13
THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 23. 1911.
The omaila daily dee
FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSE WATER.
VICTOR ROSE WATER, EDITOR.
Entered at Omthi postofilce aa acond
tif matter.
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
nunflay He one year.
.12 M
raturdav fee una tear
1
Tally Be (without Sunday). one year 4 .
DtDy Bee and Sunday, one yar .w
DELIVERED BT CARRIER.
renin Be (with Sunday), vrr month IF
Dally Bee (Inchidins Sunday), per mo..
Daily Bee (without fi-nday), per mo "e
Adflreos all romplalnt of trrenilarttte
In delivery to Cltv Circulation Dept.
REMITTANCES.
Remit by rtratt. expreee or poMal f""('r
payable to The Bee puhiiahing company.
Only 2-cent atampa received in payment
of mall accounts. Personal cherka, ex
cept on Cmkni and aaetern exebance,
not accepted.
OFFICES.
Omaha The Bee Building.
Bouth Omaha N. Twenty-fourth St.
Council Bluffs 15 Scott St.
Lincoln Little Building.
Chicago 1M4 Marquette BuiMlng.
Rinu. fit v Kellanro RulldlnK.
New York Wm Thirty-third Bt
Washington 725 Fourteenth St., N.
W.
CURBE5POKDENCE.
Communications relating to newa and
editorial matter should be addressed
Omaha Bee, Editorial Department.
AUGUST CIRCULATION.
47,543
Btete of Nebraska, County of Douglas, sa:
Dwlght Wllllama, circulation manager
of The Bee publishing company, being
dulv sworn, says that the average dally
circulation, lens spoiled, unused and re
turned copies, (or the month of August,
1911, was 47.643.
DWIOHT WILLIAM9.
Circulation Manager.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before ma this 4th day of September. 1911.
(beal.j ROBERT HUNTER.
Notary Public.
Subscriber lcarla the eltr
temporarily honll have The
Dec mailed them. A4dreaa
will be chnns.'l na ofteai as
requested.
And now the Shoe trust Is pinched.
Turn about Is fair play.
Champ Clark helped to do It with
his little hatchet speech.
Now Mr. Borden may take up the
burden Premier Laurier lays down.
This Men and Religion movement
starts out with an appealing name.
The conservatives In Canada seem
to have won by the use of radical
talk.
That man Kimmel will have to
hurry if he expects to get into vaude
ville this season.
j Our amiable democratic contem
porary disserts on liquor and politics.
What a queer combination.
How it must have made those
benzoate of soda fellows sizzle when
the Dr. Wiley verdict came in. '
No use to worry over the condition
of the undeveloped Alaskan coal
fields, when your bin Is empty.
Canada swallowed the annexation
bogey aa completeljy as some folks
took Dr. Cook's north pole yarns.
Never mind, there is nothing to
prevent Omaha from enjoying rec
iprocity with Council Bluffs and
Lincoln. '
Soon the frost will be on the pump
kin. It is rumored that Premier
Laurier has already found a little on
his patch.
Three parades this year on Ak-Sar-Ben's
Btreet pageant program,
and every one of them worth going
miles to see.
How it must make those old '49era
grin to watch the struggling aviators
trying to follow the trail they marked
out sixty years sgo.
Those city hall officials evidently
believe they should go on all the
junkets while they can. Commis
sion plan is coming.
George Bernard Shaw says the
United States is not much of a nation.
Which clinches the argument that it
Is the greatest of nations.
The sudden disappearance . of
Hackenschmldt suggests a possible
community of Interest between the
Russian Lion and Mona Lisa.
Thus far the coast-to-coast flight,
on, the part of both the Californlan
and the New Yorker, appears to be
the top-line farce of the season.
Our old friend, Nathan Merrlam.
ought to feel good enough now to
write another letter to each mem
ber of the United States senate.
To tell Just how to raise a
11,000,000 endowment fund for the
University of Omaha is as easy aa
rolling off a log. But to raise it Is
different.
President Taft well says that the
tariff bills he vetoed at the extra
session were made with blacksmith's
tools. They were the product of an
endless anvil chorus.
Mr. Bryan told the Canadians be
never would again be a candidate for
the presidency. He has never taken
occasion to confide the secret to bis
friends on the American side.
The people would take more Inter
est In the charges against Judge
Grosscup, now that they have learned
they are preferred by a magazine,
If they knew who la behind the msga
ilne. "Mike" Hatrington tripped him
self up when he ascribed Harman's
nomination in part to occupying a
preferred position on the official
primary ballot. He was evidently
unaware that the ballots were re
quired to be rotated, so that no one
bad a preferred position. Mr. Har
rington Is a lawyer, too.
Canada Eejecti Reciprocity. I dinner table or tha banquet board be
The overm helming defeat of pre-jcomM n Indispensable factor in pro
mler. Laurier and hit rarty on the i moting. at least, formal friendship
Issue of Canadian reciprocity with the
United States Is Indeed surprising.
The surprise is all the greater be
cause the reports quite generally had
foreshadowed an opposite result, and
even the claims of the opponents
went no further than a victory by a
slight margin.
While the Canadian elections had
been ordered practically for the pur
pose of ratifying or rejecting the rec
iprocity agreement and the result
must be taken as primarily a decision
of that question, various other consid
erations enter Into It and help to
explain It. It is plain now that the
influence of Great Britain to keep
every part of the empire In commer
cial subservience is much more pow
erful in Canada than appears, on the
surface, and the enemies of reciproc
ity used with far-reaching effect the
fear of ultimate annexation, toward
which they told their people this
would be a step? ,
What will be the consequences in
this country of the rejection of rec
iprocity by Canada lies In the realm
of speculation. It Is our Judgment
that It will be very small, Just as we
believed the changes to be expected
from reciprocity were largely exag
gerated. Politically, President Taft's
position ought, if anything, to be
strengthened rather than weakened.
The acceptance of reciprocity by con
gress was a personal triumph of his,
and the refusal of Canada to complete
the bargain ought to reassure our
people that they were not getting
the worst of it. Of course, had
President Taft put it up to Premier
Laurier to secure Canadian ratifica
tion first, he might have been saved
much trouble, assuming that Canada
would 'have decided as it did.
The rejection of reciprocity also,
it seems to us, vindicates the presi
dent's vetoes of the democratic tariff
bills, whose only excuse was that
they were designed to make good to
the farmer what he was to lose by
reciprocity. The president can now
appeal still more forcibly for the co
operation of congress In scientific
tariff revision along lines td be laid
down by the tariff board.
Taft's Eeasons Are Sound.
The president's restatement of his
reasons for vetoing the three make
shift tariff bills put up to him by the
democrats and their insurgent allies
in the late session of congress is di
rect, frank and forceful, and will sat
isfy all who are not determined not
to be satisfied. He was and Is com
mitted to tariff revision along scien
tific lines. He had promised himself
and pledged the people to work for
that kind of revision. He says he
could not find it in any of the three
bills he vetoed "I could find no ar
gument which would satisfy my con
science." Yet he is denounced by his
critics for not smiting bis conscience
and stultifying himself by signing the
bills.
The opposition claims for Itself
the right to do what It calls keeping
faith with the people, but it denies
the same right to the president. The
American people have not strayed so
far from fundamental principles of
equal justice as to applaud or award
such unfairness as that. The coali
tionists in congress maintain they
were consistent In their tariff con
duct. The president insists he was.
The president had proposed and the
majority of the opposition had ap
proved. In the Sixty-first session, the
scientific revision plan, which in
volved the 'tariff board and it was
this opposition, itself, which fixed
the date of the tariff board's report
ing December, 1911. The president
insisted on awaiting this board's re
port, the opposition on going ahead
without It. Who was consistent?
It Is too late for the democrats and
Insurgent republicans to make any
thing of that argument.
The president shows effectually
that the tariff bills put up to him
were hastily drawn. Ill-considered
and, while touted as popular meas
ures, never submitted to the people
or outsiae representatives for their
consideration, as Is customary. They
were thrown together in pancake
fashion in the house and the only
changes made in them were such as
would reconcile petty differences be
tween house democrats and senate
Insurgents, not . from point of
principle, but to Insure their
passage it was anything to pass
the bills. And these are the meas
ures the president, faithfully seek
ing to bring about intelligent, help
at a . .
iui, nonesi tariff revision is de
nounced for vetoing. Wa mistake If
the American people do not rally to
the support of the president in his
manly, honest course and resent the
presumptuous attitude of bis demo
cratic critics.
Frfll Stomach Lieht Heart.
The banquet board has Its place In
business, society, politics and even
diplomacy. As a bridge of peace it
naa spanned chasms of discord be
tween men and nations, and where no
discord reigned, it has promoted good
will and fostered friendship. It may
not be the highest compliment to bur
spiritual natures to ssy that they are
orten best fed through our stomachs,
but It is a truth. A full stomach
orten makes a light heart. The festal
board has a psychological value too
great to ignore.
The Infant cries when it is hungry,
ine smau toy and the grown-up boy
each is in a much milder humor when
well fed. Hospitality Is never fully
expressed without the well-ladened
table. In this day of diplomacy, of
what, in every phase of life, we might
even call the virtue of deceit, the
and goodfellowship as the forerunner
snd complement of business snd re
sults. It is an entirely laudable custom.
It saves time in this busy -day and
soothes feelings, sometimes illy ani
mated. The very fact of men of op
posing ideas getting their feet under
the same table, partaking of the same
viands, in the demand thus made
upon common amenities, has its ef
fect as a non-irritant and with all
the possibilities of such an occasion
developed, becomes a prime factor in
hearty good will and peace. Why
could not the employer and employe,
in their disputes, adopt the banquet
board as an instrument of friendly
negotiation, at least? '
The Task of Reorganizing.
While peopie have talked for years
of dissolving trusts and compelling
them to bring their organizations
and operations within the purview of
law, only now, following Judicial di
rection, the most powerful of these
industrial organizations have been
dissolved, technically, and are trying
to reorganize on what will be ac
cepted as a legal basis. But they
are finding the task quite equal to
the acumen and skill that have made
them the great Institutions they are.
Reports say that counsel for the
Harvester trust and the government
are in close consultation as to ways
of complying with the law's demands,
not trying to evade the law, but to
satisfy it to the fullest extent. The
Steel trust, it is said, "is making
strenuous efforts to meet the de
mands of the government, but by
reason of the complexity of the situ
ation little headway has yet been
made." It is a formidable task and
a new one, to tear to pieces and build
up on an entirely different plan, such
gigantic combinations of Industry and
wealth.
This, of course, strikes the lay
mind as more or less of an anomaly
and arouses some incredulity. People
have come so generally to question
every move of a great corporate com
bine that they find It difficult now to
believe there is anything in the line
of technical construction which they
cannot easily do. But thle is hardly
a fair view. In any event the diffi
culty of the task must suggest how
vsry far out of plumb with the pres
ent .demand of the law our trend of
industrial combination had gone.
The Sherman law is not new, though
our interpretation of its Rr.nnn In
We simply have come to a new era.
new system In such things, which
requires a real effort to live up to it
in good faith.
"If you were to take all the
churches out of the city," declares
one of our most prominent pastors,
'real estate prices would slump 50
per cent within year." Doubtless
true, understanding It to mean tak
ing out all the churches and keep
ing them out. We venture to sug
gest, however, that an equally great,
If not greater, slump would be pro
duced by taking all the newspapers
out of the city and keeolna them
out.
"The conservatives are committed
to a policy of trade expansion within
the empire and a closed door against
the United States." That is worse
than conservatism; It Is Imperialism
and of the kind, which, if carried to
its logical results," would set Canada
back much more than the defeat of
reciprocity could ever advance it.
Canada's best Interests demand close
contact, commercially and otherwise,
with the United States.
In building the Nebraska repub
lican state platform, the platform
makers must have had unconscious
prescience when they forgot to men
tion reciprocity. A
Forget Itl .
Bt. Louis Globe-Democrat
The early opening of the Pine Ridge
Reservation lands recalls that there, at
a place called Wounded Knee, was fought
the last battle with the Indians. And
mis naa so mucn more the appearance
of a slaughter than a battle that the
sooner we forget It the better.
-
War Not Complete the Ticket T
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Senator Cummins is unwilling to con
sider any other man than La Follatta
for the republican nomination next year.
While he is about It he may as well pick
the candidate for vice president,' thus re
lieving the country from any anxiety in
the matter and himself of any cause for
dissatisfaction.
GOVERNORS ON GUARD.
ieveiana riain Dealer: it would seem
that the governors have taken a wholly
proper step to elucidate a difficult prob
lem which concerns, or la likely at any
time to concern, every state in the union.
The three governors selected to argue the
matter before the supreme court have it
In their power to perform a publio serv
ice.
New York-Times: The uprising of the
governors la defense of state rights might
with wisdom and propriety have been
dlrectedj into more promising channel.
But It is not a bad thing at all that the
subject has been brought up la a way to
Invite the attention of the people to the
lines still existing on the map which de
fine the outlines of the states. Some of
our statesmen, progressive In another
way, have of late shown a disposition to
attempt the effacement of state lines.
Philadelphia Record. When the people
of the United States set about the estab
lishment of self-government they were
extremely careful in molding their con
tltutlon not to set up a federal tyranny
to supplant a regal tyranny. They kept
In their own hands the great body of
their liberties, only surrendering so much
as was necessary to establish a republic
of free commonwealths prepared for uni
ted defense against outside aggreaaion.
The unanimous move of the forty-six gov.
ernors to protest against further federal
Invasion of states' rights seems to show
that the mass of the American people
have not changed their minds.
DJooklnBackwanl
IhisDav inOmalia
1 l
COMPILED FROM BF.E riLF!
r SEPT. 23.
Thirty Years Ago
The Pleasant Hours club held Its an
nual business meeting at the Board of
Trade rooms and elected the following
Officers: C. E. Pqulres, president; K. M.
Ross, treasurer; W. F. McMillan, secre
tary; executive committee. A. E. Touia-
lln, Major John B. Furay, Lieutenant
Foot. E. P. Peck. President Squires, who
Is serving his eighth term, announced
that Boyd's opera house had been secured
for the coming season's parties' and the
dates fixed for November z. November IS,
December 2. December 30, January 25,
1882; February 21 and April 10. The party
given December 30 will be the Centennial
party given by the club, and ex
traordinary efforts will be put forth to
make It not only the social event of the
season, but the greatest that Omaha has
ever seen.
Local marksmen are trying out a new
red clay shell for pigeon shooting. Mem
bers of the Sportsmen's club, Messrs
Hughes. Hathaway and Mills, shot at
the new pigeons today. The scores didn't
run up very high, but the boys had plenty
of fun.
Little Millie Groff. daughter of Lewis
A. Groff of the firm of Groff & Mont
gomery, was thrown out of a buggy on
St. Mary's avenue while riding to school
and severely bruised. Dr. Coffman made
rui I that no bones were "broken. Millie
la an attractive girl of about 12 years
and popular with her companions.
Members of the Jewish community be
gan today the celebration of their re
ligious holiday of Rosh-Hashona.
Sun Chung Lung, the celestial gentle
man and his wife, whom he married last
week, have already parted company.
Two burglaries are reported, one of the
residence of George E. Prltchett on
Eighteenth street, between Farnam and
Douglas, and another at the residence of
George Thrall on the corner of Nineteenth
and Douglas.
The water company today turned over
to the city the remainder of the dis
tributing system, which Includes the ter
ritory near Boyd's packing house and at
the lower end of Tenth street. The only
portion of the water suppty system re
maining to complete is that on Cuming
street, west of Saunders street.
Burt Pierce, foreman painter at
Medtmber & Daily's wagon shop, was
made happy today by being presented
with a twelve-pound girl baby.
The Bohemians of this cUy sent an
other 100 florins to Prague for the new
national theater, making $300 already
sent
Miss Allle Powers left for Wiener,
where she will handle the reins of gov
ernment of one of the schools in that
vicinity. i
Mrs. Lyman Richardson and daughter.
Miss Minnie, left this afternoon for a
few weeks' visit east.
Superintendent J. F. Clark, Division
Superintendent P. J. Nichols and E. M.
Morsman, general manager of the Union
Pacific express arrived home from an
extensive trip over the Union Pacific, and
report everything O. K.
Twenty Years Ag
At the convention of the Nebraska
Woman's Christian Temperance union
one delegate proposed that the daily
papers have copies each day en a table
in the convention hall so the convention
era might know how the papers wars
treating them. Dr. P. 8. Merrill took
occasion to aeeure the women they need
have no fears as to the fairness and cor
rectness of the reports so far aa The
Be was concerned.
Cltv Attorney Poppleton said ths bond
arlven by the Ketchum Furniture com
pany of Toledo to bind Us contract to
furnish the city ball was absolutely
worthless. ;
Robert W. Baxter, it was announced.
had resigned his position as western su
perintendent of the Baltimore unio
railroad and would be appointed super
intendent of one of the western divisions
of the Union Pacific.
William W. Nason and Miss Cora M.
Smith were married at high noon by Rev.
Father McMenomy at St. Francis Xa-
viefs church. They took up their home
at Seventh -and Milts streets.
Bloodshed was narrowly averted In the
nnuneU chamber In a . clash between
Councilman Specht and Ed Morearty over
the charges of bribery In connection wivn
the contract to furnish the city hall.
Mnnartv was one of the members ac
cused by Bpecht and he called Specht a
coward and dared him to name the men.
itm waa before Specht had named
them.) ' Specht did and told Morearty he
itMin mora than some toikb
wanted him to, which he seems to have
done. .' '
Ten Years Ago
jiiAm Mcpherson, sitting at Council
Bluffs, knocks out as Invalid, three Ne
braska statutes, the one enacted in mot,
r.o-niatinir the charges to be made by
the South Omaha stock yards for feeding
ni vardlne cattle and the two laws
enacted In 189T for the regulation of fire
inanrancA companies
K. F. Morearty announces his with
drawal from the fusion party peoples
and damoeratlo to Join the republicans.
Mr. Henry T. Clarke, preliminary to his
marriage, entertained his ushers and a
w other men friends at nls home, cov
ers being laid for fourteen. The guests
were Messrs. Ban Bates or uemver.
Scott Brown of Chicago, Luther Kountse,
irr.H Runt In. Frank Crawford, Linn sner
wood. Wing Allen. Ross Towle, Charlei
Taunt. Gordon Clarke, J. L. Faxton,
Tunner eind Herbert Gannett.
Mr. Herbert Gannett entertained friends
at a luncheon at the Omaha club in honor
of Henry T. Clarke. Jr., who was to be
mirr led in tiro days
Mr. amd Mrs. H, L. Cummins went to
Kansas City for a few days.
Mra Nathan E. Adams returned from
Minneapolis, where she spent the sum
mer.
nave Tow Beard' MePheveoa?
Beaton Transcript.
It is entirely possible that some of the
ftrai ludaea In the weat have been 11s-
tunini to the remarks or the governors,
for It was Judge Smith McPnerson In the
tA.rmi eourt of Iowa, who on Baturday
iAA in favor of the State railroad
commission against the express compan
ies. He dissolved the temporary injunc
.inn aaainet the lowering of exprs rates,
ordered by the commission, so that these
rates: which are 15 per cent
i-.r than the present, will go late ef-
r.t October first. Judge McPherson has
not hitherto been noted for his antl-cor
poratlon decisions.
Modern Iaeproveiaeate.
Chicago News.
Mount Etna Is throwing out more lava
in a. week than it did In a month during
its former eruption. Maybe It has caught
up with tbs times and Is using steam
shovels-
In Other Lands
Id Mcbts en What la Trana.
plrlnc Among 'the fr and
Far - Tiatleas of the Earth.
Old World Troubles.
The old world is In a moat distressing
condition. From the eaatern shores of
the Atlantic to the Bering sea. disaster,
famine, pestilence and human discontent
afflicts nations and people to a startltoj
degree, making the struggle for existence
uncommonly severe. Look at the map
and follow the accounts fc they have ap
peared and do appear in the news col
umns from day to day. Great Britain Is
slowly recovering from the distress snd
turmoil of a labor war, leaving in the
magazine enough powder to generate an
other explosion on slight provocation.
The division of the loot of Morocco be
tween France and Germany menaces the
peace of Europe. Revolutionary out
breaks and labor strikes send warnings
to the throne of Alfonso and brings the
ret-ponee of martial law. The new re
public of Portugal manifests signs of
fear and fatigue, and is diligently raiding
churches and convents for armed con
spiracies and loot, while armed bands of
monarchists are drilling In spots along
the borders. Bread riots In France and
Austria tell only too plainly the severity
of the struggle for existence. Cholera
casts a deadly shadow over parts of
Italy, while Mount Etna Is devastating
Its crowded slopes In Sicily. Further to
the east conditions are even worse.
Cholera prevails ln parts of Asia Minor
and Is reported to have crossed the bor
ders of Russia, where for the moment it
Is overshadowed by assassination and
terrorist repression. Famine, the oldest
Inhabitant of India, Is again abroad I )
that unfortunate land, so much so that
the coronation durbar planned to be held
at Delhi Vn December has been greatly
modified owing to the scarcity of food
for man and beast. Drouth has wrought
frightful devastation In the district of
Gujarat. The great Tang-ste-Klang
valley of China, embracing the finest
grain lands In the center of the empire,
has been overwhelmed by flood and 100,000
persons are believed to have perished.
On top of this disaster come revolution
ary disturbances which arrest the hands
extended with relief. In western Flberla
and eastern Russia the crop failure is so
complete than tnlmals and fowl are al
most given away or allowed to perish in
order to save for man what little food Is
left. Clouds of grasshoppers are in
tensifying the distress. Some disquieting
symptoms might be noted in the new
world, but they are trifling In compari
son with the troubles and trials of na
tional neighbors.
Hopefal Slarna for Ireland.
Justin McCarthy, former chairman of
the Irish Parliamentary party, waxes
Joyful over the prospect of Ireland soon
realizing Its hope of home rule. Writing
to the New York Independent he re
views the situation so vastly improved by
the restricted veto power of the House
of Lords and the gTeat change in British
publio sentiment In favor of Ireland
demands. The moving power lp this
change of sentiment he traces to the late
King Edward acid asserts that King
George Is equally desirous of removing
all sources of political discontent. In
Ireland. "No Irishman," writes Mr. Mc
Carthy, "has ever lived during a time so
full of hopeful and happy augury for hl
country, and It must Indeed be some
utterly unimaginable catastrophe which
could now all of a sudden bring those
seemingly certain promisee to mere frus
tration. Ireland ftt living a ltfe entirely
new to her a life bringing nothing but
hope and promise.' The Irish people will
soon have set clearly and decisively be
fore them the task great enough to call
for the moblest qualities of the noblest
race, and at the same time not beneath
the capacity Of any people capable of
appreciating the value of freedom."
Salnttna- the Nw Republic
Great Britain. Austria, Germany. Italy
and Spain have united In an official sa
lute to the new republic of Portugal, and
reluctantly tipped their chapeaus to Pres
ident Arrlaga. To a constitutional ruler
new In the business and holding down a
new seat, a salute from the diplomats of
monarchies Is a cheering sign of Increas
ing acquaintance and should make him
feel that a salary of $20,000 a year and
M.OOO for official expenses Is not too much
as a starter. President Arrlaga Is s
lawyer of distinction, and has a great pull
with all groups of the republican party.
His term is four years and he Is not eligi
ble for re-election.
Opportunities Paaaed TTp.
What Is the matter with American arch
itects? Ten years ago Australia decided
to build a new capital in the virgin
wilderness of New South Wales. Compe
tition waa invited from the architects of
the world and very tempting Inducements
offered. American responses were re
grettably few, compared with the number
from European countries, a fact which
prompted the authorities to reject all
plans and advertise again. Competition
is now open, with purses of I8.SO0 for the
first $3,660 tor the second and $2,450 for
the third accepted design. American arch-
tects are assured of a shade better than
a fair deal from the Australians,
la the Kladersrartea Claaa.
Ths youthful emperor of China, Just
paat fire and a half years, has entered
the kindergarten class aa a starter in the
educational scheme of Manchu royalty.
Before his mother, the empress dowager,
was gathered to her ancestors, she penned
this command to the youngster's tutors:
"At the present time, when intercourse
between all parts of the world la freely
developed and civilization Is ever increas
ing, It behooves them above all to Incul
cate a clear impression of the progress of
constitutional government during the last
few decades, and of the development of
sound learning, special stress being laid
on. the needs of the day."
For a country that has not been bur
dened with richea for a century, Ireland
supplies a startling example of riches
showered on officials. Redmond Barry,
liberal member for Tyrone, has vacated
his seat In Parliament for the lord chan
cellorship, a position corresponding to
that of an attorney general bt an Ameri
can state, which carries a salary of $30.
000 a year and a pension of $20,000 a year
on retirement. When the home rulers get
control of the Jobs It will be worth while
watching to see If the retrenchment knife
reaches the salary or the occupant.
So Asiwerlag Deft,
Sioux Ctty Journal.
On his first day of political speech
maklsg President Taft Issued two chal
lenges. At the time of going to press
neither had been accepted.
Costly Experience.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
It has eost that British Columbia bank
a great many dollars to find that locating
a financial Institution next door to a
police station doesn't do sway with the
security afforded by a $13-a-week night
watchman. '
-,..,.. I 1 -, . v'U'". , . .";;".,u" '
. the -v;
People Talked About
The Omaha version of the new thought
plan of living ISO years Is a tallender In
the race. In Bulgaria a steady butter
milk diet la warranted to run the age
score up to 2M.
At the age of 73.' James 3. Hill, the
kidnaper of the Burlington, hops up and
down the stairs in Jiis St. Paul office with
aa much agility as a monarchist duck
ing bombs In Barcelona.
The difference between a speech and a
lecture, as defined by Speaker Champ
Clark, lies not In the topic discussed, but
In the box office treatment of the orator.
A speech is free, a lecture Is paid for.
Forty-six years ago James R. Earl of
Denver, a veteran of the civil war. put
In a claim against the government for
$2.31, that being the amount which his
pay check was short The bill was paid
the other day.
John Cavanagh, farmer of Portland.
Conn., took his family to the Orange
fair at Haddam Neck Labor day In a
wagon drawn by ninety-six oxen, Mr.
Cavanagh owns ten yoke of oxen him
self and the other thirty-eight yoke he
borrowed from the neighbors. The out
fit covered this distance of twenty miles
In five hours.
WHITTLE! TO A POINT.
"BliRgln Is constantly talking about
his distinguished ancestors."
"Yes." replied Miss Cayenne; "most of
them are dead and can't resent the fa
miliarity." Washington Star.
"That publisher la mad because his
rival has enticed away all his best funny
writ cts.
"Well, you must expect a man to be
mad when he's lost his wits." Baltimore
American.
"Now that we are married," said the
pretty chorus girl, "What do you propose
to do?"
"Why," replied the son of the million
Abaoiufoly Puro
Economizes Butter, Floor,
Eggs; makes the food more
appetizing and wholesome
The only Baking Powder made
from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar
This is a story you
i mrsan ' sha
uud(B u nnnoduuu(B
' By A. E. IV. r.laaon
U Authmf of " THE FOUR FCATHCtS," " THE BROKE ROAD," mtm.
A story with an absorbing plot that
takes hold of tho reader's Interest
at the very start and holds It to the
end. It will prove the great serial
off the year. It begins
In tho October
Commence your next year's subscription with
this number. It Is a typical number of Scribners
and It will give you a very good idea of what you
miss by not being a Scribner redder.
ss.es a vsaai ss sshts S suawaji '
O HA ft LEM SORIB HER" BOMB, HEW YORK
GUARANTEE FUND LIFE ASSOCIATION
ORGANIZED JAM'AItY 2, 1&02.
PURE PROTECTION' INSURANCE
Assets, July 1. 1911 - . . . $553,223.34
Reserve Fund. July 1. 1011 432,622.20
fcecurities with btats Department. July 1. 1011 28O.05U.00
(To Secure Oar Insurance Oontraets.)
Rate per thousand, age 35 (other ages lu proportion), 98.75
Depository Banks appointed, 781
Sdceased ia California, Indiana, Iowa, Xansaa, Montana, ST.braska, Worta
Dakota, Orefon, South Dakota, IdxUo, Washlms-toa, Teaas asS
Wyoming-, and prepartna te enter Clinoia and Xlcbia-aa.
Ilea capable of produolnf taa best class of business wasted as State Manarers
sad Solicitors.
cook vr ov mxooBD.
Home Office: Brandeis Building, Omaha, Neb.
Telephone Douglas 7021.
aire. "I think we had better keep It secret
until I can get a good chance to break;
the news to the governor when he is in
a pleasant mood. . . . I
But how long Is It likely to be before
he gets Into that kind of a mood?
"It's hard to tell. The stock market Is
w j .... . . v , . i v, . 11 mAV
win a dollar or two at poker some night
knf Ar. , .. m-Alr la n ,1 frV "01lca AO
Record-Herald.
"I note that you do not appeal as oftn
as formerly to the plain aense of tne
common people."
"No." answered Senator Sorghum:
"I'm afraid 1 overworked that figure of
speech. U encouraged my constituents
to such an extent that. they are disposed
to rely on their plan sense. Instead of on
my advice." Washington Star.
Mrs. Baye She Is simply mad on the
subject of germs, and sterlises or filt
ers everything in the house.
"How does she get along with her
family?" ,
Oh. even her relations are strained-
Judge.
I
THE POET'S SOLITUDE.
Lord Byron.
To sit on rocks to muse o'er flood and
fell.
To Blouiy trace the forest's shady scene.
Where things that own not man's domin
ion dwell,
And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely
been;
To climb the trackless mountain all un
seen, With the wild fleck that never needs a
told.
Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to
lean
This is not solitude; 'tis but to hold
Converse with Nature's charms and view
her stores unrolled.
But midst the crowd, the hum, the
shock of men,
To hear, to see. to feel, and to possess.
And roam along, the world's Urad deni
zen. With none who bless us, none whom we
can bless;
Minions of splendor, shrinking from dis
tress! None that, with a kindred consclensness
embued,
If we were not, would seem to sniile the
less
Of all that flattered, followed, sought and
sued;
This Is to be alone: this, this Is solitude!
will want to read!
nn