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4 THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1912. The Omaha daily Bee FOCNDfcrTBY EDTVA&D rosewater VlCTOft ROSsf-AtER, EblTOR. BEE BUILDING. FARNAM AND 17TH. Entered at Omaha Posto'fioe as second f-ciafcfc matter. . r- . TERMS OF SCi!$C3 iKTION. - Sunday Bee, one year.... J2-50 Saturday Bee, one year $1.60 vDaily. Bee. (w-thdut, Sunda?) one year. U 00 uaiiy Bee, ana Sunday, one year....sn-w DELIVERED BY CARRIER. i Evening diee- with ' Sunday hoer m... .loc Dally Bee (Including Sunday) per mO..6e Dafly'Bea twithour Sunday), per mo..5c Address aL) complaints or irregularltes in aeiivery to City Circulation Dept. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order. .capable to The Bee Publishing- company Only f-eent stamps received In payment of small accounts. Personal checks, ex. cept on Omaha and eastern exchange, hot accepted.- OFFICES. ' Cfmaha The Bee building;. South Omaha-2318 N 6t " ''' Council Blurfs-U No. Main St . Llncoln-28 Little building. Ch!cagolMl Marquette building. 'Kansas City Reliance building. New York-S4 West Twenty-third. St. -Louie 48 Pierce bulldlns. '-- ' Waahington-728 Fourteenth St. N. . . . - CORRESPONDENCE. . s Communications relating to news and editorial , matter should be addressed ' Omaha Bee. Editorial Department AUGUST CIRCULATION. v: 50,229 State of Nebraska, County of Douglas, ss. - i Dwighjt Williams, circulation- managei of The. Bee Publishing company, being . duly sworn, says that the average dally " circulation for the month of August. i'Jli, waa 60.229. D WIGHT WILLIAMS , i . . , . Circulation Manager. ' Subscribed . In my presence and sworn to before me this 2d day-of September, lMi.v. -.-.- , - ROBERT HUNTER, . fSeaL) ... Notary Public. Sabacrtbere tearing the city temporarily shoald . have Tke Bet snile4 to then, i Address wtll bechanced as often as as cjsiste4.t; ;-. ;,,,...!".. Xew Reeor Established. '-'' When In June," 1910, the ninth annual convention of the . International ' Stereo typera and Electrotype n" Union ' of North - America , waa entertained In Omaha by Sterotypers' union No. 24, Good Idea Pijsh it Along. ' ins commercial club announces Its purpose to take greater part In municipal artairs than . heretofore, and that tbe appointment, of some kind of - a- permanent conference committee to act with the city com misBioners is proDaoie. this is a good Idea which should be pushed the local organisation established a new along, lor tbe suggestions and ad- record and took its place in tbe front vice of the business Interests of the rnk wlth th ,tron'e"t among the many rUv Mtrnnf fall tr Ka a k.T,-ei. m I Thaa nwm f 1 eihawfl hwws )ia Hs Im the municipal authorities. . i ,m th.t 0mAh. hmA mmla fnr The Idea, however, is a good one, this convention was a complete surprise. not only for the Commercial club, bt arrangements for the entertainment but for other civic organizations - tn " wer . . . . , . - i umuiif, "lira ine prasiuen - . I DolnteO all ' members of No. 24 a com. , . , . . I ana activities tnai come in Close con- mlttee , of the whole. Bubeotnmittees tact with tbe municipal government, were appointed and work:was begun at The new organization of retail deal- once upon " undertaking that was no m tnr ...mnii. ha. v 8m'" for the membership to covor ers, fos example, has a right to have ,uf,P,nP .v, Its wishes consulted through, a. com How splendidly it was carried thfougn mlttee just , as have the Improve-1 Is now a matter ef hfstory. ment clubs, the labor . unions, the There were in attendance upon this Real Estate ethane and oth.. c"'n bot Afty-flve delegates, w)th " ' thMr W(UM m rA ' .ki.l -, .. ,1 . . - v-ji mi i i jyoiiij-Jivo .mumr UUui. x ue omy we spot, vlshors and their wives. The tSrokram it strikes us, is the lack of an or-1 was elaborate, and so successfully car. ganUation in Omaha of home owners rlcd out tntt it was the unanimous rx and taxpayers covering the whole rteaion ot th uet that the .ix days iw ..... nt Jn 0mba constituted the nu-st ,ct luo l" deilightful convention neriod n nicipal problems from the broadest joyed by the international body, in the possible standpoint, and at the same accomplishment of this signal ,-ucotss time to. Insist. on strict economy. aDout l-m w" fPnt' wlich shows The way to make a citv rovern- 1 management was economical ' I Without belmr tiarslmnnl mist anrl shth uni.u jBi.uu.in w puDuo uoeas is sum was so well invested that its re- through constant conferences be-1 turns are bound to be perpetual. tween the officials and represents-1 The out0nie of this event waa so erai- STEREOTYPIES AND ELECTEOTYPESS By Louis Connony, President of the Omaha Local. ; tives of all the different civic units. 'iFifst registration day today. With what political' party do you wish to afflriatef Speak up truth 'fully now. , " , 4 Only i eleven men' were killed in - the model steel mills at Gary in Au gust.. Must have been a dull month , there., .' '.. . " tTbose- letter carriers who have moie 'work' are 'alfio to have more , pay,' jlfcn, ought to '. equalize the burden. f ,, . tI ., .,, Tellers Will, Figg-er, Out of the kindness of his heart the: blill moose 'polltlfcal weather which win appeal especially to the crafta- rorecaster for Nebraska has taken men of kindred and allied trades. nently satisfactory, not only to the mem- mers of the International and local un ions, but to the business men and citizens of Omaha, that It will bt of general In terest to relate some of the early his tory,' trials and , tribulations of No. 24. us early into his confidence by glv- First stereotyping punt. ing out advance returns of the No vember election, which he says will show as follows: . , Roosevelt ............100,000 Wilson ..........,..,.........'.,., 76,00(' Taft , 60,000 Far be it from us at this time to hot the the I . Havlhf 4 made good on his wave and his showers, will weather- man - please pass " "co'ole?" . : v Omaha Is now among the progres sive cities equipped for automobile -ftBeri)fr,'8qm day we will also ., hVe:street' carineiaLtrains, '. 4 Wrtek"V)h 4c to peddle - tr.caenT.ana Mcoien. mere ;W snoot f P.algii said Ho -Yba weataer.man-.'.keeps on telling us that we still . have a deficiency of rainfall since March 1. Here' is where-a deficiency must be better than a surplus. ;"v Germany Is also agitated oyer the high cost of food, and with: cause if quoted prices are reliable. Fifty-six cents a pound for beefsteak' makes Omaha figures look cheap.;?; r' Chicago is bragging now 1 that it has 2,326,400 Inhabitants, based, on directory count. Sounds pretty.big. But when bragging, why Btop f6r 4a couple of hundred thousand? AU real progresa in this country during the last half century bas, been . made under republican rule, and advance Is only possible by. close, adherence to republican policies. , ' . President Taft is getting :. some bouquets along with the. brickbats these days, showing that his 'efforts as executive are appreciated by a lot of people who are raot politicians. It is probably news to "Boss" Flian to be told that he! is an Ideal ist" with "no thougbbof personal return" for tlme. and -money 4e voted to politics. But he' will not deny the allegation. ? , ' ; ' Half the coal piined' In the United States is wasted by reason of poor burning devices, says an expert . of the government.,. But it all has to be paid for by somebody, so the coal man does not worry. , Ormsby McHarg was the man .. on whom Roosevelt originally depended to push through the fake contests for seats In the Chicago convention, so it Is not to be wondered at that he admits the hollo wness of the bull moose pretensions. , ,, .'.'... . Te Conwiiercjalyclub: should jnpt ;bevalonet' ia iteef forts td 'inducethe nestmeat of home money in Omaha enterprises. Money made in Omaha might yery well be reinvested here, to.tfce advantage, both of the indi vidual and the community. ? One might get the impression r,om his Btatements that Senator '.T(ilnT! dos-; 'not llke .Governor BJeae,..were t jiot for tbe. fact thaV tip- '.lWra Ahrith Tinnlnpfiit hv South. Carolina democrats at the same primary." t. , ,. '.;-. -V. ' ' I' . .; .'.-, If our distinguished , hydraulic Water boarders had only ' let the writer company build that second supply water main under their standing offer to do so, they would bave avoided aH. this trouble over whicn street ihe main, should come down. ' ' The first newspaper stereotyping at tempted In this city was on The Bee, when It occupied its old quarters at S14 Farnam street. This was In August, 1885. ; A man named Curtis, from Detroit, was 1 the first stereotypes and I was his helper, It was a new business, but Indifferently matte a counter prediction. We failure of it. Mike Buckley came shortly would npt even call attention to the afterward, taking Curtis' place in Sep fact that four years ago Taft had tember or October, and was followed by 127,600;. and -Bryan lJiioOO, alto- Mart Mack 'rom Chic0, W-"'HeraM ih orb ftAn I "Ul " stereotyping tn , ana tney naa ' uua'vvv' ' V the same trouble there. o,uuu more tnaa in nun m,evwr A et Louis man was the first swreo- accounts'" for. It is of no consequence typer on the Herald; I forget his name, that this forecast appropriates from but he did not .last long, and was sue the democratic column Ks.OOn for by Martin Mack, and be In turn was succeeded by John Feeney. under wIiaaV ! hairan mil AnnintlKhtn ' Tn to come from the republican column. January, Uffl, the Evening World Insulted tj-nere for a meeting in the stereotyp ing room of The Bee the week following. Then and there .waa . organised Stereo typera amt-Electrotypers' union Ko. it, with the following members: if.' J. Buck- i ley, S. I Rowsee,' 'Oeorse Raoolev. . T. 8. Oranvilie," MattheW Reiner, James Black, sr., C. U Hawklnson, Samuel C. t rey, Louis Connolly, John Volanta and K H. Hawkfnson. At thig time we surrendered the old 1 . t n 1 1 oHindDmwara J - 'W t 1 I i f C9MP&LEO fKOM BE TlhtS SEPT. 8. Thirty Venrs Ag The feast day of the patroness of the cathedral was celebrated by the unveiling of an o'.I portrait of St- Philomena, the mass being conducted by Rev. Father diction of the International Typograph ical Union.' This charter was destroyed by fire in Labor Temple hall In March, 1S, and a new one was granted, which we worked under until the organization of ; the ' International Stereotypers Jand Electrotypers" union in 190J. ' ? Previous to July,-1897. we were practi oally , a union In name only: " V do not recall one instance where our working conditions were Improved, or any effort put forth to Improve them. 4 We had ho regular scale, and were working unrea sonably long hours. , But on the above date, new life was put Into the organi sation, the membership became enthusi astic, active, and the result was shown in our later progress. At the meeting held July 1, 1897, the following scale waa aaopted ' by unanimous vote: Newspaper stereotypers" wages shall not be less than US per week; for Job stereotypers not less than Ji8 per week, for electrotype molders not less than $21 per week; elec trotype finishers not less than $30 per week. ' This scale was accepted by em ployers, and went into effect thirty days later, ,.-', . -? ' .- ; . Advance la Wages. In March, : 190&, a scale callina- for u per day for newspaper stereotvDers and eight hours per day, or night, was sub mitted to tke publishers, and on April Si 1903. the committee reported - that the managers of The Bee, World-Herald and News had verbally agreed to the "scale as submitted. Two years later an effort was made to Increase the scAle for news-' and Cleary, with sermon by Rev. F. F. McCarthy. ' Crelghton college will reopen with these officers and faculty? President, Rev. T. H. Miles, a. J.; vice-president. Rev. T. 13. Leason, S. J., and Messrs. J. F. Bergen, 8, J. Gartland, S. J.; F.vMo Kenna, Ed A. O'Brien,. Ed Owens and Pr. M. J. O'Rourke. , , J. B. - Kitchen, formerly, with the Pa-, clfle house, fit. Joseph, .has come to Omaha to make It his permanent resi dence. ... , -V . The pews for the Baptist church have arrived. They are of red oak trimmed in black walnut.. ...';'. Hon. Simeon Bloom has returned from the east..--,., y - , ; . -John A. Crelghton was an east bound passenger. Annie1 Glacomlnl goes to Notre .Dame, Maryland,, .to pursue her studies. Miss , Alen M.- WlUlama, principal of Cass - street school, has , returned from Colorado,-where she spent the summer, Mrs.- Mackey has returned to her home In Bt. Louis, after spending the summer wtth her oarents. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Vv Jones.' r:- ''. . ' Twenty Years Ago-- : . The republican committee met and com' pleted arrangements for the city primar ies. In the absence of Chairman Smith, T. K. SudboroUgh presided. Mrs.' B; Sllloway, proprietor of the Mur rav hotel, was presented by the employes with a silk umbtella and alligator sain . I People Talked;About 1 " 1 paper stereotypers to $3.60 per day,, and I'grip In token of the fourth anniversary of .! .ra a ,naii ror overtime. This was her oronrletorshlp. the bull mooser, leaving only 44,000 It II of no consequence either' that he gives the colonel in 191S (only 100,000 votes, when - In 1904 he polled 138,500, or 88,600; more. Conceding Taft 60,000 votes while asserting that' 90 per cent .of the republican in Nebraska are against him, is of course no' more paradoxi cal. . ,' . But we know of no . law in this state that prevents "fellers" ' from "figurln," ' " '"' f ' ."'.-' j-.--. .Wiftllf the Gain,,r. If every action ought to have a purpose, inquiry is' Justified as to thy end of automobile road racing. Generally, efforts' .are . directed at curbing the mania v.for speed, but yiese events must; nve tne effect, If they.1: have1 a!ny, of i stimulating' the sire to "burn ur the . rnad:" tt la easy; to understand the eiroUement that, attends the. spectacle' of 'half-a- dosren men' in high power 'Machines, recklessiy1 defying disaster in a mad competition, abHt ' wblen "jthe excite ment calms down, what has been ac complished ? -, Xt has.'v been proven that, given a -. maohlne of sufficient pow; (apd adrlver;:"unmindful of other, consequences', jh at an entirely useless'' aumber ; of ; miles Vpw. hour mayibe jtniintainld; lrlbther' condi tions fWiavobJ&'r':.';. ,'.' .' , X But'1 ..the': automobile-, industry Is gainer In nothing. ; Some of the -big makers 'decline to longeritake part in -the aeeB,b.eeanMv.tliey con tribute, nothing to the development Of the machine, and ' therefore are of no practical benefit. Those who persist In it profess to find the ques tionable advertisement It affords suf ficiently profitable to warrant the expense. . ; V: "v : With' the governrnent i officially denouncing the "speed mania" ' as responsible for a, very large percent age of disasters on railways, and moralists finding it in many ways chargeable; with loss of lite and great destruction of property, are we. not continually Inviting calamity when we contribute in any degree to. a'sport" whose most" direct in fluence is to'fonter the miflness for speed that Is becoming a feal na tional menacet Automobile, makers could do much toward making their treat industry humaritarian.as well as utilitarian by disbanding the rac ing teams that now represent them. t Any way, Gmaha'beat Lincoln, to It In erecting a monument to "-the martyr president, even though . the statue on the grounds of the old ter ritorial capltol here is not quite eo pretentious as the one Just unveiled on the state house ground .there. , New York City ha lost $3,000 a 'day on lt municipal ferry plant for the last seven years.- This Js Just a trifle ahead of ; Omaha! experience with Its water plant, but Omaha has not .had the water plant that, long yet. ." v-'., : .', .:: .:'' Judging from the pbotographs, the only thing still needed for that Lincoln monument Just unveiled Is a new state house for a background . Well, we will hear from Vermont in due time. a stereotyping plant with M. J. Keliey as stereotyper. In January or February, 1887, the Republican put In a stereotyping plant, with a man by the name of Kelley as stereotyper, who was succeeded by S. L.'RoWsee.. . . ; ' It was in the spring of 1887 that the Stereotypers and Electrotypers' union of Omaha was first organised, under a char ter of the International Typographical union, . as Pressmen, Stereotypers and Electrotypers' union No. 32, with a mem bership of twelve pressmen and "eight stereotypers and , electrotypers. n There were at this Urns 1 Omaha four news- papenrrualng .Webb .uresses ana .employ ing stereotypers: The Herald, publishing a morning edition, John. Feeney, stereo typer, Edward McGrath, helper; The Bee, publishing morning and evening editions, M. J. Buckley and Edward Egan, stereo typers, Charles Watson,' helper; the Be publican, publishing a morning edition, 8. L. Rowiee, stereotyper', V J- Dunn, helper; the Evening World, publishing an evening edition,' M. J. Kelley, stereo typer, Louis Connolly, helper. ; ' When O. M. Hitchcock two years later bought the Herald and merged It with the Evening World, publishing morning and evening editions of the World-Herald, one stereotyper was deposed. In 1890 the. Republican suspended publication, tnus leaving but two newspapers (Th Bee and the World-Herald) employing . stereo typers, the work of these double-headers bein performed by one crew each. A new Job shop, started that year, took care of the stereotyping foree of the old Re publican. On the morning edition of the newspaper we reported to work at mid night and worked about four hours. This was on an eight. page paper, requiring from eight' to sixteen plates, and in the vent of a twelve-page paper the stereo- j typing' crew was called an hour earlier. On Sunday Issues we began work at T o'clock, and on a few occasions it was 7 o'clock in the morning before the starter was out. , 1 Era of Long Honrs. In SJ new mall trains were put on, which necessitated an early edition, whin we reported at I p. m. This meant four hour additional time, and no extra pay, though I believe there was an additional man allowed on each paper. In those days foremen received from $20 to $30 per week of seven days, and other help from $13 to til for the same period. No over time waa paid for. 4 In the spring of 1890 the pressmen, with whom we had worked tn harmony up to that time, voted to surrender the charter and connect themselves with the Inter. national Printing Pressmen's union. The stereotypers, by a clever ruse, secured the charter, and continued, in connection with the three pressmen who remained loyal to us, to hold our meetings from time to time, but always under the old charter, which was seeJously guarded. It was an uphill fight, but we were deter mined, to keep the old union In existence, having eleven members. We added to our membership by initiation and card, six teen pressmen and seven stereotypers and electrotypers In the ensuing three years, averaging from twelve to fourteen mem bers. There was inevitably more or less strife and rancor between the two rival organisations, all of which has happily long since given way to an era of har mony and good fueling. Beginning with 18S3, there was a period of lose of membership.to No. U, by aus lienslon and withdrawals, which in three years reduced our , number of .members In good standing to seven-four stereo typers 'and three . pressmen. Then an agreement was reached between the In ternational Typographical union and the International Printing Perssmen's union, whereby the cards of our pressmen were accepted by the. International Printing Pressmen's union, ;and on -January 12. 1SH the three remaining pressmen with drew their1 cards, leaving but four stereo typers, M. J. Buckley, George Rappley, S. L. Rowiee and Lout Connolly!, at that, time employed on the St Joseph tiasette. .' ..' Formatloa et JSew-.l'nIoal, . We Immediately formed ourselves Into a- committee of four, and Issued a call to all Omaha stereotypers and electro- bitterly fought, and finally compromised at tS.25 per day and 50 cents per hour for overtime, on one year verbal contract with the newspapers. In May, 1906, a new scale for Job stereo typers was put into effect. S3 per day of nine hours work, instead of 118 per week. In October. 1908, a scale was presented, the same asked for in 1305, and after a few. conferences with the publishers, we wertj given our first written contract by a.1!" publishers In Omaha, Council Bluffs and South Omaha, with a single exception, who paid the-scale, but on a verbal con tract This accomplishment was a source of great satisfaction, being regarded as acknowledgment on the part of our em ployers that we had proven our right to recognition as a labor union. In 1910' another scale committee was appointed as our contract with the pub- Ushers was about to expire.. .The follow. Ing contract was signed: ' Journeymen shall apt. be paid less than 13.76 per day or night, and beginning January, 1913, not less than $4 per day. Eight conseoutlv hours shall constitute a day's or night's work, and time and a half for overtime. ! - ... , .... . ... .. Improved Conditions. ., While, wages have .been Improving, con ditions have also been gradually and steadily bettered. . The. stereotyping busl nes. has made .wonderful strides in: even the.Jaat three , years, by .reason ot new machinery now being manufactured, so that where formerly the work- was so hard as to be, literally slavish,' it is now not only easier, but the. work is done better, as for instance in the case of the auto-shaver, pump, casting boxes and compressed air steam-tables inaUlled by The Bee, the pump boxes put in by the News, and the seml-aiitoplate and pump- boxes put In by the World-Herald. Then, too, the' rooms are more sanitary, the hours more tolerable, and the whole "sur roundings' and conditions invite the work- er's "best efforts.' .,' , , The Omaha union Is today a 100 per tent organisation every -stereotyper &nt elac trotyper In the city Is on Its rolls. It has now thirty-three members, all in .. good standing, with an average attendance at meetings of , .twenty-five. , We have ,lrt our local, treasury about 130 per capita, loaned out at, interest, and . we resei-v It for the. benefit of the membership. No member of the local union In good stand ing need patronise the loan sharks, as he can get $25 by applying to the secretary and treasurer, and not to exceed M. by the consent of the executive board. Our dues never exceed $1 per moutn. In the twenty-five years, of our existence w have -Never had a strike. 1 1 whatever Way considered, No. 24, from the date at Its last charter may be reajarded as hav ing achieVed complete success. ; Most of the members own their own homes, and are as happy, and contented as any t'asi of wage Workers in Omaha. . r Rev. and Mrs. W. Franklin Smith were hn. tmm oleasant visit to Illinois; Dr. George L. Miller was In Salt Lake lookine after business affairs. . ' ,1,. Copland, a grocer at 3213 California street, was badly bitten by a dog at, a house at Thirtieth and California and re ported the matter to the police. CaDtaln T.: H. Russell Of Deadwood, one of the . pioneers of that region, , was in the city with his ion, George P. Rus sell who , was about to matriculate at Prlehton' college. ' - . '" ' Mrs. C. H. Frederick returned from a summer spent in New Tork and Fnn. sylvanla. , v: .,':". i.; Ten Ypars AgO . .'- ' Rev. CvB. Tlngley of Blair delivered a stirring address on home' missions at the j.-.j-. .tm t.1 the BaDtlSls. .iov- Ul(l.b ll.-v.. "O - Williams Of Des Moines, the- newly ap pointed secretary of the missionary as sociation, spoke on the world-wide aspect , i..in.: Re.- E. A. Russeii 01 uru, ...r f the Baptist Publication so. - mh. ka. was one of . the cieiy . v . t... .. 'm,.... Conrv of . La Porte,. Ind.. were visiting at the home of John Conry on Pleroe street. Vs" " ' v - sixty merchants of Nebraska and Iowa reported at the Commercial club rooms a a.resuit of '.the second ; day t the fade excursion. s -vhrf1 had struck in reluctant obedience "to the uhloh's wder issued by- Business Agent hick eleven son, returned to work. ' -The. Real Estate exchange, on motion 'of F. D. Wead, appoipiea a in""1"" headed by W. H. Green, to report on prospects ot haying the Nebraska Real EelatS Dealers' association hold Its next convention tn- Omah In December. Echoes ot the Western Passenger as eociatlon's rusade. against scalping were heard locally in ' the form of protests against the traffic in stockmen's passes. ! ! POIITICAI 'SIIAPSHOTS. nw Tork Sun: Senator Lodge has un covered a record of George Washington's swearing at the senate. ,The father of his country will soon be claimed as an orig inal muckraker. .v .. . Wall Street Journals Boms of the ..de spised' -men of big business would like to have the chanee of running this coun try with an allowance of much less than $1,000,000,000 a year. Washington Poet: The surest way for a newspaper correspondent to make a life long enemy nowadays is for him to ask a republican congressman how he stands on the Roosevelt question. . . ; 8t Louis Republic: Th bull moose con vention at Chicago made a profit of $474. But nobody imagined that George Per kins Would be connected with a propo sition that didn't pay. " Josephj ;t3." RSbln, who is In tne Tofflbs awaiting sentence following his convic tion for , the wrecking of th.e Northern bank,-is said to have made another for-, tune through speculation carried on while a prisoner, ", -- George : F. Edmunds, who drafted the Sherman antl-turst law twenty-two years ago, Is quoted as expressing his belief that . Roosevelt Should not be' entrusted with its further application.. . A man in Wlnfield. Kan., wrote to the local paper: "It may be all right, but it kind of galls me to see a duck who has 'owed me $9.40 for six months sub scribe $5 to the evangelist" King George Is reported to, hare said that the duchess of Roxeburghe. who was Miss May Goelet of New Vork, is me oest-reaa woman in England, "being equal to the queen," which Is a. great compliment, coming . from his : majesty. The duchess can. follow his lead on any subject he may suggest. J. P. Morgan, It Is told, adopted 'an ingenious way of securing a'captain for the Corsair. He inquired of the captains of some of the White Star liners for a list of competent first and second of ficers. When these were furnished he asked for their previous month's wine cards, and the one' having 'the lowest wine charge against him was chosen- Boldly defying the high cost of living and the "morning after" ieellng, Alder man Frank J. Dotsler, devoured nine and a. quarter pounds of steak- and nineteen rolls, washed down with eleven cups, of coffee, at a beef-eating contest on Long Island. Holy smoke, think what would happen if Dotsler . exercised his appetite at an inland clam bake. . , Miss Blanche. H. Coffin of Nantucket, is said to be the' youngest state official in Massachusetts. Miss Coffin had just celebrated her seventeenth birthday when she Was appointed town Weigher by the board of selectmen' and placed in Charge of the own scales. Miss : Coffin is a graduate of the Nantucket" High- school and a daughter of a former keeper of the' life-saving .station- at Coakata. ' ' - I TOLD DT ITJU. you are sun a oacneiorr . "Yea." , - ' ," "Whyt" -. t,',' ; ' ... "I'm waiting for equal suffrage. Before she votea-Cleveland Plain Dealer. -s. "fou never go to banquets.with your husbaod?" -.- .y - " "No. I am always afraid that they'll ask him to make a speech." "And he can't make one?". ' "That's It, exactly. But if he were asked I Just know he'd get up and try. "-Detroit Free. Press. ' :v.' . "What reason have you to think that my campaign contribution was grate fully receded" a'ked Mr. Dustin Btaks. "The fact," replied the secretary, ''""that the gentleman immediately - came back for more." Washington Star: The city editor looked over the manu script the caller had handed himif '-'If I run this item, madam,:', he .ald, "I shall have to ue the blue pencil on about nine-tenths of it" ' - - n "Oh, that's too much trouble!" she ex claimed. "Let me have it again, and I'll . write It all with a blue pencil." Chicago Tribune. ... - THE SODA CLERK. i behold , Atlanta Georgian. Whenever I am anxious to chao at work I stand and watch the movement of the soda-water clerk. Especially In summer, when the tem perature is high . And people swarm up to him and im- , -j petuously-:cry:, .ffW.,;. ;..vi sody-draw me a "Gimme a choe'lit lemon lime - Gee, but hl dump Is crowded been here an awful time--- ,.,. Couple o' sassaperlillas-strob'ry colllg .Ice' , x ' ' Say, on the level, Llsle, isn't "Verniller - nice : f,-'. Got enny maple walnut here you are, over here . , . . ' No, I don't want no banana, told you I : 'said root beer-' -'V Wbadd'l y' have: try coffee-eay, this ain 1 orangeaae, - . , . -, Don't talk, to me, young feller-I know 4 how, the drink is mad?;. ;.- 4 . 1 ' ""' ' ' - .... . -. , ' I:." '. And thus they keep on coming, with in-. sistent, nrtSK aemana. : The soda clerk keeps moving, a he works , with either hand. -He's. fast enough in winter, but the sum mer makes him fly. . " '.'' It's then he demonstrates the' hand Is faster than the eye.:; v Wliy Women Are Not JR1CH. . Msa is millionaire saaay times oref ia the poeeession oi blood cell. W on is not quite so rioa,ior scientists awn proves that the normal man has five mil lion the woman only fear and a ban million to a eubio millimetre si blood. A decrease m number oi red blood oorpecke sod penen "looks peJe '-m Cict,b aaaemic, tbe Mood dee not get tae right food snd probably the stomach is disordered. . ;, ' '.''r r f , ,w ;Dr. R. V. Pierce found. years age tkat glyceric extract of golden seal snd Oregon grape' roots, Queen's root and Wcodroot with black oherrrbark, would help . the assimilatioo of the food in the ctomacfa, eecreot liver ills and In Nature's own way increase tbe led Mood oorpwecese. iws meoinne ne caBed Dr. Pierce) GoHea Medioei Discovery.; By e imi tating the food eaten lm eystesa is ftOurUhed and the blood takes en a rum red eolar, Nerreasness is only ' the ery ef.tite starved nerve for food," and when the nerve ere fed ea rich ted bioed the pemea leeees those' irritable feel iaglleenwell et night and is refreshed tbe morahig. ... . tiraM IbWH, IM M Wlrtl W a elserderad stanaeh snd kver " wiMes Ma. Jaa. D. Lrvm.T, of Waib- bum. Twm.. Root 1 Box St. AO or Maods tbeetbt I weald die and tbe best abysidsas awve aae an. I 1 Gotten Ifaaical Dtooevery.aad aeswed anek btaent from same. My ease had ran w km. It had become se ebnoie Ha notkmc wenM a aamanant mm. hot Dr. FVira'i teariihia has dtOhe maek far mi I iWily nmamand H. I baartily aavise Ma eoe as a sprtaer tODle, and I was advised to try Dr. Pierce's At - --. - .111.. . fc . rW Mm Ij, MwlUlnMI WM ' JT. D. Lmt.7, Esq. jitmmm bare ran w ob that there la no chance to be cured. Dr. Pierce's Medical Adviser, 31 stamps to pcy for wrapping and mailing qalf. lead; Th Perfect Summer ONE TEASPOONTUL MAKES TWO CUPS. ' Published by the. Growers of India Tea. .. THE BATTLE OF DUNBAR By Eev. Thomas B. Gregory." - Two hundred and sixty-two years ago Lord hath delivered today September 8, 1630 Cromwell -and his Ironside met the men of the heather at Dunbar and gave them' the' beating of their lives. That Scotchmen are brave has been demonstrated upon a hundred battlefields, but the drubbing that "Old Noll' gave ' them at Dunbar : they can never-forget . . -V But Dunbar did the. Scotch a world of good; and, moreover,, it was something that they well deserved. It was a roost righteous beating that they got n .that memorable September day, 16&0. , Cromwell, One of the greatest men of alt time. was as tolerant as he was great, but he felt that toleration was a game that It took two or more to piay at. H was more than willing to reach out the hand ot good will. to. any one who was. disposed to meet him half way, - but for the wouldrbe champions of In tolerance he had no patience and but little compassion. , .The Scotch, led on by their ranaticai preachers, were trying to make every body Presbyterians, , and not only v so, , but they were engaged in., the attempt at making the people of England accept a-klng that. they did not want. In their majesty the English. , people . had risen and brushed .away the Stuart dynasty, with all of Its crimes, and now , the ' Scotch, were, trying by. force of arms, to make them take that dynasty back. . ,Thls was more than Cromwell could . stand. He would not become a Preaby tertan. or anything else, against his will, and as for accepUng Charles the Second, j he would not listen , to It for a -moment As Cromwell was wondering what to do his quick eye detected a -certain move ment on the part ot the enemy, and see ing the ' advantage of It he threw-up i his hands with the exclamation; "The them into our hands!" ' Instantly the Ironsides' were In mo tion. "Let God arise, and let his enemies be scattered!' shouted "Cromwell to them, and in a little while it was ail over with the heather folk: 'V " '" It was a' wonderful, victory-on of the most wonderful on record 10,000 prison ers, 4,000 slain, 200 colors and sundarda, 15,000 stand ot arms, all "the artillery and Cromwell's" loss less ; . than twenty-five men. '. ' ' It was a lesson - that Scotland never forgot, and even the bigoted parsons were led to feel that it would be a wise thing on their part to forever desist from the attempt at making Englishmen . into Unwiltlng Presbyterians, and Squally un willing supporters ot the Stuart dynasty. The greatest thing in the world was at stakehuman liberty and Cromwell "got busy."- ''"V "'."' " He entered Scotland on the E3d of July with 11,000 of his "ironsides."; and on the Sd of September found himself face to face with Leslie's army at Dunbar. It was the largest army that- Scotland had ever mustered-37.000 strong, skirting the amphitheater of ' hllla. Outnumbered more than two to one, ; Cromwell was never before in so critical a position. There was no retreat Behind him was the sea, in front of him was Usll and the heath, a wilderness -ot, bog and swamp the Lammermoor. ; ; . .. He Didn't Mean It. ' Indianapolis Kewsv After thinking it 'over ' Representative Mann, author of the postoffice Sunday Closing law, reaches the conclusion that he didn't mean what he said. But. tt course, this infrequently the case witn lawmaking poUticlana. ' ' "OOD": T 13E nonnniG . FAST DAYLIGHT EXPRESS, for Kan sas Oity, St. Joseph, Atchison, Heaven worth, arriving Kansas City at 4:05 p,'m., in time 91 5 A F.le ' for.'afternoon and early evening trains,, ' ' ' carrie8 tjbroiigh .ittodard' slcpepers from-St: t - - . ''Paul and JluntoeapoUmodernicfind dining cars."' 1 . . - AFTER IIOOH 4:35 P. r.l. HIGUT id:45 p;n. (ready 10 p. ml) ST. 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