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THE BEE: OMAHA, FRTDAY, RETTEMBER, 1, 1911. The Omaha daily bee , FOUNDED BT EDWARD R OP K WATER. t- VICTOH ROBEWATER, EDITOR. Entered at Omiht postofflca aa aeoond elass matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Sunday Bee. ona year $2 haturday Hee, one year 1 W Ially Kee (without Sunday), one year... 4 00 Dally Hee and Bunday. one year 6.00 DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Evening Bee (with Sunday), per month.. 25c Dally Bee (Including Sunday), per mo.. .Sc Dallv Bee (without Sunday), per mo 4fto Address all complaint of Irregularities In delivery to City Circulation Department OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. Pouth Omaha M N. Twenty-fourth BU Council r'.luffs-15 Scott St. Lincoln 2 Little Building. Chicago 1548 Marquette Building. Kansas City Reliance nuHdlng. New Vork 34 Went Thirty-third St. Washington-72S Fourteenth St., N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and editorial matter should be addressed Omaha Bee. Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing company. Only 2-cent stamps received In payment of mall accounts. Personal checks except on Omaha and eastern exchange not accepted. JULY CIRCULATION. 47,931 Btate of Nebraska. County of Douglas, as. Dwlght Williams, circulation manager of The Bee Publishing company, being duly sworn, says that the average dally circu lation, less spoiled, unused and returned eoplea, for the month of July, 1911, was 47,931. DWIGHT WILLIAMS. Circulation Manager. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 2d day of August. 1911. (Seal.) ROBERT HUNTER. SaBscrlbers leaving; the city tem porarily ahonld haTe The Bee mailed to them. Address will bs chanced as often as requested. Mona Lisa U not the first woman to be held for ransom. Up to last accounts General Le Conte was still president of Haiti. Why "Mike" Harrington should be silent so long is another growing ques tion. What's in a name? Nothing, when Buzzards bay continues to attract sum mer resorters. Train wrecks - may be fewer when live men and not dead men are held responsible for them. Perhaps that bookkeeper who stole $6,000 to give to charity got all he needed, himself, beforehand. But Mr. Bryan has never been frank enough to admit that his nomination would be a "genuine calamity." St. Louis is talking of getting a dik dlk for Its Forest park zoological gardens. Careful, now, no nature faking. Somebody in St. Louis sends out word that this Is to be a corsetless win ter. That is not a very neat figure of speech. Perhaps if the railroads would let Mr. Brandeis show them how to save a million a day, the strike situation might be simplified. Colonel Astor and Miss Force have signed the "articles of agreement," stipulating the division of the pro ceeds. Referee: "Time." I William Allen White says there are Just twelve really capable editors In this country. Oee, It must have taken him a long time to count them. Mr. Atwood says flying is not all pleasure. Still, he ought to get a lot of fun out of that coast-to-coast flight If he wins it with its $50,000 prize. Some of Jezebel's letters have been unearthed In Egypt. They ought to compare favorably with some of those submitted in our modern divorce courts. The Real Kstate exchange is getting busy to follow up The Bee's comrals slon plan petitions at the coming elec tion. It's up to the Commercial club to follow suit. Perhaps that suit attacking the con stltutionallty of the appropriation for the university medical department might be compromised by locating the building at Lincoln. Aviation, we are told, is to be the keynote for feminine headwear this winter. Likewise, striking Intimacy between aviation and the prices of these millinery concoctions. Perish the thought, though, that any of our highly esteemed young ' chorus girls marry rich admirers with the idea of getting money enough to retire and buy a country home. A Chicago street car conductor is said to have taken in an old coin worth $15,000. Street car conductors in Omaha and elsewhere will now pro . ceed to Invest in coin catalogues. The New York World observes that "It is congress, not the president, that , frames tariffs." Yes, but it Is the president who sometimes keeps what congress frames from becoming law. The Cleveland Leader says that when Editor Bailey of the Houston Post was in New York this iummer he saw a man drink a mint Julep with a spoon. That would almost be as bad down south as to plug a watermelon1 to see whether It is ripe or not. Insurgent republicans can have all the space they want in democratic newspapers to stir up trouble for President Taft and his administration. But this leave-to-prlnt privilege would not last twenty-four hours if a demo cratic president should accidentally find his way Into the White House. The Mexican Situation. Though Dr. Francisco I. Madero has been unanimously nominated for presi dent of Mexico by the progressive party, which he organized, it remains to be seen whether he will win the presidency as easily as he dislodged Diaz. Many in touch with the situation believe that General Bernardo Reyes, the old friend of Diaz, will have as good a chance of election If named by an opposing party and that Dr. Gomez, a former running mate and ally of Madero, would make It Interesting for the revolutionary leader. Writing in the Independent, an American journalist of Mexican ex perience, who is credited with author ity on the subject, says: "Altogether, it appears at present that the election of, Bernardo Reyes is JuBt as probable as that of Dr. Madero." Of Dr. Gomez he says: "He is not a man to be laughed at whatever strength he gains will be Dr. Madero'a Iobs." And he adds: "Dr. Madero has been gradu ally losing strength ever since his triumphal entry into the City of Mexico." It Is not Impossible, therefore that the Dlas party may yet be the heir, after all, of the Madero revolution. So far as restoring political peace or In dustrial prosperity the revolution Is thus far admittedly only a partial suc cess. Sporadic warfare continues and some of Madera's own followers are now fighting their former comrades. Madero's limited executive resources are mentioned in this connection. Yet it is questionable, when it comes to that, if any other man in Mexico could have done any more with the prevail ing restlessness and purposeless pas sion of the people than he did. He has been dealing with a people who do not want to be led. He simply staked ht all on the chance of being able to hold their confidence after, as well as dur ing, the war. One thing seems certain conditions in Mexico are still critically unstable. The outcome of the election will be another turning point for peace or turmoil. Sugar Beets as Fertilizers. According to Truman G. Palmer, secretary of the United States Beet Sugar Industry, an association of man ufacturers whose purpose Is to get all out of 'the subject of beets there is in It, as quoted by the New York Com mercial, if farmers in sections adapted to sugar beets would put in a crop every four years they would soon find their oats, wheat and corn crops doubling in quantity. This, because the sugar beets act as a fertilizer in en riching the soil. If really demonstrable this would be a contribution to the science of intensive farming worth while. At least It would seem to pay our farmers to give the matter their attention. Sugar beets have a great direct value and If, added to that, they possess any thing like such properties as Mr. Palmer ascribes to them, they would become all the more profitable as a farm product. Crop rotation is the oldest method of preserving and replenishing the soil and in few cases has it failed to work. Clover sown every few years has brought rich rewards, and clover Is a valuable crop, but not to be com pared with sugar beets. If a farmer can enrich his soil enough with one year's crop of sugar beets to quadruple his grain crops, while at the same time enriching his pocketbook out of the beets, he will have struck something that he cannot afford to ignore. Sugar beets and beet sugar are pro duced In larger quantities each year in the United States. In the season of 1909-10 we made 457,562 tons of sugar from beets, which was nearly as much as Hawaii made from its cane and more than Texas and Louisiana combined made from their cane. Yet we have undoubtedly but scratched the surface of possibilities in beet culture and beet sugar production. The Effect of Vacations. An eastern university professor has agitated the public by declaring, un qualifiedly, that vacations usually do more harm than good and in news papers over the country the discussion has been taken up by readers with diverse views; It seems a simple thing to discuss, and yet, of course. It has an important aspect. One writer in a New York paper sayB he is thoroughly convinced that va cations are not necessary to health, strength or happiness, all of which may be true and yet consti tute no argument against vacations. Everybody seeks a change now and then, wants a little travel, contact with new people and conditions as a toning and broadening Influence and there la no good reason why harm should come In attaining these. There is something after all to the old adage that "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." What the professor doubtless had in mind was the use some people make of their vacation periods. If they em ploy them in reckless and dissolute living, then, of course, they are likely to become more harmful than bene ficial and folks who do this, as a rule, are not the ones who take vacations because they really need them. But at the same time, If a man s?ts his head on having what he calls a ' good time," bow Is anyone to stop him, whether he is on a vacation or not? Most schemes of "economy nowadays contemplate some break in the regu larity and routine of labor. Vacations as a rule, we think, are not potential of greater harm than good. Nature's own laws provide for certain seasons of rest and rehabilitation. And man has screwed his pace up to such a high speed today that he may scarcely hope to go along without taking at least as much lay-off aa oat are. Itself, calls for. He cannot afford to be super-natural at both ends of the line. If he attempts It, he must expect to burn out his little candle of life much sooner than he otherwise would. The matter of vacation resolves itself down simply to a matter of common semse. It can be made as bad as a man chooses to make It, or as good. Long or Short Ballot. The main feature of the proposed commission plan of city government about to be voted on in Omaha which should appeal strongest to thinking people is the substitution of the short ballot for the long ballot. At our last city election our voters were called upon to fill by choice at the polls twenty-two separate and distinct elec tive offices. Besides the mayor and administrative officials, six In number, there were twelve city councllmen and four police commissioners. If the commission plan Is adopted, the next city election will impose on the voters the duty of filling only seven elective offices, and it goes without saying that the work of selection can be much more carefully performed. In protesting against the steady in crease of the number of elective city offices, The Bee's record will be found consistent. When we elected merely mayor, clerk, treasurer and council- men the confusion of the long ballot was largely avoided. When the build ing Inspector's position was made elec tive The Bee urged that there was no more reason why a building Inspector should be so chosen than a plumbing inspector or a health commissioner. When the city attorney's office was made elective It was notoriously a spite-work move against a particular Incumbent, and when the city en gineer's office was made elective ft was equally notoriously a move of the same kind on the part of public works contractors who wanted to get control. The Bee likewise opposed making the police commission elective, foreseeing that such a contest would force the saloons Into politics even more than they had previously been. By adopting the commission plan the mistake of lengthening the list of elective offices can be undone, and at tention focused on the choice of seven commissioners to be held responsible for efficient and economical manage ment of all departments of the muni cipal government. It will give us a short ballot with only seven places to fill instead of the present long ballot wtih twenty-two places to fill. Who Punctured the Publicity Law? It is declared that a fatal loophole has been found In the campaign publicity law, to which Champ Clark so loudly "pointed with pride" at Quincy. If the speaker knew of the defect, he surely did not know it would be so quickly exposed. The very next day after he had lauded the act as one of the gTeat popular achievements of the democratic house majority, Senators Martin and Swanson of Virginia filed their expense accounts, at the same time announcing that the new law did not actually require the publicity of such accounts for candidates for the house or senate. Who punctured the law? Who slipped the Joker in the deck? The law before amendment sought to re quire such publicity. It waa not drastic enough for the democrats. To make it so they amended it, with this result. A candidate may or may not publish his expense acconnt, but cannot be compelled to. The law Is a watchdog with teeth extracted. Speaker Clark told the country In his Quincy speech, attacking the ad ministration, that this publicity law would be one of the pUlars on which the democrats would lean for chief support in 1912. Next time he "points with pride" will he not veer the finger Just a bit when he comes to this law? It will be interesting to know to what account the democrats will charge this item of expense to duplicity or stu pidity. I The official canvass of the recent primary in Douglaa county shows that the populists cast Just twelve votes and the prohibitionists eight votes. This is far short of the 2 per cent of the total prescribed by law to entitle a political party to a place on the ticket as such. Rumor has it that there is a Joker in the campaign publicity law enacted by congress at the late extra session. We hope not. We would hate to see the federal campaign puolicity law fall into the same Innocuous desuetude as the Nebraska campaign publicity law. If the firemen and soldiers at Fort Omaha would only announce In ad vance just when they are to pull off the next sham battle they could turn It Into a profitable enterprise by put ting a ticket-taker at the gate. Nebraska's new pistol totlag law, which makes the offense of carrying concealed weapons punishable by law as a felony, is having Its first test. If the law holds good a few object lessons will do the business. President Taft evidently looks upon Omaha aa a nice, quiet place In which to spend Sunday Lincoln Star. Mr. Taft doubtless knows that since the ltd has been lifted in Lincoln, Omaha is a Sunday school by com parlson. Perhaps the Law Needs Brartaa;. New York Tribune. The theater at Cannonsburg. Pa., In which twenty-six persons were killed the other evening Is said to hava been planned and constructed In strict compliance with the law. The question now Is whether the law Is drafted in strict compliance with common sense and the public welfare. Booking Backward IlilsDay In Omaha COMPILED FROM BF,R FILF-S I SKIT. 1. 1 Thirty Years Ago Tha republican state committee has called the state nominating convention to meet Id Lincoln on October 6. At the com mittee meeting Messrs. Thurston and Tost represented tha Omaha district, and also had proxies for two other districts, while Pat O. ITawes of Omaha was another proxy holder. James W. Pewes. later governor, was at that time chairman of the state committee. The Bee protested vigorously against tha proxy business. A conference was held between com mittees representing the Merchant's an Manufacturers' union and tha temperance alliance In the United Statea court room. Julius Trietschke, Ed Leeder, Henry Hornberger, Charles Kaufman and William Slevera represented tha liquor dealers. Before they got down to business they In vited tha reporters to make themselves scare. When Rev. E. B. Orahm, pastor of tha United Presbyterian church, and wife wera out riding with J. H. McCullouch, who accompanied to show them the beau ties of Omaha, tha buggy upset at Twen tieth and California streets and all three were thrown out, but fortunately the worst damage waa dona to the buggy. Rev. O. L. Sterling of Dayton, O., has written his acceptance of tha call to the pastorate of tha Lutheran church. Until their new edifice at Sixteenth and Harney Is completed the congregation will prob ably worship In Boyd's opera house. Officer Buckley wss suddenly taken 111 with bilious fever while on his beat. City Marshal Angell and lady have re turned home from their eastern trip. A Mr. Bedell, employed at a pile driver by the Union Pacific, was prostrated by the heat, .lying unconscious for three hours. Ha later recovered sufficiently to be moved to his home, at tha corner of Sixteenth and Burt streets. Pa tan & Gallagher have purchased a lot 132 feet square on the site of tha Slavln house, near tha railroad track. Their intention la to erect a fine three story wholesale house. When the building Is completed the present structure at Fif teenth and Farnam will be vacated. The strictly wholesale houses are drtflng rapidly south of Farnam, and that street will soon be left practically a retail thor oughfare. Twenty Years Ago The marriage of Miss Lizzie Benson to Mr. Herbert Ostrom of Chicago was sol emnized In the evening by Rev." W'lllard Scott of St. Mary's Avenue Congregational church at the residence of the bride's brother, Mr. Edward Benson, 1524 North Twenty-fifth street The Omaha ball team came back to life by walloping Denver to the tune of 22 to 4, thus proving Its right to existence. General Russell A. Alger passed through Omaha on his way to the Grand Army en campment at Grand Island. He waa met at the depot by Senator Manderson, Senator Paddock, General Dennla, Colonel John Peters, who accompanied him to the re union. The general declined to State who he thought would land tha republican nomination, Blaine or Harrison. The National Association of Statloary Engineers opened its tenth annual conven tion In Washington hall. J. J. Illingworth of Utlca, N. T., "the venerable president," occupied the chair. Judges Wakeley, Doana and Davis heard argument in the district court In the eight hour law case Involving the Rees Printing company and Its employes. Ten Years Ago With Dusty Coons pitching and Johnny Gondlng catching Omaha beat Des Moines In an exciting game at Vinton street park, 5 to 3. Rev. A. C. Hirst preached at First Meth odist church on "Paul on Mars Hill." . Dr. W. P. Haney was pronounced on the road to recovery after a serious Illness. Mr. and Mrs. Meyers of Dubuque were visiting at the home of E. W. Nash. D. E. Burley of Bait Lake City, general passenger agent of the Oregon Short Line; A. L. Craig of Portland, general paaseugcr agent of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Co., and B. Campbell, traffic manager, spent the day In Omaha. Gateman J. H. Gates of the Union station left for Glenwood Springs, Colo. Thomas J. Kelly returned from an ex tended visit In Chicago and Milwaukee and his "understudy," as musical crltio of The Bee, left town. Right Principle for Postal Rates. Springfield Repulblcan. The principle on which postal rates should be based Is cost of service, and to this standard, as Postmaster General Hitchcock maintains, charges for each class' of mall matter should be adjusted. Government in this, its own service, as it Is requiring of the railroad service, should act In harmony with its rule of the equal ity of all under the law, and under any public or seml-publlo service which may be established. People Talked About Miss Rhea McCormlck and Mrs. Eva Walzer have been appointed inspectors In the bureau of weights and measures in New York. Mrs. Barrymore-Colt and her husband wera In an automobile crash last Monday, with their baby. The family has resumed normal relations with tha world. Prof. Sargent overlooks the main point In criticising the vacation habit. Any vacationist can prove in a minute that the habit does not gorge the pocketbook. Edison sees nothing but waste horse power amid tha scenery of the Alps. It he had those streams In New Jersey he would extract the poetry from them. Senator Joe Cast el lot of Mexico says tssat women should vote and that Le hoped they will be permitted to vote in hi country. "Woman Is tba stronger sex," he says, "for, though man may be tha strength of the nation, ha Is the slave of woman." Those who are close to the estate of tha lata John W. Gates give out varying esti mates of its size. It was at first placed at 140,000.000, then at $30,000,000, and now at about 130,000,000. But It has shrunk probably about llO.o00.0nQ while they are talking of It by the recent fall in the stock market. Mrs. Genevieve Chandler Phlpps of Den ver, motoring through the Rocky moun tains, leaves a hotel forty miles from the nearest depot because there are no bath rooms and proceeds 115 miles farther on to find open plumbing. This Is a fair sample of the grip the modern bathtub has on civilisation. John Singer of Ruuhvllle, Ind., Is de clared by the reuidents of that town to be tha most Industrious man in tha state. Singer Is a street cleaner and works at his chosen profession every day In tha week, Including Sunday. He Isn't paid for working on Sunday, but his prlda la keep ing the streets of his native town as spot leas as possible prompts him to arise at 4 o'clock In the morning on that day and sweep tha streets clean. Night in Hurricane Local rem IMrtara of Charleataa In the Hoar of the storm gaadar Klht. A City of Harrlraaes. Charleston, S. C, has a hurricane rerond extending as far back as 170S. Intermixed with tornadoes, cyclones and earthquakes. Local authorities award the palm for fury, destructiveness and duration to the hur ricane of 1S9J, Just eighteen years and a day before the terrifying gale of last Sun day night. The record hurricane began on Saturday morning and continued until Monday noon, the greatest force of the wind, 120 miles an hour, being felt at mid night Sunday. It Is a singular coincidence that last Sunday's hurricane also reached its maximum force of ninety miles an hour at midnight. Soma of tha scenes wit nessed and experiences had In the city plunged In darkness by the storm, the in rushlng sea In mountainous waves, the roar of the wind and the crash of windows, signs and roofs are thus sketched by the Charleston News and Courier on tha morn ing of the 23th. nelpleas at Midnight. The News and Courier reporters several times risked their lives in venturing out upon the street to attempt to learn some of these things, but their efforts were all in vain. With telegraph service, electrlo light service, street cars, telephones and even carriage service cut off, the people of Charleston were last night as helpless In communicating with each other as if they had been living in the most primitive ages. When this was written the velocity of the wind was eighty miles an hour, but the barometer was. falling steadily and It Is possible that the wind may yet go to 100 miles an hour. The water front presented a stormy scene at U o'clock last night. At that hour the wind was blowing at the, rate of seventy four miles an hour and tha rain waa falling heavily. Tha waves broke over South and East Battery, and these sections were flooded with water. The boats moored along the Cooper river tossed and tugged at their moorings, whllo the big Clyde liner Mohawk rolled at the dock as the wind broke In gusts about it. The lighthouse tender Cypress, at the government docks, threw its searchlight In all directions, and the long gleams, which in the distance seemed to be swallowed by the darkness, were the only lights visible along the water fror.t. The Bounding of the great waves as they raced in, whltecapped from the sea, caused an ominous roar, which gave an undertone to the multiplied noises which increased with the battle of the elements. The Mldntvht Rear Shortly after 11 o'clock the barometer began falling again and Immediately the wind velocity Increased till by midnight the velocity was eighty miles an hour. Few people ventured forth after 9 o'clock, and the few who did, carried their lives In their hands. At 11 o cloak a man going down East Bay could scarcely keep bis footing. The noise of falling slato and of tin from roofs and glass and shutters from windows was almost deafening. Many doors to busi ness houses were blown open and great loss will be suffered from rain beating In and flooding the stocks of goods. The night waa a creepy one. The wind roaring over the city, the ceaseless rattle of elates and tins wrenched from roofs, the crash of chimneys falling Into the streets or alleys, the Inky blackness, the awe-inspiring thunder of the waves in the harbor as they dashed furiously against the wharves and the sea walls, and, worst of all, the uncertainty of it all, were enough to make the stoutest heart quail. Vehicles Out of Business. There was scarcely a hack, carriage or vehicle of any kind to be had at any price. One man, who wished to go only a com paratively short distance, visited several large transfer stables, but was Informed that no "rigs" were being sent out and that several had returned to the stable In a dilapidated condition, while a few had not been heard from at all. Many people were so anxious to leave the city before the storm reached Its height that they walked all the distance to the Union station. At the hotels the people were divided beween fear and amusement. While one could hardly stand still on the streets at night, one could by holding onto some support on the street have observed a most wonderful sight. Late in the afternoon, at nearly 7 o'clock a reporter stood in the doorway of the People's office building and watched the storm take Its course around the corner of the skyscraper. A sight which would hava defied the brush of any artist met the eye. Sheets of rain rushed along Broad street, swept by the tremendous wind. The force of the storm increased aa It raced past the rounded corner of the big building and the wind sounded like a hundred fog whistles set off at one time. The hour waa too early for any real de struction of property to be seen, but even then pieces of tin were hanging from the roofs of old-fashioned offices on Broad street and signs were flapping In the wind. A strange feature of tha storm at that point and hour waa that one scarcely got hia feet wet when ha ventured out into the rain. The wind bjew the rain so much from the ground that It did not settle anywhere, with the result that one's shoes were only damp, while the clothing on the upper part of one's body became drenched immediately. FINE ARTS FROM THE GARDEN. A merry morning glory, That purples with the morn. And folds in silken silence iiefore the sun's high scorn. Beveals In form and fabric. In symmetry and line, A thousand iairy fancies Of fauhloning divine. Here colors are and tinting A painter well may prize, As artist hues and hlntings. Of old-time Tyrlan dyes. Within the fair corolla There standi a tower, tall A sculptured alabaster. With cryptlo capital. What architect such palace Could fit to hum-birds' needs; Or carve such careful chalice Aa servitor tor seeds? Why can the lyric language Of this bright bloHum tell; Or hear the mystic inubic Of its frail flower bell? A son, a 'Psalm, a story is In this fragile flower The merry morning glory. That blossoms but an hour. KKBrXX-'A FA H SON M'KAT. The initials of tha fine arts painting, sculpture, architecture, literature, iiiumc spell out the word "Psalro " MtllOOl.M AMD COLLEGES. CC TNER UNIVERSITY Offer Academy. College, Normal, M-1ioM, Musical, Art and Elocution lounla Tuition low. Board and Itooin Cheap. For free Catalog write I W 111am Osaohgar, CnaaceUcr. Batbaay (Unoola), Hb. incucesLaicruox ir hat Isrrpa Ikriu from thnrt'h. Hl'RKETT, Aug. .-To the Editor of The Bee: Tou don't have to wait for the president to tell you men why men don't go to church. I will tell you. It Is tobacco and the Sunday newspapers. Men would rather stay at home, smoke and chew tobacco end read the Sunday newspapers than to go to church with their clothes soaked with tobacco amoke. I know, for I used tooacv.o for over twenty years, from 1MI to tssi, and then quit It because I thought It a sin. I am glad I quit. I will be 78 years old Sunday, September T O. B. SMITH. Commission Plan mmd Worklasrmen. OMAHA, Aug. l.-To the Editor of The Bee: I understand the Central Labor Union has by resolution taken a stand against the commission plan cf city govern ment as reflecting the sentiment of or ganized labor. I do not believe that Is the position of the Intelligent working man. A I understand It, the commission plan means simply to run the affairs of the city by an executive committee and that Is exactly the way we run the affairs of rur unions. If It Is good for our unions, It ought to be good for the city. UNION MAN. More Ahoat Cnrtls School. KEARNEY. Aug. 2.-To the Editor of Tha Bee: A contributor to The Bea from Mlnden says the agricultural school was located at Curtis because Curtis Is located geographically In the centir of the J.y farming district There might be a tilfct.t shadow of truth In this If we traveled ty airships in the day and age of tha wot Id. Under our present methods o. travel, how ever, Curtis Is about as far away cs If It was located In Wyoming to .h bulk of the people in even the dry farming district. We are compelled to depend on trains, automobiles or teams for ur Means cf travel aa yet. Say that you live on the mam line of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy at McCouk, or some distance either way from McCook, and you have a distance from HO to ISO miles to travel to Curtis; if you live In a smaller town where no local trains stop. It will take you the best part of two days. Say that you live on the main line of tha Union Pacific at North Pa:te or some dis tance either way, and you have about 250 miles and a certainty of two days on the road whether your starting point Is where local or fast trains stop, an Incldently the cost of hotel bills, etc. Of course, you can Schools imhafrm . and Collo ojo lT.r Vim Trill f mm m m m - ssa. -jb z.ivcoz.ar. THE SELECTION OF A SCHOOL for your boy can't be delayed much longer. Vacation is almost over, and you must settle this question within the next two weeks. In deciding the matter, remember your own experience and needs during; school-boy days. You didn't always fit in the regular classes, but the teacher waa too busy to give you special instruction, so you lost in terest and dropped behind. You found some subjects easy and others hard, but you were treated as part of a class, not as an individual; so you had trouble again. Don't forget all these things in considering the school question this month. The Nebraska Military Academy has one teacher for every ten boys, and Is able to give individual instruc tion wherever needed. Good food, fresh air, plenty of sleep, hard work and hard play develops the boys both mentally and physically. Better send for catalog, and see Just what the Nebraska Military Academy has to offer. Address H. D. HAYWARD, Superintendent, Lincoln, Nebraska. Phones: Auto. 3500; Bell, 1722; City Office, 1307 N Street. BELLEVUE Located in Omaha's THIRTIETH YEAR OPENS College, Normal School, Musical conservatory ana Academy. Strong faculty, representing graduato study in Harvard, John Hopkins, Columbia, Princeton, Chicago, Wisconsin, Iowa, Lelpsic, Edin burgh and Oxford. 8tte Teacher's Certificates granted. Successful Athletics. De bating, Oratory and College Journalism. Expenses modrate. SEND FOR CATALOGUE. n noiv. HT 71 WW M-iLM JL WW ..iin hv War Department. Infantry iiriua Co arses of Study Academies or for Buitlness Life. Msnuiil Training, be Uepartmant for small The Secretary, 1H04 TABOR The College of Southwest Iowa. A Faculty of Tj-ained Specialists. College, Academy, Normal, Art, Music, Commerce. A splendid place to study. Athletics under expert director. A student taking two lessons per week in the conservatory is entitled to free tuition for any two subjects in college or academy. Fall Term Opens Sept. 12, 1911 Address for Information Tabor College TABOR, IOWA. go across tha pountry by tesm or auto Surest thing. Curtis Is about forty miles from the Union Taclflc ever a road hu- la rough and devious; it Is also about fvfV miles from the main line of the Burlington. L'ld you aver ask a liveryman what he would charge you for a drive of that kind? If you haven't, do so. And as for a auto unless you own the auto the price would something that would make summer ex cursion rates to Denver and return seem cheap. While I personally could not see the cry ing need for an agricultural school building In tha western part of tha state, since must have ona, accessibility should crA T talnly have entered Into the location. What has Curtis got climatically over any of the other towns that were striving for it? Absolutely nothing. Then what Induced the committee to select Curtis, which certainly Is far and away the least accessible and the most expensive to reach? I give It up. B. H. JOHNSON. PASSING PLEASANTRIES. "Pat's de most patient mule ebber drew breff." "He don' look It." "Well, ha Is. I've known dat muls to wait as much as 'leven hours foh a chance to place one of his fancy kicks." Cleve land Plain Dealer. Uncle Amos Mandy, you've never milked a cow. Like to try your hand on old lirlndle? City Niece I don't mind doing It, Pnrlf . A me. If you'll keep her from brushing m with with her swatter. Chicago Tribune. "That failow Is very successful." "Yes: ha Is enthusiastic and persistent. 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