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New Vork-34 West Thirty-third. VahinKtin72 Fourteenth ft.. CO H R KP 1 S r K N f ' B. Communications relating to i"' dltorlnl matter Khoi.ld be nddrefd t'TTmha lira. Kd torlal niartmanr NOV EM HER CIHCUI-ATION. 50,573 r'lata of Nehrufkn. County of Pounlar s: l i ti t Williams, circulation manager rf thr Hee I'uMi-ldtiK company, tain duly worn, says that the average dally circulation, les. spoiled, unused end re turned copies, for the month of Novem ber, a as Sn.r.TJ. 1 'WIGHT W1I.T.TAMS. Circulation Manacer Fubscrlhcd In mv presence end sworn ti tefora ma thia Cth day of December, 1911. . ,eai) H'.'UKJlT m-NTi:n. Notary I-iO.He Sabsrrll.rra laalnaj 1b elly temporarily shoald ha The Bee mailed to Itaero. Address villi be changed rrqncsted. .May the light of President Sun thine long and brightly. Many New Year' resolutions are s vain at old year regrets. Governor Chase Osborn of Michi gan is something of an orator him self. " i. The Inter Ocean speaks of "Our Debt to Lillian Russell." Trust Lil lian to collect the money.1 The infant Chinese emperor must not be called a coward for seeking his mother's lap elsewhere. China gains a republic, while los ing Mongolia to Russia. Dut poor Mongolia look what it gets. ; To date the Tennesee governor's voluntary imprisonment has smoked out no malefactors of great wealth It begins to look at if Mr. La Fcjlette were trying to save Mr. Taft the trouble of atumplng his own state. Salt Lake City has gone under the commission plan of city government, beating Omaha to it but not by many laps. This would be a land of ideal cities If one-third of the "civic centers" that hav been established were on land instead of paper. , Still It must have made Che Wis consin senator catch his breath to be compelled to take some of his own medicine in Wisconsin. Being deluged by the tidal wave can have no terrors for Governor Harmon if, as Mr. Bryan says, he car rles water on both shoulders. Now that all the Joys and noise of the holidays are about over give those whonant to a chance to tettle down to happlnesa and quiet life. Senator Lorlmer is shocked at the possibility of someone In Illinois having violated the spirit of the pri mary law. It must have been an antl-Lorlmerlte. Mark Twaln't literary adviser has passed to the great beyond. It is worth noting Incidentally that Mark very quickly got beyond the point of requiring advice. The biggest question Involved In this Upton Sinclair divorce cuse la, whether Vppie will get enough ad ertlsing out of it to float auother bit of fiction into the six best sell ers class. Our amiable democratic contem porary has reappointed the present Omaha postmaster, and given him two different successors, all within three or four days. A pretty good fishing expedition. Prince James Bourbon, the Span ish pretender, is reported to have won $80,000 at a sitting at Monte Carlo. Evldeutly the fashion of gamblers the world over of telling their winnings and secreting their losings it the same. Some Bostonlans oppose a public trial of the wretch, Rlcheson, on the ground that Its details would be too shocking to decency. This is sug gestive of a very helpful reform that might be made in all such cases after they reach the stage of court pro ceedings. According to Washington advices, the tale of tickets to the Jackson day feast there, which had previously been lagging, hat been greatly stimu lated by the assurance that Bryan will be there. Mr. Bryan should save stipulated for a share of the gate receipts, Capsheaf of China's Revolution. China lins mndp its raid on the curse of the otlnm habit, it has re loasrd lis women's tiny feot from thplr tortuous sIioor, It has cut off the pigtail, declared itself a republic, fleeted and inaugurated Its preRldent. All this was done In China, althoush the leader of the revolution laid his plnns nnd had his headquarters In Amerlm, venturing hack upon native noil only after the dynasty had been ruined nnd tho Manrhus routed. Hut tho culmination of the political up heaval was laid, not In Shanghai, nor Nanking, nor Hankow, nor l'eklng, hut in New York in Amer ica where to the martial tune of "America" 3,000 Chinese, with thu passing of the old and the coming of the new year, sang out the inglorious empire and sang In the glorious re public. But that was not the enp ehcaf,, even that. The captthenf was thl: ChuiiR Una. f'hun-llM,i. hooln, lioola! Vlvcli, vlvi'In, chnn, chun, ihun. The college yell affords the only approved way to give vent and ex proHHlon to the emotions of over powering patriotism. President Taft may decide for himself whether the Chinese yell in worse or better than the Minnesota yell, which was so bad as to move a mild man like liim to denounce it right on tho university campus. Without knowing the mean ing, in terms, of the Chinese shib boleth, we venturo to say it Is not a bit more demoniac than: , Hoopala. tioopitlu, lilng-o, Mtm; rati, rah, rail, ale, boom, ah, bomnalnc ka, boom-tlacka, paw, paw, paw. Yes, the leaven of republicanism Is working fast in old China when the ancients catch the spirit of our cryptic college lingo. Our Relations with Mexico. Inasmuch as General Bernardo Reyes presumably incubated his se dition against Mexico upon American soil, tho fear has been expressed that the episode will tend to detract from the friendly relations betweon the two countries; that the Madero gov ernment takes offense at our failure to represB the Reyes revolt in Its In ception. Reyes arrived at Galveston in October and, It is recalled, pub Ucly proclaimed his intention of or ganizing a revolution against the suc cessor, of Diaz, enjoying absolute Im munity from our government until his arrest November 18, when he was released on the small bond of $5,000 It Is asserted that the United States should have proceeded without delay to arrest the man, who came upon our soil to plan an attack upon a friendly country. It Is more likely that this alarm Ing view overshoots the mark, for Madero and . Mexico, themselves,' scorn tothave dismissed thj Reyes case at of little consequence and to' be inclined to deal with the sedition- 1st In very mild manner. To be sent to the gay center of the world's fashions and foibles is a rather mod erate sentence for a man whoso of fense could, under the laws, have been called treason and punlshd by death. The United States' relations with Mexico, we Imagine, are not to tuf fen from what went on at Galveston or San Antonio. Madero and the Mexicans are much more apt to hark back to our attitude during the revo lution when we maintained a strict neutrality, but for which the out come of the Madero movement might have been different. Mexico would be going out of Its way, at a time when It needs the friendship of the United States, 'to curl Its Hp at what we did or did not do with Reyes. Woman'i Widening Activities. In deference to their possession of the suffrage, the mayor of Santa Monica, Cal., has decided to appoint several women among his official advisers. This should give these women an opportunity for large In fluence. And, since the original fuU of man, women are said to have wielded quite a potent Influence over him, for good, though sometimes for evil. But the women may nrgue that this is nothing to boast about In California, where tho men, finding themselves unable to run the state's affairs as they believed they should be run, called in the women to help them with the Job. Therefore the women have a right to expect official recognition. But It will not do to deprecate the fact that women everywhere are steadily growing in power. The sher iff of New York, who appoluts a lurge number of deputies to aid him in enforcing the law, has manifested an Intention of pluclng a number of women on his staff. Think of it. women for deputy sheriffs in the great city of New York. What larger field of Influence would woman, who craves political power, ask or ex pect? The New York sheriff believes women in these positions can be of help in suppressing disorder and protecting young people at public dance halls and other such places. Perhhps they can; perhaps they can do it better than men. Possibly the presence of a woman in official at tire may have a salutary effect, not only upon the girls, but the boys, In these assembly places. At any rate, the experiment will be Interest ing to watch. And lu the meantime, let us note how well our American women seem to fare at the hands of man-made and Uiau-niauaged government and without having to resort to such violence as do their slaters over the sea. Helping the Fanner's Wife. The Kansas College of Agriculture may prove to have hit upon the secret In this effort at moving the popula tion back to the farm. It has pro jected a plan for community laun dries In the country, where washing and ironing may be done for reason able sums, thus saving the women from the labor nnd hardship of tub work and making life on the farm. especially in the winter months, more inviting for the mothers, wives and daughters. These laundries are to be established and conducted upon the co-operative plan and, aside from the other feature, will tend, there fore, to encourage the spirit of co operation among the faruicTij a very good thing to do. Of course, it Is for the farmers to say whether such a plan Is feasible, but if it should succeed it seems to us that it must prove to be a very wise step. It is fairly well set tled that what takes many young peoplo away from the farm and keeps them from going back Is the number of social attractions and modern conveniences the city pos sesses and the farm lacks, and the whole conception of this back-to-the-farra enterprise hinges on the effort to reduce this disparity. So, perhaps, the Kansans are on the right track in presupposing that the plac.o to begin Is In the woman's sphere, since she is the pivot of Jhe home. The steady trend of modern invention. of course, Is to carry the conveniences of the city to the country and, as everybody knows, the farm of today with its dally free mail delivery, its telephone, often electric light, auto mobile and other modern utilities. Is far more comfortable from thj standpoint of hardship than It used to be. A distinguished actor gets free ad vertising by declaring that because of the interference of child labor laws "the production of standard plays In which roles are cast for boys and girls will have to bo abandoned. We have right here In Nebraska the strictest kind of a child labor law forbidding the appearance of young people on the stage in any capacity, and scads of juvenile court officers to see to it specially that it is obeyed, but It has not Interfered with theatrical productions, simply because this part of the law has never been enforced. To be more exact, there has been no crying de mand for Its enforcement, and it could well be modified to permit child actors under proper regulation and supervision. Mrs. Tom Thumb, the famous midget, now 70 years old, went to the White House the other day to meet the president, having met every chief executive since Lincoln. With her two feet of stature standing be fore Mr. Taft's six feet and some Inches, Mrs. Thumb must have needed no identification to make sure of her name. Governor Harmon, like every other democratic candidate, Is entitled to a square deal, and to be "Judged by his acta." World-Herald. All right, conceded. But why not give every republican candidate a squaro deal, to which he should be entitled as well as a democratic can didate, with Judgment based on acts Instead of unproved accusations? All the other candidates for demo cratic nominations will now proceed to applaud Chris Gruenther for get ting out of their way. He it an un selfish patriot now, whereat had he foolishly persisted in harking to the call he would have been nothing but a self-seeking place hunter. Real estate transactions In Omaha for 1911 were not quite up to the high water marks of previous years, but make an Impressive aggregate, lust the same. If our local real estate hustlers will get together and pull on the same rope they cau make 1912 overstep them all. The membership of the Omaha School board, , which has stood at thirteen for the year last past, has been reduced automatically by law to twelve. Still, the old board did not seem to be seriously hoodooed. That promise by the Water board that the new supply main from Flor ence would be In before snow fell must have referred to the snowfall of some other season. A Solution Worth While. St. Paul Pioneer Press. Mrs. Stonewall Jackson la now urging pensions for Confederate Veterans. Uncle Sam might solve the high cst of living problem by giving every one of ua about 10,0u0 a year and relieve us of the neces sity of working. A Ilelatrd trllle. Cleveland Plain Dealer. And now It Is Charles Francis Adams who goes after the Idols. In his newest book he declares that George Washing ton was a military blunderer and that the survival of tha revolutionary army was entirely due to the stupidity of Genertu Howe. rilla 1 p the Hrasuaa. New York Tribune. Senator Wiliium J. tUona, of Missouri, has dlncoNered seven reasons why Champ Clark should be the next demo cratic nomine for president. But the sm-aker'a vote for ,lh Sherwood pension bill furnishes at least fourteen reasons why h uhoula Dot be nominated. okfncf Backward JhisDay inOmalm COMPILED UtOM BF.f, FIL.E-S J AX, 3. Thirty Years Ag The city coum-l! started the new year with a hl(j bunch of business. Truman Buck was appointed rlty treasurer to fill tho vacancy; Councilman lunham pre sented a resolution demanding to know why the sidewalk on Kartiam between Twentnleth and Twenty-fifth streets was not bc'iiK built as per contract; bids were ordereil advertised for CurblnK and ut- terlntf Harney and Sixteenth streets. The, annual meeting of the Hoard of Trado listened to the address of presi dent. James K. Itoyd. The new officers elected are: If. CJ. Clark, president: C. K. Ooodman, O. W. UnlnKer, P. E. ller. Frank Murphy, vice presidents; V. J. Hroatch, treasurer; Thomas Gibson, secretary; John Kvans, May Meyer, J. l' Rhetley. T. XV. T. Hichard, J. H. Brady, J. If. M Shane. J. A. Wakefield, executive committee. The Omaha skatlna; rink under manage ment of J. J. Phllbln, at the foot of Kar nam street, Is doing a magnlflclent bus iness. The retiring Chlneso embassy to this country and Spain passed through Omaha on their way to Han Francisco, and thence home. There were nine. In the party, with the Chinese minister, Chin Win Pin, at the head: Mrs. Champion H. Chase, wife of ex- Mayor of Chase, died at her home on Thir teenth street, shortly before midnight, as the result of the operation performed the day before. Mrs. Chase was a sister of Mis. J. M. Woolworth. Miss M. Butter- field and Mlfs Fannie Butterfleld. The house of Owen McCaffrey Was visited by the stork as a New Year's caller. " At tho regular monthly meeting of the Hook and Judder company, Chirrles Fisher, the foreman, was made a special committee to wait on Chief Galligan and request reinstatement of Jainea O'Brien as driver of thS truck. Ed Slemon of' St. I-ouls, formerly with Fred Metx of this city, was In town on business. Twenty Years Ago Another meeting of the Omaha Alliance of Hebrews was held at Temple Israel, presided over by President Samuel Katz. The. purpose of the organization was to aid Jews persecuted In Russia by the czar's government and people and to help the refugees. Itav. Charles XV. Savldge at People's church spoke upon the text. "What Can She I)o?" his theme being- the dearth of servant girls and he pleaded for proper treatment and protection of the women and girls who worked. Ross Beard Welsh, son of Mr. and Mrs. Warner U Welsh, died of diphtheria at the oge of 3 years. J. D. Thomas, a well-known .merchant of South Omaha, died suddenly of pneu monia. He was 62 years old and left a widow and son, Elmer, 21 years old. A little newsboy was arrested on the fctreets for selling Kansas City Runs, 100 copies of which were confiscated by the police. The agent of the Sun went the boy's bond. , Ten Years Ago- Starting In the Douglas Printing com pany's building at 1S08 Howard street, flro at 3.46 a. m. destroyed that building and the one adjoining occupied by tha West ern Electrical company, also damaging the structure of the Frontier laundry at 1612 Howard street and drove sixty guests from the Karbach hotel, abutting the burned buildings. The county commissioners held a star chamber session to debate tha petition for a franchise to operate a suburban railway over the county's roads. The project was said to have large capital back of It, represented locally by E. E, Howell, Q. 1j. West. J. A. Schenk and James A. McShane. For some reason the commissioners refused to make public what they did. Tha commissioners wera Oatrom, llarte, Connelly, Hofeldt and Hoctor. John A. Swanaon, manager of the cloth Ing department for Hayden's, left on a business trip fop New York. Judge Roscoe Pound of Lincoln, secre tary of the Nebraska Bar association, Issued an Invitation to every member of the Omaha Bar association to attend the meetings of the state bar's convention and also tha banquet, it lis plate. General John C. Rates and his aide, Captain Mcdlntock, left for New York to be gona three weeks. It was decided that Councilman Zlm man, Iloya and Lobeck might visit Wash' Ington, Baltimore, Cleveland and Chicago market houses to get Information for building a market house In Omaha and t&0 was appropriated for that purpose. People Talked About It's a 4 to 1 shot that the occupants of the water wagon cannot tall without look Ing whether etrgnog Is spelled with three or four "g's." W. Morgan Shuster doubtless knows what a good thing tha American Chau tauqua circuit Is and Is not worrying about the future. Tba urgent demands of Indiana demo crats falls to rouse the chief of the Hoosier Manchus. Tom Taggart refuses to retire from tha state committee. Mme. do Somebody, a Parisian seeress, predicts that 1912 will be a "black year." The madam's gratuitous advance notice may draw enough fool coin to her purse to give the cloud a silver lining. Judge Robert A Id rich, who died last week In Florence, S. C. was the third of bis name to occupy the bench In South Carolina during the last halt century. Since lbtf there bus always been a Judge Aldrlch lu that Btate. Gloved burglar operated within ear shot of a police-station In Philadelphia and yeggnun cracked a safe next door to a police station In New York. In both instances the copiers wok up In time to suva their clothes. Harry 8. Byrne, who arranged the 1300,000 bond of County Treasurer W. G. I' re, signed by the Equitable Surety Co. of St. l.ouls. Mo., Is tha general agent for that company In Nebraska and Western Iowa, and la tha author of that unique phrase, "Sea Byrna before you burn." The nerve of young America oft shines brilliantly In a crisis. Down In South Bend, tnd., tha angry father essayed to thr-mh tHe bridegroom just as the parson started tha marriage ceremony. Instantly tha youngster want to the church mat with tha old man. alammed him Into sub mission and returned tj bis place to fin ish tha ceremony Around New York Hippies on the Tarrent of Mf aa Sera In the Ureal Americas) Metropolis from Dsr to Day. Mnlllaan I'mkn.i.. I Time does not wither nor custom stale the Infinite variety of Mulligan enthusi asm. Constant us burnishes its psrts na the racing years Increase Its charms. The warrior glory plucked from tho can non s mouth at Clontarf, Yellow Ford and Fredericksburg shine anew with the added luster of tha arts of peace. Neither the barbs of envy nor the rude cries of scoffers disturbs its blooming rich ness, for while a Mulligan Uvea enthusi asm will be a Johnny-on-the-spot. You can take the Word of William O. Mulli gan of New York for It, and Mrs. Mulli gan backs It up. Recently both proved It to the satisfaction of a court. The demonstration cama about through the failures of a local bank last October. Scared depositors and stockholders de sired the appointment of a receiver and oruanlzed a meeting for that purpose. J.ulllpnn owed the bank quite a sum. He was on friendly terms with the pres ident, if a receiver was appointed the friendly president would be out of a Job and a new man might Insist on Mulli gan paying the notes. Just here Is where the Mulligan genius rose to Its high level. Mr. and Mrs. Mulligan got busy. rhey hired seventy-five Italians, trained them to respond to signals for cheers, headed them Into the depositors' meet ing, and by systematic cheering and whooping defeated a resolution for a re ceivership and put through'a warm vote of confidence In the friendly president. The glory of the achievement Is not dimmed by the subsequent conviction of the friendly president and his Imprison ment at Sing Sing. The Mulligans ac complished what they set out to do, and only charged J20,0n0 for their time nnd talent, Just enough to offset the face of their paper In tho bank. Aaa and Nationality "In cities where street car companies attempt to determine the age of a child by Its height some pretty complications ensue," said the traveling salesman quoted by the Pun. "Forty-one Inches has been established as tha average height for a child of 5 years, but the In fallibility of that rule is frequently dem- onstrated In a city with a large foreign population. Into the car of a western city whose street railways have adopted the forty-one-inch gauge came a child carrying three books. Her mother re fused to pay fare. "If that kid's under 5. what's she doing witi. that library?" the conductor de manded. The mother remained serene under the sarcasm. "Measure her and see," she replied. He marched the child up to the gauge on the door Jamb.' She fell a quarter of an Inch below the topmost notcu. "Seven if she's a day," he growled, "but she evades payment on account of her nationality. She's Italian, and Ital ians run short. On tfie measurement ba sis lalf the Italian children could ride free intll they are 10 years old. We've got lots of Bulgarians and Greeks in this town, too, and they are undersized. A Sweonh child of 6, on the other hand, would overtop the mark bo much that even a birth certificate wouldn't entitle him to l free ride." . Tipping; the Hotef Clerk. It Is most common now for a man, rushing up to a hotel deslc In the hotels of this town in tha garish Broadway ho tels especially to say to the clerk who meets him: "Room and a bath, neighbor. and one of the cute ones with plenty' of light and things, savvy?" and with that the effective, but non vociferous, 12 some how drops Into tha hotel clerk's mitt; and the cagey patron thereby gets tha Jump on the other fellow who hasn't thought of that scheme, and la staked to the best In the house for tha money. It's worth while,' if you re going to stay a week, say, at a hotel, to get the best of it in the dishing out of the rooms. In this case, then, tha tipper gets something tangible for bis money. But that Isn't tha point. The point Is, the hotel clerk of a day but lately gone would very likely have reached out and "pasted" the man offering him a tip. Why doea tha physician who answers a call at a hotel charge 26 for that call. when he asks and gets only $2 per copy for his calls on folks living In houses or apartments? Every time you happen to get sick at a hotel and send (or the medico he soaks you 16 per visit with insouciance that Is not only baffling, but maddening. Does the cleric get ths extra tnree bones? ( Elocution of Auctioneers. "If you want to hear reading by a real master of elocution 'go some night to a book auction," said the city salesman quoted by the Sun. "At soma of those auction rooms they employ elocutionists of a high calibre. In fact, no man now thinks of applying for a position as auctioneer In a book store until ha has taken a course in voice culture. "The other night I traveled clear across town to hear a man read who I knew had been Btudylng for the profession. His stock that night consisted largely of cheai editions of tha English poeta and novelists. Tho room was packed with Mien who had drifted in out ot curiosity rather than for tha satisfaction ot any particularly Intellectual deairea. Before the auctioneer offered a Bet ot books for sale ha read from thorn, sometimes a page or two. "When I heard him I understood why it behooves auctioneers to study elecu- tlon. He made those pages live before his audience. They first listened fas cinatedly In their haste to buy. In saner moments they could have bought the same books tor less money in the ordin ary coursa of trade, but the spell of the aucllonetr was on them." Aalutal Pawnshop. Not even the author of tha "Club of Stianga Trades" conceive 1 of an odder means ot livelihood that that of Dr. Martin Potter, says tha New York cor respondent ot the Cincinnati Tlmea-Star. lie runs an animal pawnshop. If you have a lion that you don't nued aa badly as you need the money, or want to soaa a trained bear for a few wteks, or put up an elephant until you hear from home, go around to Dr. Potter. He'll loan you tho money against your live sioik and ha will not charge you any interest. But you'll have to lay tha bourd ot your pledge. "1 just drifted tutu tha business," said Dr. potter. "1 started out to furnish trained animals to shows. 1'va rented everything to show men from a trout of thoroughbred horses to a red eyed Numldlan Hon. By and by 1 fyuud that I had tv lend tuoney now and than to my patrons and take their stock In pie Ige. It was a neces Hlly of tha business, hut row I like It." His stal.l-s contain elephants and cam ely If you're a regular showman you'll say cam-u-el and monkeys and a dozen sorts of dogs and all varieties of the cat tribe and the duece knows what. And his proudest boast Is that ha was never stuck but once. "Fellow borrowed l.X) front me on a trick dog," said he. "Fin est dog 1 ever fw. I'd have loaned 1'k on him as easy. But I wa-n't shown all that dog s tricks by his owner. That night I found that he had been trained to unlatch the door and get out arid his owner had not trained him to come back." Futile Wen pons. New York Sun. Trade boycotts, higher tariff rates on American goods and similar Russian measures ot supposed retaliation for the abrogation of the treaty of 1S32 were to be expected. Some of them may perhaps be ragarded as counters In the diplo matic game or as sops to Chauvinism. Whatever their origin or purpose, they seem to rest upon a misunderstanding of American feeling. It Is the general wish of Americans that their country be on good terms with Russia, but they will never swap the rights of any Ameri. can citizen for commercial privileges. This is a matter not of dollars anal cents but of honor and patriotism. Pahllcltr In Pensions. Indianapolis News. Charles Francis Adams haa proposed a plan for pension reform that would, through a proper publicity, result In the elimination from the pension rolls of the names of all men who are not fairly en titled to a pension. Of course, there ought to be publicity in the pension busi ness as well as In all other government affairs. But will congress dare to order It? If not. why not? Absurdity ot Russian More. Kansas City Times. The Russian Duma Is considering put ting prohibitive duties on American agri cultural implements. Large quantities of these are needed for the adequate de velopment of farming on the vast plains of Russia. To shut them out will merely mean the hampering ot agriculture. It Is easy to see the absurdity of a high tariff for RubsIs, Publicity for Pensions. Philadelphia Record. Publicity applied to tha pension rolls, as suggested ty Charles Francis Adams, might result In their purgation. For this very reason the suggestion is unlikely to obtain favor, Pension frauds flourish In the dark, and those whose names would be a discredit to the nation's roll of honor natural, y have no desire for an ezpesure. Good Opportunity for Investment in Substantial Homo Industry The condensed milk and Canning Factory that I am erecting at Papil lion, Nebraska, is rapidly nearing com pletion, and I am now offering a lim ited amount of Waterloo Creamery Co.preferred stock at $100 per share drawing interest at the rate of 7 Per Cent Per Annum We will guarantee to convert all outstanding stock into cash at the end of three years. This investment is bound to be prof itable for the investor and will result in great benefit to the milk industry in Douglas, Sarpy and Washington counties. This is the first "Evapo rated Milk" factory in the state of Nebraska. Our brand will be the "Elk horn Evaporated Milk." If you are interested send for list of men who have already subscribed and such other information aa you may desire. Reference, First National Bank, Omaha. Waterloo Creamery Co., LEROY CORLISS, Prest. Omaha, Neb. ' Tou are cordially invited to inspect this plant at any time. Fapillion Interurban line terminal. GUARANTEE FUND OHGAMZKI) JAMAKV 2. 1902. Pl'KK PROTECTION 1NSI ItAXCE. Assets, January 1, 1912 Korve Fund January 1, 1912 Securities with 8tat Department January 1, 1912 tlo tec ara Oar Zaaaraaoa Contracts. ljate per thousand. Hi (other ages in proportion) , $8.75. Mortality lt per 9 l.OOO Insurance Mean Amount, )er 1911, $3.10. Depository ttanfcs Appointed, 1)80. X.ioBSd la Oalifovala, lad tana, Iowa, Xaaaas, Montana, Vsbraaka, Worth Dakota, Ortoa. ftoata Dakota, Xdaao, Waahlarton, Tasaa and Wyoming-, and pre par In to enter Illlnjte and Mlcblfaa. Mat capable ot proaaolaa; tba beat class of business wanted at ttate Kanarere aad Solicitors. ' LOOK VT OVB mXCOKD. Home Office: Brandeis Building, Omaha. Neb. Telephone Douglas 7021. SMILING REMARKS. Hank gtubbs Looks like were gOln to have a purty hard winter. p.lga Miller That s the way It seems to them who are alius lookin' fur'tha soft side uv evry thing. Judge. "There ara no miracles in this age," said the cynic. "Oh, yes. there are." said the woman. "Of ciurae. Volt credulous women believe fables, hut did you ever know of a tnii acla happening yourself?" "Certainly." replied the woman. "Only this morning, when I asked my husband for soma monev, he gave It to me with out asking what I wanted to do with it." Baltimore American. Wlfey What do you think of my new hat? Hubby Very pretty. I hope It'll satisfy you for s while. Wlfev Of course It will. The color in not quite what I Itka. and the trlmmlni? doesn't come up to my expectations, and the shape Is not as good as It ought t' be. but otherwise the hst Is a splendid bsrgaln. and I like It awfully well. Lip pincoU's. I TO A SN0RER. No matter, stranger, who you are You put me In a passion; You're snoring in this sleeping car , in moft outrageous fashion 1 This Is a habit I do hate. In fact I quite desplae It 'T''tH bring you trooblo soon or Irtte, Why cant you realize It? Buch racket doth my feelings Jar And sots mv nerves a-flntter; Just give a thought to where you ore And don't lio there nnd splutter! When Peter meets you at the gate, He'll turn you back lnstanter. And like as not he'll bump your patk. Then watch you downward canter. Omaha. F. li. T. THE VANDERBILT HOTEL 34th St E at Park Ave. NtW YORK Optnt January 10, 1912 In Residential district en Murray Hill. Four minutes from N.Y. Cent. N.Y.. N. K tr H. and Penna. Stations, in the heart of the theatre and shopping dirtrkt Subway sta tion adioinina the hatrL ill SinAle Room with bettr$3.4. 5 and Jo pet day. Double Room with both $5. So, 7 and $6 per day. Double Bedroom with boudoir or dressing-room and bath $7. t9. $9. $10 and $12 per day. Suites Salon. Bedroom and bath-$IOr $12. $15 and $18. par day. LIFE ASSOCIATION ..$l.1J,848.31 . . 5I.V013.UO . . 343.S50.00 r i j r1 J 1 V