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NOVEMBER cmCirATION.
52,068
State of Nebraska. County of Douglas, ss. :
Dwlght Williams, circulation manager
of The Beo Publishing company, being
duly sworn, says that the average dally
circulation for the month of November,
1813, was 62.0CS, DWK31IT WILLIAMS,
Circulation Manager.
8ub rlbed In my presence and sworn
to before me this 3d day of December,
WIS. nOBEUT HUNTER,
(Sea!) Notary Public.
aaharrlhera leaving; the cltr
temporarily aJionld 1ikt6 The See
mailed to tWeim. Address will be
rhaasreil aa often aa rrqaeated.
Only four more early Christmas
shopping darn.
Sen the early Christmas shopper
coming down tho homo stretch.
Mexico's revolution thus far Is said
to have coit $300,o6o,OQO. With
what profit?
"Quo Vadls" might be applied to
the administration with reference to
Its Mexican policy..
Gaby Is getting a lot of fine free
advertising out of tho knocks that
serve bettor than boosts.
Looks as if this day, Decembor
19, might havo more than twenty
four hours on the congressional cal
endar, Paradoxically speaking, if tho
winter wheat pans out ai well as It
promises, our farmers will all be in
clever.
T,he mistake of that lady with fifty
finance attke same, time Ilea lu fall
ing to. take them on singly In serial
number.
William Ji Bryan, Jr., Just ad
inltUd lo the bar, Is said to be an ac
complished musician. But' how la ho
at chautalklng?
With the Fankhursta still blUfflag
tho Briton, Johnny Bull cannot con
slstently pok fun. at Uncle Sam for
not repressing HiMrta.
The most notable thing about tho
play called "The Lure" Is that It
proves that nothing Is too sordid and
vile for the American stage,
That th ftrweat administration
car aoihlag alHHtt the heirlooms of
Jacknontatt. dwnerey 1 again re
flect! in its atrUea of the White
Houte mint fc4.
Really, the was . not so
niuefe in docferiag the minute aa la
the original fraudulent padding of
the membership- rails la order to
control the Teachers' association'
election.
All right! Let It be distinctly
understood that when we havo votes
for women Miss Fewclothes wilt not
be permitted to 'give a Sunday per
JermaaCe to a packed house la the
trcst theater in town.
Over in Iowa a lawyer ha been
actually disbarred for unprofessional
practices without waiting for a court
to pronounce him a convicted crim
inal. It may happen in Nebraska
some day but not soon.
His pet bank guaranty amendment
to the currency bill was beaten, not
because In itself offensive to tho
party leader so much a that It was
not a part of the caucus program.
Behold King Caucus, hie rule never
more absolute.
Those preacher do not seem to
appreciate the kindly consideration
of the charity ball promoters, who
thoughtfully achcduled the big
.vent for a noncompetitive week
aay instead of the Sabbath.
A local newspaper that never
Joes anything to help improve condi
tions takee the Ministerial union to
task for not knocking on other In
iquities before tackling the charity
Mall tango. But the pulpit reformers
bar to begin somewhere, and natu
rally take the easy Job first.
TIm JyfteaiRg bee in North Dakota
ft apialM as due to fear that tho
M, although under life sentence
tpr asuraer, might soon bo pardoned
(krone tho influence of powerful
Mm. TVe indiscriminate uio of
to oHw power is unquestiona
bly a mak a menace to orderly law
tt aa failure to prosecute
Republican Reorganization.
Tho republican national committee
has ndoptcd a plan of party reorgan
ization which, we believe, will com
mend Itself generally to tho rank and
file, although, of course, It will not
bo accepted as satisfactory either by
tie democrats or by the Irreconcila
ble bent on destroying tho repub
lican party. It is gratifying to know
that the procedure followed is tho
method which The Bee proposed,
namely, for tho committee, Itself, to
strike out with reform measures, sub
ject to ratification by tho different
state organizations, rather than to
r them to an improvised national
convention sure to revive or accentu
ate tho old troubles.
The particular plan of reapportion
ment adopted, whllo In the nature of
a compromise, goes far In the desired
direction of conforming contention
delegates to party strength. It re
tains equality of tho states In their
delegates-at-large, gives every con
gressional district ono district dele
gate, and one additional delegato to
every district that polls a substantial
republican voto. Tho Bee would have
preferred apportioning the additional
district delogatcs on a percentage of
tho total vote as a premium for suc
cessful recruiting of the party forces,
and would also have relegated the
territories and insular possessions to
the status of representation with
voice, but not vote. These two
points, however, are not vital, and no
serious objection can be made to tho
representative character of the con
vention constituted as the new plan
contemplates,
Tho question remains what the
other parties are going to do about
reapportionment, for their conven
tions havo been made up on precisely
tho samo plan, with the same dispro
portions, though in leas striking de
gree. In setting tho paco In conven
tion reform the republicans, as usual,
head tho procession.
High Cost of Anbstttdorships.
Is it possible that young Mr. Mc-
Combs is correct in saying that a dig
nified fulfilling of tho American am
bassadorship at Paris Involves an an
nual outlay of $150,000? This, ho
says, was his only reason for declin
ing tho post urged upon him by Pres
ldont Wilson as a reward for his po
litical cervices, carrying a salary of
! 17,600 a year, It is common knowl
edge, of cqurse, that ambassadorships
abroad havo been made very expen
slve luxuries oy many Americans
financially able to afford the price,
but Is it really Incumbent on our rep
resentatives to attempt to maintain
the practice? If bo, how about some
of thoBe .eminent, but by no means
wealthy, scholars now representing
us at European capitals? Even Am
bassador Page at the Court of St.
James had it carefully stipulated bo
fore accepting this moot conspicuous
post, whero distinguished predeces
sors of Vast means had established
high precedents for lavish living, that
ho must not be expected to maintain
the precedents.
It in well, though, that this subject
has been brought out Into such bold
rollef by tho recent agitation. Tho
United States need never fear soom
lug disadvantage due to a lack of
toadyism on the part of Its ambassa
dors at foreign courts, wo Imagine,
bitt what we have suffered from more
tangibly is the lack of suitable estab
lishments for .doing the public busi
ness attaching. With embassy houses
provided at tho principal capitals,
men of ability, but of ordinary
.means, ought to be available to
serve us as our ambassadors.
A Stitck ia Time. 4
The homo, the school, Juvenile
court and a 'few' of tho other old and
nevgescli,for the bar' well-being
might find It profitable to lay onto
the lad a few gtera.waraingB and In
junctions about his loose habit ot
"hooking" ride behind automobiles
and wagons, the peril of which has
been emphasized of late in several re
sultant accidents. Boys always have
done this thing, yes, but as the dens
ity of street tratflo increases, so does
the hazard, and, therefore, the occa
sion for precaution. With swift
moving street cars, auto and horse
drawn vehicles, contesting for right-
of-way, It becomes dangerous for lit
tle boys to Indulge this practice sim
ply because boys, have always done It
Parents should be keen to appreciate
this, even It the 'ooya are not. "A
stitch in time saves nine?' and the old
adage applies here with grim pre
cision. Lecturing to a Hastings audience
with, we trust, satisfactory box
office receipts, Detective Burns, the
great sleuth, declares that he could
"clean up" Omaha in forty-eight
hours. Come on! Why wait for
an Invitation to do such a noble
phllanthrophy? We will hire the
Auditorium afterward for another
lecture on "How I Did It," and
divide the proceeds.
....
A late moving picture novelty
shows a group of Houston, Tex.,
school children scrubbing their teeth.
Houston is also displaying .modern
tendencies by adopting the regular
American police uniform for its
officers. ',
Kurope seems to be gradually get
ting the proper view of Jack Johnson,
who was attacked with decayed veg
etables In Pari the other day.
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coMtnr rsoM ate nut
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DECEMBKIl 10
Thirty Years Ago '
The Board of Trade had .another ses
sion on the market house, with no re
sult, except In extension of four weeks
longer to the committee to report.
Excavation has been started on the
west aide of Fourteenth, between Doug
las . and Dodge, for a new four-story
building to ba erected by Messrs. Hellman
and Ifartmari.
A large crowd on the Capitol avenue
roller skating rink witnessed a fine ex
hibition by Prof. Will Daniels.
Mr. W. U. Stlllwell, formerly train dis
patcher for the Minneapolis & Omaha
here, and now at St. James, Minn., was
married to Miss Minnie Mllroy at the
residence of the bride's parents In this
city.
Mrs. E. Ilaney and son have gone td
Los Angeles to spend the winter with
Judge and Mrs. Torter.
City Attorney Connell left for a visit to
Now York, New Hampshire and Vermont,
to bo gone until after the holidays.
Mr J. 8. Cameron, for many years
representative of the American Sewing
Machine company here, has taken the
position of manager of Hospe's muslo
store. '
Tho Saratoga Toung People's- lyceum
has elected these officers: President, J.
II Conrad; -lce president, W. D. Itustln:
secretary, W. II. Christie; treasurer, Miss
Ada Smith.
The state supreme court has affirmed
tho validity of tho batch of paving bonds.
Issued for twenty years at C per cent.
Twenty Years Ag
chairman winspear or the Board or
rubllo Works said he was dally receiving
copies of plans and specifications of pub
lic works In other cities, by which he
and his associates hoped to be partially
guided In mapping out their new plana
for Omaha,
Freight Traftla Manager J. A. Munroe
of the Union Pacific returned from New
Tork, where ha went with President
Clark, bringing the news that the trans
continental lines had agreed to get to
gether for mutual benefit In the matter
Of rates and head off further attempts
at throat-cutting competition.
Judge W. W. Keysor of the criminal de
partment of district court' was having a
time getting t to-the bottom facta of a
ease brought before htm in- which one
man was charged with flattening out an
other's cranium with a good-slied sledge
hammer.
Oeneral Auditor Krastua Young of the
Union Paclflo was back from New York,
It seemed around Commercial club cir
cles aa if tho business men of Omaha
would accept the proposition of Count Lu.
blenskl, tho Polish capitalist representing
a syndicate of financiers, willing to back
a sugar factory In Omaha.
It was Just discovered that tho redis
ricting of the city would throw Council
man Chris Specht from the Sixth to the
Fifth ward. But ! said. l wouldn't In
terfere with Ills serving out his term from
the Sixth.
Ten Years Ago-
Mayor Moorea and Fire Chief Salter
presented tho apportionments of the W.400
fund, contributed publicly for the families
of the four firemen killed In the Allen
Bros. tiro. The' amount was such as to
give each family a little over 1,0.
Tho Froebel school, conducted by Mrs.
Harriet M. Weller. closed for the Christ
mas holidays wllh a little Christmas pro
gram, tinder the direction of Miss
Blanche Korrnson.
Ilyron a. Hurlmnk. as chairman of a
committee on Inquiry, road heforo the
Omaha IUr association a letter from
Carl O, Wright regarding tho packing ef
Juries for political purposes and recom
mending action by the association. Mr.
Burbank said tho committee had Inquired
Into the facts and failed to find ground
for the complaint, saying that Mr.
Wright had obtained his Information In a
round-about way. After some debating,
the matter was referred to the county
commissioners. In the general discussion.
K. A, Uroran said that many men picked
for Jury service wore disqualified by law
as Jurymen and that the county commis
sioners ought to pay stricter attention to
their picking of men for Jury service.
Mr. and Mrs. Blandish went to Chicago
to spend the holidays with their daugh
ter, Mrs. Whorrlt, and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert E. Saalfeld returned
from Wisconsin, where they had beon on
a three weeks' wedding trip. They took
up their home with Mr. and Mrs. August
Frondel, 41 Dorcas street, parents of the
bride.
People and Events
Chicago editors persist In Impressing
the tocal population that It Carter Harri
son, J. Ham Lewis and Klla Flagg Younr
should together relinquish the reins of
power, Chicago wo,uld sag below the lake
level.
Andrew Carnegie, despite his IS years.
Is still a keen salmon fisherman. He was
the proudest man In all Scotland after
succeeding In landing the finest fish
caught In h River Ship, in Sutherland,
this season. It weighed thirty pounds.
Omaha will be In a goodly company ot
public Christmas tree imitators this year.
New York and Boston will repeat their
performance ot last Christmas, and Chi
cago, Rochester, Cincinnati, Hartford,
Washington, Baltimore, Newark and
Utlca, as well as the Gate City, will
deck the, pines and vocalise the Joys ot
the Christmas season. A splendid idea
appropriately expressed,
The loan shark worm la turning here
and there. Several victims helped to give
a penitentiary sentence to Tollman, king
ot the money lenders, in New York.
Down in Kansas a railroad employe who
was hounded out of a' Job after paying
tltlSO on a loan oj US, recovered dam
ages of JJ.M. which was affirmed by th
state supreme court. The Kansas Judg
ment biases a trail for other persecuted
victims to follow.
Philadelphia Record: Governor Glynn
ot New York has broken all precedents
In celerity of legislation by securing the
passage, within the period of a five days'
session, of a reform program of unsur
passed comprehensiveness and Impor
tancr. The governor called his legislature
to meet on Monday, December t, and by
the following Saturday a worklngmen'a
compensation law, a direct primary law,
a new ballot law substituting the Massa
chusetts form for the fraud-promoting
party-column blanket sheet, a law pro
viding for the election of United States
senators by popular vote and a law to
create a legislative bill drafting depart
ment had been placed on the atatute
books of the state.
Twice Told Tales
Needless Hanger,
An actor without funds managed in
some way to get a second class ticket on
a line of steamers -running between Seat
tle and Ban Francisco.
The voyage between these two points
consumed the better part of three days,
and In view of the fact that his finances
were at a low ebb, he figured It out this
way: The first day out ho slept all day
to keep from eating, and remained up all
night to keep from sleeping. The second
day ho took physical culture exercises.
On the third day he could stand thl
strain no longer and he went down to
the dining-room and ordered the best
meal the boat could afford. While tuck
ing it under his belt he conjured up In
his mind's eye a picture of a cell In the
hostile In Ban Francisco.
After finishing his meal lie said tothe
waller. '-How much do I owe youf"
"Nothing." replied the waiter, "your
meals are Included in your ticket." Na
tional Food Magazine.
An Orderly Service.
A Methodist parson, called to preach
at ah out-of-the-way town In California,
was Informed before entering tho pulpit
that he must be careful, as many of the
assembled congregation were "roughs"
and would not hCBttate to pull him from
the pulpit If his remarks did not suit
them.
The minister made no reply, but hav
ing reached the sacred desk ho took from
his pocket two revolvers, and placing
one on each side of the Bible gave a
sharp glance around the room, and said:
"Let us pray."
A moro orderly service was never held.
National Monthly.
Didn't Htup.
A young man who was with a party
of motor tourists making a trip through
the mountains decided to stop over In an
nttractlva place for a fow days and went
to the hotel to ascertain the rates.
"What are your rates?" be Inquired.
"Seven dollars a day, sir," was the
reply.
"If I slay," went on the man, "I shall
want a room on the parlor floor."
"That will cost you SI extra," said the
clerk.
"I shall also want a room with a fire
place, where I can have a fire these
chilly evenings."
"One dollar more, sir."
"And, of course." said the tourist, "I
want one with a bath also."
"A dollar additional, sir.'1
"Well." said the man thoughtfully,
"how much will you charge to let me
leave the hotel Just as I am?" Pulitzer
Magazine.
Editorial Pen Points
Washington Post: The allegation that
ancient Rome Introduced the "rahrah"
cry throws more light on .Its decline
and fall than was ever shed by the late
Mr. Gibbon.
Washington Post: A huge spot on the
sun having been charged to the heliocen
tric conjunction ot the earth and Saturn,
It's now up to the Smithsonian to explain
the explanation.
Cleveland Plain Dealer: Some folks de
clare that the socialists are deficient In
humor. To remedy the deficiency or to
disprove tho slander they have purchased
that ancient and honorable funny Journal,
Puck.
Indianapolis News: Cleveland women
have declared war on the kind ot clothes
women are wearing nowadays, and there
Is Just no telling what will happen next.
It Is understood, however, that It Is to
be a last ditch affair on both sides.
Pittsburgh Dispatch: The stato coal tax
ot 1H cents a ton was the excuse for
raising the price at the mines 10 cents.
and the raising of the price at the mines
10 cents waa the protest for raising the
price to the consumer 25 cents. But It
the tax was repealed would the 25 cents
go with It?
Boston Transcript: No dqubt the future
historian will comment upon the signifi
cant fact that during Wilson's adminis
tration Andrew Jackson's historic mint
bed at the Whtto House was mysteriously
destroyed on the ove of the arrival of
the prohibition brigade.
Brooklyn Eagle: Another set ot "rules"
for Income tax payments has been Issued
from Washington. Empiricism In Inter
pretation appears In all this series of de
partment Instructions, if expert officials
have to guess three times or more, no
citizen need be ashamed ot his dullness
In tackling this problem of the centuries.
Brooklyn Kagle: How would It do to
flaure up what "collection at the source
costs and to dloker with Uncle Sam on a
promise to stve It all to him providea no
it. off the tax on incomes : a u
which yields ISO per cent to th tax col
lector Instead ot the usual 1 per cent
fee may confer big blessings on the coun
try, but what they are do not appear
cleaily today.
Springfield Republican: Aa lawyers'
fres are supposed to go, the payment of
100,000 In sums ranging from 110,000 to
ijo.mo to the counsel for the state in me
Impeachment trial, of Governor Sulzer Is
not large. It Is big enough, however, to
suggest the sort of plums there are at
the top of the legal profession. Many
thousands of young attorneys would be
glad to take as a flve-years' income one
such plum.
Nebraska Editors
C. Furnlce has purchased the Sumner
News.
Editor Ladd of the Albion Nows
printed three full page advertisements
last week. A live paper makes a live
town.
The Surprise Herald has suspended pub
lication and Editor Gardner has moved
th plant to Missouri. He Is the eleventh
man who has tried to make a paper pay
In that town.
The editors along the htghllne met at
Curtis a few days ago and formed an
organisation to be known at the High
line Press association. Officers wen)
elected aa follows: A. G. Williams ot
th Stockvllle Faber, president; H. G,
Frey of the Moorefteld Chronicle, secre
tary. Those present were B. K. Schaef
fer. Curtis Enterprise; Dr. S. R. Razee,
Curtis Courier; Mr. Barton. Maywood
Eagle-Reporter: C. E. Christ. Eustls
News; W. H. Berger. Farnam Echo; Mr.
McAlanry. Loomls Seutenel; A. Glenn
Williams, Stockvllle Fabcr. and H. G.
Frey. Moorflold Chronicle. The next
meeting will be held at Curtis, Decem
Activities of Women
Mrs. Abram Simon, wife of Rabbi
Simon of Washington,, occupied the pul
pit of Temple Israel In Boston last week,
making an address on the subject, "The
Call of the Sister.
The women of the country are planning
country-wide campaigns for the work of
saving the babies, the American Associa
tion for the Study and Prevention ' t
Infant Mortality having felt the neces
sity for such work.
A colored Baptist cnurch in Washing
ton Is trying to raise a fund of 115,000 to
pay off Its debt, and one of the first
persons to send a contribution was Mrs.
William Jennings Bryan. She sems to
be the purse bearer, aa most of .he char
ity from tho family is in her name.
Women are sometimes accused of not
being on time, so it may be surprising to
some persons to learn that London's
champion timekeeper Is a woman Miss
Anita Belleville has an office untllto liny
held by a woman In any other part of the
world. She acts as purveyor of the cor
rect time In London.
At the election In Matden, Mass., re
cently, thera were three generations of
women in one family lined up t. vote
for the woman candidate. Mrs. Quimby,
the grandmother, Is to years ot ago, hut
was In line with her daughter 'ind Brand-
daughter to cast her vote. The otd lady
had never voted and she envd the
experience very much.
Holen Ring Robinson of Colorado, a
graduate of Wellesley college and the
only woman senator In the United States,
says that women are forgetting the three
Cs, cooking, children and . church, but
they are getting a step further In the
alphabet and aro taking a morn active
Interest In the three "Ds, dependents, de
fectives and delinquents.
The Massachusetts Federation of Wom
en's club at Its convention In Whitman,
Mass., considered the question of the
child welfare and decent living wage
among other things. One ot tho speak
ers said, "You know the child without a
playground becomes the father without a
Job. With the men, women and children
working In the mills." the said, "the
family hardly earns enough for a decent
living."
Around the Cities
St. Paul has sold through local chan
nels J1.090.CO0 of city bonds.
Sioux City's population, according to
now directory estimates, Is C0.2S1.
Seattle Is rustling public work for the
Jobless thousands stranded there.
Germans constitute the largest racial
eloment In the population ot St. Louis.
Bristol, Tenn., policemen must punch
a time clock every half hour while ori
duty.
Kansas City has annexed to Its public
school system a shop In which pupils
mend shoes.
Denver requires a $600 license fee from
every club and cafe In any manner dls
penslng liquors.
Cambridge, Mass., Is to establish a
municipal' drug store to sell drugs to
needy families at cost.
Thirty-two third-class cities In Penn
sylvania take on the commission form
ot government, January 1.
Philadelphia requires women teachers
In public schools to dress their hair
plainly without marcel waves, etc.
New York workmen dug up tho other
da), in Broadway, a cannon ball dating
back to British occupancy and 1776.
New York City has invested J(!.Of7,S8S
In the construction of subways. More
millions are now going Into new exten
sions.
Chicago wants telephone rates revised
downward and the telephone company of
Indianapolis wants to revise ratos up
wards.
Chicago business men representing tho
Illinois Manufacturers' association will
start February C on a South American
trip to drum up trade. -
New York police reports show that
from $75,000 to tlOO.OOO worth ot plumbing
Is stolen annually from houses In the
greater city. Nono of the loot has been
traced.
A big feed given by O. J. Moore to
twenty-seven live business associates In
Sioux City, resulted In the appointment
ot a committee to launch the "Greater
Sioux City" movement. "
Stories in Figures
North Dakota last year produced 499.4S0
tons of coal
Nebraska's 1912 mineral output was
valued at tl.4J0.tS2.
New Jersey In 1914 produced ,T56 tons
of rlno worth $9,626,131.
About 43.000 persons are engaged In the
manufacture of musical Instruments In
this country
Real estate untaxed and owned by reli
gious and charitable bodies in Phlla
delphla Is valued at 1230,000,(00.
The 1913 apportionment ot the, state
school fund among the several counties
ot Nebraska totals IJJ5.07S; number ot
children of school age (5 to H years),
879,691.
According to the latest available ata
tlstlcs the republic of China Is now pos
sessed of 6.W0 miles ot railway opened
to traffic and has under construction 2,171
miles.
Bahla Is the most Important port In
Brasll for the shipment of dry hides.
During 1911 the number ot hides exported
was 136,000. of which the United States
took about 30 per cent
The aggregate value of the mineral
production ot India In 1)12 reached the
large toUl of IU.303.422, which repre
sents an Increase ot $6,S13,$43 over the
figures of the preceding twelve months.
An expert estimate ot the total value
of all crop In Iowa In 1913 foots up 3429,-443,437-
This Is the high record of crop
values In Iowa, despite the fact that hot
weather reduced the corn crop by 92,030,
000 bushels.
About 6. WW tons ot cork sawdust are
used In Spain annually In packing fruits
for shipment Some 40,000 persons are
employed In some manner in the cork
Industry In Spain with an average wage
of about 67 cents per day.
According to the estimates ot H. A.
Hlmtcy, on ot the beat authorities on
the Cuban sugar production, the final
figures for the 1912-13 sugar output of
Cuba were: Ot centrifugal 14,775,102 bogs,
and of molasses sugar 229,l bags, mak
ing a total of 17.0O4.6S3 bags, or the equiv
alent of 2.O.240 tons of Z.244 pounds.
Safety First
A house of Merrime
house of mourning.
Do not use cotton to represent snow.
' you must have Snow Uan antieatn
If
fiber.
The National Klr PrVfltlnn net tnnla.
Hon, realizing the extra harard of holl-
oaj uecoratlons In homes, puts out these
warning notes:
Do not permit children M lloht r
relight candlea while the parents are not
present. They frenuentlv t rir thir
clothlng Instead. The tree Itself will burn
wnen needles have become dry.
Do not leave matches within reach
of
children at hoi day tima. PnnrtU. n
meant to be llchted. ami ir tho rhiMr,n
can get matchea they will experiment
nth them. They Imitate their ciders.
Do not decorate your Christmas tree
rlth paper, cotton or other Inflnm.
mablo material. Use metallic tinsel and
other nonlnflammable decorations only,
set the tree securely, so that th rhtl.
dren in reaching for things cannot tip
it over.
GRINS AND GROANS.
"Why did you advertise for a wlfcT
Couldn't you find one In your own cir
cle V
"How many people In your circle?"
"Well, fifty, perhaps."
"That's Just It. Now I advertised for
a wife and 1 had 600 to choose from."
Louisville Courier Journal.
"Why, there's Hen Peck over thertl I
wonder his wife lets him come out alone.
Good gracious, what an atrocious neck
tie he's wearing!" -
"Don't tell him so."
"Why not?"
"He bought It all by hlmscir. "-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
"Do you know what I think about old
Nebuchardneszar?"
"What?"
"I believe living was. hlch In his time.
so he went to grass and lived In clover.
Baltimore American.
Suffragists are refuging to have the
Encyclopedia Americana In their libra
ries, for under the subject "Eve" it
AT the right, ladies, is z
scarf of Civet -Cat
the pretty mottled fur that's
really new. On the left, a
scarf of natural grey squirrel.
Both of them guaranteed
to be what they say they
are under the
GORDON
Pure Fur Law
Ask to -see than at the store
that sells Gordon Furs next
time you go downtown.
'Most every city has a Gordon
Fur store
And while you're thinking of
it, write Gordon for his fur book,
it tells the truth about furs.
Gordon & Ferguson, st. Paul, Minn.
Makers of Gordon Pure Fur Law Furs since 18 7 J
mm
Cuts that print
There Is often all the difference la the world between
a, cut that shows up well In the engraver's proof and oiie
that shows up well when It Is printed. Cuts, made f or a
newspaper have to be made so that they will give eood
results under the mdst adverse conditions. For that rea
son, a newspaper engraving plant produces cuts that the
ordinary printer can use and get good results.
It you have some engraving to be done, send us the
Be Engraving Department
Be Building, Omaha
SAYS a keen-tongued foreign
critic: "You Americans
think like ligritning and act
like thunder." You can't reap
results today on advertising to
be done Umorroiv.
rrerely saya. Pee Adam ' New York
Evening Post t
"What reform will you advocate"
asked the friend.
"I don't know," answered 'the woman
who had Just returned from a trip
around the world. "What reform la
most fashionable at present?" Washing
ton Star,
"My aon, It Is a great deal harder to
spend money with good Judgment than It
Is to make It." ...
"Well, father, let me take- half the bur
den off your hands. You make It and
I'll spend It." Chicago Post.
Doctor You should take three or four
eggs dally for a month to build you up.
Patient But, doctor, 1 cannot afford
lhDoctor Well, then, you must take a
trip to Europe. Boston Transcript.
LA GIAC0NDA RITORNATA.
New York Times.
So. sa, you've revealed yourself at laatl
Tired of your wond'rings, homo calls
loudly now
'TIs said that chickens, when the day is
Returnl'to roost upon the wonted bough.
You are no .chicken, no four hundred
AtUst'your ripe maturity, and yet the
world. .
Bursts Into loud acclaim, and Joyous
tears
Are shed because at last your sails m
furled.
Old slrl, I mingle welcome with the rest!
Here Is my hand: my heart was yours
long since ...
Time cannot wither you, nor steel my
breast
Apr'-- "harm that conquers boor
and prince.
Whe.u ,uu been these long two
years? I ask
No awkward questions, tell us all or
naught, '
As ben you think, but let us once more
bosk
Within that smile, with mystery so
fraught.
And yet, since sociology's the rago,
Methlnks that you might help us out a
bit:
Might from your own experience a-tfago
Indite you may be sure' 'twould mako
a hit.
Of courso. we yould not have you com
promise . ,- 1
Yourself a woman must take care,
you know
Yet on this point wo beg you put us
wise;
Why Girls I-ave Home you ought to
know, by Joel
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