Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 21, 1910, Page 12

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REMITTANCES, Remit by draft, express or postal order payable w0 The Bee Publlshing (Company. Unly z-cent stamps received in payment of Mail accounts, Personul checks, except on Umaha or eastern exchange, Hot accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCU State of Nebraska, Doyglas County, ss George B. Taschuok, treasurer of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly swors, says that the actual number of full and complete coples of The Dally, Morning Lvening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of April, 1910, was as follo 42,730 42,200 .43,260 | 42,000 | L42,560 Total ...... Returned coples Net total. .. Lally average QLORG Treasure Bubscribed in my presence and sworn'to before me this 2d day of May, 1910, M. P. WALKER, Notary Fubile. bueribers leaving the city te porarily should have T Bee mailed to them, Addresses will be chunged as often as requested. The Hyde murder was most too novel to wear well. Is it quite right to refer to the “re- call” law as a gig-back? Now, the dispute arises over who wag the first member of the Ananias club. Look up the back files. It may be worth noting that Spain has not yet sent any urgent invitation to Mr. Roosevelt to call around. Wonder 1f those Omlhn_trnds boos- ters whirling around the Dakotas frightened the comet's tall away? The country has not had a demo- eratic congress since 1893, but it has not been able to forget that experience. ————— Those London papers ought to have imported a few American reporters to bandle Major Seth Bullock's line of talk, Old Sol ueed not get miffed just be- cause the comet happens to be receiv- Ing all the attention for the time being. Coney Island has an alligator 160 years old which has been named Car- rie Nation. Well, she 1is probably harmless by now President Taft ;egnrdu Congress. man Walter I. Smith as a useful mem- ber of the national legislative body and doesn't care who knows {t. —— New York, we observe, did nothing to stop young Mr. Heinze when he ex- claimed, on emerging from the court rooh, “I am going back to Butte.” ————— " What are we going to kil when ihe eplonel comes home? A fatted calf will look tame to him.—~Memphis Commercial Appeal Then we'll make it two fatted ocnlves Our ounly fear is that no one is con- apiring right now to disfigure Omaha with another sky-scraper reaching over ten stories., But we may still live ip hope. Buffalo Bill gave his farewell salute to New York in the presence of 7,000 pald admissions, which must make the eelonel feel a little doubtful of his own wisdom. What is new in the idea of ‘‘peace if ‘we have to fight for 1@t that is being imputed to Colonel Roosevelt? Has not all the peace the world ever en- joyed come by fighting for it? The fact that the chaplain of the house of representatives offered up a prayer for the muckrakers shows thelir cause is not regarded as hopeless be- fore the throne of grace, anyway. —_— It the scorcher who speeds the street car water cart through our streets is not more careful about slowing down he may unwittingly sprinkle out enough water to lay the dust in spots. It is all right about the good times Colonel Roosevelt has been having, but it is a~100 to 1 shot that when he met Seth Bullock in Dear Ole Lunnon there was some doing reminiscent of good old times. — The Cathollc soclety under whose ausplees Mr. Bryan spoke in Chicago ¢ovld pot have read what the official «.5un of the Oatholic church here in Owaha, The True Voice, said about What, is it All a Guess? Here are explanations which three of the most famous astronomers of the country offer for miscaleulations on | the comet: First—The curvature of the comet's tall, first discovered and noted by Prof. Barnard on Tuesday night, may have developed to a wholly unexpected de- gree, while the head of the comet has passed the earth on schedule, Second—Like Borelli's comet of 1909 Halley's comet may have ceased its tail-making activity, cutting off the glowing fan that is now puzzling the sclentists, Third—It is posdgible that all cal- culations are wrong and that the comet has not yet passed the earth. The telescopes found the comet in the east at a time when the scientists had dogmatically determined that it was to be In the west, well on its way toward the Pacific slope. What does it all mean? Have we poor, credulous laymen been simply toyed with by these savants? Have they had us losing sleep and ganing our necks these nights, peering into the heavens and imagining that we were gazing into the face of Halley's comet when, in truth, the comet was not within range of our vision? We thought the celestlal visitor had passed, when they tell us that perhaps it has not yet arrived. But as a matter of fact these three “explanations” may explain nothing or everything, just as you wish to view it They suggest an adroit method of letting erudite gentlemen out of a tight place as gracefully as possible. It really looks as if the joke were on the solemn scientists with thelir high, deep-furrowed brows. It looks as if they as well as the rest of us were laymen, sitting at the feet of nature, beseeching a. crumb - of knowledge about its deep-hidden mysteries. At any rate it will be prudent for wise men to speak softly concerning comets till this one conforms to the charts that have been made for it. Curing Leprosy. Leprosy is one disease which in all the ages has been considered incur- able. The ancients ostracized its vic- tims who themselves repulsed inquir- ing friends wth the doleful cry of “Unclean, unclean,” but the state of Loulsiana has demonstrated that this is another delusion which must give way under the test of sclence. Louisiana maintains a home for lep- ers and the last biennial report shows seventy patients in the home, and it may be of interest to note that only fifteen of these are negroes. This is of moment here because the claim has been made that this and other scourges in the south are often traceable to the colored races whose irregular modes of living invite disease. Thus far Louisiana’s treatment of leprosy is chiefly in the experimental stage, but in the last two years the home has dismissed one person as positively cured. This of itself is all the justification needed for the hy- pothesis that restoration is possible. Several in that same period have made remarkable improvement and only nine have died. The results certainly seem to warrant the effort Louisiana is mak= ing, for the benefits are not to be con- fined to that home or that state; they are world-wide in the influence and will be handed down to posterity. this home is already sending out dem- onstrations that have become valuable for the study of the disease in other parts of the world where it is more prevalent, Facilities used in Louisi- ana are being introduced elsewhere and medical men are being attracted to the study. What the results of this awakening wil! be no man can tell. The Louisiana scientists are most hopeful. They believe that an anti- toxine serum will yet be discovered that will defeat the terrors of a plague that for thousands of years has haunted meankind wherever it existed. If this should be developed then its application in India and other coun- tries of the far east where people die in thousands from leprosy may be made with practical results. The | world alroady owes a large debt to the pioneer work Louisiana has begun. | Express Company Charges. The demand of the National Manu- facturers’ association for an investi- gation of the rates of express com- panies will be strongly supported by popular séntiment. It is not only the rates of express companies against which the people have had occasion to complain, but poor service as well. In all the epldemic of investigations these corporations have escaped and their ex- emption seems to have made them in- different to some of thelr obligations. But it will require a studious in- quiry to determine the fairness er un- fairness of these rates. On their face they do not seem to be grossly wrong. It is coincidental that the matter of the ‘“long and short haul" enters into this consideration and it is that key which unlocks the problem to a better un- derstanding on the part of the people. For short distances where the rate on a given article is 50 cents the ex- press company will get a little more than 26 cents and the railroad a litttle less than 24 cents, and this division does not seem to be unfair since the express company collects the shipment at one end of the line and delivers it at the other, while the railroad hauls it but a short distance, But this same ratio—a little more and a little less than half-—is maintained for long hauls as well, and there is where it is open to doubt. Yet the express com- panies argue that since the; must as- sume responsibility for the safe de- him a week or two dgo. livery of the consigned commodity they of its shipment, even where a railroad hauls it across the continent. That will be an interesting point for the Interstate Commerce commission to determine. This same article, which we will say is hauled from New York to a town just a few miles away for 50 cents, will be hauled to San Fran- cisco for $14.50 and of this the ex- press company gets $7 while the railroad must accept only $6.92, Of course the shippers can have little interest in what the railroad gets, but if this is a fair rate to the rallway, which does not seem to be aroused over the matter, the total rate looks too high, and manifestly the cut should be made against the express company. It is likely, though, that the people would be less inclined to attack the justness of express rates, if they could be assured of improved express ser- vice, Withdrawal of Public Land. One of the natural results of parti- san agitation is to magnify alleged evils to the exclusion of real virtues. In the case of the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy, while the secretary of the interfor has been viciously assailed in connection with certain coal land en- tries in Alaska, the people have lost sight of the fact, if indeed they ever knew, that in one week he withdrew from entry 13,500,000 acres of coal lands in Montana, which is twice as much as all the known fuel area of Alaska. that were registered against it by two Omaha' newspapers bent on blocking this improvement. The Lincoln Star virtually admits that it did not have its president and proprietor, D. E. Thompson, in mind when It said that no one connected with that paper 1s ‘permitted to promote the interests of any candidate for office,” aZthough it insists that Mr. Thompson s “out of politics.” Mr. Thompson may be ‘“out of politie: since he ig out of office so far as being personally an office-seeeker, but it is notorjous that he established the Star for the special purpose of promoting the interests of his preferred candi- dates for office and opposing those he objected to. It can be proved, too, that he has endeavored to promote the interests of at least one candidate for office since he has been “out of poli- tics.”” That is his privilege and right, but it does not comport with the Star's bold assertion that “no one connected with that paper” is ‘“permitted” to commit such a heinous offense. According lhe‘vlvld picture to drawn for the graduating class in med- icine of the University of Nebraska the doctor of the future will be pretty much the whole thing, performing all sorts of duties from playing cook in the kitchen to sitting in judgment on criminals and from running the kindergartens and schools to preach- ing the true religion. It is plain that the only thing that will be left to the Without holding any brief for what was or was not done in Alaska, we might venture to assert that the government should have authority to hold onto this Montana land, sald to be so prolific of fuel wealth. If the deposits are as rich as experts have declared, the extent of the area in- sures substantial replenishment against the heavy consumption of our do- mestic coal supply. Undoubtedly Alask® abounds in mineral wealth and prob- ably has much good coal land, which the United States should look out for, but it must be obvious to all that the Montana fields, twice the area of the Alaska, are the more valuable by far because of their proximity to the mar- ket. Cost of producing coal in Mon- tana will be materially less than in Alaska and the expense of gettting to the consumer is not to be compared with the transportation from Alaska. Unkind. The fire test of Mr. Bryan's insurgency Is yet to come. When a democratic con- vention of Grover Cleveland postmasters was sitting upon the young Mr. Bryan some sixteen years ago ho said something about serving his country ‘“under another name.” When machine methods were mak- Ing Judge Parker the democratic nomineo in 194 Mr. Bryan did some tall convention insurging. Yet Mr. Bryan has never bolted a democratic candidate. The worst demo- crat has always bobbed up as better than the best republican. When the time comes to choose between a county option or initiative and referendum republican for legislator or governor and a democratic “‘representative of the liquer interests,” then we shall know whether Mr. Bryan's insurgency 1s more than tongue deep.—Lin- coln Journal. We regret to note this unkind treat” ment by the Lincoln Journal of the distinguished citizen who is Lincoln's most valuable commercial asset. When The Bee recalled recently the fact that Mr. Bryan had two years ago publicly appealed to the people to vote for the three senators from Douglas county, whom he now reviles, knowing their unsavory reputations then as well as he knows now, e did not like it. Be- cause these tHfee disreputables hap- pened to be running as democratic nominees on the same ticket with him he went good for them and pleaded with his friends to vote for the whole democratic crew from top to bottom. Some of these same members of the Douglas delegation to the late demo- cratic legislature may be renominated this fall, and if so, will Mr. Bryan jiave aught to say against them? Mr. Bryan always wants the other fellow to ig- nore party lines, but proclaims it the duty of every democrat to vote the tickét straight. Terrible, Terrible, Terrible! It may be timely fo remind the democrats, and other progressive citizens of Nebraska that the main Issue is stlll here and un- solved, Plutocracy and privilege are still levying their frightful toll. 'The tide of poverty is rising. The dangers against which we were warned are still real. The injustices against which we revolted have grown greater. The buvden of oppression is heavler.—World-Herald, Terrible! Terrible! Terrible! Must the people swallow this sort of stuff first in order to put their stomachs in condition to receive the democratic {dose? Why should the citizens of Ne* | braska be reminded more particularly? Have they not been enjoying the doubtful benefits of democratic rule under a democratic governor and a |democratic legislature? If life Is so unbearable in Nebraska because of these grievances, why have they not been abated by our demo- cratic lawsmakers who promised 1t given the power that they would make this a land of milk and honey? If things are growing worse in Nebraska instead of better, then may it not be because of democratic misrule in the state house, and may not the remedy be to turn out the democrats and re- store the republicans? The only real progressive legislation we ever had here in Nebraska has come from re- democratic law-makers. So cheer up! Life is stlll worth living, even in Nebraska, because there is hope that we may be relieved of the democratic yoke and soon again enjoy the balm of republican sunshine. —_— Uncle Sar is getting ready to estab-| lish a postoffice substation and install | electric delivery between the depots, ipostoffice and branch poalnflce! for should have more than half the cost Omaha notwithstanding the protests publican law-makers, and not from| | Stove Repair works, 1s celebrating his fifty- | rest of us 100 years from now will be to become doctors or get off the earth. Mr. Bryan is sure that the initiative and referendum {s the most popular thing a-going because in Missour! two years ago the initlative and referen- dum proposition went 40,000 votes better than did Brran for president, Still the conclusion is not logically im- perative, nor is there any certainty that he will catch those 40,000 votes by hitching onto the initiative and ref- erendum. The announcement comes from New York that many theatrical managers have decided to eliminate the small town from their circuits. In which case the small town is the gainer, for, as a rule, the one-stand troup that usually goes there ought to be kept oft the stage entirely. Speaker Cannon's cat is accused of looting the Department of Justice of its rubber bands. Still, since congress refused to pay for his automobile gaso- lene Uncle Joe ought not be deprived of his faithful Tabby. It is consoling to realize, however, that a few years ago Mr. Bryan could not have stood the stress of renting and paying for a hall in which to promulgate his political hobbles, brew- ery hall or what not. ther. Indianapolls News What the rallroads would like to know is how they are golng to keep on Increas- ing their dividends if they don’t increase their freight rate — Wisdom in the Spotlight) Cleveland Plain Dealer, The mystery {s solved. Says & Harvard astronomer of Halley's comet: “It is the airiest approach to nothing set in the mid- dle of naught.” It can harm no one be- cause of Its ‘“vaculty." Oh, the greatness of wisdom! Changing the Map. Philadelphia Record. Under the new long-and-short-haul amendment of the rallroad bill the geogra- phy of the country will be rectified and Denver, Omaha and the other interlor cities will be hereafter no further from New York and Philadelphia than San Fran- clsco Is. Don’t Worry. San Franolsco Chronicle, Conservatlonists are asking the question, How will mankind get along when timber becomes so scarce that the supply of matches cannot be kept up? Probably they will do as the anclents did, unless In the meantime someone invents a substitute that will dispense with the use of wdod, which s not at-all jmprobable. Previston, Coltler's Weekly. Goethe foresaw many things. In 1827, dis- cussing the importance of a ognal across the Isthmus of Panama, he sald he should be surprised it the Americans missed the chance of getting the work into their own hands, as “it 18 altogether essential for the United States to make the passage to the Pacific ocean, and T am convinced it will do it.”” It was the same poet, dra- matist, critic, and man of sclence who foretold that by the end of the nineteenth century the principal problems confronting mankind wauld be thosé growing out of the development of industry on the new scale made possible by progress in me- chanics, No great man since Leonardo has had as many sides as Goethe. Our Birthday Book May 21, 1910, Charles E. Bessey, professor of botany and several times acting chancellor of the University of Nebraska, was born May 21, 1846, at Milton, O. Dr. Bessey Is one of the recognized authorities in botany, to which sclence he has made notable contributions. Edmund J. Jumes, president of the Uni- | Versity of Illimols, is 5 today. He was born in Jacksonville, Ill, and has had a varied career in educational circles as pro- fessor in the University of Pennsylvania, head of extension work in the University | of Chicago, and president of Northwestern university before taking his present posi- ton. - Slias R. Barton, auditor of public ac- | counts for the state of Nebraska, was born | May 21, 1861, at New London, Ia. He held |an important . position With the Anclent Order of United Worwmen previous to his election to public office two years ago, and will be a candidate for re-election on the republican ticket this year, George A. Wilcox, treasurer of the Omaha | fourth birthday. He was born at Glen- wood, Ta, and was president of the Ger-| man Mutual Fire Insurance company up to 100, sirce which time he has been with | the stove repalr works In his present In Other Lands 8ide Lights on What is Trans. piring Among the Near and Far Nations of the Barth. The limitation Great Britain is a legal force which can- of campalgn expense in didates overstep at their peril. Two mem- bers of Parliament, Sir Christopher Furness and Captain Frederick Guest, both liberals, have been unseated for spending more money in the campaign than the law al- lows. Hoth are declared to be innocent vic- tims of an excess of zeal on the part of thelr friends. Sir Christopher ls the head of a large manufacturing concern and his workmen took an active part in his cam- palgn. Without his knowledge or consent, 80 the court avers, his bosses, big and little, ralsed a boosting fund wherewith indifferent voters were hustled to the polls and some of the opposition persuaded to vote as they didn’t think. This energetic hustle, supplementing the candidate's plan of campalgn, resulted in & whooping ma- Jority. But the excessive zeal of employes overloaded the legal ‘jackpot” and Sir Christopher was unseated. A similar pain- ful gperation was performed on Captain Guest. He, t0o, 1s a victim of one over- zealous friend, his father-in-law, Mr. Phipps of Pittsburg. The latter merely provided the automobiles for the voters, regardless of expense, but his good Inten- tions wrecked the victory won at the polls. In both cases the Inquiry into the expense fupd was conducted by courts, which impartially smote the home as well as the Pittsburg innovation. e The report of Great Britain's agent- general In Egypt, Sir Eldon Gorst, fur- nishes an extended review of the conditions prevailing along the Nile and the officlal unrest which drew from Theodore Roose- velt severe condemnation In his Calra ad- dress, The conclusion reached by the agent- general s that the greatest of all difficul- ties at the present time Is the general lack of confidence in British intentions which prevall among the unofficlal upper and middle classes. He attributes this to sev- eral causes: First, a great part of the press, native and English, frequently pub- lishes articles calculated to stir up bad Dblood between the two races; secondly, the British are not actuated by disinter- ested motives In the exercise of control over Egypt. However, the consul general advises ‘adherence to the present course. It remains, he thinks, for Great Britain to persevere along original lines; to In- elst that “British intervention in the af- fairs of Egypt is directed to the sole ef- fort to Introducing and maintainihg a good administration, looking to gradually educating and accustoming the Egyp- tlans to carry it on for themselves," o MThe last survivor of the tragedy, the Countess Miramon, has given to the Gior- nale d'Ilatia, an interview on the last days of the Mexican empire, in the course of which she says that, belng in delcate health when her husband tollowed the em- peror to Quesetaro, she remained behind at the capital. ‘“The city of Mexico was cut off from all communication,” she says, and when my baby was only a few days old I learned that the city to which my husband had gone with his emperor had capitulated, and that they were prisoners. From General Porfiio Diaz I received a pass and traveled with my infant to see my husband In prison. I found the emperor calm and prepared for what was to come. ‘They have killed me morally, he sald; ‘what more can be accomplished? When I was about to take my departure he gave me a gold medal, which he asked me to take to his mother. ‘Tell her,' he said, ‘that T was always a good Christlan' I hastened to San Luis to intervene for the prisoners, but there heard that they had already been executed. From those who witnessed the last scene I know that the emperor stood between my husband and Melfa, and that they fell when in the ad- dress which my husband delivered he came to the words: ‘Long live Mexico!’ " [ While the French Transaharan rallroad remains a pipe dream, the transmission of wireless messages across the great desert 1s approaching realization. Wireless mes- sages are now exchanged between the Eiffel tower in Paris and the naval stations at Oran In Algeria and Bizerta in Tunis, Within a few months a new wireless sta- tion will be established at Timbuktu on the Nigér, and messages from this post will be recelved and repeated to Paris by the Mediterranean stations. Messages from Port Etienne, 2,200 miles from Bizerta, have already been handled successtully, Another station in the French system in Africa has already been opened at Dakar in Senegal. Experiments at Dakar and Port Btienne have proved that messages could be dls- tinguished at distances exceeding 2,000 miles, In addition to these central stations & num- ber of wireless telegraph posts are to be opened along the coast and in the Interlor of the Fremch colonies in this part. of Africa. o From no apparent cause, save perhaps the growth of a conviction that temperance ls wisdom, there is going on In England a great reform In the drinking habits of the nation. Last year the expenditure for al- coholio drinks, malt liquor Included, was $25,000,000 less than for the year before, In the fashionable club as well as In the tene- ment, in mansion, mess room and banquet hall the same process is golng on. An In- creasing number of those who gather at public banquets abstain from wine! JUSTICE TO COLORED SOLDIERS, Re-Enl ment of Members Twenty-Fifth Infantry. Philadelphia Bulletin. Active measures have been taken by the War department at Washington for the re-enlistment of ths members of the Twenty- fitth infantry, who were summarily dls- charged from the regular army service by | President Roosevelt for no other reason than that they were connected with the | battalion charged with shooting up Browns- ! ville, Tex., and because they refused to glve | the names of comrades in arms who were | believed to be implicated in the affalr. These men were gullty of no Infraction of | the laws or of military regulations, but suffered solely because of the misdeeds of other persons, although exactly whose these of the were has never been satisfactorily deter- mined, In spite of the long and tedlous senate Inquiry into the matter. Some of the innocent men had done vallant service in the Spanish war and wore medals for bravery; yet they were compelled to suffer the disgrace of discharge without honor. The fact that they are colored Is, or should be, of no moment. Now, under the provisions of the act put through cangress by former Senator For- aker of Ohlo, the gulltless members of the battalion are to be accorded justice. They have been notified of their vindication by | the War department and instructed to re- port to the nearest recrulting station. Upon re-enlistment they will be entitled to back pay and emoluments amounting to nearly $1,000 each. Under the general regulations, any other soldler In the regular army, with the approval of the military authorities, may purchase his discharge by payment to the government of & sum ranging from | $120 after one year of scrvice to $30 after | eleven years, and the “disgraced” veterans will be able to use & portion of their $1,000| to retire, If they so desire and the author- that this bank bas mgonths. The report made to the comptroller under date of March 29, 1910, shows Time Certificates of Deposit $2.034,278.61 3% % Interest paid on certificates runcing for twelve irst National Bankof Omaha POLITICAL DRIFT. Twenty-threo persons were seated at the dinner tendéred to Colonel Bryan in Chi- cago last Wednesday evening. Former Governor Rollins of New Hamp- shire expresses deep repentance for having monkeyed with the custom house buzzsaw. Denver plled up a majority of 15,000 in favor of vocal irrigation. The belief that the town would go dry takes high rank as a sample of amusing optimism, Dr. Parkhurst qualifies his assertion that “hades is full of politicians” by announcing there are several annexes for other classes of people, so that the politiclans will not be lonesome. Just how the D. D. secured the tip on the situation he refuses to say, possibly fearing he might incriminate him- self. Cometary alarm among Indlana demo- crats was overwhelmed by the fear that Willlam J. Bryan would strike the state during his flight from Fairview to Scot- iand. But his orbit touched the northern end of the state only, leaving a tail of locomotive smoke to mark his path, Hoosier dems are breathing naturally once more. The reward of a $5,000 job given by the present mayor of Boston to his predecessor has been rejected by the civil service commission which passes upon the qualifi- cations of certain municipal appolntees. There was no question of the abllity of the appointee. He was objectionable be- cause he co-operated with the Insurgent republicans in defeating the regular re- publican candldate for mayor. Party treachery got what its leaders bargained for. A Tammany politician on trial for violat- ing the primary law enriched the politjcal slang of the day with a phrase rivaling the “Jackpot” contributed by Illinols. In his testimony he sald he ‘“voted a cannon,” and when asked to explain gave this defi- nition: “A cannon is a bundle of five: or more ballots folded together one Inside the other and ironed out with a hot iron until they are pressed down to look like one ordinary ballot folded in the usual way. The cannon is dropped through the slot into the ballot box. The box is then shaken up well and the ballots making up the cannon are shaken out #0 that they look as though they had been cast In the usual way.” GROWING FREE LIST. Volume of Free Exports Exception- ally Large, Boston Transcript. The statistical summary of the commerce and trade of the United States which the government publishes is often corrective of popular impressions with regard to the source and orfgin of revenues. Just at pres- ent when the tariff is being held respon- sible by s0 many for high prices and the increased cost of living, the proportion of our imports' which come in free of duty is often ignored. The man on the platform denouncing the tariff conceals his knowl- edge of the subject. All who will “free thelr minds of cant" and study the operations of the tarift will bo at once impressed with the magnitude of the commerce that never pays tribute to the custom house. For the nine months ending March last, the imports which camo in free of duty had an aggregate value of $384,674,948. They constituted almost half in value of the total imports, for those on which the duty was collected ag- gregato $609,039,89, the two classes com- bined totalling $1,184,814,843. This year the volume of free imports is exceptionally large. It Is $140,000,000 greater than for the corresponding months of the previous fiscal year. A comparison of periods does not, however, deprive the free list of any of its relative importance. Free imports in the 1908 period were to dutiable as $400,772,586 to $620,951,878; for 1900 as $444,- 570,773 to $304,45,112. These are figures worth bearing in mind the next time the source of high prices is assigned to the custom house. BREEZY TRIFLES, Mary Mid—Wouldn't you call her a—ah, doubtful character? Carle Caustique—Not unless you wanted to glve her the benefit of the doubt.—Smart Set. “The comet whoso tall will brush by the earth has no more harm in it than a lightning bug,” sald the professor. “Dear me,” repiied the nervous woman, “I'm_go_glad you didn't say wasp."—Wash: ington Star. She—You look badly this morning. He—1 have & cold or something In my head, She-It must be a cold.—Harvard Lam- poon. Indignant Constituent—This is the fourth time I have calied to sce the senator, by appointment, and found him out every time! Private Becretary (of eminent statesman) Many a merchant knows that his goods are better, that his prices are fairer, but the man down the street gets the business while ke stands still |and thinks about it. You know these men—there are plenty of examples right bere in Omaha, Mr, Stand Still and Mr. Go Ahead. Stand Still is pretty apt to claim that the other man “beat him out of his business,” but don’t you be Meve it. Mr. Go Anead went after the business and got 1t He told the people what he had to offer them, that his wares were good, that his prices were fair, .that he capacity. | #ties consent i wanted their custom apnd would take Talks for people who Special Extraordinary $375 buys a new $500 Boudoir Size High Grade Player Piano $25.00 worth of music included in price. Free exchange library of music rolls. Scarf and Bench Free, $10.00 per month pays for it. A beautiful instrument, with the rich full tone of the larger pianos. KEvery- body can play it. Sold exclusively by A. Hospe Go, —0, well, I wouldn't make a fuss about that. According to what the papers say, averybody 18 finding him out—Chioage Tribune, “This ls a singularly consistent sort %) artist whose plctures are just before us. ) “In what way?"’ “I notice that all his marine views ar in ‘water colors, and his scenes in in ofls."—Baltimore American, He—Do you know I would really like to hug you. . She (shocked.)—The déa! The bear ideal He—Exactlyl That s & bear idea, lsn't 1t?—Boston Transcript. QUEST OF THE GOLDEN STEAK. Carlyle 8mith in Harper's Weekly, I started out the other night To try and get a steak. I had a corking appetite With neither flaw nor fake. 1 syt of felt a julcy slice Of good, red beef would be Abovt the best and very nice- Est thing there was for me. @ “I'll have a dollar's worth,” said I Unto the Waiter-man. He gave a weary sort of s And then he thus began; “A dollar's worth of steak, alas! Will be so very small You'll need a magnifying glass To see the thing at all.” “Oh, well,” said I, “If that's the case, Bring me two dollars’ worth g ¥ou should have seen that fellow It was so void of mirth. “Two dollars |s the charge Is authorized to make.' Quoth me, *to let a fellow look Upon a plece of steak.” face; the cook 80 hungry was I, 1 could not Resist its sharp appeal All right,” sald 1. “T g Enough to make a donl ¢ dollars’ worth I pra The walt “WIlIt have it s Or on a golden chaln “1 want the stuff to ca y auoth hé I've goR u bring.'" “To let a custom On steak we o We keep it in a ¢ And under lock and Key We really shouldn't have To use it wastefully. so it was I gave It yp; A 5 cdbed "y Rungry Dain ‘mall hundred-dollar cup imple milk—and rain, ell things the trouble to get fit. He told them this not once, bt many times, 18 still telling them, every day, through the advertising col .‘n of the papers, Now, Mr. Merchant, if you are an advertiser, or If you are a man “ho ought to advertise, we want your bus iness and will go to some trouble to get it, We want to introduce you to our 150,000 readers. We want. to and know we can help you to sell more goods. Moreover, we want to 'ake our advertising columus so \aluflle to you that you will stay “u‘u. ¥ : after year