable a gift as any on the bargain counter. Six thousand Itlblea have been placed In the bedrooms of Chicago hotels. A. handy, unbreakable article to fire at saucy bell boys surely fills a long-felt want. The annual round of th festive season serves to prove Hiat the maker of the calendar. In fixing the shortest day on Detember 11, was four days off hlg best. The measure of New York' Christmas Joy la about to overflow and moisten the pavement. A local court fined a theater ticket speculator and pronounced the busi ness a nuisance. The genius who megaphoned such won drous stories of the battles from Mole St. Nicholas twelve years ago has apt puplla at the fountains of rumored news of the ruction In Mexico. Even th Chefoo artist is a has-been. Officers and employes of twenty-two bi.nking Institutions of St. Louis, to the cumber of 2fi9. have formed an association for the purpose of acquiring the saving habit. Members turn their surplus earn ings Into a common pot. to be Invested for profit, and may hold one or more shares, paying 16 a month on each. Share holders must keep up the lick until De cember Jl. 1918, when, principal and profits will be divided. The plan Is not copy righted and thriftless bankers are welcome to the Idea. TICKLES0ME TATTLE. "The last time I saw Blfklns he was go ing down hill very fast," "Is he falling so?" .'JNot!ha.t. 1 know ot angry bull was arter him." Baltimore American. . '.'VLh,t do 'ou lnnd to do now, If I may ask? ventured the reporter. "Oh nothing to speak of," said the re turned explorer. "Nothing 'to speak of?' Then you're not going to lecture?" Chicago Tribune. "Why do you look so worried, Tom?" 'I went around today to ask your father Tor your hand in marriage." "Did did he refuwe?" "No He wanted me to put It In writ ing. Chicago Record-Herald. "t would like," said a Christmas book agent to a busy editor, "to call vottr at tention to a little work that I have here " Year - replied the editor. "Well, let me 4 Orchard Wilhelm ' - 414-16-18 South 16th Strtet '. , rip? 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TEA SETS We have a large line of Toy Tea Bets, In two alses: , SoTea Seta, special....... 10a -t . 4,0c Tea Sets, special.....:. .V.iiJSO v :: ' Similar Beta, the BOc kind, at...,. 25 DRUMS 100 Drums, the 25c kind, at K)t GAMES The new popular game of the North Pole, A Voy age Through the Clouds, Aerial Contest and others; all ' 26o games; reduced to. . ........... , . 15 The popular game, "A Dash for the North Pole" this game sells for $1.00, special ..e..50 STAMPING OUTFITS The Wild West, The Limited Mail, The Circus, The Soldiers and Sailors, Fighting the Flam, The Brownies, etc., all 2Bo sets, reduced to. ...... ..15 - SPAING WINDING AUTOS These are show pieces: $5.00 Autos, reduced to. . ... .$1.50 $9.25 Autos, reduced to.. 92.50 $1.60 Autos, reduced to........ 50 $3.00 Autos, reduced to 75 GRAVITV TOYS 65c Gravity Pullman Car -40 all BSC The Uniform Efficiency of Itumford makes gems, biscuits, cakes always light, deli- , cate and of the finest flavor You may rely upon the result - of Every Can you buy its absolute purity, healthful materials and perfect manufacture make food always the same delicious v and digestible. npiMiFfnMrn) ! THE WHOLEsome MJUVi, IU BAKING POWDER It does not LADIES! In getting off the car when re turning from shopping, be sure to carry your bundles, etc., in your right hand, leaving the left hand free to grasp the hand rail. Try it and sec how much bet- -ter it really is. Assist Us in Preventing Accidents Omaha 8c Couacl Bluffs Slrcet Railway Connaij. call your atli'iitlon lo n whole lut of work that 1 have here."-Unites' Home Journal. "Can I sell on this hook?" Im.ii'iimI the eloquent axent "No." replied Mr. Slrhis Parker. "Hut you seemed Interested." "I . And I haven't the fninlet M. ft that the author can write as Intcrcf tlngly as you can talk." Washington Star. "My life story Is not so romantic a some, but It a a true one.1, "lt It come." "Thirty years sue stnrted without a dollar, and now I have In bank." LoiiiMvllle Courier-Journal. "I assute you. my dear Mr. Credit. I want picked men for this enterprise of mine, for those who Invest In It can't pos sibly lose " "licked? Hump! 1 guess ' you mean plucked, don't you ?" naltlmore American. "What party does (hat member of th legislature belong; to?" "I don't know." replied the ohb lt. "I'm one of several parties who are bid ding for him. "Washington Herald. WANTED SANTA'S ADDRESS. J. J. Manlague In New York American. If I could Just s.e Santa Claus an' tell him how things Is. I'll bet he'd hurry up down here an' bring that elrlh o' his. An' give ns kids a toy or two. tor we're so aw-ful poor He couldn't help be sorry for th fix we'r In, I'm sure. I know he's awful busy now a packln' up his toys That he Is goln' to give away to little stria an' boys; Bt 1 Just b'llve that when he heard how father's awful sick ' An' can't get out for most a month he'd help ua awful qullck. I've wrote all this to fianta Claus, hut he ain't answered yet. An' letters that is wrote to hlra sometimes he doesn't get; An' maybe he don't think It's right to make a lot o' fuss 'Bout beln' poor but he don't 'know ho folka aa poor aa us. He mostly 'soclntea with kids that has enough to eat, An' shoes an' clothes to Vep 'em warm when they go on the street. An' 1 don't 'spose In all his Uf h ever come to call On folks that Uvea In Just one room an" ain't got nothln' 'tall. An' so I'd like to see him once an' tell him where we stay, An' ask him won't he wme down hr, an' aee us Chrls'maa day. But though we need him awful bad. It n't ha ilnna f m i a BfjcauHe I can't find any one to tell ma nm atinrt-wi. 3. contain Alum a i'fltfg.'iE TtX I 1 lis n ueim.". " sua