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Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-05

1t now develops that James Kerr,
the democratic national committee
man from Pennsylvania, warned Mr..
Bryan before the Denver convention OF
Governor Haskell's oily record. Mr..
Bryan refuses to know anything he
does not want to know.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-05

The census bureau estimates the
cost of the 15S American cities for
1907 at $6O7,677,S49, an increase far
in excess of the increase of wealth and
population. There would be little COM
plant if the people we're getting value
received for their money.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-05

Mr.. Bryan still kindly overlooks the
failure Of his political associates to
publish the account OF campaign dis
bursements and receipts in 1904. The
real manner Of distributing that $2O,-
600 slush fund contributed by Ryan
for Bryan's benefit has been ex-
planned.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-05
Penalty for Neglect.
Chicago News.

CHIChBU NtWs'
This country has been paying, In for
est fires that cost 81. 600, 900 a day while
they lasted. for the laziness and short
sightedness of lumbermen and the lack
of patrols. Was it WI Ting-fang who
said that Americans were not an intelli-
gent racer
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-05

The anti-pass law got in the way OF
entertainment Of the soldiers, but
President Wattles found a means for
providing the men with rides on the
street railway free of cost, and the men
appreciated II.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-05

Has the negro a right to vote?" is
the title of a magazine article. He
has the right, but 1t is not safe for him
to try TO exercise 1t in solidly demo-
cratic states.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-05

The National irrigation congress is
in session at Albuquerque. The ma
tional irritation congress Will meet at
Washington in December.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-05

Theodore Roosevelt, jr., IL up In
Connecticut learning to wash wool. His
distinguished father can give him all
the instruction necessary in plucking
wool.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-05

Haskells who are looking up their
lineage are satisfied as soon as they
find that oklahoma's governor belongs
to a different branch OF the family.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-05

The man who hurled a bomb At
Napoleon has confessed. Now II the
man who hurled those Archbold let
ters will confess, the historians may
begin work on the next chapter.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-05
Fixed for the Answer.

Chicago Record-Herald.
The governor of New Jersey has fallen
heir to $25O.OO0 There s a statesman
who will probably be perfectly willing
to answer all people who may rise up to
ask him VIII ere he got IL.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-05
A season for Big Game.

Cleveland Leader.
The president would not be Theodore
Roosevelt If he did not enjoy his big
political game hunting this fall better
than he did his summer vacation.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-05

Mrs. Astor criticises Mr.. Cannon for
wearing tan shoes with his evening
clothes. Mr.. Cannon atones for that,
however, by wearing black cigars.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-05

One thing cannot be alleged against
Governor Sheldon. 1t will never be
said OF him that he is too straight
laced or too dignined to dance.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-05

Fashionable Frenebmen are now
having their clothes made in New
York. This probably means that the
French tAilors are contracting their
credits.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-05

Senator BeVeridse say that Mr..
Bryan lie wholly without experience as
an executive. 1t is only fair to ex-
plain that It Is not Mr.. Bryan's fault.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-05

Lord Rosslyn has discovered that
the bank of Monte Carlo needs no
legislation guaranteeing its deposits.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-05
A Real National Issue.

New York Tribune.
words against deeds" is the way Gov
ernor Hughes sums up the national is
sue. And the American people always
put their faith in the man who has done
things
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-05

Japan is facing three serious prob
lems.n says the San Francisco Call.
They are, probably, debt, cholera and
Richmond Pearson Hobson.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-05

The octopi in the New York
aquarium have died from exposure.
This is a hard year on the octopi.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-05

Look out for a rush at the store of
the merchant who advertises the fact
that handsomest women always do
their Christmas shopping early.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-05

Mr.. Bryan is a farmer and on
; chummy terms with the ~oily-handed
IONS of toll.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-05

Wall street will be slow to accept
the report that there is anything wrong
with Mr.. Harriman's spine.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-05

The coming of Governor Hughes
means another opportunity to turn out
for Taft.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-05

1--WE want no government by dig
archy.n says Mr.. Bryan. No, nor by
oiligarohy, Mr.. Bryan.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-05

In the meantime, the New York
World is ready to make an affidavit
that It is supporting Mr.. Bryan.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-05

WHEN OUT OF TOWN.
Subscribers leaving b city ten-
p~Orariiy uhOuia have IA Bee
mailed 20 them. Address will be
changed M often as reQuestea.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-05

The Pirates appear to be the Taft
of the National league
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-05
srATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.

STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION
George n. TzRchuck, treasurer Of The
Bee Publishing company, being ouly
sworn. says that the actual NUMBER oi
full and complete copies of The Daily,
Morning Evening and Sunday Bee printed
during the month of September, lsOs' was
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-05

Anyway, there is no complaint of
overcapitaiisation OF campaign funds.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-05

An of the candidates remain on
speaking terms.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-05

Salesman Tin department s~tore)-Looking
for something cheap, madam
Mrs. Hennin8 docking for husband)-Oh,
did you see him2 Which way did he GOT
Bohemian Magazine,
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-05

80 this patent savings bank isn't COM
plete enough for your
mo; l want something that will take my
pay envelopes away from me every Satur-
day and dole me out money by the nickel"
Then you'd better get married. st.
Louis Times.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-05

What were your sensations when the
automobile struck the tree and threw you
time to think"
80, yes, | did. 1 distinctly remember
thinking, as l flew through the air, Gee!
What a repair bill IN a to footl' -
Chicago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-05

''rhere Is a man up the street who, ac-
cording to his sign, ought to do hair-rsisinE
feats In business"
Why so3"
Because he is a NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Press.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-05

Taft talk is making votes.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-05

who spoke1" asked the farmer, suddenly
pausing in his driving.
II guess" said his waggish farmland,
ut was the wheel spoke"
mo-" said the farmer, quietly, ut soundsd
more like TO the tongue OF the wagon
Baltimore American.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-05

Treasurer.
Subscribed in my presence and sworn to
iseal1 ROBERT HUNTER
~ Notary Public.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-05
MIRTHFUL REMARKS.

IF you wish to have everybody for your
friend counseled her elderly adviser,
don't bel talker; be a listener"
II was not until after she had secured a
job as telephone girl in the central office
that she found out what O mistake she had
made in taking the advice lit~erally.-Chi-
cage Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-05

Lady" said Flooding Pete ''dat bull
dogo' yer's mighty near caught mel"
'He didl' exclaimed tho woman with u
beating he ever hadl'
Lady, be merciful. II dat dog finds It as
hard to git anything to eat around here as
/ do | don't blame him for reachin' fur
anything dat comes along. "-Washington
Star.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-05

I'D rather have my rich relatives pony
pher OF folly, than to depend on what they
are going to leave me. In other words, I
can't take the will for the deed."-Clsve-
land Leader.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-07
Taft Club of Fat Men.

The giants who shackle hogs and las
so cattle in the Chicago stockyards
bave organized the first "fat mans
Taft club" No man is eligible who
weighs less than go pounds. Frank
L. Beveridge, a commission man, who
weighs 2S5, is the president.
One member weights $50 and is still
growing up and out He is Everett
Jackson, twenty EIGHT years old This
Is their platform:
Realizing the heavy Importance of
good and well bred men working TO.
gether in harmony and in view of add
ing weight to the political situation
and showing our preponderous apprecia
ton of the greatness of our Republican
convention in nominating such a large
and manly expansionist as they did
we hereby organize ourselves in what
will be termed "a fat mans Taft club
Of the Union stockyards of Chicago"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-07

MOVING PICTURES NEW USE,
Modern Farming Methods to Be Shown
In Novel Way.

Like the photograph, the moving pic
ture machine is TO be made to serve
q more worthy purpose than gathering
IN the nickels and dimes at small the
alter doors. 1t is to be put to the most
practical purpose imaginable
modern methods on the farm.
G. w. Martin, an Omaha insurance
man, has demonstrated that the, NOV
ing picture machine was made for a
more worthy purpose than reproduc-
ing a prize fight by rounds, showing
children how daring firemen rescue
people from burning buildings or
throwing upon white sheet Mex
lean bullfight or the dancers of a bal
let show
As result of conference with the
managers of the national corn exposi-
~tion, which is to be held at Omaha
Dec. 9 to 10, Martin is visiting the
'.model" farms of Illinois, Iowa and
Nebraska and making pictures which
are to be later shown at the big agri-
cultural show in Omaha and the vari-
Gus colleges and experiment stations In
the west. Farmers will be shown on
tine canvas using the latest planting,
cultivating and harvesting machinery,
says an Omaha correspondent of the
Chicago News. While a lecturer eX-
plains the process the model farmers
will be seen going about their work.
Every one will be interested in
knowing something more of the proc
ess responsible for the loaf of bread
that comes to the table daily. The
moving picture camera will show the
modern wheat drill at seeding time
the perfection self binder which. cuts
the grain, binds, punches, ready for
the shockers at one process, and the
modern steam thrasher which cuts the
bands from the bundles, feeds the
grain into the machine with more than
human precision, separates the grain
from the straw, fans and cleans IL
ready for the great mills and eleyates
the grain into the wagon ready for its
journey from the farm to the Touring
mills.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-07
TIN CAN CLUBS.
Their Mission Is to Supply the De
mand For New Forests.

B. II. Green of Monterey, Cal, has
sent out a circular giving information
regarding the tin can clubs through
whose beneficent activities he expects
to see the United States supplied with
needed forests.
The attempts to cultivate tree claims
in the Dakotas many years ago We're
rather discouraging. says the National
Magazine, but Mr.. Green insists that
he has been successful in planting tree
seeds, nuts and cuttings in refuse tin
cans and can now show an oak tree
twenty feet high only eight years of
age, and also redwood tree, grown
from seed, which is now fully thirty
feet high and only twelve years of
age.
Mr. Green insists that a tomato can
with fair sized hole punched in the
bottom and filled with good earth is
Just the thing needed to start tree in
and that if the earth is never allowed
to become dry the growth of the young
tree will be amazing. Later the little
trees are transplanted without remov
ing from the cans. for the rust eats
away the can sufficiently to allow the
roots to free themselves as they need
more room.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-07
Chronic Diarrhoea Relieved.

Edward E. Henry, with the United
States Express company, Chicago,
writes: Our general superintendent,
Mr.. Quick, handed me bottle of
Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and Diar-
rhoea remedy some time ago to check
an attack of the old chronic diarrhoea.
/ have used it since that time and
cured many on our trains who have
been sick. l am an old soldier who
served with Rutherford B. Hayes and
William Mckinley four years in the
23d Ohio regiment, and have no all
ment except chronic diarrhoea, which
this remedy stops at once" For sale
by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-07
Ode by an Olympic Competitor.


IA poem written by the young Univer
sity Of Virginia Splinter James Alcorn
Rector Just before departing for London
to participate in the Olympic games.1
I've heard about the enchanted lands
Ye fairy lands-and all,
But when ! die Just let me rest
Way down in Arkansaw.
Where may we find such mountainsf
Search We long and far,
Yen never find such fountains--
Such as spring from ArkaAeaw.
Name me a place In this big world
Where nature is its law,
Where plains and valleys so beautiful.
1y unfurl
As they do in Arkansaw.
- Majestic are her long leaf pines:
Her pearls are without flaw.
Beautiful are the rivers that graceful
ly wind
Way down IN Arlxansaw.
Nowhere do flowers bloom 20 bright,
And musical is the crows cav
AZ they wing their way in rapid night
Way down In Arkansaw.
Do I've heard about enchanted ianav-
Ye, fairy lands-and all,
But when die Just let me rest
Way down In Arkansaw.
Memphis Commercial Appeal,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-07
New Job For Women.

The steamship Carmania Of the Gu,
nard line has a woman assistant for
the purser to answer many of the
questions which that hard worked au-
thority is asked previous to the sail
ing Of the vessel She is Miss Cath
arine Leith, who is described in the
passenger list as typo and steno." II
is said that other ocean liners may
adopt the idea.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-07
ANNUAL REPORT
Of Rock Island School District. for Year End
ing June 80, 1908.

1908
School DstrictThe 5
This
attendance for the 80, 1908:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-07
FINANCIAL REPORT.

Salaries of Superintendent and
Teachers.
IL B. Hayden, IL months. ...$ 100000
Alba G. Hill 10 months. -. 10000
f. l.. Philbrook, 9 months. 1880
Abigail Dean. 9 months. 49,. 10000
If T. Brown 0 months. 80. 100000
Cora l.. Eastman, 9 months. 945.OO
Augusta Hellpenstell, 8
months 10000
Alice Rush. months. ...... 10000
Emelie C. Mertz, 9 months. 10000
Clara E. Barclay. 9 months. 10000
Victor C. Hall, 0 months. 10000
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-07

Ada NJ. Hoebeke. 9 months. 10000
L:tta D. Jackson, months. 675.OO
Thomas NJ. Coen, 9 months. $1,000
Mary V. Rice. 8 months. 49,. $500
Emma S. Butler months. $4,000
Alvin L. Barton. months. =. 10000
Ellsworth F. Burch, 8 months $4,000
Linus l.. Harms, 9 months CTS. 90
Cherlotte Chamberlain, 5
months and 1874 days.. 1875
Myrtle Summers, months
and 10 days. 1880
]. C. Daugherty, months. 10000
Mary E. Entrikin, months. 10000
Lou M. Harris, months and
! 1917 days ............... 6O5.ss
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-05-16
No Pockets i'm His Garments.

The story of "a Man Without a
Country is familiar to almost every
schoolboy, yet in many ways an
id~iosyncrasy Of an employee Of the gov.
eminent printing Office at Washington
takes the cake when considering tho
fixed habits of the male gender. The
popularity Of this man-and he is old
enough to be a grandfather-is that he
has not had a pocket in any of his gar.
ments for 20 years. And thereby
hangs a tale:
Twenty years ago a young man was
wearing an expensive o%vercoat for the
first time on the streets Of Kansas
City. He was also smoking a pipe.
Invited into a friends house, the pipe
disappeared into a pocket of the over
coat. and half an hour afterward the
coat was a ~smoldering ruin. TIE young
man swore a fearful oath that thence
forth he would not have a pocket in
his garments, and he has kept his vow.
Verging into old aga yet his tailor Is
instructed not to place a pocket In
coat, vest Dr. trousers.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-05-16
Congressional Bell Signals.

On the floor of the house the door
keeper has his desk and it is here that
the bells are struck that give notice
of the needs Of congress. n bell
calls for tellers, when the house is in
committee of the whole; W bells
indicate a call for yea and nay; three,
declare a recess; with four bells the
red light over the COR goes out; five
bells mean a call Of the house" under
which the sergeant-at-arms is sup
posed to summarily arrest any mem
Der on sight and bring him in, wheth-
err on foot or horseback; any member
who is not present at a call OF the
house is subjected to a severe repr1-
mand.
Looking down the corridor, the
going out of the red light gives a curl
.ous suggestion of the tail end OF a
train dashing through a
tunnel. While the red light burns
bright and clear 1t means that con-
gress is under way, but when the
light winks and goes out, then the
visitors understand that the wheels OF
legislation have ceased to revolve.-
National Magazine.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-05-16
GROWN INTO BIG BUSINESS,
Shining Shoes in New York Is Now
Quite an Industry.

Spaces in the new Hudson terminal
buildings have been rented to a boot
backing corporation for a long term
of years at rates ~aggregating 1924, 900
1t will take 2,480, 900 scent Shines
to pay the rent.
This arrangement expresses in its
terms the important development
which has come to bootblacking as an
occupation in New York.
Years ago the business was found
to be worth the attention of syndi
Gates, which with the padrone now
have the industry pretty much their
own way. Almost completely van
ished is the type of boy bootblack thai
was common in the city when Horatio
Alser wrote his Ragged Dick" and
"Tattered Tom" books. The plucky
little chap with his box slung over Ms
shoulder has given way to the more
or less mature Italian with a chair
and stand which may have cost any.
thing from 81 to 1925, and for whose
location a rental may be paid equal to
that of a fairly good suite in an apart
ment house.
In the late agitation over stands in
City Hall park it was found that 40
bootblacks there were making aproxi
mately $780, 900 a year.
Women have gone into bootblack.
ing in New York, but not permanent
ly. A Chinese who tried the trade in
Amsterdam avenue. some years ago,
was forced out by the neighborhood.
When the sinners" organised against
the expressions of "Signor Rosevelto,'
police commissioner, in 1895, there
were about $500 of them. Presum.
ably there are now many more.-New
York World.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-05-16
Mr.. William A. Radford will answer

Mr.. William A. Radford will answer
questions and give advice FREE OF
COST on all subjects pertaining to the
subject of building for the readers OF this
paper. On account of his wide eXpe-
rience as Editor, Author and Manufac-
turer, he is. without doubt. the highest
authority on all these subjects. Address
all inquiries to William A. Radford, No.
1914 Fifth Ave, Chicago: ILL.,. and only
enclose two-cent stamp for reply.
Curb roofs, or gambrel roofs, are
not used as extensively as the econo-
my of construction warrants. The
reason probably is because there eX
lists a prejudice against the appearance
of this kind Of roof, and | think that
part of the objection comes from the
fact that gambrel roofs were used on
barns almost exclusively until archi-
tects discovered the advantage Of uti-
LIKING the space under the curb for
bedrooms instead of making it into an
attic.
This style Of roof Is called in some
sections of the country a gambrel roof
and in other sections a curb roof. 1t
10 also improperly called a hip roof,
but a hip roof, properly speaking,
slopes from the plate to the peak, from
the end as well as from the side of the
building. Builders are not as accu-
rate as they should be in the use Of
building terms. In the English Ian
guage there are many architectural
words rich in expression that are sell
dom used.
The roof on this house is relieved by
the graceful curve just above the
caves. These curves are quite com
mon on gambrel roofs; but | see a
great many that are not properly
made. The curve, to look right. should
be true and even. 1t is just as easy,
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-05-16

three or four persons, and they can be
easily and comfortably accommodated
In a house of this size, especially
where the arrangement is as good as
this. The comfort Of living in a house
ome largely from the convenience
that the house affords.
Another item OF comfort is the view
you can get from the windows, and this
Is something that builders sometimes
overlook. l vas in a house recently
that COST nearly 5 5000. The windows
in the living were built on the
easement plan, the side sash fitted
with small lights and heavy sash
rails; the center sash was set up so
far above the floor that a person sit
ting in a chair could see nothing ex-
cept the veranGah ceiling. From the
most interesting direction the view
was shut off entirely. because that end
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-05-16

and cheaper, to make a true curve than
to do the zigzag work we often see,
only it is necessary to figure out he
curve, lay it out on the rafter and saw
to the mark with a band saw, then
spike the piece cut out of the top
firmly to the lower edge of the rafter,
and you have practically the same
strength, the same material, and it is
easy to shingle such a curve if it Is
not too sharp.
This house is designed to heat with
stoves, but of course there is no OBJ
lection to putting a furnace in the cell
lar, and this is probably what most
people would prefer to do, 1t is only
a matter Of making the proper arrange
ments before commencing to build.
Six-room houses about the size Of
this one are very popular. There are
. great many families consisting Of