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OMAHA. SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 1911.
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The joy rider leaves a lot of gloom
la bis wake.
A game of tag for $3,500 is a game
worth playing.
Nothing the supreme court can do
will curl Mr. Rockefeller top hair,
however.
Possibly "aiU" Ston
over on the Lorlmer t ,
powder explosion.
i, blown
'. baking
Mr. Bryan has not yet named Alton
B. Parker as a democratic possibility
for 1912. Jealous.
"Lobeck preparing a bill.'.' Oh
Joy! Oh rapture! Who would have
suspected him of it?
At any rate, Justice Harlan has es
tablished his claim to being the Insur
recto of the supreme court.
We are still waiting for the roster
of those volunteer policemen who are
to serve as home defenders.
It Is so easy to address open letters
to the president that the wonder is
so many resist the temptation.
Latest man nominated for vice
president, is Governor Burke of North
Dakota.
The list is still open.
Baltimore and Louisville are en
gaged In civic advertising campaigns,
with mint Juleps on the side, no doubt
"Are Clerymen Vain of Their
Cloth?" asks the Washington Times.
They certainly should not be this kind
of weather. - ,
Two balloonlsts in Massachusetts
dropped in on their way to Lowell to
attend a country church meeting.
Right down from heaven.
The last shake of the democratic
kaleldeoscope shows that Mr. Bryan
might yet find himself compelled to
boost for Governor Wilson.
w. J.
Bryan did not Indicate hia rf...
nee for a presidential candidate In 1S1I.
Nowi Item from St. Paul.
Mr. Bryan always was credited 'with
an Innate sense of modesty.
In
casting about for a summor
White House, we cannot think of one
that would be more summerlsh than
the regular headquarters at Washing
ton. In Japan's edict against colored tea'
some of our Jingoes are likely to see
a thrust at American society women
who are in the habit of attending pink
teas.
It begins to look as If Gates and
Gary did not have a detlnite under
standing as to what they .were to tes
tify to before that steel investigating
committee.
Dr.
Wiley, who has been eallo.l .
dreamer, may take comfort in the
thought that they preferred like
charges against Chris Columbus and
Benjamin Franklin.
I It ahould be remembered itfr rv..
K only beat the bushes at that St. Paul
democratic powwow; he did not get
Into the thick of the discussion of
presidential candidates.
Times have not changed much, after
all. Thirty-four years ago DIas went
into Mexico behind a gun. and the
other day ho went out with a pistol In
each hand, so the press dispatches say.
The minister who defends Mr. Ana-'
Bias on the plea that he dropped dead
from apoplexy as the result ot telling
bis first He will probably say that
Adam had visual stlgmatlsm or he
would have seen the apple first,
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Douglas county has nearly one
seventh of the population of Nebraska,
but receives only a little over one
ninth of the state school fund appor
tionment. There is evidently some
. thing radically wrong either with our
school census here or with the school
censuses In other parts ot the state.
A Senatorial Farce.
Every move mad in the senate to
prevent a straightforward, Impartial
Investigation of the Lorlmer case must
be regarded as a move to hold the
Illinois senator la bis seat against the
popular verdict and a virtual admis
sion that the charges of corruption
cannot be refuted. Surely no senator
Is obtuse enough to fall to see that,
or to Imagine that he can deceive the
people as to his motives. It is doubt
ful if all the records of the senate dis
close a greater farce than that already
enacted over the retention by Lorlmer
of his seat.
If all his colleagues were bent on
the one purpose of a fair, direct in
vestigation to determine Loriraer's
right to his place in the senate the
matter would be settled within a very
short time, and the senate, if it had
any other business to transact, could
proceed to it. But too many senators
are plainly interested, not in getting
to the bottom of the case, but in pre
venting that very thing.
If the senator against the integrity
of whose election these grave charges
He were not averse to reBt his case
upon its merits he would, himself,
had seen to it long ago that no tech
nicality stood in the way of a com
plete revelation of the facts.
For men skilled in the law and in
the practices of congress to haggle
over what they call a re-Investigation
, Is for them to eihlblt themselves be
fore the country in a most unfavorable
light. The idea that the great aval
anche of evidence already poured out
Is not convincing on the public and
that further tedious "Investigating"
Is necessary prevails nowhere except
In the senatorial chamber.
, Beating; Britons at Their Game.
Johnny Bull will have to hurry if
he expects to keep his young cousin
Uncle Sara from completely surpass
ing him in the realms of sports, as he
has done in other realms. England
is a great sporting nation and for a
long time ita people held the prize in
many games, but gradually they are
losing their supremacy. We do not care
to say they are losing their pro
ficiency, or their sporting blood, for
that would be to discredit the steady
ascendency Americans are making,
since it is they who are displacing the
British. The fact must be that Amer
icans, with all the improvement of the
Britons, are making a little better
progress, enough so to keep ahead of
the Britons.
Even in polo Americans have taken
the lead. Polo, of course, did not
originate in Great Britain. It dates
back Into antiquity and was played by
the Persians before the Christian era,
according to some of the odes of Per
sia. It la supposed to have flourished
In central Asia in the tenth century
and to have been played even by the
Chinese and Japanese in the early
periods. But Britons have been play
ing the game since 1764, which is
more than a century longer than it
has been known to Americans, so, to
that extent, for modern uses, it may
be called a British game. British tea
planters in India borrowed it from
the Asiatics and took it to their na
tive land and James Gordon Bennett
Introduced it In the United StateB in
1874.
But today the Americans hold the
international polo championship, hav
ing Just reinforced their grip upon it.
Perhaps we shall yet crowd our British
friends out of first place in cricket,
their national sport. Cricket is a lit
tle slow for the dashing American
spirit, but if we were to go after it, as
we have after base ball, pugilism,
wrestling, and polo, we probably
would capture the prise, for when it
comes to supremacy in sports, Ameri
cans are not second to any other peo
ple. And this Is a supremacy which
has its vitalizing Influence for the
nation.
How Municipal Publicity Works.
Baltimore is keeping doggedly at ita
Industrial campaign, having raised a
fund of $300,000 for the purpose of
municipal publicity. "There is a rea
son for the fierce competition be
tween cities for the acquisition of
new industries and expansion ot trade
territory," says Charles H. Dickey,
chairman of the Greater Baltimore
committee. He is right and the rea
son is that the city that falls to ac
quire new industries and expand its
trade territory, drops Into the back
ground and makes room for a more
progressive city. Baltimore has come
to appreciate the necessity of action
on its part. It has neglected oppor
tunities and now, with the great,
growing south at Its door, it sees that
It easy-going methods have let rival
cities get ahead of Baltimore. This
system of municipal advertising Is not
new to the west, particularly Omaha,
Kansas City, and other cities In these
great river valleys. We are reaping
our harvests from it and If our ex
amples have inspired older and larger
cities to the east and south of us, so
much the better for the results.
The Baltimore American well says
that western cities are not primarily
concerned with large populations;
they are first Interested in acquiring
industries to employ their people and
develop the territory adjacent to them.
Do both of these and the population
will grow automatically. Develop the
field within and without and new re
sources will force an Increase In pop
ulation. As the 1 great stretches to
the west of us settle up with sturdy
home-owners, Omaha's markets en
large. The demands upon her mer
chants and manufacturers grow with
her source of supplies. Our commer
cial evangelists have hid all this In
tuind In their propaganda which baa
brought such fruitful results of late,
extending our trade far into the Pa
cific northwest and our corn exposi
tions and land shows are co-operative
influences that work toward the same
common purpose.
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Kansas Ouster Law at Work.
Kansas Is once more in the lime
light, drawn thither by the new ouster
law, by which the governor may over
turn a city administration that be
comes derelict in Its duty. Governor
Stubbs has selected Leavenworth
as the place for testing the
law. His attorney general, upon
whom devolves the taBk of en
forcing the act, reports through
a special agent sent to Leavenworth
that what that city needs Is a com
plete new set of officials. He finds
the mayor, chief of police and all the
rest utterly indifferent to their duties,
the lid wide open, and the whole town
far on its way to the bow-wows.
This Kansas act is related in a way
to the Sackett law In Nebraska. Under
these laws, the governors of both states
are confronted ,by much the same
tasks and before they are through they
will find it a grievous one, no doubt,
But it is up to them to meet condi
tions as they exist. Whatever may be
thought of the drastic features of
either law, is not a matter about
which the governors may concern
themselves too much.
Many people will look with more or
less disfavor on this tendency to place
the government of municipalities so
largely In the hands of the legislature
or the state executive and perhaps
the out-workings of these very stat
utes may be profitable in pointing out
better how to meet the great problem
of city government. It is not a vindi
cation of the principle of local self
government to lodge this power in the
governor and it depends upon the per
sonnel of the chief executive, after all,
as to whether this enlarged discretion
ary power is well exercised.
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The Last Chance.
Whether an accommodating Water
board fixed its special election day for
June 27 for that purpose or whether
it happened purely by accident, it
should not be overlooked that this
will be our last chance to get a free
ride to the polls.
The reason lies in the fact that. our
recent Nebraska legislature enacted a,
law making it unlawful for any candi
date or committee "to run, or cause
to be run, any conveyance for the pur
pose of conveying voters to the polls,"
the only saving clause being that the
act passed without the ' emergency
declaration, and will, therefore, not be
in effect until three months after the
date of, adjournment, which in this
case will be July 7, next.
How kind and thoughtful of the
Water board to see to it that we have
one more election in Omaha at which
we can roll up to the polling place as
free passengers in luxurious carriages
or automobiles without exposing our
hosts to the penalty of paying a $50
fine.
Asleep at the Switch.
A resolution has been Introduced
into the senate by Senator Hitchcock
making pertinent Inquiries of the War
department officials aa to the reasons
for, and effect of, the recent order for
reorganization of military divisions
and reassignment of department wortc,
which will probably elicit some Inter
esting Information.
The trouble la that this post-mortem
manifestation of curiosity very
much resembles shutting the stable
door after the horse has been stolen.
The order for rearrangement of the
military assignments has already been
given to be effective the first of July.
This proposed change was known to be
under consideration for months, and
the time to have gotten busy to pro
tect Omaha's Interest was before the
plans had been completed and ap
proved and promulgated.
It Is possible that some modification
may yet be had, and it is also possible
that no modification could have been
had even with earlier action and
greater vigilance. But a resolution
of inquiry at this stage of the game
would seem to indicate that someone
was asleep at the switch when the
train rolled by.
The clerks in the military head
quarters of the Department of the
Missouri are permitted to express a
preference as to where they shall be
transferred. As most of them would
rather stay right here in Omaha, the
War department officials need have no
trouble in learning how to accommo
date them.
When subpoenaed as a witness At
torney General-for-a-Little-While Mul
len was unable to give the grand
jury any information about law viola
tion in Omaha. That will not stop
him, however, from telling the su
preme court all about It.
Speaker Clark has already written
a letter of congratulation to the demo
cratic candidate for congress In the
Ninth Iowa district across the river.
Still, It would have been safer to wait
until after the election Is held and the
returns are in.
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The democrats in congress have
tried to let Mr. Bryan down easy, but
in the meantime Senator Hitchcock
has shown hla teeth In a very ugly
way and disclosed the animosity to
ward Mr. Bryan still rankling In bis
breast.
If that promised vacancy In the city
council materializes by the resignation
of a republican member, the demo
cratic majority will have a fine chance
to prove how nonpartisan it U.
PUT OT. PAYING BASIS.
Kansas City flar: Although the Tot-
offlce department has ceased having a
deficit, the government can be depended
upon to find some other way to spend the
money.
Indianapolis News: If as good a politician
as Mr. Hitchcock can end the year with a
surplus of $1,(1(10.(100 to th credit of the
rostofflce. department It would seem that
a great many opportunities to bring about
reform without running amuck have been
overlooked In the past.
Kansrfs City Times: Part of the saving
perhaps $7.Uj0,COO has been due to the re
form in railway mall payments Instituted
by Victor Murdock of Kansas. For the
rest the credit must lie with the postmas
ter general. Whatever may be the politi
cal alignment of Mr. Hitchcock, he surely
has proved himself a great director of
posts.
Denver Republican: It is a reflection
upon the economy and efficiency of gov
ernment work that this Is the first time
In the history of the country that a deficit
In the Fostofflce department has not oc
curred. But It Is greatly to the credit of
Postmaster General Hitchcock that he Is
the first head of the department to achieve
that result.
Philadelphia Ledger: Mr. Hitchcock has
given the country a brilliant demonstration
of the benefits of scientific management
along certain limited lines. When that prin
ciple la applied everywhere It is Impossible
accurately to foresee the point of economy
and perfection to which our postal service
may not attain. For the great aln of the
present the country la properly apprecia
tive.
A I'ROPFll IlKHl'KE.
8c
ootbern Lawyer Called Down for
I'slnar Terms of Opprobrium.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Judge Emory Sneer of the United Rias
circlut court administered a deserved re-
UKe to a member of the r.eonrlu. bur n1
Inferentially to the clement which l imwi.
est In appeals to race prejudice and most
commonly guilty of provoking it. In a
peonage Case the lawyer for the accused
white men repeatedly referred to the neero
piaintm as "this nigger," rolling the con
temptuous phrase from his tomrue n if
he took particular pleasure In it. Finally
ne juage said: "Don't you think th fu
ture attorney general of the state of nr.
rla can spare us this 'nigger, nigger, nig
ger? it sounds so unworthy of a great
court of Justice, so unworthv nf Vmil Till u f -
tion to be alluding to these poor unfortunate
creatures constantly in the lowest terms of
Degradation." The lawver Insisted wi
that he knew his rights, and Judge Ppeer
admonished him more severoly that, he was
exceeaing mem. that If ha ennHni.,i
that line he would be disbarred .and sug
gested that he use the language of a cul-
tivatea gentleman.
Terms of opprobrium, anneals k.
lowest race pejudlce. applied by the sup
posed superior to those of another race or
class refute the assumption of superiority
on their face, since the person hn nun.
to such language proves himself to be the
lower oy his own attitude. The riiv
superior person Is the one who Is courte
ous and considerate to others, who shows
that he does not think he has to proclaim
Ms superiority to make it apparent.
Progressive Contradiction.
Philadelphia Record.
It la one thine for the nmorai..a n
refuse to aid in the election of a reaction
ary of the type of Senator Oalllnger of
iew ampsnire lor president pro tern of
the senate, and another and far mnr. im.
portant thing for the same progressives to
coalesce witn senator Oalllnger and the
rest or the ractlonary renuhllcana
reciprocity with Canada. The progressives
will find It hard to reconcile these contra
dictory positions. '
An Omitted Challenge.
St. Louis Republic.
A careful scannlnar nf tha
, , . v ,j u i m
falls to disclose that John W. Gates of
fered once to bet congress a million during
me wnoie time tie was giving his testimony
before the Steel Trust committee.
Send In the Bide.
Washington Post.
Champ Clark having announced his re
fusal to throw anybody out of the window
who might come around with a nomination,
we may now go about the selection of a
summer capital In Saskatchewan.
Business for Soldiers of Fortune.
Indianapolis News.
The Lord tempers the wind to thA
lamb. Just when the .Mexican peace dove
throws the soldier of fortune out of a job
Chile begins slapping Peru on the wrist.
People Talked About
Daniel Frohman and his brother, Charles,
the big men In the theater business, were
born In Sanduaky, O. They started up the
ladder aa office boys on the New York
Tribune.
One of the Chicago aldermen wants the
girls who serve aa ushers at the theaters
to be replaced by men. Women would
not be brave in a fire panlo, he says, but
at the first sign of danger would pick up
their skirts and run.
Helen Wollan, tt has saved $C,0CO from
tlpa she received as maid In the women's
parlor at the hotel St. Regis, New York,
in a service of three and one-half years,
and has sailed for Europe to make her
home with her mother In Vienna.
Justice John M. Harlan Is In his thirty
fourth year aa a member of the United
States supreme court, and he will not have
to live many more months to exceed the
record made by Chief Justice Marshall
and Justices Story and Field, each of whom
have served thirty-four years in the court.
It Is said of Harlan that in all this time
he has been absent from the sittings ot
the court less than twenty days.
Miss Kate M. Gordon of New Orleans
Is the chairman of the committee Id charge
of raising the gratitude fund which Is to
be used at a memorial to Susan B. An
thony. In raising the fund professional
women, college women and business women
are asked to contribute II. teachers and
stenographers CO cents, college students 25
cents, department store clerks and factory
workers 10 rents and housewives having
no Independent source of fortune whatever
Uugr can spare.
H ti-ri?OMMAri
In Other Lands
Bide Lights on What Is Trans
piring Among the Heat od
rar stations of the Berth
The drift of population to the c.Ues S3
clearly marked In the I'nlted States census
of 1910, la equally conspicuous In the c n
sit Just taken In Great Biltatn an.l. Ire
land. Knough ot the returns have been
unnounced to show a decreased gain In
English cities. The Greater London lias
crown from 6,5M.S7i In 1301 to ;.2M,f3 l.i
li'll. the percentage of gain being only
KM, or lei's than any previous decade In
half a century. In both England ani
Wnles the rate of Increase Is the lowest
since enumeration was establ shed In 1SJ1.
Fcotlar.d still shows an Increase, approxi
mating ."X),000, so small as to excite com
ment. In the three divisions of the king
dom the cities are the gainers, the los
falling on the country. The rierea in
Ireland's population In the ten years 1s
slightly under 7G.000, the lowest recoided
lnco the beginning of the exodus alxty
years agn. This is one of several heart
ening features of the situation In Ireland,
Indicating the beginning of better days
and the beneficial effect of land and other
reform measures put Into operation Uur
Ins the census decade. A fact of Impres
sive significance Is worth noting In thU
connection. The ligis'ation which la grad
ually restoring land to the people of Ire
land and making life worth the living
there, has been denied Scotland, and Is
producing the discontent that makes for
emigration. The cultivated area of land Is
Increasing In Ireland and decreasing In
fotland, forcing the young and energetic
Scots to seek in newer countries the op
portunities beyond their reach at home. A
radical change In land tenure In the dlrec
tlon of peasant proprietary must be had If
(hJ United Kingdom is to hold its own In
population In the coming years.
The brand of republicans In control of
the government of Portugal scored a clean
sweep In the first elections under the new
regime. If there are any monaichlsts left
in tha country they did not make any at
tempt to contest the candidates of I he gov
ernment, owing, pofslbly. to the futility
of a contest against a political steam roller
rieMgned to crush opposition. The con
stituent assembly is almost unanimously
republican, having only a few near-repub-
llcnns to vary the atmosphere. To this
body falls the tark of formulating a con
stitution and laws to give It effect. The
tentative draft of the constitution by the
Rraga government for submission to the
chamber carries several novel features. It
provides for only one chamber, and rhould
that body become deadlocked the question
In dispute is to be submitted to the vote
of the members of the preceding parl'a-
ment. The constitution also would abol
ish the diplomatic service, eliminate the
minister of foreign affairs, leaving the
minister of Justice to attend to the foreign
business' of the country. Another Innova
tion Is the Irremovability for five years
of the ministers ot war, flnanoe, marine.
education and public works, the theiry be
ing that these pots are not political and
rhould not be subject to parliamentary
check and supervision. The ministers
would be named by the president ahd they
would be taken from the dominant patty.
How they could be kept In office against
the wishes of a hostile parliament, under
a system of ministerial responsibility
mainly Frenoh In Its characteristics, must
be left for experience to determine.
The German Reichstag hat passed a bill
giving; the conquered province of Alsace
Lorraine three votes in the federal coun
cil, guaranteeing freedom of religious be
lief and of language, and providing that
French shall be taught In the schools and
used In official documents wherever tha
French-speaking population Is In a major
ity. No new legislative power Is granted
by this measure. The province Is the ter
ritorial prize of the war thirty years ago.
On September SO, 1872, some 46,000 of the
Inhabitants deliberately chose to give up
homes and connections and go to France
rather than come under German rule. Of
those who remained, a big majority were
French in sympathy. Yet Germany has
not been very hard In Its treatment of the
province. There Is an imperial viceroy, of
course, but there Is also a Landesauaschuss
of fifty-eight elective members, and since
1877 this body has been able to initiate leg
islation subject to imperial approval. The
province has fifteen votes In the Reichstag.
It has much more political weight than a
regularly organlxed territory of the United
States. Its area is about 1.000 square miles,
and Its population about 1,000,000.
Insurgency is growing to disagreeable
proportions tn the outlying provinces of the
Ottoman empire. The young Turks party
In control at Constantinople Is between two
very warm fires and enough combustibles
are lying about to make a dangerous con
flagration. In the north the Albanian In
surrection Is assuming serious proportions.
In fighting characteristics the Albanians
resemble the South African Boers, and In
the mountain defiles where they usually
hunt, can do great execution on an Invad
ing army. General Shevket Pasha appre
ciates the difficulties of the situation and
Is striving to accomplish by diplomacy and
compromise what military operations has
failed to do In the past ten months. An ap
peal to the bishop of Skutarl for Interven
tion has been turned down by the dignitary
for the reason that bad faith and Ingrati
tude In the past preclude mediation. The
tribes In revolt can muster 20,000 men, but
arms and ammunition are limited. Turk
ish soldiers are not enthusiastic o?r the
job. In the southeast the Insurgents of
Arabia are doing great execution among
the Turkish soldiers, capturing one of the
strongest posts In the district of Atsyr
and making prisoners of 8,000 government
troops. The Albanians are fighting against
oppressive taxation and the Arabians are
resisting the Turkish government from
force of habit and Inclination. If tha news
of the two ructions penetratea the prison
walls at Salonika the exiled sultan will
have abundant reason to praise Allah with
all the Joyous fervor he formerly employed
in firing European ultimatums into the
Yildtx furnace.
Australia has a severe attack of Japanese
fever. A determination to prevent Japanese
as well as Chinese immigration is respon
sible for the colony's deolalon to build a
navy big enough to back up the exclusion
policy and maintain white supremacy In
the colony. By mi Australia will have
completed one armored cruiser, three sec
ond class cruisers, six destroyers and three
submarines. It also will then construct
eight armored cruisers, ten protected
cruisers, eighteen destroyers and twelve
submarines, train 16,000 officers and men
and establish naval colleges, stations and
baaea, so that by 1921 It will possess a
fully equipped fleet of forty-eight vessels.
The cost will be 8260,000.000, to be borne
by a population of 4.000,000.
The whirligig of time Is working some
wonderful changes in Ireland. A few years
ago resistance to local rates or taxes
would rally the nationalists to a man and
provoke thrilling vocal appeals from by
ways and hedges. It Is different now. The
.tinniit control the county councils and
need the money. A a consequence there
Is no particular noise mnde about the ex
pedition of tax collectors to the Arran
Islands, off the south coast of Ireland,
where the poorest of Irish people eke a
bare existence and have nothing where
with to ray the rates. But the Oalway
county council Insists the Arran flsherfulk
have the coin and Is going to search for it.
TI!E.K CONTROL TUB TRIST.
I Men Practically Monopolise To
bacco Holding".
New Tork American.
James H. Imke. Thomas F. Ryan, An
thony N, Brady, F. A. B. Wldoner. Oliver
II. Payne and the William C. Whitney es
tate control each S3.334 shares of the Amer
linn Tobacco company's common stock, a
total of :00,004 shares out of .n.00. The
present market value of each holding Is
816,167,000, and the dividend each received
last year was l,m.
Other officer and directors or asso
ciates held additional shares, but thce
six men absolutely control the company,
whose total outstanding stock (common)
Is too.000 shares. The bonds and preferred
stock In the company have no voting
power and are limited as to dividends.
It is understood that ten Individuals own
more than SO per cent of all the voting,
and therefore controlling, stock. The origi
nal common stock of the original American
Tobacco company (par $50) sold as low as
Jii5.50 per share on the stock exchange In
1KM. One who had bought 100 nharcs of the
stock at that price would have Invested
82.5.V). Threo years later the holder of 100
shares would have received IfO oliares more
for nothing as n stock dividend, making 2'X
shares of the par value of 810.0CO at the
orlalnnl cost of I2.K0. Two yt?ars later he j
"Bui. imve laiion in per rent noncis
of the Consolidated Tobacco company for
his stock, but If he had refused to take
that and had held hla original stock until
the big merger In 1901 and the formutlon of
the new American Tobacco company he
would have got par for It In the common
stock of the new company; that Is, 10)
shares (par SICK't of new American Tobacco
company for 2O0 shares (par $5o) of tho
common stock of the old American To
bacco company. And his luO shares of
American Tobacco common would now be
worth 80.000. Deduct Its original cost,
8:,560. and the profit Is $47.d.V0. That is
about 1,800 per ceut in fifteen years, to
ay nothing of large returns meantime In
dividends.
THE DEADLY PARALLEL.
Chicago
Four months ago
When blizzards
blew
And Ice and snow
Made mock ot you,
When cold winds
howled
And skies were
gray
You growled and
growled
By night and day.
"Confound the cold!"
You muttered "i m
Post.
But yesterday
You puffed and
fumed,
Though down the
way
The lluics bloomed,
On every hand
Gay blossoms
tossed
You madly fanned
And prayed for
frost.
"This awful heat!"
You weakly sasned
Bick of this old
Wild wintertime.
With Icy street
And pipes that
freeze
To all you'd meet
In tones that
rasped.
You sal and sighed;
And sat there grum
Oh. for the heat,
Send summer,
And asked what
made
The hot wave
come.
please.
Your nose was blue.
So was your look;
The teeth ot you
WUh 1 coldness
shook
You shoveled coal
And stirred the
fire;
Warmth was the
goal
Of your desire.
Tou edul'rtot'Se",r
A cheerful gleam .
In snow-wreathed
tree
Or Ice-locked
stream:
Your face was red.
Your shirt a rag.
You mopped your
head
And let It sag.
And wished It were
Four months ago.
The air ablur
With scudding
- now.
You did not care
A single hang
For meadow fair.
For birds that
sang
Oh, when you're cold
Or when you're hot
You ait and scold
Fo. what you've
not.
You sought the shade
"Turn summer on!
Joy 1 untied.
When winter's
gone."
EFOSITS made on or before
June 10th in the SAVINGS
DEPARTMENT of the UNITED
STATES NATIONAL BANK
will draw interest from June
1st.
D
THREE PER CENT interest is paid on
savings deposits and COMPOUNDED
SEMI-ANNUALLY. Funds may be with
drawn at any time without notice.
The combined capital and surplus la 11,360,000.00.
It la tho oldest bank la Nebraska.
Established In 1856. '
United States National Bank
of Omaha, Nebraska
K. T. Barlow, President. . O. S. Kayerstlck, Asst. Cult
O. W. Wattles, Tlos-Prea. Mowmaa, Asst. Oaalb
T. B. Caldwell, Tloe-Pres. . Module, Asst. Oaah.
W. a. Bhoade. Cash. O. K. Tate. Asst. Oas.
Opa on Saturdays Until 0:00 1. M.
Are You a Lover of Nature?
If so, take a ride down to Bcllevuo or
Fort Crook on the interurbau line. Lots
of wild flowers and the foliage'is beautiful.
You will find Fort Crook an interesting
place to visit. The ride is delightful, and
refreshments ean be had at tho Bcllevue
waiting station.
On Saturdays, cars Jeave 24th and N,
South Omaha, every thirty minutes from
12:30 p. ni., until 7:30 p. m.; Sundays every
twenty minutes from 1:00 p. m., to 7:00 p.
m. Next car 7:30 p. rn. Service there
after hourly from 8:00 p, m., to 12:00
midnight.
OMAHA & SOUTHERN
Interurban Railway Co.
HAS t!0 SUBSTITUTE
IS
Absolutely Pure
Tha only baking powdam
mado from Royal Grspo
Groam of Tartar
HO ALUM.K3 LIME PHOSPHATE
TAPS ON THE FUNNYB0NE.
"Prisoner, you are charged with lielnn
a receiver of stolen goods. What have uu
to say?'"
"V'r honor, I'm not goln' to dignify such
a charge as that by denyin' it."
"The court Interprets that as a pica of
guilty. One year In the penitentiary.' -Chicago
Tribune.
"Your citv, f.lr, seems to be a very qul.-t
law-nbldlnL,- place for the far west."
"Yes, It Is. but what will you say when
I tell you the fery first day I arrived m
this town l was held up?"
"You were! As the victim of footpivla
or road agents?"
"Neither; bv the doctor as the finest
potindor in the pluce." Baltimore Amer
ican. Hubbubs I love the early spring. Kverv
thlnx looks ao fresh and clean around here
Hubbubs Yes. we've had a couple of de
tectives out here semiring the country for
a burglar. I'hlludclphla Record.
First Bad Man Who's that fellow in tin
check suit who keeps lookln' at you?
Second I!nd Man That's McStalker, thi
detective.
First Had Man Gee! But say, how do
you know hlni In plain clothes?
Second I!al Man Easy. I never saw him
In any other kind.
"Sometimes." said Plodding Pete, "I'm
tempted to map out a route that'll take
me to them there ar'tlc regions."
"The climate' no good," ventured
Meandering Mike.
"No. But your nerves git a rest. None
o' them F.sklmos Is lookln' fur farm
handa." WashlnKton Star.
She I'm afraid. Tom, dear, you will find
me a mine of faults.
He Darllnfr. It shall he the sweetest
labor ot my me in correct infra.
She (flaring up) Indeed, you shan't! I
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