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THE ‘OMAHA™ DALY BEE i skt s st JOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. ‘"CTOI RO.“AT'K Ibmfi /" TERMS OF SUBACRIPTION. Dally Bee (without Sunday), one ni! Dafly Bee and Sunday yoar...... DELIVERED BY MIRI‘R Dail &y P-: ! 1 100 unday® Bee, we Baturday Bee, -L. "Adaress all Gomplain of delivery to City &mmm Dw-nml FFICES. Lincoin—tth Tiitle B, Chicagn-isis Marquetie Bliiding, Thigty- m'v':_lnx”'?' ey rty -t red! Washington=128 Fourteenth Strest, N. W. 4 CORRESPONDENCE. ' Communications ating to nm an o torial matier shouid be sddressed: Owmaba Bee, Editorial Department EMITTANCES. it by draft, expréss or postal p)l]lb'l! o The ml:;ulb"lhlu Cm:‘:nz' Ghly 2 cent stamps recsived in payim: Personal checks, except on U West e o s noines. sbemmap AP ¢ 47 BTATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, s8: Geo: uck, nmnl of ‘ru nbor Ql eworn, ull and com; oraips, Sven during the Onuse of High Prices. The tarift debate in the senate has brought out one feature somewhat novel in connectfon with such contro- versles. Sémator Scott, in a speech, blamed the retailers of the country for the high prices of which complaint has been made, holding that they exacted ulr-uoubn profits, while the manu- facturer worked on a narrow and pre- earious mafgén. The assertion was im- mediately challenged, the crossfire on the subject not being upon party lines or entirely relévant to the tariff ques on. "That the cost of necessaries has been noticeably enhanced during re- cent years is a universally accepted fact and light thrown upon the cause or suggestion of a remedy will be gratéfully received. The charge that the tariff is a controlling factor would pear to be answered by the prices of the goods in question. The increases have mot been alone in manufac- turéd goods, either protected or upon the free list. The general tendency of manufacturers in the line of neces- sities has been downward, or at the most only upwards in small degree as compared with meate, flour and food stufts of all kinds. It would, however, require a thorough investigation, con- suming much time, by persons familiar with both the tariff and market condi- honest men and good citisens.”” With all of us agreed as to that, we suggest that the democratic councilmen make either Berka or Kugel president of the council and leave it to them to name the committees according to their best Judgment. Here is a chance for the World- Herald to make its hot air good. Let it line up the six fearless and trust- worthy democrats in the council on a program to put one of these two re- publicans unconditionally in the chair and there will be enough republican votes forthcoming to carry it out. Discouraging Factionalism. President Taft has given unmis- takable evidence within the last few days that factional strife can look for ‘no encouragement, from him. The par- ticular case in point came up through the naming of a special assistant at- torney general from Kansas. The re- publicans in that state are rent by two contending factions and the president was unwittingly led into naming & man whose appointment threatened to add fuel to the flame. When the facts were called to Mr. Taft's atten- tion the appointment was revoked and the Kansas ropuhllum told to get to- gether. The action of the president is more far-reaching than simply an indication WA remember a similar order once is- sued by a State Rallway commission some years ago requiring the raiiroads doing business at Omaha to bulld a union station for joint occupanecy. It is to be hoped the present order pro- duces better results than did the old one we refer to. Experts We Cannot Use. New Yerk Herald Germany 18 reported a8 aroused over our tariff plana. selvés, but in Germany. —_—— Worth the Price. Kansas City Journal. Don't entirely like them our- can't have everything made Those who thought that a dollar a word was 100 much for Mr. Roosevelt's hunting narratives didn't know that there was to be a lion in every line and a rhinoceros In every paragraph A Smile Retween Wall Street Journal. Fewer rallway accidents in 1908 than in 1907. We have become accustomed to de- créases in all things during the last year And a half; here at last is one we may 100k &t without sighing. Uncertainty of Horselens Signa. Charleston News and Courler. Without positively asserting that the owner of a high power touring car cannot be an incurable democrat, it may be as serted that the owner of a little one-seated gadabout is not necessarily a republican. | Propheey of the Future. Around New York Ripples on the Ourrent of Rife {| as Seen in the @reat American Metropolis from Day to DAy The movement launched by Colonel Cody and Rodman Wanamaker to rear in New Yory harbor a comemoration statue to the American Indlan has been cordially recelved by the press, and gives promise |of becoming a reality. The honor of the | suggestion Is divided between Mr. Wana- maker apd Colonel Cody and was put for- | ward at'a dinner given by the former in honor of Buffalo Bill. Among the guests were General *Nelton A. Miles, General Leonard Wood, General Horace Porter and Homer Davenport, all of whom cor- dially endorsed the idea. Mr. Wanamaker has set vut to emphasize the place of the | American Indfan in history. He sent an expedition nto the northwest last year which obtained photographs and data that are to be presented to the Bureau of Ethnol- ogy In Washington and which portray In- dtan life and legends as would again be hardly poseible. . Colonel Cody's lifelong relations with the Indians and his attachment for them made & dinner seem a fitting expression of Mr. Wanamaker's sympathy “Mr. Wanamaker has not told me what he Intende to do for the Indian," Colonel Cody sald. “I know the value of his ex- pedition, but I belleve he has In mind some further of perpetuating the char acter of the race. I have an idea that the work now begun means a monument in the harbor, as big as Liberty or bigger, of an hot biscuit, Cream Bakin PoWdég Makes the lightest, most delicious and tasty hot=bread, rolls and muf- the world over. Makes the - due incféase in the cost of Ifving. It is hunted Iike dogs in Connecticut. Acts of | atrocity marked white treatment of them | ® of Kansas and that if they must | l i ki 3 | Net total. Lally average. Subscribed in my betors e this Ist WHEN OUT OF TOWN, Broribers leaving the oity tem- porarily should hd¥e The Bee mailed te thom. Address will be changed as ofien as reymested. The tariff rates on rasors may yet s somé sharp debate, b ] The straw hat may pot come in with the late spring breezes, put it often 8oes by that route. S Are the Eagles coming to show the signal corps men how to fly or to get points on aviation for themselves? For a definition of the ‘‘anxious seat’” apply to almost anybedy who is holding down an appofutive job in the city hall. The New, . Yark Worlfl democraey content?" asks, “Ig Of course not, with all the offices in the possession of | republicans. 1t looks 88 it wr_qugg boosters w-n% going to uphold their, reputation as rain-makers, 10 matter what else they may do. A preacher has beén telling the peo- ple ‘of Chicigo that their city is not | the wickedest in the world. Omaha can prove an’ alibi. f— -~ If ex-President Roosevelt cannot se- cure a white rhinecerous any other way he might get a congressional com- mittee to whitéwash one for him. Over & ton of guinine was required last year to combat malaria on the canal gone. Is it possible that some of the disease presented:a case of shak- ing for the drinke? —— { Note ‘how active those pneumatie street cleaning machines are flushing the pavements with water just at the time a succession of heavy downpours of rain has made it quite unnecessary. —— Paul Morton, a distinguished former Nebraskan, and-once-cabinet member is - working for $1.50 per day. His friends need not be alarmed, however; he is slmply serving on a New York Jury. The raliroad company has offered $10,000 reward for each of the ban- dits who robbed & train near Spokane. There is no suggestion of a corper on not apparént that retall profits are greatér or less than in times past, but on the contrary it is plain that compe- tition bétween retailers is unrestricted and to all appearances sharp and genu- ine. The catalogue houses, the big department stores and the dealers in exclusive lines are constantly fighting for one another's trade and so con- flicting are their interests that any- thing like combination would seem to be impossible Duration of Tariff Debate. Estimates as to the progress already made on the tariff bill are decidedly misleading as basis for prognosticating when thé discussion will be concluded and the measure sent to the conference committees. It is true that only a few of the schedules have been disposed of and that theé senate has occupled six weeks In discussion, but the disposi- tion .of the schedules themselves should require a comparatively short time when the loquacious senators are, convinced that they have talked long enough, The debate on the bill falle into two classes—the purely academic— dealing with the tariff as ap abstract principle and the practical dealing with particular schedules. With few exppuonl these speeches have not | ‘been made with expectation M they would affect the vote either' on the Bill as a whole. or the particular schedules involved. They have heen for the most part for home consump- tion and for the purpose of setting senators right with their constituents on articles of particular interest to them. When all the senators have thus fortified their political fences for future campaigns, the voting on the schedules should go through much faster. Just how many senators still want to be heard at length, probably no one | knows, but it would seem that thé majority had gratified their desires, the beést posted observers placing the time yet needed at about ten days. If that proves correct the bill should be in conferefice by June 1 or shortly thereafter, The items precipitating the most controversy have been passed over without action and are in process of sdjustement by private conference, with every indication that when the debate ends an agreement will have béen reached. The tread of business . indicates a prevalent belief that the bill when completed will be generally satisfac- tory and the prolongation of the de- bates Is not retarding business as much as was feared it would. While the business interests of the country would like to have it over with, they are apparently not particularly ap-| prehensive. APoppytlxock.i The World-Herald 1s not ready to believe have differences they should adjust them without involving the mational administration, If this policy is pur- sued it will work for the building up of a united party which can be counted on in a national struggle to stand up for the principles of the party. ‘ Filling Up the West. The large number of people going west within the last few days on the landseekers’ rates made by the rail- roads Is an indication of the rapidity with which the country is filling up with people from states farther to the east who are seeking a broader and richer field for their activities. In mak- ing these -low rates and spreading broadcast the advantages of this sec- tion to the people In the more con- gested sections to the east the rail- roads are animated by an enlightened selfishness, it {8 true, but both those who avail themselves of the offer and those who are already located in the developing sections and in cities like Omaha to which they are tributary are also the gainers. Estimates of the number whom this movement will take into agricultural and horticultural pursuits during the year vary from 75,000 to 150,000. The increase which this nimber will make in the productive capacity of the west will be enormous and cannot fail to have a stimulating effect upon all lines of trade. It is one of those migrations of races, peaceful withal, which in past ages have founded new empires and worked revolutions in the world’y pro- gress. In this case it will, within a few | years, make such a change in the great west that it will scarcely be | recognized by those who thought they knew it well. fondly Neligh is also getting ready to build | | & new public library with money fur- nished by Andrew Carnegie. Our late legislature did only halt a job in re- fusing to let the University of Ne- braska qualify for participation in the Carnegie foundation, when it might have passed a law prohibiting the ad- mission of any Carnegle money -into the state for any purpose whatsoaver. A noted Japanese doctor says that with the advent of modern civilization in his country there has been a notable increase in insanity. The Japanese certainly have been going at a swift pace since Admiral Perry opened the country up to the world, and it would be nothing strange if the rapid and great changes in methods of life had produced such an effect. The Omaha wool warehouse is get- ting the wool just the same. The western wool producers remember who it was that forced the dealers to pay them fair prices last year and they are in coming to the same source for relief. The wool growers' interests | query tailed | horsepower, When ' Senator Tillman dined at the White House it may be taken for granted that all disagreedble subjects were care- fully barred from the conversation. This ‘would include any passing reference to so- Journers abroad, as well as to certain things and happenings nearer home. Any- body s at liberty to fill in the blanks, Bulling the Word Market. 8t Louls Globe-Democrat. Prom the nomenciature with which this country has been flooded since Mr. Roose- velt reached Africa, both in geography and natural history, we conclude that the former president ls not belng overpaid at the rate of a dollar a word for writing hunting news in that country. Such words should bull the word market. Tragedies of a Scandal. Philadelphia Ledger. The tragic side of the capitol scandal is emphasized In the death of the chief contractor for the extravagant furnishing This is the fourth death among those who were concerned In this extraordinary case. It relleves Sanderson himself, who under sentence, from further proceed- ings before any human tribunal, and it will probably postpone still further the trial of those of hls asdociates who have thus far escaped a formal reckoning. But it cannot be sald that any of them has escaped unpunished, and it will be long before an attempt will be made to imitate thelr remarkable rald upon the public treasury. ) Collars . in- Palities. Philadefphia Record. Towa is struggling. with a new idea. It involves the morality or the contrary of cellulold as a substitute for clean linen, ‘“What can you expect of &8 man who wears & ceilulold collar?’ Thus cried a state man of the Hawkeye state, with an insin- uation that the governor is gullty of false pretenses in the matter of clothing his neck. What, indeed, can one expeot from such a o The statesman who made the to give the answer, but it would seem to beé nothing good. governor's friends assert collars only of the finest stylish cut, and that the insinuation to the contrary is “cruel.” The real signi- finance of collars in politics, however is in- dependent of the material whereof they are made, the important question is, what is their brand? that he wears linen and of ——— OUR MAGICAL GROWTH. — All the Rest of the World Distanced in the Race. Washington Poat, The tremendous strides this country is | making In every direction of growth con- stitute the United States the wonder of the world. The great possibilities before us open up wide speculation as to what the future may have in store. According to the report of the Department of Com- and Labor the developed water power of the United States Is 5,867,000 and the number of wheels it turns is 52821. The undeveloped water power 1s belleved to be equal to that al- ready developed, and what has been de- veloped is capable of infinite oxpansion. | The estimated coal supply is 3,135,708,000,000 production | long tons, while the in any one year highest was but 48,000,000 tons. At the present rate of consumption the supply will last 7.30 years, so we need not fear a coal famine for some genera- tions yet. The avallable Iron ore is estimated at 4,785,000,000 long tons, while we mine only The | wherever the whites went, in every terri- torlal expansion. New York harbor is \the fitting place to display to the world the quality of the welcome extended by the natives to those who came here to build for the republic we all enjoy.” General Porter approved the idea as coming from a man who knew the Indians better, probably, than any one else living. Homer Davenport spoke for it and paid high tribute to Indian character. Rodman Wanamaker presented through General Miles to Colonel Cody, in recogni- tion of his services in acquainting civiliza- sation with the life of a vanishing race, a testimonial finely engrossed on parch- ment and containing some of the finest of the photographs obtained by last year's expedition. The testimonial was bound In | buffalo hide, with silver ornaments filus- trative of the west. Health-Commissioner Darlington esti- mates that Greater News York had a pop- ulation of 4,422,685 on January 1, 199, which 16 an increase of 137,20 during 1%8; and there were 414 more births, and 6133 fewer deaths in 138 than in 1%7. The records for the state also favor increase. Btill-and it is a notable tact—in the face of these most remarkable figures of in- crease, there were nearly thirty thousand less people married in New York City dur- Ing 1908 than in 1907, and nearly eighty thousand less in the state, says Harper's Weekly, However, when it is remembered that marriages in the state fell off over seven Per cent. in 1%7, as compared with 194, the actual decrease of 1908, considered in relation to the general average of in- creage. for past years, will be found really much greater than shown by the “bare statistics of the annual state marriage census. It Is not altogether & question of the decrease In marriages for last year compared with 1%7. The extent of the decrease is not wholly appreciated until it is urderstood what the real normal in- crease would have been, taking the per- .centage of Increase in former years as a basis of caleulation. The increase In marriages In Greater { New York for 1907 over 198 was only five per cent. Had the twelve-per-cent. in- crease of 1906 over 1%5 been maintained during 1907, there would have been an in- crease of A802 marriages in that year, | instead of 'the 2,742 as credited, or a total | of 54,157 instead of 45,85 marriages. Customs officers seldom have to pass upon so many medals and decorations in | the baggage of an found in incoming traveler as were a trunk belonging to Colonel M. H. De Hora, president ot g mining company In Montana, who ar- rived on the New York of the American Line. There were two boxes of the deco- rations, which numbered about and included several conferred by South American republics and gifts of sovereigns and potentates all over the world. Colonel De Hora has been a soldier of fortune and has been an adventurer ‘in many reglons. He was born In what is now Arizoni, fought Indlans in the west, was educated as & mining engineer, and In the course of his career drifted to South | Africa, taking part in the Matabele re- bellion During the Boer war, he says, he was made chief of police in Johannesburg, He | & he won the title of colonel there, and that he is proud of being the only Amer- |iean who ever rode at the head of British troops during a parade in London. | A delicate woman, with & baby on her seventy | | slovenly r PERSONAL NOTES. Governor Hoke Smith of Georgia will from office as chief executive of the state next month, In order to impress his ideas more forci- bly upon mankind at large Mr. Vardaman of Mississippi will do a turn on the chau- tauqua cireuit this season. Congressman Carl Carey Anderson of Ohlo ut the age of 10 was a newsboy and bootblack and At 16 had saved enough money to buy a hiome for his mother. After his visit to Alaska the coming summer President Taft will have but one more térritorial possession under the Amer- lean flag to visit. He has never been to Porto Rico. In 1%, when Theodore Roosevelt was the republican candidate for mayor of New York, he recefved the lowest vote cast— 60,110—while Henry George recelved 64,110 and Abram 8. Hewitt, who was the demo- cratlc nominee, who was elected received 90,562 vote Richard U. Sherman, son of Vice Presi- dent James 8. Sherman, was elected presi- dent of the Consolidated Water company of Utlca, a $3,000,000 corporation, and he immediately r ed his position as private secretary to William Loeb, collector of the port of New York. Lord Wolseley, who used to be known in England as “our greatest general’” s in straltened circumsiances and has given up his residence, the . 1mhouse, Glynde, Sus. sex, owing to the expiration of his lease, and the turniture and contents of the mod- est little mansion have been disposed of by auction. have a memorial In one of Its parks to Dr. Nicholas Senn, one of the city's great- est surgeons. Such a project was discussed at a meeting of the Nicholas Senn club, composed of physiclans of Chicago. The same evening the Chicago Board of Edu- cation approved of a committee report to name the new Lake View High school after Dr. Senn. Here 18 te_Peter Borry of Kleinfelt ville, Lebanon county, Pennsylvania, who at 103 years of age is visiting his grand- daughter In Reading. He cast his first vote for Andrew Jackson, and Editor Nor- man Mack of Monthly ought to write up the nation. BURNT OFFERINGS, One Dark Spot im the Nation's Prodi- wality. Washington Post, During the last five years the average annual fire loss in the ['nited States has been §269,200,412, according to a report made at the annual meeting of the Na- recently. More than a quarter of a billlon dollars s wasted every twelve months as a result chiefly of carelessness! With a very few exceptions the fires that con- sumed these property values were the re- sult of inattention to the laws of pre. caution and safety. Inadequate Inspection, management, indifference to de- talls of arrangement, lack of discipline, these' are accountable causes of fire-mak- ing conditions. These figures do not in- dicate the loss of life involved in the fires. a heavy toll, arm and a little boy holding on to her We are a wasteful, resume the practics of law when he retires | | get it there on time, mamma? Within a féw months Chicago hopes to| | This | The Buffalo and the National | Peter and | g gl the fact spread his picture before the dgmocrats of | tional Board of Underwriters in New York | . 41,000 Indlan with - ' 39130 | tions, to reduce these comparisons to |of his displeasure over what seemed Indianapolls News. “..,.:;‘_‘,,' :“h:m’h:;‘:,'::yf‘: :"m:l"':"::‘“’ M fins Sweet a“d Wholesome 40350 | o finality. to be an effort to take advantage of | Now that they have succeeded in UENNG [ the Indian, and in his hope for such a m The proof is yet to e produced to|his favor. In further explanation he |the 0":“' :ecln‘cllI‘ al::-m:: znv:l;;h:- ;Znum-;‘h “1 :- Suggests,” said General ¥ the ex- current, perhaps it is utire e to | Miles. “The Indians always kent treaties dagen| sustain tho sccusation (hat I ls the ex. | made It clear that be conaldered It || ope"\hat the day may come whew fome | and we alvase broke them The early ox Protects the food from alum, B peeonst ¢ P il | B b4 eep hands off An mat-| o0y, regidence streets will not look like | Plorers kidnaped them, they were sold | pryts retailer which is responsible for un- | ters which concerned solely the republi- | 5 ¢orest deadening. Into slavery in New England, they were 45,880 45,580 45,850 . 409850 48,0600 BEEFZY TRIFLES. “Is 1t lucky to plck up, - horseshoe?" “That's what they say.' “They're wrong. 1 picked up one with a 850 tire tod Cleveland Plain Deaier — Rivers (dipping. his pen .in .the ink)- Tell me a diplomatic_way. fo, call 3 man a llar Brooks—Always select a smaller man than you are.—Chicago Tribune. “When is a sailor not a salfor?" When he's aboard. Ha—ha! “But he's not a sailor when he's ashore." ‘“That's so. Then a sailor {s néver a sailor. Ain't it funny?"«Cleveland Leader. “It takes a wise man to know when to | rhln.t s mind. ““Yes,” answered Senator Sorghum. “I'm getting brain fag trying to change It often houkh 1o Keep up Wwith tho views of my varfous constituents on the tariff.” —Wash- ington S 3 “I wonder why three:fourths of the stenographers -in = business = offices are women?"’ I guess it is because men Ike to (el that there {s at least one elass of women whom they can dictate to."—Baltimore American. ' Lady—Will you send this rug on ap- roval? Certainly, ma'am. Little Girl (who is with her mother)— Hadn't you better tell him to be sure and You know we give the party to-morrow night.—Life THE GREAT WIN, imore Amerj fi\;‘ 10 cnllnxd"r S:Rl the ththér, which is 1 sént ‘my very proud “And now he's won a triumph, proclaimed aloud; They tell me he's a wonder, he's the best they ever had, And congratulate me warmly that I'm father of the lad They say he holds the record, that he's right there in the swl That faculty and students, they are very proud of him, And that now to clap the climax of all the feats he's done, oy of mine {s a victor—he has won the Marathon." The other fathers wondered and they felt a good deal sore Their sone had not cause given for the look fhis other wore. The mothers, too, were angry; a bit enjoy way the victor's mother talked about her wondrous boy; Each pair of parents felt their son could just have done the same, It he had had the chances to the lucky one which came; was patent as to what kind fate had dope, They whispered to each boy won the Marathon." they did not other, ‘Jones' Then came & curious nelghbor to the proud, delighted pair, And sald, “1 do not wonder that you folks are up in air To have so bright a genius and so talented a son, But—we are backward _tolk; what 18 a Marathon?" The futher he looked queer like, mother she looked scared, And the neighbor was rejoicing that to ask_the fact he dared. But when the father said, with pride—he was sorry he had done it “1 don't know what the blamed ‘thing fs, but anyway, he won it. you know- and the ALT SULPHUR WATER also the “Crystal Lithium” water from Excelsior Springs, Mo., in G5-galion sealed jugs. 5-gallon jug Crystal Lithia Water. .82 6-gallon jug Salt-Sulphur water $2.25 Buy at either store. We sell ovep 100 P ——————— » about 52,000,000 ¢ i prodigal people, as bandits beiog respousibie for the high |that it is trus that all aix of the repub- |3F® Omaha's interests and outside of | SPOLL TWORDR (onk & vear At that rate| Lo T L Tl Ll rain st the |8 Whole, only slowly learning our lessons kinds mineral water, prices. lican counclimen-elect can be handled | ANy sentiment this is the b&st assur- |, .., . 4" years yot, and by that time in. | Brooklyn bridge one evening recently when |and profiting by our sufferings and ex- Sn"man & Mcconna" nm! co either by the franchised corporations or by | ance of a square deal genuity and discovery- will be able to find | the uptown rush was at its height. There poriences. Maybe some day the -mmrh’ . Al G. Pields, the minstrel man, who | A" Other special interesta. There are men |something to take ita place. In 1807 we | were no seats vacant, and the woman bal- | cance of the fire statistics will be Im Sixteenth and Dodge Sts. wis 8 schoolmate of Seeretary Knox, | Judee Berka and Mr. Kugel amons | mne fowers that bloom In the spring | produced nearly ome-half of the world's | anced herself as best she could until at a | Pressed upon fhe public sufficiently to - ry the republican councilmen of good stand- | od: . . ° d e s o s declares ghat the, Intior. was, & Aull D |ing s Nonest men and £00d cidsens. Un. |7 DOL 1n it With the billboards that (5" uction of plg iron, and at the rate |curve she fell forward, and was saved |CAUse & greater degree of care In every A ’ thai P h sveihiodaeming s 'all aner-the bkr: our production s increasing 1t will not be | from injury only by the crowd that sur- | line of work and a more perfect obedi- pil. Mr; “‘Knox is not the only person who has been unequal to solving min- strel jokes. It there were no other means of knowing, the suggestion of Senator Root that the upper house of congress get down to work would stamp hm as a new membe it ts annbunced from Washington that the United States supreme court will hold twe more sittings before ad- journment for the summer. Here is a chance for those Water board lawyers to get busy. S — The last session of the city council in meeting ot the whole is said to ha: witnesséd & busy afterdoon. The out- going city council always gets busy “duripg ghe intervel ‘between election and the diy for turfiing over to the vl 3 ? w! fepislators propose to make WI a cfime. If the bill h:. Maxim's new sound muffiers ‘will find & ready market far & man must say something when the home team ‘goes to pleces at the erit- icl moment, tll by some overt act they prove the con- | trary w I} expect them to make such | record as councilmen as their reputations warrant us In expecting.—World-Herald. What poppyeock! With the council divided six and six on political lines, no franchised cor- | poration or special interest can organ- | ize that body without the help of the democrats. Assuming that the democrats will ¢laim the presidency of the councll, which of the democratic councilmen does the World-Herald charge with being subservient to the corporations? The World-Herald supported every one of the democratic six, vouching tor his freedom from corporation strings. On which one of them has it gotten cold feet already? If all six are what the World-Herald claimed for them during the campaign, how can saything g0 amiss now, no matter which may be elected president of the counell? ut the proof that the World-Herald is indulging in poppycock is to be seen in the bhook it is throwing out to two venublieans. We freely admit thal Judme Berka and Mr. Kugel, although herdly more than the other republican What has become of the movement for a more beautiful Oma which the Real Estate exchange was going to promote? Has it collided with the few dollars of rentals which the bill- | boards pay for the use of vacant lots | on prominent corners? —_— According to Edgar Howard Gov- ernor Sheldon’s appointments to the supreme court vacancy were “as ille- gal a crap game.” Wonder what he would cal! Governor Shallenberger’s appointment of a member of the state senate to a position on the State Nor- mal board in direct violation of the state constitution? Milwaukee is apologizing for a ur<" nival of crime and lax enforcement of laws on the ground the eity has only 400 policemen. That is a far larger number per capita than Omaha h and even former captious critics are forced to admit that Omaha is & pretty well regulated city so far as the police protection is eolurn-d The Nebraska smc Railway com- mission has lssued an order to compel councilmen, are "“of good standing as |led with a many years until we équal all the rest of the world In this line, The United Btates owns 754,886,000 acres of land that s yet to be brought under cultivation. In 1667 the farm wealth of the country was $4,250,000,000, and in 197 this had been increased to $7.412,000.000. The last three yi s have shown a great change in crop values. For instance, in 19§ cotton value of §i22000,000; the next year hay forged ahead with §744.000,000, and in 198 corn took the lead with the enor- mous value of $1.616000,000. At one time | exports of manufactured products were but & small per cent of the total ¢xports, but in 1008 they amounted to about 41 per cent | of the total Perhaps the best test of our business growth is shown by the receipta of the Postoffice department from the #ale of stamps. In 180 the receipts were ahbout $1,000,000; by 180 they increased to 820,000, 000, in 1570 to $33,000,000, In 1900 to $102,000,000, and in 1908 (0 $191,800,000. The figures show that in 1807 the number of letters and post cards sent through the postal system of the United States‘ was 6466,000,00, agdinst 326,000,000 in the German empire, 3.35.00000 in the United Kingdom, 1119.- 00,000 in France, and 10676000 in Austria- Hungery. The telegraph messages sent in the United Btates in 1907 reached the enor. mous number of 95,000,000000. 1In this con- nection it must be remembered that the telephone 1s & large competitor of the ally for iong commepcial rowing in favor sach step of the world's last hundred | progress during the the erection of a depot at Madison. |ine United States has been the ploneer. vears | rounded her. Instantly a number of people | rose and offered her a place to sit down, | but she refused and yold the man next to '1 whom she stood: ““Sole people never help [until the last minute, when they are [ ashamed to do otherwise. 1'd rather stand than thank one of theém.' There are 16,000 chestnut trees in Forest park and every pne of them is dead, as a result of the queer tree scourge that hi been devastating forest lands and for which the government authoritiés at Washington | have found no remedy. In addition to the chestnut trees that are ruined beyond all | hope of redemption, there are 4,000 more | trees In Forest park that are also as dead | as the proverbial dcor nail ey will all | have to be cut down. This is the largest group of forest trees ever known to be af- fected by the scour| Last year it was found necessary to cut down 1,40 ches! nut trees in Prospect park on acgount of the scourge, but the number in Forést park is simply appalling We first discovered that this scourge was altacking the trees five years ago,’ said the park commissioner, “and we did all we could to prevent it from spreading, but our efforts were in vain. There seems 0 be no earthly remedy for curing trees so affected. Everything possible has hesn tried at Washington, but the trees die just the same. It 18 & scourge that attacks the trees inside the bark, and there is no way of treating them. i ence to the laws of security. Sixteenth and Harney Sts. 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